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Speaker 1: Come in welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall. This is a

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story of something lost and never found again, a sad story,

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a strange story, but in no sense a warning. For

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certainly no one of us listening could ever be caught

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up in such a set of circumstances, or could we?

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How sure are any of us of our destiny? Our

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mystery drama, The Ghostly Rival was written especially for the

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Mystery theater by Ian Martin and stars Will McKenzie. It

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is sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and Listing Lozenges.

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I'll be back shortly with that one. The crumpled remnants

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of the car are now a dying sheet of flame.

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The bright oranges of the fire smeared and dulled by

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the black smoke. As rescue crews work, The man, mercifully

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thrown clear of the raging flames, his fall, broken by

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the thick underbrush, lies still and limp as the ambulance

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crew pick him up and carry him to the waiting ambulance.

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It takes off immediately, and soon within the city limits.

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The familiar whoop whoop of warning clears the road in

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front of it. It strikes a note of doom to

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all who hear it. Then suddenly there is a muted

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quiet of the hospital. Take him straight to emergency yet

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talked superficial burns, possibly internal injuries, but they diagnosis says

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he was bitten by a black widow spider. Ah whoevers

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on dirt, he can handle of surface stuff. The neuro residence,

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whoever's on the syke side for the rest can do.

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Doctor Peters did just signed him in. Yeah, I hear

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the papers. There was a woman with her wife. I

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guess she got caught in the car and burned to

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a crisp. Oh, his name is Cartwright and I guess

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kid glove treatment. He's one of them. We treat them

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all the same. That's a spirit baby, just the same.

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His family and in laws did build a wing for

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dear Old Central Hospitals. Uh seeing the snake pit later,

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doctor Peters, Oh, yes, documents she put in a call

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for me. Yes, doctor, I got an accident case, no sweat,

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minor contusions and burns. But there are complications involving the contrast.

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This one may involve half the staff. First off, the

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guy was apparently bitten by a black widow spider. How

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do you know he was conscious when we brought him in,

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told us himself he got thrown clear of the car.

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He was the lucky one. Someone else with him. Uh, yes, doctor,

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his wife totaled with a car.

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Speaker 2: How awful. He hit the guy pretty.

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Speaker 1: Hard, although he wasn't all that with it when we

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brought him in because well because apparently his wife was

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going to have a baby. Oh how hard can you

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get hit? Tell me how bad is the spider bite?

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Well that's kind of out of my backyard. But according

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to Doc Stearns in toxicology, there isn't much to do

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but wait and see. M Well, as I remember, it's

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seldom fatal, but it takes a long time for the

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poison to attack the system, and the pain is excruciating

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even when it does. This poor guy's ready to flip

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his lid. I mean, he goes through the guard rail

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two hundred feet into the valley, He kills his wife,

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an unborn child, and turns up without a scratch. Yes

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except the spider bite. Yeah that, well, what's that next

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to losing your wife, your kid, and maybe your future.

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You're not asking me, doctor Peters, you're telling me, And

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that is my job to discover and heal. If I

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can good name, mister Carter? Right, Well, what's your uh specialty?

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If you're a doctor? Uh I am? I am a psychiatrist.

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Oh oh that's different? Who oh no, really just another

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phase of medicine. I hope not. I mean, I hope

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enough different. I've been wanting to ask for someone like you.

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I've got to talk to someone who might possibly understand

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mm understanding. I can promise you absolutely, but at least

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I listen. Well, the best I can ask for. No

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one will believe me. I am trapped as thoroughly as

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that horrible thing in the bottle. I let escape, but

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I have to keep hoping that somehow I can find

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escape too. Let's see if we uh can't begin by

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making a start at it. At least, how open is

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your mind? Well? I don't know, it's uh pretty open.

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I should hope you know who I am. You were

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admitted to the hospital is uh Thomas Cartwright third. That's

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who I appear to be. Have you ever heard of

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a Terry Connolly who is buried in the graveyard behind

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Saint Stephen's and whose headstone reads born four twenty nine

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fifty one died eight sixteen seventy three. Well, should I have, yes,

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because that's who I really am. How do I answer that?

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You consider yourself already dead, condemned? Why because I sold

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my soul? Monster of a wild statement? Do you mean

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like uh, like doctor Faustus h to the doll? I

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mean like that? Oh, and I hope it all means

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you're gonna tell me about it. You still think I'm

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Thomas Cartwright the third Well, all intents and purposes, plus

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your public identity and all the private contents of your wallet,

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and also your wife's identification. Of course you are. I

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couldn't possibly be Terrence Conny, could I?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: I don't even know him. That may I introduce myself,

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not my outward appearance, but what lives within the outer shell.

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Suppose I accept that claim?

