Unknown Broadcast | The Graveyard — Four Radio Horror Stories of Restless Dead and Revenge

0:09 Oh oh, hello, hello, Sorry caught me in kind of a compromising position in that well, I didn't see you come in. I've been oddly distracted the last few days. What was that ho? I'm sure the hustle and bustle of the world around it's always pulling us in one direction or another another. It's pretty common in this life of sorts. So get comfortable and let's take a moment just for ourselves, just to feel something a little different than that urge to accomplish, that need to get everything squared away. In fact, let's take a little stroll as you enjoy your hot teeth to the graveyard.

1:25 I mean. Well, I. The French writers eat them the song live for. Only forty three years, getting composure. Six novels and over three hundred short stories. One of the best things, one of the least well known, entitled what is a Dream? There's only a little. More than two thousand words in length, and a testaments of the clarity and economy of the monk song style. Why the one love our queerest, the only one being of the work, he only one sold in one's mind, only one designer in the heart, and only one name of the lips A name which comes up continually, rising like the water in a spring, from the depth of a song to the lips. A name which one repeats over and over again, which one whispers siously everywhere, like a breath. Oh, I loved her madly.

2:34 Our mystery drama The Graveyard is based on the classic short story of Him over the Song, and was written especially for the mystery theater by Elpahbeth Eric Stars Norman Rose. It is sponsored in part. By a Newick Mortar division. I'll be back shortly without one. Peter Mortisal lived from eighteen hundred and fifty to eighteen hundred. And ninety three. In the last of these years were spent struggling with and ends succoming to madness. That may account for the slight touch of morbidefy Than runs through his work. Yet the story we dramatize for you now deals with one of the most universal of human experiences, the indescribable, almost mystical experience of falling in love. Our dramas again inside one of the great churches of Paris.

3:40 I was the last of the long line of penitence, high positions myself through perfectly or. I had a long tale to tell the father before I. Could speak of the mouth, A. Long confession of love and love and death, the unquestionable passion of mad, obsession of grief, unimpassionable. At long beast the way was clear, and I found myself in the confessional box. Bless my father, Yes, my son, bless my father, for I have seen since my last confession. Master, go on, my son, I don't know how you You don't know me? Father? Should I? You don't recognize my voice. There is something famidia with spen a long time, more than a year before that, you were my confessor.

4:34 More than that, my friend, or so I once thought. Continue, I was a faithful. Communicant father for many years until until tell me what doubled you, my son. Ah. It's a long story. I have time, and so has gone. But it all started. Everything began where I met her m. I went to a boar, an elaborate ball given by friends. I've been half of mind not to attend a tour for months. Life that seemed so dreary, so monotonous. And then that night, when I was standing with my friend Allie, viewing the guests with utter indifference, when she she came into the room that changed my life forever.

5:27 I what is it? Every suddenly come to life, come to life? She is? I have come to like, who is that? Dear man? There are at least two hundred people. That she is not there, think she just came through the door. That she's with an older woman wearing blue, blue and black stripes. They just sitting the Oh that's Madame sil Farm. But who is this young girl Silver? And me, simall, why did you ask me? Why? I didn't care? She is my fate. Now, my fat sitting on.

6:07 Her hand and not where I will enough to introduce me? Couldn't do it? Do it anyone? Introduction of mad I murmured politeness, requited the pleasure. Of the warts and a girl I were living in a dream led the young sea boom, took the dance floor and took her in my arms. We circled the ball room again and again and again. She floated like a cloud in my arms, her pale blonde head just below my cheek, A tiny hand in its white kid glove, resting in mind, A facial body moving and perfect with him to my own.

6:54 I did not speak, I could not. I was like a man. Chatted beneath her spell. I was conscious only for wishing the music would never stop. But of course in time it did, it stopped. He needs me, sir, why, oh, forgive me? What did you say? You meased me? The wolf has ended, the dancing is over. Oh your pardon. You may take me back to my aunt? No, no, why not? I I wanted to take you with my arms again.

7:35 I think the music has stopped for certain lengths of time. Refreshment. Have you served on the verandas would you? Would you care for something. A glass? Would you care for that? Would you? There's only one thing I care for himself. Everything else is of no importance. Or whoever and what he said. Yourself, that sel, your love. I was not so impetuous as a rule. Father. I had a certain position in Parisian society. I had met and I had fancied the number of girls. But this this was altogether difference of totally new experience. It lived at me to such heights that my whole life before this faithful meeting scene in significant without meaning us yourself, my son, Yes, yes, father, yesout trying. I saw her the next day.

8:34 She invited me for tea, and. I took flowers, roses and lilies. All that I could hold. I think that her aunt eyed me with some suspicion, But I thought only of the niece whom I adored, to whom. I had dedicated my every thought, my every wish, my life, myself go on, my son. And the days, the days that fathered. How can I describe them? And yet how well I remember them. Walks in the luxember gardens, picnics in the bois, luncheons and dinners. I moved through all this with the certainty of a slow walker. My mind, my soul fixed on that not too distant day when I would put my heart at her feet and implore her to pick it up and hold it close to her own. And I knew she would. Here's my son, go on at least? But they arrived. I suggested the previous evening that she'd come to my house for tea, and she had acquiesced My good housekeeper, Terrees, had cleaned from attic to cellar with even more than her usual thoroughness.

9:44 Now you will serve everything out here, ter shall sit there, don't you think. You have to your course? And what she really likes press chocolate. I have chocolate. No, no, what annoys Meddler, sica and macarola. Oh, perfect, perfect, I hope Mademoiselle will be pleased. I'll tell he's wait till you see her. Wait you see my simon. I am sure she is very pretty, monsieur, attractive. There is no one word to describe her, to as could you describe an angel. I have never seen an angel, and you see one today, an angel with the of a wood limp, the grace of a dryad. Am I talking wildly to you?

10:35 Are in love? Monsieur? Yes, yes, I am in love. I wouldn't fever awaiting her arrival. I thought I was going to be sick. I could not. I could not stand still. I moved from chair to chair, from room to room, and then at last, at last, she was there in my house. Oh great, beautiful, beautiful. You think you really think you live here alone? Yes? Alone? Of course, this terres and her husband he tends to the gardens.

11:18 You have gotten? May I show you? The roses are in blue, yellow, pink grass. Now this is the veranda, charmy, would you bear? Is it down here? Here? This is a comfortable shad, thank you? Yet very comfortable? What would you like chocolates or tea. Todas will bring it, oh, coffee, we have met them. And then then. Macaroo, that's so bad, not so bad. I'm I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Really, I'm very all right. It's all right, my dear. What is it? I've never seen you like this? So so.

12:01 It's just that. Do you really like the house that I told you? I know you told me, But. Are you sure that you really like it? Yes? Yes, yes, yeah, there's anything about it that you that you don't like. Nothing. I think it's perfect. I want you to think that it's perfect. It's so important what I think. You don't know how important it is, because because you know, because I want you to share it with me. You want me to live here with me? You know how I love you. I think that you love me. Do you love me?

12:45 Yes? As much as I love you? No, don't answer. I know that you can't love me the way I love you. But but but do you love me? Yes? Then will you come here to this house to live with me, to me love you and protect you, adore you, to take care of you. Oh, my dear, Yes, yes, my lam oh yes. The days and the weeks and the month that followed. How can I describe the man? I loved her madly? Why does one love father? Why does one love? How queer it is to see.

13:28 Only one being in the world. You have only one thought in one's mind, only one desire in the heart, and only one name on the lips, A name which comes up continually from the depths of the soul to the lips, A name which one repeats over and over again, which one whispers ceaselessly everywhere, like a prayer. I lived on her tenderness, on her caresses, in her arms, on her words, so completely wrapped up, bound and absorbed in everything which came from her. But I no longer cared whether it was day or night, so whether I was dead or alive on this old earth of ours, in all our time together. She asked for only one thing, one material thing, and I was happy, deliriously happy to buy it for her. I would have bought her the world, sweetheart.

14:19 Could we have a mirror here here, here in the hall, a big one. I need it, well, then you shall have it. I needed to look at myself from head to foot before I go out, to see if my toilette looks well and is correct. Pretty. You are always correct, always pretty, ha ha. I needed to reassure myself. We go together to morrow and buy one. You shall pick it out, And so we did. We found the beautiful mirror, seven feet tall, supported by a pillar on either side and mounted on a pedestal, the whole thing carved with cupids and garlands of flowers, and gilded all over.

15:01 You must have seen that mirror, father. You've been in my house, have I at least once? I have been many houses, seen many mirrors. But you must remember this one. I can't be sure. You must remember me. You've heard my voice, you've heard it before. I don't know, loud raucus raised in anger, how to tell hurling off a word that your father calling you names blespheming. You couldn't forget. I have not forgotten, dear merciful Lord, I have not forgotten. How could you forget it?

15:41 Have you ever wondered what transpires within the confessionals? I have? There must be times when sorrow and guilt, all intermingled, pour out from the confessor on the neutral ears of the priest, and from far above and beyond, the Lord takes note of the tears. The suffering the regret and the muffled excuses, takes note and understands I shall be back with that two in just a few moments. Against one wall of the knave of a great Gothic church in Paris stands an enclosed cubicle made of mahogany and richly carved. Within the cubicle are two men, one a priest, one a common citizen of Paris. Only a thin wall separates the two men, a thin wall and a foot square grille through which they converse. The citizen has been telling a long story to his confessor, a story of passion and wild romance.

16:51 You have been in my house, father, have I at least once? You must remember me. You've heard my voice before, I think perhaps, But though on, my son, denish your story as you will. Father Simon and I lived in our house like two birds, forever joined. I asked nothing more of life than to watch her every movement, hang upon her every. Word, to comb her pale blonde hair. With an exquisite pleasure. The gaze on her pearl colored body in the bath struck me mute with wonder. When she left the house, I left immediately after, because I could not endure its charms unless she.

