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Speaker 3 (01:24):
I studied Fairchild as he read the letter. He was
not a man I would ordinarily turn to for help,
But I was not acquainted in Mandalay then too. He
knew Campbell. I mean no slur against Fairchild. He was
bright enough as government office Clark's go I had simply
hoped for more formidable assistance. This is the last letter
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you received from Campbell, the last word of any sort
until I cabled him to meet me in Mandalay. He
cabled back that he would and named this hotel at
noon today.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Well, it's only two hours late. Two hours doesn't mean
much in Burma.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I'm not especially concerned about these two hours.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
The letter day, I can't say I blame you, Ah,
the sort of letter doesn't make a lot of sense
to me, not to.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Me, not to anyone at the Historical Society.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
I hate to suggest this, but it sounds as if
the old boys cracked a bit, wouldn't you say?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
That's more or less what I've been sent to find out?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
This part here, he says, I shall fail if where
I look, my eyes see no beauty candy and I
it has a certain ring to it.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
When was the last time you saw Campbell?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Let me see, it was well before the rain set in.
I should say a good six or eight weeks before.
That would make it late February or early March.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Campbell's letter was posted here in Mandalay the fourteenth of May.
You're certain you didn't see him around that data positive?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Of course, just because it was posted here doesn't mean
Campbell himself was in Mandalay. Probably sent it up here
from Pugan by Mangba Mangbar, Burmese boy devoted to Campbell
it's been.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
All sorts of help to him.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
With all that corobing about it does around Pugan, ruddy
ancient shrines and pagodas, the places crawling.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
With him enough. Yes, yes, that's what I understand.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Mumba does a lot of that sort of thing for Campbell,
and supplies comes out the Eeradi by boat. You know
there's no train down to Pogan from Mandally. I don't
suppose Campbell relishes the boat trip often.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
What was he like the last time you saw him?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Seems normal enough. We lunched here at the hotels, just
as we're doing.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
From what you've said, that's about four months or so ago.
I guess a lot could happen to a man in
four months.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
It could be Poogan nothing but those miserable pagodas and
shined I don't take much to ruin myself. You mean that,
haven't you lying?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
No, no, no, this is my first trip to.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Then might just give you a word about the people,
all sorts, of course, but those around Pugan seemed to
be given to all manner of strange beliefs, superstitions, odd things, well,
the evil eye for example.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
You're serious, dead serious? Well, we can't be talking about
the same thing. If I remember correctly, the archaic belief
in the evil eye is that if one possesses it,
anything or anyone he looks upon, will die. Only it
isn't entirely archaic.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
It's a widespread.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Belief in Ninja, parts of Egypt, Arabia, and certainly here
in Burma.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
If I may lorning, you're apt to find a great
many things in Burma fantastics. Not so much in Mandalay,
perhaps a rangoon, But around Kugan and to the west
and north there's a feeling, a mystic something that's been
known to take hold of men.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
You're suggesting that can be, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
You'd have to go there to find out.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
As fair Child left me, something drew my attention across
the room. She was alone, and quite possibly the most
beautiful woman I have ever seen, utterly strikingly beautiful, and
the look in her eyes was a compelling invitation. In
no time at all, I.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Accepted you were a very long time.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
A matter of seconds after I.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Saw you, But you were a long time seeing me.
I have been looking at you for almost an hour.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Oh, not like that. You haven't. No, i'd have known.
I wonder.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Your face, a very nice face, is being clouded with concern,
and so with mine. Have been with your luncheon Compellon.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
He was a bit dry, wasn't he.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
I saw no reason for you to spend more time
with him. Gina decided you should spend your time with her.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
China.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
I like that, and I like the name Stephen Loring.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
How on earth could you know that?
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Either I have the gift of Claire rooyance or I
paid to look at the hotel register.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Well, in either case, I'm flattered. And because I haven't
much time, I agree with China I should spend what
time I have with her?
Speaker 6 (06:23):
How much time?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Today? Perhaps tonight? And tomorrow? No, no, tomorrow, I'm off
to Pugan and a feeling a mystic something that's been
known to take hold of men. You choke about Pugan.
Oh no, no, not really, I was quoting my drab friend.
