WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:05.280 Suspense, which is usually heard at this hour on Thursday nights, 2 00:00:05.440 --> 00:00:09.080 is taking its customary summer holiday. Suspense returns to the 3 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:11.960 air three weeks from tonight on Thursday September. 4 00:00:11.960 --> 00:00:26.839 First, you are with three men in a jungle plantation 5 00:00:26.920 --> 00:00:29.320 on the rubber coast of Borneo. You know that one 6 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:31.199 of the men is a desperate criminal whom you've come 7 00:00:31.239 --> 00:00:32.479 to arrest, but you. 8 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:34.079 Don't know which one. 9 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:36.679 You have to find him before he can save himself 10 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:37.719 by killing you. 11 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:51.240 We offer you escape designed to free you from the 12 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:54.759 four walls of today, for a half hour of high adventure. 13 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:03.159 We escaped to a Borneo jungle in a tantalizing search 14 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:03.960 for a murderer. 15 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:04.799 As L. G. 16 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:18.400 Blackman told it in his famous story Red Wine. 17 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:24.120 As the rusty little tramp trater bummed against the rickety wharf, 18 00:01:24.959 --> 00:01:27.519 I dropped from the rail under the planking, and for 19 00:01:27.599 --> 00:01:30.120 the first time felt the humid heat roll out of 20 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:32.640 the jungle like steam from the back door of a 21 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:38.079 Turkish van. I'd come a long way. Six days before, 22 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:41.200 I'd stepped off a float in San Francisco Bay, climbed 23 00:01:41.239 --> 00:01:42.599 to board a Panamaican. 24 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:43.599 Clipper headed to the South Pacific. 25 00:01:44.439 --> 00:01:47.760 Two days later, I'd boarded the mailboard in Batavia, and 26 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:55.319 now Tanjung Sama sweldering and half forgotten last out post 27 00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:59.359 in the rubber coast of Borneo. Here's a long journey, 28 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:02.519 but here what now might be end of it? I 29 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:11.080 had come to arrest a murderer. I crossed the beach 30 00:02:11.159 --> 00:02:13.120 and walked up the path of crushed shells leading to 31 00:02:13.159 --> 00:02:15.879 a low bungle. At the edge of the jungle, the 32 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:18.960 freighter would lie at the wharf for four hours, plenty 33 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:20.360 of time for me to get the thing over with 34 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:25.000 and be back aboard. When she said, I was expecting danger, 35 00:02:25.039 --> 00:02:27.479 of course, but no real trouble. 36 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:30.240 I'd done jobs like this before. 37 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:33.159 So I stepped confidently up on the porch and met 38 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:36.479 Hair Kirt, Controller of the tan Yang Semar District. 39 00:02:38.159 --> 00:02:40.919 Yeah. Yeah, I am in a court, the Controller. What 40 00:02:41.080 --> 00:02:41.960 is it I can do for you? 41 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:44.199 I have a letter of introduction here from the Governor General, 42 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:45.919 and here here you are. 43 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:51.759 Hmm, yeah, yeah, mister Paul Vanier from the United States. 44 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:54.240 The governor promised me a cooperation. 45 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:59.240 So I see cooperation. That's good, But he doesn't say cooperation. 46 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:01.280 In what I come here after a killer? 47 00:03:01.319 --> 00:03:04.560 Mister Kirk oh, DIACs maybe had hunters. 48 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:07.719 No, no, this was a civilized killer, an American one 49 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:09.520 in San Francisco for murdering his wife. 50 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:11.199 His name is Jerome Steeks. 51 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:14.000 Oh, I see. Won't you sit down, mister Vanier? 52 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:15.439 Hey, thank you? 53 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:18.800 Won't game bar Coffeymata? 54 00:03:18.919 --> 00:03:19.719 I bring that weight. 55 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:21.120 We will have coffee in a moment. 56 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:24.560 Nice of you, But maybe i'd better pick this guy 57 00:03:24.639 --> 00:03:26.800 up first. I'd hate to miss the boat and have 58 00:03:26.879 --> 00:03:28.120 to lay over five days. 59 00:03:28.759 --> 00:03:31.199 You are acquainted with his steaks, mister venir. 