Speaker 1: Escape Escape Tonight to Paris of five hundred years ago.
Speaker 2: The Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations presents Escape,
Speaker 2: a new series of programs, of which this the fifth
Speaker 2: is The Sired de Maltoise Door by Robert Louis Stevenson,
Speaker 2: produced and directed by William N. Robeson The pen of
Speaker 2: Robert Louis Stevenson has been an avenue of escape for
Speaker 2: three generations. Our grandparents thrilled to the macab metamorphosis of
Speaker 2: doctor Jacob, just as we will never forget the nursery
Speaker 2: menace called Long John Silver. Tonight, we escape with Robert
Speaker 2: Louis Stevenson down another avenue which leads to Paris in
Speaker 2: fourteen twenty nine and the amazing adventure of the Sire
Speaker 2: de Maultois.
Speaker 1: Dark of the Moon fourteen twenty nine. Paris, the House
Speaker 1: of Burgund beholds the throne of France, and english Men
Speaker 1: at arms patrol the narrow streets. Troublous times for any
Speaker 1: man to be lost on foot at night. You there
Speaker 1: over here, here by the wall.
Speaker 3: Let's this now, the shadows themselves are speaking, no shadow,
Speaker 3: a real life huming bebe.
Speaker 1: I've managed to get myself lost in these confounded alleys.
Speaker 1: Can you tell me where I am?
Speaker 3: Well? Now, fine, young cavalier a lesh and he's lost.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to find the boats. Will the street leave me? There?
Speaker 3: Ad one street? This is good, there's another, and none
Speaker 3: of them will ever lead a man anyway.
Speaker 4: Oh, come, now, you must know something about this part
Speaker 4: of Paris. I think man. A patrol may passing a moment.
Speaker 3: You're wanted.
Speaker 4: I have a safe conduct pass from the captain of
Speaker 4: the garrison.
Speaker 3: Safe conduct and if I'm good, that'll do you.
Speaker 4: Hearing the dog, you're certainly not helping my chances any.
Speaker 3: No, the only safe conduct you have is that sword
Speaker 3: is swinging at your side.
Speaker 1: Wait.
Speaker 4: Wait, a patrol.
Speaker 3: They're coming this way, I mean, glined. Do you think
Speaker 3: you're right?
Speaker 1: I've got to run for it.
Speaker 3: Tell them nothing when I should tell what home?
Speaker 5: Wait?
Speaker 1: No one's there?
Speaker 3: Speak up, oil, Speak up, and you're a blundering pack
Speaker 3: of two day grenadiers that walk like a herd of
Speaker 3: cattle such as me.
Speaker 1: Speak up, that.
Speaker 3: Served with a mad Prince Charlie himself may rest in peace.
Speaker 2: An old campaign that where are you?
Speaker 5: From?
Speaker 1: Soldier front?
Speaker 3: Temblar from a smarter outfit in vivouac than the likes
Speaker 3: of you in court.
Speaker 5: Bitting the scupture man, seeing anybody about old time?
Speaker 3: Not good shadows and tankards of ail. Find French cavalier
Speaker 3: who departed hints without a bio league, just.
Speaker 5: Where to go?
Speaker 3: Who knows prapt in one way? Maybe the other? I
Speaker 3: think it was the other there, All.
Speaker 1: Right, man, I'm French cavalier.
Speaker 2: Will never make a foul on the spit spread out,
Speaker 2: cover the street, keep an eye out on it, and
Speaker 2: slip away between you.
Speaker 1: Oh now, such every car called the fool, the drunken fool.
Speaker 1: I'm for it now, all right? This cross street is
Speaker 1: a bare chance to pacify. So I can only get
Speaker 1: through here. Oh no, it's a dead end unless this leads. No,
Speaker 1: it's only the door to a house caught like a
Speaker 1: retina trap. All right, if it's so written, and so
Speaker 1: be it. With a bit of luck, there'll be two
Speaker 1: or three go with me. Huh, the door it's unlocked.
