Speaker 1: Fed up with the everyday grind, tied up from the
Speaker 1: summer heat, I want to get away from it all.
Speaker 2: We offer you.
Speaker 3: Escape, escape designed to free you from the four walls
Speaker 3: of today, for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1: You are trapped aboard an ill stated ocean liner captained
Speaker 1: by a dying man, while a mysterious stranger haunting you,
Speaker 1: menacing you, seems intent on sending you to destruction.
Speaker 3: Tonight, we escape to mid ocean and to the strange
Speaker 3: passengers aboard a stranger ship. As James Gould Cousins tells
Speaker 3: it in his gripping story s s. San Pedro, Right,
Speaker 3: Becky Hurway, it was hot.
Speaker 2: The heat rolled up from the Hoboken water punt and
Speaker 2: drifted in waves across the open bridge deck where I stood.
Speaker 2: The last few loads of passenger's luggage were being hoisted aboard.
Speaker 2: Thirty minutes the whistle on the forward stack would sound off,
Speaker 2: and the cargo liner San Pedro, carrying one hundred and
Speaker 2: seventy two passengers and two hundred and the crew with
Speaker 2: nose away from the pier and start the long run
Speaker 2: south to Buenos Aires. Then she'd become the great living
Speaker 2: animal she was meant to be no longer something built
Speaker 2: of paint and steel and tied to a pier. You
Speaker 2: get to feel that way after you've been a while
Speaker 2: at sea. You feel that your ship is a live thing,
Speaker 2: and that you're part of it. The captain is the
Speaker 2: biggest part, of course, the brain of the ship, the
Speaker 2: mentality that keeps her from turning idiot and dashing herself
Speaker 2: to pieces in her madness. The officers are the nerve centers,
Speaker 2: and the crew the hands and fingers and the twin turbines.
Speaker 2: Far down in the whole are the great driving muscles
Speaker 2: of the legs and silly maybe that you can feel it.
Speaker 2: And the passengers, well, to most of us officers, the
Speaker 2: passengers are the parasites of the ship.
Speaker 4: My, but you look confident, h I said. I'm glad
Speaker 4: you look confident, but you don't have to look so serious.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, miss. The passengers are not allowed on the bridge.
Speaker 4: I know that I've been on ships before, and I've
Speaker 4: never been thrown off a bridge yet.
Speaker 2: I have no intention of throwing you off, but I
Speaker 2: must ask.
Speaker 4: My name is Merrilee.
Speaker 2: How do you do Are you the captain?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: No, I'm Briddell the first officer.
Speaker 4: Oh, the captain's right hand man.
Speaker 2: You might put it that way now, if you'll.
Speaker 4: Please merrily is my first name?
Speaker 2: I assumed as much.
Speaker 4: Oh, well, I'll just call you Briddell. Then maybe you'll
Speaker 4: loosen up when we get further south. At least you
Speaker 4: have to dance with me in the evening. It's part
Speaker 4: of your duty.
Speaker 2: Well, i'll be I'll be happy to in the line
Speaker 2: of duty a.
Speaker 4: Regular machine, aren't you. I think this is.
Speaker 2: Going to be fun well in the meantime, please be
Speaker 2: kind enough now, yes, mister driscool, what is it? Captain's compliments?
Speaker 2: Sarry like to see you in his cabin. Run away,
Speaker 2: I'm good. Take charge of the bridge, mister DRIs schools.
Speaker 2: The luggage is already a board, and Packe is on
Speaker 2: the wind. She's pretty drunk, but myro seems to be
Speaker 2: able to handle them. All right, mister Bredell, I'll watch him,
Speaker 2: and please make sure the young lady finds so way
Speaker 2: back to the passenger deck.
Speaker 4: Don't worry, Braddell, I know how to get any place.
Speaker 4: I won't get.
Speaker 6: You.
Speaker 2: Our tech officers get all the breaks. There's your little friend, Briddell.
Speaker 2: Uh passenger cock eyed nuisance. You can have her sparks. Good.
