October 6, 2025 • 29 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 (00:05):
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(00:29):
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Speaker 2 (00:41):
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Speaker 5 (01:54):
Blocks the collar of my true loves her black was
the color of my two loves, hair, her lips with
something wondrous.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Fair.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
I saw something wondrous fair.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
MOI I am the.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Day, the purest eyes, the dast hands I loved, I
love the grass.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
Where long?
Speaker 8 (02:41):
What do you want?
Speaker 9 (02:42):
Here?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Are you? Mister Genowan? I am? I am John Harveston
of the ship Sumatra Bell.
Speaker 10 (02:48):
You are a sailor, and idleness has festered than you.
Oh you wandered dar Island. You saw the girl outside
my house? No, not for I watched how you looked
at her, looked at Rachel.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
It is not why I came to you, mister Jeneralth.
Then for a lot, mister Darren asked it. When I
was on Souvera, I call upon you and missus jeneralit.
Speaker 10 (03:12):
Come in and missus January, Yes, what did you come
in here? Missus Januat there is a man who has
word of mister Darren and Philadelphia. This is John Harveston
of the ship's Matra Bell, missus.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Jenerald, and you have brought us word of mister Darren. Yes,
please sit down, mister Harvison, Thank you, mister Jenuine. Yes,
call Rachel, say to her to bring tea Rachel Ray go.
And mister Darren is well.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Mister Harveson quite well, and his wife and child too.
He told me to tell you this, and to tell
you he is troubled. Oh he's not had word if
you or mister jenwth in the year now, not a letter. No.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Mister Jenuit's position on Suva in the Office of Administration,
it leaves him little time, but it leaves him little time,
and for me also little time to indulge the past
and memories and last friendships. And Suva we live for
the present, mister Harbison. The past flows away on our seas.
(04:23):
We How long will you be on Suva?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Three days? We take cargo here and then.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You are saying, mister Harveson.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Three days, then I will be gone.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Do that, mister Harveson, For if you do not, what
what if I do not? You may serve the tea. Rachel,
thank you, thank you, Rachel.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
What if I do not go from you? Missus Jenuit,
your tone was strange, Miss Jane.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
What was come here? Rachel? Lean to me, Rachel. This
is Rachel. This her hair, this her face, lease her lips,
this her throat, And you have looked on them, and
(05:21):
they are of evil and of death. Mister Harvison, your
tea grows cold.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
She stood like a child. Rachel stood and left thin
and pale fingers of Missus Jenner would trail across the
pureness of her face. Let Missus Jenner would take the
scarlet blossom from her hair and crush it against her mouth,
and Rachel tasted of it, and all the while looked
at me and then left us.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Love my long and well, I love the grass.
Speaker 11 (06:06):
Where on she goes, she on honor nor.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
My law will quickly fade over.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
And I had a rittey, and there was little talk.
I made farewell to mister and missus gentleman. Back to
the Sumatra. Belle then to perform the duties of midshipmen
and offices training for the merchant fleet. The paperwork that
at the end of voyage would give me first mates
rating and from the island soft wind laden with jasmine
and wild pond. And on the seas of Fiji, it
(06:59):
was night night that lay in hollows and great cups
of coral reef, and spilled now into the seas and
against the ship and against the island. And I must
find her. I must go to her.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
She onor nor.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
My lord?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
And where was curve of wild palm against copper sky?
Where was lagoon deep instilled in crystal lava?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Volcano?
Speaker 12 (07:38):
We would come?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
I knew in this place of the island. Was Rachel close?
Speaker 12 (07:47):
Bring it close to me, John Harvest, So close to me,
and sit me and watch the how to say? Better
to say upon the lagoon, see Rachel, and watch thee
The small flames of moon are they kin? Do the
(08:09):
steel water?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
See? Yes? And on my hair black.
Speaker 12 (08:18):
The fingers of the argentles, John Hardison.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Rachel, Yes, were you always called so always Rachel? No?
