November 6, 2024 • 52 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Threbus Radio Mystery Theater presents. Come in welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall.
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The History of Man shows that we find it almost
impossible to differentiate between saint and devil, and the smoke
of countless fires has consumed the bodies of a considerable
number of self styled healers and mystics who have been
condemned by society as devils and burnt at the stake,
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while their followers mourned them as saints. But no one
person in history has.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Aroused a flaming controversy that still surrounds the life and
death of a Russian monk named Rasputin.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I am Rosputin, the Little Father. Confess your sins to me,
and you will gain salvation.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
But I have nothing to confess, Oh that.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
You cannot gain salvation. Come give me your shawl and
we will sin together and repent together. I will save
you in spite of yourself. Now give me your.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Shawl, Take my shawl and the knife.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I'll give you death.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Monslf Die and a chrysa.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Nah our mystery i'm a Courtyard of Death was written
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Speaker 6 (02:23):
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Speaker 1 (02:25):
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Speaker 6 (03:09):
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Speaker 1 (03:12):
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Speaker 3 (03:22):
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Speaker 1 (03:25):
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Speaker 7 (03:37):
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Speaker 7 (04:06):
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Speaker 9 (04:14):
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Speaker 1 (04:30):
In nineteen fifteen, the court of Tsar Nicholas of Russia
was dominated by a drunken, dissolute monk who had taken
the name Rasputin, and it was Rasputant's notorious orgies that
ultimately led to his banishment from court. Despite the fact.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
That Rasputin wielded an extraordinary power over the Tsar and
the Czarina because of his ability to ease the pain
of their only child. The Tsarevich, heir to the Russian throne,
had been worn a hemophiliac, a victim of the bleeding disease,
and when Rasputin appeared in court, his hypnotic voice and
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soothing touch, did the Tsarevich more good than any doctor's prescription?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Well, doctor, Lasavert, how is he? How is my son?
The Tsarevich is resting your Highness comfortably reasonably? So is
he in pain? It's hard to tell.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
You and the other court physicians are incapable of helping
my son.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
But I know someone who can resputen.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Yes, Lasavert, Rasputin whose name brings that remace of disgust
to your lips, but whose touch brings comfort to.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
My son, Your Highness, I dare not presume, but you knew.
I speak out of my love with you and the Czar.
You make a mistake placing rush his feet in the
hands of the charlatte, and this drunken debature of the
ladies of your court. He'll surely bring ruin to Rush.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
You will see to it the vast Puton is brought
back to court as soon as possible.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
We repent us of our sins, o Lord, and we
sin only so that we can show you through contrition
a most rapid father. I seek your permission to open
the door, since I know the message will be for me. Oh,
do you know that it is an inner voice that
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tells me a voice that has never before been wrong,
tells me that there will be a summons from the
Czarina because the Tsalrevich is bleeding again.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
And he meets me who mision granted me?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
So I am here by order of Nicholas, star of
all the Russias. I come for the monk resputant. His
presence is demanded at.
Speaker 10 (07:07):
Courtrevitch and I are in your debt. You have worked
your miracles, My son smiles in is sleep.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
The pain has gone well.
Speaker 11 (07:27):
The miracles are not mine, but the lord's.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Madame, thees Lassa their What are you doing here once
again serving as a messengery, Your highness, Colonel Amdu seeks
an audience. I'm going to my quarters, Madame, that Ivitch
will sleep through the night. A man of God and
the chief of the secret Police have.
Speaker 11 (07:49):
Little to share.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Little Father. I came because I knew I would find
you jeer. What Colonel Amdur has to say concerns you.
But Colonel Amur, this is preposterous.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
I will not tolerate your chrona withdrawing protection from the
Little Father.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Here, your Highness is the head of the secret Police.
I can no longer in all conscience furnish any protection
to respute.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
You speak of conscience, Colonel, What is it that weighs
so heavily upon your.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Sense of duty?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Treachery, your Highness.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
I assume, Colonel you have some proof of these charges,
whatever they are.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Highness, Here are the documents.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
As as I can see that he has something to
do with medical supplies in the war, but I have
no time to read them through.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
These documents show that Resputant has sold millions of rubles
worth of medical supplies to Germany, a country which is
waging war against us.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
And do your documents explain why out of your father
would do.
Speaker 11 (09:00):
This, Yes, your majesty.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
To line his pockets this payment, Resputant has been given
shares in the Sudutsche a munitions factory, as well as
shares in Towness Manufacturing and Copernicus Industries in Bavaria. Your
Highness perhaps knows of these companies.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Little father, tell Colonel Andre what you have told the Tsar.
Speaker 11 (09:26):
And me, Oh Madame, it will make no difference to him.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Tell him it is a prophecy, Colonel, and it is this.
If I die at the hands of the nobility or
members of the court, Zara and Zarina will lose their
crown and their son within six months of my death.
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I mean, but the less over arranged for you to
be admitted privately, expressly to meet this young lady. Her
name is Barbara, who she's most certainly worth meeting. But
Barbara is going to kill Respueteon. Why why do.
Speaker 11 (10:19):
You tell me this cuddle?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I did so, yes, yes, yes, yes, God were very
commendable and cautious. But do you think I would risk
my position unless I were absolutely certain about this lady?
What makes you so certain?
Speaker 12 (10:34):
Three months ago, my sister and I were walking along
the desky prospect. Respueton was driving by in his carriage.
He saw my sister, had the coachman stop and alighted
from the carriage and accosted her.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
She tried to push by him.
Speaker 13 (10:51):
He became insistent, and then, despite my screams hip picked.
Speaker 12 (10:56):
Her up badly, and you were into his carriage and
drove off. Then neither I nor my family.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Have seen her since, but we know where she is.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yes, yes, she is in the quarters of Respudon.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
In the palace.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I brought you here, doctor for you to show Barbara
exactly where to strike Resputin with a knife. So that
the thrust will be certain to kill him. Haven't you
overlooked the fact that before Barbara can strike, she must
be close enough to strike? Use your eyes, and witch doctor,
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isn't she beautiful? Extremely? Don't you know that it's the
custom of this letcher to hold audiences just like a
reigning monarch, every day from ten to twelve in the morning.
But surely he'll recognize Barbara as the sister. Can't be
certain of that, But even if he does, it's all
the better for our plan. I don't see how Barbara
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will join the line of supplicants outside Resputin's apartments tomorrow morning.
Speaker 11 (11:58):
It is his.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Custom to come out and look over the waiting.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Petitioners before he sees them.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
It is also his custom to select any beautiful young
women and take them into his private chamber before he
deals with the others. Certain to pick fovery will greed.
And suppose he recognizes her as the sister of the
girl he abducted, could there be anything more natural than
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that she should come to ask about her sister, to plead.
Speaker 12 (12:30):
To beg with tears in my eyes and trembling lips,
to ask for greed.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Exactly the whole world knows how rescute dispenses grace and where.
Speaker 12 (12:43):
In his private room exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
And when he has you in the room and attempts
to take you in his arms, then doctor will show
her exactly where to strike a little sister.
Speaker 11 (13:10):
Do I know you?
Speaker 7 (13:11):
Do you remember me?
Speaker 13 (13:13):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Thank God? Will remember me, little sister. The Lord will
prepare thy going out and thy coming in.
Speaker 13 (13:23):
Accident.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
You will tell me how.
Speaker 14 (13:26):
My sister is doing, won't you your your sister?
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Oh, then you.
Speaker 14 (13:33):
Don't remembers, No, no, you must have let those beautiful
eyes fill with jeers and try to recall from me.
Speaker 12 (13:45):
Next, Ki prospect, it was months ago I was walking
with my sister and you pass by in your carriage.
Speaker 14 (13:51):
Ay, yes, yes, the little flower that I plucked off
the streets and extra signed the devil's within her.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
She is safe you, she's fun salvation with me.
Speaker 12 (14:04):
Oh, my parents will be so happy to hear that
little may I see her.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
So we make sure that you are without sinister.
Speaker 11 (14:14):
Yeah, we'll pray together. Now, this is the cleansing room.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
It is here you will find salvation that little father.
