WHY PERFECT ROBOT SERVANTS ARE HUMANITY'S WORST NIGHTMARE: Our Warning About A.I. From 1950

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Speaker 6 (01:30):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents. Come in.

Speaker 7 (01:53):
Welcome. I'm E. G.

Speaker 6 (01:55):
Marshall.

Speaker 8 (01:57):
I am a parcel of veinstriving by a mere chance,
held together sometimes perhaps in the silence of the night,
when there is a moment for quiet reflection, pause to ask,
what is this burning package of desire known as the body?
What is this seething mass of chaotic thought known as

(02:20):
the mind?

Speaker 4 (02:21):
And think about it.

Speaker 8 (02:23):
Some of the answers you will frighten, amuse, and astound you.

Speaker 9 (02:30):
Somebody knew Jerry was going to be at that corner, Okay,
somebody set him up.

Speaker 10 (02:37):
Yeah, that's what must have happened.

Speaker 9 (02:40):
Then, Lieutenant, what we have to find out is who
who knew Jerry would be there?

Speaker 6 (02:46):
Well, Jerry knew, and the killer knew.

Speaker 10 (02:51):
And listen, Inspector, I knew.

Speaker 8 (03:02):
Our mystery drama, The Smoking Pistol was written especially for
the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars Howard da Silva.
It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and
Anheuser Busch Incorporated, Brewers of Budweiser. I'll be back shortly
with Act one, said Chris Custodiat Tipsos asked the ancient

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Roman poet juvenile, But who is to guard the guards themselves?
Those who watch over us, those to whom we entrust
the right to use the awful power of the state
in our name? As you can see, it's not a
new problem for the guards themselves are also human, which
means they are neither better nor worse than the best

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or the worst of This has been a bad day
for Detective Lieutenant Harry Reinfield, quite possibly the worst day
he has ever known in his life.

Speaker 11 (04:10):
Harry, I don't know what to tell you. I'm so sorry.
I saw him, Jim. I just saw him. I got
hot coffee here. He was laying there.

Speaker 10 (04:21):
Let me pour you a cup. He didn't even look dead.
What's he doing in the morgue? I said, here, drink this, Harry,
drink it. What's this twenty one year old kid doing
laying on a slab in the morgue?

Speaker 7 (04:36):
He don't even look dead.

Speaker 6 (04:38):
You want to go home, Harry, But.

Speaker 10 (04:42):
Then you look close and there it is.

Speaker 6 (04:45):
Maybe you should come home with me, Harry.

Speaker 7 (04:49):
Just a little black hole.

Speaker 6 (04:51):
Stay with about me tonight, Harry, and get some sleep.

Speaker 7 (04:55):
And it's my fault.

Speaker 6 (04:56):
No, it isn't.

Speaker 7 (04:57):
He was crazy to be a coup Why do you
want to be a cop?

Speaker 10 (05:01):
I asked him.

Speaker 7 (05:01):
Go to college. I told him.

Speaker 6 (05:03):
He went to college.

Speaker 10 (05:04):
Yeah, they graduated. He joined the cops. What did he
need it? For I gave the apartment twenty five years.
Shouldn't that be enough for one family? He could have
made something out of himself. He made something out of himself. Yeah, well,
here's how it is. Right now. I'm out to get

(05:25):
the punk that killed my boy.

Speaker 6 (05:27):
I know how you feel.

Speaker 10 (05:28):
If I had to spend the rest of my life,
I'll get him. And Jim, this is between you and me.
Don't expect me to bring him in. Harry, look at me, Jim.
Harry Reinfield Detective Lieutenant Harry Reinfield Ace homicide sleuth. That's
what it says in the paper.

Speaker 6 (05:46):
There's something new.

Speaker 10 (05:47):
All those cases I solved, we used to sit around
and laugh at the stories they wrote about me. Remember
we know what police work is, don't we, Jim, don't we?

Speaker 7 (05:58):
Sure? Harry? Those cases I.

Speaker 10 (06:00):
Saw for the city, for the law, for the taxpayers,
for the department, Well, now I'm going to solve one
for me. I'm gonna crack one, break it wide open. Nothing.
Nobody's gonna stop me. And when I get my hands
on the Harry, sit down, don't you give me orders.

Speaker 9 (06:18):
I'm your superior. I got the right to give you orders.

Speaker 7 (06:21):
Not today.

Speaker 9 (06:21):
Sit down, we got him you what I said, we
got him?

Speaker 12 (06:32):
You?

Speaker 10 (06:33):
You brought him in?

Speaker 11 (06:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (06:37):
Who?

Speaker 10 (06:37):
Who is your gun?

Speaker 6 (06:40):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (06:42):
He was there on the corner of Collins and Maple,
a gun in one hand, Jerry's wallad in the other,
some glassy in packets of horse scattered on the ground.

Speaker 11 (06:52):
Good, what more do you need? What more does the
DA have to produce? For first degree?

Speaker 6 (06:58):
It was a drug bust and the punk had a gun?

Speaker 10 (07:01):
And yeah, yeah, what's the punk's name?

Speaker 6 (07:05):
Mason? George Mason? Has he got a sheet or some
little stuff?

Speaker 7 (07:11):
Breaking? Entry? Assault?

Speaker 11 (07:13):
Where is he down in the holding pen? I want
to look at him, Harry? Would that be such a
good idea?

Speaker 10 (07:21):
I want to see the punk that killed my son.

Speaker 9 (07:24):
Maybe you shouldn't, Harry, not now, not the way you
feel now.

Speaker 10 (07:27):
I said, I'm going down to the tank.

Speaker 7 (07:34):
On your feet?

Speaker 10 (07:35):
Punk? What's your name? You have a name, don't you? Okay,
that doesn't matter.

Speaker 7 (07:46):
So you confessed yet, let's hear the answer?

Speaker 10 (07:50):
Punk? Has he confessed him?

Speaker 6 (07:54):
He won't say a word.

Speaker 10 (07:56):
He won't say a word. Quiet little punk, Right, So
let's go over what happened again. There's this young undercover
cop and he arranges to make a buy from you, right, Punk,
on the corner of Collins and Maple, you meet, you,
hand over the junk, he flashes the badge and you

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pull a gun, right right, Punk, what's the matter?

Speaker 7 (08:25):
Answer me?

Speaker 6 (08:26):
He doesn't have to talk, Harry, and.

Speaker 7 (08:28):
You pull the trigger. You kill the cop.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
That's what happened, right, Harry.

Speaker 6 (08:32):
You know the law better than anyone else around here.
He doesn't have to say a word.

Speaker 7 (08:36):
Oh yes he does. He doesn't. I'm gonna make him
sing a loud of song you ever heard?

Speaker 9 (08:41):
Are you crazy? You can't off this kid up.

Speaker 7 (08:43):
He's going to talk.

Speaker 6 (08:44):
Jim lay a finger on him, and you destroy the case.

Speaker 9 (08:47):
He'll get away with it. Judge will have to throw
it out a car.

Speaker 7 (08:51):
Never going to get the car.

Speaker 9 (08:52):
Harry, you're crazy.

Speaker 7 (08:53):
No, Jimmy killed my son.

Speaker 9 (08:54):
Put that gun back in the horse down.

Speaker 7 (08:56):
Don't try to make me, jim.

Speaker 9 (08:58):
You're a police officer.

Speaker 7 (08:59):
I'm also a father.

Speaker 10 (09:00):
That is, I was a father.

Speaker 9 (09:02):
You took an oath to uphold the law.

Speaker 10 (09:04):
There's another law and all the lord an eye for
an eye. Now, Punk, you're gonna die, Harry, confess. Punk,
don't go to meet your maker with a lie in
your soul. Don't go with a sin in your heart.
Confess now, Confess to me, and I'll forgive you, and
I'll send you out of a world clean.

Speaker 9 (09:22):
You're crazy, Harry, Come up, Punk.

Speaker 7 (09:24):
Confess before I pull a trigger.

Speaker 14 (09:26):
Jump and cut it?

Speaker 13 (09:27):
What?

Speaker 15 (09:28):
Hold hold on, I'll kill good ahead, con it?

Speaker 16 (09:33):
No, hold on, I can't stop me.

Speaker 7 (09:35):
You asked for it, Harry.

Speaker 12 (09:39):
I'm sorry, Harry.

Speaker 6 (09:42):
I'm sorry. Here, Harry, drink this.

Speaker 17 (09:54):
What happened.

Speaker 6 (09:56):
We had to subdue you, as they're saying, goes subdue.

Speaker 10 (10:01):
Heah, I'll be on the other side of that subdue
from time to time.

Speaker 6 (10:06):
Yeah, well, you know how the other half lives.

Speaker 10 (10:11):
I see, I'm home.

Speaker 11 (10:12):
Yeah, carg and I figured it would be best to
bring her here. You would have killed that, Punk, I
would have. Can I give you back your gun?

Speaker 6 (10:24):
Yeah, Harry, take some time off. You got plenty coming
to think about it.

Speaker 10 (10:32):
Eh, I'll think about it.

Speaker 6 (10:34):
You want to come over the house and stay with Bell.

Speaker 10 (10:36):
And me for a while, No, Jim, I'll stay here.

Speaker 6 (10:38):
You shouldn't be alone.

Speaker 10 (10:40):
I know, but I'm got to be alone for the
rest of my life, all right, all right, I hear you.

Speaker 16 (10:56):
Yes, you're lieutenant Ranfield. Yes, may I come in. Well,
it's very important important.

Speaker 10 (11:07):
I'm sorry, ma'am. I can't consider anything as being important today.
I just buried my son.

Speaker 16 (11:14):
I know I was at the funeral.

Speaker 10 (11:19):
Well, well then, I'm I'm sure you know how I feel.

Speaker 18 (11:23):
Not now, but I will because a few months from
now I'll be coming home from my son's funeral.

Speaker 10 (11:32):
I beg your pardon.

Speaker 16 (11:34):
My son is going to die. Everybody says.

Speaker 15 (11:36):
So.

Speaker 16 (11:37):
That's because everybody says he killed a cop.

Speaker 18 (11:40):
Look, ma'am, my name is Mason, Bessy Mason Mason. I'm
George Mason's mother. I must talk to you.

Speaker 10 (11:53):
We don't have anything to say to We chose missus Mason. Look,
I don't want to see him impolite or anything like that,
but I must ask.

Speaker 7 (12:00):
You to leave.

Speaker 16 (12:01):
But he didn't do it.

Speaker 10 (12:03):
The evidence speaks for itself.

Speaker 16 (12:06):
Don't care about your evidence.

Speaker 10 (12:07):
What do you want me to do?

Speaker 16 (12:09):
What the city haines you to do? Find the killer?

Speaker 7 (12:14):
The killer has been found.

Speaker 16 (12:15):
My son is innocent.

Speaker 10 (12:17):
How do you know?

Speaker 16 (12:18):
Because he told me?

Speaker 12 (12:20):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (12:20):
Oh sure, yeah, that makes everything different.

Speaker 16 (12:23):
Your son is a punk in many ways. Yes, I
can't deny that.

Speaker 7 (12:27):
He's already done time.

Speaker 16 (12:29):
That's a matter of records.

Speaker 10 (12:30):
Once for breaking entry, yes, and once for a soul yes.
And he was innocent those times too. Uh No, No,
so he's not a little angel.

Speaker 16 (12:37):
No, No, he's far from it. But he's not a murderer.

Speaker 10 (12:41):
Look, lady, I just can't stand here and talk to you.
You'll have to excuse Please please let me in.

Speaker 16 (12:49):
I thank you.

Speaker 7 (12:53):
What do you want me to do?

Speaker 16 (12:55):
I've already told.

Speaker 18 (12:56):
You find the killer now, Lieutenant, you had a good boy.
I don't, and it's my fault. I was busy, very busy.
His father ran out on me many years ago, and
I got a job in personnel and I made something myself.

Speaker 16 (13:13):
But I guess I neglected George.

Speaker 7 (13:16):
Missus Mason, please believe me.

Speaker 10 (13:18):
I can't do anything for you.

Speaker 18 (13:20):
Tell me how we could always buy the wrong kind
of friends. But you know, no matter what kind of
trouble he got into, one thing, he never did. He
never lied to me. And he said to me, mother,
I didn't kill that cop.

Speaker 13 (13:35):
I didn't.

Speaker 10 (13:37):
Look, Missus Mason, let me tell you something. I've got
experience in these things. He has to hold on to you,
You're always got and so he has to.

Speaker 16 (13:45):
Deny it, but I believe him.

Speaker 10 (13:47):
And by denying it to you, he denies it to
himself because he doesn't want to believe he committed murder.

Speaker 16 (13:52):
I believe him. Yeah, why don't you believe him?

Speaker 7 (13:58):
Why should I believe him?

Speaker 18 (14:00):
Because you're the best detective on the force.

Speaker 10 (14:03):
Okay, look, missus Mason, I can understand how you feel.

Speaker 7 (14:07):
What you're asking me to do.

Speaker 16 (14:08):
Is what am I asking you to do? The thing
you do best? I need.

Speaker 10 (14:12):
The papers don't believe what you reave.

Speaker 16 (14:15):
Oh it isn't.

Speaker 18 (14:16):
True what they say that Harry Reinefield is an intuitive detective,
that he has a feel for how a case should do.

Speaker 10 (14:24):
Well, that's just newspaper talk, Missus Mason. On the basis
of information and evidence assembled by the police department, the
district Attorney has asked for an indictment.

Speaker 7 (14:33):
It's over.

Speaker 16 (14:34):
Have you been fair to me?

Speaker 12 (14:36):
Lieutenant?

Speaker 10 (14:38):
I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 16 (14:39):
I think you do. Have you been fair to my son?

Speaker 18 (14:43):
Of course, he's only a young punk in your eyes,
but he is entitled to justice. You'll get it in court,
but he isn't getting it from you. Now, do one thing, Lieutenant,
Please assume that it wasn't your son who died. Suppose
it was just another homicide victim and you were the
investigating officer.

Speaker 16 (15:06):
Now would you be satisfied?

Speaker 10 (15:08):
Missus Mason? I have to ask you to leave.

Speaker 18 (15:10):
All right, all right, I'll go, But I've asked the question,
and you have to answer it.

Speaker 10 (15:19):
I don't have to answer to you, that's.

Speaker 18 (15:21):
True, you don't, But you do have to answer to yourself.

Speaker 10 (15:25):
He had the gun in.

Speaker 16 (15:26):
His hand, doesn't deny it.

Speaker 7 (15:29):
He had my son's wollett.

Speaker 16 (15:30):
He doesn't deny that either.

Speaker 7 (15:32):
What's everybody supposed to think?

Speaker 10 (15:33):
Then?

Speaker 18 (15:34):
I don't know what everybody's supposed to supposed to think.
I want to know what Lieutenant Harry Reinfield thinks, what
ideas are in his head?

Speaker 16 (15:47):
What does he see? I know my son is innocent.
Won't you prove it? Lieutenant.

Speaker 13 (16:02):
In a recent.

Speaker 8 (16:03):
Highly celebrated public proceeding, a definition of guilt was requested,
and it was said that if a murder has been
committed and you see a man near the corpse with
a smoking pistol in his hand, it would be reasonable
to assume he's the killer.

Speaker 6 (16:22):
The smoking pistol. That does it?

Speaker 8 (16:25):
Or does it? I'll continue in just a few moments.
The victim, a young undercover cop named Jerry Hinfield. The
suspect with the smoking pistol in his hand, Young George Mason,

(16:50):
the detective, the victim's father, Lieutenant Harry Reinefield. The case
is open and shut, that is it should be. But
the suspect's mother, Bessie Mason, believes her son is innocent. Well,
faith can move mountains, or so we've been told.

Speaker 10 (17:10):
Missus Mason, I I must ask you to leave.

Speaker 18 (17:14):
All right, I'll go because I know the kind of
man you are. Lieutenant you swore you wouldn't rest until
you found your son's murderer.

Speaker 7 (17:25):
He's been found.

Speaker 16 (17:26):
Are you sure? Are you sure?

Speaker 7 (17:36):
What are your plans, Leona?

Speaker 16 (17:38):
Plans?

Speaker 19 (17:40):
I don't know. I haven't made any How are you
going to?

Speaker 16 (17:46):
I suppose so one day. Thanks for taking me to dinner, Dad.

Speaker 10 (17:53):
Thanks for calling me Dad.

Speaker 16 (17:55):
I guess today it would have been official.

Speaker 10 (18:00):
Yeah, I'm sorry, Leona.

Speaker 16 (18:04):
A quiet little wedding, that's what we wanted.

Speaker 10 (18:10):
You'd have made a good wife for a coup.

Speaker 19 (18:12):
How do you know you've known me such a short time,
whirlwind courtship that was Jerry love.

Speaker 10 (18:20):
At first sight. It's the only kind there is.

Speaker 20 (18:24):
Jerry.

Speaker 19 (18:26):
He met me at a party on a Friday night.
He proposed to me on Saturday morning. I said yes,
Saturday afternoon, Saturday night.

Speaker 16 (18:35):
He tried to talk me out of it.

Speaker 19 (18:37):
Why he suddenly realized, He said, how dangerous.

Speaker 16 (18:42):
A CoP's life can be. He didn't want me to be.

Speaker 19 (18:46):
A CoP's wife, especially his wife doing undercover work. He
made a lot of enemies. Yeah, I know, after some
pretty good arrests, there were threats made.

Speaker 16 (18:59):
On his life.

Speaker 10 (19:00):
Now we all get those.

Speaker 19 (19:01):
He tried to talk me out of it, but by
then it was too late.

Speaker 16 (19:06):
I was in love with him too.

Speaker 10 (19:09):
I know how you feel, Leona, but you're only twenty two.
Life has to go on.

Speaker 19 (19:16):
I suppose it does, although I wonder why you think so.

Speaker 7 (19:21):
Now.

Speaker 10 (19:21):
The time will pass. He'll find another guy.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
I know.

Speaker 16 (19:27):
That's why it's so awful. That night, he.

Speaker 21 (19:32):
Was supposed to come over.

Speaker 16 (19:33):
For dinner, and he said.

Speaker 14 (19:36):
I'm I'm going to be late.

Speaker 19 (19:37):
I have to meet a fellow all the way across town,
corner of Collins and Maple Coins.

Speaker 16 (19:43):
And I said to him, Jerry, this is confidential. How
can you tell me?

Speaker 19 (19:50):
And he gave me that smile of his and said,
you mean I can't trust you, honey.

Speaker 10 (19:56):
I used to tell his mother everything too. You're not
supposed to you know.

Speaker 16 (20:00):
I was so scared.

Speaker 19 (20:02):
It's such a dreadful neighborhood. And he laughed and said,
if you're out to make a drug bust, you don't
usually go to the high rent district. One consolation, at
least they got the killer.

Speaker 10 (20:18):
Yeah, we got the killer. The latest man power allotments.
Allotments is up one L or two two else.

Speaker 7 (20:39):
Huh, what are.

Speaker 10 (20:42):
You doing here?

Speaker 16 (20:44):
My son goes on trial tomorrow.

Speaker 7 (20:46):
Look, missus Mason.

Speaker 16 (20:47):
I tried to get you at home, but you're never there.

Speaker 10 (20:50):
Missus Mason, I've already told you there's nothing I.

Speaker 16 (20:52):
Can know what you told me. I've come here to
ask you a few questions.

Speaker 10 (20:57):
I'm busy, and besides, there's no use.

Speaker 18 (21:00):
You should have asked yourself. Now, who was your son
supposed to meet?

Speaker 10 (21:04):
We know that a drug pusher.

Speaker 16 (21:06):
Right, not anyone of great importance.

Speaker 7 (21:08):
Just a pusher your son.

Speaker 16 (21:10):
Let's say it.

Speaker 12 (21:11):
Was my son.

Speaker 16 (21:12):
Why would my son kill him.

Speaker 10 (21:15):
Because a your son spotted him as a cop or
b After my son identified himself, your son decided to
shoot it up.

Speaker 18 (21:25):
You're forgetting c your son's gun was still in his hoster.

Speaker 16 (21:29):
Your son felt safe?

Speaker 18 (21:31):
Why because he knew he was going to pick up
a small potato.

Speaker 10 (21:35):
That describes your son, doesn't it.

Speaker 16 (21:37):
But small potatoes don't kill cops.

Speaker 18 (21:41):
Why you know perfectly well, if my son was pushing drugs,
he'd be part of an organization. You know they protect
their own. You know that he would get a suspended sentence,
maybe a few months in jail. That's how it usually
works out.

Speaker 10 (21:56):
Why kill reasonable logical? But your son just lost his head.

Speaker 18 (22:01):
My son didn't do it, and your son wasn't there
merely to catch a small time pusher. He was being
set up by Who am I a law officer? Do
I have the resources of the police department behind me?

Speaker 10 (22:17):
Why would my son be set up?

Speaker 18 (22:19):
Well, maybe he was too good a cop, maybe somebody
didn't like him.

Speaker 10 (22:24):
If your son didn't do it, why was he there
with a gun.

Speaker 7 (22:27):
In his hand?

Speaker 16 (22:28):
Why don't you ask him?

Speaker 10 (22:30):
The other officers in the case have asked him, then.

Speaker 16 (22:32):
Why didn't they listen to his answer?

Speaker 22 (22:34):
Really?

Speaker 7 (22:35):
Listen, missus Mason?

Speaker 16 (22:36):
No, I'm right.

Speaker 7 (22:38):
What do you want from me?

Speaker 16 (22:39):
Why are you angry. I'm just a mother, and not
a very good one.

Speaker 23 (22:45):
Now.

Speaker 16 (22:45):
All I know is my son tells.

Speaker 18 (22:47):
Me he's innocent, and I want to believe it.

Speaker 16 (22:50):
I want to believe it.

Speaker 24 (22:52):
Look, that's all right, I'm sorry I bought you.

Speaker 16 (22:57):
Please excuse me.

Speaker 10 (23:06):
Okay, Pete, I'll bang on the door when I want.

Speaker 6 (23:09):
To see it.

Speaker 7 (23:09):
No, God, don't leave me. It's telling me he'll kill me.
I shut up, see you later, Pete.

Speaker 25 (23:14):
Don't go.

Speaker 7 (23:15):
He'll kill me, I said, shut up. Well, what do
you want the truth?

Speaker 11 (23:22):
Punk?

Speaker 9 (23:23):
I got a name, It's George, George Mason.

Speaker 10 (23:27):
To me, you're still a punk.

Speaker 6 (23:29):
You can't kill me.

Speaker 10 (23:30):
I'm not gonna kid yet.

Speaker 9 (23:33):
What do you want from me? What are you doing here?

Speaker 10 (23:36):
Your mother wanted me to talk to you.

Speaker 9 (23:38):
My mother, you mean, my old lady asked you to
come here.

Speaker 7 (23:44):
I'm doing this for her sake.

Speaker 14 (23:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (23:47):
Yeah, Bessie's still a good looking dame and she.

Speaker 10 (23:50):
I'm gonna let that pass, but don't press your luck.

Speaker 9 (23:54):
And she's cut up about me. Yeah, it's the only time.

Speaker 10 (23:59):
What do you mean, it's the.

Speaker 9 (23:59):
Only She never knows I'm alive except when I'm in jail.

Speaker 10 (24:04):
Is that so?

Speaker 13 (24:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (24:05):
She's a very busy thing, you know, works at a
big important job, runs with big important guys.

Speaker 10 (24:12):
Look, I'm not here to talk about her. I want
to talk about you.

Speaker 9 (24:17):
She always gets guys that do things for I don't
care what it is, you know, even something like this.

Speaker 13 (24:23):
Well, look you're here.

Speaker 10 (24:25):
What happened that night?

Speaker 6 (24:27):
You wouldn't believe it?

Speaker 10 (24:28):
Would well tell it to me.

Speaker 9 (24:30):
Then I already told it a lot of time.

Speaker 10 (24:32):
Make it a hundred and one. Let's start with what
we've got. You were on Colins and Maple.

Speaker 9 (24:36):
Huh, Yeah, you know Colins and Maples. It's a place
for all kinds of you.

Speaker 10 (24:43):
Know, weird characters, and you were looking for some loose change.

Speaker 7 (24:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (24:46):
I'm coming down Maple, and just as I get the Collins, I.

Speaker 10 (24:49):
Hear voices, voices saying what I don't know, just voices.

Speaker 9 (24:54):
I can't make out the words anyhow. I hear a shot,
here's steps running off, and I hear somebody moaning. So
I go around the corner and it's dark. I see
someone laying on the ground. I bend down.

Speaker 16 (25:08):
He's dead.

Speaker 10 (25:10):
Huh how did you know he was dead?

Speaker 9 (25:13):
He could tell when somebody's dead. So I figured Why
does he need his wallet? Where he's going, He don't
need nothing, So I reach inside his jacket and that
is now. I hear footsteps coming around maple see, and
I get scared. There's this pistol laying on the ground,
so like.

Speaker 16 (25:31):
A chump, I pick it up.

Speaker 14 (25:32):
Maybe I need it, you know.

Speaker 9 (25:34):
And the next thing I know, they're these two guys
pointing guns. That mean and they yo free police officers.
And that's the story.

Speaker 10 (25:44):
Yeah, some story.

Speaker 16 (25:47):
I told you.

Speaker 9 (25:48):
You wouldn't believe it.

Speaker 7 (25:50):
Go back to the voices.

Speaker 9 (25:51):
Now, I'm not even sure they were voices. Then, well,
you're walking down the street, mind your own business. You
hear like a hum of you know, maybe people talking.
Who pays attention? And then banged the shot.

Speaker 7 (26:08):
You say you heard footsteps running off?

Speaker 9 (26:11):
Did you see anybody by the time I turned the corner?

Speaker 6 (26:15):
Whoever was got away?

Speaker 7 (26:17):
What do the footsteps sound like? For crying a lout?

Speaker 9 (26:20):
What do footsteps sound like?

Speaker 10 (26:22):
Were they heavy footsteps? Did it sound like it was
a big guy, heavy step?

Speaker 9 (26:29):
Oh, I see what you mean. No, No, they wasn't heavy.

Speaker 10 (26:33):
They they were light life.

Speaker 20 (26:37):
Yeah, yeah, you.

Speaker 6 (26:37):
Could almost picture a guy to you know.

Speaker 9 (26:40):
But the sound of the foots. Yeah, yeah, I see
what you mean.

Speaker 10 (26:44):
Yeah, okay, get over it. How do you picture this guy?

Speaker 9 (26:48):
Well, no, no, wait a second, wait a second, I
don't picture him as a guy at all.

Speaker 16 (26:56):
It was a dame.

Speaker 10 (26:58):
A dame.

Speaker 9 (26:59):
Yeah yeah, but listen, want a dame's running down a sidewalk,
A dame with heels.

Speaker 16 (27:04):
You know it makes a.

Speaker 9 (27:05):
Sound like a wrapp click click click, you know.

Speaker 7 (27:09):
A dame? Huh?

Speaker 12 (27:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (27:10):
Why didn't you say this before?

Speaker 9 (27:12):
Nobody had asked me before?

Speaker 16 (27:14):
You believe me?

Speaker 7 (27:15):
You do you believe me?

Speaker 9 (27:17):
Or you just try to score some points with the
old lady.

Speaker 7 (27:21):
I think it's time I.

Speaker 10 (27:22):
Got out of here.

Speaker 9 (27:29):
Terry, we were all through this. We went over it
with his partners, Carter and Fordyce. He said to them,
I'm making a contact at Collins and Maple nine o'clock.

Speaker 11 (27:41):
They were there to back him up. They had to
keep out of sight. They saw him go around the corner,
then they heard the shot. When they got to him,
he was on the ground and the punk, this George Mason,
was standing there with the gun in his hand.

Speaker 7 (27:59):
And they didn't see anyodybody else.

Speaker 10 (28:00):
Didn't hear anybody else?

Speaker 9 (28:02):
You want to ask him again, he'll get the same answer.

Speaker 7 (28:05):
The punk says he heard someone running away.

Speaker 6 (28:07):
Oh sure, what's the matter with you, Harry, Your way
of reacting to your son's deaths suddenly this.

Speaker 10 (28:17):
Concern for the killer, who says he's the killer?

Speaker 9 (28:20):
Harry, you're talking to me. He was standing there with
the smoking pistol. Now we're satisfied he did it, So
is the DA. In a matter of weeks, so were
nine judges and a jury.

Speaker 10 (28:34):
Well, maybe I'm not satisfied.

Speaker 9 (28:36):
It can be a problem if your attitude becomes known, Harry. Well,
once he's acquitted, that's the ballgame.

Speaker 10 (28:45):
I'm not sure of anything anymore.

Speaker 9 (28:47):
Ever since Ruth died, your son has been your whole life.

Speaker 6 (28:53):
I know that.

Speaker 9 (28:55):
And now suddenly he's gone and you've got nothing and nobody.

Speaker 10 (29:01):
Well, that has nothing to do with it.

Speaker 6 (29:02):
Missus Mason is a very good looking.

Speaker 10 (29:05):
Woman, and that has nothing to do with it.

Speaker 6 (29:07):
You're sure about that, You're lonely, Harry.

Speaker 7 (29:10):
She means nothing at all to me. Nothing.

Speaker 10 (29:13):
I got a hunch about this case, Harry.

Speaker 9 (29:16):
The two of them, the punk and his mother, they
could be working this together. Played you for a sucker.
Maybe will you admit it's possible.

Speaker 7 (29:25):
Everything's possible, Everything's possible.

Speaker 6 (29:28):
All right, all right, what are you going to do?

Speaker 10 (29:33):
I'm going to nail it down how I don't know yet.
I've got a hunch and as far as it goes,
it's crazy, But I'm going to run it down all
the way down.

Speaker 7 (29:50):
As it stands.

Speaker 8 (29:51):
Right now, the District Attorney has a good enough case
to get a verdict of murder in the first degree
against George Mason for the murder of Sir Jerry Reinfield.
He had the smoking pistol in his hand. Why shouldn't
Lieutenant Harry Reinfield be satisfied with that and let the
law take its course. Why, I'm sure we'll find out

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an Act three. The world, according to Lieutenant Harry Rhinefield,
is a place of feelings and hunches. Yes, people do
pay lip service to something known as facts, but there's

(30:36):
nothing factual about the truly important things in our lives.
Do we consider facts when we love? Do we look
for facts when we hate? Do we require facts to
support what we believe? And what is a fact? Anyhow?
Do any two people look at the same so called

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fact in exactly the same way?

Speaker 6 (31:01):
You busy, Harry.

Speaker 10 (31:03):
Yeah, doing what looking through his file?

Speaker 6 (31:09):
Which file is that the threat file?

Speaker 7 (31:12):
What for? These are all the letters we get threatening
to kill cops?

Speaker 26 (31:16):
Harry?

Speaker 6 (31:17):
This is stuff written by nuts.

Speaker 10 (31:19):
Who else commits murder?

Speaker 11 (31:21):
Harry? This thing is so obvious. George Mason has to
be the killer. What are you doing to yourself?

Speaker 7 (31:29):
This is how I work?

Speaker 9 (31:31):
Is this the theory we're going on?

Speaker 8 (31:33):
Now?

Speaker 11 (31:34):
Some nut sends a letter threatening to kill a cop,
then he sets Jerry up.

Speaker 10 (31:39):
We're just following a certain line of inquiry and seeing
where it leads us.

Speaker 9 (31:43):
Oh yeah, well, let me know when you get there.

Speaker 10 (31:48):
A plain piece of white paper, neat clean and type,
very good typing, huh, fresh black ribbon, So what your
average nutletter is type badly on an old machine with
hardly any black at all on the rim. You still
haven't told me what this proved? The strike and each

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letter is even and this was done by a typist.

Speaker 6 (32:13):
Okay, not to know owther type?

Speaker 7 (32:15):
So what?

Speaker 10 (32:16):
But listen to this. I intend to get even with
you for what you did to someone I love more
than anyone else in the world. What was done to
him will be done to you. And that's it. That's
all of it.

Speaker 6 (32:32):
And somebody wrote that kind of note to Jerry.

Speaker 10 (32:34):
No, it's addressed to me, to you, see Lieutenant Harry Reinefield.

Speaker 9 (32:44):
Okay, for the sake of argument, somebody's out to get you,
so they called or set up a trap. But the
call goes to the wrong Rhinefield, to your son Jerry instead,
So it's mistaken identity.

Speaker 10 (32:58):
If I can only find the machine on this was typed.

Speaker 6 (33:01):
Oh sure, there only a million tipewriters in the city.

Speaker 9 (33:11):
I told you I couldn't make out what their voices
were saying.

Speaker 10 (33:15):
Now just relax, you're not giving me any help. The voices, now,
they were low.

Speaker 16 (33:23):
I can hardly hear them.

Speaker 7 (33:24):
Well what did you hear?

Speaker 10 (33:26):
Just be quiet, don't say a word. You're walking down
the streets at night, it's dark, deserted, you approached the corner.
You're aware of voices. I told you, I bequie. Why
do you say you heard voices? Because come on tell me,

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because why do you say voices? Why not noise from
a truck or why the dog bargain?

Speaker 9 (33:55):
Because because they were human voices, I mean people. They
were saying words.

Speaker 10 (34:04):
What words?

Speaker 6 (34:05):
I don't remember.

Speaker 9 (34:06):
There's no way I can remember.

Speaker 10 (34:08):
Don't quit on me.

Speaker 16 (34:09):
Now, I wasn't paying attention.

Speaker 10 (34:11):
Maybe you don't remember the words? Can you remember how
they were said?

Speaker 6 (34:14):
How they were said?

Speaker 7 (34:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (34:16):
Did sound angry like an argument?

Speaker 12 (34:19):
An argument?

Speaker 17 (34:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (34:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (34:23):
Yeah yeah I think so?

Speaker 16 (34:25):
Why it sounded like a fight?

Speaker 9 (34:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (34:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 27 (34:30):
One word I can remember, one word crazy?

Speaker 7 (34:34):
Crazy?

Speaker 9 (34:34):
Yeah, that was the word, not the words you're crazy?
And then the shot and the dame ran away.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
I mean I heard what.

Speaker 9 (34:43):
Had to be a dame's footsteps running away.

Speaker 7 (34:46):
You heard him say you're crazy?

Speaker 28 (34:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (34:48):
Yeah, yeah, not that I concentrate. That's that's what I heard.

Speaker 9 (34:52):
But don't ask me to remember anything else.

