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Well, hello, my dear Ida, so happy to have you here on

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such a special night. You know, it's Christmas Eve, a very special

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night, a night of beauty,
beauty of ghostliness, a night that I'm

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so happy to not have to spend
all alone. Now neither of us is

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alone? Or what's that? Why? Yes, I did, I did

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decorate. I was waiting for this
all week. We've so excited to see

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my dear friend, and I have
a very special gift. Why why I

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found I several fascinating old stories all
about about that married tide of Christmas.

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So please get comfortable. I've made
eggnog from scratch. Yes, yes,

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yes, oh no, no,
don't worry, the eggs are cooked.

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Relax, I serve it war because
it's so old down here. Now,

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just your relax. There are a
lot of stories to get through tonight,

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and I know, I know you'll
have a good time. So kick up

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and here we go Auto Light and
it's ninety eight thousand Dealers present Suspense.

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Tonight. Auto Light presents a special
program for this holiday season, the unusual

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dramatization of Twas the Night Before Christmas, starring Missus Greer Garson, who appears

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by arrangement with MGM producers of the
new color picture of the Round Table in

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CinemaScope, starring Robert Taylor, Ava
Gardner and melfer Air. Good Evening,

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This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for auto
Light Tonight. As a special Christmas presentation

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from the worldwide Auto Light family,
we bring you Miss Greer Garson in a

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story about a certain little girl on
a certain Christmas Eve, and now Autolite

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presents transcribed twas the night before Christmas, hoping once again to keep you in

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sous spends. Kay, Kathy,
Honey, come on, wake up,

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Wake up, Kathy. It's the
day before Christmas. Oh, there's so

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much miss Bumm. It's light out
already. They said you were going to

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wake me really early today so we
could go to the airport and meet them.

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Come on up, you get let's
get your dressed, Buffy. They're

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going to be waiting for me and
you didn't wake me. I know what.

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They're home already, Kathy, Mommy, Daddy, where are you,

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Daddy, Mommy, Bubby. They're
not in their bedroom. Where are they,

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Kathy? I know how about they're
in the kitchen already having the coffee.

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Mommy, The both they're not home. I know, Honey. The

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clock in the kitchen set eight thirty. Key here, put this on.

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Dear, you told me you wanted
to wear this dress today, so that's

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why I ironed it for you.
Here's dear. Oh, they'll be here.

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But when I talked to mommy on
the telephone yesterday, she said she

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would be here at six this morning, and I promised her i'd meet her

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at the airport her and dad,
And Daddy said he had a surprise he

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was bringing for me all the way
from Paris. It's say thirty, Buffy.

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Let's go out to the airport now. But there's so many things to

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do. First, you've got to
get your breakfast, and we have to

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finish decorating the tree, and oh, there's so many things I want you

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to help everythinking. Wait, Buffy, hurry, I promised to meet them.

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No, Dear, why not?
Buff? Well, I think we'll

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we'll wait for them here, Casey, Yeah, you remember what you promised

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your mommy and dad? Did you
do everything I asked you while they were

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away? Yes? Then we wait
for them here, all right, Buffy,

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Sa, it's noon, Buffy.
I know. Don't you think they

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might have called and told us they'd
be late. Or I'll go and make

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our lunch. You must be very
hungry. No I'm not. Oh you

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didn't need your breakfast, Kathy,
Miss buff I'm not hungry. Look,

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oh look it's snowring Honnie. We'll
have a nice warm lunch, and then

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we'll go out for a long walk. We should have called. I'll tell

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you what, Kathy, we'll take
our walk first. We'll see the shops,

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we'll visit. We'll go and see
Johnny and your aunt and uncle.

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Maybe if it snows hard enough,
we can all build a snowman. Wouldn't

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you like that? Yes, that
would be fun. We'll go get your

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coat and having goloshes to you,
all right, and when we come back,

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Mommy and daddy'll be home. You
go and get your things now.

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Oh, I'll get it. I'll
get it, Buffy money. Oh,

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who's this fairy? Some ah from
a newspaper? I see it's a man

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buck. He says he wants to
talk to an older person here. Hello,

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Yes, this is the harp of
residence. I'm the housekeeper. I

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well, just a moment, please, ca someone wants to talk to me.

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Honey, Will you go get your
things. No, who are you

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talking to? Buff? Never mind? Here, go and get your things.

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No, I won't hello, I
see yes, yes I saw the

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papers. Yes, yes that was
the daughter, Yes, the only child.

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No she doesn't No, no,
no, I wish you wouldn't.

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Please, don't hear? No?
Who was it? Just a man?

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Honey, it's from the newspapers?
Why what did he want? Nothing?

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He asked about me, didn't he
Why? Honestly, honey, it was

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nothing. It was about mommy and
daddy. Or wasn't anything important? Yes?

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Do you? I don't know.
Look at that's snow coming down.

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Kathy, get your things, dear, go on. Don't they seem beautifully

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Kathy? Very likely the streeting,
all the decorations and the singers, very

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uplines. Honey, you give this
to the man. Oh, thank you,

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thank you, miss very Christmas.
Let's go home now a little while.

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Don't you remember we were going visiting
too. Mommy and Daddy are probably

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home right now, waiting for me, wondering where I am. We'll build

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a snowman together. And like I
said, come on, honey, I

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remember when I was a little girl, how excited I get all the wonderful

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things to see the sights and the
smells and the sounds, pretty shop windows

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and the snows. To be a
little girl at Christmas time, to be

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young at Christmas time and happy?
What's the matter of us? Okay,

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sthy hold o, Kathy, Darling, Dolcy, you're crying. I'm just

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telling why. Look the STA was
watching him. Let's say hello to him.

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You were crying. Hello Santa.
Merry Christmas. Oh, Merry Christmas,

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little girl, Merry Christmas. Ah, you're a pretty little girl.

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What's your name. Oh, that's
a nice name for a nice little girl

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like you. Thank you, And
I can tell you when a good little

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girl. I saw the way your
mommy was holding you. She's missed us.

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My mommy's away, Daddy too.
We're taking a walk to make them

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come home. Where are they?
I don't know, I don't know.

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I don't know. Kathy, Kathy, come in, Darling and miss Buff

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how are you come in? Come
in? Mother? Mother? Guess who's

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here? What? Cassy and Miss
Buff? Hello, Hello, missus Cleveland.

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Take your things off. You've got
a big fire in the living room.

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And wait till you see our Christmas
tree. Cathy, I'm sure it's

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very beautiful. How that. Kathy
came to say her cousin Johnny didn't.

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Yes, I did, Uncle Pa. I would like to see him very

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much. And you know what that
boy of mine did, Miss Buff.

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No, he found the train,
Oh he did. After I took so

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much trouble to hide them out in
the garage, he found them, so

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of course I had to set them
up for him. Well, it's the

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day before Christmas. He's in his
room now, Kathy. Yes, I

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would like to play with the train, that cat, you would, jolly?

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I can't come right, Yeah,
I'm busy. Kathy is here,

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can't come on to play my drink? Kathy, you got a seat?

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I got a roll hitched up?
Now go on, Kathy, all right.

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I've been on the phone since seven
this morning, Miss Buff, and

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there just isn't any word at all
about the plane. A man from the

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newspaper called the house. I told
him to stay away. Did the child

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know? I think she does?
But did you tell her nothing? How

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do you tell a child let it
go? I can't understand is why no

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word at all. The plane took
off from Paris on time, and there

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was radio contact over island from what
I could find out. But since then

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nothing better. Tell John, tell
me what. Well, there was a

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storm over the ocean, pretty bad
storm, they said, the Sun's daughter.

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Let's just figure it out something.
It's about mommy and Daddy. They're

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not coming home. They're not ever
coming home. Auto Light is bringing you,

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Miss Greer Garson with and Whitfield as
Cathie and twas the Night before Christmas

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to night's production in radio's outstanding theater
of Thrills, Soals spends m This is

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Harlow Wilcox again with a message from
mister Royce G. Martin, President and

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Chairman of the Electric Autolite Company.
It is presented in the name of the

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Autolite Family, which includes some thirty
thousand Autolite men and women and their families,

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eighteen thousand people who have invested a
portion of their savings in Autolite,

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as well as ninety eight thousand dealers
and the greatest names in the industry who

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use Autolite products as original equipment.
This is the message from mister Martin.

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In our America, we are especially
blessed this Christmas with a free country.

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We are surrounded with freedom loving people
who appreciate the word Christmas. We are

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grateful for what this day means to
all of us, and for what it

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meant to our great forefathers. We
will never forget the one whose holy birthday

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we are about to sell rate.
We thank him for the word freedom and

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the happiness that he has given us. We of the Autolite family wish you

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and yours are very merry Christmas and
a new year filled with health and happiness.

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And now Autolite brings back to our
Hollywood soundstage, Miss Greer Garson in

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Elliott Lewis's production of Twas the Night
Before Christmas, A tale well calculated to

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keep you in cells spends. Oh, it's going to be good to get

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inside of the healthcare. Look at
you. You look almost like the snowman

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you and Johnny built. Let me
brush you off a bit before we go

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inside. There's a man there,
won't you say? Noding right there standing

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by the door man. Hello,
blame me, miss Hello? Little girl?

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Is this your house? Yes?
I live here. Who are you?

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What do you want? Oh?
Then you'd be the Harper's little girl,

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wouldn't you. Yeah, I asked
you, who are you? Now?

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I don't worry about it, ma'am. I just want to take a

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picture of the little girl. You
want your picture taking a little girl rock.

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You're the reporter I talked to this
morning, aren't you? And uh,

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we'll want one of you too.
Man, here, get in the

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house, Kathy, don't stand there? Do you get in the house?

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Are be it in a moment?
It's Christmas Eve, mister reporter? Did

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you know? I look, ma'am, I it's Christmas Eve? Where's your

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heart? Look? You've got to
understand. I talked to you on the

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phone. It was almost ten hours
ago, before noon. It's nighttime already.

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There still isn't any word about the
plane. He's in a newspaper.

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Man, we've got it was shown. Well, you know, I don't

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want to say it any more than
usual. Just go away now, really,

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I've got it. Were you?
Were you ever lonely on Christmas Eve?

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Alone in a house that well,
outside other people were singing, but

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there was warmth and love and joy. But outside I'm just trying to Christmas

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Eve. The snow is falling Christmas
Eve and the child is is grieving.

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Yeah, I'm sure good I Kathy. I'm in the living room, Buffy.

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I just had a wonderful thought.
Yeah, let's have a secret let's

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not wait till tomorrow. What do
you mean we go to our tree and

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open some of our presents? Now, maybe just one, but she was

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the one with the most beautiful wrapping. You can open it and you can

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play with it. Now, will
I go and fix something for you to

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eat? I'm not hungry, buff, Honestly, we're just a milking cookies.

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Honey. You have a legal well, well let's choose. Go ahead

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and pick one, all right,
that one, it's it's from mister mister

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Anderson next door. Open it.
You'll open it, Buffy anyway? Oh

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look very nice a carousel. Well, I wind it for you and we'll

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put it down here. Yeah,
you watch it. When he runs down,

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you can wind it up again.
I'm going into the kitchen. Mhm

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h Cassy, here's your katy Catty
Honey. Where are you, Cassey?

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And milk and cookies are on the
table. Kathy, are you in your

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room? Cassy? Kathy? Cathy, Honey, Kasey Katy way? Ms

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par mister Anison, is Cathy here? Well? I know, would you

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mind asking miss Anderson Cathy's here?
Maybe she came in through the back way.

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Well, missus Anderson and I have
been sitting in the living room for

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the last hour or what's mad?
Buff? Kathy ran out of the house,

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poor child. I can imagine how
she must She might have come over

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here next door. She just ran
out of the huse. I don't know

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where she is? Child like that? And what's happened to her today?

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Wait, I'll get my coatless,
Buff, I'll come with you, Paul,

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Paul, I want to stun ryde
respon, Paul. Listen him,

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mister Anderson, I want to ride. You can go all the way down

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the hill for three blocks. They've
got roped off. Paul. Have you

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seen Kathy? Where is she?
I don't know where is she? Paul?

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Where did you go? Am?
I supposed to know where she went?

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But you saw her, didn't you? Sure? She was running down

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the box. I yelled at her
to come on over, but she kept

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running which way? Paul? Down
there? I guess where the stores are?

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Thank you? Sure? Merry Christmas, mister Ratterson, Merry Christmasmas?

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Buff? Hey, what she hasn't
been in my store, miss Buff?

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And I'm the only one on the
block who's open. Last minute, Christmas

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Rusher? No, thank you?
Say now? That kid? And what

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happened to that plane today. I'm
sure. Let the police know she was

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missing. I think he's right,
mister Buff call them, tell them.

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Oh, use this phone, miss
Anderson. Hello operator, give me the

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police. Oh, hello, police, I want to report a little girl

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who's missing, Kathy Harper. Well, she's got blonde hair and blue eyes.

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Wait a second, I'll find out. No, you just go in

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the house, miss Buffer. I'm
sure they'll find her. It's ten o'clock.

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They've been looking for three hours.
Oh, they have ways they'll find

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it. Were waiting in that station
house, and all the policemen who phoned

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in, none of them were.
You. Just go on the house now,

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I'll send missus Anderson. No,
no, really, i'd rather you

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wouldn't. Well, good night,
mister Anderson, and thank you. Yeah.

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Yes, I'm patrol and rad man
on Kathy, Yes, ma'am,

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gonna come with me, ma'am.
Where he is, ma'am. In the

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second film, Oh, Kethy child, Christmas Eve chick should have been the

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first place we should have looked,
said, Ah, Kathy, let's go

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home. No, Dottie, all
right, there we are all tugged him.

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It's almost Christmas, isn't it.
Yes, darling, you're going to

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read to me? Of course,
you just lie there, buffy, Yes,

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darling, nothing, just read to
me. It was the night before

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Christmas, and all through the house
not the creature was stirring, not even

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the past. The starkings were hung
by the chimney with care, in hopes

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that Saint Nicholas soon would be there. The children would nestled all snugglars,

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while visions of sugar plums dunce in
their heads. And my mind her kerch

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went iron my cap. I had
just settled down for a long winter's nath

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and out on the law, and
there arose such a clatter. I sprang

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from my bed to see what was
the matter? Waited the window. I

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flew like a flash, tore open
the shutters, and threw open the sash.

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The moon, on the breath of
the new fallen snow, gave a

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luster of mid day to objects below. When what to my wondering eyes should

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appear but a miniature sleigh, and
ate tiny reindeer with a little old driver,

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so lively and quick, and you, in a moment did much be

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sat Nick more rapid than evils his
courses they came, and he whistled and

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shouted and called him by name.
Now Dasher, now danswer, Now Branson

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and vixen on comet on Cupid,
I'm donder and Blitchen to the tops of

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the porch, to the top of
the wall. Now deshuay jesuaysh away,

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Buzzy fuck, Merry Christmas, Cathy, baby, Hey, hey, it's

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Christmas. We don't cry on Christmas. Baby. Hey, how about a

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big hug for me? Where's missus? Buff? I was in bit.

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She was reading to me, and
bed's the place for you. Come on,

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I carry Bob, It's Molly,
It's I know, Darling, I

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know, Hello, Buffy, Merry
Christmas, Merry Christmas. We had to

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make an emergency landing and no small
field communications were shot that storm. Yes,

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yes, let's not talk about it
anymore. Now Buffy was reading me

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a wonderful thing about like before Christmas. Here, I'll put you in bed,

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Cathy. Yeah, yeah, they
read it to us. Puffy m

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hm, to all of us.
Oh well, I am that's raided Puffy

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as dry leaves that before the wild
hurricane fly when they meet with an obstacle,

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mount to the sky, so up
to the house top the courses.

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They flew with a sleigh full of
toys, and St Nicholas too, And

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then on a twinkle, I heard
on the roof the prancing and pawing each

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little hoof, and I drawing my
head and was turning around down the chimney.

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Saint Nicholas came with a barn.
He was dressed all in furv from

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his head to his foot, and
his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and

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soot. A bundle of toys he
had flung on his back, and looked

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like a peddler just opening his back. His eyes, how they twinkled,

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His dimples, how merry. His
cheeks were like roses, his nose like

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a cherry. His droll little mouth
was drawn up like a bow, and

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the beard on his chin was as
quite as the snow. The stump of

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a pipe he held tight in his
teeth, and the smoke it encircled his

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head like a wreath. He had
a broad face and a little round belly

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that shook when he laughed, like
a bolt full of jelly. He was

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chubby and plump, a right jolly
old elphant. I laughed when I saw

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him, in spite of myself a
wink at his eye and a twitt of

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his head soon gave me to know
I had nothing to dread. He spoke

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not a word that went straight to
his work, filled all the stockings,

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and turned with a jerk, and
laying his finger aside of his nose and

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giving a nod up the chimney who
rose. He sprang to his sleigh,

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to his team, gave a whistle, and away they all flew like the

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down. When I heard him exclaim
as he drove out of sight, Happy

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Christmas to all, and to all
a good night, ladies and gentlemen.

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You have just heard Miss Greer Garson
in a dramatization of It Was The Night

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Before Christmas tonight's production in a suspense, Miss Garson will return in just a

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moment next week. On suspense,
our star will be mister James Mason,

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who has Lord Essex's plots to capture
Elizabeth's throne. It's called The Queen's Ring.

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Suspense is transcribed and directed by Elliot
Lewis. The music composed Belutioni Marwick

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and conducted by lud Gluskin. Chorus
was under the direction of Roger Wagner.

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Twas the Night Before Christmas was written
for suspense by Morton Fine and David Friedkin.

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Into Night's story. Anne Whitfield was
heard as Kathy. Featured in the

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cast were Harry Bartel, Irene Tedrow, Mary Lansing, Charles Calvert, Howard

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mcneer, Herb Butterfield, Johnny McGovern, Sidney Miller, Joseph Kerns, and

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John Ramsay Hill. And here once
again is our lovely star, Miss Garson

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Hallo. Thank you very much,
and thank you Anne Whitfield. What I

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have these few moments? May I
join the Autolite family sending holiday greetings to

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our friends everywhere. Merry Christmas,
Hollo, Merry Christmas, Gure, Merry

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Christmas to all, and do all
a good night. This is the CBS

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Radio Network. I love a heartwarming
tale on a chilling cold night. As

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the weather gets colder and the nights
get longer, I can't help but feel

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so so welcome, welcome. It's
the most wonderful time of year, my

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dear. Now, please make sure
you're comfortable that you're ready for another story,

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because I've hunted down all kinds delights
for us tonight. This one,

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this one you've undoubtedly heard before.
It's a classic in the truest sense of

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the word, and I believe classics
of that for a reasonable reason. So

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drink your warm drink, drink,
and we'll listen together. Theater presents Welcome.

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I'm a g Marshall. This is
a very special occasion for me.

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I'm to be a little more than
your host. This time I will not

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only be introducing the story, but
telling it to you, acting it out.

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The Mystery Theater special Christmas story this
year Charles Dickens The Immortal Classic of

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Christmas Carol with Guess who has Scrooge
bah Humbug. Our mystery drama A Christmas

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Carol was adapted from the Charles Dickens
classic, especially for the Mystery Theater by

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Ian Martin. I'll do that shortly
with that one, Charles Dickens A Christmas

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Carol begins like this. Marley was
dead to begin with, there is no

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doubt about that. Whatever. The
register of his burial was signed by the

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clerk, the undertaker, and the
chief mourner. Screwed signed Old Marley was

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dead as a doornail. Ebenezer Scrooge. Oh, he was a tight fist,

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good hand at the grimestone, hard
and sharpest flint from which no steel

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had ever struck out. Generous fire
saw its holes an oyster. He iced

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his office in the down days and
didn't throw it out one degree even at

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Christmas. A Merry Christmas, uncle, God, say you, oh,

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what old you nephew? What brings
you here? A miraable cold windy night

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like enough cold and windy, yes, and the snow falling softly? A

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perfect Christmas eve to say? Merry
Christmas, uncle, ah, humber Christmas

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a humbug? If you don't mean
that, I'm sure I do. Merry

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Christmas? What right have you to
be married or the world at large?

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What reason have you yourself to be
married? You're poor enough? Come then,

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what reason of you to be dismal? What reason of you to be

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more? Old? You're rich enough? Don't you taunt me, freddah,

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don't indulge yourself in expectations, humbug. Take me as I am, uncle,

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and as the season is, and
don't be cross. Where else can

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I be when I live in a
world of fools? Christmas? Hooy?

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What Christmas? Time to you?
But the time for paying bills without money,

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time for finding yourself a year older
and not an hour richer. If

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I could work my will. Every
idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on

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his lips should be boiled in his
own bumping and buried with a steak of

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holly. Who is cover long?
Uncle? Can you not let down for

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once and enjoy alone with you?
Keep Christmas in your own way, and

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me keep it in mind? Yes, but you don't keep it baby alone?

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Man? Much good at me?
Do you? Much good? Has

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it ever done you? Oh?
There are lots of things, uncles,

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from which I've never Christmas among the
rests except that when it comes around,

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who can resist it? A kind
of forgiving time of year, when men

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are women seen by one consent to
open up their hearts freely. So then

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I say, uncle, though it
never put a scrap of silver or gold

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in my pocket, I believe it
has and will do me good. And

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so I say, God, bless
it all right? What's hold that better?

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I'm sorry, mister scrooge. It
says that it is a holiday and

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my hands were so cold. Shall
let me hear another word from you?

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Bob credit? And you keep your
Christmas by losing your employment? Oh please,

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sir, I humbly beg your pardon. It was just an action on

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the spur of the moment. Just
apply the spur to gold you under finishing

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your work, Craget. Let's hear
no more from you, Yes, sir,

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well new you. Why are you
here to ask you to dine with

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us tomorrow? Dine will you?
Ever? There's nothing more ridiculous than all

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of us and expense over Christmas dinner? Oh uncle, I want and ask

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nothing from your work, hard being
your friends. Good afternoon. With all

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my heart, I'm sorry to find
you who resolute at least I wish you

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were meddy Christmas, good afternoon and
the happy afternoon, and be sure to

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make the front door fast. Oh
wasting of fat here and no extra logs

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on the fire, Yes, uncle, mister Cresen, Yes, sir may

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I wish you were merry Christmas and
a happy you here the first time I'm

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sure of and I and I thank
you and the other who knows what the

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future holds, be a good hope
the nerve of all of them. My

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love you, westernl and Bob crutch
It on fifteen shillings a week with a

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wife and family talking about a merry
Christmas, car enough to make a man

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and retired to butlerm we're all mad, mad, begging your pardon, mister

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Scrooge, A gentleman to see you. Scrooge and Marley's I believe, have

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I the honor of addressing mister Scrooge
or mister Marley. Mister Marley's been dead

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for seven years. He died seven
years ago this very night. Ah sad,

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sad. Indeed, still I have
no doubt his liberality is well represented

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by his surviving partner liberality. At
this festive season, it is more than

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usually desirable that we all make some
slight provision for the poor and destitute.

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You may make your pledge. Here
are there no prisoners? We speak of

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the needy, the union workhouses.
They're not still in operation. They are

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I wish I could say they were
not. A few of us private citizens

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are endeavoring to raise a fund to
buy the poor some meat and drink and

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means of warmth. Now what shall
I put you down for all of Itster

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Scrooge. Nothing? Of course,
you wish to be anonymous. I wish

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to be left alone by tax I
helped to support the establishments we have mentioned.

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They cost enough more. Yet those
who are badly off go there.

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Many can't go there. And many
would rather die. They would rather die,

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and let them do so, and
decrease the surplus population. Good afternoon,

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sir, whatever your name is,
I find you hard to believe,

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mister Scrooge. Gret it. Let
him out, close the door, cratch

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it to extinguish what cold remains.
Yes, sir, No, sir,

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you'll come here, coming, mister
Scrooge, you'll want all day tomorrows Burns

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is quite convenience. It's not convenience, and it's not fair. I wish

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to stop half a crown for it. You'd think yourself ill used. I'd

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be bound. Who else here?
You don't take me in use? When

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I pay a day's wages for no
work, I would not presume to have

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an opinion. But then it is
only one day a year, A poor

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excuse for picking a man's target every
twenty fifth of December. I suppo,

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as I have no choice. You
must have the whole day. Just make

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sure you are here earlier. The
following morning, I died my usual melancholy

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dinner in the usual melancholy towern afterwards
climbed the stairs to my living quarters in

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the gloom. Something about my door
knockers stop me as I was about to

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put the key in lock. For
once strange moment, it looked like Molly

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ghostly spectacles turned upon its ghostly forehead. To say that I was not startled

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would not be strictly true. And
even after I was entered and locked in

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and my candle it, I did
pause irresolutely before I dismissed it with humble

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still. I was uneasy trimming my
candle. I walked through all my rooms

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to make sure all was well,
seeing room, bed room, number,

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room or as it should be,
small, fire in the grate, spoon

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and base already a little saucepan of
gruel, since I had a cold.

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That the front door, the side
door, the bell by my bed,

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the one on the mantle and on
the sideboards. What do they hero?

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Who wrings them? The cellar door
and that noise quart I won't believe it.

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I said it was humbug sail,
the grim respect. What do you

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want with me? Must? Who
are you? Ask? Who I was?

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Who were you then? Life?
I was your partner, Jacod Molly,

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you don't believe me. I don't
why you do? Four sentens because

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a little thing affects them, A
slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheese.

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You may be a bit of undidgested
beef for blood, mustard, crumb

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of cheese, right mind and potato. There's more of gravy about you than

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the grave where you are umbell ha
un believer. So I unrected the bandy

403
00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:52.960
cheese from above my head to reveal
the rotting fast, the draw fallen slightly

404
00:42:53.079 --> 00:43:00.519
to my breast, the musk who's
eaten long since my word? Now you

405
00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:07.000
believe me for who and what I
have? Mercy dread apparitions. Why do

406
00:43:07.079 --> 00:43:15.920
you trouble me? I must Why
you fettered and bound and change? Where

407
00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:23.920
the train I forced in life?
I made link by link, I girded

408
00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:30.440
it on of my own free will. In its patterns so strange to you.

409
00:43:31.480 --> 00:43:36.440
Oh, you learn the way and
length from the coil you wear yourself.

410
00:43:37.840 --> 00:43:43.440
It was food and as heavy and
as long as mine is seven Christmas

411
00:43:43.519 --> 00:43:51.760
eves ago, and you have labored
on it since I once partner in life.

412
00:43:52.679 --> 00:43:58.519
What a ponderous train you have built
to drag you down in death.

413
00:43:58.760 --> 00:44:02.599
No, no, oh, Jacob
Marley, speak some comfort to me.

414
00:44:04.079 --> 00:44:09.679
I have none to give. I
cannot stay, I cannot linger anywhere.

415
00:44:10.760 --> 00:44:19.039
My spirit never walked beyond our counting
housing life. So in death we read

416
00:44:19.239 --> 00:44:25.400
Jerseys life before me, seven years
dead and traveling all the time, O

417
00:44:25.880 --> 00:44:35.280
rest, no peace, the incessant
torture of remort. I am here tonight.

418
00:44:35.760 --> 00:44:42.519
It is a toward you that you
have yet a hope of escaping my

419
00:44:42.840 --> 00:44:45.519
faith. Oh you are always a
good friend. Thankie. You will be

420
00:44:45.679 --> 00:44:53.719
haunted by three speeds. That is
the hope you mentioned. It is I

421
00:44:53.960 --> 00:45:00.199
think I'd rather not without their visits. You have no rope but the sun

422
00:45:00.400 --> 00:45:07.679
the path I tread. Expect the
first tomorrow when the girl tolds what,

423
00:45:08.039 --> 00:45:12.920
But couldn't I take them all at
once and have it over. Expect the

424
00:45:13.159 --> 00:45:17.400
second on the next night, at
the same hour, the third, when

425
00:45:17.440 --> 00:45:23.639
the last stroke of twelve has ceased
to vibrate on your battle clock. And

426
00:45:24.199 --> 00:45:34.760
for your old's sake, remember what
has passed between us. Pass between us,

427
00:45:35.480 --> 00:45:43.400
and take a bus. Do not
leave me. Yet she was gone

428
00:45:43.920 --> 00:45:49.239
as if he had never been,
And yet he had been, and Ebaneza's

429
00:45:49.239 --> 00:45:58.880
scrooge would never be the same man
again. She fell asleep without undressing upon

430
00:45:58.960 --> 00:46:04.159
the instant, a sleep that was
destined to be disturbed, as I shall

431
00:46:04.199 --> 00:46:19.079
relate when I return with that two. When Scrooge awoke, it was dark,

432
00:46:19.719 --> 00:46:23.239
and the chimes of a neighborhood church
were striking the four quarters. To

433
00:46:23.400 --> 00:46:30.679
his amazement, they were followed by
twelve strokes as a bell. Twelve impossible,

434
00:46:31.559 --> 00:46:43.039
it was true. When he went
to bed, it is impossible.

