December 29, 2023 • 29 mins
The Sealed Book was a radio series of mystery and terror tales, produced and directed by Jock MacGregor for the Mutual network. Between March 18 and September 9, 1945, the melodramatic anthology series was broadcast on Sundays from 10:30 pm to 11:00 pm.Each week, after "the sound of the great gong," host Philip Clarke observed that the mysteriously silent "keeper of the book has opened the ponderous door to the secret vault wherein is kept the great sealed book, in which is recorded all the secrets and mysteries of mankind through the ages.
Here are tales of every kind, tales of murder, of madness, of dark deeds strange and terrible beyond all belief." After this introduction, the dramas began, with three organ solo breaks for inserting the commercials of local stations carrying the program. Although this anthology series did not have recurring characters (other than the Narrator and the Keeper of the Book), the writers often used the same names for different characters from week to week, including "Hester", "Drake", and most especially "Roger".
Here are tales of every kind, tales of murder, of madness, of dark deeds strange and terrible beyond all belief." After this introduction, the dramas began, with three organ solo breaks for inserting the commercials of local stations carrying the program. Although this anthology series did not have recurring characters (other than the Narrator and the Keeper of the Book), the writers often used the same names for different characters from week to week, including "Hester", "Drake", and most especially "Roger".
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The seal Book. Once again.The Keeper of the Book has opened the
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ponderous door to the secret vault,wherein has kept the Great Sealed Book,
in which has recorded all the secretsand mysteries of mankind through the ages.
Here are tales of every kind,tales of murder, of madness, of
dark deeds, strange and terrible,beyond all belief. Keeper of the Book,
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I would know what tale we tellthis time. Open the great book
and let us read. Slowly.The great Book opens one by one.
The Keeper of the book turns thepages and stops ah the strange story of
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a handsome and mysterious man who,wherever he went, caused fear and grief,
a tale titled My Beloved Must Die. Here is the tale My Beloved
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Must Die, as it is writtenin the pages of the Sealed Book.
Our story begins in a large,smartly furnished apartment. Beautiful John Sanders sits
at the desk, a pen inher hand. Her face is white and
tense as she begins to write.Dear mister Rand, you have long been
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a friend of the family. I'mwriting this letter to you so that you
may know why I am going todo what I must believe me. There's
no other way out. I knowif you were here, you'd say,
murder's never justified. I feel positivethat in this case it is. I
find it difficult to gather my thoughtsso that I may write to you exactly
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what's happened up. I suppose itall began that afternoon two months ago when
Milly returned from her vacation. Oh, Joan, I had a wonderful time.
Everything is just perfect. And Joan, I met a male. Oh
no, wonder everything was perfy,Joan't just wait until you meet him.
His name is Victor de Val.Tell me about it well, to begin
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with, he's thirty two years old, a little over six feet tall,
very broad shouldered. It's dark complexed, and has the most beautiful black eyes
I've ever seen. Oh, really, Joan, he's handsome enough to be
a Hollywood star. But Milly,what about Frank? Have you forgotten you're
engaged to him? No? Butwell perhaps we aren't. Really you did
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for each other. You grew uptogether, and you know how Frank loves
you. Yes, I know,but Frank seems so young and immature.
Has Victor told you that he lovesyou? No? But he will in
time, I feel certain of it. Well, promise me, Nelly that
until that time you won't break offwith Frank all right, Joona, I
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promise you. Oh my goodness,it's five o'clock already you got a date?
Yes, Victor's calling for me atsix. We're having dinner together and
then go into the theater. Oh, Jana, I was never so happy
in all my life. Good evening. You must be John Mellie's sister.
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Yes, and of course you're Victor. Come in, won't you? Thank
you? Milly isn't quite finished dressing. You will give me for staring.
But I didn't believe anyone could beas beautiful as Milly until you opened that
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door. You're very kind. Oh, here are some flowers I brought for
you for me, Yes, Frankly, I want Milly's sister to b like
me. Milly Millie, you're avision of loveliness. And that white girl
here they should go well with it. Oh what a beautiful blue orchid.
