THE COLONY: When a UFO Sighting Leads to Mind Control in a Small Town

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Speaker 7 (01:30):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents.

Speaker 8 (01:51):
Come in.

Speaker 7 (01:53):
Welcome.

Speaker 6 (01:55):
I'm E. G.

Speaker 7 (01:55):
Marshall, in charge of the Bizarre, Keeper of the Grotesque,
Collector of the fantastic. It is my duty to delve
into unfrequented places in search of the unexpected ideal, in
that touch of the improbable, which gives a series of
events the quality we call mystery. If an element of

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horror creeps in now and again, you don't really mind,
do you?

Speaker 9 (02:21):
I thought mine.

Speaker 7 (02:22):
Actually, that's why we're all here, isn't it.

Speaker 10 (02:25):
You want to take some advice from an old woman
who knows pretty much what goes on in the Town
of Colony?

Speaker 5 (02:31):
What advice?

Speaker 10 (02:32):
If I was you and wanted to finish my nice
vacation like I planned around a country camp and out.
If I was you, I just get up from here
right now, get into my car, and I'd drive right
on ahead to wherever it was I wanted to get
to in the first place. I wouldn't spend one more
minute than I had to in the Town of Colony.

Speaker 7 (03:02):
Our mystery drama, The Colony, was written especially for the
Mystery Theater by Field and Farrington and stars Tony Roberts.
It is sponsored in part by sign Off the Sinus
Medicines and Buick Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with
Act one. If you were doing the looking, where would

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you look for an occurrence that could be properly described
as macabre? Where would you expect a nightmare to happen
in some dusty dungeon overlaid with a pattern of past
horrors in an ancient Middle European principality famous for its
vampires and walking dead. Well, weird goings on would seem

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suitable in such places, it's true. But how about a
well maintained highway in beautiful New Hampshire, Clark basking in
the glory of the late afternoon sun.

Speaker 10 (04:10):
I can't believe it, can't believe what Michael.

Speaker 11 (04:13):
Three weeks Mary, three long weeks of gypsy, three lovely
weeks of going wherever we choose to go. It's staying
as long as we like, going on whenever we like.
I just can't believe it.

Speaker 10 (04:25):
Well, what we'd better start thinking about is a campsite
for tonight. Now. It's supposed to be a very good
one at a place called Essex. You don't suppose we
passed it through you?

Speaker 7 (04:34):
Well, check them out.

Speaker 9 (04:35):
I am.

Speaker 10 (04:35):
I just can't seem to find it. Oh, Michael, slow down,
there's a sign coming up.

Speaker 7 (04:39):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I see it.

Speaker 10 (04:43):
Colony, New Hampshire population six hundred and thirty four. Well,
maybe we can stop and ask somebody here where Essex is. Okay,
I'd like to get everything squared away before it gets dark.

Speaker 7 (04:55):
We will remember we haven't a care in the world.

Speaker 10 (04:58):
Michael, out the.

Speaker 7 (05:00):
Name of it.

Speaker 12 (05:07):
What was that thing?

Speaker 13 (05:09):
I have no idea.

Speaker 11 (05:11):
I never saw anything like that before. What's some kind
of an airship?

Speaker 10 (05:15):
It looked like it came right up out of the
road right in front of us.

Speaker 11 (05:18):
I think it was behind that clump of trees at
the turn right up there.

Speaker 7 (05:22):
I'm gonna get out and take a look.

Speaker 10 (05:23):
Look, I look at what the thing's gone now.

Speaker 11 (05:26):
Yeah, but it must have burned off some grass or something. Hey,
didn't you see the flames shooting out underneath it?

Speaker 5 (05:32):
Some kind of rockets? I guess.

Speaker 11 (05:34):
Come on, I think it's just in back of these trees.
I'm sure this is where it came from.

Speaker 12 (05:42):
Michael.

Speaker 10 (05:43):
Do you think it was an unidentified flying object?

Speaker 5 (05:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (05:47):
Well I sure couldn't identify it there.

Speaker 10 (05:50):
Look, the grounds burned to a crisp in that big circle.

Speaker 12 (05:54):
Was the thing that big?

Speaker 14 (05:56):
No?

Speaker 5 (05:56):
I don't think so.

Speaker 11 (05:58):
Hey, if you ask me, there's been more than one
of these landing and taking off here.

Speaker 10 (06:02):
Well, let's get back to the car, please.

Speaker 12 (06:03):
It's well, it's kind of scary.

Speaker 10 (06:07):
Yeah, okay, but we ought to report this to somebody,
don't you think.

Speaker 7 (06:12):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 11 (06:13):
Everybody reports an unidentified flying object always gets treated like
a crackpot.

Speaker 7 (06:18):
If nobody believes you wants.

Speaker 10 (06:19):
To good report, they'll have to believe us we saw.

Speaker 11 (06:22):
It, yeah, and that's what they all say.

Speaker 10 (06:27):
Well, we can bring them back here and show them
where the grass is burned off.

Speaker 7 (06:30):
Yeah, there is.

Speaker 15 (06:32):
That, Michael.

Speaker 10 (06:34):
That was a real thing we saw, and we don't
know where it came from or what kind of a
thread it may represent. Well, somebody ought to check it out.

Speaker 5 (06:43):
Yeah, I guess you're right.

Speaker 11 (06:44):
Okay, we'll report it when we get to what was
the name of that.

Speaker 10 (06:48):
Town of colony, Colony, New Hampshire, population six hundred and
thirty four.

Speaker 7 (07:03):
And that's the way it was, Sheriff Marcus. I mean,
the thing nearly scared us.

Speaker 11 (07:06):
To death, wishing up out of nowhere right in front
of us, shooting out flames and everything.

Speaker 16 (07:12):
But they always say, you know about flying sauces, is
that they're just some kind of optical illusion.

Speaker 10 (07:18):
Well, This was not an optical illusion, sheriff. It was
just as real as you are sitting there.

Speaker 11 (07:23):
Yeah, and we can take you back there and show
you where the grass is all burned off.

Speaker 5 (07:26):
Well, we'll have a look later on, that's sure.

Speaker 10 (07:29):
Later on.

Speaker 5 (07:30):
Right now, what I'd like is to have talk with
Annie Stebbins.

Speaker 7 (07:34):
About this, or who's Arnie Stebbins.

Speaker 5 (07:37):
Mayor of colony.

Speaker 16 (07:38):
You don't hardly ever do anything without consulting Irony on it. First?
Where was you on your way too?

Speaker 11 (07:46):
Well, went just sort of jiggling around. You know, we're
on a camping trip.

Speaker 7 (07:50):
I thought we'd see as much of New England as
we can in three weeks.

Speaker 10 (07:53):
What we did want to get to a place called
Essex before dark. They say there's a good campsite there,
and well, we just thought we'd like to set up
camp before dark.

Speaker 16 (08:02):
Don't know you'd be able to do that. Six is
about sixty miles on.

Speaker 5 (08:06):
Down the road.

Speaker 10 (08:07):
Darn, It would have been nice to get here before dark.

Speaker 7 (08:09):
That's all tell you what.

Speaker 16 (08:11):
I'll take you on down to May Norton's place, whereas
that May's widow lady lives other end of town, the
old Daily Place, we haven't got a real honest goodness
restaurant in the colony, but May sometimes gives folks on
the way through the dinners, even puts them up for
the night.

Speaker 10 (08:27):
Oh well, I don't think we'd want to stay for
the night dinner.

Speaker 5 (08:30):
It doesn't sound like such a bad idea.

Speaker 16 (08:32):
You could have dinner while I'm having a talk with
Ronie Stebbins. Then we can all go have looks the
place where your thing took off, or be able to
make it there before dark. They just don't like to
make a move without I talked to Ronie first. I

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want to tell you, mister miss Duncan, you are going
to get one of the finest meals you ever at.

Speaker 7 (09:03):
This is Norton is a good cooky, say good, have
seen the equal I'll do that.

Speaker 5 (09:09):
Hello.

Speaker 16 (09:09):
May you feel like cooking a big dinner for a
couple of tired tourists tonight?

Speaker 10 (09:14):
Well, I reckon, I could see my way clear too.
Be the regular price, it's.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
Four dollars piece, which you always charge us.

Speaker 12 (09:20):
Well, come in, come in.

Speaker 10 (09:22):
You can make yourself comfortable there in the sitting room
till I get things on the table.

Speaker 12 (09:27):
Be maybe a half hour or so.

Speaker 16 (09:30):
Just make selves right at home. May doesn't stand on ceremony.
I just want to have a word with it, and
then I'll go have him talk with Annie.

Speaker 12 (09:38):
How long do you think he'll be?

Speaker 4 (09:40):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (09:40):
Want to be back by the time you finished dinner
shortly after.

Speaker 12 (09:46):
Something you want to talk to me about.

Speaker 5 (09:48):
Then you wouldn't have cup coffee, would you.

Speaker 10 (09:51):
I got something I made a while back. I guess
it's still fit to drink.

Speaker 7 (09:54):
Sure it is.

Speaker 10 (09:57):
You didn't leave them in the sitting room just to
get a up a coffee, though, did you. Truth is,
I've been wanting to talk to you, mad Well, go
ahead and talk then, folks.

Speaker 16 (10:07):
You got out there and you were sitting room. The
Duncans they come into my office seeing the scene a
flying saucer.

Speaker 12 (10:15):
Oh happened again.

Speaker 7 (10:18):
Did it?

Speaker 16 (10:19):
I have to go talk to Annie Stebbens, of course,
and I don't want them getting restless before I get back.

Speaker 10 (10:28):
I'll give them a good big dinner and see they
take their time eating it. They won't get restless.

Speaker 11 (10:39):
Do you think there was anything odd about the way
Sheriff Marcus took it when we told him about the
unidentified flying objeing.

Speaker 5 (10:46):
No.

Speaker 12 (10:47):
In fact, I thought he took it very well.

Speaker 7 (10:49):
Well, I guess that's what I mean. I mean, I
think he believes us.

Speaker 12 (10:54):
Why didn't you want him to?

Speaker 11 (10:56):
Yeah, but I didn't expect him to. He didn't even
seem surprised.

Speaker 10 (11:01):
Well, it's just too bad there aren't more people around
like him. Would have had the whole UFO mystery cleared
up years ago.

Speaker 11 (11:08):
Maybe it just seems sort of strange to me. That's sure.

Speaker 10 (11:21):
You wouldn't like another piece of the blueberry pie, mister Duncan.

Speaker 5 (11:24):
Oh, I just wouldn't have any place to put it.
Miss Norton.

Speaker 10 (11:28):
Oh, I can't remember the last time anybody called me
missus Norton.

Speaker 12 (11:33):
You better just make it may Well.

Speaker 10 (11:36):
If I can't get you to eat anything more, why
don't we just take our coffee into the living room
while we're waiting for Fair to get through to in
the fat with Annie.

Speaker 11 (11:45):
And I'm kind of surprised it's taking him so long.

Speaker 10 (11:48):
Oh, things don't move very fast in colony, mister Duncan.
A couple of old town people like that and Annie
get to talk and they go go on half the night.

Speaker 12 (11:59):
Maybe you'd like to my BlackBerry brandy? Oh no, thank you.
I don't think so.

Speaker 11 (12:03):
Oh, I feel fine just the way I am.

Speaker 12 (12:07):
So you've seen a flying saucer?

Speaker 7 (12:10):
Did you?

Speaker 12 (12:12):
We sure did.

Speaker 5 (12:13):
How did you know that?

Speaker 10 (12:14):
I said said something about it before he left. What
was it you wanted they had to do about the
flying saucer after told him about it?

Speaker 7 (12:24):
Well?

Speaker 12 (12:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 10 (12:26):
I just always thought you report a thing like that
to an official, that's all. Yeah. Well maybe any can
think of something, though I don't know what it to be,
if you don't mind my saying, so, you might have
been smarter just to mind your own business. I think
UFO is there everybody's business.

Speaker 11 (12:47):
Yeah. Why do you think we would have been smarter.

Speaker 12 (12:51):
For no reason?

Speaker 10 (12:52):
I guess, except it usually is smarter than mind a
person's own business. And I still say that a UFO
sighting is my business. I think people shrug them off
too easily. They can't all be weather balloons through optical illusions.
Too many of the things have been seen.

Speaker 12 (13:07):
I never said you've seen a weather balloon.

Speaker 10 (13:09):
Well, you did say we should have minded our own business.

Speaker 12 (13:13):
For your own good, was what I meant?

Speaker 5 (13:16):
How do you in what way for your own good?

Speaker 10 (13:20):
If I was you and wanted to finish my nice
vacation like I planned. I'd just get up from here
right now and get into my car, and I'd drive
right on ahead to wherever it was I wanted to
get to in the first place. I wouldn't spend one
more minute than I had to in the town of Colony.

Speaker 7 (13:38):
Why just advice?

Speaker 12 (13:41):
I said, no explaining why you.

Speaker 10 (13:43):
Can't just advise us to do something like that without
giving us a reason.

Speaker 12 (13:47):
Sure I can't. I just did.

Speaker 16 (13:53):
It's the story they told me. Annie figured there wasn't
much question with what they seem the.

Speaker 5 (13:58):
Thing there's too much. I figured I'd better come.

Speaker 7 (14:02):
To you with it.

Speaker 5 (14:03):
Best for few to decide what has to be done. Oh,
you done right.

Speaker 16 (14:07):
I'm just wondering if maybe it won't let to go
a little higher than me, if were it's settled up
to you to decide that. I guess well, one thing
I can tell you right now, we've got to keep
those two in town. We can't let them leave Colony.
Keep them high honee. We're riching to get on their
way right now. How am I going to talk them

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into stay? You're the sheriff, incher, got a jail ancher,
But Ane, you have to hold them bad, hold them
for what. Ain't no law against thinking you saw a
flying saucer to think of something. They can't be allowed
to leave colony not alive.

Speaker 8 (14:44):
They can't.

Speaker 7 (14:51):
A quiet drive along a peaceful New England road has
led to a UFO sighting, and the UFO sighting has
led to danger for two innocent people. So much for
the idea, if anyone had it, that you must go
looking in the wilds of Transylvania for improbable and dangerous happenings.

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Start being careful right in your own home while waiting
for me to return shortly with that too. There has
been a great deal of speculation upon the nature and

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origin of unidentified flying objects. The speculation has led to
a wealth of conjecture, but a remarkable dearth of answers.
Many reasonable thinking men and women believe the UFOs to
be very real, at least as many others believe them
to be figments of mass imagination. Our story doesn't pretend

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to offer an answer. It simply explores one of many possibilities.

Speaker 10 (16:03):
That's most likely the sheriff back from talking to the mayor.

Speaker 12 (16:06):
Now, don't let on I said what I.

Speaker 7 (16:09):
Said to you, and advising us to run.

Speaker 12 (16:11):
You mean, it wouldn't do.

Speaker 10 (16:13):
You too no good and it most likely get me
into a mess of trouble. Well, all right, if we
won't say anything about it, will we mine?

Speaker 8 (16:20):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (16:20):
I suppose not?

Speaker 17 (16:21):
All right?

Speaker 10 (16:22):
All right, all right, I'm coming, keep your shirt on everything, alright,
may of course, everything's all right, Come on in.

Speaker 16 (16:33):
Sorry, keep you two waiting around like this? And he
made me go over your story about two three times.

Speaker 5 (16:39):
He's right concerned about it.

Speaker 7 (16:41):
M Are we going to have a look at the
place the thing took off from.

Speaker 16 (16:45):
Oh, well, yes, we'll do that, of course. First though,
we're we're going to meet my office town hall.

Speaker 10 (16:52):
Well, it's going to be dark if we don't stop
fooling around little ladies.

Speaker 5 (16:55):
Hundred percent right. We better be on our way.

Speaker 16 (17:02):
Here, Steppins want you to meet miss and miss Duncan
to who I told you about?

Speaker 7 (17:07):
Pleasure? Indeed, glad to know you, ma'am.

Speaker 10 (17:09):
Don't you think we better get started? I mean, Michael
and I still have to find a place to spend
the night.

Speaker 5 (17:14):
There's plenty of time, is Duncan.

Speaker 16 (17:17):
I'm a man never did like the Russian things headlong
that had consider a thing from all angles.

Speaker 5 (17:22):
First, don't you think? Now? Where were you two driving
from today?

Speaker 11 (17:29):
Well, we spent last night at a motel just outside Stamford.
We planned to start our real camping tonight.

Speaker 16 (17:36):
Okay, place called Essex was where he wanted to get to.

Speaker 5 (17:40):
Yes, that's fine. Well, no, where'd you stop for lunch today?

Speaker 10 (17:44):
What difference could that possibly make?

Speaker 7 (17:47):
We stopped at a roadside restaurant. I didn't notice what
talent was near.

Speaker 16 (17:52):
Everything to drink at the roadside restaurant?

Speaker 5 (17:57):
Drink a couple of coffee? I think, no alcoholic beverages.

Speaker 12 (18:03):
We don't drink, Mayor Stebbins.

Speaker 16 (18:06):
He didn't stop anywhere along the way in the afternoon
and have a drop?

Speaker 10 (18:10):
No, I told you we don't drink.

Speaker 5 (18:12):
Well, why all the questioning, Mayor?

Speaker 11 (18:13):
We stopped at the Sheriff's office to report the sighting
of an unidentified flying object.

Speaker 5 (18:19):
Why are we being questioned?

Speaker 16 (18:20):
I'll tell you how it is, mister Duncan that night
take our responsibility to the town of Colony?

Speaker 18 (18:27):
Right?

Speaker 5 (18:27):
Serious? Yes?

Speaker 16 (18:29):
So one of the things we will not tolerate is
drunk and driving.

Speaker 11 (18:35):
I couldn't agree with you more, sir, But what has
that got to do with us.

Speaker 16 (18:38):
I'm the kind of man, mister Duncan, that likes to
keep both feet on the ground. I believe half what
I see and very little of what I hear. So
when it comes to sauceage, I never seen one.

Speaker 7 (18:53):
Neither did we, sir, until this afternoon.

Speaker 5 (18:56):
And you're sure you saw one, then.

Speaker 7 (18:59):
Yes, sir, quite sure.

Speaker 16 (19:01):
Then remember the time Roy Beecher thought he saw a
flying saucer drunk's coolie was.

Speaker 5 (19:06):
At the time.

Speaker 16 (19:07):
He spent the night in jail and had a good
laugh in himself the next day for thinking he'd seen
a flying saucer.

Speaker 5 (19:13):
I remember it well in my opinion.

Speaker 16 (19:15):
Ever since, that anybody thinks he sees a flying saucer,
he's been drinking too much. Oh there's to it, flying
saucer too much, bood.

Speaker 12 (19:24):
This is ridiculous.

Speaker 11 (19:25):
If you're accusing us of drunk and driving, I got
no choice you claiming you saw a flying saucer, and
all that I tell you.

Speaker 12 (19:32):
We don't drink.

Speaker 19 (19:33):
We never.

Speaker 7 (19:34):
Don't you have some kind of a test blow up,
a balloon or something like that.

Speaker 5 (19:37):
Too late for that now.

Speaker 16 (19:39):
Might not have been when you first came in, but
it is now.

Speaker 5 (19:41):
It resides. You've had one of Main Norton's.

Speaker 16 (19:44):
Monstrous big suppers on top of whatever it was you
had to drink. This happening is oh best you just
spend the night here with us.

Speaker 5 (19:52):
We can talk more about it in the morning.

Speaker 12 (19:54):
Spend the night here with you.

Speaker 5 (19:56):
We've got a right comfortable jail here right back there
through that door.

Speaker 11 (20:01):
Are you suggesting that my wife and I spend the
night in your jail?

Speaker 5 (20:05):
Not just suggesting it, mister Duncan.

Speaker 10 (20:09):
That's the way it's going to be, Michael, Michael, that gun.

Speaker 11 (20:15):
Sharp, Marcus, you are going to be very sorry you
drew that gun.

Speaker 16 (20:20):
Maybe, So meantime, you two just go on back through
that door and we'll get you ducked in.

Speaker 20 (20:28):
For the night.

Speaker 5 (20:40):
Michael, good morning.

Speaker 12 (20:43):
You were awake.

Speaker 11 (20:44):
Yeah, I've been awake for quite a while. I thought
i'd let you sleep as long as you can.

Speaker 10 (20:48):
I'm surprised I went to sleep at all, did you.

Speaker 11 (20:52):
Yeah, I'm it's not really so bad. You know, we
slept in motels that weren't any better.

Speaker 10 (20:58):
Yeah, well, I'd rather sleep than a hotel just the same.

Speaker 11 (21:02):
Yeah, it's it's the indignity of being jailed for the
night that's what makes.

Speaker 5 (21:07):
It so bad.

Speaker 12 (21:07):
And for drunken driving.

Speaker 5 (21:09):
Oh, it wasn't for that, Mary listen.

Speaker 11 (21:12):
I think we got put in jail because we saw
a flying saucer. I mean, I figure there they're looked
up somehow to that UFO.

Speaker 10 (21:19):
We saw who the mayor and the sheriff. How could
they be?

Speaker 7 (21:24):
I don't know, But why else would they want to
lock us up?

Speaker 10 (21:28):
Well, then you think the drunken driving charge was just
an excuse?

Speaker 12 (21:31):
Oh, sure of course it was, mister and missus duncan.

Speaker 7 (21:36):
Yeah, who is it?

Speaker 21 (21:38):
May not?

Speaker 12 (21:40):
I brought your breakfast.

Speaker 11 (21:42):
Oh I'm a lot more interested in getting out of
here than I am in breakfast.

Speaker 10 (21:46):
Wouldn't want you driving office on an empty stomach.

Speaker 7 (21:49):
What time does the sheriff get in in the morning.

Speaker 10 (21:51):
I don't know, different times I expect. I don't have
a key to the cell.

Speaker 22 (21:55):
There.

Speaker 10 (21:56):
I'll have to shove the trays in under the door.
Country cure and ham, fried eggs, home fried potatoes, hot biscuits,
and honey. I hope you got a good appetite. Well,
that's one thing we won't be able to complain about,
at least the food. Well, I'll be bringing all your meals.
I'll see to it you're fed real good.

Speaker 11 (22:16):
Well, this is the last meal that you're going to
have to bother with because the sheriff has no excuse
whatever for holding us any longer.

Speaker 5 (22:22):
He's going to have to let us go this morning.

Speaker 10 (22:24):
Well, I wouldn't depend on it if I was. You
eat your breakfast before your eggs get cold.

Speaker 5 (22:36):
You busy, Honnie, Come in bad, Come in. You've been
in the check up on our guests this morning.

Speaker 16 (22:43):
Ain't been to my office yet, don't know how get
down there for a while. Kind of embarrassing you decided
yet what we're going to do about them? I reckon,
So I have to take it out first because I
don't feel comfortable about it. Annie, any special reason. Well,

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this young couple, they're the kind of folks it's likely
to have a whole school friends and relations fretting over
them if they don't show up where they're expected. How
long a vacation they are three weeks to think. One
of them said, you're starting to there's kind of meandering
around camping wherever.

Speaker 5 (23:23):
They happen to be like it. That's the idea.

Speaker 16 (23:25):
I got no advance that itinerary. You wouldn't think so. Well,
then I don't see we've got anything.

Speaker 7 (23:32):
To worry about.

Speaker 16 (23:33):
Sooner or later, they're folks are going to be out
looking for them. Dad, We're going to have to convert them.
They're going to have to take them over and keep
them here. It's the only way.

Speaker 10 (23:52):
Lunch, timett you off. It's a nice clam shell. I
couldn't rightly say, mister Duncan. I did see him over
at Harry's diner around ten thirty or eleven.

Speaker 11 (24:04):
But we haven't sauce soul all morning. I mean, except
for you, there's been nobody in here the whole day.

Speaker 10 (24:09):
I reckon he must have had business somewhere. Well, the
sheriff has got no right to keep us in jail,
and we want to get out.

Speaker 7 (24:16):
I have the right to make a phone call now.
I should have been allowed to make a phone call
last night.

Speaker 10 (24:21):
Oh it looks like I'm going to have to tell
you the whole story.

Speaker 12 (24:26):
What whole story? Here?

Speaker 10 (24:28):
Just let me shove your lunch under the door here.
You can eat while you're listening.

Speaker 7 (24:33):
I don't want to eat anything.

Speaker 10 (24:34):
Might as well, Michael, Well, what story are you going
to tell us?

Speaker 7 (24:39):
Well?

Speaker 10 (24:41):
Get started a couple of years ago. What started, Well,
that was when they first landed, the flying sauces.

Speaker 11 (24:50):
Do you mean flying sauces have been sighted here before?

Speaker 5 (24:54):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (24:54):
My yes, I was sitting out in my front yard there,
shell and peas I recollect like it was yesterday. They
came swooping down out of the sky, white to scare
me out of my wits. Three of them there was
in that first bunch.

Speaker 7 (25:10):
I know there'd been more than one landing in that place.

Speaker 10 (25:13):
I've seen folks coming out of their houses looking tard
where they'd landed, you know. So I put my pan
a piece to one side and I started walking in
that direction along with the rest of them. Well, it's
a funny thing. What what funny thing? Now there's a
spell there where everything was real mixed up, and I
don't remember very well.

Speaker 5 (25:34):
You don't remember what well, for.

Speaker 10 (25:36):
One thing, what they looked like. Woh, the folks, those things,
whatever they was that got out of those flying sauces.
I've talked to some of the others and they can't
remember that time either, like it got erased or something.
All I remember is just a kind of jumble until
that evening, I guess it would be that same evening.

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Why what happened that evening? They had us all collected
in a place that looked like one of them mad
scientists' laboratories like you see in the old movies.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
You know.

Speaker 10 (26:10):
They had the whole town in there, every soul of us.
I found out later it was down in the basement
of the town hall there. They'd rig the old cellar
down there for a laboratory, still using it.

Speaker 7 (26:23):
They are still you mean they're still around.

Speaker 12 (26:28):
Wait till I tell you.

Speaker 10 (26:29):
Thad Marcus and Ronie Stebbins were already running things. They'd
been converted before we woke up, or or we come.

Speaker 12 (26:39):
To, or wherever it was we did.

Speaker 7 (26:41):
Converted, that's what they called it.

Speaker 10 (26:43):
They was leading us, one at a time up to
a thing looked like a dentist's chair, and they'd make
us sit in it and put a thing kind of
flight a hair dryer over our heads, and then they'd
flip a lot of switches, Thad Marcus and Arnie Stebbins,
just like they knew what they were doing, And then
whoever was in the chair would kind of shiver and

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slump down for a minute until Sad and Annie threw
some more switches, and then they'd take that one back
to his seat and lead up.

Speaker 12 (27:14):
The next one.

Speaker 10 (27:15):
Well, what were they doing to the people in the
chair converting?

Speaker 7 (27:19):
I don't know what you mean by converting.

Speaker 12 (27:22):
Well you will when I come to that part.

Speaker 10 (27:24):
They put me in the dentist chair and put their
hair dryer thing over my head and started flipping their switches.
I got a funny feeling, I'll never forget it, like
my head.

Speaker 12 (27:35):
Was being all separated into.

Speaker 10 (27:37):
Little bitty pieces and put back together in a different way.
Something like that. I passed out for a minute. When
I come to, they was leading me back to my
seat with the others.

Speaker 7 (27:48):
Only it wasn't me, It wasn't you.

Speaker 17 (27:52):
I was.

Speaker 12 (27:54):
It seemed like I.

Speaker 10 (27:55):
Was occupying just a little corner of my head. Somebody
or something else was using the rest of it. But
I don't understand why in either at first, but I
did later on. One of the things out of the
flying sauces had taken me over. I was still in there,
the real me, but I had nothing to do with

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what my body thought or said or did. I'd been possessed.

Speaker 12 (28:22):
But what about the rest of them? All just like me?

Speaker 10 (28:26):
Took over every last one of them? And are they
still controlled still? Ah, every last soul in this town?

Speaker 5 (28:37):
And how did you get free?

Speaker 12 (28:40):
Stubborn?

Speaker 7 (28:41):
That's all.

Speaker 10 (28:42):
I just wouldn't give into all that electrical mumbo jumbo,
kept on resisting and fighting till I got the upper hand.

Speaker 5 (28:49):
How could you do that when the others couldn't.

Speaker 10 (28:53):
I've been thinking about that a lot, and I think
I got it figured out. My great or my great
great grandmother something like that, was burned for a witch
when they had the trouble over in Salem.

Speaker 12 (29:06):
Maybe I inherited something from her? Was So, what are
you saying that you're a witch?

Speaker 7 (29:11):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (29:12):
Land, No, I don't believe in that kind of nonsense. No,
what I'm saying is all them women that God accused
of being witches, all they was was just stubborn women.
I mean stubborn, way past ordinary, so stubborn. They just
would have their own way and nothing else would do.
And that's what you think you inherited from your great

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great grandmother, her stubbornness. Well I got it, no question
about that. Come to some alien taken over my mind.
I was just too pig headed to let him have it,
that's all.

Speaker 11 (29:43):
But what about the others, I mean, all the rest
of the people who who've been taken over.

Speaker 10 (29:48):
It's my opinion that if they had just stood up
and refused to give in to the aliens, they'd all
be free right now.

Speaker 7 (29:55):
What happened to the alien who tried to take possession
of you?

Speaker 12 (29:59):
I just threw out last I've heard of her.

Speaker 10 (30:02):
I don't know what became of her, evaporated, I wouldn't
be sprised.

Speaker 5 (30:08):
Well, that's quite a story.

Speaker 12 (30:11):
It's more than a story, as you'll find out.

Speaker 10 (30:14):
What do you mean is we'll find out, don't you see?

Speaker 12 (30:18):
They'll have to convert you.

Speaker 10 (30:20):
What else can they do now that you know about
the flying's sauces this time tomorrow, unless you can figure
some way out of it, you will be one of them.

Speaker 7 (30:41):
What could be more terrifying than the prospect of having
your mind and body taken over by an alien being,
then being left with nothing of your true self but
a small, impotent corner of awareness, to be forced to
watch helplessly as your own body performed deeds you found unspeakable.

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This is what may confront Michael and Mary Duncan when
I returned shortly with Act three. If we're to believe
may Norton's story, the bodies and minds of all the

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citizens of Colony, New Hampshire have been taken over and
are controlled by alien beings who come and go in
spaceships like the one Michael and Mary Duncan saw on
their way into the village. Michael and Mary are being
held in communicado in the Colony jail and are, again,
according to may Norton, slated to be taken over themselves

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by the aliens.

Speaker 12 (31:48):
They can't do it, can they? Michael?

Speaker 7 (31:51):
I don't know, take control of our minds?

Speaker 10 (31:53):
Do you really believe that all the people in this
whole town are being controlled by beings from another galaxy
or something?

Speaker 11 (32:00):
It sounds pretty outlandish, I grant you, But look there's
something fishy going on here that's got something to do with.

Speaker 7 (32:07):
That UFO we saw.

Speaker 12 (32:08):
What are we going to do, Michael?

Speaker 5 (32:10):
I don't know. I'm trying to think of something. You
made up your mind? Annie about them?

Speaker 16 (32:21):
Have you eh been in touch with folks up on
the mothership about it?

Speaker 5 (32:26):
I had a long talk with them earlier this morning.
They agree with us that there ain't.

Speaker 16 (32:30):
Nothing we can do but take over The Duncans I
just wish I could feel more comfortable about it.

Speaker 5 (32:38):
What exactly was decided?

Speaker 16 (32:41):
The ship's sending down the two new colonists around eight tonight.

Speaker 5 (32:45):
And I figure we can have a takeover down the
lab round eight thirty. Sound all right? You sounds fine?
Sooner I get them too out of my jail better
I like it. Where'd you figure on putting them up?

Speaker 16 (32:59):
Well, I've thought about letting them have a couple of
rooms over at May Norton's place. She's just rattling around
that big old household by herself, all that extra space
just going to waste.

Speaker 5 (33:10):
Good idea, wouldn't hurt to have somebody keep an eye
on me anyway? She's still making trouble?

Speaker 8 (33:17):
Is she?

Speaker 16 (33:18):
Kind of halfway? Subversive talk? Nothing anybody can put a
finger on. Now, I'll schedule the takeover for half past
day tonight. We'll have everybody in the witness as usual.
Hold down every man. Jackab want me to let them
all know, I guess you better, yes, tell them he's
very sharp. We don't want to waste time waiting for anybody.

Speaker 5 (33:49):
Howdy May, I've.

Speaker 10 (33:51):
Been looking for you all day, sad Where are you being?

Speaker 7 (33:54):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (33:55):
Here? There would you want to see me about that young.

Speaker 10 (33:59):
Duncan boy gone over there in jail. He asked me
to tell you he wants to see you. Said you
hadn't been in all morning. Oh well he's busting to
talk to you.

Speaker 16 (34:08):
I had another business round and about You've been keeping
a fed good, ain't you?

Speaker 12 (34:13):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (34:13):
And that was something else I wanted to talk to
you about. It don't seem right shoving that tray into
them under the door.

Speaker 12 (34:21):
That's no way to serve them meal.

Speaker 10 (34:23):
Why don't you let me have a key to their
sell so as I can bring the trays in and.

Speaker 5 (34:26):
Serve them right, I don't think so.

Speaker 16 (34:29):
May rather not take a chance them jumping into something.
Main reason I stop around. There's meeting tonight basement of
the town hall, half fast, eight.

Speaker 10 (34:41):
O'clock down in that laboratory place. It's right, I guess
that means you're planning to take over the dunk and
stone it.

Speaker 16 (34:50):
You just get the meeting on time. May that's all
you got to worry about.

Speaker 12 (35:00):
Michael, What are you doing?

Speaker 11 (35:02):
I'm just checking to see if there's a loose bar anywhere.
I want to get out of this place.

Speaker 10 (35:06):
Oh escape, I mean that's a little melodramatic, isn't it?

Speaker 5 (35:10):
Well? Damn it?

Speaker 7 (35:10):
We could ride here, Mary, I mean, with May bringing
this our meals.

Speaker 11 (35:13):
There's no reason why the sheriff would ever have to
come around.

Speaker 10 (35:17):
I don't know in view of what May told us.
I just assume he didn't.

Speaker 7 (35:21):
What do you mean about aliens taking possession of us?

Speaker 5 (35:24):
Yeah? Yeah, I've been thinking about that.

Speaker 12 (35:27):
Do you believe it?

Speaker 5 (35:29):
Well?

Speaker 11 (35:29):
I mean, why we saw a flying saucer or whatever
they want to call it. I mean, we're being held
in jail here for nothing. Are the aliens any herder
to believe you?

Speaker 13 (35:38):
Boots me again?

Speaker 19 (35:39):
May?

Speaker 12 (35:41):
Supper time? Pot roast and mashed potatoes tonight.

Speaker 5 (35:45):
Uh?

Speaker 11 (35:46):
Have you seen anything of Sheriff Marcus Sad?

Speaker 23 (35:49):
Sure?

Speaker 10 (35:50):
I saw him, told him you wanted to talk to him,
But I don't think it done any good.