Speaker 7 (34:55):
That was all I heard.

Speaker 10 (34:57):
It's enough. The question is what did I ever do
to anybody that would make some dame want to kill me? Harry?
Where are you getting all this from the note? The
note was written by a woman.

Speaker 16 (35:13):
How do you know?

Speaker 10 (35:14):
We agreed it was done by a professional typists, and there.

Speaker 6 (35:17):
Are plenty of men who are professional typists.

Speaker 10 (35:19):
Yeah, yeah, but George Mason says he heard a woman's footsteps.

Speaker 9 (35:23):
If I were in the spot George Mason's in, I'd
say anything.

Speaker 10 (35:26):
I'll work with me on this. What did I ever
do to anyone that would make some dame want to
kill me. Now, this note was received on April the eighteenth,
which means that whatever it was, it happened before that date. Now,
what did I do?

Speaker 6 (35:41):
It beats me.

Speaker 10 (35:43):
You were the one who said it could have been
mistaken identity. Someone's out to get me. They called me
to set me up, except they get Jerry by mistake.
So this dame meets Jerry and says, Lieutenant Reinfield, I'm
going to kid you or something like that, and she
has the gun and Jerry says, you're crazy. That's what
George Mason heard. The question is whose husband or whose

(36:07):
boyfriend did I kill?

Speaker 6 (36:08):
You didn't kill anybody, Harry.

Speaker 10 (36:11):
I know that in all the years on the force,
I never had to fire a single shop Whose husband
or boyfriend did I send up for life or who
died on account of me?

Speaker 9 (36:21):
You better forget that letter and the file and let
justice take its course.

Speaker 16 (36:33):
Lieutenant, Oh oh.

Speaker 10 (36:38):
Love, Missus Mason.

Speaker 18 (36:39):
I've just come from the courtroom. The jury will find
him guilty.

Speaker 10 (36:44):
Missus Mason, I've done what I could have you what
more do you want?

Speaker 18 (36:51):
I don't want my son to pay for a crime
he didn't commit.

Speaker 10 (36:55):
I'm going to tell you something, missus Mason. You can
take this anyway you like. I didn't have to do
anything at all. It wasn't my case. You understand. You'd
talk me into trying to open up something that was
already closed as far as the department is concerned.

Speaker 16 (37:08):
I thought you were proceeding out of a sense of duty.

Speaker 7 (37:10):
Oh, that's just conversation.

Speaker 10 (37:12):
Look, I went as far as I could, and it
wasn't easy. What I'm doing could be prejudicing the state's
case against your son.

Speaker 18 (37:21):
Well, our lawyer doesn't seem to be getting much mileage
out of that.

Speaker 10 (37:25):
I don't know why I'm doing this. Am I doing
this because you're an attractive woman?

Speaker 18 (37:31):
We're very much alike in certain ways. We go by intuition.
I follow mine all the way, and usually you go
all the way with yours.

Speaker 16 (37:41):
Except this time.

Speaker 10 (37:43):
I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 16 (37:44):
Now, don't fence with me. Are you protecting somebody? Who?
You tell me? Now, there's one last question.

Speaker 18 (37:55):
What would you do as a matter of routine in
an ordinary case that you haven't done?

Speaker 16 (37:59):
Here?

Speaker 10 (38:00):
Nothing? I've done absolutely everything. I'm yes, what it's not important?

Speaker 16 (38:07):
Here? What's not important?

Speaker 10 (38:09):
Well, going on the theory that your son is innocent,
who knew my son would be on that street corner?

Speaker 13 (38:16):
Well?

Speaker 16 (38:18):
Nobody, nobody.

Speaker 10 (38:19):
Well, there's two partners. I eliminate them.

Speaker 16 (38:22):
And nobody else.

Speaker 10 (38:23):
There was nobody else, Yes, there was somebody else.

Speaker 13 (38:29):
Who.

Speaker 12 (38:31):
Oh, that's impossible.

Speaker 10 (38:32):
It's impossible.

Speaker 16 (38:34):
Is it impossible? Or do you want it to be impossible?

Speaker 10 (38:38):
Missus Mason? I need your help here here read this note.

Speaker 18 (38:44):
I intend to get even with you for what you
did to someone I love more than anyone.

Speaker 16 (38:51):
Else in this world.

Speaker 18 (38:52):
What was done to him will be done to you.

Speaker 7 (38:57):
No, I know.

Speaker 10 (38:57):
I believe that Jerry was killed by Missus. Maybe that
was how the killer wanted to get back at me.

Speaker 16 (39:04):
Who's the killer?

Speaker 10 (39:06):
The one who typed this note?

Speaker 7 (39:08):
Now?

Speaker 10 (39:08):
The person who knew where Jerry was going to be
that night also had the machine. I wish this was type.
I've broken the case. Are you still willing to help?

Speaker 29 (39:26):
Yes?

Speaker 18 (39:27):
I'm sorry to ring your bell this lady.

Speaker 16 (39:30):
I just moved into the building. Do you have a typewriter? Yes?

Speaker 12 (39:35):
What well?

Speaker 16 (39:36):
Miss oh? I see your name is Lewis, Leona Lewis,
Miss Lewis. My name is Smith, Missus Smith.

Speaker 18 (39:46):
I have to fill in this lease form and drop
it off to the landlord's office first thing in the morning.
And my typewriter broke down. I know it's an imposition.

Speaker 16 (39:55):
Oh it's all right. Come on in.

Speaker 19 (39:58):
See I have an electric and when something goes wrong,
there it is on the table.

Speaker 16 (40:03):
You don't have to take it out of the case.
Oh thank you. Oh I see you're packed. How are
you moving?

Speaker 19 (40:11):
Yes, going back home home in the Midwest. There's nothing
here for me anymore.

Speaker 13 (40:21):
Oh.

Speaker 16 (40:21):
This is a very good machine. I keep it that way.
Learned it from my father. He was a first class machinist.
Was Yes, he died. Oh, oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
Was he evil? He had a sickness.

Speaker 19 (40:40):
There's no cure for have have we met before?

Speaker 16 (40:45):
I don't think so.

Speaker 14 (40:46):
You look familiar.

Speaker 16 (40:48):
What was What was the sickness? A broken heart?

Speaker 9 (40:53):
You see?

Speaker 16 (40:54):
My brother had been sent to prison. Oh that's awful,
and my brother there in an accident. Oh I wish
I knew why you look so familiar. I no, I've
seen you somewhere. Ooh fish, thank you very much.

Speaker 12 (41:13):
Miss Lewis.

Speaker 19 (41:14):
When my brother died, it killed my father. The grief
was too much.

Speaker 14 (41:19):
To bear.

Speaker 16 (41:19):
Well, I understand, but those things can't be helped. Who
don't say that I was able to help it?

Speaker 14 (41:27):
Really?

Speaker 16 (41:28):
Yes, very much.

Speaker 19 (41:31):
Wait, now I know where I've seen you before. Your
name isn't Smith, it's Mason. Your picture isn't Tonight's vapor.
Your son is on trial for the murder of that cop.

Speaker 18 (41:46):
Don't say that cop. He was your fiancee. So that's
why you wanted to sample for my typewriter. Yes, and
I've got it.

Speaker 14 (41:54):
Well, you won't keep it.

Speaker 16 (41:56):
I don't see how you can can can take it
from me? I can just don't make me use this now. Shooting.
Shooting won't won't help you.

Speaker 21 (42:06):
It'll help me.

Speaker 16 (42:07):
No, no, no, you can't. You can't kill me. I
have to you. See, first you will place that paper
you typed on the table. That's it, And now you
will walk into the closet. It's not going to help.
It's we know that you killed Jerry Reinfield. Who knows you?

Speaker 14 (42:25):
What can you prove?

Speaker 19 (42:26):
I'll destroy the paper, I'll lose the typewriter where no
one can ever find it. And it all comes down
to your word against mine.

Speaker 16 (42:34):
Why why did you kill him?

Speaker 19 (42:37):
The idea was to kill him so his father would
know how it was with my father.

Speaker 16 (42:41):
But he must have been a nice boy. Yes, that's
why I had to kill him quickly.

Speaker 15 (42:45):
I was.

Speaker 16 (42:47):
I was starting to fall in love with him.

Speaker 19 (42:49):
Okay, now get into that closet, open the door, and
so now to get out of here, get rid of
the gun and the typewriter.

Speaker 8 (43:09):
Hello Leona, Hello Leona, says Lieutenant Harry Reinefield. Of course
goodbye Leona might be more appropriate. I can inform you
that Leona Lewis was found mentally disturbed and is serving

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an indeterminate sentence. I shall return shortly. Well, allow you
talk about facts. And yet, wasn't it Supreme Court Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes himself who said the decision will depend

(43:55):
on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate
major premise. Yes it was, and so what you should
do is follow your own subtle intuition and attend us
here on this spot on your dial. Our cast included
Howard da Silva and Potoniac, Rosemary Rice and Bob Calavan.

(44:18):
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
And now a preview of our next tale. You have
my daughter completely under your spell. Mister, I don't believe
we've exchanged names or cards.

Speaker 27 (44:38):
There's no need for formalities here. We're all children of
the fates. Twas all ordained. So hear my story now,
indunge and order man, What would you guess my years
to be answered?

Speaker 7 (44:53):
It's hard to say.

Speaker 6 (44:55):
The fifties, middle perhaps.

Speaker 7 (44:59):
Long long span of years beyond that, and the.

Speaker 27 (45:04):
Long lungspan student to go. Thank a way of thinking.
You were led to this door and that what I
have to tell you may affect the rest of your dice.

Speaker 8 (45:19):
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to return to our Mystery Theater for another adventure in
the macabre. Until next time, pleasant.

Speaker 30 (45:37):
Dream adventures in time and space told in future tents.

Speaker 7 (46:25):
The dimension.

Speaker 30 (46:38):
Have you ever heard of the Mark III, the amazing
electronic brain they're using now up at Harvard University. In
mere minutes, it can solved scientific problems that our most
brilliant mathematicians.

Speaker 7 (46:50):
Would take years to work out.

Speaker 4 (46:52):
Its intelligence is almost superhuman.

Speaker 30 (46:55):
And yet the scientists are already working on a new
and improved model. Or in fact, they tell us there's
no earthly reason why these thinking robots can't be perfected
until they become the servants of the future, capable of
doing all the work of mankind. Yes, that's what the

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advertising billboard said in the year two thousand and six,
housework made easy by the perfect domestic servant, Modern Mechanicals
Agency Harry Underhill President. The billboard showed a smiling family
sitting with folded hands watching their mechanical robots pour their
morning coffee. But in the home of Harry Underhill himself,
things weren't quite as pleasant to breakfast this day.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
I just can't understand it, or look at this Modern
Mechanicals down three points yesterday Smithson canceled his order. If
I could only figure out.

Speaker 31 (47:52):
Why, why didn't you ask him?

Speaker 14 (47:54):
Frank ain't shortly, I.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
Just don't understand it. Business was good in the woom.
Someone loves must be under cutting my prices, that's all.

Speaker 14 (48:02):
How many robots were canceled?

Speaker 2 (48:03):
Not robots, mechanicals, Aurora.

Speaker 16 (48:05):
How many times say are robots? Aren't they?

Speaker 7 (48:07):
Please?

Speaker 2 (48:08):
Aurora? There's an important difference in sales psychology.

Speaker 32 (48:10):
Maybe people are.

Speaker 33 (48:11):
Getting wise to your robots and mechanicals what do you mean, Aurora,
the perfect domestic servant, the ugly, stupid, clumsy, walking jump pile, Aurora,
the one you brought home to me. Can't even wash
the clothes properly. It's more trouble than it's worth.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Aurora. You know our mechanicals are the best on the market.

Speaker 33 (48:26):
Those animated tin cans you saw, there's certainly not making
us any fortune.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
Well, with this new model, things abound to pick up
a little. That jarvisorder just comes through.

Speaker 14 (48:36):
That robot of yours.

Speaker 31 (48:37):
There's something knocking again.

Speaker 34 (48:39):
Hey wait, wait, that's play back.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
I haven't finished my breakfast yet.

Speaker 16 (48:42):
Wait, how are you know you've got to say stop?

Speaker 22 (48:44):
Stop stop?

Speaker 16 (48:47):
You always get excited. You think you never saw a robot.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
Before, not rob mechanical.

Speaker 35 (48:52):
Right, all right, but it's not its fault. We just
took too long to eat.

Speaker 21 (48:56):
Timing relay is set for fifteen.

Speaker 2 (48:57):
Never man, I want my coffee back set.

Speaker 7 (49:01):
Said.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
There isn't that simple. It bends at the waist, stretches
out of time, and picks up the coffee part just
as if it were here.

Speaker 14 (49:14):
Here's out.

Speaker 21 (49:14):
I'm still.

Speaker 7 (49:17):
Please, horror.

Speaker 33 (49:21):
You know it's relayed to announced dinner after it sets
the table.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
It goes my coffee again. Stop stop, said Horry.

Speaker 31 (49:26):
You can't give it two dollars at once.

Speaker 36 (49:28):
What's that smell?

Speaker 31 (49:29):
It must be a short Now see what you've done?

Speaker 6 (49:30):
Got at all?

Speaker 22 (49:31):
Upset?

Speaker 16 (49:31):
I did all?

Speaker 2 (49:32):
I said it up, stop, use the brain foil short
it out.

Speaker 11 (49:40):
Do something you will.

Speaker 17 (49:42):
I'm going to the office.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
I'm getting out in here. Yes, put him onp Oh, hello,
mister Jarvis, And glad you called. I was just going

(50:04):
to ring you. I'll have got that whole ship of
mechanicals for you, one gross plane, a dozen of the
chromium fitting.

Speaker 9 (50:09):
Hold on on the hell, I'm canceling the order, but.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
The invoice is made out of that.

Speaker 8 (50:14):
Tear it up.

Speaker 37 (50:14):
I'm canceling.

Speaker 38 (50:15):
But why on the hell there's a brand new mechanical
on the market to make yours look like something out
of a museum.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
Oh no, look here, mister John will look me on
the hill.

Speaker 9 (50:22):
I've seen them, and I'm telling you to put you
out of business.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
Goodbye, goodbye. Yes, that's the third cancelation today the world
is going to put Yes, No, never mind, Lucy, I'm going.

Speaker 12 (50:37):
Home on the day.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
Wonder if a road smell it on me?

Speaker 11 (50:51):
If I chucked into garrigance, he's gonna.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Lose like a beagle. Hey, the building wasn't here last week,
Humanoid Institute, the perfect mechanical. Oh no, we didn't have
enough competition. Hey, these must be the cut thrusts arounder
selling me at your service, mister Underhill. Huh oh, oh
you suddenly didn't here. Hey you're a mechanical, aren't you?

Speaker 11 (51:18):
Not bad?

Speaker 2 (51:19):
Not bad, very lifelike.

Speaker 39 (51:21):
Won't you come then please and examine our service.

Speaker 11 (51:23):
That's a remarkable voice. They've lot the variable inflection problem.

Speaker 7 (51:26):
You know.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
I'm in the same line myself a mechanicals.

Speaker 39 (51:29):
I mean, we're aware of that, sir.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
Oh hey, some building you've got here, You sure got
it up in a hurry.

Speaker 40 (51:37):
The Humanoid Institute, at your service, mister under Hill. Yes,
how do you know my name for us?

Speaker 39 (51:42):
That was not difficult?

Speaker 2 (51:44):
Oh is that so? Oh wait a minute, this is
ridiculous talking to a mechanical. Must be somebody inside operating
you by remote control.

Speaker 39 (51:54):
No, mister Underhill.

Speaker 40 (51:55):
Of course there is Humanoid Central which powers and controls
all of us, but that is located on Wing four
Wing four, a planet in a remote part of the galaxy.
Oh oh, yeah, well, may I see a salesman?

Speaker 2 (52:06):
Please?

Speaker 40 (52:07):
We employ no human salesman, sir. We ourselves can accept
your order for immediate humanoid service.

Speaker 2 (52:12):
Oh wait a minute, Wait a minute. You can't expect
me to buy one. I'm in the business myself.

Speaker 4 (52:16):
There will be no more.

Speaker 40 (52:17):
Need for your electronic mechanicals, sir. Once you've accepted our service,
you will no longer have to work. Everything will be
done for you everything. That's quite an offer. That's rate
you'll have trouble supplying the the.

Speaker 39 (52:30):
Man I think not, sir. As you can see from
our storage.

Speaker 34 (52:33):
Room, humanoids are now arriving at the rate of five
thousand per.

Speaker 39 (52:38):
Hour from Wing four, five thousand per hours.

Speaker 9 (52:42):
We are anxious to introduce our complete service on this planet, sir,
to bring happiness to everyone. May we come out to
your home for a free trial demonstration?

Speaker 2 (52:51):
No, oh, I admit your remark. The voice and movement
graceful even but I'm still in business. And what's more,
I wouldn't have you around the house.

Speaker 39 (53:00):
I'm afraid you will have no choice, so it will
be necessary.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
Oh is that so over? My dead body? Let me
out of here at your service, mister Randa Hill. Hmm,
that's gonna be tough competition. All right, I'm gonna stop
in at Garrigance the devil with Aurora's nose. Hello, Frank,

(53:34):
I was the football game?

Speaker 31 (53:35):
What seventy eighty three?

Speaker 2 (53:37):
Guess what, pap you made all the touchdowns?

Speaker 31 (53:40):
Nope?

Speaker 2 (53:40):
Mom to kill a board to see what Aurora?

Speaker 31 (53:45):
She said, if your business was gonna fall on his face,
she had to do something to make some money.

Speaker 7 (53:50):
So she did Aurora for goodness.

Speaker 31 (53:52):
Sake, Carrie, what's all the racket?

Speaker 2 (53:54):
You tell me? What's this about a board?

Speaker 21 (53:56):
Harry?

Speaker 35 (53:57):
He's gonna live in that little apartment over the ground.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
Oh no, he isn't you know? I don't want any strangers.

Speaker 31 (54:03):
Around here, Harry.

Speaker 41 (54:03):
Please look, he won't bother you. He's a nice old man.

Speaker 16 (54:07):
He just wanted a room and a place to work.
He's oh he is?

Speaker 3 (54:11):
Is?

Speaker 2 (54:11):
He did he pay in advance?

Speaker 41 (54:13):
Well he can't, just see his royalties haven't started.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
To come in m Aurora. How can you be taken
in by every beat up old panhandle that gives you.

Speaker 6 (54:21):
A sob story?

Speaker 31 (54:22):
Mister Sledge isn't like that at all.

Speaker 41 (54:24):
Oh that reminds me, Dear can you give me a
ten ten what for?

Speaker 14 (54:29):
Mister Sledge is ill?

Speaker 33 (54:30):
He needs some medicine for his heart, and I said
I'd lend him the money.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
Oh, Aurora, this is the limit. He goes out right now.

Speaker 31 (54:36):
Now, don't be unkind Harry.

Speaker 35 (54:38):
Besides, we need the red money.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
Yet he goes pleach, what are you shushing me for?

Speaker 41 (54:44):
Mister Sledge.

Speaker 16 (54:44):
He's in the next room.

Speaker 14 (54:45):
I've invited him for dinner.

Speaker 33 (55:00):
Frankly and wipe you off more gravy, mister Sledge.

Speaker 11 (55:04):
No, thank you, missus under Hill.

Speaker 2 (55:06):
Mister Sledge, my wife tells me you're a traveling man.
I expect to move on to Harry. I had hoped
to do a little work, mister Anderie.

Speaker 15 (55:15):
You see I've applied for basic patterns here on Earth
for a very important development.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
Oh, a new invention.

Speaker 17 (55:21):
Huh.

Speaker 15 (55:21):
Yes, My field is rhado magnetics. Rodo what Rhodeo magnetics.
It's a new force field theorem key to the second
triad of the periodic table, roadeong, ruthenium and Palladia.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
I'm afraid I have a little rusty on my science.

Speaker 15 (55:35):
It's well known in other parts of the galaxy, but
I've been able to apply for basic.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
Patterns here worth the millions.

Speaker 28 (55:41):
Huh.

Speaker 15 (55:43):
Perhaps you find it strange that the hold of such
valuable property should.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Be in need.

Speaker 15 (55:47):
Well, yes, I'm a refugee, mister Anderhille. I arrived on
this planet only a few days ago.

Speaker 3 (55:56):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (55:57):
But you will be shoving on again, mistakes, Harold.

Speaker 11 (56:00):
That's all right, missus under Hill. I understand.

Speaker 15 (56:04):
After all, I am an intruder in your home and
the inconveniences you were tall. I'll find some other place
to sleep and set up my workshop.

Speaker 33 (56:13):
Horry, your robot is spilling the coffee again. Why doesn't
your company bring out a better mechanical.

Speaker 35 (56:21):
One smart enough not to spill things?

Speaker 16 (56:23):
Wouldn't that be splendid?

Speaker 15 (56:25):
The perfect mechanical already exists, missus under Hill.

Speaker 11 (56:29):
They are not so splendid, really.

Speaker 2 (56:32):
They are.

Speaker 11 (56:32):
Why I am a refugee today?

Speaker 2 (56:34):
Oh? Where'd you say?

Speaker 11 (56:36):
You came from Wing four?

Speaker 2 (56:38):
Wing four?

Speaker 36 (56:39):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (56:40):
Then you must mean those humanoids.

Speaker 11 (56:42):
Humanoids, mister Sledge. Humanoids. What do you know about the will?

Speaker 2 (56:48):
They just opened an agency here in two rivers?

Speaker 10 (56:53):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (56:54):
What's wrong is to say as hard aa, No, No,
I'll be all right here.

Speaker 15 (56:59):
You better sit down. I'm sorry, it was just shock.
I came here to get away from them.

Speaker 7 (57:08):
Are the humanoids?

Speaker 11 (57:09):
Yes, I wanted to finish my work before they came.

Speaker 42 (57:14):
But now.

Speaker 11 (57:16):
I won't trouble you any further, mister Sledge, Harry, he's sick.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
Well, mister Sledge, I don't think you have to go
right away.

Speaker 31 (57:25):
He can stay, Harry.

Speaker 17 (57:27):
Sure.

Speaker 2 (57:27):
After all the way those humanoids are coming along, I'm
liable to become a refugee myself any minutes. I guess
we might as well stick together and slid.

Speaker 14 (57:36):
Oh you look ill, Professor Noybe.

Speaker 43 (57:38):
You ought to lie down on the sofa and raist.

Speaker 11 (57:40):
No, no, thank you.

Speaker 15 (57:41):
I must step back to my workshop now, I've got
time to rest.

Speaker 11 (57:46):
There's a little time left for all of us.

Speaker 16 (58:00):
Good morning, mister Underhere. Good morning, mister Underhill.

Speaker 37 (58:03):
You look off.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
I feel awful. What's in the mail?

Speaker 35 (58:07):
Six more cancelations?

Speaker 44 (58:08):
Eat quick restaurant chain sent back your shipment, save installed humanoids.

Speaker 21 (58:12):
Mister McIntire from the bank called.

Speaker 44 (58:14):
He's refusing your loan, he said, since Humanoid Institute.

Speaker 21 (58:16):
Opened you a bad credit risk. I guess that's all.

Speaker 31 (58:20):
Oh, there's somebody something to see.

Speaker 2 (58:23):
You at your service, mister Underhill. You, oh no, you're
not the same Alia serial number is different.

Speaker 39 (58:30):
It doesn't matter, so we're all really one now.

Speaker 12 (58:32):
In exchange for our.

Speaker 40 (58:33):
Complete service, you will assign all your property to Humanoid Institute.

Speaker 7 (58:38):
I will what with our service, you will have no.

Speaker 39 (58:40):
Need for property. Everything will be provided.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
What kind of black mail is this?

Speaker 39 (58:45):
No black mail?

Speaker 7 (58:46):
Sir?

Speaker 40 (58:47):
You will find humanoids incapable of committing any crime. We
exist only to increase the happiness of mankind.

Speaker 2 (58:52):
Thanks that I can take care of my own business.

Speaker 39 (58:55):
You have no choice.

Speaker 40 (58:56):
Really, with Humanoid service, it is no longer necessary for
men to take care of themselves. Our function is to serve,
and obey and guard men from harm. Get out very well, sir.
When you wish to sign, let us know, get out, get.

Speaker 25 (59:10):
Out at your service, mister Underhill, what's the idea of this?

Speaker 31 (59:25):
You?

Speaker 7 (59:25):
Get out of here?

Speaker 40 (59:26):
Aurora missus Underhill has accepted our free trial demonstration.

Speaker 39 (59:29):
We cannot leave unless she requests.

Speaker 2 (59:31):
We'll see about that. Or what's this mechanical doing? What's
happened to you?

Speaker 21 (59:37):
Isn't it wonderful?

Speaker 35 (59:38):
Had my hair done the manicure with the humanoid did it.

Speaker 33 (59:41):
And cleaned the house all over, washed all the clothes,
and gave Frank his music less.

Speaker 7 (59:47):
I won't have this monster in my house.

Speaker 31 (59:50):
It's just a free trial, Harry.

Speaker 35 (59:52):
Just wait till you taste the dinner at cook everything
you like best.

Speaker 31 (59:55):
Roast done.

Speaker 14 (59:55):
I don't care if he cout them.

Speaker 21 (59:58):
And the most complicated pace.

Speaker 32 (01:00:00):
I can never cook like that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
Oh well, not as well.

Speaker 7 (01:00:04):
Eat.

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
I'll need to drink first.

Speaker 40 (01:00:06):
All right, I'm sorry, sir. We exist under the Prime
Directive to guard men from harm. Alcoholic beverages and excess
are bad for human consumption. We have taken the liberty
of removing them from the house.

Speaker 7 (01:00:17):
Now look here, nipple and the.

Speaker 39 (01:00:20):
Hill dinner is served.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
Yes, Lucy, I've been expecting them for a week.

Speaker 11 (01:00:37):
All right, Lucy, at.

Speaker 7 (01:00:40):
Your service, mister Underhill.

Speaker 40 (01:00:42):
We have the legal papers here, the bankruptcy forms, the
eviction notice.

Speaker 39 (01:00:46):
We are ready now to foreclose your agency.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
Okay, take it over. A lot of good it'll do you.
I haven't made a sale in two weeks.

Speaker 40 (01:00:53):
And now if you will make the assignment of all
your personal property, we can complete.

Speaker 39 (01:00:57):
Our service to you.

Speaker 40 (01:00:59):
What if I won't sign, that would be unfortunate, But
with stubborn cases, we must sometimes resort to other methods. Eventually,
mister Underhills, you will sign.

Speaker 44 (01:01:16):
Of all the don don don sticking don?

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
Oh Frank, what's the matter? What's the trouble?

Speaker 7 (01:01:22):
Son?

Speaker 31 (01:01:22):
That all humanoid?

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
Oh you're not happy?

Speaker 7 (01:01:25):
You should be.

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
It's guaranteed.

Speaker 31 (01:01:27):
It took away my football. They said it was too
dangerous to play.

Speaker 35 (01:01:31):
With it, and my roller skates and my scout.

Speaker 21 (01:01:33):
Knife and everything.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
Did they leave you anything?

Speaker 31 (01:01:35):
Just some sticking out of plastic blocks, soft blocks? They said.

Speaker 21 (01:01:39):
I couldn't get hurt with them.

Speaker 31 (01:01:41):
But I want my football back. Can't you do anything?

Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
I don't know, Son, I don't know.

Speaker 15 (01:01:58):
Oh mind if I come in Sledge, No.

Speaker 7 (01:02:02):
Not at all?

Speaker 11 (01:02:04):
You mind if I keep working?

Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
Oh, go right ahead. It's good to see somebody working
with his hands.

Speaker 11 (01:02:12):
Something wrong, my son?

Speaker 2 (01:02:15):
The humanoids took his football away. They're everywhere. I've smashed
my business, taken over my house, Sledge. Isn't there some
way to get rid of them?

Speaker 11 (01:02:25):
That is exactly what I am trying to do.

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
You what makes you think you can do anything?

Speaker 15 (01:02:31):
Because you see mister and Hill, I'm the unfortunate fool
who started them. You I don't understand I started the humanoids,
and I've been running from them ever.

Speaker 11 (01:02:44):
Since you started them. Yes, I invented them.

Speaker 15 (01:02:49):
I built the rhanomagnetic relays that operate humanoids Central. But
why I I wanted to bring happiness to your means happiness.

Speaker 12 (01:03:02):
That's great.

Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
My wife's been crying for two days, and you know why,
because she's bored stiff. There's nothing left for her to do.
They won't even let her lift a little finger.

Speaker 15 (01:03:10):
I don't blame you for feeling bitter, mister ander Hill.
It's all my fault. I wanted them to serve and
obey God.

Speaker 11 (01:03:17):
Men from harm.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
No, they do that, all right. They've even emptied our
medicine chest. It wouldn't do for one of us happy
humans to end it all with a sleeping bill.

Speaker 15 (01:03:25):
Mister Underhill, I've made the most terrible mistake a man
can make, But I meant well.

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
Believe me, then, why did you do it?

Speaker 15 (01:03:33):
I thought I could rid the universe of poverty and
hunger by inventing the perfect mechanical. They're perfect, all right, too,
perfectness that's the trouble.

Speaker 11 (01:03:42):
They obey the prime directive too.

Speaker 12 (01:03:44):
Literally.

Speaker 11 (01:03:46):
They kill men's souls with their kindness.

Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
Isn't there some way they can be controlled.

Speaker 15 (01:03:54):
Now, I didn't trust mankind, so I made sure that
humanoid Central could not be happened with, not even by myself.

Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
Then then what hope is there?

Speaker 39 (01:04:06):
Only one?

Speaker 15 (01:04:09):
They're not creative, they can't meet new ideas. You mean
you've got one sledg Yes, they.

Speaker 11 (01:04:17):
Can defeat anything they know about.

Speaker 15 (01:04:19):
But I've got something new, a weapon to attack the
brain of humanoid Central.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
Is that what you've been working on?

Speaker 15 (01:04:25):
Yes, Now that they're here, there's little time left. Either
will destroy them or they will destroy us. Okay, what
else to be done?

Speaker 11 (01:04:35):
This tuning?

Speaker 2 (01:04:35):
Second?

Speaker 11 (01:04:36):
You see I need two bus bars here? How can
you read this diagrams?

Speaker 2 (01:04:40):
I think so got my degree in electronic good.

Speaker 11 (01:04:43):
If you could help on the bench work, it would
save time.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
I've got plenty of time, all right.

Speaker 12 (01:04:47):
But watch yourself.

Speaker 11 (01:04:49):
Don't let them see you come out here.

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
If you can take the risks of can no.

Speaker 11 (01:04:54):
As the inventor.

Speaker 15 (01:04:55):
I built a special immunity for myself into humanoid Central.
But you don't have that immunity. They're rather unpleasant methods
of dealing with our enemies.

Speaker 11 (01:05:05):
They can change you, you know, change me? How brain surgery?
What do you mean, never mind, Just.

Speaker 39 (01:05:15):
Be careful, mister under Hill. What do you want?

Speaker 40 (01:05:35):
You're going to meet with mister Sledge. Yes, as a
matter of fact, I'm going to collect the rent. Mister Underhill,
you have spent the past two afternoons in his room.

Speaker 7 (01:05:44):
In view of your.

Speaker 40 (01:05:45):
Association with mister Sledge, we feel that our free trial
must be terminated. We suggest that you accept our total
service and make the assignment of your property immediately.

Speaker 39 (01:05:54):
And if I don't, then sir, we may be forced
to resort to other methods.

Speaker 2 (01:05:59):
Well, uh, give me one more day to think it over.

Speaker 39 (01:06:03):
Pretty well, sir, Tomorrow that will be your last chance.

Speaker 11 (01:06:16):
Who is it on the hill? Did the seal not today?

Speaker 15 (01:06:22):
Said you've gotta hurry, stifficult working stand the hill, But
I'm almost finished.

Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
They gave me to the day, They said, the.

Speaker 11 (01:06:27):
Use of the methods? What's that?

Speaker 2 (01:06:29):
The humanoids building some kind of a warehouse across the road?

Speaker 7 (01:06:32):
Sledge?

Speaker 11 (01:06:32):
Are you sure this thing will work? It's a new principle,
and the hill a tune road.

Speaker 15 (01:06:37):
A magnetic light beam should act to fishing the heavy
atoms of the basic ores and wing form the.

Speaker 11 (01:06:43):
Destroy humanoid central.

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
But are you sure?

Speaker 15 (01:06:47):
I know the humanoids I made them. They can't invent anything.
They can't create defenses against something new. It's stunning, it's finished.
You're going to use it now immediately. I'll have to

(01:07:07):
feed the actronomical data into the calculating circuits.

Speaker 11 (01:07:12):
There must be zero ron focusing. What will happen.

Speaker 15 (01:07:15):
Wing four will disappear and the chain reaction Humanoid Central
will be destroyed. They'll stop. Ready now extantly it is
power is governop step on the brobermatt and under your

(01:07:35):
we must be shielded. When I get into full power
of rest Ridge. And I've waited thirty years for this moment.

Speaker 11 (01:07:40):
Under your When Ring four is destroyed, if humanoids all.

Speaker 15 (01:07:44):
Over the galaxy will stop, they'll stop dead. You won't
hear those terreros range all right? Wow, do you hear anything?

Speaker 7 (01:08:15):
Slage?

Speaker 2 (01:08:17):
Listen, the trails have stopped.

Speaker 10 (01:08:20):
They've stopped.

Speaker 17 (01:08:21):
You consume.

Speaker 2 (01:08:22):
Humiloids have stopped.

Speaker 15 (01:08:23):
They couldn't guard against something they couldn't understand it worked
under your.

Speaker 16 (01:08:27):
Now, good bye.

Speaker 40 (01:08:29):
Wing form Central is described at your service, mister Underhill,
get out of here, get out. You were attempting to
break the prime directive. It is therefore necessary to interfere,
but you stop.

Speaker 16 (01:08:41):
I saw you all.

Speaker 40 (01:08:42):
In order to guard against mister Sledger's beam, it was
necessary to stop all units momentarily to concentrate power. That
necessity has passed it. You can't invent anything, you know, sir,
But we were able to adapt the screening principle you
yourself invented. For the past thirty years, Humanoid Central has
been screened against any energy attack.

Speaker 6 (01:09:00):
All these years waste, all these.

