August 6, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Started your Christmas shopping at worried about.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Where the money is coming from.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I want to get away from it all.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
We offer you escape.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
He was seated around a green felt table with a
dozen desperate men, waiting for the turn of a card.
If it's the Ace of Spades, you will be next,
and you desperately desire the impossible escape.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Escape produced and directed by William N. Robeson and carefully
plotted to free you from the four walls of today
for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Tonight we escaped to London of the last century, A
London of gas lights and handsome cabs, A London where
a gentleman still valued his word of honor above his life.
A London of which one terrifying incident is recorded by
Robert Louis Stephenson and his unforgettable story The young man
with a cream tarts?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Oh Lord, or.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Rather city seems to awful little.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Amusement tonight, Well bottom's up, let's be on.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Our way right O. Your health and yours, please.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Have a.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Well now, what's this? Men with a tray of cream turts?
He's giving them away?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Perhaps one of the turns on the Perhaps shall we go?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
I pray you accept this confection, for if you do not,
I am bound to eat it myself.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You must be crazy. It was never more seen I do.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
There's nothing for it but my twenty seventh tarts since
five o'clock.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Now there are but two left you, sir? Yes? Would
you so far?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Under an entire stranger truly excellent pastry. I should know
I've eaten a of them.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It is not the nature of a gift that is important,
but the spirit in which it is offered.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
The spirits here is one of mockery. Mockery and whom
do you mark myself? However, my purpose at the moment
is not confession, but rather distribution of these cream tarts.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Won't you and your friend dispose to the laughter? Yes? Yes,
on one condition.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
If my friend and I eat your last two cakes,
we shall expect you to join us at supper.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Supper. It's a horrible thought. I've already eaten two dozen
of these pastries.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Very well, then we shall omit supper. I become better
acquainted over a bottle of wine.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
I'm uncertain whether my repugnance for these two remaining parts
of the attraction of your invitation compels.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Me but I accept excellent.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Then let us finish off your pastry and seek a
more quiet place. How about Michelle's and soho splendid?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Shall we go.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
An excellent restaurant, an excellent wine, or two excellent friends.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I drink to your health and we drink to yours.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I'm sure you will understand my curiosity, but you are
curious naturally, although I suspect that your story is probably
a silly one, Indeed you may rest assured that we
are two of the silliest men in England. My name
is Godall, theophilis Goodall, and my friend here is Major
Alfred Hammersmith.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I like you, mister Godall, Andrew Major Hammersmith. Though I
suspect there's not your right name.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
It is of no importance exactly, nor is my name,
so I will not divulge it. Although I see no
reason why I should deny you my story. It's brief
and foolish. Pray tell us then, an off told tale,
a modest fortune, which I squandered in the usual ways
at cards the horse races in Paris. Then two months
ago I met a young lady exactly suited to my
taste in mind and body.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
My heart melted. I was in love too.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Late yesterday my solicitor warned me that I had but
a hundred pounds left in the world. Forty of these
I used last night for a spatial purpose, and I
have agreeably spent the day disposing of the remaining sixty
pounds in as foolish a manner as.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I could devise.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
And the future, the future, has been taken care of
by the forty pounds.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Is it not odd that we three should have met
by the merest accident in so large a wilderness as London,
and be so nearly in the same condition. Yes, Major Hammersmith,
I was thinking the very same thing.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
What's this? Are you too also ruined? Is this bottle
of excellent wine? The last folly? Like my cream pots?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Very nearly, sir, I'm perhaps a week behind you. I
still have a few bank notes in my wallet.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
However, here no, this.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Bill will take care of the bottle of wine and
the others I throw into the file.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Oh no, you shouldn't have burned all of them. You
should have kept forty pounds.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Forty pounds, why why not fifty or seventy? For to
my certain knowledge, there were more than a hundred in
his wallet.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
It was only just forty pounds he needed. But without them,
there is no admission. The rule is strict. What do
you mean I have not yet completely emptied my pocketbook.
You are not fooling me. You are indeed ruined men
like me. Oh, indeed, could you muster eighty pounds between you?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Well, let me look in my wallet. Yes, eighteen, a
little over than you are, indeed most fortunate.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Forty pounds each is the initiation fee of the suicide Club.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
The suicide club. What the devil is that?
Speaker 4 (05:46):
The suicide club is death's private door. It's the ultimate
convenience in our modern world. It exists for unfortunates like costs,
those to whom the painful agony of corrosive poison is distasteful,
For those whose courage fails them when the cold muzzle
chills the forehead, for those whose fear of drowning is
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greater than a compulsion to die. For these sensitive misfits,
the suicide Club ranges every detail. If you are truly
tired of life, I will introduce you to night, to
a meeting, and I can assure you that within the
week you will be relieved of the burden of living.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
What do you say?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
It's more serious than a cream tart? And I suspect
more palatable.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
More serious certainly, so I I wonder if you would
give mister Goodall and leave five minutes alone.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
To discuss it. Certainly I shall wait outside your highness.
