Speaker 1: Come in. We're welcome. I'm a g Marshall. I have
a strange and frightening story about an onyx eye and
the effect it had on the lives and happiness of
several people. It is a well known law of physics
that any action has an equal and opposite reaction. If
you press down on one side of a seesaw, the
other side goes up. If you drop a stone into
a puddle of water, the water rises in exact proportion
to the displacement of the stone. If good luck is
on the face of the coin, wouldn't the other side
bring the reverse. It's for you, Cassy. Oh, a birthday present.
I'll close your eyes and hold out your hand. There.
You may open your eyes now.
Speaker 2: Oh fy it it's it's beautiful.
Speaker 1: You don't like it?
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, yes I do. It's very unusual. It looks
like an eye.
Speaker 1: The little man I bought it from said it would
bring us luck. It's it's onyx. The eye in the
onyx makes it valuable as an odogy.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, what's the matter? It moved? It moved in
my hand. Take it away, Jack, take it away.
Speaker 1: Our mystery drama. The onyx Eye was written especially for
the Mystery Theater by Sidney Sloan and stars Francis Sternhagen
and Michael Wager. It is sponsored in part by Don
Hoyzer Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser, and Time Magazine. I'll
be back shortly with Act one. It was a cold,
slushy day in January that Jack Evans found himself on
the run down side street in a section of town
in which he had seldom been before. He was weary
and cold from job hunting, but he knew he couldn't
go home and face Kathy, his wife, on her birthday
without some small gift. Then he saw it.
Speaker 2: A little curio shop.
Speaker 1: He looked in the window at the collection of junk
Jewelry second hand o Jadar, when his eye was attracted
to an interesting egg shaped object, dusty and half covered
by other things. He immediately knew that was what he
was going to buy for Kathy. HULLO, anybody here? Yes?
Can I help you? Oh? I didn't see you. What
can I do for you? I haven't much time. I
was just about to close at three fifteen in the afternoon,
young man, I am closing the doors and leaving. I
will not return I have been here for over sixty years.
Long enough, long enough, wouldn't you say? Yeah? I guess
so you will be my last customer, and I will
be generous. Name your own price for the thing you want.
I have made up my mind about anything. But I
did notice a white egg shaped object in the window. Why, yes,
how did you know? I knew? I remember my mother
had a china egg when she used the darn socks.
You know what I mean? Yeah, and I thought i'd
like to get one for my wife. It's her birthday. Ah. Yeah,
I know it isn't much of a present, but well
I can't afford more of this time. Oh it will
bring you luck. And if you ask to buy it,
I must sell it to you. H E would you
like to see it? I'll er take it out of
the window. Well yes, please, ah, here here it is.
But I must tell you this is not a china
darning egg. It is ANYX here. Don't drop it. Huh
feels heavy? Harry ever, I thought, er turn it over close.
It's an eye but looks like an eye. If you
still want it, you may have it at your price.
Whatever you offer I must accept, but you must be
sure you want it and all that goes with it,
because you will have it with you forever. Hello, is
that you John? Old Kathy?
Speaker 2: Come on into the kitchen.
Speaker 1: It's warmer here, okay, as soon as I get my
goloshes off. Oh, it does feel warmer in here.
Speaker 2: He's been off all day.
Speaker 3: I think we've run out of fuel. I've kept the
oven on so the house wouldn't freeze.
Speaker 1: Well, did you call holders fuel and tell them a
lot of good?
Speaker 2: That would do? We owe them? Well, we're way beyond
our credit.
Speaker 1: But in weather like fith letting me call him? Didn't
you tell them you're expecting a baby and that the
cold wooden.
Speaker 2: Phones out too? Jack? They sent us two warning notices.
Speaker 1: Oh, great, fine thing to happen on your birthday. You
should have married a guy who could take care of you. Can'fy.
Speaker 3: Oh, you're the nicest husband in the world, and you're
going to be a marvelous father.
Speaker 2: But no, but having you from my husband is enough
enough for me. What did you do all day, dear?
Speaker 1: Well? Go around looking for job?
Speaker 2: Any luck?
Speaker 1: I had one promise from Ellsworth Manufacturing.
Speaker 2: You think it's a possibility.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't bank on it. I think the guy in
the employment office, and mister Masrek was just trying to
brush me off. But look, I don't wanna talk about that.
