Speaker 1: Tired of the everyday routine. Ever dream of a life
Speaker 1: of romantic adventure, want to get away from it?
Speaker 2: A we offer you escape, Escape transcribe to free you
Speaker 2: from the four walls of today for a half hour
Speaker 2: up high adventure.
Speaker 1: You are trapped in a dark, empty house, a girl
Speaker 1: lying dead at your feet, and surrounding you, closing in
Speaker 1: on you are a band of killers, deadly enemies of
Speaker 1: your country and yourself, and they are intent on murdering you.
Speaker 2: Today, with Barry Kroger starred as David, we escape to
Speaker 2: England and the story of a man whose life depended
Speaker 2: upon the outcome of his mission. As Graham Greene told
Speaker 2: it in his fascinating story Confidential Agent.
Speaker 3: It was getting dark as the ship threaded its way
Speaker 3: through the tugs into Dover Harbor. The thick fog gave
Speaker 3: way reluctantly to the ship. It swirled over the deck.
Speaker 3: There was a cold bite to it, chilling me inside
Speaker 3: and out. Yet in a way, this cold English fog
Speaker 3: was more comforting than the atmosphere I had left for
Speaker 3: in my country.
Speaker 4: There was war already.
Speaker 3: Austria had fallen before the goose stepping armies of a
Speaker 3: madman and now my country was fighting with it back
Speaker 3: to the wall. In order to continue the fight, we
Speaker 3: needed industrial diamonds to shape the tools of war. That's
Speaker 3: why I was now landing in England. There were others
Speaker 3: in my country, a group headed by a man known
Speaker 3: only as the Baron, who wanted to turn our country
Speaker 3: over to the invader, who would do anything to stop
Speaker 3: us from getting the diamonds we needed. So you see,
Speaker 3: my mission was a secret one. Not even our own
Speaker 3: embassy knew of it. So far, the trip had been uneventful,
Speaker 3: except for meeting the girl, her names Rose Cullin.
Speaker 4: At first, she seemed too curious.
Speaker 3: Asking questions about my trip, my visit my friends, and
Speaker 3: I wondered if she were working with the Baron.
Speaker 4: But there's time wore on.
Speaker 3: I decided I'd been mistaken, and I accepted her offer
Speaker 3: to drive me to London.
Speaker 4: Twenty minutes after we had ducked.
Speaker 3: We were through the customs and walking towards the car park.
Speaker 3: Rose suddenly asked me to excuse her for a moment.
Speaker 3: Almost before I could answer her, she had vanished in
Speaker 3: the fog.
Speaker 5: Good evening, David Barron, I've been expecting you.
Speaker 4: We have nothing to talk about, Baron.
Speaker 5: I think we could find the subject diamonds, for example,
Speaker 5: or perhaps I could interest you in accepting let us
Speaker 5: say two thousand pounds. For our point of view, say
Speaker 5: two thousand pounds.
Speaker 4: I still say, we have nothing to talk about.
Speaker 5: An honest man. It's a very dangerous hobby, David, honesty.
Speaker 5: You may remember an old saying in our country, the
Speaker 5: honest man and the thief both pay the same price
Speaker 5: to death.
Speaker 4: Goodbye, David.
Speaker 3: He raised his hand in an open palm salute and
Speaker 3: walked away, the fog quickly swelling up to hide him.
Speaker 4: He's a shot aimed at me. I jumped back against
Speaker 4: the wall.
Speaker 3: There was nothing to see but fog, gray wisps of
Speaker 3: fog blanketing out everything. There was no way of telling
Speaker 3: from where death had tried to strike, or from where
Speaker 3: it might strike again.
Speaker 4: Then I heard her returning. Had she left me to
Speaker 4: give them their chance?
Speaker 3: Or had it been her finger manicured and perfumed that
Speaker 3: had curled around the trigger.
Speaker 6: Sorry to be so long, David, Are you ready?
Speaker 4: Yes? I I was talking to your friend, the baron.
Speaker 6: The baron. He must be mistaken. I don't know. Baron,
Speaker 6: come along, did he say?
Speaker 7: He knew me.
Speaker 4: No, perhaps I am mistaken.
Speaker 6: Of course it might be someone I met at father's.
