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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tired of the everyday grind, ever dream of a life
of romantic adventure.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I want to get away from it all. We offer you.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Escape, Escape, designed to free you from the four walls
of today for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
You are running over the far block cliffs of Dover.
By your side, a girl who believes you're a madman
and pursuing you, bent on destroying you. A man who's
terrible secrets you've stumbled upon, and from whom there is
no escape.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Listen now, as escape brings you. Walter Brown Newman story
two and two make four.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
My head hurt. I sat up and opened my eyes.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Fog all around, thick and close, and still I could
see trees in a few yards of dirt road. My
watch was gone, and my wallet rolled slugged and rolled
and dumped.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
But where.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
I scrambled to my feet, and I stood there in
the ditch, suddenly worried about the time. It would be
bad to be late going aboard, as for the ship
sailing without me. I stepped onto the road, which way
led back to Calais. Someone was coming, Hello, Aequilla, Why
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don't you answer?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I can't see.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Down the road, then across the field alongside a brook.
I ran till I thought my lungs would burst. I
stopped to listen, but the blood was pounding, so I
couldn't be sure I wasn't followed.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I ran some more. The brook went under a small bridge.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
On it, leaning against the stone wall. Looking down at
me was a girl with a knapsack on her back.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I climbed up the bank. Mademoiselle, is civu? Play mademoiselle?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I'm sorry, I don't speak French.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Did you hear those shots a few minutes ago right
past my or almost blew my head off?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Well you should tell the police or something. I have
to be going. I have a long way to go.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Wait wait, wait, sorry, no, no, no, no, wait wait
what time is it? Please?
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Not quite quarter to seven? Wait it looks now we'll
have fog at.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Least until noon noon. You mean it's a quarter of
seven in the morning.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Yes, of course, in the morning. Well, I've got.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Hold on hold on which way is Calais Kelay?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Well that way about twenty miles.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Twenty I've got to make my shift. You mind if
I walk along with you? My name's David Parker.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Minds Hey, doc Emily haydock.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I'm in the Merchant Marine, second mate on a freighter.
You want a walking trip or something, that's right? I
figured the knapsack American. Yes, I thought you were French
at first.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Why was that?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Took it for granted? Most people in France are.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
I don't understand. We're in England, not France. Why should
you think that you.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
What do you mean England? Didn't you just tell me
we were twenty miles from.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Calais, Yes, but Calai is somewhere out there across the
English Channel in France.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Where do you say we are you and me now
in England?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Of course, about two miles from Dover.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Look.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Look, look, look, look, I've been robbed and dumped out
here in the countryside and shot at so please don't
make sure I'm not what's today.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Quick, Thursday, tenth of July.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Why then, we're in France.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
I tell you.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
When I registered at the hotel in Calais last night,
I noticed the date.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It was the ninth of July.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Now, look, you asked me where we are and I
told you England. You're Dover.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I suppose I didn't see the sunrise in Calais just
an hour ago.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Sunrise, sunrise, sunrise.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
I've been up since five. There's been no sun for
a week. It's one of the worst they've ever had.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I'll drop it, drop it. I tell you I saw it.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
You're either joking a line.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute. No
more of that line that crazy?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Do you hear? No more of that crazy?
Speaker 5 (05:11):
What else am I to think when you say you
were shot at and you saw the sun sun today
and you insist your in France when you're in England?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
All right, miss Haydock, turn around? Now? What do you
see alongside the road gate? Yeah? And in front of
the gate a mailbox?
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Why?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
And what does it say on the mailbox? Villa mond
bie you.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
I don't know what bijeu means, but it's French French.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
What do you say?
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Now we're in England.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You don't know where to stop?
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
All right? All right?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I'm going into this villa whatever it is, and phone
for a taxi to take me to my ship. I
was going to offer you a lift, but now i'd
sooner cut my tongue out.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
How do you like that?
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Go to the devil? Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Parley Anglais don Leys compri say, is there anyone here
who speaks English?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I speak English? Oh good good? May I use your
phone to call a taxi? Of course? Won't you come in? Thanks?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I have no money on me, mister, doctor Putney. I
haven't a penny with me, doctor, but I'll be able
to get some from the clerk at the hotel, and
I'll send you whatever the call costs with a taxi driver.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Not at all, Not at all. There's the phone. Thanks, Hello, hello, Oh,
come on. Service is always a bit slow a this.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
The fact is I got angry with a silly girl
out on the road.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Did you you tried to kid me?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Well, joke will be on her when she's trugic along
the road and sees me riding in my ease to Calais.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I'll i'll come on writing to Kelly in a taxi.
I wouldn't have minded if she'd let the joke drop.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
And no, she went on and on about this being
England and that I was crazy to think otherwise.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
I'm afraid I don't understand the joke. I mean, this
is England.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Look, I don't find it funny, doctor. I thought I
made that clear. The next one who tells me I'm
in England. When I know I'm in France. I swear
I'll take you.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Know you're in France. Yes, yes, Sit down, young man.
Isn't this France?
