Speaker 1: Yes, Radio Mystery Theater presents.
Speaker 2: Come in. Welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall.
Speaker 1: Settle down and let me ask you a profound and
difficult question.
Speaker 3: What is faith?
Speaker 1: I'd like to tell you I don't know the word
faith is in the dictionary. But do we know that
the man who compiled a dictionary knew any more about
faith than we do? Well, I should like to give
you my favorite description of faith, which comes from the Bible,
from the Book of Hebrews, words written, faith is the
substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
And that is what our story is all about.
Speaker 2: Mister Mather, I did what you said. I did just
as you said. I've powered to the letter what you
said to do. I've forgot Mellisson. You said, wait till
the sun is straight over him. Then go to the
big rock, the one that's worn off at the top.
And you said to take off all your clothes and
lie on your belly and press your face hard into
the rock, and lick the rock with your tongue. You said,
lick the rock twenty nine times with your tongue. Then
then put your clothes back on and go home, and
you will.
Speaker 4: Be all right.
Speaker 2: Did I really say all that? Did I? Really? I
must be losing my mind.
Speaker 1: Our mystery drama, Faith and the Faker was written especially
for the Mystery Theater by Elsbeth Eric and stars Howard
Da Silva. It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor
Division and sign Off the Sinus Medicines. I'll be back
shortly with Act one. Faith is the substance of things
hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. Such
is the theme of our story, and the leading player
is a man who never had faith in anything but
himself m and not in the better part of himself either,
as we shall soon discover.
Speaker 5: I'll get the door open in the second. Mister Maverick,
who you must be drenched or us? Or uh go, honey,
mister Mavick, after your Eliza.
Speaker 2: I can't stand the pain.
Speaker 4: There there, my dear, when.
Speaker 3: Somebody helped the pain I've died.
Speaker 5: Look here, I've brought mister Madden.
Speaker 2: Who would you say?
Speaker 3: Oh the pain, mister Mather is here.
Speaker 2: You'll be all right, jud you said Marr.
Speaker 3: Indeed I did. He came out in this terrible storm.
Speaker 1: Just to make you well again.
Speaker 3: He wouldn't come before. Well, never mind about that.
Speaker 5: He's here now, mister Matter, show judge, you're here, come
close to.
Speaker 2: Hello, judge here here, I'm here for all the good
I can do for you can do it, mister Matter.
Do what have them to make the pain go away?
How am I supposed to do but him make my
leg the way it used to be. Look look how
it is now? Just just look at it. It's all
spot twice its regular side. He's turning, you fake, said,
mister Matter, Judge, I can't. I don't know how you.
Speaker 3: Me the doctor. There's no doctor on the island.
Speaker 1: You know that, mister Matter.
Speaker 2: Then go to the mainland. There's a doctor there.
Speaker 4: With his legs the way it is.
Speaker 3: He never reached the main I don't want the doctor,
not any doctor. I don't have faith in them. I
have faith in you, you, mister Matter.
Speaker 4: Oh how this happened?
Speaker 2: I mean to your way.
Speaker 3: Well, he he was chopping wood. He's foot slipped.
Speaker 5: And the axe caught him right at the ankle. H.
It didn't seem like such a deep cut.
Speaker 3: He's had words, so we well, we bounded up.
Speaker 5: And he went about his business for a couple of days,
and then the swelling started, and then.
Speaker 3: The fever set in. Feel his forehead, he's burning up.
Speaker 2: Where's the axe?
Speaker 3: The axe?
Speaker 2: The axe, the thing that caused the whole mess? Worth?
Speaker 3: Well? Why right there by the door.
Speaker 2: Well, what are you going to do, mister Matter? You
won't cut my leg off with you know? Of course
I'm not going to cut off your leg. I'm going
to punish this axe. I'm gonna make it suffer. I'm
going to torture it. I'm going to make it endure
such pain. But but how are you gonna do that,
mister Matter? I'm going to crucify it, cify. Give me
some strong nails and a hammer, Eliza, Yes, mister Math,
You're kind to crucify the acts right here on this door.
Don't you think it deserves to be crucified after what
it did to you? Yes?
Speaker 3: Yes, here the nails and the hammer.
Speaker 2: Now do you'll hang on this door, you villain. You'll
hang there till you waste away and rock you understand?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: And your here, mister Mather, be sure you hold on,
hold on to your life, hold on to your faith.
Speaker 3: I will, I'll try, I will.
Speaker 2: The thing that tried to kill you is being punished.
Now I'm going to tell you what else you must do.
Tell me I'll do it.
Speaker 3: I miss you, I'll do it.
Speaker 2: I want you to lie very still in your bed
and keep your eyes fixed on the axe, and never
let your gaze wander from the axe on the door.
