November 5, 2024 • 42 mins
Hope you enjoy this episode of Mystery Theater! Find all our OTR radio stations and podcasts at theaterofthemind-otr.com - Audio Credit: The Old Time Radio Researchers Group. - All Podcasts @ Spreaker | Apple Channel | YouTube Music
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Come in welcome. I'm e. G.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Marshall.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Once upon a time, and not so long ago, the
family was the backbone the continuity of life, mainly the continuity,
and with woman only recently elevated from missus to miz
The family began with a sire and ended with a scion, unfair, unreasonable, ridiculous,
(00:46):
of course, right out of the Middle Ages, but the
habit persisted through the Victorians. This tale falls midway between
a story of a man's fall to the consuming fires
of eternal health, and it begins appropriately enough for the roaring,
crackling fire. Our mystery drama, The Dice of Doom was
(01:12):
written especially for the mystery theater by Ian Martin and
stars Michael Wager. It is sponsored in part by Anheuser
Busch Incorporated, Bows of Budweiser and Buick Motor Division.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I'll be that shortly with that one.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
The fascination of the future. It haunts and tempts all
of us if we could just know what it held
for us. But that's only because if it should be
bleak or full of disaster, the human heart cannot help
but believe that fore knowledge would help us somehow to
(01:58):
change it. But in saner moments, all of us should
realize it is far, far better not to know what
fate holds in store for us. How much better Rudy
Shore would have been had he left it to luck
fortune the roll of the dice, that is, any dice,
except the ones he came to own.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Father. I'm still alive, Hoady. Take me upstairs, of course,
but I want to know what was in the papers
you burned.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Have no fear.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I shall not let life go until I tell what
must be told. Put upstairs, please, I want to die
at my own bet. I picked him up in.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
My arms, so frail and wasted, he seemed lighter than
a child. Carrying him up stairs, my mind was racing
backwards all our life together, fondly, happily, sadly now that
he was to die. But as strong as any feeling
possessing me at the moment was curiosity. M Curiosity aroused because,
(03:15):
coming home unexpectedly a few nights before, I had found
my father highly stuffing a sheep of yellow manuscripts into
a safe I never knew existed behind the portrait of
the reputed black sheep of the family. My great great
great grandfather held us so.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
As I laid my father and.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
His great dead beneath the plea detector, he answered my question.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
The manuscripts you saw me putting away the other night,
who once I go in this evening, were written now
your ancestor, Helgar.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
They were her history.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Oh father, let me go for the doctor. No, no,
no son, and beyond any immortal help.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
No.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Oh, I was going to say, the history of our predestination.
And it has all turned out justice, Helga wrote in
those pages so long.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Ago, And what can have been so terrible?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
We've been an exceptionally rich and lucky family, long lived
even even you fall outlived my mother and all my
long sad list of oldest ship.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I have no time to dwell our mothers.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
My own time is too short, and yours.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I mean my kind of for sort of that I
cannot tell you, only.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
That you.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Are the last off the shores.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
The family ends with me. Yes. But in return, if
you have promised two things which.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Will bring you every worldly advantaitudeist.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
What they.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
They were not named? I've wholly wanted to.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Protect you, protect me from what the one to whom
your great great great grandfather.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Sold all of us too?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Who else?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
But then who who I will not come for I
didn't know.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
He He's dead. Ollo that may God receive you to
heaven as you deserve it.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
So I came into my inheritance, an inheritance which didn't
last long.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
The last of her show for the natural good spirits
of you.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Soon forgot all feelings of gloom and doom. I returned
to the university in the life of wine women.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
And most important of all was Tirland. Home is the
seam of my life.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Now by my hope of heaven, send me an h anyway,
there goes your hope of heaven. Ha ha, still your hoy.
He was close enough by all odds. Oh, I'm seven.
Is not your lucky number, Rudy for once?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
When is it? But he's a cursed dice.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Freedom my dice.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Maybe continue How you've taken every fining I.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Own I except I oh use old friend.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Well, my guardian has refused to honor them for ceremonious
old tightwad.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I'm on his side. And you were to marry my sister,
And I don't want you a pauper, oh Charlotte, And
you have no fear of that, the way you throw
your money about my friends, she shouldn't count on it.
Now if you were to choose me, well she didn't.
Poor girl, she doesn't know what she's missing. Lucky it guy,
so unlucky in love. So the game is over. I
(07:11):
tell you I have little taste for any further. If
you need money, Rudy, borrow from me, or take back
what you lost. Do you know where friends, what's mine
is yours? Or your thanks freedom? But my guardian will
be here by tomorrow and make all the wedding arrangements
here labor is the date so soon. My father is
close enough to members of King Frederick's court to hear
(07:32):
rumors of war being imminent. Oh wouldn't that be great war?
We should all the officers we three with the commissioned
immediately release from the bondage of this grinding Charnel House
of Education. Doesn't it make your blood boiled with excitement?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I'm not so sure a man can get killed in
a war.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Oh, not an officer, Rudy. They're much too valuable to waste.
See you on the ramparts, fellow, he is at a
good hearted fellow. You can't help liking him. Well, I do,
and always except what I'm I'm always afraid I'll lose
Lotter to him. You're jesting.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
My sister loved only you, and I hope. I don't like
his love for the battlefields. Oh, he loves war no
more than you were I.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
He's a romanticist. It's a trappings. The uniforms that attack
Feedel and all of them. I'm glad of the rumors myself.
You yes, because it will speed up your marriage to laughter.
I think she's just what you need to settle you.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Down before you before.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
You give in completely to your other love affair? What
love affair? Gambling the dice. If I had my way,
i'd see you and Charlotte married tomorrow. As it happened
to Johammed was a better prophet than it could ever
have realized. M Lord and I weren't married the next day,
(08:57):
but with foreign affairs worsening, we were married look in.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
The next month.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
The following week to the happiest of my life. Lord
had got me a handsome dolly, and at last I
had control of my own estate. And then.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
War we got.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
There was no escape for anyone who went to a gentleman.
Johann Friedel and myself prepared, which I must admit play
aspectment to leave.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
For the front Woody. I think you must be married.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I have to go.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
A lot of everyone is joining the Colors.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
You're on freedo.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
My brother and I conceited friends are from HOSPA. I'm
not married for are not leaving a wife behind.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Do you wanna be ashamed of me?
Speaker 5 (09:35):
I want you to be alive. I'd like to have
a father for my child.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
You're having a child mine.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Well, I I hope you don't think it's anyone else.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Oh, I didn't mean that.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I mean, well, it's it's so wonderful, dear I I
except except what I well, I I I I can't
explain to some family mumbo jumble it doesn't mean anything now,
Oh my god, how happy I am to know that
there's to be another generation of shows.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Why shouldn't there be?