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Thank you so much. Just matchesthe shade of your eyes. This is
going to be a perfect evening.I just know it is, isn't it,
Victim? Milly hadn't exaggerated in herdescription of Victor. There was something
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about him that set him apart fromother men. Was more than his looks
his voice. Perhaps it was hisextraordinary eyes were very large, deep black
eyes, and when he looked attwo they seemed to exert a hidden power
and almost hypnotic power. Whatever itwas that said Victor apart mother men who
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sensed it the moment of time.Later that evening, the doorbell rang I
opened the door to find Frank there. Hello, Frank, naicey Millie moment
joan, Oh, she isn't here. She's gone out for the evening,
gone out with de Val. Whyyes, So that's why she refused to
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see me to night. Might haveknown it. What do you think of
de Val? Well, I onlysaw him for a few minutes. He
seems very nice. You women areall alike. They're all taken in by
his good looks and his fine manners. But I tell you he's not to
be trusted. Something strange about him. Strange about him? Well, what
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do you mean? It's hard toput into words. Wherever de Val goes,
trouble seems to follow, but Devalapparently has nothing to do with it.
Somehow, I always have a feelinghe's behind it. Frank, aren't
you letting your imagination run away withyou? All Right? I may be
wrong, but I want you topromise me one thing, that you'll well
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keep a close watch on Milly.I don't want to see anything happen to
her that you regret. In theweeks that followed, Millie saw Victor constantly.
Night after night, they went toshows, nightclubs, parties. Milly
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was really home before dawn. Almostovernight, she had changed from a sweet,
unspoiled girl of twenty one to awoman I no longer knew life to
her had become Victor and the excitementand gaiety he represented. Oh hello,
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Frank, come in, won't you? Thanks? Joe. Suppose Milly's out
with the Val as usual? Yesshe is, And Frank, I'm worried,
so terribly worried about her. Ohso, at last, you're beginning
to realize that the Val isn't justanother man. There might be something to
what I told you. Yes,I have good reason to worry about the
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vow. What do you mean.I don't know who the Vale is or
where he came from, but fromthe short time we've known him, He's
ruined several people we know, andhas broken up more than one home.
Frank, what are you saying youdidn't know that our friend of Vallas a
gambler of the wildest type. Didyou a few nights ago he won forty
thousand dollars from Dan Richards that ruinedRichards and broke up his home. Oh,
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poor Dan and his wife Helen.Yes? And speaking of wives,
did you know that Dars Sanderson hasfiled suit for divorce Dars Anderson. Yes.
Seems that one night de Val wasdancing with Dars and he said to
her, put a pity, you'remarried now, Dars. Isn't reno,
Frank, it just doesn't seem possiblethat anyone could want to do such things.
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Joe knows. Are only a fewthings that de valas caused. Everywhere
he goes, he seems to createattention, bring about trouble, delights in
it. Tell you there's something unnaturalabout him, Frank? What can we
do? I was hoping that ifwe just let Milly alone, she won't
get over this infatuation for Deval,but she hasn't. I'm going to wait
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here until she returns, and we'regoing to have it out once and for
all, n no man at andnow to continue the story, my beloved
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must die, as it is writtenin the sealed book. The hours slipped
by as Frank and John awaited thehomecoming of Milly and her escort Victor de
Val. A little after three am. The door to the apartment was
quietly opened and Milly slipped in,followed by Victor. Evening Joan, Joan,
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I didn't expect to find Frank.What are you doing here at three
o'clock in the morning. It's timeyou and I had a little talk,
Milly. Frank, you're not goingto lecture me, are you. Milly?
You must listen to me. Can'tyou see what the vow's doing to
you. He's making you cold andcynical, like himself. There's something evil
about him, his eagerness to createtrouble, to see people unhappy. One
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time you would have despised him.Now you've changed, You've become lik him.
Oh really, Frank, you're goingtoo far. Milly. You know
I love you, only saying thisfor your own good. I'm tired of
your constantly interfering in my life.I think our engagements are mistake. Billy
What are you saying, Milly?You don't mean that. No, I
love you and I can't live withoutyou. I'm afraid you'll have to Frank.
