July 23, 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, Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
M The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Pleas, which is
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written and directed by Willis Cooper and which features Ernest Chappell.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Quiet Pleas for.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Today is called Other Side of the Stars.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I remember Mount Wilson in a hundred inch telescope, and
I remember the astronomer Van Dyke in the little house
of galvanized Iron on the very edge of the summit.
That was the house that had nothing inside it, the
absence of everything. Well, I have no explanation of it.
I think perhaps Van Dyke knew something about it up
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there where he used to be able to look down
at night on the lights of six dozens cities and towns.
You could look up too, with the stars and the
planets that seemed so tantalizingly close above you, if you
wondered about them, Well, maybe Van Dyke might tell you
about them. Maybe remember that flying sauce of Craze about
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a year ago. You know, Vandyke could probably tell you
something about that too, if if you wanted to. I uh,
I don't know why I'm laughing. I've got plenty of
reason not to laugh. Oh, don't you grin at me?
You and I are both in the same boat, you
and I and everybody else up that old creek without
or his friend. You know, I have another refugee from
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Stupefying Stories magazine. My name is in glab gloje XP
threet fourteen and tars Tarki's jetakas the Tharks has still
at your Riceborough's personal property. As far as I'm concerned,
I'm not even an eagle. I'd neither of those mad
stylus were the two heads, and I don't take that fact.
Maybe I have got two hits, But I know something
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you don't know yet. I know what's out there on
the other side of the stars. Or can I say
I know what wants?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Excuse me? What do you want? Young man? Excuse me?
I combarging an here? Isn't that on the air sign
turned down out there?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Well, can't people see we're busy in here? Can't you
do something about keeping 'em out of here? I've only
got a all right, all right? Where was I I said?
I know what was on the other side of the stars,
and I know where it is now, or I think
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I know. That's what I'm here to tell you about.
If people will stop bursting in here while I'm talking.
Get out of here you. I'm sorry, Well, wait a minute,
you might just welcome in and hear what I've got
to say in here. You'll keep opening and shutting that door.
Sit down there, none o there there said, don't keep quiet? Yes, sir,
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who are you anyway? I'm I'm Dorothy's brother. What's your name?
I'm her brother, Steve. She did have a brother named Steve. Gee.
That's me.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
You know what do you want?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
I just want to hear this? What you know? What
you're going to say? How did you know I was?
I heard of it. I've known Dorothy for more than
twenty years. She your name is Esau, isn't it? Yes, Lisa,
excuse me. I met Dorothy more than twenty years ago.
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I met her when I was at Peach Spring, Arizona,
before I started off with from the Oppapai Indian Company
looking for the well the four Steed here was born.
Uh huh, Pete Springs twenty years ago. I don't know
what it's like now. I haven't been there since nineteen
twenty eight September. Then it was a stop off for
the transcontinental buses such as they were general store on
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the edge of the Oppipi Reservation, and they were so
proud of their new frigid are Now right alongside the
general store was a corral where the Indian cowboys seemed
all was tangling with a raw back range cattle. Now
pretty far away from the Grand Canyon. Remember it well
there as they told me about the well, I was
looking for the gold, of course, But the old map
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that showed where the well was, the old map of
the Spanish words and the mark like the planet suttern
frompleep of rings marked the Posso Telcilo well of the heavens,
well of the sky. Now the other words alongside it,
and the crabbed soldier's handwriting.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
YEA know the ord well he flopped up full of
gold and silver, hole of gold and silver.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
When I was the first man who'd seen that map
since and I think it was fifteen forty two, maybe
fifteen forty three. Wasn't anybody in the world that's seen
her for nearly four hundred years till I got hold
of went looking for it.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
For the gold was silver?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Was that the whale where Dorothy got off the bus
from Los Angeles? When I did there at Pete Springs,
I wasn't a boarder when it started off again, and
that it was she Then she went with me looking
for the Will of the Skies. Yeah, it was just
that simple. Dorothy was working for some museum. She was
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investigating prehistoric Indian dwelling. Uh huh. She was going north
and so was I. All it was full rides. We
been walking about an hour through the mesquite and talking.
It was a rattlesnake, big sidewinder. Dorothy produced a gun
from somewhere and very casually shot his head off at
fifteen feet. I stopped talking, I remember, and Dorothy put
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away the gun. I know how to use the gun,
she said, very coolly, See what I mean I saw. Yeah, well,
let's get on that sounds of wasting there. There wasn't
any gold, and there wasn't any silver in the Well
of the Stars. You found that out right away. We
found that out right away. There wasn't anything except the skeleton.
