December 25, 2025 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
And now tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Thrills suspense.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Tonight the transcribed story of life and death in an
African colony. We call it Lily and the Colonel, so
now starring Ramsey Hill and John Alderson with Paula Winslow.
Here is Tonight's suspense play, Lily and the Colonel.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I first met Colonel m ov Abnetty at the Valley Club, Kenya, Colony,
East Africa, possibly being a Sandhurst man. I left Tenant
with the Lancashire Fusiliers. Had something to do with my
invitation into the Haaled Circle. At all events, I was
invited and I went Sandhurst. Eh, that's right, sir Sandhurst.
(01:14):
I was Sandhurst myself nineteen seventeen. M that's all saying, well.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Still turning them out the way they used to well.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Not knowing how they used to turn them out, I
couldn't say so the capital.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
At least they turn them out with yuma.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
The only thing has kept me alive.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
And oh sense of humor, yes, I can see that.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
And now you.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Were hurt to receive us from the bow bow.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I'm quite sure you can save yourselves, colonel.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
But of course we could if it weren't, for the
bunglers of the Wolf were in formal bundling.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
The second time I met Colonel Aberinathy was under quite
different circumstances. My patrol had been called to the farm
of one James C. Kerry to investigate a murder. On
the way, I stopped by Colonel Abernethy's house and brought
him along in case identification was needed. Unviewing the remains,
(02:12):
the Colonel decided it was the body of James C.
Curry himself lying under the rosebush. Neither of us said
a word until we reached his house.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
You need a drink?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I could use one, Sir good.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
In Gumbert. Tell your mistress do you.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Have blasted the headache? I tell her you come back headache?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
All is having a headache.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Oh, sit down, liftenant. You will have your drink in
a moment.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Thank you, sir. Incidentally, while your boy is out, my
ask sir, is he kicko you in Gumby?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
No, he's a Juluoh I think he's private. Is a JULUO?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
These I'm almost.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Positive you're not sure he is Jolula?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Whoa one can't be sot with these boys? You know,
but I'll ask him when he comes back.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Headache much better? She will come a moment good. I'm
gumby one. I'll have a whiskey.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yes, I will fix it. Tell you Temple that time,
Colonel will you ask?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Yes, yes, yes, uh in Gumby, What are you try?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
What tribe you belong to? I am yo? Do the
Julua have? Mamou? What the devil do you do that for?
Don't stand there quacking like an idiot. What did you say?
Mamau is on a kipsig and I am too very well.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Now give Lieutenant Temple his drink and then get out
drink bana, blasty idiot.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I don't believe him.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
You think he could?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I do. And the soon as you're rid of him,
the better.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Every head boy ill Mau mau is that it hm week,
sir week.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
It happened to Curry, It happened to others.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
So you still want to save me.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I'm only here to do what I can, sir.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
It's my job, young man. What happened to cutting even
happened to me.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
There are still those who know how to handle this thing,
and alone if necessary. In my day, we knew how
to keep Bulwog in his place. Full justice, mind you.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
But uh also this.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
That pistol of yours may have seen its day, Sir,
Times are changing.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Only because men have become too weak to prevent itself.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
Oh, Julien, Julian, have you seen Taddigan? I don't know
where that cat can be.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
With the colonel's lady. She stood half in shadow in
the doorway, with something of a smile on her lips.
An attractive woman, I thought, in her forties. But when
she came towards us and the light fell on her,
I could see that what might be been attractive was
only an illusion of powder and rouge, heavily proportioned and
(05:05):
badly applied to an aging, unhappy face.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
My dear, may I present mister Charles Temple?
Speaker 6 (05:11):
How do you do?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
How do you do?
Speaker 6 (05:13):
Please? Sit down?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
As a matter of fact, I was just leaving.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Oh no, no, please. It isn't often that I have
an opportunity to talk to a handsome young man, and
from the outside world too. What happened today?
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Dear?
