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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tired of the everyday grind, every dream of a life
of romantic adventure. Want to get away from it all.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
We offer you Escape.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Escape, designed to free you from the four walls of
today for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
You are at the end of a journey. You've committed
murder to make a barren wasteland of India silent, desolate,
where there is a cave and a carved image of
the goddess Collie, whose heart is a ruby, big is
a grenade, and which is guarded by a smiling old
man from whom there is no Oh.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Escape.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Listen now as Escape brings you Rossbury's story, The Heart
of Collie.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
It's been a long time. Exactly how long, I don't know.
The years pile up and it's hard to remember. But
the beginning is easy. The beginning was a bar on
the San Francisco waterfront early in nineteen forty six. Anton Korchak,
owner of the Sea Nest, had put a new bartender
on and I waited a week before I made my pitch.
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It got a reaction.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Funny way.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Kills me.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I'm telling you it's true.
Speaker 7 (01:53):
Kid. If I believed every story about an idol with
a ruby bride you think about my mind.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I'll listen. All I need is a few hundred.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
Listen, every waterfront bum comes in here has got a
dream dog myself for a beer. You want a few hundred?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Yeah, but it's true, white tell you this ruby is
as big as a hand grenade, and it's there for
the taking.
Speaker 7 (02:13):
Why didn't you take it when you had the chance, Dannie.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
I had to get out of the cave when I
heard my patrol start shooting. What good was a ruby
in my pocket and the JAP bullet in my back.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
Nobody told you to come back to the States when
you got mustad OUDI.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Couldn't help it, Whitey. I got malaria. They shipped me
out of India before the war ended.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I was two years ago. I didn't know the ruby's
still there.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
I know it is. It's in the temple. All I
have to do is, what's the matter?
Speaker 7 (02:38):
Do you suppose I am Swami is around the temple?
Are going to be doing while you grab the ruby?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Clap hand? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (02:43):
But the only one near the idols and old man
he's just sitting there looking at it. Whitey, it's a
Saint Jonason, Come on in best five hundred get back,
maybe maybe one hundred thousand.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
Beat it, cure, I go work to do Whitey me
and the sod off bull bet Danny, I'll beat it.
Speaker 8 (03:26):
You got a light mystery? Oh, I don't show me?
There you are, thanks, un a b.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
No.
Speaker 8 (03:41):
No, why you're standing in front of the old tubb
here and I figured you were maybe looking.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
To be signed on. No I wasn't.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
She's heading out in a half hour. Stick around. Maybe
somebody won't show.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah where she headed for.
Speaker 8 (03:59):
The other side of the world India India, Calcutta, No
shohn board.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Where's that a hundred miles east? Oh? You you sure
they're signed up for?
Speaker 8 (04:17):
Yeah? You wanna go? Yeah, I wanna go. We'll take
a passenger. How much one hundred and a half with
grubb captain's table for a hundred and seventy five folks
will grab for one hundred and a half.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Okay, when are you leaving? Since the first and the
engineer come aboard. When's that when they can't afford any
more beer? How much is that? In time?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
I told you you told a stranger, mister.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Now maybe you're telling a passenger.
Speaker 8 (04:54):
Half an hour the most Captain don't like to wait,
They won't have to I'll be.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
I started back for the scene nest. Somebody had to
listen to me. The ruby, the heart of Collie had
beat inside me like it was my own. I knew
I'd do anything to get my hands on it. I'd
found the way to get to India, and now all
I needed was the money to buy it. It was
only a few minutes before closing. When I got there,
Whitey was mopping up the bar and the place was empty. Hey, Whitey,
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buyers clothes, Kid, I don't want to drink. Come here,
Come here, I got something to tell you.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
What's on your mind?
Speaker 5 (05:40):
How Whitey, I can get passage to India? All I
needs one hundred and a half. Where's mister Korchak backroom
check and receipts?
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Why? Uh uh?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
You can't go back there, Danny, get your hands off
you try to stop me, Whitey.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
I'll kid going in, Kid, come in?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Can I see you for a minute, mister Carjak?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
What do you want?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Dnny? Look, mister Carjak, I'll make it fast.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
You know about me being in Burma, that ruby I
saw that, Well, it's the truth. Why he knows that
I saw it, didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Even know, mister Kay.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
Everything's locked up for the night.
Speaker 9 (06:31):
Okay, good night, wedding night, Danny.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
What do you want for me?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Danny?
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Listen, mister Carjak all I needs one hundred and fifty bucks.
I can get passage to India for that. It's only
one hundred and a half, please, mister Carjack.
