1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 1: The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents. 2 00:00:19,839 --> 00:00:20,359 Speaker 2: Come in. 3 00:00:22,879 --> 00:00:29,559 Speaker 1: Welcome, Hi, me G Marshall. This week starts the second 4 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:32,560 year of Mystery Theater, and it will be a week 5 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:36,880 to remember, a week devoted to the world's master of mystery, horror, 6 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:41,320 and the bizarre, Edgar Allan Poe. Each night this week, 7 00:00:41,399 --> 00:00:43,600 it will be my pleasure and honor to bring you 8 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:47,799 one of Poe's masterpieces, our respectful tribute to the creative 9 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:51,439 genius of a truly great author whose stories will live 10 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:55,520 for all time. Help us celebrate the start of our 11 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:58,880 second year of Mystery Theater by joining us every night 12 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:02,200 this week in our salute to the world's acknowledged master 13 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:07,400 of the macabre. Of all the fears that have plagued mankind, 14 00:01:07,799 --> 00:01:11,079 probably the most terrible was the possibility of. 15 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 3: Being buried alive. 16 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:17,519 Speaker 1: Oh, don't shrink away, you have nothing to fear, modern 17 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:19,280 medical science being what it is. 18 00:01:20,079 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 2: But not so many years ago. 19 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:26,319 Speaker 1: The thought of waking up in one's closed coffin beneath 20 00:01:26,439 --> 00:01:30,840 six feet of earth. That was a horrible thought in daging, 21 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:35,599 and an ever present danger which led, in at least 22 00:01:35,599 --> 00:01:39,359 one case, to a remarkably strange experiment. 23 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:44,680 Speaker 4: Let me go oh, please let me go. 24 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:45,719 Speaker 5: I'm dead. 25 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 6: I tell you, I'm dead, my guy. 26 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 7: I must release her. 27 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 6: Gordon, Look, she's alive. 28 00:01:51,799 --> 00:01:57,439 Speaker 4: Only my spirit lives. My god, it has been dead 29 00:01:57,480 --> 00:01:58,040 for day. 30 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 2: I beg you let me really so from the spell 31 00:02:00,959 --> 00:02:07,920 of mesmerism, I cast over, Yes, yes, release me no picturing. 32 00:02:08,039 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 6: No oh no, my darling. 33 00:02:09,599 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 2: If I let Gordon break this hold on you, you will 34 00:02:11,879 --> 00:02:12,240 be data. 35 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:13,879 Speaker 6: I can't face the horror of that. 36 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:21,479 Speaker 8: That the worse horror awaits you, horror far, far worse. 37 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:35,719 Speaker 1: Our mystery drama, The Premature Burial was adapted from the 38 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:39,680 Edgar Allan Poe classic especially for the mystery theater by 39 00:02:39,759 --> 00:02:44,360 George Lowther and stars Kier Delay. It is sponsored in 40 00:02:44,439 --> 00:02:48,919 part by Buick Motor Division and sign off the Sinus Medicines. 41 00:02:49,560 --> 00:03:04,159 I'll be back shortly with Act one. As you know, 42 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:09,520 I am an inveterate and incurable reader of diaries, the 43 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:15,039 paston letters John Evelyn, Peeps, Boswell, Young Pastor Kilbert. 44 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 2: I've read them all, and many. 45 00:03:16,719 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 1: More, besides the daily journals, that is, of lesser known folk. 46 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:26,800 In so doing, I've happened upon some curious tales, but none, 47 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:30,039 I assure you that can match in sheer terror. The 48 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,759 one I bring you now, I happened upon it years 49 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:37,000 ago when a small out of the way bookshop in London, England. 50 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:41,240 It's the journal of a young doctor, doctor Gordon Rainey, 51 00:03:42,039 --> 00:03:45,280 and it recounts certain events that took place in the 52 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:50,719 year eighteen hundred and ten. Now let meast see where. 53 00:03:50,439 --> 00:03:51,159 Speaker 2: To begin. 54 00:03:52,439 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 7: Out here. 55 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 1: I arrived at the Bull and Bear Inn in Salisbury, 56 00:03:57,199 --> 00:04:00,599 the doctor writes, in one of the worst of arms, 57 00:04:00,639 --> 00:04:03,719 and having stabled my horse and seen to its proper care, 58 00:04:04,159 --> 00:04:07,120 soon found myself in the rooms my friend Guy Peterson 59 00:04:07,159 --> 00:04:10,520 had engaged for himself. In all the years I'd known 60 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:13,599 him since undergraduate days at Cambridge, I've never. 61 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:16,319 Speaker 2: Known this closest of my friends to be in such 62 00:04:16,319 --> 00:04:20,199 a state of overwrought nerves. They got you come, Gordon, 63 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:22,600 Thank god you're here last my friend. When I came 64 00:04:22,639 --> 00:04:24,560 as soon as I could after getting your message. 65 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:25,600 Speaker 6: But what is it? 66 00:04:25,639 --> 00:04:27,680 Speaker 2: I've never seen you in such a state of nursing. 67 00:04:28,399 --> 00:04:32,319 Thank god you're actually trembling stead did you see him? 68 00:04:32,439 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 6: And they buried it last week, But I must see 69 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:37,040 you once. The game gaze on her face. 70 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 2: That now look at me, look at me, Look fall 71 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:42,560 into my eyes? 72 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 6: What Gordon book, what are you doing? 73 00:04:46,199 --> 00:04:50,879 Speaker 2: I'm merely calming you down through the use of mesmerism 74 00:04:51,079 --> 00:04:52,920 mesgrusen what. 75 00:04:52,959 --> 00:04:54,399 Speaker 7: I liven't name is there? 76 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 6: And why do you stir at me. 77 00:04:58,879 --> 00:05:00,800 Speaker 7: As if so? 78 00:05:00,879 --> 00:05:07,519 Speaker 2: If that's right, old friend, that's right, calm down, quiet yourself, relieless, 79 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:17,800 just loose enough at yourself. Go that's it, that's it 80 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:28,120 there now, feel better, boy? Yes, but how did you 81 00:05:28,199 --> 00:05:32,199 do it? What is this mesmerism? 82 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 7: Did you say? 83 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:36,439 Speaker 2: Yes, A means of controlling another person by well, to 84 00:05:36,439 --> 00:05:40,000 put it simplistically, dominating him with one's own will, the 85 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:44,079 force of one's own will power. But but that's miraculous, 86 00:05:44,199 --> 00:05:49,160 and yet you you did it. I feel ever so 87 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:52,959 much calmer now because you made me good. And now, guy, calmly, 88 00:05:53,079 --> 00:05:55,399 tell me why you sent that urgent message to meet 89 00:05:55,439 --> 00:05:56,480 you here in Salisbury. 90 00:05:56,959 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 6: Victory Victory is dead. 91 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:04,920 Speaker 2: Ah, I know how you must feel, and of course 92 00:06:04,959 --> 00:06:08,639 I sympathize deeply. But her death isn't it a blessing? 