August 15, 2025 • 24 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 (00:00):
H Quiet Please, Quiet Please m hm.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
The Mutual Broadcasting System presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper, and which features Ernest Chappell.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Quiet Please for tonight is called some people Don't My
name is Doing Dilancaster.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
You probably have never heard of me unless you're vitally
interested in the subject of free historic cliff dwellers, and
practically nobody is.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
There are a few cliff Willings in the United States
that I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Know about, as well as their original inhabitants did batatakan
mas verb all the big ones, most of the little ones.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
They're quite interesting. Quite now.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
When I tell you that this particular one is called
Mason Cantata, don't look superior and say you know where
the Mason Cantata is.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Because the Southwest has more.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Enchanted maces than there are main streets in the United States.
They are The chances of your finding this particular one
is about seven million to one, and you don't want
to find it anyway, I'll say you don't. Let's cut
out all the preliminaries and say that it was several
years ago six to be exact. But I first came
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to Mason cantata Mauriel and me, my wife. I recognized
it at once now what I'd seen pictures of it
in various Cliffwaller's houses.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Sure other people saw some of the pictures too, but
I was the only.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
One that recognized them as pictures of the particular mesa.
And I've been quietly looking for us for several years.
I just stood there and looked at it, with the
sun about the foot off the horizon, and nothing between
us and the sunset but a million giant shadows, just
me and Uria and for me my actually Indian helper.
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It was pretty impressive, rearing up out of the desert
about a thousand feet and that peculiar shape, and the
walls sheer red rock so soon you couldn't imagine a
possible foothold all.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
The way to attack. And I was pretty happy.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I just stood there and looked, and all I could
think of to say was, well, well, I said, here
we are.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Muriel didn't say anything.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Smin did see see coming on matter for me?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Don't you like it?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
No, amigo, I do not like him.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Wan Nico, come on for me, just because they call
it a chant and this.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Place many morning contand and you think, amigo, this baddest
place in hold cot Ah.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
You people always say that, not me.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
I never said him before, didn't we is cholo. He
gets scared pretty easy when something is where old people
live one part. But you'll never hear if your means
say not nothing from being scared of these places ever, Emma.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I'm looking no illego, only this place.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I don't like tomorrow morning for me.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Maybe to you, amigo, but you don't look at me
from the morning.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I tell to you what you pay your amigo, not me.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I don't stay posy. Oh, come on after me. Stop it.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
No mirror amigo fermin. When he's scared, he don't cheat
you about him. I think he must be. Hold you
come along with me and not be here forever.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Listen to me.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
No, I got my ear shot.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I don't stay here, not firman.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I take my money and I.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Go from this. How are you going to go? And
I'm not gonna let you take the car?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Wish I walk might pay poufavor mean listen, you come
with me.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Don't be silly.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I've been looking for this place for a long time, son,
and I'm not afraid of it.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Come on, be reasonable.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
I am more reasonable than we think, Senor Patron, you
and Senora can't stand and I do not like it,
but me thing much you mazzo, Look, you're stakey.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Please to pay me my money.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
What are you afraid of me?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
You've been with us a dozen of these, said to
Alice place.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
That's right, love the Senora isn't afraid for me? I love?
What for the love of Mike?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
What is obtained?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
You know what's up there for me?
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Broken pottery, a few skeletons.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
You're not afraid of the dead people, are you?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Phiostus Defunto's nose.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Fum y, You're crazy for me?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
No, Senor, is that these dead ones aren't dead?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
For me?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Some brucus wizards? Well luck for me, And I'm a
pretty good wizard too. You stick around here tonight, and
if any of these wizards come around out with my
own special variety. You speak to Fermin, not to some
fool cholo near.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Senor.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Fermine has been with you long, many years, So bulla,
try tell him that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
The wife he knows better.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yes, I yes, you're right for me, Senor.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I'm sorry, Senor.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
You know Fermin is not superstitious Indio buss.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
So this very mad face, how you say bettert s.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
You are my father and my mother. I do not
want for you have that death only not your shoe
and being your soul. These blue hoos take her too. Also,
please you come away from here with Fermine before I
am too late.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Well, thanks for me, but we're staying, and I go for.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Me now, don't be silly, compromiso, Senora. It is not
I who am being silly? Are you your patron?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Are you senor? For me? After Dewey, he'll get most
or as anything, mis verty, Miss Maton, stop here for me,
hear me.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I caught up with him in the gathering darkness, and
we stumbled across the desert together for half an hour,
tripping over the straggling roots of grease, with bushes snagging
our faces and hands on the troy of patches to
seem the land wait for us.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
And I used every argument in my catalog. Finally I
got mad. All right for me? If you want to
desert us, I said, can. I told them where he
could go.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I can still see the bulk of him, stucky and
sturdy against the stars that splattered the sky, and I
can still hear his voice and remember the sadness.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
No signor it is not Die that will go there.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
They will take you there, your yeah, you man.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Me Senora, And the day will come when you will
remember what fair Mina has called you.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And that day has come, and I remember you for me.