Speaker 7 (07:40):
England near Dover? How can I show you here? Here's
a copy of the London Times yesterday.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Wednesday, July ninth. But the name on the mailbox fellow
wats is? That's French.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Most of the villas have names like that. Mon't bege sansoc.
Still it's England. Sit down. I'm a position.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I'd like to ask you. No, no, you.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Two and two make four. I repeated it like a charm,
like they told me in the hospital. When you feel
unsure of yourself, remembered two and two make four.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
There's an explanation for everything.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Don't doubt yourself. After a while I stopped trembling. I
opened the gate and went out onto the road and
there was the girl.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Oh everything all right?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Did you come back to say? I told you so?
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Why? I thought you might need help?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I thought that watch out, there's a truck coming.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
There's a nim just around the curve.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Get down, Get down, he might shoot you again.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Get down, mister Parker. Please that was a backfire, that's all.
It was.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Backfire.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Of course, what else could it be? There's any in
just around the curve, and I have money. Wouldn't you
like to have breakfast there and talk?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Oh I'm all confused.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Anyone would be after a blow on the head.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
No, no, it's not just being slugged. I wish it
were only that. But with a case like me that
you're not a kid, Oh, that's just it. I am
about six weeks ago, unloading cargo, A crate hit me
on the head, scrambled my memory. They sent me to
the hospital and the ship sailed without me. She's due
back in Calais this afternoon. I was to report aboard
if the treatment proved successful. They told me it was
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successful and discharged me yesterday here. Maybe it wasn't yesterday
and none of it happened, and I'm imagining it all.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Try not to worry. It'll all come back to you.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
But suppose what comes back never really happened. That's the point,
you see, that's the point. I remember a lot about yesterday.
But what if I only think I remember and it's
all in my I relaxed.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
We'll have breakfast in here if you remember you remember?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah? But do I?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
I recall leaving the hospital and going to a hotel.
Then I went to an all night restaurant, and I
remember leaving a bar at daybreak.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Sit down, Miss Heydark Bleach. I remember all that clearly.
But an hour later I'm in England and that's impossible.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
You might have wanted aboard a Channel steamer.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I use your head. It's a two or three hour trip.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
I both on an airplane.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Man, excuse me, you'd like your coffee now, I'll waiting
for breakfast.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Miss. Is there an airfield nearby? Oh?
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Yes, sir, but it's not an object of interest for
tourists today. Our churches is very nice though.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
How far away is it the airfield?
Speaker 6 (11:00):
You won't see? No planes coming and going, sir. The
BBC broadcast said no air traffic in and out of
Dover for the sixth straight day. Good morning, mister Smith,
travers breakfast rose, yes, sir? Anything else for the present sir?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
No, No, No.
Speaker 8 (11:17):
No air traffic six days in a row. You'd think
that would teach them.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
But will it? I beg your pardon.
Speaker 8 (11:22):
I leave it to you. Is there any reason for
maintaining this undependable method of transportation, a method absolutely at
the mercy of the elements, when there's a cheaper, better,
less bothersome simpler and always certain way of crossing the Channel.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
You mean the boat?
Speaker 8 (11:36):
No, no, of course, not the tunnel, the Channel tunnel.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Tunnel, Yes, of course, Rosie.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
I want coffee now, right, mister Smith travers the Channel
tunnel twenty miles through solid impermeable chalk in the dover
out at Calais, less than an hour's drive.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
No fuss, I never heard of it, is Is it
something recent recent?
Speaker 8 (11:59):
Oh you're you're strange here, touristy.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, well you.
Speaker 8 (12:03):
Heard of Napoleon Bonaparte. He had it done by the
sixth Corps of the Engineers of the Imperial Army. Took
them three years, all done in secret, of course, for
a surprise attack on England.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
You mean to say there's actually a tunnel beneath the
English Channel in use.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Certainly it's in use. I've been through its scores of times. Business,
you know, Import Export. Just drove back from Kelly a
few hours ago, morning.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Doctor morning Smith travels.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
Just advising them to go by way of the tunnel
if they want to get to Kelly.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yes, of course much the best way.
Speaker 8 (12:36):
Did it in twenty three minutes this morning, and you
carve ready you know, well, good morning you sir.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
This I must have seen like a lunatic doctor, not
knowing I was in England. You see, I was in Calais,
and an hour later I was in England. And I
didn't understand how that was possible. I didn't know about
the tunnel beneath the channel.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
Try not to excite yourself, my boy, Everything will soon
be right.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
What I've brought someone with me, constable.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
This poor fellow, poor fellow, you mean, oh you do think?
But I told you I didn't know about the tunnel.
