Speaker 1: Worried about income tax, wonder if spring will ever come?
Speaker 1: Want to get away from it all?
Speaker 2: We offer you Escape.
Speaker 1: You were alone in your book line study, listening to
Speaker 1: the idiot gibberings of a parrot, and beside you caressing
Speaker 1: you is an invisible thing, a loathsome thing from which
Speaker 1: you must escape.
Speaker 3: Escape produced and directed by William N. Robeson, and carefully
Speaker 3: contrived to free you from the four walls of to
Speaker 3: day for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1: Ah to night we escaped to the West end of London,
Speaker 1: to a little house just off Hyde Park, where lived
Speaker 1: a man who didn't like people. Tonight we escape In
Speaker 1: the remarkable tale of Robert Hitchins, Our love came to
Speaker 1: Professor guilia.
Speaker 4: It has been said that no knight ever passes over
Speaker 4: London town that sees not some strange and curious event,
Speaker 4: some occurrence too incredible to bear repeating in the light
Speaker 4: of day. How horribly true are those words. It's been
Speaker 4: over a year now since the night I first met
Speaker 4: the amazing Professor Gilia. I had delivered a sermon at
Speaker 4: the Rectory of Saint Swithin in the East End, and
Speaker 4: was passing through the foyer and departure when I was
Speaker 4: accosted brusquely by an odd little man, remarkably sharp featured,
Speaker 4: his face adorned by a pointed black Goateee.
Speaker 5: Please I believe your father Murchison. Yes, that's right, but
Speaker 5: I don't think i've had the pleasure. Perhaps you've heard
Speaker 5: of me. My name's Guildia, Professor Guildia, Guildia Way. Yes,
Speaker 5: you're the famous psychologist. Yes, a psychologist, biologist, anthropologist, philosopher,
Speaker 5: and that takes care of that, Sir. I never attend
Speaker 5: religious services.
Speaker 4: It appears you've done so tonight.
Speaker 5: It came for one reason to hear you find out
Speaker 5: why anotherwise normal colleague of mine thinks you're the most
Speaker 5: convincing speaker he's ever listened to.
Speaker 4: And did you find out?
Speaker 5: No, your talk was intelligent, logical, therefore could never convince
Speaker 5: anybody of anything.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 5: You're a direct man, Professor Guildier, your time to be
Speaker 5: anything else. I'd like to have you dine with me,
Speaker 5: Father Murchison, say a week from tonight seven o'clock. I
Speaker 5: live at one hundred Hyde Park in the West End.
Speaker 5: Can't we make it two weeks? I'm reaching at Saint
Speaker 5: Saviour's that night, just round the corner.
Speaker 4: From the park, and I am afraid it'll have to
Speaker 4: be nearer eight thirty than seven.
Speaker 5: The service isn't over so well, we can't even agree
Speaker 5: on a time for dinner. Very well, eight thirty two
Speaker 5: weeks Good night, sir.
Speaker 4: Perhaps if I had known then what, But no matter,
Speaker 4: I kept the appointment. Of course, that's an excellent dinner.
Speaker 4: We climbed the stairs to Gilda's study, a large, book
Speaker 4: lined room running the width of the house, with windows
Speaker 4: at the end, overlooking the park. In front of those
Speaker 4: windows stood the one incongress thing in the room, a
Speaker 4: cage holding a large gray parrot. In fact, as I recall,
Speaker 4: it was the parrot that was responsible for my first
Speaker 4: becoming aware of what exact opposites Guildia and I really were,
Speaker 4: the same parrot that was responsible for so many other
Speaker 4: things that happened later.
Speaker 5: Quiet, Napoleon, Quiet, one day, that infernal squawking of yours
Speaker 5: will drive me to wring your neck.
Speaker 4: Somehow, it surprises me, Guildia, I mean you're keeping a pet.
Speaker 5: I possess a parrot for the murchison. That's all made
Speaker 5: a study of the imitative faculties of animals some months ago,
Speaker 5: bought the bird, then never got rid of it. I see,
Speaker 5: started the bad habit of scratching the fool thing's head
Speaker 5: and loves it. You see, m five minutes he'll be
Speaker 5: screaming for more of it. Why would it surprise you
Speaker 5: so much if I kept a pet?
Speaker 4: Because I believe you're the most self sufficient man I
Speaker 4: ever met.