Speaker 1: I can push it open. M h black is the
Speaker 1: amount of hill inside? Well?
Speaker 4: What have I got to lose?
Speaker 5: I have to be here, copay, not here, it's gone.
Speaker 6: Didn't come in here after all?
Speaker 4: A right pap of the corner.
Speaker 5: On the f.
Speaker 1: Ah. It was close, too close. Now they get out
Speaker 1: of here, and none in the house will ever be
Speaker 1: the wiser. Huh, what's this? The door's locked? What's a trap?
Speaker 1: But why why would such a thing be done? I
Speaker 1: came in here by chance, one chance against a million. Wait,
Speaker 1: it's a light somewhere inside the house. Well, all rights,
Speaker 1: I should be dead at this moment, So.
Speaker 5: Come in, young man. I've been expecting you all evening.
Speaker 1: I fear you must be mistaken, So my visit is
Speaker 1: quite unexpected for both of us.
Speaker 5: Good.
Speaker 6: That very good for the both of us. You say, well,
Speaker 6: no matter, you're here. That's the main part. Take a seat,
Speaker 6: my boy, put yourself at ease. We'll arrange our little
Speaker 6: affairs presently.
Speaker 1: There seems to be some misunderstanding. You see, your door
Speaker 1: was standing o the door. That was a little piece
Speaker 1: of ingenuity, don't you agree?
Speaker 4: So you must know that I had no intention of
Speaker 4: intruding without an invitation.
Speaker 5: Without an invitation, is it? Well? We old people are
Speaker 5: used to such reluctance.
Speaker 6: When it touches our honor, we cast them out until
Speaker 6: we find some way of overcoming it.
Speaker 5: And so my boy. Invitation or not, you are, believe
Speaker 5: me most wilome.
Speaker 1: I hope you'll pardon my saying it, but I haven't
Speaker 1: the slightest idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 6: Oh so that's it, dead to rights, but still pretending. Eh,
Speaker 6: you're a.
Speaker 5: Clever road, sir.
Speaker 1: Right. My name is Denny de Beaulieux. I am not
Speaker 1: a guest in your house by my own choice, and
Speaker 1: I am not accustomed to.
Speaker 6: Being, nor is the house of matoa customer certain things
Speaker 6: of which you well know.
Speaker 1: I should have expected better treatment at the hands of
Speaker 1: one of the most honored families of France.
Speaker 6: Honored indeed, until you, Monsieur de Beaulgeux, took it to
Speaker 6: put yourself to dishonor as.
Speaker 1: Side of Maltroy. I have attempted to explain that I
Speaker 1: took a stand before your door to fight off a
Speaker 1: patrol which i'd encountered in the street. I assure you
Speaker 1: I had no slight intention of forcing myself. Since it
Speaker 1: seems impossible for you to converse with any degree of reason,
Speaker 1: may I did you good night?
Speaker 7: Sir?
Speaker 1: If you have your right wits, then you're insulting me grossly,
Speaker 1: and if not, I have no desire to spend further
Speaker 1: time of.
Speaker 6: The montary young fool thinking to get away so easily.
Speaker 1: No power on earth can make me stay here any longer,
Speaker 1: even if I'm forced to hand that door of yours
Speaker 1: to pieces.
Speaker 5: I'm me, And now will you please sit down?
Speaker 6: My dear nephew, nephew, you lie in your teeth, I said,
Speaker 6: sit down, think for a minute that I made a
Speaker 6: little contrivance for the door, and stop short with that.
Speaker 6: You want to be bound hand and foot to your bones?
Speaker 6: Crack inside, and will then.
Speaker 5: Get up try to get away.
Speaker 6: But if you would rather stay a free young buck,
Speaker 6: a gravely conversing with an old gentleman, sit where you are,
Speaker 6: i'd pease you mean?
Speaker 4: Then I am a prisoner here.
Speaker 5: I stated the facts or your own conclusion.
Speaker 6: Oh, dear falsfors, come in, come in, Thank you?
Speaker 5: Messiah? Tell me how is she a little better frame
Speaker 5: of mind?
