WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:04.719 Tired of the every day grind, ever dream of a 2 00:00:04.839 --> 00:00:09.560 life of romantic adventure, want to get away from it all. 3 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:13.720 We offer you Escape. 4 00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:20.039 Escape, designed to free you from the four walls of 5 00:00:20.039 --> 00:00:23.239 to day for a half hour of high adventure. 6 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:39.039 You are standing in a moonlit clearing somewhere in the 7 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:43.119 Burmese jungle, the ruins of an ancient temple at your back, 8 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:48.799 while gliding silently across the grass towards you. The knife 9 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:52.719 in her hand held pointing at you is the beautiful 10 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:55.759 yet deadly high priestess of the cult you have profaned, 11 00:00:56.399 --> 00:01:00.280 the exotic girl who must now take your life. 12 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:03.960 Listen now as Escape brings you. Kathleen Height Story I 13 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:04.840 of Evil. 14 00:01:24.799 --> 00:01:27.480 I studied Fairchild as he read the letter. He was 15 00:01:27.519 --> 00:01:29.879 not a man I would ordinarily turn to for help, 16 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:33.200 But I was not acquainted in Mandalay then too. He 17 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:36.959 knew Campbell. I mean no slur against Fairchild. He was 18 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:40.560 bright enough as government office Clark's go I had simply 19 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:45.879 hoped for more formidable assistance. This is the last letter 20 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:48.480 you received from Campbell, the last word of any sort 21 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:50.599 until I cabled him to meet me in Mandalay. He 22 00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:53.079 cabled back that he would and named this hotel at 23 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:55.040 noon today. 24 00:01:55.319 --> 00:01:58.120 Well, it's only two hours late. Two hours doesn't mean 25 00:01:58.239 --> 00:01:58.920 much in Burma. 26 00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:01.879 I'm not especially concerned about these two hours. 27 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:05.359 The letter day, I can't say I blame you, Ah, 28 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:07.959 the sort of letter doesn't make a lot of sense 29 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:09.039 to me, not to. 30 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:11.719 Me, not to anyone at the Historical Society. 31 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:14.120 I hate to suggest this, but it sounds as if 32 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:15.960 the old boys cracked a bit, wouldn't you say? 33 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:18.280 That's more or less what I've been sent to find out? 34 00:02:18.639 --> 00:02:22.080 This part here, he says, I shall fail if where 35 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:26.039 I look, my eyes see no beauty candy and I 36 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:28.479 it has a certain ring to it. 37 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:30.960 When was the last time you saw Campbell? 38 00:02:31.919 --> 00:02:34.639 Let me see, it was well before the rain set in. 39 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:37.319 I should say a good six or eight weeks before. 40 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:40.000 That would make it late February or early March. 41 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:43.000 Campbell's letter was posted here in Mandalay the fourteenth of May. 42 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:46.120 You're certain you didn't see him around that data positive? 43 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:49.080 Of course, just because it was posted here doesn't mean 44 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:52.800 Campbell himself was in Mandalay. Probably sent it up here 45 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:58.639 from Pugan by Mangba Mangbar, Burmese boy devoted to Campbell. 46 00:02:58.759 --> 00:03:00.319 It's been all sorts of help to him. 47 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:03.400 With all that corobing about it does around Pugan, ruddy 48 00:03:03.439 --> 00:03:06.879 ancient shrines and pagodas, the places crawling. 49 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:08.680 With him enough. Yes, yes, that's what I understand. 50 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:11.800 Mumba does a lot of that sort of thing for Campbell, 51 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:14.680 and supplies comes out the Eeradi by boat. You know 52 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:18.240 there's no train down to Pogan from Mandally. I don't 53 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:20.360 suppose Campbell relishes the boat trip often. 