September 9, 2024 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
H uh.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
And Lestay.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Day and.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Reading Alan.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Alan, Alan Blaine, M.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
I thought I heard someone mm hmm. Listen to me, Alan,
someone did speak him. I spoke to you, Alan, who's that?
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Don't be alarmed. There's no one here, no one in
this office but myself.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I am here?
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Am I losing my mind? Now? There's no one? Listen
to me, Alan, I hear you. But where are you?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I am here, but you can't see me.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Listen to me, Alan?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
How much money are you making?
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Not much?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
How much?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Twenty five dollars a week?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
You're worth more? I know, I am Then why haven't
you done something about it?
Speaker 5 (01:52):
There are hundreds of men who could do my work.
I can't afford to lose my job.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
You won't lose your job, but you will get a
better one. What do you mean, Go talk to your
employer today, Helen. Today you hear yes, there's a position open,
assistant manager. Exactly.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
That's too big a position for me.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
You're capable of handling it. Go in, ask for it.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Ask for job of assistant manager.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yes, you'll never get it unless you ask for it.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Look here, who are you? Where are you?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
You cannot see me? Annan, because I am not of
your world or.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Are you some devil, some evil spirit?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I assure you I am not.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
And why don't you show yourself to me?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I am not permitted to do that. Be thankful that
I am able to advise you.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Why do you advise me?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Because there is much I can't do for you.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
I don't understand your voice out of nowhere.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
That must not worry you. Alan, Do as I say.
Go now, ask for assistant managership. Go al it, ask
for it now.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Wait, don't wait wait, I want to talk to you
some more.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Don't wait until it's too late.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
I warn you, come back, come back.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Look here, what's all the commotion.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
About, said missus Evans. What I said, Saddan, Man here,
I have something to talk.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
To you about. To know what the shotting out here
was about.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
I'll never mind that, Missus Evans. That's something much more
important to discuss with you. And just what's that, mister Blaine,
it's about the assistant managership. Well, well, you see, I
was just thinking, go on now, I was just thinking that,
perhaps go.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Ahead, Allan tell her you what the job?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Did you hear something, Missus Evans?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I'm waiting to hear you who you have in mind
for the job that's open.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
I'll take that job, missus Evans.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
What did you say?
Speaker 5 (04:36):
I said I'll take that job?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Right, I hadn't told you that you might handle the job?
All right? Yes, yes, you might. Come on in the office, Blaine.
Let's talk this thing over.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Assistant manager's office. Oh, Judith Darling, how are you hey?
You're coming down to see my new office. Oh? I
thought you said you'd tried to make it today. Well
I've had my new job for two weeks now, all right, dear, yeah, goodbye.
(05:30):
I can't understand Judith lately. It seems like she's avoiding me.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Don't trust her, Alan, don't trust her, Allan, don't trust her?
What don't trust her? Don't trust her? Alan, I want
you she's not to be trusted.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Oh, oh, it's you.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Hell that ain't May I come in? Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I suppose, sir.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
My.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
You're beautiful tonight, am I? Oh that dress looks wonderful
on you. I'm glad you're all dressed up. Honey, we're
gonna celebrate. I've just been promoted, Darling. Now I'm making
enough for us to live.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
On.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Come on, let's paint the town. Then when we find
us the right spot, I'm gonna ask you to marry
me again. Why aren't you gonna say something, Judy?
Speaker 7 (06:40):
I have an engagement tonight, Alan.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Oh, but you can call it off.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
No, I'm fraid I can't think.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
What's happened to us? Now I'm making the money you
always wanted me to make.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
You have to go, now, Alan, what I've just a
few minutes to finish with my makeup.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
You'll have to go now with Juli.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Please a minute. I've asked you to go.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
I haven't much time, so you haven't much time. Well,
let me tell you something, Judith West.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
That you tell me what?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Don't say?
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Alan?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Don't well, Allan, I warn you there'll be a quarrel.