Speaker 5 (35:54):
No, no, no, he hasn't been around.

Speaker 12 (35:56):
I'll just shove these trays under the door.

Speaker 6 (35:58):
Here.

Speaker 12 (36:00):
You better eat up right away.

Speaker 10 (36:02):
I tried to get the keys to the jail from Fad,
but he wouldn't give them to me. Said I'd like
to have them so I could serve your dinner proper.

Speaker 5 (36:10):
Were you going to let us out?

Speaker 24 (36:11):
Well?

Speaker 10 (36:11):
Of course, what else would I want the keys for.
It's very good of you, May, where you'd have had
to take me away with you. I couldn't have stayed
on after turning you loose.

Speaker 5 (36:21):
Yeah, I've been wondering about that. May.

Speaker 7 (36:24):
Why haven't you run away?

Speaker 11 (36:26):
I mean, you are not possessed by these aliens, there's
nothing holding you here.

Speaker 7 (36:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 10 (36:32):
I've always lived here all my life.

Speaker 12 (36:36):
Well that's one thing, and then for another.

Speaker 10 (36:39):
I keep figuring sooner or later I'll get the chance
to do some good. I mean, help set the others free,
or maybe keep them from taking over somebody like you.
I don't know, I just stayed around.

Speaker 7 (36:53):
Is there any way you can keep them from taking
us over? May?

Speaker 10 (36:57):
No way I can think of. I've been wracking my brains,
and I've got some bad news. I'm afraid what bad news.
They're planning on doing it tonight, tonight, eight thirty sharp.
There's a meeting in the basement under the town hall.
That's where they got that laboratory place.

Speaker 7 (37:17):
I told you about a meeting.

Speaker 10 (37:19):
Yeah, they all turn out the whole town whenever there's
a takeover.

Speaker 7 (37:26):
What do they look like? I mean, these creatures you
know the creatures are out of space.

Speaker 10 (37:31):
Well, some like us, I mean two arms, two legs,
all that, a face with two eyes, a nose, and mouth,
only just not quite exactly in the right places, you
know what I mean. And hair more like young ducks
down than hair. We don't see much of them. They

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don't show up except when they absolutely have to. You'll
see a couple of them tonight, we will. Yeah, two
they send down to take you.

Speaker 7 (38:01):
Over, all right. Now, Look, there's got to be some
way to stop them. There must be.

Speaker 12 (38:07):
I wish I could think of what it is.

Speaker 5 (38:17):
What time is it, Mary, I've let my watch run down.

Speaker 12 (38:20):
Ten after eight?

Speaker 10 (38:22):
Michael.

Speaker 12 (38:22):
They'll be coming for us soon.

Speaker 5 (38:23):
All right.

Speaker 11 (38:24):
Now, Look, when they come, I imagine it'll be the sheriff.
Don't make a fuss of any kind, you know, don't
try to hold back or anything like that.

Speaker 12 (38:31):
Why not.

Speaker 11 (38:32):
Well, I want the sheriff to be as favorably disposed
toward us as possible.

Speaker 5 (38:37):
I'm going to ask him to let me make a
little speech before they change over.

Speaker 12 (38:41):
What kind of a speech, Michael, Well, I.

Speaker 5 (38:44):
Think it's just as well. You don't know in advance.

Speaker 10 (38:46):
Mary, have you thought of a way to keep us
from being taken over.

Speaker 16 (38:52):
Maybe you too can take your places on the podium
there to the left of the Mayor.

Speaker 5 (39:04):
Help me sitting just to your left.

Speaker 12 (39:06):
Why do we have to be on stage?

Speaker 5 (39:09):
You'll find out all in good time.

Speaker 10 (39:14):
Michael, Look at those two standing toward the back of
the stage, just behind the Mayor. They really not human,
are they? Oh, Michael, I don't want one of those
things inside my mind.

Speaker 16 (39:26):
No, all right, let's come to order here, Sheriff Marcus.
Have these two been informed of the nature of tonight's proceedings?

Speaker 5 (39:38):
Not yet?

Speaker 16 (39:38):
Mayor, please have informed them. Michael Duncan, Mary Duncan, you
are hereby served notice that you will this night have
the honor of contributing your bodies the remainder of your
lives the advancement of the great new civilization which is
about to be realized upon your earth.

Speaker 7 (40:01):
How can you do a thing like that?

Speaker 5 (40:04):
You've already been told, or you need to know I see.

Speaker 7 (40:09):
Listen to me, you who are enslaved in your own
minds and bodies, hear me and think, think as yourselves.
You can do it. If you try.

Speaker 5 (40:19):
One of your number has done it.

Speaker 11 (40:21):
There is one of you who has been secretly free
the whole time.

Speaker 12 (40:25):
Me a free me may not nine the ones.

Speaker 11 (40:29):
All right, all right, I've been out you, Mayor Stebbens.
I want to talk to you, Not to the arrogant
creature who has assumed command of your body, Arnie Stebbens,
but you, the Arnie Stebbens, who was once the mayor
of this town, the Stebbens who can hear me but
cannot act. I'm speaking to you, Arnie Stebbens. You can

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act if you will it strongly enough. But you are
once a strong man, a leader.

Speaker 7 (40:56):
That strength is all it takes to set you free.

Speaker 11 (40:59):
Use it, exist, think yourself your own man, and you
will be your own man.

Speaker 7 (41:06):
Make him stop.

Speaker 11 (41:07):
Fad doesn't want me to stop, not the real Thad.
He's like you, Arnie Steppens and all the rest of you.
He wants to be free.

Speaker 18 (41:15):
Also, Try, Arnie, try now, make him stop.

Speaker 10 (41:19):
You can't do it, honey, you can no.

Speaker 4 (41:22):
No.

Speaker 7 (41:26):
Arnie Stevens has won. Arnie Stevens is free, and what
he has done you can all do.

Speaker 25 (41:32):
Try be stronger than they are.

Speaker 5 (41:35):
Try, duncan help me.

Speaker 16 (41:38):
I'm Thad Macus, really Thad Marcus.

Speaker 25 (41:42):
I want to help.

Speaker 7 (41:43):
Yes, you'll get out, you all will.

Speaker 11 (41:46):
You're all going to be free.

Speaker 10 (41:57):
Ain't quite twenty four hours yet, mister. And more than
half of them's free already, And then that eight are harborn,
some mighty sick aliens.

Speaker 7 (42:06):
You think they'll all be able to free themselves.

Speaker 10 (42:08):
Every last one of them, no doubt in my mind?
Whatever where I mean? I just wondered what happens to
the aliens when they're cast out?

Speaker 12 (42:16):
I don't know they're out. That's all I care about.

Speaker 10 (42:20):
We'll be all right here, mister Duncan you two can
go ahead with your trip now.

Speaker 7 (42:24):
You don't think we ought to stay until they're all free.

Speaker 12 (42:27):
I don't think there's any need for it. We're all
right now.

Speaker 10 (42:31):
Or soon we'll be all of us. The only thing
that worries me what there's still something there. I can't
help wondering how many other towns they've got the way
they had colony?

Speaker 7 (42:50):
How many towns the size of colony in New Hampshire
do you suppose there are in this huge country of ours?
And what do you do if you see an unided,
identified flying object taking off near one of them? Stop
at the sheriff's office and report it, or drives straight
on through the town as if somebody or something were

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after you. I'll be back in a few minutes. Colony
is just another small New England town these days. The
people go about their commonplace affairs as though nothing more

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melodramatic than a Sunday school picnic had ever happened there.

Speaker 5 (43:37):
But they remember.

Speaker 7 (43:40):
Arnie Stebbins never meets with the town council without wondering
if they are all truly themselves. And Tad Marcus, making
his rounds in the Sheriff's official car, keeps a weather
eye out for unidentified flying objects. Our cast included Tony Roberts,
Morgan Fairchild, Francis Sternhagen, Jackson Beck and isrel. The entire

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production was under the direction of Hymon Brown.

Speaker 9 (44:06):
Radio.

Speaker 7 (44:06):
Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division
and sign off the Sinus Medicines Missus E. G. Marshall,
inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for another
adventure in the macabre. Until next time.

Speaker 17 (44:24):
Pleasant.

Speaker 26 (44:39):
Ironized Yeast presents lights out everybody.

Speaker 7 (44:50):
It is.

Speaker 5 (44:55):
Later than.

Speaker 7 (44:59):
You.

Speaker 17 (45:07):
This is our jobler tonight.

Speaker 27 (45:09):
The makers of Ironized Jees bring you a story not
of imaginary terrors. No ladies and gentlemen, Tonight's play will
thrill and chill you beyond any power of the supernatural,
because this story is based on cruel, grim reality. So
tonight we urge you not to avoid this excitement intention Rather,
we urge you to turn your radios.

Speaker 17 (45:28):
Up and listen as you've never did before.

Speaker 28 (45:38):
Hair Himmler, I'll Hitler, I have the report. Now look here, Hey,
hit let's know, use getting so red in the face.
That won't help anything. What's happened happened, and as long
as we know why it happened, I'll see to it
won't happen again. So nothing is lost than something is game.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
Not here.

Speaker 28 (45:58):
I have the report here by courier only five minutes ago.
I rushed it right up, didn't even stop to read
it myself. Ah, So I will read official report under renoir.
Incidental is made by Captain Hans Mauchlich to Major Heinri Fontrapritz,
Commanding Officer, third Division Army of Occupation at Headquarters Paris.
High Hitler I hunts Mouthley, Captain, member of Elite Guard,

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assigned the third Division Army Occupation. Being in my right mind,
and in full realization of the consequences to me make
the following statement. On the day of April seventh, at
two o'clock in the morning, Sergeant hal Fischer, while unpatrolled
duty in the town of Renoir, was shot at by
unidentified women and slightly wounded in the left eye.

Speaker 22 (46:40):
In accordance with all the radio.

Speaker 23 (46:42):
From Paris headquarters, I at once placed the entire population
of Renoir under arrest, and, in accordance with further orders received,
collected fifty female hostages to be hanged in the village
square unless the criminal who had shot Sergeant Fishal was
turned over to me. At once, these French women were
placed in the basement of the town hall, and precisely
at sundown, having assembled the populace and the public square,

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I mounted the scaffold platform which had been erected there,
and spoke to this village of criminals. Attention, attention. I
warn you no disturbances or I will give the order
to fire. And for the last time, who among you
is guilty of this crime, speak.

Speaker 22 (47:24):
So very well.

Speaker 23 (47:27):
Next time, every man and woman in this town will
be deported for hard labor and the reisch. This time
we will proceed with the executions. Silence sergeant the first prisoner.
At this point in my report, may I explain that

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the fifty women to be executed had been picked at
a random by squads sent through the town a few
hours before. I personally knew none of them, but I
personally counted them as they entered the place of imprisonment,
and I personally posted the guard that I know.

Speaker 29 (48:05):
The first prisoner.

Speaker 22 (48:06):
Wind her hands up to the.

Speaker 23 (48:08):
Platform, loose around her neck. Oh, right in the rope,
place around the trap door, so the prisoner will lift
her head, lift your head, look at me. At this
point in the report, may I describe the prisoner, sex, female,

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age indeterminate, clothes indeterminate. She lifted her face as ordered.
Then a strange thing happened. She smiled, yes, smiled.

Speaker 22 (48:44):
You smile? Why do you smile?

Speaker 4 (48:48):
Very well?

Speaker 23 (48:48):
The trap door hang ha her captain, well, her neck
is broken. Do not cut her down yet, people of
the town of Renoir. The first of your women hangs here.
The first evidence that to harm a soldier of the
Holy Reish means death.

Speaker 22 (49:05):
Certain death.

Speaker 23 (49:07):
Remove the body, bring out the next prisoner. At this
point in my report, may I explain my plan to
hang was not enough. Now these frenchmen and their women
and their children must learn their lesson in a way
they would never forget. One by one, the women would
be brought out, one by one. They would stand on

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the platform, one by one, the rope around the neck,
the trap door, the body twisting and turning in death,
coming through that door, climbing them to the scaffold and dying,
fifty of them, And it would take ours. And these frenchmen,
and these French women and their children would never forget
this lesson. Bring I hear over the trap door, rope

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around the neck. No, no, do not bind this one.
It is better that day out there see how to
dance at the end of the rope. The other died
too quickly. Ready, Yes, captain, the prisoner will lift her face,
Lift your face, your face. You are related to the
one who just died, Answer me very well, people of Renoir.

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You see before you the second of you who is
to die for the crime against the Reish. This one
I can see is related to the past its sister.
Perhaps it will not save her. The crime must be avenged.
You laugh, hey her, her captain, her neck is broken, broken,

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so small a woman. Why should sergeant they drop too far,
shorten the rope. Let them struggle before they die. The
next prisoner. At this point in my report me I
state that all day it had been threatening rain. In
spite of that fact, I had not feel did good
psychology to postpone the executions. At this point, the time

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was four point thirty and the sky was getting quite dark,
but I was determined to complete the executions. By the
time the next woman stood on the scaffold, it was
very dark.

Speaker 22 (51:19):
People have renoirs.

Speaker 23 (51:20):
The third criminal to die for the crime against the Reich,
A crime must be a venge.

Speaker 22 (51:27):
You laughed too, Why you're going to die? While you laugh?

Speaker 9 (51:32):
You will know?

Speaker 4 (51:33):
Hang her.

Speaker 23 (51:42):
At this point in my report I will state that
this woman did not die easily. I could tell that
from the faces of the people and the animal cries
that came to their lips as they watched this woman
of theirs flinging about at the end of the row.

Speaker 30 (51:54):
I was quite pleased.

Speaker 23 (51:58):
Silent silence. Well, people of renoir, she thought you would
not die. You see she is dead. There is no
escape from the vengeance of the Reich. Bring up the
next one.

Speaker 22 (52:10):
Stop that rum. Yes, people of renoir. There is no
escape from the power.

Speaker 23 (52:15):
Of the Third Riich to day, over all Europe, tomorrow,
over all the world.

Speaker 22 (52:19):
What power is there to stop us? All right? Bring
the prisoner up here quickly.

Speaker 23 (52:28):
At this point in my report, may I say it
was darker than before, clouds. There was a feeling of
an electrical storm in the air. Hurry her up, Hurry
her up, Sergeant, turn on the floodlights, but nor move.
Shoot down anyone who tries to leave the square. Do
not think the storm will make any difference. Here you are,

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and here all of you will stay until the last
one of your criminals is hanged. All right, all right, soldier,
do not stand there the loose put it around her neck?

Speaker 22 (52:58):
Sojiar you out of your mind? Why did you? Why
do you stand there? What is it?

Speaker 7 (53:01):
Look at her?

Speaker 17 (53:03):
Look at her?

Speaker 23 (53:11):
At this point in my report I wish to state
that I am not sure if I am in my
right mind completely now, But at the time I am
speaking of I knew exactly what I was hearing.

Speaker 30 (53:23):
And see you, Captain, look at her, I tell you,
look at her.

Speaker 23 (53:29):
You bye, sergeant, sergeant, Yes, captain, the body is Are
they downe there?

Speaker 4 (53:34):
Yes?

Speaker 22 (53:35):
Captain how many anthe me? How many?

Speaker 4 (53:37):
Prae?

Speaker 29 (53:38):
Ree, prae?

Speaker 23 (53:41):
So you woman, you think you would make jokes with me?
You you are of the same family. Yes, that is it,
you are the same. At this point in my report,

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I will state only that I immediately ordered the next
prisoner up to the scaffold.

Speaker 22 (54:08):
This one the same, crazy fool? How can that be? Yeah?
The suchlight here?

Speaker 30 (54:15):
No you, how can that be?

Speaker 22 (54:21):
Sergeant?

Speaker 30 (54:23):
How many?

Speaker 22 (54:23):
Now the truth? Tell me the truth? Ah pour, captain,
the truth? I order you.

Speaker 23 (54:29):
Four bodies, I swear at captain, and their faces, look
at their faces, answer me.

Speaker 22 (54:36):
Their faces all the same, Captain, the.

Speaker 31 (54:40):
Same, Ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 26 (54:50):
Let's take a moment now to look around, to reassure
ourselves that we are where we are, in the free
America of today, where thousands of people are able to say.

Speaker 17 (54:59):
Man, oh man, am I going good? Making more money
than I ever did?

Speaker 8 (55:02):
Sure, taxes are tough, and I'm putting my ten percent
in war bonds.

Speaker 17 (55:06):
But even so, I've got plenty left to spend.

Speaker 26 (55:08):
For fun, to spend for fun? Do you think our
fighting men in Africa having fun? Was it fun for
our boys at Guattle Canal fighting off the Japs from
Foxholes being shot down in flames over Berlin. Is that fun?

Speaker 4 (55:20):
Why?

Speaker 32 (55:20):
No?

Speaker 17 (55:20):
But like I said, I'm putting my ten percent in
war bonds.

Speaker 26 (55:23):
This is no ten percent war, my friend. Our servicemen
are fighting at one hundred percent. And that's exactly why
the news from Africa is good, why we want at
Wattle Canal, why we're moving towards the offensive on other fronts.
You want more American victories, You want our men to
march into Berlin at the earliest possible moment. Yes, of course,
then back them up as they are fighting for us

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one hundred percent. Put that money you've got for fun
into more war bonds. War is expensive, and if we
hold back here on the home front, will needlessly prolong
the war, thus throwing away thousands of American lives. Our
dollars for fun more precious than the lives of American
fighting men. Of your fighting men, you know they're not.

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And remember, friends, the quicker the victory, the fewer lives lost.
And if we want victory sooner, every American of.

Speaker 17 (56:18):
Us must do more.

Speaker 26 (56:21):
So go to your nearest bank or post office wherever
war bonds are sold in your town, and for every
cent you don't really need in the bonds. Do it
for your own sake and for the sake of our
fighting men. They give their lives, we must lend our money.

Speaker 23 (56:52):
At this point in my report, I say only that
it began to reign, a terrible reign. And we stood
there in the rain, people all around the scaffold, my
soldiers and on the platform, the hangman and I and
the woman, all the same.

Speaker 9 (57:20):
You hang for vengeance, don't you, Nazi? One German soldier
shot at by a frenchwoman who had the blessed right
to kill him. You think you will have the vengeance
with fifty.

Speaker 30 (57:35):
Laugh. It's always the same.

Speaker 9 (57:38):
Shall I tell you about vengeance?

Speaker 7 (57:40):
Captain?

Speaker 9 (57:41):
You Germans think you know all about it, But let
me tell you of the real vengeance.

Speaker 23 (57:46):
At this point that my report, I will tell you
of my thoughts.

Speaker 30 (57:56):
These women the same. It was not possible.

Speaker 23 (58:00):
Left the scaffold and went below to where the bodies
lay my flashlight. I looked broken next faces quite the same.
Shut off the light. I climbed back to the scaffold.
I was not disturbed, because now I understood the families
of these French were large, and all these were sisters.
Five sisters, yes, trying to frighten me. Well, that was

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ended with their broken necks. I ordered up the next
woman for her execution. People of Renoir, there will be
no further demonstrations of any sort. You will stand there
in the rain until all your women criminals are dead.
Five sisters have died, and I am certain that is
the end of that family. Who is this frightened one

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with her hands in front of her face? All right,
keep them there, corporal, get the new noose around her neck,
hang hot quickly, face another one a French. Such families
worthy of we Germans.

Speaker 22 (59:02):
But we have men.

Speaker 23 (59:03):
You give birth to useless women, six women, and all
of them want to be hanged.

Speaker 9 (59:09):
Shall I tell you about vengeance? Nazi? You Germans think
you know all about it, But let me tell you
of the real vengeance.

Speaker 22 (59:17):
Captain the other one said those words your mouth.

Speaker 30 (59:21):
Oh woman, how do you know the words?

Speaker 22 (59:25):
Your sister said?

Speaker 9 (59:26):
I said them? How could you you think you know
about vengeance, you Germans? Well you don't. Vengeance too, has
to be based on truth. And what is your vengeance?
You began a war once and lost it to whom?
Did you lose it to? These little people, to that
little rabbi who's back you broke in a concentration camp,

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to the little child who suffocated under her mother's body
in Poland.

Speaker 23 (59:59):
At this point in my report I state only that
I made sure this one hanged until she was dead,
and then I waited a little while before I ordered
the next one out.

Speaker 30 (01:00:09):
The rain was very heavy.

Speaker 23 (01:00:11):
All the people stood there in the square below the
scaffold head spouted to the rain, and in the light
of the search lights, they and the soldiers guarding them
were like living dead, standing there unburied.

Speaker 22 (01:00:26):
Captain, this one's used the same one.

Speaker 17 (01:00:29):
Bring her up here.

Speaker 29 (01:00:30):
No, you hang her and she's not dead?

Speaker 33 (01:00:33):
Not dead?

Speaker 30 (01:00:34):
Who is he?

Speaker 22 (01:00:34):
Run for your lives? Run, Bring her up here. She
is not the same. She can't be the same one.
Turn the search lights on.

Speaker 29 (01:00:41):
The same one where you are.

Speaker 22 (01:00:44):
They're over byre Shoot them down. Ute couple, we are
your running.

Speaker 29 (01:00:48):
Send soldiers, Do not run.

Speaker 22 (01:00:49):
I ordered.

Speaker 4 (01:00:51):
The lights.

Speaker 22 (01:00:52):
Why did you turn off the search lights?

Speaker 29 (01:00:53):
Turn them on.

Speaker 22 (01:00:54):
I order you to turn them on.

Speaker 9 (01:01:00):
My soldiers gone, Are you frightened? Captain? Put the rope
around my neck.

Speaker 30 (01:01:08):
You are not saying I saw you hang.

Speaker 9 (01:01:13):
Put the loose around my neck.

Speaker 22 (01:01:15):
The bodies I can see them by hang me.

Speaker 9 (01:01:19):
You want your vengeance fifty times the rope must stretch
fifty bodies piled like cordwood, And you call that vengeance?
Shall I tell you a vengeance, Nazi. The vengeance of
the people of the murdered republics. What was their crime?

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They wanted freedom from poverty, and your battleship stood off
their shores, and your airplanes filled their skies and gave
them blood to drink their own. The vengeance of the
people of Poland. What was their crime? They wanted to live,
just to live, So the treads of your tanks ground

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them into the dirt, and then your bombs lifted them
out of the dirt. The vengeance of the people of Belgium,
whose crime was that they were weary of a battle.
They did not quite understand because you had given them confusion,
and so you stripped them of human dignity and made
them slaves to live on bloody knees before the masters
of your Reich. The vengeance of Holland, or that will

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be a horrible vengeance, Nazi, for their crime was the
crime of being men, of standing up and saying this
is our land, and this is our freedom. Dare take them? Promise?
So you swept over them, and when they could no
longer fight, you took your vengeance by the murder of
forty thousand of them, and the vengeance of Great Britain.

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Or that will be a terrible vengeance, Nazi, it will
be a vengeance that will live.

Speaker 30 (01:02:51):
I will hang you around your neck.

Speaker 22 (01:02:55):
Ah talk.

Speaker 23 (01:03:02):
At this point in my report, I swear by the
grave of my mother, I tell the truth.

Speaker 30 (01:03:07):
I hanged this woman with my own hands.

Speaker 23 (01:03:10):
I made sure that she was dead, and then I
reached down and cut the rope. I heard the body
fall below in the dark. But when I got up
off my knees and stood up on the scaffold, he came.
Another woman was there, and it was she.

Speaker 9 (01:03:30):
The vengeance of Norway. There's too, was the crime of
free men content to live on their own land, and
you put a swastika over their crosses and murdered their
sons and starved their children. And the vengeance of the Balkans.
So many vengeances, Nazi, did you ever think of them?

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You with your little vengeances against the helpless, the women,
the children. Did you ever think of this moving mountain
of great vengeance that is sweeping toward you. The vengeance
of the Russians, whose crime was that they wanted their
own freedom, their own way, and who saw the hard
work of twenty years ground under your panzas and your stukas,

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Oh Nazi, theirs will be a terrible vengeance, theirs will be.

Speaker 30 (01:04:23):
And then there was another, one another, but the same.

Speaker 9 (01:04:30):
And the vengeance of the Americans. Their crime that they
were strong, and they didn't like you, and they laughed
at you, and then their laughter turned to anger, and
you were afraid of their anger, so you lifted another
one's hand and gave them the treachery of a knife
thrust in the back, and you drown their men in
the seas.

Speaker 10 (01:04:51):
And you.

Speaker 30 (01:04:59):
I can report what I saw.

Speaker 23 (01:05:01):
The trap door fell, she too was gone, the rope
twisting and turning, and I was alone on the scaffold alone.
I was alone, Yes, the rope twisting and turning, and
I was alone.

Speaker 30 (01:05:17):
And then who shall I.

Speaker 31 (01:05:19):
Swear this on?

Speaker 30 (01:05:21):
What do I believe in to swear this on? I
heard footsteps coming up the steps to the scaffold.

Speaker 23 (01:05:28):
And I ran to the edge, and I looked the
lightning flashes were quick, one after the other, and eim
I saw that I had hanged eight, and there were
forty two left. And now they were coming up the stairs,
these forty two, one after the other, one after the other,
in a line that reached back across the square, coming.

Speaker 4 (01:05:50):
To me, Who are you?

Speaker 17 (01:06:02):
What do you want?

Speaker 30 (01:06:09):
I report this?

Speaker 23 (01:06:11):
They came on the platform, one after the other, one
after the other. Scaffold moved under the weight of them,
and then the lightning came again.

Speaker 30 (01:06:20):
I saw all of them.

Speaker 9 (01:06:24):
She Poland, Belgium, Harland, Norway, Greece, Yugoslavia, Russia, Britain, America.
I tell you not see. No matter what the clever
ones try to do at the peace tables, the people
will not forget their vengeance. They will not forget their

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dead children, and their dead wives, and their dead sons,
and their dead mothers, and their dead sisters, and their
dead lovers, and their dead hopes and their dead wasted years.
They will not stop but the borders of your Germany.
This time they will march into it, into your Germany.
The people and their vengeance will be on every one

(01:07:09):
of you who traded the cross for the Swastika and
the Great God of humanity for the little man who
thought he was God.

Speaker 4 (01:07:17):
Who are you?

Speaker 30 (01:07:25):
I report only this one last thing.

Speaker 23 (01:07:28):
As I asked the words, who are you, suddenly it
was no longer all these women speaking with one mouth.
But in the rain and the lightning, I saw them
moving together, and all of them began to become one woman,
a terrible thing.

Speaker 1 (01:07:44):
That grew and grew into the air.

Speaker 23 (01:07:47):
I lifted my face to see the lightning crashed about
the top of her, and it was still that woman.

Speaker 22 (01:07:54):
Powering higher and higher into the air.

Speaker 30 (01:07:57):
And when she spoke, her voice was the thunder.

Speaker 9 (01:08:04):
Listen to me, Nazi, when their vengeance comes, you shall
not hide me hind you.

Speaker 32 (01:08:09):
A little man.

Speaker 9 (01:08:10):
For his crimes are his crimes, and your crimes are yours,
and each must pay for his crimes.

Speaker 5 (01:08:17):
Who are you?

Speaker 9 (01:08:18):
For the good people of this world will not die
this time in vain.

Speaker 13 (01:08:22):
This time the vengeance will be their vengeance, and the
everlasting peace their peace.

Speaker 5 (01:08:28):
Who are you?

Speaker 31 (01:08:34):
I report?

Speaker 23 (01:08:35):
I asked, beat And suddenly I was lifted in the air.
There was thunder and lightning around me too, and up
where I was, her voice was a whisper.

Speaker 9 (01:08:52):
I am a frenchwoman who stayed away from my own
land too long, so long that some of my country
and had forgotten that even the memory of me lives
only where men fight for me.

Speaker 23 (01:09:09):
Ah you, I closed my report. This French woman told
me her name, and she told me a place. Through
the thunder crash, I heard her, and then the lightning struck,
and I was falling through the air. And when I

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awoke it was morning, and she was not there. And
the scaffold was burned to the ground, and there were nobodies,
and the village square was empty. This is the end,
end my report.

Speaker 28 (01:09:48):
Can you imagine such a report?

Speaker 9 (01:09:50):
Man?

Speaker 28 (01:09:50):
Fear a woman who grows into the sky. Of course
the men will be shot. Wait a minute. Seems to
be an addition to the thought. It says note the
frenchwoman said she could be found at latitude forty one
degrees north and at longitude seventy fort de gres west.

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Investigation indicates this is a place in the Western Hemisphere
known as Bedler's Island. Further investigation indicates that there is
only one French woman on this island.

Speaker 30 (01:10:24):
She is called the Statue of Liberty.

Speaker 26 (01:10:36):
I see what you mean, mister Robler. The Nazis can
kill people, but they can never kill the spirit of victory.

Speaker 17 (01:10:42):
Yes, we've seen that proved over and over again in
this war.

Speaker 27 (01:10:45):
We know how men, women and children in France and
Holland and Norway and every other country that's come under
the Nazi hill are fighting back in every way possible.
But we know equally well that the will the wind
is not enough. They can't fight the Jabs or the
Nazis with courage alone. The only way to fight these
murderers effectively is in the language of bombs and bullets.

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Are we in the home front, who's sleep in our
comfortable beds and eat good meals in spite of shortages?
We're being asked only to send our money to back
of those who are fighting for our freedom. Oh, if
a Nazi isn't outside your door waiting to take you
off to a concentration camp because you pray to your
God on Sunday, or if a Jap isn't waiting with
an executioner's sword staying with the blood of an American
aviator to cut off your head, it's only because all

(01:11:27):
over the world, men and women of courage are fighting
your battle. So the next time you take out a
dollar and think, oh, what can I buy and now
think again? Is there anything I want more than I
want a world of peace and justice and security of
loved ones back home again? And then do what your
heart and mind tell you must do. Put every dollar
in dime you don't need for actual necessities into this

(01:11:49):
fight by putting them into war bonds and stamps. This
may be our last chance to buy the right to
live as free men.

Speaker 26 (01:11:58):
Thank you, mister Robler. Friends, the makers of Ironized Yeast
have been very happy to dedicate tonight's program to our
government Second Warlorn Drive, Nomas Roebler, Can you tell us
a little about next week's story?

Speaker 27 (01:12:12):
Well, before I do that, I'd like to personally thank
the Ironized Geest folks for giving me the opportunity of
presenting this play to you to night word of thanks
too to Edgar Barrier and Mercyes mc cambridge, Hans Conried
and lu Merrill.

Speaker 7 (01:12:27):
As to next week.

Speaker 27 (01:12:28):
Well, if you've ever wished done a star, listen in
for the play has the provocative title of the Heavenly Jeep.
Few lovers of the off the beat a cordial invitation
to be with us when the Heavenly Jeep takes off.

Speaker 26 (01:12:41):
Yes, you and end next Tuesday again for our Chobler's
eerie story The Heavenly Jeep. And if you need more
vitamin B one and iron, be sure to try ironized yeast.
But remember there's only one ironized yeast. You'll know it
instantly by the yellow and orange package and by the
big letters I Y on the container and on each tablet.

Speaker 7 (01:13:05):
It is later and you.

Speaker 25 (01:13:16):
Lux Resents Hollywood.

Speaker 34 (01:13:26):
Leaver Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap, bring
you the Lux Radio Theater starring Barbara Stanwick and Burt
Lancaster in Sorry Wrong Number, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your producer,
mister William.

Speaker 35 (01:13:41):
Keaing greetings from Hollywood, Ladies and Gentlemen.

Speaker 36 (01:13:50):
Tonight's play reverses the usual relation between radio and motion pictures.
Sorry Wrong Number was first the radio drama, and it
achieved such success on the air that Hal Wallace decided
to make a picture of it. He assigned the author
Lucille Fletcher to expand her short drama into a full

(01:14:11):
length screenplay, and the result was a triumph of suspense drama.

Speaker 17 (01:14:16):
The rest of the success story.

Speaker 36 (01:14:18):
You know, because the paramount picture with Barbara Stanwick and
Bert Lancaster as the Stars was one of the top
films of the year.

Speaker 17 (01:14:27):
Tonight, Sorry Wrong Number completes.

Speaker 36 (01:14:29):
The circle and comes back to radio with Miss Stanwick
and mister Lancaster in their original screen roles. Just as
our drama had a double success story, so has our product,
Lux Toilet Soap.

Speaker 17 (01:14:43):
It's been a favorite for years.

Speaker 36 (01:14:44):
In the regular size, and now the new bath size
has made Lux Soap a hit all over again. The
curtain rises now for the first act of Sorry Wrong Number,
starring Barbara Stanwick as Leona and Bert Lancaster as Henry.

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In the Tangos network of a Great City. The telephone
is the unseen link between a million lives, servants of
our common needs, confidence of our inmost sequence, life and
happiness waited upon its wings, and horror and loneliness and
sometimes even dead.

Speaker 37 (01:15:30):
Operator Operator, Operator Operator. I've been ringing murray Hill three
two four nine one for the last half hour, and
the line is always busy.

Speaker 13 (01:15:39):
Will you ring it for me, please?

Speaker 38 (01:15:41):
Three four nine one.

Speaker 23 (01:15:45):
Please.

Speaker 13 (01:15:45):
It's my husband's office. He should have been home hours ago.
I can't think why that ridiculous wire should be busy.
They always close that office at six o'clock.

Speaker 25 (01:15:52):
I am ringing your number.

Speaker 33 (01:15:54):
Thank you.

Speaker 13 (01:15:58):
Oh it's busy again. Operated the line is busy now,
will you please?

Speaker 4 (01:16:02):
Hello?

Speaker 13 (01:16:03):
Hello missus Stephenson. Please hello, I want to speak to
mister Henry Stephenson.

Speaker 4 (01:16:07):
Hello, George speaking Hello?

Speaker 13 (01:16:08):
What number is this?

Speaker 31 (01:16:09):
Everything? Okay? For the night, George, Plan says it costs plans.

Speaker 13 (01:16:12):
I beg your pardon, but I'm using this wire.

Speaker 4 (01:16:15):
What about the time? Still?

Speaker 31 (01:16:16):
Eleven fifteen?

Speaker 4 (01:16:17):
Eleven fifteen. He's got it all straight down. Hello, yeah,
I think so.

Speaker 39 (01:16:21):
At eleven o'clock, the private patrol and goes around to
the bar on Second Avenue for a beer, and I
get in through the kitchen window.

Speaker 4 (01:16:27):
I wait until the train.

Speaker 40 (01:16:29):
Goes over the bridge in case the window is open.

Speaker 4 (01:16:30):
And she should screak.

Speaker 13 (01:16:31):
Who is this?

Speaker 14 (01:16:32):
Hello?

Speaker 4 (01:16:33):
The Plan says he doesn't want her to summer long.
You know me, George, and don't forget the jewelry. He
wants us to look like a robbery.

Speaker 31 (01:16:39):
See, that's very important.

Speaker 17 (01:16:41):
Okay, now let me check that.

Speaker 9 (01:16:43):
Hello.

Speaker 15 (01:16:43):
Hello, Oh that's awful. It's horrible.