54 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:22.680 What was he like the last time you saw him? 55 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:26.400 Seems normal enough. We lunched here at the hotels, just 56 00:03:26.439 --> 00:03:27.120 as we're doing. 57 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:29.240 From what you've said, that's about four months or so ago. 58 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:32.800 I guess a lot could happen to a man in 59 00:03:32.919 --> 00:03:33.680 four months. 60 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:38.599 It could be Poogan nothing but those miserable pagodas and 61 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:42.400 shined I don't take much to ruin myself. You mean that, 62 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:43.120 haven't you lying? 63 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:45.240 No, no, no, this is my first trip to. 64 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:48.919 Then might just give you a word about the people, 65 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:51.680 all sorts, of course, but those around Pugan seemed to 66 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:56.759 be given to all manner of strange beliefs, superstitions, odd things, well, 67 00:03:56.879 --> 00:03:58.560 the evil eye for example. 68 00:03:59.159 --> 00:04:02.759 You're serious, dead serious? Well, we can't be talking about 69 00:04:02.759 --> 00:04:05.759 the same thing. If I remember correctly, the archaic belief 70 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:08.319 in the evil eye is that if one possesses it, 71 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:13.199 anything or anyone he looks upon, will die. Only it 72 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:14.639 isn't entirely archaic. 73 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:18.800 It's a widespread belief in Ninja, parts of Egypt, Arabia, 74 00:04:18.839 --> 00:04:20.279 and certainly here in Burma. 75 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:22.000 That's fantastic. 76 00:04:22.959 --> 00:04:26.040 If I may lorning, you're apt to find a great 77 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:30.519 many things in Burma fantastics. Not so much in Mandalay, 78 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:33.639 perhaps a rangoon, But around Kugan and to the west 79 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:39.639 and north there's a feeling, a mystic something that's been 80 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:41.639 known to take hold of men. 81 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:44.399 You're suggesting that can be, I don't know. 82 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:47.959 You'd have to go there to find out. 83 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:57.800 As fair Child left me, something drew my attention across 84 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:03.759 the room. She was alone, and quite possibly the most 85 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:09.319 beautiful woman I have ever seen, utterly strikingly beautiful, and 86 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:12.839 the look in her eyes was a compelling invitation. In 87 00:05:12.920 --> 00:05:14.839 no time at all, I. 88 00:05:14.759 --> 00:05:19.040 Accepted you were a very long time. 89 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:23.199 A matter of seconds after I saw you, But. 90 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:26.839 You were a long time seeing me. I have been 91 00:05:27.160 --> 00:05:29.120 looking at you for almost an hour. 92 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:34.160 Oh, not like that. You haven't. No, i'd have known. 93 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:35.120 I wonder. 94 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:41.600 Your face, a very nice face, is being clouded with concern, 95 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:46.480 and so with mine have been with your luncheon Compellon. 96 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:48.439 It was a bit dry, wasn't he. 97 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:52.040 I saw no reason for you to spend more time 98 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:58.240 with him. Gina decided you should spend your time with her. 99 00:05:59.399 --> 00:05:59.720 China. 100 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:06.360 I like that, and I like the name Stephen Loring. 101 00:06:07.839 --> 00:06:09.079 How on earth could you know that? 102 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:12.800 Either I have the gift of Claire Ryance or I 103 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:14.800 paid to look at the hotel register. 104 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:18.120 Well, in either case, I'm flattered. And because I haven't 105 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:21.600 much time, I agree with China. I should spend what 106 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:28.160 time I have with her? How much time today? Perhaps tonight? 107 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:31.079 And tomorrow? 