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Here, here's your ring. We'rethrough all right, man. I
know when I'm late, I warnyou, vow bring you nothing but heartbreak
if you don't give him up.Some day I'll stand smiling at you,
just the way smiling at me now, and you'll see him for what he
really is. Morning, Joe,anything in the morning? Pick Joan,
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what's wrong? You're so pale?Milly? Frank was killed early this morning
while driving home. Killed. Yes, the paper says he ran off the
road while traveling at a first speedand hit a telephone pole. What's dreadful?
He's so young, Joan? Whyare you looking at me like that?
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You think it was my fault thathe was speeding and ran off the
road, don't you go I head, say it your fault. I don't
know. Somehow I keep thinking itwas Victor's fault. We were all so
happy, contented until he ended all. You haven't any right to talk about
Victor like that, you know,I love always cast a spell over you,
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as he has over so many others, and in the end, it
can only lead the disaster for you, as it has for Frank. Victor's
evil. I know that stop sayingthat, you hear, stop saying that
he isn't evil, and I'll nevergive him up. During the weeks that
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followed frank'st him, I scarcely somany I sensed that she was avoiding me,
afraid of the accusation she imagined shesaw in my eyes. I knew
that she was still seeing Victor.Every night. I began to hear stories
from a dozen sources about the twoof them on the life that Milly was
leading. As time went by,Victor that came involved in one scandal after
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another, and Milly with him.One night, I went to his home
determined to have it over him.Victor, you and I must have a
talk. But of course, Joan, what is it you wish to say
to Victor? You mustn't see Millyanymore? Oh may I ask why?
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You know very well why since youvented Milly's life. There's been nothing but
trouble. Before Milly met you,she was unspoiled and contented, ready to
marry a nice boy. But youchanged all that. Perhaps might be it's
a change for the better. Youknow that isn't true. If Milly weren't
in love with you, she'd neverbe leading the life she is. You've
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taken her and tried to change herinto someone like yourself, someone who's evil
and corrupted. You know you're verybeautiful when you're angry. You're amused by
all this, aren't you you enjoyknowing? I'm worried. We're all right,
man. Just remember you'd better notsee Milly again. John. You
wouldn't buy any chance, be forbiddingme to see Milly because you happen to
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be in love with me, yourselfme in love with you? Yes?
Does that sound so incredible? Manywomen are in love with me. You're
the last man in the world I'vefallen in love with. You're nothing but
an eager maniact with an overwhelming desireto possess into destroyer. Yet from the
moment we met, you have beenin love with me, haven't you all?
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You've fought against it, told yourselfI'm a scoundrel, which I admit
I am. And you tried toforget me, but you can't. That
isn't true. I've never loved you, and I never will. You have,
and you still do dream that mytaking you in my arms like this,
You've hated yourself for it. Letgo on. You do love me,
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doctor? No, no, Idon't love you. To hear it,
I don't, Oh Victor, No, tell me you don't love me,
oh, darling. Even now,a month after that night, the
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Victor took me into his arms,I'm confused. How can a person hate
Victor as I do, and yetyou'd love him at the same time.
I know he's evil, that he'sruined the lives of many people, Millie's
Franks, perhaps my own. Yetin spite of that, when I'm with
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him, it doesn't seem to matter. When he called at the apartment a
few nights later, I was happyto see him. M hm, Victor,
good evening, John, May Icome in? Yes, of course,
thank you. Milly isn't home yet. I haven't come to see Milly
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but her sister. Oh what didyou want to see me? About Victor?
About us? Oh Victor, youmust forget what happened that night.
Perhaps I do love you. Idon't know, but in any case,
it isn't fair to Milly. Ohplease, Victor, if you care for
either of us, you'll go away, leave us alone. In your heart.
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You know you don't want me togo. You want me close to
you as I am now. No, no, or you shouldn't forgive me,
Milly. I should have made morenoise when I opened the door.
Hello, Milly, I hope you'renot angry with me Victor by having turned
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up at such an inopportune moment.Please you, you must let me explain.
Nothing to explain, Joan. Itisn't your fault. It's Victors.