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Why did you run out so quickly? Oh Julian never
tells me anything. I'm always in the dark.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I'm afraid that I'm responsible to dare Missus Abernathy, I
needed his help.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Help, mister Temple will tell you. I'm off to bed.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Good night, good night, sir, and please think over what
I said. Get rid of your boy.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Young man.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I like you, but as for your advice, I shall
handle my affairs my way.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Good night.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Well, mister Temple, what was it Julian said? You'd tell me.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
One of your neighbors was killed today?
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Killed? Who?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
James Curry?
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Jim Curry? Jim Carry? Who'd want to kill Jim Curry? Oh? Why?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Why?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Missus Abe?
Speaker 6 (06:22):
Please no, I'm quite all right. How did it happen?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Mauma, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
There must be a way out, There must be.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Let me get you something. Oh, yes, here, drink this.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Thank you, it's better. Oh that's better much.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I hate too, but I must go now.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Missus Abernathy, please don't sit beside me.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Let me call the colonel. He can be with him,
but he can't help me more than I can. I'm sure.
Now please let me. It lay broken at our feet,
a cat strung up by the neck to a willow branch,
Missus Abernethy's cat, and outside, somewhere in the dark, beyond
(07:28):
the shattered window. Were those who had done the thing?
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Was the Mauma, probably miles away by now I'm a
friend soul.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
Wait, come on, no one now to the tutor, No one.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
No, no, give me a hand there. Recognize him.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I've never seen this one before.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Put him in the stomach, said get him to a
hospital right away. Take him on the shoulder. We'll carry
him to the car. Tug him to the nearest clinic
and Thompson fauns. And all night he hovered between life
and death. All night I questioned him vainly and much
(08:38):
of the next day. Towards the end, I asked him
if he knew he was dying toward me, and the
look in his eyes showed that he knew he was.
It was then that all my questions were answered. Name
Timber tried kickoou Mama. Yes, family, one brother, and this
(09:00):
brother was Colonel Abernathy's head boy in Gumbwie. I went
back to the colonel's house, left in the temple.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Ma'am, I'm all.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Alone with the colonel and the Gumbwie.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
They've been gone all day. They left me alone. I've
never been so terrified in my will. Soon, my tabacans
and the shooting. Oh, yes, they'll be back soon.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I'll wait for him.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
He gave me a pistol and said, I miscarried with
me until he comes back.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
That's very wise.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
I hate them. There's a killing.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
You.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Sit down, mister Temple. I must look a fright. No
makeup and this old gown. You must think I look
a fright.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Not at all. You look very well.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Indeed, well, thank you, kind sir, she said. May I
make you a drink?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Missus?
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Having nothing, well, I think I shall have one. If
I don't look out, I should become a drunkard. I
startary drunkard.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I'm sure you're much too sensible for that.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Well, Julian doesn't think I'm sensible, calls me silly. Ah, Oh,
that'll make me feel much better. You know you're awfully nice.
