July 27, 2025 • 60 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
WUSAA, Dallas ford Worth Newsbreak.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Charles has good on the CBS Radio network about the
Colorado floods. After this.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
If you've got an eye for cars, maybe you've already
seen the impertinent little sport coop making its mark around
town these days. It's called Sunbird, and it's made in
America by Potiac. But despite its rather modest origins, it
has a habit of acting like an import price three
times higher, an understandable impertinence, we suppose, since Sunbird is
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about the size of the BMW, with a wheelbase only
a tenth of an inch longer than a Mercedes four
fifty SLS, and although it comes with a four, it's
available with a V six that delivers the same torque
or pulling power as a Maserati V six while turning
one thousand fewer revolutions.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You can order a Sunbird.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
With a five speed manual or an automatic, and some
models may still be available with a free transmission offer.
But the question remains, how little does a sunburned cost?
We're beginning to think that's a matter best kept between
you and your Pontiac dealer.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
What the higher priced imports don't.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Know won't hurt them.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Saturday night, it became clear that a lot of water
might be funneling through the Big Thompson Canyon, and officers
tried to get the campers out of there.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
They're hard to move, they're hard to rouse to get
their charcoal going.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
They don't want to leave, even talk film.
Speaker 6 (01:26):
They want to know how deep the water is going
to be.
Speaker 7 (01:27):
You don't have time to talk.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
So you go to the next group.
Speaker 8 (01:31):
And for that reason the scared ones got out there.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
The State Raymond Lee was driving from the National Park
to Loveland, coming.
Speaker 9 (01:39):
Down from Masters Park and the road gave away from
us in front of us. We turned around, tried to
get out. The road give away that way, so we
stranded right there in our cars till sat Are.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Many of the casualties were motorists.
Speaker 10 (01:53):
Some of them might think might have been sleeping in
their cars, and they might have tried to get the
higher ground and uh they just didn't make it. The
uh water was the swift that they just carried the
cars and trucks and the UH house trailers and stuff
right into the uh deep water.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
I hung on to the log first, you know, the
slippery and we slipped them off and finally I saw,
uh uh, I could spare tire. So I grabbed onto
that rim and everything was in players. I hung on
to that, and I really think that saved me. I
really lost all sense of direction and everything. It was
just like I was floating down through the forest. I
couldn't even grab a lot of the trees.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I was going.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
So it say its one had been on his way home.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
A quarterway home and started raining, haling.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
You know, I just thought it was a bad storm.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
I didn't I had the radio one and I didn't
hear anything got fast flood.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
I came in the backway.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Home and there was one there's one bridge I wasn't
going across.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
It was drying when I got there.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Then I noticed a.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Couple of inches of water going over the top of
the night sugar with the heck you know, the player
rover got right through it. So I just started over
and then about four foot of wad it decide? You know,
I guess I just missed a minute the at the
beginning of the leaves coming down, and it pushed me
right off the bridge, and uhl Trump was underwater and
I was underwater, and all of a sudden, you know,
I had to hold my breath and I couldn't open
the door or anything, so I just stocked the window
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out and got out.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Somehow Jewel caught her and has a little house in
the canyon.
Speaker 8 (03:15):
My daughter heard some screams and we me and a neighbor, CLIVERD. Moore,
went out into water and got the one girl out,
and as we come back.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Up here, we was talking to her and she said there.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Were five in the car.
Speaker 8 (03:29):
And in the meantime we found another one in the
middle of the river right here, and later the search
and rescue got her out and we went back looking
for the others, and we found one body last night,
and they found another body this morning. The girl and
one of the other girls was still missing.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Another five.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Ce Cilia Grimes cabin was underwater in no time.
Speaker 11 (03:45):
The only thing that's saved it was our mantle and
our fireplace, and we hung on to that and the
water was clear up to here and we just hung
on to that, put the dog up on the mantel,
and there were two of the two ladies we could
talk to that help. Somebody came and we walked.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
To Gary Watts knows that his little son has drowned.
Speaker 12 (04:07):
We were inside and when it went, the whole cabin
just completely. He's just like a tinker toy, just disintegrated.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
Uh.
Speaker 12 (04:16):
We were down under the water and the next thing
I knew, I was in the water, but I was
able to walk out A wife and I am little
girl and baby we're okay.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
What kind of condition is everybody in? Pretty pretty good? Really,
except so he's got a.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Rather bad cut on her arm that they're having to
operate on.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
And how about your children?
Speaker 7 (04:50):
They're fine?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Box so for Aaron, And.
Speaker 13 (04:54):
Now this message foreign car drivers, has this ever happened
to you? A Look, we got a lot of important
work here, but gee, hugo, I bought my car here.
Speaker 14 (05:04):
Now and maybe I could squeeze you in under fit
oh grace of January.
Speaker 13 (05:07):
January, Foreign car drivers, you don't have to take it
anymore now. Midas gives foreign cars the same kind of
service we've been giving American cars for twenty years. So
you're usually in and out in thirty minutes without an appointment.
Because it might us. We're foreign cars specialists. We have
to do a better job.
Speaker 14 (05:27):
Yes, excuse me for being nosy, but is that mold
and mildew I smell in your bathroom.
Speaker 15 (05:31):
Yes it is, and I clean it every day.
Speaker 14 (05:34):
Really, to get a place really clean, use Lysol brand disinfectant.
Lysol Yes, Lysol brand disinfectant kills household germs on surfaces
where they grow, including germs that cause orders.
Speaker 15 (05:43):
Mysol brand disinfecting. That brown bottle in the red.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
And yellow box. That's it.
Speaker 14 (05:48):
Just pour them in a bucket of water and start
cleaning the floor, tiles, fixtures.
Speaker 15 (05:52):
No more moldy and mildewy odors here.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Come back and be nosy again. News Break Charles has
good CBS News.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Brad Baby, everybody's doing it doing what celebrating our country
five centennial birthday? Of course, what's that got to do
with keeping your teeth clean? Paul Landy, that's what we're celebrating,
the two hundred years since we declared our independence as
a nation.
Speaker 16 (06:15):
I hear you, man, but I don't track you.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Well, figure it out yourself.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
One of the best ways to do this is to
declare your independence from dental disease.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I track your now said that's right. Dental disease can
be a big pain, and who needs that. I'm doctor
John Tabac, President of the American Society of Dentistry for
Children and ASDC is asking children everywhere throughout this wonderful
land of ours to say Happy Birthday USA by brushing
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and flossing the plaque from their teeth. Plaque can lead
to dental disease, and a happy, healthy nation must be
free from that too.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
So as.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Come in, welcome, I'm e. G.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
Marshall.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Have you ever noticed, passing a man walking his dog
in the street, how much they resemble each other? If
you haven't take a look next time. Somehow the leash
becomes a sort of umbilical cord that establishes them as kin.
I don't always find the same thing with women, perhaps
because I don't always get as far as the other
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end of the leash. But men, it may be only
my fancy. On the other hand, this fancy, in a way,
is what this story is about. Whiskey boy, what's the
mappen ah?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
You Bishop, it's a bad time you got here.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Bo.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I came as fast as I could, never quite as
quick as your old long nose, always slipping in the wind.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Just get Chad's worth. What the devil is the matter
with this flee bitten.
Speaker 17 (08:23):
Hound murter than human's the dog off And I'm sorry
to bring these tidings, but the squire is it's.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Not dead, my God.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Wouldn't you know that Whiskey would be the first to know, Oh,
Woodie who was with him last Chad?
Speaker 16 (08:45):
Mister Bishop, I hi, and Bishop, you'd better hope.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Two things worth, my loving brother, that father died naturally
and that you're not is soware And if I should be,
you'll take that up, brother when we get to it.
Our mystery drama Every Dog Has His Day was written
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especially for the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and stars
Cork Benson. It is sponsored in part by Contact, the
Twelve Hour Code Capsule and Buick Mortar Division.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I'll be back shortly with that one.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
The following is a test. Please answer all questions truthfully.
Speaker 15 (09:29):
Question one, which of these do you like most? Robot
dandis opally Suzu?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Question two, if you and three friends wanted to take
a nice trip, would you take turns carrying each other,
take turns throwing each other, or buy an opally susu?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Question three, Given a choice, would you attend a lecture
on good posture? Hurt your foot, or buy an opally susu.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
If you answered opali susu to all three, see your
buick opal dealer and take a test drive. Otherwise, see someone.
Speaker 15 (09:54):
Else of all times to get hemorrhoids. Why pregnancy is
a major cause, Well, since you're expecting, ask your doctor
before using any medications. My sister used preparation H.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
For many women.
Speaker 15 (10:07):
Preparation H relieves occasional pain and itch for hours.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Sounds good.
Speaker 15 (10:12):
Preparation H does more actually helps shrink swelling of hemoroidal
tissue caused by inflammation. Even better, Preparation H helps shrink
swelling of hemmoroidal tissues.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Use only as directed. Hey are you the country doctor? Yeah?
Well I'm the United States of America and I need help.
Speaker 18 (10:32):
Okay, what do you want me of help here?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Well, I've got two hundred years of growing pains and
two hundred million people.
Speaker 15 (10:41):
Would you hit the most.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
In my heart because that's where those two hundred million
people live.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
Do you understand that?
Speaker 18 (10:48):
Yeah, because you're in the United States of America?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Then what's wrong with me? Doctor?
Speaker 18 (10:53):
Well, maybe it's because all the bad people in your
heart is what makes you sick.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
That sounds serious.
Speaker 18 (11:02):
Yeah, because a few hips is erecting.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
Nothing works.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Well, how do I cure the bad people in my heart?
Speaker 18 (11:10):
Well, you could tell them to be good to each
other and to love each other, and then maybe you'll
feel much better.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Well, God bless America, please from the Franciscans with love.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Old Roxby Hall is long gone now, even in the
last century, or at least the latter half of it,
the great Georgian mansion had fallen into ruin and decay.
The broad latticed windows were their diamond shaped panes broken,
the cage work of the upper stories dirty and dilapidated.
The somber, lifeless avenue that swept from the coach road
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under the giant elm to the hall itself overgrown and
choked with weeds.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Before the Civil War.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
It had been one of Virginia's proudest landmarks. Till the
death of the old Squire's wife.
Speaker 17 (12:19):
You might say I came with the foundations of Old
Roxby Hall. For on the death of his father, the
squire left England behind him and took his new bride
to the Americus and built this magnificent old house to
welcome her here. Those were the days never a one
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without the carriages passing by, and the gentry leaving their cards,
the balls, the hunting breakfasts, all the society of the
new world. I opened that front door for and welcomed
him to meet and socialize with the Squire and his
lovely bride. But with her ladyship's death, it's all changed.
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I remember the night she was buried, as well as
my own.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Name, said, with.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
My light has gone house, pour yourself a brandon, join
me me.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Sel God's wounds.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Man, you're closer.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
To me than all my family.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
You have your sons, my sons, neither of whom could
quite break off their own affairs to.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Mourn their mother's death.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Bishop, since his province is the field of business.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Bothering, buying, and selling.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Beauregard too busy with wine, women and nothing but debts,
which I am heartily sick of pain.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
Pour that brandy gabbit.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Least I won't drink alone. He is very well, sir,
now that the gout has troubled me. Jimmy, if I
have a friend left, shaving yourself an old whisky girl,
best dog I ever had, the only one left now.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
That I've put by the horses.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
I whiskey away.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
By my eyes, gent with, he has more love and
thought for me than either of those ungrateful pops.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I wept a whole.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Oh he's looking at you, to your very good health, sir,
I doubt, I.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Doubt if I have a bunch of acts.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
Square, lets me on, what is it on the side
or pill? Little white pill?
