August 19, 2025 • 44 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Come in.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I'm Tommy Grimes.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
How many of us have harbored a business or a
deep cut grudge that rankled and that we could not
forget or forgive, and then the fires of hate festered within.
There comes a point where one can only be a
rangued by death. That is the theme of today's Mister
Theater adaptation of the story by Alexander Pushkin. Can't you
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There's no one in my life but you?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
You say that so easily, a lot. Don't you know
what you have done? You have never spoken to me
like that before. I'm going home.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
You're not going home, Lot, You are going if.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
You make time with my Am you having me? Where
were you last Thursday? And don't make up some story?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I want to know where and with whom?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Our mystery drama The Last Duel is adapted for the
Mystery Faded by James Addat Junior from a story by
Alexander Pushkin that stars Lee Richardson. I'll be back shortly
with at one. We are in India one hundred and
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fifty years ago under the rule of the British Imperial Administration.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Offices and men.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Are stationed in many parts of the country. They are reassigned, moved,
loose old friends, and make new enemies. Sharing our life,
there's no guarantee of lasting friendship. Our story begins doing
cemetery services for one Colonel Surgerio, who died as mysteriously as.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
The life believed. Hard to believe the colonel's day, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I thought I never could die young.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
But however he died. He had a coming to him.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
You never liked Sergio?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Did You didn't do that? There wasn't much too like
with him.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I mean, he didn't really open up to anyone.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You never knew what he was thinking.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Did you?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Can't you respect him for risking his life to wipe
out a band of kindari glibbing single him?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
You believe though?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Why not? It's the official one. An other official one
was that he was shot on the back by one
of his own men. Where did you hear that Serchio
had courage written all over him?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Really?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
What about his running from a duel with me? The
word for him is not courage but cowardice. Lawrence, You're
a fool. You don't know the first thing about his reason.
I know, and I wish to know. Captain he refused
to defend his honor when he was challenged. You forget
it was your honor, not his, that needed defending.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
You're so stupid.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I cannot abide a stupid man, Captain Nicholson, and I
hope you don't need that.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I've suspected it all along about you.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It's quite obvious you've got your commission because your father
is the governor General. Gentumine, officers, a eulogy is about
to be read for the colonel. Kindly lower your voice,
Captain Nicholson, you have insulted my family and myself. I
shall have my seconds, bring you the challenge in the morning.
Good days that Lawrence he was a fool. He is
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a fool. But to go back to the beginning, It
all started when Lieutenant Lawrence arrived in India and joined
our regiment. He knows nothing about Sergier, and now he
even challenges me to a duel, which means I shall
have to kill him. Interesting parallelist the problem that this
Sergio had famous evening whee playing baccarat. I've been standing
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by the front door watching those clouds gather, Nicholson, it
will be one deuce of a storm.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Sergio.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Don't tell me I'm the first to arrive again. Every
time I come for dinner and cards, I'm the first,
But I like that in New Nicholson, I say, Nicholson,
what's the new man?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Like Lawrence?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I understand he was posted on from high Debtabat.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
His father is the governor general.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Oh that Lawrence. Because I seem to remember there was
some kind of a scandal, was a cheating.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Of cards or with the major's wife.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I've invited him over for baccarat tonight. He seems quite pleasant,
mentioned to really enjoy his cards. He's not likely to
do anything shifty. After all, he is the governor's son.
I asked him along with Douglas and Sir William. I
thought the five of us would enjoy it. About robins.
I have never believed those stories. Those chaps cheat eating.
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I always say that about heavy winners, speaking.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Of the devil. I can get thing coming up for now,
and Douglas.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Sir William right behind him, hurry up, all are your
skies are opening up? Now? We can use a bit
of ring and my keen up. I've always had bad
luck cars. During US thunderstorm, gentlemen, we played for an hour.
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The down paus made me realize it's about time for
us to do some pun down for ourselves. If anybody
would care for a spot of brandy or portrait's on
the sideboard, and just do help yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Said Joe.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Are I showing you something in the library?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I will leave the table just as it is.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Everyone has his own pile of counters.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Nothing will be touched.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Oh yes, it will silloud be along. Go ahead, gentlemen,
make yourselves it out. Uh what is it you wish
to show me? If I wanted to speak to you
where no one could hears, Yes, I.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Thought it was that.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
And even watching Lawrence, no, not particularly, I'd say he's
not playing back that.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
According to Hoyld, I haven't noticed the same.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Everyone has three pounds and five palm counters right, as
many as they buy from the bank, which they bet
before the cards are down. Yes, you know that. What
would you say if I told you on more than
one occasion I saw Lawrence holding on to some red
five pound counters after.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
The cards were there.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Well, there's nothing wrong about that. There's no rule that
says you can't have a counter or your hand hidden
in your hand. But what would be the point during
under the play, when sir William had a natural A
nine and the court can yes, I do blawn sleep
were saw so, and at that moment dropped three more
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or five pound counters. He had partly decided the one
he'd be because I remember he made twenty pounds on
that cheating for a few pounds hard to believe. I'm
sorry the devity. I had better keep an eye on him.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
I don't hope you've a staked love.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I've had friends in his house for cards for years
and nothing like this has ever occurred. There's always the
first time, every man, I ask your indulgence.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
But I am closing the bank.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
You may cash in your accounters, Colonel. Does that mean
I shan't have a chance to impack my losses, Sir
William for the moment, I can't say. The straw is
not messening, and I think i'd better have a look
around upstairs to make sure the windows are all closed.
But don't believe us. I have a spot more to drink,
and cigars are on the table that you care for them, Lawrence,
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would you mind very much stepping.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Into the library with me and little soon?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
If you don't mind, won't you join us? You two
the lot in I'll dart upstairs and check the windows
and be right with you, Lawrence. Have you seen the
colonel's pistol collection? And there I haven't. I've heard you
were a very good shot at hide about him? Not really,
but I'm interested in guns with the follow me.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I tell you what the.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Terournelists collected is sicking only to what they have in
the positions. Have you any idea what the Colonel wants
to talk to me about. He always likes to have
a chat with the new man. How are you getting
on me too badly? And where are the Kernel's guns?
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Right behind you? Let me show you his pride?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Hold it me hm, it's quite night. Oh. I was
just playing curiat during your small arms museum dry upstairs? Ah, Lawrence,
you are holding the cult h Is it I ever
heard of them? You never had one in my hand before.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I was lucky to get one of them.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
This is an original made by Samuel Cult himself.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Sergia. If you don't need me, I think i'll join you.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I do need you, and i'd like you to hear
what I have to say to Lawrence. Yes, if you notice,
when you cock the hammer, it automatically revolves the cylinder.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Try it.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
It's not loaded. Ingenious, simple, useful escentral. I'd like to
know why you wish to talk to me, Colonel Lawrence.
Here in kum Fuller, where we happen to be stationed,
we do things a certain way. One does not cheat
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at cards. It is not done.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
You are joking, aren't you?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Sam?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Where are you?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I wouldn't regard such an accusation a joke, My dear boy.