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Speaker 2: Can you prove it?

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Speaker 1: Can you listen to a sort of complex story you

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had the floor? Okay, let's start it this way. You're

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looking right at me now, I'll even give you a

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better opportunity. I really don't think you should get out

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of bed. I'll get right back in now I'm standing.

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How do I look, oh, young man? This early twenties,

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A little bit overweight, brown eyes, a dark brown hair,

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slightly receding and the sub evidence of disap height about

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uh five ten is enough, it'll do. Two years ago,

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I had blue eyes and sun bleached hair. I was

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six feet one, one hundred and eighty five, all muscle.

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Here I'll show you in my wallet is yes. This

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This was the last snapshot I ever had taken. Laura

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took it, you see. Mm, well this would be the

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Terry Connolly that you mentioned. Mm. That's right. With a surfboard,

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a hobby my life. That was at mccaha the Internationals.

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It was where I met Laura and the first change

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in my life happened. You fell in love. Uh you

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wouldn't think it to look at her, but she can

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hang ten with any surf cat, only by her. It

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was just a sport for kicks, not a way of life.

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Now that shook me. I suddenly woke up to the

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fact that I was nothing better than a surf bumb

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Oh while, so you gave up surfing? M no exactly.

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I came back to La Laura's from here, well, from

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Santa Barbara, and since we wanted to get married, I

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had to find something to do to make a living.

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There was this kid. I knew we'd served at a

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hundred beaches ever since we were in junior high only

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he'd busted up a leg pretty bad on a flipout

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at Monterey. He had a little steak, so we opened

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a kind of surfboard rental shop, you know, with skin

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diving gear, other stuff, snorkels and all. And I went

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in with him, giving surfboard lessons on the side. It

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wasn't bad, but she couldn't make much. You know how

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rich Laura's family was, so she came up with a

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better idea. I don't know, Laura, I just don't know

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if I could go that rule.

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Speaker 3: Don't get all up tight on you.

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Speaker 1: It's only money, yours, not mine. Oh it's darling.

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Speaker 4: Once we're married, I don't want to live off you, now,

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that isn't the question.

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Speaker 1: I want you to live with me.

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Speaker 4: And I also want to be supported and somewhere near

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the sky, to which i'm a custom.

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Speaker 3: You're not going to be able to do that being

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a half baked beach boy.

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Speaker 1: Oh thanks for the way you size me up.

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Speaker 3: Oh there's no big problem, Terry.

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Speaker 2: Let's do crut.

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Speaker 1: You got your college to Britain.

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Speaker 4: And decided to take a year off because you wanted

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to prove there wasn't a wave.

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Speaker 3: That swept in on any shore.

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Speaker 4: You couldn't matter, But you said yourself, and chrispud got

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all busted up.

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Speaker 1: You bought it.

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Speaker 3: You want to be a doctor, Okay, you've had pre med.

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You just go on using my dough. And when you

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get to be a rich or the Peters, I'll make

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you pay, and pay pay.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I can cut it after being

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a dropout.

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Speaker 3: You can cut anything you want to, Terry.

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Speaker 1: What about your father?

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Speaker 3: Well, I've been breaking him down by bit. He's not

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all that tough.

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Speaker 1: And and how about my rival, mister flabellied money bags

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Tom Catt.

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Speaker 3: Right, it isn't there, Terry. He's just very different from you.

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Speaker 1: He sure is several million bucks worth family money.

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Speaker 3: He didn't do it the way you're going to, Terry.

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I loved you. You're what I want.

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Speaker 1: Your father will never buy us.

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Speaker 3: I told you I've been working on him. I've even

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got this far. You're invited to dinner this Friday to

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meet him.

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Speaker 1: You mean so he can look me over.

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Speaker 3: Wow, that's fair enough, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Sure?

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Speaker 1: If you were my daughter, I'd make damn well. Sure,

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I got a good look at anything chasing you. Let's good.

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I remember to liven up for one of our board

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meetings and you can put the brand in two glasses

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on the table, George and uh Laura yesterday, Why don't

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we have coffee out of this hilarium? There's still plenty

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of light to admire. View.

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Speaker 3: But I don't have George set us up there right now?

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Speaker 1: Where you go wrong? Supering tent? Will you? Dear? I

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think Terry and I have a couple of words in exchange.

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Speaker 3: Okay, dab, but you won't be long with you. I'm

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the only lady for the gentleman to join.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, no time at all. Well, I have some brandy, Harry. Uh,

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I'm not much of a drinker, sir, How much? Thank

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pardon sir, Well you've heard me. How much to what

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you get out of my daughter's life? Leave her alone

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by the kind of man I think she should someone

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with plenty of money. It should be one of the requirements,

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one that you don't have. I've got a better one.

