Speaker 1: Tired of the every day routine. Ever dream of a
Speaker 1: life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it?
Speaker 2: A we offer you escape.
Speaker 3: Escape Transcribe to free you from the four walls of
Speaker 3: to Day for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1: You are standing in a lonely canyon in the shadows
Speaker 1: of Superstition Mountain. While facing you Temper's ragged guns drawn
Speaker 1: a three men, which your first moved toward hidden treasure
Speaker 1: will kill you.
Speaker 3: To Day, with Paul Dubov starred as Pascal, we escaped
Speaker 3: to the Arizona Desert and a lost treasure of a
Speaker 3: million dollars. As Ralph Bates told it in his Most
Speaker 3: Unusual Story, when the man comes follow him, I.
Speaker 4: Was wrong, I know that now, But what goods it do?
Speaker 4: How could you tell dead men that it's all your
Speaker 4: fault and you're sorry. No matter what you tell him,
Speaker 4: they're still dead, So what's the use. It never would
Speaker 4: have happened if we hadn't got mixed up in this
Speaker 4: Superstition business.
Speaker 5: It was gone along fine.
Speaker 4: All the other boys Frisco respected us, stayed out of
Speaker 4: our territory. At least most of the time. That was
Speaker 4: on account of the Boss mister Hyneman. He was too
Speaker 4: smart for him, and they knew it. Smart and that
Speaker 4: great guy along with it. Of course, some people might
Speaker 4: call him an ordinary racketeer, but he wasn't like that.
Speaker 4: Nobody could have treated me no better. And he was
Speaker 4: cultured too, loved music, played a violin almost as good
Speaker 4: as this fellow were Heifetz or whatever his name is.
Speaker 4: Why one time he sent me clear to New York
Speaker 4: to pick up a strata varr as he'd heard about,
Speaker 4: and I had to hang around the dealer's store for
Speaker 4: two weeks before I got a chance to lift it.
Speaker 4: He wouldn't have trusted a job like that to any
Speaker 4: of the rest of the boys. He trusted me more
Speaker 4: than any of them. Me, Pascal, That's how come I
Speaker 4: feel so bad about what's happened. Because he trusted me,
Speaker 4: and he had to trust somebody to understand, because for
Speaker 4: fifteen years the boss had been stone blind.
Speaker 2: Come on, Pascal, eyes, man, give me eyes.
Speaker 4: And it's foggy down that boss. I can't see the
Speaker 4: bay at all, just the end of the bridge, and
Speaker 4: I taught a golden gate. There's nothing but just fog.
Speaker 5: I guess it's gonna rain.
Speaker 2: What about the street below, is Pascal. What's going on
Speaker 2: down there?
Speaker 4: Just street cars and taxis going up and down with
Speaker 4: a few people, not very many. I tell your boss,
Speaker 4: there's nothing doing at all. It's a very dull day.
Speaker 2: All right, forget it. You can come away from the window.
Speaker 5: Why don't you play the violin a while?
Speaker 2: No, not today, I'm too restless. Something's gonna happen.
Speaker 5: I think happened. What's gonna happen?
Speaker 2: I don't know something. Are any of the boys here.
Speaker 4: Brian and Day in the next apartment playing Jim Rummy?
Speaker 4: You want I should call it now?
Speaker 2: I wonder if you know what it's like, Pascal, to
Speaker 2: live always in pitch darkness, depending on somebody else to
Speaker 2: tell you what's going on around you.
Speaker 4: Ah, forget it, Boss, you got me om the eyes,
Speaker 4: you're the brain.
Speaker 5: We're doing all right?
Speaker 2: Maybe only sometimes.
Speaker 4: I wonder I'll get a boss, I'll get it. Mister
Speaker 4: Heneman's apartment. Oh well, I'm not sure whether miss to
Speaker 4: island with it?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 5: I see all right?
Speaker 6: Thanks.
Speaker 5: That was the manager. He brought y from Phoenix.
Speaker 2: Mark. He's downstairs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's on his way up. The manager couldn't stop him.
Speaker 4: He says, he looks like he's in pretty bad shape.
