August 6, 2025 • 24 mins
The Weird Circle was a supernatural & fantasy, and some mystery and horror, old time radio series which aired between 1943 and 1945. Most all of the stories came from famous authors of the Victorian Age and later. It featured stories from authors such as Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe and Victor Hugo.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
The weird circle.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
In this cave by the restless sea, we are met
to call from out the past, stories strange and weird
thanands of a world gone by.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Speak again the immortal tale the head. It was raining.
(00:53):
The date was August thirty first, as I remember, and
I had just heard the Sir John Rowell and at
least a villa here at one lay path for the winter.
I hadn't seen Sir John since I had been in
London four years ago. Naturally I was anxious to see
my father's old friend. I walked across the sands in
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the pouring rain to the lonely house on the cliff,
which he had least. I remember wondering at that time
why any man would choose such an isolated and cheerless spot.
But then my taste for his villa might have been
dull by the constant fall of the rain and the dreary,
overcast skies. I knocked on the door and then waited.
(01:42):
It seems I waited some time before his Arabian servant. Yes,
it is sir John rawlind who is calling. Please, mister
Lancing from London, Mister Dennis Lancing the second come in, please, oh, thank.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
You I don't see why you had to rent this
place for the entire year. Father, it's depressing.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Please to be seated, sir, I announce you, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Perhaps I have reasons to my own, Phillis.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Oh, I don't doubt it, But there would have been
a million places in England which would have served your
purpose just as well.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I'm sure mister Dennis Lensing the second to see you,
Sir John.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
There is Lensing. Show him right in Kia, Show him
right in.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Another one of your head hunting friends.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yes, see Philly Toucy, Sir John, come in, my boy,
come in, let's have a look at you. Well, well
you've grown up sinceil I saw you, the inevitable result
of years. Sir, I'd like you to meet my daughter,
Lady Phyllis. Or how do you do hello? Well, do
I look like a headhunter? Not in the least, Biliz, Phitish.
(02:50):
Stop flirting with the young man. Go upstairs and change
for dinner. Even in this villa, you can't expect to
come to the table in that dress.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Oh, father, Really, the first time I've had a chance
to be amused, I'm sent out of the room.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
That's you a chance to talk to Dennis later on, Oh,
you'll stay to dinner, won't you. I'd be delighted.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I'll see you then, mister Landing.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yes, indeed ahead. What are you doing in this part
of France? Do you father with you?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Well?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
The family is in England. I'm vacationing here for two
weeks in a possion. You have a casino partio. Why
don't you stay with us? Or really, Sir John, I
wouldn't think of Why wouldn't you? I insist on it. Yes,
I insist on it. Hira Hira, Yes, I like you
to pick up mister Lansing's luggage after dinner, yes, sir.
And at whose party are you staying, Madame corfes Oh
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and Kira, yes, prepare the left wing for mister Lansing
to night. He'll be staying with us, Yes, sir, we'll
do it. Sir. Well, how's the hunting going, Sir John
famously famously Kiris and I just came back from India.
As a matter of fact, I hear tell me Dennis say,
have you ever seen any of my trophies? Oh? No,
I haven't served I've heard my father talk about them
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and leave a great star, great treat in star Off.
Are you I fixed up the back room in the
in this village a trophy closet. Would you like to
see it? Yes, as a matter of fact, I would
very much. Well come along then we'll have just timing
up before dinner. Ah, this is the room, and then
(04:19):
let me light a candle first. There it? Hm, Yes,
you have quite a collection here. Nice looking lion's head
in the corner.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Ey.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Oh, that's a beauty. Yes, I got that elk in
the north last winter. What a tremendous spread of answers? Yes,
you know that is it? It took only one shot
to pin it down? Or fancy shooting, sir John, Yes,
record shooting under the second stances? And what's under this cover? No,
don't look there, Dennis? What what in Heaven's neck? Why
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it's a shuman hand I I haven't restricted my zeal
for hunting to the animal kingdom, as you no doubt realize. Yes,
so I see. Oh it's horrible looking. You should have
seen the man it belonged to. Well, I I didn't
mean to pry, Sir. I realized that Dennis, with no
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harm's done, you would have seen it sooner or later.
It belonged to an enemy of mine, a man I
met on one of my many travels. But how did
you get the hand? Sir? Are you sure you're interested?
Dennis Well, yes, sir, that is, if you feel like
telling me about it. I don't mind. His name is
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my God, the head of a fanatical cult. My wife
met him on one of our journeys. He fascinated her.
