September 4, 2024 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Guy fantasy. I would like to buy a section, if
it please.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
There let one in the corner, A dude, the scarlet one,
you see, Scarlet is my favorite color because it reminds
me so very.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Much of blood.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Oh road, Then well you know what I came about him?
Sit down to have a smoke.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yes, of course.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Do you think mister Craig knows what we're doing?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I believe he suspects. What are your plans tonight? Peter
Craig will sign over the last of the estake to me?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
And when do I get the money you promised.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Me within a week?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Why not wait that long?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Because it's the best that way. You should wait longer.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Would not do for the private nurse Rose Esther to
become suddenly rich overnight.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
You remember the price, don't you?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
One hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I should have more. You are matting a cool million.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
The deal was all right with you when I made it.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Yes, yes, it's all right. What time tonight?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
About eleven?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
And he's good and sleepy, So we'll take the powder
without suspecting.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
You said, he are already suspects.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Not everything he doesn't know.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
We give him dope to make his mind go blank.
We can be pretty sure of that, ah, that.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
He signs those legal papers while under the influence of
the drug.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
He couldn't possibly know that he's been taking medicine for
so many years. When you're hold a glass of it
in front of him, he takes it automatically. He has
one more paper to sign, one more I'll give him
the powder that minute. You come into the house tonight.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
After that disappear, yes, I will.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
But remember, Sam, I expect my share of the money
within a week.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
I think I've been quite patient with you since we
went into this thing.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
It wouldn't be wise for me to become suddenly impatient.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeh, all right down, sit down, Thank you, mister Craig nice.
Hand me my glasses and my table over there. I
can't see you say my glasses your medicine, mister Cray nice.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
Oh ah, thank you. Nuys, yeah they are.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Do you wish warm milk before going to bed tonight?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Well no, not not on your life. And don't you
go lock in my laboratory tonight. I'm going to take
around in that a bit soon as mister Billy leaves.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Just ram you need anythings to cray.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
You look well, sir, and I have had better in
my life. Now, what's on your mind this shower of
the night.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Well, mister Craig, I have been handling your legal affairs
for quite some time.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Now, yeah, yes, yes you, yes, you have seven years.
I believe that's so.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
This afternoon I stumbled upon something that absolutely astounded me.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
And what was that?
Speaker 5 (04:16):
I happened upon the deed to your estate. I noticed
it had never been turned over to you in a
legal manner. Yeah, well, it's a small technicality, but I
thought I should advise you about it.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Have you done anything about it?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Why?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Yes, yes I have. That's why I came out tonight.
I have the papers with me. Put everything in perfect order,
I say, mister Craig, is something wrong?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
No, I I'm just and sleepy. I'd better saying now, yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I think you'd better here, mister Craig, Miss Lyon right here, ye.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yes, yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Yeah, that's all, mister Craig. Thank you very much. This
is just exactly what we needed, just exactly.
Speaker 8 (05:18):
M m.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yes, huh.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Well, I ain't know about having to leave me here
in the darkness. Nice, nice, come here, come here. Once
she's not here, she's gone it's gone, and let me
should die so still, let me have to die. But
(05:53):
I can stand darkness. You know I can be left alone.
And you know my you know my.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
Hm hm hmming to my man servant, Alex Monroe.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I bequeath the summer five thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
This is my will. All it remains, aside from the foregoing,
is for mister Samuel Willard, my attorney, to carry out
the duties. I already have an outline to him herewith
to test my hand, Peter Craig, and that is mister
Craig's will.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I wish to assure you that the last portion, a.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Portion concerning the duties involving myself, had been carried out.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
They have to do with the.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Funeral itself and the preparations for the funeral. I wish
to thank each of you for coming here tonight to
hear the reading of mister Craig's will. You will each
receive your individual shares of the estate in the next
two weeks.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Now believing.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Whereas they took it quite well.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Why shouldn't they, after all, they were only his servants,
he had no relatives. It didn't strike any of them
as strange that Craig should have left the bulk of
the estate to me.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
You played your cards very well, didn't you.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I think so. The smartest thing was giving the servants
a share.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Now I suppose I received my share, of.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Course within a week.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Good would you mind answering a question for him?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I know, what is it those instructions.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
About the funeral? I saw nothing unusual about them.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
There wasn't anything unusual.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
But just what were the secret instructions mister Craig left
for you in a sealed envelope mark to be read
immediately following my passing.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
That he just stated he was to be buried in
the family vault. But there was something strange at that.