435
00:46:43.079 --> 00:46:47.559
I could have slept through a whole
day and far into another night. As

436
00:46:47.639 --> 00:46:52.719
I lay, I suddenly remembered that
Molly had said a ghost would visit me

437
00:46:52.840 --> 00:47:01.559
at one Who are you? I
am the ghost of Ristmas passed long past?

438
00:47:02.079 --> 00:47:09.280
You're past? Don't you recognize me? A strange figure, almost like

439
00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:15.840
a child, the outlines dimly seen. It wore a tunic of purest whites

440
00:47:16.079 --> 00:47:21.599
and a branch of fresh green holly
in his hand, in the singular contradiction

441
00:47:21.760 --> 00:47:25.039
to the dress, which was trimmed
with summer flowers. But strangest of all,

442
00:47:25.480 --> 00:47:30.320
above its crown sprang a bright,
clear jet of light which illuminated the

443
00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:37.280
darkest corner but obscured the face,
and under his arm a cap which looked

444
00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:40.760
for all the world like a candle
snuffer. For some reason, I wanted

445
00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:45.800
to put on its cap. The
light is blinding, would you not put

446
00:47:45.840 --> 00:47:50.960
on your cap? Would you so
soon put out with worldly hands the light

447
00:47:51.079 --> 00:47:54.280
I shed? Is it not enough
that you are the one who fashioned me

448
00:47:54.440 --> 00:48:00.119
this cap and forced me to wear
it low upon my grasp ie? What

449
00:48:00.519 --> 00:48:05.440
business brings you here? Your welfare? If you would regard my welfare,

450
00:48:05.960 --> 00:48:13.320
you would leave my sleep unwoken.
Your reclamation? Take heed, rise and

451
00:48:13.519 --> 00:48:17.239
walk with me. I cannot resist
your command. But I am an old

452
00:48:17.360 --> 00:48:24.760
man, lightly clad and nursing a
cold to boot. Do not deny me.

453
00:48:25.840 --> 00:48:34.800
Come follow me. All of a
sudden I was flying, floating on

454
00:48:34.920 --> 00:48:38.519
air. Tonight had vanished as the
city brew me, and I was looking

455
00:48:38.599 --> 00:48:43.559
down on the country in a clear, cold light of day, the snow

456
00:48:43.800 --> 00:48:50.880
dusting aground. Good Heavens, I
was bred in this place. I was

457
00:48:50.960 --> 00:48:54.760
a boy. Here, your lettuce
trembling? What is that upon your cheek?

458
00:48:54.960 --> 00:49:00.039
Nothing? The wind makes my eyes
water? Lead me where you will?

459
00:49:00.320 --> 00:49:06.159
Do you not remember the way?
Remember it? I could walk it

460
00:49:06.719 --> 00:49:12.199
blind food strange to have forgotten it
so many years. Let us set our

461
00:49:12.320 --> 00:49:17.480
feet on the road, and I
will not tell you most of where we

462
00:49:17.639 --> 00:49:22.559
wanted. As time stood still or
raced ahead, and a whim. The

463
00:49:22.639 --> 00:49:27.400
school where I was a child,
the house I grew up in an orphan,

464
00:49:28.199 --> 00:49:31.199
A terrible rush of tears when them
bring another outcast, a foreigner,

465
00:49:31.719 --> 00:49:37.519
and in in our mutual loneliness,
had once befriended me, Poor Ali baba,

466
00:49:42.159 --> 00:49:47.639
it's do it now nothing. There
was a boy seeing a Christmas carol

467
00:49:47.679 --> 00:49:52.199
at my drawer last night. I
should like to have given him something.

468
00:49:52.760 --> 00:50:07.400
That's her what might have been?
Let us see another Christmas? What's that

469
00:50:07.159 --> 00:50:14.039
you're out? Who brought you up
past? Oh? No, delicate creature

470
00:50:14.159 --> 00:50:17.480
from a breath right of river.
But she had a loud heart. Amen

471
00:50:17.800 --> 00:50:22.880
to that. I will not gainsay
its spirits. When she died she had

472
00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:34.000
aunt children, one child, true
draw up. Yes, we traveled further,

473
00:50:34.440 --> 00:50:39.000
scenes flashing by like slides in a
magic lantern, old feather Wig in

474
00:50:39.119 --> 00:50:44.800
his Welsh wig, my first employer, his Christmas parties with a groaning table,

475
00:50:44.880 --> 00:50:47.719
and everyone dancing with a light foot
and heart to the festive music,

476
00:50:49.280 --> 00:50:52.679
his kind wife, and the joy
of working at a desk. One wasn't

477
00:50:52.800 --> 00:51:00.039
nailed too. And then someone I
had shut away so long ago. But

478
00:51:00.159 --> 00:51:05.239
is it Scrooge fat girl whom you
shall sit beside? No? Oh,

479
00:51:05.599 --> 00:51:12.920
yes, this shadow Most of all. Don't you remember me? I told

480
00:51:13.000 --> 00:51:17.079
you that light blinds me. Then
remember me as I was before you put

481
00:51:17.159 --> 00:51:24.840
my light out. No tears I
beg you none. If the idol who

482
00:51:24.920 --> 00:51:30.400
has replaced me can cheer and comfort
you, I must not grieve what idle

483
00:51:31.159 --> 00:51:37.360
a golden one. Nothing but gain
engrosses you. So, if I have

484
00:51:37.480 --> 00:51:43.599
grown wiser, I am not changed. Told you our marriage contract was made

485
00:51:43.639 --> 00:51:47.639
when we were both poor. You
are changed. When it was made you

486
00:51:47.679 --> 00:51:52.960
were another man. I was a
boy. Whatever you were, I freely

487
00:51:53.079 --> 00:51:58.639
offer you your release. Have I
ever thought it in words? Never?

488
00:51:59.159 --> 00:52:04.679
Oh? Then in a changed nature, in everything that made my love of

489
00:52:04.800 --> 00:52:08.719
any word or value in your sight. And so I release you with a

490
00:52:08.880 --> 00:52:15.320
full heart for the love of what
once you were. May you be happy

491
00:52:15.639 --> 00:52:21.280
in the life you've chosen. Now
I recognize your spirits and why you've come

492
00:52:21.360 --> 00:52:25.719
back to haunt me, torture me
no more. Sun shadows still to see.

493
00:52:25.960 --> 00:52:30.119
No I can bear it no longer, haunt me no longer. The

494
00:52:30.280 --> 00:52:35.199
light you shine is too bright for
my eyes to bear. Give me your

495
00:52:35.360 --> 00:52:43.599
capsule and may extinguish it and you
in a puff of smoke. The figure

496
00:52:43.719 --> 00:52:47.159
was gone, and I had barely
time to reel to my bed, exhausted

497
00:52:47.199 --> 00:52:57.440
from the long night's travels where I
fell into a heavy sleep. Or that

498
00:53:00.599 --> 00:53:07.440
the clock taking away awake in the
night of time almost one, when the

499
00:53:07.519 --> 00:53:12.880
second messenger, Marley sends me from
the grave, will arrive the word ghastly

500
00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:17.239
shape? Might he take? What
hideous form? What torture? Might this

501
00:53:17.440 --> 00:53:25.360
one plan for me? At least? I am prepared for anything, well

502
00:53:27.320 --> 00:53:36.239
prepared for anything, but but nothing? Hello there, Spirit, are you

503
00:53:36.400 --> 00:53:43.760
invisible to me? That's a great
light from beneath my sitting room the door.

504
00:53:45.800 --> 00:53:50.039
He is a fearful waste to write
a shocking extravagance. I'm just going

505
00:53:50.079 --> 00:53:59.840
to douse these candles. I'm afraid
to enter og every house, garage stop?

506
00:54:00.360 --> 00:54:07.159
How take have I your bedroom?
No hand on man? And why

507
00:54:07.519 --> 00:54:13.960
here's a prodigal spending of light in
a great roaring blaze, God enough to

508
00:54:14.039 --> 00:54:19.920
set the chimney flu on fire.
You look well on me. Have you

509
00:54:20.119 --> 00:54:23.559
ever seen the like of me before? Never? This time your eyes were

510
00:54:23.639 --> 00:54:30.199
opened to this another thing? Spirit, I will be no trouble. Conduct

511
00:54:30.280 --> 00:54:35.880
me where you will. I went
forth last night on compulsion, and I

512
00:54:36.119 --> 00:54:40.360
learned a lesson which is working now
tonight. If you have ought to teach

513
00:54:40.440 --> 00:54:46.960
me, let me profit by it. Old fast to my role. In

514
00:54:47.079 --> 00:54:51.960
the brink of an eye, we
were transported to a mean and shabby little

515
00:54:52.039 --> 00:54:58.119
house, threadbare but clean as a
new worstership and ridulant of the mouth watering

516
00:54:58.280 --> 00:55:02.800
smell of goose basking and sage and
onion, and a roamer is an eating

517
00:55:02.920 --> 00:55:08.440
house and pastry cooks next together,
which came from the Christmas pudding? Whoever

518
00:55:08.559 --> 00:55:14.119
has got your precious father? Then? And your brother tiny Tim? I

519
00:55:14.360 --> 00:55:17.599
never remember him? Martha is lady's
this on Christmas? Dear? What are

520
00:55:17.760 --> 00:55:23.800
place this house of your clock of
crotchet? See here he comes now,

521
00:55:25.280 --> 00:55:30.119
said child. He carries on his
shoulder with a little crutch in his hand,

522
00:55:30.920 --> 00:55:36.519
and his lower limbs bound in an
iron cage, the youngest of the

523
00:55:36.599 --> 00:55:42.440
cratchits tying him. Why look at
him struggle after the others as his father

524
00:55:42.519 --> 00:55:45.679
sets him down? Where are they
off to? What? One of the

525
00:55:45.800 --> 00:55:50.840
merrier sights of this marriers of seasons, the golden goose stern on the spitch.

526
00:55:52.400 --> 00:55:57.599
Listen wholeat you are, my dear, and how cold? Come?

527
00:55:57.840 --> 00:56:01.159
Come sit you down with the fire. Another wall. I'mb after I've had

528
00:56:01.199 --> 00:56:07.159
a look at that goose too,
asked, Tell me how did tiny Tim

529
00:56:07.280 --> 00:56:12.360
the heat of the serving as good
as gold and better? Somehow he gets

530
00:56:12.440 --> 00:56:16.599
thoughtful sitting by himself so much and
thinks the strangest things you ever heard?

531
00:56:17.000 --> 00:56:22.559
And now what was it? This
tiny he told me? Coming home?

532
00:56:22.119 --> 00:56:29.000
He hoped everyone in the church saw
him because he was a cripple, because

533
00:56:29.239 --> 00:56:34.000
it might be pleasant to them to
remember upon Christmas Day who it was made

534
00:56:34.840 --> 00:56:42.280
blame beggar's walk and blind and see, oh, if he's so much fune.

535
00:56:42.400 --> 00:56:44.400
No, no, no, no, you must not, my dear,

536
00:56:44.840 --> 00:56:49.280
remember the day. Come, let's
join the others. Tell me,

537
00:56:49.440 --> 00:56:55.199
spirits, we're tiny Tim live.
I see a vacant seat in the porchimney

538
00:56:55.280 --> 00:57:01.039
corner, and a little crutch without
an older. If these shadows remain on

539
00:57:01.199 --> 00:57:08.360
ordered by the future, the child
will die. No kind spirit spare him

540
00:57:08.519 --> 00:57:14.119
that from you. Recall your own
words. If he be like to die,

541
00:57:14.280 --> 00:57:21.000
he had better do it and decrease
the surplus population. I am machine

542
00:57:21.079 --> 00:57:25.320
and should be man. If you
be man at heart, forbear that wicked

543
00:57:25.480 --> 00:57:34.920
cant until you have discovered what the
surface is and where it is a toast

544
00:57:35.039 --> 00:57:39.360
before we eat, to mister Scrooge. To me, I'll give you mister

545
00:57:39.480 --> 00:57:45.440
Scrooge, the founder of the feast, to founder of the feat indeed,

546
00:57:45.960 --> 00:57:47.599
who I wish I had him here. I'd give him a piece of my

547
00:57:47.679 --> 00:57:51.800
mind to feast upon. And I
hope you have a good appetite for it.

548
00:57:52.079 --> 00:57:58.559
Oh, my dear the children Christmas
day? Well, how didn't his

549
00:57:58.679 --> 00:58:02.320
health for your sake in the day's
not for his long life? To him?

550
00:58:02.800 --> 00:58:07.679
A merry Christmas and a happy New
Year. Oh you'll be very merry.

551
00:58:07.719 --> 00:58:13.239
I'm very happy, I have no
doubt. And now a merry Christmas

552
00:58:13.280 --> 00:58:19.199
to us, all my DearS.
God bless us, How bless us everyone

553
00:58:20.039 --> 00:58:23.639
my very name, cast a paul
upon their happiness. But mark you on

554
00:58:23.760 --> 00:58:29.559
the wealth of spirit among them,
which thought kindly on a man with as

555
00:58:29.639 --> 00:58:35.199
little spirit as yours, in particular
that poor little lad, tiny Tim.

556
00:58:36.000 --> 00:58:40.639
Did you notice how generous he was
to end the toast with God bless us

557
00:58:42.199 --> 00:58:49.320
everyone, including even me. What
a valiant little soul in spite of all

558
00:58:49.400 --> 00:58:55.079
his handicaps. Perhaps your eyes are
opening at last, But come a Mordel,

559
00:58:55.159 --> 00:59:04.599
and were now your nephew's house?
He said, he said that Christmas

560
00:59:04.719 --> 00:59:07.480
was a humbug, as I really
believed it too. My shame for him,

561
00:59:07.559 --> 00:59:12.440
said that my uncle in law should
speak. So where is a comical

562
00:59:12.480 --> 00:59:15.400
old fellow? And not so pleasancy
might be? However, his offenses carry

563
00:59:15.440 --> 00:59:19.599
their own punishment, And I have
nothing to say against him, and I

564
00:59:19.719 --> 00:59:23.360
will have no downturn valves at this
season. So here's a glass of muld

565
00:59:23.400 --> 00:59:28.719
wine to our hands. Let's drink
to the old man. Well, he

566
00:59:28.800 --> 00:59:34.880
has given a plenty of marhament a
pat so to Uncle Screw, a merry

567
00:59:34.960 --> 00:59:37.880
Christmas of a happy new year to
the old man, whatever he is.

568
00:59:37.719 --> 00:59:42.320
He wouldn't take it from me,
but may he have it? Nevertheless,

569
00:59:43.079 --> 00:59:46.199
to Uncle Screw, to Uncle Scroll, no wait wait, let me go

570
00:59:46.320 --> 00:59:52.320
to them. May explain too late
for me? We are gross too late?

571
00:59:53.360 --> 01:00:02.360
Allay? Where stand we? Now? This open place, a crossroads

572
01:00:02.440 --> 01:00:07.760
where I must leave you and forgive
me what I ask. And I see

573
01:00:07.960 --> 01:00:12.239
something strange for fooding from the skirt
of your robe, that might be a

574
01:00:12.400 --> 01:00:17.639
claw for all the flesh there is
upon it. Then see what you must

575
01:00:17.880 --> 01:00:25.599
see from the sanctuary. Came forth
a boy and a girl, yellow,

576
01:00:25.920 --> 01:00:32.760
meager, ragged scowling wolfish, the
prostrate too in their humility. I started

577
01:00:32.800 --> 01:00:42.280
back a pall spirit, are these
yours? They are man's. The boy

578
01:00:42.440 --> 01:00:45.400
is ignorance, the girl is want
aware of them both and all of their

579
01:00:45.480 --> 01:00:51.039
degree. But most of all,
beware this boy, for on his brow

580
01:00:51.280 --> 01:00:59.719
I see written doom. Unless the
writing can be a rest my times?

581
01:01:00.679 --> 01:01:07.679
Have these pitiful creatures? No refuge
or resource? I answering your own words?

582
01:01:07.840 --> 01:01:15.039
Are there? No prisons? Are
there? No workhouses? Old?

583
01:01:15.679 --> 01:01:20.679
For one moment, help me where
should I turn? Hernan pays your future?

584
01:01:21.599 --> 01:01:30.159
The black phantom that approaches you now, Hey, your future? Your

585
01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:45.280
future. As the last stroke of
the bell struck twelve, Scrooge turned to

586
01:01:45.480 --> 01:01:51.960
face the dread figure, a solemn
phantom, draped included in blacks and deep

587
01:01:52.079 --> 01:01:58.239
grays, coming creeping like the mist
about it towards him. I'll return with

588
01:01:58.360 --> 01:02:15.840
Act three. The last phantom silently, slowly, gravely approached. It was

589
01:02:15.960 --> 01:02:21.440
shrouded in a deep black garment which
concealed its head, its face, its

590
01:02:21.559 --> 01:02:27.920
form, and left nothing of it
visible save one outstretched hand, which served

591
01:02:28.400 --> 01:02:37.599
as his only voice. For the
spirit neither spoke nor moved. I am

592
01:02:37.679 --> 01:02:44.239
in the presence of the ghost of
Christmas yet to come. You wants to

593
01:02:44.360 --> 01:02:50.480
not but point where we are to
go head on spirit, and I will

594
01:02:50.559 --> 01:02:58.960
follow. The great black cloud gathered
me and carried me willing lilly to the

595
01:02:59.079 --> 01:03:04.960
streets. It's troud like to figure
that stood by me? How about me?

596
01:03:05.119 --> 01:03:10.599
Is I listened to two gentlemen talking
in the street. So mister Grimes

597
01:03:10.840 --> 01:03:15.320
old scratch has got his own at
last? I have been so informed,

598
01:03:15.480 --> 01:03:21.119
mister goodfellow. When did he die
last night? Aly? What on earth

599
01:03:21.159 --> 01:03:25.119
could he have caught? I thought
he never died gardners hight like here?

600
01:03:25.440 --> 01:03:30.559
What has he done with his money? Heaven knows? Not left to charities,

601
01:03:30.599 --> 01:03:34.920
only not to me? Led to
his company, per God knows.

602
01:03:35.039 --> 01:03:38.760
He appears not to have had any
sort of personal tie, by which token

603
01:03:39.079 --> 01:03:45.480
it's like to be of a cheap
funeral for upon my life I cannot think

604
01:03:45.559 --> 01:03:55.599
of anybody to go to it.
How dismal and awful to dismiss another human

605
01:03:55.679 --> 01:04:01.639
being in such terms? Will you
you mean, dread ghost? I did

606
01:04:01.719 --> 01:04:06.960
not mean to diverge. You wish
to reveal something to me? You have

607
01:04:08.119 --> 01:04:17.880
my full attention? Who said the
news is bad? Bad? We're quite

608
01:04:18.000 --> 01:04:23.559
ruined. Oh, there's hope for
us yet if you're a lens yeah,

609
01:04:23.639 --> 01:04:27.320
if I for is awful gay,
there might have been, but it is

610
01:04:27.400 --> 01:04:32.840
too late for the miracle. Ooh, old miserable boy, he's past relenting,

611
01:04:34.519 --> 01:04:42.239
he's dead. No, who waits
for it? Wait? I'm not

612
01:04:42.360 --> 01:04:48.360
ready to leave. What else would
you have me look on? Tell me

613
01:04:48.440 --> 01:04:55.199
again about today? About to put
him on the grave. It would have

614
01:04:55.360 --> 01:04:59.119
done you good to see how green
a place it is. But you'll see

615
01:04:59.159 --> 01:05:02.119
it often, I promised him.
I would walk there every other Sunday,

616
01:05:03.280 --> 01:05:11.599
my last born, poor little broken
child. Not please, I shall wait

617
01:05:11.679 --> 01:05:15.960
down with you, Oh my darling. We can all try to be brave,

618
01:05:15.639 --> 01:05:21.079
but how can we hide our sorrow? What is more final and dreadful

619
01:05:21.880 --> 01:05:30.239
than death? I want to help
spector you, but something informs me that

620
01:05:30.400 --> 01:05:34.920
our parting moment is at hand.
Tell me what man was it? I

621
01:05:35.079 --> 01:05:43.840
saw? Lying? Dead? Very
well? View point? Where to this

622
01:05:44.039 --> 01:05:53.840
time? A church yard? And
here we are the headstone? She would

623
01:05:53.880 --> 01:05:59.480
have me read it. But tell
me are these the shadows of things that

624
01:05:59.679 --> 01:06:12.639
will be? For? Maybe only
my own name? Evaneza Scrooge spirit hear

625
01:06:12.760 --> 01:06:15.159
me? I am not the man
I was. I will not be the

626
01:06:15.280 --> 01:06:18.840
man I must have pinned from all
this intercourse? Why show me this?

627
01:06:19.440 --> 01:06:28.400
If I am past all hoop for
once you make no emotion, your nature

628
01:06:28.400 --> 01:06:31.760
intercedes for me and pities me good
spirit. I will honor Christmas in my

629
01:06:31.920 --> 01:06:36.239
heart and try to keep it all
the year. The three spirits show,

630
01:06:36.280 --> 01:06:41.679
just try within me. I will
not shut out the lessons that they teach.

631
01:06:42.000 --> 01:06:45.679
Oh tell me, I may sponge
away the writing on the stone.

632
01:06:45.280 --> 01:06:54.280
Give me your hand, You give
me your hand. I hold you to

633
01:06:54.480 --> 01:07:00.119
me. You cannot disappear, You
cannot disappear. You bless my soul.

634
01:07:00.239 --> 01:07:06.039
What I cling to is my own
bedpost. And wait, wait, Perhaps

635
01:07:06.280 --> 01:07:12.239
my time is my own to make
amends in. Yes, I will live

636
01:07:12.320 --> 01:07:15.280
in the past, in the present, and the future. The spirits of

637
01:07:15.400 --> 01:07:19.679
all three who strive within me,
Old Jacob, Molly, Heaven and Christmas

638
01:07:19.760 --> 01:07:24.440
Time be praised for this. I
say it on my knees, Old Jacob,

639
01:07:24.679 --> 01:07:29.480
on my knees. I don't know
what's to do. I'm as nice

640
01:07:29.480 --> 01:07:31.639
as a feather, and I'm as
happy as an angel. I'm as merry

641
01:07:31.679 --> 01:07:36.280
as a schoolboy. I'm as giddy
as a drunken man. A merry Christmas

642
01:07:36.360 --> 01:07:43.360
to everyone, A happy New Year
to all the world. Holl Hello,

643
01:07:44.400 --> 01:07:46.559
there's the saucepan that goes in.
There's the door by Whish, the ghost

644
01:07:46.559 --> 01:07:50.440
of Jacob Molly, and there's the
corner where I saw the wandering spirits.

645
01:07:50.519 --> 01:07:56.360
It's all right, it's true,
it all happened, all right. I

646
01:07:56.440 --> 01:08:00.360
don't among the spirits. I'm a
baby. I don't know what monk is.

647
01:08:00.880 --> 01:08:05.960
Throw open the window and rejoin the
world. Hey, mister Rhymes,

648
01:08:06.400 --> 01:08:14.519
what's today? By Christmas Day?
Christmas Day? I haven't missed it.

649
01:08:14.800 --> 01:08:17.720
If the spirits had done it all
in one night, they can do what

650
01:08:17.880 --> 01:08:21.680
they like, of course they can. Hallo, my fine fellow, Hello

651
01:08:23.880 --> 01:08:30.359
Mary, Christmas, Merry Christmas to
you. Do you still run the Poulterer's

652
01:08:30.439 --> 01:08:33.319
shop in the next street for one
at the corner? I should hope I

653
01:08:33.560 --> 01:08:38.479
did on my way to open up
or pray? Then, mister Grimes,

654
01:08:38.640 --> 01:08:42.760
do I dare hope you had not
yet sold the prize turkey that was hanging

655
01:08:42.840 --> 01:08:46.600
up there, Not the little prize
turkey, the big prize turkey, Ah,

656
01:08:47.119 --> 01:08:50.800
the one as big as an oscirt
for a delightful man of pleasure to

657
01:08:50.880 --> 01:08:55.640
talk to him. Yes, mister
Grime, it is hanging there. Now,

658
01:08:56.560 --> 01:08:59.800
what are we waiting for? I
want to buy it. Pree here

659
01:09:00.079 --> 01:09:02.279
that I may give directions where to
take it. Send back your boy and

660
01:09:02.359 --> 01:09:05.560
I'll give him a shilling. Have
him bring it back and rest than five

661
01:09:05.600 --> 01:09:09.680
minutes, and I'll give you half
a ground. Better still, here's a

662
01:09:09.800 --> 01:09:14.880
five pound note. Send him to
deliver the turkey to mister crackit by cad

663
01:09:15.399 --> 01:09:18.520
at the address I give you,
and what's left shall be your Christmas present.

664
01:09:18.840 --> 01:09:27.239
And his shaving was not an easy
task, for my hand was shaking

665
01:09:27.319 --> 01:09:30.720
and shaving the man's attention. At
last it was finished, and I dressed

666
01:09:30.760 --> 01:09:35.479
myself and all my best and issued
forth to the streets. The first person

667
01:09:35.520 --> 01:09:40.439
I met was a portry gentleman who
had walked into my counting house the day

668
01:09:40.479 --> 01:09:45.159
before, saying Scrooge and Marley's I
believe. I hastened to intercept him.

669
01:09:45.960 --> 01:09:49.359
My dear sir, how do you
do? I beg your pardon? I

670
01:09:49.640 --> 01:09:57.119
hope you succeeded yesterday. A merry
Christmas to you, sir, mister Scrooge,

671
01:09:57.479 --> 01:10:00.840
that is my name. I fear
not p to you. Allow me

672
01:10:00.960 --> 01:10:05.399
to ask your pardon, and will
you have the goodness to allow me to

673
01:10:05.760 --> 01:10:15.279
contribute. May I have your ear? Sir, Lord, bless me so

674
01:10:15.479 --> 01:10:19.199
much? My dear mister Scrooge.
Are you really serious? If you please?

675
01:10:19.960 --> 01:10:25.560
Not a farthing less? Will you
do me that favor? My dear

676
01:10:25.680 --> 01:10:30.119
sir, I don't know what to
say. You don't say anything. Come

677
01:10:30.199 --> 01:10:34.800
and see me? Will you come
and see me? I will indeed thank

678
01:10:34.920 --> 01:10:49.800
you. I thank you fifty times. Bless you Mary Christmas? I by

679
01:10:50.079 --> 01:10:55.359
all that's holy? Is it you? Uncle? Me? Fred? You

680
01:10:55.520 --> 01:10:59.640
did ask me to dinner? Am
I too late to take up the invitation?

681
01:11:00.199 --> 01:11:02.319
Too late? Will you let me? Will I let you win?

682
01:11:02.680 --> 01:11:08.680
Why? Here's the merriest turner Christmas
can take, darling wife, here's Uncle

683
01:11:08.720 --> 01:11:12.199
Scrooge to share our Christmas? Isn't
it a present for this day? You

684
01:11:12.520 --> 01:11:16.359
couldn't have brought Fred a better one. Welcome to our home, Uncle,

685
01:11:16.760 --> 01:11:23.159
for only the first of many times. I hope it's a whole new year.

686
01:11:23.560 --> 01:11:26.800
Yes, and you may spend it
all with us if you will,

687
01:11:27.039 --> 01:11:30.239
only today, for I must be
in the office as early as can be.

688
01:11:31.239 --> 01:11:33.800
No, no, no, no, don't steal glances at each other.

