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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater prevents. Come in. Welcome, I'm E. G. Marshall,
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your landlord in this mansion of terror, and often there's
no terror quite like those nameless terrors, those undercurrents we
can't put our finger on. We know something not quite right,
but we don't know why. It nags at those dark
corners of our mind. And such is the story we
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have for you. Now, all seems to be sweetness and light,
or watch out for those dark corners, those things left unsaid.
Juan and Mike Slater are young city dwellers spending their
vacation in a quiet village called Granville. They thought it
was the perfect spot to get away from it all.
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That's what they thought until they got there and tried
to get away from it.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Mike, we should've turned left back there.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
No, no, no, no, we're on the main road out
of the village.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
No, we're not. Look up there, there's another dead end.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Well, this doesn't have upchaina. But we've been driving for
a half hour trying to get out of this town.
Every road is either a dead end or it takes
us right back into the middle of the village.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
But we came in on the main road. Where is it?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Why can't we find it?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I think they don't want us to find it. Change.
We've trapped, trapped in this town, and I don't know why.
Our mystery drama, The Summer People was written especially for
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the Mystery Theater by Bob Jura and stars Tony Roberts.
I'll be back shortly with that one. Two weeks in
another town, a summer place. They all add up to
a change of scene, something everyone enjoys, and for Jane
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and Mike Slater, a summer in the country was not
only desired, but almost necessary. Jane is a serious painter
and Mike's a young reporter with a novel burning in
his brain, a couple ripe for spending their vacation away
from it all and working on their respective art. So
it was no wonder that when Mike picked up the
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paper one evening he enthused and Jane, listen to this.
Oh well, I think it's this that we've been looking
for for our vacation. I mean private rooms with bath
in lovely private home, quiet village on beautiful river, complete
peace and quiet. All meals fifty dollars a week.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Per person, fifty dollars a week.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
What's the date on that paper? Nineteen ten?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Say it's fifteen unless it's a misprint. Restricted to persons
twenty three years or younger.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Well, at least we qualify there.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Interested parties may phone for interview eight one four in
the number interview.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Ah, sounds too snobbish.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
It sounds intriguing to me.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Doesn't the ad say where it is?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Nope? Nothing more. It's a perfect place to spend the
summer and start the draft on my book.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
It's okay with me if you want it. We're phoning
for an interview. Isn't that strange?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Well, whoever put the ad in had his reasons. We
won't know unless we call.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
How very.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Mister Slater.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yes you're Missus william that's right. Oh we've been expecting you.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
But my child on the phone, you sounded like the.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Right kind of people.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Come in, thank you.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Ooh what a cozy place.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Jane's Missus Williams.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
The Dutch cloth must be in the heirlooms my great grandmother,
Missus Williams. Hello, missus Slater, Uh, sit down, please, thank you.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
You may think this a bit unusual that we.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Request an interview.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah, frankly, yes, Well you've seen, mister Slater, We and
Granville are well. We do invite the summer people into
our homes. There are no hotels, and we.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Want to be careful.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I mean, we want to be.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Sure our summer people will fit in.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Your ads said only people under twenty three years old.
I think that's curing on, so you should. But we're
a young town, missus Slater. Oh, a grandfather's been a
village for two hundred and thirty years. But cause people
are young, we stay young, and we want our summer
visitors to be the same way.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Uh uh, how old would you say I was.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Mister saf Oh no, no, no, up, don't put me
on the spot.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
What do you want to get, missus Slater?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Well, since you asked, uh, forty forty two, Oh, i've
severn denied.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I mean die, oh you can't.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Well, that's the way it is in Granville.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
We've found the secret.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
For keeping young, and we want our summer people to
enjoy us just as much as we'll enjoyed them.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
It all sounds great to me.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
We're quite self supporting, but we do depend on the
summer people. That's why we're willing to take the trouble
to meet our prospective visitors personally.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
You're both in good health.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Oh yes, uh, no recent illnesses or operations.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Would you like a blood sample?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
M Jane?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
This is ridiculous?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Mind later. I understand your reaction. Many people feel the
same way.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
But if you're willing to cooperate with us just these
few questions, you won't regret it.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Just where is Granville? Missus Williams. I'll give you the
directions when.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
We decide on your visit.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Uh what do you do, mister Slater?
Speaker 5 (06:19):
I'm a writer.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I'm I'm a n uh newswriter for the Post. Jane
goes to art school. It's working on a master's.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Oh you're both arts.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Oh well, thanks for the compliments.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Huh Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
The reason I was interested in your ad is, uh,
I wanna spend the summer blocking a book and Jane
wants to paint. It sounded like just the place.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Oh, I'm sure it will be.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I can tell from meeting you both so attractive, healthy, young,
you'll fit in with Granville just perfect. Say if we
choose to come, Oh before, wouldn't you?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
You haven't told us enough about the town or your home.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You've been concerned in making I'm sure weed fit in.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Maybe we couldn't.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
From our point of view.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Oh well, you you do have a point, Missus Slater. Uh,
but I'm afraid there's not much more to tell.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Grandville is a pleasant little.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Village on the banks of the Seconey River upstate. I
can offer you my second floors wheat and the friendship
and attention of all the residents of Granville.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
We'll think it over, uh accord in a day or two,
but I'm pretty certain we'll be there.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Uh very well, mister Slater.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Missus Slater, it's been a pleasure meeting you.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
And I do hope you'll decide to come to Grandville.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
You're just the kind of people we was. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
They give my reservations. Missus Williams. We'll let you know.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
I'll be waiting good night.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
And I.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
What's the big deal? Chain it sounds perfect.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I don't know, Mike.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It's something strange the things she didn't or wouldn't say.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah, well, it's all amoret more interesting. I'm dying to
see the place, and we're okay on her lest Yes.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
She seemed eager to have us not against it. Might
let sleep on it. I'll probably feel different in the morning.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You in there of her?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Come on in there, I was Elizabeth.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Oh she's okay. A doctor Teal said it was indigestion. Hm,
the way she was carrying on, I thought it was
a heart attack. How'd you make out with the uh
summer people in the city, the uh Slaters?
Speaker 4 (08:41):
They're perfect? Who's the best I'll ever have? I hope
they decide to come.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Oh they're uh not firmed up yet. Uh.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
The wife was a little leery if my question.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
They did call me.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Well what about the basketball player? Oh, he's a set.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
He didn't seem to mind it all the.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Questions and restrictions.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Said he couldn't wait to soap the basketball season out
of his bones in peace and quiet.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I sure hope the Slats come. I hate to start
looking again.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
I think they will. I impressed him with the age thing.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Hm, what they say?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Like everyone else, I guessed around forty and were amazed
when I said seventy nine.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Imagine what the summer people would say if they knew
how old we really are.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I wouldn't believe it, so why tell them.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
It can't be much further? We passed the lily pond
two miles ago. She said, two.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Miles past the lily pond. Look for a wooden sign
on right and take road to the left.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Well, it's been two miles unless my odometer's wrong.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Yeah, there he is up ahead.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Oh yeah, m the arrow sign Granville four mile or
where's the road?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Well, it's supposed to be on the left.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Well the sign points left, all right, Granville four miles.
