August 10, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Of past nine. Oh.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
There are certain people, often well enough, liked, genial souls
from one is always glad to meet, yet who have
the faculty of disappearing without being missed. Crutchley was one
of them. It wasn't until his name was mentioned casually
that evening at the store gates, but most of us
remembered we hadn't seen him for the last.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Year or two.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Me.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Yes, I remember I was talking to all crutch at
the time.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Oh, he's a Wilfu leader thread. I always liked him,
wasn't it queer? He seems you're not completely out of things.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
The last year or two. He's been living very quietly
with his people in Norfolk.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Really, I heard from him any the other days about
a fact.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
I chosen to face himself. He was rather a lamb
in his way. I stood, don't that shiny black hair
of his, which always maybe think of fad and leather.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It's as white as the ceiling now. Then I said,
it's as white as the ceiling now.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Oh no, no, no, no, we're beating asylum last today, I mean
Simon Crutchley. But that lovely sleek care what what happened?
Did you have a nervous breakdown.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Something like that.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
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Speaker 2 (03:09):
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Speaker 1 (03:19):
Parsonal matter.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I wanted to ask you about Crutchley.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Oh huh, I smell a story.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Yes, it's a queer other terrible story. M there's even
one bit that he couldn't.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Oh, wouldn't tell, so no one but he knows what
the sight was that sent him off his head for
six months and turned his hair as white as snow.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
The knight's young yet and they come to my place.
They have a drink. God, I'll tell you all.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I know why. Anyway, he was greatly interested in Joan
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of Arc, you see, and decided to go up to
France to work, as it were.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
On the spot.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I don't know if you liked ruma.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Crutchley was delighted with it.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
He found a hotel.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Practically undiscovered by the English and American hotel d'Avignon. It
stands halfway down one of those old world streets, near
the Garde la rougon dug. But she liked it immediately
and decided to stay. It was out of season, there
were plenty of room does the hotel were many at
a few slepts. Crutchy then had a choice of rooms
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on the first floor. M midyear mm, and I said, ah,
the little garden out here, Oh here, the okay is
very old.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
It is deuced onto the side of the inn.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
The garden and the gardens, a story about the street.
Oh I care for this m.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I think much sun is there.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
But that's a plaine tree, isn't that? It's ye, yes, yes,
I think it is. Hm. That's quiet mind his summer
the little square and he's a four who is yes? Yes, please,
I I should like this room. Uh, please arrange my
luggage be sent up. I'm alright, you see, and the
garden appeal with the ear of the face the work.
It never occurred to our friend that a square enclosed
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on all sides by brick and almost completely a starved
or sunlight would be something of an unhealthy place. He
was quite fascinated, And then the next day, he took
pen and writing materials, and, sitting on one of the
decrepit paint peeling seats, he started on his study of
the Maid of Orlao. To begin with, his writing wasn't successful,
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I think Crutchley and mistook the almost unnatural silence for peace. Instead,
the lack of noise bit in him an indefinable restlessness.
It was almost a relief to break off from his
labors and go out into the little town. Crutchley had
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five days at the hotel, five fruitless days as far
as work went. When something strange happened, it was his
habit to undress in the dark because his window was
overlooked by dozens of others. One night, he was smoking
and stepping into his Pajamatrisers when he wandered.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Over as the window and looked out.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
M m.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Mm clean tree might because of jade muh he staring
at all? He looked down to the old green seat
where he tried to work only that morning, with a faint,
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unreasonable thriddle and a slight tingling of the nostrils, he
realized that someone was sitting there. Hm, it's a woman, Yes,
a woman. She sat with her head turned away, one
arm was thrown along the sloping back of the seat.
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He said that her attitude was one of extreme dejection,
of abject and complete despair when this time of night.
Let's see, I could never see her face was even
from one of the windows.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
In the western side.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Scarce she rang.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
Eye's completely. M.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
You can never know the size of others. So many
peopling as were very really country him and uh tratchedly,
you are romantic. Probably one of the chambermaids had a
different waiter.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Nah.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
He didn't look, And then he went to bed, but
made no.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Effort to sleep.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Instead, he lay there, his mind full of a woman
and her attitude upon the old leading seat. He had
a definite and urgent temptation to go out and look
at her, to use force, if necessary, in turning her
face so that he might look into her eyes. Finally
he could bear it no longer. Mm, she's gone as
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Uh did me explain to to set their own name?
