November 7, 2022 • 28 mins
Dangerously Yours was a half hour show sponsored by Vicks. There were sixteen episodes broadcast in 1944, with eleven of them available to collectors today. Each episode seemed to star Victor Jory as the leading man, and concentrated heavily on romance, with much airtime being devoted to lovers murmuring sweet nothings at each other, and the action and adventure being relegated to backdrop status. At the end of each episode, the announcer would give a very brief teaser for the following week's show.
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Dangerously Your, Dangerously Yours, ahalf hour of romance and adventure, brought
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to you at this time each Sundayby the Bi Chemical Company and presenting today
an exciting tale based on Albert Noye'sfamous form, The Highwayman, starring Victor
Jury. I am adventure in myname, Men of Travis, the highways,
the byways, the skyways of theworld. I have sat with the
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rubber barons before their fireplaces. Ihave sailed with pirates in search of treasure.
I have fought beside gallant dueling fora kiss. I climb mountains and
cross deserts, daring all for onegreat moment. I am the romantic fire
that burns in the heart of youth, that makes men dream and there and
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conquer. I am Adventure. Iam dangerously yours. The night follow me
to the forests of the England oflong Ago. The night we ride these
forests by the side of one ofthe most dashing figures of legend, The
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Highwayman. The wind was a torrentof darkness among the gusty trees. The
moon was a ghostly galleon tossed uponcloudy seas. The road was a ribbon
of moonlight over the Purple Moor,and the highwayman came riding, riding,
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riding, All right, coatsman,down from the box here, now what's
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all this? Sorry to put youout, sir, but i'll have your
purse if you don't mind, behanged. If you will, you assured
they will be if I don't.What is it? A guy? Stay
in the carriage, biss Oh,good evening, mister hire woman? How
goes the night profitably? You're aspirited girl, aren't you. I'm not
afraid of you if that's what youmean. You see, I'm of a
poor family. There's nothing you'd stealfrom me, aren't you? Being rather
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fool hearted? Dismounting? A highwoman is always safer in his saddle.
Bis, Get in the carriage.Don't stand here bandying words with this fellow
you're follow will be wanting to death, wondering why the coach is laid here.
My highwoman, take my person.Let us go heavy purse too.
It's enough to buy your freedom andmine by yours. I'll take a kiss
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if you'll give it to me.She'll see you hang first. You're a
highwaman, aren't you accustomed to takingwhat you want. I have that reputation,
but I'd like to be something alittle more than a highwoman to you,
ah, perhaps a little less.How strange to have a man make
love to you with a gun ineach hand and a bag of plunder over
his shoulder, and speak of asking. But since I am asking, since
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you are asking, of course youmust have the kiss. The road was
a ribbon of moonlight over the PurpleMoor, and the highwayman came riding,
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riding, riding. The high Womancame riding up to the old indoor,
hiking a naive all around the besthouse. Hello Tom, having a night
jam. I take it. Thehunting was hunting was very good. And
there's a fortune of my saddle bagsthat'll be on its way to island tomorrow,
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or fill a lot of empty Iry'sstomach. Those men at the corner
table are watching, who cares.No one has ever seen the North Road
high woman except in mask and hat. Who's going to link him with a
slightly tipsy, very happy Cordier.You'll never know who it is, and
that's the danger. But some daysomeone will, and then one and then
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the end, and lord and Lord, I did them, Fellow kissed your
daughter. Not only did he stealin my first but he kissed your daughter.
Well, now, sa guy,what chick chee? Look here?
I hope to make that young ladymy wife some day, and I can't
have her running around kissing every tom, dick and high woman in the country.
And will you please ask her tohurry and dress. We should be
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late for Lady Catherine's ball, andI despise being lady. I'll see what
I can do, shi, guy, But she has quite a costume to
get into. Aren't you waiting acostume? Haven't did a taste for such?
Polder off, I read a maskand that's the positive limit. I'll
go to hurry out along, Tim, hurry on along? And all right,
all right, all right, yeah, oh hello father, what do
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you up the deck of my dress? Please? You guys in a fierce
mood? Oh, funny daddy.I know he's very angry with me because
I kissed the highwayman. Won't evenpossessed. You didn't do a thing like
that. I don't know. Isn'tthat funny? Father? Except that even
though he wore a mask, eventhough I knew he was abandoned, he
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was someone I recognized. When Isaw him, I vought why. Of
course, when I used to sitby the window watching the empty road in
the night, it was you Iwas watching for. And when I used
to dream of someone's lips and someone'sarms, it was your lips and your
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I know it sounds foolish, butit's true. That's why I kissed him.
And if it said come with me, I think I would have gone.