You're not like the other men. You seem very kind.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I'm not really quite the opposite. I beat children the
second Tuesday of every month.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Oh, I gather you're married, then, somebody in England.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
No, I'm not married, missus Abnethy. I have something to
tell you. I thought of waiting for the colonel, but
since you should know about it.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
Too, If it's anything unpleasant, I won't hear it.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
It concerns you very directly.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
You should no, no, no, no. We shall talk of everything,
but not about Kenya or African and colonels and and
poor unhappy natives and and everything.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Very well, I'll wait for the colonel.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Oh, now you've been wounded. The handsome soldier has been
wounded on the battlefield of the Sexies. No here, drink
from my glass here?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Oh no, not justice, all right, just a sip.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
There.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Jim Carroll thought I was attractive? Am I attractive? Child?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Why? Yes? Yes, of course no.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
I mean to you, well, after.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
All you're a married woman, and well.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
No, no, and sit quietly and listen. If I told
you that you're the handsomest man I know, and if
I told you that I was in love with you,
would you take me away with you? Would you put
me in your pocket and take me of.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Course, right in my pocket.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
I don't feel very well. I think I shall lie down.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Pour, oh temple, I thought I couldn't be here when
you came. Word Lily, she's not well. I think last
night was a bit too much for her. She's tell
me what happened to that beggar? You shot, and the
man died early this afternoon. I was right about in Gumbwe.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
We questioned the native all night, because before he died
he confessed that he belonged to the Mauma.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
What is that to do with in Gambi there, brothers, Oh,
then he is a kickou you after all?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Get rid of him, but quietly, we don't want to
aggravate the situation a dying devil. Don't worry. I know
what to do. One more thing. I want you to
place a light in your front window. What for we
shall be patrolling the valley tonight and we'll have a
clear view of your house most of the time. In
the event something happens, turn out the light. We'll know
then that you're in trouble and we'll be along in
(13:43):
a jiffy. Right, you are well, I must be off now. Goodbye, Conne,
please be careful within Gumbwe.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Goodbye temple.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
That's the last I saw of Colonel Abina. Now I
must piece together the remainder of the story from details
related to me by Ingumbwi himself. I thought of it
many times, and although Ingumbwie was punished for what he
did and canad in good conscience hold him totally responsible
for what went wrong.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
In GUMBI.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Come here wha in Gambi or a liar? Wha? What
do you mean?
Speaker 5 (14:38):
You know very well what I mean. There was a
man shot here last night and he was your brother.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Oh, my brother is on the reserve.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
He died here this morning and he said he was
your brother.
Speaker 9 (14:51):
Wow, my brother guy.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Moreover, you belong to the Kikuyu tribe. Oh Gallo would.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Lie to my f you dog?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
No?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
No, maybe some Kikuyo, but a godhead boy.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
I do not tolerate lying by anyone.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Please, who shall be punished for this? I hope at
least you can stand up your medicine right. No, listen,
put your hands your side to your side, I said,
stern strik. That will teach you to lie. I'll get
(15:29):
your things together and get out. I shall pay you
when you leave. I said, go Wana.
Speaker 9 (15:39):
If you hit me with hand closed it is good.
Then I am a man poor. But you hit me
with open hand, hate me not a man.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Get out and tell your mau mau dogs if they
want the same medicine.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
To come to me, and I'll get it to him.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Gaps filthy dogs, shog over, bring one of them.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
What are you doing, Julian.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Moving the lamp over to the window obviously?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Oh what for?
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Mister Temple wants it to remain on all night?
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Such a lovely man.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Will you listen to what I'm telling you?
Speaker 6 (16:26):
Mister Temple wants it to remain on all night? I heard.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Why if for any reason you need mister Temple's help,
you to turn it off, he will see it and
he will come to it once.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
How nice? Turn it off and he'll come to mid once.
Did he really say that?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Yes, yes, Now another thing I have dismissed Gumby.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
I know I was watching through the door. I saw
you strike him bravely, Colonel.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Do say it that way? The only way to make
him understand. It's the only way there to understand who's
the master. There's too much molly coddling with these people. Oh,
no matter, no matter. Now where's your pistol?
Speaker 6 (17:11):
I don't know, and I don't Oh, in the name of.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Heaven, I told you to carry it with you at
all times.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Can't you understand this for your own good?
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Here take mine, and I expect you to keep it
with you all the time.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Do you understand.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
I don't want it. It's hateful. Everything here is hateful.
I'm leaving. I'm going away, far away from this house,
from Kenya, from you. You're bunk, Yes, I am, and
I'll have some more.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Stop give me that bottle. I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Sorry, you're sorry. You don't know what it is to
be sorry. I've been sorry for twenty five years. I'm sick.
I'm sick for living with you. The way you stand,
(18:15):
the way you.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Walk parade grounds, always on parade.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
How that's right?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Run away, go on. You never talked to me.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
You never did.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
You never gave me anything anything, Come.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Anything nice If I don't think I want to tell you,
because I don't. I don't want to keep any God.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
M h.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Huh, who's there? Who's there? Do you hear me? Bossue
you hear me?