Speaker 6: He loves to surround himself with titles.
Speaker 4: Who is your father?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 6: Hell we are? Will you drive? I'm simply exhausted.
Speaker 7: My father?
Speaker 6: Oh is Lord Bandage?
Speaker 4: Didn't you know Lord Banditch? But I thought your name
Speaker 4: is Colin.
Speaker 6: Of course, my father's name was Edward Cullen. After his
Speaker 6: first million pounds, he became Edward Lord Bendage. It's really
Speaker 6: quite simple.
Speaker 3: I came here to do business with Lord Banditch. Isn't
Speaker 3: that coincidence?
Speaker 6: Everybody I meet has business with him? I see, I
Speaker 6: can't think of anything more dull than father's business. What
Speaker 6: are you thinking?
Speaker 4: How in my country?
Speaker 3: I would go along a country road like this very slowly,
Speaker 3: ready to jump into a ditch if I heard the plane.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure the war has not followed me here.
Speaker 6: Don't be silly. The only war here is between the
Speaker 6: Prime Minister, who talks about peace in our time and
Speaker 6: mister Churchill, who talks just as long about the glory
Speaker 6: that was Briton's. And nobody believes in anything.
Speaker 4: You're very cynical for such a pretty girl.
Speaker 6: What is there for me to believe in my father's
Speaker 6: diamands hardly something to get passionate about.
Speaker 4: You have no young.
Speaker 6: Man plenty if I want to know who scored sixty
Speaker 6: runs in the Lancing Brighton cricket match on the odds
Speaker 6: at Ebsom Darns, but there's no excitement.
Speaker 3: If it's excitement you want, perhaps we still will get it.
Speaker 3: One of my countrymen tried to kill me just before
Speaker 3: you joined me. It's true he or his men will
Speaker 3: certainly try again before I reach your father.
Speaker 6: Don't be so melodramatic. Things like that don't happen except
Speaker 6: in thrillers, unless, of course, you're a spy.
Speaker 4: Are you? No? No, I'm more of a confidential agent.
Speaker 6: What's the matter?
Speaker 4: What's that ahead of us?
Speaker 6: What's just a liar?
Speaker 4: Why is he blocking the roads?
Speaker 3: I'm sorry you're mixed up in this role.
Speaker 6: There's a pullet in the window.
Speaker 3: Shiet?
Speaker 6: What someone is trying to kill you?
Speaker 3: Yes, we must go to the police with what we
Speaker 3: saw when we could identify it, but we.
Speaker 6: Struck one of them. I felt the car hit him.
Speaker 6: Couldn't they be.
Speaker 3: Traced by Olibert? Proof is that I ran him down?
Speaker 3: In fact, they might use that to have me arrested.
Speaker 3: If the baron fails to kill me, and I think
Speaker 3: I can see that, then it would serve him almost
Speaker 3: as much to have me arrested for murder. It was
Speaker 3: late at night when we reached London. Rose wanted to
Speaker 3: drive me to my destination, but I refused. It wasn't
Speaker 3: entirely distrust, but the fear that she might lead them
Speaker 3: to me without realizing it.
Speaker 4: So she dropped me off in the West End. When
Speaker 4: she had driven on, I.
Speaker 3: Stopped the taxi gave the driver of the address. He
Speaker 3: brought me to an old two story house. It's dirty,
Speaker 3: gray front, bearing witness to the poverty of the neighborhood.
Speaker 7: Here you are, governor.
Speaker 4: This is number ten, Mallow End. That's your governor, just
Speaker 4: over there. You up across the road and you'll be
Speaker 4: at the door.
Speaker 3: How can you be so sure a driver, it's so
Speaker 3: foggy here I can't see the number.
Speaker 4: Ah, Canada carded the asses from the corner of Eye Street.
Speaker 4: I say it's unber ten, all right, all right, that
Speaker 4: will be three and sixpence. Oh, yes, of course here
Speaker 4: you are. Oh, oh thanks very much, governor, Thank you,
Speaker 4: good night, Good night.
Speaker 3: I stepped closer and peered through the fog that blanketed
Speaker 3: the buildings. Only here and there eple gleam of lights
Speaker 3: triggling through. I stood there for a moment looking at it.