I wanna celebrate. Now, kiss me before I show you
a real surprise.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 1: Now, close your eyes and hold out your hat there,
now open your eyes.
Speaker 2: Oh why it it's beautiful.
Speaker 1: You don't like it?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it's it's very unusual. It looks like an eye.
Speaker 1: But the little man I bought it from said it
would bring us luck. It's onyx. The the eye makes
it valuable as an ology. Oh oh, what's the matter.
Speaker 2: It moved, It moved in my hand.
Speaker 1: Cavy, it didn't move as it's your imagination.
Speaker 2: Take it back and get your money.
Speaker 3: I don't want it here. There's something I don't know
how to say it. There's something about it.
Speaker 1: But look, I'm sorry, Kathy, but it seems so different,
so unusual.
Speaker 2: Yes, different, but not in a pleasant way. It's ugly.
Take it back, dear.
Speaker 1: I can't take it back. What I don't want to.
The old man said it would bring me luck. Well
we could use a little.
Speaker 3: I don't believe in luck, Jack, and you know it.
I just can't have that evil looking eye around, luck
or no luck?
Speaker 2: The phone, it's been off all day? Answer it? Answer it?
Speaker 1: Jack? Hello? Who? Yes?
Speaker 2: This is he?
Speaker 1: Or you will?
Speaker 2: Who is it?
Speaker 1: It's a fure company. They're making a delivery in an hour. Yes, yes,
we'll be here. I won't have a money to pay
it tonight, mister Well thanks, thanks, they're extending our credit.
Mister Holder said that since we've been a good customer
for over six years. Cassy, it's it's the eye, don't
you get it.
Speaker 2: It's it's really changed our luck. Jack, that's childish.
Speaker 1: How about the phone coming on after they cut us
off for not paying our bill.
Speaker 3: I still don't believe that that that thing had anything
to do with it.
Speaker 1: It's the phone again, get it, Cassy?
Speaker 2: Hello, right, Yes he's here? Who?
Speaker 3: Yes, Yes, I'll get him Jack. It's Ellsworth Manufacturing calling
mister Masick.
Speaker 2: Oh, good morning. Can I help you?
Speaker 3: Oh mister Evans, well, we ain't seen you in the store.
Speaker 1: For quite a while. Yes, I want to pay my bill?
Oh sure? Is that all?
Speaker 2: Just a minute after get out the credit book?
Speaker 1: De id to have let it run so long? The bill?
I read, Oh, don't give it another thought. I was
out of work.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so you stayed away, and that was foolish. Now,
Harry and me, well we sized you up as an
honest man right away. We knew you was okay the
first time you and your wife came in the store.
Speaker 2: Hey, how she doing?
Speaker 1: She had the baby? Get a couple of months more?
Speaker 3: Oh, the last couple of months seem mighty long.
Speaker 2: Take it from me. That's the bill I see, and
then easy, I'll here it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sixteen eighty five. That part of it was for
that baby magazine your wife was getting.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, well I can pay it. Just got
my first week's paid.
Speaker 2: Oh wonderful.
Speaker 1: You see.
Speaker 3: Nothing like a baby to bring a couple of luck,
mister Evans. Now you'll find that providence provides.
Speaker 1: For a bit. I guess you're right. I'm working for
Ellsworth Manufacturing. I'm a foreman.
Speaker 2: Oh that's great.
Speaker 3: Hey, I just whyn't you buy a lottery ticket on
the state lottery for the baby?
Speaker 2: In just two bucks? And with your luck.
Speaker 1: I don't want to push it too far, missus Martha.
I got a lot of bills to pay before I
start taking chances on a million to one shot.
Speaker 3: Well someone's got to win. Hey, Look, I'll put up
the money for you. The ticket will be.
Speaker 2: In your name.
Speaker 3: If you're hit, we split nothing to lose and everything
to gain. It'll be my present to the baby.
Speaker 1: How about it? Okay, but you're throwing away your running.
I never want anything in my life, mister Ellsworth. Yes,
they told me in a plant that you wanted to
see me in your office. Your secretary told me to
go right in.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes you are mister.
Speaker 1: Jack Evans.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, yes, I.
Speaker 4: Have your name right in front of me and my
pad here.
Speaker 1: Hmm.
Speaker 4: Pardon me when I read this memo from your supervision.
