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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tired of the every day grind, ever dream of a
life of romantic adventure, want to get away from it all.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
We offer you.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Escape, Escape transcribed for you from the four Walls of
to Day, for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
You are lost in the trackless wild of the Irish Moors.
You're only companion a beautiful gypsy woman, and you know
that somewhere in the dark behind you, searching every foot
of ground for you, is the giant of a man
called Charon, who plans to take your girl and at
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the same time take your life.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Listen now as Escape brings you.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
John Dayner's story Benjelina and the Fisherman.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It was a cold and gusty knight that found me
sitting over a whiskey in a pub in Ballymoran, a
lonely village situated on the bleak uplands of County Mayo
in the west of Ireland. I had come over from
London for a fortnative trout fishing, which I had been
told was excellent in these parts. As it was late
and the pub deserted, I was questioning the proprietor, one
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Hacket Jy o'cool about the lakes and streams nearby. He
was a little man, all mustache and eyebrows and a
bowler hat pulled down over his ears, instriously polishing the
glasses behind.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
The count We here, so you're here for the fisher.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Now, yes, I've been told it's excellent here, that it
is that it is lose all that make life.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Well, where would you suggest I make a start? Well, no,
that's hard to say, hard to say. You might try
the riel to kill Denny. No, no, no, no, think
it over twice. You'd be better off on the lock. Yes, yes, yes,
that will be the best time, sure for a stranger.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
The lock where is the line? Locked?
Speaker 7 (02:35):
Denial is only a mile to the east. But that's
why going straight up to get there you have to
walk around the mountain five miles and there's no road.
And no, no, no, no, that that that's too far?
Are you about to try something closer?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So far I have the rills have killed Denny and
locked deanal and they're both good. You said, oh good,
trout that long? That long?
Speaker 7 (02:57):
Well, that long, that's respectable, respectable.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I'll tell you whether trout are more respectable than that.
I'd better have another whiskey.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Aye, and you'll need it.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Can I tell you about the place I'm dreaming? Won't
you join me, mister Oco, mister I will. I should
not even be telling you this.
Speaker 8 (03:19):
But I feel it me duty, since you come all
the way from London with your fish pol Yes, I'd
hate to be disappointed the dream or the Dreno?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Where is that? The waters of the Dreno up? And
dark Mail and the fishing's good? That big truly strike
me afremline, strike me dead? Why did you hesitate a
moment ago? It's because well, dark Mail? What is dark Mail?
Speaker 7 (03:52):
Oh, the loneliest more in all of alband nor Corse
outstretches from the mountains to the sea, and cursed with
the loneliness.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
That keeps all live and things away?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Where do I find this place?
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (04:02):
Except for the gypsy folk last year before he went
mad poetry schlog and told him seeing the black Romany
dancing among the spinach people in the vapor for the
wild pan angle.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
They want, mister o'cool. How far is it with burning
and play? How far, mister o'cool? Not far, not far,
But you'd be lost forever. Come now, I'm sure that
we folk won't make off of the harmless fisherman like me.
How do I find this, this dark male and the Dreno?
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When through life I'm bleshed we rove I'll tell you
the following day, I gave myself an early start and
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arrived after an hour's walk at the place described by
mister o'cool, Dark Mao and the waters of the Dreno.
It was a cheerless expanse of ancient rock and wild gore,
shrouded over with lifeless tatters of mist or or vapors.
I could readily understand the native's reluctance to set foot
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on this bleep ground. But the deep flowing waters of
the Dreno excited me in this barren land, and soon
I had my line in the water. Mister o'cool was right,
The trout were magnificent, and my luck was with me.
It was almost noon when something really big struck at
my fly blest mischief. Well, i'll get you yet, who's there?
Speaker 9 (05:46):
Careful you do not fall off the lot.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I can't see you here here. I am oh, I
see you now? Oh what is the matter? But nothing?
It's so lonely here, so desolate. I didn't expect to
see anyone, let alone, a beautiful young woman.
Speaker 9 (06:09):
Oh no, no, it is you beautiful. I watch you
all morning.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
You've been here all morning by the rocks.
Speaker 10 (06:17):
Up there, and I say, oh, what a beautiful man.
Speaker 9 (06:22):
I wonder what he is life you love you?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Oh? Yeah, eh, where is that?
Speaker 11 (06:29):
So?
