September 5, 2024 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Fantasy supustitioned.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Behave, Ladies and Gentlemen, as the final startling and breathtaking
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performance on this afternoon's program, and just before the grand
and glorious finale, it gives me great pleasure to introduce
to you the one, the only, the incomparable world's most
(01:39):
daring Trappies performer, Flyer Sampson. Today, for the first time
in history, Flier Samson into you sing his own original
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and sensational super trappy stunt, the gigantic, colossal giant swing Flyaway,
in addition to which Flying Sampson will perform two and
one half somersaults onto that lofty swinging Trappees the most difficult,
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the most spectacular, the most daredevil performance of all times,
Ladies and gentleman, and you are about to witness it
for the first time. So all eyes attention, I give
you high in the tent top, that supreme motist who
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refuses to use a net, the better to entertain you.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Why, Essentiel.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Barker, Oh Barker.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Do you think he'll make it far?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, he can't miss.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
He missed twice yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, that was before he found his trouble. It ain't
no role after he got the hang of.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
It, Barker, don't say that. What ruby the hang of it?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Do you remember Para Jalla said, Yeah, his flyer wearing
a white feather. I can't see when he pends it
at the belt on the left side.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeh.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Now his left sides away from us anyways, suits so white.
We couldn't tell.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Where's yours?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Where's your feather?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yes? Inside him, inside my ring jacket. Yeah. See yeah, yeah,
that was the cleverest times keeping your fellow in your hair.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yes, it adds to my costume.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Oh, he's getting ready.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Oh, I hope he makes it.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
He will.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
He missed twice yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, but he hadn't gotten a hanger, Yes, hadn't got
the idea.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, and he used a net yesterday. We should use
a net to be sure.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
He sure? Now ready?
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Now watch he do with a giant swing on that
stationary bar, let loose fly through the air and a
two and a half summers off, catch that swinging trapeze
bar at the other end of the tenth.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
No, why do haven't I wask him practice for weeks?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah? The trick is to catch that swinging trapeze at
the other end of the tenth.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I hope he's wearing the feather.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
He goes, there's a giant swing once, twice, three.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
Four five, he's in the air, rubber bar wire, heaven.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Love love cadd him.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I told him to wear the white feather with the
spot of blood and jella. He is wearing the petter
and I told him to. Now look at him.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Hanging there, caught in the twisted trappee's rope, hanging.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Excuse me, oh Ruby, fuck the.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Fat I couldn't find it in Flys dressing room.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Ruby, come in, miss.
Speaker 8 (05:37):
Uh Ruby, I take it you're talking about the dead
man's dressing room.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Why yes, uh huh thought so excuse me and please
okay Cowers Sampson's dressing room.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Nobody in or out.
Speaker 8 (05:58):
Right now, Miss Ruby. Suppose you tell me about the
white feather.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Ruby, police inspector, Guilfoil inspector.
Speaker 8 (06:12):
This Ruby Brooks, Well, Ruby Brooks, I must say, you
don't look a bit like your pictures on the billboards.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Oh right, wise guy. I don't have to stick around
here and be insulted. I know my right.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Insulted, My dear girl.
Speaker 8 (06:27):
What I meant was, you're so much more attractive than
those horrible posters they have up all over town.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
A girl, what's a copper doing in here?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Just asking questions? Ruby, routine stuff, you know, be nice
to 'em.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Sure, Ruby, it's not a bad idea.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
What do you want?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Good checking up?
Speaker 8 (06:50):
Well, run a pretty respectable town here?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Can we run a pretty respectable circus? Mister?
Speaker 8 (06:57):
I'm sure you do. Except every now and then somebody
winds up in a casket leaning what?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Oh nothing?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
You're trying to make something out of fly Sampson's.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Death, nothing more than it really is.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Well, he died by accidency, and if you want some witnesses, brother,
just advertise for any one of those eleven hundred people
who saw him die.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
They tell me fly As Sampson was a first rate acrobat.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
He's the best in the business. Yes, I mean he was.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
They also tell me he was trying out a new
trick today.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
And they were on the public. He's been working on
it for two years.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
And I also understand today is the first time he's
tried it without a net. So what if it is strange?
