November 15, 2024 • 56 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Radio seventy eight w BBM Chicago, the CBS Radio Mystery
Theater presents Come in Welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall. Voodoo
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is a word to conjure with, and conjure is the
right word, because the high priest of Voodooism was called
a conjure man. It was he to whom the practitioners
of voodoo turned when they wanted spells cast or lifted,
enemies punished, or love affairs promoted. As Voodoo spread northward
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from the island of Haiti to the Americas, and particularly
to New Orleans, it should be noted that its most
powerful conjurers were women.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Dom Mallow All powerful one.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
See your knife, the sacred knife of our ancient god.
See Dumba, the knife Jon Blood and you, Dumbala, you
will now have another stone, Oh Dambala, Look with mercy
and kindness upon the servant who will continue to serve
you faithfully now and forever.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Our mystery drama, The House of the Voodoo Queen, was
written especially for the Mystery Theater by Murray Burnett and
stars Jordan Scharnie and Joan Loring. It is sponsored in
park by Buick Motor Division and Anheuser Busch Incorporated, brewers
of Budweiser. I'll be back shortly with that one. If
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Let us raise a standard to which the wise and
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Speaker 4 (03:14):
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Speaker 1 (04:12):
Stop that tay shopping. Love all of us that pictured
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in our imagination, the perfect dream house, the castle in Spain,
or the little cottage on the mountaintop overlooking that blue
lake in the Green Valley. But sure of us, serve
are fortunate enough to have our dream come true. Douglas
and Helen Simpson were two young people who had that
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good fortune, and as we first meet them, they're having
the happy experience of being shown through their perfect house
in New Orleans, which they've acquired through the death of
an uncle. Douglas Senton never knew existed, and this was
used as a music room in the old days. Oh,
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I can just see it, can't you, dog. It's a
beautiful room, nice and sunny. I uh think I have
given you a thorough tour of your new home, and
unless you have any questions, I should be getting back
to the office.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I promise you'll be our first dinner guest, mody, Doc,
Oh you bet.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
There are still a lot of questions I have about
Uncle Timmy that I won't answer it. And at your service. Gooday,
in good luck, in good health. They don't bother, mister Clinton,
I know the way of.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Come, Doc.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I'm so happy. I just love this house.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Wait till you see what I do with it?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
What was that the movers?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Don't be silly, darling, They dollars ago?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Remember? Probably something fell sounds like something following?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Who's that? Oh? Talk it?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I'm so clack.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You're home.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
How did it go today, Darling? Any better?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I really can't tell you, Doug because so ashamed. But
I didn't stay home. I guess I'm just a big collard.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Or don't be silly, anyone would be frightening blucles on
in this place? Oh dog, Oh, what are we going
to do? I told you we'll sell the house and
find another.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Did you read mister Lamore?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Now? Look when I called, he was out, and when
he called me back, I was in a meeting and
couldn't take the call. But he promised it. That must
be him. Now, Hello, mister Pinton Limos here.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Sorry, we're miss connections all day.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
What can I do for you? Listen the moors. I
don't know how to tell you this, but well, Helen
and I think the house is haunted. If you don't
like the house, you can always put it on the market.
We love the house, that is, we thought we loved it.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
It.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Well, it's well, you can't live in a house. Well,
all night long you hear screams and chain rattlings, and
during the day thumpings, and well there's an odor, an
indescribable odor of of rot and decay that sweeps through
the house from time to time. It's here now as
a matter of fact, and we want to you know,
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I if if you had had any complaints that house
has been empty for years, well or maybe that's the reason.
Have you heard anything that won't about the house being haunted?
Of course, then I.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Can only tell you that, feeling the way you do,
you shouldn't stay in the house. I'd give you the
names of some real estate ass who might be willing
to handle it.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Uh, have a seat, miss spent who tell me how
I can help you?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Well, we have a house we'd like to put on
the market of course.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Uh would you give me the location?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Well, it's in an old neighborhood, sixty six Delicourt Street.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Uh, yes, yes, I U I know the house.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
I I thought it was vacant, but.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
We just moved in. My husband's uncle left in the
house and we decided to move to New Orleans and
live here.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Is spent in.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
I'll be honest with you, the house has a bad reputation.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I don't understand. I think you do.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Any honest real estate agent would have to warn a
prospective buyer that there are definite problems connected with your house.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Of course I understand that.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Well, then you.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Also understand I'd have to offer the house way below
the market value. Oh, father, love, I don't think I
could ask more than twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Twenty thousand.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
My husband and I wouldn't be interested in that figure.
Thank you for your time.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Oh not at all. If you change your mind, you
know where to find me. Now, how can a pretty
girl look so unhappy after a dinner like this?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
When the girl is thinking of going home to a
house that scares her and that no real estate agent
wants to handle.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
We're like, look, we'll put an ad in all the
papers and sell it ourselves. You know it might be
better that way. We save a commission. Darling. That's why
I love you.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
He takes such a big load off my shoulders and
make everything seem so easy.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Isn't that what husbands are for? I can think of
a few other youths, and that's one reason why I
love you.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
When are we going to put the ads in the.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
First thing tomorrow? Dock? Wake up? Well? Dog? Did you
leave before it on the water?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Don't you hear it?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yes? Yes, I hear it. Did you check the bathroom?
I was afraid to.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Anyway? It certainly doesn't sound as it if coming from
the bathroom. No, no, it seems to be right over
the bed.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I can't stand it.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Dog, can't you do something?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Why? I don't know what to tell her to go away?
Whatever it is? Do you think that would work? Who
should call the police? Or I would? I would if
I felt they could help. Whatever it is hadn't heard us,
only annoyed us. So I think maybe if we show
we're not bothered, the noises and the smells will stop.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I don't think I can do that, Doug.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I know, I know that's why we put the ads
in the papers.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Doug, hold me, hold me close. What's that?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
That's the ghosts that come to the front door. But
who could come at this time of night? You talked
to just about three in the morning. It's only ten
thirty and this is a late town. I suppose i'd
better see who it is.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I'll come with you, be right with you.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Oh, I'm so sorry. I never dreamed i'd be waking you.
I'll come back some other time. Oh no, we weren't asleep.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Come on in, come in.
Speaker 7 (12:48):
It.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
It was the advertisement in the pickure. You in the
house is for ser Oh, yes it is.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I'm Doug Fenton and this is my wife, Helen.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I'm y. No, mate, you're interested in the house?
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I am.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Are you married?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
No, I'm quite alone.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
But this is a large house. I think I've describe
how many are right? I'm sure I'm miss Lemtra Now
it's how large the house is. She's interested.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I know the house is large, but I'm hooked on antiquities.
I think before we actually get down to business, I
should tell you I know all about the reputation this
house has in the city.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
You do, I do? And you still wanna buy it if.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I can afford it, And I think that the only
way you're going to dispose of it is to sell
it very cheaply.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Uh, miss Lemetra, Just how cheaply are you thinking? Or
aren't you prepared to make an offer? Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I'm not only prepared. I brought the certified checkaloge.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You've made up your mind.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Here it is.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Oh wow, Massy.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Seventy eight hundred dollars. But that's that's just of her offers.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
Considering the reputations of the house, Doug, Doug sentim.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Ms the metric are you too angry.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
With me to join me in a cup?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Fifty? It's my wife who's angry. Oh, I never can
stay mad at girls as pretty as you. Thank you?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Do you find me fascinating? Mister sendim.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Completely? I trust I have the same effect on you. Oh,
it's not you who interests me.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
It's your house.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Why I can't tell you? Everyone in this town seems
to know what's wrong with my house. Lookscept Helen and me.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
They know there's something wrong, that's all they know.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Oh and you know more, beautiful Zelius who highs behind
those beautiful green eyes lies secrets.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
And your attitude is one reason why I can't tell you.