He talked her into killing herself in order to destroy
her earthly body and liberate her souls. My father once
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told me something of all this. Yes, it's quite a
scandal in London. At the time. She wrapped herself in
old oil rags. He gave her the flame in order
to set those rags on fire. I hadn't realized that
she died, suffering horribly while he chanted black magic over
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her burning flesh. My daughter Phyllis was only ten dead.
Or didn't they jail this man my God? They couldn't
find him. He left the country, but I found him.
I hunted the four corners of the earth for him,
just as I hunted for wild beasts. And when you
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found him, I staked him to the wet earth and
cut off his hand and left him there. Yes to die.
But why have you got the hand chained to the wall.
You probably won't believe me, but that hand is alive.
(07:03):
Oh nonsense, nonsense, It's not nonsense at all, Dennis. My
life is safe only as long as that chain holds
that hand. But how can a severed part of a
body retain life? I wish I knew the only better
(07:24):
Hurry down. He all hates to be kept waiting. He's
quite a cook, you know, doesn't want his food spoils,
Sir John. The hand I could have sworn it moved. Yes,
it does frequently come along, you know, Dennis. Don't say
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anything about the hand too. To Phyllis, she hates the
thought of it. You have my word, sir, I won't
mention the hands at all. Wait, Dennis, what you think
of Kiota's cooking? If this is any sample, Sir John,
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your man Kiora is the best cook in France.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Oh you haven't tasted anything yet, Dennis. Wait till Kiora
makes one of his famous curry dishes. He's quite an
expert on curry.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Do you like curry? Well, at times I do. It's
it's a little peppery for my taste.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Oh, don't say that to father. It's sacriligious.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I think your pardon letter came just now, sir John,
for you under door?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Another one kura, yes.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Sir, another one I say.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Should move now, Phil Dennis? Will you excuse me? I
suppose you young people take your coffee in the parlor.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Oh, of course, Father, I.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Will join you later. Kiora, yes, sir, Sir John, what
time would this letter delivered? Oh? Here, let me carry
your coffee. Pray for you?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Oh? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Now? How does it happened that we've never met in London? Phyllis?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
The last time I was in London, I was just
coming out of pigtails.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Though I would have liked you in pig tails.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
You're nice. Tell me more so.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Honestly. Here, sit down on the window seat and I'll
tell you more.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I love to sit on this seat and plaster my
nose against the window. And it's raining.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Oh I like rainy weather, so do I do you? Amazing?
We like the same thing. You know, people who like
the same thing ought to get married.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Oh silly, Oh didn't.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I tell you I'm going to marry you?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
You're awfully sure of yourself.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Well, I once swore that the first woman who called
me a headhunter, would be my wife. You are nice,
you said that before. If you're going to be my wife,
you'll have to broaden the scope of your conversation. What
is it. I know you lived, but you're chained change
to the world, and you won't break loose, never, never, never,
(10:03):
you won't break loose you.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Oh my gods, that dreadful hand. Quickly Donnis to the
trophy room.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Back here, for what's happening.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
You'll see this way to the left.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Right behind you, father.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Father, stop it, stop and darling, you'll only make yourself ill.
Open that door, Dennis, quickly. We've got to get him
out of that room.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Strike you.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
I'll strike you again and again and again, Father John, John,
let me go get this.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Look look at it. Look at the hand. Now, look
at it. It's moving. The fingers that grasp in the air.
It wants to grasp my throat.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Please come away from this room, Please.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Please along, answer John, Come along, help me.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Look he's beading a father zis that's better? We'll have
to carry him ourselves, aswer John, Sir John, it's no use, Dennis.
Every time Father goes into the trophy room. This happens
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every time he sees that hand, he has an actual
physical fight with it.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
A fight with the hand I've wanted him.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
To get rid of that thing millions of times, makes
himself ill over it. It'll destroy him.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
This way here, let me carry him to the living room.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Can you manage?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yes, I can manage. I think we ought to call
a doctor for him, Phyllis. He's in a self hypnotized
comba doctor Flaubert.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
He lives about a half mile down the road to
the left.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Good here, now, sir John, lie down here. I won't
be long, Phyllis. Just let your father rest here on
this sofa. There. He'll probably sleep until I get back.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Dennis. Yes, don't stay away too long, Dennis, I'm frightened
of being alone in this house.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
Which way do I turn to go to the doctor's well?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
After you leave this house, turn to the left and
walk straight down the road, or about a quarter of
a mile. It's not far. Or hurry Dennis, please.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I will. I'll be back shortly, Phyllis, deis the hand?
