August 5, 2025 • 30 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Author's Playhouse.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Once I was hunted and somebody gave me my freedom.
You couldn't possibly understand that what it's like to be hunted,
or what it's like to.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Be free again.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
But I can.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
This is the story of a man whose mind snapped,
and of how he came back to the world he
had once known and cherished. It is a tale, too,
of a woman's love for this man. Author's Playhouse presents
Frederick J. Lipp's story Cry for the Hunting.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Well, doctor, here's the case record. I won't see him again.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Of course.
Speaker 7 (01:28):
Did he talk very much?
Speaker 6 (01:31):
A little? Not enough to help us any Do.
Speaker 7 (01:34):
You think he'll pull out of it? I don't know.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
He's been through a very terrible experience, something that took
him pretty close to the Ninth Border.
Speaker 7 (01:43):
What was it?
Speaker 6 (01:44):
I don't know. No, this isn't the type to crack
up over the usual things. He was one of the
best intelligence men we had in France after Dunkirk, and
they say he lay the groundwork for the Santa's Air Show.
Not exactly the Flighty Sword.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
No.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Where the experience was it must have been rather bad.
Nose is completely lost in this thing. I've had him
up before, the examining board. Time after time. The results
are always the same, indications of amnesia. Hen there nothing serious,
no structural changes in the brain tissue. We're dealing with
a case of psychosis, and like all such cases, peculiar
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in his own way. Nose is obsessed by what happened
to him and the rotten part of it. We can't
get to him, and there's nothing that might give us
a clue, no evidence of any sort, nothing to speak of.
He keeps rambling on about a dark forest somewhere. The
church gives the German word cure for it, and then
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he keeps calling for someone named Kater. That's all the
same things, over and over, the poor devil, and there's.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
Nothing we can do.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
No, I'm fraid not.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
Let him be outdoors as much as possible. Sunlight, fresh air,
nature has a heat away with cases like this.
Speaker 7 (03:02):
See that he gets out as much as possible.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Because the last thing he said to me was sometimes
I stand for hours at the window and watch.
Speaker 7 (03:11):
The birds fly.
Speaker 8 (03:32):
Hear that knows.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
They told me you out.
Speaker 9 (03:34):
Here in the garden, said morning, doctor ow, thing's getting
done quite well, thank you. Best told me you've been
spending a lot of time here these past weeks. Yes,
have you done any grouse shooting?
Speaker 8 (03:47):
Nose?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yes, at one time?
Speaker 6 (03:50):
I say, why, that's perfectly great. But I'm going for
a weekend of shooting beginning to morrow. I tell you
go along. Even if we don't raise a bird, we're
getting some rare stalking.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
No, now, big your cordon. No, I don't want to go.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Why nods? Why don't you want to?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I don't want to heat's all.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
But I want you two knows. I'm your doctor. I
say it'll be good for you to go with me.
I want you to put in a weekend I head
it tramping.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
It'll be good for you.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Besides, you're fond of birds, aren't your nose?
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I like birds, so do I.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
That's why you best come along. The mallards and wild
geese are heading down.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
They're floways. Now it's the best time the.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Year to be out.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I don't want to go, of course you do.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
We'll have a grand time. I've got a beautiful twelve bore.
I'll let you take you love it. You'll have a
few days of hunting you'll never forget.
Speaker 10 (04:44):
And I won't take no for an answer.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Look at them, go nose beating down in the perfect
bottle them trifle shot.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
No, they're too high, fireman, it's perfect range.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
No, then I will.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
Wind him, beautiful. He's dropping down into the woods.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
You've only hurt him.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
He's trying to fly.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
He won't get away, though, we'll run him down. Why
didn't you shoot nose?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I couldn't. I can't tell you.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Phi.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
For two days now, you've been refusing shots.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
I've seen you. What's the matter?
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Knows you?
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Gunn shy stop it. The bird is coming down in
the woods. I want you to get it, nose. No,
I want you to get him. Mark where he's coming down,
in that drope of ash tree.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
See.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
I want you to get that bird, nose, hunt him
down and bring him back here.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I can't do it.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
I said you can, and you're going to nose. There's
nothing wrong with you. I'm telling you that as your doctor.
Nothing wrong with you, but fear. I've watched every move
you've made, every expression that's crossed your face, and I
know this. Whatever you're afraid of is tied up in
some way with hunting and with the woods. That's why
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I want you to go down into that forest and
bring back the bird. If you've got the guts to
go in there alone and hunt that bird down. I say,
you've got a chance to joy yourself. You're the only
one who can do it.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Now, will you do it? Answer, he knows, Will you
do it? Yes, yes, I'll go.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Somewhere near the ash trees. And that's where he came down.
Speaker 11 (06:51):
He was a kid.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
He couldn't have gone far.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Must be deeper into the forest. Yet.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
What was that?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Oh? Something moved over there on the wild thorn. It's
moving again. It's a bird, all right. He's alive. But
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I saw him fall. He was shocked and falling. But
there's there's not a mark on him, and he's warm
and alive and struggling. He must have been stunned, that's
all he must have been.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
What's that?
Speaker 7 (07:45):
No? No, not again, not again.
Speaker 11 (08:00):
Oh, it's right.
Speaker 12 (08:01):
He's sound in the pans.
Speaker 8 (08:02):
He's making for the laver, stopping the boy against the river.
He's here in the bar somewhere.