Speaker 9 (06:47):
I don't ask for money, Danny. A beer maybe, but cash. No,
mister Cachak, lost kid, but the boat leaves, I said,
get lost kid, Kay.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Okay, let me tell you something. Then listen to me
and make you rich for allows one hundred and a half.
Speaker 9 (07:02):
I got out, get out of my place. You'll come
in here again. I throw you to the seagulls.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
One hundred and a half court check. You're going to
give it to me. I guess I got to make
you believe me. You shouldn't have done that card check. Huh. Now,
I got to twist this round in you.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
You try it, Danny, and you're going to hear it.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
You should have given me that doll. It's a lot
cheaper than dying. Now you're mister you're just in time
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with shoving off. I told you i'd be back tonight.
That's what allowed to say.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
Okay, let's go hold on, ladies matter, Let's see the
color of your money.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Money, Yeah, I got alive. Man must be close to
how much in that bundle?
Speaker 8 (08:45):
Look the price just went up to two and a
half with forlcas will grub.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
What are you trying to do with me? That's the price?
Take it or no? Let me see the captain. You're
looking at him? Boy, I'm the captain.
Speaker 8 (09:06):
Two fifty mm hmm, okay, two fifty. Let's go climb
aboard next stop CHOHn board.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Uh he used to macon.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Yes, captain the paxton told me to come and see
you said, you can find me a small boat and
a guy.
Speaker 10 (09:54):
I can When do you wish these things as soon
as possible?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Do you wish to go?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
You know why?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Tinsukia is Maykan knows India well? Or what's the best
way to go?
Speaker 10 (10:04):
Your voat will take you north of the Damaputa River,
then you will go overland west to Tinsukiya.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
How long will that takes? I should say two weeks? Okay,
let's get going.
Speaker 10 (10:15):
All charges are in advance. How much five hundred dollars American?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Don't I don't have that much much?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Have you.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Three hundred dollars? Please do not lie to three hundred.
Speaker 10 (10:30):
Captain Evans of the Pakistan has already notified me that
you have at least four hundred. I don't then how much.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Three fifty? Take her a shop around.
Speaker 10 (10:43):
Be back here tomorrow morning and I will take you
to your boat.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
And what about my guy will be there? Better be
good day.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
I was there the next morning. We went to the
boat I'd rented. It wasn't much, but I took it.
Subhas my guide, got a wound up, and we started
up river for Tinsukia. Up till the time we left,
j Macon tried to find out why I wanted to
go there.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I told him nothing.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
On the fifth day out of Shanpur, Subhasas, who hadn't
said a dozen words to me and all that time,
came back to the stern of the boat and sat
down beside me.
Speaker 11 (11:28):
Saib, Yeah, why are you making this trip?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Acon asked you to find out.
Speaker 11 (11:33):
No, no, Sib, I asked for myself, why because I
do not wish evil to happen to you.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Thanks, but this will happen to you. How do you know?
Speaker 11 (11:41):
Makhan wishes it. So why he says, you know much
gold ury near Kinsukia.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
It's crazy, he is he? Why did he instruct me
to kill you when you found it?
Speaker 11 (11:52):
What the true scib I'm to kill you when you
find the gold superas.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Let me tell you something. I'm not looking for gold.
Speaker 11 (12:01):
I'm glad you are not looking for gold. I would
not like to kill you. Supurs his side on me.
How much longer? Oh we will be on the river
two more days and we will go on land to Tinsukia.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Well, I don't want to go to Tinsukia. There were
I want to go ten miles or so northwest. Oh,
what is there?
Speaker 5 (12:21):
And I was a big army camp there during the war.
You remember, Oh, yes, I was a guy then too.
Will you take me there?
Speaker 12 (12:27):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (12:37):
It was after my outfit came over the pang Saw
pass out of Burma that I found the Temple of Kali.
Then we'd moved on to Tinsukia. All I wanted was
to get to the site of the old army camp.
I could make it from there on my own. But
the closer I got to the heart of Kali, for
the crazier I got nothing mattered. Anymore what I had
to do, or who I had to kill to get
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what I wanted. We finished the trip up river and
started overland. It was rough, jungle and grain and the
old malaria kicking it up. Five days later we were
on the site of the old army camp. This is
far enough, sub Bass, but there is nothing here is enough.
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This is as far as we're going.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And then we shall rest before we return. I'm not
going back. And then whether I got to do the
rest of this alone, sub Bass.
Speaker 12 (13:37):
You have no need for the gun. I know nothing
about you to.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Know, but you would if you stayed with me any longer,
but I do not. I left him there, and I
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walked on for another half a day.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
And then, just as I'd remembered it, a cave opening,
almost hidden.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
By scrub, on the far side of a small clearing.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
I went in, and I saw it again at the
far end of the cave, the idol of Collie, and
then the.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Flickering light of the lamp. It's hard.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
I moved closer to it, and then I saw him,
the same little, old old man I'd seen two years before,
in that same attitude of prayer.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I moved again, and he sat there, hardly seeming to breathe.
