September 8, 2024 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
And just be good, Cup o'h gold.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
This is the deciding shot of the tournament. Ladies and gentlemen,
Truman Davis now champions. Jess sunk his's last part on
the last green to turn in the amazing score of
sixty eight. Jan Mason, the contender, is on the green
with a sixty six, which in itself is even more amazing.
Mason's ball lies at the very edge of the green,
looks like tough going. Should he think the ball in
one more stroke? Turning a sixty seven is compared with
the sixty eight by Davis. If I have a brand
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new champion, should Jan Mason require two strokes, he would
tie up the match, and three strokes would defeat him.
And now Mason has just suched in a position he's
beenning of the ball. He eyes the center of the
green with that masterly dead eyed pocision of his changes
his footing slightly. There's not a sound from the spectator's
Every breath is hell in excitement. This great contender prepares
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for victory of defeat. He pulls back the putter slightly,
eyes the distance of the hole once more, takes deadly aim.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It's the ball and.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It's in. He made it. The ball's in full wind
for Jan Mason, and the crowd goes wild. It's a
new champion, ladies and gentlemen, Jam Mason, the boy who
came up the hard way to the feet of one
and a way Truman Davis for five consecutive year, the master.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Of it all. And here's the irony.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Almost eleven years ago, when Jan Mason first thought of golf,
he acted as chaddy for Truman Davis, the man he
defeated for the championship. Here today, all the crowd is
completely engulfed the two participants, and it's a little difficult
for us to see them out for there they are,
shaking hands and smiling. Who are trying to make our
way over to them for a few words from both
Mason and Davis, or will you pardon me please? A
pardon me, lady. We're trying to get through.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I beg your pardon please.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
We'd like to get a few words from the two gentlemen.
We're trying our best, ladies and gentlemen to make our
way through this excited throng. But ah, there's the gold cut,
the gold cup for the tournament winner. It's just been
handed to one of the official referees by a futiful,
platmin haired girl. The referee is about to make the presentation. No, know,
something's wrong. The referee turns to his fellow judges. They're
talking excitedly. We can't make out. Yeah, what's happening. The
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men are examining the gold cut. Oh, it's facing in
the sunlight. Really a beautiful thing. Wait a minute, Wait
a minute, sudding's happened.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's John Mason.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
If he's been shoting, someone's shotting you, challion. He's holding
his dying. He's betting the gold cut.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
He's falling out.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Chad Mason is like, hello, I ask you not to
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disturb me. Clerk, I don't care if there is someone
to see me.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
What who?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Lee Sanders, the radio announcer, Well, tell him I'm not in.
I don't care if he is standing there watching to
talk to him. Tell him you are talking to the maid.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
What? Hello?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Who's speaking? But I was talking to the room clerk.
Now look here, mister Saunders, what do you want with me? No,
I'm sorry, I don't have time to see you. No,
I have nothing to discuss with you. Goodbye, he said.
He wanted to talk to me.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Not the matter he saw me? He he he's suspiciously
he knows something. I let's get out of here. Uh hurry,
I pack my things. I oh, no, no time to
pack up. Just put on my coat, purse, purse, had
I ca I care of the head, right, don't no?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Not the front way, the back of going somewhere? Miss?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Oh? Who are you?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I'm the fella you hung up on?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
What do you want?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I figure you try to run out the back way?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I don't know you let me buy?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Oh? No, back inside, We're gonna talk.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
There's nothing I have to discuss with you.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Afraid there is a little matter of murder.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
How much do you know?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Funny? Come on inside? But I inside now.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
I have nothing to say to you. You think not
not a thing in the world. I demand that you
leave here at once before I call the police.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Ooh that way? Is it?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Very well?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Here you are? What do you mean, victor receiver? Shall
I dial the number?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
What number?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Police? Of course?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Hang up that for you, so you're not as willing
to call the police here as you pretend.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
How did you find me? Uh?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I was lucky?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
You run a stop sign? Downtown? Just after you'd come
from the golf links. It was my car you almost hit.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Oh. No one saw youly the golf links. No one
knew who you were.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You weren't the girl who was officially in charge of
the gold prize cup.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
No.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
And what's more, the cup that was given to the
chief referee wasn't the official prize cup, no state. It
was some some fantastic thing cup of pure gold that
covered with some sort of ancient writing. Well, yes, I
look here. I'm a radio reporter and I've got a
story here. I wanna know what it ish.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Hi, I don't know the explanation myself.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Bottle it up and save it. Sister.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
You murdered jan Mason? Did I didn't you?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
No one saw who shot him, That's true.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
It's the general opinion that you did it.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
That the general opinion.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Naturally, you went the girl in charge of the prize cup.
