Speaker 1: Countdown for blast off x minus five minus four minus
three minus two x.
Speaker 2: Minus one fire.
Speaker 1: From the far horizons of the unknown come tales of
new dimensions in time and space. These are stories of
the future adventures in which you'll live in A million
could be years, on a thousand would be worlds. The
National Broadcasting Company presents X minus one to Night's story
The Man in the Moon. Attention, Attention.
Speaker 3: This is the Federal Bureau of Missing Persons calling all
local agencies attention. This is a coded report nationwide missing
since nine o'clock this morning. The following persons Smigley Jonathan,
five feet eight inches tall, brown hair, brown eyes, mastoid
scar behind right ear last scene, wearing blue top coat
and tan cap. Wanted by Los Angeles. Hello, get off
this wavelength. This is a restricted band. Hello Earth, whoever
you are, You're on a coded wavelength.
Speaker 4: Tune out.
Speaker 3: This frequency is reserved for the Federal Bureau of Missing Persons.
Speaker 5: Earth the Moon calling Earth.
Speaker 6: Hello, This guy's looney.
Speaker 5: Is in transmission, Jake.
Speaker 3: This Charlie of the Code Room. Some crackpot is on
our frequency.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I heard him, Charlie. I've got CQ trying to
trace a source now we should have a triangulation any.
Speaker 3: Second'll hurry it up, will you some Amazon for a
good stiff fine by the FCC?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta take.
Speaker 5: His license away. Here comes Lending with the direction fix. Right, thanks, Honnye.
What's this? This is impossible?
Speaker 6: What's going on down there? How about it?
Speaker 4: Get that ham out of my kilicycles?
Speaker 5: Oh, listen, Charlie and list This is a gag. That
interference is being beamed from two hundred and forty thousand
miles away.
Speaker 3: Oh not, Jake, You know there ain't no such thing
as two hundred and forty thousand miles away.
Speaker 5: Yes there is, Charlie, straight up.
Speaker 7: I'll wait a minute, Charlie.
Speaker 5: That signal is coming from the moon.
Speaker 2: Are you nuts?
Speaker 5: Somebody might be bouncing it like a radar signal.
Speaker 2: Radar on this frequency?
Speaker 4: Where'd you study basic radio?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 5: Listen, flathead, you asked for a fix. I gave the
best fix. Our instruments confine, take it or leave it.
Somebody on the moon is calling the Bureau of Missing Person.
Speaker 2: What's the sweat, Charlie? Shouldn't you be broadcasting?
Speaker 3: It's a mister timpty, you know, on the sober right
Reber once have I broadcast with the smell of alcohol
on my breath? Right in all your twelve years here
at the Bureau, did I once?
Speaker 5: Never matter?
Speaker 3: Charlie, we're picking up a message on our wavelength.
Speaker 2: Did you report to the FCC?
Speaker 4: I ain't got the.
Speaker 6: Nerve, But what's wrong?
Speaker 3: You'll scream when you hear this, mister Timpkin, you'll jump
right out the window. But we are getting an SOS
from the moon. All that city started on voice and
switched to Mars. The way the signal repeats sounds like
a phonograph record or automatic center of some sort of
what's it say?
Speaker 4: Let's see here?
Speaker 2: Can you read me?
Speaker 7: Help?
Speaker 4: Otter Burn.
Speaker 3: We'll contact when Moona's in phase.
Speaker 6: Let's have that again.
Speaker 3: Can you read me help? Otter Burn. We'll contact when
Moona's in phase.
Speaker 6: Hotter Burn. That sounds like a name, otter Burn, hotter
Wait a minute, something registered car? Needias utter Burn? Only jump?
Speaker 4: Where are you gone talk to the chie?
Speaker 6: Wait a minute?
Speaker 4: What are you gonna tell him?
Speaker 3: We just gotta seek you from the man the moon.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what I am gonna tell him, Chartie.
Speaker 7: Just too much for me, Washington style.
Speaker 4: Let me have O'Brien on city desk.
Speaker 3: O'Brien, Seamous Charlie Starbuck down at the Missing Person's flower.
You want a hot one? No kidding, this will cost
your beer.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, shoot no, I'll stay on your wavelength
for thirty seconds.
