Speaker 1: A mystery theater presents.
Speaker 2: Come in.
Speaker 3: Welcome.
Speaker 2: I'm e. G. Marshall at my usual stand.
Speaker 1: Five thousand years ago is just a minute ago, a
blink of the eye to some men. To them, the
morning of the world is just a tick of the
clock away.
Speaker 4: They are that small group of.
Speaker 1: Scholars and scientists known.
Speaker 4: To the rest of us as archaeologists.
Speaker 1: Men and women who coax the secrets of the past
out of the bosom of an ancient earth, who scratched
the long hidden wonders of antiquity from a soil grown
hard with time.
Speaker 3: Your shop is filled with so many strange and beautiful things.
Speaker 4: Might you possibly have any samples.
Speaker 3: Of pottery, ancient pottery?
Speaker 5: I have many such beauty as.
Speaker 3: Local ones, even fragments, broken pieces discovered in.
Speaker 4: Some long forgotten cave or excavation.
Speaker 3: Something like this.
Speaker 5: Sir, if you know what is good for you, leave
my shop at once.
Speaker 3: For what's wrong?
Speaker 5: Ever since I got here, everyone in this town sings leave. Leave,
I pay people. I have nothing for you. Go back too.
Wellever you came from, you carry danger with you. You
carry death.
Speaker 1: Our mystery drama Journey into Nowhere was written especially for
the mystery Theater by Arnold Moss and stars Court Benson
and Joan Lovejoy. It is sponsored in part by Buick
Motor Division and contact the twelve hour Cold Capsule.
Speaker 6: I'll be back shortly with that one.
Speaker 1: In a far off country near the Persian Gulf, the
sun has been beating down brutally, blisteringly all day. Now,
with a day almost at its end, it begins to
take on the shape of a huge kettle of burnished bronze.
Native workmen have been digging under that blazing sun in
the white sands that are hemmed in on three sides
by towering black cliffs.
Speaker 2: For weeks.
Speaker 1: They have been excavating on the site of an ancient
civilization for a group of American archaeologists under the leadership
of the distinguished scholar doctor Carlo Oresti.
Speaker 7: Everybody, we're all very tired. It's bafu allah hire.
Speaker 5: Good night to all of you.
Speaker 3: I'm true create, thank you. H They put in a
good day's work, Dorothy, and so have I. I'm absolutely bushed.
How about you.
Speaker 5: It's been a long day and.
Speaker 3: A disappointing one.
Speaker 5: Not much to show, not.
Speaker 4: Because he didn't try.
Speaker 3: Doctor ARRESTI almost two months oh, we've turned up for
two or three promising leads.
Speaker 8: Now, when I was a student of yours not so
long ago, you taught us that where there were promising leads,
there was hope.
Speaker 3: Yes, but sometimes it's a little discouraging.
Speaker 4: Here we are where it all began, ancient Mesopotamia.
Speaker 3: Cradle of civilization, conquered, invaded by every warrior of history
from time immemorial. And all we've turned up from the
treasures of these these spanished people is something close to
a big fat zero.
Speaker 9: Oh, we still have a month.
Speaker 10: Every dig that's got to be made here in all.
Speaker 2: Jazero is been a good one.
Speaker 3: Oh, you are always a very good student, Dorothy. But
I won't be happy and.
Speaker 8: Until someday you find what's been bugging you all your life.
Speaker 3: A materi inscription. Right, I have a gut feeling and
instinct that it could be right here, somewhere underneath these hands,
And if I find it, I'll hold a key to
one of the deepest secrets of all mankind.
Speaker 9: Could what's that?
Speaker 3: It can be thundered?
Speaker 9: Not at this time of the year and the sunshining.
Speaker 4: What holds That's an earth tremor?
Speaker 3: I never heard of an earthquake in this part of
the work.
Speaker 5: Weary down to the shop, getting worse. Don't get earthy,
watch out, support over ahead.
Speaker 7: Are you all right?
Speaker 1: I think so?
Speaker 3: A little little bump on the head. I guess I
got away from that falling beam just in time.
