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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Come in.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I'm e. G.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Marshall, principle of this little dread schoolhouse, where our curriculum
consists of lessons in mystery, suspense and the macabre. We
say they were giants, those founding fathers of ours, and
indeed they were giants of intellect, morality and ability. But
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they were also human giants, the deviled by human problems,
tormented by heedless children, persecuted by jealous enemies, embarrassed by
foolish friends, and even haunted by ghosts.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It's a ghost, John, it must be a goo.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Is no such thing as a girl?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I heard him?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
You're talking like a woman.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Abigail, And what is John?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Well it shows that how.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Intelligent a woman may be, and the chess and weaknesses
that well, there's no such thing as a ghost.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
At Hotel Me they have no touch thing as a ghost.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Well, well, what job are you about to start talking
like a woman too.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Our mystery drama ghost Powder was written especially for the
mystery theater by Sam Dans and stars Marion Seldy and
Michael Wager.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
If you were tobay to.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
John Adams, you can't tell the players without a scorecard. Naturally,
this great American wouldn't know what you mean, But if
somehow you could explain it, he would fix you with
that level, steadfast look of his and say that you
couldn't tell the players even with a score guard.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Here was John Adams.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
In seventeen eighty four, getting more flat from our recent
French ally than from our former English enemy. Here he
was ambassador to Paris from the United States, and nobody
really quite knew just what the United States was or were.
His colleagues, Franklin and Jefferson, were great men, as we
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all know, but very difficult to live with. His wife, Abigail,
insisted that she couldn't run the embassy properly on his
meager salary, and when he asked the Congress for more money,
their answer was to cut his wages. In addition, there
rented chateau a place called Oka was haunted by a ghost.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
But oh, he swears he heard him. Which one is
ari Abigail? He is the one who cleans the floor.
When did anyone ever clean the floors.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
In this place?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
And love he does the best he care isn't good enough.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
No dear about the gold. There is no such thing
as a ghost.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Let us discuss this rash.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Can you possibly discuss the thing? I could ghost rationally?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
The contradiction in turn on you simply cannot close your mind?
Are you telling me? You actually believe they're telling you?
What are we? Says?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
And a literate French peasant has suddenly become a respective authority.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
On the supernatural? Why don't you talk to him? How
can I speak to I don't speak his language? Ah,
but he speaks yours.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I noticed that, you know that's what Ah?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
He speaks yours.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
The aw approach.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
See how this humble, uneducated man takes the trouble to
learn your language while you will not bother to learn.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Here isn't what I'm meant to say? But would I
hear it? Stated? I must say I agree with it.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I am far too busy to study this, this exercise
in asality.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Darling, you are the ambassador, not exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I am the Minister clinical country, and mister Benjamin Franklin
is the ambassador.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Actually, mister Franklin is the ambassador emericus.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I wish mister Franklin would go home the Philadelphia, where
I understand he is worship.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Mister Franklin is coming to dinner? Oh no, why are
you just study this afternoon, Johnny.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
So unlike Hill, I've been away from Boston too long.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Now about Aarri and his ghost?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I don't wish to talk about Ari and his ghost.
What is there that I can say to this superstitious servant?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Why don't you listen to him first? Lee, monsieur Adams,
I have heard his How do you know it's him?
He's voice over him?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
And what does he say?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
He says nothing? But this is the first or nothing? John? Well?
How can he hear them? If he says nothing? He
says something? But I do not understand him. Does he
speak French? I'll say no? Does he speak English? Hungry?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Then what does he speak? He speaks he speaks ghost?
Ghost is ghost language?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Oh here's a ghost language? Oh yes?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
But what is this ghost language? And where do you
hear this alleged language?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I hear him moreover where, particularly in the library, in
the big rooms and all over.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
How can I get rid.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Of a ghost?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
You must callin a which.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Oh wait, yes, we comes in?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
This is it charm?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
And and the ghost runs away? Why because the course
he's frightened.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Oh now, look, my good man, there is no such
thing a ghost and I think you had better get
back to work.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
My uncle is this ill thing, and one morning he
is found.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
God, if you spend more time getting the place clean,
as you are paid to do, instead of weaving these
impossible fables about.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Girls asked, the Master will give this matter his full consideration,
and we shall rid the house of the goos and humor,
and you may finish cleaning the floor.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I go, madam, now happy tale.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I do not vish being called the masters if I
were some feudial aristocrat.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Now, But your dear friend Tom Jefferson is a feudial
aristocrat back home, and he is called master. Buy a
hundreds of Spain.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
We are not discussing Tom Jefferson. We are discussing a
matter of growth, superstition. Why must I indulge you in
the superstitious content.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
To make my life easier?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Just have to do with you.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
One day, my dear, there will be another revolution, a revolution.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Of the women, A war or nest of women have
to revolte.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
A low come in a far away future.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I shall not live to see it, My dear, I
do wish you would stay to the subject, although you've.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Change it so many times. I confess it I am
at a loss to know what exactly we are all
in a witch and how this demon, this slowly.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Figment of all these imaginations.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Whatever it is, properly exercise from the premises, I.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Guess it does the lower elements no good to reinforce
their superstition.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
That not that it will do me good. Oh, these
story has infected the entire staff. I want you to
go along with it, mumbo Jumper, before they all run away.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Oh let them be cannile.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Others want to work here, Oh please, John.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I am a witch to realize them.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
What will happen if Table's word of this week's home
I'd be the laughing stock of the country.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Think you'd be done for a single silver tank? And Jefferson,
what will Jefferson say? I will tell Allie to find
a witch and have her here tomorrow. For abdute John,
I cannot maintain this house without servants. I can't entertain
at official dinners, and I inly will not reinforce the
dark ignorance of the human race. I have nothing more
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to say. It is a man of housekeeping. It doesn't
concern you. Whatever lessens the dignity and the sanity of
the human race concerns me and not making a speech
before the Congress. Oh, I'm sorry, John, I I just
realize how I don't and so I realize how I
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must have founded good let's come promise they call in
a witch No, I cannot permit it. Do you understand
I can no longer be mistress of this embes. I
realize that, and therefore I shall resign the post. Jod,
This is isn't a bass, my dear. Each of us
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is standing on a principle. But you can choose to resign.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
But I cannot choose to be party to the dark
barbarism of the Middle Ages.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I cannot thank the witchcraft.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Well, well, the truth of the matter is the French
do not wish for us to sign a treaty with England.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
John, come to death.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Neither Franklin nor Jefferson can see it.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Enough politics for one night, Franklin to dead. Shall let
me talk about it in the morning, Oh, grateful fun
John whydall have understand that we did more for fans
than f for us. One day everyone will understand it.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
But are immortal enemies are independent as a body blow
to England's.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Why do you and Franklin and Jefferson argue so ceaselessly.