The hand?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Please? Father, you mustn't think about it.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
The chain on the hand is unlocked.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Unlocked, Oh, what's the difference? A handcan't run away?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Father, Please, Phyllis, please lock the chain, lock it go.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Now, then lock it all right if you want me to,
of course. Will you be all right along here?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yes, yes, quite all right.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Oh if only you hadn't sent Kora in the town.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
That was so hot. Hut, no, no, Phyllis. Phyllis helped
me help me. The hand the hen coming for me,
crawling in the wall like a scorpion. Closer, closer, nearer, nearer.
It's coming to me. Now. Whoa, whoa, So here we are,
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doctor Plauper.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Hey there rest she died, and third lord der was
waiting for us. And you're living room?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Well, I thought so too.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Mm jeze wet night right night?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Whoa whoa this way? Doctor? Come along? M you know
that's funny. There's no light. I left the light on
the parlor.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
Eh.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Perhaps loid it out and the dogs so he could
sleep well? Perhaps, yes, perhaps m. He did not answer. No, no, no,
they don't tell us. It's tennis and doctor Plaubert let
us in.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Tennis. Let us papa's it has been murdered, murdered, doctor,
for by my father's been chopped to death by other
hand in the living room.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Come along, doctor, you can take a look at him.
I light a candle.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Eh, I'm frightened, so frightened, Dennis. Father asked me to
go to the trophy room to be sure the hand
was bought safely to the wall. As soon as I
left him alone, I heard Dad screaming. When I came back,
look that's what I sup eh.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Let me examine him. Here's a candle, doctor, Thank you
there there, Phyllis, Try to control yourself. You're safe now, mother, Phyllis, Phyllis,
now stop crying, my dear.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
It's so incredible, Dennis, a severed part of a human
body being able to commit murder? Murder?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Did you see the hand?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Oh? I didn't it. It was gone by the time
I returned, and all the lights but that one candle
near the window.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Doctor Plosser, Is it possible for that hand to be alive?
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Mmmm?
Speaker 7 (15:05):
And the ardinary circumstances, I would say, no, monsieur Lensing,
but these are anything but ardary circumstance.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Then you admit it's possible for this hand to have
done the murder. I admit nothing, monsieur.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Only I must judge from the evidence which confronts me,
and no human hand ever performed this matter. Look at
the imprints on the neck of Lord Roward skeleton influence
the implnce of skeleton's fingers.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Then the hand is still loose in the house somewhere.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Did you see the hand in the trophy room, Fellows?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I never got back there, Oh, Cira.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I have brought your luggage back Lord Raul.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yes, Cia, Lord Rawl is dead.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
I knew it. I knew it. I told him not
to stay in this house. I could feel the danger
around us.
Speaker 7 (16:03):
Could you indeed care if perhaps you understand more of
this then we do.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
No, it is pity Lord Raoul was fine.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Hunter. Tell me Kiore what was in that letter that
Lord Raul received the savening which threw him into such
a panic.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I do not know, mister Lynsing.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
But where did come from?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
I do not know that.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
Either this isn't the case for as for sl Lancing's
up to the police or.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Not the police. Please doctor, it will only start an
old scandal all over again. No, No, my father wouldn't
have wanted it. The publicity over my mother's death ruined
his life. He wouldn't want the old scandal repeated.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
It doesn't necessarily have to be in the papers villain then, as.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
My father wouldn't want it.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
But as long as his death is a mystery, your
life is in danger.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
There's no mystery about it. My father was murdered by
the hand. He always knew he'd died that way. Always
the hand will remain in this house. I'm going as
far away as I possibly can.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
The lady Phyllis is right, mister Robert.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Can you be so sure it will not follow high
no more of East Indian magic than you do, doctor
East Indian magic or not as a doctor. In charter
of this case, I will have to report Lord of
Our's death to the authorities to make arrangements for his funeral.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
My father's body will be taken to England. Kiora knows
exactly what to do.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
Nevertheless, I must make the report of his death. He's
customary form Sie Jerry in France. An investigation will certainly
follow in the morning. You make trouble for all of us,
Doctor Flaubert, Yes, especially for you.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Carer Oh, good evening, doctor, thank you.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
I do not think it is wise to stay in
this house to night.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Lady Phyllis, yours right, Phyllis, You can return with me
to Madame coffeys and.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Leave father here alone like this.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
But there's nothing more you can do for him, Philip.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
If black magic does exist, I can at least watch
over him tonight.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
But Lady Phillips, I'm.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Going to stay right here. If you both want to leave,
you can.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I won't leave you, Phyllis. If you want to stand watch,
