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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
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Speaker 1 (00:37):
You are drifting along the muddy reaches of a South
American river, your diving gear in readiness. The air comes going.
Yet you know that in the murky depths below you
waiting in the slime. Therefore you is a mortal enemy
from whom there may be no escape.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Listen now, as a scape brings you Tony Barrett's story Bloodwaters.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
They take you up slowly, always slowly, even in a
nothing job like this one a harbor bottom dive at
a beginner would laugh at. I kicked away from the
heavy pilings harder than I had to, and I knew
I was trying to dull my mind again, not to
think about it, trying to sell myself the same old
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story that a diver shouldn't care where he works because
the job's always the same. There's something down there. They
wanted you get it, period, but it didn't work too well.
The story was wearing thin.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
There you are, you know you want to suit off,
or you want to rest for us?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Rest from what a fifty foot dive? Get me out
of the suit seat.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
You see? Perhaps the man knows.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Best Trance, Murdac.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Fifty foot dive can be dangerous, but then danger never
bothered you did it?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
What are you doing here, Murdac? What do you want?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Does an old friend have to want something?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I'm not interested in any of your deals.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Really. With this job finished, then nothing else inside.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I'm busy, Murdac.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Beat it.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
No curiosity trend, not so much as a what are
you doing in a four second hole in Argentina? You
never were much at small talk, were you?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
You're buy Murdoc. Wait a minute, take your hand off me?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
By the rush? Where are you going?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
You know it all? You tell me?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
All right? I will. What you do between now and
tonight does not matter. But at nine o'clock I shall
expect you at the Carfeo Rondo promptly.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
And if I don't come, then you.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Are afford not to come, Trent, it still takes money
to live even down here. I will see you at
nine o'clock.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
You've been talking for an hour now, Murderach, and you
haven't said anything.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Get to it, you have no social graces? Pity, uh, Trent?
How you like never to have to get into diving
gear again? To be rich, really rich, to have everything
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you ever wanted.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I had everything I wanted once? You remember that, don't
your Murdoch?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
How long have you been away from the States trend?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
What's that got to do with it?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Three years? Three stinking years?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
And don't you want to go back now?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I like working jungle holes like this. I like fifty
foot dock site dives with Native boys that fall asleep
on the pumps while you're down there?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
What are you building fortune for both of us? What
do you want this time?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
My right eye?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Can't you forget what happened?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Can you?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
You're being stupid.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
You're out of your territory down here, Murdoch, So talk
nice to me, Look, Trent.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
In two months we can both walk out of here
with more money than you ever dreamed of.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I don't dream anymore.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Gold, Trent. If I told you how much you would
think me mad?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
You want to give me hair?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
You will learn it?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
My diving?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Yes, did I say something humorous?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
So you fell for the national industry? Don't you know
there's a peddler on every corner down here selling maps
of sunken treasure. I love that the smooth Vincent Murdoch
is a tourist.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
And now do you want to hear what I have
to say?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Say your peace?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Did you ever hear of the ground Chuko's rebellion? Ah, Maria,
my dear may I present Trent pull. This is Maria sand.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Sit down, Maria, something to drink.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
You said something about a rebellion fourteen years ago.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
To be exactly, Olivia and Paraguay were at each other's throats.
It's in the history books.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I didn't know you were a reader murder.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
The Paraguarians were getting the worst of it, so they
loaded a small boat in Santa Rosa with millions in
gold for shipping up the Paraguay River. It was to
go to Brazil for safe keeping. Well after the boat
left where Topinasco. It was never seen a game, nor
was the goal.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Storm.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
They never even found survivors. Besides, where would they look?
Speaker 6 (06:35):
Have you had the idea of.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
The length of the Paraguay River?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Two governments can't find the gold? But you can't?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
That is correct, I can.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
What do you got charts better than that?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
What?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Then?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I said? Before that they never found survivors. I did
the only one interested, Trench.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I don't want any part of you Murdoch, now or anytime,
so get off my back.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Don't you realize what I'm offering you.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I understand this. It's over. I'm through with you and
your schemes and I'm not running anymore. Get that through
your head. Your fat's like you listen to me three
years ago. I listened to you three years down in
this sinkhole. Is what I got for it? Three years
you foul, filthy fit.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
I'm good to cut you a new throb't.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I don't know how long it lasted, how many times
I hit him, trying to pay him back for the
lonely years. But finally it was over, finished, and I
was back at the waterfront again, tasting the soft breeze
coming in from the sea. You know your what do
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you want? Oh, Maria, isn't it?