Speaker 7: Maybe I can teach you the cold I doubt it.
Speaker 2: Well, you get a lot of the captain's visitors.
Speaker 7: Brace yourself, boy.
Speaker 2: I understand you sent for me, captain.
Speaker 8: Oh, mister Ruddell, Hey, yes, I did my boy everything
Speaker 8: in order on deck?
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, we'll say in about twenty minutes. Good good,
Speaker 2: mister Rudell.
Speaker 8: Oh, i'd like to present a friend of mine, doctor Percival.
Speaker 9: How do you do, mister Braddell. I don't wonder at
Speaker 9: your surprise my appearance is somewhat strange. I'm sorry, sir. No, no,
Speaker 9: I'm quite used to such a reaction. I am well
Speaker 9: aware that I closely resemble a corpse.
Speaker 8: Well, mister Raddell, I wonder if you'd mind showing doctor
Speaker 8: Percival around the ship and.
Speaker 2: Captain clintonning we sail in twenty minutes.
Speaker 9: A very brief tour will show me all I weave
Speaker 9: to see, mister Riddell.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe after we get under way.
Speaker 8: I can't No, doctor Percival isn't sailing with us, mister Raddell.
Speaker 8: It shouldn't take more than a few minutes. I'd show
Speaker 8: him around myself. But I'm I'm not feeling too well.
Speaker 8: The man wears out, I guess starts to break down
Speaker 8: like a machine machine.
Speaker 2: That's what she said. What's that, mister, h Nothing, nothing, sir, Well,
Speaker 2: Shall we get started, doctor Percival. I showed him through
Speaker 2: the empty dining salon, along the boat deck and the promenade.
Speaker 2: We opened the bulkhead door and looked down through the
Speaker 2: gratings into the engine room, and everywhere we walked, people
Speaker 2: drew back and stared silently until we passed, and then
Speaker 2: whispered together behind us. We met merrily, and she started
Speaker 2: to speak, and then her face turned white, and she
Speaker 2: passed us without a word. Doctor Percival paid no attention
Speaker 2: to any of them. His gaunt, gray face never changed expression,
Speaker 2: and those dark, hollow eyes stared straight ahead. His twisted
Speaker 2: hands were covered by gloves made of soft gray leather,
Speaker 2: and he reached out with him from time to time
Speaker 2: and touched things as we passed, almost caressing them. It
Speaker 2: was almost repulsive for some reason. Finally we wound up
Speaker 2: at the port rail of the offices deck, and I
Speaker 2: showed him how to reach the gang plank. I presume
Speaker 2: these are the offices quarters along here.
Speaker 5: Mister Bridell.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's right. The port cabins here, and the same
Speaker 2: thing over on the starboard. There are a few spares
Speaker 2: we use for a sick base when we have to.
Speaker 9: I see nearly four hundred people on board. Quite a responsibility,
Speaker 9: especially for the captains.
Speaker 2: Yes, he has his hands full, right, and if something
Speaker 2: should happen to him, oh well I'm next in charge.
Speaker 2: Only nothing will happen. What causes that sound? Right? Myra?
Speaker 2: Oh they're the ship's engines, will be here, bring them
Speaker 2: for the next ten days. Hmm.
Speaker 9: Mister Bdell, have you noticed that your ship is not
Speaker 9: floating level?
Speaker 5: Huh?
Speaker 9: This side of the deck, the port side. I think
Speaker 9: you said. It's a good deal lower than the other.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, we do have a slight list of port
Speaker 2: hadn't noticed it? Well, it's nothing serious. Will corrected with
Speaker 2: the ballast tanks as soon as we're underway now, sir.
Speaker 2: If the captain is an old man, he's in bad shape.
Speaker 2: Not according to the ship's doctor. I am his doctor now,
Speaker 2: and I don't believe I care to discuss it, sir,
Speaker 2: nor I I only mention it. Thank you, mister Braddell
Speaker 2: for showing me what I wish to see. I'll be
Speaker 2: going now, fine, fine, fine, glad I've had your born.
