July 28, 2025 • 29 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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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper At which features Ernest Chappell.
Your Quiet Please story for Tonight takes its name from
the title of the series, Quiet Please. There are books left,
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many books, and I suppose I have read them all.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I remember things too. I remember a long white road.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Between the shoulders of the hills and the distant clusters
of the live oaks, against the uplands beyond, and the wide,
light blue of the sky. There was a wind that
wandered the edges of the hills, that brought the salt
smell of the sea, so that it mingled with the
loamy scent of the grass, and made a perfume that
I have not smelt in so many years. There was
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a great plain where the hills fell away in tumbled,
rocky magnificence.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
The plain all cutted the green and brown and.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yellowing squares, and a little stream with bridges of stone,
that strolled its way across the wide plain and sparkled
at last into the distant western ocean.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
There was life on the.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Hills and on the plains, the field beasts that moved
serenely through the pleasant grasses and rested at noon under
the shadowed kindness of the green, gray oaks. There were
men and cheerful women in the white walled houses where
the road curled, and the children that played noisily and
sweetly in the cottage dooryards.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I long since dust.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Shall I tell you of the graceful beaches, For the
sound of the surf was a measured, majestic melody we
thought would never cease. Shall I speak of the great
ships prone upon the breast of the ocean, the ships
that are seen no more? Would you hear of the
wind whipt nights, and the lightning in the forests, and
the gentle rain in the dark time?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Would you remember? Do not forget? I remember I alone.
Remember this was a temple. From this, the place dedicated
to the arts.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
From there were the waves that upon the beach, The
shattered walls of storm we made remained to mock us.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And there where the white road was is the desolation.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
The winds died down, and the sun waves, and the
moon is sickly. Yet I remember the lights on the hillsides,
and the stars above, and wheeling their ancient way across
the sky. There was a day when I could name
them all, they seem very far away tonight, an taris
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and better goose now deboraon Docturus and began procyon.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
In these days, Orion the mighty hundred.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Draws away from us, and the glory of Berenice's hairs
bind in the heavens. I would welcome the sound of
the thunder again on the horizon. But all the manifestations
of nature are ended, and only the twilight of eternity
remains above the bleakness. I would welcome the voice of
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a hungry wolf, even this night, with a hiss of
the serpents that once we hated, that once we trampled upon.
I would welcome even the voice of old Crogue, and
listen with delight, and laugh happily to hear him tell
again the schemes he dreamed brought us to this.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
That men cannot live without wars amongst themselves, Why should
not we be the ones to win the war? Every
man plots against every other, and men speak of honor
and laws and fair fighting.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
But if the war is to be won, they do
away with fairness and honor, and let us win and.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Be the master.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
And they are slaves, yes, I could laugh to hear
that voice, and to see those hard black eyes glitter
again in.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
The light of the little ants.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I could take old Krog and lift him up and say,
look upon your work, old Krog, your work.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
And mine, and the work of all of those who
could not live without wars.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
The Krog is dust and may not speak, and for
a little time while I live, the dust shall speak
its final words to those who would listen. It was
a fair world, our world, and I would not have
you believe at all who dwelt in it were like
old Kruge, plotting wars.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And seeding the countrysides with a discontent.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
We knew love to in all the virtues, some of
them we even practiced. I am old now, and my
speech is set in somber ways, for I've looked on
some of the things for long.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
But there was a time when I was young in
this very world, and my speech was the speech.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Of the young of every world, careless, gay, happy.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And there was one whose speech was like mine.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Young and gay and very dear to me, Morna. There
was a night on the shores of a lake when
there was music, in laughter and light Somewhere in the
distance and we sat alone together, and I remember I
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would speak, but the morning I laid a hand on
my lips and laughing.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
And small quiet, and.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
For a long time it was only the music, and
we watched the stars.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Told her you love me?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Silly question, Julia, what do you think?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
You know what I think? What? I don't think? You
love me very much? You don't if you love me,
you was kiss me.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I don't lean over this way?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Why you can see it?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Sweet?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
You hear the one one of the kids.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Well, I don't anymore, alright.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Just for that, you're going to get kissed. I'm here.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Oh look how your m thing miney quieter place like
what you do?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I just don't any words to tell you on 'em.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Then the music began again, and we sat silently, and
the stars moved above us.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
The stars are so beautiful to night.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
They're not all stars?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
What what are they means? Some of the planets, Oh
my god, you suppose there are people and some of
the other planet m probably Earth that's the nearest one,
isn't it. And I think so you suppose there are
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people there, I wouldn't know people that look like us.