Speaker 7 (19:22):
You'll hear me?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Well, where are you, gummy that you love me? My mom?
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Come closer than our shoe.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I can see all of you.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I can't see you better.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
You're not dom Oh.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
You for God.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
And Gummy. Now listen to me.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I forbid you to do this.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
You hear no, stand out in the open where I
can see you. You're a cowering gummy, and I don't
deal with cowor if you have grievances, we shall talk
them over as men.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
You have me there, you're ahead man. You mean me not,
You'll deserve it.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Now. Now I'll stand out in the open where I
can see you.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Be a man. Blast you in Gandhet, In Gandhet, I say,
come out.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
Julien, Julia, I know you're out there. I mean what
I said. I'm going away.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Ju Junior.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Oh, very well, don't answer me then. Oh you're a fool.
You could have kept me if you are kind. I
only want kindness. Lieutenant Temple is kind? Oh oh yeah,
(21:22):
how stupid of me. The lights. Julian said that mister
Temple would come to me if I turned off the light. Now,
now he'll come to me, Charles Temple. Is that you?
(21:51):
You must have been waiting just outside. Oh it is you.
It is? Oh? Oh you come for me? Did you
come to take me away in your pock?
Speaker 9 (22:14):
No?
Speaker 6 (22:15):
No.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
When I arrived with the patrol, the house was dark.
A man found a colonel and I'm dead in a
thorn bush. I found a colonel's lady, poor unhappy woman
at the screen door to the Verandah. There was a
strong smell of whiskey about it. Turned my head away.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Suspense, in which Ramsey Hill and John Alderson with Paula
Winslow starred in the Night's transcribed presentation of Lily and
the Colonel. Be sure to listen next week to Suspense.
(23:38):
Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis. Tonight's script
is written by mister John Dayner. The music was composed
by Lucian Morwick and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. Hated and
the cast were Dave Young and Joe Duval.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
At bat At a distant
And now tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Thrills suspense.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Tonight the transcribed story of life and death in an
African colony. We call it Lily and the Colonel, so
now starring Ramsey Hill and John Alderson with Paula Winslow.
Here is Tonight's suspense play, Lily and the Colonel.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I first met Colonel m ov Abnetty at the Valley Club, Kenya, Colony,
East Africa, possibly being a Sandhurst man. I left Tenant
with the Lancashire Fusiliers. Had something to do with my
invitation into the Haaled Circle. At all events, I was
invited and I went Sandhurst. Eh, that's right, sir Sandhurst.
(01:14):
I was Sandhurst myself nineteen seventeen. M that's all saying, well.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Still turning them out the way they used to well.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Not knowing how they used to turn them out, I
couldn't say so the capital.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
At least they turn them out with yuma.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
The only thing has kept me alive.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
And oh sense of humor, yes, I can see that.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
And now you.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Were hurt to receive us from the bow bow.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I'm quite sure you can save yourselves, colonel.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
But of course we could if it weren't, for the
bunglers of the Wolf were in formal bundling.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
The second time I met Colonel Aberinathy was under quite
different circumstances. My patrol had been called to the farm
of one James C. Kerry to investigate a murder. On
the way, I stopped by Colonel Abernethy's house and brought
him along in case identification was needed. Unviewing the remains,
(02:12):
the Colonel decided it was the body of James C.
Curry himself lying under the rosebush. Neither of us said
a word until we reached his house.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
You need a drink?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I could use one, Sir good.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
In Gumbert. Tell your mistress do you.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Have blasted the headache? I tell her you come back headache?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
All is having a headache.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Oh, sit down, liftenant. You will have your drink in
a moment.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Thank you, sir. Incidentally, while your boy is out, my
ask sir, is he kicko you in Gumby?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
No, he's a Juluoh I think he's private. Is a JULUO?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
These I'm almost.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Positive you're not sure he is Jolula?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Whoa one can't be sot with these boys? You know,
but I'll ask him when he comes back.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Headache much better? She will come a moment good. I'm
gumby one. I'll have a whiskey.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yes, I will fix it. Tell you Temple that time,
Colonel will you ask?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Yes, yes, yes, uh in Gumby, What are you try?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
What tribe you belong to? I am yo? Do the
Julua have? Mamou? What the devil do you do that for?