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Found some very well preserved pieces of sixteenth century armor,
including a beautifully and graved steel cap. Maria and I
I think they call 'em Morien and the sword rape
your sorted with a basket hilt. You seen 'em in the pictures.
Why did you tell it all? I'm going to I
think it would be bitter. If you don't mind, I
don't tell it at all. I'll tell it all about
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the music. I've got to tell about the music, Dorothy said.
When she came up, they were pretty cut to the
sides of the wind. She went down first, because she
said she wasn't as heavy as I and I could
hold a rope better in case she fell. She went
down as far as the rope would reach, about fifteen
feet in the bottom. She stayed down quite awhile. Finally,
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when she came up, she said she heard music down there,
didn't you. I wish you'd stop prompting me. Excuse me,
that was all just music. You know, a hole in
the ground that was at least four hundred years old
and nobody had seen since fifteen forty two or three,
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nearly a hundred feet deep. Music, that's all just music.
You know how far away the stars are? The stars,
not the planets. The planets are close the planets of
our son, I mean the stars and your father. There's
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a far away that astronomers measure the distance to them
and what they call light years. Just to make it simpler,
the light year. Well, light travels a hundred and eighty
six thousand miles a second. A second a hundred and
eighty six thousand miles. There isn't any such distance, not
on this Earth anyway, around twenty five thousand miles around
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the Earth at the equator. Thus the farthest you can
go if you're a human being. Anyway, Try and think
of a hundred and eighty six thousand miles. Then you
multiply that by sixty for the distance light travels in
a minute. Then by sixty again, and that's how far
it travels in an hour, just light. See. Then if
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you can still figure, multiply that by twenty four that's
the distance light travels in one day, and three hundred
and sixty five times that is how far it travels
in a year. That's a light year. In own number,
it was five trillion, eight hundred and twenty nine billion,
one hundred ninety six million miles. And the nearest star
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is more than four times that far away. Alpha Centauri
is its name. You could look at it some night
maybe and the light you see started from there more
than four years ago. Alpha might be right purple. Now
you wouldn't know it not for four years. That's what Undy,
like the astronomer, told me. And then, like the astronomer,
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I'll just about everything the wells you were talking about
the well, right, and Dorothy and I have to tell
the whole story. Don't pardon me on, I mean parton.
You just shut up Dorothy's brother, who just keep still
and don't say anything. The hand of that clock just
keeps going around. The first thing I knowught do. It
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was dark night when I finally climbed up out of
the well. It was just like Dorothy said. It was
the rope it was too short to.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Get all the way to the bottom.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
And when I came up, it was dark, and there
wasn't a sound to be heard. Cause I once in
a while the cloudia howling somewhere way off in the distance.
The music. Tell me about the music. I heard the
music too while I was done in the world.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
I didn't say.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Anything for a couple of minutes after I climbed out
over the rim. Finally, Dorothy side and the dark did
you hear it?
Speaker 5 (10:24):
I thought for a minute.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I wondered if I had heard it very And you see,
there wasn't no sound up there on the ground. Like
I said, and I thought, per a minute. Finally I said, yes, yes,
I said, I heard it too. I don't hear it now, though,
I said, listen, do you.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
No, I don't hear anything.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Oh what do you suppose?
Speaker 4 (10:54):
I don't know. I never heard anything like it before?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Back?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Well? Maybe no, it wasn't the echo came from where?
Oh a ball? Uh?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Nothing here to make any music though? Indians?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Uh huh? Not like that? Eeso?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Why throw the fire?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:22):
I guess I better.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Oh well.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Listen what well? Listen like it? I'll just not scared,
so am I? Oh you've got that gun? I don't.
I'm not sure that the gun would be much used?
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Do you think there's something down there?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I don't know. Maybe we ought to go back to Pepe.
Spring might break around next.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
To the dark.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
I don't know which way it is either go by
the star. No, I'm cold bank it.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
You got blankets to it?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:14):
You some What what do you think it? Oh? Not?
What look there at the mouth of the glound.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
What you see a a kind of light?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
No, don't look right at it, look kind up to
one side.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
I do you see anything?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
See?
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Do you hear anything?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Do you.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Do your nothing?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Oh, listen, might hear something.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Something in the wild? Nothing down here, nothing but that
skeleton in the hodor.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
And when the ice had finally melted away from my
heart and I could move it last, I ate my
fast light toward the well's mouth, and in the bright
beam I saw a poor, harmless lizard choking its little
life away half a foot from the lip of the well.
And Dorothy and I looked at each other in the dark.
