December 27, 2025 • 24 mins
Suspense was one of the most popular and successful radio series during it's run of over 900 episodes, spanning 1940-1962. Guest stars included Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Agnes Moorehead, Marlene Dietrich and Humphrey Bogart. The plots were mostly engaging crime dramas, science fiction and some horror - usually with a surprise ending.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
And now tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills,
Suspense Tonight the story of a school teacher who finds
the unexpected on a Mediterranean cruise. We call it By
Route by Sunrise, So now starring Miss Mary Jane Croft,
(00:28):
here is tonight's suspense play by Route by Sunrise.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Darling Sister. As I told you last, this Mediterranean cruise
just hasn't been what I expected. We've sailed from by root,
but I'm still shaking after yesterday. Honestly, I was positive
I'd never see this good old ship again. It's hard
to believe my trip to the Near East began as
disappointingly as it did. That first stop at Port said
(01:03):
was dreadful. Not that I thought that'd be perfumed nights,
but I was hoping i'd feel a little of the
mystery of it all. When we left for Bahut, the
only stimulating thing was the new dinner companion at our table,
and mister Harun. At least he looked interesting compared to
that awfully dull Frank Grady I'd been forced to sit
along with until now.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Frank Grady. Mister Heron, He said, Grady, this is Miss Gideon,
Mildred Gideon.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
How do you do, Miss Gideon, Charmy, You are both Americans?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, yeah, we're Americans. I am from Akron, Ohio. Or
Miss Gideon from North Dakota Teacher School, third grade.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Oh, charmiye haroun.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
That name's uh Persian.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Oh yes, of course.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
They say. Beirut's really something to see.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
One should see it at sunrise for the first time.
A thrilling sight.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Oh swell, and we hit there in the night. How
about a sunrise day?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Well, I really hadn't planned on it.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I well, okay, by me, can't shed an offer? Well,
by root here we come.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
By root here we come. Honestly, he just made me WinCE.
Companions are half the fun. But really you couldn't commune
with anything with Frank Grady around. I was darned if
I'd share a by rout by sunrise with him. It
was around five when I awoke. I felt a little
thrill when I realized the engines had stopped and we
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were there. It was dawn. When I reached the deck.
I was alone. It was marvelously still, like everything holding
its breath. Then just a crack of sunlight and spires
and minarets began to appear. Then domes the whole sweeping
outline of the city rising out of the night. It
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was just pure omer kaiah. I floated with it, completely
carried away, but the sight in that magic quiet ah. Then,
wouldn't you know? Something had to spoil it. Down on
the dock below, some man had come stumbling out of
one of those shadows, honestly just reeling. It was still
pretty dark, but I could see he was a sailor,
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an American sailor, coming toward the ship. He looked up.
I saw his face was filled with pain, and he
swayed and fell, tried to drag himself. I don't know
why I did it, but there just wasn't anyone else
around any place, and I was positive he needed help.
(03:45):
What happened to you?
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Can I help the siller? What listens?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Listen?
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Something turret fifteen step?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Then I saw it, a knife buried in his back.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
He just died.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I turned and ran, oh, oh, I'm terribly.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Sorry, America. What are you running from, Mamselle down.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
The street back there on the dock or are you
a police?
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Yes, Mamseille, by police, I presume you have from the
passenger ship.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yes, that's right on the dock. There's a dead man,
a sailor. There's a knife in his back, yes, of course.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Now what is it you wish me to do?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Do? Well, he's just lying there dead.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Isn't it a little earlier for dead bodies, Mamseille? Isila?
But you're sure he's not just drunk drunk?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I told you there's a knife in his back. Well,
you could take a look, you know, you can almost
see it from here.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Please, I don't mean to doubt you.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
But look, I'm only telling you what I saw. I
didn't imagine this. It just happened. The poor man's dead
American tourists.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
All right, ma'amiselle, I shall accompany you to the dead body.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Well, I see, I was standing right up there on
the deck.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Yes, I see, no where exactly, just at.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
The edge of those packing cases. I don't want to look, ma'amselle.