Speaker 13 (01:16:54):
Already. You you just gave me a wrong number. I
was calling murray Hill three two four nine one, but
instead I was cut into some other number that you dialed.
The wires must have been crossed or something, and I
just heard the most dreadful thing, a murder. Yes, I
want you to get that wrong number.

Speaker 14 (01:17:09):
Back for me. At once.

Speaker 13 (01:17:10):
I just told you you dialed the number for me,
and then those those horrible men came on, and well
it's it's unnerved me dreadfully. I'm an invalid, and well
do something please, Oh, oh, yes, yes you may. I'm

(01:17:32):
an invalid and I've just had a dreadful shock just
now on this telephone, and I'm very anxious to trace
the call. It was about a murder, a terrible, cold
blooded murder of a poor innocent woman. Tonight, at eleven fifteen,
I was trying to reach my husband's office. He should
have been home hours ago. It's almost ten o'clock. I'm
all alone tonight. My nurse has the night off because
my husband promised he'd be home by six. I don't

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know any of the neighbors, as we live permanently in Chicago.
And it so happens that the cup I have working
for me had some important data or other I I
don't know, a movie. I suppose they they said it
was promised them three weeks ago. You think that at
least have checked with me before leaving. They they know
I'm not well. I told you I kept getting a
busy signal. Then I asked the operator to call for me,

(01:18:18):
and then I'm of a clear sky. I was cutting
to this ghastly conversation between two killers. Oh, for heaven's sake,
all this idiotic red tape. You just sit there and
let people die.

Speaker 37 (01:18:32):
Oh, is it is anyone downstairs?

Speaker 14 (01:18:38):
Gertrude?

Speaker 13 (01:18:39):
Gertrude, are you down there?

Speaker 24 (01:18:43):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:18:51):
Give me the police.

Speaker 41 (01:18:57):
I first of all, there's a lot of people named George,
as with the private patrolman and second Avenue when the
bridge when Second Avenue.

Speaker 4 (01:19:05):
Was a very long stream.

Speaker 14 (01:19:06):
I don't care about.

Speaker 4 (01:19:07):
I don't know how many bridges.

Speaker 13 (01:19:09):
Oh, this is insane.

Speaker 14 (01:19:10):
I tell you, a woman is going to be murdered
of this sort.

Speaker 41 (01:19:14):
Why it's not much more used to us than no
clue at all, Unless you think there's something funny about all?

Speaker 4 (01:19:19):
What somebody trying to murder you me?

Speaker 13 (01:19:22):
Oh, that would be ridiculous. I mean, why should anybody?

Speaker 10 (01:19:26):
What have I.

Speaker 42 (01:19:28):
To worry?

Speaker 24 (01:19:29):
Now?

Speaker 13 (01:19:29):
Just a minute, all right, don't listen to me? Who cares?

Speaker 15 (01:19:34):
Oh, Henry.

Speaker 14 (01:19:36):
Why did you leave me alone?

Speaker 13 (01:19:38):
Why did you leave me alone?

Speaker 15 (01:19:40):
Here?

Speaker 10 (01:19:42):
Oh?

Speaker 37 (01:19:42):
His secretary, Henry's secretary, she'd know her numbers on the pad, Jennings,
Miss Jennys, Elizabeth Jennings.

Speaker 43 (01:20:01):
I know, Missus Stevenson. I haven't any idea where mister
Stephenson is.

Speaker 13 (01:20:04):
He was supposed to be home hours ago.

Speaker 25 (01:20:06):
Well that's odd, isn't it.

Speaker 38 (01:20:08):
The last time I saw him was when he left
this afternoon to keep an appointment.

Speaker 13 (01:20:11):
What appointment?

Speaker 14 (01:20:12):
Well, well, I don't know, but.

Speaker 43 (01:20:15):
I do know he had a lunch and date with
a young lady.

Speaker 13 (01:20:17):
What young lady? Tell me, Miss Jennings, Oh, missus Lord.

Speaker 43 (01:20:20):
Missus Frederick Lord. She seemed very anxious to see mister Stevens.

Speaker 13 (01:20:24):
Missus Lord.

Speaker 38 (01:20:25):
I heard him make a date to meet her for lunch.

Speaker 13 (01:20:27):
Why, missus Lord fawn here this afternoon?

Speaker 4 (01:20:30):
Oh?

Speaker 37 (01:20:31):
Yes, the nurse answered, I have the memorandum right here,
missus Lord, four fifty pm.

Speaker 43 (01:20:37):
I'm afraid that's all I know, Missus Stevenson, But I'm
sure it's nothing to worry about.

Speaker 4 (01:20:41):
Mister Stephenson, so.

Speaker 25 (01:20:43):
Devoted, he speaks so beautifully of you. Well, is there's
anything I can no?

Speaker 24 (01:20:48):
No?

Speaker 13 (01:20:48):
Thank you, Miss Jennings.

Speaker 38 (01:20:49):
I do hope I haven't let a cat out of
the bed.

Speaker 13 (01:20:51):
Good night, Miss Jennings.

Speaker 37 (01:20:54):
Missus Lord A young lady, she said, lunch and gone
all afternoon.

Speaker 25 (01:21:01):
Hello, mister Stephenson, please, he's not in.

Speaker 13 (01:21:04):
Who's calling?

Speaker 25 (01:21:05):
It's it's mister Evans again. You know where I could
read you?

Speaker 13 (01:21:09):
I'm sure I don't know where mister Stephenson is. Called
back later, all right, I haven't much time, yes, fifteen minutes.

Speaker 25 (01:21:16):
And if he should come in, the name is Evans.

Speaker 4 (01:21:19):
It's very important.

Speaker 13 (01:21:20):
Yes, yes, I'll tell him.

Speaker 37 (01:21:22):
Missus Lord telephone over fifty pm murray Hill three nine
two six six.

Speaker 25 (01:21:41):
Hello is missus LORDI in.

Speaker 19 (01:21:43):
This is missus Lord.

Speaker 15 (01:21:44):
Who's calling?

Speaker 12 (01:21:44):
Please?

Speaker 25 (01:21:45):
Missus Henry Stephenson. It so happens my husband hasn't come
home this evening.

Speaker 13 (01:21:49):
I thought perhaps you might give me some ideas.

Speaker 19 (01:21:51):
Yes, yes, but I can't talk, man, Can you could
I call you back?

Speaker 9 (01:21:54):
Call me back?

Speaker 25 (01:21:55):
Why is anything wrong?

Speaker 19 (01:21:56):
Leona? This is Sally, Sally Hunt.

Speaker 4 (01:21:59):
Sally.

Speaker 19 (01:22:00):
I'm sorry if I sound ridiculous, but I can't talk now. No, no, no, wait,
if you're I'll call me back as soon as I can.

Speaker 25 (01:22:07):
Leona Sally was just one of the girls.

Speaker 19 (01:22:10):
Dear she you wanted a recipe, they.

Speaker 44 (01:22:12):
Joyed like a bottle of beer.

Speaker 42 (01:22:13):
You got an on ice?

Speaker 19 (01:22:14):
Oh no, I'm afraid not. I'll run down to the store.

Speaker 45 (01:22:17):
Thanks, honey, and hurry back.

Speaker 25 (01:22:19):
Joel is dying.

Speaker 37 (01:22:25):
Sally Sally hunk. Oh yes, yes, that was long ago
college spring dance.

Speaker 15 (01:22:35):
He was Sally's date. He was with her when I
met him.

Speaker 37 (01:22:40):
Henry Henry dancing with sa.

Speaker 19 (01:22:48):
Hello, Leona, this is mister Henry Stephens.

Speaker 13 (01:22:51):
Hello Henry, Well, can I cut in?

Speaker 17 (01:22:54):
You don't mind. That's where I come from. It's the
man who does the picture.

Speaker 15 (01:22:57):
All right, go ahead.

Speaker 17 (01:22:58):
Why don't you get somebody your own speed. I'm sure
there are better dances around.

Speaker 19 (01:23:01):
Oh you'll do all right, Henry. Leona knows the way
around the plot.

Speaker 15 (01:23:04):
Thank you, darling.

Speaker 13 (01:23:06):
Well, Henry, let's dance.

Speaker 17 (01:23:12):
So your name's carlor Man. No relation to uh JV.
Cuddle distance.

Speaker 44 (01:23:18):
He's my father father.

Speaker 25 (01:23:19):
Anything wrong with that?

Speaker 17 (01:23:20):
Oh no, no, nothing wrong. What do they call you?
They asked for an arrant?

Speaker 13 (01:23:25):
You from out of town?

Speaker 17 (01:23:26):
Well that depends on what you call out of town.

Speaker 15 (01:23:28):
Oh I don't know, Carving.

Speaker 17 (01:23:31):
I'm trying to be funny.

Speaker 13 (01:23:32):
Okay, what do you call out of town?

Speaker 8 (01:23:34):
Rest?

Speaker 17 (01:23:35):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:23:35):
What college is up there?

Speaker 17 (01:23:37):
No college, Mscuttle, just factories. I never even finished high school.

Speaker 13 (01:23:41):
He neither did my father.

Speaker 37 (01:23:42):
He always says, if a man has talent for making money,
why should he waste his time in school?

Speaker 17 (01:23:47):
I guess your old man on a know?

Speaker 14 (01:23:49):
What do you say?

Speaker 9 (01:23:49):
We said? The next dance out what?

Speaker 37 (01:23:51):
I've got a car, mister Stevens, and a brand new one,
a Laganda.

Speaker 25 (01:23:55):
You have a drive one?

Speaker 17 (01:23:56):
I never even heard of them. Besides, I'm what's selling? Oh,
don't worries you the misshew, but maybe i'll miss her?
Why didn't you think of that?

Speaker 9 (01:24:04):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:24:04):
Come on, he'll be silly.

Speaker 44 (01:24:07):
Oh once, I'm not.

Speaker 17 (01:24:08):
Kidding, neither am I? So long as caro?

Speaker 25 (01:24:20):
Well, Henry.

Speaker 13 (01:24:21):
It took me a few days, but I finally got
you in my car.

Speaker 7 (01:24:25):
How do you like it?

Speaker 5 (01:24:25):
Fine?

Speaker 17 (01:24:26):
Only we don't go together.

Speaker 37 (01:24:28):
It's a lot easier to see you here than well
with Sally Hunt. I've never put the two of you
together in a million years.

Speaker 35 (01:24:34):
Why not?

Speaker 4 (01:24:35):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:24:35):
You're both so different, you belong in different worlds.

Speaker 7 (01:24:41):
What are you stopping for?

Speaker 44 (01:24:42):
Why not?

Speaker 13 (01:24:43):
It's nice here?

Speaker 17 (01:24:44):
Sure, it's nice here. Take a look.

Speaker 5 (01:24:46):
This is Grassgow.

Speaker 17 (01:24:48):
Stick around a few years and then see how much
you like it.

Speaker 15 (01:24:51):
What do you do, Henry?

Speaker 17 (01:24:52):
I work in a drug store.

Speaker 13 (01:24:53):
Well that's a coincidence.

Speaker 17 (01:24:55):
Sure, I work in a drug store and your father
owns a hundred of them?

Speaker 15 (01:24:58):
Would you like to meet him?

Speaker 17 (01:25:00):
Who are you kidding?

Speaker 15 (01:25:01):
Nobody? Dad will like you. You're young, healthy, ambitious.

Speaker 17 (01:25:04):
Why don't you stop? What does a girl like you
want with a guy like me?

Speaker 37 (01:25:08):
Dad's coming to New York next weekend. I'm cutting my
classes on Saturday. Want to come with me?

Speaker 46 (01:25:15):
I don't know.

Speaker 17 (01:25:17):
And you're looking at me like that. I come on,
let's get out of here.

Speaker 15 (01:25:21):
No, not yet, Henry, not yet, Dolly.

Speaker 47 (01:25:31):
Sure I like him, honey, but he is nobody, Leona?

Speaker 25 (01:25:34):
And what has he got?

Speaker 31 (01:25:35):
Nothing?

Speaker 13 (01:25:36):
And what did you have dad when you started?

Speaker 8 (01:25:38):
Besides?

Speaker 47 (01:25:38):
I thought you said he was sort of engaged to
that girlfriend of you.

Speaker 7 (01:25:41):
Is that Sally something?

Speaker 17 (01:25:42):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:25:43):
That's all over with Dad.

Speaker 25 (01:25:44):
I love him, love me?

Speaker 5 (01:25:47):
Oh?

Speaker 31 (01:25:47):
Come on?

Speaker 47 (01:25:48):
If I really thought you did you know?

Speaker 13 (01:25:50):
I don't start telling.

Speaker 48 (01:25:52):
Me that, Leyona?

Speaker 13 (01:25:53):
What's you make me laugh? What does it really matter
to you? If I love Henry or not. All you
want is for me to stay here with you for
the rest of your life.

Speaker 17 (01:26:01):
You're afraid of losing, haven't I.

Speaker 48 (01:26:02):
Always let you do anything you ever wanted to do,
But marriage is something else.

Speaker 5 (01:26:07):
I've worked hard.

Speaker 47 (01:26:09):
I built up a big business just for you, and you, yourself.

Speaker 17 (01:26:12):
Wouldn't want to see.

Speaker 48 (01:26:13):
Some worthless clock of a husband, a guy who alone.

Speaker 25 (01:26:17):
You don't care about me.

Speaker 13 (01:26:18):
You're thinking only of yourself and your business. You're a hateful.

Speaker 17 (01:26:20):
Selverish and hateful my owner.

Speaker 14 (01:26:22):
Stop it here.

Speaker 17 (01:26:22):
You'll make yourself sick.

Speaker 13 (01:26:23):
And what good is your wonderful money and your wonderful
business If I'm dead, Yes, that's what you want to do.

Speaker 14 (01:26:28):
Drive me into my grave.

Speaker 13 (01:26:30):
You don't care, just as long as your.

Speaker 47 (01:26:31):
Business is saying Oh can you say things?

Speaker 14 (01:26:33):
Go away?

Speaker 13 (01:26:34):
Don't touch me.

Speaker 17 (01:26:35):
Don't you dare touch me, darling, Listen to me. I
don't mean you. Oh look, we'll talk it all over again.
It says, oh leonor Wilson, Wilson or.

Speaker 15 (01:26:54):
Sally Sally, and.

Speaker 37 (01:26:58):
I took Henry away from her. She couldn't stand it,
even after all these years. She couldn't stand it going
to him today, seeing him in his office.

Speaker 25 (01:27:10):
Hello, Leona.

Speaker 22 (01:27:11):
This is Sally.

Speaker 25 (01:27:12):
I'm sorry I had to be myos before, but I just.

Speaker 7 (01:27:14):
Couldn't talk at well.

Speaker 13 (01:27:16):
This is all certainly rather odd, to say the least.

Speaker 49 (01:27:19):
Seem very peculiar to hearing from me after all these years.

Speaker 19 (01:27:23):
But I had to see Henry again today. I've been
so worried about him, about what well, my my husband,
he's with the District Attorney's office and a couple.

Speaker 24 (01:27:33):
Of weeks ago, and.

Speaker 50 (01:27:39):
Funny, Sally, here in the newspaper about an old boyfriend
of yours old boyfriend, remember Henry Stevenson.

Speaker 31 (01:27:45):
Pictures in the paper.

Speaker 17 (01:27:47):
Mister and missus Henry Stephenson.

Speaker 50 (01:27:49):
She's the formerly own a cuttural of Lake Forest, Illinois,
taken a house for the summer and Sutton Place. Missus Stevenson,
in poor health for several years, is here to consult
with specialists. Mister Steven's an advice president of the CAD
World Drug Corporation.

Speaker 19 (01:28:04):
Are you tearing it out for me?

Speaker 17 (01:28:06):
Oh no, no, I'll make them in handy in the
case I'm working in. What sort of the case, oh,
special investigation.

Speaker 31 (01:28:12):
Joe's anood.

Speaker 19 (01:28:14):
Henry hasn't done anything wrong, hasn't.

Speaker 30 (01:28:16):
Sorry, I mean one too many questions. Hey, don't tell
me you're still.

Speaker 17 (01:28:20):
Stuck on that guy.

Speaker 19 (01:28:21):
Oh, don't be silly.

Speaker 50 (01:28:23):
Yeah, Hello, anything happened to and Stevenson fell for me?
Oh sure, we'll go look. Tell volget line it up.
Hell five thousands enough one hundred dollars bills.

Speaker 7 (01:28:37):
And make sure that marked.

Speaker 17 (01:28:39):
And for Pete's take, keep your mouth shut.

Speaker 42 (01:28:42):
Thursday. Huh okay, ten o'clock.

Speaker 32 (01:28:45):
This seems.

Speaker 49 (01:28:47):
I since I don't know what you're trying to wait
till I finish.

Speaker 19 (01:28:51):
I know I didn't have any right to do it.
But that Thursday I went to South Ferry. I don't
know what I expected to see that well. Anyway, I
spotted Bred and his friend Joe from the police. There
was another man with them, I guess for one who
was to bring the five thousand dollars in mark Bill's well.
I followed aboard the ferry and over to Staten Island.
They went far out to a very decilated stretch of beach,

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nothing but a few broken down shacks and an old,
deserted house. I had to stay away behind them so
they wouldn't see me. But then they went in the house.
That gave me a chance to come closer. There was
a freshly painted sign out front, twenty dunstan Terraces. It said,
and the name Evans w Evans.

Speaker 24 (01:29:29):
Do you know it?

Speaker 38 (01:29:30):
I've never heard of what happened?

Speaker 19 (01:29:33):
Well, after a while, a motor boat came into shore
and tied up at a pier in the back of
a house. A man sort of elderly got out of
the boat and went into the house. He was carrying
a suit case. A little later, my husband came out,
only now he had the suitcase. But he didn't come
home until late that night. I was dying to ask
him what happened, what possible connection it could have with Henry. Well,

(01:29:54):
I didn't dare ask him, Leona. But things have happened
since and unless we'd do something, something drastic, maybe too late.

Speaker 13 (01:30:00):
You please for the next five minutes.

Speaker 19 (01:30:05):
Just a minute, please, I know I have another Nikola.
Are you still there, Leona?

Speaker 4 (01:30:11):
I'm here.

Speaker 13 (01:30:12):
This is one of the queerest things I've ever heard.

Speaker 19 (01:30:15):
Yes, I know, and I just didn't seem to be
able to connect Henry with it. That's why I finally
went to see him today.

Speaker 25 (01:30:21):
What did you find out?

Speaker 19 (01:30:22):
I met him for lunch, he told the captain he
was expecting a very important phone call, and then we
sat down.

Speaker 17 (01:30:29):
It's been a long time, Sally, eight years. Tell me
how's dear old dress for these days?

Speaker 19 (01:30:35):
I don't know, Henry. I haven't been there.

Speaker 17 (01:30:37):
So you're married on living here in New York.

Speaker 19 (01:30:39):
Yes, my husband's with the District Attorney's office. That's why
I wanted, Henry, what I But what I'm trying to
say is this. A few days ago, I saw a
picture of you in the newspaper Vice President.

Speaker 17 (01:30:54):
Now sounds beautiful, doesn't it? Biggest drug business in the country.

Speaker 19 (01:30:58):
I was sorry to read that the owner is well.

Speaker 17 (01:31:00):
Yes, Chicago doctors don't seem to know just what it is.
How trouble?

Speaker 19 (01:31:03):
I mean, Henry, what do you do in the drug business?

Speaker 17 (01:31:07):
Push buttons like all other Vice Presidents?

Speaker 13 (01:31:10):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (01:31:10):
But I'm serious, so am I I'm almost as important
as the office. Boy.

Speaker 19 (01:31:15):
Don't mean to be inquisitive. I only needness for your
own good.

Speaker 42 (01:31:19):
I mean, what for my own good?

Speaker 19 (01:31:21):
Well, yesterday my husband was making out.

Speaker 47 (01:31:23):
A recover your phone call, mister Stevens.

Speaker 17 (01:31:25):
Oh thanks, excuse me, say I'll be right back.

Speaker 19 (01:31:29):
Well I waited a while, leoner, but Henry didn't come
back and then for the next five minutes. Operator, But
I haven't been talking five minutes. I deposited another Nickelodeon.

Speaker 38 (01:31:39):
Sorry man, please deposit another five cents.

Speaker 19 (01:31:42):
But I haven't any more chance. No, hello, Leonard, will
have to call you back. But I only wanted to
say that Henry never came.

Speaker 49 (01:31:48):
Back to the table, and that he is in trouble.
Prince been talking to the police. I've heard him mention
Henry's name over and over again. And there's someone else
in it too. That man called you're five minutes, are up.

Speaker 4 (01:31:58):
Madam muldo.

Speaker 13 (01:32:01):
Jack not I am, sorry man, I will where's the chargers?
Put them on this ploy hop the later.

Speaker 25 (01:32:20):
A few moments.

Speaker 44 (01:32:21):
We'll bring you back too.

Speaker 36 (01:32:22):
Oh sorry, wrong number. Now here's Libby Collins, our Hollywood reporter.

Speaker 17 (01:32:28):
Well, Livy, that was a gaily evening.

Speaker 36 (01:32:29):
We all had at the premiere of twentieth Century Fox's
new picture twelve o'clock High.

Speaker 51 (01:32:34):
Yes, indeed, and for one person in particular, it must
have been the thrill of a lifetime.

Speaker 15 (01:32:39):
I'm thinking about our little lux girl, Jackie Barnes.

Speaker 36 (01:32:41):
The winner of the national contest for the prettiest fifteen
year old lux girl.

Speaker 35 (01:32:46):
Jackie was an honored guest at the premiere. She certainly
was a radiant youngster.

Speaker 15 (01:32:49):
She got more compliments than she could count that evening.

Speaker 25 (01:32:52):
Well, that's the way it is with Lux girls, Libby.

Speaker 35 (01:32:54):
You know, Jackie was telling me how impressed she was
with Twelve o'clock.

Speaker 15 (01:32:58):
High, as everyone was.

Speaker 51 (01:33:00):
It's always good news when Gregory peck haads a cast,
and this time I think he has the best role
of his career.

Speaker 36 (01:33:06):
Yes, he makes the tough commander of a wartime bomber
group an unforgettable personality.

Speaker 15 (01:33:11):
It's a gripping story. You feel intensely, the dangerous flying sequences,
the day by day strain those men endure. The whole
cast is magnificent.

Speaker 36 (01:33:20):
Twelve o'clock High is one picture living where the men
take the honors.

Speaker 51 (01:33:23):
Yes, except for Joyce Mackenzie. She plays the one feminine role.
Makes her debut in pictures as the army nurse.

Speaker 31 (01:33:30):
Mmmm, there's another lovely Lux girl.

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Now our producer, mister William Keeley.

Speaker 36 (01:34:14):
Act two of Sorry Wrong Numbers, starring Barbara Stanwick as
Leona and Burt Lancaster as Henry.

Speaker 17 (01:34:28):
It's a moment or so later through an open window.

Speaker 35 (01:34:31):
The night air drifts slowly in Leona's window, heavy with
the heat of a New York summer. Leona lies motionless
on the bed, and the sounds of the night become magnified.
The tugboats on the river, the hum of distant traffic,
the muffled roar of the train passing over a bridge,
and then suddenly.

Speaker 32 (01:34:52):
Hello, can you hear me?

Speaker 13 (01:34:56):
I can hear you from the subway station.

Speaker 38 (01:35:00):
I've just been homely owner and some more has happened.
That house on stat Ny, the one I told you about.

Speaker 25 (01:35:05):
But it was burned down this afternoon.

Speaker 38 (01:35:07):
The police have captured three men, But this Vodo Evans escape?

Speaker 14 (01:35:10):
But who is Waldo Evans?

Speaker 13 (01:35:12):
And for heaven's sake, what's his connection with my husband?

Speaker 38 (01:35:14):
I still don't know, Leoner, but I do know the
whole thing has something to do with your father's.

Speaker 13 (01:35:19):
Com Oh that's absurd. My father called me from Chicago
this afternoon.

Speaker 14 (01:35:22):
He never mentioned a word.

Speaker 13 (01:35:23):
Now, look who's been arrested and why?

Speaker 19 (01:35:26):
Three men?

Speaker 4 (01:35:27):
And I don't know why?

Speaker 13 (01:35:28):
And why do you think Henry's one of that?

Speaker 32 (01:35:30):
I didn't say that.

Speaker 38 (01:35:31):
I only know that somehow he's terribly involved.

Speaker 13 (01:35:33):
Did anyone say he was going to be arrested?

Speaker 25 (01:35:36):
No, not exactly.

Speaker 13 (01:35:36):
Then what are you talking about? Why are you calling
me like this? Are you still jealous that I took
Henry away from you? Can't you bear to see me happy?
Can't you stop telling lies and making trouble?

Speaker 25 (01:35:45):
Even nye owner I kept talking?

Speaker 13 (01:35:48):
Then, I'm right, you are just trying to make trouble.

Speaker 25 (01:35:50):
No, no jo, they're.

Speaker 38 (01:35:51):
Coming down the subway tachform. If my husband should see
me here, cleon, I've got to hang up.

Speaker 13 (01:35:56):
Hello.

Speaker 24 (01:35:58):
Oh, yes, this is Western Union.

Speaker 4 (01:36:10):
We have a message for missus Henry Stevens.

Speaker 13 (01:36:11):
This is missus Stevenson.

Speaker 39 (01:36:13):
The telegram is as follows, Darling, terribly sorry, but last
minute remembered annual drug convention tomorrow in Boston, taking next
train out back Sunday morning. Keep well all my love
and sign Henry. That is all, madam.

Speaker 4 (01:36:28):
Do you wish us to deliver a copy of the Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:36:37):
Then I wait till the train goes over the bridge
and kiss your.

Speaker 24 (01:36:39):
Windows open, machicould stretch, I.

Speaker 4 (01:36:43):
Got your message, George, Everything.

Speaker 2 (01:36:44):
Okay for tonight.

Speaker 4 (01:36:48):
Terribly sorry. Then I wait till the train goes over
the bridge. Then I wait till the.

Speaker 7 (01:37:03):
Oh.

Speaker 13 (01:37:06):
Oh oh, hello doctor Alexander. Doctor, this is missus Stevenson.

Speaker 4 (01:37:13):
Oh yes, Missus Stevenson.

Speaker 13 (01:37:14):
How I need you right away? Doctor?

Speaker 14 (01:37:16):
Please come right over.

Speaker 5 (01:37:17):
Now now, Missus Stevenson.

Speaker 13 (01:37:18):
What seems to me I said, I want you to
come over at once.

Speaker 40 (01:37:21):
I'm afraid I can't tonight, Missus Stevenson. That'll be sensible
if you just make up your mind to co operate
with your husband and me and I'll plan it back.

Speaker 14 (01:37:28):
Man, Imagine what are you talking about.

Speaker 4 (01:37:31):
Missus Stevenson. I explained everything in my.

Speaker 5 (01:37:33):
Letter over a week ago.

Speaker 14 (01:37:34):
Letter.

Speaker 25 (01:37:34):
What letter?

Speaker 40 (01:37:36):
But surely your husband hasn't he spoken to.

Speaker 4 (01:37:38):
You, Missustevens about what look cute?

Speaker 40 (01:37:42):
You've tried to compose yourself? Now, perhaps we can discuss
it tomorrow.

Speaker 13 (01:37:45):
We're discuss it now, do you hear me? Now this
very minute?

Speaker 9 (01:37:48):
Man?

Speaker 40 (01:37:49):
Have you insist upon knowing? Your husband called in my
office about ten days ago.

Speaker 5 (01:37:54):
He seemed quite concerned about your petition not you anyway?

Speaker 17 (01:37:58):
We discussed your illness at greatly. Do I still don't
know what's wrong with her?

Speaker 40 (01:38:09):
Well, mister Stevenson, your wife's silma seems to date far back.

Speaker 5 (01:38:13):
To our early childhood.

Speaker 8 (01:38:14):
Is that true?

Speaker 5 (01:38:14):
Yes?

Speaker 17 (01:38:15):
I suppose so, But you knew nothing about it when
you married her. No, not eleft for a couple of years.
You see, we were We were living with her father
then in Lake Forest, I remember early one.

Speaker 9 (01:38:27):
Why did you do that, Henry?

Speaker 13 (01:38:28):
Why did you send the maid for my handbag?

Speaker 2 (01:38:30):
Why?

Speaker 17 (01:38:30):
Because there's something in it that I need?

Speaker 15 (01:38:32):
Well?

Speaker 13 (01:38:32):
How much money do you want?

Speaker 17 (01:38:33):
I'm sorry to disappoint you, Leona, but this time it
isn't money. Simply that I wrote Ferguson's telephone number in
your notebook last night and I want to call him.

Speaker 13 (01:38:41):
We have a date for lunch you know perfectly well
you're having lunch with me today.

Speaker 17 (01:38:44):
I know, Leona, but but I won't be able to
make it. The stake with Ferguson's rather important.

Speaker 13 (01:38:48):
Oh more important than me. I suppose it.

Speaker 17 (01:38:51):
Isn't that, Leona, It's just that, well, it's about a job.

Speaker 25 (01:38:55):
You have a job.

Speaker 13 (01:38:56):
What on earth are you talking about?

Speaker 17 (01:38:58):
Leonor Leona? I have been to say this to you
for weeks. I just don't belong in your father's business.

Speaker 13 (01:39:03):
Who says you don't?

Speaker 10 (01:39:04):
I do?

Speaker 5 (01:39:05):
I say it.

Speaker 17 (01:39:06):
Looking for your father is like like running in a dream.
No matter how hard you try, you know you'll never
get anywhere. I don't want to graft off your charity
for the rest of my life. I want a chance,
a chance on my own.

Speaker 37 (01:39:16):
Only you're not getting the chance. I won't have you
trapesing around you here just because dad doesn't go.

Speaker 13 (01:39:21):
Falling all over himself. You're not going to throw away
a million dollar business like Cattera for an idle whim.
It happens to be my business too, you know. And
to think my own husband turns up his nose at it.
Now call Ferguson and tell him you've changed your mind.

Speaker 25 (01:39:33):
Go on Henry call him.

Speaker 17 (01:39:35):
But I haven't changed my mind.

Speaker 13 (01:39:37):
You're still going.

Speaker 17 (01:39:38):
Yes, someday you'll see it'll be benefitable.

Speaker 13 (01:39:40):
Henry, Henry Wading.

Speaker 17 (01:39:43):
That's a little silly, isn't it. Locking the door.

Speaker 13 (01:39:45):
You're not going, Henry, not as long as you're my husband.

Speaker 17 (01:39:48):
Come only only give me that.

Speaker 13 (01:39:49):
You can't do it.

Speaker 14 (01:39:49):
You can't do this to me.

Speaker 13 (01:39:51):
Nobody's ever done it, nobody, nobody.

Speaker 17 (01:39:53):
Will you please stop and give me that any please,
if you love me, if you love me at all, Henry,
I beg you.

Speaker 13 (01:40:00):
I'll talk to Dad. I'll do anything anything you want
on me.

Speaker 14 (01:40:02):
Don't leave me, don't go away, give me that.

Speaker 24 (01:40:05):
No, No, I won't, I won't.

Speaker 13 (01:40:07):
I won't, Henry your heading.

Speaker 40 (01:40:17):
Your husband told me, missus Stevenson, that in spite of
your opposition, he had lunched that day with mister Ferguson.
When he got home that evening, he said, your father
was waiting for him at the door, angry and worried.

Speaker 4 (01:40:28):
All right, Henry, come.

Speaker 45 (01:40:29):
In the library.

Speaker 7 (01:40:30):
I want to talk to you.

Speaker 17 (01:40:31):
What's the matter. Where's Leona?

Speaker 48 (01:40:33):
Leona's in bed. She had an attack, a heart attack,
she almost died a heart attack. Did you too, quarrel
this morning. Yes, but what are you supposed to have
lunch with Leonor?

Speaker 17 (01:40:43):
Yes? But I had to see someone else. Look, mister Carr,
if you don't mind, I'd like to see Leona. You'll
see Leonor when she is ready to see you.

Speaker 45 (01:40:50):
Just in case you don't know it.

Speaker 48 (01:40:51):
Leonor's had a hot condition since childhood. Her mother died
of it the day Leonor was born. Leona can't stand
being treated the way you did this morning. She never
has been before, and she's not going to be now
by you or anyone else.

Speaker 17 (01:41:03):
And what happens if once in a while I have
an opinion of my own.

Speaker 48 (01:41:06):
I don't give a hoot about your opinions, Henry, have them.

Speaker 17 (01:41:08):
Think anything you like. But while you're in this house,
you'll do what my daughter tells you to do. I
think you should know that the argument this morning was
about a very important decision. Don't be a fool, A
decision I made as much for the sake of leon
as futurist for my own.

Speaker 48 (01:41:20):
Was it for her that you had lunch with Ferguson?

Speaker 17 (01:41:24):
Well did you get the job?

Speaker 10 (01:41:29):
No?

Speaker 45 (01:41:31):
No, I didn't.

Speaker 17 (01:41:31):
I don't tell you why you didn't.

Speaker 48 (01:41:33):
It so happens. I'm a pretty good customer of Ferguson's.
I buy more than two million dollars worth of dies
every year.

Speaker 17 (01:41:37):
And now, who do you think.

Speaker 47 (01:41:38):
He's going to care about you or me?

Speaker 8 (01:41:41):
So that's what happened.

Speaker 48 (01:41:42):
Now, who else in Chicago would you like to have
lunch with about a job?

Speaker 37 (01:41:47):
Oh?

Speaker 47 (01:41:47):
Face up to it, Henry.

Speaker 48 (01:41:48):
Just as long as you're my son in law, you're
working for me and nobody else. If you really cared
for Leon another way I do, you'd have done the
same thing in my place.

Speaker 7 (01:42:00):
Besides, you haven't done so badly for yourself.

Speaker 17 (01:42:04):
I'll go upstairs and see Leona.

Speaker 41 (01:42:06):
She's been asking.

Speaker 42 (01:42:12):
Where missus Stevenson.

Speaker 40 (01:42:13):
As I say, we discussed all these things in my
office ten days ago, your husband and I.

Speaker 17 (01:42:18):
I asked, mister Stevenson, how long this heart attack of
yours lasted?

Speaker 5 (01:42:22):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (01:42:23):
She got well right away.

Speaker 5 (01:42:24):
Doctor.

Speaker 17 (01:42:25):
Maybe I maybe I should have pulled out then and there.
But I didn't pull out. Somehow I couldn't. My father
wasn't altogether wrong. I hadn't done too badly for myself anyway.
From that time on, I began to compromise, always with
the hope that somehow someday I'd went.

Speaker 24 (01:42:44):
Out on my own.

Speaker 17 (01:42:47):
But it wasn't long before we were right back when
was standing another attack. Yes, sir, I remember one day
in particular, I had an idea that I thought that
I hoped might help Henry.

Speaker 13 (01:42:57):
You mean you brought me here just to look at
an apartment.

Speaker 17 (01:43:00):
You'd be crazy about it, the on it. Now, come on,
let's go in and look at us.

