FIVE MILES DOWN: 19th Century Scientists Discover An Underwater City of Hostile Deep Sea Humanoids

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Speaker 8 (01:30):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
Come in. Welcome him E. G. Marshall.

Speaker 8 (01:57):
Over two thirds of the globe on which we live
is water. The oceans, the sea. From the beginning of time,
that sea around us has been a source of mystery,
an enormous.

Speaker 5 (02:10):
Watery world of fear of the unknown.

Speaker 8 (02:14):
To some, like the great American poet Walt Whitman, it
was also a place of miracles. To me, he said,
the sea is a continuous miracle. The fishes that swim,
the rocks, the motion of the waves, the.

Speaker 5 (02:29):
Ships with men in them. What stranger miracles are there?
What are we waiting for? Get that ballast mechanism into action.
It stuck, Sam, it's not working. All things gone dead,
I know, out of your mind. Start it's got to work.

Speaker 9 (02:46):
Those devils out there have knocked it out. I'm sure
of it, and that's a certain sentence.

Speaker 5 (02:52):
Of death for both of us.

Speaker 10 (02:55):
What do we do, Sam, Well, It's either suffocation from
lack of oxygen or drowned.

Speaker 5 (03:03):
Take your choice.

Speaker 8 (03:14):
Our mystery drama City of the Dead was adapted from
the HG. Wells short story in The Abyss Especially for
the Mystery Theater by Arnold Moss. It stars Christopher Tabori
and Earl Hammond. It is sponsored in part by Anheuser
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(03:39):
I'll be back shortly with Act one. The year is
eighteen ninety six, more than eighty years ago. In the

(04:00):
Marine Biological Laboratory in New England, a little group of
scientists and technicians are gathered before Doctor Stanley Weybridge, director
of the Institute and chief of a newly developing science
called oceanographic studies. He stands pointer in hand before an
enlarged wall map of the Caribbean Sea as he concludes

(04:23):
a briefing on the most adventurous, the most perilous project
ever undertaken by the Institute. I cannot say, gentlemen, that
the plan is without danger.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
I wish I could.

Speaker 8 (04:36):
Indeed, there is every risk imaginable, But I assure you
that no precaution, even the most minute, will be overlooked.
Every safety device we know of will be used. Are
there any questions? Yes, I am doctor Weybridge.

Speaker 9 (04:52):
Will you tell us a little more about the place
we're going to, the Cambridge Trough.

Speaker 8 (04:57):
Well, it starts about here on the the map, deep
off the coast of Haiti. Here you see how it
follows a southwesterly course for almost one thousand miles to
the Pacific coast of Guatemala.

Speaker 5 (05:12):
Yes, sir, that big crack on the map there, well.

Speaker 8 (05:15):
That huge crack in the surface of the earth was
produced by movements within the Earth, movements which have never
really stopped, which accounts for the frequent earthquakes in that
part of the world. So far as we know, the
trough is the deepest point of the sea on the
entire face of the globe.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
Do we know how deep the trough is?

Speaker 8 (05:36):
We've taken soundings in some places over twenty two thousand feet.

Speaker 5 (05:41):
That's more than four miles.

Speaker 9 (05:42):
And in six months from now that's where Star and
I will be making the dive.

Speaker 5 (05:49):
Correct.

Speaker 8 (05:50):
The mother ship, the Captain Nemo will be stationed right
about here, not far off the coast of Grand Cayman
Island itself and our.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
Little home away from home.

Speaker 9 (06:02):
The steel globe that will be our transportation to the
bottom of nowhere will be detached and dropped from the
stern of the Nemo from this scaffolding here on the drawing.

Speaker 8 (06:13):
It's constructed a three inch steel eight feet in diameter
with all the.

Speaker 9 (06:18):
Comforts of home right special air cushions padding the inside.

Speaker 5 (06:21):
Two portholes near the bottom of the craft.

Speaker 9 (06:24):
So we can play peekaboo with the barracudas.

Speaker 8 (06:26):
The windows of the portholes are made of a special
variety of glass three inches thick to withstand the pressures
you will meet at that depth.

Speaker 9 (06:35):
Doctor Weybridge, we have volunteered for what I'm sure will
turn out to be a huge barrel of fun.

Speaker 5 (06:41):
A little dangerous maybe, but fun.

Speaker 8 (06:44):
Sam, be serious for a moment. I give you my
word that everything will be minutely inspected. The ballast device
for submerging and getting back up again, the pressure mechanisms,
the depth indicator, the oxygen supply he the Myers apparatus
for purging the carbon dioxide you'll be exhaling. We've thought

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of everything, everything except.

Speaker 9 (07:07):
That we won't be able to communicate with you on
the surface in case of trouble.

Speaker 8 (07:11):
Well, that is true. It's the one thing we'd like.

Speaker 5 (07:14):
To do, but we can't. I understand.

Speaker 9 (07:17):
Once we start down, we'll be free, floating entirely on
our own.

Speaker 5 (07:21):
For the next six months.

Speaker 8 (07:22):
You two will go through the most intensive training possible
in handling the sphere. He I wish I were young
enough to see for myself firsthand the things you're going
to see.

Speaker 5 (07:34):
Have you any idea like what?

Speaker 8 (07:38):
No, not exactly, but there have to be things down
there that no living man has ever experienced, Things that
go beyond the wildest dreams of our imagination, Sam Star,
the day has come when man through you is about
to prove some of the darkest mystery is of the universe.

Speaker 5 (08:09):
Thank you, doctor Waybridge for permitting my wife to come.

Speaker 8 (08:12):
Poor Dorris is one of the best research assistants the
Institute's ever had.

Speaker 5 (08:17):
She's more than welcome.

Speaker 11 (08:18):
Thank you, doctor Waybridge.

Speaker 12 (08:20):
I envy Salmon Star. I wish I were going with them.

Speaker 9 (08:24):
You picked a perfect day for this Caribbean holiday, didn't you, doctor, Yes,
clear sky, blazing sun and a gentle swell, water temperatures
nearly eighty an ideal day for swinging this twenty tons
of iron out into the briny. Say nothing of the
two utterly defenseless young men inside that iron, you know, doctor,

(08:45):
Last night Doris and I were making some quick calculations.

Speaker 5 (08:48):
At the surface, the.

Speaker 9 (08:49):
Pressure is the fourteen pounds square, It all right, thirty
feet down it's double lit right, and at a mile
that's five two hundred and eighty feet the pressure.

Speaker 11 (08:59):
Becomes thing like a ton and a half per square inch.

Speaker 5 (09:02):
And it's five miles.

Speaker 8 (09:04):
Yes, I know, I know, but you've got the steel
walls of the globe to protect you, and the globe
is pressurized.

Speaker 5 (09:11):
We put that sphere through every test we could think of.

Speaker 8 (09:14):
The margin for error has been reduced to the absolute minimum. Well,
it's eleven fifty six boys, four minutes to noon and
the descent of the Poseidon. Prepare to climb the scaffolding
for boarding, Yes, sir, ready, sir, one final review of
the procedure. Now the two of you will let yourselves

(09:35):
into the open porthole. It will let me screwed into
place from the outside. The sphere will be hoisted over
the side, the line's cut, and the sphere dropped into
the sea. You understand, oh, yes, we understand, sir. And
once in the water only we have control of the
ballast right, and you will regulate ballast so as to
let yourselves down gently. Thirty five minutes for the descent,

(09:59):
and then an hour for observation and two hours for
coming up. Total a little over three and a half hours.
Your oxygen supply is good for five hours.

Speaker 5 (10:10):
For each of you.

Speaker 9 (10:11):
Well, we'll watch it like hawks and the pressure indicators.

Speaker 8 (10:15):
We'll be lying off a couple of miles to the
southeast and so you don't collide with us.

Speaker 5 (10:20):
Is your service? Any questions?

Speaker 9 (10:23):
One last request, sir, if there's time, I like to
kiss my wife.

Speaker 12 (10:28):
I love you, Sam.

Speaker 5 (10:30):
Oh, don't worry, dear.

Speaker 9 (10:31):
I think everything's going to be fine, just one hundred
percent fine. Oh and remember we've got a big date
for a turtle steak when I get back up. At
exactly twelve noon, they swung us overboard.

Speaker 5 (10:47):
My heart nearly burst.

Speaker 9 (10:48):
With excitement as they let us down foot by foot
to the surface of the water, and then they cut
the line that attached us to the tackle above us.

Speaker 5 (10:56):
For a moment we seem to be stationary, and.

Speaker 9 (11:00):
Then with a gigantic splash, the sea closed over us
and we started our journey. Well this is it, Star,
What are you thinking?

Speaker 13 (11:11):
How my mother always hoped I'd grow up to be
a brilliant criminal lawyer instead of a marine biologist.

Speaker 9 (11:17):
That's very funny, So did my mother, only she wanted
me to be a doctor.

Speaker 5 (11:22):
Look above you, Star, I'm trying.

Speaker 13 (11:24):
To, but that huge burst of air bubble shooting.

Speaker 5 (11:27):
Upward is blocking the view. I'm just about gone by now.

Speaker 9 (11:30):
How quickly the color of the sea changes from light
greenish blue, darker and darker to that rich blue of
stained glass windows. Yes, and now it's almost midnight blue.

Speaker 5 (11:42):
How far down are we? A little over six hundred feet?
I could mark that in your log. Absolutely pitch black already,
it's like velvet.

Speaker 14 (11:53):
I better turn on the electric spot.

Speaker 5 (11:54):
No, no, not just yet. Take a look at those Why,
it's like a whole world of tiny blinking lights. What
do you suppose they are?

Speaker 9 (12:02):
With the faintest idea, they're flashing by so fast like
streaks of green lightning, some of them strung together like
a train racing barn a very dark night.

Speaker 5 (12:11):
Or I turn on floodlights. Oh no, they all disappeared
with the light. But wait, wait, wait a minute.

Speaker 9 (12:18):
Will you take a look at that the famous reverse
snowfall waybridge and the divers told us about as if
millions and millions of little snowflakes were falling up as
we go, plunging down.

Speaker 13 (12:30):
Some of them living creatures, and the others the remains
of those that have died.

Speaker 5 (12:34):
Right head of the class, mister Norton.

Speaker 13 (12:37):
Just keep your fingers crossed that we don't wind up
as part of a reverse snowfall.

Speaker 9 (12:45):
We kept hard and falling, falling down, down, down, faster
and faster. It was like being in an elevator and
one of those new skyscrapers and the cable that holds
it in place suddenly breaks, and you keep going down,
waiting for the inevitable will crash, it will destroy it.

Speaker 15 (13:01):
And you.

Speaker 9 (13:03):
You all right, star, you look a little uncomfortable.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
It's got a little warm. Heh.

Speaker 9 (13:10):
I guess we underestimated the effect of the friction of
the globe against the water. And we'd better take off
some of these heavy clothes. Careful, don't touch the glass
of the porthole. You might burn yourself.

Speaker 5 (13:24):
Where are we.

Speaker 13 (13:26):
Over ten thousand feet nearly two miles? Hey see how
the sides of the trough.

Speaker 9 (13:32):
The trench walls, keep going straight up and down like
the sides of an underseas mountain.

Speaker 5 (13:37):
Which is what it really is.

Speaker 9 (13:40):
The water temperature outside must be close to zero at
this depth, Yes, I would think so to hope Waybridge
was right, that the windows of the portholes will hold
up against the pressure and the end against the contrast
and temperatures inside and.

Speaker 5 (13:52):
Outside the sphere. We're past twenty one thousand feet and
still dropping. There's got to be an end.

Speaker 9 (14:02):
You are right, Yes, great, you I'm pretty warm.

Speaker 5 (14:07):
I'm gonna take my shirt off. Me too, I'm bathed
in perspiration. Any change in the scenery just more slabs
of rock.

Speaker 9 (14:16):
Once in a while, a huge, gigantic sponge growing out
of the rock.

Speaker 5 (14:21):
Then there's some coral, huge jellyfish. No, no, no, no, not
not much as.

Speaker 9 (14:27):
Why I think we've gone to the last stop.

Speaker 5 (14:30):
Star, what you're reading?

Speaker 13 (14:32):
It's almost twenty six thousand feet?

Speaker 16 (14:35):
Wow?

Speaker 5 (14:36):
Can you believe it? Five miles.

Speaker 9 (14:38):
I turned the lights on all over the place.

Speaker 5 (14:44):
Star. It's beautiful. It's just beautiful. Not many fish, well
at this step, what do you expect?

Speaker 9 (14:52):
Well, there are a few, and they're so brightly colored.

Speaker 5 (14:56):
Yes, in spite of the darkness.

Speaker 9 (14:58):
There must be some kind of built in headlights that
that we can't see, that lets them see one another.

Speaker 5 (15:05):
I'd say all of them are blind, you know.

Speaker 9 (15:07):
Maybe hold it, Star, hold it. Look at that big
one coming right at us. The size of him and
how slow he moves.

Speaker 5 (15:16):
He must be the grandfather of everything down here.

Speaker 9 (15:19):
He's pushing his nose right against the glass. How can
he live under this pressure?

Speaker 5 (15:25):
I don't know what. The fact is. He's very much alive,
and that is what I find so hard to believe. Well,
what are you talking about? That look? Star?

Speaker 9 (15:35):
Either I'm dreaming and this is all some kind of
crazy nightmare, or for what, take a very good look
at old Grandpa out there?

Speaker 5 (15:45):
What about him? Star?

Speaker 9 (15:48):
That species of fish has been dead extinct for over
one hundred million years.

Speaker 8 (16:00):
Scientists tell us that every form of living thing had
its beginnings in the sea, that the morning of the
world was started in the depths of the oceans, in
the dark, backward and abysm.

Speaker 5 (16:15):
Of time, as Shakespeare put it. Sam Elstead and Star
Norton have been startled.

Speaker 8 (16:21):
By the sight of a living prehistoric fish, a species
that died out long before there ever was a man
on earth. What other wonders will their strange journey to
the bottom of the sea lead them to. I shall
return shortly with Act two in eighteen ninety six. The

(16:53):
time of our story, the airplane, the automobile, radio, all
were but a gleam in the brain of geniuses.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
Nothing more.

Speaker 8 (17:03):
These discoveries were yet to come. The two young biologists
of our tale have already accomplished a miracle never before
attempted by man. In their specially constructed iron globe, equipped
with every scientific device known at the time, they have
probed five miles below sea level to the bottommost part

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of the oceans. In the interest of enlarging man's knowledge
of the world about him, as well as the world
beneath him, they have made their first amazing discovery.

Speaker 5 (17:38):
Take a look at that fish star.

Speaker 9 (17:40):
Do you remember ever having seen anything like it before?

Speaker 13 (17:45):
I'm not sure, but there's something very familiar about us
back at college when we were reading about things like
dinosaurs and brontosaurs and all those kind of fantastic animals
that lived millions of years ago.

Speaker 17 (17:56):
Yes, what about.

Speaker 9 (17:57):
Well, those were the land animals. Do you remember what
was in the sea?

Speaker 13 (18:02):
Let me see, now, there was this one fish that
was the ancestor of all the amphibians, and as time
went on, of other vertebrates on land.

Speaker 5 (18:12):
What was the name of it? Does the name Sela
can't ring any kind of a bell?

Speaker 13 (18:17):
Of course, Sela can't with the overdeveloped fins that grew
strong enough to get it out of the water and
onto the land exactly.

Speaker 9 (18:24):
Now, take another look at Old Grandpa.

Speaker 5 (18:26):
Out there, a sila can. Fact's what it is?

Speaker 9 (18:31):
No, but there isn't any such thing, not anymore. They've
become extinct.

Speaker 5 (18:35):
They died out with the dinosaurs.

Speaker 9 (18:36):
That's exactly the point, those prehistoric monsters died out over
one hundred million years ago.

Speaker 18 (18:43):
Only nobody ever told that to our friend out there?

Speaker 5 (18:48):
What's that storm down here?

Speaker 1 (18:50):
Are you out of your mind?

Speaker 5 (18:51):
But then, what is it? The noise seems to have stopped.
Did you feel anything? Sad?

Speaker 9 (18:58):
It must have been some sut of a minor tremor.
Did you see how Old Grandpa skidded away into a
cave when the noise began?

Speaker 5 (19:07):
A star?

Speaker 9 (19:10):
Are you finding it hard to breathe?

Speaker 19 (19:14):
Not?

Speaker 5 (19:15):
Not really?

Speaker 20 (19:15):
What?

Speaker 21 (19:16):
Huh?

Speaker 14 (19:16):
Well?

Speaker 5 (19:17):
Maybe yeah, a little? I have this slight headache. I'll
make a note of it.

Speaker 9 (19:22):
Well, why don't you take it easy for a couple
of minutes.

Speaker 5 (19:25):
I'll take over where you rest.

Speaker 9 (19:30):
I sat looking through the window of the porthole, fascinated
by what I saw. There were hundreds of small, large
eyed things, all of them certainly blind, crawling sluggishly like
little lobsters, across the track of our lights, leaving furrowed
trails behind them.

Speaker 5 (19:48):
I made notes of everything.

Speaker 9 (19:51):
Suddenly I saw the outlines of the something working its
way slowly threateningly toward the post.

Speaker 5 (20:01):
It was upright and seemed as tall as a man.
What what do you suppose that is out there? I
don't know. I can only see the mountlines. But it's
coming closer. It's not swimming. It seems to be walking. Here.
Focus your light onto its head. Okay, yeah, there we are.

(20:24):
Shut its eyes to close out the light.

Speaker 22 (20:27):
What is it?

Speaker 5 (20:28):
An animal of some kind? Same? Diy. It's not a fish, certainly,
no kind of fish we've ever seen.

Speaker 9 (20:35):
Seems to be standing upright on two strong legs, balancing
itself on a long thick tail. Look at its dark
purple head like a lizend or an iguama, and two
large protruding eyes bulging out of the sockets like.

Speaker 5 (20:52):
A grog or toad. Start where the ears should be.
There are two large gill covers.

Speaker 13 (21:00):
I see, and threads or filaments floating out of them
like the branches.

Speaker 5 (21:04):
Of a tree.

Speaker 9 (21:05):
What can they be? I have no idea move the
light a bit.

Speaker 13 (21:09):
As long as we keep the light on it, it
stands still. But when we move the light it moves.

Speaker 9 (21:14):
Skin is so loose, it's almost as if it were
wearing clothes.

Speaker 5 (21:20):
Look at it. It's paws or feeling on whatever they are.
They shape like hands, the hands on a man.

Speaker 13 (21:28):
He's he's holding something in one of them, a long
sheaft of bone tipped with copper, like the hammer of
some kind, a sledge hammer.

Speaker 5 (21:39):
That face, it's almost human.

Speaker 13 (21:42):
It's grotesque, distorted maybe, but.

Speaker 5 (21:46):
Those are the features are the living man. Sam. Look
what it's doing now. It's sprinking its eyes open, shading
them with its free hand against the light. Now it's
opening its mouth.

Speaker 9 (22:00):
Specific were as if we were trying to say something.

Speaker 5 (22:03):
I'll turn on the listening device. What is he ballowing
that way? What does it mean? You suppose you want
to stop?

Speaker 9 (22:14):
I don't know, Star, but I think we're about to find.

Speaker 17 (22:17):
Out speaking.

Speaker 5 (22:28):
It's asking who we are. It's coming closer.

Speaker 9 (22:44):
We answer no, no, no, stay perfectly still, don't worry.
Look at him now, moving sideways to get out of
the glare of our He's disappeared.

Speaker 13 (23:03):
I can't see him, neither can I. He may have
moved around to the back of us. He's around somewhere hiding.

Speaker 5 (23:12):
What's that The whole globeus wing star.

Speaker 9 (23:17):
Look look at the glass, peering right into the porthole.
Their noses pressed.

Speaker 5 (23:23):
Against the glass.

Speaker 9 (23:23):
They're popping eyes, steering in us.

Speaker 19 (23:26):
Now there are two of them.

Speaker 5 (23:36):
Another couple of coffee.

Speaker 8 (23:37):
Mesuzelle said, thank you, doctor wavebitch.

Speaker 11 (23:40):
We'll make this the last one. What time is it now.

Speaker 8 (23:45):
You just asked, did I? That's almost two o'clock. The
boys have surely started up on their way back now, I.

Speaker 12 (23:52):
Hope, so they could only get through to us some way.

Speaker 8 (23:56):
All I have to do is put the clockwork mechanism
in action.

Speaker 5 (24:00):
And up they go.

Speaker 12 (24:01):
And that's foolproof.

Speaker 8 (24:03):
Nothing is absolutely foolproof, my dear, But there's nothing to
be concerned about.

Speaker 5 (24:08):
It's also simple.

Speaker 8 (24:09):
The mechanism outside the globe releases a spring knife.

Speaker 12 (24:13):
The knife cuts the cord that holds the.

Speaker 8 (24:15):
Ballace exactly, and then they just get rid of enough
ballast for them to float upward to the surface.

Speaker 5 (24:23):
Matter of a couple of hours, more.

Speaker 8 (24:25):
Or less another hour and a half, then by three
point thirty you should have your husband right back here
on the deck of the Nemo.

Speaker 9 (24:41):
What on earth of us monkey is trying to do
banging on the outside of the sphere with the sledgehammer.
Every once in a while they stop and then peer
in through the portholes.

Speaker 18 (24:49):
Get away from there.

Speaker 5 (24:50):
Stop that banging.

Speaker 9 (24:53):
They're looking in them to see what effect the hammering
is having on us.

Speaker 23 (24:57):
Star.

Speaker 13 (24:58):
What's our death still twenty six thousand pressure satisfactory, oxygen
enough to stay submerged for at least another hour if
we have to before.

Speaker 9 (25:10):
Surfacing, and the mechanism for the release of the ballast.

Speaker 13 (25:12):
Ready anytime, you say, Sam, I took a particular care
of that one myself before we came down here.

Speaker 9 (25:19):
Don't get anywhere near the ballast released or the glass
of the porthole windows.

Speaker 5 (25:24):
We're in real trouble. I'm going to turn on the
listening device. Hear what they're saying.

Speaker 9 (25:32):
I'm finding it a little hard to breathe.

Speaker 5 (25:36):
I don't find breathing any easier than you do. Then,
what is it? I don't know. I turn on the device.
What do you hear? What are they let me listen?

(26:08):
Is screw.

Speaker 22 (26:13):
You?

Speaker 5 (26:13):
Hear what he said?

Speaker 9 (26:15):
I heard they declared war on a Star and we
haven't a single weapon to fight back with except one.

Speaker 5 (26:23):
Now it's the only thing we can do.

Speaker 9 (26:25):
We've got to cut our ballast lines and get out
of here as fast as our ship will take us.

Speaker 5 (26:30):
Yes, there's no choice.

Speaker 24 (26:32):
What what's happening?

Speaker 17 (26:33):
What's happening?

Speaker 5 (26:35):
Hey, Star?

Speaker 23 (26:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (26:37):
Sorry?

Speaker 25 (26:37):
I think we're moving.

Speaker 5 (26:38):
Oh we sit in the arm hip, but not up
as much as sidewise. How could that be? I don't know.

Speaker 9 (26:44):
But the spear is beginning to spin.

Speaker 26 (26:47):
I think we're being drawn drawn through the water.

Speaker 5 (26:49):
Do you see anything?

Speaker 9 (26:50):
No, nothing, nothing, there's nobody out there. We've got to
get out of here just as fast as we can.
Those monsters out there probably past the line of some
kind of well if they have. Once we cut the
ballast lines and start shooting up to the surface, we'll
rip at the wine right out of their ruggly little
hands almost back.

Speaker 5 (27:07):
Why do you suppose that towing is so well?

Speaker 27 (27:09):
I wouldn't know.

Speaker 5 (27:11):
You look at them, can you see them?

Speaker 23 (27:13):
Star?

Speaker 5 (27:14):
There must be at least.

Speaker 9 (27:15):
Five hundred of them, jumping around like a pack of
crazy kangaroos.

Speaker 28 (27:19):
And they are pulling us.

Speaker 9 (27:19):
Well, let them and let us keep our minds on
getting up to the Nemo.

Speaker 5 (27:23):
Weybridge calculated about two hours when we are sent.

Speaker 9 (27:27):
Could we drop more ballast than we planned and get
up any sooner.

Speaker 5 (27:31):
No, no, no, I wouldn't dare.

Speaker 9 (27:32):
If the slightest thing went wrong, we'd both get to
the surface.

Speaker 5 (27:36):
All right, But there's a couple of corpses. Hey, how
are you feeling? It's not too well said? That headache has.

Speaker 9 (27:45):
Tightened around my head like an iron band. Oh no, no,
not another earthquake.

Speaker 23 (27:53):
Here.

Speaker 5 (27:53):
Take this hand at your Star. You've got a bit
of nosebleed.

Speaker 13 (27:56):
I don't feel too well at all, Sam.

Speaker 5 (28:01):
I think I'm gonna mess out. Not before we put
the clockwork into action. Get rid of some of this ballast.

Speaker 9 (28:09):
Steady, Stars, Steady, when I regulate the pressure gage and
the oxygen to control you, you cut half the ballast now, now.

Speaker 5 (28:19):
Star, Now, what are you waiting for?

Speaker 13 (28:21):
Stock, Sam, it's not working the mechanisms, condemn.

Speaker 5 (28:26):
Are you out of your mind? And get the work
and you make it. See for yourself. Nothing's happening.

Speaker 9 (28:34):
Maybe a piece of seaweader or something is temporarily jammed.

Speaker 5 (28:38):
Sam, What friends out there?

Speaker 9 (28:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (28:42):
Is it possible they knew our lives depended on that
ballast mechanism and that they have destroyed it by knocking
it out with the sledgehammers.

Speaker 5 (28:52):
You may be right. We've got to keep trying.

Speaker 23 (28:55):
Star.

Speaker 5 (28:55):
We have got.

Speaker 29 (28:58):
Between those crazy devils there and what may be an earthquake.

Speaker 5 (29:03):
In trouble, very serious trouble. In this strange world of
heavy blackness.

Speaker 8 (29:21):
A swarm of luminous, man sized creatures, looking almost human
have appeared outside the iron globe Poseidon.

Speaker 5 (29:31):
They have lifted it off the bottom of the sea.

Speaker 8 (29:35):
The attempts of young Elstad Norton to break away, to
rise to the surface, and the safety of the mothership
seem to be thwarted by these weird sea animals, who
are dragging them off to where two Act three. Of
course I shall return shortly. The sea, we have been told,

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is the right hand man of time. Every secret since
the beginning of time lies hidden somewhere in the water's depths.
The time in this instance is eighteen ninety six. Outside
the underwater globe Poseidon, a funnel of pale light pierces
the darkness for a few yards, disclosing the peaceful, undulating expanses.

Speaker 5 (30:34):
Of graying white ooze.

Speaker 8 (30:36):
Broken here and there by the tangled thickets of a
growth of sea lilies waving their hungry tentacles inside the
metal globe, two men scrambled desperately to free themselves from
what seems to be the inevitable, to escape from the
perils of the unknown to the safety of the gnome.

Speaker 30 (31:00):
Far.

Speaker 5 (31:01):
You've got to cut the line for that ballast.

Speaker 9 (31:03):
Every extra minute we stay down here is another minute
of our lives.

Speaker 5 (31:08):
I'm I'm calling the best I can, Sam, cutting mechanism.
It just isn't working.

Speaker 9 (31:16):
I'm almost sure those devils smashed the cockwood mechanism. We
have got to go on hoping that they didn't, that
it's only being blocked by something.

Speaker 5 (31:25):
I hope you're right.

Speaker 10 (31:26):
Well, I'm turning the oxygen supply down a bit, and
the apparatus for purging what we breathe out up and
now not too much, Sam, I'm having trouble enough breathing
as it is, and so are you.

Speaker 23 (31:40):
Well.

Speaker 9 (31:41):
I'm going to crouch down low, close to the lower porthole,
going to throw my way to that side. Maybe I
can get a look at what's happening below.

Speaker 5 (31:50):
It's a good idea. Do you see anything now? It's
just some huge, huge cracks in the sea bottom. I
can just barely make them out. Anything else, Our friends
have some kind of cable on us. They're still very
much with us. I'd give anything to know where they're
taking is. Yes, wherever it is story, But I hope

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it's soon, because the way things are going, you don't
have to say it.

Speaker 13 (32:18):
Sooner or later that oxygen engagees can read it perfectly
round Sera.

Speaker 9 (32:23):
I whish we will never see then. It won't matter
where those monkeys have taken us, will it?

Speaker 5 (32:29):
Oh? Any look in the ballast lines?

Speaker 9 (32:31):
No? Nothing, you know, I've heard of dead men being
buried at sea. This may be the first time it's
going to happen to two men we're still alive.

Speaker 5 (32:43):
What time is it, Storry, nearly four o'clock. I hope
my wife.

Speaker 9 (32:49):
Won't be too disappointed if she doesn't have turtle steak.

Speaker 5 (32:52):
For dinner tonight.

Speaker 12 (33:01):
Isn't there anything we can do, doctor Waybridge?

Speaker 8 (33:04):
Lo for the past Oh, we've been sweeping slowly in
a spiral or on the spot where the Poseidon submerged with.

Speaker 12 (33:10):
No sign of it.

Speaker 11 (33:12):
I don't think I can stand it any longer, Doctor Waybridge.

Speaker 5 (33:14):
You've got to get hold of yourself. Doris.

Speaker 12 (33:16):
What possibly could have happened?

Speaker 5 (33:19):
I couldn't say.

Speaker 11 (33:20):
Maybe the windows burst in on them and mashed.

Speaker 12 (33:22):
Them to pieces.

Speaker 5 (33:23):
Oh I doubt that very much.

Speaker 12 (33:25):
Maybe the clockwork's gone wrong.

Speaker 5 (33:27):
That's not very likely either.

Speaker 11 (33:28):
But if it has, Sam and starred down there, five
miles under our feet, and the cold and the dark
anchored in that little bubble of yours, counting off the
minutes of life that are still left.

Speaker 5 (33:41):
Either or stop that, Stop it and listen to me.

Speaker 8 (33:44):
If anything serious has gone wrong, and I'm sure it hasn't,
remember they have enough oxygen for another good hour. At least,
it's too soon to start worrying. You've got to be patient.

Speaker 12 (33:57):
If there were only something we could do.

Speaker 5 (34:00):
Don't stop that, Dora, stop it.

Speaker 12 (34:03):
I can't help it.

Speaker 5 (34:04):
It's so funny.

Speaker 11 (34:06):
What pitiful, arrogant little creatures, we humans are down there,
miles and miles of water, reaching to Lord knows where,
and this beautiful.

Speaker 12 (34:17):
Blue sky stretching out over us with no.

Speaker 11 (34:20):
End, and we proud, insignificant little pygmies.

Speaker 12 (34:25):
Feel we have to conquer it all.

Speaker 11 (34:28):
Why do we have to stick our big noses into
every unknown.

Speaker 12 (34:32):
Secret of the universe? Why can't we let things alone?

Speaker 9 (34:43):
Do you see anything? How you stop moving? The spinning
stopped so as the rocking. Some funny is happening out there.
It seems who got lighter, as if there were a
broad horizon and pale, luminous sky.

Speaker 5 (34:59):
And our friends, and they've got us.

Speaker 9 (35:02):
Suspended like a balloon, some one hundred or so feet
above the bottom.

Speaker 5 (35:07):
Seem to be thousands of them. No, when is it? Star?

Speaker 31 (35:14):
There's a whole city down there, streets, the houses and
waving trees spread all over the place.

Speaker 5 (35:25):
There's a building much taller than the rest. It looks
like a ruined abbey or a cathedral of some kind.
Take a look for yourself. You're absolutely right. It's all
laid out like a big map.

Speaker 13 (35:41):
But none of the houses have a roof. Look you
can see and sign every one of them. Everything so
so white, Sam, Where are we?

Speaker 5 (35:53):
Where have they taken us? They've got us inside the walls.

Speaker 9 (36:01):
They made a water logged wooden, twisted copper wire rope
and iron spars, and and what the dead white bones
and skulls of human beings all over the place in
zigzag lines and spirals and girls.

Speaker 5 (36:22):
Let me take a look.

Speaker 13 (36:24):
A thousands of silvery little fish darting in and out
of the eye sockets.

Speaker 5 (36:29):
Look at those devils. Now, what are they up to?

Speaker 13 (36:32):
Lying down flat on their bellies, prostrating themselves.

Speaker 5 (36:36):
In front of her globe?

Speaker 31 (36:37):
All except that very tall one standing in front of them,
gas on top of a platform and crusted, wearing more
skulls and bones on.

Speaker 5 (36:47):
It's a woman.

Speaker 31 (36:49):
Her scales or whatever they are, look like a shining
robe of some kind, as she's got a crown on
her head. She just stands there above the rest of them,
opening and shutting that sneak mouth of hers.

Speaker 29 (37:03):
As if she were leading the others in some.

Speaker 19 (37:05):
Kind of prayer.

Speaker 5 (37:06):
I'm turning on the listening device.

Speaker 32 (37:08):
All beloved, teaful of perpetual.

Speaker 5 (37:13):
Night blend iner to.

Speaker 33 (37:16):
What I say.

Speaker 32 (37:19):
It has been told that there exists another world above us,
a strange heaven of light.

Speaker 5 (37:31):
Called the Sun, the Moon, the stars.

Speaker 9 (37:36):
See if she's the high priestess of this fresh see
ancient scrolls.

Speaker 32 (37:42):
Terror of fantastic creatures who inhabit this unknown world, Creatures
who breathe air, who know other thing called fire, blood
is warm. We know them from the bones and from

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the skulls we have collected.

Speaker 5 (38:11):
Can you sept up?

Speaker 12 (38:13):
Two of these shining creatures.

Speaker 32 (38:17):
Have rained down upon us like a blessed meteor out
of the mysterious blackness of our watery sky.

Speaker 34 (38:30):
We must show them our reverence.

Speaker 23 (38:35):
And our love.

Speaker 32 (38:38):
These are the gods that we're described in our ancient writings.
These are the gods to whom we must do honor.

Speaker 5 (38:53):
She's talking about us, Sam, I know we must.

Speaker 35 (38:58):
Now release them from the star that.

Speaker 5 (39:02):
Brought them to us, so we may worship.

Speaker 15 (39:06):
Them with wollness.

Speaker 32 (39:09):
Oh hot, you may proceeds.

Speaker 5 (39:15):
What are they gonna do? You hear they're going to
release us from our star. They're going to open this
thing and.

Speaker 19 (39:22):
Let us out.

Speaker 5 (39:23):
But that's a certain death sentence.

Speaker 31 (39:25):
That's that's the choice, suffocation from lack of oxygen or drowning.

Speaker 13 (39:32):
They're back at the windows.

Speaker 5 (39:35):
If they managed to crack one of them with it's
not lightly. The glass is three inches thick.

Speaker 36 (39:43):
I can heal it.

Speaker 12 (39:44):
The line.

Speaker 9 (39:48):
It's been trent out of bands, so it's been cut
by the rocks.

Speaker 18 (39:52):
We're going up, Star.

Speaker 23 (39:53):
I can't believe it.

Speaker 4 (39:54):
We're rising up.

Speaker 5 (39:56):
Oh, we compel.

Speaker 9 (40:01):
The impact of the globe shooting up to the surface,
slowed only by some of the lead ballast that was
still attached to it.

Speaker 5 (40:07):
Star had already passed out. Then something like a.

Speaker 9 (40:10):
Huge wheel was suddenly released in my head, spinning around
and around.

Speaker 5 (40:15):
I thought, with every ounce of strength left in.

Speaker 9 (40:17):
My body to hold on, but in seconds I too collapsed,
and whilst consciousness completely the next thing I saw was
the face of my wife looking anxiously into mine.

Speaker 12 (40:34):
Are you all right, darling hu?

Speaker 5 (40:37):
I suppose so, Queer Star.

Speaker 12 (40:39):
Still with the ship's doctor.

Speaker 8 (40:41):
The doctor says he'll be all right. You had so
worried there for a while. Sam, I'm glad you're back.

Speaker 5 (40:48):
You have no idea how glad I am to be back,
Doctor Waybridge? What happened?

Speaker 9 (40:54):
Let's say, let's say we had a couple of anxious moments.

Speaker 12 (40:58):
The main thing is you're here.

Speaker 5 (41:00):
Whatever it was, you're very lucky.

Speaker 8 (41:02):
And doctor says that you'll both be back to your
normal selves in a couple of days.

Speaker 5 (41:07):
Where did we surface, doctor? I blacked out before I
could tell.

Speaker 8 (41:10):
The Poseidon shot up out of the water not more
than a quarter of a mile from where we were waiting.
We unscrewed the hatch and found the two of you
lying crumpled up on the bottom.

Speaker 11 (41:19):
They couldn't tell whether you were dead or alive. What
really made us swallow hard was the fact that you
had only six minutes of oxygen left.

Speaker 8 (41:28):
Six minutes, that's all once that you're holding in your hand,
Doctor Well, I thought after you arrested, you might be
able to tell me what is it? Well? I, in
going over the outside of the sphere, one of the
boys found these two little things jammed into the clockwork mechanism.

Speaker 12 (41:48):
May I see them?

Speaker 5 (41:48):
Please handle them carefully, Doris.