I must have gone through the tunnel.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
He didn't know until mister smith Travis told him.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yes, I heard.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
But mister Smith Travis is also of the firm conviction
that we British are descended from the ten lost tribes
of Israel, that Shakespeare never existed, and that after a
bit more research we'll be able to transmute base metals
into gold. We know him and like him, and humor
his eccentricities come along. Mister Parker, I think it in
the public interest that you will not be on the
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public streets.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, listen listen. I was in
Calais at sunrise. I can prove it. I just remembered
the name of the hotel, the Hotel de la Mar.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Phoned them and they'll tell you that that there's a
David Parker registered there.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
They have my first part of the good I would
go bully, I wasn't.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I was to make Tune to make four, Tune to
make four.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
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and the second act of two and two Make four.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
They took us to a room in the town hall.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Doctor Putney had turned out, was not only a physician,
he was the local magistrate as well. For more than
three hours, he questioned miss Haydock and me.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
In turn, he.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Made us repeat our stories endlessly. Where she met me?
How I behaved, what I said, what she said, and all.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
The rest of it.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Was almost noon before he was finished, and watching the
clock on the wall, my ship coming nearer to Calais.
With every tick, I was almost beside myself with anxiety.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
You need care, my boy, rest and help. Now.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
We have a fine institution in Folkston near here which
can give you that care a few weeks, possibly days, institution.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Look, I I've got to get to.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
Calais, Miss Haydock. Will you try to convince him its
for the best.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
There's nothing wrong with me.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
I'll try once more to show you reality. Mister Parker.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
You say you were in France at.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
Sunrise, I do I was, and you insist you were
in England an hour later.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Look, please please call the Hotel de la Maire and
callay I checked in there. There's bound to be a
record of it that will prove I'm telling the truth.
Speaker 7 (16:20):
And if the call is made and it doesn't prove
you're telling the truth, will you take my advice about
the institution. Yes, Constable put through a call to the
Hotel de la Mayre in Kelly.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
If the hotel bears out mister Parker's story, you'll let
him go is he duck?
Speaker 7 (16:37):
If it turns out that mister Parker is right? But
how could he be to make four?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Two and two? Make?
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
What's that?
Speaker 7 (16:47):
I use the Constable's phone, mister Parker, I'll listen in
on my extension.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Hello, desk clerk, Hello, Hello, Hello. Is they're a mister
Parker registered there? David Parker Parker.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
David Parker. Oh wit, there was? But he has checked
out since two hours ago.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
But I mean he couldn't have.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
You're mistaken, sir, I am not not if you mean
the mister Parker is an americancy man.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I returned his best part personally when I paid his bill.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
I am the.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
I'm not even who I thought I was. All right,
Doctor Putney, I'll go with no.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Wait before you do, let me speak to you in private.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Please, may we doctor? Would it be all right?
Speaker 7 (17:38):
I'll give you two minutes, Constable, we can arrange for
an ambulance to focus on them.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yes, mister Parker, Oh no, that's not my name.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Two and two make four, two and two make four.
You must have faith in yourself. If you were convinced
you were in France one moment in in England an
hour later, then that's the way it was.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
It's a physical impossible.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
It's not you could have come through the tunnel.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
There is no tunnel.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
If a tunnel is the only explanation for what happened
to you, then there is a tunnel. Two and two
make four?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Do you really believe my story?
Speaker 5 (18:14):
I believe you?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
All right? Then? All right? What do I do? Now?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
You tell me? Come on? You know the answer.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I find the man in the restaurant, the man who
said there was a tunnel.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Smith Travel rushed open the window.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Right, I'll go first, and I'll help you down.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Come on, here's my knapsack.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I got it, got it, got it, got it? Now
you work times up.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
I'm afraid, Miss hay Doc, come back here, Miss hay Doc,
mister mister h whatever your name is, a constable, stop
them vel.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Fog hit us. Before we'd run twenty feet.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
We dodged around corners, then stopped at a garage and
looked up mister Smith Traver's address in a directory. It
proved to be a little villa, like a dozen others
I'd seen that day. There was no answer when we
knocked at the door, so we waited, and before very long,
mister Smith travers drove up in a light truck.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
Look look, look, look at the volice I left at
the hotel in Calais.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
He's got it. Good afternoon, I'll take that. Oh oh yes, yes, yes,
of course. Yeah, my passport too, please, Yes, I.
Speaker 8 (19:45):
See you concluded the tunnel doesn't exist. That's right, blast,
you're the first to ever have. It's a bit of
bad luck for me, that is, if I hadn't hit
a flat tile halfway through the passport and police would
be in ashes by Now you u owned the hotel
in Calais. Yes, yes, yes, I thought you might. I
heard you shouting at the inn about the hotel, so
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I drove over. And didn't it make you doubt your
senses when they told you checked out?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Oh you have no idea?
Speaker 8 (20:14):
Yes, I was counting on that.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Yeah, it rocked me, but only for a minute.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
How the devil did you get in my machine in
the first place?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Well, the way I figure I was knocked on the
head by some thug and robbed this morning in Calais.
Whoever did it may have thrown me in your truck
to get me out of sight.
Speaker 8 (20:27):
I was never so surprised in my life. I mean
to say, I skidded near Dover sideswiped a tree and
heard the back door bang open. When I stopped and
went back there you were lying with a bolt of
my silk in your arms. Took my breath away. When
you started to groan and sit up, I was beside myself.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
I what's the matter.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
It just occurred to me, you're not English.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Hmmm.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
Bad thing to have someone not in the government and
a foreigner the boot to know about the tunnel in secure?
