1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:04,759 E. Barney of Scott's Bluff had been accused of converting over fifteen thousand dollars 2 00:00:04,799 --> 00:00:09,720 from the Hormoil Company at Scott's Bluff for his own use now Kfab and Almaha 3 00:00:09,839 --> 00:00:20,079 joints NBC NBC News This is Wally Robinson. The continuing crisis in Iran and 4 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:24,199 the brand Lewin in Afghanistan were cited by the White House tonight as being too 5 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:27,879 pressing to allow President Carter to go to Iowa for his schedule of debate with 6 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:31,640 Senator Edward Kennedy and Governor Jerry Brown. There has been a great deal of 7 00:00:31,679 --> 00:00:35,200 reaction to the move from Democratic Republican candidate alike, and most of it is 8 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:39,079 negative. The latest to comment is Tom Quinn, Jerry Brown's campaign manager, 9 00:00:39,359 --> 00:00:43,439 the President's decision is an insult to the people of Iowa and the entire nation. 10 00:00:44,079 --> 00:00:48,880 Mister Carter has been making a run twenty phone calls today two Iowa politicians, 11 00:00:49,399 --> 00:00:52,679 and I personally find it difficult to believe that he can politic by a 12 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:56,880 telephone every night but cannot find the time to appear face to face with his 13 00:00:57,039 --> 00:01:00,799 two opponents. Republican John Anderson of Illinois said the decision lends credence to the 14 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:06,560 contention that the President is politicizing the Iranian situation in order to tighten his grip 15 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:10,280 on the White House. The Kennedy forces are playing it more pragmatically. They 16 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:14,480 offer to move the location of the debates and exclude any Iranian content if that 17 00:01:14,519 --> 00:01:17,359 would get the show on the road again. So as to say that Kennedy 18 00:01:17,359 --> 00:01:19,879 camp is very keen for the confrontation, feeling it's vital if their managed to 19 00:01:19,879 --> 00:01:26,120 get his flagging campaign moving again. More to use after this tax breaks that 20 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,920 may be in store for the nineteen eighty election year. If you miss this 21 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,480 major story, you haven't been reading the Wall Street Journal, And in today's 22 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:37,439 economic turmoil, you can't afford to lose touch with what's happening in every phase 23 00:01:37,439 --> 00:01:40,879 of business. So have a pencil ready for an important offer that will help 24 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:45,480 keep you informed. Other journal articles reported the facts of Detroit's tailspin, the 25 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:49,680 latest reading on the economy, and the cloudy outlook for retailers this Christmas season. 26 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:53,959 You would have read about the encouraging prediction about oil supplies and the bleak 27 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,719 outlook for municipal financing in the state that started the tax revolt. Another article 28 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:02,280 examined aluminum stock. They're beginning to reflect fears of a long, deep precession. 29 00:02:02,719 --> 00:02:06,959 The Walls three Journal, it's all the business news you need when you 30 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:08,639 need it. Right now. You can get twenty weeks of the journal. 31 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:13,919 That's one hundred copies for only twenty two dollars, a real money saving offer. 32 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:16,960 So in the continental US call this toll free number now eight hundred sixty 33 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:21,840 four eight five three two two. That's eight hundred sixty four eight five three 34 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:28,840 two two except anovadad you'll be built later. Diplomatic missions are underway to deal 35 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:31,599 with both the Iranian and Afghan situations. Secretary of State Vans will lead the 36 00:02:31,599 --> 00:02:36,599 delegation at the UN tomorrow. The NBC News has learned that economic sanctions against 37 00:02:36,599 --> 00:02:39,400 Iran will not immediately be sought. Apparently, Secretary of State bow Time has 38 00:02:39,439 --> 00:02:44,400 a chance to meet and negotiate directly with the Iatlesomny and the US will therefore 39 00:02:44,479 --> 00:02:47,080 hold off for ten days. Deputy Secretary of State Fristomers to meet with our 40 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:52,680 allies seeking a common response to the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Richard 41 00:02:52,719 --> 00:02:55,240 Valeriani reports that State seems to be hamstrung, and its dealings with Arvenians in 42 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:59,960 this country too are December twelve, the State depart ouder of the Iranian Embassy 43 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:02,919 Washington to cut its staff from sixty to fifteen and to reduce the number of 44 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:07,199 people working in four Iranian consulates around the country from about one hundred and sixty 45 00:03:07,199 --> 00:03:12,800 people to a total of twenty five in each consulate. The top Iranian diplomat 46 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:16,080 here was given five days to comply with the order, but sixteen days later, 47 00:03:16,159 --> 00:03:20,039 the Iranians still had not given the State Department a final list of the 48 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:23,319 thirty five diplomats and who operate their embassy and consulates. They did submit one 49 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:27,120 list, but then said they wanted to revise it, and a revised list 50 00:03:27,159 --> 00:03:30,840 has not yet been presented. Nor does the State Department know which Iranians, 51 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:34,879 if any, have actually left the country. Officials here say they're still working 52 00:03:34,879 --> 00:03:39,240 on getting the problem resolved. Richard Valerian NBC News at the State Department. 53 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:45,759 This is NBC News. 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Marshall. 77 00:06:10,759 --> 00:06:15,279 By the time this settlement of immigrants established itself as the United States of America, 78 00:06:15,759 --> 00:06:19,959 it had already produced, alongside its statesmen and traitors, various writers of 79 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:26,439 distinction who would come to be respected and admired all over the civilized world. 80 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:32,800 Once the new Republic was formed and proclaimed the land Burgin with many more of 81 00:06:32,879 --> 00:06:40,439 whom one was Washington Irving born in New York City in seventeen eighty three, 82 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:46,279 The drama were about to present for your enjoyment is a free adaptation of one 83 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:50,000 of his stories. But Godfried, you live like a solitary. You live 84 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:55,000 like a lunklot at all, Karl, Paris is full of women, fastidious, 85 00:06:55,079 --> 00:07:00,000 flirtatious, fascinating. I love them all. 