Speaker 1: Oh and now mystery theater, come in.
Speaker 2: Welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall.
Speaker 3: They say they do be girls in Galway that are
the fairest in the world.
Speaker 4: Of course, there are other things in Galway all Ireland
for that matter, that you don't find anywhere else. Cluricons
and banshees, the little folk, and of course the Leprechawn himself,
Blarnie and the Blarnie Stone itself.
Speaker 2: So many things that are hard to credit.
Speaker 4: That the only way is to make a trip there
for yourselves, as we are now going to do.
Speaker 2: Mother of Heaven.
Speaker 3: He's at it again, Mary, uncle tarn who else Ragland
is portrayed against the chimney stones and weighing like the banshee.
Speaker 5: Well, Sean, you know what he's after.
Speaker 6: Turn the picture face to the wall and give the
poor man the chance to dress himself in privacy.
Speaker 3: All right, very Oh, but where would he want to
be off to today? There's no wake or wedding or
holy day to celebrate if he's.
Speaker 5: Taken advantage of the Lefflcuans. Promise there's something special in
the wind.
Speaker 2: Now, you, being the man.
Speaker 6: Take we peep there and see if he's gone.
Speaker 2: He's gone the canvas is there as a turnip?
Speaker 6: Then mark my words, shanday, We're in for some excitement
in Glenfort.
Speaker 5: I wonder what will be this time.
Speaker 4: Our mystery drama The Wakeful Ghost was written especially for
the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and stars Paul Hecht.
Brian Mackin finished his last year of med school and
found himself with a thousand dollars left of his inheritance
and two weeks before he began his internship. He was
weary from the long struggle for his medical degree because,
in spite of scholarships, he had to work outside to
raise money for the six years of study.
Speaker 2: Both his parents were dead so far as he knew,
he was alone in the world.
Speaker 4: But his background was Irish and he had some vague
memory that an aunt and uncle were living still in
the old country. So he decided to spend the two
weeks on a vacation which was to.
Speaker 2: Change his whole life.
Speaker 3: Nobody's going to believe this, but it's exactly what happened
to me in Ireland. After roaming around a few days
in Dublin, I took a train for Balinaslow in Galway.
Speaker 2: To the west.
Speaker 3: The only clue I had to my uncle and aunt
was an old postcard with that postmark and their names.
Speaker 2: Sean and Mary Daily, which is sort of equivalent to
John and Mary Smith.
Speaker 3: I didn't have much hope of finding them, but it
was a joy just to have nothing to do with
my last three days playing detective. No one was more
surprised than I when a ruddy faced little gentleman walked
up to me at the Nation. Sure, now I couldn't
be mistaken, but just for the politeness of the thing
and observing the formalities at twelve. But you wouldn't be
Brian Mackin from America. Yes, that's exactly who I would be.
Speaker 2: And now your baby wondering who I well, Yes I am.
I am sure, I'm.
Speaker 3: Your great uncle Terence on your mother's side, once or
twice removed, for I was born on the wrong side
of the blanket.
Speaker 2: They say, Oh, I don't know myself nor kay for sure.
In my own opinion he was a changeling, which accounts.
Speaker 3: For my close association with the way. That's of no
matter for the moment. Terrence Krusky is the name Terrence
Kinseta clonme cruse Kain.
Speaker 2: But your uncle Terrance will serve, which is the way
most people know me. Well, I'm still puzzled. How did
you know me?
Speaker 3: I've a little cat and the pony waiting, and if
we want to get to your aunt and uncles before dark,
I'm thinking we'd best get along and I tell you.
Speaker 2: All on the way.
Speaker 3: I don't mean to be root serve, but I still
would like to know how you knew I was coming
here today. I only made up my mind on the
spur of the moment this morning. Now that's where you're wrong.
Do you see?
Speaker 2: What do you mean or why we're writing along?
Speaker 3: Would you like to get a dash of poustine to
warm the cockles.
Speaker 2: Of your heart?
Speaker 3: Is that the Irish whisky you make out of bog
water that's about one hundred and eighty proof the same?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 3: Thanks, No, that's the stuff I had last night in
Dublin that knocked me.
Speaker 2: Out like a mickey. It was still not over it.
Speaker 3: Well, now, then, to answer your question, yeah, how I
knew to expect you. Do you remember the little chap
in the green bowler you met at the snoke last night?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, I remember him. He introduced me to this nectar.
When now mcdrush is a friend of mine, and.
Speaker 3: That's nobody said last night was a friend? No, I
mean that that wasn't his name. Oh he probably called
himself Michael Mahon or some such.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, sure, that's what.
Speaker 3: He uses us as a cover when he's out and
about the town.
Speaker 2: What is he a secret agent Ira or something? Aren't him?
He's all peace and good will.
