Speaker 1: Fed up with the every day grind, tied out from
Speaker 1: the summer heat, he wanted to get away from it.
Speaker 2: Now we offer you.
Speaker 3: Escape, escape designed to free you from the four walls
Speaker 3: of to day, for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1: You are trapped in the dark streets of an old
Speaker 1: French town, with two remaining avenues of escape. The workshop
Speaker 1: of a fearsome knife maker are the arms of a
Speaker 1: beautiful but deadly woman.
Speaker 3: To night we escape to the south of France and
Speaker 3: to the manhunt of a master criminal. As Vincent Starra
Speaker 3: told it in his Unusual story the Fugitive.
Speaker 2: I had been six months in the prison of Tarante,
Speaker 2: at the top of the hill above the little village
Speaker 2: of Saint Just. As you know. Of course, Saint Just
Speaker 2: is in the very south of France, buried in those
Speaker 2: dark forests that lead up to the great crags of
Speaker 2: the Pyrene. I was enjoying this enforced hospitality after having
Speaker 2: been convicted as a thief, and quite rightly so. Oh,
Speaker 2: it is the fancy of some men to become bankers
Speaker 2: of other soldiers, and had always suited my own fancy
Speaker 2: to be a thief. But no matter day after they
Speaker 2: went by with nothing to do but to look out
Speaker 2: over the forests, watch the sunsets and the lights in
Speaker 2: the shatthood motto. And six months began to seem like
Speaker 2: a lifetime. So in my customary logical fashion, I decided
Speaker 2: to escape. You were addressing me, monsieurle meeux.
Speaker 4: Who else do you think I expect to find you
Speaker 4: entertaining visitors behind his iron door.
Speaker 2: Who knows what the detective may think. I have never
Speaker 2: found enough mentality in one to be able to analyze it.
Speaker 4: Ah, you still have spirit, you please? What a pity
Speaker 4: for I to be wasted in a prison there?
Speaker 2: Well, I confess I would much rather be outside there
Speaker 2: with you than inside here with me.
Speaker 4: And I can almost wish that you were. Perhaps then
Speaker 4: I will not be subored.
Speaker 2: Oh my deepest sympathy, Mu have the wine cellars at
Speaker 2: the Chateau gone Rye. Does the singer no longer serve
Speaker 2: those luscious meals you have told me so much about.
Speaker 4: I've grown weary of it, my friend. I am a
Speaker 4: hunter of men by nature, not that bone bevore. Sometimes
Speaker 4: I wish you might contrive some means of escaping. I
Speaker 4: should enjoy this spot of dragging you down again.
Speaker 2: In that case, miss, you're the key.
Speaker 4: Oh, I dare say it would be rather easy the
Speaker 4: second time. I know just how your mind turns, all
Speaker 4: your little.
Speaker 2: Fans who hell the keys, And I'm a master of
Speaker 2: these guises.
Speaker 4: Should you pause by stream, the fisherman who handed you
Speaker 4: I drink would suddenly turn out to be Lemieux.
Speaker 2: You astonish me.
Speaker 4: You will perhaps register to me. Then the clerk would
Speaker 4: smile at you, and you would.
Speaker 2: See, dummit me, Lomieux, why dream of.
Speaker 4: The impossible deeps? You heavy another foreign a half years
Speaker 4: to serve in Tarantale, and I am dining at the
Speaker 4: ship of the moon. Thou and.
Speaker 2: So Lemieux, why not imagine I am contriving some way
Speaker 2: to escape? That should give you an appetite.
Speaker 4: You please see your waiters desert it. You speak of absurdities.
Speaker 2: Now perhaps you are right? Oh well, Amsieur. Ah, but
Speaker 2: he was gunning this Lomniu, sleek and pretty like a weasel.
Speaker 2: But have you ever seen the teeth of a weasel
Speaker 2: slashed out of a bob? I have, and I have
Speaker 2: seen Lemia do somewhat similar things. Ah, oh well, no matter.
