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<v Speaker 1>Set up with the everyday grind. I want to get

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<v Speaker 1>away from it all. We offer you.

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<v Speaker 2>Escape, escape designed to free you from the four walls

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<v Speaker 2>of today, for a half hour of high adventure.

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<v Speaker 3>You are making your painful way over the great India desert,

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<v Speaker 3>alone and dying of first while behind you, pursuing you

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<v Speaker 3>by the fanatical copy is who once bowed.

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<v Speaker 4>To you as king, and now call for your life.

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<v Speaker 2>Tonight we escape to India and two soldiers of fortune

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<v Speaker 2>who pushed fate too far. As Rudyard Kipling told it

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<v Speaker 2>in his famous story The Man Who Would Be King.

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<v Speaker 5>One Saturday night, it was my unpleasant duty to put

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<v Speaker 5>the paper to bed alone. It was a pitchy, black knight,

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<v Speaker 5>as stifling as a knight can be in India and June.

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<v Speaker 5>It was very still, save for the ticking of the

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<v Speaker 5>clock above my desk, which seemed to shutter the black

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<v Speaker 5>heat of the night. As the hands crept toward three

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<v Speaker 5>a m. And then from the outside my door I

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<v Speaker 5>heard voices.

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<v Speaker 1>There only yes, and why are you so you don't

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<v Speaker 1>remember a thing?

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<v Speaker 6>No?

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<v Speaker 1>I can't order, then job purporder.

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<v Speaker 5>Haven The authority turn us back for impersonating newspaper man newspaper.

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<v Speaker 2>And then there was the Trine, yea.

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<v Speaker 4>Half of which you had as throne if I remember correct.

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<v Speaker 5>Oh wait, that flaming red hair, that bald head, Old

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<v Speaker 5>Daniel driver and peachy conahead, let's die.

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<v Speaker 1>Well what you two? One is time? If it's money,

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<v Speaker 1>I haven't got it.

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<v Speaker 4>And if it's a fight, it's too beastly hot.

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<v Speaker 5>Again, less yourself easy, because we have come asking for

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<v Speaker 5>nought except for information.

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<v Speaker 2>We've been all over this country and we've concluded that

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<v Speaker 2>injury isn't big enough for such as Daniel and me.

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<v Speaker 4>So where are going away? To the kings?

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<v Speaker 2>Kings in our own divine right?

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<v Speaker 4>What I we shall be king?

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<v Speaker 5>We've signed a solemn contract, each to help the other,

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<v Speaker 5>and neither of it to look at liquor or women.

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<v Speaker 1>And two we have become king.

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<v Speaker 5>And I've never heard of such a fantastic idea. What

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<v Speaker 5>do you want of me but a look at such

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<v Speaker 5>maps of Kapiistan as you might have of that.

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<v Speaker 1>Maps of Kafiristan. That's where we decided to go.

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<v Speaker 5>And don't you realize that not one single Englishman has

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<v Speaker 5>ever gone into the Characteristan mountains and lived at mouth?

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<v Speaker 4>Again, you have a good deal more likely to become.

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<v Speaker 5>Dead men than kill anyway, I don't believe you had

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<v Speaker 5>the slightest intention of traveling a mile outside of Deli.

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<v Speaker 2>Then you should come down to the Surai market place

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<v Speaker 2>in the morning time, where a caravan.

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<v Speaker 1>Leave for a note. Now look, look you to him.

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<v Speaker 5>I'm a news man, not a no man. Now why

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<v Speaker 5>should I come down to that filthy Peston? Not so

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<v Speaker 5>sure that you're either what you mean?

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<v Speaker 4>You say you're amuseman.

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<v Speaker 5>But here's the chance to see the start are the

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<v Speaker 5>greatest story of all time, and you'd pass it up

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<v Speaker 5>because you're too blasty lazy to get up there early

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<v Speaker 5>in the morning.

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<v Speaker 1>Come along, grab at my life.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, but if you should have a change of art,

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<v Speaker 5>come to the Serai in the morning and see whether

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<v Speaker 5>we'd be.

