1021 - The Man Who Liked Dickens (Suspense)

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Have a journey into the realm of the strange and
kill afy. I hope you will enjoy the shape, that
it will trill you a little and kill you a little.
So settle back, get a good grip on your nerve.
Where are we going? You'll find out when we get there.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Suspense Tonight Suspense brings you mister Richard Nay and mister
Joseph Kerns as stars in a remarkable study in suspense
written by the distinguished contemporary English novelist Evel and War.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
And Now Shanley brings you radio's outstanding theater of thrills
Suspense presided by Romo Wines.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
That's r M.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
A Roma Wines of Presno, California.

Speaker 5 (01:07):
To Night.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Stars Richard May and Joseph Kerns appear at Evel in
War's study in mounting terror called The Man Who Liked Dickens,
a suspense play produced, edited and directed for Shenley by
William Spear.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
When Brenda and I broke up the marriage and cheered
the gossips and gave them something to talk about. I
kept running into people who asked about Brenda and I
either bored them or they bored me. One of the
rare moments when the human equation is perfectly balanced, So
that when Doctor Messenger told me in a club one
night he was going on an expedition into the Amazon

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to find a buried city called Demrera, I asked to.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Go with him.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
I told nobody about it except my brother Mark. I
can remember little of the preparations or leaving England. All
I can recall now is that when we dock near
the mouth of the Orinoco, the tropics were bathed in
a green and lemon splendor. Huh, how well suckled from heaven.
It seemed green, hill toped sown with daisies, and the

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breeze was sweet, and everything seemed luminous and lately sprung
from the soil. I don't know when that feeling first
wore off, Perhaps when I began to sense that there
was something wrong with the natives. Doctor Messenger had hired
them with the usual trinkets, and they seemed happy, but
as the days wore on, you knew there was some
deep reservation in their minds. We crossed the head waters

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and started down to look for bigger streams, and they
spoke to Doctor Messenger for the first time. That night,
they didn't want to go on. It wasn't their country,
and they were frightened. Doctor Messenger shouted and screamed at them,
and they quieted down. They quieted down and made no sound. Finally,
they made no sound at all in the night. I

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knew what had happened before, doctor mess and just burst
into my tent. My god, I'm awake, Come outside.

Speaker 6 (03:03):
Something rotten has happened.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
I know already. The natives have gone.

Speaker 6 (03:06):
A bunch of rotters. They sneak away like shadows.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
Did they leave the stuff?

Speaker 6 (03:10):
I guess they took only their own things.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
And they're honest.

Speaker 6 (03:13):
The only decent thing they could.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Do now, I mean, they're honest. They never intended to
go on, to leave.

Speaker 6 (03:17):
Us this way. They we don't need them, though, we'll
find others. We'll do it handy.

Speaker 7 (03:22):
We will.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
We'll keep looking, writes the word tony. And we'll keep
talking and talking, and we'll dart what we both want
to say, that we're alone in the jungle.

Speaker 6 (03:30):
What if we are? We'll move on with our maps
and we'll do it handy. To take a bit of poise.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
That's all I suppose, doctor Messenger. About the trip and
everything ahead, Yes, do you think we'll make it?

Speaker 6 (03:42):
Of course we've got to. It's that simple.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
We've got to thank you. You know. I don't think
we will either. The next morning, we gathered our stocks,
set up an emergency camp on the left bank, and

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started down the main stream. Right after breakfast, I found
I had the fever, so Messenger and I had to
travel in the same canoe, the part of the provisions
loaded against my feet to keep me from falling out.
Late that afternoon, Messenger nudged the boat ashore. There were
falls up ahead, and we had to carry the canoe
past the danger spot. Messenger lifted me ashore and started

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to drag the canoe up on the bank. The cargo
shifted on him and he slipped into the water. It
was quite shallow in places, and he caught it the rocks,
but they were warm smoothed, and he plunged into deep
water and reached the falls. The foam subsided into a
great pool, almost still and strewn with blossoms from the
forest trees that stood gaunty above it. Doctor Messenger's hat

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floated very slowly towards the Amazon, and the water closed
over his bald head.