I'll stand with you.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
I make some coffee, Lady Phila. Yes, oh, yes, Ciura,
if you please, then I return to town and make
arrangements for our immediate return to England.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I don't know what I do without you Kiora.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Maybe Kiora fix it so we leave before authorities come.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Yes, if you can, Cura, i'd be so very grateful.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
It's so late, Phyllis, why don't you try and sleep awhile, dear,
I'll stay awake and watch.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
If only I could sleep.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Well, I can put out the candle in the window
if the room is dark. You'll find sleeping easy, Denis
or whatever you say. I wonder what's keeping Kiora so long.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I don't know. I hope he's not in trouble.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
He's been gone over three hours.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
He won't be back till morning. Are you comfortable, yes,
as comfortable as I listen.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Hm hmm.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Do you hear something strange? No, listen carefully. It sounds
like nice in the corner.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Oh, yes, now that you mentioned.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
It, like nice or a scratching hand. You hear it now,
don't you?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yes, I do, very plainly.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Dennis, will come my window, sill. Give the hand crawling
like a scorpion, tonds of my father crawling. It's going
to the light, going to try and turn off the life.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
I got to grab it like the candles.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Hang on to it, just hold it until I get
a taper for there. There. Now we can see.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
What, yes, just what I thought. A skeleton hand, completely
without life, attached to a stick.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
You mean somebody?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yes, somebody stole the hand, attached it to a stick
and is trying.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
To frighten Dennison, who murdered father.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
That's something we'll find out rather soon.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
I'm going to help quightly Dennis when this man stay
hold on, God.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Help me bring him into the house.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Here paying the God heavily for this car.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
He yes, sir, I used knife on him.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Unfortunately, Dennis, I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I think I'm beginning to take a speak, yes, sir,
I thought.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Him feet nothing to be proud of. They are the
feet of a dog.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Close the door behind us, phillis here.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
We can put him down here, yes, poor, oh hey
shall imprison your score.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
That is too late, miss him.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
My god, my.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
God, my father hunted him down and left him to
die long ago, Dennis, he can't.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Be my god. He is though he didn't die. He
was stick to the ground Phyllis, but managed to free himself.
Cura suspected the doctor from the first.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
That's quite right, lady Phyllis. He kept writing letters to
Lord Royal. He the only one near enough to drop
letters on the door. When he leaves house this evening,
I wait outside for him to return. I hide in bushes.
I see him and skeleton hand outside window. Then I
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see light go out inside. Then I crept him.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
And a good thing you did too, Yes, good how
an army did dead paying for the crime and cutting
off my hend my hand.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
My hand was.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Cut up and I was left to die.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
But your Dennis, he has a hand, yes, Lady Phyllis,
artificial one made of wax.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Hell it even with you.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
I mmm mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
You should.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Co mm hmmm. He will pay in another world for
the crime he committed. Tonight, I go get the police
Dady Villages.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Yes, Curra, if you will. I still don't understand how
Kiora knew that doctor Flaubert was really my god.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
East Indian has a strange but almost infallible second sense.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yes, I'm afraid they have, Dennis a very strange second sense.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Phyllis and I waited in front of the fireplace for
two hours, and finally Keiorra and the authorities arrived. I
told them the entire story, as incredible as it sounded,
and was granted permission to return Lord Rawle's body to England.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Dennis, can we really go back to England?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Now?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I'll be so glad to get home.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Oh so will I? Dear?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Oh, I'm not quite sure what my family will say
about my traveling back in the company of a strange man.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Oh stuffy?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Are they a little bit?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Well? They won't have to worry. We're going to be
married just as soon as I have you safely.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Home again, Oh Dennis, my dear.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
My darling.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Pardon you may need good housekeeper. Cook, mister Lensing, Cura
make very good Indian curry.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Good cire your hair I can see right now, Phyllis,
I'll be eating Indian curry for the rest of my life.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
From the time warm pages of the past, we have
brought you the immortal's tail, the hand bell keeper, Oh
the bell
The weird circle.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
In this cave by the restless sea, we are met
to call from out the past, stories strange and weird
thanands of a world gone by.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Speak again the immortal tale the head. It was raining.