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In eighteen 120 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:03,960 twenty five, a collection of short stories by Washington Irving was published under the 121 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:09,279 title of Tales of a Traveler. One section of the book is charmingly headed 122 00:10:09,639 --> 00:10:16,200 Strange Stories by a nervous Gentleman. And it is from this section that we 123 00:10:16,279 --> 00:10:26,840 have chosen the tale that follows one we call the Guillotine. I am of 124 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:33,000 a brooding and introspective nature. It has always been thus. It was never 125 00:10:33,039 --> 00:10:35,759 that I scorned the follies and the fripperies of this world. Indeed, I 126 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:43,159 begrudged others their free and easy access to such vanities, their effortless enjoyment of 127 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:46,759 them, with a profound and a scorching envy that was driving me to the 128 00:10:46,879 --> 00:10:52,320 very edge of my self control. I felt about to howl with a torment 129 00:10:52,399 --> 00:11:00,039 of my incapacity. In my agony, I turned to the only friend I 130 00:11:00,039 --> 00:11:05,759 had, my fellow student, my compatriot, the sole human who had tolerated 131 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:13,600 my intolerable moods without blame, without censure. What surely would have finished me 132 00:11:13,639 --> 00:11:20,240 off without abandoning me? Godfried, Godfried, my dear friend. Help me, 133 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:22,360 Carl, help me, But of course, just tell me what I 134 00:11:22,399 --> 00:11:26,759 can do. I don't know. Is it money you need money, money? 135 00:11:28,039 --> 00:11:33,559 If it were only money, it is myself, my tortured, restless, 136 00:11:33,639 --> 00:11:39,080 squirming self that looks for rest and cannot find it, that searches for 137 00:11:39,279 --> 00:11:45,159 peace and watches it retreat with every step I take. Desperation tracks my heels 138 00:11:45,159 --> 00:11:50,200 when I walk the streets, Melancholy meets me at every corner, and gloom, 139 00:11:52,039 --> 00:11:56,440 deep, impenetrable gloom fills the house where I live. Godfried, you 140 00:11:56,440 --> 00:12:01,679 are so much more clever than I clever. If you call me clever, 141 00:12:01,279 --> 00:12:05,360 you shut yourself away from other heart nor not from you. You are my 142 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:09,080 link to life, my only tie to the real world. About me, 143 00:12:09,399 --> 00:12:13,360 Then let me tell you straight out what I think. Your manner of living, 144 00:12:13,759 --> 00:12:18,000 your fevered absorption in your studies, your avoidance of the company of most 145 00:12:18,039 --> 00:12:22,159 men and all women, that I never know what to say to. That 146 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:26,200 all these things combine, godfreed, have impaired your health. You are haggard 147 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:31,200 and pale. Your shoulders are bent. Your eyes have a look that is 148 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:35,279 not quite of this world. Forgive me, my friend, if I speak 149 00:12:35,399 --> 00:12:37,559 roughly or no, you speak truly. But I think it is not alone 150 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:43,879 your body that is failing. I think your imagination has become forgive the word 151 00:12:43,919 --> 00:12:48,960 diseased. Have I said too much? Have I gone too far? I 152 00:12:50,039 --> 00:12:54,559 must tell you that of late I have been studying many philosophical theories, not 153 00:12:54,679 --> 00:13:03,039 just the recognized ones, but those more obscure, more perhaps radical. You 154 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:07,159 have the mind for such weighty things. Got fear gone back to the Egyptians, 155 00:13:07,279 --> 00:13:11,360 to the Hindu. I walked with Paracelsus in his garden. Of late, 156 00:13:11,399 --> 00:13:16,919 I've immersed myself in the teachings of Swedenborg and his New Jerusalem Church. 157 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:20,600 Swenborg, I don't think I know. He's a Swedish philosopher, a religious 158 00:13:20,639 --> 00:13:26,679 writer. He died a few years back. But he claimed to have established 159 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:31,240 direct communication with a spiritual world? How did he do that? Through the 160 00:13:31,279 --> 00:13:37,720 opening of his spiritual senses? And you can you has that happened to you? 161 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:43,039 Of course not. It didn't happen to Swedenborg until he was fifty seven 162 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:46,639 years of age. But it might happen, or something very like it might 163 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:52,799 happen to me. If only what godfried, if only was only I could 164 00:13:54,000 --> 00:14:01,840 escape, escape whom? Escape? What an evil influenced car? It hangs 165 00:14:01,879 --> 00:14:05,080 over me night and day. Oh, how can you say such thing? 166 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:11,159 Because I know them to be true? There's an evil genius, a vile 167 00:14:11,399 --> 00:14:18,039 spirit whose sole intent is to ensnare me and to ensure my damnation. You 168 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:22,840 really believe? It is not so much a matter of believing card It is 169 00:14:22,879 --> 00:14:28,440 a matter of conviction, conviction that it is so, and being convinced that 170 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:35,080 it is so it is so. I think I can understand that. No, 171 00:14:35,279 --> 00:14:39,039 I am not sure. I have never been given over much to fancies 172 00:14:39,039 --> 00:14:43,200 of that sort. I'm more of a practical man, you might say. 173 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:48,440 Still, in a way, I can understand how a man like yourself could 174 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:52,279 seize upon such an idea and become a well, let's say, a victim 175 00:14:52,279 --> 00:14:56,000 of it. Yes, yes, you've hit on the word car. I 176 00:14:56,039 --> 00:15:00,639 am a victim, a victim of my own imagining. Yes, you are 177 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:05,320 exquisitely correct. Well, then if I could go on and make a further 178 00:15:05,399 --> 00:15:11,240 suggest to my homies, speak out. It's my thought that you should leave 179 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:15,840 here and go to Paris. Paris. You could finish your studies there as 180 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:20,480 well as here. The Sorbonne is as fine a university as one could wish, 181 00:15:20,519 --> 00:15:24,159 and Paris is such a splendid city. A change of scene, a 182 00:15:24,279 --> 00:15:30,559 change of company, perhaps female company in particular. Who knows what all that 183 00:15:30,639 --> 00:15:39,279 might do for you? Yes, who knows? At first it seemed that 184 00:15:39,399 --> 00:15:45,879 Paris might indeed be the answer to my dilemma. The revolution was breaking out 185 00:15:45,919 --> 00:15:50,399 and beginning to spread. I had studied Jean jac Crusoe's Social Contract paragraph by 186 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:56,200 paragraph, and his theory of the equality of man and representation or government had 187 00:15:56,240 --> 00:16:03,120 captivated my mind more than that delirium of the people of Paris. Their further, 188 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:08,320 their ecstasy. It seemed that simply to leave in such an atmosphere would 189 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:15,720 be enough to cleanse my mind of its morbidity. I found myself a room 190 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:21,039 on a narrow, dark street in the Latin Quarter, not far from the 191 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:26,200 monastic walls of the Sorbonn. The concierge who showed me my quarters was as 192 00:16:26,279 --> 00:16:33,000 gloomy as the street itself. There it is two fronts. It has a 193 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:37,679 window. You can see that it has. Ah. Yes, I'll need 194 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:40,600 a table to put in front of the window. Could you arrange that? 195 00:16:41,559 --> 00:16:45,759 And a straight chair to put in front of the table. Is that possible. 