But there's no road unless they mean those two ruts
through the field over there.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
It's crazy, but I guess we'll have to see where
they go.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Okay, but talk about being off a beaten track. We're
getting just what we bargained for.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
It looks as though it gets better up ahead.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah, yeah, there's at least some paving up there. You know,
if it weren't for that sign back on the highway,
you could go right past this place and never even
know it was here.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Well, this looks more like it.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
There is a town.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Back in here.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Welcome to Granville, population two hundred and ten.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
How can they be so accurate?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
After meeting missus Williams, I can believe anything. Why, Mike,
it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
That's clean all right, nice looking houses too.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
It's almost unreal.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
It's so perfect.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Uh, where do we head next?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Oh? Uh, continue along Symbole Street. That's what we're on
to the greenhouse on Maple Avenue.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Well it can't be too far. Hey, look at that
Jamee and little church. There's something to paint.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
My first subject.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I wonder where the river is.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
We got plenty of time to find it.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Oh, Mike, this really is paradise. We made the right
decision coming here.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I think so too.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I I can't wait til oh it's the mother.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
But where do we go from here? I mean we're
at the end of Fimble Street, and so far there's
been no Maple aven You were no greenhouse.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
We must have passed it.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
We were talking too much.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I've been watching every street. We didn't come to Maple
aven Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Oh, I have to ask. I'll go in that little store.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Uh ask the fellow coming out. Uh excuse me, sir,
Oh hello there.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Could you tell me how to get to missus williams.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Oh sure you are the uh summer people. She's expecting
me now.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
The direction, said the straight arm.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Fimble to Maple Avenger. Oh you passed Maple one block back,
go back left on Maple by the green house. Then
about a quarter of a mile you find Missus Williams
on the right, big yellow house with the green Paul.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I can't say how we miss Maple Avenue. My name's
Ned Broker, glad to have you with us. I'm uh
Mike Slater. It's my wife Jane, say you later. Thanks
for the direction.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
What a pleasant man.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
The prows, Missus Williams point, I guess Grandville stays young.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
It's nice to know we're not staying with a bunch
of old fogies.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Hey, they seem to be anything but that. Uh, Missus Williams,
is that guy back there at least?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Oh there's the green house, Maple Avenue.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I don't see how we passed it before.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Well go less, like the man said, a quarter of
a mile and we'll be at Missus Williams.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Hello, I've been waiting for you.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Here we are.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I wasn't sure when you'd arrived.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
No, we only made one bad turn, not bad for newcomers.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Mister Broker, and the village told us how to get here.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Uh well, uh, come on and even get settled.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Your rooms are already and.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I've got a part of hoot coffee and homemade apple pie.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
All waiting like I said, this is paradise.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Your rooms are on the second floor. I'm expecting another
guest towards the end of the week. He'll have the
third Your place is just charming, Missus Williams.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
That's exactly what we want.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Well, I'm sure you'll enjoy it here.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
The whole town seems so fresh and clean.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
The people look so well. We're very careful about how
we live here. We grow all our own.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Vegetables, meats and sport it.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Who you love her food?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Well?
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Who you are?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Two rooms with connecting by it's lovely.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
This is great.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Well, you get settled in and then come down to
the kitchen. I want to introduce you to some real
Granville cooking.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
You and there mother come on in.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Then.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah, you're uh, your folks settled in?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Hm.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
It's a boy and you were right about them. They
seem like the right tide to me. Hm.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I know how to pick them.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
But when's the next.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
One arriving at the end of the week.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I told the slaters, I drop around and see 'em
set all the stafe.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
For pine coughing there. They'll be down a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I'll show 'em around town tomorrow. Uh, the girl's a painter.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
H that's what they said.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Yeah, she'll be looking for subjects. I'll know what to
show her, yes.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
And what to keep her away from.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Charming people in Granville hospitable, friendly, attentive. But I can't
help feeling. Oh now, it's just my overly active imagination.
There's nothing wrong, nothing sinister. How could there be with
such lovely, youthful, healthy people. And yet, well, we'll return
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to Granville. When I returned with that too, I did
say we'd return to Granville, where Jane and Mike Slater
have decided to spend some time in late summer. He
who started a book, and she'd pursue her painting. But frankly,
that town gives me the willies. If you don't mind,
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I'll just stay here and meet you later. You go
on ahead and join Jane and Mike in the kitchen
of that friend missus Williams.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
You might even get.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
A piece of that apple pie oother size, sister slatery.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Oh oh, Franks, this is when it it's delicious for two?
Is my limits?
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Oh? Now, come on, a young zellow like you ought
to be able.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
To put away a whole pie. He's being polite, I'll.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Uh, I'll take another one.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
My Uh, help yourself.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I understand you paint, missus Slater. There's plenty of subject
matter here in Granville.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Well, that's what I was hoping. I'm dying to look
around the village.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I'd be glad to show you around. Well, I'll be
glued to my time writer most of the time. I'm
glad Jane has a painting to keep her busy. Well,
you you want to rest up today, why don't we
start out tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Fine with me.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
From what I've seen already, I know we couldn't have
found a lovelier place.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Mm.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I've never seen such a I can't farm land.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Mm. We grow everything we eat.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Let's walk on down to the liver front the view.
There is something.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Oh, what's that low brown building over there? A factory?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
No, no factories in Grandville. That's our freezer. We freeze
the harvest for the winter months, one of our few
concessions to modern gadget.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
You have such an idyllic place here, I'm surprised you
want outsiders at all.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Oh, living too closed up isn't good either. We like
the right kind of summer. People visiting us gives us.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
To spec for you, and Missus Williams is so warm
and friendly.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
You'll find everyone in Grandville's that way. Oh, how is
the grand tour beautiful?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
It's a beautiful spot, almost two perfect.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Everything's laid out just so.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
What's wrong with that?
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Really, it's just curious. I don't remember seeing any children,
not a single child.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Oh maybe they were all grown up.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Everyone seems to be proud of how old they are
here and how well they look.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
But a whole village without any children.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
That's unusual. Yeah, what's the difference.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Oh none, I guess to us.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Anyway, I'm going to start on mit a broker's barn.
It's so unique, Missus Slater.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Lunch is ready, thank you, we'll be right down.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Oh I don't really feel like any lunch. Hey, that
practice she poured and the worst would last week a week.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Oh, it's fantastic, but we can't hurt her feelings.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I know you're going to like it here, mister Reagan.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Oh I can see that already. He's some Quiet's all
I want.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Well, you're on the third floor.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
A nice young couple has the second all. Oh, mister Slater, hello,
Oh oh, this is mister Egan, mister Slater our new residents.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I uh, mister Egan's a professional basketball player.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Right recovering from the season, and.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Mister Stavor's a writer. His wife's a painter.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
We're sort of on a work vacation.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Well, it won't see much of me. I'm just gonna
sleep and eat.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Oh that's what I like to hear.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I've afraid the Slaters aren't used to my big meals now.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
But food's great. It's just, uh, there's just so much
of it where it's.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
My duty to keep our summer people well set.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Uh huh, you won't have any trouble with me.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Mis William, Well, out, come along, we'll la, We'll get
you settled.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
I see you later, mister Slater. Oh, hey, I didn't
mean that the way it sounds. Call me Mike. Okay,
I'm tim see you later.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
The uh basketball player all settled in? Yes, eh. I
guess i'd better get out to the main road and
take the sign down. We won't be expecting any more
for a while.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
N huh for a while.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Oh. How's the painting coming along, Jane?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Oh, I don't know, Jim. I started out with a bang,
but lately, I haven't been able to concentrate.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Can I look sure?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
That's two weeks of work.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Mmm, looks good to me.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Oh, it's all there, the barn and the sky and
the field.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
But it's just there. It's no spark. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
I've been so lazy lately. I I can't get up steam.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
I'm the same way and enjoying every minute it must see.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Missus Williams cooking and this country air.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Oh high there, I didn't know you were back. You
finished for the day.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I can't work up any enthusiasm, you.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Know, that's my problem talking about writer's block. I've been
staring at that typewriter for a week.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I'm beginning to wonder if we came to the right
place after all we wanted. It's be quiet to work,
But between the food and the climate, we're.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Growing sat and lazy.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Well it suits me fine, but I'm gonna have to
take off ten pounds before the new season starts.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
How did you happen to find this place too?
Speaker 5 (21:13):
Ooh? Just an ad in the paper?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Yeah, same as we did, did uh?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Missus Williams give you a personal interview sort of?
Speaker 6 (21:20):
She came to my apartment, took one look at me
and gave me directions to Granville.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Did you think it was funny they made such a
fuss about meeting it?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Well, yeah I did.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
But she was so nice, and this Granville sounded so great.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
I didn't care. I just wanted to get away.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
You know.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
I didn't even tell my fiance where I was gone.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Have you looked around the town?
Speaker 6 (21:40):
Tim, No, I've done what I said i'd do. Just sit,
eat and sleep.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Hey, Jane, there's no need to bring that up. What's that? Well,
Jane thinks that, Uh, there's something unusual.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Here, Jim. There's not a single pet in town. Everyone
in Granville is a youthful senior citizen.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Oh, well, there's nothing odd about it that.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
I was in Florida one time and there were these
old fees.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
It isn't an old people's retirement community.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
It's a plastic village. Everyone's very charming and gracious.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Like mannequins.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
I still don't see anything wrong in that.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
It just bothers me. Why are they so anxious to
have us come for the summer. They say they need
their summer folk.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
For what, well, the money? I mean, they don't have
any industry here. They just they just need cash for something.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
The money fifty dollars a week for the two of us.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
What are you paying him twenty five?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
It's not the money, except this lethargy we all have it.
