Speaker 1: Escape Escape Tonight to the China Seeds.
Speaker 2: In Typhoon, A Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations
Speaker 2: presents Escape, a new series of programs, of which this
Speaker 2: the fourth is Typhoon by Joseph Conrad, produced and directed
Speaker 2: by William N.
Speaker 3: Robson.
Speaker 4: Of all the great authors who wrote of the sea,
Speaker 4: none so captured the wonder and the horror of it
Speaker 4: as did Joseph Conrad. Tonight we escaped to the China
Speaker 4: Seas in his great story Typhoon, told in the words
Speaker 4: of a certain mister Jukes, chief mate of the China
Speaker 4: Coat Steamer Nanshan, a young man of very remarkable perceptions.
Speaker 1: I've been sailing the China so long enough to see
Speaker 1: some strange and terrible things, but nothing as bad as
Speaker 1: that was. My God himself forgot us, and the whole b.
Speaker 1: Lincoln universe set out to do us in that night.
Speaker 1: It was the how, But that comes later. I guess
Speaker 1: you can't really understand what happened on board the nan
Speaker 1: Shan without knowing something about our skipper, Captain mc whirr.
Speaker 1: Stupid mcquirr, I called him, and after sailing with him
Speaker 1: for three years, I ought to know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: My eye tagged him right off first day he came
Speaker 1: aboard to take command in Liverpool it was and mister Siggs,
Speaker 1: who was one of the owners, was showing him around
Speaker 1: the day.
Speaker 3: There's no more modern sheep of flute. I might say
Speaker 3: again that you've come to us very highly recommended.
Speaker 5: Captain mcquirr.
Speaker 3: We've a great deal of confidence in you.
Speaker 5: Thank you, mister Siggs.
Speaker 3: She's a brand new ship and a good ship. It
Speaker 3: is no reason why you shouldn't continue in command of
Speaker 3: her as long as you like.
Speaker 5: Well, that's that's fine.
Speaker 3: She'll be the smartest thing afloat in the Chinese trade.
Speaker 1: Why she's put together.
Speaker 3: Like a Swiss watch, precision built from stem to stern.
Speaker 5: Just a minute, mister Si, what is it that luck lock?
Speaker 5: What lock? Here on the cabin door?
Speaker 1: What about it?
Speaker 5: You'll notice how it's been set in the frame somewhat
Speaker 5: caught at an angle. The ship starts rolling a bit
Speaker 5: in the first thing, you know, it snaps open and
Speaker 5: leaves the door swinging. It really should be fixed, mister Siggs.
Speaker 1: That's Captain mccluirr, the best birth he'd ever had, new
Speaker 1: command of brand new ship, when, instead of pinching himself
Speaker 1: to see if he's awake, he complains out a lock
Speaker 1: on the cabin door. See what I mean? I see
Speaker 1: what you mean.
Speaker 3: I'll have it attended to right away. I think you
Speaker 3: will do all right now, Thanks.
Speaker 5: You, mister Simmons.
Speaker 1: Well, everybody knows what the China coast is. You haul
Speaker 1: out a Bangkok through a quick run up to Singapore
Speaker 1: and then shove off for Hong Kong two days ashore,
Speaker 1: and you do it all over again, three years of it,
Speaker 1: three years of heat, smells, weather, copra, silk and tea
Speaker 1: along in there somewhere, the owners decided to transfer the
Speaker 1: ship's registry to the Siamese flag. Don't ask me why
Speaker 1: they just did, that's all anyway. I can tell you
Speaker 1: I didn't like it. When you grow up under the
Speaker 1: Union jack you figure to go on sailing hundred. Not
Speaker 1: that the skipper, of course, could understand that kind of
Speaker 1: a feeling on not all stupidly.
Speaker 5: Quirk Hi, what is that, mister Jewkes.
Speaker 1: They just sent the new flag out from shore, sir.
Speaker 5: Here it is oh fine, fine, unbroiled. Let's have a look. Ah.
Speaker 1: Yes, in my opinion, sir, it's a queer kind of
Speaker 1: flag from man to sail under.
Speaker 5: Oh, and what's the matter with it?
Speaker 1: Well, it just looks queer of me, that's all.
Speaker 5: Well, now, let's see a white elephant on a red
Speaker 5: field just a minute, I'll look it up in the book.