196 00:16:48,559 --> 00:16:52,120 I am a student at the Sorbonn. I will be doing some writing. 197 00:16:52,799 --> 00:16:56,639 Arrange it. Could you also arrange for an armoir. I have only 198 00:16:56,679 --> 00:16:59,679 a very few clothes, but I will wear on nails on the wall. 199 00:17:00,559 --> 00:17:04,640 Oh yes, yes, I see. Now about bookshelves, I have very 200 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:07,240 few clothes, but I have a great many books, and I expect to 201 00:17:07,279 --> 00:17:14,799 have more. So I have no bookshees. I see. Well for the 202 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:18,359 time being, I suppose I can stack them on the floor or under the 203 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:22,599 bed. I'll manage two francs. Oh yes, yes, of course, 204 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:32,599 there you are. The students at the sorban seemed very excited about the uprising. 205 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:37,519 Students are always excited about something. The establishment of the National Assembly a 206 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:42,200 gesture open, but I'm it confirmed the revolution. The king will never again 207 00:17:42,319 --> 00:17:47,480 be absolute. If not the king, then it will be another. How 208 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:51,839 can you be so pessimistic? Why the day the people captured the bastill, 209 00:17:52,279 --> 00:17:53,559 I was not here, but I heard of it. The King went to 210 00:17:53,599 --> 00:17:56,799 the guildhall, he gave in. He even wore the red, white and 211 00:17:56,799 --> 00:18:00,240 blue cockade. I was told that is true, isn't it? Ah? 212 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:03,880 Yes? Well, then the arrest of the royal family, yes, yes. 213 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:07,680 And the march on Paris from Marseilles, Oh, what a thrill they 214 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:12,279 managed eighteen miles a day, I am told. Imagine that in midsummer, 215 00:18:12,279 --> 00:18:17,799 and drawing their cannon with him. Nobody of men has ever accomplished such an 216 00:18:17,799 --> 00:18:22,440 extraordinary feat. Yes, yes, the King, the Queen, the dauphin, 217 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:27,519 all imprisoned in the tower of the Temple Highest. And the establishment of 218 00:18:27,559 --> 00:18:32,440 the Committee of Public Safety. You approve? How could I not approve? 219 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:36,599 Madame with a great Marah heading a committee. My rise, a mad man, 220 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:41,720 not mad, or if he is not quite sane, that is due 221 00:18:41,759 --> 00:18:47,640 to his ardent belief in equality and government by general consent. The massacres of 222 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:52,400 September more than a thousand killed. Well, I know very little of that. 223 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:57,240 You know very little of anything, monsieur. It's your youth. Perhaps 224 00:18:59,079 --> 00:19:02,240 I should be general sent God it that. Well. It's true. I'm 225 00:19:02,279 --> 00:19:04,279 young, but I am not completely ignorant of the world in its ways. 226 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:11,480 Not completely you are. You are ignorant, and you are argan. Madame, 227 00:19:11,519 --> 00:19:15,759 I must protest. Have you heard of a man called Robespierre? Yes, 228 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:19,960 I've heard of him. He is idolized by the people. He will 229 00:19:21,039 --> 00:19:25,480 join the Committee of Public Safety before the year is out, and the king 230 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:34,200 will lose his head. Yes. In January of seventeen hundred and ninety three, 231 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:41,039 King Louis the sixteenth was guillotined. Six months later, Robespierre joined the 232 00:19:41,079 --> 00:19:47,680 Committee of Public Safety. Hundreds upon hundreds passed before the Revolutionary Tribunal and were 233 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:52,119 executed. Don't the man I had idealized was among the victims. So was 234 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:59,279 Madame Elizabeth's sister to the king, So was the Queen. I sickened and 235 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:04,160 turned away. The terror had begun, and I shrank from the sight of 236 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:10,799 it. I spent the better part of my days in the libraries, those 237 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:17,039 catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hordes of dusty and obsolete works. 238 00:20:17,079 --> 00:20:22,519 In quest of food for my unhealthy appetite. I became, in a manner 239 00:20:22,559 --> 00:20:30,880 of speaking, a literary ghoul, feeding in the Charnel House of decayed literature. 240 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:40,559 Washington Irving was born just as the seeds of the French Revolution were starting 241 00:20:40,559 --> 00:20:45,359 to Germanagh. By the time he was of school age, the revolution had 242 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:49,200 been confirmed by the establishment of the National Assembly. At the age of eight, 243 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:53,759 he was old enough to hear from his elders of the march on Paris 244 00:20:53,759 --> 00:20:59,480 in the spring. His ninth and tenth years must have been filled with rumors 245 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:03,079 of the ex acutions in Paris, ears which came to be known as the 246 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:08,319 Terror. I'll be back shortly to continue with Act two. The next time 247 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:12,559 you want to do it yourself, be professional. Use a quality Skill Power 248 00:21:12,599 --> 00:21:17,799 tool from True Value Hardware Stores. Hi that summer all to suggest you get 249 00:21:17,799 --> 00:21:21,599 the Skills seven and a quarter in circular saw designed for standard home use. 250 00:21:22,079 --> 00:21:26,759 It has a burnout protected motor, heavy gage foot brackets to assure accurate cuts 251 00:21:26,759 --> 00:21:30,319 at all settings, and comes complete with a blade. Or get the Skill 252 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:33,759 three eight cents cordless drill from True Value Hardware Stores. 