They had turned and moved away to become a part
of the night.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
So I came back to the place where we parked
the car close under the shoulder of the Mesa.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Muriel had turned on the headlights and they.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Were a beacon for me as I plotted back. And
when I got there, Muriel was gone.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
First at first I thought she just wandered over for
a moment.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
When she didn't come back after fifteen minutes, I started
and look for her. I looked nearly the whole night long,
shouting her name as I stumbled all the way around
the towering Mysa.
Speaker 8 (07:48):
Must have been only a little while before dawn.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
The fatigue dragged me down to the cool.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Ground for a brief sleep, and I was awakened almost
at once, it seemed, for the sound of a great gong.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
That began in my dream persisted light poising my eyes
of bum sort of.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
The sun was rising and she was not there.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I was alone at the foot of the enchanted meser,
the only quick daylight. I took the car and drove
the never widening circles around the base of the Mesa,
sounding a.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Horn and shouting Muriel's name, until the needle on the
gas gage warned me to continue one foot. I examined
every inch of the.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Mace itself through my binoculars, and far at the top,
a thousand feet above me, I could see the man
made wall in the windows of the old cliff.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Well, there's mansioned. But there was not the slightest sign
of life anywhere.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I was the only living thing on all these thousands
of square miles of desert, so undspair.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
As the sun was declining again.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
To the west, I drove the car back to the
giants Ouada where we parked the night before.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
It was all mistaking the place, of course. I got
out of the car and walked toward the.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Smooth red precipice, and there, leaning against the rock.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Was a ladder, A ladder of mountain ashwood. The rungs lashed.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Onto the uprights with raw height strips that looked to
be a thousand years old, and hanging on a rung
just above my head a beaten silver knopahle bracelet studded
with turquoises, Muriel's bracelet that I bought for at Akamat
the Religion the Sky two years before.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Wow, what would you have done?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I didn't think of a mean wizard his dead men
who were not dead, until after I climbed all the
way up the ladder.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Till after I'd retrieved Muriel's bracelet.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I remember thinking that perhaps this ladder indicated some racial
connection between the cliff dwellers of ancient.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Times and the modern Zunis.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Who used ladders, such as they used to climb up
to the second story entrances to their whiteblowser locked their
doors by hoisting up the ladders behind them. Perhaps Muriel
had found it lying under a mestic bush and dragged
the myself. And then I remember some of my scientific musings.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Where was she? Where was she?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
That was when I discovered the doorway, a black doorway
leading into the medicine, the.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Passage beyond dark. So now I knew where.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Muriel was, and I was a little ainnois that she'd
beaten me to the discovery, and I was irritated that
she'd not waited for me.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I called her.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
Urea no answer.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I called her again, you're are you in there?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Then there was a screeping sound behind me and in
the back of the doorway, just behind to see the
latter slipping away from the.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Letter, and I leaped forward, but I was too late.
A crashed to the ground. So now you've done it, Mariel,
I see myself. And I was an angry man.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I started on the passageway in the dark, and I
called her name again. Here a man's voice answered out
of the darkness.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
I'll take you to her, Miss j.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Who are you?
Speaker 5 (11:11):
I'm sorry, I started to My name is who are you?
