WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:05.519 Tired of the every day grind, ever dream of a 2 00:00:05.639 --> 00:00:12.439 life of romantic adventure, want to get away from it all. 3 00:00:13.880 --> 00:00:14.679 We offer you. 4 00:00:16.879 --> 00:00:24.440 Escape, Escape Design to free you from the four walls 5 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:27.079 of to day for a half hour of high adventure. 6 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:44.600 You are alone on the deck of a stinking convict ship, 7 00:00:45.439 --> 00:00:49.840 becalmed in a yellow fog, while somewhere in the dark 8 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:54.679 below you, free from the cells that held them, tis 9 00:00:54.719 --> 00:00:59.439 a deadly band of murderers seeking out your life. 10 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:04.640 Listen now as Escape brings you Western Martyr's exciting story, 11 00:01:05.159 --> 00:01:06.879 A sleeping draft. 12 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:46.200 That helps. But it's like I say, you can't forget. 13 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:50.840 You can never forget. It's at night that you think 14 00:01:50.879 --> 00:01:54.799 about it, with the water outside rushing past the howl, 15 00:01:55.799 --> 00:01:59.239 that's when you think. And it can never be the same. 16 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:06.719 You can't trust anybody, never, not a soul. I can 17 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:10.639 tell you. You just can't trust him, not even yourself. 18 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:32.879 What is it, mister, mister Finch says he's ready to board, sir? 19 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:35.199 Oh he is, eh, all right, Well I'm not stubbing. 20 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:35.639 In, sir. 21 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:39.240 He insists on bringing them aboard one at a time. 22 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:41.199 What does he think I'm going to miss? The tide 23 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:43.560 has ever four hundred of them. It'll take hours, That's 24 00:02:43.599 --> 00:02:46.840 what I said. Sobody, mister Finch, come aboard, if you'll please. 25 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:50.159 I'm sorry, sir, I should have resigned stinking hopey, poor 26 00:02:50.199 --> 00:02:55.120 devil cargo. Everything I cock alorum, Captain, No, everything is not. 27 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:57.240 I cock a lorum. What in places you mean ordering 28 00:02:57.280 --> 00:02:57.919 my mate about? 29 00:02:57.960 --> 00:02:59.960 No offense intended? N taking the hope. 30 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:02.360 I want those scurvy riches aboard now, all of them. 31 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:03.960 You put them below my way anchor. 32 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:06.199 One at the times, one at a time. We've got 33 00:03:06.199 --> 00:03:06.800 a search them. 34 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:08.479 Why didn't you do that before you took them out 35 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:08.840 of jail. 36 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:12.879 You'd be surprised what those spine can pick up between 37 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:13.759 jail and the docks. 38 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:14.159 Captain. 39 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:16.439 We've got a search them, one at a time, and 40 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:22.759 that's a fact. They're murdering devils, every last one of them. 41 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:27.159 Convicts came aboard one by one. I watched them. They 42 00:03:27.159 --> 00:03:29.639 were going from London to a land they'd never seen. 43 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:35.840 A colony had bought them Australia. Four hundred sweepings and 44 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:38.560 scrapings sorted out from the muck of the jails with 45 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:44.000 Finch in charge on them, I've carried dirty Cargo's dye wood, 46 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:47.680 for instance, crawling with scorpions and spiders, not to mention snakes. 47 00:03:48.599 --> 00:03:53.719 Then there's cattle. But this weeks and months at sea, 48 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:56.400 where the human cargo would as soon cut your throat 49 00:03:56.439 --> 00:03:59.840 as spit, and what made it worse wise? I've felt 50 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:03.439 sorry for the poor beggars. I watched them come aboard 51 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:04.800 until there were two left. 52 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:10.560 Name Well, search. 