This isn't the first time I've caughthim making love to other women, but
to make love to my own.Come, come now, Milly, you
aren't being fair to me. Youknow I shouldn't hesitate to make love to
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Johan in front of you, wouldI? No, you wouldn't. Nothing
matters to you. Nothing You knowgood and you never will be. But
dear Heily, I've always told youthat that I'm a role in a scoundrel.
It isn't my fault. If youtook me seriously, I was a
fool, an utter fool to fallin love with you. Yes, yes,
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I'm afraid you were. I onlyhope that you're not going to be
difficult like the others were. No, you needn't worry about that. I
won't come crawling to you like theothers did. I've got too much pride
for that. Milly called me.I must go. No, no,
no, stay here, she'll gethold. How could you speak to her
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like that? Haven't you any heart? No, my dear, none at
all. I'm afraid I hate you? Do you hear me? I hate
you? You only thank you thedarling, But you don't go with me.
I'm going to it all right,John, Oh, I don't think
it will be much Lilly, Nelly, Oh darling, what's wrong, bottle
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Lilly? What if you're done?Come quickly? Lily's taken poison, taking
poison. Don't just stand there.We've got to do something. June burns.
So you're going to be all right, darling. I have to get
a doctor. I'm afraid it's toolate, Joan. I've seen this happen
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before you. Frank were right,John, he is evil. I came
to realize it. To me,I'm afraid you're wasting your time. She's
dead And now to continue the story, my beloved must die as it is
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written in the Sealed book, JohnSanders. Her face white and tense.
Sits at her desk, writing toa family friend, explaining why she is
going to do what she must.Been a month now since Milly died,
a month in which I have sufferedall the torments that she must have undergone
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when Frank died. Times I fearfor my sanity. I know I should
forget the past and live for thefuture, but I can't, for the
evil of the past is with mein the present. This afternoon, Victor
phoned me. Was the first Ihad heard from him since that night Milly
died. When I heard his voice, I'm ashamed to say I was thrilled,
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thrilled to hear the voice of theman who's responsible for Frank's death and
Lili's. In spite of everything Iknow, I still love him. There's
only one way out. Victor deVal must not be allowed to go on
running lives. I expect him.You're in a minute now. I must
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close this letter. What I'm goingto do must be done. I Victor,
Hello, Joan, come in,won't you thank you? We're not
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looking very well. John. Haveyou been here? Yes? Ever since
Millie is dead, you shouldn't thinkabout it. John's in the past.
You don't feel the slightest twinge ofremorse to you, not the slightest,
darling. Now, what about changinginto an evening gown so that we can
do the town? Oh? You'reheartless, inhuman. There's no other way
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out, my dear. Whatever areyou talking about? This? Victim?
A gun? Yes, victor none, Be foolish, my darling. Put
the gun away and get dressed.I could hardly miss you at this distance.
Well what are you waiting for?Why don't you shoot? Even knowing
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you're going to die doesn't frighten you, does it? No, my darling,
No, you see nothing in thisworld frightens me, not even death.
Oh you are inhuman, a horriblesmile on your face, scoffing at
me, at everyone. You liveonly the hurt and to destroy, don't
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you. Yes, yes, Idespise you all, every human being,
your righteousness, your smugness, yourfutile attempts to achieve happiness. There's nothing
I delight in more than to sendyou down into the feet, watch your
supper kill each other, commits youas high? Why you've done your last?
Evil? Big? Did you fall? I've shut you? Evidently you
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missed. I won't missed this time. Your gun seems to be empty.
I couldn't have missed you. Icouldn't. You didn't miss me? Why
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aren't you did? No one cankill me, No one. John.
Don't you know who I am?Who? Who are you? Look?
Look into my eyes, look deeply. Now do you know with whom you
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have fallen in love? You?Yeah? You're the devil? Yes,
yes, darling, the devil himself. No, I won't be in love
with you. I won't. Ohbut you will, Darling, you will,
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even though you know who I am, You'll be in love with me
forever, forever. And so endsthe tale. My Beloved must Die,
as it is written in the SealedBook. A few days after John Sanders
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had unsuccessfully attempted to kill Victor deVal, she suffered a nervous breakdown.