60 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:34.000 No, I've never seen it, but you do have photographs? 61 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:36.800 No, I'm afraid not. This was a very clever killer. 62 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:39.479 He apparently took great pains to see that. He was 63 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:42.639 never a photographed He carefully eliminated all fingerprints as well. 64 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:47.159 What are you driving at, mister Kirk? We simply this. 65 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:49.479 There is no one in my district by the name 66 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:50.080 of Steaks. 67 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:53.039 Oh no, of course not. He wasn't using his own name. 68 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:56.159 There is an American here, though, isn't. 69 00:03:55.960 --> 00:03:58.840 There three of them? Mister Vanier employed as foreman on 70 00:03:58.879 --> 00:03:59.919 the cot of Rubber Plantation. 71 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:03.080 According to my information, Steaks came here from Batavia about 72 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:03.960 six months ago. 73 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:07.080 We all arrived six months ago on the same boat. 74 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:09.719 The Cotter Company is just going back into operation. 75 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:14.719 I see well, according to people who've seen him, your 76 00:04:14.719 --> 00:04:17.319 own mistakes as a man about thirty five years old, 77 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:21.040 at medium height and slight build, pale complexion, with black 78 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:22.000 hair and mustache. 79 00:04:22.199 --> 00:04:22.800 Amazing. 80 00:04:23.399 --> 00:04:26.160 Any one of these men might fit the description, except 81 00:04:26.160 --> 00:04:28.720 that all are clean shaven and heavily turned from tropical 82 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:32.519 sun with amore. Mister Vania. All three of the men 83 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:33.720 have light blonde hair. 84 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:36.519 A copy shure that is seen it to Amasa. 85 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:40.399 They're good poor two cups one I'll have, won't bring 86 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:42.600 you baggage up from the wharf, mister Vania. 87 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:43.040 Yeah, thank you one. 88 00:04:43.240 --> 00:04:45.959 It appears your business may take a little longer than 89 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:47.000 four hours. 90 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:49.879 I'm certain of the information I got in Batavia. I 91 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:50.680 know the man's here. 92 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:55.519 Then the problem resolves itself into a matter of identification body. 93 00:04:55.560 --> 00:04:58.920 Picky's a car on nine hour's talk with the three 94 00:04:58.920 --> 00:04:59.120 of them? 95 00:04:59.160 --> 00:04:59.720 Are to do that? 96 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:04.120 I doubted, mister Vanier. The swamps here at Tanjong Samara 97 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:07.839 are infested with fever. It's always hot like now, and 98 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:10.879 the jungle's back there swarm with long tailed true snakes 99 00:05:10.920 --> 00:05:16.800 and deadly cobras in the rivers, crocodiles, So men rarely 100 00:05:16.879 --> 00:05:19.879 come here unless they are running away from something, trying 101 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:23.319 to lose that past. I think you'll find all three 102 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:28.160 men have manufactured stories. So how is one to choose? 103 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:29.240 Well? 104 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:33.439 I am moreover, according to this letter, I'm authorized by 105 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:37.439 the governor to assist you in arresting and extraditing your 106 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:40.399 own stiks one man, not. 107 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:43.759 Three, hmm, So it's up to me. 108 00:05:43.959 --> 00:05:47.160 Hum, oh, do not misunderstand me, mister Vanier. I will 109 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:49.800 co operate with you in every way, but I think 110 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:52.199 it will be a very hard thing to identify this 111 00:05:52.319 --> 00:05:55.319 man you have never seen when he doesn't wish to 112 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:56.160 be identified. 113 00:05:56.279 --> 00:05:56.639 I un'no. 114 00:05:56.800 --> 00:05:59.800 Sometimes easier to identify a man from his personality than 115 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:00.959 from physical appearance. 