He directed me to his laboratory, a certain compartment, where
I found a box wrapped in brown paper and tied
with a heavy cord. He instructed that this box was
to be buried with him, And was it? Yes, I
(08:59):
had a place to do.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
You know what was in the box?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (09:04):
I don't mind saying. I was curious, so I opened
the package. Well, it wasn't anything worthwhile at all, just
a couple of pounds of modeling play modeling clay. Yeah,
what in the world do you think his idea was
in wanting to be buried with such an insignificant thing
(09:25):
as modeling clay.
Speaker 9 (09:41):
This way, please, professor fight. Thanks mister WiLAN. Peter Craig,
as I've told you, was an old friend of mine,
and I certainly was surprised to arrive in landing it
pasted on.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Yes, we buried him last Thursday. Mister Craig had no relatives.
I didn't know the names of any of his friends,
and that's why you weren't notified.
Speaker 9 (10:02):
I once worked with mister Craig at Oxford. He could
have been a professor there anyway, Professor here down these steps. Yes,
he was quite an electrical engineer, work miracles almost, with
wires and tubes and batteries.
Speaker 10 (10:18):
Condensers, all that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Well, I knew he liked.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
To fuss around in his laboratory. I've only been inside
the place once. I didn't know he was a master
at any particular science.
Speaker 9 (10:31):
Oh, yes, indeed he was worn in a million, always experimenting,
always trying some new idea. Here we are, this is
mister Craig's laboratory. I see this wax on the door
of that.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
The police sealed the place up, and they were investigating
the death of Peter Craig.
Speaker 10 (10:50):
Investigating.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Yes, mister Craig died unattended heart attack. He fell and
struck his head. Where it's the police feared foul place.
Speaker 10 (11:01):
Oh I see, Oh, I suppose it'll be quite all.
Speaker 9 (11:05):
I could break the seal now, certainly I've forgotten all
about it.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
There we are now I'll.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Go first, Professor, why light switch is very inconvenient by placed?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Okay, sir, this is what you wanted to see, Just
as I thought.
Speaker 9 (11:27):
Table after table and shelf after shelf and electrical equipment.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
It seems pretty much of a mess to me.
Speaker 10 (11:35):
For old Peter Gray never was very tidy.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
I came in here the day the police were around,
just before they sealed the room up. I've never been
here before. All these wires and electrical panels and tubes
and things give me the creep.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
Well Craig certainly could put weird contraptions to year.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
He spent many hours here.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
I believe his experiments were the only things that gave
him a desire to keep on the say, he.
Speaker 10 (12:02):
Has a strange looking work base over here.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
What do you mean, professor, Well, I look for yourself
here See the tabletop is littered with short lengths of
almost invisible copper wires and with.
Speaker 9 (12:14):
Little bits of nice putty. But no, it's not pretty.
It's it's modeling play.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yes, you're right, yes, And here's a cardboard box of
this till the box the bomb paper, this heavy court
where it appears that there was a great deal more.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
To play in this box.
Speaker 9 (12:35):
You can see that a good portion, ever, it has
been torn.
Speaker 10 (12:37):
Away from the original match.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
It's the same box, the very same one.
Speaker 11 (12:41):
I put into the casket.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
What could Peter Craig have been doing with modeling play?
Thin copper wires still willing? Yes?