The weather is abated. There is no reason for you
to remain in a house.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Where you are not welcome.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I do not take insults lightly, say joke.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I am all right.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I saw it coming Florence. You off your head attacking
a senior officer. That's an exceedingly valuable pistol you were
tossing about. I don't care for insults, nor do I
accept them, and do nothing about the young man you
have dis honored my house. You will have the goodness
to withdraw, and you are fortunate, indeed that this card
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cheating happened in my sight. II show withdraw, sir, you
will be hearing from my seconds in the morning.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Good night.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
What a word of admission on a puppet I expected
neither you work duel with a man of lesson. It's
difficult for me to see how a man like that
can avenge his honor. But it doesn't happen. You will
have the choice of weapons, and the entire incident will
end in blood. His blood. Perhaps not, he may think
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better of the challenge and not send his seconds around
to me.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I'm sorry to say.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Lieutenant Lawrence did send his seconds, and as his customary,
offered Sergio a choice of weapons, but for some mysterious
reason of his own it quite shook me. Sergio made
peace with the dishonest lieutenant, and the duel was scotched.
Became the scandal of the entire regiment. Nicholson, I believe
I owe you an explanation.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I asked you here because.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Of this letter which I received today. It may be, Nicholson,
you and I I will never see one another again
by you leaving the regimend later today. I've asked Captain
Hart just to share duties with you. Not illness in
the family, a not illness, but possibly death. My dear friend,
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I like you, and it would be painful for me
to leave you with.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
The wrong impression. I would never have such an impression.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
You could not believe I would permit the lieutenant to
challenge me to a duel which I would not honor.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I knew you had reasons.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
You are the only one who'll hear them, and I ask,
when you have heard them, that you keep them to
yourself as long as I am alive. If you hear
that I have been killed, I'd leave it to your
judgment how much you will tell the world.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
When I am dead.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I would like my old comrades to believe that I
died with the honor.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Do you remember when a lieutenant was caught cheating, the
colonel said to him, you have dishonored my house. A
good name is what all men es century and a
half a girl wished to live.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
And die by.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
As the Ago says to a fellow, good name in
man and woman, jear, my lord is the immediate jewel
of their souls. He that tilches from me my good
name robs me of that which not enriches him, and
makes me poor. Indeed, I shall return shortly to act
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to MM. I think you can get a better idea
of the importance of a dude in the days we
are dramatizing if you bear in mind that everyone called
a duel, an affair of honor to this, I got
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a challenge.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
For whatever the reason.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
With pump amount of turning tail and running. The curtain
rises on Colonel Sergio's residence, blocked the room with his departure.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Sergio, do you feel more like telling me why you
are leaving? Now?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
No?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
No, I thought i'd a little more target practice since
you had. We'll talk you see. I have placed the
star on the top of the each fence post. Let
me just finish off the ones to the.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Right of the gate. Don't you ever miss at forty paces? Hardly?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
There's no point in using firearms unless one knows howl Nicholson.
You're not a bad shot yourself, whether I have a
triumph or not.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
About now, SAIDA. I mean here all afternoon.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
You still haven't told me why you are leaving. You
and Hartness will do very well together. The regiment likes
you both because it is short or along. I shall
never come back here.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
But why not a form of.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Pending over the sword? There's so many of them in
the punts. I cannot wait for approval of running. I've
never seen you like this.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
You think I'm not in.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Control of myself I don't know what to think.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Come back inside the house.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I think better sitting down alright, the door is closed.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
We are alone.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Why did I refuse to leave the source point or
a gun barrel with that full of a lieutenant who
cheated the cards in my house? That's what has been
cut only because I cannot understand it. The regiment to
a man, all know, Lieutenant Lawrence is no better than
a common thief. That you should not make an example
of him is incomprehensible to them. My dear friend, I
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have no right to expose myself, even to the possibility
of death. Six years ago I was a slap in
the face, and my enemy still lives. I didn't fight him.
What happened oways the duel took place, and here is
a souvenir of the event. I haven't seen one of
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those in years. It's a French called it a brunei
the police. It's all, it's mine.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
It's what we wore in Madras in those early days.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
A red cap with a gold tassel and gold braid
around the rim.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Look at it closely. Is that a bullet hole an
inch above the fore him passes.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Right through a souvenir, the greatest insult ever paid me.
I was then, as I am now, in command of
a regiment and engaged to be married to a girl
named Martin, chief of a well to do a Dutch family.
When I was off duty, we would often meet in
the park overlooking.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
The Bay Bengroom.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
She was the loveliest thing I had ever known, and
at that time I.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Thought she loved me.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Said, gee, there is no one in my life but you.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
How can you say that so quickly and so easily?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Said gee, what a tone of voice. What have I done?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
You don't know, you have no idea.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
You have never spoken to me like this before I'm
going home.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
You are not going home.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
You're going to listen to me. Let go my arm?
Where were you last Thursday? Thursday? Thirstay, don't make up
some story. I wanna know where and with whom?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
And why are you like this? Papa had a business friend,
a cotton girl from the Western district.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And we all went first sale in the bay. And
then why do you wanna know this?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Who was we all?
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Papa, Mama and this gentleman in his arm.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
At last the truth.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Then in the me we went to dinner at the club,
and that is all all.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yes, there was an orchestra. You dance, of course, the
cotton grower's son, Yes, he dance well, yes, but I
wasn't interested in him. He's only a bored unless you
dance quite a long time.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Well, he's not.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Such a boy. He's in our regiment, yes, I believe so.
His father has a title. They are also Dutch. I
think he's a county. You danced unto him midnight. You
then walked into the gardens with him holding hands.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
I don't know who told you such untruths, but I
would never enjoyed his company alone.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
We were always CHAPERI in mater.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I have friends, they have eyes.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Until you come to me and apologize and promise you
will never look at another man. I consider our engagement broken.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
You are I'm just and you are cruel, and I
will never come and vendit me to you.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Perhaps not, we shall see good night. Martha. I was
so sure of her, you see, I expected a note
the following day begging forgiveness. Signever came never and all
I said you didn't doing was driving her into a
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friendship with this George, who.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
I believe didn't really care for her at all.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
A month later, I was in the Bombay club. There
was Martha this George on the promenade floor. I was headstrong,
headstrong then, and miss stupid as our car cheating lieutenant.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I walked up to them while.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
They were dancing and publicly insulted the young man.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Did I hear you? Correct?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Picanna, you did, sir, I meant every word. Martha, my dear,
we must start dancing for a moment. You're making a spectacle.
People are watching. Will you excuse us, Colonel Sergio, I
will permit you to think twice about what you have
just said. I do not need to let me ask you,
as a gentleman, to reflect upon your standard. While I
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take this young lady back to her table. I shall
be standing right here awaiting your reserve.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Sure the colonel is very headstrong, don't go back to
him to meet him alone.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
No good can come of this rotter. Before I came
to my dress, I heard you were engaged, so I
understand your concern. The engagement is broken, and I didn't
realize it was the colonel of this regiment you were
engaged to. It is not the most diplomatic way of
making one's mark. To hold in one's arms all evening.
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The fiance of the commanding officer, Sergio is a dead shot.
I beg you do.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Not respond to his insult. It's precisely what he wants
you to do.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Want I cannot so my sake is precise speak for
in your sake, I must go to him.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Please remain here at this table, and I shall come
back to you. There should as dangerous, I know you.
Try to understand. I could never look my father in
the eye, or you or myself if I ran away.
The colonel does not frighten us. I have a great
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deal of regimental business to attend too.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
I can wait for you no longer. I have come
to bid you a good light.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Matter with you, sir, I have no further word. You
heard what I said, and I meant it. I have
no idea, Colonel, why you spoke to me in such
a manner. I have only recently joined your regiment. Colonel,
please accept this answer to your insult. You know the
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consequences of striking a superior officer. I sat you as
a man, not as a walking uniform as it s
or pistols. He preferstogo. What are you doing it? Is madness.