93 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:13,120 A blessing? She's dead, Victory is dead and at last 94 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,639 three of the hellish life, Sir Giles Buckingham, let her 95 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,639 come now, guy? Is that not something to thank God 96 00:06:18,759 --> 00:06:18,959 for me. 97 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:20,920 Speaker 6: I suppose, I suppose. 98 00:06:20,879 --> 00:06:24,759 Speaker 2: My dear good friend, I know how much you loved. 99 00:06:24,519 --> 00:06:27,480 Speaker 6: Who loved her. She was my heart, my soul, my 100 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:28,120 very life. 101 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:31,319 Speaker 2: Her life depended for me when her family forced to 102 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:32,519 the Mersy Charles. 103 00:06:32,319 --> 00:06:33,879 Speaker 7: We talked of it again and again. 104 00:06:33,959 --> 00:06:37,879 Speaker 2: But now that she is dead, perhaps you can try 105 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,480 to take up your life again. I must see her, garden, 106 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:42,399 see her. 107 00:06:43,319 --> 00:06:46,399 Speaker 6: That's why I'm here, why I asked you here. 108 00:06:47,199 --> 00:06:50,279 Speaker 2: I must see her, Gordon, gaze upon her lovely face 109 00:06:50,319 --> 00:06:54,199 once more. But she's buried, buried a week ago, you said, 110 00:06:54,439 --> 00:06:57,639 in the family vault on the Buckingham the State. I 111 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:00,680 want to go there tonight, fourth entry into the vault, 112 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:04,519 open her coffin and look at her once more. 113 00:07:04,439 --> 00:07:08,879 Speaker 6: Just once more. I need you because I fear it 114 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:09,360 go alone. 115 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:10,680 Speaker 2: There is more to fear than that. 116 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:10,959 Speaker 7: Guy. 117 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:13,839 Speaker 2: What you mean a body dead and buried for a 118 00:07:13,879 --> 00:07:19,480 week in a damp and virtually airless vault. Guy, you 119 00:07:19,519 --> 00:07:21,079 will not see victorin as. 120 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:21,759 Speaker 7: She was in life. 121 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 6: I shall see her, guy, This is mad. 122 00:07:24,319 --> 00:07:24,959 Speaker 7: I beg you. 123 00:07:25,079 --> 00:07:25,639 Speaker 2: I must. 124 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:27,920 Speaker 6: I don't care what she has become. 125 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:33,680 Speaker 7: I must see her once more. Must I do it alone? 126 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:35,439 Speaker 6: Will you help me. 127 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 2: If it is your wish, you wish it so strongly, 128 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:50,839 then yes, I'll help you. We must be be careful 129 00:07:50,839 --> 00:07:53,959 not to be discovered. Good, and this night makes everything 130 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,399 as clear as day. I'll be known about unless the 131 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:58,399 estate is guarded at night against poachers. 132 00:07:59,000 --> 00:07:59,639 Speaker 6: That don't matter. 133 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 2: Wind creaking up, I should help a little cover any 134 00:08:05,879 --> 00:08:06,839 sound in the lape hairs. 135 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:09,879 Speaker 6: Here's the gate to the estate. 136 00:08:11,199 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 7: Is it long? Find out? 137 00:08:14,439 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 3: Now? 138 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 6: Come there? 139 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:23,399 Speaker 7: There's so much for that. Now the location of the vault? 140 00:08:23,519 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 6: You do you know where it is? Yes? 141 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:28,439 Speaker 2: That line of copper beaches on the hill, zem, Yes, 142 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:30,879 the vault lies just beyond. 143 00:08:31,439 --> 00:08:31,639 Speaker 7: Come. 144 00:08:31,839 --> 00:08:35,279 Speaker 6: Wait that barking dog. 145 00:08:36,399 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 2: If the place is guarded by a dog, or even dawn, 146 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:40,159 And don't let your nerves get the best of you. 147 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 7: Had enough to face trouble when it comes. Not before 148 00:08:43,879 --> 00:08:44,279 that dog. 149 00:08:45,039 --> 00:08:45,919 Speaker 6: It's here on the ground. 150 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 2: I'm closer, Gordon, steady, man, steady, Yes, it's on the grounds, 151 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:53,799 all right, and coming this way. Let's step out into 152 00:08:53,799 --> 00:08:54,759 the open, into the open. 153 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 7: The dog is coming this way. I want to meet 154 00:08:57,320 --> 00:08:58,240 it in full moonlight. 155 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 2: My god, why cause my only chance of subduing the 156 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:03,679 beast if it can be done. Will be with my 157 00:09:03,879 --> 00:09:07,480 eyes my voice too, Yes, but but the eyes. 158 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:10,960 Speaker 7: I see it coming over the hill against the moonlight. 159 00:09:11,759 --> 00:09:12,679 Speaker 6: Good lord. 160 00:09:13,919 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 7: Was an animal door. That's a mastiff and the big money. 161 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:17,879 And he's brought our sent. 162 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 2: Step step out into the moonlight quickly. 163 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:22,159 Speaker 6: We're always losses. 164 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 7: Lost, no move. Beave this to me. Ah my boy, 165 00:09:32,879 --> 00:09:37,559 hie down, Hi down. Now that's a good dog. 166 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:43,720 Speaker 2: That's it. We're not here to do you any harm. Boy, 167 00:09:43,919 --> 00:09:52,919 we're friends, your friends. Yes, that's right, boy, there's a 168 00:09:53,159 --> 00:09:54,120 good dog. 169 00:09:55,639 --> 00:09:56,840 Speaker 7: Fine dog. 170 00:09:58,919 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 6: Um believable. He stopped in me. 171 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:04,679 Speaker 2: Your eyes held him to the one spot just by 172 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:07,320 looking at him, and with your voice you soothed him. 173 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:09,919 You calmed him, took all the fight out of his airs. 174 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:22,919 Speaker 7: And now let's get onto the vault. Here we are 175 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:29,639 the vault locked, freights are. 176 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 2: I'll have to use the pride bar I brought it 177 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:39,080 and he'll be as quiet as you can. Yes, gets open, 178 00:10:39,879 --> 00:10:46,919 we can go in. Uh light the lantern, going, guy, guy, 179 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,720 once more, I urge you not to go through with this. 180 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:52,600 I must you know, I must have listened to me. 181 00:10:53,759 --> 00:10:54,399 Speaker 7: Light the lantern. 182 00:10:54,399 --> 00:10:59,879 Speaker 2: I'm lighting the lantern, but listen to me. You remember 183 00:11:00,039 --> 00:11:03,159 Victorina as she was, the lovely, innocent gentle girl who 184 00:11:03,279 --> 00:11:06,240 was forced to marry Sir Giles seven years ago. The 185 00:11:06,399 --> 00:11:09,039 torments he put her through the daily torture of living 186 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:12,279 with such a beast, these alone would have changed her face. 187 00:11:13,519 --> 00:11:19,000 That she's dead as well and buried here a whole week. Guy, 188 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:22,600 I beg you once again, remember her as she was, 189 00:11:23,759 --> 00:11:28,120 not as she must now be. Shine the lantern about 190 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:34,559 very well? Yeah, and so at least a dozen coffins 191 00:11:34,639 --> 00:11:37,399 piled one in another. How can we tell which is 192 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:41,080 Victorian Hers would be one of the topmost. Yes, and 193 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:45,759 the velvet covering would be the newest brass studs still 194 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:49,360 bright up that one up there. I think let's get 195 00:11:49,399 --> 00:11:51,360 it down and see. Just let me put the lantern 196 00:11:51,399 --> 00:11:56,559 over there. So now then I'll take the head of 197 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:58,399 the coffin view the other end. 198 00:11:58,759 --> 00:12:00,960 Speaker 7: Can you reach it just all right? 