Speaker 1: The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents. Come in, Welcome, I'm
e G. Marshallon. It's a sitting quotation to begin the story.
The time is out of joint old cursed spite that
ever I was born to set it right, hamlet William Shakespeare.
And this is a story of the century in which
he was born, the sixteenth Young will Shakespeare was an
apprentice in his father's butcher shop. Queen Elizabeth ruled England,
and Henry the third presided over an uneasy flance, gorn
apart by religious wars between the Huguenots and the Catholics.
These were times bloodier than today, when no streak was
safe at night. Damn h tonight, God, what matterel we
have safe conduct on a dark night like this, shooting
these thieves in livery will stop to see them your
life and they even be sugernots. You can just reach
that next corner unseen. We have a giant. Come, do
not why I stepped on a pebble, my sword against the.
Speaker 2: Wall and the lever O you are there down.
Speaker 1: One for your life and he oh oh is why
no heed? Why oh yeah, I'm in.
Speaker 2: They turned my whole side out to the right before.
Speaker 3: They reload, and at the end of the twisting lane
to the left a door. If God or Love is good,
behind it you may find refuge.
Speaker 1: Our mystery drama, the Sire de Malatoise Door, was especially
adapted from the Robert Louis Stevenson classic for the mystery
theater by Ian Martin and stars Michael Wager. It is
sponsored in part by contact the twelve Hour Coles. The
weapon you heard fired earlier was the arquabus, the precursor
of the musket and our modern rifle, not the weapon
of the ordinary gentleman of this century, whose side arms
were the rapier, a heavy weapon built two edges for
slicing and flashing, with a sharp point for thrusting. Roger
Chantevert and Dennis de Buller were only so armed when
they were attacked, leaving Roger mortally wounded on the cobblestones
or Chateau Landa. But let's begin with the other. Denis
de Buler, earlier that same evening, as he is finishing
a flagon of wine, was a landlord of the old
Bear's tectuport. I beg your honor to stay off the streets.
Those are at dark, Why good houses get with us
for a light affair. In the France of fifteen seventy five,
many the thieves cut throats, and as bad as all
of them, the god itself. Most of all the time,
half the city is still at war. But what the
truth proclaimed piece of paper? But I have a take conduct.
There's also just a piece of paper. Well, land Lord,
I thank you for your kind concern. Name all this
reward e cofficiently. Oh, the young gentleman is most generous.
Or come with me to the door and point out
to me once for like life the way I must
go to my friend sony Baehouse's not expectation. Use the
church spire where the bell for evening match is tolding
high on the hill to the right the same it
marks you very close to it, the chateau market before
what great lord lives there, the side of the married
poor owner of this thief, and lands beyond as far
and further than there, I could read, Oh betide that
man who should cross his path. Well, I'm not gladly
do some time here here to the only for the night.
Pretty directly on my way was I can still see
the trace it I was sending you over the hill
rather than around for the lanes twist and turn enough
to set one's head spinning. But if you steer between
the church and the chateau on the other side of
the hill, of the straight avenue and three streets down,
you'll find though it was the chateau to my left,
and there's always the church to my right. Tent I
passed between them ours just to long. Don't worry about
the dark. I'll not carry for mass. I'd be too
late anyway.
Speaker 2: Oh a long time it confession, long time working a
young bird not even out of its nest, and my
legs quiet that I have to confess that takes up
so much time. I have no leta and need time
too good.
Speaker 1: A Catholic to evade the confessional. Let me hand you
to the.
Speaker 2: Coach, can't you? Oh yeah, they're all to the shut
door the way, so cheerful, my dab do not here
could tie of walking is the one life an argued
day they have my use usual droning of the man
or the month of deception, deception, the circles we're traveling,
our small glass, these pebbles dropped in the circumscribed pool
of our lives, sets up waves among the commonsenses he clicks,
such as.
Speaker 1: Those snit so that I may see what word my
little bird has called them? What you mean? I may
raise you do, But as always those embroiled in scandal
of the lots to hear inematical heavily, that word does
not exist will not be allowed to exist. Open your handle,
I will putt it over. I didn't be the judge
of that open spint paper badly crushed, And do you
do no doubt? What are you going to do to
read it and decide? It's almost home?
