June 19, 2025 • 28 mins
Chronicles the exploits of a charismatic con artist, offering a glimpse into his schemes and the moral ambiguities of his adventures. The narratives blend wit with suspense.
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
Presenting Orson Wells as the Third Man, the rives of
Harry Lyon, the fabulous stories of the immortal character originally
created in the motion picture of the Third Man with
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zither music by Anton Carris.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
That was me, Harry Lyon, making my way through a
side downey in Paris. Were you ever in such a
hurries didn't even know you've been hit? And I was
hit alright. It was to save a chunk of gold.
But where the goal was by then I didn't know,
and I didn't care well. I wanted to lay lower.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Somewhere, and I saw it happened.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I found myself one of those sleepy English villages, so
the cows chew their cards all day in the matters
nothing ever happened, or so I thought. You believe in witchcrafts.
I didn't, So then it's a lot to convince me
of anything.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
In this case.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Is needed the death of two people in that sleepy
English village to prove me wrong.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
And now Orson Wells as Harry Lyons the Third Man
in the hands of Glory.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I wanted to get away from Gold, away from France.
On the boats of the Channel crossing. All I cared
for was being quiet, very very quiet, he said, looks
like just another book.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I was pretty seedy and my arm was in a sling.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I was feeling got it faint too, And then then
I felt someone touch my arm.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I saw uh with wide gray eyes and dark glasses.
It spilled over her cheeks.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Excuse me, I've been watching you. Are you all right?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yes, yes, I'm okay.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Thanks?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
You do look it?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Why don't you go down stairs?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Thanks?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
I like the air, it's so calm today. You can't
be seecid. Is your arm painful?
Speaker 6 (03:28):
You've got it in the flea y?
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Sure, there's nothing I can get?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
No, really, thanks, you're very kind, but I'm all right.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Are you in pain with that arm?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
This is not too good, but I'll be okay. Worry
about me?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Well do it?
Speaker 5 (03:40):
You sit down on one of these chairs, and then
you find a steward and order you would drink aut
in tea. Oh please let me do something for you.
You really you're going in.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I don't know how it was, but I felt better
for being around, I said. Bit.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
We were sitting there talking side by side, seeing we've
known each other for years. I told her I got
to go to anger the business I've been negotiating around
a tricky, bigger business in fact, and all the anxiety
that has made me exhausted, choose all sympathy.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
And when you got to a negotiations through, what you
need is a few weeks real risk, without any worries,
without anybody chasing about our.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Chasing about her. Oh yeah, yeah, you're a business associates.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
You mean mm, life full of wi these days for everyone.
You want to come and stay in the village, why,
I mean the steepy and quiet nothing ever happens there.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
It sounds perfect just suit me. I've had a really
tricky time just let in and then being running into
a back car on top of the door.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
You would come and stay with us, my uncle I
was telling you about them. You would be the nicety.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Wasn't maybe a bit surprised? I mean stranger arriving.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Oh they loved the strangers. And nothing ever surprises Uncle
John and Uncle Gregory. If you would have a surprise,
I would. I were a little odd a couple of those.
You but a big extension.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Tell me about it, Tell you about your home.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
There's nothing to tell the religious old apple blossom and nightingales.
This time of the year, and our house is on
the hills. It's pretty old. My aunt's vision isten here
the time.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Well what did they do before the time?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
They were signs? And now they still spend all their
time into the boro they built at the top of
the house the day they got up there on at
night too.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Oh it's a pretty dull for you.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Yes, I it very love me sometime.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Who you? What's your name?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
He Helen Cools.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
It's a pretty name to the pretty face.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Then you come and stay.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
All right?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I've cooming half a joke.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
But she gave me the addresses on me the time
whenever I likes a bit stuck on me.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I found it flattering.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
A week or two later, I fetched up at that
little village. Follow me, it's called lay in the heart
of the Send Country. I got to the station as
a message in heaven saying the car broken down.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
She'd be along a quarter of an hour.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
So I'm well away at the time, playing as a
local for a pine places empty landsard and I got talking. Now,
this is what I call it, typical old English village
folks a marriage come miles to see. If I's like this,
it's well enough, but I can out if I see
the opportunity. Are you why to sleep before you? Maybe
I want on me than if you had one of
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those up and coming chaps to like town life. No,
I'm a countryman, so I'm looking on for somewhere else.
