1 00:00:28,239 --> 00:00:32,960 Hello, this is Adam Graham. We continue our feature link en course with 2 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:38,439 this program from our archives. A note, as this program was played several 3 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:43,000 years back, any of the offers or information may not be valid if it's 4 00:00:43,079 --> 00:00:49,479 not currently on our website. Now, let's take a lesten Welcome here to 5 00:00:49,679 --> 00:00:56,119 the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio and our three hundredth episode special. As 6 00:00:56,159 --> 00:01:00,880 always, feel free to send your comments to Box thirteen a Great Detectives dot 7 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:06,079 net, follow us over on Twitter at Radio Detectives. Today's episode of the 8 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:11,760 Great Detectives of Old Time Radio is brought to you through my book Tales of 9 00:01:11,799 --> 00:01:15,280 the Dim Night. It's available from Splashdown Books. You can go to Great 10 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:19,040 Detectives dot net, available as an ebook for four to twenty five at a 11 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:25,400 Great Detectives dot net or Dimnight dot com for even more purchasing options. Well, 12 00:01:25,439 --> 00:01:30,519 A Man who Was Thursday from the Mercury Theater on the air is this 13 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:38,879 week's production. This actually concluded the summer production of the Mercury Theater, though 14 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:42,519 it would be moving to a new Knight and would a few months later have 15 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:47,920 its famous War of the World's broadcast. We of course came to the Mercury 16 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:51,159 Theater for the first time a year ago, and it's great to be back 17 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:57,640 for another masterful performance by Orson Welles. And this story is quite unique. 18 00:01:57,959 --> 00:02:05,120 The Man Who Was Thursday is a mystery story and is often considered an early 19 00:02:06,239 --> 00:02:10,719 work of detective fiction, but it's also often considered a fantasy. It's hard 20 00:02:10,759 --> 00:02:16,039 to define, it's hard to explain, but it definitely provokes plenty of thought, 21 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:22,759 and mister Wells will address this a little bit in his opening. One 22 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:28,919 thing that he does make reference to is that the story was set in the 23 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,639 age of the anarchist. Today, well, anarchism is not thought of as 24 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:37,680 a positive thing, it's not really thought of as a big threat. But 25 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:42,400 in the early part of the twentieth century the anarchists were quite dangerous and quite 26 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:46,039 violent. In fact, it was an anarchist that killed the President of the 27 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:52,439 United States, William McKinley in nineteen oh one. So in the period of 28 00:02:52,479 --> 00:02:55,080 The Man Who Was Thursday, when this was released in nineteen oh six, 29 00:02:55,879 --> 00:03:04,599 the anarchists were kind of like we would imagine today. Unfortunately, every recording 30 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:12,639 of this play that I found has the first paragraph or so of mister Wells's 31 00:03:14,039 --> 00:03:21,360 introduction cut off, as well as the opening theme music and the CBS announcer. 32 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:27,439 Thankfully, I have found a script which means I can go ahead and 33 00:03:27,599 --> 00:03:31,680 read you the first paragraph that mister Wells spoke, and then we'll head out 34 00:03:32,439 --> 00:03:37,759 to the Mercury Theater to hear the rest from Orson Welles. Good evening, 35 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:44,520 ladies and gentlemen. G. K. C. Gilbert Keith Chesterton, great, 36 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:49,800 greatly articulate Roman convert and liberal, has been dead now for two years. 37 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:54,039 For unique brand of common sense, enthusiasm, for a singular gift of 38 00:03:54,159 --> 00:04:00,240 paradox, for a deep reverence and a high wit, and most of all, 39 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:05,159 for free and shamelessly beautiful English prose. He will never be forgotten. 40 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:13,439 And here now is mister Orson Wells with the man who was Thursday. He're 41 00:04:13,479 --> 00:04:17,199 on the great Detectives of Old time Radio. Wonderful to be famous. According 42 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:20,120 to the story, that's what the young lady said to the fat Man, 43 00:04:20,199 --> 00:04:26,000 the fabulously, fatly fantastic, the famous fat Man, when he took it 44 00:04:26,079 --> 00:04:29,600 to lunch at a fashionable restaurant and everybody turned it stared. Tell me, 45 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:33,319 she said, do people always recognize you? Does everybody always know who you 46 00:04:33,399 --> 00:04:38,839 are, well, my dear, said mister Chesterton. If they don't they 47 00:04:38,879 --> 00:04:43,879 ask mister Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday is a little like that. Roughly 48 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:47,680 speaking, it's about anarchists. It was written remember in the boom of bomb 49 00:04:47,759 --> 00:04:53,319 throwing, in those radical, irresponsible days of the Nihilists. And roughly speaking, 50 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:57,639 it's a mystery story. It can be guaranteed that you will never never 51 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:00,319 guess the solution until you get to the end. It is even fe but 52 00:05:00,439 --> 00:05:03,959 you may not guess it. Then you may never guess what The Man who 53 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:16,800 Was Thursday is about. But definitely, if you don't you ask. I 54 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:25,120 am Gabriel Sime. I am the man who was Thursday, that particular evening, 55 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:30,759 if it is remembered for nothing else would be remembered in that place. 56 00:05:30,759 --> 00:05:34,279 For its strange sunset, it looked like the end of the world. It 57 00:05:34,319 --> 00:05:39,040 may be remembered by others too, because it marked the first appearance in the 58 00:05:39,079 --> 00:05:44,120 place of the second poet of Saffron Park. For a long time, a 59 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:46,279 red haired revolutionary had reigned without arrival. It was upon the night of the 60 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:54,319 sunset that I Gabriel Sime ended his solitude. You say you are a poet 61 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:58,519 of law. I say you are a contradiction in terms an artist is identical 62 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,839 with an anarchist, mister Gregory. It is things going right that is poetical. 63 00:06:02,399 --> 00:06:08,399 Our digestions, for instance, going sacredly and silently right. The most 64 00:06:08,439 --> 00:06:11,839 poetical thing in the world is not being sick grayly mister sime the examples. 65 00:06:12,319 --> 00:06:15,360 I beg your pardon, mister Gregory, I forgot we had abolished all convention. 66 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:17,199 So you don't expect me to revolutionize society on this lawn. No, 67 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:20,120 I don't. But I suppose that if you are serious about your anarchism, 68 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:23,680 that is exactly what you would do. Don't you think then that I am 69 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,879 serious about my anarchism. I beg your pardon. Am I not serious about 70 00:06:26,879 --> 00:06:32,759 my anarchism? I strolled away and left Gregory, But with surprise and with 71 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:38,120 a curious pleasure, I found a red headed young lady still in my company. 72 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:43,920 It was Rosamund Gregory's sister. It's the time to the people who talk 73 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:46,800 like you and my brother often mean what they say. Do you mean what 74 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:49,600 you say now, my dear miss Gregory, when you say thank you for 75 00:06:49,639 --> 00:06:51,920 the sort, you mean what you say? No, when you say the 76 00:06:51,959 --> 00:06:55,480 world is round, you mean what you say. No, it is quite 77 00:06:55,519 --> 00:06:59,000 true, but you don't mean it. Is he really an anarchist only in 78 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:02,040 that sense I speak, if you prefer it in that nonsense, you wouldn't 79 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:04,759 really use bombs or that sort of thing, Thank God Lord, No, 80 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:10,399 that has to be done anonymously. I strove with her to a seat in 81 00:07:10,399 --> 00:07:15,720 the corner of the garden, and I defended respectability with violence and exaggeration. 82 00:07:15,639 --> 00:07:20,160 I grew passionate in my praise of tidiness and propriety. All the time. 83 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:25,000 There was a smell of lilac around me. And once I heard, very 84 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,680 faintly, in some distant street, a barrel organ begin to play, and 85 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:32,319 it seemed to me that my heroic words were moving to a tiny tune from 86 00:07:32,439 --> 00:07:36,839 under or beyond the world. In the wild events which were to follow. 