The real girl and the real cup have disappeared, and
you were standing in a position where you could.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Have fired the shot.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Are you sure of that?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
And positive? I remember I saw you.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Did Did I really shoot him?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Tell me? Did I really shoot him?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
All I know is that you were standing directly in
front of Mason, and but so were six or eight others.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Look here, maybe you and I can make a deal
to you. Tell me your story, tell me what happened,
Maybe I can help you.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I I don't know what happened.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
What do you mean you don't know?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
All I know is there was a big crowd and
a golden cup, a little round white ball.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
A loud noise go on. That's all I remember.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Next thing I knew I was I was here in
my apartment, stretched out of my bed with a gun
in my hand.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Where is it?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Net drawer over there?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yuh just went over here? Yes, yeah, I've been fired.
At thirty two. Mason was killed with a thirty two.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
He's he's dead.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
If he isn't, sister, he's a great little pretender.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
It wasn't my fault. I'll tell you, it wasn't my fault.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Oh maybe it wasn't. Maybe it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I'll take it easy and tell me what happened.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Why should I tell you.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Because you've got to tell somebody.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
But who are you?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
My name's Lee Saunders. Clerk told you that on the phone.
I'm a radio reporter, sports and news. Now it's your turn.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
What who are you?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Oh, doesn't matter, Let me decide that.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
What's your name, Ruth Kendish? What do you have against
Jan Mason?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I didn't know him.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Mm. You make a habit of killing men you don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I didn't even know him. I tell you I didn't
know him following me.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Stop that or stop it? I say, now, you wanna
tell me what happened? Or do you wanna tell me?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
And the police they're.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Looking for me at the police.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Listen, I've told you what happened.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
I I don't remember a thing except a big crowd,
cup of gold, little white ball.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
And and a loud noise like a shot.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, and then you woke up here in your room
with a gun in your hand, the gun that killed
Jan Mason, just a few moments.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
After he'd won the golf championship.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I can't be too, It just can't be true.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
You're in trouble, baby, But I let me try to
help you.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
What can you do?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I don't know, cause I've heard your story.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
It might be the incense.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Incense, No, what are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
It came this morning in the mail, A little package
with three little cones.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
It was it was addressed to me. There was a
note inside. Stare in the drawer?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
What the gun was?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
This the paper was wrapped in.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Is this the inncense? Yes? Well I thought you said
your name is Ruth Kendish?
Speaker 1 (09:31):
It is well this.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Was addressed to Ruth Kendish? What sure? Look for yourself?
There you see?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yes? Did you find the note?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
What note?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Oh? There it is you. You dropped it on the floor.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Oh yes, yes, read it rosa. You will put a
fire to one of these precisely it won this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yes, it was the end thing.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Well, I tried to forget it, put it away, and
tried to keep it off my mind.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
But exactly it one eye. I opened the little metal
box and lighted one of the combs. There was a
lot of smoke, sweet scented, thick, And that's all I remember?
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Is there any more other stuff left?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Too?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
More?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Little cold?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Let's see? Yes, her two left hair? Give me a match?
What a match? Get me a man? Oh no, here
here's one.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Oh don't please, don't need to.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
See what this nonsense is all about.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Oh no, oh please, you don't know what you're doing you'll.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
See in a minute.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I beg you not to do that.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
So much smoke so quickly.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I don't understand how a little thing like that can
produce so much smoke, that odor, the same, very same,
so strange smoke. Look how it rolls in great clouds,
hiding everything, so so much smoke.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I don't everything, can hardly see you. Oh, it's like
we were in another world. You are in another world?
What what's that? Welcome Roth, and leave the theife? W
Where I I am here beside you? You see, yes,
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and now I do smokes clearing away?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
What happened? What happened?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Won't you recognize me? Rother?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
My name's Ruth. I've never seen you before.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Ah, that is where you are wrong? You have seen
me before?
