Speaker 1: Tired of the everyday routine. Ever dream of a life
Speaker 1: of romantic adventure, want to get away from it?
Speaker 2: We offer you Escape.
Speaker 3: Escape Transcribe to free you from the four walls of
Speaker 3: today for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1: You are standing on the rolling deck of a pirate
Speaker 1: junk in the China Seas and facing you as the
Speaker 1: sinister figure of the most feared man in the Orient,
Speaker 1: a general who has just doomed you to death.
Speaker 3: Today, with Bill Conrad starred as O'Hara, We Escaped to
Speaker 3: China and the gripping story of pirate treasure. As Charles
Speaker 3: Booth told it in his fascinating novel, The General died
Speaker 3: at dawn.
Speaker 1: Yemp. China was spitting me out like a cherry pit.
Speaker 1: I was sitting that afternoon on a bench in the
Speaker 1: strip of park that fronts the harbor of Shanghai, and
Speaker 1: all I had in my pocket was an English shilling,
Speaker 1: and it was counterfeit el. I sat there and stared
Speaker 1: at a ship in her berth at the Asia Pacific Docks.
Speaker 1: She was a crack liner named Pearl of the Orient.
Speaker 1: Due to sail at eleven the following morning, Europe bond
Speaker 1: by way of Suez, hell, bitterness, a counterfeit English shilling,
Speaker 1: a need for physical action. All of a sudden they
Speaker 1: melted into each other and bubbled into an idea. I
Speaker 1: left the harbor and made my way to Frenchtown, to
Speaker 1: a narrow street of two and three story buildings, and
Speaker 1: into one of them, and up a shabby stare, and
Speaker 1: along a dim corridor to a door with mark Ramsgate
Speaker 1: printed on it in gold letters. Ramsgate. I've come for
Speaker 1: the fifth teen hundred? You or me?
Speaker 2: Would you mind shutting the d double ore? There's a
Speaker 2: simply killing draft.
Speaker 1: The fifteen hundred Ramsgate. I want it now?
Speaker 2: Aren't you the persistent one?
Speaker 4: Though?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 2: Where was it you say you advanced me this huge sum.
Speaker 1: Of money chunking four years ago?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yes, chunking. I was in a nasty mess with the police,
Speaker 2: and you simply flew to my aid as a fellow American.
Speaker 2: Isn't that it? Hmm?
Speaker 1: Delicious?
Speaker 6: But two too.
Speaker 1: Fantastics start counting out the money, ramscatell You listen to
Speaker 1: the man.
Speaker 2: I'm a private investigator, mister o'haran, not a banker or
Speaker 2: a missionary.
Speaker 1: I am not the most patient man on the China coast, Ramsgate,
Speaker 1: mister O'Hara, can you crack a walnut between your forefinger
Speaker 1: and thumb?
Speaker 6: I can.
Speaker 2: You see? Would you mind leaving now? I've scads of
Speaker 2: things to do.
Speaker 1: What's this? Defel careful?
Speaker 2: Let's ming now?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: Gorgeous, isn't it? I use it for a goldfish bowl.
Speaker 1: It's empty.
Speaker 2: I didn't feed them. They lasted six days.
Speaker 1: Hell, if you have no goldfish, you don't need the ball.
Speaker 2: I'll smash you for that.
Speaker 1: I can be smashed. Try it. He was strong and
Speaker 1: very fast, and wore an enormous ring which was damaging
Speaker 1: whenever he landed a punch. But he lost his coolness,
Speaker 1: his best asset, really, and it didn't last very long ago.
Speaker 7: Do you treat all your visitors like that?
Speaker 1: Mister Ramsday? Oh? Hello, come in, come in, shut the door.
Speaker 1: I have a seat, miss sir, missus Mallory, Irene Mallory.
Speaker 7: Why yes, we speak privately, mister Ramsgate.
Speaker 1: Well, my friend on the floor is fast asleep. What
Speaker 1: can I do for you?
Speaker 7: I came to ask you to locate someone for me,
Speaker 7: A man here in Shanghai's a job to be done,
Speaker 7: and he's the one for it.
Speaker 1: Oh, what's his name?
Speaker 7: O'harah Gerald O'Hara. Do you know him?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 1: Who sent you to me?
