Speaker 1: Come in welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall.
Speaker 2: A young man named Giovanni Guasconti came very long ago
from the more southern region of Italy to pursue his
studies at the University of Padua. Giovanni, who had but
a scancifier gold ducats, took lodgings in a high and
gloomy chamber of an old edifice of a family long
since extinct.
Speaker 1: One of the ancestors of his.
Speaker 2: Family had been pictured by Dante as a partaker of
the immortal agonies of his Inferno Si begins one of
Nathaniel Hawthorne's finest short stories. Who entertained you about to
hear Unforgettable? Not alone as literature, but because it haunts
and shocked to the root of the soul.
Speaker 3: For some purpose, Giovanne, these man of science, doctor Rappertini,
is making a study of you.
Speaker 1: I know that look of his. If you know him not,
how should he know you? Doctor? Body on me? I
I would only.
Speaker 4: Be surmising, and this is the subject I would rather
not pursue.
Speaker 1: Heat me carefully.
Speaker 3: I would stake my life that if you are not
already one of Rappaccini's in human experiments.
Speaker 1: You are marked for it.
Speaker 2: Our mystery drama The Kiss of Death was adapted from
the Nathaniel Hawthorne classic short story, especially for the mystery
theater Yeah, by Ian Martin and stars Kurt Pearson and.
Speaker 1: Patsy gooder Oom.
Speaker 2: Nathaniel Hawthorne described Giovanni as having a remarkable beauty of persons,
rather a Grecian than an Italian, head, with fair regular
features mm and the glistening of gold among his windlets.
But the story he wants about him was as dark
and menacing as his looks were light and open, and
the terrible and tortuous fate which looked in waiting.
Speaker 1: For him was as.
Speaker 2: Exquisitely agonizing as any Dante can fire for his lost
sold in.
Speaker 1: The Seven Rings of Hell. I did not catch your name, Senor.
Speaker 3: As we boughted the ghost Giovanni got guns uh and
my all AUTHORI birgull. You are a young for an occupation.
I am a student then, and a lot of our
talk cony nothing from the south, Npoly. I'll call here
then to Benny. I both all the way around the Goods.
There was no one of my family left. They've only
an uncle who died and left me a small estate
to study with a friend of his, and tatua ah.
Speaker 1: You do not go then on to her owner. Know
I am as find a.
Speaker 3: Place to live with a few duckets, design proggess. And
then he got my.
Speaker 1: Uncle's friends, the teachers in the medical school.
Speaker 3: Not by any child shock come o Rappaccini.
Speaker 1: No, I do not know that name. I have come
much the better for you.
Speaker 3: He has a large reputation. So we tell you about
the lot of the best. Who would he is your father?
Speaker 1: Are you a medical man? Senior Pagramma in Thetoria by
their faith?
Speaker 3: No, I am an exporter, an even porter of goods.
It is in the course of the locker half of
my business dealings. I ever, on a fall of doctor
Rappaccini run a farm, I speak to freel into strangers.
Speaker 1: Hit is depall not mind.
Speaker 3: I tell only that doctor Appaccini has deep and strong
interest in posing them.
Speaker 1: That he's danger.
Speaker 3: Drugs, or rather in glenn to produce them. You are
a young man of open heart and seeming problem. I
am glad you want not be associated with him. I
give you and telling me your foster's name. No, it
is not to throw Paboni doctor professor university town. But
you stay in Padiah. I have no idea, not with
your doctor, but you only or no.
Speaker 4: He was a friend of my uncle's, only a distant
acquaintance of the family.
Speaker 1: I would not have him. Behold him to me, Sirs,
that I like your boy. If you have a good heart,
one at ease of minder that he beats you. Bile.
Speaker 3: Here there is in Padua an old nurse from our
family who came into some property in a large house.
Speaker 1: He your kid's horror a dress. And they know from me.
Speaker 3: I am sure, dom Elizia, back up, ol Cone, they
will step up your comfort.
Speaker 1: I believe I the way is your person had.
Speaker 3: I a son, I kind of think of quarters where
you could be bet the or stay.
Speaker 1: For large.
Speaker 3: Eating. Uh the Ladama elizabetha pelagonne.
Speaker 5: I care sent me he it through whom I have
idea honor the people.
Speaker 1: Giovanni gos Comsy.
Speaker 3: I burned him production I'm an old friender and in
your salvatory para come nice.
Speaker 1: You don't and he plaim does my little boy?