Speaker 3: There was no light visible in any of the windows,
Speaker 3: and I wondered, fear pressing in with a fog, if
Speaker 3: something had happened to our agent. I kept my hand
Speaker 3: near my gun as I pressed the button beside the door.
Speaker 3: If something had happened to our agent, this might be
Speaker 3: a trap. The door opened a few inches, and a
Speaker 3: pinched elfin face neither old nor young.
Speaker 4: Looked out at me.
Speaker 6: What do you want this time of night?
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, but I'm David, David d as in Diamonds.
Speaker 9: Oh, come in.
Speaker 6: Just a minute.
Speaker 9: I'll turn on the lights. You you're much younger than
Speaker 9: I thought you would be.
Speaker 4: We are using them younger these days.
Speaker 6: I was just making a spot of tea. Perhaps you'd
Speaker 6: like so.
Speaker 4: Oh, yes, I would very much see.
Speaker 9: I've been very careful with lights since I saw someone
Speaker 9: watching the house.
Speaker 4: Two days ago, one of the barons men.
Speaker 6: You think, I don't know. I just thought it better
Speaker 6: not to take chances.
Speaker 4: The baron came over on the same boat with me.
Speaker 6: Oh did he see you? Oh?
Speaker 4: Yes, thank you. We even had a short talk.
Speaker 9: At the customers you what did he say?
Speaker 4: You offered me money for a vacation.
Speaker 9: How much?
Speaker 6: Two thousand pounds you refused?
Speaker 9: Of course, two thousand pounds.
Speaker 4: Oh, this tastes good after being out in the fog.
Speaker 9: It's more money than I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 9: How do I know you refused?
Speaker 4: I suppose that's a question I would ask too. Where
Speaker 4: I in your place?
Speaker 9: You know, I wonder if that isn't the Baron's biggest
Speaker 9: crime against us, But he's made us eternally suspicious of
Speaker 9: each other.
Speaker 4: Yes, what is your name?
Speaker 6: Elsie?
Speaker 4: Elsie?
Speaker 3: Well, Elsie, you don't know that I didn't take the
Speaker 3: two thousand pounds, But I am going to see Lord
Speaker 3: Bendage tomorrow and maybe that will.
Speaker 9: Prove it, and then you'll be going back Monday. Yes,
Speaker 9: oh I see.
Speaker 4: Now what do you have for me?
Speaker 6: Not very much? You see.
Speaker 9: I know that the Baron has friends everywhere, even in
Speaker 9: the English government. But Lord Bendit will deal with you
Speaker 9: first if you are there on time and can prove
Speaker 9: you represent your government.
Speaker 4: If I did not show up, then he'd be free
Speaker 4: to deal with the baron.
Speaker 6: Yes, that's it exactly.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 9: Look, if you're seeing benditge on his syndicate tomorrow, then
Speaker 9: I must warn you again.
Speaker 3: You shot came through the window. I leaped to the wall,
Speaker 3: turn of the light, and not found the wrist. There
Speaker 3: was no pulse. Elsie was dead, kneeling there. I cursed
Speaker 3: myself the minute she told me that someone had been
Speaker 3: watching the house. I should have known that both of
Speaker 3: us had to get out. I should have known there.
Speaker 4: Was no time for tea and talk.
Speaker 3: Suddenly tied a sound the door. The killer or killers
Speaker 3: were in the house. To stay there in that dark,
Speaker 3: small room, try to shoot it out with them. Could
Speaker 3: have only one ending. They were blocking off the front door,
Speaker 3: and I couldn't leave through a window. I'd be a
Speaker 3: perfect target that way. I began to edge toward the other.
Speaker 4: Door in the back.
Speaker 3: It was slow work. Then I was in what seemed
Speaker 3: to be a kitchen. A gloomy patch of light guided
Speaker 3: me to the door. I pressed my face to the glass,
Speaker 3: strained the sea outside.
Speaker 4: A man was standing only a.
Speaker 3: Few feet from the back door. There was only one
Speaker 3: other way to go up. I slipped out of the
Speaker 3: kitchen into the hall. What seemed hours. I found the
Speaker 3: stairway and carefully stepped on the first step.
Speaker 4: It creaked and I leaped higher up than one side.
Speaker 4: Just another step. There was only one thing to do.
