Speaker 1: Come in or welcome.
Speaker 2: I'm e. G.
Speaker 1: Marshall, major domo of this halfway house, halfway between reality
and illusion?
Speaker 2: Is this all? There is?
Speaker 1: This insignificant speck of dust that winds its weary way
round and round a tiny, reddish yellow sun in a
remote backwater of some obscure galaxy, in an endless universe?
Are we the only sign of sentient life? Is everything
else out there, to the infinite frontiers of that time? Lifeless? Bloodless, mindless?
What are you waiting for a reply? It's all we
can do to pose such a question, let alone answer it.
Speaker 3: The money is no problem. I can place my hands
on a million, two million, name it?
Speaker 4: What is the problem?
Speaker 2: Where can we go? Where? Yes, once we take that money,
we'll have to hide somewhere. Oh, that is no problem.
We'll have to hide somewhere for the rest of our lives.
Of course, I'm afraid there's no place in this world.
But we can do that.
Speaker 4: I was thinking of a place that is not in.
Speaker 2: This this world.
Speaker 1: Our mystery drama The Eleventh Hour was written.
Speaker 2: Especially for the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and Larry
Haynes and Carol ty Tell.
Speaker 1: It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and
Anheuser Busch Incorporated brewers a Budweiser. I'll be back shortly
with that one. If someone were to say to you, listen,
my friend, on the planet Venus, there are endless fields
of platinum and gold enormous bottomless seas of oil. The
very stones on the ground are glittering.
Speaker 2: Diamonds and lustrous pearls.
Speaker 1: And best of all, I know a way to get there,
a secret way of my own. I'll need some cash
for expenses, of course, But believe me, you will never
make a sounder, a more substantial, a more solid investment
in your life, even if you have to mortgage your house.
Speaker 2: To raise the money. If someone were to say all
this to you, what would you answer, Well, before you say.
Speaker 1: Anything at all, remember, in effect, that's what Columbus said
to Queen Isabella, or at any rate, that's what she thought.
He said, Let us follow mister J. Raymond Trass, who
is en route to his office. He hails a cab.
Speaker 3: Uh where tomak the Trass building. Hey, you must be
old Jay Raymond Trass himself. Huh yeah, yeah, I recognize
you from the papers.
Speaker 2: Tell me what's good in the market. Today. I never
get tips. Why not because you might lose your money?
Or how could I lose? If you'll give it a bit,
I've been wrong. Now I'm willing to take the chain.
I'm not suppose he became wealthy, fabulously wealthy. You'd hate
me the more.
Speaker 3: Why you'd worry about money, You'd let money dominate your life.
Speaker 2: You'd lose your good humor, your good nature. No, no better,
not chance. Hey, you know something I hate you? Now?
May I see your newspaper? Please?
Speaker 3: Or you want to get the day started with a laugh?
Speaker 2: Huh? Read the personals column. I can't afford to waste
my time. Yeah, I guess you can. You only read
some where you can make a buck. Huh. Don't you
ever do anything just for a laugh? May I glance
at your paper? It just just just read.
Speaker 3: The top item in a column and then give me
your opinion of it.
Speaker 2: You know, you know he's a man in the world, my.
Speaker 3: Heart, my mind, my soul, my spirit. Or reach out
to someone, reach out to make contact with someone someone
I need and that someone needs me. If you are
that's someone right to me, please write to me at
box number eight nine eight.
Speaker 2: But now, why do you think of that, hut Paul,
that's nonsense appears in the papers these days.
Speaker 3: You gotta answer it, my good man. I actually add
a dollar to your pip, if you'll permit me. The
glance at the financial pages in silence.
Speaker 2: Well don't you need someone? Why don't you answer it?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: I don't need nobody. I already got somebody. But uh, don't.
Speaker 2: You need somebody?
Speaker 3: I'll make that five dollars. You got a deal, and
I'll throw in the newspaper.
Speaker 2: Yes, uh, all right, send her in, Raymond. I'm sorry, Boddy, you'll.
Speaker 3: But you'll do it anyhow, very well, melicined. What do
you want, Raymond?
Speaker 2: It's about Douglas. Yes, you you're displeased with him? What
are you doing medicine? Coming here to fight his battles?
And you know how how carefully he's been I know
how badly he's been brought up. Listened. I bent my
most inflexible rules.
Speaker 3: I hired a man, in this case, a boy, on
the basis of a family connection.
