1 00:00:16,359 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 1: Come in. We're welcome. I'm a g Marshall. I have 2 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:27,559 a strange and frightening story about an onyx eye and 3 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,079 the effect it had on the lives and happiness of 4 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:33,799 several people. It is a well known law of physics 5 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:38,240 that any action has an equal and opposite reaction. If 6 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:40,840 you press down on one side of a seesaw, the 7 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:43,880 other side goes up. If you drop a stone into 8 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:47,359 a puddle of water, the water rises in exact proportion 9 00:00:47,719 --> 00:00:52,000 to the displacement of the stone. If good luck is 10 00:00:52,039 --> 00:00:55,000 on the face of the coin, wouldn't the other side 11 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:59,560 bring the reverse. It's for you, Cassy. Oh, a birthday present. 12 00:01:00,039 --> 00:01:02,840 I'll close your eyes and hold out your hand. There. 13 00:01:03,479 --> 00:01:04,799 You may open your eyes now. 14 00:01:06,079 --> 00:01:10,599 Speaker 2: Oh fy it it's it's beautiful. 15 00:01:11,159 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 1: You don't like it? 16 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:21,120 Speaker 3: Oh, yes, yes I do. It's very unusual. It looks 17 00:01:21,159 --> 00:01:21,799 like an eye. 18 00:01:22,439 --> 00:01:24,040 Speaker 1: The little man I bought it from said it would 19 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:26,920 bring us luck. It's it's onyx. The eye in the 20 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:28,879 onyx makes it valuable as an odogy. 21 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:34,760 Speaker 2: Oh oh, what's the matter? It moved? It moved in 22 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:44,680 my hand. Take it away, Jack, take it away. 23 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 1: Our mystery drama. The onyx Eye was written especially for 24 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:56,959 the Mystery Theater by Sidney Sloan and stars Francis Sternhagen 25 00:01:57,159 --> 00:02:00,159 and Michael Wager. It is sponsored in part by Don 26 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:04,799 Hoyzer Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser, and Time Magazine. I'll 27 00:02:04,799 --> 00:02:18,120 be back shortly with Act one. It was a cold, 28 00:02:18,319 --> 00:02:21,960 slushy day in January that Jack Evans found himself on 29 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,759 the run down side street in a section of town 30 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:28,240 in which he had seldom been before. He was weary 31 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:31,680 and cold from job hunting, but he knew he couldn't 32 00:02:31,719 --> 00:02:34,520 go home and face Kathy, his wife, on her birthday 33 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:38,240 without some small gift. Then he saw it. 34 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 2: A little curio shop. 35 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:42,800 Speaker 1: He looked in the window at the collection of junk 36 00:02:42,879 --> 00:02:46,639 Jewelry second hand o Jadar, when his eye was attracted 37 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:50,159 to an interesting egg shaped object, dusty and half covered 38 00:02:50,159 --> 00:02:54,000 by other things. He immediately knew that was what he 39 00:02:54,039 --> 00:03:02,919 was going to buy for Kathy. HULLO, anybody here? Yes? 40 00:03:03,599 --> 00:03:07,080 Can I help you? Oh? I didn't see you. What 41 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:10,479 can I do for you? I haven't much time. I 42 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:13,879 was just about to close at three fifteen in the afternoon, 43 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,879 young man, I am closing the doors and leaving. I 44 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:21,639 will not return I have been here for over sixty years. 45 00:03:22,759 --> 00:03:27,479 Long enough, long enough, wouldn't you say? Yeah? I guess 46 00:03:27,479 --> 00:03:31,199 so you will be my last customer, and I will 47 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:35,240 be generous. Name your own price for the thing you want. 48 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:38,120 I have made up my mind about anything. But I 49 00:03:38,759 --> 00:03:44,479 did notice a white egg shaped object in the window. Why, yes, 50 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:48,879 how did you know? I knew? I remember my mother 51 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:51,560 had a china egg when she used the darn socks. 52 00:03:51,919 --> 00:03:54,240 You know what I mean? Yeah, and I thought i'd 53 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:57,960 like to get one for my wife. It's her birthday. Ah. Yeah, 54 00:03:58,199 --> 00:04:00,800 I know it isn't much of a present, but well 55 00:04:00,879 --> 00:04:03,240 I can't afford more of this time. Oh it will 56 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,039 bring you luck. And if you ask to buy it, 57 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:08,800 I must sell it to you. H E would you 58 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,639 like to see it? I'll er take it out of 59 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:18,480 the window. Well yes, please, ah, here here it is. 60 00:04:19,399 --> 00:04:22,600 But I must tell you this is not a china 61 00:04:22,759 --> 00:04:29,720 darning egg. It is ANYX here. Don't drop it. Huh 62 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:36,240 feels heavy? Harry ever, I thought, er turn it over close. 63 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:40,040 It's an eye but looks like an eye. If you 64 00:04:40,199 --> 00:04:43,120 still want it, you may have it at your price. 65 00:04:43,759 --> 00:04:47,680 Whatever you offer I must accept, but you must be 66 00:04:47,759 --> 00:04:51,560 sure you want it and all that goes with it, 67 00:04:52,560 --> 00:05:04,160 because you will have it with you forever. Hello, is 68 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:06,160 that you John? Old Kathy? 69 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:07,920 Speaker 2: Come on into the kitchen. 70 00:05:07,959 --> 00:05:10,439 Speaker 1: It's warmer here, okay, as soon as I get my 71 00:05:10,519 --> 00:05:16,560 goloshes off. Oh, it does feel warmer in here. 72 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 2: He's been off all day. 73 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:21,879 Speaker 3: I think we've run out of fuel. I've kept the 74 00:05:21,879 --> 00:05:23,480 oven on so the house wouldn't freeze. 75 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: Well, did you call holders fuel and tell them a 76 00:05:25,879 --> 00:05:26,240 lot of good? 77 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 2: That would do? We owe them? Well, we're way beyond 78 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:30,439 our credit. 79 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:33,279 Speaker 1: But in weather like fith letting me call him? Didn't 80 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:34,959 you tell them you're expecting a baby and that the 81 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:35,879 cold wooden. 82 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 2: Phones out too? Jack? They sent us two warning notices. 83 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:42,759 Speaker 1: Oh, great, fine thing to happen on your birthday. You 84 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,519 should have married a guy who could take care of you. Can'fy. 85 00:05:45,959 --> 00:05:49,480 Speaker 3: Oh, you're the nicest husband in the world, and you're 86 00:05:49,519 --> 00:05:50,959 going to be a marvelous father. 87 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:54,720 Speaker 2: But no, but having you from my husband is enough 88 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:58,199 enough for me. What did you do all day, dear? 89 00:05:58,639 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: Well? Go around looking for job? 90 00:06:01,519 --> 00:06:02,040 Speaker 2: Any luck? 91 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 1: I had one promise from Ellsworth Manufacturing. 92 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:07,160 Speaker 2: You think it's a possibility. 