December 25, 2024 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Quiet Please, Quiet please. M h.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
M hm.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
H m hm.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
The Mutual Broadcasting System presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper and which features Ernest Champell.
Quiet Please for Tonight is called there are shadows here.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Look at my hands trembling like a and there's nothing
I can do to stop it either. Well, if you've
been through what I've been through last week, Last Wednesday,
I commended Tim's bar, I said, down on the stool,
I say, how the scotch, Miss Patty? Oh, Hi, woody Scotch,
(01:22):
Miss Patty, Scotch. Miss Hey, there's a lady in here
looking for you. Lady, Yeah, what kind of scotch? Uh
got any Glenn? Live it? No? This white horse that's
sixty nine. Maybe there's a little left in the hagg bottle? Yeah,
(01:44):
lady looking for you? Who was she? I don't know.
I never seen her? Him told me about her? Why
was she here? Patty a while ago? Well? What she want?
I don't know? Just looking for you scotchmaste? Well didn't
(02:05):
she say what she wanted? Rest wannager? That stuff good?
That's all right? Why? Really? Just wondered? I never tasted her?
Don't you ever take a drink, Patty me. Oh, I
never take a drink except ginger beer. You can't get
(02:27):
that anymore. So comes in little storm jugs crocs like
funny about that woman. Yeah, I sure used to like
ginger beer. I think Tim said her name was Esther,
Esther know, he asked esther, esther, esther, something like that, esther.
(02:57):
Huh yeah, esther, Esther Lester. I don't know. Well if
she was good looking, ten didn't know what Tim said.
He didn't see her face. See you don't know her.
Oh I don't think so. It's funny, Dave. Do you
(03:22):
want another of them things? Yeah, I'll have another. Ooh, sure,
wish I could get some ginger beer. You used to
drink it up in Canada wilbera hotel in Winnipeg. Drink
it to the court. I wonder who could have been
Oh the woman was looking for me. Oh, I don't
know sketch me thanks Esther huh, yeah, that's what Tim said.
(03:53):
I don't know any esther. Well, she knows who Woody.
She said, that's your name. Minute. Sure I could give
her your phone number. Oh no, don't do that. Okay,
if she comes in again, tell her to leave her
phone number. I could call her up. Yeah, I'll tell Tim. Hey, Yeah,
(04:16):
how come Tim didn't say her faith? Patty? Oh, it's
always darkened here. Always shadows in here, Oh, shadows such
a nuts sometimes? Yeah, yeah, good thing. I don't drink
nothing but ginger beer, even if I could get it.
You drink these here shatters? Such a nuts? It's darken here?
(04:41):
Oh that Tim? Look at them? Shattered? Would he? Y
at there? One in the corner by the cannibal's head.
Don't it look like the cannibal's head is making faces
at you? Look now? Yeah? It looks. I mean, here
(05:01):
all alone? If put in there sets me nuts? He
there's one there, But the second booth you see looks
like a big black cat. You got a terrific imagination, Patty.
There's one under the bar. Every time I stoop down
to pick up a beer glass, I jump, looks like
a hand reaching out for me. It makes me junk.
(05:22):
Hello to say it's a good thing. You don't drink
nothing but ginger beer. I go nuts. Well, I'm going
to get out of here before I go nuts too, Okay,
Uh dollar thirty and dying for you? Patty. Oh, that's obliged.
(05:44):
If she comes in again, I'll tell you it was here.
Shadows every place you go. Shadows. Yeah, when I say
(06:05):
that was last Wednesday. The things that can happen in
less than a week in my hands, I can't stop
shaking Patty and his shadows. I said to myself, I'm
not going to Tim's anymore. There's a bar in the
hotel where I can drink my Scotch miss and not
have him mumbling in my ear all the time. I
(06:26):
got to thinking about shadows through myself. I was sitting
in the Italian place, waiting for my dagna and stuff,
and wondering if I should order a bottle of wine.
There was a candle on the table. There was a
little draft in the room. The flame was jumping up
and down. And the shadows on the wall. It doesn't
(06:49):
take much imagination to see things and shadows, does it? Game?
Everybody plase you want a little bit of advice, though, friend,
don't do it. Huh oh. I'll tell you first thing
I found myself making shadows on the wall with my hands. Rabbit,
(07:11):
old man waggling his beard. Owl. Now I get fascinated
with that kind of stuff. Wait, A must have thought
I was crazy. I know he did when I jumped
up and knocked the table the dishes. Hey, what's the
matter with you? Mister? You see what made that shadow?