Isn't it that a man should die trying his new
stunt for the first time?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I don't see anything so strange about it.
Speaker 8 (07:53):
No, you use a net for your trapeze act, don't you.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
What's that got to do with well?
Speaker 8 (08:00):
I was just thinking the flyer Samson not using a
net and perfecting a stunt nobody'd ever done before. It
was liable to put out your spotlighter.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Not chu, wise guy. If you're insinuating, I'll.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Take it easy, baby, take it easy.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
I wasn't insinuating anything. Rull Be was merely telling you
what I was thinking. Now, Barker, Yeah, what's your real name?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Jeff Kilby? People in the business call me back at
Kilby and the young lady she's my wife.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
I see.
Speaker 8 (08:42):
I presume you performed as usual today, missus Kilby.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Naturally I have the high spot of program.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
I'm afraid I rather disagree with you.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
A high spot seems to have gone today to flyer Samson.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
About the white feather?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Well, Barker, do we have to put up with this?
After all? While I wasn't.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Murdered, are you positive he wasn't murdered?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Of course, it was an accident. Ask anybody who.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Saw it, And what's the white feather got.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
To do with it?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Nothing at all?
Speaker 8 (09:17):
Suppose you let me decide I don't know what you're
talking about.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Yes, you do. Ruby, Remember the first thing you said
when you come in here was.
Speaker 8 (09:30):
You couldn't find the white feather in flyers dressing room.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I don't remember, a.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Very bad memory.
Speaker 8 (09:42):
And why Ruby, if your Barker's wife, did you not
before coming in here?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Just a habit? You've only been married two days.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
I understand, mister Kilby, you've been married two years. You see,
before I investigate a case, I always do the preliminary
work beforehand.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
He didn't announce our marriage until a couple of days ago.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
I see now about the fella.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
There's no feather?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Another think there is?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Isn't there? Ull be?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
You're blame right, there is wise guy in your hat,
and you're talking through that.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
In other words, you won't talk.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
We've got nothing to say now wherever? Why are Sampson
died by accident? And if you happen to find out
he was murdered, we didn't have anything to do with it.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
That the way you feel, too, Barker, Sure he does, Barker.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yeah, that's the way I feel about it.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Very well.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
I realize I can't force you to tell me about
the feather yet.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
But I'll be wrong. Sure, I'll be wrong.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
M oh.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Baker.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Maybe you shouldn't have talked to him like that.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
It's gone. The feather isn't in Flier's dressing room any place.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Are you sure?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Why?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
There's the whole place. It isn't in there, and it
wasn't on flyer when when it happened.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
He couldn't have destroyed it.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Oh, we both beg him not to, but he might have. Yeah,
he laughed at us when we told him what Harajaana said,
told us we were a couple of superstitious fool I
remember nobody finally promised a web a feather just to
please us. Well he didn't.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
And now that's what hara Jalla predicted has happened.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
Arajalla's predictions always happened. How did you get in here?
You've always taken me for a fraud? M h there's
that one entrance to this room.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
But you didn't come in that way?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
No, I didn't, did I? How observing you are rubying?
What do you want? Why? I?
Speaker 7 (12:00):
I just thought I should speak to you as a
friendly gesture, speak to us about what about the white feather,
the spots of blood? Well, it's a pity that Flyer
Samson ignored my warning, but the covers right flier was
murdered to the contrary, who saw him misjudge his distance,
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rushed the trapeze rope with his shoulder and become twisted
in its coils.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Because he wasn't wearing a feather.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
Yes, exactly, because he refused to take my warning. I
told the three of you where the white feather of
a baby swan spotted with the blood of a dove,
lest the horrible fate overtake you.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
He did say that Barker.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Flyer Samson only laughed. Even when I gave him the
feather for his own protection. He laughed, or he took
it because I compelled him to.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
The feather is Manny's dressing room. Oh where is it?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I have it? You? Yes, here, you see where did
you get it? Fly from?