I've never been to Pugan myself.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
I do not think you would like it there.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Oh, pu Gan is very different.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
I should think you would find men delay much more
to your taste.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I should think I would too, And Gina, knowing Mandelay
was strange to me, wrote out instructions that would lead
me to a rendezvous that night, and and she was gone.
I found it difficult to believe our meeting it ever occurred,
except that the memory of her was vivid and haunting.
I lingered over a brandy and was preparing to leave
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the dining room.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Greetings, Takin, you are I am certain one, mister Loring.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Is everyone in Burma clairvoyant?
Speaker 7 (07:32):
No, takin, I am pleased to be Mumba Oo, Mumba.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Oh, Campbell's friend from Pugan. But where is he? Isn't
he with you?
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Regrettively? Not with Mumbai?
Speaker 7 (07:44):
A stimid friend remained in Pugan asked that you understand
and kindly to return to Pugan with Mumbai.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Oh, well, is anything the matter with Campbell?
Speaker 7 (07:56):
To say again? A steveds friend remains in Pugan and
asks that you understand and kindly to return to Pugan
with Mumbah.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
No, No, I understand you all right, I'm inquiring about Campbell?
Is he well?
Speaker 5 (08:11):
To say? Again?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Is I understand? I am to come with you to Pugan? Campbell?
Is there? Good? Good?
Speaker 5 (08:21):
To live? Now? Is to arrive at Pugan as the
sun rises.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
No, not good, not today. Tomorrow morning, when the sun
lives again, we.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Will go to say again to leave now?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
No no, no no, never mind that I said not today.
Do you understand? Tomorrow morning you and I go to Pugan.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Not good?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Very good? Here can you lead me to this address
or show me how to get there?
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Seem to answer, Mumba is able to lead to this address?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I have splendid Then meet me here at the hotel
at seven eve.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
No, thank you?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Take in no, no, what's all this about to.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Beg father in takin tho abo Mumba think not wise
for one mister loring to present himself at stated address.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
So Mungba not to lead him.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
There, and he smiled and bowed and scurried off. It
didn't matter. I knew that somehow I would find my
way to China. That night, when evening came, I left
the hotel and began a bewildering tour of the countless bazaars.
By asking a direction here and a question there, I
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came finally to a dark cluster of buildings in a
remote section of the Zegio Bazaar. And there at the
proper door, I stopped. You are the most welcome one.
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I'm still even loring much.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
WIT's for you kindly and thank you. Let's see. It's
a bit dark in here, isn't it.
Speaker 8 (10:12):
The lights of a thousand candles are soon to come.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Taking one moment, I took a few steps on past
the servant, and suddenly I felt a pair of arms
around me. I struggled to free myself, and then a
blinding tune flashed through me, and I felt myself sinking
to the floor. Faintfully. I heard the voices, and only
one did I recognize, and that of the little Burmese manbow.
Speaker 9 (10:53):
Turk, mm hmmm, turkey too weak from a dream? Not
always pleasing, Taki, well, mumba, m.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
What happened?
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Not to remember, often rewarding, Oh, we're on a boat
soon to land at Bugan.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Well, last night you will followed me. You saved my life.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
No trouble to serve a friend of a steamed friend.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Oh yeah, yes, yes, Campbell, I wonder how I'll find
him in time.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Taking all questions are answered, No, no, you're wrong.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Some questions are never answered. Maybe that's just as.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Well spoken like man of wisdom, enlightenment.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Very little of either. This morning, Mumba, it is morning, isn't.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
It sun warm?
Speaker 7 (11:52):
And you, like Mumbai, has much to learn before he dies.
We all do too big than takin some more than others.