Oh please, I could bear to look nothing here? What
this is? This is the exact place?
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Yeah, sure, I swear they must have moved in they Well, someone, ma'amselle,
when a man is downe.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
He wasn't drunk, Believe me. There was a knife in
his band.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
There should be blood. There is no blood.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Look, I saw it. I swear I saw it.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
He was dead with the Boddy. There is little we
can do. You agree, yes, but.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
You don't believe I saw anything.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Do you something? Yes? By Route is a modern city,
but it still has charm. Sometimes their visitor is overwhelmed.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Well, I don't understand it. I'm not wearing my glasses.
But well, it was so real.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
The report will be fitted now if I may have
sculpt you back to their ship.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
All right, I don't understand it, but all right. I
felt absolutely ridiculous. The policeman couldn't help thinking I was
only a giddy, excited tourist, saying any more, just make
it worse. I looked back at the place. It was
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broad daylight now, and everything did look different. Well, there
was anything to do except try and push it out
of my mind if I was going to enjoy Buyerroot
at all. When I got to my cabin, I put
some cold water on my face and went up for breakfast.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Hey you're late this morning, teacher, oversleep.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
It is no no, I was just buying some film
from my camera at the ship's store. Good morning, mister, Haroun.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Good money.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Well, by root, here we are. Hey't see the sunrise, teacher,
Thanks for the suggestion, mister Haroun. It was really something.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Did you see the sunrise, mister Grady?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Well, sure from a porthole, not from the deck.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
No.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I just got out of bed, took a look, went
back to sleep. Oh it looks like a pretty good town,
little on the gaudy side. You're sign up for the tour,
aren't you.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I haven't yet.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Well you better hurry.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Are you going on the tour, mister Harum, I am
familiarated with. Oh, well then you must know those little
out of the way places the tourists ordinarily don't.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
See some these three of these seven nightingales.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Oh, I'm just dying to see something like that. Well,
you know, tours are so commercial.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
You want to see some of that Huci Coucci stuff,
White teacher, that's not what I mean.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Mister Grady. If you were all sensitive, you you understand,
don't you.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Mister Harum, A touch of omar k I.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Am, Oh, that's it. That's it exactly, to be a
part of it, to see and feel antiquity with someone.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Who I could show you, Miss Gideon, you.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Must think I'm rather forward.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
But unfortunately I have business.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Oh oh, I see.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
The tour is really excellent. It will not disappoint you.
I have taken it myself.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Sure, there's still time to sign up. We love big time,
just like port said.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Well, I guess i'd better go get my things.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Hi, girl, I'll go put your name down.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
See you this evening.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Mister Harum, you will have a nice time, I am sure.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Yes, Well, goodbye, mature the gang plank teacher, No hurry up, Hey,
by sad, I'm the whosat ld hundred years old.
Speaker 8 (09:02):
Now you'll have a half hour to observe the interesting
native handiwork and make purchases.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
As some joint just like a Hollywood said a teacher.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
My name is Mildred Gideon.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Mister Grady, Oh sure, hey, get a load of those
shoes they're selling.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Now.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Wouldn't you get the ras if you clumped around home
and those?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
It's the style here?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
It was sure, I realized that, But but wouldn't you
get the raz I think I'll buy a pair?
Speaker 8 (09:28):
Hey, sorry, the market place of Rashamir five hundred years
old from our slave market. You will have a half
hour to observe the interesting native handyworker, and miss slave market.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
This dump does look like in one of the movies.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Really, mister Grady, do you have to compare everything with home?
Here's your imagination. Let it come to you. The camel's
coming in carrying new slaves for sale. The slave dealer's
cracking whips. Can't you see it?
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Say that's pretty good?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Did you read it somewhere?
Speaker 9 (10:15):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Forget it, Just forget it. I gave up after that.
