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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
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Speaker 1 (00:40):
You are on a catch, sailing the coral seas, snaking
your way through the tricky channel to an island of
black pearls. While on the shore, waiting for you to
land is the man who has sworn your death, and
from whom there is no escape.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Listen now as Escape brings you Robert Tollman's story The
King of Owanatu.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
The island we were looking for was roughly fifteen degrees
north by one west. We sailed around it three times
before we spotted the break in the reef. Hacker wrote
us in on a tricky swell and snaked through the
channel before the surfoul hit back us.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Here we are all installed, ready for business. What's eating
you or emickton?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I don't know. I got a funny feeling about this place,
like what coming through that reef? You notice anything special?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
There was a cinch like he's in the bars through
a canal. Lock on a little faster, a little rougher,
too easy. I don't follow you, Skipper.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I mean that's not a natural channel and scooped out
of the rock. That makes you think so you can
see where the coral was chip smooth on the side.
This I want to see for myself, Skimmer. Yeah, Skipper,
come here alright, what's up?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Break in the reef? The channel would just came through.
It's not there anymore. It's disappeared. Look, yeah, it couldn't be, Skipper,
it just couldn't.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Couldn't. But it is solid wall breaking the reef is
closed on how you said it was like he's in
the bars to a canal locked in.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
You you mean somebody they got some kind of underwater
floodgate or something or something. Maybe hey, hey, someone on
the beach.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Say we get some answers pretty soon.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Oh h the beach? What island is this?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Stay more, I'm coming out.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
He's a white man, all right, Yeah, looks like he
lives here too. Those natives look like my occasions.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And you don't belong to these islands. Neither is that outrigger.
I'm going below and break out the rifle. Don't be stupid, hacker.
They're obviously not him.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
What do you say we should do.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Wait, wait, don't we find out what it's all about.
Let him do the talking. Whatever you do, don't mention
the pearls. My story is we're lost. We put in
for water and supplies.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
But if he asked to see the ship's papers, we
show them. If he asked what happened to the owner?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
He decided to take a plane back from Tahiti. We're
returning the boat to San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
For him, sounds good enough.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I just take it easy, Hacker, and use your head.
As the outrigger approached our boat, I try to size
up our host. He was a big man, solidly built,
but with a sharp, aquillent face that didn't go with
a bill. He wore a beard closely tremmed, on a
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white linen jacket over a dark shirt open at the neck.
When the canoe came alongside, he was on his feet
and up our ladder in just three seconds.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Plant Ah, are you the captain.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Of this vessel and the skipper? Remington is my name?
This is my mate, mister Hacker.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
And your crew worried?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Excuse me?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
My name is Gero. I am resident of this island.
Welcome to our NATO gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I thank you. You'll say that you're the resident.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Not in the usual governmental sense, mister Remington, but as
I am the only person living chair I in my household,
that is, I believe I can lay fair claim to
the title. Have you lived here long, mister Jerome, No, no, no,
let us observe protocol. Mister Remington, as resident, I ask
the first question. This craft must have set you back
a pretty penny.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
A Remington, it did the honor. I'm only selling your
home for him. And home is San Francisco, magnificent city.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
I know it well. May I ask your employer's name,
Kate's Gerald Kates. Hey, yes, I've heard the name. And
what was the name of this vessel before you changed it,
mister Remington.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Uh, the ig Igo. Kate's decided it was a bad
luck name, so he changed it to the low one,
and bad luck for you to get off course and
wind up in this particular group of islands.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I don't know what grow business, mister Jerome to a mouto.
The old seafarers used to call it the dangerous archipelago.
But you're here, and a happy circumstance it is. I'm
seldom blessed with visitors as you may well imagine. I
trust you, gentlemen, will do me the honor of dining
with me this evening.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Oh thanks, I'll be glad.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
And if there's anything I could do to make your
stagia more comfortable, you.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Might explain about that reef Jerome.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Real, Oh the floodgate in the channel. This island was
a pirate base back in the days of the Spanish Maine.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
You trying to tell us that's been here a couple
of hundred years and still in working order.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Oh heavens no, I've had it restored, of course, and
a very expensive undertaking it was, but I find it
an amusing toy. Now I must leave. You'll make preparations
for our feast tonight. Dinner is at seven shop until
seven then, Oh, gentlemen, more branded gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
H no, no thanks, I.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Trust my humble board was worthcoming ashore.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
For what's the point, mister Jerome fattening us up for
the queue?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Oh dear, no, mister Hacker, I dare say some of
my natives have tasted long pig in their time, but
I have expressly forbidden it here.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
How did you come to this island, mister Cheron?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I was looking for a refuge, mister Remington, a place
where I could escape forever the insanities of this so
called civilized world.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I noticed that you haven't deprived yourself of any of
the civilized comforts.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Mister true, mister hacker, you seem uncommonly silent. Perhaps another
dram of brandy will loosen your tongue.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I think I'll go for a walk, if you don't
mind coming along, Skipper, I'll finish my brandy suit yourself.