Speaker 6 (10:08):
And since you're going to be a fire, you should
be excused from fighting.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
You're right, I'm going to resign my commission today.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Unfortunately, I quickly discover that to leave an army is
an infinitely more difficult thing men to join one. Although
I would not admit it, I was the disconsort as
my wife, I had no desire for warfare.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
When I reported for duty with Johanna.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
And Freedom Tilly.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
First months in camp were enjoyable enough. There were balls
and festive dinners.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
And a great deal of parading and being offered the
favors of young and beautiful women who were completely captivated
by soldiers. And they were the never ending dash game.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
At which unfortunately I lost and lost, never ending, that
is until one day, Well, why is it? Does this work?
Speaker 5 (11:01):
The war?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
The fun line? Are chance to prove ourselves a life?
Prove ourself? Now, why that camel while cutting us to rhythms.
We've got to storm the hill and spike the guns.
So order the men to attack, they must be led
not by me.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
But are you a card?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
No more than I are. We wouldn't have a chance
to be do we becut the rip before we got
halfway there? And with my lot, follow me and you'll
be safe, and heroes stead heroes. Moody is like, you'll
take your chances. I'm going to give a command to charge.
I'm your superior officer. Either of you can stop me,
he goes, do but I command, Oh Coody, what you
(11:49):
stop him? Led? The bull? The blood can't fight We've
all been killed for your friend, How could you kill him?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I value my life more than his.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
If you value your joy, Your people carefully aim away
from me at firing.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Now why if you don't, I'll kill you two as
you will.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Becomes a cannon. Remember, your people has been fired to
My story is tastically shot freedom.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
The luck will get away with it. But our luck
held only up to a point.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Nobody had seen which of us fire the shot, But
the bullet was lodged in the battle the head.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Johanna and I were separated and held for court martial.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
It is a decision of this court Marshal that murder
has been done, and one of you must pay the
penalty with your life. Before a firing squab, I ask
once more, in the name of God and of your
honor as a soldier, not the guilty one confess and
have two murders on his conscience.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I did not do it.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Dudey, how can you would you make your sister a
widow to save your own life? I did not fire
the shot. Well, Scott's Marshall hereby pronounces the death sentence.
The faith of the man that I will be settled
by a roll of the dice, low man will lose,
(13:28):
God take them away. All that night I wrestled with
my conscience what little I had left. By morning I
was almost ready to confess. Even the family prophecy was
against me. With my child in love is womb, I
could not be the last of his trouws. So what
(13:51):
hope had I for the promise of the two things
that were to bring me every worldly advantage I could desire.
I will leave you alone with gonna show Babs. Perhaps
you will have more luck in inducing him to confess,
and you had with Lieutenant brompt Well, my son, do
you wish to confess?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Father Freedle?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
You're no priest?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
A freedom man I killed?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
We went up as the fire pushed back his cows.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
His faith seemed to be that of the merchant man.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Was this some trick of Rudy's tortured conscience? Had the
freedom somehow not died? Was this a genuine priest?
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Or?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
If he was not, who else could he be? And
what control had he over Rudy's future? I'll return shortly
with that too. In the fell tortured and dizzy after
(15:12):
a sleepless night, facing the fact that a throw of
the dice may place him before a firing squad within
ours would all frow gazes in horror at the man
who stands over his bunk, m clad as a priest.
But whose face is the face of the friend he murdered?
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Or is it?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
For to his fevered gaze the face seems to swirl
and shift and take on many forms, till Rudy is
sure of nothing. So, little brother Rudy, I suppose you'd
never expected to see me again? Who par you? You
don't remember me? Is it too easy to forget an
(15:54):
old friend's face? Because you shot him in the back?
A you mean Freido's friedish Cloud's pony. She was mad.
If we'd followed him, we'd all been chilled. No doubt
you are quite right to shoot me. You I I
don't know who you are.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Your friend, Freedom, Freedom is dead?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Well watching the name? Do you wish to confess his murder?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Uh? Well no, and have no fear. I will not
expose you, but Freedom if you are alive somehow, man,
you knew, But I'm afraid.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Within the next couple of hours of rover Dice and
they condemned me to execution for his dad.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Who why not?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
You're guilty. No, you can't truck me that easily, Fear, Rudy,
I can do with you whatsoever I desire. You look
freedo I he whom I choose to be for this moment,
your friend, Remember the story of the manuscript your father burned.
(17:09):
Two things will bring you every worldly advantage you desire.
They will come to you in time, in time, when
how who are you? I wear the frock of a priest.
Can you not trust them? You are no man of God?
(17:30):
Then you must guess who I am? Still trust in me?
I dared not admit to.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Myself for my strange visitor was I was number fear?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
And before I know what, I was led for myself
or a place of execution for a large expecting crowd.
Line that work and followed me to where a sand
hill had been built for the execution.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Was there I met your heart? Boody, you still will
not confess? What about your sister?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Bring your drum than drums? Yours is the first roll
here of the dice. Throw them on the drumhead. May
God descends me double sixers? God heard my prayer? Well
do you wish to roll? Tell them? If I match it?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
What then we'll roll again.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Give me the dice.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
The dice hippoken two. Yes, there's no reading the number.
Have anyone else a pair of dice, if you please
your other poor problem? But I have dice, per say,
he does not have to buy. I commonly hear one
pair of dice from you. Give them to this man now,
So yes, my gennel, to shut this off.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Then we must throw again. You're first liten a. I
cannot ask God to defend me again. It is not tricked.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
You kindly too, and the one.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
So yes, so fix it again?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Oh be it take Brompton, bind his eyes, make ready
for the execution, said I Pedler. No, my friend, yours
the two things that can bring you every earthly advantage
you desire, as they have already.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Colonel Peddler, Here what freedo the priest.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Cause and no names.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I'm your benefactor so long as my pact which you exists.
Listen ready.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
And ah.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
But for me and those dice that might have been new,
keep them. They will low for you what you wish
win or lose until your time is up.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I'm the stand hill.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
My best friend, my wife's brother lay dead, whittled with bullets.
My only other friend I had killed, or had I
was it some shade from beyond the grave would placed
the magic dice in my hand. From magic, they proved
to me, I could lose or win it will and
a no time I had brought my way up out
(20:49):
of the army my life. Even my wife became the
lord of.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
The gambling table.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Can oh you.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Well? Would you expect, Lord, that I would keep a.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Little maid of mine. I'm waiting for it to bring
my dress.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Oh the matter with any of the else, and nothing
I have.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Will fit me. This child of you is just ruining
my figure.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
On my word, I'm glad, I'm more ways than one.
