WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:04.599 Did you have too many Easter eggs today? Dreaming about 2 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:08.400 that vacation you can't take yet I want to get 3 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:09.240 away from it all. 4 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:16.640 We offer you escape. 5 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:25.440 You are groping your ways slowly through the dark hold 6 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:29.679 of a ship at sea, moving carefully step by step, 7 00:00:30.679 --> 00:00:35.200 searching intently for something you dread to find, because you 8 00:00:35.439 --> 00:00:39.679 know that this ship carries a cargo of death. 9 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:52.679 Escape designed to free you from the four walls of 10 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:55.280 today for a half hour of high adventure. 11 00:01:00.439 --> 00:01:03.640 Tonight, at your request, we bring back one of our 12 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:07.560 most popular escape stories. We escaped to a harbor front 13 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:11.439 in Venezuela and a grim voyage which started from there, 14 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:16.280 As told by Martin Storm and his gripping tale, a 15 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:18.840 shipment of mute fate. 16 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:35.879 I stopped on the larf at Laguira, looked up the 17 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:39.079 gangplank toward the liner chang k standing there quietly at 18 00:01:39.079 --> 00:01:43.000 a moorings. The day was warm under a bright tropic sun. 19 00:01:43.439 --> 00:01:47.359 The harbor beyond the ship lay drowsy and silent. But 20 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:49.799 all at once, in the midst of those peaceful surroundings, 21 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:53.599 a cold chill grip me, and I shivered with sudden dread. 22 00:01:54.439 --> 00:01:56.480 Dread of the thing I was doing, was about to 23 00:01:56.560 --> 00:02:04.680 do too much. It happened to turn back. Now I 24 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:08.319 had gone too far to stop. I set the box 25 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:10.560 down on the edge of the wharf, placed it carefully 26 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:13.360 so as to be in plain sight and within gunshot 27 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:16.199 of the Captain's bridge. I knew what I was going 28 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:18.879 to do, but I couldn't forget that a certain pair 29 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:22.840 of beady eyes were watching every move I made. Eyes 30 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:26.439 had never blinked and never close, just watched and waited. 31 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:31.639 I turned and started up the gang point. Who look 32 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:32.439 startled me? 33 00:02:32.560 --> 00:02:36.039 Sir, Why it's mister Warner. 34 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:39.080 Hello, mother Willis that's the best looking stewardess on the 35 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:39.719 seventh seats. 36 00:02:41.479 --> 00:02:46.520 I'm fine, mister Warner. I guess i'd better run longer, 37 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:47.960 get on my should. 38 00:02:48.159 --> 00:02:50.879 Now wait a minute, that's a fine greeting after two months. 39 00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:53.080 It's just that time so busy. 40 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:55.919 I don't believe a word of it. Sailing days tomorrow. 41 00:02:56.199 --> 00:02:59.879 You're simply avoiding me. That's oh no, really, I'm not. 42 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:01.719 And on the trip down from New York you said 43 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:03.000 I was your favorite passenger, but. 44 00:03:03.039 --> 00:03:03.800 I'm only here. 45 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:08.360 What's that you're carrying your apron what's nothing? Just just 46 00:03:08.439 --> 00:03:13.680 supplies supplies. Let's have a look. No, please, it's a cat. 47 00:03:13.879 --> 00:03:17.680 It's Claire and mister Warner. Mister Bowman said I had 48 00:03:17.719 --> 00:03:18.719 to leave her Ashuran. 49 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:20.479 I just couldn't. 50 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:22.840 It was mister Bowman, the new second mate. 51 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:25.800 Claire has been aboard with me for two years, and 52 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:30.240 I just can't live here in a foreign country, especially 53 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:33.759 with her condition so delicate. 54 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:37.719 Not yes, I said, well, I hope you get away 55 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:38.039 with it. 56 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:41.240 You won't tell any one, not. 57 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:43.599 A soul, as a matter of fact, that things don't 58 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:45.919 work out right. We may both end up smuggling. 