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In the Midwest, 273 00:23:00,599 --> 00:23:03,759 see American Computer in Obaha, just six blocks south of I eighty at 274 00:23:03,759 --> 00:23:06,960 the eighty fourth street that are changed out of Towner's car collect five nine two 275 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:10,200 three five nine zero, Obaha and Council of Blass. We have twenty nine 276 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:14,880 degrees, a little snow Lincoln, Cloudy's guys, and thirty This is kfab 277 00:23:15,519 --> 00:23:30,480 Oma, Washington. Irving started out to become a lawyer, but his health 278 00:23:30,559 --> 00:23:34,440 was not robust, and, as was very much the habit with doctors of 279 00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:40,359 his time, he was advised to travel abroad and so build up his constitution. 280 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:44,119 We shall never know what sort of lawyer he might have become, but 281 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:48,400 we know for a certainty that he developed into a first class writer. And 282 00:23:48,519 --> 00:23:53,039 it was his early visit to Europe which roused his interest in the Gothic tales 283 00:23:53,079 --> 00:23:57,079 of terror and romance, such as the one we have adapted for you. 284 00:24:03,759 --> 00:24:07,079 It would have been just as well had I never come to Paris. I 285 00:24:07,279 --> 00:24:12,039 was as lonely here as I had been at home, as incapable of establishing 286 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:18,920 human contact. As ever. I sank deeper and deeper into my studies of 287 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,519 writers long deceased, and saw no one, no one at all but the 288 00:24:22,599 --> 00:24:29,079 old crone who was concierge of the establishment where I had my cell like chamber. 289 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:37,839 Yes, who is it? Come in? Someone to see you? 290 00:24:37,039 --> 00:24:42,240 But me there, someone who wishes to see me? So he says, 291 00:24:42,599 --> 00:24:47,920 who is it? Didn't you ask him? He spoke as though he knew 292 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:52,480 you from elsewhere, as though you were old friends. Carl? Did he 293 00:24:52,559 --> 00:24:56,759 say his name is Carl? I told you. He didn't say. I 294 00:24:56,759 --> 00:25:00,960 didn't have of course, it's of course it's Car. Who else could it 295 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,279 be? What shall I say to him? Your friend? Well, I 296 00:25:03,319 --> 00:25:07,240 ask him kindly to come up at once. If he we all, I'll 297 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:12,799 come down anything at all. Tell him he's most welcome. Would you believe 298 00:25:12,799 --> 00:25:18,960 it? I was trembling all over clumsily. I tried to put the room 299 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:22,319 into some kind of order. I kicked books under the bed. I scraped 300 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:26,559 together the papers and notebooks from my table and tried to stack them into a 301 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:32,559 semblance of neatness. And I patted the narrow little bed and drew the spread 302 00:25:32,599 --> 00:25:37,079 more evenly over its lumpy surface. I was scurrying about like the most frantic 303 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:41,759 housewife when I heard Carl's voice from the door where it's only I, you 304 00:25:41,799 --> 00:25:45,880 know that very only only you, car car. Come in. Please sit, 305 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:49,720 Carl. I am so happy to see you. You don't know, 306 00:25:49,839 --> 00:25:52,680 you just don't know. I am happy that you. I had to have 307 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:59,960 someone to talk to, someone, someone like you, someone who who understand, 308 00:26:00,039 --> 00:26:07,720 and I did not know to now to this very moment, how much 309 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:12,319 I have needed someone I could talk to to open my heart to wait. 310 00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:17,759 Now, you mean there's been no one here in Paris, No, no 311 00:26:17,839 --> 00:26:22,039 one at all. I have spent my time at the Sorbon, in the 312 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:26,680 libraries, in the museums, s Godfried. No one can live entirely within 313 00:26:26,799 --> 00:26:32,160 libraries and museum. Yes, I know. The moment I saw you standing 314 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,960 there, I knew. It begins to look as though I gave you bad 315 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,920 advice, counseling you to come to par No no, no, it was 316 00:26:38,039 --> 00:26:44,599 sound advice, or at least it seemed to be at first. Paris seemed 317 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:48,640 to be the tonic I was needing. At first, you say, well, 318 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:52,079 then, what well is? Oh wait, I haven't offered you anything 319 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:56,400 to drink. I must have a bottle of wine around here, somewhere, 320 00:26:56,519 --> 00:27:02,920 Yes, yes, here we are sort I'm afraid, a very ordinary bourgeois. 321 00:27:03,519 --> 00:27:07,000 I'm sorry, I could go out for Godfrey, don't excite yourself. 322 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,680 Think of whom you're speaking to. It's Carl, your friend. Think of 323 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:14,359 all the evenings we shared a bottle of the cheapest wine and found it sufficient 324 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:18,559 because of the pleasure of each other's company. Can't we open this bottle in 325 00:27:18,599 --> 00:27:21,359 the same spirit? Of course, of course we can't forgive you. My 326 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:26,920 manners have grown. Course it comes from being too much alone. There must 327 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:32,640 be another glass somewhere around I'm sure I had one. Oh here we are, 328 00:27:34,519 --> 00:27:42,279 oh God, freed to friendship, our friendship, yours and mine. 329 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:52,680 You know, I am beginning to feel almost like a man again. Tell 330 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:56,720 me what has brought you to this sorry state? The blood? I beg 331 00:27:56,759 --> 00:28:03,720 your pardon, you said, the blood. You know how wildly enthusiastic I 332 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:08,720 was with the political theories of the revolution and the philosophy behind them. They 333 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:14,920 seemed to open a vista of progress for mankind, a wide and open road 334 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,319 down which we could travel toward the perfect state. You were always one to 335 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:22,400 look for perfection, and why not? Why not? Well, why were 336 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,920 we put on earth if not to search for the perfect state? Are we 337 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:29,680 supposed to wallow in the mediocre and pretend that it suffices, roll about in 338 00:28:29,759 --> 00:28:32,480 filth and call it good? Is that our reason for being? Is that 339 00:28:32,519 --> 00:28:37,000 what we were created for? In God's emire, friend, you must try 340 00:28:37,039 --> 00:28:41,079 not to excite yourself. Excite myself is enough to write me mad. That 341 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:45,279 the visions were all forsaken and the visionaries time to killing. The dreams were 342 00:28:45,359 --> 00:28:52,799 trampled, and the dreamers drowned themselves in blood. Car, there are times 343 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:56,799 when I think it has done just that. Listen to me, Car, 344 00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:03,000 Let me tell you something I must tell someone, as only you. No 345 00:29:03,039 --> 00:29:10,160 one else, of course, Gotfrida, You can tell me anything, Carl. 346 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:17,000 In the most ancient part of Paris, where the Hotel de Ville lies, 347 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:21,440 you know the place I have heard on the place de Greve, the 348 00:29:21,559 --> 00:29:26,440 open space in front of the hotel de Ville. That is where they have 349 00:29:26,519 --> 00:29:33,640 erected the guillotine. I have heard, Yes, this instrument of death stands 350 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:42,640 ever ready. The scaffold runs all day with blood all day. Each day 351 00:29:44,359 --> 00:29:48,400 victims are dragged there and made to kneel. A heavy blade is released. 