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Speaker 1: BBS Radio Mystery Theater presents, come in.

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Speaker 2: Welcome.

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Speaker 1: I'm e. G.

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Speaker 3: Marshall.

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Speaker 4: Do you believe in predestination? Are you convinced as many

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people are, that the real science of the stars is

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not astronomy but astrologers. And even if you are not

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wholly persuaded, do you find that you turn by habit

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to glance at the daily horoscope in your favorite newspaper.

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Supposing just supposing that, like Amanda Amherst Sole, owner of a.

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Speaker 1: Chain of newspapers from coast to coast.

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Speaker 4: Left to her by her famous husband, and that you

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turn to Ethel Nixon's astrological column for the day and

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read the following score field.

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Speaker 3: This is a bad day for you. Your sudden death is imminent.

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Be sure to put all your affairs in order. You

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cannot escape the inevitability of the stars. It is a

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hard prediction to face, but it can only be justified

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out of what you've done to deserve it. Then, way

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out of their minds, that shaking little mouse ethels writing

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a bomb like this, she'll scare twenty five thousand people

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out of their wits or made. It's a laughing stock. E.

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This is Amanda amist put me through to the managing editor. Oh,

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come on, come on, Adam, it's Amanda. I want the

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press to stop, hold all deliveries and do everything you

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can to get our first run off the stands. Why

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just read Ethel Nixon's column for today and you'll see.

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I'm on my way down there now. And when I

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find out what's going on, heads are going to roll,

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and brother, none of them will be mine.

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Speaker 4: Our mystery drama Death in the Stars was written especially

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for the Mystery theater by Ian Martin and stars Kim Hunter.

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It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and

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Contact the twelve Hour Cold Capsules. I'll be back shortly

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with that one. Amanda Amherst before her marriage to Ralph Amherst,

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Amanda Hale, the country's most beautiful model, A reigning beauty, then,

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a reigning beauty now a woman who defies the encroachment

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of age, a woman one who controls an empire and

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everyone under her. Swede who wears a velvet glove so

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that few are conscious of the iron hand. Amanda Amherst,

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the grieving widow who has never remarried. Complex, adorable, kind, generous, difficult,

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and evil.

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Speaker 1: A woman.

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Speaker 4: Perhaps only her daughter Timid retiring Nancy knows completely.

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Speaker 3: I've hated my mother ever since I was seven. For

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thirteen years, I have wanted her dead. But I've been

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scared of her too, so all I could do was sanitize.

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I'll never forget the morning a famous horoscope turned up,

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not that I ever saw it with my own eyes. Actually,

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I didn't know what the fuss was all about. I

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was just scared because of my own clumsiness and thanking

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my lucky stars time enough not to get my head

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beat in the way things were between mother and me

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by that point, I just couldn't have taken it. I

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just slipped back into the apartment in time as it was,

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because she was screaming for me. Nancy, Nancy, Yes, yeah, yes, mother.

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Did you see my copy of the Post Journal? Oh

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you have it. I just wanted to grass at the headline.

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Give it to me. If you also check fel Nixon's predictions.

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Oh you know, I don't believe in that. No, I didn't.

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Why that mousey little nobody presented me with a real

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shocker under my astrological sign this morning. The gist of

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it was that I marked for death at any moment.

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What or you don't believe that? Mother? Of course I don't.

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I think it's someone's ideas. I'm a cob joke. I

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might have thought you were the culp which such as

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much as you despise and hate me, you haven't the

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temperament of the know how. I'm not so sure of

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your boyfriend Adam. However, he's not my boyfriend anymore. You

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took care of that. I don't intend to quarrel with you.

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I have enough to do to pin down who this

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practical joker is. Who is going to bring a sizeable

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portion of our circulation down about our ears? What do

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you mean, Nancy? Naturally, I was not named specifically. It

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just said that anyone born under the sign of Score

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up here was marched for imminent debt, it would be

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the laughing stock of the trade. Lord knows what suits, letters,

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threats will follow. I've gotta get down there right away.

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I just can't believe Edzel is responsible for this, and

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once I satisfy myself of that, I'll find the real culprit,

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and whoever it is had better be warned. I'm going

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to crush them like a bug under my heel. That

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is my mother as she really is. Aside, very few

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people see, and when they do, she is a master,

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or should I say mistress of covering up. Oh, she

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did it with me about my father, even though I

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heard what I heard was my own ears. But a

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seven year old, half drugged in the early morning sleep

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is easily persuaded. She didn't really hear, Amanda, when she

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set herself to it to make purples and green or

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orange blue. Even though I remember every word, she twisted

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them to mean something else. This is what I thought

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I heard. Oh, even after thirteen years, the words just

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won't go away.

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Speaker 4: And how anyone who's beautiful and vibrantly alive as you

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are outside can be as cold and heartless inside?

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Speaker 3: Eye am No, never again? U. I tried to satisfy

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you once. I'm sorry it turned out to be a girl.

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I'm sorry I gave you Nancy heaven nose. I didn't

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want her, and neither did you. Ralph.

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Speaker 1: That is not true, because it is.

