Speaker 1: Escape.
Speaker 2: You are groping in the dark of the African jungle night,
Speaker 2: trapped on a wharf above a crocodile infested river, fighting
Speaker 2: for your life against a ruthless giant from whom you
Speaker 2: must escape.
Speaker 3: Escape designed to free you from the four walls of
Speaker 3: today for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 2: Tonight we escape to the dank jungles of the Segwanga
Speaker 2: Valley in Africa, into the heart of a courageous man.
Speaker 2: As Robert Simpson told it in his story John Jack Todd.
Speaker 4: No doubt you may presume my Scotch answers three from
Speaker 4: a wee bit of the old speech that still links
Speaker 4: to my voice, though it's been some years now since
Speaker 4: I last walked in the heather of the hellens of Abergorie.
Speaker 4: My name is John Todd, the same as my father's,
Speaker 4: though to be sure he is more often called Jock Todd,
Speaker 4: Jock being the fighter's equivalent to John, and a name
Speaker 4: which in no wise applies to me. I am a
Speaker 4: peace loving man, not a fighter, and no man can
Speaker 4: deny it even to day. However, in other respects I
Speaker 4: was a raw lad for certain when I sailed up
Speaker 4: from Glasgow and came here to this heathen land of Africa.
Speaker 4: And that's a thing which cannot be said of me
Speaker 4: at present. If a man lives at all in this
Speaker 4: steaming hut jungle Niger River, then he must learn very quickly,
Speaker 4: and most especially so if he lands at that dirty
Speaker 4: little trading post and say, Guanga Creek flap side by London,
Speaker 4: coming up.
Speaker 5: Hell here you are, mister durt Sa Gwanga landing, and
Speaker 5: you can have it as far as I can consulted.
Speaker 4: Well, I might say the Parlor company had somewhat more
Speaker 4: elaborate offices than Glaskow.
Speaker 6: Mister Simpson, Hey, hey, no doubt about that. And how
Speaker 6: long did you sign up?
Speaker 1: For?
Speaker 6: Four years? Four years looking for them?
Speaker 5: They catch you fellows in Glasgow before they ever seen
Speaker 5: the place.
Speaker 4: There's a fair looking buildings there on the bank ligand buildings.
Speaker 6: Hey, what's that help?
Speaker 4: He's in?
Speaker 6: You want to tear out the world. I don't suppose
Speaker 6: you've heard anything about Druck.
Speaker 4: They told me I should report for the agent in
Speaker 4: charge here, a man named Captain Brock.
Speaker 6: Hurts and Druck.
Speaker 5: Every agent in the stink and jungle calls himself the
Speaker 5: captain that's there in the world.
Speaker 1: He's a boy.
Speaker 6: Get a line ready now, all right? Put the model.
Speaker 4: He's a fair sized man for seven. He's big enough
Speaker 4: right in some ways, so as a gorilla watch out.
Speaker 4: Can I say I understand you? You will, mister Tudd,
Speaker 4: if you live long enough, have the topside. Row's a
Speaker 4: line by, yes, me, cut's quick.
Speaker 6: That little fellow with him is named Canceling. You get
Speaker 6: nothing to fear from him till after bars made a move.
Speaker 6: He's a sneaking little jack al, but he never makes
Speaker 6: his own kill.
Speaker 4: I still can't understand what you're talking about, mister Simpson.
Speaker 5: You'll find out soon enough. Wouldn't help you know now
Speaker 5: to go ahead of time. I duck here once a
Speaker 5: week on the river run. But you're still on your own.
Speaker 4: You'd better know it right now, mister Simpson. You will
Speaker 4: have to explain.
Speaker 1: No, mister Simpson, all same, plenty fast.
Speaker 6: All right, boy, Come on, mister Tudd, you may as
Speaker 6: well meet your new boss.
Speaker 1: Coo Blong.
Speaker 4: Look up for your morphice sent out with this time
Speaker 4: ratap Gunson. Well, Simpson, you are half a day late, and.
Speaker 6: I start running my boat on the schedule. I'll send
Speaker 6: you a copy of it.