And the have music and a night like that.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Nobody on earth good have a night like this.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
No, I mean it to m You suppose they have
houses and automobiles and wonderful stories like ours, and and
they have babies like we do and everything, and.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
They're probably eighty feet calling him six times and sixteen hours.
Oh no, no, Well, some day they'll come rory on
a space that isn't terrific, makes spaceships and disintegrator.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Builds and depart, and we'll say boat and they'll all
turn around and go right back where they came from.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Maybe they will, and maybe they won't.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
What would we do if they invaded us the rst time?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Fight?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Why don't we're not alive when it happened? Yes?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Or do I?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Oh? Maybe they be right?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Don't kid yourself about that.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
I wonder what they call our world?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Why? Probably the same thing we do? May?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Well?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Why not? After all? It is Mars, isn't it. Oh No,
we were not eighty feet tall II there.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
We did not have six arms or sixteen eyes, and
we didn't dream of conquering.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Your world either. We were like you.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
We were human beings too, and we lived and loved
and worked and died very much as you do.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Look upon your own earth. If you would see us
as we were, stand at your window to night, and
look out upon the.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Lights of your fellow beings homes, look upon the faces
of your sleeping children, and.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
See the reflection of ours.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Let your mind's eye wander across your oceans, beyond your mouth,
and see all the lights of the world and its darknesses,
and the.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Sun rising again beyond.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Let your thoughts dwell upon the people of your earth,
and you shall know us as we were. Not a
happier in the matter, not a better, no worse. Oh
crog the prophet of war muttering away a disaster, might
be one of your own Marna, with her golden hair and.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Her laughing eyes.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Might be the girl you passed unseeing in the street
this afternoon, and the triumph LARTs to a long bed
general brooding above a little park in the city, where
children race and shout. Might be the one who stood
out the city in another world, one hundred yards from
where I speak to you, and here no stone remains
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upon another Old Krogue has said that wars are inevitable?
Have you found it so? In the years when I
was a reported for a great newspaper. I sat in
his study and heard him speak to us. Concern us
to all.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Our world is written from the standpoint of the winners
of the wars, and thus wars.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Are essential to the progress of the race. Had our
enemies won in the last war, then their cause would
have proved the just one, and we, by losing, would
have been in the wrong. For future events would then
have shaped themselves upon the faces of their winning, and
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the decision would have been irrevtable, would be cheap, our
nation's bid for leadership forgotten, and thus it will always be.
Then there was silence in my room for a little time,
and at last I spoke.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Doctor krog I said.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Dr krog.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Well Son.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Dtor Krogue.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Fifty years ago we fought a war. Were we right?
We won, and.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
By winning we charted the course of history in the
fifty years since. Had they won, the last fifty years might.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Have been very different. And which is right? What is right? Son?
And what is wrong?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
And then another war came against another nation, and the
ones we had defeated before were allied with us, and
no Crow made notes in a great black book that
was one day to be published to all our world,
and no man's eyes of his have seen it.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
But the sands are running out. Let me speak of
the things that have.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Perished, posities where people worked at a hundred occupations, and
the muddy brown slums of the cities.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
In the great green parks. Go up tomorrow in your
own city, and such your feet upon the smooth concrete.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Of the sidewalk, See the gleaming windows and marvel at
the wonders within them that you men have created. Touch
the garment of the passer by, and joy to know
that this too, this humble thing, man is created. And
know that I too have done these things, and that
I have seen man destroy them, and that I helped.
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Do you know the good black smell of the mold
of the earth in the springtime? Fill your heart leaped
at the first green shoots of a bouty that lies
in that earth. Have you seen the lilies and heard
the bells of your churches? The bells rang in my
world once the flowers boomed, and men laughed and sang
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and hated. We have run our course, the course we chose,
back to the enough of the dust from.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Which we sprang. And there was another time.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
When Manna and I had been married for many years,
and the war that had raged across our world had
at last flickered out and died. We sat long at
table at night, silently featureless, dreaming of a world purged
by iron sword and full again at the promise of peace.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
And perhaps happiness.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Oh, I'm glad you didn't have to go to us.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I suppose I shouldn't say so, but I am too.
