Speaker 1: Fed up with the everyday grind, tired out by the
Speaker 1: dull routine, you want to get away from it at all.
Speaker 2: We offer you.
Speaker 3: Escape Escape Transcribe to free you from the four walls
Speaker 3: of today for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1: You are alone in the jungle with three men. You
Speaker 1: know that one of them is a desperate criminal whom
Speaker 1: you've come to arrest, but you don't know which one.
Speaker 1: You have to find him before he can save himself
Speaker 1: by killing you.
Speaker 3: Today we escape from reality into the depths of a
Speaker 3: tropical jungle in a tantalizing search for a murder. As L. G.
Speaker 3: Blackman told it in his famous story Red Wine.
Speaker 4: The rusty little tramp freighter bumped against the rickety wharf,
Speaker 4: and I dropped from the rail under the planking for
Speaker 4: the first time, felt the humid heat. Roll out of
Speaker 4: the jungle. This was Tanjongg Samar, sweltering half forgotten last
Speaker 4: out post on the rubber coast of Borneo. I crossed
Speaker 4: the beach and walked up the path of crushed shells
Speaker 4: leading to a low bungalow at the edge of the jungle.
Speaker 4: The freighter would lie at the wharf for four hours
Speaker 4: plenty of time for me to get the thing over
Speaker 4: with and be back aboard. When she sailed, I was
Speaker 4: expecting trouble, of course, but no real danger. I'd done
Speaker 4: jobs like this before, or at least I thought this
Speaker 4: would be the same. I thought so on until I
Speaker 4: stepped up on the porch and met her. Kurt Controller,
Speaker 4: the tan Junk Sama District.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm here, Kert the Controller. What does that I
Speaker 5: can do for you?
Speaker 4: My name's Paul Vernier, mister Kurt. I have a letter
Speaker 4: of introduction here from the Governor General.
Speaker 5: Mister from the United States.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the governor promised me your cooperation.
Speaker 5: So I see cooperation is good. But he does not
Speaker 5: say cooperation in what.
Speaker 4: I've come here after? A killer, mister Kurt.
Speaker 5: Oh diyas maybe headhunters.
Speaker 4: No, this one's a civilized killer. An American wanted in
Speaker 4: San Francisco for murdering his wife. His name is Jerome Steaks.
Speaker 5: I see, I won't just sit down, mister, won't you call?
Speaker 5: He died in Jeff King Head.
Speaker 6: I brang right away.
Speaker 5: Coffee in a moment.
Speaker 4: Nice of you, but maybe I better pick this guy
Speaker 4: up first. I'd hate to miss the boat and have
Speaker 4: to lay over five days.
Speaker 5: You're acquainted with this Steaks, mister, No, I've never seen him,
Speaker 5: and you have photographs right, not no fingerprints.
Speaker 4: Now, this happened two years ago. Until next month we
Speaker 4: had it listed as a double suicide. What are you
Speaker 4: driving at, mister Kurk.
Speaker 5: Simply this. There's no one in my district by the
Speaker 5: name of Steaks.
Speaker 4: Now, he wouldn't be using his own name. Of course.
Speaker 4: There is an American here though, three.
Speaker 5: Of them, mister Vania, employed as foreman on the Kota
Speaker 5: Rubber plantation here Tanjong Sama.
Speaker 4: According to my information, Steaks came here from Batavia about
Speaker 4: six months ago.
Speaker 5: They all arrived six months ago on the same board.
Speaker 5: The quota company is just going back into operation.
Speaker 4: You understand, I see well. According to people who have
Speaker 4: seen him, Jerome Steaks as a man about thirty five
Speaker 4: years old, of medium heights, light build, pale complexion, with
Speaker 4: black hair and mustache.
Speaker 5: Amazing. Any one of these men might fit that description,
Speaker 5: except that all are clean shaven and heavily tanned from
Speaker 5: the tropical sun. Furthermore, mister, all three of the men
Speaker 5: have lied blonde hair.
Speaker 7: Julie Shi, Jeff Fete good.
Speaker 5: War too, Cups one. I won't bring your baggage up
Speaker 5: from the war. For mister Finigiel, it appears to your
Speaker 5: business may take a little longer than four hours.
Speaker 4: I'm certain of the information I got in, but Tavia,
Speaker 4: I know the man's here.