Speaker 4: Brock m if there was another boat on this river,
Speaker 4: I could ship my stuff on. You know what I
Speaker 4: would do, then, don't you? No, you wouldn't brock, not
Speaker 4: as long as you know I carry a gun.
Speaker 1: You there, you then you junior assistant.
Speaker 4: That's right, sir. My name is John Todd. And I
Speaker 4: assume your cow'll take the time to find out your
Speaker 4: name later. And I do not give two cents for
Speaker 4: what you assume. Let's tell him and did not? I
Speaker 4: tell you to shut up and get out clear those
Speaker 4: natives of the war.
Speaker 1: Right, Joe cap All right, move along? Are you ready? Peggers?
Speaker 1: Come on home now you they're wrong, you step.
Speaker 4: I have some brandy of at the Bungalo Simpson, if
Speaker 4: you would like a drink while the boys.
Speaker 6: Are loading, I just had a drink on board.
Speaker 4: You there, whatever, your name is, John Todd, sir? Ah,
Speaker 4: So it is John Todd, is it? And I suppose
Speaker 4: you call yourself Jack like the rest of your blasted countrymen. No,
Speaker 4: I said, Jock is the name for a fighting man
Speaker 4: such as my father gonna say it fits me?
Speaker 1: So you are not a fighting man? Eh.
Speaker 6: It makes things a lot easily. You don't hit block.
Speaker 4: As soon as you're both is loaded, you can bring
Speaker 4: the lading bills up to the office. Well, Todd, you're
Speaker 4: going to stand here on the wharf the rest of
Speaker 4: the day, No, sir, but I thought you'd be wanting.
Speaker 1: You are not paid to think. Get your stuff up
Speaker 1: to the bungalow and be quick about.
Speaker 4: It, whatever you say, Captain Brock.
Speaker 6: Four years of it, mister Todd, Welcome to Sagua.
Speaker 4: I didn't understand it at all. Reason for Captain Brock
Speaker 4: having acted in such a strange way. I'd never met
Speaker 4: the man, nor could I think that he'd ever heard
Speaker 4: of me before, and I couldn't be certain of the
Speaker 4: extent of the man's authority here in the jungle. The
Speaker 4: Home Office in Glasgow, having been a wee bit unclear
Speaker 4: about the matter, they had said only that the agent
Speaker 4: was very much like the captain aboard his ship, and
Speaker 4: that he carried full responsibility in his own two hands.
Speaker 4: But about the attitude of Captain Brock himself, I very
Speaker 4: soon had few doubts left in my head. I didn't
Speaker 4: see the man again the afternoon arrived, but a houseboy
Speaker 4: came and wakened me in the middle of the night,
Speaker 4: and said, the captain wished to see me in the
Speaker 4: main room of the bungalow. Immediately, Captain brock the boy said,
Speaker 4: you'd sent for meself.
Speaker 1: You do not have to tell me that it took
Speaker 1: you long enough to get here too.
Speaker 4: I took no more time than to put on a
Speaker 4: pair of pants. So it makes you argument if to
Speaker 4: wake you up in the middle of the night, I
Speaker 4: was not intending to be, so I am not interested
Speaker 4: in your intentions.
Speaker 1: Mister Tat. You will learn to keep a civil tongue
Speaker 1: in your head.
Speaker 4: Well, I was not mean.
Speaker 1: Shut up. That's better. And I suppose you're wondering why
Speaker 1: I had you waked up like this in the middle
Speaker 1: of the night.
Speaker 4: I'd presume you had a reason.
Speaker 1: Oh you presume, do you? And what do you presume
Speaker 1: the reason is?
Speaker 4: I'm afraid I couldn't say. Then I will tell you
Speaker 4: I sent for you, mister Todd, simply to show you
Speaker 4: I can have you waked up any time I please
Speaker 4: to You had no other reason than that, none at all,
Speaker 4: mister Tat. A fighting man might resent it, but then
Speaker 4: you are not one.
Speaker 1: You to bed.
Speaker 4: If that's all you've got to say to me, then
Speaker 4: I'll go back to my bed. That is all.
Speaker 1: Now get out of my office, just.
Speaker 4: As you say, Captain Brooke.