You provoked his wah laying the time and place. Please, sir,
gone today at the firing range.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I shall be there with my seconds. I bid you
both good night.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Sure, So what have you done?
Speaker 5 (22:17):
SERUSI is the most accurate marksman in the regiments.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
We shall see before dawn. I waited for him at
the firing range with my three seconds. He arrived presently
with one second on foot in uniform. He had his
cap in his hands and was taking something out of
it and putting it into his mouth. His unconcerned air
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made me nervous. Colonel, would you instruct the seconds to
measure off the distance? For us?
Speaker 1 (22:52):
It was cherry's.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
He was eating out of his cap, one after the other.
I was tense with anger at his indifference. Twelve paces
would be about right, would you say, Colonel, Yes, twelve?
I believe it is you who must fire the first shot, Colonel.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
So go ahead whenever you're ready.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I'll just have a few more of these cherries while
I wait. Delicious, They're important from Spain. It was quite
the most exasperating experience of my life. My agitation was
so great I knew that my hand would shake so
in order to give myself time to calm down. I
ceded to him to fire the first shot, as you wish, Colonel,
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ready any time. His bullet went right through my cap.
That hole you see there front and back hardly touched me.
Sends the hair pats. I didn't even feel it. Now
it was my turn. But the man had absolutely no fear.
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He kept eating the cherries as though he had nothing
better to do. Unnerving is the word for it. Anytime,
please fire, Colonel, I thought to myself, what's the use
of depriving this man of life when he attaches no
value to it whatsoever?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I put down my pistol.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Dear man, you don't have to wait until I'm finished.
It's your turn to finish me. You don't seem to
be ready for deaths just at present. Obviously you wish
to go on with your breakfast. Don't let me stop you, please, Colonel.
I enjoy eating. I cannot think of a better way
to die, and I expect you to do your duty
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as an honorable man.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I cannot.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I will not fire just as you please. Shall we
say then that you owe me a shots. I shall
always be at your service.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
My dear Nicholson. That was it. That was all, but
you came to an end.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I was then transferred from Madras to Compala. And now
this letter from one of my old friends. It informs
me that my adversary, who is still in madrass is
planning to be married. So we shall see if he
will still look dead in the face with such indifference
on the eve of marriage as he did eating cherries
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at dawn. So that's why you're leaving Cumbala. The man
said he was at my service, didn't day. I don't
like to keep anyone waiting. Why you so determined to
fire that last shot, Surger, because he slapped you, or
because when he shot you believed he mis killing you deliberately? Nicholson,
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it's getting late.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
I want more back to pack.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
And I don't want to miss the six o'clock coach.
Suppose you find George in Madras. Suppose you're used to
fire that shot and you miss, then it is again
his turn to fire me, and.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
In this time he does not miss.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Remember it as the eve of his wedding. He risks
more than breakfast, SAIDO, forget the duel. It accomplishes noth
here catch keep the cap for me.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
If I don't come back?
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Were its undressed parades?
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Goodbye.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
The last I saw of Sergio, he was striding out
of a house that as mysterious and proud, stubborn, strange
as ever. I held his red cap with a gold
braid and the gold tassel in my hand, and wondered
if I should ever see him again.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Do levonor a was a private encounter as a result
of real or imagined insult.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
It started about the fifteenth century and spread over.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
The macho men of the time flushed swords and pull triggers.
Even the British Military Code authorized dulan. The time's changed,
don't they? By today's standards of behavior. Any such private
vendetta is called murder. I shall return shortly with back three.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Time passes.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Colonel Sergio never returned to his regiment in Campola. Captain
Nicholson and many in his charge are transferred to Bombay.
His adjutant turns.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Out to be the man he suspected of cheating At Baccara.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Staff officer Lieutenant Lawrence, charged with the day's routines, distribution
of orders, et cetera. The Lieutenant has an unusual message
to deliver this.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Morning, Count George van Hoiber. No, the name is not familiar.
They can't, I was told, is rarely seen about town.
The characters takes outings in an open carriage in the park,
sitting behind her coachman, in the solitary splendor, and by
all accounts, is the most beautiful woman in India.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
But how long have they lived here?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
In several years? I understand in fine family children not
so far as I nurse. They are important on the
local scene, I will say, and we need friends here.
I would suggest sir, you give serious consideration to accepting
the invitation.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I will go it definitely.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
I not only considered, but accepted.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
A few days later, I.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Was taken to one of the fine Indian palaces, so
many of which have been sold to foreigners. I was
shown into the spacious room, lined with books and paintings.
At a tea table by the fireplace sat a beautiful
young woman, Captain Nicholson.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Please sit down, and just about to pour tea, my
husband will join us, shortly called by one of the overseers.
It's a problem trying to grow crops in.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
This part of India. I am the Countess van Houser.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
A great pleasure madam, do you take sugar?
Speaker 5 (29:13):
I understand your regiment has only recently been.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Posted to Bombay.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Well, that's quite true.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
It was I who persuaded my husband that we should
have you call on us.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Europeans in this part of the world need all the
friends they can get. You are not Englishman Dutch, but my.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Family has always lived in India, and for a hundred
years my husband's family has grown cotton, especially for the
royal house.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Well, this is quite an extraordinary rule. I'm sure the
whole house is. Oh, that's my husband.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
He always takes his dogs with him when he goes
out to the farms and plantations. Darling, Captain Nicholson is
already here.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
I've poured him a cup. What I do for you, Yes,
my dear, a heart it is, sir, a pleasure von
weib I do sit down. I'll be like with you
at Darling. Have you been up most of the afternoon?
Speaker 5 (30:04):
I have, and I'm just beginning to feel it, but
I did so want to meet Captain Nicholson.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Captain and make yourself at home. I just want to
help my wife upstairs. The Count took her by the arm,
another steered her out of the door. I walked about
the room, examining the books and paintings. One of them,
of your Switzerland struck me. Snowbanks, distant ELTs, very blue sky,
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but not the scene itself, as much as the fact
the canvas had been shot through in two places, one
right above the other, a bit higher than my head.
I notice you're looking at our wounded painting. They looked
like bullet holes.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
They are.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
I hope I didn't hire the countess.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
She wasn't feeling well, and it's something we keep to ourselves.
My wife is recovering from a serious eye injury, how terrible.
Nobody's been able to tell us what caused her blindness,
which suddenly it happened out of the blue. It was
a short time before we were married she was unable
to see, and then, as if by some miracle also inexplicable,
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a few years ago, her sight gradually began to return.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
And that it is a miracle.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Hm. It was you gazing at that painting that brought
it to mind. If I were asked what was the
turning point in her blindness, I would say four years ago,
almost to the day, two bullets were fired into that painting.
Now that you have told me there are bullet holes
in the painting, I can't contain my curiosity how they
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got there is? Do you shoot well? Captain?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
I'm tolerably.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
I was quite a good marksman, but I haven't touched
a gun in four years. I'm sure I wouldn't be
too bad a shot today if I had to up
you too, sure, your excellency. Uh. If you neglect to practice,
your hand loses its coming.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
A man a valuable friend of the.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Old days, that he was the best shot I ever met.
He used to practice with his pistols or garden three
times a day, every day before dinner, while drinking a
grass of bread. It's a peculiar garmination.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
He was a peculiar man.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I wonder what was his name? Schadio g satioe. Ah,
you knew, said you, your excellency. We are intimate friends.
