September 6, 2024 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Die and just stay you two roll movie dosnt's hum?
(00:49):
What's that? Oh? It's telephone?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
H colors?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
How the first chance of ad gets sleep in this country?
And the dad blame telephone?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I said me, Uh, if you let it the ring
till doomsday?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yes, yes, this is San Kenyan Airport. Oh, this is
Don Thurman speaking. Now there's a plane here where Mantella.
I don't care much for that trip across the desert,
but you need the plane. They're willing to pay me
(01:28):
for flying it to you. It will make it six hundred.
It's a deal, all right.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I'll make the arrangement.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
You can expect me in about about seven hours if
everything goes all right. Yeah, fine, and I have that six.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Hundred waiting for me. I'll need it at Mantella. MM.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
And let's see north and northeast thirteen degrees and then
tele lies in that direction, and I'm gonna buck ahead
wind most of the way. I'm afraid and the mountains
worry me a dangerous Let's see now this way it's
same tier.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
No, not that way from me. If I ever ended
up in sand Tia, and if I wouldn't want to
bet anything on my chances of getting to that place
and coming out to tell about it. I can't stay
(02:56):
up here much longer. Sandstorm over the desert's getting where's
every minute? I can't see a thing down there? Think
his pea soup? Oh confounded? That goes the motor choked
up with sand, Yeah, here it goes. I can't see.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Where I'm heading, but maybe I can bring her in
on her belly.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Wardrobe.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Couple had been pounding in my ears for hours. Oh
my eyes blinded, but i'd awful sand storm. I can't see.
I don't know whether it's day or night. All I
know is that someone found me out there on that
desert and brought me here.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
That someone someone there.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I have come to take you through the King. You
will be placed in the den of the leopards. Leopards.
It is our custom here to feed uninvited guests as
a sacrifice to the leopards of the pit.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
What is this?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
It nears the time of the full moon. When the
moon is full, its rays effect our leopards, maddens them,
makes him vicious, me on control. Only the flesh of
man will quiet him, and only the king can perform
the ceremony. Her sacrifice.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
King?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
What King, King of Santia?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Am I at Santio?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
You are, yes, you have come where a white man
is forbidden.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
But my plane was forced down on the desert. I
was purposely avoiding Santia. I was trying to reach Mantella.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
You were five hundred miles from Mantelle.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
But I can't be I was only in that storm
for a few hours.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Worm has been raging for freidays three days. Why I've
been only two hours on the desert. The storm came
up only a few hours ago. The entire desert has
been covered with the storm for prede. I don't understand
who were discovered, only because the Honor has once again
(05:24):
displayed her temper towards her father, daughter of King Zenasi.
It has been arranged that the Hona is to wed
within the changing of the moon, and theanna has reveled.
She attempted to flee Santia through the desert storm. She
(05:45):
was followed. She was discovered there with you.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Then she found me.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yes, but two of you will returned here the tear
to the village. How you will come with me?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Me my eyes, I can't see a thing.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Is the justice of Santaia? What do you mean you
will have to guide me? Then take my arm? No,
all right, let's go this way?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
How far right?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Canama hossebag?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
What's the matter?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Canama hoss Panama Hossee what in funder you talking about?
Speaker 5 (06:23):
They're in the sand.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Canna a hosse big.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
What I told you? I can't see me what cannaba hasse.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Big leopard followed by man leopard cast they're in the
sand leopard tracks, followed by man's tracks. Come fireate, Wait
a minute, we must hurry. Evil spirits that holds a
cast my phone. Canama Hassie, big leopard.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Come, we worry.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I have brought you the prisoner wise one prisoner.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Look here?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
What is this?
Speaker 6 (06:58):
You have come, mister Thurman? Where you're not well?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I tried to tell you flunky here that I didn't
come to Santia purposely.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I was headed for Mantella.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
You're not a very wise man, mister Dorman, to make
such a non wise statement. And Dallay is half one
thousand miles from you. No, I got off my course.
