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0:09 Hello, my dear. So good of you to join me again. You know, I don't get a lot of visitors, and of course I really never do the visiting myself, but I am so happy to have you here. Sometimes the space can feel a bit more like a well, like a tomb, than what it actually is, although what it actually is I'm not entirely sure about. Well, no matter, get comfortable. Please please, let's relax and enjoy ourselves tonight.

0:54 So often in the dark I can't help but feel when I'm all alone, like I am the thing in the case. Come in. Welcome, I'm e. G. Marshall. Welcome to the world of unbridled imagination. You know, man is a curious creature. Most of us settle for routine and habits. Eight hours on the job, another seven or eight invent, and the other eight on some hobby that is neither too physically demanding nor asks for too many mental gymnastics.

1:54 A few of us. Stretch ourselves beyond a reasonable limit. We coast through life our metal never really. Tried, but some of us, through. Harrowing experience, are stretched to the full capacity. Of our beings. It's then we find out what fiber we are made of. D't worth it? What is she? The last life? I can't you wish you find me? We got to get her? What is it? Call her? Young?

2:35 Who issue? She's gone? Queen? We dried your under the arch there? Did you see anything? No? But you heard Eve. It's true. There is a thing that lives in. These caves, and we dropped dropped here, and it's worthy. Our mystery drama. The Thing in the Cave was written especially for the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and stars Terry Keene and Marion Selda's. I don't suppose many of us have ever planned to grow up to be speleologists, since most of us are subject to claustrophobia to at least some degree.

3:42 For the very few of you who don't recognize the Latin terms, let me add that a spileiologist, of course, is someone who studies and explores caves, and claustrophobia is that suffocating, pervasive dread of being shut in. This tale concerns itself with four young spe lunkers. Those are cave explorers who do it only for fun and their gruesome experience of being cave bound literally buried alive. It's shelter on the next stand in the trail home. It's funny being born and bred in these mountains, and yet I've never been inside chalk dark cave.

4:23 Well, I'm not sure I want to myself. You get claustrophobia. To Barbara David, I never even dare close the door in the phone boost sy. Yes, we can. Forget all this. You know I don't have to have my childhood revisited. No thanks, right on. If I refuse you this little memory trip, I'd hear about it for the rest of our marriage. If you ever decide to go through with. The wedding, just you try to leave me at the Al David Towers. Well here we are? Are we here? Yes, said Delacosta cavalry this No, Well, I don't see any caves. It's right behind that scrub out. Listen, what do we do about the horses?

5:05 Oh? Here, I'll hitch us all to the aspen here, my old baldy. All I gotta do is let the rains trail. He won't budge more than twenty feet till I get back here. You know, kind of clouding up over in the Northwest. Maybe we ought to be getting. Back down the mountain. I come on, give you her cakes? What say, just my old faithful knapsack with some of the remains of lunch and a flashlight. Meet an old boy scout, be prepared. I brought a water bottle to hey, come to think of it, if he wants to get up to the ledge, which he says goes to the back cavern, we ought to bring along a rope. Fetch my warria too. While you're at it. We'll do so, are you, fellows? Come on, Bobby and I have found the entrance to the cave.

5:55 Oh, I'm sorry. It don't seem a lot big. When I was a kid. Barbara and I can make it all right, drawling, but it comes in the giant size. Hey, can you make it just a lot. Of tight as a cork in a bottle. If I get stuck, you can be sorry. If this is the only way in and out. Which just a moment, we can all stand up. You'll see maybe we should all forget it. You scared, I know, but I'm not. Exactly happy either. I don't know. If thanks and we're here in. The case, I can stand up. Oh you're not. Everyone.

6:37 It's beautiful and just as I remembered it. You're right easy. It's breath taking. Seed grow buried at the bottom of the sea. Oh green like Sensha parent. Parent or the marvelous tap on her now tredame with all stained glass windows that make you. Feel as if you're suba diving and looking at that threw water. Okay, I can hear water too. Somewhere. Come on, I'll show you where they can look out for the year. What do you call them scallops? Tight if they hang from the roof and. The ones from the floor are stellic. Mike right here he is, here's the waterfall?

7:18 Oh wow? That oh type of feud. But what are the whole dreams? But nobody knows. But some say it's bottomless me because right to the air. But where does the river that makes the waterfall come down? Up there? With the kid I used to know, blind out to the leg there and then run him through the crest. They say it comes from another chain behind this there, it comes from before that. I guess nobody. Knows what's happen. Maybe a Kim kim where I got I'm crazy? Oh, but it's such thunder.

7:58 Remember how we kids used to come together and talked about the thing that thing. But what was the thing? It was just something you laid up some country legends. Someone had heard about this, this creature, this monster that lived in an underground river, whatever it is. What kind of monster you know? I medium, let's three and all of Bob. It was one great red rimmed eye. And long you tend to go to Pepton Fall along the. Rock until suddenly they pump. What was this sounded like thunder? I bet that storm broke outside. Come on, well, we better get going.

8:40 Oh I just wanted to get into the cave behind it. Well we are just once again. Oh no, count me out. This place is giving me the heavy dB. I'm getting a little tight, and I felt myself. Come on, darling, you are right. It must have been a little crazy. I don't know what it would. Something seemed to draw me Olmstad's It was something calling. Evening. What yes. Again, Barbara, I'm so sorry.

9:31 Hang it Mary, Now we mustn't lose our heads so dark. Pitch stop. We don't happened to hang Javis. They've gone to see about clearing the entrance. We only had some light. The boys had the only flashlight. Wait a minute, what. Is it. Is? There is not no cold cold, just had a dead coming back with the light and. He must. We'll make it how these I'm okay, David, Can we go now? Well, it isn't going to be that easy. What can't we help to clear? Eve? The Barbara? I don't know the landslide we heard it may have covered over the cave entrance outside.

10:16 You mean that even if people. Came looking forward, they might not be able to find the entrance to the cave. That's why we have to start clearing. Out from inside here, Eve, Well, what is it? I mean, at least we know where the way out he is. We can crawl back through the tunnel, and then we don't know where the way out is anymore? What do you mean where we passed along the stalet types or the stalt mics colladed And even if we could guess where the tunnel going out again, the rocks blocking it as a ludge. It would take a bulldozer to move them. Oh good lord, then we're trapped. He lived like a tomb and it's all.

10:57 Don't come on, take it easy, Barbara, Now east. Touch You've got to get hold of it down. Here, you will. Tank. Have you any ideas of what we can do well. I guess the first thing to do is not the panic. Now we've got water, I've got some chocolate bars and a couple of sandwiches left over from lunch in my saddlebags. We've got life as long as the batteries last. Which reminds me, do we have to be in the dog? There's no sense in using up the batteries when we don't need it. Get it right here, eve tank.

11:37 What are our chances of. Being fund It's hard to answer, Barbara. Of course they'll miss us back at the ranch by tonight. Didn't say where we were going. When they found out what this hitch right outside. Was always supposing they weren't buried in the landslide. Is there any other way out of the cave you know of ease? No, not really. Like I told you, some kids got up on the ledge at the off of the waterfall. And they went into some kind of a chamber behind there. But they claimed that what these tleas, we've all got to keep our heads pullet. It's just that the scene came rising out of the water hissing.

12:17 And snarling, so they just took up and ran well. I told guests four of us grown ups, as long as we stick together, are going to dream up any boogeyman out of the shadows. It's got to turn the light on for. A minute twenty after four. They won't miss us till dinner time. By the time they started any kind of search, it'll be dark. Yeah, and with a thunderstorm and the Patta River running high as it does at the ford, they may figured we hold up at halfway house. That's the side of the river. Yes, and there's no phones. Hey, that's right. Look, it's only about twenty feet up to that ledge. The easy to climb. David me could go in through that cleft and have a look around.

13:01 Maybe there's a way out that way. You girls wait here, Oh no way, I'm not sitting around in the dark. We'll all go hank Well, okay, you climb first, then David right behind you, then Barb and I'll come up last. Let's go. Thingo. We're in the second cabin. How big is that? It must be where the waterfall comes from, you know. Anyway, I'll hold it. Everyone hold it. Let's see. Let's start to the left. Here. Woo's so smooth. I'd been polished once upon a time. I guess the whole floor is underwater.

13:41 It's China light higher hanks so we can let's. See very any class or passage ways a ground level first. It's so small it'll be halfway around and nothing. Maybe where the water comes in, we'll be there in a minute. Nope. Try along the right hand wall. The water runs along against it and back through a hole on the floor, down to where we came from. Shine the light back again where the water comes in. Why the batteries are getting dim so that I saw something? Wait a minute. You may be right. The water doesn't come quite to the top of the archway.

14:22 It isn't that, it's something else. It's tolling me the same. Wait a minute up, thanks boy, you are damn. I turn my ankle, David, the black line on. I'm I'm looking for it. Where are you stas the damn light right? Holding me? Here's this. Where da. He dragged her under the yard stair. I no, I can't swim, I can't.

15:05 Look out all the leg stay doing the yards. I'm going after her. She didn't need anything. No, the water's only a couple of inches under the roof. Thanks god he did. It's the thing again, and he's. Give me back for all of us. From gholies and ghosties and long leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Good Lord deliver us. The quote is from an old friend, Anon, or to give him his full name, Anonymous. But will he deliver our four young spe lunkers or any of them from this thing that haunts the cave? I'll return in a moment with that too. There's a creepy crawley ceiling about the very thought of being shut in anywhere with outdoors or windows. Confinement of any kind is as fallen to the human animal as it is to his fellow beasts.

16:29 And as for caves, I know I wouldn't be found dead in one. I hope that figure of speech isn't a prophetic one for one of our four young friends who are cave bound. What was that column of water? I don't know, but didn't you see something inside it with great arms reaching out like a tree? It was just a guy that a waterspout from freaking nature. There was a thing. What didn't matter. He's gone, she's dead, drowned, and it's my fault. And Hank Kasain come back from the David, you can't help it. If you can't swim.

17:10 Hasn't helped Hank that he could? He disappeared. She was my girl. If anyone die with her, it should have been me. Maybe they've gotten to another cave. If they hadn't, their bodies would have come up through. The s boy takes their barber with a spot or whatever it is, came from just before the octuator. Ben's like a whirlpool. It could have sucked them boosts down to the bowls of the earth. Oh, David, what are we going to do? I don't care anymore? Well, I do give me that flashlight. It's giving dinner. Maybe there's a whole or passage higher up that must what's that back?

17:53 They're like said, I put it out. Still I can't. I can't. I don't want to be in the dark with cant them all over. I'm bussed against Please please. Help me, help me, help me. Take you're you'll be alright to the. Thing, the thing you told me on the water. You're on the water now where I. Don't know. Dry land anyway?

18:35 How did you get here? I went into the water. Try to save me. On the Eagle Scouts, you know, trustworthy, loyal, helpful? What about David? He can't swim? Oh? But what did you? How did you? I don't think I could explained? What do you mean? It just doesn't make sense. The stream was flowing out of the arch, so I was swimming against it. But suddenly something, something just told me along against the turns. What about you? Oh? Don't you see it was him?

19:17 The thing? Oh? If it was, why did he save you and me? You thought he wanted to drown you? And I did it first? And then it seemed so kind, so kind. It didn't wanted to help, But. Brian did. Dot time dot back? Could it easy? Two times? Oh? Some lightn't we kicking? And nothing but matches choking? Way? Maybe dry out? He sa, I even see the time, David, dear father?

20:11 Would the light disturbs the bats again? They make my flesh crawl. But anything's better than the dark. It must be night outside by now. I have a hunt stick taken off of the outside cavern. They interest the prize when they find there's no exit anymore. Maybe they no want out of here. Let's try. So far, so good, getting so dim. Isn't all that heil? Let's see well can you see anything? No, it's like the inside of an egg. Oh David, what are we gonna do? Get that? Get back near the arch, the rock flat. Maybe if the water goes down with something, we can figure battery is gone.

20:56 Oh no, you know. There's got to be like David, I can't catch you. I'm joky, borrow, I'm joking a minute. Oh God, only a lighter. It won't last long. Now we've got to say to sit down. Just don't turn it off. I have to just keep saf he gets rare. If it's needed, it's if it's needed. Well, David, me free. Okay, okay, I got you, all of you into this.

21:37 Believe Eve, have won't help. What we need to do is move around and try to get warm. At least we're dry. If try those matches again, Oh no, no. God, if only we could see to what is it? Look up? Eve? What way way up there? What do you see? It's it's a shaft to light sunlight that's coming from outside. It means there's a way out. But it's so high up, it's so little. With any luck, as the sunrises, it'll give. Us more light than we can explore.

22:27 How far up to? Where that light's coming in. Oh, it must be a good sixty. Feet hard to tell in this light. Could we climb up there? Oh? Lord, No, We've got to think about Bob and David's first. Anywhere I've been thinking about this trouble is. I was groggy when I fetched ashore. Here. I have no idea how long you're underwater swimming, but with the current going with you, there's a good chance I could make it through. But making advance and. Other problems, especially since David doesn't swim, and we can't count on mister Singh to be around to help us out again. But here we have a chance, and there they don't.

23:09 There's got to be some way. I've got a notion, Eve, you got anything to write with? You know, I haven't got a pocket. Food, any kind of pick, Wait a minute. Tucking my jeans, lipstick, any good famers? Now, look, I'm gonna take my canteen and empty it. Have The one sure thing we have is plenty of water. You think we could write a message with lipstick. On that say no so good in that canvas cover. But if we could strip it, we could write on the metal. You don't think water would wash it off? I don't suppose you've done much dishwashing or even a bachelor. Does you share?

23:49 Well, then you know how tough it is to get lipstick off of glass? I sure do. But how do we get this messy. Look with the stopper in this canteen? It won't think I'm going to tie it to the end of the rope and let it float on down far as I can. Supposing the rope isn't long enolcohol, there's thirty to thirty five feet of rope here. It's better be long enough. Now, let's put our. Heads together and figure how much of a message we can get on this canteen. Jazie it boss? He's it me? Or is it getting hard.

24:29 To breathe in here? It's all in the mind, you know, it's funny, boss. I used to be kind of jealous of all the big brain. Me. I was just you know, fun and dames and the action girl. No ties, strictly let it all hang out, Ruth. I wish I had a. Chance to find. Just just one self. Oh, Davids, Barbie, you're not kidding. The air is getting heavier and heavier. Can't we have a little light? There's not much light if you? But is it?

25:10 There's something floating in the streams. Here follows up for me? Can you read there? Yeah? I have a what is it? It's it's canteen. It's tied to a rope. Looks like Hank's canteen. It's the water bottle he wrote in without the cover there. Oh look he's writing on it. Oh god, I'm blind without my glasses. Here? Can you read it? All? The flame steady eves Hanks safe a rope three times? A found way out? If writing materials reply, send all in flash?

25:56 How much do you measure? About twenty feet? It's how fat? One? Two? Three? They've got it now. All we have to do is wait for one tug and we can bring back the message. Takes so much more. We should have told them all the time. The lighter is almost out of fluish. Thank got my watch has an illuminated dial. We missed their return instructions. But we can't actual the lighter. I've got to be sure this bottle type of cantler. Okay, there goes. One tugging said, you're automall to the light.

26:37 Who If I ever get out of here, I'll write the special dispensation during the energy crosses. I never want to spend another moment in the dark again. What is it say? We could use a better reading life. What's it written? On? Pencil on a handkerchief, dearest Eve's hank light only for one more. Message from you? Air supply failing trapped here, give instructions, expect answer five minutes, pencil and clothed. Can you imagine the twentieth century a little less than twenty feet away and we communicate like a stoney never.