17:31 Was there to enhance them. But I waited until the very last minute. I so enjoyed those moments when she stood before the great mirror in the foyer, looking with pouting and pretended anxiety into the great glass. I would stand in the back of her, charmed to watch both my darling and her reflection. Do you like this, Jess? Tell me, oh, very much. You don't think purple is the wrong color. I think purple is exactly the right color. I was torn the seamstress wanted to make it up and citron yellow. You look ravishing no matter what you wear, pink, purple, yellow, green, Ah, you are perfection from top to talk.

18:14 I don't mess my hair, Darling, look out my bonnet. Let me come over and tell me where you're going. And you're purple and pink. Oh, there's an art show. Ah, and David and all those. I'll look in on that. Our tents will probably meet me there, and we'll lunch at the Pruners and then shop. All right, if you must go, my love, I have to go out now. And then. You'll be all right, won't you. Why. I shall manage to live exist somehow, till seven o'clock. I was a man blessed beyond human deserving. I scarcely noticed the passing of the days. One day I followed her into the foyer and stood silent but amused, while she primped and preened herself before huge mirror. She had never seemed so desirable.

19:05 Well, well, well what do I look? All right? You look like a little cherub? A cherub? Really, I'm not sure I want to look like a cherub. Catty helped. That's the way you look. Well, I suppose it's all right, my darling. I think I heard thunder. Oh no, you couldn't have. I don't want you to go out in the rains. But it's not raining. See look out the window. The sun is shining, but a storm might be coming up. You could get caught in it, sweetheart. I have a fitting, too fitting. I need the dresses, I need the shoes. I can't postpone either one.

19:45 You hear you hear? That's thunder. I can't help it. I have to go, I promised to. Hortense fatally, I'd meet her. Kiss me, darling. I have to be on my way. I wish you wouldn't go out. I don't be all right, so don't worry. You'll get wrinkled. Good done, I love. I let her go. I could not hold her. I beat off the feeling of dread that had got me All afternoon. I paced the rooms of the house, listening to the thunder grow louder, watching the black clouds grow heavier. Then the storm burst. Late in the day. I came to rest from the boy, staring stupidly at the great mirror that had a few hours earlier held her refreshing, all blue and white like a summer sky. I wrenched my eyes from the mirror and opened the front door.

20:42 A chair just pulled up in front of the house. Simon, simon, come inside, come inside, our pay the driver. Come inside quickly, I insisted. She goes straight to bed. She protested that there was no need, that she had not been out in the rain for so very long that she did not get so very wet. You make such a fuss, darling. It's not necessary. It is necessary, I insist. Now, when you finish your hot bath, you'll drink some common meal tea. That's a small amount of brandy. Such a fussful, and him, if anything should happen to you. That will happen. It will be the end of me. I couldn't go on living.

21:22 Come in. The tea, you requested, monsieur, thank you to give it to me. I brought a biscuit. Oh good, good, thank you, thank you, not at all mad Wi. Your hot tob is waiting. You can drink this in the bath. I shall break the biscuit into little pieces and feed it to you like a mother bird. You are a dear Oh you're coughing. Stopped. Come along, my dear thoughtful mother bird. The next day she coughed too. She coughed for about a week, and then she took to her bed. What happened then, father, I I do not altogether remember, but doctors came, wrote and went away. Medicines were brought, and some women made her drink them. Her hands were hot, her forehead was burning, her eyes were bright and sad. When I spoke to her, she answered me, but I do not remember what we said.

22:24 I have forgotten everything everything. She died, and I very well remember that last slight feeble sigh. M it kate over. What happened then? I hardly know, but I do know that a priest came to my house a priest who meant well. But I am here to offer you what comfort I can, monsieur, there is no comfort. She was everything to me. I lived by the light of her eyes. I rose in the morning, slept at night with no thought.

23:12 But of her. She was my life, my heart. She was your mistress. Did you hear me, monsieur? Why do you stare at me my mistress? You dare to call her my mistress? Only wanted yourself her, You wanted to greet her in my eyes? You dare to call her my mistress? She was my soide does not mean to you? What could you possibly know of a love like mine? These you'll make me sick. You know nothing. You know nothing of life, So what can you possibly know of Deathly's this? You nothing nothing in your black robe. You descend like.

23:52 A vulture on this house, which was her home, the house she sanctified with her presence, made yes, made holy because she condescended to live within its walls. Done you are there to put a name to my darling, my best to love, my only love. I wanted only to dare to swell her name. You cheat, you sanktimonious, cheat. Leave my house. I cannot endure your presence. Leave me to my memories and my grief. Go and leave me alone. If you should need me, I shall not need you. If you need God, I shall not need God.

24:34 He has taken from me all that I ever needed or wanted, So why should I need or want him? Oh my, if you have any pity, go away and leave me alone. Now you know who I am. Father, Yes, I treated you so badly. I'm heartily sorry. Father. I did not understand perhaps what this girl meant to you. I should have had more feeling, I should have had more patience. But what I did to you that day, Father, that was not my only sin. It was only the beginning of many, many sins. You want to tell me if you will listen to my miserable story, of course I will listen. They consulted me about the funeral, but I do not remember anything that they said, although I recollect the coffin and the sound of the hammer when they nailed her. Dark. Oh God, I can try to compose yourself. My sons tried to tell me the rest of this sad story. If you can. She was buried, buried, she in that hole. Some people came, female friends I made my escape and ran away. I ran and then walked through the streets. I went home, and the next morning I left Paris and started on a journey. Is

26:06 that all? All? Is that? All? No? No, that is not all? No? What sins? What further sins? Followed in the wake of my departure. You would scarcely believe. But can you believe it? Wherever I went, her face followed me. There were times, lying on some strange bed, in some strange city, I would smell her perfume. It would creep into the air like some celestial vapor, and I would be absorbed into it until I myself vanished and the scent took over. Do you understand the mystics have smelled the perfume of roses when there were no roses.

26:50 Go on? Sometimes it was her voice falling upon my ear, shutting out the street sounds, silencing the noise of cities, or the singing of the birds in the country, or the conversation of others. I heard only her sweet voice, her voice, her voice. Her voice, No other voice but hers, no other face but hers, no other sense but hers, No one anywhere but her. Do you understand, Father? I understand? That you suffered, Yes a great deal. Yes, yes I suffered. But it is what I did to ease my suffering, not that it was ever eased, but what I did to try to shut out the sight of her, silence, the sound of her stifle the smell of her. The atrocities I committed, the opposcenities I practiced, the cruelties, All these I must confess to you if I am ever to know peace again.

27:56 To what lengths well men not go to ease the agony of a tortured mind? What twisting and turning will he not subject his body to or his mind? For both? There are drugs, he may try them. There is debauchery. He may resort to that. He may even become a criminal and drive himself to prison. Whatever he does, whatever path he follows, he is seeking one thing only rest for his troubled mind, peace for his suffering soul. I shall continue with Act three. In just a few moments, a man has sought out a particular priest to make confession, A particular man who is blurting out the story of his love for a young.

28:57 Girl, a love to which he. Didicated everything he had, his worldly goods, his thoughts, his life himself. He lived by the light of her eyes. Then one day she died. After the funeral, he went home, packed the suitcase and fled from Paris. It is what I did to ease my suffering by not that it was ever eased. What I did to shut out the sight of her, silence, the sound of her, stifled with smell of her, the atrocities I committed, the obscenities I practiced, the cruelties I inflicted. Oh, my sweet savior, you want to tell me now? I must can't wait then, I am listening. I grew afraid to travel alone. I was afraid of what I might do next. So I wrote to my friend Henri, the same friend who had presented me to Simon, urging him to meet me in Cousin Blanc. Good friend that.

29:55 He is, he agreed. We arranged to meet to the sidewalk cafe. There you are. It is you, isn't it? Of course? It is? Sit down, but you look terrible. Nonsense. What do you want to drink? It's not nonsense. What have you been doing to yourself? I'm trying to forget her, ah, but this is no way to forget her. My friend, what is the way. I don't know, but as just it, nobody knows. I don't know. What would you have to drink? They're drinking absent, don't you? Is that what you are? Heavens now? Pierre? You are never like this? Well I am Now what have you been doing?

30:38 Oh? This and that? What do you want to drink? Nothing? Nothing? I want another absent? The waiter? Where's the way to? My friend? Please? Don't do this. It only I covered the bazaars, the clubs, and the brothels of Kazabanka. The days there are blurred in my mind memory. It's as though a man other than myself did the things I did, And even those things are vague, undefined, as though they happened in another time, another place, to another person. At any rate, there came a day when al he burst into my hotel room. His face was white and pinched, but his eyes blazed.

31:20 Wake up, wake up? What what like a badge? What needing? Uh? What's the matter? All right, I'll do it for you. What for? What is the matter? Or in tuble? My friend? Bad couple were just okay, what trouble? Don't you know? I don't trouble? You say you remember that girl last night? What girl? Which girl? Good lord? You don't even remember the girl, the one you picked up at the nightclub. Oh you do remember that, don't you. I think you took up back to a room. Do you remember? No, you don't remember. I can see you done well, you did. I don't suppose you remember what you did after that. I'll please. Absence has rotted your brain, my friend.

32:04 You don't know what you do, and once you've done it, you don't remember it. Please all right, look at me, look let go, I said, look at me. What did I do? You have killed that girl? Perhaps you did kill her. I don't know. She's in the hospital now, peraps. You'll recover. Perhaps you won't. I did that? Why Heaven knows? Why would I do a thing like that a moment? It doesn't matter. Why. What matters is that I'm going to take you home. I have no home at to Paris. You have a house. There's a house, not home. And at least you'll have ter raise to look after you, feed you properly, and you'll have your own doctor, your priest. I can't tell him. You have to tell him.