53 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:13.319 Him, Hey, take your bleeding hands off of me. 54 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:16.240 I ain't got nothing. Ain't you stole me last? 55 00:04:16.279 --> 00:04:21.600 Ni. I won't have that cat used on my ship. 56 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:23.360 They'll get enough of it where they're going. 57 00:04:23.439 --> 00:04:25.759 You're a trusting soul, you are, captain. 58 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:26.959 Huh? 59 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:29.800 How'd you like that? Between your ribs? 60 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:30.839 I touch you? 61 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:32.560 The cat's a lot better than letting this swine bring 62 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:33.240 a knife aboard? 63 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:35.360 Take them alow. 64 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:41.439 I don't know how they do it. Swelp me, I don't. 65 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:44.120 You've got to watch them for knives. 66 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:49.560 Next right, Oh, here's a terror. Look at the size 67 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:49.879 of him. 68 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:52.560 Dangerous swine. Three murders in Australia. 69 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:53.519 Escape. 70 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:55.399 He's in brit When he gets back. 71 00:04:56.439 --> 00:04:59.839 Name Abby Jonathan Abbey. 72 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:06.439 Well Well, a gentleman in chains. I am sorry your 73 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:10.120 worship forgive us for daring to lay end on your highness. 74 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:12.839 I'm sure as though you've been wrongly a. 75 00:05:12.920 --> 00:05:15.360 Cute that's enough. Inch, search him and. 76 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:16.000 Take him below. 77 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:19.480 I want mister Jonathan Abby shekeled. 78 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:20.639 He's aur prised. 79 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:32.759 We mustn't let anything happen to him. 80 00:05:32.879 --> 00:05:34.839 From the day we left London Ducks, I had taken 81 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:38.000 a violent dislike to Finch. He seemed to be happiest 82 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:39.920 when he was laying about him with his cat on 83 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:43.199 a convicts heard he'd like sheep below decks. He kept 84 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:46.199 him quiet enough. One night I decided whoever had with 85 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:48.720 him in my cabin, I made it strong. I can 86 00:05:48.800 --> 00:05:51.160 tell you, so that even he could understand what I meant. 87 00:05:52.720 --> 00:05:53.800 You all finished, Captain? 88 00:05:55.240 --> 00:05:55.639 All right? 89 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:56.319 You wear me out. 90 00:05:56.759 --> 00:05:58.720 They're a bad lot, four hundred of them, all bound 91 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:00.519 for Australia, and they don't want to go. 92 00:06:01.199 --> 00:06:01.720 You follow me? 93 00:06:02.839 --> 00:06:04.959 If that blow Gabby. As soon as we touched Sydney, 94 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:06.759 the game's up for him. They'll lang him. 95 00:06:06.759 --> 00:06:07.000 Sure. 96 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:08.959 That does not mean that you have the right to 97 00:06:08.959 --> 00:06:10.360 make life even worse for them here? 98 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:13.399 Oh no, If I don't, where do you think we'll be? 99 00:06:14.399 --> 00:06:15.959 What would you do if you were down there? 100 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:19.800 I'll tell you get hold of this ship. That's what 101 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:20.240 you're doing. 102 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:22.000 It'll be easy. They are locked in and we've got 103 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:22.399 a guard. 104 00:06:22.519 --> 00:06:23.199 Dah. 105 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:26.839 You don't know, I'm like I do. It's another thing. 106 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:29.680 When I searched them, there was one to five sovereigns 107 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:32.480 stowed away on every man and or stolen. 108 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:35.360 That'll come to over a thousand pounds by my figures. 109 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:37.759 They're entitled to that money. It's little enough to take 110 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:38.560 to a wild country. 