199 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:01,279 Speaker 3: Pull? 200 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:04,799 Speaker 2: Then pull it to the edge, and when we get 201 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:07,039 into the edge we can put our hands under it 202 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:08,519 and let it down. 203 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:14,759 Speaker 7: Gent please, Gordon, I heard. 204 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 1: It was it. 205 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:19,120 Speaker 6: It couldn't be happy, hard, I thought. 206 00:12:23,039 --> 00:12:24,759 Speaker 7: A voice, and it. 207 00:12:24,799 --> 00:12:26,639 Speaker 6: Comes from inside the golfin, oh, dear above the. 208 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:31,039 Speaker 3: Business, Gordon, She's alive, alive. 209 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 2: Let's put it on the ground, on the ground, easy 210 00:12:35,159 --> 00:12:41,799 and easy, cry I also yes, or. 211 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:44,639 Speaker 3: Hurry, man, my nerves am trembling those things. 212 00:12:44,919 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 7: It to me now, then hurry, hurry. I'm working as 213 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:54,600 much as I can. There quickly the lantern. 214 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:57,759 Speaker 6: Yes, yes, signed it into the coffin. 215 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 3: There, look victory, alive alive, God, oh God. 216 00:13:10,879 --> 00:13:19,039 Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you, my dear gen God you God, yes, 217 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:20,480 my dear one guy. 218 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:22,519 Speaker 7: Let me help me lift her out. 219 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 6: Oh I can't believe alive. Oh my goodness, this is 220 00:13:26,519 --> 00:13:27,120 horrible for you. 221 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:30,039 Speaker 4: I want to think about it. I can't tell you 222 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:31,399 to wake up. 223 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:35,679 Speaker 8: Sure, it's not knowing where you are and everything black witch, 224 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:39,840 black choffolk eating scarce enough air. 225 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 7: To breathe, that's not think about it. 226 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 4: And then you move in. You feel the side of 227 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:49,559 the coffin narrow, so narrow, and you be chopping. You 228 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,600 touch the lid, with the lids only an inch or 229 00:13:52,639 --> 00:13:59,279 two from your face, and then suddenly, you know, helped me, 230 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:04,559 You know, you scream with the door that you scream, and. 231 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:07,919 Speaker 7: At once. 232 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 2: It's going You're alive, and that's all that matters. And 233 00:14:15,159 --> 00:14:18,600 thanks to what I called a mad impulse, you'll. 234 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:25,039 Speaker 8: Say, Oh, my darling, my dear sweetheart, sweetheart, Listen to me, 235 00:14:25,159 --> 00:14:27,240 you two listen, we face a problem. 236 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 2: What problem? 237 00:14:28,039 --> 00:14:29,759 Speaker 7: Well? How are you going to take her back to 238 00:14:29,799 --> 00:14:31,519 Sir Giles? How explain all this? 239 00:14:31,799 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 2: Sir Giles will have you have us arrested for breaking 240 00:14:34,519 --> 00:14:36,840 an entry. He's not going back to Sir Giles. She's 241 00:14:36,879 --> 00:14:40,279 coming with me, away from this hellish clas you can't do. 242 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:43,159 She is what I'll die before I let Sir Giles 243 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:45,879 get his hand on. I promise you may very well 244 00:14:46,039 --> 00:14:52,080 keep my dear sir, what sh How did you The 245 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:56,639 barking of my dog arouse me? I in turn rouse 246 00:14:56,799 --> 00:14:59,320 my keepers, who are out and about scouring the woods. 247 00:15:00,159 --> 00:15:03,039 As it happens, I came this way, saw the light 248 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,399 of your lantern flickering in the vault, and prepared to 249 00:15:06,519 --> 00:15:10,639 surprise what I thought to be grave robbers. Well, as 250 00:15:10,679 --> 00:15:14,679 it happens, I am the one surprised. Indeed, I'm shocked. 251 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:18,120 I scarcely expected to find Victorin alive. 252 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 6: Yes, she's alive, and from here on, Sir Giles will live. 253 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:25,759 Speaker 2: I pray a far happier life with me than ever 254 00:15:25,879 --> 00:15:26,399 she did with you. 255 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 7: But with I sir, I think not. 256 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 2: If you're going anywhere my friend, you and your accomplice, 257 00:15:33,639 --> 00:15:37,360 it's to jail. As for my wife, since she is 258 00:15:37,559 --> 00:15:40,799 returned to life, she will also return to me. 259 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 7: You don't move, sir, I warn you well. 260 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 2: If you do, it will give me extreme pleasure to 261 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:50,240 blow your head off with this gun. 262 00:15:51,679 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 7: Extreme pleasure. 263 00:15:57,759 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 1: I confess that at this point in doctor Gordon Rainey's journal, 264 00:16:01,159 --> 00:16:04,480 I thought the tale over and done with. I was wrong, 265 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:09,000 for really it was only the beginning. I'll return shortly 266 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:24,000 with Act two. Well, as I said, I thought that 267 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:25,679 doctor Gordon Rainey's story. 268 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:26,200 Speaker 2: Had come to an end. 269 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: He had gone with his friend Guy Peterson to the 270 00:16:29,559 --> 00:16:32,879 vault where the woman he loved lay dead in her coffin, 271 00:16:33,639 --> 00:16:37,440 only to find her alive, and then, as he planned 272 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:39,600 to run away with her to save her from further 273 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:42,399 torments at the hands of her husband, he was stopped 274 00:16:42,559 --> 00:16:45,600 by the appearance of that same husband, gun in hand, 275 00:16:46,279 --> 00:16:49,080 promising to have him and Doctor Rainey jailed. 276 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:54,200 Speaker 4: Child, I entreat you let them go. They've done no harm. 277 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:56,440 On the contrary, if it hadn't been for. 278 00:16:56,519 --> 00:16:58,960 Speaker 8: Guy and Doctor Rainey, I'd even now be lying in 279 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:01,600 my coffin a lie, or that you. 280 00:17:01,759 --> 00:17:04,640 Speaker 7: Were amn you woman would that you were. 281 00:17:05,519 --> 00:17:08,680 Speaker 2: Your unexpected return from a grave will lose me a fortune. 282 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:11,160 Speaker 4: How can I being alive cost you anything? 