Speaker 4: I raced up the stairs. I flung myself to the floor.
Speaker 3: Downstairs. I heard the front door open again. More of
Speaker 3: them had entered the house. They were taking no chances.
Speaker 3: I lay there on the floor at the head of
Speaker 3: the stairs, scarcely daring to breathe. I knew I could
Speaker 3: get anyone coming up that stairs with my gun. But
Speaker 3: was there another stairway to the second floor. I knew
Speaker 3: so many of these houses had them, Perhaps this one
Speaker 3: did too. And somewhere outside I heard something up against
Speaker 3: the side of the house. One of them was trying
Speaker 3: to get in. One of them was coming in through
Speaker 3: some window on the second floor.
Speaker 4: From every side. Death was closing in on me.
Speaker 2: In just a moment, we will return to escape, But first,
Speaker 2: that happy but hectic couple, Ozzie and Harriet, come home
Speaker 2: to CBS tomorrow at six thirty Eastern Standard time. So
Speaker 2: get your whole family together to welcome them home. Next
Speaker 2: Sunday night, when they'll be heard on most of these
Speaker 2: same CBS stations. Just before the Jack Benny Show, and
Speaker 2: now with our star Barry Kroger is David, we returned
Speaker 2: to the second act of escape and confidential Agent.
Speaker 3: I was on the second floor of the old house
Speaker 3: on Mallon End, and the baron's men were downstairs, slowly
Speaker 3: working their way up to me, searching me out. It
Speaker 3: was a quick decision. The open rooftop presented a chance
Speaker 3: of escape. Lying here in the dark was tempting discovery.
Speaker 3: A moment later I was through a skylight and in
Speaker 3: five hours away I found fire. Escaping has reached the
Speaker 3: ground and two blocks father on Blant Street, I found
Speaker 3: a cheap hotel and registered under another name. The next
Speaker 3: morning I took a taxi to the house of Lord Bandage.
Speaker 3: The butler, with the empty face of the typical British servant,
Speaker 3: took my court and then showed me into the room
Speaker 3: where Lord Bendage and four other men waited. These men
Speaker 3: were the Diamonds Syndicate.
Speaker 7: You're the men we're expecting.
Speaker 4: Yes, I think you'll know the object of my visit.
Speaker 10: We had a letter a farther to go strange. The
Speaker 10: purchase wasn't handled through your embassy or counselor.
Speaker 8: This is mister.
Speaker 10: Mister Briggstock, mister Grade. You'll forgive us if we get
Speaker 10: the business right away.
Speaker 4: I should like that, I am.
Speaker 3: I'm prepared to pay the highest market price for which
Speaker 3: I have here a side draft and a bonus of
Speaker 3: twenty five percent after the diamonds reached my country.
Speaker 11: You will take the diamonds yourself. Oh yes, then the
Speaker 11: bonus should be paid now.
Speaker 7: Bendage is right, old boy. You might never go back then,
Speaker 7: well should we.
Speaker 12: Be, Perhaps, Lord Benditch, we could accept the offer as
Speaker 12: it is if we are given notes covering the bonus.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, I'm quite prepared to do that very well.
Speaker 11: You understand we could do better than this, but we'd
Speaker 11: like to do business with established governments. We must, however,
Speaker 11: be certain that you have the right to speak for
Speaker 11: your government. You have your credentials, of course, certainly I
Speaker 11: have them. Something wrong, that's that's extraordinary. I had them
Speaker 11: in my breast pocket with my passport here.
Speaker 8: CLUBSHO left them at your hotel morning after a tacky evening.
Speaker 3: I had them right here when I entered this house.
Speaker 3: You're implying I did have my papers, they had been stolen.
Speaker 10: I dare say, it's obvious. We can't do business with
Speaker 10: an unaccredited agent.
Speaker 7: Rough, go boy, it looks like you've heard it.
Speaker 12: We are sorry, but Lord ben Ditch is right.
Speaker 4: We walked slowly out of the room. I must admit
Speaker 4: they were fair.
Speaker 3: The butler must have taken the papers when they helped
Speaker 3: me off with my coat.
Speaker 4: But I had no proof.