Speaker 2: Half an hour after he had gone. When dusk was falling,
Speaker 2: I lifted two iron bars from the window of my cell,
Speaker 2: slid through, and climbed down the wall. But it was
Speaker 2: not so simple as it sounds. You know. I had
Speaker 2: been working on it for nearly two months, secretly and quietly,
Speaker 2: and now I was free. I slunk furtively and fearfully
Speaker 2: through the underbrush, making my way rappily toward the village
Speaker 2: of Saintsuis at the foot of the hill. Behind me.
Speaker 2: At any moment, the great gun would boom from the
Speaker 2: walls of Torontel, informing the world that one of the
Speaker 2: prisoners had made an escape. Ahead of me. Faint flaies
Speaker 2: of lightning, warmth of a storm to come by, my
Speaker 2: half be day pace with my footsteps, I thought to myself, terrible. Indeed,
Speaker 2: is this business of freedom? How much simpler it is
Speaker 2: to be in prison? Well, as you may have perceived already,
Speaker 2: I am something of a philosopher. Well, no matter. It
Speaker 2: was then that I suddenly saw a light gleaming ahead
Speaker 2: of me, and I began to hear a strange sound.
Speaker 2: I could make out the shape of a small, open
Speaker 2: heart a few paces ahead of me. The light was
Speaker 2: thrown out by the glowing coals in a foge, and
Speaker 2: the sound was made by an old man beating out
Speaker 2: a piece of metal on an angel. He was small, wrinkled,
Speaker 2: and bald, except for two white tufts of hair that
Speaker 2: grew in front of his ears. As I drew near quietly,
Speaker 2: I could see that he was making a knife, and
Speaker 2: that other knives hung on the walls of the hut.
Speaker 2: And I had no weapon, and I began to wonder
Speaker 2: if by some means I might steal one from him.
Speaker 5: Come in, my son, huh, it may start raining in
Speaker 5: a moment.
Speaker 2: Seems you. Yeah, I'm a stranger hereabouts. I lost my
Speaker 2: way in the wood. No need I understand you are.
Speaker 2: You are a maker of knives, monsieur.
Speaker 5: You would luck to have one, perhaps.
Speaker 2: Well, old man. The fact of the matter is that,
Speaker 2: being a law abiding citizen, I really have little need
Speaker 2: of a knife. However, they are pretty, and the forest
Speaker 2: is very dark. But I am at the moment without fun,
Speaker 2: so there is no charge. My son, Yeah, look at
Speaker 2: this one. Oh, it is a beautiful knife. Try the edge.
Speaker 2: It is quite sharp. Mon dieu, you are right, this weapon,
Speaker 2: would say the king himself. Oh, a prince of thieves,
Speaker 2: you are a philosopher, my son, or a thief. But
Speaker 2: what there are words engraved on the blade, on one side,
Speaker 2: reason and on the other irony, Reason and irony. You're
Speaker 2: something of a philosopher your self.
Speaker 5: Old maker of knives, I use different verves and different blades,
Speaker 5: but the quality is always the same.
Speaker 2: It fits well in my hand. Don't take it, it
Speaker 2: is yours. With such a blade, the man could fight
Speaker 2: his way through hell itself. I should like to see
Speaker 2: the look on the face of monsieur. Wait, you are not,
Speaker 2: by any chance lumieux. Ah ha, the great.
Speaker 5: Gun in the wall of Tarantel some prisoner as escaped.
Speaker 2: No, my son, I am not Lemieux. Why do you ask?
Speaker 2: I thought for a moment, but no, no, of course not. Well,
Speaker 2: I must be awful knife maker. I have a long
Speaker 2: way to go, and it is starting to rain. My
Speaker 2: deepest gratitude for your generosity. Oh we shall meet again,
Speaker 2: my son. Tell me then after you have tried the blade.
Speaker 2: Of course, Oh who the blessing? I was not afraid anymore.
Speaker 2: The rain smashed and splattered in the trees, and the
Speaker 2: dark shadows became old friends. I ran through the night,
Speaker 2: laughing and sometimes singing, slashing with my knife at the
Speaker 2: leaves on the branches, reason and irony, slash. I forgot
Speaker 2: the prison behind me, forgot everything except my goal, a
Speaker 2: tiny cottage standing at the very outskirts of Saint Just Marie.
