Speaker 1: Come in welcome. I'm g Marshall.
Speaker 2: It is a generally accepted theory that no man is
all good or all bad, that there is a mixture
of both.
Speaker 1: In all of us, that we are all in some
degree Doctor Jekyll and mister Hyde.
Speaker 2: But is it possible that a man could be all evil,
all selfish, all destructive without a single saving grace?
Speaker 1: This is the study of such a man. Lord, will
the old goat never die?
Speaker 3: The bishop is dead. He has for you the last
Could you hear me? Car I hear you?
Speaker 1: Of course I did. And now by Heaven your guy
to hear me.
Speaker 3: Asked for me?
Speaker 1: Did he? The slavering old hypocrite? He could no more
stand the sight of me than I have him. But
now he's gone, and there's nothing to stop me. This
state is mine, the money is mine. Now I can
rock the rafters, the Seven Deadly Sins, the Ten Commandments.
I'm going to commit all the first, and I'll break
all the second. Oh, I'm going to cut such a suave.
The devil himself will envy me.
Speaker 2: Our mystery drama markheim Man or Monster was suggested by
the Robert Lewis Stephenson classic and was written especially for
the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin. Ten stars Kevin McCarthy.
I'm going to cut such a swathe that the devil.
Speaker 1: Himself will envy me.
Speaker 2: These explosive words from the tall young man who had
waited so long for his great uncle to die shook
the man who had brought the news, doctor John devlen In,
stunned disbelief. He looked at the handsome young man, still
in his thirties, whom he loved as a son, while
memory raced quickly through his head.
Speaker 1: I had known Carl Mark him all his life. I
should I brought him into the world. Perhaps what I
should be saying is I thought I had known him. Oh,
I realized that beneath the dark byronic beauty of his
physical presence and his magnetic charm, he was lazy and
shiftless and frequently arrogant. But since his parents death, I
had stood in local parentice to him and accepted his faults,
as any parent eventually must do with a grown man.
And yet till this moment I had failed to realize
the ugly evilness that look keep within him.
Speaker 3: Carl'll control yourself.
Speaker 1: The house is full of mourners who loved and respected
the great pamp we had just lost. Come with me
quickly into the library, so you can get hold of yoursel. Oh,
I can control myself, Uncle John, If I could keep
myself in hand, swallow my bile. All those years I
had to scratch for handouts. How easy do you think
it's going to be for me now that I'm.
Speaker 4: King of the hell?
Speaker 1: Carl Boy, save some pity and sorrow for the poor
old man.
Speaker 3: He was your great uncle.
Speaker 1: He was a family nemesis. He sat on the estate
and the money, pontificating on the virtues of frugality and
self denial, refusing my father's share, hounding him into mediocrity,
turning him into a fawning dog, killing him in the end,
and my mother with him. May he rot in hell
to you well, then in heaven, wherever uses or wherever
he was led. All I care for is that at
last he is dead, and I am alive.
Speaker 3: And free.
Speaker 1: Oh, come, come, uncle, let's start the festivities. I follow
my foster son from the room, my old legs unable
to keep up with the vigorous stride of his younger ones.
I watch him pass among the guests, a perfect picture
of subdued grief and compassion, his tall figure above everyone
as he moves through the crowd of mourners towards the
children's family, the oldest and dearest friends of Karl's father
and mother.
Speaker 3: And I cannot believe.
Speaker 1: It watching him now, the thoughts that he has put
into words in front of me, Carl, my dear boy,
My deepest condulence is thank you, mister Childers.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry to Karl.
Speaker 4: I wish there was something I could do to help.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Grace. But it had to come eventually.
Speaker 6: Didn't it, As it must do all men and women
to us suppose.
Speaker 1: Never to you, missus Childs. You look like Grace's sister.
Speaker 6: Now there's the wildest of compliments from a young man
to a woman catering on the edge of her prime.
Speaker 1: That's true enough, madam, that you are in your prime,
but far from the edge.
Speaker 5: You are very glant, and you.