You're not a coward to her right, I don't think
I am warner. But no, we can get started all
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over again, and.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
We need so many things we haven't been able to get.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I can hardly wait to go shining.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Well, at least we can afford them, some of 'em.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
It's just a shame, isn't what. I hate those people,
the things they've done to us, All those boys dead
in our cities, Nash. No, they lost the water though,
and we killed him.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yea, go, yes, we did.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
We should have killed 'em all quiet?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Please did? All right?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
You've always say that though to shock me up, befo.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
It helps, doesn't it? Well?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I suppose if we could have only said it to
them when the war started, Quiet priests, they have gone away.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
We've said it all right, only in a different way.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yes, you'll be quiet for a long time, some of
'em and some of us. Who's that? Yeah, I know
a good way to find out. Will you go? H Well,
hello to Bail.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Why are you, Dail? When did you get back?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Just now? Who I am? Na? I am home?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Great to see your boy always wonder Oh excuse me,
well I wondered when you were going to pay attention
I was to see you.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
I'm sorry, Well, who I want you to meet my bike?
How wonderful?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Why? Ray? This is my sister Morning and her husband,
my brother in law Tor.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Why are you doing? Thank you? Thank you, it's so
nice to know Dave.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Well, come in, come on.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Oh, I'm so glad to see your day.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
And go ahead and thank you. We haven't we haven't
heard from you for so long.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Tail.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
We were beginning to get work.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
I was all right, didn't get a scratch? All right? Hey,
face looks not the same?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Kay? Where's old Chef? He died last summer Dale? Oh
I'm sorry about that. He was the greatest dog in
the world. Right, Well.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Have you had wouldn't you like some coffee room? I
would love it? Make some fresh No, this would be fine.
I'm finding in Holt again. You used to coffee again?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Well? How was the Wardale? I got all the war
I want?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Oh that coffee dance? Thank your sister? Oh god, I
she hasn't had much coffee in the last seven years.
Wh why are you poor thing? Why not Dale? Why
hasn't she had coffee? I'd better tell him?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Do you tell us what? Well? Ray was one of
our enemies? What do you mean by that? Dale? Was she? Yes?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Should we go dance?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Thanks for the coffee, Runner?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Or where are you going? Sister?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
My ship town sister?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Do you think i'd my brand's new sister in law
of my house? Come on, let's go make some fresh
coffee latime?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
And in the early hours of the morning, I was
awakened by mornings sobbing.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
I put my arm around her. Oh that's poor child.
They actually thought we were going to turn her und
Oh sto hkan people think the dreadful thoughts of us,
And she's so sweet. No.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I have never solved the problem either why people can
love individually and hate collectively. And the children of Ray
and Dale were very dear to me, no different from
the other children who played with him in our yard,
who went to school with them, were in history with them.
I suppose it's only strange as we hated, for Ray
was the daughter of a nation we had fought bitterly with.
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Yet when our friends became acquainted, whether they too grew
to love her. And some of those who wept most
bitterly at her funeral were the ones who at first
had pointed her out as the enemy woman. Well, Krogue said,
wars are inevitable. Perhaps they are. There has never been
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a year in all the thousand centuries of our recorded
history when there has not been a war in some
part of our planet. And always history told us might
have been striving for a means to end it. A
war to end war, they said, A war to end war.
They achieved it. They ended everything. Wars had grown more
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and more destructive, and at last men laid wicked fingers
upon secrets that were not for men. To all men
of all was pride at the locks that nature set
upon our deepest secrets, seeking the power that was never
intended for them. And step by tedious step they came
to the final awful knowledge, to the very corridor of
creation and of destruction. Ours was a fair world I said,
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there was beauty in everything, Beauty in the mornings and
in the red sunsets, Beauty in the long low hills
and the mountains that bred themselves majestically aloof above us.
And beauty too, and the humble things of our world,
the the simple, unnoticed things that had haunt my memory tonight,
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the turning wheel and the flight of a bird, the
sound of a train whistled in the night, the rust
of the wind in the trees, and unforgettably the voices
of people, the voice of all Kroger.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
No, we have the supreme weapon. There is no defense,
and no.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Leste who will bring us undisputed mastery of all the planets.