Speaker 9 (06:30):
I see you lose that fee? You very funny they
look on your face when you say.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Bly, yes, I enjoy that word. Seems to help me
carry the burden of my misfortune. Fly blood, I say,
you're fighting off all the fish. They can hear you know.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Oh that is lying.
Speaker 9 (06:52):
But I tell you I am magic.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
All morning.
Speaker 9 (06:56):
I make you cut bee all the bee.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Morning where it's very interesting. Thank you very much.
Speaker 10 (07:04):
Now again you go fish, and I say, you cutch
the same.
Speaker 9 (07:09):
One you just lose.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I hope you're right. Well, here goes, cross your fingers
or whatever it is you've been doing. Now into that
pool over there. Perfect Now we'll see. Yes, you will
catch him very soon, working your magic.
Speaker 9 (07:26):
Yes, magic, magic, magic magic.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Good.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
You know you worry me. Why aren't you cold dressed
like that? I am not cold, hardly fitting for the
rigors of dark male, don't you lie? Fascinating inadequate? But
there he is again. Got him.
Speaker 9 (07:51):
You see the magic word.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
He's a fighter. I'll have to work closer to him.
Speaker 9 (07:56):
Oh, be careful to rack your step on.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
No, boy, now I've got you're sleeping, I have I'm
all right, I can just.
Speaker 9 (08:08):
What is the mad?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Nothing? I'll be Oh, let me help you. I must
have twisted my ankle. I can't put any weight on it.
Speaker 9 (08:17):
Here, take my hand.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
You get all wet old, Now.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Up slow there now, thank you.
Speaker 9 (08:33):
Poor beautiful man. Let me look at your leg. Can't
she noddy? It hurt.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Can't put my weight on it.
Speaker 9 (08:43):
You come with me to my caravan. I fix you.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Why not back to Ballymoran. It is too far.
Speaker 9 (08:53):
My caravan is closer. Come I show you.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
The camp of the Gypsies lay in a sheltered pocket
of ground, surrounded by great boulders and the never ending
scrub of dark mail. There was none of the color
which I associated with a gypsy camp and the people
of Romany. Instead, here were a grim folk animating a
dismal landscape, who fell silent at my approach, and who
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looked at me with suspicion. There was a cook fire
burning in the center of the clearing, an old crone
stirring a black kettle. The beautiful gypsy girl helped me
into a caravan, a rather disorderly house on wheels, and
made me comfortable on a pile of blankets.
Speaker 9 (09:54):
Now I will make you well.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
First time I've been in one of these.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
This is my home.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
It's rather clever, tad like the tortoise. You carry your
house with you, Yes, like a tortoise.
Speaker 9 (10:08):
Everything on my back heavy.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I noticed the others too, so grim, no smiles.
Speaker 9 (10:18):
It is to run the head of my tribe, a
hard man, heart cruel.
Speaker 10 (10:25):
But he's gone away now to trade horses in the
South countries. He would not be back for a long time,
but let us not talk about him. Here, you lie
back and I will fix you.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
What is that magie? Hold on the Last time you
tried your magic, it broke my leg.
Speaker 10 (10:45):
Oh no, no, my magic gonna cut your fish anyway?
Your leg not broken. Oh, this is blood of my brother.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Blood of you.
Speaker 11 (10:58):
In that bag, Oh not real, little stone, little glass
and many flowers. I put it on your leg so
and it will take away the pain.
Speaker 9 (11:13):
Very magic.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
And look, don't you think I should get to a dog?
Mm hmmm, why did you do that?
Speaker 9 (11:27):
You are beautiful.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I like to kiss you. Yes, that's in the help
you like to I think we should try it again,
just to be sure.
Speaker 12 (11:47):
Here's your name.
Speaker 13 (11:49):
When Chilena, when Chilena pet Lngro woman was to marry
your own You spy for Charon, Yes, for Chordn.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
What the devil is this all about?
Speaker 9 (12:06):
He's final, the shadow of Choron. He's the coward whisper
the ugly story to his master.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Now look here, oh god, you you rest.
Speaker 9 (12:16):
This is not your fine you you Carlo, what are
you doing here tonight?
Speaker 13 (12:23):
Joron is coming when China.
Speaker 9 (12:25):
You know I will not be here.
Speaker 13 (12:28):
You will find you.
Speaker 9 (12:30):
Then I will be dead. I will not marry him.
Speaker 13 (12:34):
Oh, I shall sit here and wait until he comes.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
Do your waiting outside, Carlo.
Speaker 13 (12:43):
No Choron says, I watch, I watch.