27:18 Mind, at least to communicate. Let's just get them here so we can communicate face to face. It's silly day. You know you can't swim. If anything goes wrong and you panic, I'll at least. Be here, nobody of you here in the dark alone Earth now looked like me. Switch the rope around your shoulders like han't constructed. I know how to handle astling like this. Will you remember? Yes, go on, let's just. Get in and tug. Let's get out of here before my lighter gives out. It's nothing I could have swum it, alonge. I didn't know my present in half a minute.

27:58 Body again, Let's get that swing off and floated back on the bottom of David. Hurry, Harry, I. Think he'll be able to man host you. I think, yeah, you're. A hate I just hope your boyfriend isn't jealous. You mean the thing. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that. It's seventeen eighteen, nineteen, twenty twenty one and she'd be right. On the mark. Now, what's the matter? Hasn't he tug yet? Give him a chance? I hope the lighter hasn't run out of field. But if he can't see it, how can it?

28:39 There's a togue talk, but poor fast. It should be come as easy as that. Something's wrong. He's lost the rope, he's lost the home way. But if something works for that, you work and right the back. Once again, some malign influence interferes in the tantalizing possibility of escape for the four young people whose metal has already been tested unbearably, and for the lovers, the tables are bitterly turned. It seems that it is Eve's turn to mourn David. We'll return shortly with Act three. Instead of David fearing from the tunnel, secure on the rope, there is an empty slain tied to the canteen for afloat, and behind it a boiling spout of frothing water spewing from the narrow opening of the channel like a huge fire hose, reversing the normal current till the opposing forces drive a seizing lake over the floor of the cavern.

30:07 Hey, I think what happened? I don't know. It's that that thing David and I thought after you went in to say the. David said it was some. Sort of a water spot, a guyser fluck floating in. David, help me, help me, bright with Edie. Let me get him, don't let him go. It's all right. The water is washing him shore. He swore a lot of swam. Wing iron I know, life for a handle this and get him on his back. Hand him that's right now, help me pull his jaw forward.

30:47 What's that for? Free his tongue so he didn't drink. Okay, now let's get the water out of his stomach and then we'll set lost up. But what happened, David? The lighter gave up till I sent the light there in the dark, feeling with my hands for the bottle to come through. It's something I felt it, but it slipped out of my hands. And I fell in the water grabbing at the rope. So that must have been the tug I show. And I don't know. I lost the rope and I was floundering and sent me the water began to literally boil all around me. The water.

31:28 Yeah, it lifted me half out of the water and flung me against the arches, and he could knock me up. You've got quite a bruise on your forehead. It's what happened to us? What do you mean? There's some faults. Right below this and everyone and you know enough cold water hits the Morten level way down and you're the professor, Dave. What happened? No, I suppose it forms a steam explosion that blow the whole column of water back up into the small cabin in part of the tunnel. Creates, yeah, sort of a whirlpool. It it's momentarily strong enough to hit the normal cart like a whip tide and drive it back. That I can do.

32:08 I can do better than that. It's a thing that wants to help us. It saves three of our lives already, I. Or at least part of my, thanks to Barbara and mean Hank. And if it hadn't been for David, I'd have ended up a raving maniac in the dark. I guess we all have turned up a little short one way or another, except Hank. I'll say one thing. There's only one best man in the group. So only at your wedding, mister, because Hank is about to exhibit his private white feather. What do you mean, Hank? Well, if we're going forward, there are only two ways to go even and I have looked at the other end of the river here where it comes in, and there's no way out there. How about the plaster there where the light comes from? Ohans to be the best bed only davy old man. That's Shakespeare. Seventy feet up there, and I want to tell you, heights turn my belly to water.

33:08 Even at first twenty foot. Time we made I'd like to die. I didn't dare look down after we got there. So what do we do now? We climb? Just let me look it over now. It shouldn't be too tough. Are you sure you're up to this? Darling? Eva? Tim Me be an egghead, no muscle boy, and I can't swim. But one thing I do know how to do is climb mountains. This one's my baby. Now just let me go over a few points once again, I lead, He follows Bob and then hangs. Oh what if I fall?

33:50 You're on a fling. The rest of us can hold you. And if you don't yet trying to relax, and if you swing back to the wall, grab hold again. But you're not going to fall. To climb, the main thing is don't look down. Just keep your eyes up, and each one follow whatever toe holds or hand holds the one before I used. I'll test each one of them first. Most of the climb. We can follow ledges which I feel. Now face the wall and move sideways. Don't look down, and no hurry, don't anyone try to play hero. If you're tired, let me know and we'll rest. Okay, I'm not worry, darling. I trust your day. So if we don't get started, I may never move.

34:31 Here we go. Half way up. Anybody want to take a rest. I'm all right, let's just keep going. I'm afraid to stop. Next start, it's going to be a little tougher. Hang in and keep your eyes up. Yeah, hold on, anyone, what is it? Hank here tars for me? It's damn it appear me. Now that's better. Now you listen, we only have about sixteen more feet to go. There's a nice wide ledge we can settle on while I spore the chest we're heading for.

35:18 You'll lose your head. You can take all of us with you. Just tell me long to let me. Don't be hank. We're a few feet from getting back in the world. Come on, don't let us hold down. A ride up? Why easy? And just hook your weight forward over the ledge. I can't. I'm stuff now when I do. Get your up there? All right? Now slide yourself back. Against high again.

35:59 I'm over the cannet or it's as flat as a percy. What are you doing? I'm trying the rope. I need it. So it was awful so nothing, wasn't it, darling? What do you mean? That place where the light's coming from is behind that big rock in the ceiling. We can't climb up there. If it take a fly, I can get there doing. Oh, I just need some knots to miss one lariat. Then you see that spur that sticks out, and I toss the noose of the lariat over that, and then I can hiney up the rope and over on top. Of the lock. But you'd swing like a pendulum. If I took off from here without any break. But I'll tie the other rope to this one for a trip line, and the rest of you can let me swing over slowly and steady me as I climb.

36:50 But how do we get across there to join? You see that other spur higher up between us and the rock I'm going for. Yes, After I get across, I'll sling a line over that and secure it. My mind, an you can all swing across like we used to do when we were kids in plate Tarzanna. It's only about ten feet. I don't think I could do it. You've got to, Darling. It's the only chance we have left. Four, Thank you Heaven. I never make it. Did you find the rip? Yes? Does it lead out five? Eventually? It's a sort of wrong timney. Can we climb it?

37:32 Yes? If we were gone when it's wide enough all right one way, but the other it's not over six or seven inches. None of us could get through. Oh no that What can we do, David? There's nothing to do except find don again? Not me, fire my gut. I don't think I have the strength you have a new alias hands Captain. I couldn't make that climb down again either. Okay, we'll do what I told you before. Swing all of you over here. There's plenty of rooms, all of us.

38:17 I got jeve back on good old terror for just like writing down to Eiva. So we all got down easy. How did he's got away? He sort of takes a hitch around himself and he lowered himself down here he comes. Man, oh man, some kind of guy. You're married? Everybody all right, we are a few rope fines. That's all. Sary. I put you through all that for nothing. I wasn't much help, but it was worth our last chance. You have to harp on it. I'm not giving up yet. What else is there to try? Darling faith trapped in God. I don't think he'd put us through all this and not planning to save us.

39:02 He sent me, tried to see what we were made of. Yes, and look at us. We all came through, and none of us is whimpering anymore. Thinking of himself, I still think there's something there, maybe not a childhood picture of the. Thing. What good Lord, what's it coming. Out of the other kind of It's hard to see in his murky life. But it's the thing I knew all along. He didn't mean us time. It's the thing. Wrecking our musters, throwing quite a scare into you, folks.

39:43 Jim Tremble here deep sea Diving and Ocean bed Recovery Incorporated, ex frogman in the Navy. You get a mess of folks mighty. Worry about you on the outside. There's going to be some relief once my boys bring in scuba tanks and gear to get you to the outside there. So let me get him to go ahead. Hellot, Prence tourist, is Jim all four missing persons alive? And well proceeds playing his outline. But how did you find us? Well, sir, My daddy was quite a diver in his day three diving that was not with gear like today, And he always had a notion there was a back way into chalked Off Cave through the underground river, and he found it one day off kipt Off Lake here and I was about sixteen, and he went down and they never came back.

40:40 I wonder if he ever made it to the cave. Oh, no doubt about that, ma'am. After I get out of the Navy, I went down myself with scuba gear and a motor. I fit just like now, and I found my daddy or skeleton. I figure he got down, just holding his breath but trying to make it up again. At that angle, the current was just too strong, and after it got him, it brought him back the rest here. You know. I brung him out and buried him proper, besides him no need. He died doing what he wanted to do. But how did you find us? Well, Hanks, old horse ball. They were smart enough to outstep that landslide, and when he turned up down, hell, oh, folks got alerted, but it wasn't the hope of digging you out, and they sent for me, and I got flown in from San Diego. And that's how I come to scare you. And they're thinking I was that old legend I guess my father started.

41:37 But the thing it isn't a legend, Jim, your father never really died. He was the one that saved him. Deep in the Chunk Talk King, The fountains of hot waters still spout little vortexas swirl. The long double lariat still. Hangs swinging from that high spur, but no living creature will ever enter them again. For even the bats are gone smothered in the first two caverns, where air forever was shut off. Perhaps all that is left is one thing with a small tea now, for it has become the pleasant ghost of a simple, kindly man.

42:39 So for this time a happy ending, And. Let's write the epitaph to this tale of suspense in Milton's words, hence loathed, melancholy of Cerebrus and blackest midnight born in Stygian cave forlorn. For myself, I equate cave with a Latin word spelled the same way, c ave, but pronounced cave. It means beware. Our cast included Marion Zelda's Terry Keane, Michael Wager, Bob Caliban. The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.

43:22 Well, mydea, I feel like we've started the evening quite well. That one. It shook up a bit inside me. Not sure how else to put it. Well, allow me to get more t going in the kettle. I have a feeling tonight's going to be long and dark, but never alone. Oh no, the idea of being alone is a bit absurd, don't you think. No, No, we'll relax now and focus very much on a kind thought.

44:09 And now stay tuned for a program that has rated tops in popularity for a longer period of time than any other West Coast program in radio history, The Signal Oil Program, the Whistler Signal, the famous Go Farther Gasoline. Invite you to sit back and enjoy another strange story by. The Whistler.

45:00 And the Whistler. And I know many things, for I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak. And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler, strange story, kind thought. Grant Adamson leaned back in the heavy leather chair behind the broad mahogany desk set diagonally across the corner of his office, and tried to appear relaxed as he reached for a cigarette, praced it carefully between his lips, and flicked a flame from his cigarette lighter. Inside, he was trembling, his stomach full of sick fear, and he knew the man sitting across the desk from him could see it.

45:56 This was no time to let down the bars. Though he looked past Dave Matthew's shoulder out the window, gazed fondly at the stacks and chimneys that now covered more than an acre of ground Adamson Chemicals in Corporate and all of it, right down to the last paper clip in that shiny mahogany desk at stake, hanging on Dave Matthew's decision. I've got to admit I hardly recognized the old place grant. Yes, Dave, there's been quite a change. Oh, that's putting it by Ala. Nineteen forty six, Adamson Matthews, sixteen employees are one story building on twenty third Street, making ink eradicating. I go off to Japan with the occupation forces, come back five years later, and quite a corporation.

46:45 Quite a change, is right. Well, I've tried to keep the ball rolling. Yes, it seems at this point that I am a very wealthy man. And now I listened, Dave. I tried to make it clear. It didn't make anything clear. Well, I'm referring to the settlement I offered you. I've given a lot of thought, Dave, and I think it's only fair that I let. You buy me out. No, you can't buy me out. Grand, I'm an equal partner and that's the way I want. It's not good sense. Look, Dave, be honest with yourself. You're a small operator. You're all right in a small incorradicated business. But why this is too. Big for you? It was too big for you too, wasn't it?

47:25 Grant meaning what? But you're not really a success a business builder at all. All true, you've preparently come a long way in five years, but you did it because you were able to get to a few opportunities. As unscrupulous as you. Are, I'm afraid I don't understand you. You know you're lucky you've got a partner Grant. After all, someone's going to have to put this business on an honest basis while you're gone. Wow, I'm not going anywhere. You're going to prison. Grand, No, you wait a minute. I didn't just come back. You know, I've been around for five months now putting the pieces together. They make a very interesting picture. Graft, bribery, phony government contracts out now, theft. No business built on dishonesty can have it.

48:14 The last graft. I'm not through. While you're away. I'm going to try and rectify every dishonest deal you've pulled. Oh, don't look so horrified. You're a graft more than that, a plane crook. I've got your signature and a dozen pieces of paper to prove it. Oh, now, look, Dave, you wouldn't do anything to. Me a favor, would you please? For the sake of our old partnership. Don't be appointing hypocrite. What do you mean, Dave? What proof? Oh? The usual stuff, letters, signed memorandums, A couple of affidavits, a set of canceled checks on that highly profitable post gene contract.

48:54 I see, well, Dave, you will give me time to think this over. Nothing to think over it all, but a partnership. Just forget it. I'm not for sale. I've got the proof of your crooked operations in my little brown briefcase. The items I just mentioned will be in the hands of the investigation board in Washington Wednesday morning. I'm leaving tomorrow afternoon on the five o'clock plane. So that's it, Grinned. You build it from nothing, from a small ground floor operation with sixteen employees. You put it together like a magic chemical formula without too much regard for the ingredients and discover that a nation on a semi war footing doesn't always take time to ask questions. And now it's about to explode in your face, isn't it. Ground You know that Dave Matthews can't be bought, and that it'll be all over the moment he walks into that boardrome in Washington, d C.

50:05 You wish you knew some way to stop him. Don't you grant anyway, anyway, any way to stop him? What did you say, mister Adamson. Oh, oh, nothink, Miss Williams. I've just got a lot on my mind. I think you need a vacation. More than I do. Oh yes, that's right. You are going away tomorrow, aren't you. I feel a little guilty about it. There's so much to be done. Oh no, no, no, you rounded, miss Williams. I hope. So, mister Adamson, there's something I wanted to tell you about before I go. Yes, it sounds a little petty, I know, but well, there was a little misunderstanding about who was to take. My place while I was gone. Well I left that entirely empty as well, I know.

50:46 But you see, I suggested Miss Dickens. Oh, she's quite capable, good typist and stenographer. But I forgot all about Miss Preston. Clarence Preston. She's been with us so much longer, and she was a little put out when I didn't suggest her. Well, it doesn't matter the way, Miss Williams. I'm sure she'll get over. She's really very nice. I thought perhaps you would say something to her, I mean, about how important she is in the job she's doing. She'd feel a lot better. All right, I'll take care of it now if you don't. I'm sorry to have bothered you, mister Adamson, but I'll enjoy the trip much more knowing that you'll sort of smooth things over. Yes, Oh, oh, just a minute, Miss Williams. Where did you tell me you were going? Baltimore? Baltimore, that's near Washington, and you're leaving tomorrow.

51:30 Yes, I'm awfully thrilled, mister Adamson. It'll be the first time I've seen my family in five years, going by train. Miss Williams. Yes, sir, I won't give you much time with him, will it. Not a lot, but a few days will still be wonderful. Now, how would you like to fly. Why I couldn't afford that, mister Adams. Is that the only thing that's stopping you? The expense? Well, yes, miss Williams, I've felt for a long time I should do something for you. You've been very capable, very loyal. Not another word. I want you to run right down the railroad office and turn in those train tickets. You're going to fly to Washington, Miss Williams, at our expense, and from there it's just the step to Baltimore.

