July 24, 2025 • 28 mins
A horror and fantasy anthology series that delves into the eerie and the unknown, offering stories that unsettle and provoke thought. Its minimalist production enhances the chilling narratives.
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Quiet Please, Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
M The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is
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written and directed by Willis Cooper and the teacher Ernest Chapel.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Quiet Please. For today it is called My Son John.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
M. H. Shakespeare King Henry The Fourth Part one, Back three,
Scene one. Owen Glendower, the Welsh warrior, says I can
call spirits from the vastly beef, and hospital replied to him,
I so can I I so can any man. But
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will they come when you do call? They come when
I call. I've tried it only once, though I don't
think I shall try it again. Not there's nothing to
be afraid to light outside, since that was only two
minutes ago at four point thirty one. There's nothing to
be afraid while it's still life.
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But later we come to back.
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It was a year ago, last Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving.
If my son John died. I'm a very lonely man,
some of my contemporaries and says to I'm a very
hard man. Perhaps a hand one of my own defense.
Let me say that my hardness is possibly engendered by
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the fact that I've been so embittered and lonely for
so very long. My wife, my love very greatly died
came on too, so my son John was born. For
a long time I lived with my son John alone.
Except for the necessary servants, medical attendance, and the light.
I saw none of my friends. I allowed my business
affairs to drift into the hands of my associates. I
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refused to see my friends. Then gradually my friends fell
away from me, and I lived for all those years
almost to recluse. But my son John was a joy
to me. I denied him nothing.
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He had friends, he loved life.
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And he lived it to the utmost. When the walk came,
my son John was much too young for service, the
fact that resked him tremendously, and he exactly the promise
from me that, should the war still be going on,
he would enter the service on his eighteenth birthday. His
eighteenth birthday was two years ago, and though my heart
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was run at the thought, I allowed him to enlist
in the army appeared in my friending. I could deny
him nothing, not even this, and I hope hard that
he would not be sent oversea.
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But my hope came to nothing, for within eight months
he was sent to.
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Austria and scanned four months later.
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My son John was dead.
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I sure not try to describe to you my grief.
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It was overpowering.
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Let me simply say I was inconsolable. I had never
forgotten my wife, and my beautiful beloved wife who had
died and left me with a taste of ashes in
my mouth. But she had left me my son John
was a consolation. Now my son John was dead. Now
there was nothing left to console me. It's not surprising me.
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I think that I tend to be a count for relief.
There was a woman rather remainless.
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She too was dead.
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Now she was a very wise woman, skilled and things
beyond the comprehension of the material world. I said, within.
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Many nights in this very room.
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Speaking to it as my love for my son John,
and of my honotorable loneliness. And in nineteen I sent
you a listening listen, I said, And then my son John,
is there a way to call him back?
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To me?
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Tell her we had been treated very unfairly by life.
I think I have been robbed of the only two
treasures of life. Ay to me, first my wife, now
my son. I tried to do the d How do
I stood to it? For I haven't you succeeded at
the Yes, I think I believe them. It consult I
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cannot succluse, I tell you I do believe. Yeah, that's
nothing to do. Well then, but then what other reason
can there be for not reaching him? And so he
doesn't know?
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How about?
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No?
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Okay, so that's so strange. I don't wanna know how
he died. I don't like a stone. Didn't I go in?
I had a letter.
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He told me that my son died, that they.
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Would send me the tail to the death. When I
thought it came, I tore it up without opening. I
didn't want to know the detail. But if I'm riding
after the sound of the tail, I could play hour
we're gonna say.
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I don't want to know how he dies. That that's
not happen to them.
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You know I have died.
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No, I would have to learn that.
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I have said. That's the only A fire had not
delayed a his Isn't there any other way? But if
it was the rising un No, No, I.
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Will not do that. I mean.
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No other way. As are ready to do anything. And
the stones that the one who has not go to death.
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What you're in a death?
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I hours, but they're not what do you mean i'd
have I don't you know? Are the only one who
can do it? I I can do it here how
this is go. I can kiss you, I can teach
you to corn up yourself in a way to p
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bringing to your teach you them now you made me
to a regress. No, no, teach me how to bring
my son back. I'll sell you what. I'll make you
rich for lie there has no.
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Needs but pay.
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I have my only way to put ida, whether rich
or I his dire. And tell me how you may
hereabout your oldest stuff. I don't care if I have
just a little time with my son again, and anything
can happen.
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I have heard you. I did their ho and look.