Speaker 17 (14:57):
You didn't tell me that, doctor somers At Christ right
for you?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
How many here? Just one and get me some more branded.
Speaker 17 (15:04):
No, no, no, no, no, squire, you've had more than
enough of that.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
Yeah, here's some water horror.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
A man wants to kill me.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
Oh, the last thing I would do.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
So on only two in the world. I can trust you,
Chid Wilson, my old boy there.
Speaker 17 (15:30):
I didn't know that the Master had been seeing a doctor,
so I was relieved when the first of his sons,
mister Bishop, the older one, turned up the next morning.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
I put the.
Speaker 17 (15:42):
Matter of calling the doctor in his hands. But the
first person he called wasn't a doctor, but a lawyer,
our nearest neighbor, mister William Trummin.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I mean, I don't try to push me over aget yet.
I'll hang on long enough.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Take it a good.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Long look at both though, those young Jackanapes who can't
wait to inher at Rugxbury. Bishop is here already, Sam,
and anxious to see you, I can imagine.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
But first he was Cavil and my lawyer.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
And now now, Sam, you mustn't say your son shot.
Give them a chance to present their own case. Oh
of course, mister lawyer, they shall have their chance. He's
bother too, Why no, no, we are not sure he's
received our messages yet.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Not even the thought of being able to win your
fair intette was enough to coax that Rascal Bagon. I
cannot answer for my daughter. I'm not sure which of
your sons engages her deepest regard. If Bishop is waiting,
I suppose I should see him.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
Sam.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
May I speak as an old friend, better.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Speak as my lawyer.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
You insist on my making who will ride world.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
To reform.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I don't take it ill that you have a deep
interest in this domain. As long as we both can remember,
it was supposed that your daughter would marry one or
other of my sons, and you still feel that.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Well, you know that the joining of our two families
is the strongest way in this land of savages to
ensure that the best of them.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Spare me all that.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
What's important is which of my sons inherits, how much?
And what m That's what you'd like to have sowed
up in a world, As your lawyer, I feel it's
what you should have sewed up in a will.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Well, I don't.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Not till I take one good last measure of my sons.
There isn't enough to leave for both. That has to
be one or the other. The one who'll maintain rooks
me all as my wife loved it for as long
as anyone can hope, very well, still.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Some sort of doctor ride.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
All right, draw up your document, and when I meet
and judge my sons again, and I shall enter the
name of both, or the one who best did hurt it.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
What the devil is the matter with that dog Chatsworth.
Speaker 17 (18:32):
Where mister Bishop he misses his master being shut away
from him. He dotes on the master desert whiskey.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Only we should be a little less vocal about it.
Speaker 17 (18:44):
Dogs are very strange, you know. Sometimes they have a
sixth sid slike maybe I'd better go into the squire.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
And don't be ridiculous. My father's perfectly all right. He
wanted to rest, and I saw him off to sleep.
Speaker 17 (18:58):
You wouldn't think he might be failing.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
Mister Bishop.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Nonsense, nothing could kill that old devil gowed apoplexy. Heart
he'd laughed them all off. He just asked me to
have you witness this, and settled off to sleep like
a baby.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Ooh ooh, witness what's a well his signature.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
You can see the ink isn't even dry.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
Oh what's the document? Mister bishop?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Heaven't only nervous, anything from a rent mortgage to his will.
He scribbled his signature and said to have you witness
it along with the housekeeper, missus ARMBRESTERO.
Speaker 17 (19:36):
A little out of order, wouldn't you say so?
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Eh?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I wouldn't, But then, since when has my father ever
been either orderly or ordinary? You'll wake him up and
ask him if he want Oh, I wouldn't dream of it.
He needs the rest, and sign this and get missus
armbrister too. He particularly wanted it in shape for my
brother arrived hopefully.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Well, damn that round, But go ahead, chad'sworthy.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Yes I will, sir.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Oh.
Speaker 17 (20:15):
I suppose I might have questioned things more. But the
thing is, when you have spent a life in service,
you don't normally, and it was the master's signature, which
I knew well enough.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
So I wrote my.
Speaker 17 (20:31):
Own name and got missus Armbister to add her scroll,
little thinking that by doing so, I was setting a
match to the fuse for the terrible series of exposures
to come better. I had paid attention to Whiskey's warning
owls than to the smooth and easy way of mister
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Bishop Werksby, for a storm was on the way in
the person of his younger a regard. Well, it's about
time you got here, Beauregard. The stagecoach was late, mister Tremaine.
And it isn't that serious for the old boys?
Speaker 7 (21:12):
Would you care? Well?
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Of course I would, sir. I'm played to.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Hear that for my daughter's sake.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
I uh, I guess I'm a little out of my debt,
mister Tremaine. Well, then let me get you back to
shallow water so you can put your feet on the ground.
Was there not a kind of understanding between twenty.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Eighth and you? Oh, yes, sir attendant, upon my making
my way and my fortune, which I take it you
have not yet succeeded in doing. Oh, I have great prospects.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
So many connections, and.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Well, frankly, a lot more debts than I can properly handle. Well,
at least you tell the truth, I'll answer in kind.
If it weren't for Twinett's feelings, I wouldn't give a
tinker's damn.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
About you if I had my way, and.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Rather see her married your brother to old bish that
cold steak, Really, sir, don't shoot.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Now, Really, sir me. Your father is far from well.
He may not recover from his last attacks. I hope
for your sake he'll be conscious to give you a
chance to renew an acquaintance which should never have been
broken up. Well, sir, if I had any idea the
old man was, if you had a brain in your head,
you'd have stayed home to help him manage the property.
But while you've been having your fling, your brother has
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had the good sense and the common decency to keep
in touch with your father. Since the Squire has.
Speaker 17 (22:34):
Been sick, he's been with him twenty four.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Hours a day.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Well, it's taken you the better part of a week
to bestir yourself and come home to man.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
What are you trying to tell me?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I am your father's friend, his lawyer, and a prospective
father in law to one of his sons, one of us.
You can't seriously consider Bishop to your brother has been
paying considerable attention to Twinette. You may be surprised to
discover how she has broomed in your absence, and you
favor his suit for myself quite frankly, yes, I have
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more faith in Bishop's future.
Speaker 17 (23:15):
I didn't hear mister Beauregard come home, the insistent, mournful
wail of the hand to simply running to the Squire's room,
a dreadful premonition clutching at me, so that when the
front doorbell rang, for all I hurried with my heart
in my mouth. It was mister Bishop who got to
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the door first. Whiskey was all over mister.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Beauregard in a wild kind.
Speaker 17 (23:42):
Of desperate greeting, whimpering and snuffling and licking at his hands.
Speaker 7 (23:48):
And when he saw mister Bishop.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I whiskey boy wants the map Ah you Bishop, it's
a bad time you got here, boone. I came as
fast as I could, quite as quick as you, old
long nose, always slipping in the wind. Just get Chad's worth.
What the devil is the matter with this flee bitten.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Hound smarter than humans. The dog often is.
Speaker 17 (24:13):
I'm sorry to bring these tidings, but the squires it's.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Not dead, my God.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Wouldn't you know that Whiskey would be the first to know,
oh Wood, who was with him last Chad, Mister Bishi
had one bishop. You'd better hope two things worth.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
My loving brother and father died naturally, and that you
are not is so heir, And if I should.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Be, you'll take that up, brother, when we get to it.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
The two brothers face each other, the kind of raw
hatred that can only be bred in family relationships. Aimed
and writhing between them, the dog is suddenly silent, his somber,
brooding eyes measuring them both in turn. Now the brothers,
mister Tremaine and Shadsby go into the house, traversing the
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long haul and climbing a winding staircase to the squire's room.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I will return with that too in just a moment.
I have a good mystery, don't you.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
And one of the best I've read is The Black
Tower by B. D.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
James.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
This is no mild English country.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
House mystery, Oh no, my friend, not this book. The
Black Tower is a mystery chiller of the first rank.
Commander Adam Dalgleish of Scotland Yard arrives at a prim
nursing home on the English coast, only to find it
has become.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
A labyrinth of inhuman terror, uric poison, pen letters and murder.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
A saintly man of God slain by an act of
satanic evil, and the secret lies hidden in the strange,
isolated building.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Known as a Black Tower.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Excitement fis page by page until Adam Dalgleish comes to
the terrifying, dramatic climax.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
With him, you will discover that the murderer is in
the last few chapters of the book.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Of course, read it The Black Tower, Available in paperback
from Popular Library.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
This is Sam Levinson.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Somewhere a teenage girl in the school for the retarda
doesn't remember what her parents look like, and somewhere a
great grandmother and a nursing home doesn't even bother to
celebrate her eighty fifth birthday. Now multiply these people by
many millions, and you've become.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Aware of the problem.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
And the problem is loneliness.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Let me tell you about a new public service program
called Voice Program The heart of the problem. As an
exchange of tape recorded messages between the patients and their
families and friends. Actor Cliff Robertson and Harold Russell, chairman
of the President's Committee for the Handicap And I saw
phile lending their support on a nationwide basis. But to
make it work, we need sympathetic volunteers. We'll visit patients
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and talk to them while there were a tape for
their loved.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Ones to hear and respond.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Just give a little bit of your time and a
lot of caring, and just write the voice of Graham
Box one twenty seven, coscop, Connecticut, six eight o seven.
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When they came upon him in the bedroom, Squire Samuel
Roxby lay half fallen for the upper part of his
body out of the great four poster. His face was
suffused with the livid blood of apoplexy, his hands crooked
as if in some great battle against the angel of death.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
And what was most startling.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Of all his blue eyes wide stark and staring with
a kind of terrible accusation.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
And his death was not an end but a beginning.
Speaker 17 (28:16):
Whisky poor Hound was the first to announce the death,
and outside of myself, as the next days passed, seemingly
the only one to mourn the master's passing by heaven.
Speaker 7 (28:29):
I'll not suffer it.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I'll take it a law, though I ask you to
let us discuss this.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Colmly, calmly, calmly.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Is it when my father, his face black and his
tongue out gasping for air, quite obviously had help in
leaving this world. That's quite an accusation.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Though I do heartily agree. Prove it, brother.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
The proof is on the table there amongst us, your
father's will.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
My father called me in and signed this document, which
proved to be his will. At the time I didn't
know what it was.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
It was sealed with his signetary.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Naming you was sole.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
As you see, Without this will, we would share the inheritance.
Isn't that true visa Tremaine if your father had died intested. Yes,
since it doesn't apply, there's only one will which appears
to be valid. Are you satisfied, brother? No, would you
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listen to that. I swear by all that's holy we
might all be ashamed. The Squire is dead and there's
only one who really mourns him. Well, I warn you
one thing, Bishop, If it's the last thing I do,
I'll make sure you don't profit from his death. Well, yes,
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true name.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
I wasn't sure you'd be here.
Speaker 15 (29:51):
I got your message.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
It seems my brothers has been more urgent during the
time I've been absent.
Speaker 15 (29:57):
I didn't come here to quarrel.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
I don't know why to die.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
But what's all this?
Speaker 2 (30:01):
My father tells me about.
Speaker 15 (30:03):
Bishop and you, the families of friends? How would you
have me treat.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Him like the black snake he is?
Speaker 3 (30:10):
There are two Roxby's left, my brother and myself.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
All right, when I which do you choose?
Speaker 15 (30:17):
I didn't think your message suggested that this was why.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
I need you.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
What did you expect to talk about with a Roxby
love instead of hate?
Speaker 15 (30:26):
I thought the first was all that lay between us, and.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
So did I till I came home so tardy. You
know that I've been disinherited.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Well I yes, but it makes no difference to us.
