WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:11.720 Escape. Escape Tonight to Ancient Egypt. 2 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:21.800 The Columbia Broadcasting System and it's a plated stations presents Escape, 3 00:00:22.280 --> 00:00:24.920 a new series of programs, of which this the sixth 4 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:28.399 is The Ring of Though by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 5 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:37.799 produced and directed by William and Robson wherever the English 6 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:40.600 language is spoken. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is known for 7 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:44.799 two things, his immortal character Sherlock Holmes, and his unshakable 8 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:47.880 belief in life beyond the grave. So great is the 9 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:51.000 statue of Sherlock Holmes that Conan Doyle's earlier stories are 10 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:54.560 all but forgotten, stories like The Ring of Thought, which 11 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:59.200 so clearly anticipates the author's later fascination with spiritualism. We 12 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:01.679 invite you now to Escape to Ancient Egypt and The 13 00:01:01.759 --> 00:01:04.359 Ring of Pot, an adventure told in the words of 14 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:06.959 John Vamsidard Smith, British edyptologist. 15 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:22.400 I arrived in Paris on the three fourteen express from 16 00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:24.719 d'epp and went immediately to my hotel in the Rue 17 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:27.319 de la Fitte. My actions so far had worked out 18 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:31.040 according to my planned schedule. I slept for exactly two hours, 19 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:33.680 got up and dressed, donned a greatcoat, walked down the 20 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:36.319 Avenue de l'o parre and entered the side door of 21 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:40.640 the louver. Once inside and amid surroundings entirely familiar to me, 22 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:43.840 I made my way immediately to the chamber of Egyptian Relics, 23 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:47.159 or more specifically, to the cabinet in that chamber which 24 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:51.280 contained the El Kabre collection of papyri. Drawing out the 25 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:54.040 particular role I wished, I placed it on a near 26 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:57.599 by table, sat down began to study it when I 27 00:01:57.640 --> 00:02:00.200 noticed one of the museum attendants, who was polishing some 28 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:03.719 brass work across the room. His face struck me as 29 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:08.439 being curiously Egyptian. On sudden impulse, I decided to cross 30 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:12.560 the room and speak to him. Approaching closer, I was 31 00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:15.960 impressed at once by the appearance of his skin, drawn 32 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:19.520 tautly across temple and cheek. It seemed as glazed in, 33 00:02:19.639 --> 00:02:23.520 as shiny as varnished parchment, and out of narrowed slits 34 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:27.400 there glowed two green and vitreous eyes, misty with a 35 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:31.759 dry shininess, eyes of a kind never seen in a 36 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:37.639 human head. Before I I beg your pardon, I need 37 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:40.639 one of the papyrye from the Memphis collection. Could you 38 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:41.439 tell me where it is? 39 00:02:42.319 --> 00:02:45.240 You'll find it in the last cabinet at the end 40 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:45.800 of the room. 41 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:51.479 Monsieur M thank you. Uh your Egyptian, aren't you. 42 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:54.199 No, Monsieur I I am a Frenchman? 43 00:02:54.280 --> 00:02:57.520 But oh, I thought the happy if Monsieur. 