Speaker 9 (12:50):
Is that the only entrance to this laboratory, the one the.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Police see him?
Speaker 9 (12:55):
Yes, it is no windows, no other door. And yet
that that's see who was unbroken?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
We both saw it well.
Speaker 9 (13:03):
But look here on this, on this workbench, here these
bits of clay still moist, not dry, and hardened, like
they'd beleave if they if they'd lay here long.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
And this hands all here, look at it, damn as
though someone had just recently dried his hands on it.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Will what's there?
Speaker 10 (13:20):
Do you know?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
A locket on a golden chain? Where did you find it.
Speaker 10 (13:27):
Here on the floor near the wall.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Over there, his picture is a child inside.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
You know what's in the locket without opening?
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Yes, it was Peter Craig's request. Could he'd be buried
with this locket in his hands?
Speaker 6 (14:00):
H Hello, Yes, yes, this is Rochester who wishes to
see me close. Well, if he won't give his name,
I certainly am not interested. He said, to tell me
(14:20):
he's the man with the scarlet satchel. The scarlet satchel. Oh, noah,
I don't wish to see him. Send him away, Please
tell him to go away. Tell him to go away.
(14:44):
Peter Craig.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Good evening, my dear you. The man with the scarlet satchel.
I remember where you bought it.
Speaker 12 (14:58):
He took me with you, and when I suggested a
black or brown colored bag, you said, I said that
scarlet is my favorite color because it reminds me so
very much a blood.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yes, no, no, but this isn't true.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
It can't be true.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Peter Craig is dead, Yes, my dear, so he is.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Peter Craig.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I was Peter great once upon a time. Now I
am merely an old man with a scarlet satchel.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
What is in that satchel.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I am just.
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Returning a gift, my dear.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Lift.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Oh it was a most excellent jest. And no, but
hardly becoming of so charming a person yourself. What do
you mean do you remember the modeling clay? I see
you do remember me a joke.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
We said it to you only in fun mis and I.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Oh, yes, mister Willard, Well, I never did tell you
how much I appreciated receiving a child's plaything from two
such thoughtful people.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
But now I've come to return the gift.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Go away, your son impostor pretending to be Peter Craig.
Speaker 12 (16:33):
The real Peter Craig is dead and.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
Very I am going, my dear, but I.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Leave the gift with you. You'll find it there.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
In the satchel.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
You'll find its contents most interesting, I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
And now good night, my dear, and goodbye.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
H's God, isn't true. The Craig is dead and so
I'm buried. This is just a horrible dream. Yes, I
wake up any minute now.
Speaker 13 (17:15):
And that's satchel scarlet, more scarlet now than it ever
was there.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
On the floor where he left it.
Speaker 14 (17:30):
Oh, it's it's opening, yes, opening, And yet and no
hands to do it. Something inside, something is opening. That's
Sachel from the inside. What I wouldn't name of ever
(17:53):
used that things stop?
Speaker 15 (17:58):
I tell you give away.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
And miss Esther was a friend of yours, mister Worllan,
Yes she was, and that newspaper certainly gives a startling
account of her death.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Yes, Rose Esther was heard by neighboring tenants screaming hysterically.
When investigators broke their way through a locked door, they
found the nurse sprawled upon the floor of her living room.
Both the girl's hands were clasped tightly to her face.
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Her eyes were steing blankly. Whyde with terror? Her last
gasping words were scarlet c The terror stricken girl undoubtedly
died from the fright.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
Scarlet Yeah, sounds like a murder part from Sherlock.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Holmes Scarlet Techel.
Speaker 11 (19:17):
Just a minute, professor still, Willard Man, don't jump like that.
Speaker 10 (19:20):
Why you startled a live out than me? It's got
gall West gone.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
He tept it here, the miss closett. I remember when
he bought it?
Speaker 10 (19:27):
Who bought what?
Speaker 9 (19:28):
Mister Worland, What in Heaven's name are you so excited about?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
The scarlet techel?