My wife feels the same about fellow meals.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
But does she all right?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I know I stop here at the end of my days.
I had the sense and we're not the only ones
who are making plans to go. This place doesn't bring
luck to anyone.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
You know that. It brings visitors in the summer, swans of.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You're wrong, there did wrong?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
They won't come.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Why what's the matter with the place? That's what we'd
all like to know.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I don't get you.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Maybe it's as well you don't what you're driving.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
Folks aren't lucky.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Around this way. That's all lucky. Well, I'm not seen
as anything, really, But the crops rot, the cattle ale,
the pigs get sick, and a man's discourage before he's begun.
That's pretty queer to me.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
It is pretty queer.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
And I can tell you something even queerer.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Okay, tell me it's the children.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Every now and again, one of them begins to go
finding away.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
That's all you can call it.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
A child gets hollow cheeked and pale, and in a
couple of months it's all over and no one can
tell why. That's very strange to me. And I was
told the village where nothing ever happened. Well, sir, you've
come to stay here.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Let's hope you find it that way.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I didn't take much notice for landor I saw Helen
standing in the doorway in a cool summer frock of
the sunshine behind her. I forgot everything, he said. She
drove me back along the green lane. So we came
to the house in there, under a ceedar tree on
the lawn of the two old uncles. I got on
the panama hats, and tea was set on a silver
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tray on the table. Oh the stranger, how do you
do that?
Speaker 6 (08:28):
How do you do Helen? Stranger? You almost welcome me yet,
didy welcome.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Indeed, I'm grateful to you for inviting me here. Mister
Carroll and myself Gregory, my brother John.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Everyone caught my uncle, mister Gregory and mister John.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
So you would do the thing, Helen, Give me strangers
some tea.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Mister Nime uncle John.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
The strangers are very welcome here, very Sometimes we go
for weeks months without a stranger coming here. I never
yet tool strangers. Heaven told just how you lit on
the ship. We said she should ask you here straight away.
Helen said you wanted to get away from life. That's
what she said, to get away from life. Away. Stay
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as long as you be shown there these long as
you know.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
That's very nice here. I'm sure not timed at all. Now,
if you will excuse me, and we have some work
to do. We don't allow more than half an hour.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Of a teach that we should have the places of
seeing your good dinner.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Thank you, sir. Don't think me. You have nothing to
think before, nothing to think I.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Either of a far Oh.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah, your uncle Sarry, I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
They still works.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Take into the laboratory. I tell you how they spend
all their time in it. No one ever got into it.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
But then not even the cleaners.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
They cleaned themselves. Please try and understand about them. Sorry,
they were so change with you.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Well, they were very nice and welcoming. You said there
were scientists, both of them here.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Yeah, twin you see, they've always done it. Think to
get us. Now they've got a kind of obsessions. I
didn't I want to explain about it.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Obsession? What do you think? What sort of obsession do.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
You think of? Nothing but goes? They want to find
out how to make it.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
No, I was like to sign out for the same thing.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
With my uncles. Has become a guy that's sacred trust.
They're determined to find out the secret of how to
make go before they die.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
They that's pretty quick about it was the very ale
and hearty.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
I think they start talking about goes to write dinner.
So now that I've told you, if they do, you'll
be ready to talk about it too.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Would you?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Oh, of course, it's don't worry. I'm always ready to
talk about goal. The trend u thing of base metals
into noble one, mister strangers with the touch of the
flaship a stone, and then could French mute fish metals
into a million times.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
As much coal.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Alts was called heat has been called alchemy for many
hundreds of years. No one has found the secret kit
power to know all is what we need?
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Don't you see, young.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Man, what's wrong with the world today?
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Mankind is killing himself in the search for greed. Striving anger,
leading to was stubbition and flind goal. Find the key
to what you're seeking, and your wars on God world
has prosperity and happy role for fourth.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Over the world, and all excuse for bitterness is done.
I can see your point certainly, set I can find
out how to make it. I haven't done yet, even
in a small ways.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
It will be done.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
We shall do it.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
If not we those who come after it. We are
leaving our great fortunes to the foundation. Oh yes, foundation, the.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Foundation of a college for young scientists for research into the.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Making of gold. But what sort of things go into
making of this gool a thing that we must keep
the secret?