Speaker 2: I and you guys who defer my answer.
Speaker 1: So we are behind the walls and set to my name.
Uh oh o to your quarters. Mamaselle tend to make
pay the sharp or to me at once, But it's
only like all the day me. Nobody crosses my widgage
will meet.
Speaker 2: As you desire.
Speaker 1: There, my old there, my old of a twelve east
Messiah Ula, my niece wished to make confession, and she
chosen you. My mind might have been used more quickly
even for you, Messiah. How could I break the seal
of confession? And the question can be begged? It isn't necessary.
I know now what is? And what has to be done.
I have instructions for you. Ooh they made traces this chen,
and send for my irons mats immediately. As much to
be done before I set my trap, and small time
to accomplish it. But once I have caught my fly,
he was danced to my tune or suck. As a consequence,
darkness had dropped faster than I could have anticipated. I
I climbed the twisting meandering the streets. I almost as
sorry I had not come by horseback. Fortunately, against the
night sky, my twins star stood outlined the chateau and
the church. Actually approaching the church to trtures of those
leading mass were a beacon to lead me on. I
even hesitated a moment of the sight of one beauty
escort to a carriage, before passing on and arriving at
last on the balance of the hill, on the other
side of my friend Shawly their lodgings ha, and one
more for the road. I drink not to that, but
to you more your divorce. Ah ah. God save me
for any others, and punish me if this should be
a lie. But I swear by the Winger Archer himself
or any comparable saint if it swere any other night,
I would make no end of it. I understand where
there's a lady, But that's a lady. If I dared
divulge all but listen midnight, she'll be here within the hour.
I need no explanation, dear friend. I love the ladies
as much as you. Indeed, I might wait here that
passe church square, or with one who caught my own damn?
Or what on weather? Here comes the rain again? Can
we go at your heel, go by your side always?
We had so much to talk about, except this special night.
I get it, gave you your insignation. I'll find my
way back in Our paths will crook soon again. Oh
damn the weather. I'll see you over the purchase of
the hill from there to you. Mind your own way down.
I found my way out a hi well enough even
by partial daylight. But in God's name, step quietly and careful.
No one, keep to yourself. No one is a bad
time when everything runs away. Leave. I promise to be
as careful as any church in the path. Believe, here's
the church to your left. Just follow the street where on,
keep remembering to bear always to your right and downhill
and you'll be at the end within a quarter hour.
But move quietly. Oh notly. They're going beres with you.
One thing o the night? God, what the matter? We
have to stay? Come to for the night like this
shooting eat steeves and that way will stop to look
at them? Feel right in just week the next corner
we may have a chance. Gun seem come you, No one,
come up, pebble. My sword hit against the wall, and
there's the run, run for your liking. Oh oh where
you know he runs? Oh dear, I mean they turned
my horse hide out the left.
Speaker 2: God, I'm done for the run down the hill people,
the sire to not to wash up.
Speaker 1: There may be that's anxious to follow you there? Why
in the power more than that, I cannot say cry?
There was nothing I had to do. The only there
my dearest friend was dead. When there was no treating
with a pack of hounds that followed us. That's like
from them following the torture shale. The other conscious red
footsteps after mine, pushing down the lane scarce wide enough
to accommodate myself. I suddenly found myself faced for the
waist tied terrace, which I was about to leap through
some instinct, the rising moon staved me no wonder on
my side was a four foot war. What had I
all leaped in, I would have dropped forty feet to
a craggy field of storm. And I could hear them
all behind me, and I was prepared to face some
short and pointed but the fire arms I could not
tell him. Door blested me with a protocoque, and the
leap shadower door an important storm. So least for something
against my back I could fight. I to my sword,
duck into the shadow, and thrust my back against the door,
and to my appointment, it gave way behind my way
opening collecting into possible safety. As a ways behind me,
I heard a und pack on my trail. I thought
to close the door now quite in order to observe
what had happened outside. But as I pushed gently of
a suddenly, as though it was whisked from my hands,
it stooded shut somewhat pursued me. I was safe. That
door could stand a battering ram, but a new and
strange shred had developed. I had no desire to close
the door. All the ways shut. It had been snatched
from my hands with no control from me. I stood
in a small hall with a staircase rising out of
the groom. I turned to the door. It was the
smoothest silk and no way of reopening it. I was tracked.