Speaker 2: Way. This is how things I've done, not by me.
Speaker 3: He's your sister's boy, but he hasn't got brains enough
to feel an art.
Speaker 2: You have to give him a chance.
Speaker 3: I gave him a chance. It almost cost me a
million dollars. He's stupidly neglected to.
Speaker 2: Check as he just don't fire him. No, I won't
thank you, Raymond.
Speaker 3: But he'll work here at his level of confidence. And
at this point I can't see anything higher for him
than in the mail room. Oh no, and even that
may be too advanced.
Speaker 2: You can't be serious.
Speaker 4: Why not your nephew, my sister's son, in the mail room.
Speaker 2: I started in the mail room, Oh.
Speaker 4: Raymond, Why does he have to have any responsibility?
Speaker 2: I don't follow that? Be reasonable. Look, you have more
money than we can ever spend.
Speaker 4: We have no children, and so like it or not,
Douglas will be very wealthy.
Speaker 2: What are you trying to tell me, Melicten. He has
no incentive to work. He told me so himself. Why not.
My brain's out at Milicen just to get rich.
Speaker 4: I'll be rich anyhow, Well, that's quite an attitude. Like
it or not, it's what exists.
Speaker 2: This is the most ridiculous, Raymond.
Speaker 4: You can't change people, you know that, and so settle
for second best. Find a tolerable, or at least a
non abrasive way to live.
Speaker 2: With him. That's how you and I live, isn't it.
Tell him to show up at his desk tomorrow.
Speaker 4: He can't show up tomorrow, you see, he was so
upset that he went away for the weekend.
Speaker 2: He went, he went skiing.
Speaker 3: Well, tell him to show up when it's convenient. Geologists
reports show absolutely no traces of precious metals in the area.
Speaker 2: Yes, mister tatt.
Speaker 3: And under the circumstances, my heart, my mind, my soul,
my spirit, or reach out to someone?
Speaker 2: Uh would you read that back?
Speaker 4: The more hair Geologist reports show absolutely no traces of
precious metals in the area, and under the circumstances, my heart,
my mind, my soul, my spirit, all reach out to someone.
Speaker 2: Miss small Hair. What are you saying you ask me
to read it back?
Speaker 3: What is this gibberish about my mind, my heart, my soul,
my spirit, all reach out to someone.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what you dictated.
Speaker 3: When just now, why would I make a ridiculous statement
like that in the middle of a letter to the chairman.
Speaker 2: Of the board. I'm sorry, sir, I'll.
Speaker 3: Let us continue, Miss small Hair, please, I cannot see
how we can possibly just to pry committing a substantial
investment to uh uh, I reach out to make contact
with someone, mister trask sir, h yes, what is it.
Speaker 2: You're doing it again? What you just said.
Speaker 4: I cannot see how we can possibly justify them in
a substantial investment.
Speaker 2: I'll reach out to make contact with someone.
Speaker 3: The small hair please go to your desk, recover from
whatever it is that seems to be affected in you,
and then we shall try again.
Speaker 1: Mister.
Speaker 2: Fortunately, your long.
Speaker 3: Record of service testifies to your sobriety and common sense.
If necessary, take the rest of the day off. That'll
be all, Miss molt hair.
Speaker 4: Hair ah, good morning, mister Wilson, and now you must
call me Douglas.
Speaker 2: And now, please, sir, I have to finish this letter.
Speaker 5: Do you know a woman truly arrives at the great
peak of her beauty when she's forty book author?
Speaker 2: You're like some glorious gaily queen.
Speaker 4: Mister Wilson, mister Traskon needs this letter.
Speaker 2: Will the world stop spinning? If it's five minutes length?
My world will? How is the old bear? I don't
know you, Miss mohair, you don't know. You don't fool me.
You know him like a book. Lately, it's been a
closed book. What have we? I don't know. The man
is distracted, how why by what? It's hard to say.
Speaker 4: He goes along, all guns fire in his usual self
and then then then what then hmm? He goes away
where I don't know, but it says if he takes
his leave and he starts to butter something about reaching out,
trying to make contact with somebody or something.
Speaker 2: What is all this?
Speaker 4: I don't know, mister Willson, but I'm afraid of what. Oh?
Once again, I don't know. But I have never seen
mister trask at peculiar.
Speaker 2: In his life. Hmm. Well, I do know he's mad
at me. Oh, yes, sir, that he is. Well, I'll
do what I can in what way? Sir?