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Mister Stranger, no more wine, he will take no more wine?
Then shall we join head and in the other room?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Oh of course, But you know I find this such
a goose a goal and thinking I'd like to know
some more? But who would not like to know more?
And no one has ever found the secret yet? But
will is such a nebf where the found?
Speaker 7 (12:13):
When my brother and I have the power to know all?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Well, man, when you get the power, let me and.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Orson Wells returns in just a moment as the third
man and now orson welles. As the third man continues
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with the hand of glory.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
They were to put it mildly, And I put up
all those two gentlemen, the Delveen smoking records. After dinner
each night they go off.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
To their laboratory. Helen and I were left on our own.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I felt sorry for seeing wistfulness.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
The gray eyes of verse that they belt at me.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
But sometimes I had an idea. She was sizing me up.
She used to get me to talk about my business affairs.
In a couple of weeks, I built up quite a
big office and the whole firm around myself. I got
to do everyone in and down to the lowers of
the clerks. I was all very well. What interested me
it was this laboratory that was search for gold. One night,
after I'd heard the uncle was going up to bed,
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I decided to have a look at things for myself.
Craft the end of the laboratory. Through the window, some
handless summer night behind me, I could hear a night
and go singing in the garden. Always the place a
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strange jumble of globes and bottles, bottles filled queer, bright liquids,
long with red like blood, and were little crucibles and
jars labeled, and by the light of a torture I
saw there were books and boards.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
MM, so fu kay I didn't take Yes, Oh, yes,
it's a crystal, and this fire was labeled pigeons blood.
Speaker 8 (15:10):
What can I want that for.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
A little figure made of wax? And then drag a.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
Sink?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Or I do do they need that for making gold? M?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I began to want that. I began to think.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
I looked at the wax figures, and I saw that
it was the figure of a child. And then gradually
I knew it wasn't only alchemy the old men practiced
in that leverage.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
It was witchcrest.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I reached out for one of the books, began to read,
M make an image in his name whom he was
just kill of a virgin, knew X, the person whose
death you desire the dust for a dead man to
make the hand of glory, That the hand of the
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murdered stranger be cut from him, and the hair of
a stranger that is hanged placed.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Within it as a wick.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Let it burn him through the night, and you shall
have the power to know all if ever the hair
rose on my head. It did at that moment someone laughed,
but no one was in the room. No one had
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opened the door. Then I looked again and saw.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
The old man. I have five starts, as you did
not expect.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Me, right, I saw the window open from my room mind.
I knew you you had things you valued here, so
I climbed up to shut it quite quite us. And
then I got interested, you know, and in the book
old books wor looting. Pretty not let me interrupt you.
These books do further fascination. That's a great recuination. Let
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me see what easy do I something about her hair,
the hand of glory? Yes, hanged men and the murdered man.
One would be fortunate to obtain both the items. APPI
it simultaneously. Yes, one would have to be willing to
wait for a long time. Stranger, how sweetly the nightingale
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seemings the years. And now we will close up the
laboratory and go back each to our own room. Let
me think you again for your solicitude. I will show
you down the staircase to your room, Stranger. He came
behind me in the darkness, moving softly. All the time.
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I could hear him still behind me, smell my door.
But he said good night, polit dream. Without another word,
he left me. I sat for a long time thinking,
but all the same I didn't particularly care for it
when the old man still called me strange. All next
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day I thought about Gregory Crew and his brother. I
knew it wasn't a dream. I knew they were mad
stock staring mads. Obviously they'd stopped at nothing in their
search for the secret of making gold. Something warned me
to get away, though it was Helen. Couldn't leave her,
so I told her I wanted her to come away
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with me, and she said she'd do as we decided
to go. Next day, I had no idea where I'd
take her, but I couldn't leave without her. That afternoon
I saw the uncles walking up the drive. Someone was
with a tramp, and a little tattered looking figure hobbled
along between them.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
They came here. I stayed hidden behind the arbor.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
You shall stay with us here, my men, until you're stronger. Oh,
you're very kind of me.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
You should sleep in the etic. We'll meet you up.
A bid brings your warm blankas and this soft metric.