Speaker 13 (01:43:02):
I'm not interested, Henry, but you.

Speaker 17 (01:43:04):
Haven't even seen it. Why there are terraces on all
four sides.

Speaker 14 (01:43:06):
I've heard you a thousand times.

Speaker 7 (01:43:08):
We don't need an apartment, Leon, It's not an apartment.

Speaker 5 (01:43:11):
I'm looking for.

Speaker 17 (01:43:12):
What I want is a home.

Speaker 42 (01:43:14):
Borrow.

Speaker 17 (01:43:15):
You just can't go on living with your father in Deafinitly,
I don't see why not.

Speaker 13 (01:43:18):
There's plenty of room and I like it. Besides, who's
going to pay for this little penthouse?

Speaker 5 (01:43:22):
Well?

Speaker 17 (01:43:24):
I think eventually I will, oh.

Speaker 13 (01:43:25):
Eventually, But in the meantime it's my money and I'm
the one who's going to pay for it.

Speaker 17 (01:43:31):
Okay, let's go, Henry.

Speaker 13 (01:43:35):
You're so naive, You're like a little boy with a
box of candy. I just can't throw my money away
on everything you happen to see.

Speaker 25 (01:43:41):
That the limit.

Speaker 17 (01:43:43):
I'm supposed to follow you around like a pet dog
tied to a chain. I'm supposed to like whatever.

Speaker 5 (01:43:47):
Crumbs you want to throw.

Speaker 15 (01:43:48):
Oh, don't be ridiculous.

Speaker 17 (01:43:49):
You've got me sewed up sixteen different ways, three meals
a day in pocket money.

Speaker 25 (01:43:53):
That's all you care about.

Speaker 13 (01:43:54):
That's all You married me for my money. I should
have known it.

Speaker 14 (01:43:58):
I should have known it.

Speaker 17 (01:44:00):
Stop at Leona, Please, just for once, will you listen?

Speaker 13 (01:44:02):
You hate me, You're bored with me. All you want
to do is get away.

Speaker 17 (01:44:06):
Okay, I'm bored, bored, stiff who wouldn't be with that
neat little routine you've got cooked up on me?

Speaker 42 (01:44:10):
What do I have?

Speaker 5 (01:44:11):
Nothing?

Speaker 17 (01:44:12):
Nothing on my own and even the studs on my
shirt of the mattress.

Speaker 13 (01:44:15):
And Henry, how can you say this to me?

Speaker 17 (01:44:17):
He once told me I'd love this kind of life, remember,
or do you want to know something I do that?
I love it now more than you'll ever know. But
I want to be my own boss, profiting by every
bit of it, not just the stooge on the outside
looking in.

Speaker 24 (01:44:28):
Henry, get me some water quick, listen to me.

Speaker 17 (01:44:32):
Please, It isn't that I want to be without you?
I could love you only you Try to understand that
attack kept her in the hospital only three weeks. Doctor
the time, well, I thought it was all my fault.

(01:44:53):
But no matter what I did, her attacks increased in
violence and became more frequent. A year ago, you wan it, well,
she just seemed to give up hope of ever getting well.
She took to her bed more orless trimiently. It was
my idea to come to New York and see you.
The doctor in Chicago said she didn't have much of
a chance anyway. We rented the house on Suon Place,
and here we are ready. It's been more and more

(01:45:15):
like a nightmare. Mister Stephenson.

Speaker 40 (01:45:19):
There's absolutely nothing wrong organically with your wife's heart, nothing wrong.
I have examined her thoroughly, and what you've just told
me confirms what I have thought from the stone, and
that is her condition is mostly mental.

Speaker 8 (01:45:36):
Mental.

Speaker 17 (01:45:37):
She's what we call a cardiac neurotic.

Speaker 40 (01:45:39):
Her attacks are brought on by her emotions, the lack
of control of frustrations. Whole thing is probably quite unconscious
on her part. Now I'm not seeing your wife isn't sick? Mentally,
she is sick and her attacks aren't really enough, but
given the proper treatment, she may snap out of it entirely. Well,
i'll i'll holl on her tomorrow as a psychiatrist. I

(01:46:02):
wanted to see doctor. I wish you could wait a
few days. I'd like to think this over, think it over.

Speaker 17 (01:46:08):
Yes, you see, she's so easily upset, and I think that,
well that maybe I ought to puppear, you know, get
used to the idea.

Speaker 46 (01:46:14):
Well, a few days more on this won't matter, I suppose,
unless unless you wanted to write a letter. It might
make it easy for her to take. And well, it
would give me more time to talk to her. Well,
it's extremely delicate matter, mister Stevenson. But if you think
you can manage it, let's find it that way. Give
me a ring in a couple of days. Meanwhile, I'll
write the letter.

Speaker 17 (01:46:35):
Thanks doctor, thanks for everything.

Speaker 40 (01:46:43):
Well that's exactly the way I left things, Missus Stevenson.
Ten days ago, as your husband requested, I wrote you
the letter.

Speaker 25 (01:46:50):
And I'm telling you I never received a letter.

Speaker 5 (01:46:52):
Well, let's not worry about that. Now I've told you everything,
and now I want you to relax.

Speaker 14 (01:46:59):
Yes, yes, it's here.

Speaker 15 (01:47:02):
Do liars?

Speaker 29 (01:47:05):
Liars?

Speaker 4 (01:47:05):
Liar liars?

Speaker 25 (01:47:18):
Hello?

Speaker 14 (01:47:19):
Who is it?

Speaker 25 (01:47:21):
I've been turning to get you with. Your line has
been busy. Has mister Stevenson come alme?

Speaker 24 (01:47:25):
No?

Speaker 13 (01:47:26):
No, he isn't here.

Speaker 14 (01:47:27):
He won't be back until Sunday.

Speaker 13 (01:47:29):
And will you please please tell me what this is
all about?

Speaker 14 (01:47:32):
Why are you calling him?

Speaker 25 (01:47:33):
Who are you? I've already told you, mister Stevenson, and
I'm very sorry if I have annoyance, But there are
names and addresses that are very important for mister Stevenson
to know. So if you will be good enough to
take the following.

Speaker 13 (01:47:45):
Message, what are you talking about? I can't take any
messages now, If.

Speaker 25 (01:47:48):
You'll please tell mister Stephenson but the house at twenty
dunstan Tellis has been burned down. I burned it down.
You you want also that I do not believe it
was mister I know the name is spelled him O
R A N O. Who betrayed us? To please? And
since miss Morano has been arrested by the District Attorney's office,

(01:48:10):
there is no necessity for the money.

Speaker 13 (01:48:11):
Oh this is fantastic.

Speaker 14 (01:48:14):
What money? Who's Lorano?

Speaker 25 (01:48:17):
Tell mister Stevenson that I escaped, and I am now
coming hack in my address. However, I do not expect
to be here after midnight. If he wishes to find me,
he may call me her phone number Bowie two one
thousand and Now, if.

Speaker 13 (01:48:32):
You'll be so good as to repeat you're insane. Do
you realize I'm a terribly snick woman.

Speaker 25 (01:48:37):
I'm very sorry for you, Missus Stephenson. I don't know.
Perhaps would be better to tell you the two facts
I mean now before they are gobbled by the police.
Maybe then you'll understand. But if you're here, I don't
know what or whom to believe.

Speaker 13 (01:48:52):
So much has happened to me tonight, and I'm sick.
My doctor says, I will tell you all I know. Missus,
Well tell me then tell me.

Speaker 53 (01:49:00):
It started a year ago at your father's factory in Chicago.
You see, I had worked at your father's company for
many years.

Speaker 25 (01:49:11):
I'm a chemist. Anyway, late one afternoon, your husband walking.

Speaker 2 (01:49:28):
He paused. Now for station identification.

Speaker 17 (01:49:30):
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.

Speaker 36 (01:49:52):
In a few moments, we'll continue with Act three of
Sorry Wrong Number. Our guest tonight is Barbara Ann Newtson,
Young Paramount Stallet aren't you glad?

Speaker 5 (01:50:02):
Barbara?

Speaker 36 (01:50:03):
You were present at a certain Little of Theater production
one evening.

Speaker 54 (01:50:06):
A lucky evening for me, mister Keeley, A talent scout
saw me arranged for a.

Speaker 17 (01:50:10):
Screen test, and here you are in picture.

Speaker 54 (01:50:13):
Yes, and from now on I'm going to work like
mad Oh.

Speaker 13 (01:50:17):
It must be.

Speaker 54 (01:50:17):
Wonderful to be a great actress, like like Olivia de Havlin.

Speaker 25 (01:50:21):
I gather you've seen her new picture as The Heiress.

Speaker 54 (01:50:23):
Not once, but three times. I can understand why the
New York Motion Picture critics gave mister Havelin the award
for the best performance of the year.

Speaker 5 (01:50:32):
And how did you like Montgomery Cliff.

Speaker 17 (01:50:33):
There's the money conscious suitor in The Heiress.

Speaker 54 (01:50:35):
He's splendid, so dashing and romantic too. And Ralph Richardson
as a stern father is simply perfect.

Speaker 36 (01:50:42):
Do you remember the scene where he compares his unpopular
daughter with her sought outter cousin.

Speaker 25 (01:50:47):
Oh?

Speaker 54 (01:50:47):
Yes, the party scene where Mona Freeman is the reigning bell.
She's like a dressden doll, so blonde and dainty.

Speaker 52 (01:50:55):
Those lavish costumes of the Crinoline era suit her beauty
very well.

Speaker 54 (01:50:59):
Yes, mister Kennedy and She's just as delicate and lovely
in real life, always so beautifully groomed.

Speaker 31 (01:51:06):
Real lux loveliness.

Speaker 12 (01:51:07):
Huh exactly.

Speaker 54 (01:51:09):
Mura Freeman gives her complexion daily luck soap care, and
she's really keen about the new bath size cake.

Speaker 52 (01:51:15):
Nine out of ten screens stars say they're delighted with
this new product of Liver Brothers Company. For a luxurious, refreshing,
relaxing beauty bath, you simply can't buy a finer soap.

Speaker 15 (01:51:27):
That's the way I feel.

Speaker 19 (01:51:29):
I love the nice fragments that leaves on the skin.

Speaker 52 (01:51:32):
Thank you, miss Barbara and Nudsen. Women who use the
generous new bath Size Lux Toilet soap will agree. It's rich,
abundant lather and delicate flower like fragrance make a wonderfully
refreshing beauty bath so for all over lux loveliness. Why
not get the satin smooth bath Size Lux Toilet Soap tomorrow.

(01:51:53):
Here's our producer, mister William Keeley.

Speaker 36 (01:51:56):
The curtain rises on the third act of Sorry Wrong Number,
star playing Barbara Stanwick as Leona and Bert Lancaster as Henry.

Speaker 4 (01:52:10):
I get ed from the kitchen window.

Speaker 40 (01:52:12):
I wait till the train goes over the bridget sleven fifteen.

Speaker 42 (01:52:15):
You've got it all straight, bar eleven fifteen.

Speaker 25 (01:52:24):
The clock on the table says ten minutes to eleven o'clock.

Speaker 36 (01:52:28):
But Leona Stephenson, clutching the telephone, listens with mounting the
wilderment and fright.

Speaker 5 (01:52:34):
The voice of a man named Waldo Evans.

Speaker 4 (01:52:38):
Yes, missus Stevenson, your osma came into the laboratory.

Speaker 25 (01:52:41):
I started asking me questions the clocks for us and
how we prepare them.

Speaker 17 (01:52:48):
Well, this is very interesting, mister Evans. So this is
where the formula for all our products are developed here.

Speaker 25 (01:52:55):
That's right.

Speaker 17 (01:52:56):
Some of these drugs must be very valuable.

Speaker 25 (01:52:58):
Oh yes, missus Stephenson, very valuable.

Speaker 17 (01:53:01):
See and tell me what do you do with them?

Speaker 25 (01:53:05):
Well, they go into the various cartel products, sir.

Speaker 17 (01:53:10):
And you're the man in charge here.

Speaker 25 (01:53:11):
Huh, yes, sir, I see.

Speaker 17 (01:53:14):
Well, thanks for your time, mister Evans. I was just curious,
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 55 (01:53:18):
Good night, mister Stevenson. That was my first meeting with
your husband, mister Stevenson, And from time to time the
laboratory and visit me, and one night when it.

Speaker 25 (01:53:34):
Was storming, he offered to drive me home.

Speaker 17 (01:53:40):
So you're a bachelor, mister Evans, Well, I didn't know that.

Speaker 25 (01:53:42):
Yes, sir, I live in a rooming house on Chestnut Street, a.

Speaker 17 (01:53:46):
Man all by himself, no responsibilities. Tell me why do
you work so hard.

Speaker 25 (01:53:50):
Well to tell you the truth, sir? Because because I
have a hope, an ideal. You might say, in a
few years, I hope to retire. Oh, I have it
all answer, I'm going back to England. I hope to
raise horses, sir. Not raised horses, just horse sir.

Speaker 17 (01:54:08):
Do you care for horses, mister Stevenson, Well, I'm afraid
I haven't thought very much about them.

Speaker 25 (01:54:12):
Then you're missing a great deal. Well that's my hope, sir,
to live there quietly and raise horses.

Speaker 17 (01:54:20):
Why have you waited this long?

Speaker 7 (01:54:21):
Money?

Speaker 25 (01:54:22):
Money, of course, but someday I'll why.

Speaker 17 (01:54:25):
Wait until your role? What good is a dream when
you're too old to enjoy it?

Speaker 25 (01:54:28):
Oh, I've thought about mister Stephenson. I suppose the zest
does come out of things with the encroachments of old age?

Speaker 5 (01:54:34):
Are you talking, Wally?

Speaker 17 (01:54:35):
My motto is if you want something, to get it now, it's.

Speaker 25 (01:54:39):
It's the next turn of the right. Mister Stevenson, just
nuts to you.

Speaker 17 (01:54:42):
Know, Wally, Wally, I've been thinking there might be a
way out. A way out is to have you a
little place in England. Everything you want, indeed, sir, and
all you have to do is to make a little
mistake every now and then, mistake in the laboratory. I've
been checking on it, Wally. The way you're set up,
no one would ever.

Speaker 25 (01:55:03):
Know, mister Stephenson. Eh, I better say good night, sir.

Speaker 17 (01:55:07):
Wait a minute, the differences in the amounts of those
raw drugs you handle, he'd be so slight that nobody
but yourself would ever know.

Speaker 25 (01:55:13):
I don't understand, Sam.

Speaker 17 (01:55:15):
Look what you've done for the company all these years,
and what have you gotten out of it. Not a
tenth of the salary you should be getting. No, No, please,
mister Stevens, don't be silly. I've already talked it over
to someone else. Talk it although with whom, a man
named Morano. He can have all the raw drugs that
we can get, and then we split you Marano and.

Speaker 25 (01:55:33):
I, mister Stephenson, I just can't believe it. You're a
young man, vice president of the company, a wonderful future
ahead of you.

Speaker 17 (01:55:41):
Don't make me laugh. Yes, I'm young, young enough not
to waste my life and dreaming. There are things I
want to do, big things, and the only way to
do them. I'm sorry why I thought you were my
kind of a person. I trusted you it what if
we were caught? Why should we be caught. We'll make
our pile and stop before anyone even get this is
what we're on. Marano knows just what to do. Besides,

(01:56:04):
for once, there's an advantage in being cultural.

Speaker 8 (01:56:06):
Son in law.

Speaker 17 (01:56:08):
Yes, yes, I see, I thought you would, Willie Well partner.

Speaker 25 (01:56:15):
We're in business, and so we started, missus Stevenson, a
systematic plan of nobbing your father's company. By September of
last year, I have thanked the sum of seven thousand,
five hundred dollars. But then I received a memorandum from

(01:56:36):
the person in office.

Speaker 17 (01:56:37):
Will you please stop your whinning? Did you read the memo?
You're not fired. They're simply transferring you to the New
Jersey plant.

Speaker 25 (01:56:43):
But they must suspect this is a warning. I'm sure
of it. I'm through mister Stevenson here.

Speaker 17 (01:56:48):
You won't fool We've been stooges up till now. Morano's
played this for suckers. This is our chance to get
rid of me. That transfer of yours is just what
I've been looking for. I don't understand. I'll tell Marana
you've been fired, that the deals all washed up. Meanwhile,
you're back there in New Jersey. We'll operate on our own,
and we'll split Morano's share between us.

Speaker 25 (01:57:06):
But I'm just a chemist, mister Stevenson. I don't know
anything about disposing of drugs.

Speaker 17 (01:57:09):
I do, I know all about it now.

Speaker 8 (01:57:11):
Listen.

Speaker 17 (01:57:12):
The coutural plant in New Jersey is in Bayone, and
just across the bay from Bayone is Staten Island. I
happen to know a little.

Speaker 25 (01:57:19):
About stat About six weeks later we began operations missus
Stevenson on Staten Island, New York. My headquarters was an
old abandoned house twenty dunstan Terrace. There, twice a week
after work, I would come from your father's plant in Bayone,
and there mister Stevenson would telephone me or mail me

(01:57:41):
his instructions from Chicago. A little over three months ago,
mister Stevenson arrived in New York. A few nights later,
when I went to twenty dunstan Terrace, I found that
your husband was not alone.

Speaker 10 (01:57:54):
Come right in.

Speaker 31 (01:57:55):
We've been waiting for you.

Speaker 17 (01:57:57):
Weally, this is Morano.

Speaker 25 (01:57:59):
Morano.

Speaker 56 (01:58:00):
You didn't expect me, did you, mister Evans well needed in,
mister Stephenson.

Speaker 2 (01:58:04):
But here I am.

Speaker 42 (01:58:05):
You see, I have ways of finding things out.

Speaker 56 (01:58:07):
For instance, ever since the two of you broke off
our present little association is your carro, I find you
accumulated a rather large bank account.

Speaker 42 (01:58:15):
All right, what about it?

Speaker 17 (01:58:17):
I'm warning you right now, Marna. Don't you try any
funny for the relax.

Speaker 25 (01:58:19):
I'm wanting you I to relax.

Speaker 56 (01:58:23):
Sure, you're a big, strong guy, mister Stevens, but messing
me up won't get you anywhere. You see, I merely
represent an organization. But we had what you might call
a board meeting, and the vote was seven to one
against you. And that's pretty serious. That's like a death sentence.

Speaker 17 (01:58:40):
Cut a shot, Manda. What do you want, mister Stevenson?

Speaker 25 (01:58:43):
Please give them what they want. Mister Mallano, you can
take everything I've got.

Speaker 42 (01:58:46):
Shut up now.

Speaker 56 (01:58:47):
If you were to turned back what you'd accumulated, mister
Stevenson and pay us two hundred thousand dollars for our
injured feelings, I might get the board.

Speaker 8 (01:58:55):
To reconsider the decision.

Speaker 17 (01:58:57):
You know as well as I do. I don't have
that kind of money.

Speaker 56 (01:59:00):
You have such wonderful connections, A milionaire father in law,
very rich wife, somebody.

Speaker 42 (01:59:05):
Good dut does?

Speaker 17 (01:59:06):
What do you suppose I went into this record, but.

Speaker 42 (01:59:08):
I thought I read somewhere about your wife being sick,
very sick.

Speaker 45 (01:59:13):
What about it?

Speaker 56 (01:59:14):
Well, she has life insurance, hasn't she made out in
your name? I'm pretty sure the boy would give you, say,
ninety days to raise the money on something like that.
For ninety days, isn't that what the doctor in Chicago
said she wouldn't get better.

Speaker 5 (01:59:29):
Yes, that's what he said.

Speaker 8 (01:59:30):
But what's that?

Speaker 42 (01:59:33):
Well, just a little lie on you to make it league.

Speaker 56 (01:59:35):
You see, everything can be straightened out without any trouble,
without any rough stuff.

Speaker 17 (01:59:40):
I suppose something happened, but my wife didn't. I mean,
I mean, if she got.

Speaker 42 (01:59:44):
Better, I wouldn't worry about that. Mister Stevens, You've got
a doctor's word for it happens. They know their business.
So here, take the pen and sign the piece of paper.

Speaker 25 (02:00:00):
But I have just told you, missus Stevenson took place
three months ago. I need not describe mister Stephen Stevenson's
distress when the IOU became due last Wednesday. As I
understand it, mister Stevenson saw mister Millano, but his request
when extension was refused. And now, inasmuch as I am
already given you the final message, I believe the rest

(02:00:21):
explains itself quite simple.

Speaker 14 (02:00:23):
Mister Evans, Where is my husband? Where is mister Stevenson?

Speaker 25 (02:00:26):
Now? I wish I knew perhaps if you tried them bowing.

Speaker 13 (02:00:29):
The bowering number.

Speaker 14 (02:00:30):
What bowery number?

Speaker 4 (02:00:31):
The one I gave you when I first started to
talk missus Stevenson.

Speaker 25 (02:00:35):
I'm afraid I must ask.

Speaker 41 (02:00:36):
You to check them on.

Speaker 10 (02:00:36):
I can't.

Speaker 7 (02:00:37):
I can't.

Speaker 25 (02:00:38):
I will beat it once more. Point one the house
at twenty dunstan Terrace was burned down this afternoon.

Speaker 4 (02:00:44):
I did it.

Speaker 25 (02:00:45):
Point two I escaped. Point three mister Millanno has been arrested,
so it will not be necessary to raise the money.
Point four it was not mister mllanne who told the
police just give me.

Speaker 14 (02:00:55):
The bowery number, the one for my husband.

Speaker 25 (02:00:57):
Point five I am half my address now, but I'm leaving.
Maybe found.

Speaker 13 (02:01:04):
To one thousand.

Speaker 4 (02:01:06):
Yes, thank you very much.

Speaker 15 (02:01:12):
M sorry too, one thousand, Verry two one thout he.

Speaker 13 (02:01:29):
This is mister Stevenson. There, Stephenson, mister Henry Stevenson. I
was told to call by mister Evans.

Speaker 4 (02:01:36):
Stephens.

Speaker 14 (02:01:37):
Yes, yes, Stephenson, Hello, yes, no, he's not here man.

Speaker 13 (02:01:46):
Oh well, mister Evans said he might be expected. Could
I could I leave a message?

Speaker 17 (02:01:53):
This is your idea?

Speaker 14 (02:01:54):
But oh please please help me.

Speaker 13 (02:01:57):
What number is this?

Speaker 14 (02:01:58):
What am I calling on?

Speaker 10 (02:02:02):
Oh?

Speaker 24 (02:02:05):
Oh?

Speaker 25 (02:02:09):
Oh, operator, please.

Speaker 13 (02:02:15):
Give me the police quickly. No, no, wait a minute,
give me the hospital. I can't be alone. It's eleven o'clock. Hurry, please,
it's eleven o'clock. Please, operator, I can't hear you. Are
you calling the hospital?

Speaker 14 (02:02:30):
Operator?

Speaker 24 (02:02:31):
Operator?

Speaker 13 (02:02:33):
Is this a hospital? I want the nurses registry. I
want to hire a trained nurse immediately for the night.
I am sorry, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 14 (02:02:41):
I've got to have a nurse.

Speaker 8 (02:02:42):
I understand that I'm.

Speaker 13 (02:02:44):
Sick and I'm all alone, oh, alone, in this horrible
empty house. I overheard a conversation, a telephone conversation about
a murder, a murder to be committed at eleven fifteen.
I don't know what's happened to my husband. If something
isn't done. I'm a right.

Speaker 49 (02:03:02):
What was that?

Speaker 24 (02:03:03):
What the.

Speaker 13 (02:03:06):
Click chase?

Speaker 15 (02:03:06):
Now on my telephone? As though someone had lifted the
hook of the extension downstairs. I did not hear this,
well I did.

Speaker 14 (02:03:17):
There's someone in.

Speaker 13 (02:03:17):
This house for someone downstairs, and they're listening to me.

Speaker 14 (02:03:22):
Now, who is it?

Speaker 57 (02:03:26):
Who's done?

Speaker 24 (02:03:26):
There?

Speaker 22 (02:03:28):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (02:03:31):
Hello, calling missus, Henry Stevenson.

Speaker 13 (02:03:35):
I can't talk now, call back later.

Speaker 25 (02:03:37):
I have a call from mister Stephenson.

Speaker 13 (02:03:40):
Did you say, mister Stevenson, mister Stevenson from New Haven?

Speaker 4 (02:03:44):
Do you wish to accept the call that?

Speaker 24 (02:03:45):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (02:03:46):
Yes, yes, here's.

Speaker 9 (02:03:50):
Hen Henry. Where are you?

Speaker 4 (02:03:56):
Did you get yes?

Speaker 25 (02:03:57):
Yes, I got it?

Speaker 4 (02:03:59):
Couldn't my phone before I left?

Speaker 14 (02:04:02):
Well, I'm not all right.

Speaker 13 (02:04:03):
I'm there's someone in this house, Henry, right now, I'm
sure of it. Well, of course I'm alone.

Speaker 14 (02:04:12):
Who else could be here?

Speaker 13 (02:04:13):
You promise to be home at six o'clock.

Speaker 14 (02:04:17):
I've been alone for hours.

Speaker 13 (02:04:19):
I've been afraid of every kind of horrible call. And Henry, Henry,
I want you to call the police.

Speaker 14 (02:04:24):
You hear me, tell him to come over at once.

Speaker 5 (02:04:27):
You know you're perfectly safe.

Speaker 4 (02:04:28):
The doors are all locked, and as a private patrolman,
you're right in the heart.

Speaker 14 (02:04:31):
Of New York City in the phone there, Henry, Henry,
what do you know? What do you know about a
man named Waldo Evans?

Speaker 12 (02:04:41):
What?

Speaker 13 (02:04:43):
I had a long talk with him just a little
while ago about you.

Speaker 5 (02:04:48):
Oh.

Speaker 14 (02:04:48):
He told me some terrible things. Some of it sounded insane,
but some of it.

Speaker 25 (02:04:54):
Maybe it was true.

Speaker 4 (02:04:58):
I'll just try to forget.

Speaker 13 (02:05:00):
He said you'd been stealing from Dad's company. Is that true, Henry. Well,
he left some kind of a message for you, that
the house on Staten Island had been burned down, and
that the police knew everything, and that Morano had been arrested.
And Henry, are you still there? They said you were

(02:05:21):
a criminal, Henry, a desperate man, and Heaven said, Kevin
said you wanted me to die.

Speaker 14 (02:05:29):
And that money, Henry, that money does people wanted.

Speaker 13 (02:05:33):
Why didn't you ask me for it. I'd have given
it to you.

Speaker 14 (02:05:36):
Gladly if it.

Speaker 13 (02:05:37):
Would have saved your life. I'll give it to you now,
if it isn't too late.

Speaker 14 (02:05:43):
I didn't mean to be so awful to you, Henry.

Speaker 13 (02:05:45):
I only did it because I loved you, and I
thought you didn't love me, and that you go away
and leave me. Yes, will you forgive me first, Henry,
will you please her?

Speaker 4 (02:05:59):
Please?

Speaker 25 (02:06:00):
I can't.

Speaker 14 (02:06:02):
I can't get out of bank.

Speaker 13 (02:06:08):
I can't move, Henry, I'm too frightened that I.

Speaker 58 (02:06:12):
Otherwise, You've only got three more minutes time, Henry.

Speaker 13 (02:06:24):
I can hear what steps somebody's coming up his stead?
Walk the floor. No, I can't, Henry, Oh, Henry saying
me the train. I can hear the train. It's near
the bridge.

Speaker 4 (02:06:41):
Please he'll find out from.

Speaker 8 (02:06:49):
No.

Speaker 13 (02:06:50):
No, please, please don't.

Speaker 54 (02:06:53):
Oh please please, I'll give you anything, please No.

Speaker 31 (02:06:59):
No, ready, sorry, wrong number.

Speaker 36 (02:08:14):
For a thrilling experience in the theater. Our thanks go
to this evening stars, Barbara Stanwick and Bert Lancaster. They're
coming downstage now for a curtain call. You know, it's
good to have you both back, and.

Speaker 15 (02:08:26):
It's nice to be back.

Speaker 17 (02:08:27):
Bill says, you got him in bed, with the audience clavering.

Speaker 38 (02:08:31):
In what way?

Speaker 7 (02:08:32):
Well, we keep getting letters and asking why.

Speaker 36 (02:08:36):
You haven't been here for so long, and we have
to keep explaining that you've made one picture right after
another with no time off in between.

Speaker 37 (02:08:43):
One thing is sure, Bill, I haven't forgotten a lux
radio theater or Lux soap.

Speaker 15 (02:08:48):
It's my favorite complexion. Can has been for years.

Speaker 17 (02:08:51):
And that's one of the nicest compliments Lux has ever received. Barbara,
tell me if you can.

Speaker 25 (02:09:00):
Drops like how many?

Speaker 17 (02:09:03):
He says, She sounds like Andy Devine. Tell me, Barbara,
how many pictures have you made that still aren't released?
And what's the first one we'll see?

Speaker 15 (02:09:14):
The hell Wallace production, the Helma Jordan.

Speaker 36 (02:09:17):
Oh, Yes, Wendell Corey is in that tool. You know,
when you and Hal Wallace get together on a picture,
we know it's going to be a hit.

Speaker 5 (02:09:25):
Bird.

Speaker 17 (02:09:25):
I hear you are off for New York in a
few days. Yes, I've just finished my own normal fr
production of The Hawk and the Arrow at Warner Brothers.
And now I'm going to New York too, see a
few shows and take a brief vacation.

Speaker 36 (02:09:36):
Well, your last vacation you spent out on the road
with a circus is an acrobat.

Speaker 17 (02:09:41):
Nothing like that this time, not unless you have to
be an acroback to get tickets to South Pacific, Bill,
tell me what's next Monday's show.

Speaker 36 (02:09:49):
Next week, Burke, one of America's best love characters, will
return to this stage. The gentleman I am talking about
is mister Belvidere and Our play is the twentieth cents
Fox hit Mister Belvidere.

Speaker 25 (02:10:02):
Goes to College.

Speaker 36 (02:10:04):
Naturally, we'll have the original mister Belvidere here to play
the part, the amazing Clifton Webb. And besides mister Webb,
we have two other stars, Colleen Gray and the popular
Robert Stack.

Speaker 44 (02:10:17):
A great comedy and.

Speaker 17 (02:10:18):
The return of mister Belvidere.

Speaker 25 (02:10:20):
All on X Monday nine.

Speaker 15 (02:10:22):
Everybody will love it.

Speaker 25 (02:10:23):
Bell good night, good night, good night, and thank you,
ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 59 (02:10:32):
There's a great deal of vague and sentimental talk about
the American economic system, but there often cold facts. Since
nineteen ten, we have increased the income of each household
from twenty four hundred dollars to about four thousand, and
the figures are in dollars of the same purchasing power.

(02:10:53):
We've done it by increased production, and yet we work
eighteen hours less each week for this extra money.

Speaker 17 (02:10:59):
This is the miracle of America.

Speaker 36 (02:11:07):
Leave her Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap,
join me in inviting you do with us again next
month evening, when the Lux Radio Theater presents Clipton Webb,
Robert Stack, and Colleen Gray in Mister Belvedere Goes to College.

Speaker 14 (02:11:23):
This is William Perrey saying good night.

Speaker 42 (02:11:25):
To you Ron Hollywood.

Speaker 2 (02:11:33):
Parkay was adapted by S. H.

Speaker 52 (02:11:34):
Barnett and our music was directed by Lors Silburts.

Speaker 15 (02:11:44):
Here's a fashion flag from Hollywood.

Speaker 51 (02:11:46):
Barbara Standrick has one of those smart, new finally pleaded
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she insists on lux Flake's care for it, just as
she does for all her lovely langerie. One of her
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(02:12:09):
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Speaker 52 (02:12:26):
This is your announcer, John Milton Kennedy, reminding you to
join us again next Monday night to hear the Lux
Radio Theater presentation of Mister Belvidere Goes to College, starring
Clifton Webb, Colleen Gray and Robert Stack Stay tune for
My Friend Irma, which follows over these same stations as
the CBS for Columbia Broadcasting.

Speaker 1 (02:13:05):
Man lives in a world of time and space.

Speaker 17 (02:13:10):
He lives in the spectra of the universe.

Speaker 1 (02:13:14):
When adventures beyond this limit, he is in the unknown,
a realm where strange forces are brought into play.

Speaker 45 (02:13:25):
When a man.

Speaker 1 (02:13:25):
Attempts to misuse these forts, he is sometimes destroy This
is a the Faris Network presents in the special performance

(02:13:52):
Macabre Tonight's Story.

Speaker 30 (02:13:57):
Weekend.

Speaker 1 (02:14:11):
I can hardly stand to think about. It's such a
horror of a nightmare. Keep telling myself, maybe it'll help
to talk, Try to remember, put the pieces back together again.
The horror and the terror will never go away. The
dead cannot come back. It all began, I believe, about
two weeks ago the night of the medical Students graduation
party fell at the home of a fiance Gloria Dubnet

(02:14:35):
Rais Stapleton, John Tyler. Gloria and I were the honor guests,
also horror instructor, the well known experimental scientist, doctor Peter Tartanau.
Tartano and I didn't exactly get along. He suspected I
knew too much about the gaylord case, which connected him
with experiments on a hidden island. Also his unusual interest
in Gloria as a parent to me give to no

(02:14:56):
one else, and formed a further basis for a strong
mutual dislike. Tortano didn't think that I qualified as a
medical student, but he had to admit I passed the exams,
so here I was. The party was in full swing
when I arrived. Everyone was glad to see me except Totano. Right, check,
what tells you I party it all without the three
of us together, ran John. Gosh, No, hi, dig boy,

(02:15:17):
we thought you weren't coming. You got to have the
old team together before the fun starts, right hope, Look
you chips, come closer. I have a bit of news
to tell you.

Speaker 17 (02:15:25):
See, Ray, you should.

Speaker 1 (02:15:26):
You have the biggest years in the lot. If there's
any news flying around, you're the first to hear it.

Speaker 30 (02:15:30):
Shoot, what is it?

Speaker 17 (02:15:31):
Ray?

Speaker 5 (02:15:32):
It's like this.

Speaker 1 (02:15:33):
Tortano's about to spring a surprise on us, killing you
know how tight this to the old guilt is?

Speaker 29 (02:15:40):
Well.

Speaker 1 (02:15:40):
He wants to do something for his prize grats. Nothing extravagant,
just a weekend of his plays or something.

Speaker 24 (02:15:46):
Like that.

Speaker 1 (02:15:47):
What plays I don't know exactly. It wouldn't be his
small room for the university, so it must be his
other days, the one on the island. Yes, yes, I
suppose you're right.

Speaker 9 (02:15:55):
The island.

Speaker 1 (02:15:57):
Gosh, you really think he'll take us out there? I
don't know of anyone who's ever seen it. Now, downt
let On, I told you about Wow Toltano's island retreat.
They say no one else has ever been on the island,
and that he spends his weekends out there all alone,
doing hot I want.

Speaker 17 (02:16:13):
Oh, I don't know if.

