Speaker 1: Ed up with the everyday grind, tad out from the
Speaker 1: summer heat, want to get away from it all.
Speaker 2: We offer you escape, escape designed to free you from
Speaker 2: the four walls of today. For a half hour of
Speaker 2: high adventure.
Speaker 1: You are deep and a fabulous mountain cavern, surrounded by
Speaker 1: a horde of menacing natives from the lost civilization, held
Speaker 1: at the mercy of the most beautiful woman in the world,
Speaker 1: the terrible queen called She.
Speaker 2: Tonight. We escape to uncharted Africa and to an incredible adventure.
Speaker 3: As h.
Speaker 2: Rider Haggard described it in his fantastic story She.
Speaker 4: In those days, I was a professor of archaeology at Oxford,
Speaker 4: and now this may account for my being able to
Speaker 4: understand some of those strange events which occurred later. It
Speaker 4: was in no respected reason for my becoming involved in them. No,
Speaker 4: the real reason was unbelievably simple. I walked through the
Speaker 4: caves of the dead in the terrible and ancient city
Speaker 4: of car crossed the awful abyss, and looked upon the
Speaker 4: flame of life. Only because I was one of the
Speaker 4: ugliest men in England. Because of my appearances, I had
Speaker 4: made few acquaintances and only two close friends, Roger Vincey first,
Speaker 4: and following his death, his son Leo, whom he left behind.
Speaker 4: And it was that friendship which brought Leo Vincey to
Speaker 4: my chambers off the quadrangle late in the evening of
Speaker 4: the day he became twenty five years old.
Speaker 5: Today was the first I knew of it, Holly. When
Speaker 5: the attorneys called me in, they said father instructed them
Speaker 5: the week before he died to give me the letter
Speaker 5: and this little bronze chest on my twenty fifth birthday.
Speaker 4: It's strange, I mean chest jan did show Egyptian influence.
Speaker 5: It must be very old, and according to father's letter
Speaker 5: it contained something over two thousand years old. Really must
Speaker 5: have considered it rather important. He's closed the cover with
Speaker 5: the lead seal. Yes, I see any rate, Holly, the
Speaker 5: letter doesn't tell us much. Suppose we suppose we see
Speaker 5: what's inside?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 4: I have a geology he is I'm where my boy? Hey?
Speaker 4: Oh here we are? You hold it in place on
Speaker 4: the table.
Speaker 5: Lea, go ahead, Ah, that's putting loose.
Speaker 4: Yes, I did it. Well, it goes. What the devil
Speaker 4: is that? Why? It's a clean turn old Egyptian writing tabilty. Yes,
Speaker 4: it's the kind used about the time of Nicktannabes around
Speaker 4: three forty BC.
Speaker 5: The writing on that it's not Egyptian, it's Greek.
Speaker 4: Yes, and parts of it are broken away. Oh, it'll
Speaker 4: take some time to translate this, Leo.
Speaker 5: But father apparently did it. Holly, onto this paper. Listen,
Speaker 5: here's his translation. I am an artist, wife of Khalikrates.
Speaker 5: Say this to you, my son. Forced to escape the
Speaker 5: wrath of the great Nectana Bees, your father and I
Speaker 5: fled southward across the waters and wandered for twice twelve moons,
Speaker 5: upon the coast of Libya.
Speaker 4: That's the old name for Africa, you know, ah.
Speaker 5: That faces the rising sun. There by the mouth of
Speaker 5: a river, where stands facing the sea a great mountain
Speaker 5: carved like the head of an Ethiopian. What is it now? Nothing, Holly?
Speaker 5: It goes on following the river. We soon fell among
Speaker 5: a row of asterisks.
Speaker 4: One of the places where the tile's broke.
Speaker 5: And go on my birth to a hollow mountain, where
Speaker 5: a great city one stood, into the terrible caves of
Speaker 5: which no man had seen the end. And to she
Speaker 5: who must.
Speaker 4: Be obeyed, she who must be what's wrong, Leo?