You gentlemen, have saved me, always done. I've walked on
and on, not as young.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
As I was. You must have a hot meal.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
We'll sindo the kitchen for it.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
No, no, no bitter. Still you go and and and
ask for it to be saying, mister Kruz, you that's
standing on the right, sicken on the left by the
kitchen garden.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Gets your meal and will show you the etic. Don't
thank you, gentlemen, for they all right. A night's rest
and you'll get a different fellow tomorrow. Now go along, now.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Take it easy.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
The old tramp went hobbling up toward the kitchen. I
thought there was good in hell without all. I came
and sat side of the will. John Well gregularly waited
a long time. Now we need to wait no longer.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Two strangers under the same roof. When should it be tonight?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Other sight, he'll fleet in the attic. We'll we'll give
him a drug and he'll see play down. Then we'll
hang him before midnight. And the other he shall be
first a knife in his back. He first the stranger,
then the tramp is It will all be easy to
explain when the police come. Why did we best say
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the tramp murdered the stranger and hang himself.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Out of the MOUs the hand of glory, so simple
knife in the.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Back, and the man hangs and for us the power
to know all that so was that has found out
the love for the child being cast very nice.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
You'll go for that sort of thing. That night I
didn't go to bed.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I hear behind the curting was the big window in
my room outside the night, and girl was still saying.
The moon shone brightly. I waited, and just before midnight
the handle of my door began to turn.
Speaker 8 (21:21):
Why at change?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
It's dark in here, but the baby.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Is there in the shadow.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
You have done it, you show the bed.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Is empty, the strangers gone, gone with you and betrayed.
A sigh. You know the noise it all you would afraid.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
You won't liar you were hidden him.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
For your own purposes.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Your no, you would afraid a liar?
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Liar you over secret?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Would you?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
You'd take the girl from me? Your own brother? Where
is the I don't know, I said you, Why I
don't know?
Speaker 5 (22:04):
I told you, why don't know?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Where?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
You liars?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
You will do this to me, your own brother, my
own brother double with me?
Speaker 6 (22:12):
I real you will must say in the house.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
No, you don't pay for what you do over quickly
there was John Carr on the floor in the moonlight
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with a knife in his back.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Rather Gregory was gone, but.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
If I was the tramp, I rushed up the stairs
and found him snoring in his blankets.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Gregorre was nowhere to be seen. I ran back round.
The servants went to the laboratory.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
The laboratory was empty, but in one corner something swung
backwards and forwards from a being. So we went up
to the thing that's hung there very great carew I
murdered man and a hang man. The brother's got their
wish all right, the things they wanted for the hand
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of glory. The only trouble was they went around to
collect thin came the police hand indifference to Helen Knows
as little fast as possible. The facts were too obvious.
I stayed on a day or two one thing what
I ought to do about it, But she solved the
problem herself.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
I have come to tell you about the will. It's
can find him in abology.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
It's only a few lines.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
My uncle Gregory must have written it just before he died.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
It's changed changed.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
He let his whole fortune to me, o they but
it means you're the rich very rich Fellen, Well, when
should we leave this place?
Speaker 5 (23:53):
I'm not leaving now. I'm saying here, I don't need
your money, and I've got my own.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
My money, Helen, allgo, I haven't got me money.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
I haven't shoot about you and the staff and your
business to tell you the Oh yeah, Harry, I always
felt they were too good to be true. He was
a very fond of them all. Perhaps that they don't exist.
It's just as well I shan't need them now.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
But look here, Helen, aren't you coming away with me? Then?
Speaker 6 (24:20):
Not meet?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
He does?
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Mem I'm lucky, doesn't it? So the four of us,
I'm the only one who's got the.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Gold after all.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Harry lyme returns in just a moment, said, now very lies.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Oh yes, yes, in this age of radar, jet propulsion,
television and atomic energy, there's still room for witch grunts.
They don't go for broomsticks anymore, but there's lots of witches.
They don't bother with black cats. They settle for mink.
Take Helen for example, Now there was a real witch. Oh,
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I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, Old Harry has
been telling us a ghost story.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Oh sure, I have?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
After all, there are such things as ghosts, and also
there are such things as beautiful girls. But it's silly
to believe.