You're carrying a child?
Speaker 5 (21:18):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Even as it is, the men all pay too much
attention to you, and sometimes I think you to them.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
The baby.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
The baby, that's all you care about anymore, Not me,
just your pleasure.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Child. Don't know how important it is to me to
have a son.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
A son, a sun my body.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
It is just a machine to manufacture your son and heir.
So help me God, if for no other reason, then
just despite you, I pray night and day for a daughter.
Oh if I produced the lowly female child wouldn't there.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Be the devil to pay the devil?
Speaker 5 (22:04):
My friend, hoody dy h? Are you all right?
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Why do you ask you suddenly when as wide as
a season, and stood there as though you were listening
to someone else, or.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Or or something inside you of nothing?
Speaker 5 (22:22):
But I I didn't mean to please you about our child.
If you're angry about.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
That, I'm not angry.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
I hold out all else.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
It was my dress.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Now are you going to take me tonight?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Tonight?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Alright?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
But afterwards? How how I'll meet you downstairs in the library.
I had to be along for a moment.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Things have been happening so fast, and so fortunately I
shut my mind against thinking about consequences. But now it's
through quick brandish to clear my head. Oh Igan, for
the first time to say so little? I wondered if
I knew.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
How to fall.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
As the last of the long line of shows, pay
money and love for my share, except how the devil
to keep them? If my wife bears, my son.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
And my heir?
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Would you come from?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Who are you who have put your friendly food, your
dolly court Chester, your majesty? Perhaps you'd recognize me better
in this shape fid again? Would you rather look upon
me as I really am no.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Looking man.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
You tell me free.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Of course, I can't be freedl anymore than a peddler,
a priest or a jester. You know who I am.
You also know a pact was made with me long ago,
that you were to be the last of the shows,
and that I would give you two things that will
bring you every worldly advantage you desire. I have kept
(24:06):
my part of the bargain, the devil's dice you have,
but you have not kept yours. Your wife is carrying
a sun.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
There's nothing I can do about that.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
There is no way I I can destroy my own
unborn child. But I can't. You have only to ask
no very well. You have made your choice. One last word,
if you ever need me, light of fire at the
(24:41):
last stroke of midnight, throwing the dice, laugh loudly, the
dice will split, and I shall come to you.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Name ludy.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
What are you trying to do?
Speaker 6 (25:01):
You set set the house on fire. The smoke is
the sick as a blanket.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
What need if we have a fire?
Speaker 5 (25:07):
If we're going on and such a fire, it nos
as if the devil flew down.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
The chimney, lock down, little wife. I wanted to say,
but a but I had no words left to say in.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Arraging des I had to bury my foot, make my
mind a blank, shut out everything with the wonderful fever
that poked me every night at the table.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
And I could win or lose it.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Will for I WI lose a king.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I guess those five is ten dice a five and
the two seven of a loser that is forty to
the first that are twenty to my haird number two.
Visits of the lady.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
What's wrong, Rudy? You lost again?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
That's right?
Speaker 5 (25:57):
This is the Kent's night run and you must go
back and win with what leave your luck your magic touch?
You always end up winning.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
It's time. Apparently I can't go back, And why not?
Speaker 4 (26:09):
I have the money?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
No I can. I choice already pawn with bankrupt blood.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
But what are we going to do?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Come along? We must, we must get home.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
I I'm single to do.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
I put a sleeping powder in a lot of evening
draft that night I built a fire striking the first
match at the last stroke of twelve.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Then it's the fire card I threw, and the.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Dison laughed a while, hysterical laugh for the life of
the armament shook me from scalp to the soles of
my feet, A laugh that became a sob the last
moment I tried to reach for the dicon and draw him.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Back before it was too late.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Gambling is a fever, as overpowering and as vicuating as
drugs or alcohol. All can be cured with the addict's cooperation.
But eventually there comes a point of no return, the
point Rudy has reached. Now will he pass it? Or
(27:34):
is it still not too late? Our return shortly with
a tree. Rudolph Schrove stands before the fire. He has
just lit, his hand, extending to pick up the dice
(27:54):
from the flames, but in the very act of reaching,
he draws back. Is it fear or greed that forces
him to leave the dice there to split in the
heat and summon up his nemesis. Is he committed to
take another step on the road to eternal hell? It's
(28:14):
to light the Dutch of crist.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Yourself.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Have I not the one you called?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
But she w huh were uh oh in some other form?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
This time the occasion is serious enough for you to
see me as I am. Why did they call me.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
The dice?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
They've lost that power through whose fault? Uh Nearly two
hundred years ago, I made a pact with your g
great great great grandfather hell Gosh rule for close to
two centuries. I have lived up to my side of
the bargain, as your ancestors have lived up to theirs.
(29:11):
Only you have tried to change the terms.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I just want what any father wants, a.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Son, a son to carry on the family name. Yes, no,
my pact was for five generations, and I want no
more of the stros to trouble me, no child. But
how gave that to me?
Speaker 4 (29:32):
But I took what my wife to best?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Would you rather I took you now, as I can
do with your contract already broken. No, No, have no fear.
Your wife will come to no harm, You will live
out your time on earth, and the child would never
have been born. In any case, you underestimate my power,
(30:01):
and your dice will have their magic again. See that
in all else, you obey me, or they will be disarmed,
and I shall drag you to the pit. That moment,
Satan be with you. He was gone and suddenly and
(30:23):
completely as he appeared, the devil from blackest how and
yet as he spoke his face had rippled like a
reflection in a windy pond, and the form kept.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Changing, changing, never changing, from Satya to Freedo, to the priest,
to the peddler, to the coupier, and back to the
satyr again, malevolent, diabolical menacing. For a moment, it seemed
the dream, and.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Then I was looking at the dice in my hand
over again and hearing the final proof.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Top the bernie. Help me, ah, I'm losing the baby.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
It took a little while to raise enough to get
started again, but once I had at stake, I was merciless.
When I cleaned out everyone's pocket one time, I'd move
on to the next.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
We lived up to every magnificent penny I made.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Our parties were legendary, haunted by every profler get in
Europe's chained by every cinema, Mexicon.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
A lot I failed to recover her figure. Wine and Brandy,
the culprits.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Now the Balan von Stolhausen that I called myself, was
much too rich to be unattractive, no matter what my excesses.
And so at last we came to the air in
France to run up against my most formidable rival in
the game of chance.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Who is that perfectly gorgeous man at the back of
that table.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
That's my pet?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Is the conte mobile The second most important games turn
you up? Some say the first that the matter will
settle some day.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Uh is that the contest by his side? And she
is beautiful, the painted hassie, that's all. Oh, he's getting up.