Speaker 2: Now straight down that ladder now. By dinner that evening,
Speaker 2: we were one hundred and forty miles at sea. The
Speaker 2: sun dropped behind a red haze and brought out a clear,
Speaker 2: starry night sky. Merrily had somehow wangled a place at
Speaker 2: my table, but held herself down to an occasional knowing
Speaker 2: grin that the other passengers probably misinterpreted. I dodged her afterwards,
Speaker 2: checked over the cargo plant for a while, trying to
Speaker 2: find some reason for the strange port list that was
Speaker 2: getting a little more pronounced, and finally dropped into the
Speaker 2: wireless shack aw hyeb down. Get bored with social life? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's not the heat, it's the femininity. You should squawk.
Speaker 7: The only time I see a girl on board this
Speaker 7: tub is when they come into wire for money at
Speaker 7: the next port. Well, I know one you can have,
Speaker 7: and that's just the one i'd take too.
Speaker 2: You're crazy, Briddell. Maybe you picked up anything. No, I've
Speaker 2: been talking to the Toledo.
Speaker 7: He's about a hundred miles ahead of us, making seventeen knots,
Speaker 7: so we'll probably tailor all the way south.
Speaker 2: Mm yeah h she.
Speaker 7: Started hitting some bad weather about an hour ago. Guys,
Speaker 7: we'll be getting it too. Probably make all your lady friends.
Speaker 2: See good and see if you can hurry it up.
Speaker 2: Here's the captain in the chart room.
Speaker 7: Yeah, call from here ten minutes ago. A. How'd you
Speaker 7: like that character that came aboard to see Oh, doctor Percival?
Speaker 2: Uh huh you can have him too, eh, see you later.
Speaker 10: Alright, I'll let you know if I get any more
Speaker 10: in the storm, right sung, Oh, mister Bridell, right, all
Speaker 10: for it.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, I wanted to no, wait, wait, and.
Speaker 2: Good evening, captain.
Speaker 8: Oh er, mister Riddell, I've been writing up the night orders.
Speaker 2: Who has the first watch? Riscal? Yes, sir, then everly
Speaker 2: and good.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 8: By the way, mister Riddell, I appreciate your showing.
Speaker 2: Doctor Percy will around this afternoon. Oh, I'm glad to
Speaker 2: do it, Captain say, is he nah an old friend
Speaker 2: of yours?
Speaker 8: No? No, I met him quite recently. Uh, mister Briddell,
Speaker 8: what's this port list? It's getting worse? Shows eight degrees
Speaker 8: on the klinometer now, uh, I've had one pump on
Speaker 8: the ballast tanks in three o'clock. I better put on
Speaker 8: another one. It worries me. Bad weather up ahead, you know, Yes,
Speaker 8: I just talked to Morris. Wonder if we're making any water?
Speaker 2: H I I don't think so. I'll check with the
Speaker 2: engine room if you like.
Speaker 8: Yes, I wish you would. Canton fought to take any chances.
Speaker 2: Bdell, here we go. Riad captain wants your film soundings.
Speaker 2: Call him back right trot room.
Speaker 8: I'm I'm tired tonight, mister Bludell. Don't feel so well.
Speaker 8: M I guess the man's bound to get old sometime.
Speaker 2: Well, that's still some years ahead of you, sir, I
Speaker 2: doubt it, doubted very much. Well, can't do much about it.
Speaker 2: Oh I I meant to tell you.
Speaker 8: The steward reported this afternoon that he couldn't get into
Speaker 8: number seven port cabin in the office's deck.
Speaker 2: And you couldn't get into it.
Speaker 8: The door seems to be stuck. Don't know what's wrong.
Speaker 8: We should look into all.
Speaker 2: Right, sir. I'll have myro look into it. I think
Speaker 2: he's up.
