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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Escape.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Escape Tonight to Ancient Egypt.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
The Columbia Broadcasting System and it's the LEDA Stations presents Escape,
a new series of programs, of which this the sixth
is The Ring of Both by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
produced and directed by William and Robeson wherever the English
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language is spoken. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is known for
two things, his immortal character Sherlock Holmes, and his unshakable
belief in life beyond the grave.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
So great is the.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Statue of Sherlock Holmes that Conan Doyle's earlier stories are
all but forgotten, stories like The Ring of Thought, which
so clearly anticipates the author's later fascination with spiritualism. We
invite you now to Escape to Ancient Egypt and The
Ring of Thought, an adventure told in the words of
John Vam Zaddardtsmith, British egyptologist.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I arrived in Paris on the three fourteen express from
d'epp and went immediately to my hotel in the Rue
de la Fitte. My actions so far had worked out
according to my planned schedule. I slept for exactly two hours,
got up and dressed, donned the greatcoat, walked down the
Avenue de l'o par and entered the side door of
the louver. Once inside and amid surroundings entirely familiar to me,
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I made my way immediately to the chamber of Egyptian Relics,
or more specifically, to the cabinet in that chamber which
contained the El Kabre collection of papyri. Drawing out the
particular role I wished, I placed it on a nearby table,
sat down began to study it when I noticed one
of the museum attendants who was pulling and some brass
work across the room. His face struck me as being
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curiously Egyptian. One sudden impulse, I decided to cross the
room and speak to him. Approaching closer, I was impressed
at once by the appearance of his skin, drawn tautly
across temple and cheek. It seemed as glazed in, as
shiny as varnished parchment, and out of narrowed slits there
glowed two green and vitreous eyes, misty with a dry shininess,
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eyes of a kind never seen in a human head.
Before I beg your pardon, I need one of the
papyry from the Memphis collection. Could you tell me where
it is?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You'll find it in the last cabinet at the end
of the room.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Monsieur, thank you? Uh your Egyptian, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
No, Monsieur? I I am a Frenchman?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
But oh, I thought the health If.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Monsieur will excuse me now, I have other work to do.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I went back to the table and took up the
papyrus I had been studying before. But my former calmness
in translating the intricate hieroglyphics was gone, and out of
the depths of my mind whiled the feeling of terrible familiarity.
I concentrated more deeply on my studies, pushing aside those
thoughts conducive to mental turmoil, and at last, worn out
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by the inward struggle, I fell asleep. I awoke with
a start, not remembering where I was. It was quite
dark for a moment, Then gradually my eyes focused on
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the glints of moonlight reflected from the glass tops of
specimen tables, from the shiny varnish of the mummy cases,
and I realized, with a feeling of sudden dread, that
I was alone in the edge Egyptian room of the
museum of the Louver, locked in for the night, and
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I saw at that moment, approaching through the moonlit halls,
a dim yellow flame. Nearer and nearer it came, until
I could perceive above it, as though floating in the air,
the eerie, glistening face of the man I had spoken
to earlier. I shrank into the dark shadow of my corner,
and he passed without seeing me, stopping before the mummy
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cases a few yards away, scarcely daring to breathe, I
watched him place the light on a table and begin
feverishly to examine the tags on the specimens. In a moment,
he gave up a cry of delight, and uh drawing
one of the mummies from its resting place, laid it
on the table in the full glow of the lantern,
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and set to work. He was unwinding the wrappings from
the head of the corpse. A few turns revealed a
tumbled cascade of black curls, a few more the snow
white brow, then the delicate nostrils, and at last the full, warm,
passionate lips, the face of the most beautiful woman the
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world has ever seen.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Ah Aditt. So long it has been so very long.
You must forgive me, beloved.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
I could hardly believe my eyes. The man was obviously
in love with this mummy. After a while, he left
the body, turning his attention to one of the glass
cases filled with an assortment of rings. From a pocket
of his garment, he'd taken a small glass bottle containing
some kind of liquid, and he used this now to
test the rings, rejecting them one after another. Then at last,
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this is it.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
It's the one. At last I found it, the Ring
of Thorp.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
In his excitement, he dropped the bottle, and I gasped
in surprise at the sudden sound.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Who's a A.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Ah, so it is you.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
No, do not, mo i. I I didn't mean to
spy on you. I fell asleep.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Who are you, monsieur?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
I am John Vansittart Smith, a student of Egyptology.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
No matter, you will observe this knife. Yes, had I
discovered you five minutes ago, monsieur, I should have slain
you without a word. What as it is now? I
have found the ring, but I warn you not to
interfere with me in any way.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I really haven't the slightest intention of it after all,
I'm only here by accident. Perhaps, I say, you shouldn't
have unwrapped that mummy. You know it's starting to deteriorate already.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Oh might beloved, Yes, before our eyes, the lovely face
was crumbling, the hair falling away, the skin shriveling and cracking,
the lips fading.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
The man hovered over the decaying body a moment, murmuring sorrowfully,
and then he turned again.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
No matter, that will not make the least difference in
a little while. Of what importance is the dead shell?