Speaker 7 (13:03):
Flyer Sampson. Naturally he gave it back to you. Oh No,
I gave the matter much thought. I disliked his laughing
at me. I told him what I saw in his future.
I told him that he and Hugh, Barker and Ruby
all have the same faith dead by hanging, and that
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faith can only be avoided by wedding a white dever
of a baby's swaden spotted with the blood of a dove.
How did you get the feather back? I took it back,
took it back. Yes, Flyia Sampson was a fool. He
wouldn't believe me, called me a fraud. He said he
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wasn't superstitious.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
You stole the feather from Flyer. You knew he'd die
if he didn't wear that.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
Fella, certainly, I saw it in his future, just as
I've seen it in yours and rubies.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
You killed him. He killed himself. Now you did you
knew him die if you took a feather? Haka, he
laughed at me. I do not like being.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Loughed at you, dirty rat, Barker.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
You killed him just as sure as if you're strong,
aim up yourself. Don't come in it closer with your knife, Barker. No, no, no,
I always knew you were rap. Regretted if you kill me.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
I have never regretted killing a snake in my life.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I keep back.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Yeah, so Flyer wasn't wearing his feather because because he
stole it from him, revenge himself. Because Flyer wasn't superstitious,
he did Yeah, no loss.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Oh what did you do?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
You got it coming? Why? Samson was the best man
of the business.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
With that cop, he's still hanging around some place.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
We gotta beat it where too. I don't know annywhere,
but we gotta beat it. Go with you, go pack
your things.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
No time for that barker. That cop may be back
any minute now.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
I guess I lost my head. Seen him standing there
holding flyers.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Pa.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Oh, come on, got any dough?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Yeah, a couple of hundred.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
I've got fifty, Thank heavens, I've got it with me.
Come on, we gotta got ahead of.
Speaker 9 (15:22):
That com How Barker, We shouldn't have taken this plane.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
It's the fastest way to cover a long distance.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
I know.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
But so much money?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Do you want to get away? Don't you?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Of course? What what are we gonna do when the
catch runs out? We'll get a job walking tight wires
and swinging from tenth pops.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I suppose now we'll go to Europe.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
You are on three hundred.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
But stop worrying? Will you give me the willie?
Speaker 7 (15:57):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I had just use your head.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I'll start that.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
I told your whole business, and so help me, I'll
make your wish it kept your trap shop.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Oh right, Eh, what are your plans when we get
to Frisco?
Speaker 1 (16:07):
And we'll hide out in the cheap room in the house,
keep indoors most of the time.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Mmm, I'm gonna enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Well, you didn't have to come along.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Maybe I'll be better off if I headn't.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Oh no, baby, take it easy. I didn't mean it.
I just never been on the lamb before it.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Well I have and I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah, there's the airport. Yeah, we're on the grounds.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
M gotta hop a cab as a if you can.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
But uh, here we are backer. What baby?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Look out this way now, careful, he'll see you.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
You'll see me.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Look for yourself at cop Go for it.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
How did he get here ahead of us?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
How he is watching for us to get off the plane? Oh?
What are we gonna do?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
You remember? Get me Barker. Lit't go something easy, baby,
I have just stepped out of the cabin.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
You got to do you.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Just wait and see? All right, brother, this is a
gun in your ribs.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
I'll get back there at those controls and see how
fast you can get this plane into the air again.
Speaker 10 (17:30):
Ruby Ruby Webby, wake up?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
How you apprighten me quick a fire escape.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I saw he'll foil the cop, I think, so come on,
leave everything.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
You got, the door left and come on now the
fire escape.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Hurry now, how the window haker? Look you go up, Ruby.