116 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:04.560 And the personality of this man, Steaks is something out 117 00:06:04.600 --> 00:06:05.399 of the ordinary. 118 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:09.560 Yeah, for a foreman on a rubber plantation. Yes, I 119 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:12.079 doubt if all three of these men can be aristocrats. 120 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:14.800 And in a sense that's what Steaks is. A cosmopolitan 121 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:18.000 lived all over the world, always associating with top society. 122 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:21.360 He's a lover of fine foods and wine. Speaks French 123 00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:25.759 and German fluently, he's a gourmet bon vivant, a man 124 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:27.680 of perfect taste and clothes and manners. 125 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:33.160 And the murderer, Yes, and the murder. When the three 126 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:35.639 men return from the clearing of this evening, I shall 127 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:38.600 be happy to introduce you to them, though it's quite 128 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:41.879 probable they are aware of your identity already. What do 129 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:46.079 you mean, jungle Grapevine? Before you stepped off the wharf, 130 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:51.079 my houseboard told me that you were a detective. Undoubtedly 131 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:53.959 the same information has reached the clearings by now. 132 00:06:53.879 --> 00:06:55.720 I see so. 133 00:06:55.720 --> 00:06:58.319 In other words, the murderer probably knows who I am 134 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:01.560 and what I'm here for, but I haven't the slightest 135 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:02.600 dadea who here is? 136 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:03.839 Huh exactly? 137 00:07:04.680 --> 00:07:11.639 It's quite an interesting thought, isn't it. More coffee, mister Vanier, 138 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:20.199 Mister Vanier, I would like you to meet mister Durran. Hi, mister, 139 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:22.560 and this is mister Wilmo Day. 140 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:23.439 Pleasure, mister Vanier. 141 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:26.879 I'll save you the trouble, Kurt. My name's Praille, Glad 142 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:27.279 to meet you. 143 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:28.680 Same here, mister Preyn. 144 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:30.759 You might as well drop that, mister. We don't use 145 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:34.079 it much around here. I'm praying that's Duran and Wilmerding 146 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:36.959 and you're Vernier. If it's all the same to you, sure, sure, prayer? 147 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:37.319 Why not? 148 00:07:37.879 --> 00:07:40.160 Now, if you gentlemen will excuse me, I have a 149 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:43.040 number of things to do. Bring mister Veneer to my 150 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:46.160 bungalow for dinner. We'll celebrate having a guest at time. 151 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:50.720 John Summer, Sure I will see you. Hell uh here 152 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:52.959 Kurt tells me all three of you are American. 153 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:55.040 Well, I don't know whether I'm still one or not. 154 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:57.040 Haven't been to the stage in seven years? 155 00:07:57.199 --> 00:08:00.120 Seven years? Huh? Then you're an old timer here, Durant. 156 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:01.040 Not here Australian. 157 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:02.680 Oh, don't let the rank get started in here. 158 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:04.720 I'll spend two hours telling you how he lost his 159 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:06.680 shirt trying to raise sheet down on them. 160 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:09.000 Well, if I had either money or sense, I wouldn't 161 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:09.759 have come to this thinking. 162 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:11.800 Oh, I wouldn't say you fellas had it too rough. 163 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:14.560 I've been noticing those empty bottles there in the show. 164 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:15.360 What do you mean? 165 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:20.360 Well? Heah, Piper Hidaac nineteen thirty six. That's good. Champagne 166 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:23.720 boys are living like gourmets kind of sers. 167 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:26.240 Oh, you're overwriting us from here. Those empty bottles were 168 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:28.399 already here when he came, just never got around to 169 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:29.040 throwing them out. 170 00:08:29.120 --> 00:08:31.120 Pril here's the only kind of sert in a bunch. 