So long as her spirit waits for me at the
other side of the vale?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
What are you talking about? What is it your proposing
to do.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
To night, monsieur? I have ended a quest and broken
at last the ancient curse. Nothing now can prevent my
joining her.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I are you actually claiming that you you knew her?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
She was Atma, daughter of the governor of Abaris, and
both she and I lived in the reign of Tutmosis
three thousand, five hundred years ago.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
You're obviously mad.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Perhaps, but not in the way you think. There may
be this your coming here. It may be decreed that
I should leave some account behind as a warning to
other mortals as rash as myself very well, then so
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be it. I am, as you surmised, an Egyptian.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
My name was Sassrah, and my father had been the
chief priest of Osiris in the great Temple of Abaris,
which stood in those days upon the bubastic branch of
the Nile. I was brought up in the temple and
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was trained in all those mystic arts and sciences known
to the priesthood.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Of all the mysteries that I studied, none intrigued me
more than the question of life and death. And even
to this question, in time I found an answer, But
for a.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
Man to live beyond his allotted span of years, Master Sostra,
the gods have not so ordained.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Ha ha, Then perhaps they will have to revise their ordinances,
now that I have discovered their secret.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
Tis not well to jest I tremble, for though I
have labored in your service for a.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Year, I knew not the goal of your endeavors. Your Sarahs.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Forgive me, ah, what a pity you look upon it
this way, For I'd thought that in return for your assistance,
I should grant you too the gift of centuries of
indestructible life.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
I would not have it, Master Sastra, and I beg
that you too, forgo it, forego it.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I introduced the fluid into my veins one month ago.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Oh no, then you are lost, indeed lost? Do you
call this being lost?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Let's see now my heart should be about here about knife.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Oh don't mus do you?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
You've killed yourself, not at all.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
See it bleeds a little, but in a while the
wound will close up, and that's all you It's it's immortality. No,
I shall not live forever, but for five thousand, perhaps
six thousand years, I shall be immune from all dangers
of violence, poison, disease, starvation. You you cannot die now
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with this fluid in my veins.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Nothing, nothing in this world can end my life.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Doatra, Doltra? Are you there?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Someone cast it's Parmes, the priest have thought in here?
Speaker 4 (10:56):
My friend enter, Oh greeting Sacer, master of sciences and
his worthy assistant.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
If you will excuse me, masters, I go to make
my peace with theselves.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
What's wrong with your helper, Saucer?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
The thought of a well nigh eternal life has frightened
him into gibbering superstition.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
And then you still believe in the discovery.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Believe in it. Parme's my friend. Look, by the heavens,
what a scar it pierces. The heart was done only
a moment ago with this knife.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Hmmm.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
See I can put it back in the wound, so.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
You you suffered no ill effects, none whatever. And if
I if I turned the knife in the wound, that
would do you no harm.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
You may try it. I feel nothing. I walked last
week and the snake pits by the river was struck
innumerable times.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
It caused no.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Harm by the greater Nubis.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Will you have it?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Then, out of all Egypt, I have chosen only you,
my friend, to share the gift.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
But the choice is yours.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I'd be a fool to refuse sacra. I'll have it.
And now what must I do?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
First?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
We must open a vein in your wrists like this. Oh,
then we drip the elixir slowly into your blood stream.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Steady.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Now, I I don't feel anything.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
There is no sensation.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
It is done so simple, there is nothing more. That's
all and now done. It can never be changed.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
It seems incredible, supernatural.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
It's no more than a chemical discovery. But with it,
while all this about us, passes away. You and I,
parmeis we'll live on for fifty centuries. Think of it,
my friend, five thousand years of life, five thousand years
only the two of us.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Listen that noise.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Some procession must be passing in the street.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I have an idea what it may be. Come on
over to the window heaven here the road, stand back,
and make way for the loveliest pearl of deeps.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
She's being carried on the shoulders of slaves, parmies. She
must be some woman of rank.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Her name is Atmah. She's the daughter of the new governor.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Her curtains are drawn back. Perhaps we'll have a look
at her.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Oh, parness, is she not beautiful?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
She is the most desirable, the only utterly desirable woman
I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Yes, I saw her yesterday at the temple.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Then you're most fortunate, my friend. You've had twenty four
more hours to dream about her than I have had.
I must know her, parmies, I must make her love me.
I'll send gifts. I'll call on her tomorrow. Oh it
has to be then.
Speaker 8 (13:48):
I couldn't wait any longer than tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
A visitor calls upon the beloved of the universe. He
is Sastro please of the temple of Osiris.
Speaker 9 (14:10):
Well bid him approach and.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Perthosthral, almost beautiful of all Egypt.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I cast myself at your feet.