93 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:09,759 Speaker 1: I wouldn't bank on it. I think the guy in 94 00:06:09,759 --> 00:06:13,199 the employment office, and mister Masrek was just trying to 95 00:06:13,199 --> 00:06:15,879 brush me off. But look, I don't wanna talk about that. 96 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:20,160 I wanna celebrate. Now, kiss me before I show you 97 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:21,040 a real surprise. 98 00:06:23,399 --> 00:06:23,639 Speaker 2: There. 99 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 1: Now, close your eyes and hold out your hat there, 100 00:06:29,439 --> 00:06:30,360 now open your eyes. 101 00:06:31,319 --> 00:06:36,319 Speaker 2: Oh why it it's beautiful. 102 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:38,439 Speaker 1: You don't like it? 103 00:06:39,199 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 2: Oh? 104 00:06:40,319 --> 00:06:46,160 Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it's it's very unusual. It looks like an eye. 105 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:47,759 Speaker 1: But the little man I bought it from said it 106 00:06:47,759 --> 00:06:51,079 would bring us luck. It's onyx. The the eye makes 107 00:06:51,079 --> 00:06:54,720 it valuable as an ology. Oh oh, what's the matter. 108 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,759 Speaker 2: It moved, It moved in my hand. 109 00:06:57,959 --> 00:06:59,959 Speaker 1: Cavy, it didn't move as it's your imagination. 110 00:07:00,879 --> 00:07:02,519 Speaker 2: Take it back and get your money. 111 00:07:02,639 --> 00:07:05,959 Speaker 3: I don't want it here. There's something I don't know 112 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:07,279 how to say it. There's something about it. 113 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:10,639 Speaker 1: But look, I'm sorry, Kathy, but it seems so different, 114 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:11,399 so unusual. 115 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,879 Speaker 2: Yes, different, but not in a pleasant way. It's ugly. 116 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:16,279 Take it back, dear. 117 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 1: I can't take it back. What I don't want to. 118 00:07:22,079 --> 00:07:24,920 The old man said it would bring me luck. Well 119 00:07:24,959 --> 00:07:26,000 we could use a little. 120 00:07:26,279 --> 00:07:28,439 Speaker 3: I don't believe in luck, Jack, and you know it. 121 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:32,879 I just can't have that evil looking eye around, luck 122 00:07:32,959 --> 00:07:33,519 or no luck? 123 00:07:35,199 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 2: The phone, it's been off all day? Answer it? Answer it? 124 00:07:40,199 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 1: Jack? Hello? Who? Yes? 125 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 2: This is he? 126 00:07:48,439 --> 00:07:48,879 Speaker 1: Or you will? 127 00:07:49,199 --> 00:07:50,319 Speaker 2: Who is it? 128 00:07:50,319 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 1: It's a fure company. They're making a delivery in an hour. Yes, yes, 129 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:59,319 we'll be here. I won't have a money to pay 130 00:07:59,319 --> 00:08:09,399 it tonight, mister Well thanks, thanks, they're extending our credit. 131 00:08:10,079 --> 00:08:12,079 Mister Holder said that since we've been a good customer 132 00:08:12,079 --> 00:08:17,560 for over six years. Cassy, it's it's the eye, don't 133 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:18,040 you get it. 134 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 2: It's it's really changed our luck. Jack, that's childish. 135 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 1: How about the phone coming on after they cut us 136 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:24,720 off for not paying our bill. 137 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 3: I still don't believe that that that thing had anything 138 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:29,279 to do with it. 139 00:08:29,279 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 1: It's the phone again, get it, Cassy? 140 00:08:31,879 --> 00:08:37,759 Speaker 2: Hello, right, Yes he's here? Who? 141 00:08:39,639 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 3: Yes, Yes, I'll get him Jack. It's Ellsworth Manufacturing calling 142 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:47,840 mister Masick. 143 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 2: Oh, good morning. Can I help you? 144 00:08:55,879 --> 00:08:59,559 Speaker 3: Oh mister Evans, well, we ain't seen you in the store. 145 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:02,159 Speaker 1: For quite a while. Yes, I want to pay my bill? 146 00:09:02,279 --> 00:09:03,559 Oh sure? Is that all? 147 00:09:04,519 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 2: Just a minute after get out the credit book? 148 00:09:06,639 --> 00:09:08,799 Speaker 1: De id to have let it run so long? The bill? 149 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:10,840 I read, Oh, don't give it another thought. I was 150 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:11,320 out of work. 151 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:14,759 Speaker 3: Yeah, and so you stayed away, and that was foolish. Now, 152 00:09:14,759 --> 00:09:16,799 Harry and me, well we sized you up as an 153 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:19,679 honest man right away. We knew you was okay the 154 00:09:19,759 --> 00:09:21,600 first time you and your wife came in the store. 155 00:09:22,159 --> 00:09:23,200 Speaker 2: Hey, how she doing? 156 00:09:23,759 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 1: She had the baby? Get a couple of months more? 157 00:09:26,759 --> 00:09:29,440 Speaker 3: Oh, the last couple of months seem mighty long. 158 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 2: Take it from me. That's the bill I see, and 159 00:09:33,519 --> 00:09:36,559 then easy, I'll here it is. 160 00:09:36,639 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, sixteen eighty five. That part of it was for 161 00:09:40,279 --> 00:09:42,440 that baby magazine your wife was getting. 162 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:44,639 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, well I can pay it. Just got 163 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:45,720 my first week's paid. 164 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:46,840 Speaker 2: Oh wonderful. 165 00:09:47,039 --> 00:09:47,559 Speaker 1: You see. 166 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:49,679 Speaker 3: Nothing like a baby to bring a couple of luck, 167 00:09:49,759 --> 00:09:53,399 mister Evans. Now you'll find that providence provides. 168 00:09:52,919 --> 00:09:54,960 Speaker 1: For a bit. I guess you're right. I'm working for 169 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:56,639 Ellsworth Manufacturing. I'm a foreman. 170 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 2: Oh that's great. 171 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 3: Hey, I just whyn't you buy a lottery ticket on 172 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:03,840 the state lottery for the baby? 173 00:10:03,919 --> 00:10:05,960 Speaker 2: In just two bucks? And with your luck. 174 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 1: I don't want to push it too far, missus Martha. 175 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:10,440 I got a lot of bills to pay before I 176 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:12,320 start taking chances on a million to one shot. 177 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:15,799 Speaker 3: Well someone's got to win. Hey, Look, I'll put up 178 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:17,480 the money for you. The ticket will be. 179 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 2: In your name. 180 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:22,159 Speaker 3: If you're hit, we split nothing to lose and everything 181 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:25,320 to gain. It'll be my present to the baby. 182 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:28,679 Speaker 1: How about it? Okay, but you're throwing away your running. 183 00:10:28,759 --> 00:10:41,039 I never want anything in my life, mister Ellsworth. Yes, 184 00:10:41,799 --> 00:10:44,759 they told me in a plant that you wanted to 185 00:10:44,759 --> 00:10:47,000 see me in your office. Your secretary told me to 186 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:47,440 go right in. 187 00:10:47,919 --> 00:10:49,279 Speaker 4: Yes, yes you are mister. 188 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 1: Jack Evans. 189 00:10:51,519 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 2: Oh yes, yes, I. 190 00:10:52,519 --> 00:10:54,080 Speaker 4: Have your name right in front of me and my 191 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:54,720 pad here. 192 00:10:55,159 --> 00:10:55,399 Speaker 1: Hmm. 193 00:10:56,399 --> 00:10:58,559 Speaker 4: Pardon me when I read this memo from your supervision. 