Speaker 1: Are very out of key for such a solemn occasion.
Speaker 3: Guddural, I'm sorry, Winston.
Speaker 6: I certainly didn't mean to say or do anything inappropriate.
Speaker 1: When will the actual internment be called? Oh, I'm frank,
I'll have to ask Uncle John. He can tell you
exactly what's planned? Oh, hello there, Doctor Devlin, mister Julter's missus, Grace,
what do you do?
Speaker 5: Always a pleasure to see you.
Speaker 6: Dr Devlon, even under these most unhappy circumstances.
Speaker 1: I've got to get a breath of air. Grace, you
want to join me on the balcony? Oh? Yes, will
you excuse us for a moment, Uncle John, I leave
everything in your charge. I've got to get away, and
Grace has been kind enough to offer to accompany me
now just a moment. I think I.
Speaker 6: Think we should let the young people have a moment
alone to gather themselves together, as the rest of us
must plan to do well.
Speaker 1: Of course, Darling, if you think so, you'll excuse us
then by all means.
Speaker 5: Oh look, Carl, here's a full.
Speaker 1: Moon, lover's moon. Strange things I have to equate with death.
Speaker 4: I can't imagine that. I can't even think how it
might be. No, ill, could you at eighteen nineteen almost twenty?
Speaker 1: You're growing up so soon, little Grace.
Speaker 4: I have been grown up for some time, and let's
not go through any of that old routine about how
you used to dangle me on your NKPO didn't I well,
if you did.
Speaker 5: I was either much too old or you much too young?
How old are you?
Speaker 1: Anyway older than the pyramids? What before my great uncle died?
Now I dropped a decade like a snake, sluffsy skin.
I'm back to my twenties, not my thirties.
Speaker 5: Oh, I wish you really believed that, Carl. I've been
in love with you all my life. I wish you
could see me as a woman.
Speaker 1: Grace, my dear old, excuse me, but the undertakers are here.
I think you ought to be with us to make
the arrangements. Just call me Angel of Grace, the angel
of death. As presumptive air, I must spread my wings
and fly to sit and hatch the golden eggs with
all dew, pomp and ceremony.
Speaker 4: I love to call you angel, but for very different reasons.
Speaker 5: And now you can afford a wife.
Speaker 1: You know you are a very forward little minx and
mmmm an attractive one.
Speaker 3: Carl, how are you coming?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: I wouldn't miss it for the world, Uncle John, I
can't wait to be in at that death. I'm very
displeased with you, Gertrud, Are you winstant? Dear?
Speaker 3: What about this time?
Speaker 1: Grace sending her off with that great.
Speaker 5: Marcheim you disapprove of.
Speaker 6: Young Markham is a husband, for Grace.
Speaker 3: He's not young.
Speaker 6: He's in his thirties, young enough and now gloriously rich.
Speaker 1: And I'm sorry to disappoint you, my dear, but as
family lawyer, I happen to have drawn the Bishop's will.
The entire estate goes to the church, except for a
small pittance to his grand nephew.
Speaker 6: Oh no, oh, Look at Grace. The way she looks
at him, you can see she adores him, and she
does have money of her own.
Speaker 1: On which, as long as I have any say about it,
he'll never lay a fingers for coming this way. I'm
returning your daughter to you, safe and sound. If you'll
excuse me, I understand the undertakers are here and I
shall be needed.
Speaker 6: Then we'll go.
Speaker 1: Grace, you and your mother go home. I shall stay
for the reading of the will so soon if you
prefer to wait. No, no, by all means, let's have
anything pleasant that we can on this unfortunately dreary occasion.
I shall make all due haste to have the bishop
transported to the morticians, so that he can robe and
prepare him for his lost retreat.
Speaker 3: Carl.
Speaker 1: Oh, forgive me, mister and missus Schulders.
Speaker 3: But Carl, you're keeping us waiting, if.
Speaker 1: You excuse me, right, all right, I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
Uncle John. I didn't realize that the old boy was
in that much of a hurry. I don't believe it.