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The date was August thirty first, as I remember, and
I had just heard the Sir John Rowell and at
least a villa here at one lay path for the winter.
I hadn't seen Sir John since I had been in
London four years ago. Naturally I was anxious to see
my father's old friend. I walked across the sands in
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the pouring rain to the lonely house on the cliff,
which he had least. I remember wondering at that time
why any man would choose such an isolated and cheerless spot.
But then my taste for his villa might have been
dull by the constant fall of the rain and the dreary,
overcast skies. I knocked on the door and then waited.
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It seems I waited some time before his Arabian servant. Yes,
it is sir John rawlind who is calling. Please, mister
Lancing from London, Mister Dennis Lancing the second come in, please, oh, thank.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
You I don't see why you had to rent this
place for the entire year. Father, it's depressing.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Please to be seated, sir, I announce you, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Perhaps I have reasons to my own, Phillis.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Oh, I don't doubt it, But there would have been
a million places in England which would have served your
purpose just as well.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I'm sure mister Dennis Lensing the second to see you,
Sir John.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
There is Lensing. Show him right in Kia, Show him
right in.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Another one of your head hunting friends.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yes, see Philly Toucy, Sir John, come in, my boy,
come in, let's have a look at you. Well, well
you've grown up sinceil I saw you, the inevitable result
of years. Sir, I'd like you to meet my daughter,
Lady Phyllis. Or how do you do hello? Well, do
I look like a headhunter? Not in the least, Biliz, Phitish.
(02:50):
Stop flirting with the young man. Go upstairs and change
for dinner. Even in this villa, you can't expect to
come to the table in that dress.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Oh, father, Really, the first time I've had a chance
to be amused, I'm sent out of the room.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
That's you a chance to talk to Dennis later on, Oh,
you'll stay to dinner, won't you. I'd be delighted.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I'll see you then, mister Landing.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yes, indeed ahead. What are you doing in this part
of France? Do you father with you?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Well?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
The family is in England. I'm vacationing here for two
weeks in a possion. You have a casino partio. Why
don't you stay with us? Or really, Sir John, I
wouldn't think of Why wouldn't you? I insist on it. Yes,
I insist on it. Hira Hira, Yes, I like you
to pick up mister Lansing's luggage after dinner, yes, sir.
And at whose party are you staying, Madame corfes Oh
(03:36):
and Kira, yes, prepare the left wing for mister Lansing
to night. He'll be staying with us, Yes, sir, we'll
do it. Sir. Well, how's the hunting going, Sir John
famously famously Kiris and I just came back from India.
As a matter of fact, I hear tell me Dennis say,
have you ever seen any of my trophies? Oh? No,
I haven't served I've heard my father talk about them
(03:57):
and leave a great star, great treat in star Off.
Are you I fixed up the back room in the
in this village a trophy closet. Would you like to
see it? Yes, as a matter of fact, I would
very much. Well come along then we'll have just timing
up before dinner. Ah, this is the room, and then
(04:19):
let me light a candle first. There it? Hm, Yes,
you have quite a collection here. Nice looking lion's head
in the corner.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Ey.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Oh, that's a beauty. Yes, I got that elk in
the north last winter. What a tremendous spread of answers? Yes,
you know that is it? It took only one shot
to pin it down? Or fancy shooting, sir John, Yes,
record shooting under the second stances? And what's under this cover? No,
don't look there, Dennis? What what in Heaven's neck? Why
(04:50):
it's a shuman hand I I haven't restricted my zeal
for hunting to the animal kingdom, as you no doubt realize. Yes,
so I see. Oh it's horrible looking. You should have
seen the man it belonged to. Well, I I didn't
mean to pry, Sir. I realized that Dennis, with no
(05:11):
harm's done, you would have seen it sooner or later.
It belonged to an enemy of mine, a man I
met on one of my many travels. But how did
you get the hand? Sir? Are you sure you're interested?
Dennis Well, yes, sir, that is, if you feel like
telling me about it. I don't mind. His name is
(05:33):
my God, the head of a fanatical cult. My wife
met him on one of our journeys. He fascinated her.