Speaker 5: Oh, poor guy, he's been cooking so hard it finally
got to him. I won't irritate him anymore.
Speaker 2: Now, can you not irritate him? I guess I'll just
have to turn over a new leaf.
Speaker 5: Let me go in and talk to the old boy.
Speaker 2: Good morning, sir.
Speaker 5: Oh it's you, yes, sir, And I got the decks
cleared and I'm ready for action.
Speaker 3: Let's understand each other. Douglas, you're at and I had
a serious discussion, and she's right. You're a jackass, but
you were born lucky, so you'll always be assured of
a plentiful supply of hay.
Speaker 2: I must say, Uncle Raymond, you're not much of a flatterer.
Speaker 3: That's because I'm pretty much of a realist. So you've
got your office, your secretary, your salary, and just keep
out of the way. Uncle Greg.
Speaker 2: I've done somethings, that's all, Douglas. I've decided to make
a fresh start my heart, my mind, my soul. See,
I've learned something from my spirit, the secretive success, and
I'm gonna make it.
Speaker 3: Work for newly John to someone reach out, Uncle ray Hello,
what's the matter with you, Douglas? Why are you staring
at me?
Speaker 2: Well? What were you saying about someone reaching out?
Speaker 3: I look, Douglass, I don't have time for you and
your nonsense right now, I'm doing a meeting.
Speaker 2: Could I come along? What for? I want to learn
the visits, Douglas. We needn't play these charades. Now, go
to your office and quit bothering me.
Speaker 3: If you are that's someone right to me, Oh, please
make contact with me right the box number.
Speaker 2: Hey, mis Male has said there was no one in
here when you or not? What? Oh? Uh? What is it?
Listen yet? I could have sworn I heard you talking
to how you know?
Speaker 3: It must be a plot. Everyone's accusing me of talking
to myself.
Speaker 4: I wanna talk to you about Douglas now what he
isn't happy? Why he feels uncomfortable doing nothing?
Speaker 2: Well, that's too bad? Are we? Uh dining at home
this evening? I'm going away for the weekend with the Johnson's.
I see what does that mean? Nothing?
Speaker 4: We agree to live this way a long time ago.
We don't like the same people, the same activities, And
so you go your way, I go mine.
Speaker 2: Oh I suppose I'll see you Monday evening. Huh I suppose?
So good night, Raymond? Good night? Yes?
Speaker 6: Would you need me for anything else?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I want you to drop a note to
uh box number eight nine eight.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, mister Trusk.
Speaker 2: Uh never mind, I'll uh I'll do that myself. You
can go home now, Yes, mister Trask, have a nice
weekend two box eight nine eight Herald Chronicle.
Speaker 3: I am making contact. Jay Raymond Trask is my name, O.
Speaker 2: Earl.
Speaker 1: The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Jay Raymond Trask,
What is he reaching out for?
Speaker 2: Anyhow?
Speaker 1: Is there a side of Raymond Trask that the world
is unaware of? Somewhere, somehow, somebody is reaching out for
someone be around when contact is made in Act two.
Sometime when you get the opportunity, you might read a
fascinating story by Mark Twain called Punch Brothers Punch. It
has to do with a man who reads a catchy
little jingle and then finds that the words refuse to
leave his head.
Speaker 2: He keeps hearing them day and night. Well, mister j.
Speaker 1: Raymond Trass has accidentally come across a paragraph in the
personals column of the newspaper, and for a reason he
simply cannot fathom, he is in a similar situation.
Speaker 3: My heart, my mind, my soul, my spirit dry, Oh
reach old, excuse me, mister drive, Oh yes, what is it?
Speaker 2: Where shall I file this? Sir? For what this little
klipping from a newspaper? It says? My heart, my mind,
my soul? Where did you get that? It was on
your desk? Look here, you had no business. My word
is from.
Speaker 4: You are to take every single piece of paper off
your desk and find a proper place for it. And
since I don't know what this means. I don't know
what to do with it.
Speaker 2: Put in your own common sense? Tell you where to
file that in the waste basket? Where else? Yes, sir,
I don't touch that for I beg your pardon. Sir.
It's my job to answer your telephone.
Speaker 3: Tell further notice. I intend to do it myself and
I'll get.
Speaker 7: Back to your office. Why, yes, mister, Hello, this is Rayel, Rayel.