Each of view has already stated his position.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I intend to go back to Boston.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yes, he retire from political life course into the farm.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
That would be nice, A little low. You don't please
what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Not a word of it? Yes, madam?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Pauline?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Madam?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Are you psyching of what?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
The ghosts?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Which ghost? Oh? I would assume it's the same one.
If somebody has to put his foot thousand young women, monsieur,
there is no such thing as a ghost. One does
make the joke. A book about the ghost is.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Saily nonsensical, superstitis. And I have had quite enough now
As master of this house, I order you to get
to your bed and have yourself a full night sleep
in order that you may be fit for your duties
in the morning.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Is that understood? That will be all? Good night? Not
another word. You may leave. You had just transformed a
problem into a disaster.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
You're toast me. These people were better, and so I
thought I would speak like a master.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
They can't accept you as a master the god? Why not?
Will it have to do with the customs of the country.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I am becoming rather associated for the customs of this country.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
You do not behave like the master of the Chataul,
but fother the mud, as fool gentleman of the blood
would have, in addition to his wife a mistress.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I'm not old enough. Perhaps when I reach mister Franklin's
age of.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
John tomorrow morning, please higher a witch child job, Please
wake up? Wake up? Why it's gondesdy morning.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Listen?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
What what is that?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
That's your imagination?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
You don't hear it.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
It's whatever I think, so I leave.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
It's your imagination too. Oh what what is it?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
The first it's a it's a the other ghost, something
of Africa.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
They had no such thing as a ghost.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
But what do you call that? Well? Hate?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
And I remember my grandfather and my aunt things tell
us children's stories about child my daughter. Oh yeah, absolutely,
it's impossibly glooming lightly house.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Who knows what crime they have been?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Community at a gale dish No look things the ghost?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Then?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Why is your hand shaking?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
In broad daylight, in safe, secure and familiar surroundings, there
is never such a thing as a ghost. But in
the dead of the night, in a strange country, in
a large, gloomy house, one can never really be sure,
we have never had in this country a more down
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to earth sensible pair than John and Abigail Adams. But
they've never had occasion to spend the night like this one.
Hes I shall return very shortly for that too. It
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isn't easy to be a man of intelligence and integrity,
to speak one's mind and stand on principle at a
time when.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Men are valued for their flexibility.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Nor is it easy to be a woman of wisdom
and candor at a time when women were valued.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Purely for decorative and pleasurable purposes.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
And so we have described John and Abigail Adams, and
these two intelligent and rational people are now having what
can be described as a crisis of confidence each.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
There is no such thing as a ghost have the
l No, But tell me what that isn't I am
going to find out that becomes hero? No, you stayed
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in bead. No, I'll settle once and for all. Do
we have this? Do not?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
When we are pistol in the.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
House and have to have something to a little rob
of this by a place program supposed the.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Place is being robbed? What is it that we really
are about that can't be a thief? Thieves would be quiet,
I will see.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Um.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Oh my head is just like quietly, my dear, you
have a rather large thump on your head.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
What what happened? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I found you lying on the floor in the hallway.
The servants helped me to put you to bed. To
the servants, especially allri, everyone's anxious to know what, monsieur madam,
the ghosts now?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I remember I heard that noise and then somebody screamed,
what was Pulline?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
She heard the ghost and she was frightened. I ran
into the hallward. Something hit me on the head. Who
It didn't have to be a who.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
It could have been a well.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I I could have run into that low ceiling beam
near the stairwell. Something was making that noise. Oh, John,
the name we have all? He called in a weird
aby idea, What harm can it do if there's no
such thing as a ghost and all we've lost is
a single silver frank? But if there is, thouse John,
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it's the only way that I'll be able to keep
the servants all right. But no one must know. I'll
be silent, silent as the grade.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
That is hardly a fortunate figure of speech, Johnny, this is.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Madame pin testeur, how you do and.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
You are surported to be a witch?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Hopporfied? What does miss you mean proparted? I am illis well,
I mean miss you is a politician. I am a
witch whose profession is older and more under.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
What can you do for us, Madam Pine?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
The noise you hear is the Duke, don't mo you know?
He was straangled in the shuttle? Why it was to
hundred years ago? He was the Queen's lover. He came
to visit him here they were betrayed. These things happen.
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But if he's dead, can I say? We are told
that those who are killed for love never really die.
So he wanders about the shadows that say yes, mich
wandering and wailing for his lost love. And how do
you propose to dispose of him? That is my own secret.
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There are tricks to every trade. I do not ask
how you employ yours? Accard me the similar Come to
the rand, Madam said.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
To wait for you here, monsieur Adam welcome, you are
excellentity to while the honors said it, monsieur, I think
we might discuss your rental of several French frigates of wars.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Excellent we have no need. But you have no navy
to speak of at present.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
And the Algerian pirates, yes, we we do have trouble
with the pirates on the Barbary coast. And since the
building of a battle feat is of course prohibitively expense,
we are.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Aware of the problems involved.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
It will be difficult to raise funds through taxation. Your countrymen,
it cannot seem to agree on the necessity to tax
Virginia planters and Pennsylvania farmers in order to protect the
interests of New England.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Much of us.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
This is our internal affair that will in the time
we have other sources of avenue.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Have you.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
And I am given to understand that the passion alone
is in country difficulty is common knowledge.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Well, I must be going.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Good day, monsieur, A lovely weather.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
This thank you, Johne.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Tom Jefferson is in the library.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Word we have business, but.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
You and I are nabby. And Colonel Smith were to
go riding this afternoon to John he wants to marry her.
Im mister Tom Jefferson and I reached the meeting of
mind John, I said, Colonel Smith wants to marry your daughter, Lady. No,
they don't want to wait your low.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Tom Jefferson is doing.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
He is selling us out the front. John. It's impartible, offending, truly,
the agree completely with his manners, his molds, his philosophy.
But I like and I believe he's sincere a girl.
He has become a creature of the SUNCHI and I
can't pull it well, John, why did you want to
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see me bom?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
We must have this out?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
What George Washington? Won't this forever?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Hamilton to one popular personally Hancocks. They thinking nobody really
thinks have enough.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Enough of what?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
But vert slippery?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
What is all this?
Speaker 1 (21:29):
John? This is the talk that's going on at home.