Speaker 9 (14:18):
That's a noble ambition. But wouldn't it be much better
to sit here beside me and watch the fish in
the faunten?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Much better?
Speaker 9 (14:29):
You will all withdraw, except you, my girl, play something
for us at a distance. Well, Sassrah, For so I
understand your called. Am I to deem this an official
visit by a master of the temple?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Oh that my my beluck. That is no, it is
not official.
Speaker 9 (14:56):
Oh perhaps then you wish to see my father personal
business of your own.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Oh no, no, I shall pay my respects to him
at some other time.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
Then, could it be I you've come to see? Yes, yes,
And since you've said the visits not official, your reason
must be a personal one. Oh it is, well, what
is it?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Otmah? I have known women who are famed for their
beauty throughout the valley of the Nile, but not one,
not all of them, are so lovely as you.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
How thoughtful of you to come here and tell me Atmah.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I've no wish to intrude my desires, of my hopes
beyond such extent as you may wish to hear. But oh,
I'm finding this very difficulty.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
Oh Susser. I've been told that you're a master of science,
that you've unlocked the secrets of the universe, learned all
the mist of nature itself.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Your informants have been most generous.
Speaker 9 (16:03):
Yes, I'm inclined to think so, why because you've discovered
nothing at all about such a simple thing as a
woman's heart.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
What do you mean.
Speaker 9 (16:14):
I come from Thebes, and the women of Thebes are
warm blooded, passionate, and we know what we want. I
saw you first three days ago. Why do you think
I told my bearers to carry me down that street
beneath your window.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
And so, miracle of all miracles, Atma love me worshiping
the very ground her feet had trod upon. I lived
through those glorious weeks, and with it all our love
grew apace. But one thing bore heavily upon my mind,
and I came to speak of it more often to
my beloved as we sat and talked by the fountain
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in her garden.
Speaker 9 (17:07):
Look sascerer, see how the stars shine from the.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Water yes, SAtma, more lovely even than their glow in
the heavens?
Speaker 9 (17:17):
Are they very old?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
The stars very old, beloved, as old as time.
Speaker 9 (17:23):
And they're gone, gleaming there long years after you and
I are gone and forgotten.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Hatma, my dearest.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
We've talked of this before, and I know it distresses
you to think of it.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
No, Sorcerer, to night, everything is beautiful. We shall not
talk of.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Death, not of death, but of life. They are only
counterparts of one another.
Speaker 9 (17:44):
Oh if we could only live together, grow old together,
and die in the same instant.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
But how much better to live and love five thousand years?
Will you not do it? Does so long a time
seem too great for the love you feel for.
Speaker 9 (17:59):
Me, beloved? No, the time would pass in an instant,
and the loss then be no easier born than now.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Then why draw back? Will you not take the elixir
now tonight?
Speaker 9 (18:12):
I'm afraid, Sorer, we'll anger the gods.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
They will outlive the god. They will have their revenge
whate'er occurred. We'd be together.
Speaker 9 (18:19):
Yes, I've thought of that. Were it not so, I'd
not even consider doing it.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Then you'll do it, Otma, you'll do it.
Speaker 9 (18:27):
I need more time only a little more to assure myself.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
How much to night, Sorcerer, give me to night. Every
hour you live without the elixir is another hazard. All right,
then to night, and may Isis herself guard over you
until the fluid courses in your veins, and so on.
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That accursed night I went to my chambers and slept.
And while I slept, the moon of Isis shone over
the delta of the nile, shone, but to light as
foul as scene as was ever done on earth.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Some hours had passed away, Master.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Sorcer, awakened, Master, awaken at once?
Speaker 9 (19:17):
You know who is true?
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Who the terrible thing has transpired?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
You?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You're one of ATMA's slaves. Why do you come here,
Oh master, Master, what has happened?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
What's the matter? Speak?
Speaker 4 (19:30):
It is she the light of the world.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Tell me what has happened to her?
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Muster Muster Biggins came in the night. She she is dead?
You lie, you lie, speaks the truth?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Farms, my friend, What foul jokes behind these words of his?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
It's not a joke. At My is dead. You slave,
depart from us, Yes, Masters, why you're graciously.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Such a thing cannot be?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Oh, of course the two of you planned it together
soart to frighten me out of my wits. It's very amusing, really,
but I was terrified for.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
A moment Atmah no longer lives. She was stabbed to
death only a short while ago.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
No, oh no, no, she can't be dead.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
She is dead, Sorcerer, and for all eternity, I must
go to her.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Something, Surely something can be done.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
I killed her?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
What is it? What has happened?
Speaker 4 (20:31):
I killed her? I struck her through the heart with
this very knife.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
You, you, parmes.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Why because she loved you?