See you boys.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
You sure you don't feel the urged to go a
roaming mister Remington?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Later?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Maybe yes, you'd have plenty of time to explore the
island plenty. Are you ready for coffee now?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Why not? Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:53):
You like our coffee, and an extra special surprise comes
with it, something I've been saving to the very last, really,
mister Norman, dessert, mister Remington, a different sort of tidbit,
tim out, Yes, mister, tell miss Mikaela to fetch our coffee. Yes,
mister Tom, Mister Tom, say you'll bring Poppy now?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
All right?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
You needn't shout the house down, ah, dear girl Frompton
obedient as always set the trace here out put mine?
Huh pray be seated, my dear and join us. Yes, father,
Now what do you think of him, Mikaela? Yes, and you, sir,
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of course, so you wouldn't stare so. Michaela was not
born on the island. Her mother died in childbirth, and
I brought her hair of baby in arms. He has
no memory of the outside world. For a while I
toed the idea of sending her back to Europe to
be educated.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
But I couldn't bear to.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Be parted from her, nor I from him, mister m.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
And then there is always the danger of war. She
is safer safe.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
My father is always so concerned with my safety, mister Hemington.
Sometimes I wish they were a volcano on the island.
I would climb right up to the crater and spit
in it, just to give him something to really worry about.
How did you find us, mister Remington.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Maybe I'm psychic, mister own Maybe I just smell at
fulfill me worry.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Ah, is it too much?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
No, it's like you.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
It's fresh at the same time mysterious. That sounds like
my cue to totter off to bed. No, no, no, no,
please don't get up. Take good care of our guest Mikaela,
but don't keep him up too late. He's had a
very strenuous voyage.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I promised to stay till she puches the answer.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
That's the spirit I like in a man. Good Night Remington,
good night, my dear, good night father.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Now, mister Remington, tell me why I'm so mysterious. We
shall start with names. You may call me Mikayela. What
shall I call you?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
My first name is Charles.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
It's no good. The natives will call you missy, Charlie.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Lisa's better than Chuck?
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Is that what they call you at home?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I never had one?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
You have one? Now I have yes right here.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I'd love to believe that you may be.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Quite quite certain of it.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Child, Why Michaela?
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Because father will never let you leave the island. He
never lets anyone leave.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
You are listening to the King of Owena to tonight's
presentation of Escape Tomorrow Night, the Coast is Clear for
comedy with My Little Margie on CBS Radio. She's all
set to put on a benefit show for a boys club,
but has to resort to humorous deception to win the
cooperation of her father. All's well, that ends well, and
my little Margie does very well tomorrow night on most
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of these stations. And now back to escape and the
second act of the King of Owana two.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I'd come to the island looking for pearls. I'd found
something else, and where I stood it looked a lot
better than pearls. And I said good night to Michaela.
The sun was up. Hackers still hadn't come aport. I
guessed that he was sleeping off the effects of the
moonlight and a native coconut wine. I stretched out on
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the deck and the next thing I knew, the sun
was straight overhead, and Hacker was prodding me with his foot.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Wake up, Skipper, I got.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
News for you, news who needs it.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Maybe these will make you set up and take notice. Hey,
what you're not dream and Skipper? Those are pearls, black ones.
The kids in the compound play marbles with him.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Pearls, black pearls. I thought that it snappy to attention,
just thinking what a string of these would look like
around the neck of a certain grill. Where did you
go last night? Stayed right there on the veranda. Jerome
served her with the coffee. I'll come his daughter.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Boy, he's even more worried about us than I thought.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
What's that supposed to me?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Skipper? I had a talk with Jerome's head man last night.
You cannot atchieved, all right? So, and in the first place,
Jerome is practically fanatical about that daughter is as I
watched night and day exception.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
He left her alone with me last night. Don't be
too sure of that. Why should he ever watch?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Some of the natives are homesick for their own island.
They're being kept here against their will. All right, what's
that got to do with Michaela. Jerome's afraid they might
grab her and hold her as a hostage for their freedom.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
They know their way around the waters.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
They're good swimmers, too, but I doubt if they could
make it to the mar Causes.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
They could make it in the native boat.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
He wouldn't let them build one. They tried to do
it secretly, but they were always found out. And what's
his power over them? Guns? Jerome is good at us.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
You know. Why don't they break in and take over?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
They tried that too once.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
The lucky ones were shot dead on the spot. The
lucky ones, yeah, the others were tortured, hung up over
a fire, and slowly toasted from the toes up.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Why why, why would any man go to such extremes
to hold onto a few native workers that could easily
be replaced.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
You're the one with a college education. You tell me.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
He said something last night's daughter. I mean, she said
he never lets anybody leave the island.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
She should know.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Thought she was.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Kidding some kidder that she's okay, you got it bad.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I wonder how she'll feel after we've knocked off her. Daddy,
What are you talking about about getting off this island?