Speaker 8: What earthquake or whatever it was came out of nowhere?
Strange you think it might have disturbed anything in the dick.
Speaker 3: I doubted it. It didn't last more than several Dorothy,
what don't move? Stay right where you are. What is it?
Look there?
Speaker 9: The short piece of broken earth.
Speaker 3: Tremor must have dislodged it, and we were standing almost
on top of it. Get out your brush, hand clean
away the sand.
Speaker 5: As cable as you can. It's beautiful and we're the.
Speaker 3: First to lay eyes on it in thousands of years.
Speaker 4: Careful looked at it.
Speaker 9: There's writing on it around the circumstance.
Speaker 4: Of course, that's pre Hellenic Greek thirty five hundred years old.
Speaker 3: Of for today erebos uranu may soon knoste something about
heaven and Earth, a place of darkness midway between the
deepest Earth and highest heaven. Awaymens say, look here, but
around the edge just before it breaks off.
Speaker 9: That looks that looks like what.
Speaker 3: Madia Madira exactly, Dorothy, this is it.
Speaker 5: It has to be the Majira inscription.
Speaker 3: And look this little piece of black dress over here
that looks like Obsian. It's no bigger than a dime,
shaped like a face, an animal's face, and a.
Speaker 8: Little hole at the top, and little ears nice like
the tiny head of a sheep lamb.
Speaker 3: Dorothy, you remember from your reading who Madeira.
Speaker 9: Was one of the goddess's a vengeance wasn't she the.
Speaker 3: Principal one the spirit of revenge, able to confuse and
benumb men's minds with a potion called nephailure.
Speaker 9: And when she wes, she wept tears of blood.
Speaker 5: Yes, I am them. And she kept changing her appearance
from one creature to another.
Speaker 3: Her favorite disguise was.
Speaker 5: A sheep or a lamb. Do you recall that she
even assumed different.
Speaker 2: Shapes at one and the same time.
Speaker 4: Of course, this has to be it.
Speaker 3: This little lamb's head of black glass confirms it. Now,
if I can only find a missing part of this inscription,
it could lead to the elimination of everything in our
lives that's corrupt and evil.
Speaker 4: There's that rumbling again, and it's getting very dark.
Speaker 9: Doctor, Let's get into the cheap and go back to
the camp before anything really serious happens. I'm frightened.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow morning I leave for the mountains of the West.
Speaker 4: That's where the whole myth of Madeira began.
Speaker 3: There, this piece of broken povery may be the passport
to the most important discovery a man could ever make. It.
I wish you'd change your mind about this trip, or
there is nothing to worry about right there in my
poppet and my revolver.
Speaker 4: Just in case, well, let's hope you'll have no.
Speaker 9: Reason in that, doctor arrested. One question, huh. In the
mountains of the west where you're.
Speaker 11: Going, you say that Mageia is very real to the people.
Speaker 12: Who live there.
Speaker 3: It's one of the reasons I'm going.
Speaker 9: Give me to say.
Speaker 3: They actually claim to see you, so they say in
different forms, under different names. And if she exists for them.
Speaker 2: She will exist for you until I find her and try.
Speaker 3: To destroy her.
Speaker 8: But how do you destroy something that doesn't really miss legend?
It's not as if Massoia really an actually living creature.
Speaker 5: That's that's the point.
Speaker 3: If I can find a way to destroy the idea
of Mageira in the minds of the people, then the
idea of vengeance, of getting even with.
Speaker 4: The other fellow who will be ko It may be
the beginning of a way.
Speaker 2: To find peace in the world.
Speaker 9: Be careful, doctor red here, I'm good.
Speaker 3: Thank you by the way I put it straight in
through the hole in the little black lambs had we
founded the day and I'm gonna wear it around and.
Speaker 5: Nexcellent ornament like this for a red protection?
Speaker 4: Why not if that doesn't protect me, I don't know
what will.
Speaker 3: Ye?
Speaker 5: Please carrying these for me and get me a taxi?
Speaker 3: Please, a taxi?
Speaker 7: A potter, Where are you going?