Speaker 1: Ha ha ha ha.
Speaker 4: The attitude of the man didn't change none of the
Speaker 4: next few weeks, and I couldn't find in my head
Speaker 4: any reason for his hatred. And it was hatred. It
Speaker 4: was in his eyes every time he spoke to me.
Speaker 4: I took care of my duties and stayed clear of him. Otherwise,
Speaker 4: and for the most part we came to no head
Speaker 4: on clash. That with the two exceptions, however, the first
Speaker 4: one happened about a week after I arrived. I was
Speaker 4: supervising a group of nats at the time working on
Speaker 4: the breakwater at the end of the war.
Speaker 1: Mister Card, What the devil are those boys supposed to
Speaker 1: be doing? They're repairing the breakwater. I can see that
Speaker 1: without Now where did you get the authority to buy
Speaker 1: the timber?
Speaker 4: Why you ordered it last week yourself from cheeky Lauri.
Speaker 4: Maybe I told you to accept delivery without having me
Speaker 4: look at it first. You told me to receive it
Speaker 4: when it came in, and that's what I did. It's
Speaker 4: good timber. I checked it myself.
Speaker 1: How would you know if it is good? Timber.
Speaker 4: My father happens to be a forester back in Colin
Speaker 4: the devil take you and your father both. I'd advise
Speaker 4: you never to say that in my father's hearing.
Speaker 1: Are you threatening me?
Speaker 4: No, I'm nothing like that, But I'm sort of suggesting
Speaker 4: it isn't always wise to insult a man you've never seen.
Speaker 4: I see, now that I come to think of it.
Speaker 4: He is the one that is a fighter, isn't he?
Speaker 4: That's correct, the one they called Jack Ta.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 4: It is too bad he is not around here, mister
Speaker 4: John t uh boy, you there, throw that piece of
Speaker 4: timber you're using, and I fool could see it's too short.
Speaker 4: Up on a deal, I said, throw it out.
Speaker 1: I will teach you to argue. You get back at
Speaker 1: your feet, I said, get on your feet before I
Speaker 1: kick your head up.
Speaker 4: I'd seen him knock Gansen down the same way and
Speaker 4: then kick him like I did the Natives, and Gansen
Speaker 4: took it and saved these courses until Brock was not around.
Speaker 4: I wondered what I might do if he ever tried
Speaker 4: it on me, And the next week I saw that
Speaker 4: he would try it. Sooner or later. Chief the Wanna
Speaker 4: and his boy coming from back country with a dozen
Speaker 4: canoes full of palm nuts, and I was out in
Speaker 4: the warehouse checking in the load. We used a big
Speaker 4: wicker basket for measuring, called a cooler for some reason
Speaker 4: or other, and the one as boys would fill this
Speaker 4: and then we'd dump it on the pileo at the
Speaker 4: end of the building. Gansen was bossing the load, and
Speaker 4: then I check off each cooler in the teley book
Speaker 4: as it was dump. It was late in the afternoon
Speaker 4: when we finally finished.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, step loudly now you then flights
Speaker 1: us year write no more. The trouble about after this one?
Speaker 1: All right, Todd, is the last one?
Speaker 6: You got it?
Speaker 1: Marped?
Speaker 4: Have you flat canton?
Speaker 1: All right? Now you're runny beggars. Let's take it back
Speaker 1: and top it.
Speaker 6: Come on, put your facts to a.
Speaker 1: Now pick her up.
Speaker 6: Let's you.
Speaker 1: A shake him out, check him out. Everything and off
Speaker 1: one happens. Come on, check him out. That's all right?
Speaker 1: How many killers did we have done?
Speaker 4: In?
Speaker 6: Two?
Speaker 4: Many?
Speaker 1: You come?
Speaker 6: How man? They call? You'll get save me?
Speaker 4: Maybe nineteen nineteen me an't all same?
Speaker 1: Twenty? Well, Mark, it's not you miss one, Todd, give
Speaker 1: miss twenty.
Speaker 4: I didn't miss one, mister Ganson. The tally is nineteen.
Speaker 1: Turn the wrong?
Speaker 6: Will you play me twenty trouble?