Speaker 9 (12:48):
It will be a long watch.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Not long.
Speaker 13 (12:52):
Choron comes in the morning. In the morning he is
coming to take his bride, the beautiful Benchila July.
Speaker 12 (13:02):
He's in the south.
Speaker 13 (13:03):
But what will Choron say in the morning when I
tell him the beautiful Vgelina was kiss the gorge.
Speaker 9 (13:10):
He you will not search your on anything.
Speaker 13 (13:14):
He will cut you in the face. In the morning.
If I tell him he's not so, you will not
search your on anything in the morning.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Hyno, Hino, Wait, let me look at him? What mhm,
give him a good one? All right?
Speaker 9 (13:51):
Is he dead?
Speaker 11 (13:52):
No? No?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
But what happens now?
Speaker 9 (13:55):
We must go?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
You and me? Why because of this Charon?
Speaker 9 (13:59):
If you find out he killed you and he killed me,
now is it time to run to hide?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Come?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
You are listening to Benjellina and the Fisherman Tonight's presentation
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Speaker 5 (14:22):
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Speaker 4 (14:43):
The second act of Ben Jelina and the Fisherman.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Vaino lay unconscious on the floor of the caravan. There
was a sickly pallor to his face, and as I
looked at his still form, a wild thought came to me.
What if he's dead? Not unconscious, but dead? And the
name Charon took shape in my mind as something to
fear that maybe the coming morning would bring me to disaster.
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Suddenly I found myself drawn into the conflict. It surely
as though it were myself had struck Viner. From now
on I knew my fortunes were with the gypsy Bnchelina,
and so we fled the gypsy camp all night. Benchelina
drove the horse cart at high speed over the moor,
over the endless miles of dark mail, until at dawn
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the road dwindled to little more than a cowpad, and
we came to the sea. There was a stone cottage
standing alone on a cliff. But something was wrong on No, no,
not here, not here, what's the matter.
Speaker 9 (16:02):
I came all the way worse, but I take the
wrong road. I am lost.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
What are you doing? I must find the road, but
you're going back.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I must find the road.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
It's suicide. We can't go back. Tron is following. Give
me the rain, No, no, give them to me. I
give them.
Speaker 13 (16:24):
Poo.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Not be sensible. If we go back one step, we'll
walk right into Tron. He can't be far behind. We'll
find some other way. We'll go back to that cottage
and ask yep.
Speaker 9 (16:43):
Oh, there is a town bell Clue.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Where is bel Clue?
Speaker 9 (16:52):
It is in a bay by the ocean. If we
find bell Clue, we are safe.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Pooh pooh, yeah we last here. Help me done?
Speaker 9 (17:04):
Yes, now give me your hand.
Speaker 13 (17:09):
Yeah mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Your food is better seems to be. Yah. Let's see
if there's anyone about. Hello, anyone here?
Speaker 12 (17:26):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
That's fok? Inside deserted? Why not?
Speaker 9 (17:44):
There is death in the house.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Death. Come now, it's just an ordinary cottage.
Speaker 9 (17:50):
Death has been here or death is waiting.
Speaker 11 (17:56):
I know.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
In my bone.
Speaker 11 (17:59):
I know.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah. If it will make you feel better, we don't
have to go in. Don't go in. And let's look around.
Comel on, let's see what we can from the point. Yes,
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there you are the ocean.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
It'd make me afraid the waves. The water were so high.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
You're afraid of many things.
Speaker 9 (18:32):
The Romany are afraid of the great oceans.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Good. Maybe that will keep yourn away.
Speaker 9 (18:37):
Uh not, Charon, he will follow anywhere we go. Except wait,
look what over there the bay?
Speaker 11 (18:49):
No?
Speaker 9 (18:49):
No, no, farther along the coast. See the town bell Glue.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I know it is the town you were looking for.
Speaker 9 (18:58):
Yes, but see there is no road along the cliffs.
No way to reach it from here without going back.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Wait, wait a minute, I have an idea. I'll go
down to the water. Maybe there's a boat that belongs
to this cottage. If I find one, we can make
our way around the point and cross the bay to Belklue.
You stay here and keep watch. I'll be right back
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by the water's edge. I found what I was looking for,
a battered but serviceable dorry and a sheltered cove. I
was elated, and I hastened back up the path to
tell Bencholina the good news. When I reached the top,
I called to her. There was no answer. I looked
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out to cross the moor, but Bencholina was not well
in sight. I became a lo and increased my pace,
calling to her again and again. Still there was no answer.
