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Speaker 1: The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents.

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Speaker 2: Come in.

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Speaker 3: Welcome. I'm e. G.

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Speaker 2: Marshall.

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Speaker 1: Not many people, I suppose, remember the name of the writer,

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Joseph Sheridan Lafanou. Yet among fans of the Gothic tale,

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he is considered by many as the equal of the

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great masters, such as Paul Stevenson and de Mopisson. Judge

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for yourself as you listen to perhaps his greatest short story, Grizzly,

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ghoulish and inexpressibly haunting.

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Speaker 4: The candle is out.

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Speaker 5: Now done for me.

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Speaker 2: Don't leave her alone in the dark. The dark.

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Speaker 5: I can't budge it. They will break it down. She's

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not in the bed, hold the lampire. She's not in

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the room the window. Could she have fallen or jumped?

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The shutters are closed, the last still thrown there? Can

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you see Anything's harken? No hair bookman. The street is empty,

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the canal as smooth as glass. She's gone. Rose is gone,

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as if she'd never returned.

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Speaker 1: Our mystery drama Till Death Do Us Join was written

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especially for the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and stars

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Don Scardi, you Know and ROBERTA.

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Speaker 2: Maxwell.

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Speaker 1: It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and

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Anheuser Busch Incorporated brewers of Budweiser. I'll be back shortly

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with Act one of all the painting he must have

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done in his solitary lifetime. There exists today, in remarkable condition,

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only one canvas of Godfrey Schalkin's pupil of Gerard Bookman,

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who in turn was a pupil of the great Rembrandt.

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The picture represents a chamber in some antique religious building.

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Its foreground is occupied by a young woman of startling beauty,

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her face illuminated by a strange smile, half.

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Speaker 2: Lovely, half evil.

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Speaker 1: In the background is the shadowy form of a man

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dressed in the old old Flemish fashion, propped up in

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a coffin as though in a bed. A fascinating picture

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and a chilly one.

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Speaker 3: No one who views it can repress a shudder.

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Speaker 1: Why on the back of the canvas is a legend

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written in cramped long hand by the painter, which may

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serve to explain why they think me boorish, rude, and

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laugh at my slovenly ways and filthy habits, But they

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buy my pictures for I am an artist beyond peer.

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My whole life I have devoted to trying to forget

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what I once was. The only life I have had

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is canvas and pigments and a search for escape in

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the only fashion I can accomplish it. But once I

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was young as other men, with a bright future in

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my chosen profession, full of laughter and joy and madly

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in love. Oh, there were barriers to overcome, impossible heights

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to scale. But with the hope and optimism of youth,

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I knew I could win out. How could I know

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that a force beyond any human strength would strangle my spirit,

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twist and deform my soul, and doom me to a

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lifetime of despair.

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Speaker 4: Road sh we are alone, beloved, All the other students

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are gone, and her bookman he left.

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Speaker 5: The studio for home less than five minutes ago.

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Speaker 4: I know I only wanted to be sure I had

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made no mistake.

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Speaker 2: How do you know?

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Speaker 4: I had Jacob the Groom drive me into Amsterdam today

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as a shock for some silks. On the way back,

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I had him stop at his favorite beer strove to

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have a beer and groom the horses, whilst I took

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a stroll along the canal. I was hoping to catch

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you alone at the studio, and my prayers were answered

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when I saw my uncle climb into his carriage and

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drive off.

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Speaker 6: My dearest one, if only I could declare my love

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for you openly.

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Speaker 4: Oh, you will be famous very soon, and we are

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still young. We have time.

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Speaker 6: Every moment spend away from you as an eternity.

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Speaker 4: It is just as bad for me. But for the

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moment we must live with it. Come. Let me see

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what you have been working on, my genius.

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Speaker 2: No, no, it is in no shape.

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Speaker 5: I cannot make it come right, and it is still

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only a sketch.

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Speaker 4: But godfrey, you are wrong. The conception is beautiful, and

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even the free hand outline tells all the world.

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Speaker 6: You are a master, or to become one tells all

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the world.

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Speaker 5: Well, perhaps you are right, for you are all my world.

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Speaker 6: If whatever I do satisfies you, it would be reward enough.

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Speaker 4: Oh no, we must do better than that, so that

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we can have each other. Finish this one as you

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have started, and I will see that Uncle Gerard gets

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the canvas to the right places. Once someone buys you,

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you will become a vogue. I know it. I feel

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it in my in my.

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Speaker 2: Bones, in your heart, in my heart.

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Speaker 4: What I feel is my love for a man named

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Godfrey Sharkan.

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Speaker 5: Will I ever be rich enough to make you my wife?

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Speaker 4: Hold me, Godfrey, hold me very tight, Rose Rose. I

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want to believe, help me too.