You wouldn't believe me anyway.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Try me.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Alright, the house you're living in doesn't really belonged to you.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I I have a deed that says it does.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
That house was stolen from the daughter of Marie.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Noveau, Marie Loveau, who she the most powerful boucor in
the history of Voodoo, a beautiful black woman who ruled us,
the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans for.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Half a century. You, Douglas Fenton, are living in the
house of the Voodoo Queen, and she wants you out.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
When a landlord wants to evict the tenant, the tenant
can always take his case to coin. But when the
fanciful notion is advanced that the landlord is really a
Voodoo queen who lived back in the nineteenth century, that
tenant as a problem. I'll be back shortly with a
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terrifying solution found by Doug Senton in Act Too. Never
be a beer drinker boor his beer real easy down
the side of the glass. Maybe you do it yourself.
If so, the Budweiser brewmaster thinks you're missing something, especially
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if you're a Budweiser drinker you see, but is rue
so it will kick up a healthy head of phone.
Exclusive beechwood aging and true carbonation make it a lively brood.
Well anyway, Pouring bud plunk down the middle of the
glass helps bring out the best in that clean white
Budweiser foam and real beer aroma. It also helps you
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get the full benefit of its taste, smoothness, and drinkability
you'll find in no other beer at any price. Remember
ruing beer right does make a difference. Next time, pour
that Budweiser right down the middle and see for yourself.
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An isaer Bush Saint Louis. Spencer's just received mensuits from
three fine Chicago stores. These brands are included three G's, Ego, Petrocelli,
Hard Chafter Marx, and Worsted Texts. They are ticketed from
sixty nine ninety five to one hundred and twenty dollars.
We are offering them at seventeen ninety nine Nune or higher.
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The total garments now at Spencer's is over sixty seven
hundred and it includes thirty nine ninety five to one
hundred and twenty dollars men suits, sport coats, simulated leather
and man made fur coats, zip line and all weather
coats Heavy Park is the overcoats worth thirty nine ninety
five to one hundred and twenty dollars now only seventeen
ninety nine. None higher. No salesman will raise you up.
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You cannot pay more than seventeen ninety nine. Often stores
advertise certain items and when you arrive at the store
you are showing a few at the advertised price and
are told that you would be better pleased if you
spend twice the amount to take a better garment. At Spencer's,
every garment is seventeen ninety nine. No salesman will raise
you up. Spencer's three twenty two North Michigan Avenue, Chicago.
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For suburban stores phone two sixty three four to seven
hundred Sunday ten am to six pm, ten am to
nine pm, all next week. Voodoo is an African religion
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which has been variously described and downgraded by such descriptive
phrases as black magic, mumbo jumble, or a mess of
meaningless ritualistic incantations practiced and believed in only by the
ignorant and superstitious. Nevertheless, it survives. Douglas Fenton has been
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told that voodoo presents a very real and serious threats
to his living in a house he inherited in the
warlens right, But Douglas Fenton is a skeptic. Uh yer,
you two much snowy foul. But you must really think
I'm the biggest sucker you ever saw if you expect
me to sell you a sixty thousand dollar house for
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seventy eight hundred because of some crazy story about a
voodoo quay. Uh wa wa wait wait wa? Where are
you going it?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Before I call you ignorant? Now? I know you're a
fool and I don't like food. Sit down, Go home,
dougl Go home to your pretty silly wife, and the
two of you can sit and laugh that mar you know, rue.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
But in the night, when your blood runs cold and
a nameless terror shakes your bones, remember me and if
you can remember.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
To call on the goshore grief and pray they show
you mercy.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Hey, can you think this stuff is for real? Don't you?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I was born in New Orleans, as were my mother
and grandmother. We know the power of the koshok cleek.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
If I apologize, would you sit down? I will sit,
But it's uses.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Will still disbelieve.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Can you blame me? I'm a product of the twentieth century.
You tell me a pretty wild story and mention things
that I've I've never even heard of, like this, this
Coashan gree The.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Koshaw Gris are an ancient society of vodoo priests.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
And what's your connection with them?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
They ask me for a favor. It's not wise to
oppose them.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
And the favor was to buy my house. And why
why do they want it? Because it was the home
of Marie Lulu because it really belongs to her, and
they wanted to the shrines and they're headquarters.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Who are you doing at this cafe this afternoon?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Mm?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
What took you out of your office?
Speaker 8 (21:38):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
A problem? Uh? I've always found that a walk in
some fresh air helps me.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Huh. Don't you find it strange that your walk should
lead to the back streets and this particular cafe.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
I wanted to get away from crowds.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
And how was it that I happened to be here?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
So you can answer that better than I.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah, I can't read this note. I received it.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
At me Catty La feet three point thirty venton would
be there, Oh, Helen Helen Darling, Helen, what's the letter?
Oh dog.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Gold, you're home?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Look look there on the floor. What the devil is it?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
It look like I got check in letters had its
neck blow.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
That's what I found it on our doorsteps, along.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
With the chicken. I found this and this looks like
a child's drawing of some kind of sneak.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
What a child?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Dog? Not a child.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I'm going to the police. The s a voodoo as symbols.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
You ever heard of voodoo? Strange that you should mention
that I had a crash course earlier today. What the
girl who came here to buy our house. I ran
into her today at a sidewalk cafe. She seems to
know a lot about it. She told me, yeah, uh no,
it' it's it's not important.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
What did the police say, Well, that these were would symbols,
that they may be the work of a prankster, or
it might be believer and someone who thinks will do
magic actually works someone with a cludge against us, the
coashon gree. I hope that okay, mister feniould sup l duh.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Don't don't try to put me on And you probably
have a piece of paper on you somewhere that reads
Cafe Lafeede A twenty two, and I will be there.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
You're really rather chobbing, you know, doc.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Oh, I try, particularly when someone looks like you. You know,
I've never let a girl who even came close to you.
It looks I think you've bewitched.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Me, of course, But what have you done to me?
Put a love spell on me?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
I think you're trying to tell me something, and if
I am, we should find a more private place.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I shouldn't tell you this. Mm oh, god die. I
never felt like this before in my life. M never
with anyone.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Oh you're a beautiful liar, but I love to hear it.
I mean it, doc Oh, you're an astonishing girl. Really,
We've been here for two hours and you've never once
mentioned my wife.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Oh should I have.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
M Let's just say it's unusual.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Oh, you're an experienced adulterer.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Ouch. Huh. Now why did I bring her name up?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I don't know, I do.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
It's because I'm worried about the things she finds on
our doorstep.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
What sort of things?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
A chicken with its neck rung, A piece of cardboard
with a crudely drawn snake. Oh? Yes, that that means
something to you, doesn't it spell?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
They're put in or near people's houses for a purpose,
and they mean something. Of course.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I'm almost afraid to ask.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
You should be the chicken with its neck rung means death?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Helen, Helen, are you all right?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yes, stuck, darling, I'm fine?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Uh uh? How how is today? I mean? Uh? Well?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
If you mean, were there any other little presence left
on our doorstep? No?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Well, wh I that's good news. Maybe they've stopped.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I won't complain. After all, you're home early tonight.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
What does that mean? Oh?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Nothing, really, It's just that you've been working so late
at the office so often, and I realize that I'm
not as attractive as I used to be. And although
I guess I'm not much, I hate to hear you
talk like I wann I hate to talk like that.
Maybe I wouldn't if if what I know how attractive
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you are, and there are a lot of beautiful women
in the world, and oh please, yes.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Please, this isn't necessary, Helen, I'm afraid it it's very necessary.
Will you?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Will you stop seeing solid LeMaster.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
I'm as mad as anyone can get and still not
commit murder. It's your associates. Those voodoo priests you tell
me are called it the coouchon Grief. They're not my associates.
Sometimes they ask me to do favors for them, and
I know it's not wise to issuse well. They must
really be grateful to you. They've rewarded you by telling
Helen every time we met, Oh, I tell them to
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lay off.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I won't.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
You won't. What do you wanna do? Break us up?
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Do you know better than that dog? It's just that
I don't want to make a fool of myself.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
If I go to the kochon Cree with this request,
they will simply tell me what I've been telling you
all along.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
If you wanted to stop sell the house, we.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Would gladly if we could get anywhere near what it's worth.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
What is it worth, really, Doug?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
You can't find a buyer who'll even make an offer
except the Gorjungri, and they think they're being very generous.