Perhaps he'll come our way.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Blotter, here's a hundred thousand francs.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
The wheel is waiting for you.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
But I I prefer to meet the count alone.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
Occupy, yes, ready, if you insist.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Very few things would tempt me away from the blakat
table that I believe. I recognize the great Baron v
Solon at.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Your service, and I'm flattered at the recognition.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
The conte Moba is of course known worldwide. Oh, I
am flattered in the God I present my contest, mar
go the bar.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
A pleasure long.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
The third.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
That is your wife to your case, Yes, she is
not at her best.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Stay, Oh God, I'm fair only because I am blinded
by your beauty.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Well, Oh, lottery middle hands playing my at.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Birds, and I kissed the back of this But from
her palm's mind must pas tanno. Well though, oh, it
was fated we should meet eventually. Why do we call
swords at?
Speaker 5 (33:40):
What?
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Game?
Speaker 1 (33:42):
From out of Hail is my favorite?
Speaker 5 (33:43):
It?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Unfortunately I do not play cards, only the dies. Then there,
since I am challenger voice of weapons, where do we begin?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Since you select my game?
Speaker 1 (33:59):
But I should be and by you and the night
time committed to Somada five tomorrow, I must leave for
business in our save and said we say one week
come tonight. Accept that. In the meanwhile, Boncharles at our tables,
but save your best for me. And now, if you
would excuse me, I must return to my game.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
And you miss here, mistake me and introduce me to
uh your baroness.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
And now I suggest a glass of champagne.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
Oh, it's a delightful idea, would especially since they are
serving on the other side of the casino.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
Especially you do give you a chance the glands that
they well they do. I pass you. I'm observed by
a sposes.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
I must to admit it has been running a hole
in my hand. Yeah, so I shall read it as
we strove.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Well go a lot of time, no step by you.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
There's nothing to do. A play dome, seems I hope you.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Oh, oh, the possion my.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
Own fifty three. I know you know it quietly the
retreat of mine at the other end.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Of my shot to garden, and your husband will be.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Away all next week.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
What may I expect you?
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Must your foreman and Fran's wife.
Speaker 5 (35:25):
Uh huh mean to guy, because God the even named
the home.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
I know the beauty, but I'm not gonna t a you.
Speaker 6 (35:33):
Know something God better tell and not exciting a minor
name a gambler who wins and wins hm and man
like you can't see my very block, but your husband,
my husband and I are one thing, you and I
another beside you'll be away.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
I shall expect you to my herd at uh see four.
You are novelist. Everything I expected of you, my lover
and my strong one. What do you just tring?
Speaker 4 (36:16):
My strength?
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Is your desire for me?
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Then meets me again? You know hear same time, the
same magic eyes. What makes a man of gambler hoody?
Speaker 6 (36:37):
I don't know what makes a man a doctor, but
you dedication desire?
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Uh well for a gamble the first two with absurd
that's that's a fever manger.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Must we waste our short hours to.
Speaker 6 (36:52):
Get a talking and not when you mentioned see that
that's what you've become for me, that you've already won,
not a mouse, not yet, not for me?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Will you?
Speaker 5 (37:07):
Uh? What they really meant yesterday, I suppose, was what
makes a nun a winner?
Speaker 2 (37:13):
What makes your husband won?
Speaker 6 (37:15):
That's simply he's rich enough to be able to play
long enough till the odds have to tell PE's way.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
What happens to us when he comes home? Do you
go back to him and a very saffiest.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
Win of rudy. I love my pleasures and my comforts
and you.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Then, if I promise you I will win the game,
do I also win you?
Speaker 5 (37:42):
Uh? Huh, you'll never beach look on?
Speaker 7 (37:49):
And so three days later the great game again, all
at the two hundred thousand francs ride will look.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Off government a bowl is cover? Hell eight? He's the
boy easy age anyway, I wait, my dice, I believe.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
Eleven.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
I went on. I let all ride. How much is
in the pot? Eight hundred and forty thousand francs?
Speaker 2 (38:25):
You covered?
Speaker 1 (38:28):
And that'surally lucky seven? You call on me a game?
Speaker 2 (38:35):
It was impossible fide nights in a row.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
I lost to the cat, but my dice, but that
couldn't be.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
No one could tante to spell over them but me.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Unless I do my pocket examine and twisted, and they
swaying that under the light.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
But the first part of this secret, how could they
be told? From an ordinary pair? This was no ordinary pair,
because I never let them out of my visit.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
My god, let go out.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Had been taken in by one of the oldest tricks
in the world. Where are they, Margo, Rudy, Why dice
you sold them?
Speaker 5 (39:08):
For?
Speaker 1 (39:08):
They to give your husband Rudy to kill you and
and distance. I suggest the same thing, So you're share,
monsieur got very well my dice. Oh, I swear I'll
shoot back, but tom them away from me. I don't
have you of that. I warn you I'll shoot her
if you don't get them up, shoot and be done.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Yeah, no, you've.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Killed her, just as I'll kill you to get my
dice back. They are not yours, Rudy their mind, and
I decided it was time to take them back. Poor
Margot sty there for serve a purpose. You would be guillotined,
(40:01):
my friend. But don't worry. When you join me, I'll
rejoin you, my dife. You God's damn me You'll think
that that was enough to kill me when I was
freed the old friend. But you need more firepower than
(40:22):
that to stop the devil. There was some disagreement among
the judges at the trial as to whether Rudolph's schol
should be guillotined or sent to a madhouse. But the
(40:43):
Comte's face, as he testified, was so white and frozen
with grief that Rudy's wild story was judged a deliberate
attempt to escape his crime of conscience. He died under
the knights, fulfilling the prophecy that he would be the
last of the shoals. I'll be back shortly. As for
(41:13):
the dice themselves, no one knows what happened to them.
