Come in welcome, I need ye, marshal. Doomsday is the eighth day
of the week. It's a day out of time and out of place,
and it dawn as quietly and rus's course, just like another day, and
lillions, even a billions of people may be unaware of it. After all,
it may not be Wednesday for everybody. I'll stop eating, Roger lily
from but from destroying my daughter, ruining her life, squandering her fortune.
Lou, what makes you think I do a thing like that. I won't
allow it to happen. I'll stop you. How you'll be dead, I
know and buried. I nodded at two, but still I'll stop you.
Our mystery drama The Eighth Day was written especially for the Mystery Theater by Sam
Dan and stars mad L Kreamer. I'll bet exhortly that one is a lovely,
dark and deep. But I have promises to keep and mile lost to
go before I sleep, And like the poet, we all have promises to
keep and miles to go. But of course the matter is all of our
hands. Rouget and populars our journal may be wes were sleep overtake us.
Finally, Rogers father wants to see you. Of course I fight Julia.
Everything's going to bed. Doctor Vince told a lot of fathers going wife forever.
He looks so to die. I didn't just relax. I have a
cup of tea and become and beautiful. I'll go out on us a little
chat with daddy. Roger. Here's the gal baking for that's right. I've
been waiting eight years in eleven n three weeks, four dollars and what I'm
sixty. He always get a head for figures, an appetite for them too,
and wish upon her listen to a word, I say, absolutely not.
Don't plunder the business, Roger, Oh both a good classical world follow
told her there's no way I can keep it from falling into your hands.
I know that I left him to Julie, but it's just a legality.
She will do whatever you tell her. Don't you worry, Loom. I'll
run things for her. Run years, add the letter eye to run and
you've got ruin, Roger. Life is more than just spending money, is
it? Really? It's spending money? Wisely, pity you never became a
minister Loo. You're going to die preaching a sermon where when you reach this
point, you see things so clearly. You're breaking my heart. So important
to help people. I do help people, Yes, hustlers, gamblers,
refrat Lou. I don't go downgrading your friends. You're going to have a
lot of money. Yes, thanks to you, invest in people. Feel
like I did help someone who who could make an impact on the world,
make it a better and brighter place to live in. You old reprobate,
I change trata. I saw the Oh good lord, oh this must sound
the error of my ways. We should have violins in the background. As
a man of wealth, you have obligation, a thundering cords of a mighty
organ. I subsidized this young man, this artist, Peter Strizik, not
the one who did the portrait of you that hangs in the office. The
boys are genius. One day the world will know it. The day I
take over. That nightmare goes off the wall and into the dump where it
belongs. Right, I'm saying these things for your own court. I should
have gone, you're hopeless. You'll make Julia miserable. Oh that's where you're
wrong. I make Julia very happy. Yes may not be you're kind of
happy, but it's her kind of happy. You'll run through her money and
throw her out into the street. Oh, I don't think I'll ever throw
her out into the street. I like her. You don't know the meaning
of the world love. That's why I never use it. I said,
like, she's nice, she's sweet, she's dumb. A guy like me
needs a girl like that to come home to. You're hotly like if all
only you could outlive me, But you can't love. Doctor Evans says,
you're checking out by midnight at the latest. For nine long years, you
slapped away my fingers every time I reached for the money. Now it's going
to be mine, all mine, Russia. If there's even a single spark
of decency, tiniest shred, if you manageable, man, Lu, don't
go soft down. You will kind of talk. Is this it's phoney,
it's completely out of character. Just because you're on your deathbed, I will
not allow you to destroy my daughter. Your day is done. Lu.
I'm warning you, Roger, I'll stop you. You'll be dead or don't
you know it? Russia? I know, and you'll be in your grave.