Speaker 1 (11:39):
No, Now I don't know you.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
You mean you don't recognize me? Who are you? My
name is Mota, Mota. Yes, rather, I am the Holy One.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I don't understand what's happened to us?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
We were in this young lady's apartment, now with some
place I've never seen before. Where are we?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
You were on Vento Vento? What's Vento?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Vento is an offspring of Venus on Pluto? What it
is a planet as yet undiscovered by the scientists of
the Earth. Many hundreds of thousands of years ago, Venus
and Pluto collided. That probably would sound absurd to your
astrologers today, but it is a fact. As a result
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of the collision, Vento came into being, a portion of
Venus and a part of Pluto.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Fues broke off and became Veento. And you're talking over
my head.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
And naturally, the people who existed on Pluto and those
of Venus intermingled with Vento became.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
A planet in its own right.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
As as a result of that ancient catastrophe, the Ventonians
came into existence. I am one of and the two
of you are now here amongst us.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
But how did we get here?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
You remember the incense?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yes, the incense. It is one of Vento's secrets, a
tiny corn that emits a vapor powerful enough to permit
anyone in contact with it to do as we here
on Vento bid him to do. It still got me, goofy.
After I started the incense burning, everything changed. We ended
up here.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
And actually, because when you came in contact with the
released vapors, I bade.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Both of you to come here and here you are. Oh, now,
what do you take us for? This is the twentieth century.
Folks like us aren't taken in by some crack. Just
one moment here, would you look through this through? What's
this telescope? Here? Right through here? Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Now, it will not hurt you to look with it
if you insist. That's right in there? Now, what do
you see? A large round globe? Is the Earth ten
million miles from here?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Prepostering?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
So here, I'll turn on the ultra penetrating ray machine.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
And show you how preposterous it is. Now, what do
you see? Closer? It's coming closer. Yes, something's happening.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
The ultra penetrating ray is making ten million miles of
distance look like only inches.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
It is the Earth.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
There's Europe, Great Britain, China and Australia. Now I can
see the California coast in Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Florida, Pennsylvania,
New York, the falls we concentrate upon Florida.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
There, No, it's not possible. What do you see, mister Sanders?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
A funeral, the funeral of jam Mason mcgoffer.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Oh, I suppose you permit Ratha to look mister Sanders. Yes,
all right, go right ahead, Raper.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
That's right there. You still do not remember Roper. Why
do you call me rather because that is your name.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
My name is Ruth.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
When you were here, you were called Rotha. What when
I was here many centuries ago? Raper, you were originally
a Brentonian? What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
You have theories of reincarnation, as you do on your Earth.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yes that I've heard about it vaguely.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
But the one failing is that your theories do not
go far enough. What do you mean that there is
such a thing as reincarnation, mister Sanders, But it is
not restricted to one single planet, such.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Is the Earth.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
You surely aren't trying to tell us that, miss Kendish,
here is the reincarnation of some one who lived up here.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Whether or not you.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Accept it, it remains a fact. Oh that's utterly ridiculous.
And glad I had the foresight to think of your
reluctance to believe.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
So I have prepared the truth prepared for What.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Are you talking about? What's the explanation of sky?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I explain it again. The vapor of the incense I
sent you.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Once it surrounds you, you are at the mercy of
The Bentonian who scent it you on your planet would
call it black magic, but it is merely nothing more
than applied science.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
What's this this proof you were talking about. I will
extinguish the lights and show you here on Vento all time.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
All incidents are recorded, I say, an attempt to explain them completely.
Suffice it to say the principle is plays somewhat similar
to that of your talking pictures, only on a much
more advanced and widespread scale. Anything that has ever happened
here on Bento since the invention of this recorder can
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be reviewed by those who wish to see it.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
That's why there is no crime, no evil here.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Now I turn on the machine. I must ask you
to be silent, Do not speak.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Why did I say.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
It is you but not in your present body? It
is you of centuries ago. Watch closely now and listen.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Come in, darling.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I can't, dearest, forgive me for coming to you so late,
but I had to see.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
You before tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Oh. I'm glad you're here, dearest. I've waited for.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
You all day.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Are you ready for the game tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Quite, I feel I'll have trouble defeating Yana Doll. He's
become quite experted.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
No, do you care so much.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Love, if I should lose tomorrow, we mustn't think of
such a thing. Victory means everything to both of us.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
House He can't will now, My poor poor Kenta. He
tried so hard, but now it's too late. Unless there's
a miracle if Yana miss is too strong. But he can't.