Speaker 3: I went out in the hall put in my coat
Speaker 3: from the wreck. I was about to leave when I
Speaker 3: heard my name. It was Rose Culling.
Speaker 6: David, did you get the diamonds from plat?
Speaker 3: No, my papers have been stolen, and your father won't
Speaker 3: deal with me since I could not prove I represent
Speaker 3: my government.
Speaker 4: Rose, do you know it's your father's butler? You?
Speaker 6: I think so, although I didn't really notice. I don't
Speaker 6: live here, I have my own apartment. You mean you
Speaker 6: think he?
Speaker 3: I'm sure of it. I had my papers when I
Speaker 3: came up the steps. They were gone when I went
Speaker 3: to show them to your father.
Speaker 6: Then that means come along, David, we'll find out.
Speaker 3: No Rose, that would do no good. I'm sure that
Speaker 3: the Baron will have covered all loopholes. The papers are
Speaker 3: far away by now. No, I must think of some
Speaker 3: other way to convince your father.
Speaker 6: Well, isn't there someone at your embassy?
Speaker 4: I don't think so.
Speaker 3: We don't trust them except perhaps the second secretary. He
Speaker 3: but even he may have been reached.
Speaker 6: But we've got to do something we can't.
Speaker 4: Just why do you suddenly want to happen me? Only
Speaker 4: last night you were laughing at me? Rose?
Speaker 6: Maybe I was last night?
Speaker 4: Well then, why, oh, David?
Speaker 6: Can't you guess why? I want to help you to
Speaker 6: be with you?
Speaker 4: Rose?
Speaker 6: Look all you think of is your stupid war. Last
Speaker 6: night I laughed at you because you were a stuffy
Speaker 6: little man from another country, builled with ideas of his
Speaker 6: own importance and briefs and papers. After I've had a
Speaker 6: chance to think things over, I know this isn't true.
Speaker 4: Rose.
Speaker 3: A man in my position has to give up many things.
Speaker 3: He has no time to.
Speaker 6: Fall in love. Why not, David?
Speaker 8: Why not?
Speaker 1: Rose?
Speaker 6: All right? I won't embarrass you. Now tell me something.
Speaker 6: Forbes and Briggstock were with father when you met.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, they were all right.
Speaker 6: Then Briggstock is an asked, But they'll both help your
Speaker 6: country if they're sure it's all right, I'll get them,
Speaker 6: and the four of us will go to your embassy.
Speaker 6: We'll make them prove who you are.
Speaker 4: She was right.
Speaker 3: They both did seem anxious to help and were quite
Speaker 3: willing to go to the embassy with us. At the embassy,
Speaker 3: we waited for the second secretary. Then a man appeared,
Speaker 3: a countryman of mine, although I had never seen him before.
Speaker 4: I help you, gentlemen.
Speaker 12: Yes, my name is Forbes. This is mister Briggstock. We
Speaker 12: are associated with Lord Bended. This is his daughter. We
Speaker 12: are considering doing business with this other gentleman who claims
Speaker 12: to represent your government.
Speaker 10: I know of no official representative being sent to here.
Speaker 4: What is your name, sir? Here is my passport.
Speaker 10: See this is very strange, mister Forbes. The man whose
Speaker 10: name is on this passport is no longer alive. Oh
Speaker 10: you he were shot by the rebels.
Speaker 6: Oh you're lying. You didn't even look at the passport.
Speaker 6: You had your story ready before we even got here.
Speaker 10: As a matter of fact, yes, we were one that
Speaker 10: someone was pausing as this man. We've had a Scotland
Speaker 10: yard man here hoping to show up Inspector Scotland order.
Speaker 7: We'll go to the bottom of these.
Speaker 4: I have no doubt.
Speaker 7: Is this the man?
Speaker 13: Yes, and here is his passport, Inspector, I see, well, sir,
Speaker 13: we're going to have to hold.
Speaker 6: You on what charges inspected?
Speaker 13: Oh, there are several miss using a forged passport, illegal
Speaker 13: entry into the country, trying to obtain a contract on
Speaker 13: the false pretenses, inquiry into a hit and run death
Speaker 13: on the Dover Road last night, and inquiry into the
Speaker 13: death of a young woman on melon in what a.
Speaker 4: Very fuse to accompany you, Inspector.