352 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:56,039 It slides swiftly down vertical guides and the head, the head of the victim 353 00:29:56,160 --> 00:30:02,039 or heavenly father, it is too horrible, too terrible. Can't do yet, 354 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:07,200 you must take these crimes upon yourself. A revolution has never been accomplished 355 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:11,400 without shedding, Goddess, but this has become a mania for blood and insatiable 356 00:30:11,519 --> 00:30:15,480 first. Even now, at this moment, while the city sleeps, that 357 00:30:15,599 --> 00:30:26,880 horrible engine stands, grim and silent, waiting for fresh victims. It sickens 358 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:33,400 me. It congeals my heart, it freezes my blood. I understand, 359 00:30:34,079 --> 00:30:41,759 I do, and that is why I have turned away to the study of 360 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:48,359 ancient writers, dead thinkers, anything to separate me from the awful present. 361 00:30:48,759 --> 00:30:55,640 My poor Godfried, I am so sorry, so sorry you. I am 362 00:30:55,680 --> 00:31:02,359 ashamed to accept your pity. Yet I thank you for it, which shames 363 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:07,519 me all the more that I should be grateful. But there must be other 364 00:31:07,599 --> 00:31:12,000 things. There must be more to life. Come, let's finish this bottle 365 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:15,400 of wine before I have to leave. Leave, you have to leave, 366 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:19,240 and not quite yet. I can spend another quarter of an hour, a 367 00:31:19,319 --> 00:31:22,319 quarter of an hour, no more than that time. I must take a 368 00:31:22,359 --> 00:31:30,839 train back at midnight. I have thought and hope that I have been so 369 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,519 alone. Yes, ye, come, now, let's make the most of 370 00:31:33,559 --> 00:31:40,480 our time together. Bring up now, and we'll talk of pleasant things such 371 00:31:40,519 --> 00:31:44,319 as yes, such as wanted, well, such as women. For example, 372 00:31:44,839 --> 00:31:47,720 surely there are women in Paris who have taken your fans somewhere. Yes, 373 00:31:48,759 --> 00:31:52,759 here's many, many well there, And now you see things are not 374 00:31:52,839 --> 00:31:56,480 all black and gloomy. Of course, I have not met any women. 375 00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:04,599 I haven't neck. I've never had it. Do you know that I thought 376 00:32:04,599 --> 00:32:08,799 that here in Paris you might well acquire it, learn the ways of the 377 00:32:08,839 --> 00:32:16,119 world. I'm too shy. I can't find the courage. But I think 378 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,920 about them, Oh, do you know, Yes, yes I do. 379 00:32:20,079 --> 00:32:22,920 I think of them a great deal. When I come back here to my 380 00:32:23,759 --> 00:32:31,960 lonely room myself, I think back in my mind to the delectable faces I 381 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:37,359 have seen on the streets. You know what, Carl, you know what 382 00:32:37,759 --> 00:32:45,079 in my reveries, in my dreams of them, they are even lovelier than 383 00:32:45,079 --> 00:32:51,160 they looked on the streets. What do you think of that? Do you 384 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,319 mean to tell me that there isn't even one woman, one in particular, 385 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:59,559 just one? Oh? Yes, yes, there is one, one, 386 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:05,240 very particular one has better tell me about her? Tell you about How could 387 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,759 I tell you about her? I'll start by telling me what she looks like? 388 00:33:08,319 --> 00:33:16,720 Yes, well, her skin is very pale, very very pale, 389 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:24,440 white, like a white rose. Her eyes dark dark and burning hot, 390 00:33:24,559 --> 00:33:30,720 like sultry suns leather, and better, her hair a shade of red, 391 00:33:30,799 --> 00:33:35,559 I think you think? Yes, yes, her hair is reddish, some 392 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:40,759 might call it somber, but against the pallor of her skin and her name? 393 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:45,920 Her name? What about her name? Aren't you going to tell me 394 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:50,000 the name of your lovely She has no name? Why should she have her 395 00:33:50,079 --> 00:33:53,480 name? Guthrie? Are you trunk? I have never given her a name? 396 00:33:55,839 --> 00:34:04,680 Why should I? She's my dream? You you only dream of this 397 00:34:04,799 --> 00:34:08,880 woman. She's not real, she doesn't exist. She is real to me. 398 00:34:10,559 --> 00:34:15,800 She exists in my dreams. She lives in my thoughts by day, 399 00:34:16,559 --> 00:34:27,760 she haunts my dreams by night don't you understand I love her, whoa my 400 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:31,480 poor friend. I shall always love her to the end of my days. 401 00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:38,679 So you see I am not quite as lonely as you thought, not at 402 00:34:38,679 --> 00:34:45,320 all, not lonely at all, because she is with me at all times. 403 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:53,320 I yes, I see, I think, I see, dear friend. 404 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:58,039 It is getting on from midnight, and I have a train to catch. 405 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:05,639 We walk with me to the stay, of course, I said I 406 00:35:05,679 --> 00:35:10,360 would, and I did. Though it was a stormy night. Claps of 407 00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:16,880 thunder were rattling among the high houses of the narrow streets. Lightning flashed now 408 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:22,119 and again, and the rain that began to fall seemed to drop into my 409 00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:29,480 heart as much as on the pobble starts. When I had watched the train 410 00:35:29,599 --> 00:35:34,960 depart, carrying off my only friend, I thought to return to my room. 411 00:35:35,159 --> 00:35:39,000 But something, a morbid recollection of our conversation, no doubt, drew 412 00:35:39,079 --> 00:35:45,119 me or forced me toward the Hotel de Ville and the place de Greve, 413 00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:52,119 And in a sudden flare of lightning, I saw it. The horrible engine 414 00:35:52,119 --> 00:36:01,559 of death, the guillotine. A violent forever ran through me, and I 415 00:36:01,679 --> 00:36:07,880 wanted to run, but something held me, rooted to the spot till the 416 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:17,519 lightning burst forth again, and there, crouch'd by the guillotine, I saw 417 00:36:17,639 --> 00:36:23,840 a shadowy form, all dressed in black, A female form seated on one 418 00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:30,039 of the lower steps of the scaffold, leaning forward, her face in her 419 00:36:30,119 --> 00:36:49,360 lap, her long, dishevel'd hair hanging to the ground, her long reddish 420 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:55,039 You are listening to a tale of terror and romance told in the Gothic style. 