What a shadow I see you making with the hands
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from the shadows on the wall. I didn't make that shadow?
What a shadow? You talk? There was a shadow of
a woman there? You talk of crazy, mister. There wasn't
to been no woman here for two weeks, but not
since Esther got the mad and quip esther who she?
She's a waitress here the last week and then she quit.
The post is saying he is not. They're gonna have
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a no woman in this place, and never especially. I
ordered the bottle of wine and I drank it because
I'm telling you I did see the shadow of a
woman's head on the wall next to me. And I'm
also telling you I didn't have anything to do with it.
(08:17):
All right, think whatever you want to. I tell you
I saw it, and Esther too. Now what do you
think of that? My friend? Well, let me go on.
I went home. I went to bed. Sure, of course
I dreamed about shadows. What do'd you expect? Well, I
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live in a hotel, as I said, all by myself
in the little room on the eighth floor. I didn't
think I was going to get to sleep, but I did.
I right a while. I left the light out in
the bathroom, didn't go for the dark. You see. I
woke up in the middle of the night, thirsty from
all like wine I drank. I started to get up
(08:58):
and go to the bathroom for a drink of water.
As I sat up in bed, see, there was a
square of light on the wall opposite my bed from
the bedroom light. And right in the middle of that
patch of light, it was a shadow, the shadow of
(09:19):
a woman, just stand there, not doing anything, just standing there.
I was scared, and the Darner stock coming into my mind.
Scared as I was, I didn't get out of bed
at first. I just sat there and I said, Esther.
(09:40):
There wasn't any answer, and I tried it again, Esther, Yah,
ever feel your hair actually stand on end? And it does?
All right? Mind it. I managed to speak again. I said,
(10:03):
what do you want? Esther? Did you come with me?
And the shadow sort of strikes out its arms to
me in a gesture that was like a little girl,
And yeah, it wasn't. It was. I don't know how
to say it like someone who was in love with me,
someone someone that I loved. I can't explain it. I
(10:28):
got up and threw my robe around me, and I
walked toward the light. The shadow moved too, and moved
toward the door of the room, the door that they
got into the hall. The shadow's hands touched the doorknob.
I looked to see who it was it was casting
the shadow. I tried it. I was alone in that room, yes, sir,
(10:54):
I was alone in the room. I turned back to
the door just as the shadow seemed to kind of
melt into the wood and then seemed to go on
through the locked door, and I reached for the door
and opened it. The shadow was moving down the hall,
toward the stairway, beyond the other elevators. And there wasn't
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a soul in the hallway. I tell you there wasn't.
The halls brought the lighted, and all there was was
this woman's shadow gliding away from me along the wall.
I stood there with my mouth hanging open. Just as
the shadow reached the end of the hall, it stopped
and put out the arms again, and I slammed the
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door shut, turned all the other lights in my room
off and I stuck my head on the coal shower.
I was scared of death. And you know what, there
was a smell of perfume in the room. Russia letter.
I remember that from a girl I used to know
in New York that had always used it. I believe me, brother,
(12:00):
I haven't gone. He rushed another perfume in my room,
and I smelled it. Played well, all right, maybe somebody's
playing tricks on me. But if you can tell me
(12:21):
how to play that one, brother, I'll put in with you. Listen.
I was riding down on the elevator the next morning
with Frankie, the wise kid that runs the car. You
know what he did? Listen, Hey, Woody, huh you stak swell?
What perfume? I didn't know that about you? What are
(12:46):
you talking about? M sure smells expensive? Why'd you get it?
You try to kid me? Franky? Oh goodness no, And
I could mullet myself. Then Russia leather Well, I don't
(13:17):
know why I ever go to Dams. It's dock in
there and Patty well, you know, Patty Hey gets you down, mumbling,
always mumbling about the shadows. And that's where I first
heard about ast too. It's a depressing place. Soul's got
your miss buddy. Yeah, I don't see why you drink
(13:39):
these things. We had some ginger beer now, but you
can get it. Why do you drink these things? I
like him? Tim says, your girls in here again today? Oh,
miss esther whatever her name is, she was in. Tim says,
(14:02):
well today she asked for you. Why did you tell her?
I didn't tell her anything. It was Tim seen her,
or rather he didn't see her. Why didn't he see her?