111 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:42.199 But there's them down there. What would slit the gallet 112 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:44.680 of any men for a shilling? You asked me to 113 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:45.879 dainty with a dah. 114 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:51.279 That's the way you talk to me. And I can 115 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:53.680 to tell you I didn't feel easy anymore. I did 116 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:57.040 something I hadn't done for a long time. Brought two 117 00:06:57.120 --> 00:06:59.759 pistols out from ship's stores and kept them under a pillow. 118 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:11.759 It was when we got around the horn that the 119 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:15.759 first convict died from scurvy. We had to put him 120 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:17.120 over the side, of course, and there was a lot 121 00:07:17.160 --> 00:07:20.079 of grousing. I went down to the hole with Finch. 122 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:23.399 It was hot and stinking. 123 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:27.639 Now you let me talk to him, Captain, I'll put 124 00:07:27.639 --> 00:07:28.079 it to rights. 125 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:29.199 You tell him it couldn't be helped. 126 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:30.680 Don't you mind? I'll tell him? 127 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:31.240 Why? 128 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:36.680 Here comes old Paddy far my pitch. 129 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:39.480 Did you steal the clothes off the poor bagger's back 130 00:07:39.519 --> 00:07:39.959 before you. 131 00:07:40.040 --> 00:07:40.560 Threw him in? 132 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:41.879 Man? 133 00:07:43.959 --> 00:07:48.160 We hate men, dearie, we're dogs? Or haven't you? 134 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:52.000 Why didn't you wake the very poor Usmithy in the 135 00:07:52.040 --> 00:07:56.639 ground instead of chucking him in the same shyrd? 136 00:07:58.120 --> 00:08:02.319 Alright, we've got another two or three weeks before we 137 00:08:02.399 --> 00:08:03.040 reach land. 138 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:07.800 I'll make a bargain with you the next one that dies. 139 00:08:07.959 --> 00:08:11.000 Now it's getting nice and not I'll leave him down 140 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:13.480 here and you can take care of him and mourning 141 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:15.720 until we get to Australia. 142 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:17.879 Ha ha, how's that. 143 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:20.879 Half a crown? You don't keep him for three days? 144 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:23.519 That's old bloody pot always a nose. 145 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:28.120 If you wain't. 146 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:31.439 Satisfied with that, I'll see that axis closed down tight 147 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:33.399 for the rest of the voyage and. 148 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:34.799 You can boil for all of me. 149 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:44.519 That seemed to settle it for a time. I began 150 00:08:44.559 --> 00:08:46.759 to see that, in spite of Finchy's hardness with him, 151 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:50.360 the prisoners knew he was mastered and behaved themselves, That is, 152 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:54.320 most of them did. But there were others and that's 153 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:57.399 what began the trouble. We were two days out of 154 00:08:57.399 --> 00:08:58.879 the Cook Islands when it happened. 155 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:04.879 Yes, Captain, there's a man on deck. 156 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:06.159 We brought him up from below. 157 00:09:06.200 --> 00:09:09.440 It's it's horrible, it's what happened. One of the convicts 158 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:12.000 th fine, Yes. 159 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:14.559 Here we are, Captain. 160 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:16.960 Mister Darling ain't much of a surgeon. 161 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:18.440 I must say I did what I could. 162 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:21.039 He must have been dead before we got him up here. 163 00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:26.000 He's he's been capped to pieces. Not laugh, he ain't 164 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:27.320 How did it happen? 165 00:09:27.559 --> 00:09:30.120 I heard him shouting when I went down the old 166 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:33.039 there he was propped up like against the bars with 167 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:34.000 his arms. 168 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:35.080 Through holding him up. 169 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:40.159 Good devil, who am nah? 170 00:09:40.399 --> 00:09:43.879 He's dead? The others in for it, though, What do 171 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:45.759 you mean? How do you think he got cut up 172 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:46.039 like that? 173 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:47.240 Knives? 