Speaker 15 (30:41):
So please it's well, it's different now, it isn't when
I see you again to that and touch You never wrote,
I never write anyone.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
We thought you were.
Speaker 15 (30:51):
Never coming back. We patient, well, I mean Daddy and
I and and Daddy.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Felt that that I I wasn't worth the powder to
blow me to hell.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
You don't have to be so violent?
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (31:07):
We're a violent family.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Tone.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Oh, don't let my brother's cold, tight control blind you
to what he really is. Not all the money in
the world could bring you a moment's peace with him.
That's why I made this tryst to tell you that
he murdered my father and to ask you to run
away with me before it's too late for all of us.
Speaker 15 (31:24):
Oh what are you saying? You can't believe that w
bishop kills you?
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Of course I do, but prove it and something else again,
so you won't come with me?
Speaker 9 (31:38):
Oh?
Speaker 15 (31:39):
Be fair, be reasonable?
Speaker 3 (31:41):
How can I forget it to an end? You've made
your choice, I thought, I owe you one last chance.
Speaker 10 (31:47):
Where are you going?
Speaker 3 (31:48):
If I can't have you or rope speak? I heaven
neither wild Bishop bow Bow?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Put a bullet in my brother and then another in myself?
You can't your Bishop I will unless he backs down.
But you and I are prow Are I get away, boy?
Speaker 7 (32:01):
Get away with gear?
Speaker 17 (32:02):
I'll take my riding crop.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Do you quick.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
Better? Dave you this hottest killy enough? And my god?
Speaker 10 (32:16):
Are you all right?
Speaker 7 (32:18):
Lord?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
On my back?
Speaker 7 (32:23):
I think we're broken.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Hell.
Speaker 17 (32:33):
He was in a bad way, the poor young master.
Speaker 7 (32:36):
His back was.
Speaker 17 (32:37):
Broken and his leg, and Lord only knows what damage
to his inerds from the horse stomping on him. For
near a month he lay in a sort of half
world from all the morphine and laudanum for the pain,
his wits wandering, while his father was buried, and Master
Bishop and miss entw It announced their marriage. Missus Armbrister,
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the housekeeper and I were his only nurses and only
companions save word whiskey, who could not be kept out
of the room, and an occasional visit from Squire Bishop.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Well, how's the living corpse to day?
Speaker 7 (33:20):
Chatwine? Who are about the same, sir? Although he does.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Seem a little perky and that's dubious news. Oh good lord,
what's that.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Mangy hound doing in here?
Speaker 17 (33:33):
We can't keep him out of here, even with the
doors and windows closed. He seems to be able to
slip through some chink in the wall. So for I
don't know, but he's better here. He keeps him quiet, like.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Look at him, I'll get him curl his lip at me.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
I don't like the dog any better than.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
He does me. I'd have you take him to the
stables and shoot him if you have a.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
Hush now by.
Speaker 17 (34:00):
You wouldn't do that, would you, Sir? He was your
father's boon companion.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
And frings him out of here at Chad's worth, I'd
like to have a word with my brother.
Speaker 17 (34:08):
Yes, very well, sir. Come on, lad come on, come on,
old boy. Don't make me drag. You got to obey
the new master, you know, get him out, Yes, sir.
Speaker 7 (34:22):
I'm doing that. Come on then, come on.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
He doesn't like you, Bishop, he has good taste.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
So you're back in the land of the living again.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Halfway someplace, halfway back from where I've been.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Where have you been the.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Other side of the curtain? Perhaps I talk to father?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
You you are? That scares you a little? Oh, doesn't it? Bishop?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Why should have I'm sure afraid he might have told
me how how he died, how he died from apoplexy,
congestion of her blood and heart?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
What else? What my father told me? Would you like
to hear?
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Oh, I have no intention of listening to your delirium
and your dream or you're.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Going to not in my words, but in his his
own words, our father's words. Your father's words.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
No, Bishop, have us wait for both to come home.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
I promised Molly before she died that I would never
let rooks be all pass out.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Of our family while I had any control over it.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
I want to lie ashide her in the garden, keep
it all as long as it is surely possible.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Or guard me any Father, you could trust me to
see that it stayed in family and the family fortune
with prosca.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
I wonder, Bishop, for your worship different gods than yours.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
This money.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
If you should die intestate and the inheritance is split
between us, the house would have to be so.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Yes, I said, Father, one of us must.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Be in charge. Trust me.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
I'll take care of ball, but the purse strings should
be in my hand.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
I have pennon Inka.
Speaker 7 (36:38):
I know all.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
She'm very anxious to help me to the grave.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I am anxious to see your affairs.
Speaker 7 (36:44):
In order before you enter in.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
I don't trust you, my God, you will hold back
any longer, and I will help you to the grave
and make certain that both joins you that very shortly.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
True colors and life make no mistake.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
I mean what I say, and if I signed, you
will keep the hole over and you will provide for both.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
She do it to the servants homely die and my
dog man's best friend, they say, And at the last
it has proved right, whiskey, whiskey.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
You will protect old whiskey too, I promise, I promise anything.
Only sign anywhere, give me the pen, need witnesses, you know.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
The paper, not to what I am about to do.
Speaker 16 (37:42):
No, my time is not yet, wish No, No, you
took the pillow and held it over his face until
you choke the life from our father.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Good lord, every word, every syllable.
Speaker 7 (38:07):
How could you know?
Speaker 2 (38:08):
I told you I've been beyond the curtain.
Speaker 7 (38:11):
I talked with father.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
You'll have no chance to tell anyone else. I'll take
care of that now.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
How will you do it the same way you did
with father?
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Yes, there's no way to trace it, and no one
will stop me at all. How did you get back
in here? It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
What does matter is he's going to stop you now by.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Eviden cop my sleep, whiskey. I told you he'd stop you,
all right, all right, only this time.
Speaker 16 (38:49):
Next time I'll have a gun and i'll.
Speaker 7 (38:51):
Cheer your path.
Speaker 17 (38:55):
How did I know these things? Because mister Burgh got
to it, and much much more strange and hard to believe,
and not of.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
This world, curiouser and curious, sir as.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
Alice, that of wonderland.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
Are the turns and twists of this.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Strange, brooding story of a house divided against itself, the
disintegration of a family, a dead man, and a faithful dog.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
I'll return shortly with that three.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Do you have a taste for things that are a
little out of the ordinary doors It.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Has a clock in its stomach and a clothes in
the dark.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
I think we should snap it up dead. Do you
like things that are fun but are also functional?
Speaker 2 (39:45):
That is fun, huh? But as a functional Doris?
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Do you want to be the talk of the town
of Kick and Doris?
Speaker 15 (39:50):
We were just talking about you.
Speaker 7 (39:52):
Then.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
The Opally Susu is your kind of car. It's not ordinary,
it's fun but functional, and people will talk about it.
Speaker 15 (39:58):
Did you hear what, Kick and Dark?
Speaker 1 (40:00):
The Opolice Susu a dandy you small car at your
buick Opal Dealers.
Speaker 15 (40:07):
I've got bronkil asthma. I've also got a newspaper to
get out. That's why I take Broncae tablets. They help
keep my occasional asthma attacks away for hours. I tried
Privatine tablets and we work. But then I heard about Broncave.
Bronkaid has an extra ingredient to help you get bit
of congestion. Primatine doesn't have that. Bronkve works for hours,
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so I can work for hours.
Speaker 14 (40:29):
Bronkade tablets do more to let you breathe easier. Use
only as directed, Miss Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Miss Armstrong, Yes, may I ask you a few questions?
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Well, I am rather right, It'll only take a minute.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
All right, thank you, Miss Armstrong. I hear you're going
in this seclusion for the most important production of your life.
Speaker 7 (40:48):
What's it going to be?
Speaker 2 (40:49):
I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 7 (40:51):
But how do you prepare for something without knowing what
it is?
Speaker 1 (40:54):
Oh?
Speaker 15 (40:54):
My doctor will help me. You see, this is very
different from my other rules. Oh and I must follow
all of his orders your doctor. Yes, first time, I
set up regular appointments with him. I eat well balanced
and nourishing meals, exercise moderately, and stay away from all
pills and other medications except those prescribed by him.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
But what does that have to do with the performing arts? Everything?
Speaker 15 (41:16):
The preparation for any performance requires discipline. You see, I'm
preparing for a baby with my doctor, and the March
of Dimes to coach me. I won't miss a cue.
Oh and I already know the most important line. What's
that The March of Dimes says, be good to your
baby before it is born.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
Down through the years, King Lear's agonizing cry has echoed
to haunt every parent's heart. How sharper than a serpent's
tooth is you have a thankless child? Certainly no one
could have more cause for lament than the late Squire Roxby,
one of whose sons has already hastened him to the grave,
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while the other, seeking his own selfish revenge, is about the.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Task of raising him from it. We returned to learn why.
Speaker 3 (42:22):
As Chadsworth, the old butler, hurries agitatedly into the room
where Beauregard Roxby lies helpless.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
On the bed.
Speaker 17 (42:32):
Are you all right, Master Burregart?
Speaker 7 (42:34):
What's wrong?
Speaker 1 (42:35):
Chad?
Speaker 15 (42:36):
To me?
Speaker 17 (42:37):
Your brother would buy me down the stairs, his face
white and his eyes so white and blank.
Speaker 3 (42:42):
I thought perhaps I'd followed my father's example and left
this baleful world.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
No, not yet, Chad, not quite yet.
Speaker 17 (42:52):
I don't understand. There's so much I don't understand, whisky,
how did he get back in here?
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Mister bishop letting me all out? My brother never him
the last two?
Speaker 7 (43:04):
Then how did he get in this room?
Speaker 17 (43:07):
The door was closed when I left, taking taking him
with me, and it was closed when I returned.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
And still he did return. No ordinary dog, wouldn't you say?
Speaker 5 (43:20):
Chad?
Speaker 3 (43:22):
I I want you to leave us alone. There's a
lot I think to be done, and very little time left.
Speaker 7 (43:27):
To do it.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
Now, miss mister the door call the doctor is long
since out of this as her, Miss Twinette, her father,
but not quite yet. My brother and myself and my father.
Leave us alone a little please, and trust me when
I ring to tell you all that needs to be told.
Speaker 7 (43:49):
Take the dog with me.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
So no leaf whiskey behind.
Speaker 7 (43:53):
Are you sure you're all right?
Speaker 3 (43:55):
Mister peregard right as I'll ever be. Good Bye, Chad,
at least for now.
Speaker 7 (44:03):
Good Bye, Sir. I hope you know what's best.
Speaker 4 (44:09):
I may not.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
But how about you, whiskey, whoever you are?
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Now?
Speaker 17 (44:22):
The rest you'll have to take on faith? As well
as I can remember it. Some was what I saw,
and most what I was told. But here's about how
it went.
Speaker 3 (44:36):
What is it whiskey by you.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
You want me to go with you somewhere. You know
I can't do that. I can't walk. Why all right?
Speaker 1 (44:52):
If you insist, I'll.
Speaker 17 (44:54):
Try mean while well, I was downstairs trying to cope
with mister Bishop and mister and Missus Tremaine, who'd.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
Come to call Chad's worth Chad's worth? Yes, mister Bishop,
where is the brandy? Curse it? We're out of brandy?
Speaker 7 (45:16):
Get some more?
Speaker 2 (45:17):
Haven't I told you to keep this boss.
Speaker 17 (45:18):
Star begging your pardon?
Speaker 7 (45:20):
Sir? But there's a bottle, right help.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
And well give it to me now, you will, fool.
I'll open it myself and that get me my shotgun.
Speaker 7 (45:28):
You're short gun, sir.