59 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:54.159 I was happy to have you a board on the 60 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:56.439 trip down two months ago, Christopher, and I'm very glad 61 00:03:56.439 --> 00:03:58.039 you're coming along with us on the run back to 62 00:03:58.120 --> 00:03:58.479 New York. 63 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:01.280 Thanks Captain Wood there is that's one thing though. I'm 64 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:03.360 having a little trouble with the customs men here and 65 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:03.800 I want. 66 00:04:03.759 --> 00:04:06.000 I can't do it, Christopher. I just came to your 67 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:07.639 father this morning and told him might have done it 68 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:10.719 for if I possibly could he sent a request from 69 00:04:10.759 --> 00:04:11.199 New York. 70 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:13.960 You know, yeah, I thought he would. I wired him 71 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:15.000 from upriver last week. 72 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:16.959 I hated to refuse, but it's absolutely out. 73 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:17.360 Of the question. 74 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:19.240 Captain what I'm afraid I don't follow you. 75 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:22.319 Responsibility to the passengers, and we have women and children 76 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:25.319 aboard on a liner. The safety of the passengers comes 77 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:26.160 ahead of anything else. 78 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:29.360 But with proper recaution, might happen what. I don't know what, 79 00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:31.839 but something might carried worse things. 80 00:04:31.959 --> 00:04:36.000 There isn't anything worse. Any skipper A photo bare me out, No, Christopher, 81 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:37.720 I simply can't take the chance. And that's final. 82 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:49.920 Final. It wasn't final if I could do anything about it. 83 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:52.399 I hadn't come down here to spend two months in 84 00:04:52.439 --> 00:04:54.839 that stinking backcountry and then be stopped on the edge 85 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:59.959 of the wharf two months of it. He rained insight, 86 00:05:00.040 --> 00:05:03.360 it's malaria. I gone clear and pass. They had waters 87 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:07.360 of the Orinoco, traveled through country. Wherever you step along 88 00:05:07.399 --> 00:05:13.480 the jungle trail might be the last one. Santees, better 89 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:16.600 start looking for a place to camp. Be dark in 90 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:17.120 a little while. 91 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:23.720 Very soon we camp on rocks by water. This very 92 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:26.199 bad country, this very bad country. 93 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:29.800 We've been saying it for ten days now. Very bad country. 94 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:33.079 Is very bad cont skipping. 95 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:35.240 For all of luck we've had so far, might as 96 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:36.399 well be central. 97 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:39.839 Partners, I understand. 98 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:45.240 Never mind what's the matter now, Dante, what's wrong? 99 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:47.759 Puss? 100 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:58.240 Bushmaster, the deadliest snake in the world. Bushmaster Latin name 101 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:02.480 was like cases mutan mute faith. It lay there in 102 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:04.720 the center of the path, a ten foot length of 103 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:08.439 silent death, coiled loosely in an ambulent lope, ready to 104 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:12.560 strike violently at the least movement. Here was the one 105 00:06:12.600 --> 00:06:15.759 snake that would go after any animal that walked, or 106 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:19.920 any man that lay there and watched us, not moving, 107 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:25.079 not afraid, ready for anything. The splotch of its color 108 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:27.839 stood out like some horrible, gaudy floor mat, lying there 109 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:30.800 on the brown background of the jungle, waiting for someone 110 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:33.600 to step on it. Here was what I'd come two 111 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:42.199 thousand miles for a bushmaster. The natives captured the snake, 112 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:44.120 