Speaker 2: Si mar would be waiting there where I had left her, soft, warm,
Speaker 2: beautiful Marie, of whom I had dreamed every night in
Speaker 2: that crosset cell. We would go into the village together,
Speaker 2: then to the inn of Bulgic despar and with the
Speaker 2: bag of jewels I had left with him, escaped up
Speaker 2: to the Spanish frontier to freedom. Marry Marie. It is
Speaker 2: I'm a dip you please see open the door quickly,
Speaker 2: Please what you inside? First? That is better? The shutters
Speaker 2: all closed? Good? Come now tell me how glad you
Speaker 2: are to see me.
Speaker 6: I am glad, but surprised. How are you here?
Speaker 2: They they have not released you, not intentionally, my dear.
Speaker 2: I reviewed my own case and decided you, please see
Speaker 2: you are really a very fine fellow and by no
Speaker 2: means belong here, so I released myself. You have a
Speaker 2: skipped not completely or had any rate not yet. What oh,
Speaker 2: what a lovely scent you are wearing? Married monam and
Speaker 2: that dress and you one, is it not?
Speaker 6: It was given to me by here the old woman
Speaker 6: who lives in the next cottage down the way.
Speaker 2: Well, I must leave a small diamond for her after
Speaker 2: we have seen Paul toldest part you going to see him.
Speaker 2: But of course, masurely, we shall need money to live
Speaker 2: in Spain.
Speaker 6: I see to please you are very wet. You must
Speaker 6: be tired. Rest here in his chair while I run
Speaker 6: down to the old woman's and ring, whine.
Speaker 2: And little no, Mari, there is not time.
Speaker 6: It will only take a moment. We can go to
Speaker 6: purse afterwards.
Speaker 2: Surely you know you're safe here with me, safe while
Speaker 2: Lemieux is out there someplace. The others, the soldiers and
Speaker 2: the guards, they are fools, but not Lemieux. He is cunning.
Speaker 2: I'm beginning to fancy that I see him behind every
Speaker 2: face I meet. But surely you do not think of
Speaker 2: one thing I amswered, and that you are not Lumieux. Come,
Speaker 2: I must touch you.
Speaker 6: It has been such a long time, so perhaps I
Speaker 6: should go borrow a dry coat.
Speaker 2: For no, no, no, no, the rain has stopped. I shall
Speaker 2: be dry, and by the time reach the little ring.
Speaker 2: I gave you one with the heart. You are not
Speaker 2: wearing it.
Speaker 6: Put it away. I did not wish to wear it until.
Speaker 2: You were with me again, which I am from this
Speaker 2: moment on teeth.
Speaker 6: So this is no time to waste. We must leave
Speaker 6: now and hurry we go to Paul. The sparse this moment.
Speaker 2: Now but a few paces brought us into the streets
Speaker 2: of the village of Saint Just. We moved quickly, and
Speaker 2: I kept the color of my coat turned high on
Speaker 2: my face. Soon we were making our way among the
Speaker 2: handful of patrons who still lingered at the tables of
Speaker 2: the inn, talking in the light of candles held in
Speaker 2: empty bottles. I kept my hand on the knife beneath
Speaker 2: my coat, but no one glanced up. As we crossed
Speaker 2: to the far side of the oom.
Speaker 6: There is at the little table in front of the office.
Speaker 2: We measurely, so he is and not changed. Deep my,
Speaker 2: what a surprise. I had no idea that you might
Speaker 2: do you play, seem ami? Do you play? See you what?
Speaker 6: There is no time for take him in the office.
Speaker 6: But of course I have things which must be done.
Speaker 6: I should be back very shortly.
Speaker 2: Paul, wait, I understand that come to play Mary.
Speaker 6: I share her never fear.
Speaker 2: There it is locked. Menai, this is quite a surprise.