Where's my wife? I live here, mister Lancaster, and your
wife is safe for the moment.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
At least come along with me, please.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Now the race of the cliff Runners had been extinct
for a long long time. We have only surmises as
to what became of him, what they call themselves, what
they look like, where they came from and where they
went or unsolved mysteries.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
And here in this place crownled perhaps the most ancient.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Of all the cliff dwellings, was a man who spoke
as perfect.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
English and you and I, Yes, I am one of
the cliff dwellers, mister Lancas we here in the.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
We are the.
Speaker 8 (11:56):
Last of our race.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I thought this place was called a mason cantata.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
We call it the Masa of the watch it.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
Why U see there is a stairway here.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
No, how could a man, uh what cliff Weller, if
he really was one of you? How many be speaking perfect.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
English to me here in the heart of a thousand footmans,
to far.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Out in the desert.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
How could that be? The wonders if we were dreaming.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
No, we are not dreaming, mister Lancaster, and the man
reading my mind. We can do many things, mister Lancaster,
and you must not be surprised at my speaking Moonish.
Many of us can speak several languages.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
You see.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
From time to time we send our people out.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Into your world. We have been doing that for hundreds
of year. You've been out there. Oh yeah. As a
matter of fact, I was in your navy during this
last war aviation radioly third and the Mexican. Oh I
don't understand this. We don't expect you show, mister Lancaster.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Well where's my wife? I am taking you to Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Be careful. The stairs a steep and the stairs were steep.
Tuesday for more conversation.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Although you can understand how anxious I was for information
for news of Maria.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
I followed the man who called.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Himself Keno up, up, higher and higher, and then the
brief pauses to rest my aching legs.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I managed to put in a few questions. Is my
wife all right? Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yeah, he's quite alright.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
How long can we stay here? For a long time?
Shall we start again? There is still some distance to go.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
I am a trained mountain climber.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
But those stairs were almost too much. Funey Caino, though
wasn't even breathing heavily.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I had to stop oftener and oftener in at the
wife thought I was trying his patience, sorely hearing.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
In common traits. They are about powers and of it.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I hope we'll get a chance to study your people
and their customers. Yeah, you made me sell. I'm I'm
amazed there are people here, living people. I mean, yeah,
I'm sure. My assistant ran away from us last night. Yes,
the watcher's sawing. He said, you were wizards up here.
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You know, uh, wizard, Yeah, I know. How we go on.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
It's only a little way now.
Speaker 8 (14:25):
The last few hundred steps may be talking me out,
But the last I staggered.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Out of the kind of platform at the very top
of the maser platform of living rocks around it.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
By a patupid carved out of the mesa itself, perhaps
forty five.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
The world was cool up there, and the desert seemed
a long long way below.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
And the stars were very close.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
It is the place of the Watcher's mystery and catty,
I wish your peasants could eat, yes, but what?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
And the huge slab of rocks swung in the place
over the trap door we just come through. I was
all over again on the peak of the Mason of
the watchers, and fabolow me somewhere A thousand primitive men
and women went about their several ways. I'm carrying the
stranger watched the night fun But I wasn't alone after all.
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A voice, an old, dry voice, spoke to me in
the cold darkness cannete. It was a voice of oddly
accident in Spanish, and I looked around for the one
who at me, who was back?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I could see no one, but I replied with a medicano.
He say, I'm a juie Lancaster. And I said, genness,
who are you?
Speaker 9 (15:46):
The driest best voice answered me, so all the noise
could be at the de Laca. I can though the name,
what see yeshda?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
And have you ever heard of Kabeta Devaka, the Spanish
explorer who tramped from Arizona to Kansas and black with
his black servant a stab and in fifteen thirty seven,
in fifteen thirty seven, And I heard his voice six
years ago, But I couldn't see anything the stars and
the blackness of the desert down below.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
And what kind of tricks were Tina way his cliffwather
is playing on me?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I lost my head for a second. I yelled at
the top of my lungs. You're trying to scare me.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
You can't scare me, But they did.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
They scared me, couring to death nearly the first way
they scared.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Me the dream.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Fallen asleep and awakened again, awakened for the man you
know standing over Get up?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Well, it's about time, yes, indeed, it is about time.
What are you trying to do to me? Where's my wife?
Your wife?