They haven't spotted this yet.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Half a dozen cops down there.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Yeah, that smart cop.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Get on our rail.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I don't know. Six weeks on the running, he's still
right behind us. Come on, baby, there's a rooftop barker.
Come on, come on, I forgot the feather. Oh, come on,
come on, there's no time for that.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I've got to go back and get it.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
No, no, no, I haven't got time. Besides Jallas dead,
nothing happened to us. Now, come on, baby, hurry along
these roofs until we can find a place to get on.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Take it easy. They won't get us if all.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
We've high this way, Ruby, over here, I should have
brought that feather. You know what Harold was said, he's dead.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
The spell is broken.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
It wasn't a spell, it was something he read in
our futures. He said that because you and I and
Flyer Sampson were born on the same days.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
If I have to jump here one building to the other,
just a couple of feet here.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I'll go first.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah, I'll come on, Ruby, that's a couple of feet
all right, but can you see me?
Speaker 9 (18:43):
All right?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Yes, maybe there's still time to get.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
Up nuts just because Flyer Sampson got his neck cut
in net trap pieces, no sign.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
We're gonna end up the same way.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
Come on now, just give a good jump.
Speaker 10 (18:55):
Now that's it, Ruby, Good lord? Those wires around her neck?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Rob?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
What's this someone? But in my room? Someone searched him?
That cop? Yeah, that filthy copper he's tailing me. I
gotta get out, gotta get out of here. Hump a freight. Yeah,
that's it.
Speaker 10 (19:54):
You gotta get out before it's too late.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Yeah, what was with me? Only one box car and
open door and maybe it just in time. I'd close
the door and uh yeah it's safe now. No one
followed me. I'm sure that tired. And then from that
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copper they'd find a place I can lie down rest.
Yeah that's what I need.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah, like you to find an open box car with
no one in it? But that is someone ball carve
that don't you recognize?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
My boy?
Speaker 7 (21:02):
It's so dark in here, you remember, Barker, who are you?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Who are I say, I've got a gun, and why
don't you use it?
Speaker 9 (21:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (21:11):
I will.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
You couldn't this in this small place, could you? Barker?
Who are what kept me from hit you?
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Your life was more effective, remember, Jaba? Do you have
the white feather Barker? Jo, No, no, give me the feather? No,
no anything but that I gave it to you once.
I want it back again. Then perhaps I can condense you.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Oh, kip away from it. Don't touch me. You can't
see me, can you, Barker?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Give away?
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Yeah you feel me? Now, hand me the feathery? Yeah,
thank you, Barker.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Now I have all three of them. A dormish I'm
get out of here. Are you going to jump?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Bart?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Take away?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Give away from it?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
We're picking up speed?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Keep away? Don't touch me again.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
We'll soon be moving too fast for you to jump.
You'd better do it now.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Yeah, yeah, I will.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
You don't want to stay here with me?
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Do you?
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Box?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
No? Have you got the others?
Speaker 4 (22:25):
You look at me?
Speaker 7 (22:34):
You did jump pool, Barker, And how pretty you look
hanging back there?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I'm that mail dark and to stay.
Speaker 11 (23:34):
You have heard superstition be hanged. The seventeenth Tale of
Dark fantasy by Scott Bishop, originating in.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
The studios of W K Y.
Speaker 11 (23:45):
Ben Morris was heard tonight as barker Ermy Ray played Ruby.
Garland Moss was the fortune teller, and Muriel o' schofield
was Detective Kurt Gilfoyle. Next Friday, at the same time,
listened to Scott Bishop's eighteenth story in this dark fantasy series,
Pennsylvania Turnpike, the weird and exciting tale of an aged
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hitchhiker who, strangely enough refused to accept a ride in
any car which did not have a person with red hair.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
As an occupant.