Speaker 11 (14:29):
Oh, come bling up.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
It's so dark, wicked.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Dark rooms to hear dark tails. You can start by
removing your shawl. There's only our lady to see you,
old my sister, where is she? In good time, little bird,
in good time, you must.
Speaker 11 (14:56):
Be saved your shawl.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I'll give you yea one still by joy, I cleansed.
Speaker 13 (15:18):
Myself, little father, Your death will bring me salvation. Remember
who it was that sent you there?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
As you burn in hell fire?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Resputed saint or devil? The arguments still rage. But the
single most powerful man in Russia lay on the floor
of the palace in Saint Petersburg while his life blood
ebbed away?
Speaker 11 (15:57):
Was this to be his end?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
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Speaker 15 (17:10):
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Speaker 1 (18:18):
The year was nineteen fifteen. And the Russian Imperial court
seethed with intrigue. At the center was the bizarre figure
of Rasputant. Dissolute, drunken, Rasputant openly boasted of his influence with.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
The Czar and the Czarina. Idolized by half the nation
as a saint and the healer, Rasputant was loathed, feared,
and plotted against by the other half. One such plot
resulted in a statting which wounded him so seriously he
has been hovering between life and death for days.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
You will be careful to keep the spendige you placed,
little father. You will also refrain from drinking wine makes blood.
Doctor Lasouvelt, it will be good for me for.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
At just once.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Listen to the doctor.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Perhaps it would have been better had I died.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
How can you say that had I died, you.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And Bazarre would be safe. There are many who still
plot against me, and should they succeed, Madame, you and
your family will lose the throne.
Speaker 11 (19:33):
Within six months of my death.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
You should rest more and topless. In ten days I
shall be in the Bulsk that in Siberia, my birthplace,
Little mother. I feel the Lord wishes me to revisit
the province where I was born. Out of the question,
I will not be responsible for your help if you
undertake such a journey.
Speaker 11 (19:57):
I do God's will.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Only if God wills it, I shall return.
Speaker 16 (20:02):
You must, Little Father, you must.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
If Resputen undertakes this journey, it will be against my orders.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I take notes of that lesser there.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
And risking your Highness's displeasure. I remind you that your niece,
Princess Arena and her husband have been waiting an audience
with you for some hours.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
If they wish to see me, have them shown in here.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
But your Highness, neither the Princess nor Count Elston has
ever met the Little Father, and I'm uncertain. But of course,
of course it will be perfect.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
What the train, Count Elston's private train, he will be
delighted to lend.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
It to the Little Father for his journey. This is
not a task ahead of the Okrana guarding a train. Plasovac,
couldn't you have let the scoundrel? I'm afraid it was
a higher power than my Yes, the picture of the
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Holy Virgin that saved the life of the Holy Resputant.
Marvara's knife would have pierced a vital organ had it
not been deflicted by the wooden frame of the.
Speaker 11 (21:13):
Picture of a virgin Mary.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Are you becoming a disciple of the month, then that
is not at all.
Speaker 11 (21:19):
It just seems a strange.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Coincidence of which he's made more capital with Her Highness.
Are you still determined to remove resputy? He's vermin? Vermin
must be externally that Russia must be.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Saved from him. And at the same time you save.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Mother Russia, you ensure your continuation as the head of
the Uprano Or you know something? What have you heard
only the gossip of the court. Her Highness is unhappy
with your removal of the god from this I don't
care about my career. You must believe that the first
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mole I have for seeing that the devil dies it's
the same Russia, Colonel after It's a pleasure to see
you again, old friend. I am honored, Count Elstean, doubly
honored by your wife's Christmas arena. Wouldn't hear of our
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turning over the trend.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
Without inspecting it and seeing that everything was in order,
and also removing some of my personal belongings. I've heard
that this isn't the neatest to death anything you've heard,
Princess is not only true but also probably understated.
Speaker 16 (22:38):
Dame Felix, why are we lending our train to.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
That because Alexandra asked us to My sweet may I
help you on, Princess? Thank you, Doctor Lasaver. This is
the Princess Arena and her husband, Count Elston.
Speaker 16 (22:57):
Doctor la Saver and I are old friend. I'm delighted
but also surprised to see him here.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Your aunt insisted that he'd be a board to check
on your guest's help. You know, of course, that it
was his skill that helped save Respueteon's life.
Speaker 16 (23:11):
I'd heard congratulations doctor, Thank you, Princess.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I'm sure your.
Speaker 16 (23:17):
Gentleman will excuse me, Felix Darling.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
I shall be in my car if you want me.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Colonel, I have an unpleasantas to perform. I have a
message from her Highness. I wish that she'd chosen some
other messenger, but it's my duty to inform you that
you are relieved of your duties as head of the O'Connor.
So it's happened, Resputon Winds. When does this order take effect?
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As of now, your replacement, Major General Orloff is on
his way. Sorry, say I too, your Excellency, for you,
for myself or her Highness, and for Russia.
Speaker 12 (24:12):
Is that you feeling, darlie?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I do hope you're not annoyed. Who are you? A
man of God, princess and a friend of your uncle Alexandria?
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Yes, you're a Rasputin?
Speaker 11 (24:31):
Is it my appearance that surprises you? Surely you've heard
about me?
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Have you seen my husband?
Speaker 11 (24:37):
Not yet? Dear lady, I first wanted to.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
To thank you personally for your kindness in lending me
this train, and.
Speaker 16 (24:48):
Alexandra told me that you would return our train by
the first month.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Did she also tell him that Rasputin does what he
likes when he lacks.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
If you will excuse me, I'll join my husband.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
First, you will sit on my knees and tell me
about your sins.
Speaker 16 (25:10):
You will take your hand off my wrist.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Oh, don't be ashamed of your sins. If you're wise,
you will accept salvation at my hands. Yes, you will
sin as you have never sinned. You will reach heights
of ecstasy that you've only dreamed of in your darkest dreams.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
And then.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Then we will repent and earn our salvation together. Gun
my husband kill you the Count is wiser than you.
God protects me, and the Count knows better than to
interfere with God. The devil made your nails shart.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Get out of this tyfore your eye out.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
The devil triumph now, but God will be victorious finally,
are Arena.
Speaker 16 (26:16):
Are you all right, oh, Felix, Charlie, you mustn't concern
yourself about me.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I just need rest, not concern myself about you. That's
like asking a bird not to fly, Arena. It's been
two weeks since you had the fall on the train,
and since then you've rarely been out.
Speaker 11 (26:34):
Of your robe.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
The doctor said I should rest.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I know, but the fall wasn't that bad. He said,
you just received a bruise on your forehead, and I
shouldn't have had this much effect on you.
Speaker 12 (26:44):
I'll be all right, Felix, I promise.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I love you.
Speaker 11 (26:48):
You've been such a dreadful liar in your life. What
is it?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
What really is troubly?
Speaker 10 (26:54):
Now?
Speaker 16 (26:54):
There is no time to talk about it, Phoenix.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
It the nightmares. They don't seem to be improving it.
Every night I have to wake you and hold you.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Is that so terrible feeling?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
You're not the holding dying never that, But the nightmare is,
and your screams something must have terrified Pa.
Speaker 16 (27:15):
I'll be pature, I promise if you just stop trying
to find.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Out, Stop trying to find out what's driving my wife
close to a nervous breakdown? Is that what you ask
of me? You are afraid? That's where the nightmares come
from from?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Fear?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Now what is it you feel?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
It?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Oh?
Speaker 16 (27:33):
Just stupidity, just silly little things that you wouldn't understand.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Try me, no, no, not now, Irena, What really happened
on the train?
Speaker 3 (27:45):
You will be angry?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Perhaps would you rather see me angry than torture the
way I am now? Reputed respute?
Speaker 5 (27:54):
It came to my car when I was packing my things,
and what happened.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Nothing. I'm being stupid.
Speaker 16 (28:04):
It was nothing, nothing that a woman such as I
shouldn't have been able to happy.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
He wouldn't have dad. He knew who you were.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
He talked about my sins.
Speaker 16 (28:15):
He wanted me to gain salvation by sinning with him.
And when I refused, and I threatened to tell you,
he asked, Felix, come back, Felix.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Where are you going?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Your nightmares are over?