Speaker 2 (45:30):
I am going to take that mean speckled hound with
his long, lugubrious face out of the barn and shoot
who's kid? Who was a short gun? That is so treacherous.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
I don't want to take a chance on missing. And
don't worry, I have a handgun to finish him off with.
Speaker 17 (45:43):
Mister Bishop, your father's dog kid.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
When I get through with him, he'll be nobody's dog.
Speaker 16 (45:48):
And I see who that is.
Speaker 17 (45:50):
Yes, sir, I can see by the raid gets mister
Tremaine and his daughter.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Will get rid of them. I don't want to see
them now, and don't worry. I'll handle the guns myself.
Speaker 17 (46:05):
Good evening, mister Tremain and Miss Antoinette. Tonight is a
behead night to be here? Why well, miss it's it's
just the things that it's sixes and sevens as you.
Speaker 15 (46:18):
Might say, is mister bow Worth, I.
Speaker 7 (46:21):
Don't think there's been much change.
Speaker 3 (46:24):
My daughter and I will wait in the sun room. Chad,
please inform mister Bishop we're here, Yes, sir, I'll do
that right away, Sir.
Speaker 15 (46:34):
I don't believe we should have come tonight.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Father, I don't believe that for one moment we should
lose touch with the Rosby family until you're one of them.
Speaker 15 (46:43):
Meant it really must you be so open about it all, honey,
When you're as stretched over a barrel as I am,
a person has no shame, only the determination to survive,
and that has to go for both of us.
Speaker 7 (46:58):
You're not as.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Young as you might be, and I'm so overinvested that
I haven't any dowry.
Speaker 4 (47:02):
To walk at you.
Speaker 7 (47:03):
Daddy.
Speaker 15 (47:04):
It's all right, we'll make out. You can trust me,
be sure of that. But psh, Bishop, honey, were you
just going to pass us right by and pay us no?
Speaker 4 (47:15):
Nevermind?
Speaker 2 (47:16):
Well, actually give me this is this is a bad evening.
Things are a little out of hand.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
Is there anything we can do to help?
Speaker 9 (47:24):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (47:24):
I think that's nothing I can't handle by myself. Well,
then please excuse us to one head.
Speaker 15 (47:31):
You sure there's nothing?
Speaker 10 (47:33):
I mean?
Speaker 1 (47:33):
It is it?
Speaker 16 (47:35):
Bo?
Speaker 4 (47:35):
Is he worse?
Speaker 1 (47:36):
It's not well, my darling, And well, think he's not
long for this world. He's in a wild delirium at
the moment.
Speaker 7 (47:42):
W have you said for the doctor?
Speaker 1 (47:44):
Yes, yes, and for the priest. I think I'll need
more of the second. And now please forgive me. I
must attend to my brother. Oh yes, yes, of course,
Bishop Son. Don't worry about us. We can let ourselves out.
Speaker 17 (48:00):
But I had seen something that the Tremaine said, not
the gun that master Bishop was carrying hidden inside his coat.
And now I stopped him at the foot of the stairs.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
Out of my way.
Speaker 7 (48:14):
Chat. Well, no, mister.
Speaker 17 (48:15):
Bishop, please, in the name of Heaven, hasn't enough misfortune
come to this house to leave the poor dog a home?
Speaker 2 (48:22):
You want to die with him, Chad and my brother, No, sir,
but I am step aside, no, sir, what I cannot.
Speaker 17 (48:30):
Shut my eyes to murder anymore before I let your
harm an innocent beast, and mister Brackard, who cannot offend himself,
I raise the countryside.
Speaker 2 (48:39):
Why you help?
Speaker 17 (48:41):
Help, listen, dramade, help God. I lay unconscious till the
shot woke me, and yet somehow I seemed a step
out of myself to be a witness of all the
things which could not have happened, and yet did. I
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could see mister Bishop stop at the bottom of the stairs,
staring in incredulous disbelief, as mister Bow Whiskey tugging at
his night shirt and leading him a man paralyzed and
unable even to stand, across the upper landing and through
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the door to.
Speaker 7 (49:28):
The Squire's room.
Speaker 17 (49:31):
And then somehow, as if picked up by the wind,
I was behind mister Bishop.
Speaker 7 (49:38):
As he raced up the stairs taking out the gun.
Speaker 17 (49:43):
I was watching the drama in the squire's old bedroom.
Mister Bow had unscrewed one of the big knobs of
the four poster bed, had drawn from a horrw place
there a document which he was reaching while Whiskey lay
on the bit as he often did, with the old
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master watching him and licking his lips.
Speaker 2 (50:10):
What what do you have there?
Speaker 7 (50:12):
Bo?
Speaker 2 (50:13):
Something Whiskey led me to the real will Bishop? What
do you mean the real will, one that.
Speaker 3 (50:20):
Our father had drawn, validated before we ever came home?
And would you like to know who.
Speaker 7 (50:25):
The real air was?
Speaker 2 (50:27):
Whiskey with Chadsworth named.
Speaker 3 (50:30):
As his god, it would never hold up in a court,
or wouldn't it. I wonder Chadsworth didn't really see father's
sign your will, and I doubt if he'd support you
once he you father's real wishes. He knows just as
well as the square did. We'll neither of it was
worth a damn.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
It doesn't matter so beside the point, because that one's
going to be destroy I give it to me.
Speaker 3 (50:49):
Oh no, bishief a little late, but this is one
wish I can drank my father.
Speaker 2 (50:53):
You'll get to me, cliple, or I'll take it from you.
Speaker 7 (50:56):
Try it, I'll have it.
Speaker 2 (50:57):
If I had to put a pullet through you hand
it over. I I didn't I risk stop.
Speaker 19 (51:06):
Oh oh no, Whiskey made me shoot myself. I ah,
I never thought it would be like this.
Speaker 4 (51:21):
If all my time you took me.
Speaker 20 (51:27):
Now I tell you in the same way.
Speaker 7 (51:38):
Father boll is no better.
Speaker 2 (51:40):
He just sold the house from under you, just as.
Speaker 7 (51:43):
Soon as I would.
Speaker 2 (51:50):
Why didn't you take him to tell him?
Speaker 20 (51:59):
He didn't have to, you see, I'm already dead, as
I said.
Speaker 17 (52:15):
The shot brought me awake, but by the time I
got to the room it was empty save for mister
Bishop lying gaped on the floor with a bullet through
his hat and the will, the real will in his hand.
Speaker 4 (52:38):
Shocking thing, Really shocking.
Speaker 1 (52:41):
Bishop, You think actually committed suicide because he murdered his father.
That's the way it would appear, sir, well, and there's
absolutely no question about this.
Speaker 4 (52:53):
Will being valid.
Speaker 1 (52:57):
You'll be a rich man, Shedsworth.
Speaker 17 (53:00):
Ah, it's all been a few years past now, and
we're both a bit grayer and a little nearer the
end of it all. But they've been dressed enough years
for all the sad memories. Whisky and me sitting here
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by the fire of a night my look across at
him in the squire's winged chair, and I wonder if
it's a trick of my old eyes. But moment by moment,
day by day, year by year, that long hound's face
with the jowls whom the sad wise old eyes grows
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more and more like the master till when the fire
burns low, when the candle's wind, I could swear he
sits there and do not sit me, and dwinks and says.
Speaker 4 (54:11):
Not the best way to win, perhaps Chadden.
Speaker 3 (54:16):
But at least there's been a satisfaction of knowing that.
Speaker 1 (54:23):
The old dog had his day.
Speaker 3 (54:26):
After all, if a man and his dog lived together
long enough, and you believe my fantasy that I stayed
in the beginning, do you suppose a man and his
dog could change ends of the leash and no one
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would notice the difference.
Speaker 4 (54:52):
I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 1 (55:06):
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yet it contains enough cold medicine to help relieve cold
symptoms caused by every known virus. Every known virus is Contact,
the same twelve hour contact you can buy this year. Contact,
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Speaker 4 (55:49):
It works all day all night.
Speaker 3 (55:51):
Take on the history.
Speaker 6 (55:54):
Tired of the orderant sprays that seems to miss their mark.
Want something powerful as you can put on in the dark.
Ship to the English letther stickallistic.
Speaker 4 (56:05):
Ship is all.
Speaker 6 (56:06):
The English livers got the stick that'll always protect you.
Speaker 13 (56:10):
Point the English leather said, they'll never forget you.
Speaker 6 (56:14):
Gosship to the English letto stick.
Speaker 17 (56:17):
The stick shift is all.
Speaker 2 (56:19):
There are three good reasons to ship.
Speaker 6 (56:21):
From an expensive deodoran spray to English letter the odorant stick.
What English leather goes right where you want it, so
there's no waste to It's concentrated to give powerful protection.
Speaker 2 (56:31):
For the best reason of all is right under You're.
Speaker 6 (56:34):
No the famous fresh queen scent of English letter of
the English mothers, got the stick that'll always protect you
to point the.
Speaker 2 (56:41):
English leather said, they'll never forget you.
Speaker 11 (56:44):
Hasship to the.
Speaker 5 (56:45):
English sick the stick ships all.
Speaker 6 (56:49):
Look for the English letter, the olderan stick, and your
favorite toiletries counselor.
Speaker 3 (57:04):
Looking in some old records, I found that a Thomas Chadsworth,
the last resident of Rokesby Hall, lived to be ninety three.
There's no mention of how many years Whisky lived. But
there is a note to the effect that the day
the old man died his dog, an old gray speckled hound,
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went to his long last sleep, as if in sympathy.
I wonder if they're buried in the garden beside the
squire and his wife. Our cast included Court Benson, Russell, Horton, Morgan, Fairchild,
and I and Martin. The entire production was under the
direction of Hymon Brown Radio. Mystery Theater was sponsored in
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part by Buick Motor Division and Contact the twelve hour
Cold Capsule Missus E. G. Marshall inviting you to return
to our Mystery Theater for another adventure in the macabre.
Until next time, Pleasant dream.
Speaker 1 (58:47):
A good job these days is hard to find, but
if you're a high school senior, you can reserve that
good job right now, one that gives you almost three
hundred and fifty dollars a month in spending money to start,
takes care of all your basic expenses, and teaches.
Speaker 2 (59:00):
You a valuable technical skill.
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You'll know that a good job is waiting for you,
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and promotion even.
Speaker 2 (59:26):
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Speaker 1 (59:27):
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a good job now with a US Coast Guard.
Speaker 9 (59:44):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (59:45):
This is Corey Wells a three dog night.
Speaker 1 (59:47):
Music is my business, but fighting pollution is everybody's business.
Speaker 2 (59:51):
So listen to woodsy owl spread the word.
Speaker 7 (59:53):
Never be a dirty bird. Sall tell a bilgy spread
their word. Come on the jurybird in the.
Speaker 16 (01:00:02):
C in the wits helping America looking hard, a.
Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
Public service message on behalf of the US Forest Service
in the station wa dos Fort.
Speaker 14 (01:00:23):
CBS News helicopters will fly over Colorado's Big Thompson Valley
again on Tuesday, but their primary mission this time will
be to.
Speaker 3 (01:00:31):
Look for unrecovered Bodies. I'm Mike Stanley, reporting on the
CBS radio network.
WUSAA, Dallas ford Worth Newsbreak.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Charles has good on the CBS Radio network about the
Colorado floods. After this.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
If you've got an eye for cars, maybe you've already
seen the impertinent little sport coop making its mark around
town these days. It's called Sunbird, and it's made in
America by Potiac. But despite its rather modest origins, it
has a habit of acting like an import price three
times higher, an understandable impertinence, we suppose, since Sunbird is
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about the size of the BMW, with a wheelbase only
a tenth of an inch longer than a Mercedes four
fifty SLS, and although it comes with a four, it's
available with a V six that delivers the same torque
or pulling power as a Maserati V six while turning
one thousand fewer revolutions.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You can order a Sunbird.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
With a five speed manual or an automatic, and some
models may still be available with a free transmission offer.
