THEY ERASED HIS MEMORY OF THE FUTURE – But Not Before He Saw Everything - Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Latins, Tell Stations, Present Escape, Oh Fantasy.

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You're gonna thank some miss.

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A man us.

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Seal Present Suspense.

Speaker 5 (00:41):
I am the Whistler.

Speaker 6 (00:43):
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Dark, the CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents.

Speaker 8 (01:50):
Come in Man, Welcome, I MEE. G.

Speaker 9 (01:54):
Marshall your hosts for another spine Dingling Voyage into the Depths,
of the own be uncharted. In fact, in this story,
we're going to the depths of the sea, to the
uncharted depths never explored before by man except one man,
David Wells, who entered the kingdom and the world so strange,

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so fascinating and terrifying. It defies the imagination. For the
Kingdom of the Sea is all encompassing. The boundaries of
the beaches don't necessarily keep the power of the sea
from exerting its influence into any life that has touched it.
David Wells learned that the hard way.

Speaker 10 (02:39):
David, what's the matter?

Speaker 11 (02:41):
It's Napoleon. He's fighting with someone. I'm going to find out.

Speaker 10 (02:44):
I'm coming with you.

Speaker 12 (02:45):
I read Napoleon.

Speaker 13 (02:46):
I can help.

Speaker 14 (02:49):
Ah.

Speaker 10 (02:51):
Napoleum he did? David done about who could have done this?
Why he is soaken?

Speaker 15 (03:03):
Wet?

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Holy?

Speaker 10 (03:05):
I wouldn't touch.

Speaker 11 (03:06):
Him, missus MacArthur.

Speaker 10 (03:08):
Look here on a spur, Oh, both white bleak.

Speaker 11 (03:14):
Yes, the fish scales his fur, smells of salt water,
suft water.

Speaker 10 (03:22):
Take it in the middle of Texas.

Speaker 9 (03:34):
Our mystery drama Child of the Sea was written especially
for the radio mystery theater by Bob Durham and stars
Tony Roberts. It is sponsored in part by Contact, the
twelve Hour Cold Capsule and Buick Motor Division. I'll be
back shortly with Act one. There are those who say

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that if God had wanted us to swim, he'd have
given us fins and Gilds a caution. Perhaps that man
functions best in his own environment. But man has always
yearned to venture forth, defying nature, determined to overcome the
barriers that separate the elements. David Wells is just such

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a man. Heir to a Texas oil fortune, David shun's
big business, and instead prefers the high mountains, the ski trails,
the open road. The mysterious ocean is David's fancy of
the moment. As we meet him in the waters off
Laguna Beach, California, and surfing and scuba diving, I was

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one hundred yards off shore.

Speaker 16 (04:49):
The water was clearer than I'd ever seen it. Graceful
fish swam up to me, their curious mouths, speaking silently.

Speaker 8 (04:57):
Than darting off in fear.

Speaker 16 (04:59):
Suddenly I spotted a strange formation at the ocean floor.

Speaker 11 (05:04):
I swam closer to investigate, and then it plunged and
grabbed my arm before I knew what would happen. It
was a squid, huge a tentacle wrapt around my air tank.
My air supply was cutting off. I fought desperately. My
lungs were bursting. I was blacking out. Then I saw

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swimming around as a huge fish.

Speaker 16 (05:26):
I couldn't tell what it was, but through the haze
of pain, I saw it was a girl, not a fish,
but a girl attacking the squid that held me. My
air was gone, and the last thing I saw was
the girl's long flowing hair.

Speaker 8 (05:42):
And then I blacked out completely.

Speaker 10 (05:49):
Are you all right now?

Speaker 8 (05:56):
I thought I was finished.

Speaker 10 (05:57):
You might have been.

Speaker 11 (06:00):
I believe you've.

Speaker 8 (06:01):
Got me away from that thing.

Speaker 17 (06:03):
Well, I've had experience with squid and others.

Speaker 11 (06:07):
How do I say thanks?

Speaker 10 (06:09):
You've already said it.

Speaker 11 (06:11):
I guess you ought to know who you saved. I'm
David Wells David, and I'm Alane Alleennae. That's pretty sounds Hawaiian.

Speaker 10 (06:26):
Have you lived here long?

Speaker 16 (06:28):
I don't really live here. I'm staying at my aunt's
beach house. My home's in Texas, Texas.

Speaker 10 (06:35):
I don't know where that is.

Speaker 16 (06:37):
That's about one thousand miles from here inland. But how
about you have you lived here long?

Speaker 10 (06:44):
I've never lived anywhere else.

Speaker 8 (06:47):
Where's your house up on the hill. Maybe we're neighbors.

Speaker 17 (06:51):
No, I don't live on the hill.

Speaker 11 (06:54):
Oh where then I may want to write you a
thank you note.

Speaker 17 (07:00):
I live here at the ocean with my father.

Speaker 11 (07:03):
Yes, well, I want to thank him too for having
such a lovely daughter.

Speaker 10 (07:07):
Thank you.

Speaker 18 (07:09):
I must go now, you can, I must well.

Speaker 8 (07:13):
I'll see you home.

Speaker 10 (07:14):
No, you must raft.

Speaker 15 (07:17):
I must go.

Speaker 11 (07:19):
I'll see you again, I'll oah.

Speaker 16 (07:24):
She ran off down the beach, and suddenly she was gone,
as though she'd vanished into thin air.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
And I dragged myself.

Speaker 8 (07:33):
To my feet and I headed for the house.

Speaker 15 (07:38):
David, you look awful.

Speaker 19 (07:39):
What happened?

Speaker 11 (07:41):
I was attacked by a squid. A squid, yes, it
got my air tanks. But a girl saved me. She
swam up just as I was blacking out.

Speaker 20 (07:50):
A girl fought off a squid.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
This it's unbelievable. I know.

Speaker 10 (07:54):
Oh, I think you're crazy to go galloping around the
ocean floor.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
A thing was a killer.

Speaker 13 (08:00):
These risks you.

Speaker 10 (08:00):
Take could be awfully bad for your health, to say
nothing of your father's nervous system.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
He ought to be used to it by now.

Speaker 10 (08:08):
Oh, she'll never get used to his only son and
air risking his neck.

Speaker 16 (08:12):
Dad'll never get me behind a desk at Wells Industries.
I may be his heir, but i'll be an absentee president.

Speaker 10 (08:19):
Oh, speaking of airs, is a letter from Ellen.

Speaker 8 (08:23):
Oh damn, can't she leave me alone for a minute?

Speaker 10 (08:26):
Not when there's an alliance with Wells Industries at stake.

Speaker 16 (08:34):
I knew I was destined to see Alane again. I
spent the next several days walking the coves and rocks
of Laguna waiting, and then the third day, as I
approached the beach, there she was.

Speaker 11 (08:48):
I know I've been looking for you.

Speaker 17 (08:51):
I know I had to wait for a chance to
get away.

Speaker 8 (08:55):
From your father.

Speaker 17 (08:56):
Yes, he doesn't like him to spend too much time.

Speaker 11 (08:59):
Alone on the beach, but you live here. Why wouldn't
you spend time on the beach.

Speaker 17 (09:05):
No, it's too hard to explain. Tell me, how are
you feeling?

Speaker 21 (09:09):
No?

Speaker 4 (09:09):
Fine?

Speaker 11 (09:10):
The hot bath and I was as good as ever
thanks to you.

Speaker 8 (09:13):
I still owe you in my life.

Speaker 17 (09:15):
I'm glad I was there. It really wasn't an accident.
I've been watching you for more than a week. I
saw you swimming along the bottom one day. You picked
up an abaloney.

Speaker 8 (09:27):
An the day after I got here.

Speaker 16 (09:29):
Yes, I remember you mean you were underwater?

Speaker 10 (09:34):
Of course?

Speaker 11 (09:35):
Well why didn't I see you?

Speaker 10 (09:36):
I didn't want you to.

Speaker 17 (09:38):
Well, but I've watched you many days. That's how I
happened to be there when the squid attacked you.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
You swim without gear.

Speaker 17 (09:47):
Yes, I learned how to stay underwater when I was
very young.

Speaker 16 (09:52):
You want to mention your father is your mother living?

Speaker 10 (09:56):
I never knew my mother.

Speaker 11 (09:58):
Neither did I. I was raised by a nurse and
a tutor.

Speaker 10 (10:03):
Oh what are they?

Speaker 11 (10:05):
You don't know what a tutor is?

Speaker 15 (10:07):
Not exactly?

Speaker 8 (10:09):
Hey, where'd you go to school? You didn't know where
Texas is?

Speaker 3 (10:12):
Either?

Speaker 17 (10:13):
My father was my only teacher. What did you do
in Texas?

Speaker 10 (10:19):
David?

Speaker 3 (10:20):
As little as possible.

Speaker 16 (10:21):
I'm usually skipping around the world trying to keep from
dying of boredom.

Speaker 10 (10:26):
But you're so attractive.

Speaker 17 (10:28):
I think you'd have lots of friends.

Speaker 11 (10:30):
Lots of expect And I have lots of acquaintances, but
no friends except one maybe my aunt lou your aunt. Yes,
she's my father's sister. But she's been the best friend
I've ever had.

Speaker 17 (10:45):
It's strange to think of a relative as a friend.

Speaker 16 (10:48):
Not when you meet that lou and you will, Alane.
I'd like to invite you to the house for dinner.

Speaker 8 (10:55):
Your father too.

Speaker 17 (10:56):
Oh that would be impossible. Oh why my father would
let me come?

Speaker 11 (11:01):
Oh well he's invited too.

Speaker 17 (11:03):
Oh, but that would be even more impossible.

Speaker 15 (11:05):
We couldn't come ever.

Speaker 11 (11:07):
I don't see why we can.

Speaker 17 (11:09):
Only meet here on the beach, David. I can't enter
your world.

Speaker 11 (11:14):
What do you know of my world.

Speaker 17 (11:17):
Enough to know that a few pleasant moments are all
we can have together?

Speaker 16 (11:23):
Oh that can change. I want to see you here
every day.

Speaker 10 (11:27):
I can be here.

Speaker 17 (11:29):
We'll swim together. I will show you many beautiful things.

Speaker 16 (11:38):
After that, we met every day and swam through fantastic
underwater gardens I never knew existed. Allanae could stay under
for ten to fifteen minutes at a time without any gear,
And it was them that I knew Aliane was no
ordinary girl.

Speaker 17 (11:55):
David, Why don't you try swimming without those tanks. I
can show you how to breathe underwater.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
Don't believe you can.

Speaker 17 (12:04):
I can't enter your world, but maybe you can be
a part of mine.

Speaker 8 (12:10):
What is your world?

Speaker 10 (12:11):
With the sea, isn't it of you?

Speaker 11 (12:15):
I'm not sure. I want to believe what I'm thinking.

Speaker 17 (12:17):
Let's swim. I'll teach you how to breathe leave your
tanks here.

Speaker 16 (12:25):
We dived into the water and I followed the instructions
Aliane had given me, and for two minutes I actually
breathed underwater.

Speaker 11 (12:34):
But then my lungs filled with water.

Speaker 8 (12:36):
I struggled to the surface. My lungs birsty.

Speaker 10 (12:42):
I'll help you to show it.

Speaker 8 (12:43):
She'll be all right, elistic to the text.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
I'm not ready for this. Do that more practice than
I have, But you did fine.

Speaker 17 (12:53):
Time your learn it's.

Speaker 10 (12:58):
Important to you.

Speaker 8 (13:00):
Why I should it be work?

Speaker 17 (13:02):
You know some day you'll learn.

Speaker 16 (13:11):
There was something about the way she looked when she
said it, something in her voice. So it made me
know that somehow my destiny was wrapped up in this
beautiful girl.

Speaker 17 (13:22):
One day, David, I'd like to meet your aunt lou.
I can come tonight.

Speaker 22 (13:28):
If you like.

Speaker 10 (13:33):
I'm delighted to meet you, Allanie. David talks of nothing
else but your days together. Thank you, and of course
we're grateful to you. I'd hope to meet you long
before this.

Speaker 11 (13:44):
Allanae is the shy type.

Speaker 8 (13:46):
I'm afraid that.

Speaker 17 (13:47):
My father finally said it would be all right.

Speaker 8 (13:50):
We're delighted.

Speaker 10 (13:52):
That's a very unusual dress. Did you get it in
the village? I will it myself some seaweed. Real what
a sensation that would make it? The Glenwood country Club.

Speaker 11 (14:04):
You're not serious, Antler?

Speaker 10 (14:07):
Could you make me one? I'll pay you anything you want, of.

Speaker 17 (14:10):
Course, I'd be happy to it.

Speaker 10 (14:12):
I'll hold you to that. Now you two go out
on the terrace. I'll look after the dinner.

Speaker 17 (14:19):
Do I really look all right, David? I've never been
up in the town before.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
Of course you do.

Speaker 11 (14:26):
You're the most beautiful girl.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
I've ever seen.

Speaker 8 (14:29):
Don't say things I mean it, anime. I'm in love with.

Speaker 10 (14:34):
You, David.

Speaker 17 (14:37):
I've loved you from the first time I saw you.
But I knew it was impossible. And then I found
a way. I found a way for us to be together.

Speaker 11 (14:48):
But why was that so much of a problem.

Speaker 10 (14:50):
Because of my father?

Speaker 17 (14:52):
I told you I couldn't live in your world.

Speaker 11 (14:54):
Well you can, if it's what would Oh, good lord Ellen.

Speaker 10 (15:00):
I just strove down from La David. You were expecting me,
weren't you, Ellen?

Speaker 8 (15:06):
What are you doing here?

Speaker 10 (15:07):
I told you I was coming. She did get my letter,
didn't you?

Speaker 3 (15:11):
You're the letter?

Speaker 10 (15:13):
You didn't even open it. But here I am, and
none too soon, it seems. Why didn't you introduce me
to your friend?

Speaker 19 (15:23):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (15:23):
We haven't met.

Speaker 16 (15:28):
The evening was uncomfortable, to say the least. Allane left
immediately after dinner, and Ellen spent the rest of the
evening trying to find out who she was and whether
to consider her arrival. I didn't tell Ellen.

Speaker 11 (15:43):
How I felt about Allanae.

Speaker 16 (15:45):
As the days passed, Ellen never left my side, and
not surprisingly, Allane was never on the beach. One afternoon,
while Ellen napped and Aunt Lou worked on a macro Mae,
I slipped down to the beach. As I stood looking
out at the sparkling sea, I saw a shape moving

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far out in the water. Perhaps was a huge fish
of some sort. It swam with terrific speed, and as
it came closer, I suddenly.

Speaker 11 (16:18):
Saw long blonde, flowing hair. Aliane was swimming toward me,
undulating her body like a fish. She came sweeping in
on a giant break.

Speaker 17 (16:29):
When I land, Alida, not David, I knew she wasn't
with you today. That's why I came, But.

Speaker 8 (16:38):
A where have you been?

Speaker 11 (16:39):
I've looked for you every day?

Speaker 10 (16:40):
How could I come to you?

Speaker 20 (16:41):
With her out?

Speaker 10 (16:43):
She's yours your world. But David, if you love me,
really love me, there's a chance you can live in
my world.

Speaker 13 (16:51):
Where is that?

Speaker 8 (16:52):
You won't tell me?

Speaker 17 (16:52):
I'll test you there now Today my father said he
would meet you.

Speaker 13 (16:58):
Oh please day, yes, yes, of course I'll come.

Speaker 17 (17:02):
Then, hurry, get your breathing things, those tanks.

Speaker 8 (17:06):
My thanks?

Speaker 10 (17:07):
Why because we are going to meet my father.

Speaker 9 (17:20):
It's not every young suitor who goes to meet his
prospective father in law wearing scuba gear. But then there
aren't many young men who fall in love with such
a lovely, get mysterious girl. If you're as anxious as
I am to meet Alonay's father, stay right here.

Speaker 8 (17:37):
I'll be back shortly with that too.

Speaker 9 (17:51):
Welcome back to the beach at Laguna. In the warm
sun and the soft sea air, It's hard to imagine
or feel anything unusual, hard to think that Alanae is
anything but an attractive young girl.

Speaker 8 (18:05):
But as we.

Speaker 9 (18:05):
Promised, we're all going to meet her father, an event
for which David Wells has gone back to the house
for his air tanks.

Speaker 8 (18:13):
You won't need them, know.

Speaker 9 (18:15):
Come along and let's join David and Helenae as they
prepare to meet Allanae's father.

Speaker 10 (18:22):
Don't be alarm David.

Speaker 16 (18:23):
But where are we going? Why do I need my tanks?

Speaker 10 (18:26):
It's a long swim to my father's home.

Speaker 17 (18:29):
You haven't learned yet how to stay underwater without the world.

Speaker 10 (18:33):
That will come in time.

Speaker 16 (18:37):
We swam deeper than we ever had before. I followed
down through the coral, deeper and deeper until there shouldn't
have been any sunlight. But as we swam easily along
the ocean floor, the light seemed to get brighter.

Speaker 11 (18:51):
And I was completely spellbound.

Speaker 16 (18:54):
I forgot everything except the fantastic beauty around me. Two
large gates boomed front of us. They swung open as
Alane approached, and we swam down a pearl covered corridor,
which opened into a magnificent underwater room. Reclining on a
bed of corn was a Moorman man man half fish.

Speaker 8 (19:18):
He was ageless, stern menacing.

Speaker 11 (19:23):
Alleanae touched my hand and drew me closer.

Speaker 10 (19:27):
Father, this is aid.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
You are.

Speaker 23 (19:32):
The mortal words captured my alonnaise heart.

Speaker 11 (19:36):
I couldn't answer. I couldn't speak underwater as they could,
And now I knew the difference between us. I knew
what Alane meant about her father and her world.

Speaker 23 (19:47):
I don't expect words from you, immortal man, but now
you know. I agreed to this meeting to prove to
you and to Alanae that a union between you is
utterly impossible.

Speaker 17 (20:00):
God, David can learn to live here as we do
in your kingdom. Nothing is impossible if you will it.
You permitted me to venture on the.

Speaker 23 (20:09):
Beach, yes, to see it, to learn a bit, but
never to make an alliance with it.

Speaker 10 (20:14):
But when you agree to meet David, I thought I told.

Speaker 23 (20:17):
You why I agreed to let him come here. I
didn't have to go to the trouble, but I wanted
you to see what happens to a mortal man in
our kingdom.

Speaker 16 (20:30):
As he spoke, my dear began to get out. I'd
switch to the auxiliary tank much earlier, and now I
was down to the danger level.

Speaker 8 (20:38):
I had to get to the surface alone.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
Look at your mortal man.

Speaker 13 (20:42):
Already his air is used.

Speaker 8 (20:44):
That it is finished.

Speaker 16 (20:47):
Father.

Speaker 10 (20:47):
You mustn't let me take him back.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
No, it is finished.

Speaker 17 (20:51):
Let him go, Father, I promise I'll forget him.

Speaker 10 (20:54):
Don't let him die.

Speaker 13 (20:56):
What difference should it make to you?

Speaker 14 (20:57):
Father?

Speaker 24 (20:58):
Please let me take him back.

Speaker 23 (21:00):
You stay yelloee. I will permit Iar to show him
the way.

Speaker 14 (21:05):
Hi.

Speaker 25 (21:05):
Hi, David, David, can you hear me?

Speaker 26 (21:18):
It's Ellen?

Speaker 8 (21:20):
Well, Ellen, I'm here, Darling.

Speaker 11 (21:25):
I thought I thought I was doing my air gave out.

Speaker 10 (21:29):
You almost drowned.

Speaker 8 (21:31):
How did I How did I get here?

Speaker 10 (21:33):
Well, some people on the beach dragged you out of
the water.

Speaker 25 (21:36):
That they saved your life.

Speaker 8 (21:38):
I can't remember.

Speaker 10 (21:39):
They said, some kind of giant fish pushed you to shore. David,
do you want anything? A tea or water?

Speaker 3 (21:47):
A double scotch?

Speaker 10 (21:49):
The doctor said no, no, for forty eight hours, you've
had a sedative.

Speaker 8 (21:53):
You wouldn't believe what I have been through.

Speaker 16 (21:56):
I followed Alanae to the depths of the sea, to
Neptune's kingdom.

Speaker 8 (22:01):
I was there, I saw it.

Speaker 4 (22:04):
I met her father.

Speaker 17 (22:05):
David.

Speaker 16 (22:05):
I know, I know you think I'm crazy, but she
took me there to see if I could live in
her world, her world at the bottom of the sea.

Speaker 10 (22:15):
What was her father like?

Speaker 11 (22:17):
Half man, half fish?

Speaker 8 (22:19):
He sat on a coral throne.

Speaker 13 (22:22):
What am I saying I.

Speaker 10 (22:24):
Can't believe, David, hallucinations are common with Oh no, no,
this was not a hallucination.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
I was there.

Speaker 8 (22:32):
It happened, Darling.

Speaker 10 (22:34):
As soon as you can travel, we're going back to Dallas.

Speaker 16 (22:42):
I knew i'd never see allan A again, and I
was tired of diving. So two days later we flew
back to Texas. Helen wanted to stay and nurse me,
but I persuaded her.

Speaker 8 (22:54):
I wanted to be alone for a while.

Speaker 16 (22:57):
Dad was in Europe, and only our housekeeper, Missus MacArthur,
was there, and of course in Napoleon.

Speaker 3 (23:06):
Napoleon.

Speaker 17 (23:07):
Huh, Napoleon, get to town.

Speaker 11 (23:10):
Yeah, you're glad to see me, aren't you, Maphew, David.

Speaker 10 (23:13):
I was worried sick about you after Ellen proud, and
I wish she hadn't.

Speaker 11 (23:18):
I'm glad Dad's in Europe.

Speaker 10 (23:20):
You're sure you're all right?

Speaker 3 (23:21):
Would I be here if I weren't?

Speaker 17 (23:23):
Now, why don't you go up and take a nice
hot tub and I put your things away?

Speaker 11 (23:27):
Okay, sounds good.

Speaker 8 (23:30):
Come on, Napoleon.

Speaker 10 (23:32):
It's always good when you come home. David.

Speaker 11 (23:42):
Hello, David, Oh hi, Ellen.

Speaker 10 (23:46):
I thought you were going to call me yesterday.

Speaker 16 (23:48):
I'm sorry, I stayed over in the city, and what
were you doing in town?

Speaker 3 (23:54):
I was checking out a new hunting rifle.

Speaker 10 (23:56):
Whatever. We're still going to the theater tomorrow?

Speaker 3 (24:00):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (24:00):
Yes, yes, of course, I've got the tickets.

Speaker 10 (24:03):
Don't lose them.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
Oh was that?

Speaker 16 (24:05):
Oh never mind, Okay, I'll pick you up for dinner tomorrow.

Speaker 10 (24:10):
I'll stop by. I found a painting at the town
Gallery that's perfect for your foyer. I'm dying to see
how it looks, and we'll go on from there. It's perfect,
absolutely perfect, don't you agree, David, Just the thing for
the foyer.

Speaker 8 (24:29):
I guess so you don't sound overwhelmed. No, maybe I'm not, David?

Speaker 14 (24:37):
Is it me?

Speaker 11 (24:38):
Oh no, no, no Ellen?

Speaker 10 (24:41):
Then what is it? Is it that girl in Laguna?
Did she mean so much to you?

Speaker 3 (24:47):
Well?

Speaker 16 (24:47):
I think about her, yes, but that's over. It's over completely.
I'm not even sure it ever was.

Speaker 10 (24:56):
Well, I'm glad for that. Come on, let's go.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Oh.

Speaker 10 (25:01):
I do hope Armand has lobster tonight. I'm dying for
some really good.

Speaker 11 (25:05):
Last I wonder what ails Napoleon.

Speaker 10 (25:10):
He's such a nooisance sometimes.

Speaker 11 (25:12):
Wait a minute, what is it? I thought I just
saw a figure at the end of the path. It
slipped into the shadows.

Speaker 10 (25:20):
Missus Macarthury.

Speaker 27 (25:21):
Oh no, no, no, no way.

Speaker 11 (25:23):
It was much too small.

Speaker 10 (25:24):
What then, it's a prowler.

Speaker 11 (25:27):
Right, look, I'll handle this. You stay here.

Speaker 10 (25:30):
I'm staying with you.

Speaker 11 (25:33):
Napoleon has stop barking.

Speaker 10 (25:35):
Then maybe it's nothing.

Speaker 11 (25:37):
Hellllo, who's there?

Speaker 4 (25:41):
I saw you.

Speaker 10 (25:42):
Let's get to the car.

Speaker 28 (25:43):
David.

Speaker 11 (25:43):
Okay, if there's someone here, I've got to wait a minute.

Speaker 8 (25:47):
What is it.

Speaker 11 (25:48):
It's a puddle of water in the past.

Speaker 10 (25:50):
Well, maybe the gardener.

Speaker 11 (25:51):
Charles didn't order here today. Everything else is dry except
that one patch of water. It hasn't rained for three days.

Speaker 24 (25:59):
What about it?

Speaker 16 (26:00):
Why would there be one spot of wet ground when
everything else is dry. A search of the grounds turned
up nothing. Ellen and I had our dinner, went to
the theater, and I took her home. As I walked
from my garage to the house. I saw a figure
slip from the shadows.

Speaker 22 (26:21):
David, what oh there, it's.

Speaker 10 (26:25):
Me, David Ironee. I found you. I knew I could.

Speaker 8 (26:32):
How did you get here?

Speaker 10 (26:33):
My love for you brought me here. I defied my father.

Speaker 17 (26:38):
I too, am gifted with special powers as his daughter.
I have been given certain birthrights, powers to do what
may seem impossible to you, And so I am here.

Speaker 10 (26:50):
Oh I hope you're glad to see me, David.

Speaker 8 (26:55):
I'm overwhelmed.

Speaker 17 (26:57):
I saw you going out with her earlier tonight. That's
why I disappeared.

Speaker 8 (27:03):
That was you in the shadows.

Speaker 17 (27:04):
Yes, I couldn't approach you when you were with her.

Speaker 11 (27:07):
I'll forget her. You're here, that's gold. It matters. You
can't live in my world.

Speaker 10 (27:13):
Oh I know I can, David.

Speaker 17 (27:15):
I'll learn you see, I can live out of water.
All I need to learn is how to please you.
She's a charming child, David. But it bothers me that

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you followed you from Laguna.

Speaker 10 (27:37):
Nice girls don't do that. What about her parents?

Speaker 3 (27:41):
She only has a father.

Speaker 10 (27:42):
And Ellen, but she knows she's here.

Speaker 11 (27:44):
No, and I don't want her to know, not now anyway.

Speaker 17 (27:47):
Well, it's not going to be easy. Well, David, it's
your life, and you do what you want with it.

Speaker 11 (27:53):
I love her, Missus MacArthur, we both know it, and
we know it's right.

Speaker 8 (28:02):
I didn't tell Missus.

Speaker 11 (28:04):
Maconcher all I knew about Alliane. She wasn't ready for that,
and I wasn't sure I was either. I kept thinking
back to that incredible meeting with her father, a meeting
I knew was real.

Speaker 17 (28:19):
I knew you wanted me, David. I wouldn't have come
to you if you didn't.

Speaker 8 (28:23):
I want you allane completely. You've told her not yet.

Speaker 10 (28:30):
I'm so happy, David, so happy, but too so uneasy?

Speaker 3 (28:38):
An easy why for.

Speaker 10 (28:40):
Defying my father? I just hope?

Speaker 4 (28:44):
Oh what.

Speaker 10 (28:46):
That he understands.

Speaker 16 (28:54):
I broke off with Ellen, who wasn't happy about it,
but wasn't too surprised either. The weeks rolled by, and
Alan and I fell deeper in love than ever. It
was magic, a magic I never knew or dreamed about it.

Speaker 11 (29:11):
And then it began, in a shadow of terror, to
spoil our paradise.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
It was late.

Speaker 11 (29:19):
Autumn now, and one Friday night, we had all gone
to bed early. The clock said two am when I awoke.

Speaker 16 (29:26):
Like a shot, a sound that sliced through my subconscious.
I jumped out of bed and raced to the hall. David,
what's the matter which Napoleon? Missus mccarthury's fighting with someone.

Speaker 4 (29:36):
Yes, I'm going to find out.

Speaker 10 (29:38):
You stay here, No, no, no, let me come with
your raid. Napoleon. I can help.

Speaker 8 (29:41):
Come along. Then hurry, sounds.

Speaker 11 (29:46):
Came from the gazebo.

Speaker 10 (29:47):
Stop Does that mean no, Napoleon? He's sucking wet?

Speaker 8 (29:56):
Napoleon done a part?

Speaker 3 (30:02):
Who could have done this?

Speaker 11 (30:03):
Why is sucking wet Napoleon?

Speaker 29 (30:08):
No?

Speaker 13 (30:08):
I wouldn't touch him. Die.

Speaker 8 (30:10):
This is Macau. Look. Look here on a spur.

Speaker 10 (30:17):
White deck.

Speaker 16 (30:19):
They're fish scales, the first smells of salt water.

Speaker 10 (30:24):
Salt water district in the middle of Taxi.

Speaker 9 (30:37):
It's a fact that the waters of the world cover
more than seventy percent of the Earth's surface. Little wonder
that the power of the sea can make itself felt
far inland from the sparkling beaches. But what effect will
it have on the lives of David Wells and the
child of the sea alone? What killed Napoleon? I left

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him soaked with salt water. We'll learn that chilling answers.
When I returned shortly with Act three. It seems as
though the sea has reached out to touch David Wells's

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life again. His dog Napoleon, killed by an unseen force
that left the animal soaked in sea water and covered
in scales. With things like this happening, I wonder what's
in store for David and Alanae.

Speaker 10 (31:37):
David, whoever did this will still be on the girl.

Speaker 16 (31:40):
Let's get back to the house past. I'll take care
of Napoleon later. I want you and Allene to stay inside.

Speaker 10 (31:45):
What are you're going to do?

Speaker 3 (31:46):
Get my gun?

Speaker 17 (31:47):
I think what you call the police?

Speaker 11 (31:49):
No, don't do that right now, but you'll keep Allene inside.
If you can, I'll take it back to the house.

Speaker 10 (32:00):
I told you, Dad, Thank god, you're all right. He
won't hurt you if I'm with you.

Speaker 11 (32:04):
Go back with missus McCarthy, which.

Speaker 10 (32:06):
You must come with me now. I'm your only protection.
What do you mean he's after me?

Speaker 17 (32:11):
Oh, he won't hurt me, but he'll kill anything that
threatens him.

Speaker 10 (32:14):
That's why Napoleon father Alane.

Speaker 16 (32:21):
From the shadows stepped a man covered in a robe.
The robe was torn and bloodied. The face was hidden
deep inside the hood of the robe. But the chill
that ran down my back it was the man fish
that had carried me out of allenae'se underwater home.

Speaker 8 (32:39):
Your father wants you back.

Speaker 10 (32:42):
I have found a new power.

Speaker 16 (32:44):
No, now look here, let me, David.

Speaker 10 (32:47):
Tell my father that I am staying here.

Speaker 8 (32:50):
It'sa she's staying with me. I have not come all
this way to turn around and leave.

Speaker 30 (32:57):
You're coming with me.

Speaker 8 (32:59):
Stay back, don't touch her. That weapon doesn't threaten me,
I said, don't, don't. Can't you realize these bullets mean
nothing to me, mortal man, you.

Speaker 17 (33:14):
Were always my friendor why are you doing this?

Speaker 26 (33:18):
We miss you alone.

Speaker 13 (33:21):
I miss you.

Speaker 23 (33:22):
You are not a child of the land, no.

Speaker 8 (33:25):
Matter what you'd think, par set about love.

Speaker 26 (33:29):
Let me stay.

Speaker 10 (33:30):
Tell my father you couldn't find.

Speaker 8 (33:32):
I can only tell him you refuse to retorn.

Speaker 10 (33:36):
But you punish you for not taking me back.

Speaker 8 (33:39):
By for Oh you won't. But if you insist on
this way, then you'll have to take the punishment he
plans for you.

Speaker 17 (33:48):
He cannot punish me here.

Speaker 8 (33:49):
Perhaps you'll have to find out for yourself. I'll give
your father your message. You're thanking me for nothing. You know,
if your father wants you back, he'll get you back.

Speaker 17 (34:10):
I'm sorry, but that's right.

Speaker 10 (34:12):
To stop her.

Speaker 8 (34:13):
It's all right, missus.

Speaker 31 (34:14):
MacArthur.

Speaker 17 (34:15):
We okay, and I still think we ought to call
the police. There may be a mania color loose. But
he did to pour Napoleon.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
Oh no, it was probably another door.

Speaker 10 (34:23):
The seawater.

Speaker 20 (34:24):
It's over, Missus MacArthur, forget it, forget it?

Speaker 17 (34:28):
How can I forget what happened tonight?

Speaker 11 (34:30):
Well, there's no more danger. I've taken care of Napoleon's body.
Let's not have any more about.

Speaker 10 (34:35):
It, nor David, if you see.

Speaker 11 (34:38):
So, I couldn't tell Missus MacArthur the truth. How could
I tell her what had happened that night?

Speaker 16 (34:48):
I decided that Allane and I should be married as
soon as possible. I knew the family would never stand
for an elopement, so I called Aunt Low and asked
her to come to Dallas.

Speaker 10 (34:58):
Of course, I'll arrange the wedding day. I'm delighted to
be asked.

Speaker 11 (35:02):
Don't make it too fancy. Just invite those you think
are a mussa.

Speaker 16 (35:06):
But you've told your father.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
Is we called him in South America.

Speaker 10 (35:10):
I've got to admit I'm surprised.

Speaker 8 (35:13):
Are you sure this is what you want?

Speaker 3 (35:16):
Absolutely?

Speaker 13 (35:17):
But following you.

Speaker 10 (35:18):
Here from Laguna? And what about her.

Speaker 16 (35:21):
Father, Aunt Lou Remember what I told you about my
visit to her father, where i'd been, what i'd.

Speaker 10 (35:27):
Seen where, Yes, we talked about and you.

Speaker 11 (35:31):
Thought that it was a hallucination.

Speaker 16 (35:33):
Well that was real, Aunt Lou, as real as Aleanae is,
and now our father's trying.

Speaker 11 (35:39):
To get her back.

Speaker 10 (35:39):
He's been here.

Speaker 16 (35:41):
He sent a messenger, the same one who brought me
ashore that day.

Speaker 10 (35:45):
David, Are you asking me to believe this girl is
actually from the sea?

Speaker 19 (35:53):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (35:54):
May I come in, Allanae?

Speaker 17 (35:56):
Of course, missus MacArthur told me you arrived, Aunt Lou.
I'm so happy to see you again.

Speaker 20 (36:02):
Fellow Alane.

Speaker 10 (36:04):
It seems we have some important plans to make.

Speaker 17 (36:07):
Yes, it's so nice of you to arrange it all.
My family couldn't possibly.

Speaker 10 (36:12):
Do easy, so I understand.

Speaker 8 (36:14):
We'll leave.

Speaker 32 (36:17):
Everything to.

Speaker 14 (36:20):
You.

Speaker 16 (36:23):
What listen to put your arms over your head and
look help me, David water and look quick as fast
as you can.

Speaker 8 (36:38):
Trouble dat.

Speaker 10 (36:40):
I'll do it, but I don't see how that's help me.

Speaker 29 (36:47):
I'll carry you.

Speaker 14 (36:50):
Put you.

Speaker 10 (36:53):
Now, I know how you help.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Stop talking.

Speaker 10 (36:59):
Girl needs I'll call doctor Lewis.

Speaker 11 (37:02):
Hell Lou, just head back and don't try it into fear.

Speaker 8 (37:06):
It's halfful a.

Speaker 11 (37:07):
Do you want to start him?

Speaker 10 (37:10):
I'll tell you say that, now, what are you doing?

Speaker 25 (37:13):
Say?

Speaker 8 (37:13):
They then back, She's on now, she can breathe.

Speaker 13 (37:18):
Now, she's underwater.

Speaker 26 (37:21):
She breathes underwater, touched.

Speaker 11 (37:25):
Full of myself. Alleenaie is all right now for a while.

Speaker 10 (37:31):
David, Hello.

Speaker 16 (37:40):
Allanae floated face down on the tub. The slight movement
of her back told me she was breathing easily, and
I knew that her father was keeping his word. He'd
have alane back, and I was powerless to fight him.

Speaker 10 (38:00):
Think I'm all right.

Speaker 11 (38:02):
And you better stay under a little longer.

Speaker 30 (38:04):
I want to.

Speaker 10 (38:05):
See if I could. Yes, I can breathe in the air.

Speaker 33 (38:17):
Because I was right.

Speaker 10 (38:19):
My father is stronger than I am.

Speaker 22 (38:22):
He will let us speak together.

Speaker 11 (38:28):
I didn't want to believe it, but I knew Alleanae
was right.

Speaker 8 (38:32):
The breathing attack was.

Speaker 16 (38:33):
Her father's spell, drawing her back to the sea. We
both knew the attacks would continue and Allenae might possibly die.

Speaker 10 (38:42):
I must go back, David.