Speaker 5: I don't know, Holly, there's something familiar about that name,
Speaker 5: but I've never heard it before. Strange, we get on
Speaker 5: with it. She who must be obeyed, who did lead
Speaker 5: us by awesome ways to the place where the great pities,
Speaker 5: whose voice is like thunder, and she did show to
Speaker 5: us the rolling pillar of life, and did stand in
Speaker 5: the flames, and she spake unto mine is a large
Speaker 5: fragment missing here. There isn't very much more picks up,
Speaker 5: carried far away on the ships where I gave birth
Speaker 5: to thee, and came hither to Athens. At last, so
Speaker 5: I say to THEE, by these things which I have told,
Speaker 5: seek out this place, nor state I will until thou
Speaker 5: hast the secret of life for thyself, sit then on
Speaker 5: the throne with the Pharaoh. That's all, Holly. And what's
Speaker 5: it all about, Leo?
Speaker 4: If your father knew, he kept it to himself. I
Speaker 4: don't know. It's all very strange.
Speaker 5: Yes, well, we'll know. As soon as we reached the place.
Speaker 4: I was hoping you'd say that, even if you decided
Speaker 4: not to, I think I should have ready tried finding
Speaker 4: it alone.
Speaker 5: I can't do anything else, Holly. It's it's more than curiosity.
Speaker 5: It's almost a compulsion. There's such a familiar feeling about
Speaker 5: all this, even that mountain Holly shaped like the head
Speaker 5: of an Ethiopian. Yes, well, often on ever since I
Speaker 5: was a kid, I've dreamed.
Speaker 4: About a mountain like that.
Speaker 5: But why, Holly, why should I?
Speaker 4: That was the beginning, and some three months later be
Speaker 4: drifted down the east coast of Africa, south of Zante Bar,
Speaker 4: searching the miles of jungle shores for the mountain carved
Speaker 4: like a head. There were four of us in the
Speaker 4: tiny ceiling, now Leo and I of course, along with Abdellah,
Speaker 4: the Arab boatman we'd had in Arden, and finally a
Speaker 4: solid North countryman named Joe Nigh servant for many years.
Speaker 4: We've got no sight of our landmark as yet, but
Speaker 4: a native were told us of seeing it once years before,
Speaker 4: somewhere to the south. So our hope's how hi. We
Speaker 4: were confident luck with with it. I'm sure it was
Speaker 4: until one evening, just in dark.
Speaker 5: That's a pretty stiff win, Holly, you think of Tella
Speaker 5: knows what he's doing.
Speaker 4: We're rather close in shore all right, Ley, order if
Speaker 4: there's any danger, and that's a squall, HiT's hey, bye,
Speaker 4: goll see we're strangers here in an even landon all
Speaker 4: anything could have it could Joe. But let's assume that
Speaker 4: it were. How's Thetory making out back? There are trailing
Speaker 4: along all right behind us. Be in a bad spot
Speaker 4: if we lost it. We are guns, food, equipment and
Speaker 4: everything in it. Yes, signed O Joe, Leo. Perhaps we
Speaker 4: shouldn't have packed the stuff that way here he should
Speaker 4: have kept it on board with her.
Speaker 5: No, no, Holly, we want to be ready to shove
Speaker 5: off up the river as soon as we sight the head.
Speaker 5: Would be a tough job loading that boat at sea.
Speaker 4: We may not have had to, Leo. We've certainly found
Speaker 4: no reason to do so far we will.
Speaker 5: I've creamnver a master only looks the women driving the
Speaker 5: water ahead of it.
Speaker 4: Lay under that tene and head and joy.
Speaker 6: I'll give my head on it.
Speaker 1: Hias.
Speaker 5: Here we've got to Judson hould under the mass job
Speaker 5: we along down.
Speaker 7: Here the great wave plunged over us, gore away the
Speaker 7: dory swamp, the dow beneath off each and hurled us
Speaker 7: headlong into the foaming sea.
Speaker 4: Have smothered finding to see.
Speaker 7: Afloat born show it by the driver of the tempest
Speaker 7: we were tossed at last, one by one up onto
Speaker 7: the rain swift beach.