Do you know?
Speaker 5 (20:58):
Do you mean the British government knows the tunnel?
Speaker 8 (21:00):
No it doesn't. Now I've sent letters to every Prime
minister since MacDonald telling them about it. Charts, diagram descriptions useless.
They think I'm a crank. I can't blame them. What
would mister Eisenhower say if you told him there's a
tunnel between London New York?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
See what I mean?
Speaker 8 (21:19):
You got acknowledgment just once cid Man came around and
blabbed the whole story to everyone. Told him to keep
an eye on me as a dangerous lunatic. The only
way to protect the secret after that was to write
it like a mania. So I told everyone too. Best
security measure ever devised. Now, however, there are three of
us who rarely know about the tunnel. It's awkward and
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don't know what to do.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Oh, I can tell you exactly.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
You're going to take me back to Calais and now,
otherwise I'll beat you to a pulp. I art to
anyway making me doubt myself as you did.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
Taking you into the tunnel. That might be the best way.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
We'd never tell anyone, I swear.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
I don't want you to see the entrance and exit though,
where you will have to wear a blind pole.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Agreed, Now that's get going.
Speaker 8 (22:07):
Then his taking you into the tunnel is the best way.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Say how much longer before we're in the tunnel?
Speaker 8 (22:25):
You can take off the blind poles. Now we're in it, Oh,
wonder if the tunnel. Yes, they did a fine job
the sixth Corps. God what they got for it. Bony
flung him in the Russian campaign when they had finished,
and sort of it, they all died.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
That's way of keeping a secret. Eh, how did you
learn a bit?
Speaker 8 (22:43):
Reading in the British Museum? I was broken, unemployed. I
found an old diary by one of the engineers, investigated
and found it was true. I wrote to the government
told him about that. Well, it was too good. Let
it waste. So I set up a small import export business.
Cheaper transportation gives me an edge on my competitors. Well, no,
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but it's as far as you go.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I've got to kill you.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
I can't let you live. It's too dangerous now that
you know the shotgun failed me twice to day. Perhaps
get out of the truck, please, unless you want your
blood all over the young lady.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Please all right now?
Speaker 8 (23:34):
Perhaps, well, I won't think you cowardly if you turn
your back. Listen, Oh come now, no temporizing, just take it.
Ye oh, dash it.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
All, Emily.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
I think I'm going to faint.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Help me get him back into the truck.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Huh, Just let me sit here for a more. Yeah, David,
we'll tell the authorities the truth about the tunnel and
all everyone ought to know. It's too good a thing
and makes travel and trade and communication so simple. We
have no right to keep it a secret.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Check We'll tell the authorities.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
We came to the end of the tunnel at exactly
two o'clock by Miss Haydock's watch time, and to spare
in order to board my ship, we left mister Smith
travers in the truck and made our way into what
was apparently a small warehouse, and from there through a door,
we found ourselves on the corner of a street much
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like any other street in Calais. A fog had rolled
in since sunrise, as thick as the one we'd left
in England. One moment. I want to make a note
of the streeter. Will never find the tunnel again. You
got a pencil?
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Oh, never mind, I have one.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
There's no street sign up.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
There on the side of the building. They don't put
them on lamp posts like we do in the States.
All right, I've got it. Say when do you get
back to the States?
Speaker 5 (25:28):
September one? School term starts on the tenth. I teach
kindergarten in Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
We're supposed to put in it Baltimore Christmas Week.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Well, that's marvelous. We could have Christmas Eve together.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yeah, in New Year's too. Maybe I'll look forward to that.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
You're right, meanwhile, won't you?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Of course?
Speaker 4 (25:45):
You know I'll never be able to thank you enough
for what you did, what made you believe in me
so strongly?
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Oh, I don't know, you see it? What's the matter I'm.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Not sure we're walking toward the harbor. That's the trouble
with the farm city. You turn a corner and you're lost.
This dirty fog is so well, let's try this way.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Would that be a policeman in the doorway?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Oh, yes, yes it is, uh parle anglais a little
Which way is the harbor? Turn at the next corner
to the left and walk for street. Oh, thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Oh how do you pronounce the name of the street?
Speaker 9 (26:32):
I've written here street? Yeah, Disney Street Street. Well, what
does it say in English? This way to the aeride shelter?
We have put them on almost every building in Kelly.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Pair Raid shelter.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Then we'll never be able to find our way back
to the tunnel shun down?
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Are you sure? Of course?
Speaker 8 (26:54):
As sure as I am?
Speaker 2 (26:55):
That Two and two Make Food.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
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Speaker 1 (00:39):
You are running over the far block cliffs of Dover.
