Speaker 1: Tired out from a strenuous weekend, get a little too
Speaker 1: much sunburn.
Speaker 2: I want to get away from it all.
Speaker 3: M h.
Speaker 4: We offer you escape.
Speaker 1: You are stealthily stalking into a silent desert fortress, walking
Speaker 1: into what you know may be a trap. Around you
Speaker 1: stand a legion of dead men, and over you, an
Speaker 1: unseen menace hangs in the African night.
Speaker 4: Escape designed to free you from the four walls of
Speaker 4: today for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1: Hum hm. Tonight we are escaped to Africa, to the Sahara,
Speaker 1: to an earlier day and one of the greatest adventure
Speaker 1: mysteries of all time. Perciful Christopher Wren's boul Jess.
Speaker 5: The report had been brought to my head quarters and
Speaker 5: took or to three days before, and I'd had the
Speaker 5: squadron on horse un ready to leave within ten minutes.
Speaker 5: We've been on continuous forced march ever since. The camel
Speaker 5: scout had reported that this indin of outpost was under
Speaker 5: attack from a force of at least two thousand Arabs,
Speaker 5: and the tiny garrison had little chance of surviving. As
Speaker 5: we came up to the last crest of sand dune,
Speaker 5: shutting off our view of the lonely mud fort. I
Speaker 5: ordered my sergeant major to Lismont Demain in formed skirmish lines,
Speaker 5: while I rode on ahead to reconnoiter.
Speaker 2: At the top of the ridge.
Speaker 5: I reined in my horse and sat staring in amazement
Speaker 5: over the two hundred yards of bare sands stretching up
Speaker 5: to the walls of the fort. Nothing moved, There was
Speaker 5: no sound, no sign of life. The oasis off to
Speaker 5: my left was deserted, the Arabs were gone, and the
Speaker 5: dragola of France still waved overhead. Then two shots of
Speaker 5: work were fired from the fort, and the bullets kicked
Speaker 5: up spats of dust off to one side of me.
Speaker 5: I rode in under the walls and stopped in front
Speaker 5: of the tall wooden gate. I could see now that
Speaker 5: every consolate above me was mended by a grim faced leigonnaire,
Speaker 5: holding his rifle.
Speaker 2: Leveled and ready.
Speaker 6: Congratulations with me, wells, and I are proud to salute you.
Speaker 6: Come now, why so, grime, you are victorious? Inform your
Speaker 6: coming down the ram nature of the spies, of which
Speaker 6: is leasure, leisure eire you up there with a pipe
Speaker 6: in your mouth, go and form your comment down. Do
Speaker 6: you hear me, he's everything another monk.
Speaker 2: Commodore, I'm not sure. Sound the regimental call.
Speaker 7: They do not, m officiate. You leave me satin.
Speaker 2: When I get inside this.
Speaker 1: Foe capital the man over the gate, he has been
Speaker 1: shot in the forehead.
Speaker 2: Suck, you are right, sad on he's dead and they
Speaker 2: won next to him. Wait on along these walls. They
Speaker 2: are all day impossible then, who've ed the shots?
Speaker 5: When I roared up, Sergeant, get a volunteer. Have him
Speaker 5: climb up the wall and open this gate from the inside.
Speaker 8: If you will pardon me, mont command down, Yes, I
Speaker 8: will volunteer.
Speaker 5: Hm hmm, all right, glove go, hey, wimont commodown sudden,
Speaker 5: this could be a trap. Have the men take open
Speaker 5: order at fifty yards and wait and watch the gun
Speaker 5: slits there along.
Speaker 2: The wall.
Speaker 5: And the wait we did five minutes ten The men
Speaker 5: began to look at one another to stir uneasily.
Speaker 2: The thought was silent. Nothing moved.
Speaker 5: Fifteen minutes pass the gate was not opened, and the
Speaker 5: bugler did not come back.
Speaker 2: Finally, my sergeant and I climbed the wall.
Speaker 5: Ourselves, which searched the eerie outpost room by room, but
Speaker 5: we could find no sign of our bugler, nor of
Speaker 5: any other living soul. The bodies of the entire garrison
Speaker 5: were on the battle ramp at the top of the wall.
