September 8, 2024 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Dark, I say.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
The letter from yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I beg pardon, miss, but do you happen to have
any material at all dealing with this?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
If you please?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Will you please lower your voice and then you might
read the sign over there? Or shall I read it
for you? Absolutely quiet required in this library by but
you read beautifully. But I wonder if you please lower
your voice? Oh sure, I mean sure, I'll be more
than happy to help you, but you simply can't disturb
(01:07):
the others here in the library to see you.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Well, I'm terribly sorry. Excuse me, everyone, I didn't mean
to disturb you.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Boy, Please please be quiet.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Well, good heavens, ma'am. I I just wanted to apologize.
It's quite unnecessary. Now may I help you? I hope
you can. I'm looking for some literature on hydrokinetics. Don't
suppose a hick library like this would have anything like that.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Though you're a stranger in Jackson City, aren't you.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
That's right? How did you know?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I know most of the people in town, and besides,
folks who live here never refer to the town as
having a Hick library.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Oh now, look, no offense intended. But after all, I
don't expect too much from a two or four place
that probably doesn't have much more to offer than the
encyclopedia and a couple of copies. They're over boys.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
You said you wish to see something on hydrokinetics.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That's right. Kinetics is a branch of kinetics, which relates
to liquids. You see, kinetics is the branch of dynamics.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Do you wish to read Kendall, Johnson, Abernathy or Sandin
on the subject?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
What? What's that?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I said? Which author do you wish to consult? Those
four seem to be the authorities, but some engineers like
Alexander and Bowen.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Well look here, are you serious? Serious about having books
by Johnson and Kendall and Sandin and Abernathy on the
theory of hydrokinetics?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Will you follow me? Please? Yes?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Certainly?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
The tent on that light if you wish, it's a
little dark.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
And here's yes, all right.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I think you'll find these quite up to date. I'm
sorry that one of the Alexander volumes is out, but
it should be back tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Oh quite all right. Uh, it's Kendle. I'm really actor.
Here we are.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
That's one that was played sometimes last year, I believe, Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yes, it was kend a new theory on hydraulics. I
read it when I was in New York.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I'm glad you didn't have to go back into the
city to find what you wanted.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
No, I, oh look here, I owe you another apology,
don't I.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
No, please, don't bother.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Oh but it's no bother.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
You may use any of the tables over there, Yes,
but I'd like to find the one with the window.
Quite good.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
M sensitive Q two Yeah, larnt cute?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Any? Well?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
M yeah, let's see. Kendall says, when an ounce a
plane lubricating oil is introduced into wonder what her name is?
First one? I mean nameplate on the desk, says miss Marshall.
(03:57):
Well that's interesting, Miss Marshall. Well, now, as I remember
reading about it three months ago. Kendall says that if
you introduce one ounce of common lubricating oil into a
cylinder two inches in diameter and four inches in height,
(04:22):
pretty girl. I wonder why I can't get her off
my mind. I wonder where she lives? Oh God found it. Well, then,
according to Kendall, if an ultraviolet ray is permitted to
cross the cylinder at the time pressures applied to the top.
(04:44):
The result were wonder what a good girl like hers
doing in Jackson City. She's smart too, I just mentioned hydrokinetics.