I guess she laughed first. In a minute, we were
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both practically in hysterics of the senseless fright that had
gripped us a moment before. Finally, Dorothy said, I'm going
to sleep, pe pulled the blanket up over her head
lean back against the rock. After a while I did too,
still chuckling to myself. But that just before I lifted
off to sleep, I looked up at the stars and
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they said, I'm so horribly close to us. And then
I was asleep, and I dreamed of the music that
came either from them or from the well that yawned
there beside us. And when I woke up, I was
all alone. It wasn't the sign of anybody, as far
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as I could see them. I've never seen darky from
that page of it, but you could talk to it. Well,
it gus. I've talked to her, Yes, I've talked to her.
That's what I wanted to tell about. And like the
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astronomer told me a lot of things when I talked
to him, and Dyke knew what that well was, and
he knew about the music, he knew where that came from.
To music, Yeah, I had better tell you about it.
I never heard of music quite like before. I couldn't
place it. Sounded something like, well, like somebody talking on me.
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Whoever it was used music instead of words. He would
almost understand it. After a while, I did understand it.
Tell about trying to find don. The first thing I
thought about, of course, was she'd fallen. I wasn't very
enthusiastic about climbing down on that well, naturally, but there
was nothing else to do. She wasn't down there. The
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skeleton was still there on the bottom of the well,
and when I got to the end of the rope
I jumped on down wasn't anything at all except those
old bones and the pieces of armory he'd worn when
he was alive. I earn at last in the light
of my flashlight. Way down there a hammered silver bracelet,
A hammered silver bracelet I'd seen a day before on
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Drothy's left wrist.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
But there was.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Something else down there? What what did you say? Something else?
How did you know? Uh? I know, yes, there was
something else. I didn't know it at the time. If
i'd known it was there, but I didn't. I didn't
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know about it till after I talked to Vandyking. It
was too late. I should've known it. All falls in
the place now the name of the place sposed, have done?
See it? A little well of diskise the music that
came from nowhere? I know what you mean, but I
don't think they do. Excuse me.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
We think about this Earth.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
We think it's the most important place in the Solar system.
It isn't. The solar system is not very important to either. Well,
you keep quiet.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
I'm sorry now.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
The Solar system isn't very important either. It's only a
tiny little bit of the universe. The universe. It's play.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Oh, We're all part of what we call.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
The Milky Way. Billions and billions of universes as far
as anybody could see. What the biggest telescope ever invented.
In the people in the other universes, they're just as
ignorant of us as we are of them, just as uninterested,
except a few of the science. Now, let's not talk
like one of those magazines, young men, uh Steve. The
chances of an intelligent being from another universe, even seeing
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is one of ours, is pretty remote. But certainly there
are intelligent beings in the other universes, don't they're so
self important.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
All.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
They're not necessarily like us. They aren't like us. As
a matter of fact, why should they be?
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Who were?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
We just leave it like that. There are intelligences other
than the so called human race hate us. Don't be silly.
Most of 'em don't know we exist. Afraid of us,
it's silly. A yeah, the well, that's right, the well.
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You don't think the so called human race dug that well? Brad,
You don't flatter yourself that that music was produced by
human beings, do you? You don't think Darthy disappeared through
any human beans, do you? The only answer in each
case is no, the human race didn't have anything to
do with it.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
Why the thing told me? The thing at the bottom
of the well.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
The intelligence from the other side of the Star's friend
Van Dyke told me all about it, and Dyke knows
an awful lot. Sometimes I think that Dyke is not human.
How would any human being figure it all out and
be so rights because he's right, all right? Tell it
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the well Van Dyke said, it was a kind of telescope. Yeah,
telescope isn't the right word, but it was, uh the
same thing as a telescope, only well, you know, astronomers.
Just look at the stars, the silent stars, the stars
that never think any sound. You just see them. You
don't hear them, not if you hit a telescope for sound.
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I should be starting be silent. I'll tell you something
they're not, but just so far away we can't hear 'em.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Yeah, talk what you want about.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I think got atmosphere and stuff to be able to
hear sound. That's human reasoning. And these people, the stars,
they know one or two things we don't know stars.
He certainly the stars are alive. Certainly what's on the
other side of 'em is alive.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Look well right ahead and laugh.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I don't care what you think. You'll find out different
when you'll get to wave see you about story.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
I have a couple of other.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Things to say. First, Steve then doing me. It was
twenty years ago that I first saw the Well of
the Skies and heard the music. And it took me
sixteen years nearly to get the story all wrapped up
from Van Dyke and from my own researches. I even
took Van Dyke to see the well. He listened to
the music and he laughed. You don't know Vandyke, you
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never heard him laugh. M Use me the creeps.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
O.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
More than six years ago he gave me the machine
you've heard of, the electric telegraph machine that does something
about recording fought waves, brain waves works, really scientific, hard facts.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
All that.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
This thing is something like an electric teleograph. Van Dyke said,
Put on these airphones, turn.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
It down, watch the dials.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
That's all. Understand You use it, that's right. Understand the
music translates it and the thoughts translates it, so you
can understand it. The music, the conversation that comes from
the stars and the other side of the stars, and.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
From the thing in the well. The thing in the well.