Don't stand there quacking like an idiot. What did you say?
Mamau is on a kipsig and I am too very well.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Now give Lieutenant Temple his drink and then get out
drink bana, blasty idiot.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I don't believe him.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
You think he could?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
I do. And the soon as you're rid of him,
the better.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Every head boy ill Mau mau is that it hm week,
sir week.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
It happened to Curry, It happened to others.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
So you still want to save me.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I'm only here to do what I can, sir.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
It's my job, young man. What happened to cutting even
happened to me.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
There are still those who know how to handle this thing,
and alone if necessary. In my day, we knew how
to keep Bulwog in his place. Full justice, mind you.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
But uh also this.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
That pistol of yours may have seen its day, Sir,
Times are changing.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Only because men have become too weak to prevent itself.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
Oh, Julien, Julian, have you seen Taddigan? I don't know
where that cat can be.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
With the colonel's lady. She stood half in shadow in
the doorway, with something of a smile on her lips.
An attractive woman, I thought, in her forties. But when
she came towards us and the light fell on her,
I could see that what might be been attractive was
only an illusion of powder and rouge, heavily proportioned and
(05:05):
badly applied to an aging, unhappy face.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
My dear, may I present mister Charles Temple?
Speaker 6 (05:11):
How do you do?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
How do you do?
Speaker 6 (05:13):
Please? Sit down?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
As a matter of fact, I was just leaving.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Oh no, no, please. It isn't often that I have
an opportunity to talk to a handsome young man, and
from the outside world too. What happened today?
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Dear?
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Why did you run out so quickly? Oh Julian never
tells me anything. I'm always in the dark.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I'm afraid that I'm responsible to dare Missus Abernathy, I
needed his help.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Help, mister Temple will tell you. I'm off to bed.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Good night, good night, sir, and please think over what
I said. Get rid of your boy.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Young man.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I like you, but as for your advice, I shall
handle my affairs my way.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Good night.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
Well, mister Temple, what was it Julian said? You'd tell me.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
One of your neighbors was killed today?
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Killed? Who?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
James Curry?
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Jim Curry? Jim Carry? Who'd want to kill Jim Curry? Oh? Why?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Why?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Missus Abe?
Speaker 6 (06:22):
Please no, I'm quite all right. How did it happen?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Mauma, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
There must be a way out, There must be.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Let me get you something. Oh, yes, here, drink this.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Thank you, it's better. Oh that's better much.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I hate too, but I must go now.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Missus Abernathy, please don't sit beside me.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Let me call the colonel. He can be with him,
but he can't help me more than I can. I'm sure.
Now please let me. It lay broken at our feet,
a cat strung up by the neck to a willow branch,
Missus Abernethy's cat, and outside, somewhere in the dark, beyond
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the shattered window. Were those who had done the thing?
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Was the Mauma, probably miles away by now I'm a
friend soul.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
Wait, come on, no one now to the tutor, No one.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
No, no, give me a hand there. Recognize him.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I've never seen this one before.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Put him in the stomach, said get him to a
hospital right away. Take him on the shoulder. We'll carry
him to the car. Tug him to the nearest clinic
and Thompson fauns. And all night he hovered between life
and death. All night I questioned him vainly and much
(08:38):
of the next day. Towards the end, I asked him
if he knew he was dying toward me, and the
look in his eyes showed that he knew he was.