171 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:34.240 He can tell you anything you want to know about wine, yeah, 172 00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:35.159 or about anything. 173 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:37.000 Dry up just because the guy happens to know a 174 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:38.679 little more than somebody else, has no reason to keep 175 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:39.600 riding them all the time. 176 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:42.039 I wish you knew some way to make ice. I'm 177 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:45.200 getting plenty fed up with warm beard day in day out. 178 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:48.840 Yes, that would get pretty tiresome. I think I'd switch 179 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:53.080 to Champa, Danner, Shabli or something. Hmm, come again, well, 180 00:08:53.159 --> 00:08:55.919 woman thing. I didn't necessarily mean those in particular, but 181 00:08:55.960 --> 00:08:57.639 there are quite a number of wines that are even 182 00:08:57.679 --> 00:08:59.080 better warm than they are chilled. 183 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:02.200 Uh in the wrong place, charm. We wouldn't know what 184 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:03.440 to do with him if we had him. This is 185 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:05.159 strictly a beer and gin crown. 186 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:05.919 Been all kick on that. 187 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:08.039 If we had some ice to go with it, Oh 188 00:09:08.080 --> 00:09:11.159 what I wouldn't give for a cold frosted or relax? 189 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:14.759 Will you make me thirsty? What do you say to 190 00:09:14.799 --> 00:09:15.200 some music? 191 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:15.480 Oh? 192 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:19.080 Music? There's one of you play some instrument? Sure? 193 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:22.039 Sure, prayer he's terrific on that phone graph over there 194 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:24.919 in the corner. Only trouble is he thinks three o'clock 195 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:27.559 in the morning is the greatest song ever written. 196 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:30.840 Well, I can see that leading quite an argument, Duran, 197 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:34.200 particularly if you're a lover of the classics. 198 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:35.840 Oh no, no, no, no no, I don't go for that 199 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:38.360 long hair stuff. But I would like to hear a 200 00:09:38.440 --> 00:09:40.360 fast number once in a while. It's less than ten 201 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:40.919 years old. 202 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:43.240 Yeah, you ought to see that collection Prail dragged up 203 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:45.720 here from Batavia, strictly from the gay nineties. 204 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:48.360 Prail, you don't buy any chance? 205 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:51.879 Have a number called ilia omitreer Donson. 206 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:55.000 What's that some Italian opera? No, no, it's French. 207 00:09:55.000 --> 00:09:58.200 Approximately, Well, come on, pray ill translate it for us. 208 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:00.440 You claim to be an expert on the French line. 209 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:03.759 Well, it's worded kind of funny. It's like poet. Oh sure, 210 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:06.320 sure that last word though, that may is on that 211 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:09.039 that means house. I know that. 212 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:09.639 That's too bad. 213 00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:14.759 I thought maybe Jerome steaks mine translated huh it refers to. 214 00:10:14.759 --> 00:10:17.679 Him, of course, seeks What are you talking about? Sentence 215 00:10:17.720 --> 00:10:20.879 reads there's a murderer in this house. 216 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:26.000 Well, so you're finally coming out in the open. 217 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:28.120 Yeah, we heard you were a detective. 218 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:31.840 That's right, So what about it, Steaks? You want to 219 00:10:31.840 --> 00:10:33.360 give up now or try to go on. 220 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:33.879 With your act? 221 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:37.480 Wait a second, Verniere, I get it now. You're after 222 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:39.840 some killer you've never seen named Steaks, and you figure 223 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:40.240 one of us? 224 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:40.480 Is it? 225 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:41.600 Huh? That's right, Prail. 