Speaker 5: More than that. Actually, I detest affection, any display of sentimentality.
Speaker 4: But you do feel the need of close human sympathy
Speaker 4: in your life, none whatsoever reasonable amount of companionship, naturally,
Speaker 4: But that's all, mother Murchison.
Speaker 5: I'm one person who does not love his fellow men.
Speaker 4: Nonetheless, some of your discoveries have been of great benefit
Speaker 4: to mankind.
Speaker 5: Oh, entirely accidental.
Speaker 6: I thought you'd be liking your coffee.
Speaker 2: Now, sir.
Speaker 5: Oh, yes, Pitting put it there on the table, please,
Speaker 5: thank you, sir. Will there be anything else? No, that's
Speaker 5: all Pitting, Yes, sir, an excellent servant.
Speaker 7: There.
Speaker 5: I know nothing of Pitting's thoughts of feelings, nor he
Speaker 5: of mine. Perfect relationship, and if a crisis occurred, if
Speaker 5: you needed to call on him as a friend, it
Speaker 5: would take a considerable crisis.
Speaker 4: But what about the parrot? Surely you must regard it
Speaker 4: with some affection, otherwise you'd get rid of it.
Speaker 5: Napoleon merely a specimen. The birds is devoid of sentimentality,
Speaker 5: as I am can only imitate whatever he season hears.
Speaker 4: Gildea, have you ever been in love?
Speaker 5: Neither with anyone in particular, nor with love itself? Being
Speaker 5: in love, as you put it, or having someone in
Speaker 5: love with me would be the most monstrous and horrible
Speaker 5: situation I can possibly imagine.
Speaker 4: All of a sudden, I feel a very great sense
Speaker 4: of pity for whom for you.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 4: Yet as different as we were, my life dedicated to
Speaker 4: all humanity, Guildia's life stripped of its own humanity. I
Speaker 4: called again at the house at Hyde Park many times,
Speaker 4: and we became friends.
Speaker 5: We talked away.
Speaker 4: Many evening hours and the months that followed, sitting by
Speaker 4: the book covered table in the long study, the gray
Speaker 4: parrot chattering away in the background, with the lamplight barely
Speaker 4: reaching the farther corners. It was on such a night,
Speaker 4: not long ago, that the thing began. Guildia had seemed
Speaker 4: uncommonly nervous since dinner, and had spent much of the
Speaker 4: time pacing in front of the windows that faced.
Speaker 5: The park confounded much, and I can't seem to relax tonight.
Speaker 5: I ever feel a completely unaccountable presentiment, since that something
Speaker 5: remarkable was about to happen.
Speaker 4: And usually it never did. Turned out to be the
Speaker 4: effect of too much coffee.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's note, coffee doesn't bother me. Nothing does.
Speaker 4: But then suppose you stop pacing the floor and sit down.
Speaker 4: You're wearing me out.
Speaker 5: Have you noticed how well Napoleon's learned to imitate your voice?
Speaker 4: Yes, and it's almost insulting at times.
Speaker 5: The worst thing is feeling such a strong compulsion to
Speaker 5: do something which I know to be ridiculous.
Speaker 4: Exactly what is it you're talking about?
Speaker 5: Guilion fully sh even to mention it, But I wonder
Speaker 5: if you'd pardon me for a few minutes. Of course,
Speaker 5: I heard yourself to more coffee, bye, come by.
Speaker 4: I walked over and stood stroking the feathers of the
Speaker 4: parrot through the bars of his cage. I'd grown rather
Speaker 4: fond of the ugly bird, but it always startled me
Speaker 4: to hear him mimic some phrase of mine or Gilia's. Napoleon,
Speaker 4: you're a true creature of the devil. I happened to
Speaker 4: glance out the window toward the park across the street.
Speaker 7: Ah.
Speaker 4: The arc lamp at the corner threw a dim gleam
Speaker 4: across a bench set just inside the paling, and I
Speaker 4: was surprised to see Professor Gildea moving about the bench,
Speaker 4: peering under it, behind it, staring into the shadows near by.
Speaker 4: He kept this up for some minutes, then crossed the
Speaker 4: street and came back toward the house. In a moment
Speaker 4: I heard him ascending the stairs.