One thing I'm sure of, we'll never never make it
as long as Jerome's alive.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Well, let's one sure way to find out.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
How's that?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Ask him, hacker, my boy, ask him?
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Ah, mister Remington, you're just in time for tiffin. Will
you join me in a drink first?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
So let's skip the tiff and talk, mister Jerome. It's
time we got down or a few.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Essentials, indeed essential, such as you did not leave mister
Kate's in Tahiti. You were never in Tahiti. Neither a
schooner named Iago nor a catch named Luana ever anchored there.
Your last port of call was in the Marquesses. You
were quarantined there because the owner of your vessel had
fallen ill. You were bending your crew on the beach
and sailed off in the dead of night. Nothing further
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was seen or heard of you till you arrived here
yesterday afternoon. So you see I'm not wholly without contact
with the outside world. Yeah, obviously, I only want to
know one thing. Did mister Kate's die of natural causes
or did you and your friend help him along? He
was dead when we levea so you buried him on
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a beach somewhere and made off with the schooner or
why not?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
He had no use for it.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Don't dissemble with me, sir. I know that your shipmate
has been snooping about the island making inquiries about the
pearl beds. Somehow you heard about the pearls on this island,
and you came here hoping to help yourself to a fortune. Now,
isn't that true?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
We took a chance. We can do it again.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
No, you can, but you won't. Why not, Because the
moment you sail out of my lagoon, I should radio
every police, constabulary and Coast Guard stationed in Australia to
San Francisco and you'll be hanged as murderers and mutineers.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Like why why are you doing this to us?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Quite simply, I don't want you to leave the island.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Why are you so determined to keep us here? Many reasons,
mister Remington. My daughter likes you. You're a man of
courage and imagination, a man fit to carry on my line.
I have no worries about you. Basically you feel as
I do. Well, maybe it's but what about Hacker. He's
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a stupid, greedy man, all right, let him clean out
the pearls and go. I was tempted at that for
a moment, but no, the pearls are too valuable, too
unusual questions would be asked, Sooner or later, Hacker's tongue
would be loosened, whether by whiskey or by force. I
should be overrun with unwelcome visitors, bringing disease and dissension,
the twin banners of civilization, Jerome, What will happen to
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him if he tries to leave? If he tries it,
mister Remington, he will find out. But I wouldn't advise it,
which also goes for you and now Tiffin. Mister Remington, who.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Their mace capper, throw a ladder.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Work where you goin all day?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Explore it you finally come in to Cavil. I threw
a rough sketch map of Jerome set up.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
All right, come on, let me see jurn up the
laughter with it. Hey.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Here here's the lagoon where we're rancored out on the point.
Here's the radio shed. Here's where the guns it kept.
What about the flood game? It's operated electrically. The switches
in Jerome's room right by his bed. What happens when
you're working any noise? No, but lights go on all
over the place.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
MICHAELA might do it for sir.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
She in this with us, all right?
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
What makes you think you can trust her?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I've got to it.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
What if she plays it on Daddy's to you?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I told you I'm not leaving here without it, no matter.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
What that makes me patsy, doesn't it? Look?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
The boat's all yours if you want to go along,
no thing, all right, I'll help you just the same.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
You don't act like you're too anxious to get away.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
What makes you say that?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Panic me out of here and stick around to pick
up the pearls for yourself. That's your right is giver.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Oh come on, how do I get out with the pearls?
If you take the boat?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Get me that. You know Jerome's got a boat actor
on the other side of the island.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
It's the first I heard of it.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
How do you think they get their supplies here by
a helicopter?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Jerome told me he sent it to the heat he
to pick up some bread fruit trees.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Look where's the anchorage.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I'm not sure there's a blind didn't look there, never
spot it unless you know, just want to look?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Why not take his boats? Say fiddling with a floodgate.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
It's an old steam yacht. Smoke it give us away.
If you fired the boilers by daylight, by night, that
end there is too tricky to navigate, all right, You
just answered your own question. With Jerome dead, there'd be
no problem.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Look, it's to be no killing hacker. You mention it again.
It's all off between.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Us, Okay, Skipper will try it your way. If it
doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
On it somebody aboard? Who's there?
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Who died?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Jer Kelly, you shouldn't come here.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Don't you want to see me?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Of course?
Speaker 6 (19:49):
I know.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
It's just the father doesn't know I'm here. He's been
locked in his study for hours talking with the headman.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
What about? Did you hear what they were saying?
Speaker 6 (19:57):
I couldn't hear much, but father was very angry with him.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Look, do you know what about mckela. It's it's very important.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
We know he said that someone has seen him, the
headman that is diving for pearls in the inlet.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
You know anything about that hacker?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
What if I did?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
You were great? We had to make a choice between
a clean get away in the pearls if Jerome is
the slightest suspicion.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Okay, Skipper, it still goes. You're sure that you're the skipper. Skipper, Okay,
break out a rifle.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
You know that Dingy and Row is sure grab that
headman when he leaves Jerome and bring him aboard. What for?