Speaker 13 (08:09):
I have come inside from the ones.
Speaker 8 (08:13):
You're never rule you, hear him.
Speaker 14 (08:16):
Why they're coming for you knows?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Do you remember how they came that day in November
when they found you out that day when the roads
were blocked and each field had to watch her. When
you were a hunted thing, twisting, turning, dodging from alley
to alley, crouching in sewers, all the hunters trammed over you.
Do you remember the hot, shrunken, the breath on sick,
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and the lungs, the voice and the radio flying without mercy?
Speaker 15 (09:01):
Citizens of Barbark, An English spy loan to some of
you as one calm render.
Speaker 8 (09:07):
Bookseller is at large in the area on the city.
Speaker 15 (09:10):
This man is cunning, treacherous, and about enemy of the
third rife.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
He must be hunted down to prevent more mischief being
done among you.
Speaker 15 (09:18):
Report at once to your local essay headquarters and aid
in his capture.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
Be on the lookout for a person.
Speaker 15 (09:25):
Answering to this description, hight William wait around one hundred
and sixty.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
They're hunting you, an old.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
They're hunting you down like.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
A wild bird.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
The stones of the street cry out against you. Wherever
you turn, eyes a watching twist down the deck, alleys,
creep from corner to corner, hug the shadow of the buildings, keep.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Going, Old.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
They're hunting you.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
No time for rest, no time for food, no time
for sleep. They're hunting you, hunting you.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
There's nothing here, you please find them.
Speaker 16 (10:14):
Five.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
What's the place anyway?
Speaker 6 (10:16):
It's where houses have odd corners talk missus.
Speaker 16 (10:18):
Spot as any stranger past this way. No one's now sure,
No one's.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
Now only a hammne is a pan landing?
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Oh a half hour ago?
Speaker 8 (10:32):
Very well?
Speaker 16 (10:33):
Keep your eyes sharp until we find the spy had hitler.
Speaker 15 (10:40):
Over host one of your men at each bridges didn't
come down and take three others and search.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
Every ditch, every color in the area.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
Shoot to kill.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
It's dangerous.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
Hello, yeah, yeah, very good time. I'll have it done immediately.
Speaker 8 (10:58):
Heights, Yes, the heights.
Speaker 15 (11:00):
He has many minutes you read sick, you have report
along that river, scouts w boards.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
Don't miss a thing.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
If the spies should cross to the other side, you
might be harder to take.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Where two noles? Where to crouch in the alley shadow?
Here the footfalls coming behind you. Hit the voice of
the pack gaining on you. Crouch in the alley shadow
Look this way. Look that a guard at the end
of the street. What's there that moved in the courtyard?
The footsteps are louder to getting closer. Where you go, Noes,
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you'll have to run again. But where where Noes? Where
where's the rest in this city?
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Where is sanctuary?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Sanctuary? Remember the church Noles a block down through the
little courtyard. There is darkness there, perhaps a worshipful tone,
but sanctuary. Yes, there's sanctuary there, and Kater, even Kater
might be there. Drive all it knows. It's your only chance.
Speaker 12 (12:27):
Car.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Who is it one of the dogs so I can
see you, Carl, Oh, gaither.
Speaker 12 (12:35):
Take my arm quickly, be quiet, take my arm.
Speaker 17 (12:37):
Do as I say. Now, walk to the auto rail
with me. When we get there, kneel.
Speaker 12 (12:43):
There'll be others, but don't worry. They haven't noticed you.
There'll be an ordinary couple going to respus. That's all.
Do you understand me? Carl, Yes, and come quickly.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Cater.
Speaker 12 (12:52):
I won't please not now. I don't want to hear.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
How are you here?
Speaker 12 (12:55):
What does it matter?
Speaker 7 (12:57):
How are you here?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Kater?
Speaker 12 (12:58):
Quiet? Carl, please be quiet at the altar. Please kneel
with me. Yes, pray if you can.
Speaker 17 (13:09):
If you can't, pretend like you were don't look around.
Two police have just come in there walking this way, Peter,
listen to me, keep kneeling, keep your face in your
hands and don't look up.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I can make a run for it. They won't shoot
in here.
Speaker 12 (13:25):
Run, darling, keep kneeling.
Speaker 18 (13:27):
He's coming now, Rye lying, you are too pretty to
be wasting your time in here.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
But I suppose your friend.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
Huh what the hious dog?
Speaker 18 (13:44):
He is with his head in his arms and not
even looking up?
Speaker 8 (13:48):
Is he always this way? Cry lion?
Speaker 12 (13:50):
He is my brother. He comes here to find rest
of the work.
Speaker 11 (13:54):
A find A good strong lagger would be better rest.
Speaker 12 (13:57):
Please go?
Speaker 7 (13:59):
Have you been here long?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yes?
Speaker 18 (14:01):
Seen anyone come in.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Quick like he was being chased?
Speaker 12 (14:05):
No one has come in.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Sure, I'd have seen him.
Speaker 12 (14:08):
If he had.
Speaker 11 (14:09):
Even a spy has better sense than to hide in
a church. It takes a sorry specimen like your brother
to get his fun in such places. Oh, no, that
you're around.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Mm, well say a prayer for.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Me, cry Line.
Speaker 7 (14:31):
I must be going.
