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Speaker 1 (00:11):
You unlocked this door with the key of imagination. Beyond
it is another dimension, a dimension of sound, a dimension
of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a
land of both shadow and substance of things and ideas.
You've just crossed over into the twilight zone.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It's just very director of development, good morning, said, yes,
this is market research, mister, mister Jameson's office person.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I ask mister Sterling to return your car.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Oh, hello, is the legal department? How can it with
mister Farwell?
Speaker 5 (01:01):
He hasn't not yet.
Speaker 6 (01:02):
May I take your number, Miss Pepper?
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Mister Feathersmith, how are you this morning?
Speaker 6 (01:07):
Miss Pepper? When the old gentleman arrives, will you show
him in?
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Of course?
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Sir?
Speaker 7 (01:12):
Is there anything I can get you?
Speaker 6 (01:14):
The mail's on your desk.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I have a list of your appointments.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
The old gentleman. That would be mister Dietrich. Then it's
der Tug. What's that the day today?
Speaker 7 (01:26):
Isn't that right, Helen? Well, he has an appointment, He's
going to get it. Mister Feathersmith had been drawn and
courted and served up in the executive dining.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Room with an apple in his mouth.
Speaker 7 (01:37):
I really couldn't say that's because you haven't been here
very long. Did you hear him?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
He was humming. Do you know why he doesn't like
to get haircuts?
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Because he's horn show?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
There's mister d trick.
Speaker 8 (01:54):
Excuse me, I have an appointment to see mister Feathersmith.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Oh yes, mister Dietrich.
Speaker 8 (01:59):
If you let him know that I'm.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Here, he's expecting you, sir, go right in.
Speaker 8 (02:03):
Thank you very kindly.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
Yes, mister Dietrich, Sir, come in.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I can just see him now, that big happy grin
before he draws blood. Have a cigar, mister Dietrich, before
I rip you to pieces.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
This cigar.
Speaker 9 (02:31):
Mister Dietrich, You're about to witness a murder, a wilful
predatory case of homicide. The victim is a mister Sebastian Dietrich,
age seventy seven. The killer is a mister William Feathersmith,
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a robber baron whose body composition consists of refrigeration coils
covered by thick skin. In a moment, mister Feathersmith will
proceed on his daily course of conquest and calumny with
yet another business deal. But today's deal will be one
of those bizarre transactions that take place only in an
odd out of the way marketplace known as the Twilight Zone.
Speaker 10 (03:19):
And now the Twilight Zone and our story of late
I think of Cliffordville starring H. M. Winnett with Stacy
Keats as your narrator.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
I said, would you like a cigar?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
No?
Speaker 8 (03:35):
Thank you, mister Feathersmith. You asked me to come here too,
and it is now too What did you have on
your mind?
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Hm? You've never cared much for my personal habits, have you?
D drig? Smoking? For example?
Speaker 8 (03:55):
Whether I do or don't is really not at issue,
mister Feathersmith. But the extent of time that you keep
me here is, on the other hand, of considerable import.
I'm a busy man. I'd like to get on with it.
Speaker 9 (04:08):
Hmmm.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
By all means we've gone pretty far out, the two
of us, have we. I owe you a great deal,
mister d Drick. I remember vividly the afternoon, many many
years ago, back in Cliffordville, you called me into your office.
You ran a rinky dank Nicholin dime little tool shop,
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and you said, you said, Bill Feathersmith, I like your style. Boy.
I want you in with me. Do you remember that afternoon?
Speaker 8 (04:41):
I shall never forget that afternoon, mister Feathersmith. I thought
about it a good deal in the ensuing years, and
I've never.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Ceased to regret it.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
You never did like me.
Speaker 8 (04:53):
I wouldn't say that I have disliked and attested you
with great cordiality. I have found you be as of
the day you walk into my office, a predatory, grasping, covetous,
acquisitive animal without heart, without conscience, without compassion, and without
even a subtle hint of the most commonplace decency. Does
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that answer your question?
Speaker 6 (05:17):
I give you this, stee drake. You never were a
man to toady around with a lot of phony euphemisms.
You always did speak your mind.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
And you, mister Feathersmith, mark you this is perhaps the
singular compliment I can dredge up. Have always been a
man to speak your soul.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Why don't you?
Speaker 6 (05:36):
All right? Then, I'll do precisely that. See this map.
It's my empire mining over here, electronics here here, and here, lumber, railroads, minerals,
an industrial complex I built up step by step, piece
by piece, and in which I take pardonable. Yet there's
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a peace missing.
Speaker 11 (06:04):
Go on, well, that is to say, there was a
piece missing the d dricht Tulindai plant was a good,
substantial plant, employing thirteen thousand people, some forty years in operation,
not always perfectly managed.
Speaker 8 (06:19):
But sufficiently well to make you move heaven and earth
to try to buy it. Thank God, I won't live
to see the day when you get your greasy hands
on it.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Of course, as the matter of your financial problems, I
happen to know, mister Ddrich, that you secured a loan
of thirteen million dollars. This is the note here, isn't it.
How do you I bought the note, mister Ddrich. I
paid an exorbitant amount of money, far more than it
was worth. But it was, let's say, an exceptional opportunity
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for our lives to criss cross again. What is your point?
The point is right here on the note. It says
payable on demand, so undemand it is I want it paid,
not tomorrow, now, this moment. I want your personal check
in the amount of thirteen million dollars, or I'm very
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much afraid I'll have to send out the painters to
the Deitrich Tulinda works and cross your name off the
signs Feathersmith.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
If you call in that note you'll ruin me, You'll
put me into bankruptcy, you'll kill off everything I have,
everything I own.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
You're a most discerning man. Here. It is only six
minutes past two. Six minutes. That's all the time it's
taken for you to comprehend that I've.
Speaker 12 (07:40):
Managed to kill you off, mister d Trick?
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Are you a rot?
Speaker 10 (07:54):
Sir?
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Is everything you like?
Speaker 10 (07:56):
To?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Sit down?
Speaker 5 (07:57):
You look so bare?
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Miss miss Pepper? Miss Pepper?
Speaker 13 (08:24):
Where is she? What time is it?
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Well? Excuse me, sir, I didn't know you were still here.
I'm here, my good man, I'm assuredly here, and here
is the mountaintop, the high wrung on the ladder. We'll
finished cleaning later. No no, no, no, no, no, no no.
You you may join me on the mountaintop here. I
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am way up on the mountain like like like who
was it Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, Julius feather Smith. Don't worry, sir,
I'll clean it up. Who are you anyway?
Speaker 14 (09:11):
I'm Hackett, sir. The custodian top three floors.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Well, how would you like a drink? Mister custodian of
the top three floors? Yes see, I have another bottle somewhere.
Thank you, No, but I appreciate it. How long have
you been performing this illustrious task?
Speaker 14 (09:33):
Thirty four years, sir, I've been thirty four years in
the building. I got a gold watch last year.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
A gold watch. Oh, after thirty four years. That's practically
as long as I've been in the building. But I
didn't start here, No, no, no, no, I know indeed
I started in a little town called Cliffordville. Never hear
of Cliffordville, mister Hackett.
Speaker 14 (09:59):
That's a yup, that's a coincidence. Mister Feathersmith. I was
born in Cliffordville, grew up there.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Well, then we have something in common. We're both on
Cliffordville and we both put on our pants one leg
at a time. But there the similarity ends. Come here,
I want to show you something, Yes, sir, see this
picture on the wall. Know who it is? Why?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I'm not sure?
Speaker 6 (10:26):
That's William Feathersmith me, taken in front of our old
home in Cliffordville. Now that was a town, wasn't it.
That was a real place, stately trees, gracious homes, beautiful
sprawling park and real people. People who knew the value
of a buck. People who worked hard to get it.
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There was none of this crazy stuff about unions, retirement benefits,
AUNTI trust suits or any of that clap trap. Those
were the real times when a man could go up
to the stars that he had a mind too in
the lakes to carry him, and the fingers to reach
out and grasp. Not like now, not like now at all.
Speaker 15 (11:09):
I reckon.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
So I'm going home now, mister Hegett, may as well.