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And she began to speak here in the say rooms,
because there at that table she spoke in her eyes
burned into mine. And she told me how to bring
myself and back from the grave. And that was a
very simple thing to do. It's so simple.
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It No, I shall not tell you what it was
I must do.
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It's very dangerous, for when it was not a death,
she said. And that's the reason why I shall not
tell you. I must be alone, she said, I must
be alone.
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And dark in her room at midnight.
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And then I must do certain pains and say certain words,
take my hands in a certain manner, and wait. I
turned out the night of tide in this Before midnight,
I sat my room is down to watch on the
table before me. The room was not completely dark. I
hastened to put it on the window shape. And there's
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the hands of the watch. Met At midnight, I did
the thing I wish to do, and I said the
words she had taught me, and I placed my hands
in the position she'd shown me. And I waited, and
I could have sounded the door a moment.
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I spoke, come in, Come in, hello, brother, you talk.
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First, to talk to my son, John's voice.
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I could not find my own voice.
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To your own time, John's book. Again, I could prevent
her calling my father when you called.
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There was no other way.
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John's left. Father. I have some hard I did do
it then, and nothing happened. She said it, we're dangerous.
You haven't seen me yet.
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Fother and.
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We'll talk for talk. John has a joy to hear
your voice. I'm not happy about this, father.
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He should have blessed me where I was.
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You know, Johnny, you can imagine the lone and that's
a terrible anti. And you're not glad I called you,
you know, but I'll see that you're made happy, John.
You'll have everything your heart and desire. How do you
know I didn't have everything I wanted before.
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You called me?
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And were you happy?
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Though?
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No, not happy?
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But I did have.
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Now I don't know, John, Where were you?
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Where were you? John?
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Father? I regarded from me honest, you just said it. Yes,
well this she deserted a very good.
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Enough for the life.
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But I want to seem really talk well, but I
really had no intention of preserving his first father. I
had two days leave and I went ex first, good
were you? I mean, did the god je? Now? Now
I was in a part of the country where I
wasn't supposed to be, of course, but everyone was very
kind to him. Well, what I was walking a mountain
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road early in the evening. I didn't know exactly where
I was, and then I saw the life of a
big house a mile I go ahead of me, and
I decided to stop there and see.
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You think it puts me up for the night?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Good bay, No, that's as I turned into the driveway
right up to the house, a dog came running out
from the trouble. Before I knew what was happening, I
can knock.
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Down on it.
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My dog was at my.
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Swing or horrible.
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In the morning, I woke up flying by the side
of the road, and I was pretty weak, and I
tried to call out, hoping that somebody in the house
had come out and help me. I couldn't see the
house and the thing that tried you away and asked
a while.
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I felt strong enough to stand up, and.
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I staggered down the road and a couple of Russian
soldiers and my jeeps picked me up, and somehow or
other I got back to where I was saying to
night before a boy, but now John and I died
two days like then, I woke up in.
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The house, the big house.
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I'd seen the dog.
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Attack, and I was lying on a couch and the.
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Dog it wasn't a dog, son, and with the wolf.
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The wolf was sitting alongside talking. So I stayed with
all the time that it's nice until you called John,
weren't you?
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I mean, didn't you didn't they tell you when the
ress father, that's my body disappeared.
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I did agree to that you should I have to.
She wasn't a done misting because.
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Now now I can't speak that I'm less well as
a way.
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You wasn't something I can do anything?
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Yes, tell me, John, tell me so that I I mean,
this is something that I might do, and there isn't
be something I might do without thinking. I want to
know so I wouldn't turn our father.
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This is something you can't do anything?
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Are you sure? Man? Yeah, I'm sure you want to
tell me more so we can uh do so long job.
We can do so many things together. Shall I turn
on the light? Now?
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Have as you got used to being back?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yeah? You have to turn them out of banks lay off.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Of course I can't see.
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You in the dark.
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I can see you, you can you haven't changed much.
I'm sinner I have changed, and I.
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Suppose you have. But when you turn on the light, John,
I can't get up. You see the shock at your decks.
You know I had a little choke. I'm sorry about that.
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But now your backs maybe it'll be.
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How old John? It till good you're back again.
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Turn on the light.
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Please, well.
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Shut your eye you can open 'em after i'd send
on the right. When I said all right, he composed,
now open him?
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I opened my eyes, and I didn't believe what I saw.
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So my time John was not in room with me,
but a great r gray wolf stood inside my chair
stared at me curiously. But the eyes and my hand, John,
I don't call it spearing. Something that set deep, I
said to my job over and over again. I can't
call spirit.