87 00:07:38,079 --> 00:07:41,160 This girl had no part at all. I never saw again until all my 88 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:46,160 tear was over. And yet in some indescribable way, she kept recurring, 89 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:50,920 like a motive in music through all those mad adventures afterwards, and the glory 90 00:07:50,959 --> 00:07:56,480 of her strange hair ran like a red thread through those dark and ill drawn 91 00:07:56,560 --> 00:08:01,800 tapestries of the night. For what followed was so imp probable that it might 92 00:08:01,839 --> 00:08:05,360 well have been a dream. When I left the party and went out into 93 00:08:05,399 --> 00:08:09,319 the Starlit street, I found Gregory waiting for me. Mister Simeon, mister 94 00:08:09,319 --> 00:08:13,000 Gregory, this evening, you succeeded in doing something rather remarkable. You did 95 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:16,720 something to me that no man has ever succeeded in doing before. You irritated 96 00:08:16,759 --> 00:08:20,360 me. I'm very sorry. That it's only one way by which that insult 97 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:22,600 can be erased, and that way I choose. I am going, at 98 00:08:22,639 --> 00:08:24,720 the possible sacrifice of my life and honor to prove to you that you are 99 00:08:24,759 --> 00:08:28,319 wrong in what you said. In what I said, you said I was 100 00:08:28,319 --> 00:08:31,800 not serious about being an anarchist. Mister Syme, May I ask you to 101 00:08:31,839 --> 00:08:35,200 swear, by whatever gods or saints your religion involves, that you will not 102 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:37,039 reveal what I am now going to tell you to any son of Adam, 103 00:08:37,159 --> 00:08:43,440 and especially not to the police. Will you swear that if you will consent 104 00:08:43,519 --> 00:08:46,440 to burden your soul with a vow that you should never make and a knowledge 105 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:48,879 you should never dream about, I will promise you. In return, you 106 00:08:48,919 --> 00:08:52,960 will promise me in return, I will promise you a very entertaining your author 107 00:08:54,039 --> 00:08:56,080 is far too idiotic to be declined. You say that a poet is always 108 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:58,559 an anarchist. I disagree, but I hope at least that he is always 109 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:01,879 a spot. Permit me here and now to swear that as a Christian, 110 00:09:03,639 --> 00:09:07,399 and to promise is a good comrade and a fellow artist. But I will 111 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:11,399 not report any of this, whatever it is, to the police. And 112 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:24,559 now what is it? I think that we will take a cab. A 113 00:09:24,639 --> 00:09:28,440 cab pulled up before a particularly dreary and greasy beer shop. We seated ourselves 114 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:31,360 in a close and dim sort of bar parlor at a stained wooden table with 115 00:09:31,399 --> 00:09:35,879 one wooden leg. Because I'm if in a few moments this table begins to 116 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:37,679 turn around a little. Please don't put it down to the champagne. I 117 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:41,279 don't wish you to do yourself and injustice. Well, if I'm not drunk, 118 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:43,919 I'm mad, but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either 119 00:09:43,919 --> 00:09:46,039 situation. May I smoke? Seven minute? I went of't mine. I 120 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:48,559 took this aga and started to light it. Almost before I had begun, 121 00:09:48,639 --> 00:09:52,120 the table at which we were sitting began to revolve, first slowly and then 122 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:54,799 rapid. You mustn't mind it. It's kind of screw. Quite so, 123 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:58,759 a kind of screw. How simple that is. The next moment we two 124 00:09:58,799 --> 00:10:03,039 were our chairs and tables shot down to the flaws of the earth had swallowed 125 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:11,399 us. Gregory let me down a low vaulted passage, at the end of 126 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:18,919 which was a heavy iron door. Who is it, mister Joseph Chamberlain. 127 00:10:20,799 --> 00:10:26,519 It was obviously some kind of password. He stepped into a queer steel chamber, 128 00:10:26,759 --> 00:10:30,159 whose walls were hung with dubious and dreadful shapes, things that looked like 129 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:35,320 the bulbs of iron plants or the eggs of iron birds. They were barred. 130 00:10:35,399 --> 00:10:37,080 And now, my dear mister Sime, now we are quite cozy, 131 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:41,399 so let us talk properly. You said you are quite certain I was not 132 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:46,440 a serious anarchist. Does this place strike as being serious? It does seem 133 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:50,360 to have a moral under all of its gaiety. But tell me we have 134 00:10:50,399 --> 00:10:52,759 a heavy iron door. You cannot pass it without submitting to the humiliation of 135 00:10:52,799 --> 00:10:56,759 calling yourself mister Chamberlain. You surround yourself with steel instruments, which make the 136 00:10:56,759 --> 00:11:01,559 place, if I may say so, more impressive than home. Like why 137 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:03,919 after taking all this trouble to barricade yourself in the bars of the earth, 138 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,840 you then parade your whole secret by talking anarchism to every silly woman in saffron 139 00:11:07,879 --> 00:11:11,639 parts into simple When first I became one of the new anarchists, I tried 140 00:11:11,639 --> 00:11:16,559 all kinds of respectable disguises. But at last I went in despair to the 141 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:20,960 President of the Central Anarchist Council, who is the greatest man in Europe. 142 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:26,240 What's his name? You wouldn't know it, that is his greatness. He 143 00:11:26,279 --> 00:11:30,759 looked at me, You want to save disguise, do you? I nodded, 144 00:11:31,399 --> 00:11:35,480 Why then dress up as an anarchist, you fool. I took his 145 00:11:35,519 --> 00:11:39,919 advice and have never regretted it. I preached blood and murder to those women 146 00:11:39,039 --> 00:11:43,240 day and night, and by Heaven, they would let me wheel their pabulators. 147 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:46,919 It took me in. What do you call this tremendous president of yours? 148 00:11:46,039 --> 00:11:50,600 We call him Sunday. You see, there are seven members of the 149 00:11:50,639 --> 00:11:52,919 Central Anarchist Council, and they are named after the days of the week. 150 00:11:54,799 --> 00:12:00,240 He is called Sunday by some of his admirers. Bloody Sunday. Yes, 151 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:03,159 that you should mention the matter, because this day night we've called a meeting 152 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:09,360 to elect a successor to the post of Thursday. And I don't mind telling 153 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:15,159 you that it's almost a settle thing that I am to be Thursday. Gregory. 154 00:12:16,519 --> 00:12:18,600 I gave you a promise before I came to this place. Would you 155 00:12:18,639 --> 00:12:22,679 give me, for my own safety a little promise of the same kind? 156 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:28,919 Yes, a promise. I swore before God that I would not tell your 157 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:33,200 secret to the police. Will you swear, by humanity or whatever beastly thing 158 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:37,000 you believe in, that you will not tell my secret to the anarchist? 159 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:43,519 Your secret? Have you got a Yes, I have a secret. Will 160 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:48,080 you swear yes? I will swear not to tell the anarchists anything you tell 161 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:50,080 me, but look sharp, they will be here in a couple of minutes. 162 00:12:54,159 --> 00:12:58,639 I don't know how to tell you the truth more shortly by saying that 163 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:03,480 your expedient of dressing up is names poet is not consigned to you or your 164 00:13:03,519 --> 00:13:07,960 president. We've known the dodge for some time at Scotland Yard. What do 165 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:13,919 you say, yes, Gregory, I'm a police detective. Chamberlain did Joseph 166 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:20,159 Chamberlain. It was repeated twice and thrice and then thirty times, and the 167 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:24,759 crowd of Joseph Chamberlain's a solemn thought could be heard trampling down the corridor. 168 00:13:26,799 --> 00:13:31,679 Here are your friends, Gregory, Comrade, I suppose this man is a 169 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:37,039 delegate. The fact is, Comrade, I have been specially sent here to 170 00:13:37,039 --> 00:13:41,879 see that you show a due observance of Sunday. Well, Comrade, I 171 00:13:41,879 --> 00:13:45,679 suppose we'd better give you a season. Anything Gregory I could see was in 172 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:48,399 an agony of diplomacy. Yes, I think it is time we began. 173 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:50,240 The tongue is waking on the river. I move that, comrade, Buttons 174 00:13:50,279 --> 00:13:58,320 take the chair. I comrade, comrades, we all the men are sad 175 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:03,679 to see the heroic workan who occupied the post of Thursday in the Central Council 176 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:11,639 until last week he organized the great dynamite coup of Brighton, which, under 177 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:18,360 happier circumstances, ought to have killed everybody on the tier. Upon you tonight, 178 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:24,759 comrades, it devoves to chose out of the company present, the man 179 00:14:24,759 --> 00:14:31,120 who shall be called Thursday. If any comrades have gent the name, I 180 00:14:31,159 --> 00:14:35,559 will put into the vote. I will the comrade Gregory be elec thirdays Thanny 181 00:14:35,639 --> 00:14:41,080 one second the most. Before I put the matter to the vote, I 182 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:46,799 will call on Comrade Gregory to make a statement. Gregory rose, He must 183 00:14:46,799 --> 00:14:48,559 have figured out that his best chance was to make a softened, an ambiguous 184 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:52,799 speech such as would leave in my mind the impression that the Brotherhood was a 185 00:14:52,879 --> 00:14:58,639 very mild affair. After all, my friend back there, it is deep, 186 00:14:58,559 --> 00:15:03,200 deep under the earth, that we, the persecuted, are permitted to 187 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:09,360 a temple as the Christians, as templed in the catacombs. Suppose we seem 188 00:15:09,399 --> 00:15:15,120 as shocking as the Christians, because we are really as harmless as the Christians. 