Speaker 1: Suspense, which is usually heard at this hour on Thursday nights,
Speaker 1: is taking its customary summer holiday. Suspense returns to the
Speaker 1: air three weeks from tonight on Thursday September.
Speaker 2: First, you are with three men in a jungle plantation
Speaker 2: on the rubber coast of Borneo. You know that one
Speaker 2: of the men is a desperate criminal whom you've come
Speaker 2: to arrest, but you.
Speaker 3: Don't know which one.
Speaker 2: You have to find him before he can save himself
Speaker 2: by killing you.
Speaker 1: We offer you escape designed to free you from the
Speaker 1: four walls of today, for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1: We escaped to a Borneo jungle in a tantalizing search
Speaker 1: for a murderer.
Speaker 4: As L. G.
Speaker 1: Blackman told it in his famous story Red Wine.
Speaker 5: As the rusty little tramp trater bummed against the rickety wharf,
Speaker 5: I dropped from the rail under the planking, and for
Speaker 5: the first time felt the humid heat roll out of
Speaker 5: the jungle like steam from the back door of a
Speaker 5: Turkish van. I'd come a long way. Six days before,
Speaker 5: I'd stepped off a float in San Francisco Bay, climbed
Speaker 5: to board a Panamaican.
Speaker 4: Clipper headed to the South Pacific.
Speaker 5: Two days later, I'd boarded the mailboard in Batavia, and
Speaker 5: now Tanjung Sama sweldering and half forgotten last out post
Speaker 5: in the rubber coast of Borneo. Here's a long journey,
Speaker 5: but here what now might be end of it? I
Speaker 5: had come to arrest a murderer. I crossed the beach
Speaker 5: and walked up the path of crushed shells leading to
Speaker 5: a low bungle. At the edge of the jungle, the
Speaker 5: freighter would lie at the wharf for four hours, plenty
Speaker 5: of time for me to get the thing over with
Speaker 5: and be back aboard. When she said, I was expecting danger,
Speaker 5: of course, but no real trouble.
Speaker 4: I'd done jobs like this before.
Speaker 5: So I stepped confidently up on the porch and met
Speaker 5: Hair Kirt, Controller of the tan Yang Semar District.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, I am in a court, the Controller. What
Speaker 6: is it I can do for you?
Speaker 5: I have a letter of introduction here from the Governor General,
Speaker 5: and here here you are.
Speaker 6: Hmm, yeah, yeah, mister Paul Vanier from the United States.
Speaker 4: The governor promised me a cooperation.
Speaker 6: So I see cooperation. That's good, But he doesn't say cooperation.
Speaker 4: In what I come here after a killer?
Speaker 6: Mister Kirk oh, DIACs maybe had hunters.
Speaker 5: No, no, this was a civilized killer, an American one
Speaker 5: in San Francisco for murdering his wife.
Speaker 4: His name is Jerome Steeks.
Speaker 6: Oh, I see. Won't you sit down, mister Vanier?
Speaker 4: Hey, thank you?
Speaker 6: Won't game bar Coffeymata?
Speaker 5: I bring that weight.
Speaker 6: We will have coffee in a moment.
Speaker 5: Nice of you, But maybe i'd better pick this guy
Speaker 5: up first. I'd hate to miss the boat and have
Speaker 5: to lay over five days.
Speaker 6: You are acquainted with his steaks, mister venir.
Speaker 4: No, I've never seen it, but you do have photographs?
Speaker 5: No, I'm afraid not. This was a very clever killer.
Speaker 5: He apparently took great pains to see that. He was
Speaker 5: never a photographed He carefully eliminated all fingerprints as well.
Speaker 4: What are you driving at, mister Kirk? We simply this.
Speaker 6: There is no one in my district by the name
Speaker 6: of Steaks.
Speaker 5: Oh no, of course not. He wasn't using his own name.
Speaker 5: There is an American here, though, isn't.
Speaker 6: There three of them? Mister Vanier employed as foreman on
Speaker 6: the cot of Rubber Plantation.
Speaker 5: According to my information, Steaks came here from Batavia about
Speaker 5: six months ago.
Speaker 6: We all arrived six months ago on the same boat.
Speaker 6: The Cotter Company is just going back into operation.