Everything estate, this house, all the money to the church.
Speaker 3: You'd the will. I'll contest it.
Speaker 1: I'll drag it through every corner, my Carl, easy, he
left you a yearlier, the whole a thousand pounds a year. Well,
that's not enough to keep me in cigars. I think
the bishop had it in mind that it was high
time for you to start earning your own living. Don't
you look down your nose at me, you pomp that.
Speaker 3: I'll control it.
Speaker 1: Oh, quite all right, doctor Devlin. I can well understand
how Markheim's disappointment. But time will accustom him to his
new status in life. Will entitles him to stay on
for six months in the house. It will take that
long to clear probate. Anyhow, you'll have a clear probate.
I'll contest. That's your election. But let me warn you, Mark,
I'm I drew this will and his iron plaid. You
can't break it, haf Besides, it will cost money to contest,
and it seems that's what you have in your own words,
very little, good day, gentlemen, good Davis. To choose all
that fat, supercilious, vulgar little, or will.
Speaker 3: You stop it? I can't bear to see you like this?
Speaker 1: Is I really am?
Speaker 3: Oh no, I won't believe that.
Speaker 1: Off you and watch me find a way to cut
him down. The sides can't, Carl, you have no power
to change what is?
Speaker 7: Oh you think not?
Speaker 1: You think not When one has no scruples and long ago,
very disconscious, anything and everything is possible. I'll stop looking
so scantalized. He's a naked truth, more than your Victorian
morals can bear him.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'm so glad you came.
Speaker 1: To dinner, car Well, how could I refuse except that
your father wasn't quite so happy?
Speaker 4: Oh, Dale, come around, mother, and I will see to that.
I can't think why he's taken this sudden turn against you.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. It's because of the will my
beloved great uncle has left me practically penniless.
Speaker 4: No, oh, my poor darling. Oh, but you, with your
wonderful brain and all your connections, you can find a
way to be as rich as you want to be.
Speaker 1: Well, it takes time, and I don't get any younger.
Speaker 5: Oh, you'll never look old.
Speaker 1: I adore you, my darling. I have all my life
watching waiting for you to grow it. You have to
be old enough to ask you to be Well, it's
all impossible. Now.
Speaker 5: What's impossible for us.
Speaker 4: To be married just because you haven't much money? Well,
I have more than enough for both of us, mine
that my uncle left me.
Speaker 5: Oh, darling, darling.
Speaker 4: If that's all it stands between us, kiss me and
we'll be married as soon as it's decent.
Speaker 1: No, sah, never will I give my consent. You will
never get either my daughter or her money when she's
twenty one. I know you're staying power. You'll never wait
that long. You and my daughter will never be married.
I wouldn't be so sure of that, mister Childers. I
promise you that I'll give you cause to regret your
attitude before all's done between us.
Speaker 3: My darling, I love you so.
Speaker 5: If this is the only way, then, but I'm not ashamed.
I'll be proud.
Speaker 1: It's the only way. Can I promise you you won't
be sorry?
Speaker 4: How could I ever be sorry for loving you.
Speaker 3: You poisonous scoundrel?
Speaker 1: Is this true grace?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 6: Father, you are going to have his baby?
Speaker 5: How long I'm in my fourth month?
Speaker 3: Lord?
Speaker 1: No, it would seem, mister Childers, that, after all a
marriage has been arranged.
Speaker 2: Without scruples or conscience, anything is possible. It would seem
that Karl Markheim's statement is right. Let's see his score
so far of the seven capital sins, he has committed
all but perhaps envy and gluttony, and he's only beginning
to break the commandments? Can he reach his goal? I'll
be back shortly with that too.
Speaker 1: A marriage was arranged, and.
Speaker 2: Young Grace Shoulders became Karl Markheim's willing bride. If some
people thought it was a little close after the bishop's death,
most people felt that Carl had waited long enough to
take the step. The church was gracious also for a
promised yearly contribution. They granted the use of the Markham
House in grounds.