52:12 Why, mister Adamson, it's a very kind thought. But don't thank me. You've earned it and you better hurry now. But what about say that to me? Oh, by the way, you'll be leaving tomorrow afternoon on the five o'clock Washington plane. Hello reservation clerk please hello, this is Grant Adamson speaking Adamson Chemical Company. I want to reserve a seat on the five o'clock flight to Washington tomorrow afternoon. Mm hmm, that's right. Yes, it's for my secretary. Her name is Williams, Margaret L. Williams. Your kind thought, as Miss Williams expressed, it is something else, isn't it, Grant?

53:06 It has to do with the fact that Miss Williams vacation trip coincides exactly with the trip Dave Matthews is taking to Washington, d C. That you've managed to arrange for them to be on the same plane. And above all, you know now that everything depends on your making sure Dave Matthews never gets there. It's quite late in the afternoon when you stroll into one of the company's chemical laboratories. Well, mister Adamson, glad to see you done here in the plant, Ahi, Donald. I guess I'm just the old fireman running to the fire say you know, Donald, Yes, ite, I'm sick of being a businessman. I get the edge once in a while, you get my hands on a test tube. Smell of Bunson brand. I don't wonder, sir. I think i'd get a little tired of sitting behind a desk too.

53:51 Yes, hey, Donald, why don't you take the evening off? Ritchie? Wait? Quiet, enjoy it. Sir, Yas I'd like to put her around for a few hours. I got a couple of ideas is I want to work out? There's no use in both of us being here. That's nice of you, mister Adamson. Oh, you're sure that your cabinet's all unlocked. Yes, sir, and your equipment's all out. You're sure you don't. Mind being here alone? Oh no, I don't mind. But go to it and help yourself. It's your laboratory after all, Thank you, Donald. I will. The minute Donald leaves, you locked the door and set to work, praying that you haven't lost the skill you used to have as a laboratory chemist.

54:33 Three hours later, you're getting close. Now the distillant, No, that's it, one hundred CC's. Good. Now, the gentatin in a cool little. Now, I think that ought. To do it.

55:13 You'll stop for a minute now, waiting for the gelatine to cool in a thick insulating layer above the yellowish liquid in the bottle, a bottle that you picked from the shelf, about the size of a cologne bottle. Yes, Grant, you were never more sincere in your life when you told yourself that you'd do anything to prevent David Matthews from getting to Washington on that plane. Nothing else matters to you so long as you stop him, not even the lives of Matthews, this, William, the other passengers on the plane, nothing so long as you stop it. The gelatin's cool. Now, grant just the acid on top of it, and your personally constructed time bomb will be ready. That got it, Yes, mister Dave Matthews, this will dissolve our partnership.

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57:19 For sure? Drive into a signal station, fill up with a super fuel that's scientifically engineered to bring out the best in any car of any age signal ethol that is. Well grant. It's the biggest deal you ever tackled in your life. Isn't it your plan to kill Dave Matthews to prevent him from exposing your crooked deals in Washington, deals that can send you to prison. As you lie in bed that night thinking it through again, you tell yourself that it's a gamble. A bomb in an airplane is a fantastic idea, and unless everything goes off exactly on schedule, it might fail. But the moral aspects surrounding the wholesale murder of the other passengers on the plane with a time.

58:16 Bomb doesn't stop you for a second, because that's just. The kind of a mind you have, isn't it grand You've never been concerned with rightness or wrongness, only with the surest, quickest way of getting what you want. And you've made up your mind now that Dave Matthews will never reach Washington with that briefcase and the incriminating evidence against you. It's earlier than usual when you arrive at your office the next. Morning, good morning, mister Adamson. Oh hello, miss Sir Dickens. Sir, Oh, yes, Miss Dickens. Miss Williams told me about your taking her place yesterday afternoon. She's awfully thrilled over your sending her by plane. We had a party last night. She told us all about it.

58:57 I'm glad she's pleased. All. Let's see now we don't on any disappointments. Did the airline people confirm the reservation? Yes, sir, they called a half hour ago, the five o'clock flight this afternoon. I wonder who's singer off a caller for me, william Yes, sir, Hello, Miss Williams, this is mister Adamson. Well, I'm very happy I called to tell you your reservation is made on the five o'clock plane. That's right. How are you getting down to the airport the taxi? Oh that's nonsense. No, no, no, I'll take you down myself.

59:40 No trouble at all. Now that's enough, Miss Williams. I won't hear of it. I'll pick you up at four this afternoon. That's right. Goodbye, Miss Williams. There you are, sir. We can get either the colone or the perfume. I'll take the cologne. You sure this is the largest bottle you have. Yes, sir, I'm sure she'd be quite happy with it. Yes, I suppose you will, all right, and I'd like it gift wrapped. You know, lots of ribbons, fancy stuff. Do you have a wrapping department here? Yes, sir, you can take it over yourself, counter nine.

1:00:22 Thank you, I will. But before you get to counter nine, you step into a telephone booth, take off the tissue paper wrapping in the bottle of cologne, wrap it around the other bottle you've been carrying in your overcoat pocket. The wrapping clerk doesn't give it a second glance, and five minutes later it's done up in fancy ribbons and colored paper, A going away present for Peggy Williams, an extra thoughtful little touch from a kind and generous employer. You glance at your watch. Quarter to four. In a half hour you'll be on your way to the airport. I'm awfully sorry to be taking you from your work, mister Adamson. I know how busy you are.

1:01:05 I get it, Miss Williams. Oh, by the way, here's a little something I picked up this afternoon. It's quite an occasion, you know. Oh, mister Adamson, cologne a little. Oh, mister Adamson, this is too much. It isn't right, all. Right, Miss Williams. So it isn't right. I just think it is. Shall we let it go. At that, mister Adamson. I don't deserve all of this, of course. Now you just enjoy your trip, have fun, and don't you dare open that pretty package to your parents? See? Oh I won't. I wouldn't think of it. But you've been so perfect, mister Adamson that I.

1:01:46 Well, Miss Peggy, really I had no idea. Please don't be angry with me, mister Adamson. I shouldn't have kissed you, I know, but well I'm awfully sanimental. Oh that's quite all right, Peggy. In fact, I er, I'm awfully sorry that you're going away for such a long time. It's such a beautiful package. What kind of coloone is it? Well? I don't know, I forget what it's called. But uh, don't you open it till you get home. I won't. That's a promise, Yes. Grant you're seeing Peggy Williams off on a long trip, a very long trip with your old partner, Dave Matthews.

1:02:32 As the two of you walk into the terminal, you see that Dave has already arrived, sitting with his back toward you reading the paper. Seeing him removes the last twinge of conscience you have regarding Peggy Williams and the other passengers. You glance again at the ribbon package in Peggy William's right hand, knowing that it won't be much longer before the insulating layer of gelatine dissolves, results in a stunning explosion two hours if your calculations were correct, somewhere between six point fifteen and six thirty. As the plane passes into Arizona, you walk up to the ticket counter to check. For the clerk. Five o'clock. He's down. Yes, I'm sorry, sir, that flight's going to be a little late getting off. What'd you say, The five o'clock flight will be late? Well, Holly, it well, we're trying to arrange a six o'clock takeoff.

1:03:21 I'm not sure yet. It's all right, mister Adamson. You don't have to wait with yes, but I do. Peggy. You see, I want to be sure that you'll get off all right. Uh, clerk, you said, six o'clock, I hope so, sir, Yes. So do I. You spend almost an hour with Peggy and the terminal cocktail lounge, running out to the lobby every five minutes to make certain Dave Matthews is waiting for the takeoff, and the check with the clerk. About takeoff time. Knowing that now the time is getting close, that perhaps the thing to do is to grab the package from Peggy's lap and rush out with it, throw it in a vacant field somewhere. But there's still a chance, Grant, you've still a better part of a half an hour, and you're still a gambler. Then at five minutes to six, you check with a clerk and find the plane is taking off in a few minutes. On your way back to the lounge, you decide that despite what the clerk said, there might be further delay, a dangerous delay, that you've got to get the package back from Peggy. When you return to your table, Peggy isn't there now.

1:04:28 Hersh waiter waiter, where did the lady go to? One? I was sitting. She'd be right back, So she she went out to the checkstand, wanted to check the packages that she was carrying, said she. Didn't know how long she'd have to wait, and she was tired of carrying. She checked her packages. Some madager, something wrong. Like twenty one he's found nowloading at eight three. Wait a minute, flight twenty one east found now loading at eight three? Wrong with her? No, no, nothing wrong at all, mister Adamson. Oh, oh you guess what, mister Adamson. There's an old friend of yours making the trip.

1:05:13 No friends to Matthews. I didn't remember him, but he knew me. Oh oh yes, I forgot to mention it too. He was your partner when you first died out, wasn't he Dave Matthews? Yes? Yes, Oh did you? Did you tell him I was here? He said, he's sorry you won't be able to see you. There isn't much time, and he went on board to get his seats together. Oh I see what. That's nice of Dave to do that. But if they're leaving soon, hadn't you better get on the plane. Yes, I just wanted to thank you again, mister Adamson. No one's ever done so many. Nice things for me. Beggar, you mustn't hold him up. Oh, wait a minute, where's the bottle of Colone I gave you. You didn't forget it. You didn't leave it at the checks down, No, mister Adamson. Mister Matthews took it aboard for me.

1:05:54 Oh, that's fine. He's bound like. Peggy. You're houlding them up. You better get out there. I'll hurry goodbye, mister Adamson. All right, you do that, of course, run. Mister Adamson. You won't be angry at me for anything. I know you enjoy doing nice things for people. And when a girl talking about pay, oh. You mean about kissing me? Of course I won't be out. It isn't just that. Please, Now you're making me nervous. Will you get on that plane and let them take? All right? And don't forget to tell Florence Preston I'm sorry. I didn't suggest that the fill in for me while I'm awake. Of course pay I will now, Yes, I'll go. Goodbye, mister Adamson. I'll think of you all the way you're You're the kind of sweetest man I've ever known.

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1:08:05 Well granted long last, Peggy's on the plane happily seated next to Dave Matthews. That's interesting, isn't it grand Like a chemistry equation, each element balancing the other Dave on one side with an important briefcase, Peggy on the other with an even more important bottle. The tension is worse than ever now as you stand at the edge of the parking lot watching the plane taxing to the runway. You'll feel a lot better after the plane gets into the air. When you're sure the unexplained explosion will take place somewhere above five thousand feet and not on the ground where prying investigators might uncover the answer, you glance at your watch. Six fifteen. It should only be a matter of fifteen or twenty minutes now. The plane finally turns around in a half circle into the wind. The pilot guns the engines for a few seconds, and then the plane rushes down the runway.

1:08:59 Toy. They're off grant and you are certain you've won, Yes, sir, or the blue Cadillac on the second line. Here's my ticket, Yes. Sir, I'll bring it around for you. As you drive out of the parking lot, you find yourself wondering how far away you'll be when the explosion occurs, and then realize that by now the plane carrying Dave Matthews and his evidence against.

1:09:42 You probably been blown The bits. It won't hurt to take the long way home. You have all the time in the world. Now you turn off the busy highway and onto a quiet country road. Too bad about Peggy. Wasn't it. You'll have to think of something nice to say about her when the news breaks. She was so thoughtful, so innocent as she sat there beside you this afternoon when you gave her the cologne bottle. You drive idly along the open road for about ten minutes, and then glance over at the empty seat where something catches your eye. A note into the seat.

1:10:22 Wow. Listen, dear mister Adams. I didn't want to ask you about this because I thought it might hurt your feelings. I know you enjoy giving things and want people who receive them to enjoy them too. Please don't be angry, but I am still worried about having hurt Florence Preston's feelings. When you speak to her, would you give her the bottle of cologne? I fibbed a little when I said, mister Matthews took it aboard the plane because I wanted Florence to have it. I put the bottle in the glove compartment of your car, or wait a. Minute, no, no, Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil program the Whistler each Sunday night at the same time. Signal Oil Company has asked me to remind you this week is Public Schools Week and you are invited to visit your community schools. Your interest and support of public education are the best guarantee of a sound public schools system. Featured in Tonight's story where Bill Foreman,

1:11:58 Joseph Kerns, billbo Marty Margetz, Nancy Cleveland, and Herbert Litton. The Whistler was produced and directed by George w Allen, with story by Joel Malone, music by Wilbur Hatch, and was transmitted to our troops overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service. The Whistler is entirely fictional, and all characters portrayed on the Whistler are also fictional. Any similarity of names or resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Well, it certainly feels more chilling than I would have expected, especially at this time of year, even at this late of an hour. Don't worry, the fire will not be going out. I'll keep it burning hot. So hot. It almost feels dangerous. Oh no, no, no, don't worry about that your concern at all. I wouldn't let anything happen to you. I wouldn't let anything bad happen, not in my own.

1:13:08 Home. No, no, no, unacceptable. After all, what do you think? I am? The brute? Getting impatient for baseball diseasing to start, have a touch of spring fever. I want to get away from it all. We offer you escape. You are a mid ocean I bought a drink ship. Already nine men have died. And do you know that some malignant forces aimed at you from which you cannot escape.

1:14:05 Escape designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure. Tonight we escaped on the North Atlantic in the year nineteen hundred and to a sailing ship whose very name struck dread in sailor's hearts. As Joseph Conrad told her in his famous story The Brute, you could never tell it just by looking at her, proud and strong and beautiful on the outside, you couldn't see the black heart inside of her, and you'd never know she'd killed at least a dozen men and maybe more. But I knew, he knewer for the murdering she devil she was other day she killed her first one, and I was there too when she finally made her big mistake and killed the wrong person. But that was a long time later.

1:15:10 Well. She had a name, all right, but after that first day, her first killing, nobody with the family ever used it again. Everyone else from that day on would look at her half afraid and half snarling, and they called her the brute. Wow. I remember I was fourteen the day my father took me down to the South Thames Boatyard to watch the launching of the ship. My brother Charlie was there, of course, eight years older than me, and very proud of his one gold stripe now that he'd be made enough sir. On the app's line, Charlie and father were talking. I just stood and listened to the moon. Didn't say much of anything myself. Look at her, Dad, ever seen a ship in your life with lines like that? I'll bet you all out to any clip on the China trade.

1:15:59 Oh that remained to be seen. Charlie, how soon are they going to launcher any minute? Now? I give a lot to be saitting on her instead of on the Malcolm Aps. Oh, the Malcolm's a good chip soun as good as ship as into the Apps family owned. So I'm not kicking bet enough to be through apprenticeship and get my commission. But even at that, I'd almost rather be a boson on this ship than play had made on the Malcolm. I stand at Colchesters to be her captain. Yes, that's right, I always commanded with the absent sun's lime. Look at the size of her dad, she's a full two thousand tons less. Half a time, Charlade, Well, good morning, mister Jermy and mister Wilmot hello, need how do you do sir? No child Lee. She came to one thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine and a half when we measured the room.

1:16:41 Now two thousand tons or not, mister Jermy, you never build a better ship than this one. I don't know, Charlde, I built it the way mister Opps was dead. She's big and she's stout, but. I don't know. And what's your reason for saying that? So no reason that makes any sense by the devil's own time with her, Kevin do gemming when they shouldn't edge covers that wouldn't fit after they'd been measured up blocks fell in for no reason at all. I don't know, mister Willimits, but if she were a human being, I'd say that maybe she's insane. Oh come now, you've been working too hard, mister Germany. Better take a vacation now that she's finished. Well could certainly, I say, let's make a contest up there the captain's niece.

1:17:24 Is she going to do the christening? That's right, Telly, And I'd better get down below. Now my own men are going to knock the stays loose and let her slide down. Into the water. Mister Germans, come on board with the celebration. Office is launched. Bring the boy, why and thank you? We should be there and let it go any minute now, Dad, I'm going to sail on that ship someday. Oh you probably sail on a lot of Apps Line ships before you through Charley. Look, look they give them back the champagne. Now she's going to Chris. Listen the family. Yep, so nay, what plaids she started to do?