Speaker 7 (17:11):
Why you see for very don't worry about that.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I want to see her now. Not now are you
going to let me out of here? Then? No, no,
I think not.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
We did not need to come here.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
You see, you mustn't be surprised as the kind and
welcome we give me.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Well, we have customs, you see of our own through
my life might mean based all the stories i'd heard
of a cruelties and tortunes.
Speaker 8 (17:52):
I shuddered at those studs, and my voice wasn't really
study as.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
I spoke about me.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Well, if you're going to fill me quick quick, I
am not going to king mister Mancaster.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
You're not going to torture me even No, you must
nearly receive the kids the most.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
And I thought I heard the dry, crackling voice of moved,
the muttering something that spoke again, damn the old mister Lancaster,
and that his quiet, smiling words in my dream. I
was suddenly powerless to move, powerless to move away from
the flat, ugly head of the great rattlesnake the kingo
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thrust with on my fake.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I tried to scream, I had no voice. The sound
of the snake's rattled in my ears. His eyes burn
in the line, and a little docking pocket tongue flickered
close to my eyes. Then there was a sound of
the gong again and an howerable pain.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
I ever hid from my dream and down in the mountains.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
The second time they scared me, I awoke from the
pain of my lip was something unendurable, and I knew
it was no dream.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I remember a sense of surprise that I was still alive.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Though I knew death was not far away. And a
voice spoke to me in the first rate of the morning,
sun uie have they've been keeping me? And then when
I saw the lock of the snake, the kiss about,
seen how Muriel's lived too, and I cried out, urie.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
The snake, I have kissed nothing to kill?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
No, no, we have not gathered you well what no?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Indeed, on the contrary, Now, my dear.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
Family, you I want to find what are you talking?
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Her? Tell you she knows here he'll what was he
talking about?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
We're worse than dead, dealing What do you not see?
Speaker 8 (20:04):
He kissed us?
Speaker 3 (20:06):
And now we can never die? So that is right.
You are watchers now, like me and like the baker
the bacca there.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
And that was the third time he scared me.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I looked past his pointing finger, and there, I guess
the breast high purpet was what I thought.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
At first to be a mummy, a tiny, agile, dried
up skeleton encased in leathery ancient skin, and at his
feet a great shining silver mum that go in case
the door's helmet, dead an ancient sword.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
And slowly, slowly, the desiccated mummy turned his head to us,
and the skull of a.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
Long dead man, and the eyes.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Were ten points under the naked brows, and the grizzly
mouth open.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
From the driest dust.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Words came out, See compadre.
Speaker 9 (21:12):
No sotos tortos loose me the doors being benido compadri.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Yes, it was truly Kavita Debaka, no Muriel, and I
can never die either. Well, I know, I tried.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I could tell you firsthand stories of the conquest, stories
I have from Kabe to Debaca himself.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
I won't.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
I won't tell you how I escaped the place, so I.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Can tell the rest of the world about the last
of the chrift brothers and enchanted Meson. Here's sixteen floors
above the stream in a hotel room in a great city.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I had the word from Keino yesterday. He said, they
followed me. I knew where I am. He said, I'd
better come back, and I caught him. Miriam. He said, well,
they can't kill her, of course, but.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
These people of the Mesa are true sons of their
cruel ancestors. So I'm going back. Marie and I and
Keno and Kamita Devaka. We'll be there for a long
long time.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Maybe they let us out to see what this world
is like a.
Speaker 8 (22:39):
Hundred years from now, if we're good, and if the
world is still here.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Good night.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
You have listened to Quiet Please, which is written and
directed by Willis Cooper. The man who spoke to you
was Ernest Champel, and Sid Cassel played for Mean, Muriel
was Anne sey Moore, and Ted Osborne was Keno. William
Adams play Kabata Debaca. The music for Quiet Please is
composed and played by Albert Berman. Now for a worry
(23:42):
about next week's Quiet Please, here is our writer, director
and my good friend, Willis Cooper.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
For next week, I've written a story about a man.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Who wasn't satisfied with his lot and wife who tried
to change him.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
It's called Little Fellow, And so until next week. At
this time, I am quietly yours, Ernest Chappell.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Quiet please comes to you from New York. This is
mutual broadcasting system.