This adventure must stop here.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Nonsense, Colonel Darreldin, I propose to see this through.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
See you through to what death?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
You forget your obligations, not only to yourself but to
your country. Prince Floriesail of Bohemia cannot risk to night.
I am plain, mister Goodall, and so I proposed to remain.
And please remember, Colonel Geraldine, under those circumstances are you
to betray my incognito?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
What your height?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
We have survived graver adventures than this one promises to be.
And now, Colonel Geraldine, let us pay our bill and
accompany our young wasteful two Death's private door.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
He your gunner, Fox Court. Gentlemen, we have a rag here.
You are Cabby. Keep the change.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Well, mister godar Mentor Hammersmith. There is still time to
change your minds.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Lead on, sir, my mind's made up and mine follow me? Then, yes,
dark as a tomb an aptain.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Concise similarly, here we are, gentlemen, have death's private door.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Shall we enter? Pray?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Let's you may hang your things in here, shall be
good enough to wait.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I shall call the president of all our follies. This
is the wildest and most dangerous.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I am beginning to believe you are right. Let me
beseech your highness'll not forget you are my aide. Decombe,
not your father yet I am responsible to the king
for your will.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Colonel Geraldine, you are not afraid, certainly, not for myself,
but for your Highness. The President will see in his office.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
I have vouched for you, but you must give him
honest answers. The indiscretion of a single member might beleave
to the dispersion of the society forever.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
He can't afford to take that risk. Follow me in here.
He's waiting for you. Good evening. I am told that
you wish to speak to me. We have a desire, sir,
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to join the suicide Club.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Sir, you've made a mistake. This is a private house.
You must leave it instantly. We have come here upon
the invitation of a friend of yours. He's already told
you of our desires. And believe me, sir, when one
has come this far along the path, one is not
likely to be turned away, and certainly will tolerate little rudeness.
Permit me to assure you either you will oblige us
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in the matter, or you'll regret ever having admitted us
to the premises. Well, now that's more like it. This
is no place for men not yet desperate. I believe you, sir,
But what of your friend? My reasons are even more
cogent than mister Goodall. I er I was castured out
of my regiment last week. Why cheating at cards?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I see?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
And you, sir, what is your reason for being tired
of life unadulterated laziness?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Don't trifle with me, sir. You must have a better
reason than that.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I have no more money and I'm much too lazy
to come by any hm. If I did not have
a great deal of experience in these matters, I would
turn you down. But I have learned that the most
frivolous excuses for a suicide often cover a deep and
lifelong desire for self destruction. Thank you for your understanding, sir,
Very well to business. I shall read you the oath
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of membership, to which you will each subscribe. I swear
to obey without question the instructions of the President of
this Association or any of his appointed deputies, Realizing that
desirable death could scarcely be a penalty for violating this oath,
I am aware that any violation will be met at
the discretion of President, by those means deemed suitable by him,
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namely excommunication from the church, loss of whatever honor still
attaches to my name, and or, when necessary, violent reprisals
against my bereaved family. In full knowledge of the sacredness
of this earth, I subscribe my name. Well, gentlemen, you
are in.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
A position to enforce those penalties. I am.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Hand me the pen, my friend, the pen please, Major Hammersmith,
thank you. That will be forty palms a piece.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Please.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Here you are, thank you, And now would you like
to join the members in the smoking room? Indeed we
would this way. Please just make yourself at home. Everyone's
quite informal here, if your pardon me, I have some
other matters to attend. Come along, Major, let's mingle with
the company.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Oh there you are, got in all right, I see, naturally,
you'll never regret it.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I'm sure we Shan't you care for a game of
bellets and perab some whists.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
No, not immediately, thank you. I's like just to wander
around and listen to the conversation.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
You'll find it most revealing, hunderstanding. She had always stood
in the way of anything I wanted to do, and
I don't care if she was my mother.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
She crossed me one time to offend.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Never have joined this wretched club.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
If I had not read the Origin of the Species
by Darwin, I could not bear to be descended from
an ape.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Certainly some men who cannot abide the restrictions of the monastery.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
And after the abbot discovered me, there was nothing I
could do.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
It seemed comprehensible to me. What is by this talk,
this boasting the self justification? If the man has made
up his mind to kill himself, let him do it
like a gentleman.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Be done with the matter. As I told you, there
are some of us more frightened of the act than
of the result.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
There's only one man in this room who does not
seem to be in a state of his story. Who
is that, mister Godan By the gentleman sitting under the
van oh.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yes, yes, mister Marcus, would you like to meet him? Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Please? These others are too obvious. There's nothing very subtle
about mister Malts. He looks like death himself, wearing thick
eyed glasses. Let us discover for ourselves the reason for
his relaxation.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Mister Marcus, Eh, I should like to present two new members,
mister Goodall and Major Hammersmith.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Are you do, gentlemen? How do you do? It's a pleasure, sir.
Won't you sit down? Newcomers? New comers, I envy you
the novelty of your first visit.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
You will learn to relish it if you're spared. Why,
my dear sir, this club, gentlemen, is the temple of intoxication.