And even if he did, it would be a draw.
If he takes but one stroke, my poor Cantor will
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be defeated. Janna is ready now. If he does it
in a single stroke, Cantor has lost. No, she did it,
Janna did it, my poor poor Cana.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Kna, my dearest one, I come to you with without a.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Cup of gold.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
No, does it matter so much? Yes much.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
I promised that you should.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Have the cop but I don't mind I.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Should have one.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
We still have each other, Cantor, we will be married.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
No, that well, yesterday I swore by the great.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
God Vendor that should I not be victorious, I wouldn't
be worthy of you.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
You swore by Vendors, Yes.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
A sacred oath. I was so eager for victory.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I knew that the very thought of losing you forever
would inspire me to win, but I failed.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
An oath soon to Vendor is a holy oath. I
must resign myself to it. But Nah, Now I swear
but the Great God of Vendor, a holy and a
sacred oath that I will avenge for what has happened. I
will take vengeance from Janna if all eternity is required
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for me to do it.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
I believe that is all the proof you need. Ruth,
did you know Truman Davis?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Truman Davis, Truman Davis.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
It's the national golf champion, the one who was beaten
by Jan Mason.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
No, No, I didn't know either of them.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
You think not, Rotha.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Don't you recognize the man called Jan Mason. He is
the reincarnation of the man Yana, who defeated Kenta in
the Games many years ago.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Hu, it all seems so familiar and sets upset up.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
You swore a terrible oath centuries ago, an old two
work vengeance upon Yana. In your span of life here
on Vento, you did not find the opportunity to avenge yourself,
and so, as one of the high priests of Vento,
it was my duty to bring to a climax your
ancient oath. You sent that devilish in sinse to her.
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You prompted her to go out there and kill jan Mason.
Give me that golden carpet is the cup Kent lost
to Yana centuries ago. It amazes and confuses the Earth
people greatly. You're responsible for all that happened, hypnotype this
girl now what now? She will return to the Earth
and accept a punishment? Nosniff right, it is not for
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you to say.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
It's for me to see that this.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Quick. There's no time to lose the incense. I still
have it here. There's one cone left, just one.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
What can you do?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
And you heard what he said? Anyone here on this
planet can use it? Oh, con fathers, haven't I got
a match? Yeah, here's one now careful that's my last match.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
It's burning now. Turn on that ray machine, turn it on,
Turn it on?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
All right, what are you going to do?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Look into the telescope. Watch, tell me what happens. I'm
holding the burning incense in front of the telescope.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Plans.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Oh, I'm hoping me it's still focused on funeral. But
something happens. Yes, the costume is gone. It opens. Someone
said nothing is it?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Jam Mason.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Yes, yes, it is good.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Just a mere thought that the penetrating ray sent the
incense vapor directly to earth. So the man a cascat Mason,
and I concentrated on his coming to life again.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
He is, he is alive.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Our friend's coming to How did you give me your hand?
Give me your hand? Come on, hurry, hurry, hurry. There's
no time to lose.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
We're going to get away from here.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Simple you saw what a mere thought did for jan Mason.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Hold tight, now here we go.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
D Fantasy. You have heard the Cup of Gold.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Tonight's original tale of dark Pantasy by Scott Bishop. Then
Marris was Lee Saunders, Eleanor Naylor Korran play. Ruth mure
Height was the high priest, and Georgian Day was Ketter.
Next Friday, the twenty sixth in this dark fantasy series
created by Scott Bishop Coffins for two, the weird and
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pulse pounding tale of two boxes roughly hewed into the
shape of caskets bearing three silver handles on each side
in silver name plates on which were engraved the names
of two living people.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
This is Tom Paxton speaking.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Dark Fantasy comes to you each Friday night from Oklahoma. Today,
this is the national broadcasting Company
And just be good, Cup o'h gold.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
This is the deciding shot of the tournament. Ladies and gentlemen,
Truman Davis now champions. Jess sunk his's last part on
the last green to turn in the amazing score of
sixty eight. Jan Mason, the contender, is on the green
with a sixty six, which in itself is even more amazing.