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She warned me against that, I said to myself. She
warned me, and I did it, and wait time down,
I thought.
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I hung un.
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And I spoke the words aloud.
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My son John, and the wolves came over to me
and made a paw on my knee and foot. I'm sorry, Father,
I told you.
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I wish you hadn't done it.
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Are you? Are you John?
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Of course I am. Would I never see you ad
you worried?
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No?
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Never, I see, Father, she told you how to do it.
I had pity on her. I wouldn't come when she
talked me because I was afraid of justice. I heard
her talking to me, but I didn't answer because I
wanted to spare you this. Father.
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I'm I'm glad I did it.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Oh, I'm welcome home. No matter what shape you're in.
I see, Father, there's a catch and everything. Most of
the things you've heard about superstitions. Will believes all that
most of them are true. But what people don't know
is that there is always a catch. It's much better
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enough to meddle something.
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I'm not sorry it.
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It would be much better.
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If you hadn't done it.
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Father.
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I loved my son, John. I loved you a great deal.
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Father. I loved you enough to make myself stay where
I was until he made me come here. What can
I do for your time?
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And nothing? I must be something new?
Speaker 1 (15:24):
You are alive about you?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Where I mean? Would you like something to eat?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
No?
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Not anything?
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Well? I came as a wolf because I was more
used to being a wolf.
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Than anything else to do the same year.
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I can change myself and the almost anything.
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That's one of the things he taught me. A bird,
a bat, or a cat or being. Who is he?
Have you heard of him?
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No? Most people think that Bram Stoker invented.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Him, that he's fixed me, But he isn't Stoker. You're
a corse.
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He wrote a book once, a book called fret. You see, father,
we exist. There are thousands of a time of year,
more than anybody has any ideas, and we're all hunt
We're not alive, and we're not dead.
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And there are more and more of.
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Us every year because when someone dies, I mean when
one of us finally killed the person, that person becomes
one of us.
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Too long.
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And it's not bad, Father, it's not bad at all.
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Did you ever hunt? Well? We hunt?
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We hunt the greatest game of all mankind? All I
can tell John, Yes, Father Tom, Now that is here
here in New York County? Will do I mean, will
you hunt here too?
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How else can I exist? Father?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
John? You know, I'm sorry, Father, that that's the way
it is. Were the right, John, You had plenty of warning.
Then go back where you came from.
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Now I can't.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I'll be with you forever, Father, until you're God. No,
you warned me, Remember well, won't you change yourself into
your own shape? There? That's the one shape. I can't
have seen it. It's one of the catches I told
you about. I'm sorry, Father, but even if I could,
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I don't think you'd would have seen me before you
put this fell on me. I could have feel my
own cape whenever I wanted to, And I remember people
didn't like it, cre and ran, but I always caught
the whole. I'm sorry, Father, you brought it on yourself.
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If you've let well enough alone, I'd never bought it you.
I'd have stayed there with Dracula. That's the way. I'm sorry, father,
I've got.
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To leave it for a while. Where are you going
while I'm going?
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Hi? No, no, sorry, father, I'll be back. I'll always
come back. Father, don't worry about me. Hang before my eyes,
the mean gray wolf sanish, and I heard a fluttering
sound and lit his black back, but trying out the
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open door.
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I enjoyed, my son John, and none horror. For so long.
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I grew accustom to finding a black dog gnawing away
all day long in that corner over there.
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And lazily waking up his darkness again, for.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I learned not to disturb the sparrows that slumbered through
the daylight hours on the top of the bookcase. There.
Sometimes it was the same gray wolf lying there under
the window from sunrise and sunset, growling and iliniously, yawning
widely as he awoke his red mouth and cruel wrong
fangs green.
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In the landline. Oh, my son John was very discreet.
It's a long time before at the had to notice
in the.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Papers of stories of lonely people about the city and
suburbs being attacked by a ferocious great gray daughter were
clawed by a huge contact. But the stories appeared from
time to time.
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I mine when so John spent less than less time than.
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Me at night time, although he was always very street
during the day.
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Controlier.
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The conviction grew within me, the conviction that I I,
that they really bothered I were the best intentions of
a dedorted mind. I was responsible for these murdered attacks.
What had I not coming back to my tide, This
ravening horror that was my side? Daughter? I called on
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her and the wise woman who taught me to sell Janders.