108 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:36.319 No, no, tomorrow, I'm off to Pugan and a feeling 109 00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:39.519 a mystic something that's been known to take hold of men. 110 00:06:39.959 --> 00:06:42.600 You choke about Pugan. Oh no, no, not really, I 111 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:45.360 was quoting my drab friend. I've never been to Pugan myself. 112 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:47.120 I do not think you would like it there. 113 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:50.720 Oh, pu Gan is very different. 114 00:06:52.600 --> 00:06:57.680 I should think you would find men delay much more 115 00:06:57.720 --> 00:06:58.680 to your taste. 116 00:06:59.639 --> 00:07:05.120 I should think I would too, And Gina, knowing Mandelay 117 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:08.240 was strange to me, wrote out instructions that would lead 118 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:11.480 me to a rendezvous that night, and she was gone. 119 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:15.000 I found it difficult to believe our meeting it ever occurred, 120 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:17.680 except that the memory of her was vivid and haunting. 121 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:21.920 I lingered over a brandy and was preparing to leave 122 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:23.399 the dining room. 123 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:28.720 Greetings, Takin, m you are I am certain one, mister Loring. 124 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:32.120 Is everyone in Burma clairvoyant? 125 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:37.720 No, Takin, I am pleased to be Mumba Oo, Mumba. 126 00:07:37.959 --> 00:07:41.639 Oh, Campbell's friend from Pugan. But where is he? Isn't 127 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:42.000 he with you? 128 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:46.680 Regrettively? Not with Mumbai? A stimid friend remained in Pugan 129 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:51.319 asked that you understand and kindly to return to Pugan 130 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:51.959 with Mumbai. 131 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:55.800 Oh, well, is anything the matter with Campbell? 132 00:07:56.240 --> 00:08:00.079 To say again? A steveds friend remains in Pugan and 133 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:05.199 asks that you understand and kindly to return to Pugan 134 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:05.879 with Mumbah. 135 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:08.920 No, No, I understand you all right, I'm inquiring about Campbell? 136 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:10.040 Is he well? 137 00:08:11.519 --> 00:08:13.279 To say? Again? Is still? 138 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:18.959 I understand? I am to come with you to Pugan. Campbell? 139 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:19.399 Is there? 140 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:19.839 Good? 141 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:20.399 Good? 142 00:08:21.079 --> 00:08:23.639 To live? Now? Is to arrive at Pugan as the 143 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:24.399 sun rises. 144 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:29.800 No, not good, Not today. Tomorrow morning, when the sun 145 00:08:29.879 --> 00:08:31.079 lives again, we. 146 00:08:31.079 --> 00:08:33.799 Will go to say again to leave now? 147 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:36.919 No no, no no, never mind that I said not today. 148 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:42.600 Do you understand? Tomorrow morning you and I go to Pugan. 149 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:44.039 Not good? 150 00:08:44.799 --> 00:08:49.440 Very good? Here can you lead me to this address 151 00:08:49.559 --> 00:08:50.840 or show me how to get there? 152 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:57.159 Seem to answer, Mumba is able to lead to this address? 153 00:08:57.240 --> 00:08:59.360 I have splendid Then meet me here at the hotel 154 00:08:59.360 --> 00:08:59.960 at seven eve. 155 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:01.080 No, thank you? 156 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:04.720 Take in no, no, what's all this about to. 157 00:09:04.919 --> 00:09:09.000 Beg father in takin tho abo Mumba think not wise 158 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:13.000 for one mister loring to present himself at stated address. 159 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:15.919 So Mungba not to lead him there. 160 00:09:17.480 --> 00:09:22.639 And he smiled and bowed and scurried off. It didn't matter. 161 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:26.799 I knew that somehow I would find my way to China. 162 00:09:26.919 --> 00:09:31.000 That night, when evening came, I left the hotel and 163 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:35.159 began a bewildering tour of the countless bazaars. By asking 164 00:09:35.159 --> 00:09:39.000 a direction here and a question there, I came finally 165 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:41.879 to a dark cluster of buildings in a remote section 166 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:46.200 of the Zegio Bazaar, and there at the proper door, 167 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:47.720 I stopped. 