Speaker 9 (20:41):
Why?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
And because I loved her, you, my friend, she would
not look at me?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
And for that you would lose her to both of us, forever.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
To both of us, Sorcerer, I think not by the
living o Cyrus, give me that knife.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
That's it. Strike again, here's the heart here, strike and again, sorestra.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Wait, what foolishness? I cannot kill you.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
You're wrong, user, You have killed me. Those were grief
as blows.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
But the fluid, that cursed elixir of life, it runs
in your veins as well as mine.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
True, but in mine is also the antidote.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
You lie.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
There is no antidote yes day and night. These many weeks,
I've worked, and I found it.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
You couldn't have you. Is there more of it?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Yes, a very little, But you'll never find it.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Where is it? Tell me where it is.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
In the Ring Sorcerer, in the Ring of Thought, and
you'll never find it.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I will, I will. I must go on.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Live, live your fifty centuries, and every hour of them.
Think it was your hand that struck me down with
the same knife that took her from you. Think while
I gos join her.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Oh no, they're not dead, You're not.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
No, no, no no. For months, I searched the papers,
test tubes, and the chemical flasks in the chambers of
the dead Priest of Thought, searched and found nothing. I
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sifted the sands where he had walked, questioned his slaves
and servants, and learned nothing. Every moment of my life,
my terrible and unwonted life, was devoted to an unceasing
hunt for the Ring of Thought, and all to no avail.
And in time a horde of barbarians overran the city
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of a Barras, and the sands of the desert buried
forever the last of my hopes, And so began the
deadly march of the centuries. How can you know how
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terrible a thing time is? You who have experienced only
the narrow course between the cradle and the grave.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I've floated down the whole stream of history. I have
traveled in all lands, and I have dwelt with all nations.
Every tongue is the same to me. I need not
tell you how slowlyies drifted by, centuries without end, years
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without number. And so I came to be one day
a few weeks past in San Francisco, where I came
across a certain item in a newspaper.
Speaker 10 (24:26):
Long recent discoveries in Lower Egypt is an unopened mummy
case containing, according to the inscription on the outside, the
body of the daughter of the governor of Arbaris in
the days of Tutmosis. In the same burial crypt, dropped
into a crevice between the stones, was found a large
platinum ring of singular design. Both specimens have been sent
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for examination to the Louver in Paris.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
So I presume you came here to Paris obtained this
position of attendant in the Louver with the idea.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Only yesterday, Monsieur Smith. As you may imagine, I had
little difficulty in convincing the director of my knowledge of
Egyptian relics.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
The ring, then, the one I saw you remove from
the case, is the ring of thought. Without question, You've
discovered how the ring must be used.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
The secret is obvious. See the stone is hollow, and
drops of liquid move within it.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Have you considered the possibility that this antidote may not
perform the function which has been claimed for it?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
It will, monsieur, and there'll be no need of a
knife to strike me down. My death was due in
a time long past, and only this damnable fluid that
runs through my veins supports the weight of my years.
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I delay no longer. I go to join her where
she waits for me.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
No, don't, oh too late.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
I've broken a gem. I've taken the antidote.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
I stood and watched him with a terrible fascination, but
without pity and without compassion. He turned away from me
and reeled toward the mummy he'd left on the table
across the room. But even as he turned, the parchment
skin of his face cracked and shredded. Discolored lips shriveled
away from the yellow teeth, the vitreous eyes withered, into
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nubs of formless plasm, and the full weight of his
thirty five hundred years descended on him. In an instant,
I left that room of death and walked over the
marble floors toward the exit, my footsteps echoing through the
empty halls, even as they had echoed for so long
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in the corridors of time. And I wondered as I walked,
if Sacer knew now what I knew, that the antidote
in the Ring of Thoth can bring death to the body,
but not to the soul. And I wondered in what
cloak of flesh his spirit now dwelt, just as I
Parme's priest of thought had for the last forty years
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of my thirty five hundred dwelt in the body of
John vansitat Smith.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Of the.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Daughter.
Speaker 9 (27:51):
He's so little and.
Speaker 10 (27:52):
Solim well now he's only two days.
Speaker 9 (27:55):
Old, but he doesn't look a bit like either his
father or me.
Speaker 10 (27:58):
Givin time, my dear, All babies look pretty much alike
when they're first born.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
I don't know it he his eyes or it's silly,
of course, but he looks like an Egyptian.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Produced and directed by William N. Robson the Ring of
Thoth by Sir Rotha Conan Doyle was adapted for radio
by Les Crutchfield, with Jack Webb as Sorcerer, Thomas Freebarn
Smith as Van Sidrot Smith, and John Banks as Atma.
The special musical score was conceived and conducted by Sypewer.
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Escape is presented by the Columbia Broadcasting System and it's
AFLATED stations each week at this time. Next week, we
invite you to escape to our I been the South
Pacific with John Russell in his unforgettable story of human frailty,
The Fourth Man, and so good night until next week
at this time, when again it will be time to escape.