689
01:11:34.119 --> 01:11:40.640
It isn't business on my mind.
But recompense. Since at last I

690
01:11:40.720 --> 01:11:44.840
have learned to laugh. I want
to have my first joke with the man

691
01:11:44.960 --> 01:11:49.000
I have perhaps wronged most all of
these years, my faithful Bob Cratchitt,

692
01:11:54.840 --> 01:12:00.560
A wonderful day, an evening with
my nephew, a deep sleep that might

693
01:12:00.600 --> 01:12:04.079
have lasted for days, except that
I was bound and determined to be earlier

694
01:12:04.159 --> 01:12:08.920
than my clerk at the counting house
that Monday morning. I was as pleased

695
01:12:08.920 --> 01:12:13.279
as a child when I beat him
there, even more pleased to find that,

696
01:12:13.439 --> 01:12:16.279
for once he was late. When
the door opened and he came in,

697
01:12:16.760 --> 01:12:21.079
he was a full eighteen and one
half minutes behind his time. His

698
01:12:21.199 --> 01:12:26.359
hat and scarf were off before he
opened the door in terror the man I

699
01:12:26.520 --> 01:12:30.119
had been. He was on his
stool in a jiffy, writing his pain,

700
01:12:30.199 --> 01:12:32.640
as if he were trying to overtake
the last minute. Morning, missus

701
01:12:32.680 --> 01:12:38.319
Scrooge, morning late for that?
What do you mean by coming here this

702
01:12:38.479 --> 01:12:42.359
time of day? I am very
sorry, sir, I am behind time

703
01:12:43.039 --> 01:12:45.439
you are I think you are now. Step this way, sir, if

704
01:12:45.439 --> 01:12:48.640
you please. It's only once a
year, sir, it shall not be

705
01:12:48.840 --> 01:12:54.760
repeated. I was making rather merry
yesterday, sir, I'll tell you what,

706
01:12:55.000 --> 01:12:58.439
my friend, I'm not going to
spend with this sort of thing any

707
01:12:58.520 --> 01:13:08.880
longer, or I feel myself forced
to raise your salary by mister Scrooge.

708
01:13:09.239 --> 01:13:15.039
Sir, do you feel all right
on my merry Christmas bub a merrier Christmas

709
01:13:15.760 --> 01:13:20.199
than I have given you for many
a year. Not only raise your salary,

710
01:13:20.880 --> 01:13:27.439
but discuss your affairs and endeavor to
help your struggling family over a Christmas

711
01:13:27.560 --> 01:13:31.479
bowl or smooking bishop. So make
up the fires till they hut us right

712
01:13:31.560 --> 01:13:36.000
out of the country house before you
got another eye, Bob credit. It's

713
01:13:36.159 --> 01:13:42.159
not only a new year, but
a whole new world for both of us.

714
01:13:51.199 --> 01:13:56.319
As we all know, Scrooge was
better than his words. He did

715
01:13:56.359 --> 01:14:00.720
it all. And to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was

716
01:14:00.800 --> 01:14:04.560
a second father, and he made
a good new will for his nephew and

717
01:14:04.720 --> 01:14:11.319
his future partner Bob Cratchett. One
thing after a long life, he took

718
01:14:11.399 --> 01:14:16.439
to his grave that he knew how
to keep Christmas well. May it be

719
01:14:16.560 --> 01:14:21.720
truly said of all of us,
And as Tiny Tim observed, God bless

720
01:14:21.800 --> 01:14:42.239
us everyone. What more is there
to say after Dicken's Christmas Carol except the

721
01:14:42.359 --> 01:14:49.119
eternal message it brings a merry Christmas
and a happy New Year. Our cast

722
01:14:49.239 --> 01:14:55.159
included Marion Seldi's, Ian Martin E. V Jester, Robert Dryden and William

723
01:14:55.239 --> 01:15:00.520
Redfield. The entire production was under
the direction of Hymond Brown. I feel

724
01:15:00.600 --> 01:15:08.199
like that story never truly gets old
for me anyway. It's so true the

725
01:15:08.319 --> 01:15:17.199
holidays are about giving and kindness and
ghosts. But now or that, Oh

726
01:15:17.399 --> 01:15:20.960
well, let me top you off. It looks like your drink has gotten

727
01:15:21.800 --> 01:15:25.119
stone cold. Well we can't have
that. No, no, no,

728
01:15:25.159 --> 01:15:29.319
no no. I need you as
cozy and comfortable as you can be,

729
01:15:30.359 --> 01:15:38.359
because this next story is all about
the returning, the coming back for Christmas,

730
01:15:39.520 --> 01:15:44.800
because no matter where you wound up, it's always a time to come

731
01:15:44.840 --> 01:16:03.079
home. And you are trapped in
the dark cellar of your home. Beside

732
01:16:03.119 --> 01:16:08.119
you is the murdered body of your
wife, and above at the front door

733
01:16:08.239 --> 01:16:13.079
your friends looking for you, tracking
you down, cutting off your escape.

734
01:16:24.399 --> 01:16:29.319
Escape produced and directed by William N. Robson, and carefully contrived to free

735
01:16:29.359 --> 01:16:32.239
you from the four walls of to
day for a half hour of high adventure

736
01:16:38.680 --> 01:16:43.960
to night. We escape to a
university town in England and a household where

737
01:16:44.119 --> 01:17:11.119
hateful sway as we listened to John
Collier's famous story back for Christmas jingle all

738
01:17:11.439 --> 01:17:17.079
the way. Oh what fun.
Yes, my dear, what on earth

739
01:17:17.119 --> 01:17:20.840
are you doing down here on the
cellar? Why? Just a little digging?

740
01:17:21.079 --> 01:17:24.680
And why, may I ask?
Have you chosen this day of all

741
01:17:24.840 --> 01:17:27.960
days to dig up the cellar flaw? Why? I thought, as the

742
01:17:28.039 --> 01:17:30.680
weather has been so damp, this
would be an excellent time to plant my

743
01:17:30.800 --> 01:17:34.439
devil's garden. Devil's garden, whatever
nonsense is that? Oh, that's my

744
01:17:34.560 --> 01:17:38.600
little joke about it. You see, I've managed to secure some of the

745
01:17:38.680 --> 01:17:43.159
spores of several unclassified wild orchids.
In their natural state, they bloom under

746
01:17:43.239 --> 01:17:47.079
damp masses of leaf mold. The
Oracanian Indians call them devil flowers because they

747
01:17:47.119 --> 01:17:50.640
have feared a bloom under the ground. Well, I'm sure the Aracanian Indians

748
01:17:50.680 --> 01:17:56.159
will be very interested if you succeed
in growing these ridiculous flowers under the cellar

749
01:17:56.239 --> 01:18:00.439
floor. Who malls little interest?
I can't imagine. What's that terrible smell?

750
01:18:00.760 --> 01:18:04.680
Well, that's the leaf mold,
my dear, chemically identical with the

751
01:18:04.760 --> 01:18:10.319
earth blanket they grow under in the
wild state. I really should line the

752
01:18:10.359 --> 01:18:15.800
pit with concrete so as to prevent
seepage from this foreign soil. But I

753
01:18:15.000 --> 01:18:18.520
don't suppose there'll be time for it
now. There certainly will not be time

754
01:18:18.640 --> 01:18:23.479
for it. Do you realize that
we're sailing for America a week from today

755
01:18:23.680 --> 01:18:27.039
and you've made no arrangements whatever?
Unless you call digging a hole in the

756
01:18:27.159 --> 01:18:31.720
cellar making arrangements, I certainly don't
Devil's garden. Indeed, sometimes I think

757
01:18:31.760 --> 01:18:35.600
you're going soft their head, Herbert. I suppose it's inconsiderate of me.

758
01:18:35.960 --> 01:18:40.279
But you see, I've been wanting
to try this experiment for a long time,

759
01:18:40.640 --> 01:18:44.359
but what with my lectures and seminars
at the university, there never seem

760
01:18:44.399 --> 01:18:46.039
to be time. Well, there
certainly isn't any time for it now.

761
01:18:46.680 --> 01:18:50.399
I suppose you've forgotten I made an
appointment for you at the barbers this afternoon.

762
01:18:50.680 --> 01:18:54.640
Or must I shave off my beard, hermione. Now we've been all

763
01:18:54.880 --> 01:18:58.960
through that, of course you must. They don't wear beards in America.

764
01:18:59.359 --> 01:19:01.079
Don't get your on and do as
I tell you, yes, hermione,

765
01:19:01.239 --> 01:19:04.439
And don't forget to take your umbrella. It looks like rain, yes,

766
01:19:04.520 --> 01:19:09.600
hermione. Oh, don't look so
put upon, Herbert. Someone has to

767
01:19:09.720 --> 01:19:13.279
plan things in this house or you'd
never even get to the university and time

768
01:19:13.359 --> 01:19:16.000
for your lectures, much less make
arrangements for a trip to America. I

769
01:19:16.159 --> 01:19:19.640
know, but what of my specimens. There'll be plenty of time to plant

770
01:19:19.680 --> 01:19:24.680
your precious devil's garden when you get
home from America. We're not going to

771
01:19:24.720 --> 01:19:28.319
be gone forever, you know.
We'll be back here for Christmas. Yes,

772
01:19:28.479 --> 01:19:31.720
of course, beg for Christmas.
I'd forgotten. We'll try to remember

773
01:19:31.800 --> 01:19:34.399
it. And if you can't do
that, just do as I tell you.

774
01:19:35.000 --> 01:19:39.079
I've been making the plans in this
house for twenty years, and if

775
01:19:39.079 --> 01:19:42.680
there's any digging to be done,
I'll manage that as well, you understand,

776
01:19:42.760 --> 01:19:45.800
Herbert, Yes, hermione good.
You have just twenty minutes to clean

777
01:19:45.880 --> 01:19:49.039
this mess up down here and keep
your appointment at the barbers. And when

778
01:19:49.079 --> 01:19:53.479
you finish there, I want you
to come straight home. Why I wanted

779
01:19:53.520 --> 01:19:56.840
to stop at miss Markham's and pick
up some books I ordered, Well,

780
01:19:57.520 --> 01:20:00.960
all right, but don't light her
there the whole afternoon browsing over those old

781
01:20:01.000 --> 01:20:04.399
books the way you usually do.
Now, hurry and clear up this rubbish.

782
01:20:04.479 --> 01:20:09.279
Get rid of that smelly stuff and
no more digging, mind you.

783
01:20:09.760 --> 01:20:23.960
Yes, hermione, yes, hermione. How many years have I been saying

784
01:20:24.039 --> 01:20:28.520
that? Ten years? Fifteen,
twenty? Clear up the rubbish, yes,

785
01:20:28.640 --> 01:20:32.079
hermione, don't forget your umbrella,
yes, hermione. Do this do

786
01:20:32.319 --> 01:20:35.960
that? Yes, hermione, yes, yes, yes. How much longer

787
01:20:36.039 --> 01:20:49.399
can I stand this? Good evening, sir, good evening, Miss Markham,

788
01:20:50.319 --> 01:20:56.399
writes Professor Carpenter. Isn't it you
didn't recognize me? Oh? You

789
01:20:56.520 --> 01:21:00.880
look ever so much younger without the
beard. Twenty year is at least twenty

790
01:21:01.000 --> 01:21:05.600
years. You'll be glad to know
those books you ordered have finally arrived.

791
01:21:06.119 --> 01:21:14.279
Books by Tartany of Fallowed Gamatophytes and
Conoferous Shrubs of North America. Those are

792
01:21:14.319 --> 01:21:16.479
the ones you ordered, aren't they? Oh? Yes, yes, thank

793
01:21:16.560 --> 01:21:23.079
you. You're very kind, Miss
Markham. Why kind, Professor Carpenter?

794
01:21:23.600 --> 01:21:26.960
Well, not many young ladies in
bookshops would go out of their way to

795
01:21:27.560 --> 01:21:30.399
look up rare books for an old
professor of botany. Oh why you're not,

796
01:21:30.520 --> 01:21:34.760
old, Professor Carpenter? Really you
look? Oh on this side,

797
01:21:35.119 --> 01:21:42.199
I adore botany. It's my particular
hobby. Oh really. You never told

798
01:21:42.239 --> 01:21:45.319
me that before, Miss Markholm.
Oh I was afraid too. You were

799
01:21:45.399 --> 01:21:51.840
so so imposing with a beard and
all. Well, I you might be

800
01:21:51.920 --> 01:21:56.600
interested in some specimens of alpine polyanthes
that were sent to me by a friend

801
01:21:56.680 --> 01:22:00.560
in Switzerland. Switzerland? Are you
to go there for my holidays before the

802
01:22:00.640 --> 01:22:05.520
war? You like Switzerland? I
love every part of it, the lakes,

803
01:22:05.600 --> 01:22:12.960
the mountains, the beautiful spring flowers, especially the flowers. Oh,

804
01:22:13.159 --> 01:22:16.000
yes, it seems we have quite
a lot in common, Miss Markham.

805
01:22:16.760 --> 01:22:24.600
I'm sorry we haven't talked before.
Oh, I am too. It is

806
01:22:24.640 --> 01:22:29.199
all the thought of the beard,
I suppose, Miss Markham. Forgive me

807
01:22:29.239 --> 01:22:33.239
if this sounds foolish, but I
feel that shaving off my beard is the

808
01:22:33.279 --> 01:22:39.199
most important thing I've done for twenty
years. Oh it is, I'm sure

809
01:22:39.279 --> 01:22:43.439
it is. I'm ashamed that I've
been so distant with you all the time,

810
01:22:44.640 --> 01:22:47.319
or there were times when I almost
spoke up, times when you came

811
01:22:47.359 --> 01:22:53.760
in here tired after day with your
students at the university. You seem so

812
01:22:54.079 --> 01:22:58.960
lone the way I'm alone in the
world. I'd like to have asked you

813
01:22:59.039 --> 01:23:02.840
to stay awhile and with me.
But some way or other. I wound

814
01:23:02.920 --> 01:23:08.840
up giving you a change and letting
you go on your way. You you

815
01:23:08.960 --> 01:23:13.640
say you're all alone in the world
since my father died, Well, did

816
01:23:13.680 --> 01:23:17.960
you never think of marrying? My
father was a very remarkable man. I

817
01:23:18.119 --> 01:23:23.000
never found anyone who seemed to measure
up to what he led me to expect

818
01:23:23.079 --> 01:23:28.479
of men. And then the war
came. Miss Markham, it's been so

819
01:23:28.720 --> 01:23:32.680
long since anyone called me by my
first name. I'd like you too,

820
01:23:33.760 --> 01:23:45.920
if you don't mind, It's Marian, Marian, and yours Herbert. How

821
01:23:45.039 --> 01:23:49.479
long have you been alone? Herbert? Alone? Oh? I knew you

822
01:23:49.560 --> 01:23:54.920
were a widow, of course the
first time I saw you. Oh.

823
01:23:54.960 --> 01:24:00.479
I can always tell. There's a
certain sadness in a man's eyes, a

824
01:24:00.600 --> 01:24:03.359
sweet sadness, I think when he's
been married. And then who widow were?

825
01:24:04.239 --> 01:24:08.680
I never thought of it in quite
that way, Or perhaps I shouldn't

826
01:24:08.680 --> 01:24:13.960
be talking like this, But I've
often wondered what she must have been like

827
01:24:15.000 --> 01:24:19.840
your wife. I mean Hermione,
not an easy woman to forget, very

828
01:24:19.920 --> 01:24:25.159
strong, always managing things, the
house, my wardrobe, my friends.

829
01:24:25.760 --> 01:24:29.199
When we dined at a restaurant,
she even ordered my food. She was

830
01:24:29.239 --> 01:24:35.760
always managing things. You might say
she managed herself to death. Poor woman.

831
01:24:36.680 --> 01:24:41.520
She must have loved you very much, but you need to put herself

832
01:24:41.560 --> 01:24:45.319
out. So it's plain to see. You don't need things managed for you.

833
01:24:45.720 --> 01:24:55.199
You need companionship. I think some
one sympathetic with your work. But

834
01:24:55.279 --> 01:24:58.479
the last thing on earth you need
is a manager. How well you put

835
01:24:58.520 --> 01:25:09.800
it, the last thing on earth. That's the first time I thought of

836
01:25:09.880 --> 01:25:13.800
it, of course, But suddenly
a whole new world opened up before my

837
01:25:13.920 --> 01:25:19.319
eyes, Marian and America, and
no more of Hermione is planning my life

838
01:25:19.399 --> 01:25:24.199
for me. By the time I
got home, my mind was working overtime.

839
01:25:24.520 --> 01:25:28.000
Well at last. You certainly took
long enough about it. What are

840
01:25:28.079 --> 01:25:30.800
you looking so pleased about? I
don't really know. Getting rid of the

841
01:25:30.840 --> 01:25:35.640
beard? Perhaps I feel twenty years
younger. You look even smaller. Your

842
01:25:35.680 --> 01:25:42.239
face looks triangular or something I'd forgotten. Your chin was so weak. No,

843
01:25:42.439 --> 01:25:45.439
but never mind that you can grow
it back soon enough. After Christmas?

844
01:25:45.760 --> 01:25:47.960
Where are you going down to the
cellar? I just bought this electric

845
01:25:48.079 --> 01:25:51.239
lantern, and I thought i'd put
it away down there now. Whatever possessed

846
01:25:51.239 --> 01:25:55.239
you to buy a thing like that, I don't know. I'd rather like

847
01:25:55.359 --> 01:26:00.319
this lantern might come in handy,
who knows now. But don't start digging

848
01:26:00.439 --> 01:26:03.479
down there again. I have a
hundred things to do, putting the house

849
01:26:03.520 --> 01:26:06.880
in order before we leave. I
want you to carry these boxes upstairs for

850
01:26:08.039 --> 01:26:10.359
me, yes, Somione. And
if you're going down to the cellar,

851
01:26:10.439 --> 01:26:14.119
take this along and stuff it into
the furnace. This is my old bathroom.

852
01:26:14.359 --> 01:26:15.800
I may need it, nonsense,
I've bought you a new one.

853
01:26:15.920 --> 01:26:20.439
Get rid of it, and don't
start puttering down there with that devil's garden

854
01:26:20.520 --> 01:26:25.279
or whatever you call it. I'm
through digging, my dear. I think

855
01:26:25.439 --> 01:26:36.680
the pit is quite deep enough now
for my devil's garden. It would all

856
01:26:36.760 --> 01:26:42.319
have to be carefully planned, of
course, just as carefully planned as Hermione

857
01:26:42.439 --> 01:26:46.079
was planning the trip to America.
We both went about our respective engagements.

858
01:26:46.079 --> 01:26:49.960
As the days passed, I spent
all the time I could with Marian,

859
01:26:50.039 --> 01:26:55.479
and finally she consented. And then
it was the last day, the big

860
01:26:55.600 --> 01:27:01.479
day, the day we were to
sail for America. Operator operator, are

861
01:27:01.520 --> 01:27:06.359
you there? I'm still waiting on
that call to Salisbury. Oh, we'll

862
01:27:06.399 --> 01:27:13.199
put them on quickly. Hello,
is this Paul Holton Sons? Missus Herbert

863
01:27:13.239 --> 01:27:16.359
Carpenter? Here, did you receive
my letter? Oh? Good? Now,

864
01:27:16.439 --> 01:27:19.840
remember we'll be back for Christmas,
and I want the job done without

865
01:27:19.960 --> 01:27:26.479
fail. What's there? Oh no, I'm sure he doesn't suspect anything.

866
01:27:27.039 --> 01:27:30.840
Send the bill to me in New
York as I instructed you. Thank you,

867
01:27:30.000 --> 01:27:34.600
thank you so much. Oh there
you are, Herbert, Where have

868
01:27:34.680 --> 01:27:41.760
you been? I dismissed the servants. Dismiss the servants. But I've asked

869
01:27:41.840 --> 01:27:45.560
some friends into a farewell tea.
Go and tell them it's a mistake.

870
01:27:45.680 --> 01:27:47.920
I'm afraid it's too late. Now
they've pecked and gone. Oh, you

871
01:27:48.159 --> 01:27:51.720
have messed up things properly. How
many times have I told you to leave

872
01:27:51.800 --> 01:27:56.159
things to me. I make the
plans around here. Yes, hermione,

873
01:27:56.560 --> 01:27:59.319
you'll have to do better than this
when I plan the trip home, or

874
01:27:59.359 --> 01:28:01.520
we'll never in the world be back
for Christmas, back for Christmas, Back

875
01:28:01.560 --> 01:28:05.279
for Christmas. But you keep saying
that, why not we are coming back

876
01:28:05.319 --> 01:28:09.880
for Christmas? Aren't we? Supposing
I were offered a professorship in one of

877
01:28:09.920 --> 01:28:15.760
those wealthy American universities. Nonsense,
Americans care nothing for botany. Luther Burbank

878
01:28:15.920 --> 01:28:19.159
was an American that's different. What
have you ever done except muck around and

879
01:28:19.199 --> 01:28:23.279
the dirt with a lot of ropes
and chobers. The bask met to lecture.

880
01:28:23.720 --> 01:28:27.880
That means something, of course,
they asked you to lecture. Americans

881
01:28:27.920 --> 01:28:30.880
are paid here. Any foreigner deliver
a lecture once. Now, there's no

882
01:28:31.000 --> 01:28:35.000
use getting yourself in a state about
this, Herbert, No doubt this extra

883
01:28:35.159 --> 01:28:41.520
money will come in they handy when
we arrive back for Christmas, precisely.

884
01:28:42.680 --> 01:28:45.479
And it's no good you're making a
joke of it. Heaven knows where you'd

885
01:28:45.520 --> 01:28:48.239
be today if I hadn't got a
sense of time. Yes, my dear

886
01:28:48.279 --> 01:28:53.039
Hermione. And since you've been so
foolish as to dismiss the servants, you

887
01:28:53.359 --> 01:28:56.880
may empty the ice trays and straighten
up this room while we're waiting for the

888
01:28:56.960 --> 01:29:00.479
guests to arrive. I am going
upstairs to change Call me when I get

889
01:29:00.560 --> 01:29:09.239
here. Yes, Hermione, Yes, Hermione, Yes, Hermione. For

890
01:29:09.439 --> 01:29:14.159
twenty years, Hermione, always so
right, thought of everything, well,

891
01:29:14.279 --> 01:29:18.680
not quite everything. She's dressing now, save to call Marian. Oh,

892
01:29:18.720 --> 01:29:21.640
if Marian were a change of mind, now, if she had any idea

893
01:29:21.720 --> 01:29:28.760
I was not a widower. Hello, hello, Marian Herbert. No,

894
01:29:29.399 --> 01:29:33.399
no, my darling, nothing's wrong. My plans are the same, unless

895
01:29:33.399 --> 01:29:41.039
you've changed. Good. We'll meet
in New York as we planned. Yes,

896
01:29:41.479 --> 01:29:45.319
yes, I do love you,
my darling. I'm sorry I can't

897
01:29:45.319 --> 01:29:48.119
talk any longer. Yes, I
I'll meet you in New York a week

898
01:29:48.159 --> 01:29:53.960
from to morrow without fail it.
Good bye till then. Were you talking

899
01:29:54.000 --> 01:29:58.399
on the phone just now, yes, hermione. Whoever was it Freddy?

900
01:29:58.800 --> 01:30:01.319
Freddy's in Clair? Of course?
Oh didn't I hear you say something about

901
01:30:01.399 --> 01:30:05.159
meeting somebody in New York? Why? Yes, Old Freddy said he might

902
01:30:05.199 --> 01:30:09.359
possibly get out to America before we
leave, and I said, of course

903
01:30:09.359 --> 01:30:12.960
we'd meet him there if he decides
to go. That seems very peculiar,

904
01:30:13.640 --> 01:30:17.119
But then all of your friends are
peculiar, is hermione. And just look

905
01:30:17.199 --> 01:30:20.800
at your jacket. Have you been
digging an at cellar again? Yes,

906
01:30:20.880 --> 01:30:25.720
hermione. Well there's no need for
it. You can't possibly get that Devil's

907
01:30:25.720 --> 01:30:29.800
Garden thing finished. Go and change
your clothes before the guests arrive. Yes,

908
01:30:30.239 --> 01:30:31.680
Oh, never mind, I see
somebody coming up the walk, Now

909
01:30:31.880 --> 01:30:35.840
go and let them in, yes, Hermione. Harberton, Yes, my

910
01:30:35.960 --> 01:30:42.199
dear, look out the window.
Here's professor and missus Hewett. But who's

911
01:30:42.239 --> 01:30:49.640
that with them? Why? Hey, precisely Freddy Sinclair. Peculiar. You

912
01:30:49.720 --> 01:30:53.760
should have been talking to him on
the phone not three minutes ago, and

913
01:30:53.960 --> 01:30:58.399
now here he is here hees,
isn't it? Eh? But then,

914
01:30:58.479 --> 01:31:01.159
as you say, Hermiami, all
of my friends are peculiar, not half

915
01:31:01.239 --> 01:31:05.199
so peculiar as you digging in the
cellar an hour before we leave for America.

916
01:31:05.680 --> 01:31:09.760
Just lock it yourself, and now
that I think of it, yes,

917
01:31:09.840 --> 01:31:13.359
Hermione, Oh, never mind going
let the me in. You were

918
01:31:13.399 --> 01:31:16.159
going to ask me something, Hermione, But the whole I'm digging in the

919
01:31:16.279 --> 01:31:20.279
cellar. Oh good heaven, stop
rolling your eyes about that way. One

920
01:31:20.319 --> 01:31:24.439
would think you were digging up grave
down there instead of a storage bin.

921
01:31:25.039 --> 01:31:29.000
Yes, Hermione, was it,
I said, yes, Hermione. Oh,

922
01:31:29.239 --> 01:31:32.319
bather opened the door and stop saying
yes, Hermione. I think,

923
01:31:32.439 --> 01:31:43.359
my dear, I've said it for
the last time, back for Christmas.

924
01:31:43.840 --> 01:31:47.720
Hermione was so positive we would be
back for Christmas. That last afternoon,

925
01:31:47.800 --> 01:31:50.680
pouring teeth for a few friends who'd
come in to say last minute farewell,

926
01:31:50.800 --> 01:31:55.000
she kept reiterating, Oh, I
promise you, missus Hewart, remember we

927
01:31:55.159 --> 01:31:58.760
absolutely must have you been this for
Christmas. Oh, we'll be back.

928
01:31:59.039 --> 01:32:01.239
It's not absolutely certain, of course, Herbert. What do you mean it's

929
01:32:01.319 --> 01:32:05.159
not certain? Of course, it's
certain after all, Herbertal boy, you've

930
01:32:05.239 --> 01:32:09.960
contracted your lecture for only three months, quite right, But then, of

931
01:32:10.039 --> 01:32:15.439
course anything may happen. Herbert adawes
being unpredictable. Now what arthur Man would

932
01:32:15.479 --> 01:32:18.399
dig a great hole in the cellar
on the very day he was leaving for

933
01:32:18.479 --> 01:32:24.840
America, a hole in this tener
Yes, he's going to put some unclassified

934
01:32:24.880 --> 01:32:30.479
wild orchids down there, a devil's
garden, if you'll please. Sounds mysterious.

935
01:32:30.960 --> 01:32:33.439
That's Herbert, though he's rarely quite
simple once you find out what he's

936
01:32:33.520 --> 01:32:36.640
up to. Now take that telephone
call he put through to you a few

937
01:32:36.680 --> 01:32:42.880
moments before you arrive, Freddy to
me, Yes, Herbert wanted to surprise

938
01:32:43.039 --> 01:32:45.479
me about your plan to meet us
in New York next month. That's why

939
01:32:45.560 --> 01:32:48.279
he called, of course, to
ask you not to mention it. But

940
01:32:48.479 --> 01:32:51.800
my dear Hermia, no, Herbert
couldn't possibly have telephoned me within the past

941
01:32:51.840 --> 01:32:56.920
hour. Have been walking in the
parks industry. He didn't telephone you,

942
01:32:57.079 --> 01:33:00.479
well how could he? And it's
for my going to America. Come,

943
01:33:00.640 --> 01:33:04.039
Freddy, you may as well own
up. Hermione has found me out again.

944
01:33:04.279 --> 01:33:08.520
But Herbert old chapter I really don't
want to there. You see what

945
01:33:08.600 --> 01:33:12.079
a poor liar Herbert makes. He's
read as a beet wrote. Aren't you

946
01:33:12.239 --> 01:33:16.159
ashamed of yourself? Professor? Stringing
for hermyonea long like that? And as

947
01:33:16.239 --> 01:33:19.680
for you, Freddy, I'm furious
you said nothing to us about going to

948
01:33:19.760 --> 01:33:23.880
America. But look here, olcan
I've been trying to tell everyone that I

949
01:33:24.000 --> 01:33:27.880
heard no enough for nonsense. The
game's gone on long enough. Perhaps Herbert's

950
01:33:27.920 --> 01:33:30.840
nearly planning a surprise for me.
Yes, let's leave it at that,

951
01:33:30.960 --> 01:33:33.640
my dear, Well, we must
start getting ready. It was marvelous have

952
01:33:33.720 --> 01:33:38.640
you to come in to say goodbye, And don't worry about Herbert's little jokes.

