July 31, 2025 • 29 mins
https://www.solgoodmedia.com - Listen to hundreds of audiobooks, thousands of short stories, and ambient sounds all ad free! Mystery Radio Hour offers a solid hour of mystery and suspense, featuring complex plots and mind-bending puzzles.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Quiet Please, Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper, and which features Ernest Chappell.
Quiet Please, for today is called and Genie dreams of me.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
There were always the trees, the tall great.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Oaks and the solemn cypresses, the distant weeping willows, and
the holly trees beside the pathways, spreading their stirs, the
arms flotting there, green and red in the twilight, and
the tall columns of the house gleaming quietly beyond the trees.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I remember the silence, too.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
The dusky silence that lay always about the place, the
silence that was always there when the dream began, The
silence that dissolved to the music as I hurried up
the long winding pathway.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Toward the tall white house that waited for me, For
the earnest little boy and Nickaboctys that.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I once was, for the haggard young soldier in muddy
battle dress that was myself five years ago, for the unhappy,
bewildered man I am today. I have no remembrance of
the time when the dream was not a part of
my life, and I know the trees and the path
(01:49):
and the house better than I know the streets of
the city I lived in. In all the years, they
have not changed. They've seen me change, but they remain
timeless and always the same. The a dream friend, I know,
(02:13):
A man who remembers a road from his dreams, A
pleasant country road that wends its dusty way past broad,
smiling fields and along the skirts of a lofty green forest.
A road that speaks to him of memories unremembered, A
road that promises and beckons on over the next hill side,
(02:33):
and wavers and fades and vanishes in the cold darkness
as he opens his eyes, then comes again another night
to soothe his spirit, so that he smiles in his sleep,
and wakes to weep, silent and alone for his lost
dream be a dream of long forgotten friends, of the hillside,
(02:55):
under the clouds of an island in a sunlit sea.
Do you know the desperate longing to return to the
dream place, the hopeless nostalgia for the world that lies
beyond the curtain of sleep?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
And do you ever return Christen to me? So perhaps
we are king. I was ten. I think that.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Time I came into the front room, where mother was
sitting at the piano. She turned when she heard me,
smiled at me, and I said, mother, I wanna ask
you a question.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
May I asked you a question, mother?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Why? Of course you may enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Mother, I wanna know about a music, A music, A song?
You mean, I guess it's a song?
Speaker 5 (03:46):
What about it?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I wanna know if you know the name of it?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
I don't know, son? Can you play us?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Told me? How well?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
How r.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
M m m.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
M m m m. Do you know what that is? Is?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
This is.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
What's the name of his mother?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
That Jimmy with a light brown hair? Here?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
I like it? Or did you ever hear it?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I don't think I ever played it?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Would you hear it?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
In my dream? I dream about it all the time?
Speaker 5 (04:43):
But where did you hear?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Can I dream? I told you?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
What's what you dream about?
Speaker 6 (04:48):
There?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Desite the music?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I dream the same dream all the time.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Tell mother about it?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Well, I I walk up the pathway past the dream. Yeah,
and you pretty soon when I hear the music, And
then I go up to the house.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Oh a house.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Now it's a great, big high house, and there's big
high things that hold up a course, and it's white,
and the trees are different.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
How are they different?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I never saw on that kind before. The there's some
trees that the that the leaves and little red berries
grow on that we have the reaves in the window
at Christmas.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Holly.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yes, yes, I guess that's what it is, Holly. And I.
I go up to the big door and I try
to open but it's locked and I can't open it.
Might have to open it, mother, before I do.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Why do you have to open up?
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Why?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Because I know there's somebody in here, There's somebody that
wants to see.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
What makes you think that's right?
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Why?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I I don't know, Mary, I just know it.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Who do you suppose it might be?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Oh? Well, maybe it's team.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
That very strange Troy. You'd leam your thing dream a.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Lot every time I go to sleep, I see.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Didn't you have any other dreams?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Oh? Yes, but they're not nice? This one. I like kindness.
But I wish I could open the door and find you, Dear.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I don't know what I was thinking.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Mother.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Could you maybe get me a key?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Why? Some you couldn't take a key into your dreams
with you?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I think I could it if I had one. I
don't think so, Dear, Really, I think.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
So if I don't know, it makes you think so?
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Whoa d you think?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
So?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Now I've brost this back from the door. You don't
know what this is, of course, mother, It's holly.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
See.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I scratched my finger when I broke it off the tree.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Doctor Hogan said there was nothing wrong with me that
fresh air in great quantities and plenty of wholesome food
would not remedy. Then, for a time the dream went
away from me, and I could not conjure up the
visions of the towering oaks and the rugged holly trees,
of the White House, and the long, winding, graveled walk.
