August 10, 2025 • 52 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Come in Welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I'm e. G.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Marshall.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
This week starts the second year of Mystery Theater, and
it will be a week to remember, a week devoted
to the world's master of mystery, horror, and the bizarre,
Edgar Allan Poe. Each night this week, it will be
my pleasure and honor to bring you one of Poe's masterpieces,
our respectful tribute to the creative genius of a truly
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great author whose stories will live for all time. Help
us celebrate the start of our second year of Mystery
Theater by joining us every night this week in our
salute to the world's acknowledged master of the macabre. Of
all the fears that are plague mankind, probably the most
terrible was the possibility.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Of being buried alive.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Oh, don't shrink away, you have nothing to fear, modern
medical science being what it is. But not so many
years ago, the thought of waking up in one's closed
coffin beneath six feet of earth. That was a horrible thought, indeed,
and an ever present danger, which led, in at least
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one case, to a remarkably strange experiment.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Let me go oh, please let me go.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I'm dead. I tell you, I'm dead, my guy, I
must release her, Gordon Blue, She's alive. Only my spirit lives. God,
it has been dead for day. I beg you let
me release her from the spell of mesmerism. I cast over, Yes, yes,
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release me.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
No picturing, no, oh, no, my joy. If I let
Gordon break these holes on you, you will be dead that.
I can't face the horror of that.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
That the worse horror awaits.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
You, horror, far, far worse.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Our mystery drama, The Premature Burial was adapted from the
Edgar Allan Poe classic especially for the mystery theater by
George Lowther and stars Keer Delay. It is sponsored in
part by Buick Motor Division and sign off the Sinus Medicines.
I'll be back shortly with Act one.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
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Speaker 2 (03:10):
Mileage test results.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Skyhawk got twenty five miles per gallon on the open
road and sixteen in the city. Skyhawk, It's rakish, it's
low slum. It looks European, but it's a viewing.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
This is Bob Considine for the National Leukemia Association.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
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Speaker 5 (03:32):
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today to Project Research care the National Leukemia Association, Box
three three, Garden City, New York. This is Bob Considine
saying thanks.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
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Speaker 7 (04:14):
Motuscooter, cowmling, spotty stands there. If you agreed with these guesses,
you've been fooled because.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Each sound was made by a whale.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
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and clicking and grunting away deep down in the ocean.
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Speaker 1 (05:10):
As you know, I am an inveterate and incurable reader
of diaries, the paston letters John Evelyn, Peeps Boswell, Young
Pastor Kilbert. I've read them all, and many more, besides
the daily journals, that is, of lesser known folk. In
so doing, I've happened upon some curious tales, but none,
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I assure you that can match in sheer terror the
one I bring you now.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I happened upon it years.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Ago when a small out of the way bookshop in London, England.
It's the journal of a young doctor, doctor Gordon Rainey,
and it recounts certain events that took place in the
year eighteen hundred and ten.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Now let me see where to begin.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I arrived at the Bull and Bear Inn in Salisbury,
the doctor writes, in one of the worst of storms,
and having stabled my horse and seen to its proper care,
soon found myself in the rooms my friend Guy Peterson
had engaged for himself.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
In all the years I'd known him since undergraduate days
at Cambridge, I'd never known.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
This closest of my friends to be in such a
state of overwrought nerves.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Thank got you come Gordon, Thank god you here last,
my friend. I came as soon as I could after
getting your message.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
But what is it? I I've never seen you in
such a state of nursey? Thank you? Actually Tremble still
dead to see him, and they buried his last week,
but I must see her once again. Gaze on her
face and now look at me, o w look at me,
look fall into my eyes. Who what, Gordon Wood? What
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are you doing?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I'm merely calming you down through the use of mesmerism,
mesbluson what.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
What in heavens made is that? I A? And why
do you stir at me as if as if I's right?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Old friend, that's right, calm down, quiet yourself.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Relax, I just loose enough, let yourself go. That's it,
That's it. There, now feel better? Why?
Speaker 8 (07:33):
Why?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yes, sir? But how did you do it? What is
this mesmerism? Did you say? Yes?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
A means of controlling another person by well, to put
it simplistically, dominating him with one's own will, the force
of one's.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Own will power.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
But but that's miraculous thing, and yet you you did it.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I feel ever so much calmer now because you made
me good.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
And now guy, calmly tell me why you sent that
urgent message to meet you.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Here in Salisbury. Victory Victory is dead. Ah.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
I know how you must feel, and of course I
sympathized deeply.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
But her death isn't it a blessing? A blessing?
Speaker 4 (08:19):
She's dead, Victorine is dead and at last free of
the hellish life. Sir Giles Buckingham, let her come now, guy?
Is that not something to thank God for? I suppose,
I suppose, Oh, my dear good friend, I know how
much you loved who loved her? She was my heart,
my soul, my very life, A life offended for me
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when her family forced her to Merrissy Charles.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
We talked of it again and again.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
But now that she is dead, perhaps you can try
to take up your life again.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I must see her, Gordon, see her. That's why I'm here,
why I asked you here. I must see her, Gordon,
gaze upon her lovely face. Wants But she's buried, buried.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
A week ago, you said in the family vault on
the Buckingham State. I want to go there to night,
force entry into the vault, open her.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Coffin and look at her once more, just once more.
I need you because I I fear it goes. There
is more to fear than that. Guy. What you mean
a body dead and buried for a week in a
damp and virtually airless vault. Guy, you'll not see victorin
as she was in life. I shall see her, guy,
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this is mad.
Speaker 9 (09:34):
I beg you. I must.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I don't care what she has become. I must see
her once more. Must I do it alone? Will you
help me?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
If it is your wish, you wish it so strongly, then.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yes, I'll help you.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
We must be be careful not to be discovered. Good,
and this noon light makes everything as clear as day.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
There'll be no one about unless the estate is guarded
at night against poachers, let's hope not.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Wind creaking up. I should help a little cover any
sound will lake? Yes, and here's the gate to the estate, eh?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Is it lot? So you'll find out?
Speaker 10 (10:24):
No?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Come there. That's so much for that. Now the the
location of the vault? You do you know where it is? Yes?
That line of copper beaches on the hill, you see them. Yes,
the vault lies just beyond. Come. Wait that barking dog.
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If the place is guarded by a dog, or even
dawn I don't.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Let your nerves get the best of you, and enough
to face trouble when it comes.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Not before that door. It is here on the grounds,
en closer, Gordon, steady, man, steady, Yes, it's on the grounds,
all right, and coming this way.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Let's step out into the open. If the dog is
coming this way, I want to meet it in full moonlight,
my god, because my only chance of subduing the beast,
if it can be done, will be with my eyes.
Speaker 9 (11:15):
My voice too, Yes, but but the eyes I see
it coming over the hill against the moonlight.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Good lord, who was the animal?
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Card?
Speaker 9 (11:25):
That's a maskiff and the big one, and he's caught
our scent. Step step out into the moonlight. Not quick,
clear or all is lost? Yes, good, I'm scarce.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Thanks to make no move. Leave this to me, all right, boy,
Fire down, fire down.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
That's a good dog. That's it.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
We're not here to do you any harm. Boy, we're friends,
your friends. Yes, that's right, boy, there's a good dog,
fine dog.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Umbelievable.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
You stopped in me in your eyes, held him to
the one spot just by looking at him, and with
your voice you soothed him. He calmed him, took all
the fight out of his airs.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And now let's get onto the vault.
Speaker 10 (12:33):
Hey, here we are the vault locked afraid, so I'll
have to use the pride bar I brought.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
He'll be as quiet as you can. Yes, gates open,
we can go in.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Uh like the lantern, Gordon, guy, Guy, once more, I
heard you not to go through with this.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I must you know, I must have listened to me.
Light the lantern. I'm lighting the lantern, but listen to me.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
You remember Victorine as she was, the lovely, innocent gentle
girl who was forced to marry Sir.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Giles seven years ago. The torments he put her through
the daily torture of living with such a beast, these
alone would.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Have changed her face. But she is dead as well,
and buried here.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
A whole week.
Speaker 9 (13:31):
Guy, I beg you once again remember her as she was,
not as.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
She must now be. Shine the lantern about very well,
dear Heaven. Though at least a dozen coffins piled one
and another, how can we tell which is Victorian Hers
would be one of the topmost, Yes, and the velvet
covering would be the newest. The brass studs still.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Bright up that one up there. I think let's get
it down and see. Just let me put the lantern
over there. So now then I'll take the head of
the coffin. You the other end. Can you reach it
just all right?