People a village are in their hearts good people, but
wisdom to them new and fears old. Yes, so I understand,
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But what is people a village require patients. Leader who
shows patience and no fear can bring my people to
enlightenment away from superstitions and ancient religious teachings.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Oh no, you've got the wrong idea. I have not
come to lead your people anymore than Campbell didn't. Now understand,
I've come only to get data on the ancient shrines
and for godders nearby, and to help your esteem from Campbell.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Taking to see many past glories of Fugan. But a
big pardon. Villagers of Pugan also there.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
The village. When we reached it was somewhat inland from
the river port of Bugan. Proper wood and bamboo huts
lined the four sides of a square that served as
a compound. A pack of wild dogs swarmed ahead of us,
yapping a signal to the groups of villagers bunched together
near a central hut. Mungba raised his hand in greeting
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hunt for a moment of frozen silence. The villagers turned
and ran.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
They run from us. Something very wrong.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Not much of a welcome.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
Must walk ahead, too hot of a stupid friend. Must smile,
show no fear, come taky.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I fixed this smile on my face that Mungba ordered,
and I followed him. If I showed no fear, it
was not because I felt none. There wasn't a soul
in sight. But my back straightened, rigid with the field
of a hundred eyes upon it. Mangba's steps slowed at
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the sound of the bell, his head cut slightly to
one side, as if to listen. We walked on slowly
now until we came to the central hut. There, Mungba
stop cold, bloo oooh not so what is it? What's wrong?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
He e will I it has come, see evil ie.
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Speaker 3 (15:20):
Mamba had disappeared as quickly and completely as the others
fled in terror from a crude sign I could not understand.
At the door of the central Hut, the temple bells
tolled ominously as I walked inside, not knowing what to expect.
Mugba had called this Campbell's hut, but there was no
one inside, only the strange signs and symbols affixed to
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everything in sight. I wanted to run too desperately, but
something told me that if I were safe at all,
I was safer inside the hut. As the silent day
wore on, I found many of Campbell's papers, garbled and strange.
They were a chronic of the steady deterioration of a man.
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When I finally put them down, it was night.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
Turkein Takin Mumba falls before you. Are you hurt only
with hurt of shame?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Takin and get up.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
When Julie forgiven.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I said, get up and tell me what this madness
is all about these signs this poppy talk about the
evil eye.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Mumba, upon seeing the signs of evil, I forgot his
enlightened eyes.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Did you find out about Campbell? He is said to
be possessed, and that accounts of these signs.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Signs are charmed to evil eye take away power.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
So say my people, your people are insane.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Only frightened, takeen.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Look, can't you talk to them, reason with them, telling
they had nothing to fear that even if they did
these obscene charms.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
And there's a no answer, not Mumbah, Turkeen must do me.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
That's ridiculous to say.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Again, Turkeen must do the wile ie is on this house.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
Only Takin can prove this is not so, so, say
my people, But how tomorrow Takin look upon chosen one.
If chosen one not die, spell of evil eye broken.
If chosen one die not good all the idiotic too
beg pardon to do this.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Only way to save esteemed friend and self.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
There was no sleep. The bugan night spent itself slowly, weirdly,
washed in moonlight, and filled with strange sounds. The paddy birds,
the barking deer, the cries of wild cattle. Then and always, always,
the eerie toll of the temple bells. I could feel
it building in the a fusion of strangeness, a fear,
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a fear that was somehow compelling. Drawn to an opening
at the back of Campbell's hut, I looked out. From there,
I saw a moonlight fantasy in a clearing before an
ancient pagoda. A single dancer performed, And then somehow I
was outside the hut, walking slowly across the compound. No
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takin look, get out my way.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Hear me here here, Mumba, you must not answer the
call of the temple bells.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Stand aside.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
To follow is to die.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I tried to free myself from Mungbar's grip. I could not.
And if the dancer danced on, and if the bell's
told longer, I don't know, because suddenly the night was
black and silent, and the madness was gone. You know,
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each night I don't know how I got to bed.
Every morning I find you here takin a sleep, well,
like I was hit on my head, Mugba, Was there
really a dancer out there?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Mumba? Fixed t takin feel fine?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Was there a dancer?
Speaker 5 (19:27):
What has gone before belongs to the night? No longer
to us.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
I don't understand your bloody country, Mumba, or even you.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
I am pleased to be a simple man.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
You've saved my life twice.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Now, Why takin Mumba? Friend? Life O friend more precious
than all life?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Mumba. What happened to me last night? What happened to Campbell?
