Mystery Theater - The Oblong Box

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Come in, welcome.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
I'm E. G.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Marshall.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
I invite you now to join your imagination with that
of Edgar Allan Poe, so that together you can create.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
A tale of intense horror, to say nothing of mystery.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
You would have no better companion for such a joint venture, surely,
because in all the world there has never been a
more accomplished master of the macabre, the terrifying, the grizzly master.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Did I say, correction, genius in proof of which listen.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Come over.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Let's go to our cabin and get a good night's
rest for a change. I'm tired of walking this deck
in the fog, children to the bone.

Speaker 5 (01:06):
I don't want to go to our cabin, but well,
there's no place else. I suppose, my.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
Dearest, you must get over your fear of that oblong
box in Kunita's White's cabin, this wild fancy of yours,
and it's a coffin.

Speaker 5 (01:21):
Well, whether it is or not. I don't like our
cabin being directly across from Wyatt's and I.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
What is it there?

Speaker 5 (01:31):
The rail Wyatt and a woman, and the woman is
not his bride.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Rachel Oh I can see that a issue.

Speaker 5 (01:42):
Then, unless I'm mistaken, will unless I'm very mistaken. She's
the woman in the Oblong Box.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Our mystery drama The Oblong Box was adapted especially for
the mystery theater from the Edgar Allan Poe classic by
George Lowther and stars Richard Mulligan. It is sponsored in
part by Buick Motor Division and sign off the Sinus Medicines.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
I'll be back shortly with Act one.

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Speaker 1 (04:36):
I've brought you in the course of our association many
a strange and terror ridden tale, but believe me, none that.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
Can surpass that which you're about to hear.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
It begins aboard the sailing ship Independence in the harbor
of Charleston, South Carolina, in June of eighteen ninety seven.
William Hopkins, an attorney of some importance, and his wife Elvira,
are standing by the ship's rail near the gang plank,
watching the arrival of passengers with more than ordinary interest.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
Will it's close on departure time. Are you sure Cornelia
is white and ride would be born?

Speaker 10 (05:15):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (05:15):
It says so in the Charleston Herald yesterday.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
And I checked the passenger list, which plainly states mister
and missus Cornelia's wire cabin C and D.

Speaker 5 (05:23):
The cabin's directed across from us.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
But why too one for Kinnelus and his wife and
the other four?

Speaker 4 (05:29):
Oh well, very likely they'll have a servant with him. Oh,
Cornelis has gone far since how college stays together?

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Twenty years ago? He's a world famous artist.

Speaker 5 (05:38):
Now do you think he'll remember you?

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Oh, my dear Oldvira.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
We were the closest of friends, I must admit, of course,
if we didn't keep the.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Friendship up through the years.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
But ah, yes, you'll remember me and well and there
by heaven there he comes where where the character just
came onto the dock? The men in it is white,
and the woman at his side must be his lovely
new bride, Rachel.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
What in the world is in that wagon behind him?
Well it's.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
No, well, para no that our belong box doesn't contain
a corpse. It contains a priceless painting, a copy of
Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, done by his student Rubini's priceless.

Speaker 5 (06:17):
How do you know all this?

Speaker 4 (06:18):
The newspapers there were several stories about why at buying
the painting and having a carefully box for the voyage
in New York.

Speaker 5 (06:25):
Well, it certainly looks for all the world like a
callin to me.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
You must remember, DearS, the painting is six feet long
and two feet.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Wide and requires a box of that size. Why it
is bridec coming up the gang planing.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
I can't wait to see his face when he discovers
his old friend, will hop all.

Speaker 9 (06:40):
Right, all right, minder hand let book with care, real.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
You're heavy, with care.

Speaker 5 (06:45):
I'm anxious to see the face of his bride. That's
a pretty heavy day.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
She's beautiful, absolutely ravish.

Speaker 5 (06:52):
Oh will you know her? You know her?

Speaker 2 (06:55):
No? But I know Counita's white. He could never spend
an ugly woman, not even a plain one.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
Oh no, nothing but the most beautiful of the female sex.
For good old wife.

Speaker 9 (07:04):
You pulls careful, I said, incompetent idiots.

Speaker 11 (07:10):
I'll speak to Captain Hardy about this, and you use her.
Where can I find Captain Hardy?

Speaker 2 (07:16):
I'm afraid I don't know, Cornelius.

Speaker 9 (07:18):
Cornelius, you addressed me with a familiarity, sir that I
don't hold a moment.

Speaker 4 (07:24):
Sure you're Will Hopkins, your old college friend, Will Hopkins.

Speaker 11 (07:29):
Oh yes, yes, so you are.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
No, you certainly don't seem very happy to see me
again after all this year.

Speaker 9 (07:36):
No, No, most happy, great pleasure. But I'm a bit
upset at the moment.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Good god, So.

Speaker 5 (07:44):
What are you bring?

Speaker 10 (07:45):
The sailor's doing with that box?

Speaker 5 (07:46):
Damn it?

Speaker 9 (07:48):
I said, team it on and even tailing.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
Right side up?

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Oh come now, why there's no damage done on? Certainly
a few bumps won't harm the painting if.

Speaker 4 (07:55):
You practice quillia, that is the painting, the copy of them.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
And she's last up. You bought your bra.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
The's a wedding gift. It is what's in the box,
isn't it? It's certainly not a corpse?

Speaker 11 (08:04):
R No, no, of course not.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
And speaking of your bride, aren't you going to introduce me? Oh?

Speaker 4 (08:09):
Good heavens, I've I got my manners. My wife, Alvira, dear,
this is my old friend Cornelius wife.

Speaker 5 (08:14):
How do you do? How do you do?

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Uh?

Speaker 11 (08:17):
My wife, Rachel, how do you do that? And now
you will excuse us.

Speaker 9 (08:21):
I'm sure we've we've got to go at once to
our cabin.