Speaker 8 (14:14):
Pull then now pull.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
It to the edge and when we get it to
the edge, we can put our hands under it and
let it down.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Gent please, yes, Gordon, I heard it.
Speaker 11 (14:28):
What was it?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
It couldn't be. Can't be what I thought? Voice? And
it comes from inside the coffin. Oh, dear above, this
is Gordon. She's alive, alive. Let's put it on the ground,
on the ground, pry off the lid.
Speaker 9 (14:53):
Yes, yes, well hurry now my nerves a trembling, those clings.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
It to me. Now then, goody, hurry, I'm working as
much as I can. There quickly the lantern.
Speaker 12 (15:08):
Yes, yes, signed it into the coffin there, look victoring, alive, alive.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
God, God, God, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Horror as I do all right, gently now, my dear
gentle God you God. Yes, yes, my dear one, guy,
len help me lift her out. Oh, I can't believe alive. Oh,
my dearness, this horrible for you.
Speaker 11 (15:41):
I want to think about I cannot.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I can't tell you to.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Wake up at first, not knowing where you are, and
everything black black, it's.
Speaker 13 (15:51):
Affolk eating, scarce enough air to breathe, Monday, think about it.
And then you move and you feel the size of
the coffin narrow, so narrow, and.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
You be chopping.
Speaker 11 (16:03):
You touch the lid, with the lids only an inch
or two from your face.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Suddenly you know, help me, you know.
Speaker 11 (16:16):
You scream with the terror of it, you scream.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
And at once, yes, good, You're alive, and that's all
that matters.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
And thanks to what I called.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
A mad impulse, you'll say, oh, my darling, my dear sweetheart, sweetheart,
listen to me, YouTube, listen, we face a problem.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
What problem? Well? How are you going to take her
back to Sir Giles? How explain all this? Sir Giles
will have you have us arrested for breaking an entry.
He's not going back to Sir Giles. She's coming with me,
away from this hellish place. You can't do she is.
Here's one I'll die before I let Sir Giles get
his hand on the promise you may have very well
keep my dear sir. What it's shock?
Speaker 9 (17:06):
How did you the barking of my dog aroused me.
I in turn roused my keepers, who are out and
about scouring the woods. As it happens, I came this way,
saw the light of your lantern flickering in the vault,
and prepared to surprise for what I thought to be
grave robbers. Well, as it happens, I am the one surprised. Indeed,
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I'm shocked. I scarcely expected to find Victorina alive.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yes, she's alive, and from here on, Sir Giles will live.
I pray a far happier life with me than ever
she did with you. But beside, Sir, I think not.
Speaker 9 (17:45):
If you're going anywhere, my friend, you and your accomplice,
it's to jail. As for my wife, since she is
returned to life, she will also return to me. You
don't move, sir, I warn you what if you do,
it will give me extreme pleasure to blow your head
off with his gun. Extreme pleasure.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I confess that at this point in doctor Gordon Rainy's journal,
I thought the tale over and done with. I was wrong,
for really it was only the beginning. I'll return shortly
with that two.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
I want that sinus medicine headache tablets.
Speaker 9 (18:28):
No sinus medicine sinus tablets helps the headache on the pressure.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Oh you mean, sign off exactly.
Speaker 14 (18:35):
Headache pain is one thing, A sinus headache is something else,
And sometimes your whole face can seem.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
To throb with pain. You want relief?
Speaker 14 (18:44):
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that gives you a full dose of pure aspirin plus
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relieve sinus pain.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Why you drain? Sign off doesn't stop there? Have you tried?
Sign off?
Speaker 14 (19:03):
Sinus spray the fastest known form of sinus congestion relief.
It works in seconds. That sign off sinus spray. When
sinus flares up, you sign off tablets and spray only
as directed s I.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
N EO f as sign off exactly.
Speaker 14 (19:19):
Sign off the sinus medicines in the bright red box.
Speaker 15 (19:27):
Who knows how to help you solve your shopping problems?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
You're better business bureau?
Speaker 6 (19:33):
No, no, hey, honey, this looks like a good deal.
No payment for three months on easy credit terms.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
But Lou, don't you think we should be sure we
can meet the payments?
Speaker 15 (19:48):
She's right, Lou, shop for credit as carefully as you
shop for products.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Who are you?
Speaker 15 (19:54):
I'm the man from the Better Business Bureau. Now, before
you decide to buy anything on time, ask yourself if
you could make the payments out.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Of your regular income. How far is your credit extended? Now?
Have you any credit or cash reserve to.
Speaker 15 (20:09):
Cover an unexpected illness or a loss of job?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Gee? Thanks, maybe I'd better think it over. Thanks for
your advice, not.
Speaker 15 (20:16):
At all, just another consumer tip from your Better Business below.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Well, as I said, I thought that doctor Gordon Rainey's
story had come to an end. He had gone with
his friend Guy Peterson to the vault where the woman
he loved lay dead in her coffin, only to find
her alive, and then, as he planned to run away
with her to save her from further torments at the
hands of her husband, he was stopped by the appearance
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of that same husband in hand, promising to have him
and doctor Rainey jailed.
Speaker 11 (21:04):
Giles, I entreat you, let them go. They've done no harm.
On the contrary, if it hadn't been for Guy and
Doctor Rainey, I'd even now be lying in my coffin alive.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Worn't that you were amn? You? Woman?
Speaker 9 (21:18):
Would that you were your unexpected return from the grave
will lose me of fortune.
Speaker 11 (21:24):
How can I be alive cost you anything?
Speaker 9 (21:27):
Lady Hastings is a widow. Lady Hastings has an income
of thirty thousand a year. I proposed marriage to her
on Tuesday and she accepted me.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
You you propose marriage to another woman three days after
your wife died? Why not?
Speaker 9 (21:45):
I'm alive, very much alive, and to live one needs money.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Why the look, doctor Raaney.
Speaker 9 (21:53):
You have more sense, it seems, than sensitivity. Sir Giles,
insulting me will only worsen matters for you, doctor, If
that's possible, you can't be as unaware as you would
like to seem that your career is ruined. A doctor
a physician arrested for breaking and entering breaking and entering
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a mortuary, a sacred repository of the dead as a
child as you mustn't do this to doctor any He
helped me because he's my friend, a good and true friend.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
He was against it from a very start and would
never agree to assist me had it not been for
his deep and abiding sense of loyalty.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Oh do stop, do or you shall have me in tears.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Tears from a stone.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Hey, Well, then stone stone that will.
Speaker 9 (22:41):
Crush you, dear wife, crush you until the death you've
escaped will.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Seem a paradise to you. Put down that gun, and
I but I have no intention.
Speaker 9 (22:51):
Of putting down the gun, certainly not until the bailiff
arrives and takes you into custody, to jail, where I
shall see to it.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
You rot, the two of you. What you mean rot?
Speaker 9 (23:03):
I mean quite simply that once you are put in jail,
you will never leave it.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
You will rot there. Doctor, You make no sense, Sir Giles.
The penalty for breaking and enter anualties?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Who speaks of penalty? I do? There are laws laws
in this nation, only one.
Speaker 9 (23:20):
Law, hear me.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I am the law in the village of Buckingham. I
am Buckingham.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Who it is No, Sir Giles, you will not imprison
this man for the rest of his life.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Nor will you imprison me. Oh, and may I ask
why not? Because I say so?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Because I tell you, sir, Now, don't look away, look
at me, look into my eyes. Have the courage to
look into them and tell me? Then will you imprison us?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Mesmerism? Why? Why such is my intention? Yes?
Speaker 9 (24:02):
He is your intention, Sir Giles, or.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Was well, Uh, well, it certainly was.
Speaker 9 (24:13):
I I mean to say, well, the way you put
it most eloquently, good Lord.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
It's working. He's doing it again, doing.
Speaker 9 (24:25):
What And you, being a man of sensitivity, my eloquence,
the validity of what I say.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Has touched you? Is that not? So? It is? So,
isn't it? Why? Uh? Y? Yes, sir, seen in a
different light, so to speak.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
Yes, it would serve no purpose, no purpose to put
you in jail, none, none real?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
And so you let us go? You will let us go?
Speaker 9 (25:04):
Yes, yes, go get out of my sight, the two
of you, and never come back.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
As leave, guy, Victorian under the Lord, there's nothing we
can do. She is his wife. I can't leave her.
You must.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
The bailiff will be here any moment, and I can't
dominate Sir Giles's will with mine much longer.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Victorine, Oh, my darling.
Speaker 11 (25:23):
To leave you with him, whatever happens to me will
be harder to bear if you are in prison.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Go I entreat you. Oh, second thought is coming out
of it?