Frank Grady was going to be Frank Grady, and that's
all there was to it. I tried to slip away,
be alone for a minute, but he was just like
a leech teacher.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Better stick with me. You don't want to get lost,
do you.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I was just about ready to call it quits, go
back to the ship and find a good book to read,
when the.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
Next point of interest is El Casiir, the Sultan's tudd it.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
The Sultan's turrets. That seemed familiar. I was certain i'd
heard that name before. Then it suddenly hit me. The sailor,
the dead sailor. He'd said message Sultan's turret, fifteenth step. Oh.
I could have kicked myself for not remembering for that policeman.
It was a big stone tower, broken down in places,
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but it was solid and real, proof that I hadn't
imagined that poor man. My heart was simply pounding. I
couldn't wait to get inside.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Power by the Sultan, I made caside.
Speaker 10 (11:19):
Now the upper half has been condemned us unsaving.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
It was dark inside, just little lights near the showcases.
I looked around for the steps in one of the corners.
I saw them curving upward. They were roped off. I
edged away from the others, praying Frank Grady wouldn't see me.
I slipped under the rope started up.
Speaker 9 (11:42):
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, e nine, ten, eleven.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Twelve thirty, team fourteen.
Speaker 10 (12:04):
Fifty.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
It was very dark, only a glimmer of light.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
I waited.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I felt as if there was someone else there in
the shadows. Then a tiny white something caught my eye,
piece of paper. I picked it up, looked at it.
Speaker 9 (12:25):
I was writing.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
It said, ship six.
Speaker 10 (12:32):
That's all where's mister Harung? I have been waiting for you.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
You are listening to by Route by Sunrise to Night's
presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Sas Spence.
Speaker 11 (13:10):
You can't shortchange today's students in their classrooms, and hope
that tomorrow's leaders will be up to the international competition.
Give a thought to how well today's schools can train
tomorrow's leaders. Join your local groups fighting for better schools.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
And now we.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Miss Mary Jane Croft,
starring into Night's production of By Route by Sunrise, A
tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 10 (13:51):
I am sorry.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
I really did not mean to frighten you.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Don't come near me?
Speaker 4 (13:57):
All right?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
What are you doing up here?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I too like forbidden places? I knew the tour would
arrive here about this time. Fortunately I finished my business early,
so I came to meet you. Is that so frightening?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
No, I guess not.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
I thought you might like me to show you what
I know of the city. You are all right now?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Oh yes, I'm all right, mister Haroun. Was there anyone
else up here just a minute ago?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
No? You and I are the only curious ones.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Oh no, no, there had to be someone.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
I've got proof proof, mister Grady. Well, shall we.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Go down now?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Please? Let's wait till they go. I've had just about
enough of mister Grady.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
They will think you are lost.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Let them. I've got to talk to you, mister Haroun, somebody,
I've just.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Got to I know of a charming place. We will
talk there.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
We waited for the tour to leave. Then I took
hold of mister Haroun's arm and we started down those
awful stairs. Seemed like hours to go through the darkness,
and I shuddered all the way to the bottom. Then
we were out in the sunlight, and I felt like
breathing again. We walked, gave me a chance to pull
myself together. Finally we stopped in front of a little
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place didn't look like anything from the outside, and mister
Haroun opened the door and we went in.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
What do you think of it?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Oh, it's just charming this garden. It's the Arabian nights.
It must be very old.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
They say, Oh mar Kayam once visited.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Oh what you can tell? Come fill the cup and
in the fire of spring your winter garment of repentance fling.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
The bird of time has but a little way to flutter,
and the bird is under wing, you know, the rubyat
some of it, I remember.
Speaker 9 (16:20):
Oh I'm dreaming again.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Just couldn't be real.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Oh it is real, all right. A mis Gideon back
at the Sultan's turret. What you said you wanted to
tell me something?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Oh, yes, that well, well, it's been so strange all day.
First icye beauty, then death, then it was gone, and
suddenly terror again, and now this beauty, all without warning.
I want to remember this place without anything to spoil it.