But it's a number of years, almost five, since I've
had any news of him. Then you knew him also? Mm, yes,
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very well? Did he ever tell you of this strange
episode in his life involding a duel which was never
completed a young man whom he insulted to the ball
and who slapped him in return, MM, did he tell
you the name of the imon?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
If he did, then I'd forgotten it. I beg your
pardon could have.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Been your It was, And that snowy Swiss scene with
the two bullet holes is a momento of our last meeting.
Sergia's in mine. I hope you will forgive me for
bringing up the subject.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
You see, I made it impossible for him to fire
the last shot, and it is only right for you
to know how Colonel Sergio revenged himself. Oh. Six years
ago I met my wife. We married. One day she
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awoke and light was no different from darkness. She remained home.
I would go out on business, and one day when
I returned, I was told there was a man waiting
for me in this room who would not give his name.
He had said day's growth on his cheek or what
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I seven? Ks?
Speaker 1 (34:01):
I didn't know him.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
You don't recognize me, kunt, I'm afraid yours. Take a
good look. Are you sure you don't know me? Said you?
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Says I.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
I'm quite surprised. It's on the other hand, I'm not
I expected you for some time, George, there was a
little master of a shot, Julie, and I have come
to fire that shot. Okay, right here in this room?
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Are you ready? I I'll mater got twelve cases s
twelve cases too. Here colonel, I see you've drawn your pistol.
I have been prepared for a long time. I asked
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only one king of you. These doors behind me. When
I have closed them, shoot quickly before my wife enters.
Although she is unable to see very clearly and may
not even see you over there in the shadows, she
will sends right away. Something is wrong. Please hurry, colonel.
Why are you waiting? I am standing here ready. What
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is the matter. I regret that my pistol is not
loaded it with cherry stones. The bullet is heavy. What
do you mean you don't remember eating cherries that morning
on the firing range. Oh yes, I remember. But I
was alone and no one needed me or depended upon me.
If I wanted to throw my life away, it was
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my doing. If I wish to be brave or foolhard
ear dare you know one?
Speaker 1 (35:45):
But I would be hurt.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
But today I have a loving wife who cannot see.
Good heavens man, have it over with shoot. Huh, why
are you lowering your pistol. It seems to me this
is not a duel but murder. And I am not
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accustomed to taking aim at an unarmed man. Which will
begin again as if it were that very morning.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
On the firing.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Range, and gasped lots as to who shall fire first.
I raised some objections. I feared that at any moment
my wife would come in. I loaded my own pistol.
We drew lots, and I drew the first number. I mean,
go ahead, you fire first at me. This is the
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second time you have missed me. At twelve paces. Again,
your bullet went narrowly over my head. I could smell it.
Where did the bullet go into the wall? Are you
still pretending you cannot get me? The bullet hole is
there in the snow bank of that painting. Now it's
my turn, and my friend, I shun. I heard your shout.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (37:09):
George? Where are you? Geors? You are right and I'm
right here, darling girl, Now calm down. I'm perfectly fine.
You're not rude. Did are you? How did your gun
go off?
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (37:26):
There's someone in the room.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Who are you?
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Who is it? Are you a sleef? What do you want?
Speaker 1 (37:35):
My darling.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
We were playing a game. He's an old friend. You, sir,
who are you? I'm Jewish? Who is this? I assure
you we were only joking. It isn't that right, Sergio?
What did you call him? It's Colonel Sergio? Do you
remember him? Sergio? You m come closer.
Speaker 5 (38:02):
It's hard for me to distinguish without bright light.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
He told me, matter. I'm very sorry. It's going to
be all right. They all say it. What are you
doing here? What is made in your hand? Do you
chose yours? Both of you? But you were both having
a little joke, that's all. I once spoke to him
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in anger, and he slapped my face as a joke.
Another time he sends a bullet through my cap as
a joke. Your humorous husband played his third joke today,
firing at me from only twelve paces, yet missing me completely.
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If I stop now, he wins everything. He keeps everything,
the woman I wish to marry, the jewel.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Eve my honor.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
All in jests, of course, But now I feel I
would like to have the last joke. Gold. You don't
CID you. I know you're aiming your picture of Jewish,
don't I beg you? M t get up from the floor.
Constu ashamed, ah, I go on, kennel, Are you going
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to fire or not? No? No, I will not. I
am satisfied. I have seen your confusion, your alarm. I
forced you to fire me. That is enough for me.
You will never forget this hour. You will remember me.
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I leave you to your conscience. Oh, and then he
turned to girl. He stopped in the doorway and looking
back at the painting with my one bullet hole. Almost
without taking aim, he fired his bullet. As you can see,
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Captain Nicholson is only one centimeter from mine. It is
too much for martyr. She fainted. I took her up
to bed. But as I said before, Captain, from that
day on four years ago, her sight began miraculously to return.
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I stood at the grave site, looking at the coffin
containing the remains of a man who had died in
action against the Pindari bandits. With an at laurance for
a challenge. Moved to a dure stood beside me. Sir,
will you accept my deepest apologies. I do not wish
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to cross swords or pistol shots with you.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
I nodded, neither did I. Four men I.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Was one of them.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Slowly let go the ropes to lower our colonel from
the casket reached bottom the grave.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Diggers shoveled in.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
The ass the entire regiment. Each man threw in a handful.
I was the last from under my tunic. I took
serge of his old red cap and the gold trim
and the gold tassel, and dropped it into the grave.
It landed very close to his head. I could almost
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see him wearing it.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
It is the art of Alexander Pushkin, author of the
story upon which this mystery theater adaptation is based, to
be able to depict universal themes such as love, self, sacrifice,
and honor in the simplest and most telling terms.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
The author of boris good.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
Enough, and Eugene o'nagan has convinced so much of.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
The mystery of struggling souls into this brief and livid tale.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
It is not a story I am ever likely to forget.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
I should return shortly.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
And death if other, and I will look on both indifferently.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
For let the gods so speed me.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
As I love the name of honor more than I
fear death. Honor sometimes I wonder is it a virtue?
Only of the past has it become an endangered species.
Our cast included Leave Richardson, Tay King, Russell Horton, and
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Dennet glend Being Tie.
Speaker 2 (43:05):
Production is under the direction of Hyman Brown. Now a
preview I'm hid next, Well, I might as well do
it now and get it over with. Some way to
celebrate the first day I get home?
Speaker 1 (43:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (43:27):
Uh, officer running is Jeens Fowler? Uh? Someone called me
at home and asked me to come over to the
police station. Is it about the speeding ticket? Uh?
Speaker 1 (43:35):
Jack?
Speaker 2 (43:36):
I think this is the man you're looking for. Somebody
wants to see me.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
I'll turn around.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
Just stand facing the desk and put your arms behind
your back. Pay hold your wrist closer together as you
stay right there and don't moan. Say why are you
putting handkeruffs on me?
Speaker 1 (43:52):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (43:53):
Making sure you're not carrying a gun? You see clean?
Speaker 1 (43:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (43:57):
Write it down on the sheet.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
You can turn around now? How much to father?
Speaker 2 (44:01):
Well, somebody please tell me what this is all about.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
What I do mister father? You're under arrest for armed robbery?
Speaker 3 (44:08):
Is the Timmy Grimes inviting me to return to my
mystery theater for another adventure in the car Until next
time pleasant
Come in.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I'm Tommy Grimes.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
How many of us have harbored a business or a
deep cut grudge that rankled and that we could not
forget or forgive, and then the fires of hate festered within.