32:50 Yesterday I returned to Paris, and when I saw my room again, our room, our bed. Ohouldn't you everything that remains of the life of a human being after death. I was seized by such a violent attack of fresh grief that I felt like. Opening the window and throwing myself out into the street. I could not remain any longer among these things, between these walls which had enclosed and sheltered her, which retained a thousand atoms of her, of her skin, that of her breath in their imperceptible crevices. I took up my hat to make my escape, and just as I reached the door, I passed the large glass in the foyer, which she had put there so that she might look at herself every day from head to foot. I stopped short in front of that looking glass in which she had been so often reflected, so often that it must have retained her reflection. I was standing there, trembling, with my eyes fixed on the glass, on that flat, profound, empty glass which had contained her entirely, and had possessed her as much as I I felt as if I loved that glass. I touched it. It was cold. I stretched my arms around it, tried to hold it close

34:22 to me, to warm it with my body to make it live again. It was tall, it was heavy, strain to. Hold it close, close, and. Then, oh, now what a mirror. But what happened? Monsieur? Are you all right? Let let me help you. You're bleeding me. I'm all right, let me help you. You try to move him? H Why didn't you call me? I'd have helped you.

35:04 Oh your poor faith, Oh, cut and bleeding. I'll put you down. No, no, I don't need it. I don't want it. Only one thing I need or want. If I can't have that, I want nothing with you. Where you're going? I went out without knowing, without wishing it, and told the semi time. I found her simple grave, a white marble cross with these few words she loved, was loved, and died. She is there below, I thought, decayed. I sobbed with my forehead on the ground, and I stayed there for a long time, a long time, and then I saw that it was getting dark, and a strange, mad wish, the wish of a despairing lover, seized me.

36:01 I wished to pass the night weeping on her grave. But then I thought I would be seen and driven out. How was I to manage? Oh? I was cunning, and I got up and began to roam about in that city of the dead. I walked and walked. Huh, how small the city is compared with the other, the city in which we live. And yet how much more numerous the dead are than the living. You are right myself, Yes, yes, I'm all right. I must finish, I must finish my story. Ah. I was alone, perfectly alone. When it was quite dark, I began to walk softly, slowly, inaudibly through that ground full of dead people. I wandered about for a long time, but I could not find her grave again. I went on with extended arms, knocking against the tombs, my hands, my feet, my knees, my yes, even with my head, without being able to find, I groped like a blind man.

37:06 I felt the stones, the crosses, the iron railings. I read the names with my fingers by passing them over the letters. Oh. I was frightened, horribly frightened. Graves. Graves is nothing but graves. On my right, my left, in front of me, around me, everywhere there were graves. I sat down on. One of them. If I could not walk any longer. My knees were so weak I could hear my heart beat. Yes, and I heard something else as well. What what a confused nameless noise was the noise in my head in the impenetrable night, or beneath the mysterious earth, the earth sown with human co I was paralyzed with terror, cold, with fright hair, ready to shout out, ready to die, Yes, to die. On the moment to die had finished flush.

38:10 Suddenly it seemed to me, It seemed to me that the slab of marble on which I sat was. Moving, Yes, moving as if it were being raised with a bound. I sprang under the neighboring tomb and I saw, Yes. I distinctly saw the stone which I had just quitted, rise upright. And then the dead person appeared, a naked skeleton, pushing the stone back. I saw it quite clearly, though the night was so dark. On the headstone I had read, Here lies Jacques Olifant, who died at the age of fifty one. He loved his family, was kind and honorable, and died in the grace of the Lord. The dead man for his ghost picked up a stone off the path, a little pointed stone, and he began to scrape the letters carefully. He slowly effaced them, and with the hollows of his eyes he looked at the place where they had been engraved. And then, with the tip of the bone that had been his forefinger, he wrote him luminous letters.

39:26 I strained to see the new words he was inscribing. He lies Sharplivan, who died at the age of efty one. He hastened his father's gentlemed by his unkindness, as. He wished to inherit his fortune. He tortured his wife, tormented his children, deceived his neighbors, robbed everyone. He could, and died wretched dead man, sood motionless, looking at his work. On turning around, I saw that all the graves were open, that all the dead bodies had emerged from them, and that all had effaced the lines inscribed on the gravestones by their relations, substituting the truth instead.

40:16 The grave to my right, whose headstone had read Marie Moussier, devoted wife and mother, faithful friend, charitable neighbor, dead at the age of eighty four, the skeleton of an old woman was bent over it, and carefully writing with her bony finger, the new words spoke solemnly in a strange quavering voice. Nor mousier go stander among the hated her husband to out her, nay, he brushed. Him their children and gied me. It won with the health and the world. The age of eighteen.

40:57 Pr behind me, and the grave opened, and the ghostly figure emerged. His stone read A fun spero merchant and philanthropist lies here, mourned by all who loved him for as many beneficent works. The baron vosh spero imagined and unwilling philanthropists. Lies here, morn by men. Who know his real reasons. But everything he did their breed and imags of himself as one who loved his spero man the. Letter to steal from him. Behind his bed, I saw that all had been the tormentors of their neighbors, malicious, dishonest, hypocrites, liars, rogues that they had stolen, deceived, performed every disgraceful, every abominable action.

41:47 These good fathers, these faithful wives, these devoted sons, these chaste daughters, these honest tradesmen, these men and women who were called irreproachful. They were all writing on the threshold of their eternal abode, the truth, the terrible, and the holy Truth, of which everybody was ignorant or pretended to be ignorant while they were alive. I sunned nice, I almost finished, Father, I thought that she, she too, was to Britain something on her tombstone. Now running without fear among the half open coffins, among the corpses and the skeletons, I went toward her shore that I should find her immediately.

42:27 I recognized her at once, without seeing her face, which was covered by the winding sheet on the marble cross, where shortly before I had read she loved, was loved, and died, where new words words she now spoke. Aloud, having gone out in the rain one day in order to deceive her lot, and she caught cold and died. It appears if they found me that daybreak, lying on the grave unconscious, my son. But you must realize, poor man, that this was all a delusion, the delusion of a fevered brain, a waking dream. Oh no, no, it was all quite true that she betrayed you, and not for the first time. Father.

43:24 I have always known it. I have known it all along. There are truths which are impossible to face. There are realities which can destroy us if we try to come to grips with them. Before we are ready. Once grasped, they become simpler, more treatable, even after a while commonplace how long it takes to accept the unacceptable. That depends on the sufferer and the intensity of the suffering he bears. I shall return shortly. We trust that Monsieur de Mopesaw, from wherever he dwells beyond the grave, will not think we have done violence to his brief and fragile tale in trying to transpose it into promatic form.

44:31 We have used some of his own. Words, as many as possible, and more of our own. If we have been unkind to his original work. We ask his pardon and offer as an. Excuse our sincere desire to prevent his beautiful story from slipping away from us in the midst of time. Our cast included Norman Rose, Jeneral and Ralph bell E, V Jester and Guy Sorell. The entire production was under the direction of Hymon Brown. I have to say, my dear, oh what's that. Oh no, no, no, no, that's completely normal. Just relax and it'll go away. I have to say that when it comes to needing a distraction or a new focus, something that isn't quite so stressful.

45:24 I often find turning to simple human joys like the water can make all the difference. After all, people do vacation on the beach, don't they. So I say, we take a moment now, and we make our way to a watery grave. Auto light and it's ninety six thousand dealers bring you, mister Joseph Cotton. In Tonight's presentation of Suspends, Tonight Auto Light presents the story of a man who craved power, position and money and destroyed himself accomplishing it a tail we call a watery grave, starrying, mister Joseph Cotton.

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47:10 Okay, let's go, But how do I find the location of the nearest auto light spark plug dealer. That's easy. We'll call Western Union by number and ask for operator twenty five. She'll gradly tell us his location. Let's go, Oscar, because from bumper to tail light, you're always right with auto light. And now with a watery grave and the performance of mister Joseph Cotton, auto light hopes once again to keep you in souspins. How did it happen? When everything was so good? How did it get destroyed in five short hours? How did I start to die? In our city? A district attorney is an important man. Our city is an important city in the nation.

48:08 Therefore I am important as its district attorney. The logic of law, the deductive reasoning that leads to everything. It was only reasonable that such powerful interest should have come to me. I had a case against mcneelie which could have destroyed him. What is it, mister mcneelie, I'm not in the habit of making these colds myself, mister. Kellan, it's obvious. But then you're not in this position very often either. It's a daring thing you've done, only a question of getting a sufficiently strong case against you.

48:48 I've broken other district attorneys for attempting it till they never had the evidence I do. I don't think you'd want to try breaking me. I can send you to prison for life. You're right, And yet where I can't destroy you, I can prevent you from advancing, getting to a greater position, a more prominent position in political life. That mean it means that it's no longer a question of can you be bought, but how much you want. I've waited a long time at this moment to be able to bargain with you. I respect your strength and perception. It's with a great deal to me, mister Kellen. That's the matter of my chief witness. If I don't prosecate you, he'll go to the state district attorney, perhaps to the federal government.

49:34 That is part of what you will give me in exchange for the wealth you're going to receive. Who is your chief witness? I can guarantee you he'll not testify. I would rather give myself my own guarantee on that matter. I mean, his death, couldn't it, mister Kellen, All of us, any of us, even the most noble of persons, must look the other way. Sometimes it's easy for you to say that, it's easy for you to do. To look the other way becomes the easiest thing in the world. After a while, all you have to know is why you're doing it and what you have to gain. How does one look the other way? How does one achieve the facility for turning around it precisely the right moment?