It's a bad business being in lovewith a highwayman. Best you can
get out of it is the worstyou can get out of anything. They
all come to the same end.Sooner or later. You know, sir
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Guy's well off. He can giveyou a fine home and a lot of
beautiful things you'll never had. Notmany girls in your position in life have
the opportunity to marry so well.I no father, But those are the
things I won't. Sir Guy wouldsuffocate me. I want my life to
be the way was tonight exciting andbeautiful and challenging. But tonight you were
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flirting with death. I mean,it's no man in England more dangerous to
love than a highwayman daughter, andno man in England more exciting. I
hope you'll never see him again.I pray to God you never see him
again. In fact, I bidyou to see him again. Tims got
him, fussy, old goat.Come on, father, how do I
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look? For the first time sinceyou were born? Now I wish you
weren't so beautiful, But the firsttime since I was born. I'm glad
I am. You'll never see himagain. If I can help it,
You'll never see him again. Come, come, come, madieu. We're
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going to be late, you know, I just spise being late. Yes,
the guy I know? Father?Yes? What did it be?
Who is that man sitting at thatcorner table? Him, Sir John Langiship.
I haven't you ever seen him before? He's one of the King's close
associates, very promising young men.Oh why does he interest you? No?
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But for the moment I thought hewas someone else. Good night,
Father, I'll be home early.Good night, have a good time.
God. Daughter is very beautiful,Landlord. She's a beautiful amount of troubles,
Sir John, that's what she is. Why why, I'll tell you
why. There's said guy Bennington readyto marry her and give her a good
home. And all she can talkabout is that highwayman. The highwayman.
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Does she know the Highwaman? Therascal held up her coach tonight and kissed
her. Can you imagine that?Yes? I can? And now she
fancies herself in love with him.No, I shouldn't be standing here telling
you all this, She says,I talk too much, and I suppose
I do. It's heavy on mymind tonight. So she's in love with
the highwayman. Where has she gone? Now? She's gone to Lady Catherine's
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mask garade, And since sir guyhas taken her up, she gets invited
to all the gentry's affairs. Well, I've got to see to my guests.
Can I answerve you something? No? No, I I think I
must believing. Well, good night, sir John. Come again, what
you're thinking of us? Too dangerous? Johns don't suppose Lady Catherine would have
welcomed highwoman. Why you can't attenda party in a mask? Too many
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the guests of seeing you in amass be fun to put them to the
test, John, are you tiredof living? Do you look forward to
dangling at the end of a rope? Danger as the frosting of a cake?
Good Night, Tom, I'll seeyou later. You've lost your mind,
Old Tom. Only my heart hethe French cock Catney's for it,
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and a bunch of blazon his chin, a coat of claire and velvet,
and breeches a brown doe skin.They fitted with never a wrinkle. His
boots were up to the thigh,and he rode with a jewel twinkle.
His pistol butts a twinkle under thejewel sky. That whom shall I announce?
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Well, it's a masquerade, isn'tit? What fun is it if
you announce everyone? I'm afraid Icannot admit you unless you give me your
name? Sir? What things tome? The trouble heart? If this
er gentleman does not wish to beannounced, Lady Catherine? Oh and why
is that, Lady Catherine? What'sthe point of a masquerade? If you
announce who is behind each mask?Where's the intriguely the advanture? One is
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sure then that all the guests arefriends. Were you to see my face,
Lady Catherine, you'd laugh and letme in, and there'd be no
mystery to the evening. Oh come, Lady Catherine, you've more spoiling blood
than that. You seem most familiarand at the same time. Most strange.
For all I know, I couldbe letting in the highwomen. I'll
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not deny that. As a matterof fact, that's who I'm dressed to
represent. Well, Lady Catherine,do I attend your ball masked and unannounced?
You do? Since that is yourpleasure? Mask and no announced?
Midnight? May I have the pleasureof this horse? I have a partner.
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He went to get some refreshment.Then you're free for the moment,
Yes, for the moment. You'relighter than moonlight my eyes. Wasn't it
rather foolish of you to come here, sir John Lancashire? Oh so you
know my name? I know enoughabout you to hang you. Why do
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you say that you surely didn't thinkI'd forget you so quickly? Oh,
that, sir guy would, SirGuy doesn't worry me too much. Perhaps
you'd better worry about me. Sir. If you think I'm going to stand
by and that you rob my friends, you're fastly mistake. I'm your prisoner.
Call out, turn me over wheneveryou are. You so sure I
won't know, but I am surethat if you do, it doesn't matter
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very much what happens to me.As a matter of fact, i'd advise
you to call out, my dear. It would be very wise. Why
because if you don't, you willbe my prisoner for the rest of your
life. If I turn you over, they'll kill you. If you don't,
there may be a day when you'lldie with me, because I'll never
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stay away from you. Not now, Well, my dear, I cannot
do it. God help us both. I cannot do it. Yes,
sir, I would just kill againfor you, sir, guy, excuse
who is that man? Biss?I don't know, you don't know,
you don't do It's me familiar toyou at all? No, I can't
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if he is? Oh well,I have all a freshman's over by the
window that thro those voices? Whatare you doing up here? By yourself?