Speaker 5: The heads and shoulders jam grotesquely into the gun slates,
Speaker 5: for somebody probed them, while their dead ants clutched the
Speaker 5: rifles they would never fire again. Only two bodies were
Speaker 5: not so pleased. One was that of a light haired
Speaker 5: young man, who lay peacefully on his back, his hands
Speaker 5: crossed over the right wound in his chest.
Speaker 2: And the other body, this one was the commandancy.
Speaker 5: He was a gold star, so it does surg but
Speaker 5: he also was a French bayonet in his heart. He
Speaker 5: was murdered by one of his own.
Speaker 1: Men, rifles fired from an empty ford. The buglar has disappeared.
Speaker 1: I do not like this place. Oh, in the name
Speaker 1: of Heaven did they stab him? His revolver is still
Speaker 1: in his right hand. The other scrap of paper, perhaps
Speaker 1: the paper explains all of this to the eye, Commissioner
Speaker 1: of Scotland Yard, you by confess William Philly the die
Speaker 1: and die alone stole the great sapphire known as blue Water,
Speaker 1: signed bow yest.
Speaker 2: What this is all about? What does this mean? Comment?
Speaker 1: On these things are impersible, But they have happened. They
Speaker 1: do not make sense. Why don't we not go outside?
Speaker 7: But this was not to be the end of it.
Speaker 5: Shortly after dark, a tongue of flame flared suddenly in
Speaker 5: the heart of the silent fort, and in a matter
Speaker 5: of moments the whole interior was ablaze, throwing a great
Speaker 5: perter of fire up into the black desert night.
Speaker 2: We sat and watched it burn.
Speaker 5: There was nothing else through and as I stared at
Speaker 5: the leaping flames, kindled by some unseen and unknown hand,
Speaker 5: I realized suddenly that neither I nor any man alive
Speaker 5: would ever know what strange things had really happened here
Speaker 5: at the lonely fort.
Speaker 2: I was Internet.
Speaker 9: My name is John Jest, and I am the only
Speaker 9: person alive who knows all that happened at Sundnough. My
Speaker 9: two brothers and I grew up at Brandon Ebbs, south
Speaker 9: of London. Beau was the oldest, then Digby, and finally
Speaker 9: myself two years younger.
Speaker 7: I can remember very little.
Speaker 9: Of those days as I look back, except that we
Speaker 9: were happy as only young boys can be. We read
Speaker 9: thrilling tales of the French foreign legion sailed toy boats
Speaker 9: on the pond, and gave flaming Viking funerals for the
Speaker 9: tin soldiers who fell in our battles, burning them on
Speaker 9: funeral piles of kindlingwood, with toy dogs and horses at
Speaker 9: their feet, while Digby blew taps on his trumpet. Our
Speaker 9: only queen was cool and lovely Aunt Patricia, with whom
Speaker 9: we lived. Her husband, Sir Hector, was seldom in England.
Speaker 9: And if the hurt in Aunt Patricia's eyes grew deeper
Speaker 9: with the years, while the great estate fell slowly into ruin,
Speaker 9: then we children knew nothing of it. There were the
Speaker 9: two girls, of course, our cousins. Only girls didn't count
Speaker 9: that age. But those days are far away now I'm
Speaker 9: gone forever, and I can remember clearly only that one
Speaker 9: last night when the three of us came home from Oxford.
Speaker 9: Our cousins were there, and we were all together for
Speaker 9: the holidays. It was on that night the story of
Speaker 9: Zinderner rarely began. We finished dinner and played games for
Speaker 9: a while.
Speaker 7: Now we just sat in the library talking.
Speaker 9: Gradually our attention became focused more and more on the
Speaker 9: small black set in box standing in the center of
Speaker 9: the table.
Speaker 7: Please can't we open the case now? Look at it.
Speaker 4: You've had it sitting there for half an hour.
Speaker 10: Dear, I thought you always liked to draw out the
Speaker 10: suspense as long as possible.
Speaker 2: It's enough, I.
Speaker 5: Must I agree with their arpetration. Why bo you do
Speaker 5: come on annual look at the family jewels? Well, all right,
Speaker 5: I should have my trumpet to blow up.
Speaker 8: Ladies and gentlemen. One of the six largest and most
Speaker 8: perfect sapphires in the world, the blue.
Speaker 9: Water rather and I've seen it half dozen times a
Speaker 9: year all my life.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Claudia, take it down.