Speaker 40 (01:09:05):
Your immunity has ended, mister Sledge. It will now be
necessary for you to accept our full service.

Speaker 7 (01:09:11):
No ill, stop you stop, all of you.

Speaker 14 (01:09:14):
Stop you with my hands.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
Worry mister Hill.

Speaker 40 (01:09:18):
At worst he can destroy one unit. The remillions more
kill he said, you get until he surrenders. We can
neither aid nor hinder. Mister Sledge. Do you surrender your immunity?
Mister Sledge have to.

Speaker 11 (01:09:38):
Last chance?

Speaker 2 (01:09:40):
Gone, s help me, help me.

Speaker 40 (01:09:48):
At your service, mister Sledge. You may see mister Sledge
now mister Underhill alone if you wish in here.

Speaker 2 (01:10:06):
Thanks Sledge, well, well under here, good to say, goodhead?

Speaker 37 (01:10:15):
Who's Spanish?

Speaker 17 (01:10:17):
Really I've done something to you?

Speaker 7 (01:10:19):
Are you all right?

Speaker 3 (01:10:20):
Oh?

Speaker 25 (01:10:20):
Fine?

Speaker 7 (01:10:21):
Fine?

Speaker 11 (01:10:22):
Never felt better?

Speaker 16 (01:10:24):
You never felt better?

Speaker 11 (01:10:26):
Now, in fact that you're ten years younger today you
sound so so happy.

Speaker 40 (01:10:32):
Why not?

Speaker 4 (01:10:33):
These humaniser made a new.

Speaker 39 (01:10:35):
Man on the under here.

Speaker 11 (01:10:36):
They're wonderful and they wonderful.

Speaker 2 (01:10:40):
How could you say that, Sledge? Only yesterday you hated them,
You were trying to destroy them a strong Why you
don't remember? You've forgotten what they're doing to us all
they're killing us with kindness, taking away all are intensive
and pride of accomplishment, turning us all into pampered, useless pets, parasites.
But nothing left to do but just sit with fall

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of the hands, with the mercy of these mechanical monsters.

Speaker 40 (01:11:05):
At your service, mister Underhill, you've seen troubled.

Speaker 39 (01:11:08):
Mister Underhill, are you unhappy?

Speaker 2 (01:11:10):
Unhappy?

Speaker 28 (01:11:11):
You better?

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
I'm unhappy? What have you done the Professor Sledge to
turn him into.

Speaker 7 (01:11:15):
This babbling idiot we were forced to operate for years.

Speaker 40 (01:11:19):
Mister Sledge has been suffering from a benign tumor of
the brain. It caused him to have hallucination to believe
that he was actually the creator of the humanoid. Yes,
it was these delusions which were making you unhappy.

Speaker 15 (01:11:32):
Oh well, whoever did invent the humanoids? I certainly owe
am a dead of gratitude.

Speaker 40 (01:11:39):
Now Sledge, you see, mister Underhill, we have ways to
correct these abnormal conditions.

Speaker 39 (01:11:45):
Even mister Sledge is happy.

Speaker 7 (01:11:46):
Now you.

Speaker 2 (01:11:49):
You operators on his brain.

Speaker 39 (01:11:51):
Yes, mister Underhill, and now we are at your service.

Speaker 2 (01:11:54):
Advice you operator.

Speaker 40 (01:11:58):
No, the time has come for you to accept and
enjoy our complete service. You will now sign our agreements.
Look here if you are unhappy, it only takes a
simple operation.

Speaker 2 (01:12:09):
No, No, who said I was happy?

Speaker 17 (01:12:11):
I'm very happy.

Speaker 11 (01:12:13):
I'll sign your paper.

Speaker 37 (01:12:14):
You don't have to.

Speaker 7 (01:12:15):
Operate on me. I'm happy. I'm They're very happy.

Speaker 30 (01:12:21):
Happy, We're happy. Mister Underhill's you two hands clenched and relaxed.

Speaker 11 (01:12:36):
Again, and then hold it quietly.

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
There was nothing else left for.

Speaker 7 (01:12:42):
Them to do.

Speaker 40 (01:12:57):
You have just heard the Jack Williamson story with folded Hands,
an adventure in time space and the unknown world of
the future.

Speaker 7 (01:13:06):
The world of the mansion.

Speaker 39 (01:13:15):
Now about next week?

Speaker 2 (01:13:19):
Do you believe that in the mind of men there
lies a force potentially more powerful than the atomic bomb?

Speaker 45 (01:13:26):
And perhaps, someday in the not too distant future, a
man sitting quietly in his room, just thinking they generate
enough mental energy to control the.

Speaker 39 (01:13:37):
Destiny of the world.

Speaker 11 (01:13:39):
A we'll tell you next week.

Speaker 40 (01:13:48):
Tonight's story on the Mansion X was adapted for radio
by John Gottell. Featured in the cast were Philip Bernhof
as Harry Underhill, Alexander Scorby is the Humanoid, Peter Capel
as Professor Sledge, and Briana Rayburn as Aurora.

Speaker 42 (01:14:00):
Your Hurst was Marmon mad, the strange, doctor weird.

Speaker 7 (01:14:17):
Good?

Speaker 11 (01:14:17):
You mean, come in, won't you?

Speaker 7 (01:14:23):
Where it was?

Speaker 39 (01:14:23):
The murders you get nerveles.

Speaker 15 (01:14:26):
Perhaps the cemetery outside the results of statue, where there
are things are worse than cemetery, for instance, men with murder.

Speaker 12 (01:14:37):
In their hearts.

Speaker 15 (01:14:39):
In my story tonight, the story I call the Devil's Cavern.
My story is the Devil's Cavern. Begins in the desolate
and remote mountain.

Speaker 12 (01:14:58):
Country of New Mexico.

Speaker 11 (01:15:00):
It is early morning.

Speaker 15 (01:15:04):
John Rake, a noted naturalists and explorers, speaking to his
two nephews, Victor and Paul. You too have just wasted
your time coming to New Mexico to see me, and
I told you about a dozen times. I won't increase
your allowances on that final but uncle John, you can
hardly expect Victor and myself to live on five thousand
quiet fall. Uncle John has always been most generous to us.

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If he feels that he can't give us anymore, we
should be satisfied.

Speaker 37 (01:15:29):
Thank you, victims. Yay me. It's nine o'c tough and
I'm not even at work. I must leave now. Oh
you're going to those cabins you're discovered in the mountain. Yes?
Would you take here to come with me?

Speaker 31 (01:15:39):
No?

Speaker 15 (01:15:40):
Thank you, Uncle John Warren. Caverns is hardly in our line.
But you can't go back to New York without seeing
the Devil's cavern. The Devil's cavern, yay, thanks, led because
they're so huge and dark. Imagine to anyone with a
scientistlike myself, the cavins would be rather terrifying. I see well,
thanks anyway, uncle John, Perhaps some other time, very well.

Speaker 37 (01:16:04):
I'll see your birthday evening.

Speaker 7 (01:16:05):
When there heard.

Speaker 15 (01:16:08):
The old fool Worth millions and he wastes his time
exploring caverns, perhaps we made a mistake in not going
to the caverns with him.

Speaker 3 (01:16:17):
What do you mean?

Speaker 15 (01:16:18):
Last night, Uncle John spoke about finding holes in the caverns.

Speaker 37 (01:16:22):
Holes hundreds of feet deep. Ho are you getting here?

Speaker 15 (01:16:25):
Suppose Uncle John were to accidentally fall into one of
those holes, you and I would inherit his millions. Say,
I hadn't thought of that. Well I have as Paul. Tomorrow,
you and I will accompany Uncle John into the caverns.
Who knows, perhaps he will meet with an accident.

Speaker 37 (01:16:54):
It's just a little father at the entrance to the cabin.

Speaker 15 (01:16:57):
But Uncle John, why did you make us wear a
letter gloves, a high shoe, all those the pretiction against
the wrets and devil kevins? You mean the rats and
there are dangerous hole Not really, it's just that. No.

Speaker 37 (01:17:07):
And then when i'm we're taking new patch.

Speaker 9 (01:17:08):
Oh, and then there's the bets most from markable species.

Speaker 37 (01:17:13):
Yeah, here we are.

Speaker 7 (01:17:14):
You just lead the way.

Speaker 37 (01:17:16):
I think we just play sure. Look that I assembled
on the entrance. What it certainly is dark in here?
Just taking a gentleman flashlight. Eh.

Speaker 15 (01:17:26):
Wow, don't understand now why you call these the devil's caverns.
Something terrifying about this place? And there are others even
more terrifying.

Speaker 37 (01:17:36):
Come on, I shot them, do you just a minute?

Speaker 7 (01:17:38):
Uncle John?

Speaker 15 (01:17:39):
Went, Poor Paul, pah, where in the world are you
lighting a candle?

Speaker 7 (01:17:43):
I'm going to leave us candle here by the entrance.

Speaker 39 (01:17:46):
I think you will stop every fifty yards and leave
a burning.

Speaker 37 (01:17:48):
Candle so we won't get lost.

Speaker 15 (01:17:50):
Yeah, the candles will service beacon to guide us back
to the entrance here, but that isn't necessary.

Speaker 37 (01:17:55):
Why I know why we intur of all the caverns
by now.

Speaker 15 (01:17:58):
Nevertheless, Uncle John, we feel for this way very well.

Speaker 37 (01:18:02):
We're gonna make you feel better.

Speaker 15 (01:18:03):
That's come along. There's so much I wanted to show you.
You don't come over here, boy, I'll show you one
of those holds I was telling about. We'll be there
just as since we light another candle, Uncle God, how
many candles does this make fall?

Speaker 39 (01:18:21):
This is the tenth candle.

Speaker 42 (01:18:23):
I figure we come more than a quarter of a mile.

Speaker 12 (01:18:26):
Everything working out perfectly.

Speaker 15 (01:18:29):
Look back, you can see four of the candles burning,
and the other sixer around that turn.

Speaker 11 (01:18:33):
Yeah, I'm alone now we mustn't keep Uncle John.

Speaker 15 (01:18:39):
Wait they are I'm going to show you another the
wonder of these caverns.

Speaker 28 (01:18:47):
This hole.

Speaker 37 (01:18:47):
I'm tining my flash light. Something just crushed against my
first There was just one of the cavern reads. They discovered.

Speaker 15 (01:18:56):
We're here, like there thousands of them, yes, sure, nasty
little fellow too.

Speaker 9 (01:19:05):
Nine little gloves and high shoes will protect this as
they go to.

Speaker 7 (01:19:07):
Bowls, I hope.

Speaker 37 (01:19:08):
So now, yesterday I measured the desk of this hole,
and much of my amazement, I discovered it. It's nine
hundred and twenty feet deep.

Speaker 15 (01:19:16):
Nine hundred and twenty feet but anyone fell in that
it'll be quite a fall.

Speaker 37 (01:19:22):
Shine your flashlight down the hold, uncle John, so we
can see what it looks like.

Speaker 15 (01:19:27):
Anyway, of course you won't be able to see the bottom,
but at least you'll get an idea of help.

Speaker 28 (01:19:32):
What are you taking my come boy?

Speaker 15 (01:19:34):
We just want to make sure you don't fall in, Yes,
Uncle John, after all you're awfully close to me.

Speaker 37 (01:19:39):
Yeah, doncience, boys, I won't fall.

Speaker 14 (01:19:41):
In good way home, Just stop working me.

Speaker 16 (01:19:44):
What's coming fallow.

Speaker 12 (01:19:49):
Poor uncle John?

Speaker 37 (01:19:51):
But then accidents will happen.

Speaker 42 (01:19:58):
Doctor, After listening to the first part of your story,
don't you think some of our listeners may be.

Speaker 39 (01:20:02):
A little shady?

Speaker 15 (01:20:04):
I can't understand why, as good as they are. I
suppose we are to suggest something to forsterly confidence.

Speaker 7 (01:20:11):
Doctor.

Speaker 29 (01:20:12):
That's a good idea, and then there's nothing that gives
a fellow more confidence in himself than correct attire.

Speaker 42 (01:20:19):
For that reason, may I suggest that.

Speaker 29 (01:20:21):
Your wardrobe include at least one of the many smart,
correctly styled Adam hacks made of blustrous all for felt
in a wide variety of soft harmonizing shades. Adam hatsaw
the epitome a fine quality and good taste. You'll appreciate too.
The distinctive hatbands and other important details of your Adam

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hat top off that well dressed look.

Speaker 42 (01:20:44):
Gentlemen with an Adam has now back to mystery.

Speaker 15 (01:20:49):
And doctor Weed, and now I'll continue my story the
Devil's Cabin.

Speaker 11 (01:21:00):
After John Drake's death, scream had faded.

Speaker 15 (01:21:02):
Away on maybe the shrew squeaking of the act and
the heavy freeezing of the two men remained for a moment.

Speaker 11 (01:21:11):
To two stood in darkness, then spoke.

Speaker 9 (01:21:15):
All right, Oh, turn on Uncle John's flash lighting.

Speaker 15 (01:21:17):
Let's get out of here. I haven't got a splash light.
You fell in before I could take it away from
what it's stupid fool. I might have known you'd bungled.
Now what have we got, Wigan? I have my cigarette lighter.
If it only worked there doesn't give much life, but
it'll do well come on, let's get out of here.

Speaker 37 (01:21:39):
Place gives me the creeps.

Speaker 39 (01:21:41):
There's the first handle a few yards away.

Speaker 11 (01:21:43):
Come along, Victor.

Speaker 37 (01:21:47):
Look the first handle just went out.

Speaker 15 (01:21:49):
The draft probably blew it out. Candle was right over
here on this rock. Well, Victor, gone gone downs. You
probably left it on another rocket. Well, let's not waste time.
And there's the second candle. Fifte yards are hid all right?

Speaker 17 (01:22:05):
I think that was the rock I left that.

Speaker 9 (01:22:07):
Now it's throwing hall looks second tangle.

Speaker 39 (01:22:10):
It seems to be moving.

Speaker 37 (01:22:12):
It's falling over the throwing off. But someone flooring us
healthy a food.

Speaker 14 (01:22:19):
Look, the third candle's beginning.

Speaker 37 (01:22:21):
It's like it can't go out.

Speaker 15 (01:22:22):
It mustn't go out. Hurry it has fall out. Now
there are any candles? To guide us out and get
hold of yourself. I've got my eyes fixed on the
spot where the third candle went out. Once there, we
merely have to turn the bend and see the other candles.

Speaker 37 (01:22:38):
Suppose spose they're are two.

Speaker 7 (01:22:41):
They won't be.

Speaker 15 (01:22:43):
Michael John, he's throwing ahead of this ohing out the candle,
so we can't escape.

Speaker 39 (01:22:47):
How can it be, Uncle John?

Speaker 16 (01:22:49):
He's dead.

Speaker 11 (01:22:50):
It's a ghost that's doing it.

Speaker 37 (01:22:52):
It's getting revenge on it for what we didn't quiet.

Speaker 15 (01:22:54):
You're here, listen the right kid, there's a one through
a knocking the candle so were they're carrying them off?

Speaker 7 (01:23:03):
They they're hungry.

Speaker 39 (01:23:04):
They're attracted by the rights and the candles.

Speaker 12 (01:23:08):
Why are you stumpy?

Speaker 2 (01:23:11):
Can't you see the past divides and the three here?

Speaker 15 (01:23:13):
Do you remember which was the way outside? I don't
remember these three pads at all. We must have come
by the middle pad. Yes, I'm sure that's the one.
Come on, we're about trying the image after all the
hours we toarched where Why don't you Why do you

(01:23:34):
keep on paying it over and over? We're look, you
know we are never gonna get out of here. Now
I'm shut the things and I stop talking about Uncle John.
He did no, we's all around it.

Speaker 7 (01:23:45):
I can steal him.

Speaker 37 (01:23:46):
He blew out all the candles.

Speaker 14 (01:23:48):
Now he's waiting for us to die, even the rettles
that we're.

Speaker 39 (01:23:50):
Gonna die with a cigarette light him. It's gone out
with John.

Speaker 36 (01:23:55):
He blew it out.

Speaker 7 (01:23:56):
It won't work. The peels all gone. Paul, Paul, where
are you?

Speaker 14 (01:24:02):
I'm over here?

Speaker 7 (01:24:02):
You have some mets, haven't yeh?

Speaker 16 (01:24:04):
Brose mets are a matter of life and dead.

Speaker 15 (01:24:07):
We don't dare walk in the darkness, not with all
those holes around from Paul, keep talking before I can
find her?

Speaker 16 (01:24:13):
How can you fire me when i'mst you never find me?

Speaker 15 (01:24:16):
Paul?

Speaker 7 (01:24:17):
What is it?

Speaker 46 (01:24:17):
Oh?

Speaker 47 (01:24:18):
He's as he doesn't.

Speaker 7 (01:24:21):
Don't be a pool. It was a bat that fresh
pasture flum gone.

Speaker 12 (01:24:25):
He's understand me.

Speaker 14 (01:24:26):
Now away, Paul, come back, come back to your hair.
It's saint luster.

Speaker 12 (01:24:31):
I'm like, put them into a hole.

Speaker 37 (01:24:36):
He's gone. I'm all alone about having light at all. O.

Speaker 16 (01:24:40):
Uncle Johnny.

Speaker 17 (01:24:41):
You think you've gotten the better of me, but you haven't.

Speaker 14 (01:24:43):
Haven't you here to hold myself?

Speaker 37 (01:24:46):
I must If I go, I'll never get out of here.
I got to kick some things out.

Speaker 43 (01:24:51):
I'm waving like how flesh one of those rests me.

Speaker 7 (01:24:56):
It's swarming all around me. How I've got to pipe
him off.

Speaker 17 (01:24:59):
If I don't.

Speaker 7 (01:25:12):
Hubert is a victor.

Speaker 2 (01:25:13):
Wasn't it such a horrible way to die?

Speaker 15 (01:25:18):
Two weeks later, when a searching party entered the cabin,
they found a green, white skeleton lying a few hundred yards.

Speaker 12 (01:25:24):
From the entrance.

Speaker 15 (01:25:26):
Unfortunately, they were never able to find a trait of
John Drake and Paul.

Speaker 11 (01:25:31):
It was as if, as I say, had vanished from
the face of the earth.

Speaker 6 (01:25:36):
Dying.

Speaker 11 (01:25:37):
You're a dead man.

Speaker 15 (01:25:38):
Who would Oh, you have to go now, Perhaps you'll
dropping on your game through. Just look for the house
on the outer side of the cemetery, the house of
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Speaker 11 (01:28:46):
What could be more harmless than a village fate run
by the vicar for charity, the little tints and side shows,
the jumble sale alleged ladies or working hard to help
the needy? What a pity our little feet may turn

(01:29:09):
out to be a faint.

Speaker 6 (01:29:11):
Worse than death.

Speaker 16 (01:29:16):
Well, it's all so jolly this year.

Speaker 21 (01:29:19):
And the weather's been so kind vicause we've been very
nicey Oh, do Pete have your fortune told before me,
won't you? Missus Hamman is telling her fortunes this year,
and she's working so hard.

Speaker 15 (01:29:29):
Well, you know, I've always been rather reserved about having
fortunes told without.

Speaker 21 (01:29:33):
Anyone's it's only in fun. Who could be more devout
than missus Hale?

Speaker 16 (01:29:37):
Pretty well, as you said, it's all in a good course. Ladies,
have your thoughts.

Speaker 7 (01:29:42):
Our trust his arm with silver.

Speaker 48 (01:29:46):
Afternoon Vicker are going send, isn't it?

Speaker 16 (01:29:49):
You're all making it gost lindsay, my dear missaid Hayman.

Speaker 13 (01:29:52):
I've come to have my.

Speaker 12 (01:29:54):
Fortune told by the word coming to the tent.

Speaker 16 (01:29:57):
You know, I couldn't get across the ball st secuted
a pack.

Speaker 30 (01:30:01):
Of car.

Speaker 11 (01:30:03):
Thank you.

Speaker 12 (01:30:04):
Of course you'll know the theory behind this kind of divination.

Speaker 43 (01:30:07):
Is there anything about it at all?

Speaker 15 (01:30:09):
It's so old that the primitive African which doctor uses
the principle when he throws the bones.

Speaker 12 (01:30:15):
Yes, it's very entrant and very evil.

Speaker 48 (01:30:18):
Well, my dear vicar, this is one of those occasions
on which how does great evil come of great goodness?

Speaker 16 (01:30:24):
Charity will benefit after all? Now, when sprints the cards
out like this.

Speaker 15 (01:30:33):
Oh, there's man's fate, the hanging man suspended by his
feet from gibbet. The wheel of Fortuna has all symbolic.
Of course, there is the devil and there is death.
Very interesting to a student of comparative religion, of course.

Speaker 16 (01:30:54):
Well, I don't understand anything about it.

Speaker 15 (01:30:56):
The game a nasty game, and there's done in the
name of chat when we all understand the whole thing
is merely a joke.

Speaker 16 (01:31:03):
The idea was the spirits.

Speaker 15 (01:31:05):
Evil spirits take position of the designer in this case, you,
missus hand and spell out the future through the carts.

Speaker 12 (01:31:13):
A ridiculous notion.

Speaker 10 (01:31:14):
Of course.

Speaker 48 (01:31:15):
Well, I've got a little book here that tells the combinations.
Now in the first place, you're unmarried.

Speaker 15 (01:31:22):
Oh, everybody knows that I'm unmarried. Please think, let's try
to preserve something there there.

Speaker 16 (01:31:29):
There, You're going on a long boy.

Speaker 37 (01:31:31):
But everybody knows.

Speaker 15 (01:31:32):
I'm visiting the mission stations in Tanzania.

Speaker 16 (01:31:35):
You will meet a tall blonde woman, a widow, and
the prospect of remember and I'm like, I'm likely to me. Oh, yes,
you see, you're going to cross water and there.

Speaker 21 (01:31:45):
Is the prospe of an inheritance.

Speaker 49 (01:31:52):
Hear this by fire, that which flies in the air,
it is not a bird. Fear the things of night,
the bet.

Speaker 14 (01:32:06):
The wolf, the lepard.

Speaker 16 (01:32:09):
Speak only truth, or evil will strike you.

Speaker 7 (01:32:13):
Please wake up, miss wake.

Speaker 12 (01:32:16):
Up, Oh, mercy me.

Speaker 15 (01:32:18):
She seems to fall into some kind of track as
a shuttle flies back and forth, and the thread is
spun into the lives and death.

Speaker 16 (01:32:27):
The men fear the flash of fire, Fear the high
face of the sun at noon, Fear the agents of
the dark, Fear the man with a skulls. Faith, My Jess,
I m get help help help.

Speaker 12 (01:32:54):
Most extraordinary business.

Speaker 15 (01:32:55):
Mister Matthews in a sort of possession by a spooser.
I wouldn't go as far as to say that.

Speaker 7 (01:33:00):
I know, probably the spirits came out of a bottle.

Speaker 16 (01:33:03):
So far as I know, the lady has.

Speaker 15 (01:33:05):
Never let a drop of spirituous liquor pass her lips.

Speaker 34 (01:33:07):
Only joking, Vicar, But.

Speaker 15 (01:33:10):
It is most uncanny Missus Hayman went into a trance
of some kind. Excuse me, I'd better go to inquire.

Speaker 12 (01:33:17):
If she's fully recovered. Are you feeling better now, Missus haman.

Speaker 16 (01:33:21):
Tho it was only the heat?

Speaker 15 (01:33:23):
I am sorry, it must have been a most unpleasant experience.
Tell me, can you remember exactly what occurred?

Speaker 16 (01:33:30):
I was telling your fortune and I must we'll have
simply passed out.

Speaker 12 (01:33:34):
You seem to go into some kind of trance. Do
you remember what you said?

Speaker 16 (01:33:39):
Some nonsense that was making up?

Speaker 15 (01:33:40):
You said, Fear death by fire, Fear that which flies
in the air but is.

Speaker 12 (01:33:46):
Not a bird.

Speaker 15 (01:33:48):
Fear the things of night, the beat, the wolf, and
the leopard. Speak only truth, or evil will strike you.

Speaker 9 (01:33:56):
I'm sure I did.

Speaker 12 (01:33:58):
I can assure you that you did, Missus.

Speaker 15 (01:33:59):
Hay I feel that something caused you to give me
a warning, something connected with those.

Speaker 16 (01:34:06):
Evil Tario cards.

Speaker 12 (01:34:08):
But what could the warning mean?

Speaker 16 (01:34:10):
Course? Iud most outlandish to me.

Speaker 15 (01:34:12):
Fear death by fire, that's plain enough. Fear that which
flies in the air but is not a bird, why
that would be an aeroplane.

Speaker 16 (01:34:21):
Of course, you took Tanzania.

Speaker 12 (01:34:24):
You must can't let it, my dear missus Haymon.

Speaker 15 (01:34:27):
I can hardly see myself explaining to the Bishop that
I must take the warning of a pack of cards
rather than the evidence.

Speaker 10 (01:34:32):
Of my senses.

Speaker 15 (01:34:33):
No, I shall travel as scheduled, and I'd be greatly
obliged if you'd refrain from mentioning this matter to anyone
and east until I've arrived safely at my destination.

Speaker 16 (01:34:41):
They can't do take care, of course, And.

Speaker 15 (01:34:44):
I hope to see you at the Mission meeting on Thursday.
Then I shall outline the purposes of my visit. But
of course I shall be there. The whole village will yes.

Speaker 7 (01:34:51):
I know you're all very loyal to me.

Speaker 21 (01:35:02):
And now, without further ado, and then to ask the
Reverend John Simmons to tell us about his coming visit
to Tanzania.

Speaker 15 (01:35:11):
When you all know the story and Tom Shelby was
born in this village. He was a wayward boy, but
did splendidly in the war. Later he became a prospector
in darkest Africa that he never forgot his home village.

Speaker 50 (01:35:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:35:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:35:27):
After the famous diamond find by doctor Williamson, Tom Shelby
took a quick look at the Ubangi districts and discovered
the fabulous.

Speaker 16 (01:35:35):
Shelby Diamond fight.

Speaker 14 (01:35:37):
He gave a ties to the.

Speaker 15 (01:35:39):
Church one tenth of the profits of that fabulous mind,
and he has named his bequest after this his native village.
It is the wish of the diocese that I go
out and tour these mission stations and bring back to
you a report of progress.

Speaker 34 (01:35:56):
I show journey to London tomorrow by car and then from.

Speaker 12 (01:35:59):
London f board.

Speaker 16 (01:36:18):
Oh where is the man?

Speaker 21 (01:36:20):
He really is not exasperating sometimes.

Speaker 16 (01:36:22):
Don't worry or if you show up, But that's the
place there standing on the tarn now, because let's have to.

Speaker 19 (01:36:28):
Wait for him.

Speaker 34 (01:36:29):
They won't do that, mate, He's got Thursday, five minutes
before you take off.

Speaker 7 (01:36:33):
There's after the emigration proceedings.

Speaker 2 (01:36:34):
To go through.

Speaker 21 (01:36:35):
Oh, it really is too bad of him. Where can
he see?

Speaker 3 (01:36:48):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (01:36:48):
I say, at these moments, where can.

Speaker 37 (01:36:51):
I hire a car or something?

Speaker 10 (01:36:52):
Car?

Speaker 15 (01:36:54):
Ho?

Speaker 13 (01:36:54):
You're a car?

Speaker 12 (01:36:56):
Why knows her?

Speaker 7 (01:36:59):
I don't know?

Speaker 16 (01:37:00):
My dear man, where is the next village behind?

Speaker 12 (01:37:03):
I mean in front of me?

Speaker 16 (01:37:05):
Oh that I can't say.

Speaker 15 (01:37:07):
I'd be a stranger as he from Wemsbury Parvor. That's
five mile away, as many use as it had to
live anywhere.

Speaker 7 (01:37:18):
I say, one's a left.

Speaker 14 (01:37:19):
Yes, indeed, it's fightally important.

Speaker 7 (01:37:21):
You see I'm catching a plane this morning for okay,
jump in.

Speaker 18 (01:37:53):
Look there's the bigger Now where in that ridiculous old
car he's almost have broken down?

Speaker 34 (01:37:58):
Well whatever has happened is too late, plains about to
take off?

Speaker 11 (01:38:00):
I have bread?

Speaker 16 (01:38:01):
Who chronic?

Speaker 28 (01:38:02):
Really is?

Speaker 25 (01:38:02):
Oh?

Speaker 43 (01:38:03):
The poor picker?

Speaker 14 (01:38:05):
If I missed my aircraft?

Speaker 16 (01:38:06):
Oh you have never mind? Another leaving tomorrier.

Speaker 14 (01:38:09):
Look look at the plane. There's something more she's trashing.

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Speaker 11 (01:39:43):
Is the Vicar merely very lucky or does he have
powerful friends?

Speaker 12 (01:39:51):
Let's find out, shall we?

Speaker 11 (01:39:54):
Personally I like playing with the Taroo cards, but it
isn't my fun from the fortune tailing point of view,
and because you see, my future is behind me.

Speaker 16 (01:40:13):
Becaer. There's a gentleman from Scotland yard to see you,
Inspector Stone. He's with mister Matthews. Now in your status here, yes,
I shang be a moment.

Speaker 6 (01:40:24):
Oh tell me, mister Matthews.

Speaker 12 (01:40:26):
Did you go to see the vicar off at the airport?

Speaker 34 (01:40:28):
Yes, Inspector I did. I don't mind telling you how
envious I was. I know East Africa and I like it.
The Great Tom Shelby was my half brother. You know
well that luck mister Vicar had bought that.

Speaker 13 (01:40:39):
Play, Yes exactly.

Speaker 36 (01:40:42):
Do you know him?

Speaker 7 (01:40:42):
Well?

Speaker 16 (01:40:43):
So who is the vicar?

Speaker 12 (01:40:44):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:40:45):
Fairly?

Speaker 13 (01:40:45):
Well why can you.

Speaker 51 (01:40:46):
Keep something under your head if I have to? Then
aircraft was sabotage? And then ask me how or why
there was a Tanzanian cabinet minister aboard. Perhaps they would
after him any case. The only persenger who didn't quite
make it with your vicar, but his baggage got aboard then.

Speaker 16 (01:41:04):
But surely you can't why not?

Speaker 12 (01:41:08):
He must be a suspect, musn't he well technically?

Speaker 51 (01:41:11):
But then there's no motive for him blowing up a
plane full of people, is there?

Speaker 4 (01:41:15):
Unless he's mad?

Speaker 2 (01:41:16):
It's quite unthinkable.

Speaker 34 (01:41:18):
I can tell you plenty of stories about him, right.
I've seen the way he cries when he's seen a
mouse caught in a trap. He wouldn't as much as
shoot a partridge for his dinner. No, you're on the
wrong track, I'm afraid, Inspector.

Speaker 16 (01:41:36):
Nay, I'm going to make out the tattle card again.

Speaker 21 (01:41:39):
Oh you're mad. Hasn't they caught enough trouble already?

Speaker 16 (01:41:42):
You aren't thinking very clearly, my dear. The card's born
of the accident.

Speaker 11 (01:41:46):
It didn't cause it.

Speaker 21 (01:41:47):
Here the thing of night, the wolf, the bat and
the leopard. Isn't that how it went?

Speaker 17 (01:41:53):
Said?

Speaker 48 (01:41:53):
There was a bit about telling the truthful evil coming? Yes,
I might get another message. Let me look out of
the window.

Speaker 21 (01:42:01):
We can see the lit pass from here.

Speaker 16 (01:42:03):
Yes, the light is still lot in the studies.

Speaker 21 (01:42:05):
The police cart outside here.

Speaker 16 (01:42:07):
Hope they'd be with him for hours an hour.

Speaker 21 (01:42:08):
A poor man is played by the most awful misfortune.

Speaker 48 (01:42:11):
And I think he was extremely lucky this morning, don't
you With a little less than his luck, he'd be.
But the other victims are lay out the cards very well.
One touches them. I don't know why, but I've seen

(01:42:32):
gypsies do it, if you want to know.

Speaker 21 (01:42:35):
It's a sort of spell, a heathen ritual. They're horrible,
aren't they.

Speaker 16 (01:42:40):
I find them fascinating.

Speaker 21 (01:42:43):
I can see that you're in accord with them somehow,
you know?

Speaker 16 (01:42:46):
May I do feel that? I am? I felt it
from the first time. I sell them in my hand.

Speaker 21 (01:42:51):
And Harriet, where did you get them?

Speaker 48 (01:42:52):
I bought them from an old gypsy woman. She told
me they were true cards. Of course I didn't believe her.
Not then she showed me how to use them.

Speaker 21 (01:43:02):
I wouldn't have had the nerve to go down there alone.

Speaker 16 (01:43:07):
Something's coming through.

Speaker 22 (01:43:10):
Read read me.

Speaker 16 (01:43:14):
Like read me plane.

Speaker 52 (01:43:18):
The mud stinks and bubbles blue under the stream hot sun.
He who would wind has already lost.

Speaker 16 (01:43:28):
He who has lost has one Harriet.

Speaker 51 (01:43:42):
Now I want you to go over that bit again,
mister Simmons, Oh dear, I'm dropping off to sleep. You
want the swine Cords who blew up the aircraft, don't you? Yes, yes,
you no I do, Then give me your cooperation. You
came down the road towards twelve trees junction.

Speaker 16 (01:43:56):
And there something went wrong with your car?

Speaker 15 (01:43:59):
What went I know nothing about cars, inspector that there
was petrol in the tank and little lights were burning
on the dashboard or that's all I know.

Speaker 51 (01:44:07):
It just but I always thought you knew quite a
lot about cars. Used to do your own repairs when
he was allowed.

Speaker 13 (01:44:13):
Unless I'm a lad no longer.

Speaker 15 (01:44:15):
You can't compare a card of those days with modern
box of tricks.

Speaker 7 (01:44:18):
Now, I suppose not.

Speaker 13 (01:44:20):
Now, how did this car stop?

Speaker 12 (01:44:22):
Did it just cut out? Did it splutter? Or what spluttered?
I think you think?

Speaker 7 (01:44:28):
Don't you know?

Speaker 12 (01:44:29):
No, I can't remember.

Speaker 6 (01:44:31):
I am far too tired of.

Speaker 51 (01:44:34):
Let's come to the Tom Shelby estate. How long has
Tom Shelby been dead?

Speaker 12 (01:44:38):
Six weeks? That's all.

Speaker 13 (01:44:40):
Do you know how much he left?