Speaker 1 (02:16:14):
He's working on something. Why go way out there?

Speaker 4 (02:16:17):
Why not at the university?

Speaker 1 (02:16:18):
Follows there's something about that island you should know. Steady, Dick,
here comes that lovely thing you'll engage to. Oh hi, Gloria, Hi,
what took you so long?

Speaker 22 (02:16:28):
Dick?

Speaker 13 (02:16:29):
I was afraid you weren't coming. Gloria, don't talk, Just
dance with me.

Speaker 19 (02:16:37):
It's nice to be in your arms.

Speaker 15 (02:16:39):
Again, sir.

Speaker 1 (02:16:40):
Yeah, where's your mother in.

Speaker 60 (02:16:43):
The kitchen fixing refreshments?

Speaker 13 (02:16:46):
Doctor Tortano's helping.

Speaker 4 (02:16:47):
Oh, hey, Dick, aren't you drinking?

Speaker 1 (02:16:50):
Huh?

Speaker 8 (02:16:51):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:16:51):
Sure what you got John Scotch and soda?

Speaker 29 (02:16:57):
Why are you expensive?

Speaker 22 (02:16:58):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (02:16:59):
Coming up?

Speaker 1 (02:17:01):
Warriam arrium, What is it doing? I still have my
internship and there won't be much money.

Speaker 12 (02:17:11):
Don't talk, just dance.

Speaker 13 (02:17:14):
Won't be married as soon as.

Speaker 1 (02:17:15):
You like, Darling, I love you so much, I say,
break it up, you two. You'd think you were the
only ones at this party. You don't mind I'm cutting in.
Take your hands off this charming wentz Richard. She's mine
for a spell and thanks for the loader. All right, ray,
but only for one dance. The lady is reserved.

Speaker 42 (02:17:39):
Service.

Speaker 1 (02:17:39):
Not only fix his drink, but got to bring it
to him. Thanks John, And just in time, here comes
Toutana out of the kitchen. I think he's ready to talk.
It looks as if he's had a few too My friends,
my friends may haven't cuie for a few months.

Speaker 42 (02:17:54):
I like to make an announcement.

Speaker 1 (02:17:56):
I'll give you a proper introduction doctor. Now, ladies and gentlemen,
I give you a man whose reputation as a doctor
of medicine and experimental scientist has a stunt of the
medical profession, our faithful instructor these past four years, the
man of the hour, Doctor Peter Tauta.

Speaker 61 (02:18:15):
Thank you, Thank you, my friends. It has been the
most difficult year for all of us. We have worked
hard and accomplished much. Now I think it is time
to propose a little holiday. So I am inviting you
as my house guests for the weekend. There's plenty of room,

(02:18:38):
ten bedrooms, ten baths, three stories, plenty of space for everyone.

Speaker 1 (02:18:44):
Wait a minute, where is this place? What's the medicalrane?

Speaker 8 (02:18:48):
What are you suspicious of?

Speaker 1 (02:18:49):
Where is your place? Doctor?

Speaker 61 (02:18:51):
Thirty miles from here, there's a swimming pool, tennis court,
golf court.

Speaker 31 (02:18:56):
Where is it?

Speaker 24 (02:18:58):
Please?

Speaker 2 (02:18:58):
Don't be quite all right, my dear.

Speaker 31 (02:19:00):
He has a right to know.

Speaker 1 (02:19:01):
And it's on an island twenty miles off the coast,
an island I deal for relaxation. I assure you every
detail for your comfort has been attended to. That it
has well, you can count me out after four years
of hell with you.

Speaker 29 (02:19:16):
You didn't make a four one weekend good.

Speaker 60 (02:19:21):
So sorry, doctor Tortano. Dick's been studying too hard. He
didn't mean what he said.

Speaker 61 (02:19:26):
Of course not of course night, he'll change his mind.
It both leaves it for tomorrow afternoon. I know he
won't want to miss our last party together.

Speaker 1 (02:19:44):
I knew Tortono better than the others.

Speaker 5 (02:19:46):
This was no idle plan.

Speaker 1 (02:19:48):
Tortano never wasted time in relaxation. He often said, you
have to make every minute count if you want to
achieve success. I finally went to my room end the sleep.

Speaker 62 (02:20:05):
Hello, Dick, what the hell's wrong? You're still in bed?
That's the time, noon Friday. You'd better get moving. Don't
forget the tennis recket.

Speaker 1 (02:20:14):
I told you I'm not sens ol chap. We've all
decided it'll be lots of fun, just what the doctor ordered.

Speaker 62 (02:20:21):
Yes, well, gloriou lawyer. Yeah, she's going along, she's right head.

Speaker 60 (02:20:26):
Yes man, Hi, darling pack, We're going to have a
glorious weekend.

Speaker 1 (02:20:33):
Lauria, you listen to me, Dick.

Speaker 13 (02:20:35):
We need some fun together now. If you're going to be.

Speaker 33 (02:20:38):
An old killed joy, I'll just hate you, Lauria.

Speaker 1 (02:20:41):
Tartano is no generous soul. If he invited us out there,
he's got a damn good reason.

Speaker 29 (02:20:45):
Please see.

Speaker 60 (02:20:46):
Yes, Darling, Ray and John want to go. If we accept,
that will make five, and doctor Tortano's manservant want us
make six. What could possibly happen with six of us there?

Speaker 1 (02:20:55):
I can see your minds made up and you'll go, oh, Dick,
that's great. I didn't say i'd go, don't be stuffy. Well,
all right, your heart's set on it.

Speaker 13 (02:21:09):
Oh you won't be sorry, by darling.

Speaker 1 (02:21:11):
See your dock side, Ye, see your dark side. Tortano
stood in the bow of the boat like some self
satisfied pine piper. Rain Clouds were gathering rose squall. As
the motor lawns strained through billowing waves toward an island

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looming on the horizon. It was growing dark. A faint
light flickered among giant trees taking form in the distance.
We landed about six It was pitch black, but I
could tell about the flashlights that we were surrounded by
massive oak trees laden with Spanish moss. We followed Tortanau
not a gravel path, toward a large brick structure taking
shape in the globe. The storm broke as we reached

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the veranda. Tortana let us into a stately parlor where Waters,
the West Indian man servant, began to stock our luggage neatly.

Speaker 30 (02:22:03):
In the corner.

Speaker 1 (02:22:04):
Waters is a short, weather beating little man who never
removed the black Quaker hat in his head. He kept
glancing back as if he suspected something were creeping up
behind him.

Speaker 61 (02:22:13):
Well, here we are all safe and sound.

Speaker 1 (02:22:15):
Bedrooms are on the second floor.

Speaker 61 (02:22:17):
I suggest you freshen up and meeting the banquetthole promptly
at eight for supper.

Speaker 1 (02:22:21):
Even though we had just arrived, A feeling of uneasiness
began to reach the others. There were ten bedrooms, divided
evenly by a hall running the length of the building.
I selected one across the hall from Gloria. I just
shut the door when someone knocked, Dick, may I come in?
Oh h yes, Ray, here's your grip. Old man Watters

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brought them all upstairs. Mind if I join him?

Speaker 17 (02:22:46):
No, I don't.

Speaker 1 (02:22:49):
Ah Alice fit for a king. Looks like one of
those plantations. You say in the flicks that this cost
the old boy a pretty penny. You know, I've been wondering, Dick,
where Tortana got the money to buy this place. I
believe he inherited something from his father, since she didn't
make it himself. You might have He's a capable man, Ray,
he's a doctor, an experimental scientist. Enough money in that,

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I suppose. Ever since the Gaylord case, they never proved anything.
Tartano didn't do that, and there was no reason for
her to die, even I could have saved it. It
don't hold something that may not be true against anyone.

Speaker 9 (02:23:22):
I'm not.

Speaker 1 (02:23:23):
It's just a suspicion. Tatana knows you suspect him. I
don't give a damne very well. So you dislike each other. Forget.
It's got ready for supper, ring, meet you downstairs, right, Hell,
if it's any consolation, I'm with you on one thing, though.
What's that this weekend out here? We can't put my

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finger on it, but I don't think it was planned
for fun.

Speaker 2 (02:23:59):
My friend, I'd like to make a little speech.

Speaker 42 (02:24:04):
Excuse me.

Speaker 61 (02:24:06):
I am not much with words, just a grumpy little
man of medicine, but I always mean well. Now, it's
been a long and tedious course these past four years.
It isn't easy to become a doctor. And the hard
part is you have to come for the graduates, that
of internship, where you'll learn to weigh the actual values,

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where one slip of this couple can mean death or
a hideous malfunction of the body, but the mind. I
welcome you to my island of state. You deserve a rest,
so make merry and cast the cares of the world aside.
Now to bad children to bed. Tomorrow will be a
day of tennis, swimming and fun making. This will be

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a weekend you'll remember for the rest of your lives.

Speaker 1 (02:25:09):
I aren't you leaving?

Speaker 21 (02:25:11):
No, come in.

Speaker 1 (02:25:14):
My bedroom is across the hall. I just wanted to
say good night. Please do Glory, Darling.

Speaker 5 (02:25:22):
I love you so much.

Speaker 1 (02:25:24):
Let's be married right away.

Speaker 15 (02:25:26):
Dick, you're so impetuous, but I accept gould.

Speaker 1 (02:25:32):
Are you comfortable here?

Speaker 32 (02:25:33):
Oh my yes, private bath and all.

Speaker 1 (02:25:35):
So you have a telephone too. All the bedrooms must happen. Well,
better leave and let you get some rest. Lock your
door when I.

Speaker 60 (02:25:44):
Leave, all right, thanks for dropping in.

Speaker 26 (02:25:46):
Good night Glory, Dick.

Speaker 54 (02:25:51):
Yes, lock your door too.

Speaker 1 (02:25:55):
Come now, this is a weekend of fun and relaxation. Remember,
don't laugh at me.

Speaker 19 (02:26:00):
I'm really just playing at safe.

Speaker 1 (02:26:02):
Oh sure, good night, Darling.

Speaker 19 (02:26:04):
Good night, Dick, and please lock it.

Speaker 1 (02:26:16):
I don't know how long i'd been asleep, it must
have been several hours. Something had brushed against my bedroom door.
The sound maybe sit straight up in bed. Then I
heard something else. I thought someone was in trouble. Who's
out there? Whatever it was it stopped outside my bedroom door?

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I turned on the lamp, jumped out of bed, and
bolted toward the door. The hall was empty, no sign
of anything or anyone. Was it possible? I imagine this?
But I turned to close my door. I saw it,
A dark form bobbing in a doorway at the end
of the hall.

Speaker 25 (02:26:55):
I say, Dick, is that you?

Speaker 1 (02:26:56):
It was Ray? Stable and strange sound digested my word, Dick?

Speaker 4 (02:26:59):
Did you hear it too?

Speaker 22 (02:27:00):
Hey, hey, you.

Speaker 25 (02:27:01):
Guys, what's going on around here? Who is straggled?

Speaker 22 (02:27:04):
Wow?

Speaker 33 (02:27:05):
What a gagging cough?

Speaker 57 (02:27:07):
Is anything wrong?

Speaker 5 (02:27:08):
Gentlemen?

Speaker 29 (02:27:08):
Gentlemen, what's the commotion about? You're just standing the entire household.

Speaker 1 (02:27:12):
Now hold on, doctor, We were just trying to find
out who was doing all that coughing here in the
hall a moment ago.

Speaker 61 (02:27:17):
Coughing nonsense must be your imaginations. You're all here and
you look mighty well to me.

Speaker 1 (02:27:22):
Wait a minute, where's Waters?

Speaker 33 (02:27:25):
He's missing?

Speaker 61 (02:27:26):
He could be the one wantus is standing directly behind you, John,
Is there a trouble master? No, want this nothing at all.
Now go back to your bedroom and remain by the
rest of the night.

Speaker 2 (02:27:38):
Do you understand?

Speaker 22 (02:27:39):
Back to bedroom?

Speaker 16 (02:27:41):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (02:27:42):
Immediately, Hi, master, want do not come out again?

Speaker 1 (02:27:48):
Good night Master, But doctor Tortano the coughing strictly imagination.
I tell you what I had it, doctor, and so
did the others.

Speaker 17 (02:27:56):
There's no one else in this island, So just who
do you think it might be?

Speaker 1 (02:28:00):
Yes, I see what you mean.

Speaker 61 (02:28:03):
Imagination is a powerful thing, so much those that, under
certain conditions, strong stimuli can compel you to think you
have actually experienced something that didn't happen at all. Remember
this is the twentieth century. We're not in the dark ages.
No skeletons in the closet or secret world panels. Return
to your room's please and get some sleep.

Speaker 1 (02:28:24):
Good night children. I didn't sleep the rest of that night,
but I'm certain the others didn't do that. They were
losing their enthusiasm for the weekend. The next morning, after breakfast,
I went for a walk on the beach with Gloria.

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It wasn't long before Ray and John. I want to
talk to hi, fellows. Sleep well, gosh, no, we know
you didn't want to come in the first place. That's
what we want to talk about. You'd like to give
up and go home today? Is that what you mean?

Speaker 43 (02:29:00):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:29:00):
You're making it devilishly difficult. Now, I think we might
still salvage a sporting time here. After all, nothing's really happened,
but there's been dissension at this party ever since it started,
and now there's a feeling of unpleasantness.

Speaker 24 (02:29:15):
We can't leave the island.

Speaker 60 (02:29:17):
Want has took the boat back to the mainland this
morning for emergency repairs, and he won't be back until tomorrow.

Speaker 7 (02:29:22):
He did.

Speaker 60 (02:29:22):
Want has has the only boat.

Speaker 15 (02:29:24):
There's no other way back to shore.

Speaker 1 (02:29:26):
Oh, we just have to make the best of it, Dick,
I'm with you. I don't think I like old Tortano.
Find kettle of fish. The island's the kettle, and where
the fish, and Tortano's the fisherman. Break it up. Let's
go back to the house. I have a hunch. I
think we'll soon know what this is all about. Tortano

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spent the day rechecking his notes and shaking his head.
I didn't think you incapable of feeling alarmed, but his
composure was rapidly leading it. We swam a little, played
some tennis. By evening, a cloud burst made a valiant
attempt to watch the Little lil on outasee. After supper,
a Warren Tortanho summoned us to the library. As we gathered,
he stood up with an air of uncertainty that started

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to speak.

Speaker 61 (02:30:12):
I wish I could charm you with a grateful speech,
make you laugh when I grow tired of talking. If
I haven't been altogether honest with any of you. I
brought you here on the pretext of having a wonderful
weekend that was only partly true.

Speaker 1 (02:30:27):
All right, doctor tell us the truth.

Speaker 61 (02:30:29):
You would better listen to me. There may not be
much more time. Last night at supper, I gave you
all a powerful stimulant. I tried to magnify your powers
of imagination to the point where fantasy could be made
reality by wearying the dosages given each of you. The
one coming closest to fulfilling the experiment would give me
the correct formula.

Speaker 2 (02:30:48):
Balance and overdose affixed.

Speaker 61 (02:30:51):
The respiratory system in such a way that the victim
has periods of convulsive coughing of which he is completely unaware.
Twenty four hours after the onset of coughing, the victim
goes mad.

Speaker 8 (02:31:03):
And if my notes are correct.

Speaker 5 (02:31:06):
God forgive me.

Speaker 17 (02:31:06):
I didn't mean to go this far.

Speaker 61 (02:31:08):
Yes, doctor, If my notes are correct, the victim may
become physically anything he might imagine. The coughing started last night.
I can't decided the moment. Who may have gotten the overdose.
I also suspected, as I too took the drug. There
are no guns on the island, no telephone or radio transmitter,

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and no way to get back to the mainland tonight.
So we'll have to remain here. God sink with your rooms,
boat yourselves in. Don't open the doors for anyone. Your
lives will depend on it. I'm afraid, my children, that
before morning we may have a madman among us.

Speaker 1 (02:31:51):
We locked ourselves in our bedrooms and waited. The others
agreed with me. Tartanah wasn't seen went then, such a
fantastic story. He was the one we should be put Bob.
We were completely at his mercy. Our only chance was
to hear my hammuntil waters returned with the boat and
escape to the mainland. I must have fallen asleep. The
storm had subsided to a whisper. Something had awakened me.

Speaker 5 (02:32:15):
What it was, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:32:17):
I lay there in the dark, scarcely breathing, waiting. There
was no sound of any kind. Could I have imagined it.
Maybe I should get up and look. Perhaps something was
waiting for me to go back to sleep before attacking.
But what Nothing could have come into my room? And

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yet somehow I felt the presence of something out in
the hall, but just some sound, some clue as to.

Speaker 45 (02:32:48):
What it might be.

Speaker 1 (02:32:51):
All I could do is lie here and wait for
an unknown thing to happen at any moment. I waited
and listened. I knew it was out there. Then there
it was. I was trying to scratch open my bedroom door.
I reached for a bronze poker on the night table,

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got out of bed and tipped toward to the door.
It was on the other side. I could hear breathing.
Don't open the door, I told myself, it's just outside
of waiting for me to do that. Even with a poker,
I might be no match. Then it occurred to me,
and it wouldn't be waiting unless it n You were
away into my bedroom. Of course, was coming in to

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kill me? What about a gloria across the hall? Had
it already been there? I decided to act you out there.
I'm opening this door. You're still there, I'll kill you.

Speaker 2 (02:33:49):
What's that.

Speaker 1 (02:33:52):
All lights are out, patch black. Something patted off on
four feet God, sounds like a cat's so dark. I
can't see my hand before Matthane's got to get across
the hole to glory. Judging by the way it bounded off,
it must be at least fifteen feet away.

Speaker 7 (02:34:09):
Throwing in a flight.

Speaker 1 (02:34:11):
I can't see a thing.

Speaker 7 (02:34:13):
Easy, he does it?

Speaker 38 (02:34:14):
Now?

Speaker 1 (02:34:15):
Keep the poker swinging in a circle. That should keep
it from creeping.

Speaker 32 (02:34:19):
Up on me.

Speaker 1 (02:34:20):
But there's glorious door, Lauria, open your door for God's sake. Yes, hurry.
Are you all right, darling?

Speaker 25 (02:34:31):
I think so.

Speaker 1 (02:34:32):
The thing that's right across the fall, yes, whatever it is,
it's after us. I was afraid it might have tried
to get you quick your phone? Where is it?

Speaker 9 (02:34:41):
What are you doing?

Speaker 1 (02:34:42):
All the others? The one who doesn't answer is out there?

Speaker 4 (02:34:46):
Have more light from really enough the middle of the night.

Speaker 1 (02:34:50):
Ray, something's wrong you?

Speaker 8 (02:34:51):
Okay?

Speaker 58 (02:34:51):
Yes, I'm quite all right.

Speaker 1 (02:34:52):
Good. Meet me in the library in five minutes. Raise
not the one? Try John next?

Speaker 7 (02:34:59):
Maybe?

Speaker 1 (02:35:02):
Hello John? You are right?

Speaker 7 (02:35:04):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (02:35:04):
Hi, Dick? Sure?

Speaker 8 (02:35:05):
Why can't talk?

Speaker 12 (02:35:06):
Now?

Speaker 1 (02:35:06):
Meet me in the library in five minutes. Pretty well,
cinches it has to be Tortana is the only one left.
If he doesn't answer, we'll know he Oh no, who
can it be? They're all accounted for.

Speaker 4 (02:35:22):
Who the devil is this?

Speaker 1 (02:35:23):
Nick Crane doctor? Meet me in the library in five minutes.

Speaker 2 (02:35:26):
Are you crazy?

Speaker 4 (02:35:26):
Stay in your room and keep the doll out.

Speaker 1 (02:35:28):
There's something fishy and I'm gonna find out who's behind it.
Now you'll be there, But the harm comes to my friends.

Speaker 30 (02:35:33):
I'll kid you.

Speaker 61 (02:35:45):
We're not safe to get into the library. And I
don't believe a word of your wild story.

Speaker 1 (02:35:49):
It's true one of you tried to scratch open my door.
You imagine the dick here. We all are as chipper
as ever, pretty obvious. Whatever was supposed to happen hasn't yet.

Speaker 61 (02:35:56):
It happened to someone impossible. We're all still saying there's
no one else on the island. This took place in
your mind, Dick. Now let's all go back to our
rooms and try to get through the night.

Speaker 1 (02:36:07):
I'm wasting my time with you, all right. I'll stay
with the glory you and protect her. But you'd better
lock your doors because someone is.

Speaker 29 (02:36:13):
Going to try them.

Speaker 1 (02:36:14):
Say, Dick is certainly overwrought. It couldn't have been right though,
Since we're all so healthy.

Speaker 61 (02:36:19):
Dangerous situation are standing here together, let's return.

Speaker 31 (02:36:22):
To our rooms.

Speaker 1 (02:36:23):
Well, maybe nothing will happen.

Speaker 61 (02:36:24):
It could stop momentarily, I strongly ad why separating immediately? Wait,
hold out your hands hot. I just remembered it's been
twenty four hours. There's a certain symptom at this time.
The victim's fingernails will have a bluishtinge. We can tell
who it is. Quick, look at your hands, hold them out.

Speaker 2 (02:36:41):
What do you see?

Speaker 1 (02:36:41):
You're a mind doctor?

Speaker 42 (02:36:43):
M normal?

Speaker 33 (02:36:46):
Are I okay?

Speaker 5 (02:36:48):
Hm? Yes?

Speaker 8 (02:36:50):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (02:36:51):
What about yours?

Speaker 22 (02:36:53):
Doctor?

Speaker 1 (02:36:54):
Take a close look, I'd say they all right. That
means it's Dick or Gloria.

Speaker 29 (02:37:03):
They've gone to Gloria's room together.

Speaker 5 (02:37:04):
We've done a moment to Louis.

Speaker 25 (02:37:06):
Come quickly with me, Dick. Why are you.

Speaker 9 (02:37:17):
Hurry?

Speaker 25 (02:37:18):
Dear?

Speaker 13 (02:37:18):
I don't like being left alone? Did you sound so strange?

Speaker 60 (02:37:25):
Please come out of that bathroom, Dick, Dick?

Speaker 13 (02:37:31):
Is anything the matter.

Speaker 33 (02:37:40):
In this room?

Speaker 24 (02:37:41):
Oh no, no, can't be.

Speaker 22 (02:37:58):
Nothing.

Speaker 58 (02:37:58):
Did tell me from that door, laio?

Speaker 13 (02:38:02):
Where is the key.

Speaker 8 (02:38:07):
Here?

Speaker 33 (02:38:07):
It is just a moment I wanted you.

Speaker 18 (02:38:10):
Don't call you on the door, Cuning Dolori get away
from the door.

Speaker 1 (02:38:32):
Gloria.

Speaker 8 (02:38:35):
It was Gloria.

Speaker 1 (02:38:36):
Don't look Ray. I tried to stop her. No, that
couldn't be Claudia, not a beautiful Gloria. Whatever it is,
it's in peace that last So's tartana throat clawed out
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Speaker 45 (02:40:14):
Get this and Get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road.
Those who travel had wind up in the gut of
the prison of the grave. This started with a man
on trial for his life and an a one citizen
eager to testify. But there it was interrupted. And it
wasn't until I found a copse in a bubbling bath,
gun play in the woods, and lots of blackmail that
the real eager witness had a chance to talk.

Speaker 63 (02:40:37):
From the pan of Raymond Chandler, outstanding author of mystery,
comes his most famous character and crime's most deadly enemy.
As we present the Adventures of Philip Marlowe, now with

(02:40:57):
Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe. We bring tonight's exciting
story the eager witness.

Speaker 1 (02:41:16):
Of the Superior corn of the State of California for
the County of Los Angeles.

Speaker 63 (02:41:19):
Now in session, the Honorable Albert Winzard Judge presiding, everybody rise.

Speaker 45 (02:41:30):
It was the case of the people versus the oft arrested,
never convicted, smooth Earl Jernigan sometimes Bookie, charged in the
first degree with a month old killing of a kindly
gray haired horse trainer named Kurt Hopper, who had once
almost been my client. It was the afternoon of the
fourth day of the trial, and the prosecutor for the
state had already built an almost air tight case against

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the alleged gambler, when my turn finally came to.

Speaker 64 (02:41:54):
Father substantiate the state's claim that Earl Jernigan did willfully
and with also for thought, take the life of the
deceased Kurt Harper.

Speaker 29 (02:42:04):
Well, mister Philip Marlowe, take the stand.

Speaker 65 (02:42:12):
Raise your right hand, Tell truth, old truth, about truth,
Happy God.

Speaker 45 (02:42:17):
I do state your name and occupations, Philip Marlow private detechnique.

Speaker 29 (02:42:26):
Mister Molow.

Speaker 64 (02:42:28):
On the morning of the thirtieth day of July last,
the day on which the late Kurt Harper was murdered,
were you hired as a private detective by the said
mister Harper? I was, and at that time, mister Mallow,
did mister Harper state.

Speaker 29 (02:42:42):
His reason for hiring you?

Speaker 45 (02:42:44):
He did want me to act as his personal bodyguard.
On the following day, when he planned to drive to
San Francisco.

Speaker 29 (02:42:50):
Did he say why he needed a personal bodyguard?

Speaker 8 (02:42:53):
He did.

Speaker 45 (02:42:55):
He told me he was afraid for his life and
he refused the gamblers demand that he drug us certain
racehorse a week earlier that that gambler had threatened to
kill him.

Speaker 29 (02:43:03):
I say, Thomas Molo. Did mister Harper name that gambler?

Speaker 4 (02:43:12):
Yes?

Speaker 30 (02:43:12):
He did?

Speaker 4 (02:43:12):
Who was it?

Speaker 45 (02:43:14):
Earl Jernigan?

Speaker 64 (02:43:14):
Thank you, No further question, Johanna, Council find the defense
counsel for the defense waves cross examination, your Honna the
witness his.

Speaker 45 (02:43:23):
Excumes didn't make sense. No cross examination because from the
opening adjective. The consul for the defense, a dapper item
named Calder, who always appeared in French cuffs, grey gabadine
and a cocky, uninviting smile, had raved randed and practically
spit at each witness the state had presented. So the
courtroom was left for a tingling impression that Earl Jernigan's

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attorney had something of a surprise waiting up his legal sleep. Later,
when Carler was on his feet and addressing the jury,
that something started out fast.

Speaker 66 (02:43:54):
Now that the state has taken the trouble to offer
so much circumstantial evidence, so much hearsay, rumor conjecture, Now
will I smash all of that with the testimony of
one man, one man known to all of you as
an outstanding citizen of the city, a prominent real estate broker,
had unimpeachable and it's eager to testify mister Lennard Gaines.

Speaker 45 (02:44:18):
It worked, landed in eatchs and every lap like a
live grenade, and exploded all the way around at once.
And when the eminent mister Gaines gray at the temples
maybe forty five, a neat and expensive midnight blue flannel
with giant stickman, the match took the stand, and, in
his own meeting of the board, tone of Voice told
the court that Earl Jernigan had spent the entire day
and night of July thirtieth last with him at his

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Malibu Beach home. The prosecuting attorney's georg dropped on his
chest and he stared, dumb.

Speaker 67 (02:44:44):
Day or night did mister Jernigan ever leave my home?
And as for the hour of the murder, eight o'clock
in the evening, we were having dinner. After that we
played jin Rummy until oh until midnight.

Speaker 29 (02:44:57):
I you are sure of that, mister Gaines the hour
of your dinner on me?

Speaker 1 (02:45:00):
I am positive.

Speaker 29 (02:45:07):
Or harper order of the court?

Speaker 57 (02:45:10):
Quiet, I won't Danny's harpy?

Speaker 29 (02:45:12):
Whyet order order?

Speaker 21 (02:45:14):
This cork is adjourned until tomorrow morning at ten o'clock.

Speaker 1 (02:45:27):
Another Scotch and soda, mister, Yeah, I guess.

Speaker 45 (02:45:33):
So wait a minute, baby, and I think I'm gonna
have a company.

Speaker 68 (02:45:36):
Mister mort can I talk to you for a minute.

Speaker 45 (02:45:38):
I'm Gail Hopper. Yeah I know, But I don't know
is why you're not doing thirty days on a rock
pile for that rump? Is she just kicked up and
caught you like a soft drink. No thanks, all right,
just one.

Speaker 68 (02:45:48):
Baby, Jack the judge that he understood and left me
off with a short licture, which is what I had
counted on.

Speaker 45 (02:45:54):
Oh, I mean all that fireworks and there was planned
not just spontaneous combustion.

Speaker 54 (02:45:58):
That's right.

Speaker 68 (02:45:59):
I have a halftime.

Speaker 13 (02:46:01):
Look, mister Marlow, will you work for me?

Speaker 37 (02:46:03):
Oh?

Speaker 24 (02:46:03):
Luck?

Speaker 22 (02:46:03):
What do you help me?

Speaker 68 (02:46:04):
Prove that mister Lennard Gaines is a line and that
Earl Jernigan did kill my fuck?

Speaker 45 (02:46:07):
Take it easy, Gail. It's a big mouth for you.

Speaker 13 (02:46:09):
Know, jam Marlow.

Speaker 68 (02:46:10):
Listen please, there isn't much time. We got to prove
this tonight or never by noon tomorrow. With the outside
the case will go to the jury.

Speaker 45 (02:46:17):
Okay, what do you want me to do?

Speaker 68 (02:46:18):
Takeover where I left off, But first let's get out
of here.

Speaker 45 (02:46:22):
All right. I never mind that drink mess. Where do
we start, Honey?

Speaker 68 (02:46:26):
With Leonard Gaines's ex wife, Debbie Janson. Here's a snapshot
of her. They were divorced about six months ago, mister Marlow,
and she wasn't very happy about him.

Speaker 24 (02:46:35):
No, huh?

Speaker 45 (02:46:35):
Made you figure she was your in?

Speaker 9 (02:46:37):
Yes?

Speaker 68 (02:46:37):
And I was right, mister Marlow. It took evesdropping bribery
second story work, but I found out plenty.

Speaker 45 (02:46:44):
I bet you did. Like what Oh hold it, gal
Light's read like the fact.

Speaker 68 (02:46:48):
That Debbie and a guy called Eugene Marray you're putting
a bite on Gaines for twenty thousand dollars blackmail, mister Morrow,
with the payoff schedule to be made some time tonight.
Right now, she's staying at the Sullen Sulfur Springs Lodge
out in the Valle. Gaines used to go there once
in a while for his outright and why at the
whole business there's a lot of Gaines once wrote to
his ex wife, no fooling.

Speaker 45 (02:47:07):
Uh huh, Well tell me what's that to do with
Journegan's trial and Gaines being a lot? Oh it's green.

Speaker 9 (02:47:12):
Now.

Speaker 68 (02:47:13):
I think there's a connection, because yesterday I overheard Deady
tell this mouth he's something about Gaines scheduled appearance at
the trial.

Speaker 69 (02:47:18):
Today and.

Speaker 45 (02:47:21):
Those jerk California drivers, the man behind the wheels, what
about him?

Speaker 68 (02:47:26):
That's in face, blunt hair. I've seen him before. I
know he was trying to.

Speaker 13 (02:47:29):
Hit one of us.

Speaker 45 (02:47:30):
Oh fine, well that'll keep thanks from getting dull, won't it?

Speaker 68 (02:47:33):
Then then you're gonna help me?

Speaker 43 (02:47:35):
Well?

Speaker 45 (02:47:35):
Now, look I who could resist you?

Speaker 31 (02:47:40):
Baby?

Speaker 45 (02:47:41):
Okay, tonight I check in at the lodge at Sunland
Sufa Springs. Come on, let's get out of here. It
was eight o'clock and almost dark when I reached the
foothills of the mountain range that separates the San Fernando
val from Malay Proper and turned off onto a narrow

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dirt road that ran through a twisting gorge, past the
moon faced watchman, who asked no questions as he slowly
opened a sagging wooden gate faintly labeled Sunlan Sulfur Springs,
where Mother Nature's remedies bubbled from the earth private. It
was another five minutes along the same dirt road, uphill
and through thick foliage before I was at a parking space,

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out of my car and walking the last quarter of
a mile toward the lodge itself that was spotted with
widely separated cottages, also sagging, and each tagg cusser and
followed by something Spanish and hard to pronounce. Inside the
place was cheap porch furniture and occasional threadbare rugs over
scarred pine and deserted except for a sleepy old guy

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with thick lidded eyes and an accordion wrinkled face, was
slouched in a heap behind a sign on the reservation desk,
the red Maynard Sharp no less night manager. When I
gave him my name and said that both my rheumatism
and I needed a rest, he came to almost.

Speaker 22 (02:49:01):
Room.

Speaker 21 (02:49:02):
Eh, mister Marlow, well she can let you have most
any one of the cottages.

Speaker 33 (02:49:09):
Half of them are empty. Seems kind of slow this.

Speaker 5 (02:49:12):
Time of year.

Speaker 45 (02:49:13):
I'm slow. Can you again?

Speaker 2 (02:49:14):
You'd be surprised.

Speaker 33 (02:49:16):
How's about the cashier Francisco de Leon.

Speaker 45 (02:49:20):
Guys to Francisco. Yeah, that'll be fine, mister.

Speaker 21 (02:49:23):
Sharp, alrighty, sure, Now, if you'll just sign the registered year,
I'll get your key.

Speaker 45 (02:49:29):
But as I signed my name, I checked the guest
list quickly, and the next second found what I wanted,
Deborah Jensen, and next to that, and in a different
hand a cottage for the night cass Rolando de Baron
didough that's close enough. Well anyway, it was all I needed.
I took the key from mister Sharp. A misnomer, if

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have you heard one? Learned the location of my quarters
paid him in advance and left outside. I turned to
my right past a large open bat that smelled like
rotten eggs and talked to it like a junior Vesuvius
as more warm self award is equally unpleasant to smell.
Bubbled from a pipe in the center. Beyond that was
the first cotage, another cassi I couldn't pronounce, and it

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stayed like that all the way down the line until
I reached the second one that showed light. It was
the cassa known as Rolando the Barandido. And when I
moved closer around to a window that was screen only,
I knew that my client had done our eavesdropping well
because in the center of the room and putting on
a coat was the ex wife named Debbie, and standing
nearby and holding on tight to the cigarette in his

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hand like it was support. There's what had to be
the boyfriend, Eugene Maury.

Speaker 2 (02:50:36):
You're sure that Games will go through with this all right?

Speaker 29 (02:50:39):
For the one hundredth time?

Speaker 19 (02:50:40):
Eugene, Yes, I'm positive.

Speaker 70 (02:50:42):
Can't you understand he has to Besides, twenty thousand dollars
won't break him, It won't more than bend them a bit. Now,
stop worrying.

Speaker 7 (02:50:49):
I can't, Debbie.

Speaker 1 (02:50:52):
Why must you go alone? Now? Why can't I go
with you?

Speaker 13 (02:50:54):
Eugene?

Speaker 29 (02:50:55):
Please, we've been over that.

Speaker 70 (02:50:57):
I told Leonard that i'd meet him in town at
the Beverly Crest Hotel at ten and alone.