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She loves me. I don't know. Out of sight, out

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of mind, how much, mister beach boy, you take your

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bed roll and go follow the waves? Instead of the

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most precious possession I have. How about a nickel. I

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don't understand you. It's obvious how cheap you consider me.

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I thought I'd just keep the price in line. Okay,

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Gloria one for guts. Anyway, there won't help you. I

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know who I want Laura to marry, and so does she,

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and that's the way it will turn out. You may

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be in for a very unpleasant surprise. I dots. I

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offered you money to get out of your own free will,

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and it will probably cost me less to have you removed.

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If that's the way you want us, you've gotta be kidding.

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I don't make jokes, and we put it quite simply.

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Beach boy, if you're borrowed graciully, I will make certain

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arrangements to have you uh let you'll excuse the expression

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rub outs. I'll give you twenty four hours to think

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it over. John Sherman Blake, chairman of more boards than

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we have time to list inherited money and accrued money.

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Position power, the man who holds all the cards, and who,

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in the long tradition of Robert Barons, never hesitates to

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you there was any lever to secure his ends, but

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murder even second hand? Is that how Terry Connolly reached

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such an early grave. I'll returned shortly with Act two.

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For a moment, as though exhausted, the pale young man

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in the hospital bed has shut his eyes, leaning back

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against the pillows. Doctor Matthias, the psychiatrist, eyes him carefully

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and then speaks quietly. Perhaps, mister Cartwright, we should let

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you rest for a little while before you continue. Rest doctor,

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I haven't known any rest since well since the uh,

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the night you were telling me about. Yes, I didn't

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go out at the Selarium to have coffee. What mister

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Blake's ultimate umfacing me. I I went straight for my

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old beat up car and took off. I had to

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think clear my mind. The best place for me to

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do that is riding a wave, so I headed for

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the beach. I always keep my gear on the back

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of my bus. The nearest beach was Old Deep six

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when I she had an attack of the crazies. Nobody

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rode the junk that came in there. The rocky bottom,

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narrow reefs on both sides and a crisscrossed really chopped

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up the rides and the lad so did me just fine.

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I wanted to risk my neck it might be the answer.

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I took a heavy board because the wind was fine,

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paddled myself out over the breakers and waited for the

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big one. I saw a hummer on it and waited,

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and then I raced to stay ahead of the crest.

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She broke pretty then let it book a.

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Speaker 5: Wide open and she collapsed on me, driving my board

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the Lord knows how, high in the air and grinding

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me down and under rolling and tumbling until I hit

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my head and went out like the light above me

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over the sea and there which I was better.

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Speaker 1: Oh whah o, wh what is it? Who? Who?

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Speaker 2: Who is it?

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Speaker 6: Oh about grub.

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Speaker 1: Anything over whoa oh and battered, half conscious.

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Speaker 2: Block.

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Speaker 1: The tide had been going out, and I had been

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left lying stranded, face down in the rough set and

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above the tide's edge. It was almost dark. Beside my

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head lay a dark green bottle, washed up by the waves,

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and from it the voice I heard, or did I

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really hear it? Was it just some sounding in my

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half conscious head. It seemed to be coming muffled from

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the bottle. Who who are you? Oh ah, oh, yeah

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you are inside the bottle? Or oh.

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Speaker 6: Oh oh walk wow almah.

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Speaker 1: How on what condition? Oh? Are you sure? Are we

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just kicking around the old foul dream? Your freedom for mine?

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Speaker 7: Okay, you got it, It's only a dream.

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Speaker 1: How there is no way I can dig this cork out? Okay,

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screech up in the bottom and look out for flying glass.

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Here goes the moment the bottle broke. A great, hairy

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black spider with a red hourglass mark on its belley

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burst from the shouted remains of the neck. For a moment,

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it teetered on its long jointed multiple legs, and my

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second transformation took place, almost as though it had exploded.

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The spider blew up into a giant of a man

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with a bald head, whistling dark mood of shaking, a

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body covered with tangled black hair, rested conventionally enough in

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blue jeans, just like oh where normally I am your servants, sir?

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Who are you? I am whoever you want me to be.

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But that is of little importance for the moment. You

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kept your part of the bargain. Nah, I keep mine.

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Ask anything you want of me, one request, no strings, jews.

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All right, I'm too tired and chopped up to debate

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the point you ask me what I want, I'll make

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it within reason more well than the father of the girl.

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I want to make my own enough, more so that

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he cannot keep us apart. Granted, you've made your choice.