Speaker 6: Yes, my name is Rayel and your name is Raymond.
And so we have touched.
Speaker 2: Now. Look, I'm not sure that I what.
Speaker 6: Are you not sure of?
Speaker 2: What of what I'm doing?
Speaker 6: Aren't you?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 6: Are you?
Speaker 2: What do you want?
Speaker 6: We have reached for each other. We have found each other.
Speaker 2: What's it all about.
Speaker 6: Touching? Why did you reach for me?
Speaker 2: I don't even know who you are?
Speaker 6: We need each other and now we.
Speaker 2: Have met Ryel? What kind what kind of a name
is Rayel?
Speaker 6: What kind of name is Raymond?
Speaker 2: And told me? What do you want?
Speaker 6: What do you want?
Speaker 2: I I w I want? I won't even know what
I want.
Speaker 6: You must want something or else you would not have
answered my call?
Speaker 2: When? When? When can we see each other?
Speaker 6: We have already seen each other?
Speaker 2: Oh, What do you mean? How could I possibly know
what you look like?
Speaker 8: You know, you know what you want me to look like,
and I know what I want you to look like,
and we know what we must do for each other.
Speaker 2: I must be going crazy and look Rouelle or whatever
your name is. Let's forget the whole thing. Huh oh o?
Speaker 3: They what are you doing here? I work here, all right,
all right, Douglas, don't irritate me.
Speaker 5: I have your recommendation on the Aroquois development. What are
you doing with that? I wouldn't approved it? What are
you talking about?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: This goes counter to every principle of prudent investment. Douglas,
Why don't you take the day off from play golf?
Speaker 2: How does this group propose to develop that property? It's
a nice day.
Speaker 5: There are no roads, no utilities, and furthermore, they don't
even have a clear title to the property.
Speaker 2: What do you say to that? What do I say?
It's what this phony perspectives for Iroqois development? My mind?
But I saw Uncle Ray? Are you all right? Uncle Ray?
Who do you think you were? Coming in here and
shouting at me? And I'll go back to your office.
Please check through this perspectus for Iroquois again. You'll see
I'm right.
Speaker 4: Oh, mister Wilson, I heard every word. I tell you, kiddy,
there's something wrong with that man.
Speaker 2: I think you're right.
Speaker 4: You'd better see a doctor. I think you had better
see this. What is it? It's a clipping from a newspaper.
Speaker 5: My heart, my mind, my soul, say this is what
he keeps talking about over there, and he seems to
be in the trend.
Speaker 2: What does it mean? I don't know, but.
Speaker 4: It does sound as if as if he's a man possessed.
Speaker 5: Oh, kiddy, mo hair, you wouldn't be talking about the
little people. Now, there's something here, mister Wilson. Don't ask
me what?
Speaker 2: What something? Dody?
Speaker 4: And when the tax what comes? May I share it
with you?
Speaker 2: Raymond? Who are you? How do you know my name?
You know who I am?
Speaker 4: Ah?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 2: What are you doing here?
Speaker 4: I am here because we need each other.
Speaker 3: We can't be seen here, not here out on the
street in public. No, I couldn't afford to be seen
with her. I'm a young attractive woman. Why my wife?
Speaker 2: We need each other, Raymond? What is this thing?
Speaker 3: I read a paragraph from the paper and I can't
get it.
Speaker 2: Out of my head.
Speaker 4: You need me, Raymond, come to see me.
Speaker 2: You know I can't. I should I shouldn't. I shouldn't.
We're twenty two out of mood. Why I don't think
I can search your mind, your heart? Raymond? Do you
have any choice? What are you telling me, Douglas, I
don't know.
Speaker 5: There are two crazy things going on, both of which
are completely out of character for Uncle ray First, he
mutters some gibberish from this ad in the personals columns
of the paper. And the second thing, and this is
what really gets me, is the Iroquois development deal. I
never heard of it, but he's worked on some real
estate thing. It's going to take millions. Now, that's nothing
new for him.
Speaker 2: It's wild, barren country. I mean, you can't sell it
to anyway.
Speaker 4: I assure you that Raymond can find people to put
out money by anything.
Speaker 2: But this isn't a public offering. This is something for
the company to finance on its own. How do you
know all this?
Speaker 5: I told you I'm serious about the business. I want
to learn it. As a matter of fact, I'm even getting.
Speaker 2: To like it.