421 00:36:55,960 --> 00:37:01,480 So called Gothic stories were enormously pope in the nineteenth century, and they 422 00:37:01,519 --> 00:37:07,360 have never wholly ceased to be in demand by the reading public, or, 423 00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:12,159 for that matter, the viewing audience, or as now the listening one. 424 00:37:13,159 --> 00:37:16,000 It is good to remember that the Gothic romance was assisted into our world by 425 00:37:16,039 --> 00:37:21,719 a gentleman from New York mis to Washington curving. I'll be back shortly with 426 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,519 our concluding act. All right, this is Michael Landon. I know pictures 427 00:37:24,519 --> 00:37:28,119 of your family are important, so when you get them developed, do what 428 00:37:28,159 --> 00:37:38,119 I did. Make sure Kodak paper is behind them. Make sure you look 429 00:37:38,159 --> 00:37:42,079 for a store with a Kodak paper sign, the one that says we use 430 00:37:42,159 --> 00:37:55,360 Kodak paper for a good look, and tell them Michael sent Walter cronkite, 431 00:37:55,559 --> 00:38:00,719 one of a kind, writing for editing, working with a supprove CBS news 432 00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:04,360 team together and report the news for a cluster on the sales, for dealing 433 00:38:04,639 --> 00:38:07,559 constant pressure of being the best. And there's only one place you can find 434 00:38:07,599 --> 00:38:15,360 this anchor man, this editor, this team ringed about the strong but confighting 435 00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:22,639 company only on the CBS Evening News Monday through Friday on the CBS television network. 436 00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:30,320 I said that couldn't be rippled. The book that hit America like a 437 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:37,039 longway locomotive. So now from Sumer Information catalogs for the length of me foster 438 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:42,880 Europe fishing with the book escapes me. It's only a cataround book that's helping 439 00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:50,079 America find a better way to lear What do you find in a catalog something 440 00:38:50,159 --> 00:38:54,719 you could never kidney Lillian for than two hundred but bills, federal publications, 441 00:38:54,800 --> 00:39:00,679 busted in size, book, the Time home in color pairs, eight control 442 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:04,920 keeping household records, and more. I get them all to be the man 443 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:08,239 you want to be back a lot of reading the book. You have to 444 00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:14,440 read from the Consumer Inflation Center of the UF coming them to new Consumer Information 445 00:39:14,559 --> 00:39:19,280 catalog. It's free, just like two free catalog Pueblo Cololado eight one, 446 00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:24,039 all nine, that free catalog what Low Colorado eight one O nine ten for 447 00:39:24,119 --> 00:39:30,679 the book Coun't Rink and a movie Tomorrow Night's Mystery Theater deals with a man 448 00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:36,719 who literally fought windmills. Here the Adventures of Don Quixote at eleven, all 449 00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:42,119 five on kfab. But now we return to Act three of the Guillotine. 450 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,599 It is true that Washington Irving was born in New York, but for reasons 451 00:39:54,639 --> 00:40:00,840 of health, he traveled extensively abroad and actually had living orders for a time 452 00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:05,920 in the Alhambra, that centuries old palace that still stand on a hill in 453 00:40:06,039 --> 00:40:09,159 Granada, a relic of the time when the Moors ruled a large part of 454 00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:14,519 Spain. In fact, she can go there today and see the very wounds 455 00:40:14,559 --> 00:40:19,679 he occupied, and if you are very careful and no one is looking, 456 00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:30,280 touched the keys of the spinnet on which he played. I stood in the 457 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:35,559 teeming rain and gazed at the woman in black who sat on the steps of 458 00:40:35,639 --> 00:40:43,679 the scaffold. There was something awful in this solitary monument of woe. She 459 00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,960 looked to be a woman of some distinction. Who could it be but some 460 00:40:47,159 --> 00:40:52,840 poor mourner, whom the dreadful axe had made desolate, who now sat here, 461 00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:58,119 heartbroken, on the strand of existence from which all that was dear to 462 00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:02,840 her had been launched into it. I could not leave the cluster grab without 463 00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:15,559 speaking to us, Madame. Your pardon, Madame, I would not intrude 464 00:41:15,639 --> 00:41:22,159 upon your solitude. But neither can I pass by and leave you here alone 465 00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:28,960 the storm the power of the night. Let me lead you away from this 466 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:32,280 gruesome place, and let me take you to your friends who will cherish and 467 00:41:32,559 --> 00:41:40,440 take care of you. Madame. I I have no friend, oh, 468 00:41:40,519 --> 00:41:45,920 madame, such a one as you. I have no friends. The guillotine 469 00:41:46,119 --> 00:41:51,119 has taken them all. Is that what you mean? My heart weeps for 470 00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:55,000 you. But if there are no friends to give you refuge, at least 471 00:41:55,320 --> 00:42:01,519 let me take you home. I have no home but in the gray, 472 00:42:01,559 --> 00:42:05,840 oh, Madame. I know I am a stranger to you. You have 473 00:42:06,119 --> 00:42:12,480 no reason to trust either me or my intentions. But if you would permit 474 00:42:12,559 --> 00:42:17,039 me to hope you my protection. I am a poor student, Madame. 