50:18 A trip to Europe. My wife has always wanted to go to Europe. She likes things like that. His name, trip to Europe is something that is dreamed of, spoken of it often. His name bar Tel. Yes, yes, my good trusted friend Bartell. Thank you, mister Callan. Who was Bartel? A man from the streets who had muscled his way into life. Who was Bartel? Circumstance had made him a witness to make me his worst plans.

51:01 Destiny had placed him in a position of value to the District Attorney's office. This valueless man, Bartel, happenstance and coincidence had made him the keeper of dark secrets and illegal events which could have smashed an empire. An empire I was now partner to merely because I told them a name and looked the other way. The first night out, I waited on deck after dinner, waited for Betty to come out and we would go to the main saloon. Oh, it felt good to know your way in the world, to know when to look the other way. Sometimes you only have to do it once if you plan right.

51:47 And Betty could have everything, A bigger house, another servant in the house, up up, moving up, So secure I didn't even hear his footsteps approaching, so positive all was going well, I didn't even think of caution, so certain of success, everything for Betty. I was so pleased. You're the only man I ever trusted. But tell the only man and a da besides, and you can still trust me even after you said my name. I'm getting rid of mcneelily for you? Are you turned state's evidence? You didn't believe I could get rid of mcneeli You wouldn't have dead turned state's evidence.

52:31 I believed you. I trusted you, that stop the game. Why did I ever think I could trust you. Tell me you're a smart man. You went to college. Because it was to your advantage, because if the law could get rid of mcneeliy for you, that was better and safe. So you don't have any illusions about trusting me. You never did. You needed me, that's different, and you needed me. We needed each other. We still do. Nothing's different. You're at the bond Bartell. You're leaving the country without permission. McNeely gave me permission. He had me shot at and I was wounded. See my shoulder fat on this side, fat from bandages. You don't have a passport. I don't need that either. I have money. How'd you get aboard?

53:11 Simple? Easy to stay hidden for a day, a second and third day. That's something else. I can fix it so you won't be let off. So you'll be sent right. Back, mister Callan, I can put you in prison. If I'm sent back. A word would prevail against yours in any court of law. Maybe against my word alone, not Mcneely's hired gun soil. Both are words against yours. You have him some of my men do you save at home? I could discredit your testimony, then why argue I have nothing to do with you. You got no choice, mister. Callan, warning you by tell, oh, what do you do? Kill me? Not the kind of things like that you killed? By law, the legal way.

53:52 I'll find a way by law once I'm in Europe. They have different laws, all right. I'm a realist. By tell no, I only take calculated risks. What's your price? I have more money than you do, Callen, you couldn't bind and what do you want? But you have more prestige than I do. You like you know your way around the talkers. Well talk me off this ship impossible. Find a way be discovered before we dock. Not if you put me up in your cabin. Or tell wherever I'm involved. I listen and meet a man halfway, but me me alone, not my wife. If you involve my wife, I won't do a thing for you. Not if my wife's involved in any way. Not a thing. I'm in a squeeze, Callan, I'm finished unless you help me get into Europe.

54:36 But you'll be finished with me. I got enough power for that. I'll find a way, all right. I'll go with you. No meet me here in one hour. I walked away, calm. I made a point of walking away, confident, but my stomach felt sick. Maybe I'd thought of trying to kill him then and didn't know it. I'd been raised to respect human life. I've been educated to be decent, to forgive. But Bartel wasn't human. He was a beast. And is there anything in the effic which says we cannot protect our lives? When attacked? Bartel was destroying me, pulling me carefully built world down about me, a world Betty must know nothing about, a world I had built to protect Betty law school, to ward politics, to assistant district attorney. It's a long lay up, the hardest minds to fight, the most realistic men, to please only the toughest stay with it. Only the toughest and shrewdest get to my position, because my position leads to the highest offices.

55:44 If you're smart, if you look the other way, maybe I knew I wanted to kill him. Then the sea was calm, the ship wasn't pitching, yet my stomach was sick. Half an hour was gone and still no plan where to go, who to turn to, what to ask? Nothing anywhere. My mind posed questions for which there were no answers. Would I lose all I owned in the world, problems with which there were no solutions. If I lost everything, would Betty go to? Were the two things inseparable? My success and Betty?

56:29 Are you ready? In a minute, Robber? Is that you? Who is it? Oh? Robert? You didn't answer there? Drink helps, help you go to the dining saloon yourself. I'll be long soon. You mind if I ask? What's wrong? Yes, of course, I'll be in the dining salon. Wait a minute, come back, all right? What is it You were going to leave, weren't you. I don't understand you'd have left me. You saw I was troubled, very troubled, and I wanted to talk to you, but you made. Me ask you.

57:10 Oh please, don't get angry, Robert. Please, don't you always. Make me ask you for your attention always ever since we've been married. Not always, Robert, not ever since we were married. Most of the time you changed, You got quiet. You never wanted to talk about things. That was doing. You never accepted my suggestion. You didn't understand the legal profession, the workings of law. That's why I stopped giving suggestions. Wasn't suggestions I wanted. It was encouragement to have. You believe in me? You never did. The more I gave you, the more I tried to give you, the less you seem to care. Please, you think all these things come out of the sky. Do you think they were given to me? I had to fight for them, to fight to get things for you. I never asked for them, but you took them. You never refused them. You never said no, I don't want a lot of clothes. No, I don't want a fair cold.

57:50 You never said no. Shouting stopt everything for you, but you give nothing in return, no love or effect you like, not even liking. Why didn't you ask for a divorce. I'll give you a divorce easy, simple? Is that what you want? Oh, I can't stand anymore. You're not going to leave now. You know why you want to divorce me. You know why you won't because of these comforts, that's all you want. You'd lose them, You lose them overnight. Why do you do this? I've paid for everything in my life, for everything, everything you have well, and now it's time for you to pay too.

58:44 To kill a man is the easiest thing in the world to do, To kill a man who would take your wife from you. I know the logic. I know it's wrong. Botel wasn't taking my wife from me, but he was taking position and wealth, and those things kept my wife to me, I thought. But I knew Bartel had to be destroyed, and she would have to be partner to it. That way, she'd never leave. That way, I'd achieve everything. That's why I told her the story as if I'd memorized it, as if it was the only thing I'd ever thought about, as if Bartel's death was the last obstacle in our life. No, Robert, please don't rob it.

59:24 You'll distract him up there on the deck, at the dark place on the deck. Don't ask me. Don't make me part of this together. We plan it together. We need him together. Come on, Betty. The hours up bar tells ours up.

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1:02:04 At that moment as we walked along the deck. Did I start to die? Then? Because I knew I would kill Bartel. Does one die a little if one plans to kill a human being? And die more when one does it? And to compound at your honor funny to think your hona funny to think that way. Now to compound it by knowing your wife hates you more than anything in the world because she's terrified, infuriated by her hate, but pleased. With her terror. How can she hate me so in so short a time? I gave her everything. I tried to be something important for her and rich for her, and kill for her. As we walked along the deck, I had no real idea how I would kill Bartel, no exact idea, but it had to be done well, that is, arm tightly. As we approached the dark part of the deck, near the railing, the place where Ltel was not actually a railing, an entrance for a ramp with only a chain across it, I tell, I, tell, this is my wife. What did you decide. I've been talking to her. I've been explaining to her.

1:03:21 What did you decide? Don't talk to me like that, Bartel, Don't ever talk to me like that. Do you put me in your stateroom? Yes? Yes, of course and guarantee to get me off the ship. I couldn't guarantee guarantees and things like this are impossible. That are officials to get at ship's offices and finding the right people are. You're good at putting in a fixed mistic call, and you've been putting in fixes all away from the slums up to the penthouses. Ships shouldn't stop. You don't say things like that. Why not everybody knows how McNeely pays off when you're one of mcneely's boys. Now, anytime he wants to put his fingers in a dirty deal, he'll use your hands to do it. Don't talk like that in front of my wife, as she get used to it, but nearly doesn't care. Who knows about his dirty handed man?

1:04:07 Shut up? Shut up. I lunched at it. I didn't need rich with Gunny. It was coulling. I didn't think I was capable of doing it. That was against the chain, his good arms flailing wildly over the chain, over in into the water. I didn't see in the darkness. I didn't know until I heard the scream. I mean it was too late for Bartel to let go. We got a grip on my wife's arm before I could move, before I could do anything. It was insane. She was pulled over the side, too over into the water. I had to save it. There was little I could do to save her, would be to save Bartel. But I didn't hesitate. I know that, I'm sure of it. I grabbed the nearest life preserve and hurled it over the side.

1:04:48 I could barely see them struggling in the water with the ship's propellers coming nearer. And then I knew I would have to jump. I would go over. I could still finish Bartel and save that is still, I could have everything, and it would be called an accident. I went over the side. Yet the last. Life flat. Don't try to swim the watch from the propellers, but help, don't fight boot on the back watch WoT.

1:05:46 Yeah. Suddenly it was quiet. Suddenly the terror was gone, and I could see Betty staying afloat near the life preserver, and beyond that Bartel struggling with one good arm, struggling to get to the light preserver. First, I forgot about Betty. I forgot everything except that I had to get him before he took the light preserver. You'll never get it. Keep keep back. I have a kind of nothing. Now keep away from me. Now, Bartell trying to talk and joy. Tell your story under water, Tell it.

1:06:34 Well, from the sea, Tell your story, Tell it from the sea. It was Bartello us take the preserve and hold onto it. Don't you understand? It was Bartell, Horace. I never knew you. The ship will turn around and pick us up soon. You must have understand, never really knew you.