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Guy, my friend, I've done all I can for you,
and I'll not see my career ruin because you bet
you're right. Goodbye, my darling, right, my dearest, goodbye, mesmerise me, Gordon,
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do something, do anything to believe me.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I have told him, you must control yourself. I think
of her, dream of her.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
She is never out of my thought, and always I
am stricken with the thought that my very imaginings are
as nothing to what he is really doing to her,
the beatings of the starving of her, her very loneliness,
the vile subjections to his passions. Oh, merciful Heaven, I
shall go out of my mind, Yes, guy, you shall
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unless you pull yourself together now.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
If you don't stop thinking of her, if you don't
stop letting your fancy and bent miseries, she is very
likely not suffering. You will go insane. You will someone
at the door. Who are you expecting? Someone? No, no,
no one, who would I want to see?
Speaker 9 (26:42):
I'll answer, Victorine, Save me, God, save good Heavens.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Come in, my dear guy. Guy. Look it's Victorine. Victorine.
Oh it is it is, my dearest, it no more?
Speaker 11 (27:06):
Oh, yes, old me in your arms, home, Victoria.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
He may kill me, but I'll never go back.
Speaker 11 (27:15):
Never.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
He never loved me, and now he hates me because
I keep him from marrying lady Hastings and her fortune
that makes me pay.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Oh, save me from him. Let him take me back, Gordon.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
She's fainting here, victory in some brandy. Lie down on
the couch. Yeah there, my love, rel like.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Let me take over. Guy, Go and bar the door,
and bar it solidly. He must know she has fled
and to where she has fled, and he cannot risk
her out of his sight because because what damn it?
What's it?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Let me see it for him, because once again I
am near death.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
No.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Yes, unless I can find rest, unless I can feel
myself safe from him, I shall die.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
You will not.
Speaker 11 (28:15):
I want to die.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Just stop talking, man for once at a bar back door? Yes, yes,
yes too might too late. No, I threw the book.
Speaker 9 (28:23):
Not enough enough, Open up, I say, I have all
broken down.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
God, unless you want to smash door with nothing gained,
open it off.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
And you here open Just take her back to the
bucket room, Yes, he will. She's his wife. There's nothing
you can.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
Do now, Damn you all added again? Are you stealing
my wife? Taking what belongs to me? You men, take
her over.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
My dead brother?
Speaker 9 (28:53):
Take her enough.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I'm enough, Stand back, or I'll bring you with his candlestick.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
All right, then you'll be next, my friend. If you
don't anywhere moved back, you uh quite a hand with
a candlestick, Doctor Rainey, you've laid my man out.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I trust you know what this means for you.
Speaker 9 (29:18):
Perhaps you should consider what it means for you, Sir Giles, Lisa,
as you're not in Buckingham now, you're in London seeking
a wife who's run from her husband to her lover Nosa,
a woman who has come to her doctor.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
What what you say?
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Your your wife is dangerously ill. You have only to
use your eyes to see that. I, being her friend,
I am sure she sought me at my residence and
not finding me there, came here.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
Adroit, most adroit, doctor Rainey. May I ask then if
you've prescribed for her illness and not as yet, Sir Giles,
But you will yes, not good enough, doctor any as
her husband a lawful husband.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I intend to take her back with me.
Speaker 9 (30:08):
To Buckingham Victory, my darling, come with me.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
No really, now you've no choice.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Wake your hands, offer him you die if you have
no recourse in the eyes of the law.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
She is his wife. He wants her, and.
Speaker 9 (30:23):
You cannot keep her from him, sensibly said doctor. Here,
dear wife, good wife, faithful and loyal wife, Take my
hand and let me help you from off that couch.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Take my hand.
Speaker 15 (30:41):
Vile you are vile, Sophie sou.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I shall never touch you again.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I'd rather burn off my hands than touch you, you
evil ma'am.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Ah, die rather than go back with you.
Speaker 13 (30:56):
Die.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Damn you come.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
No, no, no.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Gordon, she is dead. Oh are you sure? Doctor?
Speaker 9 (31:14):
She was pronounced dead once before? You know, there is
no pulse. I can detect no vital signs. To all
intents and purposes, she is dead, ay, you modern day
doctors always escaping in words and phrases to all intents
and purposes, which is to say you are not sure?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Who is sure of anything?
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Sir Giles, However, considering what has gone before, we will
keep her here under observation for a few days.
Speaker 9 (31:45):
You'll do nothing of the sort. You men, pick her
up and bear her to my carriage. No, wait, what
are you doing possessing myself of my property, sir, whether
it be alive or day.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
But you can't do this. You cannot to my car Eh.
Speaker 9 (32:00):
There is nothing either of us can do. And guy,
she is dead. I'm virtually sure of that. But if
she is not, don't trouble yourself, your own friend, the
man you trust, doctor Gordon Raine, has pronounced her death.
All I intend to do is see that she is
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properly buried this time.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
To stay properly buried, is she dead?
Speaker 1 (32:33):
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Speaker 2 (32:38):
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Think for a moment how you would feel if you
I thought someone you loved might conceivably have been buried alive,
and you will understand the feelings of young Guy Peterson.
Think again, how you would feel if you were a
close friend of Guy's, a physician who risks his career
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every time he consents to help Guy spirit his beloved
from her tomb, And you will then understand why Doctor
Gordon Rainey wrote in his journal.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Or I feel if guy is not mad, he is
close to it.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
He has never been a robust man, but on the contrary,
something of a neurotic. So it was that I refused,
and again refused when.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
He begged help me. I beg you, Gordon, help me.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
That is what I am trying to do by refusing
what you ask.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
We were caught in.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
The act of entering the Buckingham Volt the first time,
we would surely be caught a second. There could be
no doubt that Sir Giles is having to place God.
If that the God would get past him somehow or
knock him him. Oh yes, you you could.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Mesmerize him as you did that dog, and answer John Gui,
my dear good friend. Listen to me. First, Victorine is dead.
How can you say that she suffers.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
She must suffer from some sort of malady that makes
her only appear to be dead.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
There are such maladies. Yes, everything you say is true,
but you admit she could yet be alive. Very delied
to even now. Stop that. Stop it.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
Second thing I was going to point out is that
mesmerism doesn't always work. Some people, the kind of peasant
type who would likely be guarding the ball cannot be
brought under the hypnotic influence.
Speaker 8 (36:40):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
And a third thing is this, I am a doctor.
Speaker 9 (36:44):
If I get caught again, Sir Giles, could end my
career and all I have tried to be, all the
good I can accomplish in this world would be set
at naught.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
I'm sorry, guy, I cannot risk it again. Then I
must do it alone. You will not do it alone.
You cannot stop me.
Speaker 9 (37:01):
No one nothing can stop me from rescuing Victoria from
that bulky You are mad, you are thinking irrationally, acting sense.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
That's my concern and certainly no longer yours. O Guy, Guy,
leave me, Gordon, I must prepare for the journey to Saltbury.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Well leave, I said, I'll go with you. You've changed your mind.
I have not. But this is a mad business and
I am a fool to help you. But I am
also your friend, Gordon. Yes, the vault is God. Yes,
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I see the man. A big brute he is. Do
you think you can mesmerize him, bring him under?
Speaker 8 (37:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (37:50):
What did you call it? Hypnotic influence? I doubt it.
He is the type I told you about, all muscle
and little brain. And it's a dark night.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
To make things worse, you wouldn't be able to see
my eyes clearly.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Do you, dear? Try? I have no choice but keep
this in mind. Guy.
Speaker 9 (38:09):
Yes, if I fail, as I most certainly shall run
for it. Do you understand, don't try to fight him?
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Run? Yes, whatever you say?
Speaker 4 (38:19):
All right, now, then let's step out of these bushes
and walk toward him.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Say and do nothing new things to me? Come? Oh's there?
Oh and don't shoot? Friends, and stand where you be?
Eh be a look at you. Of course.
Speaker 9 (38:41):
We mean no harm, friend, We are simply two gentlemen
who got lost in these woods. And so I'll come
here lost this ere is booking a manner, and it
surrounded all of it with an iron bench. I'll come.
You got in?
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Well, we really don't know. It's a dark night and
our eyes, our eyes couldn't see much. Eh, hell like
this tory. You must believe me, my sight is very poor.
As it is very poor. I look for yourself. Look
into my eyes and see for yourself.
Speaker 9 (39:21):
Now what is this?
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Look into your eyes? It's up to the manor.