Speaker 4: Sorry, wanna that stands at nineteen.
Speaker 1: Would be a crazy full Toddle, Give it to him.
Speaker 1: What's one cooler? More or less met though, Captain Brook
Speaker 1: he picks good? That will not be necessary to Wanner.
Speaker 1: What is the trouble here, Todd?
Speaker 4: I mean you got sense enough to take in a
Speaker 4: few palm nuts without getting your feet twisted. My fate
Speaker 4: have nothing to do with it. Captain Brock. He claims
Speaker 4: twenty coolers, and I counted nineteen.
Speaker 1: Then you missed one. Give him twenty.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna do that, sir. You what I'm gonna sign
Speaker 4: my name to help cheat the company.
Speaker 1: Cool from me for right down right you shut up Ganson.
Speaker 4: Mister Todd out here, I am the company now right
Speaker 4: out that credit check. Whatever you say, Captain Brook let's
Speaker 4: taken your orders like a good check.
Speaker 1: Mister Todd. I thought you'd changed your cancer. Well have
Speaker 1: you got it written?
Speaker 4: Mister Todd, there you are, Captain brok. Well it's lucky
Speaker 4: you decided. Mister Todd. You have made this out for nineteen,
Speaker 4: which is according to my count, why lusted little right,
Speaker 4: I'll advise you to stop and think before you move. Mmmm. Well, no,
Speaker 4: you wouldn't be picking up that shovel with any hostile intent,
Speaker 4: would you. No, man, No more than you'd be advanced
Speaker 4: and todd me with a hostile intent.
Speaker 1: Like that. Eh, dunna, I am tearing up this track.
Speaker 1: I will give you one myself for twenty you always
Speaker 1: come to me. I will make it right with you, Yes,
Speaker 1: Captain all same like you say, m and mister Todd,
Speaker 1: I will make it right with you too. You can
Speaker 1: depend on that.
Speaker 4: A frog stayed clear of me for a few weeks,
Speaker 4: and outside of the job o work I was hired
Speaker 4: to do, I had no words with him. I recall
Speaker 4: mister Simpson saying to watch out for him, and I
Speaker 4: was here certain he was only waiting for the chance
Speaker 4: to make his move. He outweighed me for fifty pound,
Speaker 4: and I knew beyond doubt that I couldn't stand up
Speaker 4: to him. But what really worried me was not known
Speaker 4: of any reason for the man's attitude. It made no
Speaker 4: sense that a man should go looking for a fight
Speaker 4: without no reason at all. At any rate, the weeks
Speaker 4: passed the jungle steamed, and the muddy river rolled past
Speaker 4: the wharf. And then one day it happened Sunday was
Speaker 4: my one three day in the week. So I'd hired
Speaker 4: a canoe and paddled up stream for a visit with
Speaker 4: a fellow countryman at another trading post some few miles away.
Speaker 4: It was just getting dark when I came back to
Speaker 4: the wharf, and when I got in close, I saw
Speaker 4: Brocks standing there smoking, leaning on a pilot. At the
Speaker 4: far side. The watch boy squatted near the edge, waiting
Speaker 4: to take the line from my canoe. He caught it
Speaker 4: and pulled the boat in and made it fast, and
Speaker 4: I climbed out onto the wharf.
Speaker 6: Ow good trip, Muster Tod, not so bad.
Speaker 4: Bit hot, That was all I You savey which place
Speaker 4: canoe man live?
Speaker 6: You, sir, live on breakwater side?
Speaker 4: Then go tell him come get canoe, Tell him two
Speaker 4: day pass, I give him check for pay? Why yes, sir,
Speaker 4: no go now tell man plenty soon boy you're there,
Speaker 4: he held and Brock did I give you permission to
Speaker 4: leave the war?
Speaker 1: Mussa, What Muster Todd is I tell you you could leave? Mossir?
Speaker 1: All right? Then go get the head man, tell him
Speaker 1: I want him here right away, and you come back
Speaker 1: with him. By all right, Todd, get up to your quarters.