44 00:02:57.159 --> 00:03:00.000 Will excuse me, now, I have other work. 45 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:06.960 To I went back to the table and took up 46 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:10.400 the papyrus I had been studying before. But my former 47 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:14.360 calmness in translating the intricate hieroglyphics was gone, and out 48 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:16.560 of the depths of my mind whiled a feeling of 49 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:22.120 terrible familiarity. I concentrated more deeply on my studies, pushing 50 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:25.759 aside those thoughts conducive to mental turmoil, and at last, 51 00:03:26.439 --> 00:03:41.639 worn out by the inward struggle, I fell asleep. I 52 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:45.319 awoke with a start, not remembering where I was. It 53 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:48.520 was quite dark for a moment, Then gradually my eyes 54 00:03:48.599 --> 00:03:51.319 focused on the glints of moonlight reflected from the glass 55 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:54.319 tops of specimen tables, from the shiny vanish of the 56 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:58.439 mummy cases, and I realized, with a feeling of sudden dread, 57 00:03:58.560 --> 00:04:01.199 that I was alone in the egypt room of the museum. 58 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:13.319 Of the louver, locked in for the night, and I 59 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:16.639 saw at that moment, approaching through the moonlit halls, a 60 00:04:16.680 --> 00:04:20.680 dim yellow flame. Nearer and nearer it came, until I 61 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:23.319 could perceive above it, as though floating in the air, 62 00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:26.240 the eerie, glistening face of the man I had spoken 63 00:04:26.279 --> 00:04:29.839 to earlier. I shrank into the dark shadow of my corner, 64 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:33.480 and he passed without seeing me, stopping before the mummy 65 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:37.879 cases a few yards away. Scarcely daring to breathe, I 66 00:04:37.959 --> 00:04:40.759 watched him place the light on a table and begin 67 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:44.920 feverishly to examine the tags on the specimens. In a moment, 68 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:48.439 he gave up a cry of delight, and uh drawing 69 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:51.040 one of the mummies from its resting place, laid it 70 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:53.279 on the table in the full glow of the lantern, 71 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:57.680 and set to work. He was unwinding the wrappings from 72 00:04:57.720 --> 00:05:01.519 the head of the corpse. A few turns revealed a 73 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:05.439 tumbled cascade of black curls, a few more the snow 74 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:10.639 white brow, then the delicate nostrils, and at last the full, warm, 75 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:14.240 passionate lips, the face of the most beautiful woman the 76 00:05:14.279 --> 00:05:15.240 world has ever seen. 77 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:19.920 Ah, my poor Petitte, So long it has been so 78 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:23.800 very long. You must forgive me, beloved. 79 00:05:24.519 --> 00:05:28.120 I could hardly believe my eyes. The man was obviously 80 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:31.839 in love with this mummy. After a while, he left 81 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:34.319 the body, turning his attention to one of the glass 82 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:37.759 cases filled with an assortment of rings. From a pocket 83 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:41.120 of his garment, he'd taken a small glass bottle containing 84 00:05:41.160 --> 00:05:43.759 some kind of liquid, and he used this now to 85 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:47.959 test the rings, rejecting them one after another. Then at last, 86 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:49.319 this is it. 87 00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:52.480 It's the one. At last I found it, the ring 88 00:05:52.519 --> 00:05:52.920 of thought. 89 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:56.360 In his excitement, he dropped the bottle, and I gasped 90 00:05:56.360 --> 00:05:57.759 in surprise at the sudden sound. 91 00:05:57.879 --> 00:05:58.399 Who's there? 92 00:05:58.519 --> 00:05:59.879 I I, I beg your pardon. 93 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:05.639 Ah, so it is you. No, do not mo i. 94 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:07.560 I I didn't mean to spy on you. I I 95 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:08.240 fell asleep. 96 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:10.600 Who are you, monsieur? 97 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:14.519 I am John Vansittart Smith, a student of Egyptology. 98 00:06:14.839 --> 00:06:19.439 No matter, you will observe this knife. Yes, had I 99 00:06:19.519 --> 00:06:23.079 discovered you five minutes ago, monsieur, I should have slain 100 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:27.199 you without a word. What as it is now? I 101 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:30.560 have found the ring, but I warn you not to 102 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:32.759 interfere with me in any way. 103 00:06:32.839 --> 00:06:36.240 I really haven't the slightest intention of it. After all, 104 00:06:36.279 --> 00:06:40.399 I'm only here by accident. Perhaps, I say, you shouldn't 105 00:06:40.399 --> 00:06:44.360 have unwrapped that mummy. You know it's starting to deteriorate already, Oh, 106 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:50.040 my beloved, Yes, before our eyes, the lovely face was crumbling, 107 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:53.399 the hair falling away, the skin shriveling and cracking, the 108 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:57.360 lips fading. The man hovered over the decaying body a moment, 109 00:06:57.879 --> 00:07:01.000 murmuring sorrowfully, and then he turned again. 