Speaker 3: He's a leprechaun, a leprechaun, that's right. God, come on,
uncle Chesy, stop hauling my leg. Michael Mahon was no leprechaun.
Did he have a little green bowler? Well, I don't
know if you could call it green, it was green.
And did he have pointed little ears just under his
oprim at the top lay well, as a matter of fact,
medically I was interested because the auricular cartilage was strangely
shaped at the top of his ears.
Speaker 2: Dear, dear there, dear there, you see did you see?
Speaker 3: There's your answer enough to convince an American anyway, Your
friend the.
Speaker 2: Eprechaun sent me a message in a way.
Speaker 3: That we have and that's how Ei the Greatest put
on a all time. You're not going to tell me
you're a leprechaun too. Oh no, oh no, no, I'm
more of a banshee you might call me, but with
special privileges. Oh, yes, quite spiritual, but that can wait.
Oh ooh, is this where my aunt and uncle? If
it is Sean and Mary Daily, that's who they are.
They expecting me, not blessure. No, but you'll be welcome, son,
as welcome as the flowers in may he here.
Speaker 2: Take your bags and jump on down, won't you coming
in with me to introduce me.
Speaker 3: We'll sure you're a nice, well maned ladd and your
manage by yourself. But it's time enough to put Mareen
and the cat and myself away. Tidania, this is needed.
Speaker 2: God hold you in his pocket till we meet again.
We are going to angry.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, indeed, I don't know how to be arranged,
but I have plans for you as the future of
more than one. At the moment he was calling his
back to me, the twilight was upon us. It must
have been some trick of the rising evening, miss, but
I swear before he reached the corner of the building,
Uncle Terence, the old fashioned cart and marine who pulled
it seemed to disappear in the gathering gloom.
Speaker 8: Good evening to you, young gentlemen.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, are you by any chance missus Seawan Daily?
Speaker 2: I am that did you have a brother who emigrated
to America called Thomas Mackham?
Speaker 5: I did, and you're from America. You couldn't hear issus Bryan?
Speaker 6: You are Bryan Markin whose mother is large as dean Eise.
Speaker 7: That's me I had married, Oh Briant, Oh with Darling's
form with Darlan forget me?
Speaker 5: Comes a twin, Sean, Sean, Will you look who's here?
It's Tommy's son and Margarets.
Speaker 2: This is your uncle, Sean. It's a pleasure to meet you.
Speaker 5: And sit down, Sean, take the boy's bag. Yes, how
did you ever find us?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: It's been years since we lost track.
Speaker 6: Sean and me had to move some sudden like and
our letters seem to go a straight Now, tell me.
Speaker 2: About tom and mine. Mother and dad both died suddenly
within a month of each other.
Speaker 3: I've been so busy burying myself in schoolwork, I didn't well,
I let everything else go.
Speaker 5: Oh you poor dad, and oh if i'd known. Oh,
you must tell us all about.
Speaker 2: Can I get you a wee nip. Oh no, no,
no thanks, I'm learning to be careful of Irish nips. Well,
then I get you something to eat.
Speaker 5: Now you'll stay the night with us on a few days.
Speaker 3: Sure, I got till the weekend before I have to
catch my plane home. Oh, anyway, I'll wait to have
dinner with all of you, Aunt Mary, Uncle Sean and
Uncle Tara. Uncle Terence. He met me at the station,
brought me here. I'd never found you without him. He
just went to put the horse and cart away.
Speaker 2: A little mayor with one black eye and one white.
Yeah that's Maureen.
Speaker 5: And did you expect to meet him at the station?
Speaker 2: Oh no? He absolutely floored me.
Speaker 3: I mean, the only reason I came to bal and
asked what was because I found an old card from
you to mother, who was a postmark. I was just
taking while stav in the dark, that someone might know about.
Speaker 2: You or where you live. I wanted to well, I mean,
as far as I know, you are my only living relatives.
Speaker 5: Oh we and we are well.
Speaker 2: I didn't know about Uncle Terence, and and what byan
you can be free with that? Well, I don't know
what to say. He talked about leprechawns and Bansheese, you
know that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: I might have thought he was a little I guess
you'd say touched, except for well, I shouldn't talk this way.
Speaker 2: I loved him. He was fun and.
Speaker 3: Amusing, full of a wonderful zest for life. It's sort
of scary too. Is he the same at home here? Oh?
Speaker 6: He can be all of those, though we don't see
much of it anymore. Uncle Terence is a great problem.
Speaker 3: Oh I'm sorry, nothing to do with you. I hope
you won't tell him some of the things I just
said or intimated when he comes in for dinner.
Speaker 2: I mean, hey, he won't be here for dinner. Oh oh,
I thought he lived here. Well, so he does in
in a sort of way. I think it's time that
we told the boy the truth.
