Speaker 1: Come in welcome. I'm eu G Marshall, your chaperone. At
these arcane rebels, which are celebrated here seven times each week,
there's the smile of love and the smile of deceit,
and the smile of smiles where both smiles meet. Why
are love and deceit so often found together? Must we
deceive to love? Or do we love to deceive? But
where you find love and deceit together, they do not
usually remain alone. Often this duet becomes a trio, and
the third member turns out to be death.
Speaker 2: How do you render justice in your country?
Speaker 3: We have courts, courts.
Speaker 4: Halls where people assemble, and we have judges, jeuries, lawyers.
Speaker 5: Ah.
Speaker 2: Yes, is it wise to allow people to judge people?
Speaker 6: It is the best way, the most democratic.
Speaker 2: Only the immortal gods may decide.
Speaker 6: But how do you know to get them to make
a decision.
Speaker 2: The gods have sent my people a spring of sparkling water.
The accused us drink.
Speaker 3: At the spring.
Speaker 6: And what does that prove?
Speaker 2: The innocent walk away vindicated.
Speaker 4: And the guilty the guilty all down dead? Well, it
is hardly you will see it with your own lives.
We shall have a trial tonight.
Speaker 6: Oh, who is the accused?
Speaker 3: You are.
Speaker 1: Our mystery drama The Smile of Deceit was written especially
for the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars Jennifer Harmon.
The poet tells us that nothing succeeds like success. The
question therefore arises, what is success? That depends on whom
you ask? Inquire of the philosophers, and you'll soon discover that,
as a group, they tend to knock it. They say
things like success has always been a great liar, or
the greatest success is an early death. That's all very well,
But who among us would refuse to be six sucessful? Who,
if given free choice, would choose failure? Certainly not Miss Velma.
Straight Women's lived to the contrary. Notwithstanding, success for many
girls in our society still means the acquisition of a
wealthy husband, and Velma, as we shall discover, has hit
a rather respectable jackpot.
Speaker 6: Just a minute, Darling, Oh it's Aunt Rose Eli.
Speaker 4: See you were expecting, Darling. I was, well, may I
come in?
Speaker 3: Of course?
Speaker 6: Come in at Rose? That all means come in? Aren't
you glad to see me?
Speaker 3: Velma?
Speaker 6: Do will you know? I am?
Speaker 4: I just well, you said you didn't think that you
could get away.
Speaker 6: I really can't.
Speaker 4: But would it be right for you to graduate all
alone with no one to applaud? Besides, you said you're engaged,
so I just had to come down.
Speaker 6: And see if you approve.
Speaker 3: Oh, oh, I shall approve.
Speaker 4: I know how I raise my little girl. I'm sure
you chose a wonderful man. Now he is, aunt Rose,
absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 3: We'll tell me all about him.
Speaker 7: Well, his name is Robert Morris Hastings the third.
Speaker 6: Oh that sounds impressive. Is he at school here?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 6: Yes? And is he graduating too?
Speaker 4: Oh no, he's on the faculty, an instructor, a professor.
Speaker 6: Oh that's marvelous, dear. I wouldn't dare to suggest this.
Speaker 4: It's so presumptuous to advise the young.
Speaker 6: But I'd hope you'd choose a mature man, and I did. Oh,
a young man today seem so unsettled, so so uncertain.
Speaker 4: An older man is so much safer, so much more secure,
and in many ways more romantic. Now, tell me everything
about Robert Morris Hastings the third. Well, you shall meet
him in exactly one minute, Oh I will. He promised
to stop in and say hello. On his way to
say faculty assembly. He said he'd bring the bell at
eleven o'clock. And he is the soul of promptness. Well
that's an excellent quality and a sign of good character.
Speaker 6: What does he teach anthropology?
Speaker 4: Oh dearest, I am so happy for you to be
the wife of a professor, to live in the intellectually stimulating.
Speaker 6: Atmosphere of university. Oh well, we won't live here, Aunt Rose.