and Sanchez brought it to me in a rubber bag. 113 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:46.240 He was shaking so hard I thought for a moment 114 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:47.199 the thing had struck him. 115 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:52.120 One thing, you make sure, Senor Wonder not turn him 116 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:57.759 loose in Venezuela, because he know the one who catch him, and. 117 00:06:57.759 --> 00:06:59.439 He know where I live. 118 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:01.360 Sanchez, I'll keep an eye on him. 119 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:05.600 He also know you pay me to catch him. All 120 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:09.800 the time he watch and wait, you'll no forget toch 121 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:21.879 and your warner because he no forget not ever. 122 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:21.639 We'll have to go and through all that trouble and 123 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:24.959 danger and laying out fifteen hundred bucks. I wasn't gonna 124 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:27.680 let a pigheaded ship captains stop me at the last minute, 125 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:29.879 at least not as long as the cables was still 126 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:33.360 in operation between Laguire and New York. I morning, Captain, 127 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:35.079 what the boy at the hotel said? You wanted to 128 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:35.399 see me? 129 00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:38.439 That's right, Christophers, Thanks Jims. 130 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:40.680 You went willing matters time. The way we lifted me yesterday. 131 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:42.839 I'm sorry to go your head, Captain Wood, but I 132 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:45.319 had to Yaaam sent me a long way to get 133 00:07:45.319 --> 00:07:47.399 that snake. I'm not going to be stopped by red tape. 134 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:49.399 This will be the only live bush Master I ever 135 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:50.519 brought to the United States. 136 00:07:51.160 --> 00:07:55.519 Yes, if I had my way order the orders got 137 00:07:55.560 --> 00:07:58.639 a cave up from the head office this morning. All right, Christophers, 138 00:07:58.639 --> 00:07:59.839 of course we talk about precaution. 139 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:01.120 I'll hand it any way. 140 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:01.959 You say it's got to. 141 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:03.759 Have a stronger box that creates too flimsy. 142 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:06.360 Well, it's stronger than it looks. A wire screen on top. 143 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:08.920 It hold a wildcat. But anyway, I bought a heavy 144 00:08:08.920 --> 00:08:10.879 sea chatt this morning. We'll put the crate inside. 145 00:08:10.600 --> 00:08:13.600 Of its right got lock on it a heavy pad lot. 146 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:16.000 It's fixed so the lid can be propped open a 147 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:17.000 crack without unlocking it. 148 00:08:17.240 --> 00:08:19.319 Snake's got the have air in dirty weather, that lid 149 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:21.199 has to stay shut out. I will take no chances. 150 00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:22.800 Fair enough, We'll. 151 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:24.959 Keep the thing in my inside cabin where I sleep. 152 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:27.639 You can't have it in the baggage room, and nobody 153 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:28.800 on board is to know about it. 154 00:08:29.160 --> 00:08:32.240 If you say, captain, we won't have any trouble. After all, 155 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:35.559 it's only an animal. It doesn't have any magical powers. 156 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:38.879 I saw a bushmaster in the zoo at Caracas once. 157 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:42.840 They had it in a glass cage with double walls. 158 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:46.399 They were moved, just lay there and looked at you 159 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:49.519 as long as you were inside, enough to give a 160 00:08:49.559 --> 00:08:50.200 man the creeps. 161 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:52.480 You know that a bushmaster at the Karrakas zoo. 162 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:53.679 They don't know. 163 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:57.200 They found the glass broken one morning and the snake gone. 164 00:08:57.240 --> 00:09:01.279 The night watchmen dead. They never learned exactly what happened. 165 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:03.559 Well, I watched them. Must have broken the glass by 166 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:05.200 accident somewhere the. 167 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:11.720 Way they figured it. The glass was broken from the inside. 