Speaker 2: Ever see a desert rat that didn't. Ah, well, So
Speaker 2: I'm to be honored by a visit from my sanctimonious brother.
Speaker 5: I wonder what he wants.
Speaker 2: Oh, money as usual, three four hundred dollars to finance
Speaker 2: another six months of prospecting, and he'll repay it by
Speaker 2: telling me what an evil.
Speaker 5: Man I I wouldn't give it to him, Boss.
Speaker 2: Why not? As long as it keeps him over there
Speaker 2: on the Arizona desert or most of the year. I
Speaker 2: can stand one or two visits from him. You can
Speaker 2: hear the elevator stopping.
Speaker 4: Bet open the door, I still say, you want to
Speaker 4: crackdown on him?
Speaker 2: Open the door?
Speaker 5: Hello, Mark, help come in, Boss. He's heard herself with me.
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 4: Ayes Quick hasn't shaved for four or five days. He's weak, trembling,
Speaker 4: holding on at the door frame with his right hand,
Speaker 4: holding his chest.
Speaker 5: With the other hand.
Speaker 7: I think it's been shot, Boss, Yes, shut, come on,
Speaker 7: take these, take these, come out here, Come on over
Speaker 7: on the couch, Come on here we are Boss.
Speaker 2: Not easy? Now, what happened? Mark?
Speaker 6: I had to get here. I want you to have
Speaker 6: it so he can't.
Speaker 4: He's out of his head yet.
Speaker 2: Brian and Daily over here. Brian knows a lot about
Speaker 2: gunshot wos right, plus what happened? Mark? Who shut?
Speaker 6: You shut?
Speaker 2: Seven?
Speaker 6: I have to get hello Brian.
Speaker 2: Right away.
Speaker 6: Oh fools, oh fools of Kigs and Princess die.
Speaker 2: Mark, you've got to get hold of yourself.
Speaker 6: I had to get here. You get it instead of him?
Speaker 6: Watch out for him, Mark, map, old map and a
Speaker 6: new map.
Speaker 4: He doesn't even make sense. Look, look what's he doing
Speaker 4: up a little? He's pointing with his finger at the
Speaker 4: coppet about four feet away.
Speaker 6: When do you get there? Watch for when the man comes?
Speaker 6: Follow him.
Speaker 2: Short marks, when the man comes fop.
Speaker 6: Yes, when the man comes, follow what's he means?
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 6: What's up? Boss said? You wanted me.
Speaker 2: Come in, Brian. This is my brother. He's been shocked.
Speaker 2: See what you're gonna do for him? Look got to think.
Speaker 2: I've got to think. What could he possibly have stumbled
Speaker 2: into him?
Speaker 6: This happened a couple of days ago. At least should
Speaker 6: have added doctor right away.
Speaker 2: He wanted to get here for some reason.
Speaker 5: A pie his daily?
Speaker 4: Boss, what's coming off?
Speaker 2: And you're not cooking?
Speaker 4: Up something, leaving little Daily out of it, and I
Speaker 4: and his moum stop your barcking Daily before I throw
Speaker 4: you a can of strong hut.
Speaker 9: Don't get so smart now, Pascal, I got as much
Speaker 9: right to talk around here as.
Speaker 4: You have, I said, shut up. The boss's brother is
Speaker 4: here's been shot. He's some bad shape.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're not kidding, Pascal.
Speaker 2: Matter of fact, he's bought in as bad shape as
Speaker 2: he'll ever be.
Speaker 6: Boss, he's dead.
Speaker 5: That was the start of the thing.
Speaker 4: When a doc came he said Mark should have died
Speaker 4: twenty four hours earlier. Said he stayed alive long enough
Speaker 4: to get the Frisco on sheer nerve nothing else, mister Hyeman,
Speaker 4: He don't say much. He let the doctor take charge
Speaker 4: of everything. There was a wallet and some other stuff
Speaker 4: in Mark's pockets, mister Hineman, and he took it with
Speaker 4: him and went into his own Roman state. There After
Speaker 4: a while, the other boys drifted back to that rummy game,
Speaker 4: and finally, about ten o'clock I went to bed. At
Speaker 4: two in the morning, I woke up to find Heineman
Speaker 4: shaking my arm.