Speaker 11 (24:20):
Tom Paxton speaking Dark Fantasy, comes to you from Oklahoma City.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
This is the National Broadcasting Company
Fantasy supustitioned.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Behave, Ladies and Gentlemen, as the final startling and breathtaking
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performance on this afternoon's program, and just before the grand
and glorious finale, it gives me great pleasure to introduce
to you the one, the only, the incomparable world's most
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daring Trappies performer, Flyer Sampson. Today, for the first time
in history, Flier Samson into you sing his own original
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and sensational super trappy stunt, the gigantic, colossal giant swing Flyaway,
in addition to which Flying Sampson will perform two and
one half somersaults onto that lofty swinging Trappees the most difficult,
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the most spectacular, the most daredevil performance of all times,
Ladies and gentleman, and you are about to witness it
for the first time. So all eyes attention, I give
you high in the tent top, that supreme motist who
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refuses to use a net, the better to entertain you.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Why, Essentiel.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Barker, Oh Barker.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Do you think he'll make it far?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, he can't miss.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
He missed twice yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah, that was before he found his trouble. It ain't
no role after he got the hang of.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
It, Barker, don't say that. What ruby the hang of it?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Do you remember Para Jalla said, Yeah, his flyer wearing
a white feather. I can't see when he pends it
at the belt on the left side.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yeh.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Now his left sides away from us anyways, suits so white.
We couldn't tell.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Where's yours?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Where's your feather?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Yes? Inside him, inside my ring jacket. Yeah. See yeah, yeah,
that was the cleverest times keeping your fellow in your hair.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yes, it adds to my costume.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Oh, he's getting ready.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Oh, I hope he makes it.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
He will.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
He missed twice yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, but he hadn't gotten a hanger, Yes, hadn't got
the idea.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, and he used a net yesterday. We should use
a net to be sure.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
He sure? Now ready?
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Now watch he do with a giant swing on that
stationary bar, let loose fly through the air and a
two and a half summers off, catch that swinging trapeze
bar at the other end of the tenth.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
No, why do haven't I wask him practice for weeks?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah? The trick is to catch that swinging trapeze at
the other end of the tenth.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I hope he's wearing the feather.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
He goes, there's a giant swing once, twice, three.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
Four five, he's in the air, rubber bar wire, heaven.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Love love cadd him.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I told him to wear the white feather with the
spot of blood and jella. He is wearing the petter
and I told him to. Now look at him.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Hanging there, caught in the twisted trappee's rope, hanging.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Excuse me, oh Ruby, fuck the.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Fat I couldn't find it in Flys dressing room.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Ruby, come in, miss.
Speaker 8 (05:37):
Uh Ruby, I take it you're talking about the dead
man's dressing room.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Why yes, uh huh thought so excuse me and please
okay Cowers Sampson's dressing room.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Nobody in or out.
Speaker 8 (05:58):
Right now, Miss Ruby. Suppose you tell me about the
white feather.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Ruby, police inspector, Guilfoil inspector.
Speaker 8 (06:12):
This Ruby Brooks, Well, Ruby Brooks, I must say, you
don't look a bit like your pictures on the billboards.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Oh right, wise guy. I don't have to stick around
here and be insulted. I know my right.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Insulted, My dear girl.
Speaker 8 (06:27):
What I meant was, you're so much more attractive than
those horrible posters they have up all over town.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
A girl, what's a copper doing in here?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Just asking questions? Ruby, routine stuff, you know, be nice
to 'em.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Sure, Ruby, it's not a bad idea.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
What do you want?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Good checking up?
Speaker 8 (06:50):
Well, run a pretty respectable town here?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Can we run a pretty respectable circus? Mister?
Speaker 8 (06:57):
I'm sure you do. Except every now and then somebody
winds up in a casket leaning what?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Oh nothing?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
You're trying to make something out of fly Sampson's.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Death, nothing more than it really is.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Well, he died by accidency, and if you want some witnesses, brother,
just advertise for any one of those eleven hundred people
who saw him die.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
They tell me fly As Sampson was a first rate acrobat.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
He's the best in the business. Yes, I mean he was.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
They also tell me he was trying out a new
trick today.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
And they were on the public. He's been working on
it for two years.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
And I also understand today is the first time he's
tried it without a net. So what if it is strange?