Tell me your island name.
Speaker 12 (08:27):
I have forgotten. When I was a child, they took
me to a school there I live there. I was
called Rachel.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
And this manner of speech you you learned it at
the school.
Speaker 12 (08:38):
I will speak to thee in what manner you wish,
they would wish island would yes, and an island name
for me?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Yes, that none have called you, not at the school
and the general. It's no one.
Speaker 12 (08:48):
That only thee will come, that only the lips of
this come with me into the lagoon, and we will
swim deep with a coral shell, and we will listen,
and there will be a name for him to call me.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Yes, Yes, who's there?
Speaker 13 (09:16):
Gently, mister Harveston, or you'll set the birds to coin.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
See mister Harveston, you went and done it. What are
you doing here now, mister Harveston. It's not a board ship.
We are here. I am more man than you. What
are you doing here? Tell him? Girl?
Speaker 9 (09:43):
Tell them midshipman, mister Harveston, what red does here?
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Tell him?
Speaker 12 (09:50):
After they left the genuine at the island store, he
drank there and he saw me and what Rachel and
I spoke to him of the lagoon and that I
would come here. What he spoke more softly than And
he said he wished to see things of the island.
(10:11):
And I did not know.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
You lie.
Speaker 9 (10:15):
So sweet, you lie? Come, Let you and me take
the swim. I overheard you, promise, mister Harveson bed God, hi,
mister Harveson, I do your bidding.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
I let go of Rachel. Now get out of here.
Speaker 9 (10:34):
And now you've overstepped yourself, mister Harveson. Get out more
man than you, mister Harveson.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
More out.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Kill you.
Speaker 13 (10:45):
Mister Harveson. Let us sell Rachel. What tuney stuff you are?
Tell me, mister Harvison, Oh.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Have you? Yes? Yes, love me.
Speaker 12 (11:30):
They cannot go back to ship now and on the
island no place to hide. No, come John, I know
a place where they will not take different me, Come be.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
And the place was a coral splinter of coral flung
into a sea of the New Hebrides, westerly of sul Man.
And when the pro Rachel had stolen from a superfisherman
touched it. The canoe was ripped open. And we left
it there on the beach and threw ourselves beside it
(12:11):
and slept deeply, And when sun was on our faces,
rose and walked to the grass of the island, to
the cluster of huts where natives held out their hands
to us and gave us island fruit, where Rachel danced
for them, and where days vanished. We came another grain
of white coral sand, and night was laid gently at
(12:35):
our sides by trade winds, and Rachel danced for me.
Old men brought her pearls they had scraped from the sea,
and went away, left us alone, island of wild scented
sleep of winds.
Speaker 12 (12:53):
John John Weak, Weak, johnslee. The pack it comes and
it will be island police.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
What are you talking about the.
Speaker 12 (13:03):
Back of the trade with the island If it's not
the time for it to be here? They come for tea.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
How do you know, man? Maybe it's another ship, not.
Speaker 12 (13:09):
The package, Island king. I saw it. I was on
the beach.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
What were you doing on the beach?
Speaker 12 (13:14):
And they have gone? I will run from here. A
typhoon comes taken a still long run from here, John Harvest,
where will I go? The boy who wait outside the
heart he will take thee to place on the island,
in jungle of island.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Go with him, Rachel, Now run when I come back,
when they've gone, you'll be here. Run, you'll be here.
Speaker 12 (13:32):
I will wait for thee.
Speaker 11 (13:34):
Run, John Harvest, old man, old man, open to me, Honey,
you you and breche?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Where is she? Where is she? Phon? Come packett, go
quick very quick. I know I saw it saying where's
Rachel Typhoon?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Come Rachel, go quick very quick.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Bye.
Speaker 13 (14:10):
Yes, I'm not lie Rachel Packett quick there go weat
Typhoon quick, very quick.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Yes, John Horizon, Rachel Rachel right.