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<v Speaker 3>Liars or not.

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<v Speaker 5>And so they left, those two lovable scoundrels, and I

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<v Speaker 5>sat alone in my office, thinking the kings of Kafiristan

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<v Speaker 5>kings indeed. But then, perhaps, just perhaps they might pull

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<v Speaker 5>it off and it would be something to keeble home.

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<v Speaker 5>And so it was that the next morning I was

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<v Speaker 5>making my way through the dirty, milling clouds of the

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<v Speaker 5>Serai market.

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<v Speaker 1>Place, the.

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<v Speaker 4>Far Canaan our stars and heard you should not laugh

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<v Speaker 4>at him. Save the witless surrounder the protection.

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<v Speaker 1>And who is the fellow anyway?

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<v Speaker 4>And mad pre Savee was arrived only this morning from Ashmir.

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<v Speaker 5>I see I see you side, Come look at my

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<v Speaker 5>camels loaded with toys to please the eye of an army.

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<v Speaker 1>No, now, go about your business. I haven't any use

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<v Speaker 1>for toys.

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<v Speaker 5>He is our wondrous toys. Indeed sibe fit for a

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<v Speaker 5>king of Kafiristan. What my good lord and your drevet

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<v Speaker 5>cuiet come along. I have two camels just beyond the

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<v Speaker 5>warrior the blessings of pir Khan, and the gracious sidebe

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<v Speaker 5>consents to look at the poor toys of a priest

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<v Speaker 5>from Ajmere.

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<v Speaker 4>Over this way, where's Commagen here we are. Permit me

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<v Speaker 4>to present my servant as a mere god.

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<v Speaker 1>At your service, Governor. Well, guy, did lay party?

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<v Speaker 5>And if they fool this crowd and they said, they're

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<v Speaker 5>probably good enough to get you across the border, and

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<v Speaker 5>good enough to get you killed. Get and killed is

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<v Speaker 5>no part of the contract Peche and me draw up,

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<v Speaker 5>although perhaps killing fits in with our plans in a

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<v Speaker 5>different sense. Feel around underneath the toys there and the

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<v Speaker 5>camel bag.

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<v Speaker 2>Huh my, good lord, the rifles twenty brand new liandfields

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<v Speaker 2>with ammunition to matt Yeah, and twenty good reasons to

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<v Speaker 2>make your death certain.

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<v Speaker 4>Any patroon of the hill tribes would kill his own

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<v Speaker 4>mother to get a rifle.

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<v Speaker 5>Now, what harm a poor mad preside? Allah protects me?

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<v Speaker 5>Mad is writer, and so was Lord five and Roads

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<v Speaker 5>and Bonaparte drive out the camel specie.

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<v Speaker 4>We have a long way to go before we become king.

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<v Speaker 5>As a student listened to the camel bells fade away

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<v Speaker 5>in the pisties, did I wondered if it might not

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<v Speaker 5>be a glorious thing to go to kafurrias stand and.

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<v Speaker 1>Be a king.

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<v Speaker 5>Three years pass in India, much as they pass in

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<v Speaker 5>any other land. It grows hot, then the rains come,

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<v Speaker 5>and then they heat again. The paper duly records the

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<v Speaker 5>death of a sultan rash Putana, and the trees in

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<v Speaker 5>the courtyard grow a few feet fallow, and finally time

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<v Speaker 5>in its circle turned up another night, much like the

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<v Speaker 5>one three years before. Once again I sat alone in

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<v Speaker 5>the office, listening to the clock and waiting for some

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<v Speaker 5>unimportant item to come over the wire from Europe it

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<v Speaker 5>was long after midnight when my office door slowly opened. Well,

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<v Speaker 5>I say you might knock first, you know, Look, look,

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<v Speaker 5>good lord man, what's wrong?

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<v Speaker 6>You don't know who I am here?

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<v Speaker 4>No, no, I haven't the faintest idea have it here.