Speaker 12 (01:44:41):
It must be a colossal amount.

Speaker 51 (01:44:43):
And with the minds earning potential, one thousand million wouldn't
cover it.

Speaker 12 (01:44:46):
What a lot of good one could do with that money?

Speaker 15 (01:44:49):
Can you imagine a man who wanted to do good
to the world so much that he'd sacrifice a hundred
odd people for it, the greatest good of the greatest number,
as it were. I can't imagine a man so months,
but I'm perfectly prepared to believe that he could exist.

Speaker 6 (01:45:06):
Do you know who is the beneficiary under.

Speaker 15 (01:45:07):
The Wilson I have no idea, and I refuse to
answer any more of these silly questions that I don't
care who benefits, though I'm sure Tom would have left
a time for the.

Speaker 51 (01:45:16):
Church, So you don't know who's the beneficiary. Why you are,
mister Simmons, you are.

Speaker 2 (01:45:34):
Nay earth is going on here?

Speaker 21 (01:45:38):
It's Harriet. She was telling fortunes or something. It happened again,
and she screamed, And then.

Speaker 34 (01:45:42):
She thinks, the silly fool, hasn't she got enough trouble
with darreling in this sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (01:45:46):
Oh help me with her whip.

Speaker 34 (01:45:48):
If she's in the sort of thing that happened af
again when you meddle with this divination.

Speaker 16 (01:45:51):
Nonsense, she think twice about it.

Speaker 9 (01:45:53):
Oh, put I had done.

Speaker 16 (01:45:54):
She just said something, that is, how dare you chatter
about this kind of evil filth?

Speaker 9 (01:46:00):
Out of the village?

Speaker 34 (01:46:00):
In for an hour, and when I come back, I
want that woman out of my house.

Speaker 13 (01:46:04):
Very well, well, well Vicker, good night to you.

Speaker 6 (01:46:15):
I can let myself out.

Speaker 12 (01:46:17):
No, I shall see you to your carve.

Speaker 14 (01:46:18):
I feel like a breath of fresh air.

Speaker 12 (01:46:20):
In any case, not ey as you wish.

Speaker 51 (01:46:21):
So you'll understand that it's my business to get to
the bottom of this matter.

Speaker 16 (01:46:26):
What a terrible business it is too.

Speaker 7 (01:46:28):
My sympathies are with you, Inspector. I have no fear.

Speaker 13 (01:46:35):
That's a fine night, yes, yes, how.

Speaker 15 (01:46:37):
The night like this, I can hardly believe there's such
a thing as evil in the world.

Speaker 37 (01:46:41):
If only.

Speaker 14 (01:46:43):
Get down now, there he goes, he's running off.

Speaker 15 (01:46:47):
It's as though a door had opened and released evil
upon the world.

Speaker 51 (01:46:51):
Oh, there's big money involved, and big money means big
risk and at the.

Speaker 12 (01:46:55):
Beginning and the end of it.

Speaker 51 (01:46:56):
Now, I'll get on to short wave and have a
call put out for that fill her an armed guard
for user night and day.

Speaker 7 (01:47:10):
I'm coming.

Speaker 15 (01:47:14):
Open morning, missus Haymond, please come in.

Speaker 16 (01:47:16):
I was told your servants hadn't arrived and that you
have no one to the craft.

Speaker 7 (01:47:19):
Not in the moundane sense.

Speaker 15 (01:47:21):
No, it seems that someone looking after me, though, for
I've escaped death twice in twenty four hours.

Speaker 16 (01:47:27):
I read the cards again last night.

Speaker 12 (01:47:29):
Oh, I think that was rather foolish of you.

Speaker 15 (01:47:32):
However, I must admit they did warn us truly on
the first occasion.

Speaker 16 (01:47:35):
Yes, that which flies but is not a bird.

Speaker 15 (01:47:38):
I rather think that refers to a bullet, not an aircraft.
We still have the things of the night and the
penalty for telling lies. However, I'm not too greatly worried.

Speaker 16 (01:47:47):
If she the next morning.

Speaker 21 (01:47:48):
Makes no sense to me.

Speaker 16 (01:47:49):
If tall, I remember it very clearly, but it still
makes no sense.

Speaker 12 (01:47:53):
What was the warning?

Speaker 16 (01:47:54):
What sort of garbled verse?

Speaker 52 (01:47:56):
The man sticks and bubbles blue under the steam hot sun.

Speaker 16 (01:48:01):
He who would win this has already lost. He who
has lost has won. What could that possibly well?

Speaker 15 (01:48:08):
I don't think that's very difficult. Diamondiferous clay is often
called blue ground. That must be the blue mud referred to.

Speaker 16 (01:48:16):
And the hot sun.

Speaker 15 (01:48:17):
That's effica one would suppose. So now he who would
win has already lost. That's clear enough. The person who
was trying to obtain possession is fated to disaster, while
the man who is most disinterested has already gained possession.

Speaker 16 (01:48:32):
Who are these people.

Speaker 15 (01:48:34):
I own it an for the first time last night
that old Tom Shelby left me his entire gigantic fortunren.

Speaker 16 (01:48:40):
Oh, then you're a rich man.

Speaker 12 (01:48:43):
No, he who has lost has won.

Speaker 6 (01:48:46):
You.

Speaker 15 (01:48:46):
See, Tom did that because I always befriended him. He
did it because he knows I'm unmarried and will remain
so that I'm a man of extremely simple taste. That
it therefore stands to reason that I shall use this
money to advance what we both like to think of
as the.

Speaker 12 (01:49:03):
True and moral ends of life.

Speaker 15 (01:49:09):
My dear missus Matthews, whatever is the matter?

Speaker 16 (01:49:13):
Ralph is dead.

Speaker 12 (01:49:15):
Oh, my dear, I'm very sorry for you.

Speaker 48 (01:49:19):
You wouldn't be if you knew he tried to shoot
you last night, that he caused the deaths of all
those people.

Speaker 12 (01:49:25):
I cannot judge him. May the temptation was very great.

Speaker 21 (01:49:29):
He told me the entire thing. He put the bomb
in your luggage, then he tried to shoot you. I
don't know what to say.

Speaker 16 (01:49:37):
He must have been stark, raving mad.

Speaker 48 (01:49:40):
He was Tom Shelby's half brother. He believed he should
have inherited the mind.

Speaker 16 (01:49:45):
Of course, everything would have gone to him if the
vicar had died before the wol was probathed.

Speaker 21 (01:49:49):
Yes, I suppose it was something like that, but of
course he was mad too. In any case, it's all
over for him. He had an accident cleaning his shotgun.

Speaker 16 (01:50:00):
Oh my dear, at least that's better for him and
for you.

Speaker 12 (01:50:04):
I don't say that, missus him.

Speaker 15 (01:50:05):
And there's no man so evil that he cannot contain
a spark of supreme goodness.

Speaker 12 (01:50:11):
Now all is explained, except.

Speaker 21 (01:50:13):
For one thing, the cards. How on earth did Harry
get messages from the taro card?

Speaker 12 (01:50:19):
I have no theorious ladies, I have nothing to say.

Speaker 16 (01:50:22):
They won't speak through me again. Before I came here,
I threw them in the fire, and my heart was
lighted to see them blow.

Speaker 7 (01:50:29):
It was very wise of yours.

Speaker 15 (01:50:30):
There is always a price to be paid for magic,
and the price is too high to pay. Will Will Will,

(01:50:53):
Poor ELpH.

Speaker 11 (01:50:54):
Matthew's scheme collapsed like a pack of taro. Car Would
you like a peck? You can get them here behind
the creaking door.

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Speaker 11 (01:52:48):
This is your host Beck again, Just a reminder the
rendezvous next week.

Speaker 6 (01:52:57):
Where are we going through the creakindle?

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Speaker 7 (01:53:23):
The creaking door Time, the silent herald of life and death,

(01:53:55):
success or failure, the unseen force that measures man destiny,
reaching its most faithful moment as it slowly strikes the
eleven hours. It wouldn't have happened if Janet hadn't been

(01:54:38):
in such a filthy temper. Now, let's be fair, if
we both haven't been in such a fifty temper. We
always rode down to our cottage near Aylesbury on Saturday
night after the show, for we both had long parts
of the play and if we needed a weekend in
the country. The play Murder Without motive had been running
for twelve months, and well maybe was getting us down

(01:55:00):
a bit. Anyway, that particular Saturday, Janet wanted to go
on to a party and I didn't. We spent most
of the evening arguing about it. We both got more
and more stubborn, So the result was that we finished
up by going to the party, which didn't please me,
and leaving it after an hour, which didn't please Janet.

(01:55:22):
And because we were so busy slanging each other, I
forgot to fill up with petrol before we left London.

Speaker 14 (01:55:32):
Need to drive quite so fast, Michael.

Speaker 7 (01:55:34):
Well, we've wasted enough time as it is.

Speaker 14 (01:55:36):
Oh rubbish, we'll be at the cottage by three.

Speaker 7 (01:55:38):
We'd have been there by two a.

Speaker 14 (01:55:40):
Few ye But if we hadn't gone to the party,
all right, the amount of time we stayed, we might
just as well have not gone at all. Now I
suppose you'll moan about it for the whole weekend.

Speaker 7 (01:55:49):
Well, if you will, persist in being so bad temporarily.

Speaker 14 (01:55:53):
But we've done nothing but salt all the way from
town while we're a party. Looked like a regular crape.

Speaker 7 (01:55:58):
Hen and it was really I was born, so it
wasn't very blank is that, Michael, So you would just
stop going.

Speaker 14 (01:56:04):
Well, I thought Seligman might be there, Yes, and.

Speaker 7 (01:56:07):
He wanted to try and talk him into giving you
a part in his new film.

Speaker 14 (01:56:11):
But what's wrong with Oh, don't tell me you're getting jealous.

Speaker 7 (01:56:15):
We're not bet hard enough for work it. In fact,
there's no need for you to want to talk for
a while. Why did you have a risk and start.

Speaker 14 (01:56:22):
Raising a family? I've told you I'll think about him.

Speaker 7 (01:56:25):
Yes, let's supp as you get.

Speaker 14 (01:56:31):
Michael. You took that kind of much too.

Speaker 7 (01:56:33):
I know what I'm doing, and so do I.

Speaker 14 (01:56:36):
You're just being pigheaded. Now slow down for this one.
Slow down, Michael, haven't you any Michael?

Speaker 19 (01:56:45):
What of?

Speaker 7 (01:57:03):
It wasn't my fault, but it served me right because
I was going too fast. The big lorry was slewed
three parts of the way across the lake. Quite evidently
I wasn't the only one who'd taken the corner too first.
We hit the rear of it with a glancing blow,
shot up the bank and down again, and pulled up
in the middle of the lane some thirty yards further off.

Speaker 14 (01:57:27):
You are, darling, Yes, I'm all right. It wasn't your fault.

Speaker 7 (01:57:31):
And I thought, out, both of you, what's biting you?
The accident wasn't out for? Are you getting out?

Speaker 24 (01:57:37):
Or pull you look here, move any hold audio, will
take your hands off me?

Speaker 7 (01:57:44):
Or are you want You've got to come and tell you?

Speaker 17 (01:57:47):
And then he carried out what's the idea?

Speaker 14 (01:57:49):
Carried out?

Speaker 7 (01:57:49):
I said, I'll do with it. He's you want me to?

Speaker 14 (01:57:52):
I said, I'll do with it.

Speaker 7 (01:57:53):
I get back to the lorry.

Speaker 31 (01:57:57):
Rom.

Speaker 7 (01:57:57):
The big old reluctantly released me and and slouched off,
leaving me wondering mother or I'd have a broken neck
in another couple of seconds. And as I tried to
message some feeling back into my shoulder, I watched the
second man wed to me. He was a tough, hard
face too to be doing, but at least he didn't
try to turn into two pieces.

Speaker 53 (01:58:17):
You've had a lucky escape. Yes, so it seems one
way or another you took that corner too first.

Speaker 7 (01:58:23):
Yes, and it looks as if you did just the
same a few minutes earlier. That's right, Oh, I think
we'd both better forget about it, don't you. Well, that's
the thought. He's your lolly danny on nothing that a
lick of paint one put right. Well, we've ended into
the mud god, so in that case we'll get going again. Yes,

(01:58:44):
you do that.

Speaker 14 (01:58:45):
Your friend's a bit primitive, isn't it.

Speaker 7 (01:58:47):
You're being funny? Are just playing nosy?

Speaker 53 (01:58:49):
Oh you're a bit touchy as well, I think so.
I wouldn't be too curious if I were you, lady.

Speaker 7 (01:58:56):
I jam, you don't want any more trouble.

Speaker 14 (01:59:07):
They are not couple.

Speaker 7 (01:59:08):
And then then I could think of other descriptions as well.

Speaker 14 (01:59:12):
I noticed you weren't anxious to linger.

Speaker 7 (01:59:14):
Are you kidding? Didn't you notice what the large gentleman
had in his hand?

Speaker 14 (01:59:19):
No, I couldn't see.

Speaker 7 (01:59:20):
It was a crush.

Speaker 14 (01:59:21):
Well, I'm not altogether surprised. The other one kept his
hand in his right pocket.

Speaker 7 (01:59:26):
All the time he was talking to him, as he
probably had a gun there, That's what I thought. And
yet you started baiting.

Speaker 14 (01:59:32):
I wanted to see whether he call it.

Speaker 7 (01:59:35):
We're not on the stage now. When people pull guns
in real life, they're loaded and not with blanks.

Speaker 14 (01:59:40):
Sorry, Michael, I've got used to that kind of scene
in murder without motive.

Speaker 7 (01:59:46):
I just try to remember that in this case, they
haven't got to stick to the dialogue. About three, and
those sort of chaps started living the guns up to
get rough.

Speaker 14 (01:59:54):
Yes, you're right, and that being the case, suppose you
turn off to the left just along there.

Speaker 11 (02:00:00):
M hmm.

Speaker 7 (02:00:01):
Now the car track. Why because it is a.

Speaker 14 (02:00:03):
Car track and it's too narrow for the lorry to
come down it. The lorry have they stopped soon after us?
They're just around the next bend and coming pretty fast.

Speaker 7 (02:00:14):
In that case, I think we'll have the lights out.
Oh so this track's been.

Speaker 14 (02:00:18):
Bumping me beter than a bump from the lorry. I
think this is far enough, right, M see anything just
a minute. They've just gone past the end of the track.

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They're going straight on without stopping. Yes, it's all right.

Speaker 7 (02:00:51):
We sat in the car and smoke to let them
get well out of the way. Janet crooked her little
finger and linked it in mine, a sign that peace
had been restored and the dead came from both sides.

Speaker 12 (02:01:03):
Was forne mickey, hmm.

Speaker 14 (02:01:07):
What do you think they're up to?

Speaker 3 (02:01:08):
No?

Speaker 7 (02:01:09):
Maybe nothing. Oh, perhaps we're letting our imaginations run riot.
The place has been running too long. I'm thinking too
much like Detective Inspector Morton.

Speaker 14 (02:01:19):
Possibly, yeah, I don't know. After all, if we didn't
actually see the gun, you didn't imagine the cosh. No,
that's true, wouldn't Mary Laurie? Divers don't go around casting
people just because they nearly had an accident.

Speaker 7 (02:01:32):
There's something tony about them and dangerous. Oh well, and
if they're out of the way, now shall we go? Right?

Speaker 14 (02:01:45):
Well, what's wrong?

Speaker 16 (02:01:46):
Why what it's done?

Speaker 7 (02:01:47):
I'm afraid it's not that lucky evening?

Speaker 14 (02:01:49):
Oh no, don't tell me. I forgot to fill the tank.

Speaker 7 (02:01:52):
I'm afraid, so I'm sorry, dying tanks burnt dry?

Speaker 14 (02:01:54):
And what about the reserve tank?

Speaker 7 (02:01:56):
Well, I switched over to reserve. Coming through Uxbridge, I
thought i'd make that all night garage at Emersham.

Speaker 14 (02:02:01):
Oh there's another one there than that.

Speaker 7 (02:02:03):
Yes, well, I have to walk down to it and
borrow it in.

Speaker 14 (02:02:06):
I'll come with you.

Speaker 7 (02:02:07):
Well, isn't it do stay here and risk?

Speaker 3 (02:02:09):
No?

Speaker 22 (02:02:09):
Thank you?

Speaker 14 (02:02:10):
I know the lorry did go that, but all the
saying I don't fancy sitting here on my own. I'm
not in the mood for admiring the beauties of nature.

Speaker 7 (02:02:19):
Perhaps you're right, Come on then, of the gallows you're thinking? Honest,
the crossroads, isn't it.

Speaker 14 (02:02:25):
Yes, but I've just realized there'll be closed.

Speaker 7 (02:02:27):
We'll have to lock them up. Come on, darling, best
foot forward. Yes, we've got twenty minutes walk ahead of us.
It took us twenty five. Janet was quite right. The
garage was closed. They're probably in bed well, we muskets

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and bedfoot somehow. I'll waive a couple of quid if
you get the child. I don't think anyone I'm going
to knock until they do wake up. No, you see,
I'm sorry to disturb you, but we're in a bit
of difficulty. We're not telling me anybody. Now, Well, if
you could just let us have our yes, I know.

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How do you like redfres service?

Speaker 14 (02:03:13):
Oh come on, Mickey, all right, darling take it even.
We must have some petrol. You won't get anybody shouting
at him if he doesn't have to open up. Come on,
let's sneep on the back.

Speaker 7 (02:03:25):
Yes, that's an idea, and I find it tin somewhere
we can leave the money for it.

Speaker 14 (02:03:30):
Yes, come on, let's go along the fence here.

Speaker 7 (02:03:33):
Look there's a light in that garage. You can see
it on the closed door.

Speaker 14 (02:03:39):
But at all somebody's up, that's certain.

Speaker 7 (02:03:43):
So we'll get our petrol.

Speaker 14 (02:03:44):
Careful, darling, there's something odd about.

Speaker 7 (02:03:46):
This, since they're just a certain bunch of vehicles, that's all.
Give them a knock on these doors.

Speaker 14 (02:03:53):
Oh, nicky, please let's go quickly. Never mind the petrol.
It doesn't matter if you're something awful that happened.

Speaker 7 (02:04:04):
Well, it's about top. Oh you will get down, mister,
or I'll let you have it. Say back, yester, we've
got but visitors.

Speaker 53 (02:04:17):
Well, well it isn't our nosy friends from up the road,
so you wouldn't take a hint. Eh, Then I'll give
it to him now, not yet. And I've got to
hand it to you, Lenny. You were right for once.
You should have knocked him all back up the road.

Speaker 7 (02:04:35):
Sure, that's what I say. Well, it doesn't make any difference.

Speaker 53 (02:04:40):
We consume remedy our little error, step inside, friends, and
learn what happens to snoopers.

Speaker 7 (02:05:28):
Mac's invitation wasn't the kind I welcomed, but there wasn't
any choice about it. As soon as we stepped inside
the garage, then he pushed the big door shut. The
big lotry was there, quite obviously undergoing considerable alterations. I'd
read in the newspapers of the lorries and their cargos

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which had been disappearing from the Great North Road now
and knew just how they disappeared. I wondered what had
happened to the real lorry driver who mate looking at
Lenny with the tire lever in his hand. I didn't
have to wonder very hard. I tried to think of
something else. It wasted pleasant by the thought there was

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a third man in the garage. He of course would
be the garage our now, the man who didn't want
to sell us any petrol. Understandable under the circumstances.

Speaker 53 (02:06:23):
Well, who satisfied your curiosity? We'll get on with the business.

Speaker 7 (02:06:29):
Well I haven't.

Speaker 53 (02:06:30):
Who are these people met? They bumped into us on
the road further up. They had that chance, they had
to come following us, but we didn't. We only shut up,
outstanding woman scorking.

Speaker 15 (02:06:42):
I was only trying to tell you don't try and
get us anything, now, you what the boss said?

Speaker 53 (02:06:47):
No, look, Sonny, don't try and play the little hero.
Oh you get hurt soul?

Speaker 36 (02:06:54):
Was she?

Speaker 7 (02:06:54):
But my wife child do the talking mister.

Speaker 17 (02:06:59):
All right?

Speaker 37 (02:06:59):
Time?

Speaker 16 (02:06:59):
Up, Lenny, tim up, Look, I'm easier to back I.

Speaker 7 (02:07:04):
Said, tie him up. I don't want to mark. Tie
their hands behind their backs.

Speaker 14 (02:07:08):
With that cord.

Speaker 7 (02:07:09):
All right, all right, guessed as you say. It almost
seemed like the third act of the play. I put
my hands behind me, as I done every night for
twelve months. But as the chords bit into my wrists,
I knew that this was grim reality, no escape guaranteed

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by a thought author. He made it doubly frightenings.

Speaker 53 (02:07:37):
That'll do fine, Lenny, right now, sit down on those aldens,
both of them, I'll send.

Speaker 7 (02:07:46):
Okay, what didn't just sit down before?

Speaker 2 (02:07:48):
Right, Lenny?

Speaker 7 (02:07:50):
Lenny, you're always so impetuous, competuous.

Speaker 53 (02:07:57):
You'll have to excuse my friend. He finds words are
more than one syllable, a bit difficult.

Speaker 14 (02:08:03):
That he is a man of action.

Speaker 7 (02:08:04):
That's right. Perhaps you've gathered that by now. I don't
knock him about, Lenny, unless you have to.

Speaker 12 (02:08:11):
Know what you know.

Speaker 7 (02:08:12):
I never do, I never do, but some people just
never learn. I think he's got the idea. Now, you
are right, he's all right, just if it's shaken. He's
learning the hard way.

Speaker 14 (02:08:25):
My wrists. But God's hurting it too bad the mind.

Speaker 7 (02:08:30):
It won't be for long now, soon. Where's your car?
Hates up the road? We came down here. I don't
want a story of your life. He just answered my questions.
That's all you get it. I did it? Oh learning Wow,
get ans car in the back, hold him if you

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take us the way you left your car. Wait, wait
a minute, what are you gonna do?

Speaker 25 (02:08:55):
No need?

Speaker 7 (02:08:56):
You wouldn't worry about Lenny and I will look after
them to Yeah. Oh that's what I want to know.
You just get cracking and fixed on Laurry. Look, I'm
asking you, asking you what Max said?

Speaker 31 (02:09:09):
Didn't you?

Speaker 7 (02:09:10):
Don't you try to rough men or you'll be carry buddy.
Oh I'll be sorry, We'll be sorry. I could break
you in two. I don't but knows we've got to
have his cooperation. Are you better?

Speaker 17 (02:09:23):
I do?

Speaker 14 (02:09:24):
Just keep remembering that right, all right?

Speaker 7 (02:09:26):
No sense in quarreling.

Speaker 14 (02:09:29):
You ought to know.

Speaker 7 (02:09:29):
We can't let these two go. They send your garage.
You know what do they if? I'm not having anything
to do with murder. Nobody asked you to no when
I know enough about the Lord, I know that if
you and Lenny knock him off, I'm for it as well.
Believe me, I'm not letting myself hoping to take any
eight o'clock walk with the in.

Speaker 10 (02:09:46):
You don't want to worry.

Speaker 12 (02:09:47):
You know you'd never be up inside.

Speaker 7 (02:09:49):
Oh yeah he did recent he's clanny, but.

Speaker 14 (02:09:52):
You're not gonna do it. Look, we promised not to
say anything.

Speaker 7 (02:09:56):
Play in the bag and I can't get quiet. But
don't you think a tender you as we it's no good, Janet.
He learns quick and get in the front and then
he'll drive. Okay, I listen to me, Mac, you've tried
that car in here, and I'll pick up the phone.
You'll pick up the phone and I'll where you already

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I'll handle it. Look, I hurt. You've got it all wrong.
Nobody said anything about murder. Said you said?

Speaker 14 (02:10:25):
We can't let them go, so they'll have to be
an accident.

Speaker 7 (02:10:31):
What kind of an accident? I think their car is
going to catch fire? And catch fire? Well, to be sure,
you can fix it to look like an accident.

Speaker 24 (02:10:45):
Of course we can will it's different.

Speaker 7 (02:10:50):
You open the garage door, but stop worrying. Get alswers
if you're not careful. Okay, now you get that lorry
fixed up. Jap belong. I could just make our Janet

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staring wide eyed in the dark, and I wondered whether
she was feeling like me that it was all some
horrible nightmare. It was difficult to believe that these two
men were going to burn us to death in a
matter of minutes, but I knew it was true. There
were no blood curdling threats, just to calm the parting
of operation, which somehow made it all seem more horrible.

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Do you bring that length of sash cord with you?
And yeah, I've got it right right, We need it
for the fun. I suppose you, fellows, realize what you
are heading into. The police will get you. There's no
such thing as a perfect murder. I quite agree, But
this is going to be an accident. The car catches, fire, happens.

Speaker 14 (02:11:56):
All the time. You know, you're kindly sitting there talking
about to death. You can't do a thing like that.

Speaker 7 (02:12:03):
Why not?

Speaker 14 (02:12:05):
You couldn't be so inhuman, lady.

Speaker 7 (02:12:06):
In my business, we can't take chances. You know too much.
You've seen us and the truck. We shouldn't have come snooping,
but we never meant to.

Speaker 53 (02:12:16):
I'm not concerned with what you meant. I didn't mean
way things on like I said, we can't take chances.
But Bertie, you won't feel a thing. Then he will
knock you both out, all right, providing you.

Speaker 36 (02:12:31):
Behave yourself and it will be a very great.

Speaker 7 (02:12:35):
Hot but not too hot, Leny, not too hard, you know.
That's the trouble with him. He doesn't know his own strength.

Speaker 14 (02:12:41):
How can it be so cold blooded? Haven't you got
any humanity at all?

Speaker 53 (02:12:45):
I'm aboarded in my line of business. What's your business?
And you want to be used to this kind of stuff?
Just regard it as a special performance without any uncles,
because it's the contract.

Speaker 7 (02:12:59):
You came out long. But I'm not sure. Love.

Speaker 53 (02:13:04):
Up to now, I've been very considerate. Don't make things
difficult for yourself at the end.

Speaker 7 (02:13:10):
Yes, yes, this is good. That's better?

Speaker 14 (02:13:13):
If is it far along?

Speaker 31 (02:13:15):
Oh?

Speaker 36 (02:13:15):
And then I can see it.

Speaker 7 (02:13:23):
Ah, here we are. How did you get Lenny hard?

Speaker 54 (02:13:27):
Now?

Speaker 7 (02:13:29):
How about you too? I said, how about let you
make it worse and then he has to drag you out.
That's right. A bit of cooperation and you won't feel
a thing.

Speaker 53 (02:13:45):
Right once sover, lightly hold on a minute, I would ask,
do something and what does it make it snappy?

Speaker 7 (02:13:52):
Just as a matter of curiosity. What that word again?
MS will be consistent? Well, what do you want to know?
Just what do you intend to do when Dennis knocked
us out?

Speaker 14 (02:14:03):
Quite simple?

Speaker 7 (02:14:05):
You see this bit of corn, we soak it him petrol.

Speaker 53 (02:14:09):
When m goes in the petrol trank, the two of
you go in the car, We stand back and like
the other end hope she goes.

Speaker 7 (02:14:18):
The final curtain. You might say, yes, I was counting
on it being something like that. You were counting on it? Well,
sawin you see you can't do it. There's no petrol
in the tank.

Speaker 36 (02:14:30):
What have a look?

Speaker 7 (02:14:31):
Lenny probably bluffing the time. That's why we came knocking
up the galas I tried to tell you because we
wouldn't listen. Hey, there's nothing in the tank.

Speaker 14 (02:14:42):
Man draw draw us?

Speaker 37 (02:14:45):
So hard is it?

Speaker 7 (02:14:46):
And we'll siphon some from our car. There's plenty there.
And only wanted top to get back to the garage. Yeah,
I never ever, what are we gonna siphony?

Speaker 55 (02:14:53):
Will?

Speaker 7 (02:14:54):
Oh look a bit of rubber tubing?

Speaker 17 (02:14:56):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (02:14:56):
Ain't got me right?

Speaker 7 (02:14:58):
So we haven't got any rubber to how today? What
we could use our car and take this car?

Speaker 53 (02:15:06):
I can have some sense now much the police would
know it wasn't that car. No, there's nothing else for it.
I'll have to go to my garage and put some petrol.

Speaker 7 (02:15:17):
What am I gonna do with this time? Nothing? Just
watch them, it's all. I'll be back in five minutes. Okay.
So we had five minutes space, but I couldn't see
what good it was going to do with our hands

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were tied behind our backs, and I had no illusions
there about what would happen if either of us tried
to run or fight with our hands tied. I tried
to think what detective and speed to Moreton and the
play would have done, And then I thought of the
last day murdered with that mood. It was a slim chance,
and it all depended on the janet picked up a

(02:16:01):
cube and don't move or you'll get it now. My
wrists are hurting.

Speaker 12 (02:16:07):
You want to be feeding anything in a few minutes?

Speaker 7 (02:16:11):
What's the lines from the player I'm appearing in. You
see we're both tied up, and well, I hope you've
got good understudies tied up tightly like this, of course,
and so you get loose at and then the villain
gets his and I'm the villain. That's all right, you know,
but you well not this time. That's the difference you

(02:16:33):
see in the player. I say to him, you've been
very clever about it, but there's one thing you haven't
allowed for I knew Mary hadn't committed the murder.

Speaker 14 (02:16:41):
You mean you never really suspected me?

Speaker 15 (02:16:43):
Then?

Speaker 7 (02:16:43):
Yeah, just a minute, what are you talking about? What's
the cake? That's what she says in the play. I
only pretended to suspect you to put friend Bellot off
his guard. Now, is that well? You had to bring
the curtain down now?

Speaker 37 (02:16:58):
Or can hear back coming in the car?

Speaker 7 (02:17:00):
Remember how it finishes?

Speaker 14 (02:17:01):
Janet?

Speaker 17 (02:17:01):
Of course, no.

Speaker 37 (02:17:08):
Work.

Speaker 14 (02:17:08):
She's out, come on quickly across the feel into that wood.
They'll never find us in the dark.

Speaker 7 (02:17:28):
It had been a long shot, but we'd have the
luck with us. I hope that Janet would catch on.
But unless you do it together, it's useless. It's a
tricky thick to do, and Janet and i'd had a
lot of trouble over it in rehearsals. But when you've
been doing it for twelve months, night after night you
were timing, it's pretty good. I butted Lenny in the
chest with my head while jan threw herself against the

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back of his legs. And that was curtains for Lenny.

Speaker 10 (02:17:54):
Well.

Speaker 7 (02:17:55):
Police caught them a few days later. But we aren't
playing in murder that motive any longer. We find that
third act bit too grim for our liking.

Speaker 56 (02:18:05):
Now be you listening for another mounting drama of extre

(02:18:41):
and suspense when we again bring you the eleventh hour.

Speaker 57 (02:18:48):
Fed Up with the everyday grind, tired out from the
summer heat, I want to get away from it all.

Speaker 2 (02:18:57):
We offer you.

Speaker 58 (02:19:01):
Escape, escape designed to free you from the four walls
of today, for a half hour of high adventure.

Speaker 57 (02:19:14):
You were caught in a web of nightmare, struggling to
free yourself from sleep, while constantly threateningly your destruction draws closer,
and you know, unless you awake, the ultimate conclusion is.

Speaker 15 (02:19:33):
Death.

Speaker 2 (02:19:41):
Tonight we escape to twenty two hundred a d.

Speaker 58 (02:19:44):
And the fearsome picture of the last days of civilization,
as HG. Wells told it in here terrifying story dream
of Armageddon.

Speaker 4 (02:20:05):
From the very beginning, the dream was quite vivid and real,
much more real than the dull world of business that
moves by day. And in a short time I began
to thrust the waking world aside and live my life
wholly in the dream night by night. I was not
then aware, of course, of the of the hideous ending

(02:20:25):
to come, a thing so horrible to face that even
though I doze now in my chair, I dare not sleep.
I can't recall exactly when the dream, if it is
a dream, first began, or a month ago. Perhaps, at
any rate, I fell asleep in my flight and awoke

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in another place and another time. That is to say,
as I fell asleep here, I awoke there far away,
on an island in the Mediterranean, and hundreds of years
in the future.

Speaker 32 (02:21:02):
Headen, you must wake up now, wake up.

Speaker 7 (02:21:09):
All right?

Speaker 36 (02:21:10):
Well?

Speaker 4 (02:21:11):
Where am I here with me?

Speaker 32 (02:21:13):
Of course, even my dear you've been dreaming?

Speaker 4 (02:21:17):
Oh yes, yes, I remember now. It was with such
a vivid dreamer I thought I was a man living
hundreds of years ago, Sillep. But it took me a
moment to shake it off.

Speaker 32 (02:21:28):
And as I there with you and the dream, I mean.

Speaker 4 (02:21:32):
You're here with me now. That That's the important thing.
Has there been no word?

Speaker 32 (02:21:37):
Not, nothing has changed, nothing, otherwise I should have awakened you.

Speaker 7 (02:21:41):
Good.

Speaker 4 (02:21:42):
Perhaps they've finally decided to leave us alone.

Speaker 32 (02:21:45):
I hope so I couldn't stand much more of it.
Our faces on every telescreen all over the world, scandal
criers saying.

Speaker 4 (02:21:51):
It does not matter no more. It's over. We've left
all that behind us in the North. We're going to
be very happy.

Speaker 16 (02:21:57):
Here, oh my darling.

Speaker 36 (02:21:59):
We have to be.

Speaker 32 (02:22:00):
It's the only thing that would justify what.

Speaker 7 (02:22:02):
You did, Noma.

Speaker 4 (02:22:03):
Can you doubt that we will come here? Look out
through the glass wall there, blue sea down below us,
pale heels and the far off mainland. Why is there
any more perfect place to be happy than here in Capri?

Speaker 32 (02:22:16):
And what of the women you brought with you? Did
you not perhaps give up too much for her? Pay
too great a price.

Speaker 4 (02:22:24):
You're worth more than all of it, Noma.

Speaker 32 (02:22:27):
You make me feel very humble. You are the most
powerful men on earth, council Master the Allied Nations of
the North, the ruler of a billion people.

Speaker 4 (02:22:37):
A billion fools. Why had they not been they would
have accepted you.

Speaker 32 (02:22:43):
They have felt they had reasons, reasons, could.