I know that too, But still I'll stop you. Do you know
what you're saying? I know what I'm saying, I don't stop you somehow,
Hello, lou I'm really going to miss you. He lingered on a
little past midnight. But finally Louis Tremont Paradel went to his reward and his
lawyers and his bankers and his friends urged his daughter to hire a competent man
to run the Paradil Paint company. But I had my eye on that job
for ten years, after all, that's where the money was, and Julia's
adoring eyes. Who could be more competent than her beloved to die? Go
ahead, open the door, fucking it's your office now. Until now,
only I knew how brilliant you are, how talented. Now you can hear
the world. Yes, darling, and I have ideas, Oh I know
you do. Your father, with all due respect, was somewhat old fashioned.
You could say he was conservative. This office. I want to get
rid of all this furniture, But father's desk is a genuine Luis to antique.
Furniture can subconsciously create an antique style of thinking, a viewpoint that looks
backward rather than forward. To succeed, business must turn toward tomorrow, not
urine for yesterday. Oh right, that is brilliantly conceived. I'm so right.
My office shall be spare very simple, a lean but elegant understatement.
And that foil painting of your father. No, no, no, you
must hear me out after what do my treasure most about our relationship, the
fact that we're totally honest and completely open with each other. Of course,
well, I have a falsehood on my conscience sture. For a long time
I have pretended, But the truth is, I simply detest that painting.
It doesn't even look like your father, which it does. It completely captures
his mood. It is. So it's just a massive blobs and law its
first, But then when you bring your own sensitivity to it, all the
elements resolve themselves into a radiant likeness of Louis Tremont Paradel, a man who
both of us knew and adored. Perhaps darling, perhaps it's a completely new
form of art. Peter Stizik will have done for line and mass what Unbred
did for light and shadow, Titian for colorness so well, at this point
only Peter Stuzik's ys so. But here we discovered one day he has to
be. I didn't care for the way he looked at you when he would
come to see your father. Oh, Peter, he doesn't see me as
a woman. Well then he's a bigger fool than I thought. Darling.
I know you have great sweeping changes in mind, but could I ask you
to do one small thing for me? Of course, please leave father's painting
this after it was his creation, he built it from nothing. If his
picture remains in this office, it'll signify that his presence is still felt.
Darling, how can I deny you anything? Why shouldn't the old scoundrel be
around to see my changes? So he remained on the wall as time went
on. I know he didn't like what he saw. At times I could
almost see him WinCE. Crosbie and Dow are complaining about the price again,
are there, mister Stevens, Yeah, hinting they can do better elsewhere.
Then we'll have to cut the prices. Yes, sir, mister Stevens,
you don't approve. It's not for me to approve or disapprove. We have
a reputation as a high quality house and our customers pay the price for it.
Well, then you tell that to Crosbie and down. Mister Perrodo was
the one who would tell that to all of our customers. He would tell
them and make him like it. You know, I believe you're right.
That is the boss's job. Ask miss Cooper. Come in here, miss
Cooper. Yes, sir, may something wrong where Miss Cooper does leave a
great deal to be desired when it comes to stenography and typing. That may
be so, but she does have other attributes, yes, sir, which
is why I hired her. That will be all mister Stebbins, Yes,
sir, Miss Cooper, please come in and close the door. Hi about
a little kiss? How did you like that? Lou? Who are you
talking to? It's a private little thing. Roger, do you mind if
I say something you have to? What are you doing this for? Doing?
What? This whole managerial bit? Why don't you just relax and enjoy
life. I've never enjoyed life as much as I am right now. But
you could hire someone to run the place. You could just concentrate on having
a ball. I had that kind of ball for nine years. Now I
have to go to work. Still can't imagine why? You know, everyone
sense that I married Julia for her money, didn't you sure? So what's
the complaint? Well, when I met Julian. I was a kid pastibly,
you were thirty years old. You've been overseas with your army. You've
even done a little time. Who told you all this? You did?
Sometimes I talk too much, which is about being a kid. I didn't
know what money was for. It's to enjoy life, Roger, what do
you really want? Power? What kind of power? Look at him up
there, the man in that picture. That's a picture of a man.