Speaker 7 (08:28):
See Maria, I'm.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Sorry if I messed up your friend Murdoch.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
He's all right now. Besides, I have seen men five before.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yeah, I'm sure you have. You always follow the winner.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
Anger forces words. The tongue does not want to say.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
My name is Trent, not Murdoch. Plain enough.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
I know your name, Sinno. Oh there is a scrutch
on your cheeks and not a little blood. Let me,
a woman knows how, Senor, Senor?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Is that the way you kiss?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Murdoch?
Speaker 7 (09:10):
Rise, Bolito, the younger is still there and.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
It shouldn't be, not after that. Huh, Baldy, who were
you really kissing Maria? Me or him? What do you
want the gold, Murdoch? Everybody wants something more. It's yours.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
I want you to come with me, Senor, No more Polito, huh,
please come with me, Please, I'll show you what I want.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
She turned and moved away, without every once looking back.
So she was sure I'd follow her, and she was right.
The shack she led me to was less than a
half mile away, no different than any of the others
around it. She turned to look at me once as
she opened the door, and her eyes were a thousand
years old. She little lamp, and I looked where she
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was pointing. He lay on a bed in the corner,
a little Portuguese, maybe fifty, cackling softly to himself as
though he knew a joke that nobody else would ever know.
His hair was pure white, the kind that comes from
too much terror, too much shock. And then I saw
his hands, from finger tips to elbows. They were a
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mass of little scars, ugly needle like scars that spoke
of some past moment of horror. We moved closer, but
he never looked, just sat crooning softly to a bottle
of whiskey cradled in his arm. Riao, who is he?
Speaker 7 (10:47):
Have you never seen a man who has lost his
mind to fear? Look where? For he is such a
one for his sea so ya, he thought? Have you
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seen enough? Siner?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Is he a uh?
Speaker 7 (11:12):
My father? What is left of him?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
How did it happen? Maria?
Speaker 7 (11:20):
You have already been told. Murdok spoke truth tonight when
he told of his survivor of Missan Barossa.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Later, as we sat staring out at the water, she
told me all of it. And it wasn't hard to follow.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
An old man driven insane by terror, who clung to
Murdoch because Murdoch kept him in whiskey, the one thing
that pushed the terror away for a wire, very neat
and tidy, the Murdoch touch.
Speaker 7 (12:03):
You understand now?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah? What do you want me to do, Maria? Make
the trip with Murdoch as his diver. Is that what
you want?
Speaker 7 (12:15):
My father is a child. Now Modac will lose him, then, Oh.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
That's all you want it from the beginning. Isn't it
for me to be a watchdog?
Speaker 7 (12:27):
He is my father?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah? I never asked you're going along? See I go,
all right, Maria, I'll dive for Murdoch's all right, gratitude
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for your father?
Speaker 7 (12:54):
No, not this time, getting this time for me.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Murdoch was all sweetness and light next morning when I
told him he had a diver, you just sworn we
were old buddies. He balked at only one thing, by
wanting to take along Jose, the kid who'd handle pumps
for me on the harbor job.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
But I wasn't about to do any diving without somebody
I trusted handling lines.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
But I didn't like it. But he couldn't afford argue.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Jose turned out to be a real good investment before
we ever got started that night.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
As a matter of fact, Oh you finish out, Jose.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Or finished you watch.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Him creak the gear.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
I did it myself.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I should have known.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Thanks, How well you know this center murder too?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Well? Why well, come on, Ose, what is it while.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
I was taking care of the gear he was getting there.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
The missis how the permits government permits for the interior.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
See see, you're supposed to name all the people that go.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I know that. What about it?
Speaker 8 (14:13):
I saw the papers on your well it's every name
there except yours.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
I see. But why why does he do a thing
like that?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
You know what?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Reason to save?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Explain later? Okay, Murdoch's got it all figured out.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
I say, I still do not understand. Why are you
not on that list?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
It's real simple. A man who doesn't make a trip
can't be expected to come back from it.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
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New York, and now Escape and the second act of
Blood Waters. It's a thing you got to see to believe,
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a thing that exists every foot of the length of Argentina.