174 00:09:47.320 --> 00:09:48.600 Captain? Knives? 175 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:50.320 You soak them before they bought him. 176 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:51.759 I did, and it's truth. I don't know how they've 177 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:57.080 done it. Small knives, captain, small lives. And we're getting 178 00:09:57.080 --> 00:09:57.960 close to Australia. 179 00:09:58.000 --> 00:09:58.600 That's what it is. 180 00:09:59.080 --> 00:10:01.919 Whoever's got them knives is after money. The thousand quid 181 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:04.480 or more. What's on this cursing ship? I don't score 182 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:08.720 a trusting soul you are, Captain. Maybe there's a dozen, No, 183 00:10:08.840 --> 00:10:11.600 and maybe twenty with knives follow me. They'll run the 184 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:15.840 others and Robin blind the old sovereign Captain dear didn't forget, 185 00:10:15.879 --> 00:10:21.360 did you? If anybody objects can him up in small 186 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:22.600 pieces like this one. 187 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:24.240 We've got to go down there and put a stop 188 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:24.559 to it. 189 00:10:25.080 --> 00:10:28.559 Yes, I don't think how many guns you got a board? 190 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:31.720 Well, two pistols and four muskets. 191 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:35.879 And that's a fat lot of good. Well, must take 192 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:36.799 the sweep with us out. 193 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:37.600 We can try. 194 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:40.679 There's no harm in that, mark my words, Captain. 195 00:10:40.759 --> 00:10:42.960 Before we get to Sydney, all of us will probably 196 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:44.039 have their throats cut. 197 00:10:44.519 --> 00:10:50.120 Come on, Pink and I with two seamen, armed ourselves 198 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:52.679 and went down into the hole and stood outside the bars, 199 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:57.960 and men inside were quiet, very quiet. I just looked 200 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:03.759 at us, dark lighth men. I'll talk to them. 201 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:04.600 Hey, you listen to me. 202 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:09.960 We know some of you are carrying knives, and I 203 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:15.279 want you to turn out here. Nothing further will be 204 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:18.960 said about it if you do as I say. 205 00:11:19.879 --> 00:11:24.480 Well, oh, oh, Captain, my porridge wasn't arteredo this morning? 206 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:28.360 And please can I have sugar in it tomorrow. 207 00:11:30.799 --> 00:11:32.840 That ain't the way to talk to this gun. 208 00:11:34.679 --> 00:11:38.759 Captain. The gentlemen, I'm not you know me, don't you? 209 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:39.720 We know you? 210 00:11:39.919 --> 00:11:43.120 All right? You hebby you listen to me. 211 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:46.519 I'm giving you until morning to throw them knives out 212 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:51.039 of here. Till morning if emvery blasted one ain't done 213 00:11:51.039 --> 00:11:53.759 of your daddy hands, I'm gonna have your clock, everybody, 214 00:11:53.759 --> 00:11:55.679 one of you, fifty lashes? 215 00:11:56.480 --> 00:11:58.240 Do you hear that, mister Abby? 216 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:01.879 I'll think about. 217 00:12:02.080 --> 00:12:07.919 Two mornings, then fifty lasses. You think about that, mister Abe. 218 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:25.759 Good morning, Captain Dear and mister Finn. 219 00:12:25.639 --> 00:12:27.519 You felt they come? Where's them nines? 220 00:12:27.720 --> 00:12:29.279 Where they do the most good? 221 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:32.919 All right, I've given you a chance. I've played fair 222 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:33.840 and defence. 223 00:12:34.519 --> 00:12:37.679 May I may I have a word with you? 224 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:39.039 Oh, come back to your senses. 225 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:41.799 Have you been close to the bar? Of course? That 226 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:45.480 what I got to say? I got a whisper? 