Isn't it that a man should die trying his new
stunt for the first time?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I don't see anything so strange about it.
Speaker 8 (07:53):
No, you use a net for your trapeze act, don't you.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
What's that got to do with well?
Speaker 8 (08:00):
I was just thinking the flyer Samson not using a
net and perfecting a stunt nobody'd ever done before. It
was liable to put out your spotlighter.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Not chu, wise guy. If you're insinuating, I'll.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Take it easy, baby, take it easy.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
I wasn't insinuating anything. Rull Be was merely telling you
what I was thinking. Now, Barker, Yeah, what's your real name?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Jeff Kilby? People in the business call me back at
Kilby and the young lady she's my wife.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
I see.
Speaker 8 (08:42):
I presume you performed as usual today, missus Kilby.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Naturally I have the high spot of program.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
I'm afraid I rather disagree with you.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
A high spot seems to have gone today to flyer Samson.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
About the white feather?
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Well, Barker, do we have to put up with this?
After all? While I wasn't.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Murdered, are you positive he wasn't murdered?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Of course, it was an accident. Ask anybody who.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Saw it, And what's the white feather got.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
To do with it?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Nothing at all?
Speaker 8 (09:17):
Suppose you let me decide I don't know what you're
talking about.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Yes, you do. Ruby, Remember the first thing you said
when you come in here was.
Speaker 8 (09:30):
You couldn't find the white feather in flyers dressing room.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I don't remember, a.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Very bad memory.
Speaker 8 (09:42):
And why Ruby, if your Barker's wife, did you not
before coming in here?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Just a habit? You've only been married two days.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
I understand, mister Kilby, you've been married two years. You see,
before I investigate a case, I always do the preliminary
work beforehand.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
He didn't announce our marriage until a couple of days ago.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
I see now about the fella.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
There's no feather?
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Another think there is?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Isn't there? Ull be?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
You're blame right, there is wise guy in your hat,
and you're talking through that.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
In other words, you won't talk.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
We've got nothing to say now wherever? Why are Sampson
died by accident? And if you happen to find out
he was murdered, we didn't have anything to do with it.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
That the way you feel, too, Barker, Sure he does, Barker.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yeah, that's the way I feel about it.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Very well.
Speaker 8 (10:44):
I realize I can't force you to tell me about
the feather yet.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
But I'll be wrong. Sure, I'll be wrong.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
M oh.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Baker.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Maybe you shouldn't have talked to him like that.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
It's gone. The feather isn't in Flier's dressing room any place.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Are you sure?
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Why?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
There's the whole place. It isn't in there, and it
wasn't on flyer when when it happened.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
He couldn't have destroyed it.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Oh, we both beg him not to, but he might have. Yeah,
he laughed at us when we told him what Harajaana said,
told us we were a couple of superstitious fool I
remember nobody finally promised a web a feather just to
please us. Well he didn't.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
And now that's what hara Jalla predicted has happened.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
Arajalla's predictions always happened. How did you get in here?
You've always taken me for a fraud? M h there's
that one entrance to this room.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
But you didn't come in that way?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
No, I didn't, did I? How observing you are rubying?
What do you want? Why? I?
Speaker 7 (12:00):
I just thought I should speak to you as a
friendly gesture, speak to us about what about the white feather,
the spots of blood? Well, it's a pity that Flyer
Samson ignored my warning, but the covers right flier was
murdered to the contrary, who saw him misjudge his distance,
(12:21):
rushed the trapeze rope with his shoulder and become twisted
in its coils.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Because he wasn't wearing a feather.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
Yes, exactly, because he refused to take my warning. I
told the three of you where the white feather of
a baby swan spotted with the blood of a dove,
lest the horrible fate overtake you.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
He did say that Barker.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Flyer Samson only laughed. Even when I gave him the
feather for his own protection. He laughed, or he took
it because I compelled him to.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
The feather is Manny's dressing room. Oh where is it?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I have it? You? Yes, here, you see where did
you get it? Fly from?