Speaker 5: Ah, the merchison. Has anyone entered this room since I
Speaker 5: went out?
Speaker 4: Why? No, you mean pitting, of course, but he hasn't
Speaker 4: been in Huh.
Speaker 5: Strange, very strange.
Speaker 4: I saw you across the street in the park.
Speaker 5: What were you doing? I thought I saw something? Wondered
Speaker 5: what it was?
Speaker 7: That's all?
Speaker 4: Did you find out?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 5: What's wrong with that? Parroty never made a sound like
Speaker 5: that before?
Speaker 4: What you mean? He seems all right? Napoleon stopped that.
Speaker 7: What was it?
Speaker 4: You thought you saw thing?
Speaker 5: As you said it most likely it was the coffee.
Speaker 5: Only I'm very much afraid that now, in this daily age,
Speaker 5: it's impossible.
Speaker 4: It was nearly a week later that I received a
Speaker 4: phone call in my quarters at the rectory, Father Murchison here.
Speaker 6: This is Pitting, sir.
Speaker 5: Professor Gilder's man, Oh, yes, Pitting.
Speaker 4: How are you very well?
Speaker 6: Thank you, sir. The Master would greatly appreciate your calling
Speaker 6: at the house receivening if it's.
Speaker 4: Convenient, sir, Oh, anything wrong?
Speaker 6: I couldn't say, sir.
Speaker 4: But why didn't he phone himself? He isn't ill.
Speaker 5: I think not.
Speaker 6: He suggested eight o'clock.
Speaker 2: Sir?
Speaker 6: May I tell him you come?
Speaker 4: Yes? Yes, by all means, tell him I'll be there
Speaker 4: at eight A.
Speaker 5: No use beating about the bush, rather mechs and I
Speaker 5: am nervous, of course, I am plenty of reason for it.
Speaker 5: And you're working too hard now I'm working too hard.
Speaker 5: The other night it was coffee. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 5: it's neither one. Quiet Napoleon.
Speaker 4: Maybe you'd better tell me what is the matter, Guildia.
Speaker 5: Do do you feel the presence in this room of
Speaker 5: anyone beside the two of us?
Speaker 4: Well, there's Napoleon of course.
Speaker 5: Now now I don't mean the parrot. He senses it too, though,
Speaker 5: senses what when you were here last week? I left
Speaker 5: the house for a few minutes. You remember, I'd been
Speaker 5: watching someone sitting on that bench across in the park,
Speaker 5: a shadowy sort of figure. I had to find out.
Speaker 4: What it was, but you found nothing. You told me
Speaker 4: when you came back.
Speaker 5: That's right. But I'd left the front door open, and
Speaker 5: when I came back in, I felt suddenly that someone
Speaker 5: or something had entered ahead of me. Oh now, really, Gil,
Speaker 5: I knew also that they'd found their way to this room.
Speaker 4: But I was here all the time. No one came in.
Speaker 5: Father Murchison. Whoever whatever came into the house that night
Speaker 5: came into this room is still here right.
Speaker 4: Now, you Guilia a scientist.
Speaker 5: Yes, ridiculous, isn't it?
Speaker 7: But it's true.
Speaker 5: I'm only able to feel its presence. Napoleon can see it.
Speaker 5: Look at him now, wouldn't you say he was watching
Speaker 5: something over there in that far corner of the room.
Speaker 4: No, I'd say he was just being as foolish as
Speaker 4: a parrot usually.
Speaker 5: Is you skeptic about this? Yes, you've been working too hard.
Speaker 5: You need a vacation. I haven't told you the worst
Speaker 5: part of it. Would you say that I'm an attractive man?
Speaker 4: Frankly?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: Oh, I suppose to a certain type of society woman.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, that's not what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: Well, then what are you talking about?
Speaker 5: I don't know whether this intruder is a woman, man, child, animal,
Speaker 5: Whatever it is, it holds a vast affection for me.
Speaker 5: What you imagine anything so utterly mon horrible Mutchison, The
Speaker 5: thing is in.
Speaker 2: Love with me.
Speaker 5: Am.