And then I was ready.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
I ran toward the idol, my hands reaching for the roof,
and then the ground opened beneath me, and I fell.
A thousand hands clawed at me, held me, struck at me,
and above the heart of Collie shone Scarland. I don't
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know how long I fought them, at the time came
when I couldn't fight anymore, and so I quit and
let whatever it was drift over me. When I came
to he was standing at the foot of the straw
palette I was on. He was tall, gaunt, dressed in
the ceremonial robe that reached the floor.
Speaker 12 (15:37):
I am Adram, the Elder Sanyasi of the Temple of
Card and your name is Danielle Caroline.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I believe. How do you know?
Speaker 12 (15:46):
My dear wallet and your papers of identification, your money,
they are all there beside you.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Look about that rule.
Speaker 12 (15:55):
Is no need for you to explain, mister Carlin. I
am aware of your emotion concerning the rule. Our emotion,
on the other hand, the emotion of my people has
its roots in religious beliefs. In the beauty.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
I get to the point, the point, yeah, stop playing
cat and mouse with me.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
If you're gonna kill me, do it, get it over
whe If it's torture you got in mind, then you
shouldn't let me live because I'm not.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Having any barry sailah.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
You kill me if you want, but no torture. You
kill me, kill me fast or no.
Speaker 12 (16:31):
No, my friend, we will do you no further harm.
There will be no more violence done. Release him.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
What are you gonna do to me?
Speaker 12 (16:45):
We wish to honor you. You what I said, you
are to be honored. Listen, there is already music that
you are here. And tonight we have a butter feast,
a feast of the reward, and you will be the
funnared guest at that feast. But why reward me to
prove to you that we have no hatred for him
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who desires the hearts of golig.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
What is the reward?
Speaker 12 (17:15):
You will know at the moment of the.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Stole reward I can take with me when I leave.
Speaker 12 (17:22):
With the emotion again concerning.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
The rule he just said, you don't hate me for it?
Speaker 12 (17:26):
No, Come, Come, I will show you the place of
the feast. This is the feasting hall where you will
be the honored guest.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Tonight, adrn.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Yes, How do I know for sure that I won't
end up on that alder that one of your people
standing over me, ready to start butchering?
Speaker 12 (17:56):
You have my words?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
How do I know that's enough?
Speaker 12 (18:01):
Why do you torment yourself? My friend? Had I wished it,
you could have been a sacrificial lamb long before this.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I want to see the old man that sits in
front of the idol.
Speaker 12 (18:13):
You will see him tonight. He who is hearing this
set up, you will know tonight. Now I think you
had better go back to your room. I don't and
wait now A yeah, I believe me when I say
your life is precious to us. Now without that do now?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I speak the truth.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
And that's the trouble. I get the feeling I'd be
better off if you lied to me.
Speaker 12 (18:41):
Go rest for the feast.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
I went back to my straw mat and I laid down,
But the fear wouldn't go. There was a catch in
this whole oration. I couldn't nail it down. Drum was convincing,
but I'd heard too much about the followers of Kali
to believe him. His attitude of non violence had a
false spot somewhere.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I couldn't find it.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
I knew that I had to get out of the
temple before the feast started, but there was only one
way in or out, and that was through the cave
and over the trap door in front of the idol.
Someone had to trip the door physically before it could
fall open. I decided to make my exit look legitimate
by taking somebody with me. Pani Odrum's assistant was standing
guard outside my cubicle, so I picked him. Honey, honey,
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come here, come here quick.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
What does what is wrong? Come here? Help me ups
my back before? Perhaps before could have right up once
a mole.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Now where they put my gun when they brought me here?
Speaker 7 (20:01):
It is here in this room, in the pack you
were when you're right, It is there in the corner.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Okay, move m.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
What do you know?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 5 (20:17):
I'm leaving and you're going with me for a while
for insurance. Very well, you're gonna give me any argument.
It is the wish of a drum that I do
your bidding. Okay, wait a minute, have you changed your mind?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
No?
Speaker 5 (20:31):
No, I'm just going to check this gun. You're too
happy about this whole thing. Clips still fall I thought
maybe he's right about this whole setup. Let's get going,
but a drama just in case you don't know if
this forty five can put a hole in you as
big as a fist.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
No move, Where are we now?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
We are behind the idol?
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Wait a minute, what about the old man?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
He will not speak to us nor attempt to stop us.