Speaker 6: Ye hea, oh come in you come mean?
Speaker 1: I get good? Thank you pay go o sons.
Speaker 7: Authority I went, he's nursed here now, oh many years
they go?
Speaker 8: Now it tells me how is he in good health?
Speaker 1: Stay hopping in the most excellent health?
Speaker 3: I should say, judge him by his drough He gave me.
Speaker 5: A letter for you, asking you forgive this gir the
left the matter, and he can never bear to remember that. I,
who brought him up, can neither read nor write. But
he's signature, and feel that I recognize every day your woman,
Do you be good enough to read.
Speaker 1: What the paper? Stay? Is it? Let me bring the
lantern near us? Quitey, simple enough, he says. Carries him
up this reserve to.
Speaker 3: Introduce a young man of good family and great prospects,
which person is not yet heavy and must find lodging
while he attend the university.
Speaker 1: H I can wish him no better, say than you
may find room to take him in.
Speaker 5: Uh, you couldn't have come with a higher recommendation.
Speaker 1: Of course you have steaky.
Speaker 3: I followed her up the curving marble staircase, the ceilings
and walls finished in grape old systems, the pet now
molding and peeling from the walls.
Speaker 5: I had a few treadsman who bowled on the lower
flow Oh it's the two dumb but mop people, the
young knife thug and Andy Plade.
Speaker 3: You're nothing they taken with Badwise I missed the gun.
Speaker 1: There's a children in the boom, Oh in the hard
your home seek? I have no home left, my guns
or my family. I did. Ah.
Speaker 5: That is enough to dim the sun for anyone.
Speaker 9: Egg cussing my musical.
Speaker 1: But can I afford it? Oh?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 6: No one else is young enough to gland the stairs.
Speaker 8: I don't see nothing yet.
Speaker 1: Come come to the window. Oh beautiful, I'm a strain
hume hugely.
Speaker 5: There is as bright as sunshine if you left in Naples, right,
though not so warm.
Speaker 1: But what a magnificent garden it is?
Speaker 3: It?
Speaker 1: Not something? Stay there?
Speaker 3: He is a.
Speaker 1: Botanical garden, and so lovingly cared for it.
Speaker 5: Does this belong to the Oh no, you know no,
he's from the dealer next door.
Speaker 4: Such strange exotic plants, the purples and the the magentas.
Speaker 1: I don't recognize any of them, no more than I.
Speaker 8: It serves the gigantically six huge heavy builtings, A little important,
of course.
Speaker 1: For the great man who owns them.
Speaker 8: You see, Oh, that that's that's the he.
Speaker 5: You you can see working at one of the days
father stone ear near the statue.
Speaker 3: Surely that there's no guard and the scholar's guards black,
oh blood such and.
Speaker 5: Now he permits no one else but him tells to
come near his bus.
Speaker 3: M that the doctor Rappacini, him tells Doppuccini.
Speaker 6: Ah, even in neighbors, you've heard his name.
Speaker 1: I No, not in neighbors, but more recently.
Speaker 6: Oh well, I'm sure he needs to me.
Speaker 5: It's all over each tell me and Europe in the world,
for that matter.
Speaker 3: So when they don't suit you, do you think, admirable blazer.
Speaker 1: But see if it will suit my purpose.
Speaker 7: Oh, we shall arrange that when you join us for
the evening me he's here would be my game?
Speaker 1: For how kind?
Speaker 7: I uh huh uh thank me late, A young gallant,
you may have the more reason.
Speaker 1: Keep your eye on the garden.
Speaker 5: There is one flower that the dawn bit more beautiful
than any you have already seen.
Speaker 3: The strange, eerie beauty of that garden below held me spellbound.
I watched the tall, emaciated figure of the doctor Tender's garden,
so intent on his administrations that he was oblivious to
all else. And an herb or a shrub escaped such
a scientific minute examination that it seemed as if you
were looking into their innermost nature.
Speaker 1: And yet he.
Speaker 4: Avoided inhaling their odors or actually touching them.
Speaker 3: And walked among them with a caution that suggested him
a man walking among malignant. Obviously he was not the
one who cultivated them. Yeah, I was just wondering who
did when me? Yay?
Speaker 1: Here me, yeah, here I am father. Are you in
the garden? Yeah? And I need your head?
Speaker 3: Have you gotten among it? How I knew what Zamashny
had meant? She said, I had yet see the garden's
most beautiful flower. For brief is the glimpse I had
had of her. This was the most radiant, the most
violently alive woman I had ever seen in my life.