Speaker 4: I could not would not accept Guildia's belief, and yet
Speaker 4: the alternative was even more frightful, for I could only
Speaker 4: decide that the long hours of study and lecturing had
Speaker 4: affected his mind and brought him, in fact, to the
Speaker 4: verge of insanity. I persuaded him finally to get away
Speaker 4: for a while, to leave the house and forget his
Speaker 4: professional problems, take a short trip. I accompanied him to
Speaker 4: Victoria's station, saw him off on the boat train, and
Speaker 4: then caught up in my duties. I had little time
Speaker 4: to consider the strange affair for nearly ten days. Father Murchison, here,
Speaker 4: I hope I haven't disturbed John Professor Guildia. Then you're
Speaker 4: back in London.
Speaker 7: Yes, I've been back for three days.
Speaker 4: You should have called me.
Speaker 7: I was the trip quite pleasant. I took passage on
Speaker 7: a channel coaster. See, I was wonderful.
Speaker 4: You weren't troubled on the trip, not at all.
Speaker 7: It waited here for me. What will you come over
Speaker 7: here tonight?
Speaker 4: Do you mean now?
Speaker 7: Yes? If you could, you see I can prove.
Speaker 4: It to you now very well, I'll come right over.
Speaker 4: I stood there with the phone and shivered. The thing
Speaker 4: had become so real to him now that he felt
Speaker 4: he could go away and leave it, then come back
Speaker 4: and find it waiting for him.
Speaker 5: That's why I didn't call you when I first came back.
Speaker 5: I wanted to be sure. So I've waited three days,
Speaker 5: and every day has been worse than the one before.
Speaker 5: In what way?
Speaker 4: What do you mean?
Speaker 5: I mean? The thing was waiting for me here, glad
Speaker 5: I was back farmed or over me came more insistently
Speaker 5: obnoxious all the time.
Speaker 4: You mean you've seen this thing?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 5: No, I haven't seen it, haven't heard it. But I
Speaker 5: know it's here. I can feel it, sense it. Try
Speaker 5: to put it in words, it becomes absurd.
Speaker 4: If you'd like some unsolicited advice, call in a doctor,
Speaker 4: have him look you over. And what doctor in London
Speaker 4: knows any more about the human mind than I do?
Speaker 5: I know?
Speaker 4: But when it's your own.
Speaker 5: Now, I know you're thinking of hysteria. Have you seen Nation?
Speaker 5: I know all the symptoms. It's not that simple anywhere
Speaker 5: I told you, I prove it to you. You'll notice
Speaker 5: I've thrown a cover over Napoleon's cage years I've been
Speaker 5: wondering about it. Is part of my proof. He's been here,
Speaker 5: you know, all the time I was gone here in
Speaker 5: this room. Yes, but I still I want you to
Speaker 5: get behind those curtains with me. Then I'll reach out
Speaker 5: and pull the cloth off his cage. I don't want
Speaker 5: him to see us. I don't know what you're hoping
Speaker 5: to prove, but all right, come on ready, I'll uncover him.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 4: We crouched there behind the curtains, watching the parrot. He
Speaker 4: protested a while, being so rudely disturbed.
Speaker 5: By some unseen agency, then climbed about the cage with
Speaker 5: claws and beak.
Speaker 4: Pecked at crumbs and appeared entirely normal. After time, he
Speaker 4: began to fix his attention on a spot across the room.
Speaker 5: There was nothing there watch him.
Speaker 4: Look at him.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 4: In the parrot's mind, at least some one or some
Speaker 4: thing was approaching the cage and yet the room was empty.
Speaker 4: Whatever it was apparently had reached the cage now, and
Speaker 4: Napoleon welcomed with friendly chalkling. The hair rose on the
Speaker 4: back of my neck, for the bird was cooling and
Speaker 4: gurgling as he did of an eye or Guildia scratched
Speaker 4: the feathers on his head. I could almost fancy that
Speaker 4: I saw long, white, gristly fingers reaching through the bars.
Speaker 5: Of the cage. And listen to him. He's talking to
Speaker 5: the thing, imitating. It's see what you'll think.
Speaker 4: The bird was moving about in the cage now, nodding
Speaker 4: his head in a very peculiar manner, uttering the most
Speaker 4: extraordinary sounds. I began to realize he was imitating the
Speaker 4: thing he saw standing by his cage, and then the
Speaker 4: full horror of it came over me. I tried to
Speaker 4: hide the thought from Guildea, but he'd already seen it
Speaker 4: in my eye.