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Speaker 3: Boys or you want it. The male succession must be

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preserved to keep the empire alive. Well, if you want

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a son, go find some other wife to produce him

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for you. You don't mean that, Oh, don't I I'm not

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ruining my figure again for energy?

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Speaker 4: How could you even suggest the possibility of divorce.

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Speaker 3: Between my dear Ralph? Who even mentioned divorce?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 4: I don't want her an illegitimate son.

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Speaker 3: Well, if you handle it right, and if it if

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it matters in this day and age, who has to know?

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Speaker 4: You just sit by quietly and see me have a.

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Speaker 5: Er an affair with some other woman.

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Speaker 3: You'd condone that, why not doesn't have to be done

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in front of me. You'd pay her enough, and I'd

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never have to know.

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Speaker 1: You wouldn't be jealous, you wouldn't even care.

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Speaker 3: Oh, come on, we're not children. If you're squeamish about it,

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you could change it with test tubes or however you do.

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It doesn't matter to me. I'm only trying to give

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you what you want.

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Speaker 2: What I want from you?

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Speaker 4: Who is love and understanding?

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Speaker 3: Why you have that I thought I had?

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Speaker 4: Now I see how mistaken I.

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Speaker 3: Was, But I'm not mistaken. I love you very.

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Speaker 2: Much, Oh Amanda.

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Speaker 1: You love me for my money, my position.

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Speaker 3: And your power is that. I love most of ' all,

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but not me, Ralph. I'm tired.

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Speaker 5: I wanna get my sleep from your beauty.

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Speaker 2: Sleep of course, you don't want.

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Speaker 3: Me to remain beautiful.

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Speaker 4: And young for you, Amanda, you will always, forever and

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as long as I live, remain the most beautiful woman

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in the world for me.

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Speaker 3: But don't you believe it. Beauty is natural only a

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short while, and then it becomes art. No artists.

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Speaker 4: I don't suppose you're gonna understand what I have to say.

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But up until a very short time ago, I thought

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I was a man with everything you are, dearest, I

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am a man with nothing a man to What.

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Speaker 3: Does that mean? Just because I won't go through another

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nine months of being sick and ugly on the chance

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I'll provide you with a male office.

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Speaker 5: If you love me, you wouldn't.

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Speaker 3: Very children has nothing to do with love.

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Speaker 5: If you love me, it could have if you want

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the child, our child.

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Speaker 3: I don't need your image, Ralph, I have you.

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Speaker 1: Oh, as long as I live, you'll always have me.

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Speaker 3: Now what does that peculiar tone of voice and tragic

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inflection mean to suggest.

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Speaker 2: That you don't love me? And I see now that

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you never really did.

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Speaker 3: Oh, don't be ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: Oh no, no, I don't intend to be anymore.

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Speaker 3: Oo. I lay there shivering in bed. I loved my

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father so much, and I didn't see how mother, whom

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I loved just as much, could hurt him like that.

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And then suddenly I was crying and crying til I

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couldn't stop, just just falling like a baby, until Mother

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was there, holding me in her arms and soothing me

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and washing away the hurts I thought, except that all

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she was saying was lie, live life, my baby. You

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just didn't understand. Why should you, a little seven year old.

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Don't you know I'd do anything for your father, that

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I love him just as much as you, But you

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seem you know it's hard your explained, dear, You're my

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one baby, and you're all I want. Don't you ever

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think that I don't? And you never I tell you, You

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never let me say anything else.

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Speaker 4: I had found what I wanted to think deeply, and

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flying a plane gave me enough alonness to find out

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whose perspective was right or wrong.

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Speaker 1: Was being brought up as.

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Speaker 4: William Ander's son spoiled by for me by giving me

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everything on a silver plaet. Then when I took over

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the colossus of newspapers, radio and TV stations, the apartments

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in Paris and London, the townhouse in New York and

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the great Mansion of Molnore peninsulaly ends with bank account time.

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Speaker 2: I never had to want for anything. Amanda Blake came along.

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Speaker 4: Then she met a more than me than anything like

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until the other thing came up.

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Speaker 1: For once to see.

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Speaker 5: I'm a excited.

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Speaker 6: Yes, oh no, no, is there a mister AMers there?

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Speaker 3: H no, no he's not. How did you get this number?

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Speaker 6: It's a mister t I sort of worked for him.

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Speaker 3: I mean, is this missus am Yes?

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Speaker 6: Oh see, I I hope I didn't wake up.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, no, of course not. I'm always awake. And

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it's my best at six efteen a m Who is this?

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Oh well?

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Speaker 6: And this is Ethel Nixon, the astrologer.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 6: Look what the voice of your tomorrow. It's my column

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syndicated your husband's newspapers, you know. And I wanted now

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I simply not to speak him a drammard. I mean

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your husband.

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Speaker 3: Yes, uh h, I suppose I can take a message

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for him.

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Speaker 6: Can you get into him quickly to beg him and

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not to beg any airth in fites in the next

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two days?

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't think he's planned to Why I Oh, he.

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Speaker 6: Would be so complex to explain. He's a Taurus, and

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as I'm sure you know, and a frightening set of

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coincidences or arising through his ruling house and the descendants

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he of his particular star. Oh, dear, I bet he.

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It's much too complicated to explain. But he's in terrible danger.