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Speaker 2: In every way I can. Oh. But what happened?

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Speaker 4: I don't know. A sudden chill as if the time

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I must go, I would do nothing to set mane

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a bookman against them.

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Speaker 2: Why can't I just go to him?

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Speaker 4: No, No, I beg you. I know my uncle. He

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would only send you away, and then you would have

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lost everything, me, his teaching, your future. Hush, my darling,

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trust in God and let us hope. I love you,

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I shall always love you. God give you grace.

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Speaker 5: What grace has a God who keeps two lovers apart?

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Speaker 2: Heaven forgive me.

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Speaker 6: I meant it not, but the words had been said

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and could not be taken back. I turned to my sketch,

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one of the temptations of Saint Anthony by the Devil.

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I set to work, and was so busily engaged that

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an hour or so must have passed.

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Speaker 2: The light was gone.

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Speaker 6: As I sat back, I heard a sort of sniff

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behind me.

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Speaker 2: A few feet behind me stood the figure of.

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Speaker 6: An elderly man in a cloak and a broad brimmed

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conical hat.

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Speaker 2: The room was so dark by.

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Speaker 6: Now that the shadow from his head obscured his features in.

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Speaker 5: But I was impressed.

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Speaker 6: Ah did the perfect stonelike stillness of the figure. I'm

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sorry I didn't hear you come in.

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Speaker 5: This is the studio of Gerard Bookman.

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Speaker 2: It is Will you sit mineir? No, I wish to

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talk to him.

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Speaker 6: He has returned to his home some hours past. If

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you would wish to seek him there?

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Speaker 5: Oh, will you see him before tomorrow evening? Oh?

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Speaker 6: Yes, sir, I am one of his pupils, and he

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will be here by late morning to commence his classes.

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Speaker 5: Are you to be trusted with a message? I hope

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so fail to deliver it at your peril, tell Gerard

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Bookman that Minair van Thehausen of Rotterdam wishes to speak

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to him here tomorrow evening at exactly seventh. In this

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room are matters of wait.

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Speaker 6: He turned abruptly, and with a quick but utterly silent step,

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quit the room. Some strange premonition drew me to the window,

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through which I could see the exit door to the

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street bordering the canal.

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Speaker 2: I waited in vain for him, to appear.

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Speaker 6: The darkness was now gathering in earnest. Leaving the studio

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and locking the door, I half expected to find him

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lurking in the halls below, but he had vanished as

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mysteriously and completely as he had first appeared.

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Speaker 2: Nor was the.

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Speaker 6: Mysterious stranger further identified when I reported him to mine

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air bookman the following noon.

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Speaker 5: Undahousand undahusen no mean name means nothing to me from rosend'muse,

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he said, yes, I ah, he shall wait for the

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up by and in the meanwhile to work. I have

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looked at your sketches on the Temptation of Saint Anthony,

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Lie Garris girl. The colorations are acceptable, well done and conceived,

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but the expressions it's as if Saint Anthony were the devil,

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and the devil the saints.

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Speaker 2: What is your conception? Why your honor? I cannot answer.

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I do not know. Well.

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Speaker 5: The other pupils are arriving, and let's see if your

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conception can improve during class studies. So, my poor Sharkin,

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the others are all gone, and I had little time

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for you today.

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Speaker 2: Ah. I went to canvas.

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Speaker 5: I don't know, Master. I found it hard to concentrate,

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so did I let's forget pigment, then brushes a while,

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and join me in a glass of brandy. It's been

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a long, hard day, and I have some strange premonition.

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This visitor, you tell me to expect, bears some ill

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tidings at all events. Let's fortify ourselves against ill cants.

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Speaker 2: Your health, your health.

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Speaker 5: At seven, you said, he said, bond.

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Speaker 2: The housand.

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Speaker 5: Never heard of the man? What can he want of me?

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A portrait, a poor relation to be apprenticed, a collection

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to be evaluated.

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Speaker 6: Well, you should soon learn. The stadthouse is sounding the hour.

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Speaker 2: I should leave. Now stay with me, Godfrey.

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Speaker 5: They're young and strong, and for some reason I have

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a foreboding about this mysterious appointment. Well, the clock has ceased.

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I shall not wait too long, for.

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Speaker 2: He seems to be here, sir, and go let him in.

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Speaker 5: By your leave, Young sir, you are Gerard Bookman.

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Speaker 2: I am.

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Speaker 5: I have the honor to address Minny A. Vanderhausen of

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Rotterdam the same. I understand your worship wish.

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Speaker 2: To meet with me, and I am here.

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Speaker 5: As you see by your appointment.

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Speaker 2: It is well is that a man of trust.