Speaker 13: Well, in that case, sir, I'm afraid I'll have to
Speaker 13: force you if you.
Speaker 4: Didn't, Inspector, I have a gun here. He doesn't need it.
Speaker 4: Don't try to find me through the door.
Speaker 6: Wait, David, I'm coming with you.
Speaker 3: The door was backed out of the room and ran downstairs.
Speaker 3: I knew it would be only a matter of minutes
Speaker 3: before there'd be an alarm out. Then Scotland Yard would
Speaker 3: be looking for me, as well as the Baron's men.
Speaker 3: I'm sure that I could beat the murder charges, but
Speaker 3: by that time it would be too late to get
Speaker 3: the industrial diamonds to my country, even if I could
Speaker 3: buy them. Rose took me to her apartment then, without
Speaker 3: telling me what she was going to do.
Speaker 4: She left. An hour later she was back, David. It worked.
Speaker 4: What work.
Speaker 6: I went to find Forbes and Brigstock. I convinced them
Speaker 6: that you don't dare stay and face the charges, and
Speaker 6: they're going to sell you the diamonds you need in
Speaker 6: spite of father. Isn't it wonderful you are.
Speaker 4: I don't know how I can never repay.
Speaker 6: You by taking me back with you.
Speaker 4: Rose Darling. I told you before, I'm.
Speaker 6: Not asking you to marry me. I'm only asking to
Speaker 6: go back with you to take part in something that's
Speaker 6: decent and honest. After that, we'll take what comes.
Speaker 3: You don't know what you're asking, Rose. It is not
Speaker 3: so simple as just going back. What do you mean
Speaker 3: after the this cotton yard will be watching every ship
Speaker 3: leaving England. I can't book passage. I'll have to find
Speaker 3: somewhere to slip out.
Speaker 4: Of the country.
Speaker 6: Forbes gonna arrange that too, after you get the diamonds.
Speaker 3: Forbes and Brigstock brought the diamonds, a small package that
Speaker 3: meant life for at least a while longer to my country.
Speaker 3: They both seemed only embarrassed when I tried to thank them,
Speaker 3: and when they left. Rose went with him that, not
Speaker 3: being gone long, there was a knock on the door.
Speaker 3: I hate, I hesitated to answer to it.
Speaker 7: It's brick Stock, old boy, I.
Speaker 4: Say, let me in, mister Brigstock. Is something wrong?
Speaker 7: Another thing? Old boy?
Speaker 8: You know, it occurred to me that you're in a
Speaker 8: bit of a spot about getting out of the country
Speaker 8: now that you have the diamonds, and I dare happily
Speaker 8: struck me.
Speaker 7: So I just nipped back.
Speaker 4: You know how I can get away quiet?
Speaker 8: The perfect solution, old boy? Is this a gun estate
Speaker 8: of you to recognize it?
Speaker 4: No? No, no, shure you.
Speaker 7: I'm an expert shot, bullseye and all that sort of thing.
Speaker 4: You're one of them in.
Speaker 8: A metal speaking Yes, you see, I'm one of the
Speaker 8: fortunate few who recognize that democracies are decadened, too weak
Speaker 8: and all. Nothing for me to do but work with
Speaker 8: other Johnnies were.
Speaker 4: Gray an Aryan world for all you. Aaryan superman has
Speaker 4: that it.
Speaker 8: You know, Rose has exquisite taste in rugs. It's a
Speaker 8: pity you'll have to bleed all over.
Speaker 4: You're quite insane, brigsty.
Speaker 8: Not at all, you see, people like you never have
Speaker 8: the brains to understand the glorious world that we are
Speaker 8: going to build, a world dedicated to joyful strength.
Speaker 7: Forbs H wife say no, snsere older.
Speaker 12: They can never resist making speeches. I thought there was
Speaker 12: something suspicious about Brigstock leaving herself suddenly, so I followed him.
Speaker 12: But there's no time to talk.
Speaker 4: You have to get out of here quickly, shall I go?
Speaker 7: I own a resort.
Speaker 12: Hotel in the South Cross. I'll make a reservation for
Speaker 12: you tonight. One of my men will pick you up there,
Speaker 12: put you on a freighter bound for your country and Briggstock, Brigstock.