Yet a couple of hours inland from the coast, and
you've gone back a thousand years nothing but jungle, jungle,
so thick and green, you can travel a full day
without every once getting a glimpse of sunlight.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Bad enough anyway you try it, but doing it Murdoch's
way was the worst. Murdoch a gold hungry, penny pinching
man who hadn't hired enough bearers, who skimped on food,
and who hated every minute wasted on rest. Maria took
it well, quiet for the most part, her eyes never
far from Sandoval. The old man was pathetic, shambling along,
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falling off and uncaring and never hearing. There was only
one sound that mattered in his world, the cork coming
out of the bottle. And Murdoch was master at the bottle.
Four days of it, four stinking, crawling days. And on
the morning of the fifth we came out of it.
Stood there looking out at the Paraguay River. The gold
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was showing in Murdoch's eyes again.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Look and trend beautiful, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
It's a river, It's all it is. It's been a
long walk.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
We're to now three days up river. Do you have
any objections from the bill and you should remember that
to check out the supplies while I make our agements
for the boat.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Don't you want me to take a look at the
boat before you make a deal. Make sure you got
a good winch you'll.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Have a short memory trend. I'd say I'm fairly capable
of making deals, wouldn't you. You Just make sure the
bearers don't steal anything when they leave.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I take care of that for you, Cino, and thanks
as Ah, and keep an eye on the old manor Maria.
You are right, I see.
Speaker 7 (17:46):
I'm so grateful to you for what for everything? Everything plo.
You take care with Murdoch. He's a dangerous man.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yea, yeah, Now listen to me. From here on it's
going to be different. We'll all be in a small
boat for days, maybe weeks. I won't always be around
because of the diving. Here. Take the gun, just take
it and hope you don't have to use it. A
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couple of hours later, Murdach came back and waved us
down to the river. Instead of being alone, now he
had a native with him, a big man, he called,
but two a lot of men. Even through the paint
on his face, you could see the combination of Mayan
and Inca, the thousand year old dignity. As he stood
looking at.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Us, this is but two. I've just arranged for the boat,
and he's going up rival with us to help with
the loading.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
But tu, but to help?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
What are we taking him for? Murdac?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
He wants to go up river to his people, and
he will work for his passage. We can use him.
You keep adding, people, somebody's gonna have to swim alongside.
Not ain't much of a boat, No, Trent, this is
no time to be at each other's throats. I know
we are on the right track. Sam Deval started getting
excited the moment he saw this spot of the river.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
For a guy in his condition, you're doing a lot
of depending on him.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
You'll let me worry about that. All you have to
do is handle your end of things, and that won't
begin until we start diving.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
You're wrong, Murdoch. I started worrying three years ago. Remember
two days on the river, Two long days with Murdoch
never once taking his eyes off Sandoval, watching each slightest reaction,
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the bottle always ready, and the old man needed that
bottle now, his terror growing by the minute, and Murdoch
loving it. Because it told him we were getting closer.
That night, I was laying out my gear back in
the stern when Too, the big native came toward me.
He wasn't the calm giant anymore, just a man, a
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terrified man with words tumbling out of his mouth.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
You tell bat too, you tell tell you what about
crazy man?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Crazy sand of arrow? Or what about him hands?
Speaker 5 (20:18):
The scars?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
You mean, how did he get him?
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I don't know what happened to his hands? But what
about him? Why you come here to dive to bring.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
From the water?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Why no?
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Not going water?
Speaker 8 (20:30):
No?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
What's wrong?
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Not go devil water? Devil water? You not going devil water?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
And that's all I could get out of him, just that.
It was a long time before I got to sleep.
Late on the third day, we dropped anchor just outside
a small coal Murdoch was out of his mind with excitement,
but it was too dark for diving. We'd start in
the morning, but Two wanted to go a short see
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his people spore. He'd be back before Son of Murdoch
didn't like it, but he had no choice. We needed
the big man on pumps in the morning. We were
up at dawn and but two was back aboard. He
didn't say much. He was never moren a couple of
feet away from me, and his eyes never left me.
But I didn't have time to think about it. I
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had my own troubles. Let's take you so long tread
for you and your penny pension. You've been had, Murdoc.