Speaker 4: I think I'll be staying right here. Captain Brock. If
Speaker 4: your planning to tie that boy to a post and
Speaker 4: flog him, because I have no doubt you've decided to do,
Speaker 4: then you'll be having a word with me first.
Speaker 1: Canson. Is that you all right?
Speaker 6: Y'all? Captain?
Speaker 1: I heard what he said. If it's a witness you want.
Speaker 4: It, I will tell you when I want anything. Captain
Speaker 4: mag take mister Todd up to his room and keep
Speaker 4: him there. I will attend to him later. If either
Speaker 4: of you your hand on me, it'll be a most
Speaker 4: unfortunate day in your lives. You don't say so, mister Tar,
Speaker 4: mister John, I've told you what you may expect, so
Speaker 4: you have. I am not to lay a hand on you,
Speaker 4: not even like this.
Speaker 1: Till the proper Captain hit him again, mister Toad. Yet
Speaker 1: I felt his.
Speaker 4: Foot smash into my side.
Speaker 6: I tried to get up onto my.
Speaker 4: Knees and I couldn't.
Speaker 1: I told you to get up again.
Speaker 4: I know it wouldn't take many to finish me off
Speaker 4: my head. I'm over the side of the wharf, I
Speaker 4: made one effort and rolled off into the water. He's
Speaker 4: calling it to the wall cabin, maybe because when that
Speaker 4: is his hard luck, I supposed trousers.
Speaker 1: The resident commission will be done, honest but certain. I
Speaker 1: don't want to shoe him.
Speaker 4: Ufghansern, Yes, sir, he can't swim all right there. He
Speaker 4: is now climbing out in the bank. If what's the matter,
Speaker 4: mister Pott.
Speaker 1: You are not leaving us, are you? You have not
Speaker 1: changed your mind about having a work with me, have you?
Speaker 1: Mister Chad.
Speaker 4: Back in my own quarter, as I changed into dry clothes,
Speaker 4: hurrying as fast as I could, I couldn't have find
Speaker 4: it in my heart to be angry with the man.
Speaker 4: He had struck me without warning and kicked me while
Speaker 4: I was down, and he was panning out to flog
Speaker 4: a native boy without the lad having committed a vote.
Speaker 4: It was not a thing to become angry about. Captain
Speaker 4: Brock had to be punished, that was all, And though
Speaker 4: it would mean my own life most likely, it had
Speaker 4: to be done. It was snow more than a matter
Speaker 4: of simple justice. Within five minutes I was back at
Speaker 4: the wall. The watchboy had come back with the head
Speaker 4: member and a group of natives had gathered around the
Speaker 4: circle of light thrown o by a hurricane lantern. They
Speaker 4: didn't see me at first, all right, Gunson, his hands up,
Speaker 4: aver his head and tie them there stretch of mark right,
Speaker 4: the ar captain the watch boy stood there trembling with
Speaker 4: fear while Ganson bound his hands to the heavy post.
Speaker 1: Hurry after, you plums it for and make it tight.
Speaker 1: I wanted to hang there after I'm through with him. Oh,
Speaker 1: he'll do that, all right, Captness Todd. Well, mister Tar,
Speaker 1: you are just in time to see the boy again
Speaker 1: what he's coming to him?
Speaker 6: Rock.
Speaker 4: I told you before you'll not be doing this without
Speaker 4: having a word with me. I was under the impression
Speaker 4: that you had already had your word, mister Tar. You've
Speaker 4: been laying into me ever since I came here. For
Speaker 4: reasons if your own, whatever they might be.
Speaker 1: And one do you plan to do about it? Mister Tar?
Speaker 4: You may be somewhat within your rights in that respect,
Speaker 4: but you're not so when you're hit a man with
Speaker 4: that warning and kick him while he's lying on the ground.
Speaker 1: Call Kevin, give him what for?
Speaker 4: I take it, then, mister Todd, you have objections to
Speaker 4: hitting a man without warning.
Speaker 1: Perhaps it is the thing your father would not think
Speaker 1: of doing.
Speaker 4: No objections, mister Brock now, but I know you do
Speaker 4: it well. It's a thing that one can do as well.
Speaker 1: As the other.
Speaker 4: Me you, Kevin, I don't mind, not that I know it.