Think to yourself how the axe is suffering. Curse it
if you like, God will forgive you. For believe me,
the devil is in that axe. Have faith you, keep
your faith constant, and keep your eyes on the axe.
Speaker 3: God bless you, mister Matter.
Speaker 2: Now I must get back to my wife.
Speaker 4: Oh how is your dear wife the same?
Speaker 2: The same? Good night to you both.
Speaker 3: Good night, God bless you, mister Mather.
Speaker 2: Now wasn't that terrible of me, never thinking to ask about.
Speaker 5: His poor wife paralyzed all these years and him not
able to do a thing to help it.
Speaker 4: Dequed woman, I'm latching the acts.
Speaker 3: The sacred miserable l.
Speaker 2: Tacre Shower and the grits impostor there the God in
heaven they strike me dead for my embers frauds. I
want a brother all my life. Why do they believe me?
Why do they have the idiotic great I've never told
them I could cure them of anything that I told
them I couldn't they go on believing and having faith
faith in me? Can they see? Do they know why?
That he's all to heel? I'd give it all from
marriage to the one person in all this world. I
truly love to my safety, my adored own.
Speaker 3: Wife, mister Mather, Mister Mather.
Speaker 2: My beautiful Mary who sits all day in her wheelchair
by the window and watches go. She says, they believe
in you, pay a faith in you go and I go,
And I know I can do nothing. I don't even
know what ailes do, but I've done some dn o rigamarole,
and sometimes it works. I don't know why, mister.
Speaker 3: Mather, wait there for me?
Speaker 2: Oh? Who is it? It's Moses, mister Malla. What are
you doing out in the storm. Why aren't you back
in that cave? You call?
Speaker 3: Oh, I've been looking for here. I I had to
tell you, mister Mather.
Speaker 2: I it worked, what worked and cured my stomachs hung up?
The sickness is gone, or to matter? I I did
what you said.
Speaker 4: I did just you said.
Speaker 2: I can't talk what I said. They've gotten h How
how could you beget you? You cured me the sickness that.
Speaker 4: Was taken away all my streak, that.
Speaker 2: Was making a skillet of me.
Speaker 4: How could you forget what you sent for me to do?
Speaker 2: Now, come on talk? What did I say?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: You said, Moses, wait.
Speaker 4: Till the sun is straight overhead.
Speaker 2: Then gird the big rock, the one that's worn flat
on the top. And you said, take off all your
clothes and lie down.
Speaker 4: On the rock. But don't look into the suner it'll
blind you.
Speaker 2: No, you said, lie on your stomach and press your
face tied into the rock, and link that rock with
your tongue. And that you said, lit the up twenty
nine times with your tongue.
Speaker 4: I do this every day for eight days, and you'll
be all right?
Speaker 3: Do I really say? Well, I must be losing my mind.
Speaker 2: So you've got a mind different from other minds. We
all know that you all know nothing nothing.
Speaker 4: Oh it's probably true. We an' and people are they
England but missed the matther. We have faith, you see,
and that makes.
Speaker 2: Up for our ignorance. Look, I'm glad you're brother. I'm
not really gonna be going home. I don't like leaving
my wife belong, especially with a storm like this. Else
might be struck with me. Oh, how is you wife
just the same.
Speaker 3: You can't do nothing for her?
Speaker 2: Nothing, m.
Speaker 4: You was not an island girl this year.
Speaker 2: I understand you met her on the mainland. That's right. Uh.
You see she got the faith the year that we
island people have, and that's the own trouble, mister Mather,
And she just needs to have little faith.
Speaker 3: Mary. And yet here I got to make some tea.
I thought you'd need it. I do, I do on
the kitchen table. Come join me, and shall of choice?
I shall? I want to hear what happened to poor Judge.
Speaker 2: I think i'd have a spot of rub in my teeth.
Speaker 3: You not for me?
Speaker 2: Not yet, Oh, Mary, why do you make me go
on these fool errands?
Speaker 3: I don't think.
Speaker 2: Oh there's jud lying in bed with his legs swollen
the side of the tree trunk and the color of
a lemon. I asked him how he'd done it, and
he said he'd cut his ankle with an axe. It
wasn't much of a cut, so they just bounded up
with something. And a few days later it started as swell, well,
there he is, can't move out of bed, in terrible pain,
with a raging fever, so what did you do for him?
What could I do? I don't know anything about such things.
If I tried to do anything, I could kill him.
Speaker 3: Oh but you did something, didn't you.
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yes, I did something. I crucified the axe, crucified the act. Well.
They were both looking at me, and I felt so helpless.
I did the first thing that came into my mind.
I asked Eliza for hammer and nails, and I nailed
the axe to the door. Then I told Joe to
perfectly still, never take his eyes off the axe, to
think how the axe was suffering for the senide committed Mary.