Yes it is. You could have fooled me, me too until just a
little while ago. But now I understand him. You know, I used
to think it was nose to the grindstone day and night, and maybe it
was. But he got more out of living than I ever did. I
would disagree with Roger. You're just about the best liver I ever knew.
He was respected, feared, He ran things, he ran people. And
me what have I always been? I've been a bum I mean, anny,
I know how to wear clothes, I had good manners. I play
a gentleman's game of bridge and golf and a little tennis, But I'm still
a bum nabe. Roger. Maybe there's no doubt about it. You're very
good. They're even great. That's something to be proud of. Lou Paradel
used this place as a base of operations. He had his fingers and everything.
He was in the group. What group, The group that runs things
in this city. It's made up of men who have money and power.
He was also a member of another group, the one that runs things in
the state. He should go around. But that's as far as he did
get. Wow, there's even another group. Ah, it runs things in
this country. And then there is the most exclusive group of all, the
one that runs the world. And now that we're going out into space,
you think there's a group that runs the universe has to be I'm serious.
Look, I have to be able to talk to somebody. I'm serious too.
I still say, hire some guy to run this place, and you
just take life easy. My father was nobody and I'm nobody. At least
you are a rich nobody. That's the worst kind. That's what lou Paradol
had against me, Not that I didn't have money, but that I was
nobody. I'm going to show him. What are you going to show him?
He is dead in a way, he is still here. Roger the
chick isn't whether you're nobody or somebody how you live with it. You can't
help being what you are. He lived for power. Before I'm finished,
I'll be more powerful than he ever dreamed of. A butterfly flies. But
just because he's way up there looking way down here is no reason for him
to think he's an eagle a Roger, Honey, you're just a butterfly.
Maybe, But a butterfly can become an eagle. Sure, sure, think
Roger, honey? Why not? After all, he began life as a
worm, didn't he. Oh so that's what's bothering our friend, Roger.
The itch for power. It's the type of affliction a man never really gets
rid of. Scratching brings no lasting relief, and there is no ointment or
medicine that can affect a permanent cure. The itch becomes more intense in Act
two, very shortly. See is this what it's all about? The certain
men raise themselves to heights of power to compensate for being nobody's and neglected while
they were children? Why not? It's as good a theory as any other.
Darling, Are you busy this evening? I'm going to be late at
the plants. Well, I was going to ask you to come to a
showing with me. Peter's physic is having a small exhibitor. Oh, I
feel that I'm carrying on father's work by trying to launch Peter's career. It's
difficult to get critics and dealers interested. Oh, I'm sure, Darling.
Uncle will call me last night. Dear uncle, will he hears that things
are not going too well at the plant. He hears that doesn't And there
were times when things did not go too well, even when your father was
alive. If that's true, these things running cycles, Julia, I mean
you've heard of business cycles. Think, well, there is a small recession
and it's cutting down on orders. Then there is this inflation which keeps raising
our expenses. I understand these things that'll be expected. There are times when
I think you're working too hard. Male hard work never killed anyone. You
kill father. Well, I'm going to be working even harder, Darling.
I volunteered to join the Mayor's committee. I feel someone has to take your
father's place. Oh, Roger, if father could only see you now,
he'd be so proud of you. I joined the committee that I was,
I suppose tolerated more than anything else. I guess the problem was money.
The high powered, successful men who formed the committee. Since that so far
I wasn't in their league. Maybe I was wearing my father in law shoes,
but I wasn't going anywhere in them. Yes, mister Criswell to Stevens,
our volume is way off. It's to be expected, sir. Expected
housing starts her down for all building material. According to these figures, we're
just about breaking even. That isn't bad for the present situation. Well,
that doesn't impress me, mister Stevens. We don't make money because we're stargy
and unimagined. It may be he'll start by cutting prices. We can't do
that and turn out our traditional quality product. What's quality, It's a state
of mind, is what it is. I mean, what do people know
anyhow? You tell them as something that's good. You tell them loud enough
and long enough and strong enough, and I'll believe you. You're talking about
cheapening our product. I'm talking about making paradel paint available to a far greater
group of people. Now you too can enjoy the perfection of a paradel paint
job. What you mean, sir, here's a snow job. Ah,
there is hope for you. Stevens. You do have a sense of humor
buried deep down there somewhere. I also have what I like to think of
is a sense of honor. I must ask you to accept my resignation.