Speaker 5 (08:24):
You mean your cabins, don't you, mister Wire you have
engaged too. We'd expected you to have a sevant low.

Speaker 11 (08:30):
No, no, servants luggage. Our luggage will go into the
second cabin.

Speaker 5 (08:33):
But you don't have enough luggage for Oh they are
long bobs. Of course you'll need the extra cabins for there.

Speaker 4 (08:41):
Come along Rachel. No, no, but but wait now, why wait,
wait a moment. Surely we're going to have the pleasure
of seeing your dride. I mean, won't she raised her
veils so we can look at this beauty you've married?

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Why?

Speaker 12 (08:53):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Why? Yes?

Speaker 11 (08:56):
Yes, angel, Rachel, my dear, when your veil?

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Oh not the beauty you expected?

Speaker 11 (09:03):
Hopkins?

Speaker 4 (09:05):
No, I uh no, that is yes, Yes, I'm most attractive.
You are indeed most attractive, missus White or Rachel if
I may.

Speaker 5 (09:13):
Oh, of course you may allow.

Speaker 11 (09:15):
You must excuse us. You men with a box follow me,
were you?

Speaker 2 (09:19):
And please be careful, take care of it? Were you
take care?

Speaker 5 (09:27):
Take a box?

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Well it's right, she's ugly.

Speaker 5 (09:34):
Say they're not beautiful. Well, yes, don't you send something
peculiar about all this?

Speaker 2 (09:53):
We are something wrong with her?

Speaker 5 (09:56):
The oblong box. It's in their cabin, in.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
The same cabin the Wys occupy. How do you know?
It seems to me why it's going out of his
way to keep their door closed at all time.

Speaker 5 (10:05):
Well, just as I was coming down from my stroll
on deck, the door opened, and I saw Rachel go
into the other cabin to get something from their luggage,
I suppose, And before mister White could close the door,
I saw it the box.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
But that makes no sense. These cabins are anything but spacious.
In fact, they're downright tiny. That box must occupy practically
the entire cabin.

Speaker 5 (10:28):
Or it does. That's why I took mister Whatt some
moments to close the door. He nearly fell over the box.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Well, this is the damnest thing I've ever heard. They
engaged two cabins and use the extra one for only
a couple of pieces of luggage and keep the box
in their cabin. Well, it's it's idiocy unless he that
must be it.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
The painting is so valuable, in fact, it's beyond price.
Why it would even run the risk of letting it
out of his sight? Which reminds me, what do you
say we have a look at it?

Speaker 5 (10:57):
You mean asks to see it?

Speaker 4 (10:58):
Of course I am not much on art masterpieces, but well,
a copy of the Last Supper done by one of
the Benci's own pupils.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Something to see over her? Come come along, well.

Speaker 5 (11:09):
Will are you sure? I mean, yes, I'd adore seeing it,
But well, you're a friend, mis you're white. It wasn't
exactly friendly, No.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
Oh nonsense, come along? Oh why it was in a
bit of a stew that's all.

Speaker 5 (11:23):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (11:24):
You're all friends? Will Hopkins?

Speaker 5 (11:25):
Wire?

Speaker 2 (11:28):
What do you want?

Speaker 4 (11:30):
Well, well, nothing wired, nothing at all. If you're going
to continue to be so stand author r I.

Speaker 11 (11:34):
I didn't mean to I'm I'm sorry, Hopkins, really I am.
It's just that.

Speaker 9 (11:40):
Well, uh, I've had a good many problems these past
few weeks.

Speaker 11 (11:43):
And my nerves are a bit raw. I'm a friend
I'm truly sorry.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
No, no, no, I am, I'm sorry I said what
I did. After all, I had to know you better.

Speaker 11 (11:53):
I would ask you and your wife in.

Speaker 9 (11:55):
But as you can see, there's scarcely room to move
about because of the box.

Speaker 5 (11:59):
Oh that's what we came about, mister Wyatt.

Speaker 11 (12:02):
Meaning what missus Hopkins?

Speaker 5 (12:04):
Why will thought you wouldn't mind if we had a
look at the painting?

Speaker 11 (12:07):
Oh, I see, and kind I know. I'm sorry. It's
out of the question. You see, I had to adopt extreme.

Speaker 9 (12:15):
Precautions in creating it, especially to guard against the dampness
of the six day voyaged in New York. The box
is sealed. If I removed the lid, the seal will
be broken sealed, we don't say with melted wax. Believe me,
I'd be more than glad to share the painting, old friend.

Speaker 11 (12:33):
But it's it simply can't be done.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
Oh, I understand.

Speaker 9 (12:38):
I'm sorry it must be that way, Hopkins. But that's
the size of it. Would you excuse me?

Speaker 11 (12:43):
Now? I have matters to attend to.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
I'm sorry, Olvira that we couldn't what's wrong?

Speaker 5 (12:54):
Strange, very strange?

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Oh, will you stop?

Speaker 4 (12:58):
There's nothing strange about not wanting to open a boxes going.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
To infinite pains to seal with melted wax.

Speaker 5 (13:04):
But it isn't sealed with melted wax or anything else.
What do you mean you didn't smell it?

Speaker 2 (13:12):
Well, now you mentioned it. There there was an odor
of some sort.

Speaker 5 (13:18):
Yes, an odor of some sort. Come to bed, will
it's eleven o'clock, don't.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Know, Elvira thought I might take a stroll on deck
before turning in.

Speaker 5 (13:34):
Oh no, do you think that's wise? Is a gale blowing?

Speaker 2 (13:36):
Elvira? When it comes to exaggeration, no one can match you.
I'd hardly call that a gale out there. A stiff
wind perhaps, but.

Speaker 5 (13:44):
Not again when it comes to splitting hairs. What's the
difference between a gale and a stiff wind? I wouldn't know.
Now you care anything more about that leak in the hole?