Speaker 5: Here we are, Siam, white elephant on the field of
Speaker 5: bright red length exactly twice the breadth. So well, there's
Speaker 5: nothing wrong with this flag, mister Jewkes. Oh, isn't there
Speaker 5: not a thing? I hardly thought that could be. After all,
Speaker 5: these people ought to know how to make their own flag.
Speaker 5: It stands to reason, does it. Now you must have
Speaker 5: it confus with some other flagged mister Jukes.
Speaker 1: Well, all I can say is.
Speaker 5: Because you'll have to take care of the semen, don't
Speaker 5: hoist the elephant upside down. That is before that are
Speaker 5: quite used to it. I presume it might be taken
Speaker 5: for a signal of distress. And in that case, the
Speaker 5: way I see it, that the elephant stands for something
Speaker 5: like the nature of a union jack in the British farce.
Speaker 1: Oh you think so, well, it's like a bloom and
Speaker 1: Noah's art, That's.
Speaker 5: What it is, mister Jukes.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, sir.
Speaker 5: I can't see where the color of a flag could
Speaker 5: anywise affects the navigation.
Speaker 1: Of all right, Sir Alan struct the hands. It would
Speaker 1: certainly be a most distressful sight to see that elephant
Speaker 1: hoisted upside down. Well, that was Captain Mchuurr. Couldn't get
Speaker 1: a thing through his head if you drew him a picture.
Speaker 1: And that's the skipper we had to sail under on
Speaker 1: the maddest, wildest trip that any coaster ever took. We
Speaker 1: were loading out in Singapore. Half the cargo to already
Speaker 1: come aboard. Now the sun was blazing, and the smoke
Speaker 1: from our stacks hung over the decks like a blanket.
Speaker 1: The nan Chan's winches puffed away aft, and the cargo
Speaker 1: chains creaked and clattered across the Komans. I was in
Speaker 1: the ways supervising the loading, when mister Rout, the chief engineer, came.
Speaker 6: Up here, Jukes, what's going on down there.
Speaker 5: On the dark looks like a bloomin army.
Speaker 1: I don't know, mister Round. Must be a marb of
Speaker 1: coolies in the moon.
Speaker 6: Here comes a captain, would be some of his orders.
Speaker 5: Sir, keep between and get geared of cargo. There'll be
Speaker 5: two hundred foodies coming aboard, and we'll plant to bank
Speaker 5: them down there.
Speaker 1: Good lord, where are they bounding?
Speaker 5: We'll have to put in there this trip.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but we're not fixed a handle passengers, sir.
Speaker 5: They'll bring supplies aboard with them. Every man's got a
Speaker 5: comfort wood chest. So you'll have to nail deck buttons
Speaker 5: down there to keep them from lighting.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, I'll see to it.
Speaker 5: I've all been working on a plantation not somewhere, two
Speaker 5: year contract. They're dying to get home. It wouldn't have
Speaker 5: been quite right to turn them down. You may as
Speaker 5: well start them coming aboard into.
Speaker 1: Jukes, all right, saying all I number one boy, are
Speaker 1: the same? Lissen you savvy? Huh? Only fellow catch him
Speaker 1: here top side, catch them step step farther side, only time,
Speaker 1: chop chop, single file now, one fellow, one time, all
Speaker 1: the time. We do you suppose they carry on those boxes?
Speaker 5: Oh? I suppose they're personal belongings with the Jewkes, And
Speaker 5: of course they're two years pay in silver dollars.
Speaker 1: There as vicious a looking bunch of murderers as i've
Speaker 1: ever seen.
Speaker 5: Oh come now, mister Jewkes, one or two of them maybe,
Speaker 5: But in the main. I'd say they're honest workmen have
Speaker 5: to be to stick out a two year contract on
Speaker 5: one of these plantations.
Speaker 1: Just the same, sir. We better not take any chance.
Speaker 5: Oh, I checked, Lady Waits careful, and mister Jukes, we
Speaker 5: can carry them without any overloading a toll.
Speaker 1: I mean that, all right, sir. I'd better go hide
Speaker 1: the silverware in the officer's mess He's.
Speaker 5: A hard blab to understand.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I could say I had a premonition right then,
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't be lying anyway. That's how it started.
Speaker 1: At the hottest time of the year, two hundred and
Speaker 1: half civilized coolies aboard a captain with no more imagination
Speaker 1: than you could stick in your ear, we steamed out
Speaker 1: from Singapore and later course for the port of Fuchow.