Speaker 17 (38:45):
We tried, but it's not for us.

Speaker 34 (38:48):
I know.

Speaker 8 (38:50):
I'll take you to Laguna.

Speaker 15 (38:52):
That's not necessary.

Speaker 17 (38:54):
The golf is closer. I'll slip in there. The entire
sea is my home. It doesn't matter.

Speaker 16 (39:01):
No, I want to say goodbye to you where I
first met you. We'll go to Laguna. It was a dark,
gray day Allanne and I walked to the ocean and
stood on a large rock. We shared so many happy
times before.

Speaker 10 (39:21):
This isn't goodbye. Every time you're near the sea, will
be together. This is the test, David.

Speaker 17 (39:29):
If our love is really strong, nothing can keep us apart.
Maybe our future is just beginning alone.

Speaker 8 (39:39):
Don't go. We'll work something out.

Speaker 16 (39:43):
Special pools for you, something, David.

Speaker 17 (39:45):
I must They're waiting for me. I can feel the
forces now, but our love will win. You'll see, David.
You know when the time comes. Allonnee, you know when
the time comes.

Speaker 8 (40:10):
Hello, Hello, David.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
How are you.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
Pretty good at lout?

Speaker 11 (40:15):
Do you want your house back?

Speaker 19 (40:16):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (40:16):
Not exactly.

Speaker 24 (40:18):
I've got to be on the coast next week for
an art exhibit in LA and I'll be using the cottage.

Speaker 11 (40:23):
Welcome on along. Seeing you will be like the first
breeze of summer.

Speaker 35 (40:27):
Well, I'll be there on Sunday.

Speaker 36 (40:28):
Oh, your father's back from South America.

Speaker 4 (40:31):
Oh delighted you're.

Speaker 10 (40:33):
Not engaged anymore and convinced more than ever you're crazy.

Speaker 11 (40:38):
Well, come on out and give me more laughs.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
The past week has been like a week.

Speaker 10 (40:43):
See you Sunday. You miss her very much, David.

Speaker 11 (40:52):
Completely but like everything else, I'll get over it.

Speaker 10 (40:56):
You want to come into La with me tomorrow? I
can't promised the swinging time at the art show, but
there's a cocktail reception afterward. It could be fun.

Speaker 3 (41:06):
Well maybe maybe I will. Well, I'll see.

Speaker 10 (41:11):
It wouldn't hurt to get out again.

Speaker 11 (41:13):
Oh, I hope I'm not wearing wearing out my welcome.
Oh never, I'm just not ready to go back to
Dallas yet.

Speaker 19 (41:24):
David.

Speaker 37 (41:25):
What's the matter?

Speaker 8 (41:26):
Short of breath?

Speaker 10 (41:28):
Oh, it's probably nerves. You've been under such a.

Speaker 11 (41:32):
Strain, don't I know it?

Speaker 16 (41:36):
Maybe going into hell A with you is just what
I need.

Speaker 8 (41:45):
At Loo?

Speaker 10 (41:46):
At Loo, David, David, what is it? I can't breathe?

Speaker 8 (41:51):
Water?

Speaker 11 (41:52):
If you want, sit up, David Water?

Speaker 2 (41:55):
What's that water?

Speaker 8 (41:56):
I'll get it, David.

Speaker 18 (41:57):
I'll call doctor Harris Water.

Speaker 8 (42:03):
I knew what was happening.

Speaker 11 (42:05):
I staggered toward the bedroom door, through the living room and.

Speaker 30 (42:09):
Onto the beach.

Speaker 11 (42:10):
I have to get to the water, cold sand on
a black, starry knife. I have to get to the
water only a few feet now.

Speaker 8 (42:20):
Think to the surf the gentle.

Speaker 11 (42:23):
Rollers welcome me of carrying me deep into the sea,
and I.

Speaker 16 (42:28):
Breathe easily again, great refreshing gulps. As I swim with
a light easy sway to the kingdom where my love
is waiting. The iridescent fish.

Speaker 11 (42:41):
Beckon and lead the way.

Speaker 8 (42:43):
Alane is waiting with love.

Speaker 16 (42:46):
As I approached the gates, the underwater flowers sway and greeting.
The gates swing open, and I swim into.

Speaker 23 (42:55):
That kingdom, that new world, it welcomes me.

Speaker 9 (43:10):
Who can say that the force of love, the power
of the gods, and the mysteries of the sea are
not eternal, are not real? Our story was fantasy, you say, perhaps,
But the next time you're near a beach, look out
to see. If you look closely, you may see two

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figures swimming and frolicking in the waters. Corposes probably, But
then again, I'll be back shortly. Well, it's time we

(43:53):
came up for air. And anyway, David and Allene certainly
don't want us around anymore. Two's company, and three is
certainly not a honeymoon. I suspect that a marriage ceremony
and that mysterious and beautiful kingdom of the sea is something.

Speaker 8 (44:09):
Spectacular to behold.

Speaker 9 (44:12):
And the honeymoon, well, we just have to use our imaginations.
Our cast included Tony Roberts, E. V. Justter, Brianna Rayburn
and Earl Hammond. The entire production was under the direction
of Hyman Brown. And now a preview of our next tale.

Speaker 10 (44:32):
What do you want?

Speaker 8 (44:33):
I told you I want to be left alone.

Speaker 10 (44:36):
No out of life.

Speaker 5 (44:39):
I don't want to think about it.

Speaker 17 (44:40):
Well, everybody thinks about it, even a hustler.

Speaker 11 (44:43):
I'm looking for the for the greatest, the all time,
the biggest hustle ever conceived by the mind a man.

Speaker 10 (44:52):
That's what I want to pull off and suposioned, then
what then?

Speaker 3 (44:58):
I would die happy?

Speaker 19 (45:00):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (45:01):
I mean I would live happily ever after?

Speaker 10 (45:04):
And would you retire?

Speaker 8 (45:05):
Sure?

Speaker 38 (45:06):
Why?

Speaker 11 (45:07):
Now there'd be no more worlds to conquer, nothing more
to prove?

Speaker 10 (45:12):
All right, Billy, I'll help.

Speaker 8 (45:15):
You, help me, help me do work.

Speaker 17 (45:18):
If you promise to retire immediately afterwards, I'll help you
bring off the biggest hustle in history.

Speaker 9 (45:28):
Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Anheuser Busch
Incorporated Brewers of Budweiser.

Speaker 8 (45:34):
Missus E. G.

Speaker 9 (45:35):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre until next time, pleasant dream.

Speaker 39 (46:10):
This is Awson Wells speaking from London.

Speaker 8 (46:19):
The Black Museum.

Speaker 39 (46:21):
Here in the grim Stone structure on the Thames which
houses Scotland Yard, is a warehouse of homicide. Well everyday
objects a picture frame, a coat hanger, a.

Speaker 40 (46:33):
File folder, baby buggy.

Speaker 3 (46:38):
Or are touched by murder.

Speaker 39 (46:46):
Here's a hammer head made of past steel, well shaped,
extremely familiar. The front end blunt solid designed for driving nails,
the clad prongs at the rear for pulling nails. Very practical,
very very very familiar and so very very very lethal.

Speaker 3 (47:06):
Good one.

Speaker 23 (47:07):
This wasn't it, Inspector, Just a little extra patience, a
little extra routine work.

Speaker 13 (47:12):
Cross.

Speaker 23 (47:13):
That's one way to look at it, sir, My prefer
to remember. It is the case which began with almost
two dozen disappearances and wound up with one killer who
used a hammer with purpose.

Speaker 39 (47:29):
Well today that hammerhead can be seen here in the
Black Museum.

Speaker 1 (47:42):
From the annals of the Criminal Investigation Department of the
London Police, we bring you the dramatic stories of the
crimes recorded by the objects in Scotland Yards Gallery of Death,
the Black Museum. In just a moment, you will hear
the Black Museum starring awesome wells now the Black Museum,

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starring awesome, well.

Speaker 14 (48:22):
Well.

Speaker 39 (48:23):
Here we are in the Black Museum, Scotland Yards, Museum
of Murder. Beyond these walls, the tame seeds with a
commerce which is life to London. Within these walls, where
some of the river's dampness exudes from vaulted stone, there
is quiet, very sinister quiet, a kind of silence which

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inevitably surrounds objects touched by horror and.

Speaker 8 (48:46):
Fear, as here lies death behind glass.

Speaker 39 (48:52):
Doors, peaceful inanimate objects on deal tables. The authorities have
provided suitable identification in labels and neatly lettered cards. The motives, actions,
and the reasons why these objects rest here now were
all provided by murderers.

Speaker 3 (49:09):
Here's a calendar.

Speaker 39 (49:10):
The usual twelve page printed piece with a picture of
a pretty girl that decorated. The holidays are marked is
usual in red. One other day is marked as well,
the day and date of a murder stranger that red
circle led to capture and conviction, course to execution.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
Hi, here we are.

Speaker 39 (49:29):
Here's here's the hammerhead I told you about.

Speaker 3 (49:32):
It's an efficient tool.

Speaker 39 (49:33):
It's hammerhead type used by generations of carpenters. By millions
everywhere for work around the house. Hardly a home is
without one, and one would expect that a story involving
such a tool would begin in somebody's home. On the contrary,
this tale begins in the direct antithesis to a hope
begins in a London railroad station.

Speaker 13 (49:53):
Let me have my bag? Will you here? Sir? Are
your check? Please? Right to are excerpt? Here you sir? Hey,
that's not my bag. My a lesson. I'm sorry, sir.
Just let me see the chicks.

Speaker 3 (50:07):
What's wrong?

Speaker 13 (50:08):
You're sick? No, it's just my hand. Cut yourself. That's blood.

Speaker 4 (50:12):
Here's on.

Speaker 13 (50:13):
I know, but it's not a cut. Shake, it's from
the bag. Well open it, man, don't stand there, Yes, sir,
it doesn't seemed much of a lock on it, sir.
What does one do now, sir?

Speaker 4 (50:28):
When you will find part of a body in.

Speaker 13 (50:30):
A valice, you call the police, of course?

Speaker 26 (50:31):
What else?

Speaker 13 (50:32):
Yes? Please make it a art cam.

Speaker 3 (50:34):
Yes, call the police.

Speaker 39 (50:36):
Start the wheels moving, the wheels of police routine which
grinds slowly but inevitably to a discovery. In this particular situation,
the call led eventually to the office of Inspector Church at.

Speaker 13 (50:46):
The information cross.

Speaker 23 (50:48):
The content of that Valisa Charing Cross belonged to a
torso found in.

Speaker 13 (50:51):
Bright another one in Brighton.

Speaker 23 (50:52):
Sir number twenty three twenty three girls missing, just unreported
photos available s up in most cases. Here's the assembled
composite of the latest hm. Pretty little thing to wind
up so widely separated as London and Brighton.

Speaker 13 (51:09):
Here's the setup for now.

Speaker 23 (51:10):
I'm assigning a man individually to each case, identify any
found bodies, trace the known missing. I'm taking Daisy Baker myself.
You'll take over here and all the information will channel
through you very well.

Speaker 41 (51:22):
So why the Baker girl for yourself?

Speaker 13 (51:24):
Sir? Oh?

Speaker 23 (51:24):
She is or was the common law wife of Jamie Marster.
Let one remember him who picked him up in his
first conviction myself? Rather a long record asn't Lisa or
Prettick Grimes short sentences. In any case, the Baker woman's
been reported missing by her sister, it might be worth
a trip to see the sister. Name is Crandall, Ruth Crandall.

(51:44):
Before I drop in in Marsden, I think I'll visit
the lady a.

Speaker 39 (51:47):
Routine call to inquire the reasons for a woman's worry
about her missing sister. Inspector Church found Ruth Craptos at home.

Speaker 42 (51:55):
So when I plan to go down stay with Daisy
well to see her anyway, when the wire came, well you.

Speaker 43 (52:01):
See how it is, Inspector.

Speaker 13 (52:02):
May I see the wire, Missus Kendall, Yes, I have.

Speaker 42 (52:05):
It just here in the desk, Yes, yes, here it is.

Speaker 23 (52:10):
I see going abroad, good job sales Sunday will write.

Speaker 13 (52:17):
It doesn't tell us very much, does it.

Speaker 42 (52:19):
I tried to call her husband, well, he wasn't very cooperative.
He said she'd appt and pet her things and told
him she was bound for Paris for a dancing job.

Speaker 13 (52:27):
Oh, miss Baker as a dancer.

Speaker 12 (52:29):
That's while she was living in Brighton. She was in
some show down there.

Speaker 13 (52:32):
And you feel something is wrong, definitely.

Speaker 12 (52:36):
I don't know exactly why.

Speaker 42 (52:37):
But when you see the wire doesn't even say love,
and that makes it seem strange too, doesn't it, inspect.

Speaker 23 (52:43):
Her, perhaps, Missus Grendall. And you've no other information, nothing
you can put your finger.

Speaker 42 (52:48):
On, No, except of course, that I haven't heard from
days since the wire came.

Speaker 39 (52:59):
Inspector was puzzled. None of his child rite, none of
it conformed at all to the usual pattern. Ruth Crandell
had nothing factual to go on, and a woman's instinct
is never evidence on which to base an arrest or
a conviction.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
Still, the inspector took the.

Speaker 39 (53:13):
Train to Brighton and called on Jamie Myerston at thirty
five perc role.

Speaker 23 (53:20):
Yes, remember being Marsden copper Ranger.

Speaker 13 (53:24):
Yes, Chief Inspector church see id.

Speaker 23 (53:26):
Wow, come in, inspector. I don't suppose this is a
social busy. No, I'm a bit busier for that sort
of thing. I will sit down anyway, Inspector.

Speaker 13 (53:35):
That's a few questions. Wow, GoAhead.

Speaker 23 (53:38):
I hear you married since we last met. Yes, I did.
Nice girl. She home or now, as a matter of fact,
she's she's gone off to Paris her job as a
dancer over there.

Speaker 13 (53:49):
So her sister told me. Yeah, well she wir a sister.
I think much.

Speaker 23 (53:53):
My sister in law will want to see me about
so well, there wasn't much engineer coming all the way
down to Brighton when Daisy wasn't here.

Speaker 13 (53:58):
I assume you have your wife's dress.

Speaker 23 (54:01):
Well now, inspector, Oh, we had a bit of a
dust up. Four Daisy left. She flounced out of here.
All kind of mad, as you.

Speaker 13 (54:08):
Might say, missus crandall knows now.

Speaker 23 (54:11):
Missus Crandell don't take the likes of me, so I
saw no reason to tell anything.

Speaker 13 (54:14):
She didn't have to know.

Speaker 23 (54:15):
If Daisy wants to reach her, she knows where.

Speaker 13 (54:18):
Well, that's it.

Speaker 23 (54:18):
I suppose you'll be here if I want to see
you again, Marsden.

Speaker 13 (54:22):
I'm moving.

Speaker 23 (54:23):
Three rooms is a bit large for me, seeing as
ours on the own the stage, the new places at
Maitland Street, number twenty six. It's a good bit cheaper,
more suited to.

Speaker 39 (54:32):
My main check of the habitual haunts and acquaintances of
Daisy Baker drew another blank. Some had heard she'd gone
off to Paris.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
No one knew where.

Speaker 39 (54:42):
Meanwhile, the reports on other missing girls were equally discouraging.

Speaker 23 (54:46):
That's a lot, Cross, that's a lot to But when
another missing one reported makes an even two dozens of
the dry of the picture of the girl we found
in sheading cross on this new report and not the
same goal, So too bad. No luck with margda and
I presume no.

Speaker 13 (55:00):
Like at all.

Speaker 23 (55:01):
Edges On a fellow that one, yes, he ordered be
he's much too familiar with us, and he knows it.

Speaker 13 (55:06):
Well, there's no help for it.

Speaker 23 (55:07):
It'll have to be a house to house such the
usual district inspector all of Brighton, rather a large order inspected.
Finding fourteen missing girls and identifying six of ten bodies
is quite an all across. There's no help for it.
It'll have to be done. Chances are we'll have to
lend bright.

Speaker 3 (55:23):
With hard dull slugging.

Speaker 39 (55:25):
A police routine divide a city into sections, assigned groups
of detectives in pairs to each section, then walk from
house to house, from seller to attic, pausing for the questions.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
Questions, questions.

Speaker 39 (55:40):
Try to locate someone who's seeing something, who may know
one of the missing persons by sight.

Speaker 14 (55:46):
Try keep trying.

Speaker 13 (55:50):
Well, there was nothing there.

Speaker 41 (55:52):
Jobs like this, inspectors that make me wonder why I
wanted to be a policeman.

Speaker 13 (55:56):
It's jobs like the shore.

Speaker 23 (55:57):
That make good policemen out of ambitious young men. Well,
next address twenty six maidens expect Jimmie Marsden, who won't
be looking for me as quickly?

Speaker 13 (56:07):
Marsden?

Speaker 23 (56:08):
Who's that oh patty criminal? His wife was reported missing
by his sister. Turned out she's gone off to a
job in Paris. And her hub knocking the door shore
will it?

Speaker 13 (56:16):
Yes?

Speaker 23 (56:18):
Solid kind of story, even a touch of the dope
rack in it? Yes, my credentials see ID also a
search warrant.

Speaker 13 (56:26):
We your mens satn't didn't waste any time? A peace
come in waste any time.

Speaker 23 (56:32):
I called the piece About five minutes ago, they said
they send someone.

Speaker 13 (56:35):
Over you the landlord. I am inspector.

Speaker 23 (56:38):
Well, we're here on the matter of our own however.

Speaker 13 (56:41):
What's the trouble. Don't tice anything, sir, I do? How
about you?

Speaker 41 (56:45):
Sure, yes, sir, I do. It's from this room. The
tenant is out. Just now lift his door locked? Name
of Marsden?

Speaker 13 (56:54):
Well is that so? Just as well?

Speaker 23 (56:56):
We have the search warrant. Try your shoulder on that door, shure, Yes, sir, sure,
We've never had anything like this before. There's nothing much
here unless it's on the walls. The truck in the closets,
drag it out, cut those cords.

Speaker 13 (57:14):
Yes, good, good, So.

Speaker 23 (57:20):
I stay outside, inspector, Yes, of course, wonder Marsden isn't home. Well,
Daisy Baker didn't go to Paris after all to quite
a beating, didn't She looks like a blunt instrument?

Speaker 13 (57:30):
Did the job call.

Speaker 23 (57:32):
Headquarter shop pick up order for Jamie Marsden.

Speaker 39 (57:37):
And today that hammerhead can be seen here in the
Black Museum.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
In just the moment we will continue with the Black
Museum starring awesome wells. And now we continue with the
Black Museums daring awesome wells.

Speaker 39 (58:12):
The wires were alive with the search for Jamie Marsden.
Somewhere in England, the little petty thief was hiding and
some time he would be found. According to Chief Inspector Church.

Speaker 23 (58:24):
The man almost undoubtedly killed Daisy Baker, and there's no
question that he had her body in that trunk moving.

Speaker 3 (58:30):
It with him.

Speaker 39 (58:31):
An inquiry into the whereabouts of missing girls had blossomed
into a full hunt for a murderer. The premises at
twenty six Maitland Street, Brighton were given a thorough going over.
Detective Shaw reported.

Speaker 41 (58:43):
Nothing, sir, not a trace of anything except that trunk
and the body, to.

Speaker 3 (58:47):
Which Inspector Church replied.

Speaker 13 (58:49):
Very well.

Speaker 23 (58:50):
Now give the same treatment to thirty five Park Row.

Speaker 39 (58:55):
There, the young detective reported, in the backyard, sir, in
a pile of junk, we found her hammerhead.

Speaker 41 (59:02):
It's been given to pathology. Inspector there are stains on it.
They might be blood, sir, and the.

Speaker 39 (59:10):
The inspected Church said to his deputy Inspector Cross, And
forty eight hours.

Speaker 23 (59:13):
Later, pathology report Cross that hammerhead did the job, the
stains of blood and the type conformed good enough, sat
not quite good enough. The handle is gone. There's no
proof who used the hammer and pathology also reports that
the autopsy shows enough morphine in the Baker woman's body
to establish unconsciousness before death, if not death itself. Any

(59:35):
record of dope hanging in Marston dossier, Sir, Nope, we
haven't been able to tie him into that yet. Well,
we'll see after we find the gentleman in question. Meanwhile,
hasn't get me Brighton?

Speaker 44 (59:46):
In the wire?

Speaker 23 (59:47):
I have a routine job for Detective Shaw. Too many
loose ends in this.

Speaker 8 (59:51):
One car was made to Detective Shaw in Brighton.

Speaker 39 (59:53):
I'm to the postcard, a file number and a hand
lettered menu. Detective Show invaded a certain telegraph office.

Speaker 13 (59:59):
In Yes, I I'm always glad to cooperate with the police. Sir,
Can you find me the original of this wire?

Speaker 40 (01:00:07):
I think so sad.

Speaker 13 (01:00:08):
Justin please, this is it? I assume sa it has
the same file number.

Speaker 41 (01:00:17):
Yes, that's it doing a broad good job, Thank you
very much. Now, if you'll just let me compare the
writing on the blank with these samples I have with.

Speaker 39 (01:00:26):
Jak give Shaw noticed his comparisons and went to the telephone.
A few moments later they put a call through to
inspect a church at the yard.

Speaker 13 (01:00:33):
Go ahead, Shaw, what have you got?

Speaker 41 (01:00:35):
They had the original, sir, I compare it with the
postcard with the Baker Woman's writing on it. I'm no experts, sir,
but it's obvious that two writings are absolutely different.

Speaker 13 (01:00:44):
That's that done. I had a specimen of Marden's writing,
tu sir? Where did you get that? From?

Speaker 41 (01:00:49):
A restaurant where the man worked for a while as
a waiter. The men used there are handwritten. It was
part of his job to write them out, good man,
There's no question about it, sir. Marden wrote that book
and sign the Baker Woman's name to it.

Speaker 39 (01:01:07):
Another link in the chain rapidly forging itself around Jamie Marsden.

Speaker 13 (01:01:11):
But still Jamie Marsden.

Speaker 23 (01:01:13):
Every policeman in England's carrying the man's picture and descriptions up.
How long is it going to take to bring the
picture and the man together.

Speaker 39 (01:01:21):
Not too long, Inspector, in fact, within twenty four hours.

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
Here you just a minute?

Speaker 45 (01:01:33):
You want me, Constable stand over there in the street light.

Speaker 11 (01:01:41):
Heh, Well, no weapons?

Speaker 23 (01:01:43):
Now, why should I be carrying a weapon, Constable, I'm
just an ordinary cities.

Speaker 13 (01:01:46):
Yes, have a close look at you. Yes, I'm sure
of it. You'll have to come along to the station house.
You're being taken in charge forth.

Speaker 23 (01:01:56):
You're Jamie Muss And unless I miss my guest by
a mile, don't you know there's an all stations broadcast
out for you.

Speaker 13 (01:02:03):
You're the most wanted man in England this minute.

Speaker 3 (01:02:07):
That was in Manchester.

Speaker 39 (01:02:09):
Very shortly thereafter, Jamie Marsden faced Inspector Church and Deputy
Inspector Cross in her office of the Yarron.

Speaker 13 (01:02:16):
All right, Marsden, lad's hear it, all of it.

Speaker 23 (01:02:18):
I didn't kill her, Inspector. I didn't kill.

Speaker 13 (01:02:20):
Her, but you knew she was dead. But if you mean,
did I put her in the trunk? I did? But
you didn't kill her.

Speaker 23 (01:02:27):
No, sir, You've got to believe that.

Speaker 13 (01:02:29):
Apparently you seem to understand that. It's somewhat difficult to believe. Well,
that was the whole thing from the beginning. All right,
let's go back to the beginning.

Speaker 23 (01:02:36):
Well, me and Daisy got together down in Brighton about.

Speaker 13 (01:02:39):
A year ago.

Speaker 23 (01:02:40):
Oh oh, she was dancing in a coot show and
I was barking a booth a little way out the sidewalk. Well,
sort of got into the habit of meeting, and after
closing time, then well we reckoned that tulka nevers cheaply
as one.

Speaker 13 (01:02:51):
So well we put in together and started as keeping
were you pushing any of this stuff away?

Speaker 23 (01:02:56):
I didn't know she was on the stuff. No, but
not for months. Inspector. You got believe it, as it
seems that a lot of things we've got to believe.

Speaker 13 (01:03:03):
You heard Cross Marsden.

Speaker 23 (01:03:05):
I am sure, I say skeptical too, keep talking, I'm honest.
We just said, oh yeah, I keep talking. Well, Daisy's
sister came to visit. We didn't get along. If I'd
have killed anyone, it'd been that sister. What she came for,
except to be nasty and snoopy, that know. Back to
the story in Marsden. Yeah, yeah, all right, yea, Well,
but I was saying, we got together and everything was fine. Oh,

(01:03:29):
we had a couple of fights, but oh, nothing much.
Then Daisy said, as our sister was coming down again.

Speaker 13 (01:03:34):
I got real mad. I slammed the door. You didn't
slam Daisy.

Speaker 23 (01:03:38):
I may have cut her a bit to nothing nothing serious. Anyways,
I went out and I stayed up for a couple
of hours. I come back and at the place was
awful quiet, and I thought, well, maybe days had gone out,
or taken.

Speaker 13 (01:03:51):
A shot not to or something. I walked into the.

Speaker 23 (01:03:54):
Bedroom that was at thirty five where we had the
three rooms. You walked into the bedroom and let her
have it, right, Marsden, say, Daddy, I mean it was awful, inspector.

Speaker 13 (01:04:03):
She was, we all bashed up, she was, why didn't
you call her? Police? Me?

Speaker 12 (01:04:06):
With my record?

Speaker 23 (01:04:07):
Who do believed I didn't do it? You don't believe
me that I never killed nobody, just been putting away
for small things.

Speaker 13 (01:04:13):
But I got a record.

Speaker 23 (01:04:15):
Nobody had listen I reckon, So I got real scared.
I did the first thing it hit in my head,
which was Marsden. I got no drunken and I stuffed
her in it. And then I took the sheets and
all down in the seon. I stuffed him in the furnace.
Boh the rist, you know, Inspector. That's the truth.

Speaker 13 (01:04:30):
So help me. What did you do with the hammer? Marsden?

Speaker 23 (01:04:33):
Emma? Oh what every inspector, the one you bashed her with, Marsden,
the hammer that killed her. I don't know about no, Amma.

Speaker 13 (01:04:39):
I didn't kill her, nor nobody. I didn't kill her, Inspector, and.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
That's the truth.

Speaker 39 (01:04:49):
They worked on Jamie Marsden for three days. They tried
every trick, every question they could think of, but no
one could shake his denial. Jamie Marsden insisted he had
not killed Daisy Baker, and that was that. Weary and exhausted,
Chief Inspector Church faced his deputy.

Speaker 23 (01:05:05):
You know, Cross, I am almost beginning to believe Marsden myself.

Speaker 13 (01:05:09):
If he did kill it's completely out of the pattern.
His kind of criminal almost never kills.

Speaker 14 (01:05:14):
I know.

Speaker 23 (01:05:15):
But somebody killed him, even granting Marsden's story, somebody killed him.

Speaker 13 (01:05:19):
Well, then where do we go from here, Zep?

Speaker 23 (01:05:21):
Where would you that there were there had been other
men in this woman's life.

Speaker 13 (01:05:24):
Have you any doubt about e Chip?

Speaker 23 (01:05:26):
Do you suppose the sister would have any ideas well?
It's a place to start in any case. Jack, Then
let's get on with it, Cross and ask a Brighton
police to work in that angle.

Speaker 39 (01:05:35):
The sister Ruth Crandall place to start on a new angle.
At any rate, The two CID men paid their second
visit to missus Crandall.

Speaker 42 (01:05:42):
I suppose, Inspector, you've come to ask me to testify
Malesdon's trial, nasty little man.

Speaker 13 (01:05:49):
As a matter of fact, we haven't.

Speaker 23 (01:05:51):
We don't have enough evidence yet to send Marlesden to
trial and booked on suspicion at all.

Speaker 12 (01:05:55):
That's enough evidence. Heart, It seems possible because were full
of it.

Speaker 13 (01:06:00):
The newspapers aren't the police, ma'am.

Speaker 42 (01:06:03):
Of course, not mister Cross. But after all, he did
keep my sister's body with him. He did run away.

Speaker 23 (01:06:08):
I know, missus Grendall, but there'll be no weapon that
relates to Marsden.

Speaker 34 (01:06:11):
No weapon.

Speaker 12 (01:06:12):
The Hamles's head, Well, after all, that's a weapon.

Speaker 23 (01:06:15):
Did you say, mister Mammandel, we came here to ask
you about another man in your sister's life.

Speaker 42 (01:06:20):
Have you any ideas I know this match, Inspector, that
my sister was no better than her reputation.

Speaker 22 (01:06:25):
Heaven knows, I.

Speaker 12 (01:06:26):
Tried all my life. I tried when my husband died.

Speaker 42 (01:06:30):
I offered her a home, even no, she persisted in
the disgraceful kind of life she was leading. She even
boasted to me once that she liked it. That's been
knowing the kind of men she went around with. Inspector,
you see how I live? How would I know anything
about things like that?

Speaker 13 (01:06:46):
I see. Well, missus Grendall, if you.

Speaker 23 (01:06:48):
Think of anything which may be of help, we'll appreciate
your letting us know.

Speaker 39 (01:06:53):
Two men with a purpose left the neat suburban residence
of Daisy Baker's sister shortly after the return to Scotland.
Yard that tell her the telephones were all busy. Reports
were swift and coming in.

Speaker 23 (01:07:04):
Here's word from the hardware stores up a hammer was bought.
The janitor at thirty five park Row did see someone
that day. They found a taxi driver in Brighton who
remembers One of the neighbors places the date exactly so.
She remembers the house was empty because a little boy
was ill and she wanted to borrow something.

Speaker 13 (01:07:22):
Here's the final touch.

Speaker 23 (01:07:24):
Local bus driver remembers the trip from out there to
the railroad station.

Speaker 39 (01:07:28):
The final touch, and once again, two men from the
CID went visiting.

Speaker 23 (01:07:34):
We've faced your movements all that day, Missus crandall. Your
neighbor remembers your house were shut up. The bus driver
remembers how you asked if you'd reach the station on time.
A taxi driver in Brighton remembers taking you to thirty
five Park Row. The janitor saw you there, and the
hardware dealer right round the corner from here as a
record of his sale of a hammer to you. You
shouldn't have mentioned that hammer, Missus crandall. We never told

(01:07:57):
the newspapers about finding it in the backyard at Brighton.

Speaker 42 (01:08:00):
I was right, she wasn't fit to live. Everyone pitted
me on accountamises.

Speaker 23 (01:08:05):
They looked down on me.

Speaker 42 (01:08:07):
I never felt better in my life than when I
hit and hit her, and then broke the handle off
the hammer and burn it in that fanny in.

Speaker 24 (01:08:13):
That awful house.

Speaker 42 (01:08:17):
Then not been a little more careful, then you have
to try that mountain fellow.

Speaker 12 (01:08:22):
You'd have to have bug him.

Speaker 23 (01:08:24):
Perhaps now then, Missus crandall, are you ready to come quietly?

Speaker 3 (01:08:32):
And today?

Speaker 39 (01:08:33):
That hammerhead can be seen here in the Black Museum.

Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
Arson Wells will be back with you in just a
moment now here in person is Arson.

Speaker 39 (01:08:49):
Well, in due course Henrietta Crandall paid the usual penalty
for premeditated homicide. The purchase of the hammer was sufficient
evidence of the tent to kill. As for Jamie Marsden,
product of the London slums of bad company and evil ways,
Jamie went free, but not for long. Six months barely

(01:09:14):
passed before Marsden was picked up for possession of a
deadly weapon and sentenced to serve ninety days for simple theft.
And as for the hammerhead, well, here it is in
its usual place in the Black Museum. So until next time,
tell another story about the same place. I remain, as
always obediently us.

Speaker 46 (01:09:47):
The Mysterious Traveler, written, produced and directed by Robert A.
Arthur and David Cogan, and starring tonight two of radio's
foremost actors, Leon Jenny and Charlotte Holland.

Speaker 4 (01:09:58):
In operation tomorrow.

Speaker 47 (01:10:05):
This is the Mysterious Traveler, inviting you to join me
on another journey into the realm of the strained and
the terrifying.

Speaker 48 (01:10:13):
I hope you will enjoy the trip and.

Speaker 27 (01:10:15):
Will thrill you a little and chill you a little.

Speaker 47 (01:10:18):
So settle back, get a good grip on your nerves
and be comfortable if you can, as we journey with
a young scientist into the unknown future. It's a story
I call Operation Tomorrow. My story begins in a scientific
laboratory cut out of the solid rock, many feet beneath

(01:10:41):
New York City University, amidst a maze of electronic apparatus.
Professor Wilber Malcolm, a middle aged pipe smoking man, is
making methodical tests, aided by his new assistant Fred Andrews.

Speaker 48 (01:10:57):
The main output coils seem to be working the way
they should. You ready to meets Fred.

Speaker 8 (01:11:03):
Yes, Professor, but I wish I knew what we were doing.

Speaker 48 (01:11:07):
You will in a few seconds, my woe. Now wind
up that alarm clock and put it here on this
lead table in the center of the magnetic field.

Speaker 40 (01:11:15):
This old alarm clock is.

Speaker 13 (01:11:20):
Fair.

Speaker 49 (01:11:21):
All right, it's in the magnetic field. Now what now,
I'm going to turn on the current. You give me
the readings as we go along, Wright, sir, Here we go.

Speaker 48 (01:11:32):
Readings.

Speaker 49 (01:11:33):
Please, one thousand, folse positive main output tube one thousand,
five hundred, two thousand, three, four, five, six, seven, eight thousand, nine,
ten thousand.

Speaker 48 (01:11:53):
All right, we've reached critical votage. Now watch the clock closely.

Speaker 49 (01:11:57):
Fred the clock, Yes, sir, Why it's getting a little hazy,
hard to see.

Speaker 8 (01:12:07):
Now it's transparent as if it were.

Speaker 2 (01:12:10):
Made of glass.

Speaker 8 (01:12:11):
What is this, professor?

Speaker 48 (01:12:13):
Patience, my boy watch an observed. That's the scientist's.

Speaker 49 (01:12:17):
Motto for the tick is getting fainter, fading out. The
clock is disappearing, Professor, the clock has vanished.

Speaker 48 (01:12:25):
So it has gone completely swhere.

Speaker 8 (01:12:30):
Don't tell me you've discovered the secret of invisibility.

Speaker 48 (01:12:32):
Oh, something bigger than that, Fred, But watch now, I'm
going to cut off the alpha tubes. Now I'll cut
in the beta tubes. That will give us a negative
charge and reverse the magnetic field. Ready, Fred, Yes, sir,
here we go. Readings please, two.

Speaker 49 (01:12:51):
Thousand volts negative, three thousand negative, four thousand, five, six, seven,
eight nine, ten thousand bolts negative.

Speaker 48 (01:13:04):
Good, I'm houlding the field at ten thousand. Now watch
where the clock was.

Speaker 40 (01:13:10):
I'm watching, sir.

Speaker 49 (01:13:13):
Good Lord, I see a ghost of a clock there,
just a misty outline.

Speaker 40 (01:13:20):
Now it's becoming clearer and clearer.

Speaker 8 (01:13:22):
It's transparent.

Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
Now, it's almost solid.

Speaker 8 (01:13:26):
Why I can hear a ticking again and there it's back.

Speaker 48 (01:13:30):
Yes, Fred, the clock is back. And as you can
hear still in good working order.

Speaker 8 (01:13:35):
But where was it? Where did it go?

Speaker 48 (01:13:37):
Where did it go? It went into the future, into
the future. Yes, my boy, that clock has just penetrated
approximately one year into the future. You've witnessed the first
demonstration of something that up to now has always been
considered a fantastic dream time travel. Good lord, Ah, that's

(01:13:59):
enough for to day. You're coming home with me, Fred,
when I tell you my plans?

Speaker 8 (01:14:09):
How did you stumble on to this time travel effects?

Speaker 48 (01:14:12):
Sir, Well, it came about almost by a sheer accident.
My main purpose, which is a top secret operation, is
to develop electronic controls for atomic space ships.

Speaker 8 (01:14:22):
Do you mean they've been developed?

Speaker 48 (01:14:24):
Not yet, But it shouldn't belong now. Science is making
incredibly rapid advances, and sometimes it worries me. When you
travel so fast, there's danger of a collision.

Speaker 49 (01:14:35):
Yes, I know, we're all of us worried that the
world is headed for a gigantic disaster. But there doesn't seem.

Speaker 40 (01:14:42):
To be anything we can do about it.

Speaker 48 (01:14:43):
Perhaps there is. That's what I've been working around to
tell you, Fred, what Professor Malcolm Well, this time travel
effect that I stumbled on accidentally, I've kept it a secret.
You're the only person besides myself to know about it.

Speaker 40 (01:14:57):
I'm very flattered, sir.

Speaker 4 (01:14:58):
I know I can.