I ran into a sandstorm. My plane was forced down
a lightly. But it's true I was blinded with the sand.
I'm still blind if you have a doctor, i'm you
are blind. I am I need medical attention right away.
(07:33):
It is the justice of Sandi. What are you talking about?
It is a law that should the white man look
up on the countenance of Princess Yanna, I shall be blind.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I don't know what you're talking about. The Nasi. I've
never seen your princess.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
We've found you with her on the desk.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I was unconscious when you found me, but she was
with you. Then she found the same spot where I
took refuge.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
We are not fool, she mister dormand fool.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I don't understand. It is so ridiculously evidence. What's so evident?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I have made complete arrangements for my daughter to web.
She has refused to marry as I wish her to.
And last night she fled from Santia. And when we found.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Her, she was with you.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
But what do you think isn't true you had.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
The rendezvous there with her. No, how many times you
have met, I do not know.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
But each meeting has been in complete defiance of the
laws of Santia, that no white man may look upon
the countenance of.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
The pre night in there. I don't know your prince.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
The evidence speaks for itself.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
You are blind on the sandstone. No, because the gods
are beneful.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I tell you the science blinded me. It's only temper.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
It was written ages ago that whatever white man looks
upon the countenance of Santia Princess will be doomed forever
to it. Tin of blindness not eternal. It's sand blindness.
It happens to lots of men who get Caughton sandstones.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
All I need is a.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Old doctor can cure the blindness sent down.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
But the God give me a chance.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I may be blind permanently if you don't let a
doctor look in my eyes?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Can Gassie?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Doctor approaches? Come in?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
My daughter and my father?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
My father?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Had you heard what.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
He was in the capitan? Last night?
Speaker 7 (09:31):
Leopard put prints a near your house, followed by Marcy.
He was spirited again in the full of the moon.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I saw them too, many tracks, big.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Were tell device ones. They would work a charm to
protect us. First we must have spoored. Look my daughter, come, yeah, yes,
he's a white man.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Luke.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
You are his face and tell me where have you
seen him before?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
My child?
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Right, I do not know him. I had never seen.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Him before, But my king. I saw them together.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
You are most wise, my daughter, You are most wise
to deny your foreign lovel. But I'm not her lover.
I've never seen her. I can't even see her now.
The American is blind enough because he has broken the law,
because he has looked upon the face of the Princess
of Santia. The gods have blinded him. It's not true.
(10:40):
I've never seen her face. Ask her, she'll tell you
it's not true.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
He came back to the.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Prison and let you wait there until the body of
wise ones she in judge one of his crime.
Speaker 8 (11:01):
H mm hmmm, shy and steal me shdupid once the
night he's a knight of the moon.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
The night he's a night on.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
M hm.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
M hm, yah.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
H h h h h.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Those drums still pounding, My eyes burning in my head.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
If I could only find a little cool water, Yeah,
I wonder what I am. The King told Evan to
take me to the prison. Instead, he brought me here here.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Where, somewhere out in the open, bushes, shrubbery all around it.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Wait a minute, what's that? A light, a fare through
the trees, A light like a star. I can see,
I can see again.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
One lonely, single little star in a sky of heavy clouds.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
And there coming over the ridge the full moon. What's that?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Someone? Something there in those bushes? Is someone there?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Who is it? Princess Eanna, Do not speak so loudly?
Why are you here?
Speaker 7 (12:53):
I came to see you. I went first to the prison,
but it was empty. Then I knew there had been checked.
Yvan did not do.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
When my father ordered, no, He got me here instead.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
When are we on the edge of the corner, the
corner the precipice, Yes.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Tid hundreds of feet over the side of the corner.