She reeled off the four top authorities like she was
a student on the subject. I know what she's doing tonight. Well,
(05:04):
hang it all up, I say, miss Marshall. Oh, I say,
Miss Marshall. Would it be possible for me to check
this book out? I'm very sorry, but I'm afraid not. Well,
it's really quite important. I'm an inventor and I'm just
(05:28):
on the verge of a very important discovery. I simply
must have this book to you.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I'm sorry. Perhaps you should buy a copy.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Oh, I've tried that everywhere in town. There's none I
can get a hold of. You could have one sent
out from New York. I can't wait that long. I
have to work on this thing while it's running through
my head. It's very important. I might lose the whole
idea by the time a copy came out of New York.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I'm sorry. It's quite against the ruse to permit anyone
to take out a book without a library card.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Oh suppose I take a card? How much?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Oh? There's no charge, but you must have a property
owners sign your application.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Property owner application.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yes, someone who can pay for the book in the
event it's lost, and who's willing to personally guarantee your
honesty must sign your application. Then your card will be
ready within forty eight hours.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Oh now, look that's worse yet.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
This isn't any way to treat a Jackson City guess
you know I'd like to help you, really, I would,
would you really?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I would, But I can't break the rule. Now wait
a minute, I've got it. Yes, your place, what your place,
your your home, wherever you live. I mean you can
take the book out yourself. You take it home, and
I'll come by tonight and use it there.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
That's not very clever, mister, mister whoever you are, Chase
Adam Chase, and not very original either.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Hell, there aren't any new ideas. At least give me
credit for picking one that's not too bad.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Are you serious about the book?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
A word of honor, ma'am? I need that book right now,
like anything, seriously, seriously.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Then I I just might be able to help.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
You, would you really?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I might tell me? Can you take dictation a little?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Good. You can't help me, that is, if you'd like to,
I might. I'll be glad to pay you. Hop we'll
see you'll do it. You'll take the book home and
let me study it there.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yes, I'll take it home.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
A good. Where do you live?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
You won't have any trouble finding me. Just ask anyone
for Cicily Marshall.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Did you say Cicely Marshall?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yes? What about it?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Well? Nothing, I just like it. It happens to be
one of my favorite names.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
What time did I? Oh? Anytime after seven thirty?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Good? I was seven thirty two.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
You better go now we're becatting disturbed the folks who
are trying to study.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, all right, see you right now. Just a minute,
I've got to consult Kindle again. Hold on there a second.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Do you really think this invention will prove itself?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Well, I'm not exactly an expert, but the idea seems
sounds Wait a minute now, let's see. Oh yeah, care
find it? How will you take this down? Kendle, Volume one,
paid seventy four. It has been my observation that hydraulic
(08:51):
reaction often can be obtained through the use of a
common water tumbler. Immersed in age two. Oh, that's water
old confounded. There I go again, treating you like a child.
You probably know more about this entire subject than I
do without my explaining chemical symbols.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Don't you think we'd better call it a nice No,
it's early, it's one am. No, it couldn't be what
it is. Oh, brother, be I'm popular around this place.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
From now on. It's all right.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I really enjoyed it, mister you were serious there in
the library work.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yes, rather, I don't mind saying my complete futures probably
tied up in this thing right now. If it's what
I think it's going to be, I'm doing to make
a fortune out of it.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I hope you do well.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Thanks?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
And why oh, I like to know people who are successful. Besides,
my father was an inventor.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Was he really?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yes, he was a brilliant man. He had an I
never did quite understand what it was. It was before
he was married. Someone filed for the patents just a
few hours before he did, and he lost out.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Someone stole his invention.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
No, no, it was just a coincidence. But my father
was never the same after that. Something happened. I don't
know what I remember hearing my family talk about it
in whispers when I was just an infant.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Is he still alive?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
No, no, he's been gone three years.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
He was a fine man, grand but he never got
over that whatever it was that happened to him long
before I was born.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
You mean there was something more than just the loss
of the invention patents.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yes, something that was I think even more tragic. I've
never even been able to guess what it was.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Maybe it's better that you don't know. Yes, maybe, so well,
really I should go, it's late.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Is there much more to do?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Well? Yes, I have to finish these papers before I
can have the model of the invention bills.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Now could I help you more?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Would you?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I'd love to really tomorrow night. Can you wait that long? Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
No, I can't, but I will.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
There we are all finished.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Good, Well, now the model's next.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
How long do you think it would take to build it?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Well? At least two weeks. We've been on these papers
longer than I thought we'd be, almost thirty days. I
really don't know what I've done without you.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Oh, I've enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
We can relax now to the model's built. Then i'll
have to go to Washington.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
What time is it nine o'clock? Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Good, time enough to catch the last show, that is,
if you'd like to go out with me?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Why too? I can't think of anything i'd like better. Oh, oh,
you'll change, leady, Adam.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I'll be back with those patents.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
You will come back.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
You'll try to.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Stop me.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Naturally, Adam. Uh, will you marry me when I come back?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I said, will you marry.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Me when I come back?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Oh? Yes, will you ride just as soon as I
get to Washington? Why? Good bye, Dolly To my diary,
(13:02):
January seventeenth, It has been five days since Adam went
to Washington. I'll never forget the unromantic but lovable way
he asked me to marry him, standing on the steps
of the moving train, shouting the question at me above
(13:23):
the noise of the engine. How I loved him at
that moment, How I love him now? But why, why,
oh why hasn't he written five days? I'm not a
(13:44):
word from Adam yet?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Where has jup and received? Ladies and gentlemen, that the
crack limited from Washington during Jackson City less than an
hour ago, was held up and robbed by unidentified games.