He talked her into killing herself in order to destroy
her earthly body and liberate her souls. My father once
(05:53):
told me something of all this. Yes, it's quite a
scandal in London. At the time. She wrapped herself in
old oil rags. He gave her the flame in order
to set those rags on fire. I hadn't realized that
she died, suffering horribly while he chanted black magic over
(06:19):
her burning flesh. My daughter Phyllis was only ten dead.
Or didn't they jail this man my God? They couldn't
find him. He left the country, but I found him.
I hunted the four corners of the earth for him,
just as I hunted for wild beasts. And when you
(06:43):
found him, I staked him to the wet earth and
cut off his hand and left him there. Yes to die.
But why have you got the hand chained to the wall.
You probably won't believe me, but that hand is alive.
(07:03):
Oh nonsense, nonsense, It's not nonsense at all, Dennis. My
life is safe only as long as that chain holds
that hand. But how can a severed part of a
body retain life? I wish I knew the only better
(07:24):
Hurry down. He all hates to be kept waiting. He's
quite a cook, you know, doesn't want his food spoils,
Sir John. The hand I could have sworn it moved. Yes,
it does frequently come along, you know, Dennis. Don't say
(07:48):
anything about the hand too. To Phyllis, she hates the
thought of it. You have my word, sir, I won't
mention the hands at all. Wait, Dennis, what you think
of Kiota's cooking? If this is any sample, Sir John,
(08:09):
your man Kiora is the best cook in France.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Oh you haven't tasted anything yet, Dennis. Wait till Kiora
makes one of his famous curry dishes. He's quite an
expert on curry.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Do you like curry? Well, at times I do. It's
it's a little peppery for my taste.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Oh, don't say that to father. It's sacriligious.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
I think your pardon letter came just now, sir John,
for you under door?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Another one kura, yes.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Sir, another one I say.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Should move now, Phil Dennis? Will you excuse me? I
suppose you young people take your coffee in the parlor.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Oh, of course, Father, I.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Will join you later. Kiora, yes, sir, Sir John, what
time would this letter delivered? Oh? Here, let me carry
your coffee. Pray for you?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Oh? Thank you?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Now? How does it happened that we've never met in London? Phyllis?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
The last time I was in London, I was just
coming out of pigtails.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Though I would have liked you in pig tails.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
You're nice. Tell me more so.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Honestly. Here, sit down on the window seat and I'll
tell you more.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I love to sit on this seat and plaster my
nose against the window. And it's raining.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Oh I like rainy weather, so do I do you? Amazing?
We like the same thing. You know, people who like
the same thing ought to get married.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Oh silly, Oh didn't.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
I tell you I'm going to marry you?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
You're awfully sure of yourself.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Well, I once swore that the first woman who called
me a headhunter, would be my wife. You are nice,
you said that before. If you're going to be my wife,
you'll have to broaden the scope of your conversation. What
is it. I know you lived, but you're chained change
to the world, and you won't break loose, never, never, never,
(10:03):
you won't break loose you.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Oh my gods, that dreadful hand. Quickly Donnis to the
trophy room.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Back here, for what's happening.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
You'll see this way to the left.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Right behind you, father.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Father, stop it, stop and darling, you'll only make yourself ill.
Open that door, Dennis, quickly. We've got to get him
out of that room.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Strike you.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
I'll strike you again and again and again, Father John, John,
let me go get this.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Look look at it. Look at the hand. Now, look
at it. It's moving. The fingers that grasp in the air.
It wants to grasp my throat.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Please come away from this room, Please.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Please along, answer John, Come along, help me.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Look he's beading a father zis that's better? We'll have
to carry him ourselves, aswer John, Sir John, it's no use, Dennis.
Every time Father goes into the trophy room. This happens
(11:07):
every time he sees that hand, he has an actual
physical fight with it.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
A fight with the hand I've wanted him.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
To get rid of that thing millions of times, makes
himself ill over it. It'll destroy him.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
This way here, let me carry him to the living room.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Can you manage?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yes, I can manage. I think we ought to call
a doctor for him, Phyllis. He's in a self hypnotized
comba doctor Flaubert.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
He lives about a half mile down the road to
the left.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Good here, now, sir John, lie down here. I won't
be long, Phyllis. Just let your father rest here on
this sofa. There. He'll probably sleep until I get back.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Dennis. Yes, don't stay away too long, Dennis, I'm frightened
of being alone in this house.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
Which way do I turn to go to the doctor's well?