Please take me somewhere else.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Aren't you carrying this romantic theme a little too far?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (17:02):
I mean?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
All right, I will take you someplace a little less overwhelming.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Look, it's almost sunset. It's funny. I didn't realize it
was so late, just this.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Place, and we will go back to this ship.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Now up these stairs if you please. Oh the view,
there's the harbor, there's our ship. We'll make it back
in time, won't we.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
In here, misgive you.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Oh it's a nice room. But I oh, the view
from this window. It's lovely. Is that what we came
to see?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Not exactly, mister Haroun.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
I don't know whether I'll be sad or glad to
leave by route, but this time with you Skidion.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Yes, time is growing short. We must discontinue.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
It's growing short, mister Haroun, short the time. But long
my memory for that garden and the moments.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Then I am not sure whether you are extremely clever
or extremely foolish.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Foolish. Oh no, mister Haroun, please not foolish. I thought
you realized what I truly feel.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
This place is not romantic, Misgidion. You can stop it now,
stop it. You have costed me a great deal of trouble,
and I am finished playing games. What happened on the
stairs of the sultan stort. You're going to tell me,
miss kityon what time is the meeting?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Meeting mascarade is over?
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Do not force me.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
You know I don't know what you're talking about, death
and their.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Or Miss Gideon. Come here, you recognize.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
This the sailor, the dead sailor you murder, you matter?
Just ran the vision of the dead man on the
floor of the room, still in my eyes, and mister
Harun was coming after me.
Speaker 12 (19:05):
He was gonna kill me. I know he was gonna
kill me. I didn't know where I was or how
to get back to the ship. And it got darker
and darker.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
The streets twisted and turned in front of me, my
shadow after a shadow, growing bigger and bigger.
Speaker 12 (19:24):
I had to get to the ship, but I didn't
know how my leg.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Oh, a dirty, ugly man appeared beside me. I had
backed away from him. He slithered after me, and then
I thought my back against the wall, the walls all around,
there wasn't any way out. I could feel scream gathering
my throat. I saw a door just out of reach.
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I heage tored it. It was a big room, dim
and evil smelling. There were people, but they didn't pay
any attention to me. They were watching a dancing girl
weaving through a greasy yellow light. I saw another door
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and slid along the wall toward it, and he was there,
following me away from me.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
This way. That's it.
Speaker 12 (20:40):
Hey never so glad abody what happened?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I've been looking all over.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
You know, the ship's almost ready to leave.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
He was going to kill me, A horrible, terrible mister.
Let's get to the ship.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Please, No, no, wait a minute, I gotta know what
time that drop is. Drop the message you got at
the Sultan's turret. I know you got it. You wouldn't
have ditched me. The film documents on the film teacher,
A little white slip of paper tells place in time,
and you got it now you forget your act. Now
forget mine, sailor, he said, tell it too to me,
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to Frank Grady, he was my contact. You've gotten away.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
No, no, come.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
On, now, give me that paper, teacher, give me that paper.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
I mean it, what.
Speaker 10 (21:34):
Miss Gid you he is what?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Mister Harum, don't touch me.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
No, it is all right, Everything is all right. I
assure you all right.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Where am I pilot's launch, missus Gideon, I'm as scupting
you back to the ship once more.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Policeman.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Yeah, sorry, you had to go through as much as
you did.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
It was impertative to find out which one was the spy,
mister Grady or you spy dealers in state documents collected
and sold to the high as bitter we knew someone
would meet the sailor.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Oh I see now, then you you was stubbed in
a street brawl before he could reach the ship.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Unfortunately, you complicated things also for us as well as
mister Grady. I am sorry I had to treat you
roughly at the House on the Hill.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Because you thought and I thought you. Oh, mister Harom,
I'm so glad I was wrong about you. I don't
mind anything now, I.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Am staying here in Byroom. I wish you a pleasant
trip in boon voyage.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Perplexed no more with human or.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Divine, and tomorrow's tangle to the wind's resign.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Thank you, mister Harum, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Suspense in which Miss Mary Jane Croft starred in Tonight's
presentation of By Root by Sunrise, Next Week, the story
of terror in the streets. We call it the whole
town Sleeping. That's next Week on Suspense. Suspense is produced
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and directed by Anthony Ellis. Tonight's script was written by
mister Richard Chandley. The music was composed by Lucian Morrowick
and conducted by Wilbur Hatch.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Featured in the.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Cast were High Averbach, Jack Prusian, Don Diamond and Ben Wright.