Speaker 1: I tell you, dukes, I don't like it. I don't
Speaker 1: like it a bit. What don't you like about it,
Speaker 1: mister row the.
Speaker 5: Luks a thing something ominous about it.
Speaker 1: Oh, there's a bit of a swell running, all right.
Speaker 1: There's not a breath of wind. It's uncommonly hot. That's
Speaker 1: all gives a man the jumps. You're as bad as
Speaker 1: the second mate. He's been growing around like the voice
Speaker 1: of doom all day. That's the old man. I'll see
Speaker 1: you later. Keep your steam up the round? Are you
Speaker 1: calling me? Catain?
Speaker 5: I was, mister Jewkes. What with all the long conversation
Speaker 5: with mister Rout.
Speaker 1: Why nothing much, sir. I didn't see any harm in
Speaker 1: talking a bit. I'm not on watch, you know.
Speaker 5: No, no, nothing wrong with it, nothing at all. I
Speaker 5: just wondered what you could find to talk about.
Speaker 1: Well, different things. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I've seen people on shore sit around the table and
Speaker 5: talk for two or three hours. I never could understand it.
Speaker 1: It's just conversation that's all about nothing in particular.
Speaker 5: Seems pretty silly. Well you've noticed the parrometer.
Speaker 1: No doubt, Yes, sir, it's driving all in.
Speaker 5: Past quite low. Now take a look.
Speaker 1: I'll say it's driving bad.
Speaker 5: Time of the year for that sort of thing, very bad.
Speaker 1: Anything you want me to do, sir?
Speaker 5: Oh no, No, must be some uncommonly dot the weather
Speaker 5: knocking about somewhere, hey, mister Jewkes, Yes, sir, Well that's all.
Speaker 5: Just thought you ought to know about it. That's all.
Speaker 5: Carry on, sir, carry on.
Speaker 1: Oh, there's a heavy one all right, night And coolies
Speaker 1: must be having a time of it down below. Lucky
Speaker 1: for them, the old Girl rolls easier than any ship
Speaker 1: I've ever seen.
Speaker 4: Hey, you just wait?
Speaker 1: Oh you think we may be in for it?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: No, I don't think anything. You're not going to make
Speaker 1: a fool out of me that way.
Speaker 4: Mister Jukes. I didn't say a word.
Speaker 1: What's the matter with you? Second, why shouldn't you say
Speaker 1: what you think? If you're a minded.
Speaker 4: Herna, you don't catch me?
Speaker 1: Whoa, there's a little that's pretty rough.
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 1: Whatever is about? We're steaming right into it pack. You
Speaker 1: just tried telling the old man Nate, And why shouldn't I?
Speaker 1: Matter of fact, I think I'll ask him about this
Speaker 1: cross swell. It's getting worse all the time.
Speaker 6: I've known skippers to break some right good men for
Speaker 6: saying her whole long?
Speaker 1: Lest uh Captain mcquirrh, Yes, mister Jewkes, what is it?
Speaker 1: The swell is getting a good deal worse, sir?
Speaker 5: Yes, I noticed that in here? Anything wrong?
Speaker 1: Well? I I was thinking about the passengers.
Speaker 5: Huh what passengers?
Speaker 1: Why the cool is sir?
Speaker 5: And if you mean coolst say cool is, mister Jewkes.
Speaker 5: A man ought to say what he means, what about
Speaker 5: the coolies.
Speaker 1: She's rolling her decks full of water. Sir, I thought
Speaker 1: you might want to put her head at the swell
Speaker 1: for a bit until this goes down.
Speaker 5: Of course, so that's it is. Would have headed the
Speaker 5: swell four points off the corpse.
Speaker 1: Well, it's just for a while, sir, as well as
Speaker 1: high as this can't last long. That stands to reason,
Speaker 1: mister Jewkes.
Speaker 5: Take a look at the barometer, good lord, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 5: It's a dead calm outside, isn't it.
Speaker 1: There's not a breath of air stirring, sir, only that
Speaker 1: cross swell.
Speaker 5: I've been reading in the book here about storms. It's
Speaker 5: a funny thing. If a man believed everything written down here,
Speaker 5: he'd spend half his life running to get behind the weather.