By your side, a girl who believes you're a madman
and pursuing you, bent on destroying you. A man who's
terrible secrets you've stumbled upon, and from whom there is
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Speaker 3 (01:01):
Listen now, as escape brings you. Walter Brown Newman story
two and two make four.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
My head hurt. I sat up and opened my eyes.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Fog all around, thick and close, and still I could
see trees in a few yards of dirt road. My
watch was gone, and my wallet rolled slugged and rolled
and dumped.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
But where.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
I scrambled to my feet, and I stood there in
the ditch, suddenly worried about the time. It would be
bad to be late going aboard, as for the ship
sailing without me. I stepped onto the road, which way
led back to Calais. Someone was coming, Hello, Aequilla, Why
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don't you answer?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I can't see.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Down the road, then across the field alongside a brook.
I ran till I thought my lungs would burst. I
stopped to listen, but the blood was pounding, so I
couldn't be sure I wasn't followed.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I ran some more. The brook went under a small bridge.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
On it, leaning against the stone wall. Looking down at
me was a girl with a knapsack on her back.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I climbed up the bank. Mademoiselle, is civu? Play mademoiselle?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I'm sorry, I don't speak French.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Did you hear those shots a few minutes ago right
past my or almost blew my head off?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Well you should tell the police or something. I have
to be going. I have a long way to go.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Wait wait, wait, sorry, no, no, no, no, wait wait
what time is it? Please?
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Not quite quarter to seven? Wait it looks now we'll
have fog at.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Least until noon noon. You mean it's a quarter of
seven in the morning.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Yes, of course, in the morning. Well, I've got.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Hold on hold on which way is Calais Kelay?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Well that way about twenty miles.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Twenty I've got to make my shift. You mind if
I walk along with you? My name's David Parker.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Minds Hey, doc Emily haydock.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I'm in the Merchant Marine, second mate on a freighter.
You want a walking trip or something, that's right? I
figured the knapsack American. Yes, I thought you were French
at first.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Why was that?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Took it for granted? Most people in France are.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
I don't understand. We're in England, not France. Why should
you think that you.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
What do you mean England? Didn't you just tell me
we were twenty miles from.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Calais, Yes, but Calai is somewhere out there across the
English Channel in France.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Where do you say we are you and me now
in England?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Of course, about two miles from Dover.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Look.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Look, look, look, look, I've been robbed and dumped out
here in the countryside and shot at so please don't
make sure I'm not what's today.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Quick, Thursday, tenth of July.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Why then, we're in France.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
I tell you.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
When I registered at the hotel in Calais last night,
I noticed the date.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It was the ninth of July.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Now, look, you asked me where we are and I
told you England. You're Dover.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I suppose I didn't see the sunrise in Calais just
an hour ago.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Sunrise, sunrise, sunrise.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
I've been up since five. There's been no sun for
a week. It's one of the worst they've ever had.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I'll drop it, drop it. I tell you I saw it.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
You're either joking a line.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute. No
more of that line that crazy?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Do you hear? No more of that crazy?
Speaker 5 (05:11):
What else am I to think when you say you
were shot at and you saw the sun sun today
and you insist your in France when you're in England?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
All right, miss Haydock, turn around? Now? What do you
see alongside the road gate? Yeah? And in front of
the gate a mailbox?
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Why?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
And what does it say on the mailbox? Villa mond
bie you.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
I don't know what bijeu means, but it's French French.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
What do you say?
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Now we're in England.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You don't know where to stop?
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
All right? All right?
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I'm going into this villa whatever it is, and phone
for a taxi to take me to my ship. I
was going to offer you a lift, but now i'd
sooner cut my tongue out.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
How do you like that?
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Go to the devil? Uh?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Parley Anglais don Leys compri say, is there anyone here
who speaks English?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I speak English? Oh good good? May I use your
phone to call a taxi? Of course? Won't you come in? Thanks?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I have no money on me, mister, doctor Putney. I
haven't a penny with me, doctor, but I'll be able
to get some from the clerk at the hotel, and
I'll send you whatever the call costs with a taxi driver.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Not at all, Not at all. There's the phone. Thanks, Hello, hello, Oh,
come on. Service is always a bit slow a this.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
The fact is I got angry with a silly girl
out on the road.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Did you you tried to kid me?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Well, joke will be on her when she's trugic along
the road and sees me riding in my ease to Calais.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I'll i'll come on writing to Kelly in a taxi.
I wouldn't have minded if she'd let the joke drop.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
And no, she went on and on about this being
England and that I was crazy to think otherwise.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
I'm afraid I don't understand the joke. I mean, this
is England.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Look, I don't find it funny, doctor. I thought I
made that clear. The next one who tells me I'm
in England. When I know I'm in France. I swear
I'll take you.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Know you're in France. Yes, yes, Sit down, young man.
Isn't this France?
Speaker 7 (07:40):
England near Dover? How can I show you here? Here's
a copy of the London Times yesterday.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Wednesday, July ninth. But the name on the mailbox fellow
wats is? That's French.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Most of the villas have names like that. Mon't bege sansoc.