110 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:05.240 No matter, that will not make the least difference in 111 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:10.079 a little while. Of what importance is the dead shell? 112 00:07:11.319 --> 00:07:14.120 So long as her spirit waits for me at the 113 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:15.600 other side of the vale? 114 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:19.199 What are you talking about? What is it you're proposing 115 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:19.800 to do. 116 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:26.399 To night, monsieur? I have ended a quest and broken 117 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:31.879 at last the ancient curse. Nothing now can prevent my 118 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:32.759 joining her. 119 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:36.959 I are you actually claiming that you you knew her? 120 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:43.680 She was Atma, daughter of the governor of Abaris, and 121 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:47.160 both she and I lived in the reign of Tutmosis 122 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:50.000 three thousand, five hundred years ago. 123 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:52.759 You're obviously mad. 124 00:07:53.240 --> 00:07:58.800 Perhaps, but not in the way you think. There may 125 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:04.360 be desire this you are coming here. It may be 126 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:08.519 decreed that I should leave some account behind as a 127 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:14.480 warning to other mortals as rash as myself very well, 128 00:08:14.519 --> 00:08:29.519 then so be it. I am, as you surmised, an Egyptian. 129 00:08:31.439 --> 00:08:36.759 My name was Sassrah, and my father had been the 130 00:08:36.840 --> 00:08:42.480 chief priest of Osiris in the great Temple of Abaris, 131 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:48.519 which stood in those days upon the bubastic branch of 132 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:53.799 the Nile. I was brought up in the temple and 133 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:59.240 was trained in all those mystic arts and sciences known 134 00:08:59.440 --> 00:08:59.879 to the pre. 135 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:10.720 All of all the mysteries that I studied, none intrigued 136 00:09:10.759 --> 00:09:15.440 me more than the question of life and death. And 137 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:19.360 even to this question, in time I found an answer. 138 00:09:21.240 --> 00:09:23.399 But for a man to live beyond his allotted span 139 00:09:23.480 --> 00:09:27.240 of years, Master Sostra, the gods have not so ordained. 140 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:30.480 It, ha, Then perhaps they will have to revise their ordinances, 141 00:09:30.840 --> 00:09:32.360 now that I have discovered their secret. 142 00:09:32.440 --> 00:09:35.320 Tis not well to jest I tremble, for though I 143 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:37.919 have labored in your service for a year, I knew 144 00:09:38.039 --> 00:09:41.360 not the goal of your endeavors, your cyahs. 145 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:44.159 Forgive me, ah, what a pity you look upon it 146 00:09:44.159 --> 00:09:47.879 this way, For I'd thought that in return for your assistance, 147 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:50.919 I should grant you too the gift of centuries of 148 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:52.039 indestructible life. 149 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:55.200 I would not have it, Master Sascer, and I beg 150 00:09:55.240 --> 00:09:56.320 that you too, forgo it. 151 00:09:56.440 --> 00:09:57.000 Forego it. 152 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:01.240 I introduced the fluid into my my veins one month ago. 153 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:05.679 Oh no, then you are lost, indeed lost? 154 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:12.279 Do you call this being lost? Let's see now my 155 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:16.720 heart should be about here, about life. 156 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:20.080 No, don't muster you. 157 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:24.360 You've killed yourself, not at all. See it bleeds a little, 158 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:27.720 but in a while the wound will close up, and 159 00:10:27.799 --> 00:10:34.320 that's all you. It's it's immortality. No, I shall not 160 00:10:34.440 --> 00:10:38.600 live forever, but for five thousand, perhaps six thousand years, 161 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:43.519 I shall be immune from all dangers of violence, poison, disease, starvation. 