Speaker 2: That's cow, hear me, Come on, ooh ooh, okay, Boss,
Speaker 2: I'm awake.
Speaker 5: What's the matter?
Speaker 2: I've been thinking. That's some ideas I'd like to talk about.
Speaker 5: All right, I'm listening.
Speaker 2: It's about mark the things he said, they begin to make.
Speaker 5: Sense maybe the you, but not to me.
Speaker 2: Look, is this what I think it is?
Speaker 4: Oh wait a minute, Bos' give it some light. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: it's some map of a mountain range. I think there's
Speaker 4: a lot of wavy lines, like they used for valleys
Speaker 4: and ridges. There's some faded writing down it brown ink.
Speaker 4: I think it's pretty.
Speaker 2: Old, sixty or seventy years at least. Does he better
Speaker 2: feel of the pader go on? Prescal describe it to me?
Speaker 4: Well, but it looks like a road runs across the
Speaker 4: bottom along the base of the mountains, and there's a
Speaker 4: spot on it marked red Hill, and there's a wavy
Speaker 4: line starts there and runs about halfway up the map.
Speaker 4: It runs past some dots marked three trees, and off
Speaker 4: on one side there's a little drawn of a shovel
Speaker 4: with a broken handle, and it ends at another spot
Speaker 4: marked camp. It's probably a trail, yeah, I guess so.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 4: The camp is beside a line that looks like the
Speaker 4: edge of a ridge or a cliff. And there's some
Speaker 4: writing that says if no answer, go down.
Speaker 2: There's no answer, go down? What else?
Speaker 4: Well, about a third of the way to the left
Speaker 4: from the camp there's an X marked and it says
Speaker 4: man lives here.
Speaker 5: I thought.
Speaker 4: The top there's another X that's marked Thunderpeak. And at
Speaker 4: the very top there's the word superstition.
Speaker 5: I guess that's.
Speaker 2: About all good. Later, i'll have you take my finger
Speaker 2: and trace over the whole thing until I know it
Speaker 2: by heart. But this is enough to start to start
Speaker 2: water a search for whatever caused my brother's death, something
Speaker 2: rather valuable if my thinking is correct, all.
Speaker 4: Right, Only how do we go about finding it?
Speaker 2: Mark told us how when the man comes follow him?
Speaker 5: You know what it means? Not yet?
Speaker 4: The map sixty years old and more. How do you
Speaker 4: figure this guy's going to be there?
Speaker 2: Because my brother found him and followed him and then
Speaker 2: died for it, We're going to follow him too, You
Speaker 2: and I and Bryant and Daily we're going to Phoenix.
Speaker 5: Boss Uh.
Speaker 4: I think maybe it's the kind of mistake to take
Speaker 4: Daily along.
Speaker 5: Why, Because he's.
Speaker 4: A double crosser. That's why I've been trying to tell
Speaker 4: you you can't trust him.
Speaker 2: Don't worry. I can handle him. He's not the one
Speaker 2: who has to be watched.
Speaker 5: Then who is Bryant?
Speaker 2: Let's leave it for now. Call the ticket office and
Speaker 2: get four reservations on the next plane out. I've got
Speaker 2: the feeling we'd better move fast.
Speaker 4: But the next afternoon we checked in at the Hotel
Speaker 4: Westwood ho in Phoenix and started trying to get a
Speaker 4: line on Mark Hanneman's recent activities. After two days, we
Speaker 4: still didn't have much to go on. He apparently hooked
Speaker 4: up with some new partner about six months before and
Speaker 4: gone into the desert. No one had seen anything of
Speaker 4: him since. An old man who ran a hardware store
Speaker 4: where market bought tools and supplies finally gave us the
Speaker 4: tip off without knowing it.
Speaker 8: Hey, you she mister Heineman, your brother which one of
Speaker 8: the fellows around here who believed in the legend of
Speaker 8: the Lost Dutchman Mine. I figure that's what he was
Speaker 8: really prospecting for.
Speaker 2: What is the lost Dutchman mind?
Speaker 8: Supposed to be a depositive gold Richard And he's ever
Speaker 8: been found a real treasure of King's.
