Speaker 1: Started your Christmas shopping at worried about where the money
Speaker 1: is coming from. I want to get away from it.
Speaker 1: We offer you escape. He was seated around a green
Speaker 