283 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:17,119 Speaker 2: Lady Hastings is a widow. Lady Hastings has an income 284 00:17:17,279 --> 00:17:21,160 of thirty thousand a year. I proposed marriage to her 285 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:26,720 on Tuesday and she accepted me. You you propose marriage 286 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:28,759 to another woman three days after your wife died? 287 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:29,200 Speaker 7: Why not? 288 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:35,200 Speaker 2: I'm alive, very much alive, and to live one needs money. 289 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 7: Why the look, doctor Aney, You have. 290 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:42,799 Speaker 2: More sense, it seems, than sensitivity, Sir Giles, insulting me 291 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:46,880 with only worse than matters for you, doctor, If that's possible, 292 00:17:47,759 --> 00:17:50,359 you can't be as unaware as you would like to 293 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:54,680 seem that your career is ruined. A doctor, a physician 294 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:59,640 arrested for breaking and entering breaking and entering a mortuary, 295 00:18:00,319 --> 00:18:03,720 a sacred repository of the dead, Sir Giles, You mustn't 296 00:18:03,759 --> 00:18:06,319 do this to doctor any He helped me because he's 297 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:09,079 my friend, a good and true friend. He was against 298 00:18:09,079 --> 00:18:10,759 it from a very start and would never have agree 299 00:18:10,799 --> 00:18:12,480 to assist me had it not been for his deep 300 00:18:12,519 --> 00:18:13,720 and abiding sense of loyalty. 301 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:16,519 Speaker 7: All do stop do or you shall. 302 00:18:16,319 --> 00:18:17,200 Speaker 2: Have me in tears. 303 00:18:17,799 --> 00:18:19,079 Speaker 4: Tears from a stone. 304 00:18:21,039 --> 00:18:25,599 Speaker 7: Oh hey, well, then stone stone that. 305 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:30,319 Speaker 2: Will crush you, dear wife, crush you until the death 306 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:31,640 you've escape will. 307 00:18:31,519 --> 00:18:32,839 Speaker 7: Seem a paradise to you. 308 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 2: Put on that gun and I but I have no 309 00:18:35,079 --> 00:18:37,599 intention of putting down the gun, certainly not until the 310 00:18:37,599 --> 00:18:42,119 bailiff arrives and takes you into custody, to jail, where 311 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:42,680 I shall. 312 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:42,839 Speaker 6: See to it. 313 00:18:43,039 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 7: You rot, the two of you. What you mean rot? 314 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:51,079 Speaker 2: I mean quite simply that once you're put in jail, 315 00:18:51,839 --> 00:18:54,759 you will never leave it. You will rot there. Doctor, 316 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:57,640 You make no sense, Sir Giles. A penalty for breaking 317 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:01,480 and enter aenalties who speaks so peny I do. There 318 00:19:01,519 --> 00:19:05,200 are laws, laws in this nature, only one law, hear me. 319 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:07,799 I am the law in the village of Buckingham. 320 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:11,400 Speaker 7: I am Buckingham. Oh it is no, Sir Giles. 321 00:19:12,319 --> 00:19:14,559 Speaker 2: He will not imprison this man for the rest of 322 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:18,000 his life. Nor will you imprison me. 323 00:19:18,799 --> 00:19:21,519 Speaker 7: Oh and may I ask why not? 324 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:22,400 Speaker 2: Because I say so? 325 00:19:23,279 --> 00:19:24,400 Speaker 7: Because I tell you so. 326 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:28,880 Speaker 2: Now don't look away, look at me, look into my eyes, 327 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:32,279 have the courage to look into them and tell me? 328 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:36,799 Then will you imprison us? 329 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:38,759 Speaker 6: Mesmerism. 330 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:47,359 Speaker 7: Why why such is my intention? Yes, she is your intention, 331 00:19:47,799 --> 00:19:51,079 Sir Giles, war was. 332 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 2: Well, well, it certainly was. I mean to say, well, 333 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:03,440 the way you put it most eloquently. 334 00:20:03,559 --> 00:20:08,359 Speaker 6: Good Lord, it's working. He's doing it again, doing what. 335 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 2: And you, being a man of sensitivity, my eloquence, the validity. 336 00:20:15,039 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 7: Of what I say has touched you? Is that not? 337 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:20,680 Speaker 6: So? It is? 338 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:23,519 Speaker 7: So, isn't it? Why? 339 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:23,839 Speaker 1: Uh? 340 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:25,279 Speaker 7: Yeah? 341 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:30,720 Speaker 2: Yees seen in a different light, so to speak. Yes, 342 00:20:30,839 --> 00:20:36,359 it would serve no purpose, no purpose to put you 343 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:42,000 in jail, none, none, ry And so you let us go? 344 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 7: You will let us go? 345 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:51,640 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, go get out of my sight, the two 346 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:53,359 of you, and never come back. 347 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,640 Speaker 7: As leave guy Victory. Under the law, there's nothing we 348 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:58,720 can do. She is his wife. I can't leave her. 349 00:20:58,799 --> 00:20:59,200 Speaker 6: You must. 350 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:01,680 Speaker 2: The bailiff will be here any moment, and I can't 351 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:04,119 dominate Sir Giles's will with mine much longer. 352 00:21:04,599 --> 00:21:05,119 Speaker 4: My darling. 353 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:06,880 Speaker 6: To leave you with him. 354 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:09,039 Speaker 4: Whatever happens to me will be harder to bear if 355 00:21:09,079 --> 00:21:10,880 you are in prison. Go, I entreat you. 356 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:15,440 Speaker 2: All second thought is coming out of it. Guy, my friend, 357 00:21:15,519 --> 00:21:17,200 I've done all I can for you, and I'll not 358 00:21:17,279 --> 00:21:21,759 see my career ruin because you got You're right. Goodbye, 359 00:21:21,799 --> 00:21:38,039 my darling, my dearest, goodbye. Mesmerize me, good do something, 360 00:21:38,519 --> 00:21:40,839 do anything to believe me. You'll just told me you 361 00:21:41,079 --> 00:21:42,680 must control yourself. 362 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:45,880 Speaker 7: I think of her, dream of her. 363 00:21:46,079 --> 00:21:49,160 Speaker 2: She is never out of my thoughts, and always I 364 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:51,759 am stricken with the thought that my very imaginings are 365 00:21:51,799 --> 00:21:54,279 as nothing to what he is really doing to her. 366 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:58,200 The beating is the starving of her, her very loneliness, 367 00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:00,880 the vile subjection to his passions. 368 00:22:01,799 --> 00:22:04,839 Speaker 6: Oh, merciful head of I shall go out of my mind. 369 00:22:05,319 --> 00:22:10,039 Speaker 2: Yes, guy, you shall unless you pull yourself together now. 370 00:22:10,079 --> 00:22:12,039 If you don't stop thinking of her, if you don't 371 00:22:12,079 --> 00:22:15,000 stop letting your fancy invent miseries, she is very likely 372 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:15,759 not suffering. 373 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:18,160 Speaker 7: You will go insane. You will. 374 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:20,359 Speaker 6: Someone at the door. 375 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:21,839 Speaker 7: Who are you expecting? Someone who? 376 00:22:22,039 --> 00:22:23,920 Speaker 6: No, no one, who would I want to see? 377 00:22:24,319 --> 00:22:33,359 Speaker 2: I'll answer, Victorine, save me, God, say heavens, come in. 378 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:34,000 Speaker 7: My dear. 379 00:22:35,519 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 2: Guy. 380 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:36,319 Speaker 6: Guy. 381 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:37,319 Speaker 2: Look it's Victorine. 