The train was flagged down by two men who pretended
their car had stalled on the track. The engineer and
fireman were shot and killed. All passengers were held at gunpoint,
(14:11):
and the mail car was entered and robbed. This train
robbery will remind old timers of the historic and dramatic
train robbery on almost the same spot some fifty years ago,
were to be exact fifty three years ago, January seventeenth.
There is no indication as to the identification of today's bandits,
who I believe police have found.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I want to send this wire to mister Adam Chase,
esther Arms Hotel, Washington. Yes, Darling, have not heard from you. Worried?
I love you, Cecily. Hello. Hello, Yes, operator, this is
(15:20):
the party calling Washington. Yes, I'm calling mister Adam Chase.
That's right at the esther Arms Hotel. Oh you have
a hotel?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
What's that checked out? Two weeks ago? Oh? No, thank you,
Just cancel the call. To my diary. April seventeenth, It
(16:11):
has been three months and five days since I last
saw Adam Chase. He promised to write immediately from Washington
three months ago. He seems to have dropped out of
the world. I can't locate him any place. I've just
(16:32):
returned from ten days in Washington searching. I found nothing. Yes,
come in, Adam.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I had to come back.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Oh, darling, darling, what's wrong? Tell me what's wrong?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
You look so ill, so thin.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I guess I shouldn't be here, since you didn't want me.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Didn't didn't want you, didn't want you. Oh, my darling,
if you say anything like that.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I wrote you about the invention.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I didn't get your letter. I haven't heard a word
from you.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I told you what happened. But I was ruined, darling,
that if you loved me, you'd come to Washington and
we'd make it some way.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I didn't get it at him. I'll tell you. I
didn't get that letter.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I waited. You didn't answer, you didn't come. You didn't
want to come.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Darling, Will you listen to me. I didn't get that letter.
What what Cecily, I didn't get that letter. You didn't
get it. No, No, I have waited and waited, I
wired you phoned. What I just got back from looking
from one end of Washing. I don't do another for you, Oh,
(18:02):
my darling, my darling, I was too late.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Just twenty four hours too late, Adam. Someone else, someone
from California, had just filed for the patents to the
same invention.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Oh, sweetheart, I was just a few hours too late.
Oh but the invention isn't everything I.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Wrote to you. I told you what happened. I asked
you to come to Washington to marry me.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
I'd have come in a minute.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I thought, now, the thousands of things I.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Thought, don't think of them anymore.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I had to come back. I couldn't live without you.
I had to come back to see you, just once more.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I couldn't live without you. Adam, we'll be married.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Promise me we'll be married right away, right away.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Darling, Yes, right away. June twentieth, Adam and I have
(19:18):
been married two months today. We're very happy. Somehow there's
something more than just our love for one another that
makes us so close to each other. I can't explain
what it is. We've rented a large house, an old one,
but it's adorable, and we're planning to say, oh, hi.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yes, dear, come on here, Addie wait.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Or something.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
All right, Adam, b.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
That's what I found back among the rafters.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
What in the world is it?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Whoa it's an old mail sack full of mail. Yeah. Look,
look here these letters, none of them have ever been opened.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
What I had?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Dozens of letters, all sealed, all stamped and dated. Look
looks actually postmarks. They're all the same January seventeenth, eighteen
eighty nine.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
But I don't know where did they get here from
the static?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I don't know. I wanted to run a radio aerial
out there on the roof, and I had to crawl
way back in the rafters. It was hidden back there,
up near the roof, evidently been there for years.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
But how did it get there?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Fifty three years ago, eighteen eighty nine. Look at these
letters addressed to people all over the country. Everett Holton, Detroit,
Jessica Young, New York, Paul Raimer, Chicago, mister missus F. C.
