July 31, 2025 • 25 mins
The Hermit's Cave was a syndicated radio horror series which aired from 1930 to 1944. Of the 800 episodes produced, less than 40 are currently available. Throughout the years, the voice of the Hermit was provided by various actors beginning with John Kent, Charles Penman, Toby Grimmer, and Klock Ryder. The stories were written by Lou Huston and Herbert R. Connor.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mummers in the little theater of the air.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Now the hermit.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Good story, weird stories and murders. Tell the hermit knows
of them all. Turn out, you man, turn them out.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
If you heard the story reflected of his fame, then
listen while the hermit.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Tells you the story.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
Then then you gotta wait.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I can't go with father, gotta keep going.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Oh, this heap, this desert heat, I can't go on.
Speaker 7 (01:28):
Listen, Taylor, we keep going for bound the strike civilization
before long.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Don't be such a devil to him.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I gotta rest all right for a few minutes, then.
Speaker 8 (01:44):
Desert desert.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
I hate it, walking for hours, sun beating down.
Speaker 7 (01:51):
Stop it, Taylor, you can't go on that way. If
you do, you'll go local.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
Come on, let me have a drink of water.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
We should wait till the sun goes down. Do us
more good?
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Then you are the devil holding out on water. My
tongue's like a bale of cotton.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Why you think I'm a devil? Hold on? And now
there isn't any more water, No more water. I drained
the last one. We took that drink four or five
hours ago.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
I don't believe it. Let me have a bottle here.
No water, No more water, No more water.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
We're not going to get panicky when they make your
thirst worse. Crying out like that, just another day would
bring us into a shuttle.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Lost.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Our bones will bleach white here on the desert.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Sit back and rest.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
It's getting cooler now, Damn. Look look over there atop
that rise of sand.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I'm looking. Do you see her standing there? I see
the dead stump of a tree, so do you. I
see her.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
A beautiful woman. The breeze blow on her dress, so
cool like and Dan, she's waving to us, beckoning us
to come on.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Her. Where are you going?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Come back here?
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Wait, I'm coming.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
I see you.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Don't go away.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I'll get up. Just sweet, that's all.
Speaker 9 (03:39):
Wait.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Follow me, I'll take you to our cabin.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Cabin water.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
There's a wheel near the cabin. Follow me, Dan, She's real.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
She's telling us the follower, Dan, hurry, follow me, follow.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Me to the cabin. A mom that you wanted Dan.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
Follow me, Dan, Dan, Helena, tell you got to get
a hold of yourself.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I talked to her. There was a woman here.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
It was no dead tree. She said to follow her
that way east. She said to the cabin and water. Dan,
you gotta believe. You gotta try it. Help me up, Dan,
Haley is seeing things. Oh, you gotta try it.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
She was here and she said the follow her. I
can't believe you saw anyone.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
It's worth trying, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I talked to her. She said, to walk this way.
Come on, it's getting too doctor. See Taylor, where are now?
Speaker 6 (04:45):
You're gonna try?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well? Come on, where's the woman?
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Now?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
She went ahead? I saw her move this way?
Speaker 7 (04:53):
Hello? Hello?
Speaker 9 (04:57):
See.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
No one answered, you didn't see any woman.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
We gotta keep walking this way, Dan, that's crazy. Cabin water.
The woman said this way, there wasn't any woman. You've
got off here that Taylor. You don't stop this crazy stuff.
I'm gonna leave you in the morning, sig out for myself.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Look. Look, do you see why all it's good? A light?
Speaker 6 (05:24):
I told you, cabin water, just as a woman said,
you must have seen a woman, Taylor, I didn't believe Montane.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Hurry, we've struck real luck luck and water.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Hello?
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Hello?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Why coming?
Speaker 7 (05:40):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
No one answers. It ain't a light in a cabin, Taylor.
It's a star we see. Oh, it ain't no star.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
It's a light in a cabin too big for a star.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
It is pretty big, Taylor. You're right, I can see
the shack.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Now, come on, it's happened.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Doors open. They have had us.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
The woman is waiting far.