Speaker 17 (14:37):
They're gone now. There's no one here but the organist,
and he's to be practicing. We can go, now, Carl,
we'd better go.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
No, wait, wait a moment. Hi, I'm most retired. I
haven't rested for four days. It seems just let me
wait a moment, all right, You won't go away.
Speaker 12 (15:01):
No, no, I won't go Oh Kit, that's a meta darling.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I don't know where to go anymore.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
They're after me, and I don't know where to go.
Speaker 12 (15:10):
Well, I can't take you to my place. Someone might
recognize all afternoon.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I hid it in a little tool shed back of
the warehouse.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
They're all around me, looking, pulling things to pieces.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I almost gave myself up.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I can't go on this way much longer.
Speaker 10 (15:25):
Car.
Speaker 17 (15:26):
Yes, it's true, then, isn't it what they're saying? Yes,
you're not Carl Rendler and you're not German?
Speaker 12 (15:37):
Are you?
Speaker 16 (15:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Kiter? I my name is Robert knows I'm English. I
want to say something to you, Kater, but I don't
know how. If you'll just give me a little time.
Speaker 12 (15:53):
You're a spy please, I don't want to make scene.
I just want to know this.
Speaker 17 (16:00):
All that we've been through together, you and I, is
it real law?
Speaker 12 (16:07):
Was it part of of your work?
Speaker 17 (16:10):
Please tell me calm No matter what you say, I
won't give you away.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
You know, don't you?
Speaker 12 (16:17):
I think I know? But I want you to say it.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I love Youkter. It wasn't part of my job. I
tried not to, but there was nothing I could do.
I knew this might happen sometime, or that I might
have to leave, but I couldn't help it. I've meant
everything I've ever said to you. I came here to night.
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I don't know why, except that I knew somehow i'd
find you here.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I never doubted when.
Speaker 12 (16:48):
I heard about it. For a moment, it was like
a little dazz insight me.
Speaker 17 (16:57):
You were stranger, suddenly someone I loved, but who I
didn't even know. And then when they were hunting you,
when I thought of you out there somewhere, frightened, running,
being hurt.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Oh, my darling.
Speaker 17 (17:12):
I I came here because we had both come here
so much.
Speaker 12 (17:22):
It was the only place I could find you.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Again, Kat, the organist is leaving. If we could hide
in the shadow of the pillar, I could stay here
all night and rest, and in the morning i'd have
a better chance.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Will you stay with me.
Speaker 12 (17:40):
Kit, Yes, I'll stay.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
He's going now down the far corridor. There goes the
last lamp out. We're safe now till morning. Where you
cool I don't know yet. If I can get to
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the forest, i'll have a better chance, and perhaps I
can get across the river. There's a fellow on the
other side, one of my underground agents. If I can
get to him, i'll have a better chance. Darling, it's
all right. I'm just a little tired, running, sleeping, out, hiding.
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Three days or is it four? I don't know. I
can't think anymore.
Speaker 12 (18:31):
Your face it's so hot, almost as if you had
a fever.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
No, no, kidd I'm just tired. Just stay by me.
If you're here, everything will be all right.
Speaker 12 (18:45):
I won't leave you.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I lay in the sewer one day, the water running
over me, and I could hear them pounding over here,
shouting and cursing. I was freezing, and I wanted you. Then.
I wanted you like I wanted rest and food and water.
But I wanted you more than them, darling. And then
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I knew that I would never see you again, never
dare see you.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I didn't care whether they took me or not.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
I gave up caring.
Speaker 12 (19:22):
Don't talk, Carl, Just rest.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
In the morning, you'll be gone and I will too.
But right now I'm glad we're together here in this place.
I'll never lose you now.
Speaker 12 (19:43):
I's darling, Just dress can be still.
Speaker 19 (19:50):
No one's going to take you.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And in the morning she was gone, and you left her,
stealing from the church. While the streets were gray with morning,
and the stars hung cold in the sky. Your cheeks
were burning and your body ached at every step. You
couldn't think any more. You followed your instincts like an animal.
Your instincts said, build a shelter, cover it with fallen
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boughs until it resembles a brush. Heap, pick the last
wild berries, eat them. Rest, And you lay there in
the forest. How they hunted you, How they beat the
brush and trampled ground above your head. You lay there
a day, two days more, who knows, and the fever
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rolled over you like a hot tide, washing the flesh
from your bones.
Speaker 14 (20:58):
And then one night.
Speaker 12 (21:00):
Raise your head, Karl, here, darling.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Swallowed this cater.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
How how did you get here?
Speaker 12 (21:08):
Don't worry, darling, I know this forest.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
How long?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
How long have I been here?
Speaker 17 (21:15):
It was four days ago that I left you in
the church. I didn't want to go, darling, but I
had to. There was so many things to arrange for
arrange for wood for you, different clothes, blankets for you
here in the woods.
Speaker 12 (21:27):
Medicine, Oh my darling.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Have you been here before this.
Speaker 17 (21:34):
Every night I've found you because you were crying out
in your fever.
Speaker 12 (21:39):
It was lucky no one else heard you.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Are They still after me.
Speaker 17 (21:42):
More than ever, but I think they're convinced you're not
here now, Darling, listened to me carefully. There's bread and
concentrated soup and chocolate beside you right here, Darling.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Fear ha huh.
Speaker 17 (21:56):
You're bundled up, and I think your fever's about gone.
Speaker 12 (22:00):
Just rest and be quiet now. I'll be back tomorrow night.