H Quiet Please, Quiet Please m hm.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
The Mutual Broadcasting System presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper, and which features Ernest Chappell.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Quiet Please for tonight is called some people Don't My
name is Doing Dilancaster.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
You probably have never heard of me unless you're vitally
interested in the subject of free historic cliff dwellers, and
practically nobody is.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
There are a few cliff Willings in the United States
that I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Know about, as well as their original inhabitants did batatakan
mas verb all the big ones, most of the little ones.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
They're quite interesting. Quite now.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
When I tell you that this particular one is called
Mason Cantata, don't look superior and say you know where
the Mason Cantata is.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Because the Southwest has more.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Enchanted maces than there are main streets in the United States.
They are The chances of your finding this particular one
is about seven million to one, and you don't want
to find it anyway, I'll say you don't. Let's cut
out all the preliminaries and say that it was several
years ago six to be exact. But I first came
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to Mason cantata Mauriel and me, my wife. I recognized
it at once now what I'd seen pictures of it
in various Cliffwaller's houses.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Sure other people saw some of the pictures too, but
I was the only.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
One that recognized them as pictures of the particular mesa.
And I've been quietly looking for us for several years.
I just stood there and looked at it, with the
sun about the foot off the horizon, and nothing between
us and the sunset but a million giant shadows, just
me and Uria and for me my actually Indian helper.
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It was pretty impressive, rearing up out of the desert
about a thousand feet and that peculiar shape, and the
walls sheer red rock so soon you couldn't imagine a
possible foothold all.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
The way to attack. And I was pretty happy.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I just stood there and looked, and all I could
think of to say was, well, well, I said, here
we are.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Muriel didn't say anything.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Smin did see see coming on matter for me?
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Don't you like it?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
No, amigo, I do not like him.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Wan Nico, come on for me, just because they call
it a chant and this.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Place many morning contand and you think, amigo, this baddest
place in hold cot Ah.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
You people always say that, not me.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
I never said him before, didn't we is cholo. He
gets scared pretty easy when something is where old people
live one part. But you'll never hear if your means
say not nothing from being scared of these places ever, Emma.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I'm looking no illego, only this place.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I don't like tomorrow morning for me.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Maybe to you, amigo, but you don't look at me
from the morning.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I tell to you what you pay your amigo, not me.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I don't stay posy. Oh, come on after me. Stop it.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
No mirror amigo fermin. When he's scared, he don't cheat
you about him. I think he must be. Hold you
come along with me and not be here forever.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Listen to me.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
No, I got my ear shot.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I don't stay here, not firman.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I take my money and I.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Go from this. How are you going to go? And
I'm not gonna let you take the car?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Wish I walk might pay poufavor mean listen, you come
with me.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Don't be silly.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I've been looking for this place for a long time, son,
and I'm not afraid of it.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Come on, be reasonable.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
I am more reasonable than we think, Senor Patron, you
and Senora can't stand and I do not like it,
but me thing much you mazzo, Look, you're stakey.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Please to pay me my money.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
What are you afraid of me?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
You've been with us a dozen of these, said to
Alice place.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
That's right, love the Senora isn't afraid for me? I love?
What for the love of Mike?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
What is obtained?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
You know what's up there for me?
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Broken pottery, a few skeletons.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
You're not afraid of the dead people, are you?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Phiostus Defunto's nose.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Fum y, You're crazy for me?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
No, Senor, is that these dead ones aren't dead?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
For me?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Some brucus wizards? Well luck for me, And I'm a
pretty good wizard too. You stick around here tonight, and
if any of these wizards come around out with my
own special variety. You speak to Fermin, not to some
fool cholo near.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Senor.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Fermine has been with you long, many years, So bulla,
try tell him that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
The wife he knows better.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yes, I yes, you're right for me, Senor.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I'm sorry, Senor.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
You know Fermin is not superstitious Indio buss.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
So this very mad face, how you say bettert s.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
You are my father and my mother. I do not
want for you have that death only not your shoe
and being your soul. These blue hoos take her too. Also,
please you come away from here with Fermine before I
am too late.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Well, thanks for me, but we're staying, and I go for.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Me now, don't be silly, compromiso, Senora. It is not
I who am being silly? Are you your patron?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Are you senor? For me? After Dewey, he'll get most
or as anything, mis verty, Miss Maton, stop here for me,
hear me.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I caught up with him in the gathering darkness, and
we stumbled across the desert together for half an hour,
tripping over the straggling roots of grease, with bushes snagging
our faces and hands on the troy of patches to
seem the land wait for us.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
And I used every argument in my catalog. Finally I
got mad. All right for me? If you want to
desert us, I said, can. I told them where he
could go.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I can still see the bulk of him, stucky and
sturdy against the stars that splattered the sky, and I
can still hear his voice and remember the sadness.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
No signor it is not Die that will go there.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
They will take you there, your yeah, you man.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Me Senora, And the day will come when you will
remember what fair Mina has called you.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
And that day has come, and I remember you for me.