Speaker 5: Shan is beast.
Speaker 2: We care.
Speaker 3: Yes, well you.
Speaker 9: You had a good long look at Uncle Terence. He
wouldn't forget it.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, never look behind the picture and make sure. Yeah, yes,
he's back again. Now came here. You see this portrait, Bryan,
Now would that be Uncle tarn Oh? Yeah, yeah, that's him.
That's him to the life.
Speaker 9: You're not exactly the gentleman you are looking at has
been dead these thirty five years. What the only problem
is that he won't stay decently in his grave.
Speaker 4: So Brian mackin has come all the way to Ireland
to find a real uncle and aunt, and in addition
a quite unreal uncle, a man who appears to be
able to rise from the grave full bodied by the
mere device of having his portrait turn to the wall.
Speaker 2: No wonder.
Speaker 4: Brian is convinced that it's all illusionary, a pipe dream
programmed by that popt potine.
Speaker 2: And yet this is only the beginning. I'll be back
shortly with that too.
Speaker 4: Back again to our world of fantasy, and a young
American trapped in a web of superstition, illusion, or perhaps
just the spell the Emerald Island can weave so.
Speaker 2: Easily about any visitor to its chores. Still, whatever doubts.
Speaker 4: And fears he may have taken to bed with him,
they are all dispelled by a glorious sunrise that wakes
him up with cockcow.
Speaker 3: My window faced to the east, with the sun streaming
in and striking shafts.
Speaker 2: Of golden light from a blue river a few miles away.
Speaker 3: I climbed out of the host of warm blankets and
quilt that covered my bed. They're almost cold enough for
me to seek the sun's warmth directly, and it was
there at the window I first saw Sheila.
Speaker 2: She was not a small girl. She was tall and sturdy,
but she walked as though each footfall was no heavier
than a feather landing on the ground. She had long
brown hair and purple eyes, with a wide.
Speaker 3: Mouth that well, once I saw it break in a smile,
made me make up my mind this was going to
be my gal. Well, since she was approaching the house
carrying a basket, I don't suppose I ever dressed faster
in my life to get down in time, not to
mis meeting her.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Brian, and did just sleep well? Oh, yes,
a best sleep I've had since I can remember.
Speaker 5: Sure it was a short enough one.
Speaker 2: And you so so t You know that cock was
crawing and ah, that's old rooster.
Speaker 5: He's no fake smile.
Speaker 6: Use is to hens anymore, his best days being over
never a chick in the last two years, there's not
over four or five layers we have left.
Speaker 5: So Sheila, here me, we have a bargain.
Speaker 6: Oh you're not omit, Sheila Shaughnessy from the next firm over, Sheila,
This is my nephew, all the way from the United
States of America.
Speaker 10: It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance, mister Mackin.
Speaker 2: Brian macken.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's a good West Country name, mister Mackin.
Speaker 3: Well, my grandfather came from here from Galway. I mean
they say he was quite a bully boy.
Speaker 5: Hi, Well those days are past.
Speaker 10: Praisebe still the way things are, we were better off
with the schile than the gun.
Speaker 2: I couldn't agree with you more. Anyone who plans to
be a doctor, is it what your way to be?
Speaker 3: Well, I already am. I mean I've graduated and had
my license. Now I have to intern and be a
hospital resident for a few years till I start out
on my own.
Speaker 5: Oh that's grand. I have a great admiration for doctor. No. No,
then this'll have told or the bread will burn.
Speaker 6: Up on us, and I want you to get it
home with a little heat left in us.
Speaker 5: This is missus Daily's bargain with me.
Speaker 10: I bring her a basket of eggs, and she bakes
the most delicious bread this side.
Speaker 5: Of heav Ah. Here, No, here's the basket. Keep the
towel tucky in good and tight man, never fear.
Speaker 2: That's a heavy basket. Why don't I carry it for
you to your house?
Speaker 5: I was going to give you your break.
Speaker 2: Well, it'll wait. I always like a little exercise before
I eat.
Speaker 10: Uh, well, you'll be aftergetting that, all right.
Speaker 5: It's a good mile and a half to Sheila's place,
and a road like a switchback all the way. Oh,
the basket is nothing. It's light as a feather.
Speaker 3: I really would like a walk, if you don't object,
I don't object.
Speaker 10: I have a curious turn of mind, and i'd like
to hear all about America.
Speaker 2: I'd really like you to be able to do is
to show it to you. But don't you show me?
Ireland hurt? Yeah? Was that sheer roll sharotty?
Speaker 5: Then the same?
Speaker 3: Or no? Dammit?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 9: Why didn't she wait long enough for me to get
down and get my little morning pack on the cheek?
Speaker 10: Sure she has.