Speaker 4: Treasure of King's Boss. That's what he said.
Speaker 8: According to the stories, there's supposed to be a map
Speaker 8: in existence somewhere showing the exact location of the mine,
Speaker 8: drawn by the Dutchman himself. During the last fifty years
Speaker 8: or so, a lot of prospectors have gone back into
Speaker 8: the superstitions looking for it, but none of them.
Speaker 2: Do you mean by superstitions.
Speaker 8: Superstition mountains out on the desert east of the town.
Speaker 8: That's where the mine's supposed to be located. Why they
Speaker 8: call superstitions, yes, because so many fellows have gone up
Speaker 8: into them and never come back. They're supposed to be
Speaker 8: an apatche curse on anybody goes in there. The rains
Speaker 8: used to be sacred. Then God the thunder.
Speaker 2: I see, And why do you think these men never
Speaker 2: came back?
Speaker 8: Heat theirs? God lost snake bite? Oh awful rough country
Speaker 8: and there's no water? Then two days there might be
Speaker 8: a kind of curse on the place of that. The
Speaker 8: double cross meaning well blazing sun and the lust for
Speaker 8: gold can be a bad combination on a man's nerves.
Speaker 8: A lot of partners have come back out of those
Speaker 8: hills alone.
Speaker 2: Double cross. Huh. At least that's one curse that isn't
Speaker 2: limited to the superstitions. You find it in a lot
Speaker 2: of places. Well, we'd better go many thanks for your information,
Speaker 2: well not.
Speaker 5: At all the journament.
Speaker 8: Sorry, it can't be more help.
Speaker 2: So that's what Mark found a gold mine, a rich one,
Speaker 2: maybe must be. Mark was dying and he knew it,
Speaker 2: and yet all he talked about was treasure of kings gold.
Speaker 2: In other words, he didn't even tell us who shot him.
Speaker 4: Maybe his partnered then maybe let's cow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want you to buy a pair of binoculars
Speaker 2: and rent a car. We're going to drive out and
Speaker 2: try to locate that red hill this afternoon. The one
Speaker 2: thing we got to watch out for is that curse.
Speaker 2: That's what happened to Mark.
Speaker 5: It's only an Indian superstition.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about the double Cross. Mark wasn't the first
Speaker 2: man to die from it, and I don't think he'll
Speaker 2: be the last.
Speaker 10: Here, Pascal, let me take your arm.
Speaker 4: I rented an ash stamp from the garage at the
Speaker 4: hotel and we headed out across the desert Easter town.
Speaker 4: It was late afternoon before we finally found it, the
Speaker 4: only red hill on the east slope of the superstitions.
Speaker 4: Mister Hineman told me to take the vernaculars and try
Speaker 4: to locate the three trees that.
Speaker 5: Were marked on the map.
Speaker 4: I left the car, worked my way around the far
Speaker 4: side of the hill and almost to the top before
Speaker 4: I could see the trees standing close together on the
Speaker 4: shoulder of the ridge, about six miles away, just the
Speaker 4: way they were shown on Mark Hynemann's map. I sat
Speaker 4: up at the pale blue peaks in the distance, watched
Speaker 4: the lightning flashes from near the tops of them, and
Speaker 4: shivered a little. Finally, I turned and started back to
Speaker 4: the road. Dusk had fallen fast, like a dozen the desert,
Speaker 4: and it was nearly dark. When I reached the car
Speaker 4: and opened the door. Mister Hyneman was slumped over in
Speaker 4: the seat with blood running from a cutnass forehead.
Speaker 5: He was unconscious.
Speaker 3: In just a moment, we will return to Escape, but first,
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Speaker 6: And now with our star.
Speaker 3: Paul duvab as Pascal and with herb butterfyd Is mister Heinemann.
Speaker 3: We returned to the second act of his game, and
Speaker 3: when the man comes follow.
Speaker 11: Him boss, Boss, come on, iw wake up, You're not hurt.
Speaker 4: Better, it's only a little cutting your scalp. Come on,
Speaker 4: come on, boss, come a scale. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's me.
Speaker 5: I'm here with you.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 5: Can you hear me?