227 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:46.080 What is it? 228 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:46.559 What is it? 229 00:12:47.080 --> 00:12:47.279 Well? 230 00:12:47.320 --> 00:12:49.559 Now it goes like this. 231 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:59.240 Ere, that's an hundred lessons works. I'll take you first. 232 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:04.360 And handle a catmss oh, why not take him fat? 233 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:07.120 He won't feel it like I will. 234 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:14.279 A crowd of men parted suddenly, and from out of 235 00:13:14.320 --> 00:13:18.279 them was pushed what had once been a man. It 236 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:20.919 fell against the bars, and then, no longer with the 237 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:25.919 support of living arms, slid to the deck. We looked 238 00:13:25.919 --> 00:13:29.399 at him, finching me his life had been worth a 239 00:13:29.559 --> 00:13:36.080 sovereign maybe two. He hadn't either now and the knives 240 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:49.080 were still in the old with them that had killed him. 241 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:52.279 We will return to Escape in just a moment, But first, 242 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:55.440 many a baseball manager has felt the need of divine 243 00:13:55.480 --> 00:13:58.840 guidance to win the pennant, at least once the story 244 00:13:58.879 --> 00:14:02.480 goes it actually happened. And here George Murphy, Janet Lee, 245 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:06.240 and child star Donna Kacorn in Angels in the Outfield 246 00:14:06.279 --> 00:14:09.960 on most of these same CBS radio stations. Enjoy this 247 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:12.879 fabulous comedy at the Stars Address tomorrow night. 248 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:14.639 On the Lux Radio Theater. 249 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:18.279 Now back to Escape. 250 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:44.000 Now as I sees it, we've got to have a 251 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:45.639 councilor war in a manner of speaking. 252 00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:47.639 I'll tell you one thing, mister Finch. There will be 253 00:14:47.720 --> 00:14:48.320 no flogging. 254 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:49.759 I can see your shop. 255 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:53.679 Are you up? That's right, too dangerous. 256 00:14:53.960 --> 00:14:56.519 We ain't on for it there in a nasty mood. 257 00:14:57.399 --> 00:14:59.120 We've got to be crafty, same as them. 258 00:14:59.559 --> 00:15:01.480 I wish I could spill the whole lot of mobile 259 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:04.120 board and lose your contract for carrying them. 260 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:05.799 Not bloody likely. 261 00:15:06.279 --> 00:15:06.960 You're listening here. 262 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:10.000 I'll get them knives. It's Abby behind this. He tells 263 00:15:10.039 --> 00:15:12.000 them what's what. Get him out and the others will 264 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:12.480 come around. 265 00:15:12.679 --> 00:15:15.480 Mark my words, are you going into the old orchard? 266 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:18.440 When we're in there? 267 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:22.759 After we cut off their water and food, feel the 268 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:24.799 etch and you see what happens. 269 00:15:25.159 --> 00:15:26.759 I die, They'll die from knives. 270 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:29.519 In which do you want? They'll be begging you to 271 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:30.399 take their ruddy. 272 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:32.559 Knives in three days, and if they don't, we'll tell 273 00:15:32.559 --> 00:15:34.159 them to end over. Abby to us that he's the 274 00:15:34.200 --> 00:15:35.559 one to blame for their misfortunes. 275 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:40.279 They'll do it, all right, that's the only way. I'll 276 00:15:40.279 --> 00:15:40.840 give the order. 277 00:15:40.919 --> 00:15:44.559 But not just yet. We'll let them sit down there 278 00:15:44.600 --> 00:15:45.120 and won day. 279 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:47.559 You wonder what we're gonna do about them. 280 00:15:48.039 --> 00:15:51.159 Some of them may get nervous. We let them wonder 281 00:15:51.200 --> 00:16:01.159 a bit. I didn't see finch through the day. The 282 00:16:01.159 --> 00:16:04.080 barometer had fallen suddenly, and with it came a storm. 