Did you crutch me?
Speaker 8 (09:42):
Go ahead?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Good morning?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You going? If you sleep well? And I got up?
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Well, I tell you what do you mean to ask
you for the last week?
Speaker 8 (09:51):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Can I have a harder pillow?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Uh, pillow harder.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I'm sorry, my my friends is about as good as
my lithy Wayne in Len speaking that it's all a.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Pillow this thing here, ha ha yeah thanks. Oh one
more thing.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Who's the lady who sits out there in the garden
late at night? I mean, I I say sits when
she was here last night? Anyway, somehow I did have
the feeling she might go there off him?
Speaker 7 (10:20):
Hm h he is she?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Yeah, sort of sad looking woman.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
The tramber maid turned towards the window. Her friend saw
a rapid movement of her right hand. It was done
very quickly, just the touch of her forefinger on her
brow and a rapid fumbling of fingers at her breast.
But he knew she had made the sign of the cross.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Luck isn't a lady staying in the US? Monsieur, monsieur,
it's been mistaken. Will monsieur take coffee of the English.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Team, Darling, Let's go out and paint the town red.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
But what about your headache?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
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Speaker 2 (11:14):
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Speaker 4 (11:34):
Ah, Grandpa, that's.
Speaker 8 (11:38):
All you had to do for an hour? To you? Fine?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Thanks?
Speaker 8 (11:44):
So despond as you when he'll use new biotechs.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
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Speaker 1 (12:03):
Do the washing.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
The wine list, monsieur, I thank you here.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Are you quite comfortable in your room?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Sir m I quite thank you, thank you.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
Uh, there is a very pleasant.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Room in the front, sir. It's quite so big, and
then there is the sun. Perhaps you like it better, sir?
Mm uh the white wine there?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Please? How you pronounce it?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Pierre uh le Cromer time, monsieur or a good choice,
very good the room sir in the front, No, no thanks,
mans I shouldn't get a wink asleep.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
See that none of.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
You are MELTI traffic seems to be equipped with sciences,
with trams, medal horns and market cars bumping about all
over the place across those couples. I should never give
any peas very good, monsieur. But he him, I'm trailing
something clear the shemains me, so see him obviously, I
know what's wrong, what they think is wrong. Crauchally, I
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forgot about it for a little while and tucked into
the very excellent food they served at Hotel d'avigno.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
When they had way to return to his.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Table, though with wine, he reopened.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
The subject, why do you want me to change my room?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I do not wish for you to change.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
Your room, if you are satisfied, monsieur.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
When I am not satisfied, and I say.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
Sir, uh, why do you think I may not be?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I only wish for you to be more comfortable, Sir.
There is no sun behind the house.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
It is better are to.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Beware of the sun comes sometimes. Besides, I think monsieur
is one who sees ah the headwaiter is not fast.
Remark seemed cryptic, but our friend let it go. He
didn't feel like discussing the sad lady he had seen
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that any length with Pierre. During the afternoon and evening,
Crutchley had tried to work. He was incapable of concentration,
though he knew, and he was angry with himself because
he knew that he was eking out his patience until
night came in the hope of seeing once more that
still figure of despair in the gardens.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Before he even reached.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
The window, he knew he would see her sitting in
the same place. He was unable to explain even to
himse why he knew it was midnight. She was there
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as before, and crashly filled his eagerness mingled with an
indescribable fear. He seemed to hear a cry of warning
from the honest, workaday world into which he had been born.
He said, it was like starting on a voyage, feeling
no motion from the ship, and then being suddenly aware
of a spreading space of water between the vessel and
the key.
Speaker 9 (15:39):
Madam, look at me, madam, let me see your face,
and I.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Must come to you. Monsieur. Where are you going, sir?
Speaker 7 (16:16):
What the devil's gotta be with you?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
The devil?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Uh uh?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Behind missie. I think perhaps he has something to do
with it.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
You will please have the goodness to return to your room. No,
not the room which you have left server. That is
not a good room.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
But come with me. I shall show you another.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Do you mean by interfering with me? Is not a
prisoner or an asylum? I get into the garden for
a body fresh year before I go to sleep. That
serve is impossibly. The air of the garden is not
good at night. Besides, the doors are locked, and the
patron he have the keys.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Say you're a glass an instant. That's what you are.