Speaker 3: Okay, we just got a radio message.
Speaker 6: From the moon. Yep from the moon.
Speaker 5: Call me back when you're sober.
Speaker 2: Okay, Seamus.
Speaker 4: If you don't know a story, when you see one.
Speaker 9: I'll send you the name of a good psychiatrist.
Speaker 5: So long, Orson Wells.
Speaker 1: How do you like that.
Speaker 6: You don't believe me? Otter Burn? Mister Wade, Now does
that name ring a bell?
Speaker 2: You're the man with a photographic memory, Henry? What about
Ottobur Cornelius Otterburn, a comic physicist reported missing from his
home in Baltimore on June fifth, nineteen forty five, just
five years ago?
Speaker 6: Vanished completely?
Speaker 2: Are you trying to tell me you really think there's
something to this man of the Moon business, Henry, I'm
surprised at you. This is some crackpot trying to jam
the airwa Is it? The name outter Burn is so
unusual a lot of names, and I have a theory
that I was afraid of Henry. You will always have
a theory. Let's see, what was it last year?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yes, that people disappear an occupational site.
Speaker 4: But it's true.
Speaker 2: Please, Henry, I'm a busy man. Expect me to believe
that this otter of burn is sitting up on the
moon sending out short wave messages. He might be on
Earth bouncing the messages off the moon, but who's to
say he isn't.
Speaker 7: On the move.
Speaker 4: Henry is chief of this bureau.
Speaker 2: I have my hands full trying to coordinate reports from
forty eight states on Alaska. I have no time to
include the moon. Mister wade out, Henry, mister wade out
time busy? Yes, Oh here, take this folder of reports
for the dead file. Yes, and no more nonsense, he Henry. Yes,
I appreciate that you have a very dull job filing
all missing person's reports, and I appreciate that you take
an active interest in the affairs of the bureau.
Speaker 4: What no more nonsense, sir, No, sir, no more nonsense.
Speaker 10: Pardon me? Hmm you are mister Henry Timpkin.
Speaker 4: That's my name.
Speaker 10: Omit me Jefferson file of Scientific feature writer.
Speaker 6: Oh, how do you do well, are you a newspaper man.
Speaker 11: Not exactly. I write as a hobby. Occasionally the papers
give me leads on an assignment. If I may have
a moment of.
Speaker 6: Your time, certainly just sit down my desk over here.
Speaker 2: Thank you, my, that's quite a stack of papers filing.
I'm the record's custodian the bureau twelve years and never
misplaced a record.
Speaker 10: Magnificent.
Speaker 11: I admire the precise mind mister uh Timkin.
Speaker 4: Of course.
Speaker 11: Now, mister Timkin, mister O'Brien, the editor of the Star.
I just said I might drop by and investigate a room,
only a room. Remind you that a message from the moon.
Speaker 2: Well, we aren't certain it's from the moon. It may
be a bounce. They have bounced radar waves off the moon.
Speaker 11: You know, yes, I know, I wrote the first newspaper
article on it.
Speaker 6: Really i'd be understood to read it.
Speaker 10: I must have a copy. On my point.
Speaker 11: I don't bother hypo, but I insist, Oh, yes, there
you are. I'll leave it on your desk, thank you
very much. Now about this message from the moon, mister Timko.
Speaker 2: And now we don't know for sure, as I said,
but I believe that this message, wherever it originates is
from Cornelius Utterburn, the physicist.
Speaker 6: Would you know him?
Speaker 11: I once wrote an article on his contribution to nuclear mechanics.
A brilliant man out of Burn, years ahead of his contemporaries.
Speaker 2: Well, whoever is sending those signals, if he isn't on
the moon, is at least using the moon as a
sounding board bouncing the signal. But why, mister Timpkins, Why
and if you will come here tomorrow night at eight,
mister Filo, we may learn the answer to that question.
I've arranged with Charlie, our radio man, to let me
use the equipment.
Speaker 10: May I consider this an invitation?
Speaker 5: Very well.
Speaker 10: Until tomorrow night.
Speaker 6: Then goodbye, mister Filo.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Let's see now, Aiken Amblage, Abramson, Ronald Atch.
Speaker 6: That's funny.