Speaker 4: Can Raymond be thinking about I don't know, And I
hate to say this, but I'm afraid that Raymond is well,
he's not competent to handle the business. Doudless. Something has
happened to Uncle Ray. I don't know what it is,
but he just isn't the same person. It's as if
he's a stranger, a.
Speaker 5: Man who no longer has the faintest idea of what
he's doing in that office. Just a minute, How did
you know it was Raymond?
Speaker 2: Come in? You pictured the house? I I I don't
know how I pictured it.
Speaker 4: A house like any other house on the suburban street.
Speaker 2: I'm here.
Speaker 4: Each other's wants something from the other.
Speaker 2: I I don't know what you're talking about. And leave.
Speaker 4: It was wrong of you to make contact. Leave and
give me a chance to find someone else I want.
Speaker 3: I want the Iroquois project. Yes, you don't know what
that means to you.
Speaker 2: You will tell me. One day.
Speaker 3: One day, I was sitting in my office and a
question crossed my mind. The question was, I hope you're
not gonna laugh.
Speaker 4: You know I will not laugh at you, and I
know you will not laugh at me.
Speaker 3: I asked myself, what am I gonna do if there's
a god? Yes, you see, I I've lived my entire
life as if there isn't any God. Do you understand?
I understand I have done everything. Well, no, not everything,
but many of the things that God would disapprove of.
I admit that flat out, and I won't be I
can't be a hypocrite about it. So what am I
propose to do the Iroquois Project. It's a one hundred
thousand acre tract of wild, undeveloped country. I want to
make it a place where people can go and live
and find peace.
Speaker 2: Do you understand me?
Speaker 3: That's good because nobody else will. I'm not selling anything.
I'm getting it away. Anyone who wants to can live
there for as long as he needs to, and everything
is provided free of charge.
Speaker 2: Do you see? I see?
Speaker 3: So, if there is a God, this won't square me
with him. For what I've taken, I shall have returned.
But if I'm gonna be okay up in heaven when
I die, I'm gonna be in plenty of hot water
down here on earth while I'm alive.
Speaker 2: You know that I now in the first place.
Speaker 3: They're starting to ask questions right now in the office
about the project. My wife is an officer of the corporation.
She she could move.
Speaker 2: To stop what I'm doing I can help you. Well.
Speaker 3: From one viewpoint, it can all look like a giant
fraud you see. From another, it can appear that I've
gone completely insane.
Speaker 2: I see that.
Speaker 3: So what I can expect to get out of the
Iroquois project is to spend the rest of my life
either in a prison or a sanitarium.
Speaker 2: And that's why I need someone, someone to help me,
to help you do faught escape. But so far you
have done nothing wrong. I have I have.
Speaker 3: I've done more than just think about the project and
talk about it. I've already spent an enormous amount of
money on money I simply cannot account for if I
would have to.
Speaker 2: That's why I must escape. And that is why you
reached out for me. Yes, yes, but why did you
reach out for me?
Speaker 4: I want to go home home. I cannot explain it.
Speaker 2: Why not? You could never understand what It has to
be simple, just tell me the name of the place.
But Rael is your.
Speaker 4: Name, I said.
Speaker 2: You could never understand it. Everyone who lives on Rael
is called Rauel. But it is the way it is said.
Speaker 3: Now, Look, it has to be somewhere, how many miles
in which direction?
Speaker 4: No, it is here, here. What do you say it
is the other side of here. There is no way
I can make you understand it, just as I really
do not understand the real meaning of.
Speaker 2: Your Iroquois project. But I believe you, and you must
believe me. Will you say you believe me? Raymond?
Speaker 3: I believe you, criyal. But if you don't come from here,
what are you doing here?
Speaker 4: I was very young, and I was very foolish, and
one day I decided for a force Do you follow me?
Speaker 2: I'm not sure?
Speaker 4: And it brought me here, but it does not work anymore,
and I need a new one?
Speaker 2: How can you get a new one?
Speaker 4: Whatever it is you you are going to help me, Raymond?
Speaker 2: Me, how what do I know about it? And from
what you're saying, you're talking about a level of science
that we have yet to achieve here on Earth.
Speaker 6: I know?
Speaker 2: Then how can I be?
Speaker 4: Civilization has its mysterious force, the basic essence that makes
things happen.
Speaker 2: I discovered the one that you have on Earth.
Speaker 4: It is money, obvious not to a stranger, and it
is money that can create my force field that will
take me home again.