283 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:05.759 I can tell you I had my hands fall for 284 00:16:05.799 --> 00:16:07.720 the next twenty four hours there, with no time to 285 00:16:07.759 --> 00:16:09.480 worry about what was going on in the old of 286 00:16:09.480 --> 00:16:11.720 the ship, but I didn't think they'd have much stomach 287 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:15.120 for knifing each other and killing. Next morning, at breakfast, 288 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:18.120 he didn't turn up at all. He searched the old ship, 289 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:20.919 and then I went down into the hole, and that's 290 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:25.519 where he was. And he hadn't died quickly. Someone had 291 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:30.240 held him against the bars, and the other said he 292 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:31.240 hadn't died quickly. 293 00:16:31.679 --> 00:16:32.879 Present for your captain? 294 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:36.440 Who did this? Who did it? I wouldn't waste sleep 295 00:16:36.480 --> 00:16:39.759 warning him, Captain. He was a bully and no better 296 00:16:39.799 --> 00:16:42.879 than us, except that he was outside happy. Well, I 297 00:16:42.919 --> 00:16:45.240 thought you were sheckled, Yes I was, But mister Finch 298 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:47.080 kind of supplied the key to one first and me. 299 00:16:47.360 --> 00:16:51.440 You're going to pay for this. All of you were 300 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:52.720 those knives. 301 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:55.360 In here, Captain for the coming and kitten. 302 00:16:57.200 --> 00:16:58.320 You won't pay for this. 303 00:16:58.519 --> 00:17:08.119 You're repeating yourself, Captain, Good morning, lasted convictor dismissed me 304 00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:10.920 like I was a clerk in an office. There wasn't 305 00:17:10.920 --> 00:17:13.240 anything I could do about it. We think out of 306 00:17:13.279 --> 00:17:16.000 the way. They knew I was an easy mark. It 307 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:18.279 was the knights that got on my nerves. I could 308 00:17:18.359 --> 00:17:22.799 hear things happening lots of things. It was awful those 309 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:25.720 devils with the knives. Each morning we'd have to pull 310 00:17:25.799 --> 00:17:28.559 out six or a dozen, all cut about and bleeding. 311 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:33.680 Most of them died. Those with the knives were getting money, 312 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:36.680 money they sold from the victims. Are began to be 313 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:39.079 afraid of me, crewman like one would take a bribe 314 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:42.319 and let that murdering crowd out. I walked around with 315 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:45.440 two pistols in the jacket all the time. And then 316 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:50.000 late one afternoon, something very bad happened. I was standing 317 00:17:50.039 --> 00:17:50.599 by the wheel. 318 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:55.000 Captain, Captain here person he got answer, got up big 319 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:55.640 one Abby. 320 00:17:55.799 --> 00:17:57.880 Two of us were standing. God, we were a scream. 321 00:17:57.960 --> 00:18:00.599 It was Abby said he'd been stabbed. Benson ope for 322 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:02.480 the girl to get in, and Abby beast him on 323 00:18:02.480 --> 00:18:03.160 the head and bolted. 324 00:18:03.240 --> 00:18:03.920 What about the others? 325 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:05.440 I got the girls in time. 326 00:18:05.720 --> 00:18:06.640 They are safe enough. 327 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:09.519 He must be somewhere on the ships unless he went overboard. 328 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:11.920 Not that one. He's up to mischief. Yeah, take one 329 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:15.319 of my mister and pass out the muskets. I want 330 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:17.799 every inch of the ship searched. If he puts up 331 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:20.440 a fight, shoot him, do you hear me? 332 00:18:21.200 --> 00:18:31.480 Shoot him? 333 00:18:31.559 --> 00:18:34.519 The night comes quickly in southern parts. If you ever 334 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:36.599 try to search a ship at night with the lanterns, 335 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:40.839 it's not easy. And too many shadows, too many sounds, 336 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:43.920 which could be rats or a murder who's bigger than 337 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:45.720 what you are and could choke your life about in 338 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:48.839 a half a minute. We couldn't find him, but he 339 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:53.240 was somewhere aboard, waiting his time because we were shorthanded, 340 00:18:53.279 --> 00:18:55.480 what with the crew searching, and all eyes stood a watch, 341 00:18:55.839 --> 00:18:58.359 And I thought about that man who Finch said had 342 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:06.960 committed three murders in Australia. Don't turn around, Captain, it's 343 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:12.640 only a little knife, but don't move twenty one. I'll talk. 344 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:17.000 I've nothing to side to the likes, are you Abby? 345 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:18.240 That maybe? 