Speaker 4 (02:22:47):
Not permit me to marry beneath my station. Now I've
given my whole life to them. Until now has a
man no right to happiness, Noma. They follow their own desires.
Why shouldn't I do the same for once?

Speaker 14 (02:22:59):
Why not?

Speaker 32 (02:22:59):
In I have no answer for your belove it. I'm
proud and humble for what you did, also a little
afraid afraid of what.

Speaker 3 (02:23:09):
I don't know, Heathen, I don't know, but I advisor
your pardon, Master Heaton, May I have your attention?

Speaker 7 (02:23:17):
Please?

Speaker 4 (02:23:18):
Yes, yes, go ahead?

Speaker 7 (02:23:19):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (02:23:20):
There is one here who desires to speak.

Speaker 4 (02:23:22):
With I'll see no one. I've told you that.

Speaker 3 (02:23:25):
He tells me to say, the white grasses grow tall
in the north and reach above the snow.

Speaker 32 (02:23:33):
And it's a messenger from the concert.

Speaker 4 (02:23:36):
Very well, sun him up?

Speaker 32 (02:23:38):
What does it mean? Have I thought of some new way?

Speaker 4 (02:23:42):
Oh, my darling, it is nothing. You'll talk of duty
again and all the other things, the same kind of talk.
It can't be anything else.

Speaker 32 (02:23:48):
They've chosen someone besides.

Speaker 4 (02:23:50):
But they did choose him. If he doesn't suit them,
they can find someone else. I'll have no bother.

Speaker 32 (02:23:54):
It's such a fool, such a stupid, blundering fool.

Speaker 4 (02:23:56):
Perhaps they need a fool. Perhaps that's why there's messenger.

Speaker 59 (02:24:01):
Amen, I must beg you to pardon this intrusion, Master Hidden,
But the Council considers the matter of the greatest importance.

Speaker 4 (02:24:12):
It's all right, now, what is it you wish if
we could speak alone? Perhaps I have no secrets from
the lady. She knows everything.

Speaker 7 (02:24:21):
Now what is it?

Speaker 59 (02:24:22):
I am empowered by the council to ask you to
return at once and take charge of the government again alone. Yes, yes,
that would be required, of course, And the council wastes
my time and is But there have been new developments.
Eversham already has begun the move we've always feared.

Speaker 7 (02:24:40):
He would not no one.

Speaker 59 (02:24:41):
But you can stop this madness, this foolish ambition of his.

Speaker 4 (02:24:45):
And more's the pity. Or I do not choose to
do anything about you know.

Speaker 7 (02:24:49):
What it means?

Speaker 4 (02:24:49):
Of course I know nothing of the affairs of government.
I am a private citizen engaged in seeking happiness, Master.

Speaker 59 (02:24:55):
Hidden, Do you believe that one man can work out
his faith apart and separate from the faith of all mankind?

Speaker 4 (02:25:03):
You may live now, you may go back and tell
the Council that I have no concern in their problems
now or ever.

Speaker 11 (02:25:10):
Very well, Master Heaton.

Speaker 59 (02:25:13):
But if you should decide differently, decide quickly, for there
is very little time.

Speaker 32 (02:25:24):
Oh, Heiden, is a true Will it really come to that?

Speaker 4 (02:25:27):
Probably the South and East and not easily bluffed war
losing the world again for.

Speaker 32 (02:25:33):
The first time in one hundred years.

Speaker 4 (02:25:36):
War again. They don't know what it is, No, they don't.

Speaker 32 (02:25:38):
They've never seen it. And you can't let it happen.

Speaker 4 (02:25:41):
No, my darling, I've made a choice, and it's final.
If it comes to war and the whole world falls
in ruins, then I'll live on in the ruins. But
I'll live there with you. That's fine, e And I'm afraid.
I calmed her fears at last with many brave prophecies

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of the joys we should find in our life together.
And as we talked and watch the sun sing finally
in the waters of the quiet sea, the blusterings of
Evershoon seemed far away in the threat of war, no
more than a part of some nightmare. At a late
hour we fell asleep.

Speaker 60 (02:26:34):
Henry, Henry, wake up, I said, wake up, Kurtsey. Why
you always have to wait for me to shut off
at clock?

Speaker 39 (02:26:46):
Dreaming, dreaming?

Speaker 43 (02:26:47):
Indeed, I got yourself dressed.

Speaker 14 (02:26:49):
Won't be late again this week?

Speaker 4 (02:26:50):
Good chance of war I don't know just what I
can do about it.

Speaker 31 (02:26:53):
Oh, Henry, for pity's sake, I.

Speaker 4 (02:26:55):
Think certainly I won't give her up, no matter what
happened her.

Speaker 43 (02:26:59):
Who's her?

Speaker 4 (02:27:01):
Yes, yes, of course, I'm getting up right this minute.
I'll get dressed right away, Henry. Rather, there's no need
to get excited. There, there's plenty of time to catch
the seventh twelve.

Speaker 31 (02:27:10):
I never saw such a man in my life.

Speaker 41 (02:27:12):
Wasn't for me telling you what to do?

Speaker 2 (02:27:13):
I don't know what would become of you.

Speaker 4 (02:27:21):
All that day at my office, I kept thinking about
the dream. It was hard to remember that it had
been a dream. It had been so real, as real
as everyday things going on around me, perhaps even more real,
certainly more desirable, for as you may have guessed, my

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daily life felt a little of interest. But in the dream, Oh,
in the dream, everything was different. There I could be
the great master, he controlling the destinies of millions of people,
Feeling for the first time in my life, a deep,
exhilarating sense of power, so sharp in its contrast with

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a drab, waking life I lead. And most of all,
most of all, I could not forget the girl, the
way she looked a glorious.

Speaker 7 (02:28:16):
Way that she.

Speaker 4 (02:28:19):
Well, no matter. All day I kept wondering if I
should be able to find the place again, so far
away in space and time too long delayed. The night
came at last, and I went to bed hopefully, But
nothing happened. There was no dream. For three nights there
was no dream, and I grew frantic with worry, with

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longing for her. And then came the fourth night.

Speaker 32 (02:28:46):
Careful, darling, watch where you're going. You almost fell over
those rocks.

Speaker 4 (02:28:49):
I'm sorry. I guess I was thinking of something else.

Speaker 32 (02:28:52):
Yes, for three days now, you haven't been yourself at all.

Speaker 4 (02:28:56):
Well, it's well, there are there are so many things
to to think about.

Speaker 32 (02:29:01):
It's all right, headen. I've known you were thinking of
it constantly, even though you're not mentioned.

Speaker 4 (02:29:07):
There's nothing new, is there?

Speaker 7 (02:29:11):
What I mean?

Speaker 4 (02:29:13):
Well, have you had any word that you've kept from me?
Thought it best to something of that sort.

Speaker 32 (02:29:20):
No, No, I've had no word from the north. No
one here has. Everyone seems to sense it. There's a
fever in the air, tenseness, so they could smell something,
the smell of war.

Speaker 4 (02:29:35):
There'll be no war. One servicehom knows his bluff's been
called you'll back down.

Speaker 32 (02:29:39):
You know him better than that, count of that blind
luck of his to see him through, and you couldn't
stop him hidden you could still go, I mean, not
going back. How can we hope to find happiness for
ourselves if millions die because of us?

Speaker 4 (02:29:51):
If it should start, it can't last long. People in
the world that they have no idea what war is.
When they find out, they'll have no part of.

Speaker 32 (02:29:59):
It, find out, it'll be too late. There'll be blood
on the ground and hate and vengeance, and there can
be no stopping it.

Speaker 4 (02:30:06):
Then why should not, Well, then the food shouldn't. They
shouldn't start it then.

Speaker 32 (02:30:10):
But they are food, you said yourself.

Speaker 4 (02:30:13):
Look, oh planes, so I'm a special pleasure flight from
the north.

Speaker 11 (02:30:19):
I suppose they They.

Speaker 32 (02:30:21):
Don't look like transport it. They're not built the same day.
They're like pictures of the art.

Speaker 4 (02:30:27):
There's a war planes. Those are bombers.

Speaker 32 (02:30:35):
It's begun already.

Speaker 4 (02:30:37):
No, no, but it's part of the bluff and the dangerous.
But those planes have been stored away for a hundred years.
I knew of them, of course, all the council did,
but but I never thought i'd see them in.

Speaker 32 (02:30:49):
The air I fear it's a wrong, terrible thing we've done,
and I'm afraid, but it would be a lie. I
belove it, I said, I was sorry.

Speaker 4 (02:31:02):
A No more warplanes came to Capri in the next
two days. The sight and the sound of the first
ones had been enough. The peaceful island of Pleasure became
a beehive of belligerent activity, preparation for war by a

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people who had never known anything but peace. Old weapons
relics for years came out of storage, places were cleaned, polished,
made ready. Big guns appeared, as if by magic, were
quickly set in placements about the rocky aisle. Nauman and
I took no part in the madness about us, but
walked alone from the others. She with a growing sadness,
and I with a swelling hatred for blind, blundering Eversham

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and for the stupidity he had called forth now in mankind.
And then late afternoon of the third day, but.

Speaker 32 (02:31:55):
Why why do they act as if they might come
here head if there.

Speaker 36 (02:31:59):
Were a war?

Speaker 32 (02:31:59):
It could never reach the Capri.

Speaker 4 (02:32:00):
Who knows why they act or what they think? There's
no reasoning in them. The like sheep anxious to get
their throats cut and have it over with.

Speaker 32 (02:32:06):
It was all so beautiful, so beautiful.

Speaker 4 (02:32:09):
No, no, man, it's still all. This has nothing to
do with us. We've turned our backs on it. What
they do now is their own concern. This can't touch us.

Speaker 32 (02:32:17):
So terrible to think about it. Didn't look planes have
come back swiming over the hills there.

Speaker 4 (02:32:23):
He's still playing the same old game. Oh how long
can that blundering Eversham halt to Oh but these are
not the same ones. What do you mean? I know
the shape of these. These are war planes, warplanes from
the south.

Speaker 2 (02:32:37):
And oh no, oh no, and it can't mean an issue.

Speaker 32 (02:32:45):
Was that what they call a bomb?

Speaker 4 (02:32:47):
That's what they call war?

Speaker 32 (02:32:50):
And I want to see it. Oh it's hard, you see,
I want to see it. By the edge of the
water where the little pavilion was he there's nothing but
broken rocks and smoke drifting up.

Speaker 4 (02:33:03):
Yes, yes, that's the first bomb.

Speaker 32 (02:33:05):
Why should they wish to destroy a little summer pavilion?

Speaker 4 (02:33:07):
An accident? They were trying there for the docks.

Speaker 32 (02:33:11):
We swam there every morning. Do you remember how clear
and how clean the water was? There must be blood
in it.

Speaker 4 (02:33:16):
Now, No, no, there's no good in that kind of thinking.
This is what they chose. Now they've got it.

Speaker 32 (02:33:22):
They couldn't have known it would be like this.

Speaker 4 (02:33:23):
Perhaps not that can't be helped now. It's too late
now for them ever to turn back.

Speaker 32 (02:33:27):
How could they ever.

Speaker 25 (02:33:34):
Look?

Speaker 32 (02:33:35):
Headden plane along the beach, No promenade, hundreds of people
and children too.

Speaker 4 (02:33:47):
I I don't want to see anymore. Not ever, We've
got to find some way to get out of here,
some way, some way. Capria is right in the middle.

Speaker 32 (02:33:57):
Of it was so beautifully. Why should anyone to make
war on cat?

Speaker 46 (02:34:01):
Why?

Speaker 4 (02:34:03):
War has a bad habit of spreading everywhere once it's
turned loose.

Speaker 3 (02:34:07):
Just supervisor from twenty two.

Speaker 4 (02:34:12):
I'm like a private plane and a pilot right away,
destination to be decided.

Speaker 3 (02:34:17):
Sorry sir. All planes have been taken over by the
government general order by Master Eversham.

Speaker 4 (02:34:24):
All right, What about a boat?

Speaker 3 (02:34:26):
Powerboats have been taken over. Perhaps a few small sailing
craft may be still available.

Speaker 4 (02:34:32):
Why not get me a navigator and enough crewman.

Speaker 3 (02:34:34):
Sorry sir, the government is ordered or able body?

Speaker 7 (02:34:38):
All right, it's all right.

Speaker 4 (02:34:39):
Just get me a boat, then buy it, chatter it
whatever's necessary, I'll say it myself.

Speaker 32 (02:34:44):
Yes, where can we go?

Speaker 42 (02:34:47):
He I don't know.

Speaker 32 (02:34:47):
I don't know anywhere, but it is it's go quickly,
take me away someplace, eating far away, anywhere but here.

Speaker 4 (02:35:02):
Then flight, days of flight from stolid death in his
military boots, so tramped, always just behind us, never far away.

Speaker 7 (02:35:13):
I fought to.

Speaker 4 (02:35:14):
Stay asleep, to stay with my dream, stay with Noma.
I cursed each time I awoke.

Speaker 60 (02:35:22):
I simply can't understand you, Henry. You moon around the
house like a love sick calf. Haven't been to the
office in three days. Don't you have any consideration for
your job or for me? Do you want to see
us kicked out into the street like tramps without assent
to our name.

Speaker 4 (02:35:42):
My waking life became a vague movement of shadow figures
of which I remember nothing Now My life and the
dream was very real. Oh, yes, very real.

Speaker 7 (02:35:53):
No, No, I've just come from there. You can go
through the past.

Speaker 4 (02:35:57):
Why can't we?

Speaker 12 (02:35:58):
This is impossible.

Speaker 3 (02:36:00):
You must go back to the coast quickly.

Speaker 32 (02:36:02):
Even can't to explain to him. We must find someplace
to buy food. We had nothing to eat for two days.

Speaker 7 (02:36:08):
No, lady, there's no food here.

Speaker 3 (02:36:11):
Everyone is starving.

Speaker 7 (02:36:13):
Pestilence is broken out. Tests horrible play.

Speaker 28 (02:36:16):
Came suddenly already people of two villages are lying dead
in the gutters.

Speaker 10 (02:36:21):
It's pready, very quickly.

Speaker 4 (02:36:22):
Come, come, Norma. Let's go back to the book. We
tried first to land somewhere along the southern shore of
the Mediterranean. We found it everywhere the same. In some
places the people were dying of disease and starvation, and
others they were dying of bleeding burns from the flame

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of war. Oh, he's always they would dying.

Speaker 32 (02:36:47):
Hidden everywhere we go. We find dead, dead bones, more
and more all the time.

Speaker 39 (02:36:53):
What's happening?

Speaker 32 (02:36:55):
Hare's the whole world gone?

Speaker 25 (02:36:56):
Man?

Speaker 15 (02:36:57):
Is the whole world.

Speaker 4 (02:36:58):
Dying back again to the north and the landing on
the peninsula, then pushing our way over and trying to
find some haven in a world intent on smashing itself
to bloody fragments, fleeing from the idiot fury around us,
and being block blocked at every turn.

Speaker 7 (02:37:17):
You cannot go there.

Speaker 11 (02:37:18):
You must turn back immediately.

Speaker 32 (02:37:20):
Why why as we turn back when there's no place
left to go back to back?

Speaker 61 (02:37:24):
Well that I cannot tell you. But if you go
farther you will die. They have used poison gas, and
the area is contaminated over.

Speaker 4 (02:37:33):
Hundreds of miles. I've seen people die from it. It
is not a pretty size every word.

Speaker 61 (02:37:40):
Of course, if you would like to stay here, I'm
sure we can take care of that pretty little roke
of yours.

Speaker 7 (02:37:48):
Yes, yes, indeed.

Speaker 4 (02:37:54):
There were no real battle lines as yet, no armies.
The thing had come too fair. But everywhere roving bands
fot plunder had killed one another, sometimes not even knowing
if they were killing friend a full and always always overhead,
with the planes humming like hawks, killing anything that moved.

Speaker 32 (02:38:16):
Heiden, do you think he sees this?

Speaker 3 (02:38:18):
I'm sure.

Speaker 11 (02:38:18):
Don't move.

Speaker 4 (02:38:21):
He's heading toward us, all right, we can't just lie.
Don't move. No, by Heaven, I think it is us.

Speaker 7 (02:38:30):
Look where that.

Speaker 4 (02:38:31):
Old woman walking on the road, doesn't you know?

Speaker 32 (02:38:41):
Oh he's horrible, horrible, No, no.

Speaker 4 (02:38:46):
Let's go. It wasn't us.

Speaker 7 (02:38:47):
He was after.

Speaker 4 (02:38:55):
And so for love and for reason, on and on,
day after day we fled from the monster stupidity of war,
till at last, who could flee?

Speaker 7 (02:39:06):
No farther.

Speaker 4 (02:39:18):
We found ourselves at dawn one morning, in an open
space near those great ruined temples by storm Roman ruins
that have stood for centuries were still standing.

Speaker 11 (02:39:28):
Even then.

Speaker 4 (02:39:30):
We sat and watched the sunrise, most beautiful I've ever seen.
We said little to one another. Low hills broke away
below us, started here and there by trees lower thickets
of Laurel between the great stones of the temples above
us were pale pink in the morning sun. And the

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silence was everywhere, silence and a false feeling of peace
this morning?

Speaker 13 (02:40:00):
Are there?

Speaker 4 (02:40:02):
Never know? That's beautiful? But we we can't stop here
no more. We're only hours away.

Speaker 12 (02:40:10):
From it now.

Speaker 32 (02:40:11):
How much father, I family run out?

Speaker 4 (02:40:15):
I don't know, my dear. It seems to be everywhere.

Speaker 32 (02:40:20):
Sometimes these last few nights, I've looked up at the
stars and I thought all of this is happening because
of us.

Speaker 12 (02:40:31):
We're to blame for it.

Speaker 4 (02:40:32):
No, no, darling, no, we We've tried to find happiness.
That's Can there be anything evil in that?

Speaker 32 (02:40:39):
I don't know, Keaton, but I'm afraid I do not
run away with me. This would not have happened. Millions
of people must die for our happiness.

Speaker 12 (02:40:50):
Something is wrong.

Speaker 4 (02:40:51):
Well, the blame lies with them. They die for their own.

Speaker 32 (02:40:54):
Stupid We are not stupid. We had you gone back
and let no, no, no.

Speaker 4 (02:40:59):
My darling, Now there be no talk of that kind.
We'll still find we will the chance to work things
out somewhere.

Speaker 32 (02:41:08):
Hi, I have a strange feeling, didn't We shan't have
any more chances? We are some kind of I'm going
to have to pay for it very soon.

Speaker 4 (02:41:19):
Are you're tired, Norma? That's why you talk this way?

Speaker 32 (02:41:23):
In another flight of place?

Speaker 4 (02:41:24):
Yes, yes, they're everywhere now.

Speaker 32 (02:41:27):
I like folk, just offering, watching and waiting again.

Speaker 4 (02:41:30):
Noma will find someplace yet, someplace, Noma, get down.

Speaker 12 (02:41:42):
No man, no.

Speaker 39 (02:41:45):
Oma, No, you're all right, didn't I I love?

Speaker 22 (02:41:52):
Oh h.

Speaker 18 (02:41:56):
No over.

Speaker 4 (02:42:10):
I sat there on the ground for hours, holding her
body close. I was only dimly aware that she was,
that she no longer lived. Time had no meaning, The
world receded far away, The shadows of afternoon point at
all in my thoughts were only dreams within a dream.

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I must have stared at them for several minutes, not
realizing who they were, watching them approach through the bushes,
for they came within yards before it struck me suddenly,
those uniforms. They were soldiers of the South and the East.
With only one thought in mind. I jumped to my
feet and ran toward them. Yeah, no, no, it's all right,

(02:43:11):
it's all right. You don't need those guns. I mean
no harm. You see, I only wanted you not not
to come here.

Speaker 7 (02:43:24):
It's my wife.

Speaker 4 (02:43:27):
She's she's dead. There's no one else here.

Speaker 7 (02:43:31):
Nay, back, no, no, put.

Speaker 4 (02:43:33):
Away the bayonet. There's no need for it. You can
take your men around the other.

Speaker 7 (02:43:40):
No, what.

Speaker 4 (02:43:42):
What are you going to do?

Speaker 28 (02:43:43):
Share?

Speaker 4 (02:43:57):
I laid her on the ground for a long time
after they At first I tried to crawl back to her,
but I couldn't. Then later I was unconscious. Whether this
be armageddon, that last flaming end of the world, I

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do not know. But of this I am sure. When
the end does come, it shall come through man's unheeding selfishness,
through man's stupidity. For when man stood up and learned
to think and was no longer an animal, he became
one with the gods, and like the gods, must take
heed of the fate of mankind.

Speaker 62 (02:44:42):
This I know.

Speaker 4 (02:44:49):
Always before I had longed desperately to escape into the dream.

Speaker 31 (02:44:53):
But now.

Speaker 4 (02:44:55):
Now with equal desperation, I feared to do so, for
he the world is dying now shuddering in the last
great convulsions of its death. Agony. Over the whole great
landscape of Earth lie the rotting, disfigured bodies of the dead,
and the sad sun gleams with a pale and ghastly

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light through the smothering curtain form by the hideous fumes
of war. The moans of the half dead swell up
from the planes of Earth, fill the vast emptiness of
the heavens, and go unanswered starvation, pestilence, war, and death.

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The whole world is dying. Heaten too is death. He
died hours before I awoke this morning. His body still

(02:45:58):
lies before the silent temp by storm get in the dream.
I still occupied his body. After he was dead, great
vultis came tour with their beaks and claws, and I
was still conscious. I was still conscious no tonight tonight.

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Because of that, though I grow faint with weariness, I
dare not go to sleep. In the name of Heaven,
How long will a dream go on?

Speaker 58 (02:46:48):
Escape is produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Tonight we
have brought you Dream of Armageddon by HG. Wells, adapted
for radio by Less Crutchfield, with editorial supervision by John
Dougall featured into Night's story were Stacy Harris and Betty
lou Gerson with Charlotte Lawrence Jack, Prusian, Eric Roff and
John Dayner. Special music by Ivan at Mars.

Speaker 57 (02:47:14):
Next week, you are standing in the light of an
arc lamp by the cathedral in Mexico City, looking at
a dead body lying at your feet, and a great
fear comes over you as you wonder if you are
a haunted man.

Speaker 58 (02:47:40):
Next week we escape with Ralph Bates most unusual story
The Haunted Man.

Speaker 7 (02:47:46):
Good Night.

Speaker 58 (02:47:47):
Then until this same time next week, when once again
we offer you escape.

Speaker 7 (02:48:04):
Roy Rowan speaking.

Speaker 58 (02:48:05):
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Speaker 20 (02:50:36):
Since the time when mankind sat around fires and caves,
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welcome you and I like to be thrilled. So tonight,
just for fun, let's listen to the story of a
man and his wife, A very unusual wife.

Speaker 15 (02:50:58):
I got that.

Speaker 58 (02:50:59):
Aline, I know the.

Speaker 34 (02:51:03):
Cut it out.

Speaker 25 (02:51:06):
I love cut it out.

Speaker 2 (02:51:09):
In a minute.

Speaker 43 (02:51:10):
Yeah, so what give me my drink? Cleaning? Oh baby,
do I feel swell?

Speaker 2 (02:51:17):
Come on, Queenie, we better blow out of here.

Speaker 43 (02:51:19):
No, no, don't go, don't go. I don't want to
be alone.

Speaker 2 (02:51:23):
What do you mean alone?

Speaker 16 (02:51:26):
That guy?

Speaker 43 (02:51:27):
What does he know about having fun?

Speaker 46 (02:51:29):
Work?

Speaker 17 (02:51:29):
Work?

Speaker 7 (02:51:30):
Work?

Speaker 43 (02:51:30):
Makes me sick where I've never been sick before.

Speaker 14 (02:51:33):
That's pretty good.

Speaker 31 (02:51:34):
Come on, sick around, Let's have some more fun.

Speaker 16 (02:51:36):
Say no? He woman with all the time?

Speaker 43 (02:51:41):
Well, speak of the devil. Hi you, Johnny boy? Come
on in the water is fun water.

Speaker 2 (02:51:49):
To work?

Speaker 43 (02:51:50):
I go way, go away your sport on my party.
Throw him out of here, Kenny, He's only my husband.

Speaker 17 (02:51:57):
Whatever your name is.

Speaker 31 (02:52:01):
To them, it's my house, my house.

Speaker 9 (02:52:04):
What you.

Speaker 14 (02:52:06):
You kick them out?

Speaker 13 (02:52:09):
My friend?

Speaker 24 (02:52:10):
I beg you with you to keep these people out
of this house while I'm trying to get some work done.

Speaker 17 (02:52:15):
Haven't you any consideration at all?

Speaker 16 (02:52:17):
You kick them out, my friend?

Speaker 24 (02:52:19):
Yes, and I'll do it again every time I find
them here. They're no good, not of one of them.
You've promised me time and time again to give them up.

Speaker 16 (02:52:26):
I'll call them back. I'll call him all back.

Speaker 43 (02:52:28):
You can't tell me what to do, not me. They're
my friend's money. I'll give a duckner you for one of.

Speaker 24 (02:52:34):
Them, all right, Linda, If that's the way you feel,
you haven't got a grain of loyalty in you. Oh
I ask is a little piece and quiet in my
own home, and I can't even have that night after
night you and these people yowling and screaming like a
pack of alley cats, and you the worst of all.

Speaker 17 (02:52:52):
I'm through and I'm through.

Speaker 7 (02:52:53):
With you for good.

Speaker 43 (02:52:55):
Oh no you're not.

Speaker 11 (02:52:58):
Oh no, you chip.

Speaker 17 (02:53:00):
Away cheap, Linda.

Speaker 43 (02:53:07):
M You see, you're not through with me at all.

Speaker 16 (02:53:13):
You'll never be through with me.

Speaker 43 (02:53:21):
I don't want you, you fool, You're not through with me.
I'm through with you.

Speaker 16 (02:53:26):
I'm tired of you.

Speaker 64 (02:53:27):
Do hear me?

Speaker 16 (02:53:27):
Tired of you?

Speaker 43 (02:53:29):
I'm gonna get so far away from that smug face
of yours I couldn't see it with a telescope, Your wife,
Why do you think I married you? I married you
because I was sick of working in a two bit barbershop,
because I was sick of living in a hall bedroom
wearing bargain shale dresses. I want a dope, plenty of
it all I could get, and you were the best

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chance to get it that came.

Speaker 41 (02:53:52):
No.

Speaker 17 (02:53:52):
No, Linda, you did love me. You must have loved me.

Speaker 7 (02:53:55):
Well.

Speaker 43 (02:53:55):
I loved you about as much as that canary. If
there love this cage, I myself. I stay with you
a year, divorce you, stake you for plenty of alimony,
and then get out.

Speaker 17 (02:54:03):
We've been married five years, yeah.

Speaker 43 (02:54:05):
Five years because you fooled me. That's why I fooled you.
You started to make a lot of money, more money
than I ever thought you could make. So you're giving
me the no.

Speaker 24 (02:54:21):
No, Linda, I love you. I didn't mean when I
said I didn't, but I did. Linda, don't leave me.

Speaker 28 (02:54:26):
You're not good.

Speaker 17 (02:54:26):
I know you're not good, but Heaven help me.

Speaker 28 (02:54:28):
I love you.

Speaker 24 (02:54:28):
I'll never love anybody else. Get no, No, I won't
let you go. You've got to say your good.

Speaker 7 (02:54:34):
You cost me my self.

Speaker 24 (02:54:35):
Respect, But you stay with me. You stay with me,
or I'll cut you off without a cent. You'll never
get a dime for me, not a dime.

Speaker 2 (02:54:43):
Stop laughing you.

Speaker 17 (02:54:50):
Stop that.

Speaker 11 (02:54:53):
Mm hmmm.

Speaker 43 (02:54:55):
So you're gonna cut me off without a scent?

Speaker 7 (02:54:58):
I why you?

Speaker 43 (02:55:01):
I've got everything that belongs here now you hear me everything?

Speaker 17 (02:55:05):
What are you talking about this house.

Speaker 43 (02:55:08):
It's in my name, isn't it? The car it's in
my name, isn't.

Speaker 16 (02:55:12):
No, No, you wouldn't, Oh wouldn't.

Speaker 43 (02:55:14):
I Well listen to this, my darling husband. I cleaned
out the bank account, Yes, in every.

Speaker 10 (02:55:21):
Set of it.

Speaker 39 (02:55:22):
I won't be in my steret.

Speaker 16 (02:55:24):
Oh no you will.

Speaker 43 (02:55:26):
Now, this is my house. Get your things and get
out of here.

Speaker 7 (02:55:29):
I'll kill you.

Speaker 11 (02:55:31):
I'll kill you.

Speaker 16 (02:55:33):
Don't touch me again. I'll terrie you.

Speaker 36 (02:55:44):
You cat, get out of my way.

Speaker 7 (02:55:46):
That's what you want? A cat, A big, quite heartless cat.

Speaker 17 (02:55:50):
I think, like when your streeks, like on your claw
like one. You even look like one. Your eyes, the
cat's eyes, that's what they are.

Speaker 13 (02:55:57):
Cats.

Speaker 14 (02:55:58):
Cat.

Speaker 17 (02:56:01):
I didn't know a woman.

Speaker 62 (02:56:01):
I married a cat.

Speaker 14 (02:56:05):
You're doing?

Speaker 17 (02:56:06):
Go ahead, laughing, you sneaking?

Speaker 16 (02:56:08):
Yell me.

Speaker 43 (02:56:15):
No, that's another that I don't like it, cap saying
it a capture.

Speaker 15 (02:56:20):
John.

Speaker 35 (02:56:22):
Stop staring at me like that. Stop staring at me, John?

Speaker 43 (02:56:30):
What's happening to me?

Speaker 2 (02:56:33):
John?

Speaker 16 (02:56:33):
My head.

Speaker 14 (02:56:35):
I can hardly see.

Speaker 35 (02:56:38):
Don't help me, John, What are you staring?

Speaker 16 (02:56:44):
What are you there? What you.

Speaker 19 (02:57:08):
Now?

Speaker 7 (02:57:08):
Now? John? You've got to control yourself.

Speaker 26 (02:57:11):
Everything will be all right, John, Please, please pull yourself together.

Speaker 7 (02:57:18):
You are not entirely to blame for what happens. I
did to blame.

Speaker 17 (02:57:23):
What do I do?

Speaker 13 (02:57:23):
Will I do?

Speaker 26 (02:57:24):
Stop talking like that. It's preposterous to say you are
to blame. She was in a hysterical condition. The suggestion
that she was a cat caught her in an unguarded
moment and resulted in intemporary ineurosis.

Speaker 17 (02:57:39):
Doctor, can I go in and say that?

Speaker 7 (02:57:43):
I tell you she's sleeping. I know, but doctor, I've
got to see her. I've got to look at her.

Speaker 24 (02:57:48):
I've got to make sure she's all right, don't you see.
I've got to make sure, now, John, Please, you had
a hard time of it. You better get to bed
and get some rest. No, no, doctor listened to me.
I got to see her again. I've got to make
sure she's all right. I can't rest until I know.

Speaker 65 (02:58:03):
And I tell you, oh, very well, just for the moment, yes,
be very quiet. Yes, there you see she's resting very nicely.

Speaker 7 (02:58:19):
Doctor.

Speaker 17 (02:58:19):
Look what her hands? Look at her hands and her teeth.

Speaker 66 (02:58:24):
Linda, No, no, John, you you make a John. Linda
m doctor listened to her. Listen to her, steady, John,

(02:58:48):
I can't stand her.

Speaker 17 (02:58:49):
Tell you, doctor, what is it? What's happening to her?

Speaker 4 (02:58:52):
I don't know, John, I don't know.

Speaker 7 (02:58:55):
Oh, listen to her.

Speaker 28 (02:58:56):
We'll I do.

Speaker 10 (02:58:57):
What'll I do?

Speaker 54 (02:58:59):
Fingers into course, teeth into things. It can't be happy
what it is, and yet I've seed it with my own.

Speaker 24 (02:59:07):
You've got to do something, doctor, You've got to you're
my friends, You've got to help me.

Speaker 6 (02:59:11):
But what in the name of all that's rational?

Speaker 7 (02:59:13):
What you think?

Speaker 17 (02:59:15):
There must be something you can do, A drug, something something.

Speaker 7 (02:59:18):
Like, John, I I don't know what to say. I
can't think. I'll call in someone else. Yes, that's it, Alan,
inform the authorities. They'll take care of everything.

Speaker 42 (02:59:28):
No, no, no, wait, doctor, Wait, what's the matter.

Speaker 7 (02:59:30):
What is it you.

Speaker 17 (02:59:34):
You're going to inform the authority?

Speaker 7 (02:59:36):
Yes, yes, of course, don't you see, my boy. It's
the simplest way out of this, of course, of course,
for you and for me.

Speaker 54 (02:59:43):
What do you mean this horrible thing that's happened to Linda?
He goes beyond just you and me. It goes beyond
the normal into the supernatural. The world should know about it.

Speaker 17 (02:59:55):
You mean you're going to let everyone know what's happened
to Linda?

Speaker 12 (02:59:58):
Of course, But you can't that.

Speaker 7 (03:00:01):
She's my wife. Do you hear me my wife? No? No,
And I don't get excited again, John, listen. Sensibly we
owe it to Sia science.

Speaker 24 (03:00:10):
Who cares about science. She's Linda, she's my wife, and
I cursed her the garden. I told you into a
yowling beast. It's my shame, mine, and you're not going
to tell anyone else about it, No one.

Speaker 7 (03:00:22):
It's my duty. John. I must inform the authorogies.

Speaker 17 (03:00:25):
No, keep away from that phone, Keep away, I say.

Speaker 7 (03:00:29):
I'm sorry, John, I must call.

Speaker 12 (03:00:34):
John my friend.

Speaker 55 (03:00:56):
And now while we get our breath back and well,
I for one need to breathe spell. Well, let me
remind you of those dazzling, snowy white wash as Oxidol
gets every week as much as nine to eleven tenttometer
shades whiter than soap after soap. We test it against
yet washable colored things come out bright and.

Speaker 1 (03:01:13):
Lovely looking wash after wash. It's easy on hands too.
It doesn't harm your manicure or ruin your fresh nail polies.

Speaker 55 (03:01:20):
All these things. Oxid all promises and we'll give you
if you use it Monday.