Speaker 6 (28:31):
Felix, Please, if you love me, come back and listen.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I'm here, I'm here, he laughed.
Speaker 16 (28:37):
Because of his power over Aunt Alexandra, he said that
if you complained about him to her, she believed that.
Speaker 12 (28:44):
You were in league with the devil.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
It's all of his enemies mute.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
But Alexandra loves you.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
She knows that she loves her son more.
Speaker 11 (28:53):
The bruise.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
How did you come by the bruise?
Speaker 16 (28:58):
When I struggled with him and finally broke away from
his grasp, he became enraged.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
He struck me.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
I fell.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Then he left, but I know he still wants me,
and I'm afraid rid of my darling.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I swear to you that you have nothing to fear.
You have nothing to fear, because now that you have
told me, this rescue is as good as dead.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
And now Rasputon has added a powerful and implacable enemy
to the long list of men and women who plotted
against his life. But so far he has survived all
the plots and attempts to kill him. However, Count Elston
was by far the most powerful and determined of rescue
his sols. I'll be back shortly with Act three to
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take you further along on this journey to the sellers
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if your beer is Budweiser, you've had it often. Amplitude
is a fancy word for the entire taste phenomenon, the
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swallow of bud, watch what happens. Think about the sensations
you're experiencing. Notice how the flavor of bud comes on nice.
Speaker 11 (30:28):
And easy, not too strong, not too quick, just right.
Speaker 9 (30:33):
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And there'll be no aftertaste either, no hanging on, and
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drinkers have been experiencing amplitude for.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
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Speaker 11 (30:58):
And isser Busch. Saint Louis.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Ordini screeking, saving.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
So Ordig. The Mirror of History reflects the Russian court
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in the year nineteen fifteen as a hotbed of corruption
and deceit, overlaid by orgiastic religious hysteria. This last was
brought about through.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
The influence a peasant monk named Resputant. Rasputin openly lived
the life of drunken debauchery, practicing what he preached. In
order to find true repentance and salvation, one must sin.
Rasputin sinned, and in sinning, incurred many enemies, among them
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one of the most powerful nobles in Russia, Count Felix Elston.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Sakay, thank you for your promptness. I apologize for not
delivering the noted person. I am honored and pleased that
you've thought of me.
Speaker 11 (32:34):
Count Oh, may I help your excellence.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
How many men have you killed? Well? Am I to
include those I had executed when I was in command
of the secret pool. Now no, no personally free. I
had thought it was more wish to heaven. It had
been at least one more any one I know. I
believe he recently carried a scar on his face made
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by your wife's fingernails. You know about Rasputin and Arena,
and you didn't release You're excellency. I meant no, ask
I wish the devil burning in hell? Try please go
my throat and Rasputin you he found out you didn't
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got that woman to kill him, and that's why he
had you replaced his head of the old crowd. He
would have had me dismissed even if I hadn't tried
to have him killed. I'm still Colonel. See, I'm sure
if Resputon has his way, and she'll shortly be sent
to the front to fight the German I must not
let that happen. I need you, Colonel, what for to
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help me kill Rasputin? No, no, no, no, Colonel, If
I may say so, all of the methods you've suggested
are too professional. I thought that's why you wanted my help,
because I am a profession The picture of Rasputin that
everyone paints for me is that of a cunning peasant.
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I am convinced that cunning peasant has a nose that
sniffs out danger to himself and smells plots even before
their hack.
Speaker 11 (34:10):
Perhaps, but he.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Didn't suspect Barbara. If it hadn't been for that painting,
he'd be dead now true, If we could only find
someone whom Rasputin would trust implicitly, it would have to
be someone even you will or had good reason to
trust this time. Resputant must not escape. Then we must
have the perfect decession.
Speaker 11 (34:33):
Where do we find it?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Here?
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Me?
Speaker 1 (34:36):
You and as in this case, a patriot and one
we both can trust. What makes you think you could
gain resputants? Count? You'll forget that he's a peasant that
would hardly seem to recommend you to it, say heay,
I've yet to meet a peasant who wasn't a snob
at heart. From all that I hear, Resputin is also
greedy beyond belief. He'd be flattered to be on intimate
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terms with Count Elston, the wealthiest noble and Russia. Find
me someone to introduce me to him under the right auspices,
and I'll wager.
Speaker 11 (35:05):
A thousand rubles.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
I'm right live, you're not. I'll pay you a thousand
rubles and we'll have to find another plan. Come Felix,
drink up. Wine is good for the soul, Little father.
I don't think our acquaintance has progressed to the point
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where you can call a prince of the blood by
his given name. Oh, I apologize, I apologize, your excellency.
Oh will your excellency suit or do you prefer a cow? Count?
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Will do nice?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
You'd be the first aristocrat I've ever addressed by title
I might enjoy the novelty.
Speaker 11 (35:48):
I've got to drink up, drink.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Upcai head isn't as strong as yours. When I do
business with you, I must keep my wits about me.
Speaker 11 (35:57):
You aristocrats, you're.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
All alike sending that money is of no importance for
always looking to teat a poor man out of a copeck. Well,
I won't allow you to cheat resputing you just remember that. Count.
Tell me, little father, why do I have the same
feeling about men of God?
Speaker 11 (36:16):
No? Careful, careful, Count.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
That is close to blasphemy whatever it is. Can I
earn forgiveness if I repent? Of course?
Speaker 10 (36:25):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Why don't you start by Why don't you start by
deeding me the land we've been talking about for for
four thousand roubles, But we've been talking about the price
being ten thousand. That was before you had something to repent.
You must pay for penitence and salvation. Do you think
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the price is a trifle? File? No, No, salvation isn't
for cheaply? Of course, of course you you have other assets.
Your wife I found you will not mention my wife.
Speaker 11 (37:07):
Count.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
You are very fortunate that I like you, Otherwise you
might find yourself in disfavor at the court. Yeh, drink up.
I don't like your wine. It's Thesaurs best madeira.
Speaker 11 (37:25):
I must sample your cellar.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Sometimes my wine cellars are open only to my friends.
Then we shall soon be drinking your wine.
Speaker 11 (37:33):
Count, I never failed to make a friend of a man.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
I like.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
You'll find the desire for my company growing upon you. Bravo, bravo, Count.
Where did you learn play the guitar?
Speaker 5 (38:00):
Like that?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Credit my father. He visited Spain and fell madly in
love with the music of the flamenco guitar. Did you
know that Rasputin loves music?
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Is that important? Tell me what do you know about poison?
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Well?
Speaker 1 (38:16):
I've used it on occasions, of course, but it has
its drawbacks, even for professional What.
Speaker 11 (38:21):
Are they difficult with?
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Mis not in this case? And then the killing time.
Speaker 11 (38:27):
A quick acting.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Poison is easily traceable. Slow acting poison always runs the
risk of being detected, so that an antidote could be administered.
And our poison must be quick. What is the quickest kernel.
I'm not an expert, but I would say that it
was cyanide, that, of course, has the distinctive odor of
bitter almonds, which makes it easily detectable by the intended victim.
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You are right, we can count on his gluttony, but
not to that extent. There must be other poison douzens.
Why don't we call in an ad Count Hilston, What
do you want me to do? Furnish us doctor the
quick acting poison whose taste would be concealed by food
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or wine. I must warn you, your excellency, that any
poison I know will have unmistakable symptoms that would warn
the victim and alert any bystanders. There will be only
resputant and me. Knowing that resputant is careful never to
be alone with anyone, even women. I wonder how you
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think you can arrange that, Count Elf, That is not
your concern. And this, Colonel, is the door that leads
directly to the seller.
Speaker 11 (39:44):
Not about footprints. Will be tracks in the snow.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Both going in and coming out the way I've planned it.
Rasputing will presumably have left my palace and wine cellar
in good health. I cannot expect to conceal the fact
that he has been here, but the Czarina and the
police will know that he left six steps down, and
we arrive here at the door to the room where
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rest people will do his last drinking and eating, next
to the wine cellar there, Colonel, I will want you
to see that the table is set for eight. If
all preparations for a party aren't set up, that peasant
shrewdness of his would smell a trap. The tea and
the cake should be on the table. The chocolate will
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be the poison cake. Here's a sweet tooth, and he
loves chocolate. And that way I'll also be able to
eat with him without risk. And as you see, my
guitar is already on the wall. What time when you
want this room ready? We'll be arriving about nine. What
about lassouvert Our good doctor is unhappy, but he'll do it.