The shadows you know, Yeah, he didn't see her face
(14:26):
to face then, just kind of like a shadow. I
see what you want, uh you? He said? She said,
I wanted you to go someplace with her. Mm hmm.
That's all I know. You were what another sketch? Miss Yeah, yeah,
(14:52):
I guess so. Yeah, Paddy, yuh do you believe them goes? Yes? Oh,
it's got me sure work around a place like this
as long as I have. You believe in anything, these
(15:14):
here shutters. There's a fellow murdered here once when it
was his feet. Fella hit a cellar with the chairs. Yeah. Yeah.
If you see over there on the end of the
back bar, that's one leg of the chair. Tim always
likes to keep these here, sylvenirs. I don't care much
about it. I shouldn't think you would. No, and things.
It's contantly boy, you want to be here sometimes late
(15:35):
at nights when I'm alone. Why the things that happen? Hey,
give me the willies? What thing's Paddy? Oh? Shutters and
things scare your right out of your gears growth you
know what? For instance, what these hair shutters were? Nothing
(15:56):
worse than a shadow telling me unless it's not a shadow.
What do you mean? Well, there's people that don't have
no shadow. See, you know what I think, Paddy, But
I think either you or me is crazy. Huh, and
maybe it's both of us. What makes you think so
(16:20):
talking this way? Yeah? What he is scared of? It says,
I'm scared. But your hands trembling for that way? Well,
I drink too much. It ain't that kind of trembles, woody.
It is to wait a minute, huh, don't look now?
(16:43):
What right behind you? Take it easy now, a shadow
on the wall behind your buddy. Cut it out. There's
a shadow of a woman on the wall right behind
your boody. They ate nothing, it's making a shadow a woman. Yeah,
a woman looking right at your go ahead, turn around
(17:04):
and look. And I turned around slowly on my school
I looked at the wall where Patty was pointing. I
looked hard. Patty, You're crazy. There's gonna shadow there. There's true,
there is not. I go show you there. You see
(17:24):
my overcoat here on the bench. Where's that perfume? All
come from? Hello, Frankie? Hi you Weddy? Are dadt the opice? Especially? Ah?
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He said? Look kind of Pigan, you know, I feel
all right? You love me? What what was the bad
looking point babe looking for me? While I don't know
any babes, Frankie, what she looked like? Don't kid me,
I'm not I tell you, hey, Clark it listen Frankie, yep, listen.
(18:23):
There is a woman that's been looking for me. I
don't know who she is. In a jam, Yes, I
didn't see her. What do you? I was just closing
the doors around the twelfth to pick up the old
guy with a seat. You know, I'm I started just.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
The second chest to you and the old guy was
punching about, you know how he doesn't. All I thought
was kind of a shadow. I think a shadow? Yeah,
kind of you know, Hey, what that's perfume? I was
kidding about this morning. Well, she had some of it
on too.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Does that make you think of anybody? Yes, Frankie, Yes,
it does make me think of somebody's God's Frankie. Huh
(19:17):
who is that he? Patty? Don't you worried? Yeah? What
are you doing here? Patty? I come to visit your well?
Come in? Hey? Has she been here? Woody? Oh? You
know what I mean? Miss esther whoever she is, she
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was here? Do you see her? No? Good, Patty? What
is this? It's ascending? What ascending? Like they used to
have in the old country. My grandpa used to tell
me about it. I don't know what you're talking about.
She's asking you. She's come to get here. Now listen.
Did she ask you to come with us? Yah? She
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did last night? Oh man, how do you? How do
you know so much about all this? Patty? I know
a lot of things. You ain't got the idea. I know.
My grandpa was born with a call what a call?
A thing on his head. Look, I know what I'm
talking about. For he I'm going to make her go away, Patty. Listen, No,
(20:24):
you listen, I know what I'm talking about. Is she
a real woman? She is a shadow, Patty. If you're
playing a dirty technia, I was never more serious in
my life. Oh what are we going to do? You
watch and you do just like I say, Well, turn
off the lights, Patty, turn off the lights. Well go on,
(20:50):
And I turned off the lights in the room, feeling
like another idiot. Patty and I sat down the darkness
to wait, and we waited and waited, and at last
I heard a noise, a faint, strange, uncanny noise, I whispered, Patty.
(21:11):
There was no other sound, and it was fully five
minutes before I realized at the sound that had set
my hair stand on end again. It was Patty snoring.