Speaker 11 (23:47):
Thursday Nights, The Whistler brings Mystery on the CBS Radio
network in
Speaker 5 (24:24):
The
And now tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills,
Suspense Tonight the story of a school teacher who finds
the unexpected on a Mediterranean cruise. We call it By
Route by Sunrise, So now starring Miss Mary Jane Croft,
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here is tonight's suspense play by Route by Sunrise.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Darling Sister. As I told you last, this Mediterranean cruise
just hasn't been what I expected. We've sailed from by root,
but I'm still shaking after yesterday. Honestly, I was positive
I'd never see this good old ship again. It's hard
to believe my trip to the Near East began as
disappointingly as it did. That first stop at Port said
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was dreadful. Not that I thought that'd be perfumed nights,
but I was hoping i'd feel a little of the
mystery of it all. When we left for Bahut, the
only stimulating thing was the new dinner companion at our table,
and mister Harun. At least he looked interesting compared to
that awfully dull Frank Grady I'd been forced to sit
along with until now.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Frank Grady. Mister Heron, He said, Grady, this is Miss Gideon,
Mildred Gideon.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
How do you do, Miss Gideon, Charmy, You are both Americans?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, yeah, we're Americans. I am from Akron, Ohio. Or
Miss Gideon from North Dakota Teacher School, third grade.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Oh, charmiye haroun.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
That name's uh Persian.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Oh yes, of course.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
They say. Beirut's really something to see.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
One should see it at sunrise for the first time.
A thrilling sight.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Oh swell, and we hit there in the night. How
about a sunrise day?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Well, I really hadn't planned on it.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I well, okay, by me, can't shed an offer? Well,
by root here we come.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
By root here we come. Honestly, he just made me WinCE.
Companions are half the fun. But really you couldn't commune
with anything with Frank Grady around. I was darned if
I'd share a by rout by sunrise with him. It
was around five when I awoke. I felt a little
thrill when I realized the engines had stopped and we
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were there. It was dawn. When I reached the deck.
I was alone. It was marvelously still, like everything holding
its breath. Then just a crack of sunlight and spires
and minarets began to appear. Then domes the whole sweeping
outline of the city rising out of the night. It
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was just pure omer kaiah. I floated with it, completely
carried away, but the sight in that magic quiet ah. Then,
wouldn't you know? Something had to spoil it. Down on
the dock below, some man had come stumbling out of
one of those shadows, honestly just reeling. It was still
pretty dark, but I could see he was a sailor,
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an American sailor, coming toward the ship. He looked up.
I saw his face was filled with pain, and he
swayed and fell, tried to drag himself. I don't know
why I did it, but there just wasn't anyone else
around any place, and I was positive he needed help.
(03:45):
What happened to you?
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Can I help the siller? What listens?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Listen?
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Something turret fifteen step?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Then I saw it, a knife buried in his back.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
He just died.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I turned and ran, oh, oh, I'm terribly.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Sorry, America. What are you running from, Mamselle down.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
The street back there on the dock or are you
a police?
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Yes, Mamseille, by police, I presume you have from the
passenger ship.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yes, that's right on the dock. There's a dead man,
a sailor. There's a knife in his back, yes, of course.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Now what is it you wish me to do?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Do? Well, he's just lying there dead.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Isn't it a little earlier for dead bodies, Mamseille? Isila?
But you're sure he's not just drunk drunk?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I told you there's a knife in his back. Well,
you could take a look, you know, you can almost
see it from here.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Please, I don't mean to doubt you.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
But look, I'm only telling you what I saw. I
didn't imagine this. It just happened. The poor man's dead
American tourists.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
All right, ma'amiselle, I shall accompany you to the dead body.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Well, I see, I was standing right up there on
the deck.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Yes, I see, no where exactly, just at.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
The edge of those packing cases. I don't want to look, ma'amselle.
Oh please, I could bear to look nothing here? What
this is? This is the exact place?