194 00:10:59,279 --> 00:11:01,559 Speaker 1: I would like to say something if I may. Yes, 195 00:11:02,039 --> 00:11:04,639 I need this job very much. I know I knew 196 00:11:04,679 --> 00:11:06,879 at it, and I probably made many mistakes. 197 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:10,799 Speaker 4: My good man, you're getting yourself needlessly upset. You are 198 00:11:10,879 --> 00:11:12,240 no danger of losing your job. 199 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:16,919 Speaker 1: I'm not. I thought I was coming to see if 200 00:11:16,919 --> 00:11:17,639 he had fired. 201 00:11:17,919 --> 00:11:19,919 Speaker 4: You are here to see me because of a memo 202 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:23,320 from your supervisor, who praises your hard work and dedication. 203 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:26,960 You see, there's a new opening and supervision on the 204 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,759 executive level, a big step up from the plant job 205 00:11:29,799 --> 00:11:32,799 you hold now, and we think you can handle it. 206 00:11:33,639 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 1: What do you say? Cathy. Cathy, how good, wonderful news, Kathy. Well, 207 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:56,679 that's strange. He doesn't go out at this hour, Cathy, 208 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,879 I know, Jack, Dear, I'm getting pains. I thought i'd 209 00:12:02,879 --> 00:12:05,399 better not wait. I'm asking missus McCarthy next door to 210 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:09,519 go with me to the hospital. Love, Cathy, good lord, 211 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:20,559 it's too early, too early? Yes, yes, this is he? Oh, yes, 212 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:22,879 I I I know she she left me an ough, 213 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:28,679 how is she? Yes? Yes, I'll i'll, I'll be done 214 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:29,440 ten minutes. 215 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 2: Jack, h Jack, I wanted you near me. I was frightened. 216 00:12:41,399 --> 00:12:42,840 Speaker 1: I I came as soon as I could. 217 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:45,159 Speaker 2: Dear, Have I had the baby yet? 218 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:52,440 Speaker 1: Yes? Yes, yes, the baby you you've had the baby? 219 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:53,159 It's all over? 220 00:12:53,919 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 2: Is it a boy? 221 00:12:54,759 --> 00:12:55,039 Speaker 1: Jack? 222 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,399 Speaker 2: I want his little boy. I know you wanted a girl. 223 00:12:59,519 --> 00:13:03,000 But we'll have the boy first. Yeah. 224 00:13:03,039 --> 00:13:07,200 Speaker 1: But but you're tired now, Dear, we'll we'll talk later. 225 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:08,480 You must rest. 226 00:13:08,639 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 2: No, I'm not tired. I wanna talk about it with you. 227 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:14,679 I wanna see it. When can I see it? 228 00:13:14,759 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 1: To Cathy, please try to get some rest. 229 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:23,840 Speaker 2: Jack, you're acting so strange. Is something wrong, Darling? 230 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:25,960 Speaker 3: The baby. 231 00:13:27,159 --> 00:13:28,200 Speaker 2: It's dead, isn't it? 232 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:28,720 Speaker 5: Oh? 233 00:13:28,879 --> 00:13:34,240 Speaker 1: Kathy? That I that I should have to tell you. Oh, 234 00:13:34,279 --> 00:13:38,679 my darling, was it a boy, a beautiful little boy. 235 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:43,120 Speaker 2: The doctor said, well, how did why? 236 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:44,720 Speaker 5: Why did he have to die? 237 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 1: I have no answer, dear doctor said, everything was going fine, 238 00:13:51,039 --> 00:13:54,120 even though the baby was premature. He didn't feel any danger. 239 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:59,039 That suddenly the little heart stopped beating. He did everything 240 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:01,080 they could. It was God's will. 241 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:06,399 Speaker 6: No, no, no, it was that evil thing, that ugly, 242 00:14:06,519 --> 00:14:11,039 frightening thing that I that I cathy get rid of it, 243 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:12,080 throw it away. 244 00:14:12,759 --> 00:14:14,679 Speaker 2: I felt his evil presence. 245 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 5: Every since you brought it home, Darling. 246 00:14:16,039 --> 00:14:18,679 Speaker 1: If if that I disturbed you, I'll get rid of 247 00:14:18,799 --> 00:14:19,919 him today before. 248 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:20,159 Speaker 2: I get home. 249 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 3: To promise me you'll sell it or give it away, 250 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:25,360 and if you can't, then destroy it. 251 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:30,279 Speaker 1: Yes, Casey, I'll do whatever you say. 252 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:37,120 Speaker 2: Hey, I was just closing up, mister. 253 00:14:37,279 --> 00:14:38,759 Speaker 1: It's me missus mas. 254 00:14:38,879 --> 00:14:41,039 Speaker 2: Oh sure, mister Evans. 255 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:43,759 Speaker 1: I hate to bother you so late, but I spent 256 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:45,799 most of the evening at the hospital with my wife. 257 00:14:46,039 --> 00:14:48,559 Speaker 2: Yeah. I heard about that this afternoon. 258 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 3: Missus McCarthy told me God, that's a terrible thing to 259 00:14:52,879 --> 00:14:54,600 happen to a nice young couple. 260 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:57,519 Speaker 2: Like you too. I sent your wife a card. 261 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:00,879 Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you this is but I came in to 262 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,240 ask you. You know this neighborhood, well don't you? 263 00:15:04,399 --> 00:15:06,159 Speaker 2: Uh huh? I lived here all my life. 264 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:07,639 Speaker 1: Do you know Quenton Street? 265 00:15:07,679 --> 00:15:09,639 Speaker 3: Oh, about six seven blocks north. 266 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:14,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, used to be a nice residential street, but real rundown. 267 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:17,159 Speaker 1: Now do you know that little curio shop at the 268 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:18,600 corner of Westerlyan Quinton? 269 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:21,440 Speaker 2: You mean did I know it, don't you? Well it's 270 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:23,639 been closed for ages years? 271 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:25,639 Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no. I was in there last week. 272 00:15:25,639 --> 00:15:27,360 I made a purchase. Say you couldn't have. 273 00:15:27,679 --> 00:15:30,039 Speaker 3: Well, that building's been empty for nearly twenty years. 274 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:32,320 Speaker 1: The windows are broken, falling apart. 275 00:15:33,639 --> 00:15:35,360 Speaker 2: You know, I remember it when I was a girl. 276 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:38,399 Speaker 1: It was an old man, a small old man. Yeah. 277 00:15:38,519 --> 00:15:40,200 We were scared of him when I was a kid. 278 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:42,639 But I bought something from him, a present from my 279 00:15:42,639 --> 00:15:44,759 wife on a birthday. Was just a few weeks ago. 280 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:46,399 Speaker 2: But you couldn't have where. 281 00:15:46,399 --> 00:15:49,759 Speaker 3: The building's been condemned for over five years. It's supposed 282 00:15:49,799 --> 00:15:50,519 to be pulled down. 283 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:53,519 Speaker 1: Sheep went there, I tell you, in the shop January 284 00:15:53,639 --> 00:15:55,159 twenty nine, my wife's birthday. 