Speaker 19 (02:51:02):
He agreed to also be alone, except.

Speaker 8 (02:51:05):
For the money, Devy, you do handle things well?

Speaker 45 (02:51:09):
Come here down, How a kiss be a brilliant?

Speaker 30 (02:51:12):
Oh?

Speaker 19 (02:51:13):
Please, Eugene, there isn't time.

Speaker 45 (02:51:14):
What's the matter?

Speaker 2 (02:51:15):
My kiss is losing their flavor at this point.

Speaker 9 (02:51:17):
It'll be a fool.

Speaker 69 (02:51:19):
Look it's late, Eugene.

Speaker 70 (02:51:20):
It's after nine already. I've gotta hurry.

Speaker 19 (02:51:23):
Go on, go on, be a good boy and leave now.

Speaker 25 (02:51:25):
We shouldn't even be seen together tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (02:51:27):
Why not, Debby?

Speaker 9 (02:51:28):
It's not smart?

Speaker 7 (02:51:30):
Yeap.

Speaker 20 (02:51:32):
Meet me at the Tulip Room, Darling at eleven, as
we ply, Then, Eugene, we'll have time and reason to relax.
Twenty thousand bucks worth of reason.

Speaker 45 (02:51:50):
As Mauri Ooh's taught the door, I slid away from
the cottage and into the shadow of a clump of
trees nearby, stayed there as he walked out of sight
down the road that led back to the parking space.
Then A few minutes later, when Debbie clicked off the
light and left, I moved out of hiding and started
slowly after a safe distance until from someplace in the
night and ugly snub nosed automatic that belonged to someone

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blonde and thin faced as a near automobile accident. Stop
me cold? Where are you going?

Speaker 17 (02:52:16):
Jack?

Speaker 57 (02:52:17):
For rare?

Speaker 45 (02:52:18):
I love to walk in the country at night.

Speaker 65 (02:52:20):
Okay, I wouldn't know, Jack, I'm sitting boy myself. But
as long as that's what you want, it's Jake with me,
as long as it's where it's good and dark.

Speaker 30 (02:52:28):
Now go on that way, move Jack, that's fine, up,
pull it.

Speaker 6 (02:52:49):
Turn around and face me.

Speaker 45 (02:52:51):
Why so I can watch you pull the trigger?

Speaker 47 (02:52:52):
Never mind?

Speaker 45 (02:52:53):
Why just okay?

Speaker 5 (02:52:55):
Turn it is.

Speaker 8 (02:52:56):
That's better now?

Speaker 45 (02:52:58):
One step closer, one step?

Speaker 30 (02:53:00):
What's that?

Speaker 6 (02:53:01):
Now?

Speaker 45 (02:53:01):
Present my friends? Taking before I beat in the little pieces?

Speaker 42 (02:53:05):
Let's have it.

Speaker 29 (02:53:05):
Who are you?

Speaker 45 (02:53:05):
Who do you work for them? What do you want
with me? Come on, gunman?

Speaker 65 (02:53:08):
Talk okay, okay, no more. My name's Langley, work for
Earl Jennikin. Oh yeah, I've been watching you ever since
the trials started. Jennikin didn't want you moving in.

Speaker 45 (02:53:21):
Which is why you try to pick me off with
a car when I was with Gail Hopper this afternoon?

Speaker 22 (02:53:24):
How come on? Yeah, yeah, that's why.

Speaker 6 (02:53:27):
Uh? Now, what are you gonna do with me?

Speaker 45 (02:53:29):
The time being busted, Levias is light on your back
because I've still got to catch up with a lady
before she reads a letter. City Boy.

Speaker 63 (02:53:52):
In just a moment, the second act of Philip marlow
but first, because of the sharp rise in America's birthright
during the war, we faced very serious educational crisis. Many
communities will find that their schools lacks efficient teachers, classrooms,
and facilities. Citizens must get together and work for better schools,
more teachers. If we want all of our children to

(02:54:15):
have a chance for a good education, we must take
action now. Now, with our star Gerald Moore, we returned
to the second act of Philip Marlowe and Tonight's story,
The Eager Witness.

Speaker 45 (02:54:37):
It was strictly hit and run. I appile Langley into
the Manzanita and didn't even wait to see him bounce. Instead,
I took off throughout gully. There was a shortcut to
my car, because I knew that Jernigan's Watchdog had nothing
to offer compared with the hot headed Debbie Jensen. At
the moment, no doubt was well on our way to
the Beverly Crest Hotel and a blackmail rendezvous. There was
a cinch to wind up in the final destruction of

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the leading that was my I dropped it like a
hot rock. Just as I crossed the path to the
self a pool.

Speaker 33 (02:55:10):
Somebody scream, he's never the spring. Oh gosh, my gosh.

Speaker 45 (02:55:18):
There was nothing but self affumes in the thick gurgle
of the springs until Sharp played his flashlight over the
pool and we saw and the water that was turning
red from blood loosing around the knife.

Speaker 5 (02:55:28):
And I'm back.

Speaker 33 (02:55:29):
Look it's miss Johnson.

Speaker 45 (02:55:30):
Come on popping me a hand. Let's get her out
of that. Come on, take it easy, now, take it easy.
That's it, Debbie.

Speaker 9 (02:55:40):
I never should have tried.

Speaker 1 (02:55:42):
Tried.

Speaker 45 (02:55:42):
What Who was it?

Speaker 8 (02:55:44):
Debbie?

Speaker 42 (02:55:44):
Who did this.

Speaker 33 (02:55:47):
Letter? Who?

Speaker 2 (02:55:49):
Who got the letter?

Speaker 8 (02:55:49):
Debbie?

Speaker 17 (02:55:51):
Debbie?

Speaker 4 (02:55:54):
Did she did?

Speaker 45 (02:55:55):
She pass off for good minute? She's dead?

Speaker 33 (02:56:00):
Oh she She seemed to be mumbling something about her letter.
Did you get what it was?

Speaker 45 (02:56:07):
The only part of it. The killer apparently took the
letter away from her. Believe me, that's bad letter.

Speaker 33 (02:56:14):
What's your letter?

Speaker 45 (02:56:15):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, it's probably that pheasant again.

Speaker 33 (02:56:19):
Letters. What are you talking about?

Speaker 45 (02:56:22):
Oh, I guess I'm just getting jumpy. Hey, hey, there
is somebody.

Speaker 71 (02:56:26):
Come on, Pop, sounds sounds luck, he's over there, Marlo,
I can hear him.

Speaker 21 (02:56:39):
Oh no, that ain't gonna do any good son, not
that brushing each And what's more, I wouldn't go any
further if I was you.

Speaker 45 (02:56:46):
But Papa only needs his ten seconds and he can
destroy that letter for good.

Speaker 21 (02:56:49):
Well, just to seem there's a million and one place
is a killer can hide in there and lay for you?

Speaker 33 (02:56:54):
Sir?

Speaker 24 (02:56:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 45 (02:56:56):
Yeah, Pop, Well, it's the moment. It's a stalemate. I'd
sure have to find out who that snake in the
bush is.

Speaker 21 (02:57:04):
You know, I've run a peaceful place up until it's
getting to be like one of them there movies.

Speaker 33 (02:57:10):
The only thing left out is your pussey.

Speaker 45 (02:57:12):
Yeah, you're so right. Murders in the night lost Letters.
It's corny enough without a pussy Yeah, and my dangerous too. Yeah,
I see what you mean.

Speaker 2 (02:57:21):
Are you ready to.

Speaker 45 (02:57:24):
Yeah, I'm ready.

Speaker 21 (02:57:26):
I'll lead you back to the office, my jasper. I
don't understand this one bit, missus Jensen is stabbed to
das over that letter and in her da?

Speaker 7 (02:57:37):
What is it up?

Speaker 72 (02:57:38):
Ahead there?

Speaker 45 (02:57:39):
Somebody duck behind that big tree. Keep the chat going, man,
walk on up the path.

Speaker 17 (02:57:42):
Don't let him know he swotted him.

Speaker 21 (02:57:43):
Go on, talk talk when okay, sure sure I'm saying
I don't. I'm staying, oh, pleacious, generally as quiet as
a tomb.

Speaker 45 (02:57:51):
As the old man grimly had led his way up
the path, I followed a few feet behind. When he
get even with the tree, I turned suddenly. So three
fast steps and graver.

Speaker 4 (02:58:01):
You hang on.

Speaker 45 (02:58:02):
Well, well it's the learned gains the unimpeachable citizen themselves
standstill gains a gun.

Speaker 8 (02:58:10):
What's the idea?

Speaker 45 (02:58:11):
Try running and it'll come to you. I suppose you've
got a legitimate reason for being here, all thought up.

Speaker 67 (02:58:16):
I'm here because I have got a touch of arthritis.
I need a treatment and night's rest.

Speaker 45 (02:58:22):
Tritis is no you're going to have if I find
what I think i'm gonna find in your pockets empty inmbuster,
All right, i'mvie them. That's better the shop.

Speaker 67 (02:58:32):
You're a witness that I demand that you.

Speaker 14 (02:58:35):
Just a minute.

Speaker 10 (02:58:36):
Mister Gaines, you're in a pretty bad spot to demand anything.

Speaker 45 (02:58:40):
There's our baby. There's a letter we've been looking for.
Pick it up, Gaines, pick it up and rate it now?

Speaker 2 (02:58:45):
See here?

Speaker 45 (02:58:45):
Say there, Gaines, read it? Why you're able to?

Speaker 67 (02:58:48):
Yeah, my dear Debbie. If I didn't know you so well,
i'd resent your stupid accusations.

Speaker 45 (02:58:55):
Now, look, we've already.

Speaker 67 (02:58:58):
Made our property settlement, as you're well aware, and you'll
be a long time finding a court that says otherwise.
Now you know where you can go, so why not
get started as ever?

Speaker 5 (02:59:08):
Leonard?

Speaker 45 (02:59:10):
Oh fine, this is about as incriminating as a lecture
on the family. Meet Bill, shut up? Who's jurisdiction away
under here?

Speaker 33 (02:59:18):
George? Why County Sheriff's office?

Speaker 72 (02:59:21):
All right?

Speaker 45 (02:59:22):
Call him? Also call you a man out on the
highway and have him locked that main gate gate.

Speaker 33 (02:59:26):
Yeah, say now, that's a good idea. I'll do it
right now.

Speaker 45 (02:59:30):
Wait a minute. Have you got a gun?

Speaker 33 (02:59:31):
Yeh got a rifle, been in the family for a year.

Speaker 45 (02:59:34):
Can you use it?

Speaker 33 (02:59:35):
Where? Yeah? I reckon, I can.

Speaker 45 (02:59:38):
Where are you going out the round up Langley? And
be pushing hard to give his boss a star witness
here a big helping hand. I want to be in
shape to push back, and remember Pop, keep your eye
on Gains and out on the phone when you make
those calls. I'll see you. The second time that night,
I started down the hill and towd the keeping in

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the shadows and moving slowly this time because it was
odds on that Langley had taken everything in and I
knew that he tried to pot my hair with a
gun barrel and pull in it Gains out of the gym.
He was in the very first chance he had, so
I stayed off the paths long enough to have both
socks full of birds when it happened, but not what
I expected. It was the shop family blunderbusted. It exploded

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with a blast like a small howitzer. So also for
the second time, I turned and ran back up the hill,
this time to the office. I got there just as
man had climbing hand over hand up a smoking rifle barrel,
made it to his feet.

Speaker 2 (03:00:31):
Man, man, it what happened?

Speaker 45 (03:00:32):
Wes Gaines?

Speaker 33 (03:00:33):
I don't know? He got away?

Speaker 17 (03:00:35):
I guess, well a shot?

Speaker 29 (03:00:36):
What about that he went up there through the room.

Speaker 33 (03:00:38):
Oh fine, gosh, I didn't you spike your things? He
just shaid he wanted to smoke.

Speaker 45 (03:00:43):
But he didn't happen to have a match, I know.
So you hung your rifle over your arm, stuck both
hands in your pockets to find one for him, and
that's when he took here.

Speaker 33 (03:00:51):
Yeah, exactly what happened. But how'd you know?

Speaker 45 (03:00:54):
Never mind, Pop, I made.

Speaker 33 (03:00:56):
A grab for him. No, Ripley's cold about.

Speaker 45 (03:00:59):
How Oh that's great, that's great.

Speaker 33 (03:01:02):
I'm sure sorry he got away.

Speaker 45 (03:01:04):
From all right, don't worry about it. Can't get food
with the gate locked?

Speaker 33 (03:01:07):
Well I got bad news there too. Oh oh the
gates locked all right.

Speaker 2 (03:01:13):
But there's a back road.

Speaker 45 (03:01:16):
Is it back?

Speaker 33 (03:01:16):
What back road?

Speaker 45 (03:01:18):
Right?

Speaker 31 (03:01:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 33 (03:01:18):
Well, yeah, you much.

Speaker 21 (03:01:20):
It's rough and rocky, but it's passable and anybody's been
up here as ofph as mister Geanes has sure know
about it.

Speaker 45 (03:01:28):
Oh great, look, Pop, can't you understand that there was
a murder committed here tonight and we had the murder
and no butts fell for the oldest gag in the
world to turn him over the here and we just
stop waving that envelopes?

Speaker 33 (03:01:39):
Think you ort to see this?

Speaker 45 (03:01:41):
All right?

Speaker 37 (03:01:41):
What is it?

Speaker 30 (03:01:43):
Oh?

Speaker 45 (03:01:44):
Where'd you get all that loot?

Speaker 33 (03:01:46):
Gaines dropped it? When I ripped his.

Speaker 45 (03:01:47):
Cart's twenty grand. It says here on the wrapper something
else written here to Casa Rolando du Brondido. It's him
cass right, pop.

Speaker 2 (03:01:59):
That's it. That's the answer.

Speaker 45 (03:02:00):
Come on, we gotta get down that back road, and.

Speaker 1 (03:02:02):
I hurry.

Speaker 45 (03:02:11):
The shop of the wheel of the pickup truck. We
bounced over the pair of sometimes parallel rut studded with
stones the size of bowling balls. It was called a
back road with a better part of two miles before
he cut lights and motor and whispered that if Gaines
was going to get stuck at all, it was sure
to happened in a dry wash just around the next bend.
I told him to wait and went ahead on foot.

Speaker 5 (03:02:28):
It was right.

Speaker 45 (03:02:29):
Gaines was stuck in more ways than one. His car
was up to its hubcaps and sand, and as wallowed
up to its stamp compartment. Blackmail conducted by his ex
wife's murderer with the same lever she'd had the letter.
It was Eugene Maury, and clenched in his hand was
a tattered white envelope, nothing more. I held my thirty
eight in close to my side and edged up behind him.

Speaker 44 (03:02:47):
Twenty Maury, I don't have that much jewel a lie.

Speaker 45 (03:02:51):
You're gonna pay her that?

Speaker 22 (03:02:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 73 (03:02:54):
I know because we worked the deal out together. Only
she got greedy. She tried to double crows me and
pull it alone.

Speaker 8 (03:03:01):
So you killed her.

Speaker 73 (03:03:02):
Yes, I didn't intend to, but when I found out
that you tricked me, I was furious. The first thing
that I knew i'd stabbed there.

Speaker 17 (03:03:13):
That's enough of that.

Speaker 45 (03:03:14):
Just give me the money.

Speaker 73 (03:03:15):
You have nothing to worry you.

Speaker 46 (03:03:16):
But listen, Maori.

Speaker 57 (03:03:17):
I tell you you, listen.

Speaker 45 (03:03:18):
Gains you're in no position to buy it.

Speaker 73 (03:03:21):
It's better than having your two hundred thousand dollars gambling
that exposed and your reputation rule and doesn't it? Or
facing the trigger man Langley if you refuse the alibi
for Johnagan, isn't it? Or bucking a pedgery charge. If
you do alibi, no, you get yourself in the corner again.

Speaker 17 (03:03:34):
So pay all. It's only twenty grand.

Speaker 67 (03:03:37):
But I tell you, Maori, I don't have it lying
again now he isn't don't move, I don't want to here.

Speaker 45 (03:03:42):
Leave your hands where they are. And I got the
twenty grand right here, and it's pretty well ear marked
as blackmail payment already just to round things out, Maray,
I'll take that envelope you've got there. Yes, well, what
do you want this for, funny man, because it's no
doubt postmark with an hour, a date and the location, which,
together with brother Gaine's own hand right, places him out
of town on July thirtieth, a time he swears he

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was at his Mellible home all day with Jernigan.

Speaker 29 (03:04:05):
Right, Gaines, smart boy, hunt to morrow.

Speaker 45 (03:04:07):
You've still got a chounce, Gains. You've been a gamble
with me. You've got nothing to lose now I'm with you.
Stands still, Buster, So help me out now, Gains. Oh
my lad, were you thinking of going someplace, mister Gaines?

Speaker 67 (03:04:22):
No, oh, I am not going any place, mister Morrow.

Speaker 45 (03:04:41):
Well, Gail, the big show is about to start cautably
in session.

Speaker 68 (03:04:43):
In a few minutes, I know, and different from yesterday.

Speaker 8 (03:04:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 68 (03:04:47):
Oh, you did a swell job, mister Morrow. Gee gee,
I don't know how to thank you.

Speaker 31 (03:04:53):
Baby.

Speaker 45 (03:04:54):
That scale Lady Justice holds in her hands is in
better balance today. It was your hunch and old man,
that's Blunderbus did as much to put it there as
my running around through the brush itself, as Springs.

Speaker 10 (03:05:03):
But all I knew was that.

Speaker 13 (03:05:04):
Games was lying.

Speaker 68 (03:05:06):
I didn't know it was as complicated as it was.

Speaker 45 (03:05:08):
Well, that's because Debbie Jensen was twice as treacherous as
we figured.

Speaker 68 (03:05:12):
I still don't understand. How did you know that Eugene
Mara had killed Debbie?

Speaker 45 (03:05:17):
You see, baby, I overheard her tell Maury that she
was going to meet Gaines in the Beverly Crest Hotel
at ten for the payoff.

Speaker 38 (03:05:21):
Huh.

Speaker 45 (03:05:22):
But I figured that was a lie strictly for Mari's benefit.
When Pop gave me the packet of money Gains had dropped,
it had that complicated name of a cabin in the
time of the appointment, which was also ten written on it,
so I knew the real meeting was scheduled to take
place out there.

Speaker 68 (03:05:35):
Oh, I see, then she was going to send Maury
off to the Beverly Crest while she collected the money
itself for Springs and then beat it alone.

Speaker 45 (03:05:43):
That said, honey, You see, if her cabin had been
named something simple like number four, and Gaines could have
remembered it instead of that cusser Robino del Bangadoro or
what a kirk was he had to write down? You see, well,
then things might have been different.

Speaker 13 (03:05:58):
Ih you'd have found away.

Speaker 68 (03:06:00):
After all, you figured out it was the postmark.

Speaker 19 (03:06:02):
That was important.

Speaker 45 (03:06:03):
Only after I've been slapping the face by a perfectly
harmless letter with no envelope, had to be the postmark.

Speaker 1 (03:06:07):
What else?

Speaker 68 (03:06:10):
Who they're starting?

Speaker 13 (03:06:11):
Yes, good luck, mister Morrow, give.

Speaker 22 (03:06:14):
Him the words.

Speaker 45 (03:06:14):
Don't worry, baby, I'm the eager witness.

Speaker 31 (03:06:16):
Today.

Speaker 45 (03:06:17):
We're gonna knock him dead. Literally, they got it coming.
I watched Jernigan's face as the preliminary has gone under way.
The killer was beaten. When the court finally settled down
to work and the prosecutor took over. I listened to
his death build up as he primed the jury in
the dramatic ring master of voice he used when he called.

Speaker 29 (03:06:37):
Will Philip Marlow take the stand?

Speaker 5 (03:06:39):
Please?

Speaker 64 (03:06:45):
Now, mister Morrow, you told us yesterday that you are
a private investigator.

Speaker 29 (03:06:49):
Now will you tell the court in your own words
what happened to you last night?

Speaker 45 (03:06:57):
I sat there looking into the cold veale for lies.
The prosecutor thought of a paraphrase on that wonderful quote
from Oliver Wendel Holmes. It's not enough to ask for justice.
One must also hope for mercy, mister Marlow, Oh, oh yes,
I'm sorry. Well, it began here in this room yesterday
afternoon at about three point thirty, when the Council for

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Defense called a witness and mister Leonard gains to the stand.

Speaker 63 (03:07:41):
The Adventures of Philip Marlowe Bringing You Raymond, Chandler's most
famous character and crime's most deadly enemy, star Gerald Moore
and are produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Script is
by Meldonelli, Robert Mitchell and Jeane Levitt. Featured in the
cast were Joy Terry, John Dayner, Michael Ann Barrett, Junius Matthews,
Ben Wright, Louke Krugman, Larry Dobkin, and Bud Widham. The

(03:08:03):
special music is by Richard o'runt. Be sure and be
with us again next week. When Philip Marlow says.

Speaker 45 (03:08:14):
The trail started in Montana with a bum with two names,
rushing away from his lady love and led fast into
La past a Southerner from Canada, a worried woldealer, and
a chorus girl with a forty five. When it finally
stopped at Murder in the Park, the tramp was still
in a hurry.

Speaker 17 (03:08:42):
The Clyde Baby Show.

Speaker 8 (03:08:52):
The world's greatest wild animal trainer, Clyde Batty with an
exciting adventure from his brilliant career. The circus means thrills, excitement,
snarling jungle beasts. The circus means fun for young folks
and old. But under the big top you can see
only a part of the story. The real brama comes
behind the scenes where five hundred people live us one family,
where Clid Baty constantly risks death in the most dangerous

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act on earth. This master of the big cats has
journey to Africa and India, hunting down his beasts in
their native jungle. All of this is part of the
qud Batty story. Here, then, is a strange, unearthly adventure
which mister Batty calls zombie.

Speaker 17 (03:09:44):
My wife, Harriet and I.

Speaker 8 (03:09:46):
In West Indian Ports, pursuing our favorite sport of deep
sea fishing, had heard talk of zombies, but it wasn't
until we visited Saint Lucia in the British West Indies
to hunt the seven foot venomous killer snake the fed
Lance subbition with our wild animal circus that one morning.
All right, now, let's see, Oh there, boy, let's take

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the things over, Harriet, batnets, snake.

Speaker 32 (03:10:13):
Hooks shut here on the pack, horse clad okay, and.

Speaker 8 (03:10:16):
He had a venom kit, got it right here. You
better let me carry it, Honnie, you'll have your hands
full with mister Misery. He's going along with us, isn't he.

Speaker 32 (03:10:24):
Mister Anderson's bringing him down from the plantation house when
he comes. But the way those two have been getting along, Clide,
mister Misery is likely to prepare the.

Speaker 74 (03:10:32):
Ride with him.

Speaker 8 (03:10:33):
You may be right. Look they're coming from the house now.

Speaker 32 (03:10:36):
Oh Claid, Look how mister Missley studies. Mister Amer's face
is if he understood every word.

Speaker 8 (03:10:43):
And the capuchin monkey is supposed to hate human being. Now,
mister Misery, we all haven't done a good early morning
horseback right? What let me stop the sugarcanes at the
war good morning? All ready to start off? I see
we've just.

Speaker 32 (03:11:00):
Been checking over the equipment.

Speaker 8 (03:11:01):
Mister then you know, as I told you, the head
of answer has been all but wiped out to these islands. Oh,
I think we'll round up the specimen and two. I
hope so, Batty, didn't you seem set on heading some
of the beggars, Shall we set off. Then, okay, we're
all ready.

Speaker 32 (03:11:32):
I'm afraid, friends, and mister Misery would really rather ride
on your horse with you.

Speaker 8 (03:11:37):
Thicker rider isn't here, but I think, missus, baby, i'd
best keep my hands free.

Speaker 17 (03:11:43):
Is it really likely anything might happen?

Speaker 8 (03:11:45):
Anson? You carry your off precaution the anti vendent kits.
You's holding your hands. I have here across my saddle,
my precaution. It's thirty thirty Craig rices. I heard your
dinner last evening, Baby. These West Indian Islands are a
string powder boxes from Cuba to the South American coast.
It seems peaceful enough, yes, indeed, and in just such

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peaceful surroundings. I don't mean to fight you, missus, Daty,
but you seem a sturdy sort in just what surroundings
here in Saint Lucia clampers and in Philidad oil fields overseers.

Speaker 17 (03:12:18):
If you see it's murdered. Look around this turn in
the road, A big crowd.

Speaker 8 (03:12:24):
What are they up to? An don't know, Daty. Come now,
we've just ride state along the make way. Yeah, the
crowds separating, clearing the center of the road. She won't

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budget any rate like look empty as if she were dead.
Quite that is a girl named Martha Brown, or was,
if some would have it. Why mister yeah, you see
many say that Martha Brown is a zombie, a risen
member of the colony of the dead. Well, come along,

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we must ride round her. We return to our strange
West Indian story zombie in a moment, back to try

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baby and our story zombie. We passed the girl Martha Brown,
gazing with vacant, sightless eyes, standing unheeding in the middle
of the road. We rode on between the twelve foot

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high walls of sugarcane, and quite soon a tall man, sunburned, hatless,
about fifty years younger than our host Dansdon, appeared ahead.
He waved tearfully and rode up top of the morning
I say out for the breeze. So early are we morning?

Speaker 22 (03:14:12):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (03:14:12):
This is Johannes fan Eckett has the sugar plantation next
to mine.

Speaker 74 (03:14:16):
How do you do?

Speaker 8 (03:14:17):
How do you do? This is missus Daty van Eckit.
Hello and Clyde Baty. I'm happy to know your baby.

Speaker 9 (03:14:22):
Hello.

Speaker 8 (03:14:23):
Mister and Missus Daty are wild animal trainers. They have
a circus in the United States Oh, yes, I know
the babies. They hope to take specimens of the third
alance for exhibitions.

Speaker 17 (03:14:32):
Then does account for all that beer?

Speaker 2 (03:14:34):
You'll have a ball.

Speaker 17 (03:14:39):
There, we think.

Speaker 32 (03:14:44):
So that's the reason for his name.

Speaker 8 (03:14:46):
Well it's you, all right. I have told mister and
missus datty the mongoose has all but eliminated the fair
alarms from Saint Lucia. Hold on though, what iss?

Speaker 17 (03:14:56):
I just thought?

Speaker 8 (03:14:57):
Well, I'm a bachelor, you know, and the is I
don't keep my big just one one might call ship shelf,
that refuse pile up and that sort of thing. Well,
to tell the truth, we've attracted rodents with the mess
who wept nice. Just lately they've been disappearing. That could
be the work of the fad a lance they be
on that. Yes, so i've heard. Well, if you don't

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have luck this morning, why not come round and give
my place to go this afternoon?

Speaker 17 (03:15:25):
Thanks man, And we might do that.

Speaker 8 (03:15:27):
Oh when I say bring swimsuit, I have a sort
of a water hole that serves for a pool.

Speaker 32 (03:15:47):
Don't anymore.

Speaker 2 (03:15:54):
I'm through?

Speaker 8 (03:15:55):
How about you, Harriet?

Speaker 32 (03:15:56):
Yes, yes, quick before my husband you are.

Speaker 17 (03:16:00):
This is baby. I'll give your hand up.

Speaker 74 (03:16:04):
Thanks, Oh the sun feels good.

Speaker 8 (03:16:09):
I'm sorry, Baddy, we fail to turn up your fad alarm.
I'm beginning to believe there really aren't any on Saint Lucia.
We've hunted my place over apparently enough this afternoon, and.

Speaker 32 (03:16:18):
We called the king Fields this morning.

Speaker 8 (03:16:21):
You know it's too bad Amerston decided not to come
along with you to my place. Yeah, yeah, it is,
And I'm sorry mister missus.

Speaker 32 (03:16:30):
Oh he refuses to be separated from mister Emson.

Speaker 17 (03:16:34):
What precise didd Emson?

Speaker 8 (03:16:35):
Say, Bertie, that is, if you don't mind, he said,
convey my apologies to mine here vanek mine here.

Speaker 30 (03:16:43):
Oh that is the.

Speaker 8 (03:16:45):
Bob, you see. I'm an Africander born so anyhow out
in the trans vows South Africa, a South African dutchment
a boy. Though I haven't been back for years. I
suppose Emerson doesn't consider me a proper Englishman. That seems
a little stiff necked, do you.

Speaker 32 (03:17:03):
I doesn't see that at all.

Speaker 8 (03:17:05):
And of course there's the business of missus Amston. We've
not met her, No, we haven't. She's knee she would be,
you know, spends three quarters of her time there. Now
there's hard lines before old Amsdon Usett, his wife, Joset Amsden.
She's a Martine, fifteen or sixteen years Amerson's junior. That

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sort of thing, ud quick, What is it, honey?

Speaker 32 (03:17:31):
Look at the stream that is into the pool on
that little rock.

Speaker 8 (03:17:34):
That's a fair deliance. Our equipment was thirty feet away
on the brick floor of the gallery of Vanackt's plantations.

Speaker 15 (03:17:44):
He means for it.

Speaker 8 (03:17:45):
Quietly, cautiously, we made our way back. The fair deliance
still sunned itself on the rock, six feet long, reddish
colored with triangular markings, her head distinctly shaped like the
head of a lance. Iron Land said the English meaning
of fair delance, the deadly snake's French Creole name. Yes,

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the snake co all right, her Ben, I could just
how would you like to take him? I wouldn't know
what to do.

Speaker 17 (03:18:13):
I'll tell you.

Speaker 8 (03:18:13):
Take one of the bat nets, yes, take one, two, Harriet,
stand by him. His panic at needs help. Now, look here, baby,
I would want to be the cause. If you're losing him,
you won't. Now, come on, just easy, slow, so we
won't scare him off. Now and we're in range. I'll

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reach under him with the end of his snake hook
and lift the snake won't slip off. He'll coil himself
around the hook at the end of his pole, they
always do. Then you reach under with your pole with
the bat net at the end. Very well, I understand,
and I'll tip him into your net. Then you work
that lever there along the side of your pole, closing
the mouth of your net, and the fair delance is back.

Speaker 17 (03:18:58):
That's all they'll be to it. That's all.

Speaker 8 (03:19:03):
Ready enough, Yes, yes, so far as I'm likely to
be to stand by herr. Yes, all right, here goes
under the middle court, all right, not quick under.

Speaker 5 (03:19:18):
There.

Speaker 8 (03:19:19):
There he's here, and I shut the net. We might
step out on the gallery and it's just our Dinner's daisy,
Missus Daty, rather cooler out there, pleasant this time of
the evening.

Speaker 32 (03:19:36):
It was a lovely gentle.

Speaker 8 (03:19:38):
Oh, it's kind of you, Missus Daty, to compliment a dinner,
because I fear my hospitality in the absence of missus
Hamerton needs something to be desired. Oh, Josette will be
back quite soon, of course. Something must have turned up
unexpectedly over in Martinique and detained her. Ah, Now we
can sit down now that you have your said a lance,

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perhaps you'd be leaving Saint Lucia, Betty, oh, pretty soon?
And I suppose I say, Batty, don't you have to
feed that snake out there as fox? We round up
some live frogs for it in the morning maytime. It'll
be safe enough. The snake box is securely fastened, yes, is,
and our poor inquisitiveness to misery chained up.

Speaker 7 (03:20:22):
Yes.

Speaker 8 (03:20:24):
The drum are the voodoo drums? Have you and your
husband seen a voodoo ceremony? I suppose then we put
on some mosquito boots, take a walk across to the cane.
Matter of fact, I have a particular reason for looking
in on the voodoo people. I don't know if you'd

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know much about voodoo, not very much, and it's not
native to the Western world. Of course, it came with
the slaves out of the Homie, chiefly and adjacent to
Shanti along the Guinea coast of West Africa. I didn't
think vodo had spread as far south as here in
the Windwood Island, decisely precisely bated, And I think I
understand you it had not until quite lately. Co incident

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Deity with our uprisings and troubles over the island. I say, yes,
I see.

Speaker 32 (03:21:23):
You mean you think there's a connection, mister Hanson.

Speaker 8 (03:21:25):
Voodoo is a passionate, animistic religion suited to stirring up
simple peoples and by capturing their credulity, holding them in sway. Yes, yes,
we found out in Africa the witch doctors worked on
the simple imaginations of the people to gain power.

Speaker 32 (03:21:40):
How they hadn't sound the more primitive parts of Africa
was really terrifying.

Speaker 8 (03:21:45):
You sat back at the house. You had a particular
reason Anson for looking in on the voodoo ceremony. Quite,
there's a story given very wide credence hereabout. But the
white hold on a moment, keep quiet, something wrong, don't move.
Watch someone coming toward us from the direction of the drums.

Speaker 15 (03:22:11):
You can just make out his face in the moon.

Speaker 17 (03:22:15):
Indeed you can indeed, No, he's turning away now, going off.

Speaker 8 (03:22:20):
To the left.

Speaker 32 (03:22:20):
Oh, it's only mister Vaneck.

Speaker 8 (03:22:24):
We had to call him, let him go. I don't
get it, as I had not finished my sentence when
vanekit appeared. Now, well, what were you going to say?

Speaker 9 (03:22:35):
Is this?

Speaker 8 (03:22:36):
There's a story given very wide credence hereabouts, that a
white Man is behind the unexpected appearance of Voodoo, behind
the recent troubles and uprisings. In short, that he is
a power, lustful agitator of the subtlest and most dangerous kind.
You think it's banket, I do, Betty. I'm convinced. And

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now here is an important message. And now back to
the West Indian story Zombie Tonight's thrilling pride baty drama.
Harriet Hamsden and Eyes stood at the edge of the
open sided, roofed over area called the Voodoo Tanel. Watched
the slatternly glassy eyed dancers watch their leaders sprinkle cornmeal

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in weaving patterns on the ground. Listen to the vibration
the boom of a tree, trunk, hollowed goat, skin headed,
heels of hands, plucked rod a drums. Harriet and I
didn't have much heart of what we saw. You want
to go, honey y, I believe it, mister Vennson. Harriet
and I are ready to go now if you are.

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As we came out of the cane into the cleared
area below Ampstonce sprawling plantation house, we nearly walked into
someone standing in the pool of shadows spread by a
flame tree mustnton a native girl d d.

Speaker 17 (03:24:16):
Yes yes, transfixed starring.

Speaker 8 (03:24:20):
Yes, it is Martha Brown. Martha Brown, the young native
girl said by many a Saint Lucian to be a zombie,
said by many a Saint Lucian to be a dehumanized, soulless,
walking dead girl gazed with great open fixed eyes that

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dully reflected machine of the moon.

Speaker 5 (03:24:45):
But she did not see us.

Speaker 17 (03:24:48):
And mister, will you speak?

Speaker 8 (03:24:52):
We can try, miss Brown. Martha Brown, Martha b down
said well, she'll be all right down there in the bungalow. Now,

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nothing we can do for her. He doesn't say her
hears that you rat to see you in the morning. Yes, yes,
well if you forgive me, I find I'm quite exhausted.
Makes three of us, you know there is Eternian. Good night,
good night, mister Amson shell me you come home, said.