It was then that all my questions were answered. Name
Timber tried kickoou Mama. Yes, family, one brother, and this
(09:00):
brother was Colonel Abernathy's head boy in Gumbwie. I went
back to the colonel's house, left in the temple.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Ma'am, I'm all.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Alone with the colonel and the Gumbwie.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
They've been gone all day. They left me alone. I've
never been so terrified in my will. Soon, my tabacans
and the shooting. Oh, yes, they'll be back soon.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I'll wait for him.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
He gave me a pistol and said, I miscarried with
me until he comes back.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
That's very wise.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
I hate them. There's a killing.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
You.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Sit down, mister Temple. I must look a fright. No
makeup and this old gown. You must think I look
a fright.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Not at all. You look very well.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Indeed, well, thank you, kind sir, she said. May I
make you a drink?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Missus?
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Having nothing, well, I think I shall have one. If
I don't look out, I should become a drunkard. I
startary drunkard.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I'm sure you're much too sensible for that.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Well, Julian doesn't think I'm sensible, calls me silly. Ah, Oh,
that'll make me feel much better. You know you're awfully nice.
You're not like the other men. You seem very kind.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I'm not really quite the opposite. I beat children the
second Tuesday of every month.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Oh, I gather you're married, then, somebody in England.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
No, I'm not married, missus Abnethy. I have something to
tell you. I thought of waiting for the colonel, but
since you should know about it.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
Too, If it's anything unpleasant, I won't hear it.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
It concerns you very directly.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
You should no, no, no, no. We shall talk of everything,
but not about Kenya or African and colonels and and
poor unhappy natives and and everything.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Very well, I'll wait for the colonel.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
Oh, now you've been wounded. The handsome soldier has been
wounded on the battlefield of the Sexies. No here, drink
from my glass here?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Oh no, not justice, all right, just a sip.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
There.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Jim Carroll thought I was attractive? Am I attractive? Child?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Why? Yes? Yes, of course no.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
I mean to you, well, after.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
All you're a married woman, and well.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
No, no, and sit quietly and listen. If I told
you that you're the handsomest man I know, and if
I told you that I was in love with you,
would you take me away with you? Would you put
me in your pocket and take me of.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Course, right in my pocket.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
I don't feel very well. I think I shall lie down.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Pour, oh temple, I thought I couldn't be here when
you came. Word Lily, she's not well. I think last
night was a bit too much for her. She's tell
me what happened to that beggar? You shot, and the
man died early this afternoon. I was right about in Gumbwe.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
We questioned the native all night, because before he died
he confessed that he belonged to the Mauma.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
What is that to do with in Gambi there, brothers, Oh,
then he is a kickou you after all?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Get rid of him, but quietly, we don't want to
aggravate the situation a dying devil. Don't worry. I know
what to do. One more thing. I want you to
place a light in your front window. What for we
shall be patrolling the valley tonight and we'll have a
clear view of your house most of the time. In
the event something happens, turn out the light. We'll know
then that you're in trouble and we'll be along in
(13:43):
a jiffy. Right, you are well, I must be off now. Goodbye, Conne,
please be careful within Gumbwe.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Goodbye temple.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
That's the last I saw of Colonel Abina. Now I
must piece together the remainder of the story from details
related to me by Ingumbwi himself. I thought of it
many times, and although Ingumbwie was punished for what he
did and canad in good conscience hold him totally responsible
for what went wrong.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
In GUMBI.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Come here wha in Gambi or a liar? Wha? What
do you mean?
Speaker 5 (14:38):
You know very well what I mean. There was a
man shot here last night and he was your brother.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Oh, my brother is on the reserve.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
He died here this morning and he said he was
your brother.
Speaker 9 (14:51):
Wow, my brother guy.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Moreover, you belong to the Kikuyu tribe. Oh Gallo would.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Lie to my f you dog?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
No?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
No, maybe some Kikuyo, but a godhead boy.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
I do not tolerate lying by anyone.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Please, who shall be punished for this? I hope at
least you can stand up your medicine right. No, listen,
put your hands your side to your side, I said,
stern strik. That will teach you to lie. I'll get
(15:29):
your things together and get out. I shall pay you
when you leave. I said, go Wana.