Then rounding the cottage, I saw something that stopped me
dead in my tracks. There in the sun, sitting on
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a stone wall, swinging his legs back and forth, was
a man, a swarthly man with a handsome, pock marked face.
He was whistling a tune. When he saw me, he stopped, smiled, sir,
good day. Then he beckoned to me with the gun
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he held in his right hand.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
From me.
Speaker 12 (20:48):
Oh, I am so sorry your leg.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Yeah, they told me you injured it at a shade.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
You must be on gore on the Congalam. I believe
you have heard of me. I've heard of your far enough.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
There, let me look at you. I know he's right.
Speaker 14 (21:10):
You are handsome, quite understandable that Benchelina should be carried away.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Where is Benchelina?
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Oh, there hiding behind that big rock.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I don't see her, No, you don't see her, but
I know she is there.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
She saw me coming round to hide. Now she's watching
to see what I will do.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
And what are you going to do? You will see.
Speaker 14 (21:38):
Then, Selina, listen to me.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
It is time to go.
Speaker 12 (21:45):
I will count to ten.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
If you do not come before I finish, I will
shoot your lover.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Shoot what kind of man are you?
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Aha? One?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Two, three? Or this is insane?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Five?
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Six, seven, seven?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Penchelina, think your lover.
Speaker 13 (22:23):
Seven eight.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Mm hm ah.
Speaker 14 (22:31):
This is good, yeah, very good, very wise, Penchelina. Really
now it's time to go back.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Hello romanic Ici.
Speaker 12 (22:49):
Hey, you are still beautiful.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Too bad, you are still beautiful. Look I don't know
what you're planning to do.
Speaker 9 (22:59):
Don't say any thing.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
It is all right, I need to go back.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Now, Lover, we do not need you turn it on.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
What do you do, Jon, we leave the bar of
sun here around? I say no. It must have been
a savage blow, for I lay unconscious most of the day.
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When I opened my eyes, the clouds had blanked out
the sun and the sky was threatening. I dragged myself
into the cottage. It was empty. In one corner there
was a pile of dried seaweed, and I fell across it.
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For a long while, I lay unmoving. Then came the wind,
then the rain. I managed to find fuel to light
a fire in the hearth. At least I would be warm.
Night came. It was sometime during the early hours. When
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looking toward the door, I saw it swing slowly open.
I rubbed my eyes and looked again. Framed in the
doorway was a man. I looked closely. Then I recognized
that it was Charona. He was standing in the heavy downpour,
his right hand behind his back. I bring you up, Ride,
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I don't understand you.
Speaker 12 (24:38):
I bring back your love.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
What have you done with Benchelina?
Speaker 13 (24:42):
Hears with me.
Speaker 12 (24:44):
You want to see?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Of course I want to see Benchelina. Benelina calmet, but Beelina.
It was unbelievable. Only that morning had been a wild
and beautiful creature stood before me, now a hag with
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incredible brutality. Taron had carved a thousand deep wrinkles into
her face and broken her teeth into ugly snags. Her
hair hung lank over her face. Only the eyes showed
a misspen Selina. She stared at me, and a thousand raindrops,
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like a thousand tears, poured down her mutilated face.
Speaker 12 (25:38):
You like her, your pride?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
What have you done to Benchelina? She is yours for you? Fowl?
Speaker 12 (25:48):
Insane? What have you done? Not come crosser?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I'll kill you, you evil coward?
Speaker 9 (25:54):
You roll you No, he will shoot you.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I'll kill him.
Speaker 12 (25:58):
One more step and I should no, jodn no, give
me that gun.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Charon was dead at my feet. Benchelina's body lay a
little to the side, her black hair covering her touch face.
I looked at her for a long while, and I
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went outside. Dark male was suffering under the heavy rain.
I walked down the path to the road, and then
down the road.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Under the direction of Norman McDonald.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Escape has brought you transcribe ben Jelina and The Fisherman
by John Dayner, starring Vic Perrin with Paula Winslow. Featured
in the cast were Parley Bear, John Dayner, and Lawrence Dubkin.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
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Speaker 3 (27:41):
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Speaker 1 (27:46):
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air pumpgoie. Yet you know that in the murky depths
below you, waiting in the slime there for you is
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a mortal enemy from whom there may be no escape.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
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Tired of the every day grind, ever dream of a
life of romantic adventure, want to get away from it all.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
We offer you.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Escape, Escape transcribed for you from the four Walls of
to Day, for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
You are lost in the trackless wild of the Irish Moors.