Speaker 6: I hope she is more.
Speaker 3: Resigned at least?
Speaker 4: Messiah?
Speaker 5: Well, isn't she.
Speaker 6: Hard to please? A lightly strippling such as this? Well
Speaker 6: born and her own choice? What more would the jade
Speaker 6: wat have?
Speaker 5: If you'll pardon?
Speaker 3: The situation is not usual for a young damsel.
Speaker 5: It is somewhat trying to have blushes trying, is it? Hah?
Speaker 6: She should have thought of that before the dance began.
Speaker 6: Call the turns, and now she'll do the page At.
Speaker 1: The risk of being presumptuous, May I ask who she is?
Speaker 6: You hear their pairfulcere merschidable? Who she used to know?
Speaker 5: Who she is?
Speaker 1: I heard, miss sir. I am pleased that you find
Speaker 1: my most casual remarks on music.
Speaker 5: So you'd like to know who she is? Very well?
Speaker 6: After all, you really should know, young fellow. It's only
Speaker 6: fitting for you to be introduced properly. Come along, Come along,
Speaker 6: I'll take you into she all right.
Speaker 5: Why that's the reason I planned the whole thing.
Speaker 6: You stabannian, scoundrely bladdard, Come along, my bonnet, right through.
Speaker 4: This door after yourself.
Speaker 5: You don't more now, it's not that kind of a trap.
Speaker 5: Here we are. How are you? My dear?
Speaker 7: Please?
Speaker 6: Uncle?
Speaker 1: Please?
Speaker 6: Are some pretty on me?
Speaker 5: Pity?
Speaker 6: But I do a gradier more than you shown for
Speaker 6: the name of maltoir. I come now, come now, up
Speaker 6: off your knees and look at the friend I brought you.
Speaker 6: It's good to be devout, but it is also necessary
Speaker 6: to be Pola.
Speaker 7: I have no understanding how you can be sub vicious.
Speaker 5: It's very untied.
Speaker 6: And now, monsieur debui, since we decided to keep up
Speaker 6: this fast, allow me to present my knees.
Speaker 5: Bland is such.
Speaker 7: An inhuman facial in heaven itself. He's not the man,
Speaker 7: my uncle.
Speaker 6: This is not the man I expected you to say it,
Speaker 6: Matt funny ear is. It's so unfortunate that you couldn't
Speaker 6: rememory his name.
Speaker 7: It's true, I sweart by the blessed virgin. You do
Speaker 7: not know this man, never laid eyes on him before.
Speaker 7: Please tell him, tell him we've never seen each ottle before.
Speaker 1: For myself, at any rate, I've never had that pleasure, Sarah.
Speaker 1: I've not met your lovely.
Speaker 6: Niece before this moon. Now, isn't that too bad? But
Speaker 6: it's never too late to begin. Quite often these impromptu
Speaker 6: marriages turn out very well.
Speaker 7: In the end.
Speaker 1: Marriage said to Matty, would you please be kind enough
Speaker 1: to explain what you mean?
Speaker 5: Aha?
Speaker 6: Now sorry, you've heard of the custom of marriage. It's
Speaker 6: quite widely praciced.
Speaker 1: At least, sir, I've never heard before of such a many.
Speaker 1: Because I perceive you to be and I've no intention
Speaker 1: of marrying anyone. Then, may I ask what were your intentions?
Speaker 6: Ma bi Oh, well no matter now deafosset wise looking
Speaker 6: forward to performing the nuptial rites. Oh he's quite properly
Speaker 6: or danger know so, she'll we say in two hours. Meanwhile,
Speaker 6: I suggest you become better acquainted.
Speaker 7: Wait, uncle, you can't be in earnest. I swear to
Speaker 7: you I'll kill myself before I'll be forced on this
Speaker 7: young man.
Speaker 5: How come now, my dear blanche, is.
Speaker 7: It possible that you think I'm lying, that you still
Speaker 7: believe this is the man?
Speaker 5: Frankly, I do, and then you're wrong. I refuse to
Speaker 5: leaven to consider.