Speaker 8 (41:51):
There are a specimen of sea animal I've never seen
in my entire professional.

Speaker 12 (41:56):
Experience, about five inches long.

Speaker 11 (42:00):
It's like a lizard of some kind, strang legs, wide,
flat tail.

Speaker 8 (42:06):
Look at the petrel fins, if you can call them that,
like little human hands.

Speaker 12 (42:11):
Their faces, in some peculiar well, are pretty human too.

Speaker 8 (42:16):
Did you come across any of them down there, sam Or?

Speaker 5 (42:19):
We saw something like him, But what we saw is
longer than five inches.

Speaker 8 (42:24):
I remind you that seen through the three inch thick
glass of your portholes, they would have been magnified. Magnified
of course at least twelve or fifteen times from where
you sat. One of these fellows, if you had seen them,
would have appeared to have been almost as big as.

Speaker 5 (42:43):
A man, as big as a man.

Speaker 17 (42:46):
What do you think it is?

Speaker 8 (42:48):
Doctor, I can't be sure, but what you brought up
may will be a kind of prehistoric cross between some
kind of fish I hang over from a long, long
forgotten past, and what millions of years later was to
evolve into a man.

Speaker 9 (43:06):
If I told you we've seen thousands of them, that
they attacked us, and that their top lady tried to
make gods of us, would you say that we.

Speaker 5 (43:15):
Had gone out of our minds. No, not out of
your minds, but definitely out of this world.

Speaker 8 (43:34):
Some scientists have stated without equivocation that they see no
reason why, under certain conditions, intelligent water breathing vertebrates could
not live at the bottom of the deepest sea.

Speaker 5 (43:49):
Of course, you're entirely free to.

Speaker 8 (43:50):
Disagree with the scientists and say that Elstead in Norton, suffering.

Speaker 5 (43:55):
From a lack of oxygen, may have dreamed the.

Speaker 8 (43:57):
Whole thing up. The choice is entirely I shall be
back shortly.

Speaker 5 (44:05):
On.

Speaker 8 (44:13):
In February nineteen seventy six, three men in a craft
called the Alvin actually made a journey two miles deep
into the waters of the Caribbean off Grand Cayman Island.
Their findings were a little short of astonishing. What is
most remarkable is that so many of the things they

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saw were identical to what H. G. Wells created out
of his imagination over eighty years ago in the story
You Have Just Heard. Our cast included Christopher Tabori, Earl Hammond,
Court Benson, and Katherine Byers. The entire production was under
the direction of Hyman Brown Radio. Mystery Theater was sponsored

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in part by Contact the twelve Hour Cold Cap So
and Buick Motor Division.

Speaker 5 (45:02):
Missus E. G.

Speaker 8 (45:03):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre until next time, pleasant dream.

Speaker 37 (45:59):
They advise yours, Oh, Superman.

Speaker 38 (46:02):
Astad and a speeding bullet more powerful than a locomotive,
able to leave Paul Building for a single bound.

Speaker 33 (46:12):
Who up on the sky?

Speaker 18 (46:14):
HiT's a bird, hits a plane, It's Superman.

Speaker 39 (46:21):
When the planet crept on, home of a race of
Superman exploded into dust, the sole survivor was an infant
boy who had been shot to Earth in a sealed rocket. Today,
that boy, grown to manhood, is known as Superman.

Speaker 6 (46:33):
Born.

Speaker 39 (46:34):
Enemy of the forces of evil wage him and his
never ending fight for truth and justice. He masquerade as
Clark Kent, prime reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper. His
secret is carefully guarded. No one is aware that Kent
is Superman.

Speaker 37 (46:48):
No one but you.

Speaker 39 (46:56):
Join with us now on ABC as we embark on
one of Superman's transcribed adventures. As the Man of Steel
finds himself petted against an unseen enemy in the Mystery
of the Walking Dead, The able yellow light burns endlessly

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outside one of the death house cells of State Prison.
Beyond the black steel door with its tiny barred opening,
hemmed in by blank walls of ash gray concrete, a
man is seated on an iron cut with He's thin
and gaunt, with great dark eyes and hollow, sunken cheeks.
He is an East Indian and his name is Krishna.
Soon they will come to shave his head and slip

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the leg of his prison trousers. And soon after that
they will lead him from his cell, and he will
walk the last while into everlasting darkness. But now he
sits quietly. The yellow light, passing through the barred opening
in the cell door, lays in fiery pattern across his
leanswarthy face. Suddenly his jaw tied, he rises from the

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cotton moves to the steel door, his long, sensitive fingers
curling about the bars like sneaks. He waits patiently while
the hollow footfalls of the guard patrolling the corridor draw.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
Closer and closer. When they reach the cell, he speaks,
I have.

Speaker 40 (48:18):
A request to make.

Speaker 23 (48:20):
What is it?

Speaker 40 (48:21):
You will please to inform the warden.

Speaker 5 (48:23):
It is my desire to speak with him.

Speaker 41 (48:25):
Be along pretty soon.

Speaker 42 (48:26):
Now, I cannot wait for soon. It is my desire
to speak with him at once. Do you question the
wish of a condemned man?

Speaker 25 (48:34):
Easy?

Speaker 42 (48:35):
Easy, you will please to inform him.

Speaker 39 (48:40):
Almost hypnotized by the huge, dark eyes glaring at him
through the bars, the prison guard turns and retraces his
steps along the corridor. Meanwhile, in the editorial offices of
the Metropolis Daily Planet, now almost deserted with the last
edition off the presses, Lois Lane, the paper's star girl reporter,
is anxiously pacing the floor.

Speaker 14 (49:00):
Can't plead with her to relax.

Speaker 4 (49:02):
You don't end up with a nervous breakdown if you're
not care for loss.

Speaker 18 (49:06):
Look, why don't you go home?

Speaker 13 (49:08):
Guy?

Speaker 12 (49:10):
You're crazy?

Speaker 43 (49:10):
You what must have stopped why it was nine o'clock.
I'm sorry, Clark, sorry for what screaming at you. You're right,
I will have a nervous breakdown if I'm not careful.

Speaker 4 (49:20):
It is worth it, I know.

Speaker 43 (49:21):
But they're going to kill man up there tonight. He's
going to die.

Speaker 4 (49:25):
Lots of men will be dying tonight all over the world.

Speaker 43 (49:28):
But I'm not responsible for them.

Speaker 4 (49:29):
You're not responsible for Krishna either.

Speaker 43 (49:31):
I dug up the story, I had him arrested, I
testified against him in court.

Speaker 4 (49:35):
I sent him to the tail, all of which was
no more than he deserved. I don't waste any sympathy.

Speaker 43 (49:40):
I'm not wasting sympathy, Clark. You don't understand. If they
chained him to a wall and kept him in a
dungeon for the rest of his natural life, I wouldn't
give it another thought.

Speaker 4 (49:48):
Really.

Speaker 43 (49:50):
But whatever he's done, he's still a human being, a
creature of flesh and blood, and they're.

Speaker 12 (49:54):
Going to kill him.

Speaker 4 (49:55):
What you're trying to say, I'm.

Speaker 44 (49:57):
Not trying to say anything.

Speaker 43 (49:59):
I just wanted to be O done with. I sat
in that courtroom for three weeks watching him get tangled
in his own web, looking at him and wondering what
was going through his mind, asking myself why a culture
intelligence religious man?

Speaker 29 (50:14):
Yes, he was religious in his own way.

Speaker 4 (50:17):
A way that gave him a license to prey on
the superstitious fears of helpless women. I suppose to steal
from them, to to pauperize them.

Speaker 18 (50:24):
To murder them.

Speaker 43 (50:24):
Of course not.

Speaker 4 (50:25):
Krishna used his kind of phony, black magic religion as
a means to an end. He used it as a
smoke screen. How can you possibly call him religious when
you know he has human blood on his hands?

Speaker 18 (50:35):
And furthermore, I'll take it.

Speaker 23 (50:37):
Hello miss Lewis Lane, Please?

Speaker 41 (50:39):
Who is calling?

Speaker 8 (50:41):
Oh?

Speaker 41 (50:42):
Hello, Warden, this is Clark.

Speaker 17 (50:43):
Can hello?

Speaker 23 (50:46):
Fine? Thanks?

Speaker 40 (50:46):
You get along?

Speaker 4 (50:50):
Can she's standing right beside me?

Speaker 25 (50:54):
Okay, go ahead.

Speaker 40 (50:55):
As you know, Krishna goes to the chair tonight.

Speaker 30 (50:59):
Refused him, and you trial this morning, and the governor
turned him down on a stay early this evening.

Speaker 41 (51:03):
Yes, well, just a few minutes.

Speaker 23 (51:04):
Ago, he said for me.

Speaker 45 (51:05):
So he had had a final request to make.

Speaker 23 (51:07):
Oh.

Speaker 45 (51:08):
I told him we granted if it were humanly possible.

Speaker 21 (51:11):
He said, we had to granted because the only way.

Speaker 15 (51:14):
He would clear his conscience.

Speaker 25 (51:15):
What was the request?

Speaker 4 (51:17):
He says he wants to see miss Lane before he died.

Speaker 17 (51:19):
What why is it?

Speaker 44 (51:21):
Talk?

Speaker 4 (51:21):
Hold on him aute Warden?

Speaker 13 (51:22):
Okay, what's happened to Cork?

Speaker 43 (51:24):
Is anything wrong? Take it easy, tell me just don't
stand there.

Speaker 4 (51:28):
Krishna wants to see you before he goes to the chair.
Why oh, some nonsense about clearing his conscience. Your answer,
of course is no, hell no talk wait talk him
out at Warden, lois, don't go off the detail.

Speaker 43 (51:40):
A man is going to die. Talk he only had
a few hours. Let what difference does it make you ever.

Speaker 4 (51:44):
Been in a prison death house? You ever seen a
condemned man's face?

Speaker 43 (51:47):
My feelings don't matter.

Speaker 44 (51:48):
Let me have the phone.

Speaker 29 (51:49):
Don't hello Warden, this is Lowa's Nane.

Speaker 43 (51:57):
I'll be at the prison in in twenty minutes.

Speaker 18 (52:10):
If you understand, miss Lane, you're under no obligation to
this man, and consenting to accede to his request is
purely voluntary on your part.

Speaker 43 (52:17):
Yes, I understand.

Speaker 4 (52:18):
I think it's ridiculous to expose now.

Speaker 12 (52:20):
We had all this out on the way up.

Speaker 25 (52:23):
This is as far as you go, Camps.

Speaker 4 (52:24):
I won't allow miss Lane in the death house alone.

Speaker 29 (52:26):
He won't be alone there will be two guards and myself.

Speaker 4 (52:28):
Why can't I accompany?

Speaker 25 (52:30):
Please regulations camps.

Speaker 1 (52:32):
I'll be back in a few minutes.

Speaker 25 (52:33):
Close up, Riggan.

Speaker 46 (52:36):
I'm sorry if mister m insist, not at all.

Speaker 40 (52:39):
Frankly I agree with him.

Speaker 45 (52:40):
This can't be a very pleasant experience for you.

Speaker 40 (52:44):
This is to sell miss Lane. Miller, you and Harken
stand out here.

Speaker 23 (52:47):
I'll go in.

Speaker 41 (52:47):
Yes, Open up, Krishna.

Speaker 40 (52:52):
Miss Lane is here to see you. Thank you, Thank
you kindly.

Speaker 25 (52:56):
Step in, miss Lane.

Speaker 42 (52:58):
You have three minutes speak with the young lady alone.

Speaker 40 (53:01):
No, you may not very well. Please to be seated, miss.

Speaker 42 (53:06):
Lane, if you don't mind, I'd rather stand as you wish.
I requested to speak with you, miss Lane, because I
do not desire that you forever carry within your heart
the knowledge that you for faulse witness against me.

Speaker 47 (53:23):
That is true.

Speaker 43 (53:25):
I can't apart rise.

Speaker 42 (53:26):
There is little time, and I have much to say.
I bear you no matters for what you have done
to me. The body is but the dwelling.

Speaker 5 (53:35):
Place of the soul.

Speaker 42 (53:37):
You have spoken against only this eeevil thing of blood
and nerve and sinew, that they will destroy, that they
will sing and burn until.

Speaker 25 (53:45):
The fleash is no more.

Speaker 45 (53:47):
Please, but neither you nor they.

Speaker 42 (53:48):
Can reach beyond the pale of death. Please, I Krishna
will return in spirit.

Speaker 23 (53:53):
In voice, Yes, even in substance.

Speaker 42 (53:56):
I will rise like a phoenix from my lifeless.

Speaker 5 (53:59):
Corpse, like an you Messiah, and you will hear my voice.

Speaker 48 (54:02):
You will look upon my countenance, and then you know
I have more to.

Speaker 20 (54:10):
Do.

Speaker 25 (54:10):
You deny the final wish of a condemned.

Speaker 18 (54:12):
Man who had your wish.

Speaker 49 (54:13):
Lock up, Miller.

Speaker 48 (54:15):
There is no escape, so it is spoken in the Kabbalah,
and it shall come to pass that he will rise
from the grave, and he shall be the walking dead,
and there shall be no escape from him, even unto eternity.

Speaker 4 (54:42):
I don't like the second guess laws. When you only
listen to me, you could have avoided that horrible experience.

Speaker 43 (54:47):
See, let's not talk about it. I've had all I
can take for the knife. Do you mind if I
turn on the radio?

Speaker 25 (54:55):
No, of course not.

Speaker 4 (54:57):
You're not going back to the office, you know, I'm
thinking you right to your apartment. No, I've got to
I've got to do a story.

Speaker 42 (55:02):
And that he will rise from the grave, and he
shall be walking dead, and there shall be no escape
around his voice.

Speaker 4 (55:12):
He screamed on me talking about Christma's voice. Didn't you
hears what's gotten into you? That's a radio program.

Speaker 43 (55:21):
Turn it off, listen to me, take me home, Please
take me off.

Speaker 4 (55:39):
Are you sure you're going to be all right, Lois?

Speaker 8 (55:42):
Yes?

Speaker 41 (55:44):
What time?

Speaker 34 (55:45):
Eleven fifteen?

Speaker 43 (55:47):
Oh, it's all over. He went to the chair and left.

Speaker 4 (55:54):
Lois, You've got to stop thinking about that.

Speaker 43 (55:56):
I know how I will good night. I'm sorry, I'm.

Speaker 4 (56:02):
I'll see you in the office night.

Speaker 21 (56:07):
Oh hope.

Speaker 5 (56:09):
I never have to go through anything.

Speaker 9 (56:14):
With it.

Speaker 43 (56:16):
Huge dark eyes burning hold in me and that horror screams.
How can that be at this hour of the night.

Speaker 23 (56:30):
Hello, and come to bash that he will.

Speaker 41 (56:36):
Open the door.

Speaker 43 (56:49):
But Park, I swear to you. When I looked at
the phone, his voice came over the wire and it
said the same thing, the same thing he screamed at
me from the self, the same.

Speaker 4 (56:58):
Thing I heard on the ring.

Speaker 23 (57:00):
Lois.

Speaker 18 (57:00):
I don't have to tell you about the power of fear.
You know what it can do to people.

Speaker 43 (57:05):
I'm not afraid of anything.

Speaker 47 (57:06):
You refuse to believe that.

Speaker 50 (57:07):
Yes you are.

Speaker 4 (57:08):
They're afraid of the unknown. You exposed yourself to that
half the meded fanatic, and he threatened you with mystic
mumbo jumbo, and now you're hearing things.

Speaker 43 (57:16):
Look, I'm not crazy. I'm terribly upset, but I'm not crazy.
The phone rang and when I listened to receiver, no.

Speaker 3 (57:24):
I know, I know.

Speaker 25 (57:25):
Now you listen to me.

Speaker 4 (57:26):
I'm gonna call a prison if the warden tells you
that Krishna went to the chair at eleven o'clock, that
he's dead, Will you stop all this nonsense.

Speaker 43 (57:33):
You don't have to call. It isn't necessary.

Speaker 34 (57:35):
I think it is.

Speaker 41 (57:40):
Operator.

Speaker 4 (57:41):
This is an emergency call to Warden Reid at the
state prison in Malverne and over six two three nine
two Clark cat. Thank you, Lois. I'm gonna let you
talk to him so there won't be any question about it.
This thing could make nervous wrecks of both of us. Yes, me,
when I was standing out in the hall waiting for
the elevator and I heard you scream, I thought you

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were being murdered.

Speaker 28 (58:04):
How did you get in?

Speaker 23 (58:05):
Huh Oh?

Speaker 4 (58:06):
I forced the door, But.

Speaker 51 (58:08):
How how could you cast That door has a double locked.

Speaker 4 (58:10):
I know, but when you're desperate to do a lot
of things, you ordinarily couldn't do.

Speaker 21 (58:14):
I guess I just thought of made believe I was
super mad.

Speaker 4 (58:18):
Oh, thank you?

Speaker 23 (58:19):
Hello?

Speaker 4 (58:21):
What and I'm calling from miss Lane's apart. I'm going
to put her on the phone, and I want you
to tell her that Christna's execution went off at schedule.

Speaker 5 (58:28):
I'm sorry, what hed the chair?

Speaker 4 (58:33):
I don't understand, corc.

Speaker 23 (58:37):
Yes what I'm here?

Speaker 4 (58:39):
No, No, I'm still on. You say he wasn't executed.

Speaker 23 (58:43):
No, we found him.

Speaker 15 (58:46):
Heart attack.

Speaker 23 (58:47):
I see.

Speaker 5 (58:48):
I'm just well satisfy.

Speaker 41 (58:49):
Do you know how I feel about execution?

Speaker 25 (58:51):
Oh?

Speaker 50 (58:51):
Yes, yes, yes, I know.

Speaker 41 (58:52):
Well that's that.

Speaker 34 (58:54):
Thanks Warden.

Speaker 4 (58:56):
Bye, Okay, he's dead.

Speaker 12 (59:00):
Just said he wasn't mixed cute.

Speaker 4 (59:01):
I heard you say that he died his cell from.

Speaker 5 (59:03):
A heart attack.

Speaker 43 (59:05):
But I knew something like this is going to happen.

Speaker 52 (59:08):
I just had a feeling it would something.

Speaker 35 (59:10):
He isn't dead.

Speaker 20 (59:11):
I know he isn't you know what?

Speaker 28 (59:12):
She isn't dead.

Speaker 18 (59:13):
You're calling Warden read a liar, and you're calling me alone.
You don't understand Lois.

Speaker 47 (59:17):
They think he's dead.

Speaker 26 (59:18):
They just think that Lois.

Speaker 18 (59:19):
Look at me, Look at me, I said, what's happened
to you? You're losing your mind.

Speaker 28 (59:22):
Please try to understand.

Speaker 4 (59:24):
Nothing to understand except that you were saying, logical, intelligent
person in the twentieth century are allowing yourself to be
influenced by primitive witchcrant By by black magica.

Speaker 43 (59:33):
Just let me tell you something. What I spend a
lot of time and Christiana's so called Temple of Truth
getting the story. I know you did, and I saw
an awful lot of things that couldn't be excited. This
man has a kind of power.

Speaker 4 (59:45):
Sure, that's what I'm trying to tell you, the power
of suggestion. But that didn't look Wait a minute, now,
wait if people kept telling you that you looked bad,
that you were sick.

Speaker 18 (59:54):
If they kept harping on it over and over again,
do you know what would happen?

Speaker 4 (59:58):
You'd get sick, Lois you might even by good heavens,
there are people who talk themselves into imaginary illnesses, let
alone having anyone else do it.

Speaker 53 (01:00:05):
That is what I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:00:08):
You know what catalyptis is, sure state of trance?

Speaker 51 (01:00:10):
Yes, well, I saw Krishna put people in the cataleptic transit,
their bodies stiff and dead, and Ringga Mortrison said, well,
I saw that with my own eyes, talking If he
can do that for others, why can't.

Speaker 44 (01:00:21):
He do it for himself?

Speaker 5 (01:00:22):
Lors.

Speaker 4 (01:00:23):
It's one thing to work black magic and in a
half dark and voodoo Temple's quite another thing to do
it in a prison cell with a prison doctor standing by.

Speaker 40 (01:00:31):
How you take my word for it.

Speaker 4 (01:00:33):
Krishna is dead, dead and gone.

Speaker 47 (01:00:36):
Don't have that, please, please, don't have it?

Speaker 18 (01:00:38):
Lord, Oh my arm I don't be stupid.

Speaker 28 (01:00:41):
Stupid calling anything you want to please.

Speaker 40 (01:00:44):
And it should have come to first people rise from
the grave and.

Speaker 39 (01:00:59):
We'll return in just a moment to the adventures of
Superman and the Mystery of the Walking Dead. But first,
a word from your APC announcer.

Speaker 54 (01:01:10):
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Speaker 39 (01:02:11):
And now back to the Adventures of Superman and the
Mystery of the Walking Dead.

Speaker 18 (01:02:25):
Obsessed with the thought that.

Speaker 39 (01:02:26):
Christians, an East Indian mystic, is not dead, despite the
prison warden's report that he died in his cell of
a heart attack fifteen minutes before his scheduled execution. Lois Lane,
whose newspaper expose of the mystics Temple of Truth helped
convict him, spent a tortured, sleepless night. It is now
the following morning, Dark Kid is in the warden's office

(01:02:47):
at the state prison.

Speaker 4 (01:02:48):
And you say, the doctor's certain, beyond the question of
a doubt that when he examined Christian he was dead.

Speaker 42 (01:02:53):
Here's the report kid ordinary occlusion.

Speaker 4 (01:02:57):
Huh was an autopsy done on the body?

Speaker 25 (01:03:00):
No, we're not equipped for that up here.

Speaker 45 (01:03:02):
Unclaimed bodies are sometimes turned.

Speaker 17 (01:03:03):
Over to medical school or hospitals, but generally speaking, most of.

Speaker 1 (01:03:06):
Them are claimed by relatives or friends.

Speaker 4 (01:03:08):
Verio, what happened to Christian's body?

Speaker 5 (01:03:10):
I believe it was claimed last night.

Speaker 23 (01:03:12):
It should be one of these reports here.

Speaker 24 (01:03:16):
It is claimed by Midtown Mortuary Service on behalf of
a brother.

Speaker 14 (01:03:21):
Ali Gatanga Nava.

Speaker 25 (01:03:23):
I was last night.

Speaker 23 (01:03:24):
Yes, body was.

Speaker 26 (01:03:25):
Found around ten forty six, stretched out on the coupler cells.

Speaker 4 (01:03:28):
Did you see it?

Speaker 23 (01:03:29):
Yes, of course, and.

Speaker 25 (01:03:31):
The guard notified me.

Speaker 45 (01:03:32):
I went to the cell with the doctor.

Speaker 4 (01:03:33):
And you saw Christna's body.

Speaker 55 (01:03:35):
Yes.

Speaker 18 (01:03:36):
Why are you making a point of that?

Speaker 5 (01:03:38):
Can?

Speaker 4 (01:03:38):
I'll tell you why, Miss Lene and I left here
last night at ten fifteen. At about ten twenty five,
she turned on the car radio. Yes, the voice she heard,
she says, was Christnas and the words he spoke were
the same words he screamed at her from his cellf.

Speaker 5 (01:03:54):
That's impossible, Cans at ten twenty five.

Speaker 21 (01:03:56):
He was in his cells, either dead or alive.

Speaker 25 (01:03:59):
That's what puzzles.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
She heard his voice again over the phone at eleven fifteen,
and I heard it ten minutes later. You want that
could be explained?

Speaker 5 (01:04:06):
How since when do dead men talk over the telephone?

Speaker 4 (01:04:09):
I'm assuming he wasn't dead, that he was in a
cataleptic trance. If his body was played before eleven fifteen
and he was brought out of the trance, he could
have made those phone calls.

Speaker 5 (01:04:17):
Can't.

Speaker 7 (01:04:18):
The man died of a heart attack.

Speaker 26 (01:04:20):
Doctor Bronson has been the staff position here for fifteen years,
and I assure you that when he pronounced Christian is.

Speaker 23 (01:04:26):
Dead, he was dead. I'm sorry.

Speaker 14 (01:04:28):
He's not on duty now so we could.

Speaker 4 (01:04:29):
Tend to him, So I don't misunderstand me.

Speaker 29 (01:04:31):
What now?

Speaker 4 (01:04:32):
I'm not questioning him for a moment, And it's just that, well,
there doesn't seem to be any other explanation. Let's you
believe in the supernatural.

Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
If I were you, I forget about it.

Speaker 4 (01:04:41):
It's too late for that. Miss Lane is in a
state of collapse, and frankly, I'm getting worried. Oh I've
got to track this down, find an explanation for it.
I'll stop off at the Midtown mortuary before I go back.
In MIT's Lane's part they'll tell you he was dead.

Speaker 52 (01:04:52):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:04:52):
If they do, fine, then if the dead can come
to life, I want to know about that too.

Speaker 43 (01:05:06):
You're not holding anything back, are you closed?

Speaker 4 (01:05:08):
Why should I hold anything back? I told you what
the warden said, and I told you what I learned
at the mortuary. They received the body at eleven thirty.
It was bombed this morning and it's now lying.

Speaker 18 (01:05:17):
In state at the Temple of Truth.

Speaker 43 (01:05:19):
Yes, but then, how did we hear his voice last night?
You can't say it was my imagination because you heard
it too.

Speaker 4 (01:05:25):
I don't know, but we've established one thing.

Speaker 40 (01:05:27):
At any rate.

Speaker 4 (01:05:27):
He's not alive.

Speaker 23 (01:05:28):
He's dead.

Speaker 43 (01:05:29):
Was he alive when I heard him on the radio?

Speaker 21 (01:05:31):
You couldn't have heard it.

Speaker 4 (01:05:32):
I did, and is soloest not? I was definitely your imagination.
What you heard was the end of a mystery program?

Speaker 44 (01:05:39):
Was it here?

Speaker 43 (01:05:41):
This is yesterday's paper?

Speaker 56 (01:05:43):
Pot?

Speaker 43 (01:05:43):
Well, there were no mystery programs on between ten and
ten thirty last night. I went even further than that.
I checked all the programs on at that time.

Speaker 52 (01:05:52):
They were music and a comedy show, and quizz shows
and news.

Speaker 43 (01:05:56):
There was nothing else.

Speaker 4 (01:05:57):
And you still think he's alive, don't ask me.

Speaker 22 (01:05:59):
What I think.

Speaker 43 (01:06:00):
I'm telling you what I know when I heard what
you heard.

Speaker 4 (01:06:02):
Okay, And there's only one thing to do. Christna's body
is lying in state at the Temple of Truth. You
and I are going over there.

Speaker 23 (01:06:10):
To see it.

Speaker 18 (01:06:20):
Well, no wonder he could.

Speaker 4 (01:06:21):
Afford five lawyers in his trial.

Speaker 5 (01:06:23):
His place must have.

Speaker 18 (01:06:24):
Cost a fortune to Bill.

Speaker 43 (01:06:26):
Oh I'm afraid to go in there, all you, Attendant Noll.

Speaker 4 (01:06:30):
Shrop the veil over your face and see what it
looks like. Oh, no, one could possibly recognize you.

Speaker 18 (01:06:36):
Lors sure to, sure, don't worry.

Speaker 57 (01:06:39):
Now, come on, so dark in here, no one would
recognize you leaving without the black veil.

Speaker 40 (01:06:53):
I'll right.

Speaker 5 (01:06:54):
You're membership guard. I beg your pardon.

Speaker 17 (01:06:58):
We are advising older members.

Speaker 4 (01:07:01):
Oh, well we're members, but we've forgotten our cards. Well
we've come a long way to pay.

Speaker 14 (01:07:06):
Our respects to Krishna.

Speaker 29 (01:07:07):
They I have your names, our names, if you please.

Speaker 5 (01:07:11):
Oh, mister and missus.

Speaker 22 (01:07:13):
Oh what did you do?

Speaker 21 (01:07:16):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:07:16):
No, where can I jump it?

Speaker 29 (01:07:17):
I don't know.

Speaker 16 (01:07:18):
I think I can't standy holding him in my arms.

Speaker 5 (01:07:20):
Sweeping room behind that pillow.

Speaker 18 (01:07:24):
Okay, I'll be right back, all right, you.

Speaker 16 (01:07:29):
Stole away, But Look what happens when it comes to
it bed long enough for us to look around. Now
you ask us up front, let's join the line passing it?

Speaker 28 (01:07:41):
And why they can't do anything to us? I don't know.

Speaker 57 (01:07:47):
Where do all these people come from. Evidently they're planning
to carry on without Christia. I wonder how the police
feel about that.

Speaker 5 (01:08:00):
In the casket, you owns half of downtown travel.

Speaker 46 (01:08:04):
You can't fight four.

Speaker 16 (01:08:07):
Amazing, we're next to get a good look at it.

Speaker 5 (01:08:19):
Well it is now.

Speaker 58 (01:08:25):
Yes, the doors will now be locked. All members will
please be seated.

Speaker 5 (01:08:34):
What do we do now?

Speaker 16 (01:08:35):
Let's take these two while seats.

Speaker 5 (01:08:38):
Don't worry.

Speaker 16 (01:08:40):
Look flights aretific.

Speaker 17 (01:08:43):
Over the casket.

Speaker 12 (01:08:46):
You don't know these people.

Speaker 43 (01:08:49):
Let's get out.

Speaker 16 (01:08:49):
If you can't get out now, the door's a lot.

Speaker 44 (01:08:52):
Why did I ever let you talk to me?

Speaker 16 (01:08:55):
Why didn't know the casket? Now the ark music stopped,
wonder and so.

Speaker 5 (01:09:04):
It is spoken.

Speaker 40 (01:09:07):
And it has come.

Speaker 23 (01:09:11):
Voice coming.

Speaker 5 (01:09:15):
That's just the beginning.

Speaker 16 (01:09:16):
You're gonna see something in just a moment.

Speaker 44 (01:09:22):
He's riding from the casket.

Speaker 52 (01:09:24):
He's coming to light.

Speaker 5 (01:09:25):
This is too much.

Speaker 16 (01:09:26):
I'm going on to call Inspector Hannis.

Speaker 47 (01:09:28):
You can't get out of the doors a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:09:29):
I'll get out you sipped, don't don't leave me, help
me right back.

Speaker 39 (01:09:33):
Slipping from his seat, bark and hurries up the aisle
of the darkened temple, unnoticed by the audience, who stared
transfixed at the seeming miracle taking place before their eyes.
Ducking into an alcohol he quickly removes his horn rimmed
glasses and slips off the dark business suit that serves
as his disguise, revealing himself from the familiar blue costume
and red cape of Superman. Stepping out of the alcohol,

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his eyes sweeps the huge auditorium. Suddenly he stiffens. Lois
is missing from the seat where he left her. A
raised platform behind the casket, the figure of Christnas stands erect,
now bathed in a cold blue light, hands extended to
the congregation, but Lois is nowhere to be seen.

Speaker 41 (01:10:11):
The organ begins its deep, probably nose again, wailing like
a lost soul. Superman starts farthing aisle.

Speaker 14 (01:10:18):
As he does, two men close in on him out.

Speaker 16 (01:10:20):
Of the shadow darkness or if you think you're going,
that's my business.

Speaker 21 (01:10:24):
But I know where you're going to sleep through.

Speaker 5 (01:10:29):
Oh you want some shuty too?

Speaker 18 (01:10:30):
Ay All right, glad to oblige.

Speaker 5 (01:10:32):
There.

Speaker 39 (01:10:33):
Turning to the aisle again, Superman is just in time
to see a blinding flash of light enveloped the figure
of Christian smoke billows up from the casket at its feet.

Speaker 14 (01:10:41):
When it clears, the figure is gone.

Speaker 39 (01:10:45):
Meanwhile, with a gun in her back, Lois is being
forced down a narrow corridor behind the temple platform. As
she reaches the end of the corridor, the door opens
and a voice says.

Speaker 29 (01:10:55):
Come in, miss thy coming.

Speaker 15 (01:10:57):
I said right now.

Speaker 40 (01:11:00):
You did not expect to see me again in life?

Speaker 5 (01:11:02):
Did you mis slay?

Speaker 43 (01:11:05):
You better not try and see. I didn't come here alone.

Speaker 42 (01:11:08):
Your friend is no longer in a position to help you.

Speaker 21 (01:11:10):
Please.

Speaker 42 (01:11:11):
In fact, I might say, you are beyond all human health. No,
your life is now in my hands, and I have
sworn by all the gods of Vishnol.

Speaker 25 (01:11:20):
To make you suffer for what you did to me.

Speaker 35 (01:11:22):
Wait for me, yes, wait, ringe, cringe.

Speaker 42 (01:11:26):
Against the wall. What would you give now to have
the floor open and swallow you?

Speaker 23 (01:11:31):
But nothing.

Speaker 43 (01:11:34):
I'm not afraid of you. You don't dare to touch me.
The police know that I came here today, That miss.

Speaker 42 (01:11:42):
Slavee is a people friends you are aware I cannot
be destroyed.

Speaker 23 (01:11:47):
You know I am invincible?

Speaker 22 (01:11:49):
What you can be destroyed?

Speaker 29 (01:11:52):
You are going to be destroyed.

Speaker 42 (01:11:54):
No, no, I will choke the breath of life from
your body.

Speaker 50 (01:12:00):
You feel the blood.

Speaker 5 (01:12:02):
Pounding in your temples?

Speaker 15 (01:12:04):
Can you feel your.

Speaker 9 (01:12:06):
Lungs, Percie.

Speaker 59 (01:12:08):
This is the moment before your death, the glorious dropping
movement before death. You're getting weak now, you no longer struggle.
Die die, I see, I will have been nothing.

Speaker 18 (01:12:23):
No, no, my friend, no guns and no knives. The
party's over pretty honorably. Shoot of the police.

Speaker 4 (01:12:28):
All right, Lois, I think you're just in this snake
up against the wall and let him talk there, Put
me out.

Speaker 18 (01:12:36):
Tell miss Lane who you are. Tell her you're not Krishna.

Speaker 28 (01:12:39):
Tell her you breaking it.

Speaker 18 (01:12:42):
I'll break every bone in your body unless you talk.
Who are you?

Speaker 23 (01:12:45):
I am Christna's brother.

Speaker 18 (01:12:46):
It is Krishna, Dad talk?

Speaker 40 (01:12:49):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:12:50):
Where's his body? The casket had a false bottom, didn't it.
You dropped his body down and you rose up from it? Well, yes,
you will.

Speaker 18 (01:12:59):
Want to make those phone calls to miss Lane.

Speaker 4 (01:13:00):
Weren't you anything else you want to know of us? Okay,
then we can go straight the police headquarters.

Speaker 43 (01:13:15):
So how did Superman happen to be at the Temple?

Speaker 14 (01:13:19):
Well, now that's an interesting question.

Speaker 4 (01:13:20):
I wish I could answer it for you.

Speaker 43 (01:13:21):
You mean you don't know.

Speaker 18 (01:13:23):
No, that's not quite true.

Speaker 23 (01:13:25):
You do know.

Speaker 43 (01:13:26):
Why can't you tell me?

Speaker 14 (01:13:27):
That's an interesting question too.

Speaker 43 (01:13:29):
Honestly, you're impossible, you know. Incidentally, we never did find
out about that radio broadcast.

Speaker 41 (01:13:34):
Oh, I forgot to tell you.

Speaker 4 (01:13:36):
The Temple of Truth was on the air that night
over a small local station. No, how strange, it was
just coincidence. You happened to tune in while Krishna's brother
was mouthing that mumbo jumbo was. Matter of fact, I
missed the boat when the warden told me his brother
claims the body. I should have put two and two
together because if I known it was a twin brother
would have been easy.

Speaker 43 (01:13:55):
Well it's all over now. Oh did I tell you
the Superman?

Speaker 28 (01:14:01):
Did he twice?

Speaker 52 (01:14:03):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:14:04):
It's really wonderful, nice, I said, Thanks for Superman.

Speaker 39 (01:14:17):
The Adventures of Superman come to you now each week
at the same time over many of these ABC stations.
Listen again next week when Superman solves.

Speaker 18 (01:14:27):
A murder and a mystery in the case of the Courageous.

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Cobbler Superman is a copyrighted transcribed feature appearing in Superman
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and exciting stories of action, adventure and mystery.

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So be sure to lessen when you hear the familiar cry.

Speaker 38 (01:14:45):
Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive,
able to leave Paul Building for a single bound.

Speaker 12 (01:14:55):
Up on the sky.

Speaker 18 (01:14:56):
It's a bird, It's a plane. That's Superman.

Speaker 39 (01:15:04):
The role of Cooperman is played by Bud Geyer, Lois
Lane by John Alexander. Music is composed and played by
John Guard. Be sure to listen next week to the
Case of the Courageous Cobbler on the adventures.

Speaker 42 (01:15:16):
How You Were Man.

Speaker 39 (01:15:42):
This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company.

Speaker 1 (01:15:45):
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Granite Furniture Company with the Stars
in Sugar House, Murray and Provo present.

Speaker 60 (01:15:53):
The Hall of Metaze.