168 00:09:56.840 --> 00:09:59.120 You are the most welcome one. 169 00:09:59.559 --> 00:10:01.519 I'm still even loring much. 170 00:10:01.519 --> 00:10:05.320 You know it's for you, kindly and thank you. 171 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:11.919 Let's see. It's a bit dark in here, isn't it. 172 00:10:12.039 --> 00:10:15.399 The lights of a thousand candles are soon to come. 173 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:17.679 Taking one moment. 174 00:10:19.080 --> 00:10:22.000 I took a few steps on past the servant, and 175 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:24.399 suddenly I felt a pair of arms around me. I 176 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:26.799 struggled to free myself, and then a blinding tune flashed 177 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:31.360 through me, and I felt myself sinking to the floor. Faintfully. 178 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:34.279 I heard the voices, and only one did I recognize, 179 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:38.320 and that of the little Burmese manbow. 180 00:10:53.799 --> 00:11:01.240 Turk mm hmmm, turkey too weak from a dream, not 181 00:11:01.519 --> 00:11:06.320 always pleasing, Taki, well, mumba, m. 182 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:08.360 What happened? 183 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:15.759 Not to remember? Often rewarding, Oh, we're on a boat 184 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:19.120 soon to land at Bugan. 185 00:11:19.159 --> 00:11:23.559 Well, last night you will followed me. You saved my life. 186 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:27.279 No trouble to serve a friend of a stement friend. 187 00:11:27.720 --> 00:11:32.039 Oh yeah, yes, yes, Campbell. I wonder how I'll find. 188 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:36.080 Him in time. Taking all questions are answered. 189 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:41.039 No, no, you're wrong. Some questions are never answered. Maybe 190 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:41.720 that's just as. 191 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:47.039 Well, spoken like man of wisdom, enlightenment. 192 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:51.919 Very little of either. This morning, Mumba. It is morning. 193 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:55.840 Isn't it sun warm? And you like Mumbai as much 194 00:11:55.879 --> 00:11:59.840 to learn before he dies. We all do too big 195 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:05.000 and takin some more than others. People a village are 196 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:08.639 in their hearts good people, but wisdom to them new 197 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:10.960 and fears old. 198 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:14.159 Yes, so I understand, But what is. 199 00:12:14.200 --> 00:12:19.320 People a village require patients. Leader who shows patience and 200 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:23.639 no fear can bring my people to enlightenment away from 201 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:29.039 superstitions and ancient religious teachings. 202 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:32.080 Oh no, you've got the wrong idea. I have not 203 00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:35.639 come to lead your people anymore than Campbell didn't. Now understand, 204 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:37.960 I've come only to get data on the ancient shrines 205 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:41.399 and for godders nearby, and to help your esteem from Campbell. 206 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:45.399 Taking to see many past glories of Fugan. But a 207 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:50.960 big pardon. Villagers of Pugan also there. 208 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:03.039 The village. When we reached it was somewhat inland from 209 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:06.960 the river port of Bugan. Proper wood and bamboo huts 210 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:09.519 lined the four sides of a square that served as 211 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:13.240 a compound. A pack of wild dogs swarmed ahead of us, 212 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:16.320 yapping a signal to the groups of villagers bunched together 213 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:20.559 near a central hut. Mungba raised his hand in greeting 214 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:25.000 hunt for a moment of frozen silence. The villagers turned 215 00:13:25.240 --> 00:13:25.639 and ran. 216 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:32.360 They run from us. Something very wrong, not much of 217 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:36.399 a welcome. Must walk ahead, too hot of a stupid friend. 