A KILLER HAS THEM TRAPPED IN A CABIN DURING A BLIZZARD!: #RetroRadio EP0357 #WeirdDarkness

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Speaker 7 (02:00):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents.

Speaker 8 (02:20):
Come in. Welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall.

Speaker 7 (02:27):
Our story is concerned with fear. What is fear? We
know it's symptoms, the chilled blood, shortened breath, But what
is the emotion itself and where does.

Speaker 8 (02:41):
It come from?

Speaker 7 (02:43):
Well, it is the anticipation of something that has not
yet happened. It is the alarm our bodies set up
to tell us we're about to be injured. All we
really know is that the thing to be feared is
not now.

Speaker 8 (03:00):
On the corner.

Speaker 7 (03:01):
Fear is the voice that says, watch out. The worst
thing that can happen to you is to be born.
Believe me. There you are inside your mother, where it's
dark and warm and safe. Then all of a sudden

(03:22):
she decides she's had enough of you. She starts to
get rid of you, no matter what you do, and
of course there's nothing you can do. You don't even
know what's happening. You're pushed out out into the cold,
into the light, into the noise and clamor and chaos
of living, and you never get over it. Never Our

(03:57):
Mystery Drama Fear was written especially for the Mystery Theater
by Elspeth Eric and stars Jack Grimes. It is sponsored
in part by Anheuser Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser, and
your Singer Sewing Center. I'll be back shortly with Act one.

(04:23):
No one lives, has lived, or will ever live without fear.
The rich, the powerful, the elite. You think they don't
feel fear. I think they feel it constantly, because they
are constantly on guard lest they be toppled from their positions. Well,
the hero of this story occupies no such position. He

(04:47):
is an obscure bank teller close to middle age, and
his name is Edgar Ellerby. But he, too, like the
rest of us, is haunted by fear. I've been afraid
all my life of what of everything? That I mean everything.

(05:10):
When I was little and in school, I was afraid
the teacher would call on me and I wouldn't know
the answer. If I knew at one time, I was
sure I wouldn't know it the next. If I asked
a girl for a date and she turned me down,
I was scared to death. There was something repulsive about
me that I didn't know about and couldn't correct.

Speaker 8 (05:28):
If she accepted. I was sure there was something awful
about her.

Speaker 7 (05:32):
Even now, I can't mail a lot of without worrying
that I've forgotten to put a stamp on it or
have gotten the zip code wrong. If you'll wonder why
I became a bank teller, well, there was something about
having to account for money at the end of every
single day. You can't go home unless you balanced everything out.

Speaker 8 (05:52):
I thought that would be a calming influence.

Speaker 7 (05:54):
Going home every day knowing that it had all come
out even and I was in the clear.

Speaker 8 (06:00):
And then one day it happened. I think I'm short.
I think I'm short.

Speaker 9 (06:09):
We all know you're short, Eddie. You're just finding it out.

Speaker 8 (06:12):
I'm in short my cash? How much, Eddie? Ninety dollars? Oh,
you're gonna catch her.

Speaker 10 (06:17):
God, don't be like that, Hilda. It can happen to anybody.

Speaker 8 (06:20):
It's never happened to me.

Speaker 10 (06:21):
You want me to count it up for you, Eddie?

Speaker 8 (06:23):
Oh? Mary, little would you have to? I've been over
it so many times. Watch it comes old Tupper.

Speaker 10 (06:28):
Wait until he goes into his office, right right.

Speaker 8 (06:30):
Wouldn't do to have the manager find out you can't
add I'm tired, that's all just shut up, build up.

Speaker 10 (06:36):
Good afternoon, mister.

Speaker 7 (06:37):
Tupper, Miss Grant, mister Tupper, uh, step into my office?

Speaker 11 (06:41):
Would yellow be.

Speaker 8 (06:43):
Now, mister Tupper? Right now? Afternoon, mister Tupper, an afternoon,
the shorts. What do you suppose he wants? He couldn't
have found out I'm short my cash. It's not I
just found out myself. D news travels fall that. Don't
be so dumb. This is the first time he says
to see me about anything. Hey, maybe it's about a promotion.

(07:04):
Did you ever think of that? You think it could be? Well,
you've been going to school.

Speaker 9 (07:09):
Sure, he's going to make you a vice president with
a great big desk up front.

Speaker 8 (07:14):
My grades aren't even in yet.

Speaker 9 (07:16):
Don't worry till you know, And don't keep him waiting.
That's one thing bank managers don't care for being kept waiting.

Speaker 10 (07:22):
You run along, Eddie, and then come back and tell
us and good luck.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Come in, Yes, come in, Lby, Thank you, sir. Yes,
take caure Lebby. This Detective Bradshaw Bradshaw. This is Ed Gallaby.

Speaker 12 (07:45):
Hello Lebby, Detective BRADSHAWD.

Speaker 8 (07:50):
BRADSHAWD. Very nice to meet you here.

Speaker 12 (07:52):
Sit down, Larby.

Speaker 8 (07:54):
Yes, sir, Thank you, sir. And I.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Suppose you're wondering why a detective Bradshaw here.

Speaker 8 (08:02):
I'm wondering why I'm here.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Well, that comes straight to the point. One of our
branches was held up this noon was held up.

Speaker 11 (08:12):
He went over by the river.

Speaker 8 (08:15):
That's terrible.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Feller got away with eight thousand dollars.

Speaker 8 (08:19):
She that makes me feel terrible.

Speaker 12 (08:21):
It happened about twelve fifteen.

Speaker 8 (08:23):
Twelve fifteen, that's terrible.

Speaker 13 (08:26):
Guy walks up to one of the tellers, is handed over,
Tell her hands it over. Guy walks out over done
with like that.

Speaker 8 (08:34):
That's awful.

Speaker 12 (08:36):
Where were you at that time? Ellervine?

Speaker 14 (08:39):
For me?

Speaker 8 (08:40):
Why I was here?

Speaker 6 (08:41):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (08:41):
No, no, wait do you you said twelve fifteen?

Speaker 12 (08:44):
That's right?

Speaker 7 (08:44):
Oh, I was on my lunch hower that that's my
lunch hour, twelve to one.

Speaker 12 (08:49):
Do you mind telling us where you wait lunch? Which restaurant?

Speaker 8 (08:54):
Well, I don't meet in restaurants.

Speaker 7 (08:56):
I eat well, I mean I bring my own lunch
in a lunchbox, you know, sandwich.

Speaker 8 (09:01):
Joe, piece of fruit.

Speaker 12 (09:02):
And where you eat it?

Speaker 7 (09:04):
Well, sometimes in the park, sometimes I eat it here.

Speaker 13 (09:08):
Where did you eat it today?

Speaker 8 (09:13):
Today?

Speaker 7 (09:13):
It was so hot? Well today I didn't eat in
the park. I ate down by the river. Uh huh,
but nowhere near the bank. Nowhere near but blocks from
where that branch is, blocks from there.

Speaker 12 (09:25):
Anybody see you?

Speaker 8 (09:27):
Well, somebody must have, Oh, somebody. I went right down
to the river bank. I wanted to catch a breeze
off the river if I could.

Speaker 7 (09:36):
I remember, I thought of going out on one of
the piers, but they were unloading a boat, so I didn't.

Speaker 8 (09:41):
I just sat down on the bank.

Speaker 12 (09:46):
So the guys unloading the boat didn't see you.

Speaker 8 (09:49):
Well, they might have noticed me. That they might have.
Of course they were pretty busy, but they look.

Speaker 7 (09:56):
You don't think you can possibly think or you well,
you couldn't think that.

Speaker 8 (10:01):
Now, you couldn't think that.

Speaker 12 (10:03):
You are not thinking anything right at the moment.

Speaker 7 (10:06):
Yeah, but you must have a reason. I mean why
ask me where I was? I mean, why me especially?

Speaker 12 (10:11):
We have a reason for that. You see, we have
it unfilmed.

Speaker 8 (10:17):
What on film?

Speaker 2 (10:19):
The holder The monitors are running all the time, Labina.

Speaker 8 (10:22):
You know that?

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, I know that. Well, it's all there. The hold
up man shows up very clear.

Speaker 8 (10:28):
Oh you think I might know him?

Speaker 12 (10:30):
Why don't we roll the film?

Speaker 13 (10:31):
Mister Tupper I can set up right here, if that's
all right?

Speaker 15 (10:35):
Sure, sure, And why are you doing that?

Speaker 7 (10:37):
I'm going to get a couple of other people in
here who it might help with the identification.

Speaker 12 (10:42):
Go right ahead back in a second.

Speaker 13 (10:47):
Who did he go to get I don't know exactly.

Speaker 8 (10:54):
Do you need any help with that equipment?

Speaker 16 (10:56):
No?

Speaker 12 (10:57):
Thanks, I'm pretty used to it.

Speaker 8 (11:01):
You specialize in a bank called ups.

Speaker 13 (11:05):
They're part of my job, not all of it, just
part I.

Speaker 8 (11:09):
See, I see interesting work. I imagine.

Speaker 12 (11:14):
How long have you worked for the bank, lerb.

Speaker 8 (11:17):
Oh, A long long time? The twelve years here? This branch,
No No. I started downtown five and a half years there.

Speaker 7 (11:26):
Then I came uptown this branch, No No, the River branch.

Speaker 8 (11:34):
But I left there two years ago and came over here.

Speaker 13 (11:37):
Stadium was not pretty well, the River Branch.

Speaker 7 (11:41):
I haven't been inside it since they moved me over here.
Mister Tupper said he was going to get some people
who might help to identify the thief. Now, why would
anybody in this branch be able to identify a thief?

Speaker 8 (11:53):
And the River branch?

Speaker 13 (11:55):
I might as well tell you, ellerb. On the film
the hold up man looked like you you're kidding. I
never kid, I'd go writing.

Speaker 8 (12:07):
Girls, Okay, everybody take chairs, daddy, what's this about?

Speaker 15 (12:14):
Very low?

Speaker 7 (12:14):
Why this is Detective Bradshaw. Girls, Miss Grant Mischwartz, I'm
the police as well.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
I'll stand up in the back here. A Detective Bradshaw's
going to show us piece of film taken from one
of the monitors at our River branch. And there was
a hold up there today twelve fifteen, and it's all
on film. It only runs about a minute. You'll see
the whole thing. The hold up man shows up very clearly,
so paid close attention and see if you recognize him.

Speaker 17 (12:42):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Detective Bradshaw can stop the film at any point if
you wanted to run over again, just say so. Now
you understand, yes, mister Tappers, I guess we're ready.

Speaker 8 (12:52):
Detective pay attention now. Oh my, look at that?

Speaker 18 (13:05):
Oh stop stop the picture?

Speaker 12 (13:07):
You recognize somebody?

Speaker 8 (13:09):
Can you go back? Sure?

Speaker 19 (13:11):
All right?

Speaker 12 (13:16):
Here we go again.

Speaker 10 (13:21):
It's Eddie, Hilda, Eddie.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
If you.

Speaker 12 (13:26):
Ah, you're sure, Miss Schwartz.

Speaker 9 (13:28):
I'd know it anywhere, Mary Lou, I'd like to see
it again. Okay, it's plain as anything.

Speaker 8 (13:36):
It's Eddie.

Speaker 10 (13:37):
I want to see it again.

Speaker 8 (13:43):
Here we go, plain as day.

Speaker 10 (13:50):
Shut up, Hilda, Now would you stop it?

Speaker 19 (13:56):
Please?

Speaker 10 (13:58):
That's not Eddie. How can you say that? And he's
not that tall?

Speaker 12 (14:03):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (14:03):
How's that you can see.

Speaker 10 (14:06):
That man's shoulders over the top of the counter. Well,
if it was Eddie, you wouldn't be able to you
just see his head and his neck.

Speaker 13 (14:14):
Oh how do you know all this, Miss Grant?

Speaker 10 (14:17):
Well, mister Ellerby is five feet one and a half
inches tall and the counter is four feet four inches high,
so standing at the counter, you'd see only as far
as his shoulders. You wouldn't see his shoulders at all.

Speaker 12 (14:31):
What's your height, lerb five feet one and a half.
You won't mind if I checked that later? No, not
at all, But of course I'll check the counter to
have of course.

Speaker 8 (14:43):
All right, folks, all right, that's all.

Speaker 7 (14:46):
I'd like to say something else, Mister tuppers are Miss Grant.

Speaker 10 (14:49):
Anybody who thinks that mister Allerby would rob a.

Speaker 8 (14:51):
Bank is crazy, Miss Grants.

Speaker 12 (14:55):
We are just investigating possibilities.

Speaker 10 (14:58):
Well, mister Allerby is not a possibility. It's not possible
for Edar LB to be a thief, liar or anything
like that. Mister Lbi is honest and sincere and kind
and good.

Speaker 8 (15:11):
Wonderful man.

Speaker 7 (15:12):
Oh that's all right, wonderful man, wonderful.

Speaker 8 (15:19):
I just sat there.

Speaker 7 (15:22):
I couldn't believe what had happened, and I couldn't believe
what was happening. I couldn't believe that a man who
looked like me had robbed a bank and taken eight
thousand dollars. I couldn't believe that a camera had taken
a picture of the whole thing. And I couldn't believe
that Mary Louke Grant thought I was a wonderful man.

(15:56):
One of the most fearful sensations is that of being trapped.
In fact, I think it should be put at the
head of the list. Illness is frightening. Natural disasters are frightening.
The unknown can be frightening. But to be caught in
a snare, to be ambushed, that may well be the

(16:19):
most frightening thing of all. I'll be back in a
few moments with a two. Edgar Ellerby has come under

(16:39):
suspicion of robbing the bank for which he works, though
at a different branch.

Speaker 8 (16:45):
The bank manager, a police.

Speaker 7 (16:47):
Detective, and two of Edgar's fellow tellers watched while a
film of the hold up was run off, there was
no doubt that the thief uncannily resembled Edgar, so said
Hilda Schwartz. What Mary Lou grant quickly and dramatically, indeed, passionately,
pointed out that the film showed a man visibly taller

(17:09):
than Edgar.

Speaker 10 (17:11):
Mister Ellerb is five feet one and a half inches tall.
The counter is four feet four inches tall, So standing
at the counter you'd see only as far as his shoulders.
You wouldn't see his shoulders at all, you'd only see
his head in his neck.

Speaker 12 (17:26):
What's your height, Lerb?

Speaker 8 (17:28):
Five one and a half.

Speaker 12 (17:29):
You won't mind if I'd check on them.

Speaker 8 (17:31):
Not at all.

Speaker 10 (17:32):
Anybody who thinks Eddie Llerby would rob a bank is crazy.
Mister Ellerby is honest and sincere, and kind and good, and.

Speaker 8 (17:40):
A wonderful man.

Speaker 9 (17:42):
That will be all scrass A wonderful man, wonderful.

Speaker 7 (17:49):
Mary Lou had tears in her eyes when she and
Hilda and I left mister Tupper's office. Was the first
time in my life that I'd been in trouble of
any kind, and it was the first time in my
life anyone had shed tears because of me.

Speaker 10 (18:03):
Don't worry, Eddie, It'll all come out all right, I hope,
so believe me.

Speaker 8 (18:09):
I'll try.

Speaker 9 (18:09):
You got to admit the man on the film looks
like you, I know, looks exactly like you.

Speaker 8 (18:15):
I know they know, same eyes.

Speaker 10 (18:17):
Same upper little you know Eddie didn't do it?

Speaker 8 (18:20):
Then it was his doppel ganger? Is what his doppel ganger?
His double? I've got a double.

Speaker 9 (18:30):
Everybody has, Didn't you know that? Sometimes it's a ghost.

Speaker 10 (18:35):
A ghost would hold up a bank.

Speaker 8 (18:37):
How do you know what a ghost would do?

Speaker 10 (18:39):
Well, I guess I don't.

Speaker 9 (18:41):
Sometimes the ghost doesn't just look like the human double,
he sounds like him too.

Speaker 20 (18:47):
Well.

Speaker 7 (18:48):
The film doesn't record the sound, just the picture, but
the teller at the river branch might remember the voice and.

Speaker 9 (18:54):
It might turn out to be your voice is shut up,
held up.

Speaker 10 (18:57):
Sometimes people see.

Speaker 8 (18:59):
Their own gangers.

Speaker 7 (19:02):
Scary, huh, very scary.

Speaker 10 (19:05):
But you can't get away from the fact that the
hold up man was taller than Eddie, two or three
inches taller.

Speaker 9 (19:12):
Sometimes double gangers float above the ground.

Speaker 8 (19:17):
Didn't you know? Why is that? Because of coasts? Little man? Well,
I'm going home. It's been quite a day.

Speaker 10 (19:28):
Song everybody, goodbye, Hilda.

Speaker 8 (19:30):
Yeah, see them mirrow. Probably what does she mean? Probably?

Speaker 7 (19:36):
Oh, Eddie, she think I'll be arrested? Does she think
I'll be in jail?

Speaker 8 (19:40):
Of course not? Then what what does she think?

Speaker 10 (19:42):
Never mind what Hilda thinks? Listen, Eddie, I found the
ninety dollars.

Speaker 8 (19:49):
What ninety dollars?

Speaker 10 (19:51):
The ninety dollars?

Speaker 8 (19:52):
You were short?

Speaker 10 (19:53):
It was a mistake in a deposit slip.

Speaker 8 (19:55):
Oh, I should have caught us.

Speaker 10 (19:57):
Never mind I called it, Oh Mary Lowe, Eddie, I
don't think that you should be alone tonight. Why don't
we have dinner together? Wouldn't that be a good idea?
I guess it worth that.

Speaker 8 (20:11):
Do you want to come to my place?

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Well?

Speaker 7 (20:15):
I prepared a meat loaf this morning. It's it's in
the fridge. Do you like meat loaf?

Speaker 10 (20:20):
I love meatloaf.

Speaker 8 (20:22):
I make it with oatmeal. Oh, it's interesting. I soak
the oatmeal and milk. First.

Speaker 10 (20:27):
Let's go to your place and have meat.

Speaker 8 (20:29):
Loaf, and I have broccoli.

Speaker 10 (20:31):
Wonderful, Come on, let's go.

Speaker 8 (20:39):
Funny.

Speaker 7 (20:41):
This was the first date I'd ever had with the girl,
and I looked forward to him. Not that I'd had
so many dates, but the ones I did had never
turned out too well. Now Here, I was in my
own apartment with a girl I'd worked next to for
two years and never asked to go out with me. Here,
I wasn't the only real teup well I'd ever been in,
and I was having a wonderful time.

Speaker 8 (21:05):
Well mee, lawful, take an hour. So I opened a
bottle of wine. Wonderful.

Speaker 7 (21:10):
I don't know if you like the broccoli, Well, of
course I will while I par boil it.

Speaker 8 (21:15):
And then I saw tad and butter and garlic. Sounds fascinating. Wow,
it's it's different. Uh, there's your wine, Thank you. I
was just looking at your books. Oh yeah, yeah, I
read a lot.

Speaker 10 (21:29):
You read a lot of books like how to Love Yourself,
books like that and be a happy neurotic.

Speaker 7 (21:38):
Well, I I've always had trouble in that department.

Speaker 10 (21:42):
The loving your self department.

Speaker 8 (21:45):
Well that's hard for me even to put up with myself.

Speaker 7 (21:47):
Well that's too bad. Yeah, Well, cheerio cheerio. You see
see how like that? Why Why did I say cheerio?

Speaker 10 (21:57):
Why not?

Speaker 7 (21:58):
Because cheerio was for English people to say, not people
like me. I'm always trying to impress people, and I
don't know how, and I hate myself for trying.

Speaker 8 (22:06):
I'm not succeeding, Edgar. Do you mind very much being short?
I'm not crazy about it.

Speaker 10 (22:19):
Well, I'm not crazy about having such icky hair. Your
hair isn't so wicky, and you are not so short.
How tall are you? I'm five six without heels.

Speaker 8 (22:35):
That's four inches taller than me.

Speaker 10 (22:37):
Well, I never figured it out.

Speaker 8 (22:38):
Well, that's what it is.

Speaker 10 (22:40):
I guess it's been very hard on you not being taller.

Speaker 8 (22:46):
It's been a trauma.

Speaker 7 (22:48):
You know what a trauma is, Yes, something that hurts.
Trauma is a shock, a disturbing experience. There was a psychoanalyst,
his name was Otto Rank. He said that all the
trauma you go through later in life, our reproductions are
being born.

Speaker 8 (23:05):
Do you believe that, cheer? I don't know, Eddie.

Speaker 21 (23:09):
Do you?

Speaker 15 (23:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (23:11):
Sometimes I think I do. Sometimes I think the worst
thing that can happen to you is to be born. Hey,
you are inside your mother where it's all warm and safe,
and all of a sudden she decides she's had enough
of you. She starts to get rid of you. Yeah,
no matter what you do, and of course there's nothing

(23:31):
you can do because you don't even know what's happening.
You are pushed out out into the cold, into the
light and all the noise and clamor and chaos of living.

Speaker 8 (23:43):
Yeah, and you never get over it.

Speaker 12 (23:49):
Never.

Speaker 10 (23:51):
I think i'd like a little more wine.

Speaker 8 (23:55):
Oh ah, sure, excuse me.

Speaker 10 (23:58):
You must be some way to get over it.

Speaker 8 (24:03):
I don't know what it is. Oh right now, right
this very minute, I feel like I'm starting to get
over it.

Speaker 10 (24:14):
I think I'm getting over it too.

Speaker 7 (24:20):
She liked the meat loaf, and she liked the broccoli,
and we had melon for dessert, and she liked that
after dinner we each had a brandy with our coffee.

Speaker 8 (24:32):
I was feeling just wonderful. I couldn't stop talking. I tried,
but I couldn't stop.

Speaker 7 (24:39):
It's like a disease with me trying to be something
because I feel like I'm nothing.

Speaker 8 (24:46):
Sometimes I look at myself in the mirror just to
be sure I'm there, that.

Speaker 7 (24:49):
I haven't evaporated or dissolved or disappeared.

Speaker 8 (24:54):
I want to show you something. You stay right there
and I'll get it.

Speaker 7 (24:57):
I've never shown as to anybody in my whole life.
I never thought I would show it to anybody because
it's so silly, but I don't know tonight.

Speaker 8 (25:07):
I feel like it. What is it? Are you just
wait to see you?

Speaker 15 (25:11):
You just wait?

Speaker 7 (25:12):
It's so silly there, What do you think of it?

Speaker 8 (25:19):
What is it? It's a top hat? What a top hat?

Speaker 22 (25:24):
Hi?

Speaker 8 (25:24):
Silk cated? It was my grandfather's.

Speaker 10 (25:26):
Oh yeah, I've seen them in the movies.

Speaker 8 (25:28):
Freda Stair movies. He made one.

Speaker 7 (25:30):
Called top hat. He wore a white tie and tails.
I used to admire him more than anybody.

Speaker 12 (25:37):
I still do.

Speaker 10 (25:38):
I've seen him on TV.

Speaker 8 (25:40):
Well, all I have is the top hat. I never
had tails or a white tie. And of course I
can't dance.

Speaker 10 (25:49):
And of course you're not fred astare.

Speaker 8 (25:53):
No, No, I'm not.

Speaker 10 (25:58):
We want me home any it's not far.

Speaker 8 (26:01):
You have to go one? Yes, well, sure i'll walk out.

Speaker 7 (26:14):
You say you're five or six without heels. You're not
scrunching down?

Speaker 5 (26:20):
Not what?

Speaker 8 (26:21):
Well, you're not trying to be shorter? Why should I?

Speaker 10 (26:25):
Eddie h Let's have lunch together tomorrow?

Speaker 8 (26:30):
Do you want to? I'd love to. Well, we could
go to a restaur.

Speaker 10 (26:35):
I could bring a box lunch to work and not.

Speaker 8 (26:37):
For both of us. Would you really like to do?
I love it. Or we could go to the park
and eat it.

Speaker 10 (26:44):
Yeah, we could do that. We could go to the park,
or or we could go down by the river.

Speaker 8 (26:53):
I loved her. At the door of the place where
she lived, I was like in a days.

Speaker 7 (27:00):
Think of was having lunch with her the next day
in the park or down by the river.

Speaker 8 (27:06):
I almost ran home and up the stairs. My door
was open. I knew I'd locked it, but it was open.

Speaker 12 (27:16):
Hello there, Hello the Bradshaw Remember me?

Speaker 8 (27:24):
Uh yeah, from this afternoon mister Tupper's office.

Speaker 12 (27:27):
Isn't that right?

Speaker 8 (27:29):
You wanted to talk to me?

Speaker 12 (27:31):
You uh had somebody here for dinner.

Speaker 8 (27:34):
Mary Lou Grant from the bank.

Speaker 13 (27:35):
You met her, the one that stood up for you,
the one that said you couldn't be the hold up
man because you're too short.

Speaker 12 (27:43):
Five foot one.

Speaker 8 (27:44):
She said, that's five one and a half.

Speaker 13 (27:47):
She said, the collar at the bank is four foot
four inches. And if the hold up man was you,
your shoulders wouldn't show up on the film, only your
head and neck. Now, isn't that what she said? Yes
to your girl is Mary Lou?

Speaker 8 (28:03):
Yes? And no, she's a friend.

Speaker 13 (28:07):
She know you wear lifts. What does she know you
wear lifts in your shoes three inch lifts?

Speaker 8 (28:17):
I don't know.

Speaker 12 (28:19):
And what are these? I found them in the bureau.

Speaker 11 (28:26):
Their lifts.

Speaker 13 (28:28):
Yes, yes, they are three inch lifts. With these in
your shoes, you'd be five foot four and a half inches,
wouldn't you? And your shoulders would show above the counter.
That's how I figure it, LB, How do you figures?

Speaker 7 (28:56):
Just when the blood has cooled, when the knots in
the stomach have come untied, just when the breathing has
slowed down, just as the world has begun to look
friendly and life inviting, just at that very moment, fate

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can strike a man down with a heavy mallet of fear.
I'll be back shortly with the final act of our story.
And Edgar Ellerby, who stands five feet one and a

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half inches, seemed to be cleared of a bank hold
up when it was pointed out that a man of
that stature could barely see across the teller's counter. After
an intimate dinner with his friend and defender, as well
as fellow teller Mary lou Grant, Edgar returned home to
be confronted by Detective bradsh Off, who had discovered a

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pair of three inch lifts clearly meant to be inserted
in Edgar Ellerby's shoes in order to increase his height.
Now it is the following day, noontime.

Speaker 8 (30:14):
In fact, it's nice here by the river.

Speaker 10 (30:17):
I brought fried chicken and three bean salad. Do you
like three bean salad?

Speaker 22 (30:22):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (30:22):
I never had any. It's very good, very low.

Speaker 7 (30:27):
Everything's changed since last night, after I walked you home, after.

Speaker 8 (30:33):
One of the nicest evenings I ever spent. It was nice.

Speaker 7 (30:36):
I thought telling you about me wanting to be like
Fred Astaire, showing you my top hat.

Speaker 8 (30:42):
I never watch, you know, I just kept it. Kind
of a symbol of an old dream. You, But what
good are old dreams?

Speaker 10 (30:51):
What good are symbols, especially symbols of old dreams.

Speaker 8 (30:56):
Like the lifts? Lifts a lift.

Speaker 7 (31:01):
Things men put in their shoes to make.

Speaker 8 (31:05):
Them taller, look taller.

Speaker 7 (31:09):
When I first met you, when I realized that you
were five feet five at least, and I dreamed taking
you out, even dancing with you, I thought, if I
had three inch lipts in my shoes, you wouldn't mind
dancing with me.

Speaker 8 (31:27):
I never wore them.

Speaker 7 (31:29):
I tried them out around the room, but I kept
falling down.

Speaker 8 (31:33):
I couldn't even walk up. Could I possibly dance? So
I just put them away.

Speaker 10 (31:37):
Oh, I think you should throw them out and take
me dancing tonight.

Speaker 8 (31:42):
I could be in jail tonight.

Speaker 6 (31:45):
Merrily.

Speaker 7 (31:45):
When I got home last night, Detective Bradshaw was there.
He had found the lifts, so now he thinks the
hold up man could have been me. I to admit
the man on the film looked exactly like me.

Speaker 8 (31:57):
No, he didn't have your expression, and your expression changes
when you're holding up a bank.

Speaker 10 (32:04):
Well, you had enough to eat.

Speaker 8 (32:08):
I wasn't very hungry.

Speaker 10 (32:10):
Well, why don't you pick up the trash and throw
it in that trash basket? And I think I'll just
walk out on the pier and take one last look
at the river.

Speaker 7 (32:22):
I started putting the chicken away and the three being salad.

Speaker 8 (32:27):
I felt so bad.

Speaker 7 (32:29):
I looked at Mary Lou standing at the end of
the pier, and she was so slim, so graceful, so pretty,
and so tall. Still she'd asked me to take her dancing.
Was it possible she didn't mind being four inches taller
than me, But I didn't have to mind being four

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inches shorter. And I picked up the trash and threw
it in the basket, and Mary Lou and I went
back to the bank.

Speaker 10 (33:00):
Yeah, some nate lunch people are sitting out.

Speaker 8 (33:05):
Yeah. Oh he am adam, thank you. Next, Yes, everything
you've got, hand it over? What all of it? This
ain't a cat astill Well?

Speaker 10 (33:24):
What are you all right?

Speaker 8 (33:25):
Eddie? It's happened.

Speaker 10 (33:27):
You look funny, wet stalin lb Eddie.

Speaker 8 (33:33):
I don't know what came old to me. It didn't
feel like me at all. I didn't think what I
should do, or what I should what would happen if
I did it.

Speaker 7 (33:39):
I just stared into the face of what was exactly
like mine and heard the voice like mine. I didn't
think about doing anything about giving up the money. You're
not giving up the money. I didn't think at all, Eddie.

Speaker 8 (33:48):
You what I did? I jumped across the counter.

Speaker 7 (33:53):
Now, I don't know how I did it. I leaped
across that counter. Maybe I flew across it, I don't know,
but my hands went.

Speaker 8 (33:58):
Right for that flew. Hey.

Speaker 7 (34:01):
We struggled on the floor for a few seconds, and
then he got away from me and ran out of
a bike. I ran after him. He ran fast, I
ran faster. I never known I could run so fast.
We were right into the street.

Speaker 5 (34:15):
What's up?

Speaker 8 (34:16):
What's up? The faith?

Speaker 15 (34:18):
Use the faith?

Speaker 8 (34:19):
Held up the bank where the police?

Speaker 10 (34:23):
They're headed for the river.

Speaker 8 (34:25):
Yes, we were headed for the river. I was gaining
on him.

Speaker 7 (34:28):
I thought to myself, maybe he's got lips in his shoes,
that's why he can't run so fast. More people on
the street stopped, their mouths dropped open.

Speaker 15 (34:34):
A few of them ran along with me.

Speaker 6 (34:36):
Yeah, I'll call a cop.

Speaker 23 (34:38):
To that ready.

Speaker 7 (34:40):
Padrandline must have been pouring into my veins up parlament.
My legs moved like pistons, my short little legs I'd
always thought were so useless. I kept my eyes on
a man I was chasing my double, my dappel ganger,
Oh what's her ghost? Whatever, whichever, whatever, He was responsible
for the sudden.

Speaker 8 (34:55):
Change in my life.

Speaker 7 (34:56):
And it flashed like lightning across my mind, the sudden
change in me.

Speaker 8 (35:00):
We ran, and we ran, and we came to the river.

Speaker 7 (35:03):
He ran out onto a pier and I ran after him.
He reached the end of the pier, he stopped for
a second.

Speaker 8 (35:08):
I was almost on top of him. Then I heard
a splash, and he disappeared and I dove after.

Speaker 10 (35:14):
Him under the water.

Speaker 8 (35:16):
I opened my eyes. I was I'm desperate to gonna look.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
At that's impositive for me, and he was.

Speaker 8 (35:21):
Starting to seem to me. I was so I.

Speaker 15 (35:23):
Actually see him.

Speaker 8 (35:24):
I forgot I couldn't swim.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
But then the strong arms went on my neck and
dim leave through the water.

Speaker 15 (35:29):
I heard a familiar voice get like star yea.

Speaker 8 (35:39):
Fall back, Okay, Oh, I got you.

Speaker 7 (35:44):
It was Detective Bradshaw. He told me to shore and
up on the back. I was so surprised to see him.

Speaker 8 (35:50):
I'm so happy. I tried to thank him, but he
wouldn't listen.

Speaker 12 (35:54):
I'll be around later, Ellie.

Speaker 13 (35:56):
Now the police car is going to drive you home.
You just take a hot bath, crawl into bed, try
to relax, a little fellow, you've done good.

Speaker 7 (36:09):
I didn't mind that little fellow bit. I liked him
saying you've done good. Six foot six or five foot one.
What's the difference when somebody says you've done good. I
went home and took a hot bath and laid down

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in the bed and thought, what a nice feeling not
to be afraid anymore, Not really, because I'd run after
the bank robber, but more because I'd found out that
I'd had it in me to do something like that.
I thought about it till I fell asleep. A couple
of hours later, the phone rang.

Speaker 10 (36:50):
Oh hear, mister Tupper, here on me.

Speaker 24 (36:57):
You all right?

Speaker 8 (36:58):
Oh yeah, come, I'm a fine mister Tupper.

Speaker 25 (37:00):
I wonder if you'd mind coming down.

Speaker 8 (37:03):
To the bank. Oh did did they find the robber?

Speaker 17 (37:05):
No?

Speaker 2 (37:06):
No, no, not yet.

Speaker 26 (37:07):
They're dragging the room.

Speaker 8 (37:08):
Oh maybe swam to the other side.

Speaker 6 (37:11):
Nobody saw him do it.

Speaker 8 (37:12):
Uh, maybe he swam down ribber and the.

Speaker 15 (37:14):
Current's pretty strong, man. I don't think he'd make it.

Speaker 8 (37:17):
Oh, maybe got washed out to sea.

Speaker 22 (37:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (37:19):
Maybe we'll see you at the bank.

Speaker 27 (37:21):
Here.

Speaker 24 (37:21):
We'll be about half an hour.

Speaker 8 (37:23):
I'll be there, mister Tupper.

Speaker 7 (37:29):
When I got to the bank, mister Tupper met me
and showed me into his office.

Speaker 8 (37:33):
That was just like before.

Speaker 7 (37:36):
Yella was there and Mary Lou and Detective Bradshaw, and
the projector was set up in the screen and the
detective Bradshaw.

Speaker 13 (37:44):
Was talking, now watch this carefully, please, I have a
chair oll over you.

Speaker 8 (37:48):
All right, Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks.

Speaker 28 (37:50):
Good.

Speaker 13 (37:50):
Now I'm going to run the film from the monitor
as I've won fifty six this afternoon, mister Tupper, if
you will turn off the lights.

Speaker 7 (38:00):
Now, that's mister Potter. He made a deposit. That's Missus Connor.
She cashed a check fifty dollars. Wow, here's where the
man right here?

Speaker 8 (38:16):
Wait? Stop?

Speaker 12 (38:19):
Where's he want me to go back?

Speaker 8 (38:21):
Please? Please? Here we go, mister Potter, Missus Connor's and nobody.

Speaker 10 (38:42):
I see somebody.

Speaker 12 (38:44):
There, you go Ellerby? I crossed the counter, but there
was somebody. Want me to run it again?

Speaker 8 (38:50):
Look there was somebody.

Speaker 7 (38:51):
Why would I jump over the counter if there wasn't
anybody there?

Speaker 12 (38:54):
I knew you didn't see anybody on the film, did
you know?

Speaker 8 (38:56):
But I did? I saw somebody.

Speaker 7 (38:59):
Now, Hilda, I did Nobody else did not.

Speaker 9 (39:04):
Everybody has the power to see ghosts.

