Speaker 1: Tired of the everyday grind, ever dream of a life
Speaker 1: of romantic adventure, want to get away from it all.
Speaker 2: We offer you.
Speaker 3: Escape, Escape designed to free you from the four walls
Speaker 3: of to day for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1: You are standing alone in a mountain village, somewhere in
Speaker 1: the puppet country of Andorra, the high crags of the Pyrenees,
Speaker 1: trapping the last.
Speaker 4: Of the daylight.
Speaker 1: And you know that in one of the stone houses
Speaker 1: facing you, behind one of the doors that is closed
Speaker 1: against you, is a beautiful woman whom you must find
Speaker 1: before she meets her day.
Speaker 3: Listen now, as Escape brings you Kathleen Heights Story. The
Speaker 3: dark wall.
Speaker 2: The black quiet of the night settled over us. I
Speaker 2: could hear only the silky ripple of the river Segree nearby,
Speaker 2: and a thin whisper of wind in the high pines
Speaker 2: above us. The strange silence of the day was over
Speaker 2: Joyce was sleeping quietly now a few feet away. I
Speaker 2: sank into my sleeping bag and prayed that things would
Speaker 2: go better tomorrow. Something roused me some sound. In a glance,
Speaker 2: I saw the gray the predom, and then I saw
Speaker 2: Joyce poised at the side of my sleeping bag, wild
Speaker 2: terror in her eyes and in her upraised hand a
Speaker 2: heavy tire iron.
Speaker 5: Joyce, give it, Joyce.
Speaker 6: Oh you were supposed to wake up? Why why did
Speaker 6: you have to wake up?
Speaker 2: Oh? Hell?
Speaker 7: Hell?
Speaker 6: And I'm so afraid.
Speaker 2: No, no, you're all right, Joyce, Joyce, don't be afraid.
Speaker 6: What's wrong? What's wrong?
Speaker 2: There's nothing to be afraid of?
Speaker 6: So awful to be so frightened?
Speaker 2: What frightens you? Can't you tell me?
Speaker 6: I was going to kill you? I wanted to kill you, Joyce?
Speaker 2: Are you afraid? Help me? Oh?
Speaker 8: Is you?
Speaker 6: I love you?
Speaker 2: And I love you, Darnie.
Speaker 6: I know you do. Alan, Please can't we go now?
Speaker 6: Can't we get away from here?
Speaker 2: I knew now that Joyce needed care quickly. Her sickness,
Speaker 2: whatever it was, had been a growing thing. As we
Speaker 2: drove through the narrow, winding roads of the Pyrenees toward
Speaker 2: the tiny state of Andorra, I tried to forget what
Speaker 2: had happened, tried to ignore the mounting wall of silence
Speaker 2: between us. Something in that silence told me that Joyce's
Speaker 2: fears were greater than mine.
Speaker 6: Why are you stopping here?
Speaker 2: The road forks up there? Just ahead. I want to
Speaker 2: look at the maps. I'm not sure which way we're
Speaker 2: supposed to turn.
Speaker 6: Aren't there any towns? Wow? Are we ever going to
Speaker 6: see people and buildings again?
Speaker 2: You can't be too far from Mandora lo' vieha, but
Speaker 2: a doubt of this road Roa's even on the map.
Speaker 6: Then let's go back, Alan, if we don't know what's
Speaker 6: a hit, let's go back till I read our Barcelona anywhere?
Speaker 2: But here there was a long way back, Joyce.
Speaker 6: I don't care this place, all tangle wooden pines, the
Speaker 6: narrow paths that twist and wander.
Speaker 2: We're not lost, darling, Then where are we?
Speaker 6: I don't like it, Alan, It's just a wild, lonely place,
Speaker 6: and it frightens me. And I beg you to take
Speaker 6: me out of here.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, darling, don't worry.
Speaker 6: I know what's behind me, the head it's all unknown.
Speaker 6: I'm afraid of what's a hit.
Speaker 2: You mustn't be afraid, Joyce. I won't let anything happen.