Speaker 11 (19:32):
He always kept it here.
Speaker 9 (19:33):
No, it's go I still don't understand what cemetery.
Speaker 11 (19:37):
That's it. We've got to go out to the cemetery.
Come on, Professor White, We've got to go out there
and see what's happened to the grave of Peter Craig.
Speaker 16 (20:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Gone.
Speaker 10 (20:22):
His body's guard, Pater Graves war has been opened.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Opened as though someone inside had pushed up the cotton
lid to escape.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
That lid was heavy, Peter, Peter Craig, It was so
difficult for an old man.
Speaker 11 (20:39):
To push up so much weight, Peter, What on earth
isn't this the explanation of this?
Speaker 10 (20:45):
They told you what's hitting?
Speaker 15 (20:46):
Do it? Then?
Speaker 10 (20:47):
For once, my good friend, they told the truth.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yes, see, he is dead. I saw him just after
they found him.
Speaker 10 (20:54):
He's been dead for hours.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
His heart had stopped.
Speaker 11 (20:57):
Brigamters had said him, Yes, I was a perfect copse.
He was taking to the funeral, partner and bond. He
lay in his cop on the day of the night
before we buried him.
Speaker 10 (21:07):
Still will there's no explanation.
Speaker 11 (21:09):
I saw them close the cop on him, saw them
bring it out here, watched them put it into.
Speaker 10 (21:14):
The vault and seal the door and Rose.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Esther witnessed the same thing.
Speaker 10 (21:20):
That's why I started her.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
So you killed her.
Speaker 10 (21:25):
You killed roses to.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Her, But I she was killed by the thing in
the scarlet, Satel.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
The scarlet Sachel, Professor White. Look, he's killing it now.
Speaker 10 (21:40):
There is one fan in the entire scheme of things.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Mortal man does not know.
Speaker 10 (21:46):
That those who are maded never.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Rest easily within their graves until they have rocked their
full and perfect engines.
Speaker 10 (22:00):
Left me a long long in the darkness and stillness
of a.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Night to die.
Speaker 10 (22:06):
They knew that my heart couldn't stand the shock. It
was as much matter as if the stopped my heart
with a dagger thrust slow.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
No, I had nothing to do with that.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
You and your friend, miss Esther once thought it very
hilarious when you sent your child's painting to the males.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
At the time, I was not amused, mister Willard.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Now I am the clay mudeling, said exactly, Peter, Peter Man,
what are you.
Speaker 11 (22:34):
Doing the skull et cetera.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
He's opening and taking out my little paid me fed Peter,
Oh looks alive.
Speaker 11 (22:43):
No, oh, tady, it's nothing but a little figure, muddled
and clay, just a little Clay Dove.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
It can't be hun Bell Botchet, come to life, Pete
good heavens it's moving.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
What like a man?
Speaker 15 (22:57):
You see?
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I have put them up.
Speaker 11 (23:00):
They played to good news.
Speaker 10 (23:02):
I have created with it your damn nation.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Keep it away from.
Speaker 12 (23:07):
Me to Tommy Tolsey, keep it a whole.
Speaker 17 (23:09):
I say, oh that toss me stop it, keep that
stay away.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
A fantasy.
Speaker 18 (23:54):
You have heard The Man with the Scarlet Satchel, the
sixteenth original Tale of Dark DAAs Say by Scott Bishop.
Ben Morris played Sam Willard. Fred Wayne was Peter Craig
Georgiana Cook took the part of Rose Ester, and Mure
Height was heard as Professor White. Next Friday Night, at
this time, listen to another startling and weird dark fantasy adventure,
(24:18):
Superstition Be Hanged, written.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
By Scott Bishop.