If my health would permit it, you may be sure
I would be here more often, for this is my
last disivation. Believe me, sir, I've tried them all, all
the vicests. Yeah, people trifle with love and ignorantly call
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it man's most powerful passion. Nonsense, nonsense, fear. Fear is
the strongest passion. It is fair that you must trifle
with if you wish to taste the intense joys of living.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Envy me, sir, envy me.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I am a poward.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
How, sir, is the excitement so artfully prolonged?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Of course, of course, I must tell you how the
victim for every evening is selected, as well as the
member who is to be death, Sir, High Priest for.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
The occasion, Great heavens, you mean they kill each other.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
The guilt of suicide is removed in that way, then I,
or my friend or you, any of us might be
selected this evening to murder another man exactly.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
But have they escaped the attentions of the law. Ah.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
The ingenuity of our president knows no limits. The departures
always appear to be accidental.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
It's monstrous. On the contrary, my dear Major, it is godlike.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Oh y, yes, of course.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
But mister Malthus, I am still in the dark as
to how the members are se elected for the evening's work.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Oh of course I forgot to explain. But I see
that the others are filing into the card room now,
and the play is about to beginning.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
You shall see for yourself. Will you lend me the
help of your arm. I'm quite paralyzed, you know, Oh
of course, eh, thank you. Ah.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
This is the moment which I live the quindescence of poignancy,
the altimate of fashion, coming here as infrequently as I do.
I've savored this better taste to fear longer than the others.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
But my turn will come. Who knows? That's night? But
how is it done? Tell us what to expect? Oh,
it's so simple.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
The president deals from an ordinary deck playing cards, and
each man turns up his guard as he receives it.
The ace of spades, the card of death. Ace of
clubs designates the official knight, the murderer. If you like, Ah,
here three chairs together, happy, happy young men. You have
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good eyes and you can follow the cards. I can
only make out the faces.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Is everyone here, my friend? We still have a fighting
chance to escape the quiet? Let us play the game.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Attention, gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Three clubs, Jack of hearts, ten of diamonds, King of clubs,
Queen of hearts, three of spades, nine of clubs.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Six of spades. That's our young men of the quam towns.
Drown these of clubs. I came here to be killed,
not too killed.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I want a gentleman murder the members against such unsanely.
The ace of space has not yet turned up. I
will continue the deal.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Seven of Clubs, King of Diamonds, Jack of Spade, Ace
o Spade.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
That concludes the play for the Knight. Gentlemen, will the
member who drew the Ace of Clubs come to my
office for his instructions?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Did you have this dream? Yes?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Good morning, Broderick. I shall have my breakfast in bed
this morning.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
And Colonel Geraldine has been waiting for you to awaken me.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Oh, very well show him?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Can you now? Good morning Geraldine? Sleep well, not too well?
Did I dream it? Or were we initiated into the
suicide club last night? Seems like a nightmare. It was
a nightmare, but you didn't dream it. Here look at
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this the morning paper. Well melancholy accident. This morning, about
two o'clock, mister Bartholomew Mouthless of sixteen Chepstowe Place, Westbonne Grove,
on his way home from a party at a friend's house,
fell off the upper parapet in Trafalgar Square, fracturing his skull.
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Death was instantaneous. Mister Malthus, accompanied by a friend, was
engaged in looking for a cab at the time.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
If heather a soul went straight to Hell, it was
that poor paralytic.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yes, at least he is dead and out of it.
But think of our young man of the cream tarts.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Last night.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
That lad was as innocent as you and I. This
morning he is a murderer, and thank heavens, we're safely
out of it, are we. No, you're not going to return.
I must if you are infected with a passion of fear,
just as.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Poor Malthus was.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Perhaps, whatever it is to night once more, we take
our places at the table of the suicide Club. Good evening,
Good evening, mister goodall back again to.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Try your luck.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Yes, indeed, and Major Hammersmith, good evening you were you
are to be, Congress sir. On the matter of mister Malthus,
very neatly handled. I go, but I shall miss for
old Marthe he was a man. I could talk to him. Yes,
your bereavement must weigh heavily upon you. Indeed it does, sir.