Speaker 7: Papa County. O'Hara was at the Hotel County this morning
Speaker 7: broke and told Papa he expected to collect some money
Speaker 7: from a man named Ramsgate. Has he been here?
Speaker 1: He's been here. I I can find him for you,
Speaker 1: but it's going to be expensive. My fee will be.
Speaker 7: Fifteen hundred dollars five and five one two three four five.
Speaker 7: He you are, thank you, Please work very quickly, very quickly.
Speaker 1: Is there anything I can tell him concerning the job
Speaker 1: for which he is the one?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 8: Tell him.
Speaker 7: It involves General Yang Yang's business agent half a million
Speaker 7: dollars in gold. I'll be waiting at the hotel CONTI
Speaker 7: mister Ramsgay, Good afternoon, Good after.
Speaker 2: You play the loveliest hand book her. Mister O'Hara got
Speaker 2: the fifteen hundred you came for, didn't you?
Speaker 1: How you bounce back fast? How much did you?
Speaker 5: Hear?
Speaker 1: Ramsgay?
Speaker 2: That's for me to know you'd find al I will.
Speaker 2: Good afternoon, mister O'Hara, Good afternoon. Would you mind closing
Speaker 2: the d double door?
Speaker 1: Yes? Well, I had what I came for. All right,
Speaker 1: I would argue the ethics of it with myself. When
Speaker 1: the planks of the Pearl of the Orient were beneath
Speaker 1: my feet and I was on my way to an
Speaker 1: atmosphere that didn't rot a man's brain with the dampness
Speaker 1: of things dead and done. I turned into Nan King
Speaker 1: Road and stopped in front of the Asia Pacific Office
Speaker 1: and the plate glass window the Gerald O'Hara who'd helped
Speaker 1: build the Trans Siberian Railroad, who'd gone after Ivory and
Speaker 1: Ruby and gold. That Gerald O'Hara. Took a look at
Speaker 1: the Gerald O'Hara who'd roocked Irene Mallarray out of fifteen
Speaker 1: hundred dollars, And then I hailed a rickshaw and told
Speaker 1: the boy to take me to the hotel Pierre.
Speaker 9: Conte Ah sure, old, my friend, some marche.
Speaker 1: Smash, Papa conte a marsh, do me a favor. Will
Speaker 1: you have missus Mallory paged and brought here and let
Speaker 1: me use this office for a few minutes?
Speaker 9: Hello your desk, woo you Mallory. Coun you lie like
Speaker 9: or sage you lou.
Speaker 1: Papa about the money I owe you? I I thought
Speaker 1: i'd have it for you today but my lead blew upper.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Oh you sorry.
Speaker 9: We have known each other all these years. You bear
Speaker 9: the scar of a knife that was meant for me,
Speaker 9: and you expect me to pause you for money.
Speaker 1: Huh jer Well, it's the bill and it's got to
Speaker 1: be paid.
Speaker 9: Then let me worry about it. There's no point in
Speaker 9: us both worrying. Oh, that will be missus. Mallory does
Speaker 9: cognac on the desk.
Speaker 7: Good evening, mister O'Hara.
Speaker 1: Oh, I suppose Kanti told you who I was?
Speaker 7: No, I recognized you this afternoon.
Speaker 1: Ah, here's the money you gave me. Oh do you
Speaker 1: know what the yards were when you handed it to me?
Speaker 1: If your ever seeing me again, I was ready to
Speaker 1: cut my best friend's throat for the price of a
Speaker 1: ticket West.
Speaker 7: Wouldn't you prefer to leave with a good bit more
Speaker 7: than that?
Speaker 1: Oh the half million you mentioned?
Speaker 7: Yes? Would you care to hear about it?
Speaker 1: Well? Perhaps care is too strong a word, but I'll listen.
Speaker 7: Is a man named George Martel registered here. He's General
Speaker 7: Yang's business agent. Do you know him?
Speaker 1: Your eyes are lovely? I like your eyes.
Speaker 7: Yang had five hundred thousand dollars worth of gold bars
Speaker 7: here in Shanghai. Can you guess why he kept his
Speaker 7: funds in bullion?
Speaker 1: I haven't be hard to abscond with almost half a
Speaker 1: ton of.
Speaker 7: Gold, and Martel has been converting that into American dollars
Speaker 7: for some time now. But there are two things he
Speaker 7: doesn't know. Yang is aware of what he's doing, learned
Speaker 7: about it last week. And Yang will be here in
Speaker 7: Shanghai tonight.