I won't be taken you inherited the house. Whatever you
get is pure profit. You really don't understand, do you.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I know that if you won't sell, then Helen will
have to suffer.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Not if I stop seeing you. That would be your choice,
and I'm making it right now. If you can let
me walk away rather than ask a simple favor of
people who owe you, then I'll walk.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Goodbye, my love. Have I told you nice? Having you
home for dinners again?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
You have.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
It boyd with me?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
No, no, no, no, with myself, and you're going to
have me home a lot more from now on. That's
very great news. I'm not so sure about that. I've
lost my job. I'm kidding, mm I wish I were.
Speaker 8 (29:21):
So.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
They called me in yesterday with all sorts of excuses
about cutbacks and economies, and well I'm out. So I
was the last man in and now I'm the first
man out.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Sell the house and get out of New Orleans. Oh dog,
don't you see? It will be wonderful. We'll be starting
all over again. I'm back till I see I come in.
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What happened to your key?
Speaker 1 (30:01):
I threw it away so I wouldn't be tempted to
use it, But I couldn't stay away.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
How you fla?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Did you miss me? Oh? God? Oh sorry, it's oh
he's only my love.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
My god, I don't know how much I'm iss hearing
those words the last two weeks.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Hell, uh, I'm afraid you're going to miss them a
lot more. What. I've lost my job, and Helen's out
me to sell the house and get away from the city.
And incidentally, you who she no longer cares how little
we get for it. She's completely fed up.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
And you, John, Well, it's.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Very tough to put up a decent argument for staying.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
If you could, would you stay?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
How can I stay without money? Look, it's the.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Money they separate, souse. You don't have to say good
bye at all.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
You excuse me, love, I didn't know I was talking
to a wealthy plantation.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I only learned I might be able to get you
all the money you want.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
The only friends I know you have rare the tank
wide koushon gree you only wanna pay her seventy eight
hundred dollars for a sixty thousand dollar house.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
They've been known to put a higher press on other things,
like what souls you know?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
You know you're really too much with that voodoo business.
If there were anything to it, which you know, I
don't believe for a minute. I'd have to be crazy
to be willing to sell my soul.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I didn't mention your soung do.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
I I can't tell what I don't own, and as
far as I know, I only have one soul.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
There are others you can pledge, other songs you can
speak for.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Would you care to for the name to that soul?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Anyone near and dear to you.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Like Helen, she would be one. I don't know whether
to laugh or just walk out of here. I'd never
hurt you coming to Just what kind of a man
do you think? I am?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
A man?
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I can love love. That word sounds very strange on
your lips, the same lips that can talk about me
selling my wife's soul.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
We'll go away. They're just like everyone else, crying about
not having any money and not willing to pay the
price for getting all you want, everything you want.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Including me, Helen, Helen, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Hacking? You can't seem to make up your mind, so
I'm making it up for you. I told mister Dinton's
a real estate agent, to take whatever he can for
the house, and we're getting out tonight. Oh, I've been
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expecting you. There's a cafe fist on the coffee table.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
How did you know I'd come back?
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Because I chose you. I couldn't make a mistake about
the man I chose to love.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Oh, and you stop patting yourself on the back. I
had better tell you that the only reason I'm back
is because I don't believe any of this voodoo stuff,
and that's why I'm willing to go along, of course,
and to prove it. I'm not going to make any
deal where I have to shoot, stab, poison, or in
any way do anything that's going to cause physical harm
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to Helen.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Oh. I's going to ask that of you. All that's
required is this knife and your blood.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
If you're in love with a beautiful girl who practices
voodoo and believes that a drop of your blood drawn
from you by a sacred knife will bring you luck,
why not? And from there it's just a short step
to making deals about souls or yours and even others,
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because after all, it doesn't really work, or does it.
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WBM Chicago News Radio, seventy eight. I think all of
a steel, some small twinges of apprehension when we sit
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in the doctor's office waiting for the injection we know
we must have. But how do you describe the feelings
of a young man sitting opposite a girl, oh hear doors,
who is wielding a ceremonial knife preparatoid, drawing some blood
as though, in my love you're beautiful and an enchantress.
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But somehow you look different with that knife in your hand.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
I see it.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Be careful, it's very sharp and heavy.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
It's pure gold.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
I don't suppose you could use something smaller than this.
It really looks lethal.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
I could use a lot of different things, but then
this paper would be enlish.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Well, it's blank.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
At the moment with golding after you write your wife's
name on it.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Well, before I do that, what am I supposed to
get as much money as you need?
Speaker 5 (37:48):
Or what?
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Who was suppose I said? I want a million dollars?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
The amount isn't important. Just trust me, and for one
year money will rain on your head in a golden shower.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
And what happens is after the year's up, we'll cross
that bridge when we come to it. What have I
got to lewis nothing?
Speaker 2 (38:09):
But before you write your wife's name, we know, of course,
but she is losing.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Yeah, I know, I'm pledging her immortal soul. How is
she doing? I'm afraid? I tell her as very good
news in this defendant, haven't you found out yet? What's wrong?
He tests her inconclusive and none of the medication we've
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been giving us seems to be able to help. What
is it? Is it a bug or a bis? We
just don't know. She's been asking for you. Oh, Helen, Helen,
I'm here.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Oh God, didn't any trouble getting away from the office.
I keep telling you, darling, I'm I'm my own boss now.
And if the thing is keep going the way they are,
I may even turn out to be a tycoon. I'm dying, Doc,
the hell?
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Please are you?
Speaker 2 (39:17):
You mustn't be right, You mustn't steel Dadly the way
things went since we came to New Orleans, I'm beginning
to think that death might be the best thing for me, Helen.
I don't want you to talk that way, Doc. I
want you to promise me one thing, just one thing, please.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Anything.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
When I die. I don't know when you stop talking
about dying. Please, Doc, listen, tell me you when I
us get out of that house, get rid of it.
Promise me, douck, don't never such for the killing? That
horrible house, Oh delicious? M I do it? Or Champagne?
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Well, what are we gonna make it all legal?
Speaker 2 (40:12):
You mean with a wedding, everything like that?
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Oh and what a wedding, what a reception? And what
a honeymoon? The biggest, most killing and the deadly three
months not a very long period of mornings. Who said
a lot of people nasty, gosity, people go stardy, people
who cares about them.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Or what they say to your business associates.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
What can they say?
Speaker 2 (40:38):
But you became very rich that he suddenly with your
wife died mysteriously, that I'm a witch, and that perhaps
people should be careful about doing business with you.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
No, yeah, yeah, I I'd almost forgotten. It's all because
of that voodoo group you pull around with me.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
You'll have to admit that everything happened after we went
through the ceremony and they told me to perform.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Right. I'll admit that first sugar deal on the commodity's
market was luck. But after that, give me a little credit.
I got smart about commodities and now I know what
I'm doing. So when do we get married?
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Why is marriage so important to you?
Speaker 1 (41:21):
You wouldn't be stalling me, would you?
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Mindy tell me shilly dock? Shouldn't you? Should you wait
and see when your one year contract is up that
your luck doesn't change.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Come in, Come in the more, sit down. The oh
he is our most impressive sento, most implicive. You said
that you wanted to see me on a matter of
utmost urgency. That's right. First, I owe you an apology
for what for my cowardice? I I don't know what
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you're talking about. The facts about your uncle's house, which
I knew and we held from you deliberately. Mm No,
forget it, forget it. I'm out of the house, and
you have nothing to reproach yourself for. I had heard
you sold the house, and I also know the price.
That suggested to me that you still had your reasons
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for that. I just didn't want the trouble of looking
around for buyers. I grabbed the first offer I got
from Miss Lemette. Something wrong with that. I will be brief.
I didn't tell you and your wife the history of
the house because I was afraid, afraid of the Koshane,
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afraid of the power of Wudu sent and you're in
danger me. Yes, how did your wife die? Some unknown virus,
some kind of fluke? The doctor said, don't sho things
that's strange and known disease in these day and ages. Lucknamore,
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you can believe what you want, but leave me out.