This is how people are thinking and speculating. It's going
to come down to a fight between you and me?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
What kind of a fight? Power?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Who is going finally to rule our country? I never
thought much about it one way or the other. You
want to truth, John, I think you're more qualified, you.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Do a better job of it.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Maybe you think that, but your friends, your federalist friends,
won't let you think that way forever.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
They'll let you on for their own purposes.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Don't you have the same.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Kind of friends that I do? John?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Yes, and all with access to grind and I shall
be the victim of my friends too. And it has
to be this way, Tom, Why you and I we
are on opposite side of every question.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
One of us has to prevail.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
You may be that may be the people will split
the differences between them.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Maybe they will, But still we have to fight it out.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
We can fight as friends. John, know you have already
betrayed me and the country are being careful which you
are saying? Jehos, Stop talking like a sullen aristocrat. What
you propose to do? Challenge me? How dare you accuse
me of betrayal? You and I were sitting in this
room night before last we spoke to the progress of
a Puss negotiature.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I had confidential information that things are going badly.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
You and I were the only ones in the city
of Paris who at all, So I thought this morning.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
That comes to their end.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Try to you that factor strength and Francis bargaining position.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Well, what does that have to do with me?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
But if you didn't tell him, who did?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Ben Franklin was also in the room when I read
the dispatchet from Prussia. Ben Franklin had fallen asleep. Or
what makes you think I told their shames off fans
is notorious. I am greatful to France by helping us
overfore the British joke?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Would you have us exchanged the British yoke for one
made in palace? I am here to represent the interests
of my God. Were the only one who could have
told her then? But I didn't do it on my
word of honor? What am I saying? Why am I
trying to insist on something that should be beyond the
question my integrity? How dare we worked on the decoration
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of independence together?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
How could you even accuse them? Sol? I'm sorry, I.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Don't know what to think. Some someone is portraying our secrets?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Does anyone else know? No one? Are you sure?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Can you swear that not one other single solitarily soul?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
If I can swell, well, well, what Abigail asked?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Or the all has no secrets from Abigail? But these
are matters of government secrets.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I know. But Abby is my counselor Abby is.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Only a woman?
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Only a woman?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yes? But I share everything with her? Is it possible?
Speaker 2 (24:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I can't say it's happy? Could never? Can you can
give me talk?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Well? I have to I'm sure I'll be forced to
think to say certain things in the future for which
you'll have to forgive me. But how could version have
found out? I don't know unless the world have you.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Now, that's impossible, John, Who can say? Tom?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
After all?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
These are French schools?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
John?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Did I wake you?
Speaker 1 (25:20):
My dear?
Speaker 2 (25:21):
You know I always wait up for you. How is
your day? Oh? Tom?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Jefferson and I will somehow manage to live as friendly rivals.
The British or impossible. French are unreasonable, they are more.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
The Prussians are inscrutable.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
How was your We got to it somehow as our
sorceress managed to exercise the ghost.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
So far the staff seems uighing.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I'll just hold their then perhaps the courier, Hello, I
would stake my life.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
On his loyalty.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Well, it's a problem we should sleep on. After all,
sufficient done to the day?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Is the evil there? All? I agree?
Speaker 2 (26:05):
I thought our witch took care of all that.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
That's not plangim God, Madam phinipet something.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Someone knock her down. Such war than bandages. You won't
get any proven. I come into this room, I'll go myself.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Help me.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Men, that's quite requiet Madam, it's true, it's true.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
What what?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
What's true? He's there. I never believed, but but there is.
I don't think anything because I love him. I look
you you a home, good.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Good?
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Let him you guys speak to me, speak say something back.
That's twice the ghost store whatever has struck.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
But this blow appears to be fatal.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
If it gross, well, we have the word of perhaps
the foremost authority, of which who would know more.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
About the subject.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
You'll get to know a great deal more when I
return in.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Just a few moments with a three. Once again, what
is so clear? And the bright daylight becomes shadowy and
bird in the dim rays of the moon. Madame Phinnippet,
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a sorceress who has been employed by the Adams, is
to exercise a ghost.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Obviously has been exercised herself.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
And this is no time to ask John and.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Abigail if they really do believe in ghosts. She she did, John, yes,
But how how did she die? Well? She I start
lying on the floor, but I assume she'd been stuck down.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
But I know there isn't a single mark of violence.
And how did she die?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Some one something? But well, we heard her scream. We
both heard her. And then what was she muttering when
we came in here? The ghost, the ghost and something else.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
There is such a thing as a ghost, That's what
she said.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
You see, she never really believed it in herself, if
which is the way of making money. But then at
the very end she saw a ghost and.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
It killed her.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
She awow, well she may have died of fright. Look
look at the absolutely terrified expression on her face. I
have ever seen horror on a human countness.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
I see it, But I don't believe it killed her.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Because she didn't really believe in ghosts. She wasn't an
ignorant superstitious paid on it. Neither are you? Neither am I?
Speaker 1 (29:41):
But we've been having our doubts lately.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
What is this? It's been clutched in her hands because
supported must be a ghostly vestment, part of the show
worn by the Unfortunately, you go, no, not this look
it is muslin claw ghost to wear sounds of muslin.
Don't take this course? Is fresh? You? I proved that
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she was attacked and she tried.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
To spight it. We had better call the authority.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
And for what purpose you employed this woman?
Speaker 2 (30:25):
We? Uh?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well, we were having trouble with a ghost. Mister Commissioner, Ah, so.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Uh, make a note of that surgeon.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
The house is haunted, then it would appear to be
if the ghost killed her.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
If the ghost.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Killed her, help surely, I say, you cannot believe in ghosts.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Sure, Adams, I have an open mind.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
On the subject, but I think it's if it's not,
it's not what possibility?
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Yet?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
You and my dad say you have the thing yourself.
Well we may have heard blowin whistling through the chimney. Solely, Messieur, Commissioner,
you were a man like gos Holf. You cannot believe in.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
The ghosts this year. As a police officer, I must
adhere to the facts, and these are the only.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Facts we have welcome at present. What do you propose
to do nothing? A woman has been murdered.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
The physician who examined her could find no mark or
sign of violence.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
But something must be done.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Ask you, monsieur, what if the deed was committed by
a ghost? How do we proceed against him? But monsieur,
there is a more convenient explanation, convenient, well, perhaps satisfactory.
The woman was over eighty. It is entirely possibility died
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of old eggs. Yes, that would satisfy everyone astellient all right,
that she died of old age, the most respecta.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Milekular of all. Why why do you insist on walking.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Outdoors and the dreadful weather, Because, my dear, we must
have a tall, long confidential to the is a ghost? No, no,
I'll not you I can prove it. How, please explain
it before we catay on. I want you to make
up the most farse best story you can think of,
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why about politics, and tell it to me in the library.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
But I don't.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Understand more impossible than that. But why, I'm glad If
I tell you you won't do it, you'll have to
tell me eventually. I won't have to tell you. Then
how will I ever know? Oh, you'll find out that.
Please let's come back to the library and you must
tell me. The story with this great cape in the
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utmost confident must be a very serious matter. You must
play your part perfection. I fear I'm not an ACTI know,
but just something even better? You are a lawyer, Abigail.