Speaker 5: I see well, according to people who've seen him, your
Speaker 5: own mistakes as a man about thirty five years old,
Speaker 5: at medium height and slight build, pale complexion, with black
Speaker 5: hair and mustache.
Speaker 4: Amazing.
Speaker 6: Any one of these men might fit the description, except
Speaker 6: that all are clean shaven and heavily turned from tropical
Speaker 6: sun with amore. Mister Vania. All three of the men
Speaker 6: have light blonde hair.
Speaker 2: A copy shure that is seen it to Amasa.
Speaker 6: They're good poor two cups one I'll have, won't bring
Speaker 6: you baggage up from the wharf, mister Vania.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you one.
Speaker 6: It appears your business may take a little longer than
Speaker 6: four hours.
Speaker 5: I'm certain of the information I got in Batavia. I
Speaker 5: know the man's here.
Speaker 6: Then the problem resolves itself into a matter of identification body.
Speaker 6: Picky's a car on nine hour's talk with the three
Speaker 6: of them?
Speaker 4: Are to do that?
Speaker 6: I doubted, mister Vanier. The swamps here at Tanjong Samara
Speaker 6: are infested with fever. It's always hot like now, and
Speaker 6: the jungle's back there swarm with long tailed true snakes
Speaker 6: and deadly cobras in the rivers, crocodiles, So men rarely
Speaker 6: come here unless they are running away from something, trying
Speaker 6: to lose that past. I think you'll find all three
Speaker 6: men have manufactured stories. So how is one to choose?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 6: I am moreover, according to this letter, I'm authorized by
Speaker 6: the governor to assist you in arresting and extraditing your
Speaker 6: own stiks one man, not.
Speaker 4: Three, hmm, So it's up to me.
Speaker 6: Hum, oh, do not misunderstand me, mister Vanier. I will
Speaker 6: co operate with you in every way, but I think
Speaker 6: it will be a very hard thing to identify this
Speaker 6: man you have never seen when he doesn't wish to
Speaker 6: be identified.
Speaker 4: I un'no.
Speaker 5: Sometimes easier to identify a man from his personality than
Speaker 5: from physical appearance.
Speaker 6: And the personality of this man, Steaks is something out
Speaker 6: of the ordinary.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for a foreman on a rubber plantation. Yes, I
Speaker 5: doubt if all three of these men can be aristocrats.
Speaker 5: And in a sense that's what Steaks is. A cosmopolitan
Speaker 5: lived all over the world, always associating with top society.
Speaker 5: He's a lover of fine foods and wine. Speaks French
Speaker 5: and German fluently, he's a gourmet bon vivant, a man
Speaker 5: of perfect taste and clothes and manners.
Speaker 6: And the murderer, Yes, and the murder. When the three
Speaker 6: men return from the clearing of this evening, I shall
Speaker 6: be happy to introduce you to them, though it's quite
Speaker 6: probable they are aware of your identity already. What do
Speaker 6: you mean, jungle Grapevine? Before you stepped off the wharf,
Speaker 6: my houseboard told me that you were a detective. Undoubtedly
Speaker 6: the same information has reached the clearings by now.
Speaker 4: I see so.
Speaker 5: In other words, the murderer probably knows who I am
Speaker 5: and what I'm here for, but I haven't the slightest
Speaker 5: dadea who here is?
Speaker 4: Huh exactly?
Speaker 6: It's quite an interesting thought, isn't it. More coffee, mister Vanier,
Speaker 6: Mister Vanier, I would like you to meet mister Durran. Hi, mister,
Speaker 6: and this is mister Wilmo Day.
Speaker 4: Pleasure, mister Vanier.
Speaker 3: I'll save you the trouble, Kurt. My name's Praille, Glad
Speaker 3: to meet you.
Speaker 4: Same here, mister Preyn.
Speaker 3: You might as well drop that, mister. We don't use
Speaker 3: it much around here. I'm praying that's Duran and Wilmerding
Speaker 3: and you're Vernier. If it's all the same to you, sure, sure, prayer?
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 6: Now, if you gentlemen will excuse me, I have a
Speaker 6: number of things to do. Bring mister Veneer to my
Speaker 6: bungalow for dinner. We'll celebrate having a guest at time.
Speaker 4: John Summer, Sure I will see you. Hell uh here
Speaker 4: Kurt tells me all three of you are American.