But the question remains, how little does a sunburned cost?
We're beginning to think that's a matter best kept between
you and your Pontiac dealer.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
What the higher priced imports don't.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Know won't hurt them.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Saturday night, it became clear that a lot of water
might be funneling through the Big Thompson Canyon, and officers
tried to get the campers out of there.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
They're hard to move, they're hard to rouse to get
their charcoal going.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
They don't want to leave, even talk film.
Speaker 6 (01:26):
They want to know how deep the water is going
to be.
Speaker 7 (01:27):
You don't have time to talk.
Speaker 6 (01:29):
So you go to the next group.
Speaker 8 (01:31):
And for that reason the scared ones got out there.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
The State Raymond Lee was driving from the National Park
to Loveland, coming.
Speaker 9 (01:39):
Down from Masters Park and the road gave away from
us in front of us. We turned around, tried to
get out. The road give away that way, so we
stranded right there in our cars till sat Are.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Many of the casualties were motorists.
Speaker 10 (01:53):
Some of them might think might have been sleeping in
their cars, and they might have tried to get the
higher ground and uh they just didn't make it. The
uh water was the swift that they just carried the
cars and trucks and the UH house trailers and stuff
right into the uh deep water.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
I hung on to the log first, you know, the
slippery and we slipped them off and finally I saw,
uh uh, I could spare tire. So I grabbed onto
that rim and everything was in players. I hung on
to that, and I really think that saved me. I
really lost all sense of direction and everything. It was
just like I was floating down through the forest. I
couldn't even grab a lot of the trees.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I was going.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
So it say its one had been on his way home.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
A quarterway home and started raining, haling.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
You know, I just thought it was a bad storm.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
I didn't I had the radio one and I didn't
hear anything got fast flood.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
I came in the backway.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Home and there was one there's one bridge I wasn't
going across.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
It was drying when I got there.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Then I noticed a.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Couple of inches of water going over the top of
the night sugar with the heck you know, the player
rover got right through it. So I just started over
and then about four foot of wad it decide? You know,
I guess I just missed a minute the at the
beginning of the leaves coming down, and it pushed me
right off the bridge, and uhl Trump was underwater and
I was underwater, and all of a sudden, you know,
I had to hold my breath and I couldn't open
the door or anything, so I just stocked the window
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out and got out.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Somehow Jewel caught her and has a little house in
the canyon.
Speaker 8 (03:15):
My daughter heard some screams and we me and a neighbor, CLIVERD. Moore,
went out into water and got the one girl out,
and as we come back.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Up here, we was talking to her and she said there.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Were five in the car.
Speaker 8 (03:29):
And in the meantime we found another one in the
middle of the river right here, and later the search
and rescue got her out and we went back looking
for the others, and we found one body last night,
and they found another body this morning. The girl and
one of the other girls was still missing.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Another five.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Ce Cilia Grimes cabin was underwater in no time.
Speaker 11 (03:45):
The only thing that's saved it was our mantle and
our fireplace, and we hung on to that and the
water was clear up to here and we just hung
on to that, put the dog up on the mantel,
and there were two of the two ladies we could
talk to that help. Somebody came and we walked.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
To Gary Watts knows that his little son has drowned.
Speaker 12 (04:07):
We were inside and when it went, the whole cabin
just completely. He's just like a tinker toy, just disintegrated.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
Uh.
Speaker 12 (04:16):
We were down under the water and the next thing
I knew, I was in the water, but I was
able to walk out A wife and I am little
girl and baby we're okay.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
What kind of condition is everybody in? Pretty pretty good? Really,
except so he's got a.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Rather bad cut on her arm that they're having to
operate on.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
And how about your children?
Speaker 7 (04:50):
They're fine?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Box so for Aaron, And.
Speaker 13 (04:54):
Now this message foreign car drivers, has this ever happened
to you? A Look, we got a lot of important
work here, but gee, hugo, I bought my car here.
Speaker 14 (05:04):
Now and maybe I could squeeze you in under fit
oh grace of January.
Speaker 13 (05:07):
January, Foreign car drivers, you don't have to take it
anymore now. Midas gives foreign cars the same kind of
service we've been giving American cars for twenty years. So
you're usually in and out in thirty minutes without an appointment.
Because it might us. We're foreign cars specialists. We have
to do a better job.
Speaker 14 (05:27):
Yes, excuse me for being nosy, but is that mold
and mildew I smell in your bathroom.
Speaker 15 (05:31):
Yes it is, and I clean it every day.
Speaker 14 (05:34):
Really, to get a place really clean, use Lysol brand disinfectant.
Lysol Yes, Lysol brand disinfectant kills household germs on surfaces
where they grow, including germs that cause orders.
Speaker 15 (05:43):
Mysol brand disinfecting. That brown bottle in the red.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
And yellow box. That's it.
Speaker 14 (05:48):
Just pour them in a bucket of water and start
cleaning the floor, tiles, fixtures.
Speaker 15 (05:52):
No more moldy and mildewy odors here.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Come back and be nosy again. News Break Charles has
good CBS News.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Brad Baby, everybody's doing it doing what celebrating our country
five centennial birthday? Of course, what's that got to do
with keeping your teeth clean? Paul Landy, that's what we're celebrating,
the two hundred years since we declared our independence as
a nation.
Speaker 16 (06:15):
I hear you, man, but I don't track you.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Well, figure it out yourself.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
One of the best ways to do this is to
declare your independence from dental disease.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I track your now said that's right. Dental disease can
be a big pain, and who needs that. I'm doctor
John Tabac, President of the American Society of Dentistry for
Children and ASDC is asking children everywhere throughout this wonderful
land of ours to say Happy Birthday USA by brushing
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and flossing the plaque from their teeth. Plaque can lead
to dental disease, and a happy, healthy nation must be
free from that too.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
So as.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Come in, welcome, I'm e. G.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
Marshall.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Have you ever noticed, passing a man walking his dog
in the street, how much they resemble each other? If
you haven't take a look next time. Somehow the leash
becomes a sort of umbilical cord that establishes them as kin.
I don't always find the same thing with women, perhaps
because I don't always get as far as the other
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end of the leash. But men, it may be only
my fancy. On the other hand, this fancy, in a way,
is what this story is about. Whiskey boy, what's the
mappen ah?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
You Bishop, it's a bad time you got here.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Bo.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I came as fast as I could, never quite as
quick as your old long nose, always slipping in the wind.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Just get Chad's worth. What the devil is the matter
with this flee bitten.
Speaker 17 (08:23):
Hound murter than human's the dog off And I'm sorry
to bring these tidings, but the squire is it's.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Not dead, my God.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Wouldn't you know that Whiskey would be the first to know, Oh,
Woodie who was with him last Chad?
Speaker 16 (08:45):
Mister Bishop, I hi, and Bishop, you'd better hope.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Two things worth, my loving brother, that father died naturally
and that you're not is soware And if I should be,
you'll take that up, brother when we get to it.
Our mystery drama Every Dog Has His Day was written
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especially for the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and stars
Cork Benson. It is sponsored in part by Contact, the
Twelve Hour Code Capsule and Buick Mortar Division.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I'll be back shortly with that one.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
The following is a test. Please answer all questions truthfully.
Speaker 15 (09:29):
Question one, which of these do you like most? Robot
dandis opally Suzu?
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Question two, if you and three friends wanted to take
a nice trip, would you take turns carrying each other,
take turns throwing each other, or buy an opally susu?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Question three, Given a choice, would you attend a lecture
on good posture? Hurt your foot, or buy an opally susu.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
If you answered opali susu to all three, see your
buick opal dealer and take a test drive. Otherwise, see someone.
Speaker 15 (09:54):
Else of all times to get hemorrhoids. Why pregnancy is
a major cause, Well, since you're expecting, ask your doctor
before using any medications. My sister used preparation H.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
For many women.
Speaker 15 (10:07):
Preparation H relieves occasional pain and itch for hours.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Sounds good.
Speaker 15 (10:12):
Preparation H does more actually helps shrink swelling of hemoroidal
tissue caused by inflammation. Even better, Preparation H helps shrink
swelling of hemmoroidal tissues.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Use only as directed. Hey are you the country doctor? Yeah?
Well I'm the United States of America and I need help.
Speaker 18 (10:32):
Okay, what do you want me of help here?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Well, I've got two hundred years of growing pains and
two hundred million people.
Speaker 15 (10:41):
Would you hit the most.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
In my heart because that's where those two hundred million
people live.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
Do you understand that?
Speaker 18 (10:48):
Yeah, because you're in the United States of America?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Then what's wrong with me? Doctor?
Speaker 18 (10:53):
Well, maybe it's because all the bad people in your
heart is what makes you sick.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
That sounds serious.
Speaker 18 (11:02):
Yeah, because a few hips is erecting.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
Nothing works.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Well, how do I cure the bad people in my heart?
Speaker 18 (11:10):
Well, you could tell them to be good to each
other and to love each other, and then maybe you'll
feel much better.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Well, God bless America, please from the Franciscans with love.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Old Roxby Hall is long gone now, even in the
last century, or at least the latter half of it,
the great Georgian mansion had fallen into ruin and decay.
The broad latticed windows were their diamond shaped panes broken,
the cage work of the upper stories dirty and dilapidated.
The somber, lifeless avenue that swept from the coach road
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under the giant elm to the hall itself overgrown and
choked with weeds.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Before the Civil War.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
It had been one of Virginia's proudest landmarks. Till the
death of the old Squire's wife.
Speaker 17 (12:19):
You might say I came with the foundations of Old
Roxby Hall. For on the death of his father, the
squire left England behind him and took his new bride
to the Americus and built this magnificent old house to
welcome her here. Those were the days never a one
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without the carriages passing by, and the gentry leaving their cards,
the balls, the hunting breakfasts, all the society of the
new world. I opened that front door for and welcomed
him to meet and socialize with the Squire and his
lovely bride. But with her ladyship's death, it's all changed.
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I remember the night she was buried, as well as
my own.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Name, said, with.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
My light has gone house, pour yourself a brandon, join
me me.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Sel God's wounds.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Man, you're closer.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
To me than all my family.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
You have your sons, my sons, neither of whom could
quite break off their own affairs to.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Mourn their mother's death.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Bishop, since his province is the field of business.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Bothering, buying, and selling.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Beauregard too busy with wine, women and nothing but debts,
which I am heartily sick of pain.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
Pour that brandy gabbit.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Least I won't drink alone. He is very well, sir,
now that the gout has troubled me. Jimmy, if I
have a friend left, shaving yourself an old whisky girl,
best dog I ever had, the only one left now.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
That I've put by the horses.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
I whiskey away.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
By my eyes, gent with, he has more love and
thought for me than either of those ungrateful pops.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I wept a whole.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Oh he's looking at you, to your very good health, sir,
I doubt, I.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Doubt if I have a bunch of acts.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
Square, lets me on, what is it on the side
or pill? Little white pill?
Speaker 17 (14:57):
You didn't tell me that, doctor somers At Christ right
for you?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
How many here? Just one and get me some more branded.
Speaker 17 (15:04):
No, no, no, no, no, squire, you've had more than
enough of that.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
Yeah, here's some water horror.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
A man wants to kill me.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
Oh, the last thing I would do.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
So on only two in the world. I can trust you,
Chid Wilson, my old boy there.