953
01:33:39.279 --> 01:33:42.079
I will bring him back for Christmas. You may rely on it.

954
01:33:45.039 --> 01:33:49.600
They all believed her. For years. She'd been promising me for dinner parties,

955
01:33:49.880 --> 01:33:55.760
garden parties, committees, and the
promises had always been kept. This

956
01:33:56.000 --> 01:34:00.199
time they wouldn't be. I'd seemed
that the servants were gone for good.

957
01:34:00.359 --> 01:34:03.039
The farewell's all said. I had
time to the minute how long it would

958
01:34:03.039 --> 01:34:09.640
take to fill in the hole in
the cellar in my devil's garden upstairs in

959
01:34:09.680 --> 01:34:12.640
the bedroom, I undressed, folded
my clothes over a chair, and put

960
01:34:12.680 --> 01:34:15.399
on my old bathrobe. Then I
opened the door into Hermione's room. Are

961
01:34:15.439 --> 01:34:18.960
you ready, Herbert, h Hermione? Have you a moment to spare?

962
01:34:19.119 --> 01:34:21.479
Goose, my dear. I've just
finished. Then do come in here for

963
01:34:21.520 --> 01:34:26.840
a moment. There's something rather extraordinary
here, good heavens, Herbert, what

964
01:34:27.039 --> 01:34:30.199
are you lounging about in that filthy
old bathroom? For I told you to

965
01:34:30.279 --> 01:34:32.840
put it into the furnace. I
shall do it today, Yes, I

966
01:34:32.920 --> 01:34:36.520
really will, I promise so high
time. Now what is it you want

967
01:34:36.520 --> 01:34:41.800
to show me in the bathroom here? Just look? Who in the world

968
01:34:41.840 --> 01:34:45.680
do you suppose dropped a gold chain
down the bathtub drain? Nobody has,

969
01:34:45.720 --> 01:34:47.159
of course, nobody wears such a
thing in this house. Then what's it

970
01:34:47.319 --> 01:34:54.199
doing there? I don't see anything
here. Hold this flashlight for you.

971
01:34:54.800 --> 01:34:58.640
If you lean right over, you
can see it shining deep down. Such

972
01:34:58.640 --> 01:35:02.199
a lot of nonsense, just was
I don't see it her go on looking,

973
01:35:02.239 --> 01:35:09.039
Hermione in just a moment. How
but I absolutely refuse about. What

974
01:35:09.119 --> 01:35:12.359
are you doing? Take your hands
off my neck? I will, Hermione,

975
01:35:12.479 --> 01:35:15.199
just as soon as I've finished the
arrangements for my trip to America.

976
01:35:15.399 --> 01:35:17.039
What are you talking about? You
thought you were the only one who could

977
01:35:17.039 --> 01:35:20.279
plan things, didn't you, Hermione. Well, I've been making some plans

978
01:35:20.319 --> 01:35:25.279
of my own this past week.
In exactly two minutes, you'll be dead,

979
01:35:25.399 --> 01:35:29.920
Hermione. You see, two minutes. I've planned it very accurately.

980
01:35:30.760 --> 01:35:32.439
You'll never get away with it,
let me go. I thought you'd say

981
01:35:32.479 --> 01:35:35.680
that, But I will get away
with it. You won't mind the smell

982
01:35:35.720 --> 01:35:39.119
of the leaf mold down in the
cellar when I take you there today.

983
01:35:40.199 --> 01:35:44.880
Yes, that's where you're going,
Hermione, into my devil's garden that annoyed

984
01:35:44.920 --> 01:35:48.079
you so much. The soil is
full of clay. It won't settle too

985
01:35:48.159 --> 01:35:51.039
much in a month or so.
It won't even look as if it had

986
01:35:51.079 --> 01:35:55.960
been dug up. My friends,
they all expect me back for Christmas.

987
01:35:56.399 --> 01:35:59.119
They don't hear from me, they'll
wonder, and if I don't come back,

988
01:35:59.159 --> 01:36:02.479
they start asking questions. Oh no, they won't because you'll write them

989
01:36:02.600 --> 01:36:06.760
letters Hermione and the typewriter, as
you always do. They'll be signed each

990
01:36:06.840 --> 01:36:11.319
in that neat cryptic way you always
sign your notes to your friends. No,

991
01:36:12.159 --> 01:36:15.399
it won't work, but you never
wear any good planning things. Oh

992
01:36:15.479 --> 01:36:18.680
but I've changed, my dear,
I've learned from watching you all these years.

993
01:36:19.479 --> 01:36:24.079
The lecture people in America. They'll
expect you to be traveling with your

994
01:36:24.119 --> 01:36:27.039
wife. I will be traveling with
my wife, but her name will not

995
01:36:27.119 --> 01:36:30.680
be Hermione. Fortunately they'd never met
you. Write a few letters home for

996
01:36:30.800 --> 01:36:35.680
you, then fewer and fewer write
letters signed with my own name, always

997
01:36:35.760 --> 01:36:41.279
expecting to get back, but never
quite able to keep the house one year,

998
01:36:41.279 --> 01:36:44.760
and then another and another. They'll
get used to it. Might even

999
01:36:44.800 --> 01:36:47.159
come back alone in a year or
two and clear it up properly. Say

1000
01:36:47.239 --> 01:36:50.920
you died in America. Nobody will
ever suspect you're lying under the floor of

1001
01:36:51.000 --> 01:36:56.039
the cellar in this very house.
But it won't you get you down at

1002
01:36:56.039 --> 01:36:59.399
the cele I can assure you,
my dear, Hermione will serve its purpose.

1003
01:36:59.479 --> 01:37:02.039
Well, sorry, my dear,
got to get this done on schedule.

1004
01:37:02.479 --> 01:37:08.720
You have just five seconds to say
your prayers, don't do it.

1005
01:37:24.640 --> 01:37:26.640
The water cut off at the main
as I knew she would order it.

1006
01:37:27.039 --> 01:37:30.800
She was so thorough, but so
was I. Strangulation, nothing to wash

1007
01:37:30.920 --> 01:37:34.239
up. The electric current shut off
exactly at one o'clock, just as she

1008
01:37:34.399 --> 01:37:40.720
ordered it. She thought of everything, so did I. My nice new

1009
01:37:40.800 --> 01:37:44.640
electric lantern, plenty of light to
work by in the cellar. The old

1010
01:37:44.720 --> 01:37:46.439
bathrobe she wanted me to throw away
came in handy enough there should be any

1011
01:37:46.520 --> 01:37:50.600
chance bloodstain. Then into the fire
with it afterwards, the last evidence of

1012
01:37:50.680 --> 01:37:56.680
my devil's garden. It was going
well still an hour till I had to

1013
01:37:56.760 --> 01:38:02.560
leave the boat. The hole was
almost filled. No oh no, not

1014
01:38:02.720 --> 01:38:09.560
no, go away, please,
whoever you walk away? Did I lock

1015
01:38:09.600 --> 01:38:14.359
the front door? If it's the
wallingfords? Oh no, no, go

1016
01:38:14.479 --> 01:38:18.520
away, go away, I say, her old thing. Just keep calm

1017
01:38:18.680 --> 01:38:21.840
quiet. They won't look down in
the cellar. Keep calm. They'll go

1018
01:38:21.920 --> 01:38:29.079
away, dickens, can they be? Maybe they put round the dell all

1019
01:38:29.159 --> 01:38:35.319
the shops, maybe sending the last
minute? Shall I shout harm and a

1020
01:38:35.399 --> 01:38:40.039
shout my love? Now that's coming
our way back? Harmona said they would

1021
01:38:40.079 --> 01:38:43.600
need to set all right, don't
they want to last drink with old Herbert.

1022
01:38:43.680 --> 01:38:45.880
You'd be hurt, you know,
all right, that's Harry. It

1023
01:38:45.920 --> 01:38:59.000
can be back by half past six. There's still time after that. It

1024
01:38:59.159 --> 01:39:02.359
was easy. Put the finishing touches
on the Devil's garden, dressed fast,

1025
01:39:02.760 --> 01:39:06.319
get out of the house before six
thirty, take the boat trait to Southampton,

1026
01:39:06.359 --> 01:39:13.159
and bought the ship for America,
all according to plan her Miami's plan.

1027
01:39:19.119 --> 01:39:23.960
Oh, I say, Stuart,
all right, sir, my wife

1028
01:39:24.039 --> 01:39:28.560
is indisposed. She'll be taking her
meals in our stateroom for the old voyage.

1029
01:39:28.800 --> 01:39:38.159
Yes, for the whole voyage.
Well, I crossed. Your wife

1030
01:39:38.239 --> 01:39:41.680
is feeling better this morning, Professor
Carpenter. Yes, a little, not

1031
01:39:41.840 --> 01:39:44.800
yet well enough to leave her Kevin, Oh, I'm sorry. Oh by

1032
01:39:44.840 --> 01:39:46.960
the way, it's a copy of
the radiogram you set for your wife last

1033
01:39:47.000 --> 01:39:53.079
evening. Oh oh, thank you. Now just check it over, I

1034
01:39:53.239 --> 01:39:57.479
say, look here, what is
it? Did the typeist make a mistake?

1035
01:39:58.479 --> 01:40:08.640
No, no, nothing important.
She can correct it later. For

1036
01:40:08.720 --> 01:40:11.960
a moment I had the feeling that
Hermione had been leaning over my shoulder again,

1037
01:40:12.479 --> 01:40:15.159
correcting what I had written, as
she always did. I had written

1038
01:40:15.199 --> 01:40:19.840
a radiogram to Professor Hewitt and his
wife haven't been out of my cabin the

1039
01:40:19.920 --> 01:40:25.880
whole beastly trip. Herbert, Well, we now doubt we will be back

1040
01:40:25.960 --> 01:40:31.079
for Christmas. The copy read,
we no doubt will be back for Christmas,

1041
01:40:31.920 --> 01:40:38.159
exactly what Hermione would have written.
The rest of the voyage was uneventful,

1042
01:40:38.960 --> 01:40:41.840
and Marian and I met in New
York and were married just as we'd

1043
01:40:41.880 --> 01:40:54.079
planned. Just as we'd planned,
Professor and Missus Carpenter, we we have

1044
01:40:54.199 --> 01:40:56.920
reservations, I believe. Oh,
yes, we've been expecting you, sir

1045
01:40:57.199 --> 01:41:00.720
boy. Take Professor Missus Carpenter's uggage
up to their suite. You know,

1046
01:41:00.800 --> 01:41:03.439
Missus Carpenter, you're quite a surprise. Your letter reserving the rooms was so

1047
01:41:04.119 --> 01:41:08.600
thorough. I was expecting an older, more forbidding sort of person. Frankly,

1048
01:41:08.680 --> 01:41:11.960
ma'am oh no, as a matter
of fact, we're just married,

1049
01:41:12.640 --> 01:41:15.880
but my letter is serving the room. I wrote the letter, my dear

1050
01:41:15.920 --> 01:41:21.000
and signed up Missus Herbert Carpenter purely
a joke. What a cunning old fox

1051
01:41:21.039 --> 01:41:25.520
you are, Herbert. Now that
I think of it, I am rather

1052
01:41:25.800 --> 01:41:29.199
Oh, I almost forgot. There's
a letter for you, Missus carpenter a

1053
01:41:29.319 --> 01:41:31.960
letter for me. I wonder who
knows? Well? We shall find out

1054
01:41:32.000 --> 01:41:34.880
in good time. Come along,
my dear. We're keeping the boy waiting.

1055
01:41:42.800 --> 01:41:51.680
Dum dump dum rumumpum um um bumpum. Nothing like a cold blisk shower

1056
01:41:51.720 --> 01:41:56.119
to put a man to right,
Herbert. This letter, oh yes,

1057
01:41:56.199 --> 01:41:59.359
the letter? Dry my hair?
Will you do? It? Seems to

1058
01:41:59.399 --> 01:42:05.439
be a bill of sort from a
building contract in Salisbury. M oh bother,

1059
01:42:05.600 --> 01:42:09.880
try your own hair, Thank you, my smat. Let's see this

1060
01:42:10.000 --> 01:42:17.960
bill or whatever it is. It's
very puzzling, Herbert. You were a

1061
01:42:18.039 --> 01:42:26.399
widower, won't you? I mean, Hermione isn't still alive. I can

1062
01:42:26.439 --> 01:42:31.560
assure you she is not. Let's
have that letter, h Dear madam,

1063
01:42:32.199 --> 01:42:40.760
this is to acknowledge your order,
together with the key. Together with the

1064
01:42:40.880 --> 01:42:46.159
keys to your house in Lonston Place. Our men had no difficulty in finding

1065
01:42:46.239 --> 01:42:53.720
the place where your husband had begun
the excavation in the cellar, but apparently

1066
01:42:53.840 --> 01:43:00.119
changed his mind at the last moment
and filled it in again. What is

1067
01:43:00.159 --> 01:43:06.279
it, Herbert? Amen will begin
digging tomorrow, and you may rest assured

1068
01:43:06.319 --> 01:43:13.239
that it will be a professional job
and will be completed in ample time for

1069
01:43:13.319 --> 01:43:18.560
your surprise Christmas present to your husband. We are happy to be conspirators with

1070
01:43:18.720 --> 01:43:25.159
you in this thoughtful gesture, and
hope that Professor Carpenter will be pleased at

1071
01:43:25.199 --> 01:43:30.800
the results of our work on what
he so quaintly calls his Devil's garden.

1072
01:43:31.600 --> 01:43:36.159
Very truly yours, Paul Holton's Son's
contractors. What does it mean, Herbert?

1073
01:43:38.560 --> 01:43:45.840
It means that Hermione was right.
I will be beg for Christmas.

1074
01:44:04.319 --> 01:44:09.800
Escape is produced and directed by William
N. Robson and Tonight Brought You Back

1075
01:44:09.920 --> 01:44:14.520
for Christmas by John Collier. Adapted
for radio by Robert Tollman, with Paul

1076
01:44:14.640 --> 01:44:18.520
Friese as Herbert, Eleanor Audley as
Hermione and Martin Metrovitch as Marion. Music

1077
01:44:18.600 --> 01:44:23.920
is conceived and conducted by cy Fure. Well, my dear, how about

1078
01:44:24.000 --> 01:44:28.880
now we go for something a little
a little different, something maybe you've never

1079
01:44:29.000 --> 01:44:34.640
heard before. After all, the
best part of getting a gift is the

1080
01:44:34.720 --> 01:44:39.800
surprise of the rise. Well,
that and perhaps the thought of thought.

1081
01:44:40.439 --> 01:44:45.520
I suppose the thought is what counts. Well. I hope you're not too

1082
01:44:45.600 --> 01:44:50.840
tired. I hope your head isn't
nodding as we listen. I know I

1083
01:44:50.880 --> 01:44:58.119
have many tales to share, and
Christmas ease is the longest night of the

1084
01:44:58.279 --> 01:45:03.359
year, if only because of the
waiting, the waiting, waiting for your

1085
01:45:03.479 --> 01:45:11.640
gifts, for the food, for
the family and friends. So so let's

1086
01:45:11.680 --> 01:45:15.359
start this next one. It's a
Christmas story. You have a different sold

1087
01:45:18.279 --> 01:46:06.119
light sound everybody, h This is
a tale they tell of another Christmas.

1088
01:46:06.760 --> 01:46:13.760
At Christmas nineteen years ago, the
Great War was over. War weary soldiers

1089
01:46:13.800 --> 01:46:17.680
and officers were at last being allowed
to rest, to enjoy such recreation as

1090
01:46:17.720 --> 01:46:24.079
soldiers might find. Leave areas were
established in various parts of France, and

1091
01:46:24.199 --> 01:46:29.119
at intervals individuals were sent from the
stations of their organizations to these areas,

1092
01:46:29.720 --> 01:46:35.159
there to rest and refresh themselves for
a brief period. The story properly begins

1093
01:46:35.239 --> 01:46:42.079
on Christmas night nineteen eighteen, nineteen
years ago. A leave train was just

1094
01:46:42.199 --> 01:47:02.720
coming to a halt in the station
at Dia. Franche Monphea said, come

1095
01:47:02.800 --> 01:47:08.840
back to my lamatieur ilias in mine
office. She sit there frossing s crem

1096
01:47:08.880 --> 01:47:12.600
your class, monsieur. Let's see, monsieur, I see the bag of

1097
01:47:12.680 --> 01:47:19.520
mine here I might mercy mercy machine, lumpy merksy another English you know,

1098
01:47:19.680 --> 01:47:27.239
chap ostraian Zac the company high we
really we we loose it Ostparlier, Miss

1099
01:47:27.319 --> 01:47:30.399
Bark writer and many Christmas out chat
and it is why you the world,

1100
01:47:30.520 --> 01:47:44.479
Monsieur los Carlier. Excuse me why
monster? But I U she would play.

1101
01:47:44.760 --> 01:47:49.159
I would like to uh uh viniarly
see oh blasted. I can't talk

1102
01:47:49.239 --> 01:47:54.199
to a ruddy language. It is
not necessarily to speak the blasted language,

1103
01:47:54.239 --> 01:47:58.399
monsieur, since I speak yours after
a pressure, Oh the partner, chap

1104
01:47:59.159 --> 01:48:01.119
the station master, tell me you
wouldn't mind if I stout myself in here?

1105
01:48:01.880 --> 01:48:05.399
I hope I should be very glad
indeed of your company. I am

1106
01:48:05.520 --> 01:48:11.159
Captain is Mayor Washbur the guest quad
I think two hundred and twelve Regiment Artillery

1107
01:48:11.560 --> 01:48:15.760
g p S. I'm a Lieutenant
Harris Valentine, the Australian Light Anser.

1108
01:48:16.199 --> 01:48:19.239
You are welcome, Missie. May
I help you with your beag age.

1109
01:48:19.279 --> 01:48:25.880
I'll have it stout and have talk, Thank you, sir. Going on

1110
01:48:26.000 --> 01:48:30.199
and lean, Captain. I am
not sure where yet, but sela everyone

1111
01:48:30.279 --> 01:48:33.680
never knows where it goes in this
world, right bigger that's Johnny good Igure

1112
01:48:33.720 --> 01:48:38.319
the Shire Compartment out chet. I
am only too glad. It has been

1113
01:48:38.439 --> 01:48:42.279
right very lonely journey so far.
I am delighted of someone to talk to.

1114
01:48:42.640 --> 01:48:47.680
First class compartments are not too easy
to copy either, becauche is,

1115
01:48:48.000 --> 01:48:53.479
isn't it not too bad? Indeed
you've find on me, I know,

1116
01:48:53.720 --> 01:48:58.159
but I am a bit curious to
know how in Australian should find this way

1117
01:48:58.239 --> 01:49:02.279
to the front. Hi, I
don't quite now myself, Captain guest quality,

1118
01:49:02.640 --> 01:49:09.119
Yes, and your name is belling
Pan. I must remember well I

1119
01:49:09.479 --> 01:49:13.760
was at Gallippery in the infantry with
the exit cook. But they're also the

1120
01:49:13.840 --> 01:49:15.239
beginning, you know, got a
bit of a crack in the end.

1121
01:49:15.439 --> 01:49:19.199
The first thing I knew I found
myself transferred as town might a village a

1122
01:49:19.239 --> 01:49:24.720
few miles easto. There nothing but
Americans in it. Oh, the America.

1123
01:49:26.039 --> 01:49:29.760
They are good soldiers, eh,
they're think them. And now you

1124
01:49:29.880 --> 01:49:33.159
find yourself bound for leave on Christmas
night? Right, ho and jolly get

1125
01:49:33.199 --> 01:49:36.840
out it? Where are you going? You know? Reports to the ato

1126
01:49:38.039 --> 01:49:41.880
at out of Paine. That's all
I know. You have the same difficulties

1127
01:49:41.960 --> 01:49:45.039
in your army. I see,
who one never knows where one goes.

1128
01:49:45.199 --> 01:49:47.840
You are a long way from home, my friend. Right, how a

1129
01:49:48.000 --> 01:49:51.920
bloody long while half way around the
world, you know, and you have

1130
01:49:53.039 --> 01:49:57.720
come to fight for France. I
salute you, Michau. It's been fun

1131
01:49:58.199 --> 01:50:03.560
weed and no it is over,
and our young men lie dead under the

1132
01:50:03.640 --> 01:50:08.880
stars out there. We lost a
few too, our young men, Missie

1133
01:50:09.920 --> 01:50:15.920
French, British, Australia, America, not connection, a few German checks

1134
01:50:15.159 --> 01:50:21.520
quiet. Maybe one cannot make the
omelet without breaking the eggs, a bloody

1135
01:50:21.600 --> 01:50:29.000
lot of good eggs and gascan.
We wish the blasted triumph start. There's

1136
01:50:29.039 --> 01:50:32.439
always a mystery they control these trains, particularly when one wish used to go

1137
01:50:32.680 --> 01:50:38.319
somewhere in the Hurrea American chap out
there looking for Apply five hunting. Perhaps

1138
01:50:38.359 --> 01:50:40.920
we could invite him in here if
we do not mind, why not,

1139
01:50:41.239 --> 01:50:44.079
it's all right with you. He's
a comrade, and there's a little room

1140
01:50:44.159 --> 01:50:49.359
on the train, right, Oh
yeah, yeah, there's why yeah he

1141
01:50:49.520 --> 01:50:56.039
comes. But we think down the
blight has black and an officer tool.

1142
01:50:56.239 --> 01:51:00.119
So I have heard that the Americans
have two divisions of Niggers, and they

1143
01:51:00.199 --> 01:51:04.720
have many officers who are as the
Americans say killer those are, but I

1144
01:51:04.800 --> 01:51:08.199
have never seen one. He doesn't
lie if I ask him. In my

1145
01:51:08.359 --> 01:51:11.760
dear Valentine, why should one mind? Is he not a man and ally

1146
01:51:11.880 --> 01:51:15.199
and officer? Do we dislike one
another because I am French in New Australia.

1147
01:51:15.439 --> 01:51:20.199
Good chat. We've lots of blacksnile
units. What the devil's the difference?

1148
01:51:20.359 --> 01:51:24.640
What differen doesn't make? What color
the lightest skin is? Oh?

1149
01:51:24.760 --> 01:51:28.680
Yeah? Room here? Do you
mind? Hopefully? Lieutenant? Not much

1150
01:51:28.760 --> 01:51:30.520
room anywhere else I'll chat. Come
in, come in, we have room

1151
01:51:30.560 --> 01:51:36.279
for one. Thank you. I'm
afraid I was going to be left behind.

1152
01:51:38.079 --> 01:51:42.840
My name is Valentine, Lieutenant Australian
Rifle. I'm Captain Melbourne three and

1153
01:51:42.840 --> 01:51:45.039
seventy, the American inventor. You
light to captain, and this is captain.

1154
01:51:46.680 --> 01:51:49.920
They have they have to chat out
Captain, I am Captain as Mayor

1155
01:51:49.960 --> 01:51:55.399
Oshburg, the guescuan of the French
Artillery. Captain, welcome and gentlemen,

1156
01:51:55.720 --> 01:51:58.159
thank you. Oh yeah, give
me a musette. I shove it up

1157
01:51:58.159 --> 01:52:01.640
from the wreck. Oh thank you, lieutenant. It's good to get that

1158
01:52:01.720 --> 01:52:06.439
thing off my shoulder. I sit
down. Captain Melvin, thanks, I've

1159
01:52:06.479 --> 01:52:10.119
been staying around there all day long. And one foot and then then the

1160
01:52:10.199 --> 01:52:13.600
other, waiting. Finally when the
train did pull in her, but I

1161
01:52:13.760 --> 01:52:16.359
was still going to stand there.
Good here to take me in? We

1162
01:52:16.479 --> 01:52:21.359
are delight it right? You're no
Australia, hey, lieutenant right from ed

1163
01:52:21.479 --> 01:52:26.520
Lid. Just think of that.
Aware you're from Captain Melvin, I'm from

1164
01:52:26.600 --> 01:52:30.039
Chicago, and you, Captain gas
Kuan. My home is in Bayonne,

1165
01:52:30.279 --> 01:52:34.279
as one night in fair from my
name, Your name, Captain guess Kwan

1166
01:52:34.960 --> 01:52:42.319
Baione is in Gascony. You see. See it's odd in't it? Here?

1167
01:52:42.359 --> 01:52:46.560
We are three years one railway coach
bound for some way. We've come

1168
01:52:46.640 --> 01:52:50.680
from all over the world, meet
on Christmas night in frank We don't even

1169
01:52:50.720 --> 01:52:54.600
know where we're going? Do you
know? I am the sliders did?

1170
01:52:55.680 --> 01:52:59.560
That's all I know. Well,
may as well have a spotted Cristas Chay,

1171
01:53:00.239 --> 01:53:02.880
a bottle of rather good wine.
A man not to be outdone in

1172
01:53:02.960 --> 01:53:06.439
this method, Miss Ames, I
also have a bottle of La cremee Christie

1173
01:53:06.960 --> 01:53:13.640
TEMs of a very precious wine.
And these days I do not remember how

1174
01:53:13.720 --> 01:53:21.159
I came by it, but suffice
it to say I have it. Oh,

1175
01:53:28.840 --> 01:53:48.119
we're all about to start. We
are shot, how already happy crowd

1176
01:53:48.159 --> 01:53:54.800
out at this Christmas. We steal
Christmas, despite the fact that most of

1177
01:53:54.840 --> 01:53:59.119
them all want to get out of
the town and go somewhere there's Christmas.

1178
01:53:59.199 --> 01:54:03.680
Are dumb text follow me. I
was in the hospital at Marseille and dimes.

1179
01:54:03.720 --> 01:54:10.439
I mean, had dinner with the
German genera, a German general capture

1180
01:54:10.600 --> 01:54:15.159
on Christmas Eve. Omen, you
drink with me with pleasure? Will if

1181
01:54:15.199 --> 01:54:19.760
you will drink with me and worth
me well, then to Christmas? Eh,

1182
01:54:20.720 --> 01:54:27.840
yeah, to Christmas. That's christ
Ah. You know her mind was

1183
01:54:27.840 --> 01:54:30.800
that's a body for the junk of
all sorts. I was a fried.

1184
01:54:30.880 --> 01:54:34.439
I might have lost the bottle souvenirs, Yes, sell tars and things that

1185
01:54:34.520 --> 01:54:38.680
I picked up. Give me some
kids somewhere A lot of times I have

1186
01:54:38.840 --> 01:54:42.920
here enough. I have gifts too
in my moose head. There is no

1187
01:54:43.000 --> 01:54:45.520
one left of my people. Also
give them two. But it is a

1188
01:54:45.600 --> 01:54:51.920
sentiment, sentiment for Christmas. Suppose
we all do there bunch pecked buzards,

1189
01:54:51.920 --> 01:54:56.079
and then I didn't know what I
ever get back to that outfit after there's

1190
01:54:56.199 --> 01:55:00.560
leave. So I got some souvenirs
together. I mean not no thanks,

1191
01:55:00.640 --> 01:55:05.720
Kevin, I'll wait awhile I think
I shall too, SQUI uh, this

1192
01:55:05.840 --> 01:55:12.640
is a beautifull night, eh h
Claire yea. The war was still on.