382 00:22:37,559 --> 00:22:38,160 Speaker 6: Victorine. 383 00:22:39,319 --> 00:22:41,480 Speaker 7: Oh it is. 384 00:22:43,079 --> 00:22:46,440 Speaker 6: It is, my dearest no more. 385 00:22:47,519 --> 00:22:51,319 Speaker 4: Oh yes, oh hold me in your arm. 386 00:22:51,519 --> 00:22:53,799 Speaker 6: To me, Oh Victoria. 387 00:22:54,319 --> 00:22:57,000 Speaker 4: He may kill me, but I'll never go back. 388 00:22:57,319 --> 00:22:59,279 Speaker 6: Never. He never loved me. 389 00:23:00,279 --> 00:23:02,440 Speaker 4: And now he hates me because I keep him from 390 00:23:02,839 --> 00:23:06,480 marrying Lady Hastings and her fortune and makes me pay. 391 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:08,920 Speaker 2: Oh, save me from him. 392 00:23:11,319 --> 00:23:12,960 Speaker 6: Let him take it back, Gordon. 393 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:20,440 Speaker 2: She's fainting here, victory, some brandy. Lie down on the 394 00:23:20,519 --> 00:23:26,160 couch there, my love, love, relax and let me take over. Guy, 395 00:23:26,559 --> 00:23:28,720 go and bar the door, and bar it solidly. 396 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:29,160 Speaker 6: Father. 397 00:23:29,279 --> 00:23:31,279 Speaker 2: He must know she has fled and to where she 398 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:33,000 has fled, and he cannot risk her out of his 399 00:23:33,079 --> 00:23:33,920 sight because. 400 00:23:35,319 --> 00:23:38,200 Speaker 6: Because what damn what's it? 401 00:23:39,799 --> 00:23:44,279 Speaker 4: Let me see it for him? Because once again I am. 402 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:46,400 Speaker 3: Yes. 403 00:23:48,039 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 8: Unless I can find rest, unless I can feel myself 404 00:23:52,599 --> 00:23:55,440 safe from him, I shall die. 405 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:56,160 Speaker 6: You will not. 406 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,599 Speaker 7: I want to die. Just stop talking, man for once now. 407 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:03,400 Bather door, Yes, yes, yes, that's too late to smell. 408 00:24:03,599 --> 00:24:04,240 Speaker 6: I threw the ball. 409 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:09,559 Speaker 7: Not enough, I say, I haven't all broken down. 410 00:24:09,519 --> 00:24:13,279 Speaker 2: Golden, unless you want to smash door with nothing. 411 00:24:13,079 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 7: Gained open itself and you are just take her back 412 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:20,119 to buttinghom. 413 00:24:19,799 --> 00:24:20,279 Speaker 6: Yes he will. 414 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:21,119 Speaker 2: She's his wife. 415 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:27,079 Speaker 7: There's nothing you can do now, Damn you all added again? 416 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:30,440 Are you stealing my wife? Taking what belongs to me? 417 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:31,519 Speaker 6: You men? 418 00:24:31,839 --> 00:24:33,519 Speaker 7: Take her over my dead body? 419 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:37,759 Speaker 2: Enough, I'm mean I'll stand back, or I'll bring you 420 00:24:37,839 --> 00:24:39,920 with his candlestick all right. 421 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,960 Speaker 7: Down, You'll be next, my friend. 422 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:50,039 Speaker 2: If you don't anywhere moved back. You uh quite a 423 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:54,000 hand with a candlestick. Doctor Rainye, you've laid my man out. 424 00:24:55,039 --> 00:24:58,759 I plus you know what this means for you. Perhaps 425 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:03,200 you should consider what it means for you, Sir Giles. Lisa, 426 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:05,839 as you're not in Buckingham now you're in London seeking 427 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,240 a wife who's run from her husband to a lover, 428 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:11,440 herser a woman who has come to her doctor. 429 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 6: What what do you say? 430 00:25:14,759 --> 00:25:18,680 Speaker 2: Your your wife is dangerously ill. You have only to 431 00:25:18,799 --> 00:25:21,839 use your eyes to see that. I being her friend, 432 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,559 I am sure she sought me at my residence and 433 00:25:25,039 --> 00:25:30,680 not finding me there, came here adroit, most adroit, doctor Rainey. 434 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:36,000 May I ask then if you've prescribed for her illness. 435 00:25:36,519 --> 00:25:40,559 Not as yet, Sir Giles, but you will Yes, not 436 00:25:40,759 --> 00:25:45,079 good enough, Doctor Rainey. As her husband, a lawful husband, 437 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,680 I intend to take her back with me to Buckingham 438 00:25:49,599 --> 00:25:50,160 Victory in. 439 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:54,440 Speaker 7: My darling, come with me. No really, now you've no children. 440 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,039 Speaker 2: I shall have offer him you die if you have 441 00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,559 no recourse in the eyes of the law. 442 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:00,599 Speaker 7: She is his wife. 443 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:04,720 Speaker 2: He wants her, and you cannot keep her from him, 444 00:26:05,279 --> 00:26:12,359 sensibly said doctor. Here, dear wife, goodwife, faithful and loyal. 445 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:16,279 Speaker 7: Wife, Take my hand and let me help you from 446 00:26:16,319 --> 00:26:20,039 off that couch. Take my hand. 447 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:28,400 Speaker 8: File. You are File, Sophie. So I shall never touch 448 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,359 you again. I'd rather burn off my hands than touch. 449 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:32,319 Speaker 4: You, you evil man. 450 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:35,759 Speaker 2: Die rather than go back with you. 451 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:37,599 Speaker 3: Die. Came you come? 452 00:26:37,799 --> 00:26:37,839 Speaker 6: No? 453 00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:53,279 Speaker 7: No, no, Gordon, she is dead. Oh are you sure? Doctor? 454 00:26:54,039 --> 00:26:56,880 Speaker 2: She was pronounced dead once before? You know, there is 455 00:26:56,960 --> 00:27:01,519 no pulse. I can detect no vital signs. To all 456 00:27:01,599 --> 00:27:07,119 intents and purposes, she is dead, ay, you modern day 457 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:13,519 doctors always escaping in words and phrases to all intents 458 00:27:13,759 --> 00:27:16,240 and purposes, which is to say. 459 00:27:16,519 --> 00:27:17,720 Speaker 7: You're not sure? 460 00:27:17,839 --> 00:27:19,079 Speaker 2: Who is sure of anything? 461 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:19,799 Speaker 7: Sir Giles. 462 00:27:20,079 --> 00:27:22,680 Speaker 2: However, considering what has gone before, we will keep her 463 00:27:22,759 --> 00:27:25,519 here under observation for a few days. You'll do nothing 464 00:27:25,559 --> 00:27:28,839 of the sort. You men, pick her up and bear 465 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:30,839 her to my carriage. Now wait, what are you doing 466 00:27:31,039 --> 00:27:35,039 possessing myself of my property, sir, whether it be alive 467 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:36,440 or day. But you can't do this. 468 00:27:36,599 --> 00:27:40,759 Speaker 7: You cannot do my carricle. Eh, there is nothing tiger 469 00:27:40,799 --> 00:27:46,599 of us can do and Guy, she is dead. I'm 470 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:47,720 virtually sure of that. 471 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:52,200 Speaker 2: But if she is not, don't trouble yourself, your own friend, 472 00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:56,319 the man you trust. Doctor Gordon Rainie has pronounced her death. 473 00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:00,279 All I intend to do is see that she is 474 00:28:00,599 --> 00:28:06,240 properly buried this time. To stay properly buried? 