Speaker 3: To people at large.
Speaker 2: Only one thing was any different in this marriage, and
that was that the newly weds did not take their honeymoon.
Speaker 1: Immediately following the wedding. Harry's Grace uncle John in perfect
health she'll make a wonderful mother. I have something to
say about your wife's pregnancy. Hmm, what's that? It's starting
to show. Fortunately, however, there is a remedy. What are
you suggesting that you take your wife with an extended
honeymoon and you're a say, a year's is it? At
least by the time you return, there'll be no embarrassment
for anyone. It's impossible. I don't have any money. Your
wife would be glad to lend it to y'all, except
the that stark shirt that she calls Papa has managed
to sew it up legally, and the estate won't give
me in advance. Anyway, I'll arrange it somehow. I'll talk
to mister Childers.
Speaker 3: Do you love that girl you married?
Speaker 1: You're the only one I'll give the truth. You see
my reflection in the mantelpiece mirror. With this reflection, I'm
happy to realize I'm breaking two commandments at once.
Speaker 3: Oh what do you mean?
Speaker 1: The first? In the second thou shalt have no other
God but me, and thou shalt not make for yourself
a graven image. There is my graven image in the mirror,
Uncle John, myself. What I love first before any But
what is it?
Speaker 3: Howzy?
Speaker 1: I can't see him clearly? How who did you bring
with you?
Speaker 3: I bring? What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Behind you? Over your shoulder? I I saw it in
the mirror. Face.
Speaker 3: There's no one behind me. We're all alone.
Speaker 1: But when I turn to the mirror, I can't. I
can't see what card nothing, There's nothing there. Now, I
guess perhaps I've been too busy indulging the sixth of
the seven Deadly sins cluck me in my case the
bottle ah, leaving only envy. You know something, Carl, I
think you need this trip as much as that dear
little wife of yours does. I think it might be
the best hope for both of you. I'll talk to
Childers and show them that without it, I'll be the
devil to pay.
Speaker 3: For all of you.
Speaker 1: I respect your opinion, Doctor Devlin, and I applaud your
belief that there is one decent streak somewhere in that
young blackguard's makeup. That I'll do everything legally in my
power to keep his hands off my daughter's money.
Speaker 3: But it is her money.
Speaker 1: She's not of age, she's married and having a child.
It seems to me age is irrelevant.
Speaker 6: What is irrelevant is my husband, doctor Devlin. He's a
sentry behind his times, which is exactly why he's going
to release Grace his money and stay out of this.
Speaker 1: Gertrude, I don't want you interfering a lot of things you.
Speaker 6: Don't want, Winston, but I'm not going to stop to
listen to them because it might take weeks.
Speaker 5: You don't want to look like a fool.
Speaker 6: You don't want to be embarrassed among our acquaintances.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about, Well, you would.
Speaker 5: Call it your daughter's good name.
Speaker 6: I call it a spade, your good name, your reputation.
Carl and Grace will have a child less than five
months after they're married. If they have it here, you'll
be a laughing stock. If they return a year two
years from now from an extended trip on the continent,
who's to say what age the child is, and your
reputation will be salvaged as well as your daughters.
Speaker 3: You have no choice.
Speaker 1: She had cut to the heart of the matter, and
Kilda's had to give in. Grace got her money and
Carl and see their honeymoon. If that's the proper name
for it. I made a trip to France myself to
deliver the baby, which I'm sad to say.
Speaker 3: Was fruitless, as the child was born dead.
Speaker 1: Oh no, now you mustn't take it so hard, Grace.
Speaker 3: It was Nolan's fault.
Speaker 1: Perhaps I can assure you medically it was sheer unfortunate accident.
Speaker 3: It was better.
Speaker 1: Actually this child didn't live. But that doesn't mean you
can have as many more as you want.
Speaker 5: As I want.
Speaker 4: Yes, the problem isn't me, doctor Deman, it's what Carl wants.
Speaker 1: Well, Grace, after I've talked to him.