Speaker 7: Robert's resigning his post, he is, We're going out into
the field. Robert's specialty is in psychic phenomena among primitive peoples.
It's fascinating how the mind can be manipulated to produce, well,
almost anything, even death. Anyhow, starting next month, it'll be
deserts and jungles.
Speaker 4: Well, will you look at the clock eleven exactly? Robert Darling,
come in.
Speaker 8: I can only pause for a moment, My dear Darling,
the most wonderful human being in all the world is
here to give us our blessing at Rose.
Speaker 4: This is Robert Robert missus Maynard Gardner. But you'll have
to call her at Rose.
Speaker 9: How do you do?
Speaker 8: How I have looked forward to this occasion. Elma never
stops talking about you at Rose.
Speaker 6: Let's all have some coffee.
Speaker 3: My dear. I don't have time, Darling.
Speaker 6: It only needs a minute to boil the water.
Speaker 8: Yes, but a cup of coffee right now would be
too much. I already have had two at breakfast.
Speaker 6: Now, Robert, you promised to watch that.
Speaker 3: I know, my dear, and I do try.
Speaker 6: No, he's just terrible at Rose.
Speaker 3: I really should be going, but you just got him.
Speaker 8: I promised to pop in on my way to the
Assembly to say hello, and now I must pop out.
I'll look for you both at the commencement exercises. Well,
if you must go, and at Rose, you will be
our guest at luncheon.
Speaker 4: I should be getting back to the city. Nonsense, of
course you'll be, I guessed Robert.
Speaker 8: I'll make a reservation for three at the Hamilton Room.
Speaker 4: Goodbye, ladies, goodbye Darling, goodbye.
Speaker 6: Well lama is is he move? Are you serious?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: Are you saying you don't like Robert? How could you
consider marriage with Oh?
Speaker 7: I know he's not as young as you might have expected,
But didn't you say it was wisest to marry an
older man?
Speaker 6: Older? Yes?
Speaker 4: But but what well, well, let me put it this way,
I happen to be more than twice your age, and
he even be.
Speaker 6: Too old for me. Age isn't everything? At Rose?
Speaker 4: Robert is handsome, generous, very intelligent, kind, cheerful, thrifty, brave,
clean and reverent. I know, a veritable eagle scout. And
most important, he's rich. Oh no, no, I can't believe
what I'm very Why not DONI you would for money?
Speaker 6: Absolute?
Speaker 3: Oh no, Thelma, No, that's not how.
Speaker 6: I raised you.
Speaker 4: If you can say that, then you learn nothing in
my house.
Speaker 6: But I learned everything in your house, Aunt Rose.
Speaker 4: I learned how important money can be because I saw
what can happen to girls who married for love and
love alone, the way you did.
Speaker 6: I saw what.
Speaker 4: Happens when a cheerful spirit is hemmed in by too
small a house and badgered by too small a budget.
Speaker 6: Your uncle and I were deeply in lull. My uncle
and you were deeply in debt.
Speaker 4: Thelma, what happened to that idealistic young girl who went
off to college four years ago?
Speaker 6: I grew up giddy.
Speaker 4: Romantic love is a peculiarly American myth. Oh really, it's
because we're still a very young country. We have yet
to get rid of our juvenile fantasies. Love is a fleeting,
ethereal emotion.
Speaker 6: How can you base a marriage on it?
Speaker 3: How?
Speaker 7: Yes, dear, how marriage is a contract, and a contract
should be guaranteed by some solid collateral.
Speaker 4: Very well, very well, If you must marry for money,
is he the best you can do? Oh?
Speaker 6: Yes, I've explored all my options.
Speaker 4: Film I discovered that Robert happens to be among the
wealthiest men on campus, student or faculty.
Speaker 6: Is the sole surviving member of the Hastings family. I
never heard of them. They were Detroit people.
Speaker 4: Robert's father was a pioneer maker of motor cars. He
was bought out by one of the big corporations for
a fabulous sum of money.
Speaker 6: Oh there must be.
Speaker 4: Other wealthy men closer to your own age. Oh lord, listen,
how I'm talking.
