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two x minus one fire From the far horizons of

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the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time

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and space. These are stories of the future adventures in

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Speaker 3: Maybe worlds.

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Speaker 2: The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Street and Smith,

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publishers of Astounding science fiction, presents minus one.

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Speaker 4: One one.

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Speaker 2: To Night the Ray Bradbury story entitled and the Moon

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Be Still as Bright A.

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Speaker 1: The first three expeditions from Mars left Earth in a

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mushroom of flame, arked through the atmosphere, and finally dwindled

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the tiny specks in the big eye of the Mount

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Palomar telescope, and then were lost to sight forever. The

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pre arranged landing signals flashed back to Earth, and then

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the radios went dead. One after the other ships had

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disappeared and were never heard from again. But still the

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rockets came. The fourth expedition emerged from the silent gulphs

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of space, angled down toward the floating red disc of Mars,

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down into an orbit.

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Speaker 5: As the order came to.

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Speaker 1: The last blast of the bow jets broke red against

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the blue desert sands, and the ship slid to a

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halt at the edge of a vast city that reflected

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the icy glare of the moonlight.

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Speaker 5: For a while, all was still all.

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Speaker 6: Right, Park you'll open the air.

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Speaker 4: Lock, I sir, fresh air. It's cold out here. Who cares?

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We got here? I thought I never hit solid ground again.

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You help out of fire, Captain Wild, he is freezing.

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Speaker 6: Later, we have work to do.

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Speaker 4: Oh smell that air. W you can get drunk on it.

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Say there's an idea. Why don't we break out a

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bottle and celebrate, Beggs.

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Speaker 6: There will be no drinking done till we're secured.

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Speaker 4: But we're landed, Captain.

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Speaker 7: Three other expeditions landed and disappeared within twenty four hours.

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Now we're not relaxing security till we find out what

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happened to them.

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Speaker 4: What do you mean, maybe, Martian.

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Speaker 7: Sender, you're an archaeologist. How old would you say they are?

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Speaker 8: I can't tell till I studied them more closely. It's

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a kind of engineering we couldn't duplicate on Earth.

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Speaker 7: Well, I'm not interested in the architecture now. I want

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to make sure there's nothing there that might be dangerous.

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That's to Hathaway, And yes, sir, I want you and

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Spender to take a reconnaissance party into the city and

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find out what's there.

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Speaker 6: We'll set up camp here.

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Speaker 7: No man is to go more than fifty feet from

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this rocket, and there'll be no celebration. Jill Hathaway and

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his party report back.

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Speaker 1: In the sea bottoms. The wind stirred along faint vapors,

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and from the mountains great stone visites looked upon the

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silvery rocket and the small fire.

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Speaker 5: The sky was black overhead.

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Speaker 1: As the two racing moons threw knife edge double shadows

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on the desert.

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Speaker 4: All right, come and get it down. What you got the.

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Speaker 9: Jackie sawtas smothered in cold old chicken fat good.

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Speaker 2: I thought it was How much, couldn't he?

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Speaker 10: Hey, Captain mister Hathaway's back, Oh, Captain Captain Wilder.

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Speaker 6: Oh, yes, so they're here. It is Hathaway.

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Speaker 11: Well, most of the city's dead. Spender says, it's been

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dead a good many thousand years. But we found one

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part about a mile over. People were living in it

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last week's or.

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Speaker 5: People, martians. Why are they not dead?

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Speaker 8: We found bodies, thousands of bodies. They hadn't been dead

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more than ten days. Why did they diets? You won't

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believe it. What killed them?

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Speaker 5: Chicken pox? Chicken pox?

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Speaker 6: Yes, where could they get chicken pox from earth?

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Speaker 5: Oh? Then the other rockets did get through it.

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Speaker 11: Yes, I don't know what the Martians did to them,

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but I sure know what they did to the Martians.

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just didn't have any resistance to an earth disease.

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Speaker 3: Think of it, Captain.