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I had the feeling of having been asleep for a

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long time when I woke up, without remembering why. I

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had this idea I should be hurting all over, but

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it wasn't like that. I felt like I was floating

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on a cloud. The bed, if it was a bed,

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didn't support me. I just sort of hovered in space

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by myself. I didn't want to open my eyes. I

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didn't want to come back to reality. This was too plush,

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too out of this world. Very slowly I opened my eyes.

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Good mornings. Uh would you like to breakfast or bathe first?

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Who are you? Oh, dear mister Cartwright had a big

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party last night. I've got a headache like someone hit

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me with a sandbag. That's right, you have a bruise

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on your forehead. But you want ice now, I ain't.

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I just want to know where I am at home,

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in your own bed. That's crazy. I don't feel that way.

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I don't belong here now you do?

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Speaker 2: Huh?

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Speaker 1: You made one request to be richer, richer than the

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father of the girl.

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Speaker 2: Now you are Wait a minute.

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Speaker 1: My first question was right, who are you?

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Speaker 7: Ah?

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Speaker 1: We met last night. You made a request. It has

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been granted. A few hours ago, it was recorded in

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the book that Thomas Cartwright the third died of a sudden, massive,

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unexpected heart attack. At the same time, a young man

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whose main interest was surfing was the victim of a

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drowning accident on a nearby beach. Your body lies there

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among the debris of the tide. In this bed is

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the body of Tom Cartwright, miraculously recovered from a vascular

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and cardiac accident. And within the shell of the body,

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within its cockoon, not Tom, but Terry lives on a

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thas I kept my promise. How can I be what

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I'm not? Who is to know the difference?

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Speaker 2: To begin with?

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Speaker 1: I get a solace. Cartwright, guy, rise master, and look

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at yourself in the dressing room mirror, or even the

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full length glass here on the closet door. I don't

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think I want to look sooner or later. Better Now,

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when we are.

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Speaker 8: Alone, I am on my feet. Ha eh oh hot,

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everything has changed?

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Speaker 1: Is that really me? That is what you asked to be?

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Richer than the father of the girl you wished to own.

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But I didn't ask to be some one else. I

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shun't even know the man. How can I take his place?

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Speaker 2: Er?

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Speaker 1: Let me arrange that, master, But you can't be with

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me every moment, don't I have a business, sir, a

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bat o work. Most Fortunately you are now on vacation,

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most of it you plan to spend on your boat.

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You have few social engagements except, of course, to night

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to night. Yes, to night you are diving with mister

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Sherwin Blake and his daughter. I was ripped a part

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of the thought to sit at dinner again with Laura

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and her father this time?

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Speaker 3: What?

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Speaker 1: What would you call me? A half man or a

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double imposter? How could I carry it off? And yet

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I knew I couldn't refuse the invitation. I know it's

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not an easy evening, but life must go on. George,

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I think is more wine? No?

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Speaker 3: Not funny?

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Speaker 1: Thanks, I'll skip it to him. Hear me? Well, what

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did I say?

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Speaker 3: The least the better? Daddy?

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Speaker 1: There as you wish a terrible accident? Yes, it's so wiseful,

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fine young man. Why would he take a chance as

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he did? And that rip tide there is such a

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broken surf.

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Speaker 3: Maybe you could answer that, Daddy, he will you shoot

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me out to set up coffee? What did you say

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to Terry? You carried him off, You made it.

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Speaker 4: Impossible for him to even think we could ever.

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Speaker 1: Excuse me? I'm uh, I'm sorry about that time. Oh,

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nothing to be sorry about. I understand you do, Yes, sir,

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with your permission, sir, I'd like to talk to Laura alone.

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I was yes by all means. I hope you can

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bring your back toward senses. You know you have my blessing. Yes, sir,

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I know.

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Speaker 3: Why don't you leave me alone?

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Speaker 7: Laura?

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Speaker 1: Please?

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Speaker 3: Don't you even have one small speck of sensitivity and

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that mean rotten little soul of your.

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Speaker 1: I only wanted to tell you something.

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Speaker 3: Nothing you can tell me that I want to hear.

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Speaker 1: I'm just trying to explain it. I have.

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Speaker 3: Before I met Terry, you explained again and again that

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you were not what you seemed. A conceited pawing throb

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will reach for any woman's out with his divine right.

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Speaker 1: But what I'm trying to say is that I'm not

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like that anymore.

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Speaker 7: Laugh.

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Speaker 3: We've been down this route before.

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Speaker 1: Tom is.

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Speaker 3: There's no way, now that I've known what a real

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man couldn't be. But you could ever turn me on, I.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't dream of trying. Now. I'm sorry, Laura, except

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I wish I could tell you how sorry I am

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about what happened to your Terry.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it doesn't even sound like you're I wish I

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could believe it.

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Speaker 1: You can. I'm not quite the heel you make me

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out to be. I may have been once, but not anymore.