Speaker 2 (13:54):
Oh yes, yes, I talked to Captain Hardy. No problem.
They coked it without much trouble.

Speaker 5 (13:58):
Strange though, that all right, I'm sorry, But it is
strange that this ship was in dried off for three
weeks being recocked before we sailed.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
That's the kind of world we live in, Elvira. Nobody
cares about doing a good workmanlike job anymore. I'm going
on deck for a ten fifteen minutes.

Speaker 5 (14:16):
Oh, do be careful, Will don't get blown overboard by
that stiff Will.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Don't worry?

Speaker 5 (14:24):
What what will s? But what is it? Well?

Speaker 2 (14:30):
This is the damnedest thing, the damnedest thing? What wait,
don't wait?

Speaker 5 (14:37):
Oh, well I'll be Will Hopkins if you don't tell me.

Speaker 4 (14:42):
What Rachel Wyatt, She just came out of their cabin,
looked up and down the passage to be sure she
wasn't seen, and then almiran she went into the cabin
where they keep the luggage.

Speaker 5 (14:54):
Well, maybe she needs something out of it.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Then why did she locked the door? Locked it?

Speaker 4 (15:02):
And why did she look up and down the passage
as if well as if she were doing something secretive?

Speaker 5 (15:08):
Well, since I'm no longer permitted to say, I think
something is strauss?

Speaker 1 (15:15):
What is that?

Speaker 4 (15:17):
It's coming from the wire cabin and it sends to
music as if why it's prying off the lid of
that oblong box.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
All right, that's exactly what it sounds like, exactly what it?

Speaker 4 (15:27):
Then it couldn't have been seen it I told you that.
But but why would he lie, especially to an old friend.

Speaker 5 (15:34):
Well, I may be given to exaggeration, but you are naive.
Corneli is Wyat no longer considers you an old friend
or even a friend. He doesn't want anything to do
with you as to why he lied. He lied because
he doesn't want you, or me or anyone else to
know what's in that box? What's really in the bosten?

Speaker 2 (16:01):
What's that?

Speaker 5 (16:01):
What's he saying?

Speaker 2 (16:02):
He's crying crying? Is it his heart would break? Carible? Poor?
Why he's an agony yell box?

Speaker 5 (16:15):
Yes, yes, I can hear him? Or man will? What
is he crying over?

Speaker 4 (16:20):
It can't be the painting, even if it had been
damaged when those sailors bumped the box a viron.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
It can't be that. It isn't isn't.

Speaker 5 (16:28):
I told you I've had this feeling all along, this
sense of something you know, and now I'm sure it
isn't a painting that's in that box? Will It's a corpse,
a corpse. And the question that I've been asking myself
all along is who's whose corpse?

Speaker 3 (16:57):
Do you wonder if Alvira is right? Surely it would
seem so.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
For how else explain the Hopkins will forgive my use
of the word I trust strange goings on in the
Wyat cabin as it happens. I know the answer, since
I've read the edgirl in Poe's story. If you haven't,
you must wait till I returned shortly with that too.

Speaker 5 (17:22):
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Sinus tablets helped the headache on the pressure.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
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Speaker 5 (18:12):
Shneo f a sign off exactly.

Speaker 13 (18:16):
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Ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 14 (18:25):
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you get high on?

Speaker 2 (18:33):
Big Pardon?

Speaker 10 (18:34):
You know?

Speaker 2 (18:34):
What do you turn on with? Will you some kind
of a cop?

Speaker 15 (18:37):
Well, it doesn't make any difference anyhow, because I don't
use anything.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Then how do you get high?

Speaker 12 (18:42):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (18:42):
I get high a lot of things, like seeing my
kids start to walk, or the first dat alliance in
the park, you know, anything else? Yeah, getting tired gives
me a high, if it's a tired you know, from
something I like, like bowling with the guys or taking
along bike ride. But hey, would you believe polishing my
car gives me a high?

Speaker 2 (19:00):
And it's evil? In other words?

Speaker 14 (19:01):
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Speaker 5 (19:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (19:04):
Natural? What's it?

Speaker 15 (19:05):
Which incidentally doesn't mean that you're high all the tized.
It would be unreasonable to expect to be high allotime.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
It's like getting high on light.

Speaker 15 (19:13):
Sure, but you're gotta remember getting high on life could
be habit for me.

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Speaker 3 (19:34):
Well now where were we?

Speaker 10 (19:37):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yes, the Hopkins.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
Elvira and Will are totally baffled and just a bit
uneasy about the curious actions of Cornelius Wyatt and his
bride Rachel. As the Sailorship Independence makes its way from Charleston,
South Carolina, to New York.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
Will and Elvira burn with curiosity and know the contents
of the coffin like outlaw, Whyett brought her board.

Speaker 5 (20:02):
Rachel has spent the entire night in the other cabin.
Now what kind of way is that for a newly
married couple to act her in one cabin him and
another solving and crying his heart out all night long?

Speaker 2 (20:13):
And maybe they had an argument a lover's cloud.

Speaker 5 (20:17):
Will you don't believe that? Neither do Iry. She didn't
act as if they'd called when she came out of
the cabin, did she No?

Speaker 4 (20:23):
No, acted and secretive as if she didn't want anyone
to see her going from one cabin.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
To the other.

Speaker 5 (20:28):
And then we heard him prying the lid off the box.
The box he claimed with seal, And we've heard him sobbing.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
All through the night.

Speaker 5 (20:36):
I've said it before, Will, and I say it again.
He's not carrying any valuable painting in that box, he's
carrying a corpse.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
But that's impossible. The captain would never allow it. A
corpse on board a ship is thought to be.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
A jinx if the crew even suspected there was a corpse.

Speaker 5 (20:53):
In that But they don't. Wyatt has cleverly hoodwinked them
and everyone else with the story that the box contains
that painting, that copy of Da Vinci's Last Supper.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
No, will I tell you she listened.