But why should we be masters of the world? Why
should any one people be the masters? Is it not
written how good and how pleasant it is for brethrens
dwell together in unity?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
And said that cannot then practice it? And the voice
of Warner.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
There will never be any more war after this next winter.
Every one of our enemies will be destroyed, and we'll
live happily ever after.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Nor Mourner, there never will be warm again. There never
will be anything again.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
For now more, No no men have platted against the
green hillsides and the towering mountains. They have declared war
upon the flowers and the grass and the forests. They
have made our planet an offer on which to sacrifice
us all. In the voice of Dale, I'll not go
to war again. If they bring it to me, I'll fight.
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But they'll have to bring it to me.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
They brought it to your Dale.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
They brought it to your very home, to your doorstep,
to the gay, little blue and white curtains at your windows.
And you died before you knew it. In the voice
of Ray, the displaced person, the alien and a strange land.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Who is my enemy?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Now?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
There was my enemy once? And you and Manna you
were my own people, as surely as if I had
been grown among you. Who will be my enemy? When
this new wars tom.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
You will have no enemy.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Ray, What I will be not left to hate or
to love. Fortunate for you that you died before the
war came. Your last sight was of the faces of
those who loved you, and my own voice speaking to
you at long last, remembering the thoughts we had of you,
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of towering, eighty foot giants swarming down upon us out
of the cold, black reaches of space, seeking to prey
upon us and conquer us, and at last destroy us.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Did you have thoughts of us as demons too?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Did you think, because we were another world, we must
be monsters rabbining for your blood.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
We were not.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
We were people like you, older perhaps, but with the
the same instincts you have, the very same. We glowed
in the summertime, in the white winters. We loved individually
and hated collectively as you do. We lived, we fought,
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we died. Ari astronomers have watched us for so many years,
speculating on the possibility of life here. Well, there was life.
Great cities, wide, peaceful farms, tall lands holding back the
might of great rivers, great deserts flowering in the spring,
with all the dazzling lavishness that can be packed into
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a brief span of life.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
We had rivers and oceans and lakes, forests and deep.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Valleys, great monuments to our dead, giant buildings to house
our living. We had music and books, and great schools
and statesmen. Ari astronomers tell you of the canals that
cover our planet. I saw those canals created. I saw
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the solid earth splash and boil beneath me. I saw
the mountains melt into rivers of molten fiery stone. I
saw a great twenty mushrooms of cloudy rough from the
plural of the ocean.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
And I smelt destruction near at hand.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Yes, there will be no more wars on our planet.
There is only silence and cold.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Than dust.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
There was ONTs of people in the civilization. There is
only one man. I tore the last man of Mars
to say the last words. The two moons that circle
our planet are rising now, Phaubas and de Moss, fear
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and madness. Death himself marches back to the black Crape cavern,
and he pauses beside me to lay his icy fingers
upon my arm. This is the end of the world,
and the people that you might have mistaken for your
very selves. Honor us at last with your silence at
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the end, and pray, friends of Earth. Pray not for us,
for that is too late. Pray for yourselves.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Quiet. Please, you have.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Listened to Quiet Poise, which is written and directed by
Willis Cooper. The man who spoke to you was Ernest
Chapel and others in the cast where Floyd Buckley as Krogue,
Vinton Hayworth's Dale a lot of Stabisky is Ray Mona was.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Played by Claudia Morgan. This is Ernest Chapel.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Music for Quiet Please is by Albert Berman. This present
series of Pie Please comes to an end with this broadcast.
After more than two years, we've enjoyed bringing the stories
to you. Thanks for your comments. My personal gratitude to
my friend and associate Bill Cooper for his writing, consul
and cooperation.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Here he is Bill.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Cooper, Thank you for listening to Quiet Please. Thank you Chapping,
Thank you Bill mccledeck, Thank you, Breg Berman, thank you
Bob Docherty, and thank you our new people. I hope
we'll meet against some cast poor and I was interested the.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Quiet Please themes based on the second movement of the
sas I find you minor, simply so the last time.
This is Theirst Chapel saying quietly ours h.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company.
Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper At which features Ernest Chappell.