Speaker 5: If I was to go by what this fellow says,
Speaker 5: I'd all to my course and come booming into food
Speaker 5: shelf from the north four days late, three hundred extra
Speaker 5: miles in distance, and a pretty bill for coal on
Speaker 5: top of it. I'll tell you, mister Jewkes, if I
Speaker 5: knew every word in here it was gospel true, I
Speaker 5: couldn't bring myself to do that now, sir, I guess
Speaker 5: and how's a man to know the book is right?
Speaker 5: If you dodge around the spot of deathly weather? How
Speaker 5: do you ever find out it was there in the
Speaker 5: first place? Answer me that? No, Oh, mister Jewkes. There's
Speaker 5: things that a man can't get from books. I've thought
Speaker 5: it all out this afternoon. We'll hold her steady as
Speaker 5: she goes.
Speaker 1: Whatever you say, sir, you're the captain. I guess i'd
Speaker 1: better ride up the log I'm going on.
Speaker 5: Watch good. I'd say we're heading into something you bit
Speaker 5: out of the ordinary. Call me at once if anything
Speaker 5: you shows up in the night.
Speaker 1: Mister Jukes, All right, sir, I'll say to it. And
Speaker 1: mister Jewkes, yes, sir.
Speaker 5: If you're going into the chart room, please close that
Speaker 5: blinking door. I can stand here the door bag.
Speaker 1: It, yes, sir. Eight PM. Swell increasing ship, laboring heavily
Speaker 1: and taking water in all decks. Still a dead calm
Speaker 1: and very hot. Batting down the coolies for the night.
Speaker 1: The barometer is still falling. All appearances indicate an approaching typhoon.
Speaker 1: All right, hacker, holder steady as she goes. That's all
Speaker 1: we can do, Why, sir, I'll sure try to well
Speaker 1: do the best you can hi, I sir, mister Jones,
Speaker 1: mister Jukes, I cantain. I'm coming stand back over here.
Speaker 1: Did the Dukes stop for the trail? Right, sir? Coming over,
Speaker 1: mister Jukes. Why didn't you call me? But there was
Speaker 1: no warning, sir. It is all of a sudden, about
Speaker 1: five minutes ago, blasted right out of a dead calm.
Speaker 5: The book was right in some parts. Anyhow, how's he going?
Speaker 5: The wheelhouse hacked?
Speaker 7: Is?
Speaker 1: Look? Aunt sair hi had Oh what about Hackett? He's
Speaker 1: on the wheel second is putting up shutters, and when
Speaker 1: the glass will go, she starts breaking any higher?
Speaker 5: Oh do you break higher? Mister Jukes?
Speaker 1: What's the higher? It's a happy thought. I haven't ordered,
Speaker 1: of course, I say, hey, straight at the winds?
Speaker 5: Good and the else we can't do, mister Jukes, understand, yes, sir.
Speaker 5: Something a man can't fight in books. Just keep her
Speaker 5: at it, that's all.
Speaker 1: Captain our pots sign the bright away, that's all right,
Speaker 1: and the boxer tow them. My god, Now that can't
Speaker 1: be helped, mister Jewkes. I'm gonna do a mess like this.
Speaker 5: They're bound to leave something behindn't count three old heart. Ah,
Speaker 5: she's still rising all right, at one broke over the wheelhouse.
Speaker 1: We're done for for sure? What's that, mister Jewkes? You
Speaker 1: say something I said? Is there any chance an answer?
Speaker 1: Could she live through a chimney?
Speaker 5: We can hope, so loud east. She's a good ship,
Speaker 5: That's all a man can ask you.
Speaker 1: What's that? Sumbody yelling? Follow us on the forward accent?
Speaker 1: I'm here, starving bread man.
Speaker 5: Shouldn't be on that deck this he has to. That's
Speaker 5: a bit dangerous work over here? What's the trouble? Boson
Speaker 5: in Chinese?
Speaker 1: Sir? Way, hang on the Chinese? What about them? Eve?
Speaker 1: All fetched away?
Speaker 7: Sir?
Speaker 1: One big lump. It's horrible. Now what do you mean?
Speaker 1: Matched away?
Speaker 3: Rolling around in the hold in one big lump, screaming
Speaker 3: like brooming mini accer?
Speaker 5: All a drip, mister duke, Yes, sir, I can't make
Speaker 5: head in the tailor this. I guess you'd better go
Speaker 5: below and see to it.