My only way out was up the staircase before me.
I I had no choice. I started to mount, drawing
my only weapon and squandering among me if it could
protect me? And what I faced when I reached the
top of the steps for some reason, a premonition of
unnamed terror and my black feet, that my spine. O.
What monsters did you awaited? Then? As the boarder at
the top of the steps, what swirling ghosts from the
underworld or your mother world threatened his immortal soul? I
can at least report some of that as you return
shortly with that two had six, three or on? That's
the question. When you catch the common cold is twelve hour?
You need six cold tablets, two every four hours, or
three cold pills one every four hours, or just one
contact capture up to twelve hours. Continue for me from
sneezing congestion stript the tiny time tills do it or
ancient fever? The others contain actual contact. Doesn't your cold?
Your choice? Sick or dream or one give your cold
the contact the number one cold medicine in the whole world.
While back on the direct Blind and Successful, Well, we're
here to tell you there are lots of us all
over the country. We're blind, but we're just like you.
Speaker 4: I'm a senior sperit at the Downstate Medical Center.
Speaker 1: Part of my life just is getting up and.
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I look at the NSC in the state, expect that
there's a committment.
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National Federation of the Blind, to eighteen Randolph Hotel Building,
des moin Iowa, five or three h nine. This message
presented of the public service by this station and the
members of the National Federation of the Blind. What did
Dave Dennis de Bouyer as he entered a large room
of polished stone with arris draped openings on three sides
and two large windows. On the force was a little
old gentleman in a fur tippet, seated by the fireplace
in a high backed chair. The great stone fireplace was
between the windows and carved into it the arms of
the malatoires thing on. I was an inn and felt
myself in good hands, still winded for my running. We
looked silently at each other for a second or two
in the brief exchange of glances. Although the man was
smiling and relaxed, I found myself tinting again. Uh something
about him, the peak eyebrows, the small in his strong
eyes took on move on him, the lion, the beautiful
white hair on set all about the said lightest thin high,
and I uh shied. The maaletis to pray stapid higher
indebted to you, sir, pray pardon if I'm warranted intrusion.
Uh tall, I've been expecting years since I heard the church.
Speaker 5: Bell toe.
Speaker 1: High. Oh, I'm I'm afraid this is a double accident.
So I'm I'm not the person who supposed me to be.
Uh No, it seems you were expecting a visitor, as
sadly I will. But I can assure you that nothing
was further from my thoughts, no more contrary to my
wishes than my arriving year. I am those to let
you labor under some misapprehend or that that if I do,
surely it is the privilege of old age, and all
be straightened out in due time. Pick my guests a
couple of spiced wines. You enjoyed me, young man messiah,
I oh, I have no desire to force you. I'm
wondering about that. Behind the irish your servant is opened.
I see what appears to be a small army of
pikesmen after you. I am the old, as I have
remarked in these are preous times needs me, nobignity needs protection.
The wines. I accept your courtesy. The wine don't be
if only to explain my presence satisfactorily, and perhaps the
accorded an explanation of why it failed to surprise you.
Good time. In good time, I was visiting a friend,
and on my way back to the end, my friend
the company and we we were set on by an
armed van huguenot a thousands of guard I know not,
but that their intentions are violent and criminal, has attested
to by the fact that my friend was shut and killed,
and I fled with them in hot pursuit. Unfortunately picking
this killed a sack. I saw your door and fought
with my back against it to be able to make
some fight for my life. But as I leaned against
did it open with my weight? I gladly ended to
put it between myself and the assassins that would have
killed and robbed me. Also a good story. You don't
believe me it does it matter so much after it? Nevertheless,
fact is what happened. Once they had search without finding
I would have left. But your door, ay, yes, yes, yeah,
my door and thistle piece of ingenuity, no question of that.