Speaker 7: Well, I don't know whether I'm still one or not.
Speaker 7: Haven't been to the stage in seven years?
Speaker 4: Seven years? Huh? Then you're an old timer here, Durant.
Speaker 7: Not here Australian.
Speaker 4: Oh, don't let the rank get started in here.
Speaker 8: I'll spend two hours telling you how he lost his
Speaker 8: shirt trying to raise sheet down on them.
Speaker 7: Well, if I had either money or sense, I wouldn't
Speaker 7: have come to this thinking.
Speaker 5: Oh, I wouldn't say you fellas had it too rough.
Speaker 5: I've been noticing those empty bottles there in the show.
Speaker 3: What do you mean?
Speaker 4: Well? Heah, Piper Hidaac nineteen thirty six. That's good. Champagne
Speaker 4: boys are living like gourmets kind of sers.
Speaker 8: Oh, you're overwriting us from here. Those empty bottles were
Speaker 8: already here when he came, just never got around to
Speaker 8: throwing them out.
Speaker 7: Pril here's the only kind of sert in a bunch.
Speaker 7: He can tell you anything you want to know about wine, yeah,
Speaker 7: or about anything.
Speaker 3: Dry up just because the guy happens to know a
Speaker 3: little more than somebody else, has no reason to keep
Speaker 3: riding them all the time.
Speaker 7: I wish you knew some way to make ice. I'm
Speaker 7: getting plenty fed up with warm beard day in day out.
Speaker 5: Yes, that would get pretty tiresome. I think I'd switch
Speaker 5: to Champa, Danner, Shabli or something. Hmm, come again, well,
Speaker 5: woman thing. I didn't necessarily mean those in particular, but
Speaker 5: there are quite a number of wines that are even
Speaker 5: better warm than they are chilled.
Speaker 7: Uh in the wrong place, charm. We wouldn't know what
Speaker 7: to do with him if we had him. This is
Speaker 7: strictly a beer and gin crown.
Speaker 4: Been all kick on that.
Speaker 8: If we had some ice to go with it, Oh
Speaker 8: what I wouldn't give for a cold frosted or relax?
Speaker 3: Will you make me thirsty? What do you say to
Speaker 3: some music?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: Music? There's one of you play some instrument? Sure?
Speaker 7: Sure, prayer he's terrific on that phone graph over there
Speaker 7: in the corner. Only trouble is he thinks three o'clock
Speaker 7: in the morning is the greatest song ever written.
Speaker 5: Well, I can see that leading quite an argument, Duran,
Speaker 5: particularly if you're a lover of the classics.
Speaker 7: Oh no, no, no, no no, I don't go for that
Speaker 7: long hair stuff. But I would like to hear a
Speaker 7: fast number once in a while. It's less than ten
Speaker 7: years old.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you ought to see that collection Prail dragged up
Speaker 8: here from Batavia, strictly from the gay nineties.
Speaker 4: Prail, you don't buy any chance?
Speaker 5: Have a number called ilia omitreer Donson.
Speaker 4: What's that some Italian opera? No, no, it's French.
Speaker 7: Approximately, Well, come on, pray ill translate it for us.
Speaker 7: You claim to be an expert on the French line.
Speaker 3: Well, it's worded kind of funny. It's like poet. Oh sure,
Speaker 3: sure that last word though, that may is on that
Speaker 3: that means house. I know that.
Speaker 4: That's too bad.
Speaker 5: I thought maybe Jerome steaks mine translated huh it refers to.
Speaker 4: Him, of course, seeks What are you talking about? Sentence
Speaker 4: reads there's a murderer in this house.
Speaker 7: Well, so you're finally coming out in the open.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we heard you were a detective.
Speaker 5: That's right, So what about it, Steaks? You want to
Speaker 5: give up now or try to go on.
Speaker 4: With your act?
Speaker 3: Wait a second, Verniere, I get it now. You're after
Speaker 3: some killer you've never seen named Steaks, and you figure
Speaker 3: one of us?
Speaker 5: Is it?
Speaker 4: Huh? That's right, Prail.
Speaker 3: Then the guy you're after is Wilmerdinge.
Speaker 4: Are you crazy?
Speaker 3: Whoever heard anybody with a name like Wilmerding unless they
Speaker 3: made it up?