When the doctors questioned her, shekept repeating over and over that she'd fallen
in love with the devil, andnow caper of the book, Oh,
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you close the great book, Showus the tale we tell next time?
This one, ah, Yes.The tale of a scientist who ventured into
the unknown and whose experiment brought disasterinto his laboratory, A tale titled beware
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of tomorrow. Be sure to bewith us again next time when the sound
of the Great Gong heralds another strangeand exciting tale from The Seal Book.
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The Sealed Book, written by BobArthur and David Cogan, is produced and
directed by Jock MacGregor.
The seal Book. Once again.The Keeper of the Book has opened the
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ponderous door to the secret vault,wherein has kept the Great Sealed Book,
in which has recorded all the secretsand mysteries of mankind through the ages.
Here are tales of every kind,tales of murder, of madness, of
dark deeds, strange and terrible,beyond all belief. Keeper of the Book,
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I would know what tale we tellthis time. Open the great book
and let us read. Slowly.The great Book opens one by one.
The Keeper of the book turns thepages and stops ah the strange story of
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a handsome and mysterious man who,wherever he went, caused fear and grief,
a tale titled My Beloved Must Die. Here is the tale My Beloved
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Must Die, as it is writtenin the pages of the Sealed Book.
Our story begins in a large,smartly furnished apartment. Beautiful John Sanders sits
at the desk, a pen inher hand. Her face is white and
tense as she begins to write.Dear mister Rand, you have long been
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a friend of the family. I'mwriting this letter to you so that you
may know why I am going todo what I must believe me. There's
no other way out. I knowif you were here, you'd say,
murder's never justified. I feel positivethat in this case it is. I
find it difficult to gather my thoughtsso that I may write to you exactly
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what's happened up. I suppose itall began that afternoon two months ago when
Milly returned from her vacation. Oh, Joan, I had a wonderful time.
Everything is just perfect. And Joan, I met a male. Oh
no, wonder everything was perfy,Joan't just wait until you meet him.
His name is Victor de Val.Tell me about it well, to begin
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with, he's thirty two years old, a little over six feet tall,
very broad shouldered. It's dark complexed, and has the most beautiful black eyes
I've ever seen. Oh, really, Joan, he's handsome enough to be
a Hollywood star. But Milly,what about Frank? Have you forgotten you're
engaged to him? No? Butwell perhaps we aren't. Really you did
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for each other. You grew uptogether, and you know how Frank loves
you. Yes, I know,but Frank seems so young and immature.
Has Victor told you that he lovesyou? No? But he will in
time, I feel certain of it. Well, promise me, Nelly that
until that time you won't break offwith Frank all right, Joona, I
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promise you. Oh my goodness,it's five o'clock already you got a date?
Yes, Victor's calling for me atsix. We're having dinner together and
then go into the theater. Oh, Jana, I was never so happy
in all my life. Good evening. You must be John Mellie's sister.
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Yes, and of course you're Victor. Come in, won't you? Thank
you? Milly isn't quite finished dressing. You will give me for staring.
But I didn't believe anyone could beas beautiful as Milly until you opened that
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door. You're very kind. Oh, here are some flowers I brought for
you for me, Yes, Frankly, I want Milly's sister to b like
me. Milly Millie, you're avision of loveliness. And that white girl
here they should go well with it. Oh what a beautiful blue orchid.
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Thank you so much. Just matchesthe shade of your eyes. This is
going to be a perfect evening.I just know it is, isn't it,
Victim? Milly hadn't exaggerated in herdescription of Victor. There was something
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about him that set him apart fromother men. Was more than his looks
his voice. Perhaps it was hisextraordinary eyes were very large, deep black
eyes, and when he looked attwo they seemed to exert a hidden power
and almost hypnotic power. Whatever itwas that said Victor apart mother men who
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sensed it the moment of time.Later that evening, the doorbell rang I
opened the door to find Frank there. Hello, Frank, naicey Millie moment
joan, Oh, she isn't here. She's gone out for the evening,
gone out with de Val. Whyyes, So that's why she refused to
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see me to night. Might haveknown it. What do you think of
de Val? Well, I onlysaw him for a few minutes. He
seems very nice. You women areall alike. They're all taken in by
his good looks and his fine manners. But I tell you he's not to
be trusted. Something strange about him. Strange about him? Well, what
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do you mean? It's hard toput into words. Wherever de Val goes,
trouble seems to follow, but Devalapparently has nothing to do with it.