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Speaker 5 (16:11):
Love, my love and the world she knows.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
I love the grass whereon she.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Goes, she on earth?
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Norm my love will quickly say a word.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
How long has it been, mister Harrison.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Three months?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
The police look for you, but you must know that
the thing you've done. They found a man that next morning,
a sailor. He had lain in the sea and been
scrubbed against the coral. They thought at first he'd gotten drunk,
But then you are gone and the girl Rachel, and
they knew what had happened. And then the storm came
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and they weren't able.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Where is she?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Sometimes they come here, the police, and they ask if
you have wandered past here again?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Where is she?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Aren't you afraid?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Where is your husband? I'll ask him?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Of Rachel, Mister Jenuine is inside in the house, and
you will see him. But listen to me first. I
need to know. Aren't you afraid? Surely they will kill
you if they find you. Aren't you afraid?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
No?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
The love of the girl yes, and the thought of
dying nothing ah, yes, a need yes. And there is
nothing you would not do.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
To see her again that I killed for and would again.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Who is more evil?
Speaker 11 (18:14):
You or him?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Come in the house there, can you get up, mister Jenuit? Whiskey,
I'll get it. Drink mister Jenuit?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
What happened to him?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
He was destroyed. He did not have the youth to
search the islands for Rachel, so he sat here and
came destroyed.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
And you helped him to become.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Every way I can. I want him to die, to
have sinned in his heart as he has, or however
he has sinned. He needs to die to be clean again,
as you need to die as you will die. Drink,
(19:25):
mister Jennery.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Nor would she say the name of Rachel to me again,
nor even talk to me again, and leave Suva again?
Because she was not there? And the word that drifted
down about a fight that had been with loading hooks
and a man had been killed because of a black
haired girl named Rachel an island in the Santa Cruzes.
But she was not there just the grave of a man,
(19:55):
a month old grave on the high strand, and a.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Native boy, big fellow, fight my word, Tell me about
it my world.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
A girl.
Speaker 12 (20:04):
Two men they stand here, I think so, and fight
my word with hooks, one catch other.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
The girl's name was Rachel. The girl my word, black hair,
a long she wore a flower My would mister? What
what for you one with girl? Where did you go? Long?
Speaker 12 (20:24):
Gone?
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Where? In bote? To my letter? I think maybe? She said,
I think so?
Speaker 11 (20:29):
Maybe to my letter?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
You remember the one? I mean. Her name was Rachel.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
You said so, and you said she was a beauty. Yes,
don't last not from the islands. Please don't remember all right,
on account of her name, that's all, on account of
nothing else. Listen, you forget her. Just tell me it's
a good time to forget her, right this minute.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Now she's dead.
Speaker 7 (21:01):
No, I didn't say that. When a ship comes in,
some of the sailors get to come ashore on some don't.
I send out to them papaya, rice, wine, shell combs.
I send island girls or whoever's about, and I send
them out with baskets. They get to keep a commission.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Did she tell you why she's running away? Is she yah?
She's running away from me. Didn't I tell you?
Speaker 7 (21:23):
No, she didn't do them?
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Please, you're crazy.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
I don't know where she went, nor if I guess,
there was a ship going that way, and when it went,
she wasn't here. That's all I can tell you.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I come to it. Hinger of my right hand and
finger of my left, all of my in front of me,
make them me.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
You know what I'm gonna do with you. I will
take you home and meet my mother. That's what that's
your charmer? You are, John?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
You want to.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
To meet my mother by bottle of gin to make
an impression?
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Are you?
Speaker 11 (22:17):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Dearie John, dear, who are you?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Mary?
Speaker 7 (22:22):
I'm still marry deary.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Away from me.
Speaker 14 (22:26):
Get away from you, scoff, that's what you are, scom
Look at your drunken.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
Sn Then they're pay any attention to her. Mister Harvis,
all right, that's enough out of you. I said that's enough.