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Welcome to the Heart of Batasye. Welcome remember the series
of radio dramas dedicated to the supernatural, the unusual, and
the unknown. Come with me, my friends, we shall ascended
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you the Hall of Fantasy. Listen now to original tales
of the imagination and some of the classics of the supernatural,
as we take you down the corridors of the Hall
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are stories of eerie and fantastic thrills brought to you
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(01:16:44):
for tonight's story, a radio adaptation by Bob Olsen, a
bram Stoker's story entitled The Judge's House Justice, Peace? How
can we be certain of either? When Hatfred burns unchecked
even beyond the grave. Hi, am Malcolm Lane, this is

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my story. I want to tell her to you while
there is still time. I watched them carry the parcels
into the Judge's house. Missus Widham, whom I had engaged
as my housekeeper for the next three months, was directing
the activity. She was an amusing little character. I had
to promise that she wouldn't have to stay in the
house after it began to get dark. The upholsterer's man

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was coming up the pathway with a cart in a
new bed. Missus Whidham had insisted on this one new
piece of furniture, because, as she put it.

Speaker 20 (01:17:35):
A bed that just hasn't been aired for fifty years
is not fit for young bodies to lie on.

Speaker 1 (01:17:41):
And she was right, of course, but my head was
too full of plans for study to worry about such
details as my living quarters. As for the tales about
the harsh old judge whose houses had once been I
had only a mild enthusiasm. He must have been quite
a character, though, to make an entire village fear him
and his house, even fifty years after his death. Missus

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Wiiam was positive there was something about the old place,
though she or anyone else quite knew what it was.
The consensus of opinion, however, was that they would not
take all the money in Brinwater's bank to spend an
hour here alone. But Missus Woodham startled me with a
very rational statement.

Speaker 20 (01:18:21):
The place is full of rats, and rats is bogies
just the same as bogies is rats.

Speaker 1 (01:18:27):
That explanation suited me very well, for as I said,
once before. My head was full of plans to study.
Examinations were coming up soon, and I had paid three
months rent on this old house so that I would
be as short of peace and quiet while I prepared
for them. The only mysteries I'm interested in, Missus Widham,
are those of harmonical progression and elliptical your functions, they're mystery.

Speaker 40 (01:18:47):
Enough for me.

Speaker 20 (01:18:48):
Not that you won't find company here, Miss Delane. I've
already cleaned all of fifty years of dust from everything.
Oh but that wastecut in this room must be hundreds
of years old. And we'll find creaky doors of plenty,
and loose flats all over, ready to flap in the wind,
and bureau draws that stick and then fall down in
the middle of the night. And don't forget the rats, No,

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mister Lane, don't forget the rats.

Speaker 1 (01:19:15):
The workmen were all gone, and but for the busy
little figure the housekeeper, I was alone. It was for
this that I had taken the tiresome ride to Venturech,
a remote little town that had all the attractions of
her desert. It was drawing close to evening as Missus
Whittam was unpacking the last hamper and I could see
that she was beginning to cast worried glances about as
the shadows began to creep into the corners of this

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huge dining room I'd chosen for my living quarters. Oh
you may go now, Missus Widham. It's getting dark in here,
and I'm sure you're anxious to get home. You've done
well with this soul room. I shall reward you with
complete possession of this house for the last two months
of my tenancy. Three or four weeks will be all
I'll need, and I'd hate to see that rent money
go to waste.

Speaker 20 (01:19:54):
Thank you kindly, sir.

Speaker 1 (01:19:55):
But I wouldn't stay, I know, for all the money
in drink quarters bank I'm really grateful for. I do
want to be alone, and if you were not so
opposed to what I might be tempted to accept your company.

Speaker 20 (01:20:07):
Are you young gentlemen? You fear nothing, and I'm certain
you'll get all the solitude you need here. Good night, sir.
You'll find your supper beneath the clock.

Speaker 1 (01:20:18):
Good night, Missus Whidham. Ah, Yes, this was comfort. After
I'd finished my supper, I cleared the great oak table
and got my books out. Then, when i'd put fresh
wood in the fire and frim the lamp. I sat
down to a spell of hard work. I hardly looked
up from my books until nearly eleven o'clock, at which
time I threw some more wood in the fire and

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indulged in one of my most deeply ingrained habits, that
of tea drinking. I thoroughly enjoyed tea and drag it
this night with a sense of real enjoyment. Soon the
new wood I had thrown on the fire began to crackle,
and a new flame through quaint shadows about the great
old room. As I sat there, sipping my tea, I
reveled in the complete sense of isolation. Then, for the

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first time I noticed the noise of the rats. Strange.
I hadn't heard them before. Hum, maybe they're just getting
used to me. But they're bold enough now. How busy
they were, What strange noises they made up and down
the old wainstick they went, and over the ceiling and

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of the floor, racing and gnawing and scratching. There so
many of them that I have sworn it, if they
set their strength to it, they could have carried the
house away. I had a smile when I recalled the
words of missus Whittam, Rats is bogies, and bogies is rats.
The stimulation of the tea gave me a sense of security,
and I grabbed the lamp to take a good look
around the wound. Strange why such a beautiful old place

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should have been so neglected for all this time. The
carving and the old planels of the wainscot was fine, indeed,
and that are on the doors and windows was a
rare merit. I saw some old pictures on the wall
next to the fireplace, but they were coated so thick
with dust that I could distinguished any of their details,
even though I did hold the lamp high above my head.

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Now and then I would get a quick start as
the light fell upon the old walls and disclosed the
glittering eyes of a rat as he would stick his
face out of a hole or a crack. In an instant,
it would disappear with the squeak in the scamper. Another
object that struck me as odd was the rope of
a great alarm bell that hung in the corner of
the room, on the right hand side of the fireplace.

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After my inspection tour, I sat in a high backed
chair that was near the fireplace, and sipped from another
cup of tea. For a while, I thought the noise
of the rats would drive me to distraction, but that
eased off, and I became accustomed to it, the same
as a person gets used to the roar of water
when he camps beside a stream. Soon I was so
engrossed in the mathematical problem that I have forgotten everything

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else in the world. But since the solution to the
problem came stubbornly, I looked up and was surprised to
see that the fire had fallen into a dull, red glow.
There was a sudden quiet, the strange hush that comes
in the hour before dawn. I became aware for the
first time the noise of the rats had ceased. Whenever
it happened, I couldn't remember, but something instinctive told me

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that it had been in the last few moments, and
that it had been sudden. I looked up and what
I saw. What I saw was a most amazing thing.
For there on the high back chair sat an enormous
rat staring at me through.

Speaker 5 (01:23:28):
Deadly malignant eyes.

Speaker 1 (01:23:31):
I tried to frighten it away, but it didn't stir
them it emotion, as if to throw something at it.
It only bared its teeth angrily, and its cruel eyes
shone all the more bright. I'd grabbed the poker from
the hearth and was going to kill the creature. But
before I could reach it, that enormous rat jumped to
the floor with a screak that sounded like a consummate
hit of the whole world. Scampered up the rope of
the alarm bell disappeared in the darkness. Then, as if

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by a signal, the noise of the other rats started
all over again. By this time I gave up working
my partlament boughted it for some much needed sleep. It
was Missus Whittham who woke me as she came in
to make up the room.

Speaker 20 (01:24:13):
You're much paler this morning, mister Lane.

Speaker 5 (01:24:15):
I am.

Speaker 20 (01:24:16):
You shouldn't stay upsolate with your work. It isn't good
for you. But tell me how did you spend the night.
I was certainly glad to see you alive.

Speaker 1 (01:24:25):
Oh, yes, that was quite all right, Missus Widham. The
something didn't worry me too much. But the rats certainly
held themselves a camp meeting. There was one that sat
up in that chair with a fireplace, and wouldn't go
away until I chased him with a poker. It was
the biggest old devil I've ever seen, old devil.

Speaker 20 (01:24:41):
Maybe it was the old devil. Never you mind, sir,
many a true word is spoken in jess.

Speaker 1 (01:24:48):
Well, pardon me, missus, widheam. I didn't mean to be rude,
but the thought of the old devil himself sitting in
that chair last night struck me as being rather funny.

Speaker 20 (01:24:55):
And it's a good thing you can laugh. But all
the same, if I were to spend the night here tonight,
oh Heaven forbid, I'd make sure I was ready for him.

Speaker 5 (01:25:09):
That night.

Speaker 1 (01:25:10):
The rats put on an earlier shore for their scamperings
began almost as soon as I'd finished with my supper.
The cursed creatures seemed to get on my nerves. And
I sat there and popped my pipe, and they squealed
and scratched and gnawed. They seemed to grow bolder by
the minute. But now they were coming to the chinks

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and cracks in the wall, and to their eyes shone
like miniature lamps. When the firelight struck them. They'd even
make bold sallies under the floor, and I'd have to
frighten them away by pawning on the table with my fist.
That was how I passed the early part of that night.
Despite it, I became more and more engrossed to my studies,
and then the strange sensation coursed through me.

Speaker 5 (01:25:54):
For there it was again.

Speaker 1 (01:25:56):
Instinctively, I grabbed the handiest object I could find, a book,
and flung it at the bale full of beast. The
book was too hastily aimed in a huge ratted and
stir so once again I went into the poker routine,
and once again it put up the rope of the
alarm bell. I tried to follow its flight more closely
this time, but before I could see where it went,
it had been swallowed up in the shadows. And just

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as it had happened last night, as soon as the
big rut had gone, the others resumed their activity. I
looked at my watch and followed it was very close
to midnight. I built up the fire and brewed myself
a part of tea. I tried to get back to
my work, but I suddenly became curious to know whether
I had disappeared to for I was certain that tomorrow,

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I would most likely get myself a rat trap. I
gathered all my books about me and put them in
a handy position for throwing. Then I took the rope
of the alarm bell and placed the end of it
upon the table underneath the lamp, where there would be
plenty of light on it. As I picked up the rope,
I was amazed how pliable and strong it was. Ideal,

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I thought for hanging a man. Soon my preparations were complete.
Well this time, my friend, I intend to learn more
about you. Once again. I was hard at my work,
and the noise of the rats was forgotten. But just
as suddenly as before, I was aroused by that same
sense of startling silence. I was conscious of a slight

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movement in the rope at my elbow. Without stirring, I
checked to see if my part of books was an
easy reach.

Speaker 55 (01:27:27):
It was.

Speaker 1 (01:27:28):
I cast my glance of the rope just in time
to see the huge rat drop from it to the
back of the high oak chair. I grabbed a book
and hurled it with amazing agility. The rat sprang aside
and dodged it. I threw a second and a third,
but each time it managed to dodge my battery. It
was almost funny. Almost Finally, when I was down to
the last book, I took careful aim, and as I

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did this, the rat squeaked and seemed afraid. I let
the book fly. It struck the rat with a resounding
thud it gave. I got a shrill, terrified shriek, and
running up the back of a chair in a desperate leap,
and with the speed of a bolt of lightning, ran
up the bell rope. The lamp rocked with a strain,
but it didn't topple. Then I saw the rat leap

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to a molding and disappear through the hold on one
of the big pictures that hung on the wall. I
made a mental note of the exact spot. Third picture
from the fireplace, Eh, I remember that, and had missus
Whittham's crabbit clean the first thing to morrow morning. I
began to pick up the books I had thrown at
the rat. As I did so, I took a good

(01:28:32):
look at their titles conic sections. Mister rat doesn't seem
to mind that. Indeed, this one on psycloidal oscillations and
this one on thermodynamics. He dodged very neatly huh, here's
the book that got him. As I looked at the
title of the book that had finally hit the huge rat,

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I could feel the pallor spread across my face. For
the title of that book was The Holy Bible. You
are listening to The Judge's House by bram Stoker and
tonight's Journey down the Corridors of the Hall of Fantasy,

(01:29:15):
brought to you by your friends at the Granite Furniture
Company with stores in sugar House, Murray and Provo. And
now back to the story by bram Stoker entitled The
Judge's House.

Speaker 20 (01:29:32):
Mister de Lane, this is doctor Thornhill.

Speaker 1 (01:29:34):
Doctor Thornhill, are you ill, Missus Widham? Your pardon, mister Lane.
But Missus Widham wanted me to come up here and
have a talk with you on to talk. Well, in
that case, let me prepare some tea for you. Oh
please don't. That's one of the things I came to
talk to you about. Missus Widham thinks you'd drink more
strong tea than is good for you. He tells me
also that you put in quite long hours at your study.

Speaker 41 (01:29:54):
This is William.

Speaker 1 (01:29:54):
I engaged you as a housekeeper, not as a guardian.

Speaker 20 (01:29:56):
I oh, please, mister Lane.

Speaker 1 (01:29:59):
I matter of fact, Lane, she didn't mean to have
me talk to you at all.

Speaker 25 (01:30:03):
That was my idea.

Speaker 21 (01:30:04):
I see.

Speaker 1 (01:30:05):
Well, now that you're here, what do you want me
to do leave this house? Well, even if I could
see the reason for it, I tell if I would,
But as with a tea in late hours, I might
be able to give them up. Would it make you
feel any better, Missus Widham, if I promised not to
study after one o'clock tonight.

Speaker 20 (01:30:20):
Yes, if you promise, then I promise I.

Speaker 1 (01:30:23):
Advise you not as a total stranger to your problem.
Mister Lane, I was a student once myself, you know,
of course. Shall we shake on a doctor?

Speaker 5 (01:30:31):
Have fine?

Speaker 25 (01:30:32):
Now if you will.

Speaker 1 (01:30:32):
I wish you'd tell me what you've noticed in this house. Well,
it's just as I have told Missus Widham. I'd be
working late and i'd suddenly and when I look to
see which book it was that destruck the rat from
the devil, as Missus Widham calls it, I was amazed
to find that it was the Holy Bible.

Speaker 23 (01:30:52):
There.

Speaker 1 (01:30:52):
Now, please, Missus Widham, you're not hurt. And now, mister Lane,
you say the rat always went up the rope of
that alarm bell always. I suppose you know what that
rope is. No, it's the very rope the hangman used
to execute the victims of the judges hatred. Oh no, now,
missus Widham, there's no reason to get upset about this.

Speaker 20 (01:31:11):
Really, doctor, you shouldn't put such horrible thoughts in poor
mister Lane's mind. He has enough to unseat him already.

Speaker 1 (01:31:18):
I did it for a definite purpose, mister Lane. I
want you to fix your attention on that rope.

Speaker 21 (01:31:24):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:31:24):
I know your sound of mind and body, but hard
work in long hours and this suggestion of the devil,
especially in this lonely old house, can do things to
the mind.

Speaker 34 (01:31:34):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:31:34):
I don't mean this as any offense, but if you
should find yourself having well, hallucinations or some unexplainable fright,
I want you.

Speaker 5 (01:31:43):
To pull that rope.

Speaker 1 (01:31:44):
It'll give us some kind of a warning in the
village we might be able to be of some help. Well,
thank you, doctor, I'll do that. I may get stuck
with the problem. Fine, goodbye, miss Lane, and well, I
wouldn't be surprised if Bencher chears the alarm bell from
the Judge's house tonight. I didn't quite share the doctor's views,
but just the same, I caught myself staring at the

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bell rope. The more I stared, the more restless I became.
And every now and then my mind would conjure up
the vision of some wretched victim dangling from the end
of it. But that line of thinking would have me
out of my mind.

Speaker 5 (01:32:16):
In a hurry.

Speaker 1 (01:32:18):
Missus Widham made the place neat and homey. I wandered
over to one of the big windows and flung it open.
I was surprised to find that a sharp wind had
come up, a very cool wind for April. It was
more than a shark wind, really, but it was carrying
a stone. Little drops of rain began to heelp me
in the place, until soon it came a thing of fury.

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I bolted the shutters and built up a fire with
some fresh wood. I was uncomfortable, and was only vaguely
cautious of the reason. Suddenly I knew the rats were
quiet tonight. It gave me a slight case of the jeers,
and I instinctively took a hasty glance at the bell rope.
The rope was quite ill. I wanted a hot cup

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of tea, but remembering my promise to missus Widhamer, desisted Instead.
EYES set up the great oak table and opened my books.
Soon I had started a problem, and the noise of
the rats began, for the first time since I had
taken up residence in the Judge's house. I was glad
to hear those rats. I had worked for an hour
or so and suddenly became conscious of the furious storm outside.

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I was thankful that I didn't have to be out
of it. The faint movement of the bell rope and
heeled me to walk over to it and to get
in my head.

Speaker 5 (01:33:34):
I saw nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:33:35):
It had only been the wind, and the rope was
rising and falling gently with each new gust of air,
which caused the bell to sway back and forth.

Speaker 5 (01:33:41):
Of them.

Speaker 1 (01:33:43):
That rope had a deadly fascination to it. I wondered
what the judge wanted such a grisly memento in his house.
The thought of it sent a chill through me.

Speaker 5 (01:33:52):
Oh was it a thought?

Speaker 1 (01:33:53):
Didn't I sense a tremor along that rope? I couldn't
be sure, but that that moment I remembered the picture.
I walked over the table to the lamp and approached
the spot where I had seen the picture the night before.
I counted out the pictures until I came to the
third one from the fireplace. Even before I raised the lamp,
I could see that Missus Whitiham had washed it clean,
as I had told her to do. Then what I saw,

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what I saw gave me such a start that I
needly dropped the lamp. My knees almost gave way beneath me,
and I was conscious of huge beads of perspiration that
were forming on my forehead. Just looking at it, maybe
tremble like an aspen leaf. The picture seemed fairly to
leap out at me. But they are dressed in his
scarlet and ermann robe, with a judge with his merciless
evil face, his sensual mouth, and a nose that was

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shaped like the beak of a bird of prey. His
face had a cadaverous culling. It was a ghastly picture,
But it was the eyes that really maybe go cold,
for those eyes were and Heaven helped me if I'm
going mad. Those eyes were the exact duplicat of the
evil eyes of the great Rat. The picture had been

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painted in this very room, I began and to compare
the two, and as my eyes swept the room, they
were suddenly riveted to the judge's chair, for there, with
a rope hanging behind it, sat the huge rat of
a judge's eyes, and the hatefulness was now intensified with
a fiendish leer. Never did the wind howl, so this
had a stop. I wanted some tea, but I didn't

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take any. The doctor ha been quite rightly, but it
was much been getting drawn fully taut. Strange too, because
I never was in better health. Well, no tea, We'll
substitute some brandy.

Speaker 5 (01:35:29):
Let's see now.

Speaker 1 (01:35:34):
At a stiff glass at the brandy went back to work.
The rats were at it again, and I was glad
to hear them, for they had become a sort of
symbol of normalcy. The storm raised such a fury that
I was unaware of anything else. But once, during a sharp,
silent lull, I heard another sound, a faint squeaking noise.

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I listened for it again and soon detected it. It
was coming from the corner of the room, where a
bell rope hung. At first I thought it was just
the motion of the rope in the storm, but I
looked up and saw something in the dim light that
made me all the more positive that I.

Speaker 14 (01:36:07):
Was going mad.

Speaker 1 (01:36:09):
For there was the great rat clinging to the rope
and gnawing at it. I could see the lighter coloring
where the bare strands are exposed. Just then, the rat
finished a job and a rope fell to the floor
with a flood. For a moment, the huge rat just
hung there like a tassel. It was then that I
realized what had happened. My only contact with the village

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was now gone. I don't know why, but I rushed
to the lamp on the table, snatched off the shade,
and ran over the picture of the judge. A chill
of horror went through me, but I think I must
have expected what I saw. It seemed more like a
confirmation in a shock, for there in the center of
the picture was a great patch of brown canvas, as

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clean and as fresh as the day it had been drawn.
Over the frame, and where the portrait of the judge
himself had been, there was nothing. I heard a sound
behind me. When I turned around, I really got the palsy.
I suddenly became incapable of movement. I could hardly think.
I had been prepared to see most anything, But what

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was there for? There in the judge's high back chair,
with his black cap in his hand, as ermine rolls
fixed about him, with a smart of triumph twisting his
cruel mouth, was the judge himself. As the clock struck
the hour, it seemed to beat the blood right out
of my heart. At the twelfth stroke, the judge placed

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the black cap on his head and walked deliberately over
the place where a piece of bell will play in
a heap on the floor. He picked it up and
drew it through his hands, as one would have valuable verheld.
Then he began anot one end, fashioning it into a noose.
He tightened it and tested it with his foot. All
this time he never took his horribly cruel eyes from

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my face. I began to feel trapped for some reason.
I could barely move. I could only watch as he
started to move along the table toward me. Then, with
a quick movement, he threw the news at me, as
if to ensnare me in it. It missed, He raised
it again, never once taking those hateful eyes from my face.
Once more, the news came flying toward me once more,

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with some last ounce of strength.

Speaker 5 (01:38:18):
I dodged it.

Speaker 1 (01:38:20):
The room seemed flooded with light. The lamp had suddenly
flared up high. I looked about the room and was
astonished to see the shiny little eyes of the rats
as they peered out the cracks and chinks in the wall.
I looked up at the bell rope, my lost last
hope of warning the village. It was covered with the
little fellows. Funny thing, but those rats were the only

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thing that gave me even the slightest sense of comfort.
Where As the rats clambered along the bell rope, the
bell itself began to sway, and I heard a tiny sound,
as very tiny as the clapper touched the bell itself.
It was only a whisper of a sound, but it
would grow louder in time, or would it this sound?

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The judge looked up and a scart of terrible anger
came to his face. His eyes were like red hot colthes,
and he stamped his foot so that the house seemed
to shake. The rats kept running up and down the rope,
as if they were conscious that it was a race
against time. Now the judge was approaching me with a
noose in his hand. As he came closer. There seemed
to be something paralyzing in his presence, and I stood
as rigid as a corpse. Suddenly I felt the Judge's

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icy fingers against the skin in my throat. He was
adjusting the rope above my neck. Then he picked me
up and stood me on the high oak chair and
put his hand on the swinging end of the bell rope.
As he raised his hand, I was conscious of my
little rat friends fleeing through the hole in the ceiling.
They were my last hope. I stood there on the
chair and couldn't move a muscle. Now that my last
hope seemed gone, I wanted the judge to hurry and

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get it over with. Soon he'd tied the end of
the rope just above my neck to the dangling end
of the bell rope. Then he jumped down on the
floor and looked at me with those eyes that hated me.
So the smile of diabolical triumph seemed to wreathe him
in horror. I began to wonder about hangings. I wondered

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how long it would take whether the doctor in the
village could possibly reach me in time, For I knew
that I would soon be sounding the alarm bell. I
even wondered what kind of a shadow had cast on
the wall as I dangled from the end of the
rope in this grotesque candle light. But I didn't wonder

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for long, because suddenly the Judge grabbed a chair on
which I was standing, when the sudden.

Speaker 61 (01:40:38):
Movement jerked it out from under me. Oh soul runs
the Tale of the Judge's House.

Speaker 1 (01:41:00):
Remember Jonas next week at the same time for another
journey down the corridors to the Hall of Fantasy. Tonight's
program was adapted from the story by Bram Stoker entitled
The Judge's House Heard in Tonight's Program, where Dick Thorne
as Malcolm Lane, Beth Calder is Missus Woodham, and Mel

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Wyman as a doctor. Musical background was provided by Earl Donaldson.
The technical supervisor was Nephi Sorenson. This program was written
by Bob Wilson and produced and directed by Richard Thorne.
Remember be with us again next Sunday that uncalled at

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eight thirty pm when the Granite Furniture Stores in sugar House,
Murray and Provo will take you on another journey down
the corridors of the Hall of fantasy.

Speaker 5 (01:42:22):
We present Haunted stories of the supernatural.

Speaker 8 (01:42:40):
What Was It?

Speaker 5 (01:42:41):
By Fitz James O'Brien, adapted.

Speaker 62 (01:42:43):
To radio by Derek Hardyknot, starring Peter Marinker as Harry
Blamed Fairman as Hammond, and Helen Horton as Missus Moffatt.

Speaker 5 (01:42:55):
Haunted.

Speaker 62 (01:43:11):
It is I confess with considerable diffidence that I approached
this strange narrative. The events which I purposed detailing are
so extraordinary in character that I am quite prepared to
meet with an unusual amount of incredulity and scorn. Having
said that, I wish now to relate some facts which

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came to pass July last in the year eighteen fifty four,
and which in the annals of the mysteries of physical
science are wholly unparalleled. I had just arrived at number
twenty eight twenty sixth Street, New York City, a large
rambling house previously owned by a mister Arbuthnot, a well

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known New York merchant who became the center of a
gigantic financial swindle, and who who as a result, committed
suicide abroad. The house, after remaining empty for years, gained
a reputation for being haunted. But this did not deter
a certain missus Moffatt from turning it into a reputable
boarding house.

Speaker 63 (01:44:16):
No, mister Crown, neither I nor my guests believe all
the stories put about by the neighbors.

Speaker 64 (01:44:22):
In fact, mister Crown, when Missus Moffatt challenged us to
follow her here, we couldn't wait to.

Speaker 63 (01:44:27):
Accept Doctor Hammond. Here was at my previous abode. I
owned a smaller boarding house some two blocks away. But
when I heard that this property was for sale, well
not a reasonable cost. Now I felt I had to
jump at such a bargain, despite its reputation.

Speaker 62 (01:44:46):
Pray, tell me, missus Moffatt, what stories were circulating about
the house?

Speaker 63 (01:44:50):
Oh, strange noises in the like the caretaker and his
wife who were looking after the property during those three years,
spoke of you're being moved of them, of unseen steps
on the stairs in broad daylight, the rustle of silk dresses,
the usual things.

Speaker 5 (01:45:09):
And what happened to the caretakers.

Speaker 64 (01:45:11):
Oh, the estate agent dismissed them. That's right, isn't it,
Missus Moffett.

Speaker 63 (01:45:15):
Well, he had no hope of selling the property while
they were spreading such morbid tales.

Speaker 5 (01:45:20):
He had to get rid of them.

Speaker 64 (01:45:21):
Then, when missus Moffett was telling us that this house
would be ideal for expanding her business and that the
accommodation would be much better, we her guests, that is,
were unanimous in taking up the challenge of the unknown
and joining her.

Speaker 63 (01:45:34):
Naturally, mister Crown, I had to consult my guests because
they too must have heard the stories about the house.
I couldn't afford to lose such respected client. Tell if
they felt well, any qualms about the possibilities of specters
appearing at the foot of their beds in the dead
of night.

Speaker 19 (01:45:55):
Ha ha ha ha.

Speaker 64 (01:45:57):
And we were proved right. Since here nothing has happened,
nothing at all. Well something has.

Speaker 63 (01:46:07):
Then there is an explanation, As I pointed out to
doctor Hammond, what was it.

Speaker 64 (01:46:15):
It happened in my bedroom as I was washing before
going to bed. The candle suddenly went.

Speaker 62 (01:46:22):
Out, A window was open, a breeze. The window was
not open, and if it had been the night I
recall was still.

Speaker 5 (01:46:31):
I'm sure there is an explanation, but you haven't found one,
not as yet.

Speaker 63 (01:46:37):
No, it's an overactive mind caused by all that reading.

Speaker 5 (01:46:42):
Doctor.

Speaker 64 (01:46:43):
You're probably right, Missus Moffatt All of us have read
up on supernaturalism, psychic research, and what's the matter, Harold Crown?
You said, yeah, are you the author of the history
of supernaturalism that I've just read.

Speaker 5 (01:47:03):
For my sins?

Speaker 23 (01:47:03):
Yes?

Speaker 64 (01:47:04):
I am good lord Missus Moffatt. We have an author
in our midst and not only an author, but a
specialist in spirits, an expert in ghosts.

Speaker 5 (01:47:14):
I wouldn't call myself an expert. Tell me, mister Crown, Yes,
Missus Moffatt, what brought you to my establishment?

Speaker 12 (01:47:22):
How did you hear of its existence?

Speaker 5 (01:47:26):
From a friend?

Speaker 12 (01:47:27):
He stayed here?

Speaker 65 (01:47:28):
Then?

Speaker 62 (01:47:29):
No, he'd heard the rumors, that's all. He had a
house the garden, which backed onto yours. Naturally he could
not help but hear the gossip.

Speaker 5 (01:47:38):
Oh, I see, but you do have business in New York.

Speaker 9 (01:47:44):
You see what missus Moffatt is doing, don't you, Crown?

Speaker 5 (01:47:47):
What's that?

Speaker 64 (01:47:48):
She's trying to find out the real reason for your
coming here? Business or merely ghost hunting.

Speaker 5 (01:47:56):
I suggest we move into the dining room. I think
tea is good to be particularly interesting.

Speaker 64 (01:48:02):
I can't wait to introduce mister crowndlem I believe he's
come here for one thing, only.

Speaker 5 (01:48:07):
To try and catch our ghost.

Speaker 62 (01:48:24):
It was only after a month of psychological excitement that
it was with the utmost dissatisfaction that I was forced,
like my fellow Borders, to admit that nothing in the
remotest degree approaching the supernatural manifested itself. I suppose I
should have left there and then, for Missus Moffatt and
doctor Hammond were right. I had come to the house

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in order to seek out the strange happenings which had
been reported to me, But I struck up a great
and deep friendship with doctor Hammond, whom I discovered had
a secret vice the same as mine. In fact, it
was a discovery I made as I smoke my pipe
in the garden one evening after dinner.

Speaker 5 (01:49:08):
Harry, forgive me for asking, Yes, Stephen, what is it?

Speaker 62 (01:49:16):
I thought, so, Well, what's the matter, my friend? We
share a common interest. I wasn't sure at first, But
now you smoke opium?

Speaker 5 (01:49:30):
Well, yes, yes I do, but please don't mention it
to Missus Moffatt. I don't think she.

Speaker 62 (01:49:38):
My dear Stephen, Now you don't mean regularly, usually alone
in my room or when outside.

Speaker 5 (01:49:44):
Walking in the streets or parked.

Speaker 62 (01:49:46):
This is wonderful how I've smoked it for some time,
so by at least two years. Marvelous, my dear friend,
do not leave this house without us smoking at least
once together we can share our experience. I would find
it scient interesting to see whether its effects are the
same on two different individuals, or whether it's effects are
common war irrespective of mental and physical abilities.

Speaker 5 (01:50:09):
What do you say, I would be happy to, my
dear friend.

Speaker 62 (01:50:13):
We enjoyed together those wonderful moments when our thoughts expanded,
our perceptive facilities intensified, and when our bonds of existence
exploded so that we were able to touch all points
of the universe. But the hours which the doctor and
I spent together were regulated with scientific accuracy. We did

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not blindly smoke the drug of paradise and leave our
dreams to chance. We talked calmly, steering our conversation through
the brightest and calmest channels of thought.

Speaker 5 (01:50:46):
We talked of art, poetry, and literature.

Speaker 62 (01:50:49):
When we spoke of Shakespeare's Tempest, we lingered over Aeriel,
never Caliban, until one evening, when we had talked some
time upon the mysticism and the almost universal love of
the terrible Stephen Hammond suddenly said to.

Speaker 5 (01:51:08):
Me, Harry, what do you consider to be the greatest
element of terror? What do you mean, my dear friend, Come.

Speaker 2 (01:51:23):
Come, Harry.

Speaker 5 (01:51:24):
Surely the question is a simple one. Well, there are
many things that would frighten me, terrify me.

Speaker 62 (01:51:36):
Stumbling over a corpse in the dark, beholding, as I
once did, a woman floating down a deep and rapid
river with wildly lifted arms and awful upturned face, shrieking
in fear as she died in the freezing waters. I
must say, Stephen, I have ever considered the subject before.

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I'm not therefore attempt even the most vague definition.

Speaker 5 (01:52:07):
Oh I am somewhat like you, Harry.

Speaker 62 (01:52:11):
I feel my capacity to experience a terror greater than
anything yet conceived by the human mind, something combining in
fearful and unnatural amalgamation hitherto supposed incompatible elements. I think
we should stop talking like this. We shall suffer for it,
depend on it. I don't know what's the matter with

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me tonight, but my brain is running upon all sorts
of weird and awful thought.

Speaker 5 (01:52:40):
I'm off to bed Opium.

Speaker 62 (01:52:42):
A nightmare should never be brought together, how salty it
is anyway, Good night Stephen, Good night Harry. Pleasant dreams
to you, to you, gloomy wretch, visions of ghouls enchanters.
We parted, and each went to his respective chamber. I

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undressed and got into bed. I resolved to go to sleep.
Turned down my gas lamp so that only a little
blue point of light glimmered at the top of the tube.
I composed myself to rest, and then, Dear God, even
recalling the incident now makes me shudder and recoil.

Speaker 5 (01:53:28):
Something awful happened. Oh my god, what's that? What's happening?
Let me golf, God say, we'll let me go. Right,
must turn up a light my throat, tape your hands

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right throw.

Speaker 17 (01:53:54):
Can't breathe, I can't breathe.

Speaker 41 (01:53:59):
Oh my god, we'll be alone.

Speaker 5 (01:54:02):
Where are you? Where are you?

Speaker 12 (01:54:04):
I can't see what I can't see.

Speaker 5 (01:54:10):
I can hear you, but I can't see you.

Speaker 23 (01:54:12):
Done.

Speaker 5 (01:54:15):
Take your hands up there, dard me.

Speaker 41 (01:54:17):
Well help assssin freeze someone. I got you.

Speaker 30 (01:54:26):
I got you.

Speaker 16 (01:54:29):
Stay still, stay absolutely still while I turn the light up.

Speaker 5 (01:54:37):
Huh.

Speaker 62 (01:54:40):
I shudder now as I think of that terrifying moment,
for I saw nothing. I had one arm firmly clasped
round a breathing, panting, corporeal shape. My other hand gripped
with all its strength a throat as warm and apparently
fleshy as my own. And yet, with this living substance

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in my grasp, with its body pressed against my own,
and the bright glare of a large jet of gas,
I beheld absolutely nothing, not even an outline a vapor.

Speaker 5 (01:55:18):
My God, Harry, what's going on in Stephen? Help me, Harry?

Speaker 41 (01:55:23):
What's happened?

Speaker 62 (01:55:24):
What are you doingse Come closer, for God's says, come closer.

Speaker 5 (01:55:28):
I can't hold this thing down.

Speaker 41 (01:55:31):
Only a short time longer?

Speaker 5 (01:55:33):
What hold his arm down?

Speaker 14 (01:55:35):
There?

Speaker 5 (01:55:36):
And arm is there?

Speaker 62 (01:55:37):
It's gradually over Parry me, help me, for God's sake,
help me, Harry.

Speaker 2 (01:55:42):
There's nothing there.

Speaker 5 (01:55:43):
You've been smoking too much.

Speaker 4 (01:55:44):
Ye swear to you, Stephen, this is no vision.

Speaker 62 (01:55:48):
Don't you see how my whole body shakes as it
struggled beneath me? Please, Stephen, if you're not convinced.

Speaker 5 (01:55:55):
Feel it?

Speaker 22 (01:55:56):
Does it?

Speaker 17 (01:55:57):
Harry?

Speaker 29 (01:55:57):
Please?

Speaker 30 (01:55:58):
There is nothing there?

Speaker 4 (01:55:59):
Can't you re breathe? Listen, Harry, please listen.

Speaker 5 (01:56:03):
Damn you worry you and missus moffat Listen. That's you. Oh,
touch it, feel it? Go on, Stephen, do as I say.

Speaker 41 (01:56:21):
Feel its arm?

Speaker 5 (01:56:24):
There, it's head, go on.

Speaker 62 (01:56:28):
Right, all right it? Oh my god, she felt it.
The flesh and bone, sinew and blood.

Speaker 5 (01:56:42):
Oh my god, Harry, what what is in the cupboard?

Speaker 17 (01:56:44):
Man?

Speaker 23 (01:56:44):
Over there? A length of cord.

Speaker 5 (01:56:46):
I cannot hold it much longer.

Speaker 4 (01:56:48):
We'll tie him up with the cord.

Speaker 5 (01:56:50):
But there's nothing there.

Speaker 12 (01:56:52):
Can we get to the word, for God's sake before
he gets free again?

Speaker 29 (01:57:01):
The cord?

Speaker 66 (01:57:01):
Hurry, go on, tie him up to tie the thing
or whatever it is up. His hands are there, I
tie them first.

Speaker 5 (01:57:13):
Hurry, I'm weakening. I can feel the hands. God, we
get help hanging out on the other hand, Please, Stephen, hurry,
who are you going to do?

Speaker 67 (01:57:27):
Now?

Speaker 5 (01:57:27):
Pull the hands together. Then we'll tie the fleet.

Speaker 23 (01:57:32):
You know he got three.

Speaker 62 (01:57:32):
Hendon quickly, Stephen, tie the feet together.

Speaker 5 (01:57:37):
Feel sick. I'm going to be sick to touch something and.

Speaker 62 (01:57:41):
Not doing Stephen, by Heaven six man, Just do.

Speaker 29 (01:57:44):
It all right, Harry?

Speaker 8 (01:57:51):
You want to go there?

Speaker 41 (01:57:55):
The thing count.

Speaker 5 (01:58:06):
That's all right, Stephen. It's the opium. Both of us
we took too much. Oh isn't that it exists?

Speaker 9 (01:58:17):
How can it live in a solid, living body.

Speaker 12 (01:58:20):
Be we be invisible.

Speaker 5 (01:58:22):
I don't know, my friend. Now it is bound and
cannot hurt.