Speaker 9 (06:06):
Away, water, water, sad, Take it easy, pardon, don't drink
too fast, to too much?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
You first, that's enough tailor for now. Where's your it's stranger?
Lost it three days ago? You ain't take it again. No,
we happn'ed any Then you're welcome to stay the night.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
It's mighty nice of your wife to tell us we
were welcome here.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
What's it's stanger?
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Your wife or the woman that told us to follow
her here to the cabin and water?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
They don't save me? What you mean, funny thing?
Speaker 6 (06:53):
I could drink forever, but it don't seem to quench
my thirst.
Speaker 9 (06:56):
Let me take the cup now, hitty bit. Take it easy,
Like you said, too much ain't good?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
All of a sidding strange? What are you doing here
with dizz.
Speaker 10 (07:08):
The storm overtook us four or five days ago. We
didn't even have time to unpack the animals.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
And when the storm was over, horses, outfit, everything gone.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
They see what we seas about you seeing a woman
who directed you hear to my cabin.
Speaker 10 (07:23):
Uh, Taylor here, he thought he saw a woman waving
to him, a woman who said there was a cabin
in a well of water in there. I figured all
the time he was seeing things, sort of a reflected
image on the desert sands.
Speaker 9 (07:37):
Yeah, folks drifting in the insanity are always seeing things
over desert.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Sure, I know now how far away from the nearest settlement.
This settlement is about thirty five miles you used to
hear it, not as far as I thought. We can
start out in the morning. Sure, he'll give you directions. Fine, partner, Fine,
you live here all alone. Yep. My name is Fred Hooker,
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glad to meet you. I'm Damn Tarns. My partner Taylor Wiley.
You welcome from the mat. I'll rustle up some grub.
Speaker 9 (08:16):
After eating, I'll tell you a desert story that it
puts you at seeing a woman on the desert in
the small classes stories. Go yes, I'll tell your real
visit story. If you wouldn't listen, this story will tell.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
You what horrible things the desert can do the folks.
Speaker 9 (08:44):
It was about three years ago that me and my
partner got together all oppositions. We sold them for all
the profit we can get, then bought stuff to start
out on a prospecting trip. For a while, we didn't
strike enough gold to make expenses in one morning having
me made a wallopin strake and I tell it to
(09:06):
turn with her savedness.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah, yeah, what's all the shooting about?
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Me?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
And I just come from the essay in office, says, well,
go on, what's the new? We stuck it, boys, We
stuck it rich.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
You hear that our cropping us struck it.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I see we stake it no more croubbing fresh. We're
in the money, boys, We're in.
Speaker 9 (09:47):
Yep, he was rich. The first thing I did was
to send back to the settlement for my girl to
come out to me. Have helped me get ready for him.
We built this here, Cavin of course he it's no merchant,
but the side better than most desert chambers.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Well, Lilly came.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
Up and we was married and off toil, and then
came back into the cabin Lila.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
She brought things.
Speaker 8 (10:13):
Along, the pretty yup they place curtains and sich. He
was real happy, ebb lilah me and the gold was
still coming in.
Speaker 9 (10:26):
Night times Lila and me would make plans as to
how we would going to the big cities and.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Live like king and queen.
Speaker 9 (10:35):
Then what more than that that comes into the cabin.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
Lilah was sitting in that chair where you are sitting
now a stranger, and Dad was standing there by the table.
Speaker 9 (10:49):
They could sense right away that something was ever the
says supper On Lilah.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
No time for.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Maybe, So go on, Lilah, tell him, tell me what
Lila don't want to stay here with you anymore, fred.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Rick, and Lily is able to talk for his shelf,
and what she said is telling me Leony.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Ebb's got it right, fred I hate it out here,
and you won't give up and say we've got enough
to move on.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Let me do the talking. I can't stand it here
in the desert nothing longer. I'll go crazy if I
have to be here another day.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
But I go on tell him all of it, Ladder.
It ain't only the desert. You don't like him. Lilah's
in love with me.