Before I got here?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Mumba? Not no fix ty takin feel fine?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Everything here plays on your feelings, emotions. The cries of
the animals, the tolling of the bells, the sight of
ruin after ruined pagodas and shrines in crumbling decay, is
that it does the very decay here hold the power
to degenerate a man, Oh temple bell again.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
Our has come takin hot hour before bright sun, and
my people takin look upon chosen one only way to
say this, stuvid friend and itself.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Outside, the villagers lined the compound, some war coverings over
their entire heads. Others, with the same fear that I
might possess the evil eye, hid their faces from my view,
all of them. So far as I could see war
signs and symbols as charms against my spell. He was madness,
all of it madness, taken ready, just tell me what
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I'm supposed to do.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Chosen one. We'll walk to center of cleaning temple. Bells
will stop. That becomes signal for takin to look for
first time upon chosen one.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
When the bell stopped, he's all right, well, let's get
on with it.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
Kindly turn back, taking all right.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Now to make quick work of it.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Turk In have nothing to fear.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
My heart very nearly stopped with the bells slowly. I
turned around to look upon the chosen one. He stood
proudly straight, smiling confidently at me, my little Burmese friend Mumba.
And I looked and smiled and watched him fall. Mumba, Umba, Hi, Mumba,
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How how in Heaven's name.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
No to Turky his steward friend Cambo.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
He Campbell, m m poor wretched devil Mambai was dead.
When I was alone, I started to lift him to
carry him back to the hutton, and I saw the
thin arrow in his back, a blow gun. I looked
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up in the direction the arrow must have come there.
It was the ancient pagoda where the dancer had been
the night before. It was also the direction of the
temple Bells. This time, without anyone to stop me. I
walked into the ruins of the temple. Campbell, Campbo, where
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are you?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
I'll find you?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
You know? Campbell?
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Campbell?
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Oh here, Loring.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
I can't see you any shadows.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
I'm here in the.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Dark, and you can hear me.
Speaker 8 (23:18):
If your eyes fail, you follow your ears.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Why did you do it? Campbell? He worshiped you. Why
did you have to kill Mungba?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Mangba?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Cowering in the darkness won't help you. Campbell. There's a
window down there. Why don't you stand proudly in the
bright sunlight. It's heated.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
Mungba died proudly.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I'll get it. Callan visual you're mad? Come here here
the light? He now stand there until Camble.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
Are we at the window now?
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Loren Campbell?
Speaker 8 (24:02):
You're blind? Your eyes stand proudly in the bright sunlight.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
What happened to you? Who did this to you? I
shall pay? Or where I look? My eyes see no beauty?
Oh Campbell, we didn't understand in your letter, None of
us understood. Tell me who did that to your eyes?
Speaker 8 (24:31):
Where one sees no beauty, no good, one sees evil.
And once the eye becomes absorbed with evil. It is
said the eye must no longer see Campbell.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Listen to me. We'll go now, you and I I'll
take you home. I am home. No, no, no, We'll
go to England now together. Do you understand me? You
don't understand me. I want to be here. I must
be here. But why why? This place is strange and
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terrifying and beautiful? Lauring?
Speaker 8 (25:16):
But you you must go before you see it's beauty,
before it draws you and holds you and never lets
you go.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
There is no beauty here.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
Have you not seen our beauty?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Stephen Loring?
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Have you not watched the dancer by moonlight and felt
compelled to follow her?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Go Lring, Go now, it's not too late for you, Campbell.
Did gna? Did she do this to you? Go Lauring
while you can.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
You were supposed to die in Mandolay Stevens.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
You tried to have me killed. My people are happy
as they are. Believe me, Lauring, and go now. Too
late is very soon upon you. I'll go. I've had
my fill of this madness? Is it madness? Are you sure?
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You must be very sure?
Speaker 6 (26:18):
It might be madness, or again, it might be a feeling,
a mystic something that has been known to take hold
of men.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
I ran hard and fast from the ancient pagoda, away
from Chinah, away from Campbell, through the compound. I ran
told Pugan in the river and freedom. And when the
river was in sight my my legs became heavy, leaden,
and in my mind I knew I would run as
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far into the world as I could. But I also
knew that someday I would have to come back.