Er Halliday Grady, Pennsylvania. And look, here's one address to
(21:07):
President Benjamin Harrison from some one in Maine.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Wait a minute, Adam, Oh, look eh, this letter address
to Miss Cecily Drew of Youngstown. What the return address?
Mister Aaron Marshall, my father, he wrote this. I know
(21:32):
the handwriting.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Cecily Drew was my mother's maiden name. Adam yes, Cecily
drew and she lived in Youngstown. My father, your mother,
open it, open it, I said, open it?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Oh all right, Oh what is it? It was my father. Listen,
my darling, Cecily. I have bad news. I have just
(22:15):
learned that some one else has filed for the patent
rights to my invention, by some queer trick of fate.
Another inventor had the same idea as I, only he
has been fortunate enough to get his application for patents
into the bureau ahead of me. I fear all my
work has been in vain, all my sacrifice useless. I
(22:40):
have nothing to offer you now, my dear, but my love.
If you still love me, hurry here to marry me.
I shall surely never exist if you don't all my
undying love Aaron.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
He wrote that your father.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
To my mother, Adam, the train robbery what I remember
hearing about it on the radio. The train your letter
to me was on was robbed, the mail was stolen,
and the same thing happened fifty three years ago to
your mother and my father.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Only she believed he failed to come back to her,
and he died, never knowing she hadn't read his letter,
and his letter has.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Been here hidden all these long years. Your mother and
my father sto fantasy.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
You have heard the letter from yesterday, Tonight's original tale
of dark Fantasy by Scott Bishop, originating in the studios
of wk Y. This is Tom Paxton, reminding you to
buy United States War bonds and stamps. Dark Fantasy comes
to you each Friday night from Oklahoma today. This is
the National Broadcasting Company.
Dark, I say.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
The letter from yesterday.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I beg pardon, miss, but do you happen to have
any material at all dealing with this?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
If you please?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Will you please lower your voice and then you might
read the sign over there? Or shall I read it
for you? Absolutely quiet required in this library by but
you read beautifully. But I wonder if you please lower
your voice? Oh sure, I mean sure, I'll be more
than happy to help you, but you simply can't disturb
(01:07):
the others here in the library to see you.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Well, I'm terribly sorry. Excuse me, everyone, I didn't mean
to disturb you.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Boy, Please please be quiet.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Well, good heavens, ma'am. I I just wanted to apologize.
It's quite unnecessary. Now may I help you? I hope
you can. I'm looking for some literature on hydrokinetics. Don't
suppose a hick library like this would have anything like that.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Though you're a stranger in Jackson City, aren't you.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
That's right? How did you know?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I know most of the people in town, and besides,
folks who live here never refer to the town as
having a Hick library.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Oh now, look, no offense intended. But after all, I
don't expect too much from a two or four place
that probably doesn't have much more to offer than the
encyclopedia and a couple of copies. They're over boys.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
You said you wish to see something on hydrokinetics.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That's right. Kinetics is a branch of kinetics, which relates
to liquids. You see, kinetics is the branch of dynamics.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Do you wish to read Kendall, Johnson, Abernathy or Sandin
on the subject?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
What? What's that?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I said? Which author do you wish to consult? Those
four seem to be the authorities, but some engineers like
Alexander and Bowen.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Well look here, are you serious? Serious about having books
by Johnson and Kendall and Sandin and Abernathy on the
theory of hydrokinetics?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Will you follow me? Please? Yes?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Certainly?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
The tent on that light if you wish, it's a
little dark.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
And here's yes, all right.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I think you'll find these quite up to date. I'm
sorry that one of the Alexander volumes is out, but
it should be back tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Oh quite all right. Uh, it's Kendle. I'm really actor.