Speaker 9 (11:35):
He's just tooth Lela till me. He's the truth forever said. Yes,
they have you, desert rat.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
He'll break him a pull in your.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Boy, take it easy. You won't touch me so long
as I got to draw on you, friendly a man,
your yellow livid church put down there, give it, friendly
a man, listen to him.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Don't you lay your hand on ebb fast.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I ain't afraid to fight him. There's my gun on
the table. Come on ahead, you, that's what I aimed
to do.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
You live and look out of here. You poor like
a sneak, so your huge curl on your hate your
knees so scary. You wring me.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
I meant carry your skunk.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
He can stright shreds with one of them.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Did you give up.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
And speak of me?
Speaker 6 (13:05):
Kill him? You kill him?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
You can't, can't like him.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
He's not breathing.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Look his head from me. Hit the table.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
As me.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Let me.
Speaker 9 (13:24):
You're killing me.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
You would have blamed for this.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
You would have blamed for it all A no good woman.
You trying to kill me? Oh you since your pain?
You will start paying right now?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Should I tell a sheriff about you being a murder, you.
Speaker 9 (13:50):
Ain't going to tell his share for nobody else. What's
happened in this kebin? You're going to do jish?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
What did I tell you to do? At no more?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Three men on the desert in an old cabin. Two
listening tently as an old man tells them a strange
story of murder. The woman who beckoned them to the
cabin that night.
Speaker 11 (14:25):
Where is she?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
He? The hermit will tell you.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Before the night is done.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Now the hermit again, Fred Holcroft, continues the narrating strange
desert story. So the two men who were led to
his cabin by a woman, listen, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
We buried, have that, mate?
Speaker 9 (15:07):
What do you mean we lying in me? The woman
who had betrayed me. I made her handless shovel I
can remember as well as it were to day. She
was sobering and carrying on. I kept it shoveling, Keep shoveling.
(15:34):
Coming up the man you love, Make him a good
deep gay. Don't look to me for mercy.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Keep digging. You got him.
Speaker 9 (15:48):
I don't feel Let you have no mercy for me.
I hope he can still feel things while he's here
under sand. Yeah, I hope the sand shops you, burns
out of his eyes.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Get up on your feet.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
He is very deep enough now, and you listen to
what I'm telling you. If anybody comes this way, we
don't know what happened here.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
We don't know nothing.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
I can tell by the look in your eyes that
you figure I was mighty cool to Lilah. But you
got to remember she had played me dirt. What's more,
she had tried to murder me to say that skunk
of a man.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
I couldn't forget that. I didn't forget it.
Speaker 8 (16:53):
Every hour I made a supper versons, I made her
work the mind with me, made us stand out in
blinding storms, in the heat of the sun, till her
skin was burnt black, in her eyes, all puffed and
fitted out, till her beauty was gone forever.
Speaker 9 (17:13):
Who ell is for me? I was sorting away the golds,
burying it right underneath his cabin floor.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
Fight my time, and wait until I had enough gold
to buy whatever I wanted from this life. In Lilly,
she took down with a fever one night when the
moon was riding high. He scared bright as daylight when
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the visit sands. She got it from a bed.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I tried to stop her.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Don't touch me. I'm going away.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
You were sick, then you kill me the cabin.
Speaker 12 (17:57):
I'm going to Ebb.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
To visit.
Speaker 9 (18:02):
Ain't you seppering there for your sins. You still gotta
mentioned his name then, and never come back to this cabin,
Never come back. I stood at the door of this cavin,
(18:25):
watching us stagger away in the moonlight night, and never
searched for her body. Her bones are bleached white by
from the sun.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
That's for me. Well.
Speaker 9 (18:40):
I always figured on moving on, But the sun and
the desert is coaching sands and the wild winds blown
all of it show that got into my blood, and
I've stayed on here, hoarding my gold. It's one of
these days I've been pulling out for the city in
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the lights, the music, Oh, the rich things money can bear.