How do you know?
Speaker 12 (21:27):
I know?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Okay, let's move and remember if that trap door opens,
you get damned.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
So no signals? Huh No, Wait a minute, what is wrong?
Speaker 5 (21:39):
As long as I'm getting out like this, I might
as well get what I came for.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
The heart of CALLI yeah, now back toward it.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
I got it, and now dot walking like you're leading
me out, I'll kill you if you hesitate for a second.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
You understand, I understand, and get gone.
Speaker 12 (22:35):
My friend. The butter feast is almost at an end,
and yet not one morsel of food as passed your lips.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I'm not hungry.
Speaker 12 (22:43):
Are you afraid you will be poisoned?
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I will be your taste if you will. A dram
Why didn't you kill me for trying to escape?
Speaker 12 (22:52):
Because you're attempt it was a normal reaction. You harmed
no one, but I tried what you have propagation. Man
always lashes out at the unknown.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
It is to be expected.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
He would have had that trap door open as soon
as Pani stepped off.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Who knew that I wasn't supposed to leave?
Speaker 12 (23:10):
The old man who sits near the.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Idol, but I looked at him as I passed by,
just sits there, looks at the idol.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
He doesn't seem to know what's going on around him.
Speaker 12 (23:20):
He is aware of only two things in life, the
heart of Calis and the butter feast. He knew of
the feast, and he knew that if you left, there
would be none. Therefore, you are the only excuse for
living that he has.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Still don't understand he will.
Speaker 12 (23:41):
The music has ended. Now the ceremony of the reward will.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Be given up, adm Adams.
Speaker 12 (23:49):
I set your mind that he is my friend. No
physical violence will be inflicted.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Upon you, Adrama. I have a question, what is it
my friend?
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Has anybody else ever tried to steal the ruby?
Speaker 12 (24:00):
That is an intelligent question. I will answer it when
the time.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Why not answer it now?
Speaker 12 (24:05):
I will answer it in a moment. Remember what I
once said to you. Your life is precious to us advance,
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Guardian of the Heart of Cali.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
To the little old man.
Speaker 12 (24:47):
You asked before whether anyone else had tried to steal
the heart of Cali. The answer to my friend is yes,
almost forty five years ago it was attempted. At that
time we also had a b the feast, the Feast
of the Reward. In keeping with the laws of the temple,
the thief received the reward which he now entrusts to you,
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the right to possess the heart which he saw desired.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I don't want it.
Speaker 12 (25:15):
For forty years. The old man has been guardian of
the heart for forty years. He has waited for one
to love the heart as he did. Now he will
surrender it to you.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
No, no, no, no, I don't we grant you.
Speaker 12 (25:33):
Guardian of the heart from this day to the next
Feast of the Reward. May you be close to and
love that heart which shall.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Be before you.
Speaker 13 (25:52):
Hell the new guardian, How long ago was that?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
How many years?
Speaker 5 (26:11):
How many lifetimes? I don't even look at the ruby anymore.
All I know is I've got my hand on the
trap door switch, and somebody has to walk across it someday.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Why not you? Oh that ruby, that red heart. It's yours.
It's as big as a grenade, and it's yours. Take it.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Come and take it, please, please, somebody come and get me.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Please.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Under the direction of David Friedkin and Morton Fine, Escape
has brought you the Heart of Callie, a story by
Ross Murray featured in the cast where Paul Richards and
Edgar Barrier. Also heard were Jack Krusian, Clayton Post, Lou Merrill,
Her Butterfield, Lou Krugman and Paul Freese. You're announcer, George Walsh.
The special music for Escape is composed and conducted by
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Leith Stephens. Next week, That's right, gun Smoke Now a
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word from William Conrad, many of you know as Marshall
Matt Dillon of Dodge City.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Thank you, George.
Speaker 14 (27:54):
You know today marks the last of the current series
of Escape programs, and I know you will miss it
as much as I show. However, I would like to
think that all of you who have listened to Escape
these many months will now be able to take your
pleasure in listening to gun Smoke. Yes, starting next week,
gun Smoke will come to you on a new day,
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at a new time. Chester, Doc Kitty and I together
with all of our strong minded, brawling, hard living citizens
at Dodge will come to you next Saturday, October the second.