168 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:15.519 We sailed in four hours. 169 00:09:21.639 --> 00:09:24.120 End of the Caribbean, with perfect weather and the sea 170 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:25.039 as smooth as an. 171 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:25.639 In little lake. 172 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:29.200 The barometer dropped a little on the third day, but 173 00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:31.960 cleared up overnight, left nothing worse than a heavy swell. 174 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:36.240 But in spite of the calm season pleasant weather, I 175 00:09:36.279 --> 00:09:40.720 found myself feeling more and more often a anomenous foreboding. 176 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:44.840 I was developing an almost unnatural fear of that snake. 177 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:48.279 Stay clear. The pasage has pretty much got the habit 178 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:51.080 of dropping into Captain Wood's quarters several times a day, 179 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:55.919 kept the heavy box underneath his berth, approached it quietly 180 00:09:55.960 --> 00:10:00.720 and shine my flashlight through the open crack. Once could 181 00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:04.480 I catch at twelve foot devil asleep or even excited. 182 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:08.320 You'd be lying there, half coiled, his head raised a little, 183 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:14.159 staring out of those beady black eyes, waiting still be 184 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:17.600 like that when I turned away to leave. Maybe that's 185 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:22.960 what bothered me, That horrible and constant, watchful waiting the 186 00:10:23.080 --> 00:10:27.639 name of Heaven was he waiting for? Well, I know there, 187 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:30.159 mister Woner, Oh how are you? Mother? 188 00:10:30.200 --> 00:10:33.679 Willis my but you and the Captain spend an awful 189 00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:37.679 lot of time around this cabin. I'm beginning to think 190 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:41.000 that two of you must have some guilty your secret. 191 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:44.399 No, no, no, no, nothing like that. Mother Willis. I 192 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:47.240 don't know about Captain would, but I certainly don't have 193 00:10:47.240 --> 00:11:04.399 any guilty secret. Well, she's running quite a swell out there, 194 00:11:04.399 --> 00:11:04.960 mister Bowman. 195 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:07.279 It's a little heavy, all right. Mister Warner. As the 196 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:09.240 storm passed through to the west of us yesterday when 197 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:10.360 the glass dropped. 198 00:11:10.159 --> 00:11:12.120 You think it missed us then? Huh yeah, that's what 199 00:11:12.279 --> 00:11:15.360 the mate figures. You're stirred up some water though, This 200 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:18.080 will put half the passengers and have bunks, o Kate. 201 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:21.600 Mother willis a position. Hey, look at the size of 202 00:11:21.639 --> 00:11:22.039 that way. 203 00:11:22.200 --> 00:11:24.440 Huh great, gee, hospat we're goin to take it on 204 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:25.039 the port pile. 205 00:11:25.080 --> 00:11:41.720 Hang on, that was a freak if there ever was one. 206 00:11:42.519 --> 00:11:44.039 Not another way about size and sight. 207 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:45.960 Oh you see him like that sometimes even in a 208 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:48.240 calm sea. I ain't gonna get below, mister Winner. That 209 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:50.600 water probably did some real damage in the officers deck. 210 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:52.840 Yes, what did you say? 211 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:55.000 A real companion way was open on the port side 212 00:11:55.080 --> 00:11:57.039 the bridge. Heavens must have taken a pretty bad smashing 213 00:11:57.120 --> 00:11:59.720 up the right below the something. 214 00:11:59.519 --> 00:12:05.639 Wrong, mister No, No, nothink at all, mister Bauman, at 215 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:13.200 least I hope not. I didn't stop to find Captain Wood. 216 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:15.279 Of course, I know it was only one chance in 217 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:17.759 a thousand, but the chances against that freak wave were 218 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:20.000 one in a thousand and two. I stumbled down the 219 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:22.279 companion way and along the passage of the captain's cabin. 220 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:26.080 Oh, come in, mister Warner. 221 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:27.879 Mother willis mi. 222 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:32.240 Miss cabin and mess trying to get some of these things. 