Tomorrow I'll report you. I'll can I get get I'll
get out of my way.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Take me for a thief.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Because I leave my room at midnight.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
I I miss.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
The gardens from my window. Why I think you're Jory man.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Sh shir, monsieur. The Bondieu has sent me to save you.
I have wait to night because I know you must
try to enter the garden. Have value of permission to.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Enter your room with you and speak with you as
if you are.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
He says, begleim.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
If you must.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
H I do not think she is there, sir, because
I am here and I do not see. Monsieur is
the one who sees, says, I tell him this morning,
but he will not see her when he is with
one who does not see it. Talking about who is she?
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Who she is I cannot say, sir, and the headwaiter
blessed himself with quick nervous fingers.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
But who she was I can perhaps tell you.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
You need to try and tell me. She's what they
call a ghost, apparition of some blasted thing.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
What one calls her, Monsieur, she is here sometimes for certain.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Who are able to see her.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Monsieur wishes very much to see her face.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Monsieur must not see it.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
There was one who look five years ago, and another
perhaps seven. Ete first he may die after two or
three days. The other, Uh, he's still mad. That is
why I come to save you, Monsieur. There was in
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this town a notary of the name the Boys, And
in a village halfway from here to the ep the
grand Chapeau in which they lived a lady in gen Fee.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
With her father and mother.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
And the lady was very beautiful, but not very good.
Speaker 8 (19:17):
Monsieur.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Uh, uh, no one, but I I don't quite see
what he has A early.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
You will please a Yeah, Monsieur le boy fell in
love with her.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I think she loved him too, better as all the others.
So he make application for her hand, that he was bougeois,
and she was arised to cry.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
She had not so very much.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Money, and the application it was refused. And so they
find for her another husband who she loved not, and
she finds herself someone else, and there is divorce, and
she have many lovers, for.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
She was very beautiful, but not so very good.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
For ten years. Perhaps she make her.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Beauty to make slaves of men, and one he may
kill himself because of.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Her, but she does not mind.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
And all the time, Monsieur le Boyne, he does not marry.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Because he could not love another woman.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
But at last this lady, she have a dreadful accident.
M It is a lamp which blow up at her turface.
In those days, the sir John's did not know how
to make new features. Oh it was rightful, monsieur.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
She has been so.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Lovely, and now she have nothing left except just the eyes.
And she go about wearing a long thick veil because
she have become terrible to see. And her lovers they
no longer love, and she have no husband.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Because she have been divorce h.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
But uh I he.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Can you mean she's the well, Monsieur Lebar.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
You write to her father and once more he may
offer for her hand. The father he is willing because
she no longer.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Very young, and she is terrible to see.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
But the father, he is a man of honor, monsieur,
and he insists let Monsieur Lebarn see her face before
he decide if he still wish her in marrish. So
a meeting is arranged, and her father and her mother
bring her here to this hotel.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
The lady come with him, wearing her thick veil.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
She insists to see Monsieur lebar alone, so she wait
out there in the garden. Love us not always what
do we think it? Or perhaps Monsieur lebouri I think
all the time that his love goes deeper than her beauty.
And when he see her write for a changed face,
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he find out the truth. Perhaps when she put aside
the veil, she see that he a flinch. But see
lebuy he walk out alone, and she stays sitting on
the seat down there, And presently.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Her mother and her father come, but.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
She does not speak or move, and in her hand
they find.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
A little empty bottles. She uh all her life, she
live for love.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
L boy is the last of her lovers. When he
no longer love than that is the last of everything.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
She's bringing the bottle with her in case he does
not love.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
So it happened a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
And now perhaps monsieur understand why perhaps it is better
you sleep in the front of the building to night
and change his hotel tomorrow. That why does.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
She can make er? How do we norm as you?
Speaker 4 (23:18):
She's a thing of evil.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
When her face was lovely while she live, she use
it to destroy me. Now she still use it to destroy.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
But otherwise.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
She have some great evil power which draw those who
can see her. They feel they must not rest until
they have looked upon her face.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
And that face is not good to look upon.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Ah, never drink any ah, No thanks, listen, what can't
be all?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Poor or Crutchley? But that can't be all?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
No, it isn't quite all. I wish that it were.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Crutchley was scared.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
He changed his room and the next day he moved out.