And I told me what to look for about this
is in television.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
You can see it. Those aren't me everywhere I go? Well,
you can hear it anyway. That's it. That's the first
intelligent thing from the stars, the other side of the
stars that anybody on this earth has ever encountered. Just
a little spears like a ball. There's like an egg
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kind of except it's not hard and brittle like an egg,
worn to the touch, moves, sinks.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Does whatever it wants.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
That's two talks by music. Oh. I don't know what's
more about it except it's alive, very highly alive. Tells
me it's supposed to plant light, you know, our kind.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Of life, kind of.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Kind of grayish green, very undistinguished. To look at it
do when it came from the star off for Centauri,
I told you off a centaurious four light years away.
Took four years for this thing to get here at
the speed of light a hundred and eighty six thousand
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miles a second, and there to study. That's right here
to stay, found this earth by a share accident. Curious abouts.
Do anything it wants. It can do anything you wants to.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
It.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
They did like to hear it all the microphon over
her firstied there that's it. I think, well, that's it.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Wait y, yeah, of course I have answer that, like you.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Not.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Your heresy is a machine now and you can do
it and.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
You can understand what it says. That's the second I
turned out of the team.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Stay moving a microphone.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
Other good quessure to be your phones.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
That's so No, that's the second for the goods doing nothing,
we will justice dial listen, listen you.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
So I've told you almost enough, but there are still
allowed to be large ones. I have and it very
useful to absolve Dorothy. It is very difficult for me
to form impressions of you human beings without much closer contact,
without making your physical being a part of my own.
There was only one other and all the time since
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I came to this universe a Spanish and then when
you and Dorothy came, it was necessary to know more
about current conditions. All I knew about human beings was
what I found in the mind of the Spanish soldier.
You have made a few steps forward since his time.
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The rest of us will be interested.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
With the microphone. Steve, you see, that's what became of Dorothy.
Steve did no, oh, Steve, Dorothy isn't dead. Dorothy's a
part of that just like we're all going to be
a part of the others. Excuse me, I knew how
a lot of California. Two weeks ago and Dyke and
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he still at Mount Wilson. He wouldn't go to Palamarth
or something about the Mount Wilson and the hundred inch
telescope and the little house on the mount the top
that's got nothing in it. I told you about that.
And then Dyke doesn't wanna leave. And Dyke showed me
a photograph made through a hundred inch on the third
of March, and let me show it to you. Steve.
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Stars we describe as Steve, this picture was made to
an out of centaury. Yeah, that's uh, that's out of centaury.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
There they're there.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
He describe what you see, Steve. Hi, Oh, no, go stars,
millions of stars m and this cloud, a cloud blotting
out the stars from the sixth of the light year
away two months ago, sixth of the light year. Now
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this photograph they April seventh, Steeve, stee the cloud, it's bigger,
the trump of the light here, closer to the earth.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Stieve they're coming here. I do not put the microphone
over here.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Closer, Yeah, by the machine. You'll listen.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Now.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Here is the word from the other side of the stars.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Here is the word from the beings, the intelligences, the
things from Oppersentuti listen.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Welcome, Welcome to this place. Welcome to all of you.
This place they call the earth.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
It is not bad.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
It is an interesting place. I am glad you have
come after all this time. The inhabitants will give us
no trouble whatever they are very I mean very a
grade of intelligence, is it? What can we do?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I mean it's too late now, Steve, much too late,
at the speed of light, or less than a day
away at day from the other side of the star.
That's right, Steve had come to take over the ear.
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The tide of today's Quiet Please story was the other
side of the Stars.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
It was written and directed by Willis Cooper, and the
man who spoke to you was Ernest Truffle.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
And Jane White named Dorothy.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
The young man was Mark Forbes.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
As usual music for Quiet Please, it's my Albert Breman.
Not for a word about next week?
Speaker 5 (28:07):
All righted?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Director Willis Cooper, thank you for listening to Criet Please
next week I have a love story for for a change.
It's called the Little mornings, and it's all the next week.
At the same time, I am quietly yours forness chupper.
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Quiet, Please, Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
M The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Pleas, which is
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written and directed by Willis Cooper and which features Ernest Chappell.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Quiet Pleas for.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Today is called Other Side of the Stars.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I remember Mount Wilson in a hundred inch telescope, and
I remember the astronomer Van Dyke in the little house
of galvanized Iron on the very edge of the summit.