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He already hasn't poison good. You'll both wait upstairs the
servants I've given them the night off. Shouldn't we wait
down here concealed in case something goes wrong? Nothing will
go wrong. You and lass Over will stay upstairs until
I come. Boy very well, but I'll feel better if
you take my revolver. So you are so ashamed of
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your association with me that you take me through back doors.
That student is not accustomed to that kind of hospitality.
Speaker 11 (41:32):
Count.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
The type of entertainment that you enjoy, Little Father, is
best done secretly. This seems to be carrying secrecy to extremes.
Speaker 11 (41:47):
Count. The room is empty. I told you we'd be early.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
You wanted to hear me play the guitar. I don't
like playing when people are more interested in eating and
drinking than listening. So make yourself at home. The wine,
which you've expressed it to sample, is on the side.
All in good time, Count, with your beautiful wife join
us tonight. I have asked her, and she said, she said,
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Little Father, that you frighten her. Oh, she should be
more like me and trust in God. I'll get my guitar.
Speaker 11 (42:21):
It's always easy to be frightened. Count.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Did you know that only today that Arena warned me
of some new plot against my life? Wouldn't you like
a glass of wine? No, I see the samovar here.
I'll pour myself some tea. Tea tea, my dear Count,
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And you see you see, I am afraid that if
I start with wine, I won't be able properly to
judge your skill with that guitar that you hold. Now,
are you going to play before the company.
Speaker 11 (43:04):
Arrives, or shall we send for the princess arena? I'll play, Oh.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Oh, resputing owes you an apology, Felix, And now no,
I have heard you perform on the guitar.
Speaker 11 (43:44):
Now we are.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
Brothers in music. And now you shall play some more
for Resputin while I eat before the other guests arrives.
Try the chocolate cake, it was prepared especially for you. Ah,
thank you.
Speaker 4 (44:01):
Mmm.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
If I could play guitar like you, I kill myself
and take my place besides the angels playing my guitar
for their heart.
Speaker 11 (44:14):
How do you find?
Speaker 1 (44:15):
The cake was delicious and a trifle on the sweet side.
Speaker 11 (44:21):
I think I'll have some more.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Where are you going and get you some wine to
wash the cake out? Ah? Thank you, Phelix. Plain, I
want you to play. Play to sooth my ears. Here,
here's the wine. Now I get to taste the wine
from the cellar of Count Euston. Ah.
Speaker 11 (44:44):
Yes, Phoenix, A trifle on the bitter.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
Side, A trifle bitter. Your music, Phoenix, is better than
your wine.
Speaker 11 (44:54):
I asked you to play.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
I'd almost be really not to have any other guests
just listen to you play.
Speaker 11 (45:05):
Felix.
Speaker 4 (45:10):
Listen to music and.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
Drink.
Speaker 11 (45:17):
When I finished this burner, I'm sure it will be
another from your cellar.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Maybe you were not so so bitter Felix, the same
vintage but a different year. Perhaps, m father Gregor, But
but Felix, you stop playing, Father Gregor, say your prayers.
Speaker 15 (45:39):
Oh is that a gun?
Speaker 1 (45:43):
Oh are you a conspiracy of Felix? Yes, Father Gregor,
you'll do no more either. You'll never again put you
up filthy hands on my wife.
Speaker 3 (45:53):
You are dead.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
It's fall. He's finished.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
The monster is dead.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
For those shots I heard, Yes, yes, I had to shoot.
The poison didn't work. I'm surd I put enough poison
in the cake to have killed totally at every cub
of the cake, and drank a whole bottle of wine.
But all that happened was that he got a fixed dog.
I had to shoot him a hand, of course, of course,
it's not possibly. He should have died. Had to tie off,
mumbling doctor, he's dead. We have work to do. What
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could have kept him alive. It's like the picture of
the Virgin all over? Get it, doctor, Remember you will
put on rescutant's overcoat. You will be driven back to
the palace. By the Count enter Rescuten's quarters. Then take
off the overcoat and leave, making sure no one sees you.
I think I watched a brandy before. What was the weathering?
I didn't hear anything?
Speaker 15 (46:51):
Good, Lord, just is not possible.
Speaker 4 (46:53):
I know I shot him.
Speaker 11 (46:55):
Christ Is, you're certain you hit him?
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Count? I saw him fall and let's see. Oh what's
making that noise?
Speaker 11 (47:03):
I'll straight here.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
He'll come with us. Come on, shut the door. If
it gets out at the courtyard.
Speaker 11 (47:10):
We're running.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
He won't. And that's the ironclad guarantee from pristal expert
in the Russian army. Is the doctor all right? It
depends on what you mean by all right. He went
through with impersonating Rasputin. He was seen wearing Resputin's overcoat.
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Then I took them home and to bed. Yeah, here's
a good place. River's deep bridge, railing is low. Give
me a hand with the bucket.
Speaker 11 (47:42):
Come on that frag here we go.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
All right, there's no one around, now, get it up
on the railing over. Thank you, curt Off, thank you.
I think together we may have saved Mother Russia. Count
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Elston was mistaken.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
Rasputin's prediction came true within six months after.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
His death, the Tsar and Tzarina had lost their throne
and their lives, and the Tsarevitch was dead.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
Ironically, Count Elston and his accomplices, sentenced to exile, found
their lives saved.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
By their banishment.
Speaker 11 (48:34):
I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
What can you do to a family car to make
it more than just roomy, comfortable and utilitarian.
Speaker 11 (48:41):
Well you could call it a Buickles Saber for starters.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
That'll get you the kinds of things you would normally
expect from a family car, plus some pretty uncommon family
car traits, like a level of exterior and interior elegance.
Speaker 1 (48:54):
Befitting a knight on the town.
Speaker 2 (48:57):
The distinct formal roofline on the four door hardtopless La
is highlighted by opera windows on either side. On the inside,
you'll find comfortable cloth or vinyl seats, plush carpeting throughout,
plus available options such as tilt steering wheel and automatic
climate control air conditioning. To turn ordinary errand running into
motoring for pleasure, the nineteen seventy five buick Le Saber
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consider it a family car as well as an instrument
of pleasure. Buicklasaber dedicated to the free spirit in just
about everyone.
Speaker 1 (49:42):
Rasputin's place, says the religious figure who held sway over
the czar and his family is unquestioned. Still open to conjecture, however,
is whether Rasputin was a maligned saint or a devil.
Speaker 2 (49:58):
Here's the opinion of the Czarina Alexandra, in an handwritten.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
Note she had placed in his coffin.
Speaker 2 (50:04):
It reads, my dear martyr, give me thy blessing and
may it always follow me on the sad and dreary
path I have yet to traverse here below, and remember
us from on high in your holy prayers, Signed Alexandra.
Our cast included Norman Rose and Potoniac, Mason Adams, Jeane Gillespie,
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Jackson Beck.
Speaker 11 (50:30):
Roger d Covin.
Speaker 1 (50:32):
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
And now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 3 (50:42):
What's the matter where you look? When you open that letter?
Speaker 1 (50:48):
Mary?
Speaker 4 (50:50):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (50:51):
Don't let me see that letter? No, no, no, Taudia.
Speaker 3 (50:54):
I'll just give it to mister Hammond. When Mary, please
let me have that letter?
Speaker 11 (51:00):
Right? What?
Speaker 1 (51:06):
Mary? Did you read this? Will?
Speaker 3 (51:08):
I glanced at it enough to Todd dearest?
Speaker 6 (51:12):
Of course I love you as deeply passionately as you
love me, and you're right, Claudia does stand between us. So,
dearest heart, I've changed my mind. I will go along
with your plans to put her out of the way.