Speaker 1: Yang enjoys a good deal of tolerance in the city,
Speaker 1: but he's still an outlaw with a price on his head.
Speaker 1: He has no legal recourse.
Speaker 7: He's got thumb screws and jack boots. Don't you see
Speaker 7: what I'm getting at? Martell's life isn't worth a grain
Speaker 7: of rice? Once Yang arrives.
Speaker 1: Yang's here, now? What he's here? Now? I saw Sergeant
Speaker 1: Wang is adc dressed as a koolie downe at the
Speaker 1: docks this morning.
Speaker 7: All the better unless Martel shares the money with us,
Speaker 7: we won't help him escape from Shanghai. You uh, you
Speaker 7: could arrange a way out for him, couldn't you?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I know ways. But I am not the
Speaker 1: man for the job, Missus Mallory. I'm as empty as
Speaker 1: a sucked egg. I'm tired, very tired. I just want
Speaker 1: to crawl out of Asia. I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: No pride, nothing certain positive, not even enough to resent
Speaker 7: that or this?
Speaker 1: Why are you little?
Speaker 7: You're hurting my wrist.
Speaker 1: O'Hara, come here to me. Mm hmmm. Where's Martel now?
Speaker 7: In the bar? Then he goes to dinner. That's his routine.
Speaker 1: You know his room number? Yes, well lead me to it?
Speaker 1: Was that the last volise in the closet? Yes, well,
Speaker 1: we know now that Martel doesn't keep the money in
Speaker 1: his room.
Speaker 7: That would have been too obvious.
Speaker 1: Oh, never be deceived by the obvious, mydea. The techniques
Speaker 1: of hiding and finding haven't changed since Poe stated them
Speaker 1: in the Pearloined letter. Next time someone's coming down the hall,
Speaker 1: out of the light. What else behind the screen? H
Speaker 1: what perfume do you use? It's marvelous?
Speaker 2: Well, oh, the heavenly room you have, mister Martin, My
Speaker 2: so comfy.
Speaker 10: Get to the point, mister Ramsgate, what is it you
Speaker 10: wanted to speak to me about.
Speaker 2: General Yang Shanghai funds? And what do you intend to
Speaker 2: do with them?
Speaker 6: Have you been prying into my affairs?
Speaker 2: Just no, busybody, don't try for a gun.
Speaker 8: Just don't.
Speaker 6: What is it?
Speaker 2: You want all the money.
Speaker 6: You have and the alternative.
Speaker 2: I'll tell Yang of the naughty, naughty.
Speaker 1: Thing you've done.
Speaker 6: Mister Ramsgate.
Speaker 2: I beg you. Either give me the money, you'll be
Speaker 2: prepared to face Yang.
Speaker 1: And tell Oh harah, how about George. I ain't see
Speaker 1: if Ramsgate has a gun? George. Have you met missus Maworray?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 6: Heah, how good?
Speaker 1: Now see if George has one? Ah, easy, George, here
Speaker 1: it is all right, now put it in your purse. George.
Speaker 1: You know me, don't you? I mean you know me?
Speaker 6: Eh? I know you? O Haarah?
Speaker 1: Were you going to except Ramsgate's offer? I think that
Speaker 1: it wouldn't have done you any good. Yang has a
Speaker 1: price on your head right now, didn't you know?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes, Ramsgate would have taken your money and turned you
Speaker 1: over to Yang anyway.
Speaker 10: And I thought that I'd be able to think of
Speaker 10: some scheme while Yang was on his way.
Speaker 1: On his way, Yang's in Shanghai right now.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 1: Look, now here's our opposition. One third apiece to each
Speaker 1: of us, and I'll help you escape.
Speaker 6: One third to.
Speaker 1: Each of us, one third to you. You better take it, George, well,
Speaker 1: but tomorrow morning, Yang will have blocked every exit from Shanghai.
Speaker 1: You could think of you need us, George, and you
Speaker 1: know I always fulfill my end of a contract.
Speaker 6: Help me, help me? Please accept?
Speaker 1: Yes, good y. Where's the money I wanted in my
Speaker 1: hand before I so much as make a move in
Speaker 1: your favor.