Speaker 7 (05:11):
He Hello, my name is Todd here, drinkers. You only
need a bit drinking now. I have the fever, I know,
but you're getting rid of it.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
How can you tell.

Speaker 7 (05:28):
If you're alive, you're getting over it. If you're dead,
you're not.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
Thank you. You're the first stranger I've seen for a
very long time.

Speaker 7 (05:36):
And you're the first one I've seen for a very
long time.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
I liked him from the first. I liked him right away.
Mister Todd brought me to his house, who was near
a village of Indians along the riverbank. He owned a
dozen or so head of puny cattle which grazed in
the savannah, a plantation of cassava, some banana and mango trees,
a dog, and unique in the neighborhood, a single barrel

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breech loading shotgun. He sat and talked to me while
he gave me medicines and nursed me back to health.

Speaker 7 (06:18):
There's a medicine for everything in the forest, to make ill,
and to make you well, to kill you, and to
drive you mad. My mother was an Indian, and she
taught me men of.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
How long have you lived here in my jungle? Oh?

Speaker 7 (06:30):
I was born here. I've always lived here, so very long.

Speaker 6 (06:34):
And lonely life.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
It would be for me.

Speaker 7 (06:37):
I've watched most of the natives grow up, some of
them die, and I've tried to look after him.

Speaker 4 (06:43):
And that's why they obey you so well.

Speaker 7 (06:45):
That reason, and because I have the gun. Oh my
father was a good company. He lived to a great age,
of very great age. It's not twenty five years since
he died.

Speaker 6 (06:56):
Oh.

Speaker 7 (06:56):
He was a man of education.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
Can you read?

Speaker 5 (07:00):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (07:00):
Of course, not.

Speaker 7 (07:01):
Everyone is so fortunate.

Speaker 6 (07:03):
I cannot.

Speaker 7 (07:04):
The only two words I know how to spell are
born and die.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
Oh yes, Oh that's rather too bad. But I suppose
you haven't much opportunity here.

Speaker 7 (07:13):
Oh, yes, that's just I have a great many books.
I'll show them to you when you're better. My father
left them.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
Oh I see, yes, he used to read to me.

Speaker 7 (07:22):
He read me all the time. Then there was another
man a few years ago, Barnabas. He read to me
until he had to leave. I was very sad because
he read well, and the.

Speaker 6 (07:34):
Books means so much to me.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
How long ago was that who?

Speaker 7 (07:39):
Seven years ago? Curad me every day until he left.
You shall read to me when you're better. Well, I'd
be delighted to as missus Bardell says to mister Pickwick,
it is so kind of you to have so much
consideration for my loneliness. Yes, you shall read to me.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
Mister Todd had a soft way of speaking, as if
he had learned to talk under the sounds of the jungle.
And now as he went about his work in the village,
he seemed happier than I had seen him before, as
if you were alive to some great expectation. I went
on recuperating, and my first day out of bed he
took me walking into the jungle.

Speaker 7 (08:29):
Hey, we'll have to turn back soon, growing late.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
Yes, it's almost four o'clock. Ha, huh. What would it
be like in London?

Speaker 7 (08:37):
Now?

Speaker 4 (08:38):
I can never remember which way it goes, what the time?

Speaker 7 (08:40):
Every nine o'clock sun comes up in the east, they
get the day sooner, so.

Speaker 4 (08:45):
We get a secondhand and slightly soiled. Hey, what's the
matter that mount of debt there? What is it?

Speaker 7 (08:53):
It's a grave. I told you about him who Barnabas.
His name was Barnabas Washington. He's the man who read me.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
And you said he left He didn't he but he
didn't say that that way? You why you talked to
us if he really left.

Speaker 7 (09:07):
Did I? Maybe he's the way of saying things down here.
You're an educated man.

Speaker 4 (09:12):
I didn't mean that. I just thought of him as
well leaving.