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That's why I called in danger.

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Speaker 3: From what I don't understand.

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Speaker 6: Well, of course it would be difficult for you, but

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it is absolutely bite over him. Not to move out

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of his own element, certainly of all things.

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Speaker 3: And not to be in the air or fly. Why not?

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Speaker 6: Because it is very fal to me that it can't

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be dis asked for him.

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Speaker 3: I was shaken to the court, aroused for many reasons,

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not the least of which was his brother Joseph's reaction.

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Speaker 5: If I wanna try out and ask for a god

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with some.

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Speaker 3: Ju just no, stop being melodramatic, Joe. That's not gonna

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help anything, or you can sit.

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Speaker 5: Calmly by you. You you had nothing to worry about.

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Speaker 3: For God's sake.

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Speaker 5: I just lost my hunt or gained an empire. I

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can't believe it, my own brother, and you left you everything.

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Speaker 3: That isn't true You still have your editor's job and

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the journal world and a tax free income that should

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more than keep you in nicker and women. To name

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a spade a spade.

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Speaker 5: You criticize my lifestyle, what about you? You're worse. At

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least they give satisfaction in return.

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Speaker 2: For the money.

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Speaker 5: I swear Alf died because of you.

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Speaker 3: Oh, you're drunk. I don't know what you're saying. Well,

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I'm drunk enough.

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Speaker 5: To say what I have to say. You killed Ralph.

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You're his murderer.

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Speaker 3: That's a contemptible thing to say.

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Speaker 5: The man all you ever loved was one he represented,

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and you wanted it all for yourself, and now you've

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got it.

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Speaker 3: Ralph died in a plane.

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Speaker 4: All right, But there was nothing wrong with that plane.

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You betrayed him somehow, some way.

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Speaker 5: I don't know how.

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Speaker 4: There's only one way my brother could have died in

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his plane.

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Speaker 5: Either somebody will be trapped it or he crashed it deliberately.

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He wanted to die, Get out, get out of my house.

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Speaker 3: He destroyed me for a little and drunken and weakening,

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brother Joe to dare to talk about Ralph and me

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like that, But he disappeared to help and out of

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my mind, But it showed me most about Ralph's death

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was Ethel Nixon. How could she have known about Ralph

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before he How could she have known? That's why, thirteen

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years later today, reading her prediction in my own newspaper,

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I could feel the shadow of death across my mouth.

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I was conditioned to believe that my doom had been sealed,

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unless some way, somehow it it was only someone's idea

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of a joke.

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Speaker 4: Is there an escape for Amanda Amherst? Is her fate

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sealed already? Do the stars wheeling in the heavens fixed

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for that infinitechal moment in time when we as infants

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first cry out that we are alive and born, control

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another fleeking moment of conjunction which brings.

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Speaker 1: Us death our return shortly with that too.

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Speaker 4: For thirteen years, Missus Ralph Amherst has been one of

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the great legends of her time. After her husband's death,

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Amanda has ruled with an iron hand the empire will

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to her, and miraculously, at least in appearance, kept her

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use and her radiant beauty.

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Speaker 1: She has been supremely secure in her power until.

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Speaker 4: Shortly before a stunning public announcement in her own key paper.

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Better days were numbered? But who or what was responsible

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for it?

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Speaker 1: How did it appear?

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Speaker 3: Oh? But you couldn't. You surely couldn't believe for one minute,

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missus Emmonston, that I would ever reveal such a terrible

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prediction about anyone, particularly about you, even if it were true.

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You did once about my husband mistakes, and that was true,

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But that was different. In the first place, I had

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read it in his horoscope. You haven't read it in Mineok.

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I'll show you. I can show you a copy of

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today's paper, just two pages after we editoile h. Yeah,

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see you can read it for yourself. Let me see

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score up hill today? Maybe a disturbing day. Or keep

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your head and be a good heart, keep family affairs

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in order to check your impost and all will turn

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out well financially, will benefit great thing. Oh, mis see

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this is a city edition. Have a look at mine,

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the early one. Is this the one you read over

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the phone? Is it just seems impoblished? What missie, no,

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wonder you gasp? But this this is the same as

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you just read what I wrote to be published? What

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give me there there that you're write someone's up to

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dukes and games? Around here, and when I find out

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who we now, maybe you were well, you know, half

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a sleep and it was sort of a dream. And look, uh,

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wait a minute, this isn't my paper, the one I

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read this morning? How do you know? And they'll try

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not to be any more of a pin brain than

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you are. My copy is rushed to me as publisher,

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delivered by hand on my and start the press. Well then,

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I don't know, but I have a couple of ideas,

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starting with my not so loving daughter, Nancy. I'd better

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get home and see her right away. I just want

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to know what you're up to, Nancy, what you're trying

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to prove. I'm not trying to prove anything. Mother. You

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admit you switch newspapers on me this morning. I didn't

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switch them. I pros you what happened a night fill

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cock and bull story about filling coffee and cream over

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the paper and dumping it into the garbage and tearing

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downstairs to the drug store to get a fresh coffee.

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Oh really, you can do better than that, But that's Rove.