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Now I'll leave you alone. I just wish, wish what, Well,

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I just wish I could I could comfort you some way.

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't see how. Thank you for wanting to domb.

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Speaker 4: It's so funny, But all night since you came to dinner,

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it does seem to be something different about you.

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Speaker 3: I don't know why.

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Speaker 1: Why, Because I have changed, Laura. Give me a chance

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to prove that. With time, I think you'll find I'm

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not the hopeless case you've written me off. As I

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had found out two things, the first that Terry Conley

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was dead, the other that I or Terry had given

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up his life for nothing, I went roaring home in

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my newly acquired Ferrari to face a key or whoever

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he was. With a new decision, I want to go back.

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I don't want the money or this flabby, jaded body.

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So sorry, it's not possible. One we surely, and that

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has been granted. But I didn't know. I have to

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give up my life for it. Please allow me to

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point out you still live, only outward identity has changed.

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It's the same thing. As long as I seem to

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be Tom Cartwright. The girl I want in love won't

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look at me, won't have anything to do with me. Patience, master,

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you will see. All will turn out right. It is written.

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You will be married. Now I must leave. If you

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need me again, go to the sea and find the

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bottle again passive Oriental's head, A great jagged streak of

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fire exploded and disappeared. I realized I had not been

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talking with our key, but with what a minor demon? Ah,

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the devil himself? Did it matter? He had brought me

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to where I was?

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Speaker 2: And where was that?

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Speaker 1: Was I dead? Was I alive? For a moment, the pale,

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tortured young man in the hospital bed stops his story

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to shut his eyes, as if against the way of

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excruciating pain. The psychiatrist, listening to him is tempted to

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react compassionately, but for the moment he waits, the pain

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may be less physical than mental, and the harrowing story

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has not yet ended. I'll return shortly with Act three.

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You who worked hard to get where you are, and

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now would be a very good time to give yourself

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a little pat on the back in the form of

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viewick Electra, a car filled with ruel, luxury comfort, the

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perfect place for you and your free spirit to get together. Electra,

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think of it as recognition for a job well done.

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America discovers mail gram. All over the country, people are

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discovering the speed and impact of mail gram. Here's what

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Airlines steward as April Rifkin told us April, how did

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mail graam help you? Well, one day they were going

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to lay off no people, and the next day it

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was three hundred people. Literally, this is the way I went.

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Speaker 3: And they were just sort of hedging the issue, and

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I kept thinking, well, somebody must know, So I sent

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a mailgram to the chairman of the board. Now that's

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a direct approach.

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Speaker 1: What happened.

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Speaker 3: I was amazed how my mail gram got through.

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Speaker 1: And a few days later somebody called me and said

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The chairman of the board got your mail gram and

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asked me to respond to it.

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Speaker 2: And I thought, well, I'm off the hook.

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Speaker 1: I've been talking with April Rifkin.

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Speaker 4: She's one of millions of people who are discovering that

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mail grams get through.

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Speaker 1: To people and get results. It's easy to send a

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mail gram. Just call Western Union's toll free eight hundred

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number any time, day or night mail gram in fact

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of a telegram at a fraction of the cost. Oh

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do I love my legs? I do? I do?

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Speaker 2: Do I love my legs?

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Speaker 1: Pantyhose? Legs pantyhose have memory yarn. Memory yarn stretches out

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and remembers to stretch back. That's the memory and legs

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memory yard.

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Speaker 3: I can long, I can jump by a vender.

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Speaker 1: That's my tall loose stretch to stand on.

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Speaker 4: Tiptoll level back legs marveling the novey leg me.

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Speaker 3: Memory my legs pantyhose have a fit. You can't forget

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a stretch, you won't believe comfort beautiful.

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Speaker 1: That's the memory and legs memory yarn. Oh do I

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love my legs?

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Speaker 3: I do?

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Speaker 1: I do? You love legs patios too? And for any

474
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reason you don't. We'll refund your money or send you

475
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a replacement, whichever you that's the you love our Legs

476
00:31:02,119 --> 00:31:23,240
guarantee Legs Booty. The wave of pain, whether caused by

477
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the spider bite or some deeper echo from the soul,

478
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has passed, but the young man in the bed still

479
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lies with his eyes closed. The nurse coming into the

480
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room is quickly pantomimed to silence by the psychiatrist. She

481
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stops with the tray containing the hypodermic and the file

482
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of morphine. Quietly, Doctor Matthias goes to her. Doctor Peter's

483
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ordered a hyper for him. Doctor Matthias, well, I don't

484
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think he needs it yet. Now, if it becomes necessary,

485
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I'll give a twenty Yes, doctor mister Cartwright, Yes, are

486
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you all right?