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This is incredible. Really, there's this message I have just
received from Saint Petersburg. Really, my dear, Yes, from camp
from Yuns a confidential minister to the court. But what
have we to do with a Russian?
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Well, the count believes our two countries have a great
deal in common.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
I can't imagine, but both.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Oh, the Russians are established on the western.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
End of our continent.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
We may one day become very close neighbors. We share
a common border.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
I haven't thought of that, as you know, whose extensive
territories to the south, and they feared she will try
to expand. Oh, yes, then the Russians would rather have
us for a neighbor than the French.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Well, that makes considerable commons wrong. And so they are
willing lend us money to aid in our expansion, provided.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Provided, provided we break a whole relations with the French.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Oh, I see a Russian alliance. What an interesting possibility, Tom.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
If you're early, dinner is in front hower, Yet you
needn't expect me to dine in this house. Tom, Mama,
what is it you accuse me of coming out to
France and all the time you are scheeming to.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Betray us to Russia. Me, you needn't look so innocent.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
I've been told that you're in correspondence with the Court
of Saint Petersburg or purpose? How can you all liars
for the most the most tyrannical rule in Europe?
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Who told you I was in correspondence with the Russians.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Confidential source the counter bills?
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Then how did you know? I shall explain it that
they happen.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
And you say, this ghost or whatever over here is
our conversation, reports it to the version.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
That is ours?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Where is it coming from the library?
Speaker 3 (35:40):
And now there he goes? Now where obviously he's leaving
the house.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Well, let us settle this thing, John, No, let me go.
Oh no, oh, no, danger, I should have just scout
gentlemen to protect me. Nah, let me open the build,
Hand me the candelabra. Now talk where just the right
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upon you see on the floor hook foot prince.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Yes, oh love foot prince outlined in white powder.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
A lady's face, powder, corn starch, powder, I springford, I'm
on the floor.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Someone seems to walk through pall that wall.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
It must have a false entrance of the hidden fallow.
It would be no trouble finding it now now that
we know what to look for. Up there must be
a hidden release here. Tap against every part of the wall,
tapping all we found it food. Look look at the
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center panel was opening. Please the ghost noise? Be a
ghost inside?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Or tell there's long long passageway. Feel a breeze. That's
what it is, John, the breeze.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
The breeze whistling through the passageway when the panel is opened,
that's what makes the noise. The polish panels closed, I
see the air is no longer rushing along the passage.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Then the noise is created when when the ghost or
whoever enters and lee.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
And that's why Madampini Pieto was frightened to death. He
encountered him.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Now it is the Duc de.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Or mar wandering about his ancestral home, or is it
a spy who reports all our conversations to the Duke
de resan.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Farmer?
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Shall you help me find out that day? But how
the ghost is on his way obviously to report to
the Count that you and I.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Have had a serious difference of opinion. Let us retire
to the dining when finished our dinner, give him an
opportunity to return tomorrow for his regular evening spywork.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
It is no secret. What is no secret?
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Count, end, that your country's existence is cretain by a
factional strife. Fractional strife may be a sign of vigorous
national health for.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
My dear Adams.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Now suppose France supports your side my side. Suppose we
give you money, even troops, in the event of civil war.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Assuming or you say is true, wife support me, We.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Would support a solid conservative person such as yourself.
Speaker 5 (38:45):
Do I make myself clear?
Speaker 2 (38:47):
I must say so?
Speaker 1 (38:48):
You seem to have a most incisive grasp of the situation.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
We have excellent sources of insulation.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
So I see a world to the wise.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
Consider it.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Indeed, Sir, I shall.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
I fear, mister Jefferson that further discussion between that is pointless.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
I shall write to the Congress I have a choose
between you and.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Me if I can the same manner.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
I have no intention of listening to further lies and
slander on your pie, and I have no intention of
remaining a moment longer under this.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Allow me to tell your daughter, well, if our ghost
was there, we gave him an air force.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
If he were there with your gentleman to stage your car,
you shouldn't be here. Why not, ladies? It might be dangerous,
but it was all my idea.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
You know, I have a gilt sometimes it's difficult for
me to believe.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
You're a woman. I accept that as the sincerest compliment
you are capable of, Tom it was so intended. Ghost
a stairs himself will and now the pannel is closed.
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He must be headed for the doorway to the library.
But if he is, I'm ready for him. Now hold
him my coming evidence, your life a life of liar?
Here the police commissioner?
Speaker 5 (40:36):
Yeah, your what?
Speaker 2 (40:39):
What what am I doing here?
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (40:44):
You were?
Speaker 2 (40:45):
You well, may ask and we are asking you.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
See I am conducting. And if he shut investigation. Indeed, yes,
there have been allegations of a ghostly presence on these premises,
and so it seems the ghost of or ghosts of
what ghost?
Speaker 5 (41:09):
Illegal?
Speaker 3 (41:10):
You could have told us you were on the premises now, sir,
But it was a confidential investigation.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
I understand.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
Have you found the ghost.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
No at the gail or do I think the commissioner ever?
Will Will you agree with me a commissioner that the
ghost would seem to have lessed these premises of good Yes,
this year it would seem that.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Way, and we'll mention it to no one, not even
that would be appreciated. Matter. Besides, the library appears to
be too drafty, a place in which discussed various matters
in the future.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
I understand this year.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
So I don't think that the ghost will be entertained
by the conversation of mister Adams and his friends anymore.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
I understand it's you, madam, good night, good night. Well
that's the end of our ghost. I think, noise, Pandel,
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you'll be open.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
I suppose if it's the wind going through the packageway.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
John, look the panel, it glows. It's not the wind.