Speaker 15 (39:07):
Just what did you see on the film, Hilda?

Speaker 9 (39:09):
I saw mister Allaby only a little taller. I saw
mister Allerby's double.

Speaker 7 (39:15):
We don't believe in ghosts at this bank, and I
don't imagine the police believer in they're either.

Speaker 8 (39:20):
Then what did I chase down the street? Who dove
into the river.

Speaker 12 (39:26):
We haven't found a buddy. I have my doubts. We
ever will. It's funny, though. We did find something a clue.

Speaker 8 (39:34):
You found a clue?

Speaker 12 (39:34):
No, no, no, no, no, no, nothing like that.

Speaker 13 (39:37):
We found a high silk hat what they used to
call the top hat.

Speaker 12 (39:41):
You remember them. No, why would anybody saw a top
hat in the river? Why would anybody even own a
top hat?

Speaker 7 (39:54):
Mary and I left together. We wandered down to the
river where we'd had lunch.

Speaker 8 (39:59):
Just few hours before.

Speaker 7 (40:02):
There was the pier where I'd gone after what I
thought was a bank robber, where i'd seen him jump in.
I'd heard the splash where I jumped in after him.

Speaker 8 (40:13):
How do you feel, Eddie?

Speaker 12 (40:15):
All right?

Speaker 8 (40:16):
I guess let's sit down. Shall we imagine this is
where it all happened? Or didn't happen? Oh, it happened,
all right? What happened? Did I have an hallucination?

Speaker 15 (40:31):
What was it?

Speaker 10 (40:33):
Maybe?

Speaker 8 (40:34):
Did I make up the whole thing? Was I just
showing off?

Speaker 10 (40:37):
For what does that matter?

Speaker 8 (40:39):
It does to me?

Speaker 10 (40:40):
Why can't you look at it this way? You thought
you saw a bank robber that looked like you, except
that he was three inches taller, or if Hilda is right,
you did see him, you saw your double, your stoppelganger.
But whichever it was, you didn't fold up a f
all over in a fight, or even yell for help.

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You jumped across the counter and you tackle him, and
then you chased him out of the bank and down
the street, and you jumped in the river after when
you can't even swim.

Speaker 8 (41:09):
Yeah, I did that.

Speaker 10 (41:11):
Well do you think that a man who goes out
in the dark after a burglar, without a gun and
all alone is any less brave because there was no
robber there in the first place he thought there was
and he went anyway. Well, I think that's very brave.
You too, I most certainly do.

Speaker 7 (41:34):
We've never been what you'd call really close, Mary Low.

Speaker 10 (41:40):
I've always felt close to you, Eddie. You just haven't
felt close to me. I wanted to No, you wanted
to be Fred Astare and I wasn't Ginger Rogers.

Speaker 8 (41:58):
You're prettier than Ginger Rogers.

Speaker 10 (42:00):
Well I'm one thing Ginger Rogers isn't. I'm here. Yeah,
you still want to be Fred astairing. We're a top hat.

Speaker 8 (42:13):
I think I'll throw it away my top hat. I
already did. You did. What that's your top hat? They
found floating in the river. I stole it last night when.

Speaker 10 (42:29):
We had had dinner, and I threw it in the
river this noon, when you were packing up the lunch
very little.

Speaker 8 (42:35):
Well, why did you do that?

Speaker 10 (42:38):
I thought you didn't really need it anymore. I thought
it was high time you stopped wanting to be fred Astaire,
because I knew that I could never be Ginger Rogers.

Speaker 8 (42:50):
And now we're just you and.

Speaker 28 (42:55):
Me.

Speaker 10 (42:57):
Od it's better this way, can't I think it's perfect.
That's so funny.

Speaker 11 (43:10):
What are you doing today?

Speaker 10 (43:12):
Nothing?

Speaker 15 (43:14):
Why?

Speaker 8 (43:16):
Well, let's you and me go dancing.

Speaker 7 (43:29):
Fear means paralysis. Fear means the inability to act. Fear
means being stopped in your tracks. Fear means being helpless
as an infant. Fear is the enemy of life. Yet,
as we have seen in the case of Edgar Allerby,
the paralysis can be broken, the ability to act can

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be restored. We can overcome helplessness and move in our tracks.
So the real enemy is not fear itself, only the
fear of fear.

Speaker 8 (44:06):
I'll be back shortly.

Speaker 7 (44:19):
There's plenty in the world today to fill us with fear.
We'd be fools not to feel fear. Yet we must move,
must act, must overcome paralysis and stop acting like children. So,
with fear in our hearts, let us be courageous, haunted
by dread, let us dare to look around the corner,

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see what's there, and whatever it is, deal with it
the best we can.

Speaker 8 (44:48):
For all we know, it may be.

Speaker 7 (44:51):
A ghost, a ghost as frightened as we are. Our
cast included Jack Grimes, Marion Zeldi's, Jane White, and Earl Hammond.
The entire production was under the direction of Hymond Brown
and now a preview of our next tale.

Speaker 15 (45:11):
How are you going to stop it?

Speaker 2 (45:12):
Compare over all.

Speaker 8 (45:13):
You can't do that, says it's against the law and
we have no right.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
To break the law. That's how cowards.

Speaker 8 (45:21):
Talk human you'll know me.

Speaker 11 (45:24):
Listen.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
The law was what all of us were fighting to
uphold all the time we were in the war. It's
not our law. This petroleum. Who knows anything about it?
How much there is? And we know way oil is better.
We know people have to come to their senses.

Speaker 19 (45:42):
Sooner or late?

Speaker 2 (45:43):
Are you first or Againnis, I'm going back to town all right? No,
go ahead, crawl back to town on your belly, beg
somebody for.

Speaker 8 (45:53):
A job Pley, don't bend a knee. We don't need
you here. This is a Heisman.

Speaker 7 (46:01):
Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division.

Speaker 11 (46:05):
This is E. G.

Speaker 7 (46:06):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant Dreams Suspense.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
This is the Man in Black here again to introduce
Columbia's program Suspense. Our stars denied to Miss Agnes Moorehead
and mister Ray Collins. We have seen these two expert
and resourceful players in Citizen Kin the Magnificent Amberson, in
which Miss Morehead's performance won her the nineteen forty two
Film Critics Award. Mister Collins will soon be seen in

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the Metro Golden Mayor Technicolor.

Speaker 15 (47:43):
Film Salute to the Marines.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
Miss Morehead and mister Collins returned this evening to their
first love, the CBS Microphone, to appear in a study
in terror by Lucille Fletcher called The Diary of Sustronia Winter.
The story told by this diary is Tonight's tale of suspense.
If you have been with us on these Tuesday nights,

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you will know that suspense is compounded of mystery and suspicion,
dangerous adventure. In this series, our tales calculated to intreat you,
to stir your nerves, to offer you a precarious situation,
and then withhold a solution until.

Speaker 15 (48:24):
The last possible moment.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
And so it is with the diary of Sophronia Winters
and the performances of Magnus Morehead and Ray Collins, we again.

Speaker 15 (48:33):
Hope to keep you in suspense.

Speaker 16 (48:46):
February first, Saint Petersburg, Florida, I, Sophronia Winters, have hereby
begun this diary because on this date I feel for
the first time that I've begun to live. Diaries are
no good unless one has thrilling experiences. For forty years,
I've never had what could really be called a thrilling experience.
But Papa's death has changed everything. Here I am in
beautiful Saint Peter's Burg with everything to start life in you,

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money in my purse, two suitcases full of new clothes,
and a gorgeous new permanent wave. And Florida is really
the land of romance. It doesn't matter whether you're seventeen
or seventy. There are parties and dances and bingo games,
and flirtations for all. My landlady, in fact, tells me
that people often become engaged and even married to perfect
strangers overnight. I'm still shy, of course, but just the same,

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it's such fun and so thrilling to think one's fate
maybe just around the corner. February third, Oh, Diary, it
is beginning this morning. When I came out of my
lodging house to go down to the beach, I noticed
a man, a thrilling looking man, sitting across the street

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on a bench. It's just as though he were waiting
for me, because when I came out, he sort of
started up as though he knew me. Of course I
didn't speak first, but I knew the minute I started
on the street that he was following me. Well, I
got to the beach and sat down with my magazines,
and suddenly there he was, strolling toward me with a
broad smile. Well, sitting out here all by your luss, Yes, yes,

(50:13):
I am did.

Speaker 15 (50:13):
Nice see you last night over the Starfish Tea Room?

Speaker 16 (50:16):
The Starfish Tea Room, Oh yes, yes, I was there yesterday,
but it was so crowded I'm afraid I.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
Don't recall might a nice cuisine they've got over there.
Mind if I sit down beside you, not at all?

Speaker 16 (50:30):
Oh, oh just a minute, sit on this magazine. The
beach is so sandy.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
Oh, sand doesn't bother me. I'm from Maine. You know
we got plenty of sand up there.

Speaker 16 (50:38):
Do you?

Speaker 15 (50:39):
You've been down here at Saint Pete Long, Oh just
three days?

Speaker 2 (50:42):
Three days. That's a long time. So wonder I didn't
spot you before? Oh, mister Fitch Johnson's the name, Hiram Johnson.
I come from Green Harbor, Maine. Run a big hotel
up there summers. Well that's my whole history in a nutshell.

Speaker 16 (50:57):
My name is Sophronia A Sopronia Winter Sophronia. Uh huh, Well.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
You know that's quite a coincidence. My sister in law's
name was Sophronia. Oh, Sophronia Johnson. You ever heard of her?

Speaker 15 (51:11):
She looked quite a bit like you too, Sophronia Johnson.

Speaker 16 (51:15):
No, I'm afraid I haven't.

Speaker 29 (51:17):
Who was she?

Speaker 16 (51:17):
Someone very famous? I'm so ignorant about these things.

Speaker 2 (51:21):
Oh that's all right. Say look at that sun, will you.
I'd say it was pretty nearly.

Speaker 30 (51:27):
Time for Lot.

Speaker 16 (51:29):
And Diarry Darling He is wonderful, strong and kind of
warm hearted, so generous. I don't want to be like
the other silly women in this town. But Hiram is different.
There's there's something almost poetic about him, something sad and deep.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
You know, Sophronia, it's kind of mysterious us finding that
nine point starfish on the beach together. My sister in law,
Sophronia used to collect nine point starfishes. And you'll think,
your name Sophronia, and you find a nine point starfish
with me, Well, it kind of draws us together.

Speaker 15 (52:04):
Eh huh, what.

Speaker 11 (52:07):
Do you think?

Speaker 16 (52:11):
Says though I'd known him all my life? My landlady
says it's foolish.

Speaker 10 (52:16):
But look at Romeo and Julia.

Speaker 16 (52:17):
Weren't they foolish.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
What's the good of waiting, Sophronia. I've got to be
back at the hotel in a week. We may never
see each.

Speaker 16 (52:28):
Other again, Oh, Hiram, don't say that I couldn't bear.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
Then let's do it right away tomorrow. There's a parson
not on Coral Avenue who'll do the job for us.
We can take a nice moonlight drive out to the
Alligator farm afterward, have a nice short dinner. Then climb
on board the Orange Blossom to borrow.

Speaker 15 (52:42):
Night from Maine.

Speaker 31 (52:44):
Just think of Maine, the big.

Speaker 2 (52:46):
Dark pine woods, the sand, the bay, the two of
us alone together, the two.

Speaker 10 (52:53):
Of us alone together.

Speaker 16 (53:04):
February seventh, on board the Orange Blossom. I was married
in a wedding dress of alice blue moiree with a
frill of white organ. He had the caring wrists and
a rhinestone belt buckle. Hiram sent me Tawsman Roses. I'm
pressing one precious flower between the pages of this diary
for luck.

Speaker 15 (53:28):
See you understand. In a couple of minutes and bags heavy, No.

Speaker 16 (53:32):
Not particularly, dearest. Oh, I can't get over that taxi manifestation.
Imagine his incident saying he couldn't drive us over.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
Maybe he didn't have any gas. It's happened sometimes around here.

Speaker 16 (53:42):
Well, anyway, I'm glad the weather is so mild. Can
you imagine what it would be like in a blizzard.
There's a place, Oh wait a minute, wait a minute.
I don't want to look till I put Dommy's bags.

Speaker 15 (53:52):
Now where where through those big pine trees?

Speaker 16 (53:57):
Oh? Oh, it is big, isn't it?

Speaker 15 (54:00):
One hundred and twenty five rooms.

Speaker 16 (54:02):
So many fire escapes and balconies and porches and towers.
I stayed in a hotel like that once years ago
with Papa. It was very fashionable there.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
My grandfather built that place fifty years ago. Hasn't been
changed much since.

Speaker 16 (54:17):
No, Well, of course you've put in modern plumbing.

Speaker 22 (54:20):
Not yet.

Speaker 15 (54:23):
Here we are walk in.

Speaker 12 (54:27):
What's that?

Speaker 2 (54:29):
Just a fog horn of the day fall. We get
it almost every night in this kind of weather.

Speaker 16 (54:34):
What are you locking the gate for?

Speaker 15 (54:35):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (54:37):
There's nobody coming in after us or going out again
for a while.

Speaker 16 (54:41):
But I thought you said the hotel.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
The hotel is empty, Tiram.

Speaker 15 (54:54):
What is it now, Tiram, darling.

Speaker 16 (54:56):
I know it sounds silly, but let's not go in
there tonight. Let's let's wait until why oh, just because
it's so dark and empty. There's not a light in
the whole place, and no one's expecting this.

Speaker 32 (55:06):
What did we eat?

Speaker 16 (55:07):
Where we sleep? Let's stay in the village just for tonight.

Speaker 15 (55:10):
I've got things to eat, the place to sleep. Come on, Oh,
my arm Hiram.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
If you remember my telling you down in Florida about
my sister in law Sophronia, Well, that's her over there
on the wall.

Speaker 15 (55:30):
Take a look at her.

Speaker 16 (55:32):
Hiram, you hurt me. Oh oh, glasses very dusty. She
must have died many years ago. But her face is sweet,
it's very sweet. And her eyes, it was something very
sad and wistful about her eyes.

Speaker 2 (55:52):
She was a murderess. She was hanged in Portland twenty
five years ago for the murder of my brother. From
here in the lobby of this hotel. She murdered h
mcold blood an axe, that fire axe hanging over there
on the wall.

Speaker 15 (56:03):
It was a summer day.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
I were guests sitting out on the front porch and
the rockers. Was just after lunch. My brother Ethan was
sitting at the desk counting his loose change. My mother
was crocheting in that old wicker rocking chair. Sophronia came downstairs,
humming a hymn.

Speaker 16 (56:17):
Oh, don't, Hiram, please, please don't tell me anymore. Well,
it makes me nervous to hear it like this in
this big, shadowy lobby. And your eyes, Hiram, your eyes, Hiram,
you're acting so strange. What's the matter with you, dear?
I know it was a terrible tragedy, but it happened
twenty five years ago.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
Don't touch me, Sophronium, don't touch you. Do you remember
what I said to you in Florida?

Speaker 29 (56:44):
What did you say?

Speaker 33 (56:45):
Will you?

Speaker 16 (56:46):
You said a million sweet and wonderful things to me, Hiram.

Speaker 2 (56:50):
I said, you resembled my dead sister in law. Look
at her again, look at her closely?

Speaker 16 (57:00):
But why oh no, no, I can't. It's too horrible.
I can't look at her face in any pleasure now,
knowing she was a murgerent.

Speaker 15 (57:07):
You're afraid to look as I don't know.

Speaker 19 (57:08):
I'm not afraid.

Speaker 34 (57:10):
I don't please my eye.

Speaker 35 (57:14):
Oh very well, Hello, stand there quietly like that. Take
off your glasses.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
M That's all I wanted to see.

Speaker 15 (57:31):
That's all I wanted.

Speaker 16 (57:33):
To February thirteenth, Green Harbor Hotel name. I can't understand it.
I try to fathom it, but my headaches and my
heart is heavy. The hotel is deserted, has been for

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twenty five years. Everything is covered with spiders and cobwebs.
Great dining room with its oak woodwork is alive with
rats and a row of broken rocking chairs on the
front porch faces antill we ought to see. Does a
meanness to be my home? He's downstairs in the shabby

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parlor offs the lobby, playing the harmonium. Yes, yes, Hiram
leaping and oh, dear, why is old?

Speaker 36 (58:37):
Do or not come out? I want to show him
around the place.

Speaker 16 (58:43):
It's it's all right, dear, I've seen it. I've seen
just about everything.

Speaker 36 (58:47):
No, you haven't. You haven't seen the grounds at all
the grounds.

Speaker 16 (58:53):
But Hiram, it's after midnight.

Speaker 36 (58:56):
I want to show you where my sister in law
Soflonia is bay Una.

Speaker 16 (59:01):
Not tonight, dear, please, it's so late and night. I
have a headache.

Speaker 15 (59:04):
Open the door, Sopronia. I want you to come down.

Speaker 16 (59:08):
No, no, I sha'n't.

Speaker 26 (59:10):
I'll go away.

Speaker 16 (59:11):
Let me alone. I won't.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
I won't.

Speaker 37 (59:14):
I won't.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
Carrying on like that. See I I have pass keys
through all the doors. Sea beyond where those four birches
are standing, it's where my sister in law, Sophronia, was
laid away twenty five years ago.

Speaker 15 (59:37):
It was the biggest funeral in the neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
Folks crowded outside the gate of the dozens trying to
get a look, but we wouldn't let them buried her
ourselves without a service, out here by herself, on the grounds.
Ephraim is buried in town, but not Sophronia. I had
a feeling I'd have to keep an eye on her.
Even then, keep an eye on I knew she was
one of those restless sleepers who wouldn't stay quiet in
her own grave.

Speaker 15 (01:00:00):
I knew before the year.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
Was out, she'd find some way to start roaming around,
hunting from mischief again. She was a young she deviled
to the Corsopronia, and they got to hang her till doomsday.

Speaker 15 (01:00:09):
Wouldn't do any good.

Speaker 16 (01:00:10):
You mean you mean you think she haunts this hotel?

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
No, no, not this hotel. She never had any use
for her, alive or dead. No, she makes for the
warmer climates. She was always a cold blooded little fish,
freezing and shivering all the time, places like California and
Texas and Florida.

Speaker 15 (01:00:35):
She makes for Florida.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
Yes, that's one of her favorite haunts, particularly around Saint Pete.

Speaker 15 (01:00:41):
She likes the flowers and the sun and the romance fire.

Speaker 16 (01:00:44):
Am I feel cold? Didn't you mind if I go inside?

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
I haven't explained everything. You think I'm crazy, I guess crazy.
But I'm a lot smarter than some people give me
credit for. Because you see, I have found her now
three times. You see that grove of birches over there,

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under every one of them's a grave. I've found her
wandering the earth in disguise.

Speaker 7 (01:01:18):
Three times, and I've killed her three times.

Speaker 15 (01:01:22):
It still doesn't do any good. She's still restless.

Speaker 16 (01:01:27):
You you mean you you've killed three different women.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
So now I keep another open grave to remind her
it's waiting.

Speaker 15 (01:01:36):
Now. Would you like to see it?

Speaker 16 (01:01:40):
Sophronia, No, Haram, No, no, please?

Speaker 15 (01:01:43):
I are you afraid to see it?

Speaker 19 (01:01:44):
Sophronia?

Speaker 23 (01:01:45):
No, I haram, You don't mean to say that.

Speaker 38 (01:01:49):
You think just because my name.

Speaker 16 (01:01:51):
Happened to be Sophronian, then did I look a little
like to think? What?

Speaker 15 (01:01:54):
Sophronia?

Speaker 32 (01:01:56):
Nothing?

Speaker 16 (01:02:04):
February fourteenth. My mind is made up. I made a
terrible mistake, and I must get away from this place.
I must get away from hi room as quickly as
I can.

Speaker 39 (01:02:19):
It should be easy.

Speaker 16 (01:02:20):
There's no fog today. If I can only escape from
the hotel, I can run and hide in the pine woods. No, no,
I shall wait for dusk. When he generally sits down
in the parlor and plays the harmonium. I can hide
a little earlier in one of the deserted rooms, and

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then when his back is toward the lobby, step out
the front door.

Speaker 22 (01:02:56):
Bronia, the Thronia.

Speaker 15 (01:03:02):
Who oh there you are.

Speaker 40 (01:03:07):
What's the matter?

Speaker 15 (01:03:07):
Anything wrong?

Speaker 2 (01:03:09):
No, Hiram, you didn't want anything outside, did you, Because
if you do, you'll have to ask me to get
it for you.

Speaker 15 (01:03:18):
You see, I always keep the front door locked.

Speaker 2 (01:03:21):
Yes, yes, the back door too, and all the doors
leading out into the porches and fire escapes, and a
good many of the windows. It makes one feel safe
from thieves peeping tomsh you've got a cold.

Speaker 15 (01:03:35):
That's too bad.

Speaker 16 (01:03:38):
I must have caught it last night out doors there.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
You ought to be in bed, a good bed. The
only good bed in the house is in my sister
in law, Sophronia's old room.

Speaker 16 (01:03:49):
No, no, Harram, I'm all right.

Speaker 10 (01:03:51):
It's is this a little head called.

Speaker 15 (01:03:53):
Little head colds off and develop into pneumonia.

Speaker 6 (01:03:56):
Why it's too bad.

Speaker 15 (01:03:57):
I didn't think of that before. You might have slept
in it from the beginning. Yeah, up these stairs, what's
the matter? Are you so weak?

Speaker 28 (01:04:06):
No?

Speaker 16 (01:04:08):
No, I'm aored.

Speaker 15 (01:04:10):
This Roman is the cleanest in the hotel too.

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
I've always had a sort of suspicion about it, you see,
I've kept everything as it was.

Speaker 15 (01:04:23):
What's the matter.

Speaker 16 (01:04:26):
But nothing.

Speaker 15 (01:04:27):
I think it's just it seems kind of familiar.

Speaker 16 (01:04:29):
No, no, no, it's just it's saying it so clean,
sing it is though someone were living here, is so
it only just stepped out for a moment.

Speaker 2 (01:04:38):
It's as she left it that afternoon when she walked
down to murder my brother. You see her needlework on
the table with the needle sticking in it, and her
hymn books still open. She was very fond of singing hymns.
Aphronia was had a nice voice too. I used to
accompany her. I'll turn down the bed for you, he undressed,

(01:05:00):
while I go and make you.

Speaker 15 (01:05:01):
Some hot tea.

Speaker 16 (01:05:02):
No, I don't want any.

Speaker 15 (01:05:04):
Here's the closet.

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
You can put on one of Sophronia's dressing gowns.

Speaker 16 (01:05:13):
Diary. I'm beside myself. I shall go mad, I shall
go mad. Two hours of past and they locked the
door upon me. That's falling, and I'm alone alone in
this horrible room with its hideous little momentos of death.
I'm sitting here at her little with the table, trying

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to become trying to write this somehow, And one writes
about a thing, it doesn't appear so real. My hand
is just rushed against a needlework for him book, for
they still lie waiting. I can bear heaving them near
me no longer. I'll just get them out of sight anywhere.

Speaker 28 (01:05:56):
In that closet.

Speaker 36 (01:05:57):
I'm your door, little for your key.

Speaker 10 (01:06:02):
No, yes, Hiram, Why aren't you in bed?

Speaker 15 (01:06:10):
You take worse cold.

Speaker 16 (01:06:11):
You know I'll get in bed in a minute.

Speaker 15 (01:06:13):
First, Oh, brushing up on your needlework again? Why in
needlework you've got in your hand?

Speaker 8 (01:06:20):
Have I?

Speaker 28 (01:06:21):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (01:06:22):
Oh, yes, yes so I but I wasn't working on it, Hiram.
I swear I wasn't. I I've never.

Speaker 34 (01:06:28):
Done a stitch.

Speaker 23 (01:06:28):
I need to work in my whole life.

Speaker 16 (01:06:29):
I don't know one Am Broder's stitch for another.

Speaker 34 (01:06:31):
Let me show you look.

Speaker 23 (01:06:32):
I don't even know how to hold the needle.

Speaker 15 (01:06:33):
Get into bed, Sophronia, your fever.

Speaker 16 (01:06:35):
Before we go on, Haram, before you go on thinking,
we've got to heaven understanding, You've got to let me explain.
I was born in eighteen ninety two. Kalamazoo, Michigan. My
name is Sopronia, that's true, but they name lots of people. Sophronia.

Speaker 23 (01:06:46):
I was named for my grandmother.

Speaker 16 (01:06:48):
She had just died. No, no, no, You've got to
listen to me. I've lived in Kalamazoo all my life.
If you don't just write a letter of send a wire, well,
I've never heard of green Harborn my whole life.

Speaker 41 (01:06:57):
I never went anywhere for almost ten years, I said,
day in and day on, nursing Papa.

Speaker 34 (01:07:02):
He had a stroke.

Speaker 16 (01:07:02):
I was none of the house.

Speaker 34 (01:07:04):
It was a red brick on.

Speaker 16 (01:07:21):
February fifteenth. Now I live only from moment to moment,
listening to each creek upon the stairs. I've been in
bed all day. It's night now. Her fog cortn has
begun to blow again. February nineteenth. I woke up early

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this morning after a wretched night, and the date was
burning in letters of fire in my brain. If he's
planning to kill me, it'll be today. But the eyes
have been crawling on. It's almost midnight.

Speaker 23 (01:08:02):
Oh why is he going to kill me?

Speaker 8 (01:08:03):
Doesn't he do it at once?

Speaker 33 (01:08:06):
Why did he tature me like this?

Speaker 16 (01:08:08):
I'd rather be deadn't sit here in this room one
moment longer. I can't bear it.

Speaker 33 (01:08:14):
It doesn't come.

Speaker 16 (01:08:15):
In five minutes, I shall force him to come. I
shall be down the door. No, no, Rather, let me
say quiet, pray that it doesn't come.

Speaker 8 (01:08:27):
Oh, I want to live. I wanna live.

Speaker 42 (01:08:42):
The bronia. It's gone, the phronia. Come downstairs. I want
you to sing me a hymn.

Speaker 16 (01:08:55):
See sing? He he never asked me to sing for me before,
But she saying, I, I can't sing there. I told
you that long ago, did you well, I've forgotten.

Speaker 43 (01:09:14):
And besides, how can I come downstairs when my door
is locked?

Speaker 4 (01:09:18):
It's unlocked?

Speaker 26 (01:09:20):
Try it.

Speaker 16 (01:09:22):
Unlocked? Oh no, I couldn't.

Speaker 39 (01:09:28):
Oh it is it is, and I never know it.

Speaker 37 (01:09:31):
I never know it.

Speaker 8 (01:09:34):
Coming.

Speaker 39 (01:09:35):
He unlocked sometime when I was just sitting.

Speaker 16 (01:09:38):
Oh why didn't I try a few more times? Why
did I just sit there assume me? No, No, he's
got me.

Speaker 44 (01:09:47):
Anyway, he'd have known, but I might.

Speaker 16 (01:09:50):
Oh No, it's too late.

Speaker 20 (01:09:53):
He's gonna kill me.

Speaker 37 (01:09:57):
Yes, Hiram, I'm coming, Hiram.

Speaker 43 (01:10:15):
Where are you in here in the parlor?

Speaker 32 (01:10:19):
What are you doing there? Hiram?

Speaker 26 (01:10:22):
Waiting to hear you sing.

Speaker 43 (01:10:25):
You're at the harmonium. Yes, all right, I'll sing. I
haven't sung in years, but I might as well. I'll
sing for you out here in the hall.

Speaker 16 (01:10:40):
My voice will carry better.

Speaker 45 (01:10:42):
It always did carry better in the hall, didn't it, Sophronia?
So you remember that too? Of course you know both
the front and back doors are locked.

Speaker 16 (01:10:54):
Play a few bars, hiram, dear to warm me out?

Speaker 45 (01:10:58):
Shall I sing too, Sophronia? Would you like me to
sing along with you?

Speaker 33 (01:11:04):
If it pleases you?

Speaker 10 (01:11:05):
Horn?

Speaker 45 (01:11:08):
Work on the nightties, work in the morning.

Speaker 46 (01:11:18):
Time, work for the night.

Speaker 8 (01:11:23):
He's cold me.

Speaker 43 (01:11:27):
When man's work is.

Speaker 46 (01:11:30):
Done, work while the day light, working.

Speaker 10 (01:11:46):
Work called the NIGHTTI.

Speaker 41 (01:11:49):
Is home.

Speaker 32 (01:11:57):
Where there's only one more page?

Speaker 16 (01:12:27):
Shall I read it to you?

Speaker 23 (01:12:29):
Yes, yes, go ahead?

Speaker 16 (01:12:31):
March twenty second. I've been sick, I think for a
very long time. The pages of my diary are blank.
But I shall take you out again for a diary
today and start you over again. No, no, I shall
never look back at the other pages. I shall only

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write on and on about this beautiful place, so that
no one reading this diary will ever know.

Speaker 47 (01:13:01):
That I did it.

Speaker 16 (01:13:10):
But I did do it, Darry, I was smarter than he.
When I opened that door at the head of the
stairs and heard the music, when I saw the fire
axe still hanging on the wall, I was.

Speaker 32 (01:13:24):
So cautious, so terribly cautious.

Speaker 16 (01:13:28):
I tiptoed like a little mouse even as I sang
the hymn into that room where he was playing. But
I was clever, so much cleverer than he. I kept
on singing, And now I'm free, Free is a bird.
I'm free, And we shall never catch me, No, not
this time of river again.

Speaker 10 (01:13:48):
Because because he's dead.

Speaker 16 (01:13:54):
Isn't he, nurse, nurse? Isn't my my dear brother in law,
Hiram really dead? Yes, miss, he's dead. And now I'll
thank you to hand me that diary. The doctor doesn't

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approve of the patient's writing anything.

Speaker 2 (01:14:29):
And so closes The Diary of Sophronio Winter starring Agnes
Moorehead and Ray Collins Tonight's Tale of the Spence. This
is your narrator, the man in Black, who conveys to
you Columbia's invitation to spend this half hour in suspense
with us again next Tuesday, when Richard Dix, Gale Page,
and Montague.

Speaker 8 (01:14:46):
Love star in Death Flies Blind.

Speaker 2 (01:14:49):
The producer of these broadcast is William Spear who is
Ted Bliss, The director Lud Glusk and the musical director
Lucian Mohowick. The composer and Lucy Fletcher, the author, collaborated
on Tonight's suspence.

Speaker 48 (01:15:14):
That's the De Columbia Broadcasting System.

Speaker 49 (01:15:35):
This is Boris Karlov speaking. I'm here with a story
for you from the files of the Reader's digest. This
is the story of the most versatile of all living substances.
It is held man in his cradle. It warmed his heart.
It will make him his last long home. This is

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the story of wood. When living, a tree sweetens the
air where it breathes, It lays the dust and tempers
the wind. And when it is fell'd, sorn and seasoned,
it lays bare the hidden beauty of its heart in
figures and grains more lovely than the most premeditated design.

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Touch any object made of wood, the table top of
bright maple, the chopping bowl of cleanly birch, a paddle
wall of knotty pine, the lean strength of an ash
rake handle, or a tobacco pipe of briar. Pass your
fingers over this wood, then press your full palm upon
its firmness compared with metal or clay or stone. It

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still seems warm, still living out its useful days. Wood
has gone into the very fiber of our nation, with
a thousand and more native species of trees. The United
States started out with the greatest forest heritage that ever
felt the lot of a life people. Our first exports

(01:17:02):
back to England from the Jamestown Colony were from the
forest mighty pines for masts, pitch, turpentine, black walnut. When
British shot fell back harmle Us from the live oak
sides of the fricked Constitution, then she got her name
Old Ironsides. And when the Backwoods boys fought beside Robert E.

(01:17:23):
Lee and their homespans dyed with butternut, they were known
as butternuts. The cabin where Lincoln was born was made
of the logs of that grand old tree, the American
white oak, and the rails that he split were black walnut.
Wood fired the racing steamboats on the Mississippi and fed
the first railroads. We spanned the treeless plains on ties

(01:17:47):
cut from eastern forests, on rims of hickory and spokes
of oak. Pioneers rolled west to the Pacific, and there
new woods came to hand, red woods and Douglas fir
three hundred feet high, timbers such as man had never
seen before. Form and plan are in the very structure

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of wood, from the moment that it begins to grow.
It can overcome upstacle, split rocks apart, and travel far
in search of water. It can adjust to circumstances, It
can endure with an immortality all its own. Wooden piles
under the streets of Venice have been found intact after

(01:18:29):
a thousand years, and white cedar in the swamps of
eastern Virginia has lain buried and estimated three thousand years,
yet is now being dug up to day and soared
into boards that may last another thousand. Say if you
like that, wood has no thoughts and no tongue to
speak them. But let him who says this look into

(01:18:51):
his own heart and produce for us a fort that
will warm the hearth of a friend, or endure a
thousand years. I found the story of trees in a
back issue of The Reader's Digest, and there's an article
in the current December issue describing a very pleasant way
of looking at them. Three thousand, one hundred and eighty

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four miles of them, to be exact, all across the
American continent. Thousands of people contribute to this journey, an
army of maintenance crews, signals and despatches, electricians, butcher's pastry cooks.
For this particular tree watching device is a veritable super
hotel on wheels. It is, of course, a streamlined train.

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There's a whole article about the Century and the Super Chief,
both top streamliners, in the December Reader's Digest, and it's
a fascinating one. I'll be joining you soon for more
transcribed stories from the Reader's Digest past and present. But
until then, this is Boris Karloff saying good bye.

Speaker 50 (01:20:10):
Once upon a midnight, dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten law.
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
Tis some visitor, I muttered, tapping at my chamber door.

Speaker 12 (01:20:33):
Only this and.

Speaker 50 (01:20:34):
Nothing more, Ah, Distinctly, I remember it was an obleak December,
and each separate dying Ember wrought its ghost upon the
floor eagerly I wished the morrow. Vainly I had sought
to borrow from my books surcease of sorrow, sorrow for

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the lost Lenore, for the rare and radiant maiden. The
angels named Lenor, named mess here forever more, And the
silken sat uncertain rustling of each purple curtain thrilled me,
filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before. So that

(01:21:19):
now to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating,
tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door, some
late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door. This it
is nothing more. Presently my soul grew stronger, hesitating, Then

(01:21:41):
no longer sir, said I, or madam. Truly your forgiveness,
I implore. But the fact is I was snapping, and
so gently you came rapping, and so faintly you came
tapping tapping at my chamber door, that I scarce was
sure I heard you here. I opened wide the door.

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Darkness there, and nothing more. Deep into that darkness, peering long,
I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dream snow mortal
ever dared to dream before. But the silence was unbroken,

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and the stillness gave no token. And the only word
thus spoken was the whispered word lenor. This I whispered,
and an echo moment back the word lenore, merely this
and nothing more back into the chamber, turning all my

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soul within me burning. Soon again I heard a tapping
somewhat louder than before. Surely, said I, surely that is something.
And my window, mattice, let me see them what they're
at is, and this mystery explore, Let my heart be
still a moment, and this mystery explore tis the wind,

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and nothing more open. Here I flung the shutter, when
with many a flirt and flutter in their stepp'd a
stately raven of the saintly days of yore, not the
least obeisance made he not a minute stopped or stayed. He,
but with mien of Lord or lady, perched above my

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chamber door, perched upon a bust of palace just above
my chamber door, perched and sat, and nothing more then
this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling by
the grave and stern decorum of the countenance at war,

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Though thy crest be shorn and shaven thou, oh I sit,
are sure no craven ghastly, grim and ancient raven wandering
from the nightly shore. Tell me what thy lordly name
is on the knight's plutonium shore, quoth the raven never more.

Speaker 15 (01:24:17):
Much.