Speaker 5: Then the problem resolved itself into a matter of identification.
Speaker 4: And I always talk with the three of them. Are
Speaker 4: to do that?
Speaker 5: I doubt that, mister finigil The swarms here at Tanjung
Speaker 5: summer are infested with fever cream. It is always hot
Speaker 5: like now, and the jungles back they are swarm with
Speaker 5: crites crist a deadly little snake no longer than your
Speaker 5: four arms. There you are, and in the rivers they
Speaker 5: are crocodiles. So men rarely come here unless they are
Speaker 5: running away from something, trying to lose their past. I
Speaker 5: think you'll find all three men have manufactured stories, so
Speaker 5: I always want to choose.
Speaker 4: Well, sometimes a man can be identified by his personality.
Speaker 5: And the personality of this man, Sneaks is it's something
Speaker 5: out of the ordinary, or.
Speaker 4: A forman and a rubber plantation. Yes, I doubt if
Speaker 4: all three of these men can be aristocrats. And in
Speaker 4: a sense, well that's what Steaks is a cosmopolity. He's
Speaker 4: lived all around the world, always associating with top society.
Speaker 4: He's a lover of fine foods and wine. Speaks French
Speaker 4: and German fluently. He's a come bon vivant, a man
Speaker 4: of perfect taste in clothes and manners.
Speaker 5: And a murderer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the murderer.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, when the three men returns this evening, I
Speaker 5: should be most happy to introduce you to them, though
Speaker 5: it's quite probable they are aware of your identity already.
Speaker 5: My houseboy there told me you were a detective before
Speaker 5: you stepped off the wharf.
Speaker 4: I see so. In other words, the murderer probably knows
Speaker 4: who I am and what I'm here for, but I
Speaker 4: haven't the slightest idea who he is exactly.
Speaker 5: It's quite an interesting thought, isn't it a more?
Speaker 2: Mister, mister Faniel, I should like you to.
Speaker 5: Meet mister Doran.
Speaker 8: I am mister.
Speaker 5: This is mister William Mettin.
Speaker 7: My name is Prayer, glad to meet you same here.
Speaker 4: Mister Praile might as well.
Speaker 7: Drop the mister. We don't use it much around here.
Speaker 7: I'm Prayer. That's Duran, It's Wilmedini. And if it's all
Speaker 7: the same to you, sure.
Speaker 4: Praille, Why not?
Speaker 5: Hi, you gentlemen, will excuse me. I have a number
Speaker 5: of things to do. Will you bring mister Vannier to
Speaker 5: my bungalow for dinner? We'll celebrate having a guest in
Speaker 5: tan junkson.
Speaker 6: Uh her Kurt tells me all three of you are Americans.
Speaker 6: I know whether I'm still one or that men of
Speaker 6: the States in seven years.
Speaker 4: Seven years, I think you're an old timer here, No,
Speaker 4: not here Australia.
Speaker 9: Don't get them started, Ban He'll spend two hours telling
Speaker 9: you how he lost his shirt trying to raise sheep. Now, man,
Speaker 9: if I had either money or sense, I wouldn't have
Speaker 9: come to the stinking hole.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say you fellas had it too rough. Noticing
Speaker 4: those empty bottles there on the shelf, what do you
Speaker 4: mean for there, Hm, Paul my Son nineteen thirty six.
Speaker 4: That's a good champagne. You boys are living like Conda sirrs.
Speaker 9: Oh no, no, you're overrating us. Many those empty bottles
Speaker 9: already here when we came. Oh just never got around
Speaker 9: of throwing him out, Prairie.
Speaker 6: Here's the only kind of syr in the bench he
Speaker 6: can tell you anything you want to know about wines, yeah,
Speaker 6: or about anything.
Speaker 7: Uh, dry up just because a guy happens to know
Speaker 7: a little more and somebody else. There's no reason to
Speaker 7: keep riding them all the time.
Speaker 8: We should n't you some way to make ice?
Speaker 6: Getting plenty fed up with warm beer day in and
Speaker 6: day out.
Speaker 4: Here, that would get pretty tiresome. I think I'd switch
Speaker 4: to Champartane or Sable or something. Come again, Well, I
Speaker 4: didn't necessarily mean those in particular, but quite a number
Speaker 4: of wines is even better warm than the hot children.