No place else to go. Yes, sir, I've been sitting
here for three hours all by myself thinking about Clifford
though about how I wished it was that way again.
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I had an old man here today, didrike? He gave
me my first real job. Well, I fixed his wagon.
He never liked me, I never liked him. We both
used each other, and I got the most used out
of it. I broke him to pieces today, just like
he would have done to me if he could. And
he's tried, mister Haggett, let me tell you he's tried.
Speaker 14 (11:54):
Good night then, mister Fathersmith, William.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Feathersmith, what a crock. Alexander Feathersmith is more like it,
Alexander the Great Feathersmith. I've got everything there is to get.
But I'm still hungry. Understand, I'm hungry a twenty course meal.
I've got a tapeworm inside me that's taken every.
Speaker 16 (12:16):
Bit of it.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
He cried, Well, what did you say? Alexander the Great?
He cried because he had no more worlds to conquer.
Speaker 14 (12:27):
I guess I guess maybe he was kind of like you,
mister Feathersmith.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Hmmm, you know, you know what I wish. I wish
I could go back to Cliffordville, back fifty years ago
and start all over, because getting it all that was
the kick, not having it getting it. Good night, mister Hackett,
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custodian of the top three floors. Don't forget to wind
your gold watch. Oh at last, hold on it. This
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isn't the lobby. Hey wait, I said, Wait where thirteenth floor?
Oh great, this building doesn't have a thirteenth floor. Hello?
Who's there? Hello? Hello, I'm glad you're still here. The
elevator let me off the wrong floor?
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Oh how do you do? Sir? I was just about
to close up.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Who are you?
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Devlin?
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Just Devlin?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
The first name is not important.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
No, I own this building.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
I'm aware of that, mister Feathersmith.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
What I'm not aware of is you're having an office here?
Whoever you are.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Oh, I've just opened it, mister Feathersmith, Devlin's Travel Service.
As a matter of fact, I opened it for your
convenience mine.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Would you care to come in?
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Why?
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Why?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Because, mister Feathersmith, we've got some business to transact. You
and I please have a seat. There's no reason why
we shouldn't be comfortable, is there?
Speaker 6 (14:21):
I must have missed something. We have business, what sort
of business travel?
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Of course I've been expecting you. You have sit please?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Now, isn't there anywhere you like to go your heart's desire?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Well, there was this town, of course there was the.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Name of the town was Cliffordville.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Ah, yes, Cliffordville. And it was a pleasant town.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
It was better than pleasant. And there were the local girls.
Oh beautiful, just beautiful.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
They always are. Go on, you were saying, I.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Remember old Doc Wagner too treated me when I broke
my arm. That's another thing. There was none of this
blood pressure, basal metabolism, cholesterl nonsense. Old Doc Wagner looked
at your tongue and wrote out a prescription and that
was it. And the food simple, fair, healthy and delicious
that was the way life was then.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Simple and you enjoyed that, didn't you.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
No, I didn't have time to enjoy anything. But I
did what I wanted to do. I worked, I scrambled,
I dug, I scratched, I pushed, drove, and I went up. Understand,
I went up.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
And now you're all the way up. But you're simply bored.
That's what it is, isn't it, mister Feathersmith.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
I'm worse than bored. I don't have any purpose now,
no plans, no drive because there's no place left to go.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Are you sure?
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Sign on your door? What does it mean?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Exactly a succinct suggestion of the kind of service I offer,
mister Feathersmith. And that is just as it says travel,
or more to the point, if you don't mind the
rather melodramatic terminology, one might call it time travel.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Miss Devlin. I think we may have something to talk
about after all.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Indeed, mister Feathersmith, you've got everything you want, and the
pleasure is not in the acquisition.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
It's in the struggle to acquire, isn't that the sense
of it?
Speaker 6 (16:50):
Go ahead, so let's do this.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Let's send you back to Cliffordville. The Cliffordville of fifty
years ago, and you can start fresh, build, consolidate, do
it all over again.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
How does that sound.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
You're not dealing with a bumpkin, Miss Devlin. This isn't
one of those say your soul for a nickel country boys.
Try this. You send me back in time to Cliffordville.
But I want to look like I looked fifty years ago.
Agreed number two. I want to keep my memory everything
that's happened since not impaired one bit.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Check again.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
And I want the town to be exactly as it
was the same.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
People, all very easily arranged now.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
For the price. I suppose the standard payment as well.
What you call a.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Soul on occasion, that is part of the transaction. But
in your case, I believe we got a hold of
your soul some time ago.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Let me check. Hmm, oh, yes, here it is.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
There was the crash of the trans Mississippi Debentures, the
company you bought and manipulated. You ruined several hundred people
with that bit of chicanery. The bulk of your soul
went over to us shortly thereafter. And there are several
other items here, private life, subconscious thoughts and dreams, indirect murders,
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people you drove to ruin, hopelessness and suicide. Now I'm
afraid your soul is not yours to negotiate.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Then what do you charge.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Cash, mister Feathersmith, the old Missoula. I have your current
assets tabulated here. Were you to liquidate as of this moment,
you'd be worth precisely one hundred thirty six million, eight
hundred and ninety one thousand, four hundred and twelve dollars
and fourteen cents.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
M You're very thorough.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
We have to be. Now.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
The cost for what you ask is nominal. The entire bill,
and this covers transportation, clothing, the retaining of your memory,
the maintenance of the town, and it's historically accurate form,
including its citizenry, is one hundred thirty six million, eight
hundred and eighty eight thousand six dollars, leaving you a
balance of two thousand, eight hundred twelve dollars and fourteen cents.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Hi Way robbery quite.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
A little nestag considering.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Considering that I know where the oil is just outside
of town, fourteen hundred acres, not discovered until they brought
in the first well. And of course I know the
stock market in advance, and every important invention over the
years before it happens. I can get in on the
ground floor.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
The absolute basement, all things considered, mister Feathersmith, it's a fortune.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
You just send me back there with my bank roll
and watch my smoke. How soon can I go?
Speaker 5 (19:48):
I'll handle a liquidation for you.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Just sign this power of attorney, and there's no reason
why you can't leave, say tomorrow morning.
Speaker 13 (19:57):
Done.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Exemplary, mister Feathersmith. You're one of the few remaining rugged individualists.
A pleasure doing business with you now, Union Airways eight am,
followed by a rail connection the rest of the way.
I'm afraid there was no airport near Cliffordville back then.
You'll arrive at noon, exactly fifty years ago. And needless
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to say, I wish you everything that you deserve.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
The lady, you don't have to wish me anything. I'll
get everything. I go after everything.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
You know, mister Feathersmith. I believe you, In fact, I
have no doubt whatsoever. Care for a cigar?
Speaker 17 (20:45):
Here's your stop, sir, Are you sure?
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Yeah? This is it?
Speaker 10 (20:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (20:50):
Yes, yes, there's the town square.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
You need a hand with your bags.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
I don't have any bags, and I don't need a
hand from anybody. Say, conductor, is there is there a
mirror handy?
Speaker 17 (21:04):
Why, yes, sir, there's one right inside that door.
Speaker 13 (21:06):
There, devilin you really did it?
Speaker 6 (21:16):
I look fifty?
Speaker 13 (21:17):
Is younger?
Speaker 17 (21:21):
Is everything?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
All right?
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Sir? All right? My man thinks couldn't.
Speaker 17 (21:25):
Be better than than Good day to you, sir.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
Enjoy your staying Cliffordville.
Speaker 13 (21:30):
All aboard.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Cliffordville.
Speaker 13 (21:36):
Mm hmmm, the devil you say.
Speaker 10 (21:49):
M.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yes, sir, May I help you.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
I'd like to see the president of the bank.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
That would be mister Gibbons. Do you have an appointment?
Speaker 6 (22:00):
No, but he'll see me.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
He's having his lunch right now.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Tell him, mister Feathersmith is here to talk about investments,
some very important investments.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
All right, sir, I'll tell him.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Take your time, sweetie. At the time the bank closes,
I'll have this dumpy little milk stop tied up with
a ribbon around it deliverable to me. I'll only be
a moment, sir.