There have been stories since of winning pairs that make
fortunes for their owners. It's doubtsful. With so many professional
mechanics in the field these days, the devil would bober
with dice. He had so many more fruitful opportunities as
(41:37):
the world turns to day. Our cast included Michael Wager,
Carol titel Ian, Martin, Gordon Gould, and Robert Dryden. The
entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown Radio
Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Sinoff the Sinus Medicines,
Missus E. G. Marshall inviting you to return to our
(41:57):
Mystery Theater for another advance. Sure in the macabre until
next time, Pleasure Dreams. The Night's w R Mystery Theater
(42:22):
was brought to you in part by Shop White Supermarkets
where you get a lot more for a little less
than by suburban savings BOPSIS throughout New Jersey. The preceding
program was furnished by the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Come in welcome. I'm e. G.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Marshall.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Once upon a time, and not so long ago, the
family was the backbone the continuity of life, mainly the continuity,
and with woman only recently elevated from missus to miz
The family began with a sire and ended with a scion, unfair, unreasonable, ridiculous,
(00:46):
of course, right out of the Middle Ages, but the
habit persisted through the Victorians. This tale falls midway between
a story of a man's fall to the consuming fires
of eternal health, and it begins appropriately enough for the roaring,
crackling fire. Our mystery drama, The Dice of Doom was
(01:12):
written especially for the mystery theater by Ian Martin and
stars Michael Wager. It is sponsored in part by Anheuser
Busch Incorporated, Bows of Budweiser and Buick Motor Division.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I'll be that shortly with that one.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
The fascination of the future. It haunts and tempts all
of us if we could just know what it held
for us. But that's only because if it should be
bleak or full of disaster, the human heart cannot help
but believe that fore knowledge would help us somehow to
(01:58):
change it. But in saner moments, all of us should
realize it is far, far better not to know what
fate holds in store for us. How much better Rudy
Shore would have been had he left it to luck
fortune the roll of the dice, that is, any dice,
except the ones he came to own.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Father. I'm still alive, Hoady. Take me upstairs, of course,
but I want to know what was in the papers
you burned.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Have no fear.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I shall not let life go until I tell what
must be told. Put upstairs, please, I want to die
at my own bet. I picked him up in.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
My arms, so frail and wasted, he seemed lighter than
a child. Carrying him up stairs, my mind was racing
backwards all our life together, fondly, happily, sadly now that
he was to die. But as strong as any feeling
possessing me at the moment was curiosity. M Curiosity aroused because,
(03:15):
coming home unexpectedly a few nights before, I had found
my father highly stuffing a sheep of yellow manuscripts into
a safe I never knew existed behind the portrait of
the reputed black sheep of the family. My great great
great grandfather held us so.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
As I laid my father and.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
His great dead beneath the plea detector, he answered my question.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
The manuscripts you saw me putting away the other night,
who once I go in this evening, were written now
your ancestor, Helgar.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
They were her history.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Oh father, let me go for the doctor. No, no,
no son, and beyond any immortal help.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
No.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Oh, I was going to say, the history of our predestination.
And it has all turned out justice, Helga wrote in
those pages so long.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Ago, And what can have been so terrible?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
We've been an exceptionally rich and lucky family, long lived
even even you fall outlived my mother and all my
long sad list of oldest ship.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I have no time to dwell our mothers.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
My own time is too short, and yours.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I mean my kind of for sort of that I
cannot tell you, only.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
That you.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Are the last off the shores.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
The family ends with me. Yes. But in return, if
you have promised two things which.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Will bring you every worldly advantaitudeist.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
What they.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
They were not named? I've wholly wanted to.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Protect you, protect me from what the one to whom
your great great great grandfather.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Sold all of us too?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Who else?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
But then who who I will not come for I
didn't know.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
He He's dead. Ollo that may God receive you to
heaven as you deserve it.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
So I came into my inheritance, an inheritance which didn't
last long.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
The last of her show for the natural good spirits
of you.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Soon forgot all feelings of gloom and doom. I returned
to the university in the life of wine women.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
And most important of all was Tirland. Home is the
seam of my life.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Now by my hope of heaven, send me an h anyway,
there goes your hope of heaven. Ha ha, still your hoy.
He was close enough by all odds. Oh, I'm seven.
Is not your lucky number, Rudy for once?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
When is it? But he's a cursed dice.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Freedom my dice.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Maybe continue How you've taken every fining I.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Own I except I oh use old friend.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Well, my guardian has refused to honor them for ceremonious
old tightwad.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I'm on his side. And you were to marry my sister,
And I don't want you a pauper, oh Charlotte, And
you have no fear of that, the way you throw
your money about my friends, she shouldn't count on it.
Now if you were to choose me, well she didn't.
Poor girl, she doesn't know what she's missing. Lucky it guy,
so unlucky in love. So the game is over. I
(07:11):
tell you I have little taste for any further. If
you need money, Rudy, borrow from me, or take back
what you lost. Do you know where friends, what's mine
is yours? Or your thanks freedom? But my guardian will
be here by tomorrow and make all the wedding arrangements
here labor is the date so soon. My father is
close enough to members of King Frederick's court to hear
(07:32):
rumors of war being imminent. Oh wouldn't that be great war?
We should all the officers we three with the commissioned
immediately release from the bondage of this grinding Charnel House
of Education. Doesn't it make your blood boiled with excitement?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I'm not so sure a man can get killed in
a war.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Oh, not an officer, Rudy. They're much too valuable to waste.
See you on the ramparts, fellow, he is at a
good hearted fellow. You can't help liking him. Well, I do,
and always except what I'm I'm always afraid I'll lose
Lotter to him. You're jesting.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
My sister loved only you, and I hope. I don't like
his love for the battlefields. Oh, he loves war no
more than you were I.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
He's a romanticist. It's a trappings. The uniforms that attack
Feedel and all of them. I'm glad of the rumors myself.
You yes, because it will speed up your marriage to laughter.
I think she's just what you need to settle you.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Down before you before.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
You give in completely to your other love affair? What
love affair? Gambling the dice. If I had my way,
i'd see you and Charlotte married tomorrow. As it happened
to Johammed was a better prophet than it could ever
have realized. M Lord and I weren't married the next day,
(08:57):
but with foreign affairs worsening, we were married look in.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
The next month.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
The following week to the happiest of my life. Lord
had got me a handsome dolly, and at last I
had control of my own estate. And then.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
War we got.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
There was no escape for anyone who went to a gentleman.
Johann Friedel and myself prepared, which I must admit play
aspectment to leave.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
For the front Woody. I think you must be married.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I have to go.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
A lot of everyone is joining the Colors.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
You're on freedo.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
My brother and I conceited friends are from HOSPA. I'm
not married for are not leaving a wife behind.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Do you wanna be ashamed of me?
Speaker 5 (09:35):
I want you to be alive. I'd like to have
a father for my child.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
You're having a child mine.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Well, I I hope you don't think it's anyone else.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Oh, I didn't mean that.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I mean, well, it's it's so wonderful, dear I I
except except what I well, I I I I can't
explain to some family mumbo jumble it doesn't mean anything now,
Oh my god, how happy I am to know that
there's to be another generation of shows.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Why shouldn't there be?
Speaker 6 (10:08):
And since you're going to be a fire, you should
be excused from fighting.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
You're right, I'm going to resign my commission today.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Unfortunately, I quickly discover that to leave an army is
an infinitely more difficult thing men to join one. Although
I would not admit it, I was the disconsort as
my wife, I had no desire for warfare.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
When I reported for duty with Johanna.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
And Freedom Tilly.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
First months in camp were enjoyable enough. There were balls
and festive dinners.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
And a great deal of parading and being offered the
favors of young and beautiful women who were completely captivated
by soldiers. And they were the never ending dash game.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
At which unfortunately I lost and lost, never ending, that
is until one day, Well, why is it? Does this work?