285 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:59,399 Speaker 3: Mister Evans, I've seen the ambulance come and take him away. 286 00:16:00,159 --> 00:16:03,200 Exactly twenty years ago. I think it was in January two. 287 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 1: He was dead. 288 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:09,399 Speaker 3: If you've seen him, you saw a ghost. 289 00:16:19,679 --> 00:16:25,240 Speaker 1: The pendulum is swinging back. Payment is being demanded. What 290 00:16:25,399 --> 00:16:27,879 seemed like one piece of good luck on top of 291 00:16:27,919 --> 00:16:32,559 another is now being eroded and lost. The payment burden 292 00:16:33,399 --> 00:16:36,799 may get to be even heavier, more than Jack and 293 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:49,440 Kathy Evans can bear. I'll be back shortly with that too. 294 00:16:51,759 --> 00:16:54,799 When Jack Evans was told that the little curio shop 295 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:58,240 where he had purchased the Onyx Eye had been closed 296 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:02,519 for over twenty years, he couldn't believe it. The memory 297 00:17:02,519 --> 00:17:04,640 of the night when he was in the shop a 298 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:08,839 few weeks before was sharply etched on his mind. The 299 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,839 next day, he went to find out for himself the 300 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:15,759 shop was no longer there, the ancient building in disrepair, 301 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:20,279 broken windows, the door hanging on one hinge. It was 302 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:23,599 not his recollection of the shop, but it was as 303 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:27,759 missus Masa had described it that evening as he returned 304 00:17:27,759 --> 00:17:33,720 from work. Mister Evans, what are you, Jack Evans? Yes, 305 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:38,720 I'm from the Globe, mister Evans. Congratulations, congratulations, Yeah, you 306 00:17:38,839 --> 00:17:42,119 won the Big State lottery. Mister Evans, didn't you know. No, 307 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:45,039 I don't think, oh hey, this is rich. You haven't 308 00:17:45,079 --> 00:17:48,359 even been told yet. I mean nothing from the lottery commission. 309 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:51,519 No phone call, no letter, no wire. Oh wait a minute, 310 00:17:51,519 --> 00:17:53,440 wait a minute, there it is. Look it's right by 311 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:56,200 your door, so it's a wire here. There you go, 312 00:17:56,400 --> 00:18:02,160 open it. Jack Evans, thirty eight Lumbery Streets. Uh huh, Well, 313 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:07,839 happy to inform you that your number huh h a 314 00:18:08,079 --> 00:18:12,279 teck for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars will be 315 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:17,599 Oh good lord, you are right, Yeah, sure, sure, I'm great. 316 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:19,839 Well you looked a little pale for a minute. I 317 00:18:19,839 --> 00:18:21,079 guess it's sort of got to be from min this. 318 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:26,000 I think I wanted to get rid of it. Huh 319 00:18:26,039 --> 00:18:28,319 But what you mean your lottery ticket? Oh no, no, 320 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:32,759 the onyx eye. Huh oh, this money is only half mine. 321 00:18:32,799 --> 00:18:34,759 Missus Manz who runs a little stationary store on you, 322 00:18:34,839 --> 00:18:37,759 Cluden twelve, bought the ticket for me. We're gonna slit 323 00:18:37,799 --> 00:18:40,359 the money if I warnt missus masa you Cluton twelve 324 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:43,640 got it? Now? What about this? I the the onyx 325 00:18:43,759 --> 00:18:46,880 eye you just mentioned. I'd rather not say much about that. 326 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:49,200 It's kind of a good luck charumph. If you got 327 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:50,839 it with you? I mean I'd like a picture, you know, 328 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:54,160 with you holding a good luck charm in your hand. Well, 329 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:58,039 I've got it in the house. Come in great. Say 330 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:00,359 you you said you were gonna get rid of it, 331 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:02,319 or you you wanted to get rid of it? Yeah, 332 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:06,799 it bothered me just a minute. I've I've got in 333 00:19:06,839 --> 00:19:14,359 a drawer. Huh here, here it is. Say that is something? 334 00:19:14,759 --> 00:19:17,759 Huh ugly little thing, isn't it that? I seems to 335 00:19:17,759 --> 00:19:20,480 be looking right at you. My wife's afraid if it 336 00:19:20,519 --> 00:19:22,960 wants me to get rid of it? Are you going to? 337 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:29,720 I don't know. She thinks it brings bad luck for you. 338 00:19:30,759 --> 00:19:44,359 It didn't. Here we are here, We're home, Yes. 339 00:19:44,319 --> 00:19:45,319 Speaker 2: Jack, we're home. 340 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 3: Up the steps, Yeah, take it easy, Hello, welcome home. 341 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:56,599 Speaker 2: Oh, missus Marsa. 342 00:19:57,720 --> 00:19:59,880 Speaker 1: Missus Masa volunteered to come over and get the house 343 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:01,119 in order for your homecoming. 344 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:03,480 Speaker 2: Oh that was kind of you, Missus Maser. 345 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:07,160 Speaker 3: Oh nonsense, don't even say that after what you've both 346 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:09,920 done for Harry and me with your good luck charm. 347 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:14,400 Speaker 2: Oh it's beautiful. So many flowers. The entire room is 348 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:17,519 for the flowers are coming home present from Harry and me. 349 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:19,000 I knew you'd like them. 350 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:20,920 Speaker 1: You shouldn't have been to extravagance. 351 00:20:21,079 --> 00:20:24,000 Speaker 3: Oh, after what you've done for us here, it's nothing. 352 00:20:25,039 --> 00:20:26,680 Speaker 2: You know what we're gonna do with our share of 353 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:27,319 the money. 354 00:20:27,519 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 3: We're gonna sell the store and move to a warmer climate, 355 00:20:30,519 --> 00:20:32,359 which would be good for Harry's ourthrider. 356 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,039 Speaker 1: Oh that's a good idea, Missus Evans. 357 00:20:35,759 --> 00:20:37,599 Speaker 2: What are you two gonna do with your hair? 358 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:44,920 Speaker 1: Kathy? Kathy, missus Maser was speaking to you. What would 359 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:47,680 you pick up the phone? Missus Masa there on the table? 360 00:20:47,839 --> 00:20:52,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, sure, Hello, Yes, this is the Evans residence. 361 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:56,880 Speaker 2: Oh just a minute. Oh uh, Kathy, someone on the 362 00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:59,480 phone for you. The man said that the Globe. 363 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 3: Newspaper, that newspaper reporter again. He called me several times 364 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:04,720 at the hospital. I don't want to speak to him. 365 00:21:05,559 --> 00:21:10,559 Speaker 2: Hello. Oh, well, and she's busy and can't talk. What 366 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:15,000 what you what? Sell? Are you crazy? 367 00:21:15,079 --> 00:21:18,359 Speaker 3: You're asking her to sell her luck? You're out of 368 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:22,759 your mind, mister. Oh you know he wanted to buy 369 00:21:22,799 --> 00:21:24,480 your onyx eye your luck? 370 00:21:24,559 --> 00:21:27,400 Speaker 2: Now, how do you like that? I have you still 371 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:28,359 got that terrible thing? 