Speaker 3 (11:48):
After you leave this house, turn to the left and
walk straight down the road, or about a quarter of
a mile. It's not far. Or hurry Dennis, please.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I will. I'll be back shortly, Phyllis, deis the hand?
The hand?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Please? Father, you mustn't think about it.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
The chain on the hand is unlocked.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Unlocked, Oh, what's the difference? A handcan't run away?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Father, Please, Phyllis, please lock the chain, lock it go.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Now, then lock it all right if you want me to,
of course. Will you be all right along here?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yes, yes, quite all right.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Oh if only you hadn't sent Kora in the town.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
That was so hot. Hut, no, no, Phyllis. Phyllis helped
me help me. The hand the hen coming for me,
crawling in the wall like a scorpion. Closer, closer, nearer, nearer.
It's coming to me. Now. Whoa, whoa, So here we are,
(13:12):
doctor Plauper.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Hey there rest she died, and third lord der was
waiting for us. And you're living room?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Well, I thought so too.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Mm jeze wet night right night?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Whoa whoa this way? Doctor? Come along? M you know
that's funny. There's no light. I left the light on
the parlor.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
Eh.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Perhaps loid it out and the dogs so he could
sleep well? Perhaps, yes, perhaps m. He did not answer. No, no, no,
they don't tell us. It's tennis and doctor Plaubert let
us in.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Tennis. Let us papa's it has been murdered, murdered, doctor,
for by my father's been chopped to death by other
hand in the living room.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Come along, doctor, you can take a look at him.
I light a candle.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Eh, I'm frightened, so frightened, Dennis. Father asked me to
go to the trophy room to be sure the hand
was bought safely to the wall. As soon as I
left him alone, I heard Dad screaming. When I came back,
look that's what I sup eh.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Let me examine him. Here's a candle, doctor, Thank you
there there, Phyllis, Try to control yourself. You're safe now, mother, Phyllis, Phyllis,
now stop crying, my dear.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
It's so incredible, Dennis, a severed part of a human
body being able to commit murder? Murder?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Did you see the hand?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Oh? I didn't it. It was gone by the time
I returned, and all the lights but that one candle
near the window.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Doctor Plosser, Is it possible for that hand to be alive?
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Mmmm?
Speaker 7 (15:05):
And the ardinary circumstances, I would say, no, monsieur Lensing,
but these are anything but ardary circumstance.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Then you admit it's possible for this hand to have
done the murder. I admit nothing, monsieur.
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Only I must judge from the evidence which confronts me,
and no human hand ever performed this matter. Look at
the imprints on the neck of Lord Roward skeleton influence
the implnce of skeleton's fingers.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Then the hand is still loose in the house somewhere.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Did you see the hand in the trophy room, Fellows?
Speaker 3 (15:43):
I never got back there, Oh, Cira.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I have brought your luggage back Lord Raul.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yes, Cia, Lord Rawl is dead.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
I knew it. I knew it. I told him not
to stay in this house. I could feel the danger
around us.
Speaker 7 (16:03):
Could you indeed care if perhaps you understand more of
this then we do.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
No, it is pity Lord Raoul was fine.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Hunter. Tell me Kiore what was in that letter that
Lord Raul received the savening which threw him into such
a panic.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I do not know, mister Lynsing.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
But where did come from?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
I do not know that.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
Either this isn't the case for as for sl Lancing's
up to the police or.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Not the police. Please doctor, it will only start an
old scandal all over again. No, No, my father wouldn't
have wanted it. The publicity over my mother's death ruined
his life. He wouldn't want the old scandal repeated.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
It doesn't necessarily have to be in the papers villain then, as.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
My father wouldn't want it.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
But as long as his death is a mystery, your
life is in danger.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
There's no mystery about it. My father was murdered by
the hand. He always knew he'd died that way. Always
the hand will remain in this house. I'm going as
far away as I possibly can.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
The lady Phyllis is right, mister Robert.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Can you be so sure it will not follow high
no more of East Indian magic than you do, doctor
East Indian magic or not as a doctor. In charter
of this case, I will have to report Lord of
Our's death to the authorities to make arrangements for his funeral.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
My father's body will be taken to England. Kiora knows
exactly what to do.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
Nevertheless, I must make the report of his death. He's
customary form Sie Jerry in France. An investigation will certainly
follow in the morning. You make trouble for all of us,
Doctor Flaubert, Yes, especially for you.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Carer Oh, good evening, doctor, thank you.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
I do not think it is wise to stay in
this house to night.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Lady Phyllis, yours right, Phyllis, You can return with me
to Madame coffeys and.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Leave father here alone like this.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
But there's nothing more you can do for him, Philip.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
If black magic does exist, I can at least watch
over him tonight.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