Speaker 1: I would like to say something if I may. Yes,
I need this job very much. I know I knew
at it, and I probably made many mistakes.
Speaker 4: My good man, you're getting yourself needlessly upset. You are
no danger of losing your job.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I thought I was coming to see if
he had fired.
Speaker 4: You are here to see me because of a memo
from your supervisor, who praises your hard work and dedication.
You see, there's a new opening and supervision on the
executive level, a big step up from the plant job
you hold now, and we think you can handle it.
Speaker 1: What do you say? Cathy. Cathy, how good, wonderful news, Kathy. Well,
that's strange. He doesn't go out at this hour, Cathy,
I know, Jack, Dear, I'm getting pains. I thought i'd
better not wait. I'm asking missus McCarthy next door to
go with me to the hospital. Love, Cathy, good lord,
it's too early, too early? Yes, yes, this is he? Oh, yes,
I I I know she she left me an ough,
how is she? Yes? Yes, I'll i'll, I'll be done
ten minutes.
Speaker 2: Jack, h Jack, I wanted you near me. I was frightened.
Speaker 1: I I came as soon as I could.
Speaker 2: Dear, Have I had the baby yet?
Speaker 1: Yes? Yes, yes, the baby you you've had the baby?
It's all over?
Speaker 2: Is it a boy?
Speaker 1: Jack?
Speaker 2: I want his little boy. I know you wanted a girl.
But we'll have the boy first. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But but you're tired now, Dear, we'll we'll talk later.
You must rest.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not tired. I wanna talk about it with you.
I wanna see it. When can I see it?
Speaker 1: To Cathy, please try to get some rest.
Speaker 2: Jack, you're acting so strange. Is something wrong, Darling?
Speaker 3: The baby.
Speaker 2: It's dead, isn't it?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Kathy? That I that I should have to tell you. Oh,
my darling, was it a boy, a beautiful little boy.
Speaker 2: The doctor said, well, how did why?
Speaker 5: Why did he have to die?
Speaker 1: I have no answer, dear doctor said, everything was going fine,
even though the baby was premature. He didn't feel any danger.
That suddenly the little heart stopped beating. He did everything
they could. It was God's will.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, it was that evil thing, that ugly,
frightening thing that I that I cathy get rid of it,
throw it away.
Speaker 2: I felt his evil presence.
Speaker 5: Every since you brought it home, Darling.
Speaker 1: If if that I disturbed you, I'll get rid of
him today before.
Speaker 2: I get home.
Speaker 3: To promise me you'll sell it or give it away,
and if you can't, then destroy it.
Speaker 1: Yes, Casey, I'll do whatever you say.
Speaker 2: Hey, I was just closing up, mister.
Speaker 1: It's me missus mas.
Speaker 2: Oh sure, mister Evans.
Speaker 1: I hate to bother you so late, but I spent
most of the evening at the hospital with my wife.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I heard about that this afternoon.
Speaker 3: Missus McCarthy told me God, that's a terrible thing to
happen to a nice young couple.
Speaker 2: Like you too. I sent your wife a card.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you this is but I came in to
ask you. You know this neighborhood, well don't you?
Speaker 2: Uh huh? I lived here all my life.
Speaker 1: Do you know Quenton Street?
Speaker 3: Oh, about six seven blocks north.
Speaker 2: Yeah, used to be a nice residential street, but real rundown.
Speaker 1: Now do you know that little curio shop at the
corner of Westerlyan Quinton?
Speaker 2: You mean did I know it, don't you? Well it's
been closed for ages years?
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no. I was in there last week.
I made a purchase. Say you couldn't have.
Speaker 3: Well, that building's been empty for nearly twenty years.
Speaker 1: The windows are broken, falling apart.
Speaker 2: You know, I remember it when I was a girl.
Speaker 1: It was an old man, a small old man. Yeah.
We were scared of him when I was a kid.
But I bought something from him, a present from my
wife on a birthday. Was just a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2: But you couldn't have where.
Speaker 3: The building's been condemned for over five years. It's supposed
to be pulled down.
Speaker 1: Sheep went there, I tell you, in the shop January
twenty nine, my wife's birthday.
Speaker 3: Mister Evans, I've seen the ambulance come and take him away.
Exactly twenty years ago. I think it was in January two.
Speaker 1: He was dead.