Speaker 7: It's nice to look at it.
Speaker 11: Bob.
Speaker 8: When you touch it it always feels cold. John, would
Speaker 8: you like to juggle a stone worth fifty thousand pounds?
Speaker 7: I think I'll just look for a wild dig after all.
Speaker 8: Burden will have them back on again in a minute.
Speaker 7: Please don't move about and bump into things.
Speaker 8: I'm quite you Everything will.
Speaker 11: Be all right in a moment.
Speaker 7: So the ghost makes you think of skeleton hands and cops.
Speaker 2: Claudia are among friends, you know, Swear?
Speaker 7: I feel something touch I can't understand why burdened?
Speaker 8: Oh there we are not a soul got lost in
Speaker 8: the dark we're probably all of us.
Speaker 9: Look please, ladies and gentlemen, and I think all of
Speaker 9: us are who decided to play this joke.
Speaker 7: The sapphire's gone. The next hour became a nightmare.
Speaker 9: None of us present would admit having taken the sapphire,
Speaker 9: and if the thing had been done as a joke,
Speaker 9: then already it had been carried too far. Aunt Patricia
Speaker 9: went to bed, finally telling us that the library would
Speaker 9: be left open all night so the prankster, which were
Speaker 9: not using the word thief, could return the blue water.
Speaker 7: To its case in secret.
Speaker 9: The rest was drifted off to our rooms, and an
Speaker 9: hour before midnight, Digby came in to tell me quietly
Speaker 9: that our brother Beau had packed a bag and left
Speaker 9: Brandon Avis. I turned out my light and said, in
Speaker 9: the darkness, listening to the ticking of the clock, I
Speaker 9: was not surprised when two hours after midnight I heard
Speaker 9: a sound below my window. Looked out to see Digby
Speaker 9: slipping off down the drive. Who was fairly certain that
Speaker 9: neither of my brothers had stirring the sapphire. But I
Speaker 9: understood what they were doing. Gallant as always, Beau had
Speaker 9: run away to draw suspicion from those innocent ones who.
Speaker 7: Might be hurt.
Speaker 9: And Digby had followed in order to split up the
Speaker 9: search for Beau. I could only guess where they'd gone.
Speaker 9: But long before dawn, I decided where I must go
Speaker 9: and what I had to do. And so it was
Speaker 9: that five days later I walked into the Fort Terrace,
Speaker 9: into the recruit barracks of the French Foreign Legion in Algeria.
Speaker 8: And if they referred to this cattle barn as a barracks,
Speaker 8: heaven knows what'd be out Digby.
Speaker 2: Look who just came in the door?
Speaker 8: Good lord Bow it's John, Hey, John, youngster, come here,
Speaker 8: take me Woa hallo.
Speaker 7: I'd a waited tender one i'd find you.
Speaker 2: In the legion, you brainless young idiot, both of you.
Speaker 7: Why what's wrong?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 8: Oh Beau wanted to be the only noble one in
Speaker 8: the family, John no attention to him.
Speaker 5: Well, there was no need for all of us running away.
Speaker 5: After all, I stole the blue water.
Speaker 9: I'm trying to say how you could have since I
Speaker 9: brought it with me, had a deic of a time
Speaker 9: getting it through customers.
Speaker 8: Look, you two, I've had that sappar all the time.
Speaker 8: And if either of you would like to take a
Speaker 8: look at it.
Speaker 7: I wonder who did steal it.
Speaker 5: That's the difference. It's driven all three of us the
Speaker 5: foreign legion. Now you're in for five years, whether we
Speaker 5: like it or not.
Speaker 7: Fine, what do we do?
Speaker 8: We haven't done anything yet. It's supposed to be some
Speaker 8: kind of an inspection in a minute.
Speaker 5: You know you shouldn't have come either. But I'm I'm
Speaker 5: glad you're both here.
Speaker 7: Thanks both so am I.
Speaker 5: I can't say exactly what we're in.
Speaker 2: Together.
Speaker 7: I think we're going to stand up.
Speaker 8: What is it a man or a gorilla?
Speaker 2: I think it's Sergeant John. The other men say.
Speaker 1: He's a night cherty little jugs.