475 00:28:10,319 --> 00:28:11,119 Speaker 7: Is she dead? 476 00:28:12,559 --> 00:28:16,319 Speaker 1: You must understand in those days, more than half a 477 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,119 century ago, one was never sure. 478 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,519 Speaker 2: I'll return shortly for Act three. 479 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,079 Speaker 1: Think for a moment how you would feel if you 480 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:41,599 thought someone you loved might conceivably have been buried alive, 481 00:28:42,839 --> 00:28:45,799 and you will understand the feelings of young Guy Peterson. 482 00:28:47,039 --> 00:28:49,920 Think again, how you would feel if you were a 483 00:28:50,039 --> 00:28:54,559 close friend of guys a physician who risks his career 484 00:28:54,839 --> 00:28:58,279 every time he consents to help Guy spirit is beloved 485 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:02,119 from her tomb, and you will then understand why doctor 486 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:07,200 Gordon Rainey wrote in his journal, I feel if Guy 487 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:08,319 is not mad. 488 00:29:08,359 --> 00:29:09,240 Speaker 7: He is close to it. 489 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:13,000 Speaker 2: He has never been a robust man, but on the contrary, 490 00:29:13,119 --> 00:29:16,480 something of a neurotic. So it was that I refused, 491 00:29:16,839 --> 00:29:19,319 and again refused when he begged help me. 492 00:29:20,279 --> 00:29:21,640 Speaker 6: I beg you, Gordon, help me. 493 00:29:21,759 --> 00:29:23,400 Speaker 2: That is what I am trying to do. 494 00:29:23,839 --> 00:29:25,400 Speaker 7: By refusing what you ask. 495 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:28,240 Speaker 2: We were caught in the act of entering the Buckingham 496 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,599 Bault the first time, we would surely be caught a second. 497 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,039 There could be no doubt that Sir Giles is having 498 00:29:33,079 --> 00:29:35,160 to place God. If there's a God, will get past 499 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:36,440 him somehow or knock. 500 00:29:36,319 --> 00:29:39,319 Speaker 6: Him unconscious or oh yes, you you could mesmeize him 501 00:29:39,319 --> 00:29:40,000 as you did that dog. 502 00:29:40,079 --> 00:29:43,720 Speaker 2: And and sir John Guy, my dear good friend, listen 503 00:29:43,799 --> 00:29:48,440 to me. First, Victorine is dead. How can you say 504 00:29:48,519 --> 00:29:51,680 that she suffers. She must suffer from some sort of 505 00:29:51,759 --> 00:29:54,359 malady that makes her only appear to be dead. There 506 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,400 are such maladies. Yes, everything you say is true, but 507 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:02,640 you admit she could yet be you alive, very delied 508 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:03,799 in that to even. 509 00:30:03,599 --> 00:30:07,000 Speaker 7: Now stop that, Stop it. The second thing I was. 510 00:30:07,079 --> 00:30:09,960 Speaker 2: Going to point out is that mesmerism doesn't always work. 511 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,480 Some people, the kind of peasant type who would likely 512 00:30:13,559 --> 00:30:16,839 be guarding the fault, cannot be brought under the hypnotic influence. Yes, 513 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,440 and a third thing is this, I am a doctor. 514 00:30:21,079 --> 00:30:23,319 If I get caught again, Sir Giles could end my 515 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:25,920 career and all I have tried to be, all the 516 00:30:26,039 --> 00:30:28,000 good I can accomplish in this world would be set 517 00:30:28,039 --> 00:30:32,880 at naught. I'm sorry, guy, I cannot risk it again. 518 00:30:34,519 --> 00:30:36,319 Now I must do it alone. You will not do 519 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:39,279 it alone. You cannot stop me. No one, nothing can 520 00:30:39,359 --> 00:30:42,319 stop me from rescuing Victoriam from that bulky You are mad, 521 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:46,119 you are thinking irrationally, acting sense at my concern, and 522 00:30:46,319 --> 00:30:50,839 certainly no longer yours O Guy, Guy, me, Gordon, I 523 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:52,599 must prepare for the journey to Salisbury. 524 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:59,400 Speaker 6: Well leave, I said, no, no, I'll. 525 00:30:59,279 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 7: Go with you. 526 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:01,480 Speaker 6: You've changed your mind. 527 00:31:01,559 --> 00:31:01,920 Speaker 7: I have not. 528 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 2: But this is a mad business and I am a 529 00:31:05,039 --> 00:31:05,720 fool to help you. 530 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 7: But I am also your friend, Gordon. 531 00:31:17,759 --> 00:31:20,039 Speaker 6: Yes, the vault is God. 532 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,720 Speaker 7: Yes, I see the man. A big brute he is. 533 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,359 Speaker 2: Do you think you can mesmerise him, bring him under Oh? 534 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:28,880 Speaker 7: What did you call the hypnotic influence? I doubt it. 535 00:31:29,559 --> 00:31:31,839 Speaker 2: He is the type I told you about, all muscle 536 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:32,759 and little brain. 537 00:31:33,559 --> 00:31:34,440 Speaker 7: And it's a dark night. 538 00:31:34,519 --> 00:31:36,680 Speaker 2: To make things worse, he wouldn't be able to see 539 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:37,519 my eyes clearly. 540 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 6: Do do you dare try? 541 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:45,559 Speaker 2: Well? I have no choice, but keep this in mind, guy. Yes, 542 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:49,920 if I fail, as I most certainly shall run for it. 543 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,680 Do you understand? Don't try to fight him? 544 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:53,400 Speaker 7: Run. 545 00:31:53,559 --> 00:31:56,960 Speaker 2: Yes, whatever you say, all right, nodded, Then step out 546 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:01,880 of these bushes and walk towards him and do nothing. 547 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:09,720 He thinks to me, Come, oh's there, Oh don't shoot, friends, 548 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:10,920 and stand. 549 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:16,079 Speaker 7: Where you be. We have a look at you. Of course. 550 00:32:17,519 --> 00:32:22,680 Speaker 2: We mean no harm, friend, We are simply two gentlemen 551 00:32:22,799 --> 00:32:26,200 who got lost in these woods, and so I come 552 00:32:26,279 --> 00:32:30,200 here lost. This ear is booking a manor, and its 553 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,319 surrounded all of it with an iron venge. 554 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:34,079 Speaker 6: How come you got in? 555 00:32:34,359 --> 00:32:39,160 Speaker 2: Well, we really don't know. It's a dark night and 556 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:44,200 our eyes, our eyes couldn't see much like this story. 557 00:32:44,319 --> 00:32:47,640 Speaker 7: You must believe me. My sight is very poor. As 558 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,480 it is very poor. Look for yourself. 559 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:56,480 Speaker 2: Look into my eyes and see for yourself here. Now 560 00:32:56,599 --> 00:32:57,119 what is this? 561 00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:01,119 Speaker 7: Look into your eyes? It's up to the manor. I 562 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:01,799 was with you too. 563 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:05,720 Speaker 2: Well you're ansenter, sir Jiles for dress pressing on his. 564 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,039 Speaker 6: Guy that takes care of him. 565 00:33:11,319 --> 00:33:14,079 Speaker 7: You you stabbed him, couldn't control him. I said to 566 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:14,920 run if I couldn't. 567 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,839 Speaker 2: But oh, guy, I think you'll kill it quickly into 568 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:18,200 the balls. 