218 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:41.360 Must smile, show no fear, Come taky. 219 00:13:42.279 --> 00:13:45.480 I fixed this smile on my face that Mungba ordered, 220 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:48.679 and I followed him. If I showed no fear, it 221 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:52.159 was not because I felt none. There wasn't a soul 222 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:55.600 in sight. But my back straightened, rigid with the field 223 00:13:55.600 --> 00:14:02.440 of a hundred eyes upon it. Mangba's steps slowed at 224 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:05.080 the sound of the bell, his head cut slightly to 225 00:14:05.159 --> 00:14:08.799 one side, as if to listen. We walked on slowly 226 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:12.799 now until we came to the central hut. There, Mungba 227 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:18.200 stop cold, bloo oooh not so what is it? What's wrong? 228 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:23.240 He e will I it has come see evil eye. 229 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:38.559 You are listening to I of Evil To Night's presentation 230 00:14:38.759 --> 00:14:42.840 of Escape. Each week, CBS Radio issues an invitation to 231 00:14:42.919 --> 00:14:45.840 go on the prowl in a real squad car. You'll 232 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:48.600 hear the stories of real witnesses in real cases as 233 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:52.320 you join us on CBS radio's Night Watch. It's unusual, 234 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:56.840 thoroughly factual, and thoroughly exciting night watch every week on 235 00:14:56.919 --> 00:15:00.480 most of these same stations. And now Escape and the 236 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:02.519 second act of I of evil. 237 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:24.360 Mamba had disappeared as quickly and completely as the others 238 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:27.639 fled in terror from a crude sign I could not understand. 239 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:30.840 At the door of the central Hut, the temple bells 240 00:15:30.919 --> 00:15:34.720 tolled ominously as I walked inside, not knowing what to expect. 241 00:15:35.559 --> 00:15:38.879 Mugba had called this Campbell's hut, but there was no 242 00:15:38.879 --> 00:15:42.840 one inside, only the strange signs and symbols affixed to 243 00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:47.480 everything in sight. I wanted to run too desperately, but 244 00:15:47.559 --> 00:15:49.919 something told me that if I were safe at all, 245 00:15:49.960 --> 00:15:54.159 I was safer inside the hut. As the silent day 246 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:58.759 wore on, I found many of Campbell's papers, garbled and strange. 247 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:01.919 They were a chronic of the steady deterioration of a man. 248 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:05.960 When I finally put them down, it was night. 249 00:16:08.120 --> 00:16:12.919 Turkein Takin Mumba falls before you. Are you hurt only 250 00:16:13.000 --> 00:16:17.360 with hurt of shame? Takin and get up. When Julie forgiven, 251 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:18.200 I said, get. 252 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:20.360 Up and tell me what this madness is all about 253 00:16:20.360 --> 00:16:22.919 these signs this poppy talk about the evil eye. 254 00:16:23.120 --> 00:16:26.720 Mumba, upon seeing the signs of evil, I forgot his 255 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:27.720 enlightened eyes. 256 00:16:28.559 --> 00:16:29.799 Did you find out about Campbell? 257 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:32.639 He is said to be possessed. 258 00:16:32.159 --> 00:16:35.000 And that accounts of these signs. 259 00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:38.440 Signs are charmed to evil eye take away power. So 260 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:39.000 say my. 261 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:41.320 People, your people are insane. 262 00:16:41.159 --> 00:16:42.799 Only frightened, takeen. 263 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:46.600 Look, can't you talk to them, reason with them, telling 264 00:16:46.679 --> 00:16:48.399 they had nothing to fear that even if they did 265 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:50.279 these obscene charms. 266 00:16:50.279 --> 00:16:54.519 And there's a no answer, not Mumbah, Turkeen must do me. 267 00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:56.960 That's ridiculous to say. 268 00:16:57.000 --> 00:17:01.600 Again, Turkeen must do the wile ie is on this house. 269 00:17:02.120 --> 00:17:05.759 Only Takin can prove this is not so, so, say 270 00:17:05.799 --> 00:17:10.920 my people, But how tomorrow Takin look upon chosen one. 271 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:14.720 If chosen one not die, spell of evil eye broken. 