Mason's ball lies at the very edge of the green,
looks like tough going. Should he think the ball in
one more stroke? Turning a sixty seven is compared with
the sixty eight by Davis. If I have a brand
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new champion, should Jan Mason require two strokes, he would
tie up the match, and three strokes would defeat him.
And now Mason has just suched in a position he's
beenning of the ball. He eyes the center of the
green with that masterly dead eyed pocision of his changes
his footing slightly. There's not a sound from the spectator's
Every breath is hell in excitement. This great contender prepares
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for victory of defeat. He pulls back the putter slightly,
eyes the distance of the hole once more, takes deadly aim.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It's the ball and.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It's in. He made it. The ball's in full wind
for Jan Mason, and the crowd goes wild. It's a
new champion, ladies and gentlemen, Jam Mason, the boy who
came up the hard way to the feet of one
and a way Truman Davis for five consecutive year, the master.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Of it all. And here's the irony.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Almost eleven years ago, when Jan Mason first thought of golf,
he acted as chaddy for Truman Davis, the man he
defeated for the championship. Here today, all the crowd is
completely engulfed the two participants, and it's a little difficult
for us to see them out for there they are,
shaking hands and smiling. Who are trying to make our
way over to them for a few words from both
Mason and Davis, or will you pardon me please? A
pardon me, lady. We're trying to get through.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I beg your pardon please.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
We'd like to get a few words from the two gentlemen.
We're trying our best, ladies and gentlemen to make our
way through this excited throng. But ah, there's the gold cut,
the gold cup for the tournament winner. It's just been
handed to one of the official referees by a futiful,
platmin haired girl. The referee is about to make the presentation. No, know,
something's wrong. The referee turns to his fellow judges. They're
talking excitedly. We can't make out. Yeah, what's happening. The
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men are examining the gold cut. Oh, it's facing in
the sunlight. Really a beautiful thing. Wait a minute, Wait
a minute, sudding's happened.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's John Mason.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
If he's been shoting, someone's shotting you, challion. He's holding
his dying. He's betting the gold cut.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
He's falling out.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Chad Mason is like, hello, I ask you not to
(03:12):
disturb me. Clerk, I don't care if there is someone
to see me.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
What who?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Lee Sanders, the radio announcer, Well, tell him I'm not in.
I don't care if he is standing there watching to
talk to him. Tell him you are talking to the maid.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
What? Hello?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Who's speaking? But I was talking to the room clerk.
Now look here, mister Saunders, what do you want with me? No,
I'm sorry, I don't have time to see you. No,
I have nothing to discuss with you. Goodbye, he said.
He wanted to talk to me.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Not the matter he saw me? He he he's suspiciously
he knows something. I let's get out of here. Uh hurry,
I pack my things. I oh, no, no time to
pack up. Just put on my coat, purse, purse, had
I ca I care of the head, right, don't no?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Not the front way, the back of going somewhere? Miss?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Oh? Who are you?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I'm the fella you hung up on?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
What do you want?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I figure you try to run out the back way?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I don't know you let me buy?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Oh? No, back inside, We're gonna talk.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
There's nothing I have to discuss with you.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Afraid there is a little matter of murder.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
How much do you know?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Funny? Come on inside? But I inside now.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
I have nothing to say to you. You think not
not a thing in the world. I demand that you
leave here at once before I call the police.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Ooh that way? Is it?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Very well?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Here you are? What do you mean, victor receiver? Shall
I dial the number?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
What number?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Police? Of course?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Hang up that for you, so you're not as willing
to call the police here as you pretend.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
How did you find me? Uh?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I was lucky?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
You run a stop sign? Downtown? Just after you'd come
from the golf links. It was my car you almost hit.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Oh. No one saw youly the golf links. No one
knew who you were.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You weren't the girl who was officially in charge of
the gold prize cup.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
No.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
And what's more, the cup that was given to the
chief referee wasn't the official prize cup, no state. It
was some some fantastic thing cup of pure gold that
covered with some sort of ancient writing. Well, yes, I
look here. I'm a radio reporter and I've got a
story here. I wanna know what it ish.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Hi, I don't know the explanation myself.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Bottle it up and save it. Sister.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
You murdered jan Mason? Did I didn't you?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
No one saw who shot him, That's true.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
It's the general opinion that you did it.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
That the general opinion.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Naturally, you went the girl in charge of the prize cup.