There were nights when I caught a tortured view of
the white pillars and the broad white steps, but hastened
(07:24):
as I might, the picture faded before I could gain
the porch, and I fell away in the deep black,
dreamless sleep of exhaustion, and always the haunting remedy of
Stephen Foster's.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Song floated through my seat.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
But there was never any key to unlock the door either,
and I resigned myself to an endless dream of frustration,
in which I must struggle endlessly.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
To reach the one I loved, and never find. For
I knew Genie was there, and I hoped, and still
the dream came and went.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I might sleep peacefully undisturbed for a night, for two
nights a week.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
And then.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I was a young man groan before I found the key.
It was a time when young men found out there
were to be a troubled one, when wars and rumors of.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Wars weighed heavily on our.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Youth, and I, with all the young men, felt the
inevitability of tragedy. My mother, remembering the day a quarter
of a century ago when my father went away, fellio
brooding on the bitter destiny that was to take her
son from her. And nightly I sat huddled in an
easy chair beside her bed, keeping that hopeless ghostly watch over.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
The stricken that we humans dote upon.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
And over midnight I fell asleep uneasily, and after the while,
in the darkness, I thought.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I heard my mother speak my name.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
But I could not break the wretched bonds of fatigue.
It seemed to me that I was struggling through some horrid, hateful,
dark swamp. The swamp seemed to be alive with voices
that spoke my name in the blackness. Thus, perhaps it
was not my mother who spoke to me. And when
I heard my name again, find clearer. I answered, not
(09:31):
with my mother's name, but with the name of my
beloved whom I had never.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Seen, Genie.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
And magically the darkness dissolved, and behind me were the
trees of the park, the tall oaks with the mistletoe
clutching at their lofty branches, the distant weeping willow, and
the glossy holly trees. And I stood on the majestic
porch of the White House, before the great door, and
there was a key in the lock.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I do not think. My hand trembled as I turned
the key.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
And opened the great door that led beyond my dreams.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
And she was there.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
You found the key at last, didn't you, Troy, Genie.
I've been dreaming of you so long ago, Genie, when
I was a little girl and you were a little boy.
I dreamed of you in the old schoolhouse, the one
with the red brick power, with the clock faces painted
on all four sides, and the hand painted on too
said it halftime face. And there was another little girl.
(10:39):
You brought her red cinnamon drops from the drug store.
Remember her name was Ruth.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Ruth, Yes, I remember.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
And I was so galous of a troll. That was
the first time you dreamed of this thing. I knew
you were here, but you couldn't un lock the door.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
You dreamed of me.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I dreamed of you the time you brought the holly
branch back to your mother and learned my name from her.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
And wanted her to give me the key.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
I know all about your darling. I've watched you in
my dreams all over the years. Do you remember the
camping trip? When was it three years ago?
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Three years ago?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
I remember when you stood on that little headland above
the lake and watched the sunrise all alone that morning,
and what you see and you thought there was nobody
to you.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I said, I wish Jeannie could be here with me,
and you said, when.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Will I ever see a Jennie? I remember, and I
was there beside you, trying my dreams. And now at
last you found the key.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I've found you.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Try, But what will we do?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
This is a dream?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Did a dream, Troy? Or is it your other life
that's a dream?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
My other life?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
That's a dream?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
To me?
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Or try stay here with me?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
But I can't, I know, I can't.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Why I can't we'd walked through the woods every day
at I know places, secret places that we could have
for our own. And there's the house.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
And I want to stay more than anything else in
the world. Genie, I've dreamed of for so long.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
And I've dreamed of dream. Try I remember, but this
is a dream.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I'm asleep in a chair beside my mother. My mother's ill.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Day.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
No, I'm afraid you.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
I waited so long to day.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
But my mother, your mother dead. Try, what did you say?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Your mother's dead?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
How else did you think? You found the tree there?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
And I was awake again in my mother's room, and
Jeannie had told me.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
The truth.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
While I dreamed. While I kissed Jeanie, I stood up
and something dropped from my lap to the floor. The key,
a great old fashioned brass he that I had last
seen him, the lock of the door of the house
where Genie lived. The day my mother was buried. That
(13:40):
was the day I was drafted. It was perhaps as well.