1:18:06 There? She goes, So look at that speed. I never saw it, damn it. Look out, good lord, if he ready for the ways and he she went over him. He didn't fall. A timber rolled off the deck and knocked him under. She said, right over him, mister Jermyn, the man who built her. She was lunched in blood. If that means anything, she's a brute and the murders. Now, Charley, still. Think you'd like to sail Honna. There's an accident that doesn't mean anything. Perhaps not. I'll sail on her some day, sooner or later, I will sail Honor. Well, the way things worked out, I was the one to say on her first, instead of Charlie. He'd gone out to the orient of all the Malcolm. And six months later, when I started my apprenticeship, I found the company had assigned me to report to Captain Colchester on the Apps Family or the Brute, as everybody was calling up privately.

1:19:04 There some kind of mix up of the sailing orders, and. By the time I came on board, the tug already had a line on the big sailing ship and was starting to ease her stern first out into the channel. All right, now, keys a heaven, pack up the slap. Captain Colchester was at the taffrel shouting orders to the tug. Captain and the mates were forward somewhere handling the check line. You've got the slap now all away. I stood to the waist, waiting for a chance to report in, and watching a young fellow about my own age was doing something or another upper loft on the mismast above me. The tug had drawn the line out, taught, but the ship hadn't started to move yet. You have not no way yet. While I engine up to four speed. The tug was churning the water to fourth and the houser was tight as a bowstone, but we still didn't move up. Then suddenly the ship gave a lurch and started back like a bucking horse. The men foreted no chance to ease the kit check tack table, and a second later had snapped the ship t don beck and then sheered off to bring on the smash against the pier head that knocked me sprawling on the deck. End of that moment, the lad who's been working aloft on the mouse crashed down onto the deck not ten feet away from me, and he lay there without moving.

1:20:14 Give a hand up here on my wais straight. Young Hawkins just fell out of the tops. Hey, that's too bad. See is he dead? Captain? Colchester. He's dead. Boy, you get a hold of yourself. Don't stand at trembling. You never seen anybody die before, Yes, sir, on the day they launched this ship, Jeremy and Eh, you're a young ned woman, I suppose the new apprentice. Yes, sir, no doubt you may have heard this ship called by an unpleasant name once in a while, Yes, the Brute. Well, you'll be kind enough to remember why you are born. That her name is the Apse family, and she's had her share of accidents, the same as any other ship. Is that quite clear? Yes, sir, I get along forward with you and stow your gear away on the folks who you'll take over, young Hawkins dude for the tiv Yes, sir.

1:21:09 I sailed aboard the Brute for the next four years and watched her kill nine men during the time. We got so we tried to outguess her, try to figure out how she'd do it the next time. But no matter what we think, we never were right. And it wasn't only the killing, it was everything. Most ships have little ways all their own, and. You'll learn about him and allow for him. Ah, but not her. She was like a crazy woman. You never knew what she'd do next. I remember once off the Gold Coast, she ran before a gale for two days as pretty as you please, and then broached to twice the same afternoon, flung the helms and clean over the wheel the first time, and the second time swamped herself fore and aft and split out every stitch of canvas. And after we got the decks cleaned up, we found one seaman overboard. He was her fifth I guess it was, or maybe the sixth.

1:22:07 Oh. She was beautiful. The Apps family was big and proud and beautiful, and along with it a killer, a black hearted sea going brute. My brother Charlie was on the China run all that time, first on the Malcolm and later on the Lucy Apps, but we never happened to hit pot on the same time. Finally, the time of my apprenticeship was up. We boomed into London. At the end of the trip. I went before the board of my papers. I guess they. Figured anybody who could stay alive for four years on the Brute must be a seaman. Anyway, I passed, and mister Apps handed me my sailing orders along with the commission.

1:22:54 I was assigned as third mate to Captain Colchester on the Apps family. Well, congratulations, and I'm glad you've got to stay with us. Thanks Captain Colchester. You've had a hard work and apprentice, and I have no doubt what you'll be a good officer. In fact, we have a man on board who'll make sure of that. Why but what do you mean, Kepner got a new first mate in this trip? Come in, Charlie, Charlie. Well, hello, they youngster. I say you've been doing a bit of growing the last five years. Charlie. I didn't even know you were in port In for a week down country there, I hear you fool the board. Careful man, you're talking about your own third mate, so they tell me, and you'll be jumping lively on this trip. Meybor, easy, easy, don't forget.

1:23:40 I know this ship and you. Don't, and I'll learn it quick enough. Been wanting the chance for a long time. And between us, I think we can even break this jinx. Lad, So we don't talk of a jinx in this trip, at least not in the cabin as long as Maggie's going along. Maggie, who's Meggie? Ask your brother? I think he's the one who talked her into the trip r She claims it's for her healthy. I'll leave you two to get acquainted. Will be about ten days loading if you've got any plans. What's he talking about, Charlie. Who's Maggie? His niece, Maggie Colchester. You remember her, the girl of christened the ship? Oh course, Holy well, he's not dead. I told you where I've been spending short leaves for the last year and a half. No, Charlie, I didn't know anything about it. Well, and let me show you something.

1:24:25 Yeah. Now, if I have my way, Maggie be wearing this before the trip's over. Yeah, take a look by me. That's all right. Yes, I bought it in Cape Town. It's a blue white diamond set in platinum. Is it big enough to go on her finger? Oh? It's big enough, all right. That's where it's going if I can talk her into it. And who's going to talk who into Charlie? Uh, Maggie. I was saying that I hoped I could talk you into going ashore for dinner with me. Ohwere you now, you big liar? Oh, Maggie, this is my brother Ned Ned this is Maggie. And are you into the officers too. I'm the new third mate, realized, lead me help you all more truthful than your brother.

1:25:07 Maggie's invitation to dinner, I am accepting with a pleasure. See you vote later. But now, Charlie, she's lovely and she's more than that, Ned, she's everything as far as I'm concerned. In that case, good luck. I hope you get her and we'll see about that anyway. With Maggie board, we've got to make sure this jink ship stays on good behavior for once. It'll be the first time if she does, when it's the first time we've had both the Wilmot's on board together her. We'll tame her down. Ned, we'll make a calm and peaceful as an old ware cars. Just you wait and see if we don't. Ah.

1:25:52 And the strange part of it was he was right. We stood out past Gravesend and made the passage to the China coast in one hundred and twenty one days of her finest weather you could ever hope to meet, and for the first time in her bloody life, the old ship settled down and sailed herself as meat as you please. Charlie and I have talked about it. Sometimes when Maggie wasn't around, he'd always laugh and say, the brute knew when she'd met her match, but she didn't dare try to buck the two of us. Well. I was more ready to give the credit to Maggie to think maybe she'd charmed the old murderers away. She charmed all the rest of us. From the second day out, Maggie was the secret darling of every man on board.

1:26:35 She was all over the ship, here, there, and everywhere, with red tam and her bright blue eyes, never still a minute, and having the time of her life. If she'd come along for her health, she'd found it. Before we passed Gravesend, we raised the storm on the passage back and ran four days in a heavy gale. I stood by and held my ready for anything, and nothing happened. The old lady EPP's family held up her head and sailed along like a sea gull. Any time before she'd have buried her gunnelle in the quartering seas, But now all the water she shipped you could put in a teacup.

1:27:17 One hundred and nine days from Hong Kong, we raised the dungness light, and early the next morning picked up a tug off sheered us from the long tow up river to London. The ship followed along on the toe line like a puppy on a leash, and we moved slowly up the river past Graves End. All of us were glad to be home, but Maggie most of all, I think, because she'd never been at sea so long before. I had to smile at the way she danced around on the bows, picking out one landmark after another as we came to them, sometimes standing up on the spare anchor we'd taken in on the fore deck in order to get a better look at the river banks ahead. She wasn't wearing the ring yet, but I knew she was going to. It was only teasing Charlie as long as possible.

1:28:04 What's wrong? Ned A tug stopped her engines, so lesien up ahead in the channel. Charlie, looks like a yawl and a schooner fol together. Yes, Oh, looks like they're cutting it up now. Guess we can move again a couple of minutes. Maggie, why don't you go on the after deck. You're on the way upward there. I'm all right, Charlie, stop worrying. We're almost better. Save your orders for the crude Charlie. She ranks you take orders from her any day. Yes, we are almost town ned, we've had a lucky voyage. Who's the first halfway peaceful trip I've ever made in the old brute. I told you we'd tam her down. She's turned over a new leaf. Ned, it won't last long if she keeps on shearing off there and drifting back down the channel. Yes, we're heading strength for those fishing smacks.

1:28:54 Better have the tug. Start up and held a todd line on her. I've seen her do this before. A Hi the tug, take up the slack and get us straight in the channel, hold it against the current. Any other ship would have held s teddy for the two or three minutes we stopped budding mouthed the old Rapp's family. And now when the tug tightened up in the halls are pulling at an angle across her bows, she wouldn't respond, wouldn't budge. The old girl wanted her own way. She was just as stubborn as ever. Oh, hoiler tag, we're still drifting up and up to full speed. Come fonder. When I saw a ship back like this. The heavy howser was pulled so tight it was humming and tugs pedals with her engines full, whipped up the water like a mill race.

1:29:41 And then it happened. The heavy towing chok tore loose from the deck. The hauser began sliding across the bow, ripping out rails touches like magsticks. And my heart was going to sleep under the tips of the spare anchor, the anchor that Maggie was standing on. Maggie, get off the ancle, look at. She tried to jump clear, but she was too late. The great anchor had tipped up in its side, cast her about the waist like a monster's arm of steel. It had carried her with it and swung down and over and smashed against the side of the ship. She went into the water. Take charge of the deck net. I'm going after ned, was that Maggie. Yes, so she's she's overboard, Captain courtester, Maggie. Oh, the dirty, murdering brute. Now it's woman she's killing. Let go the port all the say yes, I cut the bottle her. I hadn't told Charlie, and I didn't say anything about it to Captain Colchester. But I stood there and I knew it wasn't any use, because I'd seen the way the heavy anchor had carried her over and then swung in to smash her against the bow before it dropped her into the water, and I'd seen the way that water beneath the bow was.

1:30:51 All colored red. They found her at. Late afternoon, and the tide turned and she floated clear of one of the mooring boys, and the next morning we tied up in the London docks. The men had been happy at coming into their home pot, but now they remembered how she'd been happy to their own darling. I'd never before seen a cruel leavership so quietly, and some of them, when they reached the wharf, turned back and cursed her under the breath. Finally, it was only Charlie and I alone on the quarter deck, and Captain Colchester was below somewhere in the cabin.

1:31:39 She never wored mid. Ring, She never wore she would have, Charlie. I know she meant too. She was just having a little fun with you, that's all. But all of a sudden board, Why did the brute have to go over, Maggie? Why I guess there's not much answer for that. She was everything I wanted everything. Yes, Charlie, I talked to him making the voyage. It's my idea. It's no good, Charlie, this kind of thinking. I guess you know that I don't know. She's everything I wanted. Charlie. Over here, Captain, I'm going ashore. The ship keepers come aboard now. The two of you were free to go whenever you're like. Thank you, Sir Charlie, I am nothing.

1:32:27 I'm resigning command in the morning. I'll never sit foot on board her again as long as I live. I feel the same way, sir. Well come into the company office in a day or two and sign out for the log. Good day, gentlemen. Charlie, we better go ashore too. We're down here. Yes, I suppose we are learrange to have our gear picked up later. There's no use of the captain, miss Tim but good yarda'm off. The mainmast fell right behind him. I have met me a veteran room, and that was your last time.

1:33:10 That yard was made fast at Dunkenness and now falls out of the top. So with the ship lying still at the wall, Yes, Charlie, come on, let's go ashore. I wasn't the devil satisfied for one trip? So now way of stopping her? How many waters you want to kill? Charlie, mad, bake me home? Oh. Charlie was ten years older by the time we reached home, and it was two weeks before he'd do anything more than sit in his room and stare at the wall saying nothing. Captain courch Haester carried out his threat and resigned from the company the morning after we docked, and I filed my application for a transfer. The App's family was reloaded and ready to sail, but she stayed on lying at the wharf. There's nobody to take her out.

1:34:04 And that's the way things stood for two weeks until one morning a bombshell dropped, Ned, Sharlie. I wondered where you went this morning, and I left the house hearder, how do you feel fine? Ned? Mister Apps tells me you replied for the chansfer another ship. Well, ye, yes, I did. As a matter of fact, you saw Man Apps as I stopped in the office this morning. Ned. It's up to you, of course, but I hope you'll change your mind another chance. The ship says tomorrow morning Oh, so they finally found somebody crazy enough to take her out.

1:34:52 Yes, they did. Me. You you're going to skip of the brute, that's right, Ned, But I it's a short voyage north Atlantic run. You're awfully glad to have you along, somebody I can depend on. If she like signing on again, Charlie, of course, it's up tune, all right, Charlie, I'll sign on again. Be glad. We boomed out past the Sheerness light and headed off, hugging a. Lee shore in a stiff breeze. The ship drove herhead as steady as a barge, with scarcely a roller or quiver. But in spite of the smooth and easy way she handled, I couldn't help feeling uneasy.

1:35:41 I could sense the black spirit of her brooding somewhere down inside, mocking and taunting us with her bloody memories and waiting for a new chance. By nightfall we were running hard in along the Kettening coast, where those rocky headlands break at intervals out of the shelving sandy beaches. The onshore wind hells steady in our quarter, and the sun sank down behind the land some three miles away. It wasn't quite full dark yet. When Charlie sent for me, I came up to where he was standing alone near the wheel. Is that you need a right Charlie?

1:36:23 Person said you wanted to see me? Yes, I did send for your nd. I said, here shoguards close to the wind. I've been standing here thinking about Maggie Ned, and she scrambled around over the decks, making friends with everybody, having the time. Of her life. Charlie, you've got to stop it. I'm all right. I like to think about her. It's this ship and all the memories around it. It's what I was afraid owner. It's all right, Ned. I want you to take charge of the crew and give an order. Of course you'll question them, but you'll carry it out anyway. Do you understand what's what's the order?

1:37:05 Charlie? Have all hands prepared to abandoned ship? Why? There's nothing wrong, mister Wilmot. It is not an officer's place to question an order by the captain. You'll lose your tourne. Yes, you can give me order now, mister Wilmot. Charlie, I can't let you very well. Captain. All hands on deck stand by, boats repair abandoned ship. All right, the helmsman, find your place in the boats. I'll take over the wheel. Sir. You don't know what you're doing, Charlie. We are in no danger. There's no reason to abandon ship. You're always in danger about this black hearted brute. I put on the quarter now you can get the boats in the water once you yield. Sorry, on steady, going on the quarter, busy on all right? Now we shouldn't have any trouble running ashore of that beach there at the side.

1:38:08 Hey, what about you. I'll hold a steady until everybody's clear. You better go over the side your boat standing there. Oh no, not until you do. I'm staying with you, Charlie. You'll be a full ned. I'm doing this alone, No, Charlie, number, I'm here. Mister Wilmot. You will abandon the ship and take charge of the boats in the water. And that's an order, Charlie, I can't, mister Wilmot, very well, Captain, then suspirit lad and who by orders and step lively. You'll be a seaman yet, good luck name, Thanks Charlie. Stand by for you in the boats. Ran Bang.