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You are standing in a moonlit clearing somewhere in the
Burmese jungle, the ruins of an ancient temple at your back,
while gliding silently across the grass towards you. The knife
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in her hand held pointing at you is the beautiful
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of Evil.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I studied Fairchild as he read the letter. He was
not a man I would ordinarily turn to for help,
But I was not acquainted in Mandalay then too. He
knew Campbell. I mean no slur against Fairchild. He was
bright enough as government office Clark's go I had simply
hoped for more formidable assistance. This is the last letter
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you received from Campbell, the last word of any sort
until I cabled him to meet me in Mandalay. He
cabled back that he would and named this hotel at
noon today.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Well, it's only two hours late. Two hours doesn't mean
much in Burma.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I'm not especially concerned about these two hours.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
The letter day, I can't say I blame you, Ah,
the sort of letter doesn't make a lot of sense
to me, not to.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Me, not to anyone at the Historical Society.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
I hate to suggest this, but it sounds as if
the old boys cracked a bit, wouldn't you say?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
That's more or less what I've been sent to find out?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
This part here, he says, I shall fail if where
I look, my eyes see no beauty candy and I
it has a certain ring to it.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
When was the last time you saw Campbell?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Let me see, it was well before the rain set in.
I should say a good six or eight weeks before.
That would make it late February or early March.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Campbell's letter was posted here in Mandalay the fourteenth of May.
You're certain you didn't see him around that data positive?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Of course, just because it was posted here doesn't mean
Campbell himself was in Mandalay. Probably sent it up here
from Pugan by Mangba Mangbar, Burmese boy devoted to Campbell
it's been.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
All sorts of help to him.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
With all that corobing about it does around Pugan, ruddy
ancient shrines and pagodas, the places crawling.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
With him enough. Yes, yes, that's what I understand.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Mumba does a lot of that sort of thing for Campbell,
and supplies comes out the Eeradi by boat. You know
there's no train down to Pogan from Mandally. I don't
suppose Campbell relishes the boat trip often.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
What was he like the last time you saw him?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Seems normal enough. We lunched here at the hotels, just
as we're doing.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
From what you've said, that's about four months or so ago.
I guess a lot could happen to a man in
four months.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
It could be Poogan nothing but those miserable pagodas and
shined I don't take much to ruin myself. You mean that,
haven't you lying?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
No, no, no, this is my first trip to.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Then might just give you a word about the people,
all sorts, of course, but those around Pugan seemed to
be given to all manner of strange beliefs, superstitions, odd things, well,
the evil eye for example.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
You're serious, dead serious? Well, we can't be talking about
the same thing. If I remember correctly, the archaic belief
in the evil eye is that if one possesses it,
anything or anyone he looks upon, will die. Only it
isn't entirely archaic.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
It's a widespread.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Belief in Ninja, parts of Egypt, Arabia, and certainly here
in Burma.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
If I may lorning, you're apt to find a great
many things in Burma fantastics. Not so much in Mandalay,
perhaps a rangoon, But around Kugan and to the west
and north there's a feeling, a mystic something that's been
known to take hold of men.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
You're suggesting that can be, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
You'd have to go there to find out.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
As fair Child left me, something drew my attention across
the room. She was alone, and quite possibly the most
beautiful woman I have ever seen, utterly strikingly beautiful, and
the look in her eyes was a compelling invitation. In
no time at all, I.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Accepted you were a very long time.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
A matter of seconds after I.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Saw you, But you were a long time seeing me.
I have been looking at you for almost an hour.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Oh, not like that. You haven't. No, i'd have known.
I wonder.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Your face, a very nice face, is being clouded with concern,
and so with mine. Have been with your luncheon Compellon.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
He was a bit dry, wasn't he.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
I saw no reason for you to spend more time
with him. Gina decided you should spend your time with her.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
China.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
I like that, and I like the name Stephen Loring.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
How on earth could you know that?
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Either I have the gift of Claire rooyance or I
paid to look at the hotel register.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Well, in either case, I'm flattered. And because I haven't
much time, I agree with China I should spend what
time I have with her?
Speaker 6 (06:23):
How much time?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Today? Perhaps tonight? And tomorrow? No, no, tomorrow, I'm off
to Pugan and a feeling a mystic something that's been
known to take hold of men. You choke about Pugan.
Oh no, no, not really, I was quoting my drab friend.