It kept me from brooding over her. All my personal
problems were swept aside in the swift enterprise of becoming
a soldier.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
No, I didn't dream of Jeanie for.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
A long time, And then one night, during the maneuvers
in Tennessee, in a bivoc and a windy hill, I
came wearily back to my sorry bed.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Then as I drifted off to sleep, a sudden.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Thought crept into my mind.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I wonder if Genie's dreaming of me now?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
And instantly I was walking up the long curving path
to the old house, stood in my dirty fatigue clothes,
carrying my rife over the sleigh, the heavy old king
at the bottom.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Of my head aside.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I unlocked the door and I called Jimmy, and the
door was flung open. Frut, Why Genie.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Don't don't just go?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Come to Gerie?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Don't go, I tell you, oh.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Creek, And she seized my arm and shook me. And
I awoke back on the Tennessee hillside, just in time
to roll frantically out from under the tracks of a
roaring tank that had come questing blankly through the woods
and over the spot where I'd.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Been asleep and room.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
In a moment before, there was no more sleep, no
more dreaming for me. That night, there was no more
dreaming of Jeannie. For a long long time, Jeannie dreamed
of me. I know she did, for she told me
(15:20):
so again. That was when I was in North Africa.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
That night I fell asleep and I dreamed. First.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I remember of the old schoolhouse with a painted clock,
a little girl named Ruth so when I used to
buy the cinnamon drops for.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
And in the dream, Ruth was angry.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
At me for something.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I couldn't figure it out until she stamped her foot
when I picked up her books to carry them home,
and she cried out.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
At me, no, you let me alone.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
You go find Jeanie. And I was unlocking the great
door again.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Troy Genie, Oh, Troy, I've got great news for him.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
It's so wonderful to see.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
I've seen you every single day. I'm worried about you
getting so fre not having enough to eat, and the
fighting and everything. They were horrible dreams.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
I've hoped every night I dream of you.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I wanted you to so badly, but I suppose I
wasn't strong enough of something.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Is it you that makes me dream of your Genie?
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Yes, a good and now you have the key.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yes, yes, I have the key.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
I'm sorry about that try, but it's the only way
I can't help it.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I love my mother.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Yes, dearest, I know, but you wanted to find me. Yes,
do you love me?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Would you ask that?
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Try?
Speaker 4 (16:43):
I've wanted you to come back so badly.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
What did you mean about not being strong enough?
Speaker 4 (16:50):
I couldn't make you dream of me until somehow or
other you dreamed of that little girl you were in
love with when you were a child, that that little Ruth.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yes, I remember, But what does that have to do
with it?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Why? I don't know, Zackly, you remember what happened to.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Why she doted? If I remember?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Yes, that's right, she died about the time you started dreaming.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
But I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
That's all there is. Troy Doll. You're here now, kiss
me and I'll tell you the wonderful news.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I dreamed of this for so long.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Hmm.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Now aren't you tired of the dreadful war?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I'm sick to death.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
I know I've heard you say to that man with
the red face, what's his name?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Jack Cherry?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
I heard you say just last week, But you give anything,
do anything, if the war would just stop.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yes, I did, I said, more than I I know
you did. I heard you, Genie.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
You can't imagine the stinking horror of at the obscene debasing.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
I'm sorry yes, I can imagine it's Troy. I know
it very well. I've dreamed of it. I know the
joy when your captain was killed. Yes, and you try
to pull him out of the half track.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I give anything to be out of it, but it's
got to be done.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
You said you'd give a leg.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yes, that's what I said to Jack, wasn't it?
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I don't know. And what's the good news you have
for me?
Speaker 4 (18:38):
You're going to stay this time?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
You've got both your legs here. What do you Early
tomorrow morning there is going to be an ear rate.
A bomb is going to fall on the building where
you're asleep, Geenie, I know, Troy. You can't go back.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
How do you?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
You're going to stay here with me and be happy
with me forever, Troy?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
But I can.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
You won't wake up for months and months and months,
maybe never. Isn't that the most wonderful news?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Am I going to die?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
You're going to live?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
But I've got to go back.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
You can't go back, Troy.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I cannot. I will.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I can be awake and get the others out of
that building in time.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
They wouldn't believe you're dying, Yes, they of course they wouldn't.
And you don't want to die, don't you. Why do
you say that if you go back you might die?
Dear he stay here, stay here with me and be happy,
and you'll never know anything about it. No pain, No
(19:41):
lying in the hospital for a long long months, stuffing,
trying to dream of me and never find me. Don't
you see, Troy?
Speaker 6 (19:51):
But I can't.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I can't believe.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
It was hard to believe the dreams, and this wasn't it.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Well?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
But believe in me, Troy. I loved you, I've loved
you ever so long, and I'll always love you, and
I'll do anything to keep you do huh.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I won't feel any pain.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
I won't lose my leg here, No, Troy. Here is
only you and I, Genie and Troy, and and love
it the last.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
But I don't know whether I There.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Isn't anything you can do about it.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Try four years, four long years of what shall I
call it?
Speaker 2 (20:48):
There must be a word for that kind of life,
if it is life, Genie told me her dreams sometimes.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Hasn't been getting constantly, not in all these and.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Here the great lawn was green, and the sound of
magnolias was cloying. Overpoweringly sweet.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
And here I looked into the clear.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Blue eyes of Genie. Her light brown hair was a
magic spoil to me.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
Sometimes he screamed, and then they give him more.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
And here there is no pain, no sorrow, only the
magnolia's cloyingly sweet.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
And Genie.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
The doctor said. The patient talks sometimes in a sleep,
and he called the name in my dream.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Here, I call your name, Jennie.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
And we shall live happily ever after.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
But what if I.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
What if I die in my sleep, Genie.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Then I'll die too?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Will I go back there to die?