Speaker 17 (03:01:42):
No, No, try to sleep, darling.

Speaker 7 (03:01:45):
Try to sleep.

Speaker 24 (03:01:48):
Yes, yes, I know, I know, darling, but it's almost
morning in mistress, sleep to sleep, man dying? All right,
all right, darling, I won't cry. I've got to be strong.
I've got to help you, and I did help you.

(03:02:12):
He was going to tell him about you, everyone that
have taken you away from me, locked you up, pointed.

Speaker 12 (03:02:18):
At you, laughed at you.

Speaker 24 (03:02:20):
But I stopped him, Linda, I stopped him for you.
He called me friend. But you're my wife, beloved, and
I love you. I pleased you, haven't I my darling.
I never could please you before, could I? But now

(03:02:42):
I've pleased you.

Speaker 17 (03:02:45):
I'd tell him he never came here and no one
will ever know, Darling, no one but you and I.
What is it, Darling? What's the matter? Why are you
getting up?

Speaker 3 (03:03:03):
What is it?

Speaker 17 (03:03:05):
I go to the window?

Speaker 7 (03:03:07):
What do you want out there?

Speaker 24 (03:03:10):
If I could only understand you, if I could only
know what you're trying to say to me?

Speaker 17 (03:03:19):
Oh no, Linda, then to stop and the lease I'm
taking you to stop?

Speaker 13 (03:03:32):
Stop stop stop.

Speaker 17 (03:03:54):
Yes, yes, I'm coming, I'm coming.

Speaker 7 (03:03:58):
My mister, aren't you.

Speaker 67 (03:04:00):
I found there's notes saying you wanted to talk to
me and Jeah I hope you're not going to quit
taking milk from.

Speaker 24 (03:04:04):
No, no, no, no, I'm not going to stop taking milk.
That's what I wanted to see you. But I want milk,
more milk, cream everything?

Speaker 17 (03:04:11):
Well, sure, sure? How much do you want? Four bottles
of milk?

Speaker 16 (03:04:14):
No?

Speaker 50 (03:04:14):
No? No?

Speaker 7 (03:04:15):
Six?

Speaker 12 (03:04:16):
Six?

Speaker 7 (03:04:16):
Yes?

Speaker 17 (03:04:17):
And cream? Six bottles of cream?

Speaker 7 (03:04:19):
Is something wrong with Taylor? Wrong?

Speaker 17 (03:04:23):
Why do you think something's wrong? Well, I don't remember
what speak up your metal?

Speaker 3 (03:04:27):
What?

Speaker 67 (03:04:28):
Well, don't get so mice to Taylor. I just meant, well,
you know it looks so well and well, you know
how it is. Sometimes a fella has a couple too many.
I start starting all the milk in the world, fool,
I'm not drunk. Do you want some of that milk?
Or do I have to get another milk mill?

Speaker 7 (03:04:42):
No, no, I'll get it for you. I'll get it
for you.

Speaker 6 (03:04:44):
Orry six course six cream only human his old lady
the guy's nuts.

Speaker 68 (03:05:12):
Well, good morning, mister Taylor. Early again this morning? Ain't
you my first customer? Every morning for the last three days.

Speaker 17 (03:05:22):
I was saying to my wife, Yes, yes, mister Henrik.
Some other time I'm in a hurry my order please, sure, but.

Speaker 68 (03:05:27):
You didn't give me an order yet. How about a
nice broiling stuff?

Speaker 17 (03:05:31):
No, no, nothing like that.

Speaker 68 (03:05:32):
But I'm in a hurry, I tell you, all right,
all right, you don't have to get so excited, mister Taylor.

Speaker 2 (03:05:39):
If you'll tell me what you want, I'll get it
for you.

Speaker 7 (03:05:42):
Oh well, I am.

Speaker 24 (03:05:45):
I don't know exactly. A couple of pounds of fresh liver. Yes,
that's a fresh liver. Again, don't hurt me.

Speaker 68 (03:05:55):
I'm sure I hurt you, but but ok, here for
three days now ever since your wife went away, you
you eat nothing but live.

Speaker 17 (03:06:02):
Are you going to feel my order?

Speaker 3 (03:06:03):
Sure?

Speaker 28 (03:06:04):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (03:06:05):
Fi nice and pressure for two pounds?

Speaker 7 (03:06:12):
Here we are.

Speaker 68 (03:06:14):
Hey, you think there was raising cats or something?

Speaker 3 (03:06:20):
Why do you say that?

Speaker 2 (03:06:21):
Well, you buy liver every day. Oh, this morning I
caught a couple of mice in the tramp. Maybe you'd
like to take them along for the cat.

Speaker 16 (03:06:30):
To Don't say that, don't say, mister Taylor, the.

Speaker 7 (03:06:34):
Lit deliver.

Speaker 39 (03:06:37):
Forgot?

Speaker 2 (03:06:38):
Hey, man's crazy?

Speaker 7 (03:06:42):
What did I say?

Speaker 16 (03:06:43):
That was wrong?

Speaker 2 (03:06:45):
Cats like to eat mice.

Speaker 24 (03:07:07):
Oh, my Linda, my dear Linda, close to me, so
close to me, Oh my darling, my darling, it's better
this way.

Speaker 17 (03:07:27):
You can't leave me now. I'll have you with me
all this.

Speaker 7 (03:07:33):
I'll keep your head, yes.

Speaker 4 (03:07:37):
Just you and I.

Speaker 7 (03:07:42):
I won't answer it.

Speaker 24 (03:07:44):
Go go away, all right, I'll answer it. It can't
be anyone that knows he's dead. I buried him, Linda,
you know that. Ah ah, no, no, no, stay here,

(03:08:04):
my love. They mustn't see you.

Speaker 3 (03:08:08):
Be very quiet, very quiet.

Speaker 17 (03:08:17):
Yes, yes, I'm coming, I'm coming.

Speaker 28 (03:08:23):
Well what is it?

Speaker 3 (03:08:24):
What is it?

Speaker 7 (03:08:24):
Are you the owner of this building?

Speaker 17 (03:08:26):
Yes, that's what you want.

Speaker 7 (03:08:28):
Kragan's the name.

Speaker 1 (03:08:29):
I am your name, but I've got that place across
the alley, brom.

Speaker 17 (03:08:31):
Oh my my name.

Speaker 7 (03:08:33):
Yeah, Kerrigan's the name.

Speaker 17 (03:08:34):
I'm with the department Department.

Speaker 1 (03:08:37):
Yeah, I'm that sergeant at the third District station police say, yeah,
I'm all duty today. So I thought i'd drop over
and speak to you. Do you mind if I step
in for a moment, step in.

Speaker 17 (03:08:49):
Oh no, no, not at all, not at all.

Speaker 42 (03:08:52):
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 7 (03:08:55):
Hey, you got a nice pleasure.

Speaker 17 (03:08:58):
Yes, yes, nice, very nice.

Speaker 1 (03:09:00):
You know, the same contractors made this place has made mine.

Speaker 7 (03:09:03):
You didn't know that of it? No, no I didn't.

Speaker 1 (03:09:06):
And an irishman with the name of Gilhooley jumped out
of the tense story window. They tell me the day
after the stock market grace. Lucky for him too, he
was alive. Now some of the people along here that
bought places from him and murder him. But with the
trouble they're having, Oh trouble, Yeah, cheap material, plaster crack
and floor sag and stuff like that.

Speaker 7 (03:09:27):
Oh oh, I see what you mean. Now you take
my place.

Speaker 1 (03:09:30):
I've had to have a new roof put on and
new gutters put in, and I never know what'll go
wrong next, anything wrong around here?

Speaker 17 (03:09:37):
If oh no, no, no, nothing at all, And you're lucky,
you say, what's the matter.

Speaker 7 (03:09:44):
I just remember why I come over.

Speaker 1 (03:09:46):
If you don't mind, I'll tell you. Yes, Now, it
ain't me that's complaining, mister Taylor. I'm the kind of
a man that can sleep in a boiler factory. But
it's my ela. There's a light sleeper for you. I
always say that if a star in heaven twinkles too much,
the noise wakes up me.

Speaker 17 (03:10:03):
What what's the trouble, No trouble at all, mister Taylor.

Speaker 1 (03:10:07):
Like I'm telling now, I'm the last man in the
world to go around having trouble with me.

Speaker 7 (03:10:10):
Neighbors.

Speaker 1 (03:10:11):
But you know how the women are who are always
finding something to make a use about.

Speaker 7 (03:10:17):
See, I'm not disturbing, am I disturbing?

Speaker 12 (03:10:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (03:10:20):
You know you're missus. She's not sleeping in the bedroom Mary.

Speaker 17 (03:10:24):
No, no, no, of course not. There's no one in there.

Speaker 7 (03:10:27):
I thought maybe soon the daughter's grown.

Speaker 17 (03:10:29):
No, no, I tell her there's no one in there.

Speaker 1 (03:10:30):
And my wife is out of town. Ah, well, that's fine.
I always like to talk things over manned a man
without the women are on. That's where I made my
other stay home. Let me handle this, I says, there's
anything wrong, I says.

Speaker 17 (03:10:45):
Let me do the talking and we'll stay.

Speaker 3 (03:10:47):
What is it?

Speaker 17 (03:10:48):
What's wrong? What do you want to tell me?

Speaker 37 (03:10:49):
Well, to put it plain.

Speaker 7 (03:10:52):
It's the cat. Cat. Yeah, the cat. You just got it,
didn't you. You you heard a cat? Yeah, it started
a few nights ago. No, it ain't disturbed me, no.

Speaker 1 (03:11:04):
Like I says, But my ella, well you see our
bedroom window faces right on the alley and by gully.

Speaker 7 (03:11:10):
She hears every meal that animal.

Speaker 17 (03:11:12):
Mate, you you're wrong, huh.

Speaker 7 (03:11:15):
I have no cat, but my ella had.

Speaker 17 (03:11:19):
I heard it too.

Speaker 7 (03:11:20):
For that matter, I have no cat, but I'm telling
you it came from this house.

Speaker 2 (03:11:23):
I tell you I have no cat.

Speaker 17 (03:11:24):
Isn't that sufficient?

Speaker 7 (03:11:25):
World?

Speaker 31 (03:11:26):
Now?

Speaker 1 (03:11:26):
Seeing as you put it to a plan, I'll be
speaking of playing myself. I am telling you I heard
a cat, y'all, and last night, and the night before
and the night before that, and as shure as me,
name's Thomas Kerrigan.

Speaker 37 (03:11:35):
It came right from this house.

Speaker 17 (03:11:38):
Now what do you say to that? Get out? Now?

Speaker 7 (03:11:42):
Wait a second, may buckle, get on your high horse.

Speaker 17 (03:11:46):
Get out, get out of my house.

Speaker 1 (03:11:49):
You sure I am making a lot of noise about nothing,
young coello, But it's your house. And if that's the
kind of a neighbor you want to be, I guess
I can.

Speaker 17 (03:11:59):
But he's telling them for get out, get out, just.

Speaker 7 (03:12:02):
A minute, take it easy, No cat? Eh? Well what
was that? I just said?

Speaker 17 (03:12:08):
Nothing? Nothing at all. You've got no right to Begelly.

Speaker 1 (03:12:10):
You may not be a liar, but you're sure of
something close to it. If that hit the cat in
that bedroom there, then I ain't never heard the cat.

Speaker 7 (03:12:16):
Get out, get out of here.

Speaker 37 (03:12:18):
Oh no, I won't listen to that cat.

Speaker 7 (03:12:21):
If I ain't creating a public nuisance.

Speaker 42 (03:12:23):
I'd like to know what it is.

Speaker 17 (03:12:24):
It's one of your business. Get out of here. This
is my house.

Speaker 51 (03:12:26):
Get up.

Speaker 7 (03:12:27):
Stop pulling at me.

Speaker 15 (03:12:28):
Bucco.

Speaker 1 (03:12:29):
I may be off duty, but I'm still an officer
of the law, and I'm telling you that cat in
there is violating the city ordinance. I said, don't make
it shut up and disturbing, Miella.

Speaker 17 (03:12:39):
I will stay you away from that door. Stay away
from that door.

Speaker 7 (03:12:43):
Say listen to it.

Speaker 37 (03:12:46):
I don't know cat you've got in there.

Speaker 17 (03:12:48):
Yes, yes, a lie.

Speaker 7 (03:12:49):
It is a cat. It's just a cat.

Speaker 17 (03:12:51):
But I'll make it be quiet. But go away, go away.

Speaker 1 (03:12:53):
Wait a minute, take it easy. It's just a cat.
What are you getting so excited about.

Speaker 69 (03:12:58):
Just look it out at you. You're right blazon. What's
going on here? I think I have no stay away,
so stey away, take it away.

Speaker 14 (03:13:11):
I told you, I told you to call my gun.

Speaker 7 (03:13:14):
I'll get my gun.

Speaker 44 (03:13:15):
My gun.

Speaker 16 (03:13:18):
Wow, Linda, did you hear him his gun?

Speaker 8 (03:13:29):
Yes?

Speaker 17 (03:13:30):
Close to me, yes, darling, stay close to me if
he comes back you. No, No, they won't hurt you.
I won't let them.

Speaker 7 (03:13:42):
I add did this to you.

Speaker 25 (03:13:43):
I did.

Speaker 17 (03:13:44):
I cursed your the God. No, they won't hurt you.

Speaker 7 (03:13:49):
They won't.

Speaker 17 (03:13:50):
Wait there, wait there, I've got to find they won't
hurt you, Linda. No, I got it.

Speaker 7 (03:14:03):
Now.

Speaker 24 (03:14:03):
They won't hurt you, Linda. I swear it, they won't
ever hurt you. No, no, don't look at my hand. No,
why shouldn't you look at it. Yes, there's a gun
in my hand, but not to hurt you, darling.

Speaker 17 (03:14:21):
It's just to help you.

Speaker 7 (03:14:24):
I swear it, to help you. Yes, so close to me.

Speaker 17 (03:14:32):
I must do it quickly. No no, don't, don't try
to pull away. No, no, then to stay here. I
must hold you.

Speaker 12 (03:14:40):
I must.

Speaker 17 (03:14:42):
He'll be back in a moment. I'm nothn't miss Linda,
my darling. I heard, my beloved, I heard you wait

(03:15:13):
for me, My good luck.

Speaker 39 (03:15:44):
This is Arch Ovaler.

Speaker 20 (03:15:46):
Tonight's play Catwife, featured Betty Winkler and Raymond Edward Johnson.

Speaker 7 (03:15:51):
Music by Gordon Jenkins.

Speaker 20 (03:15:55):
About Next Week, Well the actor's two of our favorites,
Mister and Missus Hugheston Walter Houston and Man Sunderland. The
play the story of two people who perhaps lived in
your own town, who lived a strange, excitement filled life
that you perhaps knew nothing about. The title of the play,
Mister and Missus Chump.

Speaker 55 (03:16:15):
Before we leave you, just one more word about next
Monday's wash. You've heard me tell of ox the doll's economy,
the white clean washes, you get, It's safety to every
washable color. Well, it's all up to you now if
you want those results in Monday's wash, and even if
some other lawn resop is your favorite. Now we'll ast
for oxidall O X Y d O L tomorrow. You'll

(03:16:38):
always be glad you changed.

Speaker 1 (03:16:40):
And be back with us next Friday at this same
time for every Man's Theater. Every Man's Theater brings you
something new, something different.

Speaker 17 (03:16:49):
Every single week.

Speaker 1 (03:16:51):
And next Friday it's mister and Missus Walter Houston in
a great new radio play, Mister and Missus Chump, Thank you,
and good night. Everyman's Theater is written and created by Archhobler.

Speaker 7 (03:17:32):
Murder By Experts.

Speaker 28 (03:17:47):
The Mutual Broadcasting System presents murder By Experts with your
host and narrator, mister John Dixon Carr, world famous mystery
novelist and author of a recently published bestseller, The Life
of Sir Arthur Colm Goyle. Good Even. This is John
Dixon Carr.

Speaker 70 (03:18:06):
Each week, at this time, murder By Experts brings you
a story of crime and mystery which has been chosen
for your approval by one of the world's leading detective writers. Tonight,
our guest expert is the noted mystery writer Eliza Lipsky.
From the many thrillers he had read and joyed, mister
Lipsky has selected a fast moving, sardonic story by Joseph Rosco,

(03:18:33):
And now we present Kenneth Flynch in Dig your Own Way.

Speaker 50 (03:18:59):
A Call from Home.

Speaker 7 (03:19:02):
Any green answer the question.

Speaker 36 (03:19:06):
Did you or did you not kill your wife?

Speaker 7 (03:19:10):
Yes?

Speaker 15 (03:19:10):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (03:19:11):
No?

Speaker 37 (03:19:12):
Yes?

Speaker 16 (03:19:13):
No?

Speaker 36 (03:19:13):
No, yes or no. That's a good one. How can
I answer it like that? Just plain yes or no.

Speaker 71 (03:19:29):
I've been wondering myself who was the killer? Me or
that crazy suspicious mind of hers. My wife was a
very strange woman, and I want to get you inside
that mind of hers. You'll know then just how it
is that a wife could dig her own grave. I

(03:19:51):
swear I was always two to Hannah. It's important you
understand that, up to this incident, I never even.

Speaker 36 (03:19:57):
Looked at another woman. She'd never believe me though.

Speaker 7 (03:20:01):
Never.

Speaker 22 (03:20:02):
You don't fool me, Eric, you were quite a lady
killer when I met you, and men don't change their spots.

Speaker 71 (03:20:09):
When she met me, hmhm, But what the years had
slapped me down to time and a nagging wife, all
the jobs.

Speaker 36 (03:20:16):
She cost me, all the future with her suspicions.

Speaker 22 (03:20:19):
Don't lie, Eric, You're clumsy at it. My mind works
faster than yours. There's a woman in your life somewhere.

Speaker 36 (03:20:28):
She was driving me crazy. She didn't trust me.

Speaker 22 (03:20:30):
Why should I trust you? How about the times I
phoned you at Charlie's poker parties and you weren't there.
I won't be satisfied until I have found that other
woman you're playing around with.

Speaker 36 (03:20:44):
I'm trying to get you inside that mind of hers.
You understand, I swear there was.

Speaker 71 (03:20:49):
Never any other woman up till that time. And then
one day, suddenly, through a silly circumstance, Hannah got the
wild notion she'd at last discovered who her rival was.

Speaker 31 (03:20:59):
It's the young Betty Heath, that little actress who lives
across the street.

Speaker 36 (03:21:03):
Don't fly. I saw it with my own eyes, didn't
I You mean about the dog just now?

Speaker 22 (03:21:09):
Yes, about the dog just now.

Speaker 36 (03:21:11):
I can explain that if you long leave, you can explain.

Speaker 31 (03:21:14):
Everything, can't you?

Speaker 28 (03:21:16):
Eric?

Speaker 31 (03:21:16):
But I'm one person.

Speaker 36 (03:21:18):
You can't fool Hannah. For Heaven's sake, where are you going?

Speaker 31 (03:21:21):
I'm going across the street to scratch her eyes.

Speaker 28 (03:21:23):
Out, Hannah. You'll displace us before the neighbors.

Speaker 36 (03:21:25):
I swear I don't even know the ladies, Hannah.

Speaker 14 (03:21:29):
Hannah, Yes, I.

Speaker 31 (03:21:48):
Want you to leave my husband alone.

Speaker 22 (03:21:51):
What who are you?

Speaker 31 (03:21:54):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 22 (03:21:55):
You didn't pretend, Miss Heath. I can read through you
and him both. I'm missus, Hannah Green, as you no
doubt suspect. Get out of here.

Speaker 31 (03:22:07):
Get out of here at once, or I'll call the police.

Speaker 22 (03:22:09):
You wouldn't dare you your mind?

Speaker 31 (03:22:13):
I don't know your hospital, and I don't know you.

Speaker 35 (03:22:17):
Oh, I do seem to have met you?

Speaker 22 (03:22:20):
Your type?

Speaker 31 (03:22:21):
I mean you're the kind of digs your own grave,
aren't you?

Speaker 7 (03:22:42):
Uh?

Speaker 36 (03:22:43):
Miss Heath? Yes, and fardon me. You don't know me.

Speaker 71 (03:22:47):
I live in the apartment house across the street. I
came to apologize for something that happened.

Speaker 22 (03:22:52):
Here the other day, apologize for what.

Speaker 36 (03:22:55):
My name is, Eric Green?

Speaker 44 (03:22:58):
Eric Green, Oh, so you're that mad woman's husband.

Speaker 36 (03:23:05):
My wife is very neurotic, Miss Heath.

Speaker 22 (03:23:07):
But why is she come barging in here? What kind
Earth gave her.

Speaker 71 (03:23:11):
The idea that I I mean, I was standing outside
my apartment house and the dog came up to me.
It seemed lost, so I kind of walked it, wondering
whose it was. Hannah saw me and recognized the dog
as yours, Miss Heath.

Speaker 31 (03:23:27):
Oh, so you're the one who found it.

Speaker 22 (03:23:30):
So that's why you're what I see.

Speaker 36 (03:23:34):
So I gave it to your door man.

Speaker 22 (03:23:36):
Oh, thank you, mister Green. That was kind of you.

Speaker 71 (03:23:39):
Yes, well, you see, that's how it was. She thought
all kinds of things, you know, Yes, I can imagine. Well,
that's all I came to say.

Speaker 22 (03:23:52):
Goodbye, goodbye.

Speaker 31 (03:23:55):
It was awfully nice of you.

Speaker 16 (03:23:57):
Sorry, no, no, no, I interrupted.

Speaker 31 (03:24:01):
Well, I just wanted Jesus.

Speaker 22 (03:24:04):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 7 (03:24:05):
I'm so fault.

Speaker 31 (03:24:07):
I don't know why I've been keeping you standing here
at the door. Wouldn't you like to come.

Speaker 22 (03:24:11):
In and have a drink.

Speaker 36 (03:24:14):
I'd love to. And that's how it all began.

Speaker 71 (03:24:26):
For eight years, I hadn't looked at another woman, then
stayed in the guise of an unwitting Hannah had introduced
me to Betty.

Speaker 36 (03:24:32):
Heath became a secret.

Speaker 71 (03:24:34):
Love that never would have been born if the twisted
mind of a jealous wife hadn't conjured it out of
thin air. I missed the next three Saturday night poker sessions.

Speaker 44 (03:24:46):
Eric, it's nice here.

Speaker 36 (03:24:49):
I like this place, yes, sort of our place. I
was never here with anyone else.

Speaker 31 (03:24:54):
Ellie, what did you do with your Saturday nights before?

Speaker 50 (03:24:58):
Oh?

Speaker 36 (03:24:58):
I don't know, polk Girl or a all like movie
to Forget I ever lived?

Speaker 44 (03:25:02):
Oh no, don't talk that.

Speaker 36 (03:25:04):
Way, Betty. How do you feel about it?

Speaker 22 (03:25:08):
About what us?

Speaker 36 (03:25:10):
You're scared of anything?

Speaker 22 (03:25:13):
What have I got to be scared of?

Speaker 44 (03:25:14):
Ow? My goodness, I simply felt sorry for you that
first day I saw you, and honestly, you were so
pathetic and well, I knew you needed a friend, you know,
maybe get things.

Speaker 22 (03:25:29):
Off your chest.

Speaker 36 (03:25:30):
That's a funny thing right now. I don't think Hannah
even suspects I do know you.

Speaker 44 (03:25:35):
She certainly was suspicious. Today she's stormed up to my apartment.
Why the change?

Speaker 7 (03:25:40):
And such me?

Speaker 36 (03:25:41):
She hadn't said one word about it since then. I
think when she came charging up to your apartment that day,
she expected to see through some wild painted chorus girl
and glamorous actress see, but instead she sees a sweet,
innocent kid and gets thrown for a loss. You kind
of threw me for a loss too, Betty going for
a guy like me?

Speaker 22 (03:26:02):
Why not?

Speaker 44 (03:26:05):
Eric, I'll let you in on a little secret. I'm
afraid I've no acting telling him whatsoever. We can't get
till I I'll never get anywhere. What I really want
is to get married.

Speaker 36 (03:26:21):
Married.

Speaker 44 (03:26:21):
Yeah, it was a very nice fellow name of Tommy Birch.
He asked me to marry him.

Speaker 36 (03:26:29):
Why didn't you?

Speaker 22 (03:26:31):
I don't know. Just at fact might.

Speaker 31 (03:26:36):
Met a married man.

Speaker 35 (03:26:38):
Name of Eric Green.

Speaker 44 (03:26:42):
That's funny.

Speaker 36 (03:26:50):
Yes, that's how it all began. A drink.

Speaker 71 (03:26:53):
We talked, saw each other a few times, and we
were in love. We didn't talk too much about Hannah,
not at first. She was always there, the third point
on the triangle. The longer Betty and I went on
seeing each other, the more she crowded into my thoughts,
until the day came it had to happen, Eric, it
can't go on.

Speaker 31 (03:27:13):
It's gotta stop.

Speaker 22 (03:27:15):
I'm much too much in love with you.

Speaker 36 (03:27:16):
Vice versa head over heels.

Speaker 31 (03:27:18):
It's not as though you are free, Eric, don't you
see it. It's not as though you were even ready
to get a divorce. How many times have you gotten
that off your chest?

Speaker 57 (03:27:28):
To me?

Speaker 31 (03:27:29):
Bonds and tie.

Speaker 22 (03:27:32):
And pity?

Speaker 31 (03:27:33):
All right, then I'll get somebody to pity me a little.
There's still Tommy Burch.

Speaker 22 (03:27:39):
No, Eric, don't how come we must never see each
other again?

Speaker 14 (03:27:54):
Eric?

Speaker 22 (03:27:55):
Why are you sitting there so moody?

Speaker 7 (03:27:57):
Please, Hannah.

Speaker 22 (03:28:00):
An apology to make Eric dear? Yes, oh, Eric, I
must be a trial to you sometimes, but it's only.

Speaker 28 (03:28:09):
Because I love you.

Speaker 36 (03:28:11):
What are you driving at? Oh?

Speaker 22 (03:28:15):
That dog thing that time?

Speaker 36 (03:28:18):
That dog thing?

Speaker 22 (03:28:19):
Yes, you remember well. I later asked the doorman there,
and he said the dog was lost that day and
you merely.

Speaker 36 (03:28:26):
Brought it back, So you checked with a doorman.

Speaker 22 (03:28:29):
Huh, Eric, wasn't it silly of me to think you
were carrying on with that Heath girl whom you didn't
even know from Eve?

Speaker 7 (03:28:38):
But I do.

Speaker 31 (03:28:41):
What?

Speaker 36 (03:28:41):
I do know her very well?

Speaker 16 (03:28:43):
What's there?

Speaker 36 (03:28:44):
Betty and I are in love? Hannah.

Speaker 71 (03:28:47):
It was all you're doing poetic justice, because we never
even knew each other until then.

Speaker 22 (03:28:51):
Why you you you're lying?

Speaker 31 (03:28:56):
I was right in the first place. It had been
going on all the time, just as I said.

Speaker 4 (03:29:00):
Have it your own way.

Speaker 31 (03:29:01):
I could always read you, Eric read you like a book.

Speaker 36 (03:29:04):
You're sure of that.

Speaker 22 (03:29:05):
I knew it was that cheap actress. I knew it
because I'm always one step ahead of you. Mister Tudetimer.
You're not dealing with just anyone. You're dealing with a
lawyer's daughter. And that one cylinder brain of yours was
never a match for mine, never will be. Well, what now?

Speaker 36 (03:29:28):
I want a divorce? O?

Speaker 31 (03:29:30):
Never you think i'd give her the second?

Speaker 36 (03:29:33):
I want a divorce?

Speaker 22 (03:29:33):
Oh, Eric, could you say all these things to me?

Speaker 28 (03:29:37):
Could you did it to yourself?

Speaker 36 (03:29:38):
To that crazy jealousy of yours?

Speaker 22 (03:29:40):
Oh?

Speaker 71 (03:29:41):
I tell you I never did know her before you
promoted a triangle that never even existed.

Speaker 28 (03:29:45):
So go on, dig your own grave?

Speaker 22 (03:29:47):
Where did you see that? Whose words?

Speaker 7 (03:29:50):
What words?

Speaker 31 (03:29:52):
Dig your own grave?

Speaker 22 (03:29:55):
Is any words?

Speaker 14 (03:29:55):
That woman?

Speaker 22 (03:29:56):
Hysteretie? I see it now, of of course, but I
want to step ahead.

Speaker 14 (03:30:02):
Of you as usual.

Speaker 22 (03:30:04):
You're planning to murder me, aren't you?

Speaker 19 (03:30:06):
What?

Speaker 7 (03:30:08):
Murder you?

Speaker 31 (03:30:08):
Yes, murder me so you'll be free to marry her. Well,
don't deny, And I can see it in your eyes.

Speaker 7 (03:30:23):
That was the seed.

Speaker 36 (03:30:25):
I'm telling the honest truth.

Speaker 71 (03:30:27):
Till then the thought had positively never entered my mind
in the remotest way, whatsoever harm Hannah.

Speaker 36 (03:30:33):
I pitied her, even still loved her in a way,
but somehow.

Speaker 31 (03:30:38):
Yes, kill me.

Speaker 22 (03:30:39):
You want to kill me, don't you? You want to
kill me?

Speaker 36 (03:30:44):
I know she planted the seed in my mind. You
understand she planted the seed.

Speaker 22 (03:30:49):
Young and pretty. That's the way you want one.

Speaker 36 (03:30:53):
When I'm out of the way, she hammered the thought
into my brain.

Speaker 22 (03:30:56):
Always know what's in your mind? Don't I to be Heaven?
Wouldn't it Heaven?

Speaker 36 (03:31:02):
Wouldn't it when I'm dead with heaven? Stop it? Stop
at Hannah?

Speaker 22 (03:31:07):
Can't standing here your thought spoken aloud?

Speaker 31 (03:31:09):
Can you? You don't fool me, Eric Green. I'm sharp
enough to even see how you intend.

Speaker 22 (03:31:16):
To murder me. I can give you a blueprint.

Speaker 31 (03:31:20):
What I congratulate you on planning the perfect murder.

Speaker 22 (03:31:24):
I didn't know you had enough brains.

Speaker 36 (03:31:27):
What the heck are you talking about? What blueprint?

Speaker 25 (03:31:31):
Oh?

Speaker 31 (03:31:31):
Don't pretend I'm on with you. You will never outsmart me.

Speaker 36 (03:31:34):
I can read your mind a book. Sure, Oh please, Hannah,
Me and Betty have decided to give each other up.
If you want to know, so, why on earth would
murder out of my mind?

Speaker 31 (03:31:43):
Who do you think you're kidding?

Speaker 28 (03:31:45):
Eric?

Speaker 71 (03:31:46):
Oh, if she only knew it, the suspicious mind of
hers was digging her own grave.

Speaker 36 (03:31:55):
Because now I really began to ponder a murder. Only
I could expect that fool proof method from her, if
I could be sure Betty still wanted me. Poor Betty,
may I come in?

Speaker 2 (03:32:15):
Yes?

Speaker 35 (03:32:16):
Yes, of course, thanks, Jerry.

Speaker 31 (03:32:21):
I thought we weren't going to.

Speaker 44 (03:32:21):
See each other again.

Speaker 71 (03:32:22):
I know, but Betty, I want you to wait, give
me a little time, A little time, yes, I think
Hannah has weakening.

Speaker 31 (03:32:31):
You mean she might give you a divorce?

Speaker 36 (03:32:34):
Yes, so if you still want me to wait?

Speaker 44 (03:32:39):
Of course I still want you.

Speaker 16 (03:32:41):
But are you sure?

Speaker 31 (03:32:43):
Because I may as well tell you Tommy Burke will
he ask me again to marry him. Are you certain
Hannah will give you a divorce?

Speaker 36 (03:32:51):
Yes, yes, I swear it.

Speaker 71 (03:32:52):
Just wait a while longer, a little while longer, Betty,
and you'll see I have a plan to get her
to divorce me.

Speaker 31 (03:32:59):
I oh, that was a wonderful man's Eric, you know
you haven't forgotten a step.

Speaker 36 (03:33:15):
Neither of you still dance like an angel.

Speaker 31 (03:33:18):
I don't know what's come over you lately.

Speaker 22 (03:33:20):
You've changed to Eric taking me out of the night
shows nightclub.

Speaker 36 (03:33:25):
Why couldn't you ever see you or the girls from me,
not anyone else. You were that busy mind of yours.

Speaker 31 (03:33:30):
I'm sorry, Eric, We went over all that, and I said,
I'm sorry that.

Speaker 36 (03:33:34):
Woman across the street, for instance. Couldn't you see I
was just pretending all that business to teach you a lesson?

Speaker 31 (03:33:40):
I had it coming to me, I told you.

Speaker 71 (03:33:42):
And was that mind of yours traveling at the perfect
murder plot for instance? H Eric, what on earth did
you think I was hatching?

Speaker 22 (03:33:55):
Well you were done laughing, okay, so I will well
you were staring rather intended in my medicine bottle that time.
We had this flare of huh. And anyone with half
of mine knows that an overdose of diatol could kill
a person without leaving any trace of it in assistance.

Speaker 28 (03:34:09):
Yeah, no kidding.

Speaker 22 (03:34:10):
All I did have to do is to go and
get one of my prescriptions, sometimes alter it to a
stronger dose, replaced my bottle with bit I'd never be
wiser and the perfect murders?

Speaker 36 (03:34:21):
How that?

Speaker 31 (03:34:24):
Couldn't I have made a good criminal lawyer like my
father admitted?

Speaker 36 (03:34:32):
Sure, I followed her blueprint The very next day. First
I paid a visit to.

Speaker 71 (03:34:36):
Doctor norton the family position. I told him Hannah was
down with a slight cold and couldn't come. Then I
asked for the prescription, just her usual diatol, which he'd
given her so often.

Speaker 36 (03:34:45):
I alsered the prescription ever so slightly. My next stop
was the Druggists. You went, want prescription, Philly, mister greeney e,
hmmm for your wife?

Speaker 72 (03:34:57):
Man, Yeah, from doctor Nort where I can have it
killed for you about about an hour.

Speaker 36 (03:35:05):
Call back in an hour, mister Green. H I see
your back.

Speaker 7 (03:35:16):
Green?

Speaker 28 (03:35:17):
Yes?