Speaker 5: Can you talk to him as the question?
Speaker 4: Can anyone talk to him?
Speaker 3: What is it? My dear, you can confide in me.
Speaker 4: No, No, I won't say anything against my husband.
Speaker 1: I still love God help me.
Speaker 5: He can't seem to help Carl, Lee.
Speaker 4: You you are the only one who can.
Speaker 1: It was a sordid, sickening tale I learned from acquaintances
and friends that Grace had made before I faced Karl himself.
In the last months of her pregnancy. He seemed to
have gone bassuk, leaving her for days at the time,
staggering home only to sober up, leaving again for his
women who were legion. His wine glass, which was always
in his hand, his gambling, which was prodigious and disastrous.
And yet when I met him again to Wildwood Looks,
he seemed to thrive on his degeneracy. I found him
at a bar, sitting on a stool facing the mirror,
a glass of cognac in hand.
Speaker 3: What are you doing here, Karl, no one.
Speaker 1: Else, Uncle John, celebrating the births of a new era,
Karl Markheim, Father, don't tell me the blessant defense has arrived.
Speaker 3: Your baby was born.
Speaker 1: Dead, Thank God, What a rash. There goes another commandment,
thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain? Third,
isn't it? And today Sunday? So that does away with
number four? Are you mad drinking at a bar while
your wife lies morning in the hospital.
Speaker 3: Morning You're lost, child?
Speaker 1: And more than that, I expect lost love that never was.
But there is enough more lost. I'm proke, Uncle John,
cleaned up. No love, no child, no money. You've gone
through all Drace's money in less than six months. Wine
women in the little clicking ball. At least you still
have your thousand a year. Oh no, no, no, ha
ha ha, that's mortgage. Very well, let's not discuss it here.
Speaker 5: Come.
Speaker 1: We'll we'll get to the hospital and pick up Grayson.
I'll see that all of you get home. Wait a minute,
what is it now? Do you see between us and
behind us in the mirror. He's waiting, He's always waiting.
He will not let me go.
Speaker 3: There's no one there.
Speaker 1: Carl, when you turn around. But I haven't the courage
for that anymore. In case he might be all right,
then I'll.
Speaker 3: Prove it to you. I'll turn you there. Do you
see anyone.
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: And let's be on our way.
Speaker 1: I was desperately worried about Carl's course, But in a
few days before we left Francie, he seemed to try
out satisfactorily. Grays and he had a tearful reunion, and
without return to London, appear to take hold of himself.
Grace and he seemed to have found something working arrangement,
and I hesitated to interfere further. If only I hadn't
not one penny.
Speaker 6: But Winston, if our daughter is actually starved.
Speaker 1: She can come home where she belongs.
Speaker 4: I love him, and we are not all that helpless
really without money?
Speaker 3: What do you intend to live on? Mark?
Speaker 1: I'm's wits. They haven't been very successful so far.
Speaker 5: That period of his life is past.
Speaker 4: He is working now at what he's investing without money.
Speaker 3: That's quite a trick.
Speaker 5: But will you raise the money? He's assured me of that.
Speaker 3: How well?
Speaker 5: We still have the house, that the furniture. We can
sell those and get smaller quarters.
Speaker 3: Sell the house and the Gertrude.
Speaker 5: Yes, Winston, perhaps.
Speaker 1: I am too hard on Markheim. Money I can't give him,
but maybe I can put him in the way of
being very rich. Where is he, Grace.
Speaker 5: Down downstairs in the carriage.
Speaker 1: Tell him I'll talk with him.
Speaker 6: Yes, Winston, what are you up to?
Speaker 1: What I'm up to is none of your business? Get Ruden.
I won't pretend to have any love for you. Mark,
I'm and I have no money to lend you, but
for my daughter's sake, I will allow you this one
last chance. The name of the stock, Southern Rhodesian Rand.
And you see how much of it I'm holding. I've
bought every share I could afford. And you're sure it's
a bonanza, Mark, I'm I'm their lawyer. They've discovered the
greatest mother load of gold since the comstock in America.