Speaker 17 (22:04):
Again, Cater, Yes, be careful, Please don't worry, Darling.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
I love you so you know that, don't you?
Speaker 12 (22:14):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (22:15):
I know.
Speaker 13 (22:16):
Goodbye, Carl, Carl, Cater.
Speaker 17 (22:34):
I think someone saw me. I'm not sure, but you'll
have to go. Both of a still turn over every leaf.
Now help me up here, Darling, take my arm.
Speaker 8 (22:41):
Lean on me.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
They started, Kater.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
You can get away.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
Please go hurry, card to the river.
Speaker 12 (22:49):
I know where there's a boat.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Kater, go away, please, I don't want them to find.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
You with me.
Speaker 7 (22:54):
Please get to go.
Speaker 17 (22:56):
No, they'll take a boat if you don't hurry.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
I'm not going to leave you, and that's all the
rest it.
Speaker 8 (23:02):
Lean on me.
Speaker 12 (23:02):
Call you tek to walk by yourself.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Done this little p He leads to a quite.
Speaker 10 (23:10):
On the river.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
Hurry now we'll meet.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
You know what will happen if they take me?
Speaker 8 (23:17):
I know?
Speaker 19 (23:18):
Please hurry.
Speaker 17 (23:19):
It's just a little way more. It's gone, darling, the
boat it's gone.
Speaker 7 (23:31):
What will be doing you later?
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Go back?
Speaker 7 (23:34):
There's no other place to hide.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
This is kit, No, I didn't. You can swim.
Speaker 12 (23:39):
If I can help you together.
Speaker 17 (23:40):
We can get across.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
They'll pick us off in the water.
Speaker 14 (23:42):
I won't see us.
Speaker 18 (23:43):
It's too dark.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
They've got light, Darling, it's her only chance.
Speaker 17 (23:48):
I know you're week, but if you can just keep
a little I'll be.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Able to help you across.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
All right, kitten, let's go.
Speaker 12 (23:55):
Don't stuggle when you get in, don't let.
Speaker 17 (23:57):
Me hold you up.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Are you all right?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I can make it alone, I think.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Hold up to me.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I'm that your fin they're under thank you.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Don't think they can see us.
Speaker 17 (24:18):
That swim pa.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
They're bringing a.
Speaker 8 (24:24):
Light on us.
Speaker 17 (24:25):
How pass took me?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Darling, cater standa they're going to shoot Peter.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
Are you all right?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Just a little bit more case almost there?
Speaker 16 (24:49):
We've made it.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Keep locate, they'll stand.
Speaker 10 (24:54):
Up oka.
Speaker 16 (25:17):
Your nos, aren't you produce intelligence?
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Yes, I'm ris Buck.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I've been waiting here for the past week.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Thought they got you.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Now?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Who's the woman?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Oh? I get it Germany.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Yes, afraid there's nothing you can do.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Those slugs got across the back.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Jeez, you'd better come along.
Speaker 12 (25:36):
They'll be sitting upro across any minute now.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
I can't leave her here like this.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
Snap out of it.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Man, she's gone. There's nothing you can do.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
All right, hurry man, I we still got time.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
I'm coming. You left her lying their nose.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Do you remember?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
There was nothing you could do, no final act of tenderness,
no final word to speak, her long, bright hair, so quiet.
Now you placed across her eyes, and then you went away.
But you kept remembering, and the remembrance of her hair
was like the warmth the bird wings in your hands,
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a warm that never went away.
Speaker 7 (26:39):
No, no, I say, I've been chopping my head off
or not.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Fright hear doctor? I'm sorry I didn't hear you.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
I see you, father bird.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Yes, I found him. It isn't wounded, you know, just done.
See how it's struggling to be free.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
I was sworn.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
I winged him. No, well, lock him on the head.
Let's be on our way, doctor.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Yes, you said I'd find something if I came back
in here.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Yes, I said that, did you.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
I don't quite know how to put it, but but
I've gotten out of a mental corner I've been in
for for a long time. You know better than I do.
What I mean hunting the bird down, I believe living
something over again. While I was hunting it down. I
I've come back to myself again.
Speaker 7 (27:52):
That's why.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Why I'm letting him go.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
Why did you do that? What did you let the
bird go?
Speaker 4 (28:03):
For?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Once I was hunted and somebody gave me my freedom.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
You couldn't possibly understand that what it's like to be
hunted or what it's like to be free again.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
But I can. That's why I let the bird go.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
For the first time in over a year.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
I've come back home again to someone who who was
very close to me. You have just heard Frederick J.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Lip's author's playhouse adaptation of his own story, Cry for
the Hunted direction was by mister Albert Cruz, Mister William Evrett,
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and Miss Geraldine Kay were heard as Knowles and Kata
others in the cast of Author's Playhouse Tonight. Were mister
Maurice Copeland, mister Sidney Breese, mister Kurt Kupfer and mister
Norman Gotschalk. The musical score was composed by doctor Roy
Shield and the orchestra was conducted by mister Joseph Gleigio.
Next week, same time, same station, Author's Playhouse will bring
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you a classic story by one of America's master writers,
the late Stephen Vincent Bennett.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Johnny Pye and The fool Killer.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
Your American made radio is a wonderful thing. It works
at the turn of a dial, the push of a button.
You can sit in your favorite chair and listen to
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Author's Playhouse.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Once I was hunted and somebody gave me my freedom.