Speaker 4: The calm dorm found us huddled together on the sand
Speaker 4: at the fringe of a dark and forbidding jungle. At
Speaker 4: the south lay the mouth of a small river into
Speaker 4: the north. The beach endered at the slope of a
Speaker 4: rocky headland. You and Joe went to look at the
Speaker 4: rectory lying in the water of the age hundred yards away.
Speaker 4: When I searched the shoreline for some sign of our boatmen,
Speaker 4: I found none. And we never saw Abdullah again.
Speaker 5: Oh, Holly, fin any trace of Molly.
Speaker 4: No, it is gone for good.
Speaker 5: Oh it's too bad.
Speaker 4: We'll change the dory in Jober wrecked, not a chance
Speaker 4: of fixing it. But the equipment seems to be all right, sir,
Speaker 4: Oh good, it's all.
Speaker 5: There, Yes, most of it. The lashings held in the
Speaker 5: waterproof case is still up very well. Only trouble is
Speaker 5: we're afoot.
Speaker 4: Yes, we're going to have a lot of trouble following
Speaker 4: the coastline.
Speaker 5: We won't follow any coastline, Holly, We're going up that river.
Speaker 5: Take a look at that headline there to the north.
Speaker 5: It shows up better from the wreck Holly. But with
Speaker 5: the sun coming up now you can see it from
Speaker 5: here too, Doom.
Speaker 2: Its shaped like a human nade.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 5: That's the Lamber, right, Holly, Then that's the river color
Speaker 5: Crates followed with his wife, the same one we are
Speaker 5: trying to follow.
Speaker 4: With the boat gone, we shall have to break trail
Speaker 4: through that jungle and follow.
Speaker 5: That river by Yes, we'd better get started.
Speaker 4: Look, gentlemen, why can't we just stay here and try
Speaker 4: to signal some ship.
Speaker 5: Oh, there's not much chance of a job. Let's stay
Speaker 5: pretty clear of this cost. But anyway, this is what
Speaker 5: we've been looking for.
Speaker 4: I don't really know what we are looking for, Leo.
Speaker 4: It's been more than two thousand years since Callakratis went
Speaker 4: up that river. Things must have changed a great deal
Speaker 4: by now.
Speaker 5: Holly, Hally, that carved head up there in the mountain,
Speaker 5: it looks exactly the way it always did when I
Speaker 5: dreamed about it. I've got a strange feeling that whatever
Speaker 5: Klikratis and his wife found back there in the jungle,
Speaker 5: we'll still be waiting there today.
Speaker 4: Five heart steaming days we pushed inland through the jungle,
Speaker 4: following the banks of the Muddy River, wre by my.
Speaker 4: The creeping undergrowth became more dense, the river shallowed and
Speaker 4: became sluggish, and the swamp lends began to stretch out
Speaker 4: from the low banks, foul pools and stagnate lagoons full
Speaker 4: of soft black mud covered over with the green scum
Speaker 4: made every step by hazard. Crocodile slid away at our approach,
Speaker 4: and bright colored sneaks ride it out from underfoot. I laughter, My,
Speaker 4: we forced our way through those evil swamps. Each mile
Speaker 4: mod difficult. Finally came the morning of the sixth day.
Speaker 5: Oh, I don't know, Holly, it gets any worse. We'll
Speaker 5: never make it.
Speaker 4: Excuse me putting in gentlemen, I say we should turn back. No,
Speaker 4: Joe wears five days getting this far? Have you shaved away?
Speaker 5: It's just the way I feel. We'll keep on as
Speaker 5: long as we care. What lilts? Hello, and I stumble
Speaker 5: over something in the mire. Yeh, take a look at it.
Speaker 5: It's a rock.
Speaker 4: Look, yes, it's a square stone. It's been hand cut.
Speaker 4: There's another.
Speaker 5: It's a section of an old wall of some sort
Speaker 5: of a dike.
Speaker 4: That's it, Holly.
Speaker 5: A long time ago the river was held between stone
Speaker 5: dikes along here like a.
Speaker 4: Sort of canals possible. That might account for the swampland
Speaker 4: the dikes gradually fell to pieces, and the river sped
Speaker 4: out through the jungle.
Speaker 5: Of course, and Holly, that could be only one reason
Speaker 5: for building them, so that boats are parts could come
Speaker 5: in from the ocean to some kind of a city city.