Speaker 5: Made up nothing.
Speaker 4: I got a passport to prove it. What are you
Speaker 4: trying to do, Praille. Turn attention away from yourself.
Speaker 3: I got nothing to hide. It's either you or Duran
Speaker 3: what listen?
Speaker 4: You can leave me out of this right now.
Speaker 7: There's plenty of people in Australia can tell you who
Speaker 7: I am.
Speaker 5: Unfortunately, though, there's nobody in tan Young Samar who can
Speaker 5: tell me for certain who any of you are.
Speaker 4: One of you is a murderer.
Speaker 5: By the time the boat gets back here, since I'm
Speaker 5: obviously not going to be able to leave with her
Speaker 5: when the sales.
Speaker 4: An hour, I'll know which one.
Speaker 5: Either I'm going to take Jerome Steaks back to San
Speaker 5: Francisco with me, or I'm going to kill him trying
Speaker 5: to you can count on it. Well, what do you
Speaker 5: say we go on over to kurts Bungalow and have dinner.
Speaker 6: That's Wilmerding's room there. Duran sleeps here and pray long
Speaker 6: down at the end. Yes, this is the guest room,
Speaker 6: at least the only guest room that's usable.
Speaker 4: At the present.
Speaker 6: It looks all right, Well, it's use for the time
Speaker 6: you're here, mister Vania.
Speaker 4: Do all of these rooms open out under the porch?
Speaker 6: Yes, ivan, as we call it.
Speaker 4: And there's no way to lock this.
Speaker 6: Story unfortunately no. And anyway, the windows are covered only
Speaker 6: by mosquito netting. It makes another interesting situation, does it not?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I suppose interesting is the word for it.
Speaker 6: I you sure, mister Vanier, that you have not been
Speaker 6: able to identify your man by his personality.
Speaker 4: Now, whichever one his stakes is putting on an awfully
Speaker 4: good act.
Speaker 6: Most likely they're all acting to work greater or lesser extent,
Speaker 6: which of course makes you problem exceedingly difficult.
Speaker 5: That's right, mister kit You did say a man rarely
Speaker 5: came here unless he wanted to lose his past, and
Speaker 5: yet you're here.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that is true. But then I am only
Speaker 6: a servant of the government and have little choice where
Speaker 6: I am said, well, good night, mister Vanier.
Speaker 5: I sat there in the lamp light for a long
Speaker 5: time after Kit left, trying to figure things out.
Speaker 4: I'm getting nowhere.
Speaker 5: Gradually, the night breeze brought the smell of the jungle
Speaker 5: into the room, rich, exotic, fragrant as of midnight orchid,
Speaker 5: as disturbing as the scent of danger. Or maybe maybe
Speaker 5: it was danger itself I was smelling. The heavy knife
Speaker 5: missed my throat by two inches, cut it into a
Speaker 5: bamboo perdition, and stuck their quivering. I dropped down on
Speaker 5: the floor and slid my thirty head out of its holster.
Speaker 5: I could hear nothing but the rustle of palm patch
Speaker 5: along the eaves, low creeks from the palace uneath the bungalow,
Speaker 5: and the soft night sounds.
Speaker 4: From the jungle.
Speaker 5: Finally, I slipped my shoes off, pulled the knife out
Speaker 5: of the wall and dropped in my pocket, moved to
Speaker 5: the door, and stepped quietly out into the verandah.
Speaker 4: It was empty.
Speaker 5: Across the railing. The fringe of undergrowth was dappled in
Speaker 5: silver moonlight, and nothing moved. I paused quickly at the
Speaker 5: three doors, and from each heard the sound of storing.
Speaker 5: One of the men was faking, but which one. I
Speaker 5: reached the end of the porch when my eye caught
Speaker 5: a slight movement in the banana clump a few yards
Speaker 5: and the steps.
Speaker 4: Someone was hiding there.
Speaker 5: I moved swiftly, holding the gun ready, and came within
Speaker 5: a few feet before I could make out of shape
Speaker 5: and red and white so wrong and shape was right,
Speaker 5: complete with dark tumbled curls and a flower behind one ear.
Speaker 4: It was a girl.
Speaker 9: Please to one the gun. You're going to shoot me?
Speaker 4: No? No, no, relax, sonny, I was looking for somebody else.