Speaker 17 (15:30):
I didn't know that the Master had been seeing a doctor,
so I was relieved when the first of his sons,
mister Bishop, the older one, turned up the next morning.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
I put the.
Speaker 17 (15:42):
Matter of calling the doctor in his hands. But the
first person he called wasn't a doctor, but a lawyer,
our nearest neighbor, mister William Trummin.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I mean, I don't try to push me over aget yet.
I'll hang on long enough.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Take it a good.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Long look at both though, those young Jackanapes who can't
wait to inher at Rugxbury. Bishop is here already, Sam,
and anxious to see you, I can imagine.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
But first he was Cavil and my lawyer.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
And now now, Sam, you mustn't say your son shot.
Give them a chance to present their own case. Oh
of course, mister lawyer, they shall have their chance. He's
bother too, Why no, no, we are not sure he's
received our messages yet.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Not even the thought of being able to win your
fair intette was enough to coax that Rascal Bagon. I
cannot answer for my daughter. I'm not sure which of
your sons engages her deepest regard. If Bishop is waiting,
I suppose I should see him.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
Sam.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
May I speak as an old friend, better.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Speak as my lawyer.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
You insist on my making who will ride world.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
To reform.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I don't take it ill that you have a deep
interest in this domain. As long as we both can remember,
it was supposed that your daughter would marry one or
other of my sons, and you still feel that.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Well, you know that the joining of our two families
is the strongest way in this land of savages to
ensure that the best of them.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Spare me all that.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
What's important is which of my sons inherits, how much?
And what m That's what you'd like to have sowed
up in a world, As your lawyer, I feel it's
what you should have sewed up in a will.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Well, I don't.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Not till I take one good last measure of my sons.
There isn't enough to leave for both. That has to
be one or the other. The one who'll maintain rooks
me all as my wife loved it for as long
as anyone can hope, very well, still.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Some sort of doctor ride.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
All right, draw up your document, and when I meet
and judge my sons again, and I shall enter the
name of both, or the one who best did hurt it.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
What the devil is the matter with that dog Chatsworth.
Speaker 17 (18:32):
Where mister Bishop he misses his master being shut away
from him. He dotes on the master desert whiskey.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Only we should be a little less vocal about it.
Speaker 17 (18:44):
Dogs are very strange, you know. Sometimes they have a
sixth sid slike maybe I'd better go into the squire.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
And don't be ridiculous. My father's perfectly all right. He
wanted to rest, and I saw him off to sleep.
Speaker 17 (18:58):
You wouldn't think he might be failing.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
Mister Bishop.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Nonsense, nothing could kill that old devil gowed apoplexy. Heart
he'd laughed them all off. He just asked me to
have you witness this, and settled off to sleep like
a baby.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Ooh ooh, witness what's a well his signature.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
You can see the ink isn't even dry.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
Oh what's the document? Mister bishop?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Heaven't only nervous, anything from a rent mortgage to his will.
He scribbled his signature and said to have you witness
it along with the housekeeper, missus ARMBRESTERO.
Speaker 17 (19:36):
A little out of order, wouldn't you say so?
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Eh?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I wouldn't, But then, since when has my father ever
been either orderly or ordinary? You'll wake him up and
ask him if he want Oh, I wouldn't dream of it.
He needs the rest, and sign this and get missus
armbrister too. He particularly wanted it in shape for my
brother arrived hopefully.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Well, damn that round, But go ahead, chad'sworthy.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Yes I will, sir.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Oh.
Speaker 17 (20:15):
I suppose I might have questioned things more. But the
thing is, when you have spent a life in service,
you don't normally, and it was the master's signature, which
I knew well enough.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
So I wrote my.
Speaker 17 (20:31):
Own name and got missus Armbister to add her scroll,
little thinking that by doing so, I was setting a
match to the fuse for the terrible series of exposures
to come better. I had paid attention to Whiskey's warning
owls than to the smooth and easy way of mister
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Bishop Werksby, for a storm was on the way in
the person of his younger a regard. Well, it's about
time you got here, Beauregard. The stagecoach was late, mister Tremaine.
And it isn't that serious for the old boys?
Speaker 7 (21:12):
Would you care? Well?
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Of course I would, sir. I'm played to.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Hear that for my daughter's sake.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
I uh, I guess I'm a little out of my debt,
mister Tremaine. Well, then let me get you back to
shallow water so you can put your feet on the ground.
Was there not a kind of understanding between twenty.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Eighth and you? Oh, yes, sir attendant, upon my making
my way and my fortune, which I take it you
have not yet succeeded in doing. Oh, I have great prospects.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
So many connections, and.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Well, frankly, a lot more debts than I can properly handle. Well,
at least you tell the truth, I'll answer in kind.
If it weren't for Twinett's feelings, I wouldn't give a
tinker's damn.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
About you if I had my way, and.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Rather see her married your brother to old bish that
cold steak, Really, sir, don't shoot.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Now, Really, sir me. Your father is far from well.
He may not recover from his last attacks. I hope
for your sake he'll be conscious to give you a
chance to renew an acquaintance which should never have been
broken up. Well, sir, if I had any idea the
old man was, if you had a brain in your head,
you'd have stayed home to help him manage the property.
But while you've been having your fling, your brother has
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had the good sense and the common decency to keep
in touch with your father. Since the Squire has.
Speaker 17 (22:34):
Been sick, he's been with him twenty four.
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Hours a day.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Well, it's taken you the better part of a week
to bestir yourself and come home to man.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
What are you trying to tell me?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
I am your father's friend, his lawyer, and a prospective
father in law to one of his sons, one of us.
You can't seriously consider Bishop to your brother has been
paying considerable attention to Twinette. You may be surprised to
discover how she has broomed in your absence, and you
favor his suit for myself quite frankly, yes, I have
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more faith in Bishop's future.
Speaker 17 (23:15):
I didn't hear mister Beauregard come home, the insistent, mournful
wail of the hand to simply running to the Squire's room,
a dreadful premonition clutching at me, so that when the
front doorbell rang, for all I hurried with my heart
in my mouth. It was mister Bishop who got to
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the door first. Whiskey was all over mister.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Beauregard in a wild kind.
Speaker 17 (23:42):
Of desperate greeting, whimpering and snuffling and licking at his hands.
Speaker 7 (23:48):
And when he saw mister Bishop.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I whiskey boy wants the map Ah you Bishop, it's
a bad time you got here, boone. I came as
fast as I could, quite as quick as you, old
long nose, always slipping in the wind. Just get Chad's worth.
What the devil is the matter with this flee bitten.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Hound smarter than humans. The dog often is.
Speaker 17 (24:13):
I'm sorry to bring these tidings, but the squires it's.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Not dead, my God.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Wouldn't you know that Whiskey would be the first to know,
oh Wood, who was with him last Chad, Mister Bishi
had one bishop. You'd better hope two things worth.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
My loving brother and father died naturally, and that you
are not is so heir, And if I should.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Be, you'll take that up, brother, when we get to it.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
The two brothers face each other, the kind of raw
hatred that can only be bred in family relationships. Aimed
and writhing between them, the dog is suddenly silent, his somber,
brooding eyes measuring them both in turn. Now the brothers,
mister Tremaine and Shadsby go into the house, traversing the
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long haul and climbing a winding staircase to the squire's room.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I will return with that too in just a moment.
I have a good mystery, don't you.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
And one of the best I've read is The Black
Tower by B. D.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
James.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
This is no mild English country.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
House mystery, Oh no, my friend, not this book. The
Black Tower is a mystery chiller of the first rank.
Commander Adam Dalgleish of Scotland Yard arrives at a prim
nursing home on the English coast, only to find it
has become.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
A labyrinth of inhuman terror, uric poison, pen letters and murder.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
A saintly man of God slain by an act of
satanic evil, and the secret lies hidden in the strange,
isolated building.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Known as a Black Tower.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Excitement fis page by page until Adam Dalgleish comes to
the terrifying, dramatic climax.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
With him, you will discover that the murderer is in
the last few chapters of the book.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Of course, read it The Black Tower, Available in paperback
from Popular Library.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
This is Sam Levinson.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Somewhere a teenage girl in the school for the retarda
doesn't remember what her parents look like, and somewhere a
great grandmother and a nursing home doesn't even bother to
celebrate her eighty fifth birthday. Now multiply these people by
many millions, and you've become.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Aware of the problem.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
And the problem is loneliness.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Let me tell you about a new public service program
called Voice Program The heart of the problem. As an
exchange of tape recorded messages between the patients and their
families and friends. Actor Cliff Robertson and Harold Russell, chairman
of the President's Committee for the Handicap And I saw
phile lending their support on a nationwide basis. But to
make it work, we need sympathetic volunteers. We'll visit patients
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and talk to them while there were a tape for
their loved.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Ones to hear and respond.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Just give a little bit of your time and a
lot of caring, and just write the voice of Graham
Box one twenty seven, coscop, Connecticut, six eight o seven.
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When they came upon him in the bedroom, Squire Samuel
Roxby lay half fallen for the upper part of his
body out of the great four poster. His face was
suffused with the livid blood of apoplexy, his hands crooked
as if in some great battle against the angel of death.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
And what was most startling.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Of all his blue eyes wide stark and staring with
a kind of terrible accusation.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
And his death was not an end but a beginning.
Speaker 17 (28:16):
Whisky poor Hound was the first to announce the death,
and outside of myself, as the next days passed, seemingly
the only one to mourn the master's passing by heaven.
Speaker 7 (28:29):
I'll not suffer it.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
I'll take it a law, though I ask you to
let us discuss this.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Colmly, calmly, calmly.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Is it when my father, his face black and his
tongue out gasping for air, quite obviously had help in
leaving this world. That's quite an accusation.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Though I do heartily agree. Prove it, brother.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
The proof is on the table there amongst us, your
father's will.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
My father called me in and signed this document, which
proved to be his will. At the time I didn't
know what it was.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
It was sealed with his signetary.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Naming you was sole.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
As you see, Without this will, we would share the inheritance.
Isn't that true visa Tremaine if your father had died intested. Yes,
since it doesn't apply, there's only one will which appears
to be valid. Are you satisfied, brother? No, would you
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listen to that. I swear by all that's holy we
might all be ashamed. The Squire is dead and there's
only one who really mourns him. Well, I warn you
one thing, Bishop, If it's the last thing I do,
I'll make sure you don't profit from his death. Well, yes,
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true name.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
I wasn't sure you'd be here.
Speaker 15 (29:51):
I got your message.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
It seems my brothers has been more urgent during the
time I've been absent.
Speaker 15 (29:57):
I didn't come here to quarrel.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
I don't know why to die.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
But what's all this?
Speaker 2 (30:01):
My father tells me about.
Speaker 15 (30:03):
Bishop and you, the families of friends? How would you
have me treat.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Him like the black snake he is?
Speaker 3 (30:10):
There are two Roxby's left, my brother and myself.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
All right, when I which do you choose?
Speaker 15 (30:17):
I didn't think your message suggested that this was why.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
I need you.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
What did you expect to talk about with a Roxby
love instead of hate?
Speaker 15 (30:26):
I thought the first was all that lay between us, and.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
So did I till I came home so tardy. You
know that I've been disinherited.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Well I yes, but it makes no difference to us.
Speaker 15 (30:41):
So please it's well, it's different now, it isn't when
I see you again to that and touch You never wrote,
I never write anyone.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
We thought you were.
Speaker 15 (30:51):
Never coming back. We patient, well, I mean Daddy and
I and and Daddy.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Felt that that I I wasn't worth the powder to
blow me to hell.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
You don't have to be so violent?