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The History of Man shows that we find it almost
impossible to differentiate between saint and devil, and the smoke
of countless fires has consumed the bodies of a considerable
number of self styled healers and mystics who have been
condemned by society as devils and burnt at the stake,
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while their followers mourned them as saints. But no one
person in history has.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Aroused a flaming controversy that still surrounds the life and
death of a Russian monk named Rasputin.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I am Rosputin, the Little Father. Confess your sins to me,
and you will gain salvation.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
But I have nothing to confess, Oh that.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
You cannot gain salvation. Come give me your shawl and
we will sin together and repent together. I will save
you in spite of yourself. Now give me your.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Shawl, Take my shawl and the knife.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I'll give you death.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
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Speaker 1 (04:30):
In nineteen fifteen, the court of Tsar Nicholas of Russia
was dominated by a drunken, dissolute monk who had taken
the name Rasputin, and it was Rasputant's notorious orgies that
ultimately led to his banishment from court. Despite the fact.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
That Rasputin wielded an extraordinary power over the Tsar and
the Czarina because of his ability to ease the pain
of their only child. The Tsarevich, heir to the Russian throne,
had been worn a hemophiliac, a victim of the bleeding disease,
and when Rasputin appeared in court, his hypnotic voice and
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soothing touch, did the Tsarevich more good than any doctor's prescription?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Well, doctor, Lasavert, how is he? How is my son?
The Tsarevich is resting your Highness comfortably reasonably? So is
he in pain? It's hard to tell.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
You and the other court physicians are incapable of helping
my son.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
But I know someone who can resputen.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Yes, Lasavert, Rasputin whose name brings that remace of disgust
to your lips, but whose touch brings comfort to.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
My son, Your Highness, I dare not presume, but you knew.
I speak out of my love with you and the Czar.
You make a mistake placing rush his feet in the
hands of the charlatte, and this drunken debature of the
ladies of your court. He'll surely bring ruin to Rush.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
You will see to it the vast Puton is brought
back to court as soon as possible.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
We repent us of our sins, o Lord, and we
sin only so that we can show you through contrition
a most rapid father. I seek your permission to open
the door, since I know the message will be for me. Oh,
do you know that it is an inner voice that
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tells me a voice that has never before been wrong,
tells me that there will be a summons from the
Czarina because the Tsalrevich is bleeding again.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
And he meets me who mision granted me?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
So I am here by order of Nicholas, star of
all the Russias. I come for the monk resputant. His
presence is demanded at.
Speaker 10 (07:07):
Courtrevitch and I are in your debt. You have worked
your miracles, My son smiles in is sleep.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
The pain has gone well.
Speaker 11 (07:27):
The miracles are not mine, but the lord's.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Madame, thees Lassa their What are you doing here once
again serving as a messengery, Your highness, Colonel Amdu seeks
an audience. I'm going to my quarters, Madame, that Ivitch
will sleep through the night. A man of God and
the chief of the secret Police have.
Speaker 11 (07:49):
Little to share.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Little Father. I came because I knew I would find
you jeer. What Colonel Amdur has to say concerns you.
But Colonel Amur, this is preposterous.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
I will not tolerate your chrona withdrawing protection from the
Little Father.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Here, your Highness is the head of the secret Police.
I can no longer in all conscience furnish any protection
to respute.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
You speak of conscience, Colonel, What is it that weighs
so heavily upon your.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Sense of duty?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Treachery, your Highness.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
I assume, Colonel you have some proof of these charges,
whatever they are.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Highness, Here are the documents.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
As as I can see that he has something to
do with medical supplies in the war, but I have
no time to read them through.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
These documents show that Resputant has sold millions of rubles
worth of medical supplies to Germany, a country which is
waging war against us.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
And do your documents explain why out of your father
would do.
Speaker 11 (09:00):
This, Yes, your majesty.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
To line his pockets this payment, Resputant has been given
shares in the Sudutsche a munitions factory, as well as
shares in Towness Manufacturing and Copernicus Industries in Bavaria. Your
Highness perhaps knows of these companies.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Little father, tell Colonel Andre what you have told the Tsar.
Speaker 11 (09:26):
And me, Oh Madame, it will make no difference to him.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Tell him it is a prophecy, Colonel, and it is this.
If I die at the hands of the nobility or
members of the court, Zara and Zarina will lose their
crown and their son within six months of my death.
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I mean, but the less over arranged for you to
be admitted privately, expressly to meet this young lady. Her
name is Barbara, who she's most certainly worth meeting. But
Barbara is going to kill Respueteon. Why why do.
Speaker 11 (10:19):
You tell me this cuddle?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I did so, yes, yes, yes, yes, God were very
commendable and cautious. But do you think I would risk
my position unless I were absolutely certain about this lady?
What makes you so certain?
Speaker 12 (10:34):
Three months ago, my sister and I were walking along
the desky prospect. Respueton was driving by in his carriage.
He saw my sister, had the coachman stop and alighted
from the carriage and accosted her.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
She tried to push by him.
Speaker 13 (10:51):
He became insistent, and then, despite my screams hip picked.
Speaker 12 (10:56):
Her up badly, and you were into his carriage and
drove off. Then neither I nor my family.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Have seen her since, but we know where she is.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yes, yes, she is in the quarters of Respudon.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
In the palace.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I brought you here, doctor for you to show Barbara
exactly where to strike Resputin with a knife. So that
the thrust will be certain to kill him. Haven't you
overlooked the fact that before Barbara can strike, she must
be close enough to strike? Use your eyes, and witch doctor,
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isn't she beautiful? Extremely? Don't you know that it's the
custom of this letcher to hold audiences just like a
reigning monarch, every day from ten to twelve in the morning.
But surely he'll recognize Barbara as the sister. Can't be
certain of that, But even if he does, it's all
the better for our plan. I don't see how Barbara
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will join the line of supplicants outside Resputin's apartments tomorrow morning.
Speaker 11 (11:58):
It is his.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Custom to come out and look over the waiting.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Petitioners before he sees them.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
It is also his custom to select any beautiful young
women and take them into his private chamber before he
deals with the others. Certain to pick fovery will greed.
And suppose he recognizes her as the sister of the
girl he abducted, could there be anything more natural than
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that she should come to ask about her sister, to plead.
Speaker 12 (12:30):
To beg with tears in my eyes and trembling lips,
to ask for greed.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Exactly the whole world knows how rescute dispenses grace and where.
Speaker 12 (12:43):
In his private room exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
And when he has you in the room and attempts
to take you in his arms, then doctor will show
her exactly where to strike a little sister.
Speaker 11 (13:10):
Do I know you?
Speaker 7 (13:11):
Do you remember me?
Speaker 13 (13:13):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Thank God? Will remember me, little sister. The Lord will
prepare thy going out and thy coming in.
Speaker 13 (13:23):
Accident.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
You will tell me how.
Speaker 14 (13:26):
My sister is doing, won't you your your sister?
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Oh, then you.
Speaker 14 (13:33):
Don't remembers, No, no, you must have let those beautiful
eyes fill with jeers and try to recall from me.
Speaker 12 (13:45):
Next, Ki prospect, it was months ago I was walking
with my sister and you pass by in your carriage.
Speaker 14 (13:51):
Ay, yes, yes, the little flower that I plucked off
the streets and extra signed the devil's within her.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
She is safe you, she's fun salvation with me.
Speaker 12 (14:04):
Oh, my parents will be so happy to hear that
little may I see her.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
So we make sure that you are without sinister.
Speaker 11 (14:14):
Yeah, we'll pray together. Now, this is the cleansing room.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
It is here you will find salvation that little father.
Speaker 11 (14:29):
Oh, come bling up.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
It's so dark, wicked.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Dark rooms to hear dark tails. You can start by
removing your shawl. There's only our lady to see you,
old my sister, where is she? In good time, little bird,
in good time, you must.
Speaker 11 (14:56):
Be saved your shawl.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I'll give you yea one still by joy, I cleansed.
Speaker 13 (15:18):
Myself, little father, Your death will bring me salvation. Remember
who it was that sent you there?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
As you burn in hell fire?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Resputed saint or devil? The arguments still rage. But the
single most powerful man in Russia lay on the floor
of the palace in Saint Petersburg while his life blood
ebbed away?