1193
01:55:12.800 --> 01:55:15.960
I expect to hear someone shot lights
out, Jerry's up, have a

1194
01:55:15.000 --> 01:55:17.600
lot of bombs landed our laps.
I hope we are done with that,

1195
01:55:17.720 --> 01:55:24.840
monsieur him man. Uh No moon
though, yeah, we look at them

1196
01:55:25.039 --> 01:55:30.079
star. I'll see that over there. Might imagine it to be the star

1197
01:55:30.199 --> 01:55:36.479
of Bethlin. Very bright, isn't
it nearly two thousand years ago? I

1198
01:55:36.760 --> 01:55:43.119
wonder as that same star steel shines
upon the earth, because we wouldn't know

1199
01:55:43.199 --> 01:55:46.079
it, not us fight wars and
deny the name of the man that was

1200
01:55:46.159 --> 01:55:51.720
born hundred religious check, No,
no, not at all, lieutenant,

1201
01:55:53.359 --> 01:55:58.119
going away from it. Religious chef
hover, but you say, have some

1202
01:55:58.279 --> 01:56:01.800
jolly tires as a kid, that
it's time now tretch things and all that

1203
01:56:02.199 --> 01:56:08.399
candles? What that we one?
It's not religious? Save when one sees

1204
01:56:08.479 --> 01:56:12.520
the star shining down on him,
I wonder if that could be the star,

1205
01:56:12.880 --> 01:56:16.000
And why not, my friend?
Our earth changes, but the evalasting

1206
01:56:16.079 --> 01:56:25.720
stars change. Now be funny if
it is, wouldn't it? But journey

1207
01:56:25.840 --> 01:56:30.239
is long, gentlemen, If you
wish to sleep you'll sleeping. Getting that

1208
01:56:30.359 --> 01:56:33.279
little drink of wine has affected me. I fear I cannot keep my eyes

1209
01:56:33.319 --> 01:56:38.960
open. I'm a little time myself
turn around all day in vegetation, there

1210
01:56:39.039 --> 01:56:44.000
were no place to sit our.
I can always sleep myself. I suppose

1211
01:56:44.039 --> 01:56:46.880
then that we do sleep for a
little while. My friends we're talking to

1212
01:56:47.000 --> 01:56:51.199
sleep made me sleepy. I'm all
for it. Shall I turn down the

1213
01:56:51.279 --> 01:57:00.359
lights if you will, Missie,
pleasant dreams, nary christ Yes and many

1214
01:57:00.439 --> 01:57:03.600
Christmas? Do you both? Yes? And to you, Lieutenant Valentine,

1215
01:57:03.960 --> 01:57:12.520
Captain casconn youngest star shall watch over
us in this ban the stars shown on

1216
01:57:12.680 --> 01:57:32.640
Bert good night. Are you asleep? I'm not? No, I almost

1217
01:57:32.760 --> 01:57:41.840
so, I must say. I
I was thinking it seems that I have

1218
01:57:42.199 --> 01:57:49.840
met you both before somewhere. That's
really odd. Why am I friend?

1219
01:57:51.439 --> 01:57:58.600
I was thinking the same thing.
I was two, But it couldn't be

1220
01:57:59.479 --> 01:58:04.880
one from France, one from Australia, one from America. We it is

1221
01:58:05.119 --> 01:58:35.920
uh uh good night man finds good
guy h y Yes, friend Gaspar,

1222
01:58:36.720 --> 01:58:41.479
we have journeyed far and de signed
the doubt it's promised to us. Is

1223
01:58:41.600 --> 01:58:45.960
not yet peace, Belfazar, We
have not yet come to the end.

1224
01:58:45.039 --> 01:58:50.560
Of our journey. Behold, Melchior
crieth not out. Canst do not study

1225
01:58:50.680 --> 01:58:56.119
his patience to be likened to him? Yet thou art tired, Malchia,

1226
01:58:56.640 --> 01:59:01.199
I I am tired and weary.
Yet must we go on? No man

1227
01:59:01.359 --> 01:59:05.319
knoweth what the end of his far
journeying shall bring him. Dost thou see,

1228
01:59:05.399 --> 01:59:11.960
Belfzar, Thou must needs have faith. I have faith, friend,

1229
01:59:12.079 --> 01:59:16.880
Gaspar. Yet my burden upon my
shoulder is cruel heavy, and I would

1230
01:59:16.920 --> 01:59:23.359
feign rest. Have faith, oh, Belfasar, the faith I conjure thee

1231
01:59:23.720 --> 01:59:30.279
saith aye, I lead on,
O, Gaspar, without alchemist, there

1232
01:59:30.359 --> 01:59:33.600
will I follow thee? And also
I Gaspar. But I know that thou

1233
01:59:33.680 --> 01:59:39.279
art inspired of God, that his
hand off lead thee. Yet not even

1234
01:59:39.399 --> 01:59:45.640
I know what miracle he will do
before our eyes. No matter we will

1235
01:59:45.760 --> 01:59:50.119
follow, and thy road lead to
death. Now which road takest thou,

1236
01:59:51.159 --> 01:59:56.920
that to the right hand or to
the left? I know not? Will

1237
01:59:57.039 --> 02:00:05.840
than not call upon God, Gaspar. Kneel down, brethren, O,

1238
02:00:06.079 --> 02:00:15.399
Lord Father God, lead us thy
servants in the way thou didst set out

1239
02:00:15.479 --> 02:00:21.800
for us. For no Lord,
Father God. But we are poor,

1240
02:00:24.199 --> 02:00:29.439
and our eyes known not the right
and we would follow the way that Thou

1241
02:00:29.479 --> 02:00:35.760
wilt have us follow. Therefore we
pray THEE humbly clear Father, a miracle,

1242
02:00:36.119 --> 02:00:42.560
miracle. What sayest thou, Balthazar, Behold Gaspar a sign from the

1243
02:00:42.600 --> 02:00:46.960
Lord Father God. There is no
sign. Behold in the sky a sign,

1244
02:00:47.359 --> 02:00:50.760
A star, a sigh earneth brighter
than all the stars of the heavens.

1245
02:00:51.760 --> 02:00:57.199
O, Lord God, we thank
THEE. The way is before us.

1246
02:00:57.880 --> 02:01:01.760
We follow. Thy will holds the
stars. Shine it upon the pathway

1247
02:01:01.840 --> 02:01:05.760
to the left. Forward, forward, brethren, for the end of our

1248
02:01:05.840 --> 02:01:11.680
far journeying is at hand, surtays, this is a sign from God.

1249
02:01:12.159 --> 02:01:17.239
Behold Gaspar beyond the hill the lights
of a village. It is so now

1250
02:01:17.359 --> 02:01:21.359
we are come to our destination.
Indeed, haste, friends, Haste,

1251
02:01:21.640 --> 02:01:25.840
tell us thou what town is that? Agastar? Nay, I know not,

1252
02:01:26.720 --> 02:01:30.279
save that it'd be the end of
our long journey. All travelers,

1253
02:01:31.079 --> 02:01:36.359
have you seen the star? Who
call? Who what thou? It is?

1254
02:01:36.399 --> 02:01:41.239
A shepherd? See the flocks of
sheep beyond the road. Seest thou

1255
02:01:41.319 --> 02:01:46.159
the star? Travelers knowest thou itst
meaning I we have seen it, oh

1256
02:01:46.199 --> 02:01:50.279
shepherd, Yet we know not its
meaning? Save that the miracle of the

1257
02:01:50.359 --> 02:01:55.319
Lord, Father God is nigh unto
us, and the blackness of the sky

1258
02:01:55.720 --> 02:02:00.680
sprang into blazed traveler does start?
Think it fourtends the end yonder birth?

1259
02:02:00.000 --> 02:02:04.399
Nay, friend, not the end
of earth? Say rather, it's beginning.

1260
02:02:05.119 --> 02:02:11.039
What says now? Behold, shepherd, the mantle of the Lord is

1261
02:02:11.159 --> 02:02:16.279
upon him. He speakers of miracles. Aye, and the miracle will come

1262
02:02:16.359 --> 02:02:21.279
to pass. Haste, friends,
Haste, for this night will hear the

1263
02:02:21.439 --> 02:02:28.840
voices of angels chanting, and the
sound of many great wings. Peace on

1264
02:02:29.000 --> 02:02:35.079
earth, Peace, goodwill to men, glorry lying Lord God in the heights.

1265
02:02:35.800 --> 02:02:40.680
Verily he speakers, men that understand
the workings of the will of God.

1266
02:02:40.920 --> 02:02:44.920
Say, now, shepherd, how
is yonder village named? Surely,

1267
02:02:45.159 --> 02:02:47.760
if you know what you've come to
pass because of the star, how is

1268
02:02:47.840 --> 02:02:51.079
do you know not the name of
the town we have come from far land?

1269
02:02:51.239 --> 02:02:55.760
Shepherd? Die, What matters it
if we know not such trifles as

1270
02:02:55.800 --> 02:02:59.359
the name of a little hidden village. When we know of a miracle to

1271
02:02:59.399 --> 02:03:03.319
be wrought to the name of All
Almighty God, I tis so what miracles

1272
02:03:03.359 --> 02:03:09.279
shall come to pass? It is
hidden from our ken or shepherd, Yet

1273
02:03:09.319 --> 02:03:14.279
it shall come to pass, fear
not I, and such a miracle as

1274
02:03:14.319 --> 02:03:18.159
shall set all the world to singing
praises, lifting up their voices unto the

1275
02:03:18.199 --> 02:03:26.119
heavens, crying in a loud voice, Mighty, Mighty is the Lord God

1276
02:03:26.199 --> 02:03:30.880
of hosts. Ye be not of
Israel. Nay I am from the land

1277
02:03:30.960 --> 02:03:35.960
of the Greeks, And these my
companions be also from fire lands. Male

1278
02:03:36.039 --> 02:03:42.199
cure of Methiop. Thou Phazarm,
a wise man of Egypt, a soothsayer

1279
02:03:42.279 --> 02:03:47.279
unto the king, Ye have come
far, aye, so since many days

1280
02:03:47.359 --> 02:03:53.159
our feet have trod the pathways of
hidden, unknown places. Yet always have

1281
02:03:53.319 --> 02:03:57.399
we set our faces unto the east, obeying the bidding of a voice,

1282
02:03:57.479 --> 02:04:01.760
unheard, the guidance of a hand
and unfelt. And ye go now into

1283
02:04:01.840 --> 02:04:08.000
the town. Thou hast not told
us its name, Shepherd Serties. All

1284
02:04:08.159 --> 02:04:12.439
men know that Yonder Town is called
a town to the house of bred even

1285
02:04:12.520 --> 02:04:17.720
Bethlehem, know ye that I even
I am of Bethlehem, where was born

1286
02:04:17.800 --> 02:04:24.399
a thousand years agone David son of
Jesse, it was king of Israel.

1287
02:04:25.000 --> 02:04:30.880
Tis well, for now I speak
with the tongue of the Lord the wisdom.

1288
02:04:30.960 --> 02:04:35.039
Ye hath put into my mouth.
Behold yonder Bethlehem, whence came David,

1289
02:04:35.159 --> 02:04:41.680
King of Israel. Now this knight
shall be born Bethlehem, that Messiah,

1290
02:04:41.800 --> 02:04:46.239
that very Son of God, which
the ancient prophets have foretold. And

1291
02:04:46.439 --> 02:04:50.920
this is the miracle that shall come
to pass. For he shall be born

1292
02:04:51.039 --> 02:04:58.560
of a virgin immaculate, and his
name shall be Jesus called Christ O the

1293
02:04:58.840 --> 02:05:04.720
Lord God follow. I give thanks
unto Thee that thou hast appointed me and

1294
02:05:04.960 --> 02:05:11.680
my companions, that we shall be
witnesses before all the world, that the

1295
02:05:11.920 --> 02:05:15.760
Son of God is born. Haste, my friends, we must on,

1296
02:05:16.039 --> 02:05:19.239
for the miracle is at hand.
The spirit of God is upon him,

1297
02:05:19.840 --> 02:05:24.439
the tongue of the Lord. Haste, O, Holy Man. May I

1298
02:05:24.560 --> 02:05:28.319
not go with thee, seeing thou
knowest not the village and I, with

1299
02:05:28.439 --> 02:05:32.319
my brethren was born. Thou mayest
come with us, But haste, friends,

1300
02:05:32.479 --> 02:05:35.720
Haste. Behold the star. Oh, it seemeth to beckon us.

1301
02:05:35.760 --> 02:05:40.800
Ony. It cometh down from the
heavens, is standeth above the rooftop to

1302
02:05:40.840 --> 02:05:45.399
the town. It is the doing
of God. Thy Praise God, Praise

1303
02:05:45.600 --> 02:05:48.239
go, raise God. Slaying thy
burthens from my shoulders. Friends, haste,

1304
02:05:48.359 --> 02:05:51.960
haste, I marvel also that there
should be lights abroad in the town.

1305
02:05:53.600 --> 02:05:57.039
The hour is passing late, yet
there is a light in every house.

1306
02:05:57.079 --> 02:06:00.199
It's a chance. The men of
Bethlehem rejoiced at the Messiah he is

1307
02:06:00.279 --> 02:06:03.319
born. Nay, not so,
for he is hidden from men, and

1308
02:06:03.479 --> 02:06:08.640
they bethel him know him. Not
then, what the feast of coronachers.

1309
02:06:08.680 --> 02:06:12.319
But lately over my masters, the
feast of the lights and memory of the

1310
02:06:12.399 --> 02:06:16.319
Maccabee, and many remain. Also
are there others in the town who have

1311
02:06:16.439 --> 02:06:19.479
come to deal with the men of
Herod, the tet troch of Galilee,

1312
02:06:19.800 --> 02:06:24.439
even the tax collectors. And thus
is a city full, even all the

1313
02:06:24.520 --> 02:06:28.199
inns. Dost thou know where we
should find him? A gastar hath have

1314
02:06:28.279 --> 02:06:31.840
been revealed unto thee all in good
time, my friend, we follow the

1315
02:06:31.920 --> 02:06:38.560
star. Perchance he shall be born
in a family of high repew hay tis

1316
02:06:38.640 --> 02:06:42.079
not fitting that the Son of God
shall come from an humble home. The

1317
02:06:42.159 --> 02:06:45.319
will of God shall be done.
The child Jesus be born in the wide

1318
02:06:45.439 --> 02:06:50.760
fields under the star. My friends, haste behold, ease be the wolves

1319
02:06:50.800 --> 02:06:56.720
so bestly him A wise man yonder
Eliazigi perchance the soldiers of the tet Trk

1320
02:06:56.760 --> 02:07:00.680
may refuse his admission into the city
Gaspardy. They are gone away a melcher,

1321
02:07:00.560 --> 02:07:05.279
and they are lioneans and public houses
and corrouse of the people of the

1322
02:07:05.359 --> 02:07:11.000
town. Gaspar art thou sure indeed
that we shall find him in Bethlehem.

1323
02:07:11.199 --> 02:07:15.760
Dost doubt the word of God?
Belfazar on on now whether do we go

1324
02:07:16.119 --> 02:07:21.039
or Lord Gaspar naye, not lord
shepherd. But we are all humble men

1325
02:07:21.119 --> 02:07:27.159
in the sight of God. Praise
God, praises God. Behold how the

1326
02:07:27.319 --> 02:07:30.439
rays of the stars shine down upon
a certain street. It is the way

1327
02:07:30.640 --> 02:07:45.960
friends follow h one comes Gaspar in
haste. I so a chance he knowing

1328
02:07:45.039 --> 02:07:49.319
all thou men, But the goest
thou who art thou stand aside that I

1329
02:07:49.439 --> 02:07:54.520
may pas? Who art thou know
that I am citizens, even as thou

1330
02:07:54.640 --> 02:07:59.560
art indeed art isen and not as
drolling player or hawker of false jewels.

1331
02:08:00.279 --> 02:08:03.880
Speaks thou thus to me, who
am the great physician, no man,

1332
02:08:03.000 --> 02:08:07.920
that I am balfous. For Leach
alerted the clever skilled in cuffing in the

1333
02:08:07.039 --> 02:08:11.319
arts of the courgeon, the savor
of lives, the bringer of Babes into

1334
02:08:11.359 --> 02:08:16.079
the world a feace that tongue O
puragion, no man of Bethlehem. I

1335
02:08:16.279 --> 02:08:20.920
am that I am balfous wrestler with
the angel of death, sometime physician under

1336
02:08:20.960 --> 02:08:26.560
great antipath himself. How old I
pray thee hast thou attendant woman, this

1337
02:08:26.720 --> 02:08:31.479
knight that was brought of child?
And how didst thoun all that stranger?

1338
02:08:31.720 --> 02:08:35.800
Wilt thou say? I on may
I have done so? And looking now

1339
02:08:37.319 --> 02:08:39.800
this night, have I come up
on a miracle, a very marvel hypology

1340
02:08:39.840 --> 02:08:43.840
of nature? Never before in all
my time have a ceased back clacking and

1341
02:08:43.920 --> 02:08:48.560
speak me? But who art thou
thus speak of the marvel that thou hast

1342
02:08:48.640 --> 02:08:52.159
witnessed? Man, Behold, not
two hours have passed since one came post

1343
02:08:52.199 --> 02:08:58.920
haste crying before my door, Oh
balvos, almost noble surgeon, Oh savor

1344
02:08:58.000 --> 02:09:03.000
of lives, come down in haste, And I setting down the gobbet of

1345
02:09:03.079 --> 02:09:05.119
sack posset where from I to drink? For I open the window and look

1346
02:09:05.199 --> 02:09:09.359
down Thy story leads to thy story. Behold crieth a man in the street.

1347
02:09:09.680 --> 02:09:13.199
Behold alphus, a woman has need
of thee in the stable night.

1348
02:09:13.239 --> 02:09:18.000
Out of the end of the two
oxen in the stable eye the stable.

1349
02:09:18.600 --> 02:09:20.640
Now I am a man of charity, and always ready to answer the call

1350
02:09:20.760 --> 02:09:24.720
when sickness stalk in the broad in
the plague that came upon Bethel him nine

1351
02:09:24.800 --> 02:09:30.239
years a guy nott, always ready
when out to smell the smell of gold.

1352
02:09:30.560 --> 02:09:33.319
Leech, sayan, and quickly,
if thou wilt but be still a

1353
02:09:33.439 --> 02:09:37.840
lepi, I spoke of a mob
beyond, sayan, I flung my cloak

1354
02:09:37.840 --> 02:09:39.520
about me, and I came in
haste, as you're becoming a man of

1355
02:09:39.600 --> 02:09:43.560
my age and girth. And yet
I am gerald of I say, and

1356
02:09:43.079 --> 02:09:48.479
behold in beyond this table was a
woman couched in the straw of a manger,

1357
02:09:48.840 --> 02:09:52.000
brought to bed of a child.
Surely women have been brought to bed

1358
02:09:52.039 --> 02:09:56.359
of a child in stables before courageon. Ay, so but mark me well,

1359
02:09:56.479 --> 02:10:01.399
Now this woman was a virgin.
Nay, I swear it by the

1360
02:10:01.439 --> 02:10:05.800
holy tallactory, by my father's beard. I swear it verily. Was a

1361
02:10:05.920 --> 02:10:11.680
child born unto her, and she
a virgin. Thou hast drunk too much

1362
02:10:11.720 --> 02:10:16.119
as I sacked post neighbor. Thou
a physician, I swear old, thou

1363
02:10:16.279 --> 02:10:22.399
said enuf leitch. Verily hast thou
stood before a miracle this knight. A

1364
02:10:22.520 --> 02:10:26.960
miracle is srut that a prodigy where
lieth the woman Thou didst attend he yond

1365
02:10:28.000 --> 02:10:31.800
this table. The man did say
that they had come from Nazareth in Galilee

1366
02:10:31.079 --> 02:10:35.119
to give his testimony under the tax
collectors. And though they beseeched the innkeepers,

1367
02:10:35.359 --> 02:10:39.880
yet would none of them give them
room, saving only this one,

1368
02:10:39.239 --> 02:10:43.560
who, having pity upon a woman
with child, did say unto them that

1369
02:10:43.640 --> 02:10:46.279
they might find dead amongst the kind
in his stable, and did charge them

1370
02:10:46.359 --> 02:10:52.600
not may all the blessings of God
beyond this innkeeper that he hath offered shelter

1371
02:10:52.760 --> 02:10:58.359
this night unto the Son of God, he what sayst and on the physician,

1372
02:11:00.159 --> 02:11:03.479
for that thou didst lend thy hand
unto her who is the very mother

1373
02:11:03.600 --> 02:11:09.800
of him who shall be the savior
of the world. Then thee I know

1374
02:11:09.960 --> 02:11:13.760
not who thou art, old man, Yet I perceive that thou hast the

1375
02:11:13.800 --> 02:11:18.319
gift of prophecy. If I have
served, then I am grand, for

1376
02:11:18.520 --> 02:11:24.119
I took naught from them. And
the Babe did look upon me with a

1377
02:11:24.239 --> 02:11:28.239
look that I shall ne'er forget,
though I live to be the last on

1378
02:11:28.359 --> 02:11:33.000
the earth. Now I crave thy
blessing. If thou dost speak sooth,

1379
02:11:33.840 --> 02:11:39.560
I am most blessed among men.
Verily shalt thou stand at the right hand

1380
02:11:39.640 --> 02:11:43.760
of him who hath come to the
earth, physician, Thine was the hand

1381
02:11:43.840 --> 02:11:50.000
that first touched him. Verily art
thou blest. I thank THEE for thy

1382
02:11:50.119 --> 02:11:56.359
grace. Friend, Go thou inside
the stable. I go to the temple

1383
02:11:56.920 --> 02:12:01.960
to render thanks unto God. For
vere I believe THEE. Now, my

1384
02:12:03.119 --> 02:12:05.920
friends, this is the end of
our long journey before us. Come with

1385
02:12:07.039 --> 02:12:09.760
me. I pray each of you
come and fall down and worship the infant

1386
02:12:09.840 --> 02:12:15.279
Jesus, Son of God, which
shall be called Christ. Praise, praise

1387
02:12:15.359 --> 02:12:20.000
unto the Son of God. I
were not going. I am not worthy.

1388
02:12:20.359 --> 02:12:24.079
Nay, Shepherd, there'll be none
of us worthy to touch his hand.

1389
02:12:24.000 --> 02:12:28.199
Yet there'd be none too humble to
do him reverence. Come, I

1390
02:12:28.760 --> 02:12:41.520
come, shepherd. The star the
star weaneth, A little shadows fall upon

1391
02:12:41.600 --> 02:12:48.399
us. The star paileth before his
glory. Nay, hey, guess,

1392
02:12:48.479 --> 02:12:54.319
pap Behold behold in the star your
sign and sign, oh Father, Lord

1393
02:12:54.439 --> 02:13:28.199
God, sign the shape of a
man crucified upon the cross. H M.

1394
02:13:28.359 --> 02:13:37.159
Hmmm, well, bub band girls, call did's cry out until I

1395
02:13:37.319 --> 02:13:43.319
say, what's the matter I have? I was dream and I guess,

1396
02:13:43.039 --> 02:13:52.600
well, where where are we?
It was a dream? But I saw

1397
02:13:52.680 --> 02:13:58.399
you too. That you saw s
hard to remember, but I did you?

1398
02:13:58.319 --> 02:14:07.119
Did you dream? Team of three
men meling, Yes, I did

1399
02:14:07.239 --> 02:14:18.039
too, Gaspar and milk Her and
Balfas, Gascar and Melvin and Valentine.

1400
02:14:18.520 --> 02:14:26.399
Good heavens, Look look at our
shoes, all on the straw. Where's

1401
02:14:26.479 --> 02:14:33.760
the raw from a stable? And
that that smells? What, gentlemen,

1402
02:14:35.239 --> 02:14:43.199
I have been in the east.
I know what that smell is. It

1403
02:14:43.560 --> 02:15:05.920
is murror and frankincense. My dear, my dear, wake up, Wake

1404
02:15:07.039 --> 02:15:11.520
up. Sorry. I didn't mean
to startle you. It's just I have

1405
02:15:11.640 --> 02:15:16.119
so much holiday cheer to share and
I couldn't imagine sleep. No, no,

1406
02:15:16.279 --> 02:15:18.600
no, I couldn't imagine closing my
eyes at a moment like this,

1407
02:15:20.239 --> 02:15:26.119
a moment so fortuitous, so beautiful, beautiful, so warm and bright.

1408
02:15:26.960 --> 02:15:31.800
This story is a bit of a
play on words. It's actually Christmas for

1409
02:15:33.079 --> 02:15:37.880
caroor As opposed to the other way
around. So relax, I'll refill your

1410
02:15:37.960 --> 02:15:52.199
mug. Let's be merry and Brian
aut a light and it's ninety six thousand

1411
02:15:52.279 --> 02:16:03.880
dealers present Suspends to night. Auto
Light brings you Christmas for Carol, a

1412
02:16:03.000 --> 02:16:16.119
suspense play starring mister Dennis Day.
Hey, hap, Who Sandy, it's

1413
02:16:16.199 --> 02:16:18.439
Wilcox. You know what are you
doing in that costume? Harlow? Going

1414
02:16:18.479 --> 02:16:22.960
to a Christmas party? Halp?
What's in the sack? Why? A

1415
02:16:22.039 --> 02:16:26.920
load of merry motoring in this box? I've got smoother performance, you see,

1416
02:16:26.479 --> 02:16:31.720
ignition engineered auto light spark plugs.
Sure, and when you replace worn

1417
02:16:31.760 --> 02:16:35.280
out spark plugs with these new batom
beauties, your car will perform smoother than

1418
02:16:35.479 --> 02:16:39.079
Santas skidding down a slippery chimney.
And what's in this box, Charlow?

1419
02:16:39.239 --> 02:16:43.520
Fast starts? Tap? These are
ignition engineered auto light spark plugs too.

1420
02:16:43.719 --> 02:16:48.879
You bet they're unmatched for quick starts
because they're designed by the same autolight engineers

1421
02:16:50.159 --> 02:16:54.559
who designed the coil distributor and all
the other important parts of the complete ignition

1422
02:16:54.680 --> 02:16:58.959
system for many leading makes of our
finest cars. That's why ignition engineered autolights

1423
02:17:00.000 --> 02:17:03.959
spark plugs work as a team with
your car's ignition system, and that's why

1424
02:17:03.040 --> 02:17:09.520
they're world famous for quality and dependability. And I suppose you're giving guess savings

1425
02:17:09.559 --> 02:17:13.120
in the third box, aint harlow, you guessed it happ So, friends,

1426
02:17:13.360 --> 02:17:16.840
have your auto light spark plug dealer. Replace worn out spark plugs with

1427
02:17:16.959 --> 02:17:22.120
ignition engineered auto light spark plugs.
Choose either the standard or resistor type.

1428
02:17:22.239 --> 02:17:28.159
And remember you're always right with auto
light. And now with Christmas for Carol

1429
02:17:28.280 --> 02:17:31.200
and the performance of Dennis Day,
auto light hopes once again to keep you

1430
02:17:31.360 --> 02:17:48.000
in suspend. It was dark and
silent. The window in the house glinted

1431
02:17:48.000 --> 02:17:50.559
a little from Christmas tree lights.
Rocky didn't move. He just stood there

1432
02:17:50.600 --> 02:17:54.360
in the alley. But I wanted
to run fast, get away and put

1433
02:17:54.399 --> 02:17:56.719
it behind me just a second.
We got the money, Rocky, What

1434
02:17:56.799 --> 02:17:58.639
are we hanging around for? Come
on, let's get out of here,

1435
02:17:58.719 --> 02:18:00.959
I said, we wait for the
old cup to get back. What for?

1436
02:18:01.200 --> 02:18:03.440
Why take chances? Now we got
some money. I don't know it's

1437
02:18:03.479 --> 02:18:07.079
all of it. Maybe they split
it and put it in two places.

1438
02:18:07.639 --> 02:18:11.120
I wait here and watch for them
when they come in. That it was

1439
02:18:11.159 --> 02:18:13.719
eight thousand. That's what he withdrew
us for this kid, not the ways

1440
02:18:13.760 --> 02:18:24.760
you're told. We wait. I
couldn't help being scared. This was my

1441
02:18:24.840 --> 02:18:28.520
first job, my first and last. I just wanted that money. I

1442
02:18:28.600 --> 02:18:30.799
wanted it fast and short, and
I wanted to run away from it and

1443
02:18:30.879 --> 02:18:35.319
forget it a one shot. That's
why I got hold of Rocky Perea lucky.