Speaker 8 (26:35):
In either of them, as in things.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Bristo stations from school.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Statista sat some time
Speaker 5 (28:07):
In inc Set and find
Presenting Orson Wells as the Third Man, the rives of
Harry Lyon, the fabulous stories of the immortal character originally
created in the motion picture of the Third Man with
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zither music by Anton Carris.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
That was me, Harry Lyon, making my way through a
side downey in Paris. Were you ever in such a
hurries didn't even know you've been hit? And I was
hit alright. It was to save a chunk of gold.
But where the goal was by then I didn't know,
and I didn't care well. I wanted to lay lower.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Somewhere, and I saw it happened.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I found myself one of those sleepy English villages, so
the cows chew their cards all day in the matters
nothing ever happened, or so I thought. You believe in witchcrafts.
I didn't, So then it's a lot to convince me
of anything.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
In this case.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Is needed the death of two people in that sleepy
English village to prove me wrong.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
And now Orson Wells as Harry Lyons the Third Man
in the hands of Glory.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I wanted to get away from Gold, away from France.
On the boats of the Channel crossing. All I cared
for was being quiet, very very quiet, he said, looks
like just another book.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I was pretty seedy and my arm was in a sling.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
I was feeling got it faint too, And then then
I felt someone touch my arm.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I saw uh with wide gray eyes and dark glasses.
It spilled over her cheeks.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Excuse me, I've been watching you. Are you all right?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yes, yes, I'm okay.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Thanks?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
You do look it?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Why don't you go down stairs?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Thanks?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
I like the air, it's so calm today. You can't
be seecid. Is your arm painful?
Speaker 6 (03:28):
You've got it in the flea y?
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Sure, there's nothing I can get?
Speaker 2 (03:32):
No, really, thanks, you're very kind, but I'm all right.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Are you in pain with that arm?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
This is not too good, but I'll be okay. Worry
about me?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Well do it?
Speaker 5 (03:40):
You sit down on one of these chairs, and then
you find a steward and order you would drink aut
in tea. Oh please let me do something for you.
You really you're going in.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I don't know how it was, but I felt better
for being around, I said. Bit.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
We were sitting there talking side by side, seeing we've
known each other for years. I told her I got
to go to anger the business I've been negotiating around
a tricky, bigger business in fact, and all the anxiety
that has made me exhausted, choose all sympathy.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
And when you got to a negotiations through, what you
need is a few weeks real risk, without any worries,
without anybody chasing about our.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Chasing about her. Oh yeah, yeah, you're a business associates.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
You mean mm, life full of wi these days for everyone.
You want to come and stay in the village, why,
I mean the steepy and quiet nothing ever happens there.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
It sounds perfect just suit me. I've had a really
tricky time just let in and then being running into
a back car on top of the door.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
You would come and stay with us, my uncle I
was telling you about them. You would be the nicety.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Wasn't maybe a bit surprised? I mean stranger arriving.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Oh they loved the strangers. And nothing ever surprises Uncle
John and Uncle Gregory. If you would have a surprise,
I would. I were a little odd a couple of those.
You but a big extension.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Tell me about it, Tell you about your home.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
There's nothing to tell the religious old apple blossom and nightingales.
This time of the year, and our house is on
the hills. It's pretty old. My aunt's vision isten here
the time.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Well what did they do before the time?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
They were signs? And now they still spend all their
time into the boro they built at the top of
the house the day they got up there on at
night too.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Oh it's a pretty dull for you.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Yes, I it very love me sometime.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Who you? What's your name?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
He Helen Cools.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
It's a pretty name to the pretty face.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Then you come and stay.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
All right?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I've cooming half a joke.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
But she gave me the addresses on me the time
whenever I likes a bit stuck on me.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I found it flattering.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
A week or two later, I fetched up at that
little village. Follow me, it's called lay in the heart
of the Send Country. I got to the station as
a message in heaven saying the car broken down.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
She'd be along a quarter of an hour.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
So I'm well away at the time, playing as a
local for a pine places empty landsard and I got talking. Now,
this is what I call it, typical old English village
folks a marriage come miles to see. If I's like this,
it's well enough, but I can out if I see
the opportunity. Are you why to sleep before you? Maybe
I want on me than if you had one of
(06:37):
those up and coming chaps to like town life. No,
I'm a countryman, so I'm looking on for somewhere else.
My wife feels the same about fellow meals.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
But does she all right?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I know I stop here at the end of my days.