Speaker 18 (24:24):
Tom Paxton, speaking doc Pantasy originates each Friday night in
the studios of wk Y, Oklahoma City. This is the
National Broadcasting Company
Guy fantasy. I would like to buy a section, if
it please.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
There let one in the corner, A dude, the scarlet one,
you see, Scarlet is my favorite color because it reminds
me so very.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Much of blood.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Oh road, Then well you know what I came about him?
Sit down to have a smoke.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yes, of course.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Do you think mister Craig knows what we're doing?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I believe he suspects. What are your plans tonight? Peter
Craig will sign over the last of the estake to me?
Speaker 4 (01:27):
And when do I get the money you promised.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Me within a week?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Why not wait that long?
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Because it's the best that way. You should wait longer.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Would not do for the private nurse Rose Esther to
become suddenly rich overnight.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
You remember the price, don't you?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
One hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I should have more. You are matting a cool million.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
The deal was all right with you when I made it.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Yes, yes, it's all right. What time tonight?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
About eleven?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
And he's good and sleepy, So we'll take the powder
without suspecting.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
You said, he are already suspects.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Not everything he doesn't know.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
We give him dope to make his mind go blank.
We can be pretty sure of that, ah, that.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
He signs those legal papers while under the influence of
the drug.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
He couldn't possibly know that he's been taking medicine for
so many years. When you're hold a glass of it
in front of him, he takes it automatically. He has
one more paper to sign, one more I'll give him
the powder that minute. You come into the house tonight.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
After that disappear, yes, I will.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
But remember, Sam, I expect my share of the money
within a week.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
I think I've been quite patient with you since we
went into this thing.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
It wouldn't be wise for me to become suddenly impatient.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeh, all right down, sit down, Thank you, mister Craig nice.
Hand me my glasses and my table over there. I
can't see you say my glasses your medicine, mister Cray nice.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
Oh ah, thank you. Nuys, yeah they are.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Do you wish warm milk before going to bed tonight?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Well no, not not on your life. And don't you
go lock in my laboratory tonight. I'm going to take
around in that a bit soon as mister Billy leaves.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Just ram you need anythings to cray.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
You look well, sir, and I have had better in
my life. Now, what's on your mind this shower of
the night.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Well, mister Craig, I have been handling your legal affairs
for quite some time.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Now, yeah, yes, yes you, yes, you have seven years.
I believe that's so.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
This afternoon I stumbled upon something that absolutely astounded me.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
And what was that?
Speaker 5 (04:16):
I happened upon the deed to your estate. I noticed
it had never been turned over to you in a
legal manner. Yeah, well, it's a small technicality, but I
thought I should advise you about it.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Have you done anything about it?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Why?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Yes, yes I have. That's why I came out tonight.
I have the papers with me. Put everything in perfect order,
I say, mister Craig, is something wrong?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
No, I I'm just and sleepy. I'd better saying now, yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I think you'd better here, mister Craig, Miss Lyon right here, ye.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yes, yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Yeah, that's all, mister Craig. Thank you very much. This
is just exactly what we needed, just exactly.
Speaker 8 (05:18):
M m.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yes, huh.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Well, I ain't know about having to leave me here
in the darkness. Nice, nice, come here, come here. Once
she's not here, she's gone it's gone, and let me
should die so still, let me have to die. But
(05:53):
I can stand darkness. You know I can be left alone.
And you know my you know my.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
Hm hm hmming to my man servant, Alex Monroe.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I bequeath the summer five thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
This is my will. All it remains, aside from the foregoing,
is for mister Samuel Willard, my attorney, to carry out
the duties. I already have an outline to him herewith
to test my hand, Peter Craig, and that is mister
Craig's will.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I wish to assure you that the last portion, a.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Portion concerning the duties involving myself, had been carried out.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
They have to do with the.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Funeral itself and the preparations for the funeral. I wish
to thank each of you for coming here tonight to
hear the reading of mister Craig's will. You will each
receive your individual shares of the estate in the next
two weeks.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Now believing.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Whereas they took it quite well.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Why shouldn't they, after all, they were only his servants,
he had no relatives. It didn't strike any of them
as strange that Craig should have left the bulk of
the estate to me.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
You played your cards very well, didn't you.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
I think so. The smartest thing was giving the servants
a share.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Now I suppose I received my share, of.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Course within a week.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Good would you mind answering a question for him?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I know, what is it those instructions.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
About the funeral? I saw nothing unusual about them.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
There wasn't anything unusual.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
But just what were the secret instructions mister Craig left
for you in a sealed envelope mark to be read
immediately following my passing.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
That he just stated he was to be buried in
the family vault. But there was something strange at that.