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Speaker 8: A race builds itself for a million years, refines itself,

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does everything it can to give it self respect and beauty,

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and then it dies.

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Speaker 3: What it's like saying.

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Speaker 8: The Greeks died of mumps or the proud Roman Empire.

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Speaker 4: Collapsed because of Athletes's foot.

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Speaker 3: We didn't even give them a decent excuse for dying.

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Speaker 7: Then, get hold of yourself. You didn't see those bodies, Captain,

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I know it must have been a shock. You need

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a rest, little relaxation. The Martians are dead. There's nothing

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Speaker 4: Now, Hey, you hear that the Martians are all dead.

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Speaker 10: Come on, let's break out a bottle hold how about.

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Speaker 8: A case, say, good lord, they have to do that now.

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Isn't there time later to throw old beer cans into

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the canals?

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Speaker 7: And you're an idealist, they're not. All they know now

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is that they're safe. Little shouting won't hurt you think

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too much.

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Speaker 10: I was safe on Mars, the first earthman on Mars.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna celebrate.

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Speaker 5: Twenty bottles were opened and drunk.

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Speaker 1: The voices got louder, the earth laughs and shouts echoing

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across the empty Martian sands. Spender listened to the wind

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over his ears, cool and whispering. He felt the land

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getting cooler. The stars drew closer, very near. The air

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smelled clean and you. He looked at the cool ice

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of the white Martian buildings over there on the empty sea, lends.

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Speaker 4: What a warmer? Hey, what do we do with this

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empty bottle? Sam? Stupid? There's a two cents to pazzi away.

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Speaker 10: Wait, wait at about that building. Thre the one on

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the bucket And he went right through that window. You're right,

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he goes double ring on the next shot.

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Speaker 4: Put that bottle down, Biggs. Oh there, mister Spender.

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Speaker 3: Up smashing those windows.

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Speaker 6: Oh that said.

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Speaker 4: Difference a plents hours. Now, I guess I can do

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anything more that I want. Drop that bottle or I'll

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lock your teeth up. Ah and just watch me.

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Speaker 3: I warned you, Bigger Spender.

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Speaker 5: I hit him.

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Speaker 4: He's crazy, Captain, he just walked on the slot man.

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Speaker 6: Spender, you come with me.

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Speaker 7: Now, I suppose you explained that was the idea of

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the noise, the drunken bra under the man at tired.

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This has been a long trip, and you have a

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different way of seeing things.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm seeing things all right. I'm seeing how we'll

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ruin Mars.

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Speaker 8: We'll rip it up and rip the skin off the

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way we've already ruined Earth.

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Speaker 6: Is that why you hit big Yes.

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Speaker 8: I couldn't stand the idea of them watching us make.

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Speaker 3: Fools of our themselves. Damn the Martians.

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Speaker 4: They're dead, they're all dead, but.

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Speaker 8: They know we're here. Doesn't an old thing always know

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when a new thing comes. We'd come a long way

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to smash their windows and spit in their wine.

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Speaker 7: Well, maybe you're right, but I'm still going to find

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you fifty dollars for that fight. Now, come on, Spender,

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sucking your chin, we'll go back there and play happy.

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Speaker 1: Now they moved out into the moonlight. Across the desert.

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They made their way into the dreaming dead city. The

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light of the racing twin moons glinted on the barrel

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of a pistol, the long blade of a machete, the round,

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gurgling shape of a raised bottom. The wind blew in

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from the dead sea bottom and brushed through the silvery

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wire filigree of the towers. Strange music if you drifted

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down to the double shadowed streets, a thin, haunted music

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that played as it had played through the uncounted years

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of time. Nobody moved. The moon's held and froze them.

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The wind beat slowly around them.

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Speaker 10: Ay, hey, people in the city, heggs, I just want

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to make a little eyes.

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Speaker 4: I'm kind of a celebration. Is this anyway?

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Speaker 6: Come on?