I want to know how much he's.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Told your own Okay, but I won't need a rifle.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
You've got a lot of trust in that Kanaka.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
We got a lot in common. He wants to get
away from this island too.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Okay, good movie.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
See your skipper, child?
Speaker 6 (20:46):
What's it all about?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
What does it mean? Listen to me?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Please?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Mckela, Look I'm leaving the island.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
I thought you loved me.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Well you let me finish it.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
I want to take you with me, leave the island,
leave my father. That's right, you don't love me. If
you love me, you wouldn't ask that of me.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
But that's why I want to take you away from here,
because I do love you.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
You want me to be killed with bombs and die
of diseases.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Look, I wouldn't ask you to go with me if
I did, child, kiss me, my fellow. How do you
believe me? Oh?
Speaker 6 (21:21):
Yes, yes, I believe It's what about father?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
But if he tries to stop me, it's a chance
we've got to take.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
I'm afraid, child, It's funny all my life, he's talking
about keeping me safe, and all I've ever really been
afraid of is is him.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Lola, Telly, you trust me. You're not afraid of me?
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Oh no, with you, I could never be afraid, even
if bombs were falling all around him.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Then you'll help me, you'll help us get away?
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Yes, oh yes, child?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I get away was planned for the following night. We
chosen it because the natives were celebrating one of their
feast days, which meant that most of Jerome's police force
would be a war or drunk. Jerome himself was over
in the native campum, making like a white king among
the savages. He was wearing a lay over his dinner jacket,
enjoying the drummers. Ah, Remington, you're just in time for
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the shotdans. That's a bit of luck.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
I suppose mister Hacker has gone to look for my headman.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I wouldn't know. He'll be disappointed.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
I fear go Una is in the warriors hut, making
ready for the shot dance.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I didn't know your headman was a dancer.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Oh they're all dancers, dear boy, but Guna is something
special if this he dances both the part of the
shok and dad of the fisherman who.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Spears if you know, says.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
I'm sorry, Mikaela had to miss it. You had a
headache for girl and had to remain in the bungalow.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I'm sorry to hear that.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Just as a precaution, however, I disconnected the wires to
the power switched to controls the flood gates. Oh what's
the matter to you?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Boy?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
You were quite gay?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Okay your arm Okay, you won this round, But you
must know you can't keep us here forever.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
We shall see about that. Ah, here comes out now,
now we shall see something dancing, my boy.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
The only difference between the shark dance and the others
I'd seen was the wicked looking fish spear, the cone
that kept brandishing as he went through his paces. Jerome's
attention was riveted on the dances, and someone touched my sleeve.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
It was Mikaela, my child, Charles the most terrible. He
need happening.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
He didn't think I know, I know. Your father just
told me.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Well how did he find out? Who told him?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Hacker? Who else? I shouldn't known when we heard that
the head man of.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
A diving with pearls, I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Look over there to the north, he's smoke. Hacker is
getting up staying for a getaway in the yacht. He
spilled our plan to your father to divert his attention
to our boat and lagoon. Coona's probably in it with
him for his get away, plus a.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Cut of the pearls.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Where's going now?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Out there with the dancers making like a shark?
Speaker 6 (24:18):
What are we going to do?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Hacker can't get that yacht? I will out help, so
he may as well watch it dancing for a while.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
That's strange. That isn't the shark dance he's doing.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (24:38):
I don't know, child, what is it? What's the matter? Child?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Just stay here, you stay right here. He's dead in
the killer. I'm sorry. Look, you go back to the house,
wait for I won't be long.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Where are you gooey.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I'm going to tell mister Hacker that his sailing will
be postponed indefinitely. I could have saved myself a hike
across the island. Hacker didn't have a prayer of navigating
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that inlet without the headman's help, and Kahuna never made
it to the north shore. A couple of Jeromes gendarmes
cut him down just outside the compound, just like they
did the hacker on the boat. I found the pearls
in the galley cans label coffee, sugar and flour. I
picked out enough for a matching string for mckella, and
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I dumped the rest back into the water. It was
a crazy thing to do, but as I look back,
maybe it wasn't so crazy after all. In a way,
Jerome was right. It was a nice island and the
way things are going in the world, I might want
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to go back and settle down there myself someday, So
why spoil it?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Escape, produced and directed by David Friedkin and Morton Fine,
has brought you The King of Owanatu, a story by
Robert Tallman. Featured on the cast were Anthony Barrett, Clayton Post,
and Joseph Kerns. Also heard were Sammy Hill and Jack Carroll,
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and conducted by Leith Stevens.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Next week, you are somewhere in the Pacific, out of
later in the Philippines, chatting a course of south by southeast,
when out of the deep of the sea a new
volcano is born and your ship is caught in the
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middle of it, from which there is no escape.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
So listen next week when Escape brings you Vincent McHugh's
story The Boiling Sea. Stay tuned now for night Watch,
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Speaker 1 (00:40):
You are on a catch, sailing the coral seas, snaking
your way through the tricky channel to an island of
black pearls. While on the shore, waiting for you to
land is the man who has sworn your death, and
from whom there is no escape.