The gray wolf was the street beside the radiator, twitching,
growling from time to time. Steen I was trying to
decide to prove something sed I succeeded. There's something there
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there there on the floor, a sleep.
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Oh, I see you want me?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yes, I want you?
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Do you know what it is?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
But the concept m tire because he can't be killed.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
So you've been reading about the past from the pensis.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I know about Yet what can I do? Because it
cannot die? He said, Oh, as there was a way
I wouldn't do it don't know the way, of course,
not does it ever? Ret No, I see Saturday. What
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is it that stay on your left?
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No?
Speaker 1 (21:09):
You do it? Not that? Not that I gave it
a si? How does I my sap as don hied
I nothing s These other people, the one I'm not
concern but they'll ask it's done a terrible thing, tell
me what to do, so it does.
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I can't do it. I will do it.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
The driver where he stood so his hat thought he
was astuep oh, John, Oh, John, my son, and it
is sweet, the great contraquence that was my son. John
stirred uneasily and muttered to his dreams.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
I see what away from there? I wield myself spoke
to the bookcase. Surely I remember the copy of got.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
To the there, and that's so why I found it.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Sat down to.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Read it to find out how to kill out the vampire.
I found it.
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I was under the tails to put the good doctor.
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And his friend into the sleeping vampire in the coffins.
And I said, a long time, staring at my son John,
so least carried my head. They put away the boats
and queled myself back, and I gat and he awoke
he wagged his table as he stretched and cut up.
He went to the door, hunting again, I said, and
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hunting again, he said.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
He went away. Then I got to the telephone and I.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Called up the man I know, and after a while
they brought me enough without wank. I went the habit
in the heavy butcher, and I in the great sack
of got it. And I sent him away and laid
down to wait till dons and my son John would
appeared and lie down to his last. But it was
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doing three o'clock in the morning when I heard the
pats I see in the hallway, And in a moment
the door opened quietly, and the little white celium dropped
him and jumped up on my bed. My friend John
was home runnered. Well, father, Yes, I wasn't asleep this afternoon.
I heard what she told you to do. I wanted
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to go to the bookcase and get that book and
read it.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
John.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
You were reading how to Kill Me with Jarna.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Well you remember she.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Said she knew how to protect herself against vampires.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Yeah, she didn't.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Don what She won't bother me anyway, What did you do?
Speaker 4 (23:44):
I killed her?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
No, I was a lion, and I clawed her, and
I did it, and now she's one of them, and
she's sorry. She told you how to kill me, and
she did her fat daddy, and I looked, and the
tiny white cat sat on the foot of my said,
washing her face didn't early with an elegant tall and
I reached from my son's photo of little cats sprang
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at me with a wild hair, and my son.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
John pushed her away.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Sat there for a moment, laughing up, and then he
settled down beside me, and he said father. And I
listened and listen and listen, And once in a whire
she put in a word too, And as the night
wore on with John's stories of the greatest of all
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hunts in my ears, and that poted another time and like,
and then.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I'm neither reading my thought where he jumped.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Off the bed and tried to go the place where I.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Hid in the knife and my hatset the other thing.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
And then in a minute the great tall guerrilla came
back in my room with the things, and he laughed,
opened the window with his gray hands and threw them
out and.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Let me treat around to me.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
It's some m he was the list seeing again he
jumped from the bed beside me, and the whistling in
my ears.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Tell my father what about it?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
And I said, well, at least I'll live with my
son forever and ever. Kind of sounds like a better
life than sitting in a chair and feeling guilty. And
I said, do you feel guilty?
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Sometimes?
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Not at all?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Do you? Oh? God?
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Now, well then will it hurt me?
Speaker 1 (25:43):
It hurts for a moment, and I said, those sharp
little teeth in my shoes. But it was over very quickly,
and I thought I ought to be a dog too,
And I felt something funny seeing John last, and I was,
and I was a big favoring great things.
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And I said, why he's bad at all this?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
And we laugh and laugh and laugh because now how
I got my son John's back, and we'll be together forever,
but really forever. And I discovered that, and he is
really fine. Maybe my son John and I will come
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under you, Son. Oh.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
The title of today's Quiet Please story was Quiet Son
John was written and directed by Willis Cooper.
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The Man Who's Proke You with Ernest Cappel.
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And Warren Stevens plays John the Woman with Chaplin Cartel
music to Quiet Please as yours is played.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
By Albert Bremmer. Now, but a word about next week.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Here's our writer, director Willis Cooper, thank you for listening
to Quiet Place. For next day, am a story for
his code there.
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I'm going fort these questions.