Speaker 1: Put things in order. But what shall I do, sir?
Speaker 5: I can't tell you up here? Find out what's wrong?
Speaker 5: Straighten it out, that's all that's off. Take the motion
Speaker 5: with him.
Speaker 1: I'm going to try with the wheelhouse, all right, So
Speaker 1: come on, bos right, just strike it out. That's all.
Speaker 5: Well, how's the wheel stand?
Speaker 4: Hacket?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 5: Heare?
Speaker 7: She go?
Speaker 5: Sir? Do you realize of course we've hit the typhoon?
Speaker 1: H sir.
Speaker 5: Sorry, I can't give you a relief. Can you manage
Speaker 5: a while longer?
Speaker 1: I'll hold it to the course as long as there's
Speaker 1: a ship by night turn That won't be long.
Speaker 5: Oh, anything wrong?
Speaker 1: Second wrong? We're always goodish take been as what's wrong?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 5: Now, I wouldn't say that is still a floater and
Speaker 5: we've got it lucky here on deck, plenty of chance
Speaker 5: to see what's coming before.
Speaker 1: It hits us.
Speaker 5: A man always feels better when we can see what's coming.
Speaker 1: It's a different.
Speaker 5: Story down below there, not having knowledge of what's going on,
Speaker 5: not knowing if we're afloat or sinking. Now there's the
Speaker 5: lads that's got it tough. No one's down there in
Speaker 5: the engine room. Swing to it.
Speaker 6: He've been doing it. No time now for the steam
Speaker 6: to drop. You're right, that throttle bield can let her
Speaker 6: ripper shaft down when she.
Speaker 1: Breaks far of those walls. Hello, bridge, Hello.
Speaker 6: Bridge, Why don't the answer the speaking to him? Can't
Speaker 6: tell if they're dead or alive there?
Speaker 1: Hello, hello captain? How is it on deck? Bottom?
Speaker 7: Up?
Speaker 1: It depends mostly on you. So far, so good. We're
Speaker 1: holding a full head of steam.
Speaker 6: Well, don't let me drive her under, sir, as shop.
Speaker 5: To see uit defeat up here?
Speaker 1: Drop to keep moving enough the steer, I understand, sir,
Speaker 1: Come on us to do very well as long as
Speaker 1: the wheel I'll stop right all gone? Hello, Hello, said
Speaker 1: the captain. Mister run. I've got to talk to him
Speaker 1: right away. Wait a minute, Jukes, something's happened up there? Hello? Hello,
Speaker 1: rich you're still there?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: Anything wrong here?
Speaker 5: Oh? Not now?
Speaker 1: A second mate's huss overboard? Oh no?
Speaker 5: Must is love awkward sucking stops not to fuck him
Speaker 5: out to back here?
Speaker 1: That Jukes, Yes, let me talk to him, Captain Jukes.
Speaker 1: Here the boson and I just took a look at
Speaker 1: the tween dick. It's them blowing boxes, sir. They've all
Speaker 1: broke loose and smashed the bits, and the coolies are
Speaker 1: fighting like crazy man for them silver dollars that's rolling around.
Speaker 1: I think we good. They're two hundred of them, sir.
Speaker 1: They're all trying to kill each other.
Speaker 5: What a stop to.
Speaker 1: Put a stop to it? How they're crazy man. They'll
Speaker 1: kill anybody that came on that deck.
Speaker 5: A second, mister Jukes, you're you're off. Make it clear
Speaker 5: of them, We.
Speaker 1: Make it clear to them.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, after that, But gather up all the money.
Speaker 1: I can't have it lying about on the deck. Wait
Speaker 1: here it comes, see.
Speaker 6: As a fat here's the one that does it. That
Speaker 6: that must have swept the deck from stem to stern. Hello, hello,
Speaker 6: Captain MacGuire.
Speaker 1: You are right up there, all right.
Speaker 5: All the boats and half the starborn quail carried away.
Speaker 5: Nothing serious, do nothing, don't worry about this.
Speaker 1: Out, carry on, nothing to worry about.
Speaker 6: Carry on, Hey, you're all right, captain, as you say, sir,
Speaker 6: carry on, carry on?
Speaker 1: Hey now, hey, no where.
Speaker 5: Are you going?
Speaker 1: Where are you going?
Speaker 6: Eh?