And so I got up and turned the lights on again,
and kicked Patty out and went to bed. Yeah, maybe
I dreamed it, Maybe I didn't. But somewhere in the
(21:34):
darkness I heard the sound of someone stirring in my
room and a voice ready, wady how And I awoke
and the scent of her perfume was heavy in the room.
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That would be last Thursday, wouldn't it. So the next
night I came straight home and Patty was in my
room waiting. I tell you wouldy, you're in danger. And
so we sat late again, Patty with a curious collection
of books and implements that he said would get rid
of the sending for once and all. But there was
no sending. Patty stayed all night with me, and we
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heard no sound, saw no shadows, smell of perfume. But
there was dust on the shelf of my bathroom. When
morning came, Patty showed me something scrawled in the dust
by a finger, a woman's fringer. If I'm any judge,
it was just one word, a name, Esther. Maybe Patty
(22:58):
did that himself, maybe not. I didn't know what he
was up to. I can't get away from the fact
that there is someone named Esther who wants to see me,
whose shadow I have seen, whose voice I have heard,
criminal leaves the scent of Russia, letther behind her? Whose girls?
Her name? In the dust? In the dust. That's curious,
(23:21):
isn't it? Dust? Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday night? Now,
Patty and I said again in the dark wadding. This time,
I know something's going to happen. Patty says, you'll send
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her back where she came from, send her back alone.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
It can be done with you. All you have to
know is the secrets. Like my Grandpa and you, They've
got oh the stuff right here. The only thing is
maybe she knows. She won't come w ext time.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Here, see Patty. But I'm telling you something better happen.
But at the end of my strength, if she comes,
she'll go with you. I hope so, Yes, sir, Shadows
as terrible things. The only other thing that's worse is
for a man not to have a shadow. How could
(24:19):
that be? How could there be a shadow without anything
for it to be a shadow? Well? Yes, quiet, it's late.
It's past midnight, I think, And I'm so sleepy I
can hardly keep my eyes open. Patty, are you awake? Yeah?
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And the little light from the bathroom casts a square
of light on the green wall alongside the dresser, and
I can just barely hear the traffic in the street
below the night I'll taxi somebody yelling, and goodbye the
belated friend, and be still with you? What the wall?
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And I look at the wall and there is a
shadow in the square of light on the green wall
alongside the venture. And there is a hag and rush
of leather in the air, and the shadow stretches out
his arms to me, and I blind myself getting up
(25:29):
from my chair, and the shadowy arms are about to
take me. I hear Patty muttering something, and he seems
so far away, and the arms are still reaching for me.
Suddenly is Patty's voice again, loudel in the room. Turn
on the lights, of course, I'll turn the lights on, Patty.
And I do turn on the lights, and it's just
(25:51):
a room again, and the shadow is still there. The
arms are still reaching out for me. In the shadow,
the shadow starts towards the door. Suddenly Hattie screams again,
your shadow is gone, and so my shadow is gone.
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So it is, and I follow the other shadow, Best's
shadow to the door. And I opened the door, and
I follow the shadow out into the hall and down
the hall. It seems so odd to be walking along
and my life. There's no shadow for me. The elevator
door is open and I walk in and the shadow
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rides in ahead of me. There's a woman standing there
at the back of the elevator. The shadow just seems
to melt into her figure. And I look at her
and I say, she looks. She looks back at me
and said she never saw me in her whole life.
The elevator jerk. Suddenly it starts to plunge faster and
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faster down the shafts. She turns horrified eyes to me,
and she screams, And I know that sending is completed.
Mister and I are done with shadows forever.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
M Wyatt Please for the night was called there are
Shadows Here. It was written and directed by Willis Cooper.
(27:58):
The man who spoke to you was.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Chapel, and Alan Sparrow was Esther Paddy was played by
Ed Latimer. The writer was said Cassell. Frank Thomas was Frankie.
As usual, music for Quiet Please is played by Albert Burman.
Our worst my good friend Till Cooper. Nobody living or
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dead was even hinted at. And tonight's Quiet Please start.
I thought of the characters and the story without any
outside stimulus at all.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Next week's Quiet Please will be called Jim of purest Ray, and.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
So until next week at the same time, I am
quietly yours, Ernest Chappell.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Wyat Pleece comes to you from New York. This is
a mutual broadcasting system
Quiet Please, Quiet please. M h.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
M hm.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
H m hm.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
The Mutual Broadcasting System presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper and which features Ernest Champell.