Speaker 7: Yes there are, But Robert's money is clean money clean.
Speaker 4: Is the only surviving member of his family. The money
is all his, and when he dies, the money will
be all mine. The others had brothers or sisters, all
kinds of family complications. Velma, do you realize in ten
years Robert.
Speaker 6: Will be a very very old man. Why you'll you'll
hardly be in your thirties.
Speaker 4: I don't expect Robert to live another ten years or
even five.
Speaker 7: He has a heart condition, Velma, and will be living
a strenuous, outdoor life in areas that.
Speaker 6: Aren't exactly healthy.
Speaker 4: I shall be a very young widow, and then I
could afford to marry for love. Oh, Velma, something something
has taken possession of you.
Speaker 6: Suppose five or even ten years go by and Robert
is still alive.
Speaker 4: Suppose somehow he may live on to an incredibly old age.
Then I suppose I'll have to burn that bridge when
I get to it.
Speaker 3: Ah, there you are, and Rose, have you been waiting long? No?
Speaker 8: Be able to see Velma at the commencement exercises? Yes,
she looks stunning. Don't you agree?
Speaker 6: I agree?
Speaker 3: Why do you disapprove of me?
Speaker 4: The fact that you would have to ask such a
question would indicate that you couldn't possibly understand my answer.
Speaker 3: But why not answer anyhow.
Speaker 4: Well? First and foremost, this dramatic disparity in your ages.
Speaker 3: Why should it bother you?
Speaker 4: Because Velma is being cheated out of a young and
vigorous husband.
Speaker 3: Evidently that doesn't bother Velma. It will.
Speaker 6: Why do you suppose she wants to.
Speaker 3: Marry you for my money? You're shocked.
Speaker 4: Why I never heard of anything so cold blooded, so
so practical.
Speaker 8: If money is so important to her, why shouldn't she
marry for it? She loves me, She loves me for
the security I can give her.
Speaker 6: Why do you want to marry Velma.
Speaker 3: Because I love her? No?
Speaker 8: No, no, no, you must let me finish. I love
her for the beauty and the freshness she brings into
my life.
Speaker 4: Oh, it goes against all logical reason.
Speaker 3: I don't know what you did.
Speaker 4: Perhaps centuries ago it might have been called witchcraft.
Speaker 3: Such a statement is beneath you, Aunt Rosy, But.
Speaker 6: I cannot explain it.
Speaker 4: Any other way.
Speaker 8: Only ignorant people explain away what they can't understand by witchcraft.
Not everyone has your values, your attitude, your perspective on life.
Speaker 4: You're a clever man, a convincing man. But I can't
be had. I insist you must have cast a spell
over Velma.
Speaker 3: How can you be sure Velma hasn't cast a spell
over me?
Speaker 4: Well, I can't be sure of anything anymore, Aunt Rose Robert.
Speaker 7: It was such a crowd. Sorry I kept you waiting. No,
I'm not I wanted you to get to know each
other and Rose, isn't he just marvelous to tell me it? Rose,
what do you say now?
Speaker 6: Bless you my children?
Speaker 3: Well, there's a marriage for you.
Speaker 1: But maybe it's not so outrageous after all, At least
the principles are being honest with each other. Or do
they only think they're being honest. Let's review the bidding.
He wants her to be fresh and bright and beautiful.
She wants him to live no longer than, say, five
more years, And I want you to wait just a
few moments, and then I shall return with that too.
Is the best basis for a marriage? The question has
intrigued the sages since the original introduction of men and women.
It would appear, however, that the best basis is the
one that works best for the individuals concerned. You have
already met Professor and missus Hastings, Velma and Robert.
Speaker 3: May and December.
Speaker 1: Since each had what the other wanted, shouldn't they be
able to look forward to a successful marriage.
Speaker 3: It all goes.
Speaker 1: Back to what I said at the very beginning, what
do you mean by success? Well, here's Aunt Rose to bring.
Speaker 3: Us up to date.