The real girl and the real cup have disappeared, and
you were standing in a position where you could.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Have fired the shot.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Are you sure of that?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
And positive? I remember I saw you.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Did Did I really shoot him?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Tell me? Did I really shoot him?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I don't know?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
All I know is that you were standing directly in
front of Mason, and but so were six or eight others.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Look here, maybe you and I can make a deal
to you. Tell me your story, tell me what happened,
Maybe I can help you.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I I don't know what happened.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
What do you mean you don't know?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
All I know is there was a big crowd and
a golden cup, a little round white ball.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
A loud noise go on. That's all I remember.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Next thing I knew I was I was here in
my apartment, stretched out of my bed with a gun
in my hand.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Where is it?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Net drawer over there?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yuh just went over here? Yes, yeah, I've been fired.
At thirty two. Mason was killed with a thirty two.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
He's he's dead.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
If he isn't, sister, he's a great little pretender.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
It wasn't my fault. I'll tell you, it wasn't my fault.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Oh maybe it wasn't. Maybe it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I'll take it easy and tell me what happened.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Why should I tell you.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Because you've got to tell somebody.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
But who are you?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
My name's Lee Saunders. Clerk told you that on the phone.
I'm a radio reporter, sports and news. Now it's your turn.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
What who are you?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Oh, doesn't matter, Let me decide that.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
What's your name, Ruth Kendish? What do you have against
Jan Mason?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I didn't know him.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Mm. You make a habit of killing men you don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I didn't even know him. I tell you I didn't
know him following me.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Stop that or stop it? I say, now, you wanna
tell me what happened? Or do you wanna tell me?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
And the police they're.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Looking for me at the police.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Listen, I've told you what happened.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
I I don't remember a thing except a big crowd,
cup of gold, little white ball.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
And and a loud noise like a shot.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, and then you woke up here in your room
with a gun in your hand, the gun that killed
Jan Mason, just a few moments.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
After he'd won the golf championship.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I can't be too, It just can't be true.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
You're in trouble, baby, But I let me try to
help you.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
What can you do?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
I don't know, cause I've heard your story.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
It might be the incense.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Incense, No, what are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
It came this morning in the mail, A little package
with three little cones.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
It was it was addressed to me. There was a
note inside. Stare in the drawer?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
What the gun was?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (09:21):
This the paper was wrapped in.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Is this the inncense? Yes? Well I thought you said
your name is Ruth Kendish?
Speaker 1 (09:31):
It is well this.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Was addressed to Ruth Kendish? What sure? Look for yourself?
There you see?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yes? Did you find the note?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
What note?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Oh? There it is you. You dropped it on the floor.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Oh yes, yes, read it rosa. You will put a
fire to one of these precisely it won this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yes, it was the end thing.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Well, I tried to forget it, put it away, and
tried to keep it off my mind.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
But exactly it one eye. I opened the little metal
box and lighted one of the combs. There was a
lot of smoke, sweet scented, thick, And that's all I remember?
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Is there any more other stuff left?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Too?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
More?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Little cold?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Let's see? Yes, her two left hair? Give me a match?
What a match? Get me a man? Oh no, here
here's one.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Oh don't please, don't need to.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
See what this nonsense is all about.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Oh no, oh please, you don't know what you're doing you'll.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
See in a minute.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I beg you not to do that.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
So much smoke so quickly.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I don't understand how a little thing like that can
produce so much smoke, that odor, the same, very same,
so strange smoke. Look how it rolls in great clouds,
hiding everything, so so much smoke.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I don't everything, can hardly see you. Oh, it's like
we were in another world. You are in another world?
What what's that? Welcome Roth, and leave the theife? W
Where I I am here beside you? You see, yes,
(11:22):
and now I do smokes clearing away?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
What happened? What happened?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Won't you recognize me? Rother?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
My name's Ruth. I've never seen you before.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Ah, that is where you are wrong? You have seen
me before?