Speaker 5 (21:08):
Oh he's nearing the lid back on. What time is it?

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Six am?

Speaker 5 (21:15):
And for seven straight hours, since eleven last night, he's
been crying over whatever's in that box.

Speaker 4 (21:22):
Sh wait, wait, wait, wait, I think I think I heard,
but heard what? Just let me just open our door.
Crack there, Elvira, Just as I thought, Rachel.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Has just come out of their joining cabin.

Speaker 4 (21:37):
Yes, looking up and down the passage, make sure she
isn't discovered, And there she goes back into White's cabin.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
Well, I'll be damned.

Speaker 5 (21:47):
I'm frightened right down to my toes. Frightened to death.
I will how can you eat?

Speaker 2 (22:02):
And so ravenously because I'm hungry? What did we come
up with the Donny sloon for? If not to have
a good breakfast.

Speaker 5 (22:09):
I can't touch a thing after the going is on
last night and now hearing that that foremast split and
where what do they call it?

Speaker 4 (22:16):
Hove to only for a few hours, probably shouldn't take
longer than that to repair it.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Say these eggs are tasty, you want to try them?

Speaker 5 (22:23):
I don't know how you can.

Speaker 4 (22:24):
Eat because I'm not letting this oblong box business get
me down the way you are, Oh aren't you? You
can see I'm not, And you know why, because I've
decided to take the bull by the horns and find
out what is in that box before this day is out.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
That's why.

Speaker 5 (22:40):
And how exactly do you propose.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
To do that? M don't know yet, got to figure
it out. In fact, I think I just have What
do you mean? Whyt and his bride have just come into.

Speaker 5 (22:50):
The saloon, see yes, and they've seen us. They've changed
direction and headed for that table way over in the corner.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Instead.

Speaker 4 (22:59):
Listen, I'm going down to their cabin while they're having breakfast,
and I'm going to find out what's in the box.

Speaker 5 (23:05):
Oh no, you can't do that. Well, what if they discovery?

Speaker 2 (23:07):
That's where you commit?

Speaker 4 (23:08):
You're going to see to it that they stay right
here in the dunny saloon till I get back.

Speaker 5 (23:12):
Well, how can I possibly just go over to the table.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
And start a conversation and keep it going till her return?

Speaker 14 (23:18):
Will?

Speaker 2 (23:18):
I can't, and you can.

Speaker 4 (23:20):
They're just ordering breakfast, all right, All right, back in
twenty minutes or so.

Speaker 5 (23:31):
Good morning morning, Oh, good morning missus Hopkins. Uh do
you mind if I join you?

Speaker 10 (23:37):
Why?

Speaker 5 (23:38):
Well, we'll gone for a walk on deck, and I
couldn't possibly taste that deal out there. I suppose you
heard about the fore mast spitting during the night? Oh
did it? Well, No, we hadn't heard. It was nothing
to worry about. Will says, says, they'll have it repaired
in a matter of hours. Mister Writt, you're not.

Speaker 11 (23:54):
Leaving, Yes, excuse me, but you haven't even started your
Break's not hungry anything.

Speaker 5 (24:00):
But mister ryat.

Speaker 4 (24:03):
Oh dear, what team that?

Speaker 5 (24:10):
How cues?

Speaker 2 (24:11):
What the devil are you're doing in my cabin? Yet?

Speaker 11 (24:14):
What are you doing with that knife in your hand?

Speaker 2 (24:17):
Well, you see you are going to pry the lead
off this box.

Speaker 11 (24:20):
Weren't you off my box? My personal property?

Speaker 9 (24:24):
Ever since you set eyes on this box when I
brought it aboard yesterday. You've been happening to find.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
Out what's nonsense? That's that's nonsense. I know what's in it.
You yourself told me a priceless copy of Leonard d.
Vinci's Last Summer. But you don't believe it. No, of
course I do. Why shouldn't.

Speaker 9 (24:42):
I don't know why you shouldn't tell me or you don't.
Why else would you sneak into my cabin and try
to pry open the box in my absence?

Speaker 4 (24:49):
I didn't try to, all right, White I did. I'm sorry.
I apologize it was the wrong thing to do. But well,
oh damn it, man, I I would like to have
a look at that painting.

Speaker 9 (25:01):
Get out out my cappin, get out this instrument, and
while you're about it, get out of my life.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Why you don't mean that? Surely you wouldn't dissolve a friendship.

Speaker 4 (25:14):
Such as ours, because what friendship?

Speaker 2 (25:16):
I haven't seen you in twenty years. But we were
such good friends in college.

Speaker 5 (25:20):
Whatever we may have been, we no longer are now.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
Get out, Upkins, get out?

Speaker 5 (25:34):
Oh this is whytt How nice to find you here
in the loud? Oh we missus, Hopkins reading good Day's
Ladies Book. I see, Yes, I don't know about you,
but I don't in the least care for the latest styles,
do you all right? I guess, my dear, with all
your money, I should think you'd be intensely interested in fashion,
though I did notice. You'll forget my mentioning this, won't you?

(25:57):
An older woman giving advice to a younger sister, I
did notice that lovely expensive dress of yours could fit
a little better. Proper fitting is so important, don't you think?

Speaker 2 (26:07):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (26:07):
Yes, yes, I just didn't have time to get it
properly before we left Chanceton. You don't mind my mentioning it?
Do you? A little sounded rice from an old married woman?
Oh you're not old, monk, missus? How I mean old married,
married many more years than you and mister Wyatt. In fact,

(26:29):
you're not married even a week? Are you a few days?
Or a happy days? I'm sure? Oh?

Speaker 9 (26:37):
Yes, and night, mister Wiatt Hopkins.

Speaker 5 (26:43):
Your dear wife and I were justice, I would prefer.