Speaker 5: What is it, say, other, chief treasure, It needs more
care than I.
Speaker 1: Did offer, even my shatter steet.
Speaker 10: I was saying to you, must take it over as
all the others gladly know how I love them all,
But this one, Uh, I.
Speaker 5: Am talking to you, sid He shall be attacked to
serve you, and.
Speaker 1: You need ten You shall reward me, but your.
Speaker 7: Perfumed breath, which is the breath of the night children.
Speaker 1: Never let her languish.
Speaker 6: She is my greatest trials, and just who's to be told?
Speaker 1: More than the breath of where he is the father?
Something wrong?
Speaker 6: No, nothing, all come the hour, closed legs and the night.
Speaker 3: There is not trying to my.
Speaker 6: Church these days, Oh.
Speaker 3: Peticlarly, somehow menacing doctor retort. She need merely finished with
his garden inspection. But had he somehow spied me in
the evening shadows of my lightest window about something below?
Took me away from my speculations, and I quickly descended
the supper.
Speaker 5: So all the set to into your satisfaction, and in
desire to take the room.
Speaker 1: I already feel it home. They feel great on some
is he not? Oh, oh, more than in ours?
Speaker 3: I promise you I shall not be a right dress.
In fact, I anticipate spending a great deal of time
in my room.
Speaker 1: About that magic window.
Speaker 5: I take it you have already seen it to reach
his blooms, Yes.
Speaker 3: Just before something senior that's hot, ConA, How can I
gain an introduction to her?
Speaker 1: Do you? There's her?
Speaker 5: But Genie, I parted at my head.
Speaker 1: Oh my delays make the door they might leap.
Speaker 8: In another world, But excuse me the great gentleman at
the university, de doctor by Yoni, So whom you better
not that introduction?
Speaker 1: Where would know he's been a doctor?
Speaker 3: Of course I should sleep on the hope of that
is indeed, after all that has happened to me today
allows me to sleep.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 5: At your age, sleep comes easily and the.
Speaker 3: Welcome When I woke up, I had overslept him, was
bone weary from myles and my new environment.
Speaker 1: But I was brought through immediate life by the sound
of a.
Speaker 4: Voice already adored outside my window.
Speaker 6: Uh huh, A lot he leaves those I have a
lecture at the university.
Speaker 1: He's uh all, well were you here? Of good? I
have been attending night my sister.
Speaker 8: See how she lived and had to dancings.
Speaker 1: I that he nursed him.
Speaker 6: All of yours had turned sheen and reach and glimmering
like the most grecious of stones.
Speaker 1: You breathe a new life on it. As it doesn't
mean you are the rage here by far.
Speaker 5: It's either others are Whether do you have without each other?
Speaker 1: You are lonely? Believe you u uh.
Speaker 8: A little human companion ship?
Speaker 1: Quite right?
Speaker 6: I must be provide you something about the hall he
could have a ball or a dinner time.
Speaker 1: I don't know not doing this house. This house now
I know, since another has done you has become a l.
Speaker 3: It changes it it clime did think of me?
Speaker 6: I know, and let gramies I shot, But it is
not the seemful not I can think, but not too
might say hungry, I.
Speaker 3: Purise you you shall not have to. I felt guilty
heaves dropping from my window, but my heart cried out
to how bad trick she has my own, And somehow
my mind cried.
Speaker 1: Out as loudly to forget her to run, to leave
while there was still time, and for what?
Speaker 3: And then suddenly I realized so strange about the garden,
all about me. Outside it and in other trees, the
birds twittered and swooped and lived their lives. But in
the garden of my loved on, no bird lived, and
no bird sang.
Speaker 7: O.
Speaker 2: But if one has any threatened danger held back a
man in love, and what.
Speaker 1: Danger could lurk in a garden of.
Speaker 2: Luxuriant and healthy flowers and shrugs glad Giovanni is about
to find out and refused to believe until the ultimate
truth is too undeniable. I shall return shortly with that
to there is an influence in the light of morning
that tends to rectify whatever errors of fantasy or even
of judgment we may have incouraged during the sun's decline.
Speaker 1: Or in the less wholesome glow of moonlight.
Speaker 2: These are mister Hawthorne's words, and what better ones to
project that. By the following morning, after a good sleep,
young Giovanni, looking out his window in the bright sun
f own the garden below him a lovely place, it
was time to present himself at the university and to
meet his sponsor, Ildthore Baglione. So you wished to study medicine, hm,
I wish to provide myself with a livelihood, since my
patrimony will soon be exhausted.