Speaker 9: No, you have fun in Lana.
Speaker 4: So you are disappointed, Ah, pleasantly surprised. Milana.
Speaker 9: Huh in your language it means flower of love.
Speaker 4: It's a perfect fit. Are you blooming out here all along?
Speaker 9: I do not understand one.
Speaker 5: I mean, did you see anybody moving around up there
Speaker 5: on the brand a while ago?
Speaker 9: Only you to one? I became frightened, and then to hide.
Speaker 4: Frightened.
Speaker 9: Why I should be here at night? I mean, I
Speaker 9: let us talk of something.
Speaker 4: Here, the moon, for instance, Oh.
Speaker 9: Yes, look is it not big and soft and warm?
Speaker 4: Duane?
Speaker 9: You like Milana?
Speaker 4: Perhaps definitely?
Speaker 9: Why do we not go somewhere else? The lonely beach
Speaker 9: perhaps would like that?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 6: I afray, mister Vaniar is too serious minded for such things.
Speaker 4: Nlana, Well, mister kat enjoyments, won't you?
Speaker 6: Thank you? Nelana go to the bungalow at once she's
Speaker 6: been near a coy immediately she has no business being
Speaker 6: out alone at night. But mister Vanier, is something wrong
Speaker 6: with your room? Is it not comforting?
Speaker 4: It was until this flew in through the window.
Speaker 6: A knife?
Speaker 4: Yeah, throwing knife? Do you ever see it before?
Speaker 6: Oh? Yeah, yeah? It is one of the collection there
Speaker 6: on the bungalow. The three Americans throw them at targets
Speaker 6: every evening and wager on the results. I believe mister
Speaker 6: Durant taught the other two.
Speaker 4: Hey, what about you, mister Kit Do you ever bet
Speaker 4: with him?
Speaker 6: It would be too easy? Watch. I learned to throw
Speaker 6: a knife a job many years ago.
Speaker 5: And uh, Milana, I suppose she's an expert at it too.
Speaker 6: Nlana knows nothing of knives. Her greatest accomplishment is that
Speaker 6: of making friends too easily.
Speaker 4: I see just who she is. She anyway, Does she
Speaker 4: live here?
Speaker 6: Yeah, she lives here. She is my wife, Ye wife, exactly,
Speaker 6: my wife. Good night, mister Vane.
Speaker 4: I stood there in the moonlight and watched him walk
Speaker 4: toward his bungalow. HM.
Speaker 5: My simple task was fast becoming involved. When I finally
Speaker 5: turned in that night, I un dressed in the dark,
Speaker 5: pushed the veloup to block the door, and propped a
Speaker 5: chair against the window sill and lay down on the floor.
Speaker 5: I kept trying to fit some theory together to account
Speaker 5: for the things that had happened. When I drifted off
Speaker 5: to sleep, I was no nearer any answer than before.
Speaker 4: I woke up with the.
Speaker 5: First light of dawn, and for a full minute was
Speaker 5: ready to predict a peaceful day.
Speaker 4: And I turned my head slightly and saw it.
Speaker 5: On the floor against the wall, eighteen inches from my
Speaker 5: left hand, its eyes opening and unmoving, lay a long
Speaker 5: tail one of the deadliest snakes in Borneo. Cold sweat
Speaker 5: broke out of my forehead ran into the corners of
Speaker 5: my eyes. Not daring to make any sudden move, I
Speaker 5: slid my right hands slowly up behind me, found my
Speaker 5: gun under the pillow. The snake moved slightly, and I
Speaker 5: froze for.
Speaker 4: One long minute. Carefully, I brought the gun over until
Speaker 4: I had the ugly head centered above the foresight. Then
Speaker 4: I didn't turn in here?
Speaker 6: What's all the shooting of art?
Speaker 1: About a knight around?
Speaker 9: Is?
Speaker 6: Mister neo?
Speaker 3: Fire?
Speaker 4: What's up?
Speaker 5: Duran? What was the annoyise?
Speaker 7: I guess when he's doing a little target practicing.
Speaker 5: Come on, guys, Yes a minute, Yes, a minute, I'll
Speaker 5: let you in, mister you all right, sure gut come in.
Speaker 5: I had an early morning visitor there on the floor,
Speaker 5: a long tail.