I don't know why I did that, Why I said that,
I thought, Well, I guess I thought it would take
the poor man's mind off his pain.
Speaker 3: It will help, I'm sure it will. You help so
many people do.
Speaker 2: Why can't I help you. I don't care for any
of them. I care only for you, Pony even knew
how I love you, dearness more. Every day, I swear,
each day I think to myself, no man as I
ever loved a woman as I love my Mary. Till
the sun goes down and rises again, and as the
day dawns, I think, I think I love her more
today than I did yesterday. And yesterday I loved her
so much I thought I would burst with loving her.
And here it is another day, and I love her
even more. How can such things be?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I'm just content that they are. Mary, I must tell
you something, quite my darling, it was not It was.
Speaker 2: Not always that way with me.
Speaker 3: Quite way.
Speaker 2: I didn't always love you. No, when we met, I
told you almost right away that.
Speaker 4: I loved you.
Speaker 3: But that wasn't true.
Speaker 2: No, when I asked you to marry me and I
said I loved you beyond anything on earth.
Speaker 3: That wasn't true. Now, the whole first year we.
Speaker 2: Were married, I didn't love you. But then then we
decided to come here to live on this island. It
would be cheaper to live here, we said. But I
think it was something else that made us come here.
I think I think it was something in me that
made me want to leave the mainland and all that
sort of life that I've lived there, and to be
on this, on this tiny spot rounded with water set
to the music of seagulls. I wanted to live here
alone with you. It was then that I began to
love you, not before I know have you always known? Yes,
I might have justsed. That's the sort of woman you are.
Oh Mary, there's a doctor on the mainland. If I
could get him to come here, now, darling, you know,
if somehow I could get you to the mainland where
he could take a look at you.
Speaker 7: Before we came here, we saw a dozen doctors and
they all said the same thing.
Speaker 3: You love me less because I can't love you know,
I don't well.
Speaker 2: If this doctor on the mainland, he would know of
specialist of medical centers, things, things have been developed in
the last ten years.
Speaker 3: That would all be very expensive, my dolling.
Speaker 2: I could get the money somehow, how, I don't know, somehow, borrow.
Speaker 3: It, borrow it from law. Everyone here is as poor
as we are.
Speaker 7: Oh, we only had the stock in the silver mine
that was promised to Oh no, if only the old
man hadn't died.
Speaker 2: What's the useful thing when it woke?
Speaker 3: No, no use at all, none at all. So let's
thing about the things happy? Oh now, who could that be?
Speaker 2: I'm not going out again in the storm.
Speaker 5: Mister Mathers, I mean the lines out, get out of
that storm.
Speaker 3: Missus Matherick. Mister Matherick, I I had to come tell
you right away. Jud's all right, He's all right. The
leg opened up suddenly, just like that.
Speaker 5: He he was lying on the bed, very still, like
you told him to do, staring at the axe you.
Speaker 1: Nailed to the door.
Speaker 3: And suddenly I I looked at his poor swollen leg, and.
Speaker 5: The flesh parted just below the knee, and all this
yellow poison began pulling out, mister matter.
Speaker 3: You know what else? At that very moment that the
flesh of his.
Speaker 5: Leg parted, that axe dropped straight down to the floor,
Straight down to the floor, mister Matter. I was standing
right there, and I saw everything with my own two eyes.
Speaker 2: To what do you wish to ascribe this amazing happening?
Was it coincidence?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Plain luck? Was it some wisp of magic floating.
Speaker 4: In the air?
Speaker 1: Was it the substance of things hoped for, the essence
of things not seen?
Speaker 3: Mm?
Speaker 1: And that is to say, was it safe? We'll come
back to you shortly with that too. Weeks have passed
since Mather visited the man with a sorely infected leg,
and Mather's life with his beloved Mary has resumed its
normal course. A narrow life lived meagerly, yet happily because
of the great love between them.
Speaker 2: Then one day, very.
Speaker 3: Very yes, dear, I'll be right there, I'll talk to you. No, now,
don't you bother.
Speaker 7: This wheelchair gets me around very well, it's my chariot anyway,
That's the way I think of it.
Speaker 3: Ooh, what have you got there? The letter a letter.
Speaker 2: Packet from the mainland was in the harbor. When I
was coming back from the market. Captain shouted to me
and held up this.
Speaker 3: He was as surprised as all on earth would be
writing to us.
Speaker 6: Oh you don't suppose it could possibly be about the
silver mine?
Speaker 3: Stopple?
Speaker 4: Oh no, oh, no, too much?
Speaker 3: Is it about the silver mine? Oh no, no, no.
Speaker 2: You remember a few weeks back I tell you about
old Moses, who lives in a cave near the sea.
How he was troubled with a bad case of diarrhea,
and the poor old man was near the exhaustion. He
begged me for help. Well, what could I say? I said?