We were wrong for not a thing except this winch
is on its last leg.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Well let's not argue. Repair it the best you can
talk cheap.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
But I'm the guy who goes down there.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Listen to me, Trent. We're close, really close, son of
elsass right beneath us.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
He has to be right.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
He's pointed out landmarks all the way.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Wait a minute, what's that his native drums?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Probably a welcome get the chet close trend. We're losing time.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
You'll remember what I say about the clear lines down
their cinema.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
I'll remember, And don't you forget. Look said look on
the shore natives, six or seven of them. It's part
of buttoo's trick. What's that they carry?
Speaker 8 (22:07):
It looks like a pig or a goat, and the
throat is cut.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
But what are they doing? Make sacrifice to river God?
But why now save you from what? What's down there?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
A native superstition? Grant? Where's your intelligence? Are you ready?
Speaker 5 (22:21):
But too you not staying water along got.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
On the beach.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
They heard his command, and the pig was thrown into
the river. A moment later, jose had bolted my helmet
in place, and I was being lowered over the side
of the boat. Everything was forgotten. Now the work is
staying alive. That's how it is with diving. You can
do it a thousand times, but it's always new. Jose
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knew it through the phone. I could hear him worrying
with me.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
You're right, yeah, read me see you live in bottoms.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Stay with me. I'm gonna have a little rock around.
I checked my lines and started toward a large mass
of shadow distances underwater. Fool you and I was on
it almost before I started. It was a ship, or
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what was left of one. Her back had been broken
in two, and her stern was right in front of me.
I read it aloud, Santa Rosa, what's that? I found it?
Start a line down, she's fald, you're here, He's fine.
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I went in carefully, slowly, making sure of my lines.
It didn't take me twenty minutes to find it. A
tremendous iron bound chest. I scratched the slime off with
my knife and there it was the official seal of Paraguay.
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There wasn't any doubt now what was inside. I got
a line around it, told them which way to swing
the winch and manage to get it out in the
clear for the trip up. I just about finished when
I felt a signal on my lines. What is it?
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Bato says, to get up here quick. You went down
to long Why French? This is Murdoch. Let's get to
go on the first. Now the moment won't hurt you.
There's gonna take chances on the phone line.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Let's not take chances on me. Tell us a to
take me up.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
St the door comes up first, stand clear.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Trench, Murdac. Listen, my knife is across the line. You
turn that winch and I'll cut the line.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
You hear me.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
You're insane. I could cut your hair.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Hoole, go on, cut it. I'm tired of livin with
you on my back. Anyway.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Oh all right, trend all right, now, don't get excited.
We're taking you up.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Slowly. They began taking me up and then I realized
why Murdoc knew once I started up, I couldn't possibly
cut the line that held the chest. He took me
up just far enough to get my hands on the
bottom rung of the Jacob's ladder and hang there helplessly.
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Then through the phones, I could hear the creak of
the winch as he started hauling.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Up the chest.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Looking up through the water, I could see Murdoch leaning
over the rail as he waited for the chest to
break water. And then it happened, a sudden sharp sting
on my hand. From when I looked, I saw blood, blood,
and a six inch fish racing in for another bight.
In a second, there were more of them, little needle
tooth devils, plunging at the canvas suit, even trying to
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bite through the steel at a helmet to get at
the flesh inside. And at last I understood everything. Why
but two called it devil water, why Sandoval had gone insane,
and what happened to the crew at the Santa Rosa.
That six inch fish was the South American pirana, a
cannibal so deadly it strips a man to the bone
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in thirty seconds. Then I heard something else. The Winch.
Murdoch had been driving it too fast even for a
good Winch. It started to crumple just as the chest
broke water. Murdoch saw the chest, inches from his hand
start slipping back, and the thought of losing the gold
drove in crazy. He grabbed wallet. Even as the chest
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pulled him down past me. He was still holding onto it,
Even as the piranha left me to strip easier pickings
than steel and canvas. He held onto it, and I
you he'd never let go. How could he hadn't The
gold pulled him halfway around the world, and then climbed
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out of the water to get him under the direction
of Norman McDonald.
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Speaker 1 (00:37):
You are drifting along the muddy reaches of a South
American river, your diving gear in readiness. The air comes going.
Yet you know that in the murky depths below you
waiting in the slime. Therefore you is a mortal enemy
from whom there may be no escape.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Listen now, as a scape brings you Tony Barrett's story Bloodwaters.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
They take you up slowly, always slowly, even in a
nothing job like this one a harbor bottom dive at
a beginner would laugh at. I kicked away from the
heavy pilings harder than I had to, and I knew
I was trying to dull my mind again, not to
think about it, trying to sell myself the same old
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story that a diver shouldn't care where he works because
the job's always the same. There's something down there. They
wanted you get it, period, but it didn't work too well.