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Genie?
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Why must we speak of dying? Dearest Troy, tell me
you love me?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
And so the long days and the peaceful nights went by.
Why then the world men fought and murdered each other,
had no thought of another world that might be a
world of dreams, and then might not be. For which
is the real one? I found myself as the endless
(22:15):
days and nights went by, wondering and secretly wishing for
the other world I had left behind, for my dream
of Genie. I stood under the high pediment of the
porch and watched the sun set in magnificence.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Beyond the rolling forest. Cloudy hills, and.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I thought of another sunset, the sunset at the end
of a dusty, grubby, steady street, with smoke griming the
tawdry buildings, and I knew homesickness. I thought of a
sunset past a frozen lake in winter time, and the
long shadows on the snow, and the shouts of gay youngsters.
(22:52):
And in my mind's eye I saw a man standing
watching the skaters on the lake, the man with stooped shoulders,
a thin, beaten man with a crutch instead of the
right lady.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
And my heart turned over with it.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Made I thought.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I thought of the goodness of pain, and the happy
bitterness that other men might know, and of work, harsh,
straining labor, in the good tiredness that comes at nightfall,
and again of a bed in a hospital somewhere, and
doctor's puzzling over a man who had slept for five
years or more. While I pleasured myself in a country
(23:34):
of dreams, who knew the love of Julie, and heartily
I wished myself away from this peace and contentment.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
And love.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I'll let you go through.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
I'll let you go for just as long as you
want to say, take the king to me lost the door.
Leave the key in the door so you'll find it
when you come back, because you will come back to me.
You think you want the world again, such you won't.
I see you, Troy, Remember in my dream. I can
(24:20):
dream of you any time I wanted.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
You. Leave the key in the door, Troy. It'll be
there when you're ready.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
To come back to day.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I think.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I awoke too intolerable pain, but I couldn't help laughing
at the faces of the doctors and the nurses who
crowded around. You'd think I'd risen.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
From the dead, and maybe I had, but the pain,
and when I looked on at the bed, I lay in, yes,
my right leg, just as.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I'd imagined, and the doctors did things to me, so
the pain went away a little bit.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
It was always there, and I welcomed it.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
I suffered, but I was my own man again, and
I did sleep, but I don't remember sleeping.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I didn't dream. Then last week they told.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Me I was good enough to be transferred to another
hospital where a great specialist was to treat me and
make me well.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
And again my heart turned over within me. For now
I was to live and be my own man.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Forever, Genie. Yes, I thought of her, Yes, I thought
of her. The first time I thought of her was
when I got an aeroplane. I'd never been in an
aeroplane before. The second time I thought of her, well,
(25:54):
I'll tell you the dream.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
And the aeroplane. The drone of the motors made me drowsy.
And there were the trees again, and the tall white
house and.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
The winding path. I walked reluctantly up to the door,
and the key was still there. I opened the door
and I called Genie. And it was a long minute
in the darkening hallway before I discovered her, sprawled across
the bottom sticks of the huge stairway, her eyes closed.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
I hurried to her and took her in my arms. Geenie,
what's happened, Genie? Darling?
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Try, Geenie, try listen listening to me? What is it, Darling?
Speaker 6 (26:55):
I'm dying, Jimy.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Gee listen a door, somebody.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Clentuck. What do you mean, Darlington?
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Don't go live the door? The man means a quintuck.
Never see you again, joy.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
And the whole scene wavered before my eyes, and there
was a sound like thunder. And I'm here sitting in
the front seat on the right in an airplane full
of people.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
What did she mean?
Speaker 5 (27:45):
I thought?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
And there's a lighted sign above the door, flashed on
fastened seat belts. I glanced up at the other little
signs on the wall in front of me. Steward asn't
somebody second officer, Harry, somebody Pilot William J.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
McClintock. And the ship is.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Moving strangely now we're going down fast. Must be coming
in for a ending. But the door, that's where the
pilots are, where the kuntac is. Smoke is coming out
from under the door. The title of today's Quiet Please
(28:36):
story is and Genie Dreams of Me. It was written
and directed by Willis Cooper. And the man who spoke
to you was Ernest Chappele, and the mother was Anna
Maud Morat. The voice of the little boy was that
of Sarah Pussele, Claudia Morgan Lay Jeanie.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Thank you for being with us, missus Chappel. As usual of.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Music for Quiethles is played by Albert Burmot. Now I'll
put a wit about next week here is all right
of director Willis Cooper. Thank you for listening to Quiet
Please My story play you next week is called a
good ghost, and so until next week. At the same time,
(29:23):
I am quietly yours, Ernest Temple
Quiet Please, Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper, and which features Ernest Chappell.