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Yeah, sure, I swear they must have moved in they Well, someone, ma'amselle,
when a man is downe.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
He wasn't drunk, Believe me. There was a knife in
his band.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
There should be blood. There is no blood.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Look, I saw it. I swear I saw it.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
He was dead with the Boddy. There is little we
can do. You agree, yes, but.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
You don't believe I saw anything.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Do you something? Yes? By Route is a modern city,
but it still has charm. Sometimes their visitor is overwhelmed.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Well, I don't understand it. I'm not wearing my glasses.
But well, it was so real.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
The report will be fitted now if I may have
sculpt you back to their ship.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
All right, I don't understand it, but all right. I
felt absolutely ridiculous. The policeman couldn't help thinking I was
only a giddy, excited tourist, saying any more, just make
it worse. I looked back at the place. It was
(06:38):
broad daylight now, and everything did look different. Well, there
was anything to do except try and push it out
of my mind if I was going to enjoy Buyerroot
at all. When I got to my cabin, I put
some cold water on my face and went up for breakfast.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Hey you're late this morning, teacher, oversleep.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
It is no no, I was just buying some film
from my camera at the ship's store. Good morning, mister, Haroun.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Good money.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Well, by root, here we are. Hey't see the sunrise, teacher,
Thanks for the suggestion, mister Haroun. It was really something.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Did you see the sunrise, mister Grady?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Well, sure from a porthole, not from the deck.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
No.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I just got out of bed, took a look, went
back to sleep. Oh it looks like a pretty good town,
little on the gaudy side. You're sign up for the tour,
aren't you.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I haven't yet.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Well you better hurry.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Are you going on the tour, mister Harum, I am
familiarated with. Oh, well then you must know those little
out of the way places the tourists ordinarily don't.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
See some these three of these seven nightingales.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Oh, I'm just dying to see something like that. Well,
you know, tours are so commercial.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
You want to see some of that Huci Coucci stuff,
White teacher, that's not what I mean.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Mister Grady. If you were all sensitive, you you understand,
don't you.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Mister Harum, A touch of omar k I.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Am, Oh, that's it. That's it exactly, to be a
part of it, to see and feel antiquity with someone.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Who I could show you, Miss Gideon, you.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Must think I'm rather forward.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
But unfortunately I have business.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Oh oh, I see.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
The tour is really excellent. It will not disappoint you.
I have taken it myself.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Sure, there's still time to sign up. We love big time,
just like port said.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Well, I guess i'd better go get my things.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Hi, girl, I'll go put your name down.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
See you this evening.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Mister Harum, you will have a nice time, I am sure.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Yes, Well, goodbye, mature the gang plank teacher, No hurry up, Hey,
by sad, I'm the whosat ld hundred years old.
Speaker 8 (09:02):
Now you'll have a half hour to observe the interesting
native handiwork and make purchases.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
As some joint just like a Hollywood said a teacher.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
My name is Mildred Gideon.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Mister Grady, Oh sure, hey, get a load of those
shoes they're selling.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Now.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Wouldn't you get the ras if you clumped around home
and those?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
It's the style here?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
It was sure, I realized that, But but wouldn't you
get the raz I think I'll buy a pair?
Speaker 8 (09:28):
Hey, sorry, the market place of Rashamir five hundred years
old from our slave market. You will have a half
hour to observe the interesting native handyworker, and miss slave market.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
This dump does look like in one of the movies.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Really, mister Grady, do you have to compare everything with home?
Here's your imagination. Let it come to you. The camel's
coming in carrying new slaves for sale. The slave dealer's
cracking whips. Can't you see it?
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Say that's pretty good?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Did you read it somewhere?
Speaker 9 (10:15):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Forget it, Just forget it. I gave up after that.
Frank Grady was going to be Frank Grady, and that's
all there was to it. I tried to slip away,
be alone for a minute, but he was just like
a leech teacher.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Better stick with me. You don't want to get lost,
do you.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I was just about ready to call it quits, go
back to the ship and find a good book to read,
when the.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
Next point of interest is El Casiir, the Sultan's tudd it.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
The Sultan's turrets. That seemed familiar. I was certain i'd
heard that name before. Then it suddenly hit me. The sailor,
the dead sailor. He'd said message Sultan's turret, fifteenth step. Oh.