I had the sense and we're not the only ones
who are making plans to go. This place doesn't bring
luck to anyone.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
You know that. It brings visitors in the summer, swans of.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You're wrong, there did wrong?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
They won't come.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Why what's the matter with the place? That's what we'd
all like to know.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I don't get you.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Maybe it's as well you don't what you're driving.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
Folks aren't lucky.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Around this way. That's all lucky. Well, I'm not seen
as anything, really, But the crops rot, the cattle ale,
the pigs get sick, and a man's discourage before he's begun.
That's pretty queer to me.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
It is pretty queer.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
And I can tell you something even queerer.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Okay, tell me it's the children.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Every now and again, one of them begins to go
finding away.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
That's all you can call it.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
A child gets hollow cheeked and pale, and in a
couple of months it's all over and no one can
tell why. That's very strange to me. And I was
told the village where nothing ever happened. Well, sir, you've
come to stay here.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Let's hope you find it that way.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I didn't take much notice for landor I saw Helen
standing in the doorway in a cool summer frock of
the sunshine behind her. I forgot everything, he said. She
drove me back along the green lane. So we came
to the house in there, under a ceedar tree on
the lawn of the two old uncles. I got on
the panama hats, and tea was set on a silver
(08:23):
tray on the table. Oh the stranger, how do you
do that?
Speaker 6 (08:28):
How do you do Helen? Stranger? You almost welcome me yet,
didy welcome.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Indeed, I'm grateful to you for inviting me here. Mister
Carroll and myself Gregory, my brother John.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Everyone caught my uncle, mister Gregory and mister John.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
So you would do the thing, Helen, Give me strangers
some tea.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Mister Nime uncle John.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
The strangers are very welcome here, very Sometimes we go
for weeks months without a stranger coming here. I never
yet tool strangers. Heaven told just how you lit on
the ship. We said she should ask you here straight away.
Helen said you wanted to get away from life. That's
what she said, to get away from life. Away. Stay
(09:10):
as long as you be shown there these long as
you know.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
That's very nice here. I'm sure not timed at all. Now,
if you will excuse me, and we have some work
to do. We don't allow more than half an hour.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Of a teach that we should have the places of
seeing your good dinner.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Thank you, sir. Don't think me. You have nothing to
think before, nothing to think I.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Either of a far Oh.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah, your uncle Sarry, I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
They still works.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Take into the laboratory. I tell you how they spend
all their time in it. No one ever got into it.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
But then not even the cleaners.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
They cleaned themselves. Please try and understand about them. Sorry,
they were so change with you.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Well, they were very nice and welcoming. You said there
were scientists, both of them here.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Yeah, twin you see, they've always done it. Think to
get us. Now they've got a kind of obsessions. I
didn't I want to explain about it.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Obsession? What do you think? What sort of obsession do.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
You think of? Nothing but goes? They want to find
out how to make it.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
No, I was like to sign out for the same thing.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
With my uncles. Has become a guy that's sacred trust.
They're determined to find out the secret of how to
make go before they die.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
They that's pretty quick about it was the very ale
and hearty.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
I think they start talking about goes to write dinner.
So now that I've told you, if they do, you'll
be ready to talk about it too.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Would you?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Oh, of course, it's don't worry. I'm always ready to
talk about goal. The trend u thing of base metals
into noble one, mister strangers with the touch of the
flaship a stone, and then could French mute fish metals
into a million times.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
As much coal.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Alts was called heat has been called alchemy for many
hundreds of years. No one has found the secret kit
power to know all is what we need?
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Don't you see, young.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Man, what's wrong with the world today?
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Mankind is killing himself in the search for greed. Striving anger,
leading to was stubbition and flind goal. Find the key
to what you're seeking, and your wars on God world
has prosperity and happy role for fourth.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Over the world, and all excuse for bitterness is done.
I can see your point certainly, set I can find
out how to make it. I haven't done yet, even
in a small ways.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
It will be done.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
We shall do it.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
If not we those who come after it. We are
leaving our great fortunes to the foundation. Oh yes, foundation, the.
Speaker 6 (11:40):
Foundation of a college for young scientists for research into the.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Making of gold. But what sort of things go into
making of this gool a thing that we must keep
the secret?
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Mister Stranger, no more wine, he will take no more wine?
Then shall we join head and in the other room?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Oh of course, But you know I find this such
a goose a goal and thinking I'd like to know
some more? But who would not like to know more?