You couldn't possibly understand that what it's like to be hunted,
or what it's like to.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Be free again.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
But I can.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
This is the story of a man whose mind snapped,
and of how he came back to the world he
had once known and cherished. It is a tale, too,
of a woman's love for this man. Author's Playhouse presents
Frederick J. Lipp's story Cry for the Hunting.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
Well, doctor, here's the case record. I won't see him again.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Of course.
Speaker 7 (01:28):
Did he talk very much?
Speaker 6 (01:31):
A little? Not enough to help us any Do.
Speaker 7 (01:34):
You think he'll pull out of it? I don't know.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
He's been through a very terrible experience, something that took
him pretty close to the Ninth Border.
Speaker 7 (01:43):
What was it?
Speaker 6 (01:44):
I don't know. No, this isn't the type to crack
up over the usual things. He was one of the
best intelligence men we had in France after Dunkirk, and
they say he lay the groundwork for the Santa's Air Show.
Not exactly the Flighty Sword.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
No.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Where the experience was it must have been rather bad.
Nose is completely lost in this thing. I've had him
up before, the examining board. Time after time. The results
are always the same, indications of amnesia. Hen there nothing serious,
no structural changes in the brain tissue. We're dealing with
a case of psychosis, and like all such cases, peculiar
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in his own way. Nose is obsessed by what happened
to him and the rotten part of it. We can't
get to him, and there's nothing that might give us
a clue, no evidence of any sort, nothing to speak of.
He keeps rambling on about a dark forest somewhere. The
church gives the German word cure for it, and then
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he keeps calling for someone named Kater. That's all the
same things, over and over, the poor devil, and there's.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
Nothing we can do.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
No, I'm fraid not.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
Let him be outdoors as much as possible. Sunlight, fresh air,
nature has a heat away with cases like this.
Speaker 7 (03:02):
See that he gets out as much as possible.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Because the last thing he said to me was sometimes
I stand for hours at the window and watch.
Speaker 7 (03:11):
The birds fly.
Speaker 8 (03:32):
Hear that knows.
Speaker 7 (03:34):
They told me you out.
Speaker 9 (03:34):
Here in the garden, said morning, doctor ow, thing's getting
done quite well, thank you. Best told me you've been
spending a lot of time here these past weeks. Yes,
have you done any grouse shooting?
Speaker 8 (03:47):
Nose?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yes, at one time?
Speaker 6 (03:50):
I say, why, that's perfectly great. But I'm going for
a weekend of shooting beginning to morrow. I tell you
go along. Even if we don't raise a bird, we're
getting some rare stalking.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
No, now, big your cordon. No, I don't want to go.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Why nods? Why don't you want to?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I don't want to heat's all.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
But I want you two knows. I'm your doctor. I
say it'll be good for you to go with me.
I want you to put in a weekend I head
it tramping.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
It'll be good for you.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Besides, you're fond of birds, aren't your nose?
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I like birds, so do I.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
That's why you best come along. The mallards and wild
geese are heading down.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
They're floways. Now it's the best time the.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Year to be out.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
I don't want to go, of course you do.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
We'll have a grand time. I've got a beautiful twelve bore.
I'll let you take you love it. You'll have a
few days of hunting you'll never forget.
Speaker 10 (04:44):
And I won't take no for an answer.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Look at them, go nose beating down in the perfect
bottle them trifle shot.
Speaker 7 (05:09):
No, they're too high, fireman, it's perfect range.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
No, then I will.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
Wind him, beautiful. He's dropping down into the woods.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
You've only hurt him.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
He's trying to fly.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
He won't get away, though, we'll run him down. Why
didn't you shoot nose?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I couldn't. I can't tell you.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Phi.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
For two days now, you've been refusing shots.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
I've seen you. What's the matter?
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Knows you?
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Gunn shy stop it. The bird is coming down in
the woods. I want you to get it, nose. No,
I want you to get him. Mark where he's coming down,
in that drope of ash tree.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
See.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
I want you to get that bird, nose, hunt him
down and bring him back here.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I can't.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I can't do it.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
I said you can, and you're going to nose. There's
nothing wrong with you. I'm telling you that as your doctor.
Nothing wrong with you, but fear. I've watched every move
you've made, every expression that's crossed your face, and I
know this. Whatever you're afraid of is tied up in
some way with hunting and with the woods. That's why
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I want you to go down into that forest and
bring back the bird. If you've got the guts to
go in there alone and hunt that bird down. I say,
you've got a chance to joy yourself. You're the only
one who can do it.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Now, will you do it? Answer, he knows, Will you
do it? Yes, yes, I'll go.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Somewhere near the ash trees. And that's where he came down.
Speaker 11 (06:51):
He was a kid.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
He couldn't have gone far.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Must be deeper into the forest. Yet.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
What was that?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Oh? Something moved over there on the wild thorn. It's
moving again. It's a bird, all right. He's alive. But
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I saw him fall. He was shocked and falling. But
there's there's not a mark on him, and he's warm
and alive and struggling. He must have been stunned, that's
all he must have been.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
What's that?
Speaker 7 (07:45):
No? No, not again, not again.
Speaker 11 (08:00):
Oh, it's right.
Speaker 12 (08:01):
He's sound in the pans.
Speaker 8 (08:02):
He's making for the laver, stopping the boy against the river.
He's here in the bar somewhere.
Speaker 13 (08:09):
I have come inside from the ones.