He quit, and so did a lot of the others, the chief chemists,
a production foreman. But these were near sighted old timers. They didn't
know the name of today's game. It's promotion. Maybe you know the name
of the game, but are you sure you know how to play it?
Joan? The place is ready to bust loose love you. You should see
the bumble that I put on for advertise. Sure you know that's your problem.
You don't have any real confidence in me, Roger, What do you
need it for? Hey? You jealous of who the Paradel pink girl.
Come on, But she was some genius at the advertising agency had come up
with the concept of a Paradel pint girl and we planned a le they call
it a saturation campaign on TV. Maybe you saw it, and here she
is, ladies and gentlemen, your lovely Pradel Paint girl. Only nature and
Paradel could create the gold of that hair, the red of those luscious lips,
the creamy, milky whiteness of that sensational skin. Remember, folks,
whatever the hue, there's a paradil color for you. She was not only
a sight for the eyes. She was a delight to have around in a
nice, cozy little retreat when I simply had to get away from it all.
Unlike Julia, who gushed and Joan who jabbered, this one was a
lady of remarkably a few words, and she sold the paint. Orders poured
in from all over the country. The factory went to three shifts. Paradel
Pink was moving into places and in quantities that lou Paradel had never dreamed of.
I looked up at his painting at least once a day and reminded him
of it. Lo, you ain't seen nothing yet. Well, John,
you're gonna have to get yourself a secret. They I'm up to my ears
around here. The mayor wants to talk with me, and how do you
put it? Matters of mutual interest? Julia's uncle. Will you know the
banker who never approved of me? He wants to know. I'm free for
lunch. Do you know what our volume has been just last month alone,
and I'm putting all of it and more back into advertising. Why were you
I would take the money and run. Why do you say a thing like
that. We're starting to get letter sure orders, complaints, What do you
mean complaints? Wholesalers are complaining, Retailers are complaining. Customers are complaining.
Missus Jane consumer who spends ten ninety five of her hard earned money to buy
a gallon to brighten her living room, is yelling the loudest of our what's
the matter with the paint? It's supposed to be a washable paint. It
is, only it turns out to be a disappearing paint. It washes right
off the wall. That is simply not so. You did take a lot
out of the product. I guess which you took out is what kept it
on mostly blue? What did you say? Didn't you hear him laugh?
Just now? I didn't hear anything. Are you all right? I looked
at the portraits. I was sure he winked. It was such a crazy
painting. You could leave anything but one thing. I knew. I could
tell there was trouble. D even Julia, who was starting to ask questions,
Darling, Everything's all right, isn't it? Of course, It's just
that I ran into an old friend of father's yesterday a friend and customer,
Frank Watkins. He owned a big chain of paint stores. Yes, he
was complaining about the paint quality he was. Yes, he said he was
thinking of canceling his orders. Is that what he said, mister Watkins?
I said, there must be some mistake. You've brought paradil paint for almost
forty years. I think I taught him out of Roger. Yes, is
there a problem with the quality, Trulian? I wanted to shield you from
all this. The problem is what the Frank Watkins is of this world.
I'm afraid your father didn't handle him properly. Watkins thinks he's entitled a special
treatment, special credit, term, special discount arrangements. Well, it's banned
for our business. I'm afraid your father let him get away with it.
Oh, your father was so tough on the outside, but really so soft
hearted when it came to old friends. You remember that, don't you.
Yes, Well, things are going along just fine at the factory, dearest.
Oh, I shall need your signature for something. Of course, for
what I have to go to the bank. Why why would anyone go to
the bank to borrow money? Silly? But why do you have to borrow
money. Were everybody in business borrows money. I don't think father is well.