And no one has ever found the secret yet? But
will is such a nebf where the found?
Speaker 7 (12:13):
When my brother and I have the power to know all?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Well, man, when you get the power, let me and.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Orson Wells returns in just a moment as the third
man and now orson welles. As the third man continues
(13:34):
with the hand of glory.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
They were to put it mildly, And I put up
all those two gentlemen, the Delveen smoking records. After dinner
each night they go off.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
To their laboratory. Helen and I were left on our own.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I felt sorry for seeing wistfulness.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
The gray eyes of verse that they belt at me.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
But sometimes I had an idea. She was sizing me up.
She used to get me to talk about my business affairs.
In a couple of weeks, I built up quite a
big office and the whole firm around myself. I got
to do everyone in and down to the lowers of
the clerks. I was all very well. What interested me
it was this laboratory that was search for gold. One night,
after I'd heard the uncle was going up to bed,
(14:21):
I decided to have a look at things for myself.
Craft the end of the laboratory. Through the window, some
handless summer night behind me, I could hear a night
and go singing in the garden. Always the place a
(14:43):
strange jumble of globes and bottles, bottles filled queer, bright liquids,
long with red like blood, and were little crucibles and
jars labeled, and by the light of a torture I
saw there were books and boards.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
MM, so fu kay I didn't take Yes, Oh, yes,
it's a crystal, and this fire was labeled pigeons blood.
Speaker 8 (15:10):
What can I want that for.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
A little figure made of wax? And then drag a.
Speaker 8 (15:19):
Sink?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Or I do do they need that for making gold? M?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I began to want that. I began to think.
Speaker 8 (15:29):
I looked at the wax figures, and I saw that
it was the figure of a child. And then gradually
I knew it wasn't only alchemy the old men practiced
in that leverage.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
It was witchcrest.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I reached out for one of the books, began to read,
M make an image in his name whom he was
just kill of a virgin, knew X, the person whose
death you desire the dust for a dead man to
make the hand of glory, That the hand of the
(16:07):
murdered stranger be cut from him, and the hair of
a stranger that is hanged placed.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Within it as a wick.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Let it burn him through the night, and you shall
have the power to know all if ever the hair
rose on my head. It did at that moment someone laughed,
but no one was in the room. No one had
(16:37):
opened the door. Then I looked again and saw.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
The old man. I have five starts, as you did
not expect.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Me, right, I saw the window open from my room mind.
I knew you you had things you valued here, so
I climbed up to shut it quite quite us. And
then I got interested, you know, and in the book
old books wor looting. Pretty not let me interrupt you.
These books do further fascination. That's a great recuination. Let
(17:07):
me see what easy do I something about her hair,
the hand of glory? Yes, hanged men and the murdered man.
One would be fortunate to obtain both the items. APPI
it simultaneously. Yes, one would have to be willing to
wait for a long time. Stranger, how sweetly the nightingale
(17:35):
seemings the years. And now we will close up the
laboratory and go back each to our own room. Let
me think you again for your solicitude. I will show
you down the staircase to your room, Stranger. He came
behind me in the darkness, moving softly. All the time.
(17:55):
I could hear him still behind me, smell my door.
But he said good night, polit dream. Without another word,
he left me. I sat for a long time thinking,
but all the same I didn't particularly care for it
when the old man still called me strange. All next
(18:23):
day I thought about Gregory Crew and his brother. I
knew it wasn't a dream. I knew they were mad
stock staring mads. Obviously they'd stopped at nothing in their
search for the secret of making gold. Something warned me
to get away, though it was Helen. Couldn't leave her,
so I told her I wanted her to come away
(18:44):
with me, and she said she'd do as we decided
to go. Next day, I had no idea where I'd
take her, but I couldn't leave without her. That afternoon
I saw the uncles walking up the drive. Someone was
with a tramp, and a little tattered looking figure hobbled
along between them.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
They came here. I stayed hidden behind the arbor.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
You shall stay with us here, my men, until you're stronger. Oh,
you're very kind of me.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
You should sleep in the etic. We'll meet you up.
A bid brings your warm blankas and this soft metric.