Speaker 2: I take it you are run an unofficial leave of absence,
Speaker 2: completely so poor. I have a pass which is good
Speaker 2: only so long as lem you does not catch up
Speaker 2: with Oh he is a clever one, all right, did
Speaker 2: he is almost as clever as you please. But no
Speaker 2: matter you have kept a little bag of je will
Speaker 2: safe for me, quite safe. Yeah, they will sell me
Speaker 2: well in Spain. I hope to be across a frontier
Speaker 2: in an hour, so so soon. But we have so
Speaker 2: many things to talk about. There's a little chance for talk, Paul,
Speaker 2: when a man is running for his life that you
Speaker 2: was are here across the time, nearby, nearby. We'll get
Speaker 2: them now, Paul. Well, the fact that the matter is
Speaker 2: they are at my house on the other side of town. Fish.
Speaker 2: It will It will take only a moment and I
Speaker 2: can send someone to wait a wait. Voices outside the door.
Speaker 2: I hear nothing, nothing at all. You are only you
Speaker 2: signaled someone before we came in here. No no, no, no,
Speaker 2: no no no no no. Your mistake. I saw you
Speaker 2: not to way man out there at one of the tables.
Speaker 5: Sooner.
Speaker 2: You must believe me. I did not hie away from
Speaker 2: that door. I called you, my friend. The card will
Speaker 2: break down that door in a moment. You had better
Speaker 2: give up.
Speaker 7: You are a fool to press see and an hour
Speaker 7: from now you will be back in the hotel where
Speaker 7: you belong.
Speaker 2: I doubt it this far you have not getting from
Speaker 2: the back door, But either way you will not know
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 6: A knife?
Speaker 2: Did you hold on away from that door? No, you cannot,
Speaker 2: murderous piece. I will stop you for your gold pieces
Speaker 2: horn in my head.
Speaker 7: Ha ha ha.
Speaker 2: Now where is the spot in killing a man whose
Speaker 2: only weapon is a bag of money? I am a
Speaker 2: philosopher gold pieces. I ran down the dark streets from
Speaker 2: the back of the inn turn corner, stutched away from
Speaker 2: the shadows. Far off, like the sound of hunting dogs,
Speaker 2: I could hear the voice of the mob. I knew
Speaker 2: not where to find Mary, nor of any man now
Speaker 2: who might be tested. I ran blindly. One direction was
Speaker 2: as good as another, and the things of reality became
Speaker 2: clouded with those of imagination, so I could no longer
Speaker 2: tell them apart. Such is the great fear of the hunted,
Speaker 2: which knows only to run, to run from one unknown
Speaker 2: to another unknown, but always to hun and run and run.
Speaker 2: I had come to an unfamiliar part of the town,
Speaker 2: into an open square with a building facing me. People
Speaker 2: moved past slowly, but they paid no attention, and I
Speaker 2: knew they were not part of the mob which followed.
Speaker 2: Then I saw that all of them were going through
Speaker 2: the door into the great building, the cathedral. What a
Speaker 2: place to hide for a moment. I joined them and
Speaker 2: was carried along in the cowd. I found myself near
Speaker 2: the front, with people all around me. I kept my
Speaker 2: head down and couched there, trying to stop trembling. You
Speaker 2: are not to bright, my friend. You seem frightened silence.
Speaker 2: Do you wish to disturb the service?
Speaker 7: Have a fear it will continue regardless you pleas see
Speaker 7: one moment, monsieur, and I shall catch your throat. Come now,
Speaker 7: put away the knife. I am your friend. I have
Speaker 7: always admired you.
Speaker 2: Who are you male?
Speaker 7: I keep a little shop in the village perfume, spices, flavorings,
Speaker 7: all things calculated to make life more agreeable. You are
Speaker 7: alumniou in disguise, ridiculous Monsieur lamieuz at the chat to
Speaker 7: the Monteaux. I passed him on his way there. He
Speaker 7: thinks the mob will do his work for him. Put away,
Speaker 7: then I you have nothing to fear for me.
Speaker 2: That may be, but I feel much better while I
Speaker 2: hold it in my hand, cautious.
Speaker 7: Do bless see you like the great adventurer I always
Speaker 7: admired adventurer, and very prince of the the king of
Speaker 7: poets and teacher of philosopher.
Speaker 2: Well, I am quite a fellow all.