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Speaker 8: They built this city thousands of years ago, and now

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where are they?

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Speaker 3: How do they die?

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Speaker 4: Who cheers it dead? That's good enough for me.

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Speaker 8: Lord Byron want Lord Byron a nineteenth century poet. He

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wrote a poem that fits this city might have been

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written by the last Martian poet. So we'll go no more,

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A roving so late into the night, though the heart

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beat still as loving though the moon be still as bright,

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for the sword outwears it she and the soul outwears

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its breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and

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love itself must rest, though the night was made for loving,

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and the day returns too soon.

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Speaker 3: Yet we'll go no more, a roving by the light

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of the moon.

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Speaker 1: Without a word. The earthmen stood in the center of

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the city. It was a clear night. There was not

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a sound except the music of the wind. At their

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feet lay a tile court worked into the shapes of

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ancient animals and images. They stood there, silvered by the

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double moons, beneath the crystal towers of Mars. And then

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Biggs was sick, and the sour stench of liquor filled

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the cool air. The men of Earth had come to Mars,

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and Spender turned and walked away into the sea alone

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in the moonlight, never once stopping to look back. It

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was a morning that might have been a Monday, or

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a Tuesday, or any day on Mars. Biggs was on

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the canal rim, his feet hung down in the cool water,

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soaking while he took the sun in his face.

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Speaker 3: Hey, what are you doing back here, Bigs? Didn't you

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go out with the search party.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I come back.

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Speaker 5: I got a blister.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 4: What do you mean?

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Speaker 6: Look a cherck?

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Speaker 3: You see that?

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Speaker 4: Anyway?

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Speaker 12: I had enough search in four days hunting for that

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screwball Spender.

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Speaker 3: Didn't find him. Huh A good riddance.

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Speaker 12: Oh my feet, I'm gonna soak him in the canal.

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If I was wilder, I wouldn't worry about that nuts spinder.

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Speaker 6: Let him go.

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Speaker 4: He's a cracked pot.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, here's a little foggy upstairs.

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Speaker 9: I guess, hey, why don't you take your feet out

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of that canal?

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Speaker 3: Bigs.

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Speaker 4: I gotta make coffee out.

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Speaker 3: Of that water? Coffee?

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Speaker 4: You call it stuff coffee. I had a motorcycle wants

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to drip grease and taste it.

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Speaker 6: But he look over there where.

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Speaker 3: By that bush. There's someone there. Hey, it's him.

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Speaker 6: Hey, hey, spender, Spender, he's coming.

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Speaker 4: Over when he stay lost, A crazy jerk.

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Speaker 3: High spender A long time. No see hello, Jerokee. I've

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been exploring some ruins. Oh, you and them ruins.

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Speaker 4: You're like a dog in a boneyard.

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Speaker 6: What's the matter? I want just say something?

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Speaker 8: Oh, you ben up in the hills. What would you

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say if I told you I found a Martian.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, where?

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Speaker 3: Never mind?

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Speaker 5: Let me ask you a question.

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Speaker 8: How would you feel if you were a Martian and

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people came to your land and started to tear it up?

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Speaker 9: I know how i'd feel. I've got Cherokee blooding me.

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My grandfather told me a lot of things about the

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way they kicked the Indians around in the Oklahoma Territory.

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If there's any Martian around, I'm all for him.

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Speaker 3: How about you, Biggs dead?

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Speaker 4: They're all dead.

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Speaker 3: There's a good thing too well.

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Speaker 8: I found a Martian up in a dead town on

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the hills. I've been reading their books and they're easy

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to understand, and I've learned their language. And then I

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found this Martian and I brought him here.

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Speaker 3: Now I don't see no Martians. I'm the last Martian.

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Speaker 4: What are you saying, Biggs, I'm going to kill you?

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Are trying it out? What kind of a lousy joke is?

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Speaker 10: I don't put that gun away.

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Speaker 6: Your kidding?

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Speaker 4: Eh? I sprender your.