Speaker 8 (08:13):
You're never rule you, hear him.
Speaker 14 (08:16):
Why they're coming for you knows?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Do you remember how they came that day in November
when they found you out that day when the roads
were blocked and each field had to watch her. When
you were a hunted thing, twisting, turning, dodging from alley
to alley, crouching in sewers, all the hunters trammed over you.
Do you remember the hot, shrunken, the breath on sick,
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and the lungs, the voice and the radio flying without mercy?
Speaker 15 (09:01):
Citizens of Barbark, An English spy loan to some of
you as one calm render.
Speaker 8 (09:07):
Bookseller is at large in the area on the city.
Speaker 15 (09:10):
This man is cunning, treacherous, and about enemy of the
third rife.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
He must be hunted down to prevent more mischief being
done among you.
Speaker 15 (09:18):
Report at once to your local essay headquarters and aid
in his capture.
Speaker 8 (09:23):
Be on the lookout for a person.
Speaker 15 (09:25):
Answering to this description, hight William wait around one hundred
and sixty.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
They're hunting you, an old.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
They're hunting you down like.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
A wild bird.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
The stones of the street cry out against you. Wherever
you turn, eyes a watching twist down the deck, alleys,
creep from corner to corner, hug the shadow of the buildings, keep.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Going, Old.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
They're hunting you.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
No time for rest, no time for food, no time
for sleep. They're hunting you, hunting you.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
There's nothing here, you please find them.
Speaker 16 (10:14):
Five.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
What's the place anyway?
Speaker 6 (10:16):
It's where houses have odd corners talk missus.
Speaker 16 (10:18):
Spot as any stranger past this way. No one's now sure,
No one's.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
Now only a hammne is a pan landing?
Speaker 6 (10:31):
Oh a half hour ago?
Speaker 8 (10:32):
Very well?
Speaker 16 (10:33):
Keep your eyes sharp until we find the spy had hitler.
Speaker 15 (10:40):
Over host one of your men at each bridges didn't
come down and take three others and search.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
Every ditch, every color in the area.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
Shoot to kill.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
It's dangerous.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
Hello, yeah, yeah, very good time. I'll have it done immediately.
Speaker 8 (10:58):
Heights, Yes, the heights.
Speaker 15 (11:00):
He has many minutes you read sick, you have report
along that river, scouts w boards.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
Don't miss a thing.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
If the spies should cross to the other side, you
might be harder to take.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Where two noles? Where to crouch in the alley shadow?
Here the footfalls coming behind you. Hit the voice of
the pack gaining on you. Crouch in the alley shadow
Look this way. Look that a guard at the end
of the street. What's there that moved in the courtyard?
The footsteps are louder to getting closer. Where you go, Noes,
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you'll have to run again. But where where Noes? Where
where's the rest in this city?
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Where is sanctuary?
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Sanctuary? Remember the church Noles a block down through the
little courtyard. There is darkness there, perhaps a worshipful tone,
but sanctuary. Yes, there's sanctuary there, and Kater, even Kater
might be there. Drive all it knows. It's your only chance.
Speaker 12 (12:27):
Car.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Who is it one of the dogs so I can
see you, Carl, Oh, gaither.
Speaker 12 (12:35):
Take my arm quickly, be quiet, take my arm.
Speaker 17 (12:37):
Do as I say. Now, walk to the auto rail
with me. When we get there, kneel.
Speaker 12 (12:43):
There'll be others, but don't worry. They haven't noticed you.
There'll be an ordinary couple going to respus. That's all.
Do you understand me? Carl, Yes, and come quickly.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Cater.
Speaker 12 (12:52):
I won't please not now. I don't want to hear.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
How are you here?
Speaker 12 (12:55):
What does it matter?
Speaker 7 (12:57):
How are you here?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Kater?
Speaker 12 (12:58):
Quiet? Carl, please be quiet at the altar. Please kneel
with me. Yes, pray if you can.
Speaker 17 (13:09):
If you can't, pretend like you were don't look around.
Two police have just come in there walking this way, Peter,
listen to me, keep kneeling, keep your face in your
hands and don't look up.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I can make a run for it. They won't shoot
in here.
Speaker 12 (13:25):
Run, darling, keep kneeling.
Speaker 18 (13:27):
He's coming now, Rye lying, you are too pretty to
be wasting your time in here.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
But I suppose your friend.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
Huh what the hious dog?
Speaker 18 (13:44):
He is with his head in his arms and not
even looking up?
Speaker 8 (13:48):
Is he always this way? Cry lion?
Speaker 12 (13:50):
He is my brother. He comes here to find rest
of the work.
Speaker 11 (13:54):
A find A good strong lagger would be better rest.
Speaker 12 (13:57):
Please go?
Speaker 7 (13:59):
Have you been here long?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yes?
Speaker 18 (14:01):
Seen anyone come in.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Quick like he was being chased?
Speaker 12 (14:05):
No one has come in.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Sure, I'd have seen him.
Speaker 12 (14:08):
If he had.
Speaker 11 (14:09):
Even a spy has better sense than to hide in
a church. It takes a sorry specimen like your brother
to get his fun in such places. Oh, no, that
you're around.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Mm, well say a prayer for.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Me, cry Line.
Speaker 7 (14:31):
I must be going.