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Why all the front about a little coffee spilled on

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the morning newspapers? Look, I knew the paper was important

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to you. Somehow, I said, here, you're screaming in the

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study about something wrong, so you were coming right in

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and straighten it up, And I, well, well, one edition

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of a paper is just like another one, isn't it,

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except when someone like me is shaking and stupid enough

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to get it all gummed up with coffee? I said, Oh,

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I just couldn't spend having you on me again, mother,

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not these days on you. Oh you know what I mean?

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Come so strong out. I just hope I could avoid

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any kind of another running with you. Throw out? Have

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you to add him up to some crazy schemes? How

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mu should I say? To get back at me for

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what wasn't my fault? You can be damn well sure

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that Adam and I are not up to anything. You

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successfully squashed that, did you too? Somehow? Gimmick that slug

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in the astrology column this morning. I don't know what

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they're talking about. Don't lie to me. I want to

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know if you two have cooked up some scheme to

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try to to drive me crazy. That was a special

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paper this mon and that horoscope is only for me.

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How did you manage it? I think you are crazy?

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What when?

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Speaker 6: Why?

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Speaker 3: Know how newspapers are made well the man you trying

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to steal from me? Does you mean the man you

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spoiled for me? The one I loved? Oh, Noldam may

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take as women as they come and may go, but

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he wouldn't go in for any cheap scare stuff. As

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managing editor. He's the only one who has the power

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and the ability and the access to do it. Or

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one other person who God you thought about him, to

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which you think that some day he's gonna punish you

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for what you did to my father. I would sorry

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at the moment the woods were out of my mouth,

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looking at a man who's face suddenly grow gray and old.

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And then and then I wasn't sorry, And quickly it

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was serene and beautiful again, and I remembered what I

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had lost, and how she had taken him away from me. Oh,

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and then it was easy to hate again. Terrible thing

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to look into her daughter's eyes, know that hidden behind

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the blank light stare is the daggerstroke of hate. If

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I deserved it, I might be able to accept it somehow.

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But since she's been seven years old, I'd been mother

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and father to this child in my own way, and

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then to have her turn on me and steal. I

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was never a woman who could live without men, but

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I never had to depend on them until the day

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I met Adam Brook. I don't know. It was at

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someone's place of the beach on a weekend, on a

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weekend that was able to go out again. Doctor an

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Hundriscoo had performed his third miracle on me, and bronzed

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and sun greased. I know, even to my own critical eye,

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and I looked at least fifteen years below my own age.

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I was sure of it when Adam dropped down on

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the sand beside me.

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Speaker 4: Hello, whoever you are, likewise, whoever you are, Adam Brock.

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Look if I tell you what I do, will you

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sneer or find I'm beneath your notice?

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Speaker 3: Well you're dealing and I'm nine down. You can't be

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beneath my noteses. Why don't you give it a try?

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Speaker 2: Oh uh, I'm a newspaper man night I write I do.

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Speaker 3: Oh uh, just a debck cook for the weekend. Our

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host likes an attractive layout.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, look, I really don't like smart talk. I'll level

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you are magnificence. Any man would make a pass at you.

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I'm not so special, may I what sort of pass

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the simplest and most honest dinner dancing. Maybe I have

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a small boat. We could say, Uh, by daylight, I'm

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here for two weeks vacation.

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Speaker 2: How much of it will you let me spend with you?

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Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know. Let's start with it sale tomorrow

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morning and see how far that takes it. So it

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took us pretty far. By the time we tied up

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at the dark. Adam was in love with what he

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thought I was. I was in love with a man,

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and I should have met when he I don't know

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when I was young enough for him, and I didn't

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wanna lose anything yet, so I uh, I used my

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maiden name, and I pulled strange are things to get

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him an editorship at the Post Journal. I also made

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sure that anyone who knew anything about our relationship kept

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his navese tight, his shots about how, why, or who

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his sponsors was. Her pair continued in New York into

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until Nancy took it into her head to take literal

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French leave from Paris and the Sorbon.

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Speaker 2: Hello, this is mister Brock.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 4: I don't know my secretaries out for the moment, I'm

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picking up Huh what Her.

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Speaker 2: Daughter Oh, well, sure, I send her in her Uh

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should I come out and get her? Oh, she's on

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her way and already. Okay, No, no, it's fine. I

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get along with kids. Fine. Uh. I guess I can

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handle this one. Uh what's her name? Oh I I

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I guess she's here.

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Speaker 4: I come in, well, Nancy, I I didn't expect a

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little girl like you to come and visit me.

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Speaker 3: Oh you're the new managing editor of the Post Joannel.

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Speaker 4: Uh oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I g I guess I

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uh A, And and you your Amanda's daughter.

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Speaker 5: That's right? All me?

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Speaker 2: Who it's suh it's pretty nice.

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Speaker 3: All Oh, I'm not that good. I mean I don't

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buzz these vibrations right off the bat m normally. Uh

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me either.

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Speaker 2: And hey, he'd be surprised. How surprised I am?

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Speaker 3: You uh wouldn't know about me.

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Speaker 2: I guess you are Amanda's daughter?

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Speaker 5: If you mean?

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Speaker 3: Did I spring from her womb? Yes?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Is uh is mother?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 2: No, she's on business in Chicago. Where did you turn

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up from?