Speaker 10: It's not here in the hotel. I mean, it's in
Speaker 10: a safe in my office in the rue. Let's go
Speaker 10: after a George, Let's go after it.
Speaker 1: We left the hotel Conte, I hailed a taxi and
Speaker 1: George gave the driver the address. It was just past
Speaker 1: the dinner hour and the night traffic was thickening across
Speaker 1: the harbor. I could see the lights of the Pearl
Speaker 1: of the Orient. Tomorrow morning, I thought to myself. Tomorrow
Speaker 1: morning I'd be on deck taking a last long look
Speaker 1: at China the fortune of my pocket. Irene followed my
Speaker 1: glance and then smiled up at me and squeezed my arm.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been to France, Irene? Yes, you know
Speaker 1: the stretch along the coast of Normandy between off Floor
Speaker 1: and Traville. No, I uh, I'd like to show it
Speaker 1: to you sometime.
Speaker 7: I'd like to see it sometime good.
Speaker 1: We got out at the shabby end of the Rue
Speaker 1: monteven Martel was trembling so violently that I had to
Speaker 1: take the key from his hand and open the door myself. Hazy, George,
Speaker 1: and I just take it easy.
Speaker 6: I am in a bloody blue funk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we know the feeling, George. Now, where's the money.
Speaker 6: It's in the safe, small volie in the safe.
Speaker 1: I'll get it.
Speaker 10: You really can get me out of Shanghai.
Speaker 1: Look at me, George, I really can cat I.
Speaker 6: Right right, ah, nothing left.
Speaker 1: You know there's a drink they drink in Normandy called Calvados,
Speaker 1: a brandy.
Speaker 6: Did you have a tasted?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 1: Really, vast horizons will soon open for you. I think
Speaker 1: there have you got it? You're out taking Now, where's
Speaker 1: the key? The bag's locked, I always carry it, O'Hara. Well,
Speaker 1: face at the window, the light, shoot, shoot, and I
Speaker 1: don't think I hit anything. Let's get back to the hotel.
Speaker 1: The street was deserted as we left Martel's office. I
Speaker 1: expected almost anything, but nothing happened, nothing at all except
Speaker 1: that I slipped on the broken glass scattered about the sidewalk,
Speaker 1: almost broke my neck. And we took a taxi back
Speaker 1: to the hotel. Conti. No, we won't go to your room, George,
Speaker 1: Irene will hold up in yours.
Speaker 7: Do you think we're safe here?
Speaker 1: Well, it's relative. We're safer in the country than any
Speaker 1: other place else in Shanghai. Not that that's saying much.
Speaker 1: Least we have an ally here, Papa Conte himself. Here
Speaker 1: you go, George. Thanks now, Irene, here's the money. Don't
Speaker 1: let this valise out of your sight for a moment.
Speaker 1: Take the gun out of your personal you know how
Speaker 1: to handle it. Some sit down, George. Yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: not on the chair. Sit on the floor, facing the wall,
Speaker 1: and look, Irene, you've got a double job. Keep George
Speaker 1: and the money in and everyone else out. Understood or horror,
Speaker 1: you're not going well, I have to arrange your exit.
Speaker 1: Do you expect me to do it by telegram? Or
Speaker 1: that reminds me I'll need that fifteen hundreds of years
Speaker 1: again it How much do you weigh?
Speaker 7: One hundred and eighteen?
Speaker 1: Hum delicious.
Speaker 7: Here's the fifteen hundred you'll.
Speaker 1: Be repaid out of. George's under the cut going now,
Speaker 1: I'll be back in about oh three hours at the latest.
Speaker 1: Lock the door after me, I see you soon.
Speaker 7: Take care of yourself, O'Hara, right.
Speaker 1: Wish I can think of something entirely reassuring, But all
Speaker 1: I can come up with is this. I think we've
Speaker 1: got a fifty to fifty chance of making it. They'll
Speaker 1: tell you Shanghai is the coldest blooded, most cynical city
Speaker 1: in the world, as none of the charm of Paris,
Speaker 1: or the comfort of London, or the youth of New York.
Speaker 1: But as I made my roundabout way to the docks,
Speaker 1: past the food shops and the dens, and the coffin
Speaker 1: makers and the hockey talk joints, I suddenly no longer
Speaker 1: cared about that. I felt vaguely excited and eager for
Speaker 1: the next moment. And then finally I found the man
Speaker 1: I was looking for after a tour of the bars.