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And so until next week.
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of three men. It's American What happens when David Harding
Counterspy investigates the case of the Three Ring Murder.
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Your ABC stations. ABC, the American Broadcasting Company
Quiet Please, Quiet Please.
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M The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is
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written and directed by Willis Cooper and the teacher Ernest Chapel.
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Quiet Please. For today it is called My Son John.
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M. H. Shakespeare King Henry The Fourth Part one, Back three,
Scene one. Owen Glendower, the Welsh warrior, says I can
call spirits from the vastly beef, and hospital replied to him,
I so can I I so can any man. But
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will they come when you do call? They come when
I call. I've tried it only once, though I don't
think I shall try it again. Not there's nothing to
be afraid to light outside, since that was only two
minutes ago at four point thirty one. There's nothing to
be afraid while it's still life.
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But later we come to back.
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It was a year ago, last Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving.
If my son John died. I'm a very lonely man,
some of my contemporaries and says to I'm a very
hard man. Perhaps a hand one of my own defense.
Let me say that my hardness is possibly engendered by
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the fact that I've been so embittered and lonely for
so very long. My wife, my love very greatly died
came on too, so my son John was born. For
a long time I lived with my son John alone.
Except for the necessary servants, medical attendance, and the light.
I saw none of my friends. I allowed my business
affairs to drift into the hands of my associates. I
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refused to see my friends. Then gradually my friends fell
away from me, and I lived for all those years
almost to recluse. But my son John was a joy
to me. I denied him nothing.
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He had friends, he loved life.
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And he lived it to the utmost. When the walk came,
my son John was much too young for service, the
fact that resked him tremendously, and he exactly the promise
from me that, should the war still be going on,
he would enter the service on his eighteenth birthday. His
eighteenth birthday was two years ago, and though my heart
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was run at the thought, I allowed him to enlist
in the army appeared in my friending. I could deny
him nothing, not even this, and I hope hard that
he would not be sent oversea.
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But my hope came to nothing, for within eight months
he was sent to.
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Austria and scanned four months later.
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My son John was dead.
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I sure not try to describe to you my grief.
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It was overpowering.
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Let me simply say I was inconsolable. I had never
forgotten my wife, and my beautiful beloved wife who had
died and left me with a taste of ashes in
my mouth. But she had left me my son John
was a consolation. Now my son John was dead. Now
there was nothing left to console me. It's not surprising me.
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I think that I tend to be a count for relief.
There was a woman rather remainless.
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She too was dead.
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Now she was a very wise woman, skilled and things
beyond the comprehension of the material world. I said, within.
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Many nights in this very room.
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Speaking to it as my love for my son John,
and of my honotorable loneliness. And in nineteen I sent
you a listening listen, I said, And then my son John,
is there a way to call him back?
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To me?
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Tell her we had been treated very unfairly by life.
I think I have been robbed of the only two
treasures of life. Ay to me, first my wife, now
my son. I tried to do the d How do
I stood to it? For I haven't you succeeded at
the Yes, I think I believe them. It consult I
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cannot succluse, I tell you I do believe. Yeah, that's
nothing to do. Well then, but then what other reason
can there be for not reaching him? And so he
doesn't know?
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How about?
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No?
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Okay, so that's so strange. I don't wanna know how
he died. I don't like a stone. Didn't I go in?
I had a letter.
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He told me that my son died, that they.
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Would send me the tail to the death. When I
thought it came, I tore it up without opening. I
didn't want to know the detail. But if I'm riding
after the sound of the tail, I could play hour
we're gonna say.
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I don't want to know how he dies. That that's
not happen to them.
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You know I have died.
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No, I would have to learn that.
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I have said. That's the only A fire had not
delayed a his Isn't there any other way? But if
it was the rising un No, No, I.
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Will not do that. I mean.
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No other way. As are ready to do anything. And
the stones that the one who has not go to death.
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What you're in a death?
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I hours, but they're not what do you mean i'd
have I don't you know? Are the only one who
can do it? I I can do it here how
this is go. I can kiss you, I can teach
you to corn up yourself in a way to p
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bringing to your teach you them now you made me
to a regress. No, no, teach me how to bring
my son back. I'll sell you what. I'll make you
rich for lie there has no.
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Needs but pay.
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I have my only way to put ida, whether rich
or I his dire. And tell me how you may
hereabout your oldest stuff. I don't care if I have
just a little time with my son again, and anything
can happen.
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I have heard you. I did their ho and look.