Speaker 9 (26:47):
Missus Hopkins, that my wife and you discuss nothing, either now.

Speaker 11 (26:51):
Or at any other time.

Speaker 9 (26:52):
Why, mister, I have already made prain to your husband,
as I'm sure he will inform you that I no
longer consider him my friend and wish to have nothing
whatever to do with him, and that madam appries to
you as well.

Speaker 5 (27:06):
I'm Rachel, Yes, sir, I mean Cornelius, not his wife.

Speaker 4 (27:17):
You're telling me that the woman in that cabin across
the passage, the woman wife introduced as his wife, is.

Speaker 5 (27:23):
Not I don't think so, Will. In fact, I'm sure
she's not.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Whatever in the world put such a thought in your head.

Speaker 5 (27:30):
The little chair I had with her before mister Wyatt
so rudely terminated it, a little chat I deliberately had
with her, because, quite frankly, Will, my suspicions had been as.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
Aroused by by what.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
And while you're telling me, I want to keep an
eye out to see missus White, who is not missus
whittt changes cabins again tonight.

Speaker 5 (27:48):
For one thing, will you said mister Whatt was interested
only in the most beautiful of women, and Rachel Wyatt
is altogether plain.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
She's still right ugly, but that's no reason to suspect.

Speaker 5 (28:00):
Also, when I was talking to her, she slipped and
called me mum, mum. Only a servant uses that word exactly. Also,
she slipped again and called mister Wyatt, sir. But over
and beyond that will. What originally aroused my suspicion was
her hands. I noticed those when mister Wyatt introduced us.

(28:20):
They're not the hands of a lady, he will, but
the hands of a servant, hands decided the work war.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
But that there's no sense to what you're saying, Olvira.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
You're saying that Cornelius Wyatt, a world famous painter, a
man of taste, discrimination wealth, is married to a a
servant girl.

Speaker 5 (28:38):
Ah, she's no gentlelong and I can tell you that.

Speaker 4 (28:41):
But, good Lord, Elvira, which you say is true, it
makes this mystery all the more.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
Wait, wait, wait is she again? Is she? Yes? Yes?

Speaker 4 (28:51):
Leaving the wired cabin and yes, yes, looking up and
down the passage before slipping into the adjoining cabin.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
And now he's at it again, taking a little off
that oblong box. If what you say is true, Elvira,
what does all this mean? I mean, what what can
it mean?

Speaker 5 (29:13):
It can mean only one thing that there is a
course in that box, a box my foot, it's a coffin,
and the corpse is that of the real missus Cornelia's
Wyatt well, come to there.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
It's no affair of us, maybe not of yours, but
it is of mine.

Speaker 4 (29:35):
If Wyatt's in some sort of trouble, if he needs help,
and for one reason or another is shy of asking
for it, it devolves upon me, as his friend, to
assist him in any.

Speaker 5 (29:45):
Way I can, after what he said to you and me.

Speaker 4 (29:48):
Oh, one must make allowances if if the trouble he's
in is so serious, so unbearable, So Elvira, I'm going
over there to his cabin.

Speaker 5 (29:58):
Oh, will surely not? Well?

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Is three o'clock here? What time it is? It's the
least I can do, the least, will list. I'm going
over there right now.

Speaker 5 (30:07):
All right? I know you better than to try and stop.
You're just letting me get my robe. You stay you,
Oh no, no, no, I'm not letting you go over
there at three in the morning alone. You ask me
that man is dangerous?

Speaker 2 (30:18):
Dangerous? Whyat, don't be silly, don't you there?

Speaker 5 (30:22):
I've got my robe on. If you still mean to go,
then let's go.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
All right, all right, come along, I'll knock Wyat. Why
it's me, Will Hopkins? Open up? Wyat? Why do you
hear me?

Speaker 5 (30:41):
It's very quiet, and they're not like last night when
he spent the whole night crying and sobbing and carrying.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
On like I don't know what, wyat. Let's go in
obout it.

Speaker 5 (30:54):
Well, the cabin's empty, and so is the box.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
What Look, the box is open and there's nothing in it,
neither a painting nor a corpse.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
Well, now, then where does that put us?

Speaker 1 (31:21):
Nothing in the oblong box neither the priceless copy of
Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, nor as Elvira Hopkins seemed
to suggest, the corpse of the real Missus Cornelius Wyatt
laffling mystifying I should say, and I'll have more to

(31:43):
say when I returned shortly with Act three.

Speaker 6 (31:49):
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(32:10):
a viewing.

Speaker 5 (32:16):
Many families would.

Speaker 12 (32:17):
Like to visit their relatives in the Upstate prisons, but
they cannot afford it, so a few churches and other
organizations got together to provide the buses and lodgings so
they may visit their relatives upstates.

Speaker 16 (32:30):
But God we worship expects us to remember our neighbors
and to help them. Join with others at your local
church or synagogue, and start treating your brothers and sisters
like brothers and sisters. A public service of religion in
American life. The advertising Council and this station.

Speaker 15 (32:47):
Who knows how to help you solve your shopping problems?

Speaker 2 (32:51):
You're Better Business Bureau knows.

Speaker 5 (32:55):
I inspected primus patients miss patients.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
According to the reports. But now you say someone is
trying to murder you.

Speaker 5 (33:02):
Yes, but I was warned. A nice man knocked on
the door and told me my brick Tommy was about
to crash through the roof over my head. Luckily he's
in the business and we'll repair it tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
Siral, I'll help you miss patients. Who are you? I'm
the man from the Better Business Bureau.

Speaker 6 (33:21):
Be skeptical when a man rings your doorbell and says
he just happens to be passing by with his repair
equipment and notices that your house needs to be worked
on nice stars.

Speaker 5 (33:30):
I could have been hoodwinked by a scoundrel.

Speaker 3 (33:33):
It needs to be calm and exercise patients, patients.