Speaker 2: We wound steadily higher and higher through the wooded Pyrenees.
Speaker 2: We met no one and saw no one. Andra is
Speaker 2: a small estate, only a hundred and ninety two square
Speaker 2: miles in all, but that morning it was an endless
Speaker 2: stretching climbing no man's land, a lonely place with no
Speaker 2: name and no face. Then finally we came upon it.
Speaker 2: Not a town, really a village with one great house
Speaker 2: and a few smaller ones perched there on the rocky ledge.
Speaker 4: It looked like.
Speaker 2: The last stop before oblivion.
Speaker 6: It's so quiet. I wonder where the people are.
Speaker 2: I wonder if there are people.
Speaker 4: It's not a town at all.
Speaker 2: Perhaps we should have turned back when you said to.
Speaker 6: Look look at the window?
Speaker 2: Where?
Speaker 8: Why?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 6: I saw a face in the window. Oh there's some
Speaker 6: one here, allan some.
Speaker 2: No, you don't want to stay here, darling. Even if
Speaker 2: we find some one, this isn't the place for us.
Speaker 2: Now look you.
Speaker 6: See the door is opening, allan, someone is here.
Speaker 2: But joys, this isn't it.
Speaker 4: You have lost your way.
Speaker 2: If we were told there was a town here, there is. Well?
Speaker 4: Is this all here is to it? We do not
Speaker 4: require more?
Speaker 6: Please, I'm tired, I need resk. Can't we stay here?
Speaker 2: Is there a hotel any place where we can get
Speaker 2: a room?
Speaker 9: That is what your eyes tell you?
Speaker 2: That is? And no more? Is there a larger town
Speaker 2: anywhere near here?
Speaker 9: You are in Andorra. Nothing is far away, nothing is
Speaker 9: easily reached.
Speaker 2: What's the matter with you people? But you always talking riddles?
Speaker 2: Can't you answer questions? Can't you ask?
Speaker 6: Please? We must stay here somehow, just a while. I
Speaker 6: need to stop a while.
Speaker 4: She is your wife.
Speaker 2: Yes, there is no hotel, I see there isn't This
Speaker 2: house has made rooms, but we are a large family.
Speaker 6: Please please understand me. I've got to stay here. I
Speaker 6: can't wind around any more narrow trails. I've got to
Speaker 6: stop and rest. Can't you understand? Can I make either
Speaker 6: of you understand?
Speaker 2: Darning, It's it's all right. We'll find a room. You'll
Speaker 2: rest now. You mustn't worry, Joyce.
Speaker 6: I must sleep. I must no matter what happens, I
Speaker 6: must sleep.
Speaker 2: Can't you do something? Lady?
Speaker 4: You come woman?
Speaker 2: Almost as soon as he called, a squat little woman
Speaker 2: appeared in the doorway. They exchanged only a look, and
Speaker 2: then she came and led Joyce into the house. At
Speaker 2: first I thought the man meant for me to stay outside.
Speaker 2: He moved as if to stop me from following. Then
Speaker 2: he stepped back and I walked into the house. Joyce
Speaker 2: was stretched out on the bed. When I got there,
Speaker 2: the bed was the only piece of furniture in the room.
Speaker 6: Hmm, it's nice, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Ellen, It's a room, a bed. I wish it were more.
Speaker 6: Oh, I'm so tired.
Speaker 2: Yes, now you go to sleep. When you wake up,
Speaker 2: as soon as you feel like it, I'll take you
Speaker 2: to Andra la vieha.
Speaker 4: Yes, when I wake up, sleep well.
Speaker 10: Darning Mm, she's sleep or she's very tired.
Speaker 9: The woman says she trembled.
Speaker 4: The woman says she is full of fear.
Speaker 2: I don't suppose there's a doctor anywhere around here. We
Speaker 2: have no need but doctor. My wife is ill. We
Speaker 2: have need for a doctor.
Speaker 4: You will not find one here.
Speaker 2: I know, I know. Hey, hey, hey, get away from
Speaker 2: that car. Go on, now, get get away from get
Speaker 2: away from it.