Speaker 9 (39:25):
I was with you too, were your answer to Sir
Giles for trespassing on his.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Ha Guy that takes care of him. You stabbed he
couldn't control him.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
I said to run if I couldn't. Oh god, I
think you've killed it. Quickly into the vault. Wait, what's
happened to you?
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Don't don't you realize that you've just murdered a man,
and that's you've gone mad? You have gone mad.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
I am as sane as you, but mad or saying
I must get Victorine out of that vault.
Speaker 9 (39:57):
Now come all right, all right, but heaven help me?
What have I got myself into? Now?
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Cry? Where is it you had it?
Speaker 11 (40:05):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Yes, yes, yes, ms poray, hooray.
Speaker 9 (40:09):
She's alive in there, her coffin alive.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
There, Come on, come along, all right, all right there
there's a coffin there. Well, plus, get the little off. Insane,
it's gone insane, Victory, can you hear me? Are you live?
My dearest?
Speaker 4 (40:32):
Perhaps fainted? Oh good, that's possible, isn't it alive?
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Better the things you guy, My poor dear little off?
And she she dead, as I told you. Dead. We
can't be sure, you know, we can't be sure. Guy,
in the name of reason.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
Help me, help me get her out of the coffin.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
To what purpose? To take her back with us to
London and make her back.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
Where to my place, the first place, sir Giles will
come to, and to your mind.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Do you realize what you're asking of me? If you're
a friend you claim to be, what you ask is impossible.
You've already made me your unwitting accomplice to murder a night. Guy,
you are out of your mind, You Gordon, are no friend. Guy, Guy,
I beg you leave her where she is. She's dead,
leave her at peace.
Speaker 4 (41:19):
He is not dead, and I am taking her back
to London. If whoever may read these pages of my
journal thinks me.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
A fool, I could not agree more. But Guy was
my closest friend, and what's more, was clearly deranged by
the love he bore Victory in and his horror of
letting her be buried alive.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
So we took her body to my rooms in London.
Three days she lay on the couch in.
Speaker 9 (41:51):
My sitting room, Guy never leaving her side night or day.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
But on the third day I knew something must be
done to end this madness of his.
Speaker 4 (42:02):
Look at her, there's no sign that one of decomposition.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
Is because it is the middle of winter and We've
kept the windows open.
Speaker 8 (42:10):
And the fire in the fireplace.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
The sitting room of mine is a virtual ice house. Oh,
I listen to me. What you persist in doing is
not only lunia, see, it is sacrilege.
Speaker 9 (42:19):
The dead deserved decent bury. If you love victory, and
as you say you do, let us.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Bury her, Guy, bury her tonight? Where then you will? Yes?
Where can we take her?
Speaker 4 (42:33):
When I thought of that and prepared for it, A
grave awaits her body in Saint Pancras cemetery.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
All is arranged. We can take her now under a
cover of night. Then let us do it. Good, good, Now,
I've kept my carriage waiting below. Do you want to
carry her? Or shall I let me? It will be
the last time? Hold it in my arms? All right?
Pick her up? Guy, Yes, yes, good cotton, Papa, fad
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it s nothing. Come on, let's go downstairs. But she
gave a sigh when I picked her up. Hy you heard, Corton,
you heard? Good Lord? I did here move as she's alive.
I knew it alive in Heaven's made me quiet. Victorine, Victorine,
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do you hear me?
Speaker 11 (43:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (43:31):
I have taken your hand in mine. Do you feel it. No,
can you open your eyes? If you can open them,
she has, Gordon, She's gazing at me, Lictorine, do you
see guy, farewell, my dog, farewell, farewell.
Speaker 8 (44:03):
I am near death.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
Only a spark of life remains.
Speaker 9 (44:09):
No, most she might not die.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Gordon, stop her? What are you saying, mithmerism before my influence?
Use it, you mad, use it? How?
Speaker 4 (44:20):
Command her not to die, Command her to.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
Live, Command her to live, Command what to live? When
there was scarce a breath of life in her, her mind,
her spirit? What but I did it? May God, in
his infinite mercy, forgive me. I did it using the
powers of mesmerism. I held her eyes with mine.
Speaker 4 (44:45):
And commanded her, forced her to live, even though.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
Over and over she cried out and dead. Let me go,
I'm dead. But I did not let her go. Could
not let her go, because yes, I can visit, because
the experiment fascinated me.
Speaker 9 (45:06):
I Doctor Gordon Rainey, committed for over five long weeks,
committed the sin, the crime, the sacrilege of holding the
spirit within the dead body to this earth, even though
it pleaded, entreated.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Begg please me a lease me in a short time.
Speaker 9 (45:25):
Yes, but tell me first, what are you spirit, soul mind?
Speaker 2 (45:34):
What I am dead? Dead? What's that? Some of the door,
I'll answer?
Speaker 9 (45:46):
Found your last her damn grave robber, SA give firse
and you doctor Rainie, whoso help me will no longer
be called doctor when I'm through with you.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
No, Giles, No, what's this?
Speaker 9 (46:00):
Live?
Speaker 2 (46:00):
No, said Chiles.
Speaker 9 (46:01):
But she speaks. I heard her speak. Here me see
for myself, way away from her. Don't you touch it
out of my way? Oh said, don't tuck her all?
You shot him, You killed guy if Oh he stamped
me to death as he stabbed my servant self defense.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
He Now enough of this. I came for my wife's body.
But it appears I shall be.
Speaker 9 (46:29):
Taking a wife back to Buckingham manor with me browser
browser at once.
Speaker 2 (46:35):
I cannot, Sir Giles.
Speaker 4 (46:37):
She is dead, has been dead for more than six weeks.
I heard her speak, Yes, but it was her soul,
a spirit.
Speaker 2 (46:47):
I don't know what, but not her body. Her body
is dead, yes, dead.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
I beg you don't hold me any long.
Speaker 6 (46:59):
Go is here?
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Let me go to him.
Speaker 3 (47:02):
I say to you that I am dead.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
Let me go. She comes with me.
Speaker 9 (47:10):
No, she goes where she should have gone long since.
Speaker 2 (47:13):
Now had it not been for me, Victorine, I release
you go, and in the sanctity of death, join the
lover you never had in life. What's happening? Her body?
Speaker 9 (47:33):
Her body, it's disintegrating before my eyes, loving bordering horrible.
Speaker 8 (47:42):
Horrible, horrible.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
Indeed, it was for using Edgar Allan Poe's own words
upon the couch, and now lay not the body of Victorine,
but a nearly liquid mass of loads and detestable putrescence.
Speaker 2 (48:09):
Mister Poe's words.
Speaker 1 (48:10):
Mind, when he set out to horrify you, he horrified you.
I'll be back shortly, Ladies and gentlemen, Today our man
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City, USA.
Speaker 7 (48:25):
Excuse me, sir, what what do you get high on
a big pardon?
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You know? What do you turn on with? Will you
some kind of a cop?
Speaker 6 (48:33):
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Then how do you get high? Oh?
Speaker 6 (48:38):
I get high a lot of things, like seeing my
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if it's a tired you know, from something I like,
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But hey, would you believe polishing my car.
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Yeah, that's it, which incidentally doesn't mean that you're high, allotized,
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It's like getting high on life. Sure, but you've.
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Got to remember getting higher life could rehab.
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It for me.
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This mini interview was brought to you nationwide by the
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Speaker 1 (49:29):
The Premature Burial is only one of a number of
stories by the Master Edgar Allan Poe. I've had the
pleasure of bringing you we now owe and generations to come,
willow so much to his imagination, his vibrant fancy, that
it might be nice to think of it now and
then let his name pass through your thoughts as it
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does through mine, and to wish him well wherever he
may be. Our cast included kir Delay, Paul Hector, Guy Cerrell,
and Marion Selvis. The entire production was under the direction
of Hyman Brown. And now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 2 (50:14):
What is her conditions? Well, it's not fatal, thank god.
Not even very serious. Badly bruised cut over her right eye.
But she's going to be all right.
Speaker 9 (50:24):
The monster failed to make good his threat to kill her.
Speaker 2 (50:27):
We may indeed thank God for that. Well, at least
we know more than we did before, Monsieur du pain.
We know that the murderer is a big man, a
huge man of unbelievable strength, and that he has black hair.
We know a great deal more than that. Year we
do well, I do, and so do you.
Speaker 9 (50:50):
Only as I've said before, you don't know you know,
or monsieur, monsieur.
Speaker 2 (50:55):
I do not have your brilliant brain. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 9 (51:00):
All that matters is that you can solve this awful mystery,
that you can save Yvett. The murderer failed this time,
but he'll try again.
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Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by sign Off
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This is E. G.