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Speaker 3: I just got him from Paris and I'm five broken.

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I'm hungry.

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Speaker 4: Well, I can take care of the last one. It's

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lunch time anyway. Le let's go to cheerios.

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Speaker 2: I'll feed you feel better.

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Speaker 3: Oh I feel Oh I hate to tell you how

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good I feel. And you fed me all right.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad you enjoyed it.

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Speaker 3: Oh the food was great, but that doesn't matter. I

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mean the line you fed me. I just I just

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hope you minute.

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Speaker 2: I didn't think I was feeding you alive.

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Speaker 3: Oh, if you could have searched through Bartlet's fell the

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perfect quotes you had him at him And then I

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just knowing you all this long, why should I expect less?

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By the time we got to this belonging, I was

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his forever and it was the first thing that ever

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happened to me since m childhood memories that gave me

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a lust for life. I wasn't loud and knew just

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what I wanted, and the best part of it was

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I could feel he thought the same. Well, it didn't

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tell mother in law to crooble me, And since I

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put the bulls, I think I at least deserved some

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notice when you decide to run out on your responsibilities. Mother,

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I had had Europe, but to hear I wanted home,

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all right, So I let you dump Europe, and I

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gave you back your green pastures. All I ask is

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you to stay out of mine. Maybe I'm dumb, mother,

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but I'll the other out. Just leave any mail I

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have staked out alone.

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Speaker 5: What you heard me? Lay off?

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Speaker 3: Adam? Adam, But he's young enough. Think they're all mind

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his age. He's what I want. Adam's been mine for months, Nancy,

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My well, what shall I say? Uh? Escort day and night,

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bought and paid for You wanna buy used merchandise, Nancy,

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particularly one of my second hand and lovers. I knew

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Adam Morton's mind anymore. My daughter had stolen him from

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00:30:11,039 --> 00:30:15,039
me with the one weapon I didn't possess her youth.

475
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,079
But if I couldn't have him, she couldn't nobody could.

476
00:30:19,759 --> 00:30:29,599
Speaker 4: A strange and tortuous story about a strange and tortuous woman.

477
00:30:30,759 --> 00:30:32,079
Speaker 1: What is her true fate?

478
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:36,599
Speaker 4: Is she at last caught in her own web, her

479
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,920
past catching up with her to doom her as inexorably

480
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:40,920
as she had.

481
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 1: Feeled the fate of others. There is still more of

482
00:30:44,519 --> 00:30:45,400
the past to come.

483
00:30:45,519 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 4: When I returned shortly with that three, Amanda amherst seemingly

484
00:31:02,799 --> 00:31:07,160
ageless wielder of a kind of total power over the

485
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:13,000
destiny of others. Amanda Amherst a throwback to the feudal

486
00:31:13,119 --> 00:31:19,079
queens and kings, absolute and impregnable. Is there any force

487
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:23,240
that can topple this woman from her drone? Was the

488
00:31:23,319 --> 00:31:27,599
mysterious prediction that began this story valid in any way

489
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:33,920
supernatural or natural? Let's go back to Amanda to find out.

490
00:31:38,799 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 3: After Nanci told me the truth, I decided to take

491
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,640
the bull by the horse. I went to Adam's office.

492
00:31:45,319 --> 00:31:48,039
I told him not to announce me. I just walked away.

493
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 4: Good morning, Adam, Oh Amanda, or perhaps now I know

494
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:57,599
just exactly who you are, I should say, missus Amherst

495
00:31:57,799 --> 00:32:01,160
does be a child. I just recently discovered where you

496
00:32:01,279 --> 00:32:04,079
and I are concerned, and that's approximately what I am.

497
00:32:04,519 --> 00:32:08,039
Speaker 3: And that's a little below the belt. And there isn't

498
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:09,799
all that difference in years.

499
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 2: There has to be if Nancy really is your daughter?

500
00:32:13,039 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 3: Oh she is all right?

501
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:18,079
Speaker 2: What's the matter with her? She won't answer my phone calls.

502
00:32:18,119 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 4: That butler and those two hulking footmen or her bodyguard

503
00:32:21,559 --> 00:32:21,839
or whatever.

504
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:23,839
Speaker 2: They are barred a door like the Secret Service.

505
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,839
Speaker 4: And I'm informed and know on certain terms that I

506
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,279
am not welcome, and she doesn't want to see me

507
00:32:29,359 --> 00:32:29,839
ever again.

508
00:32:30,799 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 2: I wanna know what's happened.

509
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 3: Well, you might have tried calling me to find.

510
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,319
Speaker 2: Out, but you're still in Chicago.

511
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:40,759
Speaker 3: Uh. What were you afraid of, Adam, that I'd cut

512
00:32:40,839 --> 00:32:44,319
you off at the knees, take away your nice job?

513
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:44,759
I'm you?

514
00:32:45,599 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 2: Is that what you threatened Nancy with?

515
00:32:47,119 --> 00:32:50,599
Speaker 3: I didn't threaten Nancy with anything. I simply told her

516
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:54,480
the truth, what that she'd be making a mistake in

517
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:55,119
marrying you?