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Speaker 3: Is my prized pupil.

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Speaker 5: Of course, yes, well, then let him take the spox

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of letter and get the nearest jeweler or goldsmith to

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value his contents. Why that, I will explain to you alone.

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But I wish him to return with a certificate of

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the value of the contents. That is a strange request. Men, here,

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may I ask the reason?

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Speaker 2: When we are alone and I.

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Speaker 5: Think Jan Sprton in the next street will still be open, Godfrey,

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will you gratify the gentleman's wish?

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Speaker 6: Your wish, sir, I will take as little time as

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I can. I had in my hands a small leather

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case about nine inches square, surprisingly heavy.

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Speaker 5: For its size.

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Speaker 6: I was less curious about its contents than the conversation

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I was about to miss. If I could even have

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dreamed of its subject and the consequences, but how could I.

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Instead of clairvoyance, I reacted normally to my master's orders

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and sought the information I had been.

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Speaker 2: Asked to get.

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Speaker 6: Who is it, Godfrey Shalkon, pupil of Master's your ard bookman.

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Speaker 5: Were it not for you, my Master's good officers, and

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the designs he presents me with, neither Garden nor the

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Devil would persuade me to open up at this late hour.

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Speaker 2: Well, what is it, Johnson?

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Speaker 5: My master bid me bring the contents of this leather

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case to you for evaluation. That scuffed and crumbling jewel

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box what nonsense?

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Speaker 2: Oh my, it's antiquity. It's curious and challenging.

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Speaker 5: Come in, Come in by all means. Who will makes

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enemies of my old bones? What is the urgency that

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prompts this haste?

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Speaker 2: I know not, myn air spidan.

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Speaker 5: Well then let me see. Give me the case, good lord,

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what is it? Moment my loop and my scale, so

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I can examine and wag gold ingots if they's they're true.

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This is a king's ransome young man.

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Speaker 1: If Godfrey Schalcon had only known or guessed, he might

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have been tempted to seize the fortune in gold ingots

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and bury it in Amsterdam's deepest canal. For the contents

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of that scuffed, scraped case, soiled with age, were to

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turn his life about and transform him from a young,

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carefree man to the bitter, hating wretch who painted with

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the flare.

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Speaker 2: Of the gods. I'll be back shortly with that too.

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Speaker 1: And while Godfrey Schalkin was learning from the goldsmith the

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incredible value of the contents of the leather case. A

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conversation was taking place between the mysterious stranger and his master,

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A conversation concerned with the girl he loved, Rose Welder Croust,

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Bookman's niece, A conversation that established those golden ingots not

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as a king's ransom, but a queen's heir.

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Speaker 2: Bookman.

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Speaker 5: I will be free with you. I cannot buy limitations.

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I dare not discuss terry with you long. Surely I

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can offer you a drink, No, some refreshment, food, no,

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will at least let me raise the lights. Oh, oh ti,

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that's true. Your out a garment? Oh, I can feed

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the fire, more logs to warm.

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Speaker 2: I have no need of your offers, your desire of them.

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I come to make you an offer.

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Speaker 5: Will you come to the fire and sit? I prefer

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to stand where I am. The shado suit me. Well,

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I don't understand.

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Speaker 2: Time ago, I saw you in the Church of Saint

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Lawrence in Rotterdam, with you as a.

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Speaker 5: Young girl of exceptional beauty, whom I later ascertained was

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your niece. I desire to marry her without meeting her,

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conversing with her, just from one glimpse that was enough

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to convince me she was the woman I desire to

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share my future with. But Rose, I can satisfy you

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that I am wealthier than any husband. You can have

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a dream for her. I expect that you Hair Buchman,

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will forward my suit with your authority, and I must

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add that if you are to approve my proposal, it

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must be here and now, where I can brook no delays.

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You're extremely arbortrary.

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Speaker 2: Me here constrained to be, I often of apology. I

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did not ask for one.

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Speaker 5: You might reasonably have my circumstances as such that I

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have none to offer. You must be aware that my

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niece has a will of her own and may not

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acquiesce in what we may design for her advantage. The

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young man I sent out with a packet will return shortly.

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That will prove the evidence of my wealth and security

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for your niece's life. I promise you it will be

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ten times the fortune she could expect, all of it

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in the interest that a cruise shall be hers as

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long as she lives.

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Speaker 2: Can I be more liberal?

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Speaker 5: Well, if what you tell me is true, of course,

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not as to my respectability. You must take that for granted,

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at least for the presser. I buy my name and

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reputation with what you're about to discover about me my wealth.

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You must give me a moment to think.

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Speaker 2: I remind you again, my time is limited.

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Speaker 5: I will not pledge myself unnecessarily.