272 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:20.359 If chosen one die not good all the idiotic too 273 00:17:20.400 --> 00:17:25.359 beg pardon to do this only way to save esteemed 274 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:27.839 friend and self. 275 00:17:35.920 --> 00:17:41.039 There was no sleep. The bugan night spent itself slowly, weirdly, 276 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:46.200 washed in moonlight, and filled with strange sounds. The paddy birds, 277 00:17:46.359 --> 00:17:51.359 the barking deer, the cries of wild cattle. Then and always, always, 278 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:54.640 the eerie toll of the temple bells. I could feel 279 00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:58.240 it building in the a fusion of strangeness, a fear, 280 00:17:58.920 --> 00:18:02.920 a fear that was somehow compelling. Drawn to an opening 281 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:07.359 at the back of Campbell's hut, I looked out. From there, 282 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:11.720 I saw a moonlight fantasy in a clearing before an 283 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:18.119 ancient pagoda. A single dancer performed, And then somehow I 284 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:24.160 was outside the hut, walking slowly across the compound. No 285 00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:26.759 takin look, get out my way. 286 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:30.480 Hear me here here, Mumba, you must not answer the 287 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:31.599 call of the temple bells. 288 00:18:31.880 --> 00:18:32.839 Stand aside. 289 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:34.200 To follow is to die. 290 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:39.480 I tried to free myself from Mungbar's grip. I could not. 291 00:18:40.519 --> 00:18:43.359 And if the dancer danced on, and if the bell's 292 00:18:43.359 --> 00:18:46.799 told longer, I don't know, because suddenly the night was 293 00:18:46.880 --> 00:19:04.359 black and silent, and the madness was gone. You know, 294 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:08.839 each night I don't know how I got to bed. 295 00:19:09.880 --> 00:19:14.240 Every morning I find you here takin a sleep, well, 296 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:20.720 like I was hit on my head, Mugba, Was there 297 00:19:21.079 --> 00:19:22.440 really a dancer out there? 298 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:25.400 Mumba? Fixed t takin feel fine? 299 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:26.920 Was there a dancer? 300 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:30.160 What has gone before belongs to the night? No longer 301 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:31.000 to us. 302 00:19:31.759 --> 00:19:34.119 I don't understand your bloody country, Mumba, or even you. 303 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:36.839 I am pleased to be a simple man. 304 00:19:38.319 --> 00:19:39.640 You've saved my life twice. 305 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:45.599 Now, Why takin Mumba? Friend? Life O friend more precious 306 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:46.519 than all life? 307 00:19:46.759 --> 00:19:51.799 Mumba. What happened to me last night? What happened to Campbell? 308 00:19:51.839 --> 00:19:52.720 Before I got here? 309 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:56.279 Mumba? Not no fix ty takin feel fine? 310 00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:01.240 Everything here plays on your feelings, emotions. The cries of 311 00:20:01.279 --> 00:20:04.119 the animals, the tolling of the bells, the sight of 312 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:08.200 ruin after ruined pagodas and shrines in crumbling decay, is 313 00:20:08.319 --> 00:20:11.839 that it does the very decay here hold the power 314 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:16.279 to degenerate a man, Oh temple bell again. 315 00:20:16.839 --> 00:20:21.559 Our has come takin hot hour before bright sun, and 316 00:20:21.720 --> 00:20:25.960 my people takin look upon chosen one only way to 317 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:29.720 say this, stuvid friend and itself. 318 00:20:36.400 --> 00:20:40.640 Outside, the villagers lined the compound, some war coverings over 319 00:20:40.680 --> 00:20:44.000 their entire heads. Others, with the same fear that I 320 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:46.880 might possess the evil eye, hid their faces from my view, 321 00:20:47.920 --> 00:20:49.799 all of them. So far as I could see war 322 00:20:49.920 --> 00:20:55.000 signs and symbols as charms against my spell. He was madness, 323 00:20:55.400 --> 00:20:59.279 all of it madness, taken ready, just tell me what 324 00:20:59.319 --> 00:20:59.960 I'm supposed to do. 325 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:03.960 Chosen one, we'll walk to center of cleaning temple. Bells 326 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:06.839 will stop. That becomes signal for takin to look for 327 00:21:07.039 --> 00:21:08.640 first time upon chosen one. 328 00:21:08.799 --> 00:21:12.720 When the bell stopped, he's all right, well, let's get 329 00:21:12.720 --> 00:21:13.160 on with it. 330 00:21:13.240 --> 00:21:15.200 Kindly turn back, taking all right. 