Speaker 6: You took it upon yourself to dishonor the name of
Speaker 6: our family. You forfeited all right whatsoever to question my designs.
Speaker 6: I consider it a duty to see that you're married
Speaker 6: with as little delay as possible, out of the goodness
Speaker 6: of my heart. I've attempted to find the man of
Speaker 6: your choice, and I believe I've done so. But if not,
Speaker 6: then I cannot one Jack Straw, is that perfectly clear?
Speaker 1: It's clear, sir, that you're a madman.
Speaker 5: Perhaps, my dear nephew.
Speaker 1: I'm not your nephew, nor will I be.
Speaker 7: It'd sooner die a thousand times such a fury against
Speaker 7: the inevitable.
Speaker 6: But at any rate, you'll have two hours to compose
Speaker 6: your differences.
Speaker 5: Hair falsewhire, bring me clock very well, Messiah, thank you
Speaker 5: place it there.
Speaker 6: This meschuitable is another of my little contrivances, and one
Speaker 6: that is hardly less ingenious.
Speaker 5: Than my door.
Speaker 1: Messiah, your accomplishments are of no interest to me.
Speaker 5: What's oh?
Speaker 6: I think you'll find this one most interesting. You will
Speaker 6: notice that the upper container is filled with water. In
Speaker 6: exactly two hours, all of the water will have dripped
Speaker 6: into the lower vessel, and at that time I should
Speaker 6: return remove the plug pair frcewhire.
Speaker 5: Clever, isn't it well?
Speaker 6: Venius is so rarely appreciated, And now I'm quite sure
Speaker 6: you shoulda carry on your interview without an audience.
Speaker 7: You you'd never met my uncle before you did with you, I've.
Speaker 1: Never laid eyes on him, and certainly nothing was arranged
Speaker 1: with me else I wouldn't be here.
Speaker 7: And you're as much an unfortunate victim as myself.
Speaker 1: But you at least must be more aware of the circumstances.
Speaker 1: I can understand none of us.
Speaker 7: It's not an easy thing for a girl to tell.
Speaker 7: Whatever you may think of me now, I fear you
Speaker 7: should think the worst when I've finished.
Speaker 4: Words are but words, but your manner encourages respect.
Speaker 7: Thank you, miss. I've lived all my life with my uncle,
Speaker 7: and I've not been happy. Three months ago, a young
Speaker 7: captain of the guard began to stand near me in
Speaker 7: the church. Oh, you must understand I gave him no
Speaker 7: encouragement to do so.
Speaker 4: Quite so, I understand he was handsome.
Speaker 7: Of course, as a matter of fact. Very after a while,
Speaker 7: he began to pass me notes. He found me pleasing,
Speaker 7: wanted to meet me, and seemed most interested in me
Speaker 7: for some reason. This morning he passed me a note
Speaker 7: urging me to leave the outer door open tonight so
Speaker 7: that he could speak a few words with me on
Speaker 7: the stairs. Oh, this is most difficult for me to tell, monsieur.
Speaker 7: I'm sure he meant no harm. I've no idea how
Speaker 7: my uncle came to suspect. Sometimes his shrewdness becomes almost diabolic.
Speaker 7: After church, he took that note from my hand, read it,
Speaker 7: gave it back to me. I've been kept in my
Speaker 7: room all day, knowing nothing of what he might be planning.
Speaker 1: So that's it. By pure accident, I've blundered into a
Speaker 1: trap set for someone else.
Speaker 7: Had my uncle brought the captain himself, the thing still
Speaker 7: would have been confusing. How should I know that he
Speaker 7: may not have been trifling with me all along, but
Speaker 7: before burst into a situation with you, a perfect stranger.
Speaker 1: Your regard for me is quite clear, mademoiselle. I regret
Speaker 1: appearing as a disappointment to you. I believe you said
Speaker 1: he was very handsome. If that were all, There's.
Speaker 7: More, I mean, monsieur, that you yourself are quite handsome.