It's like I said, mister Harvest. Oh that's a shame, lady,
because I know all about you. I followed you all
over the Southern seas. I have Abrodez and the Santa
(22:58):
Cruises and policeman Levy, What a killing you did?
Speaker 4 (23:12):
The prison at Suva was this, two cells in a
hollowed out hill. Two cells for the scum of the islands,
for the islands scum from the coral reef to the marshalls,
thieves and drunkards, derelics, and those who have murdered men.
And one woman in the other iron bars between them.
What had been scraped from the end of the world
(23:33):
and dump like garbage.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
My name jermy be miss mate a Knight. The girl
down in your MAA killed her man to get her
and then she wouldn't come to me.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Fat she was, But I like some fat. What did
you do? I killed him? Man? Oh, that's an easy
thing to do, And I thought at first it would
take some.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Doing, but easy.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Added I had to remember, Oh.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
You're a josh in one, mate, what you've done and
what I had done? The largest thing a man can do,
you think? So see him against the.
Speaker 13 (24:04):
Bars there, Johan.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Lady calling you night.
Speaker 12 (24:10):
Oh hello John Hardison.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Rich then look.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Old?
Speaker 4 (24:21):
And why did you run from me? Richard? I do
not know. I looked for you all over.
Speaker 12 (24:27):
I know I heard once in Bannikoro you passed me
in the street I saw him.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Why didn't you stop me? I could not.
Speaker 12 (24:36):
I could not.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
You didn't love me.
Speaker 12 (24:39):
I love, which is why I fled from the.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
I killed for you. I love the most things others
have killed for you.
Speaker 12 (24:50):
Once did no more? Look at me?
Speaker 4 (24:55):
You no surist, Yes, no hands, give me your hands.
Rachel Dainty stands, Oh hair, gotcha be like it? John Black, Rachel, Yes,
(25:26):
come closer, Yes, John, your hair, Rachel. The death of me,
the death of you, Blie.
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a classic tale of love and death. My true love's
(00:29):
hair our star, mister Jeff Chandler. Well, mister McSorley doing
a crossword puzzle.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
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(01:41):
mister Jeff Chandler, hoping once again to keep you in suspenselacklock.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Blocks the collar of my true loves her black was
the color of my two loves, hair, her lips with
something wondrous.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Fair.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
I saw something wondrous fair.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
MOI I am the.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Day, the purest eyes, the dast hands I loved, I
love the grass.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
Where long?
Speaker 8 (02:41):
What do you want?
Speaker 9 (02:42):
Here?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Are you? Mister Genowan? I am? I am John Harveston
of the ship Sumatra Bell.
Speaker 10 (02:48):
You are a sailor, and idleness has festered than you.
Oh you wandered dar Island. You saw the girl outside
my house? No, not for I watched how you looked
at her, looked at Rachel.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
It is not why I came to you, mister Jeneralth.
Then for a lot, mister Darren asked it. When I
was on Souvera, I call upon you and missus jeneralit.
Speaker 10 (03:12):
Come in and missus January, Yes, what did you come
in here? Missus Januat there is a man who has
word of mister Darren and Philadelphia. This is John Harveston
of the ship's Matra Bell, missus.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Jenerald, and you have brought us word of mister Darren. Yes,
please sit down, mister Harvison, Thank you, mister Jenuine. Yes,
call Rachel, say to her to bring tea Rachel Ray go.
And mister Darren is well.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Mister Harveson quite well, and his wife and child too.
He told me to tell you this, and to tell
you he is troubled. Oh he's not had word if
you or mister jenwth in the year now, not a letter. No.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Mister Jenuit's position on Suva in the Office of Administration,
it leaves him little time, but it leaves him little time,
and for me also little time to indulge the past
and memories and last friendships. And Suva we live for
the present, mister Harbison. The past flows away on our seas.