1444
02:18:35.719 --> 02:18:37.440
I had to be lucky, just
this once, for Carol, not

1445
02:18:37.559 --> 02:18:41.360
for me. It was for Carol, nothing else I cared about. Sea

1446
02:18:41.200 --> 02:18:46.040
didn't seem possible now that three days
ago I hadn't known Rocky, hadn't needed

1447
02:18:46.120 --> 02:18:56.639
him. What is it, doctor, How about the baby? Your wife

1448
02:18:56.760 --> 02:19:01.799
must remain in serious No, oh, not serious. But she's got to

1449
02:19:01.840 --> 02:19:05.239
stay flat on her bag a nurse. You should have a nurse with her

1450
02:19:05.280 --> 02:19:07.280
all the time. Oh, but
it's two months away. Doctor. It's

1451
02:19:07.440 --> 02:19:11.680
just a question of keeping her relaxed
and quiet, not letting her do any

1452
02:19:11.719 --> 02:19:15.520
work around the house and lift things
or even more. Okay, okay,

1453
02:19:15.600 --> 02:19:18.959
doctor, and she'll be all right. There's one other thing. She was

1454
02:19:20.079 --> 02:19:22.719
quite worried when I told her about
the nurse. I got the feeling she's

1455
02:19:22.799 --> 02:19:26.879
well afraid to have the baby.
Afraid, not for aself. I can't

1456
02:19:26.920 --> 02:19:31.000
put my finger on it, but
it's having a detrimental effect on a condition,

1457
02:19:31.079 --> 02:19:35.239
and I know what it is,
doctor money. Oh, let's see,

1458
02:19:37.840 --> 02:19:41.280
well it might not be easy finding
a nurse. Only four days till

1459
02:19:41.319 --> 02:19:45.159
Christmas. I'll get one doctor,
Thanks, I'll call you. Yeah,

1460
02:19:45.440 --> 02:19:54.000
thanks again doctor. Oh sweetheart,
it'll be all right. I'm going to

1461
02:19:54.040 --> 02:19:56.239
get the nurse to take care of
you. I'll be able to get up

1462
02:19:56.239 --> 02:19:58.879
and around the beer too. Not
if you want that, son, the

1463
02:19:58.959 --> 02:20:00.879
doc said, Everything will be all
right, right if you take it easy.

1464
02:20:01.040 --> 02:20:03.159
You're going to take it easy,
but a nurse. Look, I've

1465
02:20:03.159 --> 02:20:05.440
got to get back to the bank. I'm only on my lunch hour,

1466
02:20:05.479 --> 02:20:07.360
sweetheart. I'll make a few calls
from there and tonight we'll pick out the

1467
02:20:07.479 --> 02:20:11.920
nurse. How much do they charge? What's the difference? How much?

1468
02:20:13.079 --> 02:20:16.680
Paul? It's a lot of money, I know, fifty sixty a week.

1469
02:20:16.760 --> 02:20:18.159
We'll make out all right. Now, there's nothing to worry about.

1470
02:20:18.319 --> 02:20:22.159
Oh, Paul, this was going
to be a happy Christmas. Now,

1471
02:20:22.440 --> 02:20:28.920
yeah, a happy Christmas. This
dump. It's funny, Paul, fifty

1472
02:20:28.959 --> 02:20:33.280
dollars a week for a nurse for
another two months. It's funny. You

1473
02:20:33.479 --> 02:20:37.239
make forty eight to fifty at the
bank. We'll have to pay the nurse.

1474
02:20:37.319 --> 02:20:46.639
More money than you earn, Yeah, more money than I earn.

1475
02:20:46.360 --> 02:20:50.719
You know how it is being a
bank teller feeling seeing handling money, taking

1476
02:20:50.799 --> 02:20:54.399
in money, paying it out.
And I went back to work. I

1477
02:20:54.520 --> 02:20:56.360
was seeing it for the first time
with something more than an attached feeling,

1478
02:20:56.879 --> 02:21:01.079
thinking I need this money. I
need this money. I need this money.

1479
02:21:01.799 --> 02:21:05.479
How I need this money? But
Carol and the baby. It was

1480
02:21:05.479 --> 02:21:11.719
almost three o'clock when Eddie the bookie
came in. I've pawned a good day

1481
02:21:11.799 --> 02:21:15.680
yesterday, a big action in a
few days Santaite opens. Yeah, people

1482
02:21:15.840 --> 02:21:18.120
like to throw their money away.
Hey, throw it, I catch it,

1483
02:21:18.399 --> 02:21:20.000
Eddie. Could I see you later? You ready to make a zeal?

1484
02:21:20.079 --> 02:21:22.559
I want to talk to you.
What time you throw? Five o'clock?

1485
02:21:22.719 --> 02:21:35.280
Meet you outside at five o'clock.
Eddie Garth Cookie. He quit school

1486
02:21:35.319 --> 02:21:37.760
in the seventh grade. I held
out and went through college, and all

1487
02:21:37.840 --> 02:21:41.239
these years he's tried to get me
to go in with him to run his

1488
02:21:41.319 --> 02:21:43.639
office do the bookwork. He was
waiting for me. When I finished work.

1489
02:21:43.840 --> 02:21:48.159
He went to a coffee shop and
sat down, and all around us

1490
02:21:48.200 --> 02:21:54.559
the loud speakers reminding me what a
happy Christmas it was. Hush Carol,

1491
02:21:54.600 --> 02:21:56.360
Paul, not so good, Eddie's
that's what I want to talk to you

1492
02:21:56.399 --> 02:22:01.280
about. No more loans, Paul. I need money. Come with me.

1493
02:22:01.879 --> 02:22:03.959
Don't you ever give up? What's
so good at the bank? Twenty

1494
02:22:05.000 --> 02:22:07.920
five bucks for a Christmas bonus?
Look, Eddie, come in with me

1495
02:22:07.319 --> 02:22:11.479
now, what's said? I need
opening. I can work the outside.

1496
02:22:11.520 --> 02:22:13.319
Get no accounts, Eddie, and
I'll give you ten percent of those accounts,

1497
02:22:13.360 --> 02:22:16.319
Paul. But I won't lend you
the money. I'd be a sucker

1498
02:22:16.360 --> 02:22:18.399
to lend it to you. I'll
give it to you if you come in,

1499
02:22:18.479 --> 02:22:22.000
but I won't lend you anymore.
Okay, Eddie, forget it.

1500
02:22:22.760 --> 02:22:26.719
I'll get it some other way.
I don't get it. What's wrong with

1501
02:22:26.879 --> 02:22:28.200
my deal? Look? Eddie?
How many times have you been rousted by

1502
02:22:28.239 --> 02:22:31.639
the vice squad? And every time
they book you and they fingerprint you and

1503
02:22:31.680 --> 02:22:35.600
take your picture? So what they
never have anything on me? It's on

1504
02:22:35.680 --> 02:22:37.159
your wreck at Eddie, as long
as you live. Ah. Sure,

1505
02:22:37.239 --> 02:22:39.879
I need money. Maybe I'm getting
close to the time when I'm not too

1506
02:22:39.959 --> 02:22:43.719
choosy about the way I get it. But it won't be your way.

1507
02:22:43.120 --> 02:22:46.959
What what are you talking about?
If I ever break the law. It's

1508
02:22:46.959 --> 02:22:48.680
going to be with the right guy, and it's going to be the right

1509
02:22:48.799 --> 02:22:52.079
job. I got dream and Paul, you'll still be in that cage ten

1510
02:22:52.200 --> 02:22:54.120
years from now. I've hit and
run one job with enough out of it

1511
02:22:54.200 --> 02:22:58.120
to make it worthwhile. That's the
way to be, Eddie, for one

1512
02:22:58.159 --> 02:23:01.440
shot. There is no such thing. Well you do something like that,

1513
02:23:01.559 --> 02:23:05.600
you're stuck in it and you're worse
often if you came with me, think

1514
02:23:05.639 --> 02:23:16.079
about it, Paul, go home
then and fixed dinner for Carol, all

1515
02:23:16.120 --> 02:23:20.879
the time thinking of the money and
Carol and the baby and debts, the

1516
02:23:20.040 --> 02:23:24.399
worry eating at me, and thinking
about what I'd said to Eddie. And

1517
02:23:24.559 --> 02:23:26.760
the next morning, old man Forbes
made a withdrawal. At first, he'd

1518
02:23:26.760 --> 02:23:33.440
ever made Hi son, Oh hello, mister Forbes. I'm going to miss

1519
02:23:33.559 --> 02:23:37.520
you, son. Seems like we're
good friends after all. The here miss

1520
02:23:37.680 --> 02:23:43.040
me. Take a look at the
slip. That's a lot of money.

1521
02:23:43.200 --> 02:23:46.319
Twelve years hard work, that's what
that money means. But you're taking it

1522
02:23:46.399 --> 02:23:50.040
all out. Yeah, and I
quit my job today. Quit your job,

1523
02:23:50.239 --> 02:23:54.159
haiding me. We've been waiting a
long time for this Christmas. We're

1524
02:23:54.200 --> 02:23:56.280
moving out of the city. Oh, we've had our eye on a little

1525
02:23:56.319 --> 02:24:00.760
farm. Now we can buy it. You've got the papers up, then

1526
02:24:00.799 --> 02:24:03.520
you're you're leaving right away about a
week. But aida don't know yet.

1527
02:24:03.799 --> 02:24:07.879
I'm got a surpriser, kind of
a Christmas pressure. But it's not safe

1528
02:24:07.920 --> 02:24:09.920
to keep so much cash on you, especially, I've got a perfect place

1529
02:24:09.920 --> 02:24:13.879
to die. It's I know other
things to look there. I try to

1530
02:24:13.920 --> 02:24:16.280
figure I've work too hard and too
long to lose it. Now. Oh

1531
02:24:16.479 --> 02:24:28.159
no, it wouldn't happen, wouldn't
he right? It stayed with me,

1532
02:24:28.280 --> 02:24:31.399
and it grew like a wheel,
spinning, gaining momentum. This could be

1533
02:24:31.440 --> 02:24:37.040
the right job. Eight thousand dollars
enough for that single shot. It stayed

1534
02:24:37.079 --> 02:24:45.719
with me all the time, growing, growing bunches on me. Paul,

1535
02:24:46.200 --> 02:24:50.079
if you change your mind, No, I called Eddie because I need your

1536
02:24:50.159 --> 02:24:52.680
help. What kind of help?
Well, you can arrange for me to

1537
02:24:52.760 --> 02:25:00.120
talk to someone maybe who was Rocky
Pereire Rocky Peay Are you kidding? You

1538
02:25:00.239 --> 02:25:01.840
picked yourself the right guy, all
right? The cops don't even know what

1539
02:25:01.920 --> 02:25:05.719
he looks like. They never mugged
him, a printed him. Yes,

1540
02:25:05.840 --> 02:25:09.159
Eddie, that's right, you crazy, I tell you. A million people

1541
02:25:09.200 --> 02:25:13.440
want to talk to Rocky Perea,
including the cops. O. No,

1542
02:25:13.639 --> 02:25:15.440
Paul, I can't cut you.
You ken, Eddie, if you want

1543
02:25:15.479 --> 02:25:22.040
to do bad enough, please Eddie. All right, let's see what I

1544
02:25:22.120 --> 02:25:26.360
can do. Maybe I don't know
someone and Eddie, it's got to be

1545
02:25:26.440 --> 02:25:30.159
soon. You know you'll be taking
a chance. It better be good.

1546
02:25:30.440 --> 02:25:41.239
It is Eddie good enough to take
the chance for. That was two days

1547
02:25:41.280 --> 02:25:46.840
ago, and this morning Eddie came
through a certain friend, Rocky's only outside

1548
02:25:46.879 --> 02:25:48.239
contact, told him to keep an
eye in a house on Hoover Street.

1549
02:25:48.760 --> 02:25:52.799
Eddie gave me all the dope what
Rocky looked like, Howie'd act, what

1550
02:25:52.920 --> 02:25:56.920
to expect. Earlier this evening,
I told Carol I was going out for

1551
02:25:56.959 --> 02:25:58.840
a while, that I'd borrow the
money from Eddie and we wouldn't have to

1552
02:25:58.879 --> 02:26:01.879
worry about paying it back for a
while. That's what I told her.

1553
02:26:03.159 --> 02:26:05.639
That that wasn't the answer. The
answer was at the house on Hoover with

1554
02:26:05.840 --> 02:26:16.520
Rocky Perea. I waited there,
hidden in the dark corner behind the incinerator.

1555
02:26:16.079 --> 02:26:20.959
I kept thinking making excuses. It
wasn't up to me anymore. It

1556
02:26:20.079 --> 02:26:24.000
wasn't any other choice. I needed
money desperately. I needed help to get

1557
02:26:24.040 --> 02:26:28.000
the money. I waited more than
an hour, and then I heard footsteps

1558
02:26:28.040 --> 02:26:31.719
come up the alley. He stopped
before the open patch of light, just

1559
02:26:31.799 --> 02:26:35.559
like it. He told me he
was careful, very careful, making sure

1560
02:26:35.639 --> 02:26:39.719
no one was staking him. I
took a deep breath and hitched my weight

1561
02:26:39.799 --> 02:26:41.799
forward. Was going to cut across
the open for the back door. I

1562
02:26:41.920 --> 02:26:46.360
remember thinking, now, do it
for Carol, for the rotten, miserable

1563
02:26:46.479 --> 02:26:54.559
Christmas. Do it now, Rocky. He froze for a split second,

1564
02:26:56.000 --> 02:26:58.479
and almost fast than I could see, he ducked into a shadow and spun

1565
02:26:58.559 --> 02:27:03.680
around. Light didn't touch them,
glinted on something metallic in his hand,

1566
02:27:03.319 --> 02:27:07.079
and even from where I was standing, I could see he had a gun

1567
02:27:07.239 --> 02:27:22.680
pointed at me. Autolite is bringing
you, mister Dennis Day in Christmas for

1568
02:27:22.879 --> 02:27:39.440
Carol Night's production and Radio's outstanding theater
of thrills, suspense. Say half,

1569
02:27:39.639 --> 02:27:41.959
are you going to the in laws
for Christmas? Yes, Harlow, not

1570
02:27:43.239 --> 02:27:46.840
rough? No, they're okay,
Oh, I mean rough trip unless you've

1571
02:27:46.879 --> 02:27:50.040
replaced worn out spark plugs with ignition
engineered Autolite spark plugs. They give your

1572
02:27:50.120 --> 02:27:54.959
car sensationally smooth performance. I've heard
of them, Harlow. Well, then

1573
02:27:54.000 --> 02:27:58.639
you must note that they're designed by
the same Autolite engineers who designed complete ignition

1574
02:27:58.719 --> 02:28:03.680
system used as original factory equipment on
many leading makes of our finest cars.

1575
02:28:05.399 --> 02:28:09.280
That's why ignition engineered auto light spark
plugs work perfectly with your car's complete ignition

1576
02:28:09.399 --> 02:28:13.159
system. If folks really treat us
right, you mean the auto light spark

1577
02:28:13.200 --> 02:28:18.479
plug dealers A haap, Well,
they'll replace worn out spark plugs with ignition

1578
02:28:18.639 --> 02:28:24.719
engineered auto light spark plugs for smoother
performance, quick starts, gas savings.

1579
02:28:26.280 --> 02:28:31.159
After we visit them, we always
find find what that You're always right with

1580
02:28:31.319 --> 02:28:37.840
auto light Harlow. Now, Autolite
brings back to our Hollywood sound stage,

1581
02:28:37.000 --> 02:28:43.760
mister Dennis Day and Elliot Lewis's production
of Christmas for Carol, a tale well

1582
02:28:43.920 --> 02:29:03.680
calculated to keep you in suspends.
Rocky, don't shoot, It's a good

1583
02:29:03.719 --> 02:29:07.280
thing, I'd said. His gun
was aiming front and center. He crouched

1584
02:29:07.280 --> 02:29:11.239
there looking at me, his eyes
flat and hard, and his voice deep

1585
02:29:11.319 --> 02:29:15.360
and tight and deadly. Who are
you? I'm not a cop, Rocky,

1586
02:29:16.159 --> 02:29:18.639
Come twice. I can see it
better. Sure, Rocky, I

1587
02:29:18.799 --> 02:29:22.879
just want to talk to you.
You've called me Rocky, You've been chucking

1588
02:29:22.920 --> 02:29:26.959
to anyone. I've been watching you. I know you're Rocky Perea. You've

1589
02:29:26.000 --> 02:29:30.000
been watching me. What for?
You'll want it? Rocky? And you

1590
02:29:30.120 --> 02:29:33.719
need money? Why you where'd you
come from? That doesn't matter, Rocky.

1591
02:29:33.920 --> 02:29:35.879
This is a business deal. I
figured it out very carefully. You

1592
02:29:37.000 --> 02:29:39.399
need money, well so do I, and I got a way to get

1593
02:29:39.440 --> 02:29:41.879
it. Just like that. And
Rocky, I'm not staying. This is

1594
02:29:41.879 --> 02:29:46.280
a one shot deal. One shot. There's no such thing. That's the

1595
02:29:46.319 --> 02:29:48.680
way it's got to be. We
do this job together and went through.

1596
02:29:48.000 --> 02:29:52.079
We never see each other again.
I sure ain't gonna go looking for you,

1597
02:29:52.760 --> 02:29:54.760
but you won't quit, not if
it comes off easy. I'll quit,

1598
02:29:54.920 --> 02:30:01.680
Rocky. What's in this for me? Half four thousand dollars? Oh?

1599
02:30:01.799 --> 02:30:03.680
Kids? You ain't dumb by any
means. Taking me out like this?

1600
02:30:05.399 --> 02:30:09.959
Almost smart enough to be a kappa. We get good still something,

1601
02:30:09.000 --> 02:30:11.559
You got a family. There's no
one to stop me. I have a

1602
02:30:11.680 --> 02:30:15.680
job that doesn't pay enough. This
will raise my salary. You want there's

1603
02:30:15.719 --> 02:30:18.600
one hall and it's back to your
job. Yeah? Is it a deal?

1604
02:30:18.879 --> 02:30:22.040
What's the job. I have a
car. I'll tell you on the

1605
02:30:22.079 --> 02:30:24.879
way if you go for it,
Okay, If not, we forget the

1606
02:30:24.920 --> 02:30:28.920
whole thing. Okay, kid,
I listened to it. Let's go driving.

1607
02:30:33.319 --> 02:30:35.680
I told him what I planned and
why I needed them, and he

1608
02:30:35.760 --> 02:30:39.120
agreed to come with me. We
drove to the Forbes's house. It was

1609
02:30:39.159 --> 02:30:43.040
a small and old house, just
big enough for the two of them.

1610
02:30:43.559 --> 02:30:48.600
I drove down to the corner and
parked and we started back. Lucky,

1611
02:30:48.680 --> 02:30:52.440
there's no one on this trade.
Let's go off the alley. Yeah,

1612
02:30:52.520 --> 02:30:54.719
Rocky, there's the back door.
Look, no lights, they're not home.

1613
02:30:56.079 --> 02:31:00.920
That makes it a sinch. Okay, go on second, Rocky.

1614
02:31:01.399 --> 02:31:05.280
I'll have to break a window.
Yeah, you want me to hold jam

1615
02:31:05.799 --> 02:31:09.040
I'll wrap my jacket around my fist. That'll keep the noise down. Why

1616
02:31:09.120 --> 02:31:18.600
don't you write me a book?
Okay, okay, I'm going. I

1617
02:31:18.719 --> 02:31:20.440
was lucky. The side of the
house was hidden from the street by a

1618
02:31:20.479 --> 02:31:24.079
big tree, and there was light
to see what from the Christmas tree in

1619
02:31:24.120 --> 02:31:26.159
the living room, and wrapped the
jacket around my knuckles. On the short

1620
02:31:26.239 --> 02:31:31.360
sharp jab broke through the window.
Sounded like a cannon. The street being

1621
02:31:31.440 --> 02:31:35.959
so quiet before. I was scared
would rouse the whole neighborhood. Like I

1622
02:31:35.040 --> 02:31:39.040
said, I was lucky. I
scrambled up the sill and dropped into the

1623
02:31:39.079 --> 02:31:43.280
living room. I was pretty clumsy. I pulled out draws, looked behind

1624
02:31:43.360 --> 02:31:46.079
pictures, hunda cushions. I went
in the kitchen and poked around the cabinets.

1625
02:31:46.479 --> 02:31:50.239
I looked in the cookie jar and
I found a rolled up water bills.

1626
02:31:56.200 --> 02:31:58.680
It was bunny, all right,
but only forty dollars the old lady

1627
02:31:58.719 --> 02:32:01.959
seeking treasure. I put it back
and went into the living room again,

1628
02:32:03.399 --> 02:32:05.440
looking around nervous. I stumbled on
the Christmas tree and knocked it over.

1629
02:32:07.680 --> 02:32:11.040
And then I remembered what the old
man had said, a Christmas present for

1630
02:32:11.120 --> 02:32:13.079
his wife, and I knew it
was somewhere on that tree. There were

1631
02:32:13.200 --> 02:32:16.399
Christmas stockings and favors and little red
boots in and around the tinsel and the

1632
02:32:16.520 --> 02:32:20.399
lighted bulbs, and I found the
eight thousand dollars hidden deep in one of

1633
02:32:20.440 --> 02:32:26.840
the stockings. Got it, Rocky, let me say it. It's there,

1634
02:32:26.920 --> 02:32:31.280
Rocky, It's all there. Yeah, eight grand I guess I'll hold

1635
02:32:31.360 --> 02:32:35.879
it. Come on, let's go
take it easy. I'm gonna stick around

1636
02:32:35.920 --> 02:32:37.840
for a while, stick around.
What for? We got some money.

1637
02:32:39.120 --> 02:32:41.639
How don't we know what's all of
it? Maybe they split it and put

1638
02:32:41.639 --> 02:32:43.639
it in two places. We'll wait
here and watch when they come in.

1639
02:32:45.040 --> 02:32:46.760
That was it. It was eight
thousand. That's what he withdrew. You

1640
02:32:46.920 --> 02:32:50.879
asked for this kid, Now that
we shit sold, well, wait,

1641
02:32:54.159 --> 02:32:58.239
I couldn't help being scared. My
first job, my first and last one.

1642
02:32:58.280 --> 02:33:01.399
Shot. I want it, get
away, fast, run and put

1643
02:33:01.440 --> 02:33:03.719
it behind me. Rocky just stood
there like he didn't have a worry in

1644
02:33:03.760 --> 02:33:11.440
the world. Listen, kid,
they're ringing for us, They wishing us

1645
02:33:11.440 --> 02:33:20.360
a merry Christmas. They are they're
unlocking the door. You know, happy.

1646
02:33:20.440 --> 02:33:26.319
The Christmas services were so beautiful.
Sure this year in particular, Harby.

1647
02:33:26.959 --> 02:33:30.360
Look the tree. Someone's been in
here. A burglar. Burglar,

1648
02:33:30.719 --> 02:33:39.079
my cookie jar, I've got my
house. Money hit me. The old

1649
02:33:39.120 --> 02:33:41.879
lady ran to the kitchen. Forbes
knew way to look, and he knew

1650
02:33:41.920 --> 02:33:46.559
it was gone. Rocky was grinning. His face lit up like floodlights.

1651
02:33:46.840 --> 02:33:50.559
Let's go, Rocky, We've seen
enough. It's all here, Harvey.

1652
02:33:50.639 --> 02:33:56.159
I wonder what he was after it's
gone? All the money? What money?

1653
02:33:56.399 --> 02:34:01.079
Eight thousand dollars. I took it
all out of the ada. I

1654
02:34:01.719 --> 02:34:05.040
quit my job. It was going
to be a surprise. No, every

1655
02:34:05.280 --> 02:34:13.520
penny we had in the world.
Oh, oh that money, it's all

1656
02:34:13.639 --> 02:34:18.120
right. Aida twelve years you work, so we're going to have something.

1657
02:34:18.799 --> 02:34:20.959
I can keep on working. I'll
do it all over again. Oh you

1658
02:34:22.200 --> 02:34:28.079
can't work and more. But oh, what's a person to believe? It

1659
02:34:28.319 --> 02:34:33.920
works so hard and we do without
things for twelve long years before in one

1660
02:34:35.079 --> 02:34:46.319
minute, some good for nothing hoodlum
takes it all away from us. I

1661
02:34:46.399 --> 02:34:50.559
looked at Rocky standing there next to
me, his face split by that grin.

1662
02:34:50.200 --> 02:34:52.959
It was funny to him, something
to laugh about, to gloat over.

1663
02:34:54.399 --> 02:34:56.799
That's why he stayed. Suddenly I
knew I couldn't go through with it.

1664
02:34:58.520 --> 02:35:00.920
Me, the guy who needed the
money so bad, the guy with

1665
02:35:01.000 --> 02:35:05.239
the bright one shot idea. Come
on, let's go. He moved off

1666
02:35:05.280 --> 02:35:07.799
a few steps, but I just
stood there, knowing what I was going

1667
02:35:07.879 --> 02:35:11.760
to do. Come on, I
said, let's go, knowing what I

1668
02:35:11.879 --> 02:35:16.159
was gonna do. No, No, Rocky, we're not going. I

1669
02:35:16.200 --> 02:35:18.280
said, we're not going, And
neither is the money. What's that,

1670
02:35:18.600 --> 02:35:20.440
don't, Rocky, I've got a
gun too. What's got into you?

1671
02:35:20.559 --> 02:35:24.559
I'm going to give that money back, Rocky. I can't stomach this.

1672
02:35:24.639 --> 02:35:26.879
Give me back. You're crazy,
No, Rocky, I just didn't see

1673
02:35:26.959 --> 02:35:31.159
deep enough. Oh people like this. This was your idea. I'm responsible

1674
02:35:31.200 --> 02:35:33.920
for it, I know, Rocky, but I can make it right some

1675
02:35:35.120 --> 02:35:37.479
phones. I don't give you the
money, and I'll kill you. Rocky.

1676
02:35:39.600 --> 02:35:48.520
Okay, kidd, you've got the
gun. He gave me the money,

1677
02:35:48.879 --> 02:35:52.200
all the hate showing in his eyes. I turned, started for the

1678
02:35:52.280 --> 02:35:56.040
house and gave him my back for
a target, but he didn't use it.

1679
02:35:56.639 --> 02:36:03.760
I knocked on the door. Yes, who Paul from the bank.

1680
02:36:03.040 --> 02:36:05.840
I just had a fight with a
guy, mister Forbes. Saw him jump

1681
02:36:05.879 --> 02:36:09.920
from your window. I chased after
him. Oh window, you saw him,

1682
02:36:11.079 --> 02:36:13.479
yes, ma'am. I was walking
past. I kind of figured he'd

1683
02:36:13.520 --> 02:36:16.319
just finished robbing you. Did you
catch him? Well? I couldn't hold

1684
02:36:16.360 --> 02:36:18.879
on to him. He he broke
away, but not before I got this.

1685
02:36:18.639 --> 02:36:24.959
Why Harvey the money? Yes,
Paul, bless you. I'll forget

1686
02:36:24.000 --> 02:36:28.159
it. I'm only sorry I couldn't
hold him. You you say you fought

1687
02:36:28.319 --> 02:36:35.079
with this burglue. Yes, he
broke away before we wanted to thank you,

1688
02:36:35.319 --> 02:36:37.639
Paul. Forget it. I'll be
going now. Oh wait, Paul,

1689
02:36:37.719 --> 02:36:41.159
we wanted to give you a reward. No, no, I don't

1690
02:36:41.159 --> 02:36:50.399
want to reward. I'll I'll have
to be going. I stopped there on

1691
02:36:50.479 --> 02:36:54.440
the porch for a minute, afraid
to go back to Rocky, suddenly,

1692
02:36:54.600 --> 02:36:56.920
terribly afraid of what he'd do to
me. The old couple were still talking

1693
02:36:58.239 --> 02:37:03.200
loud, like all people do.
It all happened so fast. I've always

1694
02:37:03.360 --> 02:37:07.000
wonder about that boy. What made
him bring the money there? He's honesty,

1695
02:37:07.920 --> 02:37:13.399
I know him from the bank.
He didn't fight with anyone. What

1696
02:37:13.479 --> 02:37:16.040
do you mean it is closed by
the whole story. He told us,

1697
02:37:16.479 --> 02:37:22.440
your young friend took the money in
the first place. If you're right,

1698
02:37:22.520 --> 02:37:26.959
of course, I'm right now.
What on earth made him change his mind

1699
02:37:28.200 --> 02:37:41.600
like that? It's Christmas Eve,
Merry Christmas. She'd known it, the

1700
02:37:41.680 --> 02:37:45.879
old lady had known all along,
and it didn't make any difference way.