I think they're draining our strengths.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
In some way.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Come on, don't make such your big deal out. Come on,
don't make such you a big deal out of nothing.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
I'll see you do it. Supper.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Okay, I love the mermade ice cream that's already in
the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Oh thanks, no, uh uh no, thanks, missus Williams.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
Jah, I was just gonna take a snooze maybe later,
Miss Williams, Well.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Whatever you wiss is there when you wanted. She was listening.
She heard what we said.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Ah, I doubt it, Jane, But if she thought we
suspected her of something, she would have said so.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Not necessarily, not if there was a good reason for
us not to know.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
What's up, Martha.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I don't think the Slaters will be saying the whole summer.
Missus Slater's particularly nervous.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Mm. What you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
I'd advertised their rooms.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Mister Egan's too.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Uh he was Julily the end of the month anyway.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Well, okay, if uh, if you're sure you can get replacements. Three.
Some of the people aren't to know.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I know, but I won't have trouble filling the room.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Hello there, I'm mister Egan.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
After stroll, I'll just like to watch other people work
getting ready for the barbecue tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, real, great time, our July barbecue. It's a lot
of work, but we think it's worth it.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
I'm glad I'm gonna be around for it.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
See, mister Egan's I wonder if you could help me
later on sure, couple of chores that.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Could use your muscle power, or any time.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Tell me where and when.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Well, I'll come by for yet. Missus Williams.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
This evening, well, don't make it too late, though I've
been hitting the sack earlier and earlier. I never slept
so good in my life.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
But all we'll all be betting down early tonight with
the barbecue and dance. Nobody will be going to bed
timorrow and night more corn, Missus Slater, Oh, yes, maybe
just one more another around the states are on.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
What a shame Tim had. Mister he is too bad.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I'm I'm surprised he didn't say anything to it before
he led. Well, when mister Egan got the phone call
last night, he said it was an emergency at home.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
He just grabbed his things and round. He seemed very upset.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I'm so curious because he uh, I thought, why, sir, bather,
why don't give me a hand with these?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Oh'll be right there, h help yourself to sell?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Did you say that or you gonna shay him?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I wondering who could have called Tim? I remember him
saying he didn't even tell his fiance where.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
He was going.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
May uh, may I have the honor of a dance and.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Missus later I thank you?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
No, no, please, I could God, dray, I'm too fool Maybe.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Later Well, Martha, it looks like us, sir, old folks
have to show the youngsters how to have fun. Huh
that's eh, my arm, Missus William's.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Delighted, mister Broger.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Excuse uh, just one dance and I'll be back for you, missus,
Lady ay Jane, we might as well pack up and
go back to town tomorrow. If you wanna act like this,
I'm sorry, Mike, h no reason for these suspicions. But
do you wanna leave?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
No?
Speaker 4 (26:20):
No, you have your work to do.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I'm not getting anything done. Maybe we'd better pack it in.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
No, I won't say anything more about it, Mike. I'll
get back to my painting tomorrow and try to enjoy.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
The rest of the summer.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Mm.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
You ought to be back writing instead of watching me paint.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
I don't see why you're unhappy with this painting, Jane. No,
it's mister Broker's barn to a t.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I have a new idea for it.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
This morning I hit on what's wrong?
Speaker 2 (26:55):
What wll I seize the outside?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
You don't feel a whole barn in the picture.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
It's because I've never bothered to look inside.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Come on, it's a broker.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Won't mind even though I'm not going to show the interior.
If I know in my mind what it looks like,
I'll give the whole painting more character.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
That makes sense. Hm, It's first barn I've ever seen
with no dust on the windows. The door's not.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Locked, not surprising.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Missus Williams never locks her house.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
I don't think any of them do.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Well, let's go get that mood you're after. It's as
clean as it you know what, Yes, what's the matter.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
It's too clean.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Whoever saw a barn without any hay or harnesses or
just plain junk?
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Oh there's a loft, Maybe there's some junk up here.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Oh, hey, be careful climbing that ladder.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
That's steady.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
You see anything?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Hm, that's alright, no playing junks? But hey, wait a minute,
what is it? I'll be dark? What hap?
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Look at this? It's a sign. It's the sign we
saw out on the main road.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Oh maybe it's one like it, Ah, an old one.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
No, no, no, it's the same sign, so one that
pointed to the two ruts through the field.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Why would mister Broker have it in here?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
It without this sign out there, you could go right
past that field, go right past Granville. I never know
it was here.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
If that what they want.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Maybe your suspicions weren't so wrong.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Jane, Oh, Mike, what does it mean?
Speaker 1 (28:42):
I wanna ask him questions, but don't let on. We
found this.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Come on, Let's get out of here fast before Broker
gets back.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Let's leave this town right away.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah, I only hope we can.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Tim Egan, did oh did he?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
You were suspicious about that soub departure. Now I'm beginning
to wonder he departed, but I'd like to know where
our things in Granville. That you forgive me for not
going along with you, But maybe now you know why.
I much prefer to stay here and let you tell
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me what's going on there. I'm dying to know what
happens next to our friends, Mike and Jane Slater. You'll
be able to fill me in after you return to
Granville shortly in act free still feel you want to
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return to the odd little village, well if you insist,
and don't say I didn't warn you. Mike and Jane
Slater have finally awakened to the fact that Granville isn't.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
All it's backed up to be.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Jane felt it first, and now Mike, having found that
Granville can shut itself off from the world with them
in it. Besides, Jane wasn't so long after all. The
thing that makes me curious, and perhaps you too, is
why why do these sweet townsfolk of Granville appear to
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be increasingly sinister? I hope you'll be able to tell
me when you get back, that is, if you get back.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
What kind of danger are we in?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I don't know. It's so damn maddening. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Do you think it's even safe to go back into
the house.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Oh, we've got to get us things from the car. Well,
tell Missus Williams that we've got to leave sooner than
we thought.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Oh, she'd be suspicious after Tim Egan's disappearance.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I'd like to find out if that guy really went home.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Oh, forget about him. Let's get ourselves home.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Isn't it broker just leaving Missus Williams.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
He probably knows what's been.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
To his barn.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Don't learn all about anything? Well, good morning, you two
rested up from last night?
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Yes, that still stuffed though. That's been putting the finishing
touches on that painting, Missus Slater.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yes, it's finished as a matter of fact.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
And uh it's a present for you.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Oh now, Missus Slater.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Oh please take it?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Well, thank you. That's real special and I put it
over my mantle. I sorry to run off. Got the
chores at home now, that's okay. See you wrong by h.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
I don't know why I did that.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
You didn't like it? Anyway?
Speaker 3 (31:39):
That's in the phone.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Maybe we can sneak up the stairs while she's on
the phone. Hello, ooh oh oh, Slater.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Oh, yes for us. No, No, they never arrived. I
was expecting them the person July. That's right, they were
taking the second store for the summer.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
I called her apartment in the city twice and didn't
get an actor.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
I I assume they changed their plans.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
I wish they'd let me know.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
I could have gotten other tenants.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
And you haven't heard of since they left the city. Oh, dear, well,
I wish there was something I could tell you.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yes, yes, perhaps you better all right?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Good Eyeh, he's gone into the kitchen like this is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
We are in danger. I don't know, won know why.
We have to get out of here. Don't let on
we heard that conversation. Don't do anything to make them
think we're suspicious. You gotta give ourselves time to time
to make an escape.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Why would she say we weren't here, that we'd never.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Arrived, so they can do whatever they intend to do
with us. I think m'd call had to be from
Stu Henry. He's the only one I told her where
we'd be.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
He must be franctic.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Well, I've gotta call him.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
How can you There's.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Gotta be a public phone in the village.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Uh, missus lady, missus lady, lunch is ready.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
You couldn't need a thing.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Try when I slip into town and call sto, Missus Williams,
Can I use your phone?
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Well?