Speaker 11: Were sneveling, little personal joy. If I so oh, I say,
Speaker 11: not shut up one more remark, and I will be
Speaker 11: most happy to kick your teeth out of your head,
Speaker 11: but out your hands. All three of you bombs up,
Speaker 11: never done a day's work in your lives. Well, we
Speaker 11: are going to change all that, my little pigs self
Speaker 11: crab blue. If we are not going to change it,
Speaker 11: I shall not to see the sand until you drop
Speaker 11: on your faces. When that happens, I shall kick you
Speaker 11: until you get up or die. If you choose to die,
Speaker 11: perhaps I shall go on kicking you after you are dead.
Speaker 11: You are in the Lesion now, my little dogs, and
Speaker 11: I shall give you cost to know it.
Speaker 2: You will curse.
Speaker 11: Sort elution ten thousand times if you live long enough,
Speaker 11: and each time you will wish you had stayed in
Speaker 11: England to be hanged.
Speaker 2: If you know that properly? Should all of that perfectly clear? Yes, sir? Yes,
Speaker 2: h well that is much better.
Speaker 11: Recruits reporting fool.
Speaker 7: Get to the parent ground in ten minutes.
Speaker 11: Meanwhile, fall out and clean up this pitchti.
Speaker 8: Yes, miss, if anybody wanted him, I'll sell my shadows.
Speaker 7: Five years of that. He's not even human.
Speaker 2: Well, he's part of the Legion, lads, and after all,
Speaker 2: they didn't ask us to come over here and join
Speaker 2: the day.
Speaker 12: If you will pardon me, gentlemen, I would like to
Speaker 12: take the liberty of introducing myself Francisco Blonde at yourself.
Speaker 8: Well, well, the Smith's brothers, monsieur there John.
Speaker 12: This is my third enlistment with the Legions, so I
Speaker 12: know what I am saying, and I can tell you
Speaker 12: mis own, for you have started off on the wrong foot.
Speaker 7: You should not have antagonized him. How did we antagonize
Speaker 7: the good Sergeant Blonde? Well, who knows?
Speaker 2: Perhaps your hands were too clean.
Speaker 10: Whats no matter?
Speaker 12: For now you have Francisco Blande as your advisor. We
Speaker 12: are I standing very well with Sergeant Leisure. There are reasons,
Speaker 12: and I have other contacts too. I know all the
Speaker 12: ins and outs of this business, and I can be
Speaker 12: most useful to anyone who has something very valuable to hide.
Speaker 4: These men here they are all thieves.
Speaker 12: Of course, good heaven, it's not really. There is no
Speaker 12: time to talk now. But after really we will meet
Speaker 12: in the canteen for a bottle of wine, and I
Speaker 12: think we shall become very good friends.
Speaker 5: Ah but chaps, I can't quite see. Mister Oil is
Speaker 5: one of our close friends. He overheard us talking about
Speaker 5: the Sapphire.
Speaker 13: Of course, between him and thousands and signiory attention to me.
Speaker 13: Pretend that I'm only a polishing and this is about eh.
Speaker 13: But listener carefully, yes, do not trust that man a Blonding.
Speaker 13: He's a thief, a liar. He's a little bloodhound who
Speaker 13: works for Sergeant a John. When you wish to know something,
Speaker 13: you come to me. Wan't die you. I would take
Speaker 13: a good care of you, Ane, I'll bet you're world
Speaker 13: at that.
Speaker 10: So won don't we find the chance to talk. I
Speaker 10: want dire, will affix everything. Do not let anyone steal it.
Speaker 8: I go now, you be very.
Speaker 5: Kale ha well, along with Lejohn, we now have a
Speaker 5: bunch of thieves who probably try to steal the sapphire.
Speaker 2: Ho ho, Come along, lads, let's find out how they
Speaker 2: marching the legion.
Speaker 7: In March, we did hours in the girling sun and
Speaker 7: the dust. Day after day.
Speaker 9: We wondered how much worse it would be on the desert.
Speaker 9: We grow hard and tough, and we will learn the
Speaker 9: waste of the legion and the waste of the legionnaires.
Speaker 9: Some we liked and some we hated. But either way
Speaker 9: we learned to live with them, talk with them, drink
Speaker 9: with them. We became soldiers legionnaires. We long for active duty,
Speaker 9: and we got it even sooner than we hoped.