Quiet Please, for today is called and Genie dreams of me.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
There were always the trees, the tall great.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Oaks and the solemn cypresses, the distant weeping willows, and
the holly trees beside the pathways, spreading their stirs, the
arms flotting there, green and red in the twilight, and
the tall columns of the house gleaming quietly beyond the trees.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I remember the silence, too.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
The dusky silence that lay always about the place, the
silence that was always there when the dream began, The
silence that dissolved to the music as I hurried up
the long winding pathway.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Toward the tall white house that waited for me, For
the earnest little boy and Nickaboctys that.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I once was, for the haggard young soldier in muddy
battle dress that was myself five years ago, for the unhappy,
bewildered man I am today. I have no remembrance of
the time when the dream was not a part of
my life, and I know the trees and the path
(01:49):
and the house better than I know the streets of
the city I lived in. In all the years, they
have not changed. They've seen me change, but they remain
timeless and always the same. The a dream friend, I know,
(02:13):
A man who remembers a road from his dreams, A
pleasant country road that wends its dusty way past broad,
smiling fields and along the skirts of a lofty green forest.
A road that speaks to him of memories unremembered, A
road that promises and beckons on over the next hill side,
(02:33):
and wavers and fades and vanishes in the cold darkness
as he opens his eyes, then comes again another night
to soothe his spirit, so that he smiles in his sleep,
and wakes to weep, silent and alone for his lost
dream be a dream of long forgotten friends, of the hillside,
(02:55):
under the clouds of an island in a sunlit sea.
Do you know the desperate longing to return to the
dream place, the hopeless nostalgia for the world that lies
beyond the curtain of sleep?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
And do you ever return Christen to me? So perhaps
we are king. I was ten. I think that.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Time I came into the front room, where mother was
sitting at the piano. She turned when she heard me,
smiled at me, and I said, mother, I wanna ask
you a question.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
May I asked you a question, mother?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Why? Of course you may enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Mother, I wanna know about a music, A music, A song?
You mean, I guess it's a song?
Speaker 5 (03:46):
What about it?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I wanna know if you know the name of it?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
I don't know, son? Can you play us?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Told me? How well?
Speaker 4 (03:55):
How r.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
M m m.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
M m m m. Do you know what that is? Is?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
This is.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
What's the name of his mother?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
That Jimmy with a light brown hair? Here?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
I like it? Or did you ever hear it?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I don't think I ever played it?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Would you hear it?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
In my dream? I dream about it all the time?
Speaker 5 (04:43):
But where did you hear?
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Can I dream? I told you?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
What's what you dream about?
Speaker 6 (04:48):
There?
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Desite the music?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I dream the same dream all the time.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Tell mother about it?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Well, I I walk up the pathway past the dream. Yeah,
and you pretty soon when I hear the music, And
then I go up to the house.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Oh a house.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Now it's a great, big high house, and there's big
high things that hold up a course, and it's white,
and the trees are different.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
How are they different?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I never saw on that kind before. The there's some
trees that the that the leaves and little red berries
grow on that we have the reaves in the window
at Christmas.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Holly.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yes, yes, I guess that's what it is, Holly. And I.
I go up to the big door and I try
to open but it's locked and I can't open it.
Might have to open it, mother, before I do.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Why do you have to open up?
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Why?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Because I know there's somebody in here, There's somebody that
wants to see.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
What makes you think that's right?
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Why?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I I don't know, Mary, I just know it.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Who do you suppose it might be?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Oh? Well, maybe it's team.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
That very strange Troy. You'd leam your thing dream a.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Lot every time I go to sleep, I see.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Didn't you have any other dreams?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Oh? Yes, but they're not nice? This one. I like kindness.
But I wish I could open the door and find you, Dear.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I don't know what I was thinking.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Mother.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Could you maybe get me a key?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Why? Some you couldn't take a key into your dreams
with you?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I think I could it if I had one. I
don't think so, Dear, Really, I think.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
So if I don't know, it makes you think so?
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Whoa d you think?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
So?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Now I've brost this back from the door. You don't
know what this is, of course, mother, It's holly.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
See.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
I scratched my finger when I broke it off the tree.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Doctor Hogan said there was nothing wrong with me that
fresh air in great quantities and plenty of wholesome food
would not remedy. Then, for a time the dream went
away from me, and I could not conjure up the
visions of the towering oaks and the rugged holly trees,
of the White House, and the long, winding, graveled walk.
There were nights when I caught a tortured view of
the white pillars and the broad white steps, but hastened
(07:24):
as I might, the picture faded before I could gain
the porch, and I fell away in the deep black,
dreamless sleep of exhaustion, and always the haunting remedy of
Stephen Foster's.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Song floated through my seat.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
But there was never any key to unlock the door either,
and I resigned myself to an endless dream of frustration,
in which I must struggle endlessly.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
To reach the one I loved, and never find. For
I knew Genie was there, and I hoped, and still
the dream came and went.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I might sleep peacefully undisturbed for a night, for two
nights a week.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
And then.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
I was a young man groan before I found the key.