Speaker 7: Indeed, you are a man who should be standing up,
Speaker 7: not hiding his face swaggering.
Speaker 2: And you are really a fellow of discernment. Indeed you
Speaker 2: are permitted. But it is a very good knife. It
Speaker 2: has words written on the blade.
Speaker 4: No matter, knives are not permitted with you.
Speaker 2: Look if you play, they have seen you. Now, my friends,
Speaker 2: you must run, but never fear. We shall meet again.
Speaker 2: I think that is soon. I escaped from them again
Speaker 2: and found myself finally on the outskirts of the far
Speaker 2: side of town. And you not where to go next.
Speaker 2: I looked up and my eyes fell upon the lighted
Speaker 2: windows of the chateau, the Moteu, standing alone above the countryside,
Speaker 2: at the very top of a point of rock. A
Speaker 2: sudden thought occurred to me, rising and audacious, what better
Speaker 2: sanctuary than the very chateau world anew himself waited for
Speaker 2: a word of my capture. I smiled to myself in
Speaker 2: the darkness, and then began to climb swiftly up the
Speaker 2: face of the rock. I stood at last on a
Speaker 2: tiny parapet, close against the massive stone walls of the
Speaker 2: chateau high above the countryside. Behind me were lighted windows
Speaker 2: and the sound of voices. But out there on the
Speaker 2: parapet there was only the night and the stillness, stars,
Speaker 2: and a ghostly moon, riding like a silver galleon in
Speaker 2: the black pillows of the sky. Its pale light fell
Speaker 2: on the tumbled forest, me on the tiny little village
Speaker 2: of Saint Just, and touched faintly in the distance the
Speaker 2: far off crags of the Pyrenee, beyond the Spanish frontier.
Speaker 2: I do not know how long I stood there, looking
Speaker 2: down upon the world. Perhaps I was a little mad
Speaker 2: by then, of that, I'm not quite sure. Suddenly I
Speaker 2: saw someone coming toward me on the paradpath. They had
Speaker 2: not yet seen me. Buis, mademoiselle, Who is he? It
Speaker 2: is I, Marie? Do you please him?
Speaker 6: What are you doing here?
Speaker 2: A very good question, as a matter of fact, I
Speaker 2: think I shall use it myself. What are you doing here?
Speaker 6: I came here to find a mirror after I lost you,
Speaker 6: of course, and you found him, I class, Oh, we
Speaker 6: wo his inside in the buquet hall with the others.
Speaker 6: I thought that if he should find you, then I
Speaker 6: would be there to help.
Speaker 2: How thoughtful of you measurelie but to help him?
Speaker 6: But you, of course, how can you taught me?
Speaker 2: Ah? Very easily this night? In fact, I believe I
Speaker 2: could doubt the universe itself.
Speaker 6: You only say such things when you are fancying yourself
Speaker 6: a philosopher.
Speaker 2: Oh, a fool, which is much the same thing. But here,
Speaker 2: look at you, another new dress. The old woman is
Speaker 2: very good. Do you marry?
Speaker 6: I am quite grateful to her.
Speaker 2: And did she also give you the ring, my dear?
Speaker 2: The ring? The ring you are wearing, The ring which
Speaker 2: I saw so many times on a hand that would
Speaker 2: grasp the bars of my cell. The handle the mirror.
Speaker 6: I swear to you it is nothing I found found.
Speaker 2: It perhaps in the same place where you lost mine.
Speaker 6: Put away knife. It is all mistaken.
Speaker 2: It was you who brought them up to the inn,
Speaker 2: and Paul knew you had gone to.
Speaker 6: Do it to someone else. Please do not kill me.
Speaker 2: Let me go go away back inside to warlo you
Speaker 2: that I am here, I.
Speaker 6: Shall cut down the path here. See, Oh, you cannot
Speaker 6: kill me. You loved me once, do you not remember?
Speaker 2: Please let me go go quickly before I change my mind.
Speaker 6: I am going and will not harm you.
Speaker 2: To the testing woman thoroughly. It is necessary first to
Speaker 2: have love. Well, I really I am quite a fellow
Speaker 2: after all, a true philosopher.