223 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:32.720 Out to dry. 224 00:12:32.840 --> 00:12:35.919 Yeah, well, I just wanted to where's that box that 225 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:37.000 was under the captain's bunk? 226 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:40.600 Oh? That I just threw it out on the deck. 227 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:45.080 What the desk over there slid into it? 228 00:12:45.039 --> 00:12:47.519 It was all smash, But the small box inside of it? 229 00:12:47.519 --> 00:12:48.080 What happened to it? 230 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:48.720 Oh? 231 00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:55.559 They were both splintered, mister Woner, broke wide open. Mister Warner, 232 00:12:55.639 --> 00:12:56.879 your fight as a sheep. 233 00:12:57.000 --> 00:13:01.240 Mother willis go find Captain Wood to come down here immediately, 234 00:13:02.080 --> 00:13:05.000 hopes mister Wilnert. I'll they'll tell him right away. 235 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:06.919 I can finish up here right. 236 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:13.919 Pulled open the top draw of the bureau inside took 237 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:17.080 out the Captain's flashlight and loaded pistol. Whither Willis had 238 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:18.720 left a mop standing by the door. I put my 239 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:20.360 foot on the head of it and snapped off the handle. 240 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:23.879 Every move I made turned into slow motion. I could 241 00:13:23.879 --> 00:13:27.159 hear my own heart beating slowly. I started to search 242 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:31.000 the cabin. Sudden heaps of clothing and furnishings were scattered 243 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:34.000 around on the wet black floor. I punched it them 244 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:37.440 one at a time, holding the gun cocked flashlight, pointing 245 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:42.519 along the stick nothing. I worked around the room, throwing 246 00:13:42.519 --> 00:13:44.360 the light into the dark corners back of the desk, 247 00:13:44.440 --> 00:13:48.240 under the bunk. Wherever I turned, I could feel those cold, 248 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:53.639 unblinking eyes at my back, watching, waiting. Using the stick, 249 00:13:53.679 --> 00:13:57.399 I pushed open the closet door and threw the light inside. Carefully, 250 00:13:57.440 --> 00:13:58.960 I poked at the boxes. 251 00:13:58.600 --> 00:13:59.440 And junk on the floor. 252 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:04.919 Snake was not in the closet. Inch by inch, I 253 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:09.240 covered the entire cabin, and only then a horrible realization 254 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:13.279 began to dawn on me. Captain Wood will just told me, 255 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:17.159 held Christopher, it's happened. That's right, it's happened. 256 00:14:17.480 --> 00:14:19.799 As you found the gun. We better start searching the cabin. 257 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:22.320 Here, Captain Wood, I just finished searching. 258 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:28.639 The women, kids, and that thing loose on board a 259 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:33.440 thousand places for it to hide. Heaven help us, Christopher. 260 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:41.320 I know you're starting to anybody now, gentlemen. I didn't 261 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:43.240 call you in here the pass judgment. The thing's done, 262 00:14:43.240 --> 00:14:46.039 and that's that. What we ever got to do is 263 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:47.600 to make up our minds how we're going to handle it. 264 00:14:47.519 --> 00:14:49.039 It to be easier if we didn't have to tell 265 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:51.919 the passengers and crew. I've seen panics on board liners before. 266 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:54.279 Yes, I agree with you, mister Bowman, but I don't 267 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:56.080 quite see how we can avoid it. They've got a 268 00:14:56.159 --> 00:14:58.960 right to know as long as that snakes lose everybody 269 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:00.960 on board in the same day, and they all ought 270 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:02.039 to know about Captain Wood. 271 00:15:02.080 --> 00:15:04.240 That thing is twelve feet long. It can't simply crawl 272 00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:06.519 into a crack. Why don't we make a quick search 273 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:08.240 of the whole ship before we spread any alarm. 274 00:15:08.399 --> 00:15:09.480 I've thought of that, Christopher. 275 00:15:09.679 --> 00:15:11.080 As far as I can see, the only place it 276 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:12.720 couldn't be is in the boilers or on top of 277 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:13.480 the galley stove. 278 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:15.360 It might have crawled overboard. 