Speaker 3: If you've seen him, you saw a ghost.
Speaker 1: The pendulum is swinging back. Payment is being demanded. What
seemed like one piece of good luck on top of
another is now being eroded and lost. The payment burden
may get to be even heavier, more than Jack and
Kathy Evans can bear. I'll be back shortly with that too.
When Jack Evans was told that the little curio shop
where he had purchased the Onyx Eye had been closed
for over twenty years, he couldn't believe it. The memory
of the night when he was in the shop a
few weeks before was sharply etched on his mind. The
next day, he went to find out for himself the
shop was no longer there, the ancient building in disrepair,
broken windows, the door hanging on one hinge. It was
not his recollection of the shop, but it was as
missus Masa had described it that evening as he returned
from work. Mister Evans, what are you, Jack Evans? Yes,
I'm from the Globe, mister Evans. Congratulations, congratulations, Yeah, you
won the Big State lottery. Mister Evans, didn't you know. No,
I don't think, oh hey, this is rich. You haven't
even been told yet. I mean nothing from the lottery commission.
No phone call, no letter, no wire. Oh wait a minute,
wait a minute, there it is. Look it's right by
your door, so it's a wire here. There you go,
open it. Jack Evans, thirty eight Lumbery Streets. Uh huh, Well,
happy to inform you that your number huh h a
teck for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars will be
Oh good lord, you are right, Yeah, sure, sure, I'm great.
Well you looked a little pale for a minute. I
guess it's sort of got to be from min this.
I think I wanted to get rid of it. Huh
But what you mean your lottery ticket? Oh no, no,
the onyx eye. Huh oh, this money is only half mine.
Missus Manz who runs a little stationary store on you,
Cluden twelve, bought the ticket for me. We're gonna slit
the money if I warnt missus masa you Cluton twelve
got it? Now? What about this? I the the onyx
eye you just mentioned. I'd rather not say much about that.
It's kind of a good luck charumph. If you got
it with you? I mean I'd like a picture, you know,
with you holding a good luck charm in your hand. Well,
I've got it in the house. Come in great. Say
you you said you were gonna get rid of it,
or you you wanted to get rid of it? Yeah,
it bothered me just a minute. I've I've got in
a drawer. Huh here, here it is. Say that is something?
Huh ugly little thing, isn't it that? I seems to
be looking right at you. My wife's afraid if it
wants me to get rid of it? Are you going to?
I don't know. She thinks it brings bad luck for you.
It didn't. Here we are here, We're home, Yes.
Speaker 2: Jack, we're home.
Speaker 3: Up the steps, Yeah, take it easy, Hello, welcome home.
Speaker 2: Oh, missus Marsa.
Speaker 1: Missus Masa volunteered to come over and get the house
in order for your homecoming.
Speaker 2: Oh that was kind of you, Missus Maser.
Speaker 3: Oh nonsense, don't even say that after what you've both
done for Harry and me with your good luck charm.
Speaker 2: Oh it's beautiful. So many flowers. The entire room is
for the flowers are coming home present from Harry and me.
I knew you'd like them.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't have been to extravagance.
Speaker 3: Oh, after what you've done for us here, it's nothing.
Speaker 2: You know what we're gonna do with our share of
the money.
Speaker 3: We're gonna sell the store and move to a warmer climate,
which would be good for Harry's ourthrider.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good idea, Missus Evans.
Speaker 2: What are you two gonna do with your hair?
Speaker 1: Kathy? Kathy, missus Maser was speaking to you. What would
you pick up the phone? Missus Masa there on the table?
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, sure, Hello, Yes, this is the Evans residence.
Speaker 2: Oh just a minute. Oh uh, Kathy, someone on the
phone for you. The man said that the Globe.
Speaker 3: Newspaper, that newspaper reporter again. He called me several times
at the hospital. I don't want to speak to him.
Speaker 2: Hello. Oh, well, and she's busy and can't talk. What
what you what? Sell? Are you crazy?
Speaker 3: You're asking her to sell her luck? You're out of
your mind, mister. Oh you know he wanted to buy
your onyx eye your luck?
Speaker 2: Now, how do you like that? I have you still
got that terrible thing?
Speaker 5: Jack?
Speaker 1: Kathy? I haven't had a chance to get rid of it.