Speaker 7 (09:15):
Oh, of course I should have made it clear. He
was a splendid fellow, Barnabas, I liked him very much.

Speaker 4 (09:20):
How long was he here? Oh?

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Who?

Speaker 6 (09:23):
Quite a long time?

Speaker 4 (09:24):
I mean exactly how long? I couldn't remember. It's quite
a long time. And he died here without getting home or.

Speaker 7 (09:31):
I guess it seems sad. He was a splendid fellow.
I'm sure he was missed. You know you've given me
an idea. Yes, I wonder if if he doesn't need
a marker, I think i'll build a small cross, two
of them, I think, one to commemorate his leaving and
the other.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
You're coming now. That seems very odd.

Speaker 7 (09:50):
Most things are that old men do. I'd like to begin, now,
would you care to him?

Speaker 4 (09:56):
No, I'm going back. I feel tired.

Speaker 7 (09:58):
Oh yes, of course, printed out for me? Were you
Barnabous Washington? And your name? I know how to print
born and died. I'll do it later myself.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
Yes, Now you want to rest?

Speaker 7 (10:10):
And tonight Tonight I think.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
We could begin, begin what you're reading to me.

Speaker 6 (10:15):
You feel well enough, now, don't you?

Speaker 4 (10:17):
Yes, I feel all right good.

Speaker 6 (10:20):
Then we'll begin tonight.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
And it was thus that I entered my prison, a
dungeon in bright sunlight. No one could imagine it. A
slave to the subtlest of all tyrannies, the imprisonment of
another man's mind.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
Our suspense Romo Winds are bringing you Richard May and
Joseph Kerns and the Man who liked Dickens, Romo Wind's
presentation tonight and radio's outstanding theater of thrills suspense, and

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now Romo Winds bring back to our Hollywood sound stage
Richard May as Anthony Last and Joseph Kerns as mister
Todd and the man who liked Dickens a play well
calculated to keep you in suspence.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
It was dark when mister Todd came in, and we
ate in silence. After the meal, he led me into
his room and I saw the books for the first time.
They were on a loft of his bed and tied
in small bundles. He brought all the bundles in by
the fire and began to unwrap.

Speaker 7 (12:09):
It's been hard to keep out the worms and the
ants oh too, are practically destroyed Oliver and David. But
there's an oil the Indians make.

Speaker 6 (12:19):
It's useful.

Speaker 7 (12:20):
Oh yes, yes, here's one we could start with. It's
in rather bad shape, but the printing is clear. You
want to start with this or he doesn't matter which
we take for.

Speaker 5 (12:30):
You?

Speaker 4 (12:31):
Like that rock Nicholas ny, Well, maybe something lighter, to
start with, something besides Dickens.

Speaker 7 (12:38):
Huh, there's nothing besides Dickens.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
You mean say all these books?

Speaker 7 (12:41):
Oh yes, every one of them by Charles Dickens, all
the books he wrote A right there. Oh, but the
ants destroyed too, your I was very sorry about that.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
You must like Dickens a great deal.

Speaker 6 (12:52):
I'm very fond of him.

Speaker 7 (12:53):
You see, these are the only books I have ever heard.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
They belong to your father.

Speaker 7 (12:58):
He used to read them to me, and then the
other man, and now you. I've heard them all several
times by now, but I never get tired. There's always
more to be learned, and noticing so many characters and
so many changes of scene, in so many words. It's
a long time to read them, more more than two years.

Speaker 4 (13:17):
Well, I should think they'd last out my visit.

Speaker 6 (13:20):
Oh, oh, I hope not.

Speaker 7 (13:22):
It's delightful to start again. Each time I find more
to enjoy and admire. I say, shall we begin?

Speaker 4 (13:27):
I suppose?

Speaker 6 (13:28):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (13:29):
Sit there, read across the fire to me. I'd like
it best that way.

Speaker 6 (13:34):
All right, go ahead happened.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dicks the first book
recalled to like alter life. It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times. It was the age
of wisdom. It was the epoch of and credulity. It
was the season of light, was the season of dollars.