Speaker 5 (11:01):
The war?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
The fun line? Are chance to prove ourselves a life?
Prove ourself? Now, why that camel while cutting us to rhythms.
We've got to storm the hill and spike the guns.
So order the men to attack, they must be led
not by me.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
But are you a card?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
No more than I are. We wouldn't have a chance
to be do we becut the rip before we got
halfway there? And with my lot, follow me and you'll
be safe, and heroes stead heroes. Moody is like, you'll
take your chances. I'm going to give a command to charge.
I'm your superior officer. Either of you can stop me,
he goes, do but I command, Oh Coody, what you
(11:49):
stop him? Led? The bull? The blood can't fight We've
all been killed for your friend, How could you kill him?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I value my life more than his.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
If you value your joy, Your people carefully aim away
from me at firing.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Now why if you don't, I'll kill you two as
you will.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Becomes a cannon. Remember, your people has been fired to
My story is tastically shot freedom.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
The luck will get away with it. But our luck
held only up to a point.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Nobody had seen which of us fire the shot, But
the bullet was lodged in the battle the head.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Johanna and I were separated and held for court martial.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
It is a decision of this court Marshal that murder
has been done, and one of you must pay the
penalty with your life. Before a firing squab, I ask
once more, in the name of God and of your
honor as a soldier, not the guilty one confess and
have two murders on his conscience.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I did not do it.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Dudey, how can you would you make your sister a
widow to save your own life? I did not fire
the shot. Well, Scott's Marshall hereby pronounces the death sentence.
The faith of the man that I will be settled
by a roll of the dice, low man will lose,
(13:28):
God take them away. All that night I wrestled with
my conscience what little I had left. By morning I
was almost ready to confess. Even the family prophecy was
against me. With my child in love is womb, I
could not be the last of his trouws. So what
(13:51):
hope had I for the promise of the two things
that were to bring me every worldly advantage I could desire.
I will leave you alone with gonna show Babs. Perhaps
you will have more luck in inducing him to confess,
and you had with Lieutenant brompt Well, my son, do
you wish to confess?
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Father Freedle?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
You're no priest?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
A freedom man I killed?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
We went up as the fire pushed back his cows.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
His faith seemed to be that of the merchant man.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Was this some trick of Rudy's tortured conscience? Had the
freedom somehow not died? Was this a genuine priest?
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Or?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
If he was not, who else could he be? And
what control had he over Rudy's future? I'll return shortly
with that too. In the fell tortured and dizzy after
(15:12):
a sleepless night, facing the fact that a throw of
the dice may place him before a firing squad within
ours would all frow gazes in horror at the man
who stands over his bunk, m clad as a priest.
But whose face is the face of the friend he murdered?
Speaker 5 (15:31):
Or is it?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
For to his fevered gaze the face seems to swirl
and shift and take on many forms, till Rudy is
sure of nothing. So, little brother Rudy, I suppose you'd
never expected to see me again? Who par you? You
don't remember me? Is it too easy to forget an
(15:54):
old friend's face? Because you shot him in the back?
A you mean Freido's friedish Cloud's pony. She was mad.
If we'd followed him, we'd all been chilled. No doubt
you are quite right to shoot me. You I I
don't know who you are.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Your friend, Freedom, Freedom is dead?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Well watching the name? Do you wish to confess his murder?
Speaker 5 (16:23):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Uh? Well no, and have no fear. I will not
expose you, but Freedom if you are alive somehow, man,
you knew, But I'm afraid.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Within the next couple of hours of rover Dice and
they condemned me to execution for his dad.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Who why not?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
You're guilty. No, you can't truck me that easily, Fear, Rudy,
I can do with you whatsoever I desire. You look
freedo I he whom I choose to be for this moment,
your friend, Remember the story of the manuscript your father burned.
(17:09):
Two things will bring you every worldly advantage you desire.
They will come to you in time, in time, when
how who are you? I wear the frock of a priest.
Can you not trust them? You are no man of God?
(17:30):
Then you must guess who I am? Still trust in me?
I dared not admit to.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Myself for my strange visitor was I was number fear?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
And before I know what, I was led for myself
or a place of execution for a large expecting crowd.
Line that work and followed me to where a sand
hill had been built for the execution.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Was there I met your heart? Boody, you still will
not confess? What about your sister?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Bring your drum than drums? Yours is the first roll
here of the dice. Throw them on the drumhead. May
God descends me double sixers? God heard my prayer? Well
do you wish to roll? Tell them? If I match it?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
What then we'll roll again.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Give me the dice.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
The dice hippoken two. Yes, there's no reading the number.
Have anyone else a pair of dice, if you please
your other poor problem? But I have dice, per say,
he does not have to buy. I commonly hear one
pair of dice from you. Give them to this man now,
So yes, my gennel, to shut this off.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Then we must throw again. You're first liten a. I
cannot ask God to defend me again. It is not tricked.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
You kindly too, and the one.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
So yes, so fix it again?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Oh be it take Brompton, bind his eyes, make ready
for the execution, said I Pedler. No, my friend, yours
the two things that can bring you every earthly advantage
you desire, as they have already.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Colonel Peddler, Here what freedo the priest.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Cause and no names.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I'm your benefactor so long as my pact which you exists.
Listen ready.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
And ah.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
But for me and those dice that might have been new,
keep them. They will low for you what you wish
win or lose until your time is up.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I'm the stand hill.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
My best friend, my wife's brother lay dead, whittled with bullets.
My only other friend I had killed, or had I
was it some shade from beyond the grave would placed
the magic dice in my hand. From magic, they proved
to me, I could lose or win it will and
a no time I had brought my way up out
(20:49):
of the army my life. Even my wife became the
lord of.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
The gambling table.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Can oh you.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Well? Would you expect, Lord, that I would keep a.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Little maid of mine. I'm waiting for it to bring
my dress.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Oh the matter with any of the else, and nothing
I have.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Will fit me. This child of you is just ruining
my figure.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
On my word, I'm glad, I'm more ways than one.
You're carrying a child?
Speaker 5 (21:18):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Even as it is, the men all pay too much
attention to you, and sometimes I think you to them.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
The baby.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
The baby, that's all you care about anymore, Not me,
just your pleasure.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Child. Don't know how important it is to me to
have a son.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
A son, a sun my body.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
It is just a machine to manufacture your son and heir.
So help me God, if for no other reason, then
just despite you, I pray night and day for a daughter.
Oh if I produced the lowly female child wouldn't there.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Be the devil to pay the devil?
Speaker 5 (22:04):
My friend, hoody dy h? Are you all right?
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Why do you ask you suddenly when as wide as
a season, and stood there as though you were listening
to someone else, or.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Or or something inside you of nothing?
Speaker 5 (22:22):
But I I didn't mean to please you about our child.
If you're angry about.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
That, I'm not angry.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
I hold out all else.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
It was my dress.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Now are you going to take me tonight?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Tonight?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Alright?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
But afterwards? How how I'll meet you downstairs in the library.
I had to be along for a moment.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Things have been happening so fast, and so fortunately I
shut my mind against thinking about consequences. But now it's
through quick brandish to clear my head. Oh Igan, for
the first time to say so little? I wondered if
I knew.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
How to fall.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
As the last of the long line of shows, pay
money and love for my share, except how the devil
to keep them? If my wife bears, my son.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
And my heir?
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Would you come from?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Who are you who have put your friendly food, your
dolly court Chester, your majesty? Perhaps you'd recognize me better
in this shape fid again? Would you rather look upon
me as I really am no.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Looking man.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
You tell me free.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Of course, I can't be freedl anymore than a peddler,
a priest or a jester. You know who I am.
You also know a pact was made with me long ago,
that you were to be the last of the shows,
and that I would give you two things that will
bring you every worldly advantage you desire. I have kept
(24:06):
my part of the bargain, the devil's dice you have,
but you have not kept yours. Your wife is carrying
a sun.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
There's nothing I can do about that.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
There is no way I I can destroy my own
unborn child. But I can't. You have only to ask
no very well. You have made your choice. One last word,
if you ever need me, light of fire at the
(24:41):
last stroke of midnight, throwing the dice, laugh loudly, the
dice will split, and I shall come to you.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Name ludy.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
What are you trying to do?
Speaker 6 (25:01):
You set set the house on fire. The smoke is
the sick as a blanket.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
What need if we have a fire?
Speaker 5 (25:07):
If we're going on and such a fire, it nos
as if the devil flew down.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
The chimney, lock down, little wife. I wanted to say,
but a but I had no words left to say in.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Arraging des I had to bury my foot, make my
mind a blank, shut out everything with the wonderful fever
that poked me every night at the table.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
And I could win or lose it.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Will for I WI lose a king.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I guess those five is ten dice a five and
the two seven of a loser that is forty to
the first that are twenty to my haird number two.
Visits of the lady.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
What's wrong, Rudy? You lost again?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
That's right?
Speaker 5 (25:57):
This is the Kent's night run and you must go
back and win with what leave your luck your magic touch?
You always end up winning.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
It's time. Apparently I can't go back, And why not?
Speaker 4 (26:09):
I have the money?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
No I can. I choice already pawn with bankrupt blood.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
But what are we going to do?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Come along? We must, we must get home.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
I I'm single to do.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
I put a sleeping powder in a lot of evening
draft that night I built a fire striking the first
match at the last stroke of twelve.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Then it's the fire card I threw, and the.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Dison laughed a while, hysterical laugh for the life of
the armament shook me from scalp to the soles of
my feet, A laugh that became a sob the last
moment I tried to reach for the dicon and draw him.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Back before it was too late.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Gambling is a fever, as overpowering and as vicuating as
drugs or alcohol. All can be cured with the addict's cooperation.
But eventually there comes a point of no return, the
point Rudy has reached. Now will he pass it? Or
(27:34):
is it still not too late? Our return shortly with
a tree. Rudolph Schrove stands before the fire. He has
just lit, his hand, extending to pick up the dice
(27:54):
from the flames, but in the very act of reaching,
he draws back. Is it fear or greed that forces
him to leave the dice there to split in the
heat and summon up his nemesis. Is he committed to
take another step on the road to eternal hell? It's
(28:14):
to light the Dutch of crist.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Yourself.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Have I not the one you called?
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
But she w huh were uh oh in some other form?
Speaker 1 (28:39):
This time the occasion is serious enough for you to
see me as I am. Why did they call me.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
The dice?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
They've lost that power through whose fault? Uh Nearly two
hundred years ago, I made a pact with your g
great great great grandfather hell Gosh rule for close to
two centuries. I have lived up to my side of
the bargain, as your ancestors have lived up to theirs.
(29:11):
Only you have tried to change the terms.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I just want what any father wants, a.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Son, a son to carry on the family name. Yes, no,
my pact was for five generations, and I want no
more of the stros to trouble me, no child. But
how gave that to me?
Speaker 4 (29:32):
But I took what my wife to best?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Would you rather I took you now, as I can
do with your contract already broken. No, No, have no fear.
Your wife will come to no harm, You will live
out your time on earth, and the child would never
have been born. In any case, you underestimate my power,
(30:01):
and your dice will have their magic again. See that
in all else, you obey me, or they will be disarmed,
and I shall drag you to the pit. That moment,
Satan be with you. He was gone and suddenly and
(30:23):
completely as he appeared, the devil from blackest how and
yet as he spoke his face had rippled like a
reflection in a windy pond, and the form kept.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Changing, changing, never changing, from Satya to Freedo, to the priest,
to the peddler, to the coupier, and back to the
satyr again, malevolent, diabolical menacing. For a moment, it seemed
the dream, and.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Then I was looking at the dice in my hand
over again and hearing the final proof.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Top the bernie. Help me, ah, I'm losing the baby.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
It took a little while to raise enough to get
started again, but once I had at stake, I was merciless.
When I cleaned out everyone's pocket one time, I'd move
on to the next.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
We lived up to every magnificent penny I made.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Our parties were legendary, haunted by every profler get in
Europe's chained by every cinema, Mexicon.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
A lot I failed to recover her figure. Wine and Brandy,
the culprits.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Now the Balan von Stolhausen that I called myself, was
much too rich to be unattractive, no matter what my excesses.
And so at last we came to the air in
France to run up against my most formidable rival in
the game of chance.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Who is that perfectly gorgeous man at the back of
that table.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
That's my pet?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Is the conte mobile The second most important games turn
you up? Some say the first that the matter will
settle some day.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
Uh is that the contest by his side? And she
is beautiful, the painted hassie, that's all. Oh, he's getting up.
Perhaps he'll come our way.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Blotter, here's a hundred thousand francs.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
The wheel is waiting for you.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
But I I prefer to meet the count alone.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
Occupy, yes, ready, if you insist.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Very few things would tempt me away from the blakat
table that I believe. I recognize the great Baron v
Solon at.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Your service, and I'm flattered at the recognition.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
The conte Moba is of course known worldwide. Oh, I
am flattered in the God I present my contest, mar
go the bar.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
A pleasure long.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
The third.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
That is your wife to your case, Yes, she is
not at her best.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Stay, Oh God, I'm fair only because I am blinded
by your beauty.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Well, Oh, lottery middle hands playing my at.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Birds, and I kissed the back of this But from
her palm's mind must pas tanno. Well though, oh, it
was fated we should meet eventually. Why do we call
swords at?
Speaker 5 (33:40):
What?
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Game?
Speaker 1 (33:42):
From out of Hail is my favorite?
Speaker 5 (33:43):
It?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Unfortunately I do not play cards, only the dies. Then there,
since I am challenger voice of weapons, where do we begin?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Since you select my game?
Speaker 1 (33:59):
But I should be and by you and the night
time committed to Somada five tomorrow, I must leave for
business in our save and said we say one week
come tonight. Accept that. In the meanwhile, Boncharles at our tables,
but save your best for me. And now, if you
would excuse me, I must return to my game.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
And you miss here, mistake me and introduce me to
uh your baroness.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
And now I suggest a glass of champagne.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
Oh, it's a delightful idea, would especially since they are
serving on the other side of the casino.
Speaker 5 (34:36):
Especially you do give you a chance the glands that
they well they do. I pass you. I'm observed by
a sposes.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
I must to admit it has been running a hole
in my hand. Yeah, so I shall read it as
we strove.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Well go a lot of time, no step by you.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
There's nothing to do. A play dome, seems I hope you.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Oh, oh, the possion my.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
Own fifty three. I know you know it quietly the
retreat of mine at the other end.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Of my shot to garden, and your husband will be.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Away all next week.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
What may I expect you?
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Must your foreman and Fran's wife.
Speaker 5 (35:25):
Uh huh mean to guy, because God the even named
the home.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
I know the beauty, but I'm not gonna t a you.
Speaker 6 (35:33):
Know something God better tell and not exciting a minor
name a gambler who wins and wins hm and man
like you can't see my very block, but your husband,
my husband and I are one thing, you and I
another beside you'll be away.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
I shall expect you to my herd at uh see four.
You are novelist. Everything I expected of you, my lover
and my strong one. What do you just tring?
Speaker 4 (36:16):
My strength?
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Is your desire for me?
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Then meets me again? You know hear same time, the
same magic eyes. What makes a man of gambler hoody?
Speaker 6 (36:37):
I don't know what makes a man a doctor, but
you dedication desire?
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Uh well for a gamble the first two with absurd
that's that's a fever manger.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Must we waste our short hours to.
Speaker 6 (36:52):
Get a talking and not when you mentioned see that
that's what you've become for me, that you've already won,
not a mouse, not yet, not for me?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Will you?
Speaker 5 (37:07):
Uh? What they really meant yesterday, I suppose, was what
makes a nun a winner?
Speaker 2 (37:13):
What makes your husband won?
Speaker 6 (37:15):
That's simply he's rich enough to be able to play
long enough till the odds have to tell PE's way.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
What happens to us when he comes home? Do you
go back to him and a very saffiest.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
Win of rudy. I love my pleasures and my comforts
and you.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Then, if I promise you I will win the game,
do I also win you?
Speaker 5 (37:42):
Uh? Huh, you'll never beach look on?
Speaker 7 (37:49):
And so three days later the great game again, all
at the two hundred thousand francs ride will look.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Off government a bowl is cover? Hell eight? He's the
boy easy age anyway, I wait, my dice, I believe.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
Eleven.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
I went on. I let all ride. How much is
in the pot? Eight hundred and forty thousand francs?
Speaker 2 (38:25):
You covered?
Speaker 1 (38:28):
And that'surally lucky seven? You call on me a game?
Speaker 2 (38:35):
It was impossible fide nights in a row.
Speaker 4 (38:37):
I lost to the cat, but my dice, but that
couldn't be.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
No one could tante to spell over them but me.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Unless I do my pocket examine and twisted, and they
swaying that under the light.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
But the first part of this secret, how could they
be told? From an ordinary pair? This was no ordinary pair,
because I never let them out of my visit.
Speaker 4 (38:57):
My god, let go out.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Had been taken in by one of the oldest tricks
in the world. Where are they, Margo, Rudy, Why dice
you sold them?
Speaker 5 (39:08):
For?
Speaker 1 (39:08):
They to give your husband Rudy to kill you and
and distance. I suggest the same thing, So you're share,
monsieur got very well my dice. Oh, I swear I'll
shoot back, but tom them away from me. I don't
have you of that. I warn you I'll shoot her
if you don't get them up, shoot and be done.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Yeah, no, you've.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Killed her, just as I'll kill you to get my
dice back. They are not yours, Rudy their mind, and
I decided it was time to take them back. Poor
Margot sty there for serve a purpose. You would be guillotined,
(40:01):
my friend. But don't worry. When you join me, I'll
rejoin you, my dife. You God's damn me You'll think
that that was enough to kill me when I was
freed the old friend. But you need more firepower than
(40:22):
that to stop the devil. There was some disagreement among
the judges at the trial as to whether Rudolph's schol
should be guillotined or sent to a madhouse. But the
(40:43):
Comte's face, as he testified, was so white and frozen
with grief that Rudy's wild story was judged a deliberate
attempt to escape his crime of conscience. He died under
the knights, fulfilling the prophecy that he would be the
last of the shoals. I'll be back shortly. As for
(41:13):
the dice themselves, no one knows what happened to them.
There have been stories since of winning pairs that make
fortunes for their owners. It's doubtsful. With so many professional
mechanics in the field these days, the devil would bober
with dice. He had so many more fruitful opportunities as
(41:37):
the world turns to day. Our cast included Michael Wager,
Carol titel Ian, Martin, Gordon Gould, and Robert Dryden. The
entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown Radio
Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Sinoff the Sinus Medicines,
Missus E. G. Marshall inviting you to return to our
(41:57):
Mystery Theater for another advance. Sure in the macabre until
next time, Pleasure Dreams. The Night's w R Mystery Theater
(42:22):
was brought to you in part by Shop White Supermarkets
where you get a lot more for a little less
than by suburban savings BOPSIS throughout New Jersey. The preceding
program was furnished by the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
My Favorite Murder is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Each week, Karen and Georgia share compelling true crimes and hometown stories from friends and listeners. Since MFM launched in January of 2016, Karen and Georgia have shared their lifelong interest in true crime and have covered stories of infamous serial killers like the Night Stalker, mysterious cold cases, captivating cults, incredible survivor stories and important events from history like the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. My Favorite Murder is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including historic true crime, comedic interviews and news, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, Bananas and more.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.