But then it's all in the game. And now you
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will pardon me, We will sit down to play directly
the fiend, the foul fiend of hesty, my friend. Once more,
let me plead with you, leave this evil house before
it's too late. You're very tiresome to night, Oh, Oh,
here's a young friend of the cream tarts. Good evening,
old chap.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Oh, mister Goodall Mantor Hammersmith. Oh, I wish I'd never
brought you to this infamous place. Or leave, leave while
your hands are still clean.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
But our oath, we could not go back upon our oath.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Will renounce it, forget everything, Let them do their worst,
but leave, Leave before it's too late. If if you
could have heard the old man scream as I pushed
him from the parl bt, crunch of his brittle bones
as he fired the space.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I perceive the dealing is about to begin. Shall we
go in? Mister mister good if you.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Have any kindness in your soul, wish the Ace of
Spades for me tonight. There's nothing left for me but
to die.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
Attention, gentlemen, Three of Hearts, Queen of Spade, Ace of diamonds.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Three times around, and neither black ace has come up.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
We are just thirteen.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
They set the table, This force round, this will, this
will tell the damn and I am.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Next to last.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
Yes of club, only four more gods, King of Spades.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Oh, pray for me, mister Godald, pray for me.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
I have one chance in free pray that I get
the ace.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Six of diam and now I have one chance in
two my friend, don't silence piece of spades very well.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
That concludes the night's play.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Gentlemen, Oh, mister.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Good Dal, I'd give a million if I had it
for your luck.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I would sell you this card for much less if
I could.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Well, Well, my congratulations. I am pleased to have met
yourself and to have been in the position to do you.
That's trifling service. At least you can't complain of delay. Yes, yes,
and now before I leave forever, I should like to
ask a question, A purely hypothetical question, of course, since
I am not a man to go back upon my word,
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But you wonder what would happen if you did, if
upon the turning of the card, you had changed your
mind and now wish to live. Precisely, Suppose my friend
Major Hammersmith and I elected to ignore our oath. Suppose
we began by tearing this place apart. You wouldn't even
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get started. The guests themselves are desperate men. But if
they did not stop you, the servants, who were even
more desperate, would it would never leave this house alive?
I see, well, it was purely an academic question. Naturally,
very well, then, what are my instructions? You will proceed
along the strand in the direction of the city and
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the left hand pavement until you come upon a black
carriage with drawn curtains. In this carriage will be the
member who has to night drawn the ace of clubs,
my executioner, you are collaborator in suicide. You will enter
the carriage and he will continue your instructions. Please have
the kindness to obey him in every detail. The authority
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of the club is vested in his person for the knights.
I wish you a pleasant walk, Thank you, But first
I must say farewell to my friend Major Hammersmith. I
regret that is strictly against the rules. No farewells too
disturbing for the still living members. You will leave through
this side door to the workroom, but I must have
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we won't have any trouble now.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Where we must have call? No, no, of course not,
you're caught and that you'll stick. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Again, must have got all the most pleasant.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
That's private door. Why didn't I listen to Geraldine before
it was too late?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I heard what is this? My instructions are to meet
the coach and the strand.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
We'll take this starts right now. Get Hi away of me,
all right? Take us from your highness? Were pardon the
violation of his person? Gerald Dye, Oh, my friend, it
was quite necessary under the circumstances.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
As soon as you turned up to a spade, I
slipped out of the house to prepare for your escape.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
But how did you manage it?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
When I realized I could not dissuade you from attending
the club tonight? I retained the services of a certain
capable and reliable private detective. But his secrecy has been bought.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
And paid for.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
His men are now raiding the Suicide Club. The members
will be removed to your townhouse, where it remains for.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
You to pass judgment upon them.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
That I will gladly do and with the utmost dispatch.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
What have they brought us here for? They didn't look
like Scotland yard meant to me? What difference does it make?
Perhaps it will be a quicker way out, gentlemen, Why
that's my friend? Mentor harms Smith.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Is Royal Highness Prince Florizel of Bohemia.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
God always thought there was something odd.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
About this too, gentlemen, to night, we have removed you
from a house of death to a house of life.
And hope those of you who have come to your
present condition through lack of fortune will receive employment and
remuneration from my treasury. Those who have been driven to
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this unnatural solution of their problems by the agonies of
guilt must find amnesty from a power greater than mine,
power that eternally promises the forgiveness of sins, no matter
how grievous. Only one of you is truly evil, and
him I shall deal with myself.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Where is he? Where is the president of the club,
Colonel Geralda? Why he should be here? Your Highness? I
beg pardon? Who's this man? Genlda, the chief of the detectives. Yes,
what is it? Was you referring to a sallow chap
with the sawed whiskies and a black suits.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
That's the one, the president of the Suicide Club.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Where is he, h idear? Why not? Well?
Speaker 1 (28:09):
When we broke into the little office down there at
the club, we found him sprawled over the desk with
a little empty bottle in his hand.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
He committed suicide.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Escape is produced and directed by William N. Robson and
Tonight brought You The young Man with the Cream Tarts
by Robert Louis Stevenson, adapted for radio by mister Robson,
with Paul Freeze as Prince Florizelle, Bill Johnstone as Colonel Geraldine,
and Martin Yarborough as the young Man. The special musical
score was conceived and conducted by Cyfuer.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Next week, after you've put in a tough day at
the office, leaning over a hot stove when you're four,
wall seem to be closing in on you. Next week,
when you want to get away from it all, we
offer you escape.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
This is CBS.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
They Columbia, a broadcasting system
Started your Christmas shopping at worried about.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Where the money is coming from.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
I want to get away from it all.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
We offer you escape.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
He was seated around a green felt table with a
dozen desperate men, waiting for the turn of a card.