Speaker 11: An nuh, that must be the injured room. But Dell
Speaker 11: right right, alright, thanks, I mean Gilbrey says all the
Speaker 11: builders are.
Speaker 8: Dry, sir, good I I well, I guess there's no
Speaker 8: reason why they shouldn't be that.
Speaker 2: A man gets old. Well, I'll go to speak to
Speaker 2: myro captain and see about putting another pump on the
Speaker 2: ballast tanks.
Speaker 8: Good good, I'm I'm going to turn in in a
Speaker 8: few minutes.
Speaker 2: Good night, mister Briddell. Good night Captain.
Speaker 4: Well, I knew you would have to come out sometime.
Speaker 5: Ah.
Speaker 4: Look, miss relaxed Braudell, you have a terribly romantic profile.
Speaker 4: We're getting closer to the tropics.
Speaker 2: All the time I've been there before. I'll bet you
Speaker 2: have I listen if you want to.
Speaker 4: Why don't you be human for once? You keep on
Speaker 4: and you'll end up looking like your ghoulish friend you
Speaker 4: were showing around this afternoon.
Speaker 2: He was no friend of mine.
Speaker 4: It should be a rule against taking passengers who look
Speaker 4: like that. It gives me the creeps.
Speaker 2: Well, for your information, we we didn't take him. He
Speaker 2: went ashore.
Speaker 4: Oh you'd be a good liar, Briddell if I hadn't
Speaker 4: seen him myself a half an hour ago. Uh where
Speaker 4: you went into one of those cabins right down there
Speaker 4: ahead of.
Speaker 2: Us on the on the office's deck. You you didn't
Speaker 2: notice which one?
Speaker 4: Yes? I did, as a matter of fact, was number seven?
Speaker 2: Seven? Man? All right, come on now.
Speaker 4: Look, Bridelle, I don't want to meet the guy. I
Speaker 4: don't want to have anything to do with him. Gave
Speaker 4: me the shivers just to look at him.
Speaker 2: Is this the one number seven?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: You notice a little crossbar on the door handle. Yes,
Speaker 2: it's turned straight up and down. Yes, that means the
Speaker 2: door's unlocked.
Speaker 4: Now all right, but it doesn't open.
Speaker 2: That's right, because it's jammed. The steward reported it this afternoon,
Speaker 2: not a half hour ago, so you're not much of
Speaker 2: a liar yourself.
Speaker 4: But I saw him go in this door.
Speaker 2: Sure tell you I did.
Speaker 4: I saw him?
Speaker 2: Oh Myron, no, no, no, thing's wrong. This door is
Speaker 2: apparently jammed. We should try to get it open to
Speaker 2: when you have a chance, all right, sir, and myro
Speaker 2: when you do, please please ad bias this young lady.
Speaker 2: She's very curious about what's inside the cabin.
Speaker 5: Uh, good night, mister Bridell.
Speaker 2: Mister wake up? Oh my, what's the matter, mister Risker?
Speaker 2: Once you on the bridge, sir, we've got some pretty.
Speaker 6: Bad weather and I can feel it how long has
Speaker 6: it been this way? Since midnight? But it's getting worse.
Speaker 6: The stewart says, some glass broken the promenade deck.
Speaker 2: We've shipped water in the forward hole. All right, myro
Speaker 2: tell Driscllann'll be on the bridge in five minutes. Get going.
Speaker 2: It was fairly bad on deck. Dawn was just breaking
Speaker 2: with light enough to make out the long, high swells
Speaker 2: charging into us one after another, the tops of their
Speaker 2: crests ripped and torn by the driving wind. We were
Speaker 2: taking them on the quarter, rolling pretty badly, and shipping
Speaker 2: water on the port bow at every roll. And if anything,
Speaker 2: that list had grown worse during the night.
Speaker 1: Oh bad you're here, mister Brittell having a rather bad gulvid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well we've seen worse. As the captain been called,
Speaker 2: Oh sir, I thought i'd better wait for you, right,
Speaker 2: No need to call them. Where's Ebery? Took some men
Speaker 2: down to the forehead hole.