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (31:07):
We're a violent family.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Tone.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Oh, don't let my brother's cold, tight control blind you
to what he really is. Not all the money in
the world could bring you a moment's peace with him.
That's why I made this tryst to tell you that
he murdered my father and to ask you to run
away with me before it's too late for all of us.
Speaker 15 (31:24):
Oh what are you saying? You can't believe that w
bishop kills you?
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Of course I do, but prove it and something else again,
so you won't come with me?
Speaker 9 (31:38):
Oh?
Speaker 15 (31:39):
Be fair, be reasonable?
Speaker 3 (31:41):
How can I forget it to an end? You've made
your choice, I thought, I owe you one last chance.
Speaker 10 (31:47):
Where are you going?
Speaker 3 (31:48):
If I can't have you or rope speak? I heaven
neither wild Bishop bow Bow?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Put a bullet in my brother and then another in myself?
You can't your Bishop I will unless he backs down.
But you and I are prow Are I get away, boy?
Speaker 7 (32:01):
Get away with gear?
Speaker 17 (32:02):
I'll take my riding crop.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Do you quick.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
Better? Dave you this hottest killy enough? And my god?
Speaker 10 (32:16):
Are you all right?
Speaker 7 (32:18):
Lord?
Speaker 1 (32:20):
On my back?
Speaker 7 (32:23):
I think we're broken.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Hell.
Speaker 17 (32:33):
He was in a bad way, the poor young master.
Speaker 7 (32:36):
His back was.
Speaker 17 (32:37):
Broken and his leg, and Lord only knows what damage
to his inerds from the horse stomping on him. For
near a month he lay in a sort of half
world from all the morphine and laudanum for the pain,
his wits wandering, while his father was buried, and Master
Bishop and miss entw It announced their marriage. Missus Armbrister,
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the housekeeper and I were his only nurses and only
companions save word whiskey, who could not be kept out
of the room, and an occasional visit from Squire Bishop.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Well, how's the living corpse to day?
Speaker 7 (33:20):
Chatwine? Who are about the same, sir? Although he does.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Seem a little perky and that's dubious news. Oh good lord,
what's that.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Mangy hound doing in here?
Speaker 17 (33:33):
We can't keep him out of here, even with the
doors and windows closed. He seems to be able to
slip through some chink in the wall. So for I
don't know, but he's better here. He keeps him quiet, like.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Look at him, I'll get him curl his lip at me.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
I don't like the dog any better than.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
He does me. I'd have you take him to the
stables and shoot him if you have a.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
Hush now by.
Speaker 17 (34:00):
You wouldn't do that, would you, Sir? He was your
father's boon companion.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
And frings him out of here at Chad's worth, I'd
like to have a word with my brother.
Speaker 17 (34:08):
Yes, very well, sir. Come on, lad come on, come on,
old boy. Don't make me drag. You got to obey
the new master, you know, get him out, Yes, sir.
Speaker 7 (34:22):
I'm doing that. Come on then, come on.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
He doesn't like you, Bishop, he has good taste.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
So you're back in the land of the living again.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Halfway someplace, halfway back from where I've been.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Where have you been the.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Other side of the curtain? Perhaps I talk to father?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
You you are? That scares you a little? Oh, doesn't it? Bishop?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Why should have I'm sure afraid he might have told
me how how he died, how he died from apoplexy,
congestion of her blood and heart?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
What else? What my father told me? Would you like
to hear?
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Oh, I have no intention of listening to your delirium
and your dream or you're.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Going to not in my words, but in his his
own words, our father's words. Your father's words.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
No, Bishop, have us wait for both to come home.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
I promised Molly before she died that I would never
let rooks be all pass out.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Of our family while I had any control over it.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
I want to lie ashide her in the garden, keep
it all as long as it is surely possible.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Or guard me any Father, you could trust me to
see that it stayed in family and the family fortune
with prosca.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
I wonder, Bishop, for your worship different gods than yours.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
This money.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
If you should die intestate and the inheritance is split
between us, the house would have to be so.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Yes, I said, Father, one of us must.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
Be in charge. Trust me.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
I'll take care of ball, but the purse strings should
be in my hand.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
I have pennon Inka.
Speaker 7 (36:38):
I know all.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
She'm very anxious to help me to the grave.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I am anxious to see your affairs.
Speaker 7 (36:44):
In order before you enter in.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
I don't trust you, my God, you will hold back
any longer, and I will help you to the grave
and make certain that both joins you that very shortly.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
True colors and life make no mistake.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
I mean what I say, and if I signed, you
will keep the hole over and you will provide for both.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
She do it to the servants homely die and my
dog man's best friend, they say, And at the last
it has proved right, whiskey, whiskey.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
You will protect old whiskey too, I promise, I promise anything.
Only sign anywhere, give me the pen, need witnesses, you know.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
The paper, not to what I am about to do.
Speaker 16 (37:42):
No, my time is not yet, wish No, No, you
took the pillow and held it over his face until
you choke the life from our father.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Good lord, every word, every syllable.
Speaker 7 (38:07):
How could you know?
Speaker 2 (38:08):
I told you I've been beyond the curtain.
Speaker 7 (38:11):
I talked with father.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
You'll have no chance to tell anyone else. I'll take
care of that now.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
How will you do it the same way you did
with father?
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Yes, there's no way to trace it, and no one
will stop me at all. How did you get back
in here? It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
What does matter is he's going to stop you now by.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Eviden cop my sleep, whiskey. I told you he'd stop you,
all right, all right, only this time.
Speaker 16 (38:49):
Next time I'll have a gun and i'll.
Speaker 7 (38:51):
Cheer your path.
Speaker 17 (38:55):
How did I know these things? Because mister Burgh got
to it, and much much more strange and hard to believe,
and not of.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
This world, curiouser and curious, sir as.
Speaker 4 (39:18):
Alice, that of wonderland.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
Are the turns and twists of this.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Strange, brooding story of a house divided against itself, the
disintegration of a family, a dead man, and a faithful dog.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
I'll return shortly with that three.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Do you have a taste for things that are a
little out of the ordinary doors It.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Has a clock in its stomach and a clothes in
the dark.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
I think we should snap it up dead. Do you
like things that are fun but are also functional?
Speaker 2 (39:45):
That is fun, huh? But as a functional Doris?
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Do you want to be the talk of the town
of Kick and Doris?
Speaker 15 (39:50):
We were just talking about you.
Speaker 7 (39:52):
Then.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
The Opally Susu is your kind of car. It's not ordinary,
it's fun but functional, and people will talk about it.
Speaker 15 (39:58):
Did you hear what, Kick and Dark?
Speaker 1 (40:00):
The Opolice Susu a dandy you small car at your
buick Opal Dealers.
Speaker 15 (40:07):
I've got bronkil asthma. I've also got a newspaper to
get out. That's why I take Broncae tablets. They help
keep my occasional asthma attacks away for hours. I tried
Privatine tablets and we work. But then I heard about Broncave.
Bronkaid has an extra ingredient to help you get bit
of congestion. Primatine doesn't have that. Bronkve works for hours,
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so I can work for hours.
Speaker 14 (40:29):
Bronkade tablets do more to let you breathe easier. Use
only as directed, Miss Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Miss Armstrong, Yes, may I ask you a few questions?
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Well, I am rather right, It'll only take a minute.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
All right, thank you, Miss Armstrong. I hear you're going
in this seclusion for the most important production of your life.
Speaker 7 (40:48):
What's it going to be?
Speaker 2 (40:49):
I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 7 (40:51):
But how do you prepare for something without knowing what
it is?
Speaker 1 (40:54):
Oh?
Speaker 15 (40:54):
My doctor will help me. You see, this is very
different from my other rules. Oh and I must follow
all of his orders your doctor. Yes, first time, I
set up regular appointments with him. I eat well balanced
and nourishing meals, exercise moderately, and stay away from all
pills and other medications except those prescribed by him.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
But what does that have to do with the performing arts? Everything?
Speaker 15 (41:16):
The preparation for any performance requires discipline. You see, I'm
preparing for a baby with my doctor, and the March
of Dimes to coach me. I won't miss a cue.
Oh and I already know the most important line. What's
that The March of Dimes says, be good to your
baby before it is born.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
Down through the years, King Lear's agonizing cry has echoed
to haunt every parent's heart. How sharper than a serpent's
tooth is you have a thankless child? Certainly no one
could have more cause for lament than the late Squire Roxby,
one of whose sons has already hastened him to the grave,
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while the other, seeking his own selfish revenge, is about the.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Task of raising him from it. We returned to learn why.
Speaker 3 (42:22):
As Chadsworth, the old butler, hurries agitatedly into the room
where Beauregard Roxby lies helpless.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
On the bed.
Speaker 17 (42:32):
Are you all right, Master Burregart?
Speaker 7 (42:34):
What's wrong?
Speaker 1 (42:35):
Chad?
Speaker 15 (42:36):
To me?
Speaker 17 (42:37):
Your brother would buy me down the stairs, his face
white and his eyes so white and blank.
Speaker 3 (42:42):
I thought perhaps I'd followed my father's example and left
this baleful world.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
No, not yet, Chad, not quite yet.
Speaker 17 (42:52):
I don't understand. There's so much I don't understand, whisky,
how did he get back in here?
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Mister bishop letting me all out? My brother never him
the last two?
Speaker 7 (43:04):
Then how did he get in this room?
Speaker 17 (43:07):
The door was closed when I left, taking taking him
with me, and it was closed when I returned.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
And still he did return. No ordinary dog, wouldn't you say?
Speaker 5 (43:20):
Chad?
Speaker 3 (43:22):
I I want you to leave us alone. There's a
lot I think to be done, and very little time left.
Speaker 7 (43:27):
To do it.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
Now, miss mister the door call the doctor is long
since out of this as her, Miss Twinette, her father,
but not quite yet. My brother and myself and my father.
Leave us alone a little please, and trust me when
I ring to tell you all that needs to be told.
Speaker 7 (43:49):
Take the dog with me.
Speaker 2 (43:50):
So no leaf whiskey behind.
Speaker 7 (43:53):
Are you sure you're all right?
Speaker 3 (43:55):
Mister peregard right as I'll ever be. Good Bye, Chad,
at least for now.
Speaker 7 (44:03):
Good Bye, Sir. I hope you know what's best.
Speaker 4 (44:09):
I may not.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
But how about you, whiskey, whoever you are?
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Now?
Speaker 17 (44:22):
The rest you'll have to take on faith? As well
as I can remember it. Some was what I saw,
and most what I was told. But here's about how
it went.
Speaker 3 (44:36):
What is it whiskey by you.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
You want me to go with you somewhere. You know
I can't do that. I can't walk. Why all right?
Speaker 1 (44:52):
If you insist, I'll.
Speaker 17 (44:54):
Try mean while well, I was downstairs trying to cope
with mister Bishop and mister and Missus Tremaine, who'd.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
Come to call Chad's worth Chad's worth? Yes, mister Bishop,
where is the brandy? Curse it? We're out of brandy?
Speaker 7 (45:16):
Get some more?
Speaker 2 (45:17):
Haven't I told you to keep this boss.
Speaker 17 (45:18):
Star begging your pardon?
Speaker 7 (45:20):
Sir? But there's a bottle, right help.
Speaker 1 (45:22):
And well give it to me now, you will, fool.
I'll open it myself and that get me my shotgun.
Speaker 7 (45:28):
You're short gun, sir.
Speaker 2 (45:30):
I am going to take that mean speckled hound with
his long, lugubrious face out of the barn and shoot
who's kid? Who was a short gun? That is so treacherous.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
I don't want to take a chance on missing. And
don't worry, I have a handgun to finish him off with.