So goodbye for escape, and we hope you'll all tune
into your local CBS radio station next Saturday, October second
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for gun Smoke.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Until then, thank you and good night.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Bill.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Stay tuned now for Night Watch, which follows immediately over
most of these same stations, Meet Carlos Archer for Monday
Night Merriment on the CBS Radio network
Tired of the everyday grind, every dream of a life
of romantic adventure. Want to get away from it all.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
We offer you Escape.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Escape, designed to free you from the four walls of
today for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
You are at the end of a journey. You've committed
murder to make a barren wasteland of India silent, desolate,
where there is a cave and a carved image of
the goddess Collie, whose heart is a ruby, big is
a grenade, and which is guarded by a smiling old
man from whom there is no Oh.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Escape.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Listen now as Escape brings you Rossbury's story, The Heart
of Collie.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
It's been a long time. Exactly how long, I don't know.
The years pile up and it's hard to remember. But
the beginning is easy. The beginning was a bar on
the San Francisco waterfront early in nineteen forty six. Anton Korchak,
owner of the Sea Nest, had put a new bartender
on and I waited a week before I made my pitch.
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It got a reaction.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Funny way.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
Kills me.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I'm telling you it's true.
Speaker 7 (01:53):
Kid. If I believed every story about an idol with
a ruby bride you think about my mind.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
I'll listen. All I need is a few hundred.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
Listen, every waterfront bum comes in here has got a
dream dog myself for a beer. You want a few hundred?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Yeah, but it's true, white tell you this ruby is
as big as a hand grenade, and it's there for
the taking.
Speaker 7 (02:13):
Why didn't you take it when you had the chance, Dannie.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
I had to get out of the cave when I
heard my patrol start shooting. What good was a ruby
in my pocket and the JAP bullet in my back.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
Nobody told you to come back to the States when
you got mustad OUDI.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Couldn't help it, Whitey. I got malaria. They shipped me
out of India before the war ended.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I was two years ago. I didn't know the ruby's
still there.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
I know it is. It's in the temple. All I
have to do is, what's the matter?
Speaker 7 (02:38):
Do you suppose I am Swami is around the temple?
Are going to be doing while you grab the ruby?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Clap hand? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (02:43):
But the only one near the idols and old man
he's just sitting there looking at it. Whitey, it's a
Saint Jonason, Come on in best five hundred get back,
maybe maybe one hundred thousand.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
Beat it, cure, I go work to do Whitey me
and the sod off bull bet Danny, I'll beat it.
Speaker 8 (03:26):
You got a light mystery? Oh, I don't show me?
There you are, thanks, un a b.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
No.
Speaker 8 (03:41):
No, why you're standing in front of the old tubb
here and I figured you were maybe looking.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
To be signed on. No I wasn't.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
She's heading out in a half hour. Stick around. Maybe
somebody won't show.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah where she headed for.
Speaker 8 (03:59):
The other side of the world India India, Calcutta, No
shohn board.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Where's that a hundred miles east? Oh? You you sure
they're signed up for?
Speaker 8 (04:17):
Yeah? You wanna go? Yeah, I wanna go. We'll take
a passenger. How much one hundred and a half with
grubb captain's table for a hundred and seventy five folks
will grab for one hundred and a half.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Okay, when are you leaving? Since the first and the
engineer come aboard. When's that when they can't afford any
more beer? How much is that? In time?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
I told you you told a stranger, mister.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Now maybe you're telling a passenger.
Speaker 8 (04:54):
Half an hour the most Captain don't like to wait,
They won't have to I'll be.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
I started back for the scene nest. Somebody had to
listen to me. The ruby, the heart of Collie had
beat inside me like it was my own. I knew
I'd do anything to get my hands on it. I'd
found the way to get to India, and now all
I needed was the money to buy it. It was
only a few minutes before closing. When I got there,
Whitey was mopping up the bar and the place was empty. Hey, Whitey,
(05:32):
buyers clothes, Kid, I don't want to drink. Come here,
Come here, I got something to tell you.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
What's on your mind?
Speaker 5 (05:40):
How Whitey, I can get passage to India? All I
needs one hundred and a half. Where's mister Korchak backroom
check and receipts?
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Why? Uh uh?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
You can't go back there, Danny, get your hands off
you try to stop me, Whitey.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
I'll kid going in, Kid, come in?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Can I see you for a minute, mister Carjak?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
What do you want?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Dnny? Look, mister Carjak, I'll make it fast.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
You know about me being in Burma, that ruby I
saw that, Well, it's the truth. Why he knows that
I saw it, didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Even know, mister Kay.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
Everything's locked up for the night.
Speaker 9 (06:31):
Okay, good night, wedding night, Danny.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
What do you want for me?
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Danny?
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Listen, mister Carjak all I needs one hundred and fifty bucks.
I can get passage to India for that. It's only
one hundred and a half, please, mister Carjack.
Speaker 9 (06:47):
I don't ask for money, Danny. A beer maybe, but cash. No,
mister Cachak, lost kid, but the boat leaves, I said,
get lost kid, Kay.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Okay, let me tell you something. Then listen to me
and make you rich for allows one hundred and a half.