Speaker 4: And so they were married, and they left immediately on
a combined honeymoon and field trip to study the customs
of a remote tribe in the Amazon.
Speaker 6: At first, Delma wrote off.
Speaker 4: But a year went by, and two, three, four, even five,
and her letters became more and more infrequent, and less
and less informative.
Speaker 6: And then for a while I didn't hear from her
at all.
Speaker 4: And then one day I received a strange, frightening letter
from Brazil.
Speaker 6: Dearest aunt Rose, save me, Please save me. You must
save me.
Speaker 7: Perhaps perhaps it is my fault, but I don't want
to die.
Speaker 6: No, I must be calm.
Speaker 4: I will tell you everything, even the part that makes
me look bad.
Speaker 6: You're my only hope. You must save me. You were right?
Speaker 7: Oh, how right?
Speaker 4: It's five years. I've been married five years. I can't stand.
Speaker 6: It any longer.
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 6: Want to be banging on those things.
Speaker 3: For it's a very interesting ceremony, my dear. I'm sure
it's called the Test of the Bitter Water.
Speaker 6: Sounds fascinating.
Speaker 3: Are you all alife?
Speaker 6: I'm fine?
Speaker 3: Are you sure? Damn it?
Speaker 6: I said I was all right. Do you want me
to write it down and give it not to rize?
Speaker 3: Obviously something is the master.
Speaker 6: Why can't we go home?
Speaker 3: My work is here.
Speaker 6: Why can't I go home?
Speaker 3: Home is wherever our work takes us.
Speaker 6: It's your work.
Speaker 8: Why do I have to be here because a wife's
places with our husbands. Come on, we'll be late for
the ceremony. Chief Riah will be insulted if we don't attend.
Speaker 6: Please convey my regrets.
Speaker 3: I have a headache, my dear, we are the honored guests.
Speaker 8: It would be an insult, and I need the chief's goodwill.
Speaker 6: That's too bad, I'm afraid it is.
Speaker 8: If I tell him you have a headache, he'll send
his favorite medicine man to cure you, and that might
be quite painful.
Speaker 6: And so I went with Robert.
Speaker 7: I had no desire to be sown into a pig
skin and smoked for hours to drive the evil spirits
from my head. The entire tribe, hundreds of men and women,
were gathered about a rock, from which there flowed a
spring of sparkling water. All eyes were on a woman
who stood alone near the spring, a woman who seemed
transfixed by terror. Finally, the drums increased in intensity, and
Chief for Riah himself, a tall, imposing man with steel
blue eyes and stark white hand stepped forward.
Speaker 3: Let the drums be silent.
Speaker 6: What is he going to do?
Speaker 3: He scared to make a drink some spring water from
that silver cup.
Speaker 6: Why she's so frightened?
Speaker 3: She's afraid the water will kill her?
Speaker 6: Is it poison?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: Do I drink it myself? Then?
Speaker 6: Why she she.
Speaker 3: She's been accused of infidelity. To prove her innocence, she
must drink from the spring.
Speaker 8: If she is guilty, the water will kill her.
Speaker 6: But if it's not poison, how can it kill her?
Speaker 8: And that's what these people have believed for hundreds of years.
If she is guilty, she'll die. I've seen it happen.
Speaker 6: But how can it happen?
Speaker 3: That's what we're here to study.
Speaker 6: I suppose she refuses to drink that.
Speaker 3: An admission of guilt, she'd be stoned to death.
Speaker 2: Marva, daughter of Rayna, wife of cour A step forward.
I accuse you of infidelity. I accuse you of disgracing
your family, shaming your husband, and soiling the honor of
this tribe.
Speaker 3: Do I speak truly? No?
Speaker 2: No, I sile you then submit to the test of
the bitter water. Will you drink? The bitter water is
is me? Why do you avoid the test? The water
is pure. See I drink, See my wife's dreams, see
your own mother dreams. The water is pure, but only
for the pure of heart. What have you to fear?
If you are a virtuous woman?
Speaker 6: I am innocent, innocent, I swear to you. I am.