Speaker 8 (22:34):
Don't normally let business interfere with pleasure.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
I never allow pleasure to interfere with business. The name
is Feathersmith. I'm not a peddler, a drummer, or door
to door salesman. I'm here to make myself rich, and
in the process you pick up a few crumbs of
your own.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
The widow Turner's land, the south end of town. Is
it available?
Speaker 10 (22:56):
The Widow Turner's land?
Speaker 6 (22:57):
There were fourteen hundred acres, mister Gibbons, Is there an
echo in here? No? No, indeed, it's just that.
Speaker 10 (23:07):
Well, sir, you're talking about a valuable piece of property,
a beautiful spot, singing birds and constant sunshine, a garden of.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Eden for a man with vision.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
The potential is unlimited.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
It's a swamp for mosquitoes, and the potential's malaria. I
just want you to tell me who owns it and
how much they want for it.
Speaker 10 (23:28):
As a matter of fact, it was purchased from the
late Missus Turner's estate by yours truly, in partnership with
a mister Sebastian Diedrich.
Speaker 13 (23:38):
Diedrich.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Huh what do you know? Well? Do you suppose you
and mister Diedrich could be persuaded to part with your
land assuming the price is right?
Speaker 10 (23:49):
As valuable as it is, well, sir, everything has its
price how does eight dollars an acre.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
Sound lovely good, good if I were an idiot. But
I'm not an idiot, mister Gibbons, I'll give you one
dollar an acre.
Speaker 10 (24:06):
Well, why don't we strike a compromise and say six
dollars let's say one fifty. You drive a hard bargain,
mister Dietrich, and I might hold still for.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Four dollars an acre.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Mister Gibbons, you wouldn't hold still for a back rub
if it couldn't be converted into currency. Two dollars an acre,
and that's it to you. Say two, I said, and
ten minutes from now it'll go down to one.
Speaker 10 (24:31):
Sixty, going, going, gone, mister Feathersmith. I presume this will
be a cash transaction.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
You bring the deed over to my hotel tonight, properly
signed and Notariyes, then you'll have your money.
Speaker 10 (24:44):
Well, now, sir, this is the way I like to
do business. No fiddling around, just two stanch men of
goodwill who know what they want.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Wouldn't you agree, mister Feathersmith. I'll agree with you all
the way down the line, mister Gibbons, as long as
you keep both hands on the table. Here's your coffee, sir,
enjoy your dinner. Give my compliments to the chef. Tell
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him if he ever wants to go into the cement business,
I'll back him. Oh you didn't like your staking eggs.
I was enraptured by them, all fourteen pounds? What do
you fry them in motor oil? Why? Lard, sir, lard,
of course. The things a man remembers beg your pardon.
Weren't there elm trees outside on the square?
Speaker 16 (25:34):
Elms?
Speaker 6 (25:35):
No, just those old oak trees kind of ready looking.
The same thing applies to the young ladies of the town,
the ones I used to go on hay rides with incredible.
I thought they were as sweet as peach pie. Now
they look like fourteen course meals fried in lard. The
things you remember, and how wrong you can be a
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feathersmith right on time.
Speaker 10 (26:02):
I don't believe you two gentlemen have met.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
This is my associate, mister Ddrich. How do you do? Yes,
I recognize you, mister d Drake, so very very much younger.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
Though you have me at a disadvantage.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Sir, never mind, sit down please.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
I presume you have the.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
Cash fourteen hundred and three acres twenty eight hundred and
six dollars.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
You like to put all your eggs in one basket,
don't you, mister Feathersmith.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
Don't concern yourself, mister d Drake, I happen to have
an exclusive contract with the head waiter. Far fell around
right away, sir. All right, gentlemen, let's get down to cases,
shall we. When it comes to a fast shuffle. I
don't mind telling you I'm a very knowledgeable dealer. Comment
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mister d Drake, you have the floor.
Speaker 8 (26:50):
Mister Feathersmith, you seem rather anxious to have it.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
Just a human frailty to gloat a bit when one
is your skinned a couple of professional skinners. I suppose
you're thinking that when this pigeon flew into town, you
plucked him. Bald Well. I sent a telegram to a
geologist this morning. He came in on the one o'clock train,
spent the afternoon out of the widow Turner's land, made
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some preliminary soil tests.
Speaker 8 (27:19):
Care to hear the results, feel free, sir?
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Then I'll oblige. That crummy swampland you sold for two
bucks an acre is worth a million times that there's
oil in that ground. Oil, understand black gold, enough to
produce five hundred barrels a day for the next thousand years.
I swear I can almost feel sorry for you. Maybe
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you didn't hear me, Oh we heard you. Oil. How's
that for a shocker.
Speaker 8 (27:56):
Well, at the time, it did make us gulp.
Speaker 10 (27:59):
At the time, four years ago, when the first geological
tests were done, there was no doubt then that the
land had oil under it, six thousand feet under.
Speaker 8 (28:09):
It, which means that it might just as well be
on the moon. There's no way that oil can be
taken out.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
What do you mean, no way? I could drill down
a mile two miles if need be.
Speaker 8 (28:20):
You could, perhaps, mister Feathersmith. But nobody else on earth
could unless you've already invented such a drill.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
Of course I forgot. It wasn't until several years later
that they came up with a drill bit strong enough.
Speaker 8 (28:33):
It something wrong, mister Feathersmith, not feeling too well?
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Something something I ate?
Speaker 10 (28:43):
Oh, something you ate, no doubt, something like crow, sir,
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mister Kronc.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
This here is mister mister Feathersmith. Yeah, he says he.
Speaker 18 (29:09):
Wants to talk to us about inventions.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
What kind of inventions? Something that'll turn this two bit
bicycle shop into a factory such as well for starters.
And how about a motor driven scooter for kids?
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Uh?
Speaker 18 (29:22):
You want to enlarge upon that, mister Feathersmith.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
What do you mean enlarge upon it? It's a gadget
that gets kids around town, teenagers too, even businessman. What's
it used for? It's used to make about two hundred
million bucks, That's what it's used for. Lightweight aluminum with
wheels and an electric motor.
Speaker 18 (29:41):
What's wrong with foot power?
Speaker 6 (29:43):
Everyone's gonna want These kids will be begging Santa Claus
for them. Look, I'm handing you the whole thing on
a platter. All you have to do is build it.
Speaker 19 (29:52):
Well, I'll tell you what you draw me a blueprint
and some specifications, and mister Clark and I will give
it a try.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
I'm no crummy drafts midnight giving you the principle.
Speaker 19 (30:01):
All you have to do is manufacture it, not without
a blueprint and specs and some backing.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Do you have any money? I can get it. Anyone
with a little imagination could see.
Speaker 18 (30:11):
Well, only place that makes loans around here is the bank.
It happy, mister Gibbons, you better talk to him first
with your blueprints?
Speaker 6 (30:18):
Of course? What other inventions you got? Other inventions? What
isn't there everything under the bloody sun? There's color, TV, stereos,
compact discs, compact what supersonic airlines, plastics, transistors, computer chips, oh,
rings for space shuttles, whatever you want? And you roups
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sit here fixing tricycles. We could be making bidions, of
course we could. I tell you there's nothing to stop us.
Speaker 13 (30:50):
You name it.
Speaker 18 (30:51):
Well, now, how about a nice little perpetual motion machine.
That'd be a good one.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
Haa. Do you think that's funny? You don't need you
What other machine shops are there in this hick town?
Speaker 18 (31:05):
Well you might try Otis over at the gas station.
He's got all kinds of tools. Of course, he's pretty
busy regrooming people's tires.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
See you in the funny papers, boys, you live to
regret this? Mark my words? What was his name again?
Featherhead modems You connect your home computer to the telephone
line you home. What it's called an intermittent windshield wiper. Say,
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it isn't raining very hard, just drizzling, but you want
to keep the windshield clear. The wiper motor has an
in between position.
Speaker 17 (31:43):
What kind of motor exactly.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
Cable television, you pick up the signal from a satellite.
What's a satellite lison? You downloaded over a dish.