Speaker 5: But it's.
Speaker 7: Not. It's really no use.
Speaker 4: Please understand me.
Speaker 1: I'm not urging you in any way urging, monsieur. I'm
Speaker 1: accustomed to meeting young ladies upon occasion who are quite
Speaker 1: ready to accept me as something beside a convenient substitute
Speaker 1: for some handsome captain of the guard.
Speaker 7: I've no doubted it, monsieur, And to correct a mistaken
Speaker 7: impression you seem to have, I'm well aware that you're
Speaker 7: doing no urging, and were you to do so, I
Speaker 7: should neither listen to not give it any consideration whatsoever.
Speaker 7: So well that we both understand one another.
Speaker 1: Why so, And that being the case, Mademoiselle de Maltroy,
Speaker 1: I wonder if you'll be good enough to conduct me.
Speaker 7: To your uncle with the great It is a pleasure, monsieur.
Speaker 1: I have no doubt, but what this little matter can
Speaker 1: be settled very quickly and with as much honor as
Speaker 1: possible to everybody.
Speaker 6: Concern for two hours weren't necessary? Already harmonious accord rises triumph.
Speaker 1: On the countrary side of the mouth. Dry. Your assumption
Speaker 1: is entirely false.
Speaker 6: Oh what if picky well perforce, Well, there's nothing to it.
Speaker 6: We will simply have to wait a while longer, as
Speaker 6: you say, Missa, I.
Speaker 1: Fear it, maybe much longer than you think, In fact, forever.
Speaker 5: It's a very long time indeed.
Speaker 6: And and you, my dear niece, what are your sentiments
Speaker 6: in the matter.
Speaker 7: I will not marry this man. Do what you, my uncle,
Speaker 7: I will not marry him.
Speaker 5: Right back where we started.
Speaker 6: Can it be that our young friend is lacking in
Speaker 6: perception peerforce, Well, it is possible, Mesa.
Speaker 1: I'm not, at any rate lacking in a sense of
Speaker 1: honorable conduct. Dragged in here against my will. I've addressed
Speaker 1: your niece in the manner of the gentleman. I found
Speaker 1: her charming, lovely, delightful. But now I have the honor
Speaker 1: of declining your offer of her hand. Let that end
Speaker 1: the matter.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's not as simple as that.
Speaker 6: Take a look from my window them and tell me
Speaker 6: what you've seen on the wall beneath it.
Speaker 3: What do you mean see for yourself?
Speaker 1: Whatever it is can have no bearing on the matter.
Speaker 1: There's an iron ring set in the wall.
Speaker 5: Quite so, and fastened to the ring.
Speaker 6: A rope.
Speaker 5: Right, so we have two elements, and to.
Speaker 6: Complete our little diagram we need a third one. That
Speaker 6: element is at the moment firmly attached to your body.
Speaker 6: I'm referring, sir, to your neck.
Speaker 1: And may I inquire the purpose of the dogs in
Speaker 1: the courtyard below? Are they also a part of your
Speaker 1: doublish plans?
Speaker 6: My dear young man, Ay, body doesn't hang in ropes
Speaker 6: forever you.
Speaker 1: Know you, Even murder doesn't stop you.
Speaker 6: That's such a nasty word. Let us confine ourselves to
Speaker 6: the bald facts. At the end of your two hours,
Speaker 6: you will prepare yourself either to marry my knee or
Speaker 6: to kick out your life.
Speaker 5: While you swing at the end of that rope. There's
Speaker 5: no other alternative.
Speaker 1: I think there's one between gentlemen. At any rate, I'm
Speaker 1: yourself so helful.
Speaker 6: You'll think for a moment that defind regarded your sword
Speaker 6: as a threat. You'll still be wearing it. Pare Fosswhere
Speaker 6: will you open that door to the passage, please?
Speaker 5: Of course, Messiah, I'll be most happy.
Speaker 6: To gentlemen show this rash young back the color of
Speaker 6: your steel, whether he likes to admit it or not,
Speaker 6: Monsieur de Beaulieu. One day a man grows too old
Speaker 6: might his own battles, and must hire others to do
Speaker 6: it for him.