Speaker 4 (33:36):
Just another friendly tip from your Better Business Bureau.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
Surprise and no.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
Is the word to describe the feelings of Elvira and
Will Hopkins when they discover that the coffin, like oblong box,
contains neither that priceless painting nor a corpse. My bump
of curiosity is as fully developed as anyone's, I'd say,
and frankly, at that point I'd have dropped the whole business.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
But not Alvira and Will.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
Hopkins not only had their curiosity been sharpened to a
keen edge, but, as Will.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Said, why it's in trouble Alvira, serious trouble.

Speaker 5 (34:35):
But there's nothing in the book. So why do you
think he's in trouble?

Speaker 4 (34:37):
Because there was something in it, and whatever it was
is he acted well damn strange. He said it contained
a valuable copy of Da Vinci's Last Summer and he
couldn't open it because it had been sealed against the
sea air.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
With melted wax.

Speaker 5 (34:53):
But he's opened it each night since we left.

Speaker 4 (34:55):
Jocks and has sobbed his heart out all night long.
Whatever he was sobbing over was in this oblong box
and it isn't here?

Speaker 2 (35:02):
Now where is it?

Speaker 4 (35:05):
And where's wired? At this hour of the morning three
a m. I tell you he's in trouble. I feel
in my bonds.

Speaker 5 (35:11):
Will someone's coming.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Rachel, Missus Wyatt from the other cabin.

Speaker 5 (35:18):
If she is Missus Wyatt, which I doubt, What are
you doing here, mister Wyatt's my husband's cabin? The box?

Speaker 10 (35:26):
The box?

Speaker 2 (35:27):
What about the box, Missus Warett? Empty?

Speaker 5 (35:30):
How God?

Speaker 9 (35:30):
I knew it. I knew it.

Speaker 5 (35:32):
You was He's gone mad? I knew he would my soul.
I knew it. Why goodness? Why?

Speaker 2 (35:39):
Why? Why do you think that a box empty?

Speaker 5 (35:42):
Bow? What about the empty box?

Speaker 4 (35:45):
I can't bullet him here here now, missus?

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Why try to control yourself.

Speaker 5 (35:50):
He's mad, gone mad, and he's gone red.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
I'm sorry, but you must put yourself together. If you
want us to help you help me.

Speaker 5 (36:00):
You can't help me. You can't help him. It's too late,
too late. His mind is broken.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
But why because because.

Speaker 5 (36:07):
Of why leave me alone? Leave me alone? Well? I
think we'd better find Captain Hardy.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
I think we better find white.

Speaker 4 (36:17):
I'm going up on deck to see if I can
look at it. I'm coming with you, cold upon deck,
and maybe you better stay here right.

Speaker 5 (36:22):
Now, will, I'm not staying alone anywhere. Oh you were right.
It's cold and windows and.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
I taught him with here here put my oh chack around? No, no, no,
Will I do as I tell you for once?

Speaker 9 (36:41):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (36:42):
Yes, will?

Speaker 5 (36:42):
Yes? Oh, thank you dear.

Speaker 9 (36:45):
That is better.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
No, come on, let's see if we can find him
in will.

Speaker 5 (36:49):
But there is standing at the rail, gazing off across
the water.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
There's there's someone with him, a woman standing beside him.
One are the passengers, maybe only if it is I've
I've never seen her before, but.

Speaker 5 (37:02):
I didn't get a good look.

Speaker 4 (37:04):
Well you will as soon as that light from the
port side lamp falls across her face.

Speaker 5 (37:08):
Again there, yes, sir, oh, I see her clearly now. Well,
I have never never seen anyone so beautiful.

Speaker 4 (37:19):
She's ravish, she's that all right, absolutely lovely face, that
long blonde hair blowing in the breeze. No one to
gets holding her clothes to her armor on a waister.
Oh hit look kissing her.

Speaker 5 (37:34):
Now, Well, that's one for the books. Is the woman
he came aboard with, the woman he claims is his wife.
If she is his wife, then what is he doing
up here on deck with her?

Speaker 2 (37:45):
You you got me?

Speaker 5 (37:47):
And she isn't one of the passengers, or if she is,
this is the first time I've seen her. Who the
don can she be? I? Oh, oh, oh, good lord,
I I I think I'm tate. Take me below to
our cabin.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, but what is terrible?

Speaker 15 (38:04):
Thought?

Speaker 2 (38:05):
Horrible thought?

Speaker 5 (38:07):
Horrible?

Speaker 2 (38:07):
What horrible thoughts?

Speaker 5 (38:09):
Thought? Thought that whoever she is, whatever she is, will
will she must have been in that box.

Speaker 4 (38:24):
Madness, absolute madness, Elvira, to even think such a thing.
What you sound as insane as Rachel Wyat says he is.

Speaker 5 (38:34):
The woman in that cabin is not Rachel Wall Come now, Elvira, Truth,
the plain, simple truth staring us in the face, is
that the woman on the deck with him is the
real Missus Wyatt or wow.

Speaker 4 (38:47):
Don't tell me again, just please don't tell me again.
What you think, Elvira, it's it's too horrible.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
Someone at the door with three thirty in the morning earlier,
thank you? What is it? One of the true handedy This.

Speaker 4 (39:05):
That's a note from Captain Hardy he wants to see
me in his cabinet. Once urgent says.

Speaker 5 (39:11):
At this hour of the morning, it must be what
in the world would he want to see you about.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
Only one way to find out.

Speaker 10 (39:21):
Y Shit down, mister Hopkins, shut down, Thank you, Captain,
mister Hupkins. As you know, we've had nothing but bad
with her and bad lucks sleeping Charleston Harbor three days ago.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
I guess all your passengers are aware of that cabinet.

Speaker 10 (39:36):
Yes, we're sprung a seam. The formers developed a bad crack.
I've in other problems, which frankly I've.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
Concealed from the passengers so as not to alarm them.