1:38:51 I slipped over the gunal and dropped down into the boat that trailed along the side on a line from the rail. I'd hardly hit the bottom of the line. Second I knew Charlie had cut us loose in the ship. He was alone on her now alone in the night sea with a black brute. Look sir, look he's laid it over away from the wind. Charlie put the helm over hard, with a terrible shudder of her dark sails and a smother of white foam from her bows. The great ship heeled about in a sharp turn, and then began to drive ahead like some mad thing before the wind, straight before the wind, and straight toward the shore. Look, sir, the rocks on the headland. She's going to smash herself. Faster and faster. She plunged her head through the weltering seas, faster and faster, on the back of the gale, while the black hearted spirit of her screamed in the rat line.

1:39:35 Look, what are the name of heavenything I go to do? And now for one long instant she hung poised at the top of a plunge, and then drove, smashing downward onto the We stood by as close as we dared for three hours while the killers ship pounded us up to bits in the surge in the sea. But we didn't find my brother Charlie. And from the first minute I knew we wouldn't because just before I'd left the ship, there by the home, in the light of the binnacle lamp, I'd seen the thing he was holding, clenched tight in his hard brown fist. It was a tiny platinum ring set with a blue diamond.

1:41:18 Escape is produced and directed by Norman MacDonald and Tonight Brought You The Brute by Joseph Conrad, adapted for radio by Les Crutchfield, featuring Dan O'hurleahey as Ned Wilmot and Eric Rolf as Charlie Wilmot, with Nina Cowden as Maggie, Jeff Corey as Captain Colchester Wilms, Herbert as German, and Parley Bear as the Father. Music is conceived and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. Next week. You will find the remote hill country of Afghan Pot in an ambush by the fierce Patroon tribes, in a hopeless fight from which there seems no escape.

1:42:16 You like the team. It's my favorite blend. It's soothing and worn, but there's something cold about it. I'm not sure how else to describe it, but I've never been very good with words at all, although obviously I do appreciate thing very much. As I take another sip, I can't help but attempt to wrap my mind around what is this sensation that I get when I when I sip at this elixir of comfort. I suppose it's a wave of terror.

1:43:11 And now mystery come in. Welcome. I'm E. G. Marshall. She is an incredibly imposing figure, Queen Liliolani, last of a pure line of Polynesian royalty. Save for the handsome sun, she faces nearly eye level to eye level, although Danny Makahini.

1:43:53 Is well over six feet. Always a woman of Amazonian proportions, middle age has blown her to gargantuan size and girth, and her anger and emotion is as monumental as. The rest of her. Marry A Howley, I'd as soon see you. Dot Come on, mother. It's the twentieth century and Hawaii is a state, not a monarchy. The Polynesian and the American Indian are two of a kind, two civilizations pirated, their lands, raped and stolen, their countries plundered, and their people sold into virtual slavery. You should be running for the Senate. I should be making powder and cleaning my gun. For of all the howlies on this island, the most repressive imperialist surrogate king is Carter Bradley and my son who married his daughter only over my dead body.

1:44:47 Mother, I've never seen you like this. You're always so reasonable. Are betrothed through Turnina. We haven't really seen each other for over seven years. She's more like a little sister to me. I know more than you do, my son, For all your doctor's knowledge, I beg you not to tempt fate. The gods have been angry enough for years, and my inner senses tell me what you plan will bring a great auru wife down upon us. I see a raging disaster already set in being that no human being can stop.

1:45:28 Our mystery drama Wave of Terror was written especially for the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and stars Paul Hect and Carmen Matthews. When she mentioned disaster, Queen Liliolani could not have sensed the extent of the Holocaust, which was to change so many lives, for at the moment she spoke out of some alluvial fault in the Great Alaskan Ridge. The earth billed from its guts like a volcano, throwing up great mountains of lava, displacing trillions of tons of water that formed a great tidal wave traveling unnoticed beneath the surface, rushing southward at a speed of up to five hundred miles an hour, towards the first land mass in its.

1:46:22 Way, the Islands of Hawaii. Two days earlier, Danny Makahemi and Liz Bradley had gotten off the plane from the States at Hilo Airport. Danny tall nut brown, Liz a blue eyed sun bronze, typical California girls. God and goddess with a special shine, the shine of love. But despite the message of their eyes and their faith and assurance, the homeland has brought them a cloud of uncertainty.

1:47:04 I'll manage somehow, Danny. God's tough, but I can usually break them down. So is Mother. I wish I felt as sure of her. She has a genius for getting her own way. It's a habit of royalty, and we're both children of royalty. Only yours is for real, so is yours? Mine is just tradition, But yours is forced mageur. Mother is a queen my birth. Your father wears his crown by only half of Hawaii. What makes me unhappy is that I can't bring you the kind of world you're used to, which is only one of the strikes against me as far as your father is concerned. Now, don't start that bit again. So you are cannot come. I'm a holy So. What in this day and a it's nothing stateside here in the Hawaii.

1:47:48 What's the difference where. The ones getting married? Supposing they don't give us their blessing? It's up to you and me, isn't it, Oh, honey, of course, except. Maybe I'm still part heathen for all without my mother and your father's blessing. I have a. Now, for all my liberal arts education in medical school, I still can't explain it with. Anything but a Hawaiian Polynesian word. I have a mayor, mayor. That's just plain superstition. No, it's it's an uneasy feeling. But if it has an explanation, it goes away. Big difference. Welcome home, darling. We're borrowing trouble. Let's just go home and face up to our parents, and maybe there won't be either.

1:48:31 I only want to make it as easy for them as it is for us. I love you, and I love you. It's as simple as that, So just kiss me a short goodbye, your big worry word complain? Did I have to be asked? What is it? First rift in the loop? Your ex rival, doctor Peter Hughes is heading. Straight for us. How do you get through customs? The Bradley name the key that opens all doors? Money? Dad, isn't he will? He's probably too busy reigning. Isn't that what a king does all day? Elizabeth? Danny, Hello, what's the matter with Dad?

1:49:12 Not a thing? Then? Why isn't here to me? He got tied up in some business? Am I such a bad substitute? Of course, not the feeling. I was something of a letdown, by the way, Danny, Queen Lily Alani, and that exquisite intended of you as tallamina waiting for you outside? Oh, I'd better make tracks. Mother doesn't like to be kept waiting, and I better get Elizabeth into the helicopter. Mister Bradley is a little impatient himself. Will I be hearing from you tomorrow, Liz? I hope tonight.

1:49:52 I didn't particularly know you knew Danny mcaheoney. Ohly since I went to college on the Mainland. You seem to have made up for lost time. What does that mean? I'm not blind. I saw that I was going to say farewell kiss, but I don't think that quite characterizes it. However, I don't want to talk about Danny right now. I want to talk about what you're avoiding. What is it about Dan? You're quite right, it's a subject I wish I could avoid. He's sick. What's the matter? Is it is hot? No, it isn't anything necessarily fatal for a long time. But but what well?

1:50:32 I would give anything not to be a doctor, or I have been one these past few months because I have known that that magnificent body was letting him down. It's only a shell. Now what do you mean don't let him know? I told you, But it can't be hidden much longer. Your father has Parkinson's disease? Oh my god? Does that mean he's going to die with care? What medication we know has some results in the normal conditions. No, but there are plenty of symptoms, none of which your father is going to be able to bear. What symptoms in your father's case, mostly muscular trembling of the hands, dropping things unconsciously, a rigidity which will inevitably cut down on his normally superactive lifestyle. A mock decrease in his muscular control.

1:51:22 Oh no, oh, that can't happen to dad. What can we do to help? Some drugs, a fortunate remission, and the disease. Sometimes most of all, trying to avoid emotional excitement and fatigue. Welcome home. I had to tell you, especially since. Do I stop now? I love you, Elizabeth. I'm too old for you, but just the same, I know you're in love with Danny mcehemy if you want to tell your father so, I'm trying very hard to be as objective as a doctor ought to be. I don't know what any of our futures are destined to be, but I do know that your father's life not necessarily death, but his life is probably in your hands at this moment.

1:52:13 And from your audience, what's the matter? Don't like me anymore? I love you Tew as a little sister. I always have and I always will, but to no meaning of blue out Yes, Tower Mina, and I am ashamed. Please, I know you want to marry the only girl. I can't help myself, little sister. I love her. The queen will never alive. I need Carter Bradley's consent more than I do my own mother's. And if you do not get it, and to hell with the past, we will buy our own.

1:52:56 Future and nothing and no one can stop us. Blisbel Daddy. You can't know how good it is to see you find Damn you more beautiful than ever, and you look just. Like your mother. What do you do? I'm stealing a patron peacebook, but I think I deserve it because it looks like Beth did when I married her. I'm going to carry you over the threshold back home again. Dad, You shouldn't. Why not. I'm not such a little girl anymore. Oh nonsense, Light as a feather, which is just what you are, the proudest feather I wear in my cap. Damn, I'm sorry, Lizabeth, did I spill? No, Dad, I came a cropper of a new Stori and I've been breaking in my arms a bit stiffer.

1:53:53 You're right, Oh, now you're home. Oh. I have a few bruises here and there, but I can shake him off the moment I see you and Pete happily married. Now you're graduated, Let's make it soon. I'll give the girl a chance to catch her breath. Why were you I wouldn't grab a while again, only when Liz wants me. Now, don't tell me I. Said something out of line, typical of me. Tried a rush thing, and this damn hand is bothering me. Tonight we can talk it all out tomorrow. I can't tell you how good it is to have you home and wire again, sweetheart. I've been waiting to get back myself.

1:54:34 It's a cold old house without your mother. You are my one hope. For a while it was future And how boy, is a lot of responsibility to put on a daughter's shoulders. Not since I have no son left, I know you won't fail me. So this is where you've been hiding. No to young lovers, Danny. You should not have stolen Tower men away from the feast. I was the one to need to speak to Danny alone. Thanks Talbot. I can't speak for. Myself, and there are too many words in the world. Let us just thank the gods for what little we have.

1:55:17 We are a dying race, Lisson, but still a proud one. You and Town can keep us alive. And I thank all and and ta Aura that the moment is almost. He almost here. You're a doctor now. Now the wedding ceremony need wait no longer. I have said it for the full moon the night after to month. Mother, Mother, Tower Mina, and I will not be wet tongue. Is this your week? I no, but don't stumm a girl and sommy I. Will answer you. Mother. I love Tao as a little si to. But I will marry Elizabeth Bradley.

1:56:05 The daughter of Carter Bradley, the Holy Yes. Mother, never, I'm sorry, I must. We are in love. He won't let you. How can he stop us? Then I will if I have to call on all the ancient gods. Please, Mother, I no longer believe in magic a Louis or any superstitious curse that could harm me or Liz. No curse or any magic to harm the girl. I have no power for that or second sight. But I tell you this, if you marry this holy girl, if you tie your life to Carter Bradley's daughter, you end my LuFe. My death will be on your head and hers I can smell it in the wind.

1:56:49 If you insist in the words of the missionary, you will reap the whirlwind. Queen Liliolani could have had no specific foreknowledge of the holocaust in store. Carter Bradley, absolute. Monarch, whose magnificent physique is betraying him, and whose weakness will lead him back to old sins. None of our. Characters can yet know the cataclysm of nature which is to affect their lives. I shall return shortly with that two.

1:57:39 The great shelf of sub ocean land that lies off the Aleutian chain of islands is still intact. It is some forty eight hours still before the Titanic undersea explosion will render asunder and. Create a wave that will rise towering to. Ninety feet twenty to thirty feet above the great Mansion at Wailua, which spreads. Along the coral cliffs, looking northward to the. Vast Pacific and the coming terror an a La Nai, facing away from the ocean. Carter is just finishing breakfast, as Liz joins him, Well now it seems more like home again.

1:58:20 Morning, doesn't Dear morning, Dad? You know I've been sitting here snorting as impatient as the old war horse I am, but I couldn't wait I've finished breakfast. I'm waiting for yours. No, no doubt. Please, it's a matter of princess. You don't feel well. I wish you wouldn't call me back. Princess. It's my old name for you, what I always called you. You you don't feel well. I'm tired, Dad, long trip, changing time. Well you should have slept longer. How about some copy? No, no, thanks, nothing for the moment. We have things to talk about, Well, of course.

1:59:03 We have, but I sort of thought we'd keep that for lunch, and Pete will be here. And don't you think he ought to be part of it? No, Dad, I don't. I only that's so fair, Princess, all right if you prefer it Elizabeth. Oh why I can't use the old name. It doesn't fit me. Dad. It's not what I am. On these islands, and particularly this one's what you are at the very least. If we were to ride the monarch here way up to the top, you could turn and look north, east, west, and south, and every bit of land you saw would. Be yours, or we'll be some day. Are you so sure that I own it?

1:59:49 It's mine, along with a few other things. When I'm gone who else would it be except yours and Pete's. I don't really know. I'm not sure it's that important to me. What would happen if I didn't marry Pete didn't? What are you talking about? Would the Bradley Ranch still be mine and all that goes with it? If I didn't? Who else would you marry? I didn't expect you off so early, my son. After the long trip and.

2:00:32 The lure, it was a perfect morning for surfing. When the sun rose, I saw those easy rolling four foots, and I grabbed my board and. Took off, happy to be home again in your own lane. Yes, in a sense, heading across those waves out there gave me back not only my sense of balance, but just my own plain, good sense. I'm happy to hear that. Then today we don't follow. That's up to you you. My doubts are all gone. I would hope that you tell me you are talking about Tauarmina. Yes in part, yes, you will marry her. Mother listened to me. I know your pride in race, in bloodline, your struggle to make sure.

2:01:16 That it won't die. But when I left Hawaii to go to UCLA, I was eighteen. Tao was ten eleven years old. We made the promises, we took. The vows, but Tao was too young to know what was involved. I believe then, as you do still, that our heritage and our race must be preserved. But I don't any longer. You are a Polynesian prince. No, I am a citizen of the world, mother, a doctor, race, creed, color, nationalism. Nothing matters to me but that the human body is one and the same thing. The body made strong or weak by exercise and usage, the brain the same by education or lack of it.

2:01:58 So you will not marry? How are Mima? No you think Carter Bradley will share your views accept you as his son in law. I don't know. I'll find that out today. But if he doesn't. We are both of age. Mother, he can't stop us. I wouldn't be too sure of that. And what about me? I want you to meet miss Mother. I think you'll change your mind. I will meet her, but I shall not change my mind. And what will you do? Then? Meeta? First, before we come to that decision, when I'll take the jeep into town and call her. Then I'll drive to waya Lua, get her and bring her back.

2:02:38 You're wasting your time. I hope not, because I love you and I want you to love her too. I'll be back by mid afternoon. Great, honey, help me, help me make my son see that our race shamed and despoiled and buying out, does that new life ready into it? Only Makaheemi and power Mina can do it. She's a princess in her own right. Help me, Connee, help me or the smell of doom that comes to me on the wind from the north will come. Keep him?

2:03:26 Hey, why stable king here and rub them down good? I wrote him hard this. Money a hey pebe mony TV. I'm hungry as a bull. Lunch ready, Yes, there's a nice breeze off the water. So John Lee sat the two of us up on the front lane. I two of us. Lizabeth still sink. Oh, cor Let's go through the house. I have to wash up anyway. Where's she upstairs? No? She she left quite a bit before I got here. What do you mean sick? Oh? She was feeling it alof her feet at breakfast. Left to go wor Oh? Danny Mkaheiny came by and picked her up. Liz said she'd be back in the late afternoon.

2:04:12 Queen Luliolani son. Yes, oh, I thought he was at medical school on the mainland. He was, He's graduated. He came back on the same plane with Liz yesterday. I didn't even though she knew him. But I don't like this about Elizabeth. It is a. Serious in its own way. I was going to let her tell you herself that maybe as your doctor, it's better if I do it instead. Come on, man, come on, come on, get it out. What is it? Well, let's sit down for a minute. I want to remind you of your condition and that flying off the handle and losing your temper is the worst thing you can do. Oh, you pill peddlers, you're all profits of doom. If you take the pills I provide, you might put yours off. A good deal off. And I sit down, all right, but don't try to change the subject. I want to know why Elizabeth went chasing off with makaheiney.