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And she began to speak here in the say rooms,
because there at that table she spoke in her eyes
burned into mine. And she told me how to bring
myself and back from the grave. And that was a
very simple thing to do. It's so simple.
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It No, I shall not tell you what it was
I must do.
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It's very dangerous, for when it was not a death,
she said. And that's the reason why I shall not
tell you. I must be alone, she said, I must
be alone.
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And dark in her room at midnight.
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And then I must do certain pains and say certain words,
take my hands in a certain manner, and wait. I
turned out the night of tide in this Before midnight,
I sat my room is down to watch on the
table before me. The room was not completely dark. I
hastened to put it on the window shape. And there's
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the hands of the watch. Met At midnight, I did
the thing I wish to do, and I said the
words she had taught me, and I placed my hands
in the position she'd shown me. And I waited, and
I could have sounded the door a moment.
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I spoke, come in, Come in, hello, brother, you talk.
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First, to talk to my son, John's voice.
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I could not find my own voice.
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To your own time, John's book. Again, I could prevent
her calling my father when you called.
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There was no other way.
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John's left. Father. I have some hard I did do
it then, and nothing happened. She said it, we're dangerous.
You haven't seen me yet.
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Fother and.
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We'll talk for talk. John has a joy to hear
your voice. I'm not happy about this, father.
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He should have blessed me where I was.
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You know, Johnny, you can imagine the lone and that's
a terrible anti. And you're not glad I called you,
you know, but I'll see that you're made happy, John.
You'll have everything your heart and desire. How do you
know I didn't have everything I wanted before.
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You called me?
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And were you happy?
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Though?
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No, not happy?
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But I did have.
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Now I don't know, John, Where were you?
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Where were you? John?
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Father? I regarded from me honest, you just said it. Yes,
well this she deserted a very good.
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Enough for the life.
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But I want to seem really talk well, but I
really had no intention of preserving his first father. I
had two days leave and I went ex first, good
were you? I mean, did the god je? Now? Now
I was in a part of the country where I
wasn't supposed to be, of course, but everyone was very
kind to him. Well, what I was walking a mountain
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road early in the evening. I didn't know exactly where
I was, and then I saw the life of a
big house a mile I go ahead of me, and
I decided to stop there and see.
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You think it puts me up for the night?
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Good bay, No, that's as I turned into the driveway
right up to the house, a dog came running out
from the trouble. Before I knew what was happening, I
can knock.
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Down on it.
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My dog was at my.
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Swing or horrible.
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In the morning, I woke up flying by the side
of the road, and I was pretty weak, and I
tried to call out, hoping that somebody in the house
had come out and help me. I couldn't see the
house and the thing that tried you away and asked
a while.
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I felt strong enough to stand up, and.
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I staggered down the road and a couple of Russian
soldiers and my jeeps picked me up, and somehow or
other I got back to where I was saying to
night before a boy, but now John and I died
two days like then, I woke up in.
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The house, the big house.
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I'd seen the dog.
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Attack, and I was lying on a couch and the.
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Dog it wasn't a dog, son, and with the wolf.
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The wolf was sitting alongside talking. So I stayed with
all the time that it's nice until you called John,
weren't you?
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I mean, didn't you didn't they tell you when the
ress father, that's my body disappeared.
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I did agree to that you should I have to.
She wasn't a done misting because.
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Now now I can't speak that I'm less well as
a way.
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You wasn't something I can do anything?
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Yes, tell me, John, tell me so that I I mean,
this is something that I might do, and there isn't
be something I might do without thinking. I want to
know so I wouldn't turn our father.
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This is something you can't do anything?
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Are you sure? Man? Yeah, I'm sure you want to
tell me more so we can uh do so long job.
We can do so many things together. Shall I turn
on the light? Now?
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Have as you got used to being back?
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Yeah? You have to turn them out of banks lay off.
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Of course I can't see.
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You in the dark.
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I can see you, you can you haven't changed much.
I'm sinner I have changed, and I.
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Suppose you have. But when you turn on the light, John,
I can't get up. You see the shock at your decks.
You know I had a little choke. I'm sorry about that.
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But now your backs maybe it'll be.
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How old John? It till good you're back again.
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Turn on the light.
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Please, well.
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Shut your eye you can open 'em after i'd send
on the right. When I said all right, he composed,
now open him?
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I opened my eyes, and I didn't believe what I saw.
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So my time John was not in room with me,
but a great r gray wolf stood inside my chair
stared at me curiously. But the eyes and my hand, John,
I don't call it spearing. Something that set deep, I
said to my job over and over again. I can't
call spirit.