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Speaker 2: But you will if it is necessary. And I consider

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it so.

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Speaker 5: A testy old gentleman returned to have.

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Speaker 2: His own way.

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Speaker 5: Eh, Why those are the very words that you were thinking.

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I know you also thought to yourself, all things considered,

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I'm not justified in declining the offer if the gold

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involved is satisfactory.

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Speaker 2: Am I correct?

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Speaker 3: You read my mind correctly.

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Speaker 5: Please forgive the intrusion and my abruptness.

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Speaker 2: But we are both men of sense as well as sensibility.

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Speaker 5: Your niece is penniless. I should make her as rich

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or richer.

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Speaker 2: Than a queen.

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Speaker 5: When your young man returns with evaluation, if you don't

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wish the proposal withdrawn, you must immediately sign this engagement and.

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Speaker 6: Master, I have brought my near Spidan's valuation of the

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contents of the case.

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Speaker 5: Give them to many a Vanderhausen, Hello, Hello, give them

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to many a bookman.

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Speaker 2: Yes, sir, here they are master called ingots. The value I.

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Speaker 6: Can't believe it, neither could Yon spiden or myself. I

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fled back through the streets, searching every shadow.

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Speaker 2: I have never seen so much wealth.

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Speaker 5: Ten thousand guilders a token. Only my wealth is limitless.

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Will you sign the contract now? A moment as tired

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and the light as dim, this youth must witness the contract.

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Speaker 2: Let him read it to you. Will you gotry? Yes? Master?

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Speaker 6: This document represents an irrevocable agreement by Gerard Bookman, as

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guardian at law, to give Wilkin Vanderhausen the hand of

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his niece Rosevelderhoust go On boy go on of his

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niece Roseveldercoust, in marriage within one week of the date

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of this document. In exchange for this covenant, the said

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Wilkin Vanderhausen agrees to provide as a marriage settlement a

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package of gold ingots.

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Speaker 5: Now you'll think it's necessary to read the rest, It's

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only the jargon of advocates the near Bookman.

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Speaker 2: I have not tried in any way to stint in

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my offer.

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Speaker 5: Now, are you, for your niece's sake as well as

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for your own, content that I would dearly like perhaps

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another day to consider, not one hour? Very well, I

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am content. I can scarcely deny my niece of good fortune?

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Speaker 2: Hey, Godfrey, how.

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Speaker 6: Can I presume to offer an opinion except that Rose?

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I mean you're fraud? Velderkaus Should she not be consulted?

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Speaker 5: A young girl is not the best judge of her future.

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Rose is my responsibility.

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Speaker 2: Lovely as she is?

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Speaker 5: When could she have such a chance again? In the

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Evander Hausen ad content it is a bargain inside at once,

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I implore you.

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Speaker 2: For I am weary, very well now the witness. I can't.

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I won't us this, Godfrey.

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Speaker 5: I've taken you into my studio, supported you, taught you,

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reared you. How can you refuse me one simple request?

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In return?

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Speaker 2: I can't?

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Speaker 5: Or surely, Rose, it's only one answer? Many a bookman,

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that young man is taken with your nieces. I am

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very well? Now would you choose between us? Must we

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find another witness? How do I take my document and vanish.

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Speaker 2: From your life? Godfrey?

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Speaker 3: How can you think of Rose?

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Speaker 5: You a painter and artist? You have your own dedication

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in a field which may leave you.

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Speaker 2: Penniless for the rest of your life.

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Speaker 5: If you do truly love Rose, how can you deny

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her this opportunity? I love her more than life itself.

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I want only her happiness.

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Speaker 2: Then, sign.

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Speaker 5: Master, there is Rose herself. Rose is not yet ready

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to know her own mind. I am a her guardian.

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It's my duty to secure a future. If you love

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my niece, you'll realize it's in her own best interests.

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Speaker 2: Because I love her, then I signed it. Is well.

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I will take the contract. You keep the gold.

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Speaker 5: I shall visit you at your house tomorrow night at

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nine o'clock. My good many a bookman to meet formerly

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with the object of the contracts.

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Speaker 6: Again stiffly, but with the same rapid movement, the shadowed

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figure was gone so swiftly I had no time to

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open the door for him. Again, the same unnamed fear

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drove me to the window to watch for his exit

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down below, And again his movement must have been so

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rapid that I failed to see him leave and enter

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the street.

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Speaker 5: Godfrey, Yes, Master, I'm sorry. I didn't know that you

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formed an attachment to my niece. I have no right to,

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and I'm glad you're sensible of that. A painter, it's

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an uneasy life of sacrifice and most of the time poverty.

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Speaker 2: So I shall hold my peace till.