The story was wearing thin.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
There you are, you know you want to suit off,
or you want to rest for us?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Rest from what a fifty foot dive? Get me out
of the suit seat.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
You see? Perhaps the man knows.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Best Trance, Murdac.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Fifty foot dive can be dangerous, but then danger never
bothered you did it?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
What are you doing here, Murdac? What do you want?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Does an old friend have to want something?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I'm not interested in any of your deals.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Really. With this job finished, then nothing else inside.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
I'm busy, Murdac.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Beat it.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
No curiosity trend, not so much as a what are
you doing in a four second hole in Argentina? You
never were much at small talk, were you?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
You're buy Murdoc. Wait a minute, take your hand off me?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
By the rush? Where are you going?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
You know it all? You tell me?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
All right? I will. What you do between now and
tonight does not matter. But at nine o'clock I shall
expect you at the Carfeo Rondo promptly.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
And if I don't come, then you.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Are afford not to come, Trent, it still takes money
to live even down here. I will see you at
nine o'clock.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
You've been talking for an hour now, Murderach, and you
haven't said anything.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Get to it, you have no social graces? Pity, uh, Trent?
How you like never to have to get into diving
gear again? To be rich, really rich, to have everything
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you ever wanted.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I had everything I wanted once? You remember that, don't
your Murdoch?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
How long have you been away from the States trend?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
What's that got to do with it?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Three years? Three stinking years?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
And don't you want to go back now?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I like working jungle holes like this. I like fifty
foot dock site dives with Native boys that fall asleep
on the pumps while you're down there?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
What are you building fortune for both of us? What
do you want this time?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
My right eye?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Can't you forget what happened?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Can you?
Speaker 4 (04:41):
You're being stupid.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
You're out of your territory down here, Murdoch, So talk
nice to me, Look, Trent.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
In two months we can both walk out of here
with more money than you ever dreamed of.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I don't dream anymore.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Gold, Trent. If I told you how much you would
think me mad?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
You want to give me hair?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
You will learn it?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
My diving?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Yes, did I say something humorous?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
So you fell for the national industry? Don't you know
there's a peddler on every corner down here selling maps
of sunken treasure. I love that the smooth Vincent Murdoch
is a tourist.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
And now do you want to hear what I have
to say?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Say your peace?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Did you ever hear of the ground Chuko's rebellion? Ah, Maria,
my dear may I present Trent pull. This is Maria sand.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Sit down, Maria, something to drink.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
You said something about a rebellion fourteen years ago.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
To be exactly, Olivia and Paraguay were at each other's throats.
It's in the history books.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I didn't know you were a reader murder.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
The Paraguarians were getting the worst of it, so they
loaded a small boat in Santa Rosa with millions in
gold for shipping up the Paraguay River. It was to
go to Brazil for safe keeping. Well after the boat
left where Topinasco. It was never seen a game, nor
was the goal.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Storm.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
They never even found survivors. Besides, where would they look?
Speaker 6 (06:35):
Have you had the idea of.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
The length of the Paraguay River?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Two governments can't find the gold? But you can't?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
That is correct, I can.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
What do you got charts better than that?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
What?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Then?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
I said? Before that they never found survivors. I did
the only one interested, Trench.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I don't want any part of you Murdoch, now or anytime,
so get off my back.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Don't you realize what I'm offering you.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I understand this. It's over. I'm through with you and
your schemes and I'm not running anymore. Get that through
your head. Your fat's like you listen to me three
years ago. I listened to you three years down in
this sinkhole. Is what I got for it? Three years
you foul, filthy fit.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
I'm good to cut you a new throb't.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I don't know how long it lasted, how many times
I hit him, trying to pay him back for the
lonely years. But finally it was over, finished, and I
was back at the waterfront again, tasting the soft breeze
coming in from the sea. You know your what do
(08:22):
you want? Oh, Maria, isn't it?
Speaker 7 (08:28):
See Maria, I'm.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Sorry if I messed up your friend Murdoch.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
He's all right now. Besides, I have seen men five before.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yeah, I'm sure you have. You always follow the winner.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
Anger forces words. The tongue does not want to say.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
My name is Trent, not Murdoch. Plain enough.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
I know your name, Sinno. Oh there is a scrutch
on your cheeks and not a little blood. Let me,
a woman knows how, Senor, Senor?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Is that the way you kiss?