You'll kill her this time if you quarrel.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I'm waiting, Alan, never mind, Just forget it.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Good evening, my dear.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Alan. Perhaps I should have told you last night. I didn't.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
So I'm writing to you now. You have made quite
a fool of yourself over me. For some time now,
I've only permitted you to believe I loved you because
I've always felt sorry for you. Now you're successful, and
so I write you the truth. I'm being married tomorrow
(08:24):
to a man from South America.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I've never loved you.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
I know that I never carried, and so.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
I'm writing it's Adams.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
You please call me at eleven thirty about twelve o'clock
lunching day. M letter from Judith, probably an apology for
last night. I wonder what she said, mm hmm, Alan,
(09:11):
perhaps I should have told you writing to you now,
I a fool of yourself. Always felt sorry for you
being married tomorrow. I have never lose a loved you
(09:33):
never loved me. Oh she can't mean now, Yeah she
wrote it, Yes, she wrote it. Oh, so she's been
playing ball with me all these years? Felt sorry for me?
Did she sorry? Well, I'll make her sorry. I'll sure,
I'll kill her.
Speaker 8 (09:51):
Yes, I'll kill her.
Speaker 9 (09:52):
Don't go to her, Alan, sure, I'm sure she can't
toss me off like an old glove.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Put that gun back, Alan, put it back in the drawer.
I say, oh no, I warn you, you'll be sorry
if you don't put the gun away and calm yourself.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
I won't And you can't stop me.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
No, I can't stop you.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Nothing can stop me, nobody, not Now. So she feels sorry,
for me. Well, I wonder if she'll feel sorry for
herself with a bullet in her cheating hut.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
All right, darling, I'll meet my day.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
Yes, I've written a note to Alant.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Some things off completely? All right? Do who's there? Who
is it?
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Alan?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
But you won't.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Go now, Alan, Alan, listen to me. Go sober yourself up, Alan,
go away. You've lost your job, spent all your money.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
This is no way how to leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I want to help you, help me.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Why didn't you leave me alone? And again with I.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Want you not to go to her apartment. You're a
murderer now, Allan, you're wanted by the police.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
A boway away.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
You should have listened to me.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
I was trying to leave me alone. Leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I know what you're thinking. You're tired. The spirits aud
enough for you. Now you want something else? Yeah, don't
do it then, and stay away from it.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
No, I'm not listening to you anymore. I'm not listening.
Speaker 8 (12:27):
Do you hear me?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Go away?
Speaker 8 (12:29):
I'm not listening to a thing you say.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Please don't come in.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
M A friend of mine sent me.
Speaker 10 (12:51):
Mull fall, honorable mister Mullins, so young, say fauld to
help any plan, honorable mister Mullins, He said, I could
forget my troubles here. Flubble you have flubble plays Maddy.
You want Mabbie to sleep? Sleep, anything anything.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
To stop this awful burning in my mind.
Speaker 10 (13:16):
You smoke, Mabbie, the effects fell your sleep? Yeah, sleep
you lie hair, please splatch out, make comfortable here you
smoke pace, take pipe you sleep, Yeah, so you feel better,
(13:37):
buy and buy. No, no, no, no, please do lie down,
you smoke. Let they soon sleep? Sleep, don't Dalen.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I beg you don't smoke that away. Please not to shout.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Tell him to go away. There is no one. Don't
you're shore him? I hear, no one a place to
be quiet? Just mop plan his on sleep sleep.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
It's too late now. I tried to warn you, but
it's too late now. Where am I so strange?
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Quiet? Peaceful? What's this.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Book?
Speaker 5 (14:49):
All right? Why? A diary? Aaron Blaine A That was
my great grandfather's name. This was his diary? Where am I?
(15:11):
Seems like like a cave? Yeah it is a cave.
My clothes so neat and so clean. Yesterday, yes, even today,
I was almost ragged. I remember too. I was tired born.