Instead of diverting your own cash flow and spending your own money, you
let that work for you, and then you borrow for or term business expenses.
Oh, it's also dreadfully complicated. I'll never understand any of it.
Oh Roger, I'm so glad I have you to take care of these things.
The trouble with these things is they didn't get better. They didn't even
hold still. They kept getting worse and worse. Hipments were returned, orders
were canceled, Customers were lost, and no matter how my Paradil Pink Girls
smiled on TV, business kept dwindling. And I owed money to everyone for
everything. I could only go to one place for it. Julia had things
in her own name that Luke had left her. But you'd be surprised how
quickly I went through all that tool of the manuw I told you, it's
all being plowed into the business. We're expanding every day. I mean,
within the year, Paradil Paints will be triple the size. Oh, lu
wouldn't know the place. Oh that'd be wonderful. Now, Julia, I
have to meet a note before the fifteenth. Well, I'm afraid I don't
have any more money. You don't the insurance bonds and stocks. I mean
they're all gone. Oh oh, they're not gone in that sense. I
mean they're in the business. They're part of the brick in the mortar,
in the machinery, and the plans and production at Paradel Paint. It isn't
that so, well, Roger? It is so Oh yes, yeah,
of course, I absolutely lover. Everybody is asking for their money, our
sales. Why don't we forget about that aspect of the business. Get into
this last last I went through the assets of this company in less than a
year. I also joined all my wife's money. It wasn't easy. It
takes a certain amount of talent. That special talents you're filled with. I
sure know how to spend it. Oh, Roger, why didn't you listen
to me? You could have been the happiest bum in the world. We
could have lived off the fat of the land. We still will. No,
No, Roger, give it up. You want to be powerful,
be one of those movers and shakers. Forget it. How bet Lou paradis
laughing at you. He didn't you just hear him. No, then why
did you say that? Because he should be laughing at you. How would
you like to have the last laugh? Oh, you simply can't pay your
bills. You destroyed the credibility of the company, so nobody's willing to let
you keep on doing business. In less than a month, your creditors will
foreclosed. Don't say that. I wish I could say something happier. In
less than a month, you'll be out on your ear unless unless, what
unless you just I do save yourself. How was it's very simple? Just
blow the place up? I'm not sure that's really very simple. I mean
the act, the explosion itself, that's a fairly simple chemical event. But
to do it, to decide to do it, to accept the rationale for
doing it, that could be a most complex procedure. It'll either happen or
it won't. In Act three, fire and ice within me, fight beneath
the suffocating night, Fire and ice, passion and reason, the essential conflict
of man's basic nature. The surprising thing about it all is that we may
not even be aware of the turbulence that is taking place inside us until it's
burned out or frozen over. I said, you have to blow up the
factory. Are you crazy? No, I'm saying, I'm talking saying,
blow up the factory. What choice have you? You're going to lose it.
You'll have nothing but you and Julia. You'll be lucky to have the
clothes on your back. And that's another thing, Julia, how would you
like to be poor and married to Julia? I don't want to talk about
it. That's why I have to talk about it before. It's wrong.
Roger, you've never made an honest dollar in your it's wrong for me.
I never did anything that was tied up with violence. With me. Well,
it was a kind of a con game where you never got your hands
bloody or even dirty. You have no other choice. The insurance money will
let you live in style for the rest of your life. Insurance companies always
suspect arson and these kind of things that they won't be able to prove its
flow up the first triy, don't you think about it for a while.
I'm sure you'll convince yourself to do the right thing. The only thing,
incidentally, I have already got the fellow lined up. Which fellow, the
fellow who's going to put you back in the money. The one who's going
to do the job. I sat there for a long time after she left
the office, even after everyone had left the plant, I kept thinking,
how could I do a thing like that? I looked at the painting of
blue. It must have been my imagination, but I could have sworn.
Lou was talking to me, Go do it to Russia one. I asked
you, what the business? You didn't rist this time? I last?
You don't destroy it, don't discoy it. The business I've already done it.