Speaker 48 (01:14:59):
Trust you, and I need your help. I'm not sure
we're really ready for time travel, as we were just saying,
we're going so fast now, so many new discoveries. If
we don't know how to handle for the world's good,
I hesitate to add one more to the list.

Speaker 40 (01:15:13):
I think I understand.

Speaker 48 (01:15:15):
But on the other hand, maybe it can be used
for mankind's benefit. I have a wild scheme, Fred, very unscientific,
and yet what is it, Professor, Well, it's this. I
propose to send you in a little jaunt into the future.

Speaker 8 (01:15:31):
Into future.

Speaker 48 (01:15:34):
Yes, I want you to bring back information. I want
to find out what's in store for us mortals of
the twentieth century. Fred. If it's bad war, perhaps just
knowing about it in advance may make it possible to
prevent it. Do you follow me, humph.

Speaker 49 (01:15:49):
It would be like knowing in advance about a train
wreck and then seeing that it doesn't happen.

Speaker 48 (01:15:55):
I knew you'd understand. That's why I sent for you
as soon as we've completed our tests. So I have
propose to send you through time one hundred years into
the future.

Speaker 47 (01:16:07):
For days and weeks, Fred Andrews and Professor Malcolm experimented
until they were sure it would be possible to send
a human being into the future and bring him back safely.
At last, they were ready for the big test for
the actual transmission of Fred himself through time.

Speaker 8 (01:16:25):
Professor, I'm already Why are you hesitating for Fred?

Speaker 48 (01:16:29):
As we've been working, suspicion has been growing in my
mind much suspicions, sir. I don't think this is going
to work.

Speaker 49 (01:16:35):
But Professor, we've sent dozens of objects into the future
and brought them back, even live animals.

Speaker 48 (01:16:41):
Cats, dog, Yes, but we've never brought back an object
from the future itself. I mean one we didn't send there.

Speaker 40 (01:16:48):
No, that's true.

Speaker 48 (01:16:50):
I wonder if well, no matter, we'll see I remember.
Gather all the information you can and get back to
this spot six hours from now. I'll activate the return
field then and bring you back to nineteen.

Speaker 40 (01:17:05):
Fifty Yes, sir, I'll do my best.

Speaker 48 (01:17:07):
I guess that's all. Good luck, my boy, Thank you, sir.
Five thousand votes positive, six thousand votes. How do you feel?

Speaker 40 (01:17:20):
I feel fine, Professor eight thousand votes.

Speaker 48 (01:17:24):
I'm ten thousand critical voltage. You're beginning to move forward
into time, getting transparent. Now can you hear me.

Speaker 2 (01:17:35):
Yes, Professor Malcolming, I can hear you, but you sound
very far away. I can't see you any longer. I
seem to be in the middle of a fog or.

Speaker 49 (01:17:48):
Miss Now I'm just surrounded by blackness. I can't hear
or see anything.

Speaker 48 (01:17:57):
He's gone Heaven. He comes back safely.

Speaker 47 (01:18:04):
For a long moment, Fred Andrews fell as if he
were spinning dizzily through empty darkness. Then the feeling passed,
and he cautiously opened his eyes to find himself standing
in an empty room, the laboratory, which he had just
left one hundred years ago. Unsteadily he crossed the room
and with difficulty opened the door.

Speaker 8 (01:18:26):
Then he gasped.

Speaker 47 (01:18:28):
Outside was a maze of corridors and stairways, brilliantly lighted
as if a whole city had been carved out of
the rock of Manhattan Island. As he stood there, someone
came walking swiftly past him, an attractive girl in full
military uniform.

Speaker 49 (01:18:43):
I I beg your pardon, yes, but.

Speaker 50 (01:18:48):
What are you doing here? This section is forbidden to civilians.

Speaker 40 (01:18:52):
Forbidden to civilians. I don't get it.

Speaker 50 (01:18:55):
How did you get past the guards? Where are your
identification papers?

Speaker 13 (01:18:58):
Don't?

Speaker 49 (01:18:59):
No, no, no, wait minute, Since when is an American citizen
have to carry identification papers?

Speaker 50 (01:19:04):
Ever since the war started? As you know quite well?
Put up your.

Speaker 49 (01:19:07):
Habits a gun now? No, no, look, miss you, you
don't have to threaten me. I'm harmless.

Speaker 50 (01:19:11):
Chan Still, I want to see if you're carrying a weapon.

Speaker 40 (01:19:15):
Well satisfying.

Speaker 49 (01:19:18):
The only weapon I have is a fountain with him?
What's your name, Frederick Andrews, PhD?

Speaker 50 (01:19:22):
Your draft card?

Speaker 24 (01:19:23):
Please?

Speaker 8 (01:19:24):
Draft card?

Speaker 13 (01:19:25):
Look?

Speaker 40 (01:19:25):
What's all this about? War? Draft card, identification papers?

Speaker 49 (01:19:30):
All these tunnels that have been dug down here, I'm
a stranger here.

Speaker 50 (01:19:35):
I don't know what you're up to, but no one
can be that ignorant. You're coming along with me to
see Colonel Phillips.

Speaker 40 (01:19:41):
Colonel Phillips, he's.

Speaker 50 (01:19:42):
The security officer for this sector, and I certainly hope
you have a good story to tell him.

Speaker 51 (01:19:52):
So your story, mister Andrews, is that you've come here
from the nineteen fifty. You must realize it's a very
unconvincing tale.

Speaker 50 (01:20:00):
Completely unconvincing in my opinion, Colonel.

Speaker 49 (01:20:02):
Well, it's the only story I have. I was born
in nineteen twenty three, and in nineteen fifty Professor Wilburgh
Malcolm of City University sent me into the future. Now
I'm here, and oh, I forgot.

Speaker 8 (01:20:16):
To ask the date.

Speaker 50 (01:20:16):
It's April tenth, twenty.

Speaker 8 (01:20:18):
Fifty, exactly one hundred years.

Speaker 49 (01:20:21):
Professor Malcolm's calculations were accurate to almost the.

Speaker 50 (01:20:24):
Minute, Colonel, In my opinion, this man is a very
clever spy.

Speaker 19 (01:20:28):
Spy.

Speaker 49 (01:20:29):
But well, look at that stuff you took from my pocket.
See the notebook, fountain pen, my driver's license dated nineteen fifty.
Those coins and bills are the cigarettes. Surely they convince
you I came from one hundred years ago.

Speaker 51 (01:20:41):
I think we can settle the question, mister Andrews. Our
technical department can tell whether this currency is genuine? Approximately
how old it is? Lieuturn, French. Send all these things
by a nomadic tube to the technical department. Ask them
for an immediate report.

Speaker 50 (01:20:54):
I'll ever report for you in half an hour.

Speaker 51 (01:20:56):
When the report comes with str Andrews, I'll know how
to handle your case. If you are a spy, you
know the penalty.

Speaker 49 (01:21:03):
Well, I'm not worried colonel. Now, may I ask a
few questions?

Speaker 40 (01:21:07):
Are you at war?

Speaker 8 (01:21:09):
We are indeed at war.

Speaker 49 (01:21:11):
And these miles of tunnels I saw carved out of
the solid rock.

Speaker 51 (01:21:16):
The city has retreated underground, mister Andrews.

Speaker 8 (01:21:18):
No one lives on the surface.

Speaker 40 (01:21:19):
Now, good lord, how long has the war been going on?

Speaker 51 (01:21:23):
We've been at war, mister Andrews, off and on, of course,
with periods in between which both sides have rested up
for ninety five years.

Speaker 40 (01:21:38):
Well, a visitor at last, Hello, litenans French.

Speaker 50 (01:21:41):
I'm sorry mister Andrews that we had to keep you
locked up until you were cleared.

Speaker 8 (01:21:45):
Does that mean you will believe my story? Now?

Speaker 50 (01:21:48):
Technical Division says your story is true.

Speaker 40 (01:21:52):
I'm free now.

Speaker 50 (01:21:53):
Oh well, not exactly, mister Andrews. This is a military
sector and you're a civilian. But I am to be
your for the time being.

Speaker 8 (01:22:01):
Good Then suppose I call you Emily and you call
me Fred. All right, Fred, it's a great deal. I
want to see and learn before I go back to
nineteen fifty.

Speaker 50 (01:22:11):
Go back, you mean you can return?

Speaker 49 (01:22:14):
Of course, Professor Malcolm will turn on his gadgets to
bring me back.

Speaker 50 (01:22:18):
At four o'clock that's only three hours. I'll have to
report this to Colonel Phillips after I've reported, What would
you like to do.

Speaker 49 (01:22:27):
I'm anxious to see what's going on, and I'd like
to collect a number of books with the latest scientific
and historical data to take.

Speaker 40 (01:22:33):
Back with me.

Speaker 50 (01:22:33):
Yes, all right, I'll phone the colonel. Then i'll show
you around, Fred. Here's the plotting room for the flying
bomb attack.

Speaker 13 (01:22:49):
Good lord.

Speaker 49 (01:22:49):
It's as big as a fear and as dark. What's
that big board with lights on it?

Speaker 50 (01:22:56):
That's the chart board which records every flying bomb within
a thousand miles of American territory.

Speaker 48 (01:23:01):
Granted missile entering detection. That over Greenland, General Court.

Speaker 52 (01:23:06):
Now, I haven't plotted send up interceptor rockets when it
reaches Zone four.

Speaker 48 (01:23:12):
A rockets thirty four and thirty five successfully intercepted that
defense Zone four.

Speaker 50 (01:23:19):
May see Fred, Two lights just went out. That means
we send up destroyer rockets which brought the bomb down.

Speaker 48 (01:23:24):
Rocket bombs twenty nine and thirty one have eluded interception
at zone three.

Speaker 52 (01:23:29):
Interception salvo at zone two if they penetrate, use interceptor
L one hundred at zone one.

Speaker 50 (01:23:35):
One hundred is our new top secret interceptor Fred, Hardly
anyone knows how it works, but it never fails.

Speaker 8 (01:23:41):
Four more lights went out there, and here comes the report.

Speaker 48 (01:23:44):
Last four rockets successfully intercepted.

Speaker 50 (01:23:47):
Rogers Wilfred, What do you think of modern.

Speaker 48 (01:23:49):
Rocket twenty five? It's penetrated zone horrifying interceptor.

Speaker 8 (01:23:53):
L everybody means one now seems to take it so calmly.

Speaker 50 (01:23:58):
You can't get excited when a thing has lasted for
almost one hundred years on and off.

Speaker 8 (01:24:04):
That life number twenty five. It's still on and moving.

Speaker 48 (01:24:09):
But it should have been destroyed by now, do you
Supper number twenty five has eluded interceptor attack by L one.

Speaker 52 (01:24:15):
Hundred, but it can't have record on twenty five pass
detection based one oh three reported number twenty five apparently
new type rocket, non metallic construction able to baffle sighting
mechanism of L one hundred or a technical crew to
search for fragments after the hit. Send general warning to
Eastern Seaboard area. I give plotted strike prediction.

Speaker 8 (01:24:37):
Very good, sir.

Speaker 48 (01:24:40):
All personnel in eastern district. All personnel bomb strike you
in ten seconds. Battery area bomb strike you in five seconds.
Four second, bomb strike you in three seconds. Two seconds.
One second, all personnel bombs strike over.

Speaker 50 (01:25:08):
All right, Fred, I'll take you to the viewing room.
Next you can see for yourself what this city looks
like in the year two thousand and fifty. Lieutenant French
reporting back with mister Andrews.

Speaker 51 (01:25:27):
Very good, Lieutenant Thomas Randrews, have a good look around.

Speaker 49 (01:25:32):
Yes, sir, I saw the city through the television viewing screens.

Speaker 51 (01:25:37):
Not quite the city left, is it.

Speaker 8 (01:25:39):
It's unbelievable.

Speaker 49 (01:25:43):
Just acres of twisted steel and fallen stone, the skeletons
of giant buildings lying across one another, rusting.

Speaker 40 (01:25:53):
It's like the end of the world.

Speaker 51 (01:25:55):
Not quiet, perhaps not even the end of civilization. Man
is an adept of creature.

Speaker 40 (01:26:01):
But are we winning, sir?

Speaker 51 (01:26:03):
Nobody wins a war anymore, mister Andrews. We're holding our own,
and we hope when the end comes there will be
peace on earth forever.

Speaker 8 (01:26:11):
But how did it start, sir? We were trying so
hard to prevent war back in nineteen fifty.

Speaker 49 (01:26:17):
In fact, one reason for my trip into time was
to get information that might help us keep war from
breaking out.

Speaker 3 (01:26:24):
Lieutenant French.

Speaker 51 (01:26:26):
Why didn't we think of that? Think of what, sir,
if the world of nineteen fifty knows the truth. Maybe
it won't happen either. They can prevent the accident that
started all this back in nineteen fifty five, or at
least they'll know the truth when it does happen.

Speaker 50 (01:26:41):
Of course, sir mister Andrews can take the true story.

Speaker 8 (01:26:44):
Back with him.

Speaker 40 (01:26:46):
What story.

Speaker 8 (01:26:46):
I don't follow you, Fred, You asked how the war started.

Speaker 50 (01:26:49):
Yes, it started because of an accident and an overjettery.

Speaker 8 (01:26:53):
Ward, Yes, my boy, a horrible irony.

Speaker 50 (01:26:55):
Fred, Now listen. During the nineteen fifties, the government established
a special experience in the heart of the Arizona Desert
in a little town called.

Speaker 8 (01:27:03):
Red Rock, the Red Rock, Arizona.

Speaker 50 (01:27:05):
Yes, that's right. The first space rocket was put into
production there and work was pushed on the problem of fuel.

Speaker 51 (01:27:10):
During the course of experiments, an explosion occurred late in
nineteen fifty five.

Speaker 50 (01:27:14):
It was a terrific blast, wiped out the whole base.
The first reports were sabotaged that the enemy had blown
up the base because they were afraid we were on
the birds of getting space fly.

Speaker 51 (01:27:23):
Before the truth became known, our newspaper screamed for retaliation.
The enemy became panicky and decided to strike first, and
phase one of the war was on. When we discovered
the blast was really an accident, it was too late
to stop.

Speaker 49 (01:27:37):
That's horrible, sir, war because everybody was just too jittery.

Speaker 51 (01:27:42):
But it doesn't have to be, don't you see? If
you take back the true story before it happens, it
won't have to happen. Now, look, I've assembled a dozen
books for you. The information in them will enable your
scientists to prevent that blasted Red Rock base.

Speaker 50 (01:27:56):
Now, Afred, you've got to get the facts back to them.
You've just got it.

Speaker 49 (01:27:59):
I will believe me, Professor Malcolm and I will see
to it this war doesn't start in our time.

Speaker 8 (01:28:05):
Good not come along.

Speaker 26 (01:28:07):
You've only five minutes more.

Speaker 49 (01:28:14):
This is the exact spot where I was lying when
I came through the time dimension.

Speaker 40 (01:28:18):
Colonel Philis, you've.

Speaker 51 (01:28:18):
Only thirty seconds more, Andrews. Remember impressed the lesson of
the accident at Red Rock on the world.

Speaker 13 (01:28:24):
These books hold them close to you, so they'll go.

Speaker 21 (01:28:27):
Back with you.

Speaker 8 (01:28:28):
Yes, sir, I've got a good grip on Fred.

Speaker 40 (01:28:31):
Yes, Emily, just good luck.

Speaker 13 (01:28:33):
Thanks.

Speaker 49 (01:28:34):
Maybe I'll pay another trip to twenty fifty.

Speaker 51 (01:28:38):
I hope, sir, it's sixteen hundred and Professor Malcolm is
on time.

Speaker 50 (01:28:44):
Look, Colonel, he's getting transparent. He's disappearing.

Speaker 13 (01:28:48):
Goodbye, Emily.

Speaker 49 (01:28:51):
I guess this is oh to see you with him sometime.

Speaker 50 (01:28:56):
But Sir, the books, they aren't disappearing.

Speaker 43 (01:28:59):
That they're just a solid is ever?

Speaker 23 (01:29:00):
Fred?

Speaker 24 (01:29:01):
Fred?

Speaker 14 (01:29:01):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:29:03):
I can hardly hear you? Everything's grave?

Speaker 14 (01:29:07):
And listen?

Speaker 2 (01:29:08):
Are you still there? Emily? Are you still there?

Speaker 48 (01:29:13):
The book's Fred Andrews.

Speaker 2 (01:29:15):
You're going back with the books.

Speaker 48 (01:29:17):
Let's staying here.

Speaker 49 (01:29:24):
He's appearing, he's returning, Thank heaven, he's safe, Fred, Fred,
My boy, Fred, what's the matter? You're staring at me
as if you didn't know me?

Speaker 48 (01:29:37):
Here, Fred, let me help you out. It's our Professor Malcolm.

Speaker 40 (01:29:41):
Professor Malcolm.

Speaker 48 (01:29:42):
Yes, don't tell me you don't remember Professor Malcolm. Yes, yes, Fred,
what's the matter?

Speaker 8 (01:29:50):
From my head feels so funny.

Speaker 49 (01:29:53):
I can't seem to remember who you are or what's
happened to me?

Speaker 40 (01:30:00):
What am I doing here?

Speaker 24 (01:30:09):
Well?

Speaker 48 (01:30:09):
Fred?

Speaker 3 (01:30:10):
How are you?

Speaker 7 (01:30:11):
Oh?

Speaker 40 (01:30:11):
Professor Malcolmy? It's good to see you, sir.

Speaker 48 (01:30:14):
I can't tell you how I've been blaming myself ever
since the experiment.

Speaker 49 (01:30:17):
No nonsense, I haven't suffered any harm, just a blank
place in my mind.

Speaker 8 (01:30:23):
I can't understand it. Do you suppose the experiment failed?

Speaker 48 (01:30:27):
They were gone for six hours somewhere, That's all I know, Fred,
If you did get to twenty fifty Fred, Yes, sir, Well,
I have a theory that though we can move from
past to future, it's impossible for anything belonging in the
future the move.

Speaker 14 (01:30:43):
To the past.

Speaker 48 (01:30:44):
The structure of time itself prevents that.

Speaker 40 (01:30:46):
I see.

Speaker 48 (01:30:47):
So if you did try to bring back any books
of papers they stayed behind, you must be right. You
can't remember because nothing that you didn't take with you
could come back with you, even in including sensory impressions
on your brain cells. The very active returning wiped out
your memories.

Speaker 49 (01:31:06):
Maybe if I went again, we could find some way
around the problem.

Speaker 8 (01:31:10):
There must be some way, sir.

Speaker 48 (01:31:12):
No, Fred, I'm dropping the whole subject for the time being.
I've been transferred to a new assignment and you're coming
with me.

Speaker 40 (01:31:19):
Well, what is the assignment, sir?

Speaker 48 (01:31:21):
All spaceship research is being concentrated at the new base
now being developed. You and I are going out there
to help develop a fuel and will take a rocket
to the Moon.

Speaker 40 (01:31:31):
I see where is the base, Professor Malcolm.

Speaker 48 (01:31:34):
From someplace in the West. I believe they call it
Red Rock, Arizona.

Speaker 8 (01:31:40):
Red Rock.

Speaker 49 (01:31:41):
The name seems awfully familiar to me. I wonder why.

Speaker 3 (01:32:02):
This is the mysterious travel.

Speaker 47 (01:32:05):
Well, time travel doesn't seem to be all it's been painted,
especially if you can't remember what's happened when.

Speaker 8 (01:32:11):
You get back.

Speaker 27 (01:32:12):
You aren't worried about.

Speaker 8 (01:32:13):
The future, are you?

Speaker 47 (01:32:15):
You know that tonight's story couldn't possibly happen or couldn't.

Speaker 48 (01:32:21):
Oh, you have to get off now.

Speaker 8 (01:32:22):
I'm sorry, but I'm sure we meet again.

Speaker 40 (01:32:26):
I take this same train every week at this same time.

Speaker 14 (01:32:42):
Mister House.

Speaker 53 (01:33:07):
Mystery House That's Strange publishing firm owned by Dan and
Barbara Glennon. Each new novel is acted out by the
Mystery House staff before it is accepted for publication.

Speaker 54 (01:33:18):
Mystery House, barbe you said tonight's story had something to
do with the Scotch background, right, Dan, Well, no cracks.

Speaker 8 (01:33:35):
About the Scotch being stingy? Please? You know my ancestry Scotch.

Speaker 12 (01:33:38):
How could I forget?

Speaker 19 (01:33:39):
Say?

Speaker 53 (01:33:40):
I don't see why everybody thinks it's so smart to
crack wise about being economical it's just good common sense.

Speaker 8 (01:33:45):
Oh you're an expert on common sense, are you, Tom?

Speaker 53 (01:33:47):
I certainly am, mister Glenn, and I can prove it.

Speaker 8 (01:33:49):
Listen, okay, places, everybody set the scene? What you Tom?

Speaker 3 (01:34:02):
Daggers in the dark.

Speaker 53 (01:34:06):
Tonight's story opens in the makeshift dressing room, which adjoins
the small auditorium of the women's club in a small
Midwestern town. The room's only occupant alive is Jeene Gordon.

Speaker 43 (01:34:20):
Gee, gee, is that you, Genie?

Speaker 8 (01:34:24):
What the great scott.

Speaker 24 (01:34:28):
But dirt?

Speaker 8 (01:34:30):
Jean snap out of it? His own dagger right through
the heart.

Speaker 24 (01:34:34):
Oh Dde?

Speaker 43 (01:34:35):
Who could have killed him?

Speaker 54 (01:34:37):
I don't know, sweetheart, but I wish I did, because
that's the question the police will be asking us. All right,
I'm Joe braggs Sheriff here. I take it to your

(01:34:57):
Gordon's daughter. That's right, Sheriff. Geene's got the bott.

Speaker 8 (01:35:00):
Who are you? Veil Pete veil booking agent? Eh?

Speaker 54 (01:35:03):
Where's the body? Have a look at it hasn't been touched, Sheriff.
They're under the window where Jeane found it.

Speaker 8 (01:35:07):
Eh? What's this get up? Did he always wear this kilts?

Speaker 19 (01:35:11):
Sure?

Speaker 54 (01:35:11):
He was a Scotch entertainer. That's why he's here in town.
Didn't you see the show?

Speaker 8 (01:35:15):
You mean he wore skirts on the stage.

Speaker 24 (01:35:17):
Oh, please, Sheriff, my father's dead.

Speaker 54 (01:35:19):
It was a Scotch act, Sheriff, Father and daughters, Scotch
songs and dances, both of them dressed in.

Speaker 8 (01:35:23):
Tartans, both of them.

Speaker 55 (01:35:24):
Eh.

Speaker 8 (01:35:25):
What about the young lady? She ain't wearing them?

Speaker 24 (01:35:27):
Why I changed him the street clothes before.

Speaker 8 (01:35:30):
Before your father was murdered?

Speaker 56 (01:35:32):
Eh?

Speaker 8 (01:35:32):
What about this knife sticking in him? Ever seen that before?

Speaker 14 (01:35:35):
Oh?

Speaker 54 (01:35:35):
That's what the Scotch call a dirk, a dagger. It's
part of the coustume, part of the act. You mean
these people are knife stores. No, the Scotch Highlanders wear
a knife in their stockings, just below the knee, at
the top of the stocking. That dirk was Gordon's, the
one he wore in the act.

Speaker 8 (01:35:47):
Eh.

Speaker 54 (01:35:48):
And all either one of you knows is that he
was found laying here on the floor of that knife
in his heart.

Speaker 24 (01:35:52):
Yet it no, no, chef, that isn't Jennie. Be quiet, Pete.
This is something the sheriff shouldn't know.

Speaker 8 (01:35:58):
All right, Come on out with it.

Speaker 13 (01:35:59):
What is it?

Speaker 24 (01:36:01):
Father?

Speaker 8 (01:36:01):
And I?

Speaker 24 (01:36:02):
Well, we've been corareling Jeannie for the love of mine.
You know, Pete, they'll find out sooner or later. I'd
rather tell it my own way.

Speaker 8 (01:36:08):
Genie, you're just making a time layoff. Mister. What's your story,
young woman?

Speaker 24 (01:36:13):
Well, father was old fashioned. He used to be a
big time entertainer with his Scotch stories and songs. But
he didn't realize that times had changed.

Speaker 8 (01:36:22):
Get to the point. What she means is, I was
fighting with her old man.

Speaker 24 (01:36:25):
Right, No, Chriff. I wanted to break away from Dad.
I did it once and was doing all right on
my own, doing modern stuff Jai. But he got so
angry about his own daughter singing jazz songs that he
came out of retirement and had Pete set up this
tour of tank tons.

Speaker 8 (01:36:40):
Eh luck, Sheriff. It doesn't mean anything.

Speaker 54 (01:36:42):
Old man Gordon was big time sure twenty years ago,
command performance for Kings and all that stuff made a
lot of dough. When Jean here got set to be
a star in her own right, he got mad, especially
when she started jazzing Scotch songs.

Speaker 8 (01:36:53):
What's that got to do with this?

Speaker 13 (01:36:55):
Nothing?

Speaker 24 (01:36:55):
You see? The only reason Pete is here.

Speaker 54 (01:36:58):
I'm their manager. That's why I'm here. Don't try to
kid me, Vail. I know managers don't come along on
one night stands, specially managers of people performing before small
town women's clubs.

Speaker 24 (01:37:07):
That's right, Sheriff. Pete and I want to get married.

Speaker 8 (01:37:11):
That's why, Jeanie, Now you have done it.

Speaker 24 (01:37:13):
Pete wanted to have it out with father once and
for all, but I asked him to let me do
the talking. I knew father didn't want me to marry Peter.
I knew Pete would just make him angry. So so
so I talked to Dad and it was just as
I'd expected. He wouldn't give his consent. I told him
we were going to get married anyway tonight.

Speaker 8 (01:37:32):
So your old man tried to stop you, and you
stuck the knife in him in self defense.

Speaker 13 (01:37:35):
No.

Speaker 54 (01:37:36):
Look, I was just outside when she screamed, I ran
in a corner. Oh so that's your story, huh. The
only thing she didn't tell you is that I saw
her father right after the show.

Speaker 8 (01:37:44):
You saw him. I thought you was waiting outside. Well
I wasn't.

Speaker 54 (01:37:47):
Well, you'd better tell me where you was, or I'll
have to dig it out of you. I don't have
to talk unless I want.

Speaker 24 (01:37:52):
To Pete, please, Sureff, he's only trying to protect me.
He thinks the evidence looks bad for me.

Speaker 54 (01:37:58):
All right, now, don't look so good for either one you?
Are you sure nobody in the audience knew your father
was killed?

Speaker 24 (01:38:04):
I don't know. I didn't hear anything before it happened.

Speaker 54 (01:38:07):
Wasn't anybody working backstage here for these women's clubs? All
I've got is a committee to run the show, and
everybody on the committee is so busy congratulating themselves after
it's over, nobody worries about the performers. And it strikes me,
young lady, that neither one of you been paying much attention.
That makes it tough when you're trying to get away
with murder. Come along, el Alma, Peabody, what are you

(01:38:40):
doing in the courthouse?

Speaker 14 (01:38:41):
Did you?

Speaker 43 (01:38:41):
Briggs?

Speaker 23 (01:38:42):
This is serious?

Speaker 43 (01:38:42):
I have something to tell you.

Speaker 4 (01:38:44):
Well.

Speaker 54 (01:38:44):
I'm always glad to talk to important people, Alma, And
I got about as much work to do as I
ever had.

Speaker 43 (01:38:49):
Here, and I know that's why I'm here, And all right.

Speaker 54 (01:38:52):
All right, get it over with so since I won't
be able to do anything until you.

Speaker 43 (01:38:55):
Do spill it, Jo, I know something about that murder.

Speaker 54 (01:38:58):
Eh, well, you know you're a president of the women's
club that sponsored this scotsman's appearance.

Speaker 8 (01:39:04):
Is that what you know?

Speaker 50 (01:39:05):
No, Joe, I knew Angus Gordon a long time ago.
I mean I knew him.

Speaker 8 (01:39:09):
Well, you mean you were a Bobby Sucker when he
was a big star like Harry Harry Blue. Well, anyway, Alma,
this is serious business. Joe.

Speaker 43 (01:39:18):
It's hard to.

Speaker 50 (01:39:18):
Say this, but you well, you may find out out
yourself and then it'll look well, I was married to
Angus Gordon.

Speaker 13 (01:39:26):
What it's true?

Speaker 4 (01:39:27):
Joe?

Speaker 8 (01:39:27):
Are you losing your mind?

Speaker 40 (01:39:29):
Alma?

Speaker 54 (01:39:29):
You was married to Jim Peabody before you came to
this town. Everybody knows that.

Speaker 50 (01:39:33):
Everybody thinks I was never married before because I was
so young when I came here with Jim Peabody. But
I was born in Scotland and my parents married me
off to Angus Gordon when I was sixteen. Angus was
just a coal miner there.

Speaker 54 (01:39:44):
Well, all right, now, all right, you can a knock
the wind out of a saoes there for a minute.

Speaker 8 (01:39:48):
But what does all this have to do with murder?

Speaker 50 (01:39:50):
I'm trying to tell you, Joe. When Angus and I
came to this country. He was just a struggling Scots
singer for the church Mouth. So when Jim came along
and offered me real security is the wife of a
bank president, I left saying this. I never loved him anyways.

Speaker 8 (01:40:04):
Elma, you've been thinking that I might suspect you of
Gordon's murder. If I found out about this.

Speaker 50 (01:40:09):
Well, my conscience bothered me. I just had to tell
you for fear you were someone would make it seem different.

Speaker 43 (01:40:14):
Than it really was.

Speaker 54 (01:40:15):
Mm hmm, Well you've got nothing to worry about. I
got your ex husband's daughter locked up along with her boyfriend.

Speaker 8 (01:40:21):
Between the two of my figure, I got the one
who done it.

Speaker 43 (01:40:24):
What do you think the girl is actually implicated, Joe?

Speaker 8 (01:40:27):
I doubt it.

Speaker 54 (01:40:28):
I figured the boyfriend done it. The girl's trying to
protect him, but it won't last long when I turn
the heat on, Joe, do you trust me? Well, that's
a strange question.

Speaker 43 (01:40:37):
Oh don't hedge?

Speaker 54 (01:40:38):
Joel answer me, well, I don't know when it comes
to murder, I don't trust anybody. But to be shere
from this county, you've got to be careful of your politics,
and you swing a.

Speaker 8 (01:40:49):
Lot of votes.

Speaker 13 (01:40:49):
Hmm.

Speaker 43 (01:40:50):
That means you do.

Speaker 8 (01:40:51):
What do you got up your sleeve?

Speaker 50 (01:40:53):
I think I might help you and at the same
time do something charitable for Angus's daughter, if you'll let
me Joel.

Speaker 8 (01:40:59):
Sure you're not full not on me about this girl.
She's not your daughter, is she?

Speaker 43 (01:41:03):
Heaven's no. Angus adopted her right after I left him.

Speaker 8 (01:41:06):
And what is your interest?

Speaker 43 (01:41:08):
I suppose it's conscience.

Speaker 50 (01:41:10):
I feel badly about what happened to Angus, and I'd
like to do something for Gene, something that might help
you help me? How well, if you put Gene in
my custody temporarily.

Speaker 43 (01:41:20):
I could be nice to her.

Speaker 8 (01:41:21):
There's no help to me.

Speaker 10 (01:41:22):
But don't you.

Speaker 43 (01:41:23):
See let the young man out too.

Speaker 50 (01:41:25):
If he did murder Angus, and if Gene knows he did, oh.

Speaker 8 (01:41:28):
You mean they might try to get together Exactly.

Speaker 50 (01:41:32):
I'll watch Jane like a hawk. She'll think I'm just
being nice to her for the sake of her father.

Speaker 43 (01:41:36):
Then if this person.

Speaker 50 (01:41:37):
She wants to marry comes around, I'll be able to
find out what he's cooking up. Something you could never
do as long as you hold them Bolton jail.

Speaker 8 (01:41:44):
Well, it's crazy, it ain't right, but you'll do it.
All right, Alna, I'll send the girl to your house.

Speaker 2 (01:42:04):
Pete, let me in before somebody sees me.

Speaker 24 (01:42:07):
Oh Pete, where did you get the ladder? How did
you get here there?

Speaker 8 (01:42:12):
I made it?

Speaker 24 (01:42:13):
Oh Pete, you're crazy? What are you doing here?

Speaker 54 (01:42:15):
That sheriff has an idea we'll try something together. That's
why he sent you here and let me out on bear.

Speaker 24 (01:42:21):
But this time of night? What's the idea?

Speaker 54 (01:42:24):
I wanted to be sure old missus Peabody be asleep
so I could talk to you privately.

Speaker 24 (01:42:29):
She's asleep, all right, But Joe, what are we going
to do about you? The sheriff is sure to get
you convicted for what happened to father. He practically told
me that.

Speaker 54 (01:42:38):
Yeah, I understand that you offered you a nice little deal.

Speaker 24 (01:42:42):
What do you mean?

Speaker 54 (01:42:44):
That's why I'm here, baby, to tell you you can't
get away with it.

Speaker 24 (01:42:48):
Pete, what are you talking about?

Speaker 54 (01:42:50):
I never thought this had happened to me falling for
a gal and having her turn out to be a
double crosser.

Speaker 24 (01:42:56):
Peter, I've never seen you like this, No, I never
will again. Do you really think I tell you all?

Speaker 8 (01:43:03):
I'll spare me.

Speaker 14 (01:43:04):
That, will you?

Speaker 27 (01:43:04):
Jeane?

Speaker 8 (01:43:05):
It's bad enough to know Peter Vail, Oh you really think?

Speaker 54 (01:43:08):
I don't think anything anymore. I just came to tell
you I'm going to beat it before I go. Come
over here, close to me, Pete.

Speaker 24 (01:43:19):
What's got into you? Nothing's changed between us?

Speaker 8 (01:43:22):
Listen Jean before I go.

Speaker 4 (01:43:25):
There's just one thing.

Speaker 24 (01:43:27):
Oh Pete, please not this win. I won't listen to you.
I can't.

Speaker 37 (01:43:31):
Okay, baby, that's the way you want it.

Speaker 53 (01:44:04):
Angus Gordon, the Scotch entertainer, was murdered, and now angus
daughter Jean was Was she murdered too?

Speaker 8 (01:44:12):
Well?

Speaker 53 (01:44:12):
It looks very much as if Sheriff Joe Briggs has
plenty of problems to solve in the second act of
Dagger in the Dark. But now, while the scenes are
being shifted, listen to this and now act too of Dagger.

Speaker 13 (01:44:37):
In the Dark.

Speaker 53 (01:44:38):
Sheriff Joe Briggs has arrived at the home of Missus
Alma Peabody to find Jean Gordon bleeding profusely and still unconscious.
As the curtain rises, the Sheriff is talking.

Speaker 8 (01:44:49):
A sure was a fool to listen to you. Alma
kinda left the girl in jail.

Speaker 50 (01:44:52):
This wouldn't have happened I know, Joe, I regret this
even more than you do.

Speaker 43 (01:44:56):
But there's one good thing about it. Don't you see.

Speaker 8 (01:44:59):
What's good about a knife wounded a pretty gal like her?

Speaker 43 (01:45:02):
Oh? I don't mean that.

Speaker 50 (01:45:03):
I mean now you know who did the other murderer
who killed Angus Gordon.

Speaker 54 (01:45:07):
You mean because you saw Pete Vale haul on the
ladder up to the side of your house.

Speaker 50 (01:45:11):
Of course, Joe, I saw him as clearly as I
see you. He climbed off the poor Jean's window and
stabbed her. That's the way he stabbed her.

Speaker 8 (01:45:17):
Father, you see him do it? You got the knife knife?

Speaker 54 (01:45:21):
Well, whatever he stabbed her with, you got the weapon,
of course, not well. And we don't know as much
as you think we know. All we know is you
think you saw this guy hauling.

Speaker 8 (01:45:30):
The ladder up.

Speaker 43 (01:45:31):
I did see him.

Speaker 8 (01:45:32):
Well, how did he get away? Then? You claim you
called me as soon as you saw him.

Speaker 10 (01:45:36):
I did.

Speaker 43 (01:45:36):
He just must have got away.

Speaker 8 (01:45:38):
Oh how my men roll around the house the whole time.
When I got here myself, you were just coming out
of Jean's room, and you say you got to the
girl right away.

Speaker 50 (01:45:47):
Oh, Joe, don't argue about such inconsequentials. Do something about Jean.

Speaker 8 (01:45:51):
She's all right. The doctor in the other room fixing
her up. She's gonna be all right.

Speaker 43 (01:45:55):
What was about the man, her boyfriend?

Speaker 8 (01:45:57):
We'll get him. Don't worry so much. That's my job.
What Jean worried?

Speaker 13 (01:46:02):
A minute?

Speaker 8 (01:46:02):
What are you doing out of bed? Miss where's the doc?

Speaker 24 (01:46:04):
I'm all right, doctor, let me quite a while ago.

Speaker 43 (01:46:07):
Geane, you should be back in bed. Come, I'll help you.