Speaker 3: I promised, you promised, Jack, You swore to me he
would get rid of that ugly I before I came home.
You promised up faithfully in that hospital.
Speaker 1: Calm down, you like you know what misery that thing
has called us.
Speaker 2: It took my baby from me, Oh my baby.
Speaker 3: Oh look, missus Evans, if you really mean meta, I'll
take it.
Speaker 2: I'll buy it. Yes, yes, it's yours a present. You
don't have to buy it.
Speaker 5: Give it to her, Jack, give it.
Speaker 3: You get rid of that thing, not an evil thing,
or or I'll go away.
Speaker 2: You'll never see me again.
Speaker 1: All right, Oh, all right, Cathy, I I'll do anything
you say. Here, missus masa Isle. Hope it brings you
better luck than it has us.
Speaker 4: Well, Jack like my choice of restaurants.
Speaker 1: I've never eaten a place like this before.
Speaker 4: Mad you'd better start getting used to it. The firm
has a charger count here. We do most of our
business entertaining.
Speaker 1: Oh oh yes, yes, Peter Fairley told me that all
he told you, Jack, we like you.
Speaker 4: When you came into that money, when you won the lottery,
you didn't change. We all thought you'd buy cars, clothes, jewelry,
a new house. But you took it all in new stride,
no fuss, no feathers, made a big impression on the
bullet I can tell you.
Speaker 1: I wasn't trying to make an impression. Mister Elsworth.
Speaker 4: We knew that, Jack, We all knew that if you
adjust that kind of a man. Which brings me to
what I started to say a moment ago. Jack, the
vought of directors has voter to make you an officer
of the company. Oh you are now vice president of
Ellsworth Manufacturing Incorporated.
Speaker 5: Oh oh, you deserve the job.
Speaker 2: Jack. It is so incredible. They hardly known you and
they give you this big position.
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe this is all happening to me. All
haven't so fast.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'm so happy for you, darling.
Speaker 3: And you know it was really you, your ability, your personality
that puts you where you are. It wasn't some stupid
good luck charm, some magical eye. Oh I'm so relieved
since that thing is out of the house, I'm sleeping better, feeling.
Oh that reminds me. I went to the doctor today.
He did some tests and a complete examination.
Speaker 1: What did he say about having another baby?
Speaker 2: He seemed very optimistic.
Speaker 3: He said he'd get back to me as soon as
he had all the results from the test.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'll, i'll, I'll get Kathy. Hello, hello mister Evans. Yes, oh,
missus Masa.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry to bother you and your missus so late
at night.
Speaker 1: Uh, it's not so late. We haven't gone to bed yet.
Speaker 2: Oh that's good. Look, I'm a little worried. I I
had to talk to Could I come over?
Speaker 1: Well, it is right, Well, couldn't wait until tomorrow, missus
mas I'm so upset.
Speaker 2: I I wouldn't sleep a wink if I waited till tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Well, hold the phone for a second.
Speaker 2: It's missus Masa.
Speaker 1: She seems upset, wants to come over.
Speaker 2: Well let her come. She won't stay very long.
Speaker 1: Missus mos Yes, I've come over, but please remember Kathy's
not fully recovered, and we.
Speaker 2: Don't take me just a few minutes.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: I'll be there in five minutes.
Speaker 2: There she is. Jack, let her in.
Speaker 1: Okay, I got it. Come in, missus Masa.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry to bother you.
Speaker 1: No bother for a friend. Come in.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Hello, missus Masa. Sit down. Well you know
I'm only gonna stay a minute. I just had to
tell you it's gone.
Speaker 1: What the eye?
Speaker 2: The onyx eye gone? No?
Speaker 1: No that Kathy, Cathy, get hold of yourself, missus Masa.
I think it's gone.
Speaker 2: I tell you.
Speaker 3: I wrapped it in an old piece of shammy in
my drawer in the bedroom dresser.
Speaker 2: Tonight I went to look at it. It was gone
and the shammis was still there. Stolen? What else could
have been? What else it could have come back? Here?
Speaker 3: Did you start to think of that? It could have
returned to us, return to destroy us?
Speaker 1: I see that superstitious nonsense, and you'll know it, missus Masa.
My guess is that it's stolen. Someone must have known
that we've given it to you.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I suppose you're right. Oh what a pity.