Speaker 11 (15:57):
Was this to be his end?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
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Speaker 1 (18:18):
The year was nineteen fifteen. And the Russian Imperial court
seethed with intrigue. At the center was the bizarre figure
of Rasputant. Dissolute, drunken, Rasputant openly boasted of his influence with.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
The Czar and the Czarina. Idolized by half the nation
as a saint and the healer, Rasputant was loathed, feared,
and plotted against by the other half. One such plot
resulted in a statting which wounded him so seriously he
has been hovering between life and death for days.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
You will be careful to keep the spendige you placed,
little father. You will also refrain from drinking wine makes blood.
Doctor Lasouvelt, it will be good for me for.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
At just once.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Listen to the doctor.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Perhaps it would have been better had I died.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
How can you say that had I died, you.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
And Bazarre would be safe. There are many who still
plot against me, and should they succeed, Madame, you and
your family will lose the throne.
Speaker 11 (19:33):
Within six months of my death.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
You should rest more and topless. In ten days I
shall be in the Bulsk that in Siberia, my birthplace,
Little mother. I feel the Lord wishes me to revisit
the province where I was born. Out of the question,
I will not be responsible for your help if you
undertake such a journey.
Speaker 11 (19:57):
I do God's will.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Only if God wills it, I shall return.
Speaker 16 (20:02):
You must, Little Father, you must.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
If Resputen undertakes this journey, it will be against my orders.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I take notes of that lesser there.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
And risking your Highness's displeasure. I remind you that your niece,
Princess Arena and her husband have been waiting an audience
with you for some hours.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
If they wish to see me, have them shown in here.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
But your Highness, neither the Princess nor Count Elston has
ever met the Little Father, and I'm uncertain. But of course,
of course it will be perfect.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
What the train, Count Elston's private train, he will be
delighted to lend.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
It to the Little Father for his journey. This is
not a task ahead of the Okrana guarding a train. Plasovac,
couldn't you have let the scoundrel? I'm afraid it was
a higher power than my Yes, the picture of the
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Holy Virgin that saved the life of the Holy Resputant.
Marvara's knife would have pierced a vital organ had it
not been deflicted by the wooden frame of the.
Speaker 11 (21:13):
Picture of a virgin Mary.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Are you becoming a disciple of the month, then that
is not at all.
Speaker 11 (21:19):
It just seems a strange.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Coincidence of which he's made more capital with Her Highness.
Are you still determined to remove resputy? He's vermin? Vermin
must be externally that Russia must be.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Saved from him. And at the same time you save.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Mother Russia, you ensure your continuation as the head of
the Uprano Or you know something? What have you heard
only the gossip of the court. Her Highness is unhappy
with your removal of the god from this I don't
care about my career. You must believe that the first
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mole I have for seeing that the devil dies it's
the same Russia, Colonel after It's a pleasure to see
you again, old friend. I am honored, Count Elstean, doubly
honored by your wife's Christmas arena. Wouldn't hear of our
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turning over the trend.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
Without inspecting it and seeing that everything was in order,
and also removing some of my personal belongings. I've heard
that this isn't the neatest to death anything you've heard,
Princess is not only true but also probably understated.
Speaker 16 (22:38):
Dame Felix, why are we lending our train to.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
That because Alexandra asked us to My sweet may I
help you on, Princess? Thank you, Doctor Lasaver. This is
the Princess Arena and her husband, Count Elston.
Speaker 16 (22:57):
Doctor la Saver and I are old friend. I'm delighted
but also surprised to see him here.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Your aunt insisted that he'd be a board to check
on your guest's help. You know, of course, that it
was his skill that helped save Respueteon's life.
Speaker 16 (23:11):
I'd heard congratulations doctor, Thank you, Princess.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I'm sure your.
Speaker 16 (23:17):
Gentleman will excuse me, Felix Darling.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
I shall be in my car if you want me.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Colonel, I have an unpleasantas to perform. I have a
message from her Highness. I wish that she'd chosen some
other messenger, but it's my duty to inform you that
you are relieved of your duties as head of the O'Connor.
So it's happened, Resputon Winds. When does this order take effect?
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As of now, your replacement, Major General Orloff is on
his way. Sorry, say I too, your Excellency, for you,
for myself or her Highness, and for Russia.
Speaker 12 (24:12):
Is that you feeling, darlie?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I do hope you're not annoyed. Who are you? A
man of God, princess and a friend of your uncle Alexandria?
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Yes, you're a Rasputin?
Speaker 11 (24:31):
Is it my appearance that surprises you? Surely you've heard
about me?
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Have you seen my husband?
Speaker 11 (24:37):
Not yet? Dear lady, I first wanted to.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
To thank you personally for your kindness in lending me
this train, and.
Speaker 16 (24:48):
Alexandra told me that you would return our train by
the first month.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Did she also tell him that Rasputin does what he
likes when he lacks.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
If you will excuse me, I'll join my husband.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
First, you will sit on my knees and tell me
about your sins.
Speaker 16 (25:10):
You will take your hand off my wrist.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Oh, don't be ashamed of your sins. If you're wise,
you will accept salvation at my hands. Yes, you will
sin as you have never sinned. You will reach heights
of ecstasy that you've only dreamed of in your darkest dreams.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
And then.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Then we will repent and earn our salvation together. Gun
my husband kill you the Count is wiser than you.
God protects me, and the Count knows better than to
interfere with God. The devil made your nails shart.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Get out of this tyfore your eye out.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
The devil triumph now, but God will be victorious finally,
are Arena.
Speaker 16 (26:16):
Are you all right, oh, Felix, Charlie, you mustn't concern
yourself about me.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I just need rest, not concern myself about you. That's
like asking a bird not to fly, Arena. It's been
two weeks since you had the fall on the train,
and since then you've rarely been out.
Speaker 11 (26:34):
Of your robe.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
The doctor said I should rest.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I know, but the fall wasn't that bad. He said,
you just received a bruise on your forehead, and I
shouldn't have had this much effect on you.
Speaker 12 (26:44):
I'll be all right, Felix, I promise.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I love you.
Speaker 11 (26:48):
You've been such a dreadful liar in your life. What
is it?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
What really is troubly?
Speaker 10 (26:54):
Now?
Speaker 16 (26:54):
There is no time to talk about it, Phoenix.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
It the nightmares. They don't seem to be improving it.
Every night I have to wake you and hold you.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Is that so terrible feeling?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
You're not the holding dying never that, But the nightmare is,
and your screams something must have terrified Pa.
Speaker 16 (27:15):
I'll be pature, I promise if you just stop trying
to find.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Out, Stop trying to find out what's driving my wife
close to a nervous breakdown? Is that what you ask
of me? You are afraid? That's where the nightmares come
from from?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Fear?
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Now what is it you feel?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
It?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Oh?
Speaker 16 (27:33):
Just stupidity, just silly little things that you wouldn't understand.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Try me, no, no, not now, Irena, What really happened
on the train?
Speaker 3 (27:45):
You will be angry?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Perhaps would you rather see me angry than torture the
way I am now? Reputed respute?
Speaker 5 (27:54):
It came to my car when I was packing my things,
and what happened.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Nothing. I'm being stupid.
Speaker 16 (28:04):
It was nothing, nothing that a woman such as I
shouldn't have been able to happy.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
He wouldn't have dad. He knew who you were.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
He talked about my sins.
Speaker 16 (28:15):
He wanted me to gain salvation by sinning with him.
And when I refused, and I threatened to tell you,
he asked, Felix, come back, Felix.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Where are you going?
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Your nightmares are over?
Speaker 6 (28:31):
Felix, Please, if you love me, come back and listen.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
I'm here, I'm here, he laughed.
Speaker 16 (28:37):
Because of his power over Aunt Alexandra, he said that
if you complained about him to her, she believed that.
Speaker 12 (28:44):
You were in league with the devil.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
It's all of his enemies mute.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
But Alexandra loves you.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
She knows that she loves her son more.
Speaker 11 (28:53):
The bruise.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
How did you come by the bruise?
Speaker 16 (28:58):
When I struggled with him and finally broke away from
his grasp, he became enraged.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
He struck me.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
I fell.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Then he left, but I know he still wants me,
and I'm afraid rid of my darling.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I swear to you that you have nothing to fear.