569 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:20,079 Speaker 7: Wait what happened to you? 570 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,440 Speaker 2: Don't don't you realize that you've just murdered a. 571 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:22,960 Speaker 3: Man and that. 572 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:25,119 Speaker 7: You've gone mad. 573 00:33:26,279 --> 00:33:28,960 Speaker 2: You have gone Now I am as sane as you, 574 00:33:29,519 --> 00:33:31,920 the mad are saying. I must get Victorine out of 575 00:33:32,079 --> 00:33:35,400 that balls now come all right, all right, but heaven 576 00:33:35,519 --> 00:33:37,440 help me? What have I got myself into? Now? 577 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:39,359 Speaker 3: Where is it? 578 00:33:39,559 --> 00:33:40,559 Speaker 7: Where will you had it? 579 00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:40,759 Speaker 6: Oh? 580 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:44,920 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, esther, I must worry she's alive and then 581 00:33:45,359 --> 00:33:46,079 her course alive? 582 00:33:46,519 --> 00:33:50,400 Speaker 6: Must there? Come on? 583 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:52,039 Speaker 2: Come along all right? 584 00:33:52,079 --> 00:33:58,559 Speaker 7: All right, uh there there's a Coston. Lets us get 585 00:33:58,599 --> 00:34:01,279 the little off insane insane. 586 00:34:02,279 --> 00:34:04,200 Speaker 6: Victory? Can you hear me? 587 00:34:05,119 --> 00:34:10,159 Speaker 2: Are you lye, my dearest perhaps fainted? My goodness, that's possible, 588 00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:10,440 isn't it? 589 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:11,079 Speaker 6: Lie? 590 00:34:11,119 --> 00:34:17,199 Speaker 2: But a faintful guy, My poor dear friend, he little 591 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:21,400 offen she dead, as I told you? 592 00:34:21,599 --> 00:34:21,840 Speaker 6: Dead. 593 00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:24,239 Speaker 7: We can't be sure, you know, we can't be sure. 594 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,199 Speaker 2: Guy, in the name of reason, help me, help me 595 00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:28,360 get her out of the conference. 596 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:29,159 Speaker 6: To what purpose? 597 00:34:29,199 --> 00:34:30,880 Speaker 2: To take her back with us to London and make 598 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:31,400 her back. 599 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:32,280 Speaker 7: Where to my place? 600 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,000 Speaker 2: The first place, sir Giles will come to. 601 00:34:34,559 --> 00:34:35,480 Speaker 6: Then to your mind? 602 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:37,599 Speaker 7: Do you realize what you're asking of me? 603 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:39,480 Speaker 2: If you're a friend you claim to be, what you 604 00:34:39,559 --> 00:34:42,760 ask is impossible. You've already made me your unwitting accompass 605 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:44,320 to murder an guy. 606 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:45,559 Speaker 7: You are out of your mind. 607 00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:46,960 Speaker 2: You Gordon, are no friend. 608 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:51,840 Speaker 7: Guy, Guy, I beg you leave her where she is. 609 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:54,400 She's dead, leave her a piece. 610 00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:56,920 Speaker 6: She is not dead, and I am taking her back 611 00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:57,400 to London. 612 00:35:05,559 --> 00:35:08,199 Speaker 2: If whoever may read these pages of my journal thinks 613 00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:12,199 me a fool, I could not agree more. But Guy 614 00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:16,320 was my closest friend, and what's more, was clearly deranged 615 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,239 by the love he bore Victory in and his horror 616 00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:22,159 of letting her be buried alive. So we took her 617 00:35:22,199 --> 00:35:25,360 body to my rooms in London. Three days she lay 618 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,199 on the couch in my sitting room, Guy, never leaving 619 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:31,920 her side night or day. But on the third day 620 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,639 I knew something must be done to end this madness 621 00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:40,280 of his. Look at her, there's no sign metal one 622 00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:43,239 of deconquisition. Heis because it is the middle of winter, 623 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,639 and we kept the windows open and no fire in 624 00:35:45,679 --> 00:35:47,679 the fireplace. The sitting room of mine is a virtual 625 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:48,280 ice house. 626 00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:49,599 Speaker 6: No, I listen to me. 627 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,440 Speaker 2: What you persist in doing is not only lunia, see, 628 00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:53,280 it is sacrilege. 629 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:55,679 Speaker 7: The dead deserved decent burial. 630 00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:59,000 Speaker 2: If you love Victorine as you say you do, let 631 00:35:59,159 --> 00:36:05,199 us bury her, guy, bury her tonight? Where then you 632 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:08,360 will dear? Where can we take her? And I thought 633 00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:11,039 of that and prepared for it. A grave awaits her 634 00:36:11,079 --> 00:36:13,960 body in Saint Pancras cemetery. All is arranged. We can 635 00:36:14,039 --> 00:36:15,440 take her now under cover of night. 636 00:36:17,679 --> 00:36:19,239 Speaker 6: Then let us do it. 637 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,599 Speaker 2: Good, good, Now, I've kept my carriage waiting below. Do 638 00:36:22,639 --> 00:36:23,440 you want to carry her? 639 00:36:23,639 --> 00:36:27,920 Speaker 7: Or shall I let me? It will be the last 640 00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:31,559 time mar hold it in my arms? All right? 641 00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:36,440 Speaker 6: Pick her up? Guy? Yes? Yes, good. 642 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:42,280 Speaker 2: Quot? And what was that stuffing? Come on, let's go downstairs. 643 00:36:43,199 --> 00:36:46,280 But she gave a sigh and I picked her up. Hi, 644 00:36:47,559 --> 00:36:49,400 you heard, Coughton, you heard? 645 00:36:49,519 --> 00:36:53,079 Speaker 6: Good Lord? I did here? Move aside. She's a lie. 646 00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:54,400 Speaker 4: I knew it. 647 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:56,440 Speaker 7: Alive man in Heaven's. 648 00:36:56,199 --> 00:37:02,159 Speaker 2: May be quiet, Victorine, Victorine, do you hear me? 649 00:37:03,199 --> 00:37:03,400 Speaker 4: Yeah? 650 00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:09,360 Speaker 7: I have taken your hand in mine. Do you feel it? 651 00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:10,880 Speaker 6: No? 652 00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:16,800 Speaker 2: Can you open your eyes? If you can open them? 653 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:24,079 She has Gordon. She's gazing at me, Victorine. 654 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:25,519 Speaker 7: Do you see guy? 655 00:37:26,679 --> 00:37:30,519 Speaker 4: Yes, farewell, my. 656 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:34,360 Speaker 6: Farewell, farewell. 657 00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,039 Speaker 4: I am near death. 658 00:37:39,159 --> 00:37:42,280 Speaker 8: No, only a spark of life remains. 659 00:37:42,599 --> 00:37:45,800 Speaker 3: No, No, she must not die. 660 00:37:46,679 --> 00:37:47,519 Speaker 7: Gordon, stop her? 661 00:37:47,639 --> 00:37:51,960 Speaker 2: What are you saying, miss missm before I conclings, Use it? 662 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:52,519 Speaker 7: Are you mad? 663 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:53,079 Speaker 6: Use it? 664 00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:53,639 Speaker 1: How? 665 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:59,239 Speaker 7: Command her not to die? Command her to live? Commander 666 00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,719 can live? Command what to live? 667 00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:03,840 Speaker 2: When there was scarce a breath of life in her, 668 00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:05,920 her mind, her spirit? 