Speaker 50 (01:24:18):
I marveled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
though its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore, for we
cannot help a green that no living human being ever
yet was blessed with see bird above his chamber door,
bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door,

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with such name as never more. But the raven, still
lonely on the placid bust, spoke only that one word,
as if his soul. In that one word, he did
not pour nothing further than he uttered, not a feather.
Then he fluttered till I scarcely more than muttered other

(01:25:04):
friends have flown before. On the morrow he will leave me,
as my hopes have flown before. Then, the bird said, nevermore.
Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, doubtless,
said I what it utters is his only stock and store,
caught from some unhappy master, whose unmerciful disaster followed fast,

(01:25:29):
and followed faster till his songs one burden bore till
the dirchess of his hope, that melancholy.

Speaker 51 (01:25:37):
Burden bore of never never more.

Speaker 50 (01:25:43):
But the raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling. Straight,
I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and
bust and door, then upon the velvet cushion, then upon
the velvet sinking, I betook myself to lie, thinking fancy,
unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of your, What

(01:26:05):
this grim ungainly, ghastly gaunt ominous bird of your meant
in croaking?

Speaker 14 (01:26:12):
Never more?

Speaker 50 (01:26:14):
Thus I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
to the fowl, whose fiery eyes now burned into my
bosom's core. This and more I sat defining, with my
head at ease, reclining on the cushion's velvet, lining that
the lamplight gloated. Or but whose velvet violet lining, with

(01:26:37):
the lamplight gloating haw she shall press ah never more?
Then we thought the air grew denser, perfumed from an
unseen censor swung by seraphim, whose footfalls tinkled on the
tufted floor. Wretch, I cried, Thy God hath lent thee

(01:26:59):
by these angels. He hath sent thee respite, respite and
the penthe from my memories of Lenal quoff, Oh quoth
is kind of penthe, and forget this lost Lenore quoth
the raven nevermore? Prophet said, I think of evil. Profit Still,

(01:27:23):
if bird or devil, whether ten percent, or whether tempest
tossed thee here ashore desolate, yet all undaunted on this
desert land, enchanted on this home by horror, haunted, Tell
me truly, I.

Speaker 11 (01:27:38):
Implore, Is there is there, Bob and.

Speaker 50 (01:27:41):
Gilead, tell me tell me I implore? Quoth the raven nevermore?
Prophet said, I thing of evil? Prophet, Still, if bird
or devil, by that heaven that bends above us, by
that God, we both adore, tell the soul with sorrow laden,

(01:28:02):
if within the distant aiden it shall clasp a sainted maiden,
whom the angels named Lenore, clasp of rare and radiant maiden.

Speaker 12 (01:28:14):
All the angels named Lenor, quoth the raven.

Speaker 40 (01:28:19):
Never more?

Speaker 50 (01:28:22):
Be that word our side and party third or fiend,
I shriek up, starting get thee back into the tempest
at the nice Plutonian shore. Leave no black palm as
a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken, Lee
my loneliness unbroken. Quit the bust above my door, Take

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thy beak from out my heart, Then take thy form
from off my door. Quoth the raven, never more than
the raven, never flitting still, is sitting still, is sitting
on the pallid bust of palace just above my chamber door.

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And his eyes of all the seeming of a demons
that is dreaming, and the lamblight or him streaming, throws
his shadow on the floor, and myself for about that
shadow that lies floating on the floor shall be lifted
ever more.

Speaker 6 (01:29:44):
Mic I gotta do it.

Speaker 52 (01:29:48):
I'll give you two my count three mic one two.

Speaker 22 (01:29:56):
Three.

Speaker 53 (01:30:15):
Theater five presents my brother's keeper.

Speaker 54 (01:30:35):
Doctor Somerville, Doctor Somerville, caught your office, Doctor McGrath.

Speaker 55 (01:30:42):
Yes, I've been waiting for you. You about through for
the day. Why doctor takes care of people.

Speaker 19 (01:30:49):
Doesn't he?

Speaker 39 (01:30:50):
I want you to come look at somebody. My car's outside.
Can you leave now just a second?

Speaker 56 (01:30:54):
I get at this station of viewers. Isn't here in
the hospital, That's right? And I'm afraid you made a mistake.
You see, I'm just an assistant president here. I have
no private practice.

Speaker 39 (01:31:03):
Well here's your chance to start one.

Speaker 6 (01:31:05):
Man, I don't think you understand, Yes I do.

Speaker 39 (01:31:08):
You're the one who's slow on the uptake.

Speaker 56 (01:31:10):
Who is this patient anyway? And if there's something wrong
with them? Why doesn't he come here?

Speaker 55 (01:31:15):
You can't think of a reason. No, I see you've
got today's paper here. Didn't you look at it?

Speaker 39 (01:31:23):
This item here?

Speaker 7 (01:31:26):
Oh?

Speaker 56 (01:31:26):
That gang shooting upstate? Yes, I saw that. Never heard
of the two men they picked up? Wait, is just
somebody else involved?

Speaker 39 (01:31:36):
You're getting warm?

Speaker 6 (01:31:37):
Who are you anyway?

Speaker 39 (01:31:39):
A friend of someone close to your doc?

Speaker 6 (01:31:42):
Very close my brother?

Speaker 39 (01:31:44):
Well you made it. Will you stop there or do
you want to go for the jacket?

Speaker 6 (01:31:48):
I think I'll stop there.

Speaker 55 (01:31:49):
They're driving them back to town. Should be at my place
around ten. That gives us a little time.

Speaker 6 (01:31:53):
I asked her who you were before, and.

Speaker 39 (01:31:56):
I said I was a friend of Joe's. Isn't that enough?

Speaker 15 (01:31:58):
Boy?

Speaker 39 (01:31:58):
Do you want me to spell it out for No.

Speaker 6 (01:32:00):
You don't have to spell it out. Just get out,
get out of here.

Speaker 55 (01:32:03):
Oh, doc, you're not being a bit friendly. What's the
point when we got all this time to heal before
Joe gets.

Speaker 56 (01:32:09):
Here, you're the one who's slow. Now I told you
to get out. Doesn't that make it clear? And I'm
not going with you.

Speaker 55 (01:32:15):
We're not talking about just anyone, Doc, We're talking about
your brother, Your brother who's got two slugs.

Speaker 6 (01:32:20):
Now I go to the hospital, then this one or
another one.

Speaker 39 (01:32:23):
Look, Joe asked me to come here and tell you.

Speaker 8 (01:32:27):
He needs you.

Speaker 39 (01:32:28):
Yeah, he needs you, he said.

Speaker 56 (01:32:30):
Oh my, oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know you were
a business. It's all right, doctor Rogers. This is I'm sorry,
my memory for names is rather It's okay. Eve Vohmer
mis Spellmer, Doctor Rogers. I used to meet you, Miss Baumer.
I'll come back later him. No, no, please, doctor Rogers.
Miss Vahmer is I'm practically a member of the family.

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My brother is Fance.

Speaker 6 (01:32:53):
Oh really, I didn't know you had a brother, Mike. Oh, yes,
I have a brother. All right.

Speaker 57 (01:32:58):
Well, since it's good news, I wanted to tell you
that the board made its decision on the Daryl Award
last night. It'll be fifteen hundred dollars this year, and
they're giving it to you.

Speaker 6 (01:33:09):
You're kidding, doctor Rogers, Would I joke about anything like that.

Speaker 57 (01:33:13):
There are no strings on it, but of course we're
hoping it'll help you make up your mind to stay
on here with us next year, as.

Speaker 6 (01:33:20):
If anything could keep me from it.

Speaker 56 (01:33:21):
Why we're fifteen hundred dollars on the bank, you know, doctor,
that's the first money I ever got in my life
without I mean to.

Speaker 53 (01:33:28):
Work for it.

Speaker 6 (01:33:29):
You probably work harder for that than any you ever earned.
Run along now, nice to meet you, Miss Valmer. See
you Mike, right, Sarah? Thanks?

Speaker 39 (01:33:39):
Wow, congratulations? Thanks, No, I mean it, you know why.

Speaker 55 (01:33:46):
It's funny, of course things breaking through just when Joe's
luck is running out. I suppose you think you're both
getting what you deserve.

Speaker 6 (01:33:55):
It's no good, Miss Valmer. Is that your code?

Speaker 16 (01:33:59):
You know?

Speaker 55 (01:33:59):
This never happened to me before. A guy telling me
to get out, But.

Speaker 39 (01:34:04):
I'm not going. I'm staying to you say you're coming
with me.

Speaker 6 (01:34:08):
I better make yourself comfortable then, but you will be
here for a long time.

Speaker 39 (01:34:22):
Still here, still here, where you've.

Speaker 6 (01:34:25):
Been out sideline please with a patient.

Speaker 55 (01:34:35):
And there was a call for you. The lad something
about blood tests. Did he say they were negative or positive?

Speaker 6 (01:34:42):
You'd make a great secretary.

Speaker 55 (01:34:44):
Yeah, well I wrote it down right here.

Speaker 39 (01:34:48):
In both tests the results were.

Speaker 6 (01:34:50):
Missus Rodriguez, Doctor McGrath.

Speaker 56 (01:34:53):
No, oh, no, she's fine, but she's been wondering why
you haven't been in to see her. Well you worked
that late every night. Well you know about rules. However,
if there's a good reason, they can always be broken. Well,
I'll talk to the charge nurse and you can come
see your sister whenever you can make it, not at all, come.

Speaker 39 (01:35:16):
Back see here. The results in both tests were negative.
Or where are you going now?

Speaker 6 (01:35:24):
The man's sword? Say hello to my brother when you
see him.

Speaker 39 (01:35:27):
You'll see him as soon as I do, do you think?

Speaker 6 (01:35:29):
So?

Speaker 39 (01:35:30):
Yeah, see you when you get back.

Speaker 58 (01:35:32):
Doc.

Speaker 56 (01:35:39):
Well, this is doctor mcgrass speaking. Tell him to call
me back. Any other messages.

Speaker 39 (01:35:46):
No, that was all.

Speaker 6 (01:35:47):
Thanks. Where does coffee come from the drug store?

Speaker 39 (01:35:53):
Here's the cream if you wanted.

Speaker 6 (01:35:55):
Thanks? Now you really have any help around here? Look
what did you do before?

Speaker 39 (01:36:04):
I mean, you mean, I seem like such a nice kid?
How did I get to be what I am?

Speaker 56 (01:36:09):
All right, I'm sorry. None of my businesses at it with.
All I meant was, where do you come from?

Speaker 11 (01:36:14):
That sort of thing.

Speaker 39 (01:36:15):
It depends where you want to begin.

Speaker 55 (01:36:18):
Do you mean the orphan asylum that was an Iowa?
What do you mean the farm I ended up at
with that pair who claimed they were my uncle and aunt.
Not good, not very I ran away went to Chicago
when I was sixteen. There wasn't much I could do,
but I guess I was pretty even my so called

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uncle thought so.

Speaker 39 (01:36:40):
So I got a job in a dance hall.

Speaker 55 (01:36:43):
One thing led to another till I ran into your brother,
which reminds me deep please So you don't like the
way he's running his life, but he's your brother. He's
in trouble and he needs your help.

Speaker 6 (01:36:55):
I can't do what you want.

Speaker 11 (01:36:56):
I can't.

Speaker 39 (01:36:57):
What do you mean you can't?

Speaker 56 (01:36:58):
Maybe you don't know it, but there were rules about
things like this, Rules that every doctor has to.

Speaker 6 (01:37:02):
Observe it rules.

Speaker 39 (01:37:04):
Your brother's bleeding to death, and you talk about rules.
You know he can't come here to the hospital because
the cops are after him. What did you tell that,
missus Rodriguez. If there's a good reason, rules can always
be broken.

Speaker 56 (01:37:17):
This isn't just a matter of visiting our receive. Something
much more important is involved.

Speaker 39 (01:37:22):
Sure, your brother's life.

Speaker 55 (01:37:26):
Oh well, I didn't really think coming here were.

Speaker 39 (01:37:32):
Do any good, but I had to try.

Speaker 55 (01:37:36):
The worst part of it is I can even see
your side of.

Speaker 39 (01:37:38):
It, so so on, Doc, don't get your pills mixed up?

Speaker 6 (01:37:43):
Wait?

Speaker 53 (01:37:45):
What four?

Speaker 6 (01:37:51):
Larry Mike again? You're busy tonight? Good? I'm on duty
it for midnight, but something important has come up here?
Can you take over for me? Fine? Thanks? Okay, just
let me get my bag and we'll.

Speaker 8 (01:38:08):
Go, doc.

Speaker 39 (01:38:11):
Doc, you won't be sorry for this, honest.

Speaker 56 (01:38:14):
No, I've got a feeling I'm going to be sorry
about this than anything I've ever done in my life.

Speaker 39 (01:38:45):
Here we are. What's funny?

Speaker 6 (01:38:49):
You drive a round on a job like this and
you need help from me?

Speaker 39 (01:38:52):
Yeah? Me and your brother both? You want to drive?

Speaker 19 (01:38:56):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:38:57):
Thanks. I might take a chance for the JEALOPI, but
not for something like this.

Speaker 39 (01:39:00):
Okay, I'll take it.

Speaker 27 (01:39:02):
Then.

Speaker 6 (01:39:06):
How much time have we got before he gets here?

Speaker 39 (01:39:09):
I don't know, maybe half hour maybe more. Why I
stop for a sandwich or a hamburg But you just
had coffee, I.

Speaker 6 (01:39:17):
Know, but that's all I've had since noon. I was
too busy to go up for supper.

Speaker 55 (01:39:20):
That's smart, especially for a doctor. There's a dinal We'll
stop there. Feel better much.

Speaker 56 (01:39:37):
Someday I'm going to do a paper on the effects
of hunger and fatigue in your state of mind, or
maybe just fatigue.

Speaker 39 (01:39:44):
You tired of all that?

Speaker 6 (01:39:46):
Not right now.

Speaker 56 (01:39:46):
I got five hours sleep last night, which is pretty good, Jenomy.
I once figured that on an eight hour average, I
was about two thousand hours behind the rest of the world.

Speaker 39 (01:39:56):
You talking about the time you've been at the.

Speaker 56 (01:39:58):
Hospital, plus the time I was working my way through
med school. See my jobs that would be at night.
That's another thing. I'm an authority of jobs. For instance,
knife Watchman. Gracious think, wouldn't you any time to study?

Speaker 6 (01:40:11):
Well?

Speaker 56 (01:40:11):
I got fired from two night Watchman shows. Too quiet,
I kept falling asleep.

Speaker 39 (01:40:17):
You wouldn't be talking like this for a reason. Would
you read to keep him talking? Thinking about him? Joe?

Speaker 6 (01:40:27):
Maybe?

Speaker 56 (01:40:29):
And for a while I was a connivent in a
place like this. Then I was too visy to study.
So do you know what the perfect job is? Night
elevator operator? Time to study between calls and if your
doze off, someone try to ring the bell and wake
you up.

Speaker 55 (01:40:45):
Did YO know what you were doing? Working and studying
at the same time, I don't know why. Well you
think you'd have kicked him with a little Do think
I touch.

Speaker 6 (01:40:56):
His kind of money? Oh? I'm sorry. I didn't mean
it to sound that.

Speaker 39 (01:41:01):
It's okay. You've got a right to think what you want.

Speaker 6 (01:41:03):
Oh, I know what, the same thing doesn't necessarily apply
to you.

Speaker 39 (01:41:06):
I mean I said it's okay, he finished. Yeah, Well,
let's go.

Speaker 6 (01:41:24):
Wow, quite a place.

Speaker 55 (01:41:27):
Miss his in a way? He pays for it. No,
I see there's his coat. He must be here in
the bedroom.

Speaker 6 (01:41:38):
Okay, let's go in.

Speaker 55 (01:41:40):
Just a minute, Mike. After the things you said, do
you want to skip it?

Speaker 39 (01:41:47):
I can tell it.

Speaker 8 (01:41:47):
I couldn't get a hold of it.

Speaker 56 (01:41:48):
About the things you said when I talked about rules
and regulations.

Speaker 39 (01:41:51):
I was upset then, and I told you I understood that.

Speaker 6 (01:41:54):
I'm here. Now let's go in, Joe.

Speaker 59 (01:41:59):
Maybe did you get my favorite saw bones?

Speaker 39 (01:42:03):
Yeah? Hear you?

Speaker 59 (01:42:05):
Sure enough?

Speaker 6 (01:42:06):
Theory is all right? Kid?

Speaker 59 (01:42:10):
Something wrong now?

Speaker 52 (01:42:12):
Except you look terrible. I was in kind of a hurry.
I didn't have a chance to stop at a beauty problem.
If you're ducked, I thought you always knew when to duck,
so did I. None of us is perfect? Where'd you
get it? I'm chessed shoulder, lose much blood enough. I
don't have to thank you for coming you or doing well.
Let's take a look at you now. Don't try to

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set up easy. You know you really should be in
a hospital, don't you sure?

Speaker 6 (01:42:42):
With a cop hold in my hand while you work
on me? Is that what you want?

Speaker 56 (01:42:45):
I just said you ought to be in a hospital
because this one won't have to come out. We may
be able to forget about this other one. But oh,
I don't have any anesthetic with me.

Speaker 6 (01:42:57):
It's got to hurt, so it'll hurt.

Speaker 8 (01:42:58):
You want?

Speaker 39 (01:43:00):
What are towels? Anything like that?

Speaker 6 (01:43:02):
Few towels?

Speaker 39 (01:43:02):
Yes, I'll go get them.

Speaker 6 (01:43:04):
You're going to be tender to use that knife on
my throat.

Speaker 56 (01:43:06):
Kids, turn on your side, slow easy, I raise your arm.
That's it that hurt. This is diagnostic, so don't be
so don brave. It hurts, doesn't it get hurts? Okay,
that's what I wanted to know. Save the hero stuff
for somebody will be impressed here the towels.

Speaker 39 (01:43:29):
Will this be enough for?

Speaker 6 (01:43:30):
What are they for? You'll see?

Speaker 56 (01:43:33):
Okay, Joe, start whistling or whatever you think will help.
I'm going to work by that one, so you'll have

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to get the other one.

Speaker 8 (01:43:56):
Do you have to?

Speaker 39 (01:43:57):
You said?

Speaker 6 (01:43:58):
I know, I know, but I can't.

Speaker 56 (01:44:01):
Oh, he's tough, aren't You just stopped talking in the
Shopbuster right? You think you're able to handle the dressing,
ZEB probably won't have to change him. But if you
should start leading again, Well, how are you feeling now,

(01:44:23):
Joe Lead? I'm not surprised he wasn't that bad. You
did a good job, kid, I was watching the clock fast.

Speaker 11 (01:44:34):
Good.

Speaker 56 (01:44:35):
Try not to move around too much. I'll give you
something to help you sleep. Meantime, keep as quiet as
you can. Okay, you want to talk now about what us?
I know what you're thinking of me.

Speaker 6 (01:44:49):
Now. You must have felt coming over here tonight.

Speaker 60 (01:44:50):
But well, I'm not much good at speeches.

Speaker 6 (01:44:54):
But thanks, Mike, don't thank me, not yet? Why not?

Speaker 60 (01:45:00):
You know when we were kids, even he was about seven,
I was twelve, I bounced a baseball bat.

Speaker 6 (01:45:05):
Off his head. You remember that, Mic, I remember.

Speaker 60 (01:45:08):
Before you've got here, I was thinking, but if you
don't come, it'll probably be more on count of that
my belting than what you don't like about me. You
know what I've been doing these last two years. But
I guess when the chips are down, you can even
forget that.

Speaker 6 (01:45:27):
It wasn't a matter of forgetting.

Speaker 39 (01:45:28):
Where's the phone, Eve, right here under the towels.

Speaker 6 (01:45:32):
Oh? Thanks, What do you want with the phone? Kid?

Speaker 56 (01:45:34):
I'm going to call the police. Report a bullet wounds
A joke. I'm a doctor, Joe. When somebody needs help,
I help him. But when I treat a patient for
a bullet wound, it's my duty.

Speaker 6 (01:45:42):
To report it.

Speaker 56 (01:45:45):
Get await on that phone, mic. How long has it
been since I saw you? Six years? A lot of
that time I was pretty bitter about you, especially when
I remembered what I did to Mom when you found
out what you were up to. I always thought that
was one of the reasons why she died. When I
got here tonight I actually saw you. It helped me realize,
I said, get away from that phone.

Speaker 61 (01:46:07):
You really think you can stop me, Joe, even with
a baseball, I don't know what a slugging a gut
might be harder to take that a bat A lot harder, right,
getting ready to call.

Speaker 6 (01:46:20):
The cops and turn me in. You gotta do it, Joe, Yeah,
that's what you think. Your own stinking brother. Put that
phone down.

Speaker 59 (01:46:30):
I said, put it down to you here.

Speaker 6 (01:46:32):
If you don't, if it was as much as.

Speaker 59 (01:46:34):
Reach for that dialogue, that you have it for heaven,
I told you.

Speaker 6 (01:46:37):
To shut up. You can till I count three to
put it down mike. If you don't, I'll plug you
just as sure as I'm lying.

Speaker 39 (01:46:46):
Here, are you crazy?

Speaker 62 (01:46:48):
One?

Speaker 6 (01:46:48):
Big Joe mcgrawl, the hard guy with a gun? I
said two. I heard you. Well I can't do it.
Ug go ahead call him? Oh operator, will you get

(01:47:14):
the never mind? Forget it?

Speaker 19 (01:47:19):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:47:20):
I Toldally, I forget it. Didn't die. Well, that's what
I'm doing. Why Why didn't you shoot when you said
you would? Because Lasi are not you're my brother? That's right.
Well it worked both ways.

Speaker 55 (01:47:29):
But you just can't forget it. Coming here was one thing,
like you said, He needed you. But if you don't call,
won't that make you an accessory or something?

Speaker 6 (01:47:42):
Probably? But I can't do it. What the devil's eating you?

Speaker 55 (01:47:46):
Eve a lot of things, things I never thought about before.
What did we ever do for anyone besides ourselves and
our whole lives?

Speaker 39 (01:47:58):
Nothing but him? All these years He's been.

Speaker 55 (01:48:04):
Working his head off working and studying so he can.

Speaker 39 (01:48:06):
Help people, all kinds of people.

Speaker 55 (01:48:10):
Well, I think he's got something coming to him for that,
besides what we owe him for what he did just now.
So I say, yes, he's important, Joe. He's important because
what he does is important. And when you're important, you
can't break rules just like that, don't you see that?

Speaker 59 (01:48:32):
No, And even if I did help him, here the
one who's blowing a whistle on.

Speaker 39 (01:48:36):
Me, because I've got to why.

Speaker 59 (01:48:41):
Why you, of all people, you're in this too?

Speaker 39 (01:48:45):
Do you think I'd be able to do it if
I wasn't sure. I'm in it too up to my neck.

Speaker 55 (01:48:53):
That's why I got a right to say something about it,
and that's why I can do it.

Speaker 39 (01:49:02):
Hello, operators, give me the police.

Speaker 21 (01:49:39):
Now's the time to tell tales of the unaccountables, of
apparitions by night and phantoms and shadows. Time to tell
strange stories of fantasy and the supernaturals figured Here ten

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thirty presents Trespassers will be experimented upon a horror story
told in the inimitable style of Anthony Lee Flanders, with
John Scott as Nigel, Donna Miller as Vanessa, and Sandy
Webster as the wicked, wicked baron trespassers. Beware this could

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happen to you.

Speaker 41 (01:50:34):
Of course you told your fault, Nigel. You suggested we
drive across the flashed country just because of your homeland.
I know it's very pleasant to go back and all
that side you really all across.

Speaker 17 (01:50:46):
Canada, the nesson my love.

Speaker 63 (01:50:48):
Perhaps it wasn't the wisest decision of my life. However,
I've often maintained in the international tests that I love
my native Canada. And how would it look like a
squeezed in.

Speaker 41 (01:50:59):
And out of again, frankly, I don't give it down
how it looks. At least we could have avoided these
tedious prairies, this fastness, this barren wasteland.

Speaker 33 (01:51:08):
Where no event of nature rises through a cass five.

Speaker 41 (01:51:10):
Jaded eye with a delightful new audio visual experience, just
this endless infinite blackness and at night, Oh, Nigel's positively easy.

Speaker 6 (01:51:22):
That's a darling.

Speaker 63 (01:51:24):
It's here on this undulating prairie my first scientific discovery occurred.
It eventually led to my Nobel Prize, which led to
my second, third, fourth, and fifth Nobel Prize, which of
course led me to.

Speaker 15 (01:51:36):
You, Vanessa You're the most beautiful.

Speaker 17 (01:51:38):
Holding internationally acclaimed sexible objective desire in the eyes of
a hundred million automnipulative men.

Speaker 33 (01:51:46):
But it's nice on the prairie. But it fighting me, Nigel.

Speaker 17 (01:51:50):
Frightened my little passion for on my content visual when
the curl of the periss.

Speaker 33 (01:51:55):
Oh, Nigel, you're so strong, so.

Speaker 27 (01:51:58):
Massive, Angel Hudstrom one of the five Nobel Prizes for
scientific Endeavors, Pursuits, discoveries and what I aball people understand.

Speaker 15 (01:52:08):
The forces of the natural suprue.

Speaker 33 (01:52:14):
Oh n you do that. I'm truly frightened.

Speaker 6 (01:52:19):
The thing to fear.

Speaker 17 (01:52:21):
I myself used to walk alone on the prairies and
nights like this, the rising wind howling across these bleak
and paranistic views.

Speaker 41 (01:52:29):
I don't like it here, Nigel. Oh, we sounded so
adventures I mean he was also camp in Calcutta when
we planned it.

Speaker 33 (01:52:36):
But now, well, Nigel, truly speaking.

Speaker 8 (01:52:39):
I wish I was back in Calcutt.

Speaker 17 (01:52:40):
You must understand. One must listen to things like the wind.

Speaker 15 (01:52:45):
The wind the message for those whos.

Speaker 41 (01:52:47):
Well then my husband's companion and lover, what then the
wind saying to you on.

Speaker 17 (01:52:51):
The sight of Knight This is the night I am
to meet him.

Speaker 6 (01:52:57):
Who the man?

Speaker 19 (01:53:00):
Tell?

Speaker 16 (01:53:00):
What?

Speaker 7 (01:53:00):
Man?

Speaker 21 (01:53:01):
Like this be?

Speaker 63 (01:53:02):
All my life I've been smarter, stronger, breather, quicker, clever,
and more cunning, more brilliant than all this shoot become
a crashing board.

Speaker 17 (01:53:11):
I can't stand the facing another day knowing that I'll
they were right in everything I say?

Speaker 15 (01:53:15):
And do you see.

Speaker 17 (01:53:19):
I have been waiting for him to my man, my.

Speaker 33 (01:53:22):
Husband, father of my unborn children.

Speaker 6 (01:53:24):
Do you mean yes?

Speaker 17 (01:53:27):
Tonight I will meet my equal?

Speaker 6 (01:53:30):
How do you know this? Telling the little wrong.

Speaker 17 (01:53:42):
Be when I said my wife were my future offering?

Speaker 53 (01:53:47):
It is the way you think I don't.

Speaker 17 (01:53:50):
Want to fix.

Speaker 39 (01:53:51):
Oh nice, don't you a scientific genius?

Speaker 33 (01:53:53):
You can think the simple thing like an internal combustion engine.

Speaker 8 (01:53:57):
Do it?

Speaker 17 (01:53:58):
Get the hell out of here, and a part of
the greatest challenge of my life the opportunity to face
face to face the face kid.

Speaker 15 (01:54:09):
You're right, this is to be the toughest test of
my career.

Speaker 11 (01:54:17):
That is face.

Speaker 33 (01:54:29):
I find it strange, nigrom there is all of such magnitude.

Speaker 39 (01:54:32):
You go so quickly, very strange.

Speaker 17 (01:54:35):
That is the night of the ball player.

Speaker 6 (01:54:37):
Is my love storm?

Speaker 17 (01:54:38):
Come and go very quick?

Speaker 8 (01:54:39):
You're here is here.

Speaker 33 (01:54:42):
Now there is then you need You took me as
a child. I can plainly see there is.

Speaker 44 (01:54:53):
A great rising out of the.

Speaker 16 (01:54:58):
Against me.

Speaker 7 (01:55:00):
Wow, he's.

Speaker 44 (01:55:03):
Th great.

Speaker 29 (01:55:06):
Just think about the towers I'm gonna staking over.

Speaker 17 (01:55:10):
The must to be so pretentious, Vanessa, this is a sketchwan.

Speaker 15 (01:55:18):
There is a newspaper for.

Speaker 17 (01:55:19):
Five hundred miles. Let alone a reporter to note every
word which drips from your sentuous lips.

Speaker 33 (01:55:23):
I dentistically leave this very moment.

Speaker 12 (01:55:25):
We will not leave Venison.

Speaker 17 (01:55:28):
We will never go backward. We will only go forward.
It is a scientific way.

Speaker 8 (01:55:32):
But to go forward?

Speaker 11 (01:55:34):
Yes, to the castle.

Speaker 53 (01:55:37):
Oh he's having the drawbridge, lord.

Speaker 33 (01:55:53):
Yes, I see that target.

Speaker 15 (01:56:04):
Oh look Vanessa, down there in the water.

Speaker 6 (01:56:08):
Your honors.

Speaker 23 (01:56:12):
Now they are, don't you do it is?

Speaker 63 (01:56:18):
Yes, they stopped a little bone in thirty seconds.

Speaker 39 (01:56:21):
We must send something to missus Wallace.

Speaker 64 (01:56:26):
Obviously we're expecting.

Speaker 39 (01:56:39):
How does he How does he know we're here?

Speaker 6 (01:56:42):
The wind, the wind has told him.

Speaker 64 (01:56:45):
The wind has things to say to those relations.

Speaker 6 (01:56:48):
It's going.

Speaker 17 (01:56:49):
Do you mean enter semantically speaking?

Speaker 6 (01:56:52):
Yes, yes, that's what I mean.

Speaker 53 (01:56:57):
Don't fight.

Speaker 6 (01:56:59):
It's on my a young woman.

Speaker 63 (01:57:01):
It can only be one thing I've seen it only
once before in the back line to prove an evil
immigrant Amazon practices on her slaves.

Speaker 17 (01:57:11):
Split the tongue, tip it to the teeth with the
platinum pin. Who wants us to follow?

Speaker 8 (01:57:19):
No, we mustn't.

Speaker 17 (01:57:21):
There's no going back.

Speaker 6 (01:57:22):
Now, Lead on, young woman.

Speaker 33 (01:57:30):
Hmmm, he's seemed the remarkably well born young woman.

Speaker 11 (01:57:36):
If we go not to my.

Speaker 17 (01:57:39):
Into the knowledge of view, I would see the best
for woman.

Speaker 8 (01:57:41):
I've ever seen.

Speaker 41 (01:57:45):
Oh, that's very It's beautiful.

Speaker 17 (01:57:48):
Only as I've seen the woman as their turn, being
as it is. Rust On the contrary, you would see
you really unclipped both parts of the tongue. I think
you will find my assistance.

Speaker 6 (01:57:59):
Frenk is out twice as good as the average. So
we meet, Yes, we meet. Who are you? In good time?

Speaker 15 (01:58:08):
You shall know?

Speaker 17 (01:58:13):
Juice?

Speaker 63 (01:58:16):
Yes, he swelled as capable himself and disappeared last time.

Speaker 6 (01:58:20):
I thought I'd done with his scheme. Some molleyland, I think,
devil perhaps, And there lies the calender.

Speaker 41 (01:58:31):
H Why Look, it's a table set for dinner, the
best to prove, the best wine, the best of just
about everything in Saskatchewan.

Speaker 63 (01:58:58):
Yes, the most pleasant repast. Of course, I expected nothing
less than the elderness. The baron, you see, is a
sense of style. I admire that in a man, not
only does he accomplish the most fantastic feats, he makes
it all appear so simple.

Speaker 17 (01:59:16):
Yes, because, young woman, you make.

Speaker 32 (01:59:21):
Magel.

Speaker 23 (01:59:22):
How did you know what she wanted?

Speaker 12 (01:59:24):
During the meal?

Speaker 17 (01:59:24):
I began to learn something of a language. It's relatively simple.
It consists of one syllable pronounced Are you are? One
must decipher the intention from the infection. To a sensitive
man such as myself, it's an easy matter.

Speaker 65 (01:59:40):
As he wishes to show us to our rooms.

Speaker 17 (01:59:46):
Tell then, I heard to bed it is a face?
Did you take a coup?

Speaker 6 (01:59:51):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (01:59:51):
No, no, no, I'm over the baron and all, of
course it safe.

Speaker 66 (01:59:56):
But even if it wasn't you think we have much
of a choice. A no, nothing mark a person. Thank you,
m These chambers are perfectly comfortable, charming. Even I should
speak someday you may go, Nigel.

Speaker 41 (02:00:21):
I shall never forgive you for getting us into this situation.

Speaker 15 (02:00:24):
This is a little when I said, my sweet, you
must become more adaptable.

Speaker 17 (02:00:29):
Your inflexibility has caused us to quarrel on more than
one occasion. You know how I loath to quarrel with
one as beautiful as yourself.

Speaker 33 (02:00:37):
Oh judge, carry where you.

Speaker 28 (02:00:41):
As around.

Speaker 17 (02:00:43):
That approach to this entire situation should be one of interests.

Speaker 15 (02:00:46):
Is your husband really the smartest man in the world
or is there a greater one here? An interesting compable
you think?

Speaker 6 (02:00:53):
Are do anyway?

Speaker 17 (02:00:55):
Perhaps the most interesting.

Speaker 11 (02:00:56):
Of my life?

Speaker 39 (02:00:57):
And just who is this man?

Speaker 17 (02:00:59):
This man, as you call him, is none other than
Darren Punshank.

Speaker 41 (02:01:03):
No, yes, the same Darren Ponshank, you book of Hello,
these many nights as we lay.

Speaker 33 (02:01:10):
And twined upon our homely heart before the great fire
in the great fireplace, you with your brandy, I with
my friend of mine.

Speaker 17 (02:01:21):
Indeed the same Baron Ponshank.

Speaker 39 (02:01:24):
You knew all along.

Speaker 33 (02:01:26):
You expected this.

Speaker 8 (02:01:28):
There I say it. You even planned it.

Speaker 17 (02:01:33):
He discovered my little secrets. He thinks planned it. That
is still no consequence it is that does not who
planned it, only that it happened. Mind you, it was inevitable.
Neither of us could resist this confrontation.

Speaker 2 (02:01:49):
I fear this.

Speaker 33 (02:01:50):
Darren Punshank is no stranger to you.

Speaker 17 (02:01:54):
You are quite correct. The Baron and I are old,
old friends.

Speaker 63 (02:02:01):
Many years ago, when I was but a youth, I
would lie in my lonely bed in the attic. But
that's where my bed was, in the farmhouse in which
my family dwelt. There was no heat for the room,
and I would huddle under the weight of the great
patch quilt my aunt had made me for Christmas. And
yet no matter how I huddled, no matter how many
times I pulled the patch kilt over me, no matter

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how many pairs of long Johns I'd put on, it
was never worn. I would lie the shivering.

Speaker 67 (02:02:30):
Mistu the room and settle upon the bed, striking to
the very mirrow of my bones. The giant tree beside
the house would sway in the breeze, the branch of
scraping move which was just above my head, and the
wind would speak to me, compelling me to come come

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out out into the night, out into the chill.

Speaker 8 (02:02:55):
The mist onto the prairies.

Speaker 15 (02:03:00):
Was a hypnotic force of a majestic col It could
not be resisted.

Speaker 63 (02:03:06):
And so I would cast aside the quilt and step
from my bread. Those are the only times the flooring
of the creek one prison.