Speaker 3: We're shipping water on the port side every time.
Speaker 2: With yeah, I know, I know a miro. See if
Speaker 2: you can get them on the phone. Good lord. We're
Speaker 2: listing eleven degrees now. Those pumps still going in the
Speaker 2: ballast tanks all night, sir. The tanks are two thirds empty.
Speaker 2: Now I understand it. I think the coon is dead
Speaker 2: in the forward holding.
Speaker 5: Mister, I can get enough signal.
Speaker 2: All right, myro, you go on down there and see
Speaker 2: what the trouble is. Report back, yes, sir, h eleven degrees.
Speaker 2: Can't see any reason moment.
Speaker 12: Oh, I'll take it there, risk go ahead, Yes, I know,
Speaker 12: I know, all right, I'll.
Speaker 5: Speak to him.
Speaker 12: Mcgilbury says, they're taking quite a beating in the engine
Speaker 12: role months and know if we can't slack off.
Speaker 2: This roll, Yeah, yeah, I think we better. It's no
Speaker 2: use beating ourselves to death against those swells. Bedell, captain,
Speaker 2: sorry to bother you. It's all right boy.
Speaker 5: What is it.
Speaker 2: Permission to change courts?
Speaker 5: Sir?
Speaker 2: We're taking a bad swell in our quarter. Grab whatever
Speaker 2: you think best, Thank you, sir.
Speaker 5: Uh need me for anything?
Speaker 2: No, no, sir, I'll report later, all right, mister dresscool
Speaker 2: new course. He's off fourteen degrees and then hold due south.
Speaker 2: He's off fourteen degrees. Hold those south, sir. I'm going
Speaker 2: to the wireless room, all right, sir. We ought to
Speaker 2: be out of this by afternoon. It's windy, isn't it, Merrily?
Speaker 2: What the devil? Are you doing on.
Speaker 4: Deck getting rained on?
Speaker 2: Mostly? Haven't you got me? Since we're shipping water on
Speaker 2: the fore deck? You want to get washed over? Would
Speaker 2: you care? Bredell? Look, it costs money to stop a ship.
Speaker 2: Now listen, get below.
Speaker 4: I'm still waiting to see inside number seven caviny.
Speaker 2: Oh, Burdell.
Speaker 7: They're kind of shaking us well before using, aren't they.
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, just changed the course. Should ease this roll a little, Maurris,
Speaker 2: what's the nearest chip to us?
Speaker 7: Still at Toledo, about seventy miles south. They say it's
Speaker 7: raining down there.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine there's nothing any any closer? Well, nothing
Speaker 2: that I've been able. Hey, you don't figure, No, no, no,
Speaker 2: there's no danger, Morris, just just routine.
Speaker 7: Well, I'll see what I can pick up statics not
Speaker 7: making it, Oh Maris, Yeah.
Speaker 2: He's here. It's feel thanks. But the speaking dress, sir, Yeah.
Speaker 12: The Guildridge just called, wants permission to put all pumps.
Speaker 2: To work on the build on the bilge.
Speaker 12: But four as we're making water from somewhere, he's got
Speaker 12: forty inches in the stokehold.
Speaker 2: It's probably coming from that forward hole. As soon as
Speaker 2: everyone gets the bulkhead closes, we'll be able to wait
Speaker 2: a second hold on. Myro just came in. What do
Speaker 2: you find out?
Speaker 6: Mister Reblin needs more men, sir. Some of those big
Speaker 6: great shifted. They knocked out most of the forward bulk
Speaker 6: hit knocked out.
Speaker 2: Mister discom yes all the captain and ask him to
Speaker 2: meet me on the bridge immediately. Next hours were a nightmare,
Speaker 2: and all through the day inn of the evening, terrified
Speaker 2: passengers huddled in the lounges in the salon, not knowing
Speaker 2: just how great the danger might be. Fearing the worst.