I could have kicked myself for not remembering for that policeman.
It was a big stone tower, broken down in places,
(11:06):
but it was solid and real, proof that I hadn't
imagined that poor man. My heart was simply pounding. I
couldn't wait to get inside.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Power by the Sultan, I made caside.
Speaker 10 (11:19):
Now the upper half has been condemned us unsaving.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
It was dark inside, just little lights near the showcases.
I looked around for the steps in one of the corners.
I saw them curving upward. They were roped off. I
edged away from the others, praying Frank Grady wouldn't see me.
I slipped under the rope started up.
Speaker 9 (11:42):
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, e nine, ten, eleven.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Twelve thirty, team fourteen.
Speaker 10 (12:04):
Fifty.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
It was very dark, only a glimmer of light.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
I waited.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I felt as if there was someone else there in
the shadows. Then a tiny white something caught my eye,
piece of paper. I picked it up, looked at it.
Speaker 9 (12:25):
I was writing.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
It said, ship six.
Speaker 10 (12:32):
That's all where's mister Harung? I have been waiting for you.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
You are listening to by Route by Sunrise to Night's
presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Sas Spence.
Speaker 11 (13:10):
You can't shortchange today's students in their classrooms, and hope
that tomorrow's leaders will be up to the international competition.
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tomorrow's leaders. Join your local groups fighting for better schools.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
And now we.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, Miss Mary Jane Croft,
starring into Night's production of By Route by Sunrise, A
tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 10 (13:51):
I am sorry.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
I really did not mean to frighten you.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Don't come near me?
Speaker 4 (13:57):
All right?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
What are you doing up here?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I too like forbidden places? I knew the tour would
arrive here about this time. Fortunately I finished my business early,
so I came to meet you. Is that so frightening?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
No, I guess not.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
I thought you might like me to show you what
I know of the city. You are all right now?
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Oh yes, I'm all right, mister Haroun. Was there anyone
else up here just a minute ago?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
No? You and I are the only curious ones.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Oh no, no, there had to be someone.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
I've got proof proof, mister Grady. Well, shall we.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Go down now?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Please? Let's wait till they go. I've had just about
enough of mister Grady.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
They will think you are lost.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Let them. I've got to talk to you, mister Haroun, somebody,
I've just.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Got to I know of a charming place. We will
talk there.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
We waited for the tour to leave. Then I took
hold of mister Haroun's arm and we started down those
awful stairs. Seemed like hours to go through the darkness,
and I shuddered all the way to the bottom. Then
we were out in the sunlight, and I felt like
breathing again. We walked, gave me a chance to pull
myself together. Finally we stopped in front of a little
(15:37):
place didn't look like anything from the outside, and mister
Haroun opened the door and we went in.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
What do you think of it?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Oh, it's just charming this garden. It's the Arabian nights.
It must be very old.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
They say, Oh mar Kayam once visited.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Oh what you can tell? Come fill the cup and
in the fire of spring your winter garment of repentance fling.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
The bird of time has but a little way to flutter,
and the bird is under wing, you know, the rubyat
some of it, I remember.
Speaker 9 (16:20):
Oh I'm dreaming again.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Just couldn't be real.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Oh it is real, all right. A mis Gideon back
at the Sultan's turret. What you said you wanted to
tell me something?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Oh, yes, that well, well, it's been so strange all day.
First icye beauty, then death, then it was gone, and
suddenly terror again, and now this beauty, all without warning.
I want to remember this place without anything to spoil it.