Speaker 1 (11:39):
No, Now I don't know you.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
You mean you don't recognize me? Who are you? My
name is Mota, Mota. Yes, rather, I am the Holy One.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I don't understand what's happened to us?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
We were in this young lady's apartment, now with some
place I've never seen before. Where are we?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
You were on Vento Vento? What's Vento?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Vento is an offspring of Venus on Pluto? What it
is a planet as yet undiscovered by the scientists of
the Earth. Many hundreds of thousands of years ago, Venus
and Pluto collided. That probably would sound absurd to your
astrologers today, but it is a fact. As a result
(12:26):
of the collision, Vento came into being, a portion of
Venus and a part of Pluto.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Fues broke off and became Veento. And you're talking over
my head.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
And naturally, the people who existed on Pluto and those
of Venus intermingled with Vento became.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
A planet in its own right.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
As as a result of that ancient catastrophe, the Ventonians
came into existence. I am one of and the two
of you are now here amongst us.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
But how did we get here?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
You remember the incense?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yes, the incense. It is one of Vento's secrets, a
tiny corn that emits a vapor powerful enough to permit
anyone in contact with it to do as we here
on Vento bid him to do. It still got me, goofy.
After I started the incense burning, everything changed. We ended
up here.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
And actually, because when you came in contact with the
released vapors, I bade.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Both of you to come here and here you are. Oh, now,
what do you take us for? This is the twentieth century.
Folks like us aren't taken in by some crack. Just
one moment here, would you look through this through? What's
this telescope? Here? Right through here? Oh?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Now, it will not hurt you to look with it
if you insist. That's right in there? Now, what do
you see? A large round globe? Is the Earth ten
million miles from here?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Prepostering?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
So here, I'll turn on the ultra penetrating ray machine.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
And show you how preposterous it is. Now, what do
you see? Closer? It's coming closer. Yes, something's happening.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
The ultra penetrating ray is making ten million miles of
distance look like only inches.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
It is the Earth.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
There's Europe, Great Britain, China and Australia. Now I can
see the California coast in Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Florida, Pennsylvania,
New York, the falls we concentrate upon Florida.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
There, No, it's not possible. What do you see, mister Sanders?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
A funeral, the funeral of jam Mason mcgoffer.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Oh, I suppose you permit Ratha to look mister Sanders. Yes,
all right, go right ahead, Raper.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
That's right there. You still do not remember Roper. Why
do you call me rather because that is your name.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
My name is Ruth.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
When you were here, you were called Rotha. What when
I was here many centuries ago? Raper, you were originally
a Brentonian? What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
You have theories of reincarnation, as you do on your Earth.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yes that I've heard about it vaguely.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
But the one failing is that your theories do not
go far enough. What do you mean that there is
such a thing as reincarnation, mister Sanders, But it is
not restricted to one single planet, such.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Is the Earth.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
You surely aren't trying to tell us that, miss Kendish,
here is the reincarnation of some one who lived up here.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Whether or not you.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Accept it, it remains a fact. Oh that's utterly ridiculous.
And glad I had the foresight to think of your
reluctance to believe.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
So I have prepared the truth prepared for What.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Are you talking about? What's the explanation of sky?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I explain it again. The vapor of the incense I
sent you.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Once it surrounds you, you are at the mercy of
The Bentonian who scent it you on your planet would
call it black magic, but it is merely nothing more
than applied science.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
What's this this proof you were talking about. I will
extinguish the lights and show you here on Vento all time.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
All incidents are recorded, I say, an attempt to explain them completely.
Suffice it to say the principle is plays somewhat similar
to that of your talking pictures, only on a much
more advanced and widespread scale. Anything that has ever happened
here on Bento since the invention of this recorder can
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be reviewed by those who wish to see it.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
That's why there is no crime, no evil here.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Now I turn on the machine. I must ask you
to be silent, Do not speak.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Why did I say.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
It is you but not in your present body? It
is you of centuries ago. Watch closely now and listen.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Come in, darling.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
I can't, dearest, forgive me for coming to you so late,
but I had to see.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
You before tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Oh. I'm glad you're here, dearest. I've waited for.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
You all day.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Are you ready for the game tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Quite, I feel I'll have trouble defeating Yana Doll. He's
become quite experted.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
No, do you care so much.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Love, if I should lose tomorrow, we mustn't think of
such a thing. Victory means everything to both of us.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
House He can't will now, My poor poor Kenta. He
tried so hard, but now it's too late. Unless there's
a miracle if Yana miss is too strong. But he can't.