2:04:58 Did they go surfing? Exact brows? You're a common off lover of Pete. Your fiancee goes hairing off with another man her first day back home, even if he is just a canaker beach boy, and you just. Let her go First, she left before I got here. Second, he is not a Canaka beach boy. He's a colleague of mine, a doctor of medicine. And lastly, Elizabeth is not my fiance anymore. What how do you know? Where did you find that out? Yesterday? When I brought her home? You turned my daughter down? No, I should have really in the first place. I'm far too old for all rubbish. I'm not marrying her, CIB, and you are not.

2:05:42 Fooling me one bit, Pete. You're still as much. In love with Elizabeth as you've always been. I smell a rat, and I'll bet it's Makahey is at it is at it where they go to see the Queen. I imagine to ask her blessing to get married my daughter at a beach. I stop talking about Danny like that, and don't get all worked up. It's bad for you. I won't get worked up, first of all, because it's just not going to happen. There'll be no marriage between them, because if she doesn't stop it, I will, by God if he as much as theirs. Trouble is all CD. Now just take it easy.

2:06:25 It's only a temporary attack, Cy, But this time you are going to take one of my pills. I'm sorry, my dear. You're a lovely girl, and I can hardly blame Danny, but marriage between you is quite impossible. Mother, I haven't finished. There are reasons beyond reasons why it can never be. Your blood is not our blood. Danny is already the true to Princess tawer Mina. The gods are already angered and cannot be angered anymore. God's mother. It's the twentieth century, and you are as intelligent and well read and educated as any woman.

2:07:05 I now stop acting like some old, ignorant witch. I am acting as I must because within me are ancient chords which sing a death and certain doom for two people. Queen Lily Olani, I respect your point of view. Do you respect your fathers? Yes? But I will give you the same answer as I would give him. I love Danny. I'm over twenty, Danny is twenty five. There is no way either of you can stop us. I'd rather it wouldn't be like that, but Danny and I have agreed. She's quite right. Mother. We'd give anything to have both you and mister Bradley with us. But if you are not, I cannot give my consent.

2:07:47 I can only warn you if you persist, it will end in death and disaster. I have nothing more to say. I am going to pray for all. Of us, well Liz, almost all the way home, and we still haven't decided just how we're going to go about it. I know, Danny, it's just I don't think we can rush it, not right now because of Dad. If you want to back out, I'm not holding you to anything, Oh. Darling, dolt, honey. I hate to get long winded or go chucking my medical knowledge around, but Parkinson's, I mean it can it almost always is a long, long process.

2:08:32 He's going to need me, I mean really need me for the first time. In his life. It's a life that could last another twenty years. Are you asking me to wait that long? No? No, because there are. Oh Danny, I'm so tired, and I just ken't think we'll give me children, Laura at least. Of course, Darling. I'm under some pressures of my own, and if I can't have you, well, I won't break my mother's heart or towels. And tomorrow night is there night.

2:09:14 I'll talk to Dad tonight. If I can't convince him. We'll be on our own. Why not let me do it. I'm the one seeking your hand, if not your fortune. I mean, it's up to me, all right, if you what is it? He looks as Danny Elizabeth inside. But then, Liz, if either of you want to talk to him about you as a doctor, I'd say, now isn't the time? What happened? I made a judgment. I thought maybe i'd better tell him. About you too. Did Liz tell you about it? Yeah? Did anything serious happen? No, Danny m D to m D.

2:09:57 You know how it can go. He got a bit emotional and suffered some speech impairments. He's all right now, but I wouldn't advise anything I can't. Better duck out fast before he seized me. I'll be in touch tomorrow morning, Liz, keep your chin out me. No real warriors about your dad, right, doctor? Right? Just us? This too shall pass. I love you till tomorrow and forever back too. Helloha. You sure dad's all right? If we can keep off a certain subject. Sure, I don't want. I can't do any more talking about Oh be yelp me quick.

2:10:42 What is it? Just something that nobody but me knows about? Yes, I wonder if anyone else. Will ever. What new factor could enter a hoped for marriage which already appears to have everything against it. And what is the meaning of Liz's cryptic statement expressing a knowledge that only she has and no one else may ever know. Is it the same knowledge that Queen Lili Ornanni talks of.

2:11:24 As buried in the past. And if she too knows that ancient gods are to extract penance for buried sins, who are the two that are doomed or are more to die in the dreadful natural phenomenon that is at last about to be unleashed three thousand miles away. I'll return shortly with Act three. At exactly eight forty two the following morning, on the island of Hawaii, two final ultimatums were issued by two irate parents, one of them by Queen Lily o'lani to her son.

2:12:14 The gods have been angry enough for years. My inner voices tell me what you plan will bring a great our way upon us. I see your raging disaster will. Be set in being that no human being can stop. And cut her. Bradley to his daughter the next morning, completely recovered through rest and medication for the moment. Let's get one thing straight, princess, and don't interrupt me. I use the old name deliberately on this island. You OUI or the royalty, and I'm warning you one thing right now. Go near that makaheeny kannaka again or let him come. Near you and I'll shut him down like a dog.

2:12:57 I mean not, Princesses. God is my witness. No one or nothing can stop me from doing as I want on this island. Whether it was sheer coincidence or whether gods ancient or contemporary took offense, this was the moment the Titanic explosion occurred, hurling trillions upon trillions of tons of water at breakneck speed above the ocean bed. Within six hours, it would hit the north shore the island of Hawaii head on. Whether guided by sheer accident or supernatural design, the devastation it would leave in its wake would be, to say, the least supernatural.

2:13:43 Dad, you can't be serious or what I am? You couldn't do this to me doing it for you, but romance. If you don't marry Pete, I leave everything to him. I don't need anything. Daddy can support me. I can work. You'll never marry him. Why are you so set again? It should be obvious enough. Nobody could be that prejudiced. That bigoted. To make sure if he comes near here or you again, I will shoot him on such doctor hughes, Pete. It's dad. He's had some sort of attack or something.

2:14:26 All right, Liz, just slow down and tell me what happened, and don't worry. There's no danger. I'm sorry. I don't mean to be incoherent, but it's just awful to see him. Listen to him just spluttering and talking all sorts of nonsense. I gave him some medication. Did he take it? Yes, he's gone upstairs to take it. What is it, Pete? It's part of his illness. The speech impairment is one of the symptoms. Excitement aggravates them. I'll be right out and let's see if we can figure what to do. I've given him a sedative that'll keep him quiet. For a couple of hours. Problem one out of the way temporarily, not for problem two.

2:15:10 You there isn't any problem about me. I've got to tell Danny where through I can't marry Danny. And what about the child? The child. You know yes, but ho, I'm not even sure myself. When I gave you the sedative yesterday, I took some blood. There's no doubt about it. Liz, you're pregnant. Oh lord, Now what am I going to do? You're going to get in the car with me and drive to Tupapahu. If anything can change Queen Miliolani's mind, it's the child.

2:15:54 So you are already carrying Danny's child. I do think that will alter things. I'm the one who hoped it would. I won't give up Danny's baby. That's one part of that. No one can take from me. You have courage, little Lauli, more courage than I had. I wouldn't say that. You know what a difference there is. Danny would want his child, call him, get him here and ask him. I can't. Why not? He left an hour ago for WAYI Lua, I'm surprised you didn't pass him. You must have taken the jeep over the back road. That's too rough for a car for Whylua Pete. We've got to stop him somehow, catch up with him. It's too late for that. But if he's gone to Wielua, and if father sees him, you'll kill him.

2:16:36 What is all this? My father, Queen Deliu Lani, He's promised to shoot Danny on side. Oh please, please, can't you help us somehow? Why should I? It could be your son's life and now aye, and made responsible again for another life, another son? How history repeats it so but it won't again. It's past time for retribution and the gods are coming to claim it. What do you mean the may may hies upon us. I can feel the ripples of it in my soul, the lift of it like a wave. I will call Brad, Brad, your father once he meant everything to me that Danny means to you.

2:17:34 At the moment, the Queen lifted the foam. A tanker bowing across the North Pacific, lifted ever so slightly on a five inch surface swell that was the only sign of the gargantuan tsunami, the dreadful tidal wave, which swept by at the speed of sound, hurtling toward the north shore of Hawaii. There, its monstrous energy would pie up the waters to a height of over eighty feet, driving inland till its force was spent to be sucked back with such diabolic speed that it would carry away everything in its path.

2:18:18 Yes, Brad, it's little. Low for a bit sake? How many years twelve thirteen? You sound just the same. I don't look it. How are you brand? I don't know, Little, I'm not the man I once will. You'll never change, certainly not for me. I want to ask you one favor. Have I ever asked one. From you before? Oh? Lord knows you haven't.

2:18:59 It's a matter of life or death. Will you meet me at the grotto? If you ask me? How could I refuse? If we both leave this minute, we should arrive in about an hour and a half. All right, there it. It'll be good to see you again. If you shut your eyes to what I have become. At least it's dark. I'll see you at the grotto. After your mother died, Elizabeth, we were lovers, your father and I. I carried a child of his in my womb. But we were ridden with pride of race, each for his own, and it drove us apart. We could never be married, and the child, well, I thought it was not meant for me to bear a child of mixed race.

2:19:52 I said good bye to your father and bear in that grotto in our Temple of love. I aborted and dis royd our child. I offended the gods. Listen to me, little hourly princess. You will have your father's blessing. As you have mine. Remember that love my boy, take care of him, bear his child. Then Pa will be with us again. Say goodbye to Danny for me. I cannot urge any longer. Brad.

2:20:39 I thought that I at last was willing to accept commingle blood and a child of our families. I can't help myself. Little I am as I am. I cannot accept any child of my daughters with mixed blood. And so you want to kill my boy. The child, well, that can be taken care of. You will stop the children, make history repeat a terrible mistake us all over again. Will I cannot change you. Are changed already. Look at your hands shaking now, white leaves in the wind. That's a different matter. I have Parkinson's disease. I told you you'd find.

2:21:22 A different man, not the difference I would have wanted. Quiet, come out a little quick. What is it? Bad kind? My god? Look he it. It's half a mileble on all the fish left gasping on the rocks. A tidal boar is on the way, and a big one. I know ta. Aora has been telling me all morning. I could smell the anger of the gods. It's why I called you here to die dead. We cannot stay in the children's way. They're yes, grow sould woman. Even at your best, you couldn't hoist me on his back, even with you alone on his back.

2:22:05 It's too late, But I have no right. Try bad, try if you can hold. You're not going, boy, You're staying. We've both been legends and our time. We wouldn't want to outlive our glory. I shouldn't have done this too. No, I'm burned out, little thanks for making me realize that I hadn't much further to go. I only wish i'd been able to tell Princess, I mean Elizabeth. But at the last she had my blessing and I love she knows she has ruled my love.

2:22:50 Yes, But the other How could she ever know? I told her so before I left her? Oh could you? Because I knew what I was going to do. And I know you bad? Oh, I know you did ever any woman knew the man? Oh what a fool I was with both? And how good have you back at life. So Nami, it's coming at last. I'm going home, back to where my roots. Are in the sea, to the south, power, the sea, gods, the guide.

2:23:33 ME safe and you. I always you, as I said all those years ago. But you, you're shaking us from the way we're free. It wrong, the same of being less than a man. It's all right, It's as it should be. We couldn't have each other in life. We'll stand together forever in death. Oh. The inexorable incoming march of the water did little damage compared to the outgoing surge, which sucked everything into and away with it like some colossal, unimaginable vacuum cleaner.

2:24:34 It left the beach and the inlet stripped clean and swept Wailua away like so many matchsticks. As far as the eye could see across that northern shore of Hawaii where the wave struck, and as far as the wave penetrated, not a living thing was left. I'll be back shortly. Danny and Liz were married very quietly. There was no formal funeral either for Queen Liliolani or Carter Bradley, only a memorial service. Two dynasties were finished, ended and melded in the two young people who never took their loving eyes from each other during the simple wedding service. The close was an exchange between bride and groom.

2:25:33 In Hawaiian Aloha. Aloha means hello, Aloha means goodbye, But most of all, it means I love you for this. After all the. Terror and Holocaust turns out to be just that a love story. Our cast included Paul hect Carmen Matthews, Suzanne Grossman, Gordon Gould, Ian Martin. The entire production was under the direction of him and Brown. What's that well? It has gotten quite lately. I can't say you're wrong there, it's getting later by the moment.

2:26:23 Time has a way of doing that. I suppose. Oh what's that well? I don't know, but I hope I find out. Just try to relax, my dear. Everything is going to be better than fine. You have nothing to worry about. You're just in my humble stone abode underground. It's not like you're somewhere dangerous. It's not like you're in a well, a murder castle. Yeah, I'll tell you, captain, it don't makes sense. We picked her up walking down the street saying the same thing over and over again. Oh Jesus, goofy is they come?

2:27:14 I tell you. Listen to her yourself. Revenge, revenge, revenge, revenge, revenge. Yeah, listen to her captain or heard over again, Such a young and pretty girl. What could have driven around her. Mind like that? I asked you? Revenge, revenge, revenge, revenge, revenge, revenge, redemns revenge. Yes, yes, what is it I'm looking for, mister Henry Stewart, if you please?

2:27:58 Oh oh, you mean about the advertisement. Yes, that's right. I got here as soon as I could. Right, that's all right. As long as you got here, that's all it matters. Come in, come in, Oh, thank you. Just put your suitcase down there. It's be all right, thank you. Now you will come out this way, thank you. Just step in here, Miss Malone, Ellen Malone, Yes, of course. Miss Malone. Now then you'll have a chair, please, thank you. There we are now, then, Miss Malone. To be perfectly frank with you, I wasn't quite expecting you today.

2:28:39 Oh I'm truly sorry. Mister Stewart. But you see, I took the wrong train and a well, I had the hardest time finding the house. I do hope you'll pardi. Of course, of course, don't give it another thought. Promptness may be a virtue, but we all can't be virtuous, now can we. Now, then you're shared an answer to my advertisement. Yes, sir, you wrote no wysh as it was. You're the young lady from Queensville. Who is Queeneville? You have my letter with you? Oh yes, sir, right yestair? Oh yes, Now then your friends know you came here. Of course, there's no one very much interested in this stewing.

2:29:21 Oh oh come now, a pretty young girl like you, No young bulls and so on so on, So there's no one, I mean, So you can depend on me to give all my attention to my work. Very commendable, very commendable. Indeed, my work, as I wrote you, as entirely confidential. My philanthropies are to a great extent. Entirely sub rosa. No first, no fellows, you understand what I mean? Oh yes, sir, as my secretary, my affairs will be entirely in your hands, my checking the card, my financis and charts. On, entirely in your care. I understand, sir. It's quite a responsibility, and you're quite a young woman. And as I wrote you the bank. Oh yes, so I understand the bond. I brought the money for it, three hundred dollars.

2:30:04 I've got it right here too. Oh fine, fine, that's very business right this indeed, I'll give you a receipt and that we will be mister Steward, yes my pen Oh oh yes, here we are my money. Will I get it back from the bank anytime I leave you. I. Mean when you want me to. Oh, yes, of course, of course. Now then we are received of miss Nelle Malone. Ella. Yes, of course, Ella. Memory isn't quite what it used to be. That's why I need a good secretary. I'm very good at remembering things. Oh you are well. Now then we are gues This received is in good order, received of miss Ella Malone, three hundred dollars to be deposited with the Merchants Bank as shouldn't be bonded, and to be returned.