It was warm in the ball room. I wanted a breath of there.
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What are you doing up here?Looking for you? It's a beautiful
night, isn't it. You couldalmost touch the stars. This is my
kingdom, and now it's yours.The world at our featen heaven, at
our finger tips. Oh, mydarling, this is the hour to be
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young and in love. That's ourmonamous guy here, and this is our
world all about us. This Ihad to say it. I love you.
I love you this hour and willfor every hour until the end of
time. My darling, My darling, it's almost midnight. There'll be unmasking
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soon and you'll be leaving. Ohtake me with you. I can't.
I can't take you with me,not yet. It's it's too dangerous.
Why do you like this? Whydo you steal? You don't need the
money. I do, but notfor myself. I've never kept anything for
myself. You see that people inthis world who don't realize they have too
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much, just as there are peoplewho don't realize they don't have enough,
that they're dying, too young andtoo poor. I steal for them.
Those I take from can always spareit. Do you understand? Yes?
I think I do, But it'swrong. I know it's wrong, and
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so do you. There must bemore honorable ways you can help. Are
you? Are you trying to reformme? I'd like to. I'd like
to keep you safe, because yousee, from tonight on my heart will
be riding a high ways with you, and it's pretty vulnerable. An accident
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to you could kill it too.You're very sweet, there's something between us.
I knew it this evening when youkissed me. It was like like
coming home. Whatever comes to oneof us must come to both of us.
Now it's like that, isn't it. Yes, it is like that.
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I wish it wasn't, but itis like that. Goodbye for the
moment he's having his house. Wepause now, but only freaking. The
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usual commercials had been omitted in thisaudition, and we proceed immediately with Act
two of the Highwayman. The Highwaymancame riding, riding, riding. The
Highwayman came riding up to the oldindoor over the cobbles. He clattered and
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clashed in the dark inn yard,and he tapped with his whip on the
shutters, but all was locked andbarred, and he whistled a tune to
the window. And who should bewaiting there but the landlord's black eyed daughter.
Best the landlord's daughter, gleating adark red love knot into a long
black hair. We'd better walk outby the gate down, rode away.
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We don't want to awaken father.If he has to waken now, I
don't think that he will. Younever can do, Oh, johnath Is
so long. For three weeks,I haven't hit a word from you.
If I've been busy. Oh,I've been making plans. I've decided to
become an honest man for you fora prize. I'm out to night,
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just one prize, and I'm takingit and then quitting. I've decided to
buy a farm in the north.Would you like being a farmer's wife?
I like being yours? Wonderful?All right, now here are my plans.
I'll have to be off now becauseI've a long way to ride,
but i'll be here about noon tomorrow, and then we'll find a clergyman and
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become mister and missus farmer and thatwill be the end of the Highwayman,
I can't believe it. Who arehere? Here? Nah? What are
you crying about? Maybe dreams docome true. Maybe there is something to
fairy tale endings. Maybe the princeand princess do live happily ever after.
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I've been so frightened. I've hadsuch dreams. I kept seeing you dead
by the roadside. Wasn't it foolishof me? Don't you know? My
life is charmed? Now? Then? Just one thing more? If they
pressed me sharply, I may notbe able to get here during the day.
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If you don't see me at noon, look for me by moonlight.
You'll surely come. I'll come toyou by moonlight, though hell should bar
the way. And now until tomorrow, goodbye, darling, until tomorrow,
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and darken the dark hole in yarda stable wicket creaked Where Tim the austral
listened. His face was frightened,peque his eyes were hollows of madness,
his hair like moldy clay. Buthe loved the landlord's daughter, the landlord's
red lipped daughter, dumb as adog. He listened, and he heard
the robber say, I'll come tothee by moonlight, though hell should bar
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the way. Well, Bess,well father, So John Lancashire and the
highwomen are one and the same.Doesn't that sound a little ridiculous to you?
Yes, but I know it's true. Tim the Ostler heard you a
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while ago. He told me yourwhole conversation. Miss. I want you
to promise that you'll never see thatman again. He's bad, he's a
robber, and you're a good girl. And not for the likes of him.
I'm going to see that he's putin prison and you must tell me
where he high. I don't know, and if I did, I wouldn't
tell you. You'll have to catchhim yourself. No, you'll catch him
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for me. He'll come to seeyou and then we'll have him. No,
No, you can't make me dothat. You wouldn't do that.
You couldn't do that. Don't youunderstand how I love him? It isn't
love it to disease. You'll getover it in time, and then you'll
fall in love with a decent,god fearing man. He's decent and god
fearing and fine and honest. Don'tyou think i'd know if you weren't.
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No, you're young. Your judgmentisn't worth much. Yet, Why bless
your best girl. You're all I'vegot in the world to love. That's
why I'm doing this. Breaks myheart to her, Humbert. I know
what's the right thing, and Iknow you'll thank me for it some day.