Speaker 7: H It is one of the things for which I
Speaker 7: have always admired you.
Speaker 2: Oh, it is you, monsieur male the cellar of perfumes.
Speaker 7: Must you always carry that vicious knife in your hand?
Speaker 2: It is a good knife. An old man gave it
Speaker 2: to me, and there are gods on the blade. See
Speaker 2: on one side, reason on the other, irony, Well.
Speaker 7: We shall have little need for either. Once we are
Speaker 7: across the frontier in Spain.
Speaker 2: Tell me, monsieur, why do you wish to help me?
Speaker 7: Because I like you, because you are the pless see
Speaker 7: whom I admire. And something great, as great as that
Speaker 7: moon that shines over us, as great.
Speaker 2: As what is it? Something glinted on your hand when
Speaker 2: you held it up there, Let me see it.
Speaker 7: It was nothing.
Speaker 2: It was only attack of the moonlight. Let me see
Speaker 2: your hand. But I tell you that you too. The
Speaker 2: little ring with a heart that I gave to her
Speaker 2: a long time ago.
Speaker 7: It is nothing, my friend.
Speaker 2: I found her as she found the muse. They have
Speaker 2: gone too long without knowing for certain if this is
Speaker 2: really a good life.
Speaker 7: Oh you you cannot mean that, Oh no, no, And
Speaker 7: you find you place.
Speaker 2: See I am going to take you, to take me away,
Speaker 2: monsieur ha. Now we shall see whether you can fly
Speaker 2: without wings?
Speaker 7: And there.
Speaker 2: Ah, down and down and down by heaven. It is
Speaker 2: like a scene from a play. This parapet is stage
Speaker 2: the moon for a spotlight and a body pirouetting.
Speaker 5: Through space to enough my son.
Speaker 2: But you should not have killed him.
Speaker 5: The weapon was made for stronger opponents.
Speaker 2: Well, old maker of knives, you said, we should probably
Speaker 2: beat again.
Speaker 5: He is gone out of sight and there are only
Speaker 5: the stars and the.
Speaker 2: Night and the moon. What now do bless see? I
Speaker 2: do not know Spain.
Speaker 5: Perhaps Lemier would follow and there would be another marry,
Speaker 5: another pole, and another male waiting in Spain to tell
Speaker 5: him where you were.
Speaker 2: Have I escaped from prison to find this is everything false?
Speaker 2: Is there no man left in the world. Who is true?
Speaker 2: I am only a knifemaker. Well, it is a good knife.
Speaker 2: It worked very well.
Speaker 5: You have not yet tried it against Lemieux.
Speaker 2: No, you are right. He is inside there in the
Speaker 2: banquet hall. It will not be an easy thing, my son.
Speaker 5: But I know not how to warn you.
Speaker 2: You must find it out for yourself. Warning when has you?
Speaker 2: Please see if I had need of warning, Mercy monsieur
Speaker 2: a knife maker for your excellent intentions, And I shall
Speaker 2: find out for myself. Now the stone corridors of the
Speaker 2: chateau were though. As I drew nearer, I could hear
Speaker 2: the sound of voices in the great banquet hall. I
Speaker 2: made my way quietly to a low balcony overlooking the room,
Speaker 2: and soon was peering through the drawn curtains that screened
Speaker 2: off the table below. Lemieux was there, and Paul, and
Speaker 2: the singer of the chateau. He had come back somehow,
Speaker 2: and there were others too. Lemieux was talking the forest
Speaker 2: you place. You will be captured sooner or later.
Speaker 3: That I can assure you.
Speaker 7: I know the fellow.
Speaker 2: No, Harry's mind works.
Speaker 4: This is why do not even brother to chase him.
Speaker 2: He will trap himself most certainly.
Speaker 3: You are right, Monsieur le Mieux.
Speaker 7: And the sooner, the better wine.
Speaker 2: My shering bersie cha.
Speaker 4: Yes, you will rest a bit easier, Monsieur le Senna.
Speaker 4: Once the fellow was taken.
Speaker 2: Why do you say that, look at those paintings of
Speaker 2: the world.