You have nothing to fear, because now that you have
told me, this rescue is as good as dead.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
And now Rasputon has added a powerful and implacable enemy
to the long list of men and women who plotted
against his life. But so far he has survived all
the plots and attempts to kill him. However, Count Elston
was by far the most powerful and determined of rescue
his sols. I'll be back shortly with Act three to
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take you further along on this journey to the sellers
of death. I ever had a tall, frosty glass of amplitude, Well,
if your beer is Budweiser, you've had it often. Amplitude
is a fancy word for the entire taste phenomenon, the
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total experience of flavor. Next time you take a healthy
swallow of bud, watch what happens. Think about the sensations
you're experiencing. Notice how the flavor of bud comes on nice.
Speaker 11 (30:28):
And easy, not too strong, not too quick, just right.
Speaker 9 (30:33):
Notice the clean, crisp togetherness of Bud's taste, Everything in
perfect balance, with no single element jumping out at you.
And there'll be no aftertaste either, no hanging on, and
you'll be refreshed and ready for another glassful. Actually, but
drinkers have been experiencing amplitude for.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Years, but they never phrase it that way. They just
say Budweiser, and that says it all.
Speaker 11 (30:58):
And isser Busch. Saint Louis.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Ordini screeking, saving.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
So Ordig. The Mirror of History reflects the Russian court
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in the year nineteen fifteen as a hotbed of corruption
and deceit, overlaid by orgiastic religious hysteria. This last was
brought about through.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
The influence a peasant monk named Resputant. Rasputin openly lived
the life of drunken debauchery, practicing what he preached. In
order to find true repentance and salvation, one must sin.
Rasputin sinned, and in sinning, incurred many enemies, among them
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one of the most powerful nobles in Russia, Count Felix Elston.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Sakay, thank you for your promptness. I apologize for not
delivering the noted person. I am honored and pleased that
you've thought of me.
Speaker 11 (32:34):
Count Oh, may I help your excellence.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
How many men have you killed? Well? Am I to
include those I had executed when I was in command
of the secret pool. Now no, no personally free. I
had thought it was more wish to heaven. It had
been at least one more any one I know. I
believe he recently carried a scar on his face made
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by your wife's fingernails. You know about Rasputin and Arena,
and you didn't release You're excellency. I meant no, ask
I wish the devil burning in hell? Try please go
my throat and Rasputin you he found out you didn't
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got that woman to kill him, and that's why he
had you replaced his head of the old crowd. He
would have had me dismissed even if I hadn't tried
to have him killed. I'm still Colonel. See, I'm sure
if Resputon has his way, and she'll shortly be sent
to the front to fight the German I must not
let that happen. I need you, Colonel, what for to
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help me kill Rasputin? No, no, no, no, Colonel, If
I may say so, all of the methods you've suggested
are too professional. I thought that's why you wanted my help,
because I am a profession The picture of Rasputin that
everyone paints for me is that of a cunning peasant.
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I am convinced that cunning peasant has a nose that
sniffs out danger to himself and smells plots even before
their hack.
Speaker 11 (34:10):
Perhaps, but he.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Didn't suspect Barbara. If it hadn't been for that painting,
he'd be dead now true, If we could only find
someone whom Rasputin would trust implicitly, it would have to
be someone even you will or had good reason to
trust this time. Resputant must not escape. Then we must
have the perfect decession.
Speaker 11 (34:33):
Where do we find it?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Here?
Speaker 3 (34:35):
Me?
Speaker 1 (34:36):
You and as in this case, a patriot and one
we both can trust. What makes you think you could
gain resputants? Count? You'll forget that he's a peasant that
would hardly seem to recommend you to it, say heay,
I've yet to meet a peasant who wasn't a snob
at heart. From all that I hear, Resputin is also
greedy beyond belief. He'd be flattered to be on intimate
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terms with Count Elston, the wealthiest noble and Russia. Find
me someone to introduce me to him under the right auspices,
and I'll wager.
Speaker 11 (35:05):
A thousand rubles.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
I'm right live, you're not. I'll pay you a thousand
rubles and we'll have to find another plan. Come Felix,
drink up. Wine is good for the soul, Little father.
I don't think our acquaintance has progressed to the point
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where you can call a prince of the blood by
his given name. Oh, I apologize, I apologize, your excellency.
Oh will your excellency suit or do you prefer a cow? Count?
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Will do nice?
Speaker 1 (35:43):
You'd be the first aristocrat I've ever addressed by title
I might enjoy the novelty.
Speaker 11 (35:48):
I've got to drink up, drink.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Upcai head isn't as strong as yours. When I do
business with you, I must keep my wits about me.
Speaker 11 (35:57):
You aristocrats, you're.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
All alike sending that money is of no importance for
always looking to teat a poor man out of a copeck. Well,
I won't allow you to cheat resputing you just remember that. Count.
Tell me, little father, why do I have the same
feeling about men of God?
Speaker 11 (36:16):
No? Careful, careful, Count.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
That is close to blasphemy whatever it is. Can I
earn forgiveness if I repent? Of course?
Speaker 10 (36:25):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Why don't you start by Why don't you start by
deeding me the land we've been talking about for for
four thousand roubles, But we've been talking about the price
being ten thousand. That was before you had something to repent.
You must pay for penitence and salvation. Do you think
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the price is a trifle? File? No, No, salvation isn't
for cheaply? Of course, of course you you have other assets.
Your wife I found you will not mention my wife.
Speaker 11 (37:07):
Count.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
You are very fortunate that I like you, Otherwise you
might find yourself in disfavor at the court. Yeh, drink up.
I don't like your wine. It's Thesaurs best madeira.
Speaker 11 (37:25):
I must sample your cellar.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Sometimes my wine cellars are open only to my friends.
Then we shall soon be drinking your wine.
Speaker 11 (37:33):
Count, I never failed to make a friend of a man.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
I like.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
You'll find the desire for my company growing upon you. Bravo, bravo, Count.
Where did you learn play the guitar?
Speaker 5 (38:00):
Like that?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Credit my father. He visited Spain and fell madly in
love with the music of the flamenco guitar. Did you
know that Rasputin loves music?
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Is that important? Tell me what do you know about poison?
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Well?
Speaker 1 (38:16):
I've used it on occasions, of course, but it has
its drawbacks, even for professional What.
Speaker 11 (38:21):
Are they difficult with?
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Mis not in this case? And then the killing time.
Speaker 11 (38:27):
A quick acting.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Poison is easily traceable. Slow acting poison always runs the
risk of being detected, so that an antidote could be administered.
And our poison must be quick. What is the quickest kernel.
I'm not an expert, but I would say that it
was cyanide, that, of course, has the distinctive odor of
bitter almonds, which makes it easily detectable by the intended victim.
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You are right, we can count on his gluttony, but
not to that extent. There must be other poison douzens.
Why don't we call in an ad Count Hilston, What
do you want me to do? Furnish us doctor the
quick acting poison whose taste would be concealed by food
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or wine. I must warn you, your excellency, that any
poison I know will have unmistakable symptoms that would warn
the victim and alert any bystanders. There will be only
resputant and me. Knowing that resputant is careful never to
be alone with anyone, even women. I wonder how you
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think you can arrange that, Count Elf, That is not
your concern. And this, Colonel, is the door that leads
directly to the seller.
Speaker 11 (39:44):
Not about footprints. Will be tracks in the snow.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Both going in and coming out the way I've planned it.
Rasputing will presumably have left my palace and wine cellar
in good health. I cannot expect to conceal the fact
that he has been here, but the Czarina and the
police will know that he left six steps down, and
we arrive here at the door to the room where
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rest people will do his last drinking and eating, next
to the wine cellar there, Colonel, I will want you
to see that the table is set for eight. If
all preparations for a party aren't set up, that peasant
shrewdness of his would smell a trap. The tea and
the cake should be on the table. The chocolate will
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be the poison cake. Here's a sweet tooth, and he
loves chocolate. And that way I'll also be able to
eat with him without risk. And as you see, my
guitar is already on the wall. What time when you
want this room ready? We'll be arriving about nine. What
about lassouvert Our good doctor is unhappy, but he'll do it.