If it's the Ace of Spades, you will be next,
and you desperately desire the impossible escape.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Escape produced and directed by William N. Robeson and carefully
plotted to free you from the four walls of today
for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Tonight we escaped to London of the last century, A
London of gas lights and handsome cabs, A London where
a gentleman still valued his word of honor above his life.
A London of which one terrifying incident is recorded by
Robert Louis Stephenson and his unforgettable story The young man
with a cream tarts?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Oh Lord, or.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Rather city seems to awful little.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Amusement tonight, Well bottom's up, let's be on.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Our way right O. Your health and yours, please.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Have a.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Well now, what's this? Men with a tray of cream turts?
He's giving them away?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Perhaps one of the turns on the Perhaps shall we go?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
I pray you accept this confection, for if you do not,
I am bound to eat it myself.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You must be crazy. It was never more seen I do.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
There's nothing for it but my twenty seventh tarts since
five o'clock.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Now there are but two left you, sir? Yes? Would
you so far?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Under an entire stranger truly excellent pastry. I should know
I've eaten a of them.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
It is not the nature of a gift that is important,
but the spirit in which it is offered.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
The spirits here is one of mockery. Mockery and whom
do you mark myself? However, my purpose at the moment
is not confession, but rather distribution of these cream tarts.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Won't you and your friend dispose to the laughter? Yes? Yes,
on one condition.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
If my friend and I eat your last two cakes,
we shall expect you to join us at supper.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Supper. It's a horrible thought. I've already eaten two dozen
of these pastries.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Very well, then we shall omit supper. I become better
acquainted over a bottle of wine.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
I'm uncertain whether my repugnance for these two remaining parts
of the attraction of your invitation compels.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Me but I accept excellent.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Then let us finish off your pastry and seek a
more quiet place. How about Michelle's and soho splendid?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Shall we go.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
An excellent restaurant, an excellent wine, or two excellent friends.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I drink to your health and we drink to yours.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I'm sure you will understand my curiosity, but you are
curious naturally, although I suspect that your story is probably
a silly one, Indeed you may rest assured that we
are two of the silliest men in England. My name
is Godall, theophilis Goodall, and my friend here is Major
Alfred Hammersmith.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I like you, mister Godall, Andrew Major Hammersmith. Though I
suspect there's not your right name.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
It is of no importance exactly, nor is my name,
so I will not divulge it. Although I see no
reason why I should deny you my story. It's brief
and foolish. Pray tell us then, an off told tale,
a modest fortune, which I squandered in the usual ways
at cards the horse races in Paris. Then two months
ago I met a young lady exactly suited to my
taste in mind and body.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
My heart melted. I was in love too.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Late yesterday my solicitor warned me that I had but
a hundred pounds left in the world. Forty of these
I used last night for a spatial purpose, and I
have agreeably spent the day disposing of the remaining sixty
pounds in as foolish a manner as.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I could devise.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
And the future, the future, has been taken care of
by the forty pounds.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Is it not odd that we three should have met
by the merest accident in so large a wilderness as London,
and be so nearly in the same condition. Yes, Major Hammersmith,
I was thinking the very same thing.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
What's this? Are you too also ruined? Is this bottle
of excellent wine? The last folly? Like my cream pots?
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Very nearly, sir, I'm perhaps a week behind you. I
still have a few bank notes in my wallet.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
However, here no, this.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Bill will take care of the bottle of wine and
the others I throw into the file.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Oh no, you shouldn't have burned all of them. You
should have kept forty pounds.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Forty pounds, why why not fifty or seventy? For to
my certain knowledge, there were more than a hundred in
his wallet.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
It was only just forty pounds he needed. But without them,
there is no admission. The rule is strict. What do
you mean I have not yet completely emptied my pocketbook.
You are not fooling me. You are indeed ruined men
like me. Oh, indeed, could you muster eighty pounds between you?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Well, let me look in my wallet. Yes, eighteen, a
little over than you are, indeed most fortunate.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Forty pounds each is the initiation fee of the suicide Club.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
The suicide club. What the devil is that?
Speaker 4 (05:46):
The suicide club is death's private door. It's the ultimate
convenience in our modern world. It exists for unfortunates like costs,
those to whom the painful agony of corrosive poison is distasteful,
For those whose courage fails them when the cold muzzle
chills the forehead, for those whose fear of drowning is
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greater than a compulsion to die. For these sensitive misfits,
the suicide Club ranges every detail. If you are truly
tired of life, I will introduce you to night, to
a meeting, and I can assure you that within the
week you will be relieved of the burden of living.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
What do you say?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
It's more serious than a cream tart? And I suspect
more palatable.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
More serious certainly, so I I wonder if you would
give mister Goodall and leave five minutes alone.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
To discuss it. Certainly I shall wait outside your highness.
This adventure must stop here.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Nonsense, Colonel Darreldin, I propose to see this through.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
See you through to what death?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
You forget your obligations, not only to yourself but to
your country. Prince Floriesail of Bohemia cannot risk to night.