475 00:42:17,119 --> 00:42:22,280 I am not even a native of Paris. I live in the most humble 476 00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:25,760 hotel in the Latin Quarter, such as it is I would be honored happy 477 00:42:27,559 --> 00:42:31,000 if you would let me place my single room at your disposal on this most 478 00:42:31,119 --> 00:42:38,679 wretched of knights. You is in very kind, very sincere. Thank you, 479 00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:44,480 Thank you madame for understanding. Then you will come with me, and 480 00:42:44,679 --> 00:42:52,760 you will permit me to enlist as your protector. Monsieurs, life fat lies 481 00:42:52,920 --> 00:43:05,760 in your hand. The storm had abated, all Paris was quiet. That 482 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:10,360 great volcano of human passion slumbered for a while to gather fresh strength for the 483 00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:16,719 next day's eruption. I conducted my charge through the ancient streets of the Latin 484 00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:22,360 Quarter, by the dusky walls of a Sorbonne, to the dingy hotel where 485 00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:25,679 I lived. The hour was late, and I had to ring for the 486 00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:36,239 corsierge coming coming. Don't be afraid of her, she's crossed but really kind. 487 00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:40,079 Thank you, Thank you, madame. I am so sorry to trouble 488 00:43:40,119 --> 00:43:45,519 you. You you have someone with you, yes, yes, a friend 489 00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:53,280 man. Come in you and your friend, Thank you, madame. If 490 00:43:53,360 --> 00:44:00,320 you need anything refreshment of any kind, yes, thank you. My room 491 00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:07,280 is on the first floor. You'll find it rather shabby. I'm afraid this 492 00:44:07,639 --> 00:44:12,519 hotel once belonged to a member of the nobility, but only the remains of 493 00:44:12,639 --> 00:44:16,440 its old glory are still evident, and you have to look very hard, 494 00:44:16,519 --> 00:44:20,320 indeed, to see them. Here we are. Here is the door, 495 00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:28,360 madame. I'll fetch your light. You can make yourself comfortable. There's a 496 00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:30,000 bed over there if you care to lie down. You must be tired. 497 00:44:31,199 --> 00:44:37,639 Ah, here we are, here's our light. You are very kind to 498 00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:44,400 a poor stranger. Madame. What is it you are? You're so pale, 499 00:44:45,199 --> 00:44:52,480 your hair, your eyes, your skin. It please you. Your 500 00:44:52,519 --> 00:45:00,519 black dress, your black cap. It's so simple, I am you like 501 00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:06,920 them? They jowls, no ornaments of any kind, only a broad black 502 00:45:07,079 --> 00:45:13,199 band around your lovely neck with its diamond clasp. You are too perfect? 503 00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:20,239 Who are too perfect? By far? Madame? May I tell you something 504 00:45:21,119 --> 00:45:27,079 of what is in my heart? I have loved you for a very long 505 00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:34,840 time, a very long time. I have seen you every night for months, 506 00:45:36,079 --> 00:45:42,280 and many times during the day. Have you been following me? Young 507 00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:47,360 man? Had been dreaming of you asleep at night in trance. During the 508 00:45:47,519 --> 00:45:52,960 day. It has been your face, your form that filled my thoughts and 509 00:45:52,159 --> 00:46:01,480 fevered my imagination. I adore you. How strange it all is strange, 510 00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:07,840 But marvelous. Did you should have thought of me all this time, thought 511 00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:12,760 of you, dreamed of you? Oh? Or was it that you, 512 00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:17,039 young and ardent, have filled your head with thoughts of the other sects? 513 00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:24,239 It would only be natural, and your thoughts simply reappeared in your dreams. 514 00:46:24,519 --> 00:46:30,519 But though I am of such a shy disposition, I have never had the 515 00:46:30,639 --> 00:46:37,320 courage to pursue my fancies into the world of reality. All this is known 516 00:46:37,559 --> 00:46:40,480 to a friend of mine. He was here today a short visit to Paris. 517 00:46:40,599 --> 00:46:45,760 We talked here in this very room. I spent a good part of 518 00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:51,320 our time together telling him that while I thought of women as any man does, 519 00:46:52,400 --> 00:47:00,079 still there was one in particular, one very particular one. Are you 520 00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:06,719 seen. My friend asked me what she looked like, this one particular woman. 521 00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:13,679 He asked me to describe her. Yes, and I said, her 522 00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:21,039 skin is white as a white rose, Her eyes are dark like sultry suns, 523 00:47:21,559 --> 00:47:28,719 and her hair a certain shade of deep red. Oh, my dear, 524 00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:31,559 surely, such a miracle that you have come to life, that you 525 00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:37,039 sit here in my little room, in all your beauty and desirability. I 526 00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:40,800 told my friend this evening, I said, do not pity me, because 527 00:47:42,119 --> 00:47:49,079 I love this woman of my dreams and shall always love her. And what 528 00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:53,320 did he have to say to that, your friend? I think he understood. 529 00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:59,880 At least he accepted what I said as truth, as my truth. 530 00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:07,400 But and it was time for him to take his train. We said farewell. 531 00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:15,480 I started to walk back here, and then and then we met by 532 00:48:15,519 --> 00:48:20,639 the giute, and I dared to speak to you, and I listened and 533 00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:24,199 believe, and I brought you back to my humble room, and here we 534 00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:30,199 are together. I tell you, it is a miracle, the miracle of 535 00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:34,960 my life. It is yourself. It is you come to life. It 536 00:48:35,199 --> 00:48:37,880 is you sitting next to me, your hand. I am holding your eyes. 537 00:48:38,079 --> 00:48:47,159 I gaze into It is your lips. I desire if I might only, 538 00:48:49,599 --> 00:48:57,039 yes, if I might kiss those lips. Just one, only one, 539 00:48:57,199 --> 00:49:07,000 Madame, my most beloved, my darling. Again again, my sweet 540 00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:13,960 angel, can give me courage to ask you something I never thought to ask. 541 00:49:14,679 --> 00:49:20,400 Yes, my love, do you feel as I feel? Why should 542 00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:23,199 we separate? You and I our hearts are already united in the eye of 543 00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:27,800 reason and honor. We are as one. Oh? Yeah, you have 544 00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:31,639 no home, no family. Let me be home family, everything to you. 545 00:49:32,159 --> 00:49:38,360 Rather, let us be everything to each other. Yeah, to take 546 00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:51,639 my hand, I pledge myself to you forever forever you see, forever forever. 547 00:49:52,880 --> 00:50:04,599 Then, my lover, I am yours. The next morning, in 548 00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:10,079 order not to disturb my beautiful sleeping bride, I crept cautiously and quietly from 549 00:50:10,119 --> 00:50:15,280 our bed, and as quietly dressed myself and went forth early in the day 550 00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:20,559 to look for larger quarters, since it was clear to me that my situation 551 00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:27,280 had so changed as to make the tiny student's room quite inappropriate. When I 552 00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:31,559 returned from my search, I stopped to speak to the concierge, who quite 553 00:50:31,679 --> 00:50:38,440 clearly was taking a certain enjoyment in my plandestine affair. Good morning this year 554 00:50:38,639 --> 00:50:43,599 morning. Will you be wanting a smolder path to you and the lady? 555 00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:47,039 A coffee? Perhaps? Yes, that would be very nice. Thank you. 556 00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:52,360 The lady has not asked for me, no, no, monsieur. 