Speaker 2: Yes, I can hear you. Piscal Did you see him?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: No, I didn't see anybody who wasn't What happened?
Speaker 2: A man talked to the touch of straw, wearing heavy
Speaker 2: boots with hobnakes, came up on the sat of the
Speaker 2: car next to the hill and poked a gun in
Speaker 2: my face. He knew who I was and that I
Speaker 2: was blind. He wanted the map. Did he kill us? No?
Speaker 2: I put it under the floor.
Speaker 5: Map.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 2: I heard him coming, Good, tried to grab his gun.
Speaker 2: He slug me, started going through my pockets, ran off
Speaker 2: in the rocks. When he hurt you coming, well, it's
Speaker 2: stock up there now. No good trying to follow him?
Speaker 2: Never mind? I know who he is. Oh, did he
Speaker 2: tell you?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: But it fits together. Mark had a partner, this guy, sure,
Speaker 2: who else could he be?
Speaker 4: And this is the guy who shot Mark?
Speaker 2: I think so. I imagine there was a double cross and
Speaker 2: he got even But wait, no, of course not. What's
Speaker 2: a matter of boss, Oh, what a fool life been?
Speaker 2: What do you mean? I had it figured all along
Speaker 2: that Mark double cross his partner and got shot for
Speaker 2: it was the other way round. Oh, it was Mark's man.
Speaker 2: And this partner doesn't know the secret of it. He
Speaker 2: probably knows where the man lives, but ten to one
Speaker 2: he doesn't know about following. Yeah, Boss, get the car
Speaker 2: start and head back for the hotel. You've got to
Speaker 2: get an outfit together and start up that trail tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2: There's no time to lose. Let's go.
Speaker 4: At nine o'clock the next morning, the four of us
Speaker 4: passed the Red Hill and started up the rocky trail
Speaker 4: that led to the far off heights of Thunderpeak. Brian
Speaker 4: and Daily each led two mules loaded with food and
Speaker 4: kegs of water, and I took care of mister Hyneman.
Speaker 4: It was already hot even at that time of morning,
Speaker 4: and boy it got hotter. The line drawn on the
Speaker 4: map followed the crest of a ridge, but there wasn't
Speaker 4: really any trail. We wound around through tumble masses of
Speaker 4: rocks and bowlers, climbed over cliffs and gullies, and stumble
Speaker 4: across crumbling slopes of debris that slid away beneath our
Speaker 4: feet and crash down into the ravine. By noon, I
Speaker 4: was stopping to rest every ten minutes. Even the rest
Speaker 4: didn't do no good because there wasn't any shade. By
Speaker 4: late afternoon, we'd covered only six miles and we were
Speaker 4: done in. None of us had known how hot a
Speaker 4: desert sun could get. We were ready to turn back
Speaker 4: or fight one another at the least.
Speaker 9: Excuse yepp, come on, move here for like a devil.
Speaker 5: It's how it works for you. This for me?
Speaker 6: What's the married daily?
Speaker 9: Your tongues hanging outlet hang When I get back to Fresco,
Speaker 9: I never want to see the sun again.
Speaker 4: It's good for you, nuts.
Speaker 2: It'll give you a tan, get rid of.
Speaker 4: That fish belly sand, quite a complexion of yours.
Speaker 9: How would you like to have a bullet and a
Speaker 9: stomach prescal Go ahead.
Speaker 4: And drive if you feel lucky.
Speaker 2: That's cow daily. That's enough. Now cut it out. Now
Speaker 2: Pascal started, I don't care who's started next. Enough are
Speaker 2: too close to a million dollars worth of goal to
Speaker 2: have the whole thing lousted up because somebody lost his temper.
Speaker 5: You said a million dollars.
Speaker 2: That's right, bright. According to the story, that's how much
Speaker 2: the Dutchman is supposed to have dug out of the
Speaker 2: mine and hidden before he was killed by apaches without
Speaker 2: ever getting back to bring it out.
Speaker 4: A million dollars or what a man could do with
Speaker 4: a million.
Speaker 2: Dollars and a million daily twenty five of a million.
Speaker 2: That's the amount of your share, you.