Harry said that just having it in the house made
him feel good. Oh well, I'm sorry to bother you.
Speaker 1: I'll go now. Want me to walk you home, missus
Montis it is late?
Speaker 2: Oh no, I'm okay. I know the neighborhood, and.
Speaker 1: Good night, good night. You're sure you'll be all right
going home? Along?
Speaker 2: Sure? Look from a doorstep. Oh my god, it's the
onyx eyes come back, come back quick? Look outside? See
if anyone's near.
Speaker 1: No, no one. There's not a living soul on the streets.
Speaker 2: Just come back when you never get.
Speaker 1: Rid of it. You have made an offer and now
you must go through with it. No, we don't want
to take it back. Please, that is impossible. I cannot
take it back. You have made a bargain and you
all to your word.
Speaker 2: Is there no way to be rid of it?
Speaker 1: I told you you must be sure you wanted and
all that go with it. It will be with you forever. Hope, hope, Man,
There must be.
Speaker 3: So long word Jack, Jack, darling, Jack, something that weren't dreaming?
Speaker 2: Jah, Listen to me, Oh maniase Jack?
Speaker 1: Loring to me?
Speaker 2: Jack? What Jack? You had no bad dream?
Speaker 1: Gay, darling?
Speaker 2: You were dreaming, tossing in your sleep.
Speaker 1: Oh what a nightmare, frustrating dream.
Speaker 2: You seem to be talking to someone. I'm pleading. I
I was.
Speaker 1: Dreaming of that little old man who sold me the
Onyx eye. I begged him to take it back or
tell me how to get rid of it. He gave
me no answer, except that I was compelled to keep
it forever, forever. Wait a minute, there's something in the
back of my mind. If I could think of what
it is, he'd be a a phone these hours, four
fifteen in the morning. Hello, Yes, this is he who
Saint Joseph's Hospital. Yes, I see, ask you to call me? Yes, yes,
I'll I'll come immediately. Thank you.
Speaker 5: What is it?
Speaker 1: Mister Masa stroke? Missus Masa asked them to call me.
She wants me to come to the hospital. It was
that thing. Oh no, that's becoming an obsession with you, Cathy.
Can't you forget it?
Speaker 2: Don't you see?
Speaker 3: Mister Masa benefited from the luck the lottery ticket, and
now he's paying for it as we have.
Speaker 1: Like some evil thing, the power from the Onyx Eye
reaches out to crush all who have benefited from its luck.
Its influence keeps spreading like a pool of slimy polluted water,
defiling everything it touches. I'll be back shortly with Act three.
Jack went to the hospital that night and sat waiting
with the wife of the stricken man through a long
gray dawn. Finally, the doctor came with the news that
mister Masa had died. His last words before the end were,
strangely enough, the eye, the lucky eye, How wonderful to
have it? At the cemetery. Several days later, missus Masa
was heard to repeat almost the identical sentiment, Oh, father him.
Speaker 3: He was so happy the last few days of his life,
happier than I've seen him in years.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry that we that we involved you and your
husband and our I don't know how to say it.
I we feel responsible, novel.
Speaker 2: No, no, you got it all wrong. I told you
he was happy.
Speaker 1: You brought us luck, bad luck.
Speaker 3: No, no, it was good, even if it was only
for a few.
Speaker 2: Days, a few hours. It was like a dream come true.
Speaker 1: But missus Masa, what will you do now?
Speaker 2: What does it matter? I'm not sad, I'll manage.
Speaker 3: I'm happy to know that Harry got something good, that
that made him feel good before he passed away.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, you're wrong.
Speaker 3: I cannot stands you. You wish for death. That's not happiness.
Speaker 2: I give up everything in this world, everything, all.
Speaker 3: The comforts, even necessities, to have my baby.
Speaker 2: With me, alive and warm in.
Speaker 3: My arms, next to my heart, anything for.
Speaker 1: The happy people are looking at you, please.
Speaker 2: Listen, clet them mort respect.
Speaker 1: For the dead.
Speaker 3: I have no respect for the dead, for this stupid
ceremony of death for the soothing words that close your
mind and drug you into accepting it.
Speaker 2: Please, they're the coffin, are they?
Speaker 6: I know something else that should be buried in the
ground and covered up forever.
Speaker 1: Their sigh.
Speaker 2: You got here to bury it there? Oh you throw
it in the grave, you.