557 00:50:52,679 --> 00:50:58,639 No has she gone out. I've watched for her. No, she still 558 00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:02,360 sleeps in your room, and I believe, thank you, I'll be up 559 00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:07,440 in a moment with your coffee and COTSA thank you so very much. We'll 560 00:51:07,519 --> 00:51:16,440 both appreciate that. My darling, my love, it is I I have 561 00:51:16,559 --> 00:51:20,639 been walking the streets looking for a better place for us to live at, 562 00:51:20,679 --> 00:51:24,400 two rooms at least by the river, if possible, do you hear me? 563 00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:29,519 We'll come along, my sweetheart, wake up now. The conciergtions bringing 564 00:51:29,679 --> 00:51:34,199 us our breakfast. We come along. You cannot be comfortable lying like that, 565 00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:37,760 your head hanging over our poor little bed, your arm thrown over it 566 00:51:38,159 --> 00:51:45,800 will let me move your arm at least. But how cold you are? 567 00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:52,960 Oh, very cool? Or your hand is like eyes? Oh my god, 568 00:51:54,000 --> 00:52:00,000 there's no pulse, no pulse at all, and you ye pale, 569 00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:10,039 ghastly. Oh no, monsieur. I have brought breakfast for you and the 570 00:52:10,199 --> 00:52:21,119 lady. The lady. The lady is dead, dead in my house. 571 00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:31,039 A police. I'm fetching a police. The gendarme arrived in short order. 572 00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:37,440 He found me kneeling by the side of the bed, gazing in horror and 573 00:52:37,639 --> 00:52:42,760 dreadful fascination at the lifeless face of the woman I had loved for so long, 574 00:52:43,639 --> 00:52:45,880 the woman who had finally given herself to me in a pledge of a 575 00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:51,960 lifetime of love. As the officer of the police entered the room, I 576 00:52:52,039 --> 00:52:55,119 looked up at him and saw him start back suddenly, a look of total 577 00:52:55,199 --> 00:53:00,159 amazement on his face, Great massive lever, How does this woman come to 578 00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:04,719 be here? Do you know her, monsieur, let me come closer. 579 00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:09,880 Do you know who she is? I know who she is. I was 580 00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:20,360 there in the plastograph when they chopped off her head their guillotine her yesterday. 581 00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:37,079 I hardly know how to tell you what happened. Then the policeman leaned over 582 00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:43,039 and unfastened the black collar with a diamond clasp that encircled the neck of my 583 00:53:43,159 --> 00:53:51,840 beloved, and horror of horrors, her beautiful head rolled upon the floor. 584 00:53:53,360 --> 00:54:00,559 And then I knew my most awful fear had been true. All along the 585 00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:07,960 field, the fiends had gained possession of me, and I was lost, 586 00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:23,719 forever, forever lost. There is a PostScript to this story, appended by 587 00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:29,679 Washington Irving, and I shall read it to you. Is this really a 588 00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:34,360 fact, said the inquisitive listener. A fact not to be doubted, was 589 00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:38,239 the reply. I had it from the best authority. The student told it 590 00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:44,679 to me himself. I saw him in a madhouse at Paris. I'll be 591 00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:49,559 back shortly. It's June seventeen seventy eight, and we're at the desperate Battle 592 00:54:49,599 --> 00:54:52,079 of Monmouth. A legend is being borne before my very eyes. A young 593 00:54:52,199 --> 00:54:57,199 woman volunteer, Molly Pitcher, is helping fire one of the American cannons. 594 00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:00,679 Can you talk to us, Molly? Are you kidding? The British army 595 00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:07,480 cutting out hard work for a woman hot and heart Try cooking in a colonial 596 00:55:07,599 --> 00:55:10,800 kitchen sometime, not a woman. We've all got to help our country for 597 00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:15,920 these thousands of women are volunteers who have joined National Garden Reserve units. They 598 00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:20,480 are a vital part of our military manpower and woman power had only a fraction 599 00:55:20,559 --> 00:55:23,519 of the cost of equivalent active duty forces covered. Three hundred thousand employers have 600 00:55:23,559 --> 00:55:29,119 signed a statement of support encouraging employees to participate in garden Reserve training. Shouldn't 601 00:55:29,159 --> 00:55:31,559 you hey your employers out there, don't you know that when you help a 602 00:55:31,639 --> 00:55:36,320 bounce, your help our country, you're helping yourself. You haven't signed a 603 00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:42,320 statement of support yet, you should be ashamed. They Employer support Arlington, 604 00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:45,840 Virginia two to two oh nine a public service on behalf of employer support of 605 00:55:45,880 --> 00:56:01,239 the Garden Reserve and the Advertising Council. A horror store is international, starting 606 00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:06,760 with the Castle of Otranto by the Englishman Horace Walpole. It was followed and 607 00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:12,000 improved upon by Honorari Balzac in France and in America. It was carried on 608 00:56:12,119 --> 00:56:15,519 by Washington Irving and brought to a peak by the genius of Edgar Allan Pole. 609 00:56:16,159 --> 00:56:22,760 Oh Yes, the horror story is here to stay. Our cast included 610 00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:28,480 Paul hecked Don Scardino, and Brana Rayburn. The entire production was under the 611 00:56:28,559 --> 00:56:37,480 direction of Hyman Brown and now a preview of our next tale. Rosinante world 612 00:56:37,039 --> 00:56:42,920 to me, to my poor ignorant eyes, I could have sworn they will 613 00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:45,760 win this. You are afraid, say your craze. I'll meet them all 614 00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:49,440 alone. You stay here, Salcho, what are you up to? My 615 00:56:49,559 --> 00:56:54,360 Lord? Stand your ground, you cowardly names, you dastedly giant, dare 616 00:56:54,480 --> 00:57:00,679 careful master required Sancho. I may be only a single life alone, you 617 00:57:00,039 --> 00:57:06,639 miserable, overgrown hain't hearted monster. You can get hurt, But like David 618 00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:14,280 facing half a dozen goliaths, I engage you all in unequal but mortal combat. 619 00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:17,119 An quixote. The wind has fastened the sails. The arms of the 620 00:57:17,199 --> 00:57:22,760 windmills are turning fast and fast. 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