Speaker 8: Now you're in the wrong place, Jim. We wouldn't know
Speaker 8: what to do with him. If we had him.
Speaker 6: This is strictly a beer and gin crowd.
Speaker 9: Well, it'd be no kick on that if we had
Speaker 9: some ice to go with it. Oh what I wouldn't
Speaker 9: give for a cold, frosty bottle.
Speaker 7: A relax when you won with dang, you're making me thirsty.
Speaker 7: How about some music music?
Speaker 4: There's one of you play some instruments.
Speaker 6: Sure, prayer, he's terrific. I'm that phonograph over there in
Speaker 6: the corner. Only trouble is he thinks three o'clock in
Speaker 6: the morning is the greatest song ever written.
Speaker 4: Well, I can see that that would lead to quite
Speaker 4: an argument, Iran, particularly if you're a lover of the classics.
Speaker 6: No, I don't go for that long hair stuff. But
Speaker 6: I would like to hear a fast number once in
Speaker 6: a while. It's less than ten years old.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you ought to see this collection prail drive up
Speaker 9: here from Batavia, strictly from the gay nineties.
Speaker 4: Prayer You don't buy any chance? Have a number called
Speaker 4: young Meruti set my own?
Speaker 1: Ah, some Italian opera.
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, it's French.
Speaker 6: Well, come on, bray, I'll translate it for us.
Speaker 8: You claim to be an expert on the French language.
Speaker 7: Oh it's worded kind of funny, like poetry.
Speaker 8: Ah sure, sure.
Speaker 7: And a last word though, uh maison that means house.
Speaker 4: I know that it's too bad. I thought maybe Jerome
Speaker 4: Steaks might translate it. It refers to him. Of course, what
Speaker 4: are you talking about? The sentence reads, there is a
Speaker 4: murderer in this house.
Speaker 6: Huh, Well, so you're finally coming out of me open.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we heard you were a detective, Bronnie.
Speaker 7: You're after some killer. You've never seen him. Steaks, you
Speaker 7: figure one of us, is it?
Speaker 4: That's right?
Speaker 7: Prail and the guy you're after's woman Ding.
Speaker 4: Are you crazy?
Speaker 7: Whoever heard of anybody with a name like Wilma Ding
Speaker 7: unless they made it up?
Speaker 2: Up? Nothing?
Speaker 1: I got a passport to prove it.
Speaker 5: What are you trying to do?
Speaker 4: Prail?
Speaker 7: Turn attention away from yourself. I got nothing to hire
Speaker 7: you to you a durant.
Speaker 6: You can leave me out of this right now. There's
Speaker 6: plenty of people in Australia who can tell you who
Speaker 6: I am.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, oh, there's nobody in tan Jiang Samar who can
Speaker 4: tell me for certain who any of you are. One
Speaker 4: of you is a murderer, and by the time the
Speaker 4: boat gets back here, I'll know which one. Either I'm
Speaker 4: going to take your own steaks back to San Francisco,
Speaker 4: or I'm going to kill him trying to you can
Speaker 4: count it? Well, what do you say We go on
Speaker 4: over to Kurt's bungalow and have dinner.
Speaker 5: That's Wilmating's room there. Doraan sleeps here and pray long
Speaker 5: down at the end. And this is the guest room,
Speaker 5: or at least the only guest room that's usable at present.
Speaker 4: Looks all right, Well.
Speaker 5: It's yours for the time you're here. Step in there?
Speaker 4: Or do all of these rooms open out under the porch?
Speaker 5: Yes, the veranda as we call it here.
Speaker 4: And there's no way to lock this store unfortunately.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 5: Anyway, the windows are covered only by mosquito netting. It
Speaker 5: makes another interesting situation, does it not.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I suppose interesting is.
Speaker 5: The word for it. Most likely all these gentlemen are
Speaker 5: acting to a great error, that's an extent, which of
Speaker 5: course makes your problem exceedingly difficult.
Speaker 4: That's right, mister Kurt. You did say a man rarely
Speaker 4: came here unless he wanted to lose his past.
Speaker 5: Yet yoh, yeah, that is true. But then I'm only
Speaker 5: a servant of the government and happy little choice what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. No, Well, good night, mister Peniel Kirk. I
Speaker 5: trust you'll have a very comfortable night.