Listen this rock. I will show you. Yvonne. Knew you
were blind. He left you here alone, knowing you would
eventually wander over the edge and be crushed on the
(13:34):
jagged rocks down there.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
He could not wait for the sacrifice.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Sacrifice.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
Yes, with each fullness of the moon, the leopards in
the pit of on Tea become madly enraged. The wise
men say the moon rays affect them. They must be
appeased by the flesh of.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
A human, and the moon will be full again.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
Yes, Donaldo, a pleasant thought, huh. But Ivan could not wait.
He fears all americanus so he brought you here to
be a victim of the khano.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Oh a nice fellow.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
I despise him, and my father said I must marry him.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
You mean you don't mean you're supposed to marry him.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Do you blame me for running away?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I certainly don't even death on the.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Desert, which have been dead than him.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Princess. Why have you come here?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Because I would not have you die, as Ivan wishes?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
How did you find me?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
I have ways?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Tell me? Evan said, the storm on the desert had
been blowing for three days. Is that true?
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Yes, it is true.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
But I was only an hour and a half journey
from San Filador. I ran into the storm suddenly.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
I cannot say about that. Donado, your eyes you look
upon me as though as though.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
You see me.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I do see you. My side has come back. No,
you're not glad I can see again.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
No, I mean, oh, yes that. But to know to
look upon my faith.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Nonsense, It's all a lot of tribe.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
D Oh.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Look here, what is this evil spirit business?
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Leopard? Where if it goes tracks always followed by those
of men they killed? There full of.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Mourns a leopard man.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Because he is a leopard man.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Have you ever seen him? That's right over here someplace
the now. Do have care?
Speaker 7 (15:42):
If he's an evil spirit.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
You have any kind of a weapon, give it to me.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
No weapons will hunt him as.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I will see. I wait the clouds. Oh, there he
is over there.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
It's fun. Oh, we look at him. He would die.
He might take him back to the villain.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
He's unconscious, jungle.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
No, do not task you.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Who's that?
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Father?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Go at once to.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Your hut and remain there.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I fear the God's even now had their faces from you.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
But father, he vanished badly.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Ad once, Oh, he said, And this man needs attention.
Put him down.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
What I said, put him down.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
But he's badly wounded by the clause of an anime.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yes, we heard the animal screaming. The princess tells me
it's a leopard. Man, It is true.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
The evil spirit, a.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Spirit which takes possession of a man and changes him
into a left.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yes, but what man, who we have not known up
to now?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Up now look at you hands mhmm, blood deep beneath
your nails. But it is an evil disease, mister Durman.
To bring it here among us is still more evil.
But I say look here, do you think I did
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that a bit?
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Look at your hands?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
So, no, you're wrong.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
It's Evan's blood, So it is, But I got it
on my hands when I try to help you put
him down. Mister Turman, I do not try to escape.
Van will be returned to the kemp Our medicine men.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Will heal him.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
You will go with me now where your spirit must
be destroyed.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
You have had the wisdom of our elders with determin
you are guilty of a most power seen against us.
You must pay the penalty, and your unfortunate daughter are.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Equally guilty with him.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I cannot pay for you.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
The lawy is so written.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
You have seen two Yana. Tomorrow night, the two.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
Of you shall perish.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
The stone stairway leads to the leopard pit. The two
of you go first.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Come the nadder. Deep praise.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
And thinking of you, Leanna.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
This this pitches a hundred feet into the earth. We
are halfway down there.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Look up above us, good Lord, this this is immense,
huge and wrong. Yes, look up there, all the tribes
people sand here perched around its ridge, peering down.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Yeah, to watch these tacrifies.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Hm. But how can they see down here. It's pitch dark.
We can hardly make our way in the blackness.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Soon the full moon will be directly above the pitch.
It is only when the moon is full that its
rays reach here into the death, and its beams madden
the leopard s Eanna, I see the beast, Now, two
of 'em.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
There's a man down there with 'em, petting 'em. Look
your father. No, he's a white man.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
H I too am white, but I am not his daughter.