It's not like Gaie.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
I am sure there must be a reasonable explanation. I'm
sure there was, But John and Abigail Adams never found it.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Within a few months.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
They received orders from the Congress, which transferred them to England,
where John Adams became the first American ambassador to the
Court of Saint James. And if you think he had
problems in Paris when he arrived in London, he really rests.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
That's another story. I'll be back with a sidelight on
this one. In just the moment. There's something almost.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
Well, I can't say supernatural about Adams and Jefferson.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
Natural enemies, they were warm friends.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
They outlived all the other heroes of the Revolution, they
became the grand old men of the new country of
the United States of America, and America became a husion
of their opposing ideas and if you really want something
to think about, they both died on the exact same day,
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the fourth of July of eighteen twenty six. On the
fiftieth an Ofverse History of the Republic, pardcast included Michael Wager, Marion,
Seldis Court, Ben
Come in.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I'm e. G.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Marshall, principle of this little dread schoolhouse, where our curriculum
consists of lessons in mystery, suspense and the macabre. We
say they were giants, those founding fathers of ours, and
indeed they were giants of intellect, morality and ability. But
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they were also human giants, the deviled by human problems,
tormented by heedless children, persecuted by jealous enemies, embarrassed by
foolish friends, and even haunted by ghosts.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It's a ghost, John, it must be a goo.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Is no such thing as a girl?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I heard him?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
You're talking like a woman.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Abigail, And what is John?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Well it shows that how.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Intelligent a woman may be, and the chess and weaknesses
that well, there's no such thing as a ghost.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
At Hotel Me they have no touch thing as a ghost.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Well, well, what job are you about to start talking
like a woman too.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Our mystery drama ghost Powder was written especially for the
mystery theater by Sam Dans and stars Marion Seldy and
Michael Wager.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
If you were tobay to.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
John Adams, you can't tell the players without a scorecard. Naturally,
this great American wouldn't know what you mean, But if
somehow you could explain it, he would fix you with
that level, steadfast look of his and say that you
couldn't tell the players even with a score guard.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Here was John Adams.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
In seventeen eighty four, getting more flat from our recent
French ally than from our former English enemy. Here he
was ambassador to Paris from the United States, and nobody
really quite knew just what the United States was or were.
His colleagues, Franklin and Jefferson, were great men, as we
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all know, but very difficult to live with. His wife, Abigail,
insisted that she couldn't run the embassy properly on his
meager salary, and when he asked the Congress for more money,
their answer was to cut his wages. In addition, there
rented chateau a place called Oka was haunted by a ghost.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
But oh, he swears he heard him. Which one is
ari Abigail? He is the one who cleans the floor.
When did anyone ever clean the floors.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
In this place?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
And love he does the best he care isn't good enough.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
No dear about the gold. There is no such thing
as a ghost.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Let us discuss this rash.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Can you possibly discuss the thing? I could ghost rationally?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
The contradiction in turn on you simply cannot close your mind?
Are you telling me? You actually believe they're telling you?
What are we? Says?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
And a literate French peasant has suddenly become a respective authority.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
On the supernatural? Why don't you talk to him? How
can I speak to I don't speak his language? Ah,
but he speaks yours.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I noticed that, you know that's what Ah?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
He speaks yours.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
The aw approach.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
See how this humble, uneducated man takes the trouble to
learn your language while you will not bother to learn.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Here isn't what I'm meant to say? But would I
hear it? Stated? I must say I agree with it.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I am far too busy to study this, this exercise
in asality.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Darling, you are the ambassador, not exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I am the Minister clinical country, and mister Benjamin Franklin
is the ambassador.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Actually, mister Franklin is the ambassador emericus.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I wish mister Franklin would go home the Philadelphia, where
I understand he is worship.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Mister Franklin is coming to dinner? Oh no, why are
you just study this afternoon, Johnny.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
So unlike Hill, I've been away from Boston too long.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Now about Aarri and his ghost?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I don't wish to talk about Ari and his ghost.
What is there that I can say to this superstitious servant?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Why don't you listen to him first? Lee, monsieur Adams,
I have heard his How do you know it's him?
He's voice over him?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
And what does he say?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
He says nothing? But this is the first or nothing? John? Well?
How can he hear them? If he says nothing? He
says something? But I do not understand him. Does he
speak French? I'll say no? Does he speak English? Hungry?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Then what does he speak? He speaks he speaks ghost?
Ghost is ghost language?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Oh here's a ghost language? Oh yes?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
But what is this ghost language? And where do you
hear this alleged language?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I hear him moreover where, particularly in the library, in
the big rooms and all over.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
How can I get rid.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Of a ghost?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
You must callin a which.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Oh wait, yes, we comes in?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
This is it charm?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
And and the ghost runs away? Why because the course
he's frightened.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Oh now, look, my good man, there is no such
thing a ghost and I think you had better get
back to work.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
My uncle is this ill thing, and one morning he
is found.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
God, if you spend more time getting the place clean,
as you are paid to do, instead of weaving these
impossible fables about.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Girls asked, the Master will give this matter his full consideration,
and we shall rid the house of the goos and humor,
and you may finish cleaning the floor.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I go, madam, now happy tale.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
I do not vish being called the masters if I
were some feudial aristocrat.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Now, But your dear friend Tom Jefferson is a feudial
aristocrat back home, and he is called master. Buy a
hundreds of Spain.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
We are not discussing Tom Jefferson. We are discussing a
matter of growth, superstition. Why must I indulge you in
the superstitious content.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
To make my life easier?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Just have to do with you.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
One day, my dear, there will be another revolution, a revolution.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Of the women, A war or nest of women have
to revolte.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
A low come in a far away future.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I shall not live to see it, My dear, I
do wish you would stay to the subject, although you've.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Change it so many times. I confess it I am
at a loss to know what exactly we are all
in a witch and how this demon, this slowly.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Figment of all these imaginations.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Whatever it is, properly exercise from the premises, I.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Guess it does the lower elements no good to reinforce
their superstition.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
That not that it will do me good. Oh, these
story has infected the entire staff. I want you to
go along with it, mumbo Jumper, before they all run away.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Oh let them be cannile.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Others want to work here, Oh please, John.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
I am a witch to realize them.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
What will happen if Table's word of this week's home
I'd be the laughing stock of the country.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Think you'd be done for a single silver tank? And Jefferson,
what will Jefferson say? I will tell Allie to find
a witch and have her here tomorrow. For abdute John,
I cannot maintain this house without servants. I can't entertain
at official dinners, and I inly will not reinforce the
dark ignorance of the human race. I have nothing more
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to say. It is a man of housekeeping. It doesn't
concern you. Whatever lessens the dignity and the sanity of
the human race concerns me and not making a speech
before the Congress. Oh, I'm sorry, John, I I just
realize how I don't and so I realize how I
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must have founded good let's come promise they call in
a witch No, I cannot permit it. Do you understand
I can no longer be mistress of this embes. I
realize that, and therefore I shall resign the post. Jod,
This is isn't a bass, my dear. Each of us
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is standing on a principle. But you can choose to resign.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
But I cannot choose to be party to the dark
barbarism of the Middle Ages.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I cannot thank the witchcraft.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Well, well, the truth of the matter is the French
do not wish for us to sign a treaty with England.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
John, come to death.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Neither Franklin nor Jefferson can see it.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Enough politics for one night, Franklin to dead. Shall let
me talk about it in the morning, Oh, grateful fun
John whydall have understand that we did more for fans
than f for us. One day everyone will understand it.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
But are immortal enemies are independent as a body blow
to England's.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Why do you and Franklin and Jefferson argue so ceaselessly.
Each of view has already stated his position.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I intend to go back to Boston.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yes, he retire from political life course into the farm.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
That would be nice, A little low. You don't please
what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Not a word of it? Yes, madam?