372 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:28,640 Speaker 5: Jack? 373 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:31,200 Speaker 1: Kathy? I haven't had a chance to get rid of it. 374 00:21:31,279 --> 00:21:34,720 Speaker 3: I promised, you promised, Jack, You swore to me he 375 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,680 would get rid of that ugly I before I came home. 376 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:40,680 You promised up faithfully in that hospital. 377 00:21:40,839 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 1: Calm down, you like you know what misery that thing 378 00:21:45,559 --> 00:21:46,359 has called us. 379 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:50,160 Speaker 2: It took my baby from me, Oh my baby. 380 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:54,119 Speaker 3: Oh look, missus Evans, if you really mean meta, I'll 381 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:54,640 take it. 382 00:21:55,079 --> 00:21:58,160 Speaker 2: I'll buy it. Yes, yes, it's yours a present. You 383 00:21:58,200 --> 00:21:58,920 don't have to buy it. 384 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 5: Give it to her, Jack, give it. 385 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:03,160 Speaker 3: You get rid of that thing, not an evil thing, 386 00:22:03,799 --> 00:22:04,799 or or I'll go away. 387 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:06,279 Speaker 2: You'll never see me again. 388 00:22:06,319 --> 00:22:09,200 Speaker 1: All right, Oh, all right, Cathy, I I'll do anything 389 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:14,319 you say. Here, missus masa Isle. Hope it brings you 390 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:22,640 better luck than it has us. 391 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:25,440 Speaker 4: Well, Jack like my choice of restaurants. 392 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:27,799 Speaker 1: I've never eaten a place like this before. 393 00:22:28,039 --> 00:22:30,319 Speaker 4: Mad you'd better start getting used to it. The firm 394 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:32,680 has a charger count here. We do most of our 395 00:22:32,759 --> 00:22:33,640 business entertaining. 396 00:22:33,799 --> 00:22:36,640 Speaker 1: Oh oh yes, yes, Peter Fairley told me that all 397 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:40,720 he told you, Jack, we like you. 398 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:43,599 Speaker 4: When you came into that money, when you won the lottery, 399 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:47,680 you didn't change. We all thought you'd buy cars, clothes, jewelry, 400 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:50,160 a new house. But you took it all in new stride, 401 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:53,160 no fuss, no feathers, made a big impression on the 402 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:54,119 bullet I can tell you. 403 00:22:54,319 --> 00:22:56,599 Speaker 1: I wasn't trying to make an impression. Mister Elsworth. 404 00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:00,119 Speaker 4: We knew that, Jack, We all knew that if you 405 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,160 adjust that kind of a man. Which brings me to 406 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,880 what I started to say a moment ago. Jack, the 407 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:10,519 vought of directors has voter to make you an officer 408 00:23:10,559 --> 00:23:14,119 of the company. Oh you are now vice president of 409 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,240 Ellsworth Manufacturing Incorporated. 410 00:23:16,519 --> 00:23:26,920 Speaker 5: Oh oh, you deserve the job. 411 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:31,039 Speaker 2: Jack. It is so incredible. They hardly known you and 412 00:23:31,079 --> 00:23:32,640 they give you this big position. 413 00:23:33,599 --> 00:23:35,799 Speaker 1: I couldn't believe this is all happening to me. All 414 00:23:36,079 --> 00:23:37,079 haven't so fast. 415 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:39,039 Speaker 5: Oh, I'm so happy for you, darling. 416 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:43,319 Speaker 3: And you know it was really you, your ability, your personality 417 00:23:43,319 --> 00:23:46,240 that puts you where you are. It wasn't some stupid 418 00:23:46,279 --> 00:23:51,160 good luck charm, some magical eye. Oh I'm so relieved 419 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,880 since that thing is out of the house, I'm sleeping better, feeling. 420 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,559 Oh that reminds me. I went to the doctor today. 421 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,759 He did some tests and a complete examination. 422 00:24:02,519 --> 00:24:04,119 Speaker 1: What did he say about having another baby? 423 00:24:04,559 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 2: He seemed very optimistic. 424 00:24:06,559 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 3: He said he'd get back to me as soon as 425 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:09,480 he had all the results from the test. 426 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:16,720 Speaker 1: Yes, I'll, i'll, I'll get Kathy. Hello, hello mister Evans. Yes, oh, 427 00:24:16,759 --> 00:24:17,400 missus Masa. 428 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,160 Speaker 2: I'm sorry to bother you and your missus so late 429 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:20,559 at night. 430 00:24:20,839 --> 00:24:23,240 Speaker 1: Uh, it's not so late. We haven't gone to bed yet. 431 00:24:23,319 --> 00:24:26,839 Speaker 2: Oh that's good. Look, I'm a little worried. I I 432 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:28,759 had to talk to Could I come over? 433 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:32,079 Speaker 1: Well, it is right, Well, couldn't wait until tomorrow, missus 434 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:33,440 mas I'm so upset. 435 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,039 Speaker 2: I I wouldn't sleep a wink if I waited till tomorrow. 436 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:37,880 Speaker 1: Well, hold the phone for a second. 437 00:24:38,319 --> 00:24:39,640 Speaker 2: It's missus Masa. 438 00:24:40,039 --> 00:24:41,559 Speaker 1: She seems upset, wants to come over. 439 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,640 Speaker 2: Well let her come. She won't stay very long. 440 00:24:45,839 --> 00:24:51,119 Speaker 1: Missus mos Yes, I've come over, but please remember Kathy's 441 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:52,319 not fully recovered, and we. 442 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:53,759 Speaker 2: Don't take me just a few minutes. 443 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:54,839 Speaker 1: Thank you. 444 00:24:55,279 --> 00:24:56,519 Speaker 3: I'll be there in five minutes. 445 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:03,960 Speaker 2: There she is. Jack, let her in. 446 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:09,160 Speaker 1: Okay, I got it. Come in, missus Masa. 447 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:10,640 Speaker 2: I'm sorry to bother you. 448 00:25:10,799 --> 00:25:12,279 Speaker 1: No bother for a friend. Come in. 449 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,720 Speaker 2: Thank you. Hello, missus Masa. Sit down. Well you know 450 00:25:15,839 --> 00:25:17,640 I'm only gonna stay a minute. I just had to 451 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:19,599 tell you it's gone. 452 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 1: What the eye? 453 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:24,400 Speaker 2: The onyx eye gone? No? 454 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:28,079 Speaker 1: No that Kathy, Cathy, get hold of yourself, missus Masa. 455 00:25:28,319 --> 00:25:29,279 I think it's gone. 456 00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:29,920 Speaker 2: I tell you. 457 00:25:30,319 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 3: I wrapped it in an old piece of shammy in 458 00:25:32,279 --> 00:25:33,519 my drawer in the bedroom dresser. 459 00:25:33,799 --> 00:25:36,359 Speaker 2: Tonight I went to look at it. It was gone 460 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,160 and the shammis was still there. Stolen? What else could 461 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:41,319 have been? What else it could have come back? Here? 462 00:25:41,839 --> 00:25:43,640 Speaker 3: Did you start to think of that? It could have 463 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,240 returned to us, return to destroy us? 464 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,519 Speaker 1: I see that superstitious nonsense, and you'll know it, missus Masa. 465 00:25:49,559 --> 00:25:52,839 My guess is that it's stolen. Someone must have known 466 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:53,720 that we've given it to you. 467 00:25:53,799 --> 00:25:57,519 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I suppose you're right. Oh what a pity. 468 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,240 Harry said that just having it in the house made 469 00:26:00,279 --> 00:26:03,960 him feel good. Oh well, I'm sorry to bother you. 470 00:26:04,279 --> 00:26:06,680 Speaker 1: I'll go now. Want me to walk you home, missus 471 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:07,720 Montis it is late? 472 00:26:07,799 --> 00:26:10,519 Speaker 2: Oh no, I'm okay. I know the neighborhood, and. 473 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:15,480 Speaker 1: Good night, good night. You're sure you'll be all right 474 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:16,160 going home? Along? 