He has been king of Dantea for many years. He
stole me when I was an infant, a mon Taylor,
because he wanted a white princess.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Ianna.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
M he's coming over the edge of the pit. The
people up there, Canzias. Now you see the moon rays
affects the beasts.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Quickly move one down to the pit's bottom.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Come Donaldo, Ianna. There must be some escape for you.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
I am not afraid, Donado.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Oh, isn't there any way to escape? Only one? An
impossible one? What does he mean?
Speaker 7 (21:12):
It has always been a belief that if the prisoners
are not truly guilty, the leopards will not harm them.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
There the full moon is directly over the pit.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I remain here, you too through this iron gears.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Come, Donald, Oh, there's only one margate Now one then
separates us from the animals.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Come that man controls those animals.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Take the power of the full moon.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Then there is another way out.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
If we can keep away from the animals until the
moon has crossed the pit.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
I know that would be ours. The leopards will be
released upon us any moment. This is as far as
we go.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Area here, Gna there.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
If I could only save you, there is no way
courage to know.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I'm not afraid for myself. You die now.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
I offer you all for the gods up in the air.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
No we yump took the moon. He is gone and
I no, I didn't have no hard it's behind the.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Bar and my father.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
They'll cha.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
You go do me No dar fantasy.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
You have heard the thing from the Darkness. Tonight's original
tale of dark Fatasay by Scott Bishop, originating in the
studios of W. K. Y Ben Morris, was heard tonight
as Donald Thurmon. Eleanor Naylorcarran was Princess Eanna. Fred Wayne
played King Tanase, and your Height was Evonne. Next Friday Night,
(23:56):
at the same time, listen to the twenty first tale
in this series of weird and unusual dark fantasy adventures
created for you by Scott Bishop. Next week's story is
called The Edge of the Shadow, which tells of a
dairy farmer in Vermont, of a strange dream that is
all too real, and of what this dream finally means
(24:18):
in the scheme of his destiny. Tom Paxton speaking Dark Fantasy,
comes to you from Oklahoma City. This is the National
Broadcasting Company
Die and just stay you two roll movie dosnt's hum?
(00:49):
What's that? Oh? It's telephone?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
H colors?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
How the first chance of ad gets sleep in this country?
And the dad blame telephone?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
I said me, Uh, if you let it the ring
till doomsday?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yes, yes, this is San Kenyan Airport. Oh, this is
Don Thurman speaking. Now there's a plane here where Mantella.
I don't care much for that trip across the desert,
but you need the plane. They're willing to pay me
(01:28):
for flying it to you. It will make it six hundred.
It's a deal, all right.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I'll make the arrangement.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
You can expect me in about about seven hours if
everything goes all right. Yeah, fine, and I have that six.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Hundred waiting for me. I'll need it at Mantella. MM.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
And let's see north and northeast thirteen degrees and then
tele lies in that direction, and I'm gonna buck ahead
wind most of the way. I'm afraid and the mountains
worry me a dangerous Let's see now this way it's
same tier.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
No, not that way from me. If I ever ended
up in sand Tia, and if I wouldn't want to
bet anything on my chances of getting to that place
and coming out to tell about it. I can't stay
(02:56):
up here much longer. Sandstorm over the desert's getting where's
every minute? I can't see a thing down there? Think
his pea soup? Oh confounded? That goes the motor choked
up with sand, Yeah, here it goes. I can't see.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Where I'm heading, but maybe I can bring her in
on her belly.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Wardrobe.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Couple had been pounding in my ears for hours. Oh
my eyes blinded, but i'd awful sand storm. I can't see.
I don't know whether it's day or night. All I
know is that someone found me out there on that
desert and brought me here.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
That someone someone there.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I have come to take you through the King. You
will be placed in the den of the leopards. Leopards.