Still it's England. Sit down. I'm a position.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I'd like to ask you. No, no, you.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Two and two make four. I repeated it like a charm,
like they told me in the hospital. When you feel
unsure of yourself, remembered two and two make four.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
There's an explanation for everything.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Don't doubt yourself. After a while I stopped trembling. I
opened the gate and went out onto the road and
there was the girl.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Oh everything all right?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Did you come back to say? I told you so?
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Why? I thought you might need help?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I thought that watch out, there's a truck coming.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
There's a nim just around the curve.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Get down, Get down, he might shoot you again.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Get down, mister Parker. Please that was a backfire, that's all.
It was.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Backfire.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Of course, what else could it be? There's any in
just around the curve, and I have money. Wouldn't you
like to have breakfast there and talk?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Oh I'm all confused.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Anyone would be after a blow on the head.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
No, no, it's not just being slugged. I wish it
were only that. But with a case like me that
you're not a kid, Oh, that's just it. I am
about six weeks ago, unloading cargo, A crate hit me
on the head, scrambled my memory. They sent me to
the hospital and the ship sailed without me. She's due
back in Calais this afternoon. I was to report aboard
if the treatment proved successful. They told me it was
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successful and discharged me yesterday here. Maybe it wasn't yesterday
and none of it happened, and I'm imagining it all.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Try not to worry. It'll all come back to you.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
But suppose what comes back never really happened. That's the point,
you see, that's the point. I remember a lot about yesterday.
But what if I only think I remember and it's
all in my I relaxed.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
We'll have breakfast in here if you remember you remember?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah? But do I?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
I recall leaving the hospital and going to a hotel.
Then I went to an all night restaurant, and I
remember leaving a bar at daybreak.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Sit down, Miss Heydark Bleach. I remember all that clearly.
But an hour later I'm in England and that's impossible.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
You might have wanted aboard a Channel steamer.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I use your head. It's a two or three hour trip.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
I both on an airplane.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Man, excuse me, you'd like your coffee now, I'll waiting
for breakfast.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Miss. Is there an airfield nearby? Oh?
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Yes, sir, but it's not an object of interest for
tourists today. Our churches is very nice though.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
How far away is it the airfield?
Speaker 6 (11:00):
You won't see? No planes coming and going, sir. The
BBC broadcast said no air traffic in and out of
Dover for the sixth straight day. Good morning, mister Smith,
travers breakfast rose, yes, sir? Anything else for the present sir?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
No, No, No.
Speaker 8 (11:17):
No air traffic six days in a row. You'd think
that would teach them.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
But will it? I beg your pardon.
Speaker 8 (11:22):
I leave it to you. Is there any reason for
maintaining this undependable method of transportation, a method absolutely at
the mercy of the elements, when there's a cheaper, better,
less bothersome simpler and always certain way of crossing the Channel.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
You mean the boat?
Speaker 8 (11:36):
No, no, of course, not the tunnel, the Channel tunnel.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Tunnel, Yes, of course, Rosie.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
I want coffee now, right, mister Smith travers the Channel
tunnel twenty miles through solid impermeable chalk in the dover
out at Calais, less than an hour's drive.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
No fuss, I never heard of it, is Is it
something recent recent?
Speaker 8 (11:59):
Oh you're you're strange here, touristy.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, well you.
Speaker 8 (12:03):
Heard of Napoleon Bonaparte. He had it done by the
sixth Corps of the Engineers of the Imperial Army. Took
them three years, all done in secret, of course, for
a surprise attack on England.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
You mean to say there's actually a tunnel beneath the
English Channel in use.
Speaker 8 (12:19):
Certainly it's in use. I've been through its scores of times. Business,
you know, Import Export. Just drove back from Kelly a
few hours ago, morning.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Doctor morning Smith travels.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
Just advising them to go by way of the tunnel
if they want to get to Kelly.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yes, of course much the best way.
Speaker 8 (12:36):
Did it in twenty three minutes this morning, and you
carve ready you know, well, good morning you sir.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
This I must have seen like a lunatic doctor, not
knowing I was in England. You see, I was in Calais,
and an hour later I was in England. And I
didn't understand how that was possible. I didn't know about
the tunnel beneath the channel.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
Try not to excite yourself, my boy, Everything will soon
be right.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
What I've brought someone with me, constable.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
This poor fellow, poor fellow, you mean, oh you do think?
But I told you I didn't know about the tunnel.
I must have gone through the tunnel.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
He didn't know until mister smith Travis told him.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yes, I heard.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
But mister Smith Travis is also of the firm conviction
that we British are descended from the ten lost tribes
of Israel, that Shakespeare never existed, and that after a
bit more research we'll be able to transmute base metals
into gold. We know him and like him, and humor
his eccentricities come along. Mister Parker, I think it in
the public interest that you will not be on the
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public streets.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, listen listen. I was in
Calais at sunrise. I can prove it. I just remembered
the name of the hotel, the Hotel de la Mar.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Phoned them and they'll tell you that that there's a
David Parker registered there.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
They have my first part of the good I would
go bully, I wasn't.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I was to make Tune to make four, Tune to
make four.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
You are listening to two and two Make four, Tonight's
presentation of Escape. Keep listening for the climax and Tonight's
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on most of these stations. And now back to Escape
and the second act of two and two Make four.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
They took us to a room in the town hall.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Doctor Putney had turned out, was not only a physician,
he was the local magistrate as well. For more than
three hours, he questioned miss Haydock and me.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
In turn, he.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Made us repeat our stories endlessly. Where she met me?