Oh No, follow listen to me. If he dies, there's nothing
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in the world for me anymore.My heart would always be empty. He's
the blood that causes through me andall the pain and all the joy.
He's what my eyes want most tolook upon, and my arms want most
to embrace. He's a difference betweenlife and death and heaven and hell.
Don't you understand if he died thatI want to die. Love isn't that
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important, Bess? Only seem sonow and then when we're young, we
don't really die of it. You'llhave to trust me. You'll have to
believe that I know what's best foryou. This pain will pass in a
week or a month. Here'll besome one else in Please, please don't
do this. Don't betray him.I love you, daughter, and I
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must. If you do, I'lldespise you. I'll despise you and hate
you and lone you until I die. Good Night, Bess, I'm sorry,
but I'll have to lock your door. Mother. He did not come
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at dawning. He did not comeat noon, and out of the tawny
sunset, before the rise of themoon, when the road was a gypsy's
ribbon looping the purple more. KingGeorge's men came marching, marching, marching.
King George's men came marching up tothe old in door. You're the
landlord here, I am to where'syour daughter? And she's locked in her
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room? I'll take you up followme. Man. You'll treat her kindly,
won't you. She'll be all rightas long as she doesn't try to
escape. All right, landlord,you can wait downstairs. I'd love to
stay. We'll call you every wanting, Yes, sir, tie to the
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foot of the bed, and pretty, wentioned? She a little dear stained.
Well that's what comes of having ataste for the wrong people. Be
nothing to say? No, Well, tire up for a death, watched
a gagger. I don't want totake a chance of her screaming and warning
him. You would if you hadthe chance, wouldn't you? Yes,
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she bound good and tight. Allright? You and Keith take your watch
by that window. You shoot himfrom there? Well, my pretty,
how about a kiss for a hardworking soul too? All right, all
right, you're a little peppery formy taste. How about giving her a
spot of this brandy? No,I've got this gag fixed now, but
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I'll have one myself. She reallylooks like she's keeping a watch, all
right. All she needs is agun. That's a good idea. I'll
tie a gun to a chest andshe'll really be a dangerous little girl,
too bad of hands. Won't befree away min she makes sure work with
us. Hey you are lady.Now keep good watch, now, keep
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good watch. And they kissed her. She heard the dead man say,
look for me by moonlight. I'llcome to be by moonlight. Tho hell
should bar the way. She twistedher hands behind her, but all the
knots held good, she writhed,A handle of fingers were wet, was
sweat and blood. They threatst andstrained in the darkness. The hours crawled
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by like ears till now on thestroke of midnight cold, on the stroke
of midnight, the tip of onefinger cussed the trigger at least was hers.
The tip of one finger touched it. She strove no more for the
rest. Up she stood to attentionwith the bell beneath her breast. She
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would not twist the hearing, shewould not strive again for the road.
Lay bear in the moonlight, blankand bear in the moonlight, and the
blood of her veins in the moonlight. Throbb'd to a love's refrain, where
is he? Maybe isn't coming.Maybe someone's having a love at us.
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Well, if they are, itisn't her. Well, look pretty s
going back to London and saying,we said all night for nothing. Maybe
he's got another love. Maybe he'snot interested in this one anymore. Christen
Fish, We've got to be sureit's him. We can't make a mistake
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ere anybody comes hate him. Icouldn't mistake that figure in his taken and
get him until he gets a littlecloser. He mustn't waste to shot.
Frighten him best, he sighed,he's riding away. Come on, he's
riding your world. First. First, my do he turned, He sput
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him westward. He did not knowwho stood bowed with her head or the
musket drenched with her own red blood. Not until dawn he heard it,
and slowly blanched to hear how best. The landlord's daughter, the Landlord's black
eyed daughter, had watched for herlove in the moonlight, and died in
the darkness there back she spread likea madman, springing a pleasure sky,
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the white goat, sting a brandytime blood bread way first, like golden
noon wine. Red was his velvetcoat. And they shudder down on the
highway, down like a dog onthe highway. And he lay in his
blood on the highway, with abunch of lace at his throat, and
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still of a winter's night, theysay, when the wind is in the
trees, and when the moon isa ghostly gadgeon tossed upon cloudy seas,
when the road is a ribbon ofmoonlight over the purple MORA highwayman comes riding,
riding, riding, a highwayman.From riding up to the old inn
door. He whistled a tune tothe window, and whosh, I'd be
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waiting there, good evening, misterHiraman, How goes the night profitably?