It is our custom here to feed uninvited guests as
a sacrifice to the leopards of the pit.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
What is this?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
It nears the time of the full moon. When the
moon is full, its rays effect our leopards, maddens them,
makes him vicious, me on control. Only the flesh of
man will quiet him, and only the king can perform
the ceremony. Her sacrifice.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
King?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
What King, King of Santia?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Am I at Santio?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
You are, yes, you have come where a white man
is forbidden.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
But my plane was forced down on the desert. I
was purposely avoiding Santia. I was trying to reach Mantella.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
You were five hundred miles from Mantelle.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
But I can't be I was only in that storm
for a few hours.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Worm has been raging for freidays three days. Why I've
been only two hours on the desert. The storm came
up only a few hours ago. The entire desert has
been covered with the storm for prede. I don't understand
who were discovered, only because the Honor has once again
(05:24):
displayed her temper towards her father, daughter of King Zenasi.
It has been arranged that the Hona is to wed
within the changing of the moon, and theanna has reveled.
She attempted to flee Santia through the desert storm. She
(05:45):
was followed. She was discovered there with you.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Then she found me.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yes, but two of you will returned here the tear
to the village. How you will come with me?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Me my eyes, I can't see a thing.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Is the justice of Santaia? What do you mean you
will have to guide me? Then take my arm? No,
all right, let's go this way?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
How far right?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Canama hossebag?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
What's the matter?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Canama hoss Panama Hossee what in funder you talking about?
Speaker 5 (06:23):
They're in the sand.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Canna a hosse big.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
What I told you? I can't see me what cannaba hasse.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Big leopard followed by man leopard cast they're in the
sand leopard tracks, followed by man's tracks. Come fireate, Wait
a minute, we must hurry. Evil spirits that holds a
cast my phone. Canama Hassie, big leopard.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Come, we worry.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I have brought you the prisoner wise one prisoner.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Look here?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
What is this?
Speaker 6 (06:58):
You have come, mister Thurman? Where you're not well?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I tried to tell you flunky here that I didn't
come to Santia purposely.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I was headed for Mantella.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
You're not a very wise man, mister Dorman, to make
such a non wise statement. And Dallay is half one
thousand miles from you. No, I got off my course.
I ran into a sandstorm. My plane was forced down
a lightly. But it's true I was blinded with the sand.
I'm still blind if you have a doctor, i'm you
are blind. I am I need medical attention right away.
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It is the justice of Sandi. What are you talking about?
It is a law that should the white man look
up on the countenance of Princess Yanna, I shall be blind.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I don't know what you're talking about. The Nasi. I've
never seen your princess.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
We've found you with her on the desk.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I was unconscious when you found me, but she was
with you. Then she found the same spot where I
took refuge.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
We are not fool, she mister dormand fool.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I don't understand. It is so ridiculously evidence. What's so evident?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I have made complete arrangements for my daughter to web.
She has refused to marry as I wish her to.
And last night she fled from Santia. And when we found.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Her, she was with you.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
But what do you think isn't true you had.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
The rendezvous there with her. No, how many times you
have met, I do not know.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
But each meeting has been in complete defiance of the
laws of Santia, that no white man may look upon
the countenance of.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
The pre night in there. I don't know your prince.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
The evidence speaks for itself.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
You are blind on the sandstone. No, because the gods
are beneful.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I tell you the science blinded me. It's only temper.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
It was written ages ago that whatever white man looks
upon the countenance of Santia Princess will be doomed forever
to it. Tin of blindness not eternal. It's sand blindness.
It happens to lots of men who get Caughton sandstones.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
All I need is a.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Old doctor can cure the blindness sent down.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
But the God give me a chance.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
I may be blind permanently if you don't let a
doctor look in my eyes?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Can Gassie?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Doctor approaches? Come in?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
My daughter and my father?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
My father?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Had you heard what.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
He was in the capitan? Last night?
Speaker 7 (09:31):
Leopard put prints a near your house, followed by Marcy.
He was spirited again in the full of the moon.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I saw them too, many tracks, big.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Were tell device ones. They would work a charm to
protect us. First we must have spoored. Look my daughter, come, yeah, yes,
he's a white man.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Luke.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
You are his face and tell me where have you
seen him before?