475 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:22,599 Speaker 2: Sure? Look from a doorstep. Oh my god, it's the 476 00:26:22,759 --> 00:26:26,960 onyx eyes come back, come back quick? Look outside? See 477 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:27,680 if anyone's near. 478 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:33,759 Speaker 1: No, no one. There's not a living soul on the streets. 479 00:26:33,839 --> 00:26:35,720 Speaker 2: Just come back when you never get. 480 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:44,319 Speaker 1: Rid of it. You have made an offer and now 481 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:49,279 you must go through with it. No, we don't want 482 00:26:49,279 --> 00:26:54,400 to take it back. Please, that is impossible. I cannot 483 00:26:54,519 --> 00:26:59,599 take it back. You have made a bargain and you 484 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:01,759 all to your word. 485 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,680 Speaker 2: Is there no way to be rid of it? 486 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:09,440 Speaker 1: I told you you must be sure you wanted and 487 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:16,960 all that go with it. It will be with you forever. Hope, hope, Man, 488 00:27:17,039 --> 00:27:17,920 There must be. 489 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,920 Speaker 3: So long word Jack, Jack, darling, Jack, something that weren't dreaming? 490 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:26,440 Speaker 2: Jah, Listen to me, Oh maniase Jack? 491 00:27:26,759 --> 00:27:27,359 Speaker 1: Loring to me? 492 00:27:27,599 --> 00:27:31,640 Speaker 2: Jack? What Jack? You had no bad dream? 493 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 1: Gay, darling? 494 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,839 Speaker 2: You were dreaming, tossing in your sleep. 495 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:41,279 Speaker 1: Oh what a nightmare, frustrating dream. 496 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:45,799 Speaker 2: You seem to be talking to someone. I'm pleading. I 497 00:27:45,799 --> 00:27:46,240 I was. 498 00:27:46,319 --> 00:27:48,440 Speaker 1: Dreaming of that little old man who sold me the 499 00:27:48,519 --> 00:27:51,559 Onyx eye. I begged him to take it back or 500 00:27:51,559 --> 00:27:54,880 tell me how to get rid of it. He gave 501 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,480 me no answer, except that I was compelled to keep 502 00:27:57,519 --> 00:28:02,680 it forever, forever. Wait a minute, there's something in the 503 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,160 back of my mind. If I could think of what 504 00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:11,200 it is, he'd be a a phone these hours, four 505 00:28:11,279 --> 00:28:17,839 fifteen in the morning. Hello, Yes, this is he who 506 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:30,480 Saint Joseph's Hospital. Yes, I see, ask you to call me? Yes, yes, 507 00:28:30,559 --> 00:28:32,240 I'll I'll come immediately. Thank you. 508 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:34,039 Speaker 5: What is it? 509 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:41,000 Speaker 1: Mister Masa stroke? Missus Masa asked them to call me. 510 00:28:41,079 --> 00:28:43,720 She wants me to come to the hospital. It was 511 00:28:43,799 --> 00:28:48,559 that thing. Oh no, that's becoming an obsession with you, Cathy. 512 00:28:48,599 --> 00:28:49,440 Can't you forget it? 513 00:28:49,519 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 2: Don't you see? 514 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 3: Mister Masa benefited from the luck the lottery ticket, and 515 00:28:55,319 --> 00:28:57,880 now he's paying for it as we have. 516 00:29:08,079 --> 00:29:11,759 Speaker 1: Like some evil thing, the power from the Onyx Eye 517 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:15,559 reaches out to crush all who have benefited from its luck. 518 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:20,119 Its influence keeps spreading like a pool of slimy polluted water, 519 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:35,720 defiling everything it touches. I'll be back shortly with Act three. 520 00:29:36,319 --> 00:29:39,440 Jack went to the hospital that night and sat waiting 521 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,039 with the wife of the stricken man through a long 522 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:46,079 gray dawn. Finally, the doctor came with the news that 523 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:51,160 mister Masa had died. His last words before the end were, 524 00:29:51,559 --> 00:29:56,839 strangely enough, the eye, the lucky eye, How wonderful to 525 00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:01,079 have it? At the cemetery. Several days later, missus Masa 526 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:07,319 was heard to repeat almost the identical sentiment, Oh, father him. 527 00:30:09,039 --> 00:30:11,920 Speaker 3: He was so happy the last few days of his life, 528 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:14,799 happier than I've seen him in years. 529 00:30:15,599 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 2: I'm sorry. 530 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,640 Speaker 3: I'm sorry that we that we involved you and your 531 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,759 husband and our I don't know how to say it. 532 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,240 I we feel responsible, novel. 533 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,559 Speaker 2: No, no, you got it all wrong. I told you 534 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:29,480 he was happy. 535 00:30:29,519 --> 00:30:31,839 Speaker 1: You brought us luck, bad luck. 536 00:30:32,119 --> 00:30:35,720 Speaker 3: No, no, it was good, even if it was only 537 00:30:35,759 --> 00:30:36,480 for a few. 538 00:30:36,359 --> 00:30:40,480 Speaker 2: Days, a few hours. It was like a dream come true. 539 00:30:40,519 --> 00:30:42,599 Speaker 1: But missus Masa, what will you do now? 540 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:48,039 Speaker 2: What does it matter? I'm not sad, I'll manage. 541 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,119 Speaker 3: I'm happy to know that Harry got something good, that 542 00:30:52,119 --> 00:30:56,039 that made him feel good before he passed away. 543 00:30:56,119 --> 00:30:58,720 Speaker 2: No, no, no, you're wrong. 544 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,920 Speaker 3: I cannot stands you. You wish for death. That's not happiness. 545 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 2: I give up everything in this world, everything, all. 546 00:31:06,359 --> 00:31:09,200 Speaker 3: The comforts, even necessities, to have my baby. 547 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,000 Speaker 2: With me, alive and warm in. 548 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,880 Speaker 3: My arms, next to my heart, anything for. 549 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,079 Speaker 1: The happy people are looking at you, please. 550 00:31:15,799 --> 00:31:18,200 Speaker 2: Listen, clet them mort respect. 551 00:31:17,759 --> 00:31:18,319 Speaker 1: For the dead. 552 00:31:18,799 --> 00:31:21,480 Speaker 3: I have no respect for the dead, for this stupid 553 00:31:21,519 --> 00:31:24,839 ceremony of death for the soothing words that close your 554 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:26,559 mind and drug you into accepting it. 555 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,000 Speaker 2: Please, they're the coffin, are they? 556 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:31,240 Speaker 6: I know something else that should be buried in the 557 00:31:31,279 --> 00:31:32,680 ground and covered up forever. 558 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:34,319 Speaker 1: Their sigh. 559 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:39,119 Speaker 2: You got here to bury it there? Oh you throw 560 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:39,920 it in the grave, you. 561 00:31:40,039 --> 00:31:40,599 Speaker 1: Throw it away? 562 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,880 Speaker 2: Yes, I'm burying it, burying it forever. 