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King of Owanatu.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
The island we were looking for was roughly fifteen degrees
north by one west. We sailed around it three times
before we spotted the break in the reef. Hacker wrote
us in on a tricky swell and snaked through the
channel before the surfoul hit back us.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Here we are all installed, ready for business. What's eating
you or emickton?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I don't know. I got a funny feeling about this place,
like what coming through that reef? You notice anything special?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
There was a cinch like he's in the bars through
a canal. Lock on a little faster, a little rougher,
too easy. I don't follow you, Skipper.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I mean that's not a natural channel and scooped out
of the rock. That makes you think so you can
see where the coral was chip smooth on the side.
This I want to see for myself, Skimmer. Yeah, Skipper,
come here alright, what's up?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Break in the reef? The channel would just came through.
It's not there anymore. It's disappeared. Look, yeah, it couldn't be, Skipper,
it just couldn't.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Couldn't. But it is solid wall breaking the reef is
closed on how you said it was like he's in
the bars to a canal locked in.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
You you mean somebody they got some kind of underwater
floodgate or something or something. Maybe hey, hey, someone on
the beach.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Say we get some answers pretty soon.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Oh h the beach? What island is this?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Stay more, I'm coming out.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
He's a white man, all right, Yeah, looks like he
lives here too. Those natives look like my occasions.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And you don't belong to these islands. Neither is that outrigger.
I'm going below and break out the rifle. Don't be stupid, hacker.
They're obviously not him.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
What do you say we should do.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Wait, wait, don't we find out what it's all about.
Let him do the talking. Whatever you do, don't mention
the pearls. My story is we're lost. We put in
for water and supplies.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
But if he asked to see the ship's papers, we
show them. If he asked what happened to the owner?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
He decided to take a plane back from Tahiti. We're
returning the boat to San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
For him, sounds good enough.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I just take it easy, Hacker, and use your head.
As the outrigger approached our boat, I try to size
up our host. He was a big man, solidly built,
but with a sharp, aquillent face that didn't go with
a bill. He wore a beard closely tremmed, on a
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white linen jacket over a dark shirt open at the neck.
When the canoe came alongside, he was on his feet
and up our ladder in just three seconds.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Plant Ah, are you the captain.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Of this vessel and the skipper? Remington is my name?
This is my mate, mister Hacker.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
And your crew worried?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Excuse me?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
My name is Gero. I am resident of this island.
Welcome to our NATO gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I thank you. You'll say that you're the resident.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Not in the usual governmental sense, mister Remington, but as
I am the only person living chair I in my household,
that is, I believe I can lay fair claim to
the title. Have you lived here long, mister Jerome, No, no, no,
let us observe protocol. Mister Remington, as resident, I ask
the first question. This craft must have set you back
a pretty penny.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
A Remington, it did the honor. I'm only selling your
home for him. And home is San Francisco, magnificent city.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
I know it well. May I ask your employer's name,
Kate's Gerald Kates. Hey, yes, I've heard the name. And
what was the name of this vessel before you changed it,
mister Remington.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Uh, the ig Igo. Kate's decided it was a bad
luck name, so he changed it to the low one,
and bad luck for you to get off course and
wind up in this particular group of islands.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I don't know what grow business, mister Jerome to a mouto.
The old seafarers used to call it the dangerous archipelago.
But you're here, and a happy circumstance it is. I'm
seldom blessed with visitors as you may well imagine. I
trust you, gentlemen, will do me the honor of dining
with me this evening.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Oh thanks, I'll be glad.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
And if there's anything I could do to make your
stagia more comfortable, you.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Might explain about that reef Jerome.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Real, Oh the floodgate in the channel. This island was
a pirate base back in the days of the Spanish Maine.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
You trying to tell us that's been here a couple
of hundred years and still in working order.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Oh heavens no, I've had it restored, of course, and
a very expensive undertaking it was, but I find it
an amusing toy. Now I must leave. You'll make preparations
for our feast tonight. Dinner is at seven shop until
seven then, Oh, gentlemen, more branded gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
H no, no thanks, I.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Trust my humble board was worthcoming ashore.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
For what's the point, mister Jerome fattening us up for
the queue?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Oh dear, no, mister Hacker, I dare say some of
my natives have tasted long pig in their time, but
I have expressly forbidden it here.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
How did you come to this island, mister Cheron?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I was looking for a refuge, mister Remington, a place
where I could escape forever the insanities of this so
called civilized world.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I noticed that you haven't deprived yourself of any of
the civilized comforts.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Mister true, mister hacker, you seem uncommonly silent. Perhaps another
dram of brandy will loosen your tongue.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I think I'll go for a walk, if you don't
mind coming along, Skipper, I'll finish my brandy suit yourself.