Speaker 1 (10:05):
My child?
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Right, I do not know him. I had never seen.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Him before, But my king. I saw them together.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
You are most wise, my daughter, You are most wise
to deny your foreign lovel. But I'm not her lover.
I've never seen her. I can't even see her now.
The American is blind enough because he has broken the law,
because he has looked upon the face of the Princess
of Santia. The gods have blinded him. It's not true.
(10:40):
I've never seen her face. Ask her, she'll tell you
it's not true.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
He came back to the.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Prison and let you wait there until the body of
wise ones she in judge one of his crime.
Speaker 8 (11:01):
H mm hmmm, shy and steal me shdupid once the
night he's a knight of the moon.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
The night he's a night on.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
M hm.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
M hm, yah.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
H h h h h.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Those drums still pounding, My eyes burning in my head.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
If I could only find a little cool water, Yeah,
I wonder what I am. The King told Evan to
take me to the prison. Instead, he brought me here here.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Where, somewhere out in the open, bushes, shrubbery all around it.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Wait a minute, what's that? A light, a fare through
the trees, A light like a star. I can see,
I can see again.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
One lonely, single little star in a sky of heavy clouds.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
And there coming over the ridge the full moon. What's that?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Someone? Something there in those bushes? Is someone there?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Who is it? Princess Eanna, Do not speak so loudly?
Why are you here?
Speaker 7 (12:53):
I came to see you. I went first to the prison,
but it was empty. Then I knew there had been checked.
Yvan did not do.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
When my father ordered, no, He got me here instead.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
When are we on the edge of the corner, the
corner the precipice, Yes.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Tid hundreds of feet over the side of the corner.
Listen this rock. I will show you. Yvonne. Knew you
were blind. He left you here alone, knowing you would
eventually wander over the edge and be crushed on the
(13:34):
jagged rocks down there.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
He could not wait for the sacrifice.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Sacrifice.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
Yes, with each fullness of the moon, the leopards in
the pit of on Tea become madly enraged. The wise
men say the moon rays affect them. They must be
appeased by the flesh of.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
A human, and the moon will be full again.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
Yes, Donaldo, a pleasant thought, huh. But Ivan could not wait.
He fears all americanus so he brought you here to
be a victim of the khano.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Oh a nice fellow.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
I despise him, and my father said I must marry him.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
You mean you don't mean you're supposed to marry him.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Do you blame me for running away?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I certainly don't even death on the.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Desert, which have been dead than him.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Princess. Why have you come here?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Because I would not have you die, as Ivan wishes?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
How did you find me?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
I have ways?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Tell me? Evan said, the storm on the desert had
been blowing for three days. Is that true?
Speaker 5 (14:45):
Yes, it is true.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
But I was only an hour and a half journey
from San Filador. I ran into the storm suddenly.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
I cannot say about that. Donado, your eyes you look
upon me as though as though.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
You see me.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I do see you. My side has come back. No,
you're not glad I can see again.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
No, I mean, oh, yes that. But to know to
look upon my faith.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Nonsense, It's all a lot of tribe.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
D Oh.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Look here, what is this evil spirit business?
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Leopard? Where if it goes tracks always followed by those
of men they killed? There full of.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Mourns a leopard man.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Because he is a leopard man.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Have you ever seen him? That's right over here someplace
the now. Do have care?
Speaker 7 (15:42):
If he's an evil spirit.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
You have any kind of a weapon, give it to me.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
No weapons will hunt him as.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I will see. I wait the clouds. Oh, there he
is over there.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
It's fun. Oh, we look at him. He would die.
He might take him back to the villain.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
He's unconscious, jungle.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
No, do not task you.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Who's that?
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Father?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Go at once to.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Your hut and remain there.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I fear the God's even now had their faces from you.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
But father, he vanished badly.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Ad once, Oh, he said, And this man needs attention.