I can't because of your relationship with Miss Lenaire. I
beg of you one favor. Tonight, come with me and
meet Lewis Gastan. It may be your only chance to
save your sex. I don't feel any need for salvation now.
(43:24):
If you've heard of Lewis never Lewis Gastan is a
ninety year old Kasren who's lived all his life in
the bios. He knows more about voodoo than any other
human being. What are you doing helping you out of
my office? And you want me when I ask you,
I'll gladly go if you'll tell me you haven't let
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her talk you into making some kind of silly bargain.
Why did you say that?
Speaker 2 (43:55):
So you have.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
You've sold your soul sentim for the love of God.
Come with me to good bye to night. This is
looked less sentence. I hope we meet in time. No,
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I'm here only because mister le Mows practically kidnapped me.
Speaker 9 (44:27):
Who, mister the Moors has lived in Louisia in a
long time? Who knows much about voodoo and cagens? All right,
all right, what you have to tell me first? You
tell me what you have done with the book or
what the devil is about. Call a very bad person,
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one who knows the darkest secrets of voodoo and uses
them for evil ends, one who is pledged.
Speaker 1 (44:56):
To tambala odeo the great s by God. But this
I sound like something out of the middle Engin, nor
mister Fenton, it is much older than that. Have you
ever seen a knife like this?
Speaker 2 (45:15):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (45:16):
Maybe I don't know. I've I've seen a lot of knives.
I one like this, you would remember, No, a pure
golden knife with these writings, or what if I have?
Speaker 9 (45:30):
If you have only seen it, mister Fenton, that is well,
but it has done your blood.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
That is very bad. How come you know so much
about all this voodoo ritual? I had a wife.
Speaker 9 (45:46):
I loved her much, Yes, she loved other things more.
She sold my soul, mister Fenton, sold my soul. Do
don't by the day old. I found out just in time,
and I defeated her and her bout gore, but I
paid the price. I cannot use my limbs, you see.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
Mister Fenton. I must sit here until the end. But
and I we will fight, you understand, And that's why
you brought me here the morning, because you think I've
fallen somehow under the spell of the boat Joe Limit.
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We are going to be married when we haven't set
the date. But she has agreed to marry me.
Speaker 9 (46:39):
She will not marry you if, as I believe, she
is bocour, she will want to destroy you and take
your sord.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
She will never marry I know you're wrong, but well,
as long as I came here. What must I do?
If you're right, she must.
Speaker 9 (47:04):
Follow the ritual for this sacrifice. She will ask you
to perform some ancient marriage rite to strangen the house.
It will be a powerful voodoo and she will need
a drug, and she.
Speaker 1 (47:20):
Will ask you to drink.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
If you drink, nothing can save you.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
But she does ask her to go through the ceremony.
Is there anything I can do? You can use this knife?
I give it to you, the gold knife.
Speaker 2 (47:40):
It is easily concealed in your clothing, as.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
You see, and you will use it. But I thought
you said that this knife could only be used by
a book or or on a barber.
Speaker 2 (47:58):
Where were you last night? My love? You're not the
only one who's jealous.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
You know you never have to worry about me. You
should know by now that I'm yours, my love for life.
Silly hm? Are we going to get married? Of course?
When whenever you like, you mean that, you really mean that?
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You set the date today? Oh?
Speaker 2 (48:30):
Really, duck, You've got to give a girl a chance.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
To Oh all to all? Well, how about Saturday?
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Saturday? Saturday sounds lovely. There's just one silly.
Speaker 1 (48:44):
Safer I'd like to pass anything?
Speaker 2 (48:47):
What before the real reading with the minister and everything.
I know it's superstitious, but you know you're a selly.
Speaker 1 (48:56):
I just couldn't feel that we were truly married unless
when we went through a little native ceremony that my
family has observed in every match, a native ceremony.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
It's nothing, really, just the two of us before an
ancient daughter. I know you think it's nonsense, but it
means so much to me, so much that I don't
think I can marry or unless you go through with it.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
This is my old house.
Speaker 2 (49:34):
Why don't we have to come to? She thought I
was coming unch, you pretender, playing some childish game. It
will seem that made to your dog, but to me,
it's no all the way we've always done things.
Speaker 1 (49:50):
What's that? That's statue? It's nay. He looks frightening, but
it's just an old statue. The snake, God, the blessed
ever noise Holy Please. You know I don't believe only
oh m m. Maybe you're used to the darkness and
I cant over the drabmas.
Speaker 2 (50:10):
But here drinks and you'll feel better.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
What's that a little.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
Ceremony of wine dotting It was left on the order
for I drink it.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
Do you really want me to drink from that goblet? Yeah,
you insist, darling.
Speaker 2 (50:31):
It's the only way you will drink from.
Speaker 1 (50:35):
Me if you come into my arms and hold the
gobble into my lips. Now, who got the childish? It's
the only way al right here.
Speaker 2 (50:49):
Here drink but done? How do you two t night?
Speaker 1 (50:57):
No?
Speaker 2 (50:58):
No, don't.
Speaker 1 (51:06):
I dragged my luck and now we'll need to get
it all the way just the way you want. A
friend of mine told me the story of an investigative
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reporter who penetrated some real voodoo ceremonies and photographed the
strictly forbidden rights. The pictures, somehow were ruined in development,
and the journalist developed an unfortunate pick. His right hand,
the hand that operates the camera now moved ceaselessly in
(51:52):
the air, completely out of control. The doctors diagnosed it
as a nervous disorder, but of course they don't practice voodoos.
I'll come back in a moment. By there, I'm home.
(52:15):
Will the defendant please rise? Now? Wait a minute, I'm sorry,
I'm a little late.
Speaker 2 (52:23):
How do you please? Guilty or not guilty?
Speaker 1 (52:27):
I work late and the traffic was heavy and I
stopped for a drink at Rockies. You accused his charge
with breach of promise and willful negligence.
Speaker 4 (52:37):
Okay, so it's seven point fifteen, but you have to
make a big federal case out of it.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
The defendant is found guilty as charged.
Speaker 1 (52:52):
Close the court at your house, impul the trials. Stop
appointing each other as both judge and jury. Here the
other is, and work through the hassles together, and forgive
a little as God forgives a lot. And I nudge
toward respecting others. From the Mennonite Church of Grill, It's
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amazing how many of us invest inanimate objects with supernatural powers.
On the other hand, perhaps our superstitions are only faint
memory traces trollbacks to our ancestors who prayed to rocks
and trees and mountains. Today we progressed beyond those beliefs.
(53:46):
We're sure that inanimate objects are powerless. On the other hand,
we're told that nothing is sure except death and taxes,
and of course the fact I'll be here tomorrow. Our
cast included Joan Lourie, Jordan Charnye, Rene Roy Dan Ackle,
(54:07):
and Gilbert mac The entire production was under the direction
of Hymon Brown, and now a preview of our next tale.
After last night and the day, I'm taking no chances.
Maybe with your superior intelligence, you have no worries about
our abortive attempt at Satanism, but I have. Look, I
(54:31):
was the victim, and since a plaque on the head
denied me any knowledge of what happened, I'm only hoping
you can give me the straight goods.
Speaker 8 (54:39):
The straight goods it peculiarly inept term for what we
are engaged in.
Speaker 1 (54:46):
My brother is skating.
Speaker 10 (54:48):
Famit it's not a deal. And somatics anthem. Now what
happened after I summoned up the fiend? I mean, how
did you escape? And how could I have been harmed?
As long as I was safe in the magic kindle
within the circuit.
Speaker 8 (55:02):
I warned you to keep your feet still. If you
touch any part of the circle itself or the triad
o the gillet, you are at the mercy of all
the devils of Hell.