Speaker 24 (01:46:10):
Leave me alone, missus peabody. I want to know what
happened to Pete.

Speaker 8 (01:46:14):
You mean you're worried about that Dale fellow yet, Sheriff?

Speaker 24 (01:46:16):
Tell me what happened to him?

Speaker 22 (01:46:18):
Is he all right?

Speaker 8 (01:46:19):
I'll be sureitched.

Speaker 14 (01:46:20):
I know, Geene, I ain't seen him.

Speaker 54 (01:46:21):
Only Alma here claims she's seen him with the ladder
outside your window.

Speaker 24 (01:46:25):
For sure he was here.

Speaker 43 (01:46:26):
But he is he all right?

Speaker 24 (01:46:27):
Sheriff? See I told you Joe, Please, Sheriff, I've got
to know Pete thinks I lied to you about him.
Did he get away?

Speaker 14 (01:46:34):
Now?

Speaker 8 (01:46:34):
Look, young lady, you shouldn't be worried about a guy
who stuck a knife in your back.

Speaker 24 (01:46:37):
Pete didn't I know he didn't.

Speaker 50 (01:46:39):
What Geane, you're not rasonal of course it was he.
It was so dark you couldn't see.

Speaker 24 (01:46:44):
But not so dark I couldn't feel.

Speaker 8 (01:46:46):
Look your fingers stretched? What about it?

Speaker 24 (01:46:49):
Whoever it was or tried to kill me was behind me.
I could still see Pete against the window when this
hand was clapped over my mouth.

Speaker 43 (01:46:56):
Joe, don't mind her. She's said we from the wound.
She just can't.

Speaker 2 (01:47:00):
No.

Speaker 24 (01:47:01):
I felt this hand over my mouth, and I reached
up and tried to pull it away. That's how I
scratched my finger on the knife. No, on a diamond ring.
What I could feel the ring when I tried to
pull a hand away. Don't you see? It couldn't have
been Pete. He never wore any rings at all.

Speaker 43 (01:47:17):
But Jean, who else could it have been?

Speaker 50 (01:47:19):
The house was locked, there wasn't any other way of
getting in except through your window.

Speaker 43 (01:47:23):
It must have been your friend, Pete.

Speaker 24 (01:47:24):
I don't know who it was, but it wasn't Pete.

Speaker 8 (01:47:26):
Alice speach me, teaches me a lesson not to listen
to women, even women like you.

Speaker 43 (01:47:31):
Alma, Joe, you got to do something about this. I
can't have my reputation's stake.

Speaker 10 (01:47:35):
This way, Your reputation attempted murder happening right here in
the Peabody house.

Speaker 43 (01:47:40):
All the town think, Joe, you've got to tear this
up right away.

Speaker 24 (01:47:43):
That's a fine, Annette, what you might expect of a
tank town big shot.

Speaker 43 (01:47:47):
Why, Jean, after all I've done for you.

Speaker 24 (01:47:50):
All you've done was you who got my father to
come to your old woman's club show me. I heard
the other women talking about it. I know you didn't
write the letter, but it was your idea. Now, all
you're worried about is what people will think about you,
even though father is dead and somebody tried to kill me.

Speaker 43 (01:48:05):
Gene you one grateful.

Speaker 8 (01:48:07):
That's no way to fix anything.

Speaker 24 (01:48:09):
Well, neither one of you has to worry about me anymore.
I'm gonna get out of here and find Pete Vail
before he gets caught for something he didn't do.

Speaker 8 (01:48:15):
Oh no, you don't care. Wait, I'll get it. I'll
get it out though, Yeah, sheriff speaking. Oh you're a Lambert.
Yeah yeah, we'll bring him out here. Yeah, right away.

Speaker 43 (01:48:31):
I know it's what happened.

Speaker 54 (01:48:33):
Said Veil Feller. All right, your Lambert the lawyer was
on the other end, he said. Veil walked into his
office an hour ago. They're coming out here right away. Okay, Gail,
come on in, you two. Veil a share, Pete, Genny?

Speaker 3 (01:48:56):
Are you all right?

Speaker 8 (01:48:57):
I'll break it up, you two. This thing isn't settled yet.

Speaker 43 (01:48:59):
The audacity of this young man.

Speaker 8 (01:49:01):
Missus Peabody. Don't be too unkind, Joe.

Speaker 43 (01:49:03):
Briefs, if you're any kind of a sharp.

Speaker 8 (01:49:05):
At all, what are you fretting about it? Alah, there's
plenty of men guard in the house. Nothing can happen.

Speaker 43 (01:49:09):
Why don't you arrest this young man and be done
with him.

Speaker 54 (01:49:11):
Well, first, I want to hear what Gail has to say.
You said it was important, didn't you, Gail?

Speaker 8 (01:49:16):
I did well.

Speaker 43 (01:49:17):
I'm not going to listen to such sunk.

Speaker 8 (01:49:20):
Oh, it's all right, Joe. Let it go. We don't
need her for this.

Speaker 14 (01:49:24):
Let me go.

Speaker 43 (01:49:25):
I like that.

Speaker 50 (01:49:26):
I'll go as I please, and next election i'll see
we have a new shop in this community.

Speaker 8 (01:49:32):
Go ahead, Pete, tell the sheriff what you told me.

Speaker 43 (01:49:35):
Oh, Pete, please get yourself.

Speaker 14 (01:49:36):
Out of this.

Speaker 8 (01:49:37):
I will, sweetheart, just a minute now, come on, Bail,
let's hear it. Not so fast, Sheriff.

Speaker 54 (01:49:41):
You almost got me on this when you told me
that tall tale about Geene ratting on me.

Speaker 8 (01:49:45):
I don't know way, I'm glad you did. What do
you mean let him tell it?

Speaker 3 (01:49:48):
Joe?

Speaker 54 (01:49:48):
You wanted to find out which of us was guilty,
so you told me Gene accused me of murdering her father.
That's what brought me here to Jean's room, and that's
what started me seeing things.

Speaker 8 (01:49:57):
But what Geane?

Speaker 54 (01:49:58):
I knew I hadn't put that knife in, But I
also knew that if I was found with you, everybody'd.

Speaker 8 (01:50:02):
Be sure that I had.

Speaker 54 (01:50:04):
So so you ran out on her so I could
see that whoever used that knife and missed the mark,
I knew Gene was gonna be all right. So I
left to find the clue that would tell me who
did it. This that's the Knights that killed Angus Gordon.

Speaker 57 (01:50:15):
That's right, Joe, I took the liberty of getting it
out of your office.

Speaker 8 (01:50:18):
Take a good look at it, sheriff, See anything, seep?

Speaker 24 (01:50:21):
What are you getting at? That's father's dirt?

Speaker 8 (01:50:23):
Oh it isn't. Look at the head, Yeah, some kind
of scratches.

Speaker 24 (01:50:26):
But there's writing on it, engraving so small I can't
quite read it.

Speaker 8 (01:50:31):
That's right.

Speaker 57 (01:50:32):
And look at it through this enlarging glass.

Speaker 24 (01:50:35):
And fair the wheel, my only love, And fair the
wheel a while, and I will come again, my love.
Though it were ten thousand miles. Why that's Bobby Burns.

Speaker 8 (01:50:52):
A nice centimon, isn't it? What are you get in
that veil?

Speaker 54 (01:50:55):
When I left Jean here, I went back to the
dressing room where Angus died. All his personal stuff was
still there, so I went through it, and I found
a small box full of sentimental things about his marriage.

Speaker 8 (01:51:04):
You mean he's married down my peabody.

Speaker 54 (01:51:06):
How did you know? She came to my office and
told me? Oh she did, did she? Well, that's just fine.

Speaker 24 (01:51:11):
What about the box, Pete, Well.

Speaker 54 (01:51:13):
It was full of letters and a lot of other stuff,
all about Alma. Apparently your father was a sentimental man,
even before he adopted you.

Speaker 8 (01:51:18):
Tell him about the knife, Pete, right now.

Speaker 54 (01:51:21):
In this box there was a sales slip for a
handmade dirk with four lines of engraving and specifications that
have been made smaller than the normal size.

Speaker 8 (01:51:28):
All right, don't get it.

Speaker 54 (01:51:29):
There was also a letter to Angus from Alma which
she thanked him for the dirk he had given her
when he went away on his first tour of this country,
and she quoted the lines engraved on the dirk, those
lines from Burns.

Speaker 8 (01:51:40):
You mean it? This knife belongs Towmer. That's right, Joe.

Speaker 57 (01:51:43):
But how see, Pete came to me because he said
he needed a lawyer, and he was sure he could
clear himself if by a degree to help him. After
he went through that box of your father's, he was
sure the weapon found in your father's body was smaller
than the dagger your father used in his act.

Speaker 8 (01:51:57):
It proved he was right.

Speaker 54 (01:51:58):
The two daggers were identical in design, but this one
is smaller and has engraving.

Speaker 8 (01:52:02):
You mean that I'm supposed to arrest Alma Peabody because
of this arrest me?

Speaker 13 (01:52:07):
Shut up?

Speaker 21 (01:52:07):
Alma?

Speaker 8 (01:52:07):
Shut up?

Speaker 54 (01:52:08):
What will she be killing the next husband? For revenge?
Probably or jealousy because he's done so well. She probably
hated him. Ah well, Alma, looks like I got to
take you into the courthouse.

Speaker 43 (01:52:19):
What arrest me for murder?

Speaker 58 (01:52:21):
Why?

Speaker 43 (01:52:21):
Joe Briggs, I'll sue you for deflamation of character.

Speaker 8 (01:52:24):
I'll I got my duty, Alma, and it kind of
points toward you.

Speaker 59 (01:52:28):
Come on, who you will live to regret this?

Speaker 21 (01:52:40):
Joe?

Speaker 43 (01:52:40):
Briggs. I'd never been such a good ended in my.

Speaker 8 (01:52:42):
Life, and there's nothing much I can do about it, Alma,
Nothing that it interests you anyway?

Speaker 43 (01:52:47):
Interest me? What do you mean.

Speaker 54 (01:52:49):
Why there ain't really any evidence against you except what
I got.

Speaker 43 (01:52:52):
What do you mean, Joe Briggs?

Speaker 8 (01:52:54):
Oh, that's stuff about the Daggers that could be blown
higher in a kite. You see. I am the only
one who knows your real motive.

Speaker 43 (01:53:03):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 8 (01:53:05):
Anybody's been dead quite a spell, Alma. Money don't last forever?
What m the way? I figure you asked this Angus
Gordon for some money for the sake of old times?

Speaker 43 (01:53:16):
Well, how did you know?

Speaker 8 (01:53:17):
And I make it my business and no such things?
Sure you? And he turns you down, wouldn't give you
a penny.

Speaker 43 (01:53:24):
But Joe, you couldn't know that far.

Speaker 54 (01:53:26):
Oh I heard it myself, Alma. Gordon was a mite
worried about you. Yeah, figured you might be up to something, Joe,
That's not true.

Speaker 43 (01:53:34):
He was well as nice to me as he could
ever beat anyone.

Speaker 30 (01:53:37):
Eh.

Speaker 8 (01:53:38):
Sure would look good for you if I was to
testify about that meeting, wouldn't.

Speaker 43 (01:53:42):
It, Cause you couldn't. You couldn't do such a thing
to me.

Speaker 8 (01:53:45):
Well, I've got my duty, Alla. And then there's the law.

Speaker 24 (01:53:49):
What about the law.

Speaker 8 (01:53:50):
Well, a man can't testify against his own wife.

Speaker 43 (01:53:54):
What Joe Briggs, you must be out of your mind.

Speaker 8 (01:53:57):
Be quite a thing for Joe Briggs to be married
to alm A people, wouldn't it half? Folks?

Speaker 54 (01:54:01):
Buzzn't plenty and it had clinched. You're not getting caught too.

Speaker 43 (01:54:05):
But do you know why didn't murder?

Speaker 8 (01:54:07):
And this garden? Sure?

Speaker 57 (01:54:09):
Sure, but you think it over, Ella, we found something
very interesting among Alma peabody souvenirs.

Speaker 3 (01:54:28):
Joe.

Speaker 54 (01:54:28):
Eh, but now you look here, Lambert, You've got no
right to be snooping through her house.

Speaker 8 (01:54:32):
It ain't legal.

Speaker 24 (01:54:33):
Legal if I can convict Dad's murder, I don't care
how legal it is.

Speaker 54 (01:54:37):
Here's the weapon, Sheriff. She'd put it back on our
writing desk, her letter opener.

Speaker 8 (01:54:41):
And it's a little long for its holder.

Speaker 3 (01:54:42):
Joe.

Speaker 57 (01:54:43):
Apparently when she killed Angus Gordon, she left her dirk
in his body, and then she took this. But his
knife was long and didn't quite fit the letter open
her case.

Speaker 54 (01:54:52):
See yeah, about an inch difference in the length. But
she didn't have any motive. I bet these two planted
it there.

Speaker 57 (01:54:59):
I don't think so, Jim. We wired New York and
talked to his lawyers. We found out about Angus Gordon's will.

Speaker 8 (01:55:04):
Well, what about it?

Speaker 57 (01:55:05):
He left his money, Sharon Cheryl liked to his adopted
daughter and his former wife.

Speaker 54 (01:55:10):
You don't say, but he never let Alman know about it,
did he? And I still don't give her any more.

Speaker 27 (01:55:15):
Eve.

Speaker 54 (01:55:15):
You don't really think you can get away with it,
though you Briggs, Mmm, what are you talking about me?

Speaker 24 (01:55:20):
For Dad's will? Said he'd investigated and found his former
wife was in need of money. Well, Dad wouldn't have
paid for an investigation. He never paid for anything he
could get for nothing. He'd have written to the sheriff.
What you mean, don't worry, mister Bridges.

Speaker 43 (01:55:34):
We could check that.

Speaker 24 (01:55:35):
Dad never threw away a piece of correspondence. But I
know how he'd operate. And when you found he was
coming here, you saw a chance to capitalize on what
you knew.

Speaker 54 (01:55:42):
Well, now, wait a minute, wait a minute. I never
had a letter from him in my life, and I
didn't know a blame thing about any will.

Speaker 8 (01:55:48):
You figured some way to get part of that money Briggs.
What was it nothing?

Speaker 54 (01:55:53):
Look, if anybody was to benefit, it'd be Gil Lambert.
He's been lending all my money to live on for
close to three years. Why she must know him nearly
ten thousand dollars and he's a worried No, you don't
have put down that gun, Gilberge.

Speaker 8 (01:56:08):
Sorry, I can't applige your sheriff.

Speaker 57 (01:56:10):
You were wrong, Miss Gordon. Your father paid for his investigation.
I made a deal with a peabody after I'd corresponded
with the old man. I'd finance her till she got
the money and returned for half of.

Speaker 8 (01:56:22):
What she got.

Speaker 24 (01:56:24):
You killed it.

Speaker 57 (01:56:25):
You didn't even know it, Yes, and I'd have killed
you too with a little luck. I had a hurry
to get home before your boyfriend found I wasn't there.
I saw him pounding at the front door. I had
to snick around the back way. I pretended I'd been asleep.
How he ever, happened to come to see me.

Speaker 8 (01:56:40):
Down that gun. Gearbl Oh, thanks Sheriff.

Speaker 57 (01:56:43):
She still gets her share of the money, and someday
I'll get my part of it from her.

Speaker 8 (01:56:47):
Because you won't get me.

Speaker 43 (01:56:48):
No, I think I'd rather keep it all for myself,
mister Lamberck, what are you?

Speaker 8 (01:56:55):
Yeah? Nice work, you got him.

Speaker 43 (01:56:58):
I was never much good with the Dirk as a girl.

Speaker 50 (01:57:00):
I rather prided myself on my marksmanship. I knew he
was guilty, but I was scared to death when you
went from mister Vail.

Speaker 43 (01:57:06):
I was blind with fear.

Speaker 24 (01:57:08):
I don't blame you, miss, but how did you happen
to pick Lambert?

Speaker 54 (01:57:14):
I don't know, Jenny, just a well, a stab in
the dark.

Speaker 22 (01:59:01):
I didn't hear anything.

Speaker 14 (01:59:03):
Oh God, Maron, it's him.

Speaker 22 (01:59:06):
There is nothing there. David, understand.

Speaker 14 (01:59:08):
I just came up just before you came home. He's
right behind me.

Speaker 22 (01:59:12):
No, he doesn't exist. He is all in your mind.

Speaker 5 (01:59:15):
David is coming?

Speaker 14 (01:59:17):
Do you understand? He always knows where I am. Every
step I make emakes What do you want from me?

Speaker 43 (01:59:25):
Even?

Speaker 17 (01:59:26):
Calm down?

Speaker 8 (01:59:27):
No, he's away from me.

Speaker 14 (01:59:30):
Get away?

Speaker 8 (01:59:31):
Nightfall.

Speaker 60 (01:59:38):
Ah, good evening, my dear friends. I'm your host, Frederick
Hampt Are you alone?

Speaker 3 (01:59:48):
Are you sure well?

Speaker 60 (01:59:51):
Tonight? We survive a near catastrophe and walk away without
any pain, but care must be taken. Behind every silver
lining is a very dark cloud. This evening's offering is
called Footsteps, a story by Canadian playwright Larry Leclair. The
director is William Lane, and the actors are David McIlwraith,

(02:00:13):
Janet Lane, Greene, Les Carlson and Graham Bachelor. So sit
for a while, dear listener, take off your shoes and
join us for.

Speaker 14 (02:00:25):
Nightfall.

Speaker 5 (02:01:08):
Prettycleusy, That, my dear, is the understatement of the center, Doctor.

Speaker 22 (02:01:13):
Mon David, is just a contracts a contract.

Speaker 61 (02:01:17):
This is the contract now, the contract that will make
Kirsten Radner the biggest independent ad agency in the entire
So right, calm.

Speaker 22 (02:01:27):
Down, you can tell me all about it over.

Speaker 14 (02:01:30):
Yeah, all right, Well speak of the devil across the street.

Speaker 2 (02:01:36):
See hey Radner?

Speaker 43 (02:01:38):
Oh yeah, well what did you think of the whole thing?

Speaker 14 (02:01:41):
He doesn't know yet.

Speaker 21 (02:01:42):
God, I can't wait to tell him, Radner, just a
seconds the light, Radner, it was god, Redner.

Speaker 14 (02:01:52):
Waight up?

Speaker 5 (02:02:22):
Okay, now I look directly into the light. Look, hasn't
ha come fired. I'm just trying to see if your
pupils are dilated to be here. Everybody's a comedian. Okay,
good now the other eye. I feel fine, Brady, doctor
Brady to you, chum.

Speaker 62 (02:02:39):
Look it was a big truck. I got a hell
of a scare, and that's about it.

Speaker 5 (02:02:43):
No, what about the bruise on your forehead, But you
get that a pillow fight was huge, knuck it off.

Speaker 8 (02:02:50):
It didn't even give me a headache.

Speaker 5 (02:02:51):
So you're lucky. Some people have thick skulls.

Speaker 62 (02:02:54):
Look, I've got better things to do than sit around
this hospital all day listening to your wise cracks.

Speaker 20 (02:02:59):
I've got a.

Speaker 5 (02:03:00):
Business to run, not today, you don't. Would you rather
catch you here for further observation. I listen, David, You've
had a very close call. You were knocked unconscious. I fainted.

Speaker 62 (02:03:14):
I looked up and I saw that truck bearing down
at me, and I got such a scared I passed out.

Speaker 14 (02:03:18):
That's all.

Speaker 5 (02:03:19):
You were brought in here by ambulance.

Speaker 62 (02:03:21):
Look, don't blame me, because I got a hysterical wife,
christ When I came to, she and Radner were standing
in the middle of the street screaming at that poor
truck driver like it was the end of the world
or something.

Speaker 5 (02:03:31):
If that poor truck driver hadn't had perfect breaks, it would.

Speaker 14 (02:03:35):
Have been the end of the world.

Speaker 56 (02:03:36):
David.

Speaker 5 (02:03:36):
Now, you're lucky to be alive. And if there's one
thing I know about luck, it's not to press it. Okay,
you're in the dark, and that's exactly what I keep
telling my wife. She thinks it's just an excuse to
get women to take their clothes off. Okay, now, Marilyn's
waiting outside. Let her drive you home, and when you

(02:03:57):
get there, I want you to relax, take it easy,
and get a good night's sleep. Do you think you
can handle that?

Speaker 14 (02:04:05):
Yeah? I guess so.

Speaker 5 (02:04:06):
Okay, don't look so blad. Okay, believe me. Taking the
rest of the day off is not the worst thing
in the world. David like me, can't your blessings? For
God's said this was your lucky day?

Speaker 14 (02:04:38):
Oh sir?

Speaker 5 (02:04:40):
It sounded like a door downstairs. Must be the wind
or something.

Speaker 14 (02:04:49):
God, it's the nose. Somebody knows it can't be doors
are locked, does it not? How can take it in?

Speaker 5 (02:05:04):
Couldn't have broken?

Speaker 27 (02:05:04):
And I heard that.

Speaker 14 (02:05:08):
They're coming upstairs?

Speaker 8 (02:05:11):
Oh God, what do they want?

Speaker 14 (02:05:13):
If they wanted to steal something?

Speaker 27 (02:05:15):
They start downstairs, not upstairs.

Speaker 29 (02:05:18):
Mhm, Christ, what am I gonna do?

Speaker 14 (02:05:22):
You're coming here? Oh Christ? Marylyn?

Speaker 21 (02:05:28):
Wake up?

Speaker 14 (02:05:30):
Marylyn? Can't you hear it?

Speaker 56 (02:05:34):
Wake up?

Speaker 11 (02:05:35):
What sweetheart?

Speaker 30 (02:05:37):
What is it?

Speaker 5 (02:05:37):
They're coming Maryland, they're coming.

Speaker 8 (02:05:40):
What what's wrong?

Speaker 14 (02:05:41):
God? Here, it's done it.

Speaker 22 (02:05:47):
Here here, Look the light's on. See there's gonna here.

Speaker 13 (02:05:55):
David.

Speaker 22 (02:05:57):
Everything's just the same as always. I didn't understand you're
just having a nightmare.

Speaker 14 (02:06:03):
No, sure, it's just all the excitement.

Speaker 22 (02:06:08):
Come on, David. How many times does a guy get
a promotion and get hit by a truck ball in
one day?

Speaker 10 (02:06:14):
No, David, just calm down right.

Speaker 14 (02:06:21):
I know what I heard, Maryland.

Speaker 8 (02:06:23):
He was right here in this room.

Speaker 14 (02:06:25):
He was here.

Speaker 22 (02:06:27):
Then why didn't I hear anything. I was always a
lighter sleeper than you.

Speaker 14 (02:06:32):
This door must have been opened.

Speaker 22 (02:06:35):
Well, you can't tell me I wouldn't have heard that.
That door's loud enough to wake the dead.

Speaker 5 (02:06:41):
It must have opened. I mean, how else could he
get in?

Speaker 22 (02:06:46):
Who look at, David. There is no way on earth
I wouldn't have heard that door open.

Speaker 10 (02:06:53):
I mean, maybe if you.

Speaker 22 (02:06:54):
Had fixed it, it wouldn't have given me a nightmares.

Speaker 5 (02:06:56):
I wasn't dreaming. I was wide awake. I mean, you
don't know what it was like, Marylyn.

Speaker 14 (02:07:01):
I couldn't think. I was completely petrified.

Speaker 5 (02:07:05):
I've never been so scared in my life.

Speaker 22 (02:07:07):
It just had to be a dream. David, there's no
one here, no one wrong.

Speaker 62 (02:07:13):
What when I said I've never been so scared in
my life, I was wrong. I have been that scared
before this afternoon. That's what it felt like.

Speaker 5 (02:07:24):
It was the same feeling I had the instant I
looked up and saw that truck.

Speaker 22 (02:07:28):
David, Look, why don't you just come back to bed. Okay,
it's gone now, whatever it was, I mean, you've got
to get some sleep. You know what doctor Brady said.

Speaker 14 (02:07:40):
Come on, you look exhausted please.

Speaker 22 (02:07:44):
Yeah, Okay, there, that's it.

Speaker 10 (02:07:51):
You just try to relax.

Speaker 22 (02:07:52):
Okay, don't worry. By tomorrow you'll be able to laugh
about the whole thing.

Speaker 5 (02:07:59):
You wouldn't say that if you'd heard them heard what, David,
footsteps upstairs, down the hall, right into the room.

Speaker 14 (02:08:08):
Just footsteps.

Speaker 22 (02:08:11):
That's funny.

Speaker 14 (02:08:12):
Fine, Well.

Speaker 22 (02:08:15):
You were screaming he's here. Ever since I woke up,
you've been talking about him being in the room. Well,
if he didn't see anything, how do.

Speaker 5 (02:08:24):
You know it was a Hemmm?

Speaker 14 (02:08:27):
I guess I don't know.

Speaker 8 (02:08:28):
I'm doing No, you don't.

Speaker 14 (02:08:32):
Then, Oh, how can I be so certain?

Speaker 8 (02:09:00):
Now? Where does she put that file?

Speaker 3 (02:09:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (02:09:06):
Okay, I'll be right with you, David Thurston?

Speaker 8 (02:09:11):
Yeah, now, what can I do?

Speaker 14 (02:09:15):
Holy Mother of God, Bradner? The hell's going on around here?
Somebody's got a sick sense of humor?

Speaker 30 (02:09:26):
What's going on?

Speaker 3 (02:09:26):
That's what I'd like to know.

Speaker 14 (02:09:28):
I don't know what did anyone come by here?

Speaker 44 (02:09:30):
Just now?

Speaker 14 (02:09:31):
Why? I would have just answered the question.

Speaker 3 (02:09:33):
Okay, okay, no, nobody would sure?

Speaker 14 (02:09:36):
Yeah, sure, I'm sure.

Speaker 3 (02:09:37):
What about Marylyn?

Speaker 14 (02:09:38):
Is anyone talking to her this morning?

Speaker 3 (02:09:40):
Well?

Speaker 11 (02:09:40):
No, not that I'm aware of it.

Speaker 14 (02:09:42):
God, Dad, what happened?

Speaker 2 (02:09:44):
You're white as a sheet?

Speaker 14 (02:09:48):
I uh.

Speaker 62 (02:09:50):
I was in the office right filing and someone came in,
so I turned around to see who it was.

Speaker 14 (02:10:01):
Well, there was nobody there.

Speaker 2 (02:10:03):
Well how did you know?

Speaker 8 (02:10:05):
Somebody came in?

Speaker 14 (02:10:07):
Footsteps?

Speaker 3 (02:10:09):
Jeezus, Dave, you gotta relax.

Speaker 63 (02:10:12):
I mean, I've heard tell of guys letting their work
go to their head, but this is ridiculous, not funny.

Speaker 14 (02:10:18):
Hey, look, I'm sorry. I was only trying to sure the.

Speaker 62 (02:10:21):
Door was closed, so it was open when I turned around,
and for God's sake, did Tom down?

Speaker 14 (02:10:26):
He knew my name radn or he knew my name?

Speaker 63 (02:10:29):
Oh God, jeez, Dave, maybe you better go lie down
or something.

Speaker 5 (02:10:34):
Huh, I don't know.

Speaker 63 (02:10:37):
Listen, how about I drive you home? Okay, you can
take the rest of the day off, get a break
from this place.

Speaker 14 (02:10:44):
Okay, yeah, yeah, sure.

Speaker 8 (02:10:50):
You know what it is.

Speaker 14 (02:10:52):
It's that thing with the truck yesterday.

Speaker 63 (02:10:53):
I mean, when I looked up over and saw you
running across the street with that truck about the blind
sign you, I was sure you'd be killed. I mean,
nobody could come back close to cashing in their chips
without having some effect on him.

Speaker 8 (02:11:04):
No one.

Speaker 32 (02:11:19):
Say that, Carolyn.

Speaker 14 (02:11:21):
Yeah, take off your shoes, don't argue, just do it.

Speaker 2 (02:11:28):
Okay, they row up?

Speaker 13 (02:11:34):
Can I come on quietly?

Speaker 14 (02:11:39):
That's it, real soft.

Speaker 5 (02:11:44):
I can't hear a thing. She's walking up the same
god damn stairs he did, and I can't hear a thing.

Speaker 22 (02:11:52):
Are you all right, honey?

Speaker 14 (02:11:53):
I uh?

Speaker 24 (02:11:55):
Did you call me?

Speaker 14 (02:11:57):
Well?

Speaker 8 (02:11:57):
I wanted to be alone for a while.

Speaker 22 (02:11:59):
You should have called you know, I'd come straight home.

Speaker 4 (02:12:02):
Ah.

Speaker 14 (02:12:03):
Who called Radner?

Speaker 29 (02:12:04):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (02:12:06):
He started asking all kinds of questions. How serious is it?
How long has he been like this?

Speaker 22 (02:12:11):
I had to ask him what the hell he was
talking about.

Speaker 5 (02:12:14):
Probably been waiting for something like this to happen.

Speaker 14 (02:12:16):
I crack up. He takes over.

Speaker 22 (02:12:18):
What is it, David r footsteps?

Speaker 62 (02:12:23):
I know there has to be a rational explanation for this, Maryland,
I know it. If I could just figure it out,
just understand what it is. I know I am not crazy, Marylyn,
I know I'm not.

Speaker 22 (02:12:36):
Of course, you're not crazy, David.

Speaker 10 (02:12:39):
But you have to try to calm down.

Speaker 22 (02:12:42):
You're sitting there with white knuckles, like you're holding on
for dear life. You're in a cold sweat. You're white
as a sheet. So everybody said, David. They said it
because it's true. You look frightened half to death.

Speaker 5 (02:12:56):
If you could just hear him, Maryland, the way he
comes out of know, the way he comes for me,
never away from me.

Speaker 14 (02:13:04):
It's like he wants something from me. I could just
figure out what.

Speaker 22 (02:13:08):
It is he wants, Sweetheart, is the accident? It's gotta be.
I knew you shouldn't have gone to work this morning.
You're having some sort of delayed reactions. Something's to do
as you're hearing, maybe delayed reaction exactly. I'm sure it's
not uncommon.

Speaker 31 (02:13:26):
David.

Speaker 14 (02:13:27):
I move, he moves.

Speaker 8 (02:13:29):
Pardon.

Speaker 5 (02:13:31):
I don't just hear any footsteps in there? When I
hear one set of footsteps. Don't you see he.

Speaker 14 (02:13:37):
Knows where I am?

Speaker 62 (02:13:39):
Like he's tracking me. Every time I move, he moves
delayed reaction. See, only every time he moves, he gets
closer and closer. And why, oh, dear God in heaven, Marilynd,
why is this happening to me?

Speaker 22 (02:13:57):
Please, Honey, you can't keep torturing yourself like this.

Speaker 14 (02:14:01):
What was that?

Speaker 8 (02:14:02):
What?

Speaker 22 (02:14:04):
I didn't hear anything?

Speaker 14 (02:14:07):
Oh God, Marylyn, it's him.

Speaker 22 (02:14:09):
There is nothing there, David, understand.

Speaker 5 (02:14:11):
I just came up just before you came home, and
he's right behind me.

Speaker 8 (02:14:15):
No, he doesn't exist.

Speaker 22 (02:14:17):
He is all in your mind.

Speaker 14 (02:14:19):
David, he's coming. Do you understand he always knows where
I am. Every step I make, he makes.

Speaker 5 (02:14:26):
What do you want from me?

Speaker 24 (02:14:28):
Please?

Speaker 22 (02:14:28):
David, calm down.

Speaker 17 (02:14:30):
No, get away from me, Get away, David, Please, it's
all right.

Speaker 4 (02:14:36):
No, I know, Marilyn.

Speaker 14 (02:14:41):
I know what he wants.

Speaker 5 (02:14:45):
He's he's trying to frighten me, Marylyn. He's trying to
scare me to death. Okay, David, that's it. Well, look,

(02:15:19):
I'm not advising this just as your doctor.

Speaker 8 (02:15:21):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (02:15:22):
In this case, I think I can speak to someone
who truly has your best interests at heart. Believe me, David,
if I thought there was any other way.

Speaker 14 (02:15:29):
Oh, I am not insane.

Speaker 4 (02:15:31):
I agree with you.

Speaker 14 (02:15:33):
Then why do you want to put me away?

Speaker 5 (02:15:35):
I don't want to put you away, David. I want
to find out what the hell is wrong with you,
treat it, and send you back out into your life
now unless I admit you to a hospital where you
can be treated with all the means at my disposal.

Speaker 62 (02:15:46):
Or no, uh huh, I know what that means. You
want to lock me up in a padded cell and
throw away to keep.

Speaker 4 (02:15:53):
Why Why would I want.

Speaker 14 (02:15:55):
To do that? Because you don't know?

Speaker 5 (02:15:56):
Oh, because you've given me every test you can think of,
so many people look into my ears. I feel like
Dumbo the elephant, David, and you still don't know what
the hell's.

Speaker 58 (02:16:06):
Wrong with me.

Speaker 5 (02:16:06):
So rather than admit you don't know, you want to
lock me up and write the whole thing off as
a complete mental collapse. Right, No, believe me, That's the
last thing I want to do. But I simply cannot
keep giving you valuume and nol you'd are and prescribing
bed rest when I see it's not doing any good.

Speaker 14 (02:16:21):
Do you understand me, David?

Speaker 5 (02:16:22):
If I don't act now. If I don't hospitalize you, then,
in my opinion, your condition will continue to deteriorate until
you do have a complete mental collapse.

Speaker 4 (02:16:33):
David, I simply don't have enough to go on.

Speaker 5 (02:16:36):
All I've been able to determine is that you're a
young man, in good health, happily married, a successful job,
by all appearance, perfectly normal in social development. One day
you had a rather bad scare and a traffic mishappen,
and whether that was the cause or not, you began
to suffer from a rather rare and extremely severe form
of sensory delusion. Now there is simply no reason why
you should suddenly start to hear footsteps David. Well, no

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physical reason then, as far as I can determine, no
mental reasons, right, And that must tell you something, doesn't it.
They're not delusions, they're real.

Speaker 14 (02:17:10):
I know they're real.

Speaker 5 (02:17:11):
Well, then you must be able to understand why you
have to be admitted to a hospital where we can
keep you under constant surveillance, where you can begin further testing,
systematic analysis, where you can be made to feel safe.

Speaker 2 (02:17:24):
Safe.

Speaker 62 (02:17:26):
I think it matters to the end why you've put me.
You'll find me doctor Glady. It doesn't matter if it
took me and buried me under the north pole. They
still find me.

Speaker 14 (02:17:35):
They always do. They're going to keep on finding.

Speaker 5 (02:17:39):
Me until they scare me to death.

Speaker 14 (02:17:42):
What the footsteps want.

Speaker 5 (02:17:44):
To follow me right into the grave. Uh, listen, David,
I'll tell you what. Let's give it one more day, okay.
If nothing develops, well, one day more or less shouldn't
make a critical difference. By he wanted to do nothing.
You go home and you try to relax, and we'll

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see what we can do. Okay, Well, sure, what do
you mean? I don't understand. But let me put it
this way. In the normal practice of psychiatry, it's always
best to have the treatment fit the condition and well.
In this case, David, the condition seems completely abnormal.

Speaker 14 (02:18:28):
In fact, it seems absolutely bizarre. It's happened again.

Speaker 22 (02:18:42):
I'm so glad you could come. Doctor Brady's in there
with her, now, is he all right?

Speaker 10 (02:18:47):
It can't go on. He can't go on, not like this.

Speaker 22 (02:18:51):
Something has to give up. I mean, he's coming apart.

Speaker 14 (02:18:54):
Can't help Merlin.

Speaker 3 (02:18:55):
Don't worry.

Speaker 22 (02:18:56):
Don't worry. My husband's either losing his mind or being
attacked by some sort of thing and you say, don't worry.

Speaker 5 (02:19:03):
Well, oh, doctor, I gave him a sedative, pretty strong
one too, so don't expect him to stay awake for long.

Speaker 11 (02:19:13):
H Radner's the name, doctor Brady.

Speaker 14 (02:19:16):
I'm a friend of David's.

Speaker 22 (02:19:17):
Oh I'm sorry, doctor Brady. This is stick Radner pleas
to meet you. Well, I better get in there and
see if there's anything he needs.

Speaker 5 (02:19:26):
I don't want some coffee enough? Thanks, keeps me awake,
isn't that the point?

Speaker 4 (02:19:31):
The point?

Speaker 14 (02:19:31):
Well, I mean, shouldn't somebody stay awake?

Speaker 30 (02:19:34):
Why?

Speaker 14 (02:19:34):
Well, in case Marilyn needs any help.

Speaker 5 (02:19:38):
Radner, I just put enough knowlidar into that man to
drop a horse.

Speaker 4 (02:19:43):
She won't need any help.

Speaker 3 (02:19:44):
Well, not to night anyway.

Speaker 14 (02:19:45):
He sure this thing's got juice poop too.

Speaker 64 (02:19:48):
Has it?

Speaker 14 (02:19:48):
Sure it has? I mean, I'm not ashamed to admit
it or anything. I've known Dave Thurston half my life.

Speaker 3 (02:19:53):
He's solid as a rock.