487
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Speaker 7: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Do you have any pain? Pain? Huh, I'll never be

489
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without it. I can give you a needle if you want. Well, no,

490
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no drug will reach the pain that really haunts me.

491
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I I want to finish my story, Yes, very well, Uh,

492
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,119
let's continue. It was her father who dragged me back

493
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into the whole mess. He came to see me at

494
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my house and he didn't mince words. You can't leave

495
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me hanging like this. I have a deadline to meet. Yes,

496
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I know, Well are you coming in with me? Or

497
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aren't you? I haven't made up my mind yet. Oh

498
00:32:36,079 --> 00:32:39,000
good lord man, you can't put me off. I'm on

499
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the edge of the precipice. I foolishly overextended. I I

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have no cash flow, and if the banks ever get

501
00:32:45,319 --> 00:32:47,640
winded that the whole thing would collapse like a house

502
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:49,960
of cards. And how much is it you want to borrow?

503
00:32:51,079 --> 00:32:52,960
It's got to be a couple of million at least.

504
00:32:53,559 --> 00:32:55,960
Now we ever been over this before? And the security

505
00:32:56,119 --> 00:33:01,240
we we've discussed that before too, you mean Laura years,

506
00:33:01,839 --> 00:33:03,920
except that she happens to be a security that you

507
00:33:04,039 --> 00:33:08,519
can't deliver. That's where you're wrong. I have wanted to

508
00:33:08,599 --> 00:33:12,440
tell the truth about my business problems, and she would sack,

509
00:33:13,039 --> 00:33:15,720
she would agree to marry you, a lamb of the slaughter.

510
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What would you say? Doesn't matter, all right, sherman? Or

511
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perhaps I should say, Dad, it's got a deal, Laura,

512
00:33:26,119 --> 00:33:29,599
or whatever you need up to what I've got. You'll

513
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:37,319
never regret this, son. And so you were married, yes,

514
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:43,279
not quite two years ago. It was a bad marriage. No, No,

515
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,559
not to the most of it. At the beginning. For

516
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the best part of the first year, it was uneasy

517
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:57,200
and difficult, but slowly, slowly, things began to change. I

518
00:33:57,279 --> 00:33:59,960
wanted to tell Laura the truth, but really it happened.

519
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,359
How could I She would have thought me absolutely mad

520
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:09,199
out of my skull. Then, as the months passed, I

521
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:10,960
began to see it looked as though i'd never have

522
00:34:11,119 --> 00:34:15,159
to I remember one night after a party, going to bed.

523
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:17,079
Speaker 3: How many people do you suppose we are at that

524
00:34:17,159 --> 00:34:17,840
party tonight?

525
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:21,880
Speaker 1: I don't know, A couple of hundred maybe, And how

526
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,880
many men do you think I count them?

527
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 2: No?

528
00:34:25,119 --> 00:34:29,920
Speaker 3: No, I'm serious, darling, Darling, that's what I said.

529
00:34:31,519 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 1: Huh oh men, I don't know. I guess when Stanton

530
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,400
throws a ball there are more men than dames. What's

531
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the difference.

532
00:34:41,119 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 3: I just wanted to tell you something. No matter how

533
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:48,320
many there were, I'd have taken my man over any

534
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:48,880
guy there.

535
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:50,280
Speaker 1: Laura.

536
00:34:50,599 --> 00:34:53,199
Speaker 3: Yes, that's the way it's gotten to be with me.

537
00:34:53,320 --> 00:35:01,519
Speaker 1: Now, that was the begin of a whole new relationship.

538
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:06,239
At first I basked in it, gloried in it, ate

539
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:11,840
it up, and then yes, miss Cartwright, And then then

540
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:16,760
another crazy thing was happening inside can you imagine a

541
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:22,280
man being jealous of himself. I was two people in

542
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:27,199
one body, both of whom loved the same woman. One

543
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:31,039
was dead, except his soul lived on inside this body.

544
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:36,880
Who was it? Laura really loved me? Terry the scatterbrain,

545
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,400
the live for the moment guy, or Tom the percentage man,

546
00:35:40,519 --> 00:35:42,960
the cool cat with the morals of one and a

547
00:35:43,039 --> 00:35:46,840
built in gift for destruction. Is that what you tried

548
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:52,519
to solve? That's what I had to solve because because

549
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:57,039
because so very soon after Laura and I had found

550
00:35:57,079 --> 00:36:03,079
each other, she became pregnant. Whose child had been created mine?

551
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:09,320
I mean Terry's or Tom's. I mauled over. I agonized

552
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,400
over what the future held, and at last I had

553
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,679
to decide. I had to make some attempt to find out.