Speaker 1 (10:33):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Pauline?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Madam?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Are you psyching of what?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
The ghosts?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Which ghost? Oh? I would assume it's the same one.
If somebody has to put his foot thousand young women, monsieur,
there is no such thing as a ghost. One does
make the joke. A book about the ghost is.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Saily nonsensical, superstitis. And I have had quite enough now
As master of this house, I order you to get
to your bed and have yourself a full night sleep
in order that you may be fit for your duties
in the morning.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Is that understood? That will be all? Good night? Not
another word. You may leave. You had just transformed a
problem into a disaster.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
You're toast me. These people were better, and so I
thought I would speak like a master.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
They can't accept you as a master the god? Why not?
Will it have to do with the customs of the country.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I am becoming rather associated for the customs of this country.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
You do not behave like the master of the Chataul,
but fother the mud, as fool gentleman of the blood
would have, in addition to his wife a mistress.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I'm not old enough. Perhaps when I reach mister Franklin's
age of.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
John tomorrow morning, please higher a witch child job, Please
wake up? Wake up? Why it's gondesdy morning.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Listen?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
What what is that?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
That's your imagination?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
You don't hear it.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
It's whatever I think, so I leave.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
It's your imagination too. Oh what what is it?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
The first it's a it's a the other ghost, something
of Africa.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
They had no such thing as a ghost.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
But what do you call that? Well? Hate?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
And I remember my grandfather and my aunt things tell
us children's stories about child my daughter. Oh yeah, absolutely,
it's impossibly glooming lightly house.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Who knows what crime they have been?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Community at a gale dish No look things the ghost?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Then?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Why is your hand shaking?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
In broad daylight, in safe, secure and familiar surroundings, there
is never such a thing as a ghost. But in
the dead of the night, in a strange country, in
a large, gloomy house, one can never really be sure,
we have never had in this country a more down
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to earth sensible pair than John and Abigail Adams. But
they've never had occasion to spend the night like this one.
Hes I shall return very shortly for that too. It
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isn't easy to be a man of intelligence and integrity,
to speak one's mind and stand on principle at a
time when.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Men are valued for their flexibility.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Nor is it easy to be a woman of wisdom
and candor at a time when women were valued.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Purely for decorative and pleasurable purposes.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
And so we have described John and Abigail Adams, and
these two intelligent and rational people are now having what
can be described as a crisis of confidence each.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
There is no such thing as a ghost have the
l No, But tell me what that isn't I am
going to find out that becomes hero? No, you stayed
(15:13):
in bead. No, I'll settle once and for all. Do
we have this? Do not?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
When we are pistol in the.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
House and have to have something to a little rob
of this by a place program supposed the.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Place is being robbed? What is it that we really
are about that can't be a thief? Thieves would be quiet,
I will see.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Um.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Oh my head is just like quietly, my dear, you
have a rather large thump on your head.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
What what happened? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I found you lying on the floor in the hallway.
The servants helped me to put you to bed. To
the servants, especially allri, everyone's anxious to know what, monsieur madam,
the ghosts now?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I remember I heard that noise and then somebody screamed,
what was Pulline?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
She heard the ghost and she was frightened. I ran
into the hallward. Something hit me on the head. Who
It didn't have to be a who.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
It could have been a well.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I I could have run into that low ceiling beam
near the stairwell. Something was making that noise. Oh, John,
the name we have all? He called in a weird
aby idea, What harm can it do if there's no
such thing as a ghost and all we've lost is
a single silver frank? But if there is, thouse John,
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it's the only way that I'll be able to keep
the servants all right. But no one must know. I'll
be silent, silent as the grade.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
That is hardly a fortunate figure of speech, Johnny, this is.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Madame pin testeur, how you do and.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
You are surported to be a witch?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Hopporfied? What does miss you mean proparted? I am illis well,
I mean miss you is a politician. I am a
witch whose profession is older and more under.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
What can you do for us, Madam Pine?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
The noise you hear is the Duke, don't mo you know?
He was straangled in the shuttle? Why it was to
hundred years ago? He was the Queen's lover. He came
to visit him here they were betrayed. These things happen.
(18:11):
But if he's dead, can I say? We are told
that those who are killed for love never really die.
So he wanders about the shadows that say yes, mich
wandering and wailing for his lost love. And how do
you propose to dispose of him? That is my own secret.
(18:36):
There are tricks to every trade. I do not ask
how you employ yours? Accard me the similar Come to
the rand, Madam said.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
To wait for you here, monsieur Adam welcome, you are
excellentity to while the honors said it, monsieur, I think
we might discuss your rental of several French frigates of wars.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Excellent we have no need. But you have no navy
to speak of at present.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
And the Algerian pirates, yes, we we do have trouble
with the pirates on the Barbary coast. And since the
building of a battle feat is of course prohibitively expense,
we are.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Aware of the problems involved.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
It will be difficult to raise funds through taxation. Your countrymen,
it cannot seem to agree on the necessity to tax
Virginia planters and Pennsylvania farmers in order to protect the
interests of New England.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Much of us.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
This is our internal affair that will in the time
we have other sources of avenue.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Have you.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
And I am given to understand that the passion alone
is in country difficulty is common knowledge.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Well, I must be going.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Good day, monsieur, A lovely weather.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
This thank you, Johne.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Tom Jefferson is in the library.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Word we have business, but.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
You and I are nabby. And Colonel Smith were to
go riding this afternoon to John he wants to marry her.
Im mister Tom Jefferson and I reached the meeting of
mind John, I said, Colonel Smith wants to marry your daughter, Lady. No,
they don't want to wait your low.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Tom Jefferson is doing.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
He is selling us out the front. John. It's impartible, offending, truly,
the agree completely with his manners, his molds, his philosophy.
But I like and I believe he's sincere a girl.
He has become a creature of the SUNCHI and I
can't pull it well, John, why did you want to
(21:08):
see me bom?
Speaker 1 (21:10):
We must have this out?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
What George Washington? Won't this forever?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Hamilton to one popular personally Hancocks. They thinking nobody really
thinks have enough.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Enough of what?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
But vert slippery?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
What is all this?
Speaker 1 (21:29):
John? This is the talk that's going on at home.
This is how people are thinking and speculating. It's going
to come down to a fight between you and me?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
What kind of a fight? Power?