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This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Escape.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Escape Tonight to Ancient Egypt.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
The Columbia Broadcasting System and it's the LEDA Stations presents Escape,
a new series of programs, of which this the sixth
is The Ring of Both by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
produced and directed by William and Robeson wherever the English
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language is spoken. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is known for
two things, his immortal character Sherlock Holmes, and his unshakable
belief in life beyond the grave.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
So great is the.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Statue of Sherlock Holmes that Conan Doyle's earlier stories are
all but forgotten, stories like The Ring of Thought, which
so clearly anticipates the author's later fascination with spiritualism. We
invite you now to Escape to Ancient Egypt and The
Ring of Thought, an adventure told in the words of
John Vam Zaddardtsmith, British egyptologist.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I arrived in Paris on the three fourteen express from
d'epp and went immediately to my hotel in the Rue
de la Fitte. My actions so far had worked out
according to my planned schedule. I slept for exactly two hours,
got up and dressed, donned the greatcoat, walked down the
Avenue de l'o par and entered the side door of
the louver. Once inside and amid surroundings entirely familiar to me,
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I made my way immediately to the chamber of Egyptian Relics,
or more specifically, to the cabinet in that chamber which
contained the El Kabre collection of papyri. Drawing out the
particular role I wished, I placed it on a nearby table,
sat down began to study it when I noticed one
of the museum attendants who was pulling and some brass
work across the room. His face struck me as being
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curiously Egyptian. One sudden impulse, I decided to cross the
room and speak to him. Approaching closer, I was impressed
at once by the appearance of his skin, drawn tautly
across temple and cheek. It seemed as glazed in, as
shiny as varnished parchment, and out of narrowed slits there
glowed two green and vitreous eyes, misty with a dry shininess,
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eyes of a kind never seen in a human head.
Before I beg your pardon, I need one of the
papyry from the Memphis collection. Could you tell me where
it is?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You'll find it in the last cabinet at the end
of the room.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Monsieur, thank you? Uh your Egyptian, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
No, Monsieur? I I am a Frenchman?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
But oh, I thought the health If.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Monsieur will excuse me now, I have other work to do.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I went back to the table and took up the
papyrus I had been studying before. But my former calmness
in translating the intricate hieroglyphics was gone, and out of
the depths of my mind whiled the feeling of terrible familiarity.
I concentrated more deeply on my studies, pushing aside those
thoughts conducive to mental turmoil, and at last, worn out
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by the inward struggle, I fell asleep. I awoke with
a start, not remembering where I was. It was quite
dark for a moment, Then gradually my eyes focused on
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the glints of moonlight reflected from the glass tops of
specimen tables, from the shiny varnish of the mummy cases,
and I realized, with a feeling of sudden dread, that
I was alone in the edge Egyptian room of the
museum of the Louver, locked in for the night, and
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I saw at that moment, approaching through the moonlit halls,
a dim yellow flame. Nearer and nearer it came, until
I could perceive above it, as though floating in the air,
the eerie, glistening face of the man I had spoken
to earlier. I shrank into the dark shadow of my corner,
and he passed without seeing me, stopping before the mummy
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cases a few yards away, scarcely daring to breathe, I
watched him place the light on a table and begin
feverishly to examine the tags on the specimens. In a moment,
he gave up a cry of delight, and uh drawing
one of the mummies from its resting place, laid it
on the table in the full glow of the lantern,
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and set to work. He was unwinding the wrappings from
the head of the corpse. A few turns revealed a
tumbled cascade of black curls, a few more the snow
white brow, then the delicate nostrils, and at last the full, warm,
passionate lips, the face of the most beautiful woman the
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world has ever seen.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Ah Aditt. So long it has been so very long.
You must forgive me, beloved.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
I could hardly believe my eyes. The man was obviously
in love with this mummy. After a while, he left
the body, turning his attention to one of the glass
cases filled with an assortment of rings. From a pocket
of his garment, he'd taken a small glass bottle containing
some kind of liquid, and he used this now to
test the rings, rejecting them one after another. Then at last,
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this is it.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
It's the one. At last I found it, the Ring
of Thorp.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
In his excitement, he dropped the bottle, and I gasped
in surprise at the sudden sound.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Who's a A.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Ah, so it is you.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
No, do not, mo i. I I didn't mean to
spy on you. I fell asleep.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Who are you, monsieur?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
I am John Vansittart Smith, a student of Egyptology.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
No matter, you will observe this knife. Yes, had I
discovered you five minutes ago, monsieur, I should have slain
you without a word. What as it is now? I
have found the ring, but I warn you not to
interfere with me in any way.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I really haven't the slightest intention of it after all,
I'm only here by accident. Perhaps, I say, you shouldn't
have unwrapped that mummy. You know it's starting to deteriorate already.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Oh might beloved, Yes, before our eyes, the lovely face
was crumbling, the hair falling away, the skin shriveling and cracking,
the lips fading.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
The man hovered over the decaying body a moment, murmuring sorrowfully,
and then he turned again.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
No matter, that will not make the least difference in
a little while. Of what importance is the dead shell?