That was the house that had nothing inside it, the
absence of everything. Well, I have no explanation of it.
I think perhaps Van Dyke knew something about it up
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there where he used to be able to look down
at night on the lights of six dozens cities and towns.
You could look up too, with the stars and the
planets that seemed so tantalizingly close above you, if you
wondered about them, Well, maybe Van Dyke might tell you
about them. Maybe remember that flying sauce of Craze about
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a year ago. You know, Vandyke could probably tell you
something about that too, if if you wanted to. I uh,
I don't know why I'm laughing. I've got plenty of
reason not to laugh. Oh, don't you grin at me?
You and I are both in the same boat, you
and I and everybody else up that old creek without
or his friend. You know, I have another refugee from
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Stupefying Stories magazine. My name is in glab gloje XP
threet fourteen and tars Tarki's jetakas the Tharks has still
at your Riceborough's personal property. As far as I'm concerned,
I'm not even an eagle. I'd neither of those mad
stylus were the two heads, and I don't take that fact.
Maybe I have got two hits, But I know something
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you don't know yet. I know what's out there on
the other side of the stars. Or can I say
I know what wants?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Excuse me? What do you want? Young man? Excuse me?
I combarging an here? Isn't that on the air sign
turned down out there?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Well, can't people see we're busy in here? Can't you
do something about keeping 'em out of here? I've only
got a all right, all right? Where was I I said?
I know what was on the other side of the stars,
and I know where it is now, or I think
(02:58):
I know. That's what I'm here to tell you about.
If people will stop bursting in here while I'm talking.
Get out of here you. I'm sorry, Well, wait a minute,
you might just welcome in and hear what I've got
to say in here. You'll keep opening and shutting that door.
Sit down there, none o there there said, don't keep quiet? Yes, sir,
(03:19):
who are you anyway? I'm I'm Dorothy's brother. What's your name?
I'm her brother, Steve. She did have a brother named Steve. Gee.
That's me.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
You know what do you want?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
I just want to hear this? What you know? What
you're going to say? How did you know I was?
I heard of it. I've known Dorothy for more than
twenty years. She your name is Esau, isn't it? Yes, Lisa,
excuse me. I met Dorothy more than twenty years ago.
(03:58):
I met her when I was at Peach Spring, Arizona,
before I started off with from the Oppapai Indian Company
looking for the well the four Steed here was born.
Uh huh, Pete Springs twenty years ago. I don't know
what it's like now. I haven't been there since nineteen
twenty eight September. Then it was a stop off for
the transcontinental buses such as they were general store on
(04:21):
the edge of the Oppipi Reservation, and they were so
proud of their new frigid are Now right alongside the
general store was a corral where the Indian cowboys seemed
all was tangling with a raw back range cattle. Now
pretty far away from the Grand Canyon. Remember it well
there as they told me about the well, I was
looking for the gold, of course, But the old map
(04:41):
that showed where the well was, the old map of
the Spanish words and the mark like the planet suttern
frompleep of rings marked the Posso Telcilo well of the heavens,
well of the sky. Now the other words alongside it,
and the crabbed soldier's handwriting.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
YEA know the ord well he flopped up full of
gold and silver, hole of gold and silver.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
When I was the first man who'd seen that map
since and I think it was fifteen forty two, maybe
fifteen forty three. Wasn't anybody in the world that's seen
her for nearly four hundred years till I got hold
of went looking for it.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
For the gold was silver?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Was that the whale where Dorothy got off the bus
from Los Angeles? When I did there at Pete Springs,
I wasn't a boarder when it started off again, and
that it was she Then she went with me looking
for the Will of the Skies. Yeah, it was just
that simple. Dorothy was working for some museum. She was
(05:45):
investigating prehistoric Indian dwelling. Uh huh. She was going north
and so was I. All it was full rides. We
been walking about an hour through the mesquite and talking.
It was a rattlesnake, big sidewinder. Dorothy produced a gun
from somewhere and very casually shot his head off at
fifteen feet. I stopped talking, I remember, and Dorothy put
(06:09):
away the gun. I know how to use the gun,
she said, very coolly, See what I mean I saw. Yeah, well,
let's get on that sounds of wasting there. There wasn't
any gold, and there wasn't any silver in the Well
of the Stars. You found that out right away. We
found that out right away. There wasn't anything except the skeleton.
(06:35):
Found some very well preserved pieces of sixteenth century armor,
including a beautifully and graved steel cap. Maria and I
I think they call 'em Morien and the sword rape
your sorted with a basket hilt. You seen 'em in the pictures.