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Speaker 5: The appointment a week from now, and you will join

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us at dinner, must I? It will be better for

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all of us to face and accept the future. It's

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striking nine. Rose, is all arranged as you see.

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Speaker 2: Uncle, You're a perfect hostess.

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Speaker 5: The fire shines like burnished gold in the table is

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set immaculately, God fraim, glass of wine.

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Speaker 2: No, thank you, Master bookman.

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Speaker 3: You seem nervous.

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Speaker 2: I am.

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Speaker 3: I hope you are not going to lose control of

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your feelings.

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Speaker 7: It isn't that, Master, then what? I can't quite explain it?

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A strange foreboding.

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Speaker 2: Hmm, you feel it too? Does Rose know what the

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occasion is? No, and it is not too late.

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Speaker 5: I have signed the contract. My word alone is its bond.

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But the paper is the final arbiter. Then there is

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no escape, escape from what a marriage settlement beyond my

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wildest dreams for my brother's daughter. I commend you to

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control your foolish dreams. I've done what must be done.

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Our guest is here, Rose, Yes, Uncle, come stand by

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me to greet our visitor.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Uncle.

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Speaker 6: This time the room was brightly lighted. This time the

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mineer had to shed his outer garments. This time we

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could see his features for the first time. His undersuit

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was a rich sable garment, his stockings of dark purple,

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his feet enclosed in shoes adorned with roses of the

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same color. His hands were enclosed in gauntlets, his hair

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long enough to rest on a platted rough So far

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all was well, but the face was a bluish leaden

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hue such as metallic medicine sometimes produce the eyes muddy

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white and startlingly prominent, with the glaze of insanity, and

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the lips deep purple, almost black, twisted in essensual, malignant,

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almost satanic fashion, such as my unwilling fingers had wanted

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to trace on the face of my Saint Anthony. The

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effect was so startling that for a long moment no

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one could speak. It was as though some devilish humor

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had dressed a corpse from the grave and invigorated it

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far enough to walk and talk and enter a.

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Speaker 2: Room with a living.

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Speaker 1: One must admit, of course, that Chacon could scarcely see

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his rival, or, to be more truthful, the man who

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had stolen his beloved from him. In the best light,

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the painter's eye tends to exaggerate, or at least translate,

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the human figure into his own design, and jealousy is

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a poor measure for judgment. When we return shortly with

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Act three, we will be able to make our own

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assessment of this strange and devious story. And the stranger

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spoke little during the half hour or so he stayed,

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nor could his host manage many more words. Such, indeed,

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was the nervous terror that Vandrusen inspired. That was an

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effort not to fly in panic from the room. Something

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indescribably odd was about him, his movements as if directed

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by a spirit unused to managing the machinery of the body.

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Speaker 3: And two things were remarked by all, the fact.

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Speaker 1: That his eyelids never closed, and that his chest was motionless,

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unstirred by the process of respiration. It was with a

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feeling of infinite relief for all when the door finally

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closed behind him.

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Speaker 2: God, are you all right, Rose?

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Speaker 4: No, I feel as chilled as someone with fever.

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Speaker 2: My dear, don't exaggerate, I don't.

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Speaker 4: He's a frightful man. I wouldn't see him ever again

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for all the wealth in the world.

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Speaker 2: Don't be a foolish girl.

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Speaker 5: A man may be as ugly as the devil, but

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if his heart is good, and his actions match it.

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He's worth more than some handsome puppy with neither brains

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nor prospect.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to talk about him anymore, but we must.

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Speaker 5: The man is wealthy, liberal, and with all good hearted

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he has sued for you as his bride. His bride,

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it is my duty to see you well, bestowed. I

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promised your father on his death bed that I would

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make sure of that uncle.

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Speaker 3: Not that man enough, but to night him.

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Speaker 2: There are no.

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Speaker 5: Decisions to make beyond the fact that it is time

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to retire, Godfrey. I feel see you in the morning, Yes, Master.

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Speaker 2: Good night you Frau voldecaste.

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Speaker 4: No need to be so formal, Rose, and good night Godfrey.

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Don't look so troubled. Nothing has changed.

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Speaker 7: I walk home will be lighted by that knowledge. Good Night, Master, Bookman,

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good night, my boy.

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Speaker 5: And remember you are an apprentice painter. That is your

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first and most important loyalty. I am acutely aware of

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where I stand here, Bookman.

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Speaker 2: Good night.

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Speaker 4: Why were you so severe with him? Uncle?

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Speaker 2: Because we live in a world of reality.

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Speaker 4: What do you mean.

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Speaker 5: You realize that Mineer Vanderhausen, who visited us tonight, has

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guaranteed you ten thousand guilders of your own, as an

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earnest of his love and admiration for you, I have

477
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the mere ten thousand guilders. It's his way of saying

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how much he loves you. Love, for all its charms

479
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:09,799
is not the most important thing in the world. You

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will marry him in a Vanderhausen according to the contract.