Speaker 10 (19:10):
I don't understand it. Why are you telling all this
to us, two strangers. How do you know we won't
report you as a murderer.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
I don't likely know why I'm talking unless it's that
the loneliness in the desert is gotten it.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
You let the woman wander off into the desert to die,
They told you JS as it heavened. Don't you understand, stranger,
that woman didn't die. It was her we saw to night,
her that beckoned us into this cabin. She never died
at all.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Hayley, you never saw any woman you say, the dead
stump of a tree. You thought it was someone moved?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
He talk to me, I tell you.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Don't ya know? It's her?
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Look look up the window. That's the woman who beckoned
the damn and me. She's standing out there at the window.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
She died.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
I never died, Fred, never done. I've come for you.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
Don't look.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
She walked right through the door. It jumped her.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Look closely, Fred, I've come to finish up what I
should have done years ago.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Don't hurt it, do that. I've got it now, said
this time, I'll do more than wing.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
She got me, Taylor, look at the blood.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Come I die. He's done for.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
And the woman she's disappeared through that door, just like
she came in.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
She's gone. And you and I, Taylor, we're going to
be accused of this murder.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
We're telling the story straight.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Mister.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
You've got to come out there and get his party,
and you gotta believe it, just as we told you.
The woman killed him and banished, well, not killed.
Speaker 12 (21:11):
He it down, stranger, It's easy.
Speaker 9 (21:15):
What did you say?
Speaker 6 (21:15):
The old guy's name was Fred Holcroft.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
He told us ol fredy who struck it? Rich? Who
thought he did that's him. He's lying in the cabin
now with a bullet through his heart. I guess you
two were really touched with the sun. You got to
go up to the cabin with us and say for yourself.
Speaker 11 (21:33):
Listen, stranger, you ain't gonna get anybody in otta to
go out of that desert check to look for the
body of Fred Holcroft.
Speaker 12 (21:40):
What do you mean we mean there ain't no sense
in looking for the body of him that's been dead
for twenty years.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I don't get it.
Speaker 11 (21:47):
Fred Holcroft's been dead for nineteen or twenty years. I
went out there at the time, recollected.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Well, I was in the party that went out there too.
Speaker 11 (21:55):
Sure found his body and that of his wife's, both
stretched out on the floor cabin.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Died of the fever.
Speaker 11 (22:01):
I reckon why there ain't any cabin out there anymore,
blowed away long ago for the wind. Yes, SuRie, you
two really been seeing things, but you ain't.
Speaker 12 (22:12):
The first ones that have come out of the desert
are telling about seeing a woman standing out there in
the sands, beckoning them to the cabin and.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
A water hole.
Speaker 12 (22:20):
Just a few months ago, a guy comes in here
babbling about a woman who led him to a water hole.
But ain't none of them ever been settached before that.
They saw the old man or the cabin.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
He had a vision of a murder. Did anyone ever
find old haul across gold?
Speaker 12 (22:36):
Oh, now he's partner neither, some folks reckoned. He left
Fred and his wife there to die.
Speaker 10 (22:41):
And took the gold for himself. Listen, then it maybe
we saw a vision. But you come out there with
us to the spot where the cabin did stand. Maybe
we can prove to you that the story we heard
last night was true.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Here's where we started. But you can see therein any cabin.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
You said the gold was buried underneath the cabin floor.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
That would be about here, all right. For the heck
of it, let's start digging.
Speaker 10 (23:09):
Come on, cool by Cracky Gould, just as we told
Just as he told it to us. Visions had visions
on a desert. But it was more than our being
(23:29):
touched by the sun. We saw spirits of the dead.
We saw them and heard them, and we've found the
gold that brought about evil and murder.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
The reflected image of the desert. And yet it was
not of the mind the loon, but rather a ghostly
vision of the past spirits that couldnot rest in their
graves of sand, ghostly visions returning to us, to walk
the desert on moonlight nights, to speak to the living,
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to relate over and over the stories of their sin
and murder y. Turn on your legs, turn them on,
I'll be bad. Pleasant dreams.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
All characters, places and occurrences men in the Hermit's cave
are fictitious, and similarity to a person's places or occurrences
is purely accidental.