162 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:48.559 You you cannot die now with this fluid in my veins. Nothing, 163 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:51.080 nothing in this world can end my life. 164 00:10:51.679 --> 00:10:53.720 Dottra, doltra, Are you there? 165 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:56.759 Someone cast it's Parmes, the priest of thought in here, 166 00:10:56.799 --> 00:10:57.600 my friend. 167 00:10:57.600 --> 00:11:02.840 Enter, Oh greeting sorcerer, master of sciences and his worthy assistant. 168 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:05.039 If you will excuse me, masters, I go to make 169 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:06.039 my peace with those halves. 170 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:08.440 What's wrong with your helper, sauser? 171 00:11:08.759 --> 00:11:11.320 The thought of a well nigh eternal life has frightened 172 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:12.759 him into gibbering superstition. 173 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:14.720 Then you still believe in the discovery. 174 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:19.879 Believe in it. Parme's my friend. Look, by the heavens, 175 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:23.399 what a scar it pierces the heart was done only 176 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:25.000 a moment ago with this knife. 177 00:11:25.080 --> 00:11:25.320 Hmmm. 178 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:29.480 See I can put it back in the wound. 179 00:11:29.639 --> 00:11:34.320 So you you suffered no ill effects, none whatever. And 180 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:36.759 if I if I turned the knife in the wound, 181 00:11:36.879 --> 00:11:38.360 that would do you no harm. 182 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:46.080 You may try it. I feel nothing. I walked last 183 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:48.120 week in the snake pits by the river, was struck 184 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:50.200 innumerable times. It caused no. 185 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:51.919 Harm by the greater Nubis. 186 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:55.440 Will you have it? Then, out of all Egypt, I 187 00:11:55.480 --> 00:11:58.639 have chosen only you, my friend, to share the gift. 188 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:00.000 But the choice is yours. 189 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:03.279 It's not'd be a fool to refuse Saser. I'll have it. 190 00:12:03.399 --> 00:12:05.039 And now what must I do? 191 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:10.080 First? We must open a vein in your wrists like this. Oh, 192 00:12:10.440 --> 00:12:16.679 then we drip the elixir slowly into your blood stream. Steady. 193 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:19.679 Now, I I don't feel anything. 194 00:12:19.399 --> 00:12:24.600 There is no sensation. It is done so. 195 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:26.639 Simple, there is nothing more. 196 00:12:27.080 --> 00:12:30.279 That's all and now done. It can never be changed. 197 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:33.960 It seems incredible, supernatural. 198 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:36.320 It's no more than a chemical discovery. But with it. 199 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:39.840 While all this about us passes away, You and I 200 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:43.720 parmeis we'll live on for fifty centuries. Think of it, 201 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:47.440 my friend, five thousand years of life, five. 202 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:50.360 Thousand years only the two of us. 203 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:53.919 Listen that noise. Some procession must be passing in the street. 204 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:56.240 I have an idea what it may be. Come on 205 00:12:56.320 --> 00:13:02.159 over to the window the road, Stand back, and make 206 00:13:02.200 --> 00:13:04.200 weight for the loveliest pearl of deeps. 207 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:07.279 She's being carried on the shoulders of slaves, parmies. She 208 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:08.519 must be some woman of rank. 209 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:12.080 Her name is Atmah. She's the daughter of the new governor. 210 00:13:14.919 --> 00:13:17.440 Her curtains are drawn back. Perhaps we'll have a look 211 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:17.799 at her. 212 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:24.840 Oh, parness, is she not beautiful? 213 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:30.480 She is the most desirable, the only utterly desirable woman 214 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:32.000 I've ever seen in my life. 215 00:13:32.159 --> 00:13:34.759 Yes, I saw her yesterday at the temple. 