Speaker 17 (14:37):
They're gone now. There's no one here but the organist,
and he's to be practicing. We can go, now, Carl,
we'd better go.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
No, wait, wait a moment. Hi, I'm most retired. I
haven't rested for four days. It seems just let me
wait a moment, all right, You won't go away.
Speaker 12 (15:01):
No, no, I won't go Oh Kit, that's a meta darling.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I don't know where to go anymore.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
They're after me, and I don't know where to go.
Speaker 12 (15:10):
Well, I can't take you to my place. Someone might
recognize all afternoon.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I hid it in a little tool shed back of
the warehouse.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
They're all around me, looking, pulling things to pieces.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I almost gave myself up.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I can't go on this way much longer.
Speaker 10 (15:25):
Car.
Speaker 17 (15:26):
Yes, it's true, then, isn't it what they're saying? Yes,
you're not Carl Rendler and you're not German?
Speaker 12 (15:37):
Are you?
Speaker 16 (15:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Kiter? I my name is Robert knows I'm English. I
want to say something to you, Kater, but I don't
know how. If you'll just give me a little time.
Speaker 12 (15:53):
You're a spy please, I don't want to make scene.
I just want to know this.
Speaker 17 (16:00):
All that we've been through together, you and I, is
it real law?
Speaker 12 (16:07):
Was it part of of your work?
Speaker 17 (16:10):
Please tell me calm No matter what you say, I
won't give you away.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
You know, don't you?
Speaker 12 (16:17):
I think I know? But I want you to say it.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I love Youkter. It wasn't part of my job. I
tried not to, but there was nothing I could do.
I knew this might happen sometime, or that I might
have to leave, but I couldn't help it. I've meant
everything I've ever said to you. I came here to night.
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I don't know why, except that I knew somehow i'd
find you here.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I never doubted when.
Speaker 12 (16:48):
I heard about it. For a moment, it was like
a little dazz insight me.
Speaker 17 (16:57):
You were stranger, suddenly someone I loved, but who I
didn't even know. And then when they were hunting you,
when I thought of you out there somewhere, frightened, running,
being hurt.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Oh, my darling.
Speaker 17 (17:12):
I I came here because we had both come here
so much.
Speaker 12 (17:22):
It was the only place I could find you.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Again, Kat, the organist is leaving. If we could hide
in the shadow of the pillar, I could stay here
all night and rest, and in the morning i'd have
a better chance.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Will you stay with me.
Speaker 12 (17:40):
Kit, Yes, I'll stay.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
He's going now down the far corridor. There goes the
last lamp out. We're safe now till morning. Where you
cool I don't know yet. If I can get to
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the forest, i'll have a better chance, and perhaps I
can get across the river. There's a fellow on the
other side, one of my underground agents. If I can
get to him, i'll have a better chance. Darling, it's
all right. I'm just a little tired, running, sleeping, out, hiding.
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Three days or is it four? I don't know. I
can't think anymore.
Speaker 12 (18:31):
Your face it's so hot, almost as if you had
a fever.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
No, no, kidd I'm just tired. Just stay by me.
If you're here, everything will be all right.
Speaker 12 (18:45):
I won't leave you.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I lay in the sewer one day, the water running
over me, and I could hear them pounding over here,
shouting and cursing. I was freezing, and I wanted you. Then.
I wanted you like I wanted rest and food and water.
But I wanted you more than them, darling. And then
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I knew that I would never see you again, never
dare see you.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I didn't care whether they took me or not.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
I gave up caring.
Speaker 12 (19:22):
Don't talk, Carl, Just rest.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
In the morning, you'll be gone and I will too.
But right now I'm glad we're together here in this place.
I'll never lose you now.
Speaker 12 (19:43):
I's darling, Just dress can be still.
Speaker 19 (19:50):
No one's going to take you.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And in the morning she was gone, and you left her,
stealing from the church. While the streets were gray with morning,
and the stars hung cold in the sky. Your cheeks
were burning and your body ached at every step. You
couldn't think any more. You followed your instincts like an animal.
Your instincts said, build a shelter, cover it with fallen
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boughs until it resembles a brush. Heap, pick the last
wild berries, eat them. Rest, And you lay there in
the forest. How they hunted you, How they beat the
brush and trampled ground above your head. You lay there
a day, two days more, who knows, and the fever
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rolled over you like a hot tide, washing the flesh
from your bones.
Speaker 14 (20:58):
And then one night.
Speaker 12 (21:00):
Raise your head, Karl, here, darling.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Swallowed this cater.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
How how did you get here?
Speaker 12 (21:08):
Don't worry, darling, I know this forest.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
How long?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
How long have I been here?
Speaker 17 (21:15):
It was four days ago that I left you in
the church. I didn't want to go, darling, but I
had to. There was so many things to arrange for
arrange for wood for you, different clothes, blankets for you
here in the woods.
Speaker 12 (21:27):
Medicine, Oh my darling.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Have you been here before this.
Speaker 17 (21:34):
Every night I've found you because you were crying out
in your fever.
Speaker 12 (21:39):
It was lucky no one else heard you.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Are They still after me.
Speaker 17 (21:42):
More than ever, but I think they're convinced you're not
here now, Darling, listened to me carefully. There's bread and
concentrated soup and chocolate beside you right here, Darling.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Fear ha huh.
Speaker 17 (21:56):
You're bundled up, and I think your fever's about gone.
Speaker 12 (22:00):
Just rest and be quiet now. I'll be back tomorrow night.