189 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:20,879 Suppose we seem as mad as the Christians, because we are really as 190 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:24,000 me, I am not me. Comrade with a school tells us that he 191 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:30,759 is not meet, how little he knows himself. We are simple as they 192 00:15:30,799 --> 00:15:35,519 were simple. Look at comrade with uspoon. We are modest as they were 193 00:15:35,559 --> 00:15:41,320 modest. Look at me. We are merciful, ny, we are merciful 194 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:46,519 as the early Christians were merciful. Yet this did not prevent that they're being 195 00:15:46,559 --> 00:15:52,720 accused of eating flesh. Now we do not eat human flesh. Shame, 196 00:15:52,879 --> 00:15:56,519 Why not? Comrade with a spool is anxious to know why nobody eats him 197 00:15:56,759 --> 00:16:02,759 in our society at any rate, which loved him sincerely, which is hounded 198 00:16:02,919 --> 00:16:06,480 on love, No, no, down with lances honded on love. There 199 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:08,759 will be no difficulty about the aims which we self pursue with a buddy, 200 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:17,159 or which I should pursue were I chosen as the representative of that body. 201 00:16:17,559 --> 00:16:26,919 Does anyone oppose the election of Comrade Gregory a real time comrade, Comrade timeless 202 00:16:26,919 --> 00:16:33,840 special delegation. Can we come into this Comrade, we line these walls with 203 00:16:33,919 --> 00:16:37,679 weapons and bar that door with death. Rest. Anyone should come and hear 204 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:44,159 Comrade Gregory saying to us, be good and you will be happy. Honesty 205 00:16:44,279 --> 00:16:48,679 is the best policy, and virtue is its own reward. Comrade Gregory has 206 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:52,840 told us we are not the enemies of society. But I say that we 207 00:16:53,000 --> 00:17:02,799 are the enemies of society, and so much the worst for society. Comrade 208 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:06,960 Gregory accuses me of hypocrisy. He knows that's what as I do, that 209 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:11,240 I am keeping all my engagements and doing nothing but my duty. I do 210 00:17:11,319 --> 00:17:14,920 not mince words, I do not pretend to. We do not want the 211 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:21,799 Supreme Council of anarchy infected with a Martin Mercil. Gregory is milk and water 212 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:27,839 metas on the Supreme Council. I would offer myself for election. How would 213 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:32,160 I tell you as an amendment of Comrade Time, the appointed to the post. 214 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:33,119 Stop all this, I tell you to stop it. It is all 215 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:38,640 impossible. I make the second election, comred I kneel to you. Do 216 00:17:38,839 --> 00:17:44,759 not elect this man. The question is the Comrade Time be elected to the 217 00:17:44,759 --> 00:17:52,400 post of Thursday on the General's Council. And three minutes afterwards, mister Gabriel's 218 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,359 Time of the Secret Police Service was elected to the post of Thursday on the 219 00:17:55,400 --> 00:18:00,720 General Council of the Anarchists of Europe. Moment later I found myself, somehow 220 00:18:00,839 --> 00:18:04,599 or other, face to face with Gregory. And you are a gentleman, 221 00:18:07,279 --> 00:18:12,759 Comrade Thursday. The boat is quite ready. Comrade Gregory, you've kept your 222 00:18:12,799 --> 00:18:17,759 word. You're a man of honor, and I thank you. You mean 223 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:33,640 what did I promise you? A very entertaining evening. My name is really 224 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:37,839 Gabriel Syme. I'm not merely a detective who pretends to be a poet. 225 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:41,759 I am really a poet who has become a detective. I come of a 226 00:18:41,759 --> 00:18:45,400 family of cranks. One of my uncles always walked about without a hat, 227 00:18:47,559 --> 00:18:51,799 and another had made an unsuccessful attempt to walk about with a hat and nothing 228 00:18:51,799 --> 00:18:56,160 else. Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, I had 229 00:18:56,200 --> 00:19:00,480 to revolt into something. So I revolted into the only thing left, which 230 00:19:00,519 --> 00:19:04,599 was sanity. Now, some months before that evening in Saffron Park, I 231 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:10,279 appeared before a high official in Scotland Yard. I was led to a side 232 00:19:10,319 --> 00:19:15,799 door, and almost before I knew what I was doing, I was suddenly 233 00:19:15,839 --> 00:19:19,519 shown into a room, the abrupt blackness of which startled me like a blaze 234 00:19:19,559 --> 00:19:23,720 of light. Are you the new recruit? All right, you're engaged. 235 00:19:25,759 --> 00:19:29,039 I really have no experience. No one has any experience of the Battle of 236 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:33,680 Armageddon. But I'm really unfit. You're willing. That is enough. Well, 237 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:40,319 really, on any profession of which mere willingness is the final test I 238 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:56,519 do. Martyrs, I am condemning you to death. Good day where my 239 00:19:56,599 --> 00:19:59,839 adventure ultimately led me, I've already told you. At about half past one 240 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,799 on a February night, I found myself steaming on a small tug up the 241 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:08,920 Silent Thames, the duly elected Thursday of the Central Council of Anarchists. As 242 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:12,519 we came alongside, the great stones of the embankment were big and black against 243 00:20:12,559 --> 00:20:15,960 the huge white dawn. I leapt out of the boat on at the slimy 244 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:22,200 steps. The tuck put off again and turned up stream, and I saw 245 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:27,000 that there was a man leaning over the parakelet and looking out across the river. 246 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:37,279 And then the man smiled, And his smile was a shock, for 247 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:38,920 it was all on one side, going up the right cheek and down on 248 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:45,279 the left, with the dark dawn and the deadly errand and the loneliness and 249 00:20:45,319 --> 00:20:49,880 the great dripping stones. There was something unnerving in it. There was the 250 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:57,599 silent river and the silent man, and there was the last nightmare touch that 251 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:03,319 his smile had suddenly went wrong. We walk up towards Lester Square. We 252 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:07,640 shall just be in time for breakfast. Sunday always insists on an earlid breakfast, 253 00:21:10,319 --> 00:21:14,799 but one corner of Leicester Square that projected the balcony of a prosperous but 254 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:21,920 quiet hotel. The balcony contained a breakfast table, and round the breakfast table, 255 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:26,119 glowing in the sunlight, were a group of noisy and talkative men, 256 00:21:27,079 --> 00:21:34,960 all dressed in the insolence of fashion. Here then with the secret conclave of 257 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:41,519 the European dynamiters. Then as I continued to stare at them, I saw 258 00:21:41,559 --> 00:21:45,480 something that I had not seen before, literally because it was too large to 259 00:21:45,519 --> 00:21:48,960 see. At the nearest end of the balcony, blocking up a great part 260 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:52,400 of the perspective, with the back of a great mountain of a man. 261 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:56,279 I first thought that the weight of him must break down the balcony of stone. 262 00:21:56,759 --> 00:22:00,319 This man was planned enormously in his original proportions, like a statue, 263 00:22:00,599 --> 00:22:06,400 carved deliberately as colossal. His head, crowned with white hair I seen from 264 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:11,039 behind, looked bigger than a head ought to be. The ears that stood 265 00:22:11,039 --> 00:22:15,000 out from it looked larger than human ears. His sense of size were so 266 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:18,799 staggering. But when I saw him, all the other figure seemed quite suddenly 267 00:22:18,839 --> 00:22:23,079 to dwindle and become dwarfish. They were still sitting there as before, with 268 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:27,759 their flowers and frock coats, but now it looked as if the big man 269 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:34,400 who was entertaining five children to tea. I never thought of asking whether the 270 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:38,319 monstrous man almost filled and broke the balcony was the great President Sunday, whom 271 00:22:38,319 --> 00:22:41,000 the others had stood in awe. I knew it were so. As I 272 00:22:41,039 --> 00:22:45,599 walked across the inner room towards the balcony, the large face of Sunday grew 273 00:22:47,279 --> 00:22:49,240 larger and larger, and I was gripped with the fear that when he was 274 00:22:49,319 --> 00:22:53,519 quite close, the face would be too big to be possible, and that 275 00:22:53,599 --> 00:22:56,839 I would scream aloud. I remembered that as a child I would not look 276 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:00,519 at the mask of Memnon in the British Museum, because it was a face 277 00:23:00,559 --> 00:23:04,680 and so large. By an effort brave than that of leaping over a cliff, 278 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:07,799 I went to an empty seat at the breakfast table and sat down. 279 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:12,319 At that moment, the President was addressing a man, out of whose collar 280 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:17,880 that sprang a bewildering bush of brown hair and beard that almost obscured the eyes, 281 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:22,480 like those of a sky terrier. The man's name, it seemed, 282 00:23:22,559 --> 00:23:26,240 was Go Go. He was a pole, and in a circle of days 283 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:30,160 he was called Tuesday. Our friend. Tuesday insists on the ways of the 284 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,119 stage, considered us. No. If a gentleman goes about London in a 285 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:37,640 top atham a prop coat, no one need knows that he's an anarchost. 