Speaker 1: Uh, frankly spoken again, I like you. I think we
might make a doctor of you.
Speaker 3: Yet report to me tomorrow at the hour of six
in the morning. Now you say you are set, we
somewhere through stay.
Speaker 1: Just uh at la Dama Falcone's house on the Via Electo.
Speaker 3: Via elect here el that near Il dotore A Rappacini's house.
Speaker 1: Yes, the very next dinner.
Speaker 3: I have been given to understand he is a man
of considerable renown.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: Yes, he the name is known. I had gathered more
than that. If in the famous up A.
Speaker 3: Genie Hm a brilliant and amazing man. It is his
theory that all medicinal virtues are comprised within those substances
we call vegetable portions. Human life means.
Speaker 1: Very little to him or now and then he achieves.
Speaker 3: A miraculous secure But in my private mind these are
more probably the work of chaps, and I must confess
I am only interested in senior Rappucini because of his
daughter ha A would at least half the young man
in Padua, uh, of whom few have ever seen her face, Nay,
nephew of my old friend.
Speaker 1: In this I I am of more hindrance than help.
Speaker 3: I'm afraid an attempt to be introduction from me to
my rival or his daughter would amount to the kiss
of death.
Speaker 1: I be you to stay away from a.
Speaker 3: Drappaccini and his wild obsessions. Too close an acquaintance with
him might prove for you what I already jokingly termed myself.
Speaker 1: The geese of death.
Speaker 4: I returned to my lodgings, and on an impulse, I
I bought a fresh bouquet of flowers from a florist
I passed.
Speaker 1: Arriving home, I mounted.
Speaker 3: Breastly to my erie and was rewarded to see my
enchantress engaged below.
Speaker 1: In the garden.
Speaker 4: She was in the act of being about to pluck
one of strange exotic flowers from a special plant, but
the fountain. When on an impulse, I tried out, why your.
Speaker 9: Leave, Singerina, who comes Giovanni Guscanti.
Speaker 1: Your servant and admirer, do not put that flower? And
why not say singing a jig?
Speaker 3: Because I have here such fresh and lovely and healthful flowers,
I should have done, such beauty and grace the idea
to talk them to you and ask you to wear
them for my sake.
Speaker 1: God U, I thank you. Could si you speak our language.
Speaker 5: Softly and then a different manners.
Speaker 1: From what my ears I used to. Are you from
some other line?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: I am Italian as you, but from the south you seem.
Speaker 7: Quite fair, unlike the few, uh, unlike the other young
men I have met.
Speaker 3: I wish I could need more formally, and so do
I if if I were to call and and present
my compliments to your father.
Speaker 5: No, that is not the ways, and not yet, but
that sometimes we can talk like this, Only it's so far.
Speaker 7: I I wish I could show you my dulness.
Speaker 1: I wish I could walk in it with you.
Speaker 7: At least if we cannot get let me return your
gifts by throwing you one special flower.
Speaker 1: I believe it too far for you to catch it,
and I've already picked it.
Speaker 9: At least I can tie ready as high as you can.
Speaker 1: Oh I haven't, Oh no, go, for it had to
be one of us. So I let the blossom go.
Try again.
Speaker 10: Not for the world, I would not have read, and
the gods bother.
Speaker 7: I tell you indirectly if you had seeing your little
Tomorrow afternoon, I'm afraid I shall be at my studies
at the university.
Speaker 9: But dude, I won't see here coming coming.
Speaker 1: Yes, so do I hope soon, and thank you for
my flower. We will guard them and keep them well.
Some trick of imagination and the hot life have to say.
Speaker 4: I'm don But cause she turned and fled up the
garden path, did my eyes deceive me that my lovely
bouquet was already withering in her grass?
Speaker 1: Non? SENTI?
Speaker 4: I tried to tell myself there was no possibility of
distinguishing a faded flower from a fresh one at so
great a distance in my hand where I had touched
her flowers burned with a fever of law. Oh, it
was three days before I had returned to my full senses,
again weak, some loss of weight and the debilitating effect
of some raging poison that had drained my system. I
awakened to see Damba Falcone's kind and worried face hovering
over my bed.
Speaker 5: Oh huh, so we had a wake at last ten
hour ten?
Speaker 1: Then you order? What are you doing in my room? Uh?