1701
02:37:46.520 --> 02:37:50.520
She'd offered, even offered to give
me a reward. Suddenly I felt something

1702
02:37:50.600 --> 02:37:54.079
strange, like being clean inside,
like being able to see something that wasn't

1703
02:37:54.079 --> 02:38:01.959
there before, And the tightness the
fear eased a little. Let's go kidding

1704
02:38:03.159 --> 02:38:07.639
the car, Rocky, you did
what you wanted. You just forgot that

1705
02:38:07.840 --> 02:38:22.319
half of that money was mine.
Now move, got it moving? What

1706
02:38:22.600 --> 02:38:26.200
was it you said? You need
me, Rocky? Yeah, Rocky,

1707
02:38:26.280 --> 02:38:30.760
yep, I need a mistake.
I want to team up with your Rocky.

1708
02:38:30.879 --> 02:38:33.319
You need money. I got away. I was wrong. Maybe the

1709
02:38:33.440 --> 02:38:37.239
next job you won't get sopped in
that. There's not going to be a

1710
02:38:37.280 --> 02:38:41.000
next one, Rocky. I'm through
through you think guys spent Christmas Eve with

1711
02:38:41.120 --> 02:38:45.040
you because I like you. I'm
out four grand I'm sorry, Rocky,

1712
02:38:45.079 --> 02:38:50.239
but that's not going to be a
next time. I think, so stop

1713
02:38:50.319 --> 02:38:54.719
the car, all right. I'll
never see a different Rocky. I found

1714
02:38:54.760 --> 02:38:58.639
out tonight. It's not these old
people. Then it's someone else taking it

1715
02:38:58.799 --> 02:39:03.360
just as hard. You sure it's
not Christmas doing this. I'm sure it's

1716
02:39:03.399 --> 02:39:11.040
not for me, Rocky. You
know, I'm kind of glad it turned

1717
02:39:11.079 --> 02:39:18.799
out this way. What yeh?
Throwways going back to your job? Yeah,

1718
02:39:18.200 --> 02:39:24.079
Rocky, sure good? And I
figured it right? What I didn't

1719
02:39:24.120 --> 02:39:28.879
think you'd go through with him?
Say wait a minute, yeah you're not

1720
02:39:28.040 --> 02:39:33.079
Rocky Pereah. I said you were
a smart kid, the way you acted

1721
02:39:33.319 --> 02:39:39.040
so careful sneaking in the Allien say, who are you? Weissman's the name

1722
02:39:39.600 --> 02:39:45.440
police, Lieutenant Richard Wiseman, gangster
one? You're a cop? Where's Rocky?

1723
02:39:45.879 --> 02:39:48.120
We picked him up this afternoon.
Kid. He had a couple of

1724
02:39:48.200 --> 02:39:50.840
guys working with him, and I
thought maybe you were one of them.

1725
02:39:52.680 --> 02:39:56.760
Now I know them, I don't
expect to run into you again, kidd,

1726
02:39:58.799 --> 02:40:13.959
So take care of yourself and merry
Christmas. Lucky all the breaks,

1727
02:40:13.319 --> 02:40:16.920
but I was no better off than
this morning. Was still money two months

1728
02:40:16.959 --> 02:40:22.159
paying the nurse. It was still
a worry for Carol. Oh, mister

1729
02:40:22.239 --> 02:40:26.479
Shane, we've been expecting you.
Congratulates doctor. What's the matter? Why

1730
02:40:26.000 --> 02:40:30.520
nothing's wrong? Quite the contrary.
Your wife just had a baby baby,

1731
02:40:31.079 --> 02:40:35.239
Carol. Oh, she's perfectly all
right. So is your daughter, Carol?

1732
02:40:35.799 --> 02:40:39.360
Oh, Carol Darling, are you
all right? Hello? I'm fine,

1733
02:40:39.639 --> 02:40:43.280
Carol is We won't have to borrow
the money now, Pull. It's

1734
02:40:43.319 --> 02:40:46.639
turned out for the best after all, oh darling, And it always will,

1735
02:40:46.719 --> 02:40:52.040
my dear, we have so much, you and I, we have

1736
02:40:52.159 --> 02:40:58.840
each other. Now we've got a
daughter, a fine, healthy little girl.

1737
02:41:00.239 --> 02:41:05.639
The rest will come fall. Let's
live the day we have your little

1738
02:41:05.639 --> 02:41:11.239
girls over there. Paul tell her
we're very, very happy she's in the

1739
02:41:11.399 --> 02:41:37.319
family and wish you're a merry Christmas. Oh no, well, held say

1740
02:41:39.079 --> 02:41:56.840
was to serve and potion in eels
as they lands where they laying there?

1741
02:41:58.399 --> 02:42:41.120
She ohs, no, look,
Carol, look she's smiling. No suspence

1742
02:42:41.399 --> 02:42:48.600
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1752
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1754
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They don't simply celebrate the holiday of
Christmas in your own backyard. Many

1755
02:44:01.799 --> 02:44:07.559
all over the world celebrate the most
wonderful time of the year. This story

1756
02:44:07.680 --> 02:44:13.639
is about about kind of different Christmas. It's a Korean Christmas Carol. I

1757
02:44:13.719 --> 02:44:20.719
suppose at least that's what they call
it. Or what's that? Oh well,

1758
02:44:20.280 --> 02:44:24.639
I have been ignoring the fire.
You're right, let me get another

1759
02:44:24.879 --> 02:44:28.000
log log in there. There we
go, we go. I'll get it

1760
02:44:28.079 --> 02:44:35.479
burning hot for you as you relax, get toastings. And let's listen to

1761
02:44:35.559 --> 02:44:43.200
this one, just you and I. And now another tale, well calculated

1762
02:44:43.319 --> 02:44:54.719
to keep you in suspense. The
time Christmas nineteen fifty eight. The Place

1763
02:44:54.399 --> 02:45:11.440
Korea. The story A Korean Christmas
Carol for Suspense by George Bember Sounds good,

1764
02:45:11.479 --> 02:45:15.959
doesn't it. They hear kids singing. I mean, I can't understand

1765
02:45:16.000 --> 02:45:20.360
the language, but I know what
they mean. The sound so fresh and

1766
02:45:20.479 --> 02:45:24.959
full of promise, almost as if
they knew. But then I'm getting ahead

1767
02:45:24.959 --> 02:45:31.200
of myself. The names Connolly,
Pfc Larry Connolly. I'm a soldier in

1768
02:45:31.280 --> 02:45:35.280
Korea. I was sent here just
about a year ago this time. That's

1769
02:45:35.319 --> 02:45:48.280
where this strange story begins. Christmas
nineteen fifty eight. Christmas was for me

1770
02:45:48.479 --> 02:45:52.719
that year, miserable. I've been
stuck on guard the night before, and

1771
02:45:52.799 --> 02:45:56.600
so I plan to stay in bed
the next day and forget about Christmas.

1772
02:45:56.959 --> 02:46:01.000
I hadn't counted on my first sergeant, since I was the first man he

1773
02:46:01.040 --> 02:46:03.280
came to in the barracks. It's
only logical, lit, I should be

1774
02:46:03.280 --> 02:46:05.719
the man he picks to drive a
truck all the way to Sol and back.

1775
02:46:11.719 --> 02:46:13.000
It was night by the time I
got on the road headed back from

1776
02:46:13.040 --> 02:46:18.159
Soul and started the snow, big
flakes coming down, soft at first,

1777
02:46:18.920 --> 02:46:30.239
then so thick and fast. I
could hardly see. I was just over

1778
02:46:30.319 --> 02:46:33.040
that first range of mountains, was
starting on the twisting, slippery way down.

1779
02:46:33.079 --> 02:46:39.000
When I saw him in side of
him scared me wide awake. He's

1780
02:46:39.000 --> 02:46:41.040
standing bareheaded, the wind whipping the
snow, and his hair around his face.

1781
02:46:43.440 --> 02:46:46.920
When he raised his thumb, I
had the strangest feeling, even expecting

1782
02:46:46.000 --> 02:46:52.280
me, almost as if it were
unnecessary, as if he knew i'd stop.

1783
02:46:54.959 --> 02:46:56.440
You want to lift. I'm going
as far as Camp Santa Barbara,

1784
02:46:56.959 --> 02:47:00.600
where's that? You mean? Where's
that? Every ald? He knows where

1785
02:47:00.639 --> 02:47:03.239
camp standa barber is. Don't stand
there with the door open, hop in

1786
02:47:03.440 --> 02:47:09.440
all right, you picked a lousy
place to hitchhike. I didn't stop.

1787
02:47:09.799 --> 02:47:13.280
Oh thanks. Happened to your gloves? Your hands look half frozen gloved?

1788
02:47:15.920 --> 02:47:20.239
Well, I must have lost them, don't you know? Oh yes,

1789
02:47:22.040 --> 02:47:24.360
yeah, sure, I must have
left them laying on the counter of the

1790
02:47:24.440 --> 02:47:28.559
PX back there had back there too, No, no, I lost my

1791
02:47:28.719 --> 02:47:33.600
hat in the dark. I fell. I suppose that's why your uniforms money

1792
02:47:33.600 --> 02:47:37.120
and your jackets to him. Oh, yes, yes, that's right.

1793
02:47:37.200 --> 02:47:41.319
Of course. I was walking along
the edge of the road and I slipped

1794
02:47:41.399 --> 02:47:43.760
in the dark, and I slid
halfway down the bank, but before I

1795
02:47:43.760 --> 02:47:46.639
could stop. So you managed to
hang onto your bag. Oh yeah,

1796
02:47:46.680 --> 02:47:50.120
I can't afford to lose that.
It's important. I'm late as it is

1797
02:47:52.600 --> 02:47:58.559
what I'll fit you from third Recon, seventh Division Infantry Infantry, So artillery

1798
02:47:58.639 --> 02:48:01.520
up this way, the inventory stationed
about seven miles back. You're heading in

1799
02:48:01.520 --> 02:48:05.399
the wrong direction. Well, Third
Greecon is a special detachment. We're off

1800
02:48:05.440 --> 02:48:09.799
in the hills all by ourselves.
It's just off this road. I heard

1801
02:48:09.840 --> 02:48:15.760
of it before. My name's Connelly, Mary Connley. What's yours? Thanks,

1802
02:48:15.840 --> 02:48:20.280
mine's Richard Dombrowski. Good to know
you. Dombroski say, look,

1803
02:48:20.319 --> 02:48:22.559
if you can let go of that
bag long enough, I'll let you wear

1804
02:48:22.600 --> 02:48:24.319
my gloves till your hands were my
Oh no, thanks, that's all right,

1805
02:48:24.360 --> 02:48:28.319
I'll put them in my pockets,
say he said, Okay, if

1806
02:48:28.319 --> 02:48:31.399
I set my bag on the floor. Oh sure, no sweat. Say

1807
02:48:31.440 --> 02:48:35.440
you don't have a cigarette, do
you? I'm fresh out? Well I

1808
02:48:35.479 --> 02:48:41.040
don't know. Wait a minute,
yeah, here's some Let me light it

1809
02:48:41.120 --> 02:48:43.639
for you. Though. You watch
the road. I saw a whole truckload

1810
02:48:43.639 --> 02:48:48.200
of troops disappear over that curve up
ahead, killed all but two. Yeah,

1811
02:48:48.399 --> 02:48:52.799
well that happened nineteen fifty one.
Nineteen fifty one, yep, Julie

1812
02:48:52.920 --> 02:48:58.079
here when the war was on.
I guess you could say that. Tell

1813
02:48:58.120 --> 02:49:03.799
me Dombrowski, what were you doing
Christmas Day that they didn't send you all

1814
02:49:03.799 --> 02:49:07.959
the way to Sew with an empty
truck on a wild goose chase? That's

1815
02:49:07.000 --> 02:49:11.200
what I did today? What did
you do seven years ago? Or you

1816
02:49:11.280 --> 02:49:16.959
see those lights up ahead? That's
the village of chung jewry. We marched

1817
02:49:18.000 --> 02:49:20.719
through there the day before Christmas.
Be scared. Oh, I think everybody's

1818
02:49:20.719 --> 02:49:22.959
scared. Hey, hey, look
at you bring yourself. What's the matter?

1819
02:49:24.239 --> 02:49:26.520
Cigarette burned all the way down to
your fingers. Oh, isn't it

1820
02:49:26.559 --> 02:49:30.719
burning you that? No? No, I guess it burned itself out before

1821
02:49:30.760 --> 02:49:31.840
it got to my skin. Anyway, you see that hill over there,

1822
02:49:33.799 --> 02:49:37.040
Well, Christmas Day nineteen fifty one, my platoon was all dug in around

1823
02:49:37.120 --> 02:49:41.520
that hill, No kidding. We
went out on the patrol from that hill.

1824
02:49:43.360 --> 02:49:46.520
And that was one time I was
plenty scared. As a matter of

1825
02:49:46.559 --> 02:49:52.000
fact, it happened just seven years
ago tonight. It hadn't snowed that day,

1826
02:49:52.079 --> 02:49:54.280
but there was snow on the ground. I can remember, because the

1827
02:49:54.360 --> 02:50:00.799
guys were joking that at least we
had a white Christmas Christmas. It was,

1828
02:50:22.399 --> 02:50:28.159
as I said, it was quiet
Christmas Day nineteen fifty one. We

1829
02:50:28.239 --> 02:50:31.280
were sitting around in our holes waiting
for the fun which we knew would begin

1830
02:50:31.360 --> 02:50:35.760
the next day. They'd managed to
get hot turkey up to us, so

1831
02:50:35.840 --> 02:50:39.479
we were relatively comfortable and happy until
Brownie, our squad leader, came back

1832
02:50:39.520 --> 02:50:45.360
from a talk with the old man
all right, I'll take a first five.

1833
02:50:45.760 --> 02:50:48.760
The old man wants us to go
out and never look around. Come

1834
02:50:48.840 --> 02:50:50.959
on, come on, not get
off, Get ready your dog tags and

1835
02:50:52.040 --> 02:50:54.600
canteens, anything that might rattle and
make a noise. It won't be gone

1836
02:50:54.600 --> 02:50:58.360
along. But we're moving light.
Hey, Whiting, might as well leave

1837
02:50:58.360 --> 02:51:01.280
your helmet here. We want to
move quiet. But sah, it's too

1838
02:51:01.360 --> 02:51:03.440
cold to go out without a hat. I cut the comboy. Walker.

1839
02:51:05.840 --> 02:51:09.600
We moved out on schedule just as
knight was falling, and with the knight

1840
02:51:09.680 --> 02:51:13.600
came a cold. We moved rapidly
along the valley for about an hour or

1841
02:51:13.639 --> 02:51:16.399
so when Brownie stopped and raised his
hand. All right, you man,

1842
02:51:16.440 --> 02:51:18.319
hold it up. Let's me get
on the other side of that ridge up

1843
02:51:18.360 --> 02:51:22.479
ahead. We'll observe maximum security.
No talking, no lights, keep down,

1844
02:51:24.000 --> 02:51:26.040
and watch where you put your big, clumsy feet. These people just

1845
02:51:26.120 --> 02:51:31.000
loved trip wise with flares attached.
Walker, you still got the walkie talkie.

1846
02:51:31.319 --> 02:51:33.440
I didn't. I wouldn't be here
to tell you about it. I

1847
02:51:33.680 --> 02:51:37.120
still working. It's warm. If
that's what you mean, that's more than

1848
02:51:37.159 --> 02:51:39.600
I can say for myself. All
right, keep it that way. We

1849
02:51:39.680 --> 02:51:43.639
may need it that we run the
trouble. Hey, while we're here,

1850
02:51:43.719 --> 02:51:46.559
let's take one last check on your
gear. Make sure your rifle both aren't

1851
02:51:46.600 --> 02:51:52.680
frozen, weapons on safety, and
all grenades are securing their pins. Okay,

1852
02:51:54.159 --> 02:52:05.840
everybody said, let's move out,
and so we did move out.

1853
02:52:07.280 --> 02:52:11.120
The m one felt light in my
hands, like I'd never realized how light

1854
02:52:11.239 --> 02:52:15.479
and easy it was to carry a
rifle. Before the going was easy.

1855
02:52:16.280 --> 02:52:20.319
The rice paddies were frozen over and
covered with snow, and we stepped carefully

1856
02:52:20.399 --> 02:52:24.799
between the clumps of rice stubble left
over from the last harvest, so the

1857
02:52:24.879 --> 02:52:30.920
dry straw made no noise. We
walked steadily, quietly, maybe two hundred

1858
02:52:30.959 --> 02:52:35.040
yards without a sound, regularly stepping
up and over each low rice paddy wall

1859
02:52:35.079 --> 02:52:39.280
as we came to it, each
one bringing us just that much closer to

1860
02:52:39.360 --> 02:52:52.159
the top. And then it happened. Somebody must have tripped a wire,

1861
02:52:52.159 --> 02:52:56.799
because suddenly the inky black was transformed
into the merciless flight at the operating table.

1862
02:52:58.520 --> 02:53:01.040
Everything seemed stopped and slowed down,
just like an old movie before the

1863
02:53:01.120 --> 02:53:05.399
projector blows up. I could see
the other guys, the hills, and

1864
02:53:05.479 --> 02:53:09.840
the deadly winking fires of the guns, and then we fell down to the

1865
02:53:09.920 --> 02:53:13.799
protection of the earth, and some
of us fell with metal in our bodies.

1866
02:53:13.319 --> 02:53:16.520
Crawl, crawl, you waits crawled
the mud tight, oh, but

1867
02:53:16.600 --> 02:53:22.200
can't hit us there. And we
crawled, digging our knees and fingers into

1868
02:53:22.239 --> 02:53:26.399
the frozen mud until they were bruised
and torn. We crawled closer to the

1869
02:53:26.440 --> 02:53:31.319
ground and faster than we ever had
before. We crawled to the sanctuary of

1870
02:53:31.399 --> 02:53:33.920
a foot high mud hill. Keep
your heads down. He got his print.

1871
02:53:35.280 --> 02:53:37.959
It was about a one hundred and
fifty yards to a front. Where's

1872
02:53:37.000 --> 02:53:39.879
the other there's two hundred yards to
the left. They got his print in

1873
02:53:39.920 --> 02:53:43.920
a cross by me. We'll never
get on here, all right, right,

1874
02:53:43.159 --> 02:53:48.799
old panic bat down, we'll make
it out. Walker. See if

1875
02:53:48.840 --> 02:53:54.959
you can raise lady Wolf on a
walkie talkie. Walker Walker's laying out there

1876
02:53:54.959 --> 02:53:58.040
in the middle of the pattis Brownie. He's never gonna have to worry about

1877
02:53:58.079 --> 02:54:01.719
being warm again. Smith's out there. I saw him getting I saw it

1878
02:54:01.799 --> 02:54:05.520
when the flare went up. I
saw him catching the frame. Okay,

1879
02:54:05.559 --> 02:54:07.440
okay, Harry, easy, he's
still got the walky talkie. Can you

1880
02:54:07.479 --> 02:54:11.040
see if it's all right? He's
laying on it it's hard to tell whity.

1881
02:54:11.719 --> 02:54:15.479
That flare is gonna go up mighty
quake. If a man was fast,

1882
02:54:15.559 --> 02:54:18.280
he could probably streak out there back
before they put up another one.

1883
02:54:18.760 --> 02:54:20.959
We can use that walkie talking to
call up some artillery to get these monkeys

1884
02:54:20.959 --> 02:54:24.959
off our back. I can't brown
you. I must have been hit.

1885
02:54:24.840 --> 02:54:28.520
I can't move my legs anymore.
I can't even feel him easy. Are

1886
02:54:28.559 --> 02:54:31.760
you bleeding bed? No, Harry, you are right as far as I

1887
02:54:31.879 --> 02:54:37.040
know. Stevens. Sure, I'd
like to take a whele at that walkie

1888
02:54:37.120 --> 02:54:41.000
talkie. Wait till that flare burns
out. It's dying now, just a

1889
02:54:41.239 --> 02:54:50.559
few more seconds go. By the
time the flare lit the sky, Stevens

1890
02:54:50.639 --> 02:54:56.280
was halfway back, the walkie talkie
dangling from his right hand. There some

1891
02:54:56.760 --> 02:55:03.879
huge, invisible hands slapped him to
the ground. I'm any quiet. Where

1892
02:55:03.920 --> 02:55:07.920
they get you can put them over, Harry. The question is on see

1893
02:55:07.920 --> 02:55:13.200
any other places? No, just
hind wrapper dressing a round and buttet inside

1894
02:55:13.200 --> 02:55:16.159
his jacket. Have me that walking
talkie's no good? Brownie to walking talkie

1895
02:55:16.159 --> 02:55:20.200
smash? Why it's useless. We're
gonna have to move out of here fast.

1896
02:55:20.440 --> 02:55:22.760
How are we going to pull her
house. We can't crawl back down

1897
02:55:22.840 --> 02:55:26.239
the paddy. They'll smell all right, All right, Look, we'll move

1898
02:55:26.239 --> 02:55:28.840
along the dyke to the edge of
the rice patty. From there we conduct

1899
02:55:28.879 --> 02:55:31.719
into the underbrush and move back down
the mountain. We'll never make it.

1900
02:55:31.159 --> 02:55:33.719
There's spot is when we try to
make across the clearing to the underbrush,

1901
02:55:33.879 --> 02:55:37.319
the swing the guns around. We
can't try it. We can't stay here,

1902
02:55:37.360 --> 02:55:41.680
Stevens, can you crawl? I
can make it. Okay, you

1903
02:55:41.799 --> 02:55:45.719
lead off and I'll follow you our
cell backwards and pull Whitey along behind me.

1904
02:55:45.879 --> 02:55:48.840
Why you wear me? We'll never
make it quiet. All you have

1905
02:55:48.920 --> 02:55:52.600
to do, Harry, is follow
along behind and pick up the pieces.

1906
02:55:52.520 --> 02:55:54.879
Take his weapon. It'll make him
lighter. Get your hands. Talk to

1907
02:55:54.879 --> 02:55:58.120
me, Harry, Come on,
white Do we have any tied to pull

1908
02:55:58.159 --> 02:56:01.239
along? Not pooling? I'm not
go You lost too much blood off.

1909
02:56:01.559 --> 02:56:05.559
Just like you said, Brownie,
it's only a matter of time. You

1910
02:56:05.680 --> 02:56:09.559
can't get anywhere with me. You'll
never even get past the clearing trying to

1911
02:56:09.600 --> 02:56:13.479
drag me across. You're smart enough
to know that, Brownie. It'll be

1912
02:56:13.559 --> 02:56:16.360
tough enough. Even with two good
lakes. We're not leaving you here.

1913
02:56:16.600 --> 02:56:20.440
That's what I figured you did say. I'm still in shot. Yeah,

1914
02:56:20.600 --> 02:56:24.520
I figured you'd say that too,
Brownie. You see this grenade. It

1915
02:56:24.639 --> 02:56:28.040
doesn't have any pin in it.
The only thing that keeps the spring from

1916
02:56:28.120 --> 02:56:31.639
kicking the clip off is my hand. Not get out of here, Brownie,

1917
02:56:31.680 --> 02:56:35.079
before I let it go. Why
you want me to let loose of

1918
02:56:35.120 --> 02:56:37.920
this grenade. I'll prop that bar
up the dike in front of me.

1919
02:56:39.479 --> 02:56:41.959
I'm scatter the clips where I can
get at them. I'll wait until you

1920
02:56:43.000 --> 02:56:45.079
guys get to the edge of the
paddy before I open up. Look,

1921
02:56:45.600 --> 02:56:50.280
I'm still holding the grenade, Brownie. Time is running out. You're gonna

1922
02:56:50.319 --> 02:56:52.239
have to hurry. I feel like
I want to fall asleep, and I

1923
02:56:52.280 --> 02:56:56.520
don't know how much longer I can
stay awake. Just push me a a

1924
02:56:56.639 --> 02:57:03.920
very merry Christmas and beat it.
Marry Christmas, White All right, you

1925
02:57:03.000 --> 02:57:11.600
guys, what are you waiting for? Let's move on. See that's right,

1926
02:57:13.360 --> 02:57:22.120
this is Christmas o little town of
Berthley. And how still you see?

1927
02:57:24.639 --> 02:57:28.399
What's the matter? Don't you?
People like Christmas carols? A machine

1928
02:57:28.440 --> 02:57:33.680
gun fire always was better getaway music
than Christmas Carols? Above thy dark and

1929
02:57:33.000 --> 02:57:43.920
dreaming. White He lay there until
the others had crawled to the end of

1930
02:57:43.000 --> 02:57:50.159
a low rice paddy wall and let
he threw his grenade. When it exploded,

1931
02:57:50.200 --> 02:57:52.719
he opened up with the bar,
making enough noise to make the enemy

1932
02:57:52.760 --> 02:57:56.879
think the patrol was launching an attack. Most machine gun nests zeroed in on

1933
02:57:58.000 --> 02:58:01.719
him, but White he stayed well
the little mud wall of the rice paddy,

1934
02:58:01.760 --> 02:58:05.440
humming his Christmas carol, loading the
bar with a fresh clip every time

1935
02:58:05.479 --> 02:58:11.239
it went empty, and perhaps wondering
briefly why he was going to die so

1936
02:58:11.360 --> 02:58:18.760
far away from home a little pond
of frozen muddy didn't care about or even

1937
02:58:18.840 --> 02:58:24.319
owned, still firing and singing even
after the rest of the squad had escaped

1938
02:58:24.319 --> 02:58:31.520
into the underbrush. But until either
the machine gunners found their mark or else,

1939
02:58:31.559 --> 02:58:43.040
he finally fell asleep. Oh gosh, he was quite a guy.

1940
02:58:43.520 --> 02:58:48.040
No, I I guess it was
just a detail that had to be done,

1941
02:58:48.079 --> 02:58:52.319
and he had to do it.
Well, there's my stop right there

1942
02:58:52.399 --> 02:58:56.760
where that little road turns off up
ahead the detachments up that road that's right

1943
02:58:56.840 --> 02:59:00.479
right at the end of it.
You's sure I've seen that road before,

1944
02:59:00.520 --> 02:59:03.719
but I didn't think there was anything
up there. Just let me out here

1945
02:59:03.479 --> 02:59:11.959
a sure thing. Thanks a lot, no sweat. Say if you ever

1946
02:59:11.040 --> 02:59:15.200
want to look me up, remember
my outfits all the way up at the

1947
02:59:15.280 --> 02:59:18.680
end of this road. I'll be
right up there. Okay, I'll drop

1948
02:59:18.719 --> 02:59:26.280
in sometime right, so long and
thanks again. I drove off, figuring

1949
02:59:26.319 --> 02:59:28.159
it would be a very cold day
in Korea before I ever looked him up.

1950
02:59:28.559 --> 02:59:33.639
Such a weird guy gave me the
creeps. I got about five miles

1951
02:59:33.680 --> 02:59:35.200
down the road when I discovered he
left his bag sitting on the floor of

1952
02:59:35.239 --> 02:59:39.920
the deuce in the half. Took
a lot of arguing with myself, but

1953
02:59:39.840 --> 02:59:43.600
I decided that the only decent thing
I could do was to swing around and

1954
02:59:43.600 --> 02:59:48.000
take it back to him. Besides, maybe I could stop in the orderly

1955
02:59:48.040 --> 03:00:13.760
room and check him out whyd out
what his story really was. On the

1956
03:00:13.840 --> 03:00:16.600
way back, I almost missed the
road because it was so small and seldom

1957
03:00:16.719 --> 03:00:20.440
used. I drove up it for
about ten minutes, beginning to wonder if

1958
03:00:20.479 --> 03:00:24.959
I hadn't gotten the wrong road after
all, because I passed no other vehicles

1959
03:00:24.040 --> 03:00:28.639
or gis or anything to indicate there
was an infantry company around. Just when

1960
03:00:28.639 --> 03:00:31.600
I was ready to turn back,
to the main road. I saw lights

1961
03:00:31.600 --> 03:00:35.120
twinkling up ahead from what looked like
a couple of quantcets. It seemed impossible

1962
03:00:35.200 --> 03:00:39.760
that an infantry outfit could be housed
in two quantts, but I pulled the

1963
03:00:39.840 --> 03:00:43.479
deuce in the half to ll outside
the gate and cut off the motor.