Speaker 1: Throw it away?
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm burying it, burying it forever.
Speaker 1: Hello, allow, mister Evans. This is Peter Cawley. You know me.
I'm the reporter on the Globe. I mean, I'm the
guy who interviewed you when you won the lottery. What
do you want, I'm in the middle of Well. I
see that you found an envelope on the street with
over two thousand dollars in it, and that you turned
it into the police. That's right, Well, you don't seem
very excited about it. Two thousand bucks seems like a
lot of money to me. It's not my money, yeah,
but if the owner doesn't come forth identify it, it
is gonna be yours? Right, really, mistrue? I mean that's right,
isn't it? Is this why you called me to find
that out?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: No, no, I called you because I see a continuation
of the good luck story I did on you when
you won the lottery. Sorry to disappoint you. I no
longer have the eye. Oh cop on, mister Evans, don't
give me that. I haven't got it. That's the truth.
It's gone buried. You mean you hit it someplace to
keep from losing it. I mean we buried it to
get rid of it, to lose it forever.
Speaker 2: John, your dinner is getting cold coming right in.
Speaker 1: Who was it? Oh? That reporter, you know, the one
He wanted to do a story about my finding that money.
I told him I didn't want to talk about it.
Speaker 3: You know, Jack, you found that envelope the morning after
mister Mas's funeral.
Speaker 1: Yes, well, why should that make you pucker your brows?
Speaker 3: Well it's it's the kind of thing that would happen
when we had that, but we no longer had it then.
Speaker 1: Which only goes to prove what I've said, all that
superstition about good luck and bad luck is childish nonsense.
Now let's forget it, shall we. What did you do today?
Speaker 3: Oh? I did the shopping, went to the cleaners to
pick up your suit. Oh, and I went around.
Speaker 2: To the post office to pick up that parcel. What parcel?
Don't you remember last Wednesday when we came.
Speaker 1: Home from mister Mas's funeral.
Speaker 3: Yes, well, there was that slip from the post office
saying that they had tried to deliver a parcel but
we weren't home.
Speaker 1: Oh oh no, yes, yes, I remember.
Speaker 2: Well I went over this afternoon and picked it up.
It's over there on the desk.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, let's see what, Senate.
Speaker 3: Jack, don't open it for. Don't open it. It's that
I it's come back.
Speaker 1: Then. I've got to know. I've got to know.
Speaker 2: Oh good Lord, I was right. I was right.
Speaker 1: It has come back.
Speaker 5: We'll never get away for this star itcht it for glass.
Speaker 1: Master of it it? Yeah, it's shattered. We are free
of it. Now, come in. You wanted to see me,
mister Elswood. Oh yes, Jack, come in, Come in, sit down,
Thank you Jack.
Speaker 4: I I see you've been having a little trouble about
the lottery tickets. I've been in the papers, featured quite.
Speaker 1: From the bike and say the same to you that
I told to the district attorney. I did not know
the ticket was a.
Speaker 4: Four days Yes, yes, yes, sir.
Speaker 1: I have returned my wedding to the State Lottery Commission.
Missus Martha has returned her share. Also, you have behaved
very honorably in the whole matter. I myself have said
that to the board. This was brought up to the board.
It had to be. Jack.
Speaker 4: You see, you occupy a very unique, a very sensitive
position in our company.
Speaker 1: I don't understand how this could affect the company.
Speaker 4: My boy, A companies such as ours is only as
good as our reputation.
Speaker 1: I get it, mister Ellsworth. Now I know why you
called to talk to me.
Speaker 4: Jack, Try and see my side. You are no longer
an asset to Ellsworth Manufacturing. You are a liability. Now
I'll tell you what we are prepared to do. We
shall give you a letter with the very highest praise
for your ability and character. We shall give you three
months salariest termination pay.
Speaker 1: And your best wishes for my future?
Speaker 3: Is that you Jack?
Speaker 1: Yes, Kathy, I I've got something to tell you, Jack.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's not good.
Speaker 1: I'm prepared for anything. What is it.
Speaker 2: There's no chance, Jack, we can't have another child?
Speaker 1: Oh of course we can, Darling. We'll go to another doctor.
We'll we'll leave here, start fresh, someplace you else. Sometimes
a change of scene or environment, or it's no use,
it's happened a million times. Doctors can be mistaken.