So long as her spirit waits for me at the
other side of the vale?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
What are you talking about? What is it your proposing
to do.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
To night, monsieur? I have ended a quest and broken
at last the ancient curse. Nothing now can prevent my
joining her.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I are you actually claiming that you you knew her?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
She was Atma, daughter of the governor of Abaris, and
both she and I lived in the reign of Tutmosis
three thousand, five hundred years ago.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
You're obviously mad.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Perhaps, but not in the way you think. There may
be this your coming here. It may be decreed that
I should leave some account behind as a warning to
other mortals as rash as myself very well, then so
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be it. I am, as you surmised, an Egyptian.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
My name was Sassrah, and my father had been the
chief priest of Osiris in the great Temple of Abaris,
which stood in those days upon the bubastic branch of
the Nile. I was brought up in the temple and
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was trained in all those mystic arts and sciences known
to the priesthood.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Of all the mysteries that I studied, none intrigued me
more than the question of life and death. And even
to this question, in time I found an answer, But
for a.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
Man to live beyond his allotted span of years, Master Sostra,
the gods have not so ordained.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Ha ha, Then perhaps they will have to revise their ordinances,
now that I have discovered their secret.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
Tis not well to jest I tremble, for though I
have labored in your service for a.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Year, I knew not the goal of your endeavors. Your Sarahs.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Forgive me, ah, what a pity you look upon it
this way, For I'd thought that in return for your assistance,
I should grant you too the gift of centuries of
indestructible life.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
I would not have it, Master Sastra, and I beg
that you too, forgo it, forego it.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I introduced the fluid into my veins one month ago.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Oh no, then you are lost, indeed lost? Do you
call this being lost?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Let's see now my heart should be about here about knife.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Oh don't mus do you?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
You've killed yourself, not at all.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
See it bleeds a little, but in a while the
wound will close up, and that's all you It's it's immortality. No,
I shall not live forever, but for five thousand, perhaps
six thousand years, I shall be immune from all dangers
of violence, poison, disease, starvation. You you cannot die now
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with this fluid in my veins.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Nothing, nothing in this world can end my life.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Doatra, Doltra? Are you there?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Someone cast it's Parmes, the priest have thought in here?
Speaker 4 (10:56):
My friend enter, Oh greeting Sacer, master of sciences and
his worthy assistant.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
If you will excuse me, masters, I go to make
my peace with theselves.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
What's wrong with your helper, Saucer?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
The thought of a well nigh eternal life has frightened
him into gibbering superstition.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
And then you still believe in the discovery.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Believe in it. Parme's my friend. Look, by the heavens,
what a scar it pierces. The heart was done only
a moment ago with this knife.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Hmmm.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
See I can put it back in the wound, so.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
You you suffered no ill effects, none whatever. And if
I if I turned the knife in the wound, that
would do you no harm.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
You may try it. I feel nothing. I walked last
week and the snake pits by the river was struck
innumerable times.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
It caused no.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Harm by the greater Nubis.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Will you have it?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Then, out of all Egypt, I have chosen only you,
my friend, to share the gift.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
But the choice is yours.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I'd be a fool to refuse sacra. I'll have it.
And now what must I do?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
First?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
We must open a vein in your wrists like this. Oh,
then we drip the elixir slowly into your blood stream.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Steady.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Now, I I don't feel anything.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
There is no sensation.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
It is done so simple, there is nothing more. That's
all and now done. It can never be changed.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
It seems incredible, supernatural.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
It's no more than a chemical discovery. But with it,
while all this about us, passes away. You and I,
parmeis we'll live on for fifty centuries. Think of it,
my friend, five thousand years of life, five thousand years
only the two of us.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Listen that noise.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Some procession must be passing in the street.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I have an idea what it may be. Come on
over to the window heaven here the road, stand back,
and make way for the loveliest pearl of deeps.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
She's being carried on the shoulders of slaves, parmies. She
must be some woman of rank.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Her name is Atmah. She's the daughter of the new governor.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Her curtains are drawn back. Perhaps we'll have a look
at her.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Oh, parness, is she not beautiful?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
She is the most desirable, the only utterly desirable woman
I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Yes, I saw her yesterday at the temple.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Then you're most fortunate, my friend. You've had twenty four
more hours to dream about her than I have had.
I must know her, parmies, I must make her love me.
I'll send gifts. I'll call on her tomorrow. Oh it
has to be then.
Speaker 8 (13:48):
I couldn't wait any longer than tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
A visitor calls upon the beloved of the universe. He
is Sastro please of the temple of Osiris.
Speaker 9 (14:10):
Well bid him approach and.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Perthosthral, almost beautiful of all Egypt.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
I cast myself at your feet.