Speaker 5: Why are you running away? What's wrong with you?
Speaker 4: I guess I can carry my own bag, find my
own taxi. Talking about that?
Speaker 5: For how.
Speaker 8: Oh, for the love of our love, have convusion the
less forty?
Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, take this.
Speaker 5: And blessing the bsful have.
Speaker 3: Oh God to go with you are save your blessings
for woman for an object more worthy than I your day.
Speaker 13: Now tet me take your money, please God, so take
me some money.
Speaker 3: Then m she threw away the money I gave him?
Speaker 5: Or what can be wrong? Welcome to the street of
the seven, said bus before, Where did you permit me
to in produce? I say, Mahmoud been saying, your most
humble SUVN proprietor of this money shop behind.
Speaker 3: You also Mark mood rarest curios.
Speaker 5: Won't you enter and grace my poor establishment with the
owner of your prisoner.
Speaker 3: Look, mister Martinwood, I've just arrived on the bus. It
was a long, hard trip. All I wanted a bed
and a bath and a little rest.
Speaker 5: I understand perfectly. Won't you please step inside my shop with.
Speaker 3: Mister arresty doctor Carlo arrested. Well, if you insist, but
just for a minute.
Speaker 5: So through these curtain Siper price a welcome. This is
my home as well as my shop. You see, May
I offer you a glass of mint tea?
Speaker 3: Well, not at this moment. Thank you. Oh your shot
is beautiful, Thank you. And what an assortment old berber rifles, ancient.
Speaker 5: Knives, swords from all over the world, all of them
raiser shops, and these strange masks, grotesque statuettes. Right with
all these wonderful things you have here, would it be
possible that you might also have samples of pottery, ancient pottery, shods, fragments,
broken pieces that might have been found in this region,
in caves or in an excavation like this a moment
until I put on my spectacles, that my age is
necessary to contrest. If you know what is good for
you leave my shop at once.
Speaker 3: What's wrong?
Speaker 4: Ever since I stepped off the bus, everyone.
Speaker 3: In this town thing leave.
Speaker 12: Leave.
Speaker 1: I beg you.
Speaker 5: I have nothing for you, nothing, Go back to where
have it you came from. You carry a dean char
with you.
Speaker 12: You carry death.
Speaker 7: Go God, don't post me.
Speaker 5: Please just tell me why and I'll go. Why does
everyone run away from me? And what are you talking about?
Speaker 3: Carry danger?
Speaker 4: I carry death.
Speaker 5: That talisman and the little animal head you wear about
your neck you know its meaning. It is one of
the faces of Magira. This is why people run away
from you. You terrify them or they I'll take it off.
You are trying to destroy Machira, correct happend in your
search for she would destroy you first.
Speaker 3: I am not frightened.
Speaker 5: You should be. My people are, and they know they
know Magiira. She fills them with a terror that cannot
be measured. You are familiar with her weapons.
Speaker 3: I think so.
Speaker 5: The tears that are not tears of salt but tears
of blood, the portion that dulls the senses, the many
different shapes that she assumes to confuse you, especially that
of the black lamb.
Speaker 3: I know them all, and you know that.
Speaker 5: Above everything else, Margira, who will stop at nothing, nothing,
to keep her secret hidden, the secret you are trying
to uncover.
Speaker 3: I know the risk is great, and I'm willing to
take it.
Speaker 5: What's that.
Speaker 3: Who's laughing?
Speaker 5: What laughter? I hear nothing.
Speaker 3: I sworn I heard the voice of a girl, a
young girl laughing.
Speaker 5: You imagined it? I am sure. Now, if you will
permit me to show you a few of my treasures. Ah,
if you will look over your head, just above the
chair on which you're sitting, I see it. A coat
of mail.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, next to the coat of mail.
Speaker 5: What's that that?
Speaker 3: That scuffed animal head mounted up there on the wall.
Speaker 5: No, the rage is nothing. Doctor Oresty, the local heaxidermist,
had no room for it. He gave it to me.
Speaker 3: For what you keep it.