Speaker 4: Know, Yeah, sure, I know.
Speaker 5: I was just thinking. He look right ahead of us.
Speaker 2: We couldn't see him on the cart of the ridge.
Speaker 4: Trees three trees.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, a little shade of shug Kip, what's wrong?
Speaker 2: It's Pascal? What is it?
Speaker 4: The trees, boss, the ones marked on the map. Only
Speaker 4: they're dead, been dead for years. They look like it's
Speaker 4: not a square foot of shade under all three of them.
Speaker 2: Well, it can't be helped. Least it means we're on
Speaker 2: the right trail. It's still the easiest way I know
Speaker 2: to get a million dollars, let's push on.
Speaker 4: Two hours later we came across a shovel with a
Speaker 4: broken handle stuck on the top of a pile of rocks,
Speaker 4: so we knew we were still heading in the right direction.
Speaker 4: The shovel had been drawn on the map. We stopped
Speaker 4: there for the night. While at the dock, the boss
Speaker 4: heard somebody in the rock, so we put out the
Speaker 4: fire we built and took turns stand a guard.
Speaker 5: And later, when the moon was.
Speaker 4: Up, I thought I saw something moving a short way off,
Speaker 4: but I couldn't be sure. It was a creepy feeling,
Speaker 4: thinking I was being watched, not seeing anybody all night long,
Speaker 4: I could see the flares of lightning and hear the
Speaker 4: low thunder from the top of the shadow we peak
Speaker 4: ahead of us. Was I glad when dawn finally came
Speaker 4: and we hit that trail again, But two hours later
Speaker 4: I was wishing for sundown again.
Speaker 5: It was even hotter than the day.
Speaker 4: Before, and on top of it, all of us were
Speaker 4: so stiff and so we can hardly move. We cursed
Speaker 4: and sweated and stumbled through the long, blazing day.
Speaker 5: Finally, at dusk we reached the spot marked camp on
Speaker 5: the map.
Speaker 4: It was close to the edge of a straight walled
Speaker 4: cliff that yawned over a deep box canyon below. There
Speaker 4: were signs of campfires and burrow tracks. This place had
Speaker 4: been used before. We were too tired to care, not
Speaker 4: even bothering to unsaddle the mules. We drank from one
Speaker 4: of the kegs and dropped down in the shade of
Speaker 4: a rock ledge, not able to move any further. After
Speaker 4: about an hour, the sun slipped behind the ridges to
Speaker 4: the west and left us in a shadow. The boss
Speaker 4: got us ount to our feet, put Bryan a search
Speaker 4: for something to use for a fire, and told daily
Speaker 4: to unpack the mules. He took me with him to
Speaker 4: scout along the rim of the cliff and try to
Speaker 4: find out what was meant by the words on the map.
Speaker 4: If no answer, go down. After half an hour we
Speaker 4: found nothing, and we were ready to decide there was
Speaker 4: no way to go down that thousand foot rock wall,
Speaker 4: when suddenly that was a shot. You see No, No,
Speaker 4: it was back toward camp. But there's orige between us.
Speaker 5: I can't see you.
Speaker 4: Sign him, antell, take hold of my army.
Speaker 2: Let's get back that fast.
Speaker 6: Who is it?
Speaker 2: Come on, come on, speak up with our shoes.
Speaker 4: Relaxed, Brian sas let's past scaling the boss. Did you
Speaker 4: see anybody?
Speaker 2: No? What happened?
Speaker 4: Somebody took a shot at Daily and he got all
Speaker 4: spooked up and fired off half a clip.
Speaker 9: It was that guy who's been following his boss. I
Speaker 9: saw him in the rocks, not one a hundred feet away.
Speaker 2: And you missed him. I suppose, Well it was dark.
Speaker 4: Hey, what happened with the mules?
Speaker 6: They've gone?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they stampeded when Daily fired off that gun in areas.
Speaker 2: That's great. We have a fine time packing five kegs
Speaker 2: of water and all the supplies on our backs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, Boss, we don't have five kegs of water.
Speaker 5: There's only one here.
Speaker 9: What I hadn't unpacked the mules yet, Boss, I was
Speaker 9: gone as soon as I got a little cooler.