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She warned me against that, I said to myself. She
warned me, and I did it, and wait time down,
I thought.
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I hung un.
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And I spoke the words aloud.
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My son John, and the wolves came over to me
and made a paw on my knee and foot. I'm sorry, Father,
I told you.
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I wish you hadn't done it.
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Are you? Are you John?
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Of course I am. Would I never see you ad
you worried?
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No?
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Never, I see, Father, she told you how to do it.
I had pity on her. I wouldn't come when she
talked me because I was afraid of justice. I heard
her talking to me, but I didn't answer because I
wanted to spare you this. Father.
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I'm I'm glad I did it.
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Oh, I'm welcome home. No matter what shape you're in.
I see, Father, there's a catch and everything. Most of
the things you've heard about superstitions. Will believes all that
most of them are true. But what people don't know
is that there is always a catch. It's much better
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enough to meddle something.
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I'm not sorry it.
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It would be much better.
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If you hadn't done it.
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Father.
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I loved my son, John. I loved you a great deal.
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Father. I loved you enough to make myself stay where
I was until he made me come here. What can
I do for your time?
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And nothing? I must be something new?
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You are alive about you?
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Where I mean? Would you like something to eat?
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No?
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Not anything?
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Well? I came as a wolf because I was more
used to being a wolf.
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Than anything else to do the same year.
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I can change myself and the almost anything.
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That's one of the things he taught me. A bird,
a bat, or a cat or being. Who is he?
Have you heard of him?
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No? Most people think that Bram Stoker invented.
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Him, that he's fixed me, But he isn't Stoker. You're
a corse.
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He wrote a book once, a book called fret. You see, father,
we exist. There are thousands of a time of year,
more than anybody has any ideas, and we're all hunt
We're not alive, and we're not dead.
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And there are more and more of.
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Us every year because when someone dies, I mean when
one of us finally killed the person, that person becomes
one of us.
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Too long.
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And it's not bad, Father, it's not bad at all.
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Did you ever hunt? Well? We hunt?
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We hunt the greatest game of all mankind? All I
can tell John, Yes, Father Tom, Now that is here
here in New York County? Will do I mean, will
you hunt here too?
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How else can I exist? Father?
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John? You know, I'm sorry, Father, that that's the way
it is. Were the right, John, You had plenty of warning.
Then go back where you came from.
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Now I can't.
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I'll be with you forever, Father, until you're God. No,
you warned me, Remember well, won't you change yourself into
your own shape? There? That's the one shape. I can't
have seen it. It's one of the catches I told
you about. I'm sorry, Father, but even if I could,
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I don't think you'd would have seen me before you
put this fell on me. I could have feel my
own cape whenever I wanted to, And I remember people
didn't like it, cre and ran, but I always caught
the whole. I'm sorry, Father, you brought it on yourself.
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If you've let well enough alone, I'd never bought it you.
I'd have stayed there with Dracula. That's the way. I'm sorry, father,
I've got.
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To leave it for a while. Where are you going
while I'm going?
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Hi? No, no, sorry, father, I'll be back. I'll always
come back. Father, don't worry about me. Hang before my eyes,
the mean gray wolf sanish, and I heard a fluttering
sound and lit his black back, but trying out the
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open door.
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I enjoyed, my son John, and none horror. For so long.
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I grew accustom to finding a black dog gnawing away
all day long in that corner over there.
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And lazily waking up his darkness again, for.
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I learned not to disturb the sparrows that slumbered through
the daylight hours on the top of the bookcase. There.
Sometimes it was the same gray wolf lying there under
the window from sunrise and sunset, growling and iliniously, yawning
widely as he awoke his red mouth and cruel wrong
fangs green.
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In the landline. Oh, my son John was very discreet.
It's a long time before at the had to notice
in the.
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Papers of stories of lonely people about the city and
suburbs being attacked by a ferocious great gray daughter were
clawed by a huge contact. But the stories appeared from
time to time.
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I mine when so John spent less than less time than.
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Me at night time, although he was always very street
during the day.
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Controlier.
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The conviction grew within me, the conviction that I I,
that they really bothered I were the best intentions of
a dedorted mind. I was responsible for these murdered attacks.
What had I not coming back to my tide, This
ravening horror that was my side? Daughter? I called on
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her and the wise woman who taught me to sell Janders.