Speaker 68 (01:58:26):
As I propose to find out, Stephen, why there is
something there? See the indentation on the sheet. It moves
and struggles with the ropes. I cannot, my friend, who
are witnessing a miracle?

Speaker 69 (01:58:41):
Don't you realize the first visible signs of a being
from another world, the world we know nothing of, that
has shape and form like us, but we cannot see.

Speaker 5 (01:58:52):
You say it like us. How do you know?

Speaker 62 (01:58:57):
I don't know, of course, the Let us sit down
and think this out. Please we'll statement. I need your
help if you're a doctor and your views could be
useful to me. Now we've got over the first shock,
and now it's time to use our heads to think
what to do, What scientific value we can expose to
the world. You don't intend to tell like this has

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occurred since the birth of the world.

Speaker 5 (01:59:24):
I know not what to think of this precise moment.

Speaker 62 (01:59:27):
God grant that I am not mad and that this
is not some insane fantasy.

Speaker 5 (01:59:35):
All right, Harry, Now let us reason a little, good man.

Speaker 64 (01:59:44):
Here is a solid body which we touch, but which
we cannot see. Is now the fact is so unusual
that it strikes us with terror? Is there no parallel
for such a phenomenon. Take a piece of pure glass.
It is tangible, but transparent. A certain chemical coarseness is

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all that prevents its being entirely transparent as to be
totally invisible.

Speaker 5 (02:00:13):
We do not see the air, but we breathe it,
feel it.

Speaker 62 (02:00:18):
That's all very well, Stephen, But these are inanimate substances.

Speaker 5 (02:00:24):
Glass does not breathe. Air does not breathe.

Speaker 62 (02:00:27):
This thing has a heart that palpitates, a will that
moves it, lungs that play and inspire and respire. Listen,
hear it breathe, it sleeps.

Speaker 5 (02:00:43):
But you forget, You forget the phenomena of which we
have heard so often of light at the.

Speaker 64 (02:00:49):
Meetings called spirit circles, Invisible hands have been thrust into
the hands of those persons around the table, warm fleshy
hands that seemed to pulsate with normal life.

Speaker 23 (02:01:02):
And like me, you think that this thing is.

Speaker 64 (02:01:05):
I don't know what it is, but please the gods,
I will, with your assistance, thoroughly.

Speaker 62 (02:01:14):
Investigated, Harry, Yes, what form? What shape do you think

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it takes?

Speaker 23 (02:01:56):
Well?

Speaker 62 (02:01:58):
As far as I can make out by touch, it
has a human shape. There is a mouth, a round,
smooth head without hair. There is one thing, Stephen, his hands, Well,
what about them? They seem to be that of a boy's.

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What are we going to do, Harry? Tomorrow morning, when
the house is a stirred, when missus Moffatt has the
room is clean.

Speaker 5 (02:02:30):
We can't leave it here.

Speaker 16 (02:02:34):
Get to sleep now, But tomorrow when it wakes.

Speaker 62 (02:02:37):
Up, we shall have to pretend that I'm ill, gone
down with a fever. You can say that you think it.
I'll advise for anyone to enter the room for the
time being, apart from yourself, Stephen, I've just had a
marvelous idea. What a setting of plaster?

Speaker 16 (02:02:52):
Why are you talking about.

Speaker 62 (02:02:54):
Covering it with a setting of plaster? We shall be
able to determine its form. That's all right if it
remains still ry. But look of it struggled with you.
Look the strength it contains. The plaster would never set off,
and we have to find a way of keeping it still.
Tying it down doesn't totally prevent movement.

Speaker 5 (02:03:12):
Chloroform. That's a good idea. If it will work, Why
shouldn't it?

Speaker 62 (02:03:17):
If he has the same senses.

Speaker 5 (02:03:21):
Feeling is a human being. Why not, Stephen, We ought
to tell Missus Moffatt. The others have a right to
know when we have the answers. Stephen.

Speaker 62 (02:03:29):
Now, now look, Tomorrow morning you tell them my mill,
and it will be necessary for.

Speaker 5 (02:03:34):
You to remain in my room all day in order
to keep my fever down. I'll bring the chloroform and plaster.

Speaker 62 (02:03:40):
Tomorrow we'll know, we'll know what lies there, and then
only then can we truly explain to the world what
we have discovered. And so it was all day we
worked silently in my bedroom so that Missus Moffatt would
not suspect. Having been communicated to the rest of the guests,

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Doctor Hammond returned to my room with the chloroform and
the plaster. By this time the thing had woken up.
It struggled at its pettels, breathing deeply and angrily. We
chloroformed it, and within minutes it fell silent. We managed
to undo the rope and then carefully, slowly we covered

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it in the plaster. Never was anything revealed that it
was so horrible, so even now I feel sick the
thought of it. It was shaped like a man distorted,
uncouth and horrible, but still a man. It was small,

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not over four feet high, and its limbs revealed development
that was unparalleled. It had the physiognomy of what I
should fancy a ghoul might be. It looked as if
it were capable of feeding on human flesh. My god, ry,

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I know, I wish we'd never started on this.

Speaker 26 (02:05:18):
We cannot let the others see it or know its existence.

Speaker 17 (02:05:21):
But what do we do?

Speaker 70 (02:05:23):
It lives, it breathes. But now that we can see
it too, I can barely remain in this room. Don't
desert me now, Stephen, Please don't desert me.

Speaker 5 (02:05:35):
What do we do? We have to make our discovery public. No,
I think what might happen to us having gone this far.

Speaker 27 (02:05:49):
It's not beyond the wealth of possibility that we might
become outcast by society in the belief that we might
possess some hidden powers that do even practicing some form
of black magic.

Speaker 5 (02:06:03):
Hour. No, it is too dangerous.

Speaker 34 (02:06:06):
Even help me.

Speaker 62 (02:06:08):
It is moving violently for chloroform, the fastest breaking chloroform
creat Several days passed. The most distressing part of the
affair was that we were entirely ignorant of what. The

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creature habitually fed on everything in the way of nutriment
that we could think of was placed before it, but
was never touched. It was awful to stand by and
hear the hard breathing and know that it was becoming hungrier, hungrier,
weaker and weaker. Finally, on the tenth day he died.

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The thing died at half past two exactly, and the
sudden silence in my room was deafening.

Speaker 5 (02:07:25):
Ready. Yes, if anyone should be watching.

Speaker 62 (02:07:34):
Seeing us bury an imaginary body, they think that's truly mad.
I'm keeping the plaster cast as scientific evidence.

Speaker 9 (02:07:41):
No one will believe you.

Speaker 5 (02:07:42):
I'll have to risk it. Come on, that's Philly day.

Speaker 45 (02:07:57):
What's the matter now?

Speaker 62 (02:07:59):
I was just thinking, King, I sat there last night
in my room and watched it die. I actually sat
there and watched another human being die.

Speaker 5 (02:08:10):
Human. Well, Stephen, if it wasn't human, what was it?

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That was? What was it?

Speaker 62 (02:08:49):
By Fitz James O'Brien, starring Peter Marinker as Harry Blaine,
Firmin as Hammond, and Helen.

Speaker 5 (02:08:56):
Horton as Missus Moffatt.

Speaker 62 (02:09:07):
Pointed was adapted and directed by Derek hollyinot.

Speaker 67 (02:09:45):
No No Stay Where you are. Do not break the
stillness of this moment. For this is a time of mystery,
a time when imagination is free and moves forward swiftly, silently.

Speaker 71 (02:10:07):
This is.

Speaker 5 (02:10:11):
The hunting ow.

Speaker 67 (02:11:29):
Ptolemy's grave, over the tomb which held the mummy of
Ptolemy the Third, these words were written, death to him

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who disturbs the everlasting resting place of these sacred remains.
Two weeks ago William Cartwright, a famous egyptologist, defied this curse.

Speaker 1 (02:12:07):
He bought the mummy, had it sent to his home.

Speaker 67 (02:12:11):
That same day, he slowly walked down the stairs from
his upstairs study. His wife, Martha heard his familiar footsteps
in the hall over the stairs, but she did not
know that her husband was then walking into a nothingness,
that he would completely disappear, leaving no trace of his whereabouts.

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Now it is two o'clock the following morning, the Cartwright
house is still a taut feeling of mystery harvers in
the air. Martha Cartwright is dreaming of her missing husband,
and in her dream, as in her waking hours, she

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is haunted by the fear yea of Ptolemy's Okay.

Speaker 21 (02:13:05):
William, William, Martha, I hear you do you hear me? William?

Speaker 47 (02:13:13):
Where are you?

Speaker 50 (02:13:16):
I'm down there.

Speaker 12 (02:13:19):
Here in our house, in our study.

Speaker 50 (02:13:22):
Come to the study of art.

Speaker 44 (02:13:24):
I'll come.

Speaker 62 (02:13:26):
I'll come.

Speaker 50 (02:13:26):
William here in the study, Martha, come to the study.

Speaker 47 (02:13:33):
Yes, William, the study. I'm here, William here at the
study door.

Speaker 50 (02:13:43):
Look for me.

Speaker 20 (02:13:45):
Where are you, William?

Speaker 47 (02:13:46):
Look for me, Martha, darkness, I can't see you.

Speaker 72 (02:13:51):
Come over the car to the mummy case for the
mummy case the mummy of telling me.

Speaker 50 (02:13:56):
The third is.

Speaker 47 (02:13:58):
Yes, William.

Speaker 50 (02:13:59):
Mommy, look at the mummy closely, Martha, I.

Speaker 12 (02:14:03):
Am looking when you don't you see?

Speaker 20 (02:14:07):
All I see is.

Speaker 47 (02:14:10):
Strange misty light like a halo, shining glowing about the mummy.

Speaker 72 (02:14:18):
Lean forward, then, Mama, look closer, look closer, and I
can't I can't.

Speaker 50 (02:14:24):
You must Martha.

Speaker 72 (02:14:26):
Look at the mummy's face, the face. Can't you see, Maka,
can't you see what it is?

Speaker 20 (02:14:32):
That's just I don't know what you mean.

Speaker 50 (02:14:35):
The feature's Martha. Don't you see anything different about the features?

Speaker 47 (02:14:39):
Gray, shrunken, shriveled skin, gray, horrible of.

Speaker 50 (02:14:45):
The lips, the father of the eyes. Don't you see, Martha?
Have you forgotten so soon?

Speaker 44 (02:14:50):
Gotten?

Speaker 47 (02:14:52):
I remember you when your mom always remember you.

Speaker 50 (02:14:55):
But yet the eyes will open if they were open, Martha.
Could you look now they are open?

Speaker 47 (02:15:02):
Mather, Yes, I see, No, I see.

Speaker 41 (02:15:10):
William.

Speaker 47 (02:15:10):
The mummy has your faith.

Speaker 50 (02:15:11):
Yes, Martha, that's it, the Mummy and I. We're the same,
the same, the same.

Speaker 47 (02:15:34):
Hello doctor John crandall he.

Speaker 3 (02:15:39):
Mama.

Speaker 73 (02:15:39):
Yes, Johnah, Look, I had to call you. I'm so afraid.
I thought the operator could never get my call through.

Speaker 74 (02:15:44):
Yes, I know, the long distance lines are pretty well
tied up.

Speaker 26 (02:15:48):
What Canada?

Speaker 8 (02:15:49):
What game is?

Speaker 47 (02:15:50):
It's very late, but I couldn't wait till morning.

Speaker 12 (02:15:52):
John.

Speaker 73 (02:15:53):
Something's happened, William. Yes, I mean no, I don't know.
Look John, I need you badly. I think I'm going
out of my mind.

Speaker 15 (02:16:03):
What happened.

Speaker 73 (02:16:03):
I've got to see you, John, please tonight. I'm asking
you this not only is a patient, but as a friend.

Speaker 41 (02:16:08):
But I can't come.

Speaker 74 (02:16:09):
Into town tonight.

Speaker 15 (02:16:10):
Matha, You're all right, it's just your imagination.

Speaker 47 (02:16:13):
No, I thought it was a dream.

Speaker 3 (02:16:15):
I've got a job here.

Speaker 15 (02:16:16):
That's got to be finished with.

Speaker 74 (02:16:18):
I can leave the hospital early in the morning, and.

Speaker 12 (02:16:20):
As soon as you can, please.

Speaker 75 (02:16:21):
I'll take hold of yourself control of the word.

Speaker 47 (02:16:25):
Remember I'll try, I'll try.

Speaker 11 (02:16:38):
It.

Speaker 29 (02:16:43):
Ah.

Speaker 73 (02:16:49):
Hello is this mister Kroll. This is Martha cut right,
mister Kroll. I'm sorry to wake you up if I did.

Speaker 3 (02:16:56):
Oh no, no, no, that is all right.

Speaker 47 (02:16:58):
I've got to see you first thing in the morning.
It's important, it's urgent.

Speaker 3 (02:17:01):
Why, of course, missus cartright.

Speaker 47 (02:17:03):
Will you come here to my house at nine o'clock?

Speaker 3 (02:17:05):
At nine I will be there.

Speaker 26 (02:17:08):
But what is the trouble.

Speaker 47 (02:17:10):
It's about that money you sold my husband.

Speaker 12 (02:17:12):
Oh, I see you don't fail me, mister Kroll.

Speaker 3 (02:17:15):
No, no, why I will be there without failing. Hmm,
missus cortright you're mister Kroll. Yeah, come in please, thank you.

Speaker 73 (02:17:37):
You're the gentleman who sold my husband the mummy, aren't you. Yes, well,
I want you to take it away. Take it away
immediately here, right away, Missus cart I'm sorry.

Speaker 47 (02:17:47):
I'm terribly upset.

Speaker 3 (02:17:48):
Oh I understand.

Speaker 47 (02:17:49):
How soon can you take it away?

Speaker 3 (02:17:51):
Perhaps tomorrow morning? But what do you want me to
do with I don't know.

Speaker 47 (02:17:55):
I don't care. Sell her to give it away, do
anything you want.

Speaker 3 (02:17:58):
That was very difficult. You see. One reason your husband
was able to buy it was well, perhaps we'd better
not discuss it right now. You mean it's cursed, Yes,
misfortune has always been attached to it.

Speaker 47 (02:18:11):
Do you believe in this curse?

Speaker 3 (02:18:13):
I have specialized in the art and civilization of the
Pharaohs for twenty years. My experience has taught me to
respect their ideas. Yes, Missus Cartwright, I believe in the curse.

Speaker 47 (02:18:24):
Can you tell me what the curse says?

Speaker 3 (02:18:27):
Death to him will disturbs the sacred remains, a death
of torture, of maddening pain, death in its strangest form.

Speaker 73 (02:18:38):
And now now that my husband is dead, I may
be the next victor. You must take it back, please,
mister Cale. I can't have it here another night. I
haven't slept for date. I can't keep my eyes open,
but I'm afraid to sleep.

Speaker 3 (02:18:51):
Why don't you leave this house until tomorrow?

Speaker 21 (02:18:54):
I can't.

Speaker 47 (02:18:54):
I'm expecting my doctor.

Speaker 3 (02:18:56):
Then perhaps you will be able to take a nap
before he arrives.

Speaker 47 (02:18:59):
Perhaps, well, thank you, mister Crole. You'll take it tomorrow then.

Speaker 3 (02:19:04):
Yes, goodbye, missus Scott.

Speaker 55 (02:19:07):
Right, Oh, William, there in its strange just charm, not you, William.

Speaker 3 (02:19:27):
Of torture, of muddening pain.

Speaker 47 (02:19:31):
They couldn't William.

Speaker 44 (02:19:33):
They couldn't.

Speaker 41 (02:19:35):
Maha.

Speaker 47 (02:19:38):
Do you hear me, William?

Speaker 3 (02:19:40):
Yes, Matha, well are you.

Speaker 50 (02:19:42):
I'm in the studying Marsa. You remember where you saw
me last night?

Speaker 44 (02:19:46):
No, it was a dream last night.

Speaker 47 (02:19:50):
You're in the mummy case. Then it couldn't be.

Speaker 50 (02:19:52):
Yes, I'm still there, coming your receiver.

Speaker 47 (02:19:55):
No, William, I couldn't go there again.

Speaker 50 (02:19:57):
No, I haven't disappeared. I'm here in my house.

Speaker 23 (02:20:00):
You with me.

Speaker 50 (02:20:01):
I'm hearing a study.

Speaker 19 (02:20:02):
Mom.

Speaker 47 (02:20:02):
I can't come to you. I'm afraid afraid of me.

Speaker 44 (02:20:07):
Yes, William, I know.

Speaker 9 (02:20:10):
I'll come to you.

Speaker 50 (02:20:15):
Don't have him offered in the study.

Speaker 44 (02:20:17):
I'm coming to you.

Speaker 47 (02:20:18):
Will you don't do anything you say, but don't make
me look at the face. No, William, I'll do anything.
Not that, please, No, not that. No, Father, please don't
make me well, please, I can't do it.

Speaker 50 (02:20:33):
Mama, wake up. John.

Speaker 47 (02:20:35):
I'm going to die.

Speaker 20 (02:20:36):
I know I'm going to die.

Speaker 47 (02:20:38):
I don't want to look at that bathe again. Please
don't make me, William, please, please.

Speaker 6 (02:20:45):
John Gramdall you're walking in your sleep.

Speaker 5 (02:20:47):
Mother.

Speaker 74 (02:20:47):
I'm sorry I slapped you, but I had to wake you.

Speaker 12 (02:20:51):
Oh you're here, John, Thank Heaven, you're here.

Speaker 74 (02:21:07):
Is there anything left that you haven't told me.

Speaker 5 (02:21:09):
Martha.

Speaker 47 (02:21:10):
That's all I know. John, I'm not going crazy, am
I No?

Speaker 17 (02:21:14):
Mother.

Speaker 75 (02:21:15):
As a psychiatrist, I can tell you that you're not
going crazy. This is all a result of the shock
of Will's disappearance.

Speaker 47 (02:21:21):
But that doesn't explain the curse, John, what about nonsense?

Speaker 75 (02:21:25):
Civilized people don't believe in curses. Those statements were inscribed
on tunes to frighten away grave robbers.

Speaker 47 (02:21:31):
So hard for me to believe that.

Speaker 75 (02:21:32):
Now, Martha, I want you to make an experiment with me.
Let's go into the study together and look at the
moment you've got to. It's the only way you can
overcome your fear. Just let me prove that it's only
your imagination and nothing more.

Speaker 20 (02:21:47):
Please.

Speaker 74 (02:21:48):
You want me to help you, Martha, you have to
help me too. Come all right, that's it.

Speaker 5 (02:21:56):
Here's the study. Hm. Where's the light switch?

Speaker 6 (02:22:01):
John?

Speaker 47 (02:22:01):
Wait, don't turn on the light. But I bear Johnny
see it? Do you see that misty light?

Speaker 74 (02:22:08):
Just the moon coming through the blind?

Speaker 9 (02:22:10):
Oh?

Speaker 47 (02:22:10):
No, what's the mummy? Looked at it, the mummy, he said,
that's gray light.

Speaker 73 (02:22:16):
Shines around it. I'm not sleeping, John, I'm here with you.
And look at that faith. Look closely, John.

Speaker 47 (02:22:22):
I am you see that faith? William's faith? So we're
dead for centuries. Is this a nightmare too?

Speaker 74 (02:22:29):
Oh no, it's not a nightmare.

Speaker 5 (02:22:30):
I see it.

Speaker 47 (02:22:30):
And that mummy is William's body. It's the curse of
Tommy the Third? Did you like that? John?

Speaker 41 (02:22:35):
You laugh?

Speaker 52 (02:22:36):
Now?

Speaker 47 (02:22:36):
Williams Johnny dead?

Speaker 37 (02:22:38):
Please, and I'll be cursed?

Speaker 12 (02:22:39):
John, I I do.

Speaker 47 (02:22:42):
Why didn't he believe it when they told him? Now
it's too light? Do you see now how dying? Williams
died because now the money.

Speaker 20 (02:22:50):
Belongs to me.

Speaker 67 (02:23:27):
Doctor Cartwright, a famous egyptologist, purchased a mummy called Ptolemy
the Third, despite the fact that it was known to
be cursed. The same day he vanished. Now his wife
has been suffering from the delusion that the mummy has
acquired Cartwright's features.

Speaker 5 (02:23:46):
In fact, is Cartwright.

Speaker 67 (02:23:49):
Doctor Crandall, a psychoanalyst and a friend of the Cartwrights,
has tried to disprove this, only to find that he
too notices a strange resemb Now we find doctor Crandall
attending missus Cartwright in a hospital.

Speaker 1 (02:24:07):
It's daylight, isn't it?

Speaker 5 (02:24:09):
Yes?

Speaker 14 (02:24:10):
How do you feel better.

Speaker 47 (02:24:12):
What happened to me?

Speaker 74 (02:24:13):
Well, you were suffering from lack of sleep, Martha, and
your nerves were so unstrung that I thought it best
to bring you here for a while.

Speaker 47 (02:24:20):
Do you believe in the curse now, John, after what
you saw? No, but you saw the same thing I did.

Speaker 74 (02:24:26):
Yes, how do you explain it? I'm not sure that
I can't explain it yet.

Speaker 14 (02:24:30):
Mother.

Speaker 74 (02:24:30):
But after I brought you here, I went back to
the house again to look at the mummy and it
was gone.

Speaker 12 (02:24:36):
Go oh, I suppose mister Kroll called for it.

Speaker 74 (02:24:39):
Who is mister Kroll.

Speaker 47 (02:24:41):
He's the man through whom William bought the mummy. I
asked him to take it away.

Speaker 5 (02:24:45):
I see.

Speaker 74 (02:24:46):
Well, I'm going to leave you now, Martha. There are
several things I want to take care of, but i'll
be back this evening, and I want you to come
with me to mister Kroll's place. What I want to
see that mummy again?

Speaker 29 (02:24:58):
Oh?

Speaker 47 (02:24:58):
But John, must I do that?

Speaker 75 (02:25:01):
Are you still afraid of the curse? Yes, but I
still intend to prove to you that there is no
such thing. I'm going to buy that mummy.

Speaker 73 (02:25:20):
Good evening, mister Kroll. O missus Cartwright and this is
doctor John Crambell.

Speaker 3 (02:25:26):
No good evening.

Speaker 5 (02:25:27):
How do you do sir?

Speaker 14 (02:25:28):
Missus?

Speaker 74 (02:25:28):
Cartwright brought me here so that I could see the
mummy of Tolemy the third?

Speaker 3 (02:25:32):
Of course, may I ask why you wish to see it?

Speaker 74 (02:25:35):
I'm interested in buying it.

Speaker 73 (02:25:37):
I've tried to convince him that it's curse, mister Crow,
but he doesn't want to believe it.

Speaker 3 (02:25:40):
Many men have refused to believe it. It is only
fair that we inform those who intend to buy, and
the rest is entirely up to them. Now, if you
step this way please, The mummy is in my workshop.

Speaker 14 (02:25:53):
Thank you.

Speaker 47 (02:25:57):
Hmm.

Speaker 74 (02:25:58):
I notice you have many other mummies here, don't you,
mister Krawl.

Speaker 3 (02:26:00):
Oh yes, I am known as an expert in repairing them.
They are sent from museums and collectors all over the world.
And which is Tolemy the Third in this sarcophagus right here?

Speaker 74 (02:26:12):
Will you open it?

Speaker 5 (02:26:13):
Of course?

Speaker 74 (02:26:14):
Certainly just a moment, Martha, don't go away. I want
you to look in. It's very important.

Speaker 3 (02:26:24):
There there you are, so there it is, Martha.

Speaker 74 (02:26:28):
Is that the mummy we looked at last night? You see,
I'm not sure I saw it for only a few minutes.

Speaker 12 (02:26:34):
It looks the same.

Speaker 47 (02:26:35):
But what the faces? I mean, the features are not
so familiar.

Speaker 1 (02:26:42):
How do you mean this one doesn't look like William?

Speaker 74 (02:26:45):
Perhaps the light is too sharp here? Do you think
you could turn the lights off for a second, mister Krawll, No.

Speaker 47 (02:26:50):
No, no, mister Crowl No, I'm afraid Martha.

Speaker 75 (02:26:53):
You know I'm not trying to hurt you anymore than
you've already been hurt by this whole affair. But I
must get you to believe that there is no such
thing as a of this kind. If you don't do
as I say, your condition may grow even worse beyond
my control.

Speaker 25 (02:27:05):
Is that clear?

Speaker 44 (02:27:06):
Yes?

Speaker 74 (02:27:08):
Now, mister Corale, will you turn off the light?

Speaker 14 (02:27:11):
Of course?

Speaker 74 (02:27:14):
Are you looking at the mummy and that psychophagus?

Speaker 17 (02:27:16):
Matha?

Speaker 12 (02:27:17):
Yes?

Speaker 74 (02:27:18):
Do you see anything now?

Speaker 13 (02:27:20):
No?

Speaker 12 (02:27:21):
So pitch black.

Speaker 73 (02:27:22):
I can't see anything at all, nothing I see, John,
You know I haven't been imagining all this.

Speaker 11 (02:27:29):
What is it?

Speaker 74 (02:27:29):
Mather over there?

Speaker 22 (02:27:32):
Look?

Speaker 53 (02:27:32):
Mear that on the wall.

Speaker 73 (02:27:34):
Face that's Williams, just as we saw it last night, John,
with that glow around it, and it's moving.

Speaker 47 (02:27:42):
Look it's moving.

Speaker 62 (02:27:43):
John may can turn on the light.

Speaker 26 (02:27:44):
John crawl will you turn on the light.

Speaker 3 (02:27:45):
Please hurry, Why certainly, Oh, oh, oh, John, all.

Speaker 74 (02:27:53):
Right, mother, all right, we'll get you out of here.

Speaker 75 (02:27:55):
Will you open the door, mister Cole, Why of course, doctor,
And could I ask you to get missus Cartwright a glass.

Speaker 3 (02:28:02):
Of water a pleasure? I'm sure Martha, Martha.

Speaker 74 (02:28:08):
Listened to me carefully. I've got to explain quickly. As
soon as you leave here, go straight to the nearest
telephone and call the police. Tell them to come here immediately.

Speaker 47 (02:28:15):
I don't understand.

Speaker 75 (02:28:16):
I know now that William was murdered. Yes, Krole killed him,
and I'm going to stay here with him until the
police arrived.

Speaker 3 (02:28:22):
And I have the water.

Speaker 74 (02:28:23):
Thank you, Thank you. Now drink this mouth and take
the pill I just gave you. Yes, that's it now.
I think you'd better go home and don't forget what
I told you.

Speaker 44 (02:28:35):
Yes, John, I'll go home.

Speaker 3 (02:28:36):
Goodbye, mister Croll, goodbye, Madam.

Speaker 74 (02:28:41):
Oh it's terrible, sir.

Speaker 75 (02:28:42):
She's completely obsessed with the fear of that mummy, and
it's destroying her.

Speaker 3 (02:28:46):
She loved her husband very much, I'm sure.

Speaker 75 (02:28:49):
Of course, of course, but more than anything else, it's
her insane fear of that curse.

Speaker 3 (02:28:54):
And is that the reason you want to purchase the Mummy,
doctor Crendelle, precisely. In that case, maybe I can help you.
You can, yes, let us talk about it. But first,
would you like to have a drink? I noticed you
a rather fatigued after what just has happened.

Speaker 74 (02:29:12):
Yes, yes, I could stand something. Will you join me?

Speaker 3 (02:29:16):
Why should I leave myself out?

Speaker 5 (02:29:18):
Of course?

Speaker 3 (02:29:18):
I have some very fine old spirits here. Now, there
we are, I hope.

Speaker 74 (02:29:29):
For sir, what there's somebody else in your work room?
So I heard a.

Speaker 3 (02:29:34):
Noise from there where There is nobody there that I
know of. No, no, it must be your imagination.

Speaker 29 (02:29:41):
Doctor.

Speaker 3 (02:29:43):
Perhaps you yourself can take one of those pills you
just administered to missus carterright.

Speaker 74 (02:29:48):
Yes, she has been a very trying patient. I'll admit
well to.

Speaker 3 (02:29:54):
Her early recovery.

Speaker 74 (02:29:55):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:29:58):
Hey, yeah, there is nothing quite like it, is there?
Ray doctor?

Speaker 74 (02:30:00):
Yes, it's very fine, I must say.

Speaker 62 (02:30:03):
Now.

Speaker 75 (02:30:03):
I don't like to hurry you, mister Cole, but I'm
very much interested in your idea to help missus Cartwright.

Speaker 3 (02:30:09):
Well, let us start at the beginning. When you first
came into the shop with Missus Cartwright, and she looked
at the mummy. She did not see anything about it
that frightened her.

Speaker 41 (02:30:19):
Is that right?

Speaker 22 (02:30:20):
Right?

Speaker 3 (02:30:20):
But when you suggested that we turn off the lights,
it was then for the first time that she was
aware of her Well, shall we say her hallucination?

Speaker 74 (02:30:29):
And what do you suggest?

Speaker 3 (02:30:31):
I suggest that she have the mummy return to her
house and then have her practice looking at it while
the lights are on, and in this way she might
forget the hallucinations of seeing her husband's face.

Speaker 74 (02:30:43):
I suppose she is not suffering from hallucinations.

Speaker 3 (02:30:46):
Mister Crow, You yourself saw what a change came over
her when the lights were turned off.

Speaker 75 (02:30:51):
But she was not frightened by the mummy you originally
showed her. No, no, mister Kole, missus Cartwright saw the mummy.
You didn't want her to see the mummy that you
took from her house, the mummy that happens to be
no mummy at all, but is in fact the body.

Speaker 26 (02:31:04):
Of her husband.

Speaker 74 (02:31:06):
You know that that was why you hung a curtain
in front of that mummy before we arrived.

Speaker 75 (02:31:09):
And how did you know it was behind the curtain
in my workroom because of the glow of light around it.
I could see that glow when the lights were turned off,
so I took the curtain away completely. That was what
made missus Cartwright think it was moving. Oh, I see,
you are a very astew doctor. Could you tell me
perhaps what you think made the misty glow?

Speaker 74 (02:31:28):
That's simple.

Speaker 75 (02:31:29):
It was a natural body gases and fluids which you
forgot to extract before you applied your preservative to doctor
Cartwright's corpse. When you mummy, you are quite right. That
was the only mistake I made. There are certain things
that you can't hide, Kroll, such as your bleached hair
and beard. Your real name is Cavaralla, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (02:31:47):
Oh, so you were not only a doctor, you are
a detective as well.

Speaker 9 (02:31:51):
Well.

Speaker 75 (02:31:51):
You see, I knew that William Cartwright was one of
the foremost Egyptologists in this country, and as such, he
was often called upon to testify as an expert witness
in many fraudulent case is connected with the culture. So yes,
So I went through those cases with the district attorney
on the assumption that one of those defendants was connected
in some way with Cartwright's disappearance.

Speaker 3 (02:32:08):
And the district attorney told you about me.

Speaker 75 (02:32:11):
I found out that you had been convicted in one
of those and sent to prison for twelve years on
the basis of Cartwright's testimony.

Speaker 3 (02:32:18):
Well, we all make mistakes, doctor Crundle, even you. What
do you mean that drink you just had it was poisoned,
and in a few more minutes perhaps you will be dead.
But I promise you one thing, I will not make
the same mistake on your corpse that I did on Cartwright.

Speaker 19 (02:32:36):
So you you.

Speaker 3 (02:32:39):
Throw You are beginning to feel the effect of the poison.

Speaker 5 (02:32:42):
Can't get away with this.

Speaker 34 (02:32:44):
I'll come back after it.

Speaker 3 (02:32:46):
I am not the superstitious one, doctor.

Speaker 4 (02:32:48):
I can't read my patrol.

Speaker 22 (02:32:53):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (02:32:55):
Dead and now before missus Cartwright can return with the
police as you have in trucked her. Missus Cartwright, Yes,
I want to talk to doctor Crandell. You've killed him, yes,
and I am very glad you have returned.

Speaker 47 (02:33:12):
What are you going to do?

Speaker 3 (02:33:13):
Do you see? I was just about to change doctor
Crandall's features completely so that I would not have a
repetition of the same trouble. Although I did not want
to kill him, I guess I was a little hasty.
It was you I should have killed my dear missus Cartwright.
So you went not to call the police. What I
will never find out, not with my way find out.

Speaker 12 (02:33:35):
You can't do this.

Speaker 47 (02:33:35):
You can't get away with the police.

Speaker 3 (02:33:37):
It will be just another disappearance, a disappearance caused by
the curse of Ptolemy people like to believe those things,
Missus Cartwright.

Speaker 2 (02:33:45):
Oh you can't do it. You don't believe.

Speaker 26 (02:33:48):
Well, I told you I come back.

Speaker 34 (02:33:50):
You're true.

Speaker 3 (02:33:50):
It can't be.

Speaker 26 (02:33:51):
I feel the pain, Carol, the.

Speaker 35 (02:33:52):
Pain in your throat.

Speaker 5 (02:33:53):
I feel it also, do what is it in your chest?

Speaker 12 (02:33:58):
And now it's around your heart?

Speaker 5 (02:34:00):
Out?

Speaker 34 (02:34:01):
Yes, it is to my heart.

Speaker 50 (02:34:06):
They can't breathe it.

Speaker 25 (02:34:09):
Oh you sho.

Speaker 15 (02:34:12):
Chucking.

Speaker 44 (02:34:16):
It's dead.

Speaker 47 (02:34:18):
Shown you're alive. I don't understand.

Speaker 74 (02:34:20):
I know how trying this is for your Martha, But
listen to me. I'll explain it. I just I wasn't dead.

Speaker 75 (02:34:25):
Kroll offered me a poisoned drink, but I distracted his
attention by pretending to hear something outside. When he went
to look, I switched the drinks and he was the
one who got the poison.

Speaker 12 (02:34:34):
And I saw you there.

Speaker 47 (02:34:34):
I thought the Mummy's curse had worked again.

Speaker 75 (02:34:36):
No, Martha, that curse we talked about so much was
only Kroll's own invention, and it came back to him.

Speaker 74 (02:34:42):
If he'd never thought it up, he would never have
died as a result of it.

Speaker 76 (02:35:29):
From the shadows and stillness, mystery weaves a spell of strangest.

Speaker 67 (02:36:04):
Fascination, charging the mind with doubt and fears. For mystery
is a strange companion, a living memory in the haunting.

Speaker 8 (02:36:19):
Our m h.

Speaker 46 (02:36:44):
In the little theater of the air, whole story, weird

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story and murders too.

Speaker 35 (02:37:16):
The hermit knows of them.

Speaker 29 (02:37:18):
All.

Speaker 35 (02:37:19):
Turn out your lights, turn them out. Ah, have you
heard the story the House of Purple Shadows?

Speaker 5 (02:37:32):
Then listen while the hermit tells you the story yesterday.

Speaker 77 (02:37:45):
We weren't so alarmed when he didn't come to the
office this morning. Then we concluded something.

Speaker 29 (02:37:50):
Must be wrong.

Speaker 25 (02:37:51):
He's here in the house. We will find out in
a minute.

Speaker 46 (02:37:53):
Vance.

Speaker 29 (02:37:53):
Yeah, that's dark in his hally, Mister Lamon.

Speaker 25 (02:37:58):
There must be a light switch here somewhere here it is.

Speaker 41 (02:38:03):
Ah, yeah, that's better.

Speaker 25 (02:38:06):
Hasn't been sleeping here at this house for over a year, but.

Speaker 29 (02:38:09):
They said at the club that he wasn't there yesterday.
Ken slept in his room there last night.

Speaker 25 (02:38:14):
That case, he may be here.

Speaker 29 (02:38:15):
That's what I'm afraid of.

Speaker 77 (02:38:17):
Maybe he had a stroke or something and wasn't able
to get to a phone. We look upstairs first, Yes,
I think we better. H here's the stairway. It's queer,
isn't it.

Speaker 25 (02:38:27):
He came here in the evening. Wouldn't he have left
some lights on?

Speaker 5 (02:38:30):
That's what I was thinking.

Speaker 41 (02:38:33):
That's glowing in this house.

Speaker 29 (02:38:35):
No wonder he shut it all up and went to
live at the club after his wife died. Mister Davidson
has always been a peculiar man. I haven't been his
attorney as long as I have without realizing that.

Speaker 41 (02:38:47):
Do you know what bed rooms here?

Speaker 23 (02:38:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 25 (02:38:49):
I think this one. At least. We'll try this room first.

Speaker 29 (02:38:53):
He had locked and it just seems to stick. Must
be the door as well. Let me try this a little.

Speaker 25 (02:39:00):
I'm getting it now.

Speaker 41 (02:39:01):
It comes gee, wears Benson.

Speaker 77 (02:39:05):
I don't know, but when you open the doors, as
if something grabbed a hold of my hand.

Speaker 41 (02:39:11):
I know it sounds queer, but.

Speaker 29 (02:39:12):
It was if an icicle touch on me. Just the
cold air rushing out of this room, just black as
night in here. Curtains and drapes are heavily drawn. If
I can find a light in here.

Speaker 41 (02:39:25):
Oh, here it is.

Speaker 25 (02:39:26):
Mister Lamont's not in.

Speaker 41 (02:39:30):
Here, No, not here. Maybe this isn't his room.

Speaker 25 (02:39:33):
If he's going to stay in the house, he'd sleep
in here.