Speaker 6: Little interest in an old gaffer like you, but you
should have seen her reaction to Brian and his her.
Speaker 2: Well, would y'all look at the two of them. She's
over he shoulder eye to him. Oh what a fine
couple they'd.
Speaker 10: Make, don't I know?
Speaker 6: It, And don't her know just as well, I should
never let the boy go off with even a pinch
of hope in his heart.
Speaker 5: No, and she can't ever be for him. And he's
really true that in Chicago they have a building.
Speaker 10: That's ninety six whole stories high in here?
Speaker 2: Is that's true enough?
Speaker 3: So damn high that half a time the people on
the top floors can't tell what to wear when they
go out.
Speaker 5: How is that?
Speaker 3: Well, you see, it's air conditioned, and when the cloud
cover is low, they can't see down to the street,
so they don't know if it's raining or snowing, or
cold or hot or what.
Speaker 10: Will you just imagine that now, living above the clouds
be a sort of fairy.
Speaker 2: Lad nothing like the one you live in here right
on the ground.
Speaker 10: Sure, ELL's lovely, but there are other lovely places in
the world.
Speaker 5: I'd want to see.
Speaker 2: You know a lot about America, anyway?
Speaker 10: Will I watch to tell you know?
Speaker 5: And I read a lot?
Speaker 3: And I.
Speaker 5: Here it's winded you. I'll slow down a bit.
Speaker 2: I says, Damn hills up and down like a roller coaster.
Speaker 5: That's what it is daily meant by a switchback.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised to find myself, so out of condition?
Speaker 5: Will you be staying with the dailies forty while?
Speaker 2: On one condition?
Speaker 8: What's that?
Speaker 2: And she'll take another walk with me Tomorrow's Saturday. We
could take a picnic lunch along and I climb that
mountain over there.
Speaker 5: I'm afraid I couldn't do that.
Speaker 2: You have another date? No, it's not that.
Speaker 5: It's oh, you.
Speaker 10: See, my dad's dead and it's just my mother and me,
and she's half crippled with rheumatism. H I couldn't be
leaving her hard at Noe all that time.
Speaker 2: And then there's the farm choice to be I could
I could come over and help you get.
Speaker 10: Those out of the way, Doctor Mackinburg.
Speaker 2: Bryan, Well, it's a bit sooner.
Speaker 10: Hour, but if you want, Brian, Oh, it's just no good.
Speaker 5: It's not the way it should be.
Speaker 2: You don't want to go with me, is that it? Sheila?
Speaker 5: Sheila? I do want to, Brian, I do?
Speaker 2: Oh, well, then come it'd be my only chance.
Speaker 10: Now I'll need you here by this brig you're about
to cross, and before dawn to morrow, so we'll not
be seen. We'll spend a whole long, lovely day together
with no one arises.
Speaker 2: But can I tell Uncle Shaan and Aunt Mary, or.
Speaker 5: Don't tell any one? It's our secret. But the picnic,
I'll take care of that.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 10: You leave me here till to morrow at say four thirty.
Speaker 2: Well, whatever you say, she learnt I know, so do I.
Speaker 5: God hit the both of us.
Speaker 2: She was gone in a.
Speaker 3: Second, with that light, loping stride, that covered ground almost.
Speaker 2: As fast as a man running.
Speaker 3: I watched her as long as I could, away down
that dusty, twisting, hilly road, appearing and disappearing, till at
last she was out of sight, but not out of mine,
never out of mine. Shela, just her name was a
song of love. I walked back on the air, but fortunately,
as it turned out, as I came back in the house.
Speaker 2: The first thing my eye fell on was the portrait
of Uncle Terence, and for the moment, Sheila was out
of my mind.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, no, thanks. I really I couldn't
need another thing now.
Speaker 2: The only thing I'm hungry for now is information about Sheila.
Is that you need Sheila?
Speaker 9: No, no, I'd rather find out about her directly, Brian, I.
Speaker 2: About Sheila. Maybe I ought to tell yourself.
Speaker 3: No, Uncle I'd rather for the moment stick to Uncle Terrance.
Speaker 2: Now you said he's been dead for nearly thirty five years.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, that's who years I lost to the day
before that portrait was painted.
Speaker 2: Died in nineteen forty. Are you sure that?
Speaker 5: Oh sure?
Speaker 10: I know it.
Speaker 5: Well. I was just a slip of a girl, not
married to Sean yet.
Speaker 2: But it was the.
Speaker 5: Biggest week this part of gallery has ever seen.
Speaker 2: Ah tis a pity. He couldn't have enjoyed it for himself.
He always was the.
Speaker 5: Life and so all of them with his stories.
Speaker 3: And now ah yes, he does dearly love awake just
as much as a wedding I did.