There comes a point where one can only be a
rangued by death. That is the theme of today's Mister
Theater adaptation of the story by Alexander Pushkin. Can't you
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There's no one in my life but you?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
You say that so easily, a lot. Don't you know
what you have done? You have never spoken to me
like that before. I'm going home.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
You're not going home, Lot, You are going if.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
You make time with my Am you having me? Where
were you last Thursday? And don't make up some story?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I want to know where and with whom?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Our mystery drama The Last Duel is adapted for the
Mystery Faded by James Addat Junior from a story by
Alexander Pushkin that stars Lee Richardson. I'll be back shortly
with at one. We are in India one hundred and
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fifty years ago under the rule of the British Imperial Administration.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Offices and men.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Are stationed in many parts of the country. They are reassigned, moved,
loose old friends, and make new enemies. Sharing our life,
there's no guarantee of lasting friendship. Our story begins doing
cemetery services for one Colonel Surgerio, who died as mysteriously as.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
The life believed. Hard to believe the colonel's day, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I thought I never could die young.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
But however he died. He had a coming to him.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
You never liked Sergio?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Did You didn't do that? There wasn't much too like
with him.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
I mean, he didn't really open up to anyone.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You never knew what he was thinking.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Did you?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Can't you respect him for risking his life to wipe
out a band of kindari glibbing single him?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
You believe though?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Why not? It's the official one. An other official one
was that he was shot on the back by one
of his own men. Where did you hear that Serchio
had courage written all over him?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Really?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
What about his running from a duel with me? The
word for him is not courage but cowardice. Lawrence, You're
a fool. You don't know the first thing about his reason.
I know, and I wish to know. Captain he refused
to defend his honor when he was challenged. You forget
it was your honor, not his, that needed defending.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
You're so stupid.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I cannot abide a stupid man, Captain Nicholson, and I
hope you don't need that.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I've suspected it all along about you.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It's quite obvious you've got your commission because your father
is the governor General. Gentumine, officers, a eulogy is about
to be read for the colonel. Kindly lower your voice,
Captain Nicholson, you have insulted my family and myself. I
shall have my seconds, bring you the challenge in the morning.
Good days that Lawrence he was a fool. He is
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a fool. But to go back to the beginning, It
all started when Lieutenant Lawrence arrived in India and joined
our regiment. He knows nothing about Sergier, and now he
even challenges me to a duel, which means I shall
have to kill him. Interesting parallelist the problem that this
Sergio had famous evening whee playing baccarat. I've been standing
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by the front door watching those clouds gather, Nicholson, it
will be one deuce of a storm.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Sergio.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Don't tell me I'm the first to arrive again. Every
time I come for dinner and cards, I'm the first,
But I like that in New Nicholson, I say, Nicholson,
what's the new man?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Like Lawrence?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I understand he was posted on from high Debtabat.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
His father is the governor general.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Oh that Lawrence. Because I seem to remember there was
some kind of a scandal, was a cheating.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Of cards or with the major's wife.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I've invited him over for baccarat tonight. He seems quite pleasant,
mentioned to really enjoy his cards. He's not likely to
do anything shifty. After all, he is the governor's son.
I asked him along with Douglas and Sir William. I
thought the five of us would enjoy it. About robins.
I have never believed those stories. Those chaps cheat eating.
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I always say that about heavy winners, speaking.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Of the devil. I can get thing coming up for now,
and Douglas.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Sir William right behind him, hurry up, all are your
skies are opening up? Now? We can use a bit
of ring and my keen up. I've always had bad
luck cars. During US thunderstorm, gentlemen, we played for an hour.
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The down paus made me realize it's about time for
us to do some pun down for ourselves. If anybody
would care for a spot of brandy or portrait's on
the sideboard, and just do help yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Said Joe.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Are I showing you something in the library?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I will leave the table just as it is.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Everyone has his own pile of counters.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Nothing will be touched.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Oh yes, it will silloud be along. Go ahead, gentlemen,
make yourselves it out. Uh what is it you wish
to show me? If I wanted to speak to you
where no one could hears, Yes, I.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Thought it was that.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
And even watching Lawrence, no, not particularly, I'd say he's
not playing back that.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
According to Hoyld, I haven't noticed the same.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Everyone has three pounds and five palm counters right, as
many as they buy from the bank, which they bet
before the cards are down. Yes, you know that. What
would you say if I told you on more than
one occasion I saw Lawrence holding on to some red
five pound counters after.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
The cards were there.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Well, there's nothing wrong about that. There's no rule that
says you can't have a counter or your hand hidden
in your hand. But what would be the point during
under the play, when sir William had a natural A
nine and the court can yes, I do blawn sleep
were saw so, and at that moment dropped three more
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or five pound counters. He had partly decided the one
he'd be because I remember he made twenty pounds on
that cheating for a few pounds hard to believe. I'm
sorry the devity. I had better keep an eye on him.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
I don't hope you've a staked love.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I've had friends in his house for cards for years
and nothing like this has ever occurred. There's always the
first time, every man, I ask your indulgence.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
But I am closing the bank.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
You may cash in your accounters, Colonel. Does that mean
I shan't have a chance to impack my losses, Sir
William for the moment, I can't say. The straw is
not messening, and I think i'd better have a look
around upstairs to make sure the windows are all closed.
But don't believe us. I have a spot more to drink,
and cigars are on the table that you care for them, Lawrence,
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would you mind very much stepping.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Into the library with me and little soon?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
If you don't mind, won't you join us? You two
the lot in I'll dart upstairs and check the windows
and be right with you, Lawrence. Have you seen the
colonel's pistol collection? And there I haven't. I've heard you
were a very good shot at hide about him? Not really,
but I'm interested in guns with the follow me.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I tell you what the.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Terournelists collected is sicking only to what they have in
the positions. Have you any idea what the Colonel wants
to talk to me about. He always likes to have
a chat with the new man. How are you getting
on me too badly? And where are the Kernel's guns?
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Right behind you? Let me show you his pride?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Hold it me hm, it's quite night. Oh. I was
just playing curiat during your small arms museum dry upstairs? Ah, Lawrence,
you are holding the cult h Is it I ever
heard of them? You never had one in my hand before.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I was lucky to get one of them.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
This is an original made by Samuel Cult himself.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Sergia. If you don't need me, I think i'll join you.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
I do need you, and i'd like you to hear
what I have to say to Lawrence. Yes, if you notice,
when you cock the hammer, it automatically revolves the cylinder.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Try it.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
It's not loaded. Ingenious, simple, useful escentral. I'd like to
know why you wish to talk to me, Colonel Lawrence.
Here in kum Fuller, where we happen to be stationed,
we do things a certain way. One does not cheat
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at cards. It is not done.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
You are joking, aren't you?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Sam?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Where are you?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I wouldn't regard such an accusation a joke, My dear boy.