Mummers in the little theater of the air.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Now the hermit.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Good story, weird stories and murders. Tell the hermit knows
of them all. Turn out, you man, turn them out.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
If you heard the story reflected of his fame, then
listen while the hermit.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Tells you the story.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
Then then you gotta wait.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I can't go with father, gotta keep going.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Oh, this heap, this desert heat, I can't go on.
Speaker 7 (01:28):
Listen, Taylor, we keep going for bound the strike civilization
before long.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
Don't be such a devil to him.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I gotta rest all right for a few minutes, then.
Speaker 8 (01:44):
Desert desert.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
I hate it, walking for hours, sun beating down.
Speaker 7 (01:51):
Stop it, Taylor, you can't go on that way. If
you do, you'll go local.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
Come on, let me have a drink of water.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
We should wait till the sun goes down. Do us
more good?
Speaker 6 (02:04):
Then you are the devil holding out on water. My
tongue's like a bale of cotton.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Why you think I'm a devil? Hold on? And now
there isn't any more water, No more water. I drained
the last one. We took that drink four or five
hours ago.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
I don't believe it. Let me have a bottle here.
No water, No more water, No more water.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
We're not going to get panicky when they make your
thirst worse. Crying out like that, just another day would
bring us into a shuttle.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Lost.
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Our bones will bleach white here on the desert.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Sit back and rest.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
It's getting cooler now, Damn. Look look over there atop
that rise of sand.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I'm looking. Do you see her standing there? I see
the dead stump of a tree, so do you. I
see her.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
A beautiful woman. The breeze blow on her dress, so
cool like and Dan, she's waving to us, beckoning us
to come on.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Her. Where are you going?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Come back here?
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Wait, I'm coming.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
I see you.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
Don't go away.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I'll get up. Just sweet, that's all.
Speaker 9 (03:39):
Wait.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Follow me, I'll take you to our cabin.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Cabin water.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
There's a wheel near the cabin. Follow me, Dan, She's real.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
She's telling us the follower, Dan, hurry, follow me, follow.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Me to the cabin. A mom that you wanted Dan.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
Follow me, Dan, Dan, Helena, tell you got to get
a hold of yourself.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I talked to her. There was a woman here.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
It was no dead tree. She said to follow her
that way east. She said to the cabin and water. Dan,
you gotta believe. You gotta try it. Help me up, Dan,
Haley is seeing things. Oh, you gotta try it.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
She was here and she said the follow her. I
can't believe you saw anyone.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
It's worth trying, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I talked to her. She said, to walk this way.
Come on, it's getting too doctor. See Taylor, where are now?
Speaker 6 (04:45):
You're gonna try?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well? Come on, where's the woman?
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Now?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
She went ahead? I saw her move this way?
Speaker 7 (04:53):
Hello? Hello?
Speaker 9 (04:57):
See.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
No one answered, you didn't see any woman.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
We gotta keep walking this way, Dan, that's crazy. Cabin water.
The woman said this way, there wasn't any woman. You've
got off here that Taylor. You don't stop this crazy stuff.
I'm gonna leave you in the morning, sig out for myself.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Look. Look, do you see why all it's good? A light?
Speaker 6 (05:24):
I told you, cabin water, just as a woman said,
you must have seen a woman, Taylor, I didn't believe Montane.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Hurry, we've struck real luck luck and water.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Hello?
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Hello?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Why coming?
Speaker 7 (05:40):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
No one answers. It ain't a light in a cabin, Taylor.
It's a star we see. Oh, it ain't no star.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
It's a light in a cabin too big for a star.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
It is pretty big, Taylor. You're right, I can see
the shack.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Now, come on, it's happened.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Doors open. They have had us.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
The woman is waiting far.
Speaker 9 (06:06):
Away, water, water, sad, Take it easy, pardon, don't drink
too fast, to too much?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
You first, that's enough tailor for now. Where's your it's stranger?