Speaker 5: Fool, you stupid lazy broderick fool.
Speaker 4: That's what I've been telling you, a boss. All that
Speaker 4: brings this dope Scott, you set up Pascal Wimer cracking
Speaker 4: up here Daily.
Speaker 2: I could kill you and love it.
Speaker 4: I could stand here in pumpbolicity and love it.
Speaker 2: Do you know how long a man can live up
Speaker 2: here without water? Twenty four hours.
Speaker 9: At the most, but we still got five gallons of water.
Speaker 9: I didn't know they were gonna run off. How can
Speaker 9: I shut up?
Speaker 2: It's gone. That's that we'll see the only chance of
Speaker 2: finding them and try to keep from getting yourself shot.
Speaker 3: And I go with him, Brian, Okay, Boss, come on,
Speaker 3: smart boy.
Speaker 2: You don't find him in twenty minutes, come on back.
Speaker 2: Five gallons of water for four men will take us
Speaker 2: a full day to get down into that canyon and
Speaker 2: find the spot where the man lives. Another day they
Speaker 2: get back here if we're lucky, and two more days
Speaker 2: back to the road. I guess we can just barely
Speaker 2: make it.
Speaker 4: There's only one thing, Boss, there's no way to get
Speaker 4: down into that canyon.
Speaker 2: I think I've got the answer there. At least that's
Speaker 2: one thing that shooting did. Listen.
Speaker 9: Hello, Oh sure it's an echo.
Speaker 2: If no answer, go down. Yeah. I think we'll find
Speaker 2: a spot someplace along the rim of that cliff where
Speaker 2: there's no echo. When we do, I think there'll be
Speaker 2: some way to get down to the bottom. We'll try
Speaker 2: it in the morning. And one other thing, Pascal before
Speaker 2: they come back. Yeah, Boss, from here on, keep an
Speaker 2: eye on Bryant I think that gold is beginning to
Speaker 2: look pretty big to him.
Speaker 4: I think maybe you're making a mistake. I think Daily's
Speaker 4: a lot more likely to try something. He's a born
Speaker 4: double crossing.
Speaker 2: He's a fool and a coward, But Brian's the one
Speaker 2: is dangerous. You do as I tell you, and watch
Speaker 2: out from them. Do you understand, all right?
Speaker 5: Sure? Boss? Whatever you say now?
Speaker 4: After dawn the next morning, we found a spot on
Speaker 4: the edge of the cliffs where there was no echo.
Speaker 4: Slanting downward from it was a narrow, steep crack in
Speaker 4: the wall. The four of us took turns, packing our
Speaker 4: one last keg of water, and inched our way down
Speaker 4: toward the canyon floor a thousand feet below. We made it,
Speaker 4: finally rested, and struck out to the west, following the map.
Speaker 4: Great chunks of rock lay tossed about it. Though giants
Speaker 4: had played there, and thorn and cactus grew everywhere among them.
Speaker 4: The sunlight curled and blistered on the surface of the boulders,
Speaker 4: and always from above us and nearer now came the
Speaker 4: sullen and ominous roller thunder. At noon, we stumbled across
Speaker 4: the bed of the ravine, nearly missing it. From being
Speaker 4: half blinded by the heat, and three hours later we
Speaker 4: found the place where the man lives. It was marked
Speaker 4: by a monument bill of broken rocks stacked up higher
Speaker 4: than our heads. Mister Heinemann felt all over the surface
Speaker 4: of it with his hands and then told us he
Speaker 4: knew the meaning of the words when the man comes,
Speaker 4: follow him, but he said it wasn't time yet. We'd
Speaker 4: have to wait. We sat there by the pile stones,
Speaker 4: not talked much, just waiting. Two hours past. I think
Speaker 4: it was Daily who noticed it first.
Speaker 2: Look.
Speaker 5: Look there on the ground.
Speaker 2: Here's somebody here.
Speaker 5: He's behind us.
Speaker 6: Hit the dirt.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't see any eh.
Speaker 5: Sure that's it.
Speaker 2: I'm a little disappointed, and you're scared by a shadow.