Quiet Please for Tonight is called there are shadows here.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Look at my hands trembling like a and there's nothing
I can do to stop it either. Well, if you've
been through what I've been through last week, Last Wednesday,
I commended Tim's bar, I said, down on the stool,
I say, how the scotch, Miss Patty? Oh, Hi, woody Scotch,
(01:22):
Miss Patty, Scotch. Miss Hey, there's a lady in here
looking for you. Lady, Yeah, what kind of scotch? Uh
got any Glenn? Live it? No? This white horse that's
sixty nine. Maybe there's a little left in the hagg bottle? Yeah,
(01:44):
lady looking for you? Who was she? I don't know.
I never seen her? Him told me about her? Why
was she here? Patty a while ago? Well? What she want?
I don't know? Just looking for you scotchmaste? Well didn't
(02:05):
she say what she wanted? Rest wannager? That stuff good?
That's all right? Why? Really? Just wondered? I never tasted her?
Don't you ever take a drink, Patty me. Oh, I
never take a drink except ginger beer. You can't get
(02:27):
that anymore. So comes in little storm jugs crocs like
funny about that woman. Yeah, I sure used to like
ginger beer. I think Tim said her name was Esther,
Esther know, he asked esther, esther, esther, something like that, esther.
(02:57):
Huh yeah, esther, Esther Lester. I don't know. Well if
she was good looking, ten didn't know what Tim said.
He didn't see her face. See you don't know her.
Oh I don't think so. It's funny, Dave. Do you
(03:22):
want another of them things? Yeah, I'll have another. Ooh, sure,
wish I could get some ginger beer. You used to
drink it up in Canada wilbera hotel in Winnipeg. Drink
it to the court. I wonder who could have been
Oh the woman was looking for me. Oh, I don't
know sketch me thanks Esther huh, yeah, that's what Tim said.
(03:53):
I don't know any esther. Well, she knows who Woody.
She said, that's your name. Minute. Sure I could give
her your phone number. Oh no, don't do that. Okay,
if she comes in again, tell her to leave her
phone number. I could call her up. Yeah, I'll tell Tim. Hey, Yeah,
(04:16):
how come Tim didn't say her faith? Patty? Oh, it's
always darkened here. Always shadows in here, Oh, shadows such
a nuts sometimes? Yeah, yeah, good thing. I don't drink
nothing but ginger beer, even if I could get it.
You drink these here shatters? Such a nuts? It's darken here?
(04:41):
Oh that Tim? Look at them? Shattered? Would he? Y
at there? One in the corner by the cannibal's head.
Don't it look like the cannibal's head is making faces
at you? Look now? Yeah? It looks. I mean, here
(05:01):
all alone? If put in there sets me nuts? He
there's one there, But the second booth you see looks
like a big black cat. You got a terrific imagination, Patty.
There's one under the bar. Every time I stoop down
to pick up a beer glass, I jump, looks like
a hand reaching out for me. It makes me junk.
(05:22):
Hello to say it's a good thing. You don't drink
nothing but ginger beer. I go nuts. Well, I'm going
to get out of here before I go nuts too, Okay,
Uh dollar thirty and dying for you? Patty. Oh, that's obliged.
(05:44):
If she comes in again, I'll tell you it was here.
Shadows every place you go. Shadows. Yeah, when I say
(06:05):
that was last Wednesday. The things that can happen in
less than a week in my hands, I can't stop
shaking Patty and his shadows. I said to myself, I'm
not going to Tim's anymore. There's a bar in the
hotel where I can drink my Scotch miss and not
have him mumbling in my ear all the time. I
(06:26):
got to thinking about shadows through myself. I was sitting
in the Italian place, waiting for my dagna and stuff,
and wondering if I should order a bottle of wine.
There was a candle on the table. There was a
little draft in the room. The flame was jumping up
and down. And the shadows on the wall. It doesn't
(06:49):
take much imagination to see things and shadows, does it? Game?
Everybody plase you want a little bit of advice, though, friend,
don't do it. Huh oh. I'll tell you first thing
I found myself making shadows on the wall with my hands. Rabbit,
(07:11):
old man waggling his beard. Owl. Now I get fascinated
with that kind of stuff. Wait, A must have thought
I was crazy. I know he did when I jumped
up and knocked the table the dishes. Hey, what's the
matter with you? Mister? You see what made that shadow?