Your Quiet Please story for Tonight takes its name from
the title of the series, Quiet Please. There are books left,
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many books, and I suppose I have read them all.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
I remember things too. I remember a long white road.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Between the shoulders of the hills and the distant clusters
of the live oaks, against the uplands beyond, and the wide,
light blue of the sky. There was a wind that
wandered the edges of the hills, that brought the salt
smell of the sea, so that it mingled with the
loamy scent of the grass, and made a perfume that
I have not smelt in so many years. There was
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a great plain where the hills fell away in tumbled,
rocky magnificence.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
The plain all cutted the green and brown and.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yellowing squares, and a little stream with bridges of stone,
that strolled its way across the wide plain and sparkled
at last into the distant western ocean.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
There was life on the.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Hills and on the plains, the field beasts that moved
serenely through the pleasant grasses and rested at noon under
the shadowed kindness of the green, gray oaks. There were
men and cheerful women in the white walled houses where
the road curled, and the children that played noisily and
sweetly in the cottage dooryards.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
I long since dust.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Shall I tell you of the graceful beaches, For the
sound of the surf was a measured, majestic melody we
thought would never cease. Shall I speak of the great
ships prone upon the breast of the ocean, the ships
that are seen no more? Would you hear of the
wind whipt nights, and the lightning in the forests, and
the gentle rain in the dark time?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Would you remember? Do not forget? I remember I alone.
Remember this was a temple. From this, the place dedicated
to the arts.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
From there were the waves that upon the beach, The
shattered walls of storm we made remained to mock us.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And there where the white road was is the desolation.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
The winds died down, and the sun waves, and the
moon is sickly. Yet I remember the lights on the hillsides,
and the stars above, and wheeling their ancient way across
the sky. There was a day when I could name
them all, they seem very far away tonight, an taris
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and better goose now deboraon Docturus and began procyon.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
In these days, Orion the mighty hundred.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Draws away from us, and the glory of Berenice's hairs
bind in the heavens. I would welcome the sound of
the thunder again on the horizon. But all the manifestations
of nature are ended, and only the twilight of eternity
remains above the bleakness. I would welcome the voice of
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a hungry wolf, even this night, with a hiss of
the serpents that once we hated, that once we trampled upon.
I would welcome even the voice of old Crogue, and
listen with delight, and laugh happily to hear him tell
again the schemes he dreamed brought us to this.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
That men cannot live without wars amongst themselves, Why should
not we be the ones to win the war? Every
man plots against every other, and men speak of honor
and laws and fair fighting.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
But if the war is to be won, they do
away with fairness and honor, and let us win and.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Be the master.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
And they are slaves, yes, I could laugh to hear
that voice, and to see those hard black eyes glitter
again in.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
The light of the little ants.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I could take old Krog and lift him up and say,
look upon your work, old Krog, your work.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
And mine, and the work of all of those who
could not live without wars.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
The Krog is dust and may not speak, and for
a little time while I live, the dust shall speak
its final words to those who would listen. It was
a fair world, our world, and I would not have
you believe at all who dwelt in it were like
old Kruge, plotting wars.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And seeding the countrysides with a discontent.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
We knew love to in all the virtues, some of
them we even practiced. I am old now, and my
speech is set in somber ways, for I've looked on
some of the things for long.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
But there was a time when I was young in
this very world, and my speech was the speech.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Of the young of every world, careless, gay, happy.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And there was one whose speech was like mine.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Young and gay and very dear to me, Morna. There
was a night on the shores of a lake when
there was music, in laughter and light Somewhere in the
distance and we sat alone together, and I remember I
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would speak, but the morning I laid a hand on
my lips and laughing.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
And small quiet, and.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
For a long time it was only the music, and
we watched the stars.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Told her you love me?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Silly question, Julia, what do you think?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
You know what I think? What? I don't think? You
love me very much? You don't if you love me,
you was kiss me.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
I don't lean over this way?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Why you can see it?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Sweet?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
You hear the one one of the kids.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Well, I don't anymore, alright.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Just for that, you're going to get kissed. I'm here.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Oh look how your m thing miney quieter place like
what you do?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I just don't any words to tell you on 'em.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Then the music began again, and we sat silently, and
the stars moved above us.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
The stars are so beautiful to night.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
They're not all stars?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
What what are they means? Some of the planets, Oh
my god, you suppose there are people and some of
the other planet m probably Earth that's the nearest one,
isn't it. And I think so you suppose there are
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people there, I wouldn't know people that look like us.