I've never been to Pugan myself.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
I do not think you would like it there.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Oh, pu Gan is very different.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
I should think you would find men delay much more
to your taste.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I should think I would too, And Gina, knowing Mandelay
was strange to me, wrote out instructions that would lead
me to a rendezvous that night, and and she was gone.
I found it difficult to believe our meeting it ever occurred,
except that the memory of her was vivid and haunting.
I lingered over a brandy and was preparing to leave
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the dining room.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Greetings, Takin, you are I am certain one, mister Loring.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Is everyone in Burma clairvoyant?
Speaker 7 (07:32):
No, takin, I am pleased to be Mumba Oo, Mumba.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Oh, Campbell's friend from Pugan. But where is he? Isn't
he with you?
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Regrettively? Not with Mumbai?
Speaker 7 (07:44):
A stimid friend remained in Pugan asked that you understand
and kindly to return to Pugan with Mumbai.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Oh, well, is anything the matter with Campbell?
Speaker 7 (07:56):
To say again? A steveds friend remains in Pugan and
asks that you understand and kindly to return to Pugan
with Mumbah.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
No, No, I understand you all right, I'm inquiring about Campbell?
Is he well?
Speaker 5 (08:11):
To say? Again?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Is I understand? I am to come with you to Pugan? Campbell?
Is there? Good? Good?
Speaker 5 (08:21):
To live? Now? Is to arrive at Pugan as the
sun rises.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
No, not good, not today. Tomorrow morning, when the sun
lives again, we.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Will go to say again to leave now?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
No no, no no, never mind that I said not today.
Do you understand? Tomorrow morning you and I go to Pugan.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Not good?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Very good? Here can you lead me to this address
or show me how to get there?
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Seem to answer, Mumba is able to lead to this address?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I have splendid Then meet me here at the hotel
at seven eve.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
No, thank you?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Take in no, no, what's all this about to.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Beg father in takin tho abo Mumba think not wise
for one mister loring to present himself at stated address.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
So Mungba not to lead him.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
There, and he smiled and bowed and scurried off. It
didn't matter. I knew that somehow I would find my
way to China. That night, when evening came, I left
the hotel and began a bewildering tour of the countless bazaars.
By asking a direction here and a question there, I
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came finally to a dark cluster of buildings in a
remote section of the Zegio Bazaar. And there at the
proper door, I stopped. You are the most welcome one.
(09:59):
I'm still even loring much.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
WIT's for you kindly and thank you. Let's see. It's
a bit dark in here, isn't it.
Speaker 8 (10:12):
The lights of a thousand candles are soon to come.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Taking one moment, I took a few steps on past
the servant, and suddenly I felt a pair of arms
around me. I struggled to free myself, and then a
blinding tune flashed through me, and I felt myself sinking
to the floor. Faintfully. I heard the voices, and only
one did I recognize, and that of the little Burmese manbow.
Speaker 9 (10:53):
Turk, mm hmmm, turkey too weak from a dream? Not
always pleasing, Taki, well, mumba, m.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
What happened?
Speaker 7 (11:09):
Not to remember, often rewarding, Oh, we're on a boat
soon to land at Bugan.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Well, last night you will followed me. You saved my life.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
No trouble to serve a friend of a steamed friend.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Oh yeah, yes, yes, Campbell, I wonder how I'll find
him in time.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Taking all questions are answered, No, no, you're wrong.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Some questions are never answered. Maybe that's just as.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Well spoken like man of wisdom, enlightenment.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Very little of either. This morning, Mumba, it is morning, isn't.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
It sun warm?
Speaker 7 (11:52):
And you, like Mumbai, has much to learn before he dies.
We all do too big than takin some more than others.