Speaker 6: Did he bite you?
Speaker 4: Yeah? No, I didn't.
Speaker 6: What the that was all the.
Speaker 7: Racket of Oh a snake?
Speaker 6: Eh, that's funny.
Speaker 4: What's funny, Duran? A long tail woman?
Speaker 5: Ding?
Speaker 4: I just killed one here in my room.
Speaker 3: And there's plenty of them around, But I never heard
Speaker 3: of one crawling into a room before.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure it did crawl in. Got an idea
Speaker 5: it may have been dropped in through the mosquito netting
Speaker 5: there at the window. Yeah, by whom, by a guy
Speaker 5: named Jerome Steaks.
Speaker 4: You ever hear of him? Duran? Ah?
Speaker 3: That again? Why don't you pick up Wilmerding? He's your man? Oh? Sure,
Speaker 3: I always.
Speaker 6: Carry a couple of snakes around in my pocket, just
Speaker 6: for luck.
Speaker 5: What I want to know is who carries this around
Speaker 5: in their pocket? For lucky?
Speaker 3: That's one of our eyes from the living room. We
Speaker 3: throw them at a target.
Speaker 4: I know only last night I was the target.
Speaker 7: Oh oh, then prails here boy. He's an ex but
Speaker 7: wins every time we played.
Speaker 3: Dry up to run one more crack like that.
Speaker 5: Okay, relax, nobody knows anything about these accidents. They just happened. Well,
Speaker 5: there's a warning to whichever one of you is Steeks.
Speaker 5: The next time, you better cover yourself and through being
Speaker 5: a clay pigeon. From now on, it's gonna be a
Speaker 5: lot tougher, a whole lot tougher. That day passed and
Speaker 5: the next and I got exactly nowhere. And the third
Speaker 5: day I managed to search the men's quarters and found nothing. Mainly,
Speaker 5: i'd hope to find some kind.
Speaker 4: Of a bleaching agent.
Speaker 5: Steaks was described as having black hair, while all three
Speaker 5: of these men were blonde. Furthermore, I was convinced, after
Speaker 5: three days of observation that all three were naturally blond.
Speaker 5: Things didn't fit, They didn't add up. I saw Milana
Speaker 5: several times, but I had no chance to speak to her.
Speaker 5: When hair Kurt was with me, she'd pass without a glance.
Speaker 5: But if I was alone, she'd manage a quick, provocative
Speaker 5: smile that sent shivers down my spine. By the fourth day,
Speaker 5: the tension among us was grown almost unbearable. Steamer was
Speaker 5: due the next evening on his return tip to Batavia.
Speaker 5: I needed a break of something. I had to have one,
Speaker 5: and it came at dusk when I dropped in my
Speaker 5: room to change for dinner.
Speaker 9: Close the door, quick to speak softly, he design, what
Speaker 9: the devil you're doing?
Speaker 5: It?
Speaker 9: You to one? Does that make you unhappy?
Speaker 4: But I doubt if Haircourt would think much of the idea.
Speaker 9: He must not find that. But I wish to ask
Speaker 9: you something. It is true that you look for a
Speaker 9: man who has killed a woman in your United State. Yea, yes,
Speaker 9: that's right, A man who not names himself by another name?
Speaker 4: Yes, Nellana.
Speaker 9: Do you know it is perhaps the same one who
Speaker 9: one night throw a knife at you?
Speaker 4: Hey, yes, I think so. You know who it is?
Speaker 9: I saw the knife thrown to when I was outside
Speaker 9: by the edge of the U.
Speaker 4: Is someone, Yeah, that's her Court.
Speaker 9: He's going in the living room I'm very frightened when
Speaker 9: I must go.
Speaker 4: Wait, I've got to know what you're going to do.
Speaker 9: There's no tinna to night when everyone sleeps weep, but
Speaker 9: the tall palmoty itche declaring, I will come.
Speaker 4: All right, I'll be there.
Speaker 9: Llana has done foolish things to me, but the night
Speaker 9: she will fix it. Awkward, you come.
Speaker 5: I waited for a long time in the shadow by
Speaker 5: the palm tree and watch the moonlight sift down through
Speaker 5: the shaggy fronds. But two hours passed and she didn't come.