(15:38):
Now now I feel refreshed. How did I get here
in this cave? At night? From the fire? I can
read the book by the fire.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
We I'm now in the midst of a dreadful civil war.
I fear everything I own is lost. I have only
managed to save my gold.
Speaker 11 (16:14):
Cold.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
I figure it's value at more than eighty thousand dollars.
I have buried it to day beneath the horse stall
at the east end of the barn. It will never
be found there cold, very beneath the horse stall and
(16:39):
the barn. But what barn. It's daylight. Perhaps if I
get out of this cave. Yeah, there's the opening as
it is daylight. And there's the farm over there. It's
an old farm. Maybe if I go over there, I'll
(17:01):
find what I want. You will say this farm did
belong to Overre and blame as ride. Boss Man, by
the time of the Civil war was reckon.
Speaker 9 (17:20):
My pathy doesn't.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Work for him who owns the place. Now I'll reckon Uncle.
Speaker 9 (17:24):
Sam do now, boss Man? I paid the taxes, want
a can and then lets me live here? Got myself
a holls out there in the barn. Yeah, you don't
raising the horse he isn't that bond?
Speaker 5 (17:36):
I'll fall down?
Speaker 10 (17:37):
Yeah, I see there, well over this way, boss.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Are you sure this barn's been standing since the Civil War?
Sure has, boss Man.
Speaker 9 (17:48):
I has to prop it up here and there once
in a while.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I won't go to.
Speaker 9 (17:52):
Pieces any day now. As olds on the boat, all
das under boat? He asked about to spade here, mesting, Yeah,
there's one right over here.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Yeah, I'll set the lander down right there. Keep that
animal back, how I'm going to start digging, digging, balls man? Yes,
And if I find what I'm looking for, you and
I are going to be rich. There it is, the
(18:30):
Mercy balls Man. Something bad there, Yeah, metal box, come on,
help me get it out of there. Okay, man, can
you get ahold of that cornet?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I think so? Of course.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
We're heavy. Yeah, I got a lock on it. Go
fix that. No, it's heavy. There we are lo the
mercy balls Man. Look at that gold? Yeah, gold? Eighteen
thousand dollars worth of gold. What's that?
Speaker 9 (19:01):
Must be the piercing boys. Who piercing boys? Boss man?
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Who are they?
Speaker 9 (19:06):
They've been trying to get this farm, only they ain't
got enough money to pay the back taxes. Oaks Ryan
here always said to know that this gold man is unglazed.
They must have seen you, and nowadays trying to scare y'all.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
It's a good thing. It's nice. We're gonna come down
here this afternoon. That I decided to stay in the
cave till that cave and say, boss man, yeah, over
to the hills.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
We better get ourselves over there.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Boss he's going to keep his hair.
Speaker 9 (19:33):
Goal then Pierson balls been looking for it for ten years.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
They catch us with it, they.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
Want to take it away from us. Boss I reckon,
I can't stay much longer.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Man, We've got to stay here long that so am I.
We can't leave this cave until murdering thieves out there
go away, Moss.
Speaker 9 (20:02):
We done been here two nights in the day. They've
gone now, Allan, you who bossed me?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
It's safe now, Allen?
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Boss man, what are you looking so funny? Mind?
Speaker 9 (20:13):
You look like you don't hear the spook or something talking.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
You can go out now, Allen. They've gone away.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Come along time.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
How we want to leave your boss man?
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Yeah? Help me carry this bar? How come you to
change your mind? I didn't it was changed for me.
Come a walk, Come.
Speaker 9 (20:31):
Where shall all will be good to rap this old
boy around a good sick old steak and maybe a
fire old chickens.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
All careful that's got around behind this tall grass.
Speaker 9 (20:41):
All right, boss man, your watches step out here. There's
there's lots of snakes over here.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Snakes. Yes, Biggins too, boss man, and pieson, come on,
hobout this way. Wait a minute.
Speaker 9 (20:55):
Oh, look over there, boss man, that's how great. Yeah,
come on, good lord, Look horseman looking over there.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
A bony, fleshless hand reaching up out of.