Speaker 1: He was a big bearded suite named Nelson, the owner
Speaker 1: and captain of an old bum freighter, and after an
Speaker 1: hour or so of negotiation, we had it straight. He'd
Speaker 1: have a taxi driven by himself, parked near the alley
Speaker 1: two blocks from the contee, ready to pick Martel up
Speaker 1: at dawn and carry him to the ship fifteen hundred
Speaker 1: down and another fifteen thousand from Martel when he was
Speaker 1: safe on deck. And that was that. I was back
Speaker 1: at the hotel by two thirty Irene irene itt O'Hara,
Speaker 1: irene Irene. I put my ear to the door and
Speaker 1: listened nothing. I grasped the knob to shake it, and
Speaker 1: the door swung open. The lights were on, and the
Speaker 1: room looked as though a tornado had gone roaring through
Speaker 1: bureau drawers open, clothes flung out, luggage slashed, and Martel
Speaker 1: lay upon the bed, staring at the ceiling, his face
Speaker 1: ripped badly, his hands and legs tied tightly. I walked
Speaker 1: over and put my fingers to his neck. He was dead.
Speaker 1: The small valise lay next to him on the pillow
Speaker 1: was open and empty. Made my way to the back room. Iren, ohharah,
Speaker 1: turn off that water.
Speaker 7: I was trying to stop the bleeding.
Speaker 1: Give me the towel and I come on in the
Speaker 1: other room. What's happened?
Speaker 7: I don't know. A couple of hours after you left,
Speaker 7: there was a light knock at the door, and a
Speaker 7: voice that sounded like yours said, open the door.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, don't look.
Speaker 7: At me like that. It was time for you to
Speaker 7: be back. And I had the gun. I opened the
Speaker 7: door just a crack and suddenly I hand appeared and
Speaker 7: it turned out the light him. That's all. When I
Speaker 7: came to it was the way it is in there,
Speaker 7: and I had a bump on my head.
Speaker 1: The money's gone, I know. Have any idea who did it?
Speaker 6: No? None?
Speaker 7: It could have been anybody.
Speaker 1: Could have been you. Ohharah, why not? You had the chance.
Speaker 1: And as you say, you had the gun, it could
Speaker 1: have been you.
Speaker 7: Yes, and it could have been you, But I don't
Speaker 7: think it was.
Speaker 1: Connect me with mister Cotty. Please, oh harrah, Hello, Papacotty.
Speaker 1: Uh this o'harah? Look, will you come to missus Mallory's
Speaker 1: room immediately?
Speaker 6: Please?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 7: What are you going to do?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 1: I want to speak to Papacotta. He's probably the wisest
Speaker 1: man in Shanghai.
Speaker 7: Do you think I did it?
Speaker 1: I didn't say you did. I said it could have
Speaker 1: been you, and it could have too. But I want
Speaker 1: to talk to CONTI. There are things that bother me
Speaker 1: about the whole deal. I connected in some way with
Speaker 1: slipping on the broken glass in front of George's office
Speaker 1: and George being beaten to death. Now, why should anyone
Speaker 1: have done that. The money was there and George was
Speaker 1: tied securely. Why beat him? And something about Georgie's having
Speaker 1: to depend on me for a getaway. I always considered
Speaker 1: him a very cautious and careful man. He had the money,
Speaker 1: surely he would have planned his own escape long before I.
Speaker 1: That's probably probably conty. I'll get it.
Speaker 8: He desired.
Speaker 1: Come in, Papa.
Speaker 2: Good morning, mister O'Hara rams inside, Papa khanty. All clear, General.
Speaker 1: Ohara, Hello Yang your Ramsgate?
Speaker 6: Close the door, all right?
Speaker 5: He see? If Ohara is a pleasure, I have it. General,
Speaker 5: So the dog.
Speaker 1: Is dead and the bone is buried.
Speaker 4: Oh I will find the bone.
Speaker 1: Well, first you must find the other dog.
Speaker 2: Perhaps I'm looking at him.
Speaker 1: Try to prove it.
Speaker 4: If you do not kill Marteo, why have you not
Speaker 4: sent for the police?
Speaker 1: Shall I telephone them? Now?
Speaker 6: Oharah, what would you.