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Speaker 6: The mood of hope that my beloved had kindled in

482
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,480
me barely lasted till my return home to the bare

483
00:32:21,559 --> 00:32:24,680
and cheerless garret I lived in. Even if in my

484
00:32:24,839 --> 00:32:27,319
sleepless bed tossed night I might have held to some

485
00:32:27,559 --> 00:32:30,839
grain of hope, the next day would have dispelled them forever.

486
00:32:31,039 --> 00:32:35,799
Had I been at the bookman house a never plainsman's wagon,

487
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:36,960
what can it be?

488
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Speaker 2: Now?

489
00:32:37,599 --> 00:32:40,759
Speaker 4: I can't wait to see? Oh uncle, did you ever

490
00:32:40,839 --> 00:32:41,880
see such riches?

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00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 2: Never?

492
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,079
Speaker 4: What is this scarlet domino? How could he not be

493
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,240
just the right length? Feel the richness of the velvet

494
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and trimmed in white ermine even to the hood.

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Speaker 5: Love to paint you in that the hood framing your facy.

496
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You're all beauty.

497
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Speaker 4: One would not be in such a cloak. If only

498
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Manea vanderhaus.

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Speaker 5: Leave his appearance alone, you will soon accustom yourself to it.

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00:33:10,119 --> 00:33:13,839
Speaker 4: Slippers and every color, A casket of jewels fit for

501
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:17,279
an empress. This white, pure silk for my wedding gown,

502
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,680
and the lace for my veil and train. Oh, Uncle,

503
00:33:21,079 --> 00:33:23,759
was any man ever so generous.

504
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 5: Only the beginning, Rose, Whatever doubts I might have had,

505
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I think I've chosen your future well, and I.

506
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Speaker 4: Too, dear Uncle, I will put Godfrey from my mind.

507
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In fact, he is already fading. Look at this necklace,

508
00:33:39,759 --> 00:33:45,200
this emerald pin. Oh. Thanks to you, dear uncle, I

509
00:33:45,359 --> 00:33:47,519
may be the luckiest girl in the world.

510
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 6: And so one week later I had to swallow my

511
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pride and watch my repulsive rival carry off my beloved

512
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Rose in solemn pomp in a.

513
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Speaker 5: Carriage in four out of my life to rout her down.

514
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:12,400
But I was mistaken. Rose Velderkost, now Rose Vanderhausen.

515
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:13,599
Speaker 2: Was not out of my life yet.

516
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,320
Speaker 5: And I brought you home, my boy, to sup with me,

517
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:25,079
because I'm worried and I've no one.

518
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,639
Speaker 2: Else to turn to. You may always count on me,

519
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:28,880
master in all.

520
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:35,199
Speaker 5: Things I know, in particular this one, contrary to all promises,

521
00:34:35,679 --> 00:34:40,280
freely exchanged. It's four months since I have heard of

522
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:46,760
my niece, not one word. I'm too old to travel.

523
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:51,320
Will you then be my emissary and take this letter

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00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,320
to the Bonky to inquire.

525
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:57,199
Speaker 2: After my niece. If you desire me to I do.

526
00:34:58,880 --> 00:34:59,800
You shall stay the.

527
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Speaker 5: Night right and take the coach for Rotterdam on the morning.

528
00:35:04,039 --> 00:35:06,840
I will issue you such funds as you need, and

529
00:35:07,639 --> 00:35:11,159
I pray you return post haste with what word of

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00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:12,320
comfort you can bring me.

531
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Speaker 2: I will waste no time, I promise you.

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00:35:21,679 --> 00:35:24,079
Speaker 6: I left not a house in the boon quay, untried Maaster,

533
00:35:24,199 --> 00:35:26,400
but no one had ever heard of my near Vanderhausen.

534
00:35:26,639 --> 00:35:28,360
Speaker 5: Who, then, where is my niece?

535
00:35:28,559 --> 00:35:31,079
Speaker 2: I cannot tell one thing I did. When I returned

536
00:35:31,119 --> 00:35:31,719
to Amsterdam.

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Speaker 6: I went to the establishment from which the coach in

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00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,400
four was hired to take Rose in her bridegroom to Rotterdam.

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Speaker 2: It's clever of you, and.

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Speaker 6: Yes, the driver reported that late in the evening, before

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they entered the city, a small party of men dressed

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in the old fashioned with peaked beards and pointed mustaches,

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standing in the center of the road stop.

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Speaker 2: The coach.

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Speaker 6: Highway robbers, apparently not my near Vanderhausen, seemed to have

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expected them, and he handed Rose down from the carriage

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and into an ornate, hand carved but ancient litter, which.