1:07:17 It takes something to kill a man. Bartel was the killer, a ruthless man. I know. I was the one who forced him to turn state's evidence. Something horrible in you. Maybe that's why we've been growing apart. Maybe I saw it but didn't recognize that. I've never seen it before. You see it every day in the eyes of the people. That's a lot. Look at the murderers, Look at war. Can't make people kill each other if they don't want to? Could How could you? I'll never forget the look on his face when he knew he was going to be drowned, but you were going. To do It's terrible. Crying crying for him, crying for a hoodlum, a killer, crying for a gangster.

1:08:03 Yes, cheers for him. I don't preserve it. Why should he be cried over? Why him? Yeah, you never wept for me. I wait for you too. I don't need pity. I don't need your petty. I'm not giving you. Pile trying to find a way to forgive you. Hold on to the life preserver, clot me. Don't come near me. You only want the life presents all right. You want to believe it. It's true, and I will get it. I call you to never have a chance. The water carried me fast. You'll never catch up to me. I'll catch up. Oh, Betty, don't be a fool. Come back, Betty, come back to Shepp will turn around. M h have a shepherd, will save us.

1:08:55 Shy like you, let anyone die for you, die for yourself. I don't need a life miss ever. I can hold out until the ship turns around. I'm still going for the Harazhi. They'll turn around. I have the biggest sweet on this ship. They'll miss us and turn around in a few minutes. What makes you think you're so important? What makes you think you'd be missing? I am important? What makes you want to be so big? So much? Oh it was for you? What I've struggled so hard to get for you, for.

1:09:40 Yourself, getting rich, to please yourself. But you never enjoyed it either. You've left me if i'd stop stop making so much. I only wanted love, only wanted a family, your love, your children, Holy youth. You mean that you do? I mean that it's too late. Oh we can. In time, we can forget. Oh how can I forget? How can you? Oh? You're right? It was for me, And it wasn't for me, Bunny, for the wealth.

1:10:24 It was for power, not not even that, Oh, darling, Dolly, my darling, Benny, wonderful. Rob a ship of ten. Hold on up right, now, come to you. The life was a chant apart? When did I start to tying? Eddy, I'm dying now? When did I start to die? Don't don't talk to hold that property. When I knew I would kill bart it was sooner when I said, I will look the other way.

1:11:08 Yes, mister mcneee, you can kill Bartel. I will look there enough way, yes, mister McNeely. Only I started to die long before, years before. Maybe I've been killing myself all my life. A slow way. The sub way. Please hold on a minute longer, holdly, a minute. I God bright Darling, I loved. Quit well.

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1:13:55 The fire really hits differently after you imagine being underneath hundreds of gallons of cold, murky water. But enough about my weekend plans. Oh what's that? Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, not at all, not at all. You're fine, We're all fine. But now I feel like we've gone so far away from our troubles and into something else. I feel like now is a perfect time to take one step further and go beyond the grave.

1:14:47 Good evening, then this is your house to welcome you again through the creaking door into the nurse. Sant, come in, come in. I'm enjoying some winter. Sports for a couple of cold blooded skates. Personally, I don't mind a lot of temperature anymore. That's because I wear a snowfall storm coat. If the cold. Spirits out, Yes, now I'm just a were wolf. In a sheepskin lime shrowl. Oh him. And that's how photographer Artie as He just passed up by taking a picture from over exposure.

1:15:38 Ready now for our excursions. Beyond the grave. Let me warn you were a bit crowded. You may not be able to get around trip ticket. We can accommodate you on the way out, but coming back you will have to double up with a call. The fog rolls in from the sea and it gives the. Blanket the Long Narrow Island, which is joined to the Florida Mainland by a bridge. In the long House on the island, two men stand at the window, watching the mists develop into a thick gold securing the lights on the mainlanders. The fog is getting worse, but look out there.

1:16:21 It's covering everything like a disgusting, evil monster. It'll lift by morning. Morning, morning, morning. I may not be here by morning. What the devil do you mean by that? I may not be alive? Why do you want to less you help me? I asked you are here tonight because I was afraid to be alone. But you said before that you're a. Sister or Carol and her husband wants his name Everett would be. Here, yes, instant. But you're my friends. You're my closest friend. For the past week, I had a feeling that death was coming here to the island. And then when the fog began to roll in from the sea. I knew it would be the night. Arthur, you're not making sense. You've got nothing to worry about except for. Being a little nervous. You're perfectly healthy. I'll understand, Vincent. Baleries, come back, Valerie.

1:17:02 Yes, she's here on the island, but Heaven's sake, off I get hold of yourself. Her out there someplace. And that far is impossible. And you know it. In six months since your wife Vallerie drowned, they never found her body. It was never washed up on sure. The drowned body isn't always found. She never went out of that. Of course she did it. We'd all settled at the coronel's inquest. No, there were some things that were never settled. What do you mean by that? You know Valerie? You know how strange and moody she was. For a great many people have moved on. That's like Valerie was. She would prowl this island at night with that catapers always following everywhere she went. That cat would be with it, and on foggy nights they'd be gone for hours.

1:17:43 That still doesn't prove that Balleri wasn't on that boat. Of course, it does. Don't you understand cats hate water. I beg her many times to go out fishing with me. She never stepped foot in a bowl. Look, this is all just your imagination working over time. And she's come back to kill me. She hated me from the day we were married. She had but the wedding night she put into a rage. She scratched me. Her hand was like a claw, like a cat's claw. And now she's come back to kill me. You better stop talking. The kind of. Disappeared the night Valerie did well, of course I did a drowned with her. No, the cats come back to the island. I heard it at night. What you heard was probably a stray cat that wandered onto the island across the bridge. Now, oh hello, I can yes, who's this this?

1:18:33 You have six hours to live? Just six. Hours? It was Vale. She spoke to what are you talking about? The cat was with her. She said, I had six hours to live? Six hours there. Let me have that phone. It's no use, or maybe we can trace the call. Hello hello operator operator, because. It can kill me. You've got to I'll just take it easy off, I'll get the police minutes. Hello operator, operate out so well, and why doesn't she answer? I think I know why.

1:19:14 I'm afraid the wires of them cut. Come on, I'm driving you to the mainland. You can't to drive faster to the five as thick as it is out here. I'm going faster than I should, but you've got. To get me off the island bridge just ahead. Will be on the mainland in a few minutes. Say, I just remember something you. Said that, Valerie says to Carol and her husband Everett would be out. Here to visit you to night. That's but we can't wait for them. What time they say they'd be here thirty, Well it's past that now they should drive along this road in a moment. Maybe we'll meet them in. The Why did you stop? We can't stay here's the bridge.

1:19:58 If I hadn't stopped quickly enough, we have been killed. This end of the bridge has been washed out. Why Vincent, please, let's go back into the house. She's somewhere nearest in the fog here I can feel. I'm not going in until I find out where that phone wire was cut. I'm gonna splice it together again. It's our only chance of reaching the police. It's nine o'clock an hour has gone viralay and if I'm not out of here by two o'clock versus Look, look, you can see it through the pog there's a strange yellow light down the road. Well, it's the headlight of a car coming this way, a car.

1:20:41 Yeah, quick, behind the house here and stay out of sight. It's turning into the driveway. How could a color come into the others with a bridge washed house? Be quiet, somebody's getting out. They're coming this way. That what it's it's Carol and. Everest Carol, Everett, Arthur, what's your joy out here in back of the house. It's scared you? How did you get here? How do say? What's gotten into you? How did you get on the island. We drove over the bridge and up. The shore road. How else can you. Get it here? But how could you drive over the bridge? It's been washed out, washed out. I saw it with my own eyes, and Vincent saw it too.

1:21:21 It didn't you, Vincent? I certainly did. Oh, Vincent, I didn't know you were here, Yes, Everett, and I'm glad I am. Well you two must be mistaken. Carol and I drove over that bridge less than three minutes ago. Three minutes. Huh, why do you say it that way? Are you sure you haven't been on the island longer than la? What did you mean? I know some very strange things have been happening. Arthur's life has been threatened. It's true by your sister Valerie. Don't you to know that April Fool's Day is months so? Oh God, you want Everett, But it's true. Even a telephone wire has been cut. A telephone Yeah, so the telephone wire has been cut. You better answer it. Off, but I'm almost afraid it.

1:22:03 Hurry all right, Hello, Hello, we're here. It's nine o'clock. You have five more hours today. It's waiting. I can't stand it. Why don't the police come? Now? Take it easy out there, they'll be here. We only follow them a few minutes ago. Something might happen before they get here. We can't just sit around waiting for them to arrive, because it wouldn't be difficult to find anybody out there in that fire.

1:22:50 We could look around until the police got here. Oh, I'm not going out there. She's waiting for me. Please try to understand. It couldn't be. Any of you. I could feel it. She's She's coming closer and closer every minute. After You've got nothing to worry about. I've got this gun, and believe me, I won't hesitate to use it. Oncent, I didn't know you were in the habit of carrying a gun. I gave it to him. Ever it before you arrived. Don't you trust me with a gun? I already don't trust anyone. What is it? There was something outside the window, a sort o. Please, now, don't you get started on this crazy nonsense. No it's a swirling part, no, I say, but no, it's gun.

1:23:30 I could make up the eyes. They were shining like the eyes of it. She's here, she's coming for me. Let's go. Ever that came in the back of the house. Oh, don't leave me, Harrow, you go with Vinson. I'll stay with I, all right, jes right are they? I stayed with you because I want to talk about Vincent. I think it was foolish of you to give him that gun. Instance, my friend, I trust him. You shouldn't. Why do you say that. Don't you remember how he. Acted at the coroner's inquest. He testified against you turn again, very simply to make them think you were responsible for Valery's death.