Speaker 2: No, Jack, nothing will ever be right for it.
Speaker 1: Kathy, how can you say that, I'm not giving up.
We'll go away, You'll see things will be good again.
Speaker 2: How could you go? You couldn't leave your job?
Speaker 1: What job I've been let go fired?
Speaker 2: Oh, Jack, Darling, I knew it. I knew it when
I saw Look, Jack, Look what's on the floor next
to the window.
Speaker 1: Oh no, oh, you're a good luck pete.
Speaker 2: But I flashed the dust, swept it up, put it
in a cloth bag.
Speaker 1: Waited it, dropped it off at the ferryboat in the
middle of the harbor.
Speaker 2: Look at it. Not a scratch, not a crack. And
that eye, that evil eye glaring at her to get there.
I don't know.
Speaker 3: I didn't see it this morning, And then when the
phone rang, I came in here.
Speaker 2: To answer it.
Speaker 3: And when I finished the conversation on the phone, I
saw it.
Speaker 2: I screamed and ran out.
Speaker 1: Of the house. I've gotta beat this thing. There's some
way to get rid of it. That it's got to be.
Speaker 2: I remember there was something that little man's said, but
it seems.
Speaker 1: Blurred in my mind. I keep reaching for it, but
it gets away from me.
Speaker 2: You can't give it away. When we gave it to
missus Math, it returned. But how could be? Oh, man,
give it to me. He give it to me and
the door get it, Jack. I'll go into the bedroom
and finish packing.
Speaker 1: Start packing for me too. We'll go together, all right,
Dear that I expect we'll do us much good to run. Hi,
mister Evans you hey, hey, wait wait, listen, leave us alone?
Can't you stay away from us? No? Please, I've got
good news. I don't want to hear it. It always
turns out bad. Oh please now, then, don't shut the door. Okay, okay,
what is it not? First, that money hasn't been claimed.
You know, the money you found. It'll be released to
you at the end of the thirty day waiting peer,
I won't be here to claim it. Why are you
going away? Yes, because you lost your job. That's only
part of it. But you haven't lost it. What do
you mean? Look, the Globe carried the entire story in
this afternoon's edition about how you were innocent, and also
that it was rumored that you had lost your job
with Ellsworth Manufacturing because of the scandal. Yeah, that's about it. Well.
Twenty minutes after the paper hit the street, the paper
got a call from mister Ellsworth himself, denying the story
and saying that the company had never doubted your integrity
and all that sort of guff. You know. He told
our editor to retract that story tomorrow or face a
possible loss. That's very funny, only hurts when you laugh. Huh,
You going back to Elsworth? No, I'm going away away
from this place for good. You're serious, dead serious. I
want that good luck Shohn that onyx eh, he don't.
I want it. I know what it's done for you,
and it could maybe done nothing good for me. We've
got nothing but grief and humiliation from it. I want it,
and I'll give you five thousand dollars all I have.
I want it. If you offer to purchase I must
accept it. That's what he said to me. Then you
let me have it. Look, I must warn you it
will bring you nothing, and its gifts are empty, and
you'll pay heavily for all you get or think you get.
I want it. I insist that you sell it to
me very well. You are sure you want it and
all that goes with it, I'll get it for you
I've got the money with me in cash. Here here,
hold out your hand there, and here's the payment. And thanks,
thanks for parting with it. May the Lord have mercy
on your soul. And now the Onyx Eye is in
the possession of a new owner, a new master. Despite
the warning Jack Evans gave him that he would pay
for every piece of good luck, pay perhaps with his
blood or the happiness of those near him. The new
owner steps out into the world, clutching the evil talisman
in his hand, with his heart full of hope. I'll
be back in a moment. Over two thousand years ago, Aristotle,
the Greek philosopher, spoke of the principle of natural law.
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
He knew what a delicate balance there was between all
natural forces. He originally spoke of a scientific phenomenon, but
the irrefutable evidence of the balance can be found in
our daily lives. Our cast included Francis Sternhagen, Michael Wager,
William Redfield, Briana Raeburn, and Sidney Sloane. The entire production
was under the direction of High Brown Radio. Mystery Theater
was sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and Luden's
medicated cough drops. This is E. G. Marshall inviting you
to return to our mystery theater for another adventure in
the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.