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Murdoch?
Speaker 7 (09:10):
Rise, Bolito, the younger is still there and.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
It shouldn't be, not after that. Huh, Baldy, who were
you really kissing Maria? Me or him? What do you
want the gold, Murdoch? Everybody wants something more. It's yours.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
I want you to come with me, Senor, No more Polito, huh,
please come with me, Please, I'll show you what I want.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
She turned and moved away, without every once looking back.
So she was sure I'd follow her, and she was right.
The shack she led me to was less than a
half mile away, no different than any of the others
around it. She turned to look at me once as
she opened the door, and her eyes were a thousand
years old. She little lamp, and I looked where she
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was pointing. He lay on a bed in the corner,
a little Portuguese, maybe fifty, cackling softly to himself as
though he knew a joke that nobody else would ever know.
His hair was pure white, the kind that comes from
too much terror, too much shock. And then I saw
his hands, from finger tips to elbows. They were a
(10:25):
mass of little scars, ugly needle like scars that spoke
of some past moment of horror. We moved closer, but
he never looked, just sat crooning softly to a bottle
of whiskey cradled in his arm. Riao, who is he?
Speaker 7 (10:47):
Have you never seen a man who has lost his
mind to fear? Look where? For he is such a
one for his sea so ya, he thought? Have you
(11:08):
seen enough? Siner?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Is he a uh?
Speaker 7 (11:12):
My father? What is left of him?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
How did it happen? Maria?
Speaker 7 (11:20):
You have already been told. Murdok spoke truth tonight when
he told of his survivor of Missan Barossa.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Later, as we sat staring out at the water, she
told me all of it. And it wasn't hard to follow.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
An old man driven insane by terror, who clung to
Murdoch because Murdoch kept him in whiskey, the one thing
that pushed the terror away for a wire, very neat
and tidy, the Murdoch touch.
Speaker 7 (12:03):
You understand now?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah? What do you want me to do, Maria? Make
the trip with Murdoch as his diver. Is that what
you want?
Speaker 7 (12:15):
My father is a child. Now Modac will lose him, then, Oh.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
That's all you want it from the beginning. Isn't it
for me to be a watchdog?
Speaker 7 (12:27):
He is my father?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah? I never asked you're going along? See I go,
all right, Maria, I'll dive for Murdoch's all right, gratitude
(12:53):
for your father?
Speaker 7 (12:54):
No, not this time, getting this time for me.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Murdoch was all sweetness and light next morning when I
told him he had a diver, you just sworn we
were old buddies. He balked at only one thing, by
wanting to take along Jose, the kid who'd handle pumps
for me on the harbor job.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
But I wasn't about to do any diving without somebody
I trusted handling lines.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
But I didn't like it. But he couldn't afford argue.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Jose turned out to be a real good investment before
we ever got started that night.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
As a matter of fact, Oh you finish out, Jose.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Or finished you watch.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Him creak the gear.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
I did it myself.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I should have known.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Thanks, How well you know this center murder too?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Well? Why well, come on, Ose, what is it while.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
I was taking care of the gear he was getting there.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
The missis how the permits government permits for the interior.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
See see, you're supposed to name all the people that go.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I know that. What about it?
Speaker 8 (14:13):
I saw the papers on your well it's every name
there except yours.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
I see. But why why does he do a thing
like that?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
You know what?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Reason to save?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Explain later? Okay, Murdoch's got it all figured out.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
I say, I still do not understand. Why are you
not on that list?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
It's real simple. A man who doesn't make a trip
can't be expected to come back from it.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
You are listening to Blood Waters tonight's pleasant of Escape.
Millions in Asia living on inadequate diets and additional millions
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(15:22):
New York, and now Escape and the second act of
Blood Waters. It's a thing you got to see to believe,
(15:45):
a thing that exists every foot of the length of Argentina.
Yet a couple of hours inland from the coast, and
you've gone back a thousand years nothing but jungle, jungle,
so thick and green, you can travel a full day
without every once getting a glimpse of sunlight.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Bad enough anyway you try it, but doing it Murdoch's
way was the worst. Murdoch a gold hungry, penny pinching
man who hadn't hired enough bearers, who skimped on food,
and who hated every minute wasted on rest. Maria took
it well, quiet for the most part, her eyes never
far from Sandoval. The old man was pathetic, shambling along,
(16:24):
falling off and uncaring and never hearing. There was only
one sound that mattered in his world, the cork coming
out of the bottle. And Murdoch was master at the bottle.