And even if he did, it would be a draw.
If he takes but one stroke, my poor Cantor will
(19:06):
be defeated. Janna is ready now. If he does it
in a single stroke, Cantor has lost. No, she did it,
Janna did it, my poor poor Cana.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Kna, my dearest one, I come to you with without a.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Cup of gold.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
No, does it matter so much? Yes much.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
I promised that you should.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Have the cop but I don't mind I.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Should have one.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
We still have each other, Cantor, we will be married.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
No, that well, yesterday I swore by the great.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
God Vendor that should I not be victorious, I wouldn't
be worthy of you.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
You swore by Vendors, Yes.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
A sacred oath. I was so eager for victory.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I knew that the very thought of losing you forever
would inspire me to win, but I failed.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
An oath soon to Vendor is a holy oath. I
must resign myself to it. But Nah, Now I swear
but the Great God of Vendor, a holy and a
sacred oath that I will avenge for what has happened. I
will take vengeance from Janna if all eternity is required
(20:47):
for me to do it.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
I believe that is all the proof you need. Ruth,
did you know Truman Davis?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Truman Davis, Truman Davis.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
It's the national golf champion, the one who was beaten
by Jan Mason.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
No, No, I didn't know either of them.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
You think not, Rotha.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Don't you recognize the man called Jan Mason. He is
the reincarnation of the man Yana, who defeated Kenta in
the Games many years ago.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Hu, it all seems so familiar and sets upset up.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
You swore a terrible oath centuries ago, an old two
work vengeance upon Yana. In your span of life here
on Vento, you did not find the opportunity to avenge yourself,
and so, as one of the high priests of Vento,
it was my duty to bring to a climax your
ancient oath. You sent that devilish in sinse to her.
(21:45):
You prompted her to go out there and kill jan Mason.
Give me that golden carpet is the cup Kent lost
to Yana centuries ago. It amazes and confuses the Earth
people greatly. You're responsible for all that happened, hypnotype this
girl now what now? She will return to the Earth
and accept a punishment? Nosniff right, it is not for
(22:09):
you to say.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
It's for me to see that this.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Quick. There's no time to lose the incense. I still
have it here. There's one cone left, just one.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
What can you do?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
And you heard what he said? Anyone here on this
planet can use it? Oh, con fathers, haven't I got
a match? Yeah, here's one now careful that's my last match.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
It's burning now. Turn on that ray machine, turn it on,
Turn it on?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
All right, what are you going to do?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Look into the telescope. Watch, tell me what happens. I'm
holding the burning incense in front of the telescope.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Plans.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Oh, I'm hoping me it's still focused on funeral. But
something happens. Yes, the costume is gone. It opens. Someone
said nothing is it?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Jam Mason.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Yes, yes, it is good.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Just a mere thought that the penetrating ray sent the
incense vapor directly to earth. So the man a cascat Mason,
and I concentrated on his coming to life again.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
He is, he is alive.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Our friend's coming to How did you give me your hand?
Give me your hand? Come on, hurry, hurry, hurry. There's
no time to lose.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
We're going to get away from here.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Simple you saw what a mere thought did for jan Mason.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Hold tight, now here we go.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
D Fantasy. You have heard the Cup of Gold.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Tonight's original tale of dark Pantasy by Scott Bishop. Then
Marris was Lee Saunders, Eleanor Naylor Korran play. Ruth mure
Height was the high priest, and Georgian Day was Ketter.
Next Friday, the twenty sixth in this dark fantasy series
created by Scott Bishop Coffins for two, the weird and
(24:14):
pulse pounding tale of two boxes roughly hewed into the
shape of caskets bearing three silver handles on each side
in silver name plates on which were engraved the names
of two living people.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
This is Tom Paxton speaking.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Dark Fantasy comes to you each Friday night from Oklahoma. Today,
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