Please take me somewhere else.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Aren't you carrying this romantic theme a little too far?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (17:02):
I mean?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
All right, I will take you someplace a little less overwhelming.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Look, it's almost sunset. It's funny. I didn't realize it
was so late, just this.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Place, and we will go back to this ship.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Now up these stairs if you please. Oh the view,
there's the harbor, there's our ship. We'll make it back
in time, won't we.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
In here, misgive you.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Oh it's a nice room. But I oh, the view
from this window. It's lovely. Is that what we came
to see?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Not exactly, mister Haroun.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
I don't know whether I'll be sad or glad to
leave by route, but this time with you Skidion.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Yes, time is growing short. We must discontinue.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
It's growing short, mister Haroun, short the time. But long
my memory for that garden and the moments.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Then I am not sure whether you are extremely clever
or extremely foolish.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Foolish. Oh no, mister Haroun, please not foolish. I thought
you realized what I truly feel.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
This place is not romantic, Misgidion. You can stop it now,
stop it. You have costed me a great deal of trouble,
and I am finished playing games. What happened on the
stairs of the sultan stort. You're going to tell me,
miss kityon what time is the meeting?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Meeting mascarade is over?
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Do not force me.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
You know I don't know what you're talking about, death
and their.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Or Miss Gideon. Come here, you recognize.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
This the sailor, the dead sailor you murder, you matter?
Just ran the vision of the dead man on the
floor of the room, still in my eyes, and mister
Harun was coming after me.
Speaker 12 (19:05):
He was gonna kill me. I know he was gonna
kill me. I didn't know where I was or how
to get back to the ship. And it got darker
and darker.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
The streets twisted and turned in front of me, my
shadow after a shadow, growing bigger and bigger.
Speaker 12 (19:24):
I had to get to the ship, but I didn't
know how my leg.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Oh, a dirty, ugly man appeared beside me. I had
backed away from him. He slithered after me, and then
I thought my back against the wall, the walls all around,
there wasn't any way out. I could feel scream gathering
my throat. I saw a door just out of reach.
(19:57):
I heage tored it. It was a big room, dim
and evil smelling. There were people, but they didn't pay
any attention to me. They were watching a dancing girl
weaving through a greasy yellow light. I saw another door
(20:17):
and slid along the wall toward it, and he was there,
following me away from me.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
This way. That's it.
Speaker 12 (20:40):
Hey never so glad abody what happened?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I've been looking all over.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
You know, the ship's almost ready to leave.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
He was going to kill me, A horrible, terrible mister.
Let's get to the ship.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Please, No, no, wait a minute, I gotta know what
time that drop is. Drop the message you got at
the Sultan's turret. I know you got it. You wouldn't
have ditched me. The film documents on the film teacher,
A little white slip of paper tells place in time,
and you got it now you forget your act. Now
forget mine, sailor, he said, tell it too to me,
(21:16):
to Frank Grady, he was my contact. You've gotten away.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
No, no, come.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
On, now, give me that paper, teacher, give me that paper.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
I mean it, what.
Speaker 10 (21:34):
Miss Gid you he is what?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Mister Harum, don't touch me.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
No, it is all right, Everything is all right. I
assure you all right.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Where am I pilot's launch, missus Gideon, I'm as scupting
you back to the ship once more.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Policeman.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Yeah, sorry, you had to go through as much as
you did.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
It was impertative to find out which one was the spy,
mister Grady or you spy dealers in state documents collected
and sold to the high as bitter we knew someone
would meet the sailor.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Oh I see now, then you you was stubbed in
a street brawl before he could reach the ship.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Unfortunately, you complicated things also for us as well as
mister Grady. I am sorry I had to treat you
roughly at the House on the Hill.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Because you thought and I thought you. Oh, mister Harom,
I'm so glad I was wrong about you. I don't
mind anything now, I.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Am staying here in Byroom. I wish you a pleasant
trip in boon voyage.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Perplexed no more with human or.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Divine, and tomorrow's tangle to the wind's resign.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Thank you, mister Harum, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Suspense in which Miss Mary Jane Croft starred in Tonight's
presentation of By Root by Sunrise, Next Week, the story
of terror in the streets. We call it the whole
town Sleeping. That's next Week on Suspense. Suspense is produced
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and directed by Anthony Ellis. Tonight's script was written by
mister Richard Chandley. The music was composed by Lucian Morrowick
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