It was a time when young men found out there
were to be a troubled one, when wars and rumors of.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Wars weighed heavily on our.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Youth, and I, with all the young men, felt the
inevitability of tragedy. My mother, remembering the day a quarter
of a century ago when my father went away, fellio
brooding on the bitter destiny that was to take her
son from her. And nightly I sat huddled in an
easy chair beside her bed, keeping that hopeless ghostly watch over.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
The stricken that we humans dote upon.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
And over midnight I fell asleep uneasily, and after the while,
in the darkness, I thought.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I heard my mother speak my name.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
But I could not break the wretched bonds of fatigue.
It seemed to me that I was struggling through some horrid, hateful,
dark swamp. The swamp seemed to be alive with voices
that spoke my name in the blackness. Thus, perhaps it
was not my mother who spoke to me. And when
I heard my name again, find clearer. I answered, not
(09:31):
with my mother's name, but with the name of my
beloved whom I had never.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Seen, Genie.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
And magically the darkness dissolved, and behind me were the
trees of the park, the tall oaks with the mistletoe
clutching at their lofty branches, the distant weeping willow, and
the glossy holly trees. And I stood on the majestic
porch of the White House, before the great door, and
there was a key in the lock.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I do not think. My hand trembled as I turned
the key.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
And opened the great door that led beyond my dreams.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
And she was there.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
You found the key at last, didn't you, Troy, Genie.
I've been dreaming of you so long ago, Genie, when
I was a little girl and you were a little boy.
I dreamed of you in the old schoolhouse, the one
with the red brick power, with the clock faces painted
on all four sides, and the hand painted on too
said it halftime face. And there was another little girl.
(10:39):
You brought her red cinnamon drops from the drug store.
Remember her name was Ruth.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Ruth, Yes, I remember.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
And I was so galous of a troll. That was
the first time you dreamed of this thing. I knew
you were here, but you couldn't un lock the door.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
You dreamed of me.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I dreamed of you the time you brought the holly
branch back to your mother and learned my name from her.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
And wanted her to give me the key.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
I know all about your darling. I've watched you in
my dreams all over the years. Do you remember the
camping trip? When was it three years ago?
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Three years ago?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
I remember when you stood on that little headland above
the lake and watched the sunrise all alone that morning,
and what you see and you thought there was nobody
to you.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I said, I wish Jeannie could be here with me,
and you said, when.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Will I ever see a Jennie? I remember, and I
was there beside you, trying my dreams. And now at
last you found the key.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
I've found you.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Try, But what will we do?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
This is a dream?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Did a dream, Troy? Or is it your other life
that's a dream?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
My other life?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
That's a dream?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
To me?
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Or try stay here with me?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
But I can't, I know, I can't.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Why I can't we'd walked through the woods every day
at I know places, secret places that we could have
for our own. And there's the house.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
And I want to stay more than anything else in
the world. Genie, I've dreamed of for so long.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
And I've dreamed of dream. Try I remember, but this
is a dream.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I'm asleep in a chair beside my mother. My mother's ill.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Day.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
No, I'm afraid you.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
I waited so long to day.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
But my mother, your mother dead. Try, what did you say?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Your mother's dead?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
How else did you think? You found the tree there?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
And I was awake again in my mother's room, and
Jeannie had told me.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
The truth.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
While I dreamed. While I kissed Jeanie, I stood up
and something dropped from my lap to the floor. The key,
a great old fashioned brass he that I had last
seen him, the lock of the door of the house
where Genie lived. The day my mother was buried. That
(13:40):
was the day I was drafted. It was perhaps as well.
It kept me from brooding over her. All my personal
problems were swept aside in the swift enterprise of becoming
a soldier.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
No, I didn't dream of Jeanie for.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
A long time, And then one night, during the maneuvers
in Tennessee, in a bivoc and a windy hill, I
came wearily back to my sorry bed.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Then as I drifted off to sleep, a sudden.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
Thought crept into my mind.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I wonder if Genie's dreaming of me now?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
And instantly I was walking up the long curving path
to the old house, stood in my dirty fatigue clothes,
carrying my rife over the sleigh, the heavy old king
at the bottom.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Of my head aside.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I unlocked the door and I called Jimmy, and the
door was flung open. Frut, Why Genie.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Don't don't just go?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Come to Gerie?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Don't go, I tell you, oh.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Creek, And she seized my arm and shook me. And
I awoke back on the Tennessee hillside, just in time
to roll frantically out from under the tracks of a
roaring tank that had come questing blankly through the woods
and over the spot where I'd.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Been asleep and room.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
In a moment before, there was no more sleep, no
more dreaming for me. That night, there was no more
dreaming of Jeannie. For a long long time, Jeannie dreamed
of me. I know she did, for she told me
(15:20):
so again. That was when I was in North Africa.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
That night I fell asleep and I dreamed. First.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I remember of the old schoolhouse with a painted clock,
a little girl named Ruth so when I used to
buy the cinnamon drops for.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
And in the dream, Ruth was angry.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
At me for something.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I couldn't figure it out until she stamped her foot
when I picked up her books to carry them home,
and she cried out.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
At me, no, you let me alone.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
You go find Jeanie. And I was unlocking the great
door again.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Troy Genie, Oh, Troy, I've got great news for him.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
It's so wonderful to see.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
I've seen you every single day. I'm worried about you
getting so fre not having enough to eat, and the
fighting and everything. They were horrible dreams.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
I've hoped every night I dream of you.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I wanted you to so badly, but I suppose I
wasn't strong enough of something.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Is it you that makes me dream of your Genie?