Speaker 2: Then drink. Take the cup, Take it in your own
two hands, raise it to your lips. Drink, and now
the gods will judge you.
Speaker 3: Drain the cup.
Speaker 2: Now throw the empty cup to the ground. Immortal gods,
what is your judgment? The gods have spoken?
Speaker 6: Is is she dead?
Speaker 3: There's no doubt about it. She's dead.
Speaker 6: What do you mean I can't wear pants?
Speaker 3: I didn't say you can't, So what did you think?
Speaker 8: I only said, Chief Riah thinks they're well, that they're immodest?
Speaker 6: Is modest? Why the women in his tribe run around practically.
Speaker 8: Making It's remarkable how modesty is culturally determines in our civilization.
A woman is immodest if she exposes her body, and
here a woman.
Speaker 3: Is immodest if she conceals it.
Speaker 7: This Chief Riah of yours is becoming a pet peeve
of mine.
Speaker 8: He's a stern moralist almost in the mold of an
old testament. Trust, How would you like to drive the
jeep de Porto sal Diego?
Speaker 3: What for the institute is sending me an assistant?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 4: Really?
Speaker 8: A highly qualified scientist and an eerudite scholar.
Speaker 6: All that killed it?
Speaker 3: Would you pick him up and bring him back here?
Speaker 6: I don't know, Aunt Rose? Tell me?
Speaker 7: Does life get its ideas from the movies? Because he's tall,
and he's good luck, and he's not old, he's young,
and he's everything I've been missing and longing for in
a man, everything I thought was unimportant?
Speaker 6: How can I describe it? We're tuned in.
Speaker 7: We like so many of the same things. We can
talk so easily. We like to dance, you understand, don't you?
And he was even honorable? Notice I said was?
Speaker 6: Isn't it a glorious night?
Speaker 8: Tell me, Dennis, have you read the Stevenson Halley analysis.
Speaker 3: Of the South American Indian languages? Oh? Yes it? Do
you agree? Well?
Speaker 1: I think their premise is correct, but it chands no
new life.
Speaker 4: If you boys are going to talk shop again, I
think I'll turn in.
Speaker 3: Well, my dear, you haven't finished your dinner. You can't
go to bed yet.
Speaker 1: No, No, we have to have our dance professor to
your mind. If I ask your.
Speaker 8: Wife to h Dennis, welma, I would rather you two
didn't do any more dancing.
Speaker 6: No, what's the matter.
Speaker 3: Well, it seems that this kind of thing is shocking
to the natives.
Speaker 6: Can't be serious.
Speaker 8: Chief Harayah spoke to me about it. Dennis, you understand, yes,
I think I do say.
Speaker 1: These natives are remarkably straight laced people.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 8: It's odd our coaches sees the savage is free and unfettered. Actually,
they're the prisoners of so many taboos.
Speaker 6: So am I Everything? Everything wrong that happens from here
on is my fault, all my fault, I admit it.
We were walking in the forest and suddenly dark.
Speaker 3: Well it's all right now.
Speaker 6: Just a snake trusts to sneak.
Speaker 1: No, he wasn't going to bother you, but you disturbed him.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry I had to shoot him.
Speaker 6: Sorry by the murderous thing.
Speaker 1: We do enough to destroy the balance of nature as
it is. What did you say, the balance of nature?
Speaker 6: It means I know what it means. In my own way,
I've destroyed a certain balance of nature.
Speaker 3: You have.
Speaker 6: Oh, and in destroying it. I'm also being destroyed slowly?
Speaker 3: Are you uh something the matter?
Speaker 6: Hold me?
Speaker 4: Please hold me?
Speaker 1: About the closer closer, Velma. We shouldn't we should we should?
But this isn't right.
Speaker 6: Don't you want to?
Speaker 3: Yes? I want to, but I don't talk.
Speaker 4: M oh Dennis, Dennis.
Speaker 1: I love you, Velba, Oh how I love you?
Speaker 6: Dennis?
Speaker 3: Well, then let's tell Robert.