Speaker 10 (02:19:55):
I mean, he's the last person in the world I'd
expect to go head first off at deep end.

Speaker 4 (02:19:59):
I checked him over all.

Speaker 5 (02:20:00):
His vital signs are perfectly normal.

Speaker 14 (02:20:02):
Well, they must be the only thing around here that are. Doctor.
What in hell is going on with him.

Speaker 25 (02:20:07):
Brother, read what.

Speaker 22 (02:20:12):
I check the bedroom, the badroom.

Speaker 25 (02:20:14):
He's just gone.

Speaker 10 (02:20:16):
He must have gone through the bedroom window.

Speaker 56 (02:20:18):
Let's go, doctor, was it here?

Speaker 5 (02:20:33):
Hell, I should be able to remember Marilyn and I
were coming from that direction, and rad it was.

Speaker 29 (02:20:42):
Yes, Yes, this is it.

Speaker 8 (02:20:48):
Oh wait, okay.

Speaker 65 (02:20:57):
If he's not there, then we phone the police, agreed.

Speaker 66 (02:20:59):
How to know?

Speaker 8 (02:21:00):
We don't know, Marilyn.

Speaker 14 (02:21:01):
Neither does he.

Speaker 8 (02:21:03):
But if my guess is.

Speaker 63 (02:21:04):
Right, he left the house tonight for one reason, to
find whatever it is in the face of I've.

Speaker 11 (02:21:10):
Known Dave a long time.

Speaker 14 (02:21:11):
I know what he's like.

Speaker 26 (02:21:12):
He wants to find this thing.

Speaker 14 (02:21:14):
There's only one place he can start. Okay, just hurry.

Speaker 22 (02:21:20):
I'm more attacked like this this afternoon.

Speaker 15 (02:21:25):
He feels so alone.

Speaker 14 (02:21:28):
Don't worry, Marylyn, We'll find him.

Speaker 17 (02:21:30):
Right Doctor.

Speaker 5 (02:21:32):
I'm not here as a doctor, Radna, I'm here as
a friend. They don't know him like I do. They
don't even believe he exists.

Speaker 14 (02:21:50):
But he'd find me.

Speaker 5 (02:21:52):
He'd always find me. Why doesn't he come? I know
he wanted me to come here. I could feel it,
just like I felt I'm trying to choke me with fear.

Speaker 14 (02:22:06):
There all right? He wanted me here.

Speaker 8 (02:22:12):
You got me here.

Speaker 14 (02:22:14):
No doctor's, no senator could stop me. I can't understand, not.

Speaker 5 (02:22:20):
Because you wanted, because I wanted. You think I can't
take it, but you can't frighten me.

Speaker 8 (02:22:28):
You understand you can't have me.

Speaker 5 (02:22:32):
I'm saying, you understand that I am not crazy and
I'm not afraid. You can't win.

Speaker 14 (02:22:42):
I will not die.

Speaker 5 (02:22:49):
No, there, God, I've done it.

Speaker 14 (02:23:04):
Nothing.

Speaker 5 (02:23:06):
Oh God, I don't hear him.

Speaker 14 (02:23:12):
He's gone said that. Oh you.

Speaker 3 (02:23:27):
You're here?

Speaker 19 (02:23:29):
Who are you?

Speaker 14 (02:23:38):
I didn't die, I lived and should see that. Oh God,
that's it. You're trying to.

Speaker 5 (02:23:47):
Duplicate that feeling, that moment.

Speaker 26 (02:23:50):
Why why are you doing this to me?

Speaker 8 (02:23:57):

Speaker 14 (02:24:00):
M y?

Speaker 8 (02:24:12):
Who are you?

Speaker 39 (02:24:14):
Answer me?

Speaker 21 (02:24:16):
What's your name?

Speaker 8 (02:24:21):
David? Thirst?

Speaker 13 (02:24:24):
No?

Speaker 37 (02:24:26):
No, get away from me?

Speaker 14 (02:24:28):
Away? Oh no.

Speaker 13 (02:24:37):
An ambulance.

Speaker 41 (02:24:40):
Stops, an ambulance.

Speaker 13 (02:24:47):
Breathe, David, breathe, God, damn.

Speaker 5 (02:24:51):
It, David, you're nothing health No, for the love of God,
man breathe.

Speaker 14 (02:24:59):
Foot steps. Don't kill people.

Speaker 23 (02:25:02):
David, do something.

Speaker 3 (02:25:09):
I mean, I don't know what to do.

Speaker 4 (02:25:13):
He's not hot.

Speaker 14 (02:25:14):
There's nothing wrong with him.

Speaker 23 (02:25:17):
It's like something just reached in and stopped his hot Okay,
there's a hospital a couple of blocks away.

Speaker 8 (02:25:22):
They'll be right here.

Speaker 14 (02:25:27):
He's dead rather up?

Speaker 4 (02:25:28):
What No, he can't, but he's Dave.

Speaker 14 (02:25:33):
I've never seen anything like it. He was a young
guy in perfect health.

Speaker 5 (02:25:39):
There's no reason why they must have caught up to him.

Speaker 14 (02:25:42):
What steps don't kill people?

Speaker 5 (02:25:47):
You came back here to the scene of the accident.

Speaker 8 (02:25:50):
What are you getting it?

Speaker 23 (02:25:52):
You know.

Speaker 6 (02:25:55):
You know Brady in a way he.

Speaker 4 (02:25:57):
Was already dead. What do you mean, Oh, I don't
expect you to believe it.

Speaker 14 (02:26:03):
It doesn't matter. I believe it.

Speaker 62 (02:26:06):
I believe he was hit by a truck last week
as part of him died right here.

Speaker 14 (02:26:10):
On the street. What happened tonight?

Speaker 30 (02:26:14):
I want to believe it had to happen.

Speaker 8 (02:26:17):
I mean, how else.

Speaker 14 (02:26:18):
Bring your honest to peace?

Speaker 60 (02:26:55):
Sometimes, my friends, it's not always in your best interest
to get yourself together. Here's who was involved in tonight's play.
Footsteps was written by Larry Leclair.

Speaker 65 (02:27:08):
It starred David mcilraith as David Thurston and featured Janet
Lane Greene as Marilyn, Les Carlson as Radner, and Graham
Batchelor as doctor Brady. The sound engineer was Derek Stubbs,
with sound effects by Bill Robinson. Production assistant Peggy Esty.

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Footsteps was produced and directed in Toronto by William Lane.
Executive producer for the series is Don Kowalchuk.

Speaker 60 (02:27:42):
Next Time we Meet, we try to get a handle
on our past in Lifeline by Edmonton writer Frank Moore.
Until then this is Frederick Hampt from Nightfall.

Speaker 8 (02:28:25):
Obsession.

Speaker 55 (02:28:31):
It is a strange paradox that oftentimes man becomes lost
in a wilderness within the surge of teeming humanity. To
be alone in a crowd is the greatest sorrow ever
devised in heaven or hell. To be lost in a
jungle or upon the great tundras is understandable and excusable,

(02:28:58):
and there is always polaris to lead wander the true North.

Speaker 27 (02:29:03):
But to be wandering in a people's maze.

Speaker 55 (02:29:08):
With a lonely mind is to be hopelessly enmeshed within
a web designed by the spider, which lays in wait
for Barry Sullivan. In our story, Faith is the evidence
a deadly spider known as Obsession. On the outskirts of

(02:30:39):
a small Midwestern town, a train approached the railroad yard, fast,
coming in with stack steaming it wasn't a sleek, fast
moving passenger train, and the station master had no idea
that there might be any passengers getting off. As a

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man her effect, two men who did get off this
train were not exactly traveling first class.

Speaker 67 (02:31:10):
They were coming in, John, Well, I said, we're coming in.
You better get set to make cracks before the yard
that gets curious for the flashlight. Yeah, when we shake
the dust off this Rather, we'd better split out until
tomorrow night, then we can meet down here and trying
to hop east Brown.

Speaker 37 (02:31:22):
Yeah, it wouldn't do for a couple of tramps to
be seen together with one guy out of a job
and busted it enough. The two of them is just
one too many for the citizens the stomach. Yeah, okay, Molly,
i'll see tomorrow night. I'll take off here.

Speaker 27 (02:31:38):
Door's heavy.

Speaker 30 (02:31:39):
Well, I'll wait for you at the.

Speaker 27 (02:31:40):
Water tower, John, but don't be late.

Speaker 37 (02:31:41):
Okay, so long, Mylene, good luck on the handouts, saying
back at you, so long, So long.

Speaker 2 (02:31:49):
Okay, buddy.

Speaker 27 (02:31:50):
Oh oh wait a minute, where do you think you're going,
mister me?

Speaker 37 (02:31:55):
I uh, I don't know, But if I was to
make a guess right now, I'd kind of say I'm
probably heading for the city of Bastille. Ah, where are
you from, buddy, I don't know. I don't think I'm
from any place.

Speaker 27 (02:32:06):
What do you mean?

Speaker 37 (02:32:07):
I mean, I am from a lot of places. I'm
just a guy that's broke out of a job and
trying to get along. That's all look or sound like
a hobo, mister. No, no, no, you're too young to
be tramping the roads. You don't talk like you did either.
Sure I went to school once, if that's what you mean.
They even gave me an engraved sheepskin when I got
through one that proclaims in loud letters that I'm a
bachelor of vats.

Speaker 4 (02:32:27):
Are you trying to be smart with me?

Speaker 14 (02:32:28):
Son?

Speaker 27 (02:32:29):
Smart?

Speaker 8 (02:32:29):
No?

Speaker 56 (02:32:30):
No, not me.

Speaker 37 (02:32:31):
I couldn't be smart if I want or to. Mister,
ask me a question and I answered it, And now
we'd better get going. Don't you think you you don't
like being locked up to your son?

Speaker 27 (02:32:42):
No, no, I don't.

Speaker 8 (02:32:44):
I didn't think so.

Speaker 68 (02:32:46):
So maybe I didn't see you jump off that train.
Oh yeah, maybe I was somewhere else.

Speaker 8 (02:32:52):
That's the catch. No catch, son, except maybe it's Sunday morning.

Speaker 68 (02:32:56):
Maybe it's going to be a nice day, and maybe
you'd rather walk around on the sunshine and sit.

Speaker 27 (02:33:01):
On a jail cut maybe, yeah, maybe I would.

Speaker 68 (02:33:05):
You better be out of town before tomorrow night, or
I might have to run you in after all. You
tidd along before somebody else sees you. Okay, and thanks,
you'll pretty yeah wait a minute, Yeah you.

Speaker 8 (02:33:17):
Probably get breakfast up at the parsonage parsonally, Yeah, yeah,
you'll find it at Magnolian third. Doctor Homestead's the minister's name,
and I don't think he'll turn you down. Thanks, thanks again, mister,
or I won't forget this.

Speaker 37 (02:33:44):
Yes, oh, I yes, I didn't expect I mean well,
I wanted to see doctor Holsteed.

Speaker 69 (02:33:51):
You mean doctor Holmestead, don't you.

Speaker 13 (02:33:53):
Oh?

Speaker 27 (02:33:53):
Yes, of course I guess I do.

Speaker 70 (02:33:55):
Well, he's just having breakfast. Breakfast, but if it's important,
I can call it.

Speaker 27 (02:33:59):
Oh no, no, it's not important.

Speaker 3 (02:34:00):
Isle.

Speaker 27 (02:34:01):
I'll come back again.

Speaker 8 (02:34:01):
And who is it, Catherine?

Speaker 23 (02:34:03):
Oh?

Speaker 69 (02:34:03):
Father, it's a gentleman to see you, to see me.

Speaker 8 (02:34:05):
Oh, how do you do sir?

Speaker 27 (02:34:06):
Good morning?

Speaker 55 (02:34:07):
Won't you come in?

Speaker 44 (02:34:08):
Well?

Speaker 27 (02:34:08):
I please do? Thank you, Alvin?

Speaker 40 (02:34:13):
What can I do for you?

Speaker 27 (02:34:14):
Well?

Speaker 37 (02:34:15):
I I didn't mean to disturb your doctor, but I
was told I mean, well, I was told that maybe
I could get breakfast here.

Speaker 27 (02:34:24):
Oh breakfast.

Speaker 37 (02:34:25):
I haven't got any money to pay you for it,
But if you've got a couple of odd jobs around here,
I could do well.

Speaker 55 (02:34:29):
Of course, my boy. Hey, Catherine, set another place at
the table, will you.

Speaker 69 (02:34:32):
I will, father, and if.

Speaker 55 (02:34:33):
You'd like to follow me, i'll show you where you
can wash up a little.

Speaker 37 (02:34:35):
No, but I don't want to put you to any trouble.
I mean, just a sandwich or something. I can eat
it outside.

Speaker 55 (02:34:41):
I think it's always much nicer to sit down to
a table, don't you If you've just come this way, son,
I wonder if you'll forget my rudeness, young man. But
I have my sermon to finish, and I must get
to it. If you just remain comfortable and finish your breakfast,

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my daughter here will keep you company.

Speaker 27 (02:35:05):
Oh well, I think i'd better be.

Speaker 69 (02:35:07):
Going and leave all those lovely hotcakes.

Speaker 27 (02:35:09):
Oh well, I could take them with me.

Speaker 55 (02:35:11):
You stay right where you are, my boy, and I'll
see you later.

Speaker 27 (02:35:14):
Goodbye, doctor.

Speaker 69 (02:35:17):
Well some more syrup?

Speaker 27 (02:35:20):
Oh please? Yes, thank you.

Speaker 69 (02:35:23):
Tell me, mister Carvo, what do you do I mean
when you're working?

Speaker 3 (02:35:27):
Oh?

Speaker 27 (02:35:27):
I started out to be a writer.

Speaker 69 (02:35:29):
A writer, What sort of things did you write?

Speaker 27 (02:35:32):
A lot of tripe, Pollyanna stuff.

Speaker 37 (02:35:35):
I used to believe it too, What do you mean, Oh,
stuff like good fellowship, silver lining, it's always darkest just
before dawn.

Speaker 27 (02:35:43):
It's a long roll that has no turning.

Speaker 69 (02:35:45):
Well, what do you mean you used to believe it?

Speaker 8 (02:35:48):
Don't you now?

Speaker 27 (02:35:49):
Nope? Why because it's not true?

Speaker 69 (02:35:53):
I think it is, so does my father.

Speaker 37 (02:35:55):
Oh sure, being a minister or man's got to believe it,
so's he can preach it. And I guess people want
to hear it preach too, But that doesn't make it true.

Speaker 50 (02:36:03):
Why not?

Speaker 37 (02:36:04):
Well, there's a lot of things people want to hear
about how perfect everything is, that God is love, that
there's beautiful sunshine everywhere.

Speaker 27 (02:36:11):
Well, well, they don't believe that stuff. How can they?

Speaker 37 (02:36:15):
Maybe they used to think it was a long roll
that doesn't turn, but they get kind of hungry and
tired waiting for it too, and the silver lining hasn't
shown up yet. They don't want to hear about God's
love and faith and hope and all the rest. They
want to hear how they can do something for themselves,
and it'd be suckers for the first guy that came
along too. They'd believe anything that might help them maybe,
But you say the word.

Speaker 69 (02:36:36):
Of God wouldn't help them.

Speaker 36 (02:36:38):
Isn't that what you mean?

Speaker 14 (02:36:39):
Mister Carple?

Speaker 37 (02:36:40):
Oh look, miss Homestead, there are two subjects that I
don't argue about, politics and religion.

Speaker 8 (02:36:46):
I believe what I believe. You believe what you believe,
all right.

Speaker 37 (02:36:51):
You prefer Well, it sort of looks like I've done
a pretty good job on my breakfast, doesn't it. And
now maybe you could figure out a few little chores
I could do to pay I can't.

Speaker 69 (02:37:01):
Think of any chores, but I'll tell you what.

Speaker 27 (02:37:05):
You can do if you want anything at all.

Speaker 70 (02:37:08):
Go to church with me this morning. Church, listen to
my father's sermon. Nobody will try to convert you. And
I think that's the least you could do to thank
my father, to listen to what he has to say.
He's rather a good.

Speaker 69 (02:37:21):
Speaker, will you.

Speaker 27 (02:37:24):
Well, that's what you want me to do, I guess
I can stand it.

Speaker 69 (02:37:29):
Thanks to And after church you can come back and
have lunch with him.

Speaker 55 (02:37:49):
And in conclusion, may I leave you with these few
thoughts that carry with him so much hope and faith
and promise of the eternal future. They are, indeed be
attitudes of strength. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst
after righteousness, or they shall be filled. Blessed are they
who mourn, or they shall be comforted. And blessed are

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they who are meek, or they shall inherit the earth.
And in these words of everlasting truth and promise, seek
ye the comfort of life and of life beyond.

Speaker 14 (02:38:21):
Ah me.

Speaker 70 (02:38:35):
You please it here, mister carvill. I'll have lunch on
in a moment. Of course, it won't be very thankful.

Speaker 54 (02:38:39):
Look, I'm afraid I'm overdoing it just a little bit,
don't you think. I mean, after all, breakfast and well.

Speaker 55 (02:38:44):
I think nothing of it, my boy, we enjoy having
a guest. We don't have very many, you know, so
we're really taking advantage of you.

Speaker 14 (02:38:51):
Not you of us.

Speaker 55 (02:38:52):
Well that's very kind of you, sir. How did you
like my sermon this morning, mister carvill Y sermon?

Speaker 10 (02:38:58):
I don't think mister Carle like it very well?

Speaker 36 (02:39:01):
Father?

Speaker 3 (02:39:01):
Oh why not?

Speaker 27 (02:39:03):
Well, now I didn't say that.

Speaker 70 (02:39:04):
Mister carvill believes that sermon should be more practical, that
faith and hope are too flimsy to help me. Well,
isn't that what you said, Carver?

Speaker 37 (02:39:12):
Well, yes, maybe it is, why, my boy, Well, I
guess your sermon was all right this morning, doctor Homestead.
Things that people want to hear, I mean people that
only come to church to sell their conscience, the ones
that don't need any help to begin with, don't they,
mister Carvill, Well, maybe spiritual help, I guess.

Speaker 27 (02:39:30):
But I'm talking about the kind of sermon that would
really help people.

Speaker 8 (02:39:33):
Why.

Speaker 37 (02:39:33):
I'll bet I could preach a sermon that wouldn't even
leave standing room. I'd tell them a few things, a
few things that might help right now, so they wouldn't
have to wait until they went into the next world.
Things that might begin to fill up that emptiness that
people feel when they're down and out, when they discouraged
and everything's a mess. Yeah, that's what I do if
I are a minister.

Speaker 8 (02:39:51):
That sounds very interesting, my boy. If you could do it,
of course I could do it. I think I know
what people want, I mean, really want.

Speaker 55 (02:39:59):
We're having a meeting at the church Tuesday night. Supposing
you preach the sermon, mister Carvill priestless.

Speaker 27 (02:40:05):
Oh no, no, I couldn't do that.

Speaker 14 (02:40:07):
No.

Speaker 27 (02:40:08):
Besides, I won't even be here Tuesday.

Speaker 69 (02:40:10):
Have you someplace definite to go? Well, no, not exactly,
But then why couldn't you stay until Tuesday?

Speaker 55 (02:40:15):
Well, I should like to hear that sermon, my boy.

Speaker 27 (02:40:17):
Oh no, doctor, I I think.

Speaker 69 (02:40:19):
Mister Carver was just talking, father joking. I don't think
he meant what he said.

Speaker 27 (02:40:24):
Of course I meant what I said.

Speaker 69 (02:40:25):
And why don't you prove it do with?

Speaker 11 (02:40:27):
My father asked, Well, because I because why my boy?

Speaker 2 (02:40:30):
Well, I.

Speaker 37 (02:40:32):
All right, all right, I will do it. Maybe I
was just talking to hear myself talk, and I'd like
to prove whether I'm right or not?

Speaker 8 (02:40:41):
And if I am ok day, doctor hostead on Tuesday night.

Speaker 55 (02:40:54):
When a man seeks for proof, it is obvious that
he walters and the dang undergrowth of doubt. But one
only arbitrarily tries to prove what he disbelieves, and the
constant search for that proof is the short sign of
a mind, consciously or not, held in the shackles of

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an obsession.

Speaker 8 (02:41:21):
And a moment I will return to our story.

Speaker 55 (02:42:34):
John Carlo, nervously waiting in the doctor's study, has had
his tattered, battered suit pressed.

Speaker 8 (02:42:42):
By Kathy he looks much fitter.

Speaker 55 (02:42:47):
He wears also one of her father's white shirts, several
sizes too large.

Speaker 69 (02:42:54):
Why don't you sit down and relax, mister Cargo.

Speaker 8 (02:42:57):
You wear yourself out this Homestead.

Speaker 27 (02:42:59):
Yes, I don't think I can go through with it.

Speaker 49 (02:43:02):
Why.

Speaker 8 (02:43:03):
I don't know.

Speaker 37 (02:43:03):
It's just that well, I thought I had something to say,
but I guess I have it. I can't think of
a thing.

Speaker 29 (02:43:08):
You will.

Speaker 37 (02:43:09):
What makes you think I will? I tell you I
haven't got a thought in my mind. It's funny too,
because I was so sure before. I was so certain
now I can't do it.

Speaker 69 (02:43:17):
But you must. After all, Father's told everyone that there'll
be a guest speaker. You can't let him down.

Speaker 3 (02:43:23):
Now.

Speaker 8 (02:43:23):
Look, it isn't a question of letting anybody down.

Speaker 37 (02:43:25):
It's a matter of me going out there and making
a first class fool out of myself.

Speaker 27 (02:43:28):
I tell you I can't do it.

Speaker 5 (02:43:29):
You'll do it, mister car What makes you so sure?

Speaker 27 (02:43:33):
Ready for you?

Speaker 55 (02:43:33):
Mister Carvill, will you come this way please?

Speaker 27 (02:43:35):
But I just got through telling Miss Homestead.

Speaker 69 (02:43:37):
He was just got through telling me he was going
to say father, and it sounds wonderful.

Speaker 55 (02:43:40):
I good for you, my boy. You know this experiment
of yours is proving to be one of the most
interesting things that's happened to us in a long time.
Now you follow me, please, but talk to Homestead.

Speaker 8 (02:43:50):
You'll be late.

Speaker 71 (02:43:53):
Now be listening, my dear people.

Speaker 55 (02:44:07):
We have a visitor with us tonight, mister John Carver,
who first came to our house last Sunday morning, and
who since then has proved himself to be a very
good and valuable friend. Without knowing of his text, I
asked him to talk to you tonight, and he very
kindly consented. And now, without me saying anything further, may
I introduce mister John Carver.

Speaker 27 (02:44:28):
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 37 (02:44:31):
The other day, when I told Doctor Homestead that I
had something to say, I guess I was wrong, because
what I have to say.

Speaker 27 (02:44:39):
Shouldn't be said here.

Speaker 37 (02:44:41):
The reason that I said I had something to say
is that I well, I disagreed with Doctor Homestead. I
disagreed with whoever it was that said bless another meek,
for they shall inherit the earth. The meek have never
inherited anything except tragedy and unhappiness in a kicking.

Speaker 8 (02:44:55):
Around the strong, who inherits the earth brute force.

Speaker 27 (02:44:59):
Take what you can get, no matter you.

Speaker 13 (02:45:00):
Have to take it. Blessed?

Speaker 8 (02:45:01):
Are they sure?

Speaker 37 (02:45:02):
The meek are blessed, blessed with everything and anything that
the strong doesn't want.

Speaker 8 (02:45:06):
Kicks aside, My father was meek and he was blessed.

Speaker 27 (02:45:15):
Well, but what does it matter? You don't want to
hear what I've got to say? A blasphemia is if
I did say it, and you'd smirk.

Speaker 8 (02:45:23):
And sneer and say that I was doomed to eternal
fire and brimstone.

Speaker 59 (02:45:26):
All right, I am, and I'm glad of it.

Speaker 27 (02:45:28):
If that's what it means not to be meek. I
don't want the earth, you can have it. I got
the package I had with me, doctor Homestead, I'd like
to get it.

Speaker 55 (02:45:47):
It's got a few things in it that Wait a minute, John,
he said, sit down for a moment, won't you what
I'd like to talk to you.

Speaker 37 (02:45:56):
I don't think there's much of anything to say, doctor Homestead,
except that I'm sorry that I embarrassed you.

Speaker 55 (02:46:01):
You didn't embarrass me in the least, John. In fact,
I'm glad you said, but you did, John, what happened?

Speaker 8 (02:46:08):
What happened?

Speaker 55 (02:46:09):
Yes, you spoke of your father. He didn't finish what
you were going to say? Would you mind telling.

Speaker 37 (02:46:16):
Me he wouldn't be interested, doctor Homestead because it Yes, Well,
my father was a doctor. He was a very great
doctor and a very great man. But he got himself
mixed up with a lot of cock eyed ideas. He
went for that blessed other, meek stuff. That's what happened
to him. What do you mean, that's what happened to him, John, Look.

Speaker 27 (02:46:35):
Doctor Homestead. My father was a great man. I worshiped him.

Speaker 37 (02:46:38):
I always wanted to be like him, just like him,
because he was tolerant and gentle and meek. And do
you know what that did to him and to my mother? No,
my father never refused a call dead of night, middle
of the winter, howling blizzard, even for a toothache.

Speaker 27 (02:46:52):
He'd go. They never collected any money.

Speaker 37 (02:46:55):
People would tell him they didn't have it, and he'd
tear up the bill, or he'd say, pay me when
you get it.

Speaker 27 (02:47:00):
They never got it.

Speaker 8 (02:47:01):
But they bought automobiles and radios and new clothes, but they.

Speaker 37 (02:47:04):
Never got enough money to pay my father for saving
their lives or helping them when they needed it.

Speaker 4 (02:47:08):
Go on.

Speaker 8 (02:47:09):
So but still he'd go out every call, night and day,
day in and day out.

Speaker 27 (02:47:12):
Even when he was sick, he'd go until finally it
killed him.

Speaker 37 (02:47:18):
One night he came to my mother and myself and
he apologized because he knew he was about to die.
He said he was sorry that he couldn't leave mother
and me anything except a bunch of worthless bills.

Speaker 27 (02:47:30):
And those people, doctor Holmestead.

Speaker 37 (02:47:31):
Those people didn't even come to his funeral, not even
a card or a note saying they were sorry. Sure,
my dad was me Can he inherited the earth six
feet of it?

Speaker 8 (02:47:40):
See? That's why I shut off my mouth every time
I think of it.

Speaker 27 (02:47:47):
I see red.

Speaker 55 (02:47:48):
Red usually means a danger signal, doesn't it, John? And
the usual thing to do when you see red is
to stop. The green is the light to go and
go on. John, your father was probably even much greater
man than you thought he was, and he inherited a
great deal more than you think he did.

Speaker 14 (02:48:08):
You.

Speaker 8 (02:48:08):
For example, what think about that? John?

Speaker 55 (02:48:12):
You know what I mean without me telling it to you.
If he were alive, I wonder what he would have
thought about that speech of yours the other night. You see, John,
your father lived and died for a principle, the principle
of mankind.

Speaker 8 (02:48:27):
He was meek, yes, but Christ was meek.

Speaker 55 (02:48:31):
But it takes strength to be meek, enough strength to
thresh the money changers, enough strength to live for what
he believed in. And it sometimes takes more strength to
live for what you believe in than it does to
die for it. That's all I had to say. Good
Bye John, good bye doctor.

Speaker 30 (02:49:00):
Jee.

Speaker 27 (02:49:00):
I thought you was never gonna show John. I waited
and waited last night. I was gonna catch the eas
bond without you. Well I'm here now, sure, let's do it.

Speaker 8 (02:49:06):
Let's get going.

Speaker 71 (02:49:07):
Huh it comes to Rontler.

Speaker 30 (02:49:08):
Now, okay, try for.

Speaker 8 (02:49:09):
The set of cost Come on, wait a minute, your guy,
the art Dick. Come on, John, stop Hurrasco, Come on, John,
go on, Marley, I'm.

Speaker 2 (02:49:16):
Saying, let's go on.

Speaker 68 (02:49:18):
Okay, sucker, Why did you stop for a boy?

Speaker 27 (02:49:22):
Why didn't you grab the train with your buddy? Never mind?
Never mind? If I'm pinched, I'm pinched. I didn't figure
on you stopping.

Speaker 8 (02:49:29):
I didn't shoot to get you, but sort of make
sure that you wouldn't keep going.

Speaker 27 (02:49:32):
You know, we don't like.

Speaker 8 (02:49:33):
Tramps in this town.

Speaker 37 (02:49:35):
Well, I'm not going and your shooting didn't change my
mind any either, except to make me wonder kind of
suddenly where it was I thought I was going. What
I was running away from. I'm staying right here. If
you don't mind, there's no place else to go.

Speaker 13 (02:49:48):
Well, well, what a.

Speaker 8 (02:49:50):
Little while ago, I got a phone call with a
certain chap might try to op the eastbound about now.

Speaker 55 (02:49:56):
Wish him luck if he made it. If he didn't,
Doctor Homestead lives at the third might know you.

Speaker 14 (02:50:02):
Yeah, Hello, John Cavell.

Speaker 69 (02:50:20):
Hello, how long have you been sitting here.

Speaker 8 (02:50:23):
In the church.

Speaker 27 (02:50:24):
Well, I don't know quite a while.

Speaker 69 (02:50:25):
I guess we've been waiting for you at the house.

Speaker 70 (02:50:28):
We'd about giving up. Then the caretaker said you were
over here. You changed your mind about leaving. Yeah, I'm
glad about that, John. I guess that'll be pretty glad too.

Speaker 8 (02:50:40):
He thinks a lot of you, Jessie, so do I.

Speaker 70 (02:50:45):
That's why I was hoping you'd come back. In fact,
that's why I called mister Perkins. He's the detective that
takes care of the freight yards.

Speaker 8 (02:50:54):
Oh so you were the one who called him.

Speaker 70 (02:50:57):
But I didn't want you to come back if you
didn't want to really I thought it might be that
you had some place to go, something to find.

Speaker 8 (02:51:05):
I did, but I guess i'd already found it, Kathy
at your house.

Speaker 69 (02:51:10):
Should we go there now?

Speaker 14 (02:51:12):
Yes?

Speaker 27 (02:51:12):
Thank you.

Speaker 69 (02:51:20):
It's a beautifully clear day, isn't.

Speaker 27 (02:51:22):
It, John, The first day I've known in a long time. Kathy,
you understand that.

Speaker 69 (02:51:26):
I think i'd understand better if I knew why you
came back.

Speaker 37 (02:51:29):
I don't know exactly why myself, Katy, except well, well,
maybe I'm a sucker like my dad. Maybe I've gone
for the same thing as he went for. Blessed Are
they good enough for him? Yes, I guess so. Yes,
it must have been. And I can't kick much because
he was happy. He was very happy. Oh, I haven't
been at all.

Speaker 69 (02:51:48):
You can be.

Speaker 27 (02:51:49):
I know that, Kathy, and I'm going to be from
now on, thanks to your father and mine.

Speaker 36 (02:51:54):
John.

Speaker 69 (02:51:55):
That's what I meant the day I talked to you.
Your father was like mine.

Speaker 24 (02:51:59):
That's why.

Speaker 69 (02:52:00):
Blessed are they that are meek, so they shall inherit
the earth, and they shall bequeathed to you.

Speaker 8 (02:52:07):
It's yours for the.

Speaker 27 (02:52:08):
Taking, John, yours for the taking, Alice for the taking too.
Isn't that so? Cathy.

Speaker 55 (02:52:14):
Why yes, John, Yes, the meek shall inherit the earth.
The earth is for the taking. In the beginning, God
created the heavens and the earth, and created man in

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his own image. Therefore, man can, by the very power
of this heritage, become godlike unless, and I say, unless,
the dark angel who was passed out of paradise shall
speak his silent and evil words and fill the mind

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with the quick signs of obsession.

Speaker 30 (02:54:07):
Okay, obsession.

Speaker 55 (02:55:30):
Our story was produced and transcribed by C. P. McGregor
in Hollywood.

Speaker 13 (02:56:03):
Me you.

Speaker 44 (02:57:44):
Issue, I am superstition, a god, a false god who

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rules my fear. I demand of worship from rich and
for the light, from the weak and from the strong.
My victims, harmony, my slaves are legion. You who's off

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and disbelieve? Listen to this story, Oh.

Speaker 72 (02:59:29):
Slave, your queen Cleo Popera, Queen of all Egypt, commands lashing.

Speaker 73 (02:59:35):
Lash him ex truthfully, then throw him to the truckling
crocodiles in the bull rushes.

Speaker 74 (02:59:42):
Release the kings. Oh, I am but a scalley slave.
I swear I saw Nepti, the daughter of the priest,
with the opal.

Speaker 29 (02:59:57):
It was brilliant. It's blinded me with colors red, blue
and orange.

Speaker 73 (03:00:04):
All bless him, cushy slave, you knew the name, she gave.

Speaker 8 (03:00:10):
It to.

Speaker 10 (03:00:12):
Him.

Speaker 2 (03:00:13):
I must know the one who falls the Opal. Less him.
I swear my arms the dog of Hades, that is
not fool. Give me the.

Speaker 29 (03:00:24):
Lash who tell.

Speaker 73 (03:00:29):
Look upon you the sphinx, and swear he has sw
Throw him in the pit with the hungry tigers.

Speaker 2 (03:00:36):
They're howling for him.

Speaker 29 (03:00:38):
They're done, all of you. Rest, my Queen, Oh Shamian,
I am William to death.

Speaker 10 (03:00:47):
Prepare my bath.

Speaker 29 (03:00:48):
I obey my queen.

Speaker 36 (03:00:50):
The runners from Rome bring no word of Mark Antony. Know,
my beloved queen. Can he have failed me? If Julius
Caesar were alive, the Opal would be mine. If all
Rome had to be disemboweled.

Speaker 75 (03:01:02):
You shall have the Opal here. Let me perfume you
utter of roses. I shall rub you with scented oil.
You shall charm mark Anthony even if you did Caesar.

Speaker 29 (03:01:13):
Is my body soft and round? Shanion, am I affracticed,
even as a Greek goddess.

Speaker 36 (03:01:20):
Look below the terrace, that murder her runner has arived
from Nome.

Speaker 29 (03:01:24):
My Queen. A chariot comes behind him.

Speaker 73 (03:01:27):
It is it is Mark Antony, by all the.

Speaker 76 (03:01:30):
Gods, won't you whoo?

Speaker 2 (03:01:34):
I don't sin your fiend or Anthony?

Speaker 19 (03:01:37):
From it is he?

Speaker 73 (03:01:39):
He comes my brain, Mark Antony, my all.

Speaker 2 (03:01:45):
I have beloved Queen, am in.

Speaker 36 (03:01:46):
Here, Mark Hold me in your arms, kiss me one
thousand times, my love, you have been long.

Speaker 2 (03:01:56):
I fairly flew here, as does horses and chariot could go.

Speaker 29 (03:02:00):
My runner told you of the opera, my desire for
its posision.

Speaker 2 (03:02:03):
Your desire is a command to me. I have brought
the open.

Speaker 29 (03:02:07):
Light of my life. I shall prepare a fi and wait.

Speaker 2 (03:02:12):
I have brought the stone.

Speaker 29 (03:02:13):
But the owner is with it, My sweet, my god,
my own Who is a man.

Speaker 44 (03:02:19):
A Roman senator Nonius is his name, A wealthy fellow.
He waits outside.

Speaker 29 (03:02:27):
My desire is fulfilled.

Speaker 36 (03:02:29):
The opal is outside, command the Senator from Rome to
come here.

Speaker 29 (03:02:34):
I go, my queen.

Speaker 2 (03:02:36):
It has been no small task to bring him here.
Your charms must do the rest.

Speaker 71 (03:02:42):
He comes.

Speaker 29 (03:02:44):
Then, welcome to my palace.

Speaker 2 (03:02:47):
I'm knew to the.

Speaker 71 (03:02:49):
Queen of the Niland.

Speaker 73 (03:02:50):
All rise the Niland, all Egypt is for the pleasure
of the Senator from Rome.

Speaker 71 (03:02:58):
Told me not, did you request by presence here?

Speaker 73 (03:03:01):
Regarding the Opal, the stone of a million fires that
you received from Netta.

Speaker 36 (03:03:06):
Yes are the rulers boast of such a stone, the
lyrical stone.

Speaker 29 (03:03:10):
I must have it.

Speaker 71 (03:03:12):
Say I would not part with it.

Speaker 44 (03:03:13):
Come Nunius, Each man his price, name yours. The wealth
of a whole province shall be yours.

Speaker 2 (03:03:20):
For the barble.

Speaker 64 (03:03:20):
I'm superstitious. I fear to part with it. The agents
claim it has miraculous powers.

Speaker 73 (03:03:27):
Give it to me, and I shall erect the chattel
to you here beside the pyramids.

Speaker 29 (03:03:32):
Not of Rose Martin.

Speaker 26 (03:03:34):
Your name's skelt.

Speaker 2 (03:03:35):
You deep on it in letters of.