Speaker 5: So you see it too. That's all I wanted to
Speaker 5: know that I wasn't imagining it, No quite in hiding
Speaker 5: there any longer. That was my proof. But perhaps someone
Speaker 5: was here while you were gone. I have questioned Pitting
Speaker 5: and the cook. No one has been here, but it
Speaker 5: can't be such a thing, can't be. It is? But
Speaker 5: where where is it?
Speaker 4: Now? Can you tell me where it is?
Speaker 2: Not?
Speaker 5: Exactly somewhere here in the room, not too far away.
Speaker 5: I can feel that. Napoleon, of course can see it.
Speaker 4: There is some rational explanation.
Speaker 5: There has to be. Oh whistling in the dark. Father,
Speaker 5: you recognize the same thing I did.
Speaker 4: I know what you mean.
Speaker 5: Of course, Well, I can't stand much more of it.
Speaker 5: If it were only something I could fight, strike out head.
Speaker 5: I'm not a coward, but I can't see it, hear it.
Speaker 5: I can only feel it trying to touch me somehow,
Speaker 5: trying to get close to me, drooling with desire and affection,
Speaker 5: fondness for me, And I can't given away. It gets
Speaker 5: closer all the time.
Speaker 4: Eli, You've got to get hold of yourself.
Speaker 5: A hold of myself. You saw the way that perativitated
Speaker 5: this thing, those mannerisms, that gibberish. You know what it
Speaker 5: means as well as I do.
Speaker 4: I saw it. But it can't possibly.
Speaker 5: Don't you feel how hideous.
Speaker 7: It is for me?
Speaker 5: I can't stop it. The thing makes love to me,
Speaker 5: caresses me in whatever it is. It has no mind.
Speaker 5: You saw that that thing is a slaverign idiot.
Speaker 4: I walked home at a late hour, trying desperately to
Speaker 4: think of some reasonable answer to the whole strange affair.
Speaker 4: I could not accept Guildea's explanation of the actions of
Speaker 4: the parrot, though the bird had produced an extraordinary illusion
Speaker 4: of an invisible presence in that room. In a day
Speaker 4: gone by, perhaps I might have been called in to
Speaker 4: deal with an evil spirit. I thought of retribution. Guildia
Speaker 4: had always borne an unnatural distaste for human love? Was
Speaker 4: he now being forced to endure the unnatural love of
Speaker 4: a monstrous being as punishment? I cast such thoughts away
Speaker 4: from me. Yet I could not quite accept the only
Speaker 4: other reasonable solution, and my friend was insane. It was
Speaker 4: very late when I fell asleep. The following evening, I
Speaker 4: preached at Warwick Chapel and returned to my quarters about nine.
Speaker 4: I found the Pitting had called a short time before,
Speaker 4: and left a rather puzzling message, implore that you come
Speaker 4: to Hyde Park at once, otherwise I cannot answer for
Speaker 4: the consequences. But what is it you're trying to say?
Speaker 7: Pitting?
Speaker 4: He's not himself? In what way is he not himself?
Speaker 6: I can only suggest sir that you talked to him.
Speaker 6: Here we are, yes, I'll leave you.
Speaker 5: Now, sir, Oh Maison, come in.
Speaker 3: To tell you.
Speaker 4: What did the name of Heaven is wrong?
Speaker 5: Pitting said that you'd been a se in human machine.
Speaker 5: What happened?
Speaker 7: What did he do?
Speaker 5: You think?
Speaker 7: Just it nothing?
Speaker 4: But I I don't know.
Speaker 5: You warn me about it once said i'd meet a crisis,
Speaker 5: need him as a friend and he wouldn't be there. Well,
Speaker 5: it happened.
Speaker 4: Ok here, I am going to call a doctor. I've
Speaker 4: never seen you in a state.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 5: Now Now I don't need a doctor. I'm all right
Speaker 5: now a little while anyway, at least I think I am.
Speaker 4: Then what was it? What happened?
Speaker 5: That thing touched me? Rarely touched me, I mean for
Speaker 5: the first time, it's only been trying to before.
Speaker 4: The only way I can put it it it rubbed
Speaker 4: itself against my soul.
Speaker 5: Oh, it was horrible.
Speaker 4: Now, Gilia, you don't.
Speaker 5: Tell me to get hold of myself. I know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying. Yeah, I'm sorry, But if you'd felt it
Speaker 5: for yourself, you.