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Who is going finally to rule our country? I never
thought much about it one way or the other. You
want to truth, John, I think you're more qualified, you.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Do a better job of it.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Maybe you think that, but your friends, your federalist friends,
won't let you think that way forever.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
They'll let you on for their own purposes.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Don't you have the same.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Kind of friends that I do? John?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Yes, and all with access to grind and I shall
be the victim of my friends too. And it has
to be this way, Tom, Why you and I we
are on opposite side of every question.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
One of us has to prevail.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
You may be that may be the people will split
the differences between them.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Maybe they will, But still we have to fight it out.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
We can fight as friends. John, know you have already
betrayed me and the country are being careful which you
are saying? Jehos, Stop talking like a sullen aristocrat. What
you propose to do? Challenge me? How dare you accuse
me of betrayal? You and I were sitting in this
room night before last we spoke to the progress of
a Puss negotiature.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
I had confidential information that things are going badly.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
You and I were the only ones in the city
of Paris who at all, So I thought this morning.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
That comes to their end.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Try to you that factor strength and Francis bargaining position.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Well, what does that have to do with me?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
But if you didn't tell him, who did?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Ben Franklin was also in the room when I read
the dispatchet from Prussia. Ben Franklin had fallen asleep. Or
what makes you think I told their shames off fans
is notorious. I am greatful to France by helping us
overfore the British joke?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Would you have us exchanged the British yoke for one
made in palace? I am here to represent the interests
of my God. Were the only one who could have
told her then? But I didn't do it on my
word of honor? What am I saying? Why am I
trying to insist on something that should be beyond the
question my integrity? How dare we worked on the decoration
(23:43):
of independence together?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
How could you even accuse them? Sol? I'm sorry, I.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Don't know what to think. Some someone is portraying our secrets?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Does anyone else know? No one? Are you sure?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Can you swear that not one other single solitarily soul?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
If I can swell, well, well, what Abigail asked?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Or the all has no secrets from Abigail? But these
are matters of government secrets.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I know. But Abby is my counselor Abby is.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Only a woman?
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Only a woman?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yes? But I share everything with her? Is it possible?
Speaker 2 (24:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I can't say it's happy? Could never? Can you can
give me talk?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Well? I have to I'm sure I'll be forced to
think to say certain things in the future for which
you'll have to forgive me. But how could version have
found out? I don't know unless the world have you.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Now, that's impossible, John, Who can say? Tom?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
After all?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
These are French schools?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
John?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Did I wake you?
Speaker 1 (25:20):
My dear?
Speaker 2 (25:21):
You know I always wait up for you. How is
your day? Oh? Tom?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Jefferson and I will somehow manage to live as friendly rivals.
The British or impossible. French are unreasonable, they are more.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
The Prussians are inscrutable.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
How was your We got to it somehow as our
sorceress managed to exercise the ghost.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
So far the staff seems uighing.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I'll just hold their then perhaps the courier, Hello, I
would stake my life.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
On his loyalty.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Well, it's a problem we should sleep on. After all,
sufficient done to the day?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Is the evil there? All? I agree?
Speaker 2 (26:05):
I thought our witch took care of all that.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
That's not plangim God, Madam phinipet something.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Someone knock her down. Such war than bandages. You won't
get any proven. I come into this room, I'll go myself.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Help me.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Men, that's quite requiet Madam, it's true, it's true.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
What what?
Speaker 2 (26:44):
What's true? He's there. I never believed, but but there is.
I don't think anything because I love him. I look
you you a home, good.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Good?
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Let him you guys speak to me, speak say something back.
That's twice the ghost store whatever has struck.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
But this blow appears to be fatal.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
If it gross, well, we have the word of perhaps
the foremost authority, of which who would know more.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
About the subject.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
You'll get to know a great deal more when I
return in.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
Just a few moments with a three. Once again, what
is so clear? And the bright daylight becomes shadowy and
bird in the dim rays of the moon. Madame Phinnippet,
(28:05):
a sorceress who has been employed by the Adams, is
to exercise a ghost.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Obviously has been exercised herself.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
And this is no time to ask John and.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Abigail if they really do believe in ghosts. She she did, John, yes,
But how how did she die? Well? She I start
lying on the floor, but I assume she'd been stuck down.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
But I know there isn't a single mark of violence.
And how did she die?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Some one something? But well, we heard her scream. We
both heard her. And then what was she muttering when
we came in here? The ghost, the ghost and something else.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
There is such a thing as a ghost, That's what
she said.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
You see, she never really believed it in herself, if
which is the way of making money. But then at
the very end she saw a ghost and.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
It killed her.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
She awow, well she may have died of fright. Look
look at the absolutely terrified expression on her face. I
have ever seen horror on a human countness.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
I see it, But I don't believe it killed her.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Because she didn't really believe in ghosts. She wasn't an
ignorant superstitious paid on it. Neither are you? Neither am I?
Speaker 1 (29:41):
But we've been having our doubts lately.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
What is this? It's been clutched in her hands because
supported must be a ghostly vestment, part of the show
worn by the Unfortunately, you go, no, not this look
it is muslin claw ghost to wear sounds of muslin.
Don't take this course? Is fresh? You? I proved that
(30:08):
she was attacked and she tried.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
To spight it. We had better call the authority.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
And for what purpose you employed this woman?
Speaker 2 (30:25):
We? Uh?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well, we were having trouble with a ghost. Mister Commissioner, Ah, so.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Uh, make a note of that surgeon.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
The house is haunted, then it would appear to be
if the ghost killed her.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
If the ghost.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Killed her, help surely, I say, you cannot believe in ghosts.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Sure, Adams, I have an open mind.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
On the subject, but I think it's if it's not,
it's not what possibility?
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Yet?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
You and my dad say you have the thing yourself.
Well we may have heard blowin whistling through the chimney. Solely, Messieur, Commissioner,
you were a man like gos Holf. You cannot believe in.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
The ghosts this year. As a police officer, I must
adhere to the facts, and these are the only.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Facts we have welcome at present. What do you propose
to do nothing? A woman has been murdered.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
The physician who examined her could find no mark or
sign of violence.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
But something must be done.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Ask you, monsieur, what if the deed was committed by
a ghost? How do we proceed against him? But monsieur,
there is a more convenient explanation, convenient, well, perhaps satisfactory.
The woman was over eighty. It is entirely possibility died
(31:56):
of old eggs. Yes, that would satisfy everyone astellient all right,
that she died of old age, the most respecta.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Milekular of all. Why why do you insist on walking.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Outdoors and the dreadful weather, Because, my dear, we must
have a tall, long confidential to the is a ghost? No, no,
I'll not you I can prove it. How, please explain
it before we catay on. I want you to make
up the most farse best story you can think of,
(32:43):
why about politics, and tell it to me in the library.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
But I don't.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Understand more impossible than that. But why, I'm glad If
I tell you you won't do it, you'll have to
tell me eventually. I won't have to tell you. Then
how will I ever know? Oh, you'll find out that.