Somehow, I always have a feelinghe's behind it. Frank, aren't
you letting your imagination run away withyou? All Right? I may be
wrong, but I want you topromise me one thing, that you'll well
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keep a close watch on Milly.I don't want to see anything happen to
her that you regret. In theweeks that followed, Millie saw Victor constantly.
Night after night, they went toshows, nightclubs, parties. Milly
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was really home before dawn. Almostovernight, she had changed from a sweet,
unspoiled girl of twenty one to awoman I no longer knew life to
her had become Victor and the excitementand gaiety he represented. Oh hello,
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Frank, come in, won't you? Thanks? Joe. Suppose Milly's out
with the Val as usual? Yesshe is, And Frank, I'm worried,
so terribly worried about her. Ohso, at last, you're beginning
to realize that the Val isn't justanother man. There might be something to
what I told you. Yes,I have good reason to worry about the
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vow. What do you mean.I don't know who the Vale is or
where he came from, but fromthe short time we've known him, He's
ruined several people we know, andhas broken up more than one home.
Frank, what are you saying youdidn't know that our friend of Vallas a
gambler of the wildest type. Didyou a few nights ago he won forty
thousand dollars from Dan Richards that ruinedRichards and broke up his home. Oh,
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poor Dan and his wife Helen.Yes? And speaking of wives,
did you know that Dars Sanderson hasfiled suit for divorce Dars Anderson. Yes.
Seems that one night de Val wasdancing with Dars and he said to
her, put a pity, you'remarried now, Dars. Isn't reno,
Frank, it just doesn't seem possiblethat anyone could want to do such things.
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Joe knows. Are only a fewthings that de valas caused. Everywhere
he goes, he seems to createattention, bring about trouble, delights in
it. Tell you there's something unnaturalabout him, Frank? What can we
do? I was hoping that ifwe just let Milly alone, she won't
get over this infatuation for Deval,but she hasn't. I'm going to wait
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here until she returns, and we'regoing to have it out once and for
all, n no man at andnow to continue the story, my beloved
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must die, as it is writtenin the sealed book. The hours slipped
by as Frank and John awaited thehomecoming of Milly and her escort Victor de
Val. A little after three am. The door to the apartment was
quietly opened and Milly slipped in,followed by Victor. Evening Joan, Joan,
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I didn't expect to find Frank.What are you doing here at three
o'clock in the morning. It's timeyou and I had a little talk,
Milly. Frank, you're not goingto lecture me, are you. Milly?
You must listen to me. Can'tyou see what the vow's doing to
you. He's making you cold andcynical, like himself. There's something evil
about him, his eagerness to createtrouble, to see people unhappy. One
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time you would have despised him.Now you've changed, You've become lik him.
Oh really, Frank, you're goingtoo far. Milly. You know
I love you, only saying thisfor your own good. I'm tired of
your constantly interfering in my life.I think our engagements are mistake. Billy
What are you saying, Milly?You don't mean that. No, I
love you and I can't live withoutyou. I'm afraid you'll have to Frank.
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Here, here's your ring. We'rethrough all right, man. I
know when I'm late, I warnyou, vow bring you nothing but heartbreak
if you don't give him up.Some day I'll stand smiling at you,
just the way smiling at me now, and you'll see him for what he
really is. Morning, Joe,anything in the morning? Pick Joan,
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what's wrong? You're so pale?Milly? Frank was killed early this morning
while driving home. Killed. Yes, the paper says he ran off the
road while traveling at a first speedand hit a telephone pole. What's dreadful?
He's so young, Joan? Whyare you looking at me like that?