Speaker 2: Where did this list of names come from? Paul Aron's
astro mathematician, Robert Simon's electronic engineer, Carl Parker mining specialist. Well,
this must have got mixed up with the papers on
my desk by accident.
Speaker 6: Peculiar list.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Charlie two kid, see we made the papers.
Speaker 6: Oh and how is the chief steamed up about it?
Speaker 4: He really gave me one for what did the papers say?
Speaker 10: Almostly ha ha.
Speaker 3: Here's a herold Listen, man on the moon contacts Missing
Persons Bureau, missing atomic scientists sitting on the moon say,
Bureau experts, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 6: What an no wonder?
Speaker 2: Mister Wade is hopping say about tonight?
Speaker 6: Miss Now, you promised you would give you a key
to the radio room.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I didn't expect.
Speaker 6: I'll take full responsibility with mister Wade.
Speaker 4: At the time for the morning broadcast. We got quite
a list today.
Speaker 2: Well mind, if I listen a while, we may hear
auto burn I self conscious.
Speaker 3: Just stick around. Attention, attention. This is the Federal Missing
Persons Bureau calling all local agencies nationwide. This is a
coded broadcast. The following persons are missing errands. Doctor Paul
five feet five, brown hair, brown eyes, scar on left
side of chin, thick glasses, occupation astro mathematician, missing since
six o'clock this morning, being sought by bell Air police.
Charlie repeat, Doctor Paul, hold it, delay one minute. Listen,
mister Timpkin. It's okay to stay, but you can't interrupt.
This is important.
Speaker 2: Did you say, doctor Aarons was reported missing this morning
six am.
Speaker 3: We got the report from bel Air less than an
hour ago. That are you certain, Charlie positive?
Speaker 4: What is this, Charlie?
Speaker 6: What's the next name on the list.
Speaker 3: Uh, let's see Simon's Roberts engineer. What came in less
than twenty minutes ago? Hey, what's the matter with you? You
look like you've seen a ghost.
Speaker 2: Nothing, Charlie, except that last night, quite by accident, someone
left the list of names on my desk. And that
list included the names of those two men who were
reported missing within the last hour.
Speaker 8: What.
Speaker 4: Oh, that doesn't sound right to me.
Speaker 6: It isn't right, Charlie. Jave's a big question to be answered.
Speaker 2: Who would make up a list of missing persons before
they were missing.
Speaker 6: Not after?
Speaker 2: And you say this list of names was left on
your deskccidentally, I believe so, mister Wade. Do you have
any ideas Henry, It's.
Speaker 6: Hard to say. Mister Philo left some papers from his briefcase.
Speaker 2: Mister Philo a science feature writer. See you were the
leak on that story, then, yes, sir, I'm afraid I was.
I didn't think it would be treated as a laughing matter.
Speaker 4: I will deal with that later. Yes, what's this filo like?
Speaker 2: Well, he's a strange old duck, bald, thin, glasses tall,
He walks stooped over, seems to know a great deal
about scientific data.
Speaker 6: But of course, speaking a science writer.
Speaker 4: He is there any other possibility?
Speaker 2: I believe that this is all hooked up with the
broadcast from Otterburn.
Speaker 4: That seems to be a very remote possibility.
Speaker 2: A Missing Person's Bureau deals in remote possibilities, mister Wade,
I do not require a statement of policy. Yes, what's
the theory? For some time now it has been my
contention that in a country like ours, where even the
cleverest criminal can be ferreted out and located eventually, there
is no such thing.
Speaker 4: As a missing person. I was afraid of that.
Speaker 6: For twelve years now.
Speaker 2: I have kept the central files, where information from all
over the country is channeled and recorded.
Speaker 6: I have made a private study.
Speaker 4: This is beginning to sound familiar.
Speaker 2: And I have discovered that each year, literally thousands of
persons vanished, leaving no trace. They are never located, where
do they go? Nobody knows? And they disappear in interesting cycles.
Speaker 4: What sort of cycles? Occupations?
Speaker 2: For example, one year we'll have a run on, say
coal miners next year, the proportion of engineers increases, and
then scientists.
Speaker 4: And what do you think happens, Henry.
Speaker 2: I don't know, mister Wade, but I'm beginning to suspect
that somebody else has discovered the same phenomenon, even to
the point perhaps of being able to predict who will turn.