518
00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 2: Does this mean I'm fired only from one.

519
00:33:00,839 --> 00:33:04,799
Speaker 3: Occupation, Adam, as a managing editor. I still find you

520
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:10,319
perfectly satisfactory. And Nancy, I'll let you answer that question yourself.

521
00:33:11,839 --> 00:33:15,240
I'm quite sure she'll never let you near her again.

522
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:18,839
The one good thing perhaps I've ever done.

523
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:20,559
Speaker 5: For I could tell you for that.

524
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 3: You haven't the nerve, Adam. Nancy's better off without you.

525
00:33:30,119 --> 00:33:33,079
It was in Nancy's best in prints. I told myself

526
00:33:33,839 --> 00:33:36,920
he'd only have heard her in the end. As for me,

527
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:39,400
there wasn't any way he could hurt me.

528
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:40,359
Speaker 5: I thought.

529
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,839
Speaker 3: Till that horoscope, Try as I would, I couldn't deny it.

530
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:51,359
It'd shaken me, and I held him responsible till Ethel

531
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:56,559
Nixon spraying a new surprise on me. It began when

532
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:58,680
Ethel received a visit one morning.

533
00:34:00,119 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 5: Come here, hello, who No, Oh, we can't see Oh

534
00:34:07,559 --> 00:34:09,960
but it is Joseph Amberst.

535
00:34:10,039 --> 00:34:13,119
Speaker 4: A little change inside but in the flex.

536
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 3: Oh, I can't believe it. Oh, it's so good to

537
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,320
see you. If I hadn't cast a horoscope of you,

538
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:20,119
I have.

539
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,840
Speaker 1: Almost thought that I had died.

540
00:34:24,079 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 4: And uh oh I tried pretty hard to but didn't

541
00:34:27,519 --> 00:34:28,000
quite make it.

542
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,599
Speaker 2: And so the prodigal return.

543
00:34:30,599 --> 00:34:32,280
Speaker 3: And looking well and thick.

544
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 4: That's do to grating in europiells for many years now,

545
00:34:36,079 --> 00:34:39,440
I beg your pardon when my brother died and my

546
00:34:41,079 --> 00:34:45,920
temporal world collapsed. Because of that and other things, I went.

547
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:52,840
I went looking looking for what, Oh, revenge, I thought

548
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:54,920
at first, a way to avenge my brother.

549
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,199
Speaker 3: Oh, but your brother died in an airthing grash. That

550
00:34:58,519 --> 00:35:04,840
was no one's fault, except except what accident, his own fate.

551
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 2: Or a wife that drove him to it.

552
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:13,760
Speaker 3: Mister Amersd, you're scaring me now. I can't believe what

553
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,920
you're saying. You must know that I believe in fate,

554
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:18,719
not human intervention.

555
00:35:19,119 --> 00:35:20,199
Speaker 2: Oh that's all right, that's all.

556
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,400
Speaker 1: It's one of the last few years in the Far East.

557
00:35:23,679 --> 00:35:25,679
I have come to believe in two.

558
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:30,559
Speaker 3: How long have you been back in this country? Ooh?

559
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:31,360
Speaker 2: Week or so?

560
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:33,519
Speaker 3: Does missus Amherst know you're there?

561
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 5: Oh?

562
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:37,360
Speaker 4: No, As far as I'm concerned, she doesn't exist.

563
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: And it's a mutual feeling.

564
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:44,679
Speaker 3: Mister Ammerst isilis now. Please excuse me for asking, But

565
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:50,119
if you've been around per week, you couldn't. You wouldn't

566
00:35:50,159 --> 00:35:53,239
be responsible for the awful thing that happened in my

567
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:54,679
column yesterday morning.

568
00:35:55,639 --> 00:35:56,639
Speaker 2: What awful thing.

569
00:35:58,079 --> 00:36:05,119
Speaker 3: I'll tell you all about it. You didn't do it?

570
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,280
Somehow did you meet? Oh?

571
00:36:07,559 --> 00:36:08,559
Speaker 2: My dear acle?

572
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:10,280
Speaker 3: I wouldn't know how.

573
00:36:12,519 --> 00:36:17,280
Speaker 4: But uh, who else saw this prediction except Amanda?

574
00:36:17,599 --> 00:36:21,199
Speaker 3: Nobody? But why would she make up a story like that?

575
00:36:21,639 --> 00:36:24,760
Speaker 4: Who knows why Amanda does anything she does? Maybe they

576
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,159
have an excuse to fire whoever is managing.

577
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:32,840
Speaker 3: Editor or had him roco he's leading anyway? Oh, maybe

578
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:33,519
to fire me?

579
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:35,039
Speaker 2: Oh no, I wouldn't worry.

580
00:36:36,559 --> 00:36:39,960
Speaker 4: I don't think that's the real explanation. I think the

581
00:36:40,079 --> 00:36:44,239
only reason Amanda saw what she saw is because the

582
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,199
black pigeons are coming.

583
00:36:47,039 --> 00:36:47,800
Speaker 5: Home to roost.

584
00:36:50,079 --> 00:36:51,639
Speaker 2: Do you believe in esp Oh?