The first thing that came into my head. I said,
go lie on the flat rock at midday, lie in
your belly for an hour. Then, because it didn't sound
like much of a recommendation, I said, lick the rock
twenty nine times. I don't know what made me say that.
I suppose I liked the sound of it, and did
he do it faithfully every day and worked? It actually worked, Darling.
I don't understand why it worked. It was such a
such an idiotic thing to tell him.
Speaker 3: To do, but it did work. You made it work.
Speaker 2: Wait. A week ago, I was passing by that rock,
and I climbed up and took some scrapings of it
with my knife, and I nailed them to a laboratory
and asked them to analyze it. This letter is their answer.
Married that rock, that silly flat rock lying out there
in the sun. It contains a large percentage of kalin.
Of kalin, Mary, you realize what that means.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what kalin is.
Speaker 2: It's a kind of clay, a very fine clay, almost
invisible to the naked eye, and it has the property
of absorbing thing. Oh, it's famous, Mary. People use it
in porcelain for other things, but most importantly, they use
it to correct the condition that was destroying poor Moses.
Speaker 3: Don't tell him, We'll tell Moses.
Speaker 2: Why not.
Speaker 3: Well, he wouldn't understand, and he'd rather think it was you.
Speaker 2: But I don't want him to think it was me.
I'll get that, Nicholas. Wow, are you tuh? It's my wife,
mister Mather.
Speaker 3: She's she's very bad. I Nicholas, what's the matter with Nellie?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: I I it's the migraine Mary, and Nellie's half out
of her mind with it. Mister Mathith, please please do
something for her.
Speaker 2: Nicholas, I know nothing about my grain headaches? What about
the pills the doctor from the mainland gave her? They
do no good at all.
Speaker 8: Darling.
Speaker 2: You must go, but I can't do anything. You'll think
of something, please please, mister Mather. Alright, let's go.
Speaker 3: You will think of something. Who always have?
Speaker 2: Now? Nellie, I know how much it hurts an anvil
is being struck inside your head?
Speaker 3: Yes, worried? I know.
Speaker 2: I know she can't bear to move her head, and
not even to take some water. I'm not going to
ask you to move your head, Nelly. I'm not going
to ask you to move anything. I'm simply going to
take your hands in mine. Here, first the right hand,
h then the left hand. There, that's all. That's all, Hush.
This is between Nelly and me. Nicholas. Now, Nellie, try
to look at me. If you can't look deep into
my eyes, yes, look into my eyes, but don't think
of me. Think only of your hands. Feel how cold
they are?
Speaker 3: God like ice.
Speaker 2: I'll think of the ice melting. I think of the
sun shining on ice, shining on your hands.
Speaker 3: Hot, hot, sunlight hot.
Speaker 2: Your hands are getting.
Speaker 3: Warmer, warmer and warmer and warmer. And while your hands
are beginning to feel hot, burning, I can.
Speaker 4: Hardly hold it.
Speaker 3: Don't it God?
Speaker 2: Because don't it?
Speaker 3: God?
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 5: Because because my head is hid you need.
Speaker 3: To clear good? Is it true? Is a true? Mell? Pain?
Speaker 4: And pain is leaving me.
Speaker 5: Hold on to my hand till the pain is gone.
Speaker 2: Don't worry. I sait right here and hold your hands
till the pain is going. Oh my God, Mary, it
was ridiculous. I had no idea what to do. All
I could think of was that you had said you'll
think of something, and holding your hands was what I
thought of. So I did it and it worked. Yes, yes,
it works.
Speaker 3: I don't know why Nellie had faith in you, But
I don't care.
Speaker 2: About Nellie or Moses or jud or any of them.
I only care about you. And I can't do anything
for you.
Speaker 3: You love me, You make me happy?
Speaker 2: Do I make you strong and well and able to walk,
even raise yourself from that wheelchair?
Speaker 3: No? Then what good am I?
Speaker 2: Not? Earthly?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 4: Am I?
Speaker 3: Mary?
Speaker 2: I've been thinking of something Moses said to me that
night during the storm. He said, he said, the reason
I could help so many of the islanders was because
they had faith in me.
Speaker 3: Oh they do, darling.
Speaker 2: And he said that perhaps the reason I couldn't help
my own wife was because because you're not an islander,
and you don't have faith in me.
Speaker 3: Darling, I love you with all my heart. I love you,
But do you have.
Speaker 2: Faith in me? I mean the strong faith, the kind
of faith that moves mountains, as the Bible calls it.
Do you?
Speaker 4: I only know?
Speaker 3: I love you, Mary.
Speaker 2: I'm going to get that doctor from the mainland. One
way or another. I'm going to bring him to this island.
Speaker 3: Without money.
Speaker 2: I'll mortgage my life and.