Speaker 4: Know what I mean.
Speaker 5: It was disgusting, filthy. If it lasted one more minute,
Speaker 5: I know I should have gone screaming mad.
Speaker 4: But you don't. You don't feel it now, No, no, no,
Speaker 4: not now.
Speaker 5: I lost my head. I guess I struck out with
Speaker 5: my fists. I tore at myself, screamed for help. Pitting
Speaker 5: came and thought I was drunk. But I could feel
Speaker 5: it touching.
Speaker 4: Me, sickening, soft and timber.
Speaker 5: Inside of me.
Speaker 4: But it left you then you forced it away.
Speaker 5: Yes, but it's still in this room somewhere, but it
Speaker 5: hasn't tried to touch me again.
Speaker 4: Well, that setts it, Guilliea.
Speaker 5: You're leaving here tonight. It didn't follow you when you
Speaker 5: took that trip before. It stayed here.
Speaker 4: That's one way you can be free of it.
Speaker 5: Then you believe the thing too, believe it's real. It's
Speaker 5: real for.
Speaker 4: You, and that's enough. If I remember it. You're giving
Speaker 4: a lecture at Oxford the last of the week. You're
Speaker 4: going on up there.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: I'll help you pack.
Speaker 5: But I could do that. I could stay at the
Speaker 5: Grosvenor tonight and take a train in the morning. It's
Speaker 5: right near the station, and it's all agreed. I'll wait
Speaker 5: a wait. Look at Napoleon's it's standing there by his canes.
Speaker 5: He's talking to it, imitating it. Can you imagine what the.
Speaker 4: Thing must from my mind? Let me help you start packing.
Speaker 5: But I didn't tell you what it rarely did this evening.
Speaker 5: What came the closest to driving me insane.
Speaker 4: Doesn't matter.
Speaker 5: The thing kissed me Marchison dart from the outside. What
Speaker 5: I could feel it warm and wet, kissing my lips
Speaker 5: from the inside.
Speaker 4: Gilias stayed at the hotel that night, caught the train
Speaker 4: out to Oxford the next morning. Four days later, I
Speaker 4: received a wire from him. I am still feeling a
Speaker 4: bit shaky, but everything else is all right. No sign
Speaker 4: of any visitor. Why don't you try to come up
Speaker 4: for the lecture Friday night and please get rid of
Speaker 4: Napoleon for me, signed Guildea. On sudden impulse, I decided
Speaker 4: to accept his invitation. My train was late, and I
Speaker 4: arrived at Oxford with only time enough to go directly
Speaker 4: to the seminar. I slid into my seat just Guildia
Speaker 4: was introduced and began his talk. He was pale and
Speaker 4: perhaps a bit drawn, but seemed otherwise composed and in
Speaker 4: control of himself. As I sat there, my mind wandered
Speaker 4: away from his talk, seeking some solution for the horrible problem,
Speaker 4: which I regarded as being as much my own as Guildia's.
Speaker 4: I decided I would try to persuade him to sell
Speaker 4: the house in Hyde Park Place, since his strange fixation
Speaker 4: seemed to be bound up with it, and try to
Speaker 4: find lodgings elsewhere. Some ten minutes passed when suddenly I
Speaker 4: noticed Gildia was becoming very nervous.
Speaker 5: He faltered in his talk. He seemed to be confused.
Speaker 5: He stood there on the platform deathly pagel, his.
Speaker 4: Hands out as though pushing something away from him.
Speaker 5: I knew what was wrong.
Speaker 4: Pardon me, pardon me? Please? Could I get through? Pardon me?
Speaker 4: Let me get to him, please, I'm his friend, Gilia, Gilia,
Speaker 4: can you hear me, Father Murchison, Yes, everything's all right.
Speaker 5: It came here, found me out. It drubbed up against
Speaker 5: me on the platform. It's no use.
Speaker 4: Take me back to London. We arrived back in London
Speaker 4: Lake the next afternoon. Gilia was a broken old man.
Speaker 4: He shivered, continually trembled, as though shaken by her chill.
Speaker 4: He claimed to sense the awful presence of that thing
Speaker 4: always near by us, accompanying us, and he was constantly
Speaker 4: terror stricken U lest it might try to touch him again.