Speaker 17 (02:03:14):
I walked to the window, threw open the shutters, climbed
up to the giant tree, and down to the ground.

Speaker 8 (02:03:20):
I was not cold.

Speaker 17 (02:03:23):
I I over the ground had lost an entirely, and
I was in my bare feet, wearing only my night
showing my long drawns.

Speaker 8 (02:03:30):
I was going warmer and roamer.

Speaker 17 (02:03:33):
I was drawn across the yard, moving slowly first I
could conspall, and steaming behind me to the fenci Gole.

Speaker 11 (02:03:42):
And there there at the.

Speaker 15 (02:03:44):
Gate was a tall man, a huge man, a.

Speaker 63 (02:03:49):
Giant man, the Baron. He took my hand. You are
not afraid, he said, no, I'm not afraid. Good, he said,
do you understand the wind has things to say to
those who listen.

Speaker 6 (02:04:07):
You must go.

Speaker 17 (02:04:08):
There is little time for this.

Speaker 15 (02:04:11):
And then he led me by the hand, by the
willing victor.

Speaker 63 (02:04:15):
He took me to his castle in the mist, and
there there there he taught me all.

Speaker 17 (02:04:22):
The things the wind has to teach.

Speaker 11 (02:04:26):
You never told me, I never told anybody.

Speaker 17 (02:04:30):
You would have laughed at me, all of you. Nobel
prize to a cracked what.

Speaker 63 (02:04:37):
Every great contribution to science, every acknowledged advance, every discovery.
I learned from the wind that the trintlage of the Baron.

Speaker 33 (02:04:46):
But why hadn't come back here?

Speaker 17 (02:04:48):
The Baron and I ad a falling out. You see
the things that the Wind told me.

Speaker 65 (02:04:54):
I saw them as useful, useful in the world, and
I was of the world. The Baron is not, was not,
and never will be. He wanted to keep the secrets
of the Wind from the world.

Speaker 63 (02:05:05):
When I left, I broke the contact between the bear
and a line he swore to the exact revenge.

Speaker 17 (02:05:11):
I was the only friend he ever had, the only
one who wasn't afraid of him.

Speaker 63 (02:05:15):
He trusted me, He shared his secret with me, and
I I took it to the world.

Speaker 10 (02:05:20):
What will he do?

Speaker 26 (02:05:22):
What can he do?

Speaker 17 (02:05:23):
You know A great deal of his powers are amazing, incredible.
Yet we have one oop.

Speaker 39 (02:05:30):
What hope can there possibly be that I have.

Speaker 15 (02:05:33):
Listened more attentively than he, that I know more than you.

Speaker 17 (02:05:37):
This we must discover, and we shall. This is the
last test. I must fish him now.

Speaker 25 (02:05:45):
Only the defeat of the band will set me free.

Speaker 17 (02:05:48):
And make me a man. To my shelf it begins
to borrow, there will be no wind nights.

Speaker 6 (02:05:55):
I know this and more.

Speaker 15 (02:05:57):
But the Wind has told me a secret.

Speaker 22 (02:06:11):
We are all recognized.

Speaker 17 (02:06:12):
You are good to see you, Baron, and you young Nigel.
It's been a long time and you're curiously not long,
not long at all, as you say, Baron, And you are,
of course none other than Vanessa heard from the most
beautiful of the beautiful, that the ductresses the ductress, as
it were, there is none of us.

Speaker 6 (02:06:30):
Hey, I kissed your hands.

Speaker 17 (02:06:32):
Allow the Baron. He is above all else a gentleman.

Speaker 68 (02:06:36):
Oh I shan't hey, madam.

Speaker 17 (02:06:38):
Indeed, n you're looking very well. You seem not to
have changed over as many years. But you have, haven't you,
young Nigel. You have grown to men who you want
laurels and honors in the world. I must say you
where the will and I have honored that you have
not forgotten your humble teacher.

Speaker 6 (02:06:55):
Now perhaps not so humble, but yes, my teacher.

Speaker 17 (02:06:59):
And that is under this The pupil is challenging the master.
It is the way of things, and I had hoped
it could be otherwise.

Speaker 69 (02:07:06):
It is a fool hardy thing you do, and you
well know it.

Speaker 70 (02:07:08):
I nonetheless, I.

Speaker 17 (02:07:10):
Offer you the opportunity to change your mind now that
you will approximate me and wisdom, talent, and which you
could be a delightful companion, even more so than in
your youth.

Speaker 15 (02:07:19):
Sir.

Speaker 17 (02:07:19):
That is a gracious offer.

Speaker 63 (02:07:20):
I do admit, indeed, Barren, I too regret the loss
of our former companionship. You were the only person in
the world who knew more than I did. But I'm
afraid we had this basic difference my world in a
set against your isolation, a difference that wos indeed the
fatal flaw in our friendship.

Speaker 17 (02:07:42):
Have it as you will, young Nigel. You are the
one I have allowed to retain his free will. But
before we begin, let me show you the castle. I've
had it redone since you were last here. Follow me, Remember,

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young Nigel, your favorite rule the doubt. Ah, yes, exactly,
I remember that. This I get quite the same as
it was for you. Memories a good time, I'm remembered, Yes, yes,
and here right.

Speaker 53 (02:08:34):
This was where you did.

Speaker 17 (02:08:36):
The school master who tails you in mathematics was yes,
so I had the answer right, But he said I
didn't put the method down that I used, or either
a conventional man, and he died conventionally screaming. And here
the whipping post, and there the swinging racer. Elementary and
crude but fun, what siln it? Of course you had

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so quickly it was no time at all, or you
were into voodoo here. The first dolls you made, how
crude they were?

Speaker 8 (02:09:08):
You played the.

Speaker 17 (02:09:08):
Dog special dolls. My love, there is special you're saying,
My cruel uncle hard okay, came now with a skitting headache.
Didn't yes split his head?

Speaker 63 (02:09:24):
Because the normmentors, the lazzings sold them with the mind. Then,
sometimes I want to regret that very little left nostalgic.

Speaker 17 (02:09:34):
If you want the little nostalgia, I could simply project
a memory on the wall, say perhaps the little sex
part to refuse to dance with you, And I thought
that's slightly cruel of you.

Speaker 63 (02:09:46):
But she was so outrageously cruel to me, and you
needn't justify it to me.

Speaker 17 (02:09:49):
Nigel, I admired all you did. You were a delightful student,
so quick and so perceptive.

Speaker 71 (02:09:56):
Are you sure you won't change your mind?

Speaker 36 (02:09:58):
Restore the good.

Speaker 17 (02:09:59):
Old days, take up residence here and toy with the
local inhabitants, perhaps topple with Empire or two, fun and games, winding.

Speaker 71 (02:10:07):
And wenching like the good old days.

Speaker 17 (02:10:10):
Positive, well, and I suppose we'd better get at it.
That's what you'll see.

Speaker 6 (02:10:29):
It. Time cool, not with the falcon.

Speaker 72 (02:10:37):
Let's chick out fly.

Speaker 17 (02:10:40):
All right, you'll have puss in the force of his
superior will power.

Speaker 6 (02:10:45):
I'll try it's use. I can't break its force.

Speaker 33 (02:10:51):
Be stronger than you.

Speaker 6 (02:10:54):
His will is stronger.

Speaker 15 (02:10:56):
Perhaps I'm clever.

Speaker 11 (02:10:58):
I have a plan.

Speaker 15 (02:11:00):
I must wait for the proper moment to.

Speaker 6 (02:11:02):
Use it when you fall.

Speaker 28 (02:11:06):
Yeah, with good doll.

Speaker 17 (02:11:09):
You see you're completely in my power. I can do
with you as I wish, something simple, perhaps turn you
with the problem, or something complicated, like curling you into
the void for an eternity. You would never be destly
cruel Baron, you have committed the ultimate sil Nigel, the
violation of friendship that in alone justifies any cruelty. But Professa,

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she's committed no sin. That a goveraran. She hasn't harmed you.

Speaker 40 (02:11:35):
True.

Speaker 69 (02:11:36):
Nevertheless, I have need of her.

Speaker 17 (02:11:39):
She fits supremely into my plans. Yes, Smessa Sidstrom, the
most beautiful of all women.

Speaker 6 (02:11:47):
I have plans for you.

Speaker 17 (02:12:01):
We must prepare everything. It will be difficult, this one.
It must be done perfectly. If I'm start to finish, come,
I don't take assistant.

Speaker 8 (02:12:17):
What does he need to prepare?

Speaker 6 (02:12:19):
I don't know.

Speaker 65 (02:12:21):
Usually he doesn't need to prepare anything. He simply wills it.
To happen, and it happens, it's both.

Speaker 8 (02:12:27):
Is no good for us?

Speaker 15 (02:12:28):
Vs?

Speaker 73 (02:12:29):
You mean it bodes you?

Speaker 33 (02:12:33):
At this time, I should like to say you have
done a good husband to me. I forgive you your tresspasses.
I love you with my very heart and soul.

Speaker 39 (02:12:44):
If I must die, then.

Speaker 15 (02:12:46):
I wish it to be here at your side, I
shall execut us.

Speaker 41 (02:12:52):
Perhaps we ask too much, Nigel, I mean we have
so much Ei, the most beutiful of you, the most brilliant.

Speaker 33 (02:12:59):
We need everything to be per Talk to the baron.

Speaker 69 (02:13:03):
We'll leave him alone to be lead us alone.

Speaker 17 (02:13:06):
Things are never quite that simple.

Speaker 8 (02:13:07):
Try.

Speaker 17 (02:13:08):
I can't honor for Bidge.

Speaker 33 (02:13:10):
It by all honor, at all costs.

Speaker 15 (02:13:15):
Honor.

Speaker 23 (02:13:16):
Oh, I only want the.

Speaker 8 (02:13:19):
Best for us.

Speaker 63 (02:13:20):
You need only your beautiful self. I will determine what's
best for us.

Speaker 17 (02:13:24):
Yes, I just say, really, here, well, Nigel, here you
see it the machine?

Speaker 11 (02:13:40):
Can you guess what it is?

Speaker 63 (02:13:42):
Mm hmmm, matched force fields, incision and setters, shoobing bubbles,
the standard medical paraphernaria. Yes, I'd say, a transplant device
of some time.

Speaker 17 (02:14:00):
So clever, my pupils, so clever. True, get the transplant device,
But of what kind an.

Speaker 8 (02:14:08):
Unusual time, I would say, yes, the only one in
the world.

Speaker 17 (02:14:14):
Large and complicated. It taken you ages to design and construct. Yeah, well,
I can't keep you in suspense any longer. This device
concerns you than that, and you and Nigel I thought
as much. Pretti, you may prepare the device is this,

(02:14:39):
Let me prevent the problem and we'll see if you
can decipher the solution. For years I have suffered from
a nailment which can only be described as a loneliness.
You needn't feel pretty for me. I thought I had
a solution with you, Nigel. For a while it worked,
but then you deserted me, and that set me to
thinking I discovered the last from here, one thing that

(02:15:00):
has never been done, the one thing that seems victually impossible.

Speaker 15 (02:15:03):
But if it could become it would solve my problems.
I began to suspect. I think you're going too far
this time, Dar, and we shall see.

Speaker 17 (02:15:13):
In any case, I have Little Blue, perhaps more than
you think.

Speaker 33 (02:15:16):
Nigel tell me twenty ten, there is one.

Speaker 17 (02:15:21):
Thing the world is lacking, an intelligent, beautiful woman. The
very thing I feel I am going to create one
that she will be by compat the worthy mate for myself, Vanessa.
I'm going to transplant Nigel's brain into your body. Not
at all this device. This machine will infuse all of

(02:15:44):
nicest list to Doulige.

Speaker 6 (02:15:45):
With the target of your hair. Madly one like alternation.

Speaker 17 (02:15:49):
I shall program you to an absolute loyalty to me.

Speaker 33 (02:15:52):
Stop in Nigel, my can nobody stop me?

Speaker 19 (02:15:58):
More?

Speaker 33 (02:15:59):
Fire?

Speaker 6 (02:16:00):
Probably he's dead.

Speaker 33 (02:16:20):
Oh what happened?

Speaker 17 (02:16:22):
The assistant pushed him into the forest field. It disintegrated him.

Speaker 33 (02:16:27):
How awful?

Speaker 44 (02:16:29):
Why did she?

Speaker 6 (02:16:29):
Why jealousy?

Speaker 63 (02:16:31):
You see the wind told me she loved him, but
she killed him rather than see him than another woman, one.

Speaker 15 (02:16:38):
Possessing more than she had. I do you think the
baron was never content?

Speaker 65 (02:16:45):
If only he could have accepted her, beautiful, though doubs
she was, he could have been perfectly happy. That was
his fatal error, the dream of an intelligent, beautiful woman.
I have made better some Vansson. Now it is not

(02:17:06):
necessary if they're to understand.

Speaker 21 (02:17:10):
Lagel Yago, Theater ten thirty has presented trespassers will be

(02:17:31):
experimented upon a lighthearted and somewhat disrespectful tale of the
supernatural devised by Anthony Lee Flanders. John Scott was heard
as Nigel Herdstrom, Donna Miller as Vanessa, his charming wife,
with Sandy Webster as the villainous Baron von Schenk, and

(02:17:52):
Peg Dixon as his tongue tied assistant. Sound effects were
by John Slizz Technical Operation, Robert brit Theater. Ten thirty
is the City s Toronto presentation, says Bill Lauren, speaking.

Speaker 6 (02:19:53):
Never to be sati.

Speaker 17 (02:20:02):
This is the CDC Radio Network, The rocket.

Speaker 12 (02:20:20):
Under my knife, the skull.

Speaker 25 (02:20:24):
Two thousand plus science fiction adventures from the World of Tomorrow,
the years beyond two thousand a d two thousand.

Speaker 74 (02:20:34):
Plus per that the rocket and the skull.

Speaker 75 (02:20:59):
Otenant.

Speaker 68 (02:21:00):
Have you heard from Colonel Bradbury yet, No, sir, I've
been trying it for ten minutes.

Speaker 75 (02:21:03):
He'll try again.

Speaker 74 (02:21:04):
Yes, B for base to R for rocket. Be for
base to R for rocket, Come in R for rocket.

Speaker 25 (02:21:16):
Every time Bradbury is more.

Speaker 75 (02:21:17):
Than five minutes late, I get the jitters.

Speaker 25 (02:21:19):
He's too important for this project not to know what
he is.

Speaker 74 (02:21:22):
Every moment, be for bath to R for rocket, Come
in R for rocket, highest scanner beam.

Speaker 75 (02:21:30):
He should be on the all three level out of
the truce.

Speaker 53 (02:21:32):
Yes, it.

Speaker 74 (02:21:41):
B for base to R for rocket. Come in R
for rocket.

Speaker 25 (02:21:46):
You can't afford anything happened to him. The first experiment
is being conducted tomorrow morning. Bradbury is the only man
who knows every strip of the root.

Speaker 74 (02:21:53):
See for base to R for rocket. Come in R
for rocket.

Speaker 75 (02:21:58):
You're not getting him.

Speaker 25 (02:21:59):
Cut the scan and to under standard beaming.

Speaker 75 (02:22:01):
Get back.

Speaker 74 (02:22:04):
Come in R for a rocket.

Speaker 25 (02:22:06):
He should have left an hour earlier, and he should
have taken a scheduled flight, but no, he has to
work up for the last minute and then fly his
own plane.

Speaker 74 (02:22:13):
To get you in time. Be for bay to R
for a rocket, R for rocket, B for base. This
an R for rocket.

Speaker 68 (02:22:21):
Though he is to be in contact at fourteen over
six is about eighty miles out of Detroice.

Speaker 76 (02:22:25):
Give me that night, brad This is General Hilton.

Speaker 25 (02:22:29):
How are you receiving me?

Speaker 7 (02:22:31):
Go ahead?

Speaker 53 (02:22:31):
General?

Speaker 6 (02:22:32):
What happened?

Speaker 75 (02:22:33):
We couldn't contact you.

Speaker 6 (02:22:35):
I have some problem with my stabilizer.

Speaker 56 (02:22:37):
Thought I might have to land.

Speaker 76 (02:22:40):
Are you sure we can't have anything?

Speaker 53 (02:22:41):
Heaven to you worries?

Speaker 75 (02:22:44):
The first experiment is being conducted tomorrow morning.

Speaker 53 (02:22:47):
Everything is ready for you.

Speaker 28 (02:22:48):
Good.

Speaker 25 (02:22:49):
The entire General staff will.

Speaker 51 (02:22:50):
Be there, maybe the President himself.

Speaker 74 (02:22:53):
Is there anything you want me to have done before
you come in, Brad, anything.

Speaker 5 (02:22:58):
You want done?

Speaker 76 (02:23:00):
Hello, are for rocket.

Speaker 51 (02:23:02):
I'm not getting responds.

Speaker 74 (02:23:04):
B for base to R for rocket. Come in R
for rocket, I said.

Speaker 75 (02:23:10):
He was receiving.

Speaker 53 (02:23:11):
Clear as a bell.

Speaker 74 (02:23:13):
Come in R for rocket.

Speaker 75 (02:23:14):
He said, the stabilizer has been acting up.

Speaker 25 (02:23:16):
I can need a lot of trouble.

Speaker 75 (02:23:17):
At seven hundred miles an hours.

Speaker 68 (02:23:19):
Which had automatic distress signal current coming from Colonel Bribery
playing Hello, Crash Central.

Speaker 28 (02:23:26):
This is B for base automatic distress signal coming in
on channel four to two.

Speaker 68 (02:23:30):
Oh, Colonel Badbery flying a rocket jet X ninety three.

Speaker 75 (02:23:36):
Hey, it's stopped.

Speaker 71 (02:23:38):
B for base to crash Central.

Speaker 68 (02:23:40):
Automatic signals cease to register as bean contact sixteen over
eight carry.

Speaker 74 (02:23:44):
Out emergency crash procedures.

Speaker 53 (02:23:47):
Repeat.

Speaker 68 (02:23:47):
Colonel Brodbery's rocket jet X ninety three has crashed on
bean position sixteen over eight.

Speaker 22 (02:23:54):
Check out.

Speaker 51 (02:24:07):
I'm glad you were able to get to your general.

Speaker 76 (02:24:09):
We're going to uperate very shortly.

Speaker 53 (02:24:11):
Here.

Speaker 25 (02:24:11):
It's a miracle he's alive.

Speaker 24 (02:24:13):
I will be more of a mirac than if he's
alive one hour from me.

Speaker 25 (02:24:16):
You've got to save him.

Speaker 51 (02:24:17):
He's an important man.

Speaker 71 (02:24:18):
Yes, the White House called in.

Speaker 24 (02:24:20):
Front of the Pentagon. We know Colonel Bradbury is important,
but a shattered skull.

Speaker 53 (02:24:25):
Is very difficult.

Speaker 25 (02:24:27):
I know you'll do all you can.

Speaker 51 (02:24:28):
Say that your general, we'll keep you informed.

Speaker 25 (02:24:38):
Well, it's out of our hands.

Speaker 68 (02:24:40):
I have a report from crashed tentple.

Speaker 6 (02:24:41):
Sir.

Speaker 68 (02:24:42):
Apparently Colonel Bradberry. He was the catapult parachute just before
the plane crashed. Otherwise it would have been killed instantly.
When he was catapulted up, his chute didn't open. He
fell into a group of trees.

Speaker 53 (02:24:54):
Poor bread.

Speaker 51 (02:24:55):
It might have been better if he'd stayed in the ship.
You heard what the doctor said. Yes, a shattered skull.

Speaker 25 (02:25:03):
The one brain. We need to carry out the experiment tomorrow.

Speaker 71 (02:25:06):
And this is whatever.

Speaker 12 (02:25:09):
Bro plans.

Speaker 51 (02:25:14):
Fun careful, my fine brownness, flams p stalic.

Speaker 68 (02:25:21):
Eighty over forty the patient thinking more oxygen, patient.

Speaker 71 (02:25:28):
Responding, sir, good, careful from flams.

Speaker 24 (02:25:38):
Calful?

Speaker 25 (02:25:42):
Have you a cigarette? Yes, sir, here you are?

Speaker 21 (02:25:45):
Thanks?

Speaker 25 (02:25:50):
Oh this waiting waiting it's in more than an hour.

Speaker 68 (02:25:54):
Brain surgery is very delicate, sir, may take another hour
or even more.

Speaker 25 (02:25:59):
You carry that orders to postpone the experiments, Yes, until
other of us if Brad doesn't live, we'll have to
start another man all over. They set the project back
a year, and the.

Speaker 75 (02:26:08):
Year could be dangerous.

Speaker 51 (02:26:10):
Oh you look surprised, lieutenant. You don't know what this
experiment's all about.

Speaker 17 (02:26:14):
Do you what?

Speaker 68 (02:26:14):
I see the code name for it on the paper her,
but it never has a description.

Speaker 17 (02:26:18):
After all, it's mark top secret.

Speaker 25 (02:26:19):
Maybe it's about time you were told, with Brad upstairs
hanging on the life by a tread, that I'm going
to need a bright young man to give me some
important decisions. You've come through with pretty good colorsies last
minute hour as thank yourself. Well, we're gonna talk more
about it in a little while. Right now, I'm going
to stretch out and try to rest.

Speaker 51 (02:26:36):
I'm about done in.

Speaker 71 (02:26:37):
If I hear anything, I'll awaken yourself.

Speaker 25 (02:26:38):
I don't expect to sleep, not with the fate of
the world depending on a surgeon's knife.

Speaker 24 (02:26:50):
Just alive, yess careful probe Yeah, quite a bone fragment
span plads the stalic seventy over forty oxygen Again, it's
pure oxygen. MOUs nurse prepare for transfusion sixty over forty.

(02:27:12):
Patient thinking, So that's right now, I'm boy, hit doc
the bone. Hurry condition, same doctor. He's getting the transfusion,
and let me help you do the bone. Well the
stalk eighty over forty he's responding, all right, scalpel.

Speaker 64 (02:27:33):
Brovous even the rest?

Speaker 51 (02:27:41):
How long it's been almost two hours? Two hours?

Speaker 25 (02:27:45):
Just about now the general staff would be arriving and
Bread would be checking everything for the experiment in the morning. Liten,
have you any guess about that experiment?

Speaker 53 (02:27:54):
About what it is?

Speaker 76 (02:27:55):
What I I guess is.

Speaker 68 (02:27:57):
It's it's about a new kind of aircraft.

Speaker 25 (02:28:00):
Wh do you say that just because it's an airport project. Well,
I wouldn't say you were wrong, but you aren't cold either.
The experiment and the reason it's so important, concerns a
rocket to the moon.

Speaker 2 (02:28:12):
A rocket to the moon.

Speaker 74 (02:28:14):
But why, sir, why send one there?

Speaker 25 (02:28:17):
Who controls the moon controls the world? If we had
rockets on the moon, we could compel peace on Earth.
The United Nations would press a button and wipe any
aggressor off the face of the Earth.

Speaker 6 (02:28:28):
That means space travel.

Speaker 2 (02:28:30):
You don't mean that.

Speaker 15 (02:28:31):
We're all tenant.

Speaker 25 (02:28:32):
We haven't found the way to send rocket ships with
human beings through space, not yet.

Speaker 6 (02:28:36):
Anyway.

Speaker 51 (02:28:36):
But the rocket we're experimenting with is a two way rocket.

Speaker 25 (02:28:40):
It can land on the Moon and return from the Moon,
all electronically controls from the Earth.

Speaker 68 (02:28:45):
Fantastic.

Speaker 51 (02:28:46):
No, that's quite feasible, I assure you.

Speaker 25 (02:28:48):
But we have reason to believe that we're not the
only nation thinking of this time.

Speaker 69 (02:28:52):
Is of the essence.

Speaker 25 (02:28:53):
Colonel Bradbury knows more about operating these rockets than any
man alives just on the verge.

Speaker 51 (02:28:59):
Of the experiment.

Speaker 40 (02:29:00):
This has to happen.

Speaker 75 (02:29:02):
Quite General, Hilton is.

Speaker 24 (02:29:09):
Doctor Rizziol has to take a message down to you
from the operating room. Right he's dead, is and no, General,
he's still hanging on. Doctor Rigio says that he now
has a thirty percent chance of surviving. I think part
of Colonel Bredbridge's colors and fragmented. A head flake will
have to be put on.

Speaker 11 (02:29:29):
Because of the.

Speaker 25 (02:29:29):
Size of the area, A new metal alloy flake.

Speaker 17 (02:29:31):
Will be used.

Speaker 51 (02:29:33):
Part take at least five or.

Speaker 75 (02:29:34):
Six more hours.

Speaker 24 (02:29:35):
Doctor Rigel suggests you go home, General, where you'll be
more comfortable. Positive will pone you if anything happens. He's

(02:30:03):
coming out of the channel, brad break you hear me,
Doctor Joe, Yes, osen the blinds a little h I
mean good, how easy is back to the pill out.

Speaker 75 (02:30:17):
I'll hold him.

Speaker 51 (02:30:21):
Fine, thank you.

Speaker 4 (02:30:23):
Ten days since the operation and he's.

Speaker 77 (02:30:25):
Just now coming out of this.

Speaker 24 (02:30:27):
He's a strong man, almost any other person who have died.
Channel bread break, channel broad break.

Speaker 78 (02:30:36):
Can you hear me the they rocket art rockets beginning
to talk. N have doctor keyth.

Speaker 6 (02:30:47):
Come in at once.

Speaker 11 (02:30:49):
Take advice off.

Speaker 71 (02:30:52):
Rocket because General Well is all right.

Speaker 78 (02:30:57):
Colonel take it em.

Speaker 76 (02:31:00):
You call for me the less that he was coming
out of it.

Speaker 68 (02:31:02):
It's talking euretically typical Star that base and that sort.

Speaker 51 (02:31:07):
Of same way.

Speaker 24 (02:31:08):
It's technical Jagon Air Force window.

Speaker 71 (02:31:12):
Martians, man.

Speaker 8 (02:31:15):
Marsham.

Speaker 6 (02:31:16):
They use all sorts of code names.

Speaker 76 (02:31:18):
Mars is probably one of them.

Speaker 24 (02:31:19):
I think at about forty eight hours you ought to
be able to shock completely.

Speaker 71 (02:31:23):
We can call General Hilton, tell them to.

Speaker 76 (02:31:26):
Come over day after tomorrow.

Speaker 24 (02:31:27):
I take it easy, kind of six months and you
ought to be in pretty good shape and keep him comfortable.

Speaker 78 (02:31:35):
Back the keys and I will leave now.

Speaker 69 (02:31:38):
Lack vialize a laugh.

Speaker 68 (02:31:42):
Well, something wrong that's called generally called general health.

Speaker 11 (02:31:49):
Nice martians, mum.

Speaker 25 (02:32:04):
I'll bring that back to me.

Speaker 75 (02:32:05):
Please.

Speaker 68 (02:32:06):
Memorandum to General Staff one. The new experiment is tentatively planned.

Speaker 25 (02:32:11):
For April third, two thousand plus six.

Speaker 6 (02:32:14):
Two.

Speaker 68 (02:32:15):
All security my whos have been taken three. Although severely
handicapped by Colonel Bradbury's absence, uly trained specialists will endeavor
to fill the gap.

Speaker 69 (02:32:24):
Anything more, General, No.

Speaker 71 (02:32:26):
No, Lieutenant, sorry I should say no.

Speaker 51 (02:32:31):
Captain you like that extra Brown.

Speaker 24 (02:32:34):
Certainly you've learned it.

Speaker 25 (02:32:35):
Bob, you've been a great help to me. Okay, note
the memoirs strap secret and send it back similarly to
the Pentagon, and I'll take it to them. Do you
know humans who the president?

Speaker 51 (02:32:49):
Oh, here's mister President.

Speaker 25 (02:32:51):
Of courser Well, I've just prepared a memorandum. But that's
only two weeks.

Speaker 51 (02:32:55):
Mister President.

Speaker 25 (02:32:56):
We assumed about sixty days. Oh yes, sir, her work
day and night to do it.

Speaker 75 (02:33:01):
Thank you, mister President.

Speaker 25 (02:33:03):
Captain change the date in the first paragraph of the memo.

Speaker 51 (02:33:07):
The new experiment is to take.

Speaker 17 (02:33:08):
Place in two weeks.

Speaker 71 (02:33:09):
General, that's almost impossible. I know it, and you know it.

Speaker 25 (02:33:12):
But there's one man who doesn't know it, and he
says it's got to be done. I'm not disposed to
argue with the President of the United States.

Speaker 24 (02:33:29):
I'd like to double check some of my notes on
Lanel Bradbury with you. Of course, on this afternoon, the
General is coming to see him. But Colonel Bradbury, he
needs love to convalent me.

Speaker 74 (02:33:41):
And he's not too lucive.

Speaker 24 (02:33:42):
And that's the point.

Speaker 17 (02:33:43):
He's not too lucive.

Speaker 69 (02:33:44):
But the week as he is, he talks normally for
a while makes him and then.

Speaker 15 (02:33:49):
That screen reaction sets him.

Speaker 69 (02:33:54):
I have observed it myself through time. Well, head injury.

Speaker 68 (02:33:57):
Cases are quite unpredicted, perhaps, but according to mine note,
Colonel Bradbury's strange reaction is taking place.

Speaker 24 (02:34:04):
Always either at ten am or five PM. Of the
three instances I've observed two within at ten, one at five.

Speaker 71 (02:34:12):
Well, that is on you.

Speaker 24 (02:34:13):
And in each instance, well, I can see now in
my mind's eyes, sitting along bed, talking quite sensibly, although
in a weak voice, suddenly becomes tense, grimaces as if
his head were in pain, even clutches the bed clothes
with tight fiffs appears to be rigid. Then, as for
a few minutes, invariably from the flood of disjoint the

(02:34:36):
disconnected sentences.

Speaker 51 (02:34:37):
About messages, emergency crisis, state of the world, and mars.

Speaker 24 (02:34:43):
Our General Hilton is going to visit the colonel Assassins
at about five o'clock, and.

Speaker 69 (02:34:48):
You expect the Colonel to have another strange react.

Speaker 79 (02:34:51):
I don't know.

Speaker 69 (02:34:52):
Surely, General don't.

Speaker 25 (02:34:53):
Realize that a man's at the dear surgery. KAI can't
tell what the General we'll realize.

Speaker 24 (02:34:57):
But my fear is that you may see that the
colonel as much improving as well as he might, and
he may call in other doctors.

Speaker 69 (02:35:05):
But we're doing everything humanly possible. That is the irony
of the situation. I could have killed the colonel in surgery.

Speaker 80 (02:35:13):
It would have been very easy.

Speaker 69 (02:35:16):
But more important, government officials are concerned.

Speaker 24 (02:35:19):
I get worried if we if I were investigated carefully,
they might find out.

Speaker 17 (02:35:25):
Who you and I really are.

Speaker 51 (02:35:28):
And that would be dangerous, very dangerous.

Speaker 75 (02:35:31):
Indeed, in him, thank youness.

Speaker 69 (02:35:55):
Hello Brady.

Speaker 25 (02:35:58):
Understand you wanted to see me. He came as as
I could. But sure Bread, don't worry about me, Brad.
We're rescheduling the experiment. If you up to answering a
few questions about the experiments, something to tell you, Sure, Brad, Sure,
I know there's a lot you want to tell me.

Speaker 51 (02:36:19):
But when you're still a sick guy.

Speaker 69 (02:36:21):
So suppose I just asked you a.

Speaker 51 (02:36:23):
Few questions and you answer them yes or no. That'll
save your energy.

Speaker 6 (02:36:28):
What time is it?

Speaker 51 (02:36:28):
Why it's a few seconds before five o'clock? Why message coming?
Message coming?

Speaker 71 (02:36:35):
What message trying to tell you?

Speaker 69 (02:36:39):
Couldn't tell anyone else, Mars Marshian, Miles Martians trying to
tell me what bad?

Speaker 25 (02:36:48):
Go ahead and see what's the matter of bread?

Speaker 41 (02:36:53):
Doctor?

Speaker 25 (02:36:53):
Something's happening to Colonel Brady.

Speaker 76 (02:36:55):
Hey, hey, Cannel, got to the joke.

Speaker 51 (02:37:08):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 71 (02:37:12):
That General Gilsmith here too?

Speaker 78 (02:37:15):
You remember and Tara, General, the same things happened to
the human mind.

Speaker 69 (02:37:20):
Color is a netal plate calling like a look at him?

Speaker 6 (02:37:34):
You are you?

Speaker 71 (02:37:39):
And I got the colonel nurse will try a hypo.

Speaker 40 (02:37:43):
Get one.

Speaker 74 (02:37:46):
Experience twelve.

Speaker 71 (02:37:58):
Now I'm in Jackson.

Speaker 69 (02:38:00):
He should be back to the moment that I have
always released his tempt from your sleep.

Speaker 51 (02:38:20):
Now they all right, and you awaken? So what happened
to him?

Speaker 6 (02:38:23):
Doctor?

Speaker 76 (02:38:24):
I'm not certain, General, but in a few days we
may be able to tell more.

Speaker 25 (02:38:28):
I know you're doing everything possible, doctor, and we're grateful
for your saving Brad's life, But mightn't it be wise
to call him some specialists and other doctors for consultations.
There's so much information and advice we need from Colonel Bradbury.

Speaker 69 (02:38:42):
Call him other doctors. Quite general, I don't know that
that's necessary.

Speaker 25 (02:38:48):
So strange watching him, almost as if he were listening
to something. You know, now that I think of it,
he did say something about a message. Do you think
there's any connection?

Speaker 24 (02:38:58):
I hardly think so, General, after all, we didn't hear anything. No, no,
I'm afraid it was just the orrathic talk of a
thick and injured brain.

Speaker 71 (02:39:16):
General, you really went through.

Speaker 68 (02:39:18):
An experience watching the colonel like that.

Speaker 25 (02:39:20):
Can't think he was almost in a fit, had some
crazy idea he was getting messages.

Speaker 51 (02:39:24):
Message he has hallucinations.

Speaker 71 (02:39:25):
He was off his rocker for a while.

Speaker 25 (02:39:28):
I'm afraid I was a little brosk with doctor Riggio.
He's a fine man, but I feel better as some
other medicals look to bread. Too arrange for some specialists
from Army Medical to examine him.

Speaker 69 (02:39:38):
Will you kept him here so I'll do it trumpting.

Speaker 51 (02:39:40):
I want to think more on the experiment file you.

Speaker 68 (02:39:45):
General Rolton's office at one moment, please for you, sir,
Kentagont Intelligence Section Intelligence.

Speaker 71 (02:39:52):
Hello, you know what?

Speaker 25 (02:39:54):
Yes, yes, but are you certain for the President and
the Chief of Staff being involved? Good, it's over more
in fifteen.

Speaker 51 (02:40:05):
Minutes, right, what a my car, Captain.

Speaker 69 (02:40:07):
Things are happening here, sir, lit with cars stand by
at Worth Entrance.

Speaker 11 (02:40:12):
What things?

Speaker 25 (02:40:13):
Air intelligence reports of the Eastern Alliance is definitely planning
the moon rather for blessed off in six days. You
know what that means if they get there before the United.

Speaker 68 (02:40:20):
Nations six days and we will be ready for fourteen days.

Speaker 25 (02:40:24):
We really wanted three months, right, But how, somehow they
must have found out about our experiments and have agents
that feed for some of our vital data. That's what
the emergency meeting is about.

Speaker 76 (02:40:34):
Or your car is very general?

Speaker 69 (02:40:35):
Good luck.

Speaker 25 (02:40:36):
We're going to needed captain, We're going to need it.

Speaker 8 (02:40:49):
Cheese, doctor, cheese.