331 00:21:16.839 --> 00:21:17.839 Now to make quick work of it. 332 00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:21.000 Turk In have nothing to fear. 333 00:21:27.119 --> 00:21:32.480 My heart very nearly stopped with the bells slowly. I 334 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:38.480 turned around to look upon the chosen one. He stood 335 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:45.480 proudly straight, smiling confidently at me, my little Burmese friend Mumba. 336 00:21:46.880 --> 00:22:01.559 And I looked and smiled and watched him fall. Mumba, Umba, Hi, Mumba. 337 00:22:01.640 --> 00:22:04.319 How how in Heaven's name. 338 00:22:05.119 --> 00:22:10.519 No to Turky his steward friend Cambo he. 339 00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:22.599 Campbell Mmmm, poor wretched devil Mambai was dead. When I 340 00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:25.640 was alone, I started to lift him to carry him 341 00:22:25.640 --> 00:22:28.759 back to the hutton, and I saw the thin arrow 342 00:22:28.880 --> 00:22:32.519 in his back, a blow gun. I looked up in 343 00:22:32.519 --> 00:22:34.839 the direction the arrow must have come there. It was 344 00:22:35.559 --> 00:22:38.119 the ancient pagoda where the dancer had been the night before. 345 00:22:39.039 --> 00:22:43.119 It was also the direction of the temple bells. This time, 346 00:22:43.160 --> 00:22:46.599 without anyone to stop me. I walked into the ruins 347 00:22:46.640 --> 00:22:53.160 of the temple. Campbell, Campbo, where are you? 348 00:22:56.319 --> 00:22:56.960 I'll find you? 349 00:22:57.559 --> 00:22:58.240 You know? Campbell? 350 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:00.279 Yeah? 351 00:23:07.319 --> 00:23:13.599 Campbell? Oh here, Loren, I can't see you any shadows. 352 00:23:14.039 --> 00:23:17.200 I'm here in the dark, and you can hear me. 353 00:23:18.559 --> 00:23:22.200 If your eyes fail, you follow your ears. Why did 354 00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:27.359 you do it? Campbell? He worshiped you. Why did you 355 00:23:27.359 --> 00:23:31.799 have to kill Mungba? Mangba? Cowering in the darkness won't 356 00:23:31.799 --> 00:23:35.599 help you. Campbell. There's a window down there. Why don't 357 00:23:35.640 --> 00:23:38.680 you stand proudly in the bright sunlight. It's heated. 358 00:23:39.240 --> 00:23:41.000 Mungba died proudly. 359 00:23:42.680 --> 00:23:48.200 I'll get it. Callan visual you're mad? Come here here 360 00:23:48.319 --> 00:23:55.720 the light? He now stand there until Camble. 361 00:23:56.920 --> 00:23:58.480 Are we at the window now? 362 00:23:58.559 --> 00:24:04.200 Loren Campbell? You're blind? 363 00:24:04.480 --> 00:24:08.000 Your eyes stand proudly in the bright sunlight. 364 00:24:09.319 --> 00:24:12.359 What happened to you? Who did this to you? 365 00:24:12.559 --> 00:24:16.240 I shall pay? Or where I look? My eyes see 366 00:24:16.319 --> 00:24:16.920 no beauty? 367 00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:23.559 Oh Campbell, we didn't understand in your letter, None of 368 00:24:23.640 --> 00:24:30.720 us understood. Tell me who did that to your eyes? 369 00:24:31.319 --> 00:24:36.319 Where one sees no beauty, no good, one sees evil. 370 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:40.680 And once the eye becomes absorbed with evil, it is 371 00:24:40.759 --> 00:24:46.920 said the eye must no longer see Campbell, listen to me. 372 00:24:48.680 --> 00:24:52.720 We'll go now, you and I I'll take you home. 373 00:24:53.000 --> 00:24:56.160 I am home. No, no, no, We'll go to England 374 00:24:56.960 --> 00:24:59.519 now together. Do you understand me? 375 00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:01.559 You don't understand me. 376 00:25:03.279 --> 00:25:08.359 I want to be here. I must be here. But 377 00:25:08.519 --> 00:25:15.519 why why? This place is strange and terrifying and beautiful, Lauring? 378 00:25:16.599 --> 00:25:20.519 But you you must go before you see it's beauty, 379 00:25:21.359 --> 00:25:24.599 before it draws you and holds you and never lets 380 00:25:24.640 --> 00:25:24.960 you go. 381 00:25:25.200 --> 00:25:26.400 There is no beauty here. 382 00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:28.839 Have you not seen our beauty? 383 00:25:29.079 --> 00:25:29.839 Stephen Loring? 384 00:25:31.279 --> 00:25:35.200 Have you not watched the dancer by moonlight and felt 385 00:25:35.279 --> 00:25:36.799 compelled to follow her? 386 00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:41.559 Go Lring, Go now, it's not too late for you, Campbell. 387 00:25:42.920 --> 00:25:47.599 Did gna? Did she do this to you? Go Lauring 388 00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:48.559 while you can. 389 00:25:49.039 --> 00:25:52.960 You were supposed to die in Mandolay Stevens. 390 00:25:53.680 --> 00:25:57.799 You tried to have me killed. My people are happy 391 00:25:58.000 --> 00:25:58.599 as they are. 392 00:25:58.799 --> 00:26:03.240 Believe me, Lauring, and go now. Too late is very 393 00:26:03.359 --> 00:26:04.119 soon upon you. 394 00:26:06.079 --> 00:26:10.160 I'll go. I've had my fill of this madness? 395 00:26:10.359 --> 00:26:11.960 Is it madness? 396 00:26:12.680 --> 00:26:13.440 Are you sure? 397 00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:17.599 You must be very sure? 398 00:26:18.759 --> 00:26:25.240 It might be madness, or again, it might be a feeling, 399 00:26:26.279 --> 00:26:30.720 a mystic, something that has been known to take hold 400 00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:31.279 of men. 401 00:26:32.920 --> 00:26:37.400