Speaker 7 (13:03):
Flyer Sampson. Naturally he gave it back to you. Oh No,
I gave the matter much thought. I disliked his laughing
at me. I told him what I saw in his future.
I told him that he and Hugh, Barker and Ruby
all have the same faith dead by hanging, and that
(13:28):
faith can only be avoided by wedding a white dever
of a baby's swaden spotted with the blood of a dove.
How did you get the feather back? I took it back,
took it back. Yes, Flyia Sampson was a fool. He
wouldn't believe me, called me a fraud. He said he
(13:51):
wasn't superstitious.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
You stole the feather from Flyer. You knew he'd die
if he didn't wear that.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
Fella, certainly, I saw it in his future, just as
I've seen it in yours and rubies.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
You killed him. He killed himself. Now you did you
knew him die if you took a feather? Haka, he
laughed at me. I do not like being.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Loughed at you, dirty rat, Barker.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
You killed him just as sure as if you're strong,
aim up yourself. Don't come in it closer with your knife, Barker. No, no, no,
I always knew you were rap. Regretted if you kill me.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
I have never regretted killing a snake in my life.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I keep back.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Yeah, so Flyer wasn't wearing his feather because because he
stole it from him, revenge himself. Because Flyer wasn't superstitious,
he did Yeah, no loss.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Oh what did you do?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
You got it coming? Why? Samson was the best man
of the business.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
With that cop, he's still hanging around some place.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
We gotta beat it where too. I don't know annywhere,
but we gotta beat it. Go with you, go pack
your things.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
No time for that barker. That cop may be back
any minute now.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
I guess I lost my head. Seen him standing there
holding flyers.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Pa.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Oh, come on, got any dough?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Yeah, a couple of hundred.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
I've got fifty, Thank heavens, I've got it with me.
Come on, we gotta got ahead of.
Speaker 9 (15:22):
That com How Barker, We shouldn't have taken this plane.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
It's the fastest way to cover a long distance.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
I know.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
But so much money?
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Do you want to get away? Don't you?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Of course? What what are we gonna do when the
catch runs out? We'll get a job walking tight wires
and swinging from tenth pops.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I suppose now we'll go to Europe.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
You are on three hundred.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
But stop worrying? Will you give me the willie?
Speaker 7 (15:57):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I had just use your head.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I'll start that.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
I told your whole business, and so help me, I'll
make your wish it kept your trap shop.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Oh right, Eh, what are your plans when we get
to Frisco?
Speaker 1 (16:07):
And we'll hide out in the cheap room in the house,
keep indoors most of the time.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Mmm, I'm gonna enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Well, you didn't have to come along.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Maybe I'll be better off if I headn't.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
Oh no, baby, take it easy. I didn't mean it.
I just never been on the lamb before it.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Well I have and I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah, there's the airport. Yeah, we're on the grounds.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
M gotta hop a cab as a if you can.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
But uh, here we are backer. What baby?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Look out this way now, careful, he'll see you.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
You'll see me.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Look for yourself at cop Go for it.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
How did he get here ahead of us?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
How he is watching for us to get off the plane? Oh?
What are we gonna do?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
You remember? Get me Barker. Lit't go something easy, baby,
I have just stepped out of the cabin.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
You got to do you.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Just wait and see? All right, brother, this is a
gun in your ribs.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
I'll get back there at those controls and see how
fast you can get this plane into the air again.
Speaker 10 (17:30):
Ruby Ruby Webby, wake up?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
How you apprighten me quick a fire escape.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I saw he'll foil the cop, I think, so come on,
leave everything.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
You got, the door left and come on now the
fire escape.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Hurry now, how the window haker? Look you go up, Ruby.