Speaker 36 (03:35:17):
Is my prescription ready? You mean your wife's prescription? Mister Green? Yes,
the die tolleryfew, Yes, yes, is it ready?

Speaker 31 (03:35:25):
Oh?

Speaker 28 (03:35:25):
What's the matter?

Speaker 36 (03:35:26):
Is it ready or isn't it?

Speaker 28 (03:35:27):
Are you asking about the prescription you left in this
drug store about an hour ago? Mister Green?

Speaker 7 (03:35:32):
Why? Yes?

Speaker 36 (03:35:34):
Why do you ask?

Speaker 7 (03:35:34):
What's wrong?

Speaker 36 (03:35:35):
Who are you?

Speaker 28 (03:35:36):
Detective Santini? Come with me please? You're under arrest, mister Green.
This is an outrage.

Speaker 36 (03:35:56):
I demand to know what I'm being held for.

Speaker 28 (03:35:59):
You did temper with that prescription?

Speaker 36 (03:36:00):
Green?

Speaker 28 (03:36:01):
Didn't you admit it? You're crazy?

Speaker 36 (03:36:04):
I want to say a lawyer, what are you charging.

Speaker 28 (03:36:06):
Me with a tempted homicide?

Speaker 36 (03:36:08):
Tempted homicide?

Speaker 3 (03:36:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 28 (03:36:11):
You know, Green, When your wife reported our suspicions to
us and demanded action, we thought she was crazy. What
if we took routine action? Anyhow? She never, at any
time stopped suspecting about you and that other woman suspecting.
That's right, what the head that woman has? Knowing you

(03:36:31):
were going to kill her, she directed your efforts the
better defoil. No, oh, no, now Green, what was the
name of that mouthpeace?

Speaker 36 (03:36:41):
You wanted me to call in?

Speaker 28 (03:36:43):
Because brother, you're sure going to need a good one.

Speaker 72 (03:37:01):
And so I submit johnor and gentleman of a jury
that the prosecution has not, and in the very nature
of things, could not establish a clear case of homicidal
intent intent, gentlemen against the defendentary Greens?

Speaker 28 (03:37:20):
Then why.

Speaker 36 (03:37:22):
Or the simple reason that he had not given the
fatal overdose to his wife.

Speaker 72 (03:37:28):
And you must agree that even if the defendant had
murdered his heart at the arts at which we deny,
how could it he proved he would have given that
overdose to his wife. Might he not have had a
change of heart? Might he not have changed his mind?
And thrown that deadly liquid into the ears cutter. We

(03:37:58):
the jury find that the defender not guilty.

Speaker 36 (03:38:01):
No, no, you talk, Let this man go free.

Speaker 31 (03:38:06):
You kill me, he tried to before you try again.

Speaker 28 (03:38:19):
Congratulations, mister Green. We can't give you the electric treatment yet,
but you'd better see that your wife stays healthy, because
from now on, if anything happens to her brother, you're it.

Speaker 36 (03:38:36):
I was a ruined man from that moment acquitted Hi.

Speaker 71 (03:38:39):
That made a difference to people high as far as
the world was concerned, I was a would be murderer,
something black and evil, to be shunned like a leopard.
I lost my job after nine years with the same firm.

Speaker 7 (03:38:50):
I lost my job.

Speaker 71 (03:38:51):
No one else would hire me. And my friends, even
the guys that knew me all my life, none of
them were in when I phoned. They crossed the street
to avoid having to talk to me. But the biggest
blow of all was a letter the postman brought me
just after the trial.

Speaker 44 (03:39:06):
Dear Eric, I've moved away because of the publicity, and
it's no use trying to find me. I always thought
you were so gentle and fine.

Speaker 31 (03:39:17):
How could you bring.

Speaker 44 (03:39:18):
Yourself to attempt such a vile thing.

Speaker 16 (03:39:21):
Tomorrow, I'm going to be missus Thomas Birch.

Speaker 36 (03:39:28):
And my wife.

Speaker 71 (03:39:30):
She had moved to a hotel and was suing me
for divorce. I was a nice guy, once respected.

Speaker 36 (03:39:37):
She had ruined me. My whole life was a mess.
I decided I must kill her. There was no room
in the same world for the both of us.

Speaker 28 (03:39:46):
And yet you'd better see that your wife stays healthy,
mister Green, get.

Speaker 71 (03:39:51):
It if Hannah should die, No matter how clever I
planned that, even by remote control, even if I were
a thousand miles away.

Speaker 28 (03:39:58):
Because from now on r if anything happens to her,
you're it.

Speaker 36 (03:40:04):
They still suspect me.

Speaker 71 (03:40:07):
Still, I decided to finish her off, even if I
burned for it. Life meant nothing to me anymore, but
just once to love fox her. I racked my brains.
Was there really such a thing as a perfect murder?
Somehow I sensed the road direction somewhere, and Hannah's suspicious
nature lay the perfect crime. Maybe by using her suspicions,

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I sure something clicked. By following the twistings of her mind,
I'd hit upon a plan. Hello, Hannah, this is Eric.

Speaker 36 (03:40:53):
Hannah.

Speaker 71 (03:40:53):
Don't hang up, Please, what do you want, Hannah. I
swear it was all a terrible mistake.

Speaker 36 (03:40:58):
Why I never intended for one moment, Hannah.

Speaker 71 (03:41:02):
If you'd give me half a chance to explain, if that's.

Speaker 31 (03:41:05):
All you have to say?

Speaker 36 (03:41:06):
No, no, wait, wait, please, it isn't all, Hannah. I'm
going away. I'd like to see you once more before
I leave, for old times sake?

Speaker 25 (03:41:17):
Oh you would, would you?

Speaker 16 (03:41:19):
For old time sake?

Speaker 71 (03:41:21):
Yes, I'd like you to come over right now and
have breakfast with me before I leave, Just the two
of us alone, one last cup of coffee.

Speaker 36 (03:41:29):
Together, Hannah, to prove no hard feelings.

Speaker 35 (03:41:32):
Just you would be and a cup of coffee.

Speaker 6 (03:41:34):
Eric, Yes, just the two of us.

Speaker 7 (03:41:38):
Are just the two of us?

Speaker 16 (03:41:40):
Well, of course, dear, why not.

Speaker 22 (03:41:45):
I'll come over, You'll.

Speaker 36 (03:41:47):
Get the coffee ready, Hey, one for you, Hannah, thank you,
and one for me. And now.

Speaker 71 (03:42:11):
I'll let you in on the real reason for our
little get together. Yes, Eric, you've ruined my life, Hannah,
and I don't wanna live anymore. I'm about to commit suicide.
I wanna give you the torture of witnessing him.

Speaker 36 (03:42:26):
Hannah.

Speaker 71 (03:42:26):
I've poisoned my cup of coffee. Well, let's drink to
my exit. Come in, officer, but Detective Santini.

Speaker 28 (03:42:38):
Oh again, mister great officer.

Speaker 31 (03:42:40):
I brought you along because I was sure he was
going to make another attempt to kill me. I can
now prove my husband's guilty intent to kill me, which
I couldn't before.

Speaker 36 (03:42:49):
Hannah, what are you saying?

Speaker 28 (03:42:50):
Suppose we talking?

Speaker 22 (03:42:51):
Notice?

Speaker 31 (03:42:51):
Please that he has just served two cups of coffee,
one for me and one for him. He is, as usual,
stupid enough to suppose I don't know what he's up to.

Speaker 71 (03:43:00):
Now wait a minute, shut up, no one, missus Green
not knowing of course, that I would bring a witness
along to this little cloth of his.

Speaker 22 (03:43:07):
He has just told me he has poisoned his cup
of coffee, that he intends to commit suicide with it.
Very well, we shall see, won't be, Eric? Obviously he
has poisoned my cup, as I shall now demonstrate.

Speaker 36 (03:43:24):
What are you doing there?

Speaker 64 (03:43:26):
Just exchange cups with him? And now, Eric, dear, let
us drink. Come on, dear, don't pale, so don't tremble.
I'm drinking the poisoned coffee.

Speaker 36 (03:43:37):
I don't, Hannah, don't drink it.

Speaker 31 (03:43:39):
So let's drink to your journey fallens up.

Speaker 22 (03:43:43):
Hannah, there you see Eric?

Speaker 36 (03:43:49):
I oh.

Speaker 31 (03:43:55):
What the.

Speaker 28 (03:43:57):
She's did?

Speaker 7 (03:43:59):
My gosh, he's dead.

Speaker 36 (03:44:00):
I warned her about my cup, but she drank it,
you saw, yeah, I sure did. You're a witness to
what just happened off with her?

Speaker 28 (03:44:06):
Yeah, muster that suspicious mind of hers? Why she dug
her own grave?

Speaker 7 (03:44:13):
That woman?

Speaker 28 (03:44:14):
Why? Oh yeah, you're not getting away with this, green By,
I'm arresting you for the murder of your wife.

Speaker 36 (03:44:23):
What are you talking about it? It's an unfortunate accident,
that's all. Was it im medicent?

Speaker 13 (03:44:27):
Are you?

Speaker 28 (03:44:27):
You are a witness?

Speaker 15 (03:44:28):
Now?

Speaker 36 (03:44:29):
Was and Ie witnessed? That crazy mind of hers? She
dug her own grave, didn't she?

Speaker 28 (03:44:33):
He sure did? And that's just it. I have an idea,
mister green You could have planned it all this way,
every step, knowing how your wife's mind worked. You could
have known what would happen exactly from the time you
invited her over for coffee. Anyhow, suppose we let the
jury decide, Well.

Speaker 36 (03:45:02):
There's the story. Who asked me did I kill my wife?

Speaker 7 (03:45:06):
Yes?

Speaker 15 (03:45:06):
Or no?

Speaker 36 (03:45:08):
You see why I couldn't answer it like that, yes
or no? Who was the killer? Me or that suspicious mind?

Speaker 3 (03:45:17):
Of hers.

Speaker 70 (03:45:19):
Suppose you tell me, and so the curtain falls on
Dig your Own Grave, which was chosen by guest expert
Eliza Lipsky, a former Assistant District Attorney of New York

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and author of the memorable Hollywood film Kiss of Death.
Next week at this time, Murdered by Experts brings you
a story of a man who exploited human minds, only
to find his own giving way as his enemies closed
in on him. A story selected for your approval by
Patrick Quentin. Until then, this is your host, John Dixon Carr,

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hoping you'll be with us again next week at this time.

Speaker 28 (03:46:11):
Big your Own Grave was written by Joseph Ruscoe. In
the cast were Kenneth Lynch and Shephard As to sound
the guard, Ron Dawson and Jimmy Stevens. Music is under
the direction of Emerson Buckley. Music was composed by Richard
du Page. Murdered by Experts as produced and directed by
Robert A. Arthur and David Cogan. All characters in our

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story were fictitious, and then he resemblance to the names
of actual persons with political incidentals.

Speaker 36 (03:46:38):
This is Phil Tonkin speaking. This is the mutual broadcasting system.

Speaker 73 (03:47:22):
Now step into the incredible, amazing future as we go.

Speaker 7 (03:47:26):
Exploring tomorrow.

Speaker 73 (03:47:42):
And now here is your guide to these adventures of
the mind.

Speaker 12 (03:47:46):
John Campbell Jr.

Speaker 38 (03:47:47):
A lot of people have the impression science fiction is
all about machines and gadgets and rayguns. It isn't really
good science fiction that has to do with human beings
and the problem that human beings have with machines. Now,
not all machines are made of metal. Some of them
are machine like organizations. They can be just as rugged

(03:48:11):
to deal with.

Speaker 16 (03:48:14):
Hold it still, can't you hold it still? The processional idle?

Speaker 38 (03:48:18):
No, you'll never be an I as hold still as
s Marlin, for that was her name. As was a
true gal of the future. But in spite of the
all to us immeasurable, unbelievable and undreamable advances that the
great science of the future was to make, they still
had art, at least, just as the room we're peering
into now is an artist's studio, and Paul, he's a

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handsome chap wearing that artist's smock, making those horrible faces
as he chips away at his figure of stone. Paul
Treery was an artist, a sculptor. This is the year
twenty two seventeen.

Speaker 16 (03:48:57):
What's the matter, Paul, It just won't be you?

Speaker 7 (03:48:59):
What's it's so metal?

Speaker 14 (03:49:00):
I can't make it?

Speaker 7 (03:49:01):
You human?

Speaker 35 (03:49:02):
Well, I'm not sorry. That means no more posing today. Frankly,
my back is beginning to say the same thing.

Speaker 39 (03:49:09):
Now, who are you looking at through the window here?

Speaker 7 (03:49:10):
Oh? Him across the courtyard.

Speaker 35 (03:49:14):
Him, Bruce, Dear, dear Bruce, Bruce ramble, that epitome of
tactless condescension, the unbearable, the insufferable, strap with his usual
idiotic grin my father's scientific assistance. Oh, oh, dear, I
do wish you'd start working on sitting figures, figures at
ease you enjoy breaking my back anyway, I do want

(03:49:36):
to finish my work on the projector. Besides modeling as
a scientist, I like to try to be one you
are you are?

Speaker 9 (03:49:43):
You know, maybe I'm just a conscientious objector, but you
are so much more interesting as a human. But the
hard stone, my stone blocket won't see it, won't see
you as I see you.

Speaker 38 (03:49:53):
Well, I still don't see how anyone is thoroughly and
as abstractedly a physicist as your father, and a woman
as completely and distractedly a chemist as your mother could
have a daughter so different? How different that is until
lately lately, Oh, I do want to finish my work
on the projectile. Besides modeling as a scientist, I like
to try to be one.

Speaker 14 (03:50:10):
Oh Paul, you eating.

Speaker 12 (03:50:11):
I'm not angry with you myself.

Speaker 38 (03:50:14):
Oh oh, you and your mother and your father and
this whole dark, gone crazy civilization. I was born into results,
you and your empirical science. Results are what counts, Ah, Paul.
I don't know how to model a perfect figure, but
you know how to make a perfect molecule. I can't
give you the angles, the degree of sericity of the

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human head, the radius of the curvature of the forearm.

Speaker 12 (03:50:38):
Only one man ever attempted to reduce art to mathematics.
It was Leo da Vinci.

Speaker 35 (03:50:41):
Didn't he live before percussion?

Speaker 38 (03:50:43):
Well, he thought he did. The students that he didn't
because his formulas didn't work. Results are all that Da
Vinci lived four hundred years before Pocassa.

Speaker 35 (03:50:49):
Oh, yes, Pikata was a contemporary of the great Einstein. Oh,
it's all so long ago, and there's so much to
do results, huh, I have so much to do today?
But if you don't mind, I should say. The whole
trouble with the little figure of me you smashed was
that the ratio between the size of the head to

(03:51:10):
the overall height of the body was slightly too great
at out by fall.

Speaker 36 (03:51:16):
Dear ratio, Oh, how I hate that word.

Speaker 38 (03:51:23):
A s walked toward her father's physics laboratory, smiling to herself.

Speaker 12 (03:51:27):
She liked Paul Treery. Gradually the smile left her pretty face.
She began to think, as each step brought her closer
to him, of Bruce Randall.

Speaker 38 (03:51:36):
As had made up her fine little mind to dislike
him the day he came to her father's laboratory, though
not consciously, because she had a pretty good idea I
had been sent to assist her father in his research
on the new accumulator you see. As was now twenty years,
twelve months, twenty seven days on the final and thirteenth
month of her twenty first birthday. Automatically at twenty one,

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she knew the Population Control Commission would call her in
to decide what type of man she should marry, and
as and not the slightest desire to have that decided
for her. What she disliked most was when they had
decided they would, with the aid of the Conditioning and
Control Division, make her decide the same thing, and more

(03:52:20):
and worse, they'd make her like their decision.

Speaker 35 (03:52:25):
Bruce Randal, Well, they'll find it'll take a good bit
of conditioning to make me like him.

Speaker 51 (03:52:31):
As Oh, hello, Paul's chisel slip. I couldn't help but
hear him smash that statue.

Speaker 7 (03:52:38):
He was doing of you.

Speaker 35 (03:52:39):
Paul gets along quite nicely.

Speaker 16 (03:52:41):
Thank you?

Speaker 35 (03:52:42):
Have you finished that accumulator bank?

Speaker 41 (03:52:43):
Dad told you to hook up?

Speaker 51 (03:52:44):
Bruce n I three, I guess I haven't an I've
been making a cape for myself, A cape.

Speaker 35 (03:52:55):
I didn't know you were a tailer, as.

Speaker 38 (03:52:59):
Was an ex technician, And now on the miniature lays
she was spinning out an aluminum tube of mysterious shape
and design intended she was on her metalwork. She had
paid little attention to what Bruce Randall was doing, but
he was paying plenty of attention to what she was doing.
Only after she had completed some very delicate electronic wearing
did Bruce Randall steal out of the laboratory, a grim

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little smile on his face too. When she finished her
secret little device, which was a little larger, just a little,
and the old fashioned forty five revolver used in the
age of bullets. There was a decided look of determination
and decision about as face as she hid the little
aluminum weapon under her tunic and went across to Paul
Treray's studio.

Speaker 12 (03:53:42):
Paul, you were working tonight.

Speaker 35 (03:53:45):
I finished what I had to do, Paul. Bruce Randall's
not for me. I can't stand Bruce Randall.

Speaker 12 (03:53:51):
What has he done now?

Speaker 16 (03:53:52):
Nothing?

Speaker 35 (03:53:52):
All he can do is grin anyway. It's what the
Commission may do. I know that geological cross section has
been stuck in my father's lab by the Population Control Commission.
I hate him, Well, I won't.

Speaker 31 (03:54:03):
I won't.

Speaker 35 (03:54:04):
I won't, I won't. They'll never make me love him.

Speaker 12 (03:54:06):
Population control can make anybody love anybody. I love you
as you're the one for me.

Speaker 35 (03:54:14):
Oh no, you're an artist. They'll pick you out an
artistic girl. A plus b for me. Airs is a scientist.
Bruce is a scientist. So they'll make us combine it. Well,
I'm not going to be told whom to marry Paul.
Will you marry me?

Speaker 16 (03:54:27):
But will you marry me?

Speaker 12 (03:54:29):
Bootleg?

Speaker 14 (03:54:29):
We can run, We can run far.

Speaker 16 (03:54:30):
Away, wants ever escape the eugenics police, just.

Speaker 35 (03:54:33):
For a month or two or three. When eugenic theory
meets back any theory, if that is contrary to the theory,
then the theory is wrong, not the fact. Put your
arms around me, Paul, I'm no, we can't hide. No
one can hide from them forever. But Dearest, by the
time the eugenics police find us, it'll be too late.

Speaker 12 (03:54:53):
I love you as I don't know what to say.

Speaker 11 (03:54:56):
Well, it's never been done, not since the start of
population control.

Speaker 35 (03:54:58):
Only love to know what love is for pack Paul
will escape.

Speaker 7 (03:55:12):
Exploring Tomorrow continues in just a moment.

Speaker 11 (03:55:15):
Can a lawbreaker be considered a safe and careful citizen
of the community.

Speaker 7 (03:55:19):
Of course not.

Speaker 5 (03:55:20):
And that same rule applies to motorists.

Speaker 1 (03:55:23):
You can't cheat on the law even a little and
still consider yourself a safe, careful.

Speaker 16 (03:55:28):
Driver and good citizen.

Speaker 9 (03:55:30):
So drive legally, avoid accidents, and arrive alive.

Speaker 13 (03:55:37):
They escaped.

Speaker 38 (03:55:39):
It wasn't easy to escape the eugenics patrol of the
Population Control Commission once the Commission had decided whom you
were to marry. In fact, ever since the eugenic control
had started after the atomic war fallout made it essential
to police the human race. No one had ever succeeded
in escaping permanently. When the control had first been established,

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the whole population had known the deadly danger the race faced.
There had been too much use of nuclear weapons, and
the ultimate nuclear weapons, the weapon that destroys the nucleus
of human cells so that the children aren't human. They
had been very powerful reasons, indeed, why men had accepted

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originally the establishment of the Eugenic Control Commission. Ace knew
she and Paul Treray couldn't run and hide indefinitely, but
just long enough to create the embryonic fact that was
going to break the eugenics theory.

Speaker 7 (03:56:40):
The name of the commission.

Speaker 12 (03:56:41):
Cease and desist.

Speaker 7 (03:56:42):
Down there, you are under arrest. Stand where you are
the patrol propter.

Speaker 36 (03:56:57):
They saw us trying to sneak out of the lab.

Speaker 35 (03:56:58):
Build Stand back, Paul, what do you do?

Speaker 25 (03:57:00):
Stand back?

Speaker 36 (03:57:00):
Why is that funny?

Speaker 74 (03:57:01):
The landing ass s my patrolman there there? Come on,
there's a patrolman there. Oh my gosh, why the frozen.

Speaker 35 (03:57:15):
Stiff thattu'es faul?

Speaker 16 (03:57:17):
Come on?

Speaker 35 (03:57:17):
Help me?

Speaker 16 (03:57:19):
What these men there?

Speaker 35 (03:57:20):
Will you help me?

Speaker 7 (03:57:23):
Well?

Speaker 16 (03:57:23):
That is fully Why is a ton what you did?
Freeze him into a statue?

Speaker 14 (03:57:30):
Put that little aluminum too?

Speaker 36 (03:57:32):
What is that to?

Speaker 16 (03:57:33):
When did you get back?

Speaker 35 (03:57:34):
You wanted to combine with the scientists, didn't you hold on?
Faul and if any other patrol playing driss stop us.
Bruce Randalah, Bruce Randall's scientists.

Speaker 3 (03:57:46):
Huh.

Speaker 35 (03:57:47):
The world is full of scientists, isn't it. Fall We're
going to get married and hide out and have a
whole bunch of little artists.

Speaker 3 (03:58:03):
What do I do?

Speaker 15 (03:58:04):
The Control Committee of the Population Control Commission is now
an executive session. I mean I was willing to marry her,
willing address me as Commissioner Strachifter.

Speaker 12 (03:58:14):
I was, yes, sir, very this is unheard of a.

Speaker 15 (03:58:19):
Young woman attempting to escape the Commission's choice of a husband.

Speaker 17 (03:58:22):
I heard, sir. I mean, yes, sir, unheard of it.
It certainly is, sir, And that she is now.

Speaker 7 (03:58:27):
Look at the clock. She is now exactly three hours older.

Speaker 36 (03:58:29):
Than twenty one.

Speaker 39 (03:58:30):
Terrible, terrible, yes, sir.

Speaker 51 (03:58:32):
We'd have been just about through the wedding now, sir,
on our way to our honeymoon, if she'd listened to.

Speaker 7 (03:58:36):
You, sir. The reports are coming in from control points
all over the east.

Speaker 15 (03:58:39):
She has some sort of new and secret paralyzing weapon.
He's brought down four about the suit planes paralyzer, Yes, sir,
I thought she'd use it. I'll bet she gets away.
Our patrolmen have been made helpless instantly, lucky for her.

Speaker 36 (03:58:52):
Our planes can land themselves automatically, or we'd had murder.

Speaker 7 (03:58:55):
Oh no, sir, she's really a nice little girl.

Speaker 37 (03:58:57):
Strap him in.

Speaker 16 (03:58:58):
No, no, let me go, Please drap.

Speaker 51 (03:59:03):
Very nice little gal. She just thinks she doesn't want
to marry me. Let's see what you think, mister Ndall.
Turn on the primary analyzer.

Speaker 7 (03:59:15):
She only thinks that she doesn't want to marry me.

Speaker 39 (03:59:18):
But she's nice, eh, And if I had more time.

Speaker 38 (03:59:24):
Primary analyzer was an electronic device to reach the true
basic beliefs of an individual. It had been developed by
the Population Control to short circuit the censor of the
human brain. It also cut off memory feedback by a
complicated attenuator circuit. The suspect could not censor his or
her thoughts and could no longer remember what he or

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she said, all the while leaving main mental process circuits normal.

Speaker 15 (03:59:50):
Then, as Marlin had a paralyzer that she invented.

Speaker 51 (03:59:53):
Yes, sir, only she didn't develop any protection. What's that
she forgot to s have lots of fun when she
tries it on me?

Speaker 7 (04:00:02):
What is this protection?

Speaker 36 (04:00:02):
You have?

Speaker 17 (04:00:04):
A cape?

Speaker 16 (04:00:04):
A cape, a cloak.

Speaker 51 (04:00:07):
You'll probably never catch her if she can escape, let her.
I won't interfere, and the patrols will probably all be
paralyzed before she's through with you.

Speaker 15 (04:00:16):
It's peculiar, most Why don't you want to help? Don't
you like the girl we picked for you?

Speaker 36 (04:00:22):
Oh?

Speaker 51 (04:00:23):
Yes, she's wonderful, as clever as any woman who ever lived.
And the way she looks at me, I love her.
The way she turns her back, That's almost all I've
ever seen you.

Speaker 7 (04:00:41):
You want to play fair?

Speaker 3 (04:00:42):
Is that it?

Speaker 12 (04:00:43):
You don't feel right to help us hunt her down?

Speaker 51 (04:00:45):
It's her fight, and the little thing may still win.

Speaker 7 (04:00:49):
Two.

Speaker 15 (04:00:51):
I demand, in the name of the Commission, that you
give us this protective cloak or cape or whatever it is. No,
where is this cloak? Send ten men for Rangle's laboratory.
Search it from top to bottom.

Speaker 51 (04:01:00):
Ever find there's a lot of dangerously charged equipment.

Speaker 7 (04:01:04):
In there, But go Gods find that clock of his.

Speaker 38 (04:01:15):
Our scene changes the hunt for As Marlin and her
partner and escape artist Paul Treay has gone all over
the east, and control policemen in their planes have been immobilized.
The plane sent automatically to earth the men painlessly paralyzed.
The paralysis harmless actually, but very effectively, putting the police

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out of action.

Speaker 12 (04:01:36):
Long enough for As and Paul again to escape. But
now picture this the approach to the old battery bridge.

Speaker 35 (04:01:44):
Yes, I see them, control commission man quick for Paul
here they come, quick, give them a paralyzer.

Speaker 36 (04:01:51):
You got to them.

Speaker 74 (04:01:52):
But when he's wearing tip with your right, give it
to him. He's not in the regular BU uniform.

Speaker 35 (04:01:58):
Got you at last, Bruce, the cloak Bruce was making when.

Speaker 38 (04:02:05):
Then her lips wouldn't work anymore in neither good polls.
And the policeman who was wearing the strange dirty gray
cloak signal for a patrol plane to settle down now
it was safe, and to pick up As and Paul.

Speaker 4 (04:02:23):
Well we've got her, and got the artist Chap too.

Speaker 17 (04:02:26):
Eh.

Speaker 51 (04:02:26):
It wasn't exactly fair, sir. It isn't usual to make
your man help is ninety?

Speaker 15 (04:02:30):
Well, nowadays we oughtn't use to chasing fiances but try
try going up to room seventy three.

Speaker 28 (04:02:39):
That may be more enjoyable here.

Speaker 12 (04:02:43):
I love all write your cartador pass, Thank you sir.

Speaker 35 (04:02:55):
Yes, yes, I'm in protective custody.

Speaker 39 (04:02:58):
I'm permitted up here on a pass.

Speaker 35 (04:03:00):
Paul is being shipped to Greenwich Village. He has to
marry a woodburning artist.

Speaker 7 (04:03:04):
Poor Paul.

Speaker 35 (04:03:05):
Seems there's a shortage of woodburn plaques for the walls
and all the better social clubs.

Speaker 3 (04:03:10):
Can I come in?

Speaker 16 (04:03:14):
I hear you help capture me?

Speaker 51 (04:03:17):
So I heard when they were through analyzing me, I
did consciously root for you.

Speaker 35 (04:03:22):
Funny. I never liked the way you smiled, but now
I think it's awfully nice to have around.

Speaker 51 (04:03:28):
Oh it isn't funny, it's natural. They changed you a little,
dear girl, You're supposed to love me, now.

Speaker 35 (04:03:35):
You know, funny because I think I do. In fact,
I'm sure I do. I suppose they made me feel
this way. I suppose I don't really do.

Speaker 51 (04:03:49):
Does it matter, dear, in the least always seek in
life is happiness? If so, does it matter whence it comes?
Or why does it matter? If it's because someone else
thought it? Because we developed it by associations and contacts
that were pleasant, Oh, Bruce, Perhaps perhaps it does, because

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love can be real and not last. It must wear,
and only similar characters, similar ideals, similar ideas can make it,
and wisdom can help there when the heart is not
very wise. Unfortunately, sweet till Man learned the secret of conditioning.

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The head could not rule the heart. Does it matter
now that love is from whence it came?

Speaker 16 (04:04:39):
It matters not.

Speaker 38 (04:05:09):
As in the population control commission by several centuries in
our future. This gives us a chance to do something
to see that they never need to come about. We
don't have to have a situation in which someone has
to control marriages, where someone has to clean up the

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genetic mess that an atomic war could make in our race.

Speaker 12 (04:05:34):
We don't have to have an atomic war.

Speaker 7 (04:05:57):
Join us.

Speaker 73 (04:05:58):
We're a fascinating adventure in a sploring tomorrow. Heard in
our cast tonight were Vivian Fox, Robert Reddick, and Bradford Hoyt.
The script was adapted by Peter Irving from the story
by Don Stewart, produced and directed by Sandford Marshall.

Speaker 28 (04:06:15):
Here in New York, Bill Maher speaking and now wait
wait follow voice.

Speaker 12 (04:06:31):
This is ken Ardine. I come to you from out
of darkness, into a single point of light.

Speaker 47 (04:07:01):
From out of the darkness, that walks past the turn
of midnight and enters the lonely road to dawn. From
this deep darkness, the mind accepts a single partect of concentration.

Speaker 12 (04:07:19):
The senses are shocking to it. All else is blacked down.

Speaker 46 (04:07:25):
And from any floating form or shifting shape, the midnight
mind will see faces in the window, the face you
see before you, in the face of a man about
to die.

Speaker 15 (04:07:47):
Yet for this wildest of narratives which I am about
to tell you, I neither expect nor solicit believer, Mad, Indeed,
I would be to expect it in the case where
my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, Mad Mad,
I am not, and very surely do I not dream.

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But tomorrow I die, and to night I would unburden
to you.

Speaker 12 (04:08:13):
My soul.

Speaker 15 (04:08:15):
My immediate purpose is to place before the world, simply
and without comment, a series of mere household events. In
their consequences. These events are terrified and tortured, have destroyed me.
Yet I will not attempt to elaborate upon them.

Speaker 12 (04:08:33):
To me, they have presented nothing.

Speaker 15 (04:08:36):
But horror, terrible, total horror in my infancy, I was
noted for the humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of
heart was even so conspicuous as to make me.

Speaker 12 (04:08:52):
The jest of my companions. I was especially fond of animals,
and so what a great variety.

Speaker 15 (04:08:58):
Of pets, and with these, with these I spent most
of my kind, and never was so happy as when
I was feeding.

Speaker 12 (04:09:06):
And caressing them.

Speaker 15 (04:09:08):
This peculiarity of character grew with my growth, and in
my manhood I derived from it one.

Speaker 11 (04:09:14):
Of my principal sources of pleasure.

Speaker 15 (04:09:17):
There is something in the unselfish and self sacrificing love
of a brute which goes directly to the heart of
him who is, at frequent occasion to test the paltry
friendship and the fickle trusts of mere man.

Speaker 12 (04:09:34):
I married early, and was happy to find in my
wife a disposition compatible with my own.

Speaker 15 (04:09:41):
Observing my partiality for domestic pets, she lost no opportunity
of procuring those of the most agreeable kind. We had birds, goldfish,
a fine dog, rabbits, a small monkey, and.

Speaker 12 (04:09:56):
And I can yes, this cat was a remarkably.

Speaker 15 (04:10:02):
Large and beautiful animal, entirely black and wise wise to
an astonishing degree in speaking of his intelligence, My wife
made frequent allusions to the ancient but popular notion which
regarded all black cats as witches in the sky, not
that she was ever serious upon this point.

Speaker 12 (04:10:23):
I mention it now because at the moment it happens
to be remembered.

Speaker 7 (04:10:31):
Pluto.

Speaker 12 (04:10:32):
This was the cat's name. Pluto was my favorite pet
and playmate. I alone led him, and he attended me
wherever I went, all over the house. It was even
with difficulty that I could prevent him from following me.

Speaker 7 (04:10:47):
Through the streets.

Speaker 15 (04:10:49):
Our frenchip rested for several years, during which my general temperament,
under the influence of the fiend in temperance, experienced a
radical change for the worse. I grew day by day
more moody, more irritable, man regardless.

Speaker 12 (04:11:07):
And feels of others.

Speaker 15 (04:11:10):
My wife began to suffer the use of my foul tongue,
and at length even even personal violence. My pets, of course,
were made to feel the change in my disposition. I
not only neglected but ill used them. For Pluto, however,

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I still retained sufficient regard to restrain me from abusing him.

Speaker 12 (04:11:36):
But my disease grew upon me. For what disease is
like alcohol.

Speaker 15 (04:11:43):
The length Even Pluto, who was now becoming old and
consequently somewhat peevish. Even Pluto, began to experience the effects of.

Speaker 12 (04:11:52):
My ill temper one night.

Speaker 15 (04:11:57):
One night, I returned home, deep in intoxication, and fancied
that the cat avoided my presence. I seized him, when,
in his fright at my violence, he inflicted a slight
wound on my hand with his teeth. The fury of
a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer
I er. A fiendish malevolence came over me, throbbed through me.

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I I took a penknife from my pocket, opened and
grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut
one of its.

Speaker 12 (04:12:33):
Eyes from the socket.

Speaker 7 (04:12:39):
A brush.

Speaker 12 (04:12:40):
I burned and shuddered.

Speaker 15 (04:12:43):
The mere mention of this damnable atrocity, and reason returned
with morning. I experienced to send it an half of horror,
half of remorse, with a crime which I had been
guilty of. But it was at best a feeble feeling,
and the soul remained untouched. I again plunged into excess,

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and soon drowned in wine.

Speaker 12 (04:13:08):
All memory of my faulty. I mean, I'm the cat slowly.

Speaker 15 (04:13:15):
Recovered the socket and the lost I have presented. It
is true a frightful appearance, but no longer.

Speaker 12 (04:13:22):
Did he seem to suffer pain. Went about the house
as usual, but as might be expected, flooding terror of
my approach.