Why did you tell it all? I'm going to I
think it would be bitter. If you don't mind, I
don't tell it at all. I'll tell it all about
(06:55):
the music. I've got to tell about the music, Dorothy said.
When she came up, they were pretty cut to the
sides of the wind. She went down first, because she
said she wasn't as heavy as I and I could
hold a rope better in case she fell. She went
down as far as the rope would reach, about fifteen
feet in the bottom. She stayed down quite awhile. Finally,
(07:18):
when she came up, she said she heard music down there,
didn't you. I wish you'd stop prompting me. Excuse me,
that was all just music. You know, a hole in
the ground that was at least four hundred years old
and nobody had seen since fifteen forty two or three,
(07:41):
nearly a hundred feet deep. Music, that's all just music.
You know how far away the stars are? The stars,
not the planets. The planets are close the planets of
our son, I mean the stars and your father. There's
(08:03):
a far away that astronomers measure the distance to them
and what they call light years. Just to make it simpler,
the light year. Well, light travels a hundred and eighty
six thousand miles a second. A second a hundred and
eighty six thousand miles. There isn't any such distance, not
on this Earth anyway, around twenty five thousand miles around
(08:25):
the Earth at the equator. Thus the farthest you can
go if you're a human being. Anyway, Try and think
of a hundred and eighty six thousand miles. Then you
multiply that by sixty for the distance light travels in
a minute. Then by sixty again, and that's how far
it travels in an hour, just light. See. Then if
(08:47):
you can still figure, multiply that by twenty four that's
the distance light travels in one day, and three hundred
and sixty five times that is how far it travels
in a year. That's a light year. In own number,
it was five trillion, eight hundred and twenty nine billion,
one hundred ninety six million miles. And the nearest star
(09:07):
is more than four times that far away. Alpha Centauri
is its name. You could look at it some night
maybe and the light you see started from there more
than four years ago. Alpha might be right purple. Now
you wouldn't know it not for four years. That's what Undy,
like the astronomer, told me. And then, like the astronomer,
(09:29):
I'll just about everything the wells you were talking about
the well, right, and Dorothy and I have to tell
the whole story. Don't pardon me on, I mean parton.
You just shut up Dorothy's brother, who just keep still
and don't say anything. The hand of that clock just
keeps going around. The first thing I knowught do. It
(09:53):
was dark night when I finally climbed up out of
the well. It was just like Dorothy said. It was
the rope it was too short to.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Get all the way to the bottom.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
And when I came up, it was dark, and there
wasn't a sound to be heard. Cause I once in
a while the cloudia howling somewhere way off in the distance.
The music. Tell me about the music. I heard the
music too while I was done in the world.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
I didn't say.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Anything for a couple of minutes after I climbed out
over the rim. Finally, Dorothy side and the dark did
you hear it?
Speaker 5 (10:24):
I thought for a minute.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I wondered if I had heard it very And you see,
there wasn't no sound up there on the ground. Like
I said, and I thought, per a minute. Finally I said, yes, yes,
I said, I heard it too. I don't hear it now, though,
I said, listen, do you.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
No, I don't hear anything.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Oh what do you suppose?
Speaker 4 (10:54):
I don't know. I never heard anything like it before?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Back?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Well? Maybe no, it wasn't the echo came from where?
Oh a ball? Uh?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Nothing here to make any music though? Indians?
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Uh huh? Not like that? Eeso?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Why throw the fire?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:22):
I guess I better.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Oh well.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Listen what well? Listen like it? I'll just not scared,
so am I? Oh you've got that gun? I don't.
I'm not sure that the gun would be much used?
(11:51):
Do you think there's something down there?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I don't know. Maybe we ought to go back to Pepe.
Spring might break around next.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
To the dark.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
I don't know which way it is either go by
the star. No, I'm cold bank it.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
You got blankets to it?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:14):
You some What what do you think it? Oh? Not?
What look there at the mouth of the glound.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
What you see a a kind of light?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
No, don't look right at it, look kind up to
one side.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
I do you see anything?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
See?
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Do you hear anything?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Do you.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Do your nothing?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Oh, listen, might hear something.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Something in the wild? Nothing down here, nothing but that
skeleton in the hodor.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
And when the ice had finally melted away from my
heart and I could move it last, I ate my
fast light toward the well's mouth, and in the bright
beam I saw a poor, harmless lizard choking its little
life away half a foot from the lip of the well.
And Dorothy and I looked at each other in the dark.