Speaker 1: Where do you think I'm going? Your loud mouth on
Speaker 1: the wind bag? Not on that deck to get myself murdered.
Speaker 1: Ha ha ha ha, Nothing serious, jukes, nothing to worry about.
Speaker 1: All blooming world's falling apart, and I'm out picking up
Speaker 1: silver dollars. Captain's orders. Come on posting here, don't usually,
Speaker 1: Old Jukes, gury old boy gury on looking short the
Speaker 1: dorm on and I'll help her my gallant skipper says,
Speaker 1: to stop the fighting. Who was our fire? All right?
Speaker 1: The quiet town? Come on, Posa, stow it there. Your
Speaker 1: fools cut it out down to your harey authority. Huh,
Speaker 1: they're clean out of their heads. You gotta drive him
Speaker 1: with the bullhead back up though, Hey, none of that
Speaker 1: head to it, Poson. You gotta show the much more.
Speaker 1: Nothing else to do back up there. Captain's orders are
Speaker 1: all follow me.
Speaker 8: Poston, count h. I was just thinking, what about back there?
Speaker 8: Don't fight the last skipper's orders go you can one
Speaker 8: of the old lady and see me now, she'd.
Speaker 1: Say, Oh you charlie, sailor, lad, keep moving the jam
Speaker 1: on my posting at the bottle. Captain, Why are you, captain?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 5: Were here, mister jukes h you got everything cleared up
Speaker 5: down below? Oh?
Speaker 1: Oh yes, we we took care of everything, sir.
Speaker 5: I thought you would. The wind fell all at once,
Speaker 5: stopped cold. It's been like this for ten minutes now.
Speaker 1: If you think it was an easy job to bring
Speaker 1: that marb under control of.
Speaker 5: The coolies, oh say it wasn't. I had to do
Speaker 5: what's fair by them, though, mister Jewkes, that barometer in
Speaker 5: there stands at the lowest point I've ever seen a
Speaker 5: glass in my life.
Speaker 1: He may never be more of it.
Speaker 5: The worst yet, according to the book, it'll break sudden
Speaker 5: now any minute. Top for two of win, and then
Speaker 5: it hits.
Speaker 1: She's taken a horrible beating, sir.
Speaker 5: She has, indeed, and she's in for a worse one.
Speaker 1: We haven't much chance, have we, sir.
Speaker 5: She may come through it. She's a good chip.
Speaker 1: Here's the first puff.
Speaker 5: It'll hit us hard when it comes. You left them
Speaker 5: pretty safe, did.
Speaker 1: You, the coolies, we strong lifelines. Gives them something to
Speaker 1: hold on to.
Speaker 5: Good. I'd like to give them all the chance we can.
Speaker 5: Whatever happens.
Speaker 1: Ah, they'll be all right, Sarah. I broke out rifles
Speaker 1: to rade of the crew. Put them the guarding all
Speaker 1: the companion ways leading off the team deck.
Speaker 5: You arm the crew, mister Jukes.
Speaker 1: Oh sure, we won't have any trouble with them now,
Speaker 1: says mister Jukes.
Speaker 5: Please have those rifles return to the magazines at once.
Speaker 5: There'll be work for every man aboard in a few minutes.
Speaker 5: I can't spare seem under stand around and hold rifles
Speaker 5: when it isn't necessary.
Speaker 1: Isn't necessary, don't you realize those savages. You think we
Speaker 1: stole her money, but they'll tear us to bits if
Speaker 1: they ever get out of that deck.
Speaker 5: I think they'll understand we're dealing fair by them. Collect
Speaker 5: the rifles to Jukes cap.
Speaker 1: In its suicide. The best thing we can do is
Speaker 1: turn the whole mess over to your faridies in food show.
Speaker 1: If we have a get there, well, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I figured that when anything happens on shipboard, it's up
Speaker 5: to me to settle it on shipboard, part of the
Speaker 5: duties of commanding a vessel, mister Jewkes. I have no
Speaker 5: doubt I'll be able to reach an understanding with these
Speaker 5: men later.
Speaker 1: Understanding you want to see him a while ago and
Speaker 1: me and the person was down.
Speaker 5: There lost their heads a bit. I guess we wonder
Speaker 5: at that when here she comes. Pick up those rifles,
Speaker 5: mister Jewkes. And something else. Yes, Captain, if anything happens
Speaker 5: to be you'll be in charge. Only advice keep for
Speaker 5: facing it. Best t wait to get through facing it.