Speaker 8 (51:17):
Marshall inviting you.
Speaker 1 (51:18):
To return to our Mystery Theater for another adventure in
the macabre. Until next time, pleasant Dreams.
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Join us again. To Morrow night at ten thirty is
Edgar Allan Polwe continues the first anniversary celebration of the
CBS Radio mystery Theater on KRNT. Comeby
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents.
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Come in Welcome.
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I'm e. G.
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Marshall.
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This week starts the second year of Mystery Theater, and
it will be a week to remember, a week devoted
to the world's master of mystery, horror, and the bizarre,
Edgar Allan Poe. Each night this week, it will be
my pleasure and honor to bring you one of Poe's masterpieces,
our respectful tribute to the creative genius of a truly
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great author whose stories will live for all time. Help
us celebrate the start of our second year of Mystery
Theater by joining us every night this week in our
salute to the world's acknowledged master of the macabre. Of
all the fears that are plague mankind, probably the most
terrible was the possibility.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Of being buried alive.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Oh, don't shrink away, you have nothing to fear, modern
medical science being what it is. But not so many
years ago, the thought of waking up in one's closed
coffin beneath six feet of earth. That was a horrible thought, indeed,
and an ever present danger, which led, in at least
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one case, to a remarkably strange experiment.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Let me go oh, please let me go.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I'm dead. I tell you, I'm dead, my guy, I
must release her, Gordon Blue, She's alive. Only my spirit lives. God,
it has been dead for day. I beg you let
me release her from the spell of mesmerism. I cast over, Yes, yes,
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release me.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
No picturing, no, oh, no, my joy. If I let
Gordon break these holes on you, you will be dead that.
I can't face the horror of that.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
That the worse horror awaits.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
You, horror, far, far worse.
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Our mystery drama, The Premature Burial was adapted from the
Edgar Allan Poe classic especially for the mystery theater by
George Lowther and stars Keer Delay. It is sponsored in
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I'll be back shortly with Act one.
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As you know, I am an inveterate and incurable reader
of diaries, the paston letters John Evelyn, Peeps Boswell, Young
Pastor Kilbert. I've read them all, and many more, besides
the daily journals, that is, of lesser known folk. In
so doing, I've happened upon some curious tales, but none,
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I assure you that can match in sheer terror the
one I bring you now.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I happened upon it years.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Ago when a small out of the way bookshop in London, England.
It's the journal of a young doctor, doctor Gordon Rainey,
and it recounts certain events that took place in the
year eighteen hundred and ten.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Now let me see where to begin.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I arrived at the Bull and Bear Inn in Salisbury,
the doctor writes, in one of the worst of storms,
and having stabled my horse and seen to its proper care,
soon found myself in the rooms my friend Guy Peterson
had engaged for himself.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
In all the years I'd known him since undergraduate days
at Cambridge, I'd never known.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
This closest of my friends to be in such a
state of overwrought nerves.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Thank got you come Gordon, Thank god you here last,
my friend. I came as soon as I could after
getting your message.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
But what is it? I I've never seen you in
such a state of nursey? Thank you? Actually Tremble still
dead to see him, and they buried his last week,
but I must see her once again. Gaze on her
face and now look at me, o w look at me,
look fall into my eyes. Who what, Gordon Wood? What
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are you doing?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I'm merely calming you down through the use of mesmerism,
mesbluson what.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
What in heavens made is that? I A? And why
do you stir at me as if as if I's right?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Old friend, that's right, calm down, quiet yourself.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Relax, I just loose enough, let yourself go. That's it,
That's it. There, now feel better? Why?
Speaker 8 (07:33):
Why?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yes, sir? But how did you do it? What is
this mesmerism? Did you say? Yes?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
A means of controlling another person by well, to put
it simplistically, dominating him with one's own will, the force
of one's.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Own will power.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
But but that's miraculous thing, and yet you you did it.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I feel ever so much calmer now because you made
me good.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
And now guy, calmly tell me why you sent that
urgent message to meet you.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Here in Salisbury. Victory Victory is dead. Ah.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
I know how you must feel, and of course I
sympathized deeply.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
But her death isn't it a blessing? A blessing?
Speaker 4 (08:19):
She's dead, Victorine is dead and at last free of
the hellish life. Sir Giles Buckingham, let her come now, guy?
Is that not something to thank God for? I suppose,
I suppose, Oh, my dear good friend, I know how
much you loved who loved her? She was my heart,
my soul, my very life, A life offended for me
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when her family forced her to Merrissy Charles.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
We talked of it again and again.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
But now that she is dead, perhaps you can try
to take up your life again.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I must see her, Gordon, see her. That's why I'm here,
why I asked you here. I must see her, Gordon,
gaze upon her lovely face. Wants But she's buried, buried.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
A week ago, you said in the family vault on
the Buckingham State. I want to go there to night,
force entry into the vault, open her.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Coffin and look at her once more, just once more.
I need you because I I fear it goes. There
is more to fear than that. Guy. What you mean
a body dead and buried for a week in a
damp and virtually airless vault. Guy, you'll not see victorin
as she was in life. I shall see her, guy,
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this is mad.
Speaker 9 (09:34):
I beg you. I must.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I don't care what she has become. I must see
her once more. Must I do it alone? Will you
help me?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
If it is your wish, you wish it so strongly, then.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yes, I'll help you.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
We must be be careful not to be discovered. Good,
and this noon light makes everything as clear as day.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
There'll be no one about unless the estate is guarded
at night against poachers, let's hope not.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Wind creaking up. I should help a little cover any
sound will lake? Yes, and here's the gate to the estate, eh?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Is it lot? So you'll find out?
Speaker 10 (10:24):
No?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Come there. That's so much for that. Now the the
location of the vault? You do you know where it is? Yes?
That line of copper beaches on the hill, you see them. Yes,
the vault lies just beyond. Come. Wait that barking dog.
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If the place is guarded by a dog, or even
dawn I don't.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Let your nerves get the best of you, and enough
to face trouble when it comes.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Not before that door. It is here on the grounds,
en closer, Gordon, steady, man, steady, Yes, it's on the grounds,
all right, and coming this way.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Let's step out into the open. If the dog is
coming this way, I want to meet it in full moonlight,
my god, because my only chance of subduing the beast,
if it can be done, will be with my eyes.
Speaker 9 (11:15):
My voice too, Yes, but but the eyes I see
it coming over the hill against the moonlight.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Good lord, who was the animal?
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Card?
Speaker 9 (11:25):
That's a maskiff and the big one, and he's caught
our scent. Step step out into the moonlight. Not quick,
clear or all is lost? Yes, good, I'm scarce.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Thanks to make no move. Leave this to me, all right, boy,
Fire down, fire down.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
That's a good dog. That's it.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
We're not here to do you any harm. Boy, we're friends,
your friends. Yes, that's right, boy, there's a good dog,
fine dog.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Umbelievable.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
You stopped in me in your eyes, held him to
the one spot just by looking at him, and with
your voice you soothed him. He calmed him, took all
the fight out of his airs.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
And now let's get onto the vault.
Speaker 10 (12:33):
Hey, here we are the vault locked afraid, so I'll
have to use the pride bar I brought.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
He'll be as quiet as you can. Yes, gates open,
we can go in.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Uh like the lantern, Gordon, guy, Guy, once more, I
heard you not to go through with this.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I must you know, I must have listened to me.
Light the lantern. I'm lighting the lantern, but listen to me.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
You remember Victorine as she was, the lovely, innocent gentle
girl who was forced to marry Sir.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Giles seven years ago. The torments he put her through
the daily torture of living with such a beast, these
alone would.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Have changed her face. But she is dead as well,
and buried here.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
A whole week.
Speaker 9 (13:31):
Guy, I beg you once again remember her as she was,
not as.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
She must now be. Shine the lantern about very well,
dear Heaven. Though at least a dozen coffins piled one
and another, how can we tell which is Victorian Hers
would be one of the topmost, Yes, and the velvet
covering would be the newest. The brass studs still.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Bright up that one up there. I think let's get
it down and see. Just let me put the lantern
over there. So now then I'll take the head of
the coffin. You the other end. Can you reach it
just all right?
Speaker 8 (14:14):
Pull then now pull.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
It to the edge and when we get it to
the edge, we can put our hands under it and
let it down.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Gent please, yes, Gordon, I heard it.
Speaker 11 (14:28):
What was it?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
It couldn't be. Can't be what I thought? Voice? And
it comes from inside the coffin. Oh, dear above, this
is Gordon. She's alive, alive. Let's put it on the ground,
on the ground, pry off the lid.