Speaker 77 (02:39:36):
This room hasn't been touched for a long time, has it?
I guess not, mister Lamont. Isn't it queer that this
room should be so cold?

Speaker 25 (02:39:44):
I know there's nothing strange about that. The room that's
all closed up gets damp and cold.

Speaker 77 (02:39:49):
I have a feeling that it's gonna start snowing in
here any minute. This cold air seems to freeze your
very blood. Mister Benson. I don't think your employer stayed
in this house night before last. I don't think anyone's
been in this house for a long time.

Speaker 41 (02:40:05):
Well, then where is he?

Speaker 23 (02:40:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 25 (02:40:08):
You're looking in the other rooms up here? Turn off
his life?

Speaker 29 (02:40:12):
Shall we close the door? Yes, leave everything just as
we found it. He finds out that we've been snooping
around up here, he may not like it.

Speaker 77 (02:40:20):
He's very peculiar, I know, But certainly he'd want us
to hunt for him if he thought we were worried,
if we thought he was lying.

Speaker 41 (02:40:27):
Up here dead.

Speaker 25 (02:40:28):
He doesn't like people prying into his affair.

Speaker 5 (02:40:31):
That's true.

Speaker 29 (02:40:32):
We're looking this upstairs library. He's not in there. Well
then means he's not here in the house.

Speaker 5 (02:40:39):
Yes, but.

Speaker 26 (02:40:43):
What was that?

Speaker 25 (02:40:45):
Sounded like a moan?

Speaker 41 (02:40:47):
Yes, I did, mister Davison. Where are you, mister Davison?

Speaker 23 (02:40:54):
Why are you?

Speaker 25 (02:40:58):
He's not here in the library?

Speaker 41 (02:41:00):
Sound as if it came from downstairs.

Speaker 25 (02:41:01):
Yes, I guess it didn't. Urry, Let's get down there.

Speaker 41 (02:41:04):
Yes, mister Davidson, where are you?

Speaker 25 (02:41:12):
Not here in the living room?

Speaker 41 (02:41:13):
No, but we heard a moan from somewhere.

Speaker 25 (02:41:16):
Sounded like it, mister Lamar.

Speaker 34 (02:41:19):
Look look do you see see what I'm pointing out
where that book on the table?

Speaker 5 (02:41:25):
It moved.

Speaker 41 (02:41:26):
It moved all by itself, it did. I saw it.
I saw it. It moved from one side of the
table to the other.

Speaker 78 (02:41:34):
Nonsense, that's impossible. My eyes aren't playing me tricks that badly.
I saw it move. Come over here. Look you see
where it's been lying in print in the dust. Yes,
now it's over here.

Speaker 29 (02:41:51):
Wait a minute, this is getting a little too deep
for me.

Speaker 25 (02:41:56):
Benson. What's the matter?

Speaker 12 (02:41:56):
Now?

Speaker 41 (02:41:57):
I felt that touch on my hand again, I did.

Speaker 25 (02:42:01):
There is something queer going on in here. Look look over.

Speaker 5 (02:42:04):
There at the window.

Speaker 29 (02:42:06):
You see that here, It's like someone was touching those
drapes and making the move.

Speaker 41 (02:42:11):
Yes, this, come on, let's get out here, let's get
out all right?

Speaker 23 (02:42:16):
Right.

Speaker 78 (02:42:19):
They couldn't see me. They couldn't hear my voice. Isn't
there anyone who can hear me speak?

Speaker 15 (02:42:28):
Oh?

Speaker 78 (02:42:28):
If you know how badly I needed help, how hard
I tried to make them hear me. Few people who
are of the world and know it. You can step
to the mirror, looking at it and see your face
and body reflected there.

Speaker 14 (02:42:40):
Oh, how thankful you should be.

Speaker 78 (02:42:43):
Just a few moments ago I managed to propel myself
to the mirror in the hall. I looked into it.
I stood directly in front of it. There was nothing there.
I have no face, no body, no arms, no hands.
And yet and yet a sound came from whatever it

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is that I am like a moan. My lawyer, mister Lamont,
and my book even mister Benson, came rushing down the stairs.
I could see them, but great Heaven, they couldn't see me.
I called out, help me, help me, but they went
out the door, slammed it shot, left me here alone.

Speaker 41 (02:43:27):
Oh, doomed.

Speaker 78 (02:43:29):
What isn't there anyone who can tell me what's happened.

Speaker 15 (02:43:34):
To me.

Speaker 78 (02:43:36):
Two days ago? Yes, I can still reckon daze. I
left the office and went to the club. It was
about an hour before dinner. I sat reading the paper.
Suddenly all the letters began to jump and dance before
my eyes. I distinctly heard something whispering in my ears.

Speaker 29 (02:43:51):
Go to your house, Go to your house.

Speaker 78 (02:43:56):
I threw down the paper. No one seemed to be
watching me. I was so frightened. I felt I must
be ill, but I couldn't tell anyone in the club.

Speaker 79 (02:44:08):
There was a buzzing in my ears, and I could
hear that voice saying, go to your house, Go to
your house.

Speaker 25 (02:44:22):
I walked out the.

Speaker 21 (02:44:23):
Door down the street.

Speaker 78 (02:44:26):
Some power seemed to be forcing me to go. I
walked fast. I approached my house. I haven't lived and
that since my wife died.

Speaker 25 (02:44:39):
I looked up at it.

Speaker 78 (02:44:41):
It seemed to be weaving back and forth. Black clouds
hung over it. I walked up the steps. I reached
the outside door.

Speaker 14 (02:44:51):
Mechanically.

Speaker 41 (02:44:51):
I took the key from my pocket.

Speaker 78 (02:44:53):
Inserted it in the lock, opened the door. I stood inside.

Speaker 41 (02:45:07):
Now why was I here? Why had I come to
the house?

Speaker 5 (02:45:13):
I didn't know.

Speaker 41 (02:45:15):
I walked into the living room.

Speaker 78 (02:45:19):
Suddenly I felt a great rush of cold wind.

Speaker 25 (02:45:24):
It didn't gulped me.

Speaker 78 (02:45:26):
World around me seemed to be wrapping itself about me.

Speaker 41 (02:45:31):
Help.

Speaker 47 (02:45:32):
Hell, what is it?

Speaker 30 (02:45:34):
Hell?

Speaker 28 (02:45:35):
Hell, my body's freezing.

Speaker 41 (02:45:42):
My blood has turned to eyes.

Speaker 34 (02:45:43):
Help, help, help, I can't fall I.

Speaker 5 (02:45:48):
God, I couldn't.

Speaker 78 (02:45:58):
The room seemed to be bathed in the purple twilight.
It was then that I realized that I no longer
had a physical body. I seem to see everything in
the room, but myself looked down at your hand and arm.
Realized what it would mean to have the feeling of
it but not be able to see it. Can you

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imagine such torture? I can make things move, but I
can't see the hand that moves them.

Speaker 56 (02:46:28):
Oh, horrible, terrible calamity that has befallen me. How long
am I going to go on like this? What sort
of a world am I living?

Speaker 11 (02:46:39):
In?

Speaker 29 (02:46:40):
The purple shadows between this and the next?

Speaker 41 (02:46:45):
Someone have mercy on me.

Speaker 28 (02:46:48):
Help me, great Heaven, Someone help.

Speaker 25 (02:47:02):
Mister Benson.

Speaker 29 (02:47:03):
Yes, mister Lamont, before we go into the next room
to talk to mister Davison's niece, I I think there
are a few things we should settle between us. Yes, sir,
yesterday ended a year since the disappearance of mister Davison.
There's no doubt about it.

Speaker 60 (02:47:18):
He's dead.

Speaker 5 (02:47:19):
He must be, sir.

Speaker 29 (02:47:20):
He was kidnapped, which I am inclined to think happened.
Kidnappers must have gotten frightened and killed him. There were
no ransom notes received, no because they became frightened after
they killed him.

Speaker 21 (02:47:30):
But his body.

Speaker 25 (02:47:31):
Don't know what they did with it.

Speaker 29 (02:47:33):
It's possible that though we dragged river, it's still there.
We've gone all over that before. That isn't what I
want to talk to you about. It's it's his house. Yes,
police have been through it dozens of times since the
day last.

Speaker 25 (02:47:46):
Year when you and I went through it.

Speaker 15 (02:47:48):
I know they have.

Speaker 25 (02:47:49):
They saw or heard anything peculiar. They failed to mention it.
As far as you and I are concerned.

Speaker 29 (02:47:54):
I have never mentioned what happened to a soul, nor
I been so long now I I wonder if it
could have been true.

Speaker 41 (02:48:02):
I often think the same thing.

Speaker 29 (02:48:05):
According to mister Davison's will, the house and part of
his estate is to be deeded to his niece, Loretta Hathaway.
She and her husband are in the next room. I
think it best, mister Benson, that we never tell her
what occurred to us that day. I agree, she and
her husband are not wealthy. Money in the house would
be very welcome to them. We shouldn't spoil it for him. No,

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all right, we'll go inside now and read the will
to them. Mister Hathaway won't take over mister Davison's business.
Think you find a em a nice man to work for.

Speaker 25 (02:48:34):
Come, let's go inside.

Speaker 47 (02:48:38):
Dan, you think you're going to like.

Speaker 25 (02:48:39):
It here in this heart It almost seems to be
too grand for us, I know it.

Speaker 52 (02:48:44):
Weren't you surprised to find out that uncle Jim and
Will is so much business has his money in this house?

Speaker 23 (02:48:50):
Well?

Speaker 29 (02:48:50):
Rather, But then, of course there was no one else
for him to leave it to me?

Speaker 52 (02:48:53):
I know, Dan, Have you ever thought he might have
committed suicide? No?

Speaker 21 (02:49:00):
I never thought that.

Speaker 52 (02:49:02):
Mother said he wasn't always as peculiar as he was
during his last years. What do you mean, well, I
remember her saying that was after he built this house
and he and Aunt Mary moved into it, that he
began to change.

Speaker 78 (02:49:13):
No, there's something about this place that would make anybody
change not what he mean? What I mean, Olredda, is
that I's so blame cold in here.

Speaker 29 (02:49:21):
The house has been shut up for over three years.

Speaker 78 (02:49:23):
Day, I know, but it's warm outside. This house is
like an ice box, and we've got the windows open
all day.

Speaker 47 (02:49:29):
It'll get thought out in a few days, I hope.

Speaker 52 (02:49:31):
So I suppose we better retire. You take time to
the office tomorrow, don't you. Yes, poor uncle Jim. I
still keep thinking that he may have committed suicide. I've
often wondered if they went through his desk and things
to see if he left any knows.

Speaker 29 (02:49:45):
Oh, yes, they've gone through his things dozens of times.

Speaker 19 (02:49:48):
Then.

Speaker 29 (02:49:48):
Yes, it was three years ago that Aunt Mary died.

Speaker 52 (02:49:51):
Wasn't it about that she took an overdose of sleeping
powder by mistake? And six months after that mother died. Jim,
disappears a lot of tragedy.

Speaker 41 (02:50:02):
In one family in a.

Speaker 29 (02:50:03):
Few years, isn't I wouldn't dwell on that letter?

Speaker 41 (02:50:08):
What are you doing?

Speaker 52 (02:50:09):
I just thought i'd go through his desk to see
if I could find anything that no one else.

Speaker 41 (02:50:12):
Is just scopy. I wouldn't look through those things tonight.
Let's go upstairs.

Speaker 43 (02:50:15):
I will in a minute, Dan, Dan, come here, what
is it?

Speaker 29 (02:50:21):
Look at this?

Speaker 12 (02:50:22):
Look at this writing?

Speaker 41 (02:50:23):
Well, what is it?

Speaker 52 (02:50:25):
That's what I'm asking you.

Speaker 41 (02:50:27):
Just purple marks on a piece of paper.

Speaker 52 (02:50:29):
I know, But what peculiar marks like they were made
with a fingernail and written in some foreign language.

Speaker 29 (02:50:36):
What do you suppose it is?

Speaker 78 (02:50:37):
I haven't any idea. It's probably been there for ages.
If it had any significance, the police would have.

Speaker 41 (02:50:43):
Used it, I know.

Speaker 52 (02:50:44):
But it's lying right here on top of all these papers,
as if it had been dropped here just recently, Dan Field,
that paper it's ice cool.

Speaker 78 (02:50:55):
Yes, it's like everything else in this house. Oh, come on,
you can rummage to that desk tomorrow. I'm going upstairs.
Do you realize it's nearly midnight?

Speaker 17 (02:51:05):
Then?

Speaker 22 (02:51:08):
What is it?

Speaker 52 (02:51:08):
Look see that window blind?

Speaker 43 (02:51:13):
Look at it?

Speaker 5 (02:51:16):
Why it's moving?

Speaker 43 (02:51:20):
Look look at it.

Speaker 12 (02:51:24):
It's moving up and down all by itself.

Speaker 78 (02:51:31):
Oh, I see what it is, Loretta, there's something the
matter with the roller. You've seen it happen the window
curtains before they fly way up to the top or
way down at the bottom of the window when the
rollers broken.

Speaker 52 (02:51:41):
But Dad, it it was just as there's some unseen
hand moved that window curtain.

Speaker 12 (02:51:47):
That's what it was like.

Speaker 47 (02:51:49):
Some unseen hand.

Speaker 12 (02:51:50):
Moved that curtain.

Speaker 35 (02:52:04):
Theretta Dancy strange things too. Can it be that Davidson
is still trying to make himself known to the people
in his house? The hermit will tell you. Before the
night is done.

Speaker 5 (02:52:22):
Now the hermit again.

Speaker 35 (02:52:31):
Midnight in the house the rettera Dan is sleeping, but not.

Speaker 24 (02:52:37):
Well.

Speaker 41 (02:52:38):
Listen, No, I am not sleeping.

Speaker 25 (02:52:50):
I never sleep.

Speaker 78 (02:52:53):
You know that I've been wandering in this my house
for over a year, living in hideous torture. I had
to make someone understand what it's useless. They only grow frightened,
as Loretta did earlier this evening. But you didn't get
frightened enough. No, I'll tell you why. What I've discovered
in these long, endless hours that I've spent here, and

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something strange about this place, something horrible. You hear the wind,
It's beginning again.

Speaker 29 (02:53:28):
About midnight. Every night it springs up.

Speaker 78 (02:53:32):
There's a queer purple glow over everything, and the cold seals.

Speaker 23 (02:53:37):
Me all through again, penetrating to my very marrow.

Speaker 78 (02:53:44):
I know I have no form that you can see
where I can see, but I can feel pain just
the same, such pain as you never dreamed of in
your normal world. And Dan will suffer the same transformation
as I have if they don't get out of this house.

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I've been convinced for a long time now that it
must have been true that my wife Mary realized there
was something wrong in this house. That's why she took
the sleeping parties that night. She took her own life
through fear. But why didn't she warn me so that
I could die? For as it is now, I may

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go on suffering like this for ages and centuries and
maybe thousands of houses all over the world that are
under a spell like this one is. There must be
other people living in this strange world like I am.
Here it comes again, this wind that lives in this
world of purple shadows. I've got to warm the Red

(02:54:51):
and Dan. I've got to get them out of the house.
I must propel myself up the stairs and open the
door to their room. I'm climbing the stairs now, I
can see in the night and see everything but myself.
I think my hand is touching the banister. Now I'm

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at the top of the stairs.

Speaker 5 (02:55:21):
Just opened the door in the room.

Speaker 23 (02:55:25):
Oh that when.

Speaker 41 (02:55:27):
It's making these summers.

Speaker 28 (02:55:29):
That's fame.

Speaker 5 (02:55:32):
I must warn them.

Speaker 24 (02:55:35):
A Loretta Lareta.

Speaker 5 (02:55:46):
She doesn't hear me.

Speaker 29 (02:55:48):
Loretta, you must get out of here, Larea. Oh.

Speaker 5 (02:55:53):
Oh she's turning in asleep.

Speaker 41 (02:55:59):
Oh what is.

Speaker 29 (02:56:02):
Damn? Damn?

Speaker 12 (02:56:05):
Wake up?

Speaker 52 (02:56:06):
Wake up, wake up, Dan, wake up.

Speaker 12 (02:56:12):
There's a strange light.

Speaker 52 (02:56:13):
In this room, and where's the wind coming from?

Speaker 23 (02:56:16):
Arena?

Speaker 17 (02:56:18):
Get out, get out of this house.

Speaker 29 (02:56:22):
It's going to be too late.

Speaker 41 (02:56:25):
There is a strange light in here. Turn up the night.

Speaker 5 (02:56:27):
Laugh.

Speaker 52 (02:56:29):
It doesn't seem to make any difference.

Speaker 73 (02:56:32):
The light is getting stronger and stronger, and the wind
is praising me, raising my foot.

Speaker 29 (02:56:39):
Florida, I feel it too.

Speaker 41 (02:56:42):
Let's get out of this room.

Speaker 24 (02:56:43):
Help.

Speaker 12 (02:56:45):
I can't move.

Speaker 21 (02:56:47):
I can't go.

Speaker 29 (02:56:49):
I can't move either.

Speaker 41 (02:56:51):
I'm powerless.

Speaker 47 (02:56:52):
Help someone, help.

Speaker 20 (02:56:55):
Us, help.

Speaker 29 (02:56:57):
I can feel my whole body changing, Florida, what's happening
to it?

Speaker 23 (02:57:03):
Help me?

Speaker 29 (02:57:05):
I reached out for you and knocked over the lamp.

Speaker 25 (02:57:08):
Already.

Speaker 29 (02:57:10):
I can't see my hand anymore. I can't see my
arms and my legs.

Speaker 52 (02:57:14):
Standing in this room.

Speaker 78 (02:57:20):
It's uncle Jim, Jim Davison. Yes, you see me now
for your change the same as I am. What's happened
to us. We've been in a strange world. It's his house,
it's under some horrible spell. I've been in these shadows
since the day I disappeared.

Speaker 52 (02:57:41):
Uncle Jim.

Speaker 47 (02:57:43):
Is there nothing we can do? Nothing?

Speaker 41 (02:57:46):
Here is our only hope. See he knocked over that lamp.

Speaker 29 (02:57:50):
Then this room will soon be all the fires.

Speaker 41 (02:57:52):
Let it burn.

Speaker 78 (02:57:54):
They burn down the house and give us the freedom
of death. It's our only hope, our only salvation.

Speaker 41 (02:58:01):
Death, give us freedom.

Speaker 29 (02:58:04):
Let us get out of this torture.

Speaker 41 (02:58:07):
Have mercy, save us, have mercy.

Speaker 77 (02:58:43):
What's the news, mister Lamon?

Speaker 41 (02:58:45):
Did they find the bodies?

Speaker 29 (02:58:46):
They've gone through the charred wreck of that house for hours.
There's no trace of the body there.

Speaker 77 (02:58:51):
Do you think they got out before the house burned?

Speaker 41 (02:58:54):
Then where are they then?

Speaker 25 (02:58:57):
I don't think they got out.

Speaker 29 (02:58:59):
But they didn't find their bodies, mister Lamont.

Speaker 25 (02:59:01):
They didn't find them, but no one will ever hear
of them again.

Speaker 41 (02:59:06):
What do you mean?

Speaker 29 (02:59:07):
It's difficult to explain to anyone but you, because you
and I know there was something strange about that place. Yes,
I was with the fireman when we went through the wreck,
as it was their bedroom. There was nothing there but
Benson as we were going through it. Smoke, of course
was smoldering there, but a huge purple flame sprung up

(02:59:30):
and seemed to lose itself in the atmosphere.

Speaker 25 (02:59:33):
It startled me. I stepped back.

Speaker 29 (02:59:35):
Fireman thought I'd found something. Course I I couldn't explain
to them. I don't know that I can explain to you.
But it was as if, well as if something registered
in my mind and the voice said to me, you'll
never find their bodies.

Speaker 25 (02:59:57):
They're gone.

Speaker 40 (03:00:00):
On forever.

Speaker 35 (03:00:29):
With our house burned down, they who lived in the
world of purple shadows are liberated forever. They're free, no
longer torture than.

Speaker 17 (03:00:44):
On your legs.

Speaker 5 (03:00:45):
Turn them on.

Speaker 35 (03:00:49):
I'll be back pleasant dreams.

Speaker 78 (03:00:57):
All characters, places and occurrence as meant in the Hermit's
Cave are fictitious and similarity to a person's places or occurrences.

Speaker 4 (03:01:04):
It's purely accidental.

Speaker 21 (03:01:15):
Mystery is my hobby.

Speaker 80 (03:01:30):
The story began last autumn mister Grant Parker, a wealthy
art collector, told me and asked me down to his
country place for the weekend. Fifteen minutes later, I picked
up my good friend infector Noah Denton, and we were
on our way to Woodsville, a small country town where
Parker spent his summer.

Speaker 15 (03:01:52):
So we're going down to see this Grant Parker who
says he's a new mister. And then, uh, what's I think?
You call him back?

Speaker 21 (03:01:59):
And miss Mathis inspectors is that good? Well?

Speaker 29 (03:02:02):
And nu? Miss Mathis inspector is a man who collects
a coin who doesn't personally, I prefer collecting a folding.

Speaker 80 (03:02:09):
Kind of doll thew Miss Metallogy inspector is somewhat different
than merely collecting money.

Speaker 21 (03:02:13):
Huh, some rare coin admitted.

Speaker 80 (03:02:15):
That the value of say fifty cents or so, for
as high as ten thousand dollars. You don't say, And
I understand that Grant Parker has an equally valuable coin
in his collection. It's called Maria Theresa Toller from the
island of Masila.

Speaker 15 (03:02:29):
Wow, well, sang by, Yes, Inspector. Doesn't it ever hurt?

Speaker 19 (03:02:35):
Now?

Speaker 80 (03:02:35):
It's I'm like, don't you take it seriously, Inspector. I
looked that information up before we left headquarters. Fine, because
Grant Parker explained to me over the film that he
believes one of his weekend guests is planning on stealing
that coin. Now you're talking my language. But given that idea,
because last night Parker was not unconscious while working on
his study and the coin was stolen an' oh, but

(03:02:56):
the room was raam sacked. Fortunately Parker had taken chains
and a good hiding place for the coin.

Speaker 15 (03:03:01):
But that's so good that he can't eventually find it at.

Speaker 80 (03:03:04):
Yes, that's right, Inspector ooh, inspector him were two pe
ten were merely guessed? Parker told no one of the
attempts a beast, and he doesn't want his guests to
know our real peperson being there.

Speaker 15 (03:03:14):
A good ideas.

Speaker 21 (03:03:26):
U turn here, infector missus blade.

Speaker 15 (03:03:28):
Okay, and he's a gate right here. Well, how do
you like that a driveway gave.

Speaker 21 (03:03:36):
His clothes and luck too that's had locks means.

Speaker 15 (03:03:39):
Yeah, did you say that Pokery expected?

Speaker 80 (03:03:42):
Yeah, so he probably had some reason for wanting to
keep the automotives out set off to more infected.

Speaker 21 (03:03:46):
We don't talk less of the way.

Speaker 80 (03:03:49):
Yeah, yeah, walking out of my line on the house
frieda is to the house can't be a great way.

Speaker 21 (03:04:00):
There's a small door here. This sa the gate that
seems to be unlocked.

Speaker 15 (03:04:06):
This guy Parker must expect an invasion, I engaged in
ten foot brick walls. Say, isn't that a house up
there through the trees?

Speaker 21 (03:04:14):
Yes, I believe it is. Let's go.

Speaker 15 (03:04:16):
It's kind of pretty around here, all these trees and everything. Hey,
what's the duc and tartly stuff?

Speaker 41 (03:04:23):
And cats?

Speaker 29 (03:04:24):
What was it?

Speaker 21 (03:04:24):
A boomerang?

Speaker 5 (03:04:25):
Why?

Speaker 21 (03:04:25):
There goes behind that clump of bushes? Come on, inspector,
let's find.

Speaker 9 (03:04:28):
Out what this is all about here.

Speaker 41 (03:04:30):
You know, what are you doing?

Speaker 29 (03:04:31):
Very is?

Speaker 22 (03:04:32):
Yes?

Speaker 19 (03:04:33):
Him?

Speaker 15 (03:04:33):
What produc are you two doing running around here? This
is private property out of you know, and we'll have
you know. We don't like being targets a boomerange?

Speaker 4 (03:04:41):
Where is it?

Speaker 15 (03:04:41):
Where's what the boomerang? Boomerang? What's the deuce you're talking about?

Speaker 52 (03:04:45):
You know?

Speaker 9 (03:04:46):
John?

Speaker 15 (03:04:46):
Why what we're talking about that?

Speaker 21 (03:04:48):
Since the boomerang seems to have disappeared, suppose we introduced ourselves.

Speaker 41 (03:04:51):
And explain what happened?

Speaker 15 (03:04:52):
Well, who are you?

Speaker 21 (03:04:54):
I'm Barton Drake, and this is Inspector Noah Dent.

Speaker 15 (03:04:56):
Ray Dan's never heard of you. Yeah, we're here's the
request of a it's to Grant Parker sense. I'm grand Parker,
and I requested nothing in the short you.

Speaker 21 (03:05:05):
Are, Grand Parker.

Speaker 15 (03:05:06):
Of course, I'll get out of here and I'll call
it police. Tell you right the head.

Speaker 21 (03:05:10):
I don't like it, inspector, mister Parker.

Speaker 80 (03:05:13):
Someone called me this afternoon said he was Grant Parker
and asked me and inspected that down here for the weekend.

Speaker 29 (03:05:18):
That's the posters.

Speaker 15 (03:05:19):
Now look here you too. I don't know what your
game is. Good gosh, what's that?

Speaker 21 (03:05:24):
Someone's in trouble? Come on, inpector, I see them over here, Yes,
that's two of them.

Speaker 41 (03:05:29):
Come away, Cherry.

Speaker 21 (03:05:32):
What are you killing about?

Speaker 41 (03:05:34):
Good?

Speaker 5 (03:05:34):
Heaven you judas.

Speaker 6 (03:05:36):
Look at that guy on the ground.

Speaker 21 (03:05:37):
Yeah, suspect would be capitated.

Speaker 15 (03:05:39):
Oh so yeah, I see the boomerang and covered with blood.
In Heaven's name, how did it happen?

Speaker 47 (03:05:47):
I don't know. I was killing along the path.

Speaker 36 (03:05:51):
Perhaps you can tell it how it happened, Gregg.

Speaker 15 (03:05:53):
Me ask you, Monty what you suggested? Get why you
miserric asked you?

Speaker 5 (03:06:00):
Not police?

Speaker 29 (03:06:01):
Completely?

Speaker 19 (03:06:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (03:06:02):
Convenient? Isn't it to head the police right down this spot?

Speaker 41 (03:06:05):
When I'm murders committed?

Speaker 29 (03:06:07):
Now?

Speaker 15 (03:06:07):
Stephoes well asked a few questions. Parker, who's the dead man?
None of your business. I've already told you to get
off my property. If you don't told us too much already,
i'll say, suspect, now smart my prize. I am stik.
Here are you accusing me?

Speaker 47 (03:06:22):
He Let's not make things any more difficult than we
can help a lot. The dead man is ju genty.

Speaker 15 (03:06:29):
Esus was of whose mine?

Speaker 47 (03:06:33):
And mister Parker, I'm missus Parker and this gentleman is Marioska.

Speaker 15 (03:06:37):
He's a guest who I suppose?

Speaker 73 (03:06:39):
Yes, now may we all go up to the house
Pea still rather think your hands off my wife?

Speaker 15 (03:06:46):
As good as for you too. I don't know who
you are, and I don't believe you're the grief.

Speaker 80 (03:06:50):
I order you to get off my property a minute,
mister Parker, all this flustering doesn't impress us.

Speaker 5 (03:06:54):
In the lead.

Speaker 80 (03:06:56):
There's been a murder committed here. Whoever called on the
telephone anticipated. Neither the inspector nor I are leaving until
we find out just what this is all about.

Speaker 15 (03:07:16):
Look, fat, sitting here in this room and waiting isn't
getting it anywhere.

Speaker 21 (03:07:20):
It will inspect you if you can just control yourself.

Speaker 15 (03:07:23):
Yes, what do you expect to happen? The murderer is
going to walk in here and give himself up.

Speaker 21 (03:07:28):
Perhaps not the murderer, but I am expecting a visitor
who we will know in a minute, inspector. In fact,
you will know him.

Speaker 80 (03:07:36):
Less than a minute. Oh hello, let's the part. That's
the man we've been expecting him expecting me.

Speaker 46 (03:07:44):
Yes?

Speaker 21 (03:07:45):
Are you quite sure our conversation.

Speaker 5 (03:07:47):
Here can't be overheard?

Speaker 15 (03:07:48):
Positive?

Speaker 41 (03:07:50):
Okay?

Speaker 21 (03:07:50):
Ray?

Speaker 15 (03:07:50):
Why do you ask that?

Speaker 80 (03:07:51):
Isn't that your chief concerned? Didn't you want to wait
until we could get someplace so we could talk freely?

Speaker 15 (03:07:55):
Yes, as a matter of fact, I did so. I'm
blamed that I can figure how hunew it?

Speaker 21 (03:07:59):
That's an important point? Is it was you who called
me this morning, wasn't it?

Speaker 5 (03:08:02):
Yes?

Speaker 23 (03:08:03):
It was?

Speaker 41 (03:08:03):
Well you mean you were putting on an act out
there in the woods.

Speaker 15 (03:08:07):
Yes, sir, gentlemen, I'm engraved danger.

Speaker 21 (03:08:10):
What kind of danger? Mister Parker?

Speaker 15 (03:08:12):
In danger of being murdered? I'm afraid whoever through that
boomerang this afternoon intended me to be the victim. How
do you figure that I had? Announcer? Is that I
meant to take a walk. I knew i'd be followed.

Speaker 21 (03:08:24):
How did you know with mister Parker?

Speaker 81 (03:08:25):
Because one of the guests who's staying here this weekend
is determined to get hold of my Maria.

Speaker 15 (03:08:31):
Teresa's tala is that that ten thousand dollars sixty sent piece?

Speaker 41 (03:08:34):
Too?

Speaker 5 (03:08:34):
All?

Speaker 15 (03:08:34):
Tell me about bond? So you figure somebody would murder
you for a ten thousand dollars hunkle red? No, if
I can't buy that, mister Parker, there's easier ways than
that to get go. I you don't understand. In Victor Denton,
you ms matthis. In fact, collectors of all types become fanatic.
He'd go to any length to acquire a rare special.

Speaker 21 (03:08:54):
Yes, that's two inspected.

Speaker 80 (03:08:55):
The prinsic value of items can't be considered here, mister Parker,
Why exactly did you put on your act out.

Speaker 21 (03:09:02):
There in the woods.

Speaker 80 (03:09:03):
Was it because you've feared whoever followed you would overhear
our conversation?

Speaker 15 (03:09:06):
Yes, I was sure of it. I didn't want anyone
to know that I was suspicious enough.

Speaker 21 (03:09:11):
To call the police, not even your wife, and I
see what you mean, Drake.

Speaker 81 (03:09:16):
Please remember that there was another person present when we
discovered my wife beside the body of Sam drinking.

Speaker 80 (03:09:21):
Yes, your wife is considerably younger than you isn't he,
mister Parker.

Speaker 21 (03:09:25):
Yes, why is he in love with him?

Speaker 15 (03:09:27):
I resent that question, Drake. Now we're getting to the
real motive. You can leave my personal affairs out time.

Speaker 80 (03:09:33):
Sawry, mister Parker, But your personal affairs are most important
where murder is concerned.

Speaker 41 (03:09:38):
By the way, man, I see your Maria Teresa Toller.

Speaker 15 (03:09:41):
Yes, of course I carried here in my wallet. So
that's the reason the beast didn't find that when he
knocked out and ransacked your room. Yes, after today's experience,
I'm convinced that whoever is after the teller figured out
that I carried about my person at all time, so
he's got the murder to get his hands on it.
That's right, It is.

Speaker 21 (03:09:59):
Great, right, Yeah, here's a collector's asimo. Right, who's the dame? Honest,
that's Maria Teresa herself.

Speaker 80 (03:10:06):
The date that Toler was minted seventeen ninety is directly
beneath well.

Speaker 15 (03:10:11):
You seem to know considerable about rare coins yourself.

Speaker 80 (03:10:14):
Date a minor hobby of mine, mister Parker. Let's inspect
that you see the bands of pearls and.

Speaker 21 (03:10:18):
Maria's hair here.

Speaker 80 (03:10:20):
Here I see him that band and the class Bunner
dress also made a pearl. Is what makes the toller genuine?
Isn't that that, mister Parker?

Speaker 15 (03:10:28):
Yes, it is today you make you should make you
Ms McConaughey a hobby.

Speaker 80 (03:10:34):
I already have one hobby, mister Parker, one that stakes
most of my time. It's murder that brings us back
to the matter's hands. How many guests to stay here
with us with him?

Speaker 41 (03:10:44):
Eight?

Speaker 15 (03:10:45):
Or rather seven now that poor Sam's one?

Speaker 21 (03:10:47):
Mmm? And are they all collectors?

Speaker 81 (03:10:49):
Well, let's say they're all interested in directing any one
of them would like to present this tyler.

Speaker 80 (03:10:55):
Exactly, mister Parker, I'd like you to invite all your
guests out into the lawns immediately.

Speaker 15 (03:11:00):
But look here, what's for I think they're.

Speaker 80 (03:11:01):
Trouble to investigate your guests before the infector I came down.
Most of them are independently wealthy. That's why they're interested
in collecting rare items, something.

Speaker 6 (03:11:10):
To amuse them.

Speaker 21 (03:11:11):
That's a hunting big game with boomerangs, I get it.

Speaker 15 (03:11:15):
We'll let them show us how good they are with
those boomerangs and that will tell us something.

Speaker 80 (03:11:19):
That's infector is going to tell us more than you think.
If we're allowed to live that long.

Speaker 47 (03:11:35):
We've gotta tell him Mommy, don't you see we are
no charity?

Speaker 21 (03:11:38):
Now it's too Dangy, I'm Friday.

Speaker 41 (03:11:44):
Charity.

Speaker 29 (03:11:46):
Why did you slip away and go down the path
at the Grants.

Speaker 53 (03:11:48):
Because I wanted to talk to you. I wanted to
tell him about us.

Speaker 21 (03:11:53):
You shouldn't have, Darling.

Speaker 41 (03:11:54):
That my job, you know it is?

Speaker 26 (03:11:58):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (03:11:58):
I want to ever believe you loved me, Charity.

Speaker 21 (03:12:02):
Where were you when one first Sam would hit.

Speaker 5 (03:12:05):
To the boomerang?

Speaker 23 (03:12:06):
You Yanks, you'll know, Jesse.

Speaker 82 (03:12:13):
Monty, Darling, I only thought you sure a cross charity.
Please don't look at me. You thought that I but
I murdered, said, of course I don't, Darling.

Speaker 29 (03:12:22):
I really want to help you easy.

Speaker 15 (03:12:25):
I believe, I can't believe.

Speaker 36 (03:12:27):
I'll see here, Charity.

Speaker 17 (03:12:28):
Listen to me.

Speaker 36 (03:12:30):
You were alone out there in the woods and so
with Grant you hated him and everyone.

Speaker 41 (03:12:33):
You will tell me.

Speaker 82 (03:12:33):
I want you will listen, don't please, You're gonna ask
you questions. They're sure to find out if you're an
expert with a boomerang, the bounder thing to do?

Speaker 36 (03:12:41):
Mistook Sam for Grant?

Speaker 15 (03:12:42):
I save you more, Josh I was a fool of evil.

Speaker 47 (03:12:46):
Listened to your Jervis and he said you.

Speaker 82 (03:12:48):
Were in love.

Speaker 35 (03:12:49):
I am believe me.

Speaker 5 (03:12:50):
I am sir.

Speaker 15 (03:12:52):
If you need help, I need help, it's yours.

Speaker 21 (03:12:55):
Then the kind of love that can attach itself.

Speaker 15 (03:12:57):
You are murder, Charity.

Speaker 47 (03:12:59):
I see your game.

Speaker 15 (03:13:00):
Sam's your best friend.

Speaker 47 (03:13:02):
You love him more than you did me.

Speaker 21 (03:13:04):
You thought I would show us something that I delivered
from out of your mind.

Speaker 41 (03:13:08):
Come back here, tam, comebody.

Speaker 82 (03:13:09):
As so I'll try, good mother Ham.

Speaker 41 (03:13:11):
What did you like to know? What did you like
to know?

Speaker 5 (03:13:14):
Also what my plans are for you?

Speaker 41 (03:13:36):
I don't know, Drake.

Speaker 21 (03:13:38):
I don't like this.

Speaker 15 (03:13:39):
After what's happened to day. No one's in the mood
for playing game.

Speaker 21 (03:13:42):
This isn't a game, mister Parker. It's deadly serious.

Speaker 15 (03:13:44):
And we're not kidding.

Speaker 21 (03:13:45):
All right, books, who will be the first volunteers?

Speaker 41 (03:13:48):
All right, will?

Speaker 36 (03:13:50):
I'm no good at boomerangs growing, but I'll be.

Speaker 21 (03:13:52):
Glad to help you out. Thank you. I good, select
your weapons, Go ahead.