I guess she laughed first. In a minute, we were
(13:36):
both practically in hysterics of the senseless fright that had
gripped us a moment before. Finally, Dorothy said, I'm going
to sleep, pe pulled the blanket up over her head
lean back against the rock. After a while I did too,
still chuckling to myself. But that just before I lifted
off to sleep, I looked up at the stars and
(13:59):
they said, I'm so horribly close to us. And then
I was asleep, and I dreamed of the music that
came either from them or from the well that yawned
there beside us. And when I woke up, I was
all alone. It wasn't the sign of anybody, as far
(14:19):
as I could see them. I've never seen darky from
that page of it, but you could talk to it. Well,
it gus. I've talked to her, Yes, I've talked to her.
That's what I wanted to tell about. And like the
(14:43):
astronomer told me a lot of things when I talked
to him, and Dyke knew what that well was, and
he knew about the music, he knew where that came from.
To music, Yeah, I had better tell you about it.
I never heard of music quite like before. I couldn't
place it. Sounded something like, well, like somebody talking on me.
(15:06):
Whoever it was used music instead of words. He would
almost understand it. After a while, I did understand it.
Tell about trying to find don. The first thing I
thought about, of course, was she'd fallen. I wasn't very
enthusiastic about climbing down on that well, naturally, but there
was nothing else to do. She wasn't down there. The
(15:29):
skeleton was still there on the bottom of the well,
and when I got to the end of the rope
I jumped on down wasn't anything at all except those
old bones and the pieces of armory he'd worn when
he was alive. I earn at last in the light
of my flashlight. Way down there a hammered silver bracelet,
A hammered silver bracelet I'd seen a day before on
(15:52):
Drothy's left wrist.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
But there was.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Something else down there? What what did you say? Something else?
How did you know? Uh? I know, yes, there was
something else. I didn't know it at the time. If
i'd known it was there, but I didn't. I didn't
(16:17):
know about it till after I talked to Vandyking. It
was too late. I should've known it. All falls in
the place now the name of the place sposed, have done?
See it? A little well of diskise the music that
came from nowhere? I know what you mean, but I
don't think they do. Excuse me.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
We think about this Earth.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
We think it's the most important place in the Solar system.
It isn't. The solar system is not very important to either. Well,
you keep quiet.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
I'm sorry now.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
The Solar system isn't very important either. It's only a
tiny little bit of the universe. The universe. It's play.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Oh, We're all part of what we call.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
The Milky Way. Billions and billions of universes as far
as anybody could see. What the biggest telescope ever invented.
In the people in the other universes, they're just as
ignorant of us as we are of them, just as uninterested,
except a few of the science. Now, let's not talk
like one of those magazines, young men, uh Steve. The
chances of an intelligent being from another universe, even seeing
(17:25):
is one of ours, is pretty remote. But certainly there
are intelligent beings in the other universes, don't they're so
self important.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
All.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
They're not necessarily like us. They aren't like us. As
a matter of fact, why should they be?
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Who were?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
We just leave it like that. There are intelligences other
than the so called human race hate us. Don't be silly.
Most of 'em don't know we exist. Afraid of us,
it's silly. A yeah, the well, that's right, the well.
(18:06):
You don't think the so called human race dug that well? Brad,
You don't flatter yourself that that music was produced by
human beings, do you? You don't think Darthy disappeared through
any human beans, do you? The only answer in each
case is no, the human race didn't have anything to
do with it.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
Why the thing told me? The thing at the bottom
of the well.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
The intelligence from the other side of the Star's friend
Van Dyke told me all about it, and Dyke knows
an awful lot. Sometimes I think that Dyke is not human.
How would any human being figure it all out and
be so rights because he's right, all right? Tell it
(18:59):
the well Van Dyke said, it was a kind of telescope. Yeah,
telescope isn't the right word, but it was, uh the
same thing as a telescope, only well, you know, astronomers.
Just look at the stars, the silent stars, the stars
that never think any sound. You just see them. You
don't hear them, not if you hit a telescope for sound.
(19:31):
I should be starting be silent. I'll tell you something
they're not, but just so far away we can't hear 'em.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Yeah, talk what you want about.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I think got atmosphere and stuff to be able to
hear sound. That's human reasoning. And these people, the stars,
they know one or two things we don't know stars.
He certainly the stars are alive. Certainly what's on the
other side of 'em is alive.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Look well right ahead and laugh.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I don't care what you think. You'll find out different
when you'll get to wave see you about story.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
I have a couple of other.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Things to say. First, Steve then doing me. It was
twenty years ago that I first saw the Well of
the Skies and heard the music. And it took me
sixteen years nearly to get the story all wrapped up
from Van Dyke and from my own researches. I even
took Van Dyke to see the well. He listened to
the music and he laughed. You don't know Vandyke, you
(20:32):
never heard him laugh. M Use me the creeps.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
O.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
More than six years ago he gave me the machine
you've heard of, the electric telegraph machine that does something
about recording fought waves, brain waves works, really scientific, hard facts.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
All that.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
This thing is something like an electric teleograph. Van Dyke said,
Put on these airphones, turn.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
It down, watch the dials.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
That's all. Understand You use it, that's right. Understand the
music translates it and the thoughts translates it, so you
can understand it. The music, the conversation that comes from
the stars and the other side of the stars, and.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
From the thing in the well. The thing in the well.