Speaker 5: What have I been doing the last three days under
the bed authority Bayonne's orders? But keeping poor compress your
brow and seeing you growel They keep body and soul together.
Speaker 1: If I didn't kill them, Oh, we put.
Speaker 5: Your raging of the blood that I was put to
Toory was worried about you till this morning.
Speaker 1: What caused it? He didn't heal?
Speaker 5: Look sure there are infectious germs about this time of.
Speaker 1: The years, and after your long truth and the.
Speaker 5: Shock of losing your family, that the Bayomi thinks you
sell prey to one of them.
Speaker 1: Three days? What time is it? After Lord?
Speaker 3: It once?
Speaker 5: Several hours of funds again, No, no, no, you must
not set up yet till the door Pory returned.
Speaker 1: I just want you to Oh we.
Speaker 3: Can you see in the garden it is the Senor
Rapaci there no one.
Speaker 5: Without business said the docs have been abroad these days.
Speaker 1: It has rained, and if it was time to.
Speaker 5: Stop building a second art or see you, that would
be the good dutory back. I must go down and
let him in.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: As soon as she had left the room, I found
my way weakly to the window. A great curtain of
rain blurred the empty garden below, and staggered back to
my dead my feet unsteady grain veeling. Had I really
tossed the bouquet of flowers to be ethically? And did
I remember catching but letting Paul the blossoms from the garden?
Speaker 1: She threw me in exchange.
Speaker 3: Then I blacked out again, not to come too till
I found doctor BULIONI examining me. Well, well, well, well,
a fine way.
Speaker 1: To start out learning to be a doctor, my young friend.
Speaker 3: Uh would it make you a better physician to begin.
Speaker 1: As a patient.
Speaker 3: I don't know, sir, not if you start how the
dead one, But it seems you will recover what availed
me some unique humor of the blood.
Speaker 1: Thanks be to God, you responded well when I bled you.
You should be on.
Speaker 3: Your feet very soon, quaint PSI old within the week,
No doubt is one as young and his wife and
as you. Meanwhile, rest and eat well, the good dumb.
Speaker 1: At least, I bet I will see that you have
fed to regain the weight you have lost.
Speaker 3: How can I thank you enough for your aid and comfort.
It is good to have a friend in a strange city, and.
Speaker 1: Uh more than one more than one.
Speaker 3: Surprisingly, someone else today inquired as to your well being
with what appeared to be great personal interest. Who doctor
of Pacini? But I was not aware that you had
made his acquaintance, nor have I. But that is welcome news,
for if you would follow my advice, you will have
as little to do as ponsible with him. Why do
you say that for some bers this man of science
is making a study of you.
Speaker 1: I I know that look of his.
Speaker 3: I have seen that old illumination that he bends over
a bird, a mouse, a butterfly, witch, in pursuit of
some experiment he has killed by the perfume of a flower.
Speaker 1: I if you know him not house would he know you?
I it would only be surmising, and it is a
subject I would rather not pursue.
Speaker 3: And I'm acquaintance you had better not eat, uh, for
he'd they carefully.
Speaker 1: Is Senor Jovani.
Speaker 3: I would stake my life that if you are not
already one of Racaccini's inshuman experiments, you are marked for it.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: By the next morning that I awoke, refreshed and feeling
myself one.
Speaker 5: Jordan uh, senor about comedy, one.
Speaker 3: Jordan damofocone ha out of bed and look the boy.
Speaker 5: I'll bring you your breakfast to eat in there.
Speaker 1: Oh, I haven't hear by the window. Huh.
Speaker 5: Now you must eat everything and not allow the attention
to wonder.
Speaker 1: Oh, I will eat, I am si.
Speaker 5: Oh but oho door for the sight of Rappaccini's daughter.
Speaker 4: I suppose nothing escaped that sharp eye of your mother
sell calling and not much all might be.
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 5: I think I could have told that doctor what ailed you?
Speaker 1: Better than leave? What I help you under see you're
in not talking from the window.
Speaker 6: I think you are taken with the disease.
Speaker 3: Of the heart.
Speaker 1: And nah their precher, Yes, but it is hopeless. I'm afraided.
If only I could meet him, he could walk with
her in the garden.
Speaker 5: But then he said, pri that the entrance into the garden.
Speaker 1: From the street private, at least to doctor Rappuccini's gardens.
That's allowed.
Speaker 5: Almost any young man in Fadua would sell his soul
or his both right to be admitted among those flowers.
Speaker 1: You may have what little I have, if you will
show me the way, Caush, I wanted nothing from you. No,
I have been well paid already, and here's the key.