Speaker 9 (21:14):
The gravest man, how come many hand over there?
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Whoever that was? They buried him alive? Come on, most man,
I don't feel it un too comforable around here. Wait
a minute. Something scratched into the tombstone. I can't quite
make out what it says.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
Yeah, that's better one than say boys. I can't read it,
says Aaron Blame. Aaron Blaine died August sixteenth, eighteen sixty one.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
August sixteen, eighteen sixty one.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
My great grandfather buried alive.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Me say yore, happy I didn't die then. I was
only unconscious from exhaustion. They thought I was dead, so
they brought me here.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
How are you.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I brought you here to show you this.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
How did I get here?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
The opium removed the spirit from your body? I brought
it here.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Oh, take me back, you can never return. Yes, take
me back. I have the gold now I'll be wrench.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
No, yes, take me back, take me back.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
I say poison, been poisoned by that snake.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I can't.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
H h.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Hi good, um hm.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
No, Allen, I warn you now, You'll never.
Speaker 11 (23:21):
Bad.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
And just see.
Speaker 12 (23:55):
You have heard Dead Hands Reaching Tonight's original tale of
Doc dotas a by Scott Bishop, originating in the studios
of w k Y.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
The picturization story.
Speaker 12 (24:06):
Of Dead ND's Reaching appears in the May sixteenth issue
of Movie Radio Guide. Then Marris was heard as Alan Blaine.
Eleanor Naylor Curran played Judith West m Your Height with
Young seafou Georgianna Cook played Missus Evans, and Daryl McAllister
was Aaron Blaine, the voice from Beyond. Next Friday, listened
(24:28):
to Dark Pantasy thirty five minutes earlier at eleven thirty
PM Eastern wartime, ten thirty Central wartime. Listen for Rendezvous
with Satan, another unusual adventure by Scott Bishop, Tom Paxton
speaking dark fantasy comes to you each Friday night from
Oklahoma City. This is the national broadcasting company
H uh.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
And Lestay.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Day and.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Reading Alan.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Alan, Alan Blaine, M.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
I thought I heard someone mm hmm. Listen to me, Alan,
someone did speak him. I spoke to you, Alan, who's that?
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Don't be alarmed. There's no one here, no one in
this office but myself.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I am here?
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Am I losing my mind? Now? There's no one? Listen
to me, Alan, I hear you. But where are you?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I am here, but you can't see me.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Listen to me, Alan?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
How much money are you making?
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Not much?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
How much?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Twenty five dollars a week?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
You're worth more? I know, I am Then why haven't
you done something about it?
Speaker 5 (01:52):
There are hundreds of men who could do my work.
I can't afford to lose my job.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
You won't lose your job, but you will get a
better one. What do you mean, Go talk to your
employer today, Helen. Today you hear yes, there's a position open,
assistant manager. Exactly.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
That's too big a position for me.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
You're capable of handling it. Go in, ask for it.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
Ask for job of assistant manager.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yes, you'll never get it unless you ask for it.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Look here, who are you? Where are you?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
You cannot see me? Annan, because I am not of
your world or.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Are you some devil, some evil spirit?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I assure you I am not.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
And why don't you show yourself to me?
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I am not permitted to do that. Be thankful that
I am able to advise you.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Why do you advise me?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Because there is much I can't do for you.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
I don't understand your voice out of nowhere.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
That must not worry you. Alan, Do as I say.
Go now, ask for assistant managership. Go al it, ask
for it now.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Wait, don't wait wait, I want to talk to you
some more.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Don't wait until it's too late.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
I warn you, come back, come back.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Look here, what's all the commotion.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
About, said missus Evans. What I said, Saddan, Man here,
I have something to talk.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
To you about. To know what the shotting out here
was about.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
I'll never mind that, Missus Evans. That's something much more
important to discuss with you. And just what's that, mister Blaine,
it's about the assistant managership. Well, well, you see, I
was just thinking, go on now, I was just thinking that,
perhaps go.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Ahead, Allan tell her you what the job?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Did you hear something, Missus Evans?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I'm waiting to hear you who you have in mind
for the job that's open.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
I'll take that job, missus Evans.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
What did you say?