Speaker 4: I coughed him along one side of the head and
Speaker 4: then again or the other. And why do you rock
Speaker 4: back from the blows? I trenched my hands around his stick,
Speaker 4: knack fingers into his throat.
Speaker 1: Stop him, Kevin, boy tells, aren't you blood? It's all
Speaker 1: stop crust and struggled and twitching. But I held on
Speaker 1: and kept choking him, tensing my hands tighter and tighter.
Speaker 1: He struck at me, and I let go with one
Speaker 1: head and cuffed him again.
Speaker 4: And he said, after someone of mistaken my part for
Speaker 4: the low and raising. So he taught himself loose and.
Speaker 1: Smashed his fish into my face.
Speaker 6: You gonna know, Kevin, give it to you.
Speaker 1: I'm a show. Kill him. Kevin got.
Speaker 6: Gord, captain kN his bloody anything for him.
Speaker 1: Give him a good look out, captain. Look he's got
Speaker 1: your records.
Speaker 5: Head like a man when he's calm, crack and you're
Speaker 5: running for you're breaking his leg.
Speaker 4: I'd dry Canton, get up on your feet. Man here
Speaker 4: through only pretended. Come on, get up on your feet.
Speaker 1: I get up cool brom Me.
Speaker 4: If you ain't broke, I doubt it. I'm thinking it
Speaker 4: only twisted Canson. Yes, the boys give him hand to
Speaker 4: his room if he needs it. I'm going to my
Speaker 4: quarters and clean up a bit, right miss To Todd
Speaker 4: and Captain Brock, you have no reason to be calling
Speaker 4: me a killer. I'm a peace loving man, and I
Speaker 4: have no good opinion of such things as killing in fighting.
Speaker 1: You tried to do me and Todd. You are going
Speaker 1: to pay for it. I'm going to kill you for it.
Speaker 1: Maybe to day or maybe next month, but I am
Speaker 1: going to kill you.
Speaker 4: You can't count on it. I went to my quarters then,
Speaker 4: and I didn't know what happened just after that. I
Speaker 4: didn't know about Block kicking Gansen off the stairs while
Speaker 4: the little man was trying to help him, nor about
Speaker 4: Ganson going to the Captain's room a few minutes afterwards.
Speaker 1: How are you feelin cap'n. I'll shut your mouth, Ganson,
Speaker 1: or I will shut it for you. You got no
Speaker 1: coal to betraying me like that. I'd have helped you
Speaker 1: if I could, but they jest wan't no chance they'd
Speaker 1: have done for me the same as you can shut up.
Speaker 4: I cannot even move my leg.
Speaker 1: There warn't no colder kicked me a while ago, neither
Speaker 1: I could get out of this chair. I'd do the
Speaker 1: same again. You can't get up, Kevin Brouh, How could
Speaker 1: I hoped up?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 4: What is in your mind? You a little beggar?
Speaker 1: You've been booting me around for nearly two years now,
Speaker 1: haven't you the aptonomy? The first minute I landed like
Speaker 1: you've got an abbot of doing when the bloke is new,
Speaker 1: and I will break your dirty little nick as soon
Speaker 1: as I can walk. You've been treating me like a
Speaker 1: ruddy dog, captain, and I've been taking it too until now,
Speaker 1: Oh what are.
Speaker 6: You up to?
Speaker 1: Bension? Okay, Benson?
Speaker 4: I sat there in my room for a long time,
Speaker 4: holding the distol I'd taken from a door of the desk.
Speaker 4: I couldn't see any way out of it. Sooner or
Speaker 4: later that the first chance you could find Brock was
Speaker 4: going to kill me. And aside from murdering the man
Speaker 4: in cold blood, I didn't see any way of preventing him.
Speaker 4: I couldn't leave the tree and posting for certain I
Speaker 4: couldn't stay on my guard for twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 4: I couldn't say how long it was. I sat there,
Speaker 4: holding the pistol in my hand and trying to think
Speaker 4: how I might keep from dying, and not even knowing
Speaker 4: why the man hated me enough to wish to kill me.
Speaker 4: Then I heard somebody coming down the hall outside my door.