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He already hasn't poison good. You'll both wait upstairs the
servants I've given them the night off. Shouldn't we wait
down here concealed in case something goes wrong? Nothing will
go wrong. You and lass Over will stay upstairs until
I come. Boy very well, but I'll feel better if
you take my revolver. So you are so ashamed of
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your association with me that you take me through back doors.
That student is not accustomed to that kind of hospitality.
Speaker 11 (41:32):
Count.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
The type of entertainment that you enjoy, Little Father, is
best done secretly. This seems to be carrying secrecy to extremes.
Speaker 11 (41:47):
Count. The room is empty. I told you we'd be early.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
You wanted to hear me play the guitar. I don't
like playing when people are more interested in eating and
drinking than listening. So make yourself at home. The wine,
which you've expressed it to sample, is on the side.
All in good time, Count, with your beautiful wife join
us tonight. I have asked her, and she said, she said,
(42:13):
Little Father, that you frighten her. Oh, she should be
more like me and trust in God. I'll get my guitar.
Speaker 11 (42:21):
It's always easy to be frightened. Count.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Did you know that only today that Arena warned me
of some new plot against my life? Wouldn't you like
a glass of wine? No, I see the samovar here.
I'll pour myself some tea. Tea tea, my dear Count,
(42:47):
And you see you see, I am afraid that if
I start with wine, I won't be able properly to
judge your skill with that guitar that you hold. Now,
are you going to play before the company.
Speaker 11 (43:04):
Arrives, or shall we send for the princess arena? I'll play, Oh.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
Oh, resputing owes you an apology, Felix, And now no,
I have heard you perform on the guitar.
Speaker 11 (43:44):
Now we are.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
Brothers in music. And now you shall play some more
for Resputin while I eat before the other guests arrives.
Try the chocolate cake, it was prepared especially for you. Ah,
thank you.
Speaker 4 (44:01):
Mmm.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
If I could play guitar like you, I kill myself
and take my place besides the angels playing my guitar
for their heart.
Speaker 11 (44:14):
How do you find?
Speaker 1 (44:15):
The cake was delicious and a trifle on the sweet side.
Speaker 11 (44:21):
I think I'll have some more.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Where are you going and get you some wine to
wash the cake out? Ah? Thank you, Phelix. Plain, I
want you to play. Play to sooth my ears. Here,
here's the wine. Now I get to taste the wine
from the cellar of Count Euston. Ah.
Speaker 11 (44:44):
Yes, Phoenix, A trifle on the bitter.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
Side, A trifle bitter. Your music, Phoenix, is better than
your wine.
Speaker 11 (44:54):
I asked you to play.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
I'd almost be really not to have any other guests
just listen to you play.
Speaker 11 (45:05):
Felix.
Speaker 4 (45:10):
Listen to music and.
Speaker 1 (45:15):
Drink.
Speaker 11 (45:17):
When I finished this burner, I'm sure it will be
another from your cellar.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Maybe you were not so so bitter Felix, the same
vintage but a different year. Perhaps, m father Gregor, But
but Felix, you stop playing, Father Gregor, say your prayers.
Speaker 15 (45:39):
Oh is that a gun?
Speaker 1 (45:43):
Oh are you a conspiracy of Felix? Yes, Father Gregor,
you'll do no more either. You'll never again put you
up filthy hands on my wife.
Speaker 3 (45:53):
You are dead.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
It's fall. He's finished.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
The monster is dead.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
For those shots I heard, Yes, yes, I had to shoot.
The poison didn't work. I'm surd I put enough poison
in the cake to have killed totally at every cub
of the cake, and drank a whole bottle of wine.
But all that happened was that he got a fixed dog.
I had to shoot him a hand, of course, of course,
it's not possibly. He should have died. Had to tie off,
mumbling doctor, he's dead. We have work to do. What
(46:30):
could have kept him alive. It's like the picture of
the Virgin all over? Get it, doctor, Remember you will
put on rescutant's overcoat. You will be driven back to
the palace. By the Count enter Rescuten's quarters. Then take
off the overcoat and leave, making sure no one sees you.
I think I watched a brandy before. What was the weathering?
I didn't hear anything?
Speaker 15 (46:51):
Good, Lord, just is not possible.
Speaker 4 (46:53):
I know I shot him.
Speaker 11 (46:55):
Christ Is, you're certain you hit him?
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Count? I saw him fall and let's see. Oh what's
making that noise?
Speaker 11 (47:03):
I'll straight here.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
He'll come with us. Come on, shut the door. If
it gets out at the courtyard.
Speaker 11 (47:10):
We're running.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
He won't. And that's the ironclad guarantee from pristal expert
in the Russian army. Is the doctor all right? It
depends on what you mean by all right. He went
through with impersonating Rasputin. He was seen wearing Resputin's overcoat.
(47:33):
Then I took them home and to bed. Yeah, here's
a good place. River's deep bridge, railing is low. Give
me a hand with the bucket.
Speaker 11 (47:42):
Come on that frag here we go.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
All right, there's no one around, now, get it up
on the railing over. Thank you, curt Off, thank you.
I think together we may have saved Mother Russia. Count
(48:08):
Elston was mistaken.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
Rasputin's prediction came true within six months after.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
His death, the Tsar and Tzarina had lost their throne
and their lives, and the Tsarevitch was dead.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
Ironically, Count Elston and his accomplices, sentenced to exile, found
their lives saved.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
By their banishment.
Speaker 11 (48:34):
I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
What can you do to a family car to make
it more than just roomy, comfortable and utilitarian.
Speaker 11 (48:41):
Well you could call it a Buickles Saber for starters.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
That'll get you the kinds of things you would normally
expect from a family car, plus some pretty uncommon family
car traits, like a level of exterior and interior elegance.
Speaker 1 (48:54):
Befitting a knight on the town.
Speaker 2 (48:57):
The distinct formal roofline on the four door hardtopless La
is highlighted by opera windows on either side. On the inside,
you'll find comfortable cloth or vinyl seats, plush carpeting throughout,
plus available options such as tilt steering wheel and automatic
climate control air conditioning. To turn ordinary errand running into
motoring for pleasure, the nineteen seventy five buick Le Saber
(49:21):
consider it a family car as well as an instrument
of pleasure. Buicklasaber dedicated to the free spirit in just
about everyone.
Speaker 1 (49:42):
Rasputin's place, says the religious figure who held sway over
the czar and his family is unquestioned. Still open to conjecture, however,
is whether Rasputin was a maligned saint or a devil.
Speaker 2 (49:58):
Here's the opinion of the Czarina Alexandra, in an handwritten.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
Note she had placed in his coffin.
Speaker 2 (50:04):
It reads, my dear martyr, give me thy blessing and
may it always follow me on the sad and dreary
path I have yet to traverse here below, and remember
us from on high in your holy prayers, Signed Alexandra.
Our cast included Norman Rose and Potoniac, Mason Adams, Jeane Gillespie,
(50:29):
Jackson Beck.
Speaker 11 (50:30):
Roger d Covin.
Speaker 1 (50:32):
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
And now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 3 (50:42):
What's the matter where you look? When you open that letter?
Speaker 1 (50:48):
Mary?
Speaker 4 (50:50):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (50:51):
Don't let me see that letter? No, no, no, Taudia.
Speaker 3 (50:54):
I'll just give it to mister Hammond. When Mary, please
let me have that letter?
Speaker 11 (51:00):
Right? What?
Speaker 1 (51:06):
Mary? Did you read this? Will?
Speaker 3 (51:08):
I glanced at it enough to Todd dearest?
Speaker 6 (51:12):
Of course I love you as deeply passionately as you
love me, and you're right, Claudia does stand between us. So,
dearest heart, I've changed my mind. I will go along
with your plans to put her out of the way.
Speaker 1 (51:34):
Sign Marbo Radio.
Speaker 2 (51:37):
Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Sign Off the
Sinus Medicines.
Speaker 11 (51:42):
This is e. G.
Speaker 2 (51:43):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasants Dreams
Speaker 4 (52:00):
By Ba
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