(04:23):
We How long will you be on Suva?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Three days? We take cargo here and then.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You are saying, mister Harveson.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Three days, then I will be gone.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Do that, mister Harveson, For if you do not, what
what if I do not? You may serve the tea. Rachel,
thank you, thank you, Rachel.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
What if I do not go from you? Missus Jenuit,
your tone was strange, Miss Jane.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
What was come here? Rachel? Lean to me, Rachel. This
is Rachel. This her hair, this her face, lease her lips,
this her throat, And you have looked on them, and
(05:21):
they are of evil and of death. Mister Harvison, your
tea grows cold.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
She stood like a child. Rachel stood and left thin
and pale fingers of Missus Jenner would trail across the
pureness of her face. Let Missus Jenner would take the
scarlet blossom from her hair and crush it against her mouth,
and Rachel tasted of it, and all the while looked
at me and then left us.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Love my long and well, I love the grass.
Speaker 11 (06:06):
Where on she goes, she on honor nor.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
My law will quickly fade over.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
And I had a rittey, and there was little talk.
I made farewell to mister and missus gentleman. Back to
the Sumatra. Belle then to perform the duties of midshipmen
and offices training for the merchant fleet. The paperwork that
at the end of voyage would give me first mates
rating and from the island soft wind laden with jasmine
and wild pond. And on the seas of Fiji, it
(06:59):
was night night that lay in hollows and great cups
of coral reef, and spilled now into the seas and
against the ship and against the island. And I must
find her. I must go to her.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
She onor nor.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
My lord?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
And where was curve of wild palm against copper sky?
Where was lagoon deep instilled in crystal lava?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Volcano?
Speaker 12 (07:38):
We would come?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
I knew in this place of the island. Was Rachel close?
Speaker 12 (07:47):
Bring it close to me, John Harvest, So close to me,
and sit me and watch the how to say? Better
to say upon the lagoon, see Rachel, and watch thee
The small flames of moon are they kin? Do the
(08:09):
steel water?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
See? Yes? And on my hair black.
Speaker 12 (08:18):
The fingers of the argentles, John Hardison.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Rachel, Yes, were you always called so always Rachel? No?
Tell me your island name.
Speaker 12 (08:27):
I have forgotten. When I was a child, they took
me to a school there I live there. I was
called Rachel.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
And this manner of speech you you learned it at
the school.
Speaker 12 (08:38):
I will speak to thee in what manner you wish,
they would wish island would yes, and an island name
for me?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Yes, that none have called you, not at the school
and the general. It's no one.
Speaker 12 (08:48):
That only thee will come, that only the lips of
this come with me into the lagoon, and we will
swim deep with a coral shell, and we will listen,
and there will be a name for him to call me.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Yes, Yes, who's there?
Speaker 13 (09:16):
Gently, mister Harveston, or you'll set the birds to coin.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
See mister Harveston, you went and done it. What are
you doing here now, mister Harveston. It's not a board ship.
We are here. I am more man than you. What
are you doing here? Tell him? Girl?
Speaker 9 (09:43):
Tell them midshipman, mister Harveston, what red does here?
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Tell him?
Speaker 12 (09:50):
After they left the genuine at the island store, he
drank there and he saw me and what Rachel and
I spoke to him of the lagoon and that I
would come here. What he spoke more softly than And
he said he wished to see things of the island.
(10:11):
And I did not know.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
You lie.
Speaker 9 (10:15):
So sweet, you lie? Come, Let you and me take
the swim. I overheard you, promise, mister Harveson bed God, hi,
mister Harveson, I do your bidding.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
I let go of Rachel. Now get out of here.
Speaker 9 (10:34):
And now you've overstepped yourself, mister Harveson. Get out more
man than you, mister Harveson.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
More out.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Kill you.
Speaker 13 (10:45):
Mister Harveson. Let us sell Rachel. What tuney stuff you are?
Tell me, mister Harvison, Oh.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Have you? Yes? Yes, love me.
Speaker 12 (11:30):
They cannot go back to ship now and on the
island no place to hide. No, come John, I know
a place where they will not take different me, Come be.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
And the place was a coral splinter of coral flung
into a sea of the New Hebrides, westerly of sul Man.