226 00:10:42.039 --> 00:10:43.799 Then the guy you're after is Wilmerdinge. 227 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:44.600 Are you crazy? 228 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:46.960 Whoever heard anybody with a name like Wilmerding unless they 229 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:47.360 made it up? 230 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:48.159 Made up nothing. 231 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:50.279 I got a passport to prove it. What are you 232 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:52.519 trying to do, Praille. Turn attention away from yourself. 233 00:10:52.559 --> 00:10:54.759 I got nothing to hide. It's either you or Duran 234 00:10:54.919 --> 00:10:56.000 what listen? 235 00:10:56.039 --> 00:10:57.519 You can leave me out of this right now. 236 00:10:57.639 --> 00:10:59.679 There's plenty of people in Australia can tell you who 237 00:10:59.679 --> 00:11:00.000 I am. 238 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:02.639 Unfortunately, though, there's nobody in tan Young Samar who can 239 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:04.120 tell me for certain who any of you are. 240 00:11:04.879 --> 00:11:06.039 One of you is a murderer. 241 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:09.399 By the time the boat gets back here, since I'm 242 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:10.919 obviously not going to be able to leave with her 243 00:11:10.919 --> 00:11:11.639 when the sales. 244 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:13.720 An hour, I'll know which one. 245 00:11:14.919 --> 00:11:16.639 Either I'm going to take Jerome Steaks back to San 246 00:11:16.679 --> 00:11:20.080 Francisco with me, or I'm going to kill him trying 247 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:26.799 to you can count on it. Well, what do you 248 00:11:26.840 --> 00:11:29.440 say we go on over to kurts Bungalow and have dinner. 249 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:44.240 That's Wilmerding's room there. Duran sleeps here and pray long 250 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:47.039 down at the end. Yes, this is the guest room, 251 00:11:47.399 --> 00:11:50.600 at least the only guest room that's usable. 252 00:11:50.279 --> 00:11:50.799 At the present. 253 00:11:51.120 --> 00:11:54.840 It looks all right, Well, it's use for the time 254 00:11:54.840 --> 00:11:55.840 you're here, mister Vania. 255 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:58.519 Do all of these rooms open out under the porch? 256 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:01.000 Yes, ivan, as we call it. 257 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:02.919 And there's no way to lock this. 258 00:12:02.919 --> 00:12:07.639 Story unfortunately no. And anyway, the windows are covered only 259 00:12:07.639 --> 00:12:12.039 by mosquito netting. It makes another interesting situation, does it not? 260 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:15.360 Yeah? I suppose interesting is the word for it. 261 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:18.120 I you sure, mister Vanier, that you have not been 262 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:21.000 able to identify your man by his personality. 263 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:23.519 Now, whichever one his stakes is putting on an awfully 264 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:24.000 good act. 265 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:27.720 Most likely they're all acting to work greater or lesser extent, 266 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:30.919 which of course makes you problem exceedingly difficult. 267 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:34.799 That's right, mister kit You did say a man rarely 268 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:38.519 came here unless he wanted to lose his past, and 269 00:12:38.600 --> 00:12:39.639 yet you're here. 270 00:12:40.519 --> 00:12:45.399 Yeah, yeah, that is true. But then I am only 271 00:12:45.399 --> 00:12:47.919 a servant of the government and have little choice where 272 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:51.720 I am said, well, good night, mister Vanier. 273 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:54.960 I sat there in the lamp light for a long 274 00:12:55.039 --> 00:12:58.159 time after Kit left, trying to figure things out. 275 00:12:58.320 --> 00:12:59.279 I'm getting nowhere. 276 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:03.440 Gradually, the night breeze brought the smell of the jungle 277 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:08.480 into the room, rich, exotic, fragrant as of midnight orchid, 278 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:14.879 as disturbing as the scent of danger. Or maybe maybe 279 00:13:14.879 --> 00:13:20.120 it was danger itself I was smelling. The heavy knife 280 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:22.000 missed my throat by two inches, cut it into a 281 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:25.120 bamboo perdition, and stuck their quivering. I dropped down on 282 00:13:25.159 --> 00:13:26.919 the floor and slid my thirty head out of its holster. 