Speaker 6: Tell Robert. Are you mad?
Speaker 1: That's the honest and honorable thing to do. No, then
you can get a divorce. What are you saying you
must divorce Robert?
Speaker 6: Why?
Speaker 3: Or for a hundred reasons?
Speaker 9: One you don't love him, two you love me. Let's
wait for one for Robert to die, Velma. How much
longer can he live?
Speaker 3: Velma? I can't believe you're saying this.
Speaker 1: Kiss me?
Speaker 3: No, No, it's not right.
Speaker 6: Don't you want to love me?
Speaker 3: Yes? But as my wife, marry me?
Speaker 6: How much money do you make?
Speaker 3: What kind of question is.
Speaker 6: A very important question?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: Uh, I have a research grant for the next thirty
six months.
Speaker 6: How much does it pay?
Speaker 3: Eighty eight hundred a year?
Speaker 6: You can't be serious?
Speaker 3: Why is money so important? We won't starve?
Speaker 4: Robert has money, He has over two million dollars.
Speaker 6: Think of it? Two million?
Speaker 3: Oh, who cares?
Speaker 6: I care. It's all going to be mine when he dies.
Do you want me to throw away two million dollars?
Speaker 3: What does it matter? As long as you have love
in the house.
Speaker 7: It matters. It matters. He can't live forever. Oh kiss me,
But we don't talk. You talk too much, darling.
Speaker 6: You're not eating.
Speaker 3: I'm not hungry.
Speaker 6: You wanna go for a walk.
Speaker 1: Well we we can't go for a walk. Now the
old camp will know.
Speaker 7: What's the difference. Robert's asleep. I think he's not well.
Maybe we'll be free sooner than we think.
Speaker 1: I can't believe we're having in this conversation. Robert is
the best friend I have in all the world. He
taught me everything I know. And how do I thank him?
I betray That's.
Speaker 4: An old fashioned word, darling, and its meaning never changes.
Speaker 3: Let's tell Robert now I.
Speaker 6: Can't, I won't.
Speaker 3: Then I will.
Speaker 6: I'll swear to him. It's a lot.
Speaker 4: I'll swear you wanted to seduce me because I refused you.
Speaker 1: Trying to do you know, I think you would, and
for you, for you, I betrayed my best friend.
Speaker 3: I even betray myself.
Speaker 6: Dennis, don't look at me like that. Hello, Dennis, Please.
Speaker 1: Know why do young girls like Velma get themselves into
these situations? And extensive literature on the subject of May
and December marriages exists. Indeed, a great deal has even
been said on the subject on many.
Speaker 3: Of our own little tales here.
Speaker 1: However, the most succinct statement was uttered by mister Benjamin Franklin,
who observed that where you have marriage without love, you
will soon have love without marriage. I'll be back shortly
with Act three straight against the advice of her aunt,
Rose has married a man many years her senior, and
way back and Act one. Practically all of you were
predicting what was bound to happen.
Speaker 3: Well, why shouldn't it have happened. It's what usually happens
in life, isn't it.
Speaker 1: The ancient Greeks call this kind of thing fate, and
it happens to are more people than you would think.
Speaker 3: Yes, I betrayed myself.
Speaker 1: Do you hear Relma, I betrayed myself.
Speaker 6: Dennis, Robert, he will hear you?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yes, Robert. Robert mustn't know.
Speaker 1: Ah, I I don't.
Speaker 4: Feel well, Yes, Dennis, you don't look, well, maybe you
better go back to your tent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll do that.
Speaker 6: Do you want me to walk with you?
Speaker 3: No? No, there are things I have to think about.
Speaker 6: Think Dennis, think about us.
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, I am thinking about us.
Speaker 6: Everything will be all right soon.
Speaker 1: Yes, soon, everything will be just fine.
Speaker 3: Good night, Thelma m Velma.
Speaker 6: Oh did I wake you?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 8: No, I I I I've been lying there thinking. Did
you and Dennis talk about anything interesting at dinner?
Speaker 6: Ooh, not particularly.