Four days of it, four stinking, crawling days. And on
the morning of the fifth we came out of it.
Stood there looking out at the Paraguay River. The gold
(16:46):
was showing in Murdoch's eyes again.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Look and trend beautiful, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
It's a river, It's all it is. It's been a
long walk.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
We're to now three days up river. Do you have
any objections from the bill and you should remember that
to check out the supplies while I make our agements
for the boat.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Don't you want me to take a look at the
boat before you make a deal. Make sure you got
a good winch you'll.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Have a short memory trend. I'd say I'm fairly capable
of making deals, wouldn't you. You Just make sure the
bearers don't steal anything when they leave.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I take care of that for you, Cino, and thanks
as Ah, and keep an eye on the old manor Maria.
You are right, I see.
Speaker 7 (17:46):
I'm so grateful to you for what for everything? Everything plo.
You take care with Murdoch. He's a dangerous man.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yea, yeah, Now listen to me. From here on it's
going to be different. We'll all be in a small
boat for days, maybe weeks. I won't always be around
because of the diving. Here. Take the gun, just take
it and hope you don't have to use it. A
(18:19):
couple of hours later, Murdach came back and waved us
down to the river. Instead of being alone, now he
had a native with him, a big man, he called,
but two a lot of men. Even through the paint
on his face, you could see the combination of Mayan
and Inca, the thousand year old dignity. As he stood
looking at.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Us, this is but two. I've just arranged for the boat,
and he's going up rival with us to help with
the loading.
Speaker 6 (18:44):
But tu, but to help?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
What are we taking him for? Murdac?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
He wants to go up river to his people, and
he will work for his passage. We can use him.
You keep adding, people, somebody's gonna have to swim alongside.
Not ain't much of a boat, No, Trent, this is
no time to be at each other's throats. I know
we are on the right track. Sam Deval started getting
excited the moment he saw this spot of the river.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
For a guy in his condition, you're doing a lot
of depending on him.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
You'll let me worry about that. All you have to
do is handle your end of things, and that won't
begin until we start diving.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
You're wrong, Murdoch. I started worrying three years ago. Remember
two days on the river, Two long days with Murdoch
never once taking his eyes off Sandoval, watching each slightest reaction,
(19:44):
the bottle always ready, and the old man needed that
bottle now, his terror growing by the minute, and Murdoch
loving it. Because it told him we were getting closer.
That night, I was laying out my gear back in
the stern when Too, the big native came toward me.
He wasn't the calm giant anymore, just a man, a
(20:05):
terrified man with words tumbling out of his mouth.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
You tell bat too, you tell tell you what about
crazy man?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Crazy sand of arrow? Or what about him hands?
Speaker 5 (20:18):
The scars?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
You mean, how did he get him?
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (20:21):
I don't know what happened to his hands? But what
about him? Why you come here to dive to bring.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
From the water?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Why no?
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Not going water?
Speaker 8 (20:30):
No?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (20:31):
What's wrong?
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Not go devil water? Devil water? You not going devil water?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
And that's all I could get out of him, just that.
It was a long time before I got to sleep.
Late on the third day, we dropped anchor just outside
a small coal Murdoch was out of his mind with excitement,
but it was too dark for diving. We'd start in
the morning, but Two wanted to go a short see
(21:00):
his people spore. He'd be back before Son of Murdoch
didn't like it, but he had no choice. We needed
the big man on pumps in the morning. We were
up at dawn and but two was back aboard. He
didn't say much. He was never moren a couple of
feet away from me, and his eyes never left me.
But I didn't have time to think about it. I
(21:20):
had my own troubles. Let's take you so long tread
for you and your penny pension. You've been had, Murdoc.
We were wrong for not a thing except this winch
is on its last leg.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Well let's not argue. Repair it the best you can
talk cheap.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
But I'm the guy who goes down there.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Listen to me, Trent. We're close, really close, son of
elsass right beneath us.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
He has to be right.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
He's pointed out landmarks all the way.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Wait a minute, what's that his native drums?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Probably a welcome get the chet close trend. We're losing time.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
You'll remember what I say about the clear lines down
their cinema.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
I'll remember, And don't you forget. Look said look on
the shore natives, six or seven of them. It's part
of buttoo's trick. What's that they carry?