Speaker 4: Gentlemen, don't we turn back while we're st city. It
Speaker 4: had to be a long time ago, centuries ago.
Speaker 5: It'd still be there, Holly, this place has never been explored.
Speaker 5: Nobody would ever try to come through these swamps.
Speaker 4: If he keeps, Joe, what's the matter with you? He
Speaker 4: must be Oh, look, natives, Ah, where the devil did
Speaker 4: they come from?
Speaker 5: I don't know. Oh strange looking roots clothes they're wearing.
Speaker 4: Yes, you needn't quite like them, except hey, hey, bakery beco.
Speaker 5: Do you recognize the dialect?
Speaker 4: No, it's a little like Arabic. I might try that. Okay,
Speaker 4: you far, hey, go need balk on ye vic. I've
Speaker 4: never heard anything like it before.
Speaker 5: Seemed to watas to come along with them. Molly, you
Speaker 5: think we'd better change it?
Speaker 4: Well? The outnumbers third it at one leo.
Speaker 5: Yes, and they're all carrying those stabbing knives.
Speaker 4: Well, barker the dongle.
Speaker 5: Hang on to your guns. They don't seem to know
Speaker 5: what they're for. Let's go.
Speaker 4: Our strangers got moved rapidly ahead, twisting and turning as
Speaker 4: they followed some well remembered trail of their own. We
Speaker 4: rested during the night on a hummock of dry ground,
Speaker 4: and struck out again at dawn. It was late afternoon
Speaker 4: when we left the swamp and climbed up at long
Speaker 4: slope to the foot of the rock walled mountain. Reaching
Speaker 4: its base, we entered the mouth of a great cabin,
Speaker 4: and a short way inside were led into a small
Speaker 4: tide chamber carved from the living rock and lighted by
Speaker 4: a red wick floating in the jug of air. And
Speaker 4: then the strange natives went away and left us, and
Speaker 4: we set about on the floor trying to plan some
Speaker 4: course of action.
Speaker 5: Em out, Ah, how long do you suppose we've been here, Harley?
Speaker 4: Close to two hours? I'd say, yeah, I must be
Speaker 4: dark outside by now. Alla.
Speaker 5: Do you have any idea what race they belonged to.
Speaker 5: They're not like any other natives in this part of Africa.
Speaker 4: I've seen people much like them in summer of the
Speaker 4: villages in southern Egypt, Leo. But I don't know any
Speaker 4: more about it than that where.
Speaker 5: Those odd tunics to cotton or Linen. I suppose those
Speaker 5: bronze headbands must have been out of contact with the
Speaker 5: rest of the world for centuries.
Speaker 4: Eavens, that's what they are.
Speaker 5: And hope to you know good so far as we concerned.
Speaker 4: That's what I write, Joe, But I still want to
Speaker 4: find out about the other things. Em Nazis wrote on
Speaker 4: the tile Steve Corn the pillar of fire, and she
Speaker 4: who must be obeyed.
Speaker 5: We found the caves. At least I can't see anything
Speaker 5: so terrible about them.
Speaker 4: Perhaps we haven't seen everything in the cave. Yee bohop
Speaker 4: o any bar hop our little charm any barop. He
Speaker 4: seems to want us to follow it. Well, hang on
Speaker 4: to your gun, right, you.
Speaker 5: Are stick close together, Do not let them separate us,
Speaker 5: all right.
Speaker 4: Job, Come, let's go. A strange guide led us along
Speaker 4: the twisting, branching passageways, latting our way with a flaming
Speaker 4: torch that threw weird shadows on the walls of solid rock.
Speaker 4: Now and then we pass high chambers lined with long
Speaker 4: rows of stone slabs, and then I saw that each
Speaker 4: slab held the sheeted figure of a human body, and
Speaker 4: I realized these caves were one vast crypt filled with
Speaker 4: the mammified bodies of some Gradually, as we moved on,
Speaker 4: a most remarkable sound began to grow louder, made up
Speaker 4: of the guttural voices of a crowd, the throbbing of drums,
Speaker 4: and the moan of some strange musical instrument. Suddenly, the
Speaker 4: narrow passage opened out into a great hollowed cavern, where
Speaker 4: with natives danced and postured, and the irig glare from
Speaker 4: one hundred huge torches placed about the walls. They still
Speaker 4: in amazement, but the torches were flaming mummies tied upright
Speaker 4: to the posts, and the guide had lighted our way
Speaker 4: through the passages with a human arm.