Speaker 2: Sean did what I did, love awake. But now look
I saw him last night. I talked to him. He
brought me here. Now, lad, you'd have to remember you
had a wee.
Speaker 9: Drop taken and fourteen can scramble a man's back.
Speaker 2: I can't believe that the how did Uncle Terence die?
Speaker 5: A hero at Dunkerk dunker He was in the First World.
Speaker 2: War, you know, in the Navy, and nothing would do.
Speaker 5: But he has to have been the last big one too.
Speaker 9: But a man sixty years old wouldn't take him all,
so he joined up with the Home Guard when the
retreat at Dunkirk came. With his navy experience, he was
taking a boat back and forth the whole.
Speaker 11: Three days, and when he saw that it would be
his last trip, he found one of the fighting boys
to take a ship back and gave up his own
place to stay behind with the machine gun.
Speaker 9: The last boat out just ahead of the Jerry's brought
him back. Or they say he had more lead in
him than sorting a full salt bellow, but his finger
was still wrapped around.
Speaker 2: The trigger of his gun.
Speaker 3: It was a sad wake that Uncle Terence, the only
sad one I'd ever been to, although none of them
are the same without him to keep the jokes flying.
Speaker 10: Ha ha.
Speaker 6: Even macaolm mahon had noise but sorrow in him him
always had a twinkle in his eye. I remember him
just standing in front of the portrait there, just standing
was he didn't drinking from his glass, And do.
Speaker 2: You remember what he said he was?
Speaker 9: He says a broth of a boy, Terence me bucko,
and you should have lived a hundred years.
Speaker 2: Or don't you worry, we'll see you do. I always
wondered what he meant for that, don't you see if
he was mcdruish, I mean, if Mohammed was a real
let book.
Speaker 9: Now us, boy, don't let her Irish fancies run off
with you. Sure all he meant was he wouldn't be
soon forgotten. Well, I'd have to be after work, and
Mary has things to do, and and Brian bon't dwell
on Uncle Terence.
Speaker 2: Find some other thoughts to fill your head.
Speaker 10: I have, I have, And that's the great box to
the north. Don't ever go near their, Brian, Why not you?
Once the pete catches you, you'll never get free.
Speaker 5: And they say it'll swallow.
Speaker 10: A man in less than a minute. To the southwest
are the rest of the Schlevachti Mountains, the ones were
in now and away down there to the southeast.
Speaker 5: Is the River Shamon.
Speaker 2: What's the matter? Are you cold?
Speaker 10: How could I be cold?
Speaker 5: With your arm about me?
Speaker 2: Bold?
Speaker 5: That's what I am?
Speaker 6: Bold?
Speaker 2: Because you love me?
Speaker 3: And how could you be bashful with a man who
loves you now, tomorrow and forever.
Speaker 2: I just can't believe my luck. Don't don't what ah.
Speaker 10: Brian Vayne, don't say anything else.
Speaker 5: It's all been madness from the start.
Speaker 2: Love from the start for.
Speaker 10: Us, the same thing I should never have allowed you to,
but I wanted, I loved. I'm sure God can't punish
me too deep for just one day of.
Speaker 5: All I've dreamed. Kiss me, we've got to go. AT's
twilight already.
Speaker 2: Just a little longer. And what about tomorrow?
Speaker 5: We have no tomorrows.
Speaker 10: Just kiss me, Goodbye, my love, goodbye Brian, goodbye.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 3: She was gone from me on the wind, gliding and
leaping down the mountain, picnic basket in hand, as sure
footed and graceful as.
Speaker 2: A mountain got Sheila, Sheila, Wait.
Speaker 3: She didn't stop to look back, and I plunged down
after her, recklessly and clumsily as a boar.
Speaker 2: I hadn't gone fifty yards before I caught my foot
on some trailing route, falling heavily and knocking myself stone
cold for a moment.
Speaker 3: By the time I came to she was gone from sight,
and in the gathering darkness. Limping heavily, it was all
I could do to find my way back to the
daily farm.
Speaker 5: Pray and my dad, and there you are. Sure we
thought you might be lost in the dark.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm lost in the dark, all right. Anne, Mary. Look,
I don't know if it's another of your Irish fantasies
or what.
Speaker 5: Where have you been all day?
Speaker 8: Lad?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: And you hurt?
Speaker 2: Sean?
Speaker 5: Come in here?
Speaker 2: Oh but I'm I'm coming Mary. Wait? But your sound
is someone put the fear of God in you? What's
happened at all?
Speaker 10: Brian?
Speaker 5: He's hurt and.
Speaker 6: More than physically. I'm thinking, were you with Sheila or
Shaughnessy this day?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 10: I was?
Speaker 2: And I love her and I know she loves me,
and she's told me goodbye?