That depends? I'm asking for akiss? Aren't you accustomed to taking what
you want? But since I amasking, since you are asking, of
course, to the whole should bewaiting there? But the landlord's black eyed
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daughter best the landlord's daughter pleading adark red love knot into a long black
hair. I am adventure today.I've brought you the Highwayman. Next week
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I will tell you a dramatic andcolorful story of New York. It happened
in Grammercy Square. Until then,I am dangerously Yours. The Highwayman was
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written for Dangerously Yours by Jeane Holloway. The music was composed and conducted by
Arnold Johnson. The stars were VictorJerry and Gertrude Warner,
Dangerously Your, Dangerously Yours, ahalf hour of romance and adventure, brought
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to you at this time each Sundayby the Bi Chemical Company and presenting today
an exciting tale based on Albert Noye'sfamous form, The Highwayman, starring Victor
Jury. I am adventure in myname, Men of Travis, the highways,
the byways, the skyways of theworld. I have sat with the
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rubber barons before their fireplaces. Ihave sailed with pirates in search of treasure.
I have fought beside gallant dueling fora kiss. I climb mountains and
cross deserts, daring all for onegreat moment. I am the romantic fire
that burns in the heart of youth, that makes men dream and there and
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conquer. I am Adventure. Iam dangerously yours. The night follow me
to the forests of the England oflong Ago. The night we ride these
forests by the side of one ofthe most dashing figures of legend, The
(01:32):
Highwayman. The wind was a torrentof darkness among the gusty trees. The
moon was a ghostly galleon tossed uponcloudy seas. The road was a ribbon
of moonlight over the Purple Moor,and the highwayman came riding, riding,
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riding, All right, coatsman,down from the box here, now what's
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all this? Sorry to put youout, sir, but i'll have your
purse if you don't mind, behanged. If you will, you assured
they will be if I don't.What is it? A guy? Stay
in the carriage, biss Oh,good evening, mister hire woman? How
goes the night profitably? You're aspirited girl, aren't you. I'm not
afraid of you if that's what youmean. You see, I'm of a
poor family. There's nothing you'd stealfrom me, aren't you? Being rather
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fool hearted? Dismounting? A highwoman is always safer in his saddle.
Bis, Get in the carriage.Don't stand here bandying words with this fellow
you're follow will be wanting to death, wondering why the coach is laid here.
My highwoman, take my person.Let us go heavy purse too.
It's enough to buy your freedom andmine by yours. I'll take a kiss
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if you'll give it to me.She'll see you hang first. You're a
highwaman, aren't you accustomed to takingwhat you want. I have that reputation,
but I'd like to be something alittle more than a highwoman to you,
ah, perhaps a little less.How strange to have a man make
love to you with a gun ineach hand and a bag of plunder over
his shoulder, and speak of asking. But since I am asking, since
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you are asking, of course youmust have the kiss. The road was
a ribbon of moonlight over the PurpleMoor, and the highwayman came riding,
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riding, riding. The high Womancame riding up to the old indoor,
hiking a naive all around the besthouse. Hello Tom, having a night
jam. I take it. Thehunting was hunting was very good. And
there's a fortune of my saddle bagsthat'll be on its way to island tomorrow,
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or fill a lot of empty Iry'sstomach. Those men at the corner
table are watching, who cares.No one has ever seen the North Road
high woman except in mask and hat. Who's going to link him with a
slightly tipsy, very happy Cordier.You'll never know who it is, and
that's the danger. But some daysomeone will, and then one and then
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the end, and lord and Lord, I did them, Fellow kissed your
daughter. Not only did he stealin my first but he kissed your daughter.
Well, now, sa guy,what chick chee? Look here?
I hope to make that young ladymy wife some day, and I can't
have her running around kissing every tom, dick and high woman in the country.
And will you please ask her tohurry and dress. We should be
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late for Lady Catherine's ball, andI despise being lady. I'll see what
I can do, shi, guy, But she has quite a costume to
get into. Aren't you waiting acostume? Haven't did a taste for such?
Polder off, I read a maskand that's the positive limit. I'll
go to hurry out along, Tim, hurry on along? And all right,
all right, all right, yeah, oh hello father, what do
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you up the deck of my dress? Please? You guys in a fierce
mood? Oh, funny daddy.I know he's very angry with me because
I kissed the highwayman. Won't evenpossessed. You didn't do a thing like
that. I don't know. Isn'tthat funny? Father? Except that even
though he wore a mask, eventhough I knew he was abandoned, he
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was someone I recognized. When Isaw him, I vought why. Of
course, when I used to sitby the window watching the empty road in
the night, it was you Iwas watching for. And when I used
to dream of someone's lips and someone'sarms, it was your lips and your
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I know it sounds foolish, butit's true. That's why I kissed him.
And if it said come with me, I think I would have gone.