Speaker 17 (22:04):
Again, Cater, Yes, be careful, Please don't worry, Darling.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
I love you so you know that, don't you?
Speaker 12 (22:14):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (22:15):
I know.
Speaker 13 (22:16):
Goodbye, Carl, Carl, Cater.
Speaker 17 (22:34):
I think someone saw me. I'm not sure, but you'll
have to go. Both of a still turn over every leaf.
Now help me up here, Darling, take my arm.
Speaker 8 (22:41):
Lean on me.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
They started, Kater.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
You can get away.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
Please go hurry, card to the river.
Speaker 12 (22:49):
I know where there's a boat.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Kater, go away, please, I don't want them to find.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
You with me.
Speaker 7 (22:54):
Please get to go.
Speaker 17 (22:56):
No, they'll take a boat if you don't hurry.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
I'm not going to leave you, and that's all the
rest it.
Speaker 8 (23:02):
Lean on me.
Speaker 12 (23:02):
Call you tek to walk by yourself.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Done this little p He leads to a quite.
Speaker 10 (23:10):
On the river.
Speaker 7 (23:12):
Hurry now we'll meet.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
You know what will happen if they take me?
Speaker 8 (23:17):
I know?
Speaker 19 (23:18):
Please hurry.
Speaker 17 (23:19):
It's just a little way more. It's gone, darling, the
boat it's gone.
Speaker 7 (23:31):
What will be doing you later?
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Go back?
Speaker 7 (23:34):
There's no other place to hide.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
This is kit, No, I didn't. You can swim.
Speaker 12 (23:39):
If I can help you together.
Speaker 17 (23:40):
We can get across.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
They'll pick us off in the water.
Speaker 14 (23:42):
I won't see us.
Speaker 18 (23:43):
It's too dark.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
They've got light, Darling, it's her only chance.
Speaker 17 (23:48):
I know you're week, but if you can just keep
a little I'll be.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Able to help you across.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
All right, kitten, let's go.
Speaker 12 (23:55):
Don't stuggle when you get in, don't let.
Speaker 17 (23:57):
Me hold you up.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Are you all right?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I can make it alone, I think.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Hold up to me.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I'm that your fin they're under thank you.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Don't think they can see us.
Speaker 17 (24:18):
That swim pa.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
They're bringing a.
Speaker 8 (24:24):
Light on us.
Speaker 17 (24:25):
How pass took me?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Darling, cater standa they're going to shoot Peter.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
Are you all right?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Just a little bit more case almost there?
Speaker 16 (24:49):
We've made it.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Keep locate, they'll stand.
Speaker 10 (24:54):
Up oka.
Speaker 16 (25:17):
Your nos, aren't you produce intelligence?
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Yes, I'm ris Buck.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I've been waiting here for the past week.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Thought they got you.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Now?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Who's the woman?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Oh? I get it Germany.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Yes, afraid there's nothing you can do.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Those slugs got across the back.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Jeez, you'd better come along.
Speaker 12 (25:36):
They'll be sitting upro across any minute now.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
I can't leave her here like this.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
Snap out of it.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Man, she's gone. There's nothing you can do.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
All right, hurry man, I we still got time.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
I'm coming. You left her lying their nose.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Do you remember?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
There was nothing you could do, no final act of tenderness,
no final word to speak, her long, bright hair, so quiet.
Now you placed across her eyes, and then you went away.
But you kept remembering, and the remembrance of her hair
was like the warmth the bird wings in your hands,
(26:35):
a warm that never went away.
Speaker 7 (26:39):
No, no, I say, I've been chopping my head off
or not.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Fright hear doctor? I'm sorry I didn't hear you.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
I see you, father bird.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Yes, I found him. It isn't wounded, you know, just done.
See how it's struggling to be free.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
I was sworn.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
I winged him. No, well, lock him on the head.
Let's be on our way, doctor.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Yes, you said I'd find something if I came back
in here.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
Yes, I said that, did you.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
I don't quite know how to put it, but but
I've gotten out of a mental corner I've been in
for for a long time. You know better than I do.
What I mean hunting the bird down, I believe living
something over again. While I was hunting it down. I
I've come back to myself again.
Speaker 7 (27:52):
That's why.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Why I'm letting him go.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
Why did you do that? What did you let the
bird go?
Speaker 4 (28:03):
For?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Once I was hunted and somebody gave me my freedom.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
You couldn't possibly understand that what it's like to be
hunted or what it's like to be free again.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
But I can. That's why I let the bird go.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
For the first time in over a year.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
I've come back home again to someone who who was
very close to me. You have just heard Frederick J.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Lip's author's playhouse adaptation of his own story, Cry for
the Hunted direction was by mister Albert Cruz, Mister William Evrett,
(29:19):
and Miss Geraldine Kay were heard as Knowles and Kata
others in the cast of Author's Playhouse Tonight. Were mister
Maurice Copeland, mister Sidney Breese, mister Kurt Kupfer and mister
Norman Gotschalk. The musical score was composed by doctor Roy
Shield and the orchestra was conducted by mister Joseph Gleigio.
Next week, same time, same station, Author's Playhouse will bring
(29:40):
you a classic story by one of America's master writers,
the late Stephen Vincent Bennett.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Johnny Pye and The fool Killer.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
Your American made radio is a wonderful thing. It works
at the turn of a dial, the push of a button.
You can sit in your favorite chair and listen to
the programmes you like best. Over en v C and
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