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<v Speaker 4>You'd better sit down, old fellow.

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<v Speaker 1>You're in a bad way.

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<v Speaker 6>Yes, thank you. It's a whole year. I've been walking

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<v Speaker 6>right here in this very office. We suddenly you're setting

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<v Speaker 6>right there and given us the maps.

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<v Speaker 1>You've been sitting here ever since.

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<v Speaker 5>No, no, man couldn't change that much in three years.

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<v Speaker 5>You're not pitchy connaheen.

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<v Speaker 6>Yes, I was the king of Kafilis Dan Me and

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<v Speaker 6>Daniel Travi, real crime kings.

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<v Speaker 1>We was.

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<v Speaker 6>It's just true gospel.

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<v Speaker 1>What in the name of Heaven have they done for you?

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<v Speaker 1>Pitchy pitchy, a new peachy k He's a king, a

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<v Speaker 1>real golden crown on either told me he does. He's

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<v Speaker 1>dead now.

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<v Speaker 4>No, no, no, no, you're peachy Kanahan, you are, and

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<v Speaker 4>you must put yourself together.

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<v Speaker 1>Poor poor You've got to keep looking in in my eyes.

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe everything won't.

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<v Speaker 4>Go to piece, all right, all right, No, tell me

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<v Speaker 4>what happened to pech.

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<v Speaker 6>We left the caravan and yaddallah, and we struck off

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<v Speaker 6>into the ears. Yes, go on a week signals for travel,

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<v Speaker 6>Daniel me. First there wasn't no roads, and after a

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<v Speaker 6>while no woo. There was always the drums. Sometimes there

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<v Speaker 6>was close sometimes father, most of the time we could

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<v Speaker 6>hear them.

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<v Speaker 5>Oh man, yeah, Now it's no brace to be stopping

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<v Speaker 5>up right here.

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<v Speaker 1>It's no use, Daniel, what's got into him? The poor

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<v Speaker 1>beasts are done in and starve with ourselves. I've gone no.

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<v Speaker 4>Further and we'll go on without him. I'm not come

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<v Speaker 4>this far to die on the side of the mountain. Wait.

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<v Speaker 1>Look, Daniel, I would need them rocks, U.

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<v Speaker 5>Men, they are y a's a score of more of them,

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<v Speaker 5>and one goes out of the rest in nought.

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<v Speaker 4>But those narrows they got a pair of the rifle

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<v Speaker 4>of peg rot.

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<v Speaker 1>You are, Daniel.

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<v Speaker 5>It's now that way start to become kings here here

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<v Speaker 5>and some cattridges too easy enough, peachey. I'll drop the

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<v Speaker 5>spect lets the rear first. Then we'll lay a few

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<v Speaker 5>at their feet.

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<v Speaker 4>No arm to the one in front. We may need him. Now,

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<v Speaker 4>old hold it, Daniel, look at him. Ah, right on

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<v Speaker 4>that blooming faces leader.

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<v Speaker 1>He's coming out alone, well.

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<v Speaker 5>And good, he's gonna go pop. You meet him, Pache,

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<v Speaker 5>keep your rifle by look at him, Daniel. He's as

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<v Speaker 5>fair as us with yellow hair, so he is part

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<v Speaker 5>of the lost tribes. These people are sopped.

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<v Speaker 4>I await your command.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, ye who speak with the voice of thunder?

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<v Speaker 4>Why the lord dairy peachey? Will you luck?

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<v Speaker 5>It's the old Afghan tongue. He speaks, speaker. Who are

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<v Speaker 5>and whence do you come? I am high priest and

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<v Speaker 5>the chief of the village of Plushkai.

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<v Speaker 1>A journey of only a few hot.

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<v Speaker 4>Beats, it's Bashkai. How many people there are?

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<v Speaker 5>Number in the thousands, and I'm all villagers in the

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<v Speaker 5>hills more than a.

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<v Speaker 1>Man has fingers and toads.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, that peachy. Here's our kingdom meat to order,

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<v Speaker 4>and you you are going to take us to Bashkai.