Speaker 5: Nay, book or again, I think he means for us
Speaker 5: to walk toward that platform in the center.
Speaker 4: Yes, there's a bit of cold bending on the top
Speaker 4: of it.
Speaker 5: Eh, book has come on, watch it, Holly. I don't
Speaker 5: like the looks of this. I keep your gun handed, Leo,
Speaker 5: stay right with this joke and look anything but friendly.
Speaker 4: Anything starts trying to get on the platform. They've got
Speaker 4: no weapons except those stepping nows. Remember here we are
Speaker 4: on now what the band eve? It's quite some fire
Speaker 4: they've got built up. I can't understand what they want.
Speaker 3: Joe, Joe, Joe.
Speaker 5: But how Holley they kill Joe endeavors back against them Orleo,
Speaker 5: watch it here they come? All right, you step Joe
Speaker 5: a chance? What are you left, Holley? Let's try for
Speaker 5: the frame have naughty man?
Speaker 4: What the deuce is this.
Speaker 5: Old man in a long white row?
Speaker 4: Hold your gun ready, Leo, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 6: Andy Andibo.
Speaker 5: Let's get the death of him, whoever he is.
Speaker 4: Wait, he's coming our way.
Speaker 6: I presume you speaking English, gentlemen, Yes you do. Occasionally
Speaker 6: natives from the south have come through the swamps and
Speaker 6: we have captured him. I have learned many of the
Speaker 6: languages of the outside world.
Speaker 5: I am b lally Ah, Leo, Vincey, and this is
Speaker 5: mister Holly.
Speaker 6: I am most sorrowful for the death of your companion. Yes,
Speaker 6: my children had no excuse.
Speaker 4: They know the law.
Speaker 6: From now on you will be allowed to complete freedom.
Speaker 6: No white man is ever to be eaten Eden.
Speaker 5: That is what would have.
Speaker 3: Been done to you.
Speaker 6: But rest assured her law is just, and their punishment
Speaker 6: will be swift. Whose law that of she who must
Speaker 6: be obeyed?
Speaker 3: Ali? This is it?
Speaker 5: Only we're still on the right trail.
Speaker 6: She has demanded your presence. I have come to take
Speaker 6: you to the place where she is.
Speaker 4: Tell me, Blali, who what is this she who must
Speaker 4: be obeyed? A goddess, a queen, a white woman?
Speaker 6: I could not say, my son, I have never seen
Speaker 6: she come along.
Speaker 4: Again through those tortuous passages, two of us now, with
Speaker 4: kindly old Bilalay leading the way, until he left us
Speaker 4: alone at last in a large chamber hung with brilliant
Speaker 4: colored silks, fitted with softer vands, and lighted by crystal lamps.
Speaker 4: We stood there several minutes, not speaking, wondering, when suddenly
Speaker 4: the curtains across the doorway parted, and her most amazing
Speaker 4: figure stood before us. It was swathed in folds of
Speaker 4: filmy white draperies, with soft gauzy veils covering even the
Speaker 4: face and hands.
Speaker 3: I bid you welcome to the city of Koor. Colocrates
Speaker 3: and friend of Calocrates.
Speaker 5: I I I am not Colocrates. I'm Leo Vincey, and
Speaker 5: and this is my friend, mister Holly.
Speaker 3: Leo vincey vengeance. No matter you will understand? Are you
Speaker 3: I am she?
Speaker 4: We you must forgive, as if we find it difficult
Speaker 4: to understand this? What is all they see? These caves?
Speaker 4: The natives? What is Kor?
Speaker 3: Kor is a great city that rose up and then
Speaker 3: died many thousand years ago. These are the caves of Kor.
Speaker 3: The city itself stands farther on, and a huge crater
Speaker 3: at the heart of the mountain.