Speaker 1: That set up for any man, all right, Captain. I'll
Speaker 1: remember one thing, bore, mister Jewkes.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, something that always helps to see is to
Speaker 5: keep a cool head.
Speaker 1: Just keep a cool Oh no, keep a cool head.
Speaker 1: A stitch in time saves nine a snow what I'm
Speaker 1: the name. I haven't here to deal with a man
Speaker 1: like that. There was a clear blue sky and bright
Speaker 1: sunshine in the morning. We steamed in the food shewl harbor.
Speaker 1: Mister Rout was leaning on a hatch combing smoking a pipe,
Speaker 1: and the bowsam lounges on the four deck, waiting to
Speaker 1: pick up a line from the wharf. And the captain, well,
Speaker 1: he was engaged in the most unusual occupation. He was
Speaker 1: sitting at a table on the four deck, handing out
Speaker 1: silver dollars to them, blinking coolies, all divided up even
Speaker 1: the same amount to each one. Craziest thing you ever
Speaker 1: heard of in your life. You see the way the
Speaker 1: captain figured it. Since those blighters had all worked for
Speaker 1: two years at the same rate of pay, then their
Speaker 1: savings ought to all be about equal. As you can see.
Speaker 1: Of course, it was necessarily true by any means, wasn't
Speaker 1: even legal. But you couldn't tell him anything. Well that,
Speaker 1: mister Jewkes, Yes, sir, coming captain.
Speaker 5: Well, mister Jewkes, I've disposed of our little collection of
Speaker 5: silver dollars that's great.
Speaker 1: Only way to those boys get a sure and file
Speaker 1: claims against them.
Speaker 5: Oh no, they won't do that. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 5: they we're quite pleased at having it arranged that way.
Speaker 5: I figured it might avoid a lot of arguments later,
Speaker 5: they said, the spokesman the thank well, I'll be mister Jewkes.
Speaker 5: You may as well give all the hands six hours
Speaker 5: leave before we start working the cargo.
Speaker 9: Whatever you say, captain, Oh yes, and before the carpenter leaves.
Speaker 9: I wish you'd have him fixed the lock on that
Speaker 9: pot cabin door. But that seems to have got broken
Speaker 9: somehow during the storm.
Speaker 7: I suppose I can't stand to hear the door banging,
Speaker 7: mister Jewkes. I, sir, I I don't suppose it matters
Speaker 7: that the ship is battered from stem to stern, half
Speaker 7: her topside carried away and smashed, so she looks like
Speaker 7: a blooming tins and freighter.
Speaker 5: Mister Jewkes, I don't understand you.
Speaker 1: You don't understand me, sir. Do you understand that we've
Speaker 1: come through the worst typhoon in the China season twenty
Speaker 1: years were the only ship that got through.
Speaker 5: It's true, I suppose we were a bit lucky.
Speaker 1: Lucky, sir, with two hundred murdering cutthroats running loose a
Speaker 1: board in the very heaven's doing their worst.
Speaker 5: We had a job to do and we did it.
Speaker 5: That's all, mister Jewkes. That's the important thing.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, that's that's all. That's all, he says, A
Speaker 1: job to do, A bit lucky. What can you do
Speaker 1: with a man as thick as that? And then as
Speaker 1: I started to turn away, Captain mcchhuru said something else.
Speaker 1: It surprised me. With emotion wrung from the very bottom
Speaker 1: of his soul, he he uttered words, I never thought
Speaker 1: I'd hear it coming from so so stupid a man.
Speaker 5: But I'm glad we brought her through, mister Jewkes, truly
Speaker 5: I am. She's a good ship, mister Jewkes, A good ship.
Speaker 5: I should have hated to I should have hated to lose.
Speaker 2: Pyphoon by Joseph Conrad was adapted for radio by Less
Speaker 2: Crushfield and produced and directed by William N. Robeson, with
Speaker 2: Bright Lovejoy as Jukes, Raymond Lawrence as Captain mcquirr, and
Speaker 2: Cy Kendall as Rout the Engineer. The special musical score
Speaker 2: was conceived and conducted.
Speaker 5: By cy Fewer.
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Speaker 2: in Robert Louis Stevenson, story of a fascinating adventure.
Speaker 1: The Sire de Montroise.
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