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Of course I couldn't find a public phone in town.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Oh so that's where you were when I had lunch ready.
You didn't have to go all that way.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
All you had to do was ask.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
My phone's right here in the parlor.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Hang, how do we wanna call my publisher by my book?
I'll reverse the charges?
Speaker 2 (33:35):
All right, Just help yourself. I'm going to a friends
the afternoon. It's our backhamon day. And uh, help yourself
to the refrigerator.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Missus lader hardly touched a thing for a lot aw.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Entry here. So it's my Where are you in Grenville?
Speaker 3 (33:53):
What?
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Why?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
I just saw there and a cell dame told me
and they were right.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
I know.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Listen, Stu, we're in danger here. They do work. I
don't know what it is, but Stu, listen, this is important.
Jane and I are leaving here in a couple of minutes.
We'll call you as soon as we're out. If you
don't hear from us in one hour, I want you
to get all the police you can and get up
here to Grahamville. How do I find the place? Take
Route forty seven north to Minerville, then Route eleven west
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two miles and look, oh no, no, no, no, the
sign won't be there. Look ah, you look for two
ruts across a f Stu. Do you hear me? Stu? Stu?
Damn they know? Jane, Jane?
Speaker 4 (34:38):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Is?
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Everything packed?
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
I just been it. We're leaving now. This is Williams
went to a friend's hurry.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
What did Stu say?
Speaker 1 (34:45):
We were cut off and it wasn't in the accident.
Grab those cases. I'll take a drunk and the typewriter.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
I'm so glad to get out of here.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
All kiss those hot city sidewalk.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
This is a only chance. Someone who was listening in
on my talk with Stu. I just hopefully make it
in time.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
I'll get the door.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Wait, anybody out there, not a soul? Okay, let's go.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
M think they're watching.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
I don't know. Just keep walking in with We'll load
the car cause nothing they can do to stop us here.
I don't seem to have any.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Guns, none that you knew of.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Huh, huh, help me with the trunk. That's it now
in case. Okay, get in. It's still not a soul
on the street, so much the better. Where are you going?
Speaker 2 (35:37):
You should have turned right?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Oh, I wonder god to get back to Fimble Street.
We came in from Fimble to Maple. It's it's left
on Fimble.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
I guess that's right the green house.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Remember, yes, there it is.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
I mean, what's that sign? Say what that was Broad Street? Oh?
There wasn't any broad Street when we came in.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Well it's probably the next one.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Uh, keep going, we're coming to a dead end.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
We'll have to go back.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Try turning right on Broad Street.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Large. This is getting crazy.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
We turned left coming in, turn right here?
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Okay, well this looks right.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
This takes us right out onto the main road. Oh,
thank god. Like we should have turned left back there.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Oh no, no, we're still on the main road out
of the village.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
No we're not. Look look up there at another dead end.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
It can't be.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
We've got to go back and take the road.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
To the left.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Oh this doesn't add up, Jane. Look, we've been driving
for a half hour trying to get out of this town.
Every road's either a dead end or it takes us
right back into the middle of the village.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
But we came in on the main road. Where is it?
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Why can't we find it?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Don't want us to find it, Jane. We're trapped. We're
trapped to this town and I don't know why. I
don't know why, but they don't want us to get out.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Oh, we're back at Missus Williams.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Uh. Oh, rhades lead to Missus Williams. I don't know
what to do anymore. Driving around is useless. I'm gonna
confront that woman. I'm gonna find out what's going on.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Now, and we'll never get out of here again.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
I have to say, I don't know. Come on, we're
gonna wait for Missus Williams to get back from our
back gammer.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Why mister savor u missus say there's something wrong?
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Uh, very Missus Williams, very wrong.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
I I don't understand us. So all your things in
your cars.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
I came in.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
We're leaving, Missus Williams. That is, we're trying to leave it.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
Why well you you.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Wanna know you listened in on my phone conversation. You
know now that we're on to you all? All you
lovely people in Grenville on to us. Oh, come on,
missus Williams. We're prisoners here. We know it, you know it. Why,
that's what I wanna know? Why?
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Uh, mister Slater, if you want to leave, I think
you'd better. I've never had guessed act as strangely as you.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
All Right, what happened to Tim Egan? Why was the
road marker hidden in Broker's barn? And why why can't
we find our way out? Every street's changed since we
came in. For half an hour we drove in circles
trying to find the road we came in on.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Mister Slater, if you want to leave Granville, I'll have
Ned show you the right way.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
It's no secret.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
Ned will be over in two minutes. I have your coffee.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
You've nothing to worry about.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
Mister Slater and missus Williams.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
I guess we've seemed awfully strange.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
But things have happened.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Here that we don't understand why old mistress lady enumerated them.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
I have some more coffee.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Alright, I guess I'm feeling better, I said Williams.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Here, Well, we we've enjoyed your hospitality. Maybe we're making
a big deal out of nothing.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
Of course you are.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
I can't see a thing we've done to make you
think we want to harm.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Oh, oh, it's was trying was trying to get out
of town, imber Roadmarker like, uh you you were trying
to hide us.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Mm we.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Well, maybe our imagination's got the best of it.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Well, maybe we were. Maybe maybe we want to stay
the rest of the summer. Jane, we've we've chased away
the boogeyman.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
No, I'm afraid it's time for able to leave. I'm
sorry too.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
I don't think you've got enough of my good home
cooking mother.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
You in there, good money in there. I think they're
uh ready each had two cups.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
I do hope you got some replacements coming.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
A new couple tomorrow tomorrow on the weekend.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Good Mr Slater. M huh huh, missus Slater.
Speaker 5 (40:15):
When do we go home?
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Em i'd uh better get 'em over to the freezer.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Oh, dear, I wish I'd had more time to fatten
'em up a bit.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Oh you did fine, Marka, same as always. Well, I
hope so it's my job when I'll get them backed down,
and then i'd better get that sign out again. Don't
want to miss the folks tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
Uh be right there, oh ill no, uh.
Speaker 5 (40:48):
Hello, m missus Williams. Where the rentols?
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Of course, I've been expecting you all morning.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
You didn't have any trouble finding the place.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Oh no, oh, come on end rouser.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Already you're on the second floor.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
Why lovely couple just moved down.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
I know now why you're so particular about your guess
this home is so beautiful.
Speaker 4 (41:07):
Well, yes, we have to be.
Speaker 6 (41:09):
Oh my th.
Speaker 5 (41:10):
The whole town is just a picture.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
I just know we're going to enjoy it here, and
we're going to enjoy you.
Speaker 6 (41:16):
We stopped at that little store in town to ask directions,
and everyone seems so happy and healthy.
Speaker 5 (41:21):
It's so so youthful like you.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
We just can't believe you're seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
Uh well, we keep young and grandboll the secrets in
our diet. We're very particular about what we eat.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
It's all in the diet.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
Oh your health food.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
Fattest, Well, we do raise everything we eat.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
I I hope you brought good appetites with you. It's
my job too, that not my summer people.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
Well I warned you not to go back there, but
you went anyway. You can spare me the details.
Speaker 5 (42:04):
I know what went on there in Ranville.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Suffice it to say a trip to Granville is a
one way trip. But I'm glad you got back safely,
relaxed and order anything on the menu. I'll be back shortly.
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I do hope you won't make the mistake of ever
returning to Granville again. You're lucky to have gotten out
with your skin. I can tell you one thing. You
wouldn't catch me dead in the place, but you will
find me in this same place tomorrow with another menu suspense,
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mystery and horror. Our cast included Tony Roberts, Jennifer Harmon,
Grace Matthews, Leon Jenny and William Redfield. The entire production
was under the direction of Hymon Brown and now a
preview of our next tale. And it's a simple enough request.
I think it's a high time.
Speaker 4 (43:08):
I've heard it your.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
High time, oh, as you can hear. I have my
own doctor whom I trust implicitly. He finally has told
me that my life can be measured in hours. I
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want you to promise to be by my bedside. I
want you to do for me what has never been
done before. I want you to mess my eyes me
in articular Martis in the act of death, but just
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before it, so that the old man with the side
will be stopped in his tracks. G. Marshall inviting you
to return to our mystery theater for another adventure in
the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.
