Speaker 1: You are lying helpless in a rude hut in the
Speaker 1: deep interior of China, not knowing how you got there
Speaker 1: or why. And before you you see the face of
Speaker 1: a beautiful girl and the hard, ruthless figure of a
Speaker 1: gorilla chieftain, and you know that in this room there
Speaker 1: is danger for you, perhaps death.
Speaker 2: We offer you escape transcribe to free you from the
Speaker 2: four walls of to day for a half hour of
Speaker 2: high adventure. To day we escape to China and the
Speaker 2: story of a man who lost his memory and almost
Speaker 2: his life. As James Norman told it in his fascinating
Speaker 2: story He who Rides the Tiger.
Speaker 1: The figures and faces would come and go. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: seemed to be floating along with them through endless space.
Speaker 1: But more often I I could feel myself lying on
Speaker 1: a hard bed and watching, not moving, with sick and
Speaker 1: fevered eyes. And there was a big man with brown
Speaker 1: skin and close cropped hair, and an older man with
Speaker 1: a white coat. But best of all was the girl,
Speaker 1: a beautiful girl. Usually her face would dissolve into a
Speaker 1: great lotus flower that would hang for a moment in
Speaker 1: the air and then float slowly beyond reach of my
Speaker 1: thoughts and disappear. Part of this was a dream, of course,
Speaker 1: and part reality, but I was unable to separate one
Speaker 1: from the other. How long it went on, it's impossible
Speaker 1: to me to say. I had no sense of the
Speaker 1: passage of time. One morning, though, I opened my eyes
Speaker 1: and looked at the bare walls of the room, the
Speaker 1: white haired man sitting by my cut, the other man
Speaker 1: sitting a few feet away, smoking a cigarette. And then
Speaker 1: I knew that the dreams had gone away and would
Speaker 1: not come back. This was reality feeling better.
Speaker 3: Can you hear me? Understand me?
Speaker 1: Eh?
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, of course, go ahead. Glad you're finally coming
Speaker 3: out of it. You have been a very sick man.
Speaker 1: You know where am i?
Speaker 3: A feng Yang Mission hospital where about six hundred miles
Speaker 3: out of Pippin.
Speaker 1: That's impossible. How did I get here?
Speaker 3: Walked in, dropped unconscious in the courtyard, burning up with
Speaker 3: fever and suffering from malnutrition.
Speaker 1: Malnutrition, but I ate lunch yesterday in Payping.
Speaker 3: I'm afraid I'll have to contradict you. You've been here
Speaker 3: for two months. I don't understand that. I wonder if
Speaker 3: I could ask your patient the question, Oh, yes, yes,
Speaker 3: of course, you simply this. What is your.
Speaker 1: Name's Armor, David Armor?
Speaker 3: Ah? Yes, so you told us while you were delirious,
Speaker 3: but we could not be sure. And your business in Peping,
Speaker 3: mister Armour.
Speaker 1: I'm a member of the International Committee on Chinese Art Treasures.
Speaker 1: We've been investigating the policy of the advancing Japanese armies too,
Speaker 1: protecting and preserving our objects in newly conquered territories. I see,
Speaker 1: and yesterday you ate lunch in Paping, Yes, at the
Speaker 1: wagon Lee Hotel. I dropped my wife off at it Adrian.
Speaker 1: Where is she? Where's my wife? Missus Armor is in
Speaker 1: San Francisco at present? San Francisco? Why what's this all about?
Speaker 3: Who are you?
Speaker 1: And what am I doing here?
Speaker 3: Why have I grand mister Armor? Please, mister Kinto, I
Speaker 3: think any further questioning and better be postponed until tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Mister Armony is in no condition for it. I quite
Speaker 3: agree with you, doctor, very well, Missus Armor, until tomorrow.
Speaker 3: They know, doctor. I don't understand who is this mister Kento.
Speaker 3: What does he want? Oh, he's a powerful man among
Speaker 3: the Chinese. He's been following your condition very closely. I
Speaker 3: don't know what he wants.
Speaker 1: If I could only remember what happened. I've got to
Speaker 1: send word to my wife, to Adrian, to the American consul.
Speaker 1: Huh up my wallet, my passport and papers? Do you
Speaker 1: have him or mister Armor.
Speaker 3: When you arrived here, you were wearing a cast off
Speaker 3: you in a form of the Japanese Army. You had
Speaker 3: no papers or identification. There was nothing in your pockets
Speaker 3: except this. I haven't told mister Kinto about it.
Speaker 1: It's a little porcelain figurine A rabbit, Yes, a rabbit.
Speaker 1: Does it mean anything to you? I never saw it
Speaker 1: before my life.
Speaker 3: It's too bad. I was hoping it might help you remember.
Speaker 1: The last thing I remember is that lunch and payping.
Speaker 1: Seems like yesterday, and yet you told me it was
Speaker 1: two months ago.
Speaker 3: No, no, I said that you came here two months ago.
Speaker 3: What was the date of that luncheon, mister Arma, It.
Speaker 1: Was September twenty third, ye of what year? Nineteen forty one?
Speaker 1: Of course, what do you mean?
Speaker 3: What are you driving, mister Armor? Apparently the last thing
Speaker 3: you remember is the lunch that you had in Paiping
Speaker 3: nearly eight years ago.
Speaker 1: I understand the doctor has brought you more or less
Speaker 1: up to date, mister Ramer, all in a general way. Yes,
Speaker 1: he told me about Pearl Harbor and the war, and
Speaker 1: finally the Japanese surrender, the revolution in China and so
Speaker 1: on hasn't helped any as well as my memory is concerned.
Speaker 3: It's too bad. Let me extend that memory by about
Speaker 3: twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: What do you mean.
Speaker 3: On September twenty third, nineteen forty one, you ate lunch
Speaker 3: at the wagon Ly Hotel in Peiping with a mister Ficking,
Speaker 3: the Far East correspondent for an American newspaper. Yes, I
Speaker 3: know that you left the hotel with mister Ficking and
Speaker 3: against the rickshaw naturally two blocks away, it was bumped
Speaker 3: by Ampanese army truck and overturned. You were thrown out
Speaker 3: and struck your head on the curbing. A companion became
Speaker 3: embroidered in an argument with the truck driver and the
Speaker 3: crowd gathered, and when the affair quieted down, you had
Speaker 3: disappeared from that time until Europeans here at feng Yang
Speaker 3: two months ago.
Speaker 1: Your whereabouts are unknown. But how did you find out
Speaker 1: about this?
Speaker 3: That is unimportant. I am concerned with what you did
Speaker 3: after that. A war was being fought in China. The
Speaker 3: whole country was under martial law by one side or
Speaker 3: the other. Yet I can find no record of you anywhere.
Speaker 1: What are you getting at?
Speaker 3: You were not with the American or Chinese armies, and
Speaker 3: neither the Japanese army nor the puppet government, at least
Speaker 3: you as a war prisoner. You were not with the
Speaker 3: Chinese careers. I was one of their leaders. I have
Speaker 3: known about that. So what were you doing, mister Armor? Collaborating?
Speaker 3: Perhaps the Japanese? There would be no listing of your
Speaker 3: name in that case. They destroyed all such records before
Speaker 3: the surrender, and you were wearing a Japanese uniform when
Speaker 3: you came here.
Speaker 1: I are out of your minds.
Speaker 3: Then suppose you tell me what you were doing.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you. I don't remember. What do you
Speaker 1: want anyway? What brought you under this?
Speaker 3: Two simple words that mean a million dollars even when
Speaker 3: they are whispered by a man in delirium. Tang bronzes.
Speaker 1: Tang bronzes. You've heard of them? Yes, of course. The
Speaker 1: only two pieces in existence are in the Buckingham Palace
Speaker 1: collection in London. What have they got to do?
Speaker 3: No? No, not those, mister Armor. I am referring to
Speaker 3: the Four Tang bronzes. They are in existence in China,
Speaker 3: where they've been lost for centuries.
Speaker 1: No, a few Chinese in every generation have always known
Speaker 1: where they were. We were forced to move them for
Speaker 1: safe keeping several times during the war. The last time
Speaker 1: was a few days before the surrender.
Speaker 3: My men in charge of the job were ambushed and murdered,
Speaker 3: and the bronzes were stolen by whom I've not been
Speaker 3: able to discover.
Speaker 1: Are you implying that I learned they were being taken
Speaker 1: to Shanghai. I traced them past Nane King and lost
Speaker 1: the trail, but they did not reach Shanghai, that I
Speaker 1: am certain. So where do I come in, Well from
Speaker 1: Tinsha's head in delirium. I believe you have seen and
Speaker 1: touched those bronzes. Perhaps even you know where they are
Speaker 1: if you could remember. I want them back. You want
Speaker 1: your memory back.
Speaker 3: It's not good to lose eight years with no accounting
Speaker 3: for one's actions.
Speaker 1: Just what are you suggesting? I suggest that I settled
Speaker 1: all suspicioned by a public statement that you were a
Speaker 1: member incognitore of my career of forces during the entire war.
Speaker 1: Then the two of us will start from Shanghai and
Speaker 1: work toward Nan King, hoping that some scene or association
Speaker 1: may serve as a key to unlock your memory.
Speaker 3: When that happens, we both have what we want. I see.
Speaker 1: Only one thing wrong with it. I'm not going to do.
Speaker 3: It too bad.
Speaker 1: What are your plans, then, mister Armor, And the doctor says,
Speaker 1: I'll be able to travel by the end of the week.
Speaker 1: I'm going to take a train to Shanghai and have
Speaker 1: the first plane out to San Francisco. I'm afraid you're
Speaker 1: making a serious mistake, but of course it's every mouth privilege.
Speaker 1: At least I hope you'll carry this with you on
Speaker 1: your trip, Pistol, but for because somewhere there is a
Speaker 1: person who may not stop at anything to make sure
Speaker 1: you do not regain your memory at some inconvenient movement.
Speaker 3: Have you forgotten about that, mister Armor.
Speaker 1: Most of the long train trip to Shanghai was uneventful.
Speaker 1: I still carried the gun, mostly because I didn't know
Speaker 1: what else to do with it. I had only one
Speaker 1: idea in mind, to get home to San Francisco and
Speaker 1: to Adrian just as soon as possible. But Nan King,
Speaker 1: the papers that came on board were carrying the story
Speaker 1: of my war time association with Kato's guerrilla forces. Apparently
Speaker 1: he'd gone ahead on his own with that part of
Speaker 1: his plan. From Nan king On, I could hear the
Speaker 1: other passengers discussing me amongst themselves, And when some fifty
Speaker 1: miles out of Shanghai, a fat, smiling little Chinese merchant
Speaker 1: named mister Chen set down in my compartment began to
Speaker 1: chatter away about my heroism.
Speaker 3: Is most remarkable, mister Hammer.
Speaker 4: Most amazing that one who serve our country in such
Speaker 4: a glorious way is not able to remember single one
Speaker 4: of illustrious exploits.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: As I told you, mister Chen, I was injured nearly
Speaker 1: eight years ago. I've been suffering from amnesia. It was
Speaker 1: only last week that my memory came back to me.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, he's too shame and nothing, not one single
Speaker 4: hour of eight years can be remembered.
Speaker 1: Now. All that I know is what mister Kent tells me.
Speaker 3: It is true.
Speaker 4: Whatever mister Kinto say is mutually important man, very great leader,
Speaker 4: very powerful fighter.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, you know where.
Speaker 3: Is mister Kinto now?
Speaker 1: No, he left Yang Fang three days ago. I think
Speaker 1: he went to pay.
Speaker 4: Ping oh yes, and you are honorable intention of mister armor.
Speaker 1: They are what you got. A plane in San Francisco
Speaker 1: just as soon as possible is.
Speaker 5: The most excellent plan.
Speaker 4: Shanghai, very troubled city, very unsettled, would cause great lamentation
Speaker 4: in land if action accidents happened to he lostious hero
Speaker 4: of our country. Accident, well, who can tell the ways
Speaker 4: of faith?
Speaker 5: In a city like Shanghai.
Speaker 4: Many accidents can happen, even to a brave fighter with
Speaker 4: loaded pistol and could pocket. It's much better you go
Speaker 4: away on playing very quickly.
Speaker 1: In Shanghai, I took a taxi to the Cafe hotel.
Speaker 1: When I started to check in, I got the first
Speaker 1: of several surprises. The clerk told me that I had
Speaker 1: a room already reserved and paid for by whom he
Speaker 1: didn't know. At any rate, it was a nice room,
Speaker 1: one of the best in the house. Picked up the
Speaker 1: telephone called the American consul. Then I started the hotel
Speaker 1: clerk working on an airline reservation, set my clothes out
Speaker 1: to be clean, climbed into a shower. By the time
Speaker 1: I'd finished, a boy knocked on my door with an envelope.
Speaker 1: I opened it took out the note humble token of
Speaker 1: appreciation for illustrious wartime services mister Chen. Attached to the
Speaker 1: note was a plane ticket to San Francisco, the seat
Speaker 1: reservation for noon the next day. I should have expected
Speaker 1: the second note, delivered fifteen minutes later, but I didn't.
Speaker 1: It read, please do me the honor of joining me
Speaker 1: in the American bar down stairs at your convenience, signed Kento. What,
Speaker 1: of course, I who reserved the room, mister Arma. I
Speaker 1: knew you were planning to stay here at the cathay,
Speaker 1: and I was only too happy to assist you with
Speaker 1: this more favor. What do you any good? Mister Keno,
Speaker 1: I told you and thaying, Yang, I'm going home right away.
Speaker 3: Heyst the decisions are often reconsidered anyway, I think you
Speaker 3: may have helped some already.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, you were approached on the train by mister Chen,
Speaker 1: who urged you, if I am correctly informed, to leave
Speaker 1: Shanghai at once. He did more than that, he arranged
Speaker 1: for a reservation on tomorrow's plane.
Speaker 3: Well, mister Chen becomes more interesting by the minute. I
Speaker 3: did you know that he also arranged to have you
Speaker 3: followed from the railroad station.
Speaker 1: I don't care. I'm not interested in your game. His game,
Speaker 1: if he has one, or anybody else's. I'm flying to
Speaker 1: San Francisco tomorrow.
Speaker 3: What a pity, and without knowing a thing about a
Speaker 3: period of your life that covers nearly eight years whatever
Speaker 3: it was it having done?
Speaker 1: What's wrong, mister Armer? That girl who just came in,
Speaker 1: the one who walked past her table? Oh oh yes,
Speaker 1: what about her? Do you know her?
Speaker 3: I haven't the wish I did. She's beautiful in.
Speaker 1: She Can you find out who she is? Of course?
Speaker 3: Or go for her? Man so anxiously hurrying on to
Speaker 3: his wife's well waiter.
Speaker 1: I sat there with my mind spinning madly. While the
Speaker 1: waiter took the folded bill Kentho handed him and went
Speaker 1: over to ask discreet questions. I was certain the girl
Speaker 1: had looked at me strangely as she passed the table.
Speaker 1: Even now she glanced back from the bar before moving
Speaker 1: on through the room and out the door. To the
Speaker 1: best of mylannage, I I'd never seen her before in
Speaker 1: my life, and yet the face I dreamed of so
Speaker 1: often my delirium had been the face of this girl.
Speaker 4: Mister lady lived here on hotel is known by name it.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you boy. Was she, by any chance, sir, who.
Speaker 3: You thought she was?
Speaker 6: Er?
Speaker 1: No? No, I was wrong. I mistook her for some
Speaker 1: one else entirely, I see.
Speaker 3: Merely a case of mistaken I danity. Yes, that's very
Speaker 3: interesting and view of this note. But the waiter slipped
Speaker 3: this into my hand when he came back, he said,
Speaker 3: dressed through mister armor. So it isn't mine, but I
Speaker 3: don't Why not open any read it now? I, for one,
Speaker 3: am quite interested in finding out what a complete stranger
Speaker 3: house to say to you.
Speaker 1: While Kento stared at me thoughtfully through the smoke from
Speaker 1: his cigarette, I unfolded the paper and read the hastily
Speaker 1: written lines, and then crumpled it and thrust it into
Speaker 1: my pocket without showing it to him. The words danced
Speaker 1: in my brain, My dearest David, why would you not
Speaker 1: speak to me when I came to your table? Have
Speaker 1: you forgotten me? To the six years we spent together
Speaker 1: mean nothing to you? Please come to me at once,
Speaker 1: as always your adoring wife.
Speaker 6: Twelve A.
Speaker 1: Kento probed skillfully trying to discover the contents of the
Speaker 1: note at Twilet had sent me. But I had no
Speaker 1: intention of telling him. I left him still sitting there
Speaker 1: at the table and went to the lobby, talked briefly
Speaker 1: with a room clerk and with the antique dealer who
Speaker 1: kept a shop in the foyer. Ten minutes later I
Speaker 1: stepped into an elevator and rode up to the seventh floor.
Speaker 1: And an hour after I had seen a twirl in
Speaker 1: the bar, I was facing her again through the open
Speaker 1: doorway of her room. Her dark hair lay softly on
Speaker 1: her shoulders. Her skin was velvet and warm cream. The
Speaker 1: subtle scent of an amy of perfume hung in the
Speaker 1: air like a tender challenge. She was lovely. She was
Speaker 1: supposed to be my wife, and I couldn't remember her.
Speaker 5: David, my darling, won't you please come in?
Speaker 1: Thank you? I uh suppose you're at weell well, of course, Davy,
Speaker 1: And you did send me a note downstairs in the bar.
Speaker 6: But who else, my dear, I Oh, it's the old
Speaker 6: trouble again, isn't it trouble, the sickness of forgetfulness. My
Speaker 6: doctor called it so often you suffered from it at
Speaker 6: su Chow weeks at a time, souchoo. Don't you remember
Speaker 6: Willow House, the beautiful state that until you gave us
Speaker 6: when we were Oh that's why you.
Speaker 5: Did not speak to me and the bar. You've forgotten
Speaker 5: all of it, even me.
Speaker 1: Yes, I I'm afraid you'll have to bear with me
Speaker 1: at I don't mean to hurt you.
Speaker 5: Oh it doesn't matter, my darling. I understand.
Speaker 6: I've been so terribly worried since you ran away from
Speaker 6: su Chow four months ago. But now we're back together,
Speaker 6: everything is all right again.
Speaker 1: Tell Telly, when was it we were married.
Speaker 6: In the month of December nineteen forty one? See, I
Speaker 6: I carry the paper with me alway. Yes, we were
Speaker 6: merit in the Chinese manner by Uncle Wang, and then
Speaker 6: Uncle Hu gave us.
Speaker 1: Willow House and we lived there after the war. Oh
Speaker 1: when what we bothered? I mean by the Japanese.
Speaker 6: Uncle Wang was very important in the puppet government. He
Speaker 6: was mayor of su Chiao before the Gorilla shot him.
Speaker 6: I see, why not come with me to su Chao
Speaker 6: to morrow, David. Perhaps perhaps when you see Willow House again,
Speaker 6: you'll remember.
Speaker 1: All right. Er, Suppose we leave around noon any time
Speaker 1: you say good the nun arranged to hirakar H.
Speaker 6: There is one thing, David. I think it is better
Speaker 6: you know now instead of remembering later.
Speaker 1: Oh, what's the er?
Speaker 5: Your job during the war, Uncle Wang arranged it for you.
Speaker 6: Well, you translated captured American documents for the Japanese army.
Speaker 6: Oh great, you didn't realize what you were doing and
Speaker 6: we had to live.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, t Well, I better get out of here.
Speaker 1: I'll call for you tomorrow, Davy.
Speaker 6: Even though you can't remember me yet as your wife,
Speaker 6: could you not at least kiss me good night?
Speaker 1: Well? I?
Speaker 7: Uh, of course, Dad, until noon tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Darling, good night.
Speaker 1: Early the next morning, I climbed into a hired car
Speaker 1: and headed out of Shanghai. It twel was not with me.
Speaker 1: I had to face this for the first time alone.
Speaker 1: I felt I was heading into a showdown. A twelve
Speaker 1: story was backed up by something outside learned. The night before.
Speaker 1: The antique dealer at the hotel had told me he
Speaker 1: wasn't sure of the significance of the little porcelain rabbit
Speaker 1: the doctor at feng Yang had turned over to me,
Speaker 1: but he was certain that it had come from su Chao.
Speaker 1: A servant let me into the willow house, and he
Speaker 1: left me alone in a large room furnished sparsely in
Speaker 1: the Chinese manner. I wondered about idly, still finding nothing
Speaker 1: that said to me, you've been here before, until suddenly
Speaker 1: I came face to face with a crude poster, looking
Speaker 1: very much out of place against the dainty lacquer's screen.
Speaker 1: It was an offer of reward issued by the Japanese
Speaker 1: Army during the war. The photograph on the poster was
Speaker 1: blurred beyond all likeness, but the wording was clear enough,
Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars dead or alive for the gorilla. Generalmones
Speaker 1: can tell it makes rather an interesting too, don't you
Speaker 1: think something? Star, No, don't draw a gun. You're covered,
Speaker 1: as they say, well, welcome to my humble abode. Mistaken,
Speaker 1: Oh is it the other way round?
Speaker 3: Neither is a matter of fact, Willowhouse was an undercover
Speaker 3: career headquarters in this area during the war, and.
Speaker 1: This whole business of being married and so on was
Speaker 1: another of your ideas.
Speaker 3: Is that right?
Speaker 1: I'm afraid so, mister Armer it told is a very
Speaker 1: capable operator.
Speaker 3: I agree, a colonel. As a matter of fact, you
Speaker 3: were never married to come in louis all right?
Speaker 1: You fooled me in the coming up here the su Chob,
Speaker 1: But What good is it going to do? I can't
Speaker 1: tell you any more now than I could have in Shanghai.
Speaker 3: But I it's not. But my little scheme also involves
Speaker 3: a certain mister Chen. If he has not followed you
Speaker 3: here already, I believe he will do so soon.
Speaker 1: Then you're putting him money on Chen as the man
Speaker 1: who stole the Tang bronzes? Is that it?
Speaker 3: He's insistence that you leave China seems to me suspicious.
Speaker 1: I intend to question, can you have done it in Shanghai?
Speaker 4: Not?
Speaker 1: With his greater freedom? My questioning is always thorough. That's
Speaker 1: your business. As far as I'm concerned, I'm heading back
Speaker 1: to Shanghai right now. I'm afraid that's impossible. Has already
Speaker 1: taken the liberty of paying off your chauffeurs.
Speaker 3: At twelve, she wrote up here with you under a
Speaker 3: blanket in the backseat, and she's quite resourceful. Now look here,
Speaker 3: if you think for one minute, there is an old
Speaker 3: Chinese proverb which says he who rides the tiger finds
Speaker 3: it easier to get on than to ky off Uie.
Speaker 1: I think you'd better get the gun from our hot
Speaker 1: headed friend. A most excellent suggestion is in this pocket,
Speaker 1: I believe. Ah, yes, thank you, mister Armor. And look
Speaker 1: General Quinto, he has been collecting souvenir.
Speaker 3: One of the little porcelain rabbits a Troy didn't tell
Speaker 3: me you had stopped them sucha to go shopping.
Speaker 1: I didn't had that figurine with me when I stumbled
Speaker 1: under the faying Yang mission what the doctor gave it
Speaker 1: back to me?
Speaker 3: Why do you not tell me?
Speaker 1: These little figureies come from a temple right here. It's
Speaker 1: sucha they're giving out the pilgrims during the annual festival.
Speaker 1: Mister Armor, does the name may Ram Pagoda Temple of
Speaker 1: the Moon mean anything to you? Hey, Wren the moon wait, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: it's coming back to me. And mister Chen too, and
Speaker 1: the tank bronzes. I remember now Ketto I can remember.
Speaker 4: Is muchly unfortunate that you can, mister Arm or mister
Speaker 4: Chen the gun General Kinto dropped at one another one also.
Speaker 5: Huh, I saw miss Armor lost memory?
Speaker 3: Has ritta?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I only saw you a few times during
Speaker 1: the seven years. That's why I didn't recognize you. You
Speaker 1: were the abbot and the Temple of the Moon.
Speaker 4: After previous abbot was disposed of early in nineteen forty two.
Speaker 4: Temple served as excellent headquarter for apparition of this lonely one.
Speaker 4: Also a very amusing location, being so near to your headquarters,
Speaker 4: Jenero Kinto, I don't understand that you were a collaborator
Speaker 4: quite so among other things. Of course, even kung Fu
Speaker 4: say men mostly.
Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, I wandered here to the temple after that
Speaker 1: accident in Shanghai. The old abbot took me in without question,
Speaker 1: and I became one of the brothers. I had no
Speaker 1: memory at all, was out of my mind half the time.
Speaker 1: They called me the forgetful one. What about the Tang bronzes, mister, Oh,
Speaker 1: One night I couldn't sleep, I wandered under the balcony
Speaker 1: of the Great Hall of the temple. Chen was there
Speaker 1: with some other men who were showing him the four
Speaker 1: bronzes they just brought in. I had a vague feeling
Speaker 1: that they were very important. I guess that's why I
Speaker 1: raved about them later at Fengyang hospital. Mister, you know
Speaker 1: what was done with the bronzes after you saw them? Yes,
Speaker 1: they were buried that same night under the tiles beside
Speaker 1: the seventh pool in the temple courtyard.
Speaker 3: Mister Chen, are they still there or both?
Speaker 4: Of course, and in a matter of moments you made
Speaker 4: tell location to ancestors.
Speaker 3: Mister Chen, by your own admissions, added to things of
Speaker 3: which I know already, you are apparently guilty of collaboration
Speaker 3: fived a number of murders and various high against China.
Speaker 3: Have you anything to say in your defense?
Speaker 4: Only to confess really much satisfy and feeling. When Confessor
Speaker 4: hold gun in hand, then I find you guilty and
Speaker 4: the case is closed, His most amusing General kinto conne tild.
Speaker 3: You will carry out the sentence of the court. As
Speaker 3: you said, excellent shooting little not at all?
Speaker 5: The range was nearly point blank.
Speaker 1: Man should be designed with eyes in back of head.
Speaker 5: Men should not try to ride the tiger.
Speaker 4: This slowly one mutually favored, but having such beautiful.
Speaker 5: Executioner, Thank you little Chen.
Speaker 3: Mister Armor. She had met that twelve before under a
Speaker 3: false impression. May I now present her as my wife?
Speaker 1: Your wife? Last night I thought she was my wife. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's such a remarkable ways of faith.
Speaker 5: You didn't mind it, did you, David?
Speaker 1: I know?
Speaker 6: Letore, Oh, but we must round up the men and
Speaker 6: enter the temple as quickly as possible.
Speaker 5: We cannot afford to lose the bronxes.
Speaker 3: Now you're quite, Hui, take care of the late lamented
Speaker 3: mister Chen. Come it well. You have served well. Mister Armor.
Speaker 3: My advice to you now go to San Francisco at
Speaker 3: once to your wife. You're an wife, are your Come
Speaker 3: and see us.
Speaker 5: David, when we are the rulers of China.
Speaker 1: I stood there and watched her go swinging along beside him,
Speaker 1: live and graceful, and a sudden sharp feeling as loneliness
Speaker 1: came over of me. Then the moment passed, and I
Speaker 1: smiled at myself. She was only a part of all this,
Speaker 1: these stirring and exciting events, nothing more. And San Francisco,
Speaker 1: the wife whom I loved, was waiting for me. And
Speaker 1: Adrian too was a very beautiful woman.
Speaker 2: Escape is produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Today we
Speaker 2: have presented transcribed He Who Rides the Tiger by James Norman,
Speaker 2: adapted for radio by Less Crutchfield, with editorial supervision by
Speaker 2: John Buncle starred as David Armour with Bill Conrad, with
Speaker 2: Barry Kroger as General Quinto featured in the cast where
Speaker 2: Maria Palmer, Jack Krushian, Ben Wright, and Edgar Barrier. Escape
Speaker 2: has come to you through the worldwide facilities of the
Speaker 2: United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service