And I told me what to look for about this
is in television.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
You can see it. Those aren't me everywhere I go? Well,
you can hear it anyway. That's it. That's the first
intelligent thing from the stars, the other side of the
stars that anybody on this earth has ever encountered. Just
a little spears like a ball. There's like an egg
(21:52):
kind of except it's not hard and brittle like an egg,
worn to the touch, moves, sinks.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Does whatever it wants.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
That's two talks by music. Oh. I don't know what's
more about it except it's alive, very highly alive. Tells
me it's supposed to plant light, you know, our kind.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Of life, kind of.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Kind of grayish green, very undistinguished. To look at it
do when it came from the star off for Centauri,
I told you off a centaurious four light years away.
Took four years for this thing to get here at
the speed of light a hundred and eighty six thousand
(22:35):
miles a second, and there to study. That's right here
to stay, found this earth by a share accident. Curious abouts.
Do anything it wants. It can do anything you wants to.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
It.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
They did like to hear it all the microphon over
her firstied there that's it. I think, well, that's it.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Wait y, yeah, of course I have answer that, like you.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Not.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Your heresy is a machine now and you can do
it and.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
You can understand what it says. That's the second I
turned out of the team.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Stay moving a microphone.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
Other good quessure to be your phones.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
That's so No, that's the second for the goods doing nothing,
we will justice dial listen, listen you.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
So I've told you almost enough, but there are still
allowed to be large ones. I have and it very
useful to absolve Dorothy. It is very difficult for me
to form impressions of you human beings without much closer contact,
without making your physical being a part of my own.
There was only one other and all the time since
(24:17):
I came to this universe a Spanish and then when
you and Dorothy came, it was necessary to know more
about current conditions. All I knew about human beings was
what I found in the mind of the Spanish soldier.
You have made a few steps forward since his time.
(24:37):
The rest of us will be interested.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
With the microphone. Steve, you see, that's what became of Dorothy.
Steve did no, oh, Steve, Dorothy isn't dead. Dorothy's a
part of that just like we're all going to be
a part of the others. Excuse me, I knew how
a lot of California. Two weeks ago and Dyke and
(25:01):
he still at Mount Wilson. He wouldn't go to Palamarth
or something about the Mount Wilson and the hundred inch
telescope and the little house on the mount the top
that's got nothing in it. I told you about that.
And then Dyke doesn't wanna leave. And Dyke showed me
a photograph made through a hundred inch on the third
of March, and let me show it to you. Steve.
(25:24):
Stars we describe as Steve, this picture was made to
an out of centaury. Yeah, that's uh, that's out of centaury.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
There they're there.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
He describe what you see, Steve. Hi, Oh, no, go stars,
millions of stars m and this cloud, a cloud blotting
out the stars from the sixth of the light year
away two months ago, sixth of the light year. Now
(26:00):
this photograph they April seventh, Steeve, stee the cloud, it's bigger,
the trump of the light here, closer to the earth.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Stieve they're coming here. I do not put the microphone
over here.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Closer, Yeah, by the machine. You'll listen.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Now.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Here is the word from the other side of the stars.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Here is the word from the beings, the intelligences, the
things from Oppersentuti listen.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Welcome, Welcome to this place. Welcome to all of you.
This place they call the earth.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
It is not bad.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
It is an interesting place. I am glad you have
come after all this time. The inhabitants will give us
no trouble whatever they are very I mean very a
grade of intelligence, is it? What can we do?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I mean it's too late now, Steve, much too late,
at the speed of light, or less than a day
away at day from the other side of the star.
That's right, Steve had come to take over the ear.
(27:43):
The tide of today's Quiet Please story was the other
side of the Stars.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
It was written and directed by Willis Cooper, and the
man who spoke to you was Ernest Truffle.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
And Jane White named Dorothy.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
The young man was Mark Forbes.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
As usual music for Quiet Please, it's my Albert Breman.
Not for a word about next week?
Speaker 5 (28:07):
All righted?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Director Willis Cooper, thank you for listening to Criet Please
next week I have a love story for for a change.
It's called the Little mornings, and it's all the next week.
At the same time, I am quietly yours forness chupper.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
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