Speaker 7: A devil.
Speaker 11: Every I feel your God an all.
Speaker 9: We marched out of city Belavez to the south, and
Speaker 9: we learned how beastly crow the desert is. The Kafar
Speaker 9: broke out the second week. That madness that comes in
Speaker 9: the brain is cooked by the sun. And men became
Speaker 9: gibbling idiots and died.
Speaker 7: I took good.
Speaker 9: Some of the men were detached and sent to Tokoor
Speaker 9: two for cavalry training. Among them my brother Digby, and
Speaker 9: the rest of us marched on. Two days later. Our
Speaker 9: commandant went mad and shot himself, and the detachments command
Speaker 9: passed to Sergeant le John armed south. Would we marched
Speaker 9: to the last southern outpost, straight into the mouth of hell.
Speaker 9: The thought, it's in enough. If we'd hoped for action,
Speaker 9: we didn't find it.
Speaker 7: It's into enough.
Speaker 9: Day after day went by with no sight of the
Speaker 9: Arab forces, nothing but eternal sentry duty, and each dull
Speaker 9: day was like the one before.
Speaker 7: In full command.
Speaker 9: Now the joone became more brittle than ever, and the
Speaker 9: men glowered and growled at the breath, and he whispered
Speaker 9: together in small groups. In a month, the thought was
Speaker 9: seething under the surface with madness, hate, even worse.
Speaker 7: Off duty.
Speaker 9: At the moment Bourne, I was sitting at the oasis
Speaker 9: and talking one afternoon, but we heard someone coming toward
Speaker 9: us across his end.
Speaker 5: Hold on, you watch, Johnny, here comes that little weasel
Speaker 5: gone tireury.
Speaker 10: You haven't seen no one around that not a sound
Speaker 10: little puppy.
Speaker 2: Good bye.
Speaker 8: No, no, no, no, I must have talked with you.
Speaker 10: You shouldn't know what is going to happen.
Speaker 7: It must be good. It couldn't be any worse.
Speaker 3: You of course, you know the legionnaire named Schwartz, the
Speaker 3: one was the one's a butcher.
Speaker 5: What about him?
Speaker 3: Perhaps he's going to become a butcher again very soon, sinury.
Speaker 10: Perhaps he's not going to kill a peep.
Speaker 7: I don't know pigs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, but there is the one, a great fat
Speaker 3: pig real or commandante of a pig.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I did not say that, mutiny.
Speaker 2: It may take a lot of butchers to kill that pig.
Speaker 10: There are a lot to be butchers. But for you too,
Speaker 10: the question is whether to be a pigs or butchers.
Speaker 5: We shouldn't like to be butchered, of course, but now
Speaker 5: that would we like to be eaten by the pig?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 10: Very difficult, But you must decide. It will happen soon.
Speaker 5: Suppose the butchers did kill the pig and started across
Speaker 5: the desert, they'll be dead in three days, thirst or
Speaker 5: from the Arabs.
Speaker 10: One must take chances.
Speaker 3: Besides this, he plans to kill you for the greater
Speaker 3: jewel which you have, I held him, tell a blonding.
Speaker 2: I see, well, we'll let you know, gon tire.
Speaker 10: I decide too quickly. If you wish to live, I
Speaker 10: must go now say nothing to anyone.
Speaker 14: Well, I rather think you're going to die one way
Speaker 14: or another. D digbies out of it. Sure, well we'll
Speaker 14: wait and see what happened, shall we?
Speaker 9: We were not forced to wait in anger than that
Speaker 9: same night, I was awakening an hour before dawn by
Speaker 9: someone whispering in my ear, Chris le Jean. And he
Speaker 9: held a pistol in his hand. If you make one, sand,
Speaker 9: I shall blow your brains out.
Speaker 7: Follow me.
Speaker 9: I fell it in quietly out of the bedic room
Speaker 9: with its rosy sleeping men, and we stood beside the
Speaker 9: old lamp that burned in the castle.
Speaker 11: I've been informed of a plot to mutiny, and I've
Speaker 11: been told that you and your brother have not joined it.
Speaker 11: I am going to nip that little scheme in the bird.