Speaker 4: Is our problem.
Speaker 12: I'll give them a full report of it when I
Speaker 12: turn myself in, as I must do. Perhaps perhaps my
Speaker 12: trial will help my country as much as your escape.
Speaker 4: Will help yours.
Speaker 3: I reached the hotel just as it was getting dark.
Speaker 3: The lobby was filled with men and women in shorts
Speaker 3: and jackets, all of them talking of sports.
Speaker 4: Surely no place was safer. I went over to buy
Speaker 4: a newspaper.
Speaker 7: I say, don't I know you? Your face is familiar?
Speaker 4: I don't believe so, foreigner, aren't you?
Speaker 7: Why ried so a photograph of you? And stop pres
Speaker 7: edition of the Express.
Speaker 4: I'm afraid you have made a mistake.
Speaker 12: I don't get away from Scotland Yard.
Speaker 7: Best police force in the world. No, I remember it
Speaker 7: was murdered, and don't try to get away.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 7: I shall take measures, you know.
Speaker 3: I thought that making a run for it, but there
Speaker 3: was no use. The rubby was filled with people. I
Speaker 3: couldn't hold up all of them. My captor sent someone
Speaker 3: to call the police. We sat down and waited.
Speaker 7: You foreigners aren't civilized, you know.
Speaker 8: Fellow told me when he was in Prague he saw
Speaker 8: trap shoot doumb a bobby right on the street.
Speaker 7: Can't do that sort of thing. No, anyone in here,
Speaker 7: Yeah we are.
Speaker 4: Are you the detective? Detective? Why? Yes, then here's your man.
Speaker 4: Oh I see I have a warrant, field arrest charging.
Speaker 3: I know the charge officer. Don't bother with it. Well,
Speaker 3: then come along. No handcuffs.
Speaker 4: Oh, I don't think that would be necessary. I have
Speaker 4: a car right out here. Well that was a close one,
Speaker 4: close one.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's a good thing you played along and I
Speaker 3: wouldn't have been sure what the charges were.
Speaker 4: You mean you're not a detective, Heaphnes. No, mister Forbes
Speaker 4: didn't tell me the yard was in this, or they
Speaker 4: weren't before.
Speaker 3: It was in the last edition of the paper. One
Speaker 3: man recognized me and called the police.
Speaker 4: It's lucky I came when I did that.
Speaker 3: Very well, we'll be at the coast before they get
Speaker 3: a search underway. We reached the coast in half an hour,
Speaker 3: and I was hoisted over the side of a smaller
Speaker 3: freighter like a piece of cargo. I stayed below until
Speaker 3: we were well underway, and then went above. The deck
Speaker 3: was uncovered, and the wind whipped the sharp.
Speaker 4: Spray across my face.
Speaker 3: I could feel the pressure of the package of diamonds
Speaker 3: in my pocket. My mission was over and I was
Speaker 3: on my way home. Yet I felt neither relief nor happiness.
Speaker 3: I had thought there was no room in my life
Speaker 3: for both war and love, but now that there was
Speaker 3: only war ahead, I felt empty. I stared off at
Speaker 3: the lights, glimmering somewhere far astern.
Speaker 6: That that would be Plymouth.
Speaker 4: Hope rose. This is not the time for tears.
Speaker 6: When I was a little girl, someone told me that
Speaker 6: most men don't know what they want. So they made gestures,
Speaker 6: and Forbes said the same thing this afternoon, and so
Speaker 6: I decided not to waste time, and I made the
Speaker 6: decision for both of.
Speaker 3: Us, between mister Forbes and yourself, my darling. It seems
Speaker 3: everything has been taken care of.
Speaker 2: Escape is produced and directed by Norman MacDonald. Today we
Speaker 2: have presented transcribed Confidential Agent by Graham Green, adapted for
Speaker 2: radio by Ken Crosson, with editorial supervision by John Duncle.
Speaker 12: Starred as David was Barry Kroger.
Speaker 2: Featured in the cast were Edgar Barrier, Constance Cavendish, Herb Butterfield,
Speaker 2: Parley Bear, Olive Dering, Ben Wright, Wilms Herbert and Alec Harford.
Speaker 2: Special music was arranged and played by Ivan det Mars.
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