563 00:31:51,079 --> 00:31:54,559 Speaker 1: Hello, allow, mister Evans. This is Peter Cawley. You know me. 564 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:56,759 I'm the reporter on the Globe. I mean, I'm the 565 00:31:56,759 --> 00:31:58,839 guy who interviewed you when you won the lottery. What 566 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:00,759 do you want, I'm in the middle of Well. I 567 00:32:00,799 --> 00:32:03,000 see that you found an envelope on the street with 568 00:32:03,079 --> 00:32:05,599 over two thousand dollars in it, and that you turned 569 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:09,240 it into the police. That's right, Well, you don't seem 570 00:32:09,319 --> 00:32:12,000 very excited about it. Two thousand bucks seems like a 571 00:32:12,119 --> 00:32:15,160 lot of money to me. It's not my money, yeah, 572 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,519 but if the owner doesn't come forth identify it, it 573 00:32:17,599 --> 00:32:21,079 is gonna be yours? Right, really, mistrue? I mean that's right, 574 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,720 isn't it? Is this why you called me to find 575 00:32:23,759 --> 00:32:24,440 that out? 576 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:24,920 Speaker 3: No? 577 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:28,119 Speaker 1: No, no, I called you because I see a continuation 578 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:29,920 of the good luck story I did on you when 579 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:33,160 you won the lottery. Sorry to disappoint you. I no 580 00:32:33,279 --> 00:32:36,920 longer have the eye. Oh cop on, mister Evans, don't 581 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,240 give me that. I haven't got it. That's the truth. 582 00:32:39,279 --> 00:32:42,599 It's gone buried. You mean you hit it someplace to 583 00:32:42,759 --> 00:32:45,319 keep from losing it. I mean we buried it to 584 00:32:45,359 --> 00:32:47,720 get rid of it, to lose it forever. 585 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,799 Speaker 2: John, your dinner is getting cold coming right in. 586 00:32:54,039 --> 00:32:56,799 Speaker 1: Who was it? Oh? That reporter, you know, the one 587 00:32:57,119 --> 00:32:59,640 He wanted to do a story about my finding that money. 588 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:01,920 I told him I didn't want to talk about it. 589 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:06,160 Speaker 3: You know, Jack, you found that envelope the morning after 590 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:07,480 mister Mas's funeral. 591 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:11,240 Speaker 1: Yes, well, why should that make you pucker your brows? 592 00:33:11,759 --> 00:33:15,000 Speaker 3: Well it's it's the kind of thing that would happen 593 00:33:15,039 --> 00:33:18,759 when we had that, but we no longer had it then. 594 00:33:18,759 --> 00:33:21,000 Speaker 1: Which only goes to prove what I've said, all that 595 00:33:21,079 --> 00:33:24,160 superstition about good luck and bad luck is childish nonsense. 596 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:28,640 Now let's forget it, shall we. What did you do today? 597 00:33:29,519 --> 00:33:32,480 Speaker 3: Oh? I did the shopping, went to the cleaners to 598 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:35,759 pick up your suit. Oh, and I went around. 599 00:33:35,559 --> 00:33:38,799 Speaker 2: To the post office to pick up that parcel. What parcel? 600 00:33:39,359 --> 00:33:41,599 Don't you remember last Wednesday when we came. 601 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:43,720 Speaker 1: Home from mister Mas's funeral. 602 00:33:44,839 --> 00:33:49,519 Speaker 3: Yes, well, there was that slip from the post office 603 00:33:49,519 --> 00:33:52,039 saying that they had tried to deliver a parcel but 604 00:33:52,079 --> 00:33:52,720 we weren't home. 605 00:33:53,039 --> 00:33:54,960 Speaker 1: Oh oh no, yes, yes, I remember. 606 00:33:55,759 --> 00:33:57,839 Speaker 2: Well I went over this afternoon and picked it up. 607 00:33:58,720 --> 00:33:59,960 It's over there on the desk. 608 00:34:00,359 --> 00:34:02,960 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, let's see what, Senate. 609 00:34:03,039 --> 00:34:05,680 Speaker 3: Jack, don't open it for. Don't open it. It's that 610 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:07,880 I it's come back. 611 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:10,599 Speaker 1: Then. I've got to know. I've got to know. 612 00:34:13,039 --> 00:34:17,880 Speaker 2: Oh good Lord, I was right. I was right. 613 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:19,280 Speaker 1: It has come back. 614 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:23,400 Speaker 5: We'll never get away for this star itcht it for glass. 615 00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:34,960 Speaker 1: Master of it it? Yeah, it's shattered. We are free 616 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:46,440 of it. Now, come in. You wanted to see me, 617 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:49,920 mister Elswood. Oh yes, Jack, come in, Come in, sit down, 618 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:51,599 Thank you Jack. 619 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:55,119 Speaker 4: I I see you've been having a little trouble about 620 00:34:55,159 --> 00:34:58,000 the lottery tickets. I've been in the papers, featured quite. 621 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:00,519 Speaker 1: From the bike and say the same to you that 622 00:35:00,559 --> 00:35:03,039 I told to the district attorney. I did not know 623 00:35:03,119 --> 00:35:03,840 the ticket was a. 624 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:05,199 Speaker 4: Four days Yes, yes, yes, sir. 625 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,760 Speaker 1: I have returned my wedding to the State Lottery Commission. 626 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,800 Missus Martha has returned her share. Also, you have behaved 627 00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,679 very honorably in the whole matter. I myself have said 628 00:35:13,679 --> 00:35:17,360 that to the board. This was brought up to the board. 629 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:18,920 It had to be. Jack. 630 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:23,519 Speaker 4: You see, you occupy a very unique, a very sensitive 631 00:35:23,519 --> 00:35:24,599 position in our company. 632 00:35:24,599 --> 00:35:28,559 Speaker 1: I don't understand how this could affect the company. 633 00:35:28,119 --> 00:35:30,679 Speaker 4: My boy, A companies such as ours is only as 634 00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:31,639 good as our reputation. 635 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:35,719 Speaker 1: I get it, mister Ellsworth. Now I know why you 636 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:36,719 called to talk to me. 637 00:35:37,079 --> 00:35:42,199 Speaker 4: Jack, Try and see my side. You are no longer 638 00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:47,679 an asset to Ellsworth Manufacturing. You are a liability. Now 639 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,559 I'll tell you what we are prepared to do. We 640 00:35:50,599 --> 00:35:52,840 shall give you a letter with the very highest praise 641 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,559 for your ability and character. We shall give you three 642 00:35:55,559 --> 00:35:57,239 months salariest termination pay. 643 00:35:57,519 --> 00:35:59,920 Speaker 1: And your best wishes for my future? 644 00:36:07,199 --> 00:36:08,079 Speaker 3: Is that you Jack? 645 00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:14,199 Speaker 1: Yes, Kathy, I I've got something to tell you, Jack. 646 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:16,000 Speaker 2: Yes, it's not good. 647 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:19,320 Speaker 1: I'm prepared for anything. What is it. 648 00:36:21,079 --> 00:36:24,920 Speaker 2: There's no chance, Jack, we can't have another child? 649 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:29,840 Speaker 1: Oh of course we can, Darling. We'll go to another doctor. 650 00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:33,719 We'll we'll leave here, start fresh, someplace you else. Sometimes 651 00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:36,320 a change of scene or environment, or it's no use, 652 00:36:36,639 --> 00:36:39,519 it's happened a million times. Doctors can be mistaken. 653 00:36:39,679 --> 00:36:42,199 Speaker 2: No, Jack, nothing will ever be right for it. 654 00:36:42,679 --> 00:36:45,280 Speaker 1: Kathy, how can you say that, I'm not giving up. 655 00:36:45,559 --> 00:36:47,679 We'll go away, You'll see things will be good again. 