Speaker 36 (03:13:54):
Everyone's just got a thannother. Tell me one answer.

Speaker 15 (03:13:57):
Yesterday you were breaking?

Speaker 41 (03:13:58):
How good you were?

Speaker 15 (03:14:00):
Thanks this one?

Speaker 41 (03:14:01):
Thanks.

Speaker 36 (03:14:02):
Man's got a style and it doesn't brag in this gathering.

Speaker 15 (03:14:06):
Okay, here it goes.

Speaker 41 (03:14:08):
This is the craziest night oul life.

Speaker 36 (03:14:11):
Still around that plump of trees.

Speaker 15 (03:14:13):
Here it comes back too bad? Pop about ten feet
there you are, Drake. Does that make means murderers?

Speaker 21 (03:14:20):
The purpose of this experiment that is good is not
to identify the murderer.

Speaker 5 (03:14:24):
No. No.

Speaker 15 (03:14:25):
On the other hand, making a while so it doesn't
prove you innocent either.

Speaker 41 (03:14:28):
I don't like this.

Speaker 21 (03:14:29):
I'm only trying to cooperate.

Speaker 36 (03:14:30):
Can you pull up a time?

Speaker 21 (03:14:31):
Very much?

Speaker 23 (03:14:31):
Does?

Speaker 41 (03:14:31):
Good night?

Speaker 21 (03:14:32):
When you please step aside and let the next volunteer
take over?

Speaker 41 (03:14:34):
Who's next? Please?

Speaker 52 (03:14:36):
Later you'll come to me.

Speaker 21 (03:14:37):
Also for life, Thank you, missus Parker.

Speaker 15 (03:14:39):
Oh, it's a woman's game. Killing my wife is considered
the next brit as many kinds of games.

Speaker 47 (03:14:44):
He's trying to be subtle.

Speaker 15 (03:14:45):
Grants, please don't to succeed only in sounding ridiculous.

Speaker 21 (03:14:49):
Last to charity, I don't know with whom I'm throwing
the boomerang, Missus Parker, very well, get.

Speaker 15 (03:14:57):
Wow, hotstigity, low and fast. The girl's good if it comes.

Speaker 80 (03:15:03):
Back to you, it's only get isn't coming back where
it shoulder?

Speaker 21 (03:15:06):
Heaven must come.

Speaker 15 (03:15:08):
On the side.

Speaker 21 (03:15:09):
Of the head was not seriously hurt. Well, missus Parker.

Speaker 80 (03:15:14):
Whoever said you were an expert with the boomerang was
either lying or you are being very clever.

Speaker 21 (03:15:38):
How does it feel now, mister Parker?

Speaker 15 (03:15:40):
I'm all right, it's just a nick. Where's Charity?

Speaker 21 (03:15:44):
She's downstairs?

Speaker 41 (03:15:45):
He was out good.

Speaker 21 (03:15:46):
No, she's alone. Mister Parker. Do you think your wife
deliciously tried to hit you with that boomerang?

Speaker 52 (03:15:52):
No?

Speaker 15 (03:15:53):
No, no, of course not.

Speaker 21 (03:15:55):
She's an accident to yourself there, she was an expert.

Speaker 15 (03:15:57):
Well, she's nervous.

Speaker 41 (03:16:00):
She must have been.

Speaker 15 (03:16:00):
I I shouldn't have spoken to her the way I
did it.

Speaker 41 (03:16:03):
It must have.

Speaker 21 (03:16:04):
Upsetter I see.

Speaker 80 (03:16:06):
It would have been much mar gallant if Osga had
failed to make a perfect throw, wouldn't it.

Speaker 41 (03:16:10):
What do you mean?

Speaker 36 (03:16:11):
What are you driving at?

Speaker 15 (03:16:13):
I'm deeply in love with my wife.

Speaker 29 (03:16:14):
And she with me.

Speaker 21 (03:16:15):
Did I say that you weren't, mister Parker.

Speaker 81 (03:16:17):
Well, you you're in prided drink. You're overstepping out authority.
I asked you down here because.

Speaker 80 (03:16:22):
I cause, as you expressed that you felt you were
in grave danger. It seems to me, mister Parker, that
some of that danger his materialized nonsense.

Speaker 15 (03:16:31):
Eh, well, Drake, do you think that my wife deliberately
tried to kill me?

Speaker 25 (03:16:40):
Do you?

Speaker 41 (03:16:41):
No? I?

Speaker 80 (03:16:42):
J Parker stopped pretending if you haven't known your wife
to make it a wild throw with the boomerang, Oh no.

Speaker 21 (03:16:48):
I haven't.

Speaker 15 (03:16:49):
Well, well, wait a minute. Something did happen once? Oh so,
and it's ridiculous to think. I sure it was an accident.

Speaker 21 (03:16:56):
Tell me about it.

Speaker 81 (03:16:57):
There's not much to tell. I haven't given her the
thought since once. A group of us is going to
Africa to hunt tigers, and what happens nothing that is
Charity and I were out one day Long's native guide.
We know one of the beasts crouching in the tree.
Charity made a thrown miss.

Speaker 15 (03:17:16):
The guy that to shoot the tiger was a high
powered rifle.

Speaker 21 (03:17:19):
And what happened to the boomerang, why.

Speaker 15 (03:17:22):
It's barely missed, dragging me.

Speaker 29 (03:17:26):
This is absurd.

Speaker 15 (03:17:27):
I'm sure it was an accident.

Speaker 21 (03:17:29):
Yes, sorry, is absurd, mister Parker, but not for the
reasons you suggest.

Speaker 41 (03:17:33):
That's a minute, Fector Parker, he's doing very nice.

Speaker 15 (03:17:37):
But now look here, Drake, I want you to explain
that remark.

Speaker 21 (03:17:39):
You just mane in a moment, mister Parker, in a moment,
inspect if you talked to them it was a guest.

Speaker 15 (03:17:43):
Yeah, I talked to them all, you know, but it's
a funny thing. But if I got a feeling that
most of these people hate each other, all this double
talk they do is an I they don't mean it.
Tell you to listen to me. I won't have you
talking about my guests.

Speaker 36 (03:17:58):
I'm sorry, mister Parker.

Speaker 21 (03:17:59):
We've murder to sow to on, Inspector.

Speaker 15 (03:18:01):
Now, the way I get it figure is this, these
people haven't got enough to do. They've all got more
money than they can get rid of. They spend their
time collecting things in big Game honey and being mean
to each other.

Speaker 21 (03:18:15):
Nice work, Inspector. I think you're right.

Speaker 80 (03:18:17):
A murder on Asig gives them a new leaf from life,
something unusual and exciting.

Speaker 15 (03:18:21):
Yeah, I think any one of them could have committed
that murder. That you're not going to get away with
such talks. I'll tell you over to the.

Speaker 80 (03:18:28):
Please as Parker relaxed, and Spector Datton is all the
police that are necessary to solve this crime.

Speaker 29 (03:18:34):
But what do you mean?

Speaker 21 (03:18:35):
I mean?

Speaker 80 (03:18:36):
The sacilty party has been painfully obvious in his mistake.
We know positively who it was that murdered Sam Jenkins.

Speaker 5 (03:19:00):
Uh.

Speaker 15 (03:19:01):
Look, but if we know who it was murdered Sam Jenkins,
why don't we arrest the guy?

Speaker 80 (03:19:07):
Well, it would be much easier if the murderer came
to us, And if we went to him, don't you
think no, no.

Speaker 15 (03:19:13):
No, If he comes to us, you'll come with homicidal idea.

Speaker 80 (03:19:17):
That's exactly what I want, Inspector. If he attempts to
murder us, then we'll be positive he's guilty.

Speaker 15 (03:19:22):
If't we positive here say, wait a minute, I thought
you said you weren't positive.

Speaker 80 (03:19:27):
I did, the inspector, and I am, but I want
to be able to prove the person's guilt. Once we
decided to make him the rest.

Speaker 15 (03:19:33):
Well, I'll be uh but sometimes boy, you wear me down.

Speaker 21 (03:19:38):
I'm sorry, Inspector.

Speaker 15 (03:19:39):
Yeah, but two hours ago you announced that you knew
who murdered Jenkins. Where are we going now?

Speaker 21 (03:19:47):
We're going to trap the murderer.

Speaker 15 (03:19:49):
We're going to chat jump and do this. Fot let
me him on.

Speaker 5 (03:19:53):
The deal will issue that I will inspect it.

Speaker 21 (03:19:56):
But here we are.

Speaker 80 (03:19:57):
That's this Bram Parker's Trophy room where'd you get the
key sucking? Everything must be a large switch here, so
you know here it is?

Speaker 6 (03:20:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (03:20:10):
And beauty, look at that?

Speaker 80 (03:20:12):
Yeah, quite a display of trophies an equipment or well,
inspector that does it?

Speaker 21 (03:20:19):
And white guys, where is the rack where the boomerangs
are kept? Let's take a look at them, inspector?

Speaker 15 (03:20:26):
Okay, look y, are you gonna let me in on?
Mister roncher? Am I a coper?

Speaker 21 (03:20:32):
Whu?

Speaker 14 (03:20:34):
Which man?

Speaker 83 (03:20:35):
So?

Speaker 80 (03:20:35):
But now, Inspector, but there's a man peering in at
us through the window directly behind where we're.

Speaker 6 (03:20:40):
Standing behind me a man? I mean you know I
can't see.

Speaker 21 (03:20:44):
His reflection in this class case.

Speaker 6 (03:20:46):
My guys, you're nice, Hey, you don't be knowing down.

Speaker 21 (03:20:51):
He has a rifle high powered the big game, mar.

Speaker 41 (03:20:54):
Well, what are we gonna do?

Speaker 6 (03:20:56):
Are we gonna just stay in human?

Speaker 5 (03:20:58):
He not off like play taking? No?

Speaker 29 (03:21:00):
No, wait, wait until we get his life level.

Speaker 21 (03:21:03):
Then I throw this handful of boomerang.

Speaker 6 (03:21:06):
Why wait till then? I'm sweating you all round?

Speaker 21 (03:21:09):
If we wait, it will take him a few seconds.
Didn't catch himself from that combersome rifle, and we can
use those seconds in sector.

Speaker 17 (03:21:15):
I get it and I don't like it.

Speaker 6 (03:21:17):
And he's leveling the life on anthy.

Speaker 21 (03:21:20):
He has his finger crooked around the figure right in sec.

Speaker 33 (03:21:25):
Come on in, I'm right well, yes, there he goes

(03:21:49):
in second and I see him stop stop.

Speaker 21 (03:21:52):
I guess he didn't hear you.

Speaker 41 (03:21:53):
Let me hear this.

Speaker 21 (03:21:55):
That in factory duck behind the garage.

Speaker 41 (03:21:58):
Why shooting at us?

Speaker 21 (03:22:01):
I suppose we have to expect. I had to shoot
him from a murderer, had.

Speaker 15 (03:22:04):
You gotta be funny, get a time like this? There
he goes down. This time he ducky open, takes good
time and say, I can't miss.

Speaker 25 (03:22:14):
Good work.

Speaker 21 (03:22:14):
Your aim is improving, infector.

Speaker 15 (03:22:16):
I only hit him in the life.

Speaker 21 (03:22:17):
He dropped his life when he tell come on, let's
have a look.

Speaker 15 (03:22:21):
Umpandes, Look who it is.

Speaker 21 (03:22:24):
Are you a surprised infector?

Speaker 15 (03:22:26):
Great fucker, Hey, I thought he was a guy who
was a bunch of perspective.

Speaker 21 (03:22:31):
He was and still is inspector.

Speaker 80 (03:22:33):
Here comes this gang of alleged friends from the house
to gloat over what they probably hope will be another murder.

Speaker 15 (03:22:49):
Well, it's certainly good to be bag of the old
lamps like his club. After all that excitement, how about
the game had chess before we turn him one, that is, inspector.

Speaker 80 (03:22:59):
Yeah, well, don't you want to know you've been sitting
there for fifteen minutes trying to act unconcern.

Speaker 21 (03:23:06):
Oh he's yeah, okay, i'd you get it wasn't guesswork, Inspector.
It was knowing certain facts.

Speaker 80 (03:23:15):
I suppose rodsack fact about the Maria Theresa Toller that
Parker had it was a poony well well, well to
see in the first place, the date on it was
seventeen nineties.

Speaker 21 (03:23:26):
All colors from the Messira Island infector.

Speaker 80 (03:23:28):
Carry the original date of minting, which is seventeen eighteen mime. Also,
the band of pearls and Maria's hair contained exactly eight pearls,
but there were ten on Parker's coin.

Speaker 15 (03:23:40):
How can you argue with a guy like that?

Speaker 21 (03:23:42):
He's the inspector.

Speaker 80 (03:23:43):
Parker knew that Osgood was in love with his wife
and see with him, so he used the coin as
date to get Osgood down here, because Osgood is a
collector of real coin.

Speaker 15 (03:23:52):
Though Packer decided to become a collector, of course.

Speaker 80 (03:23:54):
Says write, inspector and Parker thought it was Osgood who
had followed him on his walk.

Speaker 21 (03:23:58):
This afternoon he had to.

Speaker 80 (03:24:00):
Throw that boomerang hurriedly because he heard us coming through
the brush. When he discovered his mistake, well it made
him a little mad.

Speaker 15 (03:24:07):
No regrets saying nice people.

Speaker 80 (03:24:09):
Plus she saw a chance to get back at his
wife by letting me think she deliberately tried to kill
him when she made that while through this afternoon that it.

Speaker 15 (03:24:16):
Caused you knew he was lying, ain't?

Speaker 21 (03:24:18):
Yes? I did?

Speaker 80 (03:24:19):
How because Parker said he and missus Parker had hunted
tigers in Africa? Well, there are no tigers in Africa, Inspector.

Speaker 21 (03:24:28):
All the tiger's known to exist are an age.

Speaker 15 (03:24:31):
Well I'll be a monkeys dead the poton an Hey right, yes,
I can't wait. Tell me all right, Inspector.

Speaker 21 (03:24:38):
Murder is my hobby.

Speaker 78 (03:24:54):
Pat Tree Wine brings you.

Speaker 84 (03:24:57):
That's a rock Boman, Nigel Bruce and the New Adventures
of Sherlock Holmes, The Petrie family, the family that took
time to bring you good wine. Invite you to listen
to Doctor Watson tell us another exciting adventure he shared
with his old friend, that master Detective Sherlock Holmes. And

(03:25:20):
I know that doctor Watson will agree with me when
I tell you that the best way to begin a
good meal is with a glass of Petrie California sherry.

Speaker 5 (03:25:29):
Before you sit down.

Speaker 84 (03:25:29):
At the table for yourself and your family, a glass
of Petrie sherry.

Speaker 26 (03:25:34):
Try it.

Speaker 84 (03:25:35):
There are many ways to tell a good wine by
its color, it's aroma, and its flavor. On every count,
Petrie sherry is outstanding. The color of Petrie sherry is
a clear, deep amber perfect. The aroma well, Petrie sherry
is as fragrant as a bunch of dew covered grapes
picked in the early morning. But most important to you

(03:25:58):
and to me is the flavor of Petree. We want
a wine that tastes good, and believe me, you couldn't
ask for a more delicious wine than Petree sherry. And
just to make sure you get a wine that's exactly
the way you want it, Petrie makes two kinds of sherry,
the regular and Petree Pale Dry. If you're not sure
which you like better, why not try them both. Don't

(03:26:20):
buy one, buy two, just be sure you always buy
Petrie Petree sherry. And now I'm sure our good friend

(03:26:40):
doctor Watson's ready for us.

Speaker 14 (03:26:42):
Let's go in and enjoin you.

Speaker 34 (03:26:46):
Good aating doctor.

Speaker 84 (03:26:47):
Watch dogs seem very chipper to night doctor, if they've
been getting in any more trouble later, No.

Speaker 19 (03:26:55):
My boy, it's been a relatively quick week for them.
One meeting with the dead seal, two visits to my
neighbor's chickens, and a losing battle today with a cross
eyed Samese cat. You call that a quiet week, I notice.

Speaker 2 (03:27:08):
For them, but never mind about the dogs.

Speaker 19 (03:27:10):
Drop your usual chair and make it so comfortable, just
in time to join me in a glass Sheriff.

Speaker 85 (03:27:16):
That would be very nice.

Speaker 40 (03:27:17):
Doctor.

Speaker 85 (03:27:18):
Oh, I see you have the oldest patchbox out of here.

Speaker 19 (03:27:20):
Yes, my boy, that's a story I'm going to tell
you tonight took place at eighteen hundred and eighty seven.

Speaker 2 (03:27:26):
I thought I'd better refresh my.

Speaker 19 (03:27:27):
Memory on some of the details of the case. But
shortly after my marriage, and as I had bought a
practice in the Paddington district, I saw that a little
of my old friend Sherlock.

Speaker 84 (03:27:38):
Holmes I was doctoring in those early days a struggle.

Speaker 2 (03:27:41):
My boy struggle.

Speaker 19 (03:27:43):
Doctor Farquhar, from whom I had bought the practice, had
at one time an excellent cleontel, but his age combined
with an unfortunate affliction the is that resembled some vice's.

Speaker 2 (03:27:53):
Dance had very much thinned it.

Speaker 19 (03:27:55):
I had a confidence, however, in my in my youth,
and in my energy, and I was convinced in a
very few years the practice would be as flaishing as ever.
But as I said, I saw very little of homes
in those days.

Speaker 85 (03:28:08):
I guess you were too busy to visit Baker Street.

Speaker 19 (03:28:10):
Hunt Here, you guess quite correctly, mister Buttle, quite correctly.
Home seldom went anywhere himself save on professional business. If
you can imagine my surprise therefore, when one day, on
coming home from a heavy day's work, I found that
Holmes had decided to pay us a visit, My wife
persuaded him to state to dinner, and as the three
of us sat at the table, the flickering candlelight dancing

(03:28:31):
strange patterns on the walls ed it quite like old times.
Holmes was in an unusually gay mood, and I can
remember the trinkle.

Speaker 2 (03:28:40):
In his eye as he turned to my wife.

Speaker 14 (03:28:45):
Watson Head an unexpected guest on the mad night out.
I'm extremely grateful, as is Hudson's cooking, though excellent of
its kind, lex variety, your dinner has been quite a treat.

Speaker 44 (03:28:57):
That had a very gracious little speech.

Speaker 2 (03:28:59):
Mister Ricane, I've never known you to be so observant
about food.

Speaker 14 (03:29:04):
That's the lack of your company, my dear chef, and
the consequent lonely meals has made me conscious of Missus
Hudson's culinary shortcomings.

Speaker 86 (03:29:13):
I suppose you're taking John out with you tonight on
one of your cases.

Speaker 14 (03:29:18):
No, Missus Watson, now I can understand your suspicions. My
visit was purely social.

Speaker 2 (03:29:23):
It's going to the other room and have a pipe
show it.

Speaker 86 (03:29:26):
Well, don't you think you'd be more comfortable.

Speaker 44 (03:29:29):
At the club?

Speaker 2 (03:29:30):
So Maria, if you want to get rid of us.

Speaker 44 (03:29:33):
No, dear, it's not there. It's just it.

Speaker 14 (03:29:36):
Your visitor is do you at any moment? And you
had counted on the house being empty by now?

Speaker 44 (03:29:41):
Why how on earth did you know that?

Speaker 14 (03:29:42):
Mister past half are you've been glancing at the clock
with munting anxiety. I feel sure that if it had
been not been for my unexpected visit, your your good
husband had already been walking.

Speaker 23 (03:29:54):
What is club?

Speaker 19 (03:29:55):
It is my custom to go to the cub on Thursdays,
But you know, I know.

Speaker 14 (03:29:59):
You have it's my dad chap as well, if not
better than you do. It's a good thing I'm a bachelor,
isn't it, missus Watson?

Speaker 86 (03:30:06):
Yes, indeed your wife could keep no secrets from you,
mister Holmes, I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (03:30:09):
Well, Meladar, who is your visitor? And what is the
secret that you you've been highly.

Speaker 86 (03:30:16):
It's innocent enough, John, as Thursdays is the maid's night
out and you've been going to the club. I've been
letting Ulyssia who went with meet her young man?

Speaker 44 (03:30:24):
Here with me chaperone.

Speaker 2 (03:30:27):
That's the mystery.

Speaker 14 (03:30:28):
Well, Watson, I was on the wing, and I'm sure
we're dreadfully in the way. Let's stroll the biggest street show.

Speaker 2 (03:30:33):
Of course, I'll get my coat. Why didn't you tell me?

Speaker 19 (03:30:36):
Man?

Speaker 44 (03:30:36):
Well, I was afraid you might be angry?

Speaker 2 (03:30:38):
Young angry?

Speaker 44 (03:30:39):
And this is such a sweet girl.

Speaker 86 (03:30:42):
And Harry Prendergast is a very charming young man. He
comes from an excellent family, has a commission in the infantry,
and the children are tremendously in love. But her beastly
guardian forbidden them to meet.

Speaker 44 (03:30:52):
So I oh this she is now?

Speaker 2 (03:30:54):
Well, we can pretend that we were just leaving anywhere.

Speaker 14 (03:30:57):
Yes, I'll get my coat.

Speaker 12 (03:31:00):
I'm sole.

Speaker 44 (03:31:02):
Elysius. This is my husband and missus Shella Cone.

Speaker 2 (03:31:06):
I do matter.

Speaker 19 (03:31:07):
It's a shame that we have to go now, but
my friend and I have some very important business to
attend to.

Speaker 53 (03:31:11):
Oh, mister shell Like Holmes a detective, aren't you?

Speaker 14 (03:31:13):
Yes, Miss Wentworth, please.

Speaker 53 (03:31:15):
Don't go, mister Holmes, please don't.

Speaker 44 (03:31:16):
I need help so bad?

Speaker 12 (03:31:18):
Why?

Speaker 44 (03:31:18):
Alicia, what's wrong? You're is white as a ghost.

Speaker 2 (03:31:21):
Let's go to the drawing room.

Speaker 14 (03:31:22):
John, what's troubling in Miss Wentworth?

Speaker 53 (03:31:24):
It's Harry, Captain Preendigast. I don't know exactly what's the matter,
but something dreadful has happened to him.

Speaker 44 (03:31:30):
Oh now sit down here beside me, dear miss Wentworth.

Speaker 14 (03:31:34):
What reason do you have to suppose that Captain Preendigast
is in trouble?

Speaker 53 (03:31:37):
I've seen friends of this today.

Speaker 44 (03:31:38):
They spoke of him almost as if he.

Speaker 53 (03:31:40):
Were dead, and yet they wouldn't tell me why. And
just now I went to his club and they told
me that Captain Pendergast was not a member.

Speaker 12 (03:31:47):
But he is a member.

Speaker 47 (03:31:48):
He's been a member for years.

Speaker 12 (03:31:50):
Oh, what's happened to it? What has happened to me?

Speaker 44 (03:31:52):
Is there, dear, mister Holmes, will help you now, don't
you cry?

Speaker 2 (03:31:56):
Have you been to the police?

Speaker 53 (03:31:58):
Miss Winwo No, doctor, you said, I went to my guardian,
but he wouldn't let me go to the police. He
said there'd be a scandal.

Speaker 44 (03:32:05):
Then she hates you.

Speaker 14 (03:32:06):
The prinegasta a fine family, and where is your garden?

Speaker 40 (03:32:09):
Objective?

Speaker 14 (03:32:10):
Object to him so strongly.

Speaker 53 (03:32:12):
I don't think he would approve of anyone I choose.
He doesn't want me to get married.

Speaker 2 (03:32:15):
Who sounds like a positive ogre to me? Who is
your guardian?

Speaker 53 (03:32:20):
Maname Colonel Moran? Colonel Sebastian Moran.

Speaker 14 (03:32:23):
Indeed, he's a man who has many entriest against him
in my ledgers, but a man that I've never met.
I have long hoped to cross sods with him directly.

Speaker 53 (03:32:32):
But how could Uncle Sebastian have anything to do with
the criminal possession, Mister Holmes. He's the son of Sir
August Moran, and he was once British Minister to Persia. Oh,
you must be confusing him with someone else.

Speaker 14 (03:32:42):
No, my dear, it's the same man. And furthermore, I'm
almost certain that your guardian is the right hand man
of a certain friend of mine, whose name also begins
with the free letters m O R good Lord MAARTI
I have no proof, and yet I suspect that Colonel
Moran is the second most dangerous man in London.

Speaker 53 (03:33:00):
Sat Harry must be her.

Speaker 44 (03:33:02):
Oh, poor girl. I do hope you can help her,
Mister Holmes.

Speaker 14 (03:33:05):
I shall do my best.

Speaker 19 (03:33:06):
Missus Willson, that is a young man of the dads.
More than likely her problem doesn't exist in the line.

Speaker 14 (03:33:10):
I hope you're right, Watson, with Colonel Morano's guardian, I'm
afraid the young lady is destined to have trouble, Harry.

Speaker 44 (03:33:18):
Missus Watson, I'm so glad to see you. Harry, this
is my husband.

Speaker 14 (03:33:21):
How do you do?

Speaker 40 (03:33:22):
Doctor?

Speaker 74 (03:33:22):
How do you do?

Speaker 5 (03:33:23):
My boy?

Speaker 44 (03:33:23):
And mister Sheillicombe, how.

Speaker 25 (03:33:25):
Do you do?

Speaker 14 (03:33:25):
Captain Predigas?

Speaker 5 (03:33:26):
How do you do?

Speaker 26 (03:33:26):
Sir Jerry?

Speaker 44 (03:33:27):
What's wrong?

Speaker 53 (03:33:28):
I can tell by your face it's something dreadful.

Speaker 85 (03:33:30):
It's happened with hairs, Darling.

Speaker 44 (03:33:31):
Tell mister Holmes about it.

Speaker 53 (03:33:32):
He's promised to help with well.

Speaker 85 (03:33:34):
Sir, I'm afraid this is a little outside of your province.

Speaker 19 (03:33:36):
He will find that my friend's province is quite extensive.

Speaker 14 (03:33:39):
Prendiga I'm more than happy to do anything I can
to help, sir.

Speaker 85 (03:33:42):
That's very nice of him. Mister Holmes, well it's pretty bad.
Last night I was accused of cheating at cards at
the tank of their club. Of course, I don't have
to tell you that I didn't cheat, but the evidence
was dead against me. I'd been winning heavily, and the
cards were proved.

Speaker 25 (03:33:56):
To be marked.

Speaker 14 (03:33:58):
Marked how there were pin pricks on.

Speaker 85 (03:34:00):
The edges, pin pricks which indicated the card's value.

Speaker 14 (03:34:04):
M How are the pack of cards come into play?

Speaker 85 (03:34:07):
That's the devil of it. I myself broke open a
sealed pack given to me by the club porter, and
I swear that was the pack that was later found
to be marked.

Speaker 2 (03:34:14):
Will is everyone search?

Speaker 40 (03:34:15):
Yes?

Speaker 85 (03:34:16):
But they found a new, unopened pack in my pocket.

Speaker 14 (03:34:19):
The obvious implication being that you had substituted the marked cards.
Of course I can.

Speaker 44 (03:34:23):
See what happened.

Speaker 53 (03:34:25):
Somebody deliberately tried to incriminate you by dropping a new
pack in your.

Speaker 85 (03:34:28):
Pocket, of course, darling. But what I can't understand is
how the marked pack was introduced into the game.

Speaker 2 (03:34:34):
Were there any other cards found in the room?

Speaker 34 (03:34:36):
None?

Speaker 14 (03:34:36):
Doctor the Tankerville, eh gaml Moran is a member of
the club, isn't.

Speaker 53 (03:34:40):
Yes, he is Mark of the Beast who newses it
all the time.

Speaker 85 (03:34:43):
He was present at the game last night, Alysia.

Speaker 53 (03:34:45):
Oh, Harry, now we're worse off than ever. If he
thinks you cheated at cards, you'll never let us get married.

Speaker 44 (03:34:50):
Now, don't worry, Olyzia. I'm sure that mister Holmes can
find a way after this.

Speaker 85 (03:34:55):
I'm afraid it will be too late. I couldn't marry
you now, Alysia, What do you mean, Harry? They forced
me to resign from the club. That's a bad enough disgrace,
but I know those worse to come. You see, I
was expecting my promotion to major any day.

Speaker 26 (03:35:09):
Now.

Speaker 85 (03:35:09):
It will be a miracle if I'm not cashiered from
the regiment. What kind of a life can.

Speaker 53 (03:35:13):
I offer you, harr Are you talking absolute none?

Speaker 14 (03:35:15):
I think, Captain Prendigast. The next step is obvious. We
must remove this apparent stain on your character. But how
this went club can stay here with missus. Watson the
doctor and I will drive over in a cab with
you to the club and see what can be done.

Speaker 2 (03:35:40):
What kind of a tard game were you playing last night?

Speaker 85 (03:35:45):
Friend gust stud poker. Ever since the American Ambassador introduced
it at the club, it's been quite a favorite.

Speaker 14 (03:35:50):
The thirdd game for marked cards, which requires no elaborate
dexterity in the dealings into the knowledge of your opponent's
poll card. How many of you were playing?

Speaker 26 (03:35:58):
Half a dozen of us?

Speaker 85 (03:36:00):
You were winning heavily, then, yes, doctor, though one of
the others, a fellow named David Harkness, was doing well.

Speaker 21 (03:36:07):
Now I come to think of.

Speaker 85 (03:36:08):
It, Parkness almost seemed to know when I was bluffing,
as though he could see the marked car.

Speaker 19 (03:36:13):
Perhaps he was the one whom marked them as.

Speaker 85 (03:36:15):
Possible, And yet certainly no one could accuse him of
tricky dealing.

Speaker 14 (03:36:19):
He was so clumsy with his bandaged finger.

Speaker 85 (03:36:21):
And how did you know he had a bandaged fingernail?

Speaker 14 (03:36:23):
I'll tell you the Captain, Wendy Garth, when you tell
me what's really on your mind. And there's a great
deal more at stake than a card scandal, isn't there?

Speaker 40 (03:36:30):
Yes, there is.

Speaker 85 (03:36:31):
I didn't dare to tell Alessia about it. You see,
I'm fighting a duel tomorrow, the due Lord with whom
Colonel Moran he insulted me last night he go to
me beyond a man's patience. He taught at me untill
I couldn't stand it any longer, and so I challenged.

Speaker 14 (03:36:47):
It, and in so doing gave him the choice of weapons.

Speaker 85 (03:36:50):
Yes, can finish, of course he chose revolvers.

Speaker 14 (03:36:52):
Marin is a big game hunter of note. He was
reputed to be the best trot in England.

Speaker 85 (03:36:57):
And I'm probably the worst in London. If only I
could shoot as well as I can box. I'm a
regimental champion.

Speaker 19 (03:37:03):
Revolver good Heaven's man revolvers. A duel with Maranas is
suicide for you.

Speaker 14 (03:37:08):
No, it's not suicide. A thank oft club Ta Cabby,
keep the change me.

Speaker 25 (03:37:16):
Thank you governor.

Speaker 14 (03:37:17):
Suicide. No, what's not suicide. This is a carefully laid
plan for murder. Very Heaven that we are not too
late to avert it.

Speaker 71 (03:37:38):
It's mister Harkness that you want, and sir, you see
he went to his room half an hour ago, number
one hundred and eight, up the main stairs and down
the corrige.

Speaker 5 (03:37:47):
Thank you.

Speaker 14 (03:37:47):
I am want you to follow us in precisely one
minute and bring a sealed pack of the club's playing
cards to mister Hartness's room. Do you understand?

Speaker 2 (03:37:55):
Oh yes, sir, and thank you?

Speaker 14 (03:38:03):
Did you?

Speaker 2 (03:38:04):
Did you make the arrangement?

Speaker 5 (03:38:05):
Yes?

Speaker 14 (03:38:06):
Come on, let's go to Harkness's room.

Speaker 85 (03:38:08):
The three members have cut me dead since I came
in here. It's the most humiliating.

Speaker 14 (03:38:12):
Experienced little patience, Captain Pendergat and I'm sure your honor
will be in can'd of vindicated.

Speaker 2 (03:38:17):
Oh show you what you were up to home.

Speaker 14 (03:38:19):
I'm going to try and restage the drama that was
presented in this club last night, the only difference being
that my production not a cast. It's a little different
now here we are. Now let me do the talking.

Speaker 25 (03:38:35):
Yeah, did you want something?

Speaker 41 (03:38:38):
Prendergas?

Speaker 50 (03:38:39):
I don't want you in my rooms.

Speaker 15 (03:38:40):
I don't know why they allowed you inside the club.

Speaker 14 (03:38:42):
Those in, mister Harkness, please no, I won't take it.

Speaker 19 (03:38:44):
Put out of the dog and found, mister Harkness.

Speaker 2 (03:38:46):
There are three of us. I think you better let
us in.

Speaker 85 (03:38:49):
You're going to let us in, Harkness all right, come in.

Speaker 14 (03:38:56):
Ah, thank you for your hospitality, sir. Now perhaps you
fellows will tell me what the devil you think you're
up to with pleasure. As you very well know, mister Harkness,
this is probably Captain Pendergast last day on earth. He
has one request to make of you, that you will
join him in a farewell game of poker with us
to show you bear no grudges.

Speaker 5 (03:39:15):
It's fantastic or or insane.

Speaker 14 (03:39:17):
Oh, by the way, mister Harkins, I'm delighted to notice
that your sore finger seems to have healed with great
rapidity by an odd coincidence. You'll observe that I seem
to have injured my helms when you do that, or
in the carriage as now, mere scratch. Fortunately I had
some first aid materials in my greatcoat.

Speaker 85 (03:39:34):
Come in, yes, Taylor, what is it?

Speaker 71 (03:39:38):
Begging your pardon, mister Harkness, But the gentleman asked me
to bring this sealed pack of cards.

Speaker 14 (03:39:43):
Here put up on the table, tailor, very good, sir, Well,
what's the game? Stud poker? Mister Hackneys. The game is
which are quite familiar I understand, and mistakes a man's honor,
possibly another man's freedom. Open the pact, mister Hotness, and

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jeal us all the hand. I should think this might
be a very unusual game.

Speaker 84 (03:40:18):
You'll hear the rest of doctor Watson's story in just
a few seconds. Time for me to explain that Petrie
California's sherry is not only an ideal wine to serve
before dinner, but it's also the perfect wine for almost
any occasion.

Speaker 3 (03:40:31):
Petri sherry is fine after dinner, when.

Speaker 84 (03:40:33):
You're listening to the radio or just sitting around talking.
And of course you couldn't ask for a finer party
wine than Petrie sherry, especially if your party is at
cocktail time. If you don't know what wine to buy,
you can't go wrong with Petrie sherry. But be sure
it's Petrie. Look for the letters P E, T R I.

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They spell the proudest name in the history of American wine.
Dr Watson, that was quite a game of poker. You
were settling down too. I have a feeling that Sherlock
Holmes had an ace or two up his sleeve, didn't
he pro.

Speaker 19 (03:41:06):
Figuratively did mister Bartelo. At the time, I must confess that,
as usual, I was pretty much in the dark. David
Hardness opened the new sealed pack of cards, and the
four of us played a hand of poker. It was
easy to see that our and willing host was far
from happy. His ferity eyes darted from one to the
other of us as he played our cards. He knew

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that he was the victim of a conspiracy, and so
he was watching every move we made. Finally, as that
strange game progressed, Captain Prenegas leaned across the table.

Speaker 74 (03:41:38):
And said, do you Martal Costro expected a limit to
find out?

Speaker 5 (03:41:44):
Howtorious are you?

Speaker 2 (03:41:45):
Why?

Speaker 19 (03:41:45):
Joe, I think you are bluffing, Harkness.

Speaker 14 (03:41:47):
I'll see you to be a pool to Watson when
he has a straight flush. What do you mean, Holmes,
My dear Hartness, The markings are quite a talent, I
assure you, to someone who knows what he's looking for.

Speaker 19 (03:41:57):
But you mean that these cards are marked too?

Speaker 14 (03:41:59):
Examine them, celp whole Chap.

Speaker 85 (03:42:00):
They are marked that pent prick, just like they were
last night.

Speaker 2 (03:42:03):
But that's impossible.

Speaker 19 (03:42:04):
Hartness broke the seals and new packed just now.

Speaker 2 (03:42:06):
We all saw him do it.

Speaker 19 (03:42:07):
He couldn't have switched the pack.

Speaker 34 (03:42:08):
And why would I do that?

Speaker 14 (03:42:09):
Even if I could, I wouldn't fry and cheat, mister Shellock. Holmes,
I know, mister Harkness. I just wanted you to know
that I understood the trick. What trick, mister Holmes, The
same one that was played on you last night, Captain Friendygarest.
This was a demonstration of how easily a sealed pack
of cards may be turned into a marked one by
a man with a sore finger.

Speaker 19 (03:42:27):
Well, there's a soft finger gotta do at home.

Speaker 14 (03:42:29):
It's very simple, Watson, a pinhead or a thumb tack
in under the bandage, a tiny pressure against a card
one wishes to mark as it comes into one's hand,
and after several deals, Hey, Pristol, I'm not peck So
that's how it was done.

Speaker 5 (03:42:42):
You can't prove with homes.