Speaker 5: It's a curiosity, the head of one of our local
mountain sheep. But laughter it seems to be coming right
out of.
Speaker 4: The mouth of that lamb.
Speaker 1: From the most ancient times, the lamb was the animal
designated to be the symbolic victim of man's sacrifice to
his gods, and now a lamb, a black lamb, has
once again become symbolic, only this time for doctor Carlo Oresti.
It seems to have taken on.
Speaker 2: A feeling of evil. But evil or not, it may
lead him.
Speaker 1: To the unraveling of a secret he thinks could begin
to change the course of all mankind. Earned shortly with
that too, Doctor Carlo Oresti, archaeologist, has traveled halfway round
the world searching for a piece of thousands of years old.
Speaker 5: He has unearthed part of it.
Speaker 1: He is convinced that if he can find the rest,
it may lead to a revelation that could bring a
more peaceful world. He sits in the curier shop of
Mahmud bin Kaid, staring at the stuffed head of a
small black lamb mounted on the wall.
Speaker 3: Who is that, mister Mahmud? I told you loving that
laughter that seems to be coming right out of the
mouth of that stuffed lamb's head up there, And doctor Horrestic,
you're a metre it's going tied into the street.
Speaker 10: Where are you going to?
Speaker 5: Torist I must follow that laughter not stay where you are?
Speaker 4: Will you try to stop me?
Speaker 3: I'm following it. It keeps, it keeps moving around. I
don't know where has it gone?
Speaker 4: To answer you, sir, h where did you come from?
Speaker 12: I am here?
Speaker 13: Who now?
Speaker 12: How do you's?
Speaker 3: Very very kind of you.
Speaker 12: I'm sure you will every friend you kindle.
Speaker 3: You're a very interesting young lady and a very pretty
one too, beautiful long black hair?
Speaker 2: And who are your parents?
Speaker 3: Where you live? And forgive me please? But have you
no better clothes than these?
Speaker 12: That you wear? Too much?
Speaker 9: My parents?
Speaker 12: Who knows? I live where? I wish this time right?
I prefer.
Speaker 11: Why have you come to this place?
Speaker 12: What are you hoping to find here?
Speaker 3: My work brings me here. I'm looking to uncover one
of the deepest secrets of the world. What I should
be looking for at this moment is a place to sleep.
I travel a long way.
Speaker 4: I'm tired.
Speaker 12: At the end of the state, there is the inn
of the one eyed Cannel.
Speaker 9: It will suit you.
Speaker 12: This thing you are looking for, whatever it may be.
If you find it, what then well then I.
Speaker 3: I will have things to do.
Speaker 12: You have an idea where to find what you are
searching for?
Speaker 3: Maybe I do.
Speaker 9: Place of darky?
Speaker 12: What a place of little life?
Speaker 10: Who are you?
Speaker 12: I am your friend?
Speaker 3: Those words? Where did you?
Speaker 9: Many questions? Okay, take my hand or something?
Speaker 4: Something's happened to me?
Speaker 3: I I I.
Speaker 5: Find it difficult to bring to walk.
Speaker 9: You are tired from your long journey.
Speaker 12: Drink from this little slack. It will help you. Don't
sup here.
Speaker 5: So so sweet like hold on my hand. I think
I'm going to faint.
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 12: Where are you?
Speaker 4: Where you go.
Speaker 5: Erebos uraknu mason a place.
Speaker 3: Darkness midway?
Speaker 5: Don't try to move, be quiet, herrestic, you will be well.
You're the man from the man from the curio shop
would be inside at your service.
Speaker 3: What happened?
Speaker 4: I I I left your shop looking for a place
to sleep.
Speaker 5: I know I know where am I? What place is this?
You are in my humble home, at the back of
my small shop. You are How did I get you?
You are taken knill. Momentarily you fainted in the street.
I remember she gave me something to drink? Who gave
you something to drink?
Speaker 3: As I left your shop, a young a young girl
came up to me.
Speaker 5: You seem to know what I was here for? What else?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 3: I asked her?
Speaker 2: Who she was. She to call my hand.