2:30:54 To said Ellen Malone upon request. That's my signature, adds I'm sure that'll do very well. Now then you have got my receipt. But I oh, I thank your pardon. Not at all, not at all. Here I am oh well, I understand the excitement of your trip, missus Stewart. You see I had it already in an envelope. Now if you're all, oh no, no, not. At all, not at all. Men can do that when I send it to them in the morning. Now, just put your first down there, and I'll show you through your new home. Yes, we'll go right up these stairs.

2:31:35 Oh yes, you find I have quite a place here, three stories high, and every inch of it is my own design. Rather careful, now, careful all, mustn't hurt yourself hardly. The way to start a new job. Now, then here we are got a nice room for you, very nice. Actually, matter is, you can choose any. Room on this floor. But mister Stewart, your. Daughter's daughters, yes, won't they object? You said, Oh, yes, yes. My daughters. I did write to you about them, didn't I? Yes, you did. Well, never mind about them. They're upstairs studying. Now right here, I should take.

2:32:20 This room at least for then. Whatever you're saying, it's the Stewart. Yeah, nice, isn't it. I've never had such a large room if you've got one a little small. On the contrary, my dear miss Malone, you'll find this one small enough. That's a little too small, Yes, indeed entirely too small. But mister Stewart, locking door, mister Stewart, why did you? Why didn't you lock the door? Missus Stewart? This, why don't you shut me in here? This is your pree? Please answer me, but the ud please let. Me out of here? What did you? Yes, yes, miss Nord, there's no doubt in my mind at all if you're the very person I want to employ.

2:33:19 As my housekeeper, and they glad to hear it. Of course, the matter of being housekeeper of places art is mine calls for definite qualities. You want to step cross, well, one certainly can't ask. More than that. Indeed, your wife, maybe she'd like to talk to me my wife? Oh yes, of course I wrote you about my wife, didn't I? Well, my wife is out shopping. As soon as she returns, you will meet her. I'm sure she'll find your recommendations as satisfactors as I did. Make them very happy. I've always wanted to work in a fine hard Now about money or any telling. You want to pinion that it's all right. I don't want a chance to show. You how good I can do work recommend indeed, very commend but but we must agree.

2:34:04 On a salary. I am the sort of man who has respect for money and expect a similar respect in others. And speaking of money, you'll be want to open a new bank account. I suppose, yes, It's my principle that everyone employed by me should have a savings account. Bill's characteroun I open an account for you. In the morning, you can transfer the other bank ACCOUNTSHO have back in your hometown up. To my bank convenience. You know, oh knows, I haven't got that. I haven't any money in the bank. Bake homework. I took it all out. Oh it wasn't much anywhere that was left of farther insurance money after my mother died. Oh yes, yes, Well, now, then suppose we leave all your things here and we'll go look over the house.

2:34:45 Very nice. Yeah, that's through the start. I'd be glad to be working in such a big. Hurry, I decide. Oh yes, yes, quite an establishment here. Designed it all myself. I work hard. Oh yes, yes, I'm certain you well down Then by donning stairs, I'll show you everything downstairs. First, you have a rushing machine, Oh yes. Yes, yes, everything modern and everything convenient, high wide, basement. Hey, I'll watch yourself. It's just a little dark down here this time of day. Oh it is a big basement, all right, could hang up plenty of. Rushing down here. Oh yes, yes indeed, Now if you'll.

2:35:27 Just come this way, are you building something down here? Building? Oh? Yes, yes, indeed, always building, always changing, always removing, changing, can change, my hardy, always changing things. It's hard to keep cleaned now, and I don't worry about that. Everything will be cleaned up in short order. The bags of sand, concrete, concrete mixer, everything will be out of the way. Won't bother you at all, not at. All to say you're making more? Oh wish, Yes, indeed, with nice clean concrete flowers. Yeah, look at this one kind of dark. Come on, come on, get closer, all my own work. You see. The floor is still with. I like concrete, don't you.

2:36:10 It? Yes, covers everything. You know how deep that concrete is? Three feet deep? Yes, man, three feet deep, and. I just poured it an hour before you honored me with your presence. Three feet that'll make a mighty thick slab of stone, won't it missnowed? Thick enough to cover you? Yes, indeed, this to the point of the jaw is still a most effective soporific. You're quite a light woman, my dear, miss Nord. Up you go, and in you go, face down?

2:36:51 What an unusual bed you lie in? Miss not. Sinking down and down? Now? And the concrete will hotten, and I, I guess I would have to get myself a new house keeper. Ladies and gentlemen, let's lean back now and relax for a moment. Let's take time out from tonight. It's amazing lights out story, the story of a strange, mysterious mansion, the one woman who entered those doors and was never seen alive again. Let's turn during this brief and emission were much more every day situation, and a question is much.

2:37:43 Easier to answer. An angry girl is storming out of her friend's house, and her friend says, what's. Candy roun with Lucy these days? The cross is a barn. She's leaving so much way, She looks terrible. She takes no friend anymore. Well, you know what that Roald knows. The Christian Authority says about how improper eating due to wartime living may cause a person to become deficient in vitamin B one and iron and how. You absolutely need enough of them to keep your right. Weight and energy. Time to think of it, that was Ruth's trouble when she got her run down. So she took ironized E tablets and you know how. Grand she looks and feels again. Now, Yes, friends, and a number of people who use the vitamin B one and iron shortage, we're losing weight, losing strength.

2:38:28 And energy and interest in rights. Tell how ironized G tablets help them regain glorious pests and strength and needed pounds. So if you're a short vitamin B one. And iron, don't wait, go. To your druggist this very night and say a bottle. Of ironized each tablets please. And now back to our life out story of Murder Castle. Hiah. Hello, Hello, Hello, is this the employment agency?

2:39:15 This isn't it? The steward is the head of the steward. I'm interested in employing the nurse for. My child and uh, someone preferably unattached who can live here with my wife myself. No, no, no, just send me their names, addresses and references and so on. Uh, I'll send you a check for the services. My address is four twenty four East seven. Yes, that's right, just their names and the dresses. And I said, I'll send you a check. Says a good lie. Oh yes, yes, I'll be there. I'll be there, I'll be there. Yes, yes, what is it? I is mister Stewarty, Oh yes, yes, yes. Won't you come in?

2:39:58 I mister Steward, thank you your answering in regard to work, You. Carry your position. You wrote your letters? Oh yes, yes, yes, indeed I wrote you step in here, please, thank you. You sit there, I'll sit here, we'll get better acquainted. Put your suetcase down and place now. And then I'm afraid I didn't quite get your name, Ray, very Ray. You wrote me. Oh yes, of course I remember you distinct it now. Then you have my letter to you, just to sort of refresh my. Memory on the circumstances, don't you know. Oh well, I'm sorry I didn't bring it with me. Oh well, then suppose you tell me it's more about yourself and it always happened.

2:40:42 But then follow see you off the train. I suppose it's the way I wrote you, mister Star. Right, I'm quite alone. Oh yes, well, but first there's the matter of the surety bond I wrote. You up I didn't. I yes, yes you did. Ah, yes, I quite certainly start. I was wondering, he is have you had no me? Secretary? Why you ask that? I want to know why you ask that? Cris What happened to them after you hire them? Tell me what happened to them? Young woman? That's who are you? My name is Let him alone, Malone? Let him alone. My sister Ella came here a month ago about a job, and I don't know where she is.

2:41:22 Do you hear me? I wanna know where she is. I don't think I quite know what you're talking about. Why do you lie to me? Why do you lie to me? She was here? She was then? What makes you so sure a letter you wrote it? The first one? I waited a whole month, and. Then I came here, and as soon as I saw you, I thought something was wrong. And now I know there is my sister Ella. Where is she? You've got to tell me? What if I tell you a game that I don't know what you're talking about, I'll go. To the police. They'll make you tell the truth. I know she came here, I know she did. Why do you have why? Because you're being a very foolish young lady. Very foolish. Indeed, there's no need to get excited. Of course, your sister's here. I'm very happy to she's.

2:42:04 Yes, yes, I'm very happy too. I can take me to her. Please take me to her, right all right. No need to get excited, of course, I'll take you to her. I intend to do all along. I was just having a little joke with you. She alright, of course. Now then come right along with me, Come right along with me alone, Yes, yes, set right up. Here's been with me for over a months. Why didn't she write? Why didn't she tell me? I done this? Hall? And you can ask her that for yourself. This is the trick, my dear young lady, you have easy.

2:42:44 The most suspicious mind of anyone I've ever met. Why I'm why to helpless old man? And you always have recourse as you put it to the police. Oh yeah, I in this room. I'll go right to him, all right. Now, door, she'll. Open it for you. Ella. Tell her it's very letting him daring. It's very sell please, it's very very well. Now, certainly is a tight. You can't be sleeping. Open the door. Please open the door, right all right? No reason to get excited quickly opened the door quickly. Now, don't excite yourself needlessly. I'll go ahead. You open the door, Hella, it's Betty.

2:43:31 Hell what oh? Now, then, my dear Betty. We understand each other clearly, don't we. Well, nothing like a complete. Understanding, now, is there? Oh, it wasn't so difficult. I shut the door, see it, and nature called the rest. Did? She died quite easily, much easier than others. Why, I mean, why do I do it? Well, it's a very simple explanation, young woman, this is my business. Yeah, here's my business. Some men make their fortunes in stock, some bond, some in business, and this is my business.

2:44:21 Why why? Why? Why is any business conducted profit? Mydea and I've made quite. A need for the profit older. I'm a very safe one too. And you're the very first to come wandering about looking for one of my customers, the first, and I assure you the last. Only it's thirty women that have come in my front door. Thirty one groone, you and Ella come on along now to you or about them? You'll find it most instructive. Yes, indeed, Now do hold my upside these color as they twist and turn. Oh yes, it's best. I hold your arm. Get lost easier around this house, my most interesting house. You're taking me bad. Yes, there were thirty for you, most interesting array. I used to read the wand heads in small town papers, and then i'd write letters, Oh, most interesting letters. I needed the secretary of housekeeper, nurse, excellent sarary and usual accommodation of I knew this, it helps, indeed, and they brought all their worldly bloggings with them, jenry and suitcase.

2:45:18 Little here? Who's there? Or why should it be most powerable? Now in this room? For example? No, don't, don't the maper. No, perhaps it would be better not to the one in here came to be my housekeeper? Or let me see how long it was it? Oh well, no matter. She came as a housekeeper, and after she went into a retirement in that room I found in her suitcase such interesting bond. While I tell you, my eyes fairly pop right my head. Oh yes, it's the uncertainty that makes my little. Business so very fascinating. Thirty will know it's good. Hands away now down here. Don't make me. Put you along. You're thirty weeks. It's not difficult. Fust women is such fools, anxious to believe what they want to move here for life, and you give me death.

2:46:02 You're the smart one. That's why I'm even. Borrowing, showing you my work I never did the others and showing you around won't do harm. You won't be talking long. Will the women die? Now? In this room? Well let me show you. No, no, don't let me look. Can't please do now? You see there's no reason for exciting, just an empty room. That's what she thought when she went in here. Then I pressed this button so and the floor flopped open as she stood. On it, and down she went, down, down, down in the bottom a bit of rhyme. Oh yes, I tried out so many different ways of killing them. Do you wonder why they'll never find me out?

2:46:46 I'll tell you why, Because I'm much too smart for all of them. Oh. Not perfect crimes, no, nothing invandile, but just cleverness and choosing the women I do my business with, and then equal cleverness. And doing away with the worst. And now then because I tell you, oh oh yes, yes, says why they'll. Never forget me. Yell a seen you it done? My head, No corpus dilecti. And if there is one no evidence of violence. Ah, that's the secret. You're very frightened. Take a pair of quick time. There's no course dilective to that, I can tell you not when you bury them in a sigh of concrete. Are that's the secret? You can read you? And now this room, let me show you. I I think this will be your room, my dear.

2:47:26 You see the door air tight, hair tightes Indeed, I'll open it. The room amazing side, isn't it. No doors, no windows could have helped you. Ellen. Now I'll shut you up inside your room, and then I'll close the door and press this button. Here like this. You hear that this one. You hear that coming, pumping coming, And guess what is pumping out of my hair? You hear me pumping the air out. Of the room. Yes, that's clever, isn't it. You breathe and soon. There'll be nothing there to breathe, and then you'll die, and. The police do find your body. No mock of violence, nothing but a sixiation, the most mysterious.

2:48:07 That they'll say. In time they decide it's all quite natural. Embolism, heart attack. Oh they think a p Fant's name to clear their fires, esgy they always do. It is night for him to our first office, the pump. Now, my dear, I think you better step. Inside quickly, now so I can close the door and go about my other work quickly. I'll tell you no, wait, wait, wait for what. I want to give you something, What you give me that doesn't belong to me already? Gun, Get in there, get in that room. Gun. You had a gun in your press all the time, My Harvey, I got it for the man who get it. Get in there. No, no, no, what you get in there? Out press the pre get in there. No, don't get him. No, I'm an old harmless man who was only folly.

2:48:47 I wouldn't hurt you for the world. It's like to revenge, he said. The press is r. Let me out. The purpose he's running yellow. Listen to it. It's killing him the way he kills you. Tried to revenge his night. You revenge, right to redange, right to revenge, right to revenge, three things like three dames. Get here, it's going out.

2:49:27 Yeah, shut off, bed move out there. You hear me, Shut up bed, motor, Let me. Out the air thuwing it out. It's the pipe. You're going out. I can't reach the pipe. Shut it off out there, shut it off. It'll kill me, kill me, I getting it already, shut it off. Will you do anything anything you want? Shut up, bed bo. I can't die. I won't die. I get the walls down.

2:50:08 Let me help you. That's got the way there, Let me up, Let me on, Well fight, Yeah. Here. Comes breaking God my mom my eyes aware, bleeding. Yeah, that's there. Yeah. Things things, three things, three things, three things. Revenge, revenge, revenge.

2:50:52 He listened to a captain over and over again. Such a young pirty girl. I could have driven her out of her mind crazy like that. What I ask you, my dear? I know the night is gone very long, but how about we stick around for just one more, just one more taste of joy and fear rolled together, and then we'll go our separate ways. For now, I try not to ask much of you, so please forgive my greediness.

2:51:47 It's just when you live, if you want to call it that, the way I do. If you spend your time the way I do, it begins to leave a mark. It begins to paint a picture, the Phantom Man picture.

2:52:29 The Weird Circle in this cave with the restless. See, we are meant to call from out of the past stories strange and weird. Bell keeper told the bell so that all may know. We are gathered again in the weird circle, out.

2:53:21 Of the past, phantoms of a world gone by, Speak again the immortal tale, the phantom picture. And gentlemen, as you know, here are the works of our greatest Italian artists of today. You, the most renowned art critics in the Kingdom, will choose tonight that work which is to hang in the petty gallery beside Raphael da Vinci, Michelangelo, the classic masterpieces of Italy. Where your decision carefully, gentlemen, Thank you, Hello, you wanted to see me?

2:54:07 Yes? Yes, doctor Donald, please close the door. Yes but what hourey? Please see here? Stop pushing? What's wrong with you? Who's out there? Someone following you? No? Well? No, well then why do you keep looking back over your shoulder? Oh that I'd have a painting? Oh see here, now stop this foolishness. If you're hungry, go to the kitchen. If it's money you want, here, the something to buy your lodging. I must get back to my gil. Wait, I haven't time. The whole kingdom will waits the decision of those critics in there. The choice of the painting which will hang in the gallery beside the masters is. Being made by them, paintings masters. They call that art. They don't know what real art is here? Look really, now, this is no amateur competition. Amateur here? Who are you? And why do you keep looking out of that window?