He directed me to his laboratory, a certain compartment, where
I found a box wrapped in brown paper and tied
with a heavy cord. He instructed that this box was
to be buried with him, And was it? Yes, I
(08:59):
had a place to do.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
You know what was in the box?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (09:04):
I don't mind saying. I was curious, so I opened
the package. Well, it wasn't anything worthwhile at all, just
a couple of pounds of modeling play modeling clay. Yeah,
what in the world do you think his idea was
in wanting to be buried with such an insignificant thing
(09:25):
as modeling clay.
Speaker 9 (09:41):
This way, please, professor fight. Thanks mister WiLAN. Peter Craig,
as I've told you, was an old friend of mine,
and I certainly was surprised to arrive in landing it
pasted on.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Yes, we buried him last Thursday. Mister Craig had no relatives.
I didn't know the names of any of his friends,
and that's why you weren't notified.
Speaker 9 (10:02):
I once worked with mister Craig at Oxford. He could
have been a professor there anyway, Professor here down these steps. Yes,
he was quite an electrical engineer, work miracles almost, with
wires and tubes and batteries.
Speaker 10 (10:18):
Condensers, all that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Well, I knew he liked.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
To fuss around in his laboratory. I've only been inside
the place once. I didn't know he was a master
at any particular science.
Speaker 9 (10:31):
Oh, yes, indeed he was worn in a million, always experimenting,
always trying some new idea. Here we are, this is
mister Craig's laboratory. I see this wax on the door
of that.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
The police sealed the place up, and they were investigating
the death of Peter Craig.
Speaker 10 (10:50):
Investigating.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Yes, mister Craig died unattended heart attack. He fell and
struck his head. Where it's the police feared foul place.
Speaker 10 (11:01):
Oh I see, Oh, I suppose it'll be quite all.
Speaker 9 (11:05):
I could break the seal now, certainly I've forgotten all
about it.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
There we are now I'll.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Go first, Professor, why light switch is very inconvenient by placed?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Okay, sir, this is what you wanted to see, Just
as I thought.
Speaker 9 (11:27):
Table after table and shelf after shelf and electrical equipment.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
It seems pretty much of a mess to me.
Speaker 10 (11:35):
For old Peter Gray never was very tidy.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
I came in here the day the police were around,
just before they sealed the room up. I've never been
here before. All these wires and electrical panels and tubes
and things give me the creep.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
Well Craig certainly could put weird contraptions to year.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
He spent many hours here.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
I believe his experiments were the only things that gave
him a desire to keep on the say, he.
Speaker 10 (12:02):
Has a strange looking work base over here.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
What do you mean, professor, Well, I look for yourself
here See the tabletop is littered with short lengths of
almost invisible copper wires and with.
Speaker 9 (12:14):
Little bits of nice putty. But no, it's not pretty.
It's it's modeling play.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yes, you're right, yes, And here's a cardboard box of
this till the box the bomb paper, this heavy court
where it appears that there was a great deal more.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
To play in this box.
Speaker 9 (12:35):
You can see that a good portion, ever, it has
been torn.
Speaker 10 (12:37):
Away from the original match.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
It's the same box, the very same one.
Speaker 11 (12:41):
I put into the casket.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
What could Peter Craig have been doing with modeling play?
Thin copper wires still willing? Yes?