Speaker 3: Without a boat. I'll borrow a boat with no one
to sail the boat.
Speaker 2: I'll manage. You'll see, You'll see, I'll manage somehow. Mister Matther,
it's Nelly again, another migraine. You must come she's in
such pain, Nicholas, Not now, I have other things on
my n You don't know how she suffers.
Speaker 3: Two weeks ago when you.
Speaker 2: Cured her that that was bad enough, but this time
that it's worse.
Speaker 3: You must come.
Speaker 2: You really want me to.
Speaker 3: I want you to very well.
Speaker 2: If my wife wants me to go with you, Nicholas,
come on, you.
Speaker 3: Will think of something, my dolling. You see, you'll think
of something.
Speaker 2: I know it hurts, because I know it hurts. Your
head is bursting with pain. Your stomach is churning.
Speaker 3: Do matter?
Speaker 2: Why do you just stand there? The light through the
shutters pierce as your eyeballs, doesn't it.
Speaker 3: Aren't you gonna take her hands, mister matter?
Speaker 2: Tell her to look into your eyes?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 3: Are you gonna do something else?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: But you can't let her suffer like that. Aren't you
gonna do any thing at all? No? But you are.
Speaker 3: How can I do what I did? But I have
no power, mister Mann, I'm not like I am going
to give.
Speaker 2: You my power from here. Pull that chair up to
your wife's bedside. Sit down. Now, take your wife's hands
in yours. That's right, h Nelly. Look at your husband,
look at him, Cullis. Yes, Nellie, your hands are in
your husband's hands. Now I'm going to put my hands
on top of his hands. Whatever power is in me
will pass from my hands into his. Do you understand, Yes?
Do you understand, Nicholas?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: All right. Then now look deep into your husband's eyes, Nelly.
Never let your gaze wander, and you, Nicholas, keep your
eyes fixed on the eyes of your wife. That's it,
very good. Neither of you knew the moment when I
removed my hands. That means that my power went into
the hands of Nicholas. And now the power in the
hands of Nicholas is passing into your hands. Nelly, I fear.
What do you feel?
Speaker 3: They are burning? Mad I can feel I claimed on.
Speaker 4: Let go hold on, Nelly?
Speaker 2: How does your head feel.
Speaker 3: Much bitter?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Nellie?
Speaker 3: Gone, Stay like that the two of you.
Speaker 2: For another ten minutes, and the pain will be gone completely.
Speaker 3: Oh, miss to mad Oh how can we ever think?
Thank you?
Speaker 2: I must be getting back to my wife now, but
surely that there must be something we can do for you.
Speaker 3: You've done so much for it.
Speaker 2: Nothing really, Oh wait a moment. You have a boat,
don't you? Yes? Yes, I do, And Nicholas, you know
how to sail it. Yes, yes, I know how to
sail it. Will you take me to the mainland in
your boat, of course, and bring me back? But yes,
I certainly will, mister Manage. Fine, sometime in the next
couple of weeks or one other thing, Nicholas, you and
I will be making the trip to the mainland alone,
but on the return trip there will be another man
with us. A very important personage. Is that understood? Anything
you say, mister Matther, we owe you so much, you
will repay me in full.
Speaker 1: I am quite sure that there is at least one
person who has.
Speaker 2: Faith in you.
Speaker 1: Is it your wife, your rousband, your father or mother,
a child, at the very least a dog or a
cat who trusts you to fulfill the unspoken promises made
by the very existence of your love.
Speaker 2: For each other.
Speaker 1: Of course, there is no if, and I hate to
utter the words. If there is not, then you must
be the unhappiest person in the world. I'll be back
shortly with Act three.
Speaker 3: I want that medicine headache tablet, no medicin sin of tablet,
help the headache on the brash hair. Oh you mean
sigin off exactly.
Speaker 1: Headache pain is one thing, A sinus headache is something else.
And sometimes your whole face consumed to throb with pain.
You want relief. Take sign off tablets, s I N eoff.
Speaker 2: The sinus medicine that gives you a full dose of
pure aspirin plus a sinus drainer. Sign off the sinus
medicine that helps relieve sinus pain while you drain, and
sign off doesn't stop there? Have you tried? Sign off?
Speaker 1: Sinus spray the fastest known form of sinus congestion relief.
It works in seconds. That sign off sinus spray when
sinus flares up, you sign off tablets and spray only
is directed F I.
Speaker 3: N EO F F sign off exactly.
Speaker 1: Sign off the sinus medicines in the bright red box.
Speaker 2: Tell me something. What do you think of when I
say Cullagan Callagan? Uh huh?
Speaker 1: I think it?
Speaker 2: Yep, everyone gets that right away. I guess it's because
Culligan's only business is good water, just water, just water.