What a shadow I see you making with the hands
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from the shadows on the wall. I didn't make that shadow?
What a shadow? You talk? There was a shadow of
a woman there? You talk of crazy, mister. There wasn't
to been no woman here for two weeks, but not
since Esther got the mad and quip esther who she?
She's a waitress here the last week and then she quit.
The post is saying he is not. They're gonna have
(07:55):
a no woman in this place, and never especially. I
ordered the bottle of wine and I drank it because
I'm telling you I did see the shadow of a
woman's head on the wall next to me. And I'm
also telling you I didn't have anything to do with it.
(08:17):
All right, think whatever you want to. I tell you
I saw it, and Esther too. Now what do you
think of that? My friend? Well, let me go on.
I went home. I went to bed. Sure, of course
I dreamed about shadows. What do'd you expect? Well, I
(08:38):
live in a hotel, as I said, all by myself
in the little room on the eighth floor. I didn't
think I was going to get to sleep, but I did.
I right a while. I left the light out in
the bathroom, didn't go for the dark. You see. I
woke up in the middle of the night, thirsty from
all like wine I drank. I started to get up
(08:58):
and go to the bathroom for a drink of water.
As I sat up in bed, see, there was a
square of light on the wall opposite my bed from
the bedroom light. And right in the middle of that
patch of light, it was a shadow, the shadow of
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a woman, just stand there, not doing anything, just standing there.
I was scared, and the Darner stock coming into my mind.
Scared as I was, I didn't get out of bed
at first. I just sat there and I said, Esther.
(09:40):
There wasn't any answer, and I tried it again, Esther, Yah,
ever feel your hair actually stand on end? And it does?
All right? Mind it. I managed to speak again. I said,
(10:03):
what do you want? Esther? Did you come with me?
And the shadow sort of strikes out its arms to
me in a gesture that was like a little girl,
And yeah, it wasn't. It was. I don't know how
to say it like someone who was in love with me,
someone someone that I loved. I can't explain it. I
(10:28):
got up and threw my robe around me, and I
walked toward the light. The shadow moved too, and moved
toward the door of the room, the door that they
got into the hall. The shadow's hands touched the doorknob.
I looked to see who it was it was casting
the shadow. I tried it. I was alone in that room, yes, sir,
(10:54):
I was alone in the room. I turned back to
the door just as the shadow seemed to kind of
melt into the wood and then seemed to go on
through the locked door, and I reached for the door
and opened it. The shadow was moving down the hall,
toward the stairway, beyond the other elevators. And there wasn't
(11:14):
a soul in the hallway. I tell you there wasn't.
The halls brought the lighted, and all there was was
this woman's shadow gliding away from me along the wall.
I stood there with my mouth hanging open. Just as
the shadow reached the end of the hall, it stopped
and put out the arms again, and I slammed the
(11:38):
door shut, turned all the other lights in my room
off and I stuck my head on the coal shower.
I was scared of death. And you know what, there
was a smell of perfume in the room. Russia letter.
I remember that from a girl I used to know
in New York that had always used it. I believe me, brother,
(12:00):
I haven't gone. He rushed another perfume in my room,
and I smelled it. Played well, all right, maybe somebody's
playing tricks on me. But if you can tell me
(12:21):
how to play that one, brother, I'll put in with you. Listen.
I was riding down on the elevator the next morning
with Frankie, the wise kid that runs the car. You
know what he did? Listen, Hey, Woody, huh you stak swell?
What perfume? I didn't know that about you? What are
(12:46):
you talking about? M sure smells expensive? Why'd you get it?
You try to kid me? Franky? Oh goodness no, And
I could mullet myself. Then Russia leather Well, I don't
(13:17):
know why I ever go to Dams. It's dock in
there and Patty well, you know, Patty Hey gets you down, mumbling,
always mumbling about the shadows. And that's where I first
heard about ast too. It's a depressing place. Soul's got
your miss buddy. Yeah, I don't see why you drink
(13:39):
these things. We had some ginger beer now, but you
can get it. Why do you drink these things? I
like him? Tim says, your girls in here again today? Oh,
miss esther whatever her name is, she was in. Tim says,
(14:02):
well today she asked for you. Why did you tell her?
I didn't tell her anything. It was Tim seen her,
or rather he didn't see her. Why didn't he see her?