They had turned and moved away to become a part
of the night.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
So I came back to the place where we parked
the car close under the shoulder of the Mesa.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Muriel had turned on the headlights and they.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Were a beacon for me as I plotted back. And
when I got there, Muriel was gone.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
First at first I thought she just wandered over for
a moment.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
When she didn't come back after fifteen minutes, I started
and look for her. I looked nearly the whole night long,
shouting her name as I stumbled all the way around
the towering Mysa.
Speaker 8 (07:48):
Must have been only a little while before dawn.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
The fatigue dragged me down to the cool.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Ground for a brief sleep, and I was awakened almost
at once, it seemed, for the sound of a great gong.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
That began in my dream persisted light poising my eyes
of bum sort of.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
The sun was rising and she was not there.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I was alone at the foot of the enchanted meser,
the only quick daylight. I took the car and drove
the never widening circles around the base of the Mesa,
sounding a.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Horn and shouting Muriel's name, until the needle on the
gas gage warned me to continue one foot. I examined
every inch of the.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Mace itself through my binoculars, and far at the top,
a thousand feet above me, I could see the man
made wall in the windows of the old cliff.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Well, there's mansioned. But there was not the slightest sign
of life anywhere.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I was the only living thing on all these thousands
of square miles of desert, so undspair.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
As the sun was declining again.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
To the west, I drove the car back to the
giants Ouada where we parked the night before.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
It was all mistaking the place, of course. I got
out of the car and walked toward the.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Smooth red precipice, and there, leaning against the rock.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Was a ladder, A ladder of mountain ashwood. The rungs lashed.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Onto the uprights with raw height strips that looked to
be a thousand years old, and hanging on a rung
just above my head a beaten silver knopahle bracelet studded
with turquoises, Muriel's bracelet that I bought for at Akamat
the Religion the Sky two years before.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Wow, what would you have done?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I didn't think of a mean wizard his dead men
who were not dead, until after I climbed all the
way up the ladder.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Till after I'd retrieved Muriel's bracelet.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I remember thinking that perhaps this ladder indicated some racial
connection between the cliff dwellers of ancient.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Times and the modern Zunis.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Who used ladders, such as they used to climb up
to the second story entrances to their whiteblowser locked their
doors by hoisting up the ladders behind them. Perhaps Muriel
had found it lying under a mestic bush and dragged
the myself. And then I remember some of my scientific musings.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Where was she? Where was she?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
That was when I discovered the doorway, a black doorway
leading into the medicine, the.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Passage beyond dark. So now I knew where.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Muriel was, and I was a little ainnois that she'd
beaten me to the discovery, and I was irritated that
she'd not waited for me.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I called her.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
Urea no answer.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I called her again, you're are you in there?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Then there was a screeping sound behind me and in
the back of the doorway, just behind to see the
latter slipping away from the.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Letter, and I leaped forward, but I was too late.
A crashed to the ground. So now you've done it, Mariel,
I see myself. And I was an angry man.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I started on the passageway in the dark, and I
called her name again. Here a man's voice answered out
of the darkness.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
I'll take you to her, Miss j.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Who are you?
Speaker 5 (11:11):
I'm sorry, I started to My name is who are you?