Speaker 4: Do if you were in my position?
Speaker 1: Well, I'd search the luggage and personal property of all
Speaker 1: of those here. Then if I didn't find the money,
Speaker 1: I'd question us, all of us, including Ramsgate. And if
Speaker 1: I didn't find what I was looking for, I'd make
Speaker 1: my apologies and look elsewhere.
Speaker 5: It is good advice or accept it.
Speaker 4: Kanty, you have a baggage truck in your garage, Go outside,
Speaker 4: give the keyto Sergeant Wong, and no tricks.
Speaker 6: Conty.
Speaker 4: My men are at every entrance and every floor ramsgate. Yes, General,
Speaker 4: go it, County. Tell same food to take a squad
Speaker 4: of men. Pick all the bags belonging to missus Mallory
Speaker 4: and Papa Conti and George Martail. Bring it to my headquarters.
Speaker 4: Tell them to take all some more Tail's body.
Speaker 2: Yes, General, come along, can't he?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 4: Harah, You and missus Mallory will come with me too,
Speaker 4: to the pier of yin Lewin Company and suit your creek,
Speaker 4: and then to my Shanghai headquarters. The Lao Ping, a
Speaker 4: sea going junkie lies in the anchorage.
Speaker 6: Come o'here, come.
Speaker 1: It's almost four o'clock. How long do you intend to
Speaker 1: keep us aboard? Yang?
Speaker 4: Their money is neither upon your person nor among your belongings.
Speaker 4: I must now persuade you to talk. Will you do
Speaker 4: so willingly? And if we do not, I will turn
Speaker 4: you over to my bodyguard.
Speaker 6: You have heard of them?
Speaker 1: Who hasn't?
Speaker 2: What have you heard?
Speaker 1: I know something about your destiny being their destiny and
Speaker 1: their lives being your lives, and that they would do
Speaker 1: anything under heaven that you commanded.
Speaker 2: That is correct?
Speaker 6: Will you talk where?
Speaker 1: Look, General, I know nothing of Martell's death or the
Speaker 1: location of the money, as I've already told you.
Speaker 7: Missus Marlery, I can't add anything to what I've already said,
Speaker 7: not can I?
Speaker 6: In myrtale has been silence, pity?
Speaker 1: General? Aren't you going to ask Ramsgates?
Speaker 2: Ask me why? The General and I understand each other thoroughly?
Speaker 6: Don'try?
Speaker 2: General? It was I who told the General where to
Speaker 2: find you all, didn't I?
Speaker 8: General?
Speaker 2: What could he possibly ask me?
Speaker 1: Now? During the past hour, I've thought of one or
Speaker 1: two things he might ask you? Yang, you've noticed the
Speaker 1: cuts on Martell's face?
Speaker 6: I noticed them.
Speaker 1: Now have you noticed the cuts on mine? They are like?
Speaker 1: And have your notice the ring Ramsgate.
Speaker 2: Wars General, Excellency, there's a conspiracy to injure me in
Speaker 2: your eyes?
Speaker 4: Let me see the ring. Let me see it, excellency,
Speaker 4: still flecked with blood.
Speaker 2: You kill a dog? Yes, yes, Excellency, I did, but
Speaker 2: only to avenge you, only to avenge.
Speaker 4: Where is the money?
Speaker 2: I don't know? I swear, I don't you lie? No no.
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 2: When I opened the volice the woman was guarding it,
Speaker 2: it was empty lies empty. No, General, General, don't touch.
Speaker 8: Me, don't touch me.
Speaker 1: God, he has a knife.
Speaker 2: Okay, excellency, No, I didn't mean to.
Speaker 6: No, don't shoot.
Speaker 2: Excellent, don't don't.
Speaker 8: Shoot one.
Speaker 4: One one chins are you O'Hara?
Speaker 7: What is he ordering him to do?
Speaker 1: Something about? Killing us? Yang? This is a thing I
Speaker 1: never expected to see a man of destiny stabbed by
Speaker 1: a fat fool while his bodyguard is loyal bodyguard of
Speaker 1: twelve stands by and watch us.
Speaker 4: You'll find it the music Before I die, You and
Speaker 4: your friends will be dead. Can you laugh at that?
Speaker 6: Also?