And when the pro Rachel had stolen from a superfisherman
touched it. The canoe was ripped open. And we left
it there on the beach and threw ourselves beside it
(12:11):
and slept deeply, And when sun was on our faces,
rose and walked to the grass of the island, to
the cluster of huts where natives held out their hands
to us and gave us island fruit, where Rachel danced
for them, and where days vanished. We came another grain
of white coral sand, and night was laid gently at
(12:35):
our sides by trade winds, and Rachel danced for me.
Old men brought her pearls they had scraped from the sea,
and went away, left us alone, island of wild scented
sleep of winds.
Speaker 12 (12:53):
John John Weak, Weak, johnslee. The pack it comes and
it will be island police.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
What are you talking about the.
Speaker 12 (13:03):
Back of the trade with the island If it's not
the time for it to be here? They come for tea.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
How do you know, man? Maybe it's another ship, not.
Speaker 12 (13:09):
The package, Island king. I saw it. I was on
the beach.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
What were you doing on the beach?
Speaker 12 (13:14):
And they have gone? I will run from here. A
typhoon comes taken a still long run from here, John Harvest,
where will I go? The boy who wait outside the
heart he will take thee to place on the island,
in jungle of island.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Go with him, Rachel, Now run when I come back,
when they've gone, you'll be here. Run, you'll be here.
Speaker 12 (13:32):
I will wait for thee.
Speaker 11 (13:34):
Run, John Harvest, old man, old man, open to me, Honey,
you you and breche?
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Where is she? Where is she? Phon? Come packett, go
quick very quick. I know I saw it saying where's
Rachel Typhoon?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Come Rachel, go quick very quick.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Bye.
Speaker 13 (14:10):
Yes, I'm not lie Rachel Packett quick there go weat
Typhoon quick, very quick.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Yes, John Horizon, Rachel Rachel right.
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Speaker 5 (16:11):
Love, my love and the world she knows.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
I love the grass whereon she.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
Goes, she on earth?
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Norm my love will quickly say a word.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
How long has it been, mister Harrison.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Three months?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
The police look for you, but you must know that
the thing you've done. They found a man that next morning,
a sailor. He had lain in the sea and been
scrubbed against the coral. They thought at first he'd gotten drunk,
But then you are gone and the girl Rachel, and
they knew what had happened. And then the storm came
(17:21):
and they weren't able.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Where is she?
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Sometimes they come here, the police, and they ask if
you have wandered past here again?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Where is she?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Aren't you afraid?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Where is your husband? I'll ask him?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Of Rachel, Mister Jenuine is inside in the house, and
you will see him. But listen to me first. I
need to know. Aren't you afraid? Surely they will kill
you if they find you. Aren't you afraid?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
No?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
The love of the girl yes, and the thought of
dying nothing ah, yes, a need yes. And there is
nothing you would not do.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
To see her again that I killed for and would again.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Who is more evil?
Speaker 11 (18:14):
You or him?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Come in the house there, can you get up, mister Jenuit? Whiskey,
I'll get it. Drink mister Jenuit?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
What happened to him?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
He was destroyed. He did not have the youth to
search the islands for Rachel, so he sat here and
came destroyed.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
And you helped him to become.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Every way I can. I want him to die, to
have sinned in his heart as he has, or however
he has sinned. He needs to die to be clean again,
as you need to die as you will die. Drink,
(19:25):
mister Jennery.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Nor would she say the name of Rachel to me again,
nor even talk to me again, and leave Suva again?
Because she was not there? And the word that drifted
down about a fight that had been with loading hooks
and a man had been killed because of a black
haired girl named Rachel an island in the Santa Cruzes.
But she was not there just the grave of a man,
(19:55):
a month old grave on the high strand, and a.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Native boy, big fellow, fight my word, Tell me about
it my world.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
A girl.