286 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:40,839 But if a gentleman puts on the top headmen of prop coat, and then 287 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:44,240 goes about on his ends and knees, well, he made it like the 288 00:23:44,319 --> 00:23:48,559 gen I am not good that conceal him. I am not ashamed of the 289 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:51,400 cord. If you are, my boy, and so he is the cause 290 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:53,759 of you, I am not good that deception. Right, my boy, 291 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:59,240 right, you aren't good at anything. As I looked at the others, 292 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:02,759 I began to see in each of them exactly what I had seen in the 293 00:24:02,799 --> 00:24:07,880 man by the river. Each man was subtly and differently wrong. Next to 294 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:11,039 me sat Tuesday, the tousel headed go Gol. Next was Wednesday, a 295 00:24:11,079 --> 00:24:15,160 certain Marquis de Saint Eustache. In the gloom and thickness of his beard, 296 00:24:15,799 --> 00:24:19,799 a dark red mouth showed sensual and scornful. Whatever he was, he was 297 00:24:19,839 --> 00:24:26,720 not a Frenchman. Then came me next, a very old man, Professor 298 00:24:26,759 --> 00:24:32,240 de Worms, who was Friday. The red flower in his buttonhole showed up 299 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:37,240 against a face that was literally discolored like lead. The whole hideous effect was 300 00:24:37,279 --> 00:24:41,839 as if some drunken dandies had put their clothes upon a corpse and right at 301 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:45,400 the end sat the man called Saturday. His name was doctor Bull. There 302 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,839 was nothing whatever odd about him, except that he wore a pair of dark, 303 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,920 almost opaque spectacles, and it occurred to me that his eyes might be 304 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:56,880 covered up because they were too frightful to see. Such were the six men 305 00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:00,400 who had been sworn to destroy the world. M Only three days afterwards, 306 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:04,720 it appeared the King of England was to meet the President of the French Republic 307 00:25:04,799 --> 00:25:08,880 in Paris, and over their bacon and eggs upon their sunny balcony, these 308 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:14,640 beaming gentlemen and decided how both should die. Even the instrument was chosen. 309 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:18,039 The black bearded Marquis appeared was to carry the bomb. Whilst the talkers paid 310 00:25:18,039 --> 00:25:21,079 little attention to me, but the President was always looking at me steadily and 311 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:25,880 with a great and baffling interest. I was sure that, in some silence, 312 00:25:26,559 --> 00:25:30,000 an extraordinary way, Sunday had found out that I was a spy. 313 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:33,880 Meantime, the men were eating as they talked. The Marquis took a great 314 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:38,279 bite of bread and jam. I have often wondered whether it wouldn't be better 315 00:25:38,319 --> 00:25:41,799 for me to do it with a knife, and it would be a new 316 00:25:41,799 --> 00:25:45,319 emotion to get a knife into a French president and wriggle it or wrong, 317 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,599 you are wrong. A knife was merely the expression of the old personal quarrel 318 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:52,160 with a personal tyrant. Dynamite is not only our best tool, but our 319 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:56,000 best symbol. It expands, it also destroys because it broadens and brain. 320 00:25:56,279 --> 00:26:00,119 A man's brain is a bomb mind brain. See you like a bomb, 321 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:04,480 night and day. It must expand. It must expand. A man's brain 322 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:10,200 must expand if it breaks the universe. I don't want the universe broken up 323 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:14,119 just yet. I want to do a lot of disently things before I die. 324 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:18,599 I thought of one yesterday instead. The question that is, how Comrade 325 00:26:18,599 --> 00:26:22,519 Wednesday is to fight the blow. As to the actual arrangement, I suggest 326 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:26,119 that tomorrow he should go. First of all, we discussed that I have 327 00:26:26,279 --> 00:26:30,000 something very particular to say. The instant of choice had come. At last, 328 00:26:30,039 --> 00:26:33,799 the pistol was at my head. More speeches, more COMPROMI go, 329 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:38,039 go sit down with the other judgment at this table for the first time this 330 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:41,279 morning. Something intelligent is going to be said. I sat down first. 331 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:44,839 No one except me seemed the have any notion of the blow. That was 332 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:48,440 about a four comrades, we have spun out this past long enough. We 333 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:53,720 were discussing plans and naming places. I propose that those friends and places should 334 00:26:53,759 --> 00:26:59,839 be left only in control of Comrade Saturday comfortable. Not one word more about 335 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:03,640 the friends and places must be said at this meeting. They almost feverishly in 336 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:07,960 their seats except me. I sat stiff in mine, with my hand in 337 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:11,039 my pocket and on the handle of my loaded revolver. Gentlemen, there is 338 00:27:11,079 --> 00:27:15,319 a spy at this table. No more words. His name half rose from 339 00:27:15,319 --> 00:27:18,279 my seat. My finger firm on the treme is Google, he said, 340 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:22,920 hairy humbug over there, who pretends to be a poone? No man, 341 00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:29,839 I gather that you fully understand your position. You bet, I see it's 342 00:27:29,839 --> 00:27:33,519 a fair cup. All I say is I don't believe any poor could have 343 00:27:33,599 --> 00:27:37,440 emitted that my accent like I did his. I can see the point. 344 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:41,200 I believe your excellent to be inimitable. Who I still practice it in my 345 00:27:41,279 --> 00:27:47,079 bar. You may leaning your beard with your card not a bit Tuesday, 346 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,839 if you ever tell the police or any human soul about us, I don't 347 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:55,160 have exactly two and a half minutes of discoveries. You're discompany. I will 348 00:27:55,200 --> 00:28:00,039 not wed good day. I understand. It's the detective who esqueraded as Goggle. 349 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,359 Rose to his feet without a word and walked out of the room with 350 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:12,960 an air of perfect nonchalance. There was a slight stumble outside the door, 351 00:28:14,079 --> 00:28:18,599 which showed that the departing detective had not minded his step. I ams, 352 00:28:18,599 --> 00:28:22,599 saying, I must get on the butt. I have taken care of the 353 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:26,160 humanitarian meeting. Would not be better to discuss further the details of our project 354 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:30,359 now, then, that the spy has left us, Secretarve, you take 355 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,400 our head home and boil it for a turn if it might be useful. 356 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:38,440 I can't say that it might. I really fail to understand. To understand, 357 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:42,559 are you dancing, donkey? You didn't want to be overheard by a 358 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:47,200 spy? To you? How do you know you are overheard? Now with 359 00:28:47,359 --> 00:28:49,960 these words, Sunday showed it his way out of the room, shaking with 360 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:56,880 incomprehensible scorn. Now, if the last words of the president meant anything, 361 00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:02,000 they meant that I had, after all not past unsuspected. The other four 362 00:29:02,039 --> 00:29:07,400 got to their feet, but took themselves elsewhere to find lunch. Only the 363 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:17,039 old anarchist old Professor de Worms remain behind, seated before me at the table 364 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:32,480 with the Gabriel sam Yes, Professor, you policeman. A policeman. Never 365 00:29:32,599 --> 00:29:36,400 made you think of a policeman in connection with me? The process was simple 366 00:29:36,519 --> 00:29:41,160 enough. I thought you look like a policeman. I think so. Now, 367 00:29:42,359 --> 00:29:47,279 why must I be a policeman? Do let me be a postman. 