Speaker 4: You are the intruder, not they. I can leave the
Speaker 4: car along.
Speaker 11: I have.
Speaker 2: Who are they?
Speaker 9: My sons, my brothers, their sons. We are the family here.
Speaker 9: We are called Balira, We ten sheep and our own affairs.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry, I'm worried about my wife. I didn't
Speaker 2: mean to shop.
Speaker 9: At Most of the time, our mountains protect us. We
Speaker 9: do not like intruders.
Speaker 2: It is not so bad in winter.
Speaker 9: The snows fall deep into the passes, seal them and
Speaker 9: keep the intruders.
Speaker 2: We are not intruders. We don't want to be here,
Speaker 2: We don't mean the here, and I promise you we
Speaker 2: won't be here.
Speaker 9: Sometimes the intruders come to hide in our mountains, to
Speaker 9: be lost from the world. Always the intruders are troubled people,
Speaker 9: full of fears and discontent. The worst of their world
Speaker 9: they find their way to anddor.
Speaker 2: I walked away from him along the crude cobble of
Speaker 2: the village path, away from the great house and the
Speaker 2: smaller ones, and everywhere the sons, the brothers and their
Speaker 2: sons of Valia watched me with silent distrust. I walked
Speaker 2: to the rocky pinnacle that was the edge of the village,
Speaker 2: and beyond, as far as I could see, the awesome
Speaker 2: Pyrenees reached higher and higher, like a great wall, closing
Speaker 2: out the rest of the world. I went back to
Speaker 2: the house where Joyce slept.
Speaker 9: The woman is with her, she called out, and the
Speaker 9: woman went into her I shouldn't have left her alone.
Speaker 2: I must wait. The woman has brought her quiet. That
Speaker 2: is enough. I wouldn't try to keep me out here
Speaker 2: if I how is she woman?
Speaker 4: She is quiet?
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: The woman would not leave her so if she were
Speaker 4: not choice.
Speaker 2: Oh Joyce, darling, he said, you're gone. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: only for a little while, only while you slept.
Speaker 6: Don't don't come any closer, Oh Joyce, what is it?
Speaker 6: Please leave me alone. I want you to leave me alone.
Speaker 2: We're going to get out of this place, Darling together.
Speaker 8: No, no, I won't go.
Speaker 2: I won't. We'll find the right road. It can't be far,
Speaker 2: and I promise you, darling, everything will be all right.
Speaker 2: We won't come here again. Ever.
Speaker 6: Why don't you listen? I talk to you and you
Speaker 6: don't listen. I'm not going with you. You can't make
Speaker 6: me go with you.
Speaker 2: No, no, Joyce, wait wait, Joyce was clinging to the woman.
Speaker 2: Valera stepped in front of them as I came back
Speaker 2: to the front room, and beside him. From every corner
Speaker 2: of the room, the rest of the Valera men began
Speaker 2: to form a wall between Joyce and me, A wall
Speaker 2: of men, silent men with staring distrust in their eyes.
Speaker 4: What are you trying to do?
Speaker 2: Cat? You see she's sick. I'm gonta get her out
Speaker 2: of here. Don't you know that I'm taking her with me.
Speaker 12: And the whole lot of you can't stop me.
Speaker 3: You are listening to The Dark Wall Tonight's presentation of Escape.
Speaker 3: One advantage in having several radios about the house is
Speaker 3: that they make it possible for housewives to listen while
Speaker 3: they work a kitchen, said, another in the living room,
Speaker 3: perhaps a third in the bedroom. Keep them all tuned
Speaker 3: into CBS Radio for our great roster of daytime dramatic stories.
Speaker 3: And now Escape and the second act of The Dark Wall.
Speaker 2: I aroused from a sleep that was tortured and full
Speaker 2: of pain. The bright afternoon sun shone in a haze
Speaker 2: about me. When my vision cut through it, I saw
Speaker 2: nothing my eyes had seen before. I was in my
Speaker 2: own car, pulled to one side of a road that
Speaker 2: was wider than any I had seen for days, and
Speaker 2: not far in the distance. I could hear the approach
Speaker 2: of other cars, but none were yet in my view.