He went to another hotel, tried to work, but couldn't.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
The horror of the.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Thing he had a fascination for him, and the next night,
as it started to get dark, he asked himself why
he shouldn't go and look.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
He was compelled.
Speaker 7 (24:36):
I shouldn't I got see he compelled me, and if.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I look from a distance, he didn't realize that she
was drawing him.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Drawing him to her. He went to the hotel, Hotel Devino.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
He walked around the building twice and then walked straight
in through the swing doors, as if he still stayed there.
Speaker 7 (24:58):
He went to the first floor.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
And find one of the doors that led into the
walled garden.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
It was late and the door was unlocked.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
He just stood there, staring in horror at that which
sat upon the seat.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
He was drawn like a muff to a candle flame.
Speaker 9 (25:22):
Madam, please look at.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
Me, Adam, let me let me see your face. And
please look at me, Adam.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
I know your story and I pity you allow me.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
To see your face.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
He was lost. He knew it.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
The power was too strong for him.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
He bent over her.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
Wh wh what I mean?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
That's the part Crutchy can't rarely describe. There weren't any
features left in her face, But it wasn't just that.
Something much worse, much more subtle. Something happened, I know
before his sense left him, thoughtever he couldn't tell me.
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He's getting better though, nerves still in shreds, of course.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
And he has one or two peculiar versions. What are they?
Speaker 7 (27:02):
He can't bear to be touched, ought to hear anybody laugh.
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Speaker 4 (27:25):
Granger of Gordon.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
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washing day from now on. Some of my family's accessories
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As you say.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
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Speaker 1 (28:04):
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Speaker 4 (28:04):
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Speaker 3 (28:19):
Remember, Biotechts Beyond Midnight is presented every Friday night at
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Of past nine. Oh.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
There are certain people, often well enough, liked, genial souls
from one is always glad to meet, yet who have
the faculty of disappearing without being missed. Crutchley was one
of them. It wasn't until his name was mentioned casually
that evening at the store gates, but most of us
remembered we hadn't seen him for the last.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Year or two.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Me.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Yes, I remember I was talking to all crutch at
the time.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Oh, he's a Wilfu leader thread. I always liked him,
wasn't it queer? He seems you're not completely out of things.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
The last year or two. He's been living very quietly
with his people in Norfolk.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Really, I heard from him any the other days about
a fact.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
I chosen to face himself. He was rather a lamb
in his way. I stood, don't that shiny black hair
of his, which always maybe think of fad and leather.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It's as white as the ceiling now. Then I said,
it's as white as the ceiling now.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Oh no, no, no, no, we're beating asylum last today, I mean
Simon Crutchley. But that lovely sleek care what what happened?
Did you have a nervous breakdown.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Something like that.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
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Speaker 6 (02:02):
We've made claims that biotechs will get rid of the
stubborness stands just by soaking. I dare say, like others,
you feel a bit skeptical about these claims, and so
we've been connecting letters from ladies who use biotechs just
to quote you from time to time in order to
authenticate our advertisement. And missus odelf for beechfordt see point
in the Cape. Wilton said that biotechs is a very
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that it does what it claims to do. Missus dout
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Speaker 4 (03:20):
I wanted to ask you about Crutchley.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Oh huh, I smell a story.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Yes, it's a queer other terrible story. M there's even
one bit that he couldn't.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Oh, wouldn't tell, so no one but he knows what
the sight was that sent him off his head for
six months and turned his hair as white as snow.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
The knight's young yet and they come to my place.
They have a drink. God, I'll tell you all.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I know why. Anyway, he was greatly interested in Joan
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of Arc, you see, and decided to go up to
France to work, as it were.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
On the spot.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
I don't know if you liked ruma.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Crutchley was delighted with it.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
He found a hotel.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Practically undiscovered by the English and American hotel d'Avignon. It
stands halfway down one of those old world streets, near
the Garde la rougon dug. But she liked it immediately
and decided to stay. It was out of season, there
were plenty of room does the hotel were many at
a few slepts. Crutchy then had a choice of rooms
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on the first floor. M midyear mm, and I said, ah,
the little garden out here, Oh here, the okay is
very old.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
It is deuced onto the side of the inn.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
The garden and the gardens, a story about the street.