Here we are.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
That's one that was played sometimes last year, I believe, Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yes, it was kend a new theory on hydraulics. I
read it when I was in New York.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I'm glad you didn't have to go back into the
city to find what you wanted.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
No, I, oh look here, I owe you another apology,
don't I.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
No, please, don't bother.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Oh but it's no bother.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
You may use any of the tables over there, Yes,
but I'd like to find the one with the window.
Quite good.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
M sensitive Q two Yeah, larnt cute?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Any? Well?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
M yeah, let's see. Kendall says, when an ounce a
plane lubricating oil is introduced into wonder what her name is?
First one? I mean nameplate on the desk, says miss Marshall.
(03:57):
Well that's interesting, Miss Marshall. Well, now, as I remember
reading about it three months ago. Kendall says that if
you introduce one ounce of common lubricating oil into a
cylinder two inches in diameter and four inches in height,
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pretty girl. I wonder why I can't get her off
my mind. I wonder where she lives? Oh God found it. Well, then,
according to Kendall, if an ultraviolet ray is permitted to
cross the cylinder at the time pressures applied to the top.
(04:44):
The result were wonder what a good girl like hers
doing in Jackson City. She's smart too, I just mentioned hydrokinetics.
She reeled off the four top authorities like she was
a student on the subject. I know what she's doing tonight. Well,
(05:04):
hang it all up, I say, miss Marshall. Oh, I say,
Miss Marshall. Would it be possible for me to check
this book out? I'm very sorry, but I'm afraid not. Well,
it's really quite important. I'm an inventor and I'm just
(05:28):
on the verge of a very important discovery. I simply
must have this book to you.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I'm sorry. Perhaps you should buy a copy.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Oh, I've tried that everywhere in town. There's none I
can get a hold of. You could have one sent
out from New York. I can't wait that long. I
have to work on this thing while it's running through
my head. It's very important. I might lose the whole
idea by the time a copy came out of New York.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I'm sorry. It's quite against the ruse to permit anyone
to take out a book without a library card.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Oh suppose I take a card? How much?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Oh? There's no charge, but you must have a property
owners sign your application.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Property owner application.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yes, someone who can pay for the book in the
event it's lost, and who's willing to personally guarantee your
honesty must sign your application. Then your card will be
ready within forty eight hours.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Oh now, look that's worse yet.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
This isn't any way to treat a Jackson City guess
you know I'd like to help you, really, I would,
would you really?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I would, But I can't break the rule. Now wait
a minute, I've got it. Yes, your place, what your place,
your your home, wherever you live. I mean you can
take the book out yourself. You take it home, and
I'll come by tonight and use it there.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
That's not very clever, mister, mister whoever you are, Chase
Adam Chase, and not very original either.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Hell, there aren't any new ideas. At least give me
credit for picking one that's not too bad.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Are you serious about the book?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
A word of honor, ma'am? I need that book right now,
like anything, seriously, seriously.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Then I I just might be able to help.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
You, would you really?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I might tell me? Can you take dictation a little?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Good. You can't help me, that is, if you'd like to,
I might. I'll be glad to pay you. Hop we'll
see you'll do it. You'll take the book home and
let me study it there.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yes, I'll take it home.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
A good. Where do you live?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
You won't have any trouble finding me. Just ask anyone
for Cicily Marshall.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Did you say Cicely Marshall?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yes? What about it?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Well? Nothing, I just like it. It happens to be
one of my favorite names.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
What time did I? Oh? Anytime after seven thirty?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Good? I was seven thirty two.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
You better go now we're becatting disturbed the folks who
are trying to study.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, all right, see you right now. Just a minute,
I've got to consult Kindle again. Hold on there a second.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Do you really think this invention will prove itself?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Well, I'm not exactly an expert, but the idea seems
sounds Wait a minute now, let's see. Oh yeah, care
find it? How will you take this down? Kendle, Volume one,
paid seventy four. It has been my observation that hydraulic
(08:51):
reaction often can be obtained through the use of a
common water tumbler. Immersed in age two. Oh, that's water
old confounded. There I go again, treating you like a child.