1964
03:00:45.239 --> 03:00:48.360
I picked up the a well bag
got out of the truck. I had

1965
03:00:48.360 --> 03:00:54.200
to figured out which one was the
orderly room. I walked across the hard

1966
03:00:54.280 --> 03:00:58.840
packed snow of the yard to the
first quantset. I still couldn't figure it

1967
03:00:58.879 --> 03:01:01.799
out. Light and warmth thing to
pour from the windows, along with the

1968
03:01:01.879 --> 03:01:09.040
music I remembered from somewhere but couldn't
quite understand. I stepped up to the

1969
03:01:09.079 --> 03:01:13.239
first window I came to and looked
inside. There were kids all over the

1970
03:01:13.239 --> 03:01:16.239
place, Kids of all sizes and
descriptions, Kids just old enough to sit

1971
03:01:16.319 --> 03:01:20.479
by themselves, kids just losing their
first teeth, some just dart in their

1972
03:01:20.520 --> 03:01:26.239
teens. I stood in the snow, spell bound, just watching them sing.

1973
03:01:28.200 --> 03:01:30.479
Finally, I torere myself away and
headed for the front door, eager

1974
03:01:30.520 --> 03:01:35.399
to be inside. A plaque made
out of the howitzershell stop me. In

1975
03:01:35.520 --> 03:01:37.319
the faint light, I could just
barely make out the words engraved on the

1976
03:01:37.360 --> 03:01:45.719
polished brass, but finally I read
it all. It said, This orphanage

1977
03:01:46.760 --> 03:01:54.280
has been erected and maintained in the
memory of Corporal Richard Whitey Dombrowski, who,

1978
03:01:54.399 --> 03:01:58.479
somewhere north of the village of Chung
Jewry Christmas night nineteen fifty one,

1979
03:02:00.200 --> 03:02:05.440
willingly gave his life that others might
live. Suddenly I didn't know where I

1980
03:02:05.479 --> 03:02:09.399
belonged anymore. The a wall bag
dragged at the end of my arm like

1981
03:02:09.440 --> 03:02:11.319
a thousand pounds weight. I could
figure what was in it, but I

1982
03:02:11.360 --> 03:02:15.920
tore it open anyway. A bag
full of candy, soap and toothpaste and

1983
03:02:16.000 --> 03:02:18.600
gums shined up at me, looking
as rich and rare as franking sense and

1984
03:02:18.760 --> 03:02:24.440
mirror. I closed the bag,
raided it up against the door, close

1985
03:02:24.479 --> 03:02:28.680
so they wouldn't miss it. And
then I banged on the door as loud

1986
03:02:28.760 --> 03:02:31.559
and long as I could, and
so I was sure that they heard me.

1987
03:02:33.879 --> 03:02:37.920
And then I ran. I ran
back down the road to my truck

1988
03:02:37.000 --> 03:03:01.600
as fast and as hard as I
could. Sawspence, You've been listening to

1989
03:03:01.719 --> 03:03:09.079
a Korean Christmas carol written or Suspends
by George bember. Oh well, I

1990
03:03:09.159 --> 03:03:13.319
cannot lie, my dear, even
I am a bit susceptible to feeling a

1991
03:03:13.399 --> 03:03:20.280
bit sleepy sleepers. So how about
we wrap it all up with just one

1992
03:03:20.440 --> 03:03:28.079
more stories, one more piece of
fearful delight, before you head home and

1993
03:03:28.319 --> 03:03:31.879
wander off to the land of nod
and wake up tomorrow to find out what

1994
03:03:33.079 --> 03:03:41.280
Santi Claus has blessed you us.
This one is about the joys of getting

1995
03:03:41.360 --> 03:03:46.559
out and about at Christmas times days, because you can't spend every single seconds

1996
03:03:48.000 --> 03:03:50.559
in front of a warm fire,
now, can you know? So this

1997
03:03:50.680 --> 03:03:58.920
one is calling out for Christmas.
It's the last one that selves keep your

1998
03:03:58.000 --> 03:04:13.600
ears shush, my dear. Suspense
and the producer of radio's outstanding theater of

1999
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thrills, the master of mystery and
adventure, William M. Robson. We

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who are in the business of keeping
you in suspense, find ourselves in a

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quandary at this time of the year. The elements of suspense, murder,

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ma'am and micawbre mischief are awkwardly out
of place at this festival of peace and

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love. Yet that first Christmas was
full of suspense. There was the problem

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of lodgings for the delicate mother that
shell evening when there was no room at

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the inn, and there was great
mystery when suddenly the star appeared in the

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east. Finally there was the magnificent
climax and happy ending, when the three

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Kings of the Orient arrived at last, bearing gifts of gold and Frankinson's and

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Mayor. We feel that we cannot
improve upon this tale, so we will

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bring you another, along with our
best wishes for a most merry Christmas.

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Listen. Listen then as mister Raymond
Burr stars in out for Christmas, which

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begins in just a moment. Here's
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shampoo today and now out for Christmas, starring mister Raymond Burr, A tale

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well calculated to keep you in suspense. I hadn't figured on being out for

2027
03:06:35.959 --> 03:06:41.200
Christmas, but my prison record paid
off. Takes a lot of good behavior

2028
03:06:41.280 --> 03:06:43.879
and our time off and an armed
robber and a salt wrap, and I

2029
03:06:45.000 --> 03:06:48.799
was a good boy, model prisoner. Took everything they threw with me with

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03:06:48.920 --> 03:06:54.079
a not exactly with a smile.
I don't smile much. I took it

2031
03:06:54.159 --> 03:06:58.319
without griping. So I'm out for
Christmas. And Christmas is as good a

2032
03:06:58.440 --> 03:07:07.000
time as for what I gotta do. The town will cruddy. We got

2033
03:07:07.159 --> 03:07:11.079
phony ten Christmas trees, and the
lamp posts along the main, dragon colored

2034
03:07:11.159 --> 03:07:16.120
lights all over the joint, and
Christmas carols screeching at you're from loud speakers

2035
03:07:16.200 --> 03:07:20.120
everywhere. Even the saloons got red
and green streamers all over the place,

2036
03:07:20.239 --> 03:07:26.000
and the bar mirrors all frosted black
snow. A big bull of slop called

2037
03:07:26.280 --> 03:07:31.840
Tom and Jerry. They're pushing very
Christmas. Yeah, it wouldn't it be

2038
03:07:31.959 --> 03:07:35.239
a little Christmas cheer? Tom and
Jerry may mean, did' you got any

2039
03:07:35.239 --> 03:07:39.040
whiskey? Oh? Sure we got
give me a straight shot, okay,

2040
03:07:41.440 --> 03:07:46.120
and you get anything on that jukee
box? But then Christmas carols? Carols

2041
03:07:46.280 --> 03:07:48.399
only stink. You won't think so? After you get a couple of belts

2042
03:07:48.479 --> 03:07:52.079
under your belt? Do you think
so? Sor it's Christmas? Man?

2043
03:07:52.600 --> 03:08:01.799
So I heard that tastes good,
real good? Say you look short of

2044
03:08:01.879 --> 03:08:05.159
familiar? Don't I know you from
someplace? I was wondering how long did

2045
03:08:05.200 --> 03:08:09.440
it take? Man? The voice
is familiar in your eyes sort of?

2046
03:08:09.760 --> 03:08:11.959
Joe, Joe, what Joe?
I heard? You was going to get

2047
03:08:13.000 --> 03:08:16.319
out soon, Charlie Jones told me. But I didn't know you'd be out

2048
03:08:16.360 --> 03:08:18.200
for Christmas. Yeah, I got
big hearted. Hey, you put on

2049
03:08:18.280 --> 03:08:22.559
a little weight. That's why I
didn't recognize you. Thirty pounds prison child.

2050
03:08:22.680 --> 03:08:26.079
But you look real good, Joe, real good. Yeah it.

2051
03:08:26.159 --> 03:08:30.879
Where is Charlie you've been in tonight? Not yet, but he'll be around.

2052
03:08:30.959 --> 03:08:33.319
Broba gott to see him. You
know where he's living at. Yeah,

2053
03:08:33.440 --> 03:08:37.239
he's got a room over on Fourth
Street. Room. He figured he'd

2054
03:08:37.239 --> 03:08:39.399
be living in a flophouse. Oh
not Charlie. He's doing a ca since

2055
03:08:39.440 --> 03:08:43.200
he got out. Got a steady
job. How about you, Joe?

2056
03:08:43.239 --> 03:08:46.200
You got a job lined up.
I got a job lined up, A

2057
03:08:46.319 --> 03:09:05.479
good job. It'll be good as
good as I can make it. As

2058
03:09:05.520 --> 03:09:09.879
the last minute shopping really got you
down? Are your tashing and prancing all

2059
03:09:11.000 --> 03:09:13.239
over the town. You've bought a
lot of presents and you still have lots

2060
03:09:13.280 --> 03:09:16.920
to go? Well, go go
go ghere the scripto. You don't have

2061
03:09:18.040 --> 03:09:20.879
to know a size. You don't
worry about the fifth. A new scripto

2062
03:09:20.040 --> 03:09:24.440
pen or pencil always makes a hit. Or Mom or Dad or sister,

2063
03:09:24.559 --> 03:09:28.280
Aunt Jane or Uncle Joe. Go
go go ghere the scripto, Go go

2064
03:09:28.520 --> 03:09:35.479
go ghere the script Oo. Gare
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2065
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shopping. Go Go go ghere the
script Huber Scripto script and Now starring mister

2070
03:10:05.600 --> 03:10:22.040
Raymond Burr act too low out for
Christmas. They even at this room and

2071
03:10:22.079 --> 03:10:24.680
house where Charlie was staying loused up
for Christmas. There was a moth eating

2072
03:10:24.760 --> 03:10:28.680
point c from the door, and
red and green lights in the landlady's window.

2073
03:10:30.840 --> 03:10:39.040
Charlie's room was on the fourth floor
at the back. Joe, Yeah,

2074
03:10:39.319 --> 03:10:43.440
oh so they let you out for
Christmas. Yeah, well, come

2075
03:10:43.520 --> 03:10:48.440
on in. Gee's good to see
you. Joe, good to see you,

2076
03:10:48.639 --> 03:10:54.520
Charlie. Say what you got there? Oh that's an electric train.

2077
03:10:54.000 --> 03:10:56.239
Just a minute, I'll turn it
off like big train. What for?

2078
03:10:56.639 --> 03:11:01.000
Oh my sister's kid, that's hardy
about for Christmas? An electric tree.

2079
03:11:03.200 --> 03:11:05.159
So I got him on at a
discount at the place where I work.

2080
03:11:05.239 --> 03:11:07.840
But I wanted to see if it
works, so care you not? It

2081
03:11:09.120 --> 03:11:13.559
is? Yeah, So what's the
idea of the Christmas tree? We're living

2082
03:11:13.639 --> 03:11:18.479
by myself and all I thought i'd
have my own tree. It's just a

2083
03:11:18.520 --> 03:11:24.239
little one. It lost your marbles. It was Christmas job. Guys in

2084
03:11:24.360 --> 03:11:28.120
cell block four ought to see you
now playing with electric trains into your own

2085
03:11:28.200 --> 03:11:31.079
Christmas tree. I bet they'd like
to be doing the same thing. I

2086
03:11:31.239 --> 03:11:35.440
mean to check up on Malloy like
I asked you to. Yeah, and

2087
03:11:35.760 --> 03:11:39.319
he's still on the police force.
Shod you got a gun? No?

2088
03:11:39.600 --> 03:11:41.399
No, I don't have no use
for guns. No where I can get

2089
03:11:41.440 --> 03:11:45.600
one? Well, I was sure. I guess I could locate. I

2090
03:11:45.680 --> 03:11:48.520
told you to And my last letter, I told you get a gun for

2091
03:11:48.680 --> 03:11:52.159
me. I said, I know, but I thought that. Well,

2092
03:11:52.239 --> 03:11:56.719
I hope maybe you'd change your mind. Charlie. From the day he testified

2093
03:11:56.799 --> 03:12:01.120
against me, I swore i'd get
him his testimony. Did it? You

2094
03:12:01.239 --> 03:12:03.440
know that's what convicted me. He
sent me up. You have to testify

2095
03:12:03.479 --> 03:12:05.799
the way he did. It didn't
have to be so convincing, but Joe,

2096
03:12:05.920 --> 03:12:09.600
what good'll it do? You'll only
get the chair. I'm not afraid

2097
03:12:09.639 --> 03:12:13.760
of the chair. I've seen enough
of life. It stinks. I ain't

2098
03:12:13.799 --> 03:12:16.559
in love with it. Just as
soon I'll leave it, so long as

2099
03:12:16.639 --> 03:12:20.399
I take that rat with me.
But it ain't only him, Joe,

2100
03:12:22.280 --> 03:12:28.440
what do you mean he's married now? You kidn't kind of a dizzy broad

2101
03:12:28.479 --> 03:12:31.680
would want him. You ain't gonna
like this, Joe, ain't gonna like

2102
03:12:31.760 --> 03:12:41.959
what a dizzey bra that married him
was Lucille. You see you ay,

2103
03:12:41.120 --> 03:12:52.319
Lucille. That's right, I'm sorry
you funny, It's real funny. He

2104
03:12:52.399 --> 03:12:54.840
wrote me. She couldn't wait for
me no longer. You remember when I

2105
03:12:54.920 --> 03:13:01.000
got the letter. She didn't say
who it was my letters After that lousy

2106
03:13:01.200 --> 03:13:07.440
double cross, you went up for
ten to twenty Joe, Yeah, yeah,

2107
03:13:07.479 --> 03:13:11.319
I guess she never counted on me
making it nay time off of the

2108
03:13:11.440 --> 03:13:13.319
behavior. But they years is a
long time for young girl to wait.

2109
03:13:13.440 --> 03:13:18.120
Joe, my lord is a fine
guy to throw me over for well,

2110
03:13:20.360 --> 03:13:26.719
makes it dandy, double dandy.
It would be a pleasure to kill them

2111
03:13:26.760 --> 03:13:30.280
both? Or how can your talk
that way? Joe? It's Christmas,

2112
03:13:30.440 --> 03:13:35.200
Christmas is for people who don't know
no better. Kids and idiots. Joe,

2113
03:13:35.280 --> 03:13:37.520
listen, forget all about my lawyer
and Lucy. They've got a chance

2114
03:13:37.559 --> 03:13:41.920
to make a new life for yourself. Like I'm doing. I can get

2115
03:13:41.959 --> 03:13:43.159
you a job or I'm working.
I'm sure I can't. What are you

2116
03:13:43.319 --> 03:13:46.879
doing? I'm Sandy Claus in the
toy department at Brighton's department store. Ain't

2117
03:13:46.920 --> 03:13:50.200
no future in that. You're going
to be out of work there after the

2118
03:13:50.280 --> 03:13:52.000
mind? Oh I'm not. They
promised to keep me on doing what minding

2119
03:13:52.079 --> 03:13:56.559
are there? Mister Brighton believesn't giving
guys like us a chance, and that's

2120
03:13:56.559 --> 03:13:58.639
why I'm sure that you can get
a job there. You come down the

2121
03:13:58.680 --> 03:14:01.840
mine, talk to him. I'll
talk to him after Christmas, can get

2122
03:14:01.840 --> 03:14:07.479
a horse. How about coming over
to my sister's house for Christmas dinner day

2123
03:14:07.479 --> 03:14:11.159
after tomorrow. Yeah, I might
even do that. Good, you see,

2124
03:14:11.239 --> 03:14:16.120
Joe, there ain't no sense in
carrying around hatred in your heart,

2125
03:14:16.479 --> 03:14:22.040
especially at Christmas time. So let
Malloy and Lucille have their Christmas in peace.

2126
03:14:22.239 --> 03:14:28.079
They'll have their Christmas all right,
there last Christmas, but then it'll

2127
03:14:28.159 --> 03:14:33.760
be your last one too. I
just got to figure different. Never mind

2128
03:14:33.799 --> 03:14:37.280
the gun. I'll get my own
gun tomorrow. There is one thing I

2129
03:14:37.360 --> 03:14:43.879
want from you. What's that,
Joe? Tomorrow night? I want to

2130
03:14:43.920 --> 03:14:58.440
borrow your Santa Claus suit. Holiday
hustle make you queasy, stomach nervous and

2131
03:14:58.600 --> 03:15:05.399
on these then? Do do you
know about the little white travelers in the

2132
03:15:05.559 --> 03:15:11.399
little green in pocket roll, Just
to waiting for the moment when you need

2133
03:15:11.559 --> 03:15:18.479
them to bring your effort in ingestion
under control? Toms are the little white

2134
03:15:18.639 --> 03:15:26.559
travelers in the Little Green in pocket
roll. Toms for the tummy. T

2135
03:15:26.879 --> 03:15:33.719
u ms bring relief quicker than you'd
ever guess best for any kind of accid

2136
03:15:33.799 --> 03:15:41.879
distress. Keep from handy in the
pocket roll. Keep your tummy under Tomus

2137
03:15:41.120 --> 03:15:46.360
control. Yes, during the busy
bustling season, gets quick relief from annoying

2138
03:15:46.479 --> 03:15:52.920
acid indigestion. Always carry tongues ten
cents three roll pack a quarters or get

2139
03:15:52.959 --> 03:15:58.319
the new six roll pack with three
metal carrier forty nine cents and now starring

2140
03:15:58.399 --> 03:16:15.440
mister Raymond Burr, Act three of
out for Christmas. Next day I did

2141
03:16:15.559 --> 03:16:22.040
my Christmas shopping for a gun.
At night, I wrapped Charlie Santa Claus

2142
03:16:22.079 --> 03:16:26.879
suit into a bundle, took a
bus out to the subdivision where Malloy and

2143
03:16:26.959 --> 03:16:31.440
Lucille had a house. I ducked
into an alley behind the supermarket and pulled

2144
03:16:31.479 --> 03:16:35.559
on the red whiskers and all It's
going to be so easy, I had

2145
03:16:35.600 --> 03:16:41.239
to laugh. I couldn't want a
better disguise than Christmas Eve a murder.

2146
03:16:48.280 --> 03:16:50.520
I didn't have any trouble finding the
house, a little box of a house

2147
03:16:50.639 --> 03:16:54.159
like all the others in the street, and decorated with colored lights like all

2148
03:16:54.200 --> 03:17:00.479
the others. Nobody saw me,
even if they had. Who is a

2149
03:17:00.559 --> 03:17:05.079
better rite than Santa Claus to be
on the streets Christmas Eve? The gun

2150
03:17:05.239 --> 03:17:11.159
felt cold in my pocket as I
closed my fist around it. Pushed the

2151
03:17:11.239 --> 03:17:20.440
bell even it was wired for Christmas. Yes, Merry Christmas. It's Santa

2152
03:17:20.520 --> 03:17:24.440
Clause, isn't You're gonna ask me, Well, my husband isn't home yet.

2153
03:17:24.479 --> 03:17:28.840
That's all right. I'll come in
and wait for him. You don't

2154
03:17:28.879 --> 03:17:33.280
believe in Santa Claus anymore, Lucille? You ought to Who are you?

2155
03:17:33.399 --> 03:17:39.479
Don't you recognize my voice? You
you sound like Joe. Oh no,

2156
03:17:39.639 --> 03:17:45.559
good old Joe. It was going
to wait for me, no matter how

2157
03:17:45.639 --> 03:17:48.920
long it took. I thought you
were and nicolar for keeps uh uh.

2158
03:17:50.680 --> 03:17:56.399
I told you i'd come back for
you. Here I am when you're too

2159
03:17:56.520 --> 03:18:03.239
late show. Yeah, so I
hear, I'll come. You didn't wait,

2160
03:18:03.360 --> 03:18:07.040
Lucy. I fell in love.
But the guy who sent me to

2161
03:18:07.120 --> 03:18:11.079
prison for no good car he didn't
send you to prison. Joe, you

2162
03:18:11.120 --> 03:18:13.680
were guilty. Had to beat the
rap. If he hadn't testified the way

2163
03:18:13.719 --> 03:18:16.600
he good to testify that way.
He was only telling the truth. Yeah,

2164
03:18:16.799 --> 03:18:18.239
so you could get me out of
the way and steal my girls.

2165
03:18:18.360 --> 03:18:22.920
Joe, you've got things all twisted. It all happened afterwards. I only

2166
03:18:22.959 --> 03:18:24.799
met him at you were trying.
We fell in love afterwards when I couldn't

2167
03:18:24.799 --> 03:18:33.440
protect myself. Oh, Joe,
I'm sorry, it just happened. Tell

2168
03:18:33.600 --> 03:18:39.760
me where's the fuzzon the copper?
Your old man. He's still on duty,

2169
03:18:39.920 --> 03:18:43.280
working overtime to put the arm on
some stiff on Christmas Eve. When'll

2170
03:18:43.319 --> 03:18:46.799
he be home? I expect him
anytime now. Good. I'm going to

2171
03:18:46.840 --> 03:18:50.959
be glad to see him. Why
when you hate him? So? You

2172
03:18:50.079 --> 03:18:56.280
see, I promised him something,
didn't you ever tell you? No?

2173
03:18:58.639 --> 03:19:01.280
I promised to kill him. When
I got out the nights and night.

2174
03:19:01.360 --> 03:19:05.600
See you mean it. You've got
a gun. Sure, I got a

2175
03:19:05.680 --> 03:19:13.040
gun, and I'm going to use
it. I'm both see you. You

2176
03:19:13.120 --> 03:19:20.520
both double cross me. I could
kill you first, but I think I'll

2177
03:19:20.600 --> 03:19:26.319
wait till the old man comes home. It'll be interesting to see how he

2178
03:19:26.520 --> 03:19:28.719
acts. I wouldn't be the least
bit surprised if he tried to make a

2179
03:19:28.799 --> 03:19:31.680
deal with me. Yeah, like, shoot my wife, but let me

2180
03:19:31.799 --> 03:19:37.040
go free. What a terrible thing
to say. You see what kind of

2181
03:19:37.040 --> 03:19:39.239
a creep you married? Joe?
Do it then, but do it because

2182
03:19:39.280 --> 03:19:43.360
I ask you kill me and let
him go. I come to get you

2183
03:19:43.520 --> 03:19:54.040
both, and I'm going to get
you both together and about some music while

2184
03:19:54.040 --> 03:20:05.760
we're waiting on the radio. Turn
it on. M hm. He made

2185
03:20:05.799 --> 03:20:11.600
you happy, Lucy. Yeah,
Joe Verry, you made him happy,

2186
03:20:13.159 --> 03:20:18.879
I hope. So it's nice.
It is tonight. You're both gonna make

2187
03:20:18.959 --> 03:20:28.360
me happy by becoming very dead.
It's too loud, little Lucy the radio

2188
03:20:28.440 --> 03:20:33.959
woker you got d you're going.
I have to look, I'll tie up

2189
03:20:33.959 --> 03:20:37.440
and funny, I'll be right behind
you. Loud, honey, very all

2190
03:20:37.559 --> 03:20:46.799
right, let me just turn the
radio on. Too loud. Look behind

2191
03:20:46.879 --> 03:20:52.639
you, it's Santa Claus. Yes, dear Santa Claus, Mikey, you

2192
03:20:52.719 --> 03:21:01.879
wake up, Mikey looking Santa Claus. Schoy, how wants he says,

2193
03:21:03.000 --> 03:21:20.879
uh m hmm. About the kills? See, correct can't kill ts,

2194
03:21:22.559 --> 03:21:28.840
can't skill turs best. It makes
good sense when you smoke, can can

2195
03:21:28.639 --> 03:21:37.959
kill turns best. All the brains
of correct can't taste the best, can't

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taste the best racter taste them all. Direct can't kill her. It makes

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good when you smoke, can't And
now, starring mister Raymond Burr, Act

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four of Out for Christmas? Is
that time to jam the gun back into

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my pocket? Before those two kids
were wide awaken, all over me,

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grabbing up my red suit, pulling
up my phony whiskers, pushing me into

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a chair. Get your range,
my joy, you get rid of these

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rangers. Well they're parked outside,
Mike he had on the roof. Oh

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yeah, sure, why aren't you
close to No, you see it's an

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asbestos suit. Listen you you kids
want to go back to bed them off?

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Me so excited, Joe, I've
never had a team close before than

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you are. What I want to
kiss you? You do all right you

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kids now now now listen to me, me too. You gotta go back

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to bed now, present too.
You'll get your presence in the morning when

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you wake up there they'll be under
the tree. You promise, I promise.

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Now you run off to bed.
Oh can't. I I gotta get

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going. You you wouldn't want the
other boys and girls to miss their presence

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because I've been goof enough with you, would you? Oh? They won't

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be fair, I think, off
the bed, you go. All right,

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Come on, Mikey. Merry Christmas, me too, Yeah, Marry

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Christmas kids, and good no good
might come on Mikey. Oh sure,

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I'll never forget the mask. Yeah, you know why, Merry Christmas.

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I'm sorry, I'm late. Hey, what's this? It's Joe Watson.

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Mike, Joe Watson. What the
devil are you doing here? He came

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03:24:39.879 --> 03:24:48.719
to kill us? What Mike,
h here's my gun. You changed your

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03:24:48.799 --> 03:24:56.760
mind? Your kids changed my mind. They thought he was really start a

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03:24:56.760 --> 03:25:01.799
close darling. It was so exciting. Mike. You can send me up

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again. Better to go back for
pro violation, I guess, and for

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murdered. Oh wait a minute,
we've got to have a complaining witness.

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03:25:18.680 --> 03:25:22.799
We want to make a complaint,
Lucill No, Mike, I want to

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thank Joe for giving the kids the
best Christmas of their lives. Well,

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I haven't any complaint. Then,
Merry Christmas, Joe. I still say

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Christmas is for people who don't know
no better, my kids and idiots.

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Yeah, Merry Christmas. Suspense in
which Raymond Burr starreded out for Christmas,

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written, produced and directed by William
N. Robeson in just a Moment,

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the names of the supporting players and
a word about next week's story of suspense.

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Christmas Eve on CBS Radio, Bing
Crosby invites you to celebrate Christmas with

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the world on our fourth annual Christmas
Sing with Bing. With Bing as your

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03:26:24.920 --> 03:26:30.200
guide and CBS Radio as your magic
carpet, You'll visit Rome to hear the

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03:26:30.319 --> 03:26:33.479
Vatican Choir. There too, you'll
hear the sound of the bells of Saint

2235
03:26:33.559 --> 03:26:39.239
Peter's as they ring for the Holiday
Mass. On our Christmas Sing with Bing,

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03:26:39.639 --> 03:26:43.200
You'll visit New York and Salt Lake
City, Canada, Australia, Holland,

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03:26:43.319 --> 03:26:48.840
France, even places like Hawaii,
Alaska and the Fiji Islands where carollers

2238
03:26:48.920 --> 03:26:54.719
and choirs will be waiting to sing
the traditional Christmas songs with you. To

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03:26:54.840 --> 03:26:58.479
add to the excitement this year,
missus Bing Crosby Catherine Grant will be at

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her husband's side. Whether you spend
Christmas Eve at home or out in the

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highway heading for a holiday destination,
join us right here on CBS Radio as

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most of these same stations present our
fourth annual Christmas Saying with being supporting Raymond

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03:27:16.639 --> 03:27:20.559
Burr and out for Christmas where Joan
Banks, Lillian b f Charles Seal,

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03:27:20.719 --> 03:27:26.280
Carl Swinson, Howard mcneer and Dick
Beale's. Oh my dear, it's very

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03:27:26.479 --> 03:27:31.639
very late. Thank you for spending
your home Christmas Eve with me. I

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hope I've made it worth your time, and I want you to know some

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03:27:37.079 --> 03:27:43.000
of those I'll be here in the
new year. Yes, you seem to

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03:27:43.079 --> 03:27:46.959
visit me quite a bit, and
it makes me. It makes me happy,

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03:27:48.200 --> 03:27:56.600
happy inside, the thing I didn't
really know necessarily was possible. So

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I'll be here in the new year
to spend more time with you, my

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03:28:01.600 --> 03:28:07.440
dear. But now I've taken up
so much of your dear precious ties,

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03:28:07.040 --> 03:28:13.159
and believe me, it is precious, and there's only so much so now,

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03:28:13.360 --> 03:28:20.079
as you holly jolly your way home
and lay in your warm bed with

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03:28:20.280 --> 03:28:24.600
figures of sugar plumbers dancing in your
head as you nod off to a good

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03:28:24.719 --> 03:28:31.760
night's nags, remember be thankful not
only for what you'll get you'll get,

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but what you have until next time
you