1:24:12 Were wrong, Vincent would have no reason to know. He and Valerie were quite close before you came. Along, Arthur, even after you came wrong, That isn't true. He even saw the night she disappeared. You don't know what you're saying. At the inquest, he swore and he wasn't on the island that night, But he was, and I can prove it. Yeah, that could be the cigarette lighter. Yes, but Vincent Sinachel rot it. You can still see them to the rest. Where did you get that lighter? Karl and I found it in the water near. The boat house. I remember the day after Valerie disappeared, Vincent made the remark about losing his life.

1:24:55 Now do you still think he's since your friend? With what you say is true? You and Carol and I have got to stay together until the police came. You're sure they're on the way. Yes, they told me on the phone. It would take the less than fifteen minutes to get here. But it may not be safe for you to wait for them here. We'll go down to the bridge to meet No, No. I'm not going out of that fog. She's there waiting for it. Look, Arthur, You've got more to fear from Vincent than anyone. But don't come on before he returned. All right, we'd. Better go out through the French windows than I did. Stay close to the house until we get to the garage. Fog is so thick. I can't see you.

1:25:36 I'm just on the edge of the gravel back. Wait, what's wrong? Stay where you are where something's out here near us? No rules, just brushed against me. Here. Kitty, Kitty, kitty, don't go away, kitty. We need you for a couple of more murders.

1:26:20 Everett's dead, so now that's what he gets for letting a black cat cross his throats? Say, how do you like that? Valerie? She's somewhat uh huh nagging her husband right to the grave, the same one she's a. Well. Valerie is sorry about that last phone call she made. The operator said to her, five cents for the next five murders. Please, a let's get back to our frightened friends on at Florida Island. She meant to kill me, Carol, she mis took Everet for me. Please? How is he thinking she's dead? It's as if his throat was torn open by.

1:27:01 A wild animal. I told you she was more animal and human and that cat they were in here. Carol, you'd better not touch the bottom alone. You've done it up already. What's that supposed to me? You know exactly what it means, Vincent. And when the police come, I'm going to tell them how you ran away from me out there in the fot. I didn't run away from you. I thought you were behind me when I came back to the house a moment. What is it? A cigarette lighter that ever have had in his hand? It's missing? What cigarette lighter? You know? The one? I mean, the one that was fouling the water near the porthouse. I am the faintest idea of what you're talking about? Do you better searching? I look here. If you're as innocent as you claim to be, Vincent, you shouldn't. Mind all right, then go ahead and search. I will after I make this call. Whom you're calling the police can't understand what I haven't gotten here yet. It's almost ten o'clock. Oh well, you please connect me with police.

1:27:52 Where's that hurry? Do you think you've been calling the police department all this time? Fer Me? Were still. Can o'crock? You have just for more. Brothers, Vincent, I just left him, Carol. Did you know about him and Ary? Yes? Why didn't you tell me? I wanted to, but after all. She was my sister. We'll have to get away from him. Yes, well, suppose to tell him that we're going for the police.

1:28:36 He can't have any. Objection to that. I suppose he wants to come. With us in the car. Somebody has to stay here with Evert's body. Would you think it's safe to leave him here? If he killed Evert, he'll have a chance to destroy any heavens. We can't help that. It's safer to leave him here than to take him with us. He still has that gun of you. That's right. I have forgive me for disturbing you too. I thought you were supposed to be outside. I was outside for a while, but I saw somebody moving around the other room, so I came back. When I got to the other room, I found Everett's body missing. What Everyt's Body's gone mentioned? You were in that room before alone, so was Carol after I left?

1:29:17 Weren't you, Carol? I can't remember. You were there alone, Carol? I remember, I say. You walked with me to the front door when I left the house. The body was still there after that. I don't know what. Happened, but perhaps Carol does. What do you think I'm driving in that I did something with everyt's body. Draw your own conclusions. I've drown mine? Oh dare you. Imply such things? I won't listen to another word of such talk. Not another word? Wellapa, what do you think? I don't know what I'm going out of my mind. I don't know where to turn, who to try. You can trust me? I wish I was sure that I ca Of course. You cannot come here. Offer. Don't you see?

1:29:57 The one who hopes to kill you was trying to break it down for now? For your own sake, you mustn't give in. I don't know who's behind all this. But I do know this. It's all part of a plan to destroy you, little by little? Don't you see that? Now? Things Now you. Listen to me, offer and listen to me. Well, because there isn't a great deal of time left, we've got to go away from Caroll. Well, there's still time while she's not here. Why can't you see she's. Trying to kill you? Bra Yes, still be a fool, Carol is the one who lied to you. She and never at birth. They intended to murder you. But in the darkness and the fog, Carol made a fatal mistake. She thought it was you she was killing, not Everest. Oh No, that was Valerie in the room. The human animal was there. You saw the claw marks. On ever at throw that could be accomplished with an iron claw.

1:30:39 Valerie is dead. What makes you so sure? Look? God, I know she said they never drove across that bridge at nine tonight. They've been here on the island all evening. I know that because we saw that bridge with our own eyes, and I saw it again just ten minutes ago. It's still down. You're just saying, I'm calm with me, offering for yourself. Well, you're trying to get me out of the house, out into that potware. Valerie, whill you'll stop being. An idiot there? Take this gun that'll make you feel any better. Take it and hold it in my back while we're outside. Now, let's get away from Carol while there's still a chance.

1:31:19 All right, give me the gun. Yeah, keep in front of me all the time. Good morning. If you make one force move, how can. You do you see. Carol and Everett were lying to us. The bridge is still down. You're right fast. I couldn't have come across that bridge. Its The only trouble is we can't get back over it now if we've got to get off this island. Wait a minute, I should have thought of it for your boat. I saw the motor boat actually accident. What about a rowboat.

1:32:04 There's still one of those down at the boat house at the other end of the eye of good Then we can row over to the mainment. Yes, yes, of course. Go on. Wait a minute, where you going back to the house with the car. Don't be ridiculous. We can't go back there now. We got to walk all right along the beach here. Better walk faster than that, are instance, I have a feeling with being followed. Uh, just your imagination. Who could see? It's miss five? But I tell you that we are. I told you, yes, I can see it. Now can't and there's a woman. We've lost them, Mark, They can't be five behind.

1:32:46 Doesn't make any difference. Now there's the boat house just ahead the most it's not at the landwell, it must be. You can't see it because of the five I can see it isn't there. All right, then we'll hid in the boat house till morning. You can't hide from the dead or when you please? Got that nonsense. We're dealing with somebody very much alive. You've still got that gun you can't harm, but get with it. Come on, we're going inside. Doors locked. I didn't lock it. This pot house has never been locked before. All right, wait here, I'll break through the window and come around through the inside. Yeah, just wait for me. I'll lock the door. I'm coming and hurry, hurry, now, come on inside, off, better lock the door.

1:33:28 Yes, Arthur, we're in luck. There's a phone here, that's right. I forgot. Maybe he hasn't been disconnected like the other one. I'll try it. Hello, Hello, I'm bad. Hello, it's eleven o'clock. USh, Just three more dollars. Quarter too, Arthur. I can't stay here another minute, and I. Can't run away. Any Where would I go? Where would I hide? If she's going to kill me? Let her come and do it. You've still got fifteen minutes. My time's run out.

1:34:11 Well. I wanted to help you save yourself, but you wouldn't let me. I'm not gonna stay here another sex printing. This is your last chance. Do you want to make a run part with me? I told you was no you right, and there's nothing what I can do? Goodbye. Yes, I've come for you. Bery please. You know why I've come. Don't please, don't come any closer. So much I couldn't even wait until death came to me much.

1:34:59 You, how much I dated, and. How much I was afraid to stand where you are. Don't come another. Stand despised me because your bullets can't harm me. There's no way you can harm me anymore because I am dead, but I. Can harm you Llari. Valerie, forgive me, Valerie, please forgive me. I was sorry as soon as I threw you off the boat, but it was too late. I dived into the water to find you, but I couldn't.

1:35:42 I tried until my lungs almost burst. Please please forgive me. Right? Why didn't you tell the police? I wanted to live? But now it doesn't make any difference. Wrong about that out here makes a big difference to us. What are you doing back here? I was listening outside your confession confession? Thank you, Miss Mason. That'll be all, Miss Mace. The fog outside and this dim life and here helped her disguise, and.

1:36:22 It wasn't bout her. How could it be? Valerie is dead, isn't she? And the dead can't really return whatever? Who killed him? Everett? Ever, it's alive, very much alive. Aunt. It wasn't hard for me to pretend being dead with Vincent and Carroll keeping you away from my body, and. You well, if you work in on this together. Yes, the police couldn't help us because Valerie's body was never found. We knew you would kill her. We just had to wait for the chain to prove it. Hello, you have my confession.

1:37:03 Come on either, Wait a minute, Evors, Hello, Hello, Bennett, it's all over. M hmm, Yeah, you can hook up the wires again. And Bennett, you'd better get to work on that bridge right away. We're making a trip to the mainland out price. It's an outrage. All those juicy chances for murder are not one drop. Of blood spill.

1:37:45 Well, I guess that's where it is. Some night you just can't lay away a crow pustle. Have that? Valery? What a judge you turned out to be? Didn't even have enough courage to step out of her grave? Uh confidentially well, the reason is Valerie doesn't like to be seen in shrouds. Oh no, no, there's no moral to this story. It's just the ugly fact that when you're dead, brother, you're dead.

1:38:39 Yeah. M hm m hm m hm, h m hm m hmm. More pleasant dreams, my dear. The funny thing about a grave, The funny thing about a tomb is it's a home of sorts. Yes, but we assume those inside of them have no ability or desires left in them, So there's no door, there's no knob, there's not even a latch to undo. In that way, a grave is much more of prison. Although that may be too dramatic. Let's just say it's more of a container, a package, if you will, or what's that. Well, yes, good things do come in small packages. But I like to believe in my cold old heart that no grave can hold me.