Speaker 18 (31:54):
Network dishes, but nobody watches TV in the kitchen.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
Panty hose. I say, take off your guarden belt now
and throw it out.
Speaker 13 (32:05):
Now.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
I say, get out of my store all the way out.
Speaker 8 (32:08):
You have a filthy mouth, sir.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
Hey, Greg, I know this is your house. Come out here.
Speaker 8 (32:30):
Who's out there?
Speaker 13 (32:31):
It's me Feathersmith.
Speaker 8 (32:33):
Do you know what time it is.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
It's fifty years too early, That's what time it is. Listen.
I played it all wrong. I should have had it
done the way it happened in the first place. I'll
start in the morning, just like I did before. What
are you talking about? You said I had get up
and go. You said I had drive. Then I went
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to work for you, and I moved up from there.
Speaker 8 (32:57):
You want to do what again?
Speaker 6 (32:59):
I want to go work for you.
Speaker 8 (33:01):
I wouldn't hire you if you were the last man
on earth. You're a loudmouth clod born to get suckered
out of his last quarter. Now let me have my sleep.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
Oh got to rest or the spain in my chest.
Speaker 9 (33:21):
Are you all right, sir?
Speaker 6 (33:22):
You look pale.
Speaker 9 (33:24):
Why don't you sit.
Speaker 19 (33:25):
Down on this bench.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
Doc Wagner is that you you must be the new
fella in town. Nothing but idiots in this place now,
now take it easy.
Speaker 8 (33:41):
That's not a very good post, not good at all.
Speaker 6 (33:44):
Never mind that, never mind that. How do I get
through to these village idiots here? That they're peddling their
lives away on bicycles and I'm trying to give them
the space age.
Speaker 19 (33:53):
I don't know much about that, but I can tell
a bad pulse when I feel one, and yours feels
like the heart of seventy five.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
Year old man.
Speaker 19 (34:02):
You sure don't take care of yourself.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
What did you say, the pulse of a what.
Speaker 19 (34:08):
A man in his seventies. If I've said it before,
I've said it a hundred times. Modern man drives himself
to an early grave, just trying to keep up with
the pace of life nowadays.
Speaker 6 (34:18):
Why that dirty, cheap little thief, she didn't change me inside.
That's why I'm so tired. That's why I can't make
it here, because inside I'm old the way I was
swallowed two of these pills. You horse doctor, I remember
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when you were diagnosing a cute appendicitis as cramp colic.
Go on, get out of here. You couldn't diagnose anything.
Speaker 19 (34:48):
Well, I can diagnose insanity when I see it, and
that's what my diagnosis is in your case, insanity, plain
and simple.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
I don't need you. I don't need this jerkwater Towns.
Speaker 19 (35:01):
If I were you, I checked myself in for observation
at a mental hospitals.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
While you're not me. It was a devil in Dame,
a dirty two timing little hustler.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Why, mister Feathersmith, Everything all right, you look a bit.
Speaker 6 (35:20):
Crazy, you miserable.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Now, let's be fair. Nothing was said about changing your
chronological age. You wanted to look dirty, and you do.
We said nothing about your insides, your heart, veins, kidneys.
Speaker 6 (35:37):
What about this town?
Speaker 2 (35:39):
You wanted it as it was? The contract was very specific.
It's really not my fault that your memory is so imperfect.
And as to the possibility of investments, your problem was
that you lacked before you looked.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
But everything else is wrong too, I mean the deals,
the inventions. They'd never heard of space shuggles or micro
chips work here.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
Of course they haven't.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
And you, mister Feathersmith, because you're a wheeler dealer, a
raider because you're a taker instead of a bringer. You
are now what is commonly referred to as behind the
old eight ball.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
Look, I don't want to about you. I swear to you.
Make it the way it was. That's all. Get me
back with Ddrich. Let me start out there, that's all
I ask.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Impossible. I've made no deal with mister Dietrich. If he
doesn't want to hire you, what can I do about it?
Speaker 6 (36:31):
And then send me back to where I was. I
give you my word.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
You understand, mister Feathersmith, that I could send you back
to the future, but it would be a future predicated
on on this, on what's occurred in the past twenty
four hours.
Speaker 6 (36:48):
I don't care. I don't care. I just want to
go back to where I belong.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
I think we might be able to arrange that. Mind you,
purely as a gesture of sympathy, that it hurts me
to mouth the word. Frankly, you are so unhappy, so
totally abject a creature that I cannot find it in
my well, in the place where you'd normally find a heart.
To leave you here, there's a train out at midnight,
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a special train.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
Bless you, Miss Devlin. Please, I won't forget this.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
There is a small searcharge for the service. How much
forty dollars things do cost? Mister Feathersmith.
Speaker 6 (37:26):
I don't have forty dollars. I don't have ten. I
don't have ten.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
What's this in your pocket?
Speaker 8 (37:32):
Well?
Speaker 5 (37:33):
How about that? This is your night.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
You have one negotiable item left the deed. All you
need to do is liquidating.
Speaker 6 (37:41):
But who'd buy it?
Speaker 3 (37:42):
That?
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I wouldn't know I do. You've got a few seconds,
find yourself a customer. It's as simple as that. But
where there's a young fellow over there on his way home,
you could ask him.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
It's bargain night right here? All right? Fourteen hundred acres,
singing birds, constant sunshine, all for forty bucks here please.
Speaker 16 (38:06):
Well, for forty dollars, I might be able to fall.
Speaker 6 (38:10):
Please hurry there there. You won't be sorry, you'll be rich.
Speaker 13 (38:17):
Hey.
Speaker 6 (38:17):
What what's your name?
Speaker 16 (38:18):
Young vlla uh Hacket? Sir Bill Hackett? Yes, want something?
Speaker 6 (38:32):
I was going to clean up, sir, so clean up?
Who are you? Feathersmith?
Speaker 4 (38:38):
Sir?
Speaker 6 (38:41):
Great old town? What is sir?
Speaker 14 (38:44):
I was just thinking about Cliffordville. That's where I grew
up got my start.
Speaker 6 (38:49):
That's a coincidence. I grew up in Cliffordville too. Well.
Speaker 14 (38:55):
Now, how similar we are, mister Feathersmith.
Speaker 8 (38:59):
We both from Cliffordville, and we.
Speaker 14 (39:01):
Both put our pants on one leg at a tie,
and here we both wind up in the same building,
each with his own particular function.
Speaker 6 (39:09):
Eh, yes, sir, our own particular function. They Well, they
gave me a gold watch four years ago. My fortieth
year is custodian.
Speaker 14 (39:26):
Well, now maybe for your next forty years, if you
really apply yourself, Featherstone, I'll get you a box of
these imported Cuban cigars. What do you think of that?
Speaker 6 (39:38):
That sounds great, mister Hackett, sir, have one? Now, why
don't you on me?
Speaker 9 (40:00):
Mister William J. Feathersmith, tycoon who tried the track one
more time and found it muddier than he remembered it,
proving with at least some degree of conclusiveness that nice
guys don't always finish last, and some people should quit
when they're a hand. Our Tale of Ironman and Irony
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delivered f O B from the Twilight Zone.
Speaker 10 (40:29):
We'll return to the Twilight Zone in just a moment.
Speaker 15 (40:32):
You are about to enter another dimension, a dimension not
only of sight and sound, but of mind, a journey
into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop the Twilight Zone. Hi,
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Speaker 10 (41:38):
Of Late I Think of Cliffordville, starring Hm Winnet with
Stacy Keach as your narrator. Was adapted for radio by
Dennis Etcherson and based on a script by Rod Serling
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Doug James speaking
You unlocked this door with the key of imagination. Beyond
it is another dimension, a dimension of sound, a dimension
of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a
land of both shadow and substance of things and ideas.
You've just crossed over into the twilight zone.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It's just very director of development, good morning, said, yes,
this is market research, mister, mister Jameson's office person.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I ask mister Sterling to return your car.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Oh, hello, is the legal department? How can it with
mister Farwell?
Speaker 5 (01:01):
He hasn't not yet.
Speaker 6 (01:02):
May I take your number, Miss Pepper?