Oh I care for this m.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I think much sun is there.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
But that's a plaine tree, isn't that? It's ye, yes, yes,
I think it is. Hm. That's quiet mind his summer
the little square and he's a four who is yes? Yes, please,
I I should like this room. Uh, please arrange my
luggage be sent up. I'm alright, you see, and the
garden appeal with the ear of the face the work.
It never occurred to our friend that a square enclosed
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on all sides by brick and almost completely a starved
or sunlight would be something of an unhealthy place. He
was quite fascinated, And then the next day, he took
pen and writing materials, and, sitting on one of the
decrepit paint peeling seats, he started on his study of
the Maid of Orlao. To begin with, his writing wasn't successful,
(06:03):
I think Crutchley and mistook the almost unnatural silence for peace. Instead,
the lack of noise bit in him an indefinable restlessness.
It was almost a relief to break off from his
labors and go out into the little town. Crutchley had
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five days at the hotel, five fruitless days as far
as work went. When something strange happened, it was his
habit to undress in the dark because his window was
overlooked by dozens of others. One night, he was smoking
and stepping into his Pajamatrisers when he wandered.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Over as the window and looked out.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
M m.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Mm clean tree might because of jade muh he staring
at all? He looked down to the old green seat
where he tried to work only that morning, with a faint,
(07:25):
unreasonable thriddle and a slight tingling of the nostrils, he
realized that someone was sitting there. Hm, it's a woman, Yes,
a woman. She sat with her head turned away, one
arm was thrown along the sloping back of the seat.
(07:45):
He said that her attitude was one of extreme dejection,
of abject and complete despair when this time of night.
Let's see, I could never see her face was even
from one of the windows.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
In the western side.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Scarce she rang.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
Eye's completely. M.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
You can never know the size of others. So many
peopling as were very really country him and uh tratchedly,
you are romantic. Probably one of the chambermaids had a
different waiter.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Nah.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
He didn't look, And then he went to bed, but
made no.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Effort to sleep.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Instead, he lay there, his mind full of a woman
and her attitude upon the old leading seat. He had
a definite and urgent temptation to go out and look
at her, to use force, if necessary, in turning her
face so that he might look into her eyes. Finally
he could bear it no longer. Mm, she's gone as
(09:11):
Uh did me explain to to set their own name?
Did you crutch me?
Speaker 8 (09:42):
Go ahead?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Good morning?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You going? If you sleep well? And I got up?
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Well, I tell you what do you mean to ask
you for the last week?
Speaker 8 (09:51):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Can I have a harder pillow?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Uh, pillow harder.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I'm sorry, my my friends is about as good as
my lithy Wayne in Len speaking that it's all a.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Pillow this thing here, ha ha yeah thanks. Oh one
more thing.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Who's the lady who sits out there in the garden
late at night? I mean, I I say sits when
she was here last night? Anyway, somehow I did have
the feeling she might go there off him?
Speaker 7 (10:20):
Hm h he is she?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Yeah, sort of sad looking woman.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
The tramber maid turned towards the window. Her friend saw
a rapid movement of her right hand. It was done
very quickly, just the touch of her forefinger on her
brow and a rapid fumbling of fingers at her breast.
But he knew she had made the sign of the cross.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Luck isn't a lady staying in the US? Monsieur, monsieur,
it's been mistaken. Will monsieur take coffee of the English.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Team, Darling, Let's go out and paint the town red.
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Ah, Grandpa, that's.
Speaker 8 (11:38):
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Speaker 1 (12:03):
Do the washing.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
The wine list, monsieur, I thank you here.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Are you quite comfortable in your room?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Sir m I quite thank you, thank you.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
Uh, there is a very pleasant.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Room in the front, sir. It's quite so big, and
then there is the sun. Perhaps you like it better, sir?
Mm uh the white wine there?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Please? How you pronounce it?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Pierre uh le Cromer time, monsieur or a good choice,
very good the room sir in the front, No, no thanks,
mans I shouldn't get a wink asleep.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
See that none of.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
You are MELTI traffic seems to be equipped with sciences,
with trams, medal horns and market cars bumping about all
over the place across those couples. I should never give
any peas very good, monsieur. But he him, I'm trailing
something clear the shemains me, so see him obviously, I
know what's wrong, what they think is wrong. Crauchally, I
(13:14):
forgot about it for a little while and tucked into
the very excellent food they served at Hotel d'avigno.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
When they had way to return to his.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Table, though with wine, he reopened.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
The subject, why do you want me to change my room?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I do not wish for you to change.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
Your room, if you are satisfied, monsieur.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
When I am not satisfied, and I say.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
Sir, uh, why do you think I may not be?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I only wish for you to be more comfortable, Sir.