283 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:31.080 I could hear nothing but the rustle of palm patch 284 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:34.399 along the eaves, low creeks from the palace uneath the bungalow, 285 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:36.600 and the soft night sounds. 286 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:36.960 From the jungle. 287 00:13:38.639 --> 00:13:41.960 Finally, I slipped my shoes off, pulled the knife out 288 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:44.320 of the wall and dropped in my pocket, moved to 289 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:47.720 the door, and stepped quietly out into the verandah. 290 00:13:47.840 --> 00:13:48.519 It was empty. 291 00:13:49.799 --> 00:13:52.720 Across the railing. The fringe of undergrowth was dappled in 292 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:57.519 silver moonlight, and nothing moved. I paused quickly at the 293 00:13:57.519 --> 00:13:59.639 three doors, and from each heard the sound of storing. 294 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:03.960 One of the men was faking, but which one. I 295 00:14:04.080 --> 00:14:05.559 reached the end of the porch when my eye caught 296 00:14:05.559 --> 00:14:07.360 a slight movement in the banana clump a few yards 297 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:07.919 and the steps. 298 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:08.960 Someone was hiding there. 299 00:14:10.679 --> 00:14:12.639 I moved swiftly, holding the gun ready, and came within 300 00:14:12.679 --> 00:14:14.879 a few feet before I could make out of shape 301 00:14:14.879 --> 00:14:18.480 and red and white so wrong and shape was right, 302 00:14:19.320 --> 00:14:22.879 complete with dark tumbled curls and a flower behind one ear. 303 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:25.000 It was a girl. 304 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:31.559 Please to one the gun. You're going to shoot me? 305 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:34.559 No? No, no, relax, sonny, I was looking for somebody else. 306 00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:35.799 No, you have fun in Lana. 307 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:40.799 So you are disappointed, Ah, pleasantly surprised. Milana. 308 00:14:40.960 --> 00:14:43.919 Huh in your language it means flower of love. 309 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:48.840 It's a perfect fit. Are you blooming out here all along? 310 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:51.039 I do not understand one. 311 00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:54.200 I mean, did you see anybody moving around up there 312 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:55.200 on the brand a while ago? 313 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:58.480 Only you to one? I became frightened, and then to hide. 314 00:14:58.639 --> 00:14:59.039 Frightened. 315 00:14:59.080 --> 00:15:02.919 Why I should be here at night? I mean, I 316 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:04.759 let us talk of something. 317 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:08.879 Here, the moon, for instance, Oh. 318 00:15:08.919 --> 00:15:13.879 Yes, look is it not big and soft and warm? 319 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:16.279 Duane? 320 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:18.399 You like Milana? 321 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:20.120 Perhaps definitely? 322 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:23.600 Why do we not go somewhere else? The lonely beach 323 00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:25.320 perhaps would like that? 324 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:26.279 Well? 325 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:29.639 I afray, mister Vaniar is too serious minded for such things. 326 00:15:29.720 --> 00:15:33.600 Nlana, Well, mister kat enjoyments, won't you? 327 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:37.080 Thank you? Nelana go to the bungalow at once she's 328 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:40.279 been near a coy immediately she has no business being 329 00:15:40.279 --> 00:15:43.519 out alone at night. But mister Vanier, is something wrong 330 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:45.159 with your room? Is it not comforting? 331 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:47.879 It was until this flew in through the window. 332 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:48.840 A knife? 333 00:15:49.639 --> 00:15:52.639 Yeah, throwing knife? Do you ever see it before? 334 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:54.919 Oh? Yeah, yeah? It is one of the collection there 335 00:15:54.919 --> 00:15:57.879 on the bungalow. The three Americans throw them at targets 336 00:15:57.879 --> 00:16:01.240 every evening and wager on the results. I believe mister 337 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:02.600 Durant taught the other two. 338 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:05.080 Hey, what about you, mister Kit Do you ever bet 339 00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:05.480 with him? 340 00:16:05.919 --> 00:16:12.240 It would be too easy? Watch. I learned to throw 341 00:16:12.279 --> 00:16:14.039 a knife a job many years ago. 342 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:17.279 And uh, Milana, I suppose she's an expert at it too. 343 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:20.840 Nlana knows nothing of knives. Her greatest accomplishment is that 344 00:16:20.919 --> 00:16:22.639 of making friends too easily. 