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your landlord in this mansion of terror, and often there's
no terror quite like those nameless terrors, those undercurrents we
can't put our finger on. We know something not quite right,
but we don't know why. It nags at those dark
corners of our mind. And such is the story we
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have for you. Now, all seems to be sweetness and light,
or watch out for those dark corners, those things left unsaid.
Juan and Mike Slater are young city dwellers spending their
vacation in a quiet village called Granville. They thought it
was the perfect spot to get away from it all.
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That's what they thought until they got there and tried
to get away from it.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Mike, we should've turned left back there.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
No, no, no, no, we're on the main road out
of the village.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
No, we're not. Look up there, there's another dead end.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Well, this doesn't have upchaina. But we've been driving for
a half hour trying to get out of this town.
Every road is either a dead end or it takes
us right back into the middle of the village.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
But we came in on the main road. Where is it?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Why can't we find it?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I think they don't want us to find it. Change.
We've trapped, trapped in this town, and I don't know why.
Our mystery drama, The Summer People was written especially for
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the Mystery Theater by Bob Jura and stars Tony Roberts.
I'll be back shortly with that one. Two weeks in
another town, a summer place. They all add up to
a change of scene, something everyone enjoys, and for Jane
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and Mike Slater, a summer in the country was not
only desired, but almost necessary. Jane is a serious painter
and Mike's a young reporter with a novel burning in
his brain, a couple ripe for spending their vacation away
from it all and working on their respective art. So
it was no wonder that when Mike picked up the
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paper one evening he enthused and Jane, listen to this.
Oh well, I think it's this that we've been looking
for for our vacation. I mean private rooms with bath
in lovely private home, quiet village on beautiful river, complete
peace and quiet. All meals fifty dollars a week.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Per person, fifty dollars a week.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
What's the date on that paper? Nineteen ten?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Say it's fifteen unless it's a misprint. Restricted to persons
twenty three years or younger.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Well, at least we qualify there.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Interested parties may phone for interview eight one four in
the number interview.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Ah, sounds too snobbish.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
It sounds intriguing to me.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Doesn't the ad say where it is?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Nope? Nothing more. It's a perfect place to spend the
summer and start the draft on my book.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
It's okay with me if you want it. We're phoning
for an interview. Isn't that strange?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Well, whoever put the ad in had his reasons. We
won't know unless we call.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
How very.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Mister Slater.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yes you're Missus william that's right. Oh we've been expecting you.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
But my child on the phone, you sounded like the.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Right kind of people.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Come in, thank you.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Ooh what a cozy place.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Jane's Missus Williams.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
The Dutch cloth must be in the heirlooms my great grandmother,
Missus Williams. Hello, missus Slater, Uh, sit down, please, thank you.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
You may think this a bit unusual that we.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Request an interview.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah, frankly, yes, Well you've seen, mister Slater, We and
Granville are well. We do invite the summer people into
our homes. There are no hotels, and we.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Want to be careful.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
I mean, we want to be.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Sure our summer people will fit in.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Your ads said only people under twenty three years old.
I think that's curing on, so you should. But we're
a young town, missus Slater. Oh, a grandfather's been a
village for two hundred and thirty years. But cause people
are young, we stay young, and we want our summer
visitors to be the same way.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Uh uh, how old would you say I was.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Mister saf Oh no, no, no, up, don't put me
on the spot.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
What do you want to get, missus Slater?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Well, since you asked, uh, forty forty two, Oh, i've
severn denied.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I mean die, oh you can't.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Well, that's the way it is in Granville.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
We've found the secret.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
For keeping young, and we want our summer people to
enjoy us just as much as we'll enjoyed them.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
It all sounds great to me.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
We're quite self supporting, but we do depend on the
summer people. That's why we're willing to take the trouble
to meet our prospective visitors personally.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
You're both in good health.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Oh yes, uh, no recent illnesses or operations.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Would you like a blood sample?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
M Jane?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
This is ridiculous?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Mind later. I understand your reaction. Many people feel the
same way.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
But if you're willing to cooperate with us just these
few questions, you won't regret it.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Just where is Granville? Missus Williams. I'll give you the
directions when.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
We decide on your visit.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Uh what do you do, mister Slater?
Speaker 5 (06:19):
I'm a writer.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I'm I'm a n uh newswriter for the Post. Jane
goes to art school. It's working on a master's.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Oh you're both arts.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Oh well, thanks for the compliments.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Huh Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
The reason I was interested in your ad is, uh,
I wanna spend the summer blocking a book and Jane
wants to paint. It sounded like just the place.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Oh, I'm sure it will be.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
I can tell from meeting you both so attractive, healthy, young,
you'll fit in with Granville just perfect. Say if we
choose to come, Oh before, wouldn't you?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
You haven't told us enough about the town or your home.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You've been concerned in making I'm sure weed fit in.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Maybe we couldn't.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
From our point of view.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Oh well, you you do have a point, Missus Slater. Uh,
but I'm afraid there's not much more to tell.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Grandville is a pleasant little.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Village on the banks of the Seconey River upstate. I
can offer you my second floors wheat and the friendship
and attention of all the residents of Granville.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
We'll think it over, uh accord in a day or two,
but I'm pretty certain we'll be there.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Uh very well, mister Slater.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Missus Slater, it's been a pleasure meeting you.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
And I do hope you'll decide to come to Grandville.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
You're just the kind of people we was. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
They give my reservations. Missus Williams. We'll let you know.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
I'll be waiting good night.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
And I.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
What's the big deal? Chain it sounds perfect.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I don't know, Mike.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It's something strange the things she didn't or wouldn't say.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah, well, it's all amoret more interesting. I'm dying to
see the place, and we're okay on her lest Yes.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
She seemed eager to have us not against it. Might
let sleep on it. I'll probably feel different in the morning.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
You in there of her?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Come on in there, I was Elizabeth.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Oh she's okay. A doctor Teal said it was indigestion. Hm,
the way she was carrying on, I thought it was
a heart attack. How'd you make out with the uh
summer people in the city, the uh Slaters?
Speaker 4 (08:41):
They're perfect? Who's the best I'll ever have? I hope
they decide to come.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Oh they're uh not firmed up yet. Uh.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
The wife was a little leery if my question.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
They did call me.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Well what about the basketball player? Oh, he's a set.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
He didn't seem to mind it all the.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Questions and restrictions.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Said he couldn't wait to soap the basketball season out
of his bones in peace and quiet.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
I sure hope the Slats come. I hate to start
looking again.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
I think they will. I impressed him with the age thing.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Hm, what they say?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Like everyone else, I guessed around forty and were amazed
when I said seventy nine.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Imagine what the summer people would say if they knew
how old we really are.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I wouldn't believe it, so why tell them.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
It can't be much further? We passed the lily pond
two miles ago. She said, two.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Miles past the lily pond. Look for a wooden sign
on right and take road to the left.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Well, it's been two miles unless my odometer's wrong.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Yeah, there he is up ahead.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Oh yeah, m the arrow sign Granville four mile or
where's the road?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Well, it's supposed to be on the left.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Well the sign points left, all right, Granville four miles.