There is no sun behind the house.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
It is better are to.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Beware of the sun comes sometimes. Besides, I think monsieur
is one who sees ah the headwaiter is not fast.
Remark seemed cryptic, but our friend let it go. He
didn't feel like discussing the sad lady he had seen
(14:07):
that any length with Pierre. During the afternoon and evening,
Crutchley had tried to work. He was incapable of concentration,
though he knew, and he was angry with himself because
he knew that he was eking out his patience until
night came in the hope of seeing once more that
still figure of despair in the gardens.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Before he even reached.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
The window, he knew he would see her sitting in
the same place. He was unable to explain even to
himse why he knew it was midnight. She was there
(15:20):
as before, and crashly filled his eagerness mingled with an
indescribable fear. He seemed to hear a cry of warning
from the honest, workaday world into which he had been born.
He said, it was like starting on a voyage, feeling
no motion from the ship, and then being suddenly aware
of a spreading space of water between the vessel and
the key.
Speaker 9 (15:39):
Madam, look at me, madam, let me see your face,
and I.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Must come to you. Monsieur. Where are you going, sir?
Speaker 7 (16:16):
What the devil's gotta be with you?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
The devil?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Uh uh?
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Behind missie. I think perhaps he has something to do
with it.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
You will please have the goodness to return to your room. No,
not the room which you have left server. That is
not a good room.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
But come with me. I shall show you another.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Do you mean by interfering with me? Is not a
prisoner or an asylum? I get into the garden for
a body fresh year before I go to sleep. That
serve is impossibly. The air of the garden is not
good at night. Besides, the doors are locked, and the
patron he have the keys.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Say you're a glass an instant. That's what you are.
Tomorrow I'll report you. I'll can I get get I'll
get out of my way.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Take me for a thief.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Because I leave my room at midnight.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
I I miss.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
The gardens from my window. Why I think you're Jory man.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Sh shir, monsieur. The Bondieu has sent me to save you.
I have wait to night because I know you must
try to enter the garden. Have value of permission to.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Enter your room with you and speak with you as
if you are.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
He says, begleim.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
If you must.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
H I do not think she is there, sir, because
I am here and I do not see. Monsieur is
the one who sees, says, I tell him this morning,
but he will not see her when he is with
one who does not see it. Talking about who is she?
(18:02):
Who she is I cannot say, sir, and the headwaiter
blessed himself with quick nervous fingers.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
But who she was I can perhaps tell you.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
You need to try and tell me. She's what they
call a ghost, apparition of some blasted thing.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
What one calls her, Monsieur, she is here sometimes for certain.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Who are able to see her.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Monsieur wishes very much to see her face.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Monsieur must not see it.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
There was one who look five years ago, and another
perhaps seven. Ete first he may die after two or
three days. The other, Uh, he's still mad. That is
why I come to save you, Monsieur. There was in
(18:56):
this town a notary of the name the Boys, And
in a village halfway from here to the ep the
grand Chapeau in which they lived a lady in gen Fee.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
With her father and mother.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
And the lady was very beautiful, but not very good.
Speaker 8 (19:17):
Monsieur.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Uh, uh, no one, but I I don't quite see
what he has A early.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
You will please a Yeah, Monsieur le boy fell in
love with her.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I think she loved him too, better as all the others.
So he make application for her hand, that he was bougeois,
and she was arised to cry.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
She had not so very much.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Money, and the application it was refused. And so they
find for her another husband who she loved not, and
she finds herself someone else, and there is divorce, and
she have many lovers, for.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
She was very beautiful, but not so very good.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
For ten years. Perhaps she make her.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Beauty to make slaves of men, and one he may
kill himself because of.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Her, but she does not mind.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
And all the time, Monsieur le Boyne, he does not marry.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Because he could not love another woman.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
But at last this lady, she have a dreadful accident.
M It is a lamp which blow up at her turface.
In those days, the sir John's did not know how
to make new features. Oh it was rightful, monsieur.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
She has been so.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Lovely, and now she have nothing left except just the eyes.