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Speaker 5: He's dead.

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Speaker 3: You killed him.

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Speaker 8: You can come with me, Cherokee. You're an Indian. You

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know how the Martians would feel. You can be with

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me in this.

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Speaker 3: You killed him, you you just killed him. He deserved it.

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You're crazy, maybe I am, but you can come with me.

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Speaker 4: Go with you for what Go I get out of

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You're crazy murderer.

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Speaker 6: Follow them.

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Speaker 3: I thought you'd unders tend. I thought you'd remember what

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happened to your own people.

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Speaker 4: You get out of here, you're crazy murdering.

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Speaker 3: Don't reach for.

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Speaker 4: The gun, Spender, Spinder.

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Speaker 7: Hathaway, break out the arms locker issue pistols, rifles and grenades. Yes, sir,

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and you'd better get the Bible out of the navigation

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chess to have to bury these two park you start.

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Speaker 5: Digging a grave. How about Spender, We will have to

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go up in the hills and find them. Just let

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me get them with my bare hands. A crazy, murdering.

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Speaker 6: Loud man is sick. You must pick my eye enough.

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I'll grab a shovel and start digging.

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Speaker 1: Spenders saw the thin dust rising in the and he

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knew the pursuit was beginning. The sun burned farther up

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the sky, and the blue sand drifted lazily across the

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sea bottom below. He sat beside a quiet pool ten

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thousand years old and held a silver book. Through the

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house played the strange wind music of ancient Mars, and

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he heard voices whisper in his mind. I hear you.

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Speaker 8: I've always heard you, even down there on Earth. No,

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I won't run. What's the use live foot four to

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see them tear down your temples and put up hot

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dog stems.

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Speaker 5: They've seen me now they know I'm up here.

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Speaker 3: They're wilder.

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Speaker 8: Now I've got to write my sights kill money. He

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hasn't ordered them to use grenades. They could love one

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right up here and blow me the bit. Maybe the

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captain thinks I'm too nice to be blown to bits.

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He wants my death to be clean, just one bullet

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hole in me, nothing messy. And why because he understands me,

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the only one of the crew who ever did well.

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Speaker 3: At least I can do the same for him.

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Speaker 8: Just one bullet in his head, a nice clean death kill.

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Speaker 5: All I have to do is pull the trigger in there.

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Speaker 12: You said, can't do Tom Sander, Spender, Can you hear me, Spender?

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Speaker 4: I hear you, Captain?

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Speaker 3: What do you want?

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Speaker 4: H all right?

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Speaker 6: My up?

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Speaker 3: Leave your gun down there and keep your hands up.

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Speaker 5: You know that's quite a climb. You wouldn't mind if

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I sit down? How long do you think you can

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hold out until you're all dead. Oh, why didn't you

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kill all of us this morning? When I had the

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chance you could have?

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Speaker 8: I know, I got sick after I started killing people.

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I realized they were just fools and I shouldn't be

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killing them. But it was too late, so I came

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up here where I could get angry again. Why did

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you do it? When I was a kid, my folks

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took me to visit Mexico City. I'll always remember the

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way my father acted loud and big, and my mother

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didn't like the people because she thought they didn't wash enough.

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I can see my mother and my father coming to

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Mars and acting the same way.

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Speaker 3: Anything that's strange is no good to us. We aren't

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fit to take over this planet.

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Speaker 5: But to kill two men, how.

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Speaker 8: Would you feel if a Martian spit on the White

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House floor?

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Speaker 5: You know you haven't acted very civilized yourself.

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Speaker 3: I'll kill you all off Wilder.

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Speaker 8: That'll delay the next rocket five years, and then i'll

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kill them too.

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Speaker 3: And if I'm lucky, i'll live.

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Speaker 8: To be sixty, and I'll meet every expedition that lands

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on Mars.

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Speaker 5: Oh, I'll be very friendly.

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Speaker 8: I'll explain our rocket blew up one day, and then I'll.