But from my hands, if someone had pulled it shut
from the outside, could find no means of opening from
the inside. Ha, Yes, most ingenious, most ingenious. A hospital
booth had say hospitable to be sure. You arrived uninvited,
but believe me very welcome. You persist in error, sir,
there can be no question between you and me. I
am a stranger in this countryside. My name is Dennis
de made. If you see me at your house, it
is only as I have told you, my.
Speaker 2: Young friend, you permit me to have my own ideas
on that subject. To me probably differ from yours at
the present moment.
Speaker 1: But time will show which o lass is in the light. Huh, Yeah,
it comes our wine. Let us enjoy it while they
need is still in it. All we sat in silence
for the servants of the wine and left again. I
saw the armed man beyond the honest. I was conscious
in the silence. Now those voices, one male and one female,
hurried the caapling and get in prayer behind the third honest. Meanwhile,
the old gentleman surveyed me over the women's cup from
head to FoST. M was convinced that of dealing with
a lunatic and a dangerous one, I could stand it
no longer. I got to my feet, topping my hat
on my head. You haven't finished your white or do
I intend to pick a sheer madness? If you're in
your wit for your offered hospitality, you have front me
ghosts oh ye ye, yeah, my content is played. You've
made a fool of Meich is the first moment anything
and if I cannot make my way out the more
decent fashion, I'll hack your door in pieces with my sword.
Get down, you rogue and listen to me. Do you
can't see that when I had that little contrivance made
for the door, I stopped short at that, And I've
already seen your small army behind the rassam to.
Speaker 2: The teeth exactly so, if you prefer to be bound
hand and foot until your bones ache.
Speaker 1: Make one move to depart. If you choose to remain
fee really conversing with an aging gentleman, ay, resume your seat,
finish your wine in peace, and God be with you. Oh,
I'm a a prigoni. I state the facts. Now. Let
us finish the wine before it is cold, and it
serves to make the waiting more agreeable. But what what
are we waiting for? You entered from one harass covered dodge.
Speaker 2: You have seen that the main house lies behind the second.
We are waiting for what is taking place behind the third?
Speaker 1: Yes, but that for a lady to make up.
Speaker 2: Her mind perhaps the longest way the man can endure.
E I got for a sort day morebile, peak up
it thatches.
Speaker 1: The dime again. We sat facing each other a sire
relaxed and patience. But for all his tiny statun age
forbidding for myself, I found myself and dying the wine
at the dove, almost choking on it, as my float
tightened with some unknown dread. My face battle will less
fear in my heart, and I spoke to miss the
wildering games perfect. I know not a night of nightmare?
Has he turned to the hour, because if by staring
at it hard enough I could divine what was happening
behind it. Daughter, in the name of the Lord almighty,
will you truly confess and admit to your sin? I say,
I tell you, tell my help. I have not steal
you have lusted after? Then, young men who feast their
eyes on you anyway.
Speaker 6: Who held here in the settle, would virtual pregnance my
father and mother die.
Speaker 1: You chose the most sinful place of all, before the
altar at the holy mass.
Speaker 6: Is the only time I leave you for all.
Speaker 1: If I lift my eyes to look at the world outside,
is that you have done more than look? If you
know the Sire and accepted a communication to you from
some man today, what was his name?
Speaker 2: I know not?
Speaker 1: Are you sure? Would I lie to you? My father
sin leads to sin, I can look in your eyes
and tell you know his name.
Speaker 6: Even if I did, I would not tell you or
the sire.
Speaker 1: I know my uncle. I know how cruel he can be,
how cruel both of us can be to save their
immortal soul. Would you before we found the answer with
the farmer's crew of the iron boon, my uncle would
not lose. Sure the honor of the Mantois name has
never been sullied. As the last of the line, save yourself,
the fire.
Speaker 7: Will never permit it to be the name of the
young man that passed you the note No, I have
done not to feel shame for.
Speaker 6: Nor if there were such a cavalier. Neither is he
the note I cannot deny it exists, but everything else is.
Speaker 1: You are a soul.
Speaker 6: Imagination, and my uncle I will not let you harm
an innocent man. Because of who I am, so be it.