Speaker 3: Oh, it'll make millionaires of.
Speaker 1: Us is there stock available? Is still I can arrange
that for you through my broker, strictly cash. After Monday,
when the news will break, there won't be a share
left you three days left. Remember good Friday, the exchange
will be closed. I'll have the money before then, by
hook or by crook. Good morning, mister Ross.
Speaker 3: Who is that? Oh it's you Markim. Well, what is
it this time?
Speaker 1: The usual, my frugal and parsimonious friend. I am in
need of cash only for a matter of days. However
of days hmm?
Speaker 3: Then what is the security?
Speaker 1: The entire contents of my mansion a treasure house?
Speaker 3: What is a few days?
Speaker 1: You shall have it back the Monday after Easter Sunday.
Speaker 3: It can do no harm to look.
Speaker 1: I should be at your house by two this afternoon.
Then we have an agreement. Is offly softly, first, lip
lip the cat out of the bank.
Speaker 3: I do not intend to buy a pig in a poke.
Speaker 5: Corl.
Speaker 1: Yes, Grace, did you get to yes? Yes? Yes, five
thousand shares at two pounds apiece. By Monday two is
going to be past one hundred pounds in climbing. We're rich, Grace, rich,
for the rest.
Speaker 4: Of our love I'm so glad, particularly since it's all
thanks to Papa.
Speaker 1: No, thanks for me, It was for you. He did it.
If this stock.
Speaker 5: Should fail me, pretty who not as Papa?
Speaker 1: Yes, thank heaven, I have that security. He's holding as
much of it as I am.
Speaker 5: Then try to give and forget it.
Speaker 4: Carl, Come to the country with us for an old
fashioned Easter.
Speaker 5: Let's be a real family at last.
Speaker 1: No, damnit, I I couldn't stomach the whole weekend. I'll
make a bargain. You go up tomorrow with them, and
I'll join you on Sunday. I am quite sure one
day will be all your father and I can stand
of each other.
Speaker 5: Carl, Oh, Carl, thank god I found you at home.
Speaker 1: Oh my, poor god, Gertrude, what is it. Something happened
to Grace?
Speaker 6: No, no, no, I've left the country, but I had
to see you the first moment he was gone.
Speaker 3: The stock.
Speaker 1: Is it true?
Speaker 5: You bought it?
Speaker 1: Ah? Yes? Yes?
Speaker 3: Oh lord, what are you.
Speaker 5: Going to do? He's ruined you. The stock you bought
was his.
Speaker 6: He swindled you into buying it.
Speaker 1: Swindled.
Speaker 5: Yes, the company is bank.
Speaker 6: Those certificates you hold are not worth the paper there retina.
Speaker 2: For a moment, Marcheim stares at Gertrude in utter incredulity. Then,
as he turns in a fury to slam his fist
against the wall, there in the hall mirror he sees
his reflection and Gertrude's, and behind them, smiling with an
almost satanic glee, the face of the man who taunts
and haunts him. I'll return shortly with Act three. At
the sight of that tantalizing mirror image, his eyes misted
by the red blood of frustrated fury, Karl Markheim whirls
back towards Gertrude, frozen into immobility at the door, hands
in front of him, fingers curled as if to choke
and strangle. He moves toward her until suddenly she cries out.
Speaker 1: What what, oh, how it's you. For a moment I thought, no,
now he's gone again. My numbosis doesn't matter. Come, come,
let's jo inside. I need to drink.
Speaker 6: For a moment, I thought you were going to strangle me,
not him.
Speaker 1: Winston humm who oh him? No? No? Not well, if
he were here, and if what you say is true,
I might have it's true.
Speaker 6: You can pour me a drink too. I almost wish
he had been here.
Speaker 1: Here's your drink, thank you to oblivion. Strangling's too good
for him. If you will excuse the expression, I'll.
Speaker 6: Even drink to it. I'm the one who's had to
live within the last twenty five years, Karl, is there
nothing You can do.
Speaker 1: Nothing except try to devise a way to hit him
where it hurts for the longest time possible.
Speaker 6: I don't no way, Oh no, no, no, I couldn't
do that to Grace, is my daughter.
Speaker 1: No you can do to Grace that I haven't done already,
or that I'm not now committed to do. I don't
own any of this furniture or the house I pledged.
I'll land in jail now. I am a thief. That's
number eight. I've come pretty close to fulfilling my prophecy.
Speaker 3: What prophecy?
Speaker 5: What is number eight?
Speaker 1: Number eight? Is thouself not steel? The other doesn't matter.
Speaker 6: You don't love Gray, do you?
Speaker 3: You never had?
Speaker 1: That's right. Even before this, I had nothing left to
offer her. It would have been kinder if I could
have found some way to kill her love for me.
But apparently I can't.
Speaker 6: Give me another drink All right, you You used to
consider me a very good looking woman. Was that one
of your lies?
Speaker 3: Or did you mean it?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 6: That I meant, which springs up the subject of number nine.
What thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife?
Speaker 3: Or have you broken that drink?
Speaker 1: No? Nor, as it happens, have I broken number seven?
Speaker 3: Adultery?
Speaker 6: It's the first thought that ever crossed my mind when
I first met you.
Speaker 1: It was in mind too.
Speaker 6: Grace and Winston are already in the country. I'm not
driving up for tomorrow with doctor Devlin. The one single
thing that would most devastate Winston is to be couckled.
Grisi never know, but depend on it. I would let
him know.
Speaker 1: I heaven got it. It's almost worth it all at
this moment, What is it, Papa?
Speaker 3: The fridge is time?
Speaker 1: Those damn spring rain See, he can't make it before dark.
We'll have to go back, Oh boy.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, as long as we won't be at Grandfather's
tonight and Mama's with Aunt Tilda, let's drive straight to
my house.
Speaker 5: You can spend the night and I'll make supper for
all of us.
Speaker 1: I don't think your husband would welcome my presence oh nonsense.
Speaker 5: Now that you've made him red.
Speaker 3: That hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 5: Oh, but it's going to by Monday.
Speaker 1: Yes, Monday is going to be a red letter day
for mister Carl. Marc, I am all right, it's almost dark.
I'd better hurry.
Speaker 4: I can't understand where Karl could be. Oh, thank you
for carrying up my bag, Papa. I'll just put it
on my bed, good lord.
Speaker 1: Carl. No, well, Caturn, it seems you won't have to
tell your husband. After all, I'd never believed it, Carl,
I could believe every rotten thing about you.
Speaker 3: But this why you've.
Speaker 1: Broken trace his heart and destroyed the marriage of my
friend and your father. I broke Grace's heart a long
time ago. She's lucky to be free at last. As
for your friend and my father is and Viertrude told
me what he'd done to you, and I was ready
to bail you out until this last unconscionable act. And
I want you to know that I'm through with you forever.
You have lost the last friend you have except one
who my shadow, whoever he is. Well, Uncle John, there's
one thing you have to say for me. I keep
my word. Oh, No, I sent a commit every deadly
sin and break every holy commandment. I've only one to go,
and then I'll take care of tomorrow. All right, all right,
I'm coming, I'm coming. I must have known you, Mark,
I'm who else will have the goal? Easter Sunday will
come in, come in. You know I'm alone, and that
I make a point of refusing business on a holiday.
I come to buy, not to sell. I seek an
Easter present for a lady, which I must present tonight,
so by an old customer.
Speaker 3: So let's see. Now, here's a pretty thing.
Speaker 1: This a hand glass fifteen centuries Yeah, how clear?
Speaker 3: It mirrors too clear?
Speaker 1: I see him all too plain. Look here do you
see him? Hooray?
Speaker 3: I see my own reflection.
Speaker 1: Let me look again. No, there he still is by
God to be rid of him at last. Now there's
an unkind, unseemly thing to do to destroy so wantonly
and here is an even unkinder. You save me? Why?
Because I came here to complete an old vow and
start a new life. Where do you keep your money?
Speaker 3: Buddy?
Speaker 1: No help me, I'm dying. Die. Then I picked up
the guttering campbell. I wanted to flee to the safety
of my bed. But I've done the deed and must
reap the prophet. I moved about, pocketing whatever I could
find a value, all the time, my mind racing telling
me I should have chosen a quiet hour, arranged an alibi.
Not of he was a knife that belonged to me.
That made me moved towards the corpse to pull it free.
And then I saw the key. There was money, much money,
enough money to save me, hidden somewhere in this house.
I must find it. Perhaps an hour later I was
upstairs ramsacking the place desperately when the voice spoke, you
are looking for the money, I believe. I whirled. It
was see me, my mirror heart, at last, face to
face in life. He seemed commonplace enough, and his voice
was kind and gentle. I tried to answer, but none
would come. You know you have long been a favorite
of mine. I have long observed you as you will wear,
and often sought to help you. What are you the devil?
What I may be cannot affect the service I propose
to render you. No, never, not by you. You do
not know me yet, Oh I know you, I know
you to the soul know me. How can you know me?
My life is a travesty and a slander on myself.
I've lived to belie my own nature as all men do,
very feelingly expressed. But time flies. Shall I help you,
I who know all? Shall I tell you where to
find the money? For what price?
Speaker 3: You know? I offer you? The service has an easter gift?
Speaker 1: No, no, thank you. I take nothing directly at your hands.
I seem incredulous from all I've done, but I still
cannot commit myself to help. Why must you doubt that
I have any hearts? I was once an angel too.
You must remember the devil? Why must all men mistake
my purpose? I am here to try you, not to
enslave you and drag you down into the pit. That's
not necessary in my case. I dragged myself down because.
Speaker 3: The devil is an illusion.
Speaker 1: I am all men, I dwell in all. It is
you who seek me?
Speaker 3: Not are you?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: Shall I show you the money.
Speaker 1: And mercy forgiveness salvation? Have you ever tried or asked
for the maid? She returned? Will that need be no
impossible fence to climb? You will open the door.
Speaker 3: Tell her what you are, the.
Speaker 1: Doctor who came because her master was taken idle quite suddenly,
once you have the girl inside and the door closed
with the same dexterity as you dispatched the old man,
you dispatch her, and then you have the rest of
the day and night to ransack the house for the money.
If you do not wish my help. This crime was
to be my last.
Speaker 3: Today.
Speaker 1: Out of this deed, I meant to pluck both warning
and riches and a fresh resolve to be my real self.
Your life hangs trembling in the scales. You cannot keep
her waiting, or she will rouse the whole neighborhood up,
my friend, and act as a man in a dream,
I passed down the stairs, my hand on the dagger
helt beneath my cloak. For a moment I stopped by
the door to look in a large Venetian glass. It
reflects me, Karl Markheim. Alone alone, I stand transfit. And
then the bell once more breaks out into an impatient clamor.
You had better go for the place, miss, I have
just murdered your master. The devil is an illusion.
Speaker 2: He lives in all of us, and no one can
conquer him. What ourselves. This is a lesson, Karl Markhim
took a long and bitter road to learn, but then
salvation is never bought easily.
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Speaker 2: So in the end, we return to our original question,
is there any such thing as a man who is
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but in the end he reached as all of us
for salvation, for once not asking, but offering himself as
sacrifice to the mercy of God or perhaps the devil
within him. So with a lift of hope we end
our tale. The image of God dwells within us too.
There is some small kernel of good, at least in
all of us. Our cast included Kevin McCarthy, Grace Matthews,
Rosemary Rice, Guy Sirel, and Ian Martin. The entire production
was under the direction of Hyman Brown. You're listening to
an early steam locomotive, a reminder of when it took
forever to cross this country and when people with epilepsy
had little hope of a normal life. Today we use
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about epilepsy, ideas that haven't kept up with progress.
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