The weather is abated. There is no reason for you
to remain in a house.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Where you are not welcome.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I do not take insults lightly, say joke.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
I am all right.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I saw it coming Florence. You off your head attacking
a senior officer. That's an exceedingly valuable pistol you were
tossing about. I don't care for insults, nor do I
accept them, and do nothing about the young man you
have dis honored my house. You will have the goodness
to withdraw, and you are fortunate, indeed that this card
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cheating happened in my sight. II show withdraw, sir, you
will be hearing from my seconds in the morning.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Good night.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
What a word of admission on a puppet I expected
neither you work duel with a man of lesson. It's
difficult for me to see how a man like that
can avenge his honor. But it doesn't happen. You will
have the choice of weapons, and the entire incident will
end in blood. His blood. Perhaps not, he may think
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better of the challenge and not send his seconds around
to me.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I'm sorry to say.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Lieutenant Lawrence did send his seconds, and as his customary,
offered Sergio a choice of weapons, but for some mysterious
reason of his own it quite shook me. Sergio made
peace with the dishonest lieutenant, and the duel was scotched.
Became the scandal of the entire regiment. Nicholson, I believe
I owe you an explanation.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I asked you here because.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Of this letter which I received today. It may be, Nicholson,
you and I I will never see one another again
by you leaving the regimend later today. I've asked Captain
Hart just to share duties with you. Not illness in
the family, a not illness, but possibly death. My dear friend,
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I like you, and it would be painful for me
to leave you with.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
The wrong impression. I would never have such an impression.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
You could not believe I would permit the lieutenant to
challenge me to a duel which I would not honor.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I knew you had reasons.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
You are the only one who'll hear them, and I ask,
when you have heard them, that you keep them to
yourself as long as I am alive. If you hear
that I have been killed, I'd leave it to your
judgment how much you will tell the world.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
When I am dead.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I would like my old comrades to believe that I
died with the honor.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Do you remember when a lieutenant was caught cheating, the
colonel said to him, you have dishonored my house. A
good name is what all men es century and a
half a girl wished to live.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
And die by.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
As the Ago says to a fellow, good name in
man and woman, jear, my lord is the immediate jewel
of their souls. He that tilches from me my good
name robs me of that which not enriches him, and
makes me poor. Indeed, I shall return shortly to act
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to MM. I think you can get a better idea
of the importance of a dude in the days we
are dramatizing if you bear in mind that everyone called
a duel, an affair of honor to this, I got
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a challenge.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
For whatever the reason.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
With pump amount of turning tail and running. The curtain
rises on Colonel Sergio's residence, blocked the room with his departure.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Sergio, do you feel more like telling me why you
are leaving? Now?
Speaker 1 (14:16):
No?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
No, I thought i'd a little more target practice since
you had. We'll talk you see. I have placed the
star on the top of the each fence post. Let
me just finish off the ones to the.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Right of the gate. Don't you ever miss at forty paces? Hardly?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
There's no point in using firearms unless one knows howl Nicholson.
You're not a bad shot yourself, whether I have a
triumph or not.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
About now, SAIDA. I mean here all afternoon.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
You still haven't told me why you are leaving. You
and Hartness will do very well together. The regiment likes
you both because it is short or along. I shall
never come back here.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
But why not a form of.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Pending over the sword? There's so many of them in
the punts. I cannot wait for approval of running. I've
never seen you like this.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
You think I'm not in.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Control of myself I don't know what to think.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Come back inside the house.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I think better sitting down alright, the door is closed.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
We are alone.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Why did I refuse to leave the source point or
a gun barrel with that full of a lieutenant who
cheated the cards in my house? That's what has been
cut only because I cannot understand it. The regiment to
a man, all know, Lieutenant Lawrence is no better than
a common thief. That you should not make an example
of him is incomprehensible to them. My dear friend, I
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have no right to expose myself, even to the possibility
of death. Six years ago I was a slap in
the face, and my enemy still lives. I didn't fight him.
What happened oways the duel took place, and here is
a souvenir of the event. I haven't seen one of
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those in years. It's a French called it a brunei
the police. It's all, it's mine.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
It's what we wore in Madras in those early days.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
A red cap with a gold tassel and gold braid
around the rim.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Look at it closely. Is that a bullet hole an
inch above the fore him passes.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Right through a souvenir, the greatest insult ever paid me.
I was then, as I am now, in command of
a regiment and engaged to be married to a girl
named Martin, chief of a well to do a Dutch family.
When I was off duty, we would often meet in
the park overlooking.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
The Bay Bengroom.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
She was the loveliest thing I had ever known, and
at that time I.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Thought she loved me.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Said, gee, there is no one in my life but you.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
How can you say that so quickly and so easily?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Said gee, what a tone of voice. What have I done?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
You don't know, you have no idea.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
You have never spoken to me like this before I'm
going home.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
You are not going home.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
You're going to listen to me. Let go my arm?
Where were you last Thursday? Thursday? Thirstay, don't make up
some story. I wanna know where and with whom?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
And why are you like this? Papa had a business friend,
a cotton girl from the Western district.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
And we all went first sale in the bay. And
then why do you wanna know this?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Who was we all?
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Papa, Mama and this gentleman in his arm.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
At last the truth.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Then in the me we went to dinner at the club,
and that is all all.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yes, there was an orchestra. You dance, of course, the
cotton grower's son, Yes, he dance well, yes, but I
wasn't interested in him. He's only a bored unless you
dance quite a long time.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Well, he's not.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Such a boy. He's in our regiment, yes, I believe so.
His father has a title. They are also Dutch. I
think he's a county. You danced unto him midnight. You
then walked into the gardens with him holding hands.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
I don't know who told you such untruths, but I
would never enjoyed his company alone.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
We were always CHAPERI in mater.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I have friends, they have eyes.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Until you come to me and apologize and promise you
will never look at another man. I consider our engagement broken.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
You are I'm just and you are cruel, and I
will never come and vendit me to you.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Perhaps not, we shall see good night. Martha. I was
so sure of her, you see, I expected a note
the following day begging forgiveness. Signever came never and all
I said you didn't doing was driving her into a
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friendship with this George, who.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
I believe didn't really care for her at all.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
A month later, I was in the Bombay club. There
was Martha this George on the promenade floor. I was headstrong,
headstrong then, and miss stupid as our car cheating lieutenant.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
I walked up to them while.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
They were dancing and publicly insulted the young man.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Did I hear you? Correct?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Picanna, you did, sir, I meant every word. Martha, my dear,
we must start dancing for a moment. You're making a spectacle.
People are watching. Will you excuse us, Colonel Sergio, I
will permit you to think twice about what you have
just said. I do not need to let me ask you,
as a gentleman, to reflect upon your standard. While I
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take this young lady back to her table. I shall
be standing right here awaiting your reserve.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Sure the colonel is very headstrong, don't go back to
him to meet him alone.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
No good can come of this rotter. Before I came
to my dress, I heard you were engaged, so I
understand your concern. The engagement is broken, and I didn't
realize it was the colonel of this regiment you were
engaged to. It is not the most diplomatic way of
making one's mark. To hold in one's arms all evening.
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The fiance of the commanding officer, Sergio is a dead shot.
I beg you do.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Not respond to his insult. It's precisely what he wants
you to do.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Want I cannot so my sake is precise speak for
in your sake, I must go to him.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Please remain here at this table, and I shall come
back to you. There should as dangerous, I know you.
Try to understand. I could never look my father in
the eye, or you or myself if I ran away.
The colonel does not frighten us. I have a great
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deal of regimental business to attend too.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
I can wait for you no longer. I have come
to bid you a good light.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Matter with you, sir, I have no further word. You
heard what I said, and I meant it. I have
no idea, Colonel, why you spoke to me in such
a manner. I have only recently joined your regiment. Colonel,
please accept this answer to your insult. You know the
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consequences of striking a superior officer. I sat you as
a man, not as a walking uniform as it s
or pistols. He preferstogo. What are you doing it? Is madness.