Speaker 5: Close the door, Pierre Fancoir.
Speaker 1: Then you're not fight.
Speaker 5: Do I seem a fool?
Speaker 6: There'll be no fighting, and no haughty refusal to marry Manie.
Speaker 6: You found her charming well and good. But I'll tell
Speaker 6: you this Worshi's common as the parish rode, more hideous
Speaker 6: to the gargoyle over my door.
Speaker 5: You'll not spurn the hand of a maltoir, and never
Speaker 5: lived to tell him it.
Speaker 6: Alive and married, you'll be or dead and hanging from
Speaker 6: that window, and soon after food for the dogs.
Speaker 5: It's one or the other. Oh make up your mind.
Speaker 7: Please, monsieur, why do you not sit down?
Speaker 1: Your concern is most gratifying, mademoiselle. Since I have such
Speaker 1: a short time to live, I doubt that I'll grow
Speaker 1: very tired, that.
Speaker 7: I be short, And why do we waste it in
Speaker 7: formal speeches?
Speaker 1: As you will listen to him, Drip, grip, drip, that
Speaker 1: devilish clock like an artery opened and life's blood itself
Speaker 1: dripping away.
Speaker 7: Well, I sat here in thought and thought into my
Speaker 7: whole mind's in a great world.
Speaker 1: Please you, you really shouldn't trouble yourself so much.
Speaker 7: I can't better have your sling for my sick Monsieur,
Speaker 7: I will marry you gladly.
Speaker 4: You must think, then that I stand very much in
Speaker 4: fear of death.
Speaker 7: Oh no, no, I've had reason to see that you're
Speaker 7: no count.
Speaker 4: I've asked for no pity. If the thing has to be,
Speaker 4: then that's the end of it.
Speaker 7: Oh, so you misunderstood me like it's the great nobility
Speaker 7: with which you face. My uncle should have removed all
Speaker 7: question about your bravery, and such doubts existed, That.
Speaker 4: Is most kind of you to say so.
Speaker 7: Not, of course, anyone could raise such questions once they've seen.
Speaker 4: You death's another incident, that's all.
Speaker 7: Life's a better one.
Speaker 1: You'll agree, then, I'm afraid you underrate the difficulty what
Speaker 1: your generosity offers me. My pride prevents accepting. In this
Speaker 1: moment of noble feeling, told me, aren't you forgetting what
Speaker 1: you already owe to some one else?
Speaker 7: Monsieur he never really met, mademoiselle.
Speaker 1: My very life's to forfeit here one I'll peg gladly
Speaker 1: if it be of service to a lady. But to
Speaker 1: tell me it's for something that never really means be
Speaker 1: so crue cruel. You forget I'm the one who's going to.
Speaker 4: Die, not you.
Speaker 7: I've not forgotten, monsieur.
Speaker 1: Yes, you'll enjoy to morrow's sun like any other days,
Speaker 1: and to morrow night perhaps you'll see him again. And
Speaker 1: of course I'll be forgotten, no never, But it's all
Speaker 1: a man can expect when he's borne into the world
Speaker 1: death at last, some piece of ironic misfortune.
Speaker 5: I can't bear.
Speaker 1: Oh, if if I've said anything to wound you, I'm
Speaker 1: sorry it was it was for your own sake.
Speaker 4: Not mine.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Please.
Speaker 1: It's a bitter thing, my dear, to see you in
Speaker 1: such distress that giving my life itself, for you can't
Speaker 1: help it.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, I'll try to be braver. Is there no
Speaker 7: way at all in which I can serve you, either
Speaker 7: now or afterwards?
Speaker 1: Only by letting me think of you as a friend
Speaker 1: for the brief time that's left to us, By forgetting
Speaker 1: for the moment that I'm an awkward intruders thrown here
Speaker 1: by circumstance, That's all.
Speaker 4: And if do it, what does it matter?