Speaker 14 (03:42:43):
You can't prove a thing. You went here last night,
or unfortunately I wasn't, mister Harkness. Otherwise I used to
have had the great pleasure of exposing your trick at
the time. As it is, I should have to rely
on a public confession. You will never get a confession
from now, possibly not that I'm sure that you'll be
interested to know that I made quite an extensive study
of card sharping. In fact, I consider giving a little

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lecture or demonstration here at the club. What are you
talking about? This game that we've just played was in
the nature of a rehearsal. I should, of course stressed
this particular method as being of a great local interest.
I'm sure most of the gambling members will recall one
man who has had unusually bad luck with his finger homes.

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You're trying to ruin me.

Speaker 19 (03:43:26):
Well, you were willing to see Prendegast ruin and killed.

Speaker 14 (03:43:30):
But a pistol duel with Colonel Moran is almost equivalent
to murder.

Speaker 74 (03:43:33):
What do you want me to do?

Speaker 14 (03:43:35):
From the direction of your glunts, mister Hackneys, I'm certain
that you keep a loaded revolver in your desk drawer.
That's very poor solution, I assure you. Why not be
a man, write a confession and sign it or pre
captain Prendigast from any stigma, and it will help to
trap the real culprit Colonel Sebastian Moram.

Speaker 2 (03:43:52):
Moram, where did he come into the picture?

Speaker 14 (03:43:54):
Homes to Harkness?

Speaker 23 (03:43:55):
Nows?

Speaker 14 (03:43:55):
Don't you?

Speaker 85 (03:43:55):
And I think I know now? Why don't you tell
us Hartness?

Speaker 14 (03:43:58):
One thing at a time, Pendergast, it to you to
write a confession. I'll do that rather than face a
public exposure in the club. But that's as far as
I'll go.

Speaker 75 (03:44:05):
If you have any ideas about Moraine and talk to
yourselves there's a certain.

Speaker 14 (03:44:09):
Honor even among thieves. Thank you for the implication. Mister Hackneys.
You have writing materials here? Yes, I have writing materials.

Speaker 5 (03:44:18):
How Wendy?

Speaker 14 (03:44:18):
Then, while you are telling the truth about last night's episode,
we'll call on Colonel's the bestI morn. Have you any
idea where we might find him at the summer night? Yes,
I have every idea.

Speaker 3 (03:44:26):
You'll find him in the gun room.

Speaker 14 (03:44:28):
Thinks he has a jewel on his hands tomorrow in
the gunroom. Hey, thank you, mister Harktes. We'll go and
talk to him. You may expect us back within half
an hour.

Speaker 23 (03:44:49):
Who are you?

Speaker 5 (03:44:49):
Fellows? Turn the guess up, don't you?

Speaker 85 (03:44:51):
Colonel Moren? This is mister Sherlock Holst and doctor Watson.

Speaker 14 (03:44:54):
How do you do Colonel Moren. I've been wanting to
meet you for a very long time.

Speaker 2 (03:44:59):
Sherlock Holme.

Speaker 14 (03:45:00):
I've heard a lot about you, and I have you.

Speaker 87 (03:45:02):
Colonel Harry, what are you doing inside the club?

Speaker 85 (03:45:04):
Mister Hermes brought me back. We've just left David Harkness's room.
He's writing a confession that he engineered the swindle last night,
that he deliberately tried.

Speaker 34 (03:45:12):
To involve me so.

Speaker 87 (03:45:15):
In that case, I suppose I need all this revolver
no longer.

Speaker 14 (03:45:19):
Harkness is a cheat. Dear me, how shocking.

Speaker 85 (03:45:22):
Aren't you glad that my name will be cleared in
this business?

Speaker 14 (03:45:25):
Of course I am.

Speaker 5 (03:45:25):
I'm delighted.

Speaker 85 (03:45:26):
And you'll apologize for the things that you said last.

Speaker 87 (03:45:28):
Night, Yes, Harry, I'll apologize. But you must realize that
this revelation makes no difference to my feelings about your
marriage to Alicia.

Speaker 2 (03:45:35):
On my soul, Colonel Moran, it seems to me that one.

Speaker 87 (03:45:38):
Man Watson, I think the name is Watson's. My name
is Watson, doctor Watson. I would suggest that the happiness
of my ward is a matter that cannot possibly concern you.

Speaker 14 (03:45:48):
Now look here, Colonel Moran, I think I may be
able to change your mind on the question of your
award's marriage.

Speaker 21 (03:45:57):
How very interesting and what makes you but under that delusion?

Speaker 14 (03:46:01):
Would you care to have it known at the club
but that you were deliberately planned Captain Freendigast murder?

Speaker 5 (03:46:06):
What is thunder you talking about?

Speaker 14 (03:46:07):
You know, sir that her revolver duel with you is
no duel, It's a cold bloody killing rubbish.

Speaker 87 (03:46:13):
I was challenged, Therefore, I had the choice of weapons. Actually,
I chose the weapon with which I was most familiar.

Speaker 14 (03:46:18):
And you had the choice for a very good reason,
Colonel Moran. You forced Freendygast into a duel because it
was the only way you could be certain that he'd
never marry your ward, Alicia, what do you know about her?

Speaker 2 (03:46:29):
More than you think, sir.

Speaker 19 (03:46:30):
She's at my wife's house this very minute.

Speaker 14 (03:46:32):
As she suspects you of jealousy, and it's far more
likely that the financial aspect of guardianship is involved here.
A financial accounting is due upon her marriage, isn't it.

Speaker 5 (03:46:41):
That's none of your business.

Speaker 85 (03:46:42):
An accounting is due, mister Holmes, unless you told me
that exactly, and the accounts were in no stake to
undergo scrutiny, The answer is obvious.

Speaker 14 (03:46:50):
David Hartness a card shop was the need of money?
You induced him to practice his cheating last night in
order that you could trap Captain Prendigast.

Speaker 21 (03:46:58):
Into a duel.

Speaker 5 (03:47:00):
Harkness, what the devil do you want?

Speaker 14 (03:47:02):
Whatt that revolver down, you fool?

Speaker 19 (03:47:03):
Don't care about my own disgrace, but you're going to
pay for your sharing it my hand a revolgar heart,
don't you see that, you're oh.

Speaker 2 (03:47:11):
Moran, you you shut him, You saw that.

Speaker 87 (03:47:14):
It was in self defense, gentlemen, he was waving a
loaded revolver at me. It's most unfortunate, but it was
in self defense.

Speaker 14 (03:47:21):
Self defense that removed the one dangerous witness who could
have testified against you. He's dead, Watson.

Speaker 17 (03:47:27):
Is knee.

Speaker 2 (03:47:29):
Got right through the heart.

Speaker 85 (03:47:30):
Moran, You're a cold blooded, murdering devil.

Speaker 5 (03:47:33):
I demand satisfaction for that insult. These gentlemen are my witnesses.

Speaker 87 (03:47:37):
I apologize for the misunderstanding last night, but this.

Speaker 34 (03:47:40):
Is a different matter.

Speaker 5 (03:47:41):
You've insulted me, Harry.

Speaker 14 (03:47:42):
The duo will take place, Colonel Moran and doctor Watson,
myself will act as seconds by Captain Prentdigast. Let's make
the necessary arrangement, shall win?

Speaker 53 (03:48:10):
Missus Watson, there's Alicia, dear, it's two o'clock. What can
have happened to them? They left here just after eight.

Speaker 86 (03:48:20):
If you've been married to John for any length of time,
my dear, you wouldn't worry when your husband goes out
with Sherleck Holmbs.

Speaker 44 (03:48:27):
You're prepared not to see him for.

Speaker 1 (03:48:29):
A few days.

Speaker 53 (03:48:30):
Missus Watson, what are you saying? I haven't got a husband.

Speaker 44 (03:48:34):
Oh oh, now, Alicia, don't glower at me like that.
What did you say the time was?

Speaker 53 (03:48:40):
It's just after two and they left here at eight?
What can have happened?

Speaker 44 (03:48:45):
I don't know, but mister Holmes was with him.

Speaker 86 (03:48:48):
They don't worry, my dear, he's frightfully clever.

Speaker 44 (03:48:51):
I wouldn't be surprised.

Speaker 12 (03:48:52):
There's the front door.

Speaker 47 (03:48:53):
Now they're back.

Speaker 81 (03:48:54):
Oh, dear me.

Speaker 44 (03:48:55):
Now I'll have to make.

Speaker 5 (03:48:55):
Coprol Harry, Harry Darling.

Speaker 12 (03:48:58):
What's happened?

Speaker 85 (03:48:58):
All lots of things, don't I'm a member of the
Tankerville Club again. I'll probably become a major, and you'll
certainly become missus Prendergast before very long.

Speaker 44 (03:49:07):
Oh it all sounds wonderful.

Speaker 19 (03:49:09):
What have you two been up to for hotel story?
MENA dear home solved the case and it all ended happily.

Speaker 14 (03:49:15):
Happily, my dear Watson, that's hardly the word to use.
Harkness is did and Colonel Moran has probably in hospital.

Speaker 53 (03:49:21):
Please tell me what happens?

Speaker 14 (03:49:22):
Right? Are your guardian challenged Captain Prendergast? But duel he
overlooked the fact that since he was the challenger, the
choice of weapons belonged to his opponent.

Speaker 19 (03:49:31):
Perhaps you can guess what that choice was, boxing gloves.

Speaker 85 (03:49:35):
If we've just come from the gymnasium at the Club Elsia.
I'm afraid I really gave him a threshing, and I will.

Speaker 14 (03:49:40):
Deserve one too. I'm una sorry that I couldn't put
him when he belongs behind prison bars.

Speaker 19 (03:49:45):
Oh, Harry, he'll be the laughing struggle London.

Speaker 53 (03:49:47):
I'm glad of it, but that means that you'll never
consent to our being married.

Speaker 14 (03:49:51):
I disagree, miss Wentford. If we keep his secret, and
we've hinted that we might, I'm quite certain that he'll
withdraws objections to the marriage, and somehow he'll make up
his deficiencies and his guardian shop account.

Speaker 19 (03:50:02):
Probably by borrowing money from Professor money aren't here.

Speaker 86 (03:50:06):
I think it's all wonderful. But it's well after two
o'clock in the morning. Let's go into the kitchen, shall we.

Speaker 44 (03:50:13):
I'll make some Coco coco. Follow Harry, You and Delicia
stay here. You probably have some plans to make.

Speaker 19 (03:50:23):
Sorry.

Speaker 86 (03:50:24):
As soon as the coco's ready, we'll call.

Speaker 9 (03:50:26):
You that that was some story, you know.

Speaker 84 (03:50:48):
I'm glad the age of dueling is over. I'd hate
to have someone challenge me to a duel?

Speaker 2 (03:50:52):
What's matter, mister, but tell you? Afraid of being.

Speaker 14 (03:50:56):
Hurt, right of being heard?

Speaker 84 (03:50:57):
Of course, not someone challenges me to a duel. I
have the right to choose the weapons, don't.

Speaker 2 (03:51:02):
I isn't what weapons? Would you choose?

Speaker 4 (03:51:05):
Cream puffs at thirty paces?

Speaker 84 (03:51:06):
Nobody's gonna hurt me.

Speaker 5 (03:51:08):
That hold on, come to think of it.

Speaker 84 (03:51:12):
Instead of cream puffs, I'd rather have a piece of cake.

Speaker 2 (03:51:14):
Oh why a piece of cake?

Speaker 5 (03:51:16):
Because it tastes so good with a glass of Petrie sherry.

Speaker 14 (03:51:19):
Any questions, No.

Speaker 62 (03:51:20):
Questions for a while, or I'll bet you though.

Speaker 84 (03:51:22):
I'd forgotten all about, forgotten about it the bottle, No,
not anybody who's.

Speaker 34 (03:51:27):
Ever tasted it.

Speaker 84 (03:51:28):
Petrie wine is the kind of wine you'll always remember.
That's because the Petrie family really knows how to make
good wine. They've been making wine for generations. Wine making
is their heritage. It's an art that's been handed on
down in the Petrie family from father to son, from
father to son. Every drop of Petree wine is clear, fragrant,

(03:51:51):
and delicious, as delicious as the luscious sun ripe in California.

Speaker 14 (03:51:55):
Grapes from which it's made.

Speaker 84 (03:51:57):
Remember the name Petrion a bottle of wine is more
than a trademark. It's the personal assurance of the Petrie
family that their wine is the kind of wine you
like for any occasion. You can't mess with Petrie wine
because Petrie took time to bring you good wine. Well,
doctor Watson, what new Sherlock Holmes story are you planning

(03:52:18):
to tell us next week?

Speaker 2 (03:52:20):
Well, now let me see next week.

Speaker 19 (03:52:24):
Uh, next week with Tobato, I'm going to tell you
an adventure that took place in the gay vienna of
the nineties. Concerns a strange tragedy that occurred on.

Speaker 2 (03:52:33):
A ballroom floor and a weird series of murders that.

Speaker 19 (03:52:37):
Per punctuated by the sound of music.

Speaker 2 (03:52:40):
I call the story.

Speaker 5 (03:52:42):
The Wolfs of Death.

Speaker 19 (03:52:58):
To Night.

Speaker 84 (03:52:58):
Sherlock Holmes adventure was written by by Dennis Green and
Anthony Boucher, and was suggested by an incident in Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle's story The Five Orange Pips. Music is
by Dean Fossler. Mister Rathbone appears through the courtesy of
Metropoldwin mayor mister Bruce through the courtesy of Universal Pictures,
where they are now starring in the Sherlock Holmes series.

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The Petri Wine Company of San Francisco, California.

Speaker 34 (03:53:30):
Invites you to tune in again next week.

Speaker 84 (03:53:33):
Next week, many communities will change time, and this program
will read some of our listeners at a different hour.
Consult your local newspaper or mutual station for the exact
time in your area. Sherlock Holmes comes to you from
our Hollywood studio. This is Harry Bartel saying good night
for the Petrie family or a solid hour of exciting

(03:53:55):
mystery dramas. Listen every Monday on most of these same
stations at eight o'clock to Michael Shane, followed immediately by
Sherlock Holme. This is the mutual broadcasting system.

Speaker 88 (03:54:13):
That faith in witchcraft is not easily abandoned, as indicated
by the fact that in England it continued to exercise
an influence over a vast number of people for twelve
hundred years after the introduction of Christianity, and even today,
even in America, one still finds evidence of its practices,
and perhaps it will never die out until certain things

(03:54:34):
stop happening, things which only witchcraft can explain.

Speaker 89 (03:54:41):
In the medical records of the State Health Department of Ohio,
where the case of the Posit brothers has been set down.
There is no mention, of course, of witchcraft, doptless. Such
an explanation of the affair did not even occur to
doctor Perry the position in the case. On the morning
of January twenty fourth, nineteen thirty two, he entered his
office wildered and defeated.

Speaker 14 (03:55:01):
Man, we've lost the Patzig.

Speaker 5 (03:55:04):
Boy, Miss Woodland.

Speaker 14 (03:55:05):
He died this morning.

Speaker 90 (03:55:07):
Gave him every test I ever heard of. I even
took X rays from head to foot. There's nothing wrong.
The boy was in perfect health, and yet he died.

Speaker 1 (03:55:16):
At least they still have their two other Sonso.

Speaker 89 (03:55:21):
But the thought of Stanley Posick's death continue to haunt him,
and two days later he made a trip out to
the Posick farm to explain to the boy's parents why
he had failed.

Speaker 5 (03:55:33):
Doctor, you have come, How did you know? How did
I know? What My second son, Raymond, he.

Speaker 8 (03:55:40):
Woke up this morning sick almost to day Stanley acted
before he died.

Speaker 89 (03:55:46):
On January thirty first, exactly one week after the passing
of his brother, Stanley, the boy Raymond, age nine, was dead.

Speaker 14 (03:55:56):
You will not let it.

Speaker 74 (03:55:58):
Happen to our youngest baby.

Speaker 90 (03:56:00):
Doctor, I think I can promise you that your youngest
is safe. But sy it can only be a poison
of some sort in the bloodstream, bacteria too minute to
be observed with my instruments. So I've sent a sample
of Raymond's blood to the state Health Department.

Speaker 5 (03:56:15):
Then a day or so issued.

Speaker 89 (03:56:16):
It was just two days later, February second, that the
report from the health department arrived at doctor Perry's office.
But has he read it aloud to his secretary? Whope
in confidence went out of his voice.

Speaker 58 (03:56:29):
Every known method of analysis has been used.

Speaker 90 (03:56:33):
There is present no trace of poisonous substance of any kind.

Speaker 12 (03:56:38):
And you were so sure what could it be?

Speaker 26 (03:56:41):
Then, Doctor, I don't suppose I'll ever know.

Speaker 12 (03:56:44):
And the third boy, what about him?

Speaker 1 (03:56:46):
Who can say?

Speaker 14 (03:56:48):
I examined him last night.

Speaker 26 (03:56:49):
He seemed quite all right.

Speaker 53 (03:56:51):
After all, there's no reason to think anything will happen
to him, especially since it isn't a bacterial disease.

Speaker 5 (03:56:57):
They're probably right, Miss Worldward. Thing for me to do is, oh,
will you get.

Speaker 14 (03:57:02):
That miss work.

Speaker 12 (03:57:04):
Doctor Perry's office?

Speaker 5 (03:57:06):
Who's the doctor?

Speaker 14 (03:57:07):
Yes, one moment, never mind, I don't want to talk
to him, this is basic to just tell him that.

Speaker 15 (03:57:17):
Tell him that.

Speaker 74 (03:57:19):
My youngest son died during his sleep.

Speaker 89 (03:57:22):
Last night, and so the Puzigs were childless, and neither they,
nor the doctor, nor anyone else has ever learned what
it was that killed their three sons. If anyone were
to suggest that death came as a result of a
hex a curse or maybe a magic spell, we would
laugh at the idea. And yet, unless we rely on

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some such explanation, what is the answer to this tragic
and bewildering mystery?

Speaker 1 (03:57:51):
A mystery incredible but true.

Speaker 22 (03:58:00):
Let's see stain. Let's replay the night we're living a
sign story about your host ring.

Speaker 23 (03:58:11):
Hople door tals about.

Speaker 60 (03:58:12):
It, leaving gentle friends.

Speaker 83 (03:58:32):
Leona Sankton, welcome through the creaking door for another soothing
half our weakness in the life.

Speaker 40 (03:58:43):
Oh, I've learned a new trick. But what did you
like to step up here and be start in half.

Speaker 23 (03:58:49):
Y no volunte here.

Speaker 30 (03:58:52):
Well maybe you're right, the first party starting and half
that he is it, But the second party putting the
together again, I'm still not very good at that.

Speaker 17 (03:59:11):
What does a man think of when there's murder in
the air.

Speaker 24 (03:59:16):
But close presence of jet Does it have matter and substance?

Speaker 83 (03:59:22):
Does it generate unseen lightwaves that touch a man's subconscious
or unheard sound waves that speak to him when he sleep? Well,
let's listen to I Walk in the Night, written by
Amael Tapperman, but Larry Haynes and the role of.

Speaker 24 (03:59:40):
Peter Lang attended his story himself. I don't know if
it's the ringing of the doorbell a little locally driving
back to consciousness out of a deep, heavy sleep. I

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felt groggy, just's if I'd been drugged. My eyes were
so heavy, so hard to keep open.

Speaker 17 (04:00:13):
That infernal ring.

Speaker 24 (04:00:17):
I stumbled out into the hall man of the my wife,
they are opposite my eye, and knew the door would
be locked. We quarreled last night when I was judsons
were visiting from the house next door.

Speaker 17 (04:00:33):
Man I had made a scene.

Speaker 24 (04:00:36):
She went to her room and rocked herself in. As
I stumbled down the hall. At the front door, I
recognized still Judson's voice. Sell and Henriette lived in the
house next door, just across the lawn.

Speaker 17 (04:00:51):
Hide light.

Speaker 91 (04:00:53):
I'm coming, Let's lilt it.

Speaker 17 (04:00:58):
I got this open, Thank Heaven.

Speaker 23 (04:01:03):
You woke up, Peter.

Speaker 21 (04:01:04):
I thought you'd never hear me?

Speaker 17 (04:01:06):
What's that poker?

Speaker 30 (04:01:08):
Henrietta saw a prowler come out of this house. Prowler,
it's the matter with your peete, You look roggy?

Speaker 23 (04:01:13):
Wake up.

Speaker 17 (04:01:14):
I don't know she was if i'd been doped. What's
this prowler?

Speaker 30 (04:01:20):
Henrietta saw him climbing out of Murner's window. She yelled
at me, and I grabbed the poker and came running
out the poker.

Speaker 40 (04:01:27):
But well, what's the.

Speaker 29 (04:01:28):
Matter with you?

Speaker 26 (04:01:28):
Didn't you hear me?

Speaker 91 (04:01:29):
A man was in Murner's room just now, scot when
there's a loan and there, come on, Manna, Manna, all right,
open the door. She doesn't, so he is sure the
prowler came.

Speaker 5 (04:01:49):
Out of this room.

Speaker 23 (04:01:49):
Yes, they ran around the house and got away. Look,
Pete As you got to keep it.

Speaker 30 (04:01:54):
The store's bolted on the inside and we got to
break it down.

Speaker 23 (04:01:57):
Come on, what's your showing it? Where's the light?

Speaker 17 (04:02:03):
Sweach?

Speaker 40 (04:02:04):
Oh here, I've got a.

Speaker 23 (04:02:09):
Better stop.

Speaker 22 (04:02:11):
Come in, Peter, let me in.

Speaker 17 (04:02:12):
I've got to see.

Speaker 5 (04:02:16):
Barn it.

Speaker 30 (04:02:17):
Take it easy, peace, Oh burn it, strangle it, strangle
to death, burn it.

Speaker 17 (04:02:29):
Let the black little boy of throw it. This chain
on her neck broken, But I said locket. When I
gave her the last Christmas killer must have taken it
with him.

Speaker 30 (04:02:42):
And see here her fingernails is got some skin under
the mouth.

Speaker 23 (04:02:47):
She must have struggled and scratched.

Speaker 25 (04:02:49):
The killer's face her hands.

Speaker 23 (04:02:51):
Why fella, why should anyone want to kill it?

Speaker 22 (04:03:02):
Then began the.

Speaker 24 (04:03:03):
Long touch of the investigation detective, swarming over the house,
man and derby hats, examining the body of my wife,
measuring the wrong stitching for than to print. And finally
more manual came and carried her away forever.

Speaker 17 (04:03:22):
Throw it all Hill and Henriette sat.

Speaker 22 (04:03:24):
With me, trying to give what comfort.

Speaker 17 (04:03:28):
Oh Peter, dear, please talk to it.

Speaker 44 (04:03:30):
I can't stand seeing you sit there with your head
in your hands.

Speaker 21 (04:03:34):
It won't bring Mina.

Speaker 19 (04:03:36):
Back to life.

Speaker 24 (04:03:37):
Henriette's right, Pete, you've got to get ahold of yourself.

Speaker 25 (04:03:41):
I know, I know.

Speaker 17 (04:03:45):
I can't stop thinking about it. Those locks on its throat,
it's unchained, the lockets gone.

Speaker 30 (04:03:52):
Look here, Pete, there's something we have to talk about. Now,
get that dazed look off your face and listen to
me for a minute.

Speaker 17 (04:04:00):
Yes, yes, so there's a policeman in Berner's room right now.

Speaker 40 (04:04:05):
O'Brien is his name.

Speaker 17 (04:04:07):
He'll be coming him soon to question you. Now, you
better not tell him about the quarrel you had with
murder last night. I don't get you. It would look
bad for you, for me or what what do you mean, Cilia?
You don't say that. I suddenly I caught my breath.

Speaker 24 (04:04:30):
My right hand in my bathrobe pocket and touched something cold.
Sill and Henriette both stared at.

Speaker 23 (04:04:36):
Me, Peter, what's wrong?

Speaker 5 (04:04:38):
So?

Speaker 17 (04:04:40):
So look what I found in my pocket? What is it?

Speaker 23 (04:04:44):
A locket?

Speaker 17 (04:04:45):
It's Berna's lockett the wind that was gone from my thrower.
So so how could this get in my pocket?

Speaker 23 (04:04:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 40 (04:04:56):
Give me that quick gu to me.

Speaker 23 (04:04:59):
Preasure to aren't his lock it?

Speaker 41 (04:05:00):
All right?

Speaker 23 (04:05:02):
You recognize it every other?

Speaker 25 (04:05:04):
What are you going to do with it to get
rid of it?

Speaker 23 (04:05:06):
Click this open window? Oh please fight it out there.

Speaker 22 (04:05:11):
They'll think the killer dropped it.

Speaker 17 (04:05:13):
Cell It was in my pocket.

Speaker 22 (04:05:16):
What are you looking at their hand?

Speaker 25 (04:05:19):
Pet?

Speaker 5 (04:05:20):
Right?

Speaker 25 (04:05:21):
Your left hand?

Speaker 22 (04:05:25):
I looked down on my left hand.

Speaker 5 (04:05:28):
There on my list?

Speaker 24 (04:05:30):
What's three along the ashes with the skin it than scrape?
Is this by the thing and nails of a woman
fighting for a life.

Speaker 17 (04:05:39):
So do you think I could have killed it?

Speaker 15 (04:05:43):
No, I don't believe it.

Speaker 17 (04:05:45):
You could never do a thing like that, Peet good, I.

Speaker 23 (04:05:50):
May be sure.

Speaker 17 (04:05:52):
How can I be sure?

Speaker 14 (04:05:53):
Peter, Please don't talk like that.

Speaker 91 (04:05:57):
Still, stop making yourself out some terrible monster.

Speaker 23 (04:06:01):
But your aunt Phil and.

Speaker 5 (04:06:02):
I know you.

Speaker 29 (04:06:04):
You can't be like that.

Speaker 17 (04:06:05):
I don't know.

Speaker 24 (04:06:07):
Maybe I got up in my sleep and killed Lena
without annoying it consciously.

Speaker 30 (04:06:12):
After all, I I did have that quarrel with the
last nice cut of Peter becomes a Brian the detective.

Speaker 23 (04:06:18):
I hope I'm not intruding.

Speaker 17 (04:06:20):
Oh oh no, it's all right.

Speaker 40 (04:06:21):
Perspective coming O'Brien. The Lang is very upset the shot Harris,
I understand.

Speaker 24 (04:06:29):
Believing mister Lang had my deber sympathy.

Speaker 40 (04:06:32):
I wouldn't bother at all.

Speaker 30 (04:06:33):
The time like this, I spector O'Brien was a pink cheek,
chub faced, chubby little man.

Speaker 24 (04:06:39):
But his eyes were cold and blue and restless. It
kept jumping from Phil to Henriette to me.

Speaker 40 (04:06:45):
He fired his question as Micter Lang.

Speaker 26 (04:06:48):
One more thing.

Speaker 21 (04:06:49):
I understand you had a small party here last night.

Speaker 17 (04:06:52):
Oh no, no, it it wasn't a party.

Speaker 24 (04:06:54):
Just Phil and Henriette and and and Ted Hair.

Speaker 17 (04:06:58):
Yes, Lena's cousin. I see this Ted Hale, a cousin
of your wife.

Speaker 30 (04:07:03):
Pardon me, inspect Peter is too easy going and good
nature to tell you.

Speaker 17 (04:07:09):
About ted Hale. But Peter's attorney, it's mind youty to
give you certain information. I'll go ahead. Myrna, missus Lang owned.

Speaker 30 (04:07:19):
Considerable property in her own right. Recently I drew a
will at her request. In it she leaves a sizeable sum.

Speaker 22 (04:07:27):
Who Ted Hale? Ah, oh, I just thought of something.

Speaker 17 (04:07:32):
What is it?

Speaker 23 (04:07:33):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (04:07:33):
Peter was so broad?

Speaker 5 (04:07:34):
Are you?

Speaker 43 (04:07:35):
When he woke up?

Speaker 5 (04:07:36):
That's right?

Speaker 17 (04:07:36):
He looked as if he'd been drug Well.

Speaker 44 (04:07:39):
Don't you remember last night ted Hale went in the kitchen.

Speaker 40 (04:07:43):
To mix the last round of cris Oh?

Speaker 30 (04:07:45):
Hell yeah, that's ridicul On the contrary, it's quite important.

Speaker 40 (04:07:49):
Now tell me this Ted Hale. What does he do
for a living.

Speaker 24 (04:07:53):
Well, he works for me and my brokera job, please, Lenna,
I gave him a job as my confidential secretary.

Speaker 30 (04:08:02):
Suppose you tell me where mister ted Hale lives.

Speaker 22 (04:08:05):
I think I'm a top of him.

Speaker 8 (04:08:15):
Now.

Speaker 30 (04:08:16):
All you have to do, Pete is sit tight let
O'Brien follow up his leave, so I.

Speaker 91 (04:08:20):
Can't let him rest, Ted Hale, he didn't kill men.

Speaker 5 (04:08:23):
I did.

Speaker 18 (04:08:23):
I must have blocked he scratches.

Speaker 40 (04:08:26):
It's not fair to Ted as your attorney.

Speaker 30 (04:08:28):
I won't let you strap yourself in the electric chair.
You go back to your room and get some sleep, Henrietta,
do you mind going back to our house by yourself?

Speaker 5 (04:08:38):
Good.

Speaker 30 (04:08:40):
I'm going to sleep right here in the living room
on his couch in case Peter needs me tonight.

Speaker 24 (04:08:55):
From my bed in the dark, I kept seeing a
thousand pictures murder, her face modeled with strangulation. Phil always
so sure of these, and they had a worried and
frightened and O'Brien, his face grim and his blue eyes cold,

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going off to question Ted Hale. I must have been
close to dozing off when I heard the door about faintly,
as if in a dream. It fussed about in bed
for a moment or two, and then I heard the
voice in the living room, filled cold and harsh, and

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someone else will loud and angry and frightened.

Speaker 17 (04:09:49):
I got out of the head and opened the door.

Speaker 24 (04:09:51):
I went down the hall to the living room. I
had to know who was in there arguing. So it
was Ted Hale, what are you doing here?

Speaker 23 (04:10:04):
Fell?

Speaker 25 (04:10:04):
Phone me?

Speaker 17 (04:10:05):
He told me about Murner.

Speaker 30 (04:10:07):
I called him up, called him up. Brian will be
coming for him. I suggested he come over here and
talk it over with me.

Speaker 23 (04:10:12):
Pete, don't let them arrest me. You got to help me,
help you.

Speaker 65 (04:10:15):
You know I didn't kill Martha. Well, I'm not sure,
Seete what I was here last night? You know, and
you had that fight with Murner. What do you mean
if I'm arrested, I'll tell the police about that. Call
still says I had a motive.

Speaker 46 (04:10:30):
But what about you, Pete?

Speaker 23 (04:10:31):
You always calling with I. Look, I only want you
to help me, Pete.

Speaker 30 (04:10:35):
Don't let them arrest me, hid hike me out till
this blows over, until they get the real killers.

Speaker 23 (04:10:40):
I think Ted is right, Pete. We should help him.

Speaker 30 (04:10:44):
But where I'll handle it him. You have a stock
room fixed up in the cellar, haven't you. Yes, we'll
stick a cot in there and let head the hole
up for the day or two. Nobody will think of
looking for him in this house.

Speaker 17 (04:11:01):
I listen to me carefully, Peter.

Speaker 30 (04:11:13):
If Ted Hale is arrested and talks O'Brien will learn
about the quarrel you had with money last night. You'll
start digging into things that won't.

Speaker 23 (04:11:21):
Look so good.

Speaker 24 (04:11:22):
No, he'll awake and I know you're trying to help me.
If I did it, if I did kill minute, and
he is trying to protect me.

Speaker 23 (04:11:31):
It is night.

Speaker 24 (04:11:32):
I'm a dangerous land.

Speaker 14 (04:11:34):
But you can't brush it off like that.

Speaker 17 (04:11:39):
Do you know what it means to light awake and
the night wondering whether you've killed your own wife, wondering
whom I'll kill?

Speaker 40 (04:11:49):
Nate, cut that out.

Speaker 23 (04:11:50):
We've got business to attend to.

Speaker 21 (04:11:53):
Now here's my plan.

Speaker 30 (04:11:54):
We'll let Ted stay here tomorrow and then tomorrow night
i'll smuggle.

Speaker 17 (04:11:59):
Him out of the country, get him.

Speaker 23 (04:12:01):
Passage on a freighter to South America.

Speaker 17 (04:12:03):
Made you think you'll go, Sure.

Speaker 5 (04:12:04):
He'll go.

Speaker 23 (04:12:05):
He's scared stiff.

Speaker 17 (04:12:07):
But we'll need money, lots of money.

Speaker 30 (04:12:12):
How much have you got in the safe at the office,
So about ten thousand cash.

Speaker 24 (04:12:15):
But there's a batch of negotiable bonds they'll do.

Speaker 30 (04:12:18):
I'll go down to the office the first thing in
the morning and get.

Speaker 17 (04:12:20):
Them out of a safe.

Speaker 30 (04:12:21):
You had the combination, Yes, you gave it to me
when you gave me your power of attorney. You remember, now,
don't you worry about a thing?

Speaker 40 (04:12:29):
Oh yeah, take this powder.

Speaker 30 (04:12:32):
It's just one of the brow minds that Henriette uses.
Will help you get to sleep. By tomorrow morning, everything
will be fixed up.

Speaker 5 (04:12:42):
Fine.

Speaker 24 (04:12:51):
It was almost dawn when fill that and the wester
banal is later, close to noontime when.

Speaker 40 (04:12:57):
I felt myself being roughly shaken out of the heavy.

Speaker 30 (04:13:00):
Trouble body see see wake up, wake up, come on,
snap out the sun.

Speaker 17 (04:13:07):
Oh god, I feel gazzy.

Speaker 22 (04:13:12):
What's in that party?

Speaker 25 (04:13:14):
Never mind the powder, Get your eyes open. Got something
to tell you?

Speaker 22 (04:13:18):
So what's wrong? What happens?

Speaker 40 (04:13:19):
Let's be carefully, peep.

Speaker 30 (04:13:21):
I went down to the office before business hours this
morning and opened the safe to get the money out. Okay,
the safe is empty, empty, The securities are gone. But
I can't see who else had the combination besides you
and me?

Speaker 17 (04:13:35):
Only Ted Hall. Oh do you think I'll bet you
a dollar to a doughnut?

Speaker 25 (04:13:40):
He is gone?

Speaker 36 (04:13:41):
Come on, let's check.

Speaker 5 (04:13:47):
Look.

Speaker 23 (04:13:47):
See there's a light in the dickroom. A month have
gone up early and beat me to it for the safe, said,
tell you in there? What was the optimist eh, come on,
open it up.

Speaker 22 (04:13:58):
It could ever.

Speaker 24 (04:14:04):
Said, hey, you hadn't gone anywhere. He was lying there
on the cut. His head was a bloody pump. He
didn't bashed in while he slipped with a long handled
a cold shovel, which lay there alongside the cut.

Speaker 5 (04:14:23):
Bred sct.

Speaker 21 (04:14:25):
He's been murdered.

Speaker 24 (04:14:28):
We stood there in a narrow dark room fill a nine.
We looked at each other. There was a strange gleam
in Froe's eyes. I tried to read the meaning of
that gleam, but he averted his eyes too quickly. He
dropped his gaze to my hands.

Speaker 17 (04:14:44):
I saw what he was looking at. My hands were
black and grimy with cold dust, and.

Speaker 24 (04:14:52):
On the briny, cold, blackened handle as a shovel, it
was a fresh set of fingerprints.

Speaker 17 (04:15:00):
So did I kill him? Did I kill him in
my sleep? Same as Muna.

Speaker 40 (04:15:09):
So I can't say murder.

Speaker 17 (04:15:10):
I'm gonna get myself up. You'll do nothing of the kind.

Speaker 30 (04:15:14):
If you did it, Pete, you're not responsible, But you
do think I did it, and Lena too. I I
don't know how, I don't know what to say.

Speaker 24 (04:15:28):
Just think too, Maybe maybe I might kill you, So
hend me out it there's no telling when am I
to no no tell?

Speaker 23 (04:15:38):
Try to believe, but there's the proof.

Speaker 17 (04:15:39):
I no murderer.

Speaker 23 (04:15:40):
That's dangerous.

Speaker 17 (04:15:41):
There's only one thing to do.

Speaker 40 (04:15:42):
I won't let you do it.

Speaker 23 (04:15:45):
Come on, I'm going to help your hide dead body.

Speaker 22 (04:16:00):
How much for other though?

Speaker 23 (04:16:01):
Now that is there's the bride, jump ahead, Okay, help
me with it.

Speaker 17 (04:16:15):
We had the body of Ted Hill in a second with.

Speaker 24 (04:16:19):
A pair of one hundred pound dumbbells to weigh it down.

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Mina's funeral took place the next morning, and I had
to do endormances of friends and business associations.

Speaker 17 (04:16:48):
But soon Henrietta.

Speaker 21 (04:16:49):
Stood by me.

Speaker 41 (04:16:50):
On it'll be over.

Speaker 24 (04:16:54):
Then you can n keep your shirt up. I'll get
rid of the stragglers. Booker, Booker just came in where Oh,
listen to O'Brian. What did he want to make it
easy to do?