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You think it was my fault thathe was speeding and ran off the
road, don't you go I head, say it your fault. I don't
know. Somehow I keep thinking itwas Victor's fault. We were all so
happy, contented until he ended all. You haven't any right to talk about
Victor like that, you know,I love always cast a spell over you,
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as he has over so many others, and in the end, it
can only lead the disaster for you, as it has for Frank. Victor's
evil. I know that stop sayingthat, you hear, stop saying that
he isn't evil, and I'll nevergive him up. During the weeks that
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followed frank'st him, I scarcely somany I sensed that she was avoiding me,
afraid of the accusation she imagined shesaw in my eyes. I knew
that she was still seeing Victor.Every night. I began to hear stories
from a dozen sources about the twoof them on the life that Milly was
leading. As time went by,Victor that came involved in one scandal after
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another, and Milly with him.One night, I went to his home
determined to have it over him.Victor, you and I must have a
talk. But of course, Joan, what is it you wish to say
to Victor? You mustn't see Millyanymore? Oh may I ask why?
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You know very well why since youvented Milly's life. There's been nothing but
trouble. Before Milly met you,she was unspoiled and contented, ready to
marry a nice boy. But youchanged all that. Perhaps might be it's
a change for the better. Youknow that isn't true. If Milly weren't
in love with you, she'd neverbe leading the life she is. You've
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taken her and tried to change herinto someone like yourself, someone who's evil
and corrupted. You know you're verybeautiful when you're angry. You're amused by
all this, aren't you you enjoyknowing? I'm worried. We're all right,
man. Just remember you'd better notsee Milly again. John. You
wouldn't buy any chance, be forbiddingme to see Milly because you happen to
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be in love with me, yourselfme in love with you? Yes?
Does that sound so incredible? Manywomen are in love with me. You're
the last man in the world I'vefallen in love with. You're nothing but
an eager maniact with an overwhelming desireto possess into destroyer. Yet from the
moment we met, you have beenin love with me, haven't you all?
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You've fought against it, told yourselfI'm a scoundrel, which I admit
I am. And you tried toforget me, but you can't. That
isn't true. I've never loved you, and I never will. You have,
and you still do dream that mytaking you in my arms like this,
You've hated yourself for it. Letgo on. You do love me,
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doctor? No, no, Idon't love you. To hear it,
I don't, Oh Victor, No, tell me you don't love me,
oh, darling. Even now,a month after that night, the
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Victor took me into his arms,I'm confused. How can a person hate
Victor as I do, and yetyou'd love him at the same time.
I know he's evil, that he'sruined the lives of many people, Millie's
Franks, perhaps my own. Yetin spite of that, when I'm with
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him, it doesn't seem to matter. When he called at the apartment a
few nights later, I was happyto see him. M hm, Victor,
good evening, John, May Icome in? Yes, of course,
thank you. Milly isn't home yet. I haven't come to see Milly
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but her sister. Oh what didyou want to see me? About Victor?
About us? Oh Victor, youmust forget what happened that night.
Perhaps I do love you. Idon't know, but in any case,
it isn't fair to Milly. Ohplease, Victor, if you care for
either of us, you'll go away, leave us alone. In your heart.
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You know you don't want me togo. You want me close to
you as I am now. No, no, or you shouldn't forgive me,
Milly. I should have made morenoise when I opened the door.
Hello, Milly, I hope you'renot angry with me Victor by having turned
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up at such an inopportune moment.Please you, you must let me explain.
Nothing to explain, Joan. Itisn't your fault. It's Victors.
This isn't the first time I've caughthim making love to other women, but
to make love to my own.Come, come now, Milly, you
aren't being fair to me. Youknow I shouldn't hesitate to make love to
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Johan in front of you, wouldI? No, you wouldn't. Nothing
matters to you. Nothing You knowgood and you never will be. But
dear Heily, I've always told youthat that I'm a role in a scoundrel.