Where's my wife? I live here, mister Lancaster, and your
wife is safe for the moment.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
At least come along with me, please.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Now the race of the cliff Runners had been extinct
for a long long time. We have only surmises as
to what became of him, what they call themselves, what
they look like, where they came from and where they
went or unsolved mysteries.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
And here in this place crownled perhaps the most ancient.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Of all the cliff dwellings, was a man who spoke
as perfect.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
English and you and I, Yes, I am one of
the cliff dwellers, mister Lancas we here in the.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
We are the.
Speaker 8 (11:56):
Last of our race.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I thought this place was called a mason cantata.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
We call it the Masa of the watch it.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
Why U see there is a stairway here.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
No, how could a man, uh what cliff Weller, if
he really was one of you? How many be speaking perfect.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
English to me here in the heart of a thousand footmans,
to far.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Out in the desert.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
How could that be? The wonders if we were dreaming.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
No, we are not dreaming, mister Lancaster, and the man
reading my mind. We can do many things, mister Lancaster,
and you must not be surprised at my speaking Moonish.
Many of us can speak several languages.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
You see.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
From time to time we send our people out.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Into your world. We have been doing that for hundreds
of year. You've been out there. Oh yeah. As a
matter of fact, I was in your navy during this
last war aviation radioly third and the Mexican. Oh I
don't understand this. We don't expect you show, mister Lancaster.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Well where's my wife? I am taking you to Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Be careful. The stairs a steep and the stairs were steep.
Tuesday for more conversation.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Although you can understand how anxious I was for information
for news of Maria.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
I followed the man who called.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Himself Keno up, up, higher and higher, and then the
brief pauses to rest my aching legs.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I managed to put in a few questions. Is my
wife all right? Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yeah, he's quite alright.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
How long can we stay here? For a long time?
Shall we start again? There is still some distance to go.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
I am a trained mountain climber.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
But those stairs were almost too much. Funey Caino, though
wasn't even breathing heavily.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I had to stop oftener and oftener in at the
wife thought I was trying his patience, sorely hearing.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
In common traits. They are about powers and of it.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I hope we'll get a chance to study your people
and their customers. Yeah, you made me sell. I'm I'm
amazed there are people here, living people. I mean, yeah,
I'm sure. My assistant ran away from us last night. Yes,
the watcher's sawing. He said, you were wizards up here.
(14:15):
You know, uh, wizard, Yeah, I know. How we go on.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
It's only a little way now.
Speaker 8 (14:25):
The last few hundred steps may be talking me out,
But the last I staggered.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Out of the kind of platform at the very top
of the maser platform of living rocks around it.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
By a patupid carved out of the mesa itself, perhaps
forty five.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
The world was cool up there, and the desert seemed
a long long way below.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
And the stars were very close.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
It is the place of the Watcher's mystery and catty,
I wish your peasants could eat, yes, but what?
Speaker 2 (14:53):
And the huge slab of rocks swung in the place
over the trap door we just come through. I was
all over again on the peak of the Mason of
the watchers, and fabolow me somewhere A thousand primitive men
and women went about their several ways. I'm carrying the
stranger watched the night fun But I wasn't alone after all.
(15:19):
A voice, an old, dry voice, spoke to me in
the cold darkness cannete. It was a voice of oddly
accident in Spanish, and I looked around for the one
who at me, who was back?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I could see no one, but I replied with a medicano.
He say, I'm a juie Lancaster. And I said, genness,
who are you?
Speaker 9 (15:46):
The driest best voice answered me, so all the noise
could be at the de Laca. I can though the name,
what see yeshda?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
And have you ever heard of Kabeta Devaka, the Spanish
explorer who tramped from Arizona to Kansas and black with
his black servant a stab and in fifteen thirty seven,
in fifteen thirty seven, And I heard his voice six
years ago, But I couldn't see anything the stars and
the blackness of the desert down below.
Speaker 8 (16:23):
And what kind of tricks were Tina way his cliffwather
is playing on me?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I lost my head for a second. I yelled at
the top of my lungs. You're trying to scare me.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
You can't scare me, But they did.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
They scared me, couring to death nearly the first way
they scared.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Me the dream.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Fallen asleep and awakened again, awakened for the man you
know standing over Get up?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Well, it's about time, yes, indeed, it is about time.
What are you trying to do to me? Where's my wife?
Your wife?