Speaker 40 (04:17:07):
Let me do the talking, alright. I came to pay
my respects, mister.

Speaker 17 (04:17:11):
Lang Oh, let's thank you for such no trace of
Ted here.

Speaker 23 (04:17:15):
Listen.

Speaker 40 (04:17:17):
I'm praid not mister Johnson or call me a city
for him. But I'm afraid he's got clean away.

Speaker 41 (04:17:23):
You see.

Speaker 24 (04:17:23):
Uh, it's move to see how calm when he soil
could talk through O'Brian about Ted Hall, knowing all the
time just where the body was.

Speaker 22 (04:17:33):
Under that bridge.

Speaker 17 (04:17:35):
I glanced at his earther.

Speaker 40 (04:17:37):
She was watching himself too.

Speaker 17 (04:17:39):
Yeah you know, uh no what I think, mister Johnson.
I think Ted Hair will never be caught.

Speaker 40 (04:17:47):
I have a very funny feeling that.

Speaker 22 (04:17:50):
He's dad.

Speaker 24 (04:18:00):
Later that afternoon, I took attack she cat and went
down the police headquarters and I asked to see Inspector O'Brien.

Speaker 40 (04:18:08):
Glad to see Miss Lyon.

Speaker 17 (04:18:10):
You're looking a little better this afternoon.

Speaker 23 (04:18:12):
I feel better, Inspected.

Speaker 17 (04:18:15):
I feel better because i'd come to an important decision.
Oh yeah, if that er, I've decided to tell you
something that'll start on you.

Speaker 40 (04:18:25):
That's pretty hard to start on, old hand in my
business wherehead.

Speaker 17 (04:18:28):
I'm listening, all right, Inspected.

Speaker 24 (04:18:34):
Ted Hale didn't kill herna.

Speaker 22 (04:18:37):
I killed her.

Speaker 17 (04:18:39):
That is, I think I kill you would think you
killed her?

Speaker 24 (04:18:43):
You know it sounds crazy, doesn't it, But I assure
you I'm perfectly sagest.

Speaker 17 (04:18:47):
You either killed her or you.

Speaker 21 (04:18:48):
Didn't kill her.

Speaker 25 (04:18:49):
If you killed somebody, you know what, no, not in
this case, suspected.

Speaker 17 (04:18:53):
You see, I think I did it. In my sleep
both times when and ed Hal too.

Speaker 40 (04:19:00):
Uh hold on, now I got someone to take notes.
I suppose you started at the beginning, told him the
whole story.

Speaker 24 (04:19:09):
I still had awakened me when we saw him in
the strain, the groggy drug feeling i'd had, I said
Hal had.

Speaker 22 (04:19:18):
Tried to blackmail me, and I.

Speaker 24 (04:19:20):
Still had awakened me once more, and we'd gone down
to the cellar I found Ted with his head bashed him.

Speaker 22 (04:19:28):
I'd talked for someone.

Speaker 40 (04:19:30):
Well, he came to see me.

Speaker 22 (04:19:31):
Mister Langer, glad you've told me all that.

Speaker 40 (04:19:34):
You must have had a hard time reading your decision
to come here.

Speaker 22 (04:19:37):
Yes, yes, it was hard.

Speaker 23 (04:19:39):
Just looked me, still.

Speaker 17 (04:19:41):
Wanted me to go away. It would have been so
easy to go away and let him take care of things.
But I I'd never be able to sleep if you
had kill someone else.

Speaker 30 (04:19:53):
I didn't even worry about lying.

Speaker 40 (04:19:55):
I won't be anymore killing it.

Speaker 24 (04:19:56):
Not if I'm saying for in jail, You're not going
to jail.

Speaker 22 (04:20:00):
We're going home.

Speaker 40 (04:20:02):
And there was no just snogopray taking.

Speaker 22 (04:20:04):
Mister lam I.

Speaker 40 (04:20:06):
Have almost enough material to convict the real murder.

Speaker 29 (04:20:10):
I need just one more thing.

Speaker 25 (04:20:13):
Now you go home and wait, don't.

Speaker 17 (04:20:16):
Worry, it's I mean I did. I didn't kill man.

Speaker 5 (04:20:21):
You did?

Speaker 25 (04:20:22):
Are?

Speaker 23 (04:20:22):
You?

Speaker 40 (04:20:22):
Just go along home and take it easy.

Speaker 24 (04:20:27):
And I'm back at home now. It's two hours since
i left O'Brien's office, and I've taken the time to
write down this full account, just.

Speaker 40 (04:20:41):
As I gave it to the anography.

Speaker 17 (04:20:45):
As I right now I can look across the law
and to go.

Speaker 24 (04:20:48):
Judge in the house five minutes ago.

Speaker 40 (04:20:52):
That's all I expect.

Speaker 24 (04:20:53):
To rowbrien and two detectives go in there. The front
door is opening now I can see him coming out.

Speaker 17 (04:21:03):
O'Brien first, then the two detectives.

Speaker 24 (04:21:09):
Which filled between him, got a handcuff himself, and here
comes Henrietta. She's running across the lawn coming here.

Speaker 43 (04:21:21):
Peter, you know they take him still away.

Speaker 17 (04:21:27):
Yes, I start off from the window.

Speaker 43 (04:21:29):
Oh darling, everything went right exactly as he play.

Speaker 17 (04:21:37):
We can be together now forever, and I'd have killed it.

Speaker 40 (04:21:41):
Doesn't learn a field, baby, I know.

Speaker 17 (04:21:43):
And you are clever, Peter, So clever heard his pride
was getting killed and cooperate. But I knew he'd do
anything for a friend.

Speaker 5 (04:21:52):
What a fool.

Speaker 23 (04:21:53):
He stepped right in and took over.

Speaker 24 (04:21:56):
You should have seen O'Brien when I told him to thiring.

Speaker 17 (04:21:59):
I can tell him exactly what he's thinking. Here's the
poor innocent.

Speaker 30 (04:22:02):
Sack whose friend is framing him, giving him drugs and
then making him thinking to miss lurd.

Speaker 44 (04:22:09):
As soon as he's convicted, I'll be free and we
can go away together.

Speaker 40 (04:22:13):
All right, you'll have to cancel that trip, both of you.

Speaker 43 (04:22:19):
You you heard what we said.

Speaker 40 (04:22:24):
Sure did every word?

Speaker 91 (04:22:28):
Remember it, my offered mister Lang when I told you
I only needed one more thing.

Speaker 30 (04:22:32):
That clinched the case against the mudrim.

Speaker 23 (04:22:35):
Well, this was it.

Speaker 22 (04:22:38):
I faked the arrest of mister Judson, and then I.

Speaker 17 (04:22:41):
Sneaked back to see what you would do about it.

Speaker 25 (04:22:45):
Mm hmm you did plenty.

Speaker 5 (04:23:00):
H m hm.

Speaker 30 (04:23:31):
And that's some of your sound. We ring down the Kittain.
I was gonna thank them. I walked in the knife
the knife less replayhouse by the day. Okay, once again,
that's the csc X saying.

Speaker 21 (04:23:44):
Good night three nights.

Speaker 26 (04:24:08):
Every door has a key. There's a key to every situation.
Behind every unopened.

Speaker 1 (04:24:17):
Door, there is a mystery, and the opening of this
door introduces us to another. In the series.

Speaker 9 (04:24:26):
The key.

Speaker 34 (04:24:32):
Well, there it is, Oliver, Yes, there it is.

Speaker 45 (04:24:36):
Isn't that what you wanted?

Speaker 26 (04:24:37):
That's what I wanted, because I wish you wouldn't keep
repeating everything I say.

Speaker 34 (04:24:42):
I didn't notice the whole year's work.

Speaker 46 (04:24:44):
And there it is.

Speaker 26 (04:24:46):
I will either find a heap of dust or riches
beyond our wireless dreams.

Speaker 58 (04:25:00):
H There'll be no heap of dust down there.

Speaker 49 (04:25:24):
There'll be gold and precious stones. You know, for an
amateur archaeologist, I haven't done too badly with.

Speaker 25 (04:25:30):
A little core.

Speaker 49 (04:25:31):
Sure that you govern, I'd never have stuck with it,
and you know told me I was crazy. I'll accept
you govern.

Speaker 14 (04:25:39):
You was the only one who believed in him.

Speaker 26 (04:25:41):
I'm grateful.

Speaker 45 (04:25:42):
I'll be grateful too if we find an untouched.

Speaker 34 (04:25:44):
Chambre, and that'll be there, the pharaoh with a lifetime.

Speaker 26 (04:25:47):
Of riches around him. It will be all eyes, every penny.

Speaker 45 (04:25:52):
Well, let's know, use standing here drooling, Let's have a look.

Speaker 49 (04:25:54):
Yeah, let's not wasting more time. Oh, I feel big,
Garling ten tall. You've always had to be a big one,
the only thing to be got everything or else.

Speaker 34 (04:26:07):
Set nervous the first time in my life.

Speaker 5 (04:26:11):
I feel nervous.

Speaker 49 (04:26:12):
Why that's something wonderful in getting something no one else
has ever had, Like an actual first night could either
be success or a tragedy.

Speaker 26 (04:26:23):
There will be no tragedy here. I can feel it,
and everything.

Speaker 49 (04:26:26):
I've worked for, everything I've ever done in my life
culminates at this point, and now on everything will be
an anti climax.

Speaker 5 (04:26:33):
Let's go.

Speaker 34 (04:26:34):
We got everything.

Speaker 26 (04:26:35):
Everything we go first, very bad, It'll be all right.

Speaker 45 (04:26:55):
We've dumped enough oxygen into the place.

Speaker 34 (04:26:57):
Yeah, yeah, I forgot. I'm too excited about everything.

Speaker 26 (04:27:01):
Whyn't your torch over here?

Speaker 41 (04:27:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 34 (04:27:04):
I think we go this way? What about the guideline?

Speaker 5 (04:27:06):
Oh, I got it.

Speaker 26 (04:27:07):
I'll go back and get one.

Speaker 34 (04:27:09):
No, now, don't bother.

Speaker 26 (04:27:10):
We'll we'll find our way out.

Speaker 5 (04:27:12):
All right.

Speaker 34 (04:27:13):
We won't go far today, No, we won't go far.

Speaker 26 (04:27:16):
I think you're at it again and too excited to
think of words of my own. That's something I thought
i'd never get to see what Olivan not without a
word of his own. There are times driving when words
aren't necessary, and this is.

Speaker 25 (04:27:27):
One of them.

Speaker 34 (04:27:28):
This is one of them.

Speaker 26 (04:27:30):
What are you going to do with all the money?
I don't know added to the heap you already have?

Speaker 35 (04:27:34):
Does it matter.

Speaker 49 (04:27:36):
Often wondered when you're going to stop looking for money.
It's not the money garving the power it brings with it.

Speaker 34 (04:27:42):
Money can buy a man, But there.

Speaker 92 (04:27:43):
Are some things money can name. One a man's soul,
don't was bet on it. A woman's love, that's easiest
of all. One more peace of mind.

Speaker 49 (04:27:53):
You don't need peace of mind when you're rich. You've
got any troubles, you'll pay someone else to fix them
pretty soon, No more lately personally, and I'll stopped talking
for your poor person, and this is over.

Speaker 26 (04:28:05):
You will be rich beyond your wildest dreams. Garment. Doesn't
that make you feel good? Not particularly?

Speaker 11 (04:28:11):
Now?

Speaker 17 (04:28:11):
Where do we go?

Speaker 34 (04:28:12):
If you don't hurry up and move our leader's standing patience?

Speaker 26 (04:28:15):
You must have patience?

Speaker 2 (04:28:16):
Which way?

Speaker 5 (04:28:18):
This way right? Patience never had any time for patient people.

Speaker 34 (04:28:24):
Where would I be today if I waited for people
who were too slow?

Speaker 49 (04:28:26):
If I sat down and patiently waited for things to
come my way, I'd still be selling household goods from
door to door.

Speaker 26 (04:28:33):
Some people be very happy in useful lives. It's okay
if I haven't got the brain for anything else. It's
not a matter of brains it's a matter of being contented.

Speaker 49 (04:28:42):
Look at who's talking. Who gave up his job to
come on his expedition with me? Who was it who
threw up everything to gamble on a porch?

Speaker 26 (04:28:48):
I cannot tell a lot.

Speaker 34 (04:28:49):
You call that being contented, You call that being patient.
Don't give me that.

Speaker 49 (04:28:55):
I bet twelve months ago you'd have laughed if someone
had said you'd soon be in a pharaoh's with out
of anard. You'd have laughed at them, wouldn't you laughing
and gone back to making a book bout?

Speaker 41 (04:29:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (04:29:06):
I would have.

Speaker 26 (04:29:07):
But you're not sorry you grabbed it the chance.

Speaker 45 (04:29:09):
No, Oliver, I'm not sorry. I wouldn't have missed this.
For all the treasure and all the tombs.

Speaker 34 (04:29:14):
Of all the pharaohs. Crazy character pharaoh.

Speaker 49 (04:29:18):
Yeah, they save all their best golden jewelry to they die.
Doesn't make sense why they may spend it when they
had the chance.

Speaker 34 (04:29:27):
Oh not that.

Speaker 26 (04:29:28):
I'm sorry they didn't.

Speaker 34 (04:29:30):
So it proves they were crazy characters.

Speaker 1 (04:29:34):
Talking too much.

Speaker 34 (04:29:37):
Hey, Hey, we've walked a long way. This case my
spinning circle.

Speaker 26 (04:29:42):
Some of them do, some of them running to each
other and form a circle. And if you're not careful
spend the rest of your life running around in one
like a school and a treadmill. Not this, boy. Sometimes
they're built with hidden traps.

Speaker 92 (04:29:55):
When you went to a cabin, the entrance is slowly
sealed by a huge rock, slowly and quietly that you're
one hundred yards into the tomb.

Speaker 45 (04:30:02):
By the time the rock rests on the floor.

Speaker 49 (04:30:04):
You're a very happy boy today. Maybe we should have
gone back to the guide grope too late. Now, Hey, hey, hey,
what's this over here?

Speaker 34 (04:30:14):
Will you shine the light over here?

Speaker 23 (04:30:15):
Look?

Speaker 26 (04:30:16):
They go there. I'm a monkey.

Speaker 49 (04:30:20):
Ookay, they're just sitting there in his own wedding crust
to pick it out. Hey, hey, here's some scrolls. Hey,
I think we're getting hot.

Speaker 26 (04:30:28):
While you step it up, You're like a cat on
hot breaks. And I'm always like this one. I know
I'm close to the thing I want.

Speaker 45 (04:30:33):
I believe the phase where it is connect as a signpost.

Speaker 34 (04:30:36):
Yeah, gold signpost.

Speaker 41 (04:30:38):
Yeah, I like that.

Speaker 49 (04:30:39):
Maybe maybe I'll have some gold signposts put on our road,
just to make it different from any other road.

Speaker 26 (04:30:45):
Yeah, I think we're close. What are you gonna do
with your share?

Speaker 45 (04:30:51):
I hadn't thought of it, really, I thought of it.

Speaker 49 (04:30:55):
Here's a man within an ace of having millions in
his lap, and he calm, He says, he hadn't thought
of it.

Speaker 34 (04:31:00):
What must be something you'd like to do, maybe two
or three yards?

Speaker 26 (04:31:06):
What would I do with those things?

Speaker 45 (04:31:08):
No one to share them with?

Speaker 34 (04:31:10):
No, No, I'd forgotten about that. Well, I I don't
mean I forgot.

Speaker 17 (04:31:16):
I know what you mean.

Speaker 26 (04:31:18):
Pretty tough about stuff, pretty tough.

Speaker 49 (04:31:21):
But two years, isn't it about Sadie? And I never
could figure it? You too, with a couple in the book.

Speaker 26 (04:31:28):
Everybody looked and said, that's it.

Speaker 45 (04:31:31):
Sometimes things just aren't meant to be.

Speaker 26 (04:31:32):
I suppose anyway, this trip's taking your mind off things
a lot.

Speaker 5 (04:31:35):
Yeah, it has.

Speaker 26 (04:31:37):
It's given me a new interest, something I didn't think
I'd ever had the opportunity to do. Said he was
pretty broken up when Stella committed con said, committed suicide.

Speaker 34 (04:31:47):
What could have been accident?

Speaker 26 (04:31:49):
It could have been, but it wasn't.

Speaker 34 (04:31:52):
She and Sadie were pretty close. Hey, Rick, remember in
the old days, and we can remember tell her was
my girl. And what happens a lot comes handsome Joe
and I'm out of the running.

Speaker 26 (04:32:02):
She was never really your girl.

Speaker 1 (04:32:03):
Out of it, say that sound.

Speaker 49 (04:32:06):
We've been going out together a long time. Anyway, it
doesn't matter one way or the other, or water under
the bridge. You know, I was just a little annoyed
when you two decided to make it permanent. Still, I
couldn't have been cut out by a nicer guy. Thanks,
and I'll say this much you.

Speaker 34 (04:32:25):
You certainly worked hard to make a good home for set.
Never saw a man.

Speaker 5 (04:32:29):
Work so hard.

Speaker 49 (04:32:30):
You know, you should have taken that job with me.
You'd have been a big man in a nod realty
company by now.

Speaker 26 (04:32:34):
And that has to play his cats.

Speaker 45 (04:32:36):
They come out of the pack.

Speaker 34 (04:32:37):
Well, anyway, let's hope you get what you want out
of this trip.

Speaker 41 (04:32:40):
Let's hope.

Speaker 34 (04:32:41):
So I think we struck a blank on this cave.

Speaker 26 (04:32:46):
Yeah, that shouldn't be.

Speaker 49 (04:32:49):
You know, if Amanda doesn't know anything about this business,
you're making pretty good headway.

Speaker 92 (04:32:53):
I didn't say I didn't know anything. I said I
didn't know a lot? Or was work cagy.

Speaker 1 (04:32:57):
Devil in me?

Speaker 45 (04:32:58):
That pick, small one?

Speaker 25 (04:33:00):
What are you doing?

Speaker 26 (04:33:02):
Looks like a crevice? They sometimes built the continuation of
a cave going up at right angles and set the
door in a swivel. That way, when someone reaches a
blank wall.

Speaker 34 (04:33:10):
They think it's a dead end hunting people. See, yeah, yeah,
look it's it's a door set in the war.

Speaker 7 (04:33:19):
How do you know?

Speaker 26 (04:33:20):
Just chip away a little more.

Speaker 41 (04:33:24):
That's it?

Speaker 34 (04:33:24):
Fine, fine, So how do we get through?

Speaker 26 (04:33:26):
It'll probably be setting a swivel, same principle as a
revolving door. Give me your hand, lord, genius, genius, that's
what you are, govern a genius. We're not there yet,
but we're getting closer by that minute.

Speaker 49 (04:33:40):
Those and knowles who said there was so no such
tomb like wave a million dollars worth of emeralds under
their noses.

Speaker 26 (04:33:47):
No, legally, this all belongs to the goh does it legally?
Well for mine, they can go chase themselves. Anything I
find belongs to Oliver J.

Speaker 2 (04:33:53):
Nord.

Speaker 34 (04:33:53):
And that's that.

Speaker 26 (04:33:54):
I let him waste a lot of brand. And they
muched up you from taking out of the contructor not
very careful.

Speaker 34 (04:33:59):
I might even just I had to buy the country.

Speaker 26 (04:34:01):
Hah, no, garbing, No, this is ours, yours and mine.

Speaker 45 (04:34:04):
Glad you included me, included you in.

Speaker 26 (04:34:07):
We never included out.

Speaker 34 (04:34:08):
I told you off top.

Speaker 26 (04:34:09):
If it hadn't been for you, I'd never found this
hole in the ground.

Speaker 25 (04:34:13):
Got to think of it.

Speaker 26 (04:34:13):
I I really didn't find it anyway you did. But
it was your money that made it possible, that's for sure,
and that's.

Speaker 49 (04:34:19):
Why no government is going to stop me taking the loop.
Never invested anything in my life just to hand over
the profits to some museum.

Speaker 41 (04:34:27):
You know what they do with the stuff.

Speaker 26 (04:34:28):
They put it under a glass case for a lot
of creeps to look at your lives. There are people
who get a lot of pleasure out of looking at
something beautiful.

Speaker 34 (04:34:36):
If they want to look at.

Speaker 26 (04:34:37):
This lot, they can buy it, and no charity show.
I came here to get something.

Speaker 5 (04:34:41):
On what I go after I get.

Speaker 26 (04:34:43):
If I can't have it, I make sure no one
else gets it. Come on, let's find this great job.
Don't worry about spending the money. When we find it.
Say this, this is a bigger cave, better made than
the others. We're getting closer closer every minute.

Speaker 34 (04:35:00):
Garvin, another vasi of something.

Speaker 26 (04:35:03):
You suppose they've been put there as a guide, possibly
or a trap.

Speaker 34 (04:35:06):
What do you mean a tramp, carroge ca, carroage? What
what carrots?

Speaker 26 (04:35:10):
Harrod on the end of a stick to make the
donkey keep moving?

Speaker 22 (04:35:14):
Here.

Speaker 49 (04:35:14):
One of the carrots are made of gold. Out keep
moving and I know, donkey, it's widening out.

Speaker 50 (04:35:20):
Are you hearing me?

Speaker 26 (04:35:24):
It's falling. The whole roof came money.

Speaker 28 (04:35:26):
Run all of Hey, I can't Garvin, you'll run out

(04:35:59):
of it.

Speaker 34 (04:36:00):
I think so.

Speaker 26 (04:36:02):
Hurts like try walking on it.

Speaker 34 (04:36:05):
Oh oh pretty sorry, nothing broken that you live?

Speaker 26 (04:36:12):
Thanks you very nearly didn't get back to the mad
Realty company.

Speaker 34 (04:36:16):
I said, thanks for what my life. I'm not going
to forget it. You're going to go on?

Speaker 49 (04:36:24):
Yes, I guess we go on. I knew I did
the right thing, and I talked to you into the trip.
You're my good luck charm.

Speaker 45 (04:36:32):
I'm glad I brought someone some luck.

Speaker 34 (04:36:34):
Never made a mistake in business in my whole life.
That's the way to get on top.

Speaker 23 (04:36:40):
You bring you along.

Speaker 1 (04:36:41):
Wasn't a mistake.

Speaker 34 (04:36:43):
You know something. If I caught it back there, you
would now be the one man band around here.

Speaker 5 (04:36:51):
But you didn't think of that.

Speaker 1 (04:36:52):
Now you know, you'd have left me delay.

Speaker 45 (04:36:56):
You never know. I may be saving you for better things.

Speaker 34 (04:36:59):
Thanks a minute, they're becoming you. Another term.

Speaker 26 (04:37:04):
Probably traveling in circles.

Speaker 45 (04:37:06):
I'll be.

Speaker 49 (04:37:08):
A two way stretch way this time left left it is.
See whatever happened to you with that deer you had
working a couple of years ago?

Speaker 45 (04:37:21):
Which particular deal was that?

Speaker 49 (04:37:22):
Oh you know the one you and some fella were
going to buy out a big farm holding and subdivide
the building lots.

Speaker 92 (04:37:26):
They'd been busted? Yeah I know that, but why the
big really concern under bids. They made a fortune out
of it too.

Speaker 34 (04:37:33):
It's too bad who did the dirty on being spence?

Speaker 26 (04:37:39):
Both business, I suppose so tough break though.

Speaker 34 (04:37:42):
Yeah, tough break.

Speaker 92 (04:37:44):
Funny thing wasn't until a few months ago I found
out you were a major shareholder in the firm.

Speaker 26 (04:37:49):
I think we're coming to something important here. We got
to be right.

Speaker 49 (04:37:53):
Well, hey, I hope you don't hold me responsible for that.
I didn't know to you just mentioned it. I might
be a big holder, but I don't dictate their policy.

Speaker 26 (04:38:03):
I did hold you responsible for a little while, but
not anymore.

Speaker 34 (04:38:06):
Fine, I'll make it up to you.

Speaker 26 (04:38:09):
Let me get back just above your head. See the
head cut in the wall pointing towards the other surface.

Speaker 34 (04:38:14):
Well yeah, yeah, what is it?

Speaker 26 (04:38:15):
I'm not sure, but I think we're struck paid.

Speaker 34 (04:38:17):
Oh boy, well, come on, do something.

Speaker 26 (04:38:20):
Why don't you do something?

Speaker 45 (04:38:21):
Now you're supposed to be the man who knows.

Speaker 25 (04:38:24):
All about these things.

Speaker 34 (04:38:25):
Don't give me that you know as well as I do.

Speaker 49 (04:38:27):
I don't know from nothing about Egyptology or what have you.
And well I pretend, well, I guess everyone's an amateur
something or other.

Speaker 26 (04:38:33):
So well I picked on this, but you didn't learn
anything about it.

Speaker 34 (04:38:36):
I read a book.

Speaker 49 (04:38:38):
Now, look, garbing, When you've got lots of money, all
you need to do is read a book. Then you
go out and hire some jury like me. Oh no,
don't get me wrong. I wasn't talking about you. We're partners. Oh,
I admit I made a big spiel about me finding
this tomb, but well I knew I couldn't do it
without someone who knew something about it.

Speaker 34 (04:39:01):
Come on, like a good guy. Where's this hole in
the wall or whatever it is?

Speaker 26 (04:39:06):
Starting with a small pick on that wall about four
feet up. Don't get your hopes up. This is just
a chance. Give them the rock a push at the top.

Speaker 30 (04:39:20):
That's it.

Speaker 34 (04:39:22):
It's moving. Here's roving boy.

Speaker 26 (04:39:24):
Shut you shine a torch.

Speaker 12 (04:39:29):
We'll go on.

Speaker 34 (04:39:30):
Shine it in.

Speaker 5 (04:39:32):
It's it, it's it.

Speaker 26 (04:39:34):
Look well, look at it. Oh, come on, boy, let's
get a hands on some of old Egypt. He come on,
give me a hand up.

Speaker 34 (04:39:40):
Beechamful you telling me? Oh he's stinks in here?

Speaker 23 (04:39:47):
He come on in?

Speaker 34 (04:39:49):
Then you go right, I like the.

Speaker 26 (04:39:52):
Other torches coming up.

Speaker 5 (04:39:54):
Oh look at it.

Speaker 34 (04:39:55):
God, just fish your eyes and yes I am. And
millions and millions of beautiful green money.

Speaker 26 (04:40:03):
What a beautiful sight, statue, solid cool.

Speaker 34 (04:40:09):
One thing I'll say for the Pharaohs, they.

Speaker 26 (04:40:11):
Certainly knew how to die.

Speaker 45 (04:40:12):
Yeah, they certainly did.

Speaker 26 (04:40:13):
You know something when I die, I want to be
surrounded by all my wealth. I'm trying to raise it.

Speaker 5 (04:40:18):
Yeah, I've just decided. And a bolt filled with green backs. Hey,
get a load of this.

Speaker 58 (04:40:26):
See the eyes in this?

Speaker 5 (04:40:27):
Does it think ammals? Because my fist looked.

Speaker 26 (04:40:32):
Quite Oh hey, why didn't you jump around a little?

Speaker 34 (04:40:36):
Half of all this is yours night.

Speaker 26 (04:40:37):
It really belongs to the government.

Speaker 49 (04:40:38):
Look, Garding, I don't want to hear any more about this,
this government racket.

Speaker 34 (04:40:42):
They want it. They can chew up and buy it
all my life.

Speaker 45 (04:40:46):
I know you've taken what you wanted, and if you
couldn't get it, you made sure no one else.

Speaker 34 (04:40:50):
Yeah, yeah, that's right. That's that's dead, right. Too many
weak sisters in this world. Triumph preached the open hand.

Speaker 49 (04:40:57):
Yeah, well I've always been my own open hand. That way,
I know exactly when it's gonna make it to a fist.

Speaker 45 (04:41:02):
Yes, Oliver, I think you've put it very well.

Speaker 49 (04:41:06):
I don't like to leave here, Phill, we'd better get back,
I suppose to what are we come in here and
start packing it out?

Speaker 45 (04:41:12):
Stilla would have loved her side like this, Yeah, sure, well.

Speaker 34 (04:41:16):
Come on, let's get out of here.

Speaker 50 (04:41:18):
Can we get back quick?

Speaker 34 (04:41:19):
Can we get this stuff out?

Speaker 26 (04:41:19):
And the quicker we shake the sound out of our
jeans they made hold it?

Speaker 5 (04:41:24):
Figure?

Speaker 26 (04:41:27):
Yes, Stilla would have dearly loved to say something like that.
She could appreciate beauty as she sure could.

Speaker 34 (04:41:33):
If you've taken up my office, you'd have had beautiful things.

Speaker 49 (04:41:37):
Not that she didn't have lots of things anyway, but
well you know what I mean, the extra things a
man with money can buy.

Speaker 92 (04:41:44):
Kella wasn't interest in the things money could die. She
saw a beauty and other things. Great care, Yeah great kid.

Speaker 34 (04:41:50):
I still can't figure why she'd go and commit suicide.
Hey ya, see, how much do you.

Speaker 45 (04:41:56):
Think is in that big hole back there, more millions
than I like to think of it.

Speaker 26 (04:42:00):
Oh, there aren't enough millions not to think about. You
asked me why I still have committed suicide?

Speaker 20 (04:42:05):
What?

Speaker 50 (04:42:06):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (04:42:06):
Oh?

Speaker 25 (04:42:07):
Yeah, and beat me?

Speaker 26 (04:42:08):
She thought I was being unfaithful to her?

Speaker 5 (04:42:11):
What you had?

Speaker 49 (04:42:13):
Oh that's a heck of a reason to kill herself
just because her husband's too tinier?

Speaker 34 (04:42:20):
How did she? How did she find out?

Speaker 45 (04:42:22):
It was nothing?

Speaker 26 (04:42:23):
To find out? Come again, it was all a mistake.
You don't mean you don't mean she committed committed suicide
for nothing?

Speaker 5 (04:42:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 34 (04:42:32):
For nothing?

Speaker 5 (04:42:34):
Oh that's tough.

Speaker 49 (04:42:37):
Well, anyway that there's something back there to make up
for some of it, you'll be able to have a
new start.

Speaker 34 (04:42:44):
And don't forget you're you're coming in with me.

Speaker 45 (04:42:46):
Let me get back, am I?

Speaker 34 (04:42:47):
You certainly are a boy.

Speaker 49 (04:42:49):
You saved my life and treat me to a half
interest in the treasure in one day.

Speaker 34 (04:42:54):
I don't mind admitting it. You did treat me to
the treasure. Well don't you. Probably i'd have been a
dead duck. When we get back home, you can you
can start off with a clean flake. It's never really
been dirty.

Speaker 25 (04:43:03):
What was you know?

Speaker 23 (04:43:05):
I know?

Speaker 34 (04:43:06):
Morning be something.

Speaker 92 (04:43:07):
Garvin McLeod, big man, you laid on my friend why
I wanted to be a big man once I wanted
to be a man still I could be proud of.
I used to point to you and tell her that
one day's soon I'd be as big a business man
as Alliver.

Speaker 45 (04:43:21):
I never came up.

Speaker 34 (04:43:22):
Well, some of us have born beautiful, and some of
us are born lucky.

Speaker 26 (04:43:27):
I was the lucky. I used to wonder why every
time I tried something and had blow up in my face.

Speaker 92 (04:43:32):
I'd be within incs of success and somehow I'd lose
my grip on the day and I'll be.

Speaker 5 (04:43:37):
Back rushed out.

Speaker 34 (04:43:37):
Hey are we going in the right direction?

Speaker 45 (04:43:39):
I think so.

Speaker 49 (04:43:40):
I don't remember this part of it. Oh yeah, there's
the vase back there. Our solid gold sign boasts.

Speaker 34 (04:43:50):
Yeah, hey you notice it's cold. Must be a match.

Speaker 92 (04:44:00):
They shouldn't figure it out. Stella started to get sick,
worrying about me, worrying. Then slowly I started to find
out why I hadn't been able to build any sort
of a business, well like, because someone was always stepping
in and under selling.

Speaker 26 (04:44:14):
Me, or buying in before I was ready or off bring.

Speaker 49 (04:44:17):
More money, Well, you can't blame anyone for that. That's
just good business. Hey there's our other time post Nelly Homeboy.

Speaker 26 (04:44:26):
It took me a longer time even to figure out
why you did it to me, all of it?

Speaker 23 (04:44:32):
What was that?

Speaker 45 (04:44:33):
Why pick on me, your friend?

Speaker 29 (04:44:35):
I couldn't figure it out at all?

Speaker 5 (04:44:37):
Are you?

Speaker 34 (04:44:37):
What are you talking about? This is crazy?

Speaker 5 (04:44:40):
And one day I hit on it.

Speaker 26 (04:44:42):
You always want to stell it. You got desert right
when I came along and we.

Speaker 41 (04:44:47):
Fell in love.

Speaker 26 (04:44:47):
You couldn't stand it, so you made sure I'd never
be a success in it. Oh look, Garvin, I don't
know what you're getting at, but it's wrong. You figured
if I failed often enough, she'd come back to you
in the finish.

Speaker 45 (04:44:59):
I don't think you really.

Speaker 92 (04:45:00):
I think you just didn't want anyone else to happen.
And oh, because she turned you down?

Speaker 49 (04:45:06):
Why why suddenly tell me all this? If you knew,
why didn't you come up with her before? I didn't
really care.

Speaker 26 (04:45:15):
See, I had Stella, and I grew tired of trying
to make a fortune.

Speaker 45 (04:45:21):
But you found another way to get at me.

Speaker 92 (04:45:24):
You started writing poison pen letters to Stella. I I
now I know you're horrible letters They made Stella cringe.
I didn't find them till after she was dead. You see,
she didn't bother to open the last one you sent
them on her.

Speaker 41 (04:45:44):
I did not.

Speaker 49 (04:45:47):
Why God, that's a shocking thing to say about a friend.

Speaker 45 (04:45:50):
Yeah, yeah, it is, isn't it. It was all a
mystery to me.

Speaker 26 (04:45:56):
I couldn't think you'd do such a dreadful thing. Then
I had a look at the last one, the unopen one.
You know, you wouldn't think a person could do it.
She committed suicide because.

Speaker 29 (04:46:08):
Of those letters.

Speaker 5 (04:46:10):
They killed her.

Speaker 34 (04:46:12):
Don't don't do anything, Garment.

Speaker 92 (04:46:14):
You must have given your secretary the last one to post.
You always did employ effish and staff. She wrote the
sender's name.

Speaker 5 (04:46:22):
On the back.

Speaker 26 (04:46:23):
There it was large as life.

Speaker 45 (04:46:25):
Return to not Realty Company.

Speaker 92 (04:46:29):
Let's let's get out of here there. Let's I waited, Oliver,
I waited such a long time. Then you gave me
the opportunity yourself, Garvin, take it easy, please please, Gardment,
just just take it easy.

Speaker 34 (04:46:43):
Hey, Hey, what's going on here?

Speaker 26 (04:46:46):
We're back again?

Speaker 78 (04:46:48):
Yeah, you're back with your treasures.

Speaker 26 (04:46:49):
You're back with the symbols of your power. If we
can't be your golden well, the BS is working for me, Oliver,
I changed them.

Speaker 49 (04:46:57):
No, no, look, look, Cary, I'll give you my share
of the treasure. I'll give you anything. Just just get
me out of here.

Speaker 26 (04:47:08):
But you can manage it yourself.

Speaker 5 (04:47:10):
You're such a self sufficient man.

Speaker 26 (04:47:11):
I know I don't know anything about this, this tomb business.

Speaker 34 (04:47:14):
Please, he's gotten.

Speaker 26 (04:47:16):
Please once read a book, try and remember what it's say.

Speaker 50 (04:47:19):
I can't stop down here.

Speaker 78 (04:47:20):
You wanted to be buried among your riches.

Speaker 26 (04:47:23):
Well here's richest, far beyond your bank balance.

Speaker 50 (04:47:26):
Please I'll get out you just see if I don't.
Where's the hole in the wall.

Speaker 92 (04:47:32):
There are three entrances to the tomb, Alliver, if you
hadn't been so blinded by the gold, you'd have noticed them.

Speaker 34 (04:47:38):
I'm going back the way I can.

Speaker 50 (04:47:41):
Garn You're not gonna beat me now, Garvin, you're not.

Speaker 24 (04:47:45):
You're not gonna beat me.

Speaker 50 (04:47:47):
Fuget out, You're not gonna beat me.

Speaker 92 (04:47:52):
You'd have loved it, Stiller, works of beauty and hot
beyond your wild's dreams.

Speaker 26 (04:48:00):
But I'm afraid we can't touch them, my dear. You
see they all belong to Allah.

Speaker 93 (04:48:10):
Yeah, we can't touch them, my dear. Olive is very
particular about his property. Yeah, very particular.

Speaker 26 (04:48:46):
A closing door finishes a story.

Speaker 75 (04:48:50):
Next week, another key will open another door to another story.

Speaker 5 (04:48:55):
Mister, romance.

Speaker 3 (04:48:59):
Or adventure all start when a door is unlocked by.

Speaker 5 (04:49:06):
The key.

Speaker 7 (04:49:20):
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