Speaker 17 (45:43):
Mister Bishop, your father's dog kid.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
When I get through with him, he'll be nobody's dog.
Speaker 16 (45:48):
And I see who that is.
Speaker 17 (45:50):
Yes, sir, I can see by the raid gets mister
Tremaine and his daughter.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Will get rid of them. I don't want to see
them now, and don't worry. I'll handle the guns myself.
Speaker 17 (46:05):
Good evening, mister Tremain and Miss Antoinette. Tonight is a
behead night to be here? Why well, miss it's it's
just the things that it's sixes and sevens as you.
Speaker 15 (46:18):
Might say, is mister bow Worth, I.
Speaker 7 (46:21):
Don't think there's been much change.
Speaker 3 (46:24):
My daughter and I will wait in the sun room. Chad,
please inform mister Bishop we're here, Yes, sir, I'll do
that right away, Sir.
Speaker 15 (46:34):
I don't believe we should have come tonight.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Father, I don't believe that for one moment we should
lose touch with the Rosby family until you're one of them.
Speaker 15 (46:43):
Meant it really must you be so open about it all, honey,
When you're as stretched over a barrel as I am,
a person has no shame, only the determination to survive,
and that has to go for both of us.
Speaker 7 (46:58):
You're not as.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
Young as you might be, and I'm so overinvested that
I haven't any dowry.
Speaker 4 (47:02):
To walk at you.
Speaker 7 (47:03):
Daddy.
Speaker 15 (47:04):
It's all right, we'll make out. You can trust me,
be sure of that. But psh, Bishop, honey, were you
just going to pass us right by and pay us no?
Speaker 4 (47:15):
Nevermind?
Speaker 2 (47:16):
Well, actually give me this is this is a bad evening.
Things are a little out of hand.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
Is there anything we can do to help?
Speaker 9 (47:24):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (47:24):
I think that's nothing I can't handle by myself. Well,
then please excuse us to one head.
Speaker 15 (47:31):
You sure there's nothing?
Speaker 10 (47:33):
I mean?
Speaker 1 (47:33):
It is it?
Speaker 16 (47:35):
Bo?
Speaker 4 (47:35):
Is he worse?
Speaker 1 (47:36):
It's not well, my darling, And well, think he's not
long for this world. He's in a wild delirium at
the moment.
Speaker 7 (47:42):
W have you said for the doctor?
Speaker 1 (47:44):
Yes, yes, and for the priest. I think I'll need
more of the second. And now please forgive me. I
must attend to my brother. Oh yes, yes, of course,
Bishop Son. Don't worry about us. We can let ourselves out.
Speaker 17 (48:00):
But I had seen something that the Tremaine said, not
the gun that master Bishop was carrying hidden inside his coat.
And now I stopped him at the foot of the stairs.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
Out of my way.
Speaker 7 (48:14):
Chat. Well, no, mister.
Speaker 17 (48:15):
Bishop, please, in the name of Heaven, hasn't enough misfortune
come to this house to leave the poor dog a home?
Speaker 2 (48:22):
You want to die with him, Chad and my brother, No, sir,
but I am step aside, no, sir, what I cannot.
Speaker 17 (48:30):
Shut my eyes to murder anymore before I let your
harm an innocent beast, and mister Brackard, who cannot offend himself,
I raise the countryside.
Speaker 2 (48:39):
Why you help?
Speaker 17 (48:41):
Help, listen, dramade, help God. I lay unconscious till the
shot woke me, and yet somehow I seemed a step
out of myself to be a witness of all the
things which could not have happened, and yet did. I
(49:06):
could see mister Bishop stop at the bottom of the stairs,
staring in incredulous disbelief, as mister Bow Whiskey tugging at
his night shirt and leading him a man paralyzed and
unable even to stand, across the upper landing and through
(49:27):
the door to.
Speaker 7 (49:28):
The Squire's room.
Speaker 17 (49:31):
And then somehow, as if picked up by the wind,
I was behind mister Bishop.
Speaker 7 (49:38):
As he raced up the stairs taking out the gun.
Speaker 17 (49:43):
I was watching the drama in the squire's old bedroom.
Mister Bow had unscrewed one of the big knobs of
the four poster bed, had drawn from a horrw place
there a document which he was reaching while Whiskey lay
on the bit as he often did, with the old
(50:05):
master watching him and licking his lips.
Speaker 2 (50:10):
What what do you have there?
Speaker 7 (50:12):
Bo?
Speaker 2 (50:13):
Something Whiskey led me to the real will Bishop? What
do you mean the real will, one that.
Speaker 3 (50:20):
Our father had drawn, validated before we ever came home?
And would you like to know who.
Speaker 7 (50:25):
The real air was?
Speaker 2 (50:27):
Whiskey with Chadsworth named.
Speaker 3 (50:30):
As his god, it would never hold up in a court,
or wouldn't it. I wonder Chadsworth didn't really see father's
sign your will, and I doubt if he'd support you
once he you father's real wishes. He knows just as
well as the square did. We'll neither of it was
worth a damn.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
It doesn't matter so beside the point, because that one's
going to be destroy I give it to me.
Speaker 3 (50:49):
Oh no, bishief a little late, but this is one
wish I can drank my father.
Speaker 2 (50:53):
You'll get to me, cliple, or I'll take it from you.
Speaker 7 (50:56):
Try it, I'll have it.
Speaker 2 (50:57):
If I had to put a pullet through you hand
it over. I I didn't I risk stop.
Speaker 19 (51:06):
Oh oh no, Whiskey made me shoot myself. I ah,
I never thought it would be like this.
Speaker 4 (51:21):
If all my time you took me.
Speaker 20 (51:27):
Now I tell you in the same way.
Speaker 7 (51:38):
Father boll is no better.
Speaker 2 (51:40):
He just sold the house from under you, just as.
Speaker 7 (51:43):
Soon as I would.
Speaker 2 (51:50):
Why didn't you take him to tell him?
Speaker 20 (51:59):
He didn't have to, you see, I'm already dead, as
I said.
Speaker 17 (52:15):
The shot brought me awake, but by the time I
got to the room it was empty save for mister
Bishop lying gaped on the floor with a bullet through
his hat and the will, the real will in his hand.
Speaker 4 (52:38):
Shocking thing, Really shocking.
Speaker 1 (52:41):
Bishop, You think actually committed suicide because he murdered his father.
That's the way it would appear, sir, well, and there's
absolutely no question about this.
Speaker 4 (52:53):
Will being valid.
Speaker 1 (52:57):
You'll be a rich man, Shedsworth.
Speaker 17 (53:00):
Ah, it's all been a few years past now, and
we're both a bit grayer and a little nearer the
end of it all. But they've been dressed enough years
for all the sad memories. Whisky and me sitting here
(53:23):
by the fire of a night my look across at
him in the squire's winged chair, and I wonder if
it's a trick of my old eyes. But moment by moment,
day by day, year by year, that long hound's face
with the jowls whom the sad wise old eyes grows
(53:50):
more and more like the master till when the fire
burns low, when the candle's wind, I could swear he
sits there and do not sit me, and dwinks and says.
Speaker 4 (54:11):
Not the best way to win, perhaps Chadden.
Speaker 3 (54:16):
But at least there's been a satisfaction of knowing that.
Speaker 1 (54:23):
The old dog had his day.
Speaker 3 (54:26):
After all, if a man and his dog lived together
long enough, and you believe my fantasy that I stayed
in the beginning, do you suppose a man and his
dog could change ends of the leash and no one
(54:51):
would notice the difference.
Speaker 4 (54:52):
I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 1 (55:06):
Here in my hand, there's a little capture. It's tiny,
yet it contains enough cold medicine to help relieve cold
symptoms caused by every known virus. Every known virus is Contact,
the same twelve hour contact you can buy this year. Contact,
with its tiny time pills will touch more lives, help
more coals than any other cold medicine tablet or liquid.
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Think about that next time you're sick, sneeze and dripping
or clogged up, then let us help you with real
medicine by contact. We're number one in the whole world
for good reason.
Speaker 4 (55:49):
It works all day all night.
Speaker 3 (55:51):
Take on the history.
Speaker 6 (55:54):
Tired of the orderant sprays that seems to miss their mark.
Want something powerful as you can put on in the dark.
Ship to the English letther stickallistic.
Speaker 4 (56:05):
Ship is all.
Speaker 6 (56:06):
The English livers got the stick that'll always protect you.
Speaker 13 (56:10):
Point the English leather said, they'll never forget you.
Speaker 6 (56:14):
Gosship to the English letto stick.
Speaker 17 (56:17):
The stick shift is all.
Speaker 2 (56:19):
There are three good reasons to ship.
Speaker 6 (56:21):
From an expensive deodoran spray to English letter the odorant stick.
What English leather goes right where you want it, so
there's no waste to It's concentrated to give powerful protection.
Speaker 2 (56:31):
For the best reason of all is right under You're.
Speaker 6 (56:34):
No the famous fresh queen scent of English letter of
the English mothers, got the stick that'll always protect you
to point the.
Speaker 2 (56:41):
English leather said, they'll never forget you.
Speaker 11 (56:44):
Hasship to the.
Speaker 5 (56:45):
English sick the stick ships all.
Speaker 6 (56:49):
Look for the English letter, the olderan stick, and your
favorite toiletries counselor.
Speaker 3 (57:04):
Looking in some old records, I found that a Thomas Chadsworth,
the last resident of Rokesby Hall, lived to be ninety three.
There's no mention of how many years Whisky lived. But
there is a note to the effect that the day
the old man died his dog, an old gray speckled hound,
(57:26):
went to his long last sleep, as if in sympathy.
I wonder if they're buried in the garden beside the
squire and his wife. Our cast included Court Benson, Russell, Horton, Morgan, Fairchild,
and I and Martin. The entire production was under the
direction of Hymon Brown Radio. Mystery Theater was sponsored in
(57:47):
part by Buick Motor Division and Contact the twelve hour
Cold Capsule Missus E. G. Marshall inviting you to return
to our Mystery Theater for another adventure in the macabre.
Until next time, Pleasant dream.
Speaker 1 (58:47):
A good job these days is hard to find, but
if you're a high school senior, you can reserve that
good job right now, one that gives you almost three
hundred and fifty dollars a month in spending money to start,
takes care of all your basic expenses, and teaches.
Speaker 2 (59:00):
You a valuable technical skill.
Speaker 1 (59:03):
In addition, you'll be helping to save lives and preserve
natural resources. It's a job in the Coast Guard, and
it's yours now. If you reserve it under the delayed
enlistment program for high school seniors. So sign up today
and wait up to twelve months to begin active duty.
You'll know that a good job is waiting for you,
and you're actually accumulating seniority that counts towards your pay
(59:24):
and promotion even.
Speaker 2 (59:26):
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Speaker 1 (59:27):
For all the facts, see your Coast Guard recruiter or
call this number toll free eight hundred four to four
eight eight eighty three. That's eight hundred four four eight
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a good job now with a US Coast Guard.
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Hi.
Speaker 2 (59:45):
This is Corey Wells a three dog night.
Speaker 1 (59:47):
Music is my business, but fighting pollution is everybody's business.
Speaker 2 (59:51):
So listen to woodsy owl spread the word.
Speaker 7 (59:53):
Never be a dirty bird. Sall tell a bilgy spread
their word. Come on the jurybird in the.
Speaker 16 (01:00:02):
C in the wits helping America looking hard, a.
Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
Public service message on behalf of the US Forest Service
in the station wa dos Fort.
Speaker 14 (01:00:23):
CBS News helicopters will fly over Colorado's Big Thompson Valley
again on Tuesday, but their primary mission this time will
be to.
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