Speaker 10 (39:47):
It's understandable, but I will tell you when our confidence
mister Hopkins in confidence man, and we couldn't manage to
cook that seemed properly. In these heavy seas, it's getting worse,
even worse. The repair to the foremast isn't holding, and
if the foremast goes we'll be in serious trouble. There's

(40:11):
a four six gale out there right now, mister Hupkins,
and he's whipping up.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
But Captain, why are you telling me? As what can
what can I do you can tell me something that
I need to know that the crew needs to know.
It's got him worried. I I still don't.

Speaker 10 (40:29):
Mister Hopkins, I'm given to understand that you are a
very close friend of mister Cornelius Wyatt's. Mister Hupkins, what
is mister Wyatt carrying in that all brown box.

Speaker 4 (40:46):
Or a copy a priceless copy of the Last Supper
Violin or of the Dncy are seen it?

Speaker 5 (40:55):
No?

Speaker 10 (40:56):
Well, the crew are beginning to think that it contains
the body a corpse, that because of which this ship
is jinxed.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
Yes I am, I'm aware of the superstition.

Speaker 10 (41:10):
I find myself in a position where I must assure
the crew that their suspicions are unfounded. Accordingly, I ask
you to go to your friend at once now and
get from him the truth of what is in that
or brown box. If feats the painting wherein good and

(41:30):
if it's a course, well, then I shall be well
within my rights as chapmen of this vessel to take
proper action, and that would be to conshine the body.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
To the sea.

Speaker 4 (41:46):
For God's sakes, elvirah, what senses there? And asking why
to show me what's in the box when he's down
well going to refuse, and when we've got a pretty
good idea of what is.

Speaker 11 (41:56):
In the box, and you agree with me.

Speaker 5 (41:58):
Finally you think it's a cause.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
I don't. I think it's the woman we sare on
deck with WFE.

Speaker 5 (42:03):
And you know the thought that crossed my mind about that?

Speaker 4 (42:05):
I thought, I'm too horrible, to too revolting, gruesome even
to contemplate who would take a corpse on deck?

Speaker 2 (42:12):
Who would make love to a copse?

Speaker 5 (42:15):
A madman would? A man who had gone out of
his mind?

Speaker 11 (42:21):
Where was that?

Speaker 2 (42:22):
If you ask me, Captain Harty is worse his than realized?
The four mass is broken?

Speaker 5 (42:28):
Will let down?

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Will?

Speaker 5 (42:29):
Isn't the signal to the boat station?

Speaker 2 (42:31):
God help us?

Speaker 5 (42:31):
It is? Oh will?

Speaker 11 (42:32):
Will?

Speaker 5 (42:33):
What's going to happened? What are we going to do?

Speaker 2 (42:35):
Head for our boat station? That's what? Come on?

Speaker 5 (42:36):
Come on wait, wait with my jewelry, hell with.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
A jewelry woman? Come on now?

Speaker 11 (42:41):
Who can that be?

Speaker 5 (42:43):
Mister? How can help me? Help me?

Speaker 11 (42:45):
Missus?

Speaker 2 (42:45):
Wyatt?

Speaker 15 (42:46):
I'm not missus?

Speaker 9 (42:46):
Whyte I'm not as like I'm only a servant, a
man and a servant.

Speaker 12 (42:49):
Oh help me, he's got mad ser hers, Rachel carothers,
her servant.

Speaker 5 (42:55):
So she died within two days before.

Speaker 4 (42:56):
Marriage, died, died within two days.

Speaker 5 (42:59):
He went out of his mind, was grief. He didn't
know what he was saying or doing. All he knew
all he could think. I was saying. They'd planned his
voyage for their honeymoon, and there was no stopping him.
He would take her on the honeymoon. He promised, take
her dead or alive, take her dead in heaven.

Speaker 4 (43:15):
How right I work? How horribly?

Speaker 2 (43:18):
Never mind that now we're wasting precious time. Come on,
we must get to the life. Wait what a I
hat him?

Speaker 5 (43:23):
Why he's in there now, sitting beside her cap And
I tried to tell him we're in danger.

Speaker 4 (43:27):
But if he wouldn't, all right, all right, I'll see
what I can do. Alvirah, you and Rachel Mary whatever,
get to the boat. But you I'll join you, will,
I promise I'll jun you. But I must try to
say why if I can go now the two of you.

Speaker 5 (43:40):
Go, No, no without you? Remember I'm not going without you?

Speaker 2 (43:43):
Will quiet? Yes, why at the ship's in danger?

Speaker 4 (43:48):
It may be foundering that value here it's a call
to all both faces O whyatt stop sitting there staring
out a corpse, corpse, corpse, the corpse of your wife,
your dead wife.

Speaker 5 (44:03):
She's not dead, Hopkins. That's what I said the doctors,
but they were wrong.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
Only sleeping.

Speaker 11 (44:09):
She's only sleeping, Hopkins.

Speaker 5 (44:11):
And so she'll wake up.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
Very soon, Niet quiet?

Speaker 11 (44:15):
Should she beautiful? Isn't she the loveliest creature you ever
seen on this earth?

Speaker 5 (44:21):
Hopkins?

Speaker 4 (44:22):
Will you listen to me? The ship is foundering. If
we don't get to the boats, we'll drown. Riot, I
will drown.

Speaker 11 (44:32):
Did you say drown?

Speaker 2 (44:33):
Yes? Hold around?

Speaker 11 (44:34):
No, No, I'm Sho'll not drown?

Speaker 2 (44:36):
Not by Rachel? Rachel, Rachel? Do you can you hear me?

Speaker 5 (44:40):
Whyet quiet?

Speaker 10 (44:41):
What are you doing?

Speaker 11 (44:42):
Come darling?

Speaker 5 (44:43):
Time to wake up? Sweetheart?