Speaker 9 (14:18):
That's a noble ambition. But wouldn't it be much better
to sit here beside me and watch the fish in
the faunten?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Much better?
Speaker 9 (14:29):
You will all withdraw, except you, my girl, play something
for us at a distance. Well, Sassrah, For so I
understand your called. Am I to deem this an official
visit by a master of the temple?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Oh that my my beluck. That is no, it is
not official.
Speaker 9 (14:56):
Oh perhaps then you wish to see my father personal
business of your own.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Oh no, no, I shall pay my respects to him
at some other time.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
Then, could it be I you've come to see? Yes, yes,
And since you've said the visits not official, your reason
must be a personal one. Oh it is, well, what
is it?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Otmah? I have known women who are famed for their
beauty throughout the valley of the Nile, but not one,
not all of them, are so lovely as you.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
How thoughtful of you to come here and tell me Atmah.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I've no wish to intrude my desires, of my hopes
beyond such extent as you may wish to hear. But oh,
I'm finding this very difficulty.
Speaker 9 (15:50):
Oh Susser. I've been told that you're a master of science,
that you've unlocked the secrets of the universe, learned all
the mist of nature itself.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Your informants have been most generous.
Speaker 9 (16:03):
Yes, I'm inclined to think so, why because you've discovered
nothing at all about such a simple thing as a
woman's heart.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
What do you mean.
Speaker 9 (16:14):
I come from Thebes, and the women of Thebes are
warm blooded, passionate, and we know what we want. I
saw you first three days ago. Why do you think
I told my bearers to carry me down that street
beneath your window.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
And so, miracle of all miracles, Atma love me worshiping
the very ground her feet had trod upon. I lived
through those glorious weeks, and with it all our love
grew apace. But one thing bore heavily upon my mind,
and I came to speak of it more often to
my beloved as we sat and talked by the fountain
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in her garden.
Speaker 9 (17:07):
Look sascerer, see how the stars shine from the.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Water yes, SAtma, more lovely even than their glow in
the heavens?
Speaker 9 (17:17):
Are they very old?
Speaker 1 (17:18):
The stars very old, beloved, as old as time.
Speaker 9 (17:23):
And they're gone, gleaming there long years after you and
I are gone and forgotten.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Hatma, my dearest.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
We've talked of this before, and I know it distresses
you to think of it.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
No, Sorcerer, to night, everything is beautiful. We shall not
talk of.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Death, not of death, but of life. They are only
counterparts of one another.
Speaker 9 (17:44):
Oh if we could only live together, grow old together,
and die in the same instant.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
But how much better to live and love five thousand years?
Will you not do it? Does so long a time
seem too great for the love you feel for.
Speaker 9 (17:59):
Me, beloved? No, the time would pass in an instant,
and the loss then be no easier born than now.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Then why draw back? Will you not take the elixir
now tonight?
Speaker 9 (18:12):
I'm afraid, Sorer, we'll anger the gods.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
They will outlive the god. They will have their revenge
whate'er occurred. We'd be together.
Speaker 9 (18:19):
Yes, I've thought of that. Were it not so, I'd
not even consider doing it.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Then you'll do it, Otma, you'll do it.
Speaker 9 (18:27):
I need more time only a little more to assure myself.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
How much to night, Sorcerer, give me to night. Every
hour you live without the elixir is another hazard. All right,
then to night, and may Isis herself guard over you
until the fluid courses in your veins, and so on.
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That accursed night I went to my chambers and slept.
And while I slept, the moon of Isis shone over
the delta of the nile, shone, but to light as
foul as scene as was ever done on earth.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Some hours had passed away, Master.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Sorcer, awakened, Master, awaken at once?
Speaker 9 (19:17):
You know who is true?
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Who the terrible thing has transpired?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
You?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You're one of ATMA's slaves. Why do you come here,
Oh master, Master, what has happened?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
What's the matter? Speak?
Speaker 4 (19:30):
It is she the light of the world.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Tell me what has happened to her?
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Muster Muster Biggins came in the night. She she is dead?
You lie, you lie, speaks the truth?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Farms, my friend, What foul jokes behind these words of his?
Speaker 4 (19:47):
It's not a joke. At My is dead. You slave,
depart from us, Yes, Masters, why you're graciously.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Such a thing cannot be?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Oh, of course the two of you planned it together
soart to frighten me out of my wits. It's very amusing, really,
but I was terrified for.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
A moment Atmah no longer lives. She was stabbed to
death only a short while ago.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
No, oh no, no, she can't be dead.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
She is dead, Sorcerer, and for all eternity, I must
go to her.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Something, Surely something can be done.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
I killed her?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
What is it? What has happened?
Speaker 4 (20:31):
I killed her? I struck her through the heart with
this very knife.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
You, you, parmes.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Why because she loved you?