216 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:38.639 Then you're most fortunate, my friend. You've had twenty four 217 00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:40.519 more hours to dream about her than I have had. 218 00:13:41.159 --> 00:13:43.559 I must know her, Parmies, I must make her love me. 219 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:46.960 I'll send gifts. I'll call on her tomorrow. Oh it 220 00:13:47.159 --> 00:13:47.919 has to be then. 221 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:59.720 I couldn't wait any longer than tomorrow. 222 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:00.480 Ah. 223 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:05.759 A visitor calls upon the beloved of the universe. 224 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:09.960 He is Sasser, priest of the Temple of Osiris. 225 00:14:10.759 --> 00:14:13.080 Well bid him approach and. 226 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:17.480 Per Sastra, almost beautiful of all Egypt. I cast myself 227 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:18.120 at your feet. 228 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:22.000 That's a noble ambition. But wouldn't it be much better 229 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:25.919 to sit here beside me and watch the fish in 230 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:26.399 the fallen? 231 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:27.879 Much better? 232 00:14:29.519 --> 00:14:34.279 You will all withdraw, except you, my girl, play something 233 00:14:34.320 --> 00:14:43.639 for us at a distance. Well, Sasser, For so I 234 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:47.679 understand your called. Am I to deem this an official 235 00:14:47.759 --> 00:14:49.799 visit by a master of the temple. 236 00:14:50.200 --> 00:14:51.919 Oh that Mama beloved. 237 00:14:52.600 --> 00:14:55.679 That is no, it is not official. 238 00:14:56.240 --> 00:14:59.759 Oh perhaps then you wish to see my father on 239 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:01.480 personal business of your own. 240 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:05.519 Oh no, no, I shall pay my respects to him 241 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:06.639 at some other time. 242 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:11.879 Then, could it be I you've come to see? Yes, yes, 243 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:16.360 And since you've said the visits not official, your reason 244 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:21.159 must be a personal one. Oh it is, well, what 245 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:21.639 is it? 246 00:15:23.240 --> 00:15:27.120 Otmah? I have known women who are famed for their 247 00:15:27.159 --> 00:15:30.559 beauty throughout the valley of the Nile, but not one, 248 00:15:30.919 --> 00:15:33.440 not all of them, are so lovely as you. 249 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:38.279 How thoughtful of you to come here and tell me, Otmah, 250 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:42.440 I've no wish to intrude my desires, my hopes beyond 251 00:15:42.519 --> 00:15:44.320 such extent as you may wish to hear. 252 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:50.519 But oh, I'm finding this very difficulty. 253 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:54.720 Oh su ser, I've been told that you're a master 254 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:58.240 of science, that you've unlocked the secrets of the universe, 255 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:01.080 learned all the mystery of nature itself. 256 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:03.600 Your informants have been most generous. 257 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:08.440 Yes, I'm inclined to think, so, why because you've discovered 258 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:11.440 nothing at all about such a simple thing as a 259 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:12.759 woman's heart. 260 00:16:13.159 --> 00:16:13.799 What do you mean? 261 00:16:14.840 --> 00:16:20.159 I come from Thebes, and the women of Thebes are 262 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:26.440 warm blooded, passionate, and we know what we want. I 263 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:30.679 saw you first three days ago. Why do you think 264 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:33.279 I told my bearers to carry me down that street 265 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:50.440 beneath your window. 266 00:16:43.080 --> 00:16:48.039 And so, miracle of all miracles, Atma love me worshiping 267 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:51.279 the very ground her feet had trod upon. I lived 268 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:55.120 through those glorious weeks, and with it all our love 269 00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:59.759 grew apace. But one thing bore heavily upon my mind, 270 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:02.320 and I came to speak of it more often to 271 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:05.000 my beloved as we sat and talked by the fountain 272 00:17:05.079 --> 00:17:06.079 in her garden. 273 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:11.160 Look sascer see how the stars shine from the water. 