656 00:36:48,199 --> 00:36:50,800 Speaker 2: How could you go? You couldn't leave your job? 657 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,039 Speaker 1: What job I've been let go fired? 658 00:36:55,440 --> 00:37:02,679 Speaker 2: Oh, Jack, Darling, I knew it. I knew it when 659 00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:07,480 I saw Look, Jack, Look what's on the floor next 660 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:08,000 to the window. 661 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,400 Speaker 1: Oh no, oh, you're a good luck pete. 662 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:14,639 Speaker 2: But I flashed the dust, swept it up, put it 663 00:37:14,639 --> 00:37:16,000 in a cloth bag. 664 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:17,800 Speaker 1: Waited it, dropped it off at the ferryboat in the 665 00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:18,639 middle of the harbor. 666 00:37:18,679 --> 00:37:23,559 Speaker 2: Look at it. Not a scratch, not a crack. And 667 00:37:23,639 --> 00:37:27,920 that eye, that evil eye glaring at her to get there. 668 00:37:28,159 --> 00:37:28,800 I don't know. 669 00:37:29,519 --> 00:37:32,039 Speaker 3: I didn't see it this morning, And then when the 670 00:37:32,039 --> 00:37:33,480 phone rang, I came in here. 671 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:33,960 Speaker 2: To answer it. 672 00:37:34,559 --> 00:37:36,760 Speaker 3: And when I finished the conversation on the phone, I 673 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:37,239 saw it. 674 00:37:37,519 --> 00:37:38,920 Speaker 2: I screamed and ran out. 675 00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:40,400 Speaker 1: Of the house. I've gotta beat this thing. There's some 676 00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:42,639 way to get rid of it. That it's got to be. 677 00:37:43,559 --> 00:37:46,239 Speaker 2: I remember there was something that little man's said, but 678 00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:47,480 it seems. 679 00:37:47,199 --> 00:37:50,239 Speaker 1: Blurred in my mind. I keep reaching for it, but 680 00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:51,079 it gets away from me. 681 00:37:51,159 --> 00:37:53,159 Speaker 2: You can't give it away. When we gave it to 682 00:37:53,199 --> 00:37:57,719 missus Math, it returned. But how could be? Oh, man, 683 00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:01,519 give it to me. He give it to me and 684 00:38:02,159 --> 00:38:05,400 the door get it, Jack. I'll go into the bedroom 685 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:06,159 and finish packing. 686 00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:08,639 Speaker 1: Start packing for me too. We'll go together, all right, 687 00:38:08,679 --> 00:38:16,559 Dear that I expect we'll do us much good to run. Hi, 688 00:38:16,639 --> 00:38:21,000 mister Evans you hey, hey, wait wait, listen, leave us alone? 689 00:38:21,079 --> 00:38:23,280 Can't you stay away from us? No? Please, I've got 690 00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,840 good news. I don't want to hear it. It always 691 00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:30,719 turns out bad. Oh please now, then, don't shut the door. Okay, okay, 692 00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:33,679 what is it not? First, that money hasn't been claimed. 693 00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:35,840 You know, the money you found. It'll be released to 694 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,960 you at the end of the thirty day waiting peer, 695 00:38:38,039 --> 00:38:40,039 I won't be here to claim it. Why are you 696 00:38:40,119 --> 00:38:43,800 going away? Yes, because you lost your job. That's only 697 00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,280 part of it. But you haven't lost it. What do 698 00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,239 you mean? Look, the Globe carried the entire story in 699 00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:52,639 this afternoon's edition about how you were innocent, and also 700 00:38:52,679 --> 00:38:54,760 that it was rumored that you had lost your job 701 00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:58,880 with Ellsworth Manufacturing because of the scandal. Yeah, that's about it. Well. 702 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,039 Twenty minutes after the paper hit the street, the paper 703 00:39:02,039 --> 00:39:05,880 got a call from mister Ellsworth himself, denying the story 704 00:39:06,039 --> 00:39:08,679 and saying that the company had never doubted your integrity 705 00:39:08,679 --> 00:39:10,480 and all that sort of guff. You know. He told 706 00:39:10,559 --> 00:39:13,199 our editor to retract that story tomorrow or face a 707 00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:19,119 possible loss. That's very funny, only hurts when you laugh. Huh, 708 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:22,559 You going back to Elsworth? No, I'm going away away 709 00:39:22,599 --> 00:39:28,719 from this place for good. You're serious, dead serious. I 710 00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:32,360 want that good luck Shohn that onyx eh, he don't. 711 00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,719 I want it. I know what it's done for you, 712 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:38,039 and it could maybe done nothing good for me. We've 713 00:39:38,039 --> 00:39:41,159 got nothing but grief and humiliation from it. I want it, 714 00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,239 and I'll give you five thousand dollars all I have. 715 00:39:44,519 --> 00:39:50,960 I want it. If you offer to purchase I must 716 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:55,719 accept it. That's what he said to me. Then you 717 00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:59,079 let me have it. Look, I must warn you it 718 00:39:59,159 --> 00:40:02,960 will bring you nothing, and its gifts are empty, and 719 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,960 you'll pay heavily for all you get or think you get. 720 00:40:06,519 --> 00:40:09,559 I want it. I insist that you sell it to 721 00:40:09,599 --> 00:40:16,760 me very well. You are sure you want it and 722 00:40:17,039 --> 00:40:21,199 all that goes with it, I'll get it for you 723 00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:26,920 I've got the money with me in cash. Here here, 724 00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:34,760 hold out your hand there, and here's the payment. And thanks, 725 00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:39,280 thanks for parting with it. May the Lord have mercy 726 00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:50,039 on your soul. And now the Onyx Eye is in 727 00:40:50,079 --> 00:40:54,960 the possession of a new owner, a new master. Despite 728 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,559 the warning Jack Evans gave him that he would pay 729 00:40:57,639 --> 00:41:00,599 for every piece of good luck, pay perhaps with his 730 00:41:00,679 --> 00:41:04,199 blood or the happiness of those near him. The new 731 00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:07,400 owner steps out into the world, clutching the evil talisman 732 00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:11,679 in his hand, with his heart full of hope. I'll 733 00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:26,199 be back in a moment. Over two thousand years ago, Aristotle, 734 00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:30,239 the Greek philosopher, spoke of the principle of natural law. 735 00:41:31,119 --> 00:41:35,480 For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. 736 00:41:36,679 --> 00:41:40,119 He knew what a delicate balance there was between all 737 00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:45,800 natural forces. He originally spoke of a scientific phenomenon, but 738 00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:49,480 the irrefutable evidence of the balance can be found in 739 00:41:49,519 --> 00:41:54,440 our daily lives. Our cast included Francis Sternhagen, Michael Wager, 740 00:41:54,519 --> 00:41:58,599 William Redfield, Briana Raeburn, and Sidney Sloane. The entire production 741 00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:02,400 was under the direction of High Brown Radio. Mystery Theater 742 00:42:02,519 --> 00:42:05,960 was sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and Luden's 743 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,440 medicated cough drops. This is E. G. Marshall inviting you 744 00:42:09,519 --> 00:42:13,159 to return to our mystery theater for another adventure in 745 00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:32,960 the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.