It's a bad business being in lovewith a highwayman. Best you can
get out of it is the worstyou can get out of anything. They
all come to the same end.Sooner or later. You know, sir
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Guy's well off. He can giveyou a fine home and a lot of
beautiful things you'll never had. Notmany girls in your position in life have
the opportunity to marry so well.I no father, But those are the
things I won't. Sir Guy wouldsuffocate me. I want my life to
be the way was tonight exciting andbeautiful and challenging. But tonight you were
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flirting with death. I mean,it's no man in England more dangerous to
love than a highwayman daughter, andno man in England more exciting. I
hope you'll never see him again.I pray to God you never see him
again. In fact, I bidyou to see him again. Tims got
him, fussy, old goat.Come on, father, how do I
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look? For the first time sinceyou were born? Now I wish you
weren't so beautiful, But the firsttime since I was born. I'm glad
I am. You'll never see himagain. If I can help it,
You'll never see him again. Come, come, come, madieu. We're
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going to be late, you know, I just spise being late. Yes,
the guy I know? Father?Yes? What did it be?
Who is that man sitting at thatcorner table? Him, Sir John Langiship.
I haven't you ever seen him before? He's one of the King's close
associates, very promising young men.Oh why does he interest you? No?
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But for the moment I thought hewas someone else. Good night,
Father, I'll be home early.Good night, have a good time.
God. Daughter is very beautiful,Landlord. She's a beautiful amount of troubles,
Sir John, that's what she is. Why why, I'll tell you
why. There's said guy Bennington readyto marry her and give her a good
home. And all she can talkabout is that highwayman. The highwayman.
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Does she know the Highwaman? Therascal held up her coach tonight and kissed
her. Can you imagine that?Yes? I can? And now she
fancies herself in love with him.No, I shouldn't be standing here telling
you all this, She says,I talk too much, and I suppose
I do. It's heavy on mymind tonight. So she's in love with
the highwayman. Where has she gone? Now? She's gone to Lady Catherine's
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mask garade, And since sir guyhas taken her up, she gets invited
to all the gentry's affairs. Well, I've got to see to my guests.
Can I answerve you something? No? No, I I think I
must believing. Well, good night, sir John. Come again, what
you're thinking of us? Too dangerous? Johns don't suppose Lady Catherine would have
welcomed highwoman. Why you can't attenda party in a mask? Too many
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the guests of seeing you in amass be fun to put them to the
test, John, are you tiredof living? Do you look forward to
dangling at the end of a rope? Danger as the frosting of a cake?
Good Night, Tom, I'll seeyou later. You've lost your mind,
Old Tom. Only my heart hethe French cock Catney's for it,
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and a bunch of blazon his chin, a coat of claire and velvet,
and breeches a brown doe skin.They fitted with never a wrinkle. His
boots were up to the thigh,and he rode with a jewel twinkle.
His pistol butts a twinkle under thejewel sky. That whom shall I announce?
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Well, it's a masquerade, isn'tit? What fun is it if
you announce everyone? I'm afraid Icannot admit you unless you give me your
name? Sir? What things tome? The trouble heart? If this
er gentleman does not wish to beannounced, Lady Catherine? Oh and why
is that, Lady Catherine? What'sthe point of a masquerade? If you
announce who is behind each mask?Where's the intriguely the advanture? One is
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sure then that all the guests arefriends. Were you to see my face,
Lady Catherine, you'd laugh and letme in, and there'd be no
mystery to the evening. Oh come, Lady Catherine, you've more spoiling blood
than that. You seem most familiarand at the same time. Most strange.
For all I know, I couldbe letting in the highwomen. I'll
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not deny that. As a matterof fact, that's who I'm dressed to
represent. Well, Lady Catherine,do I attend your ball masked and unannounced?
You do? Since that is yourpleasure? Mask and no announced?
Midnight? May I have the pleasureof this horse? I have a partner.
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He went to get some refreshment.Then you're free for the moment,
Yes, for the moment. You'relighter than moonlight my eyes. Wasn't it
rather foolish of you to come here, sir John Lancashire? Oh so you
know my name? I know enoughabout you to hang you. Why do
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you say that you surely didn't thinkI'd forget you so quickly? Oh,
that, sir guy would, SirGuy doesn't worry me too much. Perhaps
you'd better worry about me. Sir. If you think I'm going to stand
by and that you rob my friends, you're fastly mistake. I'm your prisoner.
Call out, turn me over wheneveryou are. You so sure I
won't know, but I am surethat if you do, it doesn't matter
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very much what happens to me.As a matter of fact, i'd advise
you to call out, my dear. It would be very wise. Why
because if you don't, you willbe my prisoner for the rest of your
life. If I turn you over, they'll kill you. If you don't,
there may be a day when you'lldie with me, because I'll never
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stay away from you. Not now, Well, my dear, I cannot
do it. God help us both. I cannot do it. Yes,
sir, I would just kill againfor you, sir, guy, excuse
who is that man? Biss?I don't know, you don't know,
you don't do It's me familiar toyou at all? No, I can't
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if he is? Oh well,I have all a freshman's over by the
window that thro those voices? Whatare you doing up here? By yourself?
It was warm in the ball room. I wanted a breath of there.
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What are you doing up here?Looking for you? It's a beautiful
night, isn't it. You couldalmost touch the stars. This is my
kingdom, and now it's yours.The world at our featen heaven, at
our finger tips. Oh, mydarling, this is the hour to be
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young and in love. That's ourmonamous guy here, and this is our
world all about us. This Ihad to say it. I love you.
I love you this hour and willfor every hour until the end of
time. My darling, My darling, it's almost midnight. There'll be unmasking
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soon and you'll be leaving. Ohtake me with you. I can't.
I can't take you with me,not yet. It's it's too dangerous.
Why do you like this? Whydo you steal? You don't need the
money. I do, but notfor myself. I've never kept anything for
myself. You see that people inthis world who don't realize they have too
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much, just as there are peoplewho don't realize they don't have enough,
that they're dying, too young andtoo poor. I steal for them.
Those I take from can always spareit. Do you understand? Yes?
I think I do, But it'swrong. I know it's wrong, and
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so do you. There must bemore honorable ways you can help. Are
you? Are you trying to reformme? I'd like to. I'd like
to keep you safe, because yousee, from tonight on my heart will
be riding a high ways with you, and it's pretty vulnerable. An accident
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to you could kill it too.You're very sweet, there's something between us.
I knew it this evening when youkissed me. It was like like
coming home. Whatever comes to oneof us must come to both of us.
Now it's like that, isn't it. Yes, it is like that.
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I wish it wasn't, but itis like that. Goodbye for the
moment he's having his house. Wepause now, but only freaking. The
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usual commercials had been omitted in thisaudition, and we proceed immediately with Act
two of the Highwayman. The Highwaymancame riding, riding, riding. The
Highwayman came riding up to the oldindoor over the cobbles. He clattered and
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clashed in the dark inn yard,and he tapped with his whip on the
shutters, but all was locked andbarred, and he whistled a tune to
the window. And who should bewaiting there but the landlord's black eyed daughter.
Best the landlord's daughter, gleating adark red love knot into a long
black hair. We'd better walk outby the gate down, rode away.
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We don't want to awaken father.If he has to waken now, I
don't think that he will. Younever can do, Oh, johnath Is
so long. For three weeks,I haven't hit a word from you.
If I've been busy. Oh,I've been making plans. I've decided to
become an honest man for you fora prize. I'm out to night,
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just one prize, and I'm takingit and then quitting. I've decided to
buy a farm in the north.Would you like being a farmer's wife?
I like being yours? Wonderful?All right, now here are my plans.
I'll have to be off now becauseI've a long way to ride,
but i'll be here about noon tomorrow, and then we'll find a clergyman and
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become mister and missus farmer and thatwill be the end of the Highwayman,
I can't believe it. Who arehere? Here? Nah? What are
you crying about? Maybe dreams docome true. Maybe there is something to
fairy tale endings. Maybe the princeand princess do live happily ever after.
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I've been so frightened. I've hadsuch dreams. I kept seeing you dead
by the roadside. Wasn't it foolishof me? Don't you know? My
life is charmed? Now? Then? Just one thing more? If they
pressed me sharply, I may notbe able to get here during the day.
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If you don't see me at noon, look for me by moonlight.
You'll surely come. I'll come toyou by moonlight, though hell should bar
the way. And now until tomorrow, goodbye, darling, until tomorrow,
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and darken the dark hole in yarda stable wicket creaked Where Tim the austral
listened. His face was frightened,peque his eyes were hollows of madness,
his hair like moldy clay. Buthe loved the landlord's daughter, the landlord's
red lipped daughter, dumb as adog. He listened, and he heard
the robber say, I'll come tothee by moonlight, though hell should bar
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the way. Well, Bess,well father, So John Lancashire and the
highwomen are one and the same.Doesn't that sound a little ridiculous to you?
Yes, but I know it's true. Tim the Ostler heard you a
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while ago. He told me yourwhole conversation. Miss. I want you
to promise that you'll never see thatman again. He's bad, he's a
robber, and you're a good girl. And not for the likes of him.
I'm going to see that he's putin prison and you must tell me
where he high. I don't know, and if I did, I wouldn't
tell you. You'll have to catchhim yourself. No, you'll catch him
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for me. He'll come to seeyou and then we'll have him. No,
No, you can't make me dothat. You wouldn't do that.
You couldn't do that. Don't youunderstand how I love him? It isn't
love it to disease. You'll getover it in time, and then you'll
fall in love with a decent,god fearing man. He's decent and god
fearing and fine and honest. Don'tyou think i'd know if you weren't.
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No, you're young. Your judgmentisn't worth much. Yet, Why bless
your best girl. You're all I'vegot in the world to love. That's
why I'm doing this. Breaks myheart to her, Humbert. I know
what's the right thing, and Iknow you'll thank me for it some day.
Oh No, follow listen to me. If he dies, there's nothing
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in the world for me anymore.My heart would always be empty. He's
the blood that causes through me andall the pain and all the joy.