Speaker 10: Why I mean?
Speaker 2: Am I crazy? Is she just another figment of my imagination?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 10: You see, Sean, I told you we should have told
the boy the truth.
Speaker 2: We're aware better late than never, eh.
Speaker 9: Sheila is engaged to be married to Malachey Malloy.
Speaker 2: Well is that all?
Speaker 3: Eh?
Speaker 12: Well?
Speaker 3: And all she has to do is break you know
she has a marriage contract. Surely that has no real
legal standing today? No, except what do you see her?
Speaker 9: A few years ago, Sheila's father had a heart attack.
He got into financial difficulties.
Speaker 2: And the only way I was through Malloy, the lone shark.
He lent him the money in.
Speaker 3: Exchange for his daughter when she became twenty one. Sure
Joe thought he could have things straightened up before.
Speaker 2: Then, but he suddenly had a second attack and died. Well,
i'll pay the money back. Have you got it? No,
not right now?
Speaker 3: But no good for Malache malloy.
Speaker 9: Besides, you make so much as one move at Sheila,
and in this.
Speaker 3: County he'd have his wooly boys. Or you're a second
burry and the paid bog. And the wedding is day
after tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Now just wait a minute. I mean, this is crazy.
This is the twentieth century. I'm an American citizen. Must
be something I can do. The devil is that?
Speaker 5: That's Uncle Terence. You want solves again?
Speaker 2: The law knows, but you stir up this time.
Speaker 10: But there's no way to stop the man.
Speaker 3: So here we are back again about where we started.
Where are we? But what can Uncle Terrence do or undo?
Even supposing that's what he's after? Still, why couldn't it
be since he's now well established as a denism of
the after world.
Speaker 2: I'll return shortly with Act three. It was W. S.
Speaker 4: Gilbert, probably the finest lyricist of all time, who wrote
of John Wellington Wells that he was a dealer in
magic and spells, in.
Speaker 2: Blessings and curses and ever filled purses and prophecies, which
is and nells.
Speaker 4: I mention him only because it brings us back to
our story of magic, fantasy, and so far pleasant sorcery.
Speaker 3: But will it remain that way?
Speaker 4: As Uncle Terence's picture rocks on the wall, and once
again we hear the eldritch scream of the banshee wail,
I'll turn.
Speaker 2: The picture to the world.
Speaker 11: If he's going to appear to learn to be to
the one who turns the picture, I think this time
we'd better let it be Brian.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm not going to ask any questions anymore. Just
leave me alone. Turn the picture. I'm away, Mary. We're
out of this entirely, right, Uncle.
Speaker 3: Terence or whoever you are, I am about to turn
the picture, and all I say is you get me Sheila,
or show me how to get her. I don't care
what the price is, short of my immortal soul, and
I'll pay that gladly.
Speaker 2: Here you go, Ah, who wants you're immortal soul? Where
are you? Turn around? You have eyes? Haven't you sitting
right here in the fireplace? And look, oh, what are
you factor fiction.
Speaker 3: Why now in a manner of speaking, I say, somewhere
in between? Or does it make any sense to talk
to you all the sense and the word? Even suppose
I believe if you're a banshee?
Speaker 2: Now, what's the matter with a banjie? What's evil? Isn't it?
Speaker 3: Ah to the abysmal ignorance of the world, A banshee,
young man is a domestic spirit devoted to the cave
of its own particular family. Well are you going to
help Sheila and me? I'm sure I'm going to do
my best, but I'm not infallible. We'd have to be
quick and nimble as the divil on this.
Speaker 2: Why can't I just go to this Malachy Maloyan straighten
it out in the middle? Who to begin with? Did
you ever see him?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 2: Oh, he's formidable, lad, No doubt of that. The man
is a giant, and he's made of steam. Well, look
whose side are you on?
Speaker 10: Mine?
Speaker 2: Are easy?
Speaker 3: Lad? Easy?
Speaker 2: Am I not the banshee?
Speaker 3: And aren't you One of the family says he's a
black Irish er if there ever was one. But I've
got to take heart on us. If you had to
have the chance, I brought you here for in the
first place, you brought me here.
Speaker 10: For sure, you.
Speaker 3: Didn't think as an American you'd have enough sense to
get here and pick the right Irish schedule for yourself. Now,
let me go on back up to my frame and
get everything ship shape and squared away.
Speaker 2: I'd see you on the morrow and watch your step.
Uncle Sean and Mary were off to bed by the
time our conference was through. I was grateful.
Speaker 3: I didn't want to talk about Sheila or her intended
husband anymore.
Speaker 2: That night, I hoped to sleep, but I tossed and
turned till morning, and then made the mistake of stepping
outside the house for breath of their coming down the
road towards me. It was a great mountain of a man,
all covered with black hair wherever his clothes didn't conceal it.