368 00:29:47,319 --> 00:29:52,160 You'll give me ask a plain question, your paltering spy. Are you or 369 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:56,720 are you not? The police detective? No, you swear it. If 370 00:29:56,759 --> 00:30:00,480 you swear falsely, will you be damned? Will you be sure that the 371 00:30:00,519 --> 00:30:06,480 devil dances at your funeral? Will you see that the nightmare sits on your 372 00:30:06,519 --> 00:30:11,480 grave? You are an anarchist, You are a dynamiter. Above all, 373 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:15,480 you are not in any sense a detective. You are not in the British 374 00:30:15,559 --> 00:30:25,319 Police. I am not in the British Police. Professor de Worms fell back 375 00:30:25,319 --> 00:30:29,839 in his seat with a curious air, kindly collapse. Well, that's a 376 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:34,160 pity, because I am because you are what I am, a policeman, 377 00:30:34,279 --> 00:30:41,640 a special policeman, and I serve under the man in the dark room. 378 00:30:41,519 --> 00:30:49,680 A man in the dark room. I understand now. Of course, you 379 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:52,480 are not an old man at all. I can't take my face off here. 380 00:30:52,559 --> 00:30:56,880 It's rather an elaborate make up. Did you know that that man Gogo 381 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,880 was one of us? No? But didn't you? I knew no more 382 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:04,839 than the dead. Then there were three of us, there, three of 383 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,559 us sitting here out of seven, and it's a fighting number. If we 384 00:31:08,599 --> 00:31:11,799 do only known that there were three and were three. If we had been 385 00:31:11,799 --> 00:31:15,599 three hundred, we still could have done nothing. Not if we were three 386 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,960 hundred against four. No, not if we were three hundred against Sunday professor. 387 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,599 It's intolerable. Are you afraid of this man? Yes? I am 388 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:27,720 so, are you? Yes, you're right, I am afraid of him. 389 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:33,480 Therefore I swear by God that I will seek out this man whom I 390 00:31:33,519 --> 00:31:37,759 fear, until I find him and strike him on the mouth. If Heaven 391 00:31:37,799 --> 00:31:41,920 were thrown in the earth his footstool, I swear that I would pull him 392 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:47,920 down. Now, why, because I'm afraid of him. No man should 393 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:52,279 leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid. You any idea exactly 394 00:31:52,319 --> 00:31:53,759 what you're going to do. Yes, I'm going to prevent this bomb being 395 00:31:53,759 --> 00:31:59,319 thrown in Paris. Any conception you remember, of course, when we broke 396 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,519 up rather hurrid The whole arrangements for the autrocity were left in the private hands 397 00:32:01,599 --> 00:32:06,599 of the Marquis and doctor Bull. The Marquie is by this time probably crossing 398 00:32:06,599 --> 00:32:09,640 the channel. The only man who knows where he's going is doctor Bull. 399 00:32:09,839 --> 00:32:14,960 Confound it. We don't know where Bully is. Yes, I know where 400 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,000 he is. Will you tell me? I'll take you there. What do 401 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:22,039 you mean, would you join me? Would you take a risk? Young 402 00:32:22,079 --> 00:32:28,920 man? You think that it is possible to pull down the President? I 403 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:45,640 know that it is impossible, and I'm going to try it. Call your 404 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:50,599 special attention to the new series of broadcasts by the Mercury Theater with Orson Wells 405 00:32:50,599 --> 00:32:54,680 as star and director, which will commence next Sunday night at eight pm Eastern 406 00:32:54,759 --> 00:33:00,920 Daylight Saving time. And now a brief pause for station identification. This is 407 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:09,480 the Columbia Broadcasting System. We continue now with the performance of G. K. 408 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:15,480 Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday by Orson Wells and the Mercury Theater on 409 00:33:15,559 --> 00:33:36,200 the air. The Professor met me to a very respectable inn, and in 410 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:40,480 that place we dine very thoroughly. Can you play the piano? Yes, 411 00:33:40,519 --> 00:33:43,640 I am supposed to have a good touch, would have done just as well 412 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:46,680 if you could work a typewriter. Thank you, you flatter me. There 413 00:33:46,759 --> 00:33:51,799 is no man except the President who is so seriously startling and formidable as doctor 414 00:33:51,839 --> 00:33:55,039 Bull. A little grinning fellow and goggles depend upon it. Sunday was not 415 00:33:55,079 --> 00:33:59,680 asleep when he locked up all the plans of this outrage in the round blackhead 416 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:04,359 of doctor Do you think that this unique monster will be soothed if I play 417 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,680 the piano to him? I mentioned the piano because it gives one quick and 418 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,920 independent fingers. Simon, if we are to go through this interview and come 419 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:15,559 out sane or alive, we must have some code of signals between us that 420 00:34:15,639 --> 00:34:20,280 this brute will not see. I have made a rough alphabetical sight for corresponding 421 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:31,360 to the five fingers like this. Listen, b A D bad, a 422 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:37,519 word we may frequently require. I began to study the scheme. Didn't take 423 00:34:37,559 --> 00:34:42,079 me long to learn how we might convey simple messages about what would seem to 424 00:34:42,079 --> 00:34:45,800 be idle taps upon a table and knee. Tis not long before doctor Bull 425 00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:52,239 came in sat down at our table. He smiled brightly, you're early this 426 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:57,239 evening gentlemen. A quiet, good humor of his manner left us helpless. 427 00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:06,519 We sat staring at each other and silent. I have an intuition, and 428 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,960 sit on it. TI is quite an extraordinary intuition, extraordinary rock. I 429 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:14,039 am a poet. You are a kid. May have scarcely realized how poetic 430 00:35:14,079 --> 00:35:16,760 my intuition is. It has that sudden quality we sometimes feel in the coming 431 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:23,360 of sprinkled lasers. Doctor Ball, Doctor Ball, Doctor bourr, would you 432 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:29,119 do me a small favor? Would you be so kind as to take off 433 00:35:29,119 --> 00:35:34,679 your spectacles? Doctor bou rose slowly, still smiling, and took off his 434 00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:40,400 spectacles. He was sitting in the chair before us, and we saw there 435 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,280 a very boyish looking young man. The smile was still there, but it 436 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:51,800 might have been the first smile of a baby, doctor Bour. I am 437 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:55,920 a police officer. The dark room, the dark room. Well, I'm 438 00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:59,679 awfully glad you came in to the warlifere. We can all start for plans 439 00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:02,599 to gether. Yes, I'm in the vore all right, Good heavens. 440 00:36:02,599 --> 00:36:06,760 If this were true, there are more blasted detectives in the world, blasted 441 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:12,880 dynamiters of the blasted council. We might easily have fought. We were four 442 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,280 against three. No, no, we were not four against three. We 443 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:31,800 were not so lucky. We are four against one hour later we were already 444 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:37,639 on the Calais boat. The fact it comes of it is this, we 445 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:39,599 three are alone on this planet. Now we must do something to keep the 446 00:36:39,599 --> 00:36:43,760 Marquie in Calais till tomorrow midday, while the king goes safely through Paris. 447 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:45,440 The only thing I can see to do is actually to take advantage of the 448 00:36:45,519 --> 00:36:52,239 very things that in the Marquis favor. Gentlemen, I'm going to profit by 449 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:54,320 the fact that he is a nobleman and has many friends and moves in the 450 00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:59,639 best society. The devil you're talking about, the Marquis cannot deny that he 451 00:36:59,679 --> 00:37:02,039 is a gentlemen, And in order to put the matter of my social position 452 00:37:02,159 --> 00:37:07,079 quite beyond a doubt, I propose, at the earliest opportunity to knock his 453 00:37:07,159 --> 00:37:12,280 hat off. But here we are in the harbor, gentlemen, we've reached 454 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:24,599 Calais. A band was playing in a cafe Chanta. Hidden somewhere among the 455 00:37:24,639 --> 00:37:31,559 trees, where's that the Marquis de sa Ustache. The man had two companions, 456 00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:35,760 solemn frenchmen in silk hats. Who was your sign? I think, 457 00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:39,480 and you are the Marquis de sa Stash. Permit me to pull your nose, 458 00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:44,639 which I attempted to do, but the two men in top hats held 459 00:37:44,679 --> 00:37:46,880 me back. This man has insulted me incled you went, Oh, just 460 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:51,440 now he's insulted my mother. Your mother? Well anyhow, my aunt? 461 00:37:51,519 --> 00:37:53,519 But how can the marquis have insuld John Angos? Now he's been sitting here, 462 00:37:53,519 --> 00:37:57,480 Hold the down was what he said? Nothing at Paul, except about 463 00:37:57,519 --> 00:38:00,760 the band. I only said that I like Wagner. Well, it was 464 00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:02,920 an allusion to my family. My aunt played Wagner badly. It was a 465 00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:07,440 painful subject. We are always being insulted about it, it seems most for 466 00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,400 I assure you, the whole of your conversation was simply packed with sinister allusions 467 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,960 to my aunt's victims. Oh this is nonsense. I for one, have 468 00:38:14,039 --> 00:38:16,320 said nothing for half an hour except that I like to see if that girl 469 00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:21,280 with the black hair there you are again? My aunts was red. It 470 00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:23,559 seems to me that you're simply seeking a pretext to insult the marquis. By 471 00:38:23,679 --> 00:38:29,199 George, what a clever chap you were speaking a quarrel with me by Evander, 472 00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:31,119 what dever a man went to seek? Long? These gentlemen will perhaps 473 00:38:31,159 --> 00:38:35,360 act for me. There are still four hours of daylight. Let us fight 474 00:38:35,559 --> 00:38:38,280 this evening, Marquis. Your action is worthy of your fame and blood. 