Speaker 11: Do you understand, Yes, Sir Abien, you will go back
Speaker 11: him there and wake your brother while I keep you
Speaker 11: covered from the door. I have two rifles here. Your
Speaker 11: brother will take one of them and kill any man
Speaker 11: who tries to leave his bed. You will take the
Speaker 11: other and come with me. We are going to descend
Speaker 11: the guard. Whatever you say more, Commodore Babian, come on.
Speaker 9: We left bow and guard at the bedic room door
Speaker 9: and made our way through the sleeping ford, up the
Speaker 9: ladder to the battle ramp.
Speaker 10: Everything is very quiet.
Speaker 12: A here mont, command d'Or, I have just DoD it.
Speaker 10: This sentry into the guard.
Speaker 2: The house and the arsenal is law.
Speaker 11: BM go down to the gothouse and take their guns.
Speaker 11: Tell them two rifles are covering the door, and any
Speaker 11: man who steps into the night will be shore.
Speaker 10: Come on on.
Speaker 7: We stood there on the ramp a rifles into the
Speaker 7: square of lights in the doorway. We waited.
Speaker 9: I watched the first gray light of dawn filter over
Speaker 9: the world, and one of the flajon was going to.
Speaker 2: Get away with it.
Speaker 7: I was given no chance to find out the jon't
Speaker 7: look outside.
Speaker 11: Of hot arabs thousand chren cusson. We are under attack,
Speaker 11: lond down, turn out the card, open the arsenal, and
Speaker 11: pass up the card of Bibbler found us all look
Speaker 11: at a little pigs out there, Sir a preble blue.
Speaker 11: But they'll find before they've done it pleasure, and they're fighting.
Speaker 2: I'm a felt file that girl.
Speaker 7: The men streamed at the ladders onto the ramp, loading
Speaker 7: the rifles.
Speaker 2: They ran.
Speaker 9: They were soldiers first and last, legionnaires, and in the
Speaker 9: face of battle, all thoughts of the mutiny were swept aside.
Speaker 9: Through the whole of that long, hot day, we fought
Speaker 9: the Arab mob, met their fierce charges, reloaded smoking guns,
Speaker 9: and fought them off again.
Speaker 7: All through the night.
Speaker 9: The snipers kept in close and poured deadly fire into
Speaker 9: the gun's lips, and slowly, but surely, our tiny garrison
Speaker 9: melted away. La Jean was everywhere, cursing and firing spristole,
Speaker 9: grabbing bodies as they fell and jamming them back into
Speaker 9: the ramparts.
Speaker 7: So the Arabs could have no way.
Speaker 8: Of knowing how few we.
Speaker 9: Were as the ghastly Knight due to a close only
Speaker 9: four of us were left, Beau and I, Lejeon and Blantin,
Speaker 9: And before dawn blant.
Speaker 7: Aine was gone.
Speaker 9: And then as the first red rays of the sun
Speaker 9: swept over the sand, bo.
Speaker 11: Oh, never mind, soldier, get below and bring up a
Speaker 11: pill of soup. The devil seemed to be letting up
Speaker 11: for the moment I said, good, below, I'll take care
Speaker 11: of him.
Speaker 9: I propped my rifle against the wall and went down
Speaker 9: the ladder at the bottom. Mustopped suddenly the Jean.
Speaker 7: Would take care of him.
Speaker 9: He was not going to take care of Bird the
Speaker 9: way he did the others, by making a grotesque dummy
Speaker 9: out of his dead body. I climbed back up to
Speaker 9: the ramp. The Jean was bending over Bow's body. He
Speaker 9: turn open his tunic and was pawing out some papers
Speaker 9: they taken from it.
Speaker 11: Huh, I thought, I sent you below, you bishly thief.
Speaker 12: Take your hands.
Speaker 11: There's no reason why I should not shoot you. You
Speaker 11: have disobeyed orders.
Speaker 2: I have no need of you.
Speaker 11: Now I send over Rano. When I heard of the mutinet,
Speaker 11: there should be a relief force here. In an hour
Speaker 11: or two, perhaps two or three bullets in the stomach
Speaker 11: would be done.
Speaker 2: Take it.
Speaker 9: I counched forward within my bennet, out of its cabind
Speaker 9: and I drove it into his house.
Speaker 2: Nice work, Johnny Gladder, good.
Speaker 7: Healno, then you're all right. You weren't dead.