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<v Speaker 4>Do you understand?

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<v Speaker 3>I understand the voice of thunder that you speak.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh, he's a smooth one. Peachey. He does something that too.

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<v Speaker 4>What's your name, Mazurk? That's too long. He We'll call

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<v Speaker 4>him Pache.

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<v Speaker 2>He has the look about him of an old soldiering

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<v Speaker 2>friend of eyes Billy.

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<v Speaker 4>So he touched. Hey, we bestow a name on you.

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<v Speaker 5>From now on, you'll beat Pillyfish and put this on

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<v Speaker 5>your drums.

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<v Speaker 4>Tell them two kings have come out of the mountain tops.

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<v Speaker 4>Two kings that speaking words are fund that so they

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<v Speaker 4>are trembles.

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<v Speaker 7>Tell them two kings have come to Camparistan, Joe, Peche,

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<v Speaker 7>Why are.

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<v Speaker 1>You sitting out here in the dark.

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<v Speaker 4>I've been thinking. Man has to stop and think sometimes.

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<v Speaker 1>But anything special.

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<v Speaker 5>Then look at him, Pache, Look at that blinking campfires

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<v Speaker 5>are cleaning in the dark like the jewels in the crown.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, Daniel, and a fine job for sure. All twenty

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<v Speaker 2>three villages, you're joined together as one.

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<v Speaker 5>It is the army you train to be thankful it

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<v Speaker 5>two thousand men with a fair knowledge of better eyes.

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<v Speaker 1>Some of them's a bit green at Itiot.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, there ours now, every man, jack, woman and child.

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<v Speaker 4>We own a body and soul.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, we're kings now, Daniel, not proper kings yet, but

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<v Speaker 2>we will be.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, sooner than you think. Pechy's that now.

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<v Speaker 5>Billy Fish told me something today that fair amazed me.

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<v Speaker 5>These people know the craft. They're freemasons, Danuines, I'm possible

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<v Speaker 5>so well. Me it's gospel true. He give the grip

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<v Speaker 5>and everything.

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<v Speaker 4>It's old.

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<v Speaker 5>The craft is older than the memory of men, and

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<v Speaker 5>up here in the hills they've been preserving it all

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<v Speaker 5>these years. Why some of the eye priests know up

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<v Speaker 5>through the fillow craft, but they don't know the third degree,

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<v Speaker 5>you see it, Peachey.

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<v Speaker 4>They don't know the third degree, but we do.

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<v Speaker 1>Daniel, what is it you're fixing to do?

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<v Speaker 8>Do?

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<v Speaker 9>We're going to be proper kings.

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<v Speaker 4>We got them going and coming.

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<v Speaker 5>Now I'm going to turn the whole country into one

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<v Speaker 5>grand lodge, raise some of the priest to the third degree,

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<v Speaker 5>and for me, I'll be the grand master of Kafiristan.

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<v Speaker 1>You've got the right. We've never been officers in a.

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<v Speaker 4>Lodge, right. What's a king got to do with asking

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<v Speaker 4>for our right?

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<v Speaker 1>I'm against it, Daniel. It's no good to go fooling

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<v Speaker 1>around with the crop.

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<v Speaker 4>You talk like an old woman. The thing will work,

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<v Speaker 4>I know it will.

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<v Speaker 5>We'll make it a bloomin ceremony, regular aprons with the

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<v Speaker 5>symbols and the.

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<v Speaker 4>Marks all for us pige The king's the Kafirrish child.

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<v Speaker 5>Everything is prepared muster and the priests and the people wait,

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<v Speaker 5>well longer, Billy.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, now, peachy, how do you like my apron?

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<v Speaker 1>The Wonderer's saw it for fair Daniel.

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<v Speaker 4>Made a white almond skin. It is, and the Master's

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<v Speaker 4>mark with him a little studied the mark? You know

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<v Speaker 4>the meaning of the mark that I do.