I am plain, mister Goodall, and so I proposed to remain.
And please remember, Colonel Geraldine, under those circumstances are you
to betray my incognito?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
What your height?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
We have survived graver adventures than this one promises to be.
And now, Colonel Geraldine, let us pay our bill and
accompany our young wasteful two Death's private door.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
He your gunner, Fox Court. Gentlemen, we have a rag here.
You are Cabby. Keep the change.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Well, mister godar Mentor Hammersmith. There is still time to
change your minds.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Lead on, sir, my mind's made up and mine follow me? Then, yes,
dark as a tomb an aptain.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Concise similarly, here we are, gentlemen, have death's private door.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Shall we enter? Pray?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Let's you may hang your things in here, shall be
good enough to wait.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I shall call the president of all our follies. This
is the wildest and most dangerous.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I am beginning to believe you are right. Let me
beseech your highness'll not forget you are my aide. Decombe,
not your father yet I am responsible to the king
for your will.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Colonel Geraldine, you are not afraid, certainly, not for myself,
but for your Highness. The President will see in his office.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
I have vouched for you, but you must give him
honest answers. The indiscretion of a single member might beleave
to the dispersion of the society forever.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
He can't afford to take that risk. Follow me in here.
He's waiting for you. Good evening. I am told that
you wish to speak to me. We have a desire, sir,
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to join the suicide Club.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Sir, you've made a mistake. This is a private house.
You must leave it instantly. We have come here upon
the invitation of a friend of yours. He's already told
you of our desires. And believe me, sir, when one
has come this far along the path, one is not
likely to be turned away, and certainly will tolerate little rudeness.
Permit me to assure you either you will oblige us
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in the matter, or you'll regret ever having admitted us
to the premises. Well, now that's more like it. This
is no place for men not yet desperate. I believe you, sir,
But what of your friend? My reasons are even more
cogent than mister Goodall. I er I was castured out
of my regiment last week. Why cheating at cards?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I see?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
And you, sir, what is your reason for being tired
of life unadulterated laziness?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Don't trifle with me, sir. You must have a better
reason than that.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I have no more money and I'm much too lazy
to come by any hm. If I did not have
a great deal of experience in these matters, I would
turn you down. But I have learned that the most
frivolous excuses for a suicide often cover a deep and
lifelong desire for self destruction. Thank you for your understanding, sir,
Very well to business. I shall read you the oath
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of membership, to which you will each subscribe. I swear
to obey without question the instructions of the President of
this Association or any of his appointed deputies, Realizing that
desirable death could scarcely be a penalty for violating this oath,
I am aware that any violation will be met at
the discretion of President, by those means deemed suitable by him,
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namely excommunication from the church, loss of whatever honor still
attaches to my name, and or, when necessary, violent reprisals
against my bereaved family. In full knowledge of the sacredness
of this earth, I subscribe my name. Well, gentlemen, you
are in.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
A position to enforce those penalties. I am.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Hand me the pen, my friend, the pen please, Major Hammersmith,
thank you. That will be forty palms a piece.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Please.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Here you are, thank you, And now would you like
to join the members in the smoking room? Indeed we
would this way. Please just make yourself at home. Everyone's
quite informal here, if your pardon me, I have some
other matters to attend. Come along, Major, let's mingle with
the company.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Oh there you are, got in all right, I see, naturally,
you'll never regret it.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I'm sure we Shan't you care for a game of
bellets and perab some whists.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
No, not immediately, thank you. I's like just to wander
around and listen to the conversation.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
You'll find it most revealing, hunderstanding. She had always stood
in the way of anything I wanted to do, and
I don't care if she was my mother.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
She crossed me one time to offend.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Never have joined this wretched club.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
If I had not read the Origin of the Species
by Darwin, I could not bear to be descended from
an ape.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Certainly some men who cannot abide the restrictions of the monastery.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
And after the abbot discovered me, there was nothing I
could do.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
It seemed comprehensible to me. What is by this talk,
this boasting the self justification? If the man has made
up his mind to kill himself, let him do it
like a gentleman.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Be done with the matter. As I told you, there
are some of us more frightened of the act than
of the result.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
There's only one man in this room who does not
seem to be in a state of his story. Who
is that, mister Godan By the gentleman sitting under the
van oh.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Yes, yes, mister Marcus, would you like to meet him? Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Please? These others are too obvious. There's nothing very subtle
about mister Malts. He looks like death himself, wearing thick
eyed glasses. Let us discover for ourselves the reason for
his relaxation.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Mister Marcus, Eh, I should like to present two new members,
mister Goodall and Major Hammersmith.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Are you do, gentlemen? How do you do? It's a pleasure, sir.
Won't you sit down? Newcomers? New comers, I envy you
the novelty of your first visit.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
You will learn to relish it if you're spared. Why,
my dear sir, this club, gentlemen, is the temple of intoxication.