Lost it three days ago? You ain't take it again. No,
we happn'ed any Then you're welcome to stay the night.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
It's mighty nice of your wife to tell us we
were welcome here.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
What's it's stanger?
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Your wife or the woman that told us to follow
her here to the cabin and water?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
They don't save me? What you mean, funny thing?
Speaker 6 (06:53):
I could drink forever, but it don't seem to quench
my thirst.
Speaker 9 (06:56):
Let me take the cup now, hitty bit. Take it easy,
Like you said, too much ain't good?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
All of a sidding strange? What are you doing here
with dizz.
Speaker 10 (07:08):
The storm overtook us four or five days ago. We
didn't even have time to unpack the animals.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
And when the storm was over, horses, outfit, everything gone.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
They see what we seas about you seeing a woman
who directed you hear to my cabin.
Speaker 10 (07:23):
Uh, Taylor here, he thought he saw a woman waving
to him, a woman who said there was a cabin
in a well of water in there. I figured all
the time he was seeing things, sort of a reflected
image on the desert sands.
Speaker 9 (07:37):
Yeah, folks drifting in the insanity are always seeing things
over desert.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Sure, I know now how far away from the nearest settlement.
This settlement is about thirty five miles you used to
hear it, not as far as I thought. We can
start out in the morning. Sure, he'll give you directions. Fine, partner, Fine,
you live here all alone. Yep. My name is Fred Hooker,
(08:05):
glad to meet you. I'm Damn Tarns. My partner Taylor Wiley.
You welcome from the mat. I'll rustle up some grub.
Speaker 9 (08:16):
After eating, I'll tell you a desert story that it
puts you at seeing a woman on the desert in
the small classes stories. Go yes, I'll tell your real
visit story. If you wouldn't listen, this story will tell.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
You what horrible things the desert can do the folks.
Speaker 9 (08:44):
It was about three years ago that me and my
partner got together all oppositions. We sold them for all
the profit we can get, then bought stuff to start
out on a prospecting trip. For a while, we didn't
strike enough gold to make expenses in one morning having
me made a wallopin strake and I tell it to
(09:06):
turn with her savedness.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah, yeah, what's all the shooting about?
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Me?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
And I just come from the essay in office, says, well,
go on, what's the new? We stuck it, boys, We
stuck it rich.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
You hear that our cropping us struck it.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I see we stake it no more croubbing fresh. We're
in the money, boys, We're in.
Speaker 9 (09:47):
Yep, he was rich. The first thing I did was
to send back to the settlement for my girl to
come out to me. Have helped me get ready for him.
We built this here, Cavin of course he it's no merchant,
but the side better than most desert chambers.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Well, Lilly came.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
Up and we was married and off toil, and then
came back into the cabin Lila.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
She brought things.
Speaker 8 (10:13):
Along, the pretty yup they place curtains and sich. He
was real happy, ebb lilah me and the gold was
still coming in.
Speaker 9 (10:26):
Night times Lila and me would make plans as to
how we would going to the big cities and.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Live like king and queen.
Speaker 9 (10:35):
Then what more than that that comes into the cabin.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
Lilah was sitting in that chair where you are sitting
now a stranger, and Dad was standing there by the table.
Speaker 9 (10:49):
They could sense right away that something was ever the
says supper On Lilah.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
No time for.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Maybe, So go on, Lilah, tell him, tell me what
Lila don't want to stay here with you anymore, fred.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Rick, and Lily is able to talk for his shelf,
and what she said is telling me Leony.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Ebb's got it right, fred I hate it out here,
and you won't give up and say we've got enough
to move on.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Let me do the talking. I can't stand it here
in the desert nothing longer. I'll go crazy if I
have to be here another day.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
But I go on tell him all of it, Ladder.
It ain't only the desert. You don't like him. Lilah's
in love with me.