Speaker 2: At eleven a m one of the pumps broke down,
Speaker 2: and the san Pedro settled a little lower as the
Speaker 2: water gained in the bilges. At one thirty pumped back
Speaker 2: in operation, and for a while we held our own
Speaker 2: down on the forward hole. Men fought a heart breaking
Speaker 2: battle and water up to their arm pits, and tried
Speaker 2: to throw up a temporary bulkhead. The five point fifteen,
Speaker 2: a heavy sea crashed through the steward's pantry. Six men
Speaker 2: vanished overboard in a smother of foam. All night long
Speaker 2: we fought the sea and lost the battle foot by foot.
Speaker 2: A strange list of port grew worse by dawn. We
Speaker 2: were leaning over eighteen degrees, shipping tons of water with
Speaker 2: every roll. Riscal here right, all right, hold on, what
Speaker 2: is it?
Speaker 12: DRIs Gil on the phone, Sir says he's had to
Speaker 12: pull the fire in one boiler. He's going to do
Speaker 12: in the second one once and know if you reduce
Speaker 12: speed to steerageway otherwise he hasn't got steam enough for
Speaker 12: the pumps. All right, tell him yes, gel right bright
Speaker 12: else says, okay, take it now, one third speed, all right,
Speaker 12: helm straight to one third. Unfounded, Sir, captain ought to
Speaker 12: be here in the bridge, been at this.
Speaker 3: Cabin for the last four hours.
Speaker 2: He's got no business to still do, mister Drisco. Oh yes, sorry, sir,
Speaker 2: uh forget it. You're right at that. You haven't got
Speaker 2: much time to make up our minds. Now, how are
Speaker 2: the passengers my row? Film or answer? The stewarts are
Speaker 2: turned to keep him come, they're all in life. Preserve
Speaker 2: the way we're healed over. We can't use the starboard
Speaker 2: boats now, and in another hour there won't be enough
Speaker 2: steam for the winches on the port side. Well, hello, hello,
Speaker 2: now what the devil?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 2: The Captain's phone's dead too. Myro got out to the
Speaker 2: captain's cabin ask him to come up, Yes, sir, but
Speaker 2: you can't chance it any longer, Driscoll. At least we
Speaker 2: can start a call out while the captain's on his
Speaker 2: way here, right Marris here, Ruddell and Bridge. You still
Speaker 2: sending CQ.
Speaker 7: Yes, sir, repeats it five minutes you picked up anything
Speaker 7: the talte off as a Canard liner one hundred miles north.
Speaker 2: That's not much help.
Speaker 3: How bad are are we, sir?
Speaker 2: Bad enough? You can start sending in SOS. Now give
Speaker 2: me position and anything you pick up and stand by
Speaker 2: for further orders. Right, this is it? Then what else,
Speaker 2: mister Driscoll?
Speaker 6: It may be too late as it is, mister Rudyes,
Speaker 6: the captain, sir, he's in his BoNT dead.
Speaker 2: Lord, well he was right there. Men get old machines
Speaker 2: where off? I think he's been dead for some time.
Speaker 2: It's probably so, Miro. Did you do you ever get
Speaker 2: that port cabin door open? Didn't have any chance? But
Speaker 2: what difference does it make now? None? I guess I
Speaker 2: just wondered, all right, mister Drisco, Yes, sir, but a
Speaker 2: general order on the PA emergency. All officers stand by
Speaker 2: boat stations, prepared to abandon ship. Yes, Sir, now go ahead.
Speaker 5: Attention.
Speaker 8: All officers stand by boat stations.
Speaker 5: Prepare to abandoned ship.
Speaker 3: All officers stand by boat station, prepare to abandoned ship.
Speaker 5: All officer.
Speaker 2: Her brain allady gone. The ship was dying. I knew that.