And the have music and a night like that.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Nobody on earth good have a night like this.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
No, I mean it to m You suppose they have
houses and automobiles and wonderful stories like ours, and and
they have babies like we do and everything, and.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
They're probably eighty feet calling him six times and sixteen hours.
Oh no, no, Well, some day they'll come rory on
a space that isn't terrific, makes spaceships and disintegrator.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Builds and depart, and we'll say boat and they'll all
turn around and go right back where they came from.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Maybe they will, and maybe they won't.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
What would we do if they invaded us the rst time?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Fight?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Why don't we're not alive when it happened? Yes?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Or do I?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Oh? Maybe they be right?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Don't kid yourself about that.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
I wonder what they call our world?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Why? Probably the same thing we do? May?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Well?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Why not? After all? It is Mars, isn't it. Oh No,
we were not eighty feet tall II there.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
We did not have six arms or sixteen eyes, and
we didn't dream of conquering.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Your world either. We were like you.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
We were human beings too, and we lived and loved
and worked and died very much as you do.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Look upon your own earth. If you would see us
as we were, stand at your window to night, and
look out upon the.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Lights of your fellow beings homes, look upon the faces
of your sleeping children, and.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
See the reflection of ours.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Let your mind's eye wander across your oceans, beyond your mouth,
and see all the lights of the world and its darknesses,
and the.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Sun rising again beyond.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Let your thoughts dwell upon the people of your earth,
and you shall know us as we were. Not a
happier in the matter, not a better, no worse. Oh
crog the prophet of war muttering away a disaster, might
be one of your own Marna, with her golden hair and.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Her laughing eyes.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Might be the girl you passed unseeing in the street
this afternoon, and the triumph LARTs to a long bed
general brooding above a little park in the city, where
children race and shout. Might be the one who stood
out the city in another world, one hundred yards from
where I speak to you, and here no stone remains
(11:08):
upon another Old Krogue has said that wars are inevitable?
Have you found it so? In the years when I
was a reported for a great newspaper. I sat in
his study and heard him speak to us. Concern us
to all.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Our world is written from the standpoint of the winners
of the wars, and thus wars.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Are essential to the progress of the race. Had our
enemies won in the last war, then their cause would
have proved the just one, and we, by losing, would
have been in the wrong. For future events would then
have shaped themselves upon the faces of their winning, and
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the decision would have been irrevtable, would be cheap, our
nation's bid for leadership forgotten, and thus it will always be.
Then there was silence in my room for a little time,
and at last I spoke.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Doctor krog I said.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Dr krog.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Well Son.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Dtor Krogue.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Fifty years ago we fought a war. Were we right?
We won, and.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
By winning we charted the course of history in the
fifty years since. Had they won, the last fifty years might.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Have been very different. And which is right? What is right? Son?
And what is wrong?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
And then another war came against another nation, and the
ones we had defeated before were allied with us, and
no Crow made notes in a great black book that
was one day to be published to all our world,
and no man's eyes of his have seen it.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
But the sands are running out. Let me speak of
the things that have.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Perished, posities where people worked at a hundred occupations, and
the muddy brown slums of the cities.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
In the great green parks. Go up tomorrow in your
own city, and such your feet upon the smooth concrete.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Of the sidewalk, See the gleaming windows and marvel at
the wonders within them that you men have created. Touch
the garment of the passer by, and joy to know
that this too, this humble thing, man is created. And
know that I too have done these things, and that
I have seen man destroy them, and that I helped.
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Do you know the good black smell of the mold
of the earth in the springtime? Fill your heart leaped
at the first green shoots of a bouty that lies
in that earth. Have you seen the lilies and heard
the bells of your churches? The bells rang in my
world once the flowers boomed, and men laughed and sang
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and hated. We have run our course, the course we chose,
back to the enough of the dust from.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Which we sprang. And there was another time.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
When Manna and I had been married for many years,
and the war that had raged across our world had
at last flickered out and died. We sat long at
table at night, silently featureless, dreaming of a world purged
by iron sword and full again at the promise of peace.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
And perhaps happiness.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Oh, I'm glad you didn't have to go to us.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I suppose I shouldn't say so, but I am too.