Speaker 2: Look out, it's a shadow.
Speaker 4: That pile of rocks looks just like a man with
Speaker 4: a hat.
Speaker 5: On holding a gun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the rock pilot will look like a man, but
Speaker 4: the shadow does.
Speaker 2: Well. Since he's apparently come now, I guess we'd better
Speaker 2: follow him.
Speaker 4: Huh, how do your man follow him?
Speaker 2: The sun's going down, The shadow must be getting longer,
Speaker 2: stretching out over the ground. So get going. Follow the
Speaker 2: direction that's pointing. Yeah, cow will stay here with me
Speaker 2: and keep you on line. Watchful signs of something buried,
Speaker 2: rocks laid over to clear space, something of that kind.
Speaker 2: We're not more than a few feet from a million dollars,
Speaker 2: let's get it.
Speaker 4: Two of them worked their way along through the rocks
Speaker 4: while I stood by the monument and waved them toward
Speaker 4: one side or the other. Part of the time they
Speaker 4: were out of site behind a ledger Buller, and I'm
Speaker 4: I could have hidden in that broken mess and never
Speaker 4: been noticed. I kept describing everything that was happening to
Speaker 4: the Boss, and about twenty minutes went by before I
Speaker 4: heard Daily shout. He scrambled over a legend, came running
Speaker 4: toward us, calling out and holding something in his hand.
Speaker 4: Then about one hundred feet away from us, he stopped
Speaker 4: suddenly and drew his gun.
Speaker 2: Passcal what is it? What's happening?
Speaker 5: Daily'st pulled a gun on his boss?
Speaker 4: Drober, Daily, Robber, or I'll shoot He's.
Speaker 2: Hid the rocks all right?
Speaker 4: Daily, You asked for his cow. I gun him, Boss,
Speaker 4: the dirty double cross, the fool.
Speaker 5: He was gonna kill us.
Speaker 2: Boss.
Speaker 4: He was coming at us with it.
Speaker 2: Wait.
Speaker 4: Wait, somebody staggered out of the rocks there and fell
Speaker 4: somebody I never saw before.
Speaker 2: My brother's partner, the man who's been following us.
Speaker 4: But then Daily killed him and I killed Daily.
Speaker 5: Boss.
Speaker 4: I thought Daily was shooting at us. I I didn't
Speaker 4: know there was anybody else there.
Speaker 2: Well, you know now, I told you to keep an
Speaker 2: eye on Bryant. What's happened to him? Pascal? Where's Bryant
Speaker 2: right behind you?
Speaker 4: I was he shooting Bryant? I got a boss, he
Speaker 4: missed me and I.
Speaker 2: Got him, only he didn't miss me.
Speaker 4: Boss, No, no, no, no, boss.
Speaker 2: Can you hear the thunder?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, it's really loud.
Speaker 2: It's funny, same old curse, double.
Speaker 4: Cross my full boss. I should have done like you
Speaker 4: told me and watched Brian.
Speaker 2: A million dollars in golds for somebody.
Speaker 4: I don't talk like that.
Speaker 5: It's for us, for us, for you and me.
Speaker 4: I'll get you out, Buss. You're not really hit bad
Speaker 4: your man.
Speaker 12: I'm dying and you too. Pascal, Well you're gonna die too.
Speaker 12: What do you mean the water cake Bryan's bullet smash it?
Speaker 12: I heard the water running out? No no, am I right?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: So God, it's three days out of the highway. Pascal,
Speaker 2: and you don't have any water you put it, Ever,
Speaker 2: you don't have one single drop of water.
Speaker 3: Escape is produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Today we
Speaker 3: have presented transcribed When the Man Comes Follow Him by
Speaker 3: Ralph Bates, adapted for radio by Les Crutchfield, with editorial
Speaker 3: supervision by John Dougall. Starred as Pascal was Paul Dubal,
Speaker 3: with Herb Butterfield is mister Heinemann.
Speaker 6: Featured in the.
Speaker 3: Cast were Harry Bartel, Jeff Corey, Barney Phillips, and Junius Matthews.
Speaker 3: Special music was arranged and played by Ivan at Mars.
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