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<v Speaker 5>It's got into you, Billy, is a thing that's passing. Strange, muster,

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<v Speaker 5>strange and radish. Have Alona very pg right with you, Daniel,

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<v Speaker 5>and we go under the temple steps.

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<v Speaker 4>We'll give him what far they're blinking eyes out, That's

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<v Speaker 4>what we'll do.

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<v Speaker 5>Look at I'm peche right down on the bloom.

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<v Speaker 4>And knees and yelling their fool.

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<v Speaker 1>Head George Hay's a good thing to be a king, Daniel?

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<v Speaker 5>The mark?

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<v Speaker 1>Behold the mark?

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<v Speaker 4>Ye know what's wrong with the priest?

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<v Speaker 1>Believe it looks like trouble, Daniel?

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<v Speaker 4>No stand where you are? Must they recognize the mark?

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<v Speaker 4>A great stone in the floor. Why do they turn

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<v Speaker 4>it over? Wait? Oh, it's the same. There's the mark.

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<v Speaker 4>Speak up, bellyfish, what's the maiden of it?

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<v Speaker 5>See for yourself, loop Daniel carved on the back of

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<v Speaker 5>the sun. Tis the Master's mark, all right, And the

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<v Speaker 5>same as the sign you wear. Only a few of

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<v Speaker 5>the priests have known of the hidden mark on the stone.

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<v Speaker 4>What is the name? The many who have doubted you

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<v Speaker 4>were a god? Doubt no longer? And you, billy, what

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<v Speaker 4>do you think?

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<v Speaker 1>I muster?

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<v Speaker 4>I think that now it is the time for the.

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<v Speaker 1>Ooh, tave you GOLs and crowns?

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<v Speaker 4>Hi, how they glitter hit for the brow of the king.

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<v Speaker 1>It's what we come for here.

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<v Speaker 4>Now pull them on.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll turn ourselves.

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<v Speaker 4>Now ride well, listen to him. You know something, pitchy.

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<v Speaker 4>We come here to be kings, and that we are

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<v Speaker 4>all right but blamed if we ain't a couple of

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<v Speaker 4>Roman gods. Taboo with a million people down on their knees.

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<v Speaker 4>Well enough, peachey, So it was God's You became as

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<v Speaker 4>well as kings.

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<v Speaker 1>But then what happened?

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<v Speaker 4>What became of Daniel Rabbit Travitt?

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<v Speaker 1>Are you Daniel Travitt?

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<v Speaker 4>Once?

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<v Speaker 1>He's a king? Now Daniel is? Where's a golden crown?

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<v Speaker 5>Conn was with dig trying to pull yourself together? Now

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<v Speaker 5>I'll try good. Now you became kings, You and Daniel

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<v Speaker 5>kings of all coapurists. He was a fine figure. Daniel

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<v Speaker 5>was with his red red in that golden crown.

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<v Speaker 6>Kept himself aloof from the people, start of speaking when

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<v Speaker 6>he walked out in front of the temple like the

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<v Speaker 6>had a crawl on his.

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<v Speaker 1>Stomach to worship him.

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<v Speaker 4>Yes, but what happened?

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<v Speaker 1>Man?

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<v Speaker 6>Well, I I'll figure. Mostly it was winter coming up.

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<v Speaker 6>Winds was starting up and clads was blowing down.

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<v Speaker 4>From the north. Oh, it could blow beastly cold that

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<v Speaker 4>winter wind. Who was out there at your belly? Can't

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<v Speaker 4>found it anyway?

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<v Speaker 8>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 4>Now watch this, I have brought your food, master.

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<v Speaker 5>She was the wild sheep, koury and rice above your knees? Girl,

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<v Speaker 5>it inside?

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<v Speaker 1>Why is it there? Y?

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<v Speaker 4>You're a well favored wench.

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<v Speaker 5>I do not understand.

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<v Speaker 4>Why are you crawling on your name? It's sitting way

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<v Speaker 4>to approach the god of Kafir.

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<v Speaker 6>Stand?

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<v Speaker 9>What's your name?