Speaker 9 (07:02):
I got out, get out of my place. You'll come
in here again. I throw you to the seagulls.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
One hundred and a half court check. You're going to
give it to me. I guess I got to make
you believe me. You shouldn't have done that card check. Huh. Now,
I got to twist this round in you.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
You try it, Danny, and you're going to hear it.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
You should have given me that doll. It's a lot
cheaper than dying. Now you're mister you're just in time
(08:19):
with shoving off. I told you i'd be back tonight.
That's what allowed to say.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
Okay, let's go hold on, ladies matter, Let's see the
color of your money.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Money, Yeah, I got alive. Man must be close to
how much in that bundle?
Speaker 8 (08:45):
Look the price just went up to two and a
half with forlcas will grub.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
What are you trying to do with me? That's the price?
Take it or no? Let me see the captain. You're
looking at him? Boy, I'm the captain.
Speaker 8 (09:06):
Two fifty mm hmm, okay, two fifty. Let's go climb
aboard next stop CHOHn board.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Uh he used to macon.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Yes, captain the paxton told me to come and see
you said, you can find me a small boat and
a guy.
Speaker 10 (09:54):
I can When do you wish these things as soon
as possible?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Do you wish to go?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
You know why?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Tinsukia is Maykan knows India well? Or what's the best
way to go?
Speaker 10 (10:04):
Your voat will take you north of the Damaputa River,
then you will go overland west to Tinsukiya.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
How long will that takes? I should say two weeks? Okay,
let's get going.
Speaker 10 (10:15):
All charges are in advance. How much five hundred dollars American?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Don't I don't have that much much?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Have you.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Three hundred dollars? Please do not lie to three hundred.
Speaker 10 (10:30):
Captain Evans of the Pakistan has already notified me that
you have at least four hundred. I don't then how much.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Three fifty? Take her a shop around.
Speaker 10 (10:43):
Be back here tomorrow morning and I will take you
to your boat.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
And what about my guy will be there? Better be
good day.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
I was there the next morning. We went to the
boat I'd rented. It wasn't much, but I took it.
Subhas my guide, got a wound up, and we started
up river for Tinsukia. Up till the time we left,
j Macon tried to find out why I wanted to
go there.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I told him nothing.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
On the fifth day out of Shanpur, Subhasas, who hadn't
said a dozen words to me and all that time,
came back to the stern of the boat and sat
down beside me.
Speaker 11 (11:28):
Saib, Yeah, why are you making this trip?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Acon asked you to find out.
Speaker 11 (11:33):
No, no, Sib, I asked for myself, why because I
do not wish evil to happen to you.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Thanks, but this will happen to you. How do you know?
Speaker 11 (11:41):
Makhan wishes it. So why he says, you know much
gold ury near Kinsukia.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
It's crazy, he is he? Why did he instruct me
to kill you when you found it?
Speaker 11 (11:52):
What the true scib I'm to kill you when you
find the gold superas.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Let me tell you something. I'm not looking for gold.
Speaker 11 (12:01):
I'm glad you are not looking for gold. I would
not like to kill you. Supurs his side on me.
How much longer? Oh we will be on the river
two more days and we will go on land to Tinsukia.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Well, I don't want to go to Tinsukia. There were
I want to go ten miles or so northwest. Oh,
what is there?
Speaker 5 (12:21):
And I was a big army camp there during the war.
You remember, Oh, yes, I was a guy then too.
Will you take me there?
Speaker 12 (12:27):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (12:37):
It was after my outfit came over the pang Saw
pass out of Burma that I found the Temple of Kali.
Then we'd moved on to Tinsukia. All I wanted was
to get to the site of the old army camp.
I could make it from there on my own. But
the closer I got to the heart of Kali, for
the crazier I got nothing mattered. Anymore what I had
to do, or who I had to kill to get
(12:58):
what I wanted. We finished the trip up river and
started overland. It was rough, jungle and grain and the
old malaria kicking it up. Five days later we were
on the site of the old army camp. This is
far enough, sub Bass, but there is nothing here is enough.
(13:23):
This is as far as we're going.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And then we shall rest before we return. I'm not
going back. And then whether I got to do the
rest of this alone, sub Bass.
Speaker 12 (13:37):
You have no need for the gun. I know nothing
about you to.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Know, but you would if you stayed with me any longer,
but I do not. I left him there, and I
(14:03):
walked on for another half a day.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
And then, just as I'd remembered it, a cave opening,
almost hidden.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
By scrub, on the far side of a small clearing.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
I went in, and I saw it again at the
far end of the cave, the idol of Collie, and
then the.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Flickering light of the lamp. It's hard.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
I moved closer to it, and then I saw him,
the same little, old old man I'd seen two years before,
in that same attitude of prayer.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I moved again, and he sat there, hardly seeming to breathe.