Speaker 4: Up among the missing next Filo.
Speaker 6: Well, I don't know, but I would like to find out.
Speaker 4: And you think ought to Burn may be a part
of this.
Speaker 2: Picture, mister Wade, I definitely do, Henry. Do you honestly
expect me to buy an idea like that? It is
more than I an idea that the two top men
on this list are missing, and maybe so, but the
rest of them aren't. Hawka Watson Gibbs. Why I saw
Parker in the restaurant where I had lunched today. And
if you think I'm going to make myself by laughing,
start by accepting such a cracked brain, fear, well, excuse me?
Speaker 4: Yes, hello, wait, speaking, yeah, yeah, I see what name?
Speaker 2: In just a moment, Henry, let me see that list
here you are, go ahead, I see, I'll get back
to you.
Speaker 4: He yuh, I guess I owe you an apology, Henry.
Speaker 2: Sir Carl Parker was just reported missing Parker, third man
on your list, Holy Macro. Exactly, Henry. For a good
many years now, I've ridiculed these theories of yours. I
don't know. Perhaps I have underestimated you. Maybe this time
you've really stumbled onto something.
Speaker 6: What do you intend to do, mister Wade, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I haven't thought it out yet.
Speaker 2: I was planning to listen for another broadcast tonight in
the hope that Ootterburn might try to contact us again.
Speaker 4: Good idea, I believe I'll join you.
Speaker 2: I also invited mister Fidol the feature. Oh, I'll be
glad to meet him. I'm beginning to get interested in
your mister Filo. Wait, you don't think he's mixed up
in this? Yes, I don't know, Henry, but it suddenly
strikes me that we don't know very much about him.
Speaker 6: Really we ought to contact the police.
Speaker 2: No, Henry, I think we're better off keeping this between
ourselves for the moment. We're dealing with the unknown, and
in solving an equation for the X factor, it's often
easier to limit the number of terms. Follow me we
don't know, mister Wadeye, there may be more danger in
what you have discovered than you are aware of.
Speaker 4: Let's keep it quiet. You agree.
Speaker 6: Maybe you're right, mister Wade. I I haven't thought of
the danger involved.
Speaker 4: Hit o'clock. When mister Filo was late.
Speaker 2: He said he'd be here. He strikes me as a
man who keeps appointments. Look out the window. Yes, the
moon is almost in direct phase. It don't work much longer.
Speaker 6: That's a perfectly clear knighte for transmission.
Speaker 2: If anybody's sending we ought to pick it up with this.
Speaker 4: Equipment, you'd better switch on the set.
Speaker 2: I never realized how eerie this office could be when
it was empty. I loved the light in the hall.
Mister Filo, when it comes, are you getting anything?
Speaker 6: Just some foreign stuff?
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 3: The British part of Night's programming from Johannesburg sell.
Speaker 5: Then we continue in April.
Speaker 6: That's a peculiar transmission sound that sounds like something. See
if I can work the selected.
Speaker 4: The moon is in phase?
Speaker 7: Hello U can you clear me?
Speaker 6: I try to return Hello? Hello?
Speaker 1: Hello?
Speaker 6: Hello? Oh do you hear me?
Speaker 5: I get you now? Thank God?
Speaker 2: Who are you?
Speaker 6: Can you hear me.
Speaker 2: Who are you?
Speaker 5: This is Professor Cornelius Otterburn.
Speaker 6: Go on, I hear you.
Speaker 5: Not much time they're.
Speaker 2: On to me.
Speaker 5: They've located my sending point, do you hear me?
Speaker 6: Go ahead, keep talking.
Speaker 5: I'm only enough oxygen for a few minutes more.
Speaker 6: Where are you?
Speaker 2: I'm on the.
Speaker 5: Earth side of the moon. You get that the Earth
side of the Moon.
Speaker 2: A volcanic crater could start that recorder, mister Wade, go on, explain,
please explain, please closely.
Speaker 8: There is an Earth Earth colony on the Moon. There
is an Earth colony on the far side of the
Moon made up of renegade scientists and criminals.
Speaker 5: Professor Ernst Tolsman.
Speaker 2: He died in an insanes side of in nineteen thirty eight.