279 00:15:15.399 --> 00:15:17.320 If you can't count on that, you've got to assume 280 00:15:17.320 --> 00:15:18.279 it's on the ship. Somewhere. 281 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:20.600 Yeah, and that could be anywhere now, coil a rope 282 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:21.639 on a dick chair. 283 00:15:21.600 --> 00:15:23.440 Iro bucket, or in a pile of clothes. 284 00:15:23.240 --> 00:15:25.440 Yes, or under some woman's birth or a baby's crib. 285 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:29.279 You've already said it, wish, master, could be anywhere. You've 286 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:30.840 got to do something. We've got to do it fast, 287 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:31.279 all right. 288 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:33.039 I think the best idea is to follow mister warner 289 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:35.519 suggestion to make a quick search first. You agree to that, right, 290 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:37.080 And if we don't find it, we'll have to warn 291 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:37.840 the passengers. 292 00:15:38.120 --> 00:15:47.360 We've got to find Alone in the dimp baggage room, 293 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:49.519 I went through the same movements as I had earlier 294 00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:53.320 in the captain's cabin. Gun in one hand, flashlight in 295 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:57.159 the other, poking into every dark corner, behind every trunk 296 00:15:57.200 --> 00:16:00.440 and box. Since the baggage room was empty, keep the 297 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:03.799 gun cocked and ready. The rest of those poor devils 298 00:16:03.799 --> 00:16:07.399 were having to do the same thing, fare handed all 299 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:07.960 over the ship. 300 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:10.440 The search one here, now, Stuart, what on earth are 301 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:12.120 you doing rummaging through my cabin? 302 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:13.440 Just checking up man? 303 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:15.639 Well, I'm quite sure there's nothing in here. 304 00:16:15.480 --> 00:16:16.279 That has to be checked. 305 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:18.639 Sorry, man, Captain's orders will only take a few minutes. 306 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:21.000 But I never heard of such things. A passenger simply 307 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:22.559 doesn't have any privacy at all. 308 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:31.399 I've traveled on a lot of different lines. Sorry, Sarah, 309 00:16:31.399 --> 00:16:33.519 I wonder if you mind moving over to the other rail. 310 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:34.840 I'd like to look through these luckers. 311 00:16:35.039 --> 00:16:36.480 Sure, go ahead, that's the matter. 312 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:37.200 You lost something? 313 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:39.639 No, No, just looking things over. 314 00:16:39.840 --> 00:16:41.559 There's nothing in there but life preservers. 315 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:43.559 Yeah, that's right. 316 00:16:43.840 --> 00:16:45.399 You must be getting ready to sink the boat. 317 00:16:46.360 --> 00:16:49.759 Kind of collect the insurance, eh, gonna send us hold 318 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:58.360 on the matter, mah. 319 00:16:58.600 --> 00:17:01.080 But not one of us could find a deadly shape 320 00:17:01.519 --> 00:17:04.920 coiled in some dark corner, are outstretched along a window seat. 321 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:08.119 Not one of us caught a glimpse of that horrid 322 00:17:08.200 --> 00:17:12.640 head with its beady, black, watchful eyes, The thing like 323 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:15.920 waiting out there somewhere along the decks, shaded in the 324 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:21.799 gathering dusk, but where we didn't know. It's nearly dark 325 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:23.480 when we met together again in the chart room. 326 00:17:24.119 --> 00:17:25.799 There's no other way around it. We've risked all the 327 00:17:25.799 --> 00:17:28.279 time we can. We've got to warn the passengers. 328 00:17:28.519 --> 00:17:30.519 Oh we do it, captain and call them all together 329 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:31.119 in the lounge. 330 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:34.720 No anything like that. We'd be asking for a panic. 331 00:17:34.519 --> 00:17:36.119 We'll get one, whether we ask for it or not. 332 00:17:36.680 --> 00:17:38.640 And we pick a few men and go through the 333 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:42.759 cabin decks and them individually inside the canbins. Watch for 334 00:17:42.799 --> 00:17:45.359 any that act like they might cause trouble. We keep 335 00:17:45.359 --> 00:17:48.440 an eye on them, and they'll crew the same way. 336 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:52.119 As soon as you're finished, arm all the deck officers 337 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:55.480 and start searching again. Our only chance of preventing a 338 00:17:55.559 --> 00:17:57.759 riot is to find that damnable snake. 