See you boys.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
You sure you don't feel the urged to go a
roaming mister Remington?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Later?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Maybe yes, you'd have plenty of time to explore the
island plenty. Are you ready for coffee now?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Why not? Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:53):
You like our coffee, and an extra special surprise comes
with it, something I've been saving to the very last, really,
mister Norman, dessert, mister Remington, a different sort of tidbit,
tim out, Yes, mister, tell miss Mikaela to fetch our coffee. Yes,
mister Tom, Mister Tom, say you'll bring Poppy now?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
All right?
Speaker 4 (08:15):
You needn't shout the house down, ah, dear girl Frompton
obedient as always set the trace here out put mine?
Huh pray be seated, my dear and join us. Yes, father,
Now what do you think of him, Mikaela? Yes, and you, sir,
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of course, so you wouldn't stare so. Michaela was not
born on the island. Her mother died in childbirth, and
I brought her hair of baby in arms. He has
no memory of the outside world. For a while I
toed the idea of sending her back to Europe to
be educated.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
But I couldn't bear to.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Be parted from her, nor I from him, mister m.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
And then there is always the danger of war. She
is safer safe.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
My father is always so concerned with my safety, mister Hemington.
Sometimes I wish they were a volcano on the island.
I would climb right up to the crater and spit
in it, just to give him something to really worry about.
How did you find us, mister Remington.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Maybe I'm psychic, mister own Maybe I just smell at
fulfill me worry.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Ah, is it too much?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
No, it's like you.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
It's fresh at the same time mysterious. That sounds like
my cue to totter off to bed. No, no, no, no,
please don't get up. Take good care of our guest Mikaela,
but don't keep him up too late. He's had a
very strenuous voyage.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I promised to stay till she puches the answer.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
That's the spirit I like in a man. Good Night Remington,
good night, my dear, good night father.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Now, mister Remington, tell me why I'm so mysterious. We
shall start with names. You may call me Mikayela. What
shall I call you?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
My first name is Charles.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
It's no good. The natives will call you missy, Charlie.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Lisa's better than Chuck?
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Is that what they call you at home?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I never had one?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
You have one? Now I have yes right here.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I'd love to believe that you may be.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Quite quite certain of it.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Child, Why Michaela?
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Because father will never let you leave the island. He
never lets anyone leave.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
You are listening to the King of Owena to tonight's
presentation of Escape Tomorrow Night, the Coast is Clear for
comedy with My Little Margie on CBS Radio. She's all
set to put on a benefit show for a boys club,
but has to resort to humorous deception to win the
cooperation of her father. All's well, that ends well, and
my little Margie does very well tomorrow night on most
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of these stations. And now back to escape and the
second act of the King of Owana two.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I'd come to the island looking for pearls. I'd found
something else, and where I stood it looked a lot
better than pearls. And I said good night to Michaela.
The sun was up. Hackers still hadn't come aport. I
guessed that he was sleeping off the effects of the
moonlight and a native coconut wine. I stretched out on
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the deck and the next thing I knew, the sun
was straight overhead, and Hacker was prodding me with his foot.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Wake up, Skipper, I got.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
News for you, news who needs it.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Maybe these will make you set up and take notice. Hey,
what you're not dream and Skipper? Those are pearls, black ones.
The kids in the compound play marbles with him.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Pearls, black pearls. I thought that it snappy to attention,
just thinking what a string of these would look like
around the neck of a certain grill. Where did you
go last night? Stayed right there on the veranda. Jerome
served her with the coffee. I'll come his daughter.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Boy, he's even more worried about us than I thought.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
What's that supposed to me?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Skipper? I had a talk with Jerome's head man last night.
You cannot atchieved, all right? So, and in the first place,
Jerome is practically fanatical about that daughter is as I
watched night and day exception.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
He left her alone with me last night. Don't be
too sure of that. Why should he ever watch?
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Some of the natives are homesick for their own island.
They're being kept here against their will. All right, what's
that got to do with Michaela. Jerome's afraid they might
grab her and hold her as a hostage for their freedom.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
They know their way around the waters.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
They're good swimmers, too, but I doubt if they could
make it to the mar Causes.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
They could make it in the native boat.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
He wouldn't let them build one. They tried to do
it secretly, but they were always found out. And what's
his power over them? Guns? Jerome is good at us.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
You know. Why don't they break in and take over?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
They tried that too once.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
The lucky ones were shot dead on the spot. The
lucky ones, yeah, the others were tortured, hung up over
a fire, and slowly toasted from the toes up.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Why why, why would any man go to such extremes
to hold onto a few native workers that could easily
be replaced.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
You're the one with a college education. You tell me.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
He said something last night's daughter. I mean, she said
he never lets anybody leave the island.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
She should know.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Thought she was.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Kidding some kidder that she's okay, you got it bad.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I wonder how she'll feel after we've knocked off her. Daddy,
What are you talking about about getting off this island?
One thing I'm sure of, we'll never never make it
as long as Jerome's alive.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Well, let's one sure way to find out.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
How's that?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Ask him, hacker, my boy, ask him?