You're only companion a beautiful gypsy woman, and you know
that somewhere in the dark behind you, searching every foot
of ground for you, is the giant of a man
called Charon, who plans to take your girl and at
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the same time take your life.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Listen now as Escape brings you.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
John Dayner's story Benjelina and the Fisherman.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It was a cold and gusty knight that found me
sitting over a whiskey in a pub in Ballymoran, a
lonely village situated on the bleak uplands of County Mayo
in the west of Ireland. I had come over from
London for a fortnative trout fishing, which I had been
told was excellent in these parts. As it was late
and the pub deserted, I was questioning the proprietor, one
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Hacket Jy o'cool about the lakes and streams nearby. He
was a little man, all mustache and eyebrows and a
bowler hat pulled down over his ears, instriously polishing the
glasses behind.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
The count We here, so you're here for the fisher.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Now, yes, I've been told it's excellent here, that it
is that it is lose all that make life.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Well, where would you suggest I make a start? Well, no,
that's hard to say, hard to say. You might try
the riel to kill Denny. No, no, no, no, think
it over twice. You'd be better off on the lock. Yes, yes, yes,
that will be the best time, sure for a stranger.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
The lock where is the line? Locked?
Speaker 7 (02:35):
Denial is only a mile to the east. But that's
why going straight up to get there you have to
walk around the mountain five miles and there's no road.
And no, no, no, no, that that that's too far?
Are you about to try something closer?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So far I have the rills have killed Denny and
locked deanal and they're both good. You said, oh good,
trout that long? That long?
Speaker 7 (02:57):
Well, that long, that's respectable, respectable.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I'll tell you whether trout are more respectable than that.
I'd better have another whiskey.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Aye, and you'll need it.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Can I tell you about the place I'm dreaming? Won't
you join me, mister Oco, mister I will. I should
not even be telling you this.
Speaker 8 (03:19):
But I feel it me duty, since you come all
the way from London with your fish pol Yes, I'd
hate to be disappointed the dream or the Dreno?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Where is that? The waters of the Dreno up? And
dark Mail and the fishing's good? That big truly strike
me afremline, strike me dead? Why did you hesitate a
moment ago? It's because well, dark Mail? What is dark Mail?
Speaker 7 (03:52):
Oh, the loneliest more in all of alband nor Corse
outstretches from the mountains to the sea, and cursed with
the loneliness.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
That keeps all live and things away?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Where do I find this place?
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (04:02):
Except for the gypsy folk last year before he went
mad poetry schlog and told him seeing the black Romany
dancing among the spinach people in the vapor for the
wild pan angle.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
They want, mister o'cool. How far is it with burning
and play? How far, mister o'cool? Not far, not far,
But you'd be lost forever. Come now, I'm sure that
we folk won't make off of the harmless fisherman like me.
How do I find this, this dark male and the Dreno?
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When through life I'm bleshed we rove I'll tell you
the following day, I gave myself an early start and
(04:55):
arrived after an hour's walk at the place described by
mister o'cool, Dark Mao and the waters of the Dreno.
It was a cheerless expanse of ancient rock and wild gore,
shrouded over with lifeless tatters of mist or or vapors.
I could readily understand the native's reluctance to set foot
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on this bleep ground. But the deep flowing waters of
the Dreno excited me in this barren land, and soon
I had my line in the water. Mister o'cool was right,
The trout were magnificent, and my luck was with me.
It was almost noon when something really big struck at
my fly blest mischief. Well, i'll get you yet, who's there?
Speaker 9 (05:46):
Careful you do not fall off the lot.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I can't see you here here. I am oh, I
see you now? Oh what is the matter? But nothing?
It's so lonely here, so desolate. I didn't expect to
see anyone, let alone, a beautiful young woman.
Speaker 9 (06:09):
Oh no, no, it is you beautiful. I watch you
all morning.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
You've been here all morning by the rocks.
Speaker 10 (06:17):
Up there, and I say, oh, what a beautiful man.
Speaker 9 (06:22):
I wonder what he is life you love you?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Oh? Yeah, eh, where is that?
Speaker 11 (06:29):
So?
Speaker 9 (06:30):
I see you lose that fee? You very funny they
look on your face when you say.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Bly, yes, I enjoy that word. Seems to help me
carry the burden of my misfortune. Fly blood, I say,
you're fighting off all the fish. They can hear you know.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Oh that is lying.