Speaker 4: I thank you. I sat there for a long time
Speaker 4: after Kurt left, trying to figure things out getting nowhere.
Speaker 4: This was born here though the common lantern on the
Speaker 4: table at my elbow threw a blaze of white light
Speaker 4: into every corner of the room. Outside that light lay
Speaker 4: the dark verandah, and beyond that the jungle. Gradually, the
Speaker 4: night breeze brought the smell of the jungle into the room,
Speaker 4: as rich and as exotic as the scent of taboo,
Speaker 4: fragrant as midnight orchid, as disturbing as the scent of danger.
Speaker 4: Or maybe maybe it was danger itself. I was smelling
Speaker 4: A heavy knife, missed my throat by two inches, thudd
Speaker 4: it into the bamboo partition and stuck their quivering. I
Speaker 4: doused the later and one sweet, dropped down on the
Speaker 4: floor and slid my thirty eight out of its holster.
Speaker 4: I could hear nothing but the rustle of palm thatch
Speaker 4: along the eaves, low creeks from the pilings underneath the bungalow,
Speaker 4: the soft night sounds from the jungle. Finally, I slipped
Speaker 4: my shoes off, pulled the knife out of the wall
Speaker 4: and dropped it in my pocket, moved to the door,
Speaker 4: and stepped quietly out onto the verandah. It was empty.
Speaker 4: Across the railing, the fringe of undergrowth was dappled in
Speaker 4: silver moonlight.
Speaker 5: Nothing moved.
Speaker 4: I paused quickly at the three doors, and from each
Speaker 4: heard the sound of snoring. One of the men was faking,
Speaker 4: but which one. I'd reached the end of the porch
Speaker 4: when my eye caught a slight movement in the banana
Speaker 4: clump a few yards from the steps. Some one was
Speaker 4: hiding there and moved swiftly, holding the gun ready. Came
Speaker 4: within a few feet before I could make out his shape,
Speaker 4: in a red and white saran, complete with dark tumbled
Speaker 4: curls and a flower behind one ear.
Speaker 10: It was a girl, at least one the gun. You
Speaker 10: are going to shoot menuh?
Speaker 4: I relax, Honny. I was looking for somebody else.
Speaker 10: And now you have found Milana. So you are disappointed?
Speaker 4: Well, I look, did you see anybody moving around up
Speaker 4: there on the veranda while agoch only you?
Speaker 10: Twe? I became frightened and ran to hide right away.
Speaker 10: I should not be here at night. I mean, let
Speaker 10: us talk of something else. Uh all right, Nollana twe?
Speaker 10: Do you like Milana barette?
Speaker 4: Definitely?
Speaker 10: Why do we not go somewhere else along the beach?
Speaker 10: Perhaps you would like that?
Speaker 5: Mister is too serious minded for such things.
Speaker 4: Never mister Kirk to join us, watcher.
Speaker 5: Thank you. Lana go to the bungalore at once?
Speaker 10: Yes, min yes, I go, I go immediately.
Speaker 5: She just no business being not alone at night. But Stephanie,
Speaker 5: is something wrong with your room? It's not comfortable?
Speaker 4: It was until this flew in through the window. A knife, Yeah,
Speaker 4: a throwing knife. Never said before?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, it's one of the collections. Turns a
Speaker 5: bungalow to see Americans saw them at tid that's every
Speaker 5: evening and wager on the results. I believe mister Doran
Speaker 5: taught the other two.
Speaker 4: What about you, mister Kurt, do you have a bet
Speaker 4: with it?
Speaker 5: Would be too easy? Watch I learned to throw a
Speaker 5: knife in Java many years ago.
Speaker 4: And Nlana, I suppose she's an expert at it too.
Speaker 5: Milana knows nothing of knife her greatest accomplishment. Instead of
Speaker 5: making friends too easily.
Speaker 4: I see, just who is she anyway? Does she live here?
Speaker 5: Yeah, she lives here. She is my wife, your wife,
Speaker 5: exactly my wife. Good night, mister Vania.
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Speaker 3: returned to the second act of escape and red wine.
Speaker 4: When I finally turned in that night, I didn't make
Speaker 4: the mistake of lighting the lantern again. Being a target
Speaker 4: once in an evening was enough, and dressed in the dark,
Speaker 4: pushed the bed up to block the door, propped a
Speaker 4: chair against the window sill, and lay down on the floor.