Speaker 29 (03:03:37):
Gold, and in later per day.

Speaker 71 (03:03:40):
Keep the chapel, I keep the open.

Speaker 2 (03:03:42):
Give her to her, and I will bring great power
to you in the forum over.

Speaker 71 (03:03:46):
Role, kay, I reject your bride. The Opal stays with me.

Speaker 2 (03:03:50):
I shall invoke the gods to curse the stone.

Speaker 71 (03:03:53):
Idle talk. You have no such power.

Speaker 2 (03:03:55):
I shall bring the drought upon your province.

Speaker 73 (03:03:58):
Your loved ones will be groveling on the pavements in
death sagony.

Speaker 77 (03:04:01):
If you do not give me the opos, go on
wreak your posted powers, poison your slaves off, your men
to fight with tigers keew off your discarded lovers, But
paul in pain, the Opal stone remains with me.

Speaker 2 (03:04:18):
Enough I shall ruin you at Rome.

Speaker 73 (03:04:21):
One word more retain that Opal, and great unhappiness will pursue.
The longer you hold it, the greatest tragedy will stop you.
It's brilliance will attract ball and pull that downfall.

Speaker 29 (03:04:34):
That is all ben.

Speaker 2 (03:04:36):
Superstition, superstition. I wait you go, never to return to Rome.
How you reach your problems of feet runner from here
will have breached Rome. You will be your Paris, I know,
proclaim it.

Speaker 44 (03:04:51):
You are exiled forever from friends, from loved ones, from
your native land.

Speaker 2 (03:04:57):
The Opo, the cursed. Oh, I'm march.

Speaker 44 (03:05:08):
Down through the ages comes the Opal, spreading destruction in
its weight down through the years till nineteen hundred and
thirty three.

Speaker 72 (03:05:22):
This is an accous sale, folks, for the effects of
the late unfortunate world traveler, doctor Hastings. They are offered
for sale. Let me see what shall I offer first
for your spirited bidding? Oh is this famous Opal the
stole of fire? One of my big folks.

Speaker 29 (03:05:39):
Go on, get down at Louise.

Speaker 38 (03:05:41):
That's what you came for.

Speaker 29 (03:05:43):
Praise maybe hindy would have gift?

Speaker 13 (03:05:45):
How much of my bid?

Speaker 2 (03:05:46):
Who'll started?

Speaker 13 (03:05:46):
How much of my bid?

Speaker 2 (03:05:47):
How much of my bid?

Speaker 38 (03:05:48):
My blood?

Speaker 2 (03:05:49):
Sell it?

Speaker 29 (03:05:49):
Stingles to have it?

Speaker 38 (03:05:50):
Look at it?

Speaker 29 (03:05:51):
Shine? I must have it.

Speaker 33 (03:05:53):
It must be iron did.

Speaker 72 (03:05:54):
For Remember, folks, this is the stone that Queen Cleopatra
coveted but never obtained.

Speaker 2 (03:06:00):
Who will be the lucky one? Forget you t ridiculous?
A mere ten thousand dollars for this priceless duel? Who
will make it twenty thousand dollars?

Speaker 8 (03:06:10):
Folks?

Speaker 2 (03:06:10):
Do I hear twenty thousand dollars?

Speaker 29 (03:06:12):
Well, here goes twenty thousand dollars.

Speaker 13 (03:06:15):
That's more like it.

Speaker 2 (03:06:16):
Who'll make it thirty thousand dollars? Do I hear thirty
thousand dollars? Thirty thousand dollars? Am I off at forty
thousand dollars? It must be nine forty thousand dollars, oh, said.

Speaker 72 (03:06:27):
The little lady over there, forty thousand dollars for the
Cleopatra opal.

Speaker 71 (03:06:33):
A my chisel.

Speaker 44 (03:06:41):
Louise bought the opel against the wishes of her husband.
His fortune swept away. He appeals to her for financial help,
but Louise the forty thousand dollars you spent for the Opal.
Please sell it and I can recoup my fortune.

Speaker 29 (03:06:57):
Can't sell it. I won't sell it. It belongs to me,
and I wanted it. Fascinates me with my life, Henry, it.

Speaker 2 (03:07:03):
Must be sold.

Speaker 29 (03:07:04):
I need the money.

Speaker 27 (03:07:05):
We both need it.

Speaker 2 (03:07:06):
If you hold onto it, in six months we'll be starving.
Sell up, Louise, I won't. I'll kill myself if you don't,
rather than face my creditors. Do you hear me, I'll
kill myself.

Speaker 10 (03:07:16):
Oh do it?

Speaker 36 (03:07:17):
If you're so childish the ople stays with me. To
part with it would mean bad luck.

Speaker 2 (03:07:22):
You have chosen between superstition and me. Goodbye?

Speaker 44 (03:07:28):
Oh what cheolm. Louise still holds the Opal. Ill health
has dogged her. As a relief from mental strain, she
finds solace in drink strong, drink.

Speaker 75 (03:07:51):
Now, Louise, I'm sorry to see you going from bad
to worse. You're drinking too much.

Speaker 29 (03:07:56):
Don't make me laugh. I'm all right, yes, all right.

Speaker 75 (03:07:59):
If you sell the Opal, I tell the day you
bought it your luck had changed.

Speaker 29 (03:08:03):
Superstition, the Ople has nothing to do with it. Let's
have another dream.

Speaker 75 (03:08:07):
You sell it, Louise, See if your luck doesn't turn
or couldn't think of selling it.

Speaker 29 (03:08:12):
The ancients claimed it has miracula powers.

Speaker 75 (03:08:15):
Rubbish superstition. Sell the Opal, get on your feet, take
your place amongst your friends again.

Speaker 36 (03:08:21):
Give up my darling opel, Never give up my friends. Yes,
have a little drink.

Speaker 13 (03:08:31):
Oh, I'm mark.

Speaker 44 (03:08:36):
Alone, Lord and Lord. She sank into the depths of
despair and iniquity. She clung to the bright, shining Ople.
Misfortune clung to her. Was it the Opal or the
disintegration of Louise herself? She has been arrested a crime,

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the saddest and old profession in the world.

Speaker 3 (03:09:02):
Church.

Speaker 36 (03:09:03):
Please give me another chance to please train me. I'm
a respectable woman.

Speaker 71 (03:09:07):
You have a very bad record, by the way, on't
you the famous Louise Madison, the possessor of the Cleopatra.

Speaker 29 (03:09:12):
Of about my Opal nine, the one with a sellers
think that you were.

Speaker 71 (03:09:17):
Rich, powerful, friends, respected? What has this changed?

Speaker 29 (03:09:23):
As the gods or the ancients don't blame. It's on
the open.

Speaker 71 (03:09:26):
Sell the Opal, get on your feet, or I'll send
you to prison.

Speaker 64 (03:09:30):
As a background, I will not sell my opal. The
sentence of the court is six months on welfare island.

Speaker 2 (03:09:39):
Prison.

Speaker 29 (03:09:42):
This place I still oh my Opal.

Speaker 71 (03:09:51):
Oh, iame MACHELM.

Speaker 44 (03:10:01):
Louise went to prison, served her time, came out disgraced
and forgotten. Down down, down into the gutter she landed.
When old friends found her, she was dead in her hand,
just close to her heart. They found the Opal. I

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am superstive. You don't believe, do you?

Speaker 21 (03:10:46):
M m.

Speaker 14 (03:11:02):
M.

Speaker 78 (03:11:44):
Tell creeps, this is Peter Laurie here again to welcome
you to the mystery playhouse. Tonight we bring you a
story by Jonathan Latimer called.

Speaker 8 (03:11:57):
Lady in the Morgue.

Speaker 78 (03:11:59):
You don't office, Detective Screen and O'Malley the delightful problem
of solving three murders and interviewing a lovely brunette, the
lady who is mysteriously related to the unsolved crimes. Come
with me to the morgue for the beginning of our

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little story.

Speaker 27 (03:12:21):
Huh oh.

Speaker 78 (03:12:22):
Don't let these stiffs bother you. Their troubles are over,
But for those two detectives over there, the murders are
just beginning. Come down these steps right this way, Come,
come come.

Speaker 8 (03:12:43):
I'm going nuts hanging around here. I'll stop squawking, O'Malley.
Three days just sitting in the morgue I'm beginning to
feel like a stiff myself. Look, I don't like it
any better than you do, O'Malley. But we're hired as
private detectives to sit here. I'm a gonna's sit here
until somebody identifies the dame's body. Okay, how do you

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know Alice Ross isn't Dallas Ross. Why don't you stop
being a jike? That name's a phony, you know, Crane.
The whole thing seems phony to me. Why who is
this rich New York guy Cortland? He hires us by
a telegram. We've never seen him, and why is he
so interested in this little blonde to commit suicide. Look,
I don't think it's gonna do any good, but I'm

(03:13:27):
going to tell you for the last time. He thinks
it's his sister, Catherine Cortland. She ran away from home
a couple of years ago, chasing after some musician. Gee, hey,
that's the desk bill looks like them all that's going
to customer leave him in. The attendant ought to answer it.

Speaker 2 (03:13:43):
Where is he?

Speaker 51 (03:13:44):
Where is he?

Speaker 8 (03:13:45):
Where is he? Anyhow? Down in the vaults with the stiffs. Orthough,
Maybe we better answered, O'Malley might be somebody to clean
the body. Uh, looking for someone, mister.

Speaker 13 (03:13:55):
Or a couple of private detectives. Crean an o'belly.

Speaker 8 (03:13:58):
Oh, I'm Crane and that character of an Arizon man.

Speaker 13 (03:14:02):
My name is Coughton. I sent you that wire.

Speaker 8 (03:14:04):
Oh, come right in, Come right in, glad.

Speaker 13 (03:14:06):
I'm meet you, me too, delayed in New York, expected
to be here yesterday. What about the girl?

Speaker 8 (03:14:11):
No information yet, mister Coughland. And if you think she
might be as sister Catherine, why you can identify yourself?

Speaker 13 (03:14:16):
Or yes?

Speaker 8 (03:14:17):
Where this way, mister Colin. The body's down in the vaults.
Leave him in the marga ten and you see he's down.
I'll wait here for your Crane. I can't stand looking
at that girl. Come on, come on, stick with the client. Okay,
watch your foot and stairs the slippery four.

Speaker 3 (03:14:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (03:14:39):
Now, what makes you think this Alice Roscol might be
your sister, mister Coughland.

Speaker 13 (03:14:43):
Well, that's what I read in the New York papers.
That's all.

Speaker 8 (03:14:45):
Blonde girl, blue eyes suicide.

Speaker 28 (03:14:47):
Also, my sister Catherine wrote us about two months ago
that she was finished with her whole life. She ran
away from home with the musician two years ago, and
the body's in here. Laborman, Hey, Laborman, where are you?

Speaker 8 (03:15:05):
I thought you said leave him and was down here. O'Malley. Yeah,
I show him go down about twenty minutes ago. Tom,
mister Coughlin, the body's on train number twenty seven, four ten, fourteen, seventeen,
twenty five, twenty seven.

Speaker 13 (03:15:24):
You pull out the tray. I don't like things like this. Oh,
there's nothing to be afraid of.

Speaker 10 (03:15:27):
She's dead.

Speaker 8 (03:15:28):
The all you gotta do is grab the handling. Go on, O'Malley,
you're pulling out all all right.

Speaker 13 (03:15:38):
That's a man's buddy, a man, not a woman.

Speaker 8 (03:15:40):
She's certain what late. Let's leave him in the MORGA
tenant murder in the mall. It's might have all right,
it's headsman, that's where's the girls?

Speaker 13 (03:15:49):
Boddy?

Speaker 8 (03:15:49):
Yeah, mister coughlin, this is a job for the police.

Speaker 21 (03:16:02):
I don't give two hoots about your private detective credentials.

Speaker 2 (03:16:06):
Grain are yours either, O'Malley.

Speaker 21 (03:16:08):
All of the man was murdered in the mor today
and a woman's body was stolen, and you and O'Malley
and this fellow Cortland were the only ones.

Speaker 13 (03:16:16):
Who could have done it.

Speaker 8 (03:16:16):
Why don't you stop back like a movie cap, Lieutenant Grady,
why think it through? Cortland is my client. He hired
O'Malley and me to the line if the girl is assistant, right.

Speaker 13 (03:16:25):
Said Crane, a wire from New York.

Speaker 8 (03:16:26):
All right, skip the details, I use your head, Lieutenant Grady,
you're forgetting a couple of things. You remember that Liberman,
the Marga tenant, had a handful of red hair in
his hand. Have O'Malley and Cortland got red hair?

Speaker 30 (03:16:39):
Have I you know?

Speaker 14 (03:16:41):
Done?

Speaker 13 (03:16:41):
Well?

Speaker 23 (03:16:41):
Yea?

Speaker 8 (03:16:42):
And we also know that somebody held Libaman from in
front while someone else slugged them from behind. Otherwise, why
would Lebaman's wrist be pawn and bloody? Okay, lucky Liberman
had the hair in his left hand. Now, if I
were holding your wrists, I'd be holding your left wrist
with my right hand. Would not might be holding your

(03:17:02):
week a hand with my strongest.

Speaker 13 (03:17:04):
All right, now, what are you trying to prove?

Speaker 8 (03:17:06):
We're trying to prove what at a time, o'melly Okay,
go ahead, Crane, thank you, professor. We're trying to prove
that whoever hell Leberman's hands was redheaded and left handed.

Speaker 46 (03:17:16):
None of us are left handed.

Speaker 21 (03:17:17):
Already all right, mister Cortland piped down, Crane.

Speaker 8 (03:17:20):
Go on from there, lieutenant. We're gonna find that missing
body for you, all right, all right, Crane.

Speaker 21 (03:17:27):
But if you're getting away with something new and something
right now, it's only temporary.

Speaker 30 (03:17:32):
All right, all right?

Speaker 8 (03:17:33):
Come on, o'melly, I.

Speaker 21 (03:17:34):
Look, don't forget crank one false step and I'll pen
the whole thing on you.

Speaker 2 (03:17:40):
What permanently?

Speaker 8 (03:17:44):
You shouldn't have slammed the door, Crane. You'll make a
mad or what happens?

Speaker 13 (03:17:48):
Now?

Speaker 8 (03:17:48):
You're going back to your hotel, mister Carlin, and wait there,
will you hear from me? O'melli and I got to
pay a visit to the apartment with a missing body?
Hang their self now, Look on, Molly, I thought I

(03:18:13):
told you to stick out in the hall and keep
your right Feel sure, Crane, but I'm getting nervous. Found
anything here? Nopeh One funny thing though, Alice Ross left
a lot of brand new dresses here in this closet
look never been worn. But not a pair of shoes
in the place. Hmm, that don't make sense, you're telling me,

(03:18:37):
o' malie. Take a look at this bathroom door. According
to the papers, This is where Alice Ross hanged herself, draped.

Speaker 13 (03:18:44):
The cord over.

Speaker 8 (03:18:45):
Isn't that terrible? Yeah, let's see now. According to the papers,
she came out of the bathtub and hanged herself while
she was still wet. The police found a puddle of
water on a floor. That's nuts, Crane. Why would anybody
take a bath if they were going to commit suicide
unless they wanted to hang themselves up to dry? Would
anyone hang herself? Watch she was still wet? Oh, I

(03:19:07):
think she'd dry herself first. Don't make sense. It would
make good sense, O'Malley if she didn't commit suicide. Yeah,
it made better sense if she was murdered. Yeah, murdered.
She was murdered first, then the murderer hung her body
up with a cord. O'Malley. Get back in the hall
and keep a look at her. Sometimes I wonder what

(03:19:28):
you'd do without me, Crane. Sometimes, Now, what's the matter?
It's greaty and a bunch of cops. Let's get out
of here quick. Yeah, yeah, but where it's three flalls
to the ground. How about this winder?

Speaker 4 (03:19:41):
Great?

Speaker 8 (03:19:42):
Hey, there's a leg hu you go one way, I'll
go to the other.

Speaker 14 (03:19:46):
We know you're in there over.

Speaker 8 (03:19:56):
Now, if I can hinde in this room until I
don't hear me, shut up, I listen, listen. I don't
want to hurt you, and I don't want to rob you,
and I'll turn you loose if your promise not to
make a sound. Can't remember it. If you make a sound,
you're gonna get hurt. Is that clear?

Speaker 13 (03:20:16):
Okay?

Speaker 10 (03:20:17):
You already hurt me. You hurt my mouth.

Speaker 24 (03:20:20):
What are you doing in my bathroom?

Speaker 43 (03:20:21):
What do you want anyway?

Speaker 8 (03:20:22):
I listen, honey, I didn't want to duck through your
bathroom window. Was just convenient.

Speaker 26 (03:20:25):
That's all.

Speaker 8 (03:20:26):
We'll get out when I'm ready. Hey, nice apartment you
got here? Mind if I look around a bit?

Speaker 10 (03:20:33):
If you don't get out of here, off on the police.

Speaker 8 (03:20:35):
You don't have the phone. Sister are right next door? Yeah?
Did you know the girl next door? The one will
hang herself? Alice Royds?

Speaker 2 (03:20:42):
What's that to you?

Speaker 10 (03:20:43):
And keep out of my clothes closet.

Speaker 8 (03:20:45):
I'll listen, baby, You're a beautiful hunk of flesh, and
I'd hate to get rough with you, but I like
answers to questions when I asked. And now let's begin again.

Speaker 26 (03:20:54):
What's your name, you downie, that's my name, missus sam
you doney.

Speaker 21 (03:20:59):
That's better.

Speaker 8 (03:21:01):
I'm about the girl next time.

Speaker 24 (03:21:02):
And anything about him.

Speaker 13 (03:21:03):
Don't lie to me.

Speaker 24 (03:21:04):
I'm not lying.

Speaker 8 (03:21:04):
Maybe so, but this clothes closet is very interesting, very Why.

Speaker 23 (03:21:09):
You baby tell me this?

Speaker 8 (03:21:12):
Why have you got two different sizes of shoes there
in the shoe closet?

Speaker 13 (03:21:16):
Oh, and dresses.

Speaker 8 (03:21:20):
And two different sizes, two complete wardrobes.

Speaker 43 (03:21:24):
It's very simple.

Speaker 24 (03:21:25):
Some of them belong in my roommate.

Speaker 10 (03:21:27):
She's a blonde. She dresses different from me.

Speaker 8 (03:21:30):
But you just said your name was missus. You don't
he missus Samuel.

Speaker 21 (03:21:32):
Don't.

Speaker 23 (03:21:33):
My husband's a musician.

Speaker 8 (03:21:34):
He travels with bands.

Speaker 24 (03:21:35):
He's away all the time.

Speaker 25 (03:21:36):
Yeah, why do you ask me all these questions?

Speaker 8 (03:21:37):
Your husband forgot to take a trump? Why you don't
get saw I'm getting out. I just heard the cops
next door down the hall. I'm kind of sorry we
met this way. You are a beautiful dumb don'ty and celling.
I always like long black hair, the kind that comes
out of a bottle. And don't be surprised if Papa
comes back.

Speaker 42 (03:21:56):
Some get out, get out your hear get out before it.

Speaker 8 (03:22:13):
Well that's what it all adds up to, mister Cortland.
Alice Ross was mighty, and her body obviously was stolen
from the morgue to cover up that murder. And if
this guy was mightyed and she turns out to be
your sister, her.

Speaker 28 (03:22:25):
Sister is alive, crein, I've just found out what mister Cortland.

Speaker 8 (03:22:29):
Oh, you heard from your sister.

Speaker 28 (03:22:31):
Yes, she's alive. So and she's obviously not the dead
Alice Ross. I'd like you both to drop the case.

Speaker 14 (03:22:36):
M h.

Speaker 8 (03:22:37):
Well, well, I'd like to do that, mister Cortland. I'd
like her very much. But one small difficulty. You see,
liebam in the morgue attendant was mighty, and I'm still
kind of a suspect, and so as O'Malley, and so
you were right right, and the only way we can
clear ourselves is to break the case ourselves, right right. Besides, uh,

(03:23:00):
I think I know who helped to kill libermen and
snatch the girl's body to do who? An undertaker, A
left handed, redheaded undertaker. That's ridiculous. No, now, wait a minute,
mister Cortland. Sometimes Crane gets brainstorms. Figure it out, mister Cortland,
The only way anyone could get into the mogue and
carry the body away is through the delivery entrance. That

(03:23:22):
means only an undertaker could get in there without a
lot of questions? Did I tell you, mister Cortland, a brainstorm?

Speaker 64 (03:23:28):
Right?

Speaker 46 (03:23:28):
Right?

Speaker 58 (03:23:29):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (03:23:29):
This is all nonsense, completely must a nonsense?

Speaker 8 (03:23:31):
Maybe so, but just to prove that it isn't, O'Malley's
going out right now and find that undertaker, right?

Speaker 13 (03:23:37):
Uh me?

Speaker 8 (03:23:39):
Why am I gonna find him? You'll find him easy, O'Malley. Sure, sure,
I'll find him easy.

Speaker 28 (03:23:45):
Well, if this is the only way we can clear ourselves,
as you say, why I ought to help find this undertaker?

Speaker 8 (03:23:50):
Fine, fine, mister Cortland. Now let O'Malley cover one side
of town and you cover the other. We'll meet here
in four hours. And what about you, Crane? What are
you gonna be doing.

Speaker 21 (03:23:58):
Me the night? Had you?

Speaker 8 (03:24:01):
I got a date with a gorgeous brunette?

Speaker 17 (03:24:16):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (03:24:17):
Hello, missus. You don't he I tell you i'd be
back you.

Speaker 24 (03:24:22):
What are you doing here?

Speaker 14 (03:24:24):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (03:24:24):
I came to hear the hot music and be near you.

Speaker 10 (03:24:28):
You've got a nerve after what happened today.

Speaker 8 (03:24:30):
Hey, Hey, that's a solid horn your husband blows in
that next room?

Speaker 14 (03:24:34):
Man?

Speaker 10 (03:24:34):
Yeah, what makes you think of my husband?

Speaker 2 (03:24:36):
You said your.

Speaker 8 (03:24:37):
Husband was a musician, and I saw a trumpet here
this morning?

Speaker 10 (03:24:40):
Do you see too much? What do you want?

Speaker 2 (03:24:41):
Anyway?

Speaker 8 (03:24:42):
How does a wife of a musician fear when another
woman starts follow him around the country.

Speaker 23 (03:24:45):
I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 8 (03:24:47):
Never heard of Cassin courtman.

Speaker 24 (03:24:48):
Huh, she never meant anything to say him.

Speaker 8 (03:24:49):
She's been following him around for several years. Must have
got someplace with him in that time. You better get
out of here.

Speaker 22 (03:24:54):
My husband's coming in here.

Speaker 64 (03:24:55):
Good.

Speaker 8 (03:24:56):
I want to see him.

Speaker 10 (03:24:57):
Tell them about you.

Speaker 26 (03:24:58):
Button in here?

Speaker 22 (03:24:59):
He'll kill you?

Speaker 13 (03:25:00):
Is this guy?

Speaker 3 (03:25:00):
Baby?

Speaker 66 (03:25:01):
This is him?

Speaker 26 (03:25:02):
Sam.

Speaker 4 (03:25:02):
You're looking for trouble, mister, I like trouble.

Speaker 13 (03:25:05):
What do you want with us?

Speaker 8 (03:25:06):
I want Catherine Cortland or I want a body?

Speaker 3 (03:25:08):

Speaker 14 (03:25:09):
I don't be caught.

Speaker 8 (03:25:10):
You don'ty I know Catherine Cortland left New York several
years ago to follow you here?

Speaker 13 (03:25:13):
What about it?

Speaker 4 (03:25:15):
Sure she followed me here?

Speaker 26 (03:25:16):
Does that make me responsible for her?

Speaker 4 (03:25:18):
I haven't seen it for months?

Speaker 8 (03:25:19):
And who is that living in the apartment next door
to you? How should I know a girl commits suicide
in the apartment next door, and right away, I'm a suspect.
Get out of here. Okay, you don'ty Just one thing.
You see this nice shiny badge, the body of the
blonde who was murdered in the apartment next to yours. Murdered.

Speaker 13 (03:25:38):
What are you? The paper said, ude.

Speaker 8 (03:25:40):
The paper said suicide. But she was murdered, you, Darney,
murdered and a buddy of being a city Morgan four
hours and I want you to come and take a
look at it. It's just like you said, Crane. There

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was a left handed, redheaded undertaker, only there isn't any more.
What do you mean. Yeah, I went to his place,
rang the bell, no answer. I went in and there
he was murdered, yep, stuffed in one of his own coffins,
a knife right through his heart. Police hadn't even been
a year.

Speaker 13 (03:26:30):
This is incredible.

Speaker 8 (03:26:31):
Well didn't you look around, O'Malley. I'm no dope.

Speaker 14 (03:26:34):
No.

Speaker 8 (03:26:35):
I looked at his books and I found out that
a girl named Alice Hughes was buried today Forest Tree Cemetery.
That's our blonde. You're wonderful, O'Malley.

Speaker 21 (03:26:44):
I love you.

Speaker 8 (03:26:45):
Oh it was simple. Now we got to move fast.
Get out to the Forest Tree Cemetery, get that body
and return it to the mall.

Speaker 13 (03:26:51):
How about me?

Speaker 8 (03:26:52):
You come along to Coughlin.

Speaker 14 (03:26:54):
Let's go.

Speaker 8 (03:27:08):
All right, O'Malley, lift her up, put her on the table,
easy now there? Now can I go? Stick around? Stick around?
I got a job for you.

Speaker 28 (03:27:19):
Shouldn't we have a genius for the fantastic Cream digging
this body out of its grave, snacking it in here
in the morgue.

Speaker 8 (03:27:24):
I only do what's necessary, Cortland. Now look, are you
sure this girl isn't your sister? Absolutely well, it's the
same body that was swiped from the morgue and she
was murdered, murdered fithermore, whoever killed this girl knows I've
located the body and returned it here.

Speaker 27 (03:27:38):
Is that the more so?

Speaker 13 (03:27:39):
What Cream?

Speaker 8 (03:27:40):
The killer is going to try to steal the body again,
and you, mister Corlan and O'Malley, I'm gonna catch him
red handed. Me you what, crayon?

Speaker 13 (03:27:48):
How can you be sure?

Speaker 8 (03:27:49):
I made sure? Now listen, here's what we're gonna do.
We leave the body here on this table with a
sheet over it. Then you two get under the sheets
on these other tables. But those are tables they perform
autopsies on, right, And the murderer when he comes in,
will never suspect that you're under those sheets.

Speaker 13 (03:28:10):
All right, Krian, I'm game.

Speaker 8 (03:28:12):
I'm leaving you two here alone. I'll beat it out
and get Lieutenant Grady. Oh, I gotta warn you. No
one knows you're down here in the vaults. Just you too.
But don't worry. The killer will be here.

Speaker 2 (03:28:27):
Oh h luck boys.

Speaker 8 (03:28:34):
Just us don the killer. Mister Quinton, I'm not afraid.
Let's get under the sheets. Now, turn out the light.

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Mister Cortland, will you do me a small favor?

Speaker 14 (03:29:01):
Why?

Speaker 13 (03:29:01):
Certainly, O'Malley, What is it?

Speaker 8 (03:29:05):
Every now and then reach over and pinch me?

Speaker 13 (03:29:09):
That will be a pleasure.

Speaker 76 (03:29:12):
Why every time I get under a sheet, I go
to sleep. You don't mean to say you could go
to sleep in a mog waiting for a murderer. Why
that's ridiculous. My mind agrees with you. But when my
body feels a sheep, it goes to sweep.

Speaker 8 (03:29:33):
Pat m.

Speaker 13 (03:29:42):
O'melly, did you hear that?

Speaker 14 (03:29:46):
What I swear?

Speaker 8 (03:29:47):
The door opened and closed?

Speaker 14 (03:29:54):
Sh listen footsteps?

Speaker 8 (03:29:58):
Oh yeah, keep the sheet over your face.

Speaker 13 (03:30:05):
Go on me, let's all, I've got him.

Speaker 8 (03:30:08):
I got him, Hey, I've got him on my life,
all right, all right, all right, so come on, I
got your covered. Come on, get up off the floor.
Well thanks, O'Malley. I know I get to bend on
you right right. Hey, this guy is court.

Speaker 13 (03:30:24):
You tricked me, Cray, and you are waiting at the
end of the hall all the time.

Speaker 8 (03:30:27):
And I suppose you didn't try to trick O'Meley and
moiter him in a boggain. Yeah, but I don't get it.
Did Cortland kill Liberman?

Speaker 24 (03:30:32):
Did he steal a body?

Speaker 8 (03:30:33):
Not so fast, o'melly. Go ahead, go to the telephone
and tell Lieutenant Grated to hurry over here to the
city morgue. But he wants Liberman's killer. I'll wait here.
I'm still expecting Samuel don'i to show up and identify
the girl's body. Oh uh, O'Malley. Another thing, Get me
a bucket full of prox side a bucket paroxy peroxide.

Speaker 10 (03:30:53):
I'll need it.

Speaker 2 (03:31:08):
Oh what's this all about?

Speaker 21 (03:31:09):
Crane and say, who are all these people?

Speaker 8 (03:31:11):
Well, o' mally, you know, and missus Samuel don'ty and
missus eudon'i and this is my client. Mister Courtland, you're
a client, then why you got him handcuffed? Well it
ain't merely because he didn't pay his bills.

Speaker 13 (03:31:22):
Now, no cracks.

Speaker 21 (03:31:24):
Crane O'Malley told me on the phone that this blonde
dame Alice Ross didn't commit suicide but was murdered.

Speaker 13 (03:31:31):
What about that?

Speaker 8 (03:31:32):
Well, that's right, murdered by this man right here. But look, Crane,
Cortland couldn't have said anything about Cartlon. I said this
man right here, meaning Samuel Doney, that's a lie.

Speaker 4 (03:31:42):
You can't prove that you shut up, shut up, shut up,
Oh Crane, you.

Speaker 21 (03:31:47):
Mean that you don't he committed all those murders.

Speaker 24 (03:31:48):
No, my husband was with me when they were committed.
And what reason would he have to kill this this
Alice Ross?

Speaker 43 (03:31:53):
Why he didn't even know where?

Speaker 8 (03:31:54):
How about that, Crane, when you're done the auto of
known Alice Ross? He killed it because you wouldn't give
him a divorce less? Ross was actually missus. You don't
how could she be?

Speaker 26 (03:32:02):
Aye, missus?

Speaker 8 (03:32:03):
You don't mean him my money money, God out, it
won't do you any good.

Speaker 10 (03:32:11):
Don't talk, Sam They can't prove anything.

Speaker 8 (03:32:13):
They quiet, you may quiet you be quiet you by heaven.
This is all beginning to make sense.

Speaker 21 (03:32:18):
That's why you don't He stole the body of his
wife so that he could pass off this woman here
as missus.

Speaker 8 (03:32:23):
You don'ty right, little sure?

Speaker 13 (03:32:25):
I get it, And now for the proof.

Speaker 8 (03:32:26):
O'Malley Maley. Hand me that bucket full of proxides. Crane.

Speaker 21 (03:32:31):
Hey, now wait a minute, the crane, wait a minute
before you started, Shenetigan. If Alice Ross was actually missus eudon'ty?
Who's his name here?

Speaker 8 (03:32:39):
All that simple? She's Katheryne Cortland. They're crazy.

Speaker 4 (03:32:42):
Catheryne Cortland was a blonde. Wait a minute, she's no blonde, Crane.

Speaker 8 (03:32:46):
Oh no, just watch watch her hair, Lieutenant, just watch
her hair.

Speaker 4 (03:32:57):
Say the black is running out that die?

Speaker 8 (03:33:00):
You mean you better take it someplace where she can
clean up on Molly.

Speaker 21 (03:33:02):
Yeah, but wait a minute, where does this guy Cortland
fit in.

Speaker 8 (03:33:06):
I'm afraid he was merely a unhappy accomplice, but go
easy on him. He's a good guy, good guy, good guy,
good guy. He tried to stab me, yeah, yeah, but
he was dragged into this whole thing to protect his sister.
And she was dragged in by Samuel Dony. He's the
real life Crane.

Speaker 28 (03:33:19):
I'm not making any alibies, but I wish you'd answer me.

Speaker 13 (03:33:21):
Just one question.

Speaker 8 (03:33:22):
Go ahead, shoot, Cortland.

Speaker 13 (03:33:23):
How did you know my sister had dyed her hair? Well?

Speaker 8 (03:33:26):
In your sister's apartment, I found a bottle of black
hair dye and a bottle of peroxide in the bathroom.
But what finally convinced me was the real missus Udny.
What you mean you see hair grows after death, And
if you'll take a look at the dead girl's body,
you'll see the roots of a blonde hair are all black. Crane,

(03:33:46):
all I can say, you'll make my hair stand on end.

Speaker 78 (03:34:05):
And that was Lady in a Morgue by Jonathan Latimer.
Oh yes, yes, we were going to have a guest
ghost on tonight's broadcast. Oh but poor fellow, he was
taken gravely ill. The doctors have given up our hope

(03:34:25):
he's going to live. By the way, if you have
any pet vampires you'd like to hear about on these programs,
just drop me a line. Just give the letter to
your favorite witch with instructions to take her broomstick and
knock on the door of the Mystery playhouse, Armed Forces Radio,

(03:34:49):
Los Angeles, USA. Now it's time to close the doors
before all these bats fly away. This is Peter Laurie
saying good night sleep Tad.

Speaker 33 (03:35:11):
Vincent Price presents Marrist Venham and Liz Fraser in The
Family Album by William.

Speaker 19 (03:35:17):
Ingram Vincent Price. Hello and welcome meet my friend Arthur,
Arthur Goodby. Arthur is your ordinary, very ordinary, ordinary man,
the kind of man one simply passes in the street,
the kind of man at a ticket barrier one squeezes past,

(03:35:38):
and perhaps every so gently curses that such a man
as Arthur Goodby, only a few very intimates are even
aware of his existence. And yet in his home life,
even if ordinary, very ordinary, ordinary man has his hidden depths,
depths too deep to fathom.

Speaker 2 (03:36:02):
Well to my man's life in was it first?

Speaker 4 (03:36:08):
I hope you haven't Roger.

Speaker 2 (03:36:09):
Arthur, let me worry about my Arthur.

Speaker 12 (03:36:12):
Well, say thank you nicely.

Speaker 10 (03:36:15):
Then I just did nicely, was what I said.

Speaker 13 (03:36:18):
Rose.

Speaker 2 (03:36:19):
I see why I don't start.

Speaker 12 (03:36:22):
Rose, You could know what I was reading myself in
for right from the start.

Speaker 2 (03:36:27):
Oh, everything in the garden.

Speaker 35 (03:36:29):
When you first moved in here are your invitation that
art invitation? Poor simple, good natured Arthur a Rose meet
my good friend Harry, one of the very best, but
presently without a roof over his head, and with that
spare room of our just collecting gods.

Speaker 2 (03:36:45):
I was very grateful to Arthur, bet you were. But
I wonder how grateful.

Speaker 35 (03:36:49):
Arthur would be if he ever got out that that
spare room wasn't the only thing that took.

Speaker 38 (03:36:54):
His young Ben's fancy.

Speaker 10 (03:36:56):
What he may seem simple, but I.

Speaker 35 (03:36:58):
Shouldn't count on his good name.

Speaker 2 (03:37:00):
You're running to that.

Speaker 22 (03:37:00):
Extent there who said anything about them?

Speaker 35 (03:37:05):
Not a word these lips, I should hope, not a
single little world they could walk, So I don't know
any anymore.

Speaker 2 (03:37:16):
That's a charge of good sa Friday.

Speaker 35 (03:37:19):
Night didn't always an hour later of a Sriday if
usually to stop off, as mister Margin, I was forgetting
this treaty of habit my asthor.

Speaker 26 (03:37:32):
Thanks all for greatures about it.

Speaker 2 (03:37:34):
Oh mister Margin, h you're there, anyone at home? Call
you one, my good say yeah, I hope it's not inconvenience.

Speaker 58 (03:37:53):
I had just about even who have to fore the
rush hour I'm afraid even worse than usual you're you're.

Speaker 33 (03:37:59):
A lucky man not to know it first time.

Speaker 8 (03:38:02):
I know I am that me and my shop.

Speaker 58 (03:38:05):
There's many beautiful reminders of the past that I can
afford to lay my hands on. And I knew which
particular beauty brought to visiting. Who spotted it in the
window for the reserve tag is my good friend?

Speaker 2 (03:38:21):
Who else? Who is my good friend? Mister gouldby.

Speaker 58 (03:38:29):
Usual, that's very kind as let me show you a.

Speaker 2 (03:38:34):
Large country house sale this day.

Speaker 58 (03:38:36):
Morning, though, I see so myself as fine a family
album as you've ever liked to see.

Speaker 2 (03:38:44):
When a beauty a beautiful you feel the way? Yeah, yes,
we'll keep flatering on the hand to little family albums.

Speaker 58 (03:38:58):
The rabsmanship you see, the solid brows cloud that has
to keep out the noisy body in sulders. Oh, Oh,
may I look inside after you?