The one thing his clothes could not conceal, with a
bulging muscles that.
Speaker 3: Strained at every seam. It was a good five inches
taller than I wasn't thirty pounds heavier.
Speaker 2: And would you will be the American Brian Mackins, Yeah, Yeah,
that's my name. I'm Madachie Marooy.
Speaker 3: I kind of guess that I'm on the understanding that
you took my intended Brian him the mountain yesterday. Well,
she was kind enough to take me up for a
picnic and show me the countryside. That picnic wasn't and
the grass stands out of her dress. I should have
brought a whip, but instead I'm going to beat you
with my bare hands.
Speaker 2: Manicky, don't.
Speaker 5: What's going on, Brian.
Speaker 2: It's just just a little something between me and mister Malone.
Oh the Lord be praised, Keep them apast and kill him.
Speaker 5: Don't touch him nothing.
Speaker 3: I just hey, man, woman around him, now, put your
hands up. Man, if God always defends the right. He
was out for breakfast that morning. Now, I'm not exactly
at Patsy, and I usually can take care of you
myself in a fighting, but this was a Willie carved
against a marciano. He just made hamburger me until his
style and turned with me lying at his feet. Have
you I learned a lesson as well as him, she
the girl. If you haven't that, I'll beat.
Speaker 2: Him to death. I'll make sure he never rises again.
Speaker 5: In Sweet Mary's name. Leave him be, Malki. I'll marry
no one but you if you'll just leave him be.
Speaker 3: All right, so be it now'll get out of this
country life, matten or I'll wring your neck like a chickens.
Speaker 5: Who's that?
Speaker 2: Open the window and let me in quick. How I'm
pagan in the day?
Speaker 3: Oh goodness, watch let me in there, and I'm close
those cuttings before I disappear entirely.
Speaker 2: Hey, sure that's better, better, better?
Speaker 10: That is?
Speaker 5: What are you? You're just a portrait? And how could
you get to the second floor?
Speaker 3: Wish you?
Speaker 2: The only trouble I ever found with a girdle? Is
I talk too much? The answer to it all is
I'm a band see and I look out for my own.
Brian is one of them?
Speaker 5: How is he was?
Speaker 3: He saw her talk a few bruises and maybe he
lost a tooth or cracked.
Speaker 2: Her rib, But what's that to a broken heart? You
should know? Am I right?
Speaker 5: If you mean the way I feel?
Speaker 10: I was getting ready to tie a sack of potatoes
around my neck throw myself in the Shannon.
Speaker 2: Well, now that'll be a whole lot of help. Now
I have a better idea.
Speaker 3: How would you like to meet Brian at Tronmelli's Gate
on the way into the Great Bog tonight?
Speaker 2: At midnight.
Speaker 5: I can't, I can't do it. I owe my father
his debts and besides.
Speaker 3: Malachie would kill him at all right, all right, spare
me all the melodramatics. What I mean is, how would
you like to convince that hickory headed lame brain mallaghy,
that's what she plan to do?
Speaker 5: Why?
Speaker 2: Now, what is a banchie for? Would you let me
take care of the arrangements from then on?
Speaker 5: I will, Uncle Terrence, I will.
Speaker 3: And if I'm successful, will you let me give you
away when you marry Ryan?
Speaker 5: How could a band she do that?
Speaker 2: You let me handle that too, you see?
Speaker 13: Yes?
Speaker 5: Yes, oh yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 14: Yes, hit up the band chips?
Speaker 2: Is it the Leprechaun? God save him?
Speaker 5: A groush, God save you? Carriage? Could keep?
Speaker 13: Come here, brilliant?
Speaker 2: Gi us a firefly there so we can see what
we're at there? Know that's better? Do you see what
mallocated to the land?
Speaker 5: You were great? Blow you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Well I I took a good beating with I'll live.
It's it's nice to see you again, mister. Yeah, no, no,
now we all know what to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just show myself in the moonlight with you
in that cape and hood and and then and then
mcgrushill de materialize you back to the far and Malickie
would have knowne to chase, but me thinking I'm she
I'll tell you all the rest later.
Speaker 2: You you have the shoes, just the one you know,
we lift a one stepper beat but what BANGI shoe? Wait?
We wait, no matter.
Speaker 3: I can harp like a toad long enough until he's
wed and the bogged.
Speaker 2: This is my night.
Speaker 13: Here he comes, said Brian homewush, Then give me the
shoe and off I go, la.
Speaker 12: Shell, I warrior wait for me. Hey, so you tried
to slip away with your life and love, eh, but
you won't get away from me so easy. Hey, where
are you leading me?
Speaker 13: Wow?
Speaker 2: You put in the bog. I'm caught.