You probably know more about this entire subject than I
do without my explaining chemical symbols.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Don't you think we'd better call it a nice No,
it's early, it's one am. No, it couldn't be what
it is. Oh, brother, be I'm popular around this place.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
From now on. It's all right.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I really enjoyed it, mister you were serious there in
the library work.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yes, rather, I don't mind saying my complete futures probably
tied up in this thing right now. If it's what
I think it's going to be, I'm doing to make
a fortune out of it.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I hope you do well.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Thanks?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
And why oh, I like to know people who are successful. Besides,
my father was an inventor.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Was he really?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yes, he was a brilliant man. He had an I
never did quite understand what it was. It was before
he was married. Someone filed for the patents just a
few hours before he did, and he lost out.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Someone stole his invention.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
No, no, it was just a coincidence. But my father
was never the same after that. Something happened. I don't
know what I remember hearing my family talk about it
in whispers when I was just an infant.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Is he still alive?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
No, no, he's been gone three years.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
He was a fine man, grand but he never got
over that whatever it was that happened to him long
before I was born.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
You mean there was something more than just the loss
of the invention patents.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yes, something that was I think even more tragic. I've
never even been able to guess what it was.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Maybe it's better that you don't know. Yes, maybe, so well,
really I should go, it's late.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Is there much more to do?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Well? Yes, I have to finish these papers before I
can have the model of the invention bills.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Now could I help you more?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Would you?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I'd love to really tomorrow night. Can you wait that long? Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
No, I can't, but I will.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
There we are all finished.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Good, Well, now the model's next.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
How long do you think it would take to build it?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Well? At least two weeks. We've been on these papers
longer than I thought we'd be, almost thirty days. I
really don't know what I've done without you.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Oh, I've enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
We can relax now to the model's built. Then i'll
have to go to Washington.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
What time is it nine o'clock? Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Good, time enough to catch the last show, that is,
if you'd like to go out with me?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Why too? I can't think of anything i'd like better. Oh, oh,
you'll change, leady, Adam.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I'll be back with those patents.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
You will come back.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
You'll try to.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Stop me.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Naturally, Adam. Uh, will you marry me when I come back?
Speaker 2 (12:37):
I said, will you marry.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Me when I come back?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Oh? Yes, will you ride just as soon as I
get to Washington? Why? Good bye, Dolly To my diary,
(13:02):
January seventeenth, It has been five days since Adam went
to Washington. I'll never forget the unromantic but lovable way
he asked me to marry him, standing on the steps
of the moving train, shouting the question at me above
(13:23):
the noise of the engine. How I loved him at
that moment, How I love him now? But why, why,
oh why hasn't he written five days? I'm not a
(13:44):
word from Adam yet?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Where has jup and received? Ladies and gentlemen, that the
crack limited from Washington during Jackson City less than an
hour ago, was held up and robbed by unidentified games.
The train was flagged down by two men who pretended
their car had stalled on the track. The engineer and
fireman were shot and killed. All passengers were held at gunpoint,
(14:11):
and the mail car was entered and robbed. This train
robbery will remind old timers of the historic and dramatic
train robbery on almost the same spot some fifty years ago,
were to be exact fifty three years ago, January seventeenth.
There is no indication as to the identification of today's bandits,
who I believe police have found.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I want to send this wire to mister Adam Chase,
esther Arms Hotel, Washington. Yes, Darling, have not heard from you. Worried?
I love you, Cecily. Hello. Hello, Yes, operator, this is
(15:20):
the party calling Washington. Yes, I'm calling mister Adam Chase.
That's right at the esther Arms Hotel. Oh you have
a hotel?
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
What's that checked out? Two weeks ago? Oh? No, thank you,
Just cancel the call. To my diary. April seventeenth, It
(16:11):
has been three months and five days since I last
saw Adam Chase. He promised to write immediately from Washington
three months ago. He seems to have dropped out of
the world. I can't locate him any place. I've just
(16:32):
returned from ten days in Washington searching. I found nothing. Yes,
come in, Adam.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I had to come back.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Oh, darling, darling, what's wrong? Tell me what's wrong?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
You look so ill, so thin.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I guess I shouldn't be here, since you didn't want me.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Didn't didn't want you, didn't want you. Oh, my darling,
if you say anything like that.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I wrote you about the invention.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I didn't get your letter. I haven't heard a word
from you.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I told you what happened. But I was ruined, darling,
that if you loved me, you'd come to Washington and
we'd make it some way.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
I didn't get it at him. I'll tell you. I
didn't get that letter.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I waited. You didn't answer, you didn't come. You didn't
want to come.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Darling, Will you listen to me. I didn't get that letter.