Speaker 9 (14:53):
Yes, yes, well hurry now my nerves a trembling, those clings.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
It to me. Now then, goody, hurry, I'm working as
much as I can. There quickly the lantern.
Speaker 12 (15:08):
Yes, yes, signed it into the coffin there, look victoring, alive, alive.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
God, God, God, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Horror as I do all right, gently now, my dear
gentle God you God. Yes, yes, my dear one, guy,
len help me lift her out. Oh, I can't believe alive. Oh,
my dearness, this horrible for you.
Speaker 11 (15:41):
I want to think about I cannot.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I can't tell you to.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Wake up at first, not knowing where you are, and
everything black black, it's.
Speaker 13 (15:51):
Affolk eating, scarce enough air to breathe, Monday, think about it.
And then you move and you feel the size of
the coffin narrow, so narrow, and.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
You be chopping.
Speaker 11 (16:03):
You touch the lid, with the lids only an inch
or two from your face.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Suddenly you know, help me, you know.
Speaker 11 (16:16):
You scream with the terror of it, you scream.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
And at once, yes, good, You're alive, and that's all
that matters.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
And thanks to what I called.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
A mad impulse, you'll say, oh, my darling, my dear sweetheart, sweetheart,
listen to me, YouTube, listen, we face a problem.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
What problem? Well? How are you going to take her
back to Sir Giles? How explain all this? Sir Giles
will have you have us arrested for breaking an entry.
He's not going back to Sir Giles. She's coming with me,
away from this hellish place. You can't do she is.
Here's one I'll die before I let Sir Giles get
his hand on the promise you may have very well
keep my dear sir. What it's shock?
Speaker 9 (17:06):
How did you the barking of my dog aroused me.
I in turn roused my keepers, who are out and
about scouring the woods. As it happens, I came this way,
saw the light of your lantern flickering in the vault,
and prepared to surprise for what I thought to be
grave robbers. Well, as it happens, I am the one surprised. Indeed,
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I'm shocked. I scarcely expected to find Victorina alive.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yes, she's alive, and from here on, Sir Giles will live.
I pray a far happier life with me than ever
she did with you. But beside, Sir, I think not.
Speaker 9 (17:45):
If you're going anywhere, my friend, you and your accomplice,
it's to jail. As for my wife, since she is
returned to life, she will also return to me. You
don't move, sir, I warn you what if you do,
it will give me extreme pleasure to blow your head
off with his gun. Extreme pleasure.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
I confess that at this point in doctor Gordon Rainy's journal,
I thought the tale over and done with. I was wrong,
for really it was only the beginning. I'll return shortly
with that two.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
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Speaker 9 (18:28):
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Speaker 2 (18:33):
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Speaker 14 (18:35):
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Speaker 2 (18:41):
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Speaker 2 (18:58):
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Speaker 2 (19:16):
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Speaker 14 (19:19):
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Speaker 15 (19:27):
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Speaker 2 (19:32):
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Speaker 6 (19:33):
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Speaker 2 (19:42):
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Speaker 15 (19:48):
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Speaker 2 (19:53):
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Speaker 15 (19:54):
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Speaker 2 (20:02):
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Speaker 15 (20:09):
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Speaker 2 (20:12):
Gee? Thanks, maybe I'd better think it over. Thanks for
your advice, not.
Speaker 15 (20:16):
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Speaker 1 (20:36):
Well, as I said, I thought that doctor Gordon Rainey's
story had come to an end. He had gone with
his friend Guy Peterson to the vault where the woman
he loved lay dead in her coffin, only to find
her alive, and then, as he planned to run away
with her to save her from further torments at the
hands of her husband, he was stopped by the appearance
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of that same husband in hand, promising to have him
and doctor Rainey jailed.
Speaker 11 (21:04):
Giles, I entreat you, let them go. They've done no harm.
On the contrary, if it hadn't been for Guy and
Doctor Rainey, I'd even now be lying in my coffin alive.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Worn't that you were amn? You? Woman?
Speaker 9 (21:18):
Would that you were your unexpected return from the grave
will lose me of fortune.
Speaker 11 (21:24):
How can I be alive cost you anything?
Speaker 9 (21:27):
Lady Hastings is a widow. Lady Hastings has an income
of thirty thousand a year. I proposed marriage to her
on Tuesday and she accepted me.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
You you propose marriage to another woman three days after
your wife died? Why not?
Speaker 9 (21:45):
I'm alive, very much alive, and to live one needs money.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Why the look, doctor Raaney.
Speaker 9 (21:53):
You have more sense, it seems, than sensitivity. Sir Giles,
insulting me will only worsen matters for you, doctor, If
that's possible, you can't be as unaware as you would
like to seem that your career is ruined. A doctor
a physician arrested for breaking and entering breaking and entering
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a mortuary, a sacred repository of the dead as a
child as you mustn't do this to doctor any He
helped me because he's my friend, a good and true friend.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
He was against it from a very start and would
never agree to assist me had it not been for
his deep and abiding sense of loyalty.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Oh do stop, do or you shall have me in tears.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Tears from a stone.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Hey, Well, then stone stone that will.
Speaker 9 (22:41):
Crush you, dear wife, crush you until the death you've
escaped will.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Seem a paradise to you. Put down that gun, and
I but I have no intention.
Speaker 9 (22:51):
Of putting down the gun, certainly not until the bailiff
arrives and takes you into custody, to jail, where I
shall see to it.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
You rot, the two of you. What you mean rot?
Speaker 9 (23:03):
I mean quite simply that once you are put in jail,
you will never leave it.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
You will rot there. Doctor, You make no sense, Sir Giles.
The penalty for breaking and enter anualties?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Who speaks of penalty? I do? There are laws laws
in this nation, only one.
Speaker 9 (23:20):
Law, hear me.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I am the law in the village of Buckingham. I
am Buckingham.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Who it is No, Sir Giles, you will not imprison
this man for the rest of his life.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Nor will you imprison me. Oh, and may I ask
why not? Because I say so?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Because I tell you, sir, Now, don't look away, look
at me, look into my eyes. Have the courage to
look into them and tell me? Then will you imprison us?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Mesmerism? Why? Why such is my intention? Yes?
Speaker 9 (24:02):
He is your intention, Sir Giles, or.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Was well, Uh, well, it certainly was.
Speaker 9 (24:13):
I I mean to say, well, the way you put
it most eloquently, good Lord.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
It's working. He's doing it again, doing.
Speaker 9 (24:25):
What And you, being a man of sensitivity, my eloquence,
the validity of what I say.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Has touched you? Is that not? So? It is? So,
isn't it? Why? Uh? Y? Yes, sir, seen in a
different light, so to speak.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
Yes, it would serve no purpose, no purpose to put
you in jail, none, none real?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
And so you let us go? You will let us go?
Speaker 9 (25:04):
Yes, yes, go get out of my sight, the two
of you, and never come back.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
As leave, guy, Victorian under the Lord, there's nothing we
can do. She is his wife. I can't leave her.
You must.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
The bailiff will be here any moment, and I can't
dominate Sir Giles's will with mine much longer.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Victorine, Oh, my darling.
Speaker 11 (25:23):
To leave you with him, whatever happens to me will
be harder to bear if you are in prison.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Go I entreat you. Oh, second thought is coming out
of it?
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Guy, my friend, I've done all I can for you,
and I'll not see my career ruin because you bet
you're right. Goodbye, my darling, right, my dearest, goodbye, mesmerise me, Gordon,
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do something, do anything to believe me.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I have told him, you must control yourself. I think
of her, dream of her.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
She is never out of my thought, and always I
am stricken with the thought that my very imaginings are
as nothing to what he is really doing to her,
the beatings of the starving of her, her very loneliness,
the vile subjections to his passions. Oh, merciful Heaven, I
shall go out of my mind, Yes, guy, you shall
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unless you pull yourself together now.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
If you don't stop thinking of her, if you don't
stop letting your fancy and bent miseries, she is very
likely not suffering. You will go insane. You will someone
at the door. Who are you expecting? Someone? No, no,
no one, who would I want to see?
Speaker 9 (26:42):
I'll answer, Victorine, Save me, God, save good Heavens.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Come in, my dear guy. Guy. Look it's Victorine. Victorine.
Oh it is it is, my dearest, it no more?
Speaker 11 (27:06):
Oh, yes, old me in your arms, home, Victoria.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
He may kill me, but I'll never go back.