Speaker 4: I stayed with him in the house in Hyde Park,
Speaker 4: and as night drew on we sat in the long,
Speaker 4: book filled study on the second floor. Pitting brought Coffy
Speaker 4: to us, and then Withdrew. We found little to talk about,
Speaker 4: and the silence of the room seemed doubly oppressive without
Speaker 4: the familiar chatter of the parrot in the background.
Speaker 5: What did you do with him? Matterson and Napoleon?
Speaker 4: I mean I boarded him with a pet shop in
Speaker 4: Chafts Pray Avenue. I thought you might want him back
Speaker 4: again after you'd reconsider it.
Speaker 5: Now, no, I won't want him back. You still can
Speaker 5: feel its presence, can't you? No, Gelia, I'm afraid I can't.
Speaker 5: I wish to have an eye, couldn't. It's been here
Speaker 5: with a noow you know now, Please, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 5: It's no use. I can't fight it any longer. There's
Speaker 5: no way to fight it.
Speaker 4: Perhaps that may be the answer to stop fighting it.
Speaker 4: You said yourself that you felt it was fond of you,
Speaker 4: meant you no harm, Then why not stop fighting? Try
Speaker 4: to return. It's fun because it's love.
Speaker 5: If you will, don't know what you're asking, even the
Speaker 5: thought it sickens me. Fondness love for that thing.
Speaker 4: Perhaps it may be the only way out.
Speaker 5: Then there's no way out, I tell you, Murchison, I
Speaker 5: have only one feeling for that creature, and that's hatred, hatred,
Speaker 5: disgust and he.
Speaker 4: Please try to be calm.
Speaker 5: Wait, wait, what is it? Perhaps that's it? Listen, whatever
Speaker 5: you are a beast of devil.
Speaker 7: I hate you. Do you here? I hate you.
Speaker 4: Mucheson, that's doing it.
Speaker 5: It's recoiling withdrawing. I can feel it.
Speaker 4: Gildia. Please, I hate you.
Speaker 5: I hate you, Rotcheson. He wants to leave. It's beginning
Speaker 5: to hate me too, but it wants to leave. Now
Speaker 5: open the door. Go downstairs and open the front door.
Speaker 5: Open the front door and let it.
Speaker 4: Out, cried Gildia. If you'll feel better about it.
Speaker 5: It wants to take me along, but I know how
Speaker 5: to fight it.
Speaker 7: Now go Matches and hurry.
Speaker 5: I hate you, I hate you, I hate you.
Speaker 4: I ran down the stairs and threw open the front door.
Speaker 4: I stood there, breathing in an idea. It was clear
Speaker 4: and cold, and the stars hung overhead. I looked across
Speaker 4: to the park and saw the glow from the street
Speaker 4: lamp falling on the empty bench directly opposite, and at
Speaker 4: that moment came a sound of froze my blood with her.
Speaker 4: I stood there, paralyzed, unable to move. Seconds past, perhaps minutes,
Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know how long I stood there.
Speaker 4: I glanced across at the empty bench, and for one
Speaker 4: moment thought I saw a shadow sitting on it, a
Speaker 4: vague shadow, as guilty as it one night weeks before.
Speaker 4: And then the bench was empty, and I heard Pitting
Speaker 4: running down the stairs.
Speaker 6: Come quickly, Professor Gildia hid it was his heart.
Speaker 4: I think, yes, yes, I believe it was his heart.
Speaker 6: But his father Murchison, he's he's lying up there, Sir, he's.
Speaker 4: Dead, dead, dead Pitting. I hope so, I sincerely hope so.
Speaker 3: Escape is produced and directed by William N. Robeson and
Speaker 3: To Night Brought You How Love Came to Professor Gildia
Speaker 3: by Robert Hitchins, adapted for radio by Less Crutchfield, with
Speaker 3: Louis van Rutn as Professor Gildia, Hardy Bear as Father Murchison,
Speaker 3: Harry bartellis Pitting, and Paul Frees as the parrot. Music
Speaker 3: is conceived and conducted by Cyfure.
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Speaker 1: week end, when Blue Monday stares you in the face.
Speaker 1: Next week, at this time when your problems just seem
Speaker 1: too much for you, we are for you.
Speaker 5: Escape.
Speaker 3: Next week we bring you another exciting story of high adventure.
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