Speaker 2: I stayed alone on the bridge, tried to quiet her
Speaker 2: death throes, tried to hold back the confusion of idiocy
Speaker 2: that shook her limbs and parts. The wind was gone now,
Speaker 2: and a thick gray haw blanketed the decks and the
Speaker 2: sea beyond. Boats were lowered and swallowed up in it,
Speaker 2: one by one, Some of them lowered poorly to spill
Speaker 2: their human freight into the hungry wet mouth of the sea.
Speaker 2: We were low in the water, down at the head,
Speaker 2: already the boughs were awash. Suddenly I noticed that the
Speaker 2: strange list of port was was no longer with us.
Speaker 2: Why we were floating level? And then for her? For
Speaker 2: no sane reason, I wondered if the changed angle had
Speaker 2: let the door of number seven cabins swing open. I
Speaker 2: left the bridge and hurried forward. The door was ajar
Speaker 2: and swung gently with the movement of the ship. I
Speaker 2: pushed it open and stepped into the cabin.
Speaker 5: It was empty.
Speaker 2: In the air was a strange, dry, musty smell, like
Speaker 2: old flowers long pressed in the pages of a book.
Speaker 2: At that moment, I turned and the water was moving
Speaker 2: slowly toward me. Up the passageway. Heard myro shout the
Speaker 2: order for casting off the last boat. I left the cabin,
Speaker 2: ran for the bridge.
Speaker 4: Hello, bridell merrily glad to see me.
Speaker 2: What do you know, Oh, the last boat just went
Speaker 2: over the side.
Speaker 4: Sure, I was about to get in a boat. Then
Speaker 4: I changed my mind. Why when it's your time, you
Speaker 4: can't do much about it? And I knew what it
Speaker 4: was when he first looked at me.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? When who looked at you?
Speaker 4: That guy you called doctor Percival.
Speaker 2: He's not on board. I just came from Captain seven.
Speaker 2: It's empty, of course it is.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 4: He's out prowling around the boat somewhere.
Speaker 2: I saw him go ashore before we left.
Speaker 4: New York, and I saw him three minutes ago.
Speaker 2: They're crazy.
Speaker 4: He was standing beside that lifeboat, the one I didn't
Speaker 4: get in.
Speaker 2: That lifeboat was your last chance to live? Why didn't
Speaker 2: you take it.
Speaker 4: I thought it wouldn't be so lonesome to come here.
Speaker 2: And die with you.
Speaker 4: But you wouldn't have died, oh, Bradell. Don't you know yet?
Speaker 4: It wouldn't have made any difference, no matter what we did,
Speaker 4: not with doctor Percival on board.
Speaker 2: What has doctor Percival got to do with it?
Speaker 4: Everything? When that lifeboat hit the water, it capsized. I
Speaker 4: knew it would, So you say I'd have died anyway, Bdell.
Speaker 4: The water is coming up fast in.
Speaker 2: The house, Yeah, sinking fast. He'll go under any second.
Speaker 4: He must be on his way here. We should be
Speaker 4: hearing his footsteps.
Speaker 2: Who in the name of Heaven is doctor Percival?
Speaker 4: Who do you think he is?
Speaker 3: Escape is produced and directed by Norman MacDonell. Tonight we
Speaker 3: have brought you s s. San Pedro by James Gould Cousins,
Speaker 3: adapted for radio by Les Crutchfield, with editorial supervision by
Speaker 3: John Duncle. Featured in Tonight's cast were John Danner and
Speaker 3: Charlotte Lawrence, with Jeff Corey, Don Diamond, Harry Bartel, Larry Dabkin,
Speaker 3: and Janeavello. Special music by Ivan Ditmars.
Speaker 1: Next week, you were standing in the light of an
Speaker 1: arc lamp by a cathedral in Mexico City, looking at
Speaker 1: a body lying in the grass. And then a great
Speaker 1: theor comes over you, and you wonder if you are
Speaker 1: a haunted man.
Speaker 3: Next week we escape with Ralph Bates most on you
Speaker 3: usual story the Haunted Man. Good night, then until this
Speaker 3: same time next week, when once again we offer you escape.
Speaker 3: Roy Ron speaking for CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System