They haven't spotted this yet.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Half a dozen cops down there.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Yeah, that smart cop.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Get on our rail.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I don't know. Six weeks on the running, he's still
right behind us. Come on, baby, there's a rooftop barker.
Come on, come on, I forgot the feather. Oh, come on,
come on, there's no time for that.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I've got to go back and get it.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
No, no, no, I haven't got time. Besides Jallas dead,
nothing happened to us. Now, come on, baby, hurry along
these roofs until we can find a place to get on.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Take it easy. They won't get us if all.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
We've high this way, Ruby, over here, I should have
brought that feather. You know what Harold was said, he's dead.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
The spell is broken.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
It wasn't a spell, it was something he read in
our futures. He said that because you and I and
Flyer Sampson were born on the same days.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
If I have to jump here one building to the other,
just a couple of feet here.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I'll go first.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah, I'll come on, Ruby, that's a couple of feet
all right, but can you see me?
Speaker 9 (18:43):
All right?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Yes, maybe there's still time to get.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
Up nuts just because Flyer Sampson got his neck cut
in net trap pieces, no sign.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
We're gonna end up the same way.
Speaker 7 (18:51):
Come on now, just give a good jump.
Speaker 10 (18:55):
Now that's it, Ruby, Good lord? Those wires around her neck?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Rob?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
What's this someone? But in my room? Someone searched him?
That cop? Yeah, that filthy copper he's tailing me. I
gotta get out, gotta get out of here. Hump a freight. Yeah,
that's it.
Speaker 10 (19:54):
You gotta get out before it's too late.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Yeah, what was with me? Only one box car and
open door and maybe it just in time. I'd close
the door and uh yeah it's safe now. No one
followed me. I'm sure that tired. And then from that
(20:43):
copper they'd find a place I can lie down rest.
Yeah that's what I need.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah, like you to find an open box car with
no one in it? But that is someone ball carve
that don't you recognize?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
My boy?
Speaker 7 (21:02):
It's so dark in here, you remember, Barker, who are you?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Who are I say, I've got a gun, and why
don't you use it?
Speaker 9 (21:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (21:11):
I will.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
You couldn't this in this small place, could you? Barker?
Who are what kept me from hit you?
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Your life was more effective, remember, Jaba? Do you have
the white feather Barker? Jo, No, no, give me the feather? No,
no anything but that I gave it to you once.
I want it back again. Then perhaps I can condense you.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Oh, kip away from it. Don't touch me. You can't
see me, can you, Barker?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Give away?
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Yeah you feel me? Now, hand me the feathery? Yeah,
thank you, Barker.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Now I have all three of them. A dormish I'm
get out of here. Are you going to jump?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Bart?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Take away?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Give away from it?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
We're picking up speed?
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Keep away? Don't touch me again.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
We'll soon be moving too fast for you to jump.
You'd better do it now.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Yeah, yeah, I will.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
You don't want to stay here with me?
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Do you?
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Box?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
No? Have you got the others?
Speaker 4 (22:25):
You look at me?
Speaker 7 (22:34):
You did jump pool, Barker, And how pretty you look
hanging back there?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I'm that mail dark and to stay.
Speaker 11 (23:34):
You have heard superstition be hanged. The seventeenth Tale of
Dark fantasy by Scott Bishop, originating in.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
The studios of W K Y.
Speaker 11 (23:45):
Ben Morris was heard tonight as barker Ermy Ray played Ruby.
Garland Moss was the fortune teller, and Muriel o' schofield
was Detective Kurt Gilfoyle. Next Friday, at the same time,
listened to Scott Bishop's eighteenth story in this dark fantasy series,
Pennsylvania Turnpike, the weird and exciting tale of an aged
(24:10):
hitchhiker who, strangely enough refused to accept a ride in
any car which did not have a person with red hair.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
As an occupant.
Speaker 11 (24:20):
Tom Paxton speaking Dark Fantasy, comes to you from Oklahoma City.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
This is the National Broadcasting Company
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