Speaker 5: Waiting there though, in the jungle night, a plan began
Speaker 5: to form in my mind. Long shot, true enough, but
Speaker 5: one with possibilities. I needed luck to work, but I've
Speaker 5: come to the point where I had to count on
Speaker 5: a little luck at any rate. I decided to stunt
Speaker 5: the ball rolling the next morning after breakfast.
Speaker 3: Now wait a minute for Neil.
Speaker 6: Let's get this straight.
Speaker 5: I thought I put it straight enough, Duran, I said,
Speaker 5: the hunts off boat's doing tonight, and when it leaves,
Speaker 5: I go with it.
Speaker 4: You can relax. Oh what changed your mind?
Speaker 6: Our sweet disposition?
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly the opposite, wilmitting every one of you acts.
Speaker 4: Gilly is the next one.
Speaker 5: And yet in five days I haven't been able to
Speaker 5: find a single characteristic and inter of you that it's
Speaker 5: the description of Steaks. I don't think he's that good
Speaker 5: an actor. So I'm going back to Batavia pick up
Speaker 5: the trailway.
Speaker 7: Well, at least you've finally got some sense in your
Speaker 7: head and decided to believe what we told you the
Speaker 7: first day you were here.
Speaker 5: Oh no, no, Duran, I didn't say that. I doubt
Speaker 5: very much if any of you guys is who he
Speaker 5: claims to be. I wouldn't be surprised if Duran, Wilmerding,
Speaker 5: and Prailer are all phony names.
Speaker 4: But that's not my business. Now.
Speaker 5: I came here after Steaks. I decided now I'm in
Speaker 5: a mistake, and that's that.
Speaker 3: Oh great, you come in here and pushes around for
Speaker 3: a week and then decided it was all a mistake.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Pray, and I'm going to try to make
Speaker 5: up for it this evening. See, I'm throwing a dinner
Speaker 5: party at here Kurt's bungalow before the boat leaves tonight.
Speaker 4: You're all invited.
Speaker 6: Well, now, that's pretty decent of you.
Speaker 5: I'll get some food and drinks from the captain as
Speaker 5: soon as he docks. You're is fed up with ricetoppel
Speaker 5: and warm beer as I am, you'll be ready for
Speaker 5: a change.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Then it's all settled, and I can promise you at
Speaker 5: least two surprise editions in mayby three if you care
Speaker 5: for it.
Speaker 4: Oh, Kurt, come in, Come in.
Speaker 6: I was wondering whether any of you had seen Alana
Speaker 6: this morning. Why what's wrong, Heckurt, I'm rather concerned about her,
Speaker 6: mister Vanier. She hasn't been home sinceuri last night.
Speaker 5: I had a couple of ideas about that myself, that is,
Speaker 5: I wish I didn't have. As soon as the rest
Speaker 5: of the bunch went about their business, I began my
Speaker 5: own search for Malama. It was nearly dusk before I
Speaker 5: found it, and then I said nothing about it anyone.
Speaker 5: But sitting at the table at night while the dinner
Speaker 5: party moved along, I kept thinking how she'd never smile again,
Speaker 5: how she'd never walk in the moonlight again because somebody
Speaker 5: had cut her throat.
Speaker 3: I know a story along the same line, but I
Speaker 3: never heard that one boy.
Speaker 7: After six months on right stuff, I could go crazy
Speaker 7: over food like this.
Speaker 3: When you throw on from.
Speaker 4: There, you really throw it. Save the credit. Boys, this
Speaker 4: is only the beginning beginning.
Speaker 3: Where can you go from here?
Speaker 4: Right now? For instance, rose bar all right, bring it over,
Speaker 4: bring it over right?
Speaker 5: No, no, I I wonder if you'd mind carving heckert.
Speaker 6: Not at all, miss of any I shall be happy
Speaker 6: to place it here.
Speaker 4: Wong boy, oh boy.
Speaker 7: I haven't had rose balls since Australia.
Speaker 6: You know, we used to go pigsticking all the time.
Speaker 3: Even the smells enough to drive you crazy.
Speaker 5: Man, You said it prail. You haven't seen anything yet.
Speaker 5: The boys the main day, so the two surprises go
Speaker 5: right along with it? All right, one, bring it out already,
Speaker 5: I bring careful, don't drop it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks, Well there you are. What is it?