If my health would permit it, you may be sure
I would be here more often, for this is my
last disivation. Believe me, sir, I've tried them all, all
the vicests. Yeah, people trifle with love and ignorantly call
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it man's most powerful passion. Nonsense, nonsense, fear. Fear is
the strongest passion. It is fair that you must trifle
with if you wish to taste the intense joys of living.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Envy me, sir, envy me.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I am a poward.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
How, sir, is the excitement so artfully prolonged?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Of course, of course, I must tell you how the
victim for every evening is selected, as well as the
member who is to be death, Sir, High Priest for.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
The occasion, Great heavens, you mean they kill each other.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
The guilt of suicide is removed in that way, then I,
or my friend or you, any of us might be
selected this evening to murder another man exactly.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
But have they escaped the attentions of the law. Ah.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
The ingenuity of our president knows no limits. The departures
always appear to be accidental.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
It's monstrous. On the contrary, my dear Major, it is godlike.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Oh y, yes, of course.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
But mister Malthus, I am still in the dark as
to how the members are se elected for the evening's work.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Oh of course I forgot to explain. But I see
that the others are filing into the card room now,
and the play is about to beginning.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
You shall see for yourself. Will you lend me the
help of your arm. I'm quite paralyzed, you know, Oh
of course, eh, thank you. Ah.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
This is the moment which I live the quindescence of poignancy,
the altimate of fashion, coming here as infrequently as I do.
I've savored this better taste to fear longer than the others.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
But my turn will come. Who knows? That's night? But
how is it done? Tell us what to expect? Oh,
it's so simple.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
The president deals from an ordinary deck playing cards, and
each man turns up his guard as he receives it.
The ace of spades, the card of death. Ace of
clubs designates the official knight, the murderer. If you like, Ah,
here three chairs together, happy, happy young men. You have
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good eyes and you can follow the cards. I can
only make out the faces.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Is everyone here, my friend? We still have a fighting
chance to escape the quiet? Let us play the game.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Attention, gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Three clubs, Jack of hearts, ten of diamonds, King of clubs,
Queen of hearts, three of spades, nine of clubs.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Six of spades. That's our young men of the quam towns.
Drown these of clubs. I came here to be killed,
not too killed.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I want a gentleman murder the members against such unsanely.
The ace of space has not yet turned up. I
will continue the deal.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Seven of Clubs, King of Diamonds, Jack of Spade, Ace
o Spade.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
That concludes the play for the Knight. Gentlemen, will the
member who drew the Ace of Clubs come to my
office for his instructions?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Did you have this dream? Yes?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Good morning, Broderick. I shall have my breakfast in bed
this morning.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
And Colonel Geraldine has been waiting for you to awaken me.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Oh, very well show him?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Can you now? Good morning Geraldine? Sleep well, not too well?
Did I dream it? Or were we initiated into the
suicide club last night? Seems like a nightmare. It was
a nightmare, but you didn't dream it. Here look at
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this the morning paper. Well melancholy accident. This morning, about
two o'clock, mister Bartholomew Mouthless of sixteen Chepstowe Place, Westbonne Grove,
on his way home from a party at a friend's house,
fell off the upper parapet in Trafalgar Square, fracturing his skull.
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Death was instantaneous. Mister Malthus, accompanied by a friend, was
engaged in looking for a cab at the time.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
If heather a soul went straight to Hell, it was
that poor paralytic.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yes, at least he is dead and out of it.
But think of our young man of the cream tarts.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Last night.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
That lad was as innocent as you and I. This
morning he is a murderer, and thank heavens, we're safely
out of it, are we. No, you're not going to return.
I must if you are infected with a passion of fear,
just as.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Poor Malthus was.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Perhaps, whatever it is to night once more, we take
our places at the table of the suicide Club. Good evening,
Good evening, mister goodall back again to.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Try your luck.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Yes, indeed, and Major Hammersmith, good evening you were you
are to be, Congress sir. On the matter of mister Malthus,
very neatly handled. I go, but I shall miss for
old Marthe he was a man. I could talk to him. Yes,
your bereavement must weigh heavily upon you. Indeed it does, sir.
But then it's all in the game. And now you
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will pardon me, We will sit down to play directly
the fiend, the foul fiend of hesty, my friend. Once more,
let me plead with you, leave this evil house before
it's too late. You're very tiresome to night, Oh, Oh,
here's a young friend of the cream tarts. Good evening,
old chap.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Oh, mister Goodall Mantor Hammersmith. Oh, I wish I'd never
brought you to this infamous place. Or leave, leave while
your hands are still clean.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
But our oath, we could not go back upon our oath.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Will renounce it, forget everything, Let them do their worst,
but leave, Leave before it's too late. If if you
could have heard the old man scream as I pushed
him from the parl bt, crunch of his brittle bones
as he fired the space.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I perceive the dealing is about to begin. Shall we
go in? Mister mister good if you.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Have any kindness in your soul, wish the Ace of
Spades for me tonight. There's nothing left for me but
to die.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
Attention, gentlemen, Three of Hearts, Queen of Spade, Ace of diamonds.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Three times around, and neither black ace has come up.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
We are just thirteen.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
They set the table, This force round, this will, this
will tell the damn and I am.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Next to last.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
Yes of club, only four more gods, King of Spades.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Oh, pray for me, mister Godald, pray for me.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
I have one chance in free pray that I get
the ace.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Six of diam and now I have one chance in
two my friend, don't silence piece of spades very well.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
That concludes the night's play.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Gentlemen, Oh, mister.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Good Dal, I'd give a million if I had it
for your luck.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I would sell you this card for much less if
I could.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Well, Well, my congratulations. I am pleased to have met
yourself and to have been in the position to do you.