Speaker 2: I got out, stood in the roadway. For all the
Speaker 2: stiff pain of me, it felt good to be part
Speaker 2: of the world again. But then I remembered Joyce and
Speaker 2: the Wall of Valerimen, and I was lost and lonely, sick.
Speaker 13: Hey, you should not walk in the middle of the road.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I shouldn't only.
Speaker 13: You were heard an accident.
Speaker 2: I'm all right, I just don't know where I am.
Speaker 4: What road is this in Andorra? You know that I
Speaker 4: know that.
Speaker 14: Then straight ahead on this road the direction your car
Speaker 14: is pointing no more than four kilometers lies the capital
Speaker 14: Andra la Vieha.
Speaker 2: Straight ahead, and.
Speaker 14: I promise I have just come through there myself.
Speaker 4: You are sure you are right not here.
Speaker 2: I'm much better now. Do you know this country well
Speaker 2: or well enough to drive.
Speaker 4: Through it quickly? My home is in Spain.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't know a village near here, maybe a small
Speaker 2: village where everyone is called Valira.
Speaker 13: No, I would not know it.
Speaker 14: There are many such villages in Andorra. If you can
Speaker 14: find them, I must find it, perhaps in Andre la Vieha.
Speaker 2: Perhaps my hopes were high for Andorra la Veekhan. There
Speaker 2: would be answers for all my questions, be concerned and
Speaker 2: help and interest. I told myself these things to keep
Speaker 2: my mind from filling itself with joyce, to keep the
Speaker 2: pain quiet. Some corner of my mind held the memory
Speaker 2: of all that had happened in the house of Valera.
Speaker 2: I could not be sure. I wanted to remember.
Speaker 8: I do not see why you have come here to me.
Speaker 2: I didn't know any place else to go. I need
Speaker 2: so much help. I thought surely the police could do
Speaker 2: something there, a crime. No, my wife is ill, very ill.
Speaker 2: She's with strange people in a strange village. I've got
Speaker 2: to find help for her and go back there.
Speaker 8: And why do you not do this? Why do you
Speaker 8: buy their meal?
Speaker 2: I've told you, will you try to understand me. I
Speaker 2: don't know where the village is. I don't think it's
Speaker 2: far away, but I don't know where it is.
Speaker 8: It does a name, David.
Speaker 4: I don't know that.
Speaker 2: The people there are called Valera. The river cover No,
Speaker 2: I saw no river.
Speaker 4: No, not there.
Speaker 2: It was high on a rocky crest of a mountain,
Speaker 2: just a few houses. You must know where it is.
Speaker 8: You were there, yes, this morning, Then you must know
Speaker 8: where it is.
Speaker 2: No, I don't. I don't have any idea where it is.
Speaker 8: But you were there this morning. Now you are here, Puck.
Speaker 4: I don't know how I got there.
Speaker 2: Can I make you understand that?
Speaker 8: I think none of this is important.
Speaker 2: That's all important to me. My wife is ill. She
Speaker 2: needs care.
Speaker 8: You tell me that. Perhaps then you would tell me
Speaker 8: why you left her. Any strange village you do not know,
Speaker 8: with strange people you do not know.
Speaker 2: I didn't leave her.
Speaker 8: But she is there and you are here.
Speaker 2: You won't even try to help me, help.
Speaker 8: You, help you?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 8: Find it down? Where you have been and I have
Speaker 8: never been?
Speaker 2: All right, all right, I can't talk anymore.
Speaker 8: Daisy hotel across the plaza. You will find other intruders there,
Speaker 8: among them a doctor.
Speaker 2: I wasn't sure I had heard him clearly, but there
Speaker 2: were no questions left in me. I stumbled out into
Speaker 2: the glaring sunlight again, steadied myself against a pillar, and
Speaker 2: when I could make out the hotel across the plaza,
Speaker 2: I walked there, held together. I know by the thin
Speaker 2: strand of hope that I would find the doctor and
Speaker 2: they would be helpful.