585
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 4: Yes, how many people do you think hate Amanda as

586
00:36:55,519 --> 00:36:59,280
deeply as I once did, as I still struggle not

587
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:02,440
to do, cause I will have to fight with every

588
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:06,719
resource I have not to when I go to visit

589
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:11,719
my brother's grave in Arlington tomorrow. Maybe that's why the

590
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:17,000
ghosts of the past are haunting Amanda. That's perhaps they

591
00:37:17,079 --> 00:37:19,320
haunt her every year.

592
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:21,519
Speaker 2: At this time.

593
00:37:31,679 --> 00:37:35,079
Speaker 3: Yes, and missus Amherst it's speaking.

594
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:38,239
Speaker 6: It's that's for Nixon. I just said I had to

595
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:40,159
call you. I thought I ought to let you know

596
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:40,719
it's back.

597
00:37:41,159 --> 00:37:43,119
Speaker 3: Oh, who's back? What are you talking about?

598
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:46,760
Speaker 6: Georseph amics? He turned up at my office this morning.

599
00:37:47,119 --> 00:37:52,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, my esteemed brother in law thought he must

600
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:54,840
have died by this time. Did he just get there?

601
00:37:55,199 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 6: No, he he's been here for a week and he's

602
00:37:59,039 --> 00:38:03,079
been well. He said he'd been hanging around the planet.

603
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:06,000
And even though he denies.

604
00:38:05,599 --> 00:38:09,320
Speaker 3: It, I was just one and he's responsible for this

605
00:38:09,519 --> 00:38:13,719
ridiculous hopes that's going on. Huh. I wouldn't put it

606
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:17,199
past him, but he really must have lost his mind.

607
00:38:18,519 --> 00:38:19,719
Have you seen today's paper?

608
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:21,599
Speaker 6: You mean the Post Journal?

609
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,039
Speaker 3: Of course, I mean the Post Journal. You'll call him

610
00:38:24,039 --> 00:38:27,360
again on the score Bill. I suppose you'll deny that

611
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,360
you wrote this impossible gibberish.

612
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:33,119
Speaker 6: Well, I read it and it seemed to make sense.

613
00:38:33,599 --> 00:38:34,320
I'm sorry.

614
00:38:34,639 --> 00:38:36,079
Speaker 3: What does it say in your paper?

615
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,599
Speaker 6: What's just what I saw in the star?

616
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:40,280
Speaker 3: Read it to me, you fool.

617
00:38:40,519 --> 00:38:44,760
Speaker 6: Oh, of course, this is a day of traveling for

618
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:48,360
you and meeting up with old acquaintances. It's a day

619
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:52,559
for gathering up all loose ends and finally solving your

620
00:38:52,639 --> 00:38:57,400
main problem, a day of achievement and solution. Oh that means.

621
00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:01,159
Speaker 3: Tomorrow, of course, that's what I thought. Now, listen to

622
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:06,320
what mine says. This day will never have dawned for

623
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:10,119
you today. You will have traveled far, and your death

624
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:14,159
and destruction will take place in Vienna. If you have

625
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,440
any prayers to make for the hell you have made

626
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:19,920
for others, make them now before you die and go

627
00:39:20,199 --> 00:39:24,679
from Vienna straight to Hell. How terrible.

628
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 6: But don't let it worry. Prediction are not like that.

629
00:39:30,199 --> 00:39:33,320
Speaker 3: I'm not worry. The whole thing is ludicrous. I'm not

630
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:36,000
gonna be in Europe, let alone Vienna for any reason.

631
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:38,920
In fact, after I get a train to Washington, I'm

632
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:44,039
heading in exactly the opposite direction west into Virginia taking

633
00:39:44,119 --> 00:39:46,599
Nancy to visit some of my oldest and dearest friends

634
00:39:46,679 --> 00:39:47,880
in Winchester, Virginia.

635
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:50,400
Speaker 6: Oh you, you won't worry with you.

636
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what I will worry about. You. Make

637
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:57,199
sure this is the end of all this idiotcy or

638
00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:00,000
I can promise you. At the you and everybody else

639
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,559
most necessary, will be fired until it stops. I don't

640
00:40:03,639 --> 00:40:07,000
like being made a fool of Nancy.

641
00:40:07,079 --> 00:40:07,679
Speaker 6: Are you ready?

642
00:40:08,199 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 3: I'm not going with you, mother? Now, don't start anything

643
00:40:12,639 --> 00:40:15,400
but stopies are expecting you, and I can't let them

644
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:17,880
know at the last minute. Besides, we just time to

645
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:20,280
make the plane. Will you make it? I'm not going,

646
00:40:21,559 --> 00:40:26,880
why because I am getting married as mothers. That is

647
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:30,760
why Adam quit the papers. I came to my senses.

648
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:34,800
He didn't know about me when he knew you, and

649
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:37,079
he didn't know you any better than most people do.

650
00:40:38,039 --> 00:40:41,800
What's that supposed to mean? Oh? You look beautiful and

651
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:44,119
most of the time you're careful to appear to be

652
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:47,880
kind and gracious and gentle, but inside your heart and

653
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,400
mindless and evil. All those years you pretended to be

654
00:40:51,559 --> 00:40:55,400
the grieving widow and the careful hens. He dropped about

655
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:57,719
my father and other women, when all the time he

656
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:00,920
loved only you, and you wouldn't even give him the

657
00:41:01,039 --> 00:41:03,400
son he wanted. Oh, I couldn't have had another child

658
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:03,800
after you.