I give it to you in return for one thing
only what name You are.
Speaker 7: Paid as a gold send Senator rare mam.
Speaker 6: Signor, so you don't stay at the girl fas to death.
Speaker 1: Well, they beats like a lion, uh.
Speaker 3: Bressed in my very best uh my blessed guide, Signora
Falconi led me along several obscure passages. Then suddenly we
were at the door. I thank you turned the key
easily in the lock, which must have been oiled. I
was in doctor Rappuccini's garden, practically under my own window.
We Signor, you should have the price.
Speaker 1: To see me. I kind of dove such as yourself.
After the lovely bouquet you talked to me four days ago.
It is no marvel that my father's rare collection has
tempted you to take a mar of you, or that
you who sent this key? I know? But then who
I know not? But does it matter?
Speaker 8: You are here?
Speaker 1: Come, I will show you how got it.
Speaker 4: If fame speaks true, you are as deeply skilled in
these rich blossoms and spicy perfumes as your father.
Speaker 1: No, although I have grown up 'em.
Speaker 7: On these flowers, I know no more of them than
their shoes, and they're perfumes would leave me.
Speaker 1: Oh there's the flower you tried to toss me by
my window. May the Good Lord be blessed you failed
to grasp it. Why I wanted it very much for
a keepsake. Methinks you owe me one. I shall pick
it for myself. Oh no, touch it, not, not for
your very life. It would kill you all.
Speaker 3: Hiding her face, beetree chair rushes from him into the house,
and his eyes following her behold within the shadow of
the entrance the emaciated, ominous figure of the Black plad.
Doctor Rappaccini of return with act free. Bewildered and shaken
by his strange encounter with the girl he loves, Giovanni
has stumbled back to his room, suddenly overcome with the
debility of his three day illness, so faint that he
is barely able to climb the stairs to his room.
Once there, however, no matter how much his feeble weakened body,
along with the bad instinct or some deeper drive, forces
him to the window.
Speaker 1: But how could you have given him the keita visit
me if you knew there was.
Speaker 3: Danger for him?
Speaker 1: Who danger? No on the Lord, but the things that
pop things? The other day I talked to blossom from
this to him.
Speaker 5: Had he caught it, what would have happened to him?
Speaker 1: You would have ever died? Oh man, forgive me, you
are the innocent to my love. It would have been
but small help for him. Oh Papa, how can I.
Speaker 5: Let him continue to come, even supposing he ever wants
to again come inside?
Speaker 1: Daughter, there is no place to talk. We may be
overheard if he is black.
Speaker 6: In his own If we are, then I say this.
Speaker 7: I know he loves me as I love him, But
for his sake, I think you would think better he
stayed away from me.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, are you having not belong to live?
And he gets time for you through me to wish someone,
let me explain just how this may be accomplished. In
spite of all, I have a studying on this for
a long time, and I have come to a conclusion.
Speaker 4: Behind the drape on my window, I had listened to
this conversation between Beatrice and her father. Now, as I
watched them disappear into the house, I looked down on
that fateful, hideous flower. Then my beloved could fondle and
kiss with no harm?
Speaker 1: Could it be so deadly? The answer was vouchsafed immediately.
Speaker 3: Crawling across one of the statues was a small chameleon, which,
in its passage had accidentally brushed against the tensil from
the strange shrubs. In a second, from the touch of
that tendril, the lizard contorted itself in one riding spacmen.
Then it, even by invisible fire, crackled like a moth
in a candle flame, and was gone. I could think
no more. I I threw myself on the bed and
mercifully passed into darkness. Good morning, my young friend, Oh, oh, oh,
good morning, doctor PACCIONI, so what.
Speaker 1: Is this that La lama onna telling me about your
having a.
Speaker 3: Lapse and other things such as that you have not
only talked several times with La signor Ea Rappuccini, but
that you have also gained access.
Speaker 1: To the garden and met her there. Yes, sen your
f that is true.
Speaker 3: I look at you, and physically you appear to have
made a remarkable recovery.
Speaker 1: This morning you literally glow with help. Get true. I
feel rested and full of life.
Speaker 3: I'm forced to conclude that Phips, this strange distemper that
attacks you, is less of.
Speaker 1: The mind than perhaps of the heart. You're right, doctor,
completely right. I am in love. They at the chi Rapucine,
uh I feared as much, with no estate.