Speaker 11 (27:15):
Never.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
He never loved me, and now he hates me because
I keep him from marrying lady Hastings and her fortune
that makes me pay.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Oh, save me from him. Let him take me back, Gordon.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
She's fainting here, victory in some brandy. Lie down on
the couch. Yeah there, my love, rel like.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Let me take over. Guy, Go and bar the door,
and bar it solidly. He must know she has fled
and to where she has fled, and he cannot risk
her out of his sight because because what damn it?
What's it?
Speaker 3 (27:58):
Let me see it for him, because once again I
am near death.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
No.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Yes, unless I can find rest, unless I can feel
myself safe from him, I shall die.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
You will not.
Speaker 11 (28:15):
I want to die.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Just stop talking, man for once at a bar back door? Yes, yes,
yes too might too late. No, I threw the book.
Speaker 9 (28:23):
Not enough enough, Open up, I say, I have all
broken down.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
God, unless you want to smash door with nothing gained,
open it off.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
And you here open Just take her back to the
bucket room, Yes, he will. She's his wife. There's nothing
you can.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
Do now, Damn you all added again? Are you stealing
my wife? Taking what belongs to me? You men, take
her over.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
My dead brother?
Speaker 9 (28:53):
Take her enough.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I'm enough, Stand back, or I'll bring you with his candlestick.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
All right, then you'll be next, my friend. If you
don't anywhere moved back, you uh quite a hand with
a candlestick, Doctor Rainey, you've laid my man out.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I trust you know what this means for you.
Speaker 9 (29:18):
Perhaps you should consider what it means for you, Sir Giles, Lisa,
as you're not in Buckingham now, you're in London seeking
a wife who's run from her husband to her lover Nosa,
a woman who has come to her doctor.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
What what you say?
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Your your wife is dangerously ill. You have only to
use your eyes to see that. I, being her friend,
I am sure she sought me at my residence and
not finding me there, came here.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
Adroit, most adroit, doctor Rainey. May I ask then if
you've prescribed for her illness and not as yet, Sir Giles,
But you will yes, not good enough, doctor any as
her husband a lawful husband.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I intend to take her back with me.
Speaker 9 (30:08):
To Buckingham Victory, my darling, come with me.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
No really, now you've no choice.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Wake your hands, offer him you die if you have
no recourse in the eyes of the law.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
She is his wife. He wants her, and.
Speaker 9 (30:23):
You cannot keep her from him, sensibly said doctor. Here,
dear wife, good wife, faithful and loyal wife, Take my
hand and let me help you from off that couch.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Take my hand.
Speaker 15 (30:41):
Vile you are vile, Sophie sou.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I shall never touch you again.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I'd rather burn off my hands than touch you, you
evil ma'am.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Ah, die rather than go back with you.
Speaker 13 (30:56):
Die.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Damn you come.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
No, no, no.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Gordon, she is dead. Oh are you sure? Doctor?
Speaker 9 (31:14):
She was pronounced dead once before? You know, there is
no pulse. I can detect no vital signs. To all
intents and purposes, she is dead, ay, you modern day
doctors always escaping in words and phrases to all intents
and purposes, which is to say you are not sure?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Who is sure of anything?
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Sir Giles, However, considering what has gone before, we will
keep her here under observation for a few days.
Speaker 9 (31:45):
You'll do nothing of the sort. You men, pick her
up and bear her to my carriage. No, wait, what
are you doing possessing myself of my property, sir, whether
it be alive or day.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
But you can't do this. You cannot to my car Eh.
Speaker 9 (32:00):
There is nothing either of us can do. And guy,
she is dead. I'm virtually sure of that. But if
she is not, don't trouble yourself, your own friend, the
man you trust, doctor Gordon Raine, has pronounced her death.
All I intend to do is see that she is
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properly buried this time.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
To stay properly buried, is she dead?
Speaker 1 (32:33):
You must understand in those days, more than half a century.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
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Think for a moment how you would feel if you
I thought someone you loved might conceivably have been buried alive,
and you will understand the feelings of young Guy Peterson.
Think again, how you would feel if you were a
close friend of Guy's, a physician who risks his career
(35:17):
every time he consents to help Guy spirit his beloved
from her tomb, And you will then understand why Doctor
Gordon Rainey wrote in his journal.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Or I feel if guy is not mad, he is
close to it.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
He has never been a robust man, but on the contrary,
something of a neurotic. So it was that I refused,
and again refused when.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
He begged help me. I beg you, Gordon, help me.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
That is what I am trying to do by refusing
what you ask.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
We were caught in.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
The act of entering the Buckingham Volt the first time,
we would surely be caught a second. There could be
no doubt that Sir Giles is having to place God.
If that the God would get past him somehow or
knock him him. Oh yes, you you could.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Mesmerize him as you did that dog, and answer John Gui,
my dear good friend. Listen to me. First, Victorine is dead.
How can you say that she suffers.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
She must suffer from some sort of malady that makes
her only appear to be dead.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
There are such maladies. Yes, everything you say is true,
but you admit she could yet be alive. Very delied
to even now. Stop that. Stop it.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
Second thing I was going to point out is that
mesmerism doesn't always work. Some people, the kind of peasant
type who would likely be guarding the ball cannot be
brought under the hypnotic influence.
Speaker 8 (36:40):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
And a third thing is this, I am a doctor.
Speaker 9 (36:44):
If I get caught again, Sir Giles, could end my
career and all I have tried to be, all the
good I can accomplish in this world would be set
at naught.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
I'm sorry, guy, I cannot risk it again. Then I
must do it alone. You will not do it alone.
You cannot stop me.
Speaker 9 (37:01):
No one nothing can stop me from rescuing Victoria from
that bulky You are mad, you are thinking irrationally, acting sense.
Speaker 4 (37:08):
That's my concern and certainly no longer yours. O Guy, Guy,
leave me, Gordon, I must prepare for the journey to Saltbury.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Well leave, I said, I'll go with you. You've changed your mind.
I have not. But this is a mad business and
I am a fool to help you. But I am
also your friend, Gordon. Yes, the vault is God. Yes,
(37:45):
I see the man. A big brute he is. Do
you think you can mesmerize him, bring him under?
Speaker 8 (37:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (37:50):
What did you call it? Hypnotic influence? I doubt it.
He is the type I told you about, all muscle
and little brain. And it's a dark night.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
To make things worse, you wouldn't be able to see
my eyes clearly.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Do you, dear? Try? I have no choice but keep
this in mind. Guy.
Speaker 9 (38:09):
Yes, if I fail, as I most certainly shall run
for it. Do you understand, don't try to fight him?
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Run? Yes, whatever you say?
Speaker 4 (38:19):
All right, now, then let's step out of these bushes
and walk toward him.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Say and do nothing new things to me? Come? Oh's there?
Oh and don't shoot? Friends, and stand where you be?
Eh be a look at you. Of course.
Speaker 9 (38:41):
We mean no harm, friend, We are simply two gentlemen
who got lost in these woods. And so I'll come
here lost this ere is booking a manner, and it
surrounded all of it with an iron bench. I'll come.
You got in?
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Well, we really don't know. It's a dark night and
our eyes, our eyes couldn't see much. Eh, hell like
this tory. You must believe me, my sight is very poor.
As it is very poor. I look for yourself. Look
into my eyes and see for yourself.
Speaker 9 (39:21):
Now what is this?
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Look into your eyes? It's up to the manor.
Speaker 9 (39:25):
I was with you too, were your answer to Sir
Giles for trespassing on his.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Ha Guy that takes care of him. You stabbed he
couldn't control him.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
I said to run if I couldn't. Oh god, I
think you've killed it. Quickly into the vault. Wait, what's
happened to you?
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Don't don't you realize that you've just murdered a man,
and that's you've gone mad? You have gone mad.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
I am as sane as you, but mad or saying
I must get Victorine out of that vault.
Speaker 9 (39:57):
Now come all right, all right, but heaven help me?
What have I got myself into? Now?
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Cry? Where is it you had it?
Speaker 11 (40:05):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Yes, yes, yes, ms poray, hooray.
Speaker 9 (40:09):
She's alive in there, her coffin alive.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
There, Come on, come along, all right, all right there
there's a coffin there. Well, plus, get the little off. Insane,
it's gone insane, Victory, can you hear me? Are you live?
My dearest?
Speaker 4 (40:32):
Perhaps fainted? Oh good, that's possible, isn't it alive?
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Better the things you guy, My poor dear little off?
And she she dead, as I told you. Dead. We
can't be sure, you know, we can't be sure. Guy,
in the name of reason.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
Help me, help me get her out of the coffin.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
To what purpose? To take her back with us to
London and make her back.