Speaker 71 (02:40:52):
Have you heard?

Speaker 8 (02:40:53):
What is it?

Speaker 69 (02:40:55):
Some other doctors are examining Colonel Bradbury.

Speaker 24 (02:40:59):
Yes, I just what.

Speaker 69 (02:41:01):
Of course I gave them permission. I had no choice.

Speaker 17 (02:41:05):
General Hilton requested it yesterday.

Speaker 76 (02:41:07):
Who are there?

Speaker 25 (02:41:09):
That's just it?

Speaker 12 (02:41:11):
Army, medical army.

Speaker 24 (02:41:13):
How you can be so cold and calculating in surgery
and so nervous. Now, I cannot understand your record here
is flawless. Your operational Bradberry, superb. No suspicion was attached
to you.

Speaker 7 (02:41:24):
Or to me.

Speaker 69 (02:41:25):
If we conduct ourselves in a normal professional manner.

Speaker 26 (02:41:28):
What is the race that they are the Army?

Speaker 69 (02:41:31):
Now that means an intelligent section. They had routines about
these things.

Speaker 25 (02:41:37):
We have no choice but to keep up up here.

Speaker 40 (02:41:39):
And I know, I know.

Speaker 24 (02:41:41):
But if they ever find out that we are the
agents of the Eastern Alliance, that we have masterminded the
first of certain rocket data, they wouldn't be ruthless, Doctor Cheese, ruthless.

Speaker 71 (02:42:11):
General Holtons of this. I'm sorry General isn't here.

Speaker 76 (02:42:16):
This is his aid.

Speaker 71 (02:42:18):
No, sir, I don't know when he'll return. I suggest
you place the information on our private fact Simile line
in code.

Speaker 68 (02:42:25):
Our extension is eighty three. I'll then get the papers
to the General when he arrives. Yes, sir, I'll turn
the fact Similey line on now, sirs, we can receive
it at once.

Speaker 71 (02:42:35):
Thank youre.

Speaker 11 (02:42:45):
Coming in now.

Speaker 68 (02:42:47):
Report regarding Colonel Bradburin Item.

Speaker 8 (02:42:52):
One, I haven't stopped reaching.

Speaker 68 (02:42:57):
Item two plate surgically applied to Colonel Bradbury's skull.

Speaker 11 (02:43:05):
A metal scow plate.

Speaker 68 (02:43:08):
Martim voices, So that's what the colonel's hallucinations are.

Speaker 6 (02:43:14):
It's fantastic.

Speaker 11 (02:43:17):
Message is.

Speaker 69 (02:43:19):
Quickly, very quickly.

Speaker 68 (02:43:24):
Military Police General Hipton's office at Central Hospital.

Speaker 74 (02:43:28):
There are two staff doctors.

Speaker 69 (02:43:30):
Doctor Joland, doctor Keys right.

Speaker 76 (02:43:33):
Place them under arrest at once.

Speaker 71 (02:43:36):
All message ed quarters. Please, this is General Hilton's aide.

Speaker 68 (02:43:41):
When the General returns, tell him I'll be at Central
Hospital talking to Colonel Bradbury. Colonel, I'm the General's aide.

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You can describe the voice to me.

Speaker 17 (02:44:08):
Now, what happened?

Speaker 76 (02:44:10):
Why my whole head vibrates?

Speaker 11 (02:44:14):
It's painful? Then I hear voices?

Speaker 6 (02:44:18):
What did I say that?

Speaker 11 (02:44:20):
Talking to Mars Martians.

Speaker 68 (02:44:24):
Rusians? Apparently the metal plate on your head somehow picks
up a certain high frequency radio ways. At least that's
the theory of the Army Medical.

Speaker 69 (02:44:34):
Except the Martians.

Speaker 8 (02:44:37):
They want to stop the Moon rocket enemies.

Speaker 71 (02:44:40):
From another world.

Speaker 76 (02:44:42):
No, colonel, you can't really believe that.

Speaker 68 (02:44:44):
You you must have misunderstood. The real enemies are the
Eastern Reliance. But their agents have been caught, nor Moon
project won't take place for a long time as a result.

Speaker 78 (02:44:56):
You just take it easy.

Speaker 68 (02:44:57):
So the army is going to track down that wave
length of bothers your head. Then you recuperate piece of
cant is true? Like, excuse me, sir, it's almost five o'clock.

Speaker 71 (02:45:06):
I've got to be going, sir.

Speaker 81 (02:45:09):
Just take it easy, please, yes, eight three three eight

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nine one one nine pronos chronos is six four three.

Speaker 82 (02:45:46):
Your code is correct.

Speaker 11 (02:45:47):
Go ahead.

Speaker 68 (02:45:49):
Do not send the message to Mars on the regular
wavelength at five o'clock.

Speaker 69 (02:45:53):
You have to use the ultimate wavelength.

Speaker 83 (02:45:56):
I will submit a report explaining how our communications were discovered.
But you can report this the Eastern Alliance agents have
been captured by the Americans. This reduces the chances of
the Earth sending a Moon rocket from two to only one.
I will see to it that that one does not succeed.
Are you positive you can execute this plan without question?

Speaker 16 (02:46:19):
Go on.

Speaker 68 (02:46:21):
You may report to my superiors on Mars that their
observation base on the Moon is safe from discovery. Mars
will continue to be the only planet controlling out of space.

Speaker 15 (02:46:34):
That is all it shall be reported.

Speaker 25 (02:46:45):
Jet I just said that bacsimile message in my office
and as quickly as I could.

Speaker 51 (02:46:50):
Now what I know is happening.

Speaker 71 (02:46:52):
Nothing on earth is happening in general?

Speaker 69 (02:46:54):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 71 (02:46:56):
I mean, everything's all right now, sir, isn't it.

Speaker 68 (02:46:59):
The Eastern Alliances been taken care of, and there's reason
to believe Colonel Bradbury's weird hallucinations.

Speaker 71 (02:47:04):
Won't recur anymore.

Speaker 25 (02:47:05):
Those are the two best pieces of news I've heard
all day. Captain.

Speaker 69 (02:47:10):
I didn't know what I'd do without you, Thank you, sir.

Speaker 68 (02:47:14):
I just try to do the best I can for
my country. Next week, another exciting adventure from the world

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of tomorrow from.

Speaker 25 (02:47:36):
The years beyond two thousand a d be sure to listen.
Two thousand costs, but it is by Crier and when
Nelson Productions incorporated. In today's cast, Arl Robertson was Gay
General Heavenfence versus A Coleman.

Speaker 71 (02:47:51):
Rugby Martin was Doctor Riggio.

Speaker 25 (02:47:53):
Now part was Doctor Badbury and ben Joe's was Doctor Key.

Speaker 71 (02:48:04):
The orchestra was Duck by Amason Buckley.

Speaker 25 (02:48:06):
Music composed by Elliot Ricoby, down Wall Chamber and Adrian
Tender as an air of barb all right, this is
Ken Marvin Sticking.

Speaker 70 (02:48:19):
Story Barry Sullivan in.

Speaker 4 (02:48:44):
The un Expected.

Speaker 77 (02:48:48):
I wanted to forget all about the Balkans. But that
was before I knew the One Eyed Man and Lisa
and Danger. Now I can never forget Transrophia, because it
was there that I met the unexpected, the.

Speaker 84 (02:49:03):
Unexpected, a secret future, a hidden destiny waiting for you
where when who knows tomorrow, today, an hour from now,
perhaps in just a moment, you too will meet.

Speaker 4 (02:49:17):
The unexpected.

Speaker 70 (02:49:22):
Before our story. A word from your announcer.

Speaker 84 (02:49:27):
And now the versatile star of stage, screen and radio,
Barry Sullivan in Passport to Danger, a drama of the unexpected.

Speaker 14 (02:49:39):
We're coming into the harbor now.

Speaker 77 (02:49:41):
I can see the docks looming up out of the thug,
and the little tug is clustering around our proud I've
come home, safe, sound and sane, and I won't be
going back to the Balkans, not for a long time anyway.
But I can never forget those last few days I
spent at Transrovia. Never the revolution began on a beautiful

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day and spring. Outside the heavy windows of the embassy,
I watched a felt headed mountaineer take careful aim at
a passing carriage. The coachman fell from the box, and
the horses ran wild down the street. A blond girl
in a blue cape jumped clear of the vehicle and
then sought shelter in an adjacent doorway. I felt just
a little bit sick with disgust and fright as I

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reached out to take my passports from the smiling chage affair.

Speaker 15 (02:50:28):
Here you are, mister Marshall.

Speaker 85 (02:50:30):
It seems too bad to leave Transrovia now, though you're
going to miss all the excitement.

Speaker 77 (02:50:34):
That's just why I am leaving, Sir. I came here
to teach English, not to be an innocent bystander and
a revolution.

Speaker 6 (02:50:39):
Well.

Speaker 14 (02:50:40):
I see your point, and I hope you have a
good trip.

Speaker 6 (02:50:42):
Thank you.

Speaker 85 (02:50:43):
Oh by the way, I wonder if you'd mind doing
the embassy a little favor favor, No, not at all,
since you'll be going through Rome anyway, would you object
to taking this briefcase with you and turning it over
to one of our agents there?

Speaker 5 (02:50:56):
But I tained some rather.

Speaker 85 (02:50:57):
Important documents which the government of Transrova has entrusted to us.

Speaker 77 (02:51:01):
I'm sorry, mister Henderson. The idea of danger an international
intrigue doesn't appeal to me.

Speaker 85 (02:51:05):
And that's precisely why you're a value to us. No
one would ever suspect you mister.

Speaker 77 (02:51:10):
Marshalls, black, battered and locked. It looked ordinary and innocent,
the sort of portfolio an unsuccessful lawyer carries into court.

Speaker 14 (02:51:19):
How was I to know its contents could mean death?

Speaker 3 (02:51:21):
Your passport back for a moment.

Speaker 77 (02:51:23):
He took my passport, raised one of the seals, and
stamped a curious mark beneath it. It looked like the
three bells on the slot machine. Then he handed me
back the passport and the briefcase.

Speaker 85 (02:51:34):
The person you're to meet in front of the coversea
and will have a similarly stamped passport. But mister Henderson,
I haven't said that there's no danger involved, unless, of course,
someone should find out about the briefcase, then your journey
might be rather perilous. You know some people would stop
at nothing to get those papers. Oh well, there's no
point in crossing a bridge before you come to it.

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Good day, mister Marshall. I came to the bridge about
three blocks away. It was a high, narrow stone affair
that arched over a little canal like gully. As I
started up the steps, I had an uneasy feeling, so
I turned and looked behind me.

Speaker 14 (02:52:15):
There was the one eyed man.

Speaker 77 (02:52:17):
He was short and round, and the pupil of his
good eye was unnaturally large. He smiled at me, and
when he smiled, invisible insects crawled up my arms, and
I knew I was afraid.

Speaker 85 (02:52:31):
He worked very first for a foreigner, mister Marshall.

Speaker 14 (02:52:34):
Now, may I have a look at that briefcase?

Speaker 64 (02:52:36):
Please?

Speaker 20 (02:52:36):
Certainly not?

Speaker 77 (02:52:37):
It only contained some personal papers, lecture notes, things.

Speaker 6 (02:52:40):
Like that my name is doctor Gavitch.

Speaker 14 (02:52:43):
I am interested in lecture notts. I am sorry, I
have a boat to catch.

Speaker 85 (02:52:46):
I am a curious man, mister Marshall, and I think
lecture material provided by your embassy should be most fascinating reading.

Speaker 72 (02:52:55):
You will not please give them to me.

Speaker 77 (02:52:57):
The knife was long, broad bladed, and rusty. I grabbed
his wrist with my right hand and aimed a left cross.

Speaker 6 (02:53:03):
At his good eye.

Speaker 14 (02:53:04):
He fought like a professional with a rut.

Speaker 77 (02:53:05):
Against the Marcus of Queensbury. In a sudden kick sent
me sprawling. In another instant, Doctor Gavitch was bending over me, smiling,
knife in hand, but before it could descend, a small
round piece of stone came sailing through the air and
caught him behind one ear. He went down sideways like
a duck in a shooting gallery.

Speaker 4 (02:53:24):
I would make a good ball player.

Speaker 77 (02:53:25):
No, it was the blonde girl in the blue cape
I had seen in front of the embassy. She was
leaning out of the window of an elderly limousine. She
was smiling. She wasn't really pretty, but her eyes, her
eyes were large and tragic, and her hair was the
color of wheat in mountain fields. And when she smiled,
I well, I just couldn't hear the shooting in the square.

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You are not hurt, No, no, no, I'm fine. I'm
fine thanks to you.

Speaker 5 (02:53:52):
I am glad.

Speaker 73 (02:53:53):
I do not like little men with long knives.

Speaker 14 (02:53:56):
I'm very indebted, miss sir.

Speaker 73 (02:53:58):
I am Lisa, and now goodbye and good fortune.

Speaker 77 (02:54:03):
She pulled down the blind on the car window. A
light broke in as if I were inside, and she out.
I turned around then to take another look at doctor Gavich.
He wasn't where I'd left him. In fact, he wasn't
anywhere in sight. Only a small piece of stone lay
shining on the cobblestones. I walked over and picked it up.
One side was carved with an ornate device that I recognized.

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Lisa had pitched a clean strike with a great seal
of Transrovia. The little riverboat was already getting up steam.
I hit the dock at a dead run, waving my
ticket and baggage checks in one hand and swinging the
briefcase with the other. But suddenly, suddenly I decided to

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miss the boat. Between me and the gang planks stood
a little fat man, and as he turned his head
I could see the fold of grayish flesh that was
no longer an eye. Now I had only one chance
to get out of Transroobia alive. The narrow hill road
to Martov was out of repair, but with luck, I

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could hike it in a few hours, while the boat
following the winding river would take almost a day. With luck,
I could catch the boat at dawn. With luck, I'd
give Gabbage the slip. After all, luck and a lot
of walking. Martsov is a tiny resort town with small

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steep roofed houses clustered together at the bend of the river.
The eaves of the inn were still festooned with white
streaks of snow, but there was a roaring fire in
my room. It was late that night when I heard
heavy footsteps in the hallway, the peculiar limping footsteps of the.

Speaker 14 (02:55:53):
One eyed man, it's the marshl.

Speaker 3 (02:55:58):
Please.

Speaker 77 (02:55:58):
I looked desperately around, replaced to hide a briefcase. There
wasn't any. Then I tried the window, but this was
the second story and I'm not a good high jumper,
so I opened the door to the adjoining room.

Speaker 11 (02:56:10):
What is it?

Speaker 14 (02:56:10):
What are you doing here, Lisa?

Speaker 8 (02:56:13):
Oh, hello, mister Marshall.

Speaker 77 (02:56:15):
Scott Marshall, listen, Lisa. I don't know who you are
or what you're doing here, but well, you help me once,
and I.

Speaker 11 (02:56:22):
Have to trust you.

Speaker 73 (02:56:23):
You never should trust a woman, Scott.

Speaker 2 (02:56:27):
Door.

Speaker 77 (02:56:27):
There's a man named Gavage out there. He's after the
papers and this briefcase.

Speaker 16 (02:56:31):
What do you want of me?

Speaker 77 (02:56:32):
I want you to take these papers and meet me
at the boat landing at dawn. I'll stole Gavage with
the empty briefcase. I took out a key and try
to spring the lock on the portfolio.

Speaker 8 (02:56:42):
Here, give me that ah there.

Speaker 73 (02:56:46):
I wonder what women did before they had hairpins.

Speaker 77 (02:56:49):
I grabbed papers and slipped them under her pillow.

Speaker 14 (02:56:51):
Then I turned to go. I'll come back tonight if
I can.

Speaker 77 (02:56:53):
Otherwise I'll see you're doing all right in the case
in case I don't come back at all, will you
you try to get them to my embassy in room, of.

Speaker 73 (02:57:03):
Course, Scott, yes, please come back.

Speaker 77 (02:57:10):
She gave me a look. I didn't really know what
it meant. It was a sort of a half smile,
half something else. I rushed back into my own room
just as the door.

Speaker 6 (02:57:20):
I talked of him.

Speaker 3 (02:57:21):
No, I won't tay that briefcase, mister Marshall.

Speaker 15 (02:57:24):
Now look here, I just believe me.

Speaker 3 (02:57:26):
I'm not a very good saddened If I have to
kill you, it might be very painful.

Speaker 77 (02:57:32):
Well, if you insist, catch He caught it without lowering
his pistol.

Speaker 3 (02:57:37):
Thank you, very intelligent young man.

Speaker 6 (02:57:41):
Good evening.

Speaker 77 (02:57:43):
I didn't feel so intelligent when I went back into
Lisa's room and found that she was gone. Well maybe
maybe she'd be around at dawn. You never can't tell
about a woman. I waited alone on the pier, but
Lisa didn't come at dawn. When the boat pulled in,
my heart dropped. My heart dropped off the dock and
sank into the muddy water of the river, but my

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body started up the gangplank.

Speaker 73 (02:58:08):
Scott, Lisa, here, here are your papers.

Speaker 14 (02:58:13):
Oh thanks, Lisa.

Speaker 73 (02:58:14):
At Lisa, I don't see it, not now perhaps some
other time, some other place.

Speaker 77 (02:58:20):
All right, thanks, goodbye, Scott, till we wait again. She
kissed me then, and her lips were soft and warm
in the cool ring. They clung to mine for an
instant in the arms tightened around my neck. As the
boat pulled away, she stood on the dock, waving goodbye.
The sun came out and made a rainbow around her hair.
I smiled to myself, Well, I hadn't made such a

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bed foreign agent. After all, I'd save the papers, out
smarted doctor Gavitch, and even met a beautiful girl.

Speaker 14 (02:58:49):
That's all that's expected, isn't it.

Speaker 5 (02:58:53):
You think the story is over, don't you?

Speaker 11 (02:58:56):
But wait?

Speaker 8 (02:58:57):
Wait for.

Speaker 70 (02:59:01):
Ex and now Barry Sullivan.

Speaker 84 (02:59:09):
In the surprising conclusion of Passport to Danger, a drama
of the unexpected.

Speaker 77 (02:59:16):
I told myself it was only a dog howling off
somewhere in the rooms of the Colosseum.

Speaker 14 (02:59:21):
But it could have been a wolf.

Speaker 77 (02:59:22):
After all, Rome was supposed to have been built by
a couple of kids the wolves raised.

Speaker 14 (02:59:27):
At least that's the story.

Speaker 77 (02:59:28):
And after you've been waiting over six hours for someone
you don't even know.

Speaker 14 (02:59:32):
How, you begin to tell yourself stories.

Speaker 38 (02:59:34):
Pardon me, young man, do you know the exact spot
where the Christians were sacrificed? It's supposed to be somewhere
in this part of the Colosseum.

Speaker 6 (02:59:42):
Why know, I.

Speaker 77 (02:59:45):
Hadn't seen her there in a twilight, But a second
look tell me I hadn't missed much. I've been a
teacher long enough to recognize a member of the profession.
Umbrella tweets sued conseneglasses.

Speaker 38 (02:59:54):
I can't understand why it isn't on the map.

Speaker 86 (02:59:57):
See here she.

Speaker 77 (02:59:58):
Held a book up in my face. But it wasn't
a apatole. It was a passport, and under the seal,
that's right, a stamp that looked like the three bells
on a pinball machine. Well, am I glad to see you?

Speaker 34 (03:00:09):
Sh we may not be alone, am I? This is
an inspiring sight.

Speaker 73 (03:00:15):
Where's the briefcase?

Speaker 11 (03:00:16):
I don't have it. Don't worry.

Speaker 14 (03:00:18):
I've got the papers.

Speaker 6 (03:00:19):
They're in my pocket.

Speaker 72 (03:00:21):
Where's the briefcase?

Speaker 11 (03:00:22):
The one eyed man?

Speaker 15 (03:00:23):
God, I don't worry.

Speaker 5 (03:00:24):
I took everything out.

Speaker 38 (03:00:25):
I don't want them. They're worthless, what landering fools. I
told them that you'd never come through. The real papers
were sewn in the lining of the case.

Speaker 14 (03:00:35):
Oh, why didn't they say so?

Speaker 73 (03:00:37):
Stupid amateurs?

Speaker 84 (03:00:41):
Passpar to Danger starred Barry Sullivan. Included in the cast
were Margie List, DAWs Butler, and Dave Light. The Unexpected
is produced by Alvin C. Gershensen, written by Robert Lippin
and Frank Bert, and directed by Mel Williamson. This is
Hal Sawyer inviting you to listen again. Soon one another
of your favorite motion picture stars meets the ex The

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Unexpected is a Hamilton Whitney production transcribed in Hollywood.

Speaker 44 (03:01:30):
Cane nine seven sack.

Speaker 23 (03:01:33):
Unit ninety nine.

Speaker 20 (03:01:35):
Are you in a clear Unit ninety nine to CAMA
nine oh seven Unit ninety nine, Sergeant Meredith nine oh
nine in service on the air. This is Sergeant Dan
Meredith of Unit ninety nine at Headquarters Police Department, City
of Sacramento, California. My detail is to ride in Unit
ninety nine, our tape recorder equipped radio car, and to

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respond whenever the dispatcher transmits a signal to one of
our other units on duty somewhere in the city at
the scene. We make the recordings which we provide for
this program. Now to tell you more about Unit ninety nine,
here's our Chief James V. Hicks, Sacramento Police.

Speaker 87 (03:02:14):
When Unit ninety nine takes off on the dispatcher's radio signal,
everything which happens is real.

Speaker 6 (03:02:19):
What you hear happen.

Speaker 87 (03:02:21):
This is the standing order to Sergeant Meredith, the officer
in charge of Unit ninety nine, get it on the
spot while it's going on, and as you listen, this
is what Meredith does. Now to Unit ninety nine and
Sergeant Dan Meredith on duty.

Speaker 58 (03:02:39):
Unit fifty six, nine oh one at twelfth and airword
fifty crick.

Speaker 44 (03:02:50):
Crack you mar.

Speaker 53 (03:02:54):
Traffic.

Speaker 20 (03:02:55):
Unit fifty six just got a code too on an
accident with injury at twelve Edward. We're at twelfth and
knee looks pretty bad.

Speaker 15 (03:03:10):
It's got I think.

Speaker 20 (03:03:16):
There's a student Bakercy Dan, resting across the northwest corner
and driven into a electoral leer.

Speaker 11 (03:03:28):
Which appears to be just.

Speaker 20 (03:03:31):
Wrapped around at the front end. Is pretty well damaged.
Where's the other car? Where's the other car down there?

Speaker 31 (03:03:40):
There's been an injury here.

Speaker 20 (03:03:43):
Ambulance has gone with the victim. We're going down to
the other car that's involved. It's south of East Street
about one hundred and twenty feet twenty five feet traffic
officer is talking with the drive right Presume officer rafts

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back then of this car is damaged severely.

Speaker 11 (03:04:10):
Oh a raft Oh.

Speaker 20 (03:04:11):
Anne, are you Is this the UH car belonging to
the victim?

Speaker 88 (03:04:15):
I imagine it is. I uh just arrived here and
I trying to get the street cleared up.

Speaker 6 (03:04:20):
This car is leaking.

Speaker 88 (03:04:22):
Guess me no, it yeah, very badly. I fire department
on the way over here to wash the street down.

Speaker 20 (03:04:30):
You were at fifty six as the driver, Yeah, this
is the people who were hit. Yuh ever stopped here
at this stop lighting all across intersection.

Speaker 6 (03:04:40):
I lighted over there and stopped the car.

Speaker 20 (03:04:42):
Your car is down there about uh say a third
of o'clock.

Speaker 16 (03:04:45):
Is that.

Speaker 17 (03:04:45):
It's just kind of just ran in the back of them.

Speaker 11 (03:04:49):
They were stopping a.

Speaker 40 (03:04:49):
Second he was.

Speaker 16 (03:04:51):
He already passed four people down the street.

Speaker 89 (03:04:54):
And you were parked right here.

Speaker 6 (03:04:55):
Park. We may not got out.

Speaker 16 (03:04:56):
We just came out of the hotel over there.

Speaker 39 (03:04:58):
We just registered, came out of the hote No after
the boy or boy man.

Speaker 11 (03:05:04):
He's doing about fifty five.

Speaker 15 (03:05:05):
Or sixty was the uh he drove across the intersection.

Speaker 90 (03:05:10):
I glided down away and turned the motor off, put
the brake on, gut out of the car.

Speaker 11 (03:05:14):
You were stopped for the red fight.

Speaker 6 (03:05:15):
We would stopped right here.

Speaker 32 (03:05:17):
Uh huh?

Speaker 11 (03:05:18):
Anyone in your car injured?

Speaker 8 (03:05:22):
All shook up?

Speaker 72 (03:05:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (03:05:26):
My leg's a little sore, but I don't know.

Speaker 40 (03:05:27):
I don't know.

Speaker 20 (03:05:28):
Did you notice the car coming from behind?

Speaker 15 (03:05:31):
So it was a screech and then an impact. We
went across the intersection through.

Speaker 39 (03:05:37):
The side there that I have on my side.

Speaker 23 (03:05:40):
I saw the lights coming, but then I.

Speaker 16 (03:05:43):
Didn't get to say there's going there comes a.

Speaker 20 (03:05:46):
Guy or anything.

Speaker 44 (03:05:48):
Usually you take away fast if you see somebody coming
behind him.

Speaker 53 (03:05:50):
Well, I don't know when he.

Speaker 11 (03:05:51):
Was coming that fast.

Speaker 6 (03:05:52):
God of going through the signal.

Speaker 5 (03:05:55):
I was sitting to the side.

Speaker 11 (03:05:58):
And my but I have a on in the back,
so that could be the reason why the back of
my head hurt.

Speaker 23 (03:06:02):
But uh my, I got it right here.

Speaker 91 (03:06:05):
I can feel it.

Speaker 39 (03:06:06):
It feels like it's starting in the mouth.

Speaker 6 (03:06:09):
Looks like you, uh do have a mark alongside that
jaw are there?

Speaker 8 (03:06:14):
Doesn't feel story yet.

Speaker 15 (03:06:15):
But as I said, I have no feeling so much.

Speaker 20 (03:06:17):
Alright, then let's check where the victim and they weren't seen.

Speaker 6 (03:06:31):
Oh really, oh.

Speaker 11 (03:06:34):
Is this the this one here on that accident?

Speaker 20 (03:06:36):
That on the other just a gentleman that was driving
that test of the bigger.

Speaker 4 (03:06:41):
It's the gentleman we took out of.

Speaker 11 (03:06:42):
The car or twelve to me, I'll stuke, you have
some illustrations of the head. How do you feel that?

Speaker 53 (03:06:50):
Boy?

Speaker 11 (03:06:52):
Alright too? I how'd this happen tonight?

Speaker 6 (03:06:59):
How do you gonna be?

Speaker 11 (03:07:00):
You could tell me better than I can. And where
were you coming from in the way I've been treated
since I've been coming in here? I don't know why
haven't you been treated? Alright?

Speaker 92 (03:07:15):
I've been treated fine? Let's uh well, can you tell
you give me? Uh the slight treatments at tight here
in the house? Yet responsible for myself?

Speaker 11 (03:07:26):
You're not responsible for yourself? What seems to be the trouble?

Speaker 8 (03:07:33):
Hm?

Speaker 11 (03:07:36):
Have you been drinking tonight?

Speaker 15 (03:07:39):
Beg your pardon?

Speaker 11 (03:07:40):
I say, have you been drinking tonight?

Speaker 12 (03:07:43):
Let's see if you know?

Speaker 8 (03:07:44):
SU know you haven't?

Speaker 31 (03:07:45):
Uh?

Speaker 11 (03:07:46):
Well, can you tell us how this happened? This accident?

Speaker 4 (03:07:54):
Do you know you've been in an accident tonight?

Speaker 8 (03:07:59):
Well?

Speaker 15 (03:07:59):
I can tell you use one thing that two something
that's happened to me too.

Speaker 11 (03:08:03):
No, I said know nothing about it.

Speaker 4 (03:08:06):
Do you know how you got injured?

Speaker 6 (03:08:09):
Injured?

Speaker 22 (03:08:11):
Mm?

Speaker 4 (03:08:11):
Am, I injured? How'd you get the cats on your hair?
It's good explanation. How did you get your hands grasped?

Speaker 11 (03:08:24):
You don't recall the accident at all.

Speaker 15 (03:08:31):
I don't know one two things there?

Speaker 6 (03:08:34):
What's that?

Speaker 11 (03:08:36):
I was in perfect position and health.

Speaker 6 (03:08:42):
Until now.

Speaker 4 (03:08:43):
Do you remember coming into the emergency hospital and the
police ambulance?

Speaker 40 (03:08:49):
You don't.

Speaker 4 (03:08:50):
How do you think you got to the emergency hospital?

Speaker 11 (03:08:55):
How do I know why I am there?

Speaker 89 (03:08:58):
Well, you don't know that you're in the emergency hospit
still now you remember being treated by the nurse here?
But nurse, oh, how did you get on the table there?
What tail the operating table that you're laying on?

Speaker 15 (03:09:18):
Well, sorry, sir, says I can, sir, I'm home, laying
on my bed.

Speaker 4 (03:09:26):
We we're gonna do that.

Speaker 7 (03:09:27):
Doctor.

Speaker 93 (03:09:28):
Is that as the kind of hospital?

Speaker 11 (03:09:32):
How's this? How's this condition? Who's can? Lucien is unsatisfactory?
Presently seemed to be in a bit of the state
of shock.

Speaker 20 (03:09:42):
Took on you and Davies. Uh complete the investigation out
there on this accident. To this point, we have as
far as we can go now how far far are
you going to go now on this well, all we
put on is depending and the investigators take care of
from here on out. The man who's suffering shocked, unable
to give us a statement.

Speaker 87 (03:10:00):
You don't know now, as you heard, this man was
in shock and was taken to the county hospital for treatment.

Speaker 11 (03:10:07):
There's a sequel.

Speaker 87 (03:10:08):
However, at the hospital he came out of shock and
walked out of the emergency ward. It was necessary to
trace him through his auto registration in order to charge
him with reckless driving.

Speaker 11 (03:10:21):
Unit three.

Speaker 58 (03:10:26):
Investigate a report of a cutting at two twenty eight.
John came in in a sent.

Speaker 20 (03:10:37):
A cutting at two twenty eight j lower end of town.

Speaker 40 (03:10:41):
We're in that area.

Speaker 20 (03:10:42):
Let's cover with three.

Speaker 4 (03:10:49):
As a unit.

Speaker 53 (03:10:50):
Up ahead.

Speaker 11 (03:10:52):
I've got two people in the back seat.

Speaker 6 (03:10:56):
Man and a woman.

Speaker 72 (03:10:58):
Where you got gate?

Speaker 19 (03:11:00):
What meet you with?

Speaker 39 (03:11:00):
Emergency artantee?

Speaker 20 (03:11:02):
Okay, now you only just arrives on the ramp, not
ready to go into the warden.

Speaker 6 (03:11:12):
See that's pardon me, that's all right.

Speaker 20 (03:11:16):
Colored Manny looks like he's been stabbed in the stomach
and on the back of the neck.

Speaker 11 (03:11:21):
Done ready with him eight feet I didn't hear and
just sit down there.

Speaker 4 (03:11:29):
They way the guys, I ain't I could have protected myself.
I don't know he was hanged at. I mean, you
ain't have no reason.

Speaker 6 (03:11:34):
To be a gonna hurt.

Speaker 93 (03:11:34):
I mean, what was arguing about the Well, no happen here,
just one.

Speaker 4 (03:11:38):
I'm trying to tell you what, No, I do you
think this argument is.

Speaker 15 (03:11:42):
Over your wife? What's that you do?

Speaker 4 (03:11:46):
Do you think this white man had a fight with
you and call your white being white?

Speaker 6 (03:11:50):
Is that it? That's it.

Speaker 4 (03:11:52):
I'll tell us the whole story.

Speaker 31 (03:11:54):
So you're not you.

Speaker 93 (03:11:55):
I mean, he didn't say nothing to me. You didn't
see anything to me at all.

Speaker 94 (03:12:00):
One of 'em out didn't. He gave him a doody look.
M saw him my food and uh she and I said,
I'm gonna good the rest room. Come into the wristroom
on back, So I got two ships.

Speaker 11 (03:12:11):
I come back.

Speaker 93 (03:12:12):
When I came back, got close to him, he broke
the bower. I I saw him and he broke the bower.

Speaker 4 (03:12:17):
Yeah, and what'd he do at the bottle?

Speaker 93 (03:12:19):
Then all of a sudden he jumped in my stomach.

Speaker 4 (03:12:22):
Jat getting the stomach there?

Speaker 93 (03:12:23):
U H right, I said, say it, man, that's somebody
you wanna hurt me? Then did you have him get
no pair.

Speaker 15 (03:12:29):
About the neck, no top, no words words?

Speaker 4 (03:12:32):
He now did unable to locate him. Uh, you didn't
get much description. You said, he hasn't seen him at all.

Speaker 11 (03:12:38):
I don't know nothing about him. You think you know
this man gumy selling.

Speaker 4 (03:12:43):
You want him arrested. I had to you run him
to prosecute against you.

Speaker 11 (03:12:47):
Wash it, okay. Pop said that I was talking.

Speaker 4 (03:12:51):
With a young lady when he came in and you
were back in the restaurant. You didn't even see him
come in? Or did you see him come in?

Speaker 29 (03:12:57):
Well, they was.

Speaker 39 (03:12:58):
Heading in to boots good Week came in and then
when I I came out to the front and I
see all the blood all over it?

Speaker 6 (03:13:05):
Did you have any commotion or anything I hear anything?

Speaker 4 (03:13:08):
Well, these fellows they are white men.

Speaker 20 (03:13:10):
Yes, I think that was the trouble that the fact
they saw, Uh, your husband's color and you're white, is
that what was probably see?

Speaker 4 (03:13:18):
Did they make any comments that you heard of any?

Speaker 11 (03:13:20):
Again? Make any comments?

Speaker 44 (03:13:22):
Not as I know.

Speaker 93 (03:13:23):
When I went back, did you hear your husband say
any to them?

Speaker 8 (03:13:26):
No, he didn't say anything to them. I don't know anybody.

Speaker 3 (03:13:30):
Else that's not good.

Speaker 4 (03:13:34):
Well, could you identify any of these men?

Speaker 8 (03:13:36):
If you say, sure, could I could identify the one
did the ones?

Speaker 44 (03:13:39):
The pint of it was so shocked I shouldn't like.

Speaker 15 (03:13:43):
Yeah, I don't understand it.

Speaker 8 (03:13:44):
Though, I don't know why anybody.

Speaker 3 (03:13:46):
Was to think that.

Speaker 4 (03:13:48):
Well, I was gonna find a lot of fun hospital.

Speaker 6 (03:13:49):
The ques you need to be operated by a fix
is gonna be all right.

Speaker 15 (03:13:54):
I think he's gonna be alright, Yes.

Speaker 7 (03:13:55):
All right.

Speaker 87 (03:13:58):
Racial antagonism was I'm doubtedly the cause of this cutting,
but I have no doubt that the chivalry of the
culprit had been boastered by alcohol. The victim is recovering
from his wounds, and the search for his asylum is continuing.

Speaker 58 (03:14:16):
AMA nine seventh through all units. Description of suspect in
shooting at Force and Capital male negloss adults, very light skins,
thirty years of age.

Speaker 44 (03:14:31):
Sixty one quarter inch in.

Speaker 58 (03:14:34):
Height, weighed one fifty pounds, black hair, no hat. He
was wearing a black and white striped port shirt, light
gray slat. Subject has a twenty five caliber automatic revolver.
He is recorded in the vicinity of fourth and m

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Nara came in on.

Speaker 19 (03:14:57):
A seven.