Speaker 4: Or name, and with no prospects but a long term
of study before me. You consider my suit as hopeless
as I I consider it hopeless for deeper reasons. I
think you must have some suspicions of the proof already.
Speaker 1: Very well.
Speaker 3: I've been too late to stop Rappucini's experiment with his daughter,
but at least I can try to stop him from
what a new experiment he plans for you?
Speaker 1: For me? What interest could he have in me? I
I haven't even met the man or where do you
think the key came from?
Speaker 3: That? It admitted you to the gardens, h batreek who
else from Rappacini?
Speaker 1: Ask that I'm of house gone. If you don't believe me.
It was placed in her hands by the.
Speaker 3: Doctor himself, along with a golden ducky to make sure
she brought it to you.
Speaker 1: But why, I woo who.
Speaker 3: Who can demonetrate the clouded workings of this this thoughted
mind a man who would sacrifice his own daughter to
his own obsession?
Speaker 1: Right? Is there nothing we can do for her? I
would gladly give my life. Let us not be too hasty.
There may be a way to outwit Rappaccini. Yet, how
you see this little silver flask? It was wrought by
the hands of the great Cellini. It must be practical, yes, yes,
but most of all because of what it contains.
Speaker 3: One sick of the antidote in it would render all
the poisons of the borgeous innocuous. Bestow it on your
bare treaty, and we will sworn a PAINI. Yet, once
my gar old friends had left, I hastened to dress
my heart, going with the hope that the silver flash
would make a ah well.
Speaker 1: And then came the ultimate blow.
Speaker 4: A small bird had crashed against the pane from my
open window and dropped to the ledge. I went to
the poor little creatures, lifting and and finding it still
alive and only momentarily stunned. Excusingly, I brought into my lips,
touching them to its head, about to make a sound
of reassurance out to my horror.
Speaker 3: Like like the chameleon in the garden the day before,
the touch of my lips.
Speaker 1: Galvanized it into one.
Speaker 3: Agonizing spasm, and then it dissolved into nothingness in my hands.
Speaker 1: At the same moment, the voice of bad treech called
me from the garden. He vanni too, vannie on your desk,
What do you want of me? Now? A cursed poison?
This witch comes down to the garden. Let me try
to slain. No need for explorations anymore. I am the
only being.
Speaker 4: Your breath cannot slave, your kits may never kill all.
Speaker 1: I stumbled from my room for the door and for
the garden.
Speaker 3: I was a mass of conflicting emotions, love, hate, despair,
and murderous fury. As I faced they had treat hand
that deadly garden. How can you pretend ignorance? Can I
prove the power I have gained from the pure daughter
of rappacini.
Speaker 1: No no, no, profi necessy. So you admit you have
cast your poisonous spell on me. I saw what happened
to the bird on the window.
Speaker 5: I saw, but it did not mean believe me.
Speaker 1: It is my father's fatal science. How could you have
mob known? How could I have known?
Speaker 5: Loved ever prisoner all these years in this garden, my
only companions my father and the flowers, particularly this evil
thing of beauty.
Speaker 3: That I pretended was assist because I had no human
being to him, I love in friendship to it.
Speaker 1: You must have known, you have had to know.
Speaker 3: Just today when I reached for the blossom on this
venoment's fine.
Speaker 1: You probably I'll touch it, not kill you. I did
tie that out.
Speaker 3: Yet a few days earlier, when I brought you flowers,
you thought the same blossom.
Speaker 4: To me at my window, Luckily that it only grazed
my dangers. But I put you alone with enough to
put me in a blush, a.
Speaker 1: Fever that nearly killed me. I knew nothing of that.
Why didn't you think I was?
Speaker 3: If I had been myself for all the love I
had in my heart for you, don't you think I
would have been taily at your window.
Speaker 1: I thought you were at the university studying it.
Speaker 4: You told me you would do, of course, all innocence,
and having failed to despatch.
Speaker 3: Me from a distance, you had to provide me entry
to the garden to make sure. Oh dear, forgive me.
I I I don't know what I'm saying.
Speaker 10: It it was you who saved my life, A life that,
believe me, I never had dreams, stood in any danger.
Speaker 1: From me or mine.
Speaker 3: Your life was the most pleasure thing in the world
to me.
Speaker 1: And because that I had to drive.
Speaker 5: You from me.
Speaker 1: Why I was indulgagous, Don't you see? I knew nothing
til after my father had given you the key.
Speaker 5: Even then, the one thing he told me was that
you must.