Speaker 5 (04:36):
I said I'll take that job?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Right, I hadn't told you that you might handle the job?
All right? Yes, yes, you might. Come on in the office, Blaine.
Let's talk this thing over.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Assistant manager's office. Oh, Judith Darling, how are you hey?
You're coming down to see my new office. Oh? I
thought you said you'd tried to make it today. Well
I've had my new job for two weeks now, all right, dear, yeah, goodbye.
(05:30):
I can't understand Judith lately. It seems like she's avoiding me.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Don't trust her, Alan, don't trust her, Allan, don't trust her?
What don't trust her? Don't trust her? Alan, I want
you she's not to be trusted.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Oh, oh, it's you.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Hell that ain't May I come in? Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I suppose, sir.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
My.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
You're beautiful tonight, am I? Oh that dress looks wonderful
on you. I'm glad you're all dressed up. Honey, we're
gonna celebrate. I've just been promoted, Darling. Now I'm making
enough for us to live.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
On.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Come on, let's paint the town. Then when we find
us the right spot, I'm gonna ask you to marry
me again. Why aren't you gonna say something, Judy?
Speaker 7 (06:40):
I have an engagement tonight, Alan.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Oh, but you can call it off.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
No, I'm fraid I can't think.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
What's happened to us? Now I'm making the money you
always wanted me to make.
Speaker 7 (06:50):
You have to go, now, Alan, what I've just a
few minutes to finish with my makeup.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
You'll have to go now with Juli.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Please a minute. I've asked you to go.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
I haven't much time, so you haven't much time. Well,
let me tell you something, Judith West.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
That you tell me what?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Don't say?
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Alan?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Don't well, Allan, I warn you there'll be a quarrel.
You'll kill her this time if you quarrel.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I'm waiting, Alan, never mind, Just forget it.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Good evening, my dear.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Alan. Perhaps I should have told you last night. I didn't.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
So I'm writing to you now. You have made quite
a fool of yourself over me. For some time now,
I've only permitted you to believe I loved you because
I've always felt sorry for you. Now you're successful, and
so I write you the truth. I'm being married tomorrow
(08:24):
to a man from South America.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I've never loved you.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
I know that I never carried, and so.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
I'm writing it's Adams.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
You please call me at eleven thirty about twelve o'clock
lunching day. M letter from Judith, probably an apology for
last night. I wonder what she said, mm hmm, Alan,
(09:11):
perhaps I should have told you writing to you now,
I a fool of yourself. Always felt sorry for you
being married tomorrow. I have never lose a loved you
(09:33):
never loved me. Oh she can't mean now, Yeah she
wrote it, Yes, she wrote it. Oh, so she's been
playing ball with me all these years? Felt sorry for me?
Did she sorry? Well, I'll make her sorry. I'll sure,
I'll kill her.
Speaker 8 (09:51):
Yes, I'll kill her.
Speaker 9 (09:52):
Don't go to her, Alan, sure, I'm sure she can't
toss me off like an old glove.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Put that gun back, Alan, put it back in the drawer.
I say, oh no, I warn you, you'll be sorry
if you don't put the gun away and calm yourself.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
I won't And you can't stop me.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
No, I can't stop you.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Nothing can stop me, nobody, not Now. So she feels sorry,
for me. Well, I wonder if she'll feel sorry for
herself with a bullet in her cheating hut.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
All right, darling, I'll meet my day.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
Yes, I've written a note to Alant.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Some things off completely? All right? Do who's there? Who
is it?
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Alan?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
But you won't.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Go now, Alan, Alan, listen to me. Go sober yourself up, Alan,
go away. You've lost your job, spent all your money.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
This is no way how to leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I want to help you, help me.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Why didn't you leave me alone? And again with I.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Want you not to go to her apartment. You're a
murderer now, Allan, you're wanted by the police.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
A boway away.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
You should have listened to me.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
I was trying to leave me alone. Leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I know what you're thinking. You're tired. The spirits aud
enough for you. Now you want something else? Yeah, don't
do it then, and stay away from it.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
No, I'm not listening to you anymore. I'm not listening.
Speaker 8 (12:27):
Do you hear me?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Go away?
Speaker 8 (12:29):
I'm not listening to a thing you say.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Please don't come in.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
M A friend of mine sent me.
Speaker 10 (12:51):
Mull fall, honorable mister Mullins, so young, say fauld to
help any plan, honorable mister Mullins, He said, I could
forget my troubles here. Flubble you have flubble plays Maddy.
You want Mabbie to sleep? Sleep, anything anything.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
To stop this awful burning in my mind.
Speaker 10 (13:16):
You smoke, Mabbie, the effects fell your sleep? Yeah, sleep
you lie hair, please splatch out, make comfortable here you
smoke pace, take pipe you sleep, Yeah, so you feel better,
(13:37):
buy and buy. No, no, no, no, please do lie down,
you smoke. Let they soon sleep? Sleep, don't Dalen.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I beg you don't smoke that away. Please not to shout.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Tell him to go away. There is no one. Don't
you're shore him? I hear, no one a place to
be quiet? Just mop plan his on sleep sleep.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
It's too late now. I tried to warn you, but
it's too late now. Where am I so strange?
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Quiet? Peaceful? What's this.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Book?
Speaker 5 (14:49):
All right? Why? A diary? Aaron Blaine A That was
my great grandfather's name. This was his diary? Where am I?
(15:11):
Seems like like a cave? Yeah it is a cave.
My clothes so neat and so clean. Yesterday, yes, even today,
I was almost ragged. I remember too. I was tired born.
(15:38):
Now now I feel refreshed. How did I get here
in this cave? At night? From the fire? I can
read the book by the fire.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
We I'm now in the midst of a dreadful civil war.
I fear everything I own is lost. I have only
managed to save my gold.
Speaker 11 (16:14):
Cold.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
I figure it's value at more than eighty thousand dollars.
I have buried it to day beneath the horse stall
at the east end of the barn. It will never
be found there cold, very beneath the horse stall and
(16:39):
the barn. But what barn. It's daylight. Perhaps if I
get out of this cave. Yeah, there's the opening as
it is daylight. And there's the farm over there. It's
an old farm. Maybe if I go over there, I'll
(17:01):
find what I want. You will say this farm did
belong to Overre and blame as ride. Boss Man, by
the time of the Civil war was reckon.
Speaker 9 (17:20):
My pathy doesn't.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Work for him who owns the place. Now I'll reckon Uncle.
Speaker 9 (17:24):
Sam do now, boss Man? I paid the taxes, want
a can and then lets me live here? Got myself
a holls out there in the barn. Yeah, you don't
raising the horse he isn't that bond?
Speaker 5 (17:36):
I'll fall down?
Speaker 10 (17:37):
Yeah, I see there, well over this way, boss.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Are you sure this barn's been standing since the Civil War?
Sure has, boss Man.
Speaker 9 (17:48):
I has to prop it up here and there once
in a while.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I won't go to.
Speaker 9 (17:52):
Pieces any day now. As olds on the boat, all
das under boat? He asked about to spade here, mesting, Yeah,
there's one right over here.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Yeah, I'll set the lander down right there. Keep that
animal back, how I'm going to start digging, digging, balls man? Yes,
And if I find what I'm looking for, you and
I are going to be rich. There it is, the
(18:30):
Mercy balls Man. Something bad there, Yeah, metal box, come on,
help me get it out of there. Okay, man, can
you get ahold of that cornet?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I think so? Of course.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
We're heavy. Yeah, I got a lock on it. Go
fix that. No, it's heavy. There we are lo the
mercy balls Man. Look at that gold? Yeah, gold? Eighteen
thousand dollars worth of gold. What's that?
Speaker 9 (19:01):
Must be the piercing boys. Who piercing boys? Boss man?
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Who are they?
Speaker 9 (19:06):
They've been trying to get this farm, only they ain't
got enough money to pay the back taxes. Oaks Ryan
here always said to know that this gold man is unglazed.
They must have seen you, and nowadays trying to scare y'all.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
It's a good thing. It's nice. We're gonna come down
here this afternoon. That I decided to stay in the
cave till that cave and say, boss man, yeah, over
to the hills.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
We better get ourselves over there.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Boss he's going to keep his hair.
Speaker 9 (19:33):
Goal then Pierson balls been looking for it for ten years.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
They catch us with it, they.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
Want to take it away from us. Boss I reckon,
I can't stay much longer.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Man, We've got to stay here long that so am I.
We can't leave this cave until murdering thieves out there
go away, Moss.
Speaker 9 (20:02):
We done been here two nights in the day. They've
gone now, Allan, you who bossed me?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
It's safe now, Allen?
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Boss man, what are you looking so funny? Mind?
Speaker 9 (20:13):
You look like you don't hear the spook or something talking.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
You can go out now, Allen. They've gone away.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Come along time.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
How we want to leave your boss man?
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Yeah? Help me carry this bar? How come you to
change your mind? I didn't it was changed for me.
Come a walk, Come.
Speaker 9 (20:31):
Where shall all will be good to rap this old
boy around a good sick old steak and maybe a
fire old chickens.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
All careful that's got around behind this tall grass.
Speaker 9 (20:41):
All right, boss man, your watches step out here. There's
there's lots of snakes over here.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Snakes. Yes, Biggins too, boss man, and pieson, come on,
hobout this way. Wait a minute.
Speaker 9 (20:55):
Oh, look over there, boss man, that's how great. Yeah,
come on, good lord, Look horseman looking over there.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
A bony, fleshless hand reaching up out of.
Speaker 9 (21:14):
The gravest man, how come many hand over there?
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Whoever that was? They buried him alive? Come on, most man,
I don't feel it un too comforable around here. Wait
a minute. Something scratched into the tombstone. I can't quite
make out what it says.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
Yeah, that's better one than say boys. I can't read it,
says Aaron Blame. Aaron Blaine died August sixteenth, eighteen sixty one.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
August sixteen, eighteen sixty one.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
My great grandfather buried alive.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Me say yore, happy I didn't die then. I was
only unconscious from exhaustion. They thought I was dead, so
they brought me here.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
How are you.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I brought you here to show you this.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
How did I get here?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
The opium removed the spirit from your body? I brought
it here.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Oh, take me back, you can never return. Yes, take
me back. I have the gold now I'll be wrench.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
No, yes, take me back, take me back.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
I say poison, been poisoned by that snake.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I can't.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
H h.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Hi good, um hm.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
No, Allen, I warn you now, You'll never.
Speaker 11 (23:21):
Bad.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
And just see.
Speaker 12 (23:55):
You have heard Dead Hands Reaching Tonight's original tale of
Doc dotas a by Scott Bishop, originating in the studios
of w k Y.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
The picturization story.
Speaker 12 (24:06):
Of Dead ND's Reaching appears in the May sixteenth issue
of Movie Radio Guide. Then Marris was heard as Alan Blaine.
Eleanor Naylor Curran played Judith West m Your Height with
Young seafou Georgianna Cook played Missus Evans, and Daryl McAllister
was Aaron Blaine, the voice from Beyond. Next Friday, listened
(24:28):
to Dark Pantasy thirty five minutes earlier at eleven thirty
PM Eastern wartime, ten thirty Central wartime. Listen for Rendezvous
with Satan, another unusual adventure by Scott Bishop, Tom Paxton
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