475 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:42,360 Permit me to consult with the gentleman in whose hands I shall place myself. 476 00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:45,639 Good day, mime, what are you up to? Allison Carefley, Poor 477 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:52,239 professor? You are my seconds, and you must insist on the due coming 478 00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:55,840 off after seven tomorrow so as to keep him from catching the seven forty five 479 00:38:55,880 --> 00:39:00,599 for Paris. If he misses that training misses the King of England, you 480 00:39:00,679 --> 00:39:07,559 understand. So at seven twenty we met on a small meadow not far from 481 00:39:07,559 --> 00:39:10,519 the railway. I'd made up my mind that I could avoid disabling the Marquis 482 00:39:10,599 --> 00:39:15,679 and prevent the Marquis from disabling me for at least twenty minutes. In twenty 483 00:39:15,679 --> 00:39:22,039 minutes, the Paris train would have gone by. Gentlemen engaged. I'm not 484 00:39:22,079 --> 00:39:27,039 a bad fighter. Every now and then I had almost fancied it. I've 485 00:39:27,079 --> 00:39:30,119 felt my fight go home. But there was no blood on the blade or 486 00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:35,800 my shirt. And now we could hear the Paris train. There was no 487 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,280 doubt about to hit this time. I was as certain that I had stuck 488 00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:42,440 my blade into my enemy as the Garden of the stuck his spade into the 489 00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,880 ground. Yet there was no blood on it at all. Marquis thought wildly. 490 00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:50,239 He can't have looked away at the railway line, almost as if he 491 00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:54,559 feared the train more than the pointed steel. I ain't left of the Marquise's 492 00:39:54,599 --> 00:40:00,000 body, and more at his throat and head. A minute and a half 493 00:40:00,199 --> 00:40:01,760 to it, I felt the point end of the man's neck below the jaw. 494 00:40:02,039 --> 00:40:06,400 It came out to clean. I thrust again. It made what should 495 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:10,199 have been a bloody scar on the market's cheek. There was no scar. 496 00:40:10,519 --> 00:40:15,519 Stop. I want to say something. It is rather important. It's a 497 00:40:15,639 --> 00:40:19,239 sign. You expressed a wish to pull my nose. Would you oblige by 498 00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:22,800 pulling my nose now as quickly as possible. I have to catch a train 499 00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:25,920 both the regular Will you or will you not? Pull my nose? Come? 500 00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:29,760 Come, mis your sign. Don't be selfish, pull my nose at 501 00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:35,000 once. When I asked you, I took two paces forward and seized the 502 00:40:35,079 --> 00:40:40,320 Roman nose of this remarkable nobleman. I pulled it hard, and it came 503 00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:44,480 off in my hands. Anyone has the use for my left eyebrow, I 504 00:40:44,519 --> 00:40:47,360 can habit. Do accept my left eyebrow. It is the kind of thing 505 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:52,159 that might come in useful any day. The marquis was recklessly throwing parts of 506 00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,159 himself right and left about the field. You are making a mistake, but 507 00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:58,679 it can't be explained. Just now I tell you the train has come into 508 00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:00,719 the station. Yes, our key, and the train shall go out of 509 00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:04,480 the station and shall go out without you. Will you drive me mad? 510 00:41:04,599 --> 00:41:07,519 You shall not go by the train, great flat laugh, that blair blandering, 511 00:41:07,639 --> 00:41:10,679 wandering brain, as toddering glass of pool, you great sunny pink. 512 00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:14,639 They fire the training. You should not go by this train. And why 513 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:16,639 in ther finel brass that I want to go by the train. We know 514 00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:21,239 all you are going to Paris to throw a band, going to Chericho to 515 00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:23,599 throw a shabba walk. I didn't care about catching the train. I care 516 00:41:23,639 --> 00:41:25,960 about whether the train caught me, And no, by God, it has 517 00:41:27,119 --> 00:41:29,760 caught me. What do you mean? It means everything, the end of 518 00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:32,079 everything. Sunday has us now in the hollow of his hand. What do 519 00:41:32,159 --> 00:41:37,800 you mean by us the police. Of course I am the Marquis, I 520 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:43,199 am Inspector Rectliffe of Scotland. Yard then it's then the whole bellet a lot 521 00:41:43,199 --> 00:41:47,079 of us on the Anarchist Council. We're against anarchy. Every born man was 522 00:41:47,079 --> 00:41:52,280 a detective, except the President in his personal secretary. What can it mean? 523 00:41:52,559 --> 00:41:54,639 Means that we are struck dead? Don't you know, Sunday until you 524 00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:58,639 He's bought every trust, He's captured every cable. He has control of every 525 00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:02,039 railway line, a specially that railway line. The whole movement was controlled by 526 00:42:02,119 --> 00:42:06,280 him. Half the world was ready to rise for him. But there were 527 00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:08,960 just five people, perhaps who could have resisted him, and the old devil 528 00:42:09,039 --> 00:42:13,519 put them on the Supreme Consul to waste their time in watching each other. 529 00:42:14,119 --> 00:42:17,360 Someday knew that the Professor would chase Sime through London, that Sime would fight 530 00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:22,440 me in France, and he was combining great masses of capital, seizing great 531 00:42:22,519 --> 00:42:25,280 lines of telegraphy, while we five idiots were running after each other like a 532 00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:30,920 lot of confounded babies playing blind Man's buff And since you really want to know, 533 00:42:30,199 --> 00:42:34,400 what was my objection to the arrival of that train. I'll tell you 534 00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:38,760 my objection was that Sunday or his secretary has just this moment got out with 535 00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:42,559 him. We all turned our eyes towards the station. A considerable bulk of 536 00:42:42,599 --> 00:42:45,719 people seemed to be moving in our direction, maybe ordinary tourists. One an 537 00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:47,880 a tourists wear black masks half way down the face. It was quite true 538 00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:52,840 that the leader in front wore a black half mask almost down to his mouth, 539 00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:58,480 and the mouth was smiling a crooked smile on one side of the face. 540 00:42:58,639 --> 00:43:00,719 I believe it. The thing is nonsense. A plain people of a 541 00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:06,559 peaceable French tower prayer jumi or amox fuctable. You are talking, I think 542 00:43:06,559 --> 00:43:08,920 about the plain people of a peaceable French town. If you come to police, 543 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:13,960 they're changing them out. No now they're forming along the bridge. If 544 00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:17,800 one flung their car by heath and they light a fire on them, only 545 00:43:19,079 --> 00:43:22,119 have joined the mob. The mob a dancing steadily, was almost on top 546 00:43:22,119 --> 00:43:24,280 of us. Charge the anique. There was no doubt of it. The 547 00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:29,880 leader was Monday Monday secretary of the council under the black masks mouth was working 548 00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:36,000 horribly Monday to charge the anarchist swords. Where our time has come to die. 549 00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:40,000 Some mistake, is the sime. I hardly think you understand your position. 550 00:43:40,519 --> 00:43:45,440 I arrest you in the name of the law. But you were the 551 00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:52,199 secretary of the anarchist Council. Nonsense. I am a detective from Scotland. 