And she go about wearing a long thick veil because
she have become terrible to see. And her lovers they
no longer love, and she have no husband.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Because she have been divorce h.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
But uh I he.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Can you mean she's the well, Monsieur Lebar.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
You write to her father and once more he may
offer for her hand. The father he is willing because
she no longer.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Very young, and she is terrible to see.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
But the father, he is a man of honor, monsieur,
and he insists let Monsieur Lebarn see her face before
he decide if he still wish her in marrish. So
a meeting is arranged, and her father and her mother
bring her here to this hotel.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
The lady come with him, wearing her thick veil.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
She insists to see Monsieur lebar alone, so she wait
out there in the garden. Love us not always what
do we think it? Or perhaps Monsieur lebouri I think
all the time that his love goes deeper than her beauty.
And when he see her write for a changed face,
(22:02):
he find out the truth. Perhaps when she put aside
the veil, she see that he a flinch. But see
lebuy he walk out alone, and she stays sitting on
the seat down there, And presently.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Her mother and her father come, but.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
She does not speak or move, and in her hand
they find.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
A little empty bottles. She uh all her life, she
live for love.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
L boy is the last of her lovers. When he
no longer love than that is the last of everything.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
She's bringing the bottle with her in case he does
not love.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
So it happened a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
And now perhaps monsieur understand why perhaps it is better
you sleep in the front of the building to night
and change his hotel tomorrow. That why does.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
She can make er? How do we norm as you?
Speaker 4 (23:18):
She's a thing of evil.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
When her face was lovely while she live, she use
it to destroy me. Now she still use it to destroy.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
But otherwise.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
She have some great evil power which draw those who
can see her. They feel they must not rest until
they have looked upon her face.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
And that face is not good to look upon.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Ah, never drink any ah, No thanks, listen, what can't
be all?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Poor or Crutchley? But that can't be all?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
No, it isn't quite all. I wish that it were.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Crutchley was scared.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
He changed his room and the next day he moved out.
He went to another hotel, tried to work, but couldn't.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
The horror of the.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Thing he had a fascination for him, and the next night,
as it started to get dark, he asked himself why
he shouldn't go and look.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
He was compelled.
Speaker 7 (24:36):
I shouldn't I got see he compelled me, and if.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I look from a distance, he didn't realize that she
was drawing him.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Drawing him to her. He went to the hotel, Hotel Devino.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
He walked around the building twice and then walked straight
in through the swing doors, as if he still stayed there.
Speaker 7 (24:58):
He went to the first floor.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
And find one of the doors that led into the
walled garden.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
It was late and the door was unlocked.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
He just stood there, staring in horror at that which
sat upon the seat.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
He was drawn like a muff to a candle flame.
Speaker 9 (25:22):
Madam, please look at.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
Me, Adam, let me let me see your face. And
please look at me, Adam.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
I know your story and I pity you allow me.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
To see your face.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
He was lost. He knew it.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
The power was too strong for him.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
He bent over her.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
Wh wh what I mean?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
That's the part Crutchy can't rarely describe. There weren't any
features left in her face, But it wasn't just that.
Something much worse, much more subtle. Something happened, I know
before his sense left him, thoughtever he couldn't tell me.
(26:50):
He's getting better though, nerves still in shreds, of course.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
And he has one or two peculiar versions. What are they?
Speaker 7 (27:02):
He can't bear to be touched, ought to hear anybody laugh.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Now that is we're speaking about biotechs in a series
of programs, and a Missus C. B.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Granger of Gordon.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
Roade, Heathfield in the Cape wrote to say that she
decided to try our biotechs just to see if it
lived up through our claims. Since he said, I bought
a packet and lo and behold, it actually did just
what the advert said. I am so proud of the
children's white shirts, the hankies and the underwear that I
want to say it will be biotechs for me every
washing day from now on. Some of my family's accessories
(27:49):
were left with slight stains, but now thanks to biotechs soaking,
they come out white and the stains do go away.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
As you say.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
Now, that is the statement from Missus Granger of Heathfield
of the Cape, and it bears out what we have been.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Saint you ladies.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Ever since Biotechs.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
First came on the market, we said.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
To you, it is different to any washing product that
you have ever used before. We claim that the stubborn
stains will vanish, and people like Missus Granger bear out
our claims.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Remember, Biotechts Beyond Midnight is presented every Friday night at
half past nine by Biotexts, the new soak and pre
washed powder. The program is adapted for broadcasting and produced
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