Speaker 9 (11:35):
He's just tooth Lela till me. He's the truth forever said. Yes,
they have you, desert rat.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
He'll break him a pull in your.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Boy, take it easy. You won't touch me so long
as I got to draw on you, friendly a man,
your yellow livid church put down there, give it, friendly
a man, listen to him.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Don't you lay your hand on ebb fast.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I ain't afraid to fight him. There's my gun on
the table. Come on ahead, you, that's what I aimed
to do.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
You live and look out of here. You poor like
a sneak, so your huge curl on your hate your
knees so scary. You wring me.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
I meant carry your skunk.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
He can stright shreds with one of them.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Did you give up.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
And speak of me?
Speaker 6 (13:05):
Kill him? You kill him?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
You can't, can't like him.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
He's not breathing.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Look his head from me. Hit the table.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
As me.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Let me.
Speaker 9 (13:24):
You're killing me.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
You would have blamed for this.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
You would have blamed for it all A no good woman.
You trying to kill me? Oh you since your pain?
You will start paying right now?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Should I tell a sheriff about you being a murder, you.
Speaker 9 (13:50):
Ain't going to tell his share for nobody else. What's
happened in this kebin? You're going to do jish?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
What did I tell you to do? At no more?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Three men on the desert in an old cabin. Two
listening tently as an old man tells them a strange
story of murder. The woman who beckoned them to the
cabin that night.
Speaker 11 (14:25):
Where is she?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
He? The hermit will tell you.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Before the night is done.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Now the hermit again, Fred Holcroft, continues the narrating strange
desert story. So the two men who were led to
his cabin by a woman, listen, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
We buried, have that, mate?
Speaker 9 (15:07):
What do you mean we lying in me? The woman
who had betrayed me. I made her handless shovel I
can remember as well as it were to day. She
was sobering and carrying on. I kept it shoveling, Keep shoveling.
(15:34):
Coming up the man you love, Make him a good
deep gay. Don't look to me for mercy.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Keep digging. You got him.
Speaker 9 (15:48):
I don't feel Let you have no mercy for me.
I hope he can still feel things while he's here
under sand. Yeah, I hope the sand shops you, burns
out of his eyes.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Get up on your feet.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
He is very deep enough now, and you listen to
what I'm telling you. If anybody comes this way, we
don't know what happened here.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
We don't know nothing.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
I can tell by the look in your eyes that
you figure I was mighty cool to Lilah. But you
got to remember she had played me dirt. What's more,
she had tried to murder me to say that skunk
of a man.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
I couldn't forget that. I didn't forget it.
Speaker 8 (16:53):
Every hour I made a supper versons, I made her
work the mind with me, made us stand out in
blinding storms, in the heat of the sun, till her
skin was burnt black, in her eyes, all puffed and
fitted out, till her beauty was gone forever.
Speaker 9 (17:13):
Who ell is for me? I was sorting away the golds,
burying it right underneath his cabin floor.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
Fight my time, and wait until I had enough gold
to buy whatever I wanted from this life. In Lilly,
she took down with a fever one night when the
moon was riding high. He scared bright as daylight when
(17:43):
the visit sands. She got it from a bed.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I tried to stop her.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Don't touch me. I'm going away.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
You were sick, then you kill me the cabin.
Speaker 12 (17:57):
I'm going to Ebb.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
To visit.
Speaker 9 (18:02):
Ain't you seppering there for your sins. You still gotta
mentioned his name then, and never come back to this cabin,
Never come back. I stood at the door of this cavin,
(18:25):
watching us stagger away in the moonlight night, and never
searched for her body. Her bones are bleached white by
from the sun.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
That's for me. Well.
Speaker 9 (18:40):
I always figured on moving on, But the sun and
the desert is coaching sands and the wild winds blown
all of it show that got into my blood, and
I've stayed on here, hoarding my gold. It's one of
these days I've been pulling out for the city in
(19:04):
the lights, the music, Oh, the rich things money can bear.
Speaker 10 (19:10):
I don't understand it. Why are you telling all this
to us, two strangers. How do you know we won't
report you as a murderer.