And then I was ready.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
I ran toward the idol, my hands reaching for the roof,
and then the ground opened beneath me, and I fell.
A thousand hands clawed at me, held me, struck at me,
and above the heart of Collie shone Scarland. I don't
(15:15):
know how long I fought them, at the time came
when I couldn't fight anymore, and so I quit and
let whatever it was drift over me. When I came
to he was standing at the foot of the straw
palette I was on. He was tall, gaunt, dressed in
the ceremonial robe that reached the floor.
Speaker 12 (15:37):
I am Adram, the Elder Sanyasi of the Temple of
Card and your name is Danielle Caroline.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I believe. How do you know?
Speaker 12 (15:46):
My dear wallet and your papers of identification, your money,
they are all there beside you.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Look about that rule.
Speaker 12 (15:55):
Is no need for you to explain, mister Carlin. I
am aware of your emotion concerning the rule. Our emotion,
on the other hand, the emotion of my people has
its roots in religious beliefs. In the beauty.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
I get to the point, the point, yeah, stop playing
cat and mouse with me.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
If you're gonna kill me, do it, get it over
whe If it's torture you got in mind, then you
shouldn't let me live because I'm not.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Having any barry sailah.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
You kill me if you want, but no torture. You
kill me, kill me fast or no.
Speaker 12 (16:31):
No, my friend, we will do you no further harm.
There will be no more violence done. Release him.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
What are you gonna do to me?
Speaker 12 (16:45):
We wish to honor you. You what I said, you
are to be honored. Listen, there is already music that
you are here. And tonight we have a butter feast,
a feast of the reward, and you will be the
funnared guest at that feast. But why reward me to
prove to you that we have no hatred for him
(17:08):
who desires the hearts of golig.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
What is the reward?
Speaker 12 (17:15):
You will know at the moment of the.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Stole reward I can take with me when I leave.
Speaker 12 (17:22):
With the emotion again concerning.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
The rule he just said, you don't hate me for it?
Speaker 12 (17:26):
No, Come, Come, I will show you the place of
the feast. This is the feasting hall where you will
be the honored guest.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Tonight, adrn.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Yes, How do I know for sure that I won't
end up on that alder that one of your people
standing over me, ready to start butchering?
Speaker 12 (17:56):
You have my words?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
How do I know that's enough?
Speaker 12 (18:01):
Why do you torment yourself? My friend? Had I wished it,
you could have been a sacrificial lamb long before this.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I want to see the old man that sits in
front of the idol.
Speaker 12 (18:13):
You will see him tonight. He who is hearing this
set up, you will know tonight. Now I think you
had better go back to your room. I don't and
wait now A yeah, I believe me when I say
your life is precious to us. Now without that do now?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I speak the truth.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
And that's the trouble. I get the feeling I'd be
better off if you lied to me.
Speaker 12 (18:41):
Go rest for the feast.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
I went back to my straw mat and I laid down,
But the fear wouldn't go. There was a catch in
this whole oration. I couldn't nail it down. Drum was convincing,
but I'd heard too much about the followers of Kali
to believe him. His attitude of non violence had a
false spot somewhere.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I couldn't find it.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
I knew that I had to get out of the
temple before the feast started, but there was only one
way in or out, and that was through the cave
and over the trap door in front of the idol.
Someone had to trip the door physically before it could
fall open. I decided to make my exit look legitimate
by taking somebody with me. Pani Odrum's assistant was standing
guard outside my cubicle, so I picked him. Honey, honey,
(19:36):
come here, come here quick.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
What does what is wrong? Come here? Help me ups
my back before? Perhaps before could have right up once
a mole.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Now where they put my gun when they brought me here?
Speaker 7 (20:01):
It is here in this room, in the pack you
were when you're right, It is there in the corner.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Okay, move m.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
What do you know?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 5 (20:17):
I'm leaving and you're going with me for a while
for insurance. Very well, you're gonna give me any argument.
It is the wish of a drum that I do
your bidding. Okay, wait a minute, have you changed your mind?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
No?
Speaker 5 (20:31):
No, I'm just going to check this gun. You're too
happy about this whole thing. Clips still fall I thought
maybe he's right about this whole setup. Let's get going,
but a drama just in case you don't know if
this forty five can put a hole in you as
big as a fist.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
No move, Where are we now?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
We are behind the idol?
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Wait a minute, what about the old man?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
He will not speak to us nor attempt to stop us.