The shadows you know, Yeah, he didn't see her face
(14:26):
to face then, just kind of like a shadow. I
see what you want, uh you? He said? She said,
I wanted you to go someplace with her. Mm hmm.
That's all I know. You were what another sketch? Miss Yeah, yeah,
(14:52):
I guess so. Yeah, Paddy, yuh do you believe them goes? Yes? Oh,
it's got me sure work around a place like this
as long as I have. You believe in anything, these
(15:14):
here shutters. There's a fellow murdered here once when it
was his feet. Fella hit a cellar with the chairs. Yeah. Yeah.
If you see over there on the end of the
back bar, that's one leg of the chair. Tim always
likes to keep these here, sylvenirs. I don't care much
about it. I shouldn't think you would. No, and things.
It's contantly boy, you want to be here sometimes late
(15:35):
at nights when I'm alone. Why the things that happen? Hey,
give me the willies? What thing's Paddy? Oh? Shutters and
things scare your right out of your gears growth you
know what? For instance, what these hair shutters were? Nothing
(15:56):
worse than a shadow telling me unless it's not a shadow.
What do you mean? Well, there's people that don't have
no shadow. See, you know what I think, Paddy, But
I think either you or me is crazy. Huh, and
maybe it's both of us. What makes you think so
(16:20):
talking this way? Yeah? What he is scared of? It says,
I'm scared. But your hands trembling for that way? Well,
I drink too much. It ain't that kind of trembles, woody.
It is to wait a minute, huh, don't look now?
(16:43):
What right behind you? Take it easy now, a shadow
on the wall behind your buddy. Cut it out. There's
a shadow of a woman on the wall right behind
your boody. They ate nothing, it's making a shadow a woman. Yeah,
a woman looking right at your go ahead, turn around
(17:04):
and look. And I turned around slowly on my school
I looked at the wall where Patty was pointing. I
looked hard. Patty, You're crazy. There's gonna shadow there. There's true,
there is not. I go show you there. You see
(17:24):
my overcoat here on the bench. Where's that perfume? All
come from? Hello, Frankie? Hi you Weddy? Are dadt the opice? Especially? Ah?
(17:51):
He said? Look kind of Pigan, you know, I feel
all right? You love me? What what was the bad
looking point babe looking for me? While I don't know
any babes, Frankie, what she looked like? Don't kid me,
I'm not I tell you, hey, Clark it listen Frankie, yep, listen.
(18:23):
There is a woman that's been looking for me. I
don't know who she is. In a jam, Yes, I
didn't see her. What do you? I was just closing
the doors around the twelfth to pick up the old
guy with a seat. You know, I'm I started just.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
The second chest to you and the old guy was
punching about, you know how he doesn't. All I thought
was kind of a shadow. I think a shadow? Yeah,
kind of you know, Hey, what that's perfume? I was
kidding about this morning. Well, she had some of it
on too.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Does that make you think of anybody? Yes, Frankie, Yes,
it does make me think of somebody's God's Frankie. Huh
(19:17):
who is that he? Patty? Don't you worried? Yeah? What
are you doing here? Patty? I come to visit your well?
Come in? Hey? Has she been here? Woody? Oh? You
know what I mean? Miss esther whoever she is, she
(19:39):
was here? Do you see her? No? Good, Patty? What
is this? It's ascending? What ascending? Like they used to
have in the old country. My grandpa used to tell
me about it. I don't know what you're talking about.
She's asking you. She's come to get here. Now listen.
Did she ask you to come with us? Yah? She
(20:02):
did last night? Oh man, how do you? How do
you know so much about all this? Patty? I know
a lot of things. You ain't got the idea. I know.
My grandpa was born with a call what a call?
A thing on his head. Look, I know what I'm
talking about. For he I'm going to make her go away, Patty. Listen, No,
(20:24):
you listen, I know what I'm talking about. Is she
a real woman? She is a shadow, Patty. If you're
playing a dirty technia, I was never more serious in
my life. Oh what are we going to do? You
watch and you do just like I say, Well, turn
off the lights, Patty, turn off the lights. Well go on,
(20:50):
And I turned off the lights in the room, feeling
like another idiot. Patty and I sat down the darkness
to wait, and we waited and waited, and at last
I heard a noise, a faint, strange, uncanny noise, I whispered, Patty.
(21:11):
There was no other sound, and it was fully five
minutes before I realized at the sound that had set
my hair stand on end again. It was Patty snoring.