669 00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,039 Speaker 7: What but I did it? 670 00:38:10,079 --> 00:38:13,000 Speaker 2: May God, in his infinite mercy forgive me. I did 671 00:38:13,079 --> 00:38:17,039 it using the powers of mesmerism. I held her eyes 672 00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:23,000 with mine and commanded her, forced her to live, even 673 00:38:23,079 --> 00:38:27,159 though over and over she cried out and dead, Let 674 00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:30,559 me go, I'm dead. But I did not let her go, 675 00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:34,599 could not let her go because, yes, I confess it, 676 00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:41,639 because the experiment fascinated me. I Doctor Gordon Rainie, committed 677 00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:45,280 for over five long weeks, committed the sin, the crime, 678 00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,159 the sacrilege of holding the spirit within a dead body 679 00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:54,119 to this earth, even though it pleaded entreated by please me, 680 00:38:54,559 --> 00:39:01,480 ale me in a short time. Yes me first? What 681 00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:03,320 are you spirit? 682 00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:04,559 Speaker 7: Soul? 683 00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:08,639 Speaker 6: Mind? What? I am? 684 00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:10,039 Speaker 3: Dead? 685 00:39:11,599 --> 00:39:11,880 Speaker 4: Dead? 686 00:39:14,679 --> 00:39:16,320 Speaker 6: What's that of the door? I'll answer? 687 00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:22,360 Speaker 2: You found your last day? Damn grave robber, Sir Giles. 688 00:39:22,519 --> 00:39:24,039 Speaker 7: Yes, and you doctor. 689 00:39:24,119 --> 00:39:27,199 Speaker 2: Any who's helped me will no longer be called doctor 690 00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:28,360 when I'm through with you. 691 00:39:28,599 --> 00:39:33,000 Speaker 6: No, child, No, what's this? She lived? 692 00:39:33,519 --> 00:39:36,679 Speaker 7: Child. But she speaks. I heard her speak. 693 00:39:37,639 --> 00:39:40,559 Speaker 2: Here, you see for myself, way away from her. 694 00:39:40,599 --> 00:39:41,440 Speaker 6: Don't you touch it? 695 00:39:41,559 --> 00:39:44,960 Speaker 7: Out of my way? Oh touch, I said, don't. Oh 696 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:47,440 you shot him. 697 00:39:48,599 --> 00:39:52,480 Speaker 2: You killed guy before he stabbed me to death, as 698 00:39:52,519 --> 00:39:54,920 he stabbed my servant self, defenser. 699 00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:59,960 Speaker 7: And now enough of this. I came from my wife's body. 700 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:03,159 Speaker 2: But it appears I shall be taking a wife back 701 00:40:03,199 --> 00:40:04,280 to backing a manner with me. 702 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,280 Speaker 7: Rowser rowser at once. 703 00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:12,280 Speaker 2: I cannot, said, Giles. She is dead, has been dead 704 00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:13,559 for more than six weeks. 705 00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:18,119 Speaker 7: I heard her speak, yess, but it was her soul, 706 00:40:19,079 --> 00:40:19,639 a spirit. 707 00:40:20,119 --> 00:40:24,639 Speaker 2: I don't know what, but not her body. Her body 708 00:40:25,039 --> 00:40:28,719 is dead, yes, dead, I. 709 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:33,039 Speaker 4: Beg you don't hold me any longer. Guys here, let 710 00:40:33,159 --> 00:40:36,519 me go to him. I say to you that I 711 00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:37,559 am dead. 712 00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:39,679 Speaker 6: Let me go. 713 00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:41,960 Speaker 7: She comes with me. 714 00:40:42,199 --> 00:40:45,679 Speaker 2: No, she goes where she should have gone long since. 715 00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:51,880 Now had it not been for me, Victorine, I release you. 716 00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:55,360 Speaker 6: Go, and in the. 717 00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:59,400 Speaker 2: Sanctity of death, join the lover you never had in life. 718 00:41:03,119 --> 00:41:03,760 Speaker 6: What's happening? 719 00:41:04,599 --> 00:41:06,360 Speaker 7: A body? A body? 720 00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:24,440 Speaker 9: It's disintegrating, my eyes rotting, horroring, horrible, horrible, horrible. 721 00:41:24,519 --> 00:41:29,199 Speaker 1: Indeed, it was for using Edgar Allan Poe's own words. 722 00:41:30,119 --> 00:41:34,159 Upon the couch there now lay not the body of Victorine, 723 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:40,239 but a nearly liquid mass of loathsome detestable cutrescence. 724 00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:42,159 Speaker 7: Mister Poe's words. 725 00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:47,159 Speaker 1: Mind, when he set out to horrify you, he horrified you. 726 00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:49,280 Speaker 7: I'll be back shortly. 727 00:42:01,559 --> 00:42:04,840 Speaker 1: The premature burial is only one of a number of 728 00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,199 stories by the Master Edgar Allan Poe. 729 00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:08,719 Speaker 7: I've had the pleasure of bringing you. 730 00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:13,519 Speaker 1: We now owe and generations to come will owe so 731 00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:18,719 much to his imagination, his vibrant fancy, that it might 732 00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,559 be nice to think of him now and then let 733 00:42:21,639 --> 00:42:25,199 his name pass through your thoughts as it does through mine, 734 00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:31,119 and to wish him well wherever he may be. Our 735 00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:35,159 cast included here Delay Paul hect, Guy Sirell, and Marion Zelas. 736 00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,920 Speaker 7: The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown. 737 00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:45,480 Speaker 2: And now a preview of our next tale. 738 00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:46,840 Speaker 7: What is her conditions? 739 00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:50,119 Speaker 2: Well it's not fatal, thank god, not even very serious. 740 00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:53,119 Badly Bruce to cut over her right eye. 741 00:42:53,159 --> 00:42:56,519 Speaker 7: But she's going to be all right. The monster failed 742 00:42:56,559 --> 00:42:57,159 to make good. 743 00:42:57,079 --> 00:43:00,079 Speaker 2: His threat to kill we may indeed thank God God 744 00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:04,239 for that. Well, at least we know more than we 745 00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:08,199 did before, Monsieur dupain. We know that the murderer is 746 00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:11,960 a big man, a huge man of unbelievable strength. 747 00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:15,559 Speaker 7: And that he has black hair. We know a great 748 00:43:15,639 --> 00:43:19,199 deal more than that. Year we do well, I do, 749 00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:20,440 and so do you. 750 00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:25,119 Speaker 2: Only as I've said before, you don't know you know, 751 00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:28,519 or monsieur monsieur I do not have your brilliant brain. 752 00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:30,599 Speaker 7: It doesn't matter. 753 00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:34,760 Speaker 2: All that matters is that you can solve this awful mystery, 754 00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:38,840 that you can save Yvette. The murderer failed this time, 755 00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:40,039 but he'll try again. 756 00:43:40,639 --> 00:43:43,719 Speaker 1: Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by sign Off 757 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:47,079 the Sinus Medicines and Buick Murder Division. 758 00:43:47,679 --> 00:43:48,199 Speaker 6: This is E. G. 759 00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:51,599 Speaker 1: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for 760 00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:53,920 another adventure in the macabre.