Speaker 3: I'm sinking, Sheila, Sheila, have me. I'm I'm sinking in
the bark. Now come back, come back, come back, pah Pine.
Now there's a darling girl. You wouldn't let me go
down to a dark, merchy death. Your the nose every
path and that that's not you, that's can't be the
bozzles of a horse on me. It's Karen Christine. Who's
that wee man beside you, Oh waity to friend, what
is the wee green man here? We are your nemesis
or your saviors? And which what you want is to be?
Oh love, live, save me.
Speaker 2: Come up to my waist already, there's no problem.
Speaker 3: A little piece of paper, and since it's hard to
read in the moonlight, I'd give you the gist. As
they say, I American, I here by legally and completely
accept the fact that all deaths are claims against Thomas
O'shannessy are revoked and considered now.
Speaker 2: And nos n so was what you did to my friend?
Speaker 3: And your bog is even blacker and you're sinking even deeper?
Speaker 2: Right, all right, I'll sign, I'll sign. There's a wee
bit more.
Speaker 3: I also canceled the marriage contract between myself and Shido O'Shaughnessy,
and in consequence of my breach of promise, I award
her the sum of two thousand powers to see her
and her mother started off in a new country. In exchange,
I would accept the farm, no mortgage.
Speaker 10: To be.
Speaker 2: Come up to my chest already. I'll sign and sign anything,
but would you live up to it?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: There's the reason.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't have any idea now of at talking young
Brian again?
Speaker 2: Oh no, should should we trust them? They get think
the grose.
Speaker 14: Sure he's an Irish, but after all I get what
in trouble enough?
Speaker 2: But you never have to worry. Good I have if
you also get the sense pictures of a wagon?
Speaker 5: Goodbye?
Speaker 2: Sorry I have to leave. I have to get back
from my job.
Speaker 15: We're sorry, but.
Speaker 5: We'll take care of another a shase in.
Speaker 2: You're married and.
Speaker 5: Have a place to stay.
Speaker 2: Well, Mary, all's well, that ends well? But who the part.
Speaker 5: You said? They made a wonderful top.
Speaker 2: I never understand how Malch is sudden he got so generous.
Speaker 5: I'll never understand why, but I can guess how.
Speaker 10: What do you mean?
Speaker 5: Take a look. We're going to have to get a
new picture to hang over the fireplace.
Speaker 2: Oh now, what's it doing? Turn to the wall again?
What's he up to now?
Speaker 5: Doesn't turn to the waw, it's just a blank canvas.
Speaker 3: What do you mean?
Speaker 5: Have a look for yourself?
Speaker 2: Holy mother, it's blank on both sides. Where's Uncle Terrence?
Speaker 8: I have a feeling he's off to America. He always
did want to see the United States. We can leave
it up to Sheila and Brian to worry about him.
Speaker 13: Now.
Speaker 3: You can believe it or not, but to the best
of my knowledge, that's the way it happened. And if
there was a lot of magic in it, there's just
as my in love. The exact quote doesn't spring to
mind for the moment, but the burden of it is
that no matter what happens, love.
Speaker 2: Will find a way.
Speaker 3: I'll be back shortly. Bryan and Sheila were married a
month later in the States. Everyone who was there agreed
they were.
Speaker 2: As handsome a couple as you could ask for.
Speaker 3: But the real hit of the celebration was a shortish,
ruddy faced little gentleman with an Irish accent to go
with his Irish face and his Irish wit. It was
sad that he died so soon after.
Speaker 2: The wedding, but it was hard to cry for him,
remembering all the last he brought with him.
Speaker 3: Our cast included Paul Hect, Virginia Payne, Jadderoland, Leon Janny,
and Ian Martin.
Speaker 2: The entire production was under the direction of Hymond Brown.
Speaker 3: This is inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater
for another adventure in the macabre.
Speaker 2: Until next time, Pleasant Scream.
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Speaker 17: Growing pre election tensions in South Africa and usaight arriving
in Columbia with mutual PM. I'm Carrie Moran in Los Angeles.
With South Africa's whites only national elections just two days away,
there was another anti apartheid protest in Cape Town, this
time resulting in the arrests of Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Speaker 5: And other activists.
Speaker 17: Reporter Chris Gibbons.
Speaker 5: Was asked if Tutu will be charged with any crime.
Speaker 15: The official response to that question is that the police
are still investigating, but in practice THEYONSWA is now the
South African government. In the days after the coming election,
we'll be looking to prove to the outside world that
it's new leader. Mister the cleft is refull minded. Archbiship
Tutu on trial is not likely to help him get
that message across.
Speaker 17: Today's incident was the latest in a series of pre
election protests that have become increasingly oppressive. Despite Acting President
FW de Claric's call today for an end of racial
separation in South Africa.