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Ah, mister Remington, you're just in time for tiffin. Will
you join me in a drink first?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
So let's skip the tiff and talk, mister Jerome. It's
time we got down or a few.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Essentials, indeed essential, such as you did not leave mister
Kate's in Tahiti. You were never in Tahiti. Neither a
schooner named Iago nor a catch named Luana ever anchored there.
Your last port of call was in the Marquesses. You
were quarantined there because the owner of your vessel had
fallen ill. You were bending your crew on the beach
and sailed off in the dead of night. Nothing further
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was seen or heard of you till you arrived here
yesterday afternoon. So you see I'm not wholly without contact
with the outside world. Yeah, obviously, I only want to
know one thing. Did mister Kate's die of natural causes
or did you and your friend help him along? He
was dead when we levea so you buried him on
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a beach somewhere and made off with the schooner or
why not?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
He had no use for it.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Don't dissemble with me, sir. I know that your shipmate
has been snooping about the island making inquiries about the
pearl beds. Somehow you heard about the pearls on this island,
and you came here hoping to help yourself to a fortune. Now,
isn't that true?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
We took a chance. We can do it again.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
No, you can, but you won't. Why not, Because the
moment you sail out of my lagoon, I should radio
every police, constabulary and Coast Guard stationed in Australia to
San Francisco and you'll be hanged as murderers and mutineers.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Like why why are you doing this to us?
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Quite simply, I don't want you to leave the island.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Why are you so determined to keep us here? Many reasons,
mister Remington. My daughter likes you. You're a man of
courage and imagination, a man fit to carry on my line.
I have no worries about you. Basically you feel as
I do. Well, maybe it's but what about Hacker. He's
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a stupid, greedy man, all right, let him clean out
the pearls and go. I was tempted at that for
a moment, but no, the pearls are too valuable, too
unusual questions would be asked, Sooner or later, Hacker's tongue
would be loosened, whether by whiskey or by force. I
should be overrun with unwelcome visitors, bringing disease and dissension,
the twin banners of civilization, Jerome, What will happen to
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him if he tries to leave? If he tries it,
mister Remington, he will find out. But I wouldn't advise it,
which also goes for you and now Tiffin. Mister Remington, who.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Their mace capper, throw a ladder.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Work where you goin all day?
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Explore it you finally come in to Cavil. I threw
a rough sketch map of Jerome set up.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
All right, come on, let me see jurn up the
laughter with it. Hey.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Here here's the lagoon where we're rancored out on the point.
Here's the radio shed. Here's where the guns it kept.
What about the flood game? It's operated electrically. The switches
in Jerome's room right by his bed. What happens when
you're working any noise? No, but lights go on all
over the place.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
MICHAELA might do it for sir.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
She in this with us, all right?
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (18:27):
What makes you think you can trust her?
Speaker 1 (18:29):
I've got to it.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
What if she plays it on Daddy's to you?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I told you I'm not leaving here without it, no matter.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
What that makes me patsy, doesn't it? Look?
Speaker 1 (18:36):
The boat's all yours if you want to go along,
no thing, all right, I'll help you just the same.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
You don't act like you're too anxious to get away.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
What makes you say that?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Panic me out of here and stick around to pick
up the pearls for yourself. That's your right is giver.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Oh come on, how do I get out with the pearls?
If you take the boat?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Get me that. You know Jerome's got a boat actor
on the other side of the island.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
It's the first I heard of it.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
How do you think they get their supplies here by
a helicopter?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Jerome told me he sent it to the heat he
to pick up some bread fruit trees.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Look where's the anchorage.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I'm not sure there's a blind didn't look there, never
spot it unless you know, just want to look?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Why not take his boats? Say fiddling with a floodgate.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
It's an old steam yacht. Smoke it give us away.
If you fired the boilers by daylight, by night, that
end there is too tricky to navigate, all right, You
just answered your own question. With Jerome dead, there'd be
no problem.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Look, it's to be no killing hacker. You mention it again.
It's all off between.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Us, Okay, Skipper will try it your way. If it
doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
On it somebody aboard? Who's there?
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Who died?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Jer Kelly, you shouldn't come here.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Don't you want to see me?
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Of course?
Speaker 6 (19:49):
I know.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
It's just the father doesn't know I'm here. He's been
locked in his study for hours talking with the headman.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
What about? Did you hear what they were saying?
Speaker 6 (19:57):
I couldn't hear much, but father was very angry with him.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Look, do you know what about mckela. It's it's very important.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
We know he said that someone has seen him, the
headman that is diving for pearls in the inlet.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
You know anything about that hacker?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
What if I did?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
You were great? We had to make a choice between
a clean get away in the pearls if Jerome is
the slightest suspicion.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Okay, Skipper, it still goes. You're sure that you're the skipper. Skipper, Okay,
break out a rifle.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
You know that Dingy and Row is sure grab that
headman when he leaves Jerome and bring him aboard. What for?