But there's no road unless they mean those two ruts
through the field over there.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
It's crazy, but I guess we'll have to see where
they go.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Okay, but talk about being off a beaten track. We're
getting just what we bargained for.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
It looks as though it gets better up ahead.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah, yeah, there's at least some paving up there. You know,
if it weren't for that sign back on the highway,
you could go right past this place and never even
know it was here.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Well, this looks more like it.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
There is a town.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Back in here.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Welcome to Granville, population two hundred and ten.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
How can they be so accurate?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
After meeting missus Williams, I can believe anything. Why, Mike,
it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
That's clean all right, nice looking houses too.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
It's almost unreal.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
It's so perfect.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Uh, where do we head next?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Oh? Uh, continue along Symbole Street. That's what we're on
to the greenhouse on Maple Avenue.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Well it can't be too far. Hey, look at that
Jamee and little church. There's something to paint.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
My first subject.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I wonder where the river is.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
We got plenty of time to find it.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Oh, Mike, this really is paradise. We made the right
decision coming here.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I think so too.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I I can't wait til oh it's the mother.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
But where do we go from here? I mean we're
at the end of Fimble Street, and so far there's
been no Maple aven You were no greenhouse.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
We must have passed it.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
We were talking too much.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I've been watching every street. We didn't come to Maple
aven Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Oh, I have to ask. I'll go in that little store.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Uh ask the fellow coming out. Uh excuse me, sir,
Oh hello there.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Could you tell me how to get to missus williams.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Oh sure you are the uh summer people. She's expecting
me now.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
The direction, said the straight arm.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Fimble to Maple Avenger. Oh you passed Maple one block back,
go back left on Maple by the green house. Then
about a quarter of a mile you find Missus Williams
on the right, big yellow house with the green Paul.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I can't say how we miss Maple Avenue. My name's
Ned Broker, glad to have you with us. I'm uh
Mike Slater. It's my wife Jane, say you later. Thanks
for the direction.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
What a pleasant man.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
The prows, Missus Williams point, I guess Grandville stays young.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
It's nice to know we're not staying with a bunch
of old fogies.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Hey, they seem to be anything but that. Uh, Missus Williams,
is that guy back there at least?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Oh there's the green house, Maple Avenue.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I don't see how we passed it before.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Well go less, like the man said, a quarter of
a mile and we'll be at Missus Williams.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Hello, I've been waiting for you.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Here we are.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I wasn't sure when you'd arrived.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
No, we only made one bad turn, not bad for newcomers.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Mister Broker, and the village told us how to get here.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Uh well, uh, come on and even get settled.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Your rooms are already and.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I've got a part of hoot coffee and homemade apple pie.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
All waiting like I said, this is paradise.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Your rooms are on the second floor. I'm expecting another
guest towards the end of the week. He'll have the
third Your place is just charming, Missus Williams.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
That's exactly what we want.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Well, I'm sure you'll enjoy it here.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
The whole town seems so fresh and clean.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
The people look so well. We're very careful about how
we live here. We grow all our own.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Vegetables, meats and sport it.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Who you love her food?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Well?
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Who you are?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Two rooms with connecting by it's lovely.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
This is great.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Well, you get settled in and then come down to
the kitchen. I want to introduce you to some real
Granville cooking.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
You and there mother come on in.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Then.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah, you're uh, your folks settled in?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Hm.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
It's a boy and you were right about them. They
seem like the right tide to me. Hm.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I know how to pick them.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
But when's the next.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
One arriving at the end of the week.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I told the slaters, I drop around and see 'em
set all the stafe.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
For pine coughing there. They'll be down a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I'll show 'em around town tomorrow. Uh, the girl's a painter.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
H that's what they said.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Yeah, she'll be looking for subjects. I'll know what to
show her, yes.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
And what to keep her away from.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Charming people in Granville hospitable, friendly, attentive. But I can't
help feeling. Oh now, it's just my overly active imagination.
There's nothing wrong, nothing sinister. How could there be with
such lovely, youthful, healthy people. And yet, well, we'll return
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to Granville. When I returned with that too, I did
say we'd return to Granville, where Jane and Mike Slater
have decided to spend some time in late summer. He
who started a book, and she'd pursue her painting. But frankly,
that town gives me the willies. If you don't mind,
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I'll just stay here and meet you later. You go
on ahead and join Jane and Mike in the kitchen
of that friend missus Williams.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
You might even get.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
A piece of that apple pie oother size, sister slatery.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Oh oh, Franks, this is when it it's delicious for two?
Is my limits?
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Oh? Now, come on, a young zellow like you ought
to be able.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
To put away a whole pie. He's being polite, I'll.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Uh, I'll take another one.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
My Uh, help yourself.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I understand you paint, missus Slater. There's plenty of subject
matter here in Granville.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Well, that's what I was hoping. I'm dying to look
around the village.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I'd be glad to show you around. Well, I'll be
glued to my time writer most of the time. I'm
glad Jane has a painting to keep her busy. Well,
you you want to rest up today, why don't we
start out tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Fine with me.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
From what I've seen already, I know we couldn't have
found a lovelier place.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Mm.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I've never seen such a I can't farm land.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Mm. We grow everything we eat.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Let's walk on down to the liver front the view.
There is something.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Oh, what's that low brown building over there? A factory?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
No, no factories in Grandville. That's our freezer. We freeze
the harvest for the winter months, one of our few
concessions to modern gadget.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
You have such an idyllic place here, I'm surprised you
want outsiders at all.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Oh, living too closed up isn't good either. We like
the right kind of summer. People visiting us gives us.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
To spec for you, and Missus Williams is so warm
and friendly.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
You'll find everyone in Grandville's that way. Oh, how is
the grand tour beautiful?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
It's a beautiful spot, almost two perfect.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Everything's laid out just so.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
What's wrong with that?
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Really, it's just curious. I don't remember seeing any children,
not a single child.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Oh maybe they were all grown up.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Everyone seems to be proud of how old they are
here and how well they look.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
But a whole village without any children.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
That's unusual. Yeah, what's the difference.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Oh none, I guess to us.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Anyway, I'm going to start on mit a broker's barn.
It's so unique, Missus Slater.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Lunch is ready, thank you, we'll be right down.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Oh I don't really feel like any lunch. Hey, that
practice she poured and the worst would last week a week.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Oh, it's fantastic, but we can't hurt her feelings.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I know you're going to like it here, mister Reagan.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Oh I can see that already. He's some Quiet's all
I want.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Well, you're on the third floor.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
A nice young couple has the second all. Oh, mister Slater, hello,
Oh oh, this is mister Egan, mister Slater our new residents.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I uh, mister Egan's a professional basketball player.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Right recovering from the season, and.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Mister Stavor's a writer. His wife's a painter.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
We're sort of on a work vacation.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Well, it won't see much of me. I'm just gonna
sleep and eat.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Oh that's what I like to hear.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
I've afraid the Slaters aren't used to my big meals now.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
But food's great. It's just, uh, there's just so much
of it where it's.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
My duty to keep our summer people well set.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Uh huh, you won't have any trouble with me.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Mis William, Well, out, come along, we'll la, We'll get
you settled.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
I see you later, mister Slater. Oh, hey, I didn't
mean that the way it sounds. Call me Mike. Okay,
I'm tim see you later.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
The uh basketball player all settled in? Yes, eh. I
guess i'd better get out to the main road and
take the sign down. We won't be expecting any more
for a while.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
N huh for a while.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Oh. How's the painting coming along, Jane?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Oh, I don't know, Jim. I started out with a bang,
but lately, I haven't been able to concentrate.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Can I look sure?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
That's two weeks of work.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Mmm, looks good to me.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Oh, it's all there, the barn and the sky and
the field.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
But it's just there. It's no spark. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
I've been so lazy lately. I I can't get up steam.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
I'm the same way and enjoying every minute it must see.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Missus Williams cooking and this country air.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Oh high there, I didn't know you were back. You
finished for the day.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I can't work up any enthusiasm, you.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Know, that's my problem talking about writer's block. I've been
staring at that typewriter for a week.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I'm beginning to wonder if we came to the right
place after all we wanted. It's be quiet to work,
But between the food and the climate, we're.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Growing sat and lazy.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
Well it suits me fine, but I'm gonna have to
take off ten pounds before the new season starts.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
How did you happen to find this place too?
Speaker 5 (21:13):
Ooh? Just an ad in the paper?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Yeah, same as we did, did uh?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Missus Williams give you a personal interview sort of?
Speaker 6 (21:20):
She came to my apartment, took one look at me
and gave me directions to Granville.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Did you think it was funny they made such a
fuss about meeting it?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Well, yeah I did.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
But she was so nice, and this Granville sounded so great.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
I didn't care. I just wanted to get away.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
You know.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
I didn't even tell my fiance where I was gone.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Have you looked around the town?
Speaker 6 (21:40):
Tim, No, I've done what I said i'd do. Just sit,
eat and sleep.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Hey, Jane, there's no need to bring that up. What's that? Well,
Jane thinks that, Uh, there's something unusual.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Here, Jim. There's not a single pet in town. Everyone
in Granville is a youthful senior citizen.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Oh, well, there's nothing odd about it that.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
I was in Florida one time and there were these
old fees.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
It isn't an old people's retirement community.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
It's a plastic village. Everyone's very charming and gracious.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Like mannequins.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
I still don't see anything wrong in that.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
It just bothers me. Why are they so anxious to
have us come for the summer. They say they need
their summer folk.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
For what, well, the money? I mean, they don't have
any industry here. They just they just need cash for something.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
The money fifty dollars a week for the two of us.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
What are you paying him twenty five?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
It's not the money, except this lethargy we all have it.