Speaker 2: But no one on Earth knows how to build such
a lot I do. I do. I will use the
money to transform the raw materials into energy. That'll take
machinery and skills. You see you here and what you
call the earth. Use your money.
Speaker 4: Literally, the money transforms a tree into a house, but
first you go through the motions of physical labor. I
know how to transform the money into pure energy without wasting.
Speaker 2: Time or effort. Do you understand well? I think so.
I'm not sure. Could I go back with you?
Speaker 4: That is the only way you can escape.
Speaker 3: What you're saying is with money, you can build a
force field to a thing or whatever that will.
Speaker 2: Transport, transmit us.
Speaker 3: Back to whatever it is you come from. Yes, do
you know how much money you'll need?
Speaker 4: I have priced the values of the basic raw materials.
I will need exactly one million dollars.
Speaker 2: One million dollars.
Speaker 1: True, in these days, a million dollars is no longer
an awe inspiring sum, but it's hardly an amount to
be bandied about lightly. And consider the conversation you've just
heard in context. Is it possible that j Raymond Trask
is one of the shrewdest articles in the financial world?
Everybody thinks so well. Estimates will be revised upward or
downward when I returned shortly. With Act three, a man
travels his merry and selfish way through life, taking what
pleases him with hardly a thought for either the consequences
or the next fellow, And then, suddenly, without warning, one
day it occurs to him that there may be a
judgment and a judge, and he realizes.
Speaker 2: That he owes a tremendous debts. But will he be
able to pay it? One million dollars?
Speaker 4: I can convert one million dollars into the energy required
for us to escape it.
Speaker 3: It won't be easy for me to raise one million dollars.
I know, No, I'm afraid you don't. You'd have no
way of understanding the complications. That is not what is difficult.
Speaker 4: Those are the mechanics you can solve them.
Speaker 2: The conflict.
Speaker 4: The true difficulty is now within yourself. You are beginning
to doubt and to question.
Speaker 2: Well, I wouldn't exactly say that I have.
Speaker 4: Been through this before. What do you mean before you
and I made contact, there were others, others. I reached
out and touched others before I touched you.
Speaker 2: Do you mean you actually spoke like this?
Speaker 4: I have been here a long long time, but In
the end, they all failed me. That was because in
their hearts they really did not believe me. Do you
believe me?
Speaker 2: Raymond? I? Ah, this is the crucial time, Raymond, Right now,
this minute, I can read your mind. You can.
Speaker 4: Yes, you are saying what am I getting into? I
read some notice in a newspaper and here I am
talking to to a strange woman And.
Speaker 2: It has to be crazy.
Speaker 4: Isn't that what is going through your mind?
Speaker 2: Raymond? It maybe maybe, but it has to be. It
has to be. After all, this doesn't make sense. Isn't
that why you are here?
Speaker 4: Because you are tired of making sense? That is what
passes for sense in this world. Aren't you looking for.
Speaker 2: A different world? My world?
Speaker 4: Come with me, Raymond, Come with me?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, Rael, Yes, I.
Speaker 2: I'll come with you. Raymond. I demand an answer. What's
the questions? Tell me about the Iroquois Project?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 4: Because I am an officer of this corporation, you.
Speaker 3: Never manifested any interest in any of our past projects.
Speaker 2: I am interested in this way.
Speaker 3: You're being an officer doesn't give you any say in
the operations of a company.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 3: I'm not accountable to anyone for the decisions I make.
Speaker 4: That is not true, especially when I have reason to
suspect either ford or incompetent.
Speaker 2: And what makes you suspect either?
Speaker 4: The project is an expenditure of a vast sum of
money with no clear way of realizing a profit.
Speaker 2: Well, naturally it's a nonprofit venture. So I must assume
that you have some scheme for diverting the money into your.
Speaker 4: Own pocket, or that you have taken leave of your senses.
Speaker 2: Just what are you going to do about it? Go
to court?
Speaker 3: Yes, mister Brispall hair, I want you to authorize payment
for the publication of the prospectuses for the Iroquois Project.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, but yes, what is it, miss ball Hair?
I don't think we can. You can pay anybody anything,
mister Trask.
Speaker 4: You see they went and got an injunction, your wife
and your nephew, and until the court decides about certain things,
all of the company funds are frozen.
Speaker 2: I see get mister Wilson in here. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry I told him about the things in the paper,
but I thought I would be helping you.