Speaker 1: I commiserate with you, my daughter and the church. You
have brought your punishment upon your own head. I go
to inform your uncle none.
Speaker 6: Because of who I am, so be it.
Speaker 1: I commiserate with you, my daughter and the church. You
have brought your punishment upon your own Between the child
of Malka, and myself broken only by the intriguing run
of voices behind the house with words could not be heard,
become intolerable, and I was just about to speech when
the third e was pushed aside and the pole priest
his vows. Michigan Anger, a cool face set doggedly came
to the room and stopped weekly in, surprising and favoring
me with a long um chair. Then talked to the
tired and stopping his voice so I could scarce hear
his words? Is she better speak color? But I think
she is more attractable, more resigned day the boyeur he
is my path for me. Eyes attached to my heavy
they are by you. There was the boy here. They
just together repair to the chapter. He meets with my
niece and set a lot of affairs once and for
all common decency required. I offer my arm to the
style that Maphi, who accepted it, put up question and
goods with me along with the pre the vigorous time
through the iletree, enter the small chapel pierced by many
little windows shaped like stars, and the steps of the
older mils I mean pstibly beautiful young girl platiplied I
have brought a friend to see you, my child, and
turn around and give him me a pretty hand. It
is good to be devout, but necessary to be polite
by niece.
Speaker 2: Uncle, Please don't embarrass me anymore. Whatever you ask of me,
I will do only one thing. I will resist, to
my dying breath. I will not tell you the young
man's name. He is innocent at any wrongdoing. Here my
owes threatened me with the thumbscrew and the boot may
have in niagony. You could force his name from me.
Speaker 1: Order on his name myself. That is no longer next
to say, we have the young man here. What I
asked you to be polite and turn around and give
him your hands. From the moment we had entered, I
held my breath. The setting was only true obvious, the
bride awaiting the groom, and it was not hard to
realize that I must be casting that so I could
careful beef. What would happen to him was time If
I would be forcing into a captivity I neither deserve
nor what I'm pure. Until the girl himself turned to
me home said.
Speaker 6: Nothing, man, uncle, that is not the man.
Speaker 1: Uh uh, of course not.
Speaker 2: I expected that much it was so unfortunate that you
could not remember his name.
Speaker 6: Quite swell, I have never seen this gentleman before.
Speaker 1: I am distressed to hear you. But it is never
too late to begin. Mm mm. I had little more
acquaintance with my own late lady before I married her.
Speaker 2: Which proves that these imposing marriages.
Speaker 1: Often worked for the best in the long run. Marriage.
But how have I furiously objected me and got good work?
Of course, of course he did. Man of spirit, might
the bridegroom had a right to have a voice in
the matter.
Speaker 2: I will give you until dawn to make up for
lost time.
Speaker 1: Til we proceed with the ceremony. Ooh, oh, well, he
is not so pretty a state of affairs, and the
word affair is strictly used for Evidently the remorseless sired
Analotoy is convinced that his neat has brought the fleat
of dishonor on his name a threat. We might treat
more lightly today, but four hundred years ago one lived
by different standards, and the punishment for overstepping rules with
more disastrous. A woman's virtue, if profaned, meant instant an
unpleasant death. I'll return shortly with a tree inside your thing,
inside your thing? After all you hear non both why good?
Speaker 2: Call me inside jumping inside jophy after all the.
Speaker 1: Long stretch of open roads before you. You at the
controls of the viewing central. I wouldn't find the comfort
of bombs, A sophisticated suspension system that mooding away an
underhood approval. These six thingsines economic think those about EXHISI
you're happy, you're free, and you're in a buick inside
your cream and tide yopree. After all? In anything, do
you know about your colorgan man calling my collagen man calling?
Speaker 2: That's when I'm going head Collaging man.
Speaker 1: Now that's Collagen man calling. No, I mean your colorgan
Man maybe calling on you. Soon I'll show you how
it goes. Knock knock, who's there, Cullagan man? The man
who Now, look, this isn't a game, you know Culligan
the world wide water conditioning people. Yes, well, the Culigan
man is your local water expert right here to solve
your water problem.