Risk to me. Go to my brother Will. He'll refurnace the company.
You wouldn't give me fifteen cents? What banker would? You'll be heart
of it. The Paradol name is fun enough to come back. Will knows
who to hire. In a couple of years, the company will be spunker
than ever. And what am I supposed to be doing? What were you
doing while I was alive? Then go back to being a bum. You'll
be a rich one with Julia share of the propets, and I'll still be
a bum. As your girlfriend show says, you're very good at it.
You think you know everything. But I may have made some mistakes. But
I can come back, and in my own terms, the insurance money will
put me back in the ball game, Ruga, Ruger, You'll never love.
Sit down, Roger. I want you to meet Professor X. How
do you do The professor chooses to remain anonymous. I understand, mister quiswell,
that you have a problem. He does. I have discussed the fee
with your friend. The professor get a percentage of the insurance, a most
reasonable arrangement. It's very fair, Roger. I understand. It's a paint
factory, one of the biggest in the country. That means we'll have the
biggest bang in history. Well, Roger, oh, it's not necessary for
him to speak. Many people are not used to this. They have to
accept the idea slowly gradually. Professor X has great Credentially, I have a
pH d in chemistry. I tell you that not to blow my own horn,
but to do your sense of security. Actually, what the professor is
doing is moonlighting, what with inflation and all lots of people to hold down.
Two charge jol has been kind enough to furnish me with the schematic of
the plant. No trouble at all in arranging a most superbitive accident. He
already described his plan to me. You have on the premises a quantity of
fifty five gallon drums. Yes, I suppose they contain beautiful alcohols. I'll
all certainly, am I be killed? Or do I have to know the
details? You should make you feel better? Now these drums are some of
them half empty, quarter empty? And so all right, I guess.
So do you know what happens inside those drums? Gases are building up,
explosive gases, and do you know what they're waiting for? For spontaneous combustion
to create the biggest explosion you ever heard. Spontaneous combustionity happened? Why not?
Then we control the forces of nature. But there's a problem. I
thought there wouldn't be any problems. Well, it's not really a problem.
We cannot wait around for spontaneous combustion to happen. We make it happen.
We can light a long fuse, a fuse, my goodness. And you
ever seen those movies where I have a length of fuse leading to the dynamite
and it sputters along. One night, we light one of those little fuses
and let it burn near the drums. That's all. Oh, no,
he won't remember. No, you make a note of this note to your
production man, fill a pigment mixer with chrome green and let it sweat overnight.
I could really account for the spontaneous combustion, so you see no problems
at all. When do you want to do this, professor? One day
this week? So soon? Well, I quote mister Shakespeare, if it
were done, it would be well, if it were done quickly. Oh,
words to that effect. I made it in the sciences, you know,
I'm rather and the classics sometime this week. Then what do you say?
Lover? And all of it went past me, over my head,
and beyond all that gibberish about the chemicals and the combustion and the chrome green
and the mixer, I only knew that I had embarked in a course of
action that would give me another spin of the wheel. I could refinance and
try again, and this time I'd succeed him, becoming somebody of importance and
power. That was Monday. Tuesday, I waited and it didn't happen.
Then Wednesday, I came home early. I wondered, what did he do
it tonight? Probably not? It might be better over the weekend. Still
I waited. Then the door opened and Julia came and she was breathless.
I never saw her face so flushed with excitement. You're darling home. Tell
me what happened. They came all the critics, the dealers, the experts,
the authority. I guess you could say the establishments. What establish sshment
is that the art establishment? Ever wonder why one artist is in, another
is out? Why one painting itself for a million dollars and another isn't what
fifty says, not exactly. Finally they came to see Peter's work. You
remember I'd set up a showing far Oh yes, yes, of course.
They were absolutely rocked back on their heels. No one expected an artist of
this caliber. And the prices that were being thrown around unbelievable. What do
you mean unbelievable? Fifty sixty seventy thousand for small works? If you know
that painting, the one of fathers that's in the office, do you know
what that will be worth one day and not too far in the future,
an amount in six figures? That painting of your father, Well, it
should have been at the exhibit, but I insisted it belongs in the office.