339 00:18:04.279 --> 00:18:07.119 The slow nightmare that followed grew worse by the hour. 340 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:11.599 None of us slept, All the ship's officers not on 341 00:18:11.680 --> 00:18:15.720 duty kept on with that endless search. Passengers locked themselves 342 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:18.519 in their cabins or huddled together in the lounges, knowing 343 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:20.519 all the time at no spot on board could be 344 00:18:20.559 --> 00:18:24.839 called safe. Fear was a heavy fog in the lungs 345 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:27.599 of all of us, and every light on the vessel 346 00:18:27.680 --> 00:18:33.599 burned throughout the night. Morning came brought no relief. Terror 347 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:35.240 and tension mounted by the hour. 348 00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:44.640 Then missus cream stopped getting yourself all woked up and 349 00:18:44.759 --> 00:18:48.599 go back to your cabin. The horrid things probably crawled 350 00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:52.680 over the board that you're paid to say that you 351 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:55.799 don't know, nobody know nigh everything's going to. 352 00:18:55.839 --> 00:18:56.559 Be all right. 353 00:18:56.839 --> 00:18:59.240 Only we can do something, If all of us could, 354 00:18:59.319 --> 00:19:01.519 God only get off, She conumicated. 355 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:04.880 We've got to we've got to get off the ship. 356 00:19:05.160 --> 00:19:06.039 We've got to get away. 357 00:19:06.119 --> 00:19:09.279 Shift ways, mister boler, she's jump. 358 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:13.920 Nice work, mister woman. Get it down to a cabin. 359 00:19:14.279 --> 00:19:15.920 Whatever you do, don't turn her loose. 360 00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:24.680 You never know what it might strike it. 361 00:19:24.720 --> 00:19:26.599 You can't put on a colder, move a chair without 362 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:28.480 risking your life. Something's gotta be done. 363 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:31.079 It might be right here in this lone all right, 364 00:19:31.640 --> 00:19:32.839 better quiet down and take it easy. 365 00:19:32.839 --> 00:19:33.400 Take it easy. 366 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:35.720 You're a great officer. Why don't you do something about it? 367 00:19:35.839 --> 00:19:37.480 That thing might be crawling around here, right on our 368 00:19:37.519 --> 00:19:38.119 feet somewhere. 369 00:19:38.279 --> 00:19:39.480 I shut up. 370 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:40.640 I'm trying to start up. 371 00:19:40.839 --> 00:19:41.720 I got to write, to talk. 372 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:42.640 I don't want to die. 373 00:19:42.799 --> 00:19:43.880 Nobody's gonna tell me what. 374 00:19:50.039 --> 00:19:54.400 The second night passed, morning came around again, a gray 375 00:19:54.400 --> 00:19:58.000 and rainy day that drag passed, and then night came 376 00:19:58.039 --> 00:20:02.880 down again. Third night of the terror. Again, every light burned, 377 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:05.559 the whole ship seed in the throes of incipient panic, 378 00:20:06.680 --> 00:20:09.079 faced by a horror they'd never met on the sea before. 379 00:20:09.480 --> 00:20:11.720 Crew and offices alike were on the burge of revolt, 380 00:20:12.599 --> 00:20:15.880 passenger sat huddled in the trance like steel ground, ready 381 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:20.160 to scream at the slightest unknown song, seven belts. I 382 00:20:20.200 --> 00:20:22.079 made my way forward to the chart room. Found Captain 383 00:20:22.119 --> 00:20:23.079 Wood bed over a desk. 384 00:20:25.079 --> 00:20:27.079 Oh, hello, Christopher, come on in. 385 00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:30.160 It's got to be somewhere, Captain Wood, it's got to be. 386 00:20:30.720 --> 00:20:31.319 I don't know. 387 00:20:31.839 --> 00:20:33.960 You can search the ship for six months and never 388 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:37.359 touch all the places aboard. We can only hold out 389 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:39.640 for two more days. We're going to be in what's 390 00:20:39.680 --> 00:20:43.680 the home office? Say the least wireless from him? Keep 391 00:20:43.799 --> 00:20:49.559 quiet and keep coming. What else can we do? How 392 00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:50.680 is it on the decks? 393 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:52.720 Pretty bad? Anything could happen. 394 00:20:53.079 --> 00:20:54.880 Yes, that's why I took the guns away from the men. 395 00:20:55.519 --> 00:20:58.079 One pistol shot and we'd never riot on our hand holes. 396 00:20:58.119 --> 00:21:00.519 Thanks my fault, Captain would That's what I can take 397 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:02.400 it easy. There was only some way I could pay 398 00:21:02.400 --> 00:21:03.480 for it myself alone. 399 00:21:05.039 --> 00:21:05.640 I know how you. 400 00:21:05.640 --> 00:21:08.799 Feel, but it's no more your fault than mine or 401 00:21:08.839 --> 00:21:11.160