In eighty five countries all over the world. Cullagan's full
time business is the softening, filtering and conditioning of water
full time, full time and Culligan water softeners come in
a bigger selection and a wider range of prices, with
exclusive features like triple hull tanks and like that. Your
Culligan man is.
Speaker 3: A man who cares the same does the colon.
Speaker 2: So do as your neighbors do to rent or buy
the leading brand of water conditioner. Just called your nearby
Culligan man.
Speaker 3: All right, he'll purgon man.
Speaker 2: There's his truck.
Speaker 3: Now is how win't culling a boat.
Speaker 9: Water Troy Culligan's soft water without buying Now you can
rent an automatic water softener for as little as five
dollars and fifty cents a month. For complete details on
how you can rent a Couligan, pick up your phone
and say He'll tell the man, this is w BBM Chicago.
Speaker 2: He was radio seventy eight nineteen degrees at midway. It's
eleven oh six.
Speaker 1: Two weeks have passed since Mather mysteriously conveyed to Nicholas
the means by which he might cure the migraine headaches
of his own wife.
Speaker 2: In return, Mather exacted from.
Speaker 1: Nicholas a promise to take him in his sailboat to
the mainland. Now Mather is about to demand the fulfillment
of that promise.
Speaker 2: Come an, come in, mister murther.
Speaker 3: Come here, come toit down, have some coffee with us.
Speaker 2: Thank you, No, Nellie, another time, Nicholas. Today's the day?
What days that? Today's the day you take me to
the mainland in your boat. Oh you haven't forgotten your promise,
have you? Oh?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: Oh no, no no, we would never break a promise
to you, mister Mather.
Speaker 1: Uh how how long will we be away? I uh,
I don't like to leave Nelly alone too long. You know,
if one of her headaches should come back.
Speaker 2: She takes us the better part of a day to
get there, and perhaps part of a day to find
the person I'm looking for a little time to persuade
him to come back here with us. Three days, probably fourth,
the most, the very most.
Speaker 1: Now that you're telling me how to written any of
her terrible headaches, ain't the leader, Nicholas.
Speaker 3: You promised you. You must keep your promise.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Nelly.
Speaker 3: I'll be all right, I know I will.
Speaker 5: And oh something else, mister matter. Every day I'll go
to your house to be sure Mary's all right.
Speaker 2: Mary does pretty well for herself. She knows how to
get around in her wheelchair.
Speaker 5: Yes, but she might need something from the store. And besides,
she'd like the company, wouldn't.
Speaker 3: She with you away? Of course she would.
Speaker 2: And it's very kind of you to offer, Nicholas, bring
the boat to my dock and we'll say about an hour.
Why could be there sooner if you like? No? No,
and now would be soon enough. I want a chance
to talk to my wife, tell her of Nelly's kind offer,
and a few other things. Goodbye, Thanks, if you vote.
Speaker 3: A good journey, mister Matherick, I'll see to that.
Speaker 2: Mary.
Speaker 3: I'm right here, dear.
Speaker 2: I just talked to Nicholas. He's going to sell me
to the mainleem and I've got to see that doctor.
I've got to tell her about you, and I'm going
to bring him back here.
Speaker 3: Oh, darling, my mind's made up without money.
Speaker 2: Before I go, my love, I must tell you a
story about myself.
Speaker 3: Now. There's nothing about you. I don't know within man
and wife for ten years.
Speaker 2: This is a story about me before we ever met,
ever married, and I have to tell it to you now.
Speaker 3: It can't wait, Darling. I have to tell you now,
if you must, all.
Speaker 2: Right, before I met you, Mary, I may as well
say it right now. I was one of the top
ten swindlers in the country. Swindlers come man confidence, men
men who men who trim suckers.
Speaker 3: I don't know what that means exactly, men.
Speaker 2: Who pretend they have ways to make large sums of
money for people who trust them. My favorite gimmick, gimmel scheme,
scheme for getting money out of people. My favorite scheme
was the dying stockholder pitch pinch. The tale I tell
the suckers, the story. I tell them I was a
financial developer of mining properties.
Speaker 3: But that's what you told me.
Speaker 2: I know, is I know? Then I tell them that
there was the silver mine out in Nevada or someplace
that had been closed down five years ago when the
vein ran out, but now the State Bureau of Mines
had found a new vein and it was going to
open it up again. Well you told me, wait wait wait, wait.
Then I tell them that the last quotation on it
was a dollar a share, but at the time was
to be reopened, it would be worth ten. Oh yes, dear,
But I'd say, the only hitch was the stock was
held by a very very old man, a very sick
old man, a very sick old man who was desperate
for money, and if he got it right away, he'd
sell the stock at a dollar share.
Speaker 3: I know all this.
Speaker 2: I know you do because I told the whole story
to you, and you gave me all your money, mary,
all your savings, every penny you had in the world.