Speaker 9 (12:50):
Is that the only entrance to this laboratory, the one the.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Police see him?
Speaker 9 (12:55):
Yes, it is no windows, no other door. And yet
that that's see who was unbroken?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
We both saw it well.
Speaker 9 (13:03):
But look here on this, on this workbench, here these
bits of clay still moist, not dry, and hardened, like
they'd beleave if they if they'd lay here long.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
And this hands all here, look at it, damn as
though someone had just recently dried his hands on it.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Will what's there?
Speaker 10 (13:20):
Do you know?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
A locket on a golden chain? Where did you find it.
Speaker 10 (13:27):
Here on the floor near the wall.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Over there, his picture is a child inside.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
You know what's in the locket without opening?
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Yes, it was Peter Craig's request. Could he'd be buried
with this locket in his hands?
Speaker 6 (14:00):
H Hello, Yes, yes, this is Rochester who wishes to
see me close. Well, if he won't give his name,
I certainly am not interested. He said, to tell me
(14:20):
he's the man with the scarlet satchel. The scarlet satchel. Oh, noah,
I don't wish to see him. Send him away, Please
tell him to go away. Tell him to go away.
(14:44):
Peter Craig.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Good evening, my dear you. The man with the scarlet satchel.
I remember where you bought it.
Speaker 12 (14:58):
He took me with you, and when I suggested a
black or brown colored bag, you said, I said that
scarlet is my favorite color because it reminds me so
very much a blood.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yes, no, no, but this isn't true.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
It can't be true.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Peter Craig is dead, Yes, my dear, so he is.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Peter Craig.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I was Peter great once upon a time. Now I
am merely an old man with a scarlet satchel.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
What is in that satchel.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I am just.
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Returning a gift, my dear.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Lift.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Oh it was a most excellent jest. And no, but
hardly becoming of so charming a person yourself. What do
you mean do you remember the modeling clay? I see
you do remember me a joke.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
We said it to you only in fun mis and I.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Oh, yes, mister Willard, Well, I never did tell you
how much I appreciated receiving a child's plaything from two
such thoughtful people.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
But now I've come to return the gift.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Go away, your son impostor pretending to be Peter Craig.
Speaker 12 (16:33):
The real Peter Craig is dead and.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
Very I am going, my dear, but I.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Leave the gift with you. You'll find it there.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
In the satchel.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
You'll find its contents most interesting, I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
And now good night, my dear, and goodbye.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
H's God, isn't true. The Craig is dead and so
I'm buried. This is just a horrible dream. Yes, I
wake up any minute now.
Speaker 13 (17:15):
And that's satchel scarlet, more scarlet now than it ever
was there.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
On the floor where he left it.
Speaker 14 (17:30):
Oh, it's it's opening, yes, opening, And yet and no
hands to do it. Something inside, something is opening. That's
Sachel from the inside. What I wouldn't name of ever
(17:53):
used that things stop?
Speaker 15 (17:58):
I tell you give away.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
And miss Esther was a friend of yours, mister Worllan,
Yes she was, and that newspaper certainly gives a startling
account of her death.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Yes, Rose Esther was heard by neighboring tenants screaming hysterically.
When investigators broke their way through a locked door, they
found the nurse sprawled upon the floor of her living room.
Both the girl's hands were clasped tightly to her face.
(18:51):
Her eyes were steing blankly. Whyde with terror? Her last
gasping words were scarlet c The terror stricken girl undoubtedly
died from the fright.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
Scarlet Yeah, sounds like a murder part from Sherlock.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Holmes Scarlet Techel.
Speaker 11 (19:17):
Just a minute, professor still, Willard Man, don't jump like that.
Speaker 10 (19:20):
Why you startled a live out than me? It's got
gall West gone.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
He tept it here, the miss closett. I remember when
he bought it?
Speaker 10 (19:27):
Who bought what?
Speaker 9 (19:28):
Mister Worland, What in Heaven's name are you so excited about?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
The scarlet techel?