548
00:36:05,159 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 5: The men lifted and bore off into the night, the

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00:36:08,079 --> 00:36:10,400
driver making no attempt to stop them.

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00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 6: No, since there was thread of force, always as if

551
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:21,559
it had been arranged. Except except what, Except that Rose

552
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,440
was weeping bitterly.

553
00:36:25,079 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 2: Dear Lord, what have I done? What can I do

554
00:36:29,039 --> 00:36:30,239
to reach or I help her?

555
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 5: Jacob has already retired.

556
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 2: See who that is? Boy?

557
00:36:35,559 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 8: At once?

558
00:36:36,079 --> 00:36:41,039
Speaker 5: Mastered, Rose, Dearest Rose, what is it?

559
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:42,119
Speaker 2: Wine?

560
00:36:42,639 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 4: Wine?

561
00:36:43,079 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 5: Quickly, or I am ross master? She is distraught, Rose,

562
00:36:46,039 --> 00:36:49,800
my dearest, here here drinking no food?

563
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 4: Please God, at once, or I perish.

564
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,320
Speaker 5: I'll cut some meat, give it all to me.

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00:36:55,559 --> 00:36:58,559
Speaker 4: Send for a priest with all haste, or in spite

566
00:36:58,599 --> 00:37:01,840
of all I am not saying until he comes. Send

567
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,800
for him speedley, or I am lost forever. The dead

568
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:08,079
and the living can never be won. God has forbid it.

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Speaker 6: Up the stairs quickly, Father, she is in terrible straight

570
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:16,440
Forget me.

571
00:37:18,519 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 4: No, No, he's here, Godfrey.

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00:37:21,039 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 5: Try your sword where right where there in the ado

573
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with you and the priest stand aside.

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00:37:28,639 --> 00:37:30,039
Speaker 2: Father, Hold the lamp high.

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Speaker 5: Let me see in the shadows. You do not leave

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my dead soul ready to bring you the priest. You

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00:37:37,519 --> 00:37:40,599
don't be afraid followed outside myself and God, prayer and

578
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:42,679
af you stepped from your beds Oh, God.

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Speaker 4: Help me whom I have no right to ask. The

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00:37:46,199 --> 00:37:46,880
candle is out.

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Speaker 2: It is too late.

582
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 5: He has come from me.

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00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 2: I won't leave her alone in there. Out the door.

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00:37:53,079 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 5: I can't bunch it. He'll break it down. She's not

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00:38:02,519 --> 00:38:06,280
in the bed. Hold the lampire. She's not in the room.

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00:38:06,519 --> 00:38:11,440
The window you're jumped or fallen. They're shut fast. The

587
00:38:11,559 --> 00:38:12,480
latch is still.

588
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:15,639
Speaker 2: Thrown right there. Can you see anything?

589
00:38:16,199 --> 00:38:19,320
Speaker 5: The street is empty, the canal as smooth as glass.

590
00:38:20,559 --> 00:38:25,280
She's gone. Rose is gone, as if she'd never returned.

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00:38:29,639 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 6: The days that followed her shady and insubstantial in my mind,

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00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:39,679
half crazed with grief and that hair bookman's remorseful request.

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I returned to Rotterdam, to the chapel of Saint Anthony,

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where Vanderhausen had first seen Rose. It was after evening

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vespers and I was travel worn and so weary. When

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the worshippers left, I remained alone in the church, and

597
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:07,039
I must have fallen asleep. I was awakened by a

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00:39:07,159 --> 00:39:12,960
soft touch on my shoulder, and awakened to see Rose.

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00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:15,280
Speaker 2: Rose.

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00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:19,760
Speaker 5: I want you to forget me.

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00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 4: God free, and know that I am from the tent

602
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,440
and free from sin at last.

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00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:30,280
Speaker 2: Come with me.

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00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 6: She led me by the hand, a lamp in her hand,

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00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:40,239
down a flight of steps into the vaults below. The

606
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:43,719
music faded, and there was only the sound of our

607
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,239
footsteps echoing on the stone.

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00:39:49,119 --> 00:39:51,599
Speaker 2: Where are you taking me away?

609
00:39:52,079 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 5: I have found read?

610
00:40:05,039 --> 00:40:09,599
Speaker 6: The room was a bedroom, richly furnished, its main feature

611
00:40:09,679 --> 00:40:13,079
a great four poster bed, the curtains drawn.

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00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:18,119
Speaker 5: She crossed to them, smiling and said, you.

613
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:22,280
Speaker 4: See we are uniting the laws.

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00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:24,599
Speaker 1: My husband.

615
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:25,920
Speaker 2: And as.