2:54:49 He is this a stolen candae? No, no, it's mine. You don't know me, do you? But maybe you will when you see my painting? What's closely now there? Now do you know me? Take a good look? What what is it? Study it? Tell it? Can it be it? It is a face, a human face. Yes, it's ghastly, got the claw? See you can't take your eyes on it? Now do you recognize me? No? No, look again, study the painting carefully. Such a subject, it's vulgar. This is a painting worthy to hang in the gallery. This is a really great work of art, my greatest all painting with a subject like that can be a great work of art. It is a masterpiece, I tell you, and you must buy it.

2:55:30 Buy that? Yes, why you're positively mad? Why I can't buy it? That is too fright, you must. I need the money, doctor Ganno, now tonight You're the only one can help me. But I don't wait before you answer. I must tell you all this. It's driving me mad. I must tell someone I'm hunted, traveling by night, sleeping in haystacks in the hills by day, foraging for food up in the mountains, not daring to risk showing myself in town, and all the time haunted by this this face you see here, hours on end, waking up at night to see it staring at me, seeing. It the food I eat. I tell you, it's driving me insane, insane. I tell you long ago, when I left Naples, it was midsummer.

2:56:12 Then when I stored away on a bark in Naples Harbor, did I realize then what the future hell for me? Yes, another new life which awaited me in general. Yeah, bravo. That is the exact likeness of the organ grinder to the very last hair of his mustachia. Oh, senor you have great talent. That yet, or I wouldn't be painting on sidewalks for my bread and meat. But I shall be great someday. Someday you shall, if you receive the proper training. When I can afford it, I shall seek a great artist to teach me. But why pay for your training? I will teach you for nothing. You and who are you?

2:56:53 Oh? Look closely, my boy. Don't you recognize me? Are you? Is it possible? You are Pascual, the celebrated portrait paint none other, And you will teach me for nothing? How can I ever thank? Oh? Don't come along now well to my studio. Of course, you are a pupil of mine. Come along. It's not far, a simple but comfortable place on the edge of the city, away from all the noise and confusion, away from colonnades and mammoth terraces, where a man. Can really work. Oh, I still don't understand why you're doing this. It's really very simple. I'm an old man, now old and famous, and I have more orders of work than I can possibly take care of. It's about Tieme, my hair and assistant.

2:57:40 You mean I am a lot of hard work. You see. My heart is not what it should be. I can't work like I used to. Yes, you will have to work hard. Oh, I can do that all right. Just think a chance to study under the great Ah. Don't forget though, I shall use you to good end. Yes, you look like a clean cut young fellow. Maybe you will have a good influence on my son Villippo. He's nineteen about your age, I would say, and the thoroughgoing rascal your industry will set him a good example life. I shall do my best. And then two before long, you may meet my daughter Bianca when she returns from the seminary. Oh, come along, come along, and we shall be late for dinner. I have you, Yes, come here for a moment.

2:58:31 Oh, morn in Fascal. Oh, you're looking better this. Morning, and I feel better after that last attack. What did the doctor say? I must take it easy. That's our heart won stand excitement. Oh how is that portrait for the depressed family coming home? It's almost finished another five hours. Perhaps we'll let it be for now. I have a rush port to do for Gatanhaus to hang in the palace at the stud Balbe. You get on it right away. Bianca will sit for you. Did you Heather away? Where is she? Anyway? She's up picking flowers. I suppose that's. All she seems to do since she came back from the seminary. That and read books. She has the soul of a poet. Besides, the walks and the pressure are good for her.

2:59:13 Oh so you like her, don't you? Well, sir, you'll have to admit she is very beautiful. So I am willing to say she is. After all, I am her father. But it's good to have other people agree with me, especially young handsome men. Ah. Yes, she is a good girl. I'm proud to be her father. I wish her, dear, I wish I could say the same about Philippo Pasqual. You mustn't say that, but it is the truth. Came home drunk again last night, lost some more money at gambling. That just doesn't seem to be anything we can do with him, does there? Oh, I'm sorry, sir. Oh that's all right. You've tried your best. You run along now and find Bianca and be sure to keep your mind on the painting.

3:00:01 Yes, but you are already famous, Pascorna. Must you accept another commission? No? One does not do neurals in the Vatican every day, I taio, nor have pictures hun in Saint Peter's. And besides, we are in sad financial straits at the moment. Squirrel, why didn't you tell me what? No, it's Philippo came home Doug again last night and another spree. This time he sold all the paintings in the studio. All of them. Yes, that's that's that's you have us all beggars with his high life. Well, I. Pa squarrel. I have never told you, but I have been sending some of my workout to Florence under an assumed name.

3:00:44 Of course, I took the name of Katyata. Oh, I have a little something saved. You know how I feel towards Bianca. If you no, no, no, no, I would not think of it. I'll put a stop to this once for all, even if I'm must have my own son jailed. And you're sure you want me to make the track, Oh yes, yes, indeed, you should complete the plans and estimates and be back from Rome within two weeks, and then when it's all settled, we'll tell the ancle. So what about Filippo, don't you think? No, no, no, no, you get started. I can handle him myself. Yeah, there he's coming up the walk now. Oh, I wish my health permitted me to go with you. But remember the painting for Saint Peter's should be similar to my Madonna, which hangs in the Church of the Anciata here in Genoa.

3:01:30 I won't forget say goodbye to Beancre for that. Yes, I shall goodbye to you. Now the safe journey and hurry back. I tell you, Filipo, this is the last straw. If you don't get the money back for those paintings, I shall turn you over to the police. You wouldn't, Oh, yes I would, and I'm going to know you won't. I would cause a scandal, and you're too famous to want that. You have been using my good name all your life to run up debts, leading a wild life. Haven't you any sense of dignity? Why don't you earn your your own way. You're a healthy young man. You're an old fool to think I would do that, Philippo, I'm still your father, still. An old fool. I don't mind the life I lead so long as I don't have to work for a living. My own son, I could kill you with my own bare hands for talking like that.

3:02:14 Father, I'll stand back. What are you gonna do my own? Let me going and you. Try to attack me, Will you have to show you? Father? Follock it up? Father, help me with these sagages Billipru prayer with father, Philippa. What's wrong with father? In there on the floor? His Who know who? Father? Speak to me? Who?

3:02:55 What happened? I heard O tap your quarreling with my I hurried in and found father lying there on the floor. No, no, no, we couldn't nothing my father. I have searched all over General for you. It's you. Go away, go away, please, but you heard her go away? You killed my father killed? Have you lost your senses? Your father dead? Yes? I don't believe it. Pelieve or say it's not true.

3:03:35 It's true enough. He died of a heart attack after. You quarreled with him, after I quarreled with Oh, don't act so surprised. Go away now, can't you see? Bianca wants nothing more to do with you, you uncle, Look at me. You don't believe that I killed your father? Yes? I do, and my heart here it it's dead. No, don't say that. It can't be true. You don't really believe. I have nothing more to say to you now. You leave nothing more to say. You, Philippo, you're responsible for all this, you and your lies. Yes, you even told me you knew nothing of Bianca's whereabouts when I met you on the street. If I hadn't followed you here, I might never have seen Bianca. No, I wouldn't have seen her. You and your lies, your life. I'll save you. No, No, but that night eyes, all of it. No, no, don't how the hell that will close?

3:04:27 Your lying mouse? Where show those lying words? Hot down that night and what you stunned? You'll kill him? Please get out of here. You've killed him. If he's staring at you. Should you want to go quickly? No? Down the bay, run, keep running the police they'll be here, sir. Down this allee no safe for a while, but it's flee those eyes following you. Get away from them, get away, get away.

3:05:36 If they want a room for the night, all right, sir, we have one left on the third floor. They face the street, Yes, the corner room. Did you want one facing the corner? No? No, no, I can't stand to be handed. Are there any fire exits going past the windows? No? I'm sorry, never mind, so much the better someone else in your body. No, no, no, no, show me the room. Please? Are you looking over your shoulder? Right for the room? Man? I want to sleep, yes, sir, Yes, sir, right there's way. Here. It is, thank you. It's a very comfortable room. If you want anything, just ring No, all right, what is it, sir? What's wrong? It's nothing? I thought I saw someone? Why do you draw the curtains. I don't like to have people looking in my windows. That you're on the third floor, and across the street there those are business houses. You say.

3:06:24 There are no fire exits outside the window, none at all. That will be all. Such a clear night. You really need some air, and such a beautiful full moon. I look after my own health that you don't mind, I said, that will be all, sally, good night, just a minute. How far are we from the center of town? Six miles? The Epenines are that way to the west. We're on the outskirts of Generay here. Thank you, good night. You want to be called in the morning, No, no, no, I'll be up early. He was good night. Last alone in this room. I'm safe here. The police will search. They will not know who killed Philippo. We will not know unless.

3:07:08 Unless the uncle will tell. Who didn't think of that? Have you? You must leave? You must get out of Genua now at once, yes, now, at once. I must back to the mountains. I'll be free in the mountains. The face that cannot follow me there, No, I cannot follow me there. Six days, six days in this wilderness water a book like tongues its parts. Now I can drink. Now, at last, I can take a drink. Thank goodness for this book.

3:07:57 Yes, is that scar on your face? No? No, I have no scar. The closer there on your right cheek. It is. It is a scar, but it can't be. I never had one. No you didn't, did you? But remember he had one? Yeah behind you? No you? Oh no, there's no one there. But the reflection in the book. But there's my face, a scar my hair, blonde. Why my hair was always dark that.

3:08:44 His was light? Remember he had blond hair. A scar my hair curling. It wants me his face, everything about him, even out here. Right. I must get out of these mountains before I go mad. Mad. I how a city in the distance, Campanella. It must be flaid. You must risk going down. I can't bear it up here any longer. I can't bear it. I can't. I can't. Yes, come in, here's a down No, no, no, thank you, mind avice no, no, I doctor right now, now, don't be nervous. I'm your friend, doctor, Look at me, Yes, I am at my face? Look close, well, but do you see refinement under a heavy beard?

3:09:42 Of course? Is that all? No? No marks of any sorts such as a such as a scar? No, no scar? Are you sure positive? Then? Doctor? Tell me you're a great doctor. Why do I see scar on the right side of my face every time I look at myself? How long have you seen this? This scar? Two weeks a month. I've lost track of the exact time. It's horrible the way it keeps haunts. Yes, I begin to understand as an unusual occurrence. Overtaken your family? Someone clothes pass away? Oh no, what business is.

3:10:25 That of yours? I came here to ask about the scar, not to be cross examined like now. I only want to help you. I'm sorry, doctor, that's a way family. Oh yes, by my cousin, he died last night. And did he have a scar similar to the one you mentioned? I mean no, uh, yes he did. But perhaps our minds are delicate mechanisms, sometimes hard to control. You want, doubtedly were very attached to your cousin. Will you or not? In a way we saw a great deal of each other, and no doubt you think of him often. Although why you should imagine that you see it?

3:11:08 How long since you've worked? I see by the form the nurse gave you to fill out that you're an artist several months now. I can't be sure, but that may explain this phenomenon in part. You should keep yourself occupied. Suppose we start by recommending work, lots of it. You really think it will help me? Doctor? Definitely, whatever you say, just a minute, I know of someone. Do you do portraits? By the way? Portraits? Er? Yes, yes, I can help you. Then you can help me. How what are you are to stop with this address at eleven tomorrow? As for a signor fioro? He'll be expecting you. He's had every artist in Florence to his portrait and says his likeness will hang in the palace before he dies.

3:11:57 He's a very exacting sitter. Good luck, doctor. I I don't see why you trust me this way. I am a doctor. I like to think of myself as being one to help a fellow man. You need help, otherwise you wouldn't be here. But what about your fee? I? After all, I just can can take care of that after you've proven yourself of Senior fiorro yes, after you've satisfied the signor with your work. One moment more, Senor fiorro steady. Oh that'll be enough for today. One last touch. No, I must rest.

3:12:40 I have a dinner engagement now, I have time to sten tomorrow and too. You know, I'll tell you you're a gifted portraitist. The outline was very satisfactory, and let me. See how you progressed with the detail. Wouldn't you rather wait to see the completed work? Oh no, nonsense, I'm proud of it that far. Let me see it if you insist. Oh no, no, that's not me. I tried to What have you done with my pocket? You don't do it. I don't know, I don't know. You're brilling it. That's what you've done. You're brewing the only picture I've ever considered buying. Look at it, just look at it now? Is that me? I asked you?

3:13:21 Is that me? Are those my eyes? That my nose? My mouth? Do I have that scar? No? That picture is frightful. Take it out of here. I might have known doctor Pelli would send me one of his crazy patients. Take that away from here. You hear me, get out. Don't have me said, eyes at you again, get. Out, okay. I fled from the man's place, doctor Janu, into the hills beyond Flanet. They're in a simple had. I set to work to a race forever from my mind, the phantom face which haunted me constantly. I set to work to reproduce on Signor Fioro's canvas all the ghastly details of the face which stared up at me from the flora, that Osteria and Genoa where my victim fell.

3:14:10 Protruding eyes, the jagged scar, the teeth glistening like fangs. I poured all the skill of my art, all the power of my emotion into this last desperate attempt to free my soul. And here here is the finished work, represents the hours of torture and agony. I've undergone, my atonement, my penance for my crime. You can see it in every brushstroke. You must help me, doctor john O. You must buy it. You must one moment, one moment, third line, that distinctive brushstroke, an excellency of detail. This resembles this is Cartio's word. You recognize it them.

3:14:54 But of course then you you are the one who sent those canvases from Geneva? You will caught to you doctor. Now will you help me? Now? Will you buy if we have some of your work in there? Being John, they are of minor importance. I must have them. Run Wait wait now, listen to me, listen closely. You are a famous man. No, no, no one but you knows my real identity. Ah, but I'm not the only one who knows your real identity. Else I must not be seen here. Wait now, wait, don't run away. I know you're innocent. I believe everything you've told me. I knew your story even before you came here, but I didn't interrupt you because I wanted you to corroborate who told you?

3:15:34 Thenca? You know Bianca as. The connoisseur of art? Should I not know the daughter of the great Pascal? Wait here, now, don't go away. I'll be right back. Uh the ncor Then come here? No, no, come here, my dear Bianca, he has come back. I tell you what tell you? Tell you? Don't I know all are facts? Now? I know, Philip. Then you will not turn me over to the police for the murder. We must go to the police. We must go to them and tell them everything, and I will stand by Now. That is wise, Bianca. A Tavio is a famous artist.

3:16:17 The people love his word. The police will be convinced that he has done penance enough when they see the painting he painted. By your face, I see that you've suffered much at Tavio, come with me to the police and free yourself from your pain. You be really free, a free man. I will stand by you. I know you will be free. I have regained my strength already, Bianca. Do I have anything to fear if you will stand beside me. Oh, listen, listen. Don't you hear them? They've chosen your painting. Come a Tavio, walk with me into the gallery and accept their acclaiming.

3:16:57 Sile h. From the time one pages of the Past, we have brought you the phantom picture Bellkeeper all. The bell. M from the time when pages of the Past we have heard another immortal tale in the weird circle down Keeper tool the bell.

3:17:59 Well, my dear, it's very very late, and I'm very grateful we would spend so much time with me. I know tonight felt intense, but sometimes that's a good thing, and I do so hope you'll come back and join me again. I'll be right here, same place, same time, with a smile on my face and a hot cup of tea to warn as you get your chills. But could you do me one more favor as you head home, As you make your long dark march to your humble abode, as you enter your bedroom and check the closet and under the bed, of course, And as you lay your head on that pillow of yours and begin to blink away the dead as you begin to head off to the land of nod. Before you do, before you drift off, take one moment and be thankful for what you have, and I'll be seen.