Speaker 2: How do I know if the love water problems?
Speaker 1: Uh, look at it this way. If we didn't have
hard water here or some kind of water problems, then
the Culigan Man wouldn't even be here, would he. I'll see,
so you know what to say when the Culigan man
knocks yes, and I know what to say if he doesn't.
You what we tell the man, Well, I can't knock that.
Speaker 8: I want to try Colagan soft water without buying. Now
you can rent a Cullagan water soft not or as
little as five dollars and fifty cents a month or
complete details on how you can rent a clagain.
Speaker 1: Check up your phone and say, I'll tell the man
that is w BBM Chicago. In the small chapel in
the Malaquis that toll, the light flickers vagrantly across the
faces of the four who stand there. Shadowed. The saturnine
priest belies his garments, looking like some bulpine devil. As
the light plays across the Sires say that comically evil
smile seems even more mocking. As for Dennis and Blanche.
The one is white with astonishment, the girl blushing with embarrassment.
Speaker 6: She wrong, He cannot be in est indeed I can.
Speaker 2: And then I declare before God I will set up
myself other than be porting that poor young man.
Speaker 1: I assure you you will not have the opportunity come on.
Speaker 2: The woman of loed and panted, would not love died
and unto the marriage force to come.
Speaker 1: It's possible you.
Speaker 6: Do not believe me, but just don't think that is
the man.
Speaker 1: Frankly, I do have it.
Speaker 2: Let me explain to you once and for all, Love
de malatois case. When you took it into your head
to disharn on my family and the name that I
have borne, you forfeited any right to question my designs.
Speaker 1: Or even to look me in the faith.
Speaker 6: But good you only knocked one word.
Speaker 2: More who it is my duty to see married at once?
Out of pure good will, I have tried to find
your own glad for you, and I believe I have succeeded.
But if I have not, I care not want taxtas.
So let me recommend that you be polite to our
young friend.
Speaker 1: For me, upon my word, your next school may be
less appetite you. I had watched and listened to all
this and puzzled silence, silence for another reason. In two
short minutes, watching the emotions that course her exquicked faith,
I dout. I had come to notice charl capacity for love,
her tender and as her bravery you know, did I
do more than I would admire with the eyes love
of all she was and with these little jealous of
her unknown cavalier. But think the lady had spit it
as well, I assumed to discover as the aress closed
behind her uncle and the priest, and she whorled upon
me with flashing eyes. No what we they the meaning
of all this? Her lord knows that how seems to
be for mad people?
Speaker 2: Do you tell me one of them?
Speaker 1: Or do you not mean that? Good? Well?
Speaker 2: I can tell you I am enough in my wait
to see.
Speaker 5: That my uncle and just house have made some monstrous
bog in.
Speaker 1: Between that you think I'm engaged in some part without
old devil out there your You're beyond your wits. I've
not been to Marrow with you know what I have?
Have you asked me, I'm as much a prisoner in
this house as you appear to be.
Speaker 6: Didn't pray?
Speaker 1: How came here? I was on my way from Paris
to join my regiment now lastow and stop off in
this mistake, got in town to seek an old acquaintance
spend an evening with him. While he was seeing me
back to the inn, we were set upon by a
bunch of assassins, and my friend was shot and killed.
You cannot hugnnot scot throat your own nightguard, who knows
things that everyone is mad in this town. More events,
I took to my heels for my life, made the
mistake of turning into your streets, from which there was
no escape, backed against your door, hoping perhaps to stay
a notice in the shadow of the Portugal to mi ay.
It opened with my weight, and naturally I step there,
only to have it closed by some mechanism beyond my comprehension.
When I tried to open it, there was neither lax,
nor handle, nor any means Your accomplished that. And of
course that's what John got.
Speaker 6: The iron mongers were working at them the whole evening.
It wasn't you they expected to travel?
Speaker 1: Oo?
Speaker 2: Who oh the cause of all this?
Speaker 1: Oh? Please, I knew not.
Speaker 2: Your name, But please forgive me for what I said before.
Speaker 1: Oh, my bother. The longer I spend with you, the
more I could forgive you everything.