345 00:16:23.159 --> 00:16:26.759 I see just who she is. She anyway, Does she 346 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:27.200 live here? 347 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:33.600 Yeah, she lives here. She is my wife, Ye wife, exactly, 348 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:36.919 my wife. Good night, mister Vane. 349 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:39.720 I stood there in the moonlight and watched him walk 350 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:42.360 toward his bungalow. HM. 351 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:47.200 My simple task was fast becoming involved. When I finally 352 00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:50.039 turned in that night, I un dressed in the dark, 353 00:16:50.519 --> 00:16:52.200 pushed the veloup to block the door, and propped a 354 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:55.519 chair against the window sill and lay down on the floor. 355 00:16:57.279 --> 00:16:59.799 I kept trying to fit some theory together to account 356 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:02.480 for the things that had happened. When I drifted off 357 00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:06.039 to sleep, I was no nearer any answer than before. 358 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:14.000 I woke up with the. 359 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:16.680 First light of dawn, and for a full minute was 360 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:18.200 ready to predict a peaceful day. 361 00:17:19.359 --> 00:17:21.079 And I turned my head slightly and saw it. 362 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:25.119 On the floor against the wall, eighteen inches from my 363 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:28.440 left hand, its eyes opening and unmoving, lay a long 364 00:17:28.519 --> 00:17:35.440 tail one of the deadliest snakes in Borneo. Cold sweat 365 00:17:35.480 --> 00:17:37.640 broke out of my forehead ran into the corners of 366 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:41.119 my eyes. Not daring to make any sudden move, I 367 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:44.359 slid my right hands slowly up behind me, found my 368 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:47.559 gun under the pillow. The snake moved slightly, and I 369 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:48.240 froze for. 370 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:52.880 One long minute. Carefully, I brought the gun over until 371 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:57.759 I had the ugly head centered above the foresight. Then 372 00:17:58.400 --> 00:17:59.319 I didn't turn in here? 373 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:01.160 What's all the shooting of art? 374 00:18:01.279 --> 00:18:02.279 About a knight around? 375 00:18:02.319 --> 00:18:02.359 Is? 376 00:18:02.440 --> 00:18:03.039 Mister neo? 377 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:03.359 Fire? 378 00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:03.839 What's up? 379 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:05.359 Duran? What was the annoyise? 380 00:18:05.440 --> 00:18:08.079 I guess when he's doing a little target practicing. 381 00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:10.920 Come on, guys, Yes a minute, Yes, a minute, I'll 382 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:17.039 let you in, mister you all right, sure gut come in. 383 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:22.039 I had an early morning visitor there on the floor, 384 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:23.079 a long tail. 385 00:18:23.240 --> 00:18:23.880 Did he bite you? 386 00:18:23.960 --> 00:18:24.640 Yeah? No, I didn't. 387 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:25.599 What the that was all the. 388 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:28.839 Racket of Oh a snake? 389 00:18:28.920 --> 00:18:30.359 Eh, that's funny. 390 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:32.480 What's funny, Duran? A long tail woman? 391 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:32.680 Ding? 392 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:36.039 I just killed one here in my room. 393 00:18:35.279 --> 00:18:36.880 And there's plenty of them around, But I never heard 394 00:18:36.880 --> 00:18:38.279 of one crawling into a room before. 395 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:42.720 I'm not sure it did crawl in. Got an idea 396 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:44.599 it may have been dropped in through the mosquito netting 397 00:18:44.599 --> 00:18:48.000 there at the window. Yeah, by whom, by a guy 398 00:18:48.039 --> 00:18:49.799 named Jerome Steaks. 399 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:51.480 You ever hear of him? Duran? Ah? 400 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:54.400 That again? Why don't you pick up Wilmerding? He's your man? Oh? Sure, 401 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:55.000