Speaker 5: That's good, you think, youngster. Deliver those letters. Be sure
Speaker 5: the confession to mate, probably.
Speaker 2: Be sure.
Speaker 9: Share boh gathered up the letters, closed his eyes, crossed
Speaker 9: his hands over his chest.
Speaker 7: There's nothing else to do.
Speaker 9: Then I filled a knapsack with bread and water and ammunition,
Speaker 9: prepared to slip out of the dead foot. That moment,
Speaker 9: an officer and the reforce right over the ridge to
Speaker 9: the north. It wasn't sure whether the Yellows was still
Speaker 9: in ambush, so I fired two shots to warn him
Speaker 9: and slid over the wall on the fast hide and
Speaker 9: sprinted for the nearest sand June, one hundred yards away.
Speaker 7: I must have dropped there and fallen asleep. Immediately.
Speaker 9: When I woke up, it was dark and the moon
Speaker 9: was just rising behind the black walls of the fort.
Speaker 9: And even as I watched it, a tongue of flame
Speaker 9: shot up, and in a moment the whole interior of
Speaker 9: the fort was ablaze. But why why was the relief
Speaker 9: force burning center an earth? Just then the figure of
Speaker 9: a man slid over the wall nearest me and came
Speaker 9: running in my direction.
Speaker 7: I braced my rifle halt to cover it.
Speaker 8: Eh, oh, hello boy, I thought you'd be out here somewhere, Digby.
Speaker 7: How did you get here?
Speaker 8: While bugler with a relief force, Johnny, They sabody to
Speaker 8: open the gate. I hid instead.
Speaker 7: Things are pretty rough, really, so Digby, they killed Bow?
Speaker 8: I know I saw it.
Speaker 7: Did you start the fire?
Speaker 8: Bo always wanted a Viking funeral I had between you now, Yes,
Speaker 8: I remember. I piled all the furniture together, and I
Speaker 8: covered it with sheets, poured lamp oil around.
Speaker 7: It's the best I could do. He'd have liked to Digby.
Speaker 8: I didn't have a horse or a spear, but I
Speaker 8: did find a dog to burn at his feet. A dog, yes, johny,
Speaker 8: A dirty rotten dog I found in the battle ramp.
Speaker 8: It used to call itself leg.
Speaker 7: Of what came afterwards.
Speaker 9: How he fled southward for many weary miles across the desert,
Speaker 9: thought bended, stark and thirsty. All those things matter very
Speaker 9: little now. It suffices to say that the day did
Speaker 9: come when I sat once again in the Great Library
Speaker 9: Brandon Neghvis, in the same room where it all began,
Speaker 9: and that other night long before, and I told the
Speaker 9: story to Unt Patricia. Was so completely horrible and so useless, John,
Speaker 9: Why did boasteal a sapphire?
Speaker 8: Why did he have to do such a thing?
Speaker 9: I couldn't say, Aunt Patricia, so useless I have a
Speaker 9: letter here that he left for you.
Speaker 7: I haven't opened it, of course.
Speaker 8: Please do so at once, John.
Speaker 7: They well read it to me.
Speaker 9: He says, my beloved aunt Patricia. If I may still
Speaker 9: call you that when you read this, I should be dead.
Speaker 9: I took the blue water, of course, or rather the
Speaker 9: imitation which you had made after you sold the real stone.
Speaker 9: Oh yes, Aunt, I knew about that you wanted the
Speaker 9: money for the tenants on the estate. I approve, But
Speaker 9: I also knew how much you feeled Sir Hector would
Speaker 9: find out. I thought that stealing it might help you
Speaker 9: if I was wrong.
Speaker 7: Only hope that you may forgive me, dearest Boom for
Speaker 7: my pop.
Speaker 9: Adam infectionous play as always your own Bojest.
Speaker 4: Escape is produced and directed by Norman mac donnell and
Speaker 4: To Night Brought You Baugess by P. C. Wren, adapted
Speaker 4: for radio by Less Crutchfield, featuring Barry Kroger Wilms, Herbert
Speaker 4: Jane of Vello and Ben Wright, with Ramsay Hill, Lilian
Speaker 4: Bayeff and Peggy Webber. Music was conceived by Lucian Barrowack
Speaker 4: and conducted by Wilbur Hatch roy Rod speaking This is CBS.
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