And so I got up and turned the lights on again,
and kicked Patty out and went to bed. Yeah, maybe
I dreamed it, Maybe I didn't. But somewhere in the
(21:34):
darkness I heard the sound of someone stirring in my
room and a voice ready, wady how And I awoke
and the scent of her perfume was heavy in the room.
(22:05):
That would be last Thursday, wouldn't it. So the next
night I came straight home and Patty was in my
room waiting. I tell you wouldy, you're in danger. And
so we sat late again, Patty with a curious collection
of books and implements that he said would get rid
of the sending for once and all. But there was
no sending. Patty stayed all night with me, and we
(22:27):
heard no sound, saw no shadows, smell of perfume. But
there was dust on the shelf of my bathroom. When
morning came, Patty showed me something scrawled in the dust
by a finger, a woman's fringer. If I'm any judge,
it was just one word, a name, Esther. Maybe Patty
(22:58):
did that himself, maybe not. I didn't know what he
was up to. I can't get away from the fact
that there is someone named Esther who wants to see me,
whose shadow I have seen, whose voice I have heard,
criminal leaves the scent of Russia, letther behind her? Whose girls?
Her name? In the dust? In the dust. That's curious,
(23:21):
isn't it? Dust? Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday night? Now,
Patty and I said again in the dark wadding. This time,
I know something's going to happen. Patty says, you'll send
(23:44):
her back where she came from, send her back alone.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
It can be done with you. All you have to
know is the secrets. Like my Grandpa and you, They've
got oh the stuff right here. The only thing is
maybe she knows. She won't come w ext time.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Here, see Patty. But I'm telling you something better happen.
But at the end of my strength, if she comes,
she'll go with you. I hope so, Yes, sir, Shadows
as terrible things. The only other thing that's worse is
for a man not to have a shadow. How could
(24:19):
that be? How could there be a shadow without anything
for it to be a shadow? Well? Yes, quiet, it's late.
It's past midnight, I think, And I'm so sleepy I
can hardly keep my eyes open. Patty, are you awake? Yeah?
(24:42):
And the little light from the bathroom casts a square
of light on the green wall alongside the dresser, and
I can just barely hear the traffic in the street
below the night I'll taxi somebody yelling, and goodbye the
belated friend, and be still with you? What the wall?
(25:02):
And I look at the wall and there is a
shadow in the square of light on the green wall
alongside the venture. And there is a hag and rush
of leather in the air, and the shadow stretches out
his arms to me, and I blind myself getting up
(25:29):
from my chair, and the shadowy arms are about to
take me. I hear Patty muttering something, and he seems
so far away, and the arms are still reaching for me.
Suddenly is Patty's voice again, loudel in the room. Turn
on the lights, of course, I'll turn the lights on, Patty.
And I do turn on the lights, and it's just
(25:51):
a room again, and the shadow is still there. The
arms are still reaching out for me. In the shadow,
the shadow starts towards the door. Suddenly Hattie screams again,
your shadow is gone, and so my shadow is gone.
(26:20):
So it is, and I follow the other shadow, Best's
shadow to the door. And I opened the door, and
I follow the shadow out into the hall and down
the hall. It seems so odd to be walking along
and my life. There's no shadow for me. The elevator
door is open and I walk in and the shadow
(26:41):
rides in ahead of me. There's a woman standing there
at the back of the elevator. The shadow just seems
to melt into her figure. And I look at her
and I say, she looks. She looks back at me
and said she never saw me in her whole life.
The elevator jerk. Suddenly it starts to plunge faster and
(27:04):
faster down the shafts. She turns horrified eyes to me,
and she screams, And I know that sending is completed.
Mister and I are done with shadows forever.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
M Wyatt Please for the night was called there are
Shadows Here. It was written and directed by Willis Cooper.
(27:58):
The man who spoke to you was.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Chapel, and Alan Sparrow was Esther Paddy was played by
Ed Latimer. The writer was said Cassell. Frank Thomas was Frankie.
As usual, music for Quiet Please is played by Albert Burman.
Our worst my good friend Till Cooper. Nobody living or
(28:25):
dead was even hinted at. And tonight's Quiet Please start.
I thought of the characters and the story without any
outside stimulus at all.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Next week's Quiet Please will be called Jim of purest Ray, and.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
So until next week at the same time, I am
quietly yours, Ernest Chappell.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Wyat Pleece comes to you from New York. This is
a mutual broadcasting system
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