Speaker 3: I grew dizzy, and she gave you something to drink,
very sweetest yes, and then I just passed out.
Speaker 5: I have done my best to want you, doctor. She
knows why you are here, as she will do all
in her power to destroy doctor, arrest to go back
to your own country.
Speaker 2: For what are you talking about?
Speaker 5: I am talking about Magiera. Who else are you telling
me that?
Speaker 3: The young girl in the sheet.
Speaker 5: Lest quietly, sir, I will go bring you some cold
water to drink. I should be but a minute.
Speaker 2: It's so dark and I can hardly see. Is it nice?
Speaker 5: Hah?
Speaker 7: You the girl?
Speaker 4: Who?
Speaker 12: How do you feel?
Speaker 3: What did you give me? The drink?
Speaker 12: A small drop to warm the mind? The heart?
Speaker 4: The song?
Speaker 3: Where are you? I can't see you, it's gone so dark.
Speaker 11: Up the back door.
Speaker 12: Why from your date?
Speaker 4: And follow me?
Speaker 12: Follow me and trust me.
Speaker 5: Here is the cold water? The touristy.
Speaker 3: How did she get in here?
Speaker 5: Again? You saw her again?
Speaker 4: She was right here beside the bed, Sir.
Speaker 5: I feel most credful for your safety.
Speaker 3: I'm not afraid, mister Mahmoud.
Speaker 5: I have a mission to fulfill more important to you
than your life.
Speaker 4: I've already wasted too much time.
Speaker 3: I'm going now stay where you are, take your.
Speaker 7: Hands off me, let me up.
Speaker 12: I play it with you.
Speaker 7: Do not leave this room.
Speaker 3: I have an appointment and I'm going to keep it.
And where is that, I'm not absolutely certain. All I
know is that it's a place of.
Speaker 5: Darkness, midway between the deepest Earth and highest heaven.
Speaker 11: There is not much sad that you go.
Speaker 12: We are almost at the sunnitch, at the sacred mountains.
Speaker 14: Right.
Speaker 3: I must rest again. My head is so light, the
air is so thin. We must be up six seven
thousand feet.
Speaker 11: Do not stop, I wan head.
Speaker 12: We have come to the summach, the very stop at
the mountain.
Speaker 3: Everything is pitch black.
Speaker 4: There's not a star in the skies.
Speaker 12: It is flat midnight, and perhaps the stone comes in.
Speaker 3: You will stay here with me.
Speaker 11: I let you here.
Speaker 12: I have not the slightest intention of leaving you to me.
Speaker 3: Why have you brought me to the top of this.
Speaker 12: Mountain because it is sacred to us?
Speaker 14: Here.
Speaker 12: Sit down beside me on this flat rock. Oh, your hand,
it is bleeding.
Speaker 3: It's nothing. He scraped it on a rock as we
were coming up.
Speaker 9: I kiss your bleeding hand.
Speaker 12: The taste of your blood? Is it haighting? Hold me
in your arms. I look into my eyes.
Speaker 5: I can't what's wrong.
Speaker 4: There's a pain in the back of my head. I
could hardly see my My hit is beginning to.
Speaker 9: Spain to see height of the sacred mountains.
Speaker 5: You are not younger me.
Speaker 9: Course not.
Speaker 11: My dear for you.
Speaker 6: Is best of care.
Speaker 3: I don't know what came over me. It was just
standing at the base of my skull.
Speaker 12: You are a fool.
Speaker 13: Why do you not return to your own country instead
of playing this child's game?
Speaker 11: That piece of pottery you head in your knapsack, How.
Speaker 3: Do you know about that? I never told you, ask
no questions.
Speaker 11: That piece of pottery will leave you.
Speaker 12: It is meaningless.
Speaker 3: It won't be when I find the missing fragment, and
you think you will find it way a place of darkness.
Speaker 13: Midway between the deepest Earth and highest heavens.
Speaker 11: Yes, for your food. Where do you think you are?
Speaker 13: This mountain is eight thousand feet above the level of
the sea. The top of this mountain is midway.