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I found some pleasure in the reading for a while.
It calmed me and gave me a feeling of being
whole again. And the old man's delight was something to
see as I read. He followed the words soundlessly with
his lips. Often, when a new Dickensian character was introduced,
he'd say repeat the name I've forgotten him, or yes, yes,
I remember her. Well she dies, poor woman. Always he

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was concerned with the people and nothing else, and his
comments were usually simple, I think the deadlock is a
very proud man. Or missus Jellyby does not take enough
care of her children. Almost daily, now I mentioned the
subject of my departure, and asked about canoes and rains
and the possibility of finding guides. And one night, after

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I'd finished a chapter of Bleak House, I said, look,
the time's come, mister Todd, when I've got to think
about getting back while I've done you long enough? Oh none, Oh,
I mean it.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
Now?

Speaker 4 (15:02):
How soon do you think I'll be able to get
a boat?

Speaker 6 (15:04):
A boat?

Speaker 4 (15:05):
Yes, to leave. I appreciate all your kindness to me,
more than I can say kindness.

Speaker 7 (15:09):
I may have shown his ampler repaid by your reading
of Dickens. Now do not let us mention that subject again.

Speaker 4 (15:16):
I'm glad you enjoyed it. I have to, mister Todd.
But I must be thinking of getting back.

Speaker 7 (15:20):
Oh yes, yes. The other manner is like that. He
thought of it all the time, but he died before
he got back.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
Mister Todd, did he the other man? Did he finish
all the Dickens books?

Speaker 6 (15:35):
Finished them?

Speaker 4 (15:36):
Yes? The other man did he go through.

Speaker 7 (15:38):
All of them?

Speaker 6 (15:39):
Now it's hard to remember, but I.

Speaker 7 (15:41):
Do recall a tale of two shiities three or four times.

Speaker 4 (15:44):
Three or four times? You mean he went all through
and came back. You said it took two years each time.

Speaker 7 (15:51):
Well, maybe it was three times. And I'm getting old.

Speaker 4 (15:53):
My memory is not so word, mister Todd. Why did
he stay? I don't know why did he stay all
those years? Forgive me, mister Todd, But I must press
the point. When can I get a boat?

Speaker 7 (16:04):
There is no boat?

Speaker 4 (16:05):
Oh, the Indians can build one.

Speaker 6 (16:07):
You will have to wait for the rain.

Speaker 4 (16:08):
How long will that be?

Speaker 6 (16:09):
A month too, mad I.

Speaker 4 (16:10):
Must speak to them then, yes, of course, of course.
Now now now it's early.

Speaker 7 (16:14):
Do you do you think we could read some more tonight?
Bleak House has always been a favorite.

Speaker 8 (16:18):
Mine since mister Shopping was influenced by Missus Gamp.

Speaker 4 (16:33):
It was decided that Missus Gamp should be approached without delay.

Speaker 6 (16:36):
I wonder if you.

Speaker 7 (16:37):
Could read that over again. It's one of the points
I think Dickens leaves unclear.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
I'm very tired. I wonder if we could wait.

Speaker 7 (16:44):
Oh, yes, we'll take it up tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (16:50):
Listen, what is it? It's the rain. The rain's come,
mister Todd. You know what it means. It means I
can make preparations to go. Now I can talk to
the natives about building a boat.

Speaker 7 (17:00):
Oh, that's impossible. Why it's impossible? Indians wonn build a
boat during rainy season. It's one of their superstitions.

Speaker 4 (17:07):
And you might have told me I mentioned it. I forgot.
You know, you've forgotten a lot of things. Well, I'm
getting old, not too old, mister Todd. You remember to
obeyed me.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
Could I have vain?

Speaker 4 (17:16):
But you have, and you've lied to me. You've lied
to me systematically. Mister Todd. You're holding me a prisoner.
You're keeping me here against my will. But my friend,
who I demand to be released.

Speaker 7 (17:26):
I'll runder no restraint. You can go in your life.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
You know very well I can't get away without your help.