Speaker 4: I kept trying to fit some theory together to account
Speaker 4: for the things that had happened. When I drifted off
Speaker 4: to sleep, I was no nearer any answer than before
Speaker 4: I woke up with the first light of dawn. For
Speaker 4: a full minute was ready to predict a peaceful day.
Speaker 4: Then I turned my head slightly and saw it on
Speaker 4: the flow against the wall, eighteen inches from my left handed,
Speaker 4: its eyes open and unmoving, lay a kright first cousin
Speaker 4: to the cobra, the deadliest snake in borneo. Cold sweat
Speaker 4: broke out on my forehead ran into the corners of
Speaker 4: my eyes. Not daring to make any sudden move, I
Speaker 4: slid my right hand slowly up behind me and found
Speaker 4: my gun under the pillow. The snake moved slightly I
Speaker 4: froze for one long minute. Carefully, I brought the gun
Speaker 4: over until I had the ugly head centered above the foresight.
Speaker 4: Then I did curt in here.
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 4: Sure, Kik, come on in. I I had an early
Speaker 4: morning visited there on the floor.
Speaker 5: Kright, did he bite you?
Speaker 8: Ah snake? That's funny?
Speaker 4: What's I cried? Wilma Ding just killed one here in
Speaker 4: my room?
Speaker 7: Well, there's plenty of my around, but I never heard
Speaker 7: of one crawling into a room before.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure it did crawl in. I've got an
Speaker 4: idea it may have been dropped in through the mosquito
Speaker 4: netting there at the window, eh By home by a
Speaker 4: guy named Jerome Steaks. Have you hear, um Duran, Why
Speaker 4: don't you pick up Wilma Ding?
Speaker 7: He's your man?
Speaker 1: Oh sure sure.
Speaker 9: I always carry a couple of snakes around my pocket,
Speaker 9: just for luck.
Speaker 4: What I want to know is who carries this around
Speaker 4: in their pocket for luck?
Speaker 7: It's one of our nice in the living room. We
Speaker 7: throw them at a target.
Speaker 4: Yeah I know.
Speaker 6: Last night I was the target and prails your boy.
Speaker 6: He's an expert, wins every time we play.
Speaker 7: Try up durands.
Speaker 4: All of you so nobody knows anything about these accidents.
Speaker 4: They just happened. Here's a warning to whichever one of
Speaker 4: you is steaks the next time, you better cover yourself.
Speaker 4: I'm through being a clay pigeon from now on. It's
Speaker 4: going to be a lot tougher, a whole lot tougher.
Speaker 4: That day passed. The next I got exactly nowhere. Things
Speaker 4: didn't fit, didn't add up. I saw Nilana several times,
Speaker 4: but had no chance to speak to her. When her
Speaker 4: Kurt was with me, she'd pass without a glance. But
Speaker 4: if I was alone, she'd manage a quick, provocative smile
Speaker 4: that sent shivers down my spine. By the fourth day,
Speaker 4: the tension among us had grown almost unbearable. The steamer
Speaker 4: was due the next evening on its return trip to Batavia.
Speaker 4: I needed a break of some kind, had to have one. Well,
Speaker 4: it came at dusk when I dropped into my room
Speaker 4: to change for dinner. One it is I, Milana, Nelana,
Speaker 4: What the devil are you doing here.
Speaker 10: To see you? One? Does that make you unhappy?
Speaker 4: No? But I doubt if her curtain think, what's the idea?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 10: He must not find out. That is why I hide
Speaker 10: here and wait for you.
Speaker 4: We may walk in here any moment.
Speaker 10: It is true to one. It is why I cannot
Speaker 10: stay now. But I wi something to ask you. It
Speaker 10: is true that you look for a man who has
Speaker 10: killed a woman in your United States. Yeah, that's right,
Speaker 10: A man who now names himself by another name. Yes,
Speaker 10: perhaps the same one who one night threw the knife
Speaker 10: at you.
Speaker 4: I think, so, do you know who it is?
Speaker 10: I saw the knife thrown to one I was outside.
Speaker 4: Maybe quiet.
Speaker 10: It is someone.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's going into the living.
Speaker 10: But he will come here when he does not find you.
Speaker 10: I'm very frightened. One.