Speaker 12: Professor Ernst Hausmann discovered nuclear rocket power in nineteen thirty five,
turned his plans over to escaped inmates of the asylum.
They took off and set up a colony on the
far side of the Moon in nineteen thirty eight.
Speaker 6: Go ahead, we're recording you.
Speaker 5: Each year they.
Speaker 13: Recruit new colors colonists from Earth slave labor. Mostly I
was kidnapped in nineteen forty five.
Speaker 2: I know I'll keep talking.
Speaker 5: They wanted me to work on atomic drive for their flying.
Speaker 2: Still getting you go.
Speaker 8: On last month, six others and I escaped.
Speaker 6: To speak louder.
Speaker 5: You got to stop them, stop them, stop the Moon.
Speaker 13: Colony planning to take over the Earth invasion. Hang on
and the oxygen to breathe listening. They have agents on Earth.
Speaker 6: Yeah, agents on Earth?
Speaker 2: Where who? Hello?
Speaker 10: Hello?
Speaker 5: Hello agians?
Speaker 2: Someone to win to get down, Henry, Are you all right?
I think so? His shots smashed the transmitter and the
lights strike a matcher cava.
Speaker 6: It was close.
Speaker 2: I gotta look at him from the description, was your
mister Filo. We got a recording anyway, but not the
most important part of the message.
Speaker 6: Poor unterbird suffocating to death.
Speaker 4: Henry. We've got to get you out of here. He said.
Speaker 2: They have agents. Filo was probably one of them. He'll
be looking for you and not trying to kill you.
The police. Do you think the police would believe a
fantastic story like this, people being kidnapped to the Moon
as slave labor. Moon Colony planning an invasion of the Earth.
But Henry, believe me that they trap us into straight
jackets before we could finish.
Speaker 6: We've got to do something.
Speaker 2: We need time time to get you don't think my
theory was bunk thing. I know it wasn't, Henry. Right now,
my only concern is for your safety. But we can't
walk out of here.
Speaker 6: Filo is probably waiting.
Speaker 2: There's a service elevator that leads to the basement garage. Yeah,
we can get down there. There are some delivery trucks
parked there all night. We can probably get one started.
The garage doors off the ramp work from the inside.
We'll start the mechanism and make.
Speaker 6: A run for it.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think if we call the plot, by the time
the police get here will be dead. You think Fido
will wait outside all night? Come on, that's an order. Okay,
what about the recording of Otterburn's notes. We'll leave that
here in the safe in my office. They'll never get
into that. Let's go. You bus the elevator while I
hide the recording.
Speaker 4: This is the basement. Come on, keep to the side.
Speaker 2: Yes, sh.
Speaker 4: Let's try that delivery truck over there. I'll get in.
Speaker 2: All right, Henry, you start the mechanism to open the
garage door, then jump onto the truck.
Speaker 4: We'll make a dash for it.
Speaker 6: Where can we go?
Speaker 2: I have a farm outside Chevy Chase, private miles from
the nearest neighbor and completely hidden by trees.
Speaker 4: We'll run for that. Go ahead, stop the door, all right?
Speaker 6: Quick jump in.
Speaker 4: Let go closs her fingers. We made it out, all right?
Anything doing?
Speaker 2: There's a blue coop behind us, mister Wade, it's easree following.
I'll cut or Pennsylvania Avenue now Route one, Todd Bolomaha,
it is following.
Speaker 4: He turned with us.
Speaker 2: Can you go faster? How much faster he's gaining on us?
I've got an idea. Hang on, Henry, fix, where'd you stop?
I'll turn out the lights.
Speaker 4: M It worked.
Speaker 2: We shot right past us. Now we'll double back and
go out another route. Why I don't see anything? I
think we've lost him.
Speaker 5: Good.
Speaker 2: I think everything is going to be all right.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: You can bid my farm in less than an hour,
not much longer. Now is anyone behind us? I thought
I saw the blue poop again, but I was mistaken.
This place is really hot in the wilder. We can
stay here indefinitely to well figure out the next moment.
Just up this stead road. Now there's the house up ahead.
You're not going to no, I have a better idea.
There's a big abandoned wheat salow on my grounds. It's
down a hollow where it can't be seen except in
the air, and even then the oak trees shielded.