Speaker 7 (17:32):
In that case, you'll have to humor an old man.
Read to me another.

Speaker 4 (17:36):
Chap, Todd, I swear by anything you like. When I
get to Manose, I'll find someone to take my place.
I'll pay a man to read to you.

Speaker 7 (17:44):
I have no need for another man.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
You read so well, then I've read for the last time.

Speaker 6 (17:50):
I hope not.

Speaker 7 (17:52):
Oh, I sincerely hope not.

Speaker 4 (18:05):
Well. That evening, at supper, only one piece of dried
meat was brought in, and mister Todd ate alone. Next day,
at noon, a single play was put before mister Todd,
but with it lay his gun cuted on his knee
as he ate, and I began reading of Martin Chesilwit.
But it was different now because I knew what lay ahead,
and if I didn't, then I did. After I found

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a scrawled note toward the back of the book. It
was written with pencil and a rough hand. I James
Todd of Brazil, who swear to Barnabas Washington of Georgetown,
but if he finished this book, in fact Martin Cheslwit,
I will let him go back as soon as finished.
And there followed a heavy pencil ax, and after it

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mister Todd made this mark, signed Barnabas Washington. The note
was signed January nineteen twenty nine, and Barnabas Washington and
Barnabas Washington died in nineteen forty. Well from that moment, Dan,

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I began to grow worse. I ate little and slept
even less, and every day there was more Charles Dickens.
A whole year passed of our mutual friend, and the
all curiosity shock, and mister Todd was already talking of
starting over again. And then a stranger arrived in camp,
a half cast prospector, one of that lonely order of men.
Who wandered for a lifetime through the forests, tracing the

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streams for gold. I stood in the rain outside his
window and heard them. He said, there were white men
a few days away, apparently on their way towards this camp.
Mister Todd was furious, where did you hear?

Speaker 6 (19:48):
About a week ago? And I came fast.

Speaker 7 (19:51):
They were coming this way, I'm sure of it. Did
they ask for anybody?

Speaker 6 (19:55):
I didn't talk to them. Thank you.

Speaker 7 (19:57):
I must send out a party to greet him. I
shave you a thank you.

Speaker 4 (20:04):
Look, you must help me before he comes hurt. You'll
send somebody to head them off. You've got to get
there first. What about I'm a prisoner. Tell them about
me here here, give them this?

Speaker 6 (20:14):
Where is it?

Speaker 4 (20:15):
Where is it? Page two fourteen?

Speaker 9 (20:17):
Here?

Speaker 4 (20:18):
All right, now, that's my name. They'll know. Just give
it to this and hurry. Don't let him know. Hide
it on you somewhere and hurry. Please hurry, because you're
my last hope under heaven. Well mister Todd must have

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sensed that too, because the next afternoon he told me
that he expected i'd be leaving soon, and then invited
me to a native feast. I agreed to go and
that was my fatal blunder, the last of all possible mistakes.
At the feast, they served a thick porridge, and I
remember only growing warm and weak and being carried back
to mister Todd's. I was still weak when I woke.

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I was in the armchair and found mister Todd rocking
contentedly before his fire.

Speaker 7 (21:05):
Ah ha, how were you awake? You don't look well,
not well at all.

Speaker 4 (21:12):
I feel rotten. That porridge doesn't seem to agree with me.

Speaker 7 (21:15):
I'll give you something to make you better. The fire says,
remedies for everything, to make you awake and to make
you sleep.

Speaker 4 (21:22):
You haven't seen my watch anywhere?

Speaker 6 (21:24):
You've missed it?

Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yes, I thought I was wearing it. I see. I've
never slept so long.

Speaker 7 (21:29):
Not since you were a baby. Do you know how long?

Speaker 6 (21:33):
Two days?

Speaker 4 (21:34):
Nonsense. I couldn't sleep that long, but you did.

Speaker 7 (21:36):
It's a long time. It was a pity too, because
you missed our guests.

Speaker 4 (21:40):
Guests.