Speaker 2: Forget it. I'll go see him. I'll see here, docs.
Speaker 5: Uncle Ray, may I present mister Cummings mister Cummings, mister trash.
Mister Cummings is with the District Attorney's office.
Speaker 2: How do you do, mister trash? What are you and
my wife trying to put over on me? Anyhow, we're
trying to keep you from making a fool of yourself.
Mister Trusk, do you know a young lady named ray
l Why do you ask?
Speaker 3: Because she's quite obviously a confidence operator.
Speaker 2: You better listen to this, Uncle Raymond. She has a
criminal record.
Speaker 3: She evidently places a sort of advertisement to lure her victims,
who are usually persons under some sort of emotional strain.
Speaker 2: What sort of proof? Have plenty of proof, Uncle ray
just listens.
Speaker 3: She gives them a story of how they can escape to.
Speaker 2: Well, it's never quite clear. Some sort of paradise, another
world maybe. And tell him how, mister Cummings.
Speaker 3: Well, that's never quite clear, either flying saucer or some esoteric,
mysterious method.
Speaker 2: Now what do you say, Uncle ray I say it's
a lie.
Speaker 3: Well, we have in the past, see several complaints, but
since all of them came before money had changed hands,
there was no way to prosecute.
Speaker 2: And she has no criminal record.
Speaker 3: Douglas, that's only a technicality. She has been in several
mental institutions.
Speaker 2: Maybe she's not a criminal, but she's a nut. Just
how much money has she asked you for, mister Trask? Yes,
it is true. I have been placed in your mental institution.
Speaker 4: I must say you do very little for one's mentality.
Speaker 3: Tell me about this, this force field him exactly why
you need the million.
Speaker 4: I have already told you as much as you are
capable of understanding.
Speaker 2: Well, I want to believe, then believe?
Speaker 4: What is stopping you?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: I know, I know the habits of a lifetime, but
you must believe the world.
Speaker 2: We're going to your world? What's it like, Ryal?
Speaker 4: What did you want the Iroquois Project to be like
Raymond of a place of peace and love? You cannot
have it here. Your world is not ready for it,
and despite your eleventh hour repentance, you really do not
know how to build it either. Everyone in your world
who tries to create peace and love pays a terrible
price for it.
Speaker 2: Finally, when when can we leave?
Speaker 4: We require one million dollars. We can leave the moment
you bring it here.
Speaker 3: Mister you're on a eye protest this entire procedure. No one,
no one has a right to drag a man into
a court.
Speaker 2: Of law and put his sanity on trial. Cat none
of your rights have been violated.
Speaker 4: Indeed, it is that duty of this card to ensure.
Speaker 2: That they are protected. And what am I doing here?
Speaker 4: For your own protection as well as for your families
and the stockholders of your company, it has been proposed
that you undergo a series of tests to determine your
mental capability, in.
Speaker 3: Other words, to have me certified insane so my wife
and my nephew can script me clean.
Speaker 4: Mister Trusk, this court has no such aim in view.
Speaker 2: It is therefore our decision that you will be connected.
Mister Trusk, What are you doing here at this hour
of the night. Aren't you supposed to.
Speaker 3: Be in Let's say I escaped. Oh, don't be alarmed,
the small hair, I'm not dangerous.
Speaker 2: What did you come here for, mister trash? I need money? Money? Well,
I can imagine you would. I have some money.
Speaker 4: It's not much, just a few hundred, but it could
get your plane tickets somebody.
Speaker 2: No, thank you need a million dollars? A million? Oh, well,
we don't have that much in the office.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: I still remember the combination to the safe. Oh no,
mister task, you wouldn't.
Speaker 3: In which we have over a million dollars worth of
negotiable bonds, bear of bonds which are as good as cast.
Speaker 2: Please, mister T, please don't don't try to stop me.
The small hair. Sixteen right over to zero, soup. You're
not in any real trouble. You can beat them one dear,
four left. Do this over to zero and you cross
the line. I've crossed it long ago. Where can you hang?
You'd be surprised. And here we are.
Speaker 4: Oh, put the bonds back, mister T.
Speaker 2: Please out of my way, my small hair, just to
have a song. I'll not let you.
Speaker 4: I worked for you twenty years. I've loved you for
twenty years. You didn't even know I was alive, but
I didn't care.
Speaker 2: Just be in here with enough, I said, get out
of my way. No, please, list of my way.