I think they're draining our strengths.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
In some way.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Come on, don't make such your big deal out. Come on,
don't make such you a big deal out of nothing.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
I'll see you do it. Supper.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Okay, I love the mermade ice cream that's already in
the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Oh thanks, no, uh uh no, thanks, missus Williams.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
Jah, I was just gonna take a snooze maybe later,
Miss Williams, Well.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Whatever you wiss is there when you wanted. She was listening.
She heard what we said.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Ah, I doubt it, Jane, But if she thought we
suspected her of something, she would have said so.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Not necessarily, not if there was a good reason for
us not to know.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
What's up, Martha.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I don't think the Slaters will be saying the whole summer.
Missus Slater's particularly nervous.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Mm. What you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
I'd advertised their rooms.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Mister Egan's too.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Uh he was Julily the end of the month anyway.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Well, okay, if uh, if you're sure you can get replacements. Three.
Some of the people aren't to know.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I know, but I won't have trouble filling the room.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Hello there, I'm mister Egan.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
After stroll, I'll just like to watch other people work
getting ready for the barbecue tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, real, great time, our July barbecue. It's a lot
of work, but we think it's worth it.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
I'm glad I'm gonna be around for it.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
See, mister Egan's I wonder if you could help me
later on sure, couple of chores that.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Could use your muscle power, or any time.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Tell me where and when.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Well, I'll come by for yet. Missus Williams.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
This evening, well, don't make it too late, though I've
been hitting the sack earlier and earlier. I never slept
so good in my life.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
But all we'll all be betting down early tonight with
the barbecue and dance. Nobody will be going to bed
timorrow and night more corn, Missus Slater, Oh, yes, maybe
just one more another around the states are on.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
What a shame Tim had. Mister he is too bad.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I'm I'm surprised he didn't say anything to it before
he led. Well, when mister Egan got the phone call
last night, he said it was an emergency at home.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
He just grabbed his things and round. He seemed very upset.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I'm so curious because he uh, I thought, why, sir, bather,
why don't give me a hand with these?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Oh'll be right there, h help yourself to sell?
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Did you say that or you gonna shay him?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I wondering who could have called Tim? I remember him
saying he didn't even tell his fiance where.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
He was going.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
May uh, may I have the honor of a dance and.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Missus later I thank you?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
No, no, please, I could God, dray, I'm too fool Maybe.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Later Well, Martha, it looks like us, sir, old folks
have to show the youngsters how to have fun. Huh
that's eh, my arm, Missus William's.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Delighted, mister Broger.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Excuse uh, just one dance and I'll be back for you, missus,
Lady ay Jane, we might as well pack up and
go back to town tomorrow. If you wanna act like this,
I'm sorry, Mike, h no reason for these suspicions. But
do you wanna leave?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
No?
Speaker 4 (26:20):
No, you have your work to do.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I'm not getting anything done. Maybe we'd better pack it in.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
No, I won't say anything more about it, Mike. I'll
get back to my painting tomorrow and try to enjoy.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
The rest of the summer.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Mm.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
You ought to be back writing instead of watching me paint.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
I don't see why you're unhappy with this painting, Jane. No,
it's mister Broker's barn to a t.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
I have a new idea for it.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
This morning I hit on what's wrong?
Speaker 2 (26:55):
What wll I seize the outside?
Speaker 3 (26:59):
You don't feel a whole barn in the picture.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
It's because I've never bothered to look inside.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Come on, it's a broker.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Won't mind even though I'm not going to show the interior.
If I know in my mind what it looks like,
I'll give the whole painting more character.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
That makes sense. Hm, It's first barn I've ever seen
with no dust on the windows. The door's not.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Locked, not surprising.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Missus Williams never locks her house.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
I don't think any of them do.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Well, let's go get that mood you're after. It's as
clean as it you know what, Yes, what's the matter.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
It's too clean.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Whoever saw a barn without any hay or harnesses or
just plain junk?
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Oh there's a loft, Maybe there's some junk up here.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Oh, hey, be careful climbing that ladder.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
That's steady.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
You see anything?
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Hm, that's alright, no playing junks? But hey, wait a minute,
what is it? I'll be dark? What hap?
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Look at this? It's a sign. It's the sign we
saw out on the main road.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Oh maybe it's one like it, Ah, an old one.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
No, no, no, it's the same sign, so one that
pointed to the two ruts through the field.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Why would mister Broker have it in here?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
It without this sign out there, you could go right
past that field, go right past Granville. I never know
it was here.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
If that what they want.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Maybe your suspicions weren't so wrong.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Jane, Oh, Mike, what does it mean?
Speaker 1 (28:42):
I wanna ask him questions, but don't let on. We
found this.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Come on, Let's get out of here fast before Broker
gets back.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Let's leave this town right away.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Yeah, I only hope we can.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Tim Egan, did oh did he?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
You were suspicious about that soub departure. Now I'm beginning
to wonder he departed, but I'd like to know where
our things in Granville. That you forgive me for not
going along with you, But maybe now you know why.
I much prefer to stay here and let you tell
(29:22):
me what's going on there. I'm dying to know what
happens next to our friends, Mike and Jane Slater. You'll
be able to fill me in after you return to
Granville shortly in act free still feel you want to
(29:43):
return to the odd little village, well if you insist,
and don't say I didn't warn you. Mike and Jane
Slater have finally awakened to the fact that Granville isn't.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
All it's backed up to be.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Jane felt it first, and now Mike, having found that
Granville can shut itself off from the world with them
in it. Besides, Jane wasn't so long after all. The
thing that makes me curious, and perhaps you too, is
why why do these sweet townsfolk of Granville appear to
(30:20):
be increasingly sinister? I hope you'll be able to tell
me when you get back, that is, if you get back.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
What kind of danger are we in?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I don't know. It's so damn maddening. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Do you think it's even safe to go back into
the house.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Oh, we've got to get us things from the car. Well,
tell Missus Williams that we've got to leave sooner than
we thought.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Oh, she'd be suspicious after Tim Egan's disappearance.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
I'd like to find out if that guy really went home.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Oh, forget about him. Let's get ourselves home.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Isn't it broker just leaving Missus Williams.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
He probably knows what's been.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
To his barn.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Don't learn all about anything? Well, good morning, you two
rested up from last night?
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Yes, that still stuffed though. That's been putting the finishing
touches on that painting, Missus Slater.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Yes, it's finished as a matter of fact.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
And uh it's a present for you.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Oh now, Missus Slater.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Oh please take it?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Well, thank you. That's real special and I put it
over my mantle. I sorry to run off. Got the
chores at home now, that's okay. See you wrong by h.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
I don't know why I did that.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
You didn't like it? Anyway?
Speaker 3 (31:39):
That's in the phone.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Maybe we can sneak up the stairs while she's on
the phone. Hello, ooh oh oh, Slater.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Oh, yes for us. No, No, they never arrived. I
was expecting them the person July. That's right, they were
taking the second store for the summer.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
I called her apartment in the city twice and didn't
get an actor.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
I I assume they changed their plans.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
I wish they'd let me know.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
I could have gotten other tenants.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
And you haven't heard of since they left the city. Oh, dear, well,
I wish there was something I could tell you.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yes, yes, perhaps you better all right?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Good Eyeh, he's gone into the kitchen like this is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
We are in danger. I don't know, won know why.
We have to get out of here. Don't let on
we heard that conversation. Don't do anything to make them
think we're suspicious. You gotta give ourselves time to time
to make an escape.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Why would she say we weren't here, that we'd never.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Arrived, so they can do whatever they intend to do
with us. I think m'd call had to be from
Stu Henry. He's the only one I told her where
we'd be.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
He must be franctic.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Well, I've gotta call him.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
How can you There's.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Gotta be a public phone in the village.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Uh, missus lady, missus lady, lunch is ready.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
You couldn't need a thing.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Try when I slip into town and call sto, Missus Williams,
Can I use your phone?
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Well?