Speaker 3: But the old man died. He died before he could
transfer the silver mine stock, That's what I told you.
And he spent the money on doctors and nurses, that's
what you said.
Speaker 7: And he never got around sending us the stock certificate,
so we had no proof that we'd send him the
money to pay for the certificate.
Speaker 3: That's what you told me.
Speaker 2: Oh very, my sweetest, my dearest man fust to love it.
There never were stock certificates, There never was a silver mine.
There never was an old man who was sick and dying.
Speaker 3: Well, then, then what happened to the money?
Speaker 2: I kept it. It's what we were living on for
the last ten years.
Speaker 3: But why I don't understand. Why didn't you just just
take my money and and go off somewhere.
Speaker 2: You must know the answer to that, but I don't
because I couldn't bear to leave you.
Speaker 3: But why not.
Speaker 2: Because I had begun to love you. It was such
a strange, such a new feeling for me, because I
never loved anyone in my life. I didn't know how
to say the word. Even when I asked you to
marry me, the word love wouldn't come to my lips.
I but you married me anyway, Oh, my darling. For
ten years such love has been growing in my heart.
Speaker 3: And I've watched it grow.
Speaker 2: And now, my dearest, I'm going to sail to the
mainmo with Nicholas. I'm going to find the doctor who
will make you well, who'll release you from that wheelchair
so that you can walk run on the beach with me.
Speaker 3: But we're happy the way we are, Dearest, tell.
Speaker 2: Me before I go, tell me you forgive me for
the lies I tell you ten years ago, for the
lie I've lived ever since.
Speaker 3: For ten years, I've known all I needed to know
about you, if you loved me.
Speaker 2: Nicholas will be along pretty soon with his boat.
Speaker 3: Let's just sit by the window and wait for him,
and hold each other's hands and not talk at tall. Mary,
it's me. I'm coming in. Oh, come on in, Nelly,
Oh Mary, I'm so sorry. I'm sotry.
Speaker 5: That's all right, Nellie, but I promise i'd be here
first thing in the morning, while you have been every
day till today.
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry. Now, Nellie, don't make such a fuss.
Hear this coffee on the table, help yourself, said, I will,
And then I'm going to tell you the.
Speaker 5: Most fantastic story you ever.
Speaker 3: Heard in all your born day. I've heard a lot
of fantastic stories in my time. Well not like this
when you haven't. Oh you want coffee, No thanks, I've
had plenty. Well, then.
Speaker 2: Wait till you hear what I'm going to tell you.
Speaker 3: I'm waiting for.
Speaker 5: As you very well know, your husband and mine have
been gone for three days.
Speaker 3: Your day will be the fourth day.
Speaker 5: And well you know, Nicholas was very nervous about going
because he didn't wanna leave me, And to tell you
the truth, I was nervous about his going too, for
fear I might have another one of my headaches. Ever
since your husband showed my husband how to make them
go away.
Speaker 3: Well, uh, you know all about that, Yeah, you know.
Speaker 5: Well, everything's been all right, and after all, they were
only going to be gone three or four days.
Speaker 3: What could happen? Such a short time. The trip was
so important.
Speaker 5: Your husband said something about bringing somebody back to the
island with them, some very important personage, a doctor, A doctor, really.
Speaker 3: A doctor who might be able to help me.
Speaker 2: He said.
Speaker 5: It's so strange that your husband can help everybody, but
he can't help you all.
Speaker 3: He helps me just by living with me and loving me.
But not to walk. No, but go on with what
you were going to tell me.
Speaker 5: Oh, well, Mary, this morning I woke up and.
Speaker 3: What do you think? I though, No, Nellie, tell me
another migrain headache. That's what I woke up with.
Speaker 5: Oh no, Nellie, no, I was in despair that the pain.
Speaker 2: But then you know what I did.
Speaker 5: I lay quietly in my bed and I thought of
Nicholas A. And I thought of your husband too.
Speaker 3: I admitted. And I thought of.
Speaker 5: How they held my hands and had looked into my eyes,
and how my hands grew warmer and warmer as they
held them, and how the pain in my head grew
less and less.
Speaker 3: And Mary, do you know what started to happen?
Speaker 5: Tell me my hands grew warmer and warmer till they
were hot. I did it myself, very all by myself.
I I myself made my own hands grow hotter and
hotter till I thought so when they were on fire,
and little by little the pain in my head started
to go away.
Speaker 3: How wonderful. So that's why I'm late coming to see you.
It's all right, Nellie, truly, it is all right.
Speaker 5: Well, the men should be on their way back by now.
Speaker 3: Yes, why don't you go to the window and look out.
I'll make some fresh coffee. They're coming, they're coming. I
can see the sales that a good wing blowing, good. Good.