You're not a coward to her right, I don't think
I am warner. But no, we can get started all
(15:26):
over again, and.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
We need so many things we haven't been able to get.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I can hardly wait to go shining.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Well, at least we can afford them, some of 'em.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
It's just a shame, isn't what. I hate those people,
the things they've done to us, All those boys dead
in our cities, Nash. No, they lost the water though,
and we killed him.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yea, go, yes, we did.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
We should have killed 'em all quiet?
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Please did? All right?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
You've always say that though to shock me up, befo.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
It helps, doesn't it? Well?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I suppose if we could have only said it to
them when the war started, Quiet priests, they have gone away.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
We've said it all right, only in a different way.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yes, you'll be quiet for a long time, some of
'em and some of us. Who's that? Yeah, I know
a good way to find out. Will you go? H Well,
hello to Bail.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Why are you, Dail? When did you get back?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Just now? Who I am? Na? I am home?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Great to see your boy always wonder Oh excuse me,
well I wondered when you were going to pay attention
I was to see you.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
I'm sorry, Well, who I want you to meet my bike?
How wonderful?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Why? Ray? This is my sister Morning and her husband,
my brother in law Tor.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Why are you doing? Thank you? Thank you, it's so
nice to know Dave.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Well, come in, come on.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Oh, I'm so glad to see your day.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
And go ahead and thank you. We haven't we haven't
heard from you for so long.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Tail.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
We were beginning to get work.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
I was all right, didn't get a scratch? All right? Hey,
face looks not the same?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Kay? Where's old Chef? He died last summer Dale? Oh
I'm sorry about that. He was the greatest dog in
the world. Right, Well.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Have you had wouldn't you like some coffee room? I
would love it? Make some fresh No, this would be fine.
I'm finding in Holt again. You used to coffee again?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Well? How was the Wardale? I got all the war
I want?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Oh that coffee dance? Thank your sister? Oh god, I
she hasn't had much coffee in the last seven years.
Wh why are you poor thing? Why not Dale? Why
hasn't she had coffee? I'd better tell him?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Do you tell us what? Well? Ray was one of
our enemies? What do you mean by that? Dale? Was she? Yes?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Should we go dance?
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Thanks for the coffee, Runner?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Or where are you going? Sister?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
My ship town sister?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Do you think i'd my brand's new sister in law
of my house? Come on, let's go make some fresh
coffee latime?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
And in the early hours of the morning, I was
awakened by mornings sobbing.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
I put my arm around her. Oh that's poor child.
They actually thought we were going to turn her und
Oh sto hkan people think the dreadful thoughts of us,
And she's so sweet. No.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I have never solved the problem either why people can
love individually and hate collectively. And the children of Ray
and Dale were very dear to me, no different from
the other children who played with him in our yard,
who went to school with them, were in history with them.
I suppose it's only strange as we hated, for Ray
was the daughter of a nation we had fought bitterly with.
(20:07):
Yet when our friends became acquainted, whether they too grew
to love her. And some of those who wept most
bitterly at her funeral were the ones who at first
had pointed her out as the enemy woman. Well, Krogue said,
wars are inevitable. Perhaps they are. There has never been
(20:28):
a year in all the thousand centuries of our recorded
history when there has not been a war in some
part of our planet. And always history told us might
have been striving for a means to end it. A
war to end war, they said, A war to end war.
They achieved it. They ended everything. Wars had grown more
(20:58):
and more destructive, and at last men laid wicked fingers
upon secrets that were not for men. To all men
of all was pride at the locks that nature set
upon our deepest secrets, seeking the power that was never
intended for them. And step by tedious step they came
to the final awful knowledge, to the very corridor of
creation and of destruction. Ours was a fair world I said,
(21:25):
there was beauty in everything, Beauty in the mornings and
in the red sunsets, Beauty in the long low hills
and the mountains that bred themselves majestically aloof above us.
And beauty too, and the humble things of our world,
the the simple, unnoticed things that had haunt my memory tonight,
(21:49):
the turning wheel and the flight of a bird, the
sound of a train whistled in the night, the rust
of the wind in the trees, and unforgettably the voices
of people, the voice of all Kroger.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
No, we have the supreme weapon. There is no defense,
and no.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Leste who will bring us undisputed mastery of all the planets.