Speaker 9 (19:18):
I don't likely know why I'm talking unless it's that
the loneliness in the desert is gotten it.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
You let the woman wander off into the desert to die,
They told you JS as it heavened. Don't you understand, stranger,
that woman didn't die. It was her we saw to night,
her that beckoned us into this cabin. She never died
at all.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Hayley, you never saw any woman you say, the dead
stump of a tree. You thought it was someone moved?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
He talk to me, I tell you.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Don't ya know? It's her?
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Look look up the window. That's the woman who beckoned
the damn and me. She's standing out there at the window.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
She died.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
I never died, Fred, never done. I've come for you.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
Don't look.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
She walked right through the door. It jumped her.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Look closely, Fred, I've come to finish up what I
should have done years ago.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Don't hurt it, do that. I've got it now, said
this time, I'll do more than wing.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
She got me, Taylor, look at the blood.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Come I die. He's done for.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
And the woman she's disappeared through that door, just like
she came in.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
She's gone. And you and I, Taylor, we're going to
be accused of this murder.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
We're telling the story straight.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Mister.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
You've got to come out there and get his party,
and you gotta believe it, just as we told you.
The woman killed him and banished, well, not killed.
Speaker 12 (21:11):
He it down, stranger, It's easy.
Speaker 9 (21:15):
What did you say?
Speaker 6 (21:15):
The old guy's name was Fred Holcroft.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
He told us ol fredy who struck it? Rich? Who
thought he did that's him. He's lying in the cabin
now with a bullet through his heart. I guess you
two were really touched with the sun. You got to
go up to the cabin with us and say for yourself.
Speaker 11 (21:33):
Listen, stranger, you ain't gonna get anybody in otta to
go out of that desert check to look for the
body of Fred Holcroft.
Speaker 12 (21:40):
What do you mean we mean there ain't no sense
in looking for the body of him that's been dead
for twenty years.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I don't get it.
Speaker 11 (21:47):
Fred Holcroft's been dead for nineteen or twenty years. I
went out there at the time, recollected.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Well, I was in the party that went out there too.
Speaker 11 (21:55):
Sure found his body and that of his wife's, both
stretched out on the floor cabin.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Died of the fever.
Speaker 11 (22:01):
I reckon why there ain't any cabin out there anymore,
blowed away long ago for the wind. Yes, SuRie, you
two really been seeing things, but you ain't.
Speaker 12 (22:12):
The first ones that have come out of the desert
are telling about seeing a woman standing out there in
the sands, beckoning them to the cabin and.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
A water hole.
Speaker 12 (22:20):
Just a few months ago, a guy comes in here
babbling about a woman who led him to a water hole.
But ain't none of them ever been settached before that.
They saw the old man or the cabin.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
He had a vision of a murder. Did anyone ever
find old haul across gold?
Speaker 12 (22:36):
Oh, now he's partner neither, some folks reckoned. He left
Fred and his wife there to die.
Speaker 10 (22:41):
And took the gold for himself. Listen, then it maybe
we saw a vision. But you come out there with
us to the spot where the cabin did stand. Maybe
we can prove to you that the story we heard
last night was true.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Here's where we started. But you can see therein any cabin.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
You said the gold was buried underneath the cabin floor.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
That would be about here, all right. For the heck
of it, let's start digging.
Speaker 10 (23:09):
Come on, cool by Cracky Gould, just as we told
Just as he told it to us. Visions had visions
on a desert. But it was more than our being
(23:29):
touched by the sun. We saw spirits of the dead.
We saw them and heard them, and we've found the
gold that brought about evil and murder.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
The reflected image of the desert. And yet it was
not of the mind the loon, but rather a ghostly
vision of the past spirits that couldnot rest in their
graves of sand, ghostly visions returning to us, to walk
the desert on moonlight nights, to speak to the living,
(24:25):
to relate over and over the stories of their sin
and murder y. Turn on your legs, turn them on,
I'll be bad. Pleasant dreams.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
All characters, places and occurrences men in the Hermit's cave
are fictitious, and similarity to a person's places or occurrences
is purely accidental.
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