You provoked his wah laying the time and place. Please, sir,
gone today at the firing range.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
I shall be there with my seconds. I bid you
both good night.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Sure, So what have you done?
Speaker 5 (22:17):
SERUSI is the most accurate marksman in the regiments.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
We shall see before dawn. I waited for him at
the firing range with my three seconds. He arrived presently
with one second on foot in uniform. He had his
cap in his hands and was taking something out of
it and putting it into his mouth. His unconcerned air
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made me nervous. Colonel, would you instruct the seconds to
measure off the distance? For us?
Speaker 1 (22:52):
It was cherry's.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
He was eating out of his cap, one after the other.
I was tense with anger at his indifference. Twelve paces
would be about right, would you say, Colonel, Yes, twelve?
I believe it is you who must fire the first shot, Colonel.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
So go ahead whenever you're ready.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I'll just have a few more of these cherries while
I wait. Delicious, They're important from Spain. It was quite
the most exasperating experience of my life. My agitation was
so great I knew that my hand would shake so
in order to give myself time to calm down. I
ceded to him to fire the first shot, as you wish, Colonel,
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ready any time. His bullet went right through my cap.
That hole you see there front and back hardly touched me.
Sends the hair pats. I didn't even feel it. Now
it was my turn. But the man had absolutely no fear.
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He kept eating the cherries as though he had nothing
better to do. Unnerving is the word for it. Anytime,
please fire, Colonel, I thought to myself, what's the use
of depriving this man of life when he attaches no
value to it whatsoever?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I put down my pistol.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Dear man, you don't have to wait until I'm finished.
It's your turn to finish me. You don't seem to
be ready for deaths just at present. Obviously you wish
to go on with your breakfast. Don't let me stop you, please, Colonel.
I enjoy eating. I cannot think of a better way
to die, and I expect you to do your duty
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as an honorable man.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I cannot.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
I will not fire just as you please. Shall we
say then that you owe me a shots. I shall
always be at your service.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
My dear Nicholson. That was it. That was all, but
you came to an end.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I was then transferred from Madras to Compala. And now
this letter from one of my old friends. It informs
me that my adversary, who is still in madrass is
planning to be married. So we shall see if he
will still look dead in the face with such indifference
on the eve of marriage as he did eating cherries
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at dawn. So that's why you're leaving Cumbala. The man
said he was at my service, didn't day. I don't
like to keep anyone waiting. Why you so determined to
fire that last shot, Surger, because he slapped you, or
because when he shot you believed he mis killing you deliberately? Nicholson,
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it's getting late.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
I want more back to pack.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
And I don't want to miss the six o'clock coach.
Suppose you find George in Madras. Suppose you're used to
fire that shot and you miss, then it is again
his turn to fire me, and.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
In this time he does not miss.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Remember it as the eve of his wedding. He risks
more than breakfast, SAIDO, forget the duel. It accomplishes noth
here catch keep the cap for me.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
If I don't come back?
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Were its undressed parades?
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Goodbye.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
The last I saw of Sergio, he was striding out
of a house that as mysterious and proud, stubborn, strange
as ever. I held his red cap with a gold
braid and the gold tassel in my hand, and wondered
if I should ever see him again.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Do levonor a was a private encounter as a result
of real or imagined insult.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
It started about the fifteenth century and spread over.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
The macho men of the time flushed swords and pull triggers.
Even the British Military Code authorized dulan. The time's changed,
don't they? By today's standards of behavior. Any such private
vendetta is called murder. I shall return shortly with back three.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Time passes.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Colonel Sergio never returned to his regiment in Campola. Captain
Nicholson and many in his charge are transferred to Bombay.
His adjutant turns.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Out to be the man he suspected of cheating At Baccara.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Staff officer Lieutenant Lawrence, charged with the day's routines, distribution
of orders, et cetera. The Lieutenant has an unusual message
to deliver this.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Morning, Count George van Hoiber. No, the name is not familiar.
They can't, I was told, is rarely seen about town.
The characters takes outings in an open carriage in the park,
sitting behind her coachman, in the solitary splendor, and by
all accounts, is the most beautiful woman in India.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
But how long have they lived here?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
In several years? I understand in fine family children not
so far as I nurse. They are important on the
local scene, I will say, and we need friends here.
I would suggest sir, you give serious consideration to accepting
the invitation.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I will go it definitely.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
I not only considered, but accepted.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
A few days later, I.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Was taken to one of the fine Indian palaces, so
many of which have been sold to foreigners. I was
shown into the spacious room, lined with books and paintings.
At a tea table by the fireplace sat a beautiful
young woman, Captain Nicholson.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Please sit down, and just about to pour tea, my
husband will join us, shortly called by one of the overseers.
It's a problem trying to grow crops in.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
This part of India. I am the Countess van Houser.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
A great pleasure madam, do you take sugar?
Speaker 5 (29:13):
I understand your regiment has only recently been.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Posted to Bombay.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Well, that's quite true.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
It was I who persuaded my husband that we should
have you call on us.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Europeans in this part of the world need all the
friends they can get. You are not Englishman Dutch, but my.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Family has always lived in India, and for a hundred
years my husband's family has grown cotton, especially for the
royal house.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Well, this is quite an extraordinary rule. I'm sure the
whole house is. Oh, that's my husband.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
He always takes his dogs with him when he goes
out to the farms and plantations. Darling, Captain Nicholson is
already here.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
I've poured him a cup. What I do for you, Yes,
my dear, a heart it is, sir, a pleasure von
weib I do sit down. I'll be like with you
at Darling. Have you been up most of the afternoon?
Speaker 5 (30:04):
I have, and I'm just beginning to feel it, but
I did so want to meet Captain Nicholson.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Captain and make yourself at home. I just want to
help my wife upstairs. The Count took her by the arm,
another steered her out of the door. I walked about
the room, examining the books and paintings. One of them,
of your Switzerland struck me. Snowbanks, distant ELTs, very blue sky,
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but not the scene itself, as much as the fact
the canvas had been shot through in two places, one
right above the other, a bit higher than my head.
I notice you're looking at our wounded painting. They looked
like bullet holes.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
They are.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
I hope I didn't hire the countess.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
She wasn't feeling well, and it's something we keep to ourselves.
My wife is recovering from a serious eye injury, how terrible.
Nobody's been able to tell us what caused her blindness,
which suddenly it happened out of the blue. It was
a short time before we were married she was unable
to see, and then, as if by some miracle also inexplicable,
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a few years ago, her sight gradually began to return.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
And that it is a miracle.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Hm. It was you gazing at that painting that brought
it to mind. If I were asked what was the
turning point in her blindness, I would say four years ago,
almost to the day, two bullets were fired into that painting.
Now that you have told me there are bullet holes
in the painting, I can't contain my curiosity how they
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got there is? Do you shoot well? Captain?
Speaker 1 (31:49):
I'm tolerably.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
I was quite a good marksman, but I haven't touched
a gun in four years. I'm sure I wouldn't be
too bad a shot today if I had to up
you too, sure, your excellency. Uh. If you neglect to practice,
your hand loses its coming.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
A man a valuable friend of the.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Old days, that he was the best shot I ever met.
He used to practice with his pistols or garden three
times a day, every day before dinner, while drinking a
grass of bread. It's a peculiar garmination.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
He was a peculiar man.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I wonder what was his name? Schadio g satioe. Ah,
you knew, said you, your excellency. We are intimate friends.