Speaker 74 (03:25:39):
You were expecting another woman.

Speaker 17 (03:25:41):
My husband, mister and missus Daty, This is my wife,
Missus Anderson.

Speaker 9 (03:25:46):
How do you do?

Speaker 33 (03:25:46):
Hello?

Speaker 17 (03:25:47):
If you remember that the Daty is but coming as out.

Speaker 74 (03:25:50):
I remember, how do you do? Madam?

Speaker 75 (03:25:53):
It's your baby? I am in yanky, thank you, and
naturally we know all about your great work with you
add animals, the famous circus, your fabulous career in the
United States.

Speaker 74 (03:26:05):
How young is a me? As my husband will have
made you to know, we are most happy to have
your day.

Speaker 8 (03:26:11):
Thank you, You're very kind.

Speaker 75 (03:26:13):
Missus Emson, dear Monsieur, I am exhausted the boat, the
crossing from port, depart the whole day to see.

Speaker 8 (03:26:22):
Well you want to rest in? Jusaid, we were just
saying good night anyhow.

Speaker 74 (03:26:26):
Can sellow met again in the morning.

Speaker 32 (03:26:28):
Oh yes, good night, missus Mpston, good night.

Speaker 74 (03:26:32):
But you are not going to the bangalow.

Speaker 8 (03:26:34):
No, no, no, let's take in the house, the real bedroom.

Speaker 74 (03:26:38):
They are not staying in the bungalone.

Speaker 8 (03:26:40):
No Jo said, why nothing, nothing, Harriet night hardly more
than slipped in under the mosquito netting, tucked it back
again around the mattress edge when we were asleep. Then

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in the middle of the night, with the vampson at
the door, in five seconds I was with him. A
yard boy had been awakened by a scream from the
bungalow near the house. Amsden with his crag rifle, it
rushed to the bungalow, had seen the fair delance slipping

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out the open door. He dashed it to oblivion with
a single blow of his rifle. Stuck inside the bungalow
on the bed writhing was Martha Brown, the awakened Rombie.
All Right, all right, Harriet, hurry and get the antebent
and kid open. Here you are, tourniquet first, older leg

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still will you answered? Right?

Speaker 7 (03:27:48):
Fair?

Speaker 8 (03:27:49):
Delance bitter here in the fat of the leg calf
could be worse, all right, Amston, Tighten the tourniquet while
I get ready to insize the bike. Right right the scalpel,
Marry here, don't wind the turn it too tight end. No, no,
we don't want to cut off the floor of the blood.

Speaker 76 (03:28:03):
Just flow it down very well, I understand, Harriet, hold
it Lake while I make the incisions, all right, sat
He not, Hey, that'll do it.

Speaker 8 (03:28:14):
You know she's no zombie now she's unconscious, but she
felt that she's certainly did, seemed to Harriet.

Speaker 17 (03:28:20):
No suction cut.

Speaker 8 (03:28:21):
Okay, you can inject the independence erum, honey while I
handle this above the tuniquet. Well you know that.

Speaker 10 (03:28:31):
M m.

Speaker 8 (03:28:34):
Well, there's a chance we may be able to save her. Now,
could work busy and she does come out of it.
I think there's a good chance you'll prove a theory
of mine about zombies, this particular zombie. Anyhow, Harriet, if

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you've finished your coffee, yes, would you do as I
asked you on the way up from the bungalow? Oh yes,
excuse me, of course, another cup, Beaty, You certainly earned it,
those hours and hours of caring for that poor girl.
Where half a cup?

Speaker 17 (03:29:18):
That's fine? Thanks to them.

Speaker 8 (03:29:19):
I should never have imagined one had to apply suction
to a snake bite so many hours.

Speaker 17 (03:29:23):
We'll have to be sure you get all the poison on.

Speaker 8 (03:29:25):
You said, Beatty, that that girl, if she survived, might
prove some idea of yours about zombies. Yeah, well she
did prove it. Indeed, after you came back up here
to the house an hour or so ago, she came
to talk to us. I say, did she She's certainly
not a zombie, if there is such a thing as
a zombie, which I guess I'm just a little too much,
Ohio brought up to believe quite that.

Speaker 17 (03:29:48):
Girl was suffering from a form of catalepsy.

Speaker 8 (03:29:51):
Of course I should have thought, if that counts perfect man,
the shark of the snake bite brought her out of
it as the electric or insulin shark often revives a
adeleptic mental patient in a hospital. The right rest and
cares you may recover completely. As if that from among
the dead, Deity, from among the walking dead, the zombies
at least, or so the voodoo people around here going

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to think, Yes, yes, Deity, as it struck you as
odd that that snake of yours should have been able
to escape his box. I checked the box hooks. They
were all fastened. Oh, oh, forgive me.

Speaker 17 (03:30:22):
Then I had a thought, but evidence the box.

Speaker 8 (03:30:25):
Hooks were fastened, and the fair delance was out. Somebody
must have let it out and then shut the box.
Of course, of course, Deity, if someone had been playing
upon the credulity of the country folk voodoo, a zombie,
that sort of thing, and suddenly he had reason to
fear a major part of his chickory was about to
be on. Mark van Akadamston, I do you mean that

(03:30:47):
if he were the white agitators said to operate in
these parts, stirring up the natives, working on their superstitious
minds their parents, zombie might have been part of his equipment. Yes,
and he'd go to the length of losing my fair
delance to bite and kill her to prevent us from
discovering and letting the community know that she was no
zombie Anston. Yes, ditty, what I've got to say isn't

(03:31:10):
going to be easy for me to say, But go ahead, ditty,
there is no agitator, Vaneket or anyone else. That story
is the rumor a room or Anston and nothing more.
The uprisings here the sudden turned a superstition and primitivism
on the part of the natives.

Speaker 17 (03:31:25):
It's all part of attention and upheaval that's gripping the
whole world.

Speaker 8 (03:31:29):
How can you know this? So surely, bitty, I told
you we talked to Martha Brown, Yes, you did.

Speaker 5 (03:31:35):
Well.

Speaker 8 (03:31:35):
One of the characteristics of catalepsy is that the cataleptic,
while apparently unaware of the world, sees, hears, and remembers
all that goes on around. Well, Martha Brown was exhibited
at the voodoo ceremonies. In fact, wanted here to your
place somehow from the one last night, I see and
so knew that the voodoo business was purely spontaneous a natives. Yeah,

(03:31:57):
and she saw who brought the snake box to her
bungle Lodor last night and let loose my fead alarm
sent What that's right? Well, Harriet, I say that notepaper,
my wife, thankie? What's this all about? I want you
to know, Amston. This isn't easy for me my wife either,
well very well, but but what we have this? I

(03:32:21):
have run away very early this morning, Sherry, and I
am to take the morning boat to Martinique. Is it
possible you can believe that I loved you, Josette? You see,
evidently your wife didn't know who Martha Brown was when
she found her in the bungalow last night. Jealousy, she
meant to kill Martha Brown. Oh no, sure that Joset

(03:32:44):
Martha will live, Ampston. Josette may have meant to kill her,
but instead she brought her back from the living dead. Well,

(03:33:05):
it's a shore for Anton and me. Now she's about
to put out. Goodbye the naked, goodbye, goodbye. So long
in chat and good hunting over there in Martinique. They
have done a lot more fair allowance than we have here.
Thank heavens, come along Amazon in a moment. I wait
for your shore, Jill, your baby, missus, David, all the best, goodbye, bye,

(03:33:28):
good bye, goodbye Harriet, if I may call you that,
and good bye, little black bearded lighter.

Speaker 32 (03:33:37):
Look, mister Mickley wants to stay behind with you. Would
you accept him with cride in my warm of goods?

Speaker 8 (03:33:43):
Oh, thank you, thank you Harriet very much. Well, so long,
old man Clyde. When you're over there in Martinique, you
might look up, But no, no, no, let us pass.
It's for the best. It's better this way. Goodbye Clyde, Goodbye,
goodbye Harriet, goodbye, and goodbye mister. Here we go, Honey,

(03:34:09):
that's chafe on the horizon. Over there, that's Mortinique. It's
not far.

Speaker 32 (03:34:13):
No, no, And yet in another way, crowd thinking of
mister Emiston and his wife, Goody, Saint Lucia and French Martinique.

Speaker 17 (03:34:25):
A long way apart, a long way apart.

Speaker 8 (03:34:46):
So ends this strange experience. But ply Betty will return
in a moment once more. Here is the star of
our show, Fly Betty. Next week I bring you the
story of the amazing things that happened when I attempted
to give a benefit performance for cripple children in opposition
to the wishes of a political boss. What followed was

(03:35:06):
like an exciting chess game with people for pawns and
all New England for a chessboard, a game that ended
with quite a surprise. I think you'll enjoy it. All
stories are based upon incidents in the career of the
world famous Client Batty and the Client Batty Circus. The
Qui Baty Show was produced by Shirley Thomas. Zombie was

(03:35:30):
written by William Pyfield. All names used were fictional, and
any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
This is a Commodore production.

Speaker 69 (03:36:10):
Hello, welcome to the Black Mass. We've been hoping you
join us tonight. There's plenty of room in our establishment
for everyone. I see that most of you are standing
in the outer darkness along the walls in the corners.

(03:36:36):
Well and good, but our inner circle, our chain of empathy,
is not yet complete. Twelve is such an even number.
We need just one more, won't someone volunteer? Come on,

(03:37:01):
it's only in spirit. Ah, yes, you'll do nicely. Right here,
I'm a left Now we're all set. We had originally

(03:37:24):
planned to Night's story as a special offering for Mother's Day.
Well here, belatedly, but with all due respect, is our
adaptation of the death of Halpin Fraser by Ambrose Bius.

(03:38:00):
For by death is wrought greater change than hath been shown.
Whereas the spirit that removed itself cometh back upon occasion,
and is sometimes seen as appearing in the form of
the body it bore. Yet it hath happened that the
body without the spirit hath WoT. And it is attested

(03:38:23):
that a corpse so raised hath no natural love nor remembrance,
there are but only hate. Also, it is known that
some spirits, which in life were benign, become by death

(03:38:44):
evil altogether. One dark night in Midsummer, a man, waking
from a dreamless sleep in a forest, lifted his head

(03:39:05):
from the earth and stared a few moments into the blackness.

Speaker 24 (03:39:12):
Ca. Three g. Three.

Speaker 69 (03:39:25):
He said nothing more.

Speaker 7 (03:39:28):
For he was dead.

Speaker 69 (03:39:31):
The man was Halpen Fraser, and his body was discovered
the following morning by Sam Hulker, the deputy sheriff from Napa,
and Jim Jarrelson, a detective from San Francisco. The two
men left the town of Saint Helena at the first
glimmer of dawn and walked along the road northward up
the valley toward Calaestoga. They carried guns on their shoulders.

(03:39:57):
Their business was man hunting.

Speaker 44 (03:40:04):
How far is it?

Speaker 3 (03:40:06):
Oh, it's only a little ways yet, there's a turn
up ahead, and it's just beyond that.

Speaker 44 (03:40:15):
Don't see how we'll see anything when we get there
in this fog thin.

Speaker 3 (03:40:20):
Out and blow off around noon, I expect. Then we'll
we'll wait around until he shows, till he'll show.

Speaker 47 (03:40:28):
Alright, he'll saw right.

Speaker 3 (03:40:29):
I've seen him three times.

Speaker 5 (03:40:34):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (03:40:34):
Not another soul knows he's on this side of the mountains.

Speaker 44 (03:40:38):
You know, from what you've been saying, a man must
be insane.

Speaker 5 (03:40:43):
Yeah, likely likely.

Speaker 44 (03:40:46):
You say he's been hanging around in the graveyard.

Speaker 3 (03:40:48):
Yeah, where they where they buried his wife. Now, she
was the weirdy who. Maybe you can't blame him for
what he did to her, But then he showed her
a lot of practice before her.

Speaker 47 (03:41:06):
She she was a widow when he met her.

Speaker 3 (03:41:08):
In fact, came to California to look up some relative.

Speaker 2 (03:41:13):
But you know all about that.

Speaker 3 (03:41:15):
Strange people, strange people.

Speaker 25 (03:41:19):
Well, now here we are.

Speaker 3 (03:41:22):
Over here, you can see the graveyards not not kept up.

Speaker 42 (03:41:27):
Not used anymore.

Speaker 69 (03:41:30):
Weed's all grown over the stone look out. You don't
trip on him.

Speaker 44 (03:41:35):
Hey, what about Grandscombe? Shouldn't we watch out if he's around?

Speaker 3 (03:41:39):
Oh no, you don't show up till dark. I thought
i'd show you the ground and we could make some
sort of plan for later.

Speaker 29 (03:41:53):
Her her grave, her grave's over here.

Speaker 3 (03:41:56):
He'll he'll come by it like I saw him before,
over over here and his spruce tree. You know, it's
still a mystery to me. Why, hey, hey there, hey there, now?

Speaker 4 (03:42:14):
What hey there?

Speaker 5 (03:42:17):
Now?

Speaker 9 (03:42:18):
Look at this?

Speaker 5 (03:42:19):
What is it?

Speaker 4 (03:42:23):
Wow?

Speaker 44 (03:42:25):
Is it Branscombe?

Speaker 9 (03:42:26):
No?

Speaker 30 (03:42:27):
No, it isn't him.

Speaker 5 (03:42:28):
I don't know who it is.

Speaker 69 (03:42:35):
The body lay upon its back, the legs wide apart.
One arm was thrust upward, the other output, but the
ladder was bent acutely, and the hand was near the throat.
Both hands were tightly clenched. The whole attitude was that
of desperate but ineffectual resistance to.

Speaker 7 (03:42:59):
One.

Speaker 69 (03:43:06):
There's a shotgun over there, game bag with birds in.

Speaker 77 (03:43:10):
It without looks like you put up a fight tool.
See those oaks shoots all bent back. Yeah, somebody bigger
than him, it looks. See the knee marks on the
earth beside his hips there?

Speaker 44 (03:43:26):
Strang all all right?

Speaker 17 (03:43:28):
Look at the face.

Speaker 3 (03:43:31):
Yeah, well it was Branscombe, did it?

Speaker 5 (03:43:35):
Sure enough?

Speaker 16 (03:43:37):
Sure enough?

Speaker 69 (03:43:48):
I had been all day in the hills west of
the Napa Valley, looking for such small game as was
in the season. Late in the afternoon it had come
on to be cloudy, and the absence of trails had
so impeded me that I was overtaken by night. Unable

(03:44:15):
in the darkness to penetrate the thickets. I had lain
down near the roots of a large tree. Had fallen
into a sleep, dreamless, dreamless until I heard the name pronounced.

(03:44:40):
I couldn't imagine why from my own throat.

Speaker 47 (03:44:53):
Cacerin.

Speaker 69 (03:45:00):
Then I lay down and went asleep. But this time
no longer dreamness. I thought I was walking along a
dusty road that showed wide in the gathering darkness of
a summer night. Why or where I traveled I did

(03:45:20):
not know, though it all seemed simple and natural, as
is the way in dreams, A side road left off
the appearance having been long abandoned, because it seemed it
led to something evil. Yet I turned into it without hesitation,

(03:45:43):
impelled by some imperious necessity as I as I pressed forward,
I became conscious that my way was haunted by invisible
existences from among the trees. On other side, I caught
broken and incoherent whispers, whispers in a strange tongue, which

(03:46:05):
yet I partly understood. They seemed to me fragmentary utterances
of a monstrous conspiracy against my body and my soul.
I should have a shallow pool in an old wheel
that caught my eye with a crimson gleam. I stooped
and plunged my hand into it. It stained my fingers.

Speaker 44 (03:46:29):
It was blood.

Speaker 29 (03:46:30):
It was blood.

Speaker 69 (03:46:33):
Her blood was ever where about me. The weed showed
it in blots and splashes on their leaves. The file
and the trunks of the trees were broad. Maculations are crimson,
and blood dripped like dew from their foliage. All this
eydes are with a terror and an expectation. It seemed

(03:46:55):
to be all inexpiation of some crime, my guilt. But
I couldn't remember the crime. I tried to search it
out by tracing my life backward to discover the moment
of sin. Scenes, scenes and incidents came crowding one picture

(03:47:15):
of facing and confusing another. But nowhere, nowhere could I
catch a glimpse of the crime. I felt as if
I had murdered in the dark, not knowing whom or why,
who so frightful? Was it so noxious? The plants and
the trees so so conspiring from overhead everywhere came to whispers,

(03:47:38):
the whispers sighs of creatures not of this earth. Hearth, louder, louder.
I could not endure it. He was a spell, it
with a spell that found all night. I had to
break through it.

Speaker 12 (03:47:52):
It was choking me.

Speaker 69 (03:47:54):
It was choking me. I just screamed a break through it.
Why I had made a beginning at resistance and was encouraged.

(03:48:22):
I will not submit unheard. I will not submit unheard
the powers that are not my leagun and traveling this
accursed road, I shall leave my record. I shall leave
my record, and on appeal, I shall relate the wrongs,
the persecutions that I undo, helpless model and a penitent
on the memoralla in my pocket, no pencil, no pencil.

(03:48:47):
I'm a broken twig from a portion and dipped it
into a pool of blood, and I forget to write.

Speaker 3 (03:48:55):
I wrote rapidly, I wrote, my peel, my peal.

Speaker 69 (03:49:01):
I don't know where the words came from, but I wrote,
I wrote, I wrote, I seemed had hardly touched the
paper with the twig when I heard her huh at
first from some measureless distance.

Speaker 17 (03:49:19):
Away, soul.

Speaker 69 (03:49:23):
Hardly a curse, A strange sensation gan to take possession
of my body and my mind. Some over power and
presence and malevolence approaching me, approaching me. I could not

(03:49:44):
tell from what direction, from everywhere she was everywhere about me.
I had to complete my my record, my feel, I wrote,
I wrote with terrible rapidity, the twigg grill in blood.
I renewal my peel, my peel my. But in the

(03:50:09):
middle of a sentence, I could not move my hands.
My arms fell to my sides, the paper, to the earth.
I was drawn about. I looked up. I looked up,

(03:50:33):
staring into a face, sharply drawn face, blank, dead eyes,
standing white and silent in the garments of the grave.

(03:50:54):
Khathy mother, mother, mother, helping.

Speaker 57 (03:51:23):
Was the youngest. He was more delicant than the rest,
and perhaps a trifle spoiled. His father had little time
for him. His father was what no southern man is not,
a politician. It took a good deal of his time,
and I suppose it saved us from the war. But
then later other children were at school, and I had

(03:51:46):
help him all of myself.

Speaker 9 (03:51:49):
I was very happy.

Speaker 57 (03:51:51):
We were both very happy. His father wanted him to
study law. Oh my law. How was a dreamer, a
romantic boy. I knew from the very beginning that he
could be a poet. Well, it was in his blood.
And he was the living image and character of his

(03:52:12):
maternal grandfather, the latent great Myron Bane. That was my father,
the famous poet. You know, he died just before Helping
was born, so they never knew each other. But I
used to think that Harping was the very incarnation, the
very living image. It's true, you know that before Happen

(03:52:36):
was born, Myron was all I had. Well, that was
really how it was. My husband was in politics, you know,
and the children came and went with him, all sufficed.
And it's true I can hardly remember one of them now.
Sometimes I think there was only Helping after all. And

(03:52:58):
before him, Oh Myron, we always believed we'd be together
again afterwards. Being alive was all we had after all,
wasn't it.

Speaker 9 (03:53:14):
You See?

Speaker 57 (03:53:15):
My father and I we were very close. I was
his inspiration. I was all he had, the only one
he ever really loved. We had a perfect sympathy that
the world would never have understood. So we had to
take care. We had to protect our beautiful weakness, our guilt.

(03:53:39):
Then suddenly died, and I waited in all this dark
world until halfin was born. His father wanted him to
study law. Oh my, the Tennessee phrases were a practical folk,
having a contempt for any quality unfitting a man for

(03:54:01):
the wholesome vocation of politics. Well, helping was going to
disappoint them, and they could see it from the first
And what they said about him only showed their ignorance.
They said he wasn't a very brightened he was a
crazy lu like his grandfather, mind being. Oh my, sometimes

(03:54:24):
you just have to shut the whole world out, don't you.
So I expected his mother spoiled him a little, and
you can't go blaming her for that, can you? How
happy we were helping and I I I was still young,
you know, they'd say, helping and his beautiful mother. Of course,

(03:54:48):
from his early childhood helping, call me.

Speaker 12 (03:54:51):
Kathy, helping and Kathy.

Speaker 57 (03:54:55):
No one would have known to look they were jealous, Yes,
they were one of us. As our attachment became really
stronger and more tendered, By the time he was twenty five,
Hopping was the most beautiful of God's creatures on this earth.
I must say he didn't turn out to be much

(03:55:17):
of a poet by then, but I knew that it
might just burst out of him at any moment. He
had it all in him, of course, all waiting. I
tried to help him a little with his writing and reading.
He was a little slow at first, but he was

(03:55:37):
a dreamer, a romantic dreamer.

Speaker 10 (03:55:42):
You know.

Speaker 57 (03:55:43):
The two of us were almost inseparable, and by strangers
observing our manner, we weren't infrequently taken for lovers. Oh my,
in all their wild days, they'd never believed how right
they were. And we laughed at them, happing, we laughed

(03:56:03):
at them, had their outrage and envy. We knew they
envied us. That element, that element in all the relations
alive strengthen him, softening and beautifying, yes, beautifying, even those

(03:56:24):
of consanguinity, Oh happen?

Speaker 15 (03:56:28):
Do you remember? Do you remember even.

Speaker 57 (03:56:32):
A single moment? Well, then then there was that day
you left me helping to take a job with a
local lumber company. Oh, he wanted to do something, didn't
want to be so dependent on me. I suppose and
this friend of his talked him into working for the
tower Coat and Bleaker Lumber company. Well, he hadn't been

(03:56:56):
with them a month, and then that day he came
in my boudoir. I knew, I suppose I knew helping
by the way you kissed me on the forehead and
toyed for a minute with a lock of my hair.
I'd just stop loving me, already helping.

Speaker 24 (03:57:15):
Me.

Speaker 57 (03:57:15):
We can't tell, can he when someone really stops loving.

Speaker 24 (03:57:24):
Kathy?

Speaker 12 (03:57:27):
Kathy, well happened?

Speaker 57 (03:57:29):
I have a distinct feeling that there's something on your mind.
What does it helping?

Speaker 5 (03:57:34):
Oh, Kathy?

Speaker 69 (03:57:35):
Would you would you greatly mind if I were called
away to California for a few weeks, to California. It's
with the company, Cathy, Mister talker himself asked me to
do this.

Speaker 57 (03:57:45):
California is far away. How many weeks?

Speaker 69 (03:57:49):
Only a few, Cathy, four, maybe five will helping.

Speaker 57 (03:57:56):
It is hardly needful for me to answer with my lips,
a question to which my tell tale cheeks have already
made reply. Evidently I would greatly mind.

Speaker 69 (03:58:08):
Oh, Kathy, Kathy, don't feel that way. I want to
do this for the company.

Speaker 57 (03:58:13):
You know, yes, you want to get away happen? I know,
I know, Oh, my dear son. I should have known
this was coming, didn't I lie awake half the night weeping,
because during the other half, Myron Vane, your grandfather, came
to me in a dream, and standing by his portrait,

(03:58:34):
young too and handsome as that, he pointed to your
portrait on the same wall, And when I looked, it
seemed that I could not see the features. You have
been painted with a cloth over your face, a cloth
such as we put on the dead. Your father has

(03:58:54):
laughed at me when I've told him about my dreams.
But you and I did we know that such things
are not for nothing. Helping. I saw the low the
edge of the clock, the marks of hands on your throat, Oh, helping,

(03:59:17):
forgive me. But we've not been used to keep such
things from each other. Perhaps you have a different interpretation
of my dream, helping. Perhaps it does not mean that
you will go to California on me.

Speaker 13 (03:59:28):
Will you take me with you?

Speaker 69 (03:59:30):
That's such a strange dream, Cathy, you dreamed all that before.
Didn't tell me where now you know?

Speaker 24 (03:59:41):
Helping.

Speaker 57 (03:59:43):
I remember hearing that there are medicinal springs in California
places where one recovers from rheumatism and eurolgia. Well, now
that might do me some good. My fingers have grown
so stiff lately, you see, he happen so stiff, especially

(04:00:04):
in the morning. I'm almost sure they have been giving
me great pain while I slept, like they were grasping something.

Speaker 69 (04:00:16):
Just couldn't that go like a throat, Kathy, Like a
throat when you hold them like that?

Speaker 57 (04:00:22):
Oh, that's only in a dream. Happened, And we don't
want to mistake a dream for real life, Kathy.

Speaker 69 (04:00:29):
No, we don't ever want to take a chance and
mistaken a dream that way.

Speaker 57 (04:00:42):
That was the last thing you ever said to me.
Helping seems are remembered as you were gone. Next morning,
couldn't see you for dust.

Speaker 13 (04:00:52):
Oh help.

Speaker 57 (04:00:55):
At first I thought it was in a dream you
left me, and I couldn't wake out. Bit hard as
I tried, my poor hands never straightened out.

Speaker 9 (04:01:06):
They try to.

Speaker 57 (04:01:07):
Find you in all their emptiness, It never rocked. You
just vanished like you never was.

Speaker 32 (04:01:18):
Oh, oh ma.

Speaker 57 (04:01:21):
I came all the way to California looking for you.
A long while in San Francisco, someone said you'd gone
to sea, so I watched the ships and the sailors.
I thought each one was you, happing. I may believe
they were because I wanted to wake up out of
my dream. Then a very mean man, a very mean

(04:01:45):
man indeed, took me up here to the mountains, and
we lived a while torturing each other. I had only
stolen money in the graveyard, still looking for it, I suppose. Oh,
he was very mean to me. Happened. He had little knife,

(04:02:06):
which he kept sharp as a raise. He look happen,
Look at me?

Speaker 9 (04:02:13):
See what he did?

Speaker 57 (04:02:15):
He said he wanted to find the spot that hurt
the most. Ha, nothing hurt happy, nothing holds, nothing hurt anywhere,
only the memory. He couldn't white spot for that?

Speaker 25 (04:02:33):
See what she got, very close and dark, not.

Speaker 57 (04:02:37):
See happy, my delicate white throat. See how he cut
with his raisen knife from this ear to that ear.
It never stopped bleeding, happing you. You'd never believe how
much blood could be stored up in one.

Speaker 25 (04:02:58):
Soul his body.

Speaker 74 (04:03:01):
See how.

Speaker 57 (04:03:03):
Keeps a strong We have to come to aching hands
to your own, no willing to your throgs. See me happy?
See what's gone out of me?

Speaker 33 (04:03:19):
GetThere way together.

Speaker 8 (04:03:26):
A long go.

Speaker 57 (04:03:34):
Your dream help him.

Speaker 9 (04:03:38):
Very what deal for you?

Speaker 57 (04:03:42):
Helping no.

Speaker 69 (04:04:05):
To Jaralson and Hooker. The nature of a struggle was
made clear by a glance. The face and throat were purple,
almost black. The shoulders lay upon a low mound, and
the head was turned back at an angle otherwise impossible.
From the froth filling the open mouth. The tongue protruded,

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black and swollen. The throat showed terrible contusions, not mere
finger marks, but bruises and lacerations, wrought by two strong
hands that must have buried themselves in the yielding flesh,
maintaining their terrible grasp until long after death.

Speaker 7 (04:04:50):
Er the work of a maniac. All right, ranscomb.

Speaker 44 (04:04:55):
LaRue, hay love hair Eh looks like he was writing
something memorandum pad he squawly, Well, I guess under the circumstances,
can you make it up?

Speaker 24 (04:05:09):
Oh?

Speaker 39 (04:05:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (04:05:11):
Poetry looked like.

Speaker 69 (04:05:16):
The air was stagnant.

Speaker 3 (04:05:17):
All silence was a living thing that breathed among the trees.

Speaker 2 (04:05:28):
With blood.

Speaker 3 (04:05:29):
The trees were all adrip god spell unbroken, still rested
on my spirit, my will you know?

Speaker 44 (04:05:42):
It sounds like Bain Bain, Who's bane? Maron Bane, a
poet half a century ago.

Speaker 77 (04:05:49):
Why should have this, poor fellow want to be copying
down that dismal stuff.

Speaker 3 (04:05:56):
Dismal all right, Well, in a way, I guess it figures.

Speaker 78 (04:06:24):
You have been listening to the Death of Help and
Fraser by Ambrose Bears. The technical production for tonight's broadcast
was by John Whiting. The music sound effect was specially
composed and arranged for this program by Peter Winkler. The
story was adapted and performed by your host of the
Black Mass, Eric Bauersfeld, with Bernard Mays as Jeraldson and

(04:06:49):
the part of Catherine played by Pat Franklin. Miss Franklin
will be heard again on the next Black Mass program
in an adaptation of the story by Virginia wolf Ah
Wanted House. The series was conceived by Jack Nessel and
recorded in the studios of kp f A in Berkeley.

Speaker 35 (04:07:26):
The last stragglers were leaving Mariner's Waxworks. The uniformed attendants
glad that another day's work was over.

Speaker 5 (04:07:33):
We're locking up.

Speaker 35 (04:07:36):
On the second floor the old Gray building. The manager,
a stout, blonde man of smart appearance, was talking to
one Raymond Hewston, who looked anything but smart. His clothes,
although good ones, were showing distinct signs of their owners
losing battle with the world.

Speaker 5 (04:07:54):
There's nothing new in your request.

Speaker 79 (04:07:57):
In factory diffused it to many people young black There's
often made beds, but we don't play ball. We're not
in the game, and something to lose by letting people
spend the night in our murderer's den.

Speaker 35 (04:08:17):
A night in the murderer's den. That's what Raymond Howson,
the man in the shabby clothes, was after why You'll
find out the waxworks. I must earnestly beseech you not
to listen to this Beyond Midnight alone.

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Speaker 80 (04:09:00):
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More to Hansberg and she said, I cannot fully describe
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the stubborn stains of two months standing completely removed.

Speaker 5 (04:09:11):
I am so glad I.

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Speaker 7 (04:09:23):
I've just finished my first.

Speaker 80 (04:09:24):
Packet and I've watched all my babies woolens with it,
and they really do stay white. And what is more,
they keep their shape so well too. Once again, thanks
for a wonderful product. I'm just hoping you won't wait
too long before putting a large economy size packet on
the market. Well, thank you Missus Herd of park Boy
and Missus Longman for your endorsements.

Speaker 5 (04:09:44):
I too can endorse.

Speaker 80 (04:09:45):
Biotechs by making certain claims you, ladies, the most important
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stains just punish merely by soaking.

Speaker 5 (04:10:06):
No, we definitely have nothing.

Speaker 79 (04:10:07):
The game if I allowed it and let some young
idea lose your senses or with my delision. But of
course you're being a journalist somehow, where alters the case.
I suppose you mean that journalists have no senses to
look no, no, no, but one imagines them to be
a sensible, responsible people.

Speaker 35 (04:10:24):
Besides, here we have something in the game. But the
ended veriement exactly there. I thought we might come to ten.

Speaker 5 (04:10:31):
Oh, I know what's coming. You want to be paid
twice to you. It used to be saved years ago.

Speaker 79 (04:10:36):
The meders will give a man one hundred pounds of
sleeping alone in the chamber of horrors, and I hope
you don't think we've made any such offer.

Speaker 35 (04:10:44):
I'll watch your paper for I'm free glancing at the moment,
working on space for two or three papers.

Speaker 7 (04:10:51):
Well, I don't think i'll have any couple in getting.

Speaker 5 (04:10:54):
This story published.

Speaker 17 (04:10:55):
Do you Morning Echoed?

Speaker 35 (04:10:56):
Use it like a shot at night with manners murderers? No,
I hope I could turn it down.

Speaker 5 (04:11:01):
How do you preposed to treat it?

Speaker 7 (04:11:03):
I'll make it gruesome, of course, but with just a
saving touch of humor.

Speaker 5 (04:11:07):
I assume all right, mister.

Speaker 79 (04:11:09):
Heuston, get your story published in the Echo, and they
are a five pound waiting for you here when you
care to kind.

Speaker 5 (04:11:15):
And call for it. I'd i'd like to be sure
about you, though, and I'd like you to be sure
about yourself.

Speaker 22 (04:11:21):
Huh.

Speaker 79 (04:11:21):
I must confess that I wouldn't spend the night in murderers.
Then I've seen those figures dressed and undressed. I know
all about their process of manufacture. I can walk about
in company downstairs if I were walking amongst so many skipples.

Speaker 5 (04:11:34):
But I'd hate to sleep alone down there amongst them. Why,
I don't know. There isn't any reason. I mean, I
don't believe in ghosts.

Speaker 79 (04:11:44):
Even if I did, i'd expect them to haunt the
scenes of their crimes, or or the place where.

Speaker 5 (04:11:48):
Their bodies were laid.

Speaker 79 (04:11:49):
Not a seller which just happened to contain their works
with effiges. It's just if I couldn't sit the learn
among them all night.

Speaker 5 (04:11:56):
They they seemed to stare so after all, they do.

Speaker 79 (04:12:01):
Represent the lowest and most appalling forms of a melody.
Now I wouldn't admit this publicly, of course, but the
people who come to see our milderers aren't generally charged
with the highest motives themselves. Now, the whole atmosphere the
place is unpleasant, and if you're susceptible to atmosphere, I warn.

Speaker 5 (04:12:19):
You you're in for a very uncomfortable moment, sir.

Speaker 7 (04:12:25):
I'm imaginative.

Speaker 35 (04:12:26):
I think I am probably susceptible to atmosphere, as you
put in. But it's a good idea, and I will
buy from family to support. But the bits are unlucky
lately in the job sticks you know and well were
living on my savings, which aren't great. After all, they
are any wax works, aren't they. They're not superficious.

Speaker 7 (04:12:46):
No, I don't think.

Speaker 79 (04:12:47):
But you've just said that you have an imagination as
a journalist. You'd need a reasonably strong one, after all,
need it? As I've worked for, or often complained, I
haven't any.

Speaker 5 (04:12:57):
Right, I think.

Speaker 79 (04:12:59):
Allow for the people who have gone, wait a minute, I'll.

Speaker 7 (04:13:01):
Give orders that the figures happened to be draped.

Speaker 5 (04:13:03):
I'll let the night people know you're going to be
there too. One condition, I'm afraid.

Speaker 17 (04:13:07):
I must impairs on you.

Speaker 5 (04:13:08):
I must ask you not to smoke. We had a
fire scare down in the murderers Den this evening. I
don't know who gave the alarm, but whoever it was,
it was a false one.

Speaker 79 (04:13:16):
Fortunately there weren't very many people down there at the time,
or they might have been a panic. All right, A
knight with Mariner's Murderers. You want a night with Mariner's murderers,
you shall have.