Speaker 4: We'll hide you out there now. We leave the truck
here and I'll be seen. Man.
Speaker 2: Yes, how did you ever find this place, mister Wade?
I've always liked seclusion. I bought it about twelve years ago.
Come up here in the summer time to get away
from it all. There's the silo, certainly well hidden. There's
a small door around the side. Come on the capital
of those bushes. Oh, yes, it's hard to seem in
the dark. Do you suppose Filo will find us? I
assure you, Henry, mister follow will never find us here,
not in a million years.
Speaker 4: Here's the door. It's pitch dark. Oh, my arm I
know the way. Just a few steps up and another door.
Speaker 2: Steal. So this is an unusual silos, double walled wood
outside and steal inside, completely fireproof. An army couldn't break it.
We're inside the NHL. Carefully, you're in a circular room.
Stay here a moment. I'll go outside and see if
the coast is clear. In a moment, you rise what
become accustomed to the darkness. I'll bring back some food
and water. Don't be long, mister Wade. This place gives
me the willies. Just a moment, mister Wade swearing, Mister Wade,
what's that?
Speaker 6: There is something good?
Speaker 2: Wine?
Speaker 8: There?
Speaker 6: Someone in here? It's locked.
Speaker 2: Get the way way to be out. I'm not alone
in here.
Speaker 8: Eight.
Speaker 6: This must be a light switch. Thank god.
Speaker 2: People, mister way down, we'll do you offer to shouting
the wait? Where are you outside? Speaking over the enter?
Speaker 4: Cons is the way.
Speaker 2: There are people in here, fifteen or twenty of them
there sitting like statue, just just staring at me. They
won't hurt you. They've all been drugged, even more helpless
than you.
Speaker 7: But who are they?
Speaker 2: Met me to introduce them, since they're currently unable to
introduce themselves. The gentleman seated before you, the one with
the scar, is doctor Paul ERNs. The astro mathematician next
to him is mister Robert Simon's electronic engineer. Names on
the list, Yes, you're familiar with the rest. They've all
been shall we say recruited. We'll work with Professor Horsman's
group in the moon. Oom, mhm, you you're one of them,
of course.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, there's one whose name was not on our list.
Speaker 2: If you'll turn around, Henry, you recognize the drug form
of your old friend, mister Pilot.
Speaker 5: Why but I thought that he was part of the conspiracy.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: On the contrary, his snooping made it necessary for us
to include. He put the man in the window, the
one who find the shot, an agent of mine. The
pilot of this ship.
Speaker 9: Missus Silah, was camouflaged for a rocket launching platform. In
a moment, the roof will slide back from the rockets
take on. In exactly seventy hours, you and your companions
will join Professor.
Speaker 5: Otterburn on the moon.
Speaker 2: But you can't do this to me. I've done all
you see, there was another name omitted in that list,
which I carelessly mixed up with your papers, that Henry Timpkin.
Speaker 5: Let you go there.
Speaker 2: You can't be pay Let me out, Let me outweigh
it can happen. Let me out.
Speaker 14: Let's attention attention missing since eight o'clock last night.
Speaker 5: The following persons.
Speaker 3: Timpkin, Henry, age forty five, height.
Speaker 14: Five feet eight one hundred and sixty five pounds, brown eyes,
slightly bawling, occupation records, custodian repeat, Timpkin Henry age.
Speaker 15: Forty five, fighte five feet eight, one hundred and sixty five.
Speaker 1: In just a moment, a word about next week's adventure.
Tonight by Transcription X minus one has brought you The
Man in the Moon, an original radio drama written by
George Lefferts featured in the cast where Lois van Ruton
as Henry satos Ortega as the Chief, Ross Martin as Charlie,
Sidney Smith as Otterburn, Bob Haig as Jake, Joe DeSantis
as Filo, and Ed Latimer as O'Brien. You're announcer Fred Collins.
X minus one was directed by Fred Way and is
an NBC Radio Network production. And Now next week. The
sign on the window said Perigi's Wonderful Dons. A woman
and a child waited outside, the little girl peering eagerly
through the window, and the woman glancing impatiently at her
wristwatch as if expecting someone who was late for an appointment.
And there was nothing about Perigi's doll shop to warn
them that they were were waiting to keep an appointment
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