Speaker 4: I must go.
Speaker 10: There's no time now. Tonight, when everyone sleeps, wait by
Speaker 10: the tall palm at the edge of the clearing. I
Speaker 10: will come. Neilana has done foolish things to one, but
Speaker 10: tonight she will fix it all good. You come.
Speaker 4: I waited for a long time in the shadow by
Speaker 4: the palm tree, watched the moonlight sift down through the
Speaker 4: shaggy fronds. But two hours passed. She didn't come. Waiting
Speaker 4: there though, in the jungle night, plan began to form
Speaker 4: in my mind. A long shot, true enough, but one
Speaker 4: with possibilities. It needed luck to work, but I'd come
Speaker 4: to the point where I had to count on a
Speaker 4: little luck at any rate. I decided to stop the
Speaker 4: ball rolling the next morning after breakfast.
Speaker 8: Wait a minute, Venire, let's get this straight.
Speaker 4: I thought i'd put it straight enough to Anna. I
Speaker 4: said the hunts off, I'm pulling out on that boat tonight.
Speaker 4: You can, I'll relax.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but five days ago you were a cock eyed
Speaker 9: Sure it was one of us.
Speaker 8: I'll come the switch.
Speaker 4: Five days ago, Wilmerding, I didn't know you, guys. I
Speaker 4: was certain of the information I'd picked up in Betavia,
Speaker 4: and I'm not so certain of it now.
Speaker 7: What change your mind? A sweet disposition?
Speaker 4: No, exactly the opposite, Frail. Now, I doubt very much
Speaker 4: if any of you guys is who he claims to be.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't be so prized if Doran, Wilmerding and Prail
Speaker 4: are all phony names. But that's not my business. I
Speaker 4: came here after steeks. I've decided now I made a mistake,
Speaker 4: and that's that.
Speaker 9: Wait a minute, aren't you forgetting the fact that somebody
Speaker 9: tried to knock you off a couple of times?
Speaker 4: Well, let's just say the reason for that was a
Speaker 4: side issue, had nothing to do with steaks.
Speaker 7: Come in here, push us around for a week, and
Speaker 7: decide it was all a mistake.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Prail, and look, I'm gonna try to make
Speaker 4: up for it. This evening, I'm throwing at dinner party
Speaker 4: at here Kurt's bungalow before the port leaves tonight. You're
Speaker 4: you're all invited.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's pretty decent, have you ever.
Speaker 4: I'll get some food and drinks from the Captain as
Speaker 4: soon as he docks. If you're as fed up with
Speaker 4: ry staffel and warm beer as I am, you'll be
Speaker 4: ready for change. Good goodness, it's all settled, and I
Speaker 4: can promise you at least two surprise dishes, maybe three
Speaker 4: if you can. Oh, here, Kurt, come on in.
Speaker 5: I was wondering if and if you had seen the
Speaker 5: landa this morning.
Speaker 4: Well, what's wrong here, Court.
Speaker 5: I'm rather concerned about time. She has not been home
Speaker 5: since early last night.
Speaker 4: I had a couple of ideas about that myself, ideas
Speaker 4: I wished I didn't have anyway. As soon as the
Speaker 4: rest of the bunch went about their business, I began
Speaker 4: my own search for Nelana. I didn't know the country,
Speaker 4: and it was nearly dusk before I found it then
Speaker 4: I said nothing about it to anyone, But sitting at
Speaker 4: the table that night, while the dinner party moved along,
Speaker 4: I was seeing everything through a haze of red, the
Speaker 4: same color as the red and the saran wrapped around
Speaker 4: the slim figure of a beautiful girl. I kept thinking
Speaker 4: how she'd never smile anymore, how she'd never walk in
Speaker 4: the moonlight again because somebody had cut her throat.
Speaker 7: I know a story along the same lines. I never
Speaker 7: heard that one before.
Speaker 8: Ah, what a dinner.
Speaker 6: Oh, after six months of rife stuff, I could go
Speaker 6: crazy about her.
Speaker 7: Yeah, when you throwing from are you already throw it?
Speaker 4: This is only the beginning beginning?
Speaker 7: Where can you go from here?
Speaker 4: Well? Right now? For instance, roast pheasant? All right, one,
Speaker 4: bring it.
Speaker 7: Over, shirt one right the way. I bring.