Speaker 20 (03:15:00):
Shooting just before our tour began tonight. Judge him from
that description and they have a pretty good line on
the culprit. Apparently the fellow shot down to his wife
or girlfriend. She was taking to the county hospital. And
whether she's a live or dead, we don't know at
the moment. Little cruise around fourth and End and see
if we can spott him.

Speaker 58 (03:15:28):
Came a nine O seven through all units. The prospect
in the shooting at Courts and Capital is now his customer.

Speaker 11 (03:15:37):
Looks like they got him. We'll follow up on it.

Speaker 20 (03:15:48):
All right, Scott Shill, I understand you were the officer
that apprehended the suspect.

Speaker 11 (03:15:55):
Yes, I was. Can you fill us in a little
bit here, Stotschill.

Speaker 20 (03:15:59):
Yes, it occurred on Captain lab and knew he shot
at a woman and she was dead.

Speaker 4 (03:16:03):
On arrival at the emergency hospital.

Speaker 20 (03:16:06):
We were just discussing at the ninth and Pens and
I swung back on Oscie I believe it was, and
came back in.

Speaker 4 (03:16:12):
Was in the fifth and oh when the call came in.

Speaker 11 (03:16:15):
If the man was in the vicinity of Fourth and End,
of course, I immediately went down there.

Speaker 20 (03:16:19):
And this man fit the description perfectly, was standing on
a corner talking to a woman, and I mean he
placed him under the rest and he admitted that he
was a party and shaking him down, I discovered the
gun in his rear pocket.

Speaker 15 (03:16:31):
Can you throw a little light.

Speaker 20 (03:16:32):
On this at the very beginning of the case, SASKI,
what is the relationship between these two parties? Well, then
my understanding is that they were man and wife or
positive possibly girlfriend, but as far as we could determine
so far, they were man and wife.

Speaker 11 (03:16:48):
The other detective is going to question this fella out.

Speaker 4 (03:16:51):
Yes, right they are.

Speaker 20 (03:16:56):
We're in the detective bureau. Present is a sister of
the deceased. You say you were present tonight when the
shooting occurred.

Speaker 29 (03:17:07):
Yeah, well we was in the beauty shop and when
she got her hair gowne where we all walked out,
and uh, he walked up and he said, how you
all done?

Speaker 11 (03:17:20):
That's sorry, I just take your time.

Speaker 29 (03:17:24):
And then he told I wouldn't speak to you, and uh,
she said, well, don't pull on me, and so he
didn't say nothing. That take good out of his gun
and started shooting, and uh as he shot the first time,
but she fell when he shot the first time, and
then after she fell way, he shot three more times
up she fell on the ground and I tried to

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pick up where she couldn't see her.

Speaker 11 (03:17:49):
Did he threaten you?

Speaker 29 (03:17:50):
No, he didn't.

Speaker 11 (03:17:51):
Uh Huh do you know how this came about?

Speaker 29 (03:17:54):
No, I don't because we hadn't talked to him pre
before they had the two of.

Speaker 11 (03:17:59):
'em had our argument before.

Speaker 6 (03:18:01):
Yeah, are they married?

Speaker 19 (03:18:04):
No?

Speaker 6 (03:18:05):
Well, what did he say or do after the shooting?

Speaker 29 (03:18:08):
Well, he started walking towards Fourth Street.

Speaker 11 (03:18:11):
Did you see him at any time after the shooting
and until he was picked up?

Speaker 19 (03:18:15):
No?

Speaker 29 (03:18:16):
I didn't still I know until he came in, until
we were up.

Speaker 6 (03:18:20):
Out of here.

Speaker 11 (03:18:21):
I thank you very much.

Speaker 4 (03:18:24):
Uh, Dan, we're when you talk to the uh suspect
now that was on.

Speaker 95 (03:18:27):
The shooting you wanted them anyway? Okay, this is Sergeant
Dan Meredith. This is my partner, ortis m Alexander. We'd
and myself Zion. We'd like you to start right from
the scratch. Just what took place tonight?

Speaker 96 (03:18:49):
I walked out, UH talked uh because uh we we
had had any dispute then m one before uh before
day and she said, well, I don't wanna talk to you.

Speaker 4 (03:19:09):
Where did where was where was your sister or sister alaw.

Speaker 15 (03:19:12):
At that time?

Speaker 96 (03:19:13):
They walked on the here alright, she stayed with you,
your grow up and stayed with you. No, she wa
we were still walking when uh w while we were
talking til uh I caught her by her her coach
leave And when I caught her by her coach leave

(03:19:34):
or she started cursing. Then well she was cursing everything.
I was pleading to her to us to go to
the house.

Speaker 11 (03:19:49):
So when did she say that?

Speaker 4 (03:19:51):
When you were pleading to go back to the house.

Speaker 96 (03:19:55):
Well, I ain't had about her coach leave, and she
pushed me, said she I wasn't going nowhere.

Speaker 4 (03:20:04):
Right after she pushed you, Then what happened?

Speaker 96 (03:20:08):
Well it it must have been longer there that I
pulled a gun out. But then I I just while
I blanked out.

Speaker 4 (03:20:17):
And how many shots do you remember firing?

Speaker 64 (03:20:25):
Well?

Speaker 11 (03:20:25):
Actually I can only.

Speaker 21 (03:20:30):
I.

Speaker 11 (03:20:30):
I I remember the the the the joke for one,
I mean it checked me.

Speaker 6 (03:20:38):
Right after you.

Speaker 4 (03:20:39):
Fired to one. Then what did you do?

Speaker 6 (03:20:40):
What did she do?

Speaker 4 (03:20:42):
Did she just stand there scream holler?

Speaker 11 (03:20:44):
What I I remember hearing the scream alright.

Speaker 4 (03:20:48):
After you remember firing at one shot? Then what did
you do?

Speaker 15 (03:20:53):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (03:20:53):
Well, then I must I I must allowed Where did
you go.

Speaker 11 (03:20:59):
When I came to I was in South Park?

Speaker 4 (03:21:03):
Alright, when you got to uh south Side Park?

Speaker 40 (03:21:05):
What did you do?

Speaker 4 (03:21:09):
Uh?

Speaker 96 (03:21:11):
Let me sit down, because when I came to myself,
I was sitting down by the way.

Speaker 4 (03:21:17):
Now when you remember farking to one shot and you
took her? What did you do with a gun?

Speaker 11 (03:21:23):
Well? When I come to myself and the part the
gun was still in my head.

Speaker 95 (03:21:28):
You mean you carried a gun from where you actually
shot or cleared to south Side Park that.

Speaker 96 (03:21:35):
When I came to myself, well, it was it was
like a dream. I didn I didn't believe it that
I had did it. So I had some phone numbers
in my pocket and I called a friend. Her as an.

Speaker 4 (03:21:53):
Asked her, what do you mean you called a friend?

Speaker 11 (03:21:56):
And asked her what I asked her? Did or she
hear anything?

Speaker 6 (03:22:01):
Uh?

Speaker 96 (03:22:01):
Here hear hear any news or anything about the girl?
I walked on and I met another lady and I
talked with her and then sh She asked me to
know what happened.

Speaker 11 (03:22:16):
I told her no, I didn't know the whole thing.
And I say her to tell me so she went
on to tell me. So I told her I was
on my way up anyway. When I met her to
get to give myself up. I was standing there. I mean,

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the girl was talking and then uh, she says, uh
as a police.

Speaker 17 (03:22:43):
So uh.

Speaker 96 (03:22:44):
I says, uh, yeah and a and I said, I'm
i'm'a walk on up to him and give myself up.

Speaker 4 (03:22:52):
Did you did you walk up to him or did
he approach you?

Speaker 20 (03:22:56):
Well, I was standing there. I just talk and I
was getting ready to go across the street and he
quite car. He asked me my name when I told him.

Speaker 6 (03:23:09):
None.

Speaker 22 (03:23:10):
What happened?

Speaker 4 (03:23:12):
So he told me to come on.

Speaker 11 (03:23:17):
To the car's.

Speaker 6 (03:23:19):
Oh couldn't end.

Speaker 4 (03:23:21):
Up some MC Alexander and Zion.

Speaker 20 (03:23:25):
Uh, what's this man going to be booked on since
he's since he was arrested, we have learned from the
county hospital as she passed.

Speaker 11 (03:23:34):
Away, so the charge will be murdered.

Speaker 87 (03:23:36):
The apprehension of this murder suspect was accomplished in near
record time. It was simplified, however, by the fact that
he was plainly identified and apparently was not trying to escape.
His story of blacking out is a common one and
quite as implausible as his explanation that he just happened
to have the gun in his pants pocket. The charge's

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murder and the case is still pending. This is Unit
ninety nine in Sacramento, California. These on the scene tape
recordings were provided by the Sacramento Police Department and were
made on duty by Sergeant Dan Meredith in Unit ninety nine.
Your host is Chief James V. Hicks of the Sacramento
Police Department. Be with us when once again you wear.

Speaker 44 (03:24:22):
Canine nine O seven pasmental Clean.

Speaker 97 (03:24:26):
Unit ninety nine.

Speaker 25 (03:24:27):
Are you in the clear?

Speaker 20 (03:24:28):
Unit ninety nine, CAMA nine oh seven Unit ninety nine,
Sergeant Meredith nine oh nine in service on the.

Speaker 62 (03:24:35):
Air Unsolved Mysteries.

Speaker 98 (03:25:22):
The Bording case is undoubtedly without parallel in the criminal
annals of America. It is perhaps the most puzzling murder
which has occurred anywhere.

Speaker 26 (03:25:29):
In the whole world.

Speaker 98 (03:25:31):
The perpetrator of this double murder was saved from the
gallows by a most extraordinary chain of circumstances, circumstances which
perhaps would not recur in a thousand years. The Borden

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Place in Paul River, Massachusetts, was a house of silences,
a house of moody, brooding silences brought about by pent
up hatreds hetty jealousies, niggardly dealings in money matters, and
two daughters who hated their stepmother, a stepmother who hated
with equal intensity her two step daughters. Even from the outside,

(03:27:07):
the Borden House, where it stood on South Main Street,
had about it an air of ineffable doom, the atmosphere
of a place that cursed. It is exactly thirty seconds
before eleven o'clock on the morning.

Speaker 6 (03:27:20):
Of August the fourth.

Speaker 98 (03:27:21):
Bridget, the maid finished with her morning duties, is resting
in her room on the third story. Mister Borden is
lying on the couch in the living room.

Speaker 15 (03:27:30):
Emma Borden is away from home, and Lizzie, Lizzie.

Speaker 6 (03:27:34):
Borden, is standing on the back porch.

Speaker 18 (03:27:39):
Bridget, Bridget, come here, what's the brother, Lizzy?

Speaker 23 (03:27:43):
Come down quick?

Speaker 33 (03:27:44):
Father is dead.

Speaker 44 (03:27:44):
Somebody came in and killed him. Still go in, Wick,
don't go in. Get a doctor. Run across the street
and get doctor Bowen.

Speaker 10 (03:27:54):
Is there anything wrong?

Speaker 44 (03:27:55):
Little missus Churchill? Some on as your father? Please please
come over.

Speaker 33 (03:27:58):
I'll be over right away.

Speaker 44 (03:28:00):
Doctor isn't home. I left word burn to come. Just, Lizy,
where were you when this happened?

Speaker 34 (03:28:05):
I was out in the yard.

Speaker 44 (03:28:06):
I heard a groan.

Speaker 29 (03:28:07):
The screen door was by.

Speaker 16 (03:28:08):
It opened.

Speaker 33 (03:28:08):
I came in lively, Lizy, Where is your father in
the living room?

Speaker 23 (03:28:12):
Where were you, Lizzy when this happened?

Speaker 44 (03:28:14):
I went to the barn to get a piece of iron.

Speaker 33 (03:28:15):
Where's your mother?

Speaker 15 (03:28:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 44 (03:28:17):
She had a note to go see someone who was sick.

Speaker 39 (03:28:19):
It must have been in town, but I thought I heard.

Speaker 44 (03:28:21):
Her come in.

Speaker 39 (03:28:22):
I don't know, but what she may have been killed too.

Speaker 38 (03:28:24):
Father must have an enemy.

Speaker 79 (03:28:25):
What's I to hear about your father?

Speaker 44 (03:28:27):
It's doctor Bowman and he has Officer Allen with him. Oh, doctor,
doctor in the living room?

Speaker 26 (03:28:32):
All right, all right, I'll stand back.

Speaker 79 (03:28:33):
Come on, doc, No, only need to examine him to
see whether or not he's dead.

Speaker 15 (03:28:37):
Give me seat, somebody. How long you've been dead?

Speaker 6 (03:28:39):
Duck?

Speaker 15 (03:28:40):
M bout ten minutes? Still warm, Lizzie?

Speaker 23 (03:28:42):
Yes, doctor?

Speaker 15 (03:28:43):
Where were you when this happened?

Speaker 44 (03:28:44):
I was over at the barn.

Speaker 8 (03:28:45):
Where were you, Bridget in my room upstairs?

Speaker 15 (03:28:48):
Did you hear anything?

Speaker 17 (03:28:49):
No?

Speaker 6 (03:28:49):
Were you asleep?

Speaker 19 (03:28:50):
No?

Speaker 44 (03:28:51):
I've just been lying down for a few seconds.

Speaker 86 (03:28:53):
I listen nobody could have killed this man the way
he's been killed without making some noise.

Speaker 79 (03:28:56):
No signs Fanny weapon either officer.

Speaker 75 (03:28:58):
Let me to your hands, Bridget turn around.

Speaker 62 (03:29:01):
I think there you, Miss Lizzie, let me see your
hands me.

Speaker 40 (03:29:05):
Yes, you Webber killed.

Speaker 77 (03:29:06):
This man must have left some traces, and you were
the only two people in the house.

Speaker 33 (03:29:10):
There's no signs of blood on busy, not even inside
her bottes. I've looked, Bidget, you go upstairs, see mother's
coming in.

Speaker 44 (03:29:16):
Not alone, miss Lizzy. I'm not going up those stairs alone.

Speaker 16 (03:29:19):
I'll go with you.

Speaker 18 (03:29:23):
Oh, doctor dortor Lizzy, that's that's Missus Borton.

Speaker 44 (03:29:34):
Yes, yes, I knew something like this would happen.

Speaker 84 (03:29:36):
But why I just did?

Speaker 44 (03:29:38):
That's all al?

Speaker 6 (03:29:39):
Yes, doctor cheez.

Speaker 79 (03:29:41):
Missus Borton has been any anyone from one hour to
two hours.

Speaker 26 (03:29:44):
And he's been dead only a few minutes.

Speaker 15 (03:29:46):
Yes, every one of you say where we are.

Speaker 69 (03:29:49):
I'm going to search for the weapons.

Speaker 98 (03:29:50):
But neither Officer Allen nor any other of the many
members of the police force ever found the weapon. Missus
church Hill, from her window across the driveway, saw no
one enter or leave the house. Missus Borden, the murdered
woman weighed nearly two hundred pounds, Yet no one heard
a sound when the murderer failed her. Not a sound,
not a cry, not a clue.

Speaker 11 (03:30:10):
But suspicions.

Speaker 98 (03:30:12):
Yes, Lizzie Borden lay in prison, staring at the whitewashed ceiling,
hearing again and again the same words.

Speaker 14 (03:30:20):
Different voices, but always the same words.

Speaker 79 (03:30:23):
Where were you, Lizzie Borden when this happened?

Speaker 44 (03:30:25):
Where were you.

Speaker 23 (03:30:25):
Lizzy Borden when this happened?

Speaker 15 (03:30:27):
Were you Lizzie Borden when this happened?

Speaker 99 (03:30:28):
Where were you Lizzie Borden when this happened?

Speaker 44 (03:30:31):

Speaker 98 (03:30:33):
Where were you Lizzy Borton when this happened?

Speaker 79 (03:30:35):

Speaker 15 (03:30:41):
The Superior Court of New Bedford, on this day, June
the twentieth, now in session, Chief Justice Albert Mason presiding,
all stands.

Speaker 44 (03:30:49):
While a justice takes his seat.

Speaker 99 (03:30:51):
Mister Arlington, you may begin your closing appeal to the jury.

Speaker 98 (03:30:55):
Gentlemen of the jury, you have heard the witnesses describe
the sitting room which mister Borden was killed of.

Speaker 8 (03:31:01):
The walls, the ceiling were splattered with blood.

Speaker 98 (03:31:05):
Now, Gentlemen of the jury, almost two hours elapsed between
the murders.

Speaker 62 (03:31:10):
At no time was miss Lizzie.

Speaker 98 (03:31:12):
Borden out of the sight of Bridget the Maid or
mister Borden before his death, or a period of more
than twenty minutes. How could she cleanse herself of blood
stains in that length of time? I repeat, how could
she cleanse herself of blood stains in that length of time?

Speaker 19 (03:31:28):
She could not.

Speaker 98 (03:31:30):
I remember that according to the state, Lizzie Borden must
have killed her stepmother about nine thirty, got rid of
the weapon, cleansed herself.

Speaker 79 (03:31:38):
And appeared before Bridget the Maid before nine forty five.

Speaker 98 (03:31:43):
Again, she had between ten forty five and eleven o'clock
in which to kill mister Borden, again disposed of the weapon,
and again cleanse herself of blood stains.

Speaker 79 (03:31:52):
Impossible, Gentlemen of the jury.

Speaker 22 (03:31:54):
Impossible.

Speaker 39 (03:31:56):
Within fifteen minutes of mister.

Speaker 98 (03:31:58):
Borden's death, Lizzie Borden was the examined by Missus Hutcher,
who stated that there were no bloodstains on Lizzie Borden's person,
not even inside her bodies.

Speaker 6 (03:32:08):
I have finished.

Speaker 98 (03:32:10):
I ask as you think carefully and seriously upon the
evidence presented when you return your verdict, the distinct attorney
may address the jury, Gentlemen of the jury, The defense
contend that Lizzie Borden did not have time to cleanse
herself after killing her stepmother. Now that is something that

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no one can say.

Speaker 79 (03:32:33):
The medical testimony cannot and does not specify the exact
moment at which missus Borden was struck down, and Lizzie
Borden may have had ample time in which to rid
herself of the tell tale bloodstains. In regard to the
killing of mister Borden. I admit the difficulty. I cannot
answer it. You cannot answer it. But gentlemen of the jury,

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Lizzie Borden was.

Speaker 22 (03:32:59):
The only first who could have committed the double murders.

Speaker 99 (03:33:04):
And so I say to you, gentlemen of the jury,
as presiding judge in this case, that if the state
have not proved their case, then you must find Paul.

Speaker 26 (03:33:13):
The prisoner and return a verdict.

Speaker 62 (03:33:15):
So you may retire to consider Audrey.

Speaker 63 (03:33:21):
While the jury retire.

Speaker 62 (03:33:22):
To consider their verdict.

Speaker 6 (03:33:23):
Consider the case.

Speaker 98 (03:33:25):
It is not easy to remove bloodstains bloodstains can be
removed more or less easily from the smooth skin of
the face, but from the hands. No Remember too, that
there was no bathtub in the Borden home. Do not
lose sight of the fact that no weapon was found,
no burned clothes were found, and the murderer must have
been literally saturated with the victim's blood. Consider too that

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at any moment, Bridget the Maid or mister Borden could
have walked upstairs and discovered the murderer killing missus Borden.

Speaker 62 (03:33:53):
The jury have been out almost an hour.

Speaker 98 (03:33:55):
It is four point thirty, and they file to their
places in the jury box.

Speaker 99 (03:34:02):
Are the gentlemen of the jury agreed upon a thirty
We are your honor, Lizzie.

Speaker 62 (03:34:06):
Borden, stand up base the jury, We the jury.

Speaker 15 (03:34:11):
I'm the prisoner, not guilty.

Speaker 98 (03:34:15):
A careful reading, without emotion or favor of the trial
transcript must convince any unprejudiced person that Lizzie Borden did
not commit the double murder.

Speaker 62 (03:34:23):
Since this is an unsolved.

Speaker 98 (03:34:25):
Mystery, any solution is necessarily a supposition, based.

Speaker 19 (03:34:28):
However, upon the known facts.

Speaker 98 (03:34:30):
A possible solution will be presented after you have heard
from your.

Speaker 6 (03:34:33):
Sponsor some.

Speaker 16 (03:35:27):
Look, I think something.

Speaker 70 (03:35:40):
Story.

Speaker 98 (03:36:05):
On two occasions previous to the board and murders, the
Barden home had been robbed of jewelry and money. Straight
tramps had probably perpetrated the robberies. And remember that these
gentlemen of the Highway leave secret markings on walls and houses,
informing their brothers of the road that these houses are
easy to rob, or perhaps a mark that tells that
the householder is kindly and that food will be forthcoming.

Speaker 23 (03:36:27):
It is the morning of the murder, Lizzie, Lizzie, Yes, mother,
I'm going to Crown to visit a grand who isn't
feeling well.

Speaker 44 (03:36:37):
Now, Mother, I'm going to my room to dress first.

Speaker 33 (03:36:40):
Have Bridget washed the windows?

Speaker 44 (03:36:42):
Yes, mother, Bridget, oh, Bridget. Yes, Miss Lizzie, I'm going
to do some morning. Will you wash the windows? Yes, Missuzzie.
I've got the water and everything ready.

Speaker 39 (03:36:50):
Now I'm going right outside.

Speaker 44 (03:36:55):
Both of the irons be hard to quare sails.

Speaker 16 (03:36:58):
How'll go over the barn gets the lad he thinks
he's from a fishing line.

Speaker 98 (03:37:02):
A tramp hidden in the basement since early morning.

Speaker 6 (03:37:05):
Makes his way into the house. This is his opportunity
for petty theft. The house is empty, he thinks.

Speaker 8 (03:37:10):
In the upper room, he.

Speaker 98 (03:37:11):
Comes face to face with Missus Borden. He silences her
one hundred cry with a blow. Annick seizes him and
he turns to flee.

Speaker 6 (03:37:18):
Escape is impossible.

Speaker 98 (03:37:19):
Lizzie Borden has returned from the barn and tremblingly, the
murderer hides in the same room where his victimized dead.

Speaker 44 (03:37:26):
Here's your father, miss Lily. I'm going out of my
room for a few minutes.

Speaker 29 (03:37:29):
Very well, brivio.

Speaker 8 (03:37:30):
Oh hello father, Yeah, hello, Lizzie.

Speaker 44 (03:37:32):
You may open me. Father.

Speaker 12 (03:37:34):
I'm not the same, Lissy.

Speaker 8 (03:37:35):
I'm tired. I I can't lie down for bits on
the shows.

Speaker 44 (03:37:38):
Now all right, I'm going at the barn for a
piece of iron.

Speaker 98 (03:37:42):
The murderer still hidden in the upper room.

Speaker 6 (03:37:44):
Here's the door slam.

Speaker 98 (03:37:45):
He creeps downstairs to the living room, sees mister Borden
on the sofa, and, thinking he's asleep, tries to creep
past him.

Speaker 6 (03:37:51):
Worden looks up sees the.

Speaker 98 (03:37:52):
Bloodstained figure, but like Missus Borden, he is silenced with
a blow. Before he can say a word, that door creaks.
Lizzie's returning in a moment, the hue and cry will
be raised. The murderer's only chances to hide in the
basement and wait for an opportune moment to escape, and
so fall River had an unsolved mystery for the police,
despite a statement that a murderer could have entered the
house through the basement, didn't even look in the basement

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till the next day, and the murderer had, of course
made his escape in the dark of the previous night.

Speaker 82 (03:39:03):
The Weird Circle, in this cave by the restless sea,
we are met to call from out the past, stories,
strange and weird. Bellkeeper pull the bell so all may know.

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We are gathered again in the Weird Circle. Out of

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the past, phantoms of a world gone by, speak again
the immortal tale The Specter of Tappington.

Speaker 5 (03:40:26):
This house Tappington, Everard, called Tapton for short, as an
antiquated but commodious manor house in the English countryside of Kent.
It was built by our ancestor, Sir Giles Inglesby, who
was High Sheriff to Queen Elizabeth I myself from tom Inglesbay,
fourteenth heir to this forbidding old house, set on a
grove of tall, dark trees, legends have sprung up about

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it that added gloom to its sinister reputation. One autumn
weekend during the grass season, every guest room in the
manor house was occupied, that is, everyone except the oak chamber.
Little did we know that the unexpected arrival of our
distant cousin and good friend, Lieutenant Charles Seaful would cause
the dark mysteries of that oak room to intrude themselves

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upon us in such a strange way. A telegram that
morning had warned us of his arrival that he was
a lee invalided home from India. So it was with glad,
surprise and open arms that I welcomed the young lieutenant
to Tapton. Well, Charles, old chaff, I say, it is
good to see you.

Speaker 28 (03:41:28):
Hello, Tom.

Speaker 5 (03:41:29):
However, back from the land of the Rajas. What welcome
to Tapton.

Speaker 28 (03:41:33):
Thanks Tom. It's good to be back in England, and
first of all to be here with you.

Speaker 5 (03:41:37):
And Ander Caroline. I know that mine are not the
charms that bring you here, but those are my lively,
lovely sister. Well, here's your childhood heart throb almost falling
down the stairs, nor eagerness.

Speaker 70 (03:41:49):
To greet you, Charles.

Speaker 34 (03:41:50):
Charles my dear, how wonderful to have you here, Caroline.

Speaker 28 (03:41:53):
You're lovelier than ever, lovelier than I'd dreamed. May I
kiss you?

Speaker 19 (03:41:58):
Of course?

Speaker 34 (03:41:58):
Charles, Oh, Charles, it must have been dreadful in India.

Speaker 28 (03:42:03):
Well, it was a bit of a show for a while.

Speaker 5 (03:42:06):
We heard you were on the wounded list.

Speaker 28 (03:42:07):
No, just to tap on the old bean, a touch
of fever. But I'm fit now.

Speaker 34 (03:42:11):
You look wonderfully well, Charles dinner, Perhaps just a bit older.

Speaker 5 (03:42:16):
A brother of a boy has come back to was
a man kroln, And what a man.

Speaker 97 (03:42:21):
Charles, dear.

Speaker 34 (03:42:22):
We've had to put you in.

Speaker 19 (03:42:23):
The oak room.

Speaker 5 (03:42:24):
Yes, it's our housekeeper. Old bonners be pushed. The house
is choked full up. I hope you don't mind, old boy.

Speaker 28 (03:42:29):
Why should I mind? Sounds very important?

Speaker 53 (03:42:31):
Really?

Speaker 28 (03:42:32):
Is it an ethic knocko?

Speaker 58 (03:42:33):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (03:42:33):
No, it's the guest chamber, or always was until some
rather weird story.

Speaker 19 (03:42:39):
Not now.

Speaker 34 (03:42:40):
What we mean, Charles, is simply that the oak room
is very old.

Speaker 28 (03:42:42):
But I love old rooms and old houses. Oh for
a magnificent hall. This taptain of yours is a baroneal beauty,
a perfect setting for good old Queen Bess I can
almost see her ghost moving along up there on the
gallery and wafting majestically down the stairs.

Speaker 34 (03:42:57):
Charles, please, we don't like to think about ghosts.

Speaker 28 (03:43:00):
Cheers, Oh, this taptain halted.

Speaker 34 (03:43:02):
I'm afraid we've had our moments.

Speaker 5 (03:43:04):
As soon as I've shown you, after some of my guests, Charles,
Carol and I will conduct you on a special tour
of the premises. I'd like that, knowing good, Well, come
along then into the library. I think you'll remember Jack over.
Charles was fascinated by the old manner. We showed him
every nook and cranny from gallery discullery. Then that evening,
after a good and jovial dinner, some of us were

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gathered around the library fire when the legendary specter of
Tapton became the theme of the conversation.

Speaker 34 (03:43:32):
Did they show you the blood steak?

Speaker 28 (03:43:33):
Yes, it didn't look like blood to me, Fanny, but
it is blood.

Speaker 34 (03:43:36):
Charles, human blood, and for three hundred years, no sandstone
or soap has budgeted.

Speaker 28 (03:43:41):
Cheerful little antique.

Speaker 72 (03:43:42):
Did you take him into the glen? Frowning darkly as of.

Speaker 70 (03:43:45):
Your not yet?

Speaker 97 (03:43:46):
Yeah, Oh it's gruesome.

Speaker 73 (03:43:48):
Let's go there tomorrow.

Speaker 34 (03:43:49):
Before breakfast. You know they say the keepest daughter was
seen to enter it, but nothing was ever seen.

Speaker 28 (03:43:57):
You're breaking my heart. My nerves can't stand it.

Speaker 26 (03:44:00):
She never was seen by mortal eyes again? Oh never?

Speaker 72 (03:44:04):
How did you like the ancestral portraits night many showed Conscilla,
you speak of me ancestor? Oh sorry, old fellow, but
you must admit, Sir Giles, there's no rose.

Speaker 28 (03:44:14):
I've seen his li like in horror films. What's his history?

Speaker 40 (03:44:17):
Tom?

Speaker 53 (03:44:17):
Well?

Speaker 5 (03:44:18):
Dark and dismal tradition? Hasn't that his wicked licentiousness was
above the average, even for those days?

Speaker 73 (03:44:23):
What was his special vice?

Speaker 8 (03:44:25):
Murder?

Speaker 19 (03:44:25):
Oh?

Speaker 97 (03:44:25):
How frilling?

Speaker 10 (03:44:27):
Who did he kill?

Speaker 28 (03:44:27):
Yes? Tell us the story, Carolyn, shall i?

Speaker 5 (03:44:29):
Tom? Go ahead, I'll turn off some of the knights.
Tell logry legs and sis scare them.

Speaker 34 (03:44:36):
When you asked for it? My friends, here it is
one night, long long ago a stranger guest came to Tapton.
Though he and Sir Giles met an apparent friendship, the
scowl on the Squire's brow showed the visitor to be unwelcome. Nevertheless,
the banquet was not spared. The wine circulated freely, too freely,
perhaps for the servants heard loud and angry quarreling. The stranger,

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co menace in his voice was heard to say that
there were documents within his pocket which could disprove Sir
Giles's right to.

Speaker 72 (03:45:05):
Taptain, documents that proved his inheritance.

Speaker 34 (03:45:07):
We don't interrupt, Jack, go on, Karlin, who was the stranger.

Speaker 23 (03:45:11):
Rumor was right?

Speaker 34 (03:45:12):
It seems the old retainers had heard talk in their
youth that an heir who disappeared in early life had
left a son in foreign lands.

Speaker 28 (03:45:19):
So so you and Tom may not be the rightful
Loness of tapt Enough.

Speaker 5 (03:45:22):
For all, And that's right, some long last cousin from
far off lands may come to cleaning. Sho, you're a distant.

Speaker 97 (03:45:29):
Cousin, Charles, and from a foreign land.

Speaker 28 (03:45:31):
Oh no, I assure you, I have no documents in
my trousers. But go on, go on with the legend.
What happened?

Speaker 34 (03:45:37):
The revelers finished their party and sought their beds. The
stranger fell into drunken sleep in the oaken chamber in
my room, your lord. The next morning he was found
a swollen and blackened corpse, no marks of violence, but
his lips were livid and dark colored spots appeared on
his skin. The word poison was whispered, but no one

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dared say it aloud.

Speaker 72 (03:45:59):
I see was it murder?

Speaker 34 (03:46:01):
Sir Giles's personal leech pronounced it an apoplexy, and the
nameless stranger was buried in haste. It's a ghastly story, Calvin, Wait,
I haven't told you the most curious part of the legend,
the mysterious disappearance of the stranger's trunk. His trunks is rich?

Speaker 72 (03:46:14):
Is stupid?

Speaker 34 (03:46:15):
The supposed hiding place of the document, Oh, his clothes
were all there, jerkin, waistcoat, cloak, but no sign of
those puffed velvet short pants. The Elizabethan's war, they say
the evil one.

Speaker 28 (03:46:27):
Was in the oak room that night, and I am
to sleep in the self saved oaken boudoir. How about ghosts?

Speaker 5 (03:46:33):
Oh, some medical mongers have that the ghost of Sir
Giles has been slipping out by the postern gate to
the glen, searching and digging and wringing his hands.

Speaker 28 (03:46:42):
Did they ever find the bridges?

Speaker 100 (03:46:43):
Well?

Speaker 5 (03:46:44):
Years ago, gardeners doing some work in the glen dug
up an ancient garment with the bits of gold, embroidery
and art fell Some papers, perfectly illegible from damp and age.

Speaker 72 (03:46:53):
Did they rarely belong to the nameless stranger?

Speaker 97 (03:46:55):
Who knows?

Speaker 8 (03:46:56):
Perhaps it did.

Speaker 34 (03:46:58):
I've just been telling you the legend of Tanta.

Speaker 28 (03:47:00):
I must say you've given me a fine build up
for a peaceful light sleeper.

Speaker 34 (03:47:04):
I shan't dare.

Speaker 16 (03:47:05):
Turn out the light in my room.

Speaker 72 (03:47:06):
Well, spooks on your spooks. It's early up in the morning,
so I'm off to Slumberland.

Speaker 5 (03:47:12):
Ghostly dreams to you all, well, Strain's cousin from fallen Lands.
Remember the legend. After all, you may be the real
owner of the manor.

Speaker 26 (03:47:23):
All Rod.

Speaker 28 (03:47:25):
I don't want your old manner if I can have.

Speaker 72 (03:47:27):
Its, Lady, is this a proposal, Charles?

Speaker 5 (03:47:29):
Dear, what do you think I see? This is my
que to exit? Good night? You love her? Good night Tom,
and it might be a good idea to lock your door.

Speaker 30 (03:47:38):
Charles.

Speaker 28 (03:47:39):
Thanks, I will never fear.

Speaker 5 (03:47:42):
I myself wasted a few moments of healthy sleep, worrying
best Carolan's story had disturbed my guests, but as far
as I knew, a peaceful night had blessed Old Tappington.
And then the next morning, as I was on my
way down to breakfast, I was practically knocked down by
our man maguire bumping into me.

Speaker 91 (03:48:00):
Yeah, take it easy, maguire, Sorry, sir, Lieutenant sea Forth
really like one beside himself.

Speaker 5 (03:48:05):
Go ahead and see what he wants.

Speaker 19 (03:48:06):
Carry on, certainly, sir, Sorry, sir.

Speaker 5 (03:48:10):
I followed McGuire to the landing and stood watching as
he knocked on the door.

Speaker 28 (03:48:16):
Come in, oh, maguire at last, Yes, sir, one are
my trousers you're you're a British sir?

Speaker 15 (03:48:22):
Yes?

Speaker 28 (03:48:22):
What have you done with them?

Speaker 6 (03:48:24):
Why?

Speaker 15 (03:48:24):
Never a thing?

Speaker 28 (03:48:25):
It must have been the devil. And I put them
on that armchair when I got into bed, and by heaven,
now they're gone.

Speaker 19 (03:48:30):
Would it be Miss Caroline or Miss Fanley playing some sort.

Speaker 6 (03:48:33):
Of a joke?

Speaker 17 (03:48:34):
Sir?

Speaker 28 (03:48:34):
Oh, not probable, maguire, Not possible, in fact, because I
locked myself in wait. Is there any other entrance to
this room?

Speaker 19 (03:48:42):
Well, there is the secret staircase to the pastern turn
over there.

Speaker 28 (03:48:45):
Of course, that's the way they must have come. I'll
go and see see. No, no, no chance, McGuire. Two
heavy bolts, both fastened on the inside. I must say,
it's all very strange, funny, it isn't no, not too funny.

Speaker 5 (03:49:05):
We had almost finished breakfast when Charles appeared. I noticed
he wore immeculately tailored riding breeches, perfect for a day
in the saddle, but scarcely the costume for our plan
and grass shooting. However, I made no comment, as his
manner was so strange. He stood on smiling in the
doorway of the dining room, staring at the girls. Caroline
seemed annoyed.