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Of course I couldn't find a public phone in town.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Oh so that's where you were when I had lunch ready.
You didn't have to go all that way.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
All you had to do was ask.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
My phone's right here in the parlor.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Hang, how do we wanna call my publisher by my book?
I'll reverse the charges?
Speaker 2 (33:35):
All right, Just help yourself. I'm going to a friends
the afternoon. It's our backhamon day. And uh, help yourself
to the refrigerator.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Missus lader hardly touched a thing for a lot aw.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Entry here. So it's my Where are you in Grenville?
Speaker 3 (33:53):
What?
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Why?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
I just saw there and a cell dame told me
and they were right.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
I know.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Listen, Stu, we're in danger here. They do work. I
don't know what it is, but Stu, listen, this is important.
Jane and I are leaving here in a couple of minutes.
We'll call you as soon as we're out. If you
don't hear from us in one hour, I want you
to get all the police you can and get up
here to Grahamville. How do I find the place? Take
Route forty seven north to Minerville, then Route eleven west
(34:19):
two miles and look, oh no, no, no, no, the
sign won't be there. Look ah, you look for two
ruts across a f Stu. Do you hear me? Stu? Stu?
Damn they know? Jane, Jane?
Speaker 4 (34:38):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Is?
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Everything packed?
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
I just been it. We're leaving now. This is Williams
went to a friend's hurry.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
What did Stu say?
Speaker 1 (34:45):
We were cut off and it wasn't in the accident.
Grab those cases. I'll take a drunk and the typewriter.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
I'm so glad to get out of here.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
All kiss those hot city sidewalk.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
This is a only chance. Someone who was listening in
on my talk with Stu. I just hopefully make it
in time.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
I'll get the door.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Wait, anybody out there, not a soul? Okay, let's go.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
M think they're watching.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
I don't know. Just keep walking in with We'll load
the car cause nothing they can do to stop us here.
I don't seem to have any.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Guns, none that you knew of.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Huh, huh, help me with the trunk. That's it now
in case. Okay, get in. It's still not a soul
on the street, so much the better. Where are you going?
Speaker 2 (35:37):
You should have turned right?
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Oh, I wonder god to get back to Fimble Street.
We came in from Fimble to Maple. It's it's left
on Fimble.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
I guess that's right the green house.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Remember, yes, there it is.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
I mean, what's that sign? Say what that was Broad Street? Oh?
There wasn't any broad Street when we came in.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Well it's probably the next one.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Uh, keep going, we're coming to a dead end.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
We'll have to go back.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Try turning right on Broad Street.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Large. This is getting crazy.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
We turned left coming in, turn right here?
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Okay, well this looks right.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
This takes us right out onto the main road. Oh,
thank god. Like we should have turned left back there.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Oh no, no, we're still on the main road out
of the village.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
No we're not. Look look up there at another dead end.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
It can't be.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
We've got to go back and take the road.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
To the left.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Oh this doesn't add up, Jane. Look, we've been driving
for a half hour trying to get out of this town.
Every road's either a dead end or it takes us
right back into the middle of the village.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
But we came in on the main road. Where is it?
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Why can't we find it?
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Don't want us to find it, Jane. We're trapped. We're
trapped to this town and I don't know why. I
don't know why, but they don't want us to get out.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Oh, we're back at Missus Williams.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Uh. Oh, rhades lead to Missus Williams. I don't know
what to do anymore. Driving around is useless. I'm gonna
confront that woman. I'm gonna find out what's going on.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Now, and we'll never get out of here again.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
I have to say, I don't know. Come on, we're
gonna wait for Missus Williams to get back from our
back gammer.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Why mister savor u missus say there's something wrong?
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Uh, very Missus Williams, very wrong.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
I I don't understand us. So all your things in
your cars.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
I came in.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
We're leaving, Missus Williams. That is, we're trying to leave it.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
Why well you you.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Wanna know you listened in on my phone conversation. You
know now that we're on to you all? All you
lovely people in Grenville on to us. Oh, come on,
missus Williams. We're prisoners here. We know it, you know it. Why,
that's what I wanna know? Why?
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Uh, mister Slater, if you want to leave, I think
you'd better. I've never had guessed act as strangely as you.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
All Right, what happened to Tim Egan? Why was the
road marker hidden in Broker's barn? And why why can't
we find our way out? Every street's changed since we
came in. For half an hour we drove in circles
trying to find the road we came in on.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Mister Slater, if you want to leave Granville, I'll have
Ned show you the right way.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
It's no secret.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
Ned will be over in two minutes. I have your coffee.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
You've nothing to worry about.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
Mister Slater and missus Williams.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
I guess we've seemed awfully strange.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
But things have happened.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Here that we don't understand why old mistress lady enumerated them.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
I have some more coffee.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Alright, I guess I'm feeling better, I said Williams.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Here, Well, we we've enjoyed your hospitality. Maybe we're making
a big deal out of nothing.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
Of course you are.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
I can't see a thing we've done to make you
think we want to harm.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Oh, oh, it's was trying was trying to get out
of town, imber Roadmarker like, uh you you were trying
to hide us.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Mm we.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Well, maybe our imagination's got the best of it.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Well, maybe we were. Maybe maybe we want to stay
the rest of the summer. Jane, we've we've chased away
the boogeyman.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
No, I'm afraid it's time for able to leave. I'm
sorry too.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
I don't think you've got enough of my good home
cooking mother.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
You in there, good money in there. I think they're
uh ready each had two cups.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
I do hope you got some replacements coming.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
A new couple tomorrow tomorrow on the weekend.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Good Mr Slater. M huh huh, missus Slater.
Speaker 5 (40:15):
When do we go home?
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Em i'd uh better get 'em over to the freezer.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Oh, dear, I wish I'd had more time to fatten
'em up a bit.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Oh you did fine, Marka, same as always. Well, I
hope so it's my job when I'll get them backed down,
and then i'd better get that sign out again. Don't
want to miss the folks tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
Uh be right there, oh ill no, uh.
Speaker 5 (40:48):
Hello, m missus Williams. Where the rentols?
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Of course, I've been expecting you all morning.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
You didn't have any trouble finding the place.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Oh no, oh, come on end rouser.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Already you're on the second floor.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
Why lovely couple just moved down.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
I know now why you're so particular about your guess
this home is so beautiful.
Speaker 4 (41:07):
Well, yes, we have to be.
Speaker 6 (41:09):
Oh my th.
Speaker 5 (41:10):
The whole town is just a picture.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
I just know we're going to enjoy it here, and
we're going to enjoy you.
Speaker 6 (41:16):
We stopped at that little store in town to ask directions,
and everyone seems so happy and healthy.
Speaker 5 (41:21):
It's so so youthful like you.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
We just can't believe you're seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
Uh well, we keep young and grandboll the secrets in
our diet. We're very particular about what we eat.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
It's all in the diet.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
Oh your health food.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
Fattest, Well, we do raise everything we eat.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
I I hope you brought good appetites with you. It's
my job too, that not my summer people.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
Well I warned you not to go back there, but
you went anyway. You can spare me the details.
Speaker 5 (42:04):
I know what went on there in Ranville.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
Suffice it to say a trip to Granville is a
one way trip. But I'm glad you got back safely,
relaxed and order anything on the menu. I'll be back shortly.
(42:28):
I do hope you won't make the mistake of ever
returning to Granville again. You're lucky to have gotten out
with your skin. I can tell you one thing. You
wouldn't catch me dead in the place, but you will
find me in this same place tomorrow with another menu suspense,
(42:48):
mystery and horror. Our cast included Tony Roberts, Jennifer Harmon,
Grace Matthews, Leon Jenny and William Redfield. The entire production
was under the direction of Hymon Brown and now a
preview of our next tale. And it's a simple enough request.
I think it's a high time.
Speaker 4 (43:08):
I've heard it your.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
High time, oh, as you can hear. I have my
own doctor whom I trust implicitly. He finally has told
me that my life can be measured in hours. I
(43:29):
want you to promise to be by my bedside. I
want you to do for me what has never been
done before. I want you to mess my eyes me
in articular Martis in the act of death, but just
(43:49):
before it, so that the old man with the side
will be stopped in his tracks. G. Marshall inviting you
to return to our mystery theater for another adventure in
the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.
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