How I behaved, what I said, what she said, and all.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
The rest of it.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Was almost noon before he was finished, and watching the
clock on the wall, my ship coming nearer to Calais.
With every tick, I was almost beside myself with anxiety.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
You need care, my boy, rest and help. Now.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
We have a fine institution in Folkston near here which
can give you that care a few weeks, possibly days, institution.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Look, I I've got to get to.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
Calais, Miss Haydock. Will you try to convince him its
for the best.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
There's nothing wrong with me.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
I'll try once more to show you reality. Mister Parker.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
You say you were in France at.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
Sunrise, I do I was, and you insist you were
in England an hour later.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
Look, please please call the Hotel de la Maire and
callay I checked in there. There's bound to be a
record of it that will prove I'm telling the truth.
Speaker 7 (16:20):
And if the call is made and it doesn't prove
you're telling the truth, will you take my advice about
the institution. Yes, Constable put through a call to the
Hotel de la Mayre in Kelly.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
If the hotel bears out mister Parker's story, you'll let
him go is he duck?
Speaker 7 (16:37):
If it turns out that mister Parker is right? But
how could he be to make four?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Two and two? Make?
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
What's that?
Speaker 7 (16:47):
I use the Constable's phone, mister Parker, I'll listen in
on my extension.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Hello, desk clerk, Hello, Hello, Hello. Is they're a mister
Parker registered there? David Parker Parker.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
David Parker. Oh wit, there was? But he has checked
out since two hours ago.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
But I mean he couldn't have.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
You're mistaken, sir, I am not not if you mean
the mister Parker is an americancy man.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I returned his best part personally when I paid his bill.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
I am the.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
I'm not even who I thought I was. All right,
Doctor Putney, I'll go with no.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Wait before you do, let me speak to you in private.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Please, may we doctor? Would it be all right?
Speaker 7 (17:38):
I'll give you two minutes, Constable, we can arrange for
an ambulance to focus on them.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yes, mister Parker, Oh no, that's not my name.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Two and two make four, two and two make four.
You must have faith in yourself. If you were convinced
you were in France one moment in in England an
hour later, then that's the way it was.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
It's a physical impossible.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
It's not you could have come through the tunnel.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
There is no tunnel.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
If a tunnel is the only explanation for what happened
to you, then there is a tunnel. Two and two
make four?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Do you really believe my story?
Speaker 5 (18:14):
I believe you?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
All right? Then? All right? What do I do? Now?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
You tell me? Come on? You know the answer.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
I find the man in the restaurant, the man who
said there was a tunnel.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Smith Travel rushed open the window.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Right, I'll go first, and I'll help you down.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Come on, here's my knapsack.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I got it, got it, got it, got it? Now
you work times up.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
I'm afraid, Miss hay Doc, come back here, Miss hay Doc,
mister mister h whatever your name is, a constable, stop
them vel.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Fog hit us. Before we'd run twenty feet.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
We dodged around corners, then stopped at a garage and
looked up mister Smith Traver's address in a directory. It
proved to be a little villa, like a dozen others
I'd seen that day. There was no answer when we
knocked at the door, so we waited, and before very long,
mister Smith travers drove up in a light truck.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
Look look, look, look at the volice I left at
the hotel in Calais.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
He's got it. Good afternoon, I'll take that. Oh oh yes, yes, yes,
of course. Yeah, my passport too, please, Yes, I.
Speaker 8 (19:45):
See you concluded the tunnel doesn't exist. That's right, blast,
you're the first to ever have. It's a bit of
bad luck for me, that is, if I hadn't hit
a flat tile halfway through the passport and police would
be in ashes by Now you u owned the hotel
in Calais. Yes, yes, yes, I thought you might. I
heard you shouting at the inn about the hotel, so
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I drove over. And didn't it make you doubt your
senses when they told you checked out?
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Oh you have no idea?
Speaker 8 (20:14):
Yes, I was counting on that.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Yeah, it rocked me, but only for a minute.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
How the devil did you get in my machine in
the first place?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Well, the way I figure I was knocked on the
head by some thug and robbed this morning in Calais.
Whoever did it may have thrown me in your truck
to get me out of sight.
Speaker 8 (20:27):
I was never so surprised in my life. I mean
to say, I skidded near Dover sideswiped a tree and
heard the back door bang open. When I stopped and
went back there you were lying with a bolt of
my silk in your arms. Took my breath away. When
you started to groan and sit up, I was beside myself.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
I what's the matter.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
It just occurred to me, you're not English.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Hmmm.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
Bad thing to have someone not in the government and
a foreigner the boot to know about the tunnel in secure?
Do you know?