Speaker 6: Oh, don't jest with me, Please, It is all my
fault that you are caught as you are.
Speaker 1: Oh what can I do? Well, let's make a start
by doing what I have done, and tell me the
answer to all these whiddles.
Speaker 6: And ashamed, and yet it's so little to tell.
Speaker 2: I was left an awesin early and had been brought
up in his house, namely by the sire himself.
Speaker 1: He's not married well.
Speaker 2: His wife died when I was fourteen. I'd not been
dying happy since. And that's why three months ago, when
a young captain began to stand in me every day
in church, and I.
Speaker 1: Saw that I pleased him. Why wouldn't you go up? Oh,
I'm much to blame.
Speaker 2: I was so glad that anyone should offer me love
that when he pressed me a letter, I took it
home and I read it with pleasure. And since that
time he had written you so many but in the
last few asking me to leave my door open some
night something might come and and talk with me on
the stairs. How my uncle came to suspect me. I
don't know.
Speaker 1: Always idiots who's little to do, but look their tongues waged.
I suppose so well.
Speaker 2: Tonight took despers The captain handed me a desperate note
that he was to be transferred.
Speaker 1: Tonight was his last.
Speaker 2: Night, and again he begged that I would leave the
door open, and in the carriage coming home, the Sire
forced the note from my hand and read it. And
when we got home he ordered me to dress as.
Speaker 1: You would see me.
Speaker 2: And when I would not tell him the captain's name,
he must have laid the trap for him into which
you fell. I don't know how to apologize or to ask.
Speaker 6: You to for a gist.
Speaker 2: Neither is necessary, no, but it is to have put you,
a complete stranger in such a degrading and embarrassing position.
I'm so ashamed, Mademoise. Though you have honored me with
your confidence. The only remains for me to prove myself
not unworthy of the honor. I see your uncle is
back in his favorite chair.
Speaker 1: What are you going to do? If you will go
first and let me follow, I'll show you. Ah, are
you in some haste for they? I believe I have
some say in a matter of this marriage. So let
me say this at once and for all. I will
be no party to posing your niece against her inclination. Really,
had it been offered me, really I should have been
piled to accept her hand. But it is clear that
she is as good as she is beautiful. But as
things stand, I have the honor and assire of refusing.
Why do you smile, Sir?
Speaker 2: I am afraid that you do not clearly understand your obsence.
Speaker 1: Follow me to the window. Please see this roop weaved
efficiently through the rings set in the upper meeting me.
Now mark my words.
Speaker 2: If you refuse to marry my niece, I should have
you hanged out of this window by sun round yo.
Oh yeah, the family may be well enough in it's
way the boy year, but if you sprang from Shalamagne himself,
I would not permit you to refuse the hand of
a mantua with impunitated he Let me see. Let between
this young man and myself be quiet. The honor of
my house has been compromised.
Speaker 1: I believe you to be the guilty person. At very
least you're now in the that there are other ways
of settling affairs among gentlemen. You are a sword, which
I hear you have used with distinction. They are I. Oh, yes, Masiah,
you would be dead out of hand before you reached
your sword. And let us not rush anything. You have
a good two hours to resolve your problem. If you'll
give me your word of honor to await my return
before attempting anything desperate, I shall withdraw my retainers and
leave you in privacy. You have my word, of my
I declare, and see the more I see of you,
the better I think of you. Come chaptain of your
excess baggage for the moment, but marry you shall or
dangle from yonder way? Shall not why you shall nine,
I've been trained for nice with madam. Thank you for
a moment, I stand in fear of death, and.
Speaker 6: I cannot have been slain for mere scruple.
Speaker 1: You under rape the difficulty. What you may be too
generous to refuse, I may be too part to accept.
In a moment of noble feeling for me, you forget
what you may owe to another almost spa shame me. Oh,
I'm clean, goddess, I know that no longer I was
an anagony of embarrassment. I can I dare to see
a woman cry. And I was as helpless as a babe.
I looked at blancheon oh or how much I had
gone to love her, but to steal her from another
man who is not there to stand and fight.