Speaker 2 (44:45):
In heaven is name?

Speaker 10 (44:46):
Man?

Speaker 2 (44:47):
She's dead?

Speaker 11 (44:48):
Rich lad do you hear me?

Speaker 4 (44:50):
I can't wake her?

Speaker 5 (44:52):
Deeper sleep, in the deep sleep, Hockins, and help me now.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
And lend a hand.

Speaker 5 (44:59):
I've got to her deck into a lifeboat.

Speaker 11 (45:02):
Cat let her drown.

Speaker 5 (45:03):
You give me a hand here, you're not you're not
going to try to try to get the helse?

Speaker 4 (45:09):
Can I do she sound asleep?

Speaker 2 (45:11):
She's dead?

Speaker 4 (45:13):
Dead there, she's sitting up.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
Pop.

Speaker 9 (45:17):
Good lord, Now we'll just the Hopkins, if if you'll
only just please help.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
Me to get her out of this bottle. Why that's
why you come to your senses. There she's on her feet, Oh,
my lord, in a deep sleep.

Speaker 5 (45:31):
But that's all right.

Speaker 11 (45:33):
I'll walk her, Oh, will walk her up to the boats.

Speaker 10 (45:36):
Get and get your arm around her.

Speaker 5 (45:38):
Hopkins on the other side, O that, Hopkins.

Speaker 11 (45:42):
I can do this alone, but it would help.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
If you're Oh damn Hopkins, way help me there and
better over more comfortable?

Speaker 5 (46:01):
How the all right?

Speaker 10 (46:02):
Will?

Speaker 5 (46:02):
That lifeboat isn't expected to be the most comfortable place.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
In the world.

Speaker 11 (46:06):
Mary, thank you, sir.

Speaker 5 (46:07):
I'm all right.

Speaker 4 (46:09):
She's going down. I think the ship getting lower in
the water. Captain Ischy, here's farm bringing Look.

Speaker 5 (46:19):
Look hate him. Mister White has done bick you see. No, No,
he's brought a card day looking. He's propping it again
to the rail, his arm around it.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
Up.

Speaker 5 (46:33):
Oh, he's kissing it.

Speaker 17 (46:35):
Will Low gruesome, beautiful, beautiful though in a way somehow
beautiful beautiful?

Speaker 5 (46:47):
How can you say that?

Speaker 4 (46:50):
Because to him she's still alive, and if there is
a life after death, she must know that few men
have ever loved a woman.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
As as he loves her. She was going now my
ship going, and that he's with her. Please God be
with him. Please m.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
I hope you enjoyed the Oblong Box, And if you did,
we'll think for a moment on the memory of Edgar
Allen Pole, to whom we owe the macabre player.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
Of the Last Hour.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
Like Oscar Wilds, his was a life of torment that
came to a tragic end. Yet out of the crucible
of his torn and tragedy came infinite pleasure for others.

Speaker 3 (48:04):
Something to ponder on. I think, don't you I'll be
back shortly.

Speaker 5 (48:10):
Young, I need me, But still I'm a man just
turned eighteen, and I'll.

Speaker 13 (48:15):
Do what I can to find me a place where
I can see me get ready for.

Speaker 5 (48:22):
Light degree and see where do I go here? Overhere?
Do I gosnol?

Speaker 4 (48:33):
One?

Speaker 3 (48:33):
Guy's ahead?

Speaker 5 (48:34):
Don't want to get trapped once? Feel free?

Speaker 11 (48:37):
Instead?

Speaker 4 (48:38):
All over the world's to do?

Speaker 2 (48:42):
On the column seeds, don't you here?

Speaker 5 (48:45):
To?

Speaker 4 (48:46):
Where do I go here?

Speaker 9 (48:49):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (48:49):
Where do I go?

Speaker 12 (48:50):
Up?

Speaker 2 (48:50):
From me? What about the new Navy?

Speaker 13 (48:53):
You'll get your chance at success, learn an exciting job
and see the world called toll free eight hundred and
eight for one eight thousand. That's eight hundred eight four
one eight thousand. Of course, see your navy recruiter, be
someone special in a new navy.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
I know where I'm going from me.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
I heard recently that a little cottage on the Grand
Concourse in the Borough of the Bronx, New York City
is to be torn down. Why because it is constantly
vandalized and the city can no longer afford to keep
it up. When I was very young, I went to
visit it more than once and stood in the tiny

(49:46):
room where a beloved young wife died and a grief
ridden husband drowned his grief and alcohol, but where he
also wrote the story you heard tonight, I say no more?

Speaker 2 (50:02):
What more is there to say?

Speaker 1 (50:05):
Our cast included Richard Mulligan, Grace Matthews, Briana Raeburn and
court Benson. The entire production was under the direction of
Hymon Brown, and.

Speaker 8 (50:17):
Now a preview of our next tale gone.

Speaker 18 (50:21):
I don't know that I can. I have never understood
what made these people what they were, but this I know.
There are angels on this earth, and there are devils,
and you, madam, I say to you even in your
dying moments.

Speaker 2 (50:32):
You are a devil. I don't blame you for looking
at me like that. I spoke on impulse.

Speaker 10 (50:40):
I'm ashamed, ashamed.

Speaker 5 (50:43):
You are the first man who is every.

Speaker 4 (50:50):
Stand back.

Speaker 5 (50:51):
Don't touch me, only listen. You will be haunted by
the magnet that drew you to me, the weapon with
which I ruined your life and will destroy you. My smile, earnest,
my smile, No look at me.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by sign Off
the Sinus Medicines and Buick Motor Division.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
This is E. G.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant Dreams, A.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
CBS Radio Mystery Theater continues.

Speaker 4 (52:05):
Edgar Allan Powe celebrating the first anniversary of the Mystery
Theater tomorrow night at ten thirty on KRNT