Speaker 19 (03:39:09):
I think I can make exapt.

Speaker 58 (03:39:13):
Oh the family album of William James Willoughby, who is.

Speaker 10 (03:39:18):
The only feeling his photographs should have private place.

Speaker 19 (03:39:21):
Yes, how proud he looks.

Speaker 2 (03:39:25):
Thank you, got as a man understand, shotgun cross into
his arm like he put a bully to do.

Speaker 58 (03:39:34):
Anybody that stared aventure further? Oh, and then just step
to pages.

Speaker 2 (03:39:42):
Seems there's noseybody in Saulder's got their way after all. Say, well, well,
what can I say?

Speaker 26 (03:39:54):
Just what you set your heart on for too long?

Speaker 2 (03:39:56):
All suddenly there god friend, oh oh was this very
good of you?

Speaker 58 (03:40:03):
But he did speak to now and worth, have what
you seek its worth, and then drop the money in
next time you're passing worth, You're sure no trust between
no friends, no trust at all. Besides high time to
put the shut it up. And your lovely wife at
who waiting your return, did not wait him to be
served slippers by the hearth. If you're the now an

(03:40:26):
old bachelor and diplity of things, a man will be indies.
Oh yes, mister maart it I suppose most people would consider.

Speaker 2 (03:40:36):
Me a very lucky man. A right, yeah, well it's
very nice half first, something well a bit different.

Speaker 35 (03:40:49):
I mean, leave it, Harry, for God's sake, make enough
of an idiot of himself.

Speaker 38 (03:40:53):
Without you trying to put him in the right.

Speaker 2 (03:40:55):
Sorry, that's a load of rubbish. All I just took
a facy to it, bet you did.

Speaker 13 (03:41:01):
One.

Speaker 35 (03:41:01):
Old Marty heaps that jump shop as he's open at
his Siday night and God knows what our betty face
likes stuff every time he's shop belt kings.

Speaker 58 (03:41:09):
I never quite considered it in that light here, and
did consider it is.

Speaker 2 (03:41:13):
The last thing that comes into it.

Speaker 43 (03:41:14):
From where I'm standing, passager plate.

Speaker 58 (03:41:19):
I I suppose I could always take it back.

Speaker 38 (03:41:22):
You can do what you ruddy like, sunny him.

Speaker 35 (03:41:24):
Either that or it's down that shad with the rest
of the rubbish.

Speaker 43 (03:41:27):
One thing's for sure, you're not putting me giving it
house room.

Speaker 2 (03:41:31):
It is a lovely bit of craftsmanship and the last
thing I needed.

Speaker 26 (03:41:35):
You gang enough on me dump.

Speaker 14 (03:41:40):
More buses. What I'd call it family album.

Speaker 35 (03:41:45):
Minus the family.

Speaker 12 (03:41:46):
It was seems ah.

Speaker 58 (03:41:47):
Well, I had thought, well, we could always start taking
some of our room the phone.

Speaker 2 (03:41:53):
No not watch the birdy time again.

Speaker 12 (03:41:56):
Do you know, Harry, last time he.

Speaker 35 (03:41:58):
Tied that casa, he spent a whole nasty either didn't
turn out or looked as if they'd been taken down
the wrong end of a telescope.

Speaker 23 (03:42:06):
More is what I called it.

Speaker 38 (03:42:07):
My final word on the matter.

Speaker 12 (03:42:10):
Well, if you've quite finished, am I to start with
the washing up ark of your hands?

Speaker 2 (03:42:14):
I no, no, not not just no. Something I've got
something to tell you.

Speaker 10 (03:42:25):
I'm not too surprised in one night.

Speaker 2 (03:42:28):
You know, Harry's got a witar you'll never fand it
gorn enough. Well I've got me.

Speaker 56 (03:42:35):
That's to say, I've got as a car a car.

Speaker 10 (03:42:41):
I don't believe it.

Speaker 2 (03:42:42):
I honestly the.

Speaker 58 (03:42:43):
Car half but there's nothing special, not new, but not
that old, no that oh yeah yeah.

Speaker 56 (03:42:49):
Just a little runabout.

Speaker 2 (03:42:52):
But you can't even drive half drive.

Speaker 35 (03:42:55):
The old fool's as blind as a back haves at.

Speaker 12 (03:42:57):
The nearest tree.

Speaker 58 (03:42:58):
Before we got as far as the course, Harry cameo me,
what you want me to go along with you?

Speaker 2 (03:43:06):
Well, here's Harry, of course. Did you think different?

Speaker 44 (03:43:09):
Now?

Speaker 58 (03:43:10):
Trips is see trips just for three of us regular
family OUTI gate. Ah, yes, I'm sure we'd all enjoy that.

Speaker 19 (03:43:20):
And Arthur was right about that, though they must have
appeared as somewhat odds recome poor Arthur relegated to the backseat,
Rose head scarved and bubbling up front, and young Harry
at the wheel, showing off a bit like any kid
on the fair ground, bumpers in young Harry but quite
old enough to know better. Oh it all seemed a

(03:43:42):
very civilized arrangement in theory. Anyway, The most cordial of
relationships with Rose, always at the center, a feeling of
sharing each after their fashion, some christ possession. They never
referred to it directly, of course, nothing else blunt. It
was enough to bask in the secret knowledge of it,

(03:44:05):
like the sun and the seams and that warm summer's day.

Speaker 56 (03:44:11):
Off she's waving well, well, Rose, look.

Speaker 13 (03:44:15):
Give you sorrow?

Speaker 56 (03:44:16):
Oh no, I can't say here, I have a go.

Speaker 8 (03:44:20):
With a glasses.

Speaker 26 (03:44:22):
More to the right. Here she must be off.

Speaker 56 (03:44:25):
Why did a poet for God's fake?

Speaker 14 (03:44:27):
She is?

Speaker 58 (03:44:28):
She's waving well, way back then? She had expected her
way back. That's right, there's coffee, alter.

Speaker 56 (03:44:37):
What the hell did you want to go all that
way for out of her dep Say.

Speaker 58 (03:44:42):
Quite right, young Harries, and never get out of your
depths anyway, Paddy.

Speaker 56 (03:44:46):
Go where she's swimming back? Thanks all for that.

Speaker 58 (03:44:50):
Worries were we or you must never worry, not as
far as my Rose is concerned.

Speaker 56 (03:44:56):
Never fade the worry as you say that whole Why too,
I do well? Should know her about that? I should
hope should know my own wife found oh not just
so many years end?

Speaker 21 (03:45:08):
The metate.

Speaker 56 (03:45:11):
Anyway, you must know pretty well all wisdom know about
Rose and me by now well ups and downs, Young Harry,
a difference.

Speaker 2 (03:45:20):
Name found to happen. Wouldn't you say?

Speaker 58 (03:45:24):
Well, if you say so, oh, I do?

Speaker 23 (03:45:26):
I do you take my word for it?

Speaker 2 (03:45:29):
Still knew what I was letting myself in for when
I popped the question.

Speaker 58 (03:45:33):
No, he took a bit of persuading. I can tell
you well, if you look at it from Rosy's point
of view, not much on offer. Not much to write
home about, as.

Speaker 56 (03:45:42):
The second goes come from blested.

Speaker 50 (03:45:45):
In the bank.

Speaker 58 (03:45:45):
Regular job prospects even if I played my cards right there,
but never a great one for cards playing young, not
enough skill which sort some destection and much better. You're
limitally the high states for them that can fall right,
And you agree, young Harry. Oh, talk as to how

(03:46:09):
one of you on so old Rose back buy the Mermaid.

Speaker 43 (03:46:14):
You haven't seen all the coffios.

Speaker 3 (03:46:16):
Poor forth.

Speaker 58 (03:46:18):
I've had to get the snapshot, which you thinks we're
not looking for love.

Speaker 2 (03:46:22):
You when you get in.

Speaker 58 (03:46:24):
God only knows what state my egg he is a
rosier Watch the body gotcha?

Speaker 43 (03:46:30):
How Ruddy l g Another under that dand Sam the album.

Speaker 19 (03:46:36):
And another for the album It was. There were many,
many more other ones. Rose, sometimes prinking and cleaning straighted
to the lens, sometimes deliberately pouting away from the shutter.
Harry besider is expression seldom changing, pleasant, but set resigned
almost part of the furniture. As for Arthur, Arthur clicked

(03:47:00):
away quite merrily, regardless of mood or circumstance. But the
surprising thing was he never showed them the results. If badgered,
he'd just shrugged off and smile. Patience, patience. When the
great day dawns and my album is complete, you shall

(03:47:20):
be the first invited to be unbailing. In the weeks
that followed, Arthurs shed became a kind of refuge. This
increasing absence from heart and home, if noted at all,
caused neither concern or comment. It was as he wanted it.

Speaker 2 (03:47:44):
Obah, are you in there?

Speaker 58 (03:47:47):
It's Rose with this Allah somebody out writing out a
lot of supersel.

Speaker 56 (03:47:54):
Obah, don't get the minute he'll let you in.

Speaker 26 (03:48:01):
That's Lon talk about the Bank of England.

Speaker 2 (03:48:07):
Whoa just in case vandals? Yes?

Speaker 19 (03:48:12):
So what particularly interest.

Speaker 2 (03:48:13):
Kept you burning the midnight over the night song?

Speaker 56 (03:48:16):
Nothing in particular.

Speaker 58 (03:48:17):
We just no, I need to expand our mate, see
for myself. Twelve well, another session on the old family album.
They catch you up on the Rogues gallery.

Speaker 26 (03:48:27):
Anywhere near publications?

Speaker 2 (03:48:29):
Date are we?

Speaker 19 (03:48:31):
How about a bit of a preview ry.

Speaker 2 (03:48:32):
I'd rather you didn't stop.

Speaker 58 (03:48:34):
Just a little pea peace obort, not a word for
rose promise.

Speaker 8 (03:48:39):
Oh.

Speaker 13 (03:48:41):
God please?

Speaker 2 (03:48:47):
Oh well, indeed I did warn you.

Speaker 56 (03:48:50):
There's three you're still letting wire.

Speaker 58 (03:48:53):
William James Willoughby. He is tired of plays at the front.
It's his his album Whoam Tinder?

Speaker 2 (03:49:03):
As you say?

Speaker 58 (03:49:03):
As you say, well, guess better as you go on.
But well, got to have made a bit of a
botch of these early ones, a mate, double exposure.

Speaker 26 (03:49:19):
No, well, there's something to do with perencing.

Speaker 2 (03:49:22):
If I were.

Speaker 56 (03:49:23):
Developed them myself, I could have explain that.

Speaker 26 (03:49:27):
It's no offense.

Speaker 2 (03:49:29):
Look please yeh catch sheet, Oh yes, take your points unpleasant.

Speaker 19 (03:49:39):
It's a bit like a found it they're founders.

Speaker 2 (03:49:43):
But any on these early ones so far?

Speaker 58 (03:49:46):
You tee up here on the shelf there, just where
you're looking, explains it then, doesn't it?

Speaker 2 (03:49:54):
You've got a turk up there after all, mate, gam
But that's rappid in news. They both tacked away. Come
that's doing you really think?

Speaker 14 (03:50:02):
So?

Speaker 13 (03:50:03):
Sure?

Speaker 12 (03:50:03):
So why did you first.

Speaker 74 (03:50:11):
Just call me?

Speaker 19 (03:50:14):
Oh, Harry? And now leeds a little roses.

Speaker 58 (03:50:17):
All this was supposed to come as a nice mom's
The word oh my mom is the word thank you.

Speaker 19 (03:50:27):
The last little outing they ever took was a visit
to a bird sanctuary. As a matter of fact, it
was Arthur's idea, so it seemed an obvious joy. Besides,
the seclusion of the place was bound to have its advantity.
Daddy Old Arthur could plod off with his government surplus
binoculars to spy on his feathered friends, leaving her with

(03:50:51):
Harry and more personal intimacy. It preoccupied them. In fact,
it wasn't until early evening they began to think something
might be up.

Speaker 2 (03:51:03):
Well, you're ones.

Speaker 58 (03:51:05):
We called the talk friends, but Nigel, your results, you're honest.
This is a colonial's inquiry, mister Blake, not a court
of law.

Speaker 26 (03:51:15):
Do you want, sir will PROFI?

Speaker 8 (03:51:18):
H yes?

Speaker 13 (03:51:19):
So then what did you lo?

Speaker 4 (03:51:22):
We thought of that, mister.

Speaker 58 (03:51:24):
Goodby might be fine an Arkin suffer a lot, well,
just at first, and then we went looking, didn't we.
God knows Heaven's knows what chance we saw we had,
And all that undergrowth free not a mention of that.

Speaker 79 (03:51:40):
You could find no truth and no sight, no sound
out of the ordinary, nothing.

Speaker 2 (03:51:46):
At all, exceptful for what.

Speaker 58 (03:51:53):
Gunshots, one right after the other, a double bottle shotguns.
I'm sure, I'm not sure how far from it. It's
just the way it sounded. But as well as missus
Goodby say.

Speaker 2 (03:52:05):
Not very likely.

Speaker 26 (03:52:07):
Oh well, it's not the kind of thing you're.

Speaker 2 (03:52:09):
Expecting at birth sanctuary, is it?

Speaker 56 (03:52:12):
Not the kind of thing?

Speaker 2 (03:52:13):
Itself appears continual, nothing else.

Speaker 26 (03:52:18):
But then it's nearly dark.

Speaker 58 (03:52:20):
There's nothing more we could do on our own, so
we got to the nearest telephone and call the police.

Speaker 19 (03:52:26):
They return to your seat, your honor, m M.

Speaker 79 (03:52:33):
Therefore, having given due and careful consideration to the evidence
concerning the sudden, unexplained disappearance of the said Arthur William Goodby,
and in view of the fact that no remain have
ever been recovered or evidence to suggest intent or willful

(03:52:55):
acts of.

Speaker 2 (03:52:55):
Malowe, I show you.

Speaker 80 (03:52:58):
With returns and from vis but not totally dismissing the
inherent possibility of death by misadventure.

Speaker 13 (03:53:10):
Colonist course is as.

Speaker 19 (03:53:13):
Poor tragic rose the dear listeners. I'm sure you can
well imagine this scene the.

Speaker 35 (03:53:20):
Most wonderful husbands in all wide world.

Speaker 12 (03:53:25):
Nothing I wouldn't have done for my ass as you
know that.

Speaker 2 (03:53:29):
Well it left me the lot.

Speaker 35 (03:53:30):
Of course you'll see nothing but the very best for
my roadse the the times I ard you say that
now it is gone. Stand Theresa, great expectations time ai.

Speaker 2 (03:53:46):
E low, great expectations.

Speaker 19 (03:53:50):
That the mutual expectations proved short lived. Rose was right
about copying the lost, of course, but she's certainly hadn't
bargained on a recent hefty mortgage Arthur had settled her
with his bank account. Also seemed to indicate dear deceased
Arthur had treated himself to something of a free in

(03:54:13):
his latter years.

Speaker 35 (03:54:15):
So Raddy, too, timing already been doing himself proud.

Speaker 22 (03:54:19):
Hasn't he know what?

Speaker 2 (03:54:21):
He probably had some fancy woman shut away under my
very known author? Howbia would we know?

Speaker 43 (03:54:27):
Explain why he was always back later Friday?

Speaker 35 (03:54:29):
Wouldn't he splashing out on some damns heart?

Speaker 2 (03:54:32):
While dear darling Rose.

Speaker 13 (03:54:33):
How the fault, whatever faults of consolation?

Speaker 2 (03:54:36):
She could nothing.

Speaker 26 (03:54:39):
Nothing that matters.

Speaker 13 (03:54:41):
But it did.

Speaker 19 (03:54:42):
Amazing how Rose's change of circumstances affected Harris his little
treats the ard press became fewer and fewer. It eventually
got so bad she even suggested he'd get himself a
job and help out with the housekeeping. The writing certainly
seemed on the wall, but Arthur had spent the Luton

(03:55:06):
continued to puzzle him, though the secret Affair Rose credited.

Speaker 8 (03:55:10):
Him with pie in the sky.

Speaker 19 (03:55:13):
There'd been no sudden change in lifestyle, so where the help?
Then it dawned on him the shed, the stuff in
the shed. They'd seen bits and pieces, but for all
anybody knew they could be sitting on a fort. But
why they It didn't take Harry long to drop the

(03:55:35):
plural notion of things. But he earned it, hadn't He
had it coming to him, didn't he? His chance came
a couple of nights later, the night of the storm.
White at the storm. There'd been nothing like it since
the night he barged in on Arthur in the garden shed.

(03:56:00):
The memory of that night that took carriage the living
room window now, and as he peered through into the night.

Speaker 8 (03:56:06):
He saw it.

Speaker 19 (03:56:08):
A light on down there in the shed, slanting through
the dirty vanes onto the lawns.

Speaker 2 (03:56:15):
And even at this distance.

Speaker 19 (03:56:16):
Harry could see the door was a jar, almost invitingly
a jar. It could be his underestimated Rose. Perhaps she
had come to the same conclusion as he had. Was
down there now taking stuck, making plans about to leave
him high and.

Speaker 2 (03:56:36):
Drive h anyone in Earth Rose, you bot road, is
that you're earth Root?

Speaker 19 (03:57:00):
And then Harry saw it sat under the swinging leap,
in the very center of Arthur's work table, the family album.
It drew Harry to it like a magnet. Oh my court,

(03:57:22):
what court opened at the first page, and the eyes
of the original owner, long dead, but caught forever, staring
out at him, the eyes of the dead, straight from
the grave, staring out at him from a slime of
maggot ridden putressen. And from those eyes a fungus like

(03:57:48):
growth smearing itself, obliterating the snapshot images of those strangers
who had dared to invade the rest of its page.
Verry rose to say, side, Harry.

Speaker 2 (03:58:05):
Rose, a picnic winter castle, Harry Rose.

Speaker 8 (03:58:09):
Harry Rose as the burt.

Speaker 2 (03:58:13):
At the bird scuary.

Speaker 38 (03:58:17):
But how wait that very last table, How bring the
rings out his tank camera?

Speaker 35 (03:58:23):
So how the sail?

Speaker 19 (03:58:26):
It was the click that made Harry freeze the unmistakable
double click of a shotgun being cocked in the age.
It took him to turn before the thing that had
once been a man slowly raising the gun, now staring
down the pipe, a man in an old fashioned hunting costume,

(03:58:48):
norfolk jackets and towser tucked in the gates, that dead
sucket of an eye staring down the type Dad, a
dribbling mouth, the cheekbones rusting through the gray partmid of
putrefied flesh. Oh no, there was no mistaking the album's

(03:59:09):
original old.

Speaker 13 (03:59:10):
Way Tame Will Be.

Speaker 19 (03:59:26):
It was as far as Harry got his heart beat
now like some great animal trapped in his chest, a
great insurmountable sea pounding rolling through him and finally dragging
him down, ever down, into his unknown depth. Then it was,
though he lay quite still done, all done. Arthur waited

(03:59:52):
a full minute to be sure before he lowered the
gun and removed the mass and the figures that now
know beside his dead friend Faddy for no resemblance to
that muffled harlequin of King.

Speaker 5 (04:00:08):
I'm glad you didn't make me pull a trick, Harry.

Speaker 58 (04:00:12):
Anyway, I doubt if I could have found it in me,
but you help him. The mask quite works about wouldn't
you say?

Speaker 56 (04:00:24):
No violence in me.

Speaker 58 (04:00:25):
Though, mem real violence, Not against you, dear friend, not against.

Speaker 11 (04:00:32):
Rose, not even when I was forced to watch.

Speaker 58 (04:00:36):
The two of you together, me who was passed in
the role of poor older. Are they eh so gullible,
so naive, so easy trick?

Speaker 2 (04:00:53):
Until that day at the sanctuary?

Speaker 3 (04:00:57):
Uh oh, poor poor.

Speaker 19 (04:01:05):
Arthur climbed over the garden fence and took a short
cut over the fields. He buried his grotesque mask and
period costume in a carefully prepared plot. From there, he
continued on foot to a small suburban station, where he
took a train heading north. A very ordinary little man,
one of the faithless ones. The powers that be decided

(04:01:30):
Harry had suffered a heart attack, which he had A
year later, Rose found itself a new handsy man, sold
the house and moved to a different Loveness. One day,
the new owners will find the album New Jude passed Savin.
They'll make noises of disgust, handle it with gloves, and

(04:01:53):
finally burnt it on a bonfire. It's of no account,
it had served its purpose.

Speaker 33 (04:02:01):
That was the Family album, starring Morris Denham as Arthur
Goodby and Liuke Fraser Rose with James Carry as Harry
Aubrey Morris, Mister Martin and Anthony Mulen's The Coroner. The
Price of Fear was presented Vive incent Price, written by
William Ingram.

Speaker 4 (04:02:20):
Ellery Queen.

Speaker 20 (04:02:25):
In the entrance of a safer American Horn, a happier
American community, a more United States. The makers of Aerson
bring you Ellery Queen.

Speaker 45 (04:02:35):
I dedicate this program to the fight against crime, not
merely crimes of violence and crimes of dishonesty, but crimes
of intolerance, discrimination, and bad citizenship, crimes against America.

Speaker 20 (04:02:54):
Anison for the fast prolonged relief of headache pain brings
you another case in the career of Ellery Queen, celebrated
fighter of crime Anderson's guest armed detective Who's in the
studio to solve the mystery before Ellery reveals the solution
as mister Kent Smith and Now Ellery Queen tells the
story of a mysterious international figure suspected.

Speaker 26 (04:03:13):
Of diamond smuggling Number thirty one.

Speaker 20 (04:03:28):
Just a minute, Charlie Inspector who is a veally a radiophone.
Charlie says, some guys calling the police department from the
steamship A g at c Who I'm elected, inspector, queen speaking?
You keep me waiting, Hey, Kip, who is this Jeorjacques Carris? Oh, yes,

(04:03:50):
mister Carris. Well what can I do for you? You
and your police and your customs of his suits? Can
let me alone, that's what you can do to me,
inspector whoever you are. No, I don't get you, mister Accarris.
If you're on shipboard in mid Atlantic.

Speaker 26 (04:04:06):
You can let me alone with the ship docks in
New York.

Speaker 20 (04:04:09):
Oh, expecting trouble with the customs, mister.

Speaker 2 (04:04:11):
O Carris, very humorous.

Speaker 26 (04:04:15):
Three times I've inserted in your customs like a common criminal.

Speaker 46 (04:04:19):
With the course.

Speaker 26 (04:04:19):
This time I shall make the most vigorous.

Speaker 2 (04:04:21):
Representations to my government.

Speaker 26 (04:04:24):
Do you understand me, Inspector?

Speaker 2 (04:04:28):
What is your name?

Speaker 26 (04:04:29):
I understand you.

Speaker 4 (04:04:31):
He's gonna make trouble, inspector, That's what he says.

Speaker 26 (04:04:35):
VILLI is there's a private fight there or can anyone
get in on it?

Speaker 11 (04:04:38):
Oh?

Speaker 20 (04:04:38):
That was a bird named Georgia Carris Henry. He's from
the Near East and he has plenty of connections.

Speaker 26 (04:04:43):
Our cares, of course, what's your interest in him? Well?

Speaker 20 (04:04:46):
Some about a year ago, we got a tippy with
smuggling diamonds in. He passed the tip to customs. They
gave him the business, but no diamonds. I take it,
no diamonds. Still, after our Cares sailed back to his homeland,
some stuff turned up around New York.

Speaker 26 (04:04:59):
That's seemed the gibe with that tip. The same thing
happened on least the next two trips.

Speaker 20 (04:05:04):
Now he calls from mid Ocean to say that if
he's bald again, he'll make a diplomatic.

Speaker 4 (04:05:07):
Issue of it.

Speaker 26 (04:05:08):
Well, if he's innocent, you can't blame him.

Speaker 20 (04:05:09):
Listen, miss Porter, This ar Carous is an international mystery man,
and he's suspected of everything from espionage to murder, but
never any proof.

Speaker 81 (04:05:16):
It certainly doesn't keep him out of cafe society. He's
always being whined and dying by people like Pipstrum and
Sue Mounting in that crowd.

Speaker 4 (04:05:24):
Oh, who's been passing these tips along?

Speaker 19 (04:05:27):
Dad?

Speaker 20 (04:05:28):
All they've been coming in by way of the underground
being to get me zk at customs.

Speaker 45 (04:05:33):
Yes, sir, right, of course, it's occurred to your dad
that Arcas may be smuggling the diamonds in through a confederate.

Speaker 20 (04:05:39):
I'm sure it's occurred to us, but what can you do?
It's one of those things. Here's simple enough, here's zach
anything come in on, George Arcarris. Ah, yes, yes, I know.
Well I just got a notion about that. I'll call
you right back. There's been another tip. Now, listenery, we

(04:06:00):
must make sure that our carosse isn't slipping the ice
to a co work at the carry off.

Speaker 26 (04:06:04):
Now would you make sure for us? It's a delicate situation, maestro.

Speaker 20 (04:06:07):
If you tell us he hasn't passed anything to a pal,
we'll search our carris and customs energy.

Speaker 4 (04:06:11):
I'd have to board the edge quite a bit before
she docks that.

Speaker 26 (04:06:14):
That'll be a cinch.

Speaker 20 (04:06:15):
Now I can arrange them to important customs people. All right,
now look here, you'll go out Sunday with the pilot
and mingle with the past.

Speaker 14 (04:06:31):
We don't don't see.

Speaker 10 (04:06:34):
How are we getting off?

Speaker 26 (04:06:35):
Inspect?

Speaker 4 (04:06:37):
Oh wait a minute, there he is.

Speaker 20 (04:06:38):
I'll go be ready to take our carris over of Melory.

Speaker 26 (04:06:40):
Ok. Get going. So that's mister Arcarras. Let's get closer, Nikki,
I inspect.

Speaker 10 (04:06:45):
You this instrum and Susu morning.

Speaker 26 (04:06:47):
It's people right.

Speaker 20 (04:06:48):
It's society friends and be susu here there is joying.

Speaker 26 (04:06:54):
Hi, I'll see you as soon as I'm finished with
the customs. Don't let him push you around, John, nothing doing.
He didn't pass.

Speaker 34 (04:07:05):
I'm positive I haven't had my eyes off him. If
he's smuggling anything, Dad, it's in his luggage or on him.

Speaker 4 (04:07:10):
That means a buddy search and i'd better go.

Speaker 26 (04:07:13):
Tell thank thanks Son.

Speaker 4 (04:07:14):
Call me at home, Dad, will you I.

Speaker 10 (04:07:17):
Wonder if you'll find anything, Ellie, I wonder.

Speaker 4 (04:07:28):
Nothing?

Speaker 20 (04:07:29):
Eh, not a thing, Son, And really swears our carrot
didn't pass anything to anyone.

Speaker 4 (04:07:33):
From the gang way to the customer caras raising. Kane's
calling Washington right now.

Speaker 26 (04:07:39):
I guess those tips are phonies and we've fail for him.

Speaker 4 (04:07:43):
Keep me informed, Dad, Oh, Nikki, he inspector. Yes, and
it's a wash out.

Speaker 81 (04:07:48):
Oh, by the ways.

Speaker 26 (04:07:50):
And Missus Prime waiting to see you. She's terribly concerned
about her son, her son.

Speaker 66 (04:07:55):
Well, all right, as long as she's here already, Come in,
Missus Pride, Yes, please come in, Missus Pryane and sit down,
won't you?

Speaker 38 (04:08:06):
Oh, mister queen, it's about Arthur, my boy.

Speaker 2 (04:08:10):
Yes, it's missing.

Speaker 4 (04:08:12):
He didn't come home, Yester, suppose you tell me all
about it.

Speaker 38 (04:08:14):
Well, we live in Harlem, mister Queen. Just Arthur and me.
I'm a widow, I'm sickly, and Authur supports me.

Speaker 4 (04:08:21):
Where was Arthur supposed to be coming home from Missus
Prime from his job.

Speaker 38 (04:08:24):
He's got a buttling job over on Park Avenue employed by.

Speaker 4 (04:08:28):
Mister Ellary, the buddy of our good friend Nikki. Please
go on Missus Brian well.

Speaker 38 (04:08:35):
Every Saturday for three years, mister Queen, that voice comes
straight home from Park Avenue with his salary. Here it
is Sunday in he ain't home yet.

Speaker 4 (04:08:44):
Have you called mister Istram?

Speaker 38 (04:08:46):
Oh, yes, sir, yesterday evening, but he said Arthur had
left at the usual time, saying he was going right home.
I don't know what I'll do if Arthur don't show
up by tonight.

Speaker 10 (04:08:56):
Missus Priane is afraid he lose his job.

Speaker 38 (04:08:57):
Ellery mister Isstram's awful prick. Every morning Arthur has to
have mister Estram's breakfast ready by nine o'clock Monday mornings.
Arthur always gets there about eight point thirty, just so
mister Istram can eat on time.

Speaker 4 (04:09:11):
Did Istram offer any possible explanation, Missus Brian.

Speaker 38 (04:09:14):
Well, he said not to worry. But I don't know,
mister Queen. It don't sound like Arthur.

Speaker 4 (04:09:20):
Have you notified the police?

Speaker 38 (04:09:21):
Oh no, sir, Misterstram wouldn't like that. That's why I come.

Speaker 29 (04:09:25):
To you, mister queen.

Speaker 4 (04:09:27):
Yes, well, now you you go home and stop worrying.
Missus Bryan. I'll make the inquiries.

Speaker 38 (04:09:33):
Yes, sir, thank you, mister.

Speaker 81 (04:09:35):
That's all right, thank you, bye, good bye, tip Istram's butler.
And today Georgia Carris came in. Funny coincidence.

Speaker 4 (04:09:47):
I've made a missing person's bureau.

Speaker 10 (04:10:03):
Here she is Hillary.

Speaker 4 (04:10:05):
Oh morning, Missus Bryan.

Speaker 38 (04:10:07):
Morning mister queen, Miss Porter, I got down. You're just
as fast as I could.

Speaker 4 (04:10:13):
I I think we've found Arthur.

Speaker 26 (04:10:16):
Would you have where is he?

Speaker 10 (04:10:18):
Missus Bryan.

Speaker 34 (04:10:20):
Yes, sir, I'm afraid we have some dreadful news for you.
This is the city mortuary.

Speaker 14 (04:10:29):
What, sir?

Speaker 4 (04:10:32):
This is the morgue, Missus Priyan nicky.

Speaker 38 (04:10:35):
It's all right, sir, it's all right.

Speaker 10 (04:10:38):
Lean on me, Missus Bryan.

Speaker 4 (04:10:41):
Do you think that you're up to identifying author officially?

Speaker 14 (04:10:44):
For us?

Speaker 4 (04:10:44):
Missus Bryan.

Speaker 26 (04:10:46):
I want to see my boy, Thanky, I know Elly all.

Speaker 4 (04:10:52):
Like missus Bryan started right my stroke, that's my son.

Speaker 38 (04:11:21):
He was all dare.

Speaker 4 (04:11:24):
Wet like his body was taken out of the East
River at five o'clock this morning.

Speaker 32 (04:11:30):
Arthur never did a wrong thing in his life, only
maybe played ten cents on the numbers once in a while.
He won twenty dollars last month playing the number thirty one.
What yes, he liked that number thirty one and playing
it for most a year.

Speaker 38 (04:11:52):
Do right, go home down.

Speaker 4 (04:11:55):
Started to take us as Brian home. Now, yeah, well
is Brian us?

Speaker 10 (04:12:05):
I think I'd like a cup of coffee Allery.

Speaker 4 (04:12:07):
Then fIF Istram is going to have to give it
to you.

Speaker 26 (04:12:10):
But Ellery, it's early in the morning. It's only seven fifty.

Speaker 34 (04:12:13):
And wait, Nikki, there's a connection between Arthur's death and
Georgia Karis.

Speaker 4 (04:12:16):
That number thirty one?

Speaker 26 (04:12:18):
You mean just because Arthur played thirty one all the
time in the numbers.

Speaker 45 (04:12:21):
See number of our Karus's cabin on the Ageo was
also thirty one.

Speaker 4 (04:12:25):
Come on, Nikki, and.

Speaker 20 (04:12:38):
There, ladies and gentlemen, you have the beginning of our mystery.
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(04:13:01):
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N A C I N. Now back to our story.

(04:13:21):
Hopping into a cab, Hillary and Nicky go directly from
the city mortuary to Pipstrum's apartment.

Speaker 26 (04:13:29):
I can't see anyone at this out.

Speaker 4 (04:13:30):
I'm just having my breakfast. Mister Istram, your butler is dead.

Speaker 8 (04:13:34):
Arthur dead.

Speaker 20 (04:13:38):
Well, come in, thank you, yes, thank you, Please forgive
the appearance of my apartment.

Speaker 26 (04:13:45):
Arthur is was the only surfent I employed then something
of a blow.

Speaker 29 (04:13:52):
He was a jewel.

Speaker 26 (04:13:54):
Won't you sit down?

Speaker 10 (04:13:55):
Thanks?

Speaker 4 (04:13:56):
But we mind if I have another cup of coffee
at all?

Speaker 30 (04:14:00):
Join me?

Speaker 29 (04:14:00):
No thanks.

Speaker 20 (04:14:02):
Arthur's mother phoned me Saturday night, but naturally, Andy died
run over stabbed in some Harlem brawl.

Speaker 34 (04:14:11):
Even if he was in a brawl, misterresst from my
strongly adopted it took place in Harlem.

Speaker 45 (04:14:16):
He died of a cerebral fracture. There's a bruise on
his jaw, and the back of his head is not
pretty hmmm.

Speaker 10 (04:14:23):
And then his body was dumped in the East River
like a sack of garbage.

Speaker 4 (04:14:27):
In a word, mister Ristram, Arthur was murdered.

Speaker 26 (04:14:32):
Clear of me. We'll see here, Queen. Do the police
think I did it? As some such nonsense?

Speaker 20 (04:14:37):
The last time I saw Arthur was Saturday evening when
he left you perfectly all right?

Speaker 4 (04:14:42):
I take it to your friend, Georgia Arkaris, new author.

Speaker 26 (04:14:45):
Sure what has our courage to do with Arthur's death?

Speaker 8 (04:14:48):
Queen?

Speaker 20 (04:14:49):
That, mister istrom is what I propose to find out, George.
He only got into the States yesterday morning.

Speaker 45 (04:14:55):
Arthur may not have been murdered until yesterday afternoon. Emmergion
and water, you see, often makes it difficult to fix
the exact time of death.

Speaker 4 (04:15:03):
Now look here, I'm getting a little bit bored with
all this.

Speaker 20 (04:15:07):
My fiance mismounting and I have known mister Arcaris for
a long time, and I'm quite thirty one.

Speaker 26 (04:15:12):
I beg your pardon, I.

Speaker 4 (04:15:13):
Said thirty one. Does the number thirty one mean anything
to you, mister Ristram?

Speaker 13 (04:15:18):
Not a thing?

Speaker 4 (04:15:21):
Then I'll let you return to your breakfast. Becky.

Speaker 20 (04:15:33):
Now you're way off, Son. What possible connection.

Speaker 4 (04:15:35):
Could there be?

Speaker 34 (04:15:36):
I don't know, Dad, but there is one, all on
a caravan number thirty one.

Speaker 4 (04:15:40):
A coincidence, just the same. I'm going to see our carge.

Speaker 8 (04:15:42):
We know why.

Speaker 20 (04:15:43):
Now layoff our Carris, will you? You don't know the
stinks she's made?

Speaker 26 (04:15:46):
Now please?

Speaker 2 (04:15:47):
Son?

Speaker 4 (04:15:48):
Okay, but Dad, I think you're making a big mistake.

Speaker 81 (04:16:00):
And that seemed to be the end of the diamond
smuggling case and of the author prime case too. The
police got nowhere on it, and Ellary got grumpier every day.
Then two weeks later it was a Sunday.

Speaker 4 (04:16:14):
Nikki, is that your uh huh?

Speaker 26 (04:16:16):
In my Sunday?

Speaker 19 (04:16:17):
Best?

Speaker 10 (04:16:18):
Hillary?

Speaker 4 (04:16:19):
What's the matter, dear Ja? It's sailing today? So what
George ar Carras are sailing on it?

Speaker 26 (04:16:24):
I suppose he is thicky?

Speaker 4 (04:16:28):
We can just make it, make why I tear? I
just solved it.

Speaker 34 (04:16:32):
NICKI come on, I hope you know what you're doing,
mister Queen. Trust me, Captain, Captain Delia and Miss dark
Carus open your capin door please?

Speaker 40 (04:16:54):
Yes?

Speaker 26 (04:16:55):
But is it Captain? Where are these people?

Speaker 11 (04:16:59):
Uh?

Speaker 34 (04:16:59):
Miss dark Carus, would you mind if this gentleman searches
your cabin?

Speaker 8 (04:17:03):
Search?

Speaker 26 (04:17:05):
I mind, very definitely, Captain.

Speaker 45 (04:17:08):
Perhaps if I explain, mister Racaris, it's my theory that
this cabin contains a hiding.