Speaker 2: See the pig. I want to help you, for you
have been so noble put it in my power to
do something more for you, but weep?
Speaker 1: What service can I ask of you? You love? A
sweet nature, a little estimate of small service.
Speaker 2: I am looking at you and seeing the noblest man
I ever met, who we used to.
Speaker 1: Die, and a mousetrap with no more noise than my
own squeak.
Speaker 6: I will not have my champion and think may more
of themself. You have no clothes behind your head?
Speaker 1: More? Would I mind? Pray? Do not think me beautiful? Oh?
And indeed what Morgielle I do? Well? I'm glad of that.
Speaker 2: And how many men have franc had been asking knowledge
by a beautiful maiden with her own lips, and who
have refused her to have face?
Speaker 1: You are very good, but we can't make me forget.
I was asked in pity and not for love.
Speaker 2: Can you look in my eyes now and believe that
it was for anything but love? I have loved you
since the first moment you took my part against my uncle,
as I have loved you.
Speaker 1: Ah.
Speaker 6: The Captain, oh, nothing to me, he never did.
Speaker 2: It was just a a contact with the outside world.
Speaker 1: Godd it's some l Come with me. Put me to
the window.
Speaker 6: Open your eyes, my son, is shining the.
Speaker 2: World is still over there.
Speaker 6: Now what are we to say to my uncle when
he returned?
Speaker 1: What you will plant? You have seen? Whether or not
I fear death. If you do care for me, don't
let me lose my life in a misapprehension, or make
no mistake. I love you better than life itself.
Speaker 6: I cannot do your freedom. My uncle would saw other punish.
Speaker 1: The captain of.
Speaker 6: Your cultt you must escape. The captain's name is her name,
the doctor.
Speaker 1: I never heard the name, and if I did, have
you forgotten? Where children?
Speaker 9: Have you decided, Messire de Maletois, not by suasion or
fear of death, but because I.
Speaker 1: Have learned to know the lady and love her. I
dinnis the mosoldicle your request the honor of your niece's
hand in holy matrimony, Debbie. I had a feeling for
you the first moment I said, eyes on you. Welcome
to the mali Blas family. Nephew. Once again, and this
time for the last time, we closed the Sire de
Malati's door on a happy ending. I'll be back shortly.
A few good men, that's what the Marines are looking boy,
A few good college men who want to leave men
who have enough on the ball to be eligible for
pl Platoon leaders class. Not everyone can make it. It
takes brains, it takes muscles, and summer training is no picnic.
It takes men who want a real challenge, the challenge
of leading marine ground tool flying Sophisticated Marine air class
weren't serving as marine lawyers. If you are want of
the fuel, can make it it finangela distance available during
school up to twenty seven hundred dollars over three years.
There's even free vinion flying. Let's a qualified men PLD ground,
PLD air PLD law for a few good men. For
any sentimentalist among the listeners. Captain Partier had no serious intentions.
He was indeed trifling with Blanche's innocent affections. Little did
he know, nor would he have cared, that he brought
two young people to a happy and enduring marriage. The
Captain died shortly thereafter in a brawl over a gaming debt,
which is neither here nor there in our story, except
that it's nice to know that every so often virtue
does triumph. Our cast included Michael Wager, William Redfield, Marion Felders,
and Robert Dryden. The entire production was under the direction
of Hymon Brown and now a preview of our next tale. Marveless,
Are you going to get around when you've got no body?
He lived?
Speaker 2: See you, little white dog, curly tail.
Speaker 6: Or still a little see that big booth station loge
pity him?
Speaker 1: No, I've got it, got him syn here, I've saved him.
Speaker 2: We'll probably get run over anyhow one of these days.
Speaker 1: No he won't, No, he won't. I'm going to keep
my eye on him. What about all the others? Them too,
and cats and people and everybody? Oh, Cynthia, Why did
it take me too long to find out what I
was born to do?
Speaker 5: I could have spent my whole life doing this, Cynthia.
My after life is going to be a hundred times
more exciting than my life ever was.
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This is E. G. Marshall inviting you to return to
our Mystery Theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until
next time, pleasant dream wo