Speaker 1: The closer you come to it, the clearer you see
Speaker 1: that death's no more than a a dark and dusty
Speaker 1: corner where a man climbs into his tomb.
Speaker 4: And shuts the door after him.
Speaker 1: Monsieur, I've only a few friends now, and once I'm dead,
Speaker 1: I've no doubt that I'll have none.
Speaker 7: You forget to Blanche de MANTOI.
Speaker 1: You're very sweet. Any young man in France would be
Speaker 1: glad to trade places with me and die for you.
Speaker 1: You value the small service I do you far beyond
Speaker 1: its worth.
Speaker 7: I'll not have you think you so meanly of yourself.
Speaker 7: Look at me? Would you say that I beautiful?
Speaker 4: I think so.
Speaker 1: I think the most beautiful girl I've ever seen.
Speaker 7: I'm glad of that. Tell me, is there a man
Speaker 7: in France who can say he's been asked in marriage
Speaker 7: by a beautiful maiden as from her own lips, and
Speaker 7: refused her to her face. Oh you're a man and
Speaker 7: have to spy such a triumph. But any woman knows
Speaker 7: more of what's precious in that.
Speaker 1: But remember you asked me out of the pity of
Speaker 1: your heart, not for are you so.
Speaker 7: Sure of that? Must that bear my very soul like
Speaker 7: a merchant show kiss.
Speaker 1: You're very good, as good as you're beautiful. I'll not
Speaker 1: forget it for the time.
Speaker 4: That's left me.
Speaker 7: Very well. I too have a pride of my own.
Speaker 7: You turn back now from your word. I'd no more
Speaker 7: marry you than I wouldn't any stranger off the street.
Speaker 1: It's it's a small love that shies at a little
Speaker 1: pride dawn starting to break.
Speaker 7: Yeah, my uncle and his men won't come here any moment.
Speaker 7: What shall we say to him?
Speaker 4: Anything?
Speaker 1: You will?
Speaker 7: Huh? All of my life I weep for you, and
Speaker 7: weep them all because it was you.
Speaker 1: I'm wrong. It's a great price I'm paying for it,
Speaker 1: when i'd not pay if I didn't care for you.
Speaker 7: So dearly careful, Why don't you being kind.
Speaker 1: In the moment your uncle brought me into you and
Speaker 1: you raise your face to look at me.
Speaker 7: That's what I knew, that strange, for it was then
Speaker 7: I felt it too.
Speaker 1: You've seen already that I'm not afraid to die.
Speaker 5: Oh I know it?
Speaker 1: Is it really true, not something born of pity.
Speaker 7: I swear by all the holly I love you.
Speaker 4: And I can tell you now that I love you too, even.
Speaker 5: After all you.
Speaker 4: Remember Captain's matter.
Speaker 1: I love you. I love you more than my life,
Speaker 1: my soul.
Speaker 4: I love you well.
Speaker 6: Well, well, it's most gratifying to see this little matter
Speaker 6: settled in such a congenial fashion.
Speaker 5: Good morning, my dear nephew.
Speaker 1: I have nothing to say to you, sir. You're a
Speaker 1: vicious and unprincipled old man.
Speaker 5: It's ungracious to you.
Speaker 6: No, No, at the very worse, I'm no more than
Speaker 6: a very wise old man, one who's lived.
Speaker 5: A long time and seen a great many.
Speaker 6: Remarkable things, an old man who's learned all about such
Speaker 6: mysteries as the love of life and.
Speaker 1: Love.
Speaker 2: The Sired of Maltoi's Door by Robert Louis Stevenson was
Speaker 2: adapted for radio by Less Crutchfield and produced and directed
Speaker 2: by William N. Robson, with Elliot Lewis as Denny, Peggy
Speaker 2: Webber as Blanche, and Ramsey Hill as the sired to Maltoir.
Speaker 2: The special musical score was conceived and conducted by Cyviewer.
Speaker 2: Escape is prepresented by the Columbia Broadcasting System and it's
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Speaker 2: invite you to escape to Egypt up thirty five hundred
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