Speaker 1 (55:15):
Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Anheuser Busch Incorporated,
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Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery Theater for
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h
Radio seventy eight w BBM Chicago, the CBS Radio Mystery
Theater presents Come in Welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall. Voodoo
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is a word to conjure with, and conjure is the
right word, because the high priest of Voodooism was called
a conjure man. It was he to whom the practitioners
of voodoo turned when they wanted spells cast or lifted,
enemies punished, or love affairs promoted. As Voodoo spread northward
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from the island of Haiti to the Americas, and particularly
to New Orleans, it should be noted that its most
powerful conjurers were women.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Dom Mallow All powerful one.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
See your knife, the sacred knife of our ancient god.
See Dumba, the knife Jon Blood and you, Dumbala, you
will now have another stone, Oh Dambala, Look with mercy
and kindness upon the servant who will continue to serve
you faithfully now and forever.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Our mystery drama, The House of the Voodoo Queen, was
written especially for the Mystery Theater by Murray Burnett and
stars Jordan Scharnie and Joan Loring. It is sponsored in
park by Buick Motor Division and Anheuser Busch Incorporated, brewers
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Let us raise a standard to which the wise and
honest can repair. The event is in the hands of God.
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Speaker 1 (04:12):
Stop that tay shopping. Love all of us that pictured
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in our imagination, the perfect dream house, the castle in Spain,
or the little cottage on the mountaintop overlooking that blue
lake in the Green Valley. But sure of us, serve
are fortunate enough to have our dream come true. Douglas
and Helen Simpson were two young people who had that
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good fortune, and as we first meet them, they're having
the happy experience of being shown through their perfect house
in New Orleans, which they've acquired through the death of
an uncle. Douglas Senton never knew existed, and this was
used as a music room in the old days. Oh,
(05:20):
I can just see it, can't you, dog. It's a
beautiful room, nice and sunny. I uh think I have
given you a thorough tour of your new home, and
unless you have any questions, I should be getting back
to the office.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I promise you'll be our first dinner guest, mody, Doc,
Oh you bet.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
There are still a lot of questions I have about
Uncle Timmy that I won't answer it. And at your service. Gooday,
in good luck, in good health. They don't bother, mister Clinton,
I know the way of.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Come, Doc.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I'm so happy. I just love this house.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Wait till you see what I do with it?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
What was that the movers?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Don't be silly, darling, They dollars ago?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Remember? Probably something fell sounds like something following?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Who's that? Oh? Talk it?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
I'm so clack.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You're home.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
How did it go today, Darling? Any better?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I really can't tell you, Doug because so ashamed. But
I didn't stay home. I guess I'm just a big collard.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Or don't be silly, anyone would be frightening blucles on
in this place? Oh dog, Oh, what are we going
to do? I told you we'll sell the house and
find another.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Did you read mister Lamore?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Now? Look when I called, he was out, and when
he called me back, I was in a meeting and
couldn't take the call. But he promised it. That must
be him. Now, Hello, mister Pinton Limos here.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Sorry, we're miss connections all day.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
What can I do for you? Listen the moors. I
don't know how to tell you this, but well, Helen
and I think the house is haunted. If you don't
like the house, you can always put it on the market.
We love the house, that is, we thought we loved it.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
It.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Well, it's well, you can't live in a house. Well,
all night long you hear screams and chain rattlings, and
during the day thumpings, and well there's an odor, an
indescribable odor of of rot and decay that sweeps through
the house from time to time. It's here now as
a matter of fact, and we want to you know,
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I if if you had had any complaints that house
has been empty for years, well or maybe that's the reason.
Have you heard anything that won't about the house being haunted?
Of course, then I.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Can only tell you that, feeling the way you do,
you shouldn't stay in the house. I'd give you the
names of some real estate ass who might be willing
to handle it.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Uh, have a seat, miss spent who tell me how
I can help you?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Well, we have a house we'd like to put on
the market of course.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Uh would you give me the location?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Well, it's in an old neighborhood, sixty six Delicourt Street.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Uh, yes, yes, I U I know the house.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
I I thought it was vacant, but.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
We just moved in. My husband's uncle left in the
house and we decided to move to New Orleans and
live here.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Is spent in.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
I'll be honest with you, the house has a bad reputation.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I don't understand. I think you do.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Any honest real estate agent would have to warn a
prospective buyer that there are definite problems connected with your house.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Of course I understand that.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Well, then you.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Also understand I'd have to offer the house way below
the market value. Oh, father, love, I don't think I
could ask more than twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Twenty thousand.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
My husband and I wouldn't be interested in that figure.
Thank you for your time.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Oh not at all. If you change your mind, you
know where to find me. Now, how can a pretty
girl look so unhappy after a dinner like this?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
When the girl is thinking of going home to a
house that scares her and that no real estate agent
wants to handle.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
We're like, look, we'll put an ad in all the
papers and sell it ourselves. You know it might be
better that way. We save a commission. Darling. That's why
I love you.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
He takes such a big load off my shoulders and
make everything seem so easy.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Isn't that what husbands are for? I can think of
a few other youths, and that's one reason why I
love you.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
When are we going to put the ads in the.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
First thing tomorrow? Dock? Wake up? Well? Dog? Did you
leave before it on the water?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Don't you hear it?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yes? Yes, I hear it. Did you check the bathroom?
I was afraid to.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Anyway? It certainly doesn't sound as it if coming from
the bathroom. No, no, it seems to be right over
the bed.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I can't stand it.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Dog, can't you do something?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Why? I don't know what to tell her to go away?
Whatever it is? Do you think that would work? Who
should call the police? Or I would? I would if
I felt they could help. Whatever it is hadn't heard us,
only annoyed us. So I think maybe if we show
we're not bothered, the noises and the smells will stop.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I don't think I can do that, Doug.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I know, I know that's why we put the ads
in the papers.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Doug, hold me, hold me close. What's that?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
That's the ghosts that come to the front door. But
who could come at this time of night? You talked
to just about three in the morning. It's only ten
thirty and this is a late town. I suppose i'd
better see who it is.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I'll come with you, be right with you.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Oh, I'm so sorry. I never dreamed i'd be waking you.
I'll come back some other time. Oh no, we weren't asleep.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Come on in, come in.
Speaker 7 (12:48):
It.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
It was the advertisement in the pickure. You in the
house is for ser Oh, yes it is.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I'm Doug Fenton and this is my wife, Helen.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I'm y. No, mate, you're interested in the house?
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I am.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Are you married?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
No, I'm quite alone.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
But this is a large house. I think I've describe
how many are right? I'm sure I'm miss Lemtra Now
it's how large the house is. She's interested.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I know the house is large, but I'm hooked on antiquities.
I think before we actually get down to business, I
should tell you I know all about the reputation this
house has in the city.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
You do, I do? And you still wanna buy it if.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I can afford it, And I think that the only
way you're going to dispose of it is to sell
it very cheaply.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Uh, miss Lemetra, Just how cheaply are you thinking? Or
aren't you prepared to make an offer? Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I'm not only prepared. I brought the certified checkaloge.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You've made up your mind.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Here it is.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Oh wow, Massy.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Seventy eight hundred dollars. But that's that's just of her offers.
Speaker 7 (14:13):
Considering the reputations of the house, Doug, Doug sentim.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Ms the metric are you too angry.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
With me to join me in a cup?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Fifty? It's my wife who's angry. Oh, I never can
stay mad at girls as pretty as you. Thank you?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Do you find me fascinating? Mister sendim.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Completely? I trust I have the same effect on you. Oh,
it's not you who interests me.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
It's your house.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Why I can't tell you? Everyone in this town seems
to know what's wrong with my house. Lookscept Helen and me.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
They know there's something wrong, that's all they know.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Oh and you know more, beautiful Zelius who highs behind
those beautiful green eyes lies secrets.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
And your attitude is one reason why I can't tell you.
You wouldn't believe me anyway.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Try me.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Alright, the house you're living in doesn't really belonged to you.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I I have a deed that says it does.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
That house was stolen from the daughter of Marie.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Noveau, Marie Loveau, who she the most powerful boucor in
the history of Voodoo, a beautiful black woman who ruled us,
the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans for.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Half a century. You, Douglas Fenton, are living in the
house of the Voodoo Queen, and she wants you out.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
When a landlord wants to evict the tenant, the tenant
can always take his case to coin. But when the
fanciful notion is advanced that the landlord is really a
Voodoo queen who lived back in the nineteenth century, that
tenant as a problem. I'll be back shortly with a
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terrifying solution found by Doug Senton in Act Too. Never
be a beer drinker boor his beer real easy down
the side of the glass. Maybe you do it yourself.
If so, the Budweiser brewmaster thinks you're missing something, especially
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if you're a Budweiser drinker you see, but is rue
so it will kick up a healthy head of phone.
Exclusive beechwood aging and true carbonation make it a lively brood.
Well anyway, Pouring bud plunk down the middle of the
glass helps bring out the best in that clean white
Budweiser foam and real beer aroma. It also helps you
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get the full benefit of its taste, smoothness, and drinkability
you'll find in no other beer at any price. Remember
ruing beer right does make a difference. Next time, pour
that Budweiser right down the middle and see for yourself.
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An isaer Bush Saint Louis. Spencer's just received mensuits from
three fine Chicago stores. These brands are included three G's, Ego, Petrocelli,
Hard Chafter Marx, and Worsted Texts. They are ticketed from
sixty nine ninety five to one hundred and twenty dollars.
We are offering them at seventeen ninety nine Nune or higher.
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The total garments now at Spencer's is over sixty seven
hundred and it includes thirty nine ninety five to one
hundred and twenty dollars men suits, sport coats, simulated leather
and man made fur coats, zip line and all weather
coats Heavy Park is the overcoats worth thirty nine ninety
five to one hundred and twenty dollars now only seventeen
ninety nine. None higher. No salesman will raise you up.
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You cannot pay more than seventeen ninety nine. Often stores
advertise certain items and when you arrive at the store
you are showing a few at the advertised price and
are told that you would be better pleased if you
spend twice the amount to take a better garment. At Spencer's,
every garment is seventeen ninety nine. No salesman will raise
you up. Spencer's three twenty two North Michigan Avenue, Chicago.
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For suburban stores phone two sixty three four to seven
hundred Sunday ten am to six pm, ten am to
nine pm, all next week. Voodoo is an African religion
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which has been variously described and downgraded by such descriptive
phrases as black magic, mumbo jumble, or a mess of
meaningless ritualistic incantations practiced and believed in only by the
ignorant and superstitious. Nevertheless, it survives. Douglas Fenton has been
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told that voodoo presents a very real and serious threats
to his living in a house he inherited in the
warlens right, But Douglas Fenton is a skeptic. Uh yer,
you two much snowy foul. But you must really think
I'm the biggest sucker you ever saw if you expect
me to sell you a sixty thousand dollar house for
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seventy eight hundred because of some crazy story about a
voodoo quay. Uh wa wa wait wait wa? Where are
you going it?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Before I call you ignorant? Now? I know you're a
fool and I don't like food. Sit down, Go home,
dougl Go home to your pretty silly wife, and the
two of you can sit and laugh that mar you know, rue.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
But in the night, when your blood runs cold and
a nameless terror shakes your bones, remember me and if
you can remember.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
To call on the goshore grief and pray they show
you mercy.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Hey, can you think this stuff is for real? Don't you?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I was born in New Orleans, as were my mother
and grandmother. We know the power of the koshok cleek.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
If I apologize, would you sit down? I will sit,
But it's uses.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Will still disbelieve.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Can you blame me? I'm a product of the twentieth century.
You tell me a pretty wild story and mention things
that I've I've never even heard of, like this, this
Coashan gree The.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Koshaw Gris are an ancient society of vodoo priests.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
And what's your connection with them?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
They ask me for a favor. It's not wise to
oppose them.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
And the favor was to buy my house. And why
why do they want it? Because it was the home
of Marie Lulu because it really belongs to her, and
they wanted to the shrines and they're headquarters.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Who are you doing at this cafe this afternoon?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Mm?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
What took you out of your office?
Speaker 8 (21:38):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
A problem? Uh? I've always found that a walk in
some fresh air helps me.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Huh. Don't you find it strange that your walk should
lead to the back streets and this particular cafe.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
I wanted to get away from crowds.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
And how was it that I happened to be here?
Speaker 1 (21:54):
So you can answer that better than I.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah, I can't read this note. I received it.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
At me Catty La feet three point thirty venton would
be there, Oh, Helen Helen Darling, Helen, what's the letter?
Oh dog.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Gold, you're home?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Look look there on the floor. What the devil is it?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:30):
It look like I got check in letters had its
neck blow.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
That's what I found it on our doorsteps, along.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
With the chicken. I found this and this looks like
a child's drawing of some kind of sneak.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
What a child?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Dog? Not a child.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I'm going to the police. The s a voodoo as symbols.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
You ever heard of voodoo? Strange that you should mention
that I had a crash course earlier today. What the
girl who came here to buy our house. I ran
into her today at a sidewalk cafe. She seems to
know a lot about it. She told me, yeah, uh no,
it' it's it's not important.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
What did the police say, Well, that these were would symbols,
that they may be the work of a prankster, or
it might be believer and someone who thinks will do
magic actually works someone with a cludge against us, the
coashon gree. I hope that okay, mister feniould sup l duh.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Don't don't try to put me on And you probably
have a piece of paper on you somewhere that reads
Cafe Lafeede A twenty two, and I will be there.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
You're really rather chobbing, you know, doc.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Oh, I try, particularly when someone looks like you. You know,
I've never let a girl who even came close to you.
It looks I think you've bewitched.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Me, of course, But what have you done to me?
Put a love spell on me?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
I think you're trying to tell me something, and if
I am, we should find a more private place.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I shouldn't tell you this. Mm oh, god die. I
never felt like this before in my life. M never
with anyone.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Oh you're a beautiful liar, but I love to hear it.
I mean it, doc Oh, you're an astonishing girl. Really,
We've been here for two hours and you've never once
mentioned my wife.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Oh should I have.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
M Let's just say it's unusual.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Oh, you're an experienced adulterer.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Ouch. Huh. Now why did I bring her name up?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I don't know, I do.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
It's because I'm worried about the things she finds on
our doorstep.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
What sort of things?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
A chicken with its neck rung, A piece of cardboard
with a crudely drawn snake. Oh? Yes, that that means
something to you, doesn't it spell?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
They're put in or near people's houses for a purpose,
and they mean something. Of course.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I'm almost afraid to ask.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
You should be the chicken with its neck rung means death?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Helen, Helen, are you all right?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yes, stuck, darling, I'm fine?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Uh uh? How how is today? I mean? Uh? Well?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
If you mean, were there any other little presence left
on our doorstep? No?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Well, wh I that's good news. Maybe they've stopped.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I won't complain. After all, you're home early tonight.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
What does that mean? Oh?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Nothing, really, It's just that you've been working so late
at the office so often, and I realize that I'm
not as attractive as I used to be. And although
I guess I'm not much, I hate to hear you
talk like I wann I hate to talk like that.
Maybe I wouldn't if if what I know how attractive
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you are, and there are a lot of beautiful women
in the world, and oh please, yes.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Please, this isn't necessary, Helen, I'm afraid it it's very necessary.
Will you?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Will you stop seeing solid LeMaster.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
I'm as mad as anyone can get and still not
commit murder. It's your associates. Those voodoo priests you tell
me are called it the coouchon Grief. They're not my associates.
Sometimes they ask me to do favors for them, and
I know it's not wise to issuse well. They must
really be grateful to you. They've rewarded you by telling
Helen every time we met, Oh, I tell them to
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lay off.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I won't.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
You won't. What do you wanna do? Break us up?
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Do you know better than that dog? It's just that
I don't want to make a fool of myself.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
If I go to the kochon Cree with this request,
they will simply tell me what I've been telling you
all along.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
If you wanted to stop sell the house, we.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Would gladly if we could get anywhere near what it's worth.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
What is it worth, really, Doug?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
You can't find a buyer who'll even make an offer
except the Gorjungri, and they think they're being very generous.
I won't be taken you inherited the house. Whatever you
get is pure profit. You really don't understand, do you.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
I know that if you won't sell, then Helen will
have to suffer.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Not if I stop seeing you. That would be your choice,
and I'm making it right now. If you can let
me walk away rather than ask a simple favor of
people who owe you, then I'll walk.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Goodbye, my love. Have I told you nice? Having you
home for dinners again?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
You have.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
It boyd with me?
Speaker 1 (29:01):
No, no, no, no, with myself, and you're going to
have me home a lot more from now on. That's
very great news. I'm not so sure about that. I've
lost my job. I'm kidding, mm I wish I were.
Speaker 8 (29:21):
So.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
They called me in yesterday with all sorts of excuses
about cutbacks and economies, and well I'm out. So I
was the last man in and now I'm the first
man out.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Sell the house and get out of New Orleans. Oh dog,
don't you see? It will be wonderful. We'll be starting
all over again. I'm back till I see I come in.
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What happened to your key?
Speaker 1 (30:01):
I threw it away so I wouldn't be tempted to
use it, But I couldn't stay away.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
How you fla?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Did you miss me? Oh? God? Oh sorry, it's oh
he's only my love.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
My god, I don't know how much I'm iss hearing
those words the last two weeks.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Hell, uh, I'm afraid you're going to miss them a
lot more. What. I've lost my job, and Helen's out
me to sell the house and get away from the city.
And incidentally, you who she no longer cares how little
we get for it. She's completely fed up.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
And you, John, Well, it's.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Very tough to put up a decent argument for staying.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
If you could, would you stay?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
How can I stay without money? Look, it's the.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Money they separate, souse. You don't have to say good
bye at all.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
You excuse me, love, I didn't know I was talking
to a wealthy plantation.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I only learned I might be able to get you
all the money you want.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
The only friends I know you have rare the tank
wide koushon gree you only wanna pay her seventy eight
hundred dollars for a sixty thousand dollar house.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
They've been known to put a higher press on other things,
like what souls you know?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
You know you're really too much with that voodoo business.
If there were anything to it, which you know, I
don't believe for a minute. I'd have to be crazy
to be willing to sell my soul.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I didn't mention your soung do.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
I I can't tell what I don't own, and as
far as I know, I only have one soul.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
There are others you can pledge, other songs you can
speak for.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Would you care to for the name to that soul?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Anyone near and dear to you.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Like Helen, she would be one. I don't know whether
to laugh or just walk out of here. I'd never
hurt you coming to Just what kind of a man
do you think? I am?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
A man?
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I can love love. That word sounds very strange on
your lips, the same lips that can talk about me
selling my wife's soul.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
We'll go away. They're just like everyone else, crying about
not having any money and not willing to pay the
price for getting all you want, everything you want.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Including me, Helen, Helen, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Hacking? You can't seem to make up your mind, so
I'm making it up for you. I told mister Dinton's
a real estate agent, to take whatever he can for
the house, and we're getting out tonight. Oh, I've been
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expecting you. There's a cafe fist on the coffee table.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
How did you know I'd come back?
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Because I chose you. I couldn't make a mistake about
the man I chose to love.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Oh, and you stop patting yourself on the back. I
had better tell you that the only reason I'm back
is because I don't believe any of this voodoo stuff,
and that's why I'm willing to go along, of course,
and to prove it. I'm not going to make any
deal where I have to shoot, stab, poison, or in
any way do anything that's going to cause physical harm
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to Helen.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Oh. I's going to ask that of you. All that's
required is this knife and your blood.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
If you're in love with a beautiful girl who practices
voodoo and believes that a drop of your blood drawn
from you by a sacred knife will bring you luck,
why not? And from there it's just a short step
to making deals about souls or yours and even others,
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because after all, it doesn't really work, or does it.
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WBM Chicago News Radio, seventy eight. I think all of
a steel, some small twinges of apprehension when we sit
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in the doctor's office waiting for the injection we know
we must have. But how do you describe the feelings
of a young man sitting opposite a girl, oh hear doors,
who is wielding a ceremonial knife preparatoid, drawing some blood
as though, in my love you're beautiful and an enchantress.
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But somehow you look different with that knife in your hand.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
I see it.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Be careful, it's very sharp and heavy.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
It's pure gold.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
I don't suppose you could use something smaller than this.
It really looks lethal.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
I could use a lot of different things, but then
this paper would be enlish.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Well, it's blank.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
At the moment with golding after you write your wife's
name on it.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Well, before I do that, what am I supposed to
get as much money as you need?
Speaker 5 (37:48):
Or what?
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Who was suppose I said? I want a million dollars?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
The amount isn't important. Just trust me, and for one
year money will rain on your head in a golden shower.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
And what happens is after the year's up, we'll cross
that bridge when we come to it. What have I
got to lewis nothing?
Speaker 2 (38:09):
But before you write your wife's name, we know, of course,
but she is losing.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Yeah, I know, I'm pledging her immortal soul. How is
she doing? I'm afraid? I tell her as very good
news in this defendant, haven't you found out yet? What's wrong?
He tests her inconclusive and none of the medication we've
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been giving us seems to be able to help. What
is it? Is it a bug or a bis? We
just don't know. She's been asking for you. Oh, Helen, Helen,
I'm here.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Oh God, didn't any trouble getting away from the office.
I keep telling you, darling, I'm I'm my own boss now.
And if the thing is keep going the way they are,
I may even turn out to be a tycoon. I'm dying, Doc,
the hell?
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Please are you?
Speaker 2 (39:17):
You mustn't be right, You mustn't steel Dadly the way
things went since we came to New Orleans, I'm beginning
to think that death might be the best thing for me, Helen.
I don't want you to talk that way, Doc. I
want you to promise me one thing, just one thing, please.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
Anything.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
When I die. I don't know when you stop talking
about dying. Please, Doc, listen, tell me you when I
us get out of that house, get rid of it.
Promise me, douck, don't never such for the killing? That
horrible house, Oh delicious? M I do it? Or Champagne?
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Well, what are we gonna make it all legal?
Speaker 2 (40:12):
You mean with a wedding, everything like that?
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Oh and what a wedding, what a reception? And what
a honeymoon? The biggest, most killing and the deadly three
months not a very long period of mornings. Who said
a lot of people nasty, gosity, people go stardy, people
who cares about them.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Or what they say to your business associates.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
What can they say?
Speaker 2 (40:38):
But you became very rich that he suddenly with your
wife died mysteriously, that I'm a witch, and that perhaps
people should be careful about doing business with you.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
No, yeah, yeah, I I'd almost forgotten. It's all because
of that voodoo group you pull around with me.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
You'll have to admit that everything happened after we went
through the ceremony and they told me to perform.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Right. I'll admit that first sugar deal on the commodity's
market was luck. But after that, give me a little credit.
I got smart about commodities and now I know what
I'm doing. So when do we get married?
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Why is marriage so important to you?
Speaker 1 (41:21):
You wouldn't be stalling me, would you?
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Mindy tell me shilly dock? Shouldn't you? Should you wait
and see when your one year contract is up that
your luck doesn't change.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Come in, Come in the more, sit down. The oh
he is our most impressive sento, most implicive. You said
that you wanted to see me on a matter of
utmost urgency. That's right. First, I owe you an apology
for what for my cowardice? I I don't know what
(42:00):
you're talking about. The facts about your uncle's house, which
I knew and we held from you deliberately. Mm No,
forget it, forget it. I'm out of the house, and
you have nothing to reproach yourself for. I had heard
you sold the house, and I also know the price.
That suggested to me that you still had your reasons
(42:21):
for that. I just didn't want the trouble of looking
around for buyers. I grabbed the first offer I got
from Miss Lemette. Something wrong with that. I will be brief.
I didn't tell you and your wife the history of
the house because I was afraid, afraid of the Koshane,
(42:42):
afraid of the power of Wudu sent and you're in
danger me. Yes, how did your wife die? Some unknown virus,
some kind of fluke? The doctor said, don't sho things
that's strange and known disease in these day and ages. Lucknamore,
(43:03):
you can believe what you want, but leave me out.
I can't because of your relationship with Miss Lenaire. I
beg of you one favor. Tonight, come with me and
meet Lewis Gastan. It may be your only chance to
save your sex. I don't feel any need for salvation now.
(43:24):
If you've heard of Lewis never Lewis Gastan is a
ninety year old Kasren who's lived all his life in
the bios. He knows more about voodoo than any other
human being. What are you doing helping you out of
my office? And you want me when I ask you,
I'll gladly go if you'll tell me you haven't let
(43:46):
her talk you into making some kind of silly bargain.
Why did you say that?
Speaker 2 (43:55):
So you have.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
You've sold your soul sentim for the love of God.
Come with me to good bye to night. This is
looked less sentence. I hope we meet in time. No,
(44:23):
I'm here only because mister le Mows practically kidnapped me.
Speaker 9 (44:27):
Who, mister the Moors has lived in Louisia in a
long time? Who knows much about voodoo and cagens? All right,
all right, what you have to tell me first? You
tell me what you have done with the book or
what the devil is about. Call a very bad person,
(44:48):
one who knows the darkest secrets of voodoo and uses
them for evil ends, one who is pledged.
Speaker 1 (44:56):
To tambala odeo the great s by God. But this
I sound like something out of the middle Engin, nor
mister Fenton, it is much older than that. Have you
ever seen a knife like this?
Speaker 2 (45:15):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (45:16):
Maybe I don't know. I've I've seen a lot of knives.
I one like this, you would remember, No, a pure
golden knife with these writings, or what if I have?
Speaker 9 (45:30):
If you have only seen it, mister Fenton, that is well,
but it has done your blood.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
That is very bad. How come you know so much
about all this voodoo ritual? I had a wife.
Speaker 9 (45:46):
I loved her much, Yes, she loved other things more.
She sold my soul, mister Fenton, sold my soul. Do
don't by the day old. I found out just in time,
and I defeated her and her bout gore, but I
paid the price. I cannot use my limbs, you see.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
Mister Fenton. I must sit here until the end. But
and I we will fight, you understand, And that's why
you brought me here the morning, because you think I've
fallen somehow under the spell of the boat Joe Limit.
(46:33):
We are going to be married when we haven't set
the date. But she has agreed to marry me.
Speaker 9 (46:39):
She will not marry you if, as I believe, she
is bocour, she will want to destroy you and take
your sord.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
She will never marry I know you're wrong, but well,
as long as I came here. What must I do?
If you're right, she must.
Speaker 9 (47:04):
Follow the ritual for this sacrifice. She will ask you
to perform some ancient marriage rite to strangen the house.
It will be a powerful voodoo and she will need
a drug, and she.
Speaker 1 (47:20):
Will ask you to drink.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
If you drink, nothing can save you.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
But she does ask her to go through the ceremony.
Is there anything I can do? You can use this knife?
I give it to you, the gold knife.
Speaker 2 (47:40):
It is easily concealed in your clothing, as.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
You see, and you will use it. But I thought
you said that this knife could only be used by
a book or or on a barber.
Speaker 2 (47:58):
Where were you last night? My love? You're not the
only one who's jealous.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
You know you never have to worry about me. You
should know by now that I'm yours, my love for life.
Silly hm? Are we going to get married? Of course?
When whenever you like, you mean that, you really mean that?
(48:25):
You set the date today? Oh?
Speaker 2 (48:30):
Really, duck, You've got to give a girl a chance.
Speaker 1 (48:33):
To Oh all to all? Well, how about Saturday?
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Saturday? Saturday sounds lovely. There's just one silly.
Speaker 1 (48:44):
Safer I'd like to pass anything?
Speaker 2 (48:47):
What before the real reading with the minister and everything.
I know it's superstitious, but you know you're a selly.
Speaker 1 (48:56):
I just couldn't feel that we were truly married unless
when we went through a little native ceremony that my
family has observed in every match, a native ceremony.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
It's nothing, really, just the two of us before an
ancient daughter. I know you think it's nonsense, but it
means so much to me, so much that I don't
think I can marry or unless you go through with it.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
This is my old house.
Speaker 2 (49:34):
Why don't we have to come to? She thought I
was coming unch, you pretender, playing some childish game. It
will seem that made to your dog, but to me,
it's no all the way we've always done things.
Speaker 1 (49:50):
What's that? That's statue? It's nay. He looks frightening, but
it's just an old statue. The snake, God, the blessed
ever noise Holy Please. You know I don't believe only
oh m m. Maybe you're used to the darkness and
I cant over the drabmas.
Speaker 2 (50:10):
But here drinks and you'll feel better.
Speaker 1 (50:15):
What's that a little.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
Ceremony of wine dotting It was left on the order
for I drink it.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
Do you really want me to drink from that goblet? Yeah,
you insist, darling.
Speaker 2 (50:31):
It's the only way you will drink from.
Speaker 1 (50:35):
Me if you come into my arms and hold the
gobble into my lips. Now, who got the childish? It's
the only way al right here.
Speaker 2 (50:49):
Here drink but done? How do you two t night?
Speaker 1 (50:57):
No?
Speaker 2 (50:58):
No, don't.
Speaker 1 (51:06):
I dragged my luck and now we'll need to get
it all the way just the way you want. A
friend of mine told me the story of an investigative
(51:28):
reporter who penetrated some real voodoo ceremonies and photographed the
strictly forbidden rights. The pictures, somehow were ruined in development,
and the journalist developed an unfortunate pick. His right hand,
the hand that operates the camera now moved ceaselessly in
(51:52):
the air, completely out of control. The doctors diagnosed it
as a nervous disorder, but of course they don't practice voodoos.
I'll come back in a moment. By there, I'm home.
(52:15):
Will the defendant please rise? Now? Wait a minute, I'm sorry,
I'm a little late.
Speaker 2 (52:23):
How do you please? Guilty or not guilty?
Speaker 1 (52:27):
I work late and the traffic was heavy and I
stopped for a drink at Rockies. You accused his charge
with breach of promise and willful negligence.
Speaker 4 (52:37):
Okay, so it's seven point fifteen, but you have to
make a big federal case out of it.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
The defendant is found guilty as charged.
Speaker 1 (52:52):
Close the court at your house, impul the trials. Stop
appointing each other as both judge and jury. Here the
other is, and work through the hassles together, and forgive
a little as God forgives a lot. And I nudge
toward respecting others. From the Mennonite Church of Grill, It's
(53:23):
amazing how many of us invest inanimate objects with supernatural powers.
On the other hand, perhaps our superstitions are only faint
memory traces trollbacks to our ancestors who prayed to rocks
and trees and mountains. Today we progressed beyond those beliefs.
(53:46):
We're sure that inanimate objects are powerless. On the other hand,
we're told that nothing is sure except death and taxes,
and of course the fact I'll be here tomorrow. Our
cast included Joan Lourie, Jordan Charnye, Rene Roy Dan Ackle,
(54:07):
and Gilbert mac The entire production was under the direction
of Hymon Brown, and now a preview of our next tale.
After last night and the day, I'm taking no chances.
Maybe with your superior intelligence, you have no worries about
our abortive attempt at Satanism, but I have. Look, I
(54:31):
was the victim, and since a plaque on the head
denied me any knowledge of what happened, I'm only hoping
you can give me the straight goods.
Speaker 8 (54:39):
The straight goods it peculiarly inept term for what we
are engaged in.
Speaker 1 (54:46):
My brother is skating.
Speaker 10 (54:48):
Famit it's not a deal. And somatics anthem. Now what
happened after I summoned up the fiend? I mean, how
did you escape? And how could I have been harmed?
As long as I was safe in the magic kindle
within the circuit.
Speaker 8 (55:02):
I warned you to keep your feet still. If you
touch any part of the circle itself or the triad
o the gillet, you are at the mercy of all
the devils of Hell.
Speaker 1 (55:15):
Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Anheuser Busch Incorporated,
brewers of Budweiser and Buett Motor Division. This is E. G.
Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant Green
(56:03):
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