Speaker 7 (17:11):
Why you see for very don't worry about that.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I want to see her now. Not now are you
going to let me out of here? Then? No, no,
I think not.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
We did not need to come here.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
You see, you mustn't be surprised as the kind and
welcome we give me.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Well, we have customs, you see of our own through
my life might mean based all the stories i'd heard
of a cruelties and tortunes.
Speaker 8 (17:52):
I shuddered at those studs, and my voice wasn't really
study as.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
I spoke about me.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Well, if you're going to fill me quick quick, I
am not going to king mister Mancaster.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
You're not going to torture me even No, you must
nearly receive the kids the most.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
And I thought I heard the dry, crackling voice of moved,
the muttering something that spoke again, damn the old mister Lancaster,
and that his quiet, smiling words in my dream. I
was suddenly powerless to move, powerless to move away from
the flat, ugly head of the great rattlesnake the kingo
(18:34):
thrust with on my fake.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I tried to scream, I had no voice. The sound
of the snake's rattled in my ears. His eyes burn
in the line, and a little docking pocket tongue flickered
close to my eyes. Then there was a sound of
the gong again and an howerable pain.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
I ever hid from my dream and down in the mountains.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
The second time they scared me, I awoke from the
pain of my lip was something unendurable, and I knew
it was no dream.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I remember a sense of surprise that I was still alive.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Though I knew death was not far away. And a
voice spoke to me in the first rate of the morning,
sun uie have they've been keeping me? And then when
I saw the lock of the snake, the kiss about,
seen how Muriel's lived too, and I cried out, urie.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
The snake, I have kissed nothing to kill?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
No, no, we have not gathered you well what no?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Indeed, on the contrary, Now, my dear.
Speaker 7 (19:49):
Family, you I want to find what are you talking?
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Her? Tell you she knows here he'll what was he
talking about?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
We're worse than dead, dealing What do you not see?
Speaker 8 (20:04):
He kissed us?
Speaker 3 (20:06):
And now we can never die? So that is right.
You are watchers now, like me and like the baker
the bacca there.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
And that was the third time he scared me.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I looked past his pointing finger, and there, I guess
the breast high purpet was what I thought.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
At first to be a mummy, a tiny, agile, dried
up skeleton encased in leathery ancient skin, and at his
feet a great shining silver mum that go in case
the door's helmet, dead an ancient sword.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
And slowly, slowly, the desiccated mummy turned his head to us,
and the skull of a.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
Long dead man, and the eyes.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Were ten points under the naked brows, and the grizzly
mouth open.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
From the driest dust.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Words came out, See compadre.
Speaker 9 (21:12):
No sotos tortos loose me the doors being benido compadri.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Yes, it was truly Kavita Debaka, no Muriel, and I
can never die either. Well, I know, I tried.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I could tell you firsthand stories of the conquest, stories
I have from Kabe to Debaca himself.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
I won't.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
I won't tell you how I escaped the place, so I.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Can tell the rest of the world about the last
of the chrift brothers and enchanted Meson. Here's sixteen floors
above the stream in a hotel room in a great city.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I had the word from Keino yesterday. He said, they
followed me. I knew where I am. He said, I'd
better come back, and I caught him. Miriam. He said, well,
they can't kill her, of course, but.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
These people of the Mesa are true sons of their
cruel ancestors. So I'm going back. Marie and I and
Keno and Kamita Devaka. We'll be there for a long
long time.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Maybe they let us out to see what this world
is like a.
Speaker 8 (22:39):
Hundred years from now, if we're good, and if the
world is still here.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Good night.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
You have listened to Quiet Please, which is written and
directed by Willis Cooper. The man who spoke to you
was Ernest Champel, and Sid Cassel played for Mean, Muriel
was Anne sey Moore, and Ted Osborne was Keno. William
Adams play Kabata Debaca. The music for Quiet Please is
composed and played by Albert Berman. Now for a worry
(23:42):
about next week's Quiet Please, here is our writer, director
and my good friend, Willis Cooper.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
For next week, I've written a story about a man.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Who wasn't satisfied with his lot and wife who tried
to change him.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
It's called Little Fellow, And so until next week. At
this time, I am quietly yours, Ernest Chappell.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Quiet please comes to you from New York. This is
mutual broadcasting system.
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