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Speaker 6: Sitting bolt upright on the bed, held in its position

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by the pillows, was my near Vandrhausen. The costume I

618
00:40:35,039 --> 00:40:39,960
recognized the face, what was left of it was still

619
00:40:40,039 --> 00:40:43,000
livid as I had first seen it, but by now

620
00:40:43,119 --> 00:40:47,440
the bones showed through the decayed flesh. The hands were

621
00:40:47,519 --> 00:40:49,639
little more than the claws of a skeleton.

622
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:51,320
Speaker 5: Exhausted.

623
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:55,880
Speaker 6: As I was overcome by emotion, the room suddenly swayed

624
00:40:56,559 --> 00:40:57,920
and I lost consciousness.

625
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:09,199
Speaker 5: I was found the following morning by the sexton.

626
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:14,039
Speaker 6: The room in which I lay was the same, except

627
00:41:14,119 --> 00:41:17,679
that all the furnishings were gone save one.

628
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:20,239
Speaker 5: In the place of the.

629
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 6: Foreboaster bed was nothing but a large and ornate coffin.

630
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:29,119
Speaker 2: I rubbed the dust.

631
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Speaker 6: From the nameplate, which read my near Winkle Vanderhausen sixteen o.

632
00:41:37,719 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 5: Six to sixteen sixty nine.

633
00:41:43,599 --> 00:41:47,639
Speaker 6: The man had been dead long before rose Velderkowst or

634
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:53,800
myself were born. Her uncle, and I allowed her to

635
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,400
marry herself to a corpse.

636
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:12,519
Speaker 1: A sad and terrifying story, not calculated to make sleep

637
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:18,079
any easier tonight, and yet a fascinating and absorbing one,

638
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:24,360
as all of us are drawn irresistibly to the macabre. Besides,

639
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:29,679
of course, it wasn't true, or was it to Godfrey

640
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:30,960
Schalkin's dying day.

641
00:42:31,159 --> 00:42:35,039
Speaker 3: It was for him, So who is to say that

642
00:42:35,199 --> 00:42:39,239
it couldn't have happened? Not I, As I said in

643
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:41,880
the beginning, you make your own judgment.

644
00:42:43,039 --> 00:42:44,039
Speaker 2: I'll be back shortly.

645
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 1: And Schalcon became a kind of living corpse who lived

646
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:03,000
only through his paintings. But in spite of his success,

647
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:07,000
he was recklose enough to insist on mixing his own pigments,

648
00:43:07,599 --> 00:43:10,559
which alas were not stable enough to stand the ware

649
00:43:10,639 --> 00:43:15,000
of time. So only the one canvas I mentioned remains.

650
00:43:16,079 --> 00:43:19,639
They say because he used his own blood to dilute

651
00:43:19,679 --> 00:43:20,239
the pigments.

652
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:21,679
Speaker 2: I don't know.

653
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:26,039
Speaker 3: There's no proof. It's just a part of the legend.

654
00:43:27,199 --> 00:43:31,880
Speaker 1: Our cast included Don Scardino, ROBERTA. Maxwell, Guy Sorell, and

655
00:43:32,079 --> 00:43:35,639
Arnold Moss. The entire production was under the direction of

656
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:36,760
Hyman Brown.

657
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:42,320
Speaker 2: And now a preview of our.

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00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:45,800
Speaker 3: Next tale, Horbless. How you can get around when you've

659
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:46,960
got no body, isn't it?

660
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:52,559
Speaker 2: Seeing little white dog, curly tailor, silly little thing, and

661
00:43:52,679 --> 00:43:53,440
see that big.

662
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:55,199
Speaker 4: Blue station wagon. It's going to hit him.

663
00:43:57,039 --> 00:44:02,400
Speaker 2: No, I've got him, Cynthia, I've saved him.

664
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 5: You'll probably get run over anyhow one of these days.

665
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:09,320
No he won't, No he won't. I'm going to keep

666
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:11,760
my eye on him. What about all the others?

667
00:44:12,039 --> 00:44:17,840
Speaker 8: Them too, and cats and people and everybody? Oh, Cynthia,

668
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:20,800
Why did it take me so long to find out

669
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:22,039
what I was born to do?

670
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:26,519
Speaker 2: I could have spent my whole life doing this, Cynthia.

671
00:44:27,199 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 8: My afterlife is going to be one hundred times more

672
00:44:31,039 --> 00:44:33,519
exciting than my life ever was.

673
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:37,800
Speaker 1: Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by anheuser Busch Incorporated,

674
00:44:38,199 --> 00:44:42,280
brewers of Budweiser and Buick Motor Division. This is EG

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00:44:42,519 --> 00:44:45,760
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for

676
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:52,760
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasants dreams,