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Yes, a good and now you have the key.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yes, yes, I have the key.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
I'm sorry about that try, but it's the only way
I can't help it.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I love my mother.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Yes, dearest, I know, but you wanted to find me. Yes,
do you love me?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Would you ask that?
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Try?
Speaker 4 (16:43):
I've wanted you to come back so badly.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
What did you mean about not being strong enough?
Speaker 4 (16:50):
I couldn't make you dream of me until somehow or
other you dreamed of that little girl you were in
love with when you were a child, that that little Ruth.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yes, I remember, But what does that have to do
with it?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Why? I don't know, Zackly, you remember what happened to.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Why she doted? If I remember?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Yes, that's right, she died about the time you started dreaming.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
But I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
That's all there is. Troy Doll. You're here now, kiss
me and I'll tell you the wonderful news.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
I dreamed of this for so long.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Hmm.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Now aren't you tired of the dreadful war?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I'm sick to death.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
I know I've heard you say to that man with
the red face, what's his name?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Jack Cherry?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
I heard you say just last week, But you give anything,
do anything, if the war would just stop.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yes, I did, I said, more than I I know
you did. I heard you, Genie.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
You can't imagine the stinking horror of at the obscene debasing.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
I'm sorry yes, I can imagine it's Troy. I know
it very well. I've dreamed of it. I know the
joy when your captain was killed. Yes, and you try
to pull him out of the half track.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I give anything to be out of it, but it's
got to be done.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
You said you'd give a leg.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yes, that's what I said to Jack, wasn't it?
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I don't know. And what's the good news you have
for me?
Speaker 4 (18:38):
You're going to stay this time?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
You've got both your legs here. What do you Early
tomorrow morning there is going to be an ear rate.
A bomb is going to fall on the building where
you're asleep, Geenie, I know, Troy. You can't go back.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
How do you?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
You're going to stay here with me and be happy
with me forever, Troy?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
But I can.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
You won't wake up for months and months and months,
maybe never. Isn't that the most wonderful news?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Am I going to die?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
You're going to live?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
But I've got to go back.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
You can't go back, Troy.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I cannot. I will.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I can be awake and get the others out of
that building in time.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
They wouldn't believe you're dying, Yes, they of course they wouldn't.
And you don't want to die, don't you. Why do
you say that if you go back you might die?
Dear he stay here, stay here with me and be happy,
and you'll never know anything about it. No pain, No
(19:41):
lying in the hospital for a long long months, stuffing,
trying to dream of me and never find me. Don't
you see, Troy?
Speaker 6 (19:51):
But I can't.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
I can't believe.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
It was hard to believe the dreams, and this wasn't it.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Well?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
But believe in me, Troy. I loved you, I've loved
you ever so long, and I'll always love you, and
I'll do anything to keep you do huh.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
I won't feel any pain.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
I won't lose my leg here, No, Troy. Here is
only you and I, Genie and Troy, and and love
it the last.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
But I don't know whether I There.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Isn't anything you can do about it.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Try four years, four long years of what shall I
call it?
Speaker 2 (20:48):
There must be a word for that kind of life,
if it is life, Genie told me her dreams sometimes.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Hasn't been getting constantly, not in all these and.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Here the great lawn was green, and the sound of
magnolias was cloying. Overpoweringly sweet.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
And here I looked into the clear.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Blue eyes of Genie. Her light brown hair was a
magic spoil to me.
Speaker 7 (21:12):
Sometimes he screamed, and then they give him more.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
And here there is no pain, no sorrow, only the
magnolia's cloyingly sweet.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
And Genie.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
The doctor said. The patient talks sometimes in a sleep,
and he called the name in my dream.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Here, I call your name, Jennie.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
And we shall live happily ever after.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
But what if I.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
What if I die in my sleep, Genie.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Then I'll die too?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Will I go back there to die?
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Genie?
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Why must we speak of dying? Dearest Troy, tell me
you love me?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
And so the long days and the peaceful nights went by.