Speaker 12 (20:04):
Two men they stand here, I think so, and fight
my word with hooks, one catch other.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
The girl's name was Rachel. The girl my word, black hair,
a long she wore a flower My would mister? What
what for you one with girl? Where did you go? Long?
Speaker 12 (20:24):
Gone?
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Where? In bote? To my letter? I think maybe? She said,
I think so?
Speaker 11 (20:29):
Maybe to my letter?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
You remember the one? I mean. Her name was Rachel.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
You said so, and you said she was a beauty. Yes,
don't last not from the islands. Please don't remember all right,
on account of her name, that's all, on account of
nothing else. Listen, you forget her. Just tell me it's
a good time to forget her, right this minute.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Now she's dead.
Speaker 7 (21:01):
No, I didn't say that. When a ship comes in,
some of the sailors get to come ashore on some don't.
I send out to them papaya, rice, wine, shell combs.
I send island girls or whoever's about, and I send
them out with baskets. They get to keep a commission.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Did she tell you why she's running away? Is she yah?
She's running away from me. Didn't I tell you?
Speaker 7 (21:23):
No, she didn't do them?
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Please, you're crazy.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
I don't know where she went, nor if I guess,
there was a ship going that way, and when it went,
she wasn't here. That's all I can tell you.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I come to it. Hinger of my right hand and
finger of my left, all of my in front of me,
make them me.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
You know what I'm gonna do with you. I will
take you home and meet my mother. That's what that's
your charmer? You are, John?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
You want to.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
To meet my mother by bottle of gin to make
an impression?
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Are you?
Speaker 11 (22:17):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Dearie John, dear, who are you?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Mary?
Speaker 7 (22:22):
I'm still marry deary.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Away from me.
Speaker 14 (22:26):
Get away from you, scoff, that's what you are, scom
Look at your drunken.
Speaker 8 (22:37):
Sn Then they're pay any attention to her. Mister Harvis,
all right, that's enough out of you. I said that's enough.
It's like I said, mister Harvest. Oh that's a shame, lady,
because I know all about you. I followed you all
over the Southern seas. I have Abrodez and the Santa
(22:58):
Cruises and policeman Levy, What a killing you did?
Speaker 4 (23:12):
The prison at Suva was this, two cells in a
hollowed out hill. Two cells for the scum of the islands,
for the islands scum from the coral reef to the marshalls,
thieves and drunkards, derelics, and those who have murdered men.
And one woman in the other iron bars between them.
What had been scraped from the end of the world
(23:33):
and dump like garbage.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
My name jermy be miss mate a Knight. The girl
down in your MAA killed her man to get her
and then she wouldn't come to me.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Fat she was, But I like some fat. What did
you do? I killed him? Man? Oh, that's an easy
thing to do, And I thought at first it would
take some.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Doing, but easy.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Added I had to remember, Oh.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
You're a josh in one, mate, what you've done and
what I had done? The largest thing a man can do,
you think? So see him against the.
Speaker 13 (24:04):
Bars there, Johan.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Lady calling you night.
Speaker 12 (24:10):
Oh hello John Hardison.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Rich then look.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
Old?
Speaker 4 (24:21):
And why did you run from me? Richard? I do
not know. I looked for you all over.
Speaker 12 (24:27):
I know I heard once in Bannikoro you passed me
in the street I saw him.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Why didn't you stop me? I could not.
Speaker 12 (24:36):
I could not.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
You didn't love me.
Speaker 12 (24:39):
I love, which is why I fled from the.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
I killed for you. I love the most things others
have killed for you.
Speaker 12 (24:50):
Once did no more? Look at me?
Speaker 4 (24:55):
You no surist, Yes, no hands, give me your hands.
Rachel Dainty stands, Oh hair, gotcha be like it? John Black, Rachel, Yes,
(25:26):
come closer, Yes, John, your hair, Rachel. The death of me,
the death of you, Blie.
Speaker 15 (25:47):
He's straggling over her hairlocklockislock colul.
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