Speaker 3: He's quite depressed.
Speaker 6: Oh really Yeah.
Speaker 8: There was a job that had a research foundation, very prestigious,
well paying, and.
Speaker 3: He put in for it.
Speaker 6: I didn't know that.
Speaker 3: I was amazed.
Speaker 8: I didn't think money and prestige were that important to him.
He was always happy just working in the field, or
so I thought. But evidently it wasn't.
Speaker 3: Enough for him.
Speaker 6: The job. What about the job?
Speaker 3: He got a letter this morning, the job's been filled.
Speaker 6: Oh oh, was that.
Speaker 3: That was a shot?
Speaker 6: Yes, that rose It was a shot, and it came.
Speaker 4: From Denis's tent. Something said to me, don't go in there,
don't go in there. But Robert went in and after
a while he came out.
Speaker 3: He's dead.
Speaker 8: But I suppose the rejection by the foundation was a.
Speaker 3: Little too much.
Speaker 6: It's it's horrible.
Speaker 8: I'll have to report this to the authorities. I'd hate
to say it was a suicide.
Speaker 6: But maybe maybe it wasn't.
Speaker 8: My dear, I know you liked him as I did,
and you ought to protect his name. But well, it's
obvious side.
Speaker 7: You must come down here, Aunt Rose, you must. I
have no one else in the world. Only you can
save my life. Help me now, I'm inclosing money for
an airline ticket. You take the plane to the city
of Brazilia and then a bus to sow Diego at
the edge of the jungle, and I'll meet you there
with the jeep. You must come before the twenty fifth
of the month. Please before the twenty fifth, because here's
what's happened. The day after we buried poor Dennis, that
horrible Chief Riah walked into the camp, Friend Robert.
Speaker 3: Chief Arrayah, sit join us for some refreshment.
Speaker 4: I am not omitted to eat and drink at your day.
Is there a spirit here? An hevil spirit powerful, a
spirit of death in whose body hers my wife. I
make the acquisition of what the most disgraceful of all crimes, adultery.
Speaker 7: How dear, Please, my dear, Please, my dear, This filthy, disgusting,
heathen savage day has to slander me.
Speaker 6: And you say, please, my.
Speaker 8: Dear, he now, chief who makes this charge?
Speaker 4: Iye, Ariah, chief of all the forest country, make the charge.
Speaker 3: It is my duty.
Speaker 6: What right do you have?
Speaker 4: It is my right, my duty? You live in my country.
You live by my lord friend Robert. I have come
in peace.
Speaker 3: Go in peace.
Speaker 6: I leave in peace. What is this? What right does
he have to accuse me?
Speaker 3: You good darling.
Speaker 8: The way you dress to him, to him it suggested
a wanton woman. And the fact that you danced with
Dennis means to him.
Speaker 7: That there there was never anything anything between Dennis and me.
Speaker 6: It's untrue.
Speaker 8: We're not talking about absolute truth. We're talking about the
truth as he perceives it. And this means what.
Speaker 3: It means. You'll have to take the test of the
bit of water.
Speaker 6: And if I refuse, shall I be stoned to death?
Speaker 3: Darling?
Speaker 8: If you refuse, I shall lose the friendship of the chief.
Drink the water, and once and for all you will
prove to the Chief that.
Speaker 3: You are a virtuous woman. I refuse command, darling.
Speaker 6: My I won't do you hear me?
Speaker 3: But why? What could happen to you? What? What are
you afraid of? Well?
Speaker 6: What are you afraid of?
Speaker 1: My dear?
Speaker 6: I don't know, Aunt Rose. Oh, I'm so glad you're
hear her. Oh, it's such beautiful comfort.
Speaker 4: It isn't It's hot and humid, and they're flies and
mosquitoes and bugs and okay, now do you.
Speaker 6: Pull yourself together? I don't know what to do. Well,
if the water isn't poisoned, drink it? What can happen?
I'm just scared. Well, then don't drink it.
Speaker 4: Well, then Robert loses all the years in effort he's invested.