Speaker 5 (01:05):
Mister Feathersmith, how are you this morning?
Speaker 6 (01:07):
Miss Pepper? When the old gentleman arrives, will you show
him in?
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Of course?
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Sir?
Speaker 7 (01:12):
Is there anything I can get you?
Speaker 6 (01:14):
The mail's on your desk.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I have a list of your appointments.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
The old gentleman. That would be mister Dietrich. Then it's
der Tug. What's that the day today?
Speaker 7 (01:26):
Isn't that right, Helen? Well, he has an appointment, He's
going to get it. Mister Feathersmith had been drawn and
courted and served up in the executive dining.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Room with an apple in his mouth.
Speaker 7 (01:37):
I really couldn't say that's because you haven't been here
very long. Did you hear him?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
He was humming. Do you know why he doesn't like
to get haircuts?
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Because he's horn show?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
There's mister d trick.
Speaker 8 (01:54):
Excuse me, I have an appointment to see mister Feathersmith.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Oh yes, mister Dietrich.
Speaker 8 (01:59):
If you let him know that I'm.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Here, he's expecting you, sir, go right in.
Speaker 8 (02:03):
Thank you very kindly.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
Yes, mister Dietrich, Sir, come in.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I can just see him now, that big happy grin
before he draws blood. Have a cigar, mister Dietrich, before
I rip you to pieces.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
This cigar.
Speaker 9 (02:31):
Mister Dietrich, You're about to witness a murder, a wilful
predatory case of homicide. The victim is a mister Sebastian Dietrich,
age seventy seven. The killer is a mister William Feathersmith,
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a robber baron whose body composition consists of refrigeration coils
covered by thick skin. In a moment, mister Feathersmith will
proceed on his daily course of conquest and calumny with
yet another business deal. But today's deal will be one
of those bizarre transactions that take place only in an
odd out of the way marketplace known as the Twilight Zone.
Speaker 10 (03:19):
And now the Twilight Zone and our story of late
I think of Cliffordville starring H. M. Winnett with Stacy
Keats as your narrator.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
I said, would you like a cigar?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
No?
Speaker 8 (03:35):
Thank you, mister Feathersmith. You asked me to come here too,
and it is now too What did you have on
your mind?
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Hm? You've never cared much for my personal habits, have you?
D drig? Smoking? For example?
Speaker 8 (03:55):
Whether I do or don't is really not at issue,
mister Feathersmith. But the extent of time that you keep
me here is, on the other hand, of considerable import.
I'm a busy man. I'd like to get on with it.
Speaker 9 (04:08):
Hmmm.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
By all means we've gone pretty far out, the two
of us, have we. I owe you a great deal,
mister d Drick. I remember vividly the afternoon, many many
years ago, back in Cliffordville, you called me into your office.
You ran a rinky dank Nicholin dime little tool shop,
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and you said, you said, Bill Feathersmith, I like your style. Boy.
I want you in with me. Do you remember that afternoon?
Speaker 8 (04:41):
I shall never forget that afternoon, mister Feathersmith. I thought
about it a good deal in the ensuing years, and
I've never.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Ceased to regret it.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
You never did like me.
Speaker 8 (04:53):
I wouldn't say that I have disliked and attested you
with great cordiality. I have found you be as of
the day you walk into my office, a predatory, grasping, covetous,
acquisitive animal without heart, without conscience, without compassion, and without
even a subtle hint of the most commonplace decency. Does
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that answer your question?
Speaker 6 (05:17):
I give you this, stee drake. You never were a
man to toady around with a lot of phony euphemisms.
You always did speak your mind.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
And you, mister Feathersmith, mark you this is perhaps the
singular compliment I can dredge up. Have always been a
man to speak your soul.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Why don't you?
Speaker 6 (05:36):
All right? Then, I'll do precisely that. See this map.
It's my empire mining over here, electronics here here, and here, lumber, railroads, minerals,
an industrial complex I built up step by step, piece
by piece, and in which I take pardonable. Yet there's
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a peace missing.
Speaker 11 (06:04):
Go on, well, that is to say, there was a
piece missing the d dricht Tulindai plant was a good,
substantial plant, employing thirteen thousand people, some forty years in operation,
not always perfectly managed.
Speaker 8 (06:19):
But sufficiently well to make you move heaven and earth
to try to buy it. Thank God, I won't live
to see the day when you get your greasy hands
on it.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Of course, as the matter of your financial problems, I
happen to know, mister Ddrich, that you secured a loan
of thirteen million dollars. This is the note here, isn't it.
How do you I bought the note, mister Ddrich. I
paid an exorbitant amount of money, far more than it
was worth. But it was, let's say, an exceptional opportunity
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for our lives to criss cross again. What is your point?
The point is right here on the note. It says
payable on demand, so undemand it is I want it paid,
not tomorrow, now, this moment. I want your personal check
in the amount of thirteen million dollars, or I'm very
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much afraid I'll have to send out the painters to
the Deitrich Tulinda works and cross your name off the
signs Feathersmith.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
If you call in that note you'll ruin me, You'll
put me into bankruptcy, you'll kill off everything I have,
everything I own.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
You're a most discerning man. Here. It is only six
minutes past two. Six minutes. That's all the time it's
taken for you to comprehend that I've.
Speaker 12 (07:40):
Managed to kill you off, mister d Trick?
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Are you a rot?
Speaker 10 (07:54):
Sir?
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Is everything you like?
Speaker 10 (07:56):
To?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Sit down?
Speaker 5 (07:57):
You look so bare?
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Miss miss Pepper? Miss Pepper?
Speaker 13 (08:24):
Where is she? What time is it?
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Well? Excuse me, sir, I didn't know you were still here.
I'm here, my good man, I'm assuredly here, and here
is the mountaintop, the high wrung on the ladder. We'll
finished cleaning later. No no, no, no, no, no, no no.
You you may join me on the mountaintop here. I
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am way up on the mountain like like like who
was it Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, Julius feather Smith. Don't worry, sir,
I'll clean it up. Who are you anyway?
Speaker 14 (09:11):
I'm Hackett, sir. The custodian top three floors.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Well, how would you like a drink? Mister custodian of
the top three floors? Yes see, I have another bottle somewhere.
Thank you, No, but I appreciate it. How long have
you been performing this illustrious task?
Speaker 14 (09:33):
Thirty four years, sir, I've been thirty four years in
the building. I got a gold watch last year.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
A gold watch. Oh, after thirty four years. That's practically
as long as I've been in the building. But I
didn't start here, No, no, no, no, I know indeed
I started in a little town called Cliffordville. Never hear
of Cliffordville, mister Hackett.
Speaker 14 (09:59):
That's a yup, that's a coincidence. Mister Feathersmith. I was
born in Cliffordville, grew up there.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Well, then we have something in common. We're both on
Cliffordville and we both put on our pants one leg
at a time. But there the similarity ends. Come here,
I want to show you something, Yes, sir, see this
picture on the wall. Know who it is? Why?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I'm not sure?
Speaker 6 (10:26):
That's William Feathersmith me, taken in front of our old
home in Cliffordville. Now that was a town, wasn't it.
That was a real place, stately trees, gracious homes, beautiful
sprawling park and real people. People who knew the value
of a buck. People who worked hard to get it.
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There was none of this crazy stuff about unions, retirement benefits,
AUNTI trust suits or any of that clap trap. Those
were the real times when a man could go up
to the stars that he had a mind too in
the lakes to carry him, and the fingers to reach
out and grasp. Not like now, not like now at all.
Speaker 15 (11:09):
I reckon.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
So I'm going home now, mister Hegett, may as well.
No place else to go. Yes, sir, I've been sitting
here for three hours all by myself thinking about Clifford
though about how I wished it was that way again.
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I had an old man here today, didrike? He gave
me my first real job. Well, I fixed his wagon.
He never liked me, I never liked him. We both
used each other, and I got the most used out
of it. I broke him to pieces today, just like
he would have done to me if he could. And
he's tried, mister Haggett, let me tell you he's tried.
Speaker 14 (11:54):
Good night then, mister Fathersmith, William.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Feathersmith, what a crock. Alexander Feathersmith is more like it,
Alexander the Great Feathersmith. I've got everything there is to get.