274 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:16.720 Yesatma, more lovely even than their glow in the heavens? 275 00:17:16.920 --> 00:17:18.039 Are they very old? 276 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:23.480 The stars very old, beloved, as old as time, and. 277 00:17:23.440 --> 00:17:27.559 They're gone, gleaming there long years after you and I are. 278 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:33.279 Gone and forgotten. Hatma, my dearest. We've talked of this before, 279 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:35.079 and I know it distresses you to think of it. 280 00:17:35.839 --> 00:17:38.640 No, Sorcerer, to night, everything is beautiful. We shall not 281 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:39.480 talk of death. 282 00:17:39.319 --> 00:17:42.960 Not of death, but of life. They are only counterparts 283 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:43.559 of one another. 284 00:17:43.960 --> 00:17:47.960 Oh if we could only live together, grow old together, 285 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:49.680 and die in the same instant. 286 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:53.799 But how much better to live and love five thousand years? 287 00:17:54.480 --> 00:17:57.519 Will you not do it? Does so long a time 288 00:17:57.640 --> 00:17:59.720 seem too great for the love you feel for. 289 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:04.319 Me, beloved? No, the time would pass in an instant, 290 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:07.519 and the loss then be no easier born than now. 291 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:11.680 Then why draw back? Will you not take the elixir now? 292 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:12.119 To night? 293 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:14.359 I'm afraid, Saser, we'll anger the gods. 294 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:16.519 They will outlive the god. They will have their revenge 295 00:18:16.839 --> 00:18:18.720 whate'er occurred. We'd be together. 296 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:23.559 Yes, I've thought of that. Were it not so, I'd 297 00:18:23.559 --> 00:18:25.000 not even consider doing it. 298 00:18:25.319 --> 00:18:27.559 Then you'll do it, Otma, you'll do it. 299 00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:30.160 I need more time, only a little more to assure myself. 300 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:33.839 How much to night, Sorcerer, give me to night. 301 00:18:35.079 --> 00:18:38.279 Every hour you live without the elixir is another hazard. 302 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:45.319 All right, Then to night, and may Isis herself guard 303 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:57.400 over you until the fluid courses in your veins, and 304 00:18:57.559 --> 00:19:00.000 so on. That accursed night I went to my chain 305 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:03.160 members and slept. And while I slept, the moon of 306 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:06.599 Isis shone over the delta of the nile, shone, but 307 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:08.880 to light as foul a scene as was ever done 308 00:19:08.920 --> 00:19:11.759 on earth. Some hours had passed away. 309 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:16.079 Master sorcerl awakened, Master, awaken at once? 310 00:19:17.160 --> 00:19:18.480 You know who? 311 00:19:18.599 --> 00:19:20.799 Is it true? Where the terrible thing has transpired? 312 00:19:22.519 --> 00:19:25.559 You? You're one of ATMA's slaves. Why do you come here? 313 00:19:25.640 --> 00:19:28.039 Oh Master Muster. 314 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:30.079 What has happened? What's the matter? Speak? 315 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:32.640 It is she the light of the world. 316 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:33.880 Tell me what has happened to her? 317 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:39.920 Muster, Muster brigands came in the night. She she is dead? 318 00:19:40.079 --> 00:19:40.519 You lie? 319 00:19:40.759 --> 00:19:43.559 You lie, speaks the truth. 320 00:19:43.640 --> 00:19:46.440 FARMI is my friend. What foul jokes behind these words 321 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:46.640 of his? 322 00:19:46.880 --> 00:19:51.279 It's not a joke. Atma is dead. You slave, depart 323 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:57.240 from us, Yes, Masters, by your gracious. 324 00:19:55.319 --> 00:20:01.359 Such a thing cannot be oh, of course, the two 325 00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:03.880 of you planned it together, sought to frighten me out 326 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:07.079 of my wits. It's very amusing, really, but I was 327 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:08.359 terrified for a moment. 328 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:11.880 Atma no longer lives. She was stabbed to death only 329 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:12.680 a short while ago. 330 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:16.359 No, oh, no, no, she can't be dead. 331 00:20:16.440 --> 00:20:20.240 She is dead, Sorcerer, and for all eternity, I must. 332 00:20:20.160 --> 00:20:24.319 Go to her. Something. Surely, something can be done. 333 00:20:24.640 --> 00:20:25.720 I killed her? 334 00:20:27.119 --> 00:20:27.680 What is it? 335 00:20:28.200 --> 00:20:29.039 What has happened? 