346 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:20.799 But I have an offer to make you. 347 00:19:20.799 --> 00:19:22.759 You know what I'm you know what I'm in for 348 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:26.279 when we reach Sydney, Finch told me, I've not pity 349 00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:29.160 for you, Abby, I'm not asking for pity. I have 350 00:19:29.200 --> 00:19:32.079 an offer to make. The men below are planning to 351 00:19:32.119 --> 00:19:34.519 take the ship. I don't think they've got a chance, 352 00:19:34.680 --> 00:19:38.240 but they'll be killing those that have got the knives. 353 00:19:38.240 --> 00:19:41.279 Have got all the money too. It's twelve hundred pounds 354 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:44.880 I'm aware of that, mister, I can get the knives 355 00:19:44.920 --> 00:19:46.400 for you. Huh. 356 00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:48.720 All I want is a chance to get away before 357 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:49.480 the ship docks. 358 00:19:50.920 --> 00:19:56.119 I don't want to know. It's not a trick turn around, Captain. Yeah, 359 00:19:56.319 --> 00:19:59.960 my knife. Well that convince you. You must have a pistol. 360 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:04.200 You can shoot me if you want. What makes you 361 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:07.000 think you can get the knives away from the mabbey. 362 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:08.079 I can. 363 00:20:08.200 --> 00:20:13.759 That's all you need to know. I couldn't help you openly. 364 00:20:13.799 --> 00:20:16.119 You know that you put aboard as a murderer. You're 365 00:20:16.160 --> 00:20:17.839 in my charge and it's my job to turn you 366 00:20:17.880 --> 00:20:20.079 over to the police as soon as we arrive. Then 367 00:20:23.559 --> 00:20:26.960 if you could get the knives, though, I might be 368 00:20:27.039 --> 00:20:30.160 able to give you a chance to clear out. That's 369 00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:34.960 all I want, the chance, all right. I must have 370 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:38.079 a pistol. What a pistol? You take me for a fool. No, 371 00:20:38.400 --> 00:20:41.039 it's the only way to get the knives. I give 372 00:20:41.079 --> 00:20:44.279 you this pistol. You shoot me. Not likely. If I 373 00:20:44.279 --> 00:20:46.440 had wanted to do that, Captain, I'd have cut your 374 00:20:46.519 --> 00:20:53.519 throat two minutes ago. You're a murderer. I know you 375 00:20:53.559 --> 00:20:56.640 can't have it, and it's either them or your ship 376 00:20:56.720 --> 00:21:04.519 and probably your life. Well, you talk like a gentleman, 377 00:21:04.599 --> 00:21:06.880 mister Eddie. But suppose you want my pistol. So as 378 00:21:06.920 --> 00:21:10.440 you come free, you just have to trust me as 379 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:15.720 I trust you, to give me a chance to get away. Yeah, 380 00:21:16.359 --> 00:21:19.680 take it. What about the guards below? They'll shoot. I'll 381 00:21:19.720 --> 00:21:22.559 take you down. I'll say I caught you. How do 382 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:24.720 I get out again? When I've got the knives? You 383 00:21:24.839 --> 00:21:29.079 send word that you want to see me, all right, captain, 384 00:21:30.079 --> 00:21:33.839 I'm trusting you now. I want that chance to get away. 385 00:21:34.079 --> 00:21:38.039 We'll talk about it if you get the knives. Come on, 386 00:21:38.079 --> 00:21:40.440 I'll take you below now and you've come back to morrow. 387 00:21:57.079 --> 00:21:59.920 Keep your voice low, Captain. They think I am tricking you, 388 00:22:00.200 --> 00:22:03.039 making a bargain. I think I stole the pistol. I 389 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:04.480 told them I had to have the knives to make 390 00:22:04.519 --> 00:22:05.920 you believe that we wouldn't make trouble. 391 00:22:06.759 --> 00:22:08.240 I said we'd take over the ship tonight. 392 00:22:08.839 --> 00:22:09.799 What do you want me to do? 393 00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:13.519 Leave me the key to the grill. I'll slip out 394 00:22:13.559 --> 00:22:15.119 tonight and bring you the knives. 395 00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:18.200 We don't want you to let them out, do I won't. 396 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:22.400 I'll lock it hell, I know you will. You don't. 397 00:22:23.240 --> 00:22:26.480 You will have to trust me, captain. Did they know 398 00:22:26.599 --> 00:22:28.440 about this plan all except for the fact that I 399 00:22:28.440 --> 00:22:30.279 am going to lock them in once im out. 400 00:22:31.319 --> 00:22:32.680 Give me the knives now. 401 00:22:32.880 --> 00:22:36.480