That's trifling service. At least you can't complain of delay. Yes, yes,
and now before I leave forever, I should like to
ask a question, A purely hypothetical question, of course, since
I am not a man to go back upon my word,
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But you wonder what would happen if you did, if
upon the turning of the card, you had changed your
mind and now wish to live. Precisely, Suppose my friend
Major Hammersmith and I elected to ignore our oath. Suppose
we began by tearing this place apart. You wouldn't even
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get started. The guests themselves are desperate men. But if
they did not stop you, the servants, who were even
more desperate, would it would never leave this house alive?
I see, well, it was purely an academic question. Naturally,
very well, then, what are my instructions? You will proceed
along the strand in the direction of the city and
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the left hand pavement until you come upon a black
carriage with drawn curtains. In this carriage will be the
member who has to night drawn the ace of clubs,
my executioner, you are collaborator in suicide. You will enter
the carriage and he will continue your instructions. Please have
the kindness to obey him in every detail. The authority
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of the club is vested in his person for the knights.
I wish you a pleasant walk, Thank you, But first
I must say farewell to my friend Major Hammersmith. I
regret that is strictly against the rules. No farewells too
disturbing for the still living members. You will leave through
this side door to the workroom, but I must have
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we won't have any trouble now.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Where we must have call? No, no, of course not,
you're caught and that you'll stick. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Again, must have got all the most pleasant.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
That's private door. Why didn't I listen to Geraldine before
it was too late?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
I heard what is this? My instructions are to meet
the coach and the strand.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
We'll take this starts right now. Get Hi away of me,
all right? Take us from your highness? Were pardon the
violation of his person? Gerald Dye, Oh, my friend, it
was quite necessary under the circumstances.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
As soon as you turned up to a spade, I
slipped out of the house to prepare for your escape.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
But how did you manage it?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
When I realized I could not dissuade you from attending
the club tonight? I retained the services of a certain
capable and reliable private detective. But his secrecy has been bought.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
And paid for.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
His men are now raiding the Suicide Club. The members
will be removed to your townhouse, where it remains for.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
You to pass judgment upon them.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
That I will gladly do and with the utmost dispatch.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
What have they brought us here for? They didn't look
like Scotland yard meant to me? What difference does it make?
Perhaps it will be a quicker way out, gentlemen, Why
that's my friend? Mentor harms Smith.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Is Royal Highness Prince Florizel of Bohemia.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
God always thought there was something odd.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
About this too, gentlemen, to night, we have removed you
from a house of death to a house of life.
And hope those of you who have come to your
present condition through lack of fortune will receive employment and
remuneration from my treasury. Those who have been driven to
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this unnatural solution of their problems by the agonies of
guilt must find amnesty from a power greater than mine,
power that eternally promises the forgiveness of sins, no matter
how grievous. Only one of you is truly evil, and
him I shall deal with myself.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Where is he? Where is the president of the club,
Colonel Geralda? Why he should be here? Your Highness? I
beg pardon? Who's this man? Genlda, the chief of the detectives. Yes,
what is it? Was you referring to a sallow chap
with the sawed whiskies and a black suits.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
That's the one, the president of the Suicide Club.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Where is he, h idear? Why not? Well?
Speaker 1 (28:09):
When we broke into the little office down there at
the club, we found him sprawled over the desk with
a little empty bottle in his hand.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
He committed suicide.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Escape is produced and directed by William N. Robson and
Tonight brought You The young Man with the Cream Tarts
by Robert Louis Stevenson, adapted for radio by mister Robson,
with Paul Freeze as Prince Florizelle, Bill Johnstone as Colonel Geraldine,
and Martin Yarborough as the young Man. The special musical
score was conceived and conducted by Cyfuer.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Next week, after you've put in a tough day at
the office, leaning over a hot stove when you're four,
wall seem to be closing in on you. Next week,
when you want to get away from it all, we
offer you escape.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
This is CBS.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
They Columbia, a broadcasting system
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My Favorite Murder is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Each week, Karen and Georgia share compelling true crimes and hometown stories from friends and listeners. Since MFM launched in January of 2016, Karen and Georgia have shared their lifelong interest in true crime and have covered stories of infamous serial killers like the Night Stalker, mysterious cold cases, captivating cults, incredible survivor stories and important events from history like the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. My Favorite Murder is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including historic true crime, comedic interviews and news, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, Bananas and more.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.