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Speaker 5: Kill them off.

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Speaker 8: I'll save Mars for half a century, and by then

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maybe the Earth people will give up.

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Speaker 7: And yet you're outnumbered. We already have you surrounded. In

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an hour you will be dead.

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Speaker 8: I found an underground passage. It'll take me back in

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the hills Wilder. I'll go back there, and then i'll

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pick you off one by one.

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Speaker 5: We'll see.

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Speaker 7: It's a nice town you've got here, spended, it's beautiful.

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Speaker 5: I'd like to live here.

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Speaker 3: You can join me. You'll not like them, Why.

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Speaker 8: Go back to them, Captain, I'll show you what a

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good life these people had.

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Speaker 5: I'll all no, there's too much Earth blood in me.

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Speaker 7: I may even agree with you about all this, but

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that does not change what I must do. You won't

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stay now. This is your last chance, Spender. Look you're sick, now,

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come along with me. Quiet, No, no one last thing.

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Speaker 5: If you win, do me a favor. Try to see

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that they don't tear this planet apart.

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Speaker 8: Right, and if it helps, just think of me as

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a very crazy fellow who went perserved one summer day.

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Speaker 7: Be easier on you that way. I'll think that over it.

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So long spending, Bye, Captain, Good luck.

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Speaker 1: The men spread out again, walking and then running on

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the hot hillside, places where there would be sudden coup

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grottos that smelled of moss, and sudden open blasting places

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that smelled of sun or stone. The men ran and ducked,

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and ran and squatted in the shadows. A Captain Wilder

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hugged the rock worn by the sun a gasp, for

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the air was thin and not meant for running. Spender

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lay at the top of a hill, and a gap

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in the rocks showed the white of his shirt against

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the shadows. Wilder looked at the towers of the little

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clean Martian village, like sharply carved chest.

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Speaker 5: Pieces lying in the afternoon.

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Speaker 1: He saw the rocks and the interval between where Spender's

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chest was revealed.

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Speaker 7: Go on, Spender, get out. You only got a few

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seconds to escape. Go on, get out of the caves.

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Come back later, you go. Now, I've got to win this.

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I've got to think that I'm right the trigger. Go now,

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get out.

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Speaker 10: I'll get him a slugging ahead of blows Bunny park Hill.

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Speaker 6: Put down that gun. I'll do this myself.

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Speaker 5: Spender, why didn't you get out?

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Speaker 4: Why?

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Speaker 3: Why?

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Speaker 5: Why? Wow?

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Speaker 1: They buried him in that ancient valley town where the

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music of the wind played on through the days and

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Speaker 5: They laid him in an ancient.

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Speaker 1: Silver sarcophagus with waxes and wines which were ten thousand

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years old, his hands folded on his chest. The last

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they saw at him was his peaceful face in the

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cold silver light of the racing twin moons. The captain

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found the poemons Spender's pocket, and he read it before

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he shut the marble door.

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Speaker 7: So we'll go no more a roving, so late into

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the night, though the heart be still as loving, and

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the moon be still as bright, though the night was

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made for loving.

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Speaker 5: And the day returns too soon. Yet we'll go no

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more a roving by the light of the moon.

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Speaker 1: The next afternoon, park Hill did some target practice in

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one of the dead cities, shooting out the crystal windows

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and blowing the tops off the fragile towers. Captain Wilder

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Speaker 2: You have just heard X minus one presented by the

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National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers

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of astounding science fiction. To Night by transcription X minus

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one has brought You The Ray Bradbury Story and The

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Moon Be Still as Bright, adapted for radio by Ernest Cannoy.

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Featured in the cast were John Larkin, Clark Gordon Dick Hamilton,

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Nelson Olmsted, Lawrence Kerr, and Stannerley. Your narrator was Norman Rose.

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You're announcer Fred Collins. X minus one was directed by

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Daniel Sutter and is an NBC Radio Network production. X

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