What what Cecily, I didn't get that letter. You didn't
get it. No, No, I have waited and waited, I
wired you phoned. What I just got back from looking
from one end of Washing. I don't do another for you, Oh,
(18:02):
my darling, my darling, I was too late.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Just twenty four hours too late, Adam. Someone else, someone
from California, had just filed for the patents to the
same invention.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Oh, sweetheart, I was just a few hours too late.
Oh but the invention isn't everything I.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Wrote to you. I told you what happened. I asked
you to come to Washington to marry me.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
I'd have come in a minute.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I thought, now, the thousands of things I.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Thought, don't think of them anymore.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I had to come back. I couldn't live without you.
I had to come back to see you, just once more.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I couldn't live without you. Adam, we'll be married.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Promise me we'll be married right away, right away.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Darling, Yes, right away. June twentieth, Adam and I have
(19:18):
been married two months today. We're very happy. Somehow there's
something more than just our love for one another that
makes us so close to each other. I can't explain
what it is. We've rented a large house, an old one,
but it's adorable, and we're planning to say, oh, hi.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yes, dear, come on here, Addie wait.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Or something.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
All right, Adam, b.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
That's what I found back among the rafters.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
What in the world is it?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Whoa it's an old mail sack full of mail. Yeah. Look,
look here these letters, none of them have ever been opened.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
What I had?
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Dozens of letters, all sealed, all stamped and dated. Look
looks actually postmarks. They're all the same January seventeenth, eighteen
eighty nine.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
But I don't know where did they get here from
the static?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I don't know. I wanted to run a radio aerial
out there on the roof, and I had to crawl
way back in the rafters. It was hidden back there,
up near the roof, evidently been there for years.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
But how did it get there?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Fifty three years ago, eighteen eighty nine. Look at these
letters addressed to people all over the country. Everett Holton, Detroit,
Jessica Young, New York, Paul Raimer, Chicago, mister missus F. C.
Er Halliday Grady, Pennsylvania. And look, here's one address to
(21:07):
President Benjamin Harrison from some one in Maine.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Wait a minute, Adam, Oh, look eh, this letter address
to Miss Cecily Drew of Youngstown. What the return address?
Mister Aaron Marshall, my father, he wrote this. I know
(21:32):
the handwriting.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Cecily Drew was my mother's maiden name. Adam yes, Cecily
drew and she lived in Youngstown. My father, your mother,
open it, open it, I said, open it?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Oh all right, Oh what is it? It was my father. Listen,
my darling, Cecily. I have bad news. I have just
(22:15):
learned that some one else has filed for the patent
rights to my invention, by some queer trick of fate.
Another inventor had the same idea as I, only he
has been fortunate enough to get his application for patents
into the bureau ahead of me. I fear all my
work has been in vain, all my sacrifice useless. I
(22:40):
have nothing to offer you now, my dear, but my love.
If you still love me, hurry here to marry me.
I shall surely never exist if you don't all my
undying love Aaron.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
He wrote that your father.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
To my mother, Adam, the train robbery what I remember
hearing about it on the radio. The train your letter
to me was on was robbed, the mail was stolen,
and the same thing happened fifty three years ago to
your mother and my father.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Only she believed he failed to come back to her,
and he died, never knowing she hadn't read his letter,
and his letter has.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Been here hidden all these long years. Your mother and
my father sto fantasy.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
You have heard the letter from yesterday, Tonight's original tale
of dark Fantasy by Scott Bishop, originating in the studios
of wk Y. This is Tom Paxton, reminding you to
buy United States War bonds and stamps. Dark Fantasy comes
to you each Friday night from Oklahoma today. This is
the National Broadcasting Company.
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