Please let's come back to the library and you must
tell me. The story with this great cape in the
(33:08):
utmost confident must be a very serious matter. You must
play your part perfection. I fear I'm not an ACTI know,
but just something even better? You are a lawyer, Abigail.
(33:30):
This is incredible. Really, there's this message I have just
received from Saint Petersburg. Really, my dear, Yes, from camp
from Yuns a confidential minister to the court. But what
have we to do with a Russian?
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Well, the count believes our two countries have a great
deal in common.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
I can't imagine, but both.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Oh, the Russians are established on the western.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
End of our continent.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
We may one day become very close neighbors. We share
a common border.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
I haven't thought of that, as you know, whose extensive
territories to the south, and they feared she will try
to expand. Oh, yes, then the Russians would rather have
us for a neighbor than the French.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Well, that makes considerable commons wrong. And so they are
willing lend us money to aid in our expansion, provided.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Provided, provided we break a whole relations with the French.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Oh, I see a Russian alliance. What an interesting possibility, Tom.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
If you're early, dinner is in front hower, Yet you
needn't expect me to dine in this house. Tom, Mama,
what is it you accuse me of coming out to
France and all the time you are scheeming to.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Betray us to Russia. Me, you needn't look so innocent.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
I've been told that you're in correspondence with the Court
of Saint Petersburg or purpose? How can you all liars
for the most the most tyrannical rule in Europe?
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Who told you I was in correspondence with the Russians.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Confidential source the counter bills?
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Then how did you know? I shall explain it that
they happen.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
And you say, this ghost or whatever over here is
our conversation, reports it to the version.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
That is ours?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Where is it coming from the library?
Speaker 3 (35:40):
And now there he goes? Now where obviously he's leaving
the house.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Well, let us settle this thing, John, No, let me go.
Oh no, oh, no, danger, I should have just scout
gentlemen to protect me. Nah, let me open the build,
Hand me the candelabra. Now talk where just the right
(36:09):
upon you see on the floor hook foot prince.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Yes, oh love foot prince outlined in white powder.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
A lady's face, powder, corn starch, powder, I springford, I'm
on the floor.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Someone seems to walk through pall that wall.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
It must have a false entrance of the hidden fallow.
It would be no trouble finding it now now that
we know what to look for. Up there must be
a hidden release here. Tap against every part of the wall,
tapping all we found it food. Look look at the
(36:57):
center panel was opening. Please the ghost noise? Be a
ghost inside?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Or tell there's long long passageway. Feel a breeze. That's
what it is, John, the breeze.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
The breeze whistling through the passageway when the panel is opened,
that's what makes the noise. The polish panels closed, I
see the air is no longer rushing along the passage.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Then the noise is created when when the ghost or
whoever enters and lee.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
And that's why Madampini Pieto was frightened to death. He
encountered him.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Now it is the Duc de.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Or mar wandering about his ancestral home, or is it
a spy who reports all our conversations to the Duke
de resan.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
Farmer?
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Shall you help me find out that day? But how
the ghost is on his way obviously to report to
the Count that you and I.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Have had a serious difference of opinion. Let us retire
to the dining when finished our dinner, give him an
opportunity to return tomorrow for his regular evening spywork.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
It is no secret. What is no secret?
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Count, end, that your country's existence is cretain by a
factional strife. Fractional strife may be a sign of vigorous
national health for.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
My dear Adams.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Now suppose France supports your side my side. Suppose we
give you money, even troops, in the event of civil war.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Assuming or you say is true, wife support me, We.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Would support a solid conservative person such as yourself.
Speaker 5 (38:45):
Do I make myself clear?
Speaker 2 (38:47):
I must say so?
Speaker 1 (38:48):
You seem to have a most incisive grasp of the situation.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
We have excellent sources of insulation.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
So I see a world to the wise.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
Consider it.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Indeed, Sir, I shall.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
I fear, mister Jefferson that further discussion between that is pointless.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
I shall write to the Congress I have a choose
between you and.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Me if I can the same manner.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
I have no intention of listening to further lies and
slander on your pie, and I have no intention of
remaining a moment longer under this.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Allow me to tell your daughter, well, if our ghost
was there, we gave him an air force.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
If he were there with your gentleman to stage your car,
you shouldn't be here. Why not, ladies? It might be dangerous,
but it was all my idea.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
You know, I have a gilt sometimes it's difficult for
me to believe.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
You're a woman. I accept that as the sincerest compliment
you are capable of, Tom it was so intended. Ghost
a stairs himself will and now the pannel is closed.
(40:16):
He must be headed for the doorway to the library.
But if he is, I'm ready for him. Now hold
him my coming evidence, your life a life of liar?
Here the police commissioner?
Speaker 5 (40:36):
Yeah, your what?
Speaker 2 (40:39):
What what am I doing here?
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (40:44):
You were?
Speaker 2 (40:45):
You well, may ask and we are asking you.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
See I am conducting. And if he shut investigation. Indeed, yes,
there have been allegations of a ghostly presence on these premises,
and so it seems the ghost of or ghosts of
what ghost?
Speaker 5 (41:09):
Illegal?
Speaker 3 (41:10):
You could have told us you were on the premises now, sir,
But it was a confidential investigation.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
I understand.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
Have you found the ghost.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
No at the gail or do I think the commissioner ever?
Will Will you agree with me a commissioner that the
ghost would seem to have lessed these premises of good Yes,
this year it would seem that.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Way, and we'll mention it to no one, not even
that would be appreciated. Matter. Besides, the library appears to
be too drafty, a place in which discussed various matters
in the future.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
I understand this year.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
So I don't think that the ghost will be entertained
by the conversation of mister Adams and his friends anymore.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
I understand it's you, madam, good night, good night. Well
that's the end of our ghost. I think, noise, Pandel,
(42:23):
you'll be open.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
I suppose if it's the wind going through the packageway.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
John, look the panel, it glows. It's not the wind.
It's not like Gaie.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
I am sure there must be a reasonable explanation. I'm
sure there was, But John and Abigail Adams never found it.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Within a few months.
Speaker 3 (42:54):
They received orders from the Congress, which transferred them to England,
where John Adams became the first American ambassador to the
Court of Saint James. And if you think he had
problems in Paris when he arrived in London, he really rests.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
That's another story. I'll be back with a sidelight on
this one. In just the moment. There's something almost.
Speaker 3 (43:24):
Well, I can't say supernatural about Adams and Jefferson.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
Natural enemies, they were warm friends.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
They outlived all the other heroes of the Revolution, they
became the grand old men of the new country of
the United States of America, and America became a husion
of their opposing ideas and if you really want something
to think about, they both died on the exact same day,
(43:55):
the fourth of July of eighteen twenty six. On the
fiftieth an Ofverse History of the Republic, pardcast included Michael Wager, Marion,
Seldis Court, Ben
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