Speaker 9 (15:39):
If you hit me with hand closed it is good.
Then I am a man poor. But you hit me
with open hand, hate me not a man.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Get out and tell your mau mau dogs if they
want the same medicine.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
To come to me, and I'll get it to him.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Gaps filthy dogs, shog over, bring one of them.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
What are you doing, Julian.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Moving the lamp over to the window obviously?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Oh what for?
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Mister Temple wants it to remain on all night?
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Such a lovely man.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Will you listen to what I'm telling you?
Speaker 6 (16:26):
Mister Temple wants it to remain on all night? I heard.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Why if for any reason you need mister Temple's help,
you to turn it off, he will see it and
he will come to it once.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
How nice? Turn it off and he'll come to mid once.
Did he really say that?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Yes, yes, Now another thing I have dismissed Gumby.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
I know I was watching through the door. I saw
you strike him bravely, Colonel.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Do say it that way? The only way to make
him understand. It's the only way there to understand who's
the master. There's too much molly coddling with these people. Oh,
no matter, no matter. Now where's your pistol?
Speaker 6 (17:11):
I don't know, and I don't Oh, in the name of.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Heaven, I told you to carry it with you at
all times.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Can't you understand this for your own good?
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Here take mine, and I expect you to keep it
with you all the time.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Do you understand.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
I don't want it. It's hateful. Everything here is hateful.
I'm leaving. I'm going away, far away from this house,
from Kenya, from you. You're bunk, Yes, I am, and
I'll have some more.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Stop give me that bottle. I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Sorry, you're sorry. You don't know what it is to
be sorry. I've been sorry for twenty five years. I'm sick.
I'm sick for living with you. The way you stand,
(18:15):
the way you.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Walk parade grounds, always on parade.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
How that's right?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Run away, go on. You never talked to me.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
You never did.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
You never gave me anything anything, Come.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Anything nice If I don't think I want to tell you,
because I don't. I don't want to keep any God.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
M h.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Huh, who's there? Who's there? Do you hear me? Bossue
you hear me?
Speaker 7 (19:22):
You'll hear me?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Well, where are you, gummy that you love me? My mom?
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Come closer than our shoe.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I can see all of you.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I can't see you better.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
You're not dom Oh.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
You for God.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
And Gummy. Now listen to me.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I forbid you to do this.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
You hear no, stand out in the open where I
can see you. You're a cowering gummy, and I don't
deal with cowor if you have grievances, we shall talk
them over as men.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
You have me there, you're ahead man. You mean me not,
You'll deserve it.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Now. Now I'll stand out in the open where I
can see you.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Be a man. Blast you in Gandhet, In Gandhet, I say,
come out.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
Julien, Julia, I know you're out there. I mean what
I said. I'm going away.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Ju Junior.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Oh, very well, don't answer me then. Oh you're a fool.
You could have kept me if you are kind. I
only want kindness. Lieutenant Temple is kind? Oh oh yeah,
(21:22):
how stupid of me. The lights. Julian said that mister
Temple would come to me if I turned off the light. Now,
now he'll come to me, Charles Temple. Is that you?
(21:51):
You must have been waiting just outside. Oh it is you.
It is? Oh? Oh you come for me? Did you
come to take me away in your pock?
Speaker 9 (22:14):
No?
Speaker 6 (22:15):
No.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
When I arrived with the patrol, the house was dark.
A man found a colonel and I'm dead in a
thorn bush. I found a colonel's lady, poor unhappy woman
at the screen door to the Verandah. There was a
strong smell of whiskey about it. Turned my head away.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Suspense, in which Ramsey Hill and John Alderson with Paula
Winslow starred in the Night's transcribed presentation of Lily and
the Colonel. Be sure to listen next week to Suspense.
(23:38):
Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis. Tonight's script
is written by mister John Dayner. The music was composed
by Lucian Morwick and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. Hated and
the cast were Dave Young and Joe Duval.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
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