Oh no, no, no, it shouldn't stay there. But it's
only sitting in progress. A father to be in a pace he left there.
That's a terrible place for a painting. And then that whole building is
filled with chemical orders. I mean, after all, it's a paint factory,
you know, strong corrosive things. The paintings will be A repainting would
be ruined there. Do you think absolutely already there's a film of fine dust
all over it. Some of those dust particles can eat away at the canvas.
I didn't think, oh, we can't treat it, I mean mistreated
like that? Oh certainly, Now you just sit here. I'll be right
back. What are you going? I'm going to the factory. I won't
allow that glorious painting to hang there a minute more than necessary. I approached
the building it when I reached the gate, I stopped. What was I
doing? Suppose the professor had picked tonight? Still I had to get to
back painting. But wouldn't it be better to call Joan first? What if?
What if there were a smaller infused listen is um? Did the professor
you know what about it? Did he say it would be tonight? Why?
I have to know? Oh, do you want to come up in
your part? After? After what after. I had to take a chance.
It was still very early. Even if this were then, it couldn't
happen till well into the small hours. I went into the factory and I
entered my office. There was the painting on the wall, the painting that
was worth a fortune? Who Roger? Hello? Loo? She would I
chold to Roger cash your break above the waters? Thank you? It's all
coming back to me, you think so, I'll have the insurance money.
I've also had Salvag's this portraits? Will that ever be worth a fortune?
You'll never said the nickel of it? Your troubling should never listen to me.
Remember I said you wouldn't destroy my daughter. Remember I said I'd stop
you. How can you stop me? You're a dead man, Roger,
or you will be enlisted a minute. A whole place is going to blow,
Not tonight, lou the professor isn't going to do it tonight. The
brace will go up, baby, Now you ready to go to head?
Blood every views become struck hazards. Why I have indeed troubles just lying around
the building up guests. You won't be able to get out of here before
the exposer. What explosion? No one that's building up in those problems.
You don't have more than deep seconds. You couldn't even get out the window.
What explosion? I said? I stop you now, as we see
in assurance, money will go to children, and she won't be never what
explosion? Deep five seconds? The first truck will go. That will set
all our second of a herd. That a all, and by the time
ball goes, there won't be a single respending in the entire brace. She
said the professor wouldn't do it tonight. That's not what she said. She
doesn't go. I gotta get out of here. It's too late. Just
of all the build up her guesses reaches the exposure point, there's the briefest
mood of heavy loop silence. Can you hear it? The silence? No
go to buy Roger? Oh? Should I say hello Roger? Had the
professor come by earlier and set up the explosion, or did the natural forces
of spontaneous combustion pick that exact moment to assert themselves. It makes sense either
way to everyone, but poor Roger, who never knew what hit him.
I shall return shortly. We're told to cast our bread upon the waters.
And of course it makes sense sometimes we wait and wonder will it ever return?
But this is a kind of bread that never becomes soggy or stale.
It returns when it does, even fresher, tasty, and more nutritious than
ever. Our cast included Mandal Kramer, Evie Jester, Cortbenson, and William
Griffiths. The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown, and now
a preview of our next days Awhile back, I had decided to refuse their
blandishments, to let hunger shrivel my stomach and thirst blacken my tongue, to
cheat my jailers by dying in their death proof cell. But the snakes had
floated and coiled and mocked at my noble intentions, knowing that sooner or later
I would clutch them fiercely in a loving embrace. I would eat and drink
until I was sated and sick with self disgust, and fall back, panting
against my prison wall, and sleep like the miserable, unloved infant I had
become. No, I couldn't die. They wouldn't let me. It was
against the code of my jailers, a law more inflexible than any written for
humanity since the days of Moses. But of course my jailers weren't human.
Missus e. G. Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for
another adventure in the macabre.