Speaker 3: Some kind of wine?
Speaker 4: Not some kind?
Speaker 5: Chambertown finished nineteen eleven, unquestionably one of the finest red
Speaker 5: wines that exists in.
Speaker 4: The world today.
Speaker 6: Holy smoke, when'd you're getting?
Speaker 4: I found out on the trip in the captain of
Speaker 4: the steamer had a few bottles. There's a lot of
Speaker 4: talking to get one out of him. But here I'll
Speaker 4: open it up. One, have you the glasses say a promise.
Speaker 5: It's already well, boys, you may go back to warm
Speaker 5: beer tomorrow. But you've got the best tonight, all right,
Speaker 5: one show him the second surprise?
Speaker 3: He is won't big fuck rereal, honisty gush cracked out.
Speaker 7: I haven't seen a chunk of ice for six months.
Speaker 5: I thought you go for that one, all right, Wong,
Speaker 5: serve the line. It was pretty amazing to find nineteen
Speaker 5: eleven cymbertan and a little tramp prayed on here in the.
Speaker 4: South Pacific is not so rare. It's hard to get
Speaker 4: at any price.
Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe so, But that ice is what gets me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it. Want done plenty in mind. I want
Speaker 3: to freeze my ti. Wong, stop that.
Speaker 4: What the tull are you doing?
Speaker 3: What's the matter with you?
Speaker 5: Why?
Speaker 6: He's he's?
Speaker 4: I mean?
Speaker 5: I you mean you're well aware of the fact that
Speaker 5: ice kills the bouquet of Chambertin.
Speaker 4: Isn't that it steaks? Steaks? Mean?
Speaker 3: Woman?
Speaker 5: Once a goome always are you a very clever woman
Speaker 5: thing clever enough to keep your hair dyed black for
Speaker 5: years so you could become a natural bland if you
Speaker 5: ever had to make a getaway. Clever enough to permit
Speaker 5: no photographs to be taken, but not clever enough to
Speaker 5: keep still and let me ruin a bottle of wine.
Speaker 4: Easy with those hands. Don't try riching for a gun.
Speaker 6: Let him reach for it, mister Vanier.
Speaker 4: Good, No, put down the knife.
Speaker 3: Then is gone for his gun.
Speaker 6: Good, I've wanted it.
Speaker 8: Good?
Speaker 6: Good Lord cut you've killed him. I'm sorry you do
Speaker 6: not have a prisoner to take back with you, mister Vanier.
Speaker 6: But I too found Nellana's body. I knew you had
Speaker 6: been there. I saw your footprints.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry. Then, yes, she did.
Speaker 6: Milana had been seeing Wilmoday. I'd guessed it was one
Speaker 6: of the three, and apparently she found out he was sticks.
Speaker 4: I know that was what she was going to tell me.
Speaker 4: Only he didn't give her a chance.
Speaker 6: She was young, mister Vanier, foolish perhaps, but I I
Speaker 6: loved her very much.
Speaker 3: Look, he knocked over that bottle of wine when he fell.
Speaker 3: It's pouring out all over the place.
Speaker 7: Yeah, brother, what a mess.
Speaker 5: It's quite a mess. Only one thing, though not all
Speaker 5: of it, is red Wine.
Speaker 1: Escape was directed this week by Richard Sandville and Tonight
Speaker 1: Brought You Red Wine by L. G. Blackman, Adapted for
Speaker 1: radio by mort Lewis and Less Crutchfield, with Willard Waterman
Speaker 1: as Paul Vernier. Featured players were Robert Boone, Marion Richmond,
Speaker 1: Larry Dobkin, Vic Perrin, Wilms Herbert and Clark Gordon. Music
Speaker 1: is conducted by Wilbur Hatch.
Speaker 2: Next week you are standing in the doorway of the
Speaker 2: cabin and Cashier Creek up on the ridge, the bloodhounds
Speaker 2: of cart You are scent and between you and a fortune,
Speaker 2: between you and escape yon the white jars of a
Speaker 2: deadly snake, a cottonmouth moccasin.
Speaker 1: Next week we escape with Urban S. Cobb's ironic story
Speaker 1: Snake Doctor. Be with us next week at the same time,
Speaker 1: when once again we offer you escape. Tip Corning speaking.
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