Speaker 34 (03:49:24):
Come, Charles, the tea is absolutely cold. Your breakfast will
be spoilt.

Speaker 26 (03:49:28):
Why are you so late?

Speaker 5 (03:49:29):
Sorry?

Speaker 34 (03:49:30):
What became about excursion to the glare?

Speaker 5 (03:49:32):
When I was a young man, punctuality was required of all.

Speaker 28 (03:49:35):
When you were a young man, sir, Young ladies didn't
play practical jokes.

Speaker 8 (03:49:39):
Whatever you talking about, Charles.

Speaker 28 (03:49:41):
Oh, don't mind me, Caroline, I've just been made a
fool of, that's all.

Speaker 5 (03:49:46):
Obviously something was troubling Charles. Occasionally he darted a penetrating
glance at the girls. However, a glorious day in the
field seemed to snap him out of this troubled mood.
As a petrofact, Charles took a leading part and planning
of the picnic we were to have the next day.
There was no talk of ghosts, not any mention of legends.
It had rained during the night and turned much colder,
so you will understand the amazement it caused when Charles

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came down to breakfast next day in his uniform tropical shorts.

Speaker 34 (03:50:14):
Chures, you're surely not going to ride through our lanes in.

Speaker 5 (03:50:17):
Such toggery as there you do surprises with your custom changes.

Speaker 72 (03:50:20):
Well, what the will rest men will wear? He thinks
he's back in the jungle. That's all, poor ladd, he's
quite balmy.

Speaker 28 (03:50:27):
Look here, ogahan, I'll thank you.

Speaker 73 (03:50:29):
It's above Charles.

Speaker 34 (03:50:31):
Won't you get very wet after all the rain? You'd
better drive in the carriage with me.

Speaker 28 (03:50:35):
Thank you, Fanny. I'll ride as planned with my cousins.

Speaker 5 (03:50:40):
During this banter, Carolyn said not a word. I could
see she was worried sick over Charles. However, the picnic
was a great success. I wanted away from my guests
because I wanted to be alone for a while and
see if I could think out any reason for charles
eccentric behavior. I was worried, frankly worried that maybe his

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head wound had been more serious than he realized. I
must have dozed off, for I was suddenly aware that
I was an Eves jumper on my sweet sister Karenan
and her adored Charles. I started to speak, but the
tone of their conversation kept me silent.

Speaker 28 (03:51:17):
Karen, I know you mean these crazy trousers of mine.

Speaker 34 (03:51:20):
Well, you must admit they are a bit odd. Why
ever did you wear them?

Speaker 28 (03:51:23):
I'm not wearing these wretched things because I want a
bit different. Caron, my dear, something strange is going on
in the oak room. Pair by pear, my trousers are
being stolen.

Speaker 34 (03:51:32):
Oh, Charles, dear, how simply fantastic.

Speaker 28 (03:51:35):
For Heaven's sake, Darling, you must be dreaming, Carolyn, please
listen to me. I'm beside myself. I was not dreaming.
The first morning I thought MacGuire had taken my trousers
to press them. Then I even thought you girls or
Tom were playing some childish joke on me. But night
before last, and again last night, I saw the ghost.

Speaker 34 (03:51:54):
The ghost, Charles, This is too much, didn't it.

Speaker 6 (03:52:00):
Ghost?

Speaker 8 (03:52:02):
You mean the specter?

Speaker 28 (03:52:03):
I mean just that I saw the specter of Taptain,
that Bluebeard ancestor of yours. Yes, Sir Giles, walking in
my bedroom with his velvet cloak, long rapier and his
Raleigh looking hat and feather, just like his portrait, but
there was one difference. His legs were the legs of
a skeleton.

Speaker 34 (03:52:20):
Oha.

Speaker 28 (03:52:21):
After taking a turn about the room, seemingly looking for something,
he took up my bridges and whipped his bony legs
into them. Then he strutted up to the glass and
studied himself.

Speaker 8 (03:52:31):
Why didn't you call out?

Speaker 28 (03:52:32):
I tried to, but I I couldn't, sa darling, it
was an awful dream. It was no dream, Carolyn. It
was definitely the ghost. But then he turned and showed
me the grimmest, most dreadful looking death's head. It grinned
hideously at me and then strutted out of the room suddenly.

Speaker 34 (03:52:49):
How ghastly? Oh, I blame myself so for telling you
that silly legend. It's given you these.

Speaker 28 (03:52:54):
Nightmare This was no nightmare, Carolyn.

Speaker 34 (03:52:57):
But dear Captain, isn't you're just remembering that stupid story
I told you.

Speaker 28 (03:53:03):
You never said one word about Sir Giles's ghost in
the oak room, not one word about his skeleton legs,
not one some of the darling.

Speaker 34 (03:53:09):
You're overtired, You're talking rubbish.

Speaker 28 (03:53:11):
Carolyn, I expected sympathy and understanding from you. I'm not
talking rubbish. I tell you I saw the ghost. My
bridges are gone, vanished in thin air. And if the
ghost didn't take them, who did.

Speaker 5 (03:53:53):
I had never thought seriously there could be a ghost
at Taptain. That legend, Carolyn had told our guests that
night had been intended as a joke more than anything else.
In fact, since childhood we have liked to spoof about
our family spooke, but it was evident that the story
of Sir Giles had made a dreadful impression on Charles's mind.
His strange costumes had merely amused us, but now even

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our guests were beginning to wonder. Next morning, as we
were lingering at the breakfast table over that last bit
of muffin, and jam Ogleton said, I see what.

Speaker 72 (03:54:25):
Makes Charles so touchy. He built it from the room
just now, as if the old boy himself were after him.

Speaker 34 (03:54:30):
I'm sorry I giggled at him, but Tom, I couldn't
help it. Full dress uniform at breakfast?

Speaker 40 (03:54:38):
Is it?

Speaker 72 (03:54:38):
Shell shocked?

Speaker 70 (03:54:39):
Tom?

Speaker 5 (03:54:39):
I wish I knew.

Speaker 34 (03:54:41):
When I asked him why the fancy dress?

Speaker 8 (03:54:43):
He bit my head off.

Speaker 72 (03:54:44):
Still hear him saying, it's the regimental dress of the
Royal Bumbye Lances, Fanny.

Speaker 34 (03:54:49):
It was regal blue tunic, red striped trousers and gold bray.

Speaker 72 (03:54:54):
I haven't seen the like since the coronation.

Speaker 34 (03:54:56):
It wasn't funny to Carolyn, though she was almost in
tears when she ran after him, she looked positively stricken.

Speaker 5 (03:55:04):
Yes, my poor sister was teary eyed all that miserable day.
As for Charles, though he seemed to be making an
effort to be more companionable, it only resulted in his
being distantly polite. To add to my own distress in
the matter, I learned that McGuire, the valet, had been
kicking up quite a bobbery below stairs, boasting that on
the evening before he'd seen a ghost. McGuire had overheard

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some of our conversations. But this cap trap about ghosts
had to be stopped. So that night, after our house
guests had retired, I rang for McGuire. Your answer, yes, sir,
closed the door, Yes, sir, lazy here MacGuire, what's this
I hear about your having seen a ghost last night?

Speaker 40 (03:55:44):
Divell?

Speaker 19 (03:55:44):
I will tell your honor but last night I saw
a ghost.

Speaker 5 (03:55:48):
Oh what rot, don't spread its nonsensical stories. Where do
you think you saw this thing?

Speaker 91 (03:55:53):
Well, sir, we went last night for a blu of
thrall to the grin. We Michelle and one of the maser. Yes, yes, yes,
get on to see the moon.

Speaker 19 (03:56:01):
It was, sir, but we saw more than looser in
the shadows. What a terrible ghost?

Speaker 5 (03:56:06):
What sort of a ghost man?

Speaker 91 (03:56:07):
A tall gentleman, he was, sir, all in white, with
a shuffle on the shoulder of him and a big
thought in his fist. But what he wanted to do,
that is myself can't tell for his great eyes or
right de lamps. The maids creased hauling murder, ran off
with herself, and we have to hand the ghost after you,
I suppose, No.

Speaker 19 (03:56:21):
Sir, the ghost vanished in a flame of fire.

Speaker 5 (03:56:23):
Nah, maguire, don't try giglamps and flames A pardon me?
You are making all this up job. I believe you're
the specter yourself.

Speaker 8 (03:56:29):
Me, sir?

Speaker 5 (03:56:30):
Is it miss Elton? That's a play act and ghost
in your honor? Thinking what your purpose is? I can't guess.
Stealing the tenant Seaforth's charge.

Speaker 19 (03:56:36):
It an't all as the others sold, ser I stole nothing.

Speaker 5 (03:56:38):
No, but you are mixed up in some way with
their disappearance?

Speaker 19 (03:56:40):
Is the ghoster? I know it is.

Speaker 5 (03:56:42):
I saw there isn't any ghost, maguire, And don't go
about rightening my guests with any such tale. That's all
for now, yes, sir, goodn't I sir? I felt a
strong compulsion then to go to the oak room. I
wanted to know if Charles was all right. Immediately mcguare
I had gone. I left my room hurriedly and ran

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up the short slight of stairs to the oak room.
I listened a moment, then rapped loudly on Seaforth's dawn. Charles, Charles, Yes,
it's I Tom, Oh, Hello, come in.

Speaker 28 (03:57:17):
I was just about to turn in.

Speaker 40 (03:57:19):
What's up you?

Speaker 5 (03:57:20):
All right?

Speaker 28 (03:57:21):
Of course?

Speaker 5 (03:57:22):
Why well, Kron's told me about this ghostly visitor of yours.

Speaker 40 (03:57:25):
Look here, you.

Speaker 5 (03:57:26):
Haven't seen him tonight, have you?

Speaker 28 (03:57:28):
He?

Speaker 21 (03:57:28):
No?

Speaker 28 (03:57:28):
No, forget it, Tom, I'll make out. Don't bother about
me go on a bit.

Speaker 5 (03:57:32):
All right, cheer you old man. Just wanted to make
sure the goblins hadn't got you. Good night. And then
the very next morning, as I was shaving. My door
was flung open an in burst, Charles.

Speaker 28 (03:57:46):
Inglesby, This is now past a joke. Where are my trouser?

Speaker 19 (03:57:48):
Screek?

Speaker 5 (03:57:49):
Charles? What's the idea of yelling at me? You've you've
made me cut my chin?

Speaker 28 (03:57:52):
Oh call, found your stupid chin. Another pair of trousers
are gone again?

Speaker 26 (03:57:56):
This is too good.

Speaker 5 (03:57:57):
Don't tell me the ghosts got the rigimentalist to laugh.

Speaker 28 (03:58:00):
If you will, they're gone now. I've looked everywhere. What
have you've done with my clothes?

Speaker 5 (03:58:03):
I Charles, I'm as mysterified as you are.

Speaker 28 (03:58:05):
All seriousness, Tom, aren't you putting over one of your
famous hoaxes.

Speaker 5 (03:58:08):
I swear to you, I have no hand in this
caulduct well, and.

Speaker 28 (03:58:11):
Your ancestors ghost has, and I've had all I can stand.
You'll simply have to lend me a pair of your trousers.

Speaker 5 (03:58:16):
Well, take all my chargers to get out of here.
There are no mood to talk.

Speaker 28 (03:58:19):
Say all right, as you so politely put it, I'll
get out and in your trousers. In spite of the
tires that hold me here, I'm leaving captain today.

Speaker 5 (03:58:26):
I see for wait a moment now, I was really
afraid that Charle's mind was unhinged. I dressed hurriedly and
rushed downstairs, hearing noises in the library. I have went
quietly to the door.

Speaker 8 (03:58:37):
And listen, Darling.

Speaker 34 (03:58:39):
Please don't leave for my sake.

Speaker 28 (03:58:41):
Please, Carol, I can't stay. I tell you as surely
as I love you. That spectral anatomy came to my
room last night, grinned in my face, and the gain
walked off with my trousers.

Speaker 34 (03:58:50):
Obviously, Charles, it's an insane trick.

Speaker 28 (03:58:52):
If it is a trick, what do you mean I've
decided that all has to do with the ownership of Taptain. Yes,
as you and Tom both said, I am your cousin.
I have been in foreign lands, but I'm not claiming
Taptain one of yours. Trying by inhuman means to frighten
me to death. Poison, yes, metal poison, but you won't
get away with it.

Speaker 34 (03:59:10):
You won't do Darling's top. How can you believe such things? Oh, Tom,
I'm so glad you were listening.

Speaker 5 (03:59:15):
Talk to him, please, Charles, Charles, own man, you're so wrong.
Why you're my oldest friend and Karena loves you.

Speaker 26 (03:59:22):
You know that.

Speaker 5 (03:59:23):
Now, come on, forget these black thoughts. Go for a
walk and let the sun and the wind drive this
fog from your mind.

Speaker 34 (03:59:30):
Please, Charles, don't talk any more about leaving. Let's fight
this thing out together.

Speaker 28 (03:59:35):
I I don't know what's gotten me very well, Kron,
I stay, that's fine, don't worry, Carolyn, dear. I'll try
to be a model guest.

Speaker 33 (03:59:48):
See you at lunch, said Darling.

Speaker 34 (03:59:51):
Oh, Tom, isn't it awful? Whatever will we do?

Speaker 97 (03:59:55):
I do love him?

Speaker 5 (03:59:56):
So I was mad clear through and determined to scotch
this ghost business once and for all. I knew that
the oak room had a secret cupboard in the paneling,
So that night I decided I must hide there and
spy on Charles. I slipped away from my guests and
tiptoeing through the dark gloom of the oak room, I

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groped my way into the closet. Suddenly, am I My
hands touched soft human flesh.

Speaker 8 (04:00:25):
Good lord, come on, Tom, you scared me.

Speaker 5 (04:00:29):
So we had the same idea. Yes, to protect Charles,
of course, but we may have a long wait.

Speaker 15 (04:00:36):
Sis, I won't mind.

Speaker 28 (04:00:39):
Sh Yes, I think I am coming, Tom.

Speaker 5 (04:00:44):
I'm so scared, chin up or girl. Charles got himself
ready for bed, started to take off his trousers, then
suddenly put them on again and flung himself into bed.

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He had left the night clamb on, which was looking
as Thus we could see more easily. After waiting for
what seemed ours, Caroline suddenly clutched my arm.

Speaker 8 (04:01:13):
Looks sitting up. Shall we speak?

Speaker 6 (04:01:16):
No, no, not yet.

Speaker 5 (04:01:19):
He's turning this way. Good lord, he's asleep.

Speaker 8 (04:01:25):
Yes, his eyes are wide open, but they stared senselessly,
my dead eyes.

Speaker 5 (04:01:31):
He's out of bed. Huh, what did you see looking for?

Speaker 34 (04:01:35):
He's got a torch. Why he's looking at himself in
the mirror. Tom, he's going to the secret staircase. He's
opening the door.

Speaker 5 (04:01:46):
Come along, we've got to follow him.

Speaker 77 (04:01:47):
Not too lowly to hurry the money, please.

Speaker 5 (04:01:54):
We hurried after him down the stairs and not to
the pastern gate. We saw him enter the glen, and
then as we came closer there was charge of the
spain digging.

Speaker 8 (04:02:09):
What ever is he doing.

Speaker 5 (04:02:12):
Digging a large hole? The earth is soft, he's been
digging here before. Look, he's removing his trousers and and then.

Speaker 34 (04:02:32):
Tom, I can't stand it. It's too gruesome.

Speaker 97 (04:02:34):
Let's call No.

Speaker 6 (04:02:35):
Wait a minute, sleeping. He's have to be shocked out
of their trance.

Speaker 5 (04:02:39):
I awaken as he turns. Daughters, Well, but he's coming now.

Speaker 26 (04:02:45):
Now, tom, what have you done?

Speaker 33 (04:02:48):
You killed him?

Speaker 5 (04:02:52):
But I hadn't killed him, though I had hit him hard,
and then I realized. We called for help and carried
him to the Great Hall. He was still unconscious when
doctor os Naraah. We waited anxiously during his examination. Finally
the doctor came towards us.

Speaker 80 (04:03:05):
Well time, my young lieutenant is coming around nicely.

Speaker 34 (04:03:08):
What a relief, Oh doctor, is he going to be
all right?

Speaker 6 (04:03:11):
Coross, my dear.

Speaker 72 (04:03:12):
Then it was show shocked, doctor, not exactly.

Speaker 80 (04:03:16):
I think that head wound and the fever combined to
give his subconscious over active control of his mind. And
when I hit him, best thing you could have done,
you put that subconscious in its place. I think it's
safe to say that he won't sleep walk anymore.

Speaker 8 (04:03:31):
Oh, look at.

Speaker 5 (04:03:32):
Charles, he's sitting up. What were.

Speaker 28 (04:03:37):
Why are you all staring? Why am I here?

Speaker 35 (04:03:40):
Oh my jaw, don't try to speak, dear, you're all
right now?

Speaker 28 (04:03:46):
Well, I should say I was I why? I feel
as if a load had been lifted from my heart. Oh,
I remember my trousers.

Speaker 5 (04:03:55):
Yes, Charles, you've been busy burying trousers.

Speaker 34 (04:03:58):
In riding bridges, shorts and even those beautiful regimentals.

Speaker 28 (04:04:04):
That I've been haunting myself.

Speaker 34 (04:04:05):
Yes, neest, you are the specter of tap.

Speaker 28 (04:04:08):
Oh, my love, can you ever bring yourself to marry
a specter?

Speaker 19 (04:04:12):
Darling?

Speaker 101 (04:04:13):
I love ghosts, so I begin to catch on. Wedding
bells are in the opping, Yes, and with my blessing.
But Charles, if ever again you feel inclined to jump
out of bed and ramble out of doors, There's one
thing I'd like to suggest.

Speaker 28 (04:04:29):
What's that whole boy?

Speaker 5 (04:04:30):
I recommend that Caravin wear the transfers.

Speaker 4 (04:04:46):
From the time worn pages of the past.

Speaker 30 (04:04:49):
We have heard the immortal tale the Specter of Tappington,
bell Caper all aboll, Hey, oh.

Speaker 15 (04:05:34):
Oh.

Speaker 31 (04:05:43):
Oh, I've ever heard the strange tales of the Whistler.

Speaker 11 (04:06:56):
I'm the whistler.

Speaker 23 (04:07:03):
Here's the sanitarium hobby.

Speaker 15 (04:07:09):
Is he still unconscious?

Speaker 8 (04:07:11):
Yes?

Speaker 23 (04:07:11):
Here comes the attendant.

Speaker 53 (04:07:13):
Ey, We're all.

Speaker 15 (04:07:13):
Ready for him, missus Jackson, take your speed. Harold.

Speaker 31 (04:07:17):
Oh at the time, Yes, I had to give him
a good one.

Speaker 6 (04:07:21):
On the chin.

Speaker 23 (04:07:22):
We'll have to watch him. He may try to get
away when he.

Speaker 15 (04:07:23):
Comes to Don't you worry. We've got a lot of
tough cases here.

Speaker 23 (04:07:26):
Don't let him know who brought him here, and don't
let him know I had anything to.

Speaker 15 (04:07:30):
Do with Leave everything. Yes, it's a two hour drive
back to the city, Donna.

Speaker 23 (04:07:33):
Yes, well, i'll phone you tomorrow.

Speaker 15 (04:07:36):
If anything happens, we'll call you.

Speaker 100 (04:07:38):
Good night, Saturday night, and again CBS presents a whistler.

Speaker 15 (04:07:53):
I a whistler, know many things while I walk by night.

Speaker 90 (04:07:58):
I know many strange tasse, many secrets hidden in the
hearts of men and women who step into the shadows.

Speaker 15 (04:08:05):
And so I tell you again tonight.

Speaker 11 (04:08:08):
One of the.

Speaker 90 (04:08:08):
Favorite tales of death as a first, the long black
car with the handsome man at the wheel and the
woman beside him, returns to the highway and spees on
through the night. The man and the woman sits staring ahead,
lost in thought. The man is Harvey Davis, and the
woman is missus Victor Jackson, wife of the unconscious man

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recently deposited to the sanitarium.

Speaker 23 (04:08:34):
I'm sorry I dragged you into this, Harvey, but I
had to have some help, and I knew I could
depend on you.

Speaker 15 (04:08:39):
All right, Donna. I only hope it'll do some good.
Victor never drank a drop while we were in school.

Speaker 23 (04:08:44):
He didn't drink when we were first married. After his
father died and Victor took over the business, he he started.

Speaker 102 (04:08:51):
Well, it's a huge concern, and I guess he just
couldn't take it. He always had an inferiority complex.

Speaker 23 (04:08:56):
But the thing that hurts me most is that the
drinking has completely changed him. If he's suspicious of every
move I make, accuses me of the most disgraceful things,
accuses me of lying to him about everything, of being
in love with other men, oh countless things.

Speaker 31 (04:09:12):
Other men?

Speaker 23 (04:09:13):
What man, any man I speak to? Even you, Horvey me.

Speaker 102 (04:09:19):
Well, after all, if he's going to be suspicious of
any man, it would logically be me.

Speaker 15 (04:09:23):
Why you've brought most of your troubles to me.

Speaker 102 (04:09:25):
He knows that I'm as good a victim as anybody,
and he knows I'm terribly fond of you, are you hovey?

Speaker 15 (04:09:31):
From the first day I met you, I said, here's
a woman, a strong woman.

Speaker 102 (04:09:36):
Maybe she'll develop some backbone in my willing nelly friend, Victor.
It's very nicely put Harvey, Well, let's hope the sanitarium
does him some good.

Speaker 18 (04:09:45):
Oh it doesn't.

Speaker 23 (04:09:45):
I I don't know what I'll do.

Speaker 15 (04:09:47):
Don't worry about Just remember I'll do anything for you.

Speaker 23 (04:09:51):
Thank you, Horvey.

Speaker 90 (04:10:02):
Toward midnight, the black sedan arrives at the Jackson mansion.
The butler greets Harvey and Donna at the door.

Speaker 2 (04:10:10):
Evening, Missus Jackson Evening, mister Davis, and uh, doctor Saunders
is in the library, ma'am.

Speaker 15 (04:10:16):
He's waiting for you, doctor Saunders, at this hour, What
on else does he want? You'd better see him, Donna.
Maybe he knows how could he come with me? Harvey?
Of course?

Speaker 23 (04:10:29):
Oh good evening, doctor Saunders.

Speaker 15 (04:10:31):
Evening, Donna Evening. Harvey, Hello, doctor, this is quite a surprise,
so I can imagine.

Speaker 23 (04:10:36):
I am Harvey and I We've just been for a
little drive. That's all. I needed, some air, that's all.
Did you come to see Victor?

Speaker 2 (04:10:45):
Victor isn't here, really, but I know where he is,
you do. He's in a cheap dive of a rooming
house downtown. That isn't possible where he always goes.

Speaker 23 (04:10:55):
But you're wrong this time, doctor, I took him by
force to a sanitarium to night Harvey helped me. Maybe
they can do something for him.

Speaker 15 (04:11:01):
You told the sanitarium I was his physician, didn't you, Yes,
I did. Well.

Speaker 2 (04:11:05):
They called me an hour ago. He's escaped what they said,
he came to and broke away from him. I know
where he usually goes, and I can find him, that is,
if you want me to find him.

Speaker 23 (04:11:15):
What are you inferring, doctor, Well.

Speaker 2 (04:11:17):
Don I know what you've been through with Victor. I
know what a trial it's been. I've tried, You've tried.
We've all tried everything we could to make him stop.
Not many women would have gone through what you have. Well,
we've dragged him through before. We'd probably do it again.
I just thought perhaps you'd had enough, that's all. And
you know where he is, yes, I'm pretty sure I know.

Speaker 23 (04:11:38):
Well, then find him, determined to cure him. If I
have to take him to a desert.

Speaker 2 (04:11:42):
Island, it's an idea. A long ocean trip might be
the answer. You'd have the hog time.

Speaker 15 (04:11:47):
I could do that too, very well. I'll have a
talk with him and phone you in the morning. Right
good night, doctor? Oh no, no, no, You've been my
best time.

Speaker 23 (04:12:00):
I feel so hopeless. I don't know what to do next.

Speaker 15 (04:12:04):
Well, try the desert island.

Speaker 27 (04:12:09):
Why not?

Speaker 23 (04:12:10):
It might work, mightn't it? Harvey? You can help your yacht.
The sounds may be right. At least it's worth a trial,
I wonder. Oh please, Harvey, it may be the answer.

Speaker 15 (04:12:21):
I can't get away us now. But if you're determined,
you're welcome to the yacht.

Speaker 8 (04:12:25):
Please.

Speaker 23 (04:12:26):
I'd feel better if you came along.

Speaker 15 (04:12:29):
All right, don't I'll go. I'll arrange it. But Victor
won't want to come. Take him aboard by force Shanghai.

Speaker 102 (04:12:37):
All right, Just let me know when you find him
and I'll arrange everything. When he checked in, he was
as drunk as a lord. Well, i'll leave you alone
with him, Doc.

Speaker 2 (04:12:57):
Thanks had Hypaul bring him out of this. Thanks a lot, actor, Victor, H?
What's going on here? Who are you?

Speaker 15 (04:13:12):
Get away?

Speaker 6 (04:13:12):
Quiet?

Speaker 15 (04:13:13):
I'll take it easy, Victor H.

Speaker 28 (04:13:16):
Who are you?

Speaker 15 (04:13:17):
Doc'sundless? Doc?

Speaker 53 (04:13:20):
Oh what do you want?

Speaker 15 (04:13:22):
We'll talk to you, Victor. It's very important important. Huh,
Come on, pike a snap.

Speaker 6 (04:13:28):
Out of it.

Speaker 15 (04:13:29):
Hey, what's your idea? Would you slip me? Bake you up?
I've got to talk to you. Oh oh hello, doctor,
what do you have to is your head clear? I
guess so? Right, then listen to me. Do you know
where you are? Yeah? Yeah, my old aunt. You know
how you got here? Well let me see. Oh no,

(04:13:54):
I can't remember. I'll tell you where you're going. You
don't put yourself together? Where the insane asylum?

Speaker 6 (04:14:03):
Did you say asylum?

Speaker 31 (04:14:04):
I did.

Speaker 2 (04:14:06):
There's nothing that hasten's final mental breakdown insanity more than
alcohol insanity.

Speaker 15 (04:14:13):
Are you just telling me that?

Speaker 8 (04:14:15):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (04:14:15):
I can prove it? Good Lord? Want that to happen
to you?

Speaker 17 (04:14:18):
No?

Speaker 2 (04:14:18):
No, but I well, I just can't seem to quit
going away vic way sending you on a long voyage
with no liquor.

Speaker 40 (04:14:28):
But no, no, you're not.

Speaker 15 (04:14:30):
I'll get hold of myself.

Speaker 2 (04:14:31):
As you said that before, I can take it and
leave it alone if I want it what you haven't
so far, You've gone from bad to worse.

Speaker 15 (04:14:36):
Now you're going where you can't get it. But dark,
I can't.

Speaker 24 (04:14:40):
I die.

Speaker 15 (04:14:41):
I couldn't stay. You can stand it and like it
if I have, No, I won't be pushed around by anyone.
I news back of this donner.

Speaker 2 (04:14:48):
She wants to get rid of me asylum, I'd shoot her, fine,
she'd like that, so she can covode around with Harvey
and all the others.

Speaker 15 (04:14:55):
Shut up. You're all planning to get rid of me.

Speaker 28 (04:14:58):
You don't like me.

Speaker 15 (04:14:58):
You're taking a trip, get rid I'm making you and
all sharing the estate. But you just see how much.

Speaker 16 (04:15:04):
Good it is?

Speaker 15 (04:15:04):
All right now? But you're taking our trip, Victor.

Speaker 90 (04:15:20):
Well, here you are, Victor, several hundred miles at sea
and worried too. Why don't you, Victor, talk about insanity?

Speaker 15 (04:15:29):
Really upset you. You believe it too, don't you?

Speaker 8 (04:15:44):
Victor?

Speaker 96 (04:15:46):
H h, let's this one.

Speaker 15 (04:15:51):
Where am I Donna?

Speaker 23 (04:15:54):
Do you feel better too?

Speaker 6 (04:15:56):
Oh? What is this?

Speaker 15 (04:15:57):
It's smoothing.

Speaker 23 (04:16:02):
We're on a boat, darling. We're on a boat in
the middle of the ocean.

Speaker 15 (04:16:07):
A boat, Oh, Doc Saunders, that's what he said, a voyage.
It's his idea.

Speaker 23 (04:16:16):
Everything's going to do.

Speaker 15 (04:16:17):
I know what you're planning to do. You're planning to
kill me.

Speaker 28 (04:16:20):
You want to get rid of me.

Speaker 15 (04:16:20):
You want me to die.

Speaker 23 (04:16:21):
I won't die.

Speaker 2 (04:16:23):
Whose boat, Harvey? No, I know it's a plot now,
I know what it's all about.

Speaker 15 (04:16:31):
You and Harvey.

Speaker 2 (04:16:32):
That's it.

Speaker 23 (04:16:32):
You don't be ridiculous, Victor. Harvey consented to let me
have the yacht.

Speaker 40 (04:16:36):
Is he on board?

Speaker 15 (04:16:38):
Of course? You and Harvey and be a prisoner. What
a perfect set up. You don't mean that, Victor, I've
been suspicious of you two all alone.

Speaker 23 (04:16:49):
Else is on board, nobody but the captain and the
crew of four and Harvey and the doctor.

Speaker 15 (04:16:53):
Or you're taking me. We're just cruisy, just cruising here.
You find the right spot, right for what the dun't be?
Over lord? No one will ever know, Willy, and you'll
see I jumped over it was washed over the side.

Speaker 23 (04:17:05):
Oh Victor, what has happened to you? You're like a
stranger to me.

Speaker 16 (04:17:09):
I just don't know you.

Speaker 23 (04:17:12):
It doesn't seem possible that you're the man I'm married.

Speaker 16 (04:17:16):
What happened to you?

Speaker 15 (04:17:17):
Don't you know?

Speaker 23 (04:17:18):
If I only did, I I'll tell you what's the matter.

Speaker 2 (04:17:24):
I'm crazy. I'm insane. My grandfather was insane, and undoubtedly
my father, and so why not me? Oh no, No,
hasn't Oxauders told you what he knows?

Speaker 16 (04:17:34):
No?

Speaker 15 (04:17:35):
Oh, come, now, you three are closer than that.

Speaker 34 (04:17:37):
I stop talking such nung since I won't listen.

Speaker 15 (04:17:40):
I'm getting out of this cabin. A can't sand to
be cooped up like this.

Speaker 23 (04:17:43):
Please stay for a while, Victor. Please here, I got
just milk, please drangers milk.

Speaker 15 (04:17:51):
Uh. He's got a funny color to it. Hmm, it
smells strange. What's in it? Usnik?

Speaker 6 (04:17:58):
It's just plain.

Speaker 15 (04:18:01):
Drink? Do you like milk?

Speaker 8 (04:18:04):
Don I love?

Speaker 15 (04:18:05):
And drink it.

Speaker 2 (04:18:06):
Yourself all over my dred trying to poison me. That's it.
I'll get out of here, Get out, please don't.

Speaker 15 (04:18:30):
Ah, what do you want?

Speaker 90 (04:18:31):
Doctor?

Speaker 15 (04:18:33):
How do you feel that?

Speaker 2 (04:18:33):
Then they're trying to kill me. They're trying to kill me.
Done and Harvey. She just brought me some milk and
it had poisoning. And I can tell by the.

Speaker 15 (04:18:41):
Color, I think you're imagining things that.

Speaker 8 (04:18:42):
Oh no, I'm not.

Speaker 15 (04:18:43):
They want me out of the way. I can tell
it made you think the milker's too.

Speaker 7 (04:18:46):
It was a purplish color. Here, here's a glass smellet.
Maybe I'm not so crazy after all.

Speaker 15 (04:18:52):
I didn't say you crazy. I only want you to
stop your drinking. Drink may bring it on? Where did
they get the poison? Come forget it?

Speaker 44 (04:19:00):
You know where they get the poison?

Speaker 6 (04:19:02):
Doctor?

Speaker 15 (04:19:04):
See you later, Victor. Hmm, maybe.

Speaker 23 (04:19:16):
Did you send me doctor?

Speaker 15 (04:19:18):
Yes, Donna, did you take some milk?

Speaker 23 (04:19:20):
To Victor, Yes I did.

Speaker 15 (04:19:21):
Did you put in it?

Speaker 23 (04:19:22):
Why should I put anything in it?

Speaker 15 (04:19:24):
Victor thinks you did.

Speaker 23 (04:19:25):
You should know me better than that, doctor.

Speaker 15 (04:19:27):
You did put something in it?

Speaker 23 (04:19:28):
Well, yes, I did some of that red liquid to
make him quiet.

Speaker 15 (04:19:32):
Ah, Yes, of course that's what it was.

Speaker 23 (04:19:34):
He threw it all over me. Oh, I'm thoroughly disgusted.

Speaker 8 (04:19:38):
Doctor.

Speaker 23 (04:19:38):
I can't go on with him this way. He isn't drinking,
but there's something wrong. I decided to give it.

Speaker 8 (04:19:45):
Up as a bad job.

Speaker 23 (04:19:46):
I'm going to get a divorce, of course.

Speaker 15 (04:19:50):
Afraid it's too late for that, Donna.

Speaker 23 (04:19:52):
Too late or what do you mean?

Speaker 15 (04:19:54):
It's something I haven't told you.

Speaker 2 (04:19:55):
I've been hoping it wouldn't be necessary, But after the day,
I've given up a.

Speaker 23 (04:20:00):
Why can I get a divorce?

Speaker 15 (04:20:02):
You cannot divorce an insane person?

Speaker 8 (04:20:05):
Insane?

Speaker 15 (04:20:08):
Yes, Victor has all.

Speaker 2 (04:20:09):
The symptoms, and it's liquor that's hastened the crack up.
I couldn't be certain as long as he was drinking,
But today I realized the truth.

Speaker 29 (04:20:19):
Oh, I'm bewildered.

Speaker 23 (04:20:20):
I've never been so shocked in my life. I wish
you hadn't told.

Speaker 2 (04:20:25):
I'm sorry, Donna, I wanted you to be on your guard.
You see, he has some strange hallucination about you and Harvey.
You think you're planning to do away with.

Speaker 23 (04:20:34):
Him, Do away with him. Hold with that ridiculous eyes.
I've never had such a thought. Never, But now I'm frightened. Doctor.
What about Alice?

Speaker 31 (04:20:49):
Your daughter?

Speaker 15 (04:20:50):
Oh she's all right, eye. I wouldn't worry about her.

Speaker 23 (04:20:53):
Think that this will need this gets out about Victory's
should be ruin her whole life.

Speaker 15 (04:20:57):
I can understand that.

Speaker 23 (04:20:58):
Oh, this must never happen. It must name a secret.

Speaker 15 (04:21:01):
That'll be difficult. It's going to be hard to handle
when that craving returns.

Speaker 23 (04:21:04):
I'll think of something. I'll find a way.

Speaker 15 (04:21:09):
Okay, home quickly. It's Harvey, David, what's wrong, captain? Don't
even the bunkful but cord around his neck? Would happen?
Give me this quiet? Don come along.

Speaker 73 (04:21:23):
Head?

Speaker 15 (04:21:24):
No, no, no, he's breathing. He found him just in time.
They are right in a few.

Speaker 8 (04:21:29):
Minutes, Thank heaven.

Speaker 15 (04:21:31):
I've you, old man. Huh hovey, Donna?

Speaker 6 (04:21:36):
What's wrong?