Speaker 8 (22:07):
It looks like a pig or a goat, and the
throat is cut.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
But what are they doing? Make sacrifice to river God?
But why now save you from what? What's down there?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
A native superstition? Grant? Where's your intelligence? Are you ready?
Speaker 5 (22:21):
But too you not staying water along got.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
On the beach.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
They heard his command, and the pig was thrown into
the river. A moment later, jose had bolted my helmet
in place, and I was being lowered over the side
of the boat. Everything was forgotten. Now the work is
staying alive. That's how it is with diving. You can
do it a thousand times, but it's always new. Jose
(22:54):
knew it through the phone. I could hear him worrying
with me.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
You're right, yeah, read me see you live in bottoms.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Stay with me. I'm gonna have a little rock around.
I checked my lines and started toward a large mass
of shadow distances underwater. Fool you and I was on
it almost before I started. It was a ship, or
(23:28):
what was left of one. Her back had been broken
in two, and her stern was right in front of me.
I read it aloud, Santa Rosa, what's that? I found it?
Start a line down, she's fald, you're here, He's fine.
(23:49):
I went in carefully, slowly, making sure of my lines.
It didn't take me twenty minutes to find it. A
tremendous iron bound chest. I scratched the slime off with
my knife and there it was the official seal of Paraguay.
(24:10):
There wasn't any doubt now what was inside. I got
a line around it, told them which way to swing
the winch and manage to get it out in the
clear for the trip up. I just about finished when
I felt a signal on my lines. What is it?
Speaker 6 (24:27):
Bato says, to get up here quick. You went down
to long Why French? This is Murdoch. Let's get to
go on the first. Now the moment won't hurt you.
There's gonna take chances on the phone line.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Let's not take chances on me. Tell us a to
take me up.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
St the door comes up first, stand clear.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Trench, Murdac. Listen, my knife is across the line. You
turn that winch and I'll cut the line.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
You hear me.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
You're insane. I could cut your hair.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Hoole, go on, cut it. I'm tired of livin with
you on my back. Anyway.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Oh all right, trend all right, now, don't get excited.
We're taking you up.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Slowly. They began taking me up and then I realized
why Murdoc knew once I started up, I couldn't possibly
cut the line that held the chest. He took me
up just far enough to get my hands on the
bottom rung of the Jacob's ladder and hang there helplessly.
(25:29):
Then through the phones, I could hear the creak of
the winch as he started hauling.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Up the chest.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Looking up through the water, I could see Murdoch leaning
over the rail as he waited for the chest to
break water. And then it happened, a sudden sharp sting
on my hand. From when I looked, I saw blood, blood,
and a six inch fish racing in for another bight.
In a second, there were more of them, little needle
tooth devils, plunging at the canvas suit, even trying to
(25:59):
bite through the steel at a helmet to get at
the flesh inside. And at last I understood everything. Why
but two called it devil water, why Sandoval had gone insane,
and what happened to the crew at the Santa Rosa.
That six inch fish was the South American pirana, a
cannibal so deadly it strips a man to the bone
(26:19):
in thirty seconds. Then I heard something else. The Winch.
Murdoch had been driving it too fast even for a
good Winch. It started to crumple just as the chest
broke water. Murdoch saw the chest, inches from his hand
start slipping back, and the thought of losing the gold
drove in crazy. He grabbed wallet. Even as the chest
(26:50):
pulled him down past me. He was still holding onto it,
Even as the piranha left me to strip easier pickings
than steel and canvas. He held onto it, and I
you he'd never let go. How could he hadn't The
gold pulled him halfway around the world, and then climbed
(27:12):
out of the water to get him under the direction
of Norman McDonald.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Escape has Brought You Bloodwaters by Tony Barrett, starring Vic Perrin.
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Speaker 2 (27:38):
You're announcer George Walsh.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
The special music for Escape is composed and conducted by
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Speaker 1 (27:45):
Next week, you are one of four people trapped in
an isolated trading post somewhere in the Yukon Territory, the
blizzard outside making escape impossible, and you know that before
the spring thaws release you. Before you can leave this
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cabin behind you, one of your companions, by consent of
the others, will be killed.
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