Why then the world men fought and murdered each other,
had no thought of another world that might be a
world of dreams, and then might not be. For which
is the real one? I found myself as the endless
(22:15):
days and nights went by, wondering and secretly wishing for
the other world I had left behind, for my dream
of Genie. I stood under the high pediment of the
porch and watched the sun set in magnificence.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Beyond the rolling forest. Cloudy hills, and.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I thought of another sunset, the sunset at the end
of a dusty, grubby, steady street, with smoke griming the
tawdry buildings, and I knew homesickness. I thought of a
sunset past a frozen lake in winter time, and the
long shadows on the snow, and the shouts of gay youngsters.
(22:52):
And in my mind's eye I saw a man standing
watching the skaters on the lake, the man with stooped shoulders,
a thin, beaten man with a crutch instead of the
right lady.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
And my heart turned over with it.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Made I thought.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I thought of the goodness of pain, and the happy
bitterness that other men might know, and of work, harsh,
straining labor, in the good tiredness that comes at nightfall,
and again of a bed in a hospital somewhere, and
doctor's puzzling over a man who had slept for five
years or more. While I pleasured myself in a country
(23:34):
of dreams, who knew the love of Julie, and heartily
I wished myself away from this peace and contentment.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
And love.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I'll let you go through.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
I'll let you go for just as long as you
want to say, take the king to me lost the door.
Leave the key in the door so you'll find it
when you come back, because you will come back to me.
You think you want the world again, such you won't.
I see you, Troy, Remember in my dream. I can
(24:20):
dream of you any time I wanted.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
You. Leave the key in the door, Troy. It'll be
there when you're ready.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
To come back to day.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I think.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I awoke too intolerable pain, but I couldn't help laughing
at the faces of the doctors and the nurses who
crowded around. You'd think I'd risen.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
From the dead, and maybe I had, but the pain,
and when I looked on at the bed, I lay in, yes,
my right leg, just as.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I'd imagined, and the doctors did things to me, so
the pain went away a little bit.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
It was always there, and I welcomed it.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
I suffered, but I was my own man again, and
I did sleep, but I don't remember sleeping.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I didn't dream. Then last week they told.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Me I was good enough to be transferred to another
hospital where a great specialist was to treat me and
make me well.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
And again my heart turned over within me. For now
I was to live and be my own man.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Forever, Genie. Yes, I thought of her, Yes, I thought
of her. The first time I thought of her was
when I got an aeroplane. I'd never been in an
aeroplane before. The second time I thought of her, well,
(25:54):
I'll tell you the dream.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
And the aeroplane. The drone of the motors made me drowsy.
And there were the trees again, and the tall white
house and.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
The winding path. I walked reluctantly up to the door,
and the key was still there. I opened the door
and I called Genie. And it was a long minute
in the darkening hallway before I discovered her, sprawled across
the bottom sticks of the huge stairway, her eyes closed.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
I hurried to her and took her in my arms. Geenie,
what's happened, Genie? Darling?
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Try, Geenie, try listen listening to me? What is it, Darling?
Speaker 6 (26:55):
I'm dying, Jimy.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Gee listen a door, somebody.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Clentuck. What do you mean, Darlington?
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Don't go live the door? The man means a quintuck.
Never see you again, joy.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
And the whole scene wavered before my eyes, and there
was a sound like thunder. And I'm here sitting in
the front seat on the right in an airplane full
of people.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
What did she mean?
Speaker 5 (27:45):
I thought?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
And there's a lighted sign above the door, flashed on
fastened seat belts. I glanced up at the other little
signs on the wall in front of me. Steward asn't
somebody second officer, Harry, somebody Pilot William J.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
McClintock. And the ship is.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Moving strangely now we're going down fast. Must be coming
in for a ending. But the door, that's where the
pilots are, where the kuntac is. Smoke is coming out
from under the door. The title of today's Quiet Please
(28:36):
story is and Genie Dreams of Me. It was written
and directed by Willis Cooper. And the man who spoke
to you was Ernest Chappele, and the mother was Anna
Maud Morat. The voice of the little boy was that
of Sarah Pussele, Claudia Morgan Lay Jeanie.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Thank you for being with us, missus Chappel. As usual of.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Music for Quiethles is played by Albert Burmot. Now I'll
put a wit about next week here is all right
of director Willis Cooper. Thank you for listening to Quiet
Please My story play you next week is called a
good ghost, and so until next week. At the same time,
(29:23):
I am quietly yours, Ernest Temple
Popular Podcasts
Fudd Around And Find Out
UConn basketball star Azzi Fudd brings her championship swag to iHeart Women’s Sports with Fudd Around and Find Out, a weekly podcast that takes fans along for the ride as Azzi spends her final year of college trying to reclaim the National Championship and prepare to be a first round WNBA draft pick. Ever wonder what it’s like to be a world-class athlete in the public spotlight while still managing schoolwork, friendships and family time? It’s time to Fudd Around and Find Out!
The Breakfast Club
The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com