Speaker 8 (04:21:37):
What's happened?

Speaker 15 (04:21:38):
Having much Harvey? Just a little accident, Jilli be all right?
Oh my throat what's going on you? You don't remember.
We'll just take a little nap. I feel like I've
been choked.

Speaker 2 (04:21:49):
You better tell him, Donna, I'm wrong, captain, Oh, captain,
have you any liquor aboard?

Speaker 15 (04:22:01):
Yes, Doctor's several bottles in the locker in my cabin.
Let's have a look. I gave it locked because hey,
it's been Jimmy.

Speaker 17 (04:22:10):
Whoa?

Speaker 15 (04:22:11):
What do you know? It's all gone? I expected then
I'll skin those men alive. Don't don't blame the man, captain.
What do you mean?

Speaker 40 (04:22:21):
What kipple is that we did something?

Speaker 15 (04:22:24):
Come on, captain, captain, what is the man? What's wrong
with you? The boilers brew up. We must have hit
a reef. All three of the men's crew down there.

Speaker 8 (04:22:36):
We've got to abandon.

Speaker 15 (04:22:38):
I'm hurt.

Speaker 26 (04:22:39):
Bad captain, lie.

Speaker 4 (04:22:42):
Dead.

Speaker 15 (04:22:43):
She did the rightful, wound up the others. I'll go below. Yes, Captain,
hurt me. Don't Purry have clock? What a mess? I
can't imagine.

Speaker 90 (04:22:57):
The two days passed and the sun beats down relentlessly
on the five survivors in the open boat. The doctor

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watches anxiously over the still unconscious Captain, and Don and
Hobby keep a constant Eyeland, Victor who sits alone in
the end of the boat, staring at the horizon.

Speaker 15 (04:23:27):
How's the captain? Doctor?

Speaker 2 (04:23:29):
Still holding his own must have had a bad fall
down the companionway.

Speaker 15 (04:23:33):
I don't think it. Fill.

Speaker 102 (04:23:35):
It's a good thing you went down after him. Now
we're running low on water the side some land today?
How much order of you and your canteen?

Speaker 15 (04:23:41):
Donner? I say, oh, we'll over there. What's that?

Speaker 8 (04:23:48):
I shit?

Speaker 15 (04:23:49):
Oh it's land, an island, rabin Or, Victor, come on
doctor here.

Speaker 102 (04:24:03):
Well, I've looked all around as places as baron a
food or water as a Sahara desert.

Speaker 15 (04:24:08):
I'm afraid we do get locate any water. It won't
be fit to drink. So there must be water.

Speaker 31 (04:24:11):
What do you care about water?

Speaker 15 (04:24:12):
You've got a canteen full of whisky? How much water
is left?

Speaker 22 (04:24:15):
I have?

Speaker 102 (04:24:17):
So I'm better get busy. All my experiences and other
items like this haven't been so good.

Speaker 2 (04:24:21):
Here's a chance to put your chemistry to use, Horvey,
you know the test for lead and zinc. Yes, look,
I'll give you two phials and some sodium sulfide tablets
and potassium chromate. You know the test when you come
to some water, one tablet and ten sea seeds of
the liquid. Doc, precipitate means poison.

Speaker 15 (04:24:37):
Yes, I know, Thanks Doc. Well, I'll start off and
keep a direct line to the other side, wherever that is.
Wait a minute, Hobby, I think i'll go with you. Why, Oh,
maybe I can help. I go with your Horvey, But
I'm better keep an eye on the cat, and he's.

Speaker 31 (04:24:51):
The only one who knows where we are.

Speaker 15 (04:24:52):
I've got to pull him through.

Speaker 102 (04:24:53):
That's all right, Doc, I don't even I think i'll
go anyway, all right if you insist, Come on, hovey.

Speaker 23 (04:25:00):
Wait, I'm going to why because I want you, I
don't need you. I'm coming just the same. Please, Harvey,
I'd like to come.

Speaker 15 (04:25:09):
All right, let's go. It's certainly hot. How do you
feel down?

Speaker 22 (04:25:22):
All right?

Speaker 23 (04:25:24):
How far have we come?

Speaker 69 (04:25:26):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (04:25:26):
Ten miles, I should say. It's a pretty big island
at that, nothing but desert. Ye be sure those last
two water holes were poisons. Certainly they look good to me.
I'm getting mighty thirsty. But a good drinking that whiskey,
it'll only make you thirsty?

Speaker 23 (04:25:41):
Or can I have a little water?

Speaker 15 (04:25:46):
I'm sorry, Donna, but you will have to suffer it
as long as you can.

Speaker 11 (04:25:50):
Please.

Speaker 23 (04:25:50):
Wait, do you suppose we'll ever get out of here?

Speaker 6 (04:25:53):
I don't know how.

Speaker 23 (04:25:57):
It's all my fault, what to get you into such
a mess. Please forgive me, Harvey.

Speaker 15 (04:26:04):
There's nothing to forgive, Donna. I do it again a
hundred times over for you. What you Yes? What a
sad thing?

Speaker 23 (04:26:15):
No one must ever know, Harvey. Promise me, if we
ever get out of this, Promise me you'll never let
anyone know.

Speaker 15 (04:26:22):
No one will ever learn from me. My gunny off
on her? What did he get it?

Speaker 8 (04:26:30):
Come on?

Speaker 19 (04:26:30):
Hi got he?

Speaker 103 (04:26:31):
Look?

Speaker 15 (04:26:31):
I listen, I beg when I know we'd find something?

Speaker 44 (04:26:34):
Put down that.

Speaker 15 (04:26:35):
There must be water around here? That must be where'd
you get that gun out of the captain's locker? Better
take it easy with those shells, you may need them.

Speaker 104 (04:26:42):
Yeah, maybe I will have a drink. No, all right,
I sure likes water. There's just enough for one of
us to get back. And if only one goes back,
it'll be Donna done.

Speaker 15 (04:26:59):
I'll shift. He's got the water I have. Come on,
that's good moving man. There's water around here. I must
be and I'm gonna find.

Speaker 102 (04:27:10):
If we don't find water he's going to start cleeding
for what you have, no matter how much you raves
or bleeds.

Speaker 15 (04:27:16):
Don't give him, even if he threatens us with that gun.
Tell him you drink it all. I want you to
have the best break out of this.

Speaker 8 (04:27:22):
Thanks, Harvey. I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (04:27:24):
I found it water.

Speaker 34 (04:27:26):
I found water.

Speaker 15 (04:27:27):
Hurry, hurry, Well what about it? What's the test show?
That was like all the rest full of lead and zinc,
and heaven knows what it's poison? How about come in
head water? What water in Donna's canteen? There isn't anymore?
Who drank it?

Speaker 2 (04:27:47):
Did?

Speaker 31 (04:27:48):
You both did?

Speaker 15 (04:27:48):
And you're left none for me. You've got your whiskeys.
I can't drink whiskey all the time.

Speaker 23 (04:27:52):
It's done pretty well on it for several years.

Speaker 15 (04:27:53):
I'm gonna playing some water.

Speaker 26 (04:27:55):
Harvey.

Speaker 22 (04:27:55):
Wannt you Harvey?

Speaker 5 (04:27:56):
Harvey?

Speaker 26 (04:27:57):
Harvey?

Speaker 15 (04:27:58):
Then only you think about Harvey. You should have married Harvey.

Speaker 23 (04:28:01):
That's all right about that?

Speaker 15 (04:28:03):
Are you sure that water is poison? I'm not drinking it,
and I'm thirsty too. Maybe you're just waiting but what
I don't know, but I can imagine a few things.
We'd better stop you for the night.

Speaker 11 (04:28:16):
Are you very tired.

Speaker 15 (04:28:16):
Donna, better try to get some sleep. Where are you going, Victor?
Just gonna look around. I may find something.

Speaker 31 (04:28:25):
I'm going to build a power with this brush. Don't
get too far away.

Speaker 93 (04:28:29):
I'll be around.

Speaker 31 (04:28:29):
Don't worry.

Speaker 15 (04:28:31):
People go slutch on your canteen, Dunner. I have an
idea what he's up to. I'll try not to sleep,
but I'm dead tired.

Speaker 103 (04:28:38):
If he goes to sleep, I'll try to get that
gun away from him.

Speaker 15 (04:28:45):
Good night, Donna, Good night, Helvey. Night comes on.

Speaker 90 (04:29:00):
Fire burns low, and only a red glow remains. Gunner,
in spite of herself, drops off into a sound asleep.
Victor stirs from his place twenty feet away, looks about him,
and crawls silently towards the sleeping Gunner.

Speaker 15 (04:29:14):
Put out his hands and put it down. Victor, I
want some water. There isn't any water. I think there is.
You heard what I said. You're lying? You have got something.

Speaker 26 (04:29:22):
Why is this?

Speaker 2 (04:29:22):
You've got some water and you won't give me any, Holly,
I'm wise to you. You don't want me to have
any You want me to die. You're in love with
each other, you're drunk.

Speaker 23 (04:29:29):
What if I am in love with hovey.

Speaker 26 (04:29:31):
What of it, Donna?

Speaker 2 (04:29:32):
You want me out of the way. You know one
of you is very thirsty. No, because you had some
water and you gun it out of that pool.

Speaker 105 (04:29:39):
You're lying to me.

Speaker 15 (04:29:40):
It's good water. You're crazy. You sneaked it out while
I was asleep, tried to make me think it was
a poison.

Speaker 102 (04:29:47):
Hi, I ought to shoot you, all right, Victor, if
you're so positive, go on down and drink out of
the pool.

Speaker 15 (04:29:56):
That gives me an idea. I'll just find out if
that water is poison.

Speaker 8 (04:30:01):
Go drink someher.

Speaker 15 (04:30:02):
But Harvey certainly not. I'll give you thirty seconds ahead.
Drink Hurrah. Shoot, No, don't do it, Harvey. No been
supposing you drink out of a Donna.

Speaker 23 (04:30:12):
Very will I will?

Speaker 15 (04:30:13):
No, Victor, it'll kill her. Why, Donna, I'll drink it,
fool Victor.

Speaker 6 (04:30:20):
Come along.

Speaker 15 (04:30:23):
It's just going to be interesting, not as much as
you think there.

Speaker 26 (04:30:25):
Get off of me.

Speaker 8 (04:30:26):
You should.

Speaker 15 (04:30:32):
Maybe that'll hold your hobby. Huh, it's all right, Donna,
did my should.

Speaker 6 (04:30:39):
Well?

Speaker 15 (04:30:40):
I hope you're satisfied now that it is poison, Victor.

Speaker 2 (04:30:43):
Maybe, But you two are getting water someplace. Please please
don't take that canteen, Victor, it's for Donna, all right,
all right, you two are getting this water from someplace.
Hand over that canteen.

Speaker 15 (04:31:01):
Oh no, I said, that's for Donna. I'll take care
of it for all of us. And a pet of
you make a move toward me. I sut your boat.
Good night, and sleep tight, both of you.

Speaker 90 (04:31:19):
The knife slowly fades, and the chill of dawn creeps in. Then,
as the sun comes over the horizon, Harvey stirs fretfully,
opens his eyes.

Speaker 15 (04:31:27):
And looks for Donna.

Speaker 90 (04:31:29):
She sits beyond the dead embers of the campfire, her
hands folded before her, staring blankly into space. Harvey raises
up with a stun and moves quickly to her side.
Victor has scrawled on his back, the hilt of a
hunting knife protruding his Hi.

Speaker 15 (04:31:47):
Donna, Donna, good lord? What's happened to Victor? Did the
knife I choose? Dama?

Speaker 46 (04:31:55):
Yes?

Speaker 23 (04:31:56):
Nine, No, No one will ever know.

Speaker 17 (04:32:00):
No.

Speaker 23 (04:32:02):
I had to.

Speaker 15 (04:32:08):
Do here we are I haven't we found you? We
sided the ship and build a signal fire the wad.
What's this? Victor must have gone crazy and then and
stabbed himself, See right, he did hobby. I just happened.
I told him he must have stabbed himself.

Speaker 16 (04:32:28):
No, no, he didn't know how I stabbed him.

Speaker 46 (04:32:31):
In my life, I got to see you.

Speaker 23 (04:32:35):
I can't. I crept over.

Speaker 15 (04:32:39):
I see when did you do this?

Speaker 10 (04:32:40):
Donna?

Speaker 19 (04:32:42):
Did that?

Speaker 44 (04:32:43):
More than an hour ago?

Speaker 23 (04:32:44):
I couldn't help, But Doctor, I couldn't help you.

Speaker 15 (04:32:48):
Please use nothing to fear.

Speaker 23 (04:32:51):
I didn't want anybody to know, because the place my dad.

Speaker 31 (04:32:58):
They won't know.

Speaker 2 (04:32:58):
Donna, you didn't kill him what He's been dead for
at least three hours. In his eyes, Look at his
lips and his tongue, and the swelling of his stomach.
Test this pool, Horvey, Yes, every pool we've come to
has been heavy in mineral content. I warned him, but
he thought we were lying to him. Last night he
pulled a gun and took Donna's canteen. It wasn't very

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much in it, but it was all we had, and.

Speaker 15 (04:33:21):
He's been drinking whisky.

Speaker 2 (04:33:22):
Naturally, just a little water wouldn't satisfy him, so he
drank from the pool.

Speaker 15 (04:33:28):
A poor victor.

Speaker 75 (04:33:30):
I guess it's just as well.

Speaker 15 (04:33:31):
Don't worry, Donna, No one will ever know.

Speaker 2 (04:33:35):
Will The doctor has nothing to tell except Victor Jackson
poisoned himself in a fit of extreme thirst.

Speaker 6 (04:33:47):
No Donna, no one with heaven.

Speaker 11 (04:33:50):
You did your best.

Speaker 90 (04:33:52):
You tried hard to make things work out, but somehow
fate seemed to take things right out of your hands.

Speaker 15 (04:34:00):
But you know better, don't you, Harvey. You know what happened.
Kill us, Kill us, Harvey.

Speaker 103 (04:34:09):
After Victor took the canteen from Donna and drank thee
if you swallows, and that he fell off to sleep,
then I took the canteen and filled it from the
poison pool. I knew he'd wake up with the greater thirst,
and he did. But I'm not sorry. He's better off
and I found I do love Damma, and I'll take
care of her for the rest of our days.

Speaker 15 (04:34:31):
There you are, from.

Speaker 90 (04:34:33):
Drama to tragedy, and from tragedy to a beautiful love
story wherein they live happily ever after.

Speaker 16 (04:34:41):
I know.

Speaker 31 (04:35:05):
CBS has presented The Whistler.

Speaker 100 (04:35:18):
Original music for this production was composed and conducted by
Wilbur Hatch. The Whistler is written and directed by Jay
Donald Wilson and originates from Columbia Square in Hollywood.

Speaker 31 (04:35:32):
Next week, same time, I.

Speaker 90 (04:35:35):
The Whistler will return to tell you another unusual pale
good night.

Speaker 31 (04:35:42):
This is the Columbia Broadcasting.

Speaker 105 (04:35:44):
System Strange Wills, starring the distinguished Hollywood actor Warren William

(04:36:19):
and featuring William Conrad and Ninah Cloudon with Howard Culver
and an all star Hollywood cast. Original music by Del Castillio.
Dead men's wills are often strange. We cannot attempt to
understand them or try to find the answers. We can

(04:36:42):
but tell the story.

Speaker 106 (04:36:47):
This is Warren William bringing you the story Portsmouth Square,
but first a brief word from your announcer.

Speaker 105 (04:37:54):
And now Portsmouth Square, starring Warren William as the probate
lawyer John Francis O'Connell.

Speaker 106 (04:38:03):
The discovery of gold in the Sacramento Valley brought thousands
of daring, reckless men to San.

Speaker 14 (04:38:08):
Francisco and the goldfields.

Speaker 106 (04:38:10):
In their wake came the human vultures, thieves, gamblers, and
adventurous women. These pillars of the underworld built the Barbary Coast,
a section of San Francisco dedicated to depravity, vice and glamour.
Among the worst dies on Portsmouth Square. The heart of
the Barbary Coast was Horseshoe Harry's Emporium. Paul handsome and

(04:38:33):
exceedingly wicked. Horseshoe Harry had the reputation of never turning
down a dishonest dollar nor a pretty woman. One night,
a girl walked into Horseshoe Harry's emporium. Her eyes were blue,
a chin firm, and her dress obviously of Eastern cut.
Her unexpected appearance through the place into a furior. Pushing

(04:38:57):
her way through the shouting, milling crowd, she finally reached
one of the waiter girls, whose short dress just.

Speaker 70 (04:39:04):
Met the top of her long and black silk stocking.

Speaker 97 (04:39:10):
I beg, your pard, what's you're trying to do?

Speaker 26 (04:39:11):
Start a riot?

Speaker 97 (04:39:12):
Where can I find? Mister horsehoe Harry?

Speaker 26 (04:39:14):
What you want them for?

Speaker 97 (04:39:16):
You don't see girls un that's my invitation anyway.

Speaker 107 (04:39:19):
If you're half as smart as you look, you better
blow like a breeze before you get man handled.

Speaker 26 (04:39:24):
What's the matter? Girl? And I good enough for you?
Please come on, sugar, I got gold? What's the gold?
Me find you drinks? Sister ship penny water right from Paris.

Speaker 107 (04:39:37):
I ain't say nothing as party as using the left
Saint Joel.

Speaker 26 (04:39:41):
How about a kiss, sweetie?

Speaker 97 (04:39:42):
I beg your pardon?

Speaker 26 (04:39:45):
She bring us? All right?

Speaker 16 (04:39:51):
What's that?

Speaker 8 (04:39:52):
Come on?

Speaker 6 (04:39:55):
Love me?

Speaker 68 (04:39:57):
Who are you?

Speaker 86 (04:39:58):
Are?

Speaker 28 (04:39:58):
You?

Speaker 97 (04:39:59):
Are you mister horse hair?

Speaker 107 (04:40:02):
The next moment left, while horsehoe hurry is talking to this,
lady gets a handful of knuckles. Ah, then, lady, maybe
we can hear ourselves talk.

Speaker 97 (04:40:14):
Oh then you are you're mister horse you Harry?

Speaker 40 (04:40:17):
That's right now? What do you want to see me about?

Speaker 97 (04:40:21):
Well, it's rather personal.

Speaker 86 (04:40:24):
Personal, is it. Well, all right, we'll go to my office.

Speaker 97 (04:40:28):
How i'd be I'd appreciate it.

Speaker 26 (04:40:31):
All right, you margs go back to your fun.

Speaker 86 (04:40:33):
Okay, all right?

Speaker 40 (04:40:44):
What can I do for you?

Speaker 97 (04:40:45):
Miss myself? Lily Marcel?

Speaker 40 (04:40:48):
Lily Marcel, that's pretty name.

Speaker 97 (04:40:51):
My brother and I arrived in San Francisco the day
before yesterday. Last night, he well, he disappeared. They me
down at the waterfront to see you. You might know
where he is. Oh please, mister horseshoe, have you shang
hide him?

Speaker 40 (04:41:07):
Well, it's this way with me. I break every rule
in the book, all but one.

Speaker 26 (04:41:12):
Orseshoe.

Speaker 86 (04:41:13):
Harry's never gone in for Shanghai. And you want to
know why, Well, I'll tell you.

Speaker 107 (04:41:18):
Those men come back someday with only one thought in
their minds to kill the guy that sold him to
some devil of a sea captain.

Speaker 40 (04:41:25):
And I figure the worry ain't with the money, Lily.

Speaker 97 (04:41:28):
How long does it take before before they come back?

Speaker 9 (04:41:32):
Oh?

Speaker 86 (04:41:32):
Sometimes he is, sometimes longer, sometimes never.

Speaker 97 (04:41:36):
I see, I see. Well, thank you, mister Horseshoe. You've
been very kind and honest.

Speaker 40 (04:41:48):
What are you gonna do, Lily? Go back east? Oh?

Speaker 97 (04:41:50):
I can't do that. I've got to wait here for him.

Speaker 107 (04:41:54):
Well, it's none of my business. But what's a nice
girl like you're gonna do out here? It's a rough
place for lady.

Speaker 97 (04:42:00):
Well, when we came out here, my brother intended to
go on to the gold Fields, and I was going
to teach music. I'm a pianist.

Speaker 40 (04:42:08):
You a pianist.

Speaker 86 (04:42:11):
Hey wait a minute, maybe we can make a deal.
I need a piano player right down here at the emporium,
A girl piano player on the barberic. Why you'd be
sensational a girl piano player and Horseshoe Harry's emporium.

Speaker 97 (04:42:28):
You honestly think they'd like classical music here?

Speaker 107 (04:42:32):
I honestly don't, Lily, But who or they don't know
what they like? I don't like I am still a
guy that decides things are on here.

Speaker 97 (04:42:41):
Well, well, mister Horseshoe Harry, it looks as though you've
hired just out a piano player. Heaven help me. And then.

Speaker 106 (04:43:02):
And how did this client tell of Horseshoe Harry's emporium
take to the classics. At first they were skeptical until
they heard Lily play. Her talent was unquestioned, her interpretation
of the masters unexcelled. In a short space of time,

(04:44:18):
Horseshoe Harris imp him became the most popular spot on
Portsmouth Square, the most famous on the entire Barbary coast.
On one occasion, Horseshoe Harry, standing alongside the piano, held
up his hand and that men's silence, Harry had something
to say.

Speaker 26 (04:44:35):
Listen, folks, I got a surprise for you.

Speaker 80 (04:44:37):
What is it?

Speaker 26 (04:44:38):
Horseshoe Today?

Speaker 107 (04:44:40):
I sent one of them new fangled things they call
cablegrams to a man in Berlin, Germany. There's a man
who lives here by the name of Carl Beckstein. He
makes pianos, and I ordered the finest piano that money
can buy here. I told him to make me the
finest piano in the whole world. Yes, sir, nothing too good.

Speaker 26 (04:45:00):
For our lily.

Speaker 97 (04:45:04):
Thank you, thank you so much.

Speaker 40 (04:45:07):
I mean it, Lily.

Speaker 107 (04:45:08):
Nothing's still good for you, not even the finest piano
in the world.

Speaker 106 (04:45:24):
Nearly a year later, Karl Bechstein was putting the finishing
touches on the finest concert piano he had ever made.
As he polished its dark mahogany surface, he wondered about
this new city in America called San Francisco, this wild,
desolate place filled with savage Indians, where the streets were
paved with gold.

Speaker 40 (04:45:44):
What would these people be doing.

Speaker 106 (04:45:46):
With his finest piano?

Speaker 108 (04:45:48):
And as he wondered, a Bechstein, A Bechstein, it desired
Richard Willem Wagner, come to see you.

Speaker 26 (04:45:57):
Oh, it is you here, Agnet, Welcome, Welcome, We have
come to see this marvelous piano, card We Wagner.

Speaker 53 (04:46:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 26 (04:46:05):
The other two will be here in just a moment.
The other two yeah.

Speaker 108 (04:46:08):
Anton Rubinstein. On that that pleasurist of good music, Frans List.

Speaker 5 (04:46:13):
You call her List a plagiist.

Speaker 40 (04:46:16):
He should hear you talk.

Speaker 26 (04:46:18):
Tell him to his face. He has not one original
note in his big fathead.

Speaker 40 (04:46:23):
But what about his compositions and his operas.

Speaker 47 (04:46:26):
Ah, do you know why I had to put ross
on the last piano you made for me? Herbert Stein
draws that I can lock nine because now he can't
steal any more of my music.

Speaker 26 (04:46:40):
He's got to write his own in the thief.

Speaker 109 (04:46:43):
Oh, I've been called a fief again to think that
I would steal logos music.

Speaker 5 (04:46:49):
Theonal mules.

Speaker 26 (04:46:50):
And you see, you see Bechstein already he knows what I.

Speaker 5 (04:46:53):
Think of him.

Speaker 86 (04:46:54):
Welcome here, least, Rubinstein.

Speaker 40 (04:46:56):
My little workshop is greatly on it.

Speaker 105 (04:46:58):
I have come all the way from Svakhar to see
your new piano. News travels fast, if you gentlemen will
follow me here.

Speaker 26 (04:47:07):
Yeah, magnificent, it is Vonda bar Vonda.

Speaker 105 (04:47:14):
What I wouldn't give to have this piano in my
conservatory in Russia? May I play a gentleman who.

Speaker 26 (04:47:21):
Would deny that right to the greatest pianist in the world.

Speaker 108 (04:47:25):
Of course, my dear friend Antel, that is of course,
if this this sadah so called composer doesn't ob check, all.

Speaker 105 (04:47:33):
Right, you can laugh now, but here is one of
Liszt's compositions that will live forever.

Speaker 110 (04:48:07):
Nothing Anton Rubinch Thean You are genius.

Speaker 26 (04:49:09):
I envy you with my whole heart and soul.

Speaker 72 (04:49:11):
I could make a better speech if I try.

Speaker 105 (04:49:13):
And under a worthy piano car worthy of the great
name of Bechstein. And to think this piano is leaving Europe, America,
the New World, It's unbelievable DA should order such a
wonderful instrument.

Speaker 109 (04:49:28):
Why can't the three of us give Bechstein's masterpiece of
partying tribune?

Speaker 26 (04:49:32):
Now, what crazy idea if you've got in your headstand, let's.

Speaker 109 (04:49:35):
All sign our names on the sounding board. You Richard Vargner, German,
Anton Ruppstein, Russian, I've frans Laced, Hungarian. Three individuals, three races,
living harmoniously.

Speaker 26 (04:49:47):
Together in our world of music. The first word idea
you've ever had? French.

Speaker 108 (04:49:53):
Yes, we three will sign our names as a challenge
to all those who do not believe in the brotherhood
of man.

Speaker 26 (04:50:00):
Next time, get penanty let me be the first to sign.

Speaker 105 (04:50:17):
Part two of Portsmouth Square, written by Ken Crapeene and
directed by Robert Webster. Light will continue in just a moment. First,
here is a word from your announcer. Now back to

(04:51:47):
Act two of the Strange will story Portsmouth Square, starring
Warren William as John Francis O'Connell.

Speaker 106 (04:51:59):
The piano, the finest piano in the world, left Berlin
the next day on his journey to America on horseshoe,
Harry received notice that the piano was finally on its way.
It called for a celebration, a private celebration over a
late supper. After the dishes had been cleared away in
Harry's apartment over the emporium, he sat back, lit a
cigar and looked at Lily. Harry was happy. I am hopeful.

Speaker 40 (04:52:25):
Well, Lily, it's coming.

Speaker 97 (04:52:27):
Oh, I can hardly wait.

Speaker 40 (04:52:30):
Lily, you've been here almost a year. Any regrets?

Speaker 97 (04:52:34):
Two of them, Harry, just two?

Speaker 6 (04:52:37):
What are they?

Speaker 97 (04:52:39):
One that my brother hasn't come back yet.

Speaker 40 (04:52:41):
Oh, he could come back any day now, Lily.

Speaker 6 (04:52:43):
You know that.

Speaker 14 (04:52:44):
Hell what's the other?

Speaker 97 (04:52:46):
Well, I regret that I didn't meet you sooner.

Speaker 40 (04:52:50):
Much sooner, Even though I'm a scoundrel, I know better
than that. Lily.

Speaker 97 (04:52:55):
You made me very happy, you know, Harry, you're not
very observed. You would have noticed before, Hugh.

Speaker 40 (04:53:03):
Notice what that?

Speaker 97 (04:53:05):
I'm very happy too, you see, I'm in love with you, Harry,
very much in love.

Speaker 106 (04:53:28):
And finally, on the concert Grande ended its tortuous journey
that took it through terrifying blizzards and sun baked desert
on its way to California. Harry decided to cast reason
to the four winds and enter upon the biggest gamble
of his career. He rented the Prince's Theater on nob
Hill for an evening of musical entertainment and culture. He

(04:53:49):
placarded the city with garish signs announcing the occasion. Surprisingly enough,
the knight of the concert, nob Hill Society packed the
theater not only to see this marvelous piano, but to
hear Lily, the girl who caused such a sensation on
the Barbary coast. Harry arrived at the concerts with his
shirt front a blaze with diamond studs, a huge diamond

(04:54:12):
horseshoe adorned his cravat. He swaggered in and took his
seat in the third row, completely ignoring the hushed whispers,
oblivious to the knowing glances that passed from person to person. Finally,
the curtain rose and Lily, charming and beautifully gowned, began
to play.

Speaker 70 (04:54:42):
Lily was a symphony of grace and motion.

Speaker 106 (04:54:45):
She had picked for her first number Mendelssohn's magnificent Rondo capriccioso,
that such was strong, forceful. Here was a young American
artist knocking at the door of genius, one that even Wagner,
List and Robinstein would have applauded. The audience listened spellbound

(04:55:05):
and entranced.

Speaker 86 (04:56:45):
I did.

Speaker 106 (04:57:06):
During the intermission, a young couple sitting just behind Harry
were talking. Harry couldn't help but overhear what they were saying.

Speaker 34 (04:57:15):
Isn't it a shame that a girl is beautiful and
talented as she has to stay on that wicked Barbary coast?

Speaker 86 (04:57:20):
Or she doesn't have to stay there?

Speaker 26 (04:57:22):
They say, she's in love with that horrible character who
calls himself Horseshoe.

Speaker 10 (04:57:26):
Harry, doesn't he realize that he's ruining her life, her
career by associating with her.

Speaker 97 (04:57:31):
No unrespectable will have anything to.

Speaker 26 (04:57:32):
Do with her.

Speaker 86 (04:57:33):
I've heard he locks her up at night, would kill
any man who looks at her.

Speaker 34 (04:57:37):
Oh, that man, that horrible egotist, Just who does he
think he is?

Speaker 106 (04:57:44):
As Willie came back on the stage for her next number, Horshoe,
Harry walked slowly out of the theater for the first
time in his life. He felt ashame. He walked slowly
back to Portsmouth Square. He wanted to be alone. There
were things to think over, decisions to make. Finally, when
Lily returned fresh from her conquest of knob Hill, Harry

(04:58:06):
called her into his office. He knew now what he
had to do, and it wasn't easy.

Speaker 97 (04:58:13):
Harry, what happened? Why did you leave the theater before.

Speaker 40 (04:58:16):
I came home back to the Barbary Coast where I belonged?

Speaker 97 (04:58:20):
Didn't I didn't I make you proud?

Speaker 2 (04:58:22):
Harry?

Speaker 86 (04:58:23):
Eh, you were wonderful, Lily, marvelous. That's what I want
to talk to you about.

Speaker 97 (04:58:29):
How wonderful I am to you.

Speaker 40 (04:58:32):
Ugh, Lily, I'm going to send.

Speaker 97 (04:58:34):
You away, send me, send me away? But what have
I done?

Speaker 40 (04:58:41):
One day you'll be a great artist, Lily. You can
never really belong to.

Speaker 53 (04:58:47):
Just me.

Speaker 40 (04:58:49):
You belong to all of us, to the world.

Speaker 97 (04:58:51):
But I'd rather belong just to you.

Speaker 86 (04:58:53):
I''m going to send you to New York, later to Europe.
You're going to have the finest musical education.

Speaker 40 (04:58:57):
Money buy.

Speaker 97 (04:58:58):
What's wrong to night? What's happened? I'd hope that after
the concert, well, i'd rather hoped we'd be getting Lily.

Speaker 86 (04:59:07):
I I've always been honest with you, haven't I, yes,
you have. Then, Uh, I wanna tell you now that
we can never be married.

Speaker 97 (04:59:18):
Never be never be married. I I don't understand.

Speaker 40 (04:59:23):
I got a wife back east. I'm already married, not
to you, understand.

Speaker 97 (04:59:27):
Oh, Harry, you should have told me.

Speaker 40 (04:59:31):
Now do you see why you have to go away?

Speaker 97 (04:59:34):
Very well, been, Harry.

Speaker 23 (04:59:36):
I'll go.

Speaker 97 (04:59:38):
I'll be ready to leave in the morning.

Speaker 106 (04:59:52):
And so it was that Lily Marcel went out of
Horseshoe Harry's life, if not his heart. Finally, six years later,
after her fame as a concert pianist was world wide,
Harry received his last.

Speaker 6 (05:00:04):
Letter from her.

Speaker 106 (05:00:05):
She told him that she intended to be married. Upon
hearing the news, Harry sold his emporium and retired into seclusion.
He kept only the piano, his link between a colorful
past and a bleak future. Years later, his money gone,
he was forced to offer even his piano for sale. Accordingly,

(05:00:26):
he made arrangements to have it sold at auction in
San Francisco. The night of the sale, Horseshoe Harry arrived
at the auction rooms early. He wanted to have a
last few minutes alone with his concert grand he entered
the room and walked slowly over to where it stood.

Speaker 86 (05:00:45):
Good Bye, my friend, he remember the night we went
in our hill. There you were wonderful, Lily in you,
Lily in you.

Speaker 8 (05:00:59):
O.

Speaker 86 (05:00:59):
The people cheered and applauded. I remember, I think I
remember the tune?

Speaker 6 (05:01:06):
What like this?

Speaker 97 (05:01:08):
M May I play it for you again?

Speaker 5 (05:01:23):
Harry?

Speaker 97 (05:01:24):
Huh, Lily you Harry, Harry, Oh.

Speaker 40 (05:01:31):
My god, you here? What are you doing here?

Speaker 97 (05:01:35):
I came to buy our piano, Harry, the finest piano
in the whole world.

Speaker 40 (05:01:41):
Remember to buy our piano.

Speaker 97 (05:01:44):
Yes, I'm going to take it home, our home, Harry.

Speaker 40 (05:01:50):
You wrote me a letter. You said you were going
to be married.

Speaker 97 (05:01:53):
Can't lady change her mind, especially if she finds out
that there's only one man that she can never really love,
only one man, a lovable old liar who told her
he had a wife.

Speaker 40 (05:02:11):
Then then you know, Lily, Yes.

Speaker 31 (05:02:16):
I know.

Speaker 97 (05:02:18):
I read the deed you signed when you sold the emporium.
It said, horseshoe Harry, a bachelor.

Speaker 105 (05:02:38):
Warren William will be back in just a moment to
tell you the rest of the story about Portsmouth Square. First,
here us a brief message from your announcer, and now

(05:03:18):
back to Portsmouth Square with Warren William as John Francis O'Connell.

Speaker 106 (05:03:30):
I feel certain that somewhere in that valhalla of all
good musicians, Lily Marcel is an honored guest in the
illustrious family of famous artists and composers. And somehow I
feel that her great talent did not end with her death,
but lives on endless as time, as universal as the farmament.

(05:03:50):
And standing by her side, watching her fingers as they
glide over the celestial keyboard, will be the man who
was responsible for her great success, had unforgettable and lovable character,
who brought class and the classics to the Barbary coast.

Speaker 5 (05:04:06):
Horseshoe Harrod.

Speaker 106 (05:04:09):
The next week, I have a story to tell you
of high adventure and death in far away India. Colonel Beatty,
one of the world's foremost mountain climbers, had twice in
his lifetime attempted to scale the mighty, unconquerable Mount Everest,

(05:04:32):
but failure ended both attempts. Dying, he made a will,
leaving two things to his only son, Philip, his fortune
and a flag, a torn, weather beaten flag that he
asked his son to plant atop the world's highest mountain.
Philip Betty took the challenge for one of the most daring,

(05:04:53):
adventurous and romantic Strange will stories in our entire series.
Listened to High Conquest. This is Warren William inviting you
to be with us again next week.

Speaker 105 (05:05:19):
The Baldwin piano on this program was played by the
brilliant and celebrated concert pianist a Paro Ittervi. This is
a Tellaways feature produced in Hollywood. Names, places, and events
have all been changed so that no reflection can fall
on any person or person's living or dead.

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