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<v Speaker 1>Girl?

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<v Speaker 4>My room?

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<v Speaker 1>Things up?

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<v Speaker 4>You're married? It does not yet be my happy fortune

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<v Speaker 4>must ready mean?

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<v Speaker 5>What a god? I mean?

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<v Speaker 4>How do I seeing here? You find me pleasing?

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<v Speaker 5>What your fish?

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<v Speaker 4>It's more wonders and noonday sun and you look the

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<v Speaker 4>look of eagles.

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<v Speaker 9>H very well in a leave now, thank you, master, m.

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<v Speaker 4>Hey j.

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<v Speaker 2>Hej ahs you calling me Daniel, Oh fools a right.

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<v Speaker 5>Good, mark that wind that sn You know winters are bad.

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<v Speaker 5>Do this strike and fill their passes with snow. There'll

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<v Speaker 5>be a little moving about afore spring.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, you're right, heyee, I decided to take a wife.

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<v Speaker 1>But you can't do it, Daniel. We made a contract.

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<v Speaker 5>That was till he was kings. Well, kings were playing

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<v Speaker 5>these many months.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, snow good, I'll tell you now, I'm against it,

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<v Speaker 1>against it.

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<v Speaker 4>You was against using the craft too, but look what

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<v Speaker 4>it's done for us. This is different.

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<v Speaker 1>Billyfish will tell you now the same as I.

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<v Speaker 4>Do, Billy fesh eh, who's the king? Here?

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<v Speaker 5>Him me?

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<v Speaker 4>My mind's made up.

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<v Speaker 5>Three days from now, I shall have me a while,

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<v Speaker 5>and you could put it on the drums and tell

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<v Speaker 5>every blighter out there in the ouse.

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<v Speaker 4>Thingham, I'll hear a son, donna have a queen. Let's

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<v Speaker 4>keeping a pitchy. They should have brought her in half

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<v Speaker 4>an hour ago.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know, Daniel.

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<v Speaker 4>How about you, Billy Fish.

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<v Speaker 5>You put him up to stolen off, deliberate like, certain

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<v Speaker 5>preparations must be made.

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<v Speaker 2>Muster feet across the court with some of the priests.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe they're trying to buck her up a bit Daniel.

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<v Speaker 2>She thinks she's going to die, you know, ah die?

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<v Speaker 4>Indeed, why as it is against the loss of heaven

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<v Speaker 4>for a woman to marry God, I'm not a god

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<v Speaker 4>on a man. You know that by now, Billy know,

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<v Speaker 4>and I should not want to think so. Muster. But

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<v Speaker 4>either way this can mean only trouble.

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<v Speaker 1>I beg you to reconsider, and I beg you to

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<v Speaker 1>keep your mouth shut.

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<v Speaker 4>Billy. I'm through waiting.

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<v Speaker 10>I'm going over there to talk to the master. Please.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, we've got to go with him, Billy. I think

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<v Speaker 1>it's gonna mean trouble. But come on, how many men

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<v Speaker 1>can you depend on?

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<v Speaker 4>No more than twenty with rifles. Most of my men

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<v Speaker 4>are in Bashkai. And what shall we do. We shall

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<v Speaker 4>have to make a run for it. I fear we

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<v Speaker 4>might be safe in Bashkai. I've got bugling pools.

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<v Speaker 1>Bring out the girl. Well now that's better.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah, girl, this is no way but obliged to behave

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<v Speaker 5>ah smile now and give us a cares.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh the waightious better don't let them see the brot.

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<v Speaker 1>Right back. Daniels are coming with not they can't do this.

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<v Speaker 4>I am the king.

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<v Speaker 10>Come on, Daniel, come on, gone founded edens.

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<v Speaker 4>I'll come back. I'll come back and beat the blastered edging.

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<v Speaker 1>That's what I'll do.

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<v Speaker 5>Daniel here, we'll be back, all right, how much further

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<v Speaker 5>believe only short way beyond this ridge, muster.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, so far, so good.