I want to know how much he's.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Told your own Okay, but I won't need a rifle.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
You've got a lot of trust in that Kanaka.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
We got a lot in common. He wants to get
away from this island too.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Okay, good movie.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
See your skipper, child?
Speaker 6 (20:46):
What's it all about?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
What does it mean? Listen to me?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Please?
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Mckela, Look I'm leaving the island.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
I thought you loved me.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Well you let me finish it.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
I want to take you with me, leave the island,
leave my father. That's right, you don't love me. If
you love me, you wouldn't ask that of me.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
But that's why I want to take you away from here,
because I do love you.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
You want me to be killed with bombs and die
of diseases.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Look, I wouldn't ask you to go with me if
I did, child, kiss me, my fellow. How do you
believe me? Oh?
Speaker 6 (21:21):
Yes, yes, I believe It's what about father?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
But if he tries to stop me, it's a chance
we've got to take.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
I'm afraid, child, It's funny all my life, he's talking
about keeping me safe, and all I've ever really been
afraid of is is him.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Lola, Telly, you trust me. You're not afraid of me?
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Oh no, with you, I could never be afraid, even
if bombs were falling all around him.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Then you'll help me, you'll help us get away?
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Yes, oh yes, child?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I get away was planned for the following night. We
chosen it because the natives were celebrating one of their
feast days, which meant that most of Jerome's police force
would be a war or drunk. Jerome himself was over
in the native campum, making like a white king among
the savages. He was wearing a lay over his dinner jacket,
enjoying the drummers. Ah, Remington, you're just in time for
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the shotdans. That's a bit of luck.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
I suppose mister Hacker has gone to look for my headman.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I wouldn't know. He'll be disappointed.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
I fear go Una is in the warriors hut, making
ready for the shot dance.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
I didn't know your headman was a dancer.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Oh they're all dancers, dear boy, but Guna is something
special if this he dances both the part of the
shok and dad of the fisherman who.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Spears if you know, says.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
I'm sorry, Mikaela had to miss it. You had a
headache for girl and had to remain in the bungalow.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I'm sorry to hear that.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Just as a precaution, however, I disconnected the wires to
the power switched to controls the flood gates. Oh what's
the matter to you?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Boy?
Speaker 4 (23:14):
You were quite gay?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Okay your arm Okay, you won this round, But you
must know you can't keep us here forever.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
We shall see about that. Ah, here comes out now,
now we shall see something dancing, my boy.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
The only difference between the shark dance and the others
I'd seen was the wicked looking fish spear, the cone
that kept brandishing as he went through his paces. Jerome's
attention was riveted on the dances, and someone touched my sleeve.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
It was Mikaela, my child, Charles the most terrible. He
need happening.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
He didn't think I know, I know. Your father just
told me.
Speaker 6 (23:55):
Well how did he find out? Who told him?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Hacker? Who else? I shouldn't known when we heard that
the head man of.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
A diving with pearls, I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Look over there to the north, he's smoke. Hacker is
getting up staying for a getaway in the yacht. He
spilled our plan to your father to divert his attention
to our boat and lagoon. Coona's probably in it with
him for his get away, plus a.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Cut of the pearls.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Where's going now?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Out there with the dancers making like a shark?
Speaker 6 (24:18):
What are we going to do?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Hacker can't get that yacht? I will out help, so
he may as well watch it dancing for a while.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
That's strange. That isn't the shark dance he's doing.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (24:38):
I don't know, child, what is it? What's the matter? Child?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Just stay here, you stay right here. He's dead in
the killer. I'm sorry. Look, you go back to the house,
wait for I won't be long.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Where are you gooey.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I'm going to tell mister Hacker that his sailing will
be postponed indefinitely. I could have saved myself a hike
across the island. Hacker didn't have a prayer of navigating
(25:29):
that inlet without the headman's help, and Kahuna never made
it to the north shore. A couple of Jeromes gendarmes
cut him down just outside the compound, just like they
did the hacker on the boat. I found the pearls
in the galley cans label coffee, sugar and flour. I
picked out enough for a matching string for mckella, and
(25:53):
I dumped the rest back into the water. It was
a crazy thing to do, but as I look back,
maybe it wasn't so crazy after all. In a way,
Jerome was right. It was a nice island and the
way things are going in the world, I might want
(26:13):
to go back and settle down there myself someday, So
why spoil it?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Escape, produced and directed by David Friedkin and Morton Fine,
has brought you The King of Owanatu, a story by
Robert Tallman. Featured on the cast were Anthony Barrett, Clayton Post,
and Joseph Kerns. Also heard were Sammy Hill and Jack Carroll,
garynnouncer Bill Anders. The special music for Escape is composed
and conducted by Leith Stevens.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Next week, you are somewhere in the Pacific, out of
later in the Philippines, chatting a course of south by southeast,
when out of the deep of the sea a new
volcano is born and your ship is caught in the
(27:17):
middle of it, from which there is no escape.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
So listen next week when Escape brings you Vincent McHugh's
story The Boiling Sea. Stay tuned now for night Watch,
(27:47):
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