Speaker 7 (21:41):
Yes, I've been quite gay while you were asleep, three
men from outside Englishman. The pity you missed them A
pity for them too, since they particularly wished to see you.

Speaker 4 (21:51):
Then it did come.

Speaker 7 (21:51):
Hey, they came all the way to find you, Yes,
just to find you tour asleep.

Speaker 6 (21:56):
They wanted to see you.

Speaker 7 (21:57):
I didn't think you'd mind, so I gave them a
little souvenir.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
You're what you gave them my what you?

Speaker 7 (22:04):
They thought your brother Mark was pleased with it, and
they took some photographs of the little cross eye.

Speaker 6 (22:10):
I pult have to commemorate your coming.

Speaker 7 (22:13):
Of course I had to alter it a little.

Speaker 4 (22:15):
You wrote in my death. You wrote in my death
on that cross.

Speaker 7 (22:18):
Oh now now now you're upset. We'll have no Dickens tonight.
But tomorrow night we'll start Little Dorrit again. There are
passages in that book I can never hear without the
temptation to weep.

Speaker 4 (22:30):
They didn't ask questions, They didn't suspect fuck you a note?
They couldn't have missed it.

Speaker 6 (22:36):
What note?

Speaker 7 (22:37):
There was no note.

Speaker 4 (22:39):
They didn't show it to you. Then maybe they guessed.

Speaker 7 (22:41):
They didn't guess anything.

Speaker 9 (22:42):
They have shown it to you. They must have understood.
You tore it out of a book? What book? What
book did you tear it out of?

Speaker 4 (22:50):
This one by your feet? A Tale of two cities?

Speaker 7 (22:53):
Fate?

Speaker 9 (22:53):
What did you say? What did you say? You remember
so do you would tell me you can remember, repeat
for and I remember it all my life, beautiful team.

Speaker 4 (23:02):
After having long been in danger of my life at
the hands of the village, I've been seized with great
violence and in dignity, and brought a long journey on football.
And I demand of heaven. Will they not come to
deliver me with the love of Heaven, of justice, of generosity.
I supplicate you the sucking release room. Now they'll know,
they'll know what it means, and they'll come back. There

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is now I'm here.

Speaker 6 (23:26):
I'm up here in the.

Speaker 7 (23:27):
Clearing curry one of the natives.

Speaker 4 (23:28):
Now they've come back. Nah, now take the book and
all your books, now take them out of the fire,
says my book book.

Speaker 7 (23:38):
Rush now, God, don't put my book.

Speaker 4 (23:43):
I'm here. Hurry, Hi ho Heaven. They're all going in.

Speaker 7 (23:49):
The fire holding on. I'm discovered.

Speaker 5 (23:54):
I'm up here here ma, where the brand is high.

Speaker 4 (24:13):
Where we left the heart of the Amazon country. That night,
it was a night that was full of sound. The
howler monkeys was silent, but tree frogs nearby set up
a continuous chorus. Birds were away calling and whistling, and
far in the depths about them came the occasional rending
and reverberation of dead wood falling among the trees.

Speaker 6 (24:32):
And under all of.

Speaker 4 (24:32):
That the sound of mister Todd, the sound of words
coming out of his mouth, a mouth that had nothing
left to it but trembling and quivering. The sound of
mister Todd sitting before the fire, watching the last of
Charles Dickens burn, and repeating from a broken memory. It
was the best of times. It was the worst of times.

(24:55):
It was the age of wisdom. It was the age
of foolishness. It was the epoch of belief. It was
the epoch of incredulity. It is the season of light,
it is the season of darkness. It was the spring
of hope. It was the winter of despair.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
Suspense The Man who Liked Dickens, starring Richard Nay and
Joseph Kerns Richard May will soon be seen in the
Sierra production Joan of Lorraine to Night suspense play was
adapted by Richard Breen from the original short story by
Evelyn war.

Speaker 6 (25:55):
In the Coming Week.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Suspense will present such stars as Louis Jordan, Dennis o'keef
and others, make it a pointer to listen each Thursday
to Suspense radio's outstanding theater of thrills.