Speaker 3: Coming here, mimm My uncle broke out of the You
know he went to the office and took.
Speaker 6: A million in negotiable bonds from the safe. He must
have gone to that woman's place.
Speaker 2: He's there. Now what we've had a place taked out
our man saw and go in there. Don't let him
get away. The place is being watched. Don't worry.
Speaker 3: This is the money. It's even better than money. Look ryel,
I'm a desperate man. Everything I've done until tonight might
be interpreted in two ways. But now I've crossed the line.
I've stolen this money.
Speaker 2: But it is your money. Well it is and it isn't.
But I have to know. What do you have to know?
Is it true what you promised?
Speaker 4: Look at me, Raymond, Look at me. We are making contact.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, our minds.
Speaker 4: Our hearts, our souls, our spirits are touch here. And
now with the money, I shall create the force that
will remove us from this place.
Speaker 2: Close your eyes, close your eyes.
Speaker 4: Now, now hold my hand, and now do.
Speaker 2: You feel the force? Yes? I feel yes, yes, Raymond,
it is, it is, And that's smell.
Speaker 4: It's the forces, the life forces in blood.
Speaker 2: And I'm going to faith's.
Speaker 4: No, no, Raymond, not pass out, but pass through, path
over and pass into.
Speaker 2: The other side of the world. There they're gone, No
one's here.
Speaker 3: They couldn't get away, they couldn't. We had the place around.
Speaker 4: We've been upstairs, downstairs, in the attic, down the selling
other sign of them.
Speaker 2: We had the place surrounded. How could they get away,
mister Cummings, How, I don't know. They must have gotten
past your men somehow.
Speaker 3: Look, they can't get away. We'd set up roadblocks. We're
covering the airport, the bus station.
Speaker 2: They have no place to go and no way to
get there. We'll have them in hand in twenty four hours,
I promise you.
Speaker 1: The assistant DA mister Maxwell Cummings made that promise some
five years ago.
Speaker 2: So far he has been unable to keep it.
Speaker 1: Since that evening, no one has ever seen raw l
or j Raymond Trask. I'll be back in just a
few moments with a comment on the story you just heard,
plus some other assorted goodies. The children make a lot
of noise, but to me, it's a wonderful sound.
Speaker 2: They have a lot of energy.
Speaker 4: A lot of playing to do before they take on
the serious world of adulthood. Every day they take on
a bit more of this wonderful world. I guess we're
lucky because there are so many places in the world
where the children are two weak even for play Bangladesh Hondurans.
Right here at home, they're week from the lack of
protein and essential vitamins, weak from the bad water and
the parasites that rob them of important nutrients, a childhood
of tears instead of laughter, And even if they do
manage to become adult, their minds and limbs will be
stunded by chronic malnutrition. You can help a child to
grow up strong and independent, maybe even be one.
Speaker 2: Of tomorrow's leaders.
Speaker 4: Send your contribution and to save the children Box nine
seventy Grand Central Station, New York, one zero zero one seven.
That Save the Children, Box nine seventy Grand Central Station,
New York, one zero zero one seven.
Speaker 1: They say you can't be all things to all people.
We can because our stories have something for everybody. Do
you want to believe Rael is a visitor from another world?
Such an assumption cannot be disproved. Is she a slick
flim flam artist. Well, if that interpretation makes you feel better,
be our guest. It is scientifically possible to create a force.
Speaker 2: Field to break away from the world.
Speaker 1: It's also possible to elude even the tightest police surveillance.
All things are possible, especially here. Seven times each week,
our cast included Larry Haynes, Carol Titel, Mary Jane Higbee,
Don Scardino, and Arnold Moss. The entire production was under
the direction of Hyman Brown, and now a preview of
our next tale.
Speaker 4: The Greeks and the Romans were hardly barbarians. In many
respective civilization was superior to our own. In the second place,
it is the height of arrogance to call anybody's religion nonsense.
Speaker 3: Are you trying to tell me that this silly looking
oath that is employed in our staples is actually an
ancient Greek god called Vulcan?
Speaker 2: His Roman name was Vulcan, His Greek name was a Feestus.
All right, all right, just answer one question. If it's true,
what is he doing here? Working for us?
Speaker 4: This god of yours, with very few exceptions of visits
from the gods, usually meant a great deal of trouble
for the people he called on?
Speaker 2: What kind of trouble? I uh, I just hope we
never find out the hard way.
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Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.