You gentlemen, have saved me, always done. I've walked on
and on, not as young.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
As I was. You must have a hot meal.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
We'll sindo the kitchen for it.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
No, no, no bitter. Still you go and and and
ask for it to be saying, mister Kruz, you that's
standing on the right, sicken on the left by the
kitchen garden.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Gets your meal and will show you the etic. Don't
thank you, gentlemen, for they all right. A night's rest
and you'll get a different fellow tomorrow. Now go along, now.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Take it easy.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
The old tramp went hobbling up toward the kitchen. I
thought there was good in hell without all. I came
and sat side of the will. John Well gregularly waited
a long time. Now we need to wait no longer.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Two strangers under the same roof. When should it be tonight?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Other sight, he'll fleet in the attic. We'll we'll give
him a drug and he'll see play down. Then we'll
hang him before midnight. And the other he shall be
first a knife in his back. He first the stranger,
then the tramp is It will all be easy to
explain when the police come. Why did we best say
(20:32):
the tramp murdered the stranger and hang himself.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Out of the MOUs the hand of glory, so simple
knife in the.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Back, and the man hangs and for us the power
to know all that so was that has found out
the love for the child being cast very nice.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
You'll go for that sort of thing. That night I
didn't go to bed.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I hear behind the curting was the big window in
my room outside the night, and girl was still saying.
The moon shone brightly. I waited, and just before midnight
the handle of my door began to turn.
Speaker 8 (21:21):
Why at change?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
It's dark in here, but the baby.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Is there in the shadow.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
You have done it, you show the bed.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Is empty, the strangers gone, gone with you and betrayed.
A sigh. You know the noise it all you would afraid.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
You won't liar you were hidden him.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
For your own purposes.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Your no, you would afraid a liar?
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Liar you over secret?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Would you?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
You'd take the girl from me? Your own brother? Where
is the I don't know, I said you, Why I
don't know?
Speaker 5 (22:04):
I told you, why don't know?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Where?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
You liars?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
You will do this to me, your own brother, my
own brother double with me?
Speaker 6 (22:12):
I real you will must say in the house.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
No, you don't pay for what you do over quickly
there was John Carr on the floor in the moonlight
(22:42):
with a knife in his back.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Rather Gregory was gone, but.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
If I was the tramp, I rushed up the stairs
and found him snoring in his blankets.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Gregorre was nowhere to be seen. I ran back round.
The servants went to the laboratory.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
The laboratory was empty, but in one corner something swung
backwards and forwards from a being. So we went up
to the thing that's hung there very great carew I
murdered man and a hang man. The brother's got their
wish all right, the things they wanted for the hand
(23:18):
of glory. The only trouble was they went around to
collect thin came the police hand indifference to Helen Knows
as little fast as possible. The facts were too obvious.
I stayed on a day or two one thing what
I ought to do about it, But she solved the
problem herself.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
I have come to tell you about the will. It's
can find him in abology.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
It's only a few lines.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
My uncle Gregory must have written it just before he died.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
It's changed changed.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
He let his whole fortune to me, o they but
it means you're the rich very rich Fellen, Well, when
should we leave this place?
Speaker 5 (23:53):
I'm not leaving now. I'm saying here, I don't need
your money, and I've got my own.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
My money, Helen, allgo, I haven't got me money.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
I haven't shoot about you and the staff and your
business to tell you the Oh yeah, Harry, I always
felt they were too good to be true. He was
a very fond of them all. Perhaps that they don't exist.
It's just as well I shan't need them now.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
But look here, Helen, aren't you coming away with me? Then?
Speaker 6 (24:20):
Not meet?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
He does?
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Mem I'm lucky, doesn't it? So the four of us,
I'm the only one who's got the.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Gold after all.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Harry lyme returns in just a moment, said, now very lies.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Oh yes, yes, in this age of radar, jet propulsion,
television and atomic energy, there's still room for witch grunts.
They don't go for broomsticks anymore, but there's lots of witches.
They don't bother with black cats. They settle for mink.
Take Helen for example, Now there was a real witch. Oh,
(26:21):
I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, Old Harry has
been telling us a ghost story.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Oh sure, I have?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
After all, there are such things as ghosts, and also
there are such things as beautiful girls. But it's silly
to believe.
Speaker 8 (26:35):
In either of them, as in things.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Bristo stations from school.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Statista sat some time
Speaker 5 (28:07):
In inc Set and find
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