1:40:10 The Mutual Broadcasting System presents The Mysterious Traveler, written produced. And directed by Robert A. Arthur and David Cocher, and featuring tonight too are radio's most distinguished personalities, Santos Ortega. And Richard coochan In No graves can hold Me. This is a mysterious. Traveler inviting you to join me on another journey to the realm of the strange and the terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip, and it will thrill you a little and chill you a little as we travel tonight into the world of shadows from which no man may return, and we learn the story of one who does return. It's a story I call no grave can hold me. My story starts in a court of law where a man is on trial for his life. The court room is tense, for the jury is out deciding the prisoner's fate. But the prisoner himself, a tall man with glossy black hair and piercing eyes, sits calmly with his lawyer, his daughter Nora, and his son in law Harry Wilson, waiting for the fateful verdict. O, dear.

1:41:35 Father, I think the jury is coming in now. They say it's a bad sign when the jury is out for such a short while. You need not worry either. Earlier I shall be free. I certainly hope so ran off. But oh, you know you did, admits your kill Clements. Because he insulted me. He called me a mountebank for Charlotte and a trickster. He called the great Randolph a paper. So he die, ll become of father and frighten and. Take any places in the jury backs. Now look crossly, grinned. I repeat, have no fear for me, omen of the jury.

1:42:18 As the jury reached a verdict, it has her, honner. What is the verdict? Very independent, guilty as charged a murder in the first grade. It finds your guilty. The fools, they too think that I'm an imposterate trickster. They shall learn different. If I die, so shall they. The prisoner will rise for me to stand up. The prisoner will. Rise very well. I'll stand up, so that they will recognize my face again when they see it suddenly in the night, and to know that death has come to claim them.

1:43:06 Maximilian Randolph, you have been found guilty of the crime of murder in the first degree. It is the sentence of this court that you shall suffer the punishment of death on the night of June sixth, at midnight. And may God have mercy on your soul. Visiting for you, mister. Randall, thank you gud Miller him for only five minutes, Yes, all right, God, Oh render good evening, Harry. I see that my guide Miller managed to get you in to see me.

1:43:55 Yes he did. Time is so short. Well, I know it is almost midnight, and at midnight I die. But God, Miller has become a good friend. I knew he'd arrange it. No, when I saw the Governor this afternoon, he refused to do a thing. It does not matter, not his death but a new garment for the soul to wear. Nor was wedding outside. You said you didn't wanna see it tonight. That is as I wished you were my assistant. You were very close you and die. And now there is a last promise you must make to me. Anything ran off when you received my body the empty husk of the Great Randolph.

1:44:47 Bury. It in a vault with a bronze door which faces east, a bolt facing east. Here's the curse. The door must be locked with a padlock of bronze, but it must be possible to open it from the inside, but without using a key. And the coffin must be locked shut as well, but I must be able to open it from the inside. Randal, I'll show you're not serious. I never chose. All this. And one thing more promise, all right, I promise when I am buried, meet my head must rest a notebook daring the names and addresses of the twelve jurymen who found me guilty, of the prosecuting.

1:45:46 Attorney, and of the church. But why Randall, that I'm in a way to seek my vengeance upon them, the vengeance I have sworn, which must be executed before my soul can sleep. Oh, Randolph, that's madness, you disbelieve, so do they. But in my studies I have learned many things, and. One of them is how to reach back from behind the dark curtain of death. All right, time's up to thank you, Mamma, goodbye, Harry.

1:46:26 Just tell me one more thing. Is the full moon shining tonight? Yes, it's full moon tonight. Each time hereafter that it shines, one of my enemies will join me in death. And so the Great Randolph went to his execution and was buried according to his instructions. After a few days, his case was forgotten, forgotten by all but Harry Wilson, his son in law. Well, the first month passed, and the full moon again shone in the windows of his apartment.

1:47:16 A strange restlessness possessed Harry. Harry, what's wrong? With you. No, I'm sorry. No, But tonight, the night at the full moon, I'm nervous. I can't help it. Oh, darling, you're not worrying about father, are you about his threat? Yes? I am. Oh, but that's absurd. Poor father. Toward the end, I'm afraid he was suffering from delusions, and he was more than just an ordinary man. He wasn't entirely sing No, maybe. Not, but he was so sure of himself, so certain, and most instructions for the way he was to be buried. Oh, I'm just being foolish. Why don't you go out and walk for a while, Harry, it'll help. Come all right, all right? I will you want to come along to nice night?

1:47:58 No, I think I'll stay here and read all right. Back in an hour. So, dear, nothing happened tonight. I'll know that Randolph is just putting on a neck. But a little later, another man was also walking in the moonlight of a beautiful July evening. This one was short and dark. He was throwing homeward from a small poker party with his friends when in the dark shadows cast by the trees along the edge of the park, a tall figure stepped directly into his pash. Just a moment. Who are you?

1:48:38 What do you want? Just to talk to you? I don't want to talk to you. Get my first, my friend, Look, aga, say what is this a hold up? No, Adam, it is not the holder. And why he threatening me with that gun? I have you got that start coming in face? Because my face has changed in the months since I was executed and buried. It's rather frightening. Now what are you're saying? Are you anyway you're beginning to recognize my boy? Finns? You you know who I am. You just don't want to admit it to yourself. But great Randolph, whom. You was forming of the jury cause to the exit. No, no, it's not possible. No want to come back from.

1:49:19 No ordinary man. That's a great Randolph. I don't believe it. Whether it's a check of some kind? Is this trick? Adam? Is it is this? Okay? Hello? Hello? Nah? Is Harry there? No, he's out for a walk. Who is this? Don't you recognize my voice? Nah? Surely you are it often enough?

1:50:01 Father? Oh no, it can't be strange. How skeptical everyone is of me, even my own daughter. Father? Is you. Who do you want. I just want to tell Harry that I have claimed the first victim of my vengeance exactly on the stroke of midnight, the same minute when I died. Oh no, no, and I wanted to warn him. But he must do nothing to interfere with my plans. If he does, I shall have to add him my miss victims.

1:50:48 No, no, are you he's he telephoned here. You want to speak to me? He is, Harry. Just a little after twelve he said that. He yes, I heard the news. I was in the restaurant. I'm having coffee and came over the radio. Poeman of the jury found strangle in front of his home. But it's impossible, and yet it was his voice. Harry. We've got to do something. You have got to warn the others on that list. The other juror's bored on. The district attorney in Judge Dexter tried, I know that doesn't matter. In the morning, I'm going to District Attorney Baldwin. He'll believe me. You have to. But mister Bowen, you've got to listen to me.

1:51:30 You've got to warn the others. You've got to give them protection or they'll die, just as Adams did whenst. I'm a busy man. I have not fun my mind without having to listen to wild eyed stories like the one you just told. But it's true Renold's instructions about the way you want to be buried the notebook that I put in the coffin with a mere theatrical memory. Adams was the victim of an ordinary street mugging. That's all there is to it. I have to ask you to leave. I have more important thanks to tend to. Mister Lord, you're a sensible man. You edit the biggest newspaper in this city. If you'll only print what I've told you, the authorities will have to take some actions.

1:52:11 Welst In. My job is to print news fire readers, not ghost stories. Wira, and your story, I'll be fire tomorrow. Then you don't believe me, I. Tell her what I will do. I'll make a story for the Sunday Supplement out. But that won't do any good. If it's in the Sunday Supplement, people might just smile at him when they see if they don't know, it's just a story. And I'm afraid there's no use in talking any further. Wilson, all right, I'll go to other papers. One of them will have to believe. I don't advise it. You run a shop, don't you telling tricks and magic got rad? Yes, yes, that's right. Why just this? Those stayers don't believe in getting free publicity, and that's obviously what you're after. Good Diner's work. I'm very sorry, mister Wilson, but Judge Dexter is unable.

1:52:53 To see you. But mister Jew explained to him what it's about, how important it is. The judge say that you can't let him a letter. Give the letter he's considered. Oh that's no good. I got to talk to him. I'm sorry. He's leaving today for his vacation and he won't be back for a month. Perhaps he'll be able to see you then, but he simply can't see you now. None of them would listen to me, nor a they I thought I was crazy, but I wanted publicity. They all told me to forget it. They're right, Harry, that's the only thing to do, to forget it. But maybe we're wrong. Maybe Adam's death last night was just a coincidence. I'm sure father had nothing to do with it. No, no, he telephones you you heard his voice.

1:53:34 Well, I'm not sure now that I did. Maybe it was a dream, Harry, Maybe I just imagined it. Still, forget the whole thing, please, Harry, for my sake, forget it. Oh, Harry Darling, it's no good just pacing up and down. Please sit down and try to. REPLI, Nora, I can't tonight, the second full moon since rand Off was executed. He'll be leading his grave tonight and someone else will gone. But Harry, there ought to be a guard over the he's buried in it. That could have he came back to him. Then Daddy wouldn't be bothered by a guard.

1:54:15 Please, Harry, you've done the best you can. And if it is true, when you go on like this, would you be in danger? I don't care that list, Nora. The names on it were alphabetical, and Adam's performan was the. First to die. What do you drive them? The second name on the list is Baldwin, the district attorney. Baldwin wouldn't listen to me last time, but the night he's. Got to going you with home Now while it's still time, mister Baldwin, you are in danger tonight. I'm sure of its deadly danger. Now you mean it, I'm sure it'll I thought it was some kind of a gag before. Now I can see you fully believe everything you've said.