We'll have coffee ready for them.
Speaker 5: They'll be coming up alongside the dock.
Speaker 3: Now you'd best let Nicholas. No, you're here, Nellie, I will.
Speaker 5: Nicholas, Nicholas, I'm here.
Speaker 3: I'm here with Mary. She's making coffee. Hurry, they'll be
right in. They're tying up the boat. I'll throw the
coffee if you want me to do it. No, no,
I want to do it.
Speaker 8: A cup for Nicholas, the cup for my beloved husband,
and a special cup for the wonderful doctor.
Speaker 3: Oh shall I point another cup for you? Why not?
Speaker 5: This is a very special occasion and one for me
to that must be Nicholas, Oh, my dear I have
such things to tell you.
Speaker 3: Where is my husband?
Speaker 2: He's coming?
Speaker 3: And the doctor, Darling, Oh, darling, there you are. Luke.
Look at what we have for all of you. Praise
hot coffee, five cup. It's a special occasion now, he says,
for the occasions. Why the doctor, Yes, the where is
the doctor? You couldn't find it? Oh?
Speaker 2: Yes, we we come.
Speaker 3: We he wouldn't come, He wouldn't come. Was he have
prayed the make a trip?
Speaker 2: Yes he was. He's afraid of the trip. Marry. I tried.
I tried my best.
Speaker 3: Close the dog, darling. When you getting getting cold in here? Mary?
Speaker 2: I told him I'd work for him for the rest
of my life, believe me.
Speaker 3: Stay where you are, Stay right where you are by
the daughter.
Speaker 2: Mary.
Speaker 3: Please don't go. Don't come near me, you, Mary, what
are you doing? Don't any of you come near me?
What is she trying to do?
Speaker 2: I I think she I think, Marry Are you sure.
Speaker 3: Very sure, very very sure?
Speaker 4: Marry, welly, what are you doing?
Speaker 5: I am?
Speaker 4: I am Mary's little.
Speaker 3: Very sure and very lovingly walking into the arms of
my husband. What out your hands, my darling, I am working.
I'm walking a great you.
Speaker 1: Look the door of our home over, Oh my wife.
What is the moral of our story if it has
a moral? Why that the handmaiden of faith is truth.
That without perfect truth there can never be perfect safe.
But when both truth and face are perfec.
Speaker 2: Why then.
Speaker 1: Miracles happen, as one has just happened in our story
called Faith and the Faker. I'll be back shortly. You're
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Speaker 3: Boys, do I have a headache? Why do they have
to make these pop so hard something?
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That's why we have safety packaging for the life of
your child. You can live with a little inconvenience. For
further information, right the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington,
d C two two O seven. I cannot resist going
back to my first definition of faith, the definition given
us by the good book itself. Faith is the substance
of things hoped for.
Speaker 2: The evidence of things not seen. The lines bear repeating.
Speaker 1: And deserve memorizing the substance of things hoped for the
evidence of.
Speaker 3: Things not see.
Speaker 2: That, dear listener, his faith.
Speaker 1: Our cast included Howard da Silvan, Mary, Jane Higbee, Briana Raeburn,
Guy Sorel, and Russell Horton. The entire production was under
the direction of Hyman Brown and now a preview of
our next tale. When you're afraid you're old man, Well,
we ain't kid out of town or at least Hyder somewhere.
Speaker 2: It's now or never.
Speaker 3: How do we do it?
Speaker 1: One of your houts wasn't in the country. We couldn't
sure the place is locked and board. But uh, what
we do is get a rope ladder up to Catherine's windows.
Speaker 3: So what about the guard? How'd we get through the gap?
Speaker 1: I'll take care of him. He's a cinch. We'll stand signed.
When I wrap with our friend, I'll be.
Speaker 2: A drunk looking for Shanna. Who's curR hangover? Oh Jersey
your son.
Speaker 4: It'll be a great act.
Speaker 2: I'll be falling down drunk.
Speaker 1: See I get close to the guy, he's a gone LaMnO,
I knock him out. You go up the lane to
persuade Kate to come down it?
Speaker 2: Can I persuade her?
Speaker 3: Sure? You can?
Speaker 1: You hold all the corn, sweetheart, a plan you've worked
out for hers?
Speaker 2: I wanna.
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Speaker 1: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.
Speaker 2: At the end of a myctory though Oh no, boy,
wool so uncut time ago, ain't my saying.
Speaker 4: To We'll be back bye and bye with more.
Speaker 3: Of radio death again to terrify. I'll give you Barty
over ride to.
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Speaker 3: We not make sure that you're the one? Do you forge?
Speaker 2: You on.
Speaker 3: One barn hour? Should on the light? Get old man
of the law. Hope we didn't leave you in a
flight arena. Stay and shine will be.
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A compliment of.
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