He's what my eyes want most tolook upon, and my arms want most
to embrace. He's a difference betweenlife and death and heaven and hell.
Don't you understand if he died thatI want to die. Love isn't that
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important, Bess? Only seem sonow and then when we're young, we
don't really die of it. You'llhave to trust me. You'll have to
believe that I know what's best foryou. This pain will pass in a
week or a month. Here'll besome one else in Please, please don't
do this. Don't betray him.I love you, daughter, and I
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must. If you do, I'lldespise you. I'll despise you and hate
you and lone you until I die. Good Night, Bess, I'm sorry,
but I'll have to lock your door. Mother. He did not come
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at dawning. He did not comeat noon, and out of the tawny
sunset, before the rise of themoon, when the road was a gypsy's
ribbon looping the purple more. KingGeorge's men came marching, marching, marching.
King George's men came marching up tothe old in door. You're the
landlord here, I am to where'syour daughter? And she's locked in her
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room? I'll take you up followme. Man. You'll treat her kindly,
won't you. She'll be all rightas long as she doesn't try to
escape. All right, landlord,you can wait downstairs. I'd love to
stay. We'll call you every wanting, Yes, sir, tie to the
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foot of the bed, and pretty, wentioned? She a little dear stained.
Well that's what comes of having ataste for the wrong people. Be
nothing to say? No, Well, tire up for a death, watched
a gagger. I don't want totake a chance of her screaming and warning
him. You would if you hadthe chance, wouldn't you? Yes,
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she bound good and tight. Allright? You and Keith take your watch
by that window. You shoot himfrom there? Well, my pretty,
how about a kiss for a hardworking soul too? All right, all
right, you're a little peppery formy taste. How about giving her a
spot of this brandy? No,I've got this gag fixed now, but
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I'll have one myself. She reallylooks like she's keeping a watch, all
right. All she needs is agun. That's a good idea. I'll
tie a gun to a chest andshe'll really be a dangerous little girl,
too bad of hands. Won't befree away min she makes sure work with
us. Hey you are lady.Now keep good watch, now, keep
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good watch. And they kissed her. She heard the dead man say,
look for me by moonlight. I'llcome to be by moonlight. Tho hell
should bar the way. She twistedher hands behind her, but all the
knots held good, she writhed,A handle of fingers were wet, was
sweat and blood. They threatst andstrained in the darkness. The hours crawled
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by like ears till now on thestroke of midnight cold, on the stroke
of midnight, the tip of onefinger cussed the trigger at least was hers.
The tip of one finger touched it. She strove no more for the
rest. Up she stood to attentionwith the bell beneath her breast. She
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would not twist the hearing, shewould not strive again for the road.
Lay bear in the moonlight, blankand bear in the moonlight, and the
blood of her veins in the moonlight. Throbb'd to a love's refrain, where
is he? Maybe isn't coming.Maybe someone's having a love at us.
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Well, if they are, itisn't her. Well, look pretty s
going back to London and saying,we said all night for nothing. Maybe
he's got another love. Maybe he'snot interested in this one anymore. Christen
Fish, We've got to be sureit's him. We can't make a mistake
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ere anybody comes hate him. Icouldn't mistake that figure in his taken and
get him until he gets a littlecloser. He mustn't waste to shot.
Frighten him best, he sighed,he's riding away. Come on, he's
riding your world. First. First, my do he turned, He sput
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him westward. He did not knowwho stood bowed with her head or the
musket drenched with her own red blood. Not until dawn he heard it,
and slowly blanched to hear how best. The landlord's daughter, the Landlord's black
eyed daughter, had watched for herlove in the moonlight, and died in
the darkness there back she spread likea madman, springing a pleasure sky,
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the white goat, sting a brandytime blood bread way first, like golden
noon wine. Red was his velvetcoat. And they shudder down on the
highway, down like a dog onthe highway. And he lay in his
blood on the highway, with abunch of lace at his throat, and
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still of a winter's night, theysay, when the wind is in the
trees, and when the moon isa ghostly gadgeon tossed upon cloudy seas,
when the road is a ribbon ofmoonlight over the purple MORA highwayman comes riding,
riding, riding, a highwayman.From riding up to the old inn
door. He whistled a tune tothe window, and whosh, I'd be
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waiting there, good evening, misterHiraman, How goes the night profitably?
That depends? I'm asking for akiss? Aren't you accustomed to taking what
you want? But since I amasking, since you are asking, of
course, to the whole should bewaiting there? But the landlord's black eyed
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daughter best the landlord's daughter pleading adark red love knot into a long black
hair. I am adventure today.I've brought you the Highwayman. Next week
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I will tell you a dramatic andcolorful story of New York. It happened
in Grammercy Square. Until then,I am dangerously Yours. The Highwayman was
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written for Dangerously Yours by Jeane Holloway. The music was composed and conducted by
Arnold Johnson. The stars were VictorJerry and Gertrude Warner,
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