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<v Speaker 4>Hi, at least them blooming drums has stopped.

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<v Speaker 2>We're at the top, Daniel.

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<v Speaker 5>Here, and a right good climate's been h Wait, it

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<v Speaker 5>seems the drums have come before us.

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<v Speaker 4>Muster, God off, no less than nothing.

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<v Speaker 1>Sending.

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<v Speaker 4>They're quiet like with them, look a long knives in

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<v Speaker 4>their ends.

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<v Speaker 1>So it'll be not getting past some Daniel.

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<v Speaker 4>No, we're done for Go back, Billy Fish, take your

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<v Speaker 4>man away with you.

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<v Speaker 1>Go with them, Peachey. It's me they want.

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<v Speaker 4>I did it me the king.

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<v Speaker 1>Dan, I'm sticking with you, Philly Fish. You clear out.

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<v Speaker 4>I am your friend.

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<v Speaker 1>I stay with you.

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<v Speaker 4>That a good man.

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<v Speaker 2>Believe they're coming now, Daniel, pech forget it, Daniel, I'll

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<v Speaker 2>forgive you freely fully.

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<v Speaker 4>Then let them come. Maybe one thing they can't change, Peachey,

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<v Speaker 4>we've been killing change and alone, right, I don't come.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, if it sliced open publie Fish like a blooming earring.

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<v Speaker 6>He did here in the snow and the rocks, and

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<v Speaker 6>good lord man. But you, Pitchy, you got away from them,

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<v Speaker 6>got away from him? Did I?

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<v Speaker 8>Oh?

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<v Speaker 6>No, it stung me out on a tree. It drove

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<v Speaker 6>nails right through the hand, said did that say? Look,

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<v Speaker 6>I have fooled him, all right, because the morning coming

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<v Speaker 6>I wasn't dead.

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<v Speaker 4>And then I made him.

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<v Speaker 6>Think i'd I thought it was my senses, and I

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<v Speaker 6>was afraid you m because I was protected by Allah.

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<v Speaker 11>Cut me down, Lennon after the while, let me go,

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<v Speaker 11>you poor devil, What a dreven What happened to Daniel?

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<v Speaker 1>Daniel Daniels a king? He wears a golden crime in him. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>now what happened to him? He never left me all

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<v Speaker 1>in long months walking on the road back. He kept

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<v Speaker 1>me safe the mountains.

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<v Speaker 6>I daned at night, but Daniel held up his hand.

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<v Speaker 6>Pitchy came along bent double. I never let go of

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<v Speaker 6>Daniel's hand.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey, he's with me now here in this bundle, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>old Daniels, even if it was a monoquent.

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<v Speaker 8>Look at him now, well, now I have seen that

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<v Speaker 8>we were really kings. Be on my way, you pardon.

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<v Speaker 1>I let him go.

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<v Speaker 5>There was little else to do. It was only hours

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<v Speaker 5>away from his death. I sat there and stared at

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<v Speaker 5>the bundle he had left lying on my desk. Stared

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<v Speaker 5>as the pale shafts of dawn struck fire in the

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<v Speaker 5>Red Beard. Stared at the gold crown sitting too large

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<v Speaker 5>and heavy upon the wrinkled, mummified head of Daniel Rabbit.

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<v Speaker 1>The Man Who Would Be King.

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<v Speaker 2>Escape is produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Tonight, we

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<v Speaker 2>have brought you The Man who Would Be King by

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<v Speaker 2>Rudyard Kipling, adapted for radio by Les Crutchfield, with editorial

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<v Speaker 2>supervision by John Duncle. Featured in tonight's cast for Ben

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<v Speaker 2>Right and Wilms Herbert with John Dayner, Peggy Weber and

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<v Speaker 2>Jack Crusham. Special music by Ivan Didmark. Good Night, Then

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<v Speaker 2>until the same time next week, when once again will

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<v Speaker 2>offer you escape. This is the United States Armed Forces

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<v Speaker 2>Radio and Television Service.