Speaker 5: Are you a descendant of Kor?
Speaker 3: I came from another place far away, and Kor was
Speaker 3: dead long before I found it. The natives know me
Speaker 3: as a fearsome figure in white, and they obey me.
Speaker 4: They have never seen you.
Speaker 3: No, Holley, not one of them has ever seen behind
Speaker 3: these vales.
Speaker 5: It's amazing to think that color Crates must have been
Speaker 5: here in this same place over two thousand years ago.
Speaker 3: Two thousand, two hundred eighty seven years ago, Calocrates died
Speaker 3: in this very chamber.
Speaker 4: You you speak as though you saw it happened.
Speaker 3: I did see it happen. I killed him, but.
Speaker 4: You couldn't.
Speaker 5: That was over two thousand years ago.
Speaker 3: Yes, and at that time I had been here in
Speaker 3: cores for more than five.
Speaker 5: Hundred years impossible.
Speaker 3: How do you know you haven't seen me?
Speaker 5: But then you claim to be immortal.
Speaker 3: Yes, as he could have been had he stepped with
Speaker 3: me into the flames of life, as you can be,
Speaker 3: my Calicrates.
Speaker 4: If you so true, I hope you'll forgive me. But
Speaker 4: I can't believe anything so fantastic.
Speaker 3: Is it proof?
Speaker 4: You need?
Speaker 3: Proof that I once did an evil act in anger
Speaker 3: and paid for it by waiting alone through all these centuries,
Speaker 3: proof that my waiting has ended. Now, then look upon
Speaker 3: it behind this curtain.
Speaker 5: A mummy, a mummy like those out in the caves.
Speaker 5: But look at the face, Leo, Ah, it's you. That's
Speaker 5: you lying there.
Speaker 3: That is the body of Calacrates, whom I loved and
Speaker 3: whom I killed in anger. When he refused to leave
Speaker 3: her and stay with me to become immortal, his wife, Eminaritis,
Speaker 3: fled across the mountains and later gave birth to his son,
Speaker 3: Your ancestor.
Speaker 4: And Lio, that clay tile has been handed down in
Speaker 4: your family for over twenty centuries.
Speaker 3: I have paid for my sin, and I have waited,
Speaker 3: knowing that some day my Calacrates would be born to
Speaker 3: me again, would come back to Kor and find me.
Speaker 3: It was as though I had to.
Speaker 5: I dreamed of that carved mountain before I ever seen it.
Speaker 5: And your name, she who must be obeyed. It struck
Speaker 5: some chord in my memory the first time I heard it.
Speaker 3: It is your heart that must be obeyed. Now, my beloved,
Speaker 3: the decision is yours, whether to leave me once again,
Speaker 3: now that you have found me, or to walk with
Speaker 3: me into the pillar of life, to love me and
Speaker 3: to become immortal.
Speaker 5: Yes, I feel somehow that this is the ending of
Speaker 5: something I've been moving toward all my life.
Speaker 4: Leo.
Speaker 5: Oh ah, but it isn't possible immortality, And how can
Speaker 5: you love someone you've never seen?
Speaker 3: Then you shall see, my beloved, I've worn these veils
Speaker 3: for you, and for you I look.
Speaker 4: Ah. The soft veil slid off from her shoulders, and
Speaker 4: she stood, revealed before us, the most beautiful woman the
Speaker 4: world has ever seen.
Speaker 3: Will you leave me now, my calacrates, or come with
Speaker 3: me to the flame of life.
Speaker 5: I'll go with you anywhere, anywhere.
Speaker 4: We talked the night away in that chamber, Leo and
Speaker 4: I fascinated by every word that fell from those lovely lips.
Speaker 4: She talked of the hidden knowledge of ancient lands, sang
Speaker 4: softly of her thoughts in rhyme, and spoke once again
Speaker 4: the words of long dead poets forgotten by the world.