Speaker 1: Not touch this flower upon pain of death. I was
so lonely for you. I loved you, so.
Speaker 10: I wanted only to spend a little time alone with you.
Speaker 1: I had forgot the flower when you were near, and
all the world seemed lovely.
Speaker 3: Before I knew that I was something hateful and poisonous.
Speaker 1: Just to that deadly flower. Where did it come from?
My father created it, created it.
Speaker 5: He knows all the bio secrets of nature.
Speaker 1: Had a very honor when I first do bread. This
blood come from the soil, the.
Speaker 7: Off thring of his science, his intellect, but his eye
was only his the.
Speaker 1: Like I grew up and get nourished by it. I
thought of it as my sister, not as my biom.
Not I'm yours mine, Look, no, you're mine. See I
picked the flowers. And then it is harmless to me
now as you.
Speaker 9: Okay, But my God, and what I love that no
curse my daughter, Doctorini, no.
Speaker 10: Good you may not so unclean?
Speaker 1: Unclean?
Speaker 9: Look at you, one step below God, both of you
and I created you.
Speaker 1: Hear the power that courses through your aid, the magic
peace to my aunts have a brought you.
Speaker 6: You could aware them, my dearest, the enemy where they.
Speaker 5: Breath creamer of the most monstrous unsupport against you with it.
Speaker 9: What more could you ask than to be as nearly
more to as a man lord, a woman the maiden
I would.
Speaker 1: Have chosen to be loved looked fait, I am condemned,
ever do what he our faith is not so death.
Speaker 3: Thanks to my friend doctor, by your knee, I lord
me that boldling bigot in this flask battery cha is
an antidote that fills the blessed herbs which can purify us.
Speaker 1: They let us know how you warn you drinks of.
Speaker 9: That flask, and it can bring you only death, so
powerful and the poisons you have pried done, and the
powerful that antidote.
Speaker 1: No human body could stand the constant Go and listen
to him. Battery cha drink that I were followed up.
He will not let you destroy my triumphs. I will
shoot you first. Want the tisto.
Speaker 3: You will not think your leave father.
Speaker 1: Death is to be our portion. The letted people all evil?
Speaker 9: If what are you doing rooting forever the pen of
its lies, take it to your own. Both the worrity,
long haste.
Speaker 1: He un done. I did not need to cause his death.
I thought he was immune. No, my father wasn't newing
to nothing except the load to pucket it it just
better off that. Oh quick, let him drink if it
may mean death.
Speaker 3: You heard doctor Rappet, will nothing live at IoT?
Speaker 1: No, I didn't give it to me. I didn't drink that. No,
I should put half in the cap of the flaska.
The flasks fell to the future, feel funny to.
Speaker 3: All the future, whatever it may be. What future did
these lovers find? Were they star crossed as Romeo and Juliet,
or did the God smile on them like Elizabeth Robert Brownie.
Speaker 1: Well, what does it matter? After all?
Speaker 3: If they were together a good story the laws need
an end, at least none beyond that the listener chooses
to select believe for himself. I'll be back shortly. Do
I hear some murmurs of dissatisfaction with the ending, then
let us make a confession. The story as you have
heard it does not end exactly as an effect of.
Speaker 1: Hold or wote it. If you must have an ending
to this dog tale, you can read his solution.
Speaker 2: We can only say we thought poor bea treache and
her unlucky lover Giovanni deserved a better fate, dead or alive,
and we let the u shoes. Our cast included Kirk Peterson,
Pattie Brud Arnold Moss, Briane Rayburn, and Gilbert mac The
entire production was under.
Speaker 1: The direction of Timon Brown And now a preview of
our next detail. I wouldn't go in there if I
was you, It wouldn't.
Speaker 3: Folks get lost in there, and a lot of that
all we can get lost. I have a very good
sense of direction, but all the same you take one
advice who stay out of touch Mooond's wards even Oh
that's ridiculous. We can take care of ourselves. We're not
gonna get lost. Nobody aims to her cause folks do it.
Speaker 1: Though.
Speaker 3: I was gonna ask you if missus Griffin, oh Sarah
would be uh willing to put up a picnic lunch point?
Speaker 1: We wos you.
Speaker 3: Picture up something for lunch or troubled about that?
Speaker 1: The only thing is, oh, we'll be very careful.
Speaker 3: Well, I well, uh just go to talk to Sarah
about the lunch and thanks. But if I was you,
I'd stay out of Dutch loose school.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is E. G.
Speaker 2: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams,