WEBVTT 1 00:00:12.640 --> 00:00:16.160 You are alone in the dark forest, and behind you 2 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:20.600 somewhere is the werewolf waiting to drink your blood, and 3 00:00:20.719 --> 00:00:23.640 you desperately desire the impossible. 4 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:26.079 To escape. 5 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:39.960 Escape produced and directed by William N. Robson, and carefully 6 00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:42.359 plotted to free you from the four walls of today 7 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:44.679 for a half hour of high adventure. 8 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:54.079 A tonight we escaped to the backward world of Eastern Europe, 9 00:00:54.920 --> 00:00:58.880 where ancient superstitions still live in the minds of men. 10 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:03.280 Tonight we escape with Jeoffrey Household's grim story. 11 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:15.120 Taboo. 12 00:01:09.239 --> 00:01:22.000 Among semi civilized peoples, there has always been widespread belief 13 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:27.599 in werewolves, those fantastic creatures supposedly able to turn from 14 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:31.760 man or woman into wolf and back again at will. 15 00:01:32.959 --> 00:01:36.000 This belief is still widespread among the simple folk of 16 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:40.359 eastern Hungary, in the district around Swibergen high in the 17 00:01:40.359 --> 00:01:45.280 gloomy Carpathian Mountains, And I must admit not without some reason. 18 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:49.959 Before the Late War I often spent my vacations in 19 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:53.519 that area, drawn to the dark loneliness by the pool 20 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:57.640 of my Slavic blood. It was the same with her, perhaps, 21 00:01:58.359 --> 00:02:02.200 and our kindred ancestry not that drew us together. Her 22 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:05.280 name was Kirra Vaughan, and she was there with her husband, 23 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:09.240 a pleasant young Englishman. They were obviously much in love, 24 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:12.199 and I felt almost like an intruder when I found 25 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:15.919 myself the only other vacationer in the village. However, they 26 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:18.919 made me welcome and invited me to dinner. Twas an 27 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:19.719 excellent dinner. 28 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:22.960 Won't you have some more straw? Is mister Shirabia? 29 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:26.560 Humph, thank you, No, missus Vaughan. I've eaten far too 30 00:02:26.639 --> 00:02:29.680 much already. I cannot say when I've had so excellent 31 00:02:29.719 --> 00:02:30.120 a dinner. 32 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:31.120 Thank you. 33 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:34.599 I'm sure I shall get nothing like it at the inn. 34 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:36.719 I should hate to have to stay at the inn. 35 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:38.479 You see, shuld have you? If my wife is one 36 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:41.039 of those delightful creatures who cannot stand to be shut in. 37 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:44.039 She must run free, preferably in the woods with her 38 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:46.520 hair streaming in the wind. She's quite unusual. 39 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:49.759 Indeed, she is my dear Vaughn, and you may count 40 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:50.840 yourself most fortunate. 41 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:53.360 Oh I do I do? Where else should I find 42 00:02:53.400 --> 00:02:54.000 so good a cook? 43 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:58.800 Or very true? I've never tasted venison quite like that tonight? Delightful? 44 00:02:58.960 --> 00:02:59.319 Thank you? 45 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:03.479 Another victories. She delights in outdoing the ordinary housewife. She 46 00:03:03.560 --> 00:03:05.759 distains the village sharp and gets her meat right off 47 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:06.159 the hoof. 48 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:09.560 Oh you do your own hunting, Oh dear, No, not that. 49 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:12.439 She's much too kind hearted and loving a person for that. 50 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:15.680 She's found a new source. The district game warden brings 51 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:16.840 fresh venison to our door. 52 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:19.240 Oh it's not he, but his son, true. 53 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:21.800 The game Warden's slightly moronic son. Who is I'm sure 54 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:22.639 in love with her. 55 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:23.879 Oh that's ridiculous. 56 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:27.840 Oh not so, It's quite understandable. I'm beginning to fall 57 00:03:27.879 --> 00:03:32.599 in love with her myself, Thank you, sir. Seriously, though, 58 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:36.879 I can understand this wild desire to be free, this 59 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:39.280 wish to, as you put it, run in the woods 60 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:42.599 with the wind in your hair. It is some legacy 61 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:45.759 of our slavic blood, no doubt, yours and mine and 62 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:49.960 the game warden's moronic son. Somehow we feel at home 63 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:51.240 in these dark forests. 64 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:56.360 Oh you too, Yes, And I don't I confess it. 65 00:03:56.439 --> 00:03:59.719 I don't. There's something here that frightens me, something strange 66 00:03:59.719 --> 00:04:03.680 and in human and taboo, darling, I'll confess something, cure I. 67 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:06.719 I don't like Kido to go out into the forest alone. 68 00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:10.000 Maybe I'm afraid that someday this emotional impulse of hers 69 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:11.439 will get the better of her and she would just 70 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:13.840 disappear like those two men last week. 71 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:17.000 Oh what was that? If I missed some exciting happening? 72 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:18.879 No, not really, though you'd think so. To hear the 73 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:21.560 villager's talk. A fellow coming home through the woods after 74 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:24.399 dark just disappeared, probably got fed up with life here 75 00:04:24.399 --> 00:04:25.920 in the village and lit out for budda pest. 76 00:04:26.279 --> 00:04:28.680 And what about the other one? 77 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:28.920 Oh? 78 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:30.720 Yes, well, a such party went out the next day 79 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:32.480 to look for the fellow. When they got back, they 80 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:35.160 found one of their party was missing. Evidently he'd taken 81 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:36.519 the opportunity to skip out too. 82 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:38.319 Is that what you really think? 83 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:40.519 Oh? Why not, my dear. If those men had been 84 00:04:40.519 --> 00:04:43.160 done away with, it might have been by something supernatural, 85 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:44.480 and there's no such thing. 86 00:04:44.839 --> 00:04:47.600 But might it not have been some wild animals? 87 00:04:47.639 --> 00:04:49.839 Oh, the bears around here are harmless, and the wolves 88 00:04:49.839 --> 00:04:52.040 are not in pact at any rate. There would have 89 00:04:52.040 --> 00:04:55.560 been some sign, some blood tracked something. There was nothing. 90 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:58.279 They simply disappear, vanished, skipped out. 91 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:00.759 Rich How can you be so careless? 92 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:03.759 You see the paradox? My wife, who loves the woods, 93 00:05:03.959 --> 00:05:07.040 believes the fantastic tales of the villagers. I, who confess 94 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:09.839 to finding the woods strange and frightening, do not believe them. 95 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:13.240 Perhaps it is because you are frightened that you are 96 00:05:13.279 --> 00:05:17.720 afraid to believe them. Er, what do the villagers say. 97 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:20.000 Well, you know this district were nerves are talking of 98 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:23.519 were wolves and such, tommyrot who it's utterly fantastic. 99 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:26.079 Yes to you an Englishman, it would be, and it 100 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:31.040 isn't to you fantastic, Yes, I suppose. But perhaps missus 101 00:05:31.079 --> 00:05:33.160 Vaughan and I, who feel at home in this forest, 102 00:05:33.240 --> 00:05:36.040 can understand and believe such fantasy a little more easily 103 00:05:36.079 --> 00:05:36.319 than you. 104 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:41.319 Yes, I remember many times as a child I dreamt 105 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:44.120 of being an animal. I thought then that I would 106 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:47.639 love it, the freedom of the forest exactly. 107 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:52.759 That primitive instinct is so deep within us all a 108 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:57.240 heritage of some dim distant past. In us Slavs, it 109 00:05:57.319 --> 00:06:00.279 lies closer to the surface. Takes very little to bring 110 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:00.759 it to light. 111 00:06:01.079 --> 00:06:02.279 Yes, that is true. 112 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:04.759 Well, you've placed my wife in a new life, sharabav. 113 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:07.360 You'll have me suspecting her of changing it to a 114 00:06:07.399 --> 00:06:09.560 wolf and running out of the forest to murder people. 115 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:14.519 Oh please, Born, you take me too literally? And besides 116 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:16.560 it is a shame to sports so delightful at dinner 117 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:18.480 with so Gloo me a conversation. 118 00:06:18.680 --> 00:06:20.199 Right, shall we go into the living room with the 119 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:23.199 chef of fire man. Oh yes, sir, what is it 120 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:25.079 forred sir? 121 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:27.920 But a message just came from the village. 122 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:29.040 Oh what is it? 123 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:32.480 They want you and mister Scheraviv to come down there now. 124 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:38.720 They're organizing another search party. What yes, there's another man missing. 125 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:41.600 She's fainted. 126 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:53.959 It was only then I realized that these people were 127 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:57.560 under a terrible tension. I was to learn very quickly 128 00:06:57.600 --> 00:07:01.079 that the whole village shared it. Reable bodied men in 129 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:03.600 the district was at the inn when we arrived. The 130 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:05.839 magistrate explained the situation gross. 131 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:08.959 He went into the forest late this afternoon, hoping to 132 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:12.000 bag a black cock for his supper. A little after 133 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:15.839 Dusky solitary shot was hurt. That was three hours ago, 134 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:16.839 and he is not returned. 135 00:07:17.000 --> 00:07:19.680 But only three hours. Isn't there a chance that he 136 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:20.519 might still return? 137 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:24.399 A chance perhaps, but the other two did not. It 138 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:27.680 will do no harm to search for him. We may 139 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:29.360 still be in time to save his life. 140 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:38.160 We searched most of the night, and then next morning 141 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:41.160 Vaughan and I went out again. We climbed to my 142 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:44.199 favorite spot for hunting black cock, and then followed the 143 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:47.639 trail down to the village, the trail the missing grocer 144 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:51.000 would have taken. I was beginning to be a little 145 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:55.920 exasperated at Vaughan. He seemed to be so casual and uninterested, 146 00:07:56.319 --> 00:07:58.680 as if he were convinced that this one, too had 147 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:03.160 merely skipped out. But I underestimated him. He was a 148 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:06.439 skilled tracker, and suddenly he did show some interest. 149 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:10.560 Wait a minute, some one has turned aside from the 150 00:08:10.639 --> 00:08:11.399 path here. 151 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:12.000 Mmm. 152 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:14.319 He was in a hurry. I wonder why. 153 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:18.399 Hmm, I think you are right. There are some broken branches. 154 00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:19.759 Why why here? 155 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:22.680 It's hardly likely any one would go plunging into that 156 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:24.120 thicket unless he had a reason. 157 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:24.480 Wait. 158 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:28.480 Wait, see that big white rock behind the thicket. When 159 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:31.319 you're being followed, it's company to have a clear space 160 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:33.799 around you. You'd feel safe up on top of that 161 00:08:33.879 --> 00:08:35.919 rock with a gun in your hands. If you got 162 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:36.799 there in time. 163 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:40.679 You may be right. Let's go up, tato. We forced 164 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:42.960 our way through the underbrush to the rock. It was 165 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:45.799 thirty feet high on the down slope side, and a 166 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:47.799 hot spring at the foot of it bubbled out of 167 00:08:47.799 --> 00:08:50.879 the cavity scarcely two feet wide. We made our way 168 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:53.679 up to the slope around it and came out on top. 169 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:56.759 There was nothing there except for some ivy in the 170 00:08:56.799 --> 00:08:59.679 cracks and one small stunted tree. 171 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:03.919 Ha ha. Look look at that where the tree the 172 00:09:04.159 --> 00:09:06.799 entire base has been shattered by a charge at close quarters. 173 00:09:07.399 --> 00:09:09.039 Perhaps that was the shot that was heard. 174 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:14.240 You're right, it must be. They say, they say there 175 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:18.120 is always a tree between you and it, but you 176 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:21.440 mean it they were wolf. 177 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:24.480 Huh. Well, this must have been a baby one. Then 178 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:27.360 that mark is only six inches off the ground. No. 179 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:30.600 I think the man's gun went off as he fell. 180 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:33.279 Perhaps he was followed too close as he scrambled up 181 00:09:34.039 --> 00:09:36.919 about Uh that here would be where his body would 182 00:09:36.919 --> 00:09:37.320 have fallen. 183 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:41.240 Do you see anything? I don't. No, blood stained? 184 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:43.159 Well wait wait, look look here. 185 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:44.200 Hm. 186 00:09:44.519 --> 00:09:46.360 Oh, but it's just a tiny spot. 187 00:09:46.519 --> 00:09:50.720 It's enough. It's blood, all right, and something more, a 188 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:51.919 tiny bit of tissue. 189 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:58.000 Let me see, hm. Brain tissue must have come from 190 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:00.879 a deep wound in the skull, made by something like 191 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:05.039 an arrow or a bird's beak or maybe even a 192 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:05.799 sharp tooth. 193 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:10.200 But where's the body. There is absolutely no other sign, 194 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:13.039 no evidence of it's being dragged off anywhere. 195 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:18.000 No, I can't see any other very strange, but at 196 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:21.279 least we know one thing. One This man did not 197 00:10:21.559 --> 00:10:31.279 just skip out. This man was dead or die. When 198 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:34.519 we brought our information back, the excitement of the village mounted. 199 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:38.360 The peasants crossed themselves, and at the inn the old 200 00:10:38.440 --> 00:10:39.840 tales were being told. 201 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:44.799 That's the advice. The game weren't talking now, and Joseph 202 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:46.080 vices son beside him. 203 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:46.879 The moronic sun. 204 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:49.279 Yes, the old man is a character too. Listen. 205 00:10:49.840 --> 00:10:53.639 The biggest one my grandfather had seen, and it followed 206 00:10:53.720 --> 00:10:57.360 him in the forest time after time. He met the 207 00:10:57.440 --> 00:11:02.000 twilight outside his cabin. Time after time. He fired that 208 00:11:02.159 --> 00:11:06.679 it point blank, but he couldn't hurt it. Then he 209 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:09.919 founded a silver peg and loaded. He's gone with it. 210 00:11:10.840 --> 00:11:15.519 One shot and the wolf disappeared. But next day they 211 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:19.919 found Heinrich the cobbler, dying in his house with a 212 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:21.840 beaten silver coin. 213 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:26.240 With his belly horse. You believe such stupid talk, Yosef. 214 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:29.519 My grandfather used to tell the same story, only when 215 00:11:29.559 --> 00:11:33.120 he told it happened to his grandfather. Anyone can see 216 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:35.799 it didn't happen at all. Such things can't happen. 217 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:38.320 Joseph, you call your father a liar, I. 218 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:41.320 Thought, well, far from being a Moran. Joseph seems to 219 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:42.600 have more sense than the others. 220 00:11:42.840 --> 00:11:46.600 Perhaps, Oh, Yosef, you're not afraid of the spoil world, 221 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:53.080 then eh ah, no, why not? The whole village is frightened. 222 00:11:53.919 --> 00:11:56.519 I'm used to walking alone in the woods at night. 223 00:11:57.720 --> 00:12:00.399 You've got to be a part of the forest, then 224 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:01.759 you'll not be afraid of it. 225 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:04.080 You do believe in werewolves, then eh. 226 00:12:04.559 --> 00:12:06.879 I don't say a man can turn into a world. No, 227 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:10.879 but I can't understand why he want to. 228 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:13.039 Hmm your theory again. 229 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:18.840 Yes, I I think I understand that to Joseph, But 230 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:23.679 what does it feel like it? 231 00:12:23.679 --> 00:12:26.440 It feels as if the words had God under your 232 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:31.759 skin and you want to walk wild and crouch at 233 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:32.320 the knees. 234 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:39.399 Yes, I think he's perfectly right, and you were you 235 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:41.840 explain it by some primitive urge. 236 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:47.480 Possibly there may be many reasons. Physical hunger could be one. 237 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:51.279 We sometimes forget that man was once a fleet footed 238 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:53.720 hunting animal with all the necessary instincts. 239 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:58.559 Ah, yes, we all know about it, about what it 240 00:12:58.600 --> 00:12:59.639 can do to a man. 241 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:02.759 Ah, I've been trapped in a cliff for five days. 242 00:13:02.840 --> 00:13:05.039 I know none of you have suffered hunger. It's with 243 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:06.919 it in the prison camp during the war. 244 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:08.559 None of you knows what it. 245 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:12.919 Is to be Joseph, let's not talk about it. He 246 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:16.519 gets so upset, remembering. 247 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:19.480 Well, we'll have to go on searching for the body 248 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:20.440 and for the warwolf. 249 00:13:20.559 --> 00:13:24.399 You will not find it, not until you arm yourselves 250 00:13:24.440 --> 00:13:25.759 with silver bullets. 251 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:29.440 Perhaps it has gone now, whatever it is, the search 252 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:30.799 parties may have frightened it away. 253 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:34.399 It wasn't frightened by the first search party. It's simply 254 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:39.080 talk one of them. No, it is still here and 255 00:13:39.159 --> 00:13:42.240 it will strike again. You may be sure of that. 256 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:51.159 The whole village believed that Joseph Weiss was right. They 257 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:54.240 traveled in the woods by twos. Now no one went 258 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:58.399 alone for a week. Village life was disrupted. The men 259 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:01.000 beat the forest, The women tried to comfort each other. 260 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:05.360 Kiera wore herself out trying to be useful. The village 261 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:09.039 women could not help loving her. But there was something else, 262 00:14:10.120 --> 00:14:13.559 something strange. One day I spoke to freeda that made 263 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:13.919 about it. 264 00:14:14.480 --> 00:14:14.639 Ah. 265 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:17.039 Yes, she is a strange one, mister Shariba. 266 00:14:17.879 --> 00:14:20.519 Even I have seen her going out to walk alone 267 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:23.720 in the woods at twilight. The women in the village 268 00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:25.960 think she is possessed. 269 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:30.840 What do you mean possessed? I hesitate to say, sir, 270 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:31.679 come tell me. 271 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:36.039 They are beginning to say, sometimes there were wealth can 272 00:14:36.120 --> 00:14:37.639 be a woman. 273 00:14:44.879 --> 00:14:47.720 At first, the suggestion seems so ridiculous to me that 274 00:14:47.799 --> 00:14:51.200 I hesitated to speak of it. But then I decided 275 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:54.120 to tell Vaughn before this rumor could reach Kiera herself. 276 00:14:55.039 --> 00:14:56.480 He was naturally much upset. 277 00:14:57.799 --> 00:14:58.960 That's subtle a rabbit. 278 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:00.360 We've got do. 279 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:02.519 Something something, yes, but what There's. 280 00:15:02.279 --> 00:15:05.279 Only one thing we can do. Track down this supposed 281 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:06.039 we are wolf. 282 00:15:06.240 --> 00:15:08.960 But that's what we've been trying to do for a week. 283 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:10.200 How can we It's. 284 00:15:10.039 --> 00:15:12.639 Really very simple. We'll offer him bait. 285 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:17.600 Bait? Who will be this bait? 286 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:21.799 You and I shall have you if you're game right, Yes, 287 00:15:21.879 --> 00:15:23.159 of course I'm game good. 288 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:26.159 But how are you going to tie me to a 289 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:27.480 tree and watch out with a gun? 290 00:15:27.559 --> 00:15:29.919 That's about right? And if we didn't tie you up, 291 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:32.919 and since it was my idea, you can have first turn. 292 00:15:32.960 --> 00:15:34.759 With the gun. Are you a good shot? 293 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:35.399 Right? 294 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:37.159 This is no time for false modesty. 295 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:39.360 Yes, I'm a good shot, very well. 296 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:41.799 It'll be night and we'll have to shoot the down 297 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:42.320 of the moonlight. 298 00:15:42.480 --> 00:15:43.720 Where do we go to the rug? 299 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:47.879 Exactly, and the sooner the better. Tonight tonight, and say nothing, 300 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:51.240 absolutely nothing to anybody, especially to Kira. 301 00:15:51.559 --> 00:15:56.200 I understand this is between us. Either we win or 302 00:15:56.240 --> 00:16:06.960 we simply disappear. It was difficult getting away without telling 303 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:09.919 Kira what we were going to do. She seemed to 304 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:13.000 sense that something was wrong, and she sat staring after 305 00:16:13.120 --> 00:16:16.600 us with strange, angry eyes in the village. Vaughan and 306 00:16:16.679 --> 00:16:19.000 I parted and made our ways to the rock separately. 307 00:16:19.799 --> 00:16:22.360 I reached there first and settled myself on top of 308 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:26.039 the rock, almost covered by the ivy, the gun across 309 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:29.519 my knees. Presently, Vaughan appeared on the path, and I 310 00:16:29.559 --> 00:16:40.639 gave the signal that I was there and ready. The 311 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:44.960 trap was set. In the eerie stillness of the dark forest, 312 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:49.200 we waited. Bon paced slowly on the path. I kept 313 00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:51.480 the gun sight trained a yard and back of him 314 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:56.360 as he walked. Minutes passed in silence, hours went by. 315 00:16:57.720 --> 00:17:02.360 Nothing happened. It was almost midnight, the end of our vigil. 316 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:05.640 Vaughan waved his hand and started off down the trail. 317 00:17:06.440 --> 00:17:08.759 He would go fast in case he was followed, taking 318 00:17:08.759 --> 00:17:11.759 a short cut down an old timber slide, he'd be 319 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:14.960 in the village in ten minutes. I was to follow presently. 320 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:18.759 Then suddenly I got an intense feeling of dread. I 321 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:21.480 was alone on the rock. My spine tinkled, and then 322 00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:23.440 I heard it, a quick rustle in the ivy behind me. 323 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:27.680 Something brush my base. Ye, it was only a bird. 324 00:17:28.599 --> 00:17:30.519 A night bird had lit in the ivy, and us 325 00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:34.519 swoshed past me and flew away. My nerves were still 326 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:44.680 tingling when I got back to the village next day. 327 00:17:44.759 --> 00:17:46.559 When I went to see Vaughan, he gave me a 328 00:17:46.599 --> 00:17:51.000 warning glance. Kira was suspicious. I could see the question 329 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:52.720 in her eyes when she greeted me. 330 00:17:53.480 --> 00:17:57.640 So, here is the other culprit, Which of your is 331 00:17:57.720 --> 00:17:59.559 most to blame for keeping such late hours? 332 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:02.240 Why I suppose to keep peace in the family, I 333 00:18:02.559 --> 00:18:03.400 should say it is I. 334 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:05.440 No, you can't get him off that easily. 335 00:18:05.559 --> 00:18:07.799 I'm the only culpet my dear, you see, I've never 336 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:10.039 hunted deer at night. I asked for rabia have to 337 00:18:10.039 --> 00:18:10.359 help me. 338 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:13.160 I suppose you should the poor things while they sleep. 339 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:14.960 Oh no, while they're having at dinner. Possible? 340 00:18:15.240 --> 00:18:17.279 No cruel and heartless, both of you. 341 00:18:17.480 --> 00:18:20.720 It's no use letting us start an argument. I'll go 342 00:18:20.759 --> 00:18:21.440 get us a drink. 343 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:27.599 Oh, yes, thank you, I'd like that. Why why do 344 00:18:27.640 --> 00:18:28.480 you look at me like that? 345 00:18:29.640 --> 00:18:31.160 Was the hunting good last night? 346 00:18:31.680 --> 00:18:35.160 No? Not very and we didn't get anything. As you see, 347 00:18:35.559 --> 00:18:37.799 I'm afraid you'll still have to depend upon yours for 348 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:38.519 your venison. 349 00:18:38.839 --> 00:18:39.799 Where did you hunt? 350 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:41.279 Why? 351 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:44.200 Simply in the forest? Nowhere in particular. 352 00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:46.279 You're not telling me the truth, are you. 353 00:18:47.519 --> 00:18:49.720 My dear? I don't know what you're thinking, But are 354 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:50.200 you sure? 355 00:18:50.359 --> 00:18:54.160 Never mind? I suppose it is best. I don't know, 356 00:18:56.079 --> 00:18:58.440 but take care of him, please. 357 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:00.000 Of course I will. 358 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:02.119 Then anything should happen to him. 359 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:04.039 But what could happen? 360 00:19:04.640 --> 00:19:09.599 You know you understand these things. 361 00:19:14.359 --> 00:19:17.720 That night I was the bait, and I confess, walking 362 00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:21.440 there on the moonlit path, the dense undergrowth pressing close 363 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:25.279 on both sides, the forest all around me, that I 364 00:19:25.400 --> 00:19:31.000 felt a strange terror. But nothing happened. One say bear 365 00:19:31.119 --> 00:19:36.240 rambled across the path, paused, sniffed, then disappeared into the brush. 366 00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:40.079 Then a little later I thought I saw a flicker 367 00:19:40.079 --> 00:19:43.559 of white in the clearing below, but it never reappeared, 368 00:19:43.599 --> 00:19:45.960 and had decided it must have been a ripple of 369 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:49.880 grass in the moonlight. At midnight, we returned to the village, 370 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:52.599 and I was beginning to wonder if our trap would 371 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:53.440 ever be sprung. 372 00:19:53.960 --> 00:19:56.359 We must keep anchure, have you I have a feeling 373 00:19:56.400 --> 00:19:58.960 that to morrow night perhaps, or the next night. 374 00:19:59.079 --> 00:20:00.599 I am game as long as you you are. But 375 00:20:01.000 --> 00:20:02.440 so far we've only lost sleep. 376 00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:05.200 I've got to keep on. Have you forgotten about Cira 377 00:20:05.519 --> 00:20:06.720 the things are saying about her? 378 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:10.359 No, of course not. But surely these people would not 379 00:20:10.359 --> 00:20:11.119 do anything to her. 380 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:13.359 It's not that, it's what it might do to her 381 00:20:13.400 --> 00:20:17.519 spirit if she would hear those insane rumors. She's so sensitive. 382 00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:19.359 I I don't like to think about it. 383 00:20:19.440 --> 00:20:21.720 Then shall we go out again tomorrow night? 384 00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:24.519 Yes, you must come to dinner, though first vice is 385 00:20:24.519 --> 00:20:26.720 making down more venison. Kira will want you to. 386 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:37.000 Come, all right till tomorrow night. Then after dinner we 387 00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:39.759 went out for our third night on the rock. Vaughan 388 00:20:39.920 --> 00:20:43.079 was the bait to night, and I the watcher. The 389 00:20:43.160 --> 00:20:47.799 forest was alive with sound. A deer coughed. The bear 390 00:20:47.880 --> 00:20:51.000 came ambling back, as wooly and harmless as a dog. 391 00:20:51.920 --> 00:20:56.200 I was watching him when suddenly he paused and sniffed 392 00:20:56.240 --> 00:21:00.799 the air, then disappeared into the trees. The animal sounds 393 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:04.359 quieted one by one, and a tense stillness fell over 394 00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:08.680 the forest. My hand tightened on the gun, and suddenly 395 00:21:08.680 --> 00:21:11.920 I saw it, that flicker of white, moving fast through 396 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:13.920 the trees, that was coming up the path toward Vaughn, 397 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:18.119 A soft, bulky white blur, coming surprisingly fast. Bond's back 398 00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:20.359 was turned, he did not see it. My finger tightened 399 00:21:20.359 --> 00:21:22.039 on the trigger. It was only a few yards away. 400 00:21:22.039 --> 00:21:24.200 When he turned, I started to press the trigger. 401 00:21:24.240 --> 00:21:27.640