Speaker 4: A lot for me to put here for you to cove.
Speaker 4: Por no, no, I wonder if you'd mind carving it here.
Speaker 5: Curse not at all, mister, Yeah, I should be happy
Speaker 5: to place it here.
Speaker 6: One boy, I haven't had a roast pheasants since Australia.
Speaker 6: He used to shoot him all the time.
Speaker 7: Even a smells enough to drive you crazy, you said it.
Speaker 4: Pray, Oh you haven't seen anything, yet the pheasant is
Speaker 4: the main dish, so the two surprises go right along
Speaker 4: with it. Wong, bring it out.
Speaker 7: Shirt one, I bring rack a way.
Speaker 4: Not careful, don't drop it? Yeah, oh yeah, thanks. Well
Speaker 4: there you are. It's Chambertin vintage nineteen eleven, unquestionably the
Speaker 4: finest red wine that exists in the world today.
Speaker 8: Holy smoke, where'd you get it?
Speaker 4: I found out on the trip in the captain of
Speaker 4: the steam. I had a few bottles. Took a lot
Speaker 4: of talgging to get one out of him, but I'll
Speaker 4: open it one if you got the glasses Shirt one. Good. Oh, boys,
Speaker 4: you make it back to warm beer tomorrow. But you
Speaker 4: got the best tonight? How Wang show them a second surprise?
Speaker 7: One big bucket.
Speaker 9: Eyes ice real honesty, gosh, cracked ice or I haven't
Speaker 9: seen a chunk of ice for six months, so.
Speaker 4: I thought you'd go for that one, all right, Wang,
Speaker 4: serve the wine, William Wine. You know, it was pretty
Speaker 4: amazing to find nineteen eleven Chambertan on a little tramp
Speaker 4: freighter down here in the South Pacific. The stuff's so
Speaker 4: rare it's hard to get at any price anymore.
Speaker 8: Maybe so, but that ice is what gets me.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's it, Wang, dumb plenty in mind.
Speaker 3: I want to stop that.
Speaker 7: What the w.
Speaker 4: What's the matter, Wilmerding?
Speaker 5: Oh? What well?
Speaker 4: What I mean is that you mean you're well aware
Speaker 4: of the fact that ice kills the bouquet of Chamboutan.
Speaker 4: Isn't that it steaks?
Speaker 7: Steaks you mean, Wilburd.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, once a gomee, always a gourmet, a crook
Speaker 4: with enough sense to keep his hair dyed black for
Speaker 4: years so he could become a natural blund if he
Speaker 4: ever had to make a getaway, but not enough sense
Speaker 4: to keep still and let me roin a bottle of wine.
Speaker 4: Easy with those hands. Don't try reaching for a gun, Kurt, No,
Speaker 4: put down that night, govern here's copers.
Speaker 6: Kurt good Lord Kerchief killed him.
Speaker 5: And so you do not have a prisoner to take
Speaker 5: back with you, mister Vaniel. But I too found her body.
Speaker 5: I knew you had been there. I saw your footprints.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, good And she was she.
Speaker 5: Had been seeing wilmarthin. I had guessed that was one
Speaker 5: of them, and apparently she found out he was steaks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know that's what she was going to tell me.
Speaker 4: He didn't give her a chance.
Speaker 5: She was young, mister Vannier, foolish perhaps, but I loved
Speaker 5: her very much.
Speaker 7: Hey, look he knocked over the bottle of wine.
Speaker 4: It's pouring out all over the place.
Speaker 8: YEA, Rather what a mess here there?
Speaker 4: I am. It's quite a mess. Only one thing, though
Speaker 4: not all of it, is Red Wine.
Speaker 3: Escape is produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Today we
Speaker 3: have presented transcribed Red Wine by L. G. Blackman, adapted
Speaker 3: for radio by Morton Lewis and Less Crutchfield, with editorial
Speaker 3: supervision by John Duncle. Starred as Paul Vernier was Jeff
Speaker 3: Chandler with Barry Kroger's hair Curt Featured players were David Allis,
Speaker 3: Lou Krugman, Jack Krusian, and Lorette phil Brand. The special
Speaker 3: music was arranged and played by Ivan at Mars.
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Speaker 1: an adventure is so strange, so terrifying, that your mind
Speaker 1: cannot accept it.
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