Speaker 6: In this tribe Filmo.
Speaker 4: If you are terrified by the prospect of that test, then,
regardless of the costs.
Speaker 6: Don't take it.
Speaker 7: And if I don't, then Robert will surely divorce me.
Speaker 6: Well that might be best for your both.
Speaker 7: No, not now, not after these five wretched years.
Speaker 6: I never knew how miserable a woman could be. I
may have tried to tlain that a long time ago.
I know you were right, you were always right, But
that doesn't help me. Now. Robert's visibly fading. He can't
live much longer. He has two million dollars.
Speaker 4: Velma, you must forget about the money.
Speaker 6: How can I forget? That's all I've lived for. It's
my money, and I won't give it up.
Speaker 4: Well, darling, it seems your choices are obvious. Drink the
water or lose the money.
Speaker 6: There must be another way.
Speaker 4: You did have an affair with Dennis, Yes, well, turned
the jeep around and come with me. No, it's a
crazy superstition of savages.
Speaker 6: I won't give up a fortune.
Speaker 4: I'll drink that water and spit in his eye. All right,
then you've decided. Thank you for seeing me, Chief Orion.
Speaker 3: You come in peace?
Speaker 6: Oh, yes, certainly.
Speaker 2: How may I serve you?
Speaker 3: You are a fine woman? Bye looking woman?
Speaker 6: Thank you?
Speaker 4: Ah, my niece Robert's wife in this test it is
to be tomorrow evening.
Speaker 6: Yes, oh, it's very upsetting to her.
Speaker 3: Why what is that to fear?
Speaker 6: She is in the said jeef.
Speaker 4: She is not as strong as the women in your trupe.
She comes from another world. You are a man of wisdom.
You understand another world where customs are different.
Speaker 2: A world where women make committa gualteri. No, even your
world says no. Even missionaries from your world say your
God says no.
Speaker 6: But she is very upset.
Speaker 2: Why indeed she is innocent? What is there to fear?
Let the drums be silent, Alma, wife of Robert, I
accuse you of infidelity?
Speaker 6: Do I speak true? Answer him?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Shall you then submit to the test of the bitter water?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have filled the cup from the spring.
Speaker 6: Take it, drink and rose one moment? Chief, May I
drink from that cup first?
Speaker 2: Anyone who chooses may drink from the cup.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, eh, nothing seems to have happened to
me here, Velma.
Speaker 6: The water's okay, and prose.
Speaker 4: I don't know what to do, Vilma, I have gone
as far as I can. I've proved the water isn't poisoned. Now,
dear you must decide what am I some stupid native woman?
Why am I afraid? Hand me that cup.
Speaker 2: Take the cup in your two hands, raise it to
your lips.
Speaker 3: Drink now.
Speaker 2: The immortal gods are judging you.
Speaker 4: Throw them dick up to the ground, eh, and rather
fill feel the way er child?
Speaker 10: You you all right? You're all right? And Rosa, I
see Donnis. He's pointing the gun at me. He wants
to kill me too. He wants to take me with him.
He no, I don't want to.
Speaker 6: Die stalking, But she wants to kill me. Hell no,
she isn't.
Speaker 3: She is dead.
Speaker 2: She can't be she is dead. The immortal gods have spoken.
Speaker 3: How do these things happen?
Speaker 1: We do know that people die of fright, of remorse,
of all the unknown ways that silently attacked the mind.
Robert died a week later. The shock was obviously too
great for him as well. Velma was wrong. Robert didn't
have two million, He had five, and all of it
went to a research.
Speaker 3: Foundation, which is where all of.
Speaker 1: It, except for a small bequest to her, would have gone.
Speaker 3: Anyhow.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, everything we have we give to you,
as I shall explain when I return in a few moments.
The question that faced us in the beginning still confronts us.
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and all that wealth ever gave our weights alike the
inevitable hour, the paths of glory lead but to the grave.
If this is true, then the only really successful creatures
in this.
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Our cast included Jennifer Harmon, Arnold Moss, Joan Shay, and
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