Speaker 4: She made us believe in her own immortality and in
Speaker 4: ours to come, and before dawn beholly with us. We
Speaker 4: followed her madly and joyously through the dim and dusty
Speaker 4: passage that led to the flame of life. We came
Speaker 4: to a great abyss, with a narrow ledge crossing over
Speaker 4: it like a rainbow rock. There Bellali waited, and we
Speaker 4: three went on alone. At the sight of the awful
Speaker 4: depths beneath us, Leodi in spite of ourselves, and moved
Speaker 4: carefully step by step. She never hesitated, but swayed along
Speaker 4: gaily before us, like a feather borne on a breeze.
Speaker 4: Finally we stood in a vast circular chamber, a great
Speaker 4: bubble in the earth's crust, whose walls were shining black
Speaker 4: bass all holly.
Speaker 5: Yes, I see there by. The wall looks like the body.
Speaker 3: Of a man, an old philosopher, my beloved, who came
Speaker 3: here many centuries ago. He sat and watched the flame
Speaker 3: and could not decide whether he should become immortal. Finally
Speaker 3: he died, and you have.
Speaker 4: You never regretted becoming immortal?
Speaker 3: I could not have waited for calicrates, hollih had I
Speaker 3: not been immortal? But Julio, perhaps you have doubts.
Speaker 5: Immortality will not even be long enough with you. Where
Speaker 5: is the flame?
Speaker 3: Listen? Even now it approaches, it advances, and then retreats,
Speaker 3: a never ending cycle of life. It has moved along
Speaker 3: its path through this cavern since the beginning of time. Holly, Look,
Speaker 3: do not fear it, beloved. See this time I will
Speaker 3: step into the flame alone. How many it comes again,
Speaker 3: you may join.
Speaker 5: Me, like the fire of the sun in the dust
Speaker 5: of a million diamonds.
Speaker 7: As the great and terrible pillar of flame approached, she
Speaker 7: threw off her veils and opened her arms to it,
Speaker 7: and the eternal fire flowed.
Speaker 4: Over, It passed and left her there standing with her
Speaker 4: head bowed. You.
Speaker 5: Are you all right? It didn't harm you?
Speaker 3: No, my beloved. Can one find harm and the flame
Speaker 3: that created life itself? Do you believe that that what's wrong?
Speaker 5: You don't know what's wrong.
Speaker 3: The flame was difference. Now that Calocrates has returned, the
Speaker 3: curse of everlasting life is lifted.
Speaker 4: Leo, she's aging.
Speaker 3: I Oh, no, I do not if I go search
Speaker 3: for me.
Speaker 4: No, even as Leo's hands reached out to touch her,
Speaker 4: they closed on a dry heap of soft ray dust.
Speaker 4: I knew now that neither of us would step into
Speaker 4: the flame, and I knew we would spend our lives
Speaker 4: searching through the world for she. I seemed to hear
Speaker 4: in my mind once again words she had spoken in
Speaker 4: those glories ours the night before. I knew that Leo
Speaker 4: was hearing them too, and that neither of us, so
Speaker 4: long as we lived, could ever forget that lovely voice.
Speaker 3: Nay, not in chore, but in whatever spot in town
Speaker 3: or field, or by the insatious sea, men brood on
Speaker 3: buried loves, or unforgot, or break themselves on some divine decree,
Speaker 3: or would or leap the limits of their lot there
Speaker 3: in the tombs and Deathless dwelleth.
Speaker 2: She Escape, produced and directed by Norman MacDonald. Tonight brought
Speaker 2: you She by h. Rider Haggard, adapted for radio by
Speaker 2: Less Crutchfield, with editorial supervision by John Duncle. Featured in
Speaker 2: Tonight's cast were Barry Kroger, Larry Dabkin, k Brinker, Ben Wright,
Speaker 2: and Wilms Herbert. Special music by Ivan Ditmars.
Speaker 1: Next week you are clinging precariously to a diving, pitching
Speaker 1: longboat lashed by mountainous seas in the center of a hurricane,
Speaker 1: and at the helm driving you on is a man
Speaker 1: bent on revenge and willing to kill for it.
Speaker 2: Next week we escape with F. R. Buckley's excite story
Speaker 2: Habit good night, then until the same time next week,
Speaker 2: when once again we offer you escape. This is CBS,
Speaker 2: the Columbia Broadcasting System.