How do you know?
Speaker 12 (21:27):
I know?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Okay, let's move and remember if that trap door opens,
you get damned.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
So no signals? Huh No, Wait a minute, what is wrong?
Speaker 5 (21:39):
As long as I'm getting out like this, I might
as well get what I came for.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
The heart of CALLI yeah, now back toward it.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
I got it, and now dot walking like you're leading
me out, I'll kill you if you hesitate for a second.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
You understand, I understand, and get gone.
Speaker 12 (22:35):
My friend. The butter feast is almost at an end,
and yet not one morsel of food as passed your lips.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
I'm not hungry.
Speaker 12 (22:43):
Are you afraid you will be poisoned?
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I will be your taste if you will. A dram
Why didn't you kill me for trying to escape?
Speaker 12 (22:52):
Because you're attempt it was a normal reaction. You harmed
no one, but I tried what you have propagation. Man
always lashes out at the unknown.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
It is to be expected.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
He would have had that trap door open as soon
as Pani stepped off.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Who knew that I wasn't supposed to leave?
Speaker 12 (23:10):
The old man who sits near the.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Idol, but I looked at him as I passed by,
just sits there, looks at the idol.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
He doesn't seem to know what's going on around him.
Speaker 12 (23:20):
He is aware of only two things in life, the
heart of Calis and the butter feast. He knew of
the feast, and he knew that if you left, there
would be none. Therefore, you are the only excuse for
living that he has.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Still don't understand he will.
Speaker 12 (23:41):
The music has ended. Now the ceremony of the reward will.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Be given up, adm Adams.
Speaker 12 (23:49):
I set your mind that he is my friend. No
physical violence will be inflicted.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Upon you, Adrama. I have a question, what is it
my friend?
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Has anybody else ever tried to steal the ruby?
Speaker 12 (24:00):
That is an intelligent question. I will answer it when
the time.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Why not answer it now?
Speaker 12 (24:05):
I will answer it in a moment. Remember what I
once said to you. Your life is precious to us advance,
(24:26):
Guardian of the Heart of Cali.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
To the little old man.
Speaker 12 (24:47):
You asked before whether anyone else had tried to steal
the heart of Cali. The answer to my friend is yes,
almost forty five years ago it was attempted. At that
time we also had a b the feast, the Feast
of the Reward. In keeping with the laws of the temple,
the thief received the reward which he now entrusts to you,
(25:10):
the right to possess the heart which he saw desired.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I don't want it.
Speaker 12 (25:15):
For forty years. The old man has been guardian of
the heart for forty years. He has waited for one
to love the heart as he did. Now he will
surrender it to you.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
No, no, no, no, I don't we grant you.
Speaker 12 (25:33):
Guardian of the heart from this day to the next
Feast of the Reward. May you be close to and
love that heart which shall.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Be before you.
Speaker 13 (25:52):
Hell the new guardian, How long ago was that?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
How many years?
Speaker 5 (26:11):
How many lifetimes? I don't even look at the ruby anymore.
All I know is I've got my hand on the
trap door switch, and somebody has to walk across it someday.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Why not you? Oh that ruby, that red heart. It's yours.
It's as big as a grenade, and it's yours. Take it.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Come and take it, please, please, somebody come and get me.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Please.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Under the direction of David Friedkin and Morton Fine, Escape
has brought you the Heart of Callie, a story by
Ross Murray featured in the cast where Paul Richards and
Edgar Barrier. Also heard were Jack Krusian, Clayton Post, Lou Merrill,
Her Butterfield, Lou Krugman and Paul Freese. You're announcer, George Walsh.
The special music for Escape is composed and conducted by
(27:27):
Leith Stephens. Next week, That's right, gun Smoke Now a
(27:48):
word from William Conrad, many of you know as Marshall
Matt Dillon of Dodge City.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Thank you, George.
Speaker 14 (27:54):
You know today marks the last of the current series
of Escape programs, and I know you will miss it
as much as I show. However, I would like to
think that all of you who have listened to Escape
these many months will now be able to take your
pleasure in listening to gun Smoke. Yes, starting next week,
gun Smoke will come to you on a new day,
(28:15):
at a new time. Chester, Doc Kitty and I together
with all of our strong minded, brawling, hard living citizens
at Dodge will come to you next Saturday, October the second.
So goodbye for escape, and we hope you'll all tune
into your local CBS radio station next Saturday, October second
(28:37):
for gun Smoke.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Until then, thank you and good night.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Bill.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Stay tuned now for Night Watch, which follows immediately over
most of these same stations, Meet Carlos Archer for Monday
Night Merriment on the CBS Radio network
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