Speaker 4: Joyce, Yeah, drink it down.
Speaker 2: Oh hey, whiskey, it's good, whiskey, you need it? Oh,
Speaker 2: h good? It helps you do understand doctor, that I
Speaker 2: have not come about me.
Speaker 4: Or your wife. I know I understand that. Oh I'm glad.
Speaker 2: Someone. Does you think the priest can help us? You
Speaker 2: think he'll be able to find the village or.
Speaker 7: The pottery will direct us there if anyone can. I. Meanwhile,
Speaker 7: there's time. Tell me about your wife as much as
Speaker 7: you can, as much as you know of her illness.
Speaker 2: I've called it illness. I suppose it's that fear. Unreasonable
Speaker 2: fear is an illness, isn't it? Oh?
Speaker 4: Indeed it is? Yes? Has she known these fears long?
Speaker 2: I don't know. We've been married less than a month.
Speaker 2: I knew were only a short time before that. No,
Speaker 2: it was all pretty sudden. She was alone, I was alone,
Speaker 2: and then we were together.
Speaker 4: Did you were happier together?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, very happy, very much in love.
Speaker 4: Until this strangeness came over her.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, that's right. May I please do help us,
Speaker 2: help you? Thank you?
Speaker 7: How was it you described the difference in her, the
Speaker 7: difference in your relationship.
Speaker 2: Like like a wall, a mounting wall of silence.
Speaker 7: And in this silent time of hers she is much different,
Speaker 7: not at all like the girl you married.
Speaker 2: She doesn't even look like herself. Her lovely, gentle face
Speaker 2: contorts into a wild thing, like she was an animal.
Speaker 2: Oh it's ugly, doctor, and so real. I couldn't imagine that,
Speaker 2: could I?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 7: I don't believe you could she was like that early
Speaker 7: this morning when she tried to kill you.
Speaker 2: She kept saying that she had to kill me, that
Speaker 2: she wanted to kill me, and all the while she
Speaker 2: was so frightened, so very frightened.
Speaker 4: But you know what frightened her? Do you know any
Speaker 4: reason why she should want to kill you?
Speaker 2: I thought she must be afraid of me. She'd have
Speaker 2: no reason to be, but I thought that must be it.
Speaker 2: I asked her, and she said it isn't you. I
Speaker 2: love you, Oh, poor darling. If she said that after
Speaker 2: she tried to kill you, almost immediately afterwards, it's a
Speaker 2: complete contradiction, I know, But that's the way it is,
Speaker 2: as if Joyce were two persons, two directly opposite persons.
Speaker 4: That may be precisely the case.
Speaker 7: You know, I don't understand two persons, one almost entirely good,
Speaker 7: gentle kind, the other almost entirely evil, terrifying, menacing fiendish
Speaker 7: at times, two persons occupying one body. That's schizophrenia.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, not joice doctor who I'd have to
Speaker 2: be sure, of course, But from what you said now,
Speaker 2: still i'd have to see her, talk with her or
Speaker 2: there are many steps to take.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 4: The important thing now is to see her as soon
Speaker 4: as possible.
Speaker 2: Schizophrenia. That's hopeless, isn't it. I mean, there's no cure,
Speaker 2: is there?
Speaker 7: Where it depends largely, I should say, on her along
Speaker 7: these two personalities within her have been warring one with another,
Speaker 7: the good and.
Speaker 4: The evil, and the moral and the immoral.
Speaker 7: If the cleavage is minor at this point, if the
Speaker 7: breach between her two cells, as it were, is not
Speaker 7: yet great, and there is a measure of hope, but
Speaker 7: you couldn't go on this way, and definitely being too
Speaker 7: people mustn't one of herselves, as you say, win this war.
Speaker 7: If it progresses unchecked, well, then yes, ones self will
Speaker 7: emerge triumphant. She's a poor war word here, for in
Speaker 7: such an instance, the evil almost inevitably triumphs.
Speaker 2: Over the good. Can we go to her now?