But it's a number of years, almost five, since I've
had any news of him. Then you knew him also? Mm, yes,
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very well? Did he ever tell you of this strange
episode in his life involding a duel which was never
completed a young man whom he insulted to the ball
and who slapped him in return, MM, did he tell
you the name of the imon?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
If he did, then I'd forgotten it. I beg your
pardon could have.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Been your It was, And that snowy Swiss scene with
the two bullet holes is a momento of our last meeting.
Sergia's in mine. I hope you will forgive me for
bringing up the subject.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
You see, I made it impossible for him to fire
the last shot, and it is only right for you
to know how Colonel Sergio revenged himself. Oh. Six years
ago I met my wife. We married. One day she
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awoke and light was no different from darkness. She remained home.
I would go out on business, and one day when
I returned, I was told there was a man waiting
for me in this room who would not give his name.
He had said day's growth on his cheek or what
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I seven? Ks?
Speaker 1 (34:01):
I didn't know him.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
You don't recognize me, kunt, I'm afraid yours. Take a
good look. Are you sure you don't know me? Said you?
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Says I.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
I'm quite surprised. It's on the other hand, I'm not
I expected you for some time, George, there was a
little master of a shot, Julie, and I have come
to fire that shot. Okay, right here in this room?
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Are you ready? I I'll mater got twelve cases s
twelve cases too. Here colonel, I see you've drawn your pistol.
I have been prepared for a long time. I asked
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only one king of you. These doors behind me. When
I have closed them, shoot quickly before my wife enters.
Although she is unable to see very clearly and may
not even see you over there in the shadows, she
will sends right away. Something is wrong. Please hurry, colonel.
Why are you waiting? I am standing here ready. What
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is the matter. I regret that my pistol is not
loaded it with cherry stones. The bullet is heavy. What
do you mean you don't remember eating cherries that morning
on the firing range. Oh yes, I remember. But I
was alone and no one needed me or depended upon me.
If I wanted to throw my life away, it was
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my doing. If I wish to be brave or foolhard
ear dare you know one?
Speaker 1 (35:45):
But I would be hurt.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
But today I have a loving wife who cannot see.
Good heavens man, have it over with shoot. Huh, why
are you lowering your pistol. It seems to me this
is not a duel but murder. And I am not
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accustomed to taking aim at an unarmed man. Which will
begin again as if it were that very morning.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
On the firing.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Range, and gasped lots as to who shall fire first.
I raised some objections. I feared that at any moment
my wife would come in. I loaded my own pistol.
We drew lots, and I drew the first number. I mean,
go ahead, you fire first at me. This is the
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second time you have missed me. At twelve paces. Again,
your bullet went narrowly over my head. I could smell it.
Where did the bullet go into the wall? Are you
still pretending you cannot get me? The bullet hole is
there in the snow bank of that painting. Now it's
my turn, and my friend, I shun. I heard your shout.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (37:09):
George? Where are you? Geors? You are right and I'm
right here, darling girl, Now calm down. I'm perfectly fine.
You're not rude. Did are you? How did your gun
go off?
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (37:26):
There's someone in the room.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Who are you?
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Who is it? Are you a sleef? What do you want?
Speaker 1 (37:35):
My darling.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
We were playing a game. He's an old friend. You, sir,
who are you? I'm Jewish? Who is this? I assure
you we were only joking. It isn't that right, Sergio?
What did you call him? It's Colonel Sergio? Do you
remember him? Sergio? You m come closer.
Speaker 5 (38:02):
It's hard for me to distinguish without bright light.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
He told me, matter. I'm very sorry. It's going to
be all right. They all say it. What are you
doing here? What is made in your hand? Do you
chose yours? Both of you? But you were both having
a little joke, that's all. I once spoke to him
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in anger, and he slapped my face as a joke.
Another time he sends a bullet through my cap as
a joke. Your humorous husband played his third joke today,
firing at me from only twelve paces, yet missing me completely.
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If I stop now, he wins everything. He keeps everything,
the woman I wish to marry, the jewel.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Eve my honor.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
All in jests, of course, But now I feel I
would like to have the last joke. Gold. You don't
CID you. I know you're aiming your picture of Jewish,
don't I beg you? M t get up from the floor.
Constu ashamed, ah, I go on, kennel, Are you going
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to fire or not? No? No, I will not. I
am satisfied. I have seen your confusion, your alarm. I
forced you to fire me. That is enough for me.
You will never forget this hour. You will remember me.
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I leave you to your conscience. Oh, and then he
turned to girl. He stopped in the doorway and looking
back at the painting with my one bullet hole. Almost
without taking aim, he fired his bullet. As you can see,
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Captain Nicholson is only one centimeter from mine. It is
too much for martyr. She fainted. I took her up
to bed. But as I said before, Captain, from that
day on four years ago, her sight began miraculously to return.
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I stood at the grave site, looking at the coffin
containing the remains of a man who had died in
action against the Pindari bandits. With an at laurance for
a challenge. Moved to a dure stood beside me. Sir,
will you accept my deepest apologies. I do not wish
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to cross swords or pistol shots with you.
Speaker 4 (41:09):
I nodded, neither did I. Four men I.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Was one of them.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Slowly let go the ropes to lower our colonel from
the casket reached bottom the grave.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Diggers shoveled in.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
The ass the entire regiment. Each man threw in a handful.
I was the last from under my tunic. I took
serge of his old red cap and the gold trim
and the gold tassel, and dropped it into the grave.
It landed very close to his head. I could almost
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see him wearing it.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
It is the art of Alexander Pushkin, author of the
story upon which this mystery theater adaptation is based, to
be able to depict universal themes such as love, self, sacrifice,
and honor in the simplest and most telling terms.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
The author of boris good.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
Enough, and Eugene o'nagan has convinced so much of.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
The mystery of struggling souls into this brief and livid tale.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
It is not a story I am ever likely to forget.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
I should return shortly.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
And death if other, and I will look on both indifferently.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
For let the gods so speed me.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
As I love the name of honor more than I
fear death. Honor sometimes I wonder is it a virtue?
Only of the past has it become an endangered species.
Our cast included Leave Richardson, Tay King, Russell Horton, and
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Dennet glend Being Tie.
Speaker 2 (43:05):
Production is under the direction of Hyman Brown. Now a
preview I'm hid next, Well, I might as well do
it now and get it over with. Some way to
celebrate the first day I get home?
Speaker 1 (43:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (43:27):
Uh, officer running is Jeens Fowler? Uh? Someone called me
at home and asked me to come over to the
police station. Is it about the speeding ticket? Uh?
Speaker 1 (43:35):
Jack?
Speaker 2 (43:36):
I think this is the man you're looking for. Somebody
wants to see me.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
I'll turn around.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
Just stand facing the desk and put your arms behind
your back. Pay hold your wrist closer together as you
stay right there and don't moan. Say why are you
putting handkeruffs on me?
Speaker 1 (43:52):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (43:53):
Making sure you're not carrying a gun? You see clean?
Speaker 1 (43:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (43:57):
Write it down on the sheet.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
You can turn around now? How much to father?
Speaker 2 (44:01):
Well, somebody please tell me what this is all about.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
What I do mister father? You're under arrest for armed robbery?
Speaker 3 (44:08):
Is the Timmy Grimes inviting me to return to my
mystery theater for another adventure in the car Until next
time pleasant
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