But I'm still hungry. Understand, I'm hungry a twenty course meal.
I've got a tapeworm inside me that's taken every.
Speaker 16 (12:16):
Bit of it.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
He cried, Well, what did you say? Alexander the Great?
He cried because he had no more worlds to conquer.
Speaker 14 (12:27):
I guess I guess maybe he was kind of like you,
mister Feathersmith.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Hmmm, you know, you know what I wish. I wish
I could go back to Cliffordville, back fifty years ago
and start all over, because getting it all that was
the kick, not having it getting it. Good night, mister Hackett,
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custodian of the top three floors. Don't forget to wind
your gold watch. Oh at last, hold on it. This
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isn't the lobby. Hey wait, I said, Wait where thirteenth floor?
Oh great, this building doesn't have a thirteenth floor. Hello?
Who's there? Hello? Hello, I'm glad you're still here. The
elevator let me off the wrong floor?
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Oh how do you do? Sir? I was just about
to close up.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Who are you?
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Devlin?
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Just Devlin?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
The first name is not important.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
No, I own this building.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
I'm aware of that, mister Feathersmith.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
What I'm not aware of is you're having an office here?
Whoever you are.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Oh, I've just opened it, mister Feathersmith, Devlin's Travel Service.
As a matter of fact, I opened it for your
convenience mine.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Would you care to come in?
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Why?
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Why?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Because, mister Feathersmith, we've got some business to transact. You
and I please have a seat. There's no reason why
we shouldn't be comfortable, is there?
Speaker 6 (14:21):
I must have missed something. We have business, what sort
of business travel?
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Of course I've been expecting you. You have sit please?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Now, isn't there anywhere you like to go your heart's desire?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Well, there was this town, of course there was the.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Name of the town was Cliffordville.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Ah, yes, Cliffordville. And it was a pleasant town.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
It was better than pleasant. And there were the local girls.
Oh beautiful, just beautiful.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
They always are. Go on, you were saying, I.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Remember old Doc Wagner too treated me when I broke
my arm. That's another thing. There was none of this
blood pressure, basal metabolism, cholesterl nonsense. Old Doc Wagner looked
at your tongue and wrote out a prescription and that
was it. And the food simple, fair, healthy and delicious
that was the way life was then.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Simple and you enjoyed that, didn't you.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
No, I didn't have time to enjoy anything. But I
did what I wanted to do. I worked, I scrambled,
I dug, I scratched, I pushed, drove, and I went up. Understand,
I went up.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
And now you're all the way up. But you're simply bored.
That's what it is, isn't it, mister Feathersmith.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
I'm worse than bored. I don't have any purpose now,
no plans, no drive because there's no place left to go.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Are you sure?
Speaker 6 (16:00):
Sign on your door? What does it mean?
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Exactly a succinct suggestion of the kind of service I offer,
mister Feathersmith. And that is just as it says travel,
or more to the point, if you don't mind the
rather melodramatic terminology, one might call it time travel.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Miss Devlin. I think we may have something to talk
about after all.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Indeed, mister Feathersmith, you've got everything you want, and the
pleasure is not in the acquisition.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
It's in the struggle to acquire, isn't that the sense
of it?
Speaker 6 (16:50):
Go ahead, so let's do this.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Let's send you back to Cliffordville. The Cliffordville of fifty
years ago, and you can start fresh, build, consolidate, do
it all over again.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
How does that sound.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
You're not dealing with a bumpkin, Miss Devlin. This isn't
one of those say your soul for a nickel country boys.
Try this. You send me back in time to Cliffordville.
But I want to look like I looked fifty years ago.
Agreed number two. I want to keep my memory everything
that's happened since not impaired one bit.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Check again.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
And I want the town to be exactly as it
was the same.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
People, all very easily arranged now.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
For the price. I suppose the standard payment as well.
What you call a.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Soul on occasion, that is part of the transaction. But
in your case, I believe we got a hold of
your soul some time ago.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Let me check. Hmm, oh, yes, here it is.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
There was the crash of the trans Mississippi Debentures, the
company you bought and manipulated. You ruined several hundred people
with that bit of chicanery. The bulk of your soul
went over to us shortly thereafter. And there are several
other items here, private life, subconscious thoughts and dreams, indirect murders,
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people you drove to ruin, hopelessness and suicide. Now I'm
afraid your soul is not yours to negotiate.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Then what do you charge.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Cash, mister Feathersmith, the old Missoula. I have your current
assets tabulated here. Were you to liquidate as of this moment,
you'd be worth precisely one hundred thirty six million, eight
hundred and ninety one thousand, four hundred and twelve dollars
and fourteen cents.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
M You're very thorough.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
We have to be. Now.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
The cost for what you ask is nominal. The entire bill,
and this covers transportation, clothing, the retaining of your memory,
the maintenance of the town, and it's historically accurate form,
including its citizenry, is one hundred thirty six million, eight
hundred and eighty eight thousand six dollars, leaving you a
balance of two thousand, eight hundred twelve dollars and fourteen cents.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Hi Way robbery quite.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
A little nestag considering.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Considering that I know where the oil is just outside
of town, fourteen hundred acres, not discovered until they brought
in the first well. And of course I know the
stock market in advance, and every important invention over the
years before it happens. I can get in on the
ground floor.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
The absolute basement, all things considered, mister Feathersmith, it's a fortune.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
You just send me back there with my bank roll
and watch my smoke. How soon can I go?
Speaker 5 (19:48):
I'll handle a liquidation for you.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Just sign this power of attorney, and there's no reason
why you can't leave, say tomorrow morning.
Speaker 13 (19:57):
Done.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Exemplary, mister Feathersmith. You're one of the few remaining rugged individualists.
A pleasure doing business with you now, Union Airways eight am,
followed by a rail connection the rest of the way.
I'm afraid there was no airport near Cliffordville back then.
You'll arrive at noon, exactly fifty years ago. And needless
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to say, I wish you everything that you deserve.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
The lady, you don't have to wish me anything. I'll
get everything. I go after everything.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
You know, mister Feathersmith. I believe you, In fact, I
have no doubt whatsoever. Care for a cigar?
Speaker 17 (20:45):
Here's your stop, sir, Are you sure?
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Yeah? This is it?
Speaker 10 (20:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (20:50):
Yes, yes, there's the town square.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
You need a hand with your bags.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
I don't have any bags, and I don't need a
hand from anybody. Say, conductor, is there is there a
mirror handy?
Speaker 17 (21:04):
Why, yes, sir, there's one right inside that door.
Speaker 13 (21:06):
There, devilin you really did it?
Speaker 6 (21:16):
I look fifty?
Speaker 13 (21:17):
Is younger?
Speaker 17 (21:21):
Is everything?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
All right?
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Sir? All right? My man thinks couldn't.
Speaker 17 (21:25):
Be better than than Good day to you, sir.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
Enjoy your staying Cliffordville.
Speaker 13 (21:30):
All aboard.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Cliffordville.
Speaker 13 (21:36):
Mm hmmm, the devil you say.
Speaker 10 (21:49):
M.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yes, sir, May I help you.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
I'd like to see the president of the bank.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
That would be mister Gibbons. Do you have an appointment?
Speaker 6 (22:00):
No, but he'll see me.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
He's having his lunch right now.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Tell him, mister Feathersmith is here to talk about investments,
some very important investments.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
All right, sir, I'll tell him.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Take your time, sweetie. At the time the bank closes,
I'll have this dumpy little milk stop tied up with
a ribbon around it deliverable to me. I'll only be
a moment, sir.
Speaker 8 (22:34):
Don't normally let business interfere with pleasure.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
I never allow pleasure to interfere with business. The name
is Feathersmith. I'm not a peddler, a drummer, or door
to door salesman. I'm here to make myself rich, and
in the process you pick up a few crumbs of
your own.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
The widow Turner's land, the south end of town. Is
it available?
Speaker 10 (22:56):
The Widow Turner's land?
Speaker 6 (22:57):
There were fourteen hundred acres, mister Gibbons, Is there an
echo in here? No? No, indeed, it's just that.