Speaker 9 (20:41):
Why?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
And because I loved her, you, my friend, she would
not look at me?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
And for that you would lose her to both of us, forever.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
To both of us, Sorcerer, I think not by the
living o Cyrus, give me that knife.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
That's it. Strike again, here's the heart here, strike and again, sorestra.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Wait, what foolishness? I cannot kill you.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
You're wrong, user, You have killed me. Those were grief
as blows.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
But the fluid, that cursed elixir of life, it runs
in your veins as well as mine.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
True, but in mine is also the antidote.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
You lie.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
There is no antidote yes day and night. These many weeks,
I've worked, and I found it.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
You couldn't have you. Is there more of it?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Yes, a very little, But you'll never find it.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Where is it? Tell me where it is.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
In the Ring Sorcerer, in the Ring of Thought, and
you'll never find it.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I will, I will. I must go on.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Live, live your fifty centuries, and every hour of them.
Think it was your hand that struck me down with
the same knife that took her from you. Think while
I gos join her.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Oh no, they're not dead, You're not.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
No, no, no no. For months, I searched the papers,
test tubes, and the chemical flasks in the chambers of
the dead Priest of Thought, searched and found nothing. I
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sifted the sands where he had walked, questioned his slaves
and servants, and learned nothing. Every moment of my life,
my terrible and unwonted life, was devoted to an unceasing
hunt for the Ring of Thought, and all to no avail.
And in time a horde of barbarians overran the city
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of a Barras, and the sands of the desert buried
forever the last of my hopes, And so began the
deadly march of the centuries. How can you know how
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terrible a thing time is? You who have experienced only
the narrow course between the cradle and the grave.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I've floated down the whole stream of history. I have
traveled in all lands, and I have dwelt with all nations.
Every tongue is the same to me. I need not
tell you how slowlyies drifted by, centuries without end, years
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without number. And so I came to be one day
a few weeks past in San Francisco, where I came
across a certain item in a newspaper.
Speaker 10 (24:26):
Long recent discoveries in Lower Egypt is an unopened mummy
case containing, according to the inscription on the outside, the
body of the daughter of the governor of Arbaris in
the days of Tutmosis. In the same burial crypt, dropped
into a crevice between the stones, was found a large
platinum ring of singular design. Both specimens have been sent
(24:46):
for examination to the Louver in Paris.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
So I presume you came here to Paris obtained this
position of attendant in the Louver with the idea.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Only yesterday, Monsieur Smith. As you may imagine, I had
little difficulty in convincing the director of my knowledge of
Egyptian relics.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
The ring, then, the one I saw you remove from
the case, is the ring of thought. Without question, You've
discovered how the ring must be used.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
The secret is obvious. See the stone is hollow, and
drops of liquid move within it.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Have you considered the possibility that this antidote may not
perform the function which has been claimed for it?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
It will, monsieur, and there'll be no need of a
knife to strike me down. My death was due in
a time long past, and only this damnable fluid that
runs through my veins supports the weight of my years.
(25:56):
I delay no longer. I go to join her where
she waits for me.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
No, don't, oh too late.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
I've broken a gem. I've taken the antidote.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
I stood and watched him with a terrible fascination, but
without pity and without compassion. He turned away from me
and reeled toward the mummy he'd left on the table
across the room. But even as he turned, the parchment
skin of his face cracked and shredded. Discolored lips shriveled
away from the yellow teeth, the vitreous eyes withered, into
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nubs of formless plasm, and the full weight of his
thirty five hundred years descended on him. In an instant,
I left that room of death and walked over the
marble floors toward the exit, my footsteps echoing through the
empty halls, even as they had echoed for so long
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in the corridors of time. And I wondered as I walked,
if Sacer knew now what I knew, that the antidote
in the Ring of Thoth can bring death to the body,
but not to the soul. And I wondered in what
cloak of flesh his spirit now dwelt, just as I
Parme's priest of thought had for the last forty years
(27:26):
of my thirty five hundred dwelt in the body of
John vansitat Smith.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Of the.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Daughter.
Speaker 9 (27:51):
He's so little and.
Speaker 10 (27:52):
Solim well now he's only two days.
Speaker 9 (27:55):
Old, but he doesn't look a bit like either his
father or me.
Speaker 10 (27:58):
Givin time, my dear, All babies look pretty much alike
when they're first born.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
I don't know it he his eyes or it's silly,
of course, but he looks like an Egyptian.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Produced and directed by William N. Robson the Ring of
Thoth by Sir Rotha Conan Doyle was adapted for radio
by Les Crutchfield, with Jack Webb as Sorcerer, Thomas Freebarn
Smith as Van Sidrot Smith, and John Banks as Atma.
The special musical score was conceived and conducted by Sypewer.
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Escape is presented by the Columbia Broadcasting System and it's
AFLATED stations each week at this time. Next week, we
invite you to escape to our I been the South
Pacific with John Russell in his unforgettable story of human frailty,
The Fourth Man, and so good night until next week
at this time, when again it will be time to escape.
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!