Speaker 4: Beyond the balcony. Behind the curtain is a ram brand
Speaker 4: worth at least a million francs. Quite temptation, for if
Speaker 4: he did not have something more important on his mind.
Speaker 2: I thought for one moment they were going to draw
Speaker 2: back the curtains to reveal me standing there above them.
Speaker 2: But then they talked of other things, and the danger pasted.
Speaker 2: I looked down upon them, couched like weasels around the table,
Speaker 2: tearing at their full sharp little teeth. Half mad from
Speaker 2: the fear of being hunted. I began to fancy that
Speaker 2: they were all animals, and their wine was the blood
Speaker 2: of birds. While I stood there watching, Merl came in
Speaker 2: quietly and sat down with him. Merle, whom I had
Speaker 2: killed a little for the babbit. I realized then what
Speaker 2: the old maker of knives had tired to tell me.
Speaker 2: I had not killed Merl, but only thought I had
Speaker 2: done so. For how can a man kill his own vanity,
Speaker 2: and Paul would always be here, of course, ready to
Speaker 2: buy and sail with his bags of gold, and married too,
Speaker 2: luring me with a voice filled with the warms oftness
Speaker 2: of pleasure and the incarnation of fate, the hunter of men?
Speaker 2: What of Lumieux? As I stared through the curtains, I
Speaker 2: knew suddenly that I could never kill Lumieux, that he
Speaker 2: would take me sooner or later, For in my half
Speaker 2: crazed mind, every face now looked the same, and everyone
Speaker 2: was the face of Lumieux. I turned to look at
Speaker 2: the tall painting, the Rembrandt, that hung on the wall
Speaker 2: behind me. It was the portrait of a cavilier, proud
Speaker 2: and haughty, frozen in a pose of nobility, with one
Speaker 2: hand resting on his sword. Should I an even better man,
Speaker 2: a prince of thieves and a philosopher's permit myself to
Speaker 2: be on to earth at last by a pack of
Speaker 2: dogs who did not be far better to give myself
Speaker 2: up at my old choice. Showed them at the same
Speaker 2: time their littleness and hardly above their victory. While I
Speaker 2: had decided, by the point of my knife, I cut
Speaker 2: the painting from its frame and threw it to one side.
Speaker 2: I looked at my blade, so useless now on one side,
Speaker 2: reason on the other irony, and then drove it into
Speaker 2: the wood at the top of the frame. It quivered
Speaker 2: the very moment, and then was still carefully. I lighted
Speaker 2: the two tall candles on either side, then stepped up
Speaker 2: and stood in the frame with my back against the wall.
Speaker 2: I smiled a moment to myself, and then reached out
Speaker 2: my hand and took hold of the cord to draw
Speaker 2: aside the curtains.
Speaker 3: Escape is produced and directed by Norman MacDonald. Tonight, we
Speaker 3: have brought You The Fugitive by Benson Starrett, adapted for
Speaker 3: radio by Less Crutchfield, with editorial supervision by John Duckell.
Speaker 3: Featured in tonight's cast was Louis van Rutten with Ben Wright,
Speaker 3: Gloria Blondell, Barry Kroger Wilms Herbert and John Dayner. Special
Speaker 3: music by Ivant. At Barge.
Speaker 1: Next week, you're trapped aboard an ill fated ocean liner
Speaker 1: captained by a dying man, while a mysterious passenger haunting you,
Speaker 1: menacing you, seems intent on sending you to destruction.
Speaker 3: Next week, we escape with James Gould Cousin's gripping story S. S.
Speaker 3: San Pedro.
Speaker 2: Good night.
Speaker 3: Then until this same time next week, when once again
Speaker 3: we offer you escape, Adies and gentlemen. This coming Tuesday evening,
Speaker 3: at ten o'clock eastern daylight time, CBS will bring you
Speaker 3: an our long variety show Crusade for children, with General
Speaker 3: Dwight D. Eisenhower as principal speaker. It's a problem concerning
Speaker 3: every American, the hungry children of Europe. Remember ten o'clock
Speaker 3: eastern daylight time, Tuesday, August seventeenth, Roy Rowin speaking. This
Speaker 3: is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System