The gray wolf was the street beside the radiator, twitching,
growling from time to time. Steen I was trying to
decide to prove something sed I succeeded. There's something there
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there there on the floor, a sleep.
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Oh, I see you want me?
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Yes, I want you?
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Do you know what it is?
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But the concept m tire because he can't be killed.
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So you've been reading about the past from the pensis.
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I know about Yet what can I do? Because it
cannot die? He said, Oh, as there was a way
I wouldn't do it don't know the way, of course,
not does it ever? Ret No, I see Saturday. What
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is it that stay on your left?
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No?
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You do it? Not that? Not that I gave it
a si? How does I my sap as don hied
I nothing s These other people, the one I'm not
concern but they'll ask it's done a terrible thing, tell
me what to do, so it does.
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I can't do it. I will do it.
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The driver where he stood so his hat thought he
was astuep oh, John, Oh, John, my son, and it
is sweet, the great contraquence that was my son. John
stirred uneasily and muttered to his dreams.
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I see what away from there? I wield myself spoke
to the bookcase. Surely I remember the copy of got.
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To the there, and that's so why I found it.
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Sat down to.
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Read it to find out how to kill out the vampire.
I found it.
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I was under the tails to put the good doctor.
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And his friend into the sleeping vampire in the coffins.
And I said, a long time, staring at my son John,
so least carried my head. They put away the boats
and queled myself back, and I gat and he awoke
he wagged his table as he stretched and cut up.
He went to the door, hunting again, I said, and
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hunting again, he said.
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He went away. Then I got to the telephone and I.
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Called up the man I know, and after a while
they brought me enough without wank. I went the habit
in the heavy butcher, and I in the great sack
of got it. And I sent him away and laid
down to wait till dons and my son John would
appeared and lie down to his last. But it was
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doing three o'clock in the morning when I heard the
pats I see in the hallway, And in a moment
the door opened quietly, and the little white celium dropped
him and jumped up on my bed. My friend John
was home runnered. Well, father, Yes, I wasn't asleep this afternoon.
I heard what she told you to do. I wanted
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to go to the bookcase and get that book and
read it.
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John.
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You were reading how to Kill Me with Jarna.
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Well you remember she.
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Said she knew how to protect herself against vampires.
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Yeah, she didn't.
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Don what She won't bother me anyway, What did you do?
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I killed her?
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No, I was a lion, and I clawed her, and
I did it, and now she's one of them, and
she's sorry. She told you how to kill me, and
she did her fat daddy, and I looked, and the
tiny white cat sat on the foot of my said,
washing her face didn't early with an elegant tall and
I reached from my son's photo of little cats sprang
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at me with a wild hair, and my son.
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John pushed her away.
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Sat there for a moment, laughing up, and then he
settled down beside me, and he said father. And I
listened and listen and listen, And once in a whire
she put in a word too, And as the night
wore on with John's stories of the greatest of all
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hunts in my ears, and that poted another time and like,
and then.
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I'm neither reading my thought where he jumped.
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Off the bed and tried to go the place where I.
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Hid in the knife and my hatset the other thing.
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And then in a minute the great tall guerrilla came
back in my room with the things, and he laughed,
opened the window with his gray hands and threw them
out and.
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Let me treat around to me.
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It's some m he was the list seeing again he
jumped from the bed beside me, and the whistling in
my ears.
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Tell my father what about it?
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And I said, well, at least I'll live with my
son forever and ever. Kind of sounds like a better
life than sitting in a chair and feeling guilty. And
I said, do you feel guilty?
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Sometimes?
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Not at all?
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Do you? Oh? God?
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Now, well then will it hurt me?
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It hurts for a moment, and I said, those sharp
little teeth in my shoes. But it was over very quickly,
and I thought I ought to be a dog too,
And I felt something funny seeing John last, and I was,
and I was a big favoring great things.
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And I said, why he's bad at all this?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
And we laugh and laugh and laugh because now how
I got my son John's back, and we'll be together forever,
but really forever. And I discovered that, and he is
really fine. Maybe my son John and I will come
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under you, Son. Oh.
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The title of today's Quiet Please story was Quiet Son
John was written and directed by Willis Cooper.
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The Man Who's Proke You with Ernest Cappel.
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And Warren Stevens plays John the Woman with Chaplin Cartel
music to Quiet Please as yours is played.
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By Albert Bremmer. Now, but a word about next week.
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Here's our writer, director Willis Cooper, thank you for listening
to Quiet Place. For next day, am a story for
his code there.
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I'm going fort these questions.
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And so until next week.
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