But why should we be masters of the world? Why
should any one people be the masters? Is it not
written how good and how pleasant it is for brethrens
dwell together in unity?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
And said that cannot then practice it? And the voice
of Warner.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
There will never be any more war after this next winter.
Every one of our enemies will be destroyed, and we'll
live happily ever after.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Nor Mourner, there never will be warm again. There never
will be anything again.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
For now more, No no men have platted against the
green hillsides and the towering mountains. They have declared war
upon the flowers and the grass and the forests. They
have made our planet an offer on which to sacrifice
us all. In the voice of Dale, I'll not go
to war again. If they bring it to me, I'll fight.
(23:25):
But they'll have to bring it to me.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
They brought it to your Dale.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
They brought it to your very home, to your doorstep,
to the gay, little blue and white curtains at your windows.
And you died before you knew it. In the voice
of Ray, the displaced person, the alien and a strange land.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Who is my enemy?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Now?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
There was my enemy once? And you and Manna you
were my own people, as surely as if I had
been grown among you. Who will be my enemy? When
this new wars tom.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
You will have no enemy.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Ray, What I will be not left to hate or
to love. Fortunate for you that you died before the
war came. Your last sight was of the faces of
those who loved you, and my own voice speaking to
you at long last, remembering the thoughts we had of you,
(24:34):
of towering, eighty foot giants swarming down upon us out
of the cold, black reaches of space, seeking to prey
upon us and conquer us, and at last destroy us.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Did you have thoughts of us as demons too?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Did you think, because we were another world, we must
be monsters rabbining for your blood.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
We were not.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
We were people like you, older perhaps, but with the
the same instincts you have, the very same. We glowed
in the summertime, in the white winters. We loved individually
and hated collectively as you do. We lived, we fought,
(25:16):
we died. Ari astronomers have watched us for so many years,
speculating on the possibility of life here. Well, there was life.
Great cities, wide, peaceful farms, tall lands holding back the
might of great rivers, great deserts flowering in the spring,
with all the dazzling lavishness that can be packed into
(25:37):
a brief span of life.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
We had rivers and oceans and lakes, forests and deep.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Valleys, great monuments to our dead, giant buildings to house
our living. We had music and books, and great schools
and statesmen. Ari astronomers tell you of the canals that
cover our planet. I saw those canals created. I saw
(26:03):
the solid earth splash and boil beneath me. I saw
the mountains melt into rivers of molten fiery stone. I
saw a great twenty mushrooms of cloudy rough from the
plural of the ocean.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
And I smelt destruction near at hand.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Yes, there will be no more wars on our planet.
There is only silence and cold.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Than dust.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
There was ONTs of people in the civilization. There is
only one man. I tore the last man of Mars
to say the last words. The two moons that circle
our planet are rising now, Phaubas and de Moss, fear
(26:50):
and madness. Death himself marches back to the black Crape cavern,
and he pauses beside me to lay his icy fingers
upon my arm. This is the end of the world,
and the people that you might have mistaken for your
very selves. Honor us at last with your silence at
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the end, and pray, friends of Earth. Pray not for us,
for that is too late. Pray for yourselves.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Quiet. Please, you have.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Listened to Quiet Poise, which is written and directed by
Willis Cooper. The man who spoke to you was Ernest
Chapel and others in the cast where Floyd Buckley as Krogue,
Vinton Hayworth's Dale a lot of Stabisky is Ray Mona was.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Played by Claudia Morgan. This is Ernest Chapel.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Music for Quiet Please is by Albert Berman. This present
series of Pie Please comes to an end with this broadcast.
After more than two years, we've enjoyed bringing the stories
to you. Thanks for your comments. My personal gratitude to
my friend and associate Bill Cooper for his writing, consul
and cooperation.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Here he is Bill.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Cooper, Thank you for listening to Quiet Please. Thank you Chapping,
Thank you Bill mccledeck, Thank you, Breg Berman, thank you
Bob Docherty, and thank you our new people. I hope
we'll meet against some cast poor and I was interested the.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Quiet Please themes based on the second movement of the
sas I find you minor, simply so the last time.
This is Theirst Chapel saying quietly ours h.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company.
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