It isn't my fault. If youtook me seriously, I was a
fool, an utter fool to fallin love with you. Yes, yes,
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I'm afraid you were. I onlyhope that you're not going to be
difficult like the others were. No, you needn't worry about that. I
won't come crawling to you like theothers did. I've got too much pride
for that. Milly called me.I must go. No, no,
no, stay here, she'll gethold. How could you speak to her
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like that? Haven't you any heart? No, my dear, none at
all. I'm afraid I hate you? Do you hear me? I hate
you? You only thank you thedarling, But you don't go with me.
I'm going to it all right,John, Oh, I don't think
it will be much Lilly, Nelly, Oh darling, what's wrong, bottle
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Lilly? What if you're done?Come quickly? Lily's taken poison, taking
poison. Don't just stand there.We've got to do something. June burns.
So you're going to be all right, darling. I have to get
a doctor. I'm afraid it's toolate, Joan. I've seen this happen
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before you. Frank were right,John, he is evil. I came
to realize it. To me,I'm afraid you're wasting your time. She's
dead And now to continue the story, my beloved must die as it is
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written in the Sealed book, JohnSanders. Her face white and tense.
Sits at her desk, writing toa family friend, explaining why she is
going to do what she must.Been a month now since Milly died,
a month in which I have sufferedall the torments that she must have undergone
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when Frank died. Times I fearfor my sanity. I know I should
forget the past and live for thefuture, but I can't, for the
evil of the past is with mein the present. This afternoon, Victor
phoned me. Was the first Ihad heard from him since that night Milly
died. When I heard his voice, I'm ashamed to say I was thrilled,
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thrilled to hear the voice of theman who's responsible for Frank's death and
Lili's. In spite of everything Iknow, I still love him. There's
only one way out. Victor deVal must not be allowed to go on
running lives. I expect him.You're in a minute now. I must
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close this letter. What I'm goingto do must be done. I Victor,
Hello, Joan, come in,won't you thank you? We're not
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looking very well. John. Haveyou been here? Yes? Ever since
Millie is dead, you shouldn't thinkabout it. John's in the past.
You don't feel the slightest twinge ofremorse to you, not the slightest,
darling. Now, what about changinginto an evening gown so that we can
do the town? Oh? You'reheartless, inhuman. There's no other way
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out, my dear. Whatever areyou talking about? This? Victim?
A gun? Yes, victor none, Be foolish, my darling. Put
the gun away and get dressed.I could hardly miss you at this distance.
Well what are you waiting for?Why don't you shoot? Even knowing
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you're going to die doesn't frighten you, does it? No, my darling,
No, you see nothing in thisworld frightens me, not even death.
Oh you are inhuman, a horriblesmile on your face, scoffing at
me, at everyone. You liveonly the hurt and to destroy, don't
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you. Yes, yes, Idespise you all, every human being,
your righteousness, your smugness, yourfutile attempts to achieve happiness. There's nothing
I delight in more than to sendyou down into the feet, watch your
supper kill each other, commits youas high? Why you've done your last?
Evil? Big? Did you fall? I've shut you? Evidently you
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missed. I won't missed this time. Your gun seems to be empty.
I couldn't have missed you. Icouldn't. You didn't miss me? Why
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aren't you did? No one cankill me, No one. John.
Don't you know who I am?Who? Who are you? Look?
Look into my eyes, look deeply. Now do you know with whom you
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have fallen in love? You?Yeah? You're the devil? Yes,
yes, darling, the devil himself. No, I won't be in love
with you. I won't. Ohbut you will, Darling, you will,
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even though you know who I am, You'll be in love with me
forever, forever. And so endsthe tale. My Beloved must Die,
as it is written in the SealedBook. A few days after John Sanders
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had unsuccessfully attempted to kill Victor deVal, she suffered a nervous breakdown.
When the doctors questioned her, shekept repeating over and over that she'd fallen
in love with the devil, andnow caper of the book, Oh,
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you close the great book, Showus the tale we tell next time?
This one, ah, Yes.The tale of a scientist who ventured into
the unknown and whose experiment brought disasterinto his laboratory, A tale titled beware
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of tomorrow. Be sure to bewith us again next time when the sound
of the Great Gong heralds another strangeand exciting tale from The Seal Book.
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The Sealed Book, written by BobArthur and David Cogan, is produced and
directed by Jock MacGregor.
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