But Lady Phillips, I'm.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Going to stay right here. If you both want to leave,
you can.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I won't leave you, Phyllis. If you want to stand watch,
I'll stand with you.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
I make some coffee, Lady Phila. Yes, oh, yes, Ciura,
if you please, then I return to town and make
arrangements for our immediate return to England.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I don't know what I do without you Kiora.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Maybe Kiora fix it so we leave before authorities come.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Yes, if you can, Cura, i'd be so very grateful.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
It's so late, Phyllis, why don't you try and sleep awhile, dear,
I'll stay awake and watch.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
If only I could sleep.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Well, I can put out the candle in the window
if the room is dark. You'll find sleeping easy, Denis
or whatever you say. I wonder what's keeping Kiora so long.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I don't know. I hope he's not in trouble.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
He's been gone over three hours.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
He won't be back till morning. Are you comfortable, yes,
as comfortable as I listen.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Hm hmm.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Do you hear something strange? No, listen carefully. It sounds
like nice in the corner.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Oh, yes, now that you mentioned.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
It, like nice or a scratching hand. You hear it now,
don't you?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yes, I do, very plainly.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Dennis, will come my window, sill. Give the hand crawling
like a scorpion, tonds of my father crawling. It's going
to the light, going to try and turn off the life.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
I got to grab it like the candles.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Hang on to it, just hold it until I get
a taper for there. There. Now we can see.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
What, yes, just what I thought. A skeleton hand, completely
without life, attached to a stick.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
You mean somebody?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yes, somebody stole the hand, attached it to a stick
and is trying.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
To frighten Dennison, who murdered father.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
That's something we'll find out rather soon.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
I'm going to help quightly Dennis when this man stay
hold on, God.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Help me bring him into the house.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Here paying the God heavily for this car.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
He yes, sir, I used knife on him.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Unfortunately, Dennis, I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
I think I'm beginning to take a speak, yes, sir,
I thought.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Him feet nothing to be proud of. They are the
feet of a dog.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Close the door behind us, phillis here.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
We can put him down here, yes, poor, oh hey
shall imprison your score.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
That is too late, miss him.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
My god, my.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
God, my father hunted him down and left him to
die long ago, Dennis, he can't.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Be my god. He is though he didn't die. He
was stick to the ground Phyllis, but managed to free himself.
Cura suspected the doctor from the first.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
That's quite right, lady Phyllis. He kept writing letters to
Lord Royal. He the only one near enough to drop
letters on the door. When he leaves house this evening,
I wait outside for him to return. I hide in bushes.
I see him and skeleton hand outside window. Then I
(22:09):
see light go out inside. Then I crept him.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
And a good thing you did too, Yes, good how
an army did dead paying for the crime and cutting
off my hend my hand.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
My hand was.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Cut up and I was left to die.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
But your Dennis, he has a hand, yes, Lady Phyllis,
artificial one made of wax.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Hell it even with you.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
I mmm mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
You should.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Co mm hmmm. He will pay in another world for
the crime he committed. Tonight, I go get the police
Dady Villages.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Yes, Curra, if you will. I still don't understand how
Kiora knew that doctor Flaubert was really my god.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
East Indian has a strange but almost infallible second sense.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yes, I'm afraid they have, Dennis a very strange second sense.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Phyllis and I waited in front of the fireplace for
two hours, and finally Keiorra and the authorities arrived. I
told them the entire story, as incredible as it sounded,
and was granted permission to return Lord Rawle's body to England.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Dennis, can we really go back to England?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Now?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I'll be so glad to get home.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Oh so will I? Dear?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Oh, I'm not quite sure what my family will say
about my traveling back in the company of a strange man.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Oh stuffy?
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Are they a little bit?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Well? They won't have to worry. We're going to be
married just as soon as I have you safely.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Home again, Oh Dennis, my dear.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
My darling.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Pardon you may need good housekeeper. Cook, mister Lensing, Cura
make very good Indian curry.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Good cire your hair I can see right now, Phyllis,
I'll be eating Indian curry for the rest of my life.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
From the time warm pages of the past, we have
brought you the immortal's tail, the hand bell keeper, Oh
the bell
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