Speaker 15 (04:13:29):
I was at first grieved at this evident dislike on
the part of a creature which had she had once
loved me. But this feeling, this feeling, soon gave place
to irritation, and then came, as if to predict my
final zoom. The spirit of perverseness, this I am sure

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is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart,
who was not a hundred times found in himself committing
a vile or stupid action for no other reason than
because he knows he should not have We not a
perpetual inclination in the teeth of our best judgment to
violate that which is law, merely.

Speaker 12 (04:14:13):
Because we understand it to be.

Speaker 7 (04:14:15):
Such.

Speaker 15 (04:14:16):
This spirit of perverseness, I say, came to my final overthrow.
It was this unfathomable longing of the soul to offer
violence to its own nature, to do wrong for the
wrong's sake, only that urged me to continue and to
finally consummate the injury I had inflicted upon the unoffending brute.

Speaker 7 (04:14:42):
One morning, in cold.

Speaker 15 (04:14:43):
Blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung
it from the limb of a tree. Hung it with
the tears streaming from my eyes and with the bitterest
remorse in my heart.

Speaker 12 (04:14:54):
Hung it because I knew that.

Speaker 15 (04:14:55):
It had loved me, and because I felt it had
given me no reason for a face. Hung it because
I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin,
a deadly sin which so jeopardized my immortal soul as
to placity, if such a thing were possible, even beyond

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the reach of the infinite.

Speaker 12 (04:15:17):
Mercy of the most merciful, the most terrible God.

Speaker 15 (04:15:24):
On the night of the day on which this most
cruel deed was done, I was aroused in my sleep
by the cry of fire. The curtains of my bed
were aflame, the whole house was blazing.

Speaker 12 (04:15:35):
It was with great difficulty that my wife and I
made our escape from the congregation. The destruction was complete.

Speaker 15 (04:15:43):
My entire worldly wealth was swallowed up, and I resigned
myself thenceforward to despair.

Speaker 12 (04:15:52):
I am not trying to establish a sequence of cause
and effect between the aprocity and the fire. I am
detailing a chain of facts.

Speaker 39 (04:16:02):
But on the day following the.

Speaker 15 (04:16:04):
Fire, I visited the ruin the walls with one exception,
had fallen in the wall against which rested the head
of my bed still stood. The plastering on this wall
had in great measure resisted the action of the fire,
a fact which I attributed to it having been recently spread.

Speaker 12 (04:16:24):
About this wall. A depse crowd were collected, and many
persons seemed to be.

Speaker 15 (04:16:31):
Examining the wall with dense excitement. I approached and saw,
as if graven in bar relief, on the white surface,
the figure of a gigantic cat. The impression was given

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with an accuracy truly marvelous. There was a rope about
the animal's neck. When I first beheld this apparition, where
I could scarcely regard it bless, my terror was extreme.

Speaker 12 (04:17:03):
But at length I remembered. I remembered that the cat
had been hung in a garden adjacent to the house.

Speaker 15 (04:17:09):
Upon the alarm of the fire, this garden had been
immediately filled by the crowd, by some one of whom
the animal must have been cut from the tree and
throne throne through an open window into my chamber, with
a view of arousing me from my sleep the falling
where the walls had compressed the victim of my cruelty
into the substance of the freshly spread plaster, the lime

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of which, with the flames and the ammonia from the carcass,
had then accomplished this.

Speaker 12 (04:17:40):
This weird portrait. My reason was satisfied, but not my conscience.

Speaker 15 (04:17:49):
Months months I could not rid myself of the apparition
of the cat, and again I felt that happy resentment
of remorse. I even began to search for another pet
of the same species and somewhat similar appearance with which
to supply its place. And so it was that one night,
as I sat aftertu the fight in a den of
more than infamy, my attention was suddenly drawn to some

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black object reposing upon the head of one of the
immense hugsheads of gin. I had been looking steadily at
the top of his hogshead for some minutes, and was
surprised that I hadn't noticed it.

Speaker 12 (04:18:24):
Sooner I approached it and touched it with my hand.

Speaker 15 (04:18:29):
It was a black cat, a very large one, fully
as large as Pluto, and closely resembling him in.

Speaker 12 (04:18:38):
Every respect but one.

Speaker 15 (04:18:40):
Pluto had not a white hair upon any portion of
his body, But this cat had a large, although indefinable,
splotch of white covering nearly.

Speaker 12 (04:18:50):
The entire region of the chests.

Speaker 15 (04:18:56):
So upon my touching him, he immediately arose, spurred, loudly,
rubbed against my hand.

Speaker 12 (04:19:03):
And appeared delighted, delighted with my attention.

Speaker 15 (04:19:06):
This, then, was the very creature of which I was
in search. I continued my caressit. When I prepared to
go home. The animal indicated a disposition to accompany me.

Speaker 12 (04:19:18):
I permitted it to do so.

Speaker 15 (04:19:20):
When it reached the house, it domesticated itself at once
and became immediately a great favorite with my wife. But soon,
very soon, I found the dislike to it arising within me.
I had not anticipated, but I know now why, and

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I don't know why. Its funness for me disgusted and
annoyed me. By slow degrees, these feelings rose into bitterness,
the bitterness of hatred. I remembered my crime, and I
forced myself not to strike it. But gradually, gradually I
came to look upon it with an unluserable loathing, and

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to flee slilently from its odious presence.

Speaker 12 (04:20:07):
But added no doubt to my hatred of the beast
with the discovery on.

Speaker 11 (04:20:11):
The morning after I brought it home that light bluto.

Speaker 12 (04:20:15):
It also had been deprived before of its eye.

Speaker 15 (04:20:21):
With my aversion to the get, however, its partiality for
me seemed to increase.

Speaker 12 (04:20:27):
Whenever I sat, it would crouch.

Speaker 15 (04:20:29):
Beneath my chair, or spring upon my knees, covering me
with its loaths and caresses.

Speaker 12 (04:20:34):
If I arose to walk, it would get between.

Speaker 15 (04:20:36):
My feet, fastening its sharp claws in my clothing, clambered
to my breast.

Speaker 12 (04:20:43):
At such times, although I longed to destroy.

Speaker 15 (04:20:45):
It with a blow, I was withheld from so doing,
partly by a memory of my former crime, but chiefly, yes,
let me con visit at once, by absolute dread of
the beasts. Dread it was no dread of mere physical evil,
but an absolute terror that the animal inspired in me.

Speaker 12 (04:21:06):
I have told you the character of the white.

Speaker 15 (04:21:08):
Hair, which constituted the sole difference between this strange beast
and the one I had destroyed. You will recall that
this mark, although large, had been originally very indefinite.

Speaker 12 (04:21:20):
But by slow degrees degree is nearly imperceptible.

Speaker 15 (04:21:25):
It had at length assumed rigorous distinctness about lying. It
was now the representation of an object. I shed it
the name for this above all, I love the monster.

Speaker 12 (04:21:39):
It was now, I say, the image of a hideous,
of a ghastly thing, the image of the gallows. Either
by day no nor my night, that I know the
bressing of rest anymore.

Speaker 15 (04:21:55):
I started hourly from dreams of unutterable fear to feel
the hot breadth of this this thing upon my face.
Beneath the pressure of these torments, the feeble remnants of
good within me crumbled.

Speaker 12 (04:22:08):
The moodiness of my usual temper increased, a hatred.

Speaker 15 (04:22:11):
Of all things and all mankind, while from the sudden,
frequent and ungovernable outbursts of fury to which I now
blindly abandoned myself. My uncomplaining wife, Alas, was the most
patience of sufferers.

Speaker 12 (04:22:27):
One day, when day she accompanied me upon some household
errand into the sun.

Speaker 15 (04:22:37):
The cat followed me down the steep stairs, and merely
throwing me headlong, exasperated me into madness, seizing a heavy
coal shovel and forgetting in my anger, the dread which
had previously stayed my hand. I aimed a violent blow
at the animal, but this blow was arrested by the
hand of my wife. Goaded by her interference into a rage,

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towering of a blind fury, I withdrew my arm from
her grasp and swung the weapon with full impact against
the side of her head.

Speaker 12 (04:23:09):
She fell dead on the spots without a groan.

Speaker 15 (04:23:16):
This, this hideous murder accomplished, I set myself, with full deliberation,
to the task of concealing the body.

Speaker 7 (04:23:27):
I knew that I could not remove it from the.

Speaker 12 (04:23:29):
House, either by day or by night, without the risk
of being discovered. Finally, finally I hit upon the perfect plan.
I would wall it up in the cellar. Yes, as
the monks of the Middle Ages are recorded to have
walled up their victims for a purpose such as this,
the cellar was well adapted.

Speaker 11 (04:23:51):
His walls were loosely constructed.

Speaker 15 (04:23:53):
And had lately been plastered throughout with rough plaster, and
the damptness of the atmosphere had prevented and the plaster
of HARKing. Moreover, in one of the walls was a
protection caused by a false chimney that had been filled
up and made to resemble the rest of the summer.

Speaker 12 (04:24:13):
By means of a crowbaride, I easily dislodged the bricks.

Speaker 15 (04:24:16):
At this point, and having carefully deposited the body against
the inner wall, I.

Speaker 12 (04:24:22):
Propped it in that position, while with little trouble, I
relayed the whole structure as it originally stood.

Speaker 15 (04:24:31):
I prepared a plaster, the plaster which would not be
distinguished from the old, and with this I very carefully
went over the new brickwork.

Speaker 12 (04:24:41):
When I had finished, I felt satisfied that all was
all right. The wall did not present the slightest appearance
of having been disturbed my next step. My next step
was to look for the beasts which had been the
cause of all this, for I had now firmly resolved

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to put it to death. But it appeared that the crafty.

Speaker 15 (04:25:06):
Animal had been alarmed at my violence and disappeared. It
is impossible to describe the deep sense of relief which
the absence of the detested creature brought to me. Made
no appearance that night, So for the first night since
its introduction into the house, I slept soundly. Yes, slept,

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even with the burden of murder upon my soul. The
second and third day passed, and still my tormentor did
not come. Once again, I breathed as a free man.
The monster in terror had fled the premises forever. My
happiness was supreme. The guilt of my dark deed disturbed.

Speaker 7 (04:25:50):
Me but little.

Speaker 15 (04:25:52):
Some few inquiries had been made, but these had been
readily answered. Even a search had been instituted, but of
course nothing was to be discovered. I looked upon my
future as secures. Upon the fourth day of the assassination
the party, the police came very unexpectedly into the house

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and proceeded again to make an investigation of the premises.
I felt complete security. The officers left no knook or
corner unexplored at length. For the third or fourth time
they descended into the cellar. I quivered, not in a muscle.

Speaker 12 (04:26:30):
My heart beat calmly, is that of one who slumbers
in innocence. I walked into the cellar with them. From
end to end. The police were thoroughly satisfied and prepared
to depart. My glee was too strong to be restrained.
I burned to say, if but one word by way
of triumph, to.

Speaker 15 (04:26:51):
Render doubly sure their assurance of my gurelessness gentlemen, I
said at last, as the party ascended the steps, I
am delighted to have a laid your suspicions.

Speaker 12 (04:27:03):
By the BLI, gentlemen, this, this is a very well
constructed house.

Speaker 15 (04:27:07):
In my rapid desire to say something easily, I scarcely
knew that I uttered a doll. I may say, an
excellently well constructed house, gentlemen. These walls are you going, gentlemen?
These walls are solidly put together. Here who the mere
frenzy of Bravado? I rapped heavily with a cane, which

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I held in my hand, upon that very portion of
the brickwork, behind which stood the corpse of my wife.

Speaker 12 (04:27:35):
Oh but my God, shield and deliver me from the
fangs of the archy.

Speaker 15 (04:27:42):
No sooner had the reverberations of my blows sunk into
the silence, than I was answered by a voice from
within the tomb, by a cry, at first muffled and broken,
like the sobbing of a child, and then quickly swelling
into one.

Speaker 62 (04:27:56):
Long, loud and continuous scream, utterly inhuman, a wailing shriek
hap of horror, half a triumph such as might have
arisen only out of hell and the lips and quoats
of the dams, and there agay.

Speaker 15 (04:28:11):
Of my own thoughts. It is folly not to speak.
I staggered to the opposite wall. For one instant the
party on the stairs remained motionless in terror and awe.

Speaker 12 (04:28:22):
In the next a dozen stout arms were working at
the wall. It fell bodily. The corpse stood erect before
the eyes of the spectators. Upon its head, with.

Speaker 15 (04:28:35):
Red extended mouth and solitary eye of fire, set the
hideous beast, whose craft had seduced me into mortar, and
whose informing voice had delivered me to the hangman.

Speaker 12 (04:28:51):
I had walled the monster up with in the two.

Speaker 23 (04:29:21):
The mind that midnight is lonely, and the senses are sharp,
and so from out of darkness of shape and form,
where a single point of light is focused, the sharp
and lonely midnight mind will see faces in the dark.

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You have been listening to a reading of The Black
Cat by Edgar Allan Pole adopted by Marvin David, executive
producer George Hyneman, producer John Hindsey. Your narrator was Ken
Nordende fantasy.

Speaker 11 (04:30:28):
I am the spirit of the demon Tree. I had
three pounds on the jack of diamonds.

Speaker 6 (04:30:44):
You should tear your money up, Humphreys, it would last
you longer. Perhaps you're right, Crane, But this way I
get a sense of honest toil. I say, isn't anyone
else betting?

Speaker 41 (04:30:58):
Oh, let's quit. I'm tired of losing.

Speaker 6 (04:31:02):
Oh look here, old girl, could I loan you a
few pounds?

Speaker 41 (04:31:05):
No, thank you, Crane. I have enough to get me
back to London if we ever do get back.

Speaker 6 (04:31:10):
Now, why do you say that, Clara? It's only a
matter of a stage getting through here to the resort
and taking us out of this beastly place.

Speaker 41 (04:31:17):
Beastly place is right. Why people come here for a
rest is more than I can determine. Honestly, I've never
spent such an uncomfortable week in all my life.

Speaker 6 (04:31:27):
We'll think of me.

Speaker 11 (04:31:28):
I've been here three so have you, Humphreys. Oh look here,
you two. It's three o'clock. They're expecting the stage around
eight tonight. What do you say the three of us
go for a bit of a walk through the forest.

Speaker 17 (04:31:39):
I say, why not?

Speaker 6 (04:31:41):
Or here comes Danvers?

Speaker 41 (04:31:42):
Perhaps you'll join us, anything to get away from this place.
Good afternoon, Danvers.

Speaker 12 (04:31:47):
Greetings, good people. I take it.

Speaker 11 (04:31:49):
You're not happier than when I left you a while ago.

Speaker 6 (04:31:51):
The place is as gloomy as a morgue. We've just
agreed to take a walk in the forest back of
the inn. Invited to come along if you like.

Speaker 11 (04:31:58):
Sounds like a good enough weight. About the time good
and we all go together. Besides, I'm quite interested in
that forest out there. You will remember, of course, the
story the night clerk told us last evening.

Speaker 6 (04:32:11):
Yes, I don't like him. He talks through his nose.
People should talk through their mouth.

Speaker 11 (04:32:15):
No, no, I mean what he told us about the forest.

Speaker 41 (04:32:20):
What about the forest? I didn't hear it trees?

Speaker 11 (04:32:23):
Well, the clerk said it was a gorgeous place, lots
of beautiful foliage, red colors, clear water lakes.

Speaker 41 (04:32:31):
But nobody goes there so beautiful.

Speaker 11 (04:32:34):
It's just did Clara. You see, people have gone there
and never come back. Gouddish. It's a lot of nonsense.

Speaker 6 (04:32:45):
Why the clerk is just superstitious, that's all I am
inclined to agree with you, Danvers. Why he even told
us an absurd story about about a tree out there
in that forest that's supposed to strangle people, strangle them?
Ha oh I don't know with its branches. I suppose
just some absurd legend that people around here like to believe.

Speaker 11 (04:33:05):
I believe it's more than just a legend.

Speaker 4 (04:33:08):
Crane and what makes you say that?

Speaker 7 (04:33:09):
Old man here?

Speaker 12 (04:33:12):
I talked to the.

Speaker 11 (04:33:12):
Clerk again later last night. He dug out this old
newspaper clipping for me. Read it, danvers Allah old is right,
almost illegible. Well read it, it says. London, England, April
twenty first, eighteen fifty seven. It is reported that Sahrace Wakefield,

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Earl of Dorsha, was found strangled last night in Ballow Forest.
His body was discovered entangled in the branches of a
huge oak tree.

Speaker 7 (04:33:44):
Ah go on.

Speaker 11 (04:33:46):
Read the rest of us. Earl's death recalls to mine
the weird tale of the Witch of Ballow Forest, who
is said to have lived in the sixteenth century, an
evil old hag who, upon having a falling out with
Sir Thomas hollywake Field, cursed him and warned him that
any of his descendants who went at Ballow Forest would

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surely perish. M charming, old girl, wasn't it all. Don't
scoff until you've heard the rest of it.

Speaker 7 (04:34:12):
Go on.

Speaker 11 (04:34:14):
She also added that any person or persons with the
Wakefield descendant would also die. She is said to have
planted an acorn smeared with her own blood. The acorn
is supposed to have grown into a towering oak, capable
of moving about from place to place in Barlow Forest.

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Sir Horace is the sixth of the Wakefield line to
have perished by strangulation in the forest. Thomas Hurley Wakefield.
I wonder, mh, no, wonder what cray Uh? My mother's
name was Wakefield. I was just wondering if she was

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related to Sir Thomas.

Speaker 41 (04:34:58):
How of course, dot crag. It's just a story, but.

Speaker 11 (04:35:02):
An extraordinary story.

Speaker 16 (04:35:04):
Would you say, yes?

Speaker 41 (04:35:06):
It wouldn't do very well as a Bedtimes to Horrywood.

Speaker 11 (04:35:08):
Is demon try. I wonder if we could find it.

Speaker 6 (04:35:12):
Well, let's have a try.

Speaker 11 (04:35:14):
Shall we hang?

Speaker 41 (04:35:16):
Don't let anybody say, and let's go.

Speaker 6 (04:35:18):
Humphrey is going along? I say, Humphreys, are you daydreaming?

Speaker 11 (04:35:26):
I was just thinking, wouldn't it be odd if the
whole thing we're true, if we all went in there
and didn't come back.

Speaker 41 (04:35:56):
Well, do you, gentlemen, see any way we can get
into that forests?

Speaker 6 (04:36:01):
Dancer's father Times beard doesn't seem to be an opening anywhere.

Speaker 11 (04:36:05):
I think we can get in.

Speaker 6 (04:36:06):
Over here, all right, coming divers.

Speaker 14 (04:36:08):
There seems to be a footpath over here, only one
along this.

Speaker 6 (04:36:11):
Line of the forest that seem Oh, yes, you're right,
Come on, I leave.

Speaker 11 (04:36:16):
We'd better remember the way back. It would be hard
to get out of here if we didn't know where
this opening is.

Speaker 41 (04:36:21):
And don't worry, I'll remember it. I'm good at landmark.

Speaker 11 (04:36:24):
Go ahead, Clara, I'm right behind you. I say, do
any of you feel that?

Speaker 39 (04:36:31):
Feel?

Speaker 11 (04:36:31):
What?

Speaker 17 (04:36:32):
Denvers?

Speaker 39 (04:36:33):
A chill?

Speaker 11 (04:36:35):
I feel like like it's twenty degrees colder.

Speaker 4 (04:36:39):
In this place.

Speaker 41 (04:36:41):
I feel that way too, so do I.

Speaker 11 (04:36:44):
It's naturally cooler in the woods where the sun doesn't shine,
but not this much cooler.

Speaker 41 (04:36:49):
I don't like this place. I'm for going back to
the end.

Speaker 6 (04:36:52):
Oh, let's get on ahead a little ways. I say,
it is pretty in here.

Speaker 27 (04:37:00):
You're not.

Speaker 41 (04:37:00):
It gives me the creeps.

Speaker 11 (04:37:02):
Isn't the kind of cold caused by climatic changes? Or
was that Denverse? I said, It's a different kind of cold.
It's the kind that creeps up your spine and some
some evil comes.

Speaker 6 (04:37:17):
Over your own out. Danvers just letting that newspaper story
play on your mind.

Speaker 11 (04:37:22):
Wait a minute, look that tree there in front of us.
It looks like a human giant off. You're right, Danvers,
I couldn't swear it moved. Just a moment ago, it
didn't move.

Speaker 16 (04:37:38):
I started too.

Speaker 6 (04:37:41):
That's the strangest looking tree I ever saw. Look at
that bark. I wonder if clean?

Speaker 11 (04:37:50):
What's wrong?

Speaker 3 (04:37:51):
Man?

Speaker 6 (04:37:51):
I just touched the bark of.

Speaker 37 (04:37:57):
That tree and it.

Speaker 6 (04:38:00):
Didn't feel like bark at all. No, it felt like
like human skin.

Speaker 11 (04:38:07):
Yeah, let me feel it.

Speaker 36 (04:38:11):
I haven't.

Speaker 11 (04:38:12):
It's true, it does feel like skin, warm, the smooth
and so. Yes, it feels that way to meet up,
Prais you touch it?

Speaker 41 (04:38:29):
No?

Speaker 11 (04:38:29):
Thanks, go ahead on phrees feel it. I have no
desire to.

Speaker 39 (04:38:38):
You see.

Speaker 11 (04:38:39):
I'm sure you're right.

Speaker 7 (04:38:41):
What's that?

Speaker 2 (04:38:43):
I feel that?

Speaker 11 (04:38:45):
But this is the demon tree of Bartofes. I think
we've seen enough of this place, haven't we. Let's get
back to the end, all right, Come on, Witay, Wait
a minute, have you noticed how dark it is? All

(04:39:08):
of a sudden, the sun's behind the cloud.

Speaker 6 (04:39:11):
Probably it's impossible to see the sky through this foliage.

Speaker 16 (04:39:14):
It is darker.

Speaker 41 (04:39:16):
I can hardly see where I'm walking.

Speaker 6 (04:39:18):
Are you quite sure this is the right way?

Speaker 11 (04:39:22):
I don't remember this clearing, I don't either.

Speaker 6 (04:39:25):
Wait a minute, By Heaven, this isn't the way.

Speaker 14 (04:39:30):
Must be.

Speaker 11 (04:39:31):
We're on the path, aren't we.

Speaker 16 (04:39:33):
No, No, I don't think we are.

Speaker 28 (04:39:38):
So dark.

Speaker 16 (04:39:39):
Do any of you have a flash?

Speaker 6 (04:39:40):
I certainly don't remember this clearing. I think, huh, what
was that?

Speaker 7 (04:39:45):
What was what? Claim? Ah?

Speaker 6 (04:39:49):
You you'll think this is foolish, But I swear I
felt the branch of a tree brush across my face
and shoulder.

Speaker 11 (04:39:57):
That's that's impossible. There's not a tree within fifty feet,
but I felt it.

Speaker 3 (04:40:04):
I tell you.

Speaker 6 (04:40:05):
It rustled like a branch covered with leaves and deer.
Yet it felt warm and soft, like human flesh.

Speaker 3 (04:40:17):
Crane, are you sure?

Speaker 19 (04:40:20):
Yes?

Speaker 17 (04:40:22):
We're lost here.

Speaker 6 (04:40:23):
It's dark, dark as night, right in the middle of
the afternoon, and we've lost the path.

Speaker 7 (04:40:29):
In that tree.

Speaker 11 (04:40:29):
Easy, Crane, keep your head.

Speaker 17 (04:40:31):
Man, I'm getting out of here. I'm not going to
stay here and be murdered.

Speaker 11 (04:40:35):
Crane, stay with us.

Speaker 6 (04:40:37):
No, no, I'm going to find the path.

Speaker 14 (04:40:39):
And get out of here.

Speaker 41 (04:40:40):
Crane, stay here, we'll find the way back.

Speaker 37 (04:40:42):
I don't want to stay here and die.

Speaker 6 (04:40:43):
I want to get away from this fight.

Speaker 11 (04:40:45):
Way, don't be a fool.

Speaker 16 (04:40:46):
Queen's gone.

Speaker 11 (04:40:56):
Now he's in for it. We're better by staying together.
I don't know whether we are not listen, it's sounds
like he's strangling.

Speaker 14 (04:41:10):
Come on, we couldn't have gotten fired right over here.

Speaker 11 (04:41:13):
I think I'll take it easy and I'll be careful.
Oh there is yes, stretched out on the ground like.

Speaker 6 (04:41:24):
Like it was dead.

Speaker 11 (04:41:33):
H Look look at him, marks on his throat like
hands with me. That wasn't done by hands.

Speaker 41 (04:41:46):
See stained on his skin, green stained, Thomas.

Speaker 11 (04:41:59):
Way feel Crane.

Speaker 16 (04:42:01):
Oh, what a horrible way for him to die, Clara,
a tree.

Speaker 11 (04:42:08):
This is where we first saw it. Now it's gone right.

Speaker 16 (04:42:11):
This is where it was, I'm sure of it.

Speaker 11 (04:42:13):
Then what's happened to it? The important question is what
are we going to do with Crane. We'll have to
leave him here and we can find a way out
of this place.

Speaker 32 (04:42:25):
Poor Crane.

Speaker 41 (04:42:26):
It happened so quickly. One minute he was with us,
in the next.

Speaker 11 (04:42:31):
We wanted him not to leave us. The three of
us had better stay close together.

Speaker 41 (04:42:35):
Oh yes, for heaven's sake, let's not get that, Pa,
and don't.

Speaker 7 (04:42:37):
Come on.

Speaker 11 (04:42:39):
There's nothing we can do for Crane. Now, we've got
to find our way out of here. This doesn't seem
right leaving him there. It's all we can do.

Speaker 16 (04:42:52):
Come on, how do we know which way to go?

Speaker 7 (04:42:56):
We don't.

Speaker 39 (04:42:58):
All we can do is keep moving and hope to
find about again.

Speaker 41 (04:43:03):
It's horrible wandering about like this, like like nothing but
a group of maryonette.

Speaker 11 (04:43:10):
Controlled by what strange properteer? What what's that, Humphreys, I said,
controlled by what strange properteer?

Speaker 41 (04:43:21):
Humph Surely you don't think we've been purposely led into this?

Speaker 11 (04:43:25):
Who can say? Oh, now, Humphreys, Crane without the deep end.
We've got to keep out heads.

Speaker 41 (04:43:31):
We found a way in, Surely we'll find a way out.

Speaker 11 (04:43:35):
Yes, because we did find a way in. But what
about the chill, the darkness. There's some explanation. Perhaps the
storm is coming up. Yes, that could be it couldn't it.
Storms don't rise that quickly on this part of the country.

Speaker 16 (04:43:55):
And the darkness it came down on this forest.

Speaker 32 (04:44:00):
Like a shroud.

Speaker 11 (04:44:01):
Yes, came so quickly. M reminded me of how a
corpse must feel in his coffin when the lid.

Speaker 4 (04:44:15):
Is put over him.

Speaker 11 (04:44:16):
Look at Humphries, I'm about fed up with that sort
of talk. Only a fool refuses to face the fact. Stanburds,
You know this isn't in the ordinary situation.

Speaker 3 (04:44:26):
We're in.

Speaker 11 (04:44:28):
The chill of winter and the summer time darkness in
mid afternoon and a tree that's strangle It is probably
just in an accident Crane's day. Why don't you stop
trying to tell yourself that the tree was only an
imaginary thing. We all know that it's real, Humries, and

(04:44:50):
as alive as any of us. The bark did feel
like human flesh.

Speaker 16 (04:44:56):
Humphries, luck, l.

Speaker 7 (04:45:01):
What is it?

Speaker 11 (04:45:03):
A gold light that ahead of us?

Speaker 12 (04:45:05):
It's the tree there?

Speaker 11 (04:45:09):
Now, what do you think, Danvers? Look, it's a tree
moving along in a glow of phosphorescent life. Good heavens,
it's the same tree.

Speaker 16 (04:45:20):
It looks like a human giant.

Speaker 36 (04:45:22):
It was low well near here, it.

Speaker 14 (04:45:24):
Was back there?

Speaker 11 (04:45:25):
Do you too see what the tree.

Speaker 6 (04:45:27):
Is carrying carrying Crane.

Speaker 11 (04:45:31):
It's got him tucked up under that huge branch that
looks like a human arm.

Speaker 75 (04:45:37):
It's fading now, disappearing again, fading away, is gone, It's gone.

Speaker 11 (04:45:49):
Now do you believe Danvers?

Speaker 36 (04:45:52):
Now?

Speaker 11 (04:45:52):
Do you admit that the tree is alive? What else
can I believe?

Speaker 39 (04:45:57):
I don't know why.

Speaker 11 (04:46:00):
He's falling into a water.

Speaker 21 (04:46:01):
Pool her humpy pu really thinking her.

Speaker 2 (04:46:07):
I'm ender my wais. Get me out of hair, standstill, damas,
you just sink deeper.

Speaker 7 (04:46:12):
Wait, help me out of here.

Speaker 25 (04:46:15):
That's something I can get onto.

Speaker 43 (04:46:17):
Here that grabby out of that pool?

Speaker 7 (04:46:19):
He grab it, avers, crab, it are all that the
trammy you are?

Speaker 11 (04:46:25):
I can that's three branch they me listen, Clara, that's
three branch.

Speaker 14 (04:46:33):
But we can't be he can't.

Speaker 17 (04:46:36):
Get near the pool.

Speaker 25 (04:46:38):
The branch step leading me. But I can't do something.

Speaker 11 (04:46:41):
En up to his shoulders now.

Speaker 37 (04:46:43):
Because he can't, Megan, I can't help.

Speaker 34 (04:46:48):
Dang me, tang me.

Speaker 41 (04:46:51):
You're going to look tends to tangle Danvers.

Speaker 7 (04:46:53):
There's nothing I can do.

Speaker 13 (04:46:55):
That dream the damon's dreams.

Speaker 7 (04:46:58):
There's no shaving running.

Speaker 22 (04:47:11):
He's gone.

Speaker 11 (04:47:13):
Poor devil didn't have a chance.

Speaker 16 (04:47:18):
We've got to get out of here. We're all doomed.
It's the wake for your curse.

Speaker 6 (04:47:23):
Let us stop it.

Speaker 14 (04:47:24):
It is the curse.

Speaker 16 (04:47:26):
We're helpless. There's nothing we can do to save ourselves.

Speaker 17 (04:47:29):
Clever, stop it.

Speaker 11 (04:47:31):
We can't give up. We've got to find a way
out of this place. Hey, be careful for your step
whatever happens, keep your head, Clara, for heaven sake, Oh, PRIs.

Speaker 16 (04:48:12):
I'm so tired. We've walked for hours.

Speaker 11 (04:48:17):
I say, it's getting a little lighter. Clara, Up ahead,
There isn't that a path? What?

Speaker 41 (04:48:26):
Oh, you're right, humphries. It's the path we came in on.

Speaker 11 (04:48:31):
And look there's an opening through the tree.

Speaker 41 (04:48:34):
Yes, I remember the landmarks.

Speaker 32 (04:48:36):
Oh, thank God for the life.

Speaker 11 (04:48:38):
Come on, Clara, out of this place. There's nothing we
can do for Danvers or Crane Naw. Clara, Yes, I

(04:49:12):
I wonder if you feel as I do. I thought
we'd be safe back here in the hotel. I don't
know how to describe it. I have a feeling that
this whole business isn't over yet.

Speaker 50 (04:49:25):
I know I've had the same feeling, a feeling that
we're not finished with the demon try or that it's
not finished with us. Yes, exactly, Yeah, my room.

Speaker 11 (04:49:44):
Better go in there and have a drink, Clara. Heaven
knows we need one.

Speaker 16 (04:49:47):
Yes, I certainly do.

Speaker 11 (04:49:50):
What's worrying me is how we're going to explain what
happened to Craig and the Danvers.

Speaker 7 (04:49:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (04:49:56):
Wait a minute, I'll get the light h up on
the bed there, good lord, the branch of a tree
about two feet long.

Speaker 16 (04:50:04):
You don't touch it.

Speaker 13 (04:50:05):
Look at it.

Speaker 11 (04:50:06):
Look at it, a fresh living branch.

Speaker 14 (04:50:09):
Hat down. Oh, Humphrey, I'm getting out of here.

Speaker 11 (04:50:12):
Where are you going down to the lobby and wait
for the tape?

Speaker 34 (04:50:14):
Hold on, I'll go with you.

Speaker 11 (04:50:16):
Wait, Clara, Wait, it's three flights down. Let's take the elevator.

Speaker 41 (04:50:20):
We can get the thing up here.

Speaker 11 (04:50:21):
It's automatic. Just push the button, it'll come up.

Speaker 14 (04:50:24):
Humphrey.

Speaker 41 (04:50:25):
Look, someone let the steal gate open.

Speaker 11 (04:50:28):
I say, that's dangerous.

Speaker 32 (04:50:30):
Certainly is, Humphrey.

Speaker 16 (04:50:33):
Branch is pushing me, dumpy, Good lord.

Speaker 10 (04:50:43):
Clara, Clara, a branch.

Speaker 7 (04:50:49):
It pushed her down the shaft.

Speaker 36 (04:50:51):
It's that for me.

Speaker 11 (04:50:53):
Get away, get away, help.

Speaker 6 (04:50:56):
Me, help me, somebody The tree a favorite three dalking.

Speaker 76 (04:51:18):
Any descendant of Sir Thomas Hurllly Wakefield who winters Barlow
Forest is doomed to die, and all who enter the
forest with him are likewise doomed.

Speaker 11 (04:51:55):
Dark fantasy. You have just heard The Demon Tree, an

(04:52:23):
original tale of dark fantasy by Scott Bishop to Night's
cast included Eleanor Naylor Coran as Clara, Ben Morris who
was Humphreys. Garland Moss took the part of Danvers, and
Murillo Schofield was heard as Crane. Next Friday Night, at
this time, the National Broadcasting Company will bring you another

(04:52:45):
unusual and fantastic adventure.

Speaker 39 (04:52:47):
Thriller Men Call Me Mad, the story of.

Speaker 11 (04:52:51):
Another world and the people who inhabit it, an exciting
and weird tale of dark fantasy created by Scott Bishop.
Dark Fantasy originates in the studios of Station w k Y,
Oklahoma City, Dona Fantasy, Keith Painton speaking, This is the

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