Speaker 35 (04:13:33):
In the passage at the bottom of the stairs were
a few preliminary horrors, a wreck taken from a medieval castle,
relics of the inposition branding irons, thumbscrews. Beyond was the
passage into the murderer's den. The waxworks fertail the murderer.

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We are stilled as if frozen. Diabolical act within five
yards of hymn, said Missus Thompson. There was Lefroy, who
killed the game so that he might hate the gentleman.
And Charles Peace sneering across a gangway at Norman Thorn,
Brown and Kennedy, the two most recent editions stood between

(04:14:18):
Missus Dyer and Patrick Mahmon.

Speaker 5 (04:14:26):
Oh no, that's quitten. I expect you recognized him.

Speaker 79 (04:14:33):
Insignificant little beast looked as if he couldn't kill a worm. Oh,
this Armstrong looks like a decent, harmless country gentleman, doesn't he?

Speaker 5 (04:14:44):
And of course who's this? Oh yes, I was coming
to him. He's our star. He's the only one of
the bunch who hasn't been aimed.

Speaker 35 (04:14:54):
The thicker Hewston had indicated was that of a small,
slight man, not more than five feet in height. It
wore little waxen starshes, large spectacles, and the caped coat.
There was something so exaggeratedly French in his appearance that
it reminded Houston of a stage caricature.

Speaker 7 (04:15:12):
Who who is he?

Speaker 8 (04:15:14):
For?

Speaker 35 (04:15:14):
That is doctor Wooddett, Oh, don't think of there, or
some other names familiar, but I forget.

Speaker 79 (04:15:23):
I would remember better if he were a Frenchman. For
some long while that man was the terror of Paris.
He carried on his work of healing by day and
of throat cutting by night. When the fifth was on him,
he killed for the sheer, devilish pleasure it gave him
to kill. And all was the same way with the razor.

Speaker 35 (04:15:42):
After his last crime, he let a clue behind him,
which set the police on his track.

Speaker 79 (04:15:48):
Now one clue read to another, and before long they
knew they were on the track of the Periphian equivalent
of Jack the Ripper.

Speaker 5 (04:15:54):
They had enough.

Speaker 79 (04:15:55):
Evidence to send into the madhouse or the guillotine and
a dozen capitals, and they caught him.

Speaker 5 (04:16:02):
The friend was too fellow for them.

Speaker 79 (04:16:06):
Even then, when he realized the net was closing, he
just vanished, disappeared off the face of the earth. In
listens the police of every civilized country and said, where
can you possibly go on to her?

Speaker 35 (04:16:20):
I mean, with such a hunt on for him? Oh,
there's no doubt about that. Did himself in obvious, but
in such a way. Who prevented his body coming to light?

Speaker 5 (04:16:31):
Now?

Speaker 17 (04:16:32):
One or two crimes of.

Speaker 79 (04:16:33):
A smaller, though similar nature have taken place since he
disappeared in but he's believed to be dead. The experts
think the crimes are sitting sider, you know the actions
of imitators.

Speaker 5 (04:16:45):
Look at his eyes?

Speaker 79 (04:16:46):
Yes, that little figure is a masterpiece. Do you find
the eyes bite into you an sort of yes? Well
that's excellent realism. Then what do you mean there's Buddhism?

Speaker 5 (04:16:58):
Godden? What a bit dimsbodism? He was supposed to mesmeerize
his victims before the dispatching them. Oh, indeed, had you
not done?

Speaker 8 (04:17:08):
So?

Speaker 5 (04:17:08):
It's delicted to believe. How so small a manland? That
is ghastly work.

Speaker 35 (04:17:13):
He's very small in He does no race strong or
any well, there were never any signs of a struggle.
There's an armchair here for you, mister Houston. It's the
best we can do for on the trail.

Speaker 81 (04:17:24):
I hope you'll be able to get some sleep, mister Houston.
Mister you know, I thought, yes, uh, well I thought
just in.

Speaker 7 (04:17:41):
I thought I saw.

Speaker 35 (04:17:43):
The doctor were data well silly, but well I thought
I saw him move. Keep your home sweet with country

(04:18:06):
fresh atmosphere in every room.

Speaker 7 (04:18:09):
Keep airwic handy.

Speaker 35 (04:18:11):
Airwik is the air freshener that actually knocks od us
right out of the air.

Speaker 7 (04:18:15):
It doesn't just master them with heavy scent.

Speaker 18 (04:18:18):
Airwk is the modern air freshener in economical bottle or
a smart aerosong.

Speaker 17 (04:18:24):
Get airwik.

Speaker 5 (04:18:26):
It makes breathing a little nicer.

Speaker 55 (04:18:30):
That's all you have to do.

Speaker 69 (04:18:31):
Do do just for an hour till you fine?

Speaker 7 (04:18:36):
Thanks, So as ford as your way, will you do?

Speaker 35 (04:18:38):
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Speaker 7 (04:18:43):
Vanish, Yes, vanish clean away.

Speaker 35 (04:18:46):
Just by soaking your laundry over night in cold water,
off an hour or two in warm water, or by
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new biotechs today.

Speaker 7 (04:19:09):
There is the imagination silly, but we'll just in just
for a second.

Speaker 5 (04:19:16):
You'll have more than one opticularly losing.

Speaker 7 (04:19:18):
Before the nights.

Speaker 5 (04:19:19):
Are unafraid you might be locked in upstairs.

Speaker 7 (04:19:23):
We've had enough of it.

Speaker 5 (04:19:24):
Then I watch small of the premises so you'll find company.
But don't be alarmed if you hear them moving about.

Speaker 79 (04:19:30):
I'm sorry I can't give any more light, but all
the lights are on for obvious reasons.

Speaker 5 (04:19:34):
We keep the place as gloomy as possible. Yes, and
now I think you better return with me to the
office for a top of whiskey before your night's visual.

Speaker 35 (04:19:53):
Yes, well, for a start. I don't think you'll ever
my arm chair, fishing frame board dead. I think I,
like you will, not less than the others. The dim,
unwavering light fell on the rows of figures, which were

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so uncannonly like human beings, that the stillness and the
silence seemed unnatural, ghastly. Even Hewston missed the sound of breathing,
the rusting of clothes, the hundred and one minute noises
one hears when even the deepest silence has fallen upon
a crowd.

Speaker 57 (04:20:36):
Ha he he.

Speaker 35 (04:20:42):
The air was as stagnant as water the bottom of
a standing pool. Not a breath in the chamber to
stir a curtain, or rustle a hanging drapery or start
a shadow. He must be like mister bottom of the sea.
I have to work back into the story and maa
like the bottom of the sea. M sinister lot of

(04:21:06):
must say s even no, I'm strong, isn't a quite
such a harmless country, gentleman. Now still, they're only waxworks,
all would be well thought Houston. Yet, somehow what prevented
him most of all from feeling absolutely comfortable was the
knowledge that doctor bior Debt was directly behind him. He knew,

(04:21:31):
in fact, that the little frenchman's waxen stair was directed
at the back of his neck. He itched with a desire.

Speaker 7 (04:21:37):
To turn round.

Speaker 35 (04:21:40):
Come on, the nurse have started already. If I turn
and look at that dressed up dummy, it'll be an
admission of funk.

Speaker 17 (04:21:48):
It's because you're afraid that you won't turn.

Speaker 35 (04:21:50):
And look at him rubbish. Not afraid at all, Yes,
you are what complete not a rot? Afraid a lot
of waxworks, Not of a lot of waxworks, just one
doctor Boydette s French fool.

Speaker 7 (04:22:04):
Not so healthy now is he? Ha Look at his eyes?
Don't want to see his eyes?

Speaker 35 (04:22:10):
All the same, He had to eventually have a quick
look bound at doctor Burdette. Only a waxwork like a
crystal all, only waxworks.

Speaker 17 (04:22:20):
All the same.

Speaker 35 (04:22:21):
He took another quick look behind him. Now it did
not worry Uston too much, because it was, after all
only his imagination, but there seemed to be a subtle
change in the grouping of the figures. Run doctor Burdette,
or was it doctor Bordette himself?

Speaker 24 (04:22:38):
Ha ha?

Speaker 35 (04:22:42):
Looking to the front of him, he looked at Crippin again.
He had the slight feeling that something somewhere was a
bit different. Crippin seemed, for instance, to have turned one
degree to the left.

Speaker 7 (04:22:58):
Must have made mature of it. M hm, not cripping.
It was me you moved.

Speaker 35 (04:23:07):
And just then the waxwork of gray moved a hand.
At least Huston thought the hand moved.

Speaker 32 (04:23:18):
M hm h.

Speaker 35 (04:23:24):
Just for his own peace of mind, Raymond Huson gave
the waxen figure a little folk wax no more, no less, lifeless,
life like wax d They told me the editors have

(04:23:53):
no imagination, likes deathly silence. Yeah, and if fe stillness.

Speaker 7 (04:24:16):
Figures.

Speaker 35 (04:24:18):
But then he turned suddenly and looked over his right shoulder.
He had neither seen nor heard a movement, but it
was as if some sixth sense had made him aware
of one. He looked straight into the bapiared countenance of
La Froi, which smiled vacantly back, as.

Speaker 17 (04:24:32):
If to say.

Speaker 5 (04:24:37):
Of course it wasn't you.

Speaker 7 (04:24:39):
It wasn't any of yet.

Speaker 35 (04:24:42):
And then he looked back and Crippin seemed to have
shifted his positions lightly.

Speaker 24 (04:24:47):
MM.

Speaker 35 (04:24:49):
Can't trust that little bigger contrast any one, but should
take your eyes off the move.

Speaker 7 (04:24:55):
Not good enough, This isn't I think I'm going.

Speaker 35 (04:25:03):
I'm going to spend enough with a lot of waxworks
and move when you aren't looking at him now, wish
us please can't move where.

Speaker 5 (04:25:16):
You're thinking of.

Speaker 35 (04:25:19):
He can come from the mild available stair of board.
Debt almost got you that time, Crippin, all the rest
of you do, I do see when they move off,
I'll smash the pieces, smash her expirits have already to

(04:25:40):
write the story. Ten stories for that matter, Morning Echo.
We know how long I've stayed. If I cleared out now,
as long as the story is good. Yes, I don't
watch him up there. He pulled my leg, all right,
and perhaps the manager wouldn't give me the fire who

(04:26:01):
find out?

Speaker 17 (04:26:02):
All right?

Speaker 7 (04:26:02):
Long hour was here from the watchmen.

Speaker 35 (04:26:07):
Rose to laugh about this. M you're a sleep rose girl,
were awake thinking of me? God, they rose laughing at me.
Kids will pull my leg to yeah, I think worse

(04:26:28):
than h Worsten having someone's breathing. Someone was breathing, what
wasn't me? They knew I was listening? Then there and

(04:26:51):
then they stopped. Yeah, yes they did. This is too much,
bad enough when they move when I'm not looking. But
I'm not having the beggar's breathing too.

Speaker 5 (04:27:01):
I know that's what I do.

Speaker 35 (04:27:04):
I am Raymond Howson. I'm successful journalists, but a living
and breathing man. And these figures grouped around me are
only dummies.

Speaker 5 (04:27:11):
Dummies, Eh?

Speaker 7 (04:27:15):
What was it better if their life like wax and
saw dash for the entertainment of.

Speaker 35 (04:27:20):
Morbid sightseer as an orange sacking turret. Then the gaze
of doctor Burdette urged, challenged, and finally compelled him to turn.

Speaker 5 (04:27:31):
Huh.

Speaker 35 (04:27:46):
Houston stared into those dreadful hypnotic eyes. His own eyes
what dilated, and his mouth that first set into a
grin of terror, lifted at the corners into a snow.

Speaker 7 (04:27:57):
You move, Dashty, Yes you did, I saw you. I saw.

Speaker 17 (04:28:15):
What do you mean?

Speaker 35 (04:28:23):
Doctor Burdette's movements were quite leisurely. He stepped off his
pedestal with the mincing movements of a lady alighting.

Speaker 7 (04:28:32):
From a bus.

Speaker 5 (04:28:37):
I need I be to you with it.

Speaker 35 (04:28:39):
Not until I overhead the conversation between yourself and the
worthy manager of this establishment. Did I suspect that they
should have the pleasure of a companion here for the night.
You cannot move or speak without my belief.

Speaker 7 (04:28:53):
But you can hear perfect pay.

Speaker 35 (04:28:55):
Somebody tells me that you are shall I say nervous,
and my desert have no illusies. I am not one
of these contemptibility to efforgies suddenly come to life. I
am doctor Botet himself.

Speaker 12 (04:29:13):
For me.

Speaker 35 (04:29:14):
But Steve, let me explain circumstances with which I need
not fatigue.

Speaker 7 (04:29:21):
You have made it desirable that I should live in Emland.

Speaker 35 (04:29:25):
I was close to the building this evening when I
saw a policeman regarding me, You thought too curiously. I
guess that he intended to follow me and perhaps ask
a Paris in questions. So I'm dled with the cow
that came in here. Inspiration showed me a certain means
of escape. I raised a cry of fire, and when
all the foods and rushed to the stairs, I stood

(04:29:45):
my effigy of the caped coat, which would all be willing.
John't it into my affgpi'd the platform at the back
there and took its place on the pedestal. I own
I expect the most fatiguing evening. It is divided into
collectors and non collectors. The collectors collect anything according to
their own individual tastes. I collect France. And the doctor

(04:30:12):
regarded Huston's throat with interest mingled with despavor. My activities
of later have been corrected. I've bread though, of the
pleasant opportunity of gratifying my somewhat unusual ring. I should
never eslact you from choice of cosner. I like men
with deek necks, think red necks. This is a little

(04:30:40):
French razor. The blade you will observe is very narrow.
It does not cut very deep, but deep enough. In
just one little moment you should see for yourself. I
shall ask you the little civil question of all polite barbers.
CAUs raisa suit sir, you eth goodness to raise your

(04:31:03):
cheery gear.

Speaker 17 (04:31:05):
Thank you, and a.

Speaker 35 (04:31:07):
Litkumar jasper the cumor er, Thank you, mastinessieur ah. Over

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one end of the chamber was a thick skylight of
frosted glass, which by day let in a fuel sickly
and filtered rays from the floor above. After sunrise, these
began to mingle with the subdued light from the electric bones,
and this mingled illumination added a certain ghastliness to a
scene which needed no additional touch of horror. The wax

(04:32:00):
work figures stood apathetically in their places, waiting to be
admired by the crowds, who would presently wonder fearfully among them.
In their midst in the center, Gangway Hewson sat still,
leaning far back in his arm chair. His chin was
up tilted, as if he were expecting to receive attention

(04:32:21):
from a barber. And although there was not a scratch
upon his throat, nor indeed anywhere upon his whole body,
he was cold and quite dead. His previous employers were
wrong in having him credited with no imagination. Doctor Burdette,
on his pedestal, watched the dead man unemotionally. He did

(04:32:46):
not move, nor was he capable of motion, but then,
after all, he was only a wax work.

Speaker 5 (04:33:32):
Mind wit.

Speaker 72 (04:33:47):
Welcome to a half hour of mind works short stories
from the worlds of speculative fiction. The mind Web story
this time comes from the book The Hugo Winners, Volume one,

(04:34:09):
edited by Isaac Asimov. This is Avram Davidson's or All
the Seas with Oysters. When the man came into the
FNOL bike shop, Oscar greeted him with a hearty high there. Then,
as he looked closer at the middle age you visited
over the eyeglasses and business suit, his forehead creased and
he began to snap his thick fingers. I say, I

(04:34:32):
know you, mister. Name's on the tip of my tongue.
Oscar was a barrel chested fellow. He had orange hair. Oh,
I assure you do. The man said. There was a
lion's emblem in his lapel. Remember you sold me a
girl's bicycle with gears for my daughter. When we got
to talking about that red French racing bike your partner

(04:34:53):
was working on, Oscar slapped his big hand down on
the cash register. He raised his head and rolled his
eyes up, mister Watney. Mister Watney beamed, ah, sure, gee,
how could I forget? And we went across the street
afterward and had a couple of beers. Right, Oh, you
have been, mister Watney. I guess the bike. It was
an English model, wasn't it. It must have worked out, okay, huh,

(04:35:13):
must have given satisfactionery you would have been back right,
mister Watney said, the bicycle was fine, just fine. Then
he said, understand there's been a change. Ooh, you're all
by yourself now, your partner. Oscar looked down, pushed his
lower lip out and nodded, yeah. Heard, uh, yep, I'm
all by myself now over three months now. The partnership had.

Speaker 5 (04:35:38):
Come to nand three months ago, but it had been
faltering long before then.

Speaker 72 (04:35:42):
Fird liked books, long playing records, and high level conversation.
Oscar liked beer, bowling, and women, any women. Anytime the
shop was located near the park, it did a big
trade in renting bicycles to picnickers. If a woman was
barely old enough to be called old woman and not
quite old enough to be called an old woman, or

(04:36:03):
if she was anywhere in between, and if she was alone,
Oscar would ask, uh, how does that machine feel the
all right?

Speaker 5 (04:36:11):
Why?

Speaker 17 (04:36:11):
I guess so?

Speaker 72 (04:36:12):
And taking another bicycle, Oscar would say, well, I'll just
ride along a little bit with you to make sure
be right back Ford and Ford always nodded gloomily. He
knew that Oscar would not be right back. Later, Oscar
would say, hope you made out in the shop as
good as I did in the park, leaving me her
alone all the time, grumbled Ford, and Oscar usually flared up. Okay,

(04:36:36):
then next time you go and I'll stay here. See
if i'd begrudge you a little fun. But he knew,
of course that Ferd, tall, thin, popeyed Ford would never go.
Do you a good, Oscar'd say, slapping his sternam put
hair on your chest. Ford muttered that he had all
the hair on his chest that he needed, and he'd
glance down coveredly at his lower arms. They were thick

(04:36:58):
with long black hair. There was upper arms with slick
and white. Who was already like that when he was
in high school, And some of the others would laugh
at him, call him Ferdy the birdie. They knew it
bothered him, but they did it anyway. How is it possible?
He wondered. Then he still did now for people deliberately
to hurt someone else who hadn't hurt them, how is
it possible? He worried over other things all the time,

(04:37:23):
the communists, and he shook his head over the newspaper.
Oscar offered advice about the communists and two short words,
or it might be capital punishment. Oh what a terrible thing.
If an innocent man was to be executed, Ford at moan.
Oscar would say, that's the guy's tough luck. Hand me
the tire iron, Oscar said, and Ford worried even about

(04:37:47):
other people's minor concerns, like the time the couple came
in with the tandem and the baby basket on it
free air.

Speaker 5 (04:37:52):
It was all he took.

Speaker 72 (04:37:54):
Then the woman decided to change the diaper and one
of the safety pins broke. Why are there never any
safety pins, the woman fretted, rummaging here and rummaging there.
There are never any safety pins. Ferd made sympathetic noises
want to see if he had any, but though he
was sure there had been some in the office, he
couldn't find them. So they drove off with one side
of the diaper tied in a clumsy knot. At lunch,

(04:38:17):
Fird said it was too bad about the safety pins.
Oscar dug his teeth into a sandwich tug, Tor shewed
and swallowed. Ferd liked to experiment with sandwich spreads. The
one he liked most was cream cheese, olives sanchovi and
avocado mashed up with a little mayonnaise. Oscar always had
the same pink lunch and meat. It must be difficult

(04:38:39):
with a baby, Ferd nibble, not just traveling but raising it.
Oscar said, Jesus. Drug stores in every block, and if
he can't read, you can at least recognize them. Drug store.
Oh to buy safety pins in me? Yeah, safety pins?
But you know it's true, there's never any safety pins
when you look. Oscar capped his beer, rinsed the first

(04:39:01):
mouthful around.

Speaker 24 (04:39:03):
Ah.

Speaker 72 (04:39:03):
Always always plenty of clothes hangers, though, throw them out
every month. Next month, saint closets full of them again.
Now what you gonna do in your spare time?

Speaker 7 (04:39:11):
What do you want?

Speaker 72 (04:39:11):
You want to invent a device which will make safety
pins out of clothes hangers, Ferd nodded abstractly. But in
my spare time, I'm working on the French Racer. It
was a beautiful machine. Light, low slung, swift, red shining.
You felt like a bird when you wrote it. But
good as it was, Ferd knew he could make it better.

(04:39:31):
He showed it everybody who came in the place, till
his interest slackened. Nature was his latest hobby, or rather
reading about nature. Some kids had wandered by from the
park one day with tin cans in which they had
put salamanders and toads, and they probably showed them the ferd.
After that, the work in the Red Racers slowed down,
and he spent his spare time on natural history books.

(04:39:52):
Mimicry Ford said to Oscar one day, A wonderful thing,
mimicry Oscar looked up interestedly from the bowling scores in
the paper. I seen Edy Adams on TV the other
n I tellan her imitation of melon Monroe boy, oh boy.
Furd was irritated, shook his head. Not that kind of mimicry.
I mean how insects in the rachnids will mimic the

(04:40:13):
shapes of leaves and twigs and so on to escape
being eaten by birds and other insects in the rachnids.
A scowl of disbelief passed over Oscar's face. You mean
you mean they changed their shapes?

Speaker 9 (04:40:26):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (04:40:26):
Are you giving me?

Speaker 37 (04:40:28):
Oh?

Speaker 72 (04:40:28):
It's true. Sometimes a mimicry is for aggressive purposes. Though,
like a South African turtle, it looks like a rock,
and so the fish swim up to it and then
he catches him. Or that spider in Sumatra, when it
lies on its back, it looks like a bird dropping
catches butterflies that way, Oscar laughed, a disgusted and incredulous noise.
It died away as he turned back to the bowling scores.

(04:40:50):
One hand groped at his pocket, came away, scratched absently
at the orange thicket under the shirt, and then went
patting his hip pocket. Or is that pencil? He muttered,
and got up, stopped into the office, pulled open drawers.
His loud cry of hey brought Furd into the tiny room.
What's the matter? Oscar pointed to a drawer. Remember the

(04:41:12):
time you claim there were no safety pins here? Look, oh, damn,
drawers full of them. Ferd stared, scratched his head, and
said feebly that he was certainly he'd look there before.
A contralto voice from outside asked anybody here. Oscar at
once forgot the desk and its contents, and called, be
right with you.

Speaker 31 (04:41:32):
It was gone.

Speaker 72 (04:41:33):
Fird followed him slowly. There was a young woman in
the shop, a rather massively built young woman with muscular
calves and the deep chests. She was pointing out the
seat of her bicycle to Oscar, who was saying hu
and looking more at her than anything else. It's just
a little too far forward. Uh huh, as you can see,
wrench is all I need. It was silly, you need

(04:41:53):
to forget my tools, Oscar repeated, uh huh automatically, and
then snapped two. Fix it in the gym, he said,
And despite her insistence that she could do it herself,
he did fix it, though not quite in a jiffy.
He refused money, and he prolonged the conversation as long
as he could. Well, thank you, the young woman said,

(04:42:15):
And now I've got to go.

Speaker 5 (04:42:17):
The machine. I feel all right to you now perfectly. Thanks.

Speaker 17 (04:42:21):
Tell you what I'll I'll just ride.

Speaker 72 (04:42:23):
Along with you a bit, just pear shaped notes of
laughter lifted the young woman's boosom. Oh, you couldn't keep
up with me. My machine's a racer. The moment he
saw Oscar's eyes flip to the corner, Ferd knew what
he had in mind. He stepped forward. His cry no
was drowned out by his partner's loud Well, I guess

(04:42:44):
this racer here can keep up with yours. The young
woman giggled richly and said, well, let's see about that.

Speaker 5 (04:42:50):
They were off.

Speaker 72 (04:42:51):
Oscar, ignoring Ferd's outstretched hand, jumped on the French bike
and was gone.

Speaker 5 (04:42:56):
Fird stood in the.

Speaker 72 (04:42:57):
Doorway, watching the two figures, hunched over their handle, but
vanished down the road into the park. He went slowly
back inside. It was almost evening before Oscar returned, sweaty
but smiling, smiling broadly. Hey what a babe, he cried.
He wagged his head, he whistled, he made gesture, his
noises like escaping steam. Boy, oh boy, what an afternoon.

(04:43:20):
Give me the bike, demanded Furd. Oscar said yeah, sure,
and turned it over to him and went to wash.
Ferd looked at the machine. The red enamel was covered
with dust. There was mud splattered and dirtin bits of
dried grass. It seemed soiled, degraded. It felt like a
swift bird. When he wrote it. Oscar came out, wet
and beaming. He gave a cry of dismay and ran over.

(04:43:42):
Stand away, said Furd. Gesturing with a knife, he slashed
the tires of the seat, the seat cover again and again.
Hey are you crazy? Oscar yelled, you out of your mind? Furd, No, don't, Ferd.
Cut the spokes, bent them, twisted them. He took the
head viest hammer and pounded the frame into shapelessness. And
then he kept on pounding till his breath was gasping.

(04:44:06):
Ye're not only crazy, you're rotten jealous, Ferd, you can
go to hell. He stomped away. Fred, feeling sick and stiff,
locked up, went slowly home. He had no taste for reading,
turned out the light and fell into bed, where he
lay awake four hours, listening to the rustling noises of
the night and thinking hot, twisted thoughts. They didn't speak

(04:44:28):
to each other four days after that, except for the
necessities of the work. The wreckage of the French racery
lay behind the shop for about two weeks. Neither he
wanted to go out back or he'd have to see it.
One morning, Fred arrived to be greeted by his partner,
who began to shake his head in astonishment even before
he started speaking, How.

Speaker 8 (04:44:48):
Did you do it?

Speaker 72 (04:44:50):
How did you do it? Fer geez, what a beautiful
job I got handed to you, man? No more hard feelings, Howd?
Fred took his hand. Sure, sure, but what are you
talking about? Oscar let him out. Back there was the
red racer, all in one piece, not a marker scratch
on it. It's an animal, bright as ever. Furd gaped.

(04:45:14):
He squatted down and examined it. It was his machine,
every change, every improvement he had made, all there. He
straightened up slowly. Your regeneration, huh? What'd you say? Oscar asked. Then,
hey man, you're all white. What do you do stamp

(04:45:35):
all night and then't get to sleep? Come on and
sit down. But hey, I still don't see how you
did it. Inside Fird sat down. He went his lips.
He said, Oscar. Listen, yeah, Oscar, you know what regeneration is.

Speaker 5 (04:45:50):
No, listen.

Speaker 72 (04:45:50):
Some kinds of lizards you grabbed them by the tail.
The tail breaks off and they grow a new one.
If a lobster loses a claw, it regenerates another one.
Some kinds of worms and hydros and starfish you cut
them into pieces. Each piece will grow back the missing parts.
Salamanders can regenerate lost hands, Frogs can grow legs back.

(04:46:12):
No kidding for it, but I mean nature very interesting.
But to get back to the bike, now, how did
you manage to fix it so good? I never touched it, Oscar,
it regenerated like a newt or a lobster. Oscar considered this.
He lowered his head, looked up at Fird from under
his eyebrows. Oh well, now, for look, how come all

(04:46:37):
broken bikes don't do that. Oh, this isn't an ordinary bike.
I mean, it isn't a beetal bike. Catching Oscar's look,
he said, well, it's true. That changed Oscar's attitude from
bafflement to incredulity.

Speaker 31 (04:46:55):
He got up.

Speaker 72 (04:46:57):
So for the sake of argument, let's say, all that's
stuff you know about the bugs and heels or whatever
the hell you're talking about.

Speaker 5 (04:47:03):
Is true.

Speaker 72 (04:47:04):
But Ford, they're alive. A bike isn't. He looked down triumphantly.
Fird shook his leg from side to side. Looked at it.
A crystal isn't either, Oscar. But a broken crystal can
regenerate itself if the conditions are right. Go see if
the safety pins are still in the desk, please, Oscar.
He listened as Oscar muttering and pulled the desk drawers out,

(04:47:26):
rummaged and them slammed them shut, cramped back. Nah, all
gone like that, lady said the time, And you said
there never are any safety depends when you want them.

Speaker 5 (04:47:36):
They disappear.

Speaker 45 (04:47:38):
Ford.

Speaker 72 (04:47:39):
Why Frid jerked open the closet door and jumped back
as a shoal of clothes hangers clattered out, And like
you say, Ford said, with a twist of his mouth.
On the other hand, there are always plenty of clothes hangers, Oscar.
There weren't any here before. Oscar shrugged. I don't see

(04:48:03):
what you're getting at. But anybody could have got in
here and took the pens and left the hangers. I
could have. I didn't, or you could have. Maybe maybe
you walk in your sleep Ford and done it. You
better see a doctor. Jesus, you look rotten. Fred went
back and sat down, put his head in his hands.

Speaker 5 (04:48:24):
I feel rotten. I'm scared, Oscar. I'm scared of what
I'll tell you.

Speaker 72 (04:48:30):
Like I explained before about how things remember that live
in the wild places that mimic other things.

Speaker 5 (04:48:35):
There twigs, leaves, toads that look like rocks.

Speaker 72 (04:48:38):
Well, well suppose there are things that live in people places, cities, houses.
These things could imitate, well imitate other kinds of things
you find in people places, people places, for Christ's sake, Well,
maybe they're a different kind of life for them, Oscar.

(04:48:58):
Maybe they get their nourishment out of the elements in
the air. You know what safety pins are, and these
are other kinds of them, Oscar. The safety pins are
the pupa forms, and then like they hatch into the
larval forms, which look just like coat hangers. They feel
like them even but they're not, Oscar, They're not really not.

(04:49:20):
They begin to cry into his hands. Oscar looked at him.
He shook his head.

Speaker 5 (04:49:24):
After a minute, third controlled himself somewhat. He snuffled.

Speaker 72 (04:49:29):
All these bicycles the cops find and they hold them
waiting for owners to show up, and then we buy
them at the sale because no owners show up because
there aren't any.

Speaker 7 (04:49:38):
And the same with the ones.

Speaker 72 (04:49:39):
The kids are always trying to sell it and they
say they just found them, and they really did, because
they were never made in the factory. They grew.

Speaker 17 (04:49:48):
They grew.

Speaker 72 (04:49:50):
You smash them and throw them away. They regenerate. Oscar
turned to someone who wasn't there and waggled his head.
Oh boy, yeah, Ford, Ford, give me one day there's
a safety pin, and the next day instead there's a
coat hanger. Ford said, one day there's a cocoon. The

(04:50:14):
next day there's a moth. One day there's an egg,
the next day there's a chicken. But with these it
doesn't happen in the open daytime where you can see it.
But at night, Oscar. At night you can hear it happening,
all the little noises in the nighttime. Oscar, then, uh,
how come we in if there are belly buttons and bikes?

(04:50:34):
If I had a bike for every coat hanger. But
Ford had considered that too. If every codfish egg, he explained,
or every oyster spawn grew to maturity, a man could
walk across the ocean on the backs of all the
codfish or oysters, there'd be so many died, so many
were eaten by predatory creatures that nature had to produce

(04:50:56):
a maximum in order to allow a minimum arrive at maturity.
And Oscar's question was, then who eats the coat hangers?
Fird's eyes focused through wall buildings, park and more buildings
to the horizon. You gotta get the picture. I'm not

(04:51:19):
talking about real pins or hangers. I got a name
for the other's false friends. I call them Oscar. In
high school French, we had to watch out for French
words that had looked like English words but really were different.

Speaker 5 (04:51:32):
It wasn't me. They call false friends, pseudo pins, pseudo hangers.

Speaker 1 (04:51:38):
Who eats them?

Speaker 72 (04:51:39):
Oscar, I don't know for sure, pseudo vacuum cleaners. Maybe Oscar,
with a loud groan, slapped his hands against his thighs. Third, Third, God,
you know what's the trouble with you? You talk about oysters,
but you forgot what they're good for. You forgot there's
two kinds of people in the world. Close up those

(04:52:00):
books as bug books and those French books. Get out, mingle,
meet people, soak up some brewe you know what for
the next time Norma that's the woman's name with a
racing bike. The next time she comes in here, you
take the red racer and you go out in the
woods with her. I won't mind, and I don't think
she will either, Not too much. But Ford said no,

(04:52:23):
he didn't want to touch the red racer again. He
was afraid of it. At this Oscar pulled him to
his feet, dragged him protestingly out to the back, and
forced him to get on the French machine. Only way
to cocky your fear of it? Ford Ford started off,
white faced, wobbling, and at the moment was on the ground,
rolling and thrashing, screaming. Oscar pulled him away from the machine.

(04:52:46):
It threw me, tried to kill me. Look blood, his
partner said. It was a bump that threw him. It
was his own fear. The blood I broke and spoke
graced his cheek, and he insisted to get on the
bicycle again to conquer his fear. But Ford had grown hysterical.
He shouted that no man was safe, that mankind had

(04:53:08):
to be warned. It took Oscar a long time to
pacify him into getting home and into bed. He didn't
tell all this to mister Wotney, of course. He merely
said that his partner had gotten fed up with a
bicycle business. I don't pay a worry and try to
change the world, you know, I always say, take things

(04:53:31):
the way they are if you can't let.

Speaker 5 (04:53:32):
Him join them.

Speaker 72 (04:53:34):
Mister Watney said that was his philosophy too. He asked
how things were since, Well, not too bad. I'm engaged
in a names norma. She's crazy about bicycles. Everything considered,
things aren't bad at all. There's more work, yeah, but
I can do things all my own way, so mister

(04:53:55):
Watney nodded. He glanced around the shop. I see they're
still making drop frame bikes. Oh, so many women wearing slacks.
I wonder why they bother. Oscar said, well, I don't know.
I kind of like it that way. Ever, you ever
stopped to think that bicycles are like people. I mean,
of all the machines in the world, only bikes come

(04:54:19):
male and female. Mister Watney gave a little giggle and
said that was right. He had never thought of it
like that before. And then Oscar asked if mister Whatney
had anything in particular in mind, not that he wasn't
always welcome. Well, I wanted to look over what you got, Oscar.
My boys birthdays coming up, and Oscar nodded stagely. Well,

(04:54:45):
here's a job which you can't get in any other place,
but right here, mister Wattney, especially in the house, combines
the best features of the French racer and the American standard.
But it's made right here, and it comes in three models, Junior, Intermediate, Regular, Beautiful,
isn't it. Mister Watney observed that, well, that just might

(04:55:06):
be the ticket. He asked, by the way, what's become
of the French racer, the red one that used.

Speaker 31 (04:55:13):
To be in here.

Speaker 72 (04:55:14):
Oscar's face twitched, then it grew bland and innocent, and
he leaned over and nudged his customer. Oh, that one,
old frenchie, Why I put him out the stud And
they laughed and they laughed, And after they told a

(04:55:35):
few more stories, they concluded the sale, and they had
a few beers, and they laughed some more, and then
they said, what a shame it was about poor Ferd,
Poor old Ferd, who had been found in his own
closet with an unraveled coat hanger coiled tightly around his neck.

(04:56:41):
That story is called or All the Seas with Oysters.
It's a bob from Davidson. It appears in the book
The Hugo Winners, Volume one, which is edited by zac Asimov.
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