Speaker 10 (23:07):
Well, sir, you're talking about a valuable piece of property,
a beautiful spot, singing birds and constant sunshine, a garden of.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Eden for a man with vision.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
The potential is unlimited.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
It's a swamp for mosquitoes, and the potential's malaria. I
just want you to tell me who owns it and
how much they want for it.
Speaker 10 (23:28):
As a matter of fact, it was purchased from the
late Missus Turner's estate by yours truly, in partnership with
a mister Sebastian Diedrich.
Speaker 13 (23:38):
Diedrich.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Huh what do you know? Well? Do you suppose you
and mister Diedrich could be persuaded to part with your
land assuming the price is right?
Speaker 10 (23:49):
As valuable as it is, well, sir, everything has its
price how does eight dollars an acre.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
Sound lovely good, good if I were an idiot. But
I'm not an idiot, mister Gibbons, I'll give you one
dollar an acre.
Speaker 10 (24:06):
Well, why don't we strike a compromise and say six
dollars let's say one fifty. You drive a hard bargain,
mister Dietrich, and I might hold still for.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Four dollars an acre.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Mister Gibbons, you wouldn't hold still for a back rub
if it couldn't be converted into currency. Two dollars an acre,
and that's it to you. Say two, I said, and
ten minutes from now it'll go down to one.
Speaker 10 (24:31):
Sixty, going, going, gone, mister Feathersmith. I presume this will
be a cash transaction.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
You bring the deed over to my hotel tonight, properly
signed and Notariyes, then you'll have your money.
Speaker 10 (24:44):
Well, now, sir, this is the way I like to
do business. No fiddling around, just two stanch men of
goodwill who know what they want.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Wouldn't you agree, mister Feathersmith. I'll agree with you all
the way down the line, mister Gibbons, as long as
you keep both hands on the table. Here's your coffee, sir,
enjoy your dinner. Give my compliments to the chef. Tell
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him if he ever wants to go into the cement business,
I'll back him. Oh you didn't like your staking eggs.
I was enraptured by them, all fourteen pounds? What do
you fry them in motor oil? Why? Lard, sir, lard,
of course. The things a man remembers beg your pardon.
Weren't there elm trees outside on the square?
Speaker 16 (25:34):
Elms?
Speaker 6 (25:35):
No, just those old oak trees kind of ready looking.
The same thing applies to the young ladies of the town,
the ones I used to go on hay rides with incredible.
I thought they were as sweet as peach pie. Now
they look like fourteen course meals fried in lard. The
things you remember, and how wrong you can be a
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feathersmith right on time.
Speaker 10 (26:02):
I don't believe you two gentlemen have met.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
This is my associate, mister Ddrich. How do you do? Yes,
I recognize you, mister d Drake, so very very much younger.
Speaker 8 (26:10):
Though you have me at a disadvantage.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Sir, never mind, sit down please.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
I presume you have the.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
Cash fourteen hundred and three acres twenty eight hundred and
six dollars.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
You like to put all your eggs in one basket,
don't you, mister Feathersmith.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
Don't concern yourself, mister d Drake, I happen to have
an exclusive contract with the head waiter. Far fell around
right away, sir. All right, gentlemen, let's get down to cases,
shall we. When it comes to a fast shuffle. I
don't mind telling you I'm a very knowledgeable dealer. Comment
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mister d Drake, you have the floor.
Speaker 8 (26:50):
Mister Feathersmith, you seem rather anxious to have it.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
Just a human frailty to gloat a bit when one
is your skinned a couple of professional skinners. I suppose
you're thinking that when this pigeon flew into town, you
plucked him. Bald Well. I sent a telegram to a
geologist this morning. He came in on the one o'clock train,
spent the afternoon out of the widow Turner's land, made
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some preliminary soil tests.
Speaker 8 (27:19):
Care to hear the results, feel free, sir?
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Then I'll oblige. That crummy swampland you sold for two
bucks an acre is worth a million times that there's
oil in that ground. Oil, understand black gold, enough to
produce five hundred barrels a day for the next thousand years.
I swear I can almost feel sorry for you. Maybe
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you didn't hear me, Oh we heard you. Oil. How's
that for a shocker.
Speaker 8 (27:56):
Well, at the time, it did make us gulp.
Speaker 10 (27:59):
At the time, four years ago, when the first geological
tests were done, there was no doubt then that the
land had oil under it, six thousand feet under.
Speaker 8 (28:09):
It, which means that it might just as well be
on the moon. There's no way that oil can be
taken out.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
What do you mean, no way? I could drill down
a mile two miles if need be.
Speaker 8 (28:20):
You could, perhaps, mister Feathersmith. But nobody else on earth
could unless you've already invented such a drill.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
Of course I forgot. It wasn't until several years later
that they came up with a drill bit strong enough.
Speaker 8 (28:33):
It something wrong, mister Feathersmith, not feeling too well?
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Something something I ate?
Speaker 10 (28:43):
Oh, something you ate, no doubt, something like crow, sir,
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mister Kronc.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
This here is mister mister Feathersmith. Yeah, he says he.
Speaker 18 (29:09):
Wants to talk to us about inventions.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
What kind of inventions? Something that'll turn this two bit
bicycle shop into a factory such as well for starters.
And how about a motor driven scooter for kids?
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Uh?
Speaker 18 (29:22):
You want to enlarge upon that, mister Feathersmith.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
What do you mean enlarge upon it? It's a gadget
that gets kids around town, teenagers too, even businessman. What's
it used for? It's used to make about two hundred
million bucks, That's what it's used for. Lightweight aluminum with
wheels and an electric motor.
Speaker 18 (29:41):
What's wrong with foot power?
Speaker 6 (29:43):
Everyone's gonna want These kids will be begging Santa Claus
for them. Look, I'm handing you the whole thing on
a platter. All you have to do is build it.
Speaker 19 (29:52):
Well, I'll tell you what you draw me a blueprint
and some specifications, and mister Clark and I will give
it a try.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
I'm no crummy drafts midnight giving you the principle.
Speaker 19 (30:01):
All you have to do is manufacture it, not without
a blueprint and specs and some backing.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Do you have any money? I can get it. Anyone
with a little imagination could see.
Speaker 18 (30:11):
Well, only place that makes loans around here is the bank.
It happy, mister Gibbons, you better talk to him first
with your blueprints?
Speaker 6 (30:18):
Of course? What other inventions you got? Other inventions? What
isn't there everything under the bloody sun? There's color, TV, stereos,
compact discs, compact what supersonic airlines, plastics, transistors, computer chips, oh,
rings for space shuttles, whatever you want? And you roups
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sit here fixing tricycles. We could be making bidions, of
course we could. I tell you there's nothing to stop us.
Speaker 13 (30:50):
You name it.
Speaker 18 (30:51):
Well, now, how about a nice little perpetual motion machine.
That'd be a good one.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
Haa. Do you think that's funny? You don't need you
What other machine shops are there in this hick town?
Speaker 18 (31:05):
Well you might try Otis over at the gas station.
He's got all kinds of tools. Of course, he's pretty
busy regrooming people's tires.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
See you in the funny papers, boys, you live to
regret this? Mark my words? What was his name again?
Featherhead modems You connect your home computer to the telephone
line you home. What it's called an intermittent windshield wiper. Say,
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it isn't raining very hard, just drizzling, but you want
to keep the windshield clear. The wiper motor has an
in between position.
Speaker 17 (31:43):
What kind of motor exactly.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
Cable television, you pick up the signal from a satellite.
What's a satellite lison? You downloaded over a dish.
Speaker 18 (31:54):
Network dishes, but nobody watches TV in the kitchen.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
Panty hose. I say, take off your guarden belt now
and throw it out.
Speaker 13 (32:05):
Now.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
I say, get out of my store all the way out.
Speaker 8 (32:08):
You have a filthy mouth, sir.
Speaker 6 (32:25):
Hey, Greg, I know this is your house. Come out here.
Speaker 8 (32:30):
Who's out there?
Speaker 13 (32:31):
It's me Feathersmith.