Speaker 9 (06:52):
But I tell you I am magic.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
All morning.
Speaker 9 (06:56):
I make you cut bee all the bee.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Morning where it's very interesting. Thank you very much.
Speaker 10 (07:04):
Now again you go fish, and I say, you cutch
the same.
Speaker 9 (07:09):
One you just lose.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I hope you're right. Well, here goes, cross your fingers
or whatever it is you've been doing. Now into that
pool over there. Perfect Now we'll see. Yes, you will
catch him very soon, working your magic.
Speaker 9 (07:26):
Yes, magic, magic, magic magic.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Good.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
You know you worry me. Why aren't you cold dressed
like that? I am not cold, hardly fitting for the
rigors of dark male, don't you lie? Fascinating inadequate? But
there he is again. Got him.
Speaker 9 (07:51):
You see the magic word.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
He's a fighter. I'll have to work closer to him.
Speaker 9 (07:56):
Oh, be careful to rack your step on.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
No, boy, now I've got you're sleeping, I have I'm
all right, I can just.
Speaker 9 (08:08):
What is the mad?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Nothing? I'll be Oh, let me help you. I must
have twisted my ankle. I can't put any weight on it.
Speaker 9 (08:17):
Here, take my hand.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
You get all wet old, Now.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Up slow there now, thank you.
Speaker 9 (08:33):
Poor beautiful man. Let me look at your leg. Can't
she noddy? It hurt.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Can't put my weight on it.
Speaker 9 (08:43):
You come with me to my caravan. I fix you.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Why not back to Ballymoran. It is too far.
Speaker 9 (08:53):
My caravan is closer. Come I show you.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
The camp of the Gypsies lay in a sheltered pocket
of ground, surrounded by great boulders and the never ending
scrub of dark mail. There was none of the color
which I associated with a gypsy camp and the people
of Romany. Instead, here were a grim folk animating a
dismal landscape, who fell silent at my approach, and who
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looked at me with suspicion. There was a cook fire
burning in the center of the clearing, an old crone
stirring a black kettle. The beautiful gypsy girl helped me
into a caravan, a rather disorderly house on wheels, and
made me comfortable on a pile of blankets.
Speaker 9 (09:54):
Now I will make you well.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
First time I've been in one of these.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
This is my home.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
It's rather clever, tad like the tortoise. You carry your
house with you, Yes, like a tortoise.
Speaker 9 (10:08):
Everything on my back heavy.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I noticed the others too, so grim, no smiles.
Speaker 9 (10:18):
It is to run the head of my tribe, a
hard man, heart cruel.
Speaker 10 (10:25):
But he's gone away now to trade horses in the
South countries. He would not be back for a long time,
but let us not talk about him. Here, you lie
back and I will fix you.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
What is that magie? Hold on the Last time you
tried your magic, it broke my leg.
Speaker 10 (10:45):
Oh no, no, my magic gonna cut your fish anyway?
Your leg not broken. Oh, this is blood of my brother.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Blood of you.
Speaker 11 (10:58):
In that bag, Oh not real, little stone, little glass
and many flowers. I put it on your leg so
and it will take away the pain.
Speaker 9 (11:13):
Very magic.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
And look, don't you think I should get to a dog?
Mm hmmm, why did you do that?
Speaker 9 (11:27):
You are beautiful.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I like to kiss you. Yes, that's in the help
you like to I think we should try it again,
just to be sure.
Speaker 12 (11:47):
Here's your name.
Speaker 13 (11:49):
When Chilena, when Chilena pet Lngro woman was to marry
your own You spy for Charon, Yes, for Chordn.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
What the devil is this all about?
Speaker 9 (12:06):
He's final, the shadow of Choron. He's the coward whisper
the ugly story to his master.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Now look here, oh god, you you rest.
Speaker 9 (12:16):
This is not your fine you you Carlo, what are
you doing here tonight?
Speaker 13 (12:23):
Joron is coming when China.
Speaker 9 (12:25):
You know I will not be here.
Speaker 13 (12:28):
You will find you.
Speaker 9 (12:30):
Then I will be dead. I will not marry him.
Speaker 13 (12:34):
Oh, I shall sit here and wait until he comes.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
Do your waiting outside, Carlo.
Speaker 13 (12:43):
No Choron says, I watch, I watch.
Speaker 9 (12:48):
It will be a long watch.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Not long.