Speaker 4: I thought for a moment they might be going passed,
Speaker 4: But then I raised the gun and pointed at the door, Canson, cancer, man,
Speaker 4: what have you done to your hands?
Speaker 1: Where? Oh? You ought to see him, mister Todd, he
Speaker 1: would have come take a look at him, oh blinding
Speaker 1: if I ain't marked him up, all right?
Speaker 6: I marked him good.
Speaker 4: What do you saying?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 6: What have you done?
Speaker 1: He has always thought he was so much just because
Speaker 1: it was bigger than me. I showed him all right,
Speaker 1: what have you done? And you can't take a look
Speaker 1: for yourself, mister Todd, Come and see what used to
Speaker 1: be so I a mighty calling itself kept and brook.
Speaker 1: Take a look at him, mister Todd. He ain't quite
Speaker 1: so tough now as he was before.
Speaker 6: Done to him.
Speaker 1: With my own two hands. I've done it, mister Todd.
Speaker 1: I beat his face to.
Speaker 4: Get as bad as he as. Gunsan, He's not gonna
Speaker 4: your Brock. Get your own gunson ah.
Speaker 6: Anyway, I marked him.
Speaker 1: I've marked his place up good.
Speaker 6: So it'll show for a long time.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 4: Shut up your great glove round, baby, most like you
Speaker 4: lived through it all right, though you may never look
Speaker 4: the same again.
Speaker 5: Hell, and you've been having a bit of excitement, mister Simpson.
Speaker 5: He doctored the wharf ten minutes ago. The boys told
Speaker 5: me where had happened to you?
Speaker 6: Good lot?
Speaker 4: You did all that, not to his face. Gansen has
Speaker 4: been settling up an old score. I'm afeared the little
Speaker 4: man has a vicious disposition.
Speaker 6: I never thought i'd see it. Brock crying like a baby.
Speaker 4: And the sound of it fairly sickened me. Suppose we
Speaker 4: step outside and let him be ht me plead, mister Simpson,
Speaker 4: I've found out why Captain Brock hated me the way
Speaker 4: he did. Well, he threatened to kill me. Heh, But
Speaker 4: do you think it is the man? The coward? That's
Speaker 4: all you saw him in there?
Speaker 6: Just now?
Speaker 4: He knew he was a coward. And he was afraid
Speaker 4: i'd find it out. Hey, you may be right, there's
Speaker 4: no doubt of it. And I'm thinking you'll have him
Speaker 4: for a passenger when you go back down river. You'll
Speaker 4: not be able to stay here. Now that we understand him,
Speaker 4: and I'll see to it that Gunson goes along with him.
Speaker 6: Helly, I can't say that I'll mind the change.
Speaker 5: I mean er doing business here from now on with
Speaker 5: a gent by the name of Jock Todd.
Speaker 4: Jock, Oh no, you're taking me all wrong. I'm a
Speaker 4: peace loving man and my name is John. It's no
Speaker 4: wise proper to call a man jock unless he's a fighter.
Speaker 4: Now you take my father, for instance. There's a man
Speaker 4: who can hold his own in any kind of company.
Speaker 3: Escape produced and directed by Norman MacDonald. Tonight Brought You
Speaker 3: John Jack Todd by Robert Simpson, adapted for radio by
Speaker 3: Les Crutchfield, featuring Wilms Herbert as John Todd, Jack Krusian
Speaker 3: as Captain Brock, and Tony Barrett as Ganson, with Don
Speaker 3: Diamond and Paul McVeigh. The musical score was conducted by
Speaker 3: Wilbur Hatch.
Speaker 6: Next Week.
Speaker 2: You are rushing forward through time, far into the future,
Speaker 2: trying desperately to flee the clutching fingers of a band
Speaker 2: of night creatures, a dream like horror from whom there
Speaker 2: seems no escape.
Speaker 6: Next week we are Escape with HG. Well's awesome story
Speaker 6: The Time Machine.
Speaker 3: Good Night then until the same time next week, when
Speaker 3: once again we offer you escape. This is CBS, the
Speaker 3: Columbia Broadcasting System.