People a village are in their hearts good people, but
wisdom to them new and fears old. Yes, so I understand,
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But what is people a village require patients. Leader who
shows patience and no fear can bring my people to
enlightenment away from superstitions and ancient religious teachings.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Oh no, you've got the wrong idea. I have not
come to lead your people anymore than Campbell didn't. Now understand,
I've come only to get data on the ancient shrines
and for godders nearby, and to help your esteem from Campbell.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Taking to see many past glories of Fugan. But a
big pardon. Villagers of Pugan also there.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
The village. When we reached it was somewhat inland from
the river port of Bugan. Proper wood and bamboo huts
lined the four sides of a square that served as
a compound. A pack of wild dogs swarmed ahead of us,
yapping a signal to the groups of villagers bunched together
near a central hut. Mungba raised his hand in greeting
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hunt for a moment of frozen silence. The villagers turned
and ran.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
They run from us. Something very wrong.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Not much of a welcome.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
Must walk ahead, too hot of a stupid friend. Must smile,
show no fear, come taky.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I fixed this smile on my face that Mungba ordered,
and I followed him. If I showed no fear, it
was not because I felt none. There wasn't a soul
in sight. But my back straightened, rigid with the field
of a hundred eyes upon it. Mangba's steps slowed at
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the sound of the bell, his head cut slightly to
one side, as if to listen. We walked on slowly
now until we came to the central hut. There, Mungba
stop cold, bloo oooh not so what is it? What's wrong?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
He e will I it has come, see evil ie.
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Speaker 3 (15:20):
Mamba had disappeared as quickly and completely as the others
fled in terror from a crude sign I could not understand.
At the door of the central Hut, the temple bells
tolled ominously as I walked inside, not knowing what to expect.
Mugba had called this Campbell's hut, but there was no
one inside, only the strange signs and symbols affixed to
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everything in sight. I wanted to run too desperately, but
something told me that if I were safe at all,
I was safer inside the hut. As the silent day
wore on, I found many of Campbell's papers, garbled and strange.
They were a chronic of the steady deterioration of a man.
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When I finally put them down, it was night.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
Turkein Takin Mumba falls before you. Are you hurt only
with hurt of shame?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Takin and get up.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
When Julie forgiven.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
I said, get up and tell me what this madness
is all about these signs this poppy talk about the
evil eye.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Mumba, upon seeing the signs of evil, I forgot his
enlightened eyes.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Did you find out about Campbell? He is said to
be possessed, and that accounts of these signs.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Signs are charmed to evil eye take away power.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
So say my people, your people are insane.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Only frightened, takeen.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Look, can't you talk to them, reason with them, telling
they had nothing to fear that even if they did
these obscene charms.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
And there's a no answer, not Mumbah, Turkeen must do me.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
That's ridiculous to say.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Again, Turkeen must do the wile ie is on this house.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
Only Takin can prove this is not so, so, say
my people, But how tomorrow Takin look upon chosen one.
If chosen one not die, spell of evil eye broken.
If chosen one die not good all the idiotic too
beg pardon to do this.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
Only way to save esteemed friend and self.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
There was no sleep. The bugan night spent itself slowly, weirdly,
washed in moonlight, and filled with strange sounds. The paddy birds,
the barking deer, the cries of wild cattle. Then and always, always,
the eerie toll of the temple bells. I could feel
it building in the a fusion of strangeness, a fear,
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a fear that was somehow compelling. Drawn to an opening
at the back of Campbell's hut, I looked out. From there,
I saw a moonlight fantasy in a clearing before an
ancient pagoda. A single dancer performed, And then somehow I
was outside the hut, walking slowly across the compound. No
(18:24):
takin look, get out my way.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Hear me here here, Mumba, you must not answer the
call of the temple bells.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Stand aside.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
To follow is to die.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I tried to free myself from Mungbar's grip. I could not.
And if the dancer danced on, and if the bell's
told longer, I don't know, because suddenly the night was
black and silent, and the madness was gone. You know,
(19:05):
each night I don't know how I got to bed.
Every morning I find you here takin a sleep, well,
like I was hit on my head, Mugba, Was there
really a dancer out there?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Mumba? Fixed t takin feel fine?
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Was there a dancer?
Speaker 5 (19:27):
What has gone before belongs to the night? No longer
to us.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
I don't understand your bloody country, Mumba, or even you.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
I am pleased to be a simple man.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
You've saved my life twice.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Now, Why takin Mumba? Friend? Life O friend more precious
than all life?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Mumba. What happened to me last night? What happened to Campbell?