Speaker 13 (12:52):
Choron comes in the morning. In the morning he is
coming to take his bride, the beautiful Benchila July.
Speaker 12 (13:02):
He's in the south.
Speaker 13 (13:03):
But what will Choron say in the morning when I
tell him the beautiful Vgelina was kiss the gorge.
Speaker 9 (13:10):
He you will not search your on anything.
Speaker 13 (13:14):
He will cut you in the face. In the morning.
If I tell him he's not so, you will not
search your on anything in the morning.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Hyno, Hino, Wait, let me look at him? What mhm,
give him a good one? All right?
Speaker 9 (13:51):
Is he dead?
Speaker 11 (13:52):
No? No?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
But what happens now?
Speaker 9 (13:55):
We must go?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
You and me? Why because of this Charon?
Speaker 9 (13:59):
If you find out he killed you and he killed me,
now is it time to run to hide?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Come?
Speaker 3 (14:16):
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Speaker 4 (14:43):
The second act of Ben Jelina and the Fisherman.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Vaino lay unconscious on the floor of the caravan. There
was a sickly pallor to his face, and as I
looked at his still form, a wild thought came to me.
What if he's dead? Not unconscious, but dead? And the
name Charon took shape in my mind as something to
fear that maybe the coming morning would bring me to disaster.
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Suddenly I found myself drawn into the conflict. It surely
as though it were myself had struck Viner. From now
on I knew my fortunes were with the gypsy Bnchelina,
and so we fled the gypsy camp all night. Benchelina
drove the horse cart at high speed over the moor,
over the endless miles of dark mail, until at dawn
(15:45):
the road dwindled to little more than a cowpad, and
we came to the sea. There was a stone cottage
standing alone on a cliff. But something was wrong on No, no,
not here, not here, what's the matter.
Speaker 9 (16:02):
I came all the way worse, but I take the
wrong road. I am lost.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
What are you doing? I must find the road, but
you're going back.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I must find the road.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
It's suicide. We can't go back. Tron is following. Give
me the rain, No, no, give them to me. I
give them.
Speaker 13 (16:24):
Poo.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Not be sensible. If we go back one step, we'll
walk right into Tron. He can't be far behind. We'll
find some other way. We'll go back to that cottage
and ask yep.
Speaker 9 (16:43):
Oh, there is a town bell Clue.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Where is bel Clue?
Speaker 9 (16:52):
It is in a bay by the ocean. If we
find bell Clue, we are safe.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Pooh pooh, yeah we last here. Help me done?
Speaker 9 (17:04):
Yes, now give me your hand.
Speaker 13 (17:09):
Yeah mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Your food is better seems to be. Yah. Let's see
if there's anyone about. Hello, anyone here?
Speaker 12 (17:26):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
That's fok? Inside deserted? Why not?
Speaker 9 (17:44):
There is death in the house.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Death. Come now, it's just an ordinary cottage.
Speaker 9 (17:50):
Death has been here or death is waiting.
Speaker 11 (17:56):
I know.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
In my bone.
Speaker 11 (17:59):
I know.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah. If it will make you feel better, we don't
have to go in. Don't go in. And let's look around.
Comel on, let's see what we can from the point. Yes,
(18:21):
there you are the ocean.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
It'd make me afraid the waves. The water were so high.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
You're afraid of many things.
Speaker 9 (18:32):
The Romany are afraid of the great oceans.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Good. Maybe that will keep yourn away.
Speaker 9 (18:37):
Uh not, Charon, he will follow anywhere we go. Except wait,
look what over there the bay?
Speaker 11 (18:49):
No?
Speaker 9 (18:49):
No, no, farther along the coast. See the town bell Glue.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I know it is the town you were looking for.
Speaker 9 (18:58):
Yes, but see there is no road along the cliffs.
No way to reach it from here without going back.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Wait, wait a minute, I have an idea. I'll go
down to the water. Maybe there's a boat that belongs
to this cottage. If I find one, we can make
our way around the point and cross the bay to Belklue.
You stay here and keep watch. I'll be right back
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by the water's edge. I found what I was looking for,
a battered but serviceable dorry and a sheltered cove. I
was elated, and I hastened back up the path to
tell Bencholina the good news. When I reached the top,
I called to her. There was no answer. I looked
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out to cross the moor, but Bencholina was not well
in sight. I became a lo and increased my pace,
calling to her again and again. Still there was no answer.