Speaker 11: Between the depths of the earth and the highest point
we see in the heavens. Darkness, a place of darkness.
Can you see your own bleeding hand in.
Speaker 13: Front of your face, you blundering fool.
Speaker 3: Dare you pull for me that week?
Speaker 1: You suck me?
Speaker 11: You dare to strike me?
Speaker 12: A look? See what you should do?
Speaker 5: You're weeping?
Speaker 12: Do you have made me weep? Bring your man into
my friend?
Speaker 5: Is streaming up your cheeks?
Speaker 3: Tears right red blood. Let me get my hack. I
wipe the blood from your cheeks.
Speaker 11: What is till you see, my very good friend?
Speaker 4: Your face, your face is changing.
Speaker 5: You're becoming an only old woman with sh and your hair,
my beautiful.
Speaker 4: Turning into rising terrible snake shed jo I.
Speaker 11: Did with ping which they spit at you hold me
in your arms before norm shining.
Speaker 5: Rat hair, a whirling step and beating out your venom
for you want me to die? The doorste, the doloreste
Are you here over here? The don reste?
Speaker 10: Where are you?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: Ha?
Speaker 5: I never thought I would make her to this summit?
Speaker 15: Ha ha?
Speaker 12: You all right?
Speaker 5: Cour sir? H? I think so?
Speaker 2: How did you know I was here?
Speaker 5: I knew the danger. I followed you.
Speaker 4: Where is she?
Speaker 5: Has she gone?
Speaker 12: The girl again?
Speaker 3: Again? Close to losing my life? I think I would
have if you hadn't come when you did fortune has.
Speaker 5: Been kind this night. Now, after I pinch my breath,
who had best go back down? The down begins to
lighten the yeast. Answer yes, mister muffmood, would you like
to go a little friend with you? Wash redded where?
Lift your light a little higher? There on that flat rock.
Speaker 2: A beautiful little black lamb.
Speaker 3: I'll carry it down to the village.
Speaker 5: Where is it?
Speaker 2: Where did it go?
Speaker 4: It disappeared.
Speaker 1: Even as doctor Oresty stretches out his hand, the black
lamb melts into air, into thin air. But just as
there is a faith that moves mountains, that makes all
darkness light, doctor Oresty continues to believe. He has faith
that he can find the means of destroying the Jerah Goddess,
a vengeance, and with that a beginning to a more
harmonious existence for all men. Return shortly with Act three.
A philosopher of the Middle East has said that revenge
is a luscious fruit, which, like the pomegranate or the persimmon,
takes a long time to ripen. Once it comes to maturity,
the taste is unmistakable, unique and sometimes very sweet.
Speaker 2: Not to Oresti and his.
Speaker 1: Companion are on top of a mountain in a far
off land, A strange girl has been with him and
has vanished. Then for an instant there was a small
black land. As suddenly as it materialized, so.
Speaker 3: Suddenly it disappeared. And then look, look, mister Mackmud, the
lamb's back again. I hadn't understand what way had come from.
Where does it go?
Speaker 5: Bring your light? A little closes, sir, right near its head. Oh,
so do you see anything peculiar about his little lamb?
Speaker 2: And its eyes? It's as if blood had been dripping
from its eyes.
Speaker 5: Like DearS, tears of blood.
Speaker 3: Are you telling me, mister Mackmud, that this this little animal?
Speaker 5: I tell you nothing, sir.
Speaker 3: She was here, mister mackmuod. After a time we quarreled.
She tasted my blood. She embraced me, and she tried
to suffocate me. She grew old and horrible before my eyes.
Her beautiful hair became poisonous snakes.
Speaker 5: Soresty. It has been a long and exhausting night for
both of us. Shall we go down to the village
and try to get some sleep?
Speaker 2: Not just yet?
Speaker 5: What are you doing? Put down that gun?
Speaker 3: I came almost ten thousand miles to do two things,
to find the missing part of the Magira inscription, and
I failed in that and second to destroy Majira.
Speaker 2: It might a time, mister math Mood, I have found her.
He missed the lamb is r something wrong with this gun?