Speaker 4: Yes, I'm sure that party will have our directions.
Speaker 2: And the priest's directions were perfect because I'd assumed the
Speaker 2: village was not far away. But the drive was an
Speaker 2: eternity for me. The strain of the last days was
Speaker 2: beginning to tell. I was wound tight and not by
Speaker 2: all that happened, and torn deep by all the doctors said.
Speaker 2: I stopped outside the great house of Valira. The doctor
Speaker 2: touched my arm.
Speaker 7: Perhaps perhaps it's best that I see her alone at first.
Speaker 2: Or but but I've got to see her.
Speaker 4: Oh I know, and you will.
Speaker 7: But you don't know what happened here before you left
Speaker 7: the last you remember, she was terrified of you.
Speaker 4: I'll send for you soon, and.
Speaker 2: I promise tell her I love her, Will you, Oh
Speaker 2: indeed I will.
Speaker 7: Oh Well, there's one thing I neglected to tell you,
Speaker 7: one important facet of this. If we find what we
Speaker 7: fear most, you must take this comfort to your heart.
Speaker 7: The girl you love, who loves you. There's no knowledge
Speaker 7: whatsoever of her other self.
Speaker 4: Thank you, doctor, Yes, you ponder that I shan't belong.
Speaker 2: I watched the house door close behind him, and there,
Speaker 2: in the high quiet alone, I took the comfort he
Speaker 2: offered me, the choice I loved loved me. That was all.
Speaker 2: It was really all in the world I needed to know.
Speaker 9: You will not go in there, the woman, the doctor.
Speaker 9: They have brought her quiet again.
Speaker 15: I am going in. I will kill any or all
Speaker 15: of you who stand in the way.
Speaker 2: Move, move, fire anyone else want his head bashed in good.
Speaker 2: You'll make a real mess of things, won't we come on.
Speaker 12: I like the cracksculls. What's the matter. Come on, keep
Speaker 12: me from that door. Make one little move and I'll
Speaker 12: tear your loose.
Speaker 16: Men of honor, I see where is she? Don't look
Speaker 16: at all of your crawling, shrinking cords.
Speaker 2: What are you, gentlemen? You make me sick?
Speaker 4: More of you.
Speaker 2: I killed him.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 2: He was a gentleman, dear gentle Allan. He won't be
Speaker 2: with us anymore.
Speaker 7: Please, somebody do something easy enough, somebody will come on.
Speaker 17: Hell, I'll tell you, Joyce, but I.
Speaker 4: But I told him, and you must take this comfort
Speaker 4: to your heart. Alan. The man you loved, loved you
Speaker 4: very much. He didn't know this other self ever existed.
Speaker 2: There were faces all around me, a wall.
Speaker 11: Of faces, senseless staring faces, and beyond them a strange
Speaker 11: girl wept softly, all strangers, strangers staring.
Speaker 2: At me, and I stared back at the wall.
Speaker 3: Under the direction of Norman MacDonell, Escape Has Brought You
Speaker 3: the Dark Wall by Kathleen Hight, starring John Dayner with
Speaker 3: Joyce mc cluskey. Featured in the cast were Ben Wright,
Speaker 3: Edgar Berrier, Nestor Piva, and Fritz Feld. You're announcer George Walsh.
Speaker 3: The special music for Escape is composed and conducted by
Speaker 3: Leith Stephens. Next week, you are.
Speaker 1: In a farmhouse on the southern coast of England, the
Speaker 1: autumn countryside around you desolate and bleak, and you know
Speaker 1: that in the dusk outside, waiting patiently for you, silently
Speaker 1: watching for you, is an enemy from whom there may
Speaker 1: be no escape.
Speaker 3: So listen next week when Escape brings you Daphne de
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Speaker 3: both heard Saturday nights, will be moving to Monday evenings
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Speaker 3: Follow the latest crime clues and true crime smashing drama
Speaker 3: on Gangbusters this Saturday night, and don't miss U s
Speaker 3: Marshal Matt Dillon's latest Western adventure. You're on gun Smoke
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