659
00:41:04,039 --> 00:41:04,800
Speaker 6: That's a lie.

660
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:08,119
Speaker 3: I remember back to the night I was seven years old.

661
00:41:09,079 --> 00:41:11,239
I always thought I couldn't really have heard the truth.

662
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:14,480
Well now I know it was the truth, and that

663
00:41:14,639 --> 00:41:18,880
my father killed himself because of you and because of Adam.

664
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:23,920
You almost have me doing that myself. Oh, thank the Lord,

665
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:27,599
I woke up in time, and I'm free of you.

666
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:37,559
I'll never see you again. I always lived the ungrateful

667
00:41:37,639 --> 00:41:40,880
little kil I almost decided to give up my winkend

668
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:44,239
in Winchester. I was damned if I was gonna have

669
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:47,760
my pleasure interfered with him. I'd take care of all

670
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:51,599
of them when I returned. I couldn't stop Nancy from marrying,

671
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,440
but I'd fixed it so that Adam would have to

672
00:41:54,599 --> 00:41:58,159
come crawling to me begging for any job in the

673
00:41:58,199 --> 00:42:09,719
newspaper business. I was still feeling even after the limousine

674
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:11,800
was stoke Cliff that set to pick me up at

675
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:15,599
Don's Airport, which pouring along the road west toward Winchester.

676
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:21,760
I had a sudden thought remembering, for some unearthy reason

677
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:25,599
how close we were to Arlington, and that this was

678
00:42:25,679 --> 00:42:30,559
the thirteenth anniversary of Ralph's death. Let's see, because that

679
00:42:30,599 --> 00:42:34,760
would be to the south. It was raining, and I

680
00:42:35,199 --> 00:42:41,199
rubbed away the condensation to peer odds hardly, my heart freezing.

681
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:45,000
Suddenly as the head light swept a sign by the

682
00:42:45,079 --> 00:42:49,280
road saying you are now entering the town.

683
00:42:49,559 --> 00:43:05,760
Speaker 5: Of the Uther. It was the last thing she saw

684
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:07,199
or knew.

685
00:43:08,519 --> 00:43:11,719
Speaker 4: The newspaper story the next day began with a paragraph

686
00:43:12,599 --> 00:43:16,760
Missus Ralph Amherst, on her way to Winchester, Virginia, and

687
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:20,000
passing through the small town of Vienna, was hit.

688
00:43:20,039 --> 00:43:21,639
Speaker 2: By a car traveling north.

689
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:28,280
Speaker 4: Both drivers and Missus Amherst were killed. The strangest feature

690
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:31,039
of the accident was that the driver of the other

691
00:43:31,159 --> 00:43:35,679
car was her brother in law, mister Joseph Ward Amherst,

692
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:40,679
who was returning to New York after visiting his brother's grave.

693
00:43:41,039 --> 00:43:44,280
Speaker 1: In Arlington, Virginia. I'll be back shortly.

694
00:43:56,239 --> 00:44:00,360
Speaker 4: Accidental and natural death or were.

695
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 1: Ordained and supernatural?

696
00:44:04,119 --> 00:44:07,639
Speaker 4: We'll never know. The paper with a horoscope in it

697
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:11,840
was burned up with a mend. Joe was dead, and

698
00:44:12,039 --> 00:44:15,639
dead men tell no tales. Perhaps we'll just leave it

699
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:19,960
with the quote Joe started, which we'll finish. Though the

700
00:44:20,079 --> 00:44:25,000
mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small.

701
00:44:26,119 --> 00:44:33,280
Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.

702
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:38,880
Our cast included Kim Hunter, Paul hect Ian, Martin Rosemary Rice,

703
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:42,840
and Mary Jane Higbee. The entire production was under the

704
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:50,440
direction of Hymon Brown. And now a preview of our

705
00:44:50,599 --> 00:44:51,639
next tale.

706
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:56,079
Speaker 3: Here? What are we doing here? What a h.

707
00:45:00,639 --> 00:45:01,039
Speaker 5: Call? Over?

708
00:45:01,039 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 2: And now it's gone.

709
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:04,519
Speaker 5: Let's see what happens here?

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Speaker 3: Oh no, poor Paul.

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Speaker 5: Sandy just look at him, ripped the pieces cause if

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he'd run into the blades.

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Speaker 2: Of a er er of a freshing machine.

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Speaker 3: But what did it?

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Speaker 5: The fame, the damn thing? Oh what, that's what I

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call it, the damned thing. First it did away with

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my chickens, and then the pigs and the cattle, and

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our poor Sandy.

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Speaker 2: Slashed the pieces. And that's not the end.

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Speaker 5: Only the Good Lord knows what the damn thing will

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destroy next?

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Speaker 3: Oh who?

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Speaker 4: Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Anheuser Bush

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Incorporated Brewers or Budweiser. This is d G. Marshall inviting

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you to return to our mystry Theater