Speaker 5: H too late? Hey has escaped down the mountainside.
Speaker 9: Now share we go.
Speaker 5: Wait just a minute, look right here where the lamb
was lying.
Speaker 2: Put on your gasses, and.
Speaker 5: Look this broken fragment of pottery that the lamb was
lying on, the same sheep, the same colors. It has
to be the rest of the Magira inscription. Watch carefully
where you press your pitch. Doctor arrested. These mountain paths
can be more.
Speaker 3: Treacherous, Thank you, I'll be careful. How much harder do
we have to go?
Speaker 5: Once we get past this huge mold over for us,
we shall catch our first glint of the village pit.
The markets don't know what is it?
Speaker 3: There on top of the broader, the same one, only
this time I'll get it. And you just watch.
Speaker 4: What's the matter with you?
Speaker 5: Your pew?
Speaker 3: Right again?
Speaker 5: My foot slips and I missed again arrested.
Speaker 3: Look over there, but not another one? Still another bram.
Speaker 5: And see another an another whole fuck and every one
of them jet black. They're heading toward us. They're gonna
push us right off this cliff.
Speaker 8: What do we do?
Speaker 9: This tend to count?
Speaker 1: Let me crack Let's town.
Speaker 5: Then, okay, it sounds like the voices and wings are
many birds for a thousands up the play.
Speaker 2: Its great to.
Speaker 7: Call us to our heable.
Speaker 5: What are the cows, ravens and blackbirds and some cord
They're coming in a straight line right at me.
Speaker 2: Eight?
Speaker 7: Thanks away all way after day three?
Speaker 10: Okay, another glass of hot mint tea doctor, Thank you.
Speaker 3: You know I can't thank you enough for getting me
down off the mountains safely. I thought those crow whatever
they were going to blind me.
Speaker 5: It comes. Sometimes they think of other creatures as trespasses.
Speaker 3: Yes, now, let's get back to this shad of pottery.
Speaker 5: Where did I put my spectacles?
Speaker 15: Hi?
Speaker 3: Here there you can see the two pieces fit together
perfectly as I suspected they would. The colors, the shape,
the design, and the inscription everything extraordinary. If we can
decipher it, I leave that to you, sir. Let's see
the first word looks like monnoy, and then timihea vengeance.
Let's see now vengeance belongs. And then there's the other
piece that fits in here that says to Madeira. And
then then there's the word alone.
Speaker 5: Vengeance belongs to Mageira alone.
Speaker 2: Now follow the writing around the circumference in a name,
say something about peace.
Speaker 3: Is peace, peace will be found, no, no must be
found in istterest.
Speaker 4: In the heart of man.
Speaker 5: In the heart of man, you understand the meaning of
what you hold in your hand.
Speaker 3: Of course, that the place of darkness, midway between the
deepest Earth and highest heaven is the heart of man,
and that's the place where real peace must be looked for.
Most interesting, there is no goddess of vengeance, and there
never was. She existed, if she ever did.
Speaker 5: Only in the minds of the stupid and the ignorant.
And now you will return to your own country screaming
to the world that there is no Margie here. Is
that correct? Do to arreste? Is that correct? What are
you doing?
Speaker 2: Put down that scimitar?
Speaker 5: Are you all of a mind? Who have disappointed me?
Doctor arreste? And more important, you have made me unhappy,
most unhappy.
Speaker 12: It is not right for you to.
Speaker 5: Make me with It is wrong, not toroisty, very wrong. Mind.
Speaker 9: You are weeping, weeping.
Speaker 2: He is above.
Speaker 16: Cross dear doctor, And now whould you like me to
change my sheep into a little black lamb, or an
old dudley hag with snakes for.
Speaker 5: Hair, or perhaps a beautiful longirl a rock of crows
on the mountainside.
Speaker 2: And then back again to Mahmud.
Speaker 14: To this kindly elderly merchant of curiods name it. I
shall become what you wish when you wish it. You
you are you see the cheera does exist.
Speaker 15: Now that you know that this braid will make up
fasting to you and your lad's secret.