Speaker 4 (04:17:14):
Place, hiding place of what of some diamonds?

Speaker 14 (04:17:20):
Oh?

Speaker 26 (04:17:20):
I see?

Speaker 20 (04:17:22):
Formally, I've been accused of smuggling diamonds into the United States.

Speaker 26 (04:17:26):
Now I am accused of smuggling them out.

Speaker 4 (04:17:30):
Is that it not exactly?

Speaker 34 (04:17:32):
But you will admit, mister Racaras, won't you? And it's
a very odd coincidence.

Speaker 45 (04:17:36):
You're always booking cabin thirty one on the Aga, both
coming and going, and he's demented.

Speaker 4 (04:17:43):
Hm hmm everywhere.

Speaker 26 (04:17:46):
Go okay, sir.

Speaker 34 (04:17:47):
I can't hold up a ship, mister Queen. We sail
in ten minutes, ten minutes one side, Niki, you'll have
to hurry, Miss Queen.

Speaker 26 (04:18:06):
He's a pity.

Speaker 20 (04:18:07):
My good friends, Mister easterm and Miss Mounting did not
stand board long enough to witness this spectacle.

Speaker 4 (04:18:14):
Sostrom and miss Mounting were here, mister Arcars here in
your cabin.

Speaker 26 (04:18:18):
You know them, yes, mister Queen, they always see me out.

Speaker 45 (04:18:23):
That's very interesting, our cares because the steel support of
this bunk comes up, revealing a very effective hiding place.

Speaker 26 (04:18:31):
Why it's big enough to hide a fortune in diamonds.

Speaker 34 (04:18:33):
Sir, But mister Queen, it's empty, certainly, captain. But it
was full of diamonds when the Edge adopted ellery.

Speaker 26 (04:18:39):
He was searched when he got off the ship.

Speaker 4 (04:18:41):
Arkas left the diamonds on board, Nikki.

Speaker 45 (04:18:43):
He never carried them off when the ship made port,
but he made sure always to get Cavin thirty won
for the return trip. You heard him just now hit
the trim, and Susio Mounting always see him off. Visitors
to the ship on its outgoing voyage. Such visitors are
not searched when they leave. One of them carry that
I'm off just a few minutes ago. Stand very still,

(04:19:06):
Why era do not move?

Speaker 3 (04:19:08):
Please?

Speaker 26 (04:19:09):
Not even a little?

Speaker 4 (04:19:12):
Very good, oh the swine.

Speaker 10 (04:19:20):
And we look here through the porthole.

Speaker 26 (04:19:21):
He's running down the gangway just as they're pulling it
in cars.

Speaker 45 (04:19:24):
Nicky, We've got to get to wis from us, captain,
get us off your ship and so, Misterstram, I will
trouble you for those.

Speaker 26 (04:19:38):
Diamonds, it's cream.

Speaker 20 (04:19:39):
They have nothing to do with our carriage. My fiance
Mismounting did turn some jewels over to me this afternoon.

Speaker 4 (04:19:45):
Yes, before she did.

Speaker 20 (04:19:47):
Yes, she happened to us since it was very popular
before our engagement.

Speaker 26 (04:19:51):
You know, it's some.

Speaker 20 (04:19:51):
Extremely wealthy gentry. She gambles a little. I'm afraid she
turned some of their gifts over to me for disposal. No,
my father made his money in South African diamonds. I
still have some father's connection. Do you doubt my word?

Speaker 45 (04:20:07):
It was big and idiot as you sound, Instram, your
pressure Suso has been smuggling diamonds into the United States
for your friend do Karas and getting you to turn
them into cash.

Speaker 26 (04:20:15):
That's a lie, queen, that's a filthy law. Sorry, he'll
mock them out.

Speaker 10 (04:20:28):
Hurry he's out cold.

Speaker 4 (04:20:29):
Yes, now to find those diamonds.

Speaker 18 (04:20:32):
Don't bother so moaning. I've got them, mister queen, isn't
it you almost body? That gun is probably loaded? Are
you sure you know what you're doing?

Speaker 64 (04:20:43):
Oh?

Speaker 82 (04:20:43):
Stop it now, So We're going to march out of
here and go down to the street. You'll pretend nothing's wrong.
You'll get into my car, drive it. I'll be in
the back with this thing pointing at you, and you'll.

Speaker 10 (04:20:57):
Drive out of the country. Sounds cozy.

Speaker 26 (04:20:59):
Shut up?

Speaker 4 (04:21:00):
Where are we going, Susu?

Speaker 82 (04:21:02):
To a little hideaway cottage used by George? Our carros,
our carrots.

Speaker 10 (04:21:06):
Get going.

Speaker 26 (04:21:15):
You are an idiot, Suso. You bring them here? Why
did you not shoot me?

Speaker 82 (04:21:20):
Well, I'm not as used to shooting people as you are, George.

Speaker 23 (04:21:24):
I'm getting out of you where you are.

Speaker 20 (04:21:28):
Perhaps it is just as well, mister Queen, I owe
you something personally. Now that Susu has brought you here,
we will make the best of you them.

Speaker 4 (04:21:41):
We have the diamonds.

Speaker 26 (04:21:43):
This is peep Easterm's pistol. We will concuct the plot.

Speaker 4 (04:21:50):
It's all right, our carras wouldn't be that foolish polish.

Speaker 20 (04:21:55):
This cottage is on by peep Easter, mister Queen and
the commentation to his good friend George. But nothing on paper,
you understand, so we will better you hear. By the
time you have found mister Eastrim, who has been a
duke throughout we'll have something splaining to do.

Speaker 10 (04:22:17):
No, don't, George waits quite like go away with you, my.

Speaker 26 (04:22:20):
Dear miss Mounting.

Speaker 20 (04:22:21):
We smuggle diamonds together, we will commit murder together, or
would you rather join them?

Speaker 26 (04:22:28):
I give you five seconds or so. Get it over
with quick, doc NICKI.

Speaker 2 (04:22:37):
Gone that nice shooting minute.

Speaker 10 (04:22:39):
Stand still, girlfriend, you pours off me, You hit mister inst.

Speaker 4 (04:22:44):
You feel.

Speaker 38 (04:22:51):
Has anybody got a drink?

Speaker 20 (04:22:53):
You've done your last drinking for some time, smelting, and
I don't think that cares that you will smuggle any
more diamonds like these in.

Speaker 26 (04:22:59):
The States for some time. You will get me a
physician and my county with the twins. Oh sure, well son,
another narrow speak.

Speaker 4 (04:23:09):
You got mister to thank maestro.

Speaker 8 (04:23:11):
He came to a way for the murthing woman hustled
you out and phonus.

Speaker 26 (04:23:15):
I heard Sousu's confession. Mister queen had quite restored my sanity.

Speaker 4 (04:23:19):
Thanks for saving you all. Live Systram, Well, dad.

Speaker 10 (04:23:23):
Nolly, let's get out of here. Nikki.

Speaker 45 (04:23:27):
Don't you want to know who killed missus Bryane's song
author the murder of Misterstram's butler.

Speaker 20 (04:23:31):
You mean son, the two cases are connected.

Speaker 45 (04:23:33):
Oh yes, Dad, and I'll tell you how right now.
And there, ladies and gentlemen, you have the mystery. Now, Nikki,
will you introduce how?

Speaker 26 (04:23:53):
I guess sure thing?

Speaker 81 (04:23:54):
Llary he's the popular screen and stage star, most recently
seen with Anne Sheridan in the film Nora Prentice.

Speaker 10 (04:24:00):
Mister Kent Smith.

Speaker 4 (04:24:01):
Good evening, mister Smith.

Speaker 8 (04:24:02):
Nice to have you here.

Speaker 4 (04:24:03):
Good evening, Ray, thanks for inviting me.

Speaker 45 (04:24:05):
I understand that this season you're going to be playing
for the fourth time with Catherine Cornell and Shakespeare's Anthony
and Cleopatra.

Speaker 19 (04:24:11):
Is it right?

Speaker 3 (04:24:12):
That's right, Ray.

Speaker 20 (04:24:13):
I played with miss Cornell in Candada Saint Joan Winglis's Victory,
and I'm looking forward with great enjoyment to Anthony and Cleopatra.
Lots of luck, mister Smith. Let's hope the play has
a long run. But now let's get down to business.
Shall we tell me who killed Arthur Prime? Well, I
it seems rather simple from where I sit. I don't

(04:24:33):
know whether it is or not, but I guess that
Seuss is a real villain in this piece, except the
chief villainess, the villainette. Yeah, just to be grammatically, well,
I if I must say that I was fool about Pip,
but as long as he turns out to be okay,
he probably having said a love to me, yeah, yeah, yeah,
he came in handed.

Speaker 10 (04:24:53):
And you certainly did.

Speaker 13 (04:24:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (04:24:55):
And the motive well that I can't quite establish. She
might have found him he sent a Pip sent his
butler to Cavin thirty one on the code they use and.

Speaker 45 (04:25:08):
They're not connected with the diamonds. Yeah, I see, well,
thank you very much, but just missing. You'll find out
in just a moment what the solution is.

Speaker 3 (04:25:14):
I can't wait.

Speaker 4 (04:25:15):
Now Here is Don Hancock.

Speaker 20 (04:25:17):
If you want to be certain your breath is sweeter
and your teeth are brighter after brushing, listen, colin knows
toothpaste has a mouthwash effect built right in to sweeten
the breath the moment you use, Colin os It's mouthwash
effect instantly and unfailingly sweetens every case of unpleasant breath.

Speaker 26 (04:25:32):
Due to improper cleansing sweetens every case.

Speaker 20 (04:25:35):
At the same time, colin nos polishing action brightens teeth
beautifully by removing ordinary yellow surface stains. So to be
certain your breath is sweeter and your teeth are brighter
yet ko l Y n os colinos, toothpaste or toothpowder tonight,

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I know, but case and every morning for three years,
Arthur Prime prepared his employer's breakfast by nine o'clock on
Monday mornings. Arthur always got to mister Istram's apartment by
eight thirty.

Speaker 45 (04:26:08):
Missus Prime told us Nikki, just so mister Istram can
eat on time. Now, Nikkody, recall the morning Missus Prian
identified Arthur's body.

Speaker 4 (04:26:15):
At the morgue.

Speaker 26 (04:26:16):
Yes, it was a Monday morning.

Speaker 34 (04:26:18):
And what time was it when we left the morgue
to go to mister Istram's apartment Very early?

Speaker 10 (04:26:22):
I think I said it was seven Fifteen's right.

Speaker 4 (04:26:25):
We took a cab.

Speaker 45 (04:26:25):
We went directly from the Morgue to Wistram's Park Avenue apartment.
So when we saw Istram, no more than fifteen to
twenty minutes could have elapsed. In other words, it was
around seven thirty in the morning. And what was Istram
doing when we called on him at that hour? Eating
his breakfast at seven thirty a m. But this was
breaking a fixed habit of years.

Speaker 34 (04:26:45):
Why on that particular Monday morning did not pif Istram
wait for his man author to turn up to prepare
breakfast for him because he knew Author was dead, Dennery,
They're the.

Speaker 4 (04:26:53):
Only ones who knew Author was dead at that time were.

Speaker 45 (04:26:55):
Ourselves and Arthur's mother. Arthur's body hadn't been fished out
of the East River, and five Am hadn't been identified
by his mother until seven fifteen AM, fifteen minutes before
we found Istram eating a breakfast he himself must have prepared,
since Arthur was his only servant. There is only one
way Istram could have known Author was dead, and that's
if Istram had killed him.

Speaker 4 (04:27:17):
Correct Istram, correct?

Speaker 8 (04:27:21):
But Maestro, why and what did the number thirty one
have to do with it?

Speaker 14 (04:27:25):
Well?

Speaker 45 (04:27:25):
For some time, Arthur, who had a weakness for playing
the numbers game, had been playing thirty one because he
had noticed that your good friend Arcaris always occupied cabin
thirty one on the Agia. Arthur took that as a hunch,
as so many numbers players do. But that last Saturday,
Arthur suddenly realized that ourcaris wasn't using cabin thirty one
of the Agia just because he liked it. He had

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probably noticed also that each time after Arkaras sailed.

Speaker 4 (04:27:49):
In cabin thirty one on the aga.

Speaker 45 (04:27:51):
Your fiance Istram invariably deposited some diamonds with you, and
your butler made the connection you were too blind to make.

Speaker 4 (04:27:59):
He told you that Saturday afternoon, and you.

Speaker 20 (04:28:01):
Must I was so outraged, I lost my temper and
hit Arthur in the jar all my strength.

Speaker 26 (04:28:08):
He fell hard and fractured his head on the floor.
I didn't mean to kill him.

Speaker 20 (04:28:14):
I hid his body then, middle of the ninth I
took it down a service elevator into my car, disposed
of it in the river.

Speaker 4 (04:28:23):
I'm afraid it's that you've been your own worst enemy throughout, too.

Speaker 45 (04:28:27):
Infatuated with susu mounting to see what she really was,
too hot headed to control that murderous temper of yours,
and too foolish to call the police.

Speaker 34 (04:28:35):
When Arthur died and rely on the simple truth. Now
you'll have to face a jury under very different circumstances and.

Speaker 20 (04:28:42):
Be your own fault testrum. If they don't believe your story,
Sergeant take him in too.

Speaker 4 (04:28:54):
And there, ladies and gentlemen, you have the solution to
our mystery.

Speaker 45 (04:28:57):
Thank you again, mister Kent Smith, for being our guest
Stamke Detective this evening and as mementos. If your visit
with us, Andison is proud to present you with this
autograph copy of my new anthology, The Queen's Awards nineteen
forty six and a subscription to Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.
As a special gift, we have for you a Stromberg
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(04:29:18):
automatic record changer. We're also presenting it with a generous
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Speaker 4 (04:29:28):
Ellery will be back in a moment.

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(04:29:51):
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now Ellary, what about next week?

Speaker 45 (04:30:03):
Next week's story done is about a tense problem in
human relations and crimes. I call it tragedy in blue.
This is Ellary Queen saying good night for Annison and
enlisting all Americans in the fight against bad citizenship, bigotry,

(04:30:24):
and discrimination, the crimes which are weakening America.

Speaker 20 (04:30:33):
All names of characters used in this program are fictitious
and do not refer to real people, either living or dead.
Among the members of the night's cast were Larry Dobkins,
Charlotte Keene, Bill Smith, and Ed Latimer. Music by Chet
Kingsbury Don Hancock.

Speaker 3 (04:30:46):
Speaking quire Please, Quiet Please.

Speaker 14 (04:31:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (04:31:21):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper at which features Ernest Chapel
Quiet Please, which day is.

Speaker 4 (04:31:32):
Called light the Lamp for Me.

Speaker 3 (04:31:43):
They say that my historical books, my stories based upon
happenings in the past, are extraordinarily vivid. They say they're
minutely accurate, that they read as if I'd actually been there,
seen the happenings in person. They say that my descriptions
of the early days are the California missions, but the
activity of the San Fernando Mission are more pains takingly
detailed than even the contemporary accounts of the Brown Road.

(04:32:06):
Franciscans who lived and labored, prayed and died in the
shadows of its adobe walls may wonder what undiscovered source
material I alone have access to it? And now the
time has come to tell Leono San Fernando Lamicio, San

(04:32:29):
Fernando Rai da Espana, with the statue of Father Sarah
beside the fountain, and the memory garden across the road,
the screen door that opens into the musty little office,
and the sign that reads Curios. The arches of the cloister,
where the cracked cluster shows the ancient adobe bricks, the
wrought iron bars on the windows, the sheep tend on
at the end of the cloister, where the surly old

(04:32:51):
ram glowers at you through the wire. Do you know
the convento and the glass cases of gold, thread investments
against the walls, the old weapons, the rites of stirps,
the utensils carved from wood, the sagging old door frames
and the wooden steps in the still room. Do you
know the still room? The distillery where the old monks

(04:33:14):
made brandy from the Sauerwinea the valley, the remains of
copper pipes and vats, and an ancient still, and a
wooden platform with steps worn and eroded by time, and
countless footsteps priestly and secular. A cramped tall room window
was faintly odorous on a damp day of the spirit
of the grape that was distilled there the dust of

(04:33:37):
one hundred and fifty years. The walls covered with names
and dates, scratched into the crumbling dobe. Jeanne and Vinnie
from Toledo Kilroy and Harry Bubeck of San Francisco staffed
Sergeant Pearl palmly at the wac and my cigarette lighter

(04:33:58):
slipped from my fingers as I started I light a
cigarette in the half darkness of the still room. It
bounded into a far corner under the platform, and with
an appropriate remark about the perversity of inanimate objects, I
went down on all fours and crawled in the dust
to retrieve it. And the farthest, dirtiest corner, of course,

(04:34:19):
and a loose dobe brick alongside it, a brick that
concealed a hidden treasure. I smiled briefly at the conceit
as my fingers probed in the spaces where the brick.

Speaker 13 (04:34:29):
Had been, and.

Speaker 3 (04:34:33):
There was something there. The lamp I discovered when I
crawled out, clutching it, an ancient bronze lamp, green with age,
a lamp like those the Roumans used, something like a
modern sauce boat, and a musty frayed wick protruding from
its snout. Most interesting discovery here in the California Mission.

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I took the lamp to the door, the better to
examine it. Made another discovery. The lamp was full of oil,
the wick was greasy with it. Here was more than
a mystery. And curiously I flipped my lighter and touched
the flame of the wick. Yes, thunder, thunder, and darkness

(04:35:23):
around me, and only the tiny flame of the lamp
to reveal the yawning door and adobe bricks of the wall.
And in its feeble light, the bricks looked newer, cleaner,
and the great copper still inside the room gleamed brightly
and cast flickering reflections of the ancient lamp back.

Speaker 23 (04:35:39):
At me, and a voice spoke in my ear, Katin
staed Onmi.

Speaker 3 (04:35:45):
He stood close beside me, the soldier and marian and
steel breastplate, one hand on the hilt of a long
straight sword with a basket hilt, the Spanish soldier of
the late eighteenth century. He was real flesh and blood
by the weight of his grip my shoulder. Now my
Spanish is very limited. This apparition was a very astonishing thing.

(04:36:07):
Astonishing I thought impossible, and I answered him in English?
What happened? Ah? English?

Speaker 23 (04:36:16):
English?

Speaker 3 (04:36:18):
I mean, I'm an American. What's going on here?

Speaker 13 (04:36:21):
When I'm Irish?

Speaker 14 (04:36:22):
You are?

Speaker 23 (04:36:23):
My name was Peter Paul O'Brien in Galway. Now I'm
Pedro Pablo Oberhorn, soldier in the Armies of His Majesty
of Spain. And the last man as ever was Oh
I get at the cinema, cinema movies. I'm afraid I
do not understand you cover, But what made it get
dark so suddenly it's been dark for you four hours ago?

Speaker 3 (04:36:46):
It's what kind of joke is this?

Speaker 8 (04:36:49):
There is no joke.

Speaker 3 (04:36:51):
Well, what.

Speaker 13 (04:36:53):
You could be telling me how you came in possession
of my lamp?

Speaker 3 (04:36:58):
My lamp? I'm sorry. I I found it in there
where I hit it yesterday. Yesterday. It's been in there
one hundred years. If it's been there a day, so
it must have been. Look at it.

Speaker 23 (04:37:09):
Well, perhaps it has been then, of course, friend, would
you been knowing the date, date, the year, and the day.

Speaker 13 (04:37:17):
No, No, I will tell you.

Speaker 23 (04:37:21):
September twenty sixth, seventeen hundred and ninety nine. Look here, No,
there's no point at all in keeping an ignorance on me.

Speaker 13 (04:37:30):
Go since you found the lamp and lighted the same.
Go on, friend, it is my lamp.

Speaker 23 (04:37:38):
I found it one day in Spain, and I carried
it with me for long years before I found.

Speaker 3 (04:37:43):
Out what were its powers.

Speaker 13 (04:37:46):
It was in Granader, I mind that I first found out.

Speaker 23 (04:37:50):
At that night in the barks, i'd bethought myself with
the little lamp, and in my mind I was thinking
of the days of the Saracens in Granada when I
lighted a little wig cramba. When it flamed up, I
was sitting sidence, two of them, two of whom the Saracens,
the Moor's bedad scimitars they had, and long spears and

(04:38:11):
great blackbeards.

Speaker 3 (04:38:13):
I don't believe it.

Speaker 68 (04:38:14):
Oh you're here, are you not?

Speaker 23 (04:38:15):
From your own time? You lighted the lamp while you
were thinking of the old days. Well, ah, hear me, man,
you have not much more time to listen.

Speaker 13 (04:38:23):
That is the power of the lamp.

Speaker 17 (04:38:26):
There.

Speaker 13 (04:38:27):
Think of a time and light the lamp.

Speaker 4 (04:38:30):
And you're there.

Speaker 23 (04:38:31):
Blow it out, you're still there. But light it again,
and think of another time, your own belike.

Speaker 13 (04:38:39):
And.

Speaker 4 (04:38:41):
It's like that.

Speaker 13 (04:38:42):
Oh, I don't get it makes little difference on me.
Go what you think. I'll give me back my lamp.

Speaker 3 (04:38:47):
I'm gonna look here. How do I know it's yours?
And how do I I have the means to take
it from you?

Speaker 13 (04:38:52):
Why I could run your you wouldn't get away with it?
Why the police lam man lessened?

Speaker 23 (04:38:57):
Do not be judging events by the standards of your
own time, for that is not now. I'll have back
my lamp. I won't give it to you that it
was in my mind to let you live as best
you could a full hundred and fifty years afore your
own time.

Speaker 3 (04:39:12):
But I see I must not do it. I'll look here.
There's such a thing as law best still.

Speaker 23 (04:39:17):
But if you'll blow it out and light it again
and wish yourself back where you came from, well then
I'd not have the lamp.

Speaker 13 (04:39:22):
At all at all. And since I cannot wish you
back myself. There's only one thing to do.

Speaker 3 (04:39:29):
And he leaned across my shoulder and blew out the lamp.
In the darkness, I heard the sound of steel as
he drew his sword. I felt the wind from the
sword stroke, and my hat was plucked from my head.
In frantic reflex, I swung the lamp. It struck flesh
and bone, and the dark I heard a groan, a
clashing of steel. His Pedro Pablo Abrehon fell.

Speaker 31 (04:39:52):
I waited a long time.

Speaker 3 (04:39:53):
Before I applied my lighter to the wick of a
little lamp and thought of home time. And the thunder crashed,
and I stood there in the sunny afternoon alone. The
old ram blatted, an impatient automobile horn sounded on a highway,

(04:40:15):
and the adobe bricks were crumbling and ancient again. And
there was a sword cut in my hat, I saw
as I picked it up, and there was blood, fresh blood,
on the base of the little bronze lamp. And so
I blew off the flame that flickered so pale in
the sunshine, and I wiped it off, sat down and

(04:40:36):
thought and thought. Days later, when I went back to
the year seventeen ninety nine, to a time. Two weeks
after my first visit there, when I went back to
arrange for masses to be said for the repose of

(04:40:57):
the soul of Pedro Pablo, a brehon late of God,
I asked one of the good Fathers to translate for
me the worn dim inscription incise into the base of
the lamp. It is hard to read. He told me
that the letters are different old, but it was Latin,
and at last he made it out pritatitis cloudieres futuris

(04:41:22):
sema the past many times the past, many times the future,
but once, and I wondered, then I wished that I
had had more time to talk with Abrehal, to learn
of his excursions into the past, whether he had possessed

(04:41:43):
the hardihood to take his one trip into the future
for truth to tell, I myself had not. But I
made many trips back and learned many things which you
may have exclaimed that in my books. Yes, I was there.
I saw John Fremont, Pio Pico was my friend. I

(04:42:04):
saw the marches behind the bare flag in the days
of the California Republic. I knew many people whose names
are in history now. I knew them, and they knew me,
and we were friends. You ask how I have but
to light my lamp and think of a time, and
I am there. There are only two restrictions one but

(04:42:25):
I can change only time, not place. If I wish
to see Chicago in the mid nineties, I must go
to Chicago. If I would watch the Battle of Hastings
in ten sixty six, I must go to England.

Speaker 27 (04:42:35):
And the other.

Speaker 3 (04:42:38):
I may see the future only once, and I find
myself incapable of choosing a time in the future which
I would want to see. But let us speak of
the past a while longer. Do you know the old
Vicente delos Si Dubia Encino, where Balboa Street runs into

(04:42:59):
Ventura Boulevard, A long lord dobe house of the thick walls,
the broad fountain in the yards. You must have driven
past dozens of times. I lived there with my wife
Conceptsion Concita moralis, all through the year eighteen twenty one.
I think that was the happiest period of my life. Yes,

(04:43:22):
the little bronze lamp was a priceless gift, the gift
that no mortal should ever possess. I'm afraid for there
were certain things, immutable laws, governed it. I have no
idea where it came from, who discovered its powers, who
fixed its powers. But it brought evil as well as good,
sorrow as well as joy, punishment, shall we say, for

(04:43:48):
the possession of such transcendent powers. I'd hoped that with
the lamp I'd be enabled to live again certain happy days,
but I found that once lived, those days were forever gone.
I remember how I found it out. It was not
always easy to explain my long absences from Conchita. In

(04:44:09):
our home in the valley. I couldn't say Kurtisol I
had been visiting. Other times, I did the best I could.
Almost always Knhida was satisfied, happy that I'd returned. But
there was a time when I'd been away and miscalculated
the time. When I came back, it was six months
later than I thought. The house was dark and silent.

(04:44:30):
As I walked up the path. I called Conchita, Conchita,
and there was no answer. Only old Tiburcio, her father,
was there, squatting in the darkness. His quavering voice answered me,

(04:44:51):
hold off, to Burcila, where's everybody? You have been gone
a long time. I'm afraid I'm sorry. I meant to
come back earlier, but something happened, and I, how's Conchita?
I am hungry enough? What's the matter to Brazil? Hey,
DC's I said, I'm hungry, thank you?

Speaker 58 (04:45:08):
Ray.

Speaker 13 (04:45:08):
What's the no, asked, not.

Speaker 19 (04:45:11):
What's that?

Speaker 3 (04:45:14):
What's the matter? Where's Conchita? Go Chea is there? What
did you say to Barzil? She died four days ago?
And Freedom your child was born? And she died, and

(04:45:45):
I turned and went away, sat by the fountain for
a long long time. My child, my child would live
and die before I was born, my wife, and I
dried my tears as I suddenly thought, why I can

(04:46:06):
bring her back. All I've got to do is light
the lamp again, think of a time long before this,
and she'll be back. And I did, and I found
myself still in the same time, with old Tiburcio huddled
in the shadow of the house, and con Chetah bed.

Speaker 10 (04:46:27):
No.

Speaker 3 (04:46:27):
There are limitations to everything. If I'd not been such
a fool, I'd have thrown the lamp away, come back
to my own time to live out my life.

Speaker 31 (04:46:34):
But I didn't.

Speaker 3 (04:46:36):
I planted an acacia three beside her grave. You can
find it, perhaps some day if you're near the old
Helsa House. Today it's widered and dead of old age.
I planted it with these hands. It's more than a
hundred years old. I never went back to the old

(04:47:01):
days of the Dels House. I had been pasted there
a number of times. I know where the grave is
and the acacia. I know where to find our initials
Concheeta's and mine. Scratched with the Spanish dagger in the
adobe wall when it was soft and fresh. But it's
a place of sorrow and remembered happiness for me, and
I seldom go there, but I have been many places.

(04:47:25):
I didn't meet George Washington. I tropped with Vann von
Steuben at Valley Fords, but the General himself was unapproachable.
I watched the Custom massacre from the hilltop above. A
little big horn could tell you some interesting facts about
that fight. I saw Marie Antoinette mount the steps to
the scaffold in Paris. I turned away in sick horror.

(04:47:48):
And when I'd lighted my lamp again, I found myself
in the midst of a crowd celebrating Lindbergh's flight from
the United States. I knew a man in New York
named Sidney Breeze, and I sat in an old house
where a skyscraper stands now and watch Sydney carving his
own tombstone. You can see the tombstone yourself if you're
walking past Trinity Churchyard someday in New York. H Sidney

(04:48:08):
Sidney liast thou here it reads. I remember how Sidney
laughed as he tapped away at the inscription. Yes, the
little lamp has taking in many places. Then my books,
they say, are accurate marvels of detail. I wonder did
the irishman in Spanish uniform ever visit this age on

(04:48:31):
his one excursion into the future. Did the others who
wandered before him come and stare curiously at us? Or
were they as fear of the future, of seeing the
future too soon.

Speaker 8 (04:48:48):
As I was?

Speaker 3 (04:49:01):
The years, the long years, have taken a heavy toll
the Indian Island, my shouldered fort, dearborn, the fever in
the swamps with Ernando Cortez Army in Mexico, the slash
I got in my leg from the baby dinosaur in
Arizona half a million years ago, And all the sorrows,
all the sadnesses I learned some interesting facts last night,

(04:49:36):
my doctor, Catherine Sprague Hunter, MD, A practical, hard headed woman,
a friend, my doctor. Last night we sat alone and
spoke of many things, many things.

Speaker 15 (04:49:50):
Of course I believed it, Manta, I find it difficult
to believe it.

Speaker 26 (04:49:57):
Yes, I believe it.

Speaker 3 (04:50:00):
Well, I'm glad you do.

Speaker 4 (04:50:02):
I was afraid I rather enview.

Speaker 3 (04:50:04):
Don't end me, Katherine. Yes, I have too many things
on my conscious, things that came about through this lap.
You know, Peter Paul O'Brien that.

Speaker 15 (04:50:11):
I murdered, let's not say murdered, man.

Speaker 3 (04:50:14):
Murdered in seventeen ninety nine, and Conchita, that you couldn't
help you. I don't know. Perhaps if i'd come back sooner,
you never know, if.

Speaker 15 (04:50:26):
You could have had adequate medical attention.

Speaker 3 (04:50:28):
Perhaps if I could have gone back earlier, taken you
back with me.

Speaker 5 (04:50:32):
You couldn't do that.

Speaker 3 (04:50:34):
No, only myself. I I feel a sense of inadequacy, Catherine,
I feel it with this amazing power. I should have
done something with it, something for other people instead of
for myself alone. I wish your books, you know, yes,
I know the books. But after all, and now, after

(04:50:56):
what you told me tonight, it's too late, isn't it
I don't know what you said.

Speaker 15 (04:51:07):
I said, I'm afraid you haven't too much time, Manfred,
I said, you'd better begin to set your affairs in order.

Speaker 3 (04:51:15):
They're in order, as much in order as they ever
will be.

Speaker 15 (04:51:19):
After you told me the story about the lamp, I wondered, wondered,
perhaps the words in loose ends somewhere some time. I
mean that it might need catching up.

Speaker 3 (04:51:34):
No, I don't think so. No, I think not, except
as I said, I wish there were at least a
few things I could do for someone else.

Speaker 15 (04:51:45):
You know about that, Manfred, I don't if I.

Speaker 3 (04:51:50):
If I could have taken back a gift of happiness
to someone, but I didn't. When I got the lamp,
I killed a man, and I met Concheetah. I sat
and watched custers men being slaughtered.

Speaker 43 (04:52:10):
What could you have done?

Speaker 3 (04:52:12):
I might have fought with him, I might have contributed.

Speaker 30 (04:52:14):
Contributed your wrong death.

Speaker 15 (04:52:17):
What good would that have done? I think now.

Speaker 3 (04:52:23):
I'd have been handed the greatest opportunity of all time,
and what have I done with it?

Speaker 15 (04:52:30):
Manfred? Why are you so afraid of the future?

Speaker 3 (04:52:37):
What makes you think I'm afraid of the future?

Speaker 8 (04:52:41):
You are, aren't you not?

Speaker 3 (04:52:44):
Afraid of it.

Speaker 15 (04:52:45):
Yes, you are, well, who.

Speaker 3 (04:52:48):
Isn't the past that's happened, We know about it. We
can take care of ourselves in the past. But the future.

Speaker 15 (04:52:55):
But the future is the place where you might find
that gift you want to bring to humanity others if
you don't like the pomposity.

Speaker 19 (04:53:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 26 (04:53:05):
Something's there, something that might help us if we.

Speaker 4 (04:53:09):
Know a little about it.

Speaker 15 (04:53:12):
No, you'll say you owe a debt, MANI, yes, but
I I don't want to remind you what I told
you tonight.

Speaker 3 (04:53:24):
But how long have I got Catherine?

Speaker 14 (04:53:30):
Shall I tell you?

Speaker 3 (04:53:32):
Tell me?

Speaker 15 (04:53:35):
You may have six months? Oh, you may have ten years.

Speaker 3 (04:53:41):
But the six months is more likely.

Speaker 15 (04:53:46):
Yes, yes it is.

Speaker 14 (04:53:50):
Oh or what.

Speaker 19 (04:53:54):
Well?

Speaker 4 (04:53:54):
Less, Catherine.

Speaker 3 (04:53:58):
I'm afraid.

Speaker 15 (04:54:01):
Your decision, Manfred. But there's not much time.

Speaker 3 (04:54:06):
Well what if I find Yes, well, if I find
I'm dead when I go into the future, would that
be suicide?

Speaker 15 (04:54:14):
You might be dead an hour from now, Manfred, No,
you or I or anyone.

Speaker 3 (04:54:21):
Maybe I wouldn't be able to come back.

Speaker 26 (04:54:23):
You have only to light the lamp.

Speaker 4 (04:54:25):
You said, Oh, I know, but.

Speaker 3 (04:54:28):
They might not let me come back.

Speaker 15 (04:54:29):
I rather think they'd be glad to help us, because
anything we might do with their secrets could conceivably help them.

Speaker 3 (04:54:37):
Yes, I suppose, I suppose so.

Speaker 4 (04:54:44):
Well.

Speaker 15 (04:54:47):
Think it over, Manfred, I will telephone me in the morning.

Speaker 8 (04:54:54):
All right, good night.

Speaker 3 (04:54:58):
Good night. I sat there for a long time thinking
it all over. It's something of a shock to be

(04:55:18):
told that you're near the inevitable close of your life,
to know that death is so irrevocably near. I think
that faded from my mind in those black hours. Only
the overpowering curiosity remained, the curiosity that Catherine had set

(04:55:39):
a fire in me. I know only that the clock
was striking four. When I pinched out a last cigarette
and reached over for the lamp. I was quite calm
as I touched the flame of my lighter to the wick,
I said aloud, I wish I could see the future.

(04:56:08):
The tiny flame from the lamb cast its beams almost
in vain. For the room that I sat him was
only a shell of what it had been. The floor
was ripped and torn, with great jagged holes in it.
The walls had almost disappeared. I could look out over
the city from any angle. A little light for my
lamp as the only light there was anywhere.

Speaker 8 (04:56:34):
I called out.

Speaker 3 (04:56:34):
There was no answer. I called again. Still there was
nothing but the oppressive silence.

Speaker 8 (04:56:42):
I moved.

Speaker 3 (04:56:45):
The part of the wall collapsed beside me, and in
the east the first glow of the sunrise brightened the morning,
and I put out the light of the lamp. I
do not know how long I stood there in the
ruined room, on moving, gazing out on a scene of

(04:57:09):
desolations such as man has never seen before. And as
the sun rose higher into the forgettingly dark sky, new
scenes of ruin and ashes came into view. There was nothing.
The city was gone, as far as the eye could see, desolation, and.

Speaker 31 (04:57:35):
One living man to view it. No, I don't know
how far into.

Speaker 3 (04:57:48):
The future I went, I said, I wish I could
see the future.

Speaker 4 (04:57:52):
And then.

Speaker 3 (04:57:54):
It may be that the time I am in is
one hundred years from your time, A hundred five.

Speaker 31 (04:58:02):
For one hour.

Speaker 3 (04:58:04):
But it's the future. And how shall I come back to?
The lamp is out there, there's no way to light
it again. My matches, my lighter is on the table

(04:58:25):
in this room, somewhere in the past. If I could
light the lamp, I could return, And perhaps there's some
way that we could work together and plan and eventually
avoid this doing which I love it.

Speaker 11 (04:58:42):
Staying with my own eyes, there might be time. How
can I come back? Who's there too? Light the lamp
for me, hang for you. The title of today's Quiet

(04:59:13):
Please story was Like the Land for Me. It was
written and directed by Willis Cooper, and the man who
spoke to you was Ernest Chapel.

Speaker 3 (04:59:21):
And Padel Malley played the Irish soldier. Floyd Buckley was Deburcio,
and the doctor was Kathleen A day as usual music
for Quiet Pleas is played by Albert Burman. I don't
for worry about next week, my good friend, I write
a director, Willis Cooper.

Speaker 11 (04:59:37):
I've written in a story for next week that I
call meet John Smith John.

Speaker 3 (04:59:51):
And so until next week at the same time, I
am quietly yours, Ernest Chapel.

Speaker 11 (05:00:02):
Now a listening reminder, The racketbusting counter Spies expose another
vicious criminal enterprise this afternoon. Be sure to hear David
Hard Encounter Spy over this ABC station. This is ABC,
the American Broadcasting Company.

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