Speaker 1: Perhaps, but not as much as all. China will laugh
Speaker 1: at Yang's loss of face. China will laugh for centuries
Speaker 1: to come at the story of how Yang was killed
Speaker 1: while his devoted bodyguard lived.
Speaker 4: China will not laugh at Yang. My body God will
Speaker 4: not live. They will have shot one another at whose command,
Speaker 4: at my command?
Speaker 1: It will be there.
Speaker 4: We'll also they have lost face too, and unbearably can
Speaker 4: they continue to live?
Speaker 1: No one will believe that your body God foolish enough
Speaker 1: to let you be stabbed, would a bear a command
Speaker 1: to kill themselves. H your name will be a laughing stock. No,
Speaker 1: they will joke about you in the tea houses. No,
Speaker 1: your sons will die of shame. No, and why because
Speaker 1: twelve dead fools with rifles in their hands will be
Speaker 1: all that you have to speak for you?
Speaker 6: You lie? You lie?
Speaker 2: I will sure you what dick ming.
Speaker 8: Quite not? You quiet?
Speaker 4: Where you qua see how they line up facing each other,
Speaker 4: six or six.
Speaker 1: They face each other, But they do not aim at each.
Speaker 8: Other, mayn't yeh?
Speaker 4: Do you see how they take aim at each other?
Speaker 1: They take aim at each other, Yang, but they do
Speaker 1: not fire.
Speaker 4: They will they will win, not command. Now watch and
Speaker 4: you will see a thing to make you marvel, to
Speaker 4: marvel again whenever you remember, Yang, God, Papa.
Speaker 8: Was Yang not right?
Speaker 6: Was he not right?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 6: This I said?
Speaker 1: Good bye Papa, County, good bye General.
Speaker 9: Then much good luck? And do you want so, missus.
Speaker 7: Mallory, thank you, Papa Candy. I'll send you a piece
Speaker 7: of the wedding cake.
Speaker 1: Do that. Thanks for everything. I I'll repay you the
Speaker 1: loan as soon as I can.
Speaker 9: Of course, of course, in general, missus Mallory, could you
Speaker 9: stand there have a bitter joke upon yourselves what's that
Speaker 9: about the money you two sold? A letter came for
Speaker 9: George Mattel this morning. It is from a brokerage firm
Speaker 9: here in Shanghai. It says, Dear George, this is to
Speaker 9: confirm our conversation of this morning. Unless you can raise
Speaker 9: forty thousand dollars additional margin, we will be forced to
Speaker 9: sell you out. We regret doing this to so good
Speaker 9: a customer, especially in the light of the half million
Speaker 9: dollar loss you suffered these last two months. But business
Speaker 9: is sincelio, you understand h Yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, I thought it might be something like that. That's
Speaker 1: why he didn't arrange for his own escape. Each day
Speaker 1: he expected to recop.
Speaker 7: His losses, and he checked us in his office on
Speaker 7: the room monte An. He didn't want us to learn
Speaker 7: the volice was empty, and so we pretended to have
Speaker 7: seen that face at the window.
Speaker 1: That's right. And then when we put out the lights,
Speaker 1: he must have thrown something through the glass, a paperwaight
Speaker 1: to the like. That's what puzzled me about a broken
Speaker 1: glass that was on the sidewalk and not in the room.
Speaker 2: It was also why Ramsgate killed him. He couldn't make
Speaker 2: a Rumskate believe his story.
Speaker 1: Papa, can't he may I have the letter I get
Speaker 1: for a souvenir, But of course thank you well.
Speaker 6: I wave to you from the show.
Speaker 1: Goodbye, goodbye, Papa.
Speaker 7: No regrets, Oharah regrets.
Speaker 1: None, No regrets for the past, and no doubts for
Speaker 1: the future.
Speaker 3: Escape is produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Today we
Speaker 3: have presented transcribed The General Died at Dawn by Charles Booth,
Speaker 3: adapted for radio by Walter Newman, with editorials provision by
Speaker 3: John Duncle. Starred as O'Hara was Bill Conrad. Featured in
Speaker 3: the cast were Estelle Dodge, Larry Dobkin, Ben Wright, John Dayner,
Speaker 3: Jack Prusian and Peter Prowse. Special music was arranged and
Speaker 3: played by Ivan bitt Mars. Next week we Escape with
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Speaker 2: Phillip Oppenheim.
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