Speaker 11 (19:32):
He always kept it here.
Speaker 9 (19:33):
No, it's go I still don't understand what cemetery.
Speaker 11 (19:37):
That's it. We've got to go out to the cemetery.
Come on, Professor White, We've got to go out there
and see what's happened to the grave of Peter Craig.
Speaker 16 (20:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Gone.
Speaker 10 (20:22):
His body's guard, Pater Graves war has been opened.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Opened as though someone inside had pushed up the cotton
lid to escape.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
That lid was heavy, Peter, Peter Craig, It was so
difficult for an old man.
Speaker 11 (20:39):
To push up so much weight, Peter, What on earth
isn't this the explanation of this?
Speaker 10 (20:45):
They told you what's hitting?
Speaker 15 (20:46):
Do it? Then?
Speaker 10 (20:47):
For once, my good friend, they told the truth.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yes, see, he is dead. I saw him just after
they found him.
Speaker 10 (20:54):
He's been dead for hours.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
His heart had stopped.
Speaker 11 (20:57):
Brigamters had said him, Yes, I was a perfect copse.
He was taking to the funeral, partner and bond. He
lay in his cop on the day of the night
before we buried him.
Speaker 10 (21:07):
Still will there's no explanation.
Speaker 11 (21:09):
I saw them close the cop on him, saw them
bring it out here, watched them put it into.
Speaker 10 (21:14):
The vault and seal the door and Rose.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Esther witnessed the same thing.
Speaker 10 (21:20):
That's why I started her.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
So you killed her.
Speaker 10 (21:25):
You killed roses to.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Her, But I she was killed by the thing in
the scarlet, Satel.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
The scarlet Sachel, Professor White. Look, he's killing it now.
Speaker 10 (21:40):
There is one fan in the entire scheme of things.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Mortal man does not know.
Speaker 10 (21:46):
That those who are maded never.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Rest easily within their graves until they have rocked their
full and perfect engines.
Speaker 10 (22:00):
Left me a long long in the darkness and stillness
of a.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Night to die.
Speaker 10 (22:06):
They knew that my heart couldn't stand the shock. It
was as much matter as if the stopped my heart
with a dagger thrust slow.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
No, I had nothing to do with that.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
You and your friend, miss Esther once thought it very
hilarious when you sent your child's painting to the males.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
At the time, I was not amused, mister Willard.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Now I am the clay mudeling, said exactly, Peter, Peter Man,
what are you.
Speaker 11 (22:34):
Doing the skull et cetera.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
He's opening and taking out my little paid me fed Peter,
Oh looks alive.
Speaker 11 (22:43):
No, oh, tady, it's nothing but a little figure, muddled
and clay, just a little Clay Dove.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
It can't be hun Bell Botchet, come to life, Pete
good heavens it's moving.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
What like a man?
Speaker 15 (22:57):
You see?
Speaker 1 (22:59):
I have put them up.
Speaker 11 (23:00):
They played to good news.
Speaker 10 (23:02):
I have created with it your damn nation.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Keep it away from.
Speaker 12 (23:07):
Me to Tommy Tolsey, keep it a whole.
Speaker 17 (23:09):
I say, oh that toss me stop it, keep that
stay away.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
A fantasy.
Speaker 18 (23:54):
You have heard The Man with the Scarlet Satchel, the
sixteenth original Tale of Dark DAAs Say by Scott Bishop.
Ben Morris played Sam Willard. Fred Wayne was Peter Craig
Georgiana Cook took the part of Rose Ester, and Mure
Height was heard as Professor White. Next Friday Night, at
this time, listen to another startling and weird dark fantasy adventure,
(24:18):
Superstition Be Hanged, written.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
By Scott Bishop.
Speaker 18 (24:24):
Tom Paxton, speaking doc Pantasy originates each Friday night in
the studios of wk Y, Oklahoma City. This is the
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