Speaker 7: No you there, police, police, come come quick?
Speaker 4: What is it, sir?
Speaker 5: How can I deve?
Speaker 3: Help? I just shot someone killed my hand in self defense.
Speaker 5: Who did you kick?
Speaker 3: How?
Speaker 5: Where? Back there in the shop the proprietors, the proprietor.
Speaker 3: What shop are you? Blind? Curio shop?
Speaker 5: I shot and killed the man who called himself Mahmoud
beside Mud be inside.
Speaker 3: That's not possible. Why not?
Speaker 15: Mark Mood has been dead for more than two hundred years.
What my grandfather used to speak of him, and his
grandfather before him.
Speaker 3: What on earth are you talking about?
Speaker 5: Mark Mood? The mad one?
Speaker 15: He was said to live here on this very street
of the seven silver smiths behind the kind of curio shop.
The tale goes that the poor man was completely out.
Speaker 5: Of his mind. Poor fellow, the family line ended with.
Speaker 3: His death, and how, just how did he meet his death?
Speaker 15: Were the stories that his life was ended by a
short for a gun who shot this Mark Mostrangra? A
man who for some reason was seeking revenge, seeking revenge.
Speaker 3: Seeking seek, seeking.
Speaker 8: Seeking revenge, doctor, arresty, doctor, how do you feel?
Speaker 2: Who is that?
Speaker 3: Dorothy?
Speaker 9: Don't try to move, You're gonna be fine.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't understand.
Speaker 9: Equake, but it's all over now.
Speaker 2: Don't you remember earthquake?
Speaker 8: When you ducked into the shelter here, the big wooden
beam over your head split and came right down.
Speaker 2: Of course, I I remember.
Speaker 5: I tried to get out of the way.
Speaker 9: But I couldn't. You had me worried there for a bit.
You were out cold for a good whole minute.
Speaker 2: A minute, you mean all that happened in just one minute?
Speaker 9: All what happened?
Speaker 3: Well, thanks to that conk on the head, I'd been
off on a very fascinating trip, a voyage.
Speaker 8: To nowhere, whatever that's supposed to me. But tell me something, doctor, Yes,
that little thing you're wearing on a string where around
your neck it looks like the head of a little
black lamb.
Speaker 2: I've never seen that before, but neither have I. How
do you suppose it got there?
Speaker 1: We began this tale by saying that five thousand years
ago is just a minute ago, a.
Speaker 2: Blink of the eye to some men.
Speaker 1: To them, we said, the morning.
Speaker 2: Of the world is just a tick of the clock away.
For Carlo Oresti, it took just.
Speaker 1: That one minute to carry him back hundreds of years
to another time, another place, and another world.
Speaker 2: I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 1: I have read that there are a good many far
off places where they still devoutly believe in things like
a goddess of vengeance, who, to confuse the people, changes
her appearance at will into any number of different shapes,
even into several different forms at the same time. I'd
love to see that for myself, sometimes with one reservation,
I'd like to get there by the usual means of transportation,
and not by a zonk on the head. Our cast
included Arnold Moss, Joan Lovejoy, Court Benson, and E. V.
Speaker 2: Jester.
Speaker 1: The entire production was under the direction of Hymon Brown.
Speaker 3: And now a preview of.
Speaker 2: Our next tale.
Speaker 12: Did anyone examine you well?
Speaker 9: And enter looked at me and asked me to wait?
Only only I couldn't just see why not well?
Speaker 12: Because I had to find somebody I didn't remember who
or where to begin except with with with this?
Speaker 5: What is it?
Speaker 9: Just a piece of paper like from a phone pad
with a number three eight?
Speaker 15: Oh?
Speaker 12: What do you think it means of a room?
Speaker 9: Maybe there's no such room number in this hospital?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 12: I thought, maybe it might might be the old ladies?
Speaker 2: What old lady? I don't know what was the old
lady's name.
Speaker 9: I I don't know what is your name?
Speaker 1: Miss?
Speaker 9: But that's the whole trouble, don't you see?
Speaker 12: I don't know that either.
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Speaker 1: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre.
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