Speaker 5 (20:58):
Do you mean the British government knows the tunnel?
Speaker 8 (21:00):
No it doesn't. Now I've sent letters to every Prime
minister since MacDonald telling them about it. Charts, diagram descriptions useless.
They think I'm a crank. I can't blame them. What
would mister Eisenhower say if you told him there's a
tunnel between London New York?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
See what I mean?
Speaker 8 (21:19):
You got acknowledgment just once cid Man came around and
blabbed the whole story to everyone. Told him to keep
an eye on me as a dangerous lunatic. The only
way to protect the secret after that was to write
it like a mania. So I told everyone too. Best
security measure ever devised. Now, however, there are three of
us who rarely know about the tunnel. It's awkward and
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don't know what to do.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Oh, I can tell you exactly.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
You're going to take me back to Calais and now,
otherwise I'll beat you to a pulp. I art to
anyway making me doubt myself as you did.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
Taking you into the tunnel. That might be the best way.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
We'd never tell anyone, I swear.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
I don't want you to see the entrance and exit though,
where you will have to wear a blind pole.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Agreed, Now that's get going.
Speaker 8 (22:07):
Then his taking you into the tunnel is the best way.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Say how much longer before we're in the tunnel?
Speaker 8 (22:25):
You can take off the blind poles. Now we're in it, Oh,
wonder if the tunnel. Yes, they did a fine job
the sixth Corps. God what they got for it. Bony
flung him in the Russian campaign when they had finished,
and sort of it, they all died.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
That's way of keeping a secret. Eh, how did you
learn a bit?
Speaker 8 (22:43):
Reading in the British Museum? I was broken, unemployed. I
found an old diary by one of the engineers, investigated
and found it was true. I wrote to the government
told him about that. Well, it was too good. Let
it waste. So I set up a small import export business.
Cheaper transportation gives me an edge on my competitors. Well, no,
(23:07):
but it's as far as you go.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I've got to kill you.
Speaker 8 (23:12):
I can't let you live. It's too dangerous now that
you know the shotgun failed me twice to day. Perhaps
get out of the truck, please, unless you want your
blood all over the young lady.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Please all right now?
Speaker 8 (23:34):
Perhaps, well, I won't think you cowardly if you turn
your back. Listen, Oh come now, no temporizing, just take it.
Ye oh, dash it.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
All, Emily.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
I think I'm going to faint.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Help me get him back into the truck.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Huh, Just let me sit here for a more. Yeah, David,
we'll tell the authorities the truth about the tunnel and
all everyone ought to know. It's too good a thing
and makes travel and trade and communication so simple. We
have no right to keep it a secret.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Check We'll tell the authorities.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
We came to the end of the tunnel at exactly
two o'clock by Miss Haydock's watch time, and to spare
in order to board my ship, we left mister Smith
travers in the truck and made our way into what
was apparently a small warehouse, and from there through a door,
we found ourselves on the corner of a street much
(24:50):
like any other street in Calais. A fog had rolled
in since sunrise, as thick as the one we'd left
in England. One moment. I want to make a note
of the streeter. Will never find the tunnel again. You
got a pencil?
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Oh, never mind, I have one.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
There's no street sign up.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
There on the side of the building. They don't put
them on lamp posts like we do in the States.
All right, I've got it. Say when do you get
back to the States?
Speaker 5 (25:28):
September one? School term starts on the tenth. I teach
kindergarten in Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
We're supposed to put in it Baltimore Christmas Week.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Well, that's marvelous. We could have Christmas Eve together.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yeah, in New Year's too. Maybe I'll look forward to that.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
You're right, meanwhile, won't you?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Of course?
Speaker 4 (25:45):
You know I'll never be able to thank you enough
for what you did, what made you believe in me
so strongly?
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Oh, I don't know, you see it? What's the matter I'm.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Not sure we're walking toward the harbor. That's the trouble
with the farm city. You turn a corner and you're lost.
This dirty fog is so well, let's try this way.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Would that be a policeman in the doorway?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Oh, yes, yes it is, uh parle anglais a little
Which way is the harbor? Turn at the next corner
to the left and walk for street. Oh, thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Oh how do you pronounce the name of the street?
Speaker 9 (26:32):
I've written here street? Yeah, Disney Street Street. Well, what
does it say in English? This way to the aeride shelter?
We have put them on almost every building in Kelly.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Pair Raid shelter.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Then we'll never be able to find our way back
to the tunnel shun down?
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Are you sure? Of course?
Speaker 8 (26:54):
As sure as I am?
Speaker 2 (26:55):
That Two and two Make Food.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
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has brought you two and two Make Four, A story
by Walter Newman, featured in the cast where Chef Makin,
Joyce McCluskey, Tutorowan, and Richard Peel. Also heard were Betty Harford, Dick,
Ryan Malite, Somilo and James Barrett. You're announcer Bill Anders.
A special music for Escape is composed and conducted by
(27:31):
Leith Stevens.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
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black pearls. While on the shore, waiting for you to
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(27:54):
from whom there is no escape.
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