Put him down.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
What I said, put him down.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
But he's badly wounded by the clause of an anime.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yes, we heard the animal screaming. The princess tells me
it's a leopard. Man, It is true.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
The evil spirit, a.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Spirit which takes possession of a man and changes him
into a left.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yes, but what man, who we have not known up
to now?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Up now look at you hands mhmm, blood deep beneath
your nails. But it is an evil disease, mister Durman.
To bring it here among us is still more evil.
But I say look here, do you think I did
(17:17):
that a bit?
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Look at your hands?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
So, no, you're wrong.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
It's Evan's blood, So it is, But I got it
on my hands when I try to help you put
him down. Mister Turman, I do not try to escape.
Van will be returned to the kemp Our medicine men.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Will heal him.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
You will go with me now where your spirit must
be destroyed.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
You have had the wisdom of our elders with determin
you are guilty of a most power seen against us.
You must pay the penalty, and your unfortunate daughter are.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Equally guilty with him.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I cannot pay for you.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
The lawy is so written.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
You have seen two Yana. Tomorrow night, the two.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
Of you shall perish.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
The stone stairway leads to the leopard pit. The two
of you go first.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Come the nadder. Deep praise.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
And thinking of you, Leanna.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
This this pitches a hundred feet into the earth. We
are halfway down there.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Look up above us, good Lord, this this is immense,
huge and wrong. Yes, look up there, all the tribes
people sand here perched around its ridge, peering down.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Yeah, to watch these tacrifies.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Hm. But how can they see down here. It's pitch dark.
We can hardly make our way in the blackness.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Soon the full moon will be directly above the pitch.
It is only when the moon is full that its
rays reach here into the death, and its beams madden
the leopard s Eanna, I see the beast, Now, two
of 'em.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
There's a man down there with 'em, petting 'em. Look
your father. No, he's a white man.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
H I too am white, but I am not his daughter.
He has been king of Dantea for many years. He
stole me when I was an infant, a mon Taylor,
because he wanted a white princess.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Ianna.
Speaker 7 (20:26):
M he's coming over the edge of the pit. The
people up there, Canzias. Now you see the moon rays
affects the beasts.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Quickly move one down to the pit's bottom.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Come Donaldo, Ianna. There must be some escape for you.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
I am not afraid, Donado.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Oh, isn't there any way to escape? Only one? An
impossible one? What does he mean?
Speaker 7 (21:12):
It has always been a belief that if the prisoners
are not truly guilty, the leopards will not harm them.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
There the full moon is directly over the pit.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
I remain here, you too through this iron gears.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Come, Donald, Oh, there's only one margate Now one then
separates us from the animals.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Come that man controls those animals.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Take the power of the full moon.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Then there is another way out.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
If we can keep away from the animals until the
moon has crossed the pit.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
I know that would be ours. The leopards will be
released upon us any moment. This is as far as
we go.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Area here, Gna there.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
If I could only save you, there is no way
courage to know.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I'm not afraid for myself. You die now.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
I offer you all for the gods up in the air.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
No we yump took the moon. He is gone and
I no, I didn't have no hard it's behind the.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Bar and my father.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
They'll cha.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
You go do me No dar fantasy.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
You have heard the thing from the Darkness. Tonight's original
tale of dark Fatasay by Scott Bishop, originating in the
studios of W. K. Y Ben Morris, was heard tonight
as Donald Thurmon. Eleanor Naylorcarran was Princess Eanna. Fred Wayne
played King Tanase, and your Height was Evonne. Next Friday Night,
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at the same time, listen to the twenty first tale
in this series of weird and unusual dark fantasy adventures
created for you by Scott Bishop. Next week's story is
called The Edge of the Shadow, which tells of a
dairy farmer in Vermont, of a strange dream that is
all too real, and of what this dream finally means
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in the scheme of his destiny. Tom Paxton speaking Dark Fantasy,
comes to you from Oklahoma City. This is the National
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