554
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:19,440
But how can we you We're only human. We can't

555
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:26,599
foretell the future. I could. I remembered what the spirit

556
00:36:26,679 --> 00:36:32,599
had told me to seek him. Go to the sea again.

557
00:36:32,639 --> 00:36:34,760
It was late in the day, and again it was

558
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:39,239
old deep six beyond the surf. I waited for d Wade.

559
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:45,400
I was cham invincible, hanging tempfore I could move that

560
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:49,280
away A lot fining, a wild frost wh snatched my

561
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,840
board and throw it sky I and I was round

562
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:59,719
down under the man swirling waking water along. I came

563
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:04,119
to again, lying on the tide's edge, just as I

564
00:37:04,199 --> 00:37:05,760
had done so many months ago.

565
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:08,800
Speaker 6: Wow, hawk, holl.

566
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Speaker 7: The child.

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00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:19,679
Speaker 1: Child fowls. I suddenly realized what a fool I was.

568
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:24,719
You asked nothing from me for what I wanted. But

569
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:26,159
what about my children?

570
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:32,119
Speaker 6: Flow?

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00:37:33,079 --> 00:37:37,360
Speaker 1: But you promised it was not the old doctor fauststgag walk.

572
00:37:37,199 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 6: Hollo oh oh call walk holl ha loofleh awful walk

573
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:57,119
who along all a rah follow.

574
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:04,119
Speaker 1: That's the answer to everything. Why I came back ready

575
00:38:04,119 --> 00:38:06,760
to strangle the woman I loved so she could never

576
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:09,639
bear a child that would foster the dynasty.

577
00:38:09,519 --> 00:38:10,119
Speaker 2: Of the devil.

578
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:14,199
Speaker 1: But you didn't strangle her. No, because when I got home,

579
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,960
Laura was half out of her wits. She had found

580
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,559
that a black spider with an hour glass shape on

581
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its belly had been weaving or spinning a web over

582
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:24,880
the crib we had waiting in the nursery to receive

583
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,519
our baby when it was born. Well, then what happened.

584
00:38:28,119 --> 00:38:30,719
I started to push aside the web, but it clung

585
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:32,880
to me, and as I tried to brush it off.

586
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:36,199
Suddenly the spider was clinging to my wrist, and I

587
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:39,199
could feel its bite sharp and penetrating, and I could

588
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:41,599
hear a voice in my ear, who am up?

589
00:38:44,199 --> 00:38:47,519
Speaker 6: I'll go hum o come.

590
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:49,800
Speaker 1: Oh ho ho ho.

591
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:53,599
Speaker 2: Ho hor.

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00:38:55,039 --> 00:39:00,320
Speaker 9: All you accepted that never never, I took war with

593
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,800
me to the car, the excuse for a wild ride

594
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:04,519
that I had to get to the hospital to get

595
00:39:04,519 --> 00:39:06,320
an aunty tux into the might of the Black Widow.

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00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:15,199
Speaker 1: I can't you don't understand, I yell, no way of explain.

597
00:39:15,679 --> 00:39:20,280
It's just that the devil rhymes on the old right.

598
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:35,760
Speaker 2: I love you, so you remember you know that Laura

599
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:36,960
is uh dead?

600
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:42,760
Speaker 1: Why not me? What was I saved for? God's a

601
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:47,639
question that can't be answered. Oh yes, I see now

602
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:57,360
it's all clear. You in another form, the Antichrist, the enemy.

603
00:39:58,519 --> 00:40:01,440
I can do nothing else, mister Kai can't kill you,

604
00:40:03,559 --> 00:40:17,960
no one to hold you. Okay, that's an unusual case

605
00:40:18,039 --> 00:40:22,400
only because of the violence involved. There's not much to

606
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,280
say about it, doctor Peters, I, except I'd like to

607
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:30,559
try to understand it. That would take volumes, classic world

608
00:40:30,639 --> 00:40:36,000
of delusions. Everything it's very little missing. There was love

609
00:40:36,079 --> 00:40:38,679
broken off. There was a child that might have been born.

610
00:40:39,159 --> 00:40:41,719
There was a man already beyond the norm of society

611
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:44,800
who thought he was doing the right thing and destroying himself,

612
00:40:45,079 --> 00:40:48,880
his wife, and his unborn child. We just write him off.

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00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:49,280
Speaker 2: Doctor.

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00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 1: No, no, no, we write no one off. We probe

615
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:55,159
as much as we can. We try to resolve what

616
00:40:55,320 --> 00:41:00,639
we can. There's still cases beyond all our knowledge, and someday,

617
00:41:01,559 --> 00:41:12,880
someday we may solve them. Don't look to me for

618
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:16,800
any answers. This is the story of what happened or

619
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,840
a beard. Do I know no other way than to

620
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,599
leave it at that. Unless someone can tell me more

621
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than I can understand, I'll be back shortly.