1:54:57 Oh, and you will take precautions, at least for tonight. I've been an officer of the law for thirty years. I've been threatened by a lot of convicted murderers, but not one of them. Has come back to get me yet. But you don't understand the Great Grand Office different. He had powers that we know nothing about it. Perhaps perhaps, but I doubt it. Now. I appreciate your warning, but I can't. Take it seriously. And you won't guard yourself no. More than usual. I locked the door presently. I'm sure that'll keep out any ghosts who. May come this way. Mister Baldwin. Please, it's almost midnight. At least let me stay with you for another hour. I'm sorry, but I'm about ready to turn in. I expect to sleep well too.

1:55:39 Now you go on home. Do the same, because nobody's going to be harmed tonight by the Great Grandolph Spook. I guarantee it. Oh no, I please, I wish you'd blacks. I couldn't think of it. Now you can find your way out yourself. Can't sure? I'm sure, yes, of course, all right, mister Baldwin. I won't bother any longer. Good night, good night Wilson. Oh he's gone, said the poor fellow needs to see as a curatist Randol's ghosts, and I hope I never have anything worse to. Be afraid of them. Who's there? Who came in just now? Whinson? Is that you again?

1:56:20 Oh? My friend? It is not Wilson. Who are you? What the devil's the meaning of this? You don't recognize me, then how can I not cloak? Would recallar pulled up over your face? That is to spare the world a sight that should remain forever hidden within the darkness of a coffin. My voice, surely recognize that? What are you talking about? I get out at once. I'll call for the police. It would tax their powers to arrest me. They have no authority in the world to which I. Know.

1:57:00 No, it can't be. I see you have recognized me. You should have taken Wilson's warning, Baldwin, because I'm here, the great Randou at your service. It is impossible. That's been said of so many things, And but I think I can convince you no, I stay away. Perhaps that won't do you any good. By the time anyone comes, you will have joined me in the world of Laura.

1:57:45 Laura. Where are you? Laura? Harry? I can hear you calling all the way down the hall. Where have you been? I just went out to get the morning papers. Why? Why did it happen again? Just like the Tony Boldin has been killed? But how exactly the same way mister Adams was killed? Wrangled? Just at midnight? Oh no, I think I know the truth. Now, what do you mean. I don't believe it was your father at all. I think it was I that killed them. I killed them both. I'll know you've got to do it. There's a full moon tonight. You got to lock me in this apartment.

1:58:29 Oh but Harry, you couldn't possibly have killed those to me, I could. I was near the scene at both times. In my mind, it wasn't clear. I don't remember doing it. But don't you see it, if i'd been hypnotized, I wouldn't remember. But Darling, father couldn't have hypnotized you in a committing murder hits a law of hypnosis. This is the subject, won't do anything he knows is wrong. I know that, but I can't be sure. I believe that in most few minutes I was with him, somehow Randolph impressed on my mind orders to carry out his vengeance for him. Oh, Darling, I'm sure he didn't. But if you insist, i'll lock you up. All right, Well, I want you to go now. Might not be safe for you to stay with me. All right, Harry, I'll go to a movie. I got to stay locked in until after midnight, and even if I am hypnotized, I won't be able to do on come.

1:59:12 You do understand, right, don't you? Oh? Of course, Darling. I'm sure you're wrong, but I'll do anything you say. All right, now, lock me in and don't you come back until after midnight seven nine, another. Hour, and then i'll know, will I Maybe I'll try to get out and I won't remember it. But telephone, there's hello?

1:59:59 Oh Randolf, Yes, my boy, I'm glad at least you don't say no, it's impossible. Where are you? Random? That doesn't matter. I just wanted to warn you and don't try to interfere with my plans. But Randolf I thought, Hello, Yeah, that who's that? I'm not the one then in that case, yes, that's the only possible answer.

2:00:43 I know now what the truth is. I've got to get out of here. I break it down with an accent. There's no fire escape and escape floor. It down to the street. I have it the superintendent. I can telephone the superintendent, tellhim I locked in, and then you'll come. And let me. Judge Dexter. First Adams died, then Baldwin. Their names were the first two on the Great Adam Randa's list. Your name. I'm so you think that tonight i'mill scheduled to die. Yes, yes, I'm sure. And you say you won Baldwin last month, just before he was murdered. I did, and he laughed at me. But he died just the same.

2:01:26 And you're seriously asking me to believe that a dead man, legally executed by the state is walking the streets tonight seeking my life. I tell you he telephoned me only half an hour ago. I recognized his voice. You know, of course, that your story sounds like the ravings of an insane mind. I know it. That's why I've kept quiet this last month. I did try to convince the police, the district attorney, and all I got was laughed at, And then. Yes, and yet obviously you're you're in earnest. I don't think you're crazy. I'm not. For a little while, I thought that I was the killer. You O how I thought that I was under post hypnotic control, that Randolf had planted in. My mind the impulse to kill his enemies. But that phone call proved that I was wrong.

2:02:09 And what do you propose that we do? If we went to his tomb, perhaps then we learn the truth. What do you want to open Randolph's tomb for? Don't you see? If we go there and we find Randolf is still in his cart, and then I'll know that the real murder is my wife, Norah. I have the key idea. I had a pad in a minute, in hurry, the moon is bright. I'd hate to have anyone to see us. Yes, a very strange story, a man in my position prowling around the cemetery at midnight. Oh, but we had to come, judge. We had to make sure but light that we can open the boat doing.

2:02:52 I'm rather sorry I paid any attention to you, Wilson. But we're here now, so we'll let step this thing over it now I'm going in first. Don't forget I'm on. Oh, don't worry about me. Here, I shut the door. You said to turn on the flashlight. Now eyah, see there's a carton. That's odd. M hmm. What is the judge? The air? And here's fresh. This vault has been opened, and very recently then it must have been opened by nonsense. Open this coffin and i'll prove it here. How does it work? Let's catch I'm a side can be operated out from the inside or eye. It's a onetle. Lift the lid man lifted? All right, I'll do it.

2:03:35 There they no. See, there's your precious Randolph, safe and sound, just as I expected, quite dead as he's supposed to be, still in his cot. Yes, and that proves that. Shine your flesh like. Down on the floor. I just touched a body. Here and near the wall. Buddy, it's no, she's dead, I don't think so here, give me that light. What happened? What did you turn out the flashlight? Something knocked out of my hands. I can find it because I have it, Harry, That's why you can't find it. Wasn't what you're saying.

2:04:19 It's Randolph he's not dead, but I am married. But don't bet that disturb you. I want to thank you for bringing the judge. Here to me. Listen, who are you? You're trying to play a chick on me. No, no, I swear he's quite Dennison, Judge Dexter, that's b nour. She merely came to make sure I was that. I'm supposed to be, just as you did when I spoke to her, she painted. Listened, get the door open. We've got to have some light in here. It's now. Use sticks. I can see in the dark like a cat, and you can't. I have you now, No, Judge, you're going to die. Accept kilt as you are dead me except kilted.

2:05:07 Randall. Let me go. I warn your Randulph. I've got a gun. I'm going to shoot you like yeah, yeah, are you all right? Yes, yes I am. I'll see if you can find the flashlight. I think I've taken care of mister Randolph. If it was Randolph, I. Think I haven't. Yes, here it is Cheat, it's still in the cart. I rather thought it would be Harry. Harry, is that you you're not hurt? No, just my head. I came here to see you, father. We understand, missus Wilson. And then someone hitch, Yes. Behind there was someone here in the board. I just got a glimpse of him and then. And then he hit me.

2:05:48 But who was That's what we're just about to find out. Now, let me have the flashlight. Was yes, keep pill over here now, Yes, here he is? But who is he? He was impersonating father, But but who is he? I'm gonna say he'd better turn away carefully now he's still breathing. That's it. Oh, it's Muller, the guard from the penitentiary, the one Randolph said he's made a friend off. Yes, the one who was guarding him just before he was execused. Ah, that's it. It was Mueller, Miller. Can you hear me? I'm afraid he's dying. Before father was executed, he must have hypnotized this man and ordered him to carry out his fantastic scheme of venger Mar. It was a trick, but a very cunning trick by means of hypnosis. Randolph he was this man is a tool.

2:06:31 Even though Randolph himself was dead. He must have recognized that Miller was unusually susceptive. I think we'll find that Miller was a psychotic to begin with. Otherwise Randolph's hypnosis would never have worked, for no normal person can be influenced the way Miller was under any circumstances. Isn't there anything we can do for you? No? No, he's gone, and with him, the Great Randolph has died too, for good. This is the Mysterious travel again.

2:07:26 So the Great Randolph is dead for good? Is he? I wonder? After all, Miller wasn't the only god Randolph had a chance to talk to. Oh, but he couldn't have hypnotized any of the others. I wouldn't give it another sort if I were you, unless, of course, you were on the jury that convicted Randolph in that case. Well, you have to get off here. I'm sorry. I'm sure we'll meet again. I take the same train every week at this. Same You have just heard The Mysterious Traveler, a series of dramas are the Strange and Terrify the role of the Mysterious Travelers, played by Maurice Topler.

2:08:22 In tonight's cast were Satos. Ortega, Richard Coogan, Shirley Blank, and Bill Smith. Original music composed and played by Al Vanelle. All characters in this story were fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons was purely coincidental. This is Bob Emeric speaking. Well, my dear. I hope I provided you some much needed escapes, as you did for me as well. Even all alone behind these hard and hollowed walls, and to wherever it is I go as the sun comes up, I still find myself that wretched anxiousness. It seems it really does. Just keep on going and going. But for now it's time you head home before the sun comes up. You must get some rest, prepare yourself for another day, and know that I'll be here waiting for you whenever you decide.

2:09:19 To come back. Oh what's that? Oh no, don't you worry. I will. I will be here. So go on now, And as you head your way home and past Grandma's house, over the river, through the woods, as you go through your beautiful French doors into your home, and lay your head on your little pillow as you start to nod away, just please be thankful for what you have. See you next time, re mumbling drink of pregnant oh Mo