Before I got here?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Mumba? Not no fix ty takin feel fine?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Everything here plays on your feelings, emotions. The cries of
the animals, the tolling of the bells, the sight of
ruin after ruined pagodas and shrines in crumbling decay, is
that it does the very decay here hold the power
to degenerate a man, Oh temple bell again.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
Our has come takin hot hour before bright sun, and
my people takin look upon chosen one only way to
say this, stuvid friend and itself.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Outside, the villagers lined the compound, some war coverings over
their entire heads. Others, with the same fear that I
might possess the evil eye, hid their faces from my view,
all of them. So far as I could see war
signs and symbols as charms against my spell. He was madness,
all of it madness, taken ready, just tell me what
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I'm supposed to do.
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Chosen one. We'll walk to center of cleaning temple. Bells
will stop. That becomes signal for takin to look for
first time upon chosen one.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
When the bell stopped, he's all right, well, let's get
on with it.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
Kindly turn back, taking all right.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Now to make quick work of it.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Turk In have nothing to fear.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
My heart very nearly stopped with the bells slowly. I
turned around to look upon the chosen one. He stood
proudly straight, smiling confidently at me, my little Burmese friend Mumba.
And I looked and smiled and watched him fall. Mumba, Umba, Hi, Mumba,
(22:01):
How how in Heaven's name.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
No to Turky his steward friend Cambo.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
He Campbell, m m poor wretched devil Mambai was dead.
When I was alone, I started to lift him to
carry him back to the hutton, and I saw the
thin arrow in his back, a blow gun. I looked
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up in the direction the arrow must have come there.
It was the ancient pagoda where the dancer had been
the night before. It was also the direction of the
temple Bells. This time, without anyone to stop me. I
walked into the ruins of the temple. Campbell, Campbo, where
(22:52):
are you?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
I'll find you?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
You know? Campbell?
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Campbell?
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Oh here, Loring.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
I can't see you any shadows.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
I'm here in the.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Dark, and you can hear me.
Speaker 8 (23:18):
If your eyes fail, you follow your ears.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Why did you do it? Campbell? He worshiped you. Why
did you have to kill Mungba?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Mangba?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Cowering in the darkness won't help you. Campbell. There's a
window down there. Why don't you stand proudly in the
bright sunlight. It's heated.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
Mungba died proudly.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I'll get it. Callan visual you're mad? Come here here
the light? He now stand there until Camble.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
Are we at the window now?
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Loren Campbell?
Speaker 8 (24:02):
You're blind? Your eyes stand proudly in the bright sunlight.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
What happened to you? Who did this to you? I
shall pay? Or where I look? My eyes see no beauty?
Oh Campbell, we didn't understand in your letter, None of
us understood. Tell me who did that to your eyes?
Speaker 8 (24:31):
Where one sees no beauty, no good, one sees evil.
And once the eye becomes absorbed with evil. It is
said the eye must no longer see Campbell.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Listen to me. We'll go now, you and I I'll
take you home. I am home. No, no, no, We'll
go to England now together. Do you understand me? You
don't understand me. I want to be here. I must
be here. But why why? This place is strange and
(25:13):
terrifying and beautiful? Lauring?
Speaker 8 (25:16):
But you you must go before you see it's beauty,
before it draws you and holds you and never lets
you go.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
There is no beauty here.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
Have you not seen our beauty?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Stephen Loring?
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Have you not watched the dancer by moonlight and felt
compelled to follow her?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Go Lring, Go now, it's not too late for you, Campbell.
Did gna? Did she do this to you? Go Lauring
while you can.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
You were supposed to die in Mandolay Stevens.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
You tried to have me killed. My people are happy
as they are. Believe me, Lauring, and go now. Too
late is very soon upon you. I'll go. I've had
my fill of this madness? Is it madness? Are you sure?
(26:15):
You must be very sure?
Speaker 6 (26:18):
It might be madness, or again, it might be a feeling,
a mystic something that has been known to take hold
of men.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
I ran hard and fast from the ancient pagoda, away
from Chinah, away from Campbell, through the compound. I ran
told Pugan in the river and freedom. And when the
river was in sight my my legs became heavy, leaden,
and in my mind I knew I would run as
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far into the world as I could. But I also
knew that someday I would have to come back.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
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Speaker 1 (27:36):
Next week, you are a drift in a small boat
somewhere in the English Channel, the fog lying heavy on
the greasy moving waters, while in the dark ahead of you,
moving through the war torn night towards you, is a
thread of death from which there may be no escape.
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