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Speaker 10: Bargain shuffers of America, you've waited long enough. Now you'd

623
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:33,599
better move fast, because it looks like prices on appliances

624
00:41:33,639 --> 00:41:35,039
will be going up again soon.

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00:41:35,559 --> 00:41:36,159
Speaker 1: Before they do.

626
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 10: Get to your whirl Pool leaders, or you'll find some

627
00:41:38,599 --> 00:41:41,280
of the hottest deals in town. How about that new

628
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:45,000
dishwasher you've been promising yourself. Take seventy four dollars off

629
00:41:45,039 --> 00:41:47,280
the old fair Trade price tag on a new deluxe

630
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:51,199
whirl Pool quality dishwasher. In the market for a quality refrigerator,

631
00:41:51,599 --> 00:41:54,679
save sixty dollars on a Whirlpool's beautiful big side by

632
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:57,800
side nineteen foot I'll save forty three dollars on the

633
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,840
Whirlpool twelve foot of that's American made and only twenty

634
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:04,639
four inches wide. Wait there's more. You saved seventy dollars

635
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:07,760
on a Whirlpool quality compact washer and dryer pair and

636
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,039
they can both fit in only twenty four inches of space.

637
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 1: Here's what we're saying.

638
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:15,320
Speaker 10: Whatever your bargain shopping for in the way of quality appliances,

639
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:17,480
now is a time to see your whirl Pool dealer.

640
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:19,960
He's got the deal to turn you on. Prices are

641
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,679
optional with Whirlpool dealers, and savings are based on previously

642
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:24,239
higher fair trade prices.

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00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:32,320
Speaker 1: Some day you'll.

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Speaker 3: Some day, sooner or later you long Generals.

645
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:42,320
Speaker 1: Ready for winter.

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00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:44,760
Speaker 11: General Tire is with a complete lineup of snowtires that

647
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:48,079
spills winter traction values. Now you can get General's fantastic

648
00:42:48,199 --> 00:42:51,039
radial snowtire. The thing is dual steel gripper for as

649
00:42:51,079 --> 00:42:53,840
little as forty three dollars and ninety five cents. That's

650
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:56,440
for the size VR seventy eight thirteen tubulus white wall

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plus two dollars and sixteen cents.

652
00:42:58,039 --> 00:42:59,079
Speaker 1: Federal excise tax.

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Speaker 11: You'll also low prices and glass built at General Gripper

654
00:43:02,119 --> 00:43:04,599
seven to eighty and the General Winter Tree. So whatever

655
00:43:04,679 --> 00:43:07,119
your snow tire needs, you'll find great values now at

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General Time.

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Speaker 1: Sooner later you laun generals. Sooner later you laun generals.

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00:43:21,679 --> 00:43:24,639
Speaker 12: The new Low's Monte Carlo Hotel is alive with life.

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Watch the Gland Cree from your terrace. Dine on international

660
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:33,000
cuisine in five restaurants. Enjoy international stars in the four

661
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Rois Supper Club, the Prosures clay Roulette, Taddy only in

662
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:41,320
Hotel Casino and the Riviera for reservations at Lois Monte

663
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Carlo called five eight six five O nine to nine,

664
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or the lowest toll free number in your area.

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Speaker 2: Lowis Monte Carlo Hotel.

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Speaker 1: There isn't much to say about this particular tale except

667
00:44:03,519 --> 00:44:06,960
that he who traffics with the devil must be prepared

668
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:10,320
to pay the price, a sad and terrible price for

669
00:44:10,519 --> 00:44:15,000
all who were involved, except John Sheldon Blake, who was

670
00:44:15,079 --> 00:44:17,920
really the most to blame. He was the only one

671
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:22,199
to survive. Since Tom Cartwright, or whoever he truly is,

672
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:26,519
is long since committed to an institution. John Sheldon Blake

673
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:30,559
is also committed to an institution, except that he remains free.

674
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Funny how the establishment has a habit of winning. When

675
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come right down to it, they are the ones who

676
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are really mad. Our cast included Will McKenzie, Marion Soldis,

677
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Robert Dryden and Earl Hammond. The entire production was under

678
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:49,840
the direction of Hyman Brown Radio. Mystery Theatre was sponsored

679
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:53,039
in part by your Thinger Sewing Center. This is e. G.

680
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:56,360
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for

681
00:44:56,480 --> 00:45:03,440
another adventure in the macabre. Till next time, Pleasant Dreams.

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Speaker 11: Tonight's Mystery Theater was also brought to you in part

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by Shopright Supermarkets. The preceding program was furnished by CBS

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