Then rounding the cottage, I saw something that stopped me
dead in my tracks. There in the sun, sitting on
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a stone wall, swinging his legs back and forth, was
a man, a swarthly man with a handsome, pock marked face.
He was whistling a tune. When he saw me, he stopped, smiled, sir,
good day. Then he beckoned to me with the gun
(20:40):
he held in his right hand.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
From me.
Speaker 12 (20:48):
Oh, I am so sorry your leg.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Yeah, they told me you injured it at a shade.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
You must be on gore on the Congalam. I believe
you have heard of me. I've heard of your far enough.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
There, let me look at you. I know he's right.
Speaker 14 (21:10):
You are handsome, quite understandable that Benchelina should be carried away.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Where is Benchelina?
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Oh, there hiding behind that big rock.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I don't see her, No, you don't see her, but
I know she is there.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
She saw me coming round to hide. Now she's watching
to see what I will do.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
And what are you going to do? You will see.
Speaker 14 (21:38):
Then, Selina, listen to me.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
It is time to go.
Speaker 12 (21:45):
I will count to ten.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
If you do not come before I finish, I will
shoot your lover.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Shoot what kind of man are you?
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Aha? One?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Two, three? Or this is insane?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Five?
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Six, seven, seven?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Penchelina, think your lover.
Speaker 13 (22:23):
Seven eight.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Mm hm ah.
Speaker 14 (22:31):
This is good, yeah, very good, very wise, Penchelina. Really
now it's time to go back.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Hello romanic Ici.
Speaker 12 (22:49):
Hey, you are still beautiful.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Too bad, you are still beautiful. Look I don't know
what you're planning to do.
Speaker 9 (22:59):
Don't say any thing.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
It is all right, I need to go back.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Now, Lover, we do not need you turn it on.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
What do you do, Jon, we leave the bar of
sun here around? I say no. It must have been
a savage blow, for I lay unconscious most of the day.
(23:33):
When I opened my eyes, the clouds had blanked out
the sun and the sky was threatening. I dragged myself
into the cottage. It was empty. In one corner there
was a pile of dried seaweed, and I fell across it.
(23:53):
For a long while, I lay unmoving. Then came the wind,
then the rain. I managed to find fuel to light
a fire in the hearth. At least I would be warm.
Night came. It was sometime during the early hours. When
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looking toward the door, I saw it swing slowly open.
I rubbed my eyes and looked again. Framed in the
doorway was a man. I looked closely. Then I recognized
that it was Charona. He was standing in the heavy downpour,
his right hand behind his back. I bring you up, Ride,
(24:36):
I don't understand you.
Speaker 12 (24:38):
I bring back your love.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
What have you done with Benchelina?
Speaker 13 (24:42):
Hears with me.
Speaker 12 (24:44):
You want to see?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Of course I want to see Benchelina. Benelina calmet, but Beelina.
It was unbelievable. Only that morning had been a wild
and beautiful creature stood before me, now a hag with
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incredible brutality. Taron had carved a thousand deep wrinkles into
her face and broken her teeth into ugly snags. Her
hair hung lank over her face. Only the eyes showed
a misspen Selina. She stared at me, and a thousand raindrops,
(25:33):
like a thousand tears, poured down her mutilated face.
Speaker 12 (25:38):
You like her, your pride?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
What have you done to Benchelina? She is yours for you? Fowl?
Speaker 12 (25:48):
Insane? What have you done? Not come crosser?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I'll kill you, you evil coward?
Speaker 9 (25:54):
You roll you No, he will shoot you.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I'll kill him.
Speaker 12 (25:58):
One more step and I should no, jodn no, give
me that gun.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Charon was dead at my feet. Benchelina's body lay a
little to the side, her black hair covering her touch face.
I looked at her for a long while, and I
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went outside. Dark male was suffering under the heavy rain.
I walked down the path to the road, and then
down the road.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Under the direction of Norman McDonald.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Escape has brought you transcribe ben Jelina and The Fisherman
by John Dayner, starring Vic Perrin with Paula Winslow. Featured
in the cast were Parley Bear, John Dayner, and Lawrence Dubkin.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
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Speaker 3 (27:41):
The special music for Escape is composed and conducted by
Leith Stephens.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Next week, you are drifting along the muddy reaches of
a South American river. You're diving gear in readiness the
air pumpgoie. Yet you know that in the murky depths
below you, waiting in the slime there for you is
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a mortal enemy from whom there may be no escape.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
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