Speaker 4 (40:56):
Where to my place, the first place, sir Giles will
come to, and to your mind.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Do you realize what you're asking of me? If you're
a friend you claim to be, what you ask is impossible.
You've already made me your unwitting accomplice to murder a night. Guy,
you are out of your mind, You Gordon, are no friend. Guy, Guy,
I beg you leave her where she is. She's dead,
leave her at peace.
Speaker 4 (41:19):
He is not dead, and I am taking her back
to London. If whoever may read these pages of my
journal thinks me.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
A fool, I could not agree more. But Guy was
my closest friend, and what's more, was clearly deranged by
the love he bore Victory in and his horror of
letting her be buried alive.
Speaker 4 (41:47):
So we took her body to my rooms in London.
Three days she lay on the couch in.
Speaker 9 (41:51):
My sitting room, Guy never leaving her side night or day.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
But on the third day I knew something must be
done to end this madness of his.
Speaker 4 (42:02):
Look at her, there's no sign that one of decomposition.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
Is because it is the middle of winter and We've
kept the windows open.
Speaker 8 (42:10):
And the fire in the fireplace.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
The sitting room of mine is a virtual ice house. Oh,
I listen to me. What you persist in doing is
not only lunia, see, it is sacrilege.
Speaker 9 (42:19):
The dead deserved decent bury. If you love victory, and
as you say you do, let us.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Bury her, Guy, bury her tonight? Where then you will? Yes?
Where can we take her?
Speaker 4 (42:33):
When I thought of that and prepared for it, A
grave awaits her body in Saint Pancras cemetery.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
All is arranged. We can take her now under a
cover of night. Then let us do it. Good, good, Now,
I've kept my carriage waiting below. Do you want to
carry her? Or shall I let me? It will be
the last time? Hold it in my arms? All right?
Pick her up? Guy, Yes, yes, good cotton, Papa, fad
(43:05):
it s nothing. Come on, let's go downstairs. But she
gave a sigh when I picked her up. Hy you heard, Corton,
you heard? Good Lord? I did here move as she's alive.
I knew it alive in Heaven's made me quiet. Victorine, Victorine,
(43:27):
do you hear me?
Speaker 11 (43:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (43:31):
I have taken your hand in mine. Do you feel it. No,
can you open your eyes? If you can open them,
she has, Gordon, She's gazing at me, Lictorine, do you
see guy, farewell, my dog, farewell, farewell.
Speaker 8 (44:03):
I am near death.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
Only a spark of life remains.
Speaker 9 (44:09):
No, most she might not die.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
Gordon, stop her? What are you saying, mithmerism before my influence?
Use it, you mad, use it? How?
Speaker 4 (44:20):
Command her not to die, Command her to.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
Live, Command her to live, Command what to live? When
there was scarce a breath of life in her, her mind,
her spirit? What but I did it? May God, in
his infinite mercy, forgive me. I did it using the
powers of mesmerism. I held her eyes with mine.
Speaker 4 (44:45):
And commanded her, forced her to live, even though.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
Over and over she cried out and dead. Let me go,
I'm dead. But I did not let her go. Could
not let her go, because yes, I can visit, because
the experiment fascinated me.
Speaker 9 (45:06):
I Doctor Gordon Rainey, committed for over five long weeks,
committed the sin, the crime, the sacrilege of holding the
spirit within the dead body to this earth, even though
it pleaded, entreated.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Begg please me a lease me in a short time.
Speaker 9 (45:25):
Yes, but tell me first, what are you spirit, soul mind?
Speaker 2 (45:34):
What I am dead? Dead? What's that? Some of the door,
I'll answer?
Speaker 9 (45:46):
Found your last her damn grave robber, SA give firse
and you doctor Rainie, whoso help me will no longer
be called doctor when I'm through with you.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
No, Giles, No, what's this?
Speaker 9 (46:00):
Live?
Speaker 2 (46:00):
No, said Chiles.
Speaker 9 (46:01):
But she speaks. I heard her speak. Here me see
for myself, way away from her. Don't you touch it
out of my way? Oh said, don't tuck her all?
You shot him, You killed guy if Oh he stamped
me to death as he stabbed my servant self defense.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
He Now enough of this. I came for my wife's body.
But it appears I shall be.
Speaker 9 (46:29):
Taking a wife back to Buckingham manor with me browser
browser at once.
Speaker 2 (46:35):
I cannot, Sir Giles.
Speaker 4 (46:37):
She is dead, has been dead for more than six weeks.
I heard her speak, Yes, but it was her soul,
a spirit.
Speaker 2 (46:47):
I don't know what, but not her body. Her body
is dead, yes, dead.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
I beg you don't hold me any long.
Speaker 6 (46:59):
Go is here?
Speaker 2 (47:00):
Let me go to him.
Speaker 3 (47:02):
I say to you that I am dead.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
Let me go. She comes with me.
Speaker 9 (47:10):
No, she goes where she should have gone long since.
Speaker 2 (47:13):
Now had it not been for me, Victorine, I release
you go, and in the sanctity of death, join the
lover you never had in life. What's happening? Her body?
Speaker 9 (47:33):
Her body, it's disintegrating before my eyes, loving bordering horrible.
Speaker 8 (47:42):
Horrible, horrible.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
Indeed, it was for using Edgar Allan Poe's own words
upon the couch, and now lay not the body of Victorine,
but a nearly liquid mass of loads and detestable putrescence.
Speaker 2 (48:09):
Mister Poe's words.
Speaker 1 (48:10):
Mind, when he set out to horrify you, he horrified you.
I'll be back shortly, Ladies and gentlemen, Today our man
in the Street interview comes to you from Big.
Speaker 2 (48:23):
City, USA.
Speaker 7 (48:25):
Excuse me, sir, what what do you get high on
a big pardon?
Speaker 2 (48:30):
You know? What do you turn on with? Will you
some kind of a cop?
Speaker 6 (48:33):
Well, it doesn't make any difference anyhow, because I don't
use anything.
Speaker 2 (48:36):
Then how do you get high? Oh?
Speaker 6 (48:38):
I get high a lot of things, like seeing my
kids start the walk, or the first Datallians of the park,
you know, anything else? Yeah, getting tired gives me a high,
if it's a tired you know, from something I like,
like bowling with the guys or taking along bike ride.
But hey, would you believe polishing my car.
Speaker 2 (48:55):
Gives me high? And it's even legal? In other words,
then to say you get a natural high.
Speaker 6 (48:59):
Yeah, that's it, which incidentally doesn't mean that you're high, allotized,
it'd be unreasonable to expect to be high, Allotti.
Speaker 2 (49:06):
It's like getting high on life. Sure, but you've.
Speaker 6 (49:10):
Got to remember getting higher life could rehab.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
It for me.
Speaker 9 (49:13):
This mini interview was brought to you nationwide by the
New York State Drug Abuse Control Commission.
Speaker 1 (49:29):
The Premature Burial is only one of a number of
stories by the Master Edgar Allan Poe. I've had the
pleasure of bringing you we now owe and generations to come,
willow so much to his imagination, his vibrant fancy, that
it might be nice to think of it now and
then let his name pass through your thoughts as it
(49:52):
does through mine, and to wish him well wherever he
may be. Our cast included kir Delay, Paul Hector, Guy Cerrell,
and Marion Selvis. The entire production was under the direction
of Hyman Brown. And now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 2 (50:14):
What is her conditions? Well, it's not fatal, thank god.
Not even very serious. Badly bruised cut over her right eye.
But she's going to be all right.
Speaker 9 (50:24):
The monster failed to make good his threat to kill her.
Speaker 2 (50:27):
We may indeed thank God for that. Well, at least
we know more than we did before, Monsieur du pain.
We know that the murderer is a big man, a
huge man of unbelievable strength, and that he has black hair.
We know a great deal more than that. Year we
do well, I do, and so do you.
Speaker 9 (50:50):
Only as I've said before, you don't know you know,
or monsieur, monsieur.
Speaker 2 (50:55):
I do not have your brilliant brain. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 9 (51:00):
All that matters is that you can solve this awful mystery,
that you can save Yvett. The murderer failed this time,
but he'll try again.
Speaker 1 (51:09):
Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by sign Off
the Sinus Medicines and Buick Motor Division.
Speaker 2 (51:16):
This is E. G.
Speaker 8 (51:17):
Marshall inviting you.
Speaker 1 (51:18):
To return to our Mystery Theater for another adventure in
the macabre. Until next time, pleasant Dreams.
Speaker 2 (51:50):
Join us again. To Morrow night at ten thirty is
Edgar Allan Polwe continues the first anniversary celebration of the
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