Speaker 8 (32:33):
Do you know what time it is.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
It's fifty years too early, That's what time it is. Listen.
I played it all wrong. I should have had it
done the way it happened in the first place. I'll
start in the morning, just like I did before. What
are you talking about? You said I had get up
and go. You said I had drive. Then I went
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to work for you, and I moved up from there.
Speaker 8 (32:57):
You want to do what again?
Speaker 6 (32:59):
I want to go work for you.
Speaker 8 (33:01):
I wouldn't hire you if you were the last man
on earth. You're a loudmouth clod born to get suckered
out of his last quarter. Now let me have my sleep.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
Oh got to rest or the spain in my chest.
Speaker 9 (33:21):
Are you all right, sir?
Speaker 6 (33:22):
You look pale.
Speaker 9 (33:24):
Why don't you sit.
Speaker 19 (33:25):
Down on this bench.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
Doc Wagner is that you you must be the new
fella in town. Nothing but idiots in this place now,
now take it easy.
Speaker 8 (33:41):
That's not a very good post, not good at all.
Speaker 6 (33:44):
Never mind that, never mind that. How do I get
through to these village idiots here? That they're peddling their
lives away on bicycles and I'm trying to give them
the space age.
Speaker 19 (33:53):
I don't know much about that, but I can tell
a bad pulse when I feel one, and yours feels
like the heart of seventy five.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
Year old man.
Speaker 19 (34:02):
You sure don't take care of yourself.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
What did you say, the pulse of a what.
Speaker 19 (34:08):
A man in his seventies. If I've said it before,
I've said it a hundred times. Modern man drives himself
to an early grave, just trying to keep up with
the pace of life nowadays.
Speaker 6 (34:18):
Why that dirty, cheap little thief, she didn't change me inside.
That's why I'm so tired. That's why I can't make
it here, because inside I'm old the way I was
swallowed two of these pills. You horse doctor, I remember
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when you were diagnosing a cute appendicitis as cramp colic.
Go on, get out of here. You couldn't diagnose anything.
Speaker 19 (34:48):
Well, I can diagnose insanity when I see it, and
that's what my diagnosis is in your case, insanity, plain
and simple.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
I don't need you. I don't need this jerkwater Towns.
Speaker 19 (35:01):
If I were you, I checked myself in for observation
at a mental hospitals.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
While you're not me. It was a devil in Dame,
a dirty two timing little hustler.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Why, mister Feathersmith, Everything all right, you look a bit.
Speaker 6 (35:20):
Crazy, you miserable.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Now, let's be fair. Nothing was said about changing your
chronological age. You wanted to look dirty, and you do.
We said nothing about your insides, your heart, veins, kidneys.
Speaker 6 (35:37):
What about this town?
Speaker 2 (35:39):
You wanted it as it was? The contract was very specific.
It's really not my fault that your memory is so imperfect.
And as to the possibility of investments, your problem was
that you lacked before you looked.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
But everything else is wrong too, I mean the deals,
the inventions. They'd never heard of space shuggles or micro
chips work here.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
Of course they haven't.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
And you, mister Feathersmith, because you're a wheeler dealer, a
raider because you're a taker instead of a bringer. You
are now what is commonly referred to as behind the
old eight ball.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
Look, I don't want to about you. I swear to you.
Make it the way it was. That's all. Get me
back with Ddrich. Let me start out there, that's all
I ask.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Impossible. I've made no deal with mister Dietrich. If he
doesn't want to hire you, what can I do about it?
Speaker 6 (36:31):
And then send me back to where I was. I
give you my word.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
You understand, mister Feathersmith, that I could send you back
to the future, but it would be a future predicated
on on this, on what's occurred in the past twenty
four hours.
Speaker 6 (36:48):
I don't care. I don't care. I just want to
go back to where I belong.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
I think we might be able to arrange that. Mind you,
purely as a gesture of sympathy, that it hurts me
to mouth the word. Frankly, you are so unhappy, so
totally abject a creature that I cannot find it in
my well, in the place where you'd normally find a heart.
To leave you here, there's a train out at midnight,
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a special train.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
Bless you, Miss Devlin. Please, I won't forget this.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
There is a small searcharge for the service. How much
forty dollars things do cost? Mister Feathersmith.
Speaker 6 (37:26):
I don't have forty dollars. I don't have ten. I
don't have ten.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
What's this in your pocket?
Speaker 8 (37:32):
Well?
Speaker 5 (37:33):
How about that? This is your night.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
You have one negotiable item left the deed. All you
need to do is liquidating.
Speaker 6 (37:41):
But who'd buy it?
Speaker 3 (37:42):
That?
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I wouldn't know I do. You've got a few seconds,
find yourself a customer. It's as simple as that. But
where there's a young fellow over there on his way home,
you could ask him.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
It's bargain night right here? All right? Fourteen hundred acres,
singing birds, constant sunshine, all for forty bucks here please.
Speaker 16 (38:06):
Well, for forty dollars, I might be able to fall.
Speaker 6 (38:10):
Please hurry there there. You won't be sorry, you'll be rich.
Speaker 13 (38:17):
Hey.
Speaker 6 (38:17):
What what's your name?
Speaker 16 (38:18):
Young vlla uh Hacket? Sir Bill Hackett? Yes, want something?
Speaker 6 (38:32):
I was going to clean up, sir, so clean up?
Who are you? Feathersmith?
Speaker 4 (38:38):
Sir?
Speaker 6 (38:41):
Great old town? What is sir?
Speaker 14 (38:44):
I was just thinking about Cliffordville. That's where I grew
up got my start.
Speaker 6 (38:49):
That's a coincidence. I grew up in Cliffordville too. Well.
Speaker 14 (38:55):
Now, how similar we are, mister Feathersmith.
Speaker 8 (38:59):
We both from Cliffordville, and we.
Speaker 14 (39:01):
Both put our pants on one leg at a tie,
and here we both wind up in the same building,
each with his own particular function.
Speaker 6 (39:09):
Eh, yes, sir, our own particular function. They Well, they
gave me a gold watch four years ago. My fortieth
year is custodian.
Speaker 14 (39:26):
Well, now maybe for your next forty years, if you
really apply yourself, Featherstone, I'll get you a box of
these imported Cuban cigars. What do you think of that?
Speaker 6 (39:38):
That sounds great, mister Hackett, sir, have one? Now, why
don't you on me?
Speaker 9 (40:00):
Mister William J. Feathersmith, tycoon who tried the track one
more time and found it muddier than he remembered it,
proving with at least some degree of conclusiveness that nice
guys don't always finish last, and some people should quit
when they're a hand. Our Tale of Ironman and Irony
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including behind the scenes photographs, plus the new product releases,
trivia contests, ways to contact us, other Twilight Zone related
info and merchandise, plus links to other fascinating websites. So
make your next stop twilight Zone Radio dot com.
Speaker 17 (41:12):
Visit twilight Zone Radio dot com to purchase these twilight
Zone Radio dramas on cassette and CD, or call toll
free one eight six six nine eight nine Zone. That's
one eight six six nine eight nine nine six six three.
Speaker 10 (41:38):
Of Late I Think of Cliffordville, starring Hm Winnet with
Stacy Keach as your narrator. Was adapted for radio by
Dennis Etcherson and based on a script by Rod Serling
from a story by Malcolm Jamison. Heard in the cast
were Susan Hart, Joe Forbroock, Doug James, Christian Stolty, Mike Baccarella,
Jeff Lupeton, Meg Falcon, Jessica Shran, Lynn Foley, Carla Mauri,
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and Christy Schram. To learn more about the Twilight Zone
Radio dramas and to obtain audio cassettes and CDs of
these programs, visit our website at twilight Zone Radio dot com.
The producers of the Twilight Zone wish to thank CBS Enterprises,
Carol Serling, Dennis Etchison, Dick Bresha Associates, Claire Simon, Casting,
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Don Longo, Terry Jennings, the American Forces Radio and Television Service,
our sponsors, and our radio affiliates for helping make this
series possible. This copyrighted radio series is produced and directed
by carl La Mauri and Roger Wolsky for Falcon Picture Group.
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