336 00:20:31.039 --> 00:20:31.839 I killed her? 337 00:20:31.920 --> 00:20:32.039 Oh? 338 00:20:32.119 --> 00:20:34.279 I struck her through the heart with this very knife. 339 00:20:34.880 --> 00:20:37.839 You, you, parmes. 340 00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:43.720 Why because she loved you? Why? And because I loved her, you, 341 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:47.240 my friend, she would not look at me? 342 00:20:47.319 --> 00:20:50.039 And for that you would lose her to both of us, forever. 343 00:20:49.799 --> 00:20:50.519 To both of us. 344 00:20:50.599 --> 00:20:54.079 Sorcerer, I think not by the living O Cyrus, give 345 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:54.880 me that knife. 346 00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:59.960 That's it. Strike again, here's the heart here, Strike again 347 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:00.880 and then again, s Uestra. 348 00:21:01.279 --> 00:21:05.440 Wait, what foolishness, I cannot kill you. 349 00:21:05.440 --> 00:21:11.519 You're wrong, orcer, you have killed me. Those were grief 350 00:21:11.519 --> 00:21:12.160 as blows. 351 00:21:13.039 --> 00:21:16.359 But the fluid, that cursed elixir of life, it runs 352 00:21:16.440 --> 00:21:18.319 in your veins as well as mine. 353 00:21:18.480 --> 00:21:24.160 True, but in mine is also the antidote. 354 00:21:24.559 --> 00:21:26.759 You lie there is no antidote. 355 00:21:27.160 --> 00:21:31.599 Yes day and night, these many weeks I've worked, Have 356 00:21:31.759 --> 00:21:32.279 I found it? 357 00:21:32.359 --> 00:21:35.839 You couldn't. Is there more of it? 358 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:40.119 Yes, a very little, But you'll never find it. 359 00:21:40.279 --> 00:21:42.519 Where is it? Tell me where it is. 360 00:21:43.960 --> 00:21:48.240 In the Ring Sorcerer, in the Ring of Thought, and 361 00:21:48.400 --> 00:21:49.680 you'll never find it. 362 00:21:49.799 --> 00:21:50.759 I will, I will. 363 00:21:50.839 --> 00:21:53.079 I must go on live. 364 00:21:53.799 --> 00:22:00.119 Live your fifty centuries, and every hour of them. Think 365 00:22:00.799 --> 00:22:04.680 it was your hand that struck me down with the 366 00:22:04.759 --> 00:22:11.880 same knife that took her from you. Think while I 367 00:22:12.200 --> 00:22:14.359 go tis join her. 368 00:22:16.759 --> 00:22:26.279 Oh no, they're not dead, They're not No, no, no no. 369 00:22:32.839 --> 00:22:35.960 For months I searched the papers, test tubes, and the 370 00:22:36.039 --> 00:22:39.359 chemical flasks in the chambers of the dead Priest of Thought, 371 00:22:40.519 --> 00:22:45.240 searched and found nothing. I sifted the sands where he'd walked, 372 00:22:45.960 --> 00:22:52.039 questioned his slaves and servants, and learned nothing. Every moment 373 00:22:52.079 --> 00:22:56.480 of my life, my terrible and unwonted life, was devoted 374 00:22:56.480 --> 00:23:00.519 to an unceasing hunt for the Ring of Thought, and 375 00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:04.759 all to no avail. And in time a horde of 376 00:23:04.799 --> 00:23:10.480 barbarians overran the city of a Barras, and the sands 377 00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:14.279 of the desert buried forever. The last of my hopes 378 00:23:16.480 --> 00:23:28.000 and so began the deadly march of the centuries. How 379 00:23:28.039 --> 00:23:32.519 can you know how terrible a thing time is, you 380 00:23:33.400 --> 00:23:37.559 who have experienced only the narrow course between the cradle 381 00:23:37.599 --> 00:23:38.160 and the grave. 382 00:23:40.200 --> 00:23:45.599 I've floated down the whole stream of history. I have 383 00:23:45.759 --> 00:23:51.200 traveled in all lands, and I have dwelt with all nations. 384 00:23:52.440 --> 00:23:57.240 Every tongue is the same to me. I need not 385 00:23:57.440 --> 00:24:04.400 tell you how slowly the c is drifted by centuries 386 00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:14.359 without end, years without number. And so I came to 387 00:24:14.440 --> 00:24:20.599 be one day a few weeks past in San Francisco, 388 00:24:21.720 --> 00:24:25.440 where I came across a certain item in a newspaper. 389 00:24:26.319 --> 00:24:29.960 Among recent discoveries in Lower Egypt is an unopened mummy 390 00:24:29.960 --> 00:24:33.480 case containing, according to the inscription on the outside, the 391 00:24:33.480 --> 00:24:35.920 body of the daughter of the governor of Arbaris in 392 00:24:35.960 --> 00:24:39.559 the days of Tutmosis. In the same burial crypt, dropped 393 00:24:39.559 --> 00:24:42.720 into a crevice between the stones, was found a large 394 00:24:42.799 --> 00:24:46.599 platinum ring of singular design. Both specimens have been sent 395 00:24:46.640 --> 00:24:52.039 for examination to the Louver in Paris. 396 00:24:53.200 --> 00:24:56.160 So I presume you came here to Paris obtained this 397 00:24:56.319 --> 00:24:59.119 position of attendant in the Louver with the idea. 398 00:24:58.880 --> 00:25:04.359 Only yesterday, Monsieur Smith, as you may imagine I had 399 00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:08.279 little difficulty in convincing the director of my knowledge of 400 00:25:08.279 --> 00:25:09.359 Egyptian relics. 401 00:25:09.480 --> 00:25:12.160