552 00:43:52,320 --> 00:44:09,320 Yard. That night, five bewildered but hilarious detectives returned to London, and 553 00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:15,280 next morning, having found Goggle, we marched stolidly toward the hotel in mister 554 00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:19,440 Square. This is more cheerful. We're six men going to ask one man 555 00:44:19,519 --> 00:44:23,360 what he means. I think it's a bit queerer than that. I think 556 00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:32,679 it's six men going to ask one man what they mean. We saw at 557 00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:37,599 once the little balcony in the figure that looked too big for it. He 558 00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:42,679 was sitting alone with bent head, pouring over a newspaper. But all his 559 00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:47,840 counselors would come to vote him down. Cross that square, as if we 560 00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:52,239 were watched out of heaven by a hundred eyes. We went up the dark 561 00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:59,119 stair in silence, so pleased to see you all. On an excuse is 562 00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:04,239 did no, sir, there has been no massacre. I bring you news 563 00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:09,400 of no such disgusting spectacle. Disgusting spectful you mean Doctor Bull's spectacle. I 564 00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:15,000 spectatles are blacker, but I'm not. Look at my face. I dare 565 00:45:15,079 --> 00:45:17,920 say it's the sort of base that grows on one. Infact, it grows 566 00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:22,840 on you. It will grow on me some they we have come here to 567 00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:25,559 know what all this means? Who are you? What are you? I 568 00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:35,840 want im if you want to know what you are? You're a set of 569 00:45:36,079 --> 00:45:40,760 highly well intentioned and jackets. And you what are you? And what am 570 00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:49,800 I? The President rose slowly to incredible heights, like some enormous wave about 571 00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:52,599 to arch above us and break. You want to know what I am? 572 00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:59,400 Do you full? You're a man of science, grabbing the roots of these 573 00:45:59,559 --> 00:46:05,480 trees and find out the truth about them. Same you're a poet. Stare 574 00:46:05,559 --> 00:46:09,679 at those mourning clouds and tell me the truth about mourning clouds. I tell 575 00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:14,920 you this that you will have found out the truth of the last tree and 576 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:20,960 the topmost cloud before the truth about me. You will understand the seas, 577 00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:25,599 and I shall still be a riddle. You shall know what the stars are 578 00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:30,519 and not know what I am. Since the beginning of the world, all 579 00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:36,880 men have hunted me like a woman, kings and sieges and poets and law 580 00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:42,440 givers, all the churches and all the philosophers. But I have never been 581 00:46:42,519 --> 00:46:46,159 caught yet, and the skies will fall in the time I turned to bay. 582 00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:52,199 I have given them a good run for them and it and I will 583 00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:54,559 now. Before any of us could move, the monstrous man had swung himself 584 00:46:54,559 --> 00:46:58,559 over the balustrade of the balcony. Yet before he dropped, he pulled himself 585 00:46:58,679 --> 00:47:01,320 up again and thrust his great over the edge of the balcony. There's one 586 00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:06,119 thing I'll tell you, though, about who I am. I am the 587 00:47:06,199 --> 00:47:22,320 man in the dark room who made you all policeman. Sunday fell from the 588 00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:24,199 balcony, bouncing on the stones below like a great ball of India rubber, 589 00:47:24,199 --> 00:47:27,679 and went bounding off towards the corner of the Alhambra, where he hailed a 590 00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:30,440 handsome cab and sprang inside of it. Of course, we all followed him, 591 00:47:30,639 --> 00:47:34,159 and at the highest ecstasy of speed, Sunday turned round, and, 592 00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:37,760 sticking his great grinning head out of the cab, he made a horrible face 593 00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:39,519 at us, flung a ball of paper at me and vanished. I caught 594 00:47:39,559 --> 00:47:45,559 the paper. Let's see, no one would regret anything in the nature of 595 00:47:45,599 --> 00:47:50,280 an interference by the Archdeacon. More than I I trust it will not come 596 00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:54,320 to that. But for the last time, where are your goloshes? The 597 00:47:54,480 --> 00:48:08,079 thing is too bad, especially after what uncle said. The fire engine appeared 598 00:48:08,079 --> 00:48:12,320 at the President leads incredibly from his Handsom caught the back of the engine and 599 00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:15,639 slung himself onto it. It's no mistaking the pirate our captain flipped up their 600 00:48:15,679 --> 00:48:20,360 horses in. The President acknowledged this proximity by coming to the back of the 601 00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,880 fire engine, bowing repeatedly, kissing his hands, and finally flinging out to 602 00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:30,920 us a neatly folded notes read fly at once the proof about John bull Off? 603 00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:42,239 Friends, what places this Sunday had jumped from the fire engine over an 604 00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:44,519 iron gate, and we'd follow him to kind of park? Can it be 605 00:48:44,599 --> 00:48:47,519 the old Devil's house? Oh? You pulled the zoo's come this way? 606 00:48:47,679 --> 00:48:52,599 That's what come Where elephants gone mad and run away? Cause he's run away 607 00:48:52,599 --> 00:48:54,800 with the old gentlemen, of poor old gentlemen. It was right there, 608 00:48:55,280 --> 00:49:00,440 what sort of old gentlemen, gentlemen? And like gay clothes. The elephant 609 00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:02,199 has not run away with him. He has run away with the elephant, 610 00:49:02,519 --> 00:49:06,440 and by thunder, there he is. There was no doubt about it, 611 00:49:06,519 --> 00:49:08,840 this time, clean across the space of grass with a crowd, screaming and 612 00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:15,400 scampering medium with a huge gray elephant on it, back exact President Sunday, 613 00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:25,920 with all the vicinity of a sultan. You'll beyond the gates the balloon fights. 614 00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:36,039 He's out of the gate. Through street after street, through district after 615 00:49:36,079 --> 00:49:38,159 district, went the prodigy of the flying elephants. And we followed it through 616 00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:43,039 the city, out in the suburbs and find into a fair grounds the President 617 00:49:43,079 --> 00:49:46,440 that disappeared. Look, we's come there. Look at what? Look at 618 00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:50,320 the captive balloon? Why the blages should I look at the captain balloon? 619 00:49:50,559 --> 00:49:53,920 What is that queer bottle captain balloon thing? Except that it isn't Captain thousand 620 00:49:54,000 --> 00:50:08,280 Devils. He's stunned into it. We'd followed that balloon all afternoon. We'd 621 00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:12,679 followed it, and then about twilight the preposterous thing had staggered in the sky 622 00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:15,960 and sunk from view into the woods. Or if he's cheated us all by 623 00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:19,639 getting killed, it would be like one of his locks. And almost at 624 00:50:19,679 --> 00:50:23,039 the same moment, all six of us realized that we were not alone in 625 00:50:23,119 --> 00:50:29,440 the little field. Across a square of turf, a tall man was coming 626 00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:34,679 towards us, leaning on a strange long staff like a scepter. His advance 627 00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:38,760 was very quiet. He might have been one of the shadows of the wood. 628 00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:44,679 Gentleman, my master has a carriage waiting for you in the road just 629 00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:49,440 by. Who is your master? I was told who knew his name? 630 00:50:51,039 --> 00:50:54,760 Whereas this carriage has been waiting only a few moments, My master has only 631 00:50:55,039 --> 00:51:07,039 just come home. All six of us compared notes afterwards and quarreled, but 632 00:51:07,159 --> 00:51:10,119 we all agreed that, in some unaccountable way, the place where we came 633 00:51:10,199 --> 00:51:16,320 that night reminded us of our boyhood. It was either this elm top of 634 00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:20,800 that crooked path, that was either this scrap of orchard or that shape of 635 00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:23,320 a window. But each man of us declared that he could remember this place 636 00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:29,880 before he could remember his mother. Refreshments are provided for you in your room, 637 00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:32,280 I under a spendid suite of apartments that seemed to be designed specially for 638 00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:36,960 me. I have put out your clothes clothes. I have no clothes except 639 00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:39,840 fees. My master asks me to say that there is a fancy dress. 640 00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:46,320 Ball tonight, you're to be dressed as Thursday. C dressed as Thursday doesn't 641 00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:52,039 sound a very warm costume, Yes, sir, Thursday costume is quite warm, 642 00:51:52,159 --> 00:52:02,280 sir. It fastens up to the chin. I was led on to 643 00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:07,679 a very large old English garden full of torches and bonfires, by the broken 644 00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:13,320 light of which a vast carnival of people were dancing in motley dress. I 645 00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:17,199 seemed to see every shape in nature imitated in some crazy costume. There was 646 00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:22,559 a man dressed as a windmill with enormous sails, a man dressed as an 647 00:52:22,559 --> 00:52:24,719 elephant, a man dressed as a balloon. There was a dancing lamp post, 648 00:52:25,079 --> 00:52:29,480 a dancing apple tree, a dancing ship. One would have thought that 649 00:52:29,559 --> 00:52:34,159 the untameable tune of some mad musician had set all the common objects of field 650 00:52:34,199 --> 00:52:38,760 and street dancing an eternal jig. And long afterwards, when I was middle 651 00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:44,320 aged and at rest, I could never see one of those particular objects, 652 00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:49,239 a lamp post, or an apple tree, or a windmill, without thinking 653 00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:53,920 that it was a strayed reveler from that revel of a masquerade. On one 654 00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:59,519 side of this lawn, in a kind of crescent, stood seven great chairs, 655 00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:05,639 the thrones of the seven days. And so the night wore on, 656 00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:08,719 and finally the last of the dancers vanished, and the fire faded. At 657 00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:15,039 the long, slow, strong stars came out, and we seven strange men 658 00:53:15,119 --> 00:53:22,480 were left alone, like seven stone statues on our chairs of stone. Then 659 00:53:22,599 --> 00:53:28,119 Sunday spoke, we will eat and drink later. Let us remained together a 660 00:53:28,159 --> 00:53:31,360 little, we who have loved each other so sadly, and the thought so 661 00:53:31,559 --> 00:53:38,119 long. I seem to remember only centuries of heroic war with you were always 662 00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:45,159 heroes, epic on epic, iliad on iliad, you always brothers in arms. 663 00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:52,079 Tell me who are you? I am the Seven, I am the 664 00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:59,880 Peace of God. I'm grateful to you, not only for wine and hospital 665 00:54:00,199 --> 00:54:06,960 to hear, but for many a fine scamper and free fight. But I 666 00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:14,480 should like to know my soul and heart are as happy and quiet here as 667 00:54:14,559 --> 00:54:21,119 this old garden. But my reason is still crying out. I should like 668 00:54:21,199 --> 00:54:24,599 to know. It seems so silly that you should have been on both sides 669 00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:30,920 and thought yourself, hey, have heard your complaints. Here I think comes 670 00:54:30,960 --> 00:54:35,880 another to complain. You will hear him also. And we saw standing before 671 00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:43,639 us the red headed poet of Saffron Park Gregory. Why this is the real 672 00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:46,960 anarchist. Yes, I am the real anarchist. There came a day when 673 00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:52,159 the sons of God came before the Lord, and Satan also came with them. 674 00:54:52,199 --> 00:54:54,679 All right, I am a destroyer. I would destroy the world if 675 00:54:54,679 --> 00:55:00,440 I could. Almost unhappy, man, try to be happy. I've read 676 00:55:00,519 --> 00:55:01,800 here, Like your sister, I know what you are, all of you, 677 00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:06,000 from first to last. Not the people in power. You're the police, 678 00:55:06,039 --> 00:55:08,559 the great bat, smiling men in blue and buttons, God a law, 679 00:55:09,039 --> 00:55:12,880 are the seven a DoLS of heaven? And you had no troubles. 680 00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:15,920 Oh, I could forgive you everything if I could feel for once that you 681 00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:21,000 had suffered for one hour a real agony such as I I see everything, 682 00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:30,360 everything, everything that there is. Why does each thing on earth war against 683 00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:34,199 each other thing? Why does a fly have to fight the whole universe? 684 00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:38,119 Why does a dandelion have to fight the whole universe? For the same reason 685 00:55:38,159 --> 00:55:42,760 that I had to be alone in the dreadful Council of the days, so 686 00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:46,559 that each thing that obeys law may have the glory and the isolation of the 687 00:55:46,639 --> 00:55:52,519 anarchist, So that by tears and torture. We may earn the right to 688 00:55:52,599 --> 00:55:58,159 say to this accuser, we also have suffered, Hi repel the slander, 689 00:56:00,159 --> 00:56:04,519 not been happy. I can answer for every one of the great gods of 690 00:56:04,639 --> 00:56:15,039 law whom he is accused. At least and I saw suddenly the great face 691 00:56:15,119 --> 00:56:23,719 of Sunday? Have you ever suffered? As I gazed, the great face 692 00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:29,760 grew to an awful size, larger than the colossal mask of Memnon, which 693 00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:36,079 had made me scream as a child. It grew larger and larger, filling 694 00:56:36,159 --> 00:56:42,840 the whole sky, then in the blackness, before it entirely destroyed my brain. 695 00:56:44,239 --> 00:56:50,800 I seemed to hear a distant voice saying a commonplace text that I had 696 00:56:50,880 --> 00:57:02,639 heard somewhere. Can ye drink of the cup I drink on? When men 697 00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:07,440 in books awake from a vision, they commonly find themselves in some place in 698 00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:12,800 which they might have fallen asleep. I could only remember that. Gradually and 699 00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:19,599 naturally I knew that I was awake and had been walking along a country lane. 700 00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:27,719 Dawn was breaking over everything in colors at once clear and timid, as 701 00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:31,079 if nature made a first attempt at yellow, and a first a tempt at 702 00:57:31,199 --> 00:57:37,599 rose. A breeze blew so clean and sweet that one could not think it 703 00:57:37,679 --> 00:57:44,199 blew from the sky. It blew rather through some hole in the sky. 704 00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:49,559 I felt a simple surprise when I saw, rising all round me on both 705 00:57:49,639 --> 00:57:54,079 sides of the road, the red, irregular buildings of Saffron Park. I 706 00:57:54,199 --> 00:58:00,199 walked by instinct along one white road on which early birds hopped and sang, 707 00:58:01,559 --> 00:58:07,039 and found myself outside a fenced garden. And there I saw the sister of 708 00:58:07,119 --> 00:58:14,079 Gregory Rosamond, the girl with a gold red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, 709 00:58:15,599 --> 00:58:38,760 with a great unconscious gravity of a girl. Tonight, the Columbia Broadcasting 710 00:58:38,840 --> 00:58:43,800 System, through its member station's Coast to coast and the network of the Canadian 711 00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:47,159 Broadcasting Corporation, has brought your production of G. K. Chesterton's The Man 712 00:58:47,199 --> 00:58:52,960 Who Was Thursday by Orson Wells and the Mercury Theater on the air. The 713 00:58:52,039 --> 00:58:58,320 adaptation for radio was made by mister Wells. This Monday Night concludes the summer 714 00:58:58,360 --> 00:59:02,519 broadcast which have introduced the Mercury Theater as the first complete theatrical producing company in 715 00:59:02,599 --> 00:59:07,920 radio. But the tremendous response with their efforts of drawn from all parts of 716 00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:13,360 the country has insured their continuance with us through the coming months. The Columbia 717 00:59:13,400 --> 00:59:17,880 Broadcasting System is therefore proud to announce a new series of weekly productions by Orson 718 00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:22,880 Wells and the Mercury Theater on the air, beginning next Sunday evening, September 719 00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:28,800 the eleventh, from eight to nine o'clock Eastern daylight saving time. The first 720 00:59:28,840 --> 00:59:32,440 play next Sunday at eight will be Vincent van Gogh, an original drama based 721 00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:37,480 on the letters of the famous painter to his brother Theo and the records of 722 00:59:37,519 --> 00:59:42,920 his biographers. In the cast this evening Sunday, Eustace Wyatt, the Professor, 723 00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:46,079 Ray Collins, Gregory, George Coloris, the Marquis, ed Gebarrier, 724 00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:52,559 Gogol, Paul Stewart, Bull, Joseph Cotton, the Secretary, Erskine Sandford 725 00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:58,199 Witherspoon, Alan Devitt, Rosamond, Anna Stafford, and Gabriel Syme. The 726 00:59:58,360 --> 01:00:04,199 Man who was Thursday by Orson Wells Davidson Taylor supervised for the Columbia Network. 727 01:00:04,559 --> 01:00:38,599 This is dan Seymour speaking. The orchestra was directed by Alexander Somber. Remember 728 01:00:38,719 --> 01:00:44,519 next Sunday evening at eight o'clock Eastern daylight saving time. Orson Wells and the 729 01:00:44,599 --> 01:01:02,480 Mercury Theater on the air in Vincent van Gork. Be sure to be at 730 01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:07,159 your radio next Monday at nine pm Eastern daylight saving time. That's when the 731 01:01:07,239 --> 01:01:12,960 Lux Radio Theater begins its new series of broadcasts, same stations as last year. 732 01:01:13,719 --> 01:01:16,639 The first presentation will be Spawn of the North with George Raft, Fred 733 01:01:16,719 --> 01:01:22,559 McMurray, John Barrymore, Dorothy Lamore and Aquem Tamuro next Monday at nine pm 734 01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:47,559 Eastern daylight saving time. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System welcome back. Well, 735 01:01:47,639 --> 01:01:52,920 you can unravel the meaning of that for yourself. The Mercury Theater did 736 01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:58,800 a fantastic job. This is why it's always such a trait to be able 737 01:01:58,840 --> 01:02:04,079 to bring you one of their productions in Chesterton. Just the way he said 738 01:02:04,199 --> 01:02:09,880 things, the dialogue, the descriptions, it is just such beautifully unique language 739 01:02:10,039 --> 01:02:15,000 that always makes anything by Chesterton great to listen to. By the way, 740 01:02:15,039 --> 01:02:20,079 if you'd like to hear a more expansive version of this, the BABC produced 741 01:02:20,199 --> 01:02:29,920 a thirteen part version of this and it was actually played on BBC Radio seven, 742 01:02:29,960 --> 01:02:36,360 their online drama station, back in July. All right, well that'll 743 01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:39,280 do it from here. We'll be back tomorrow with the thin Man and the 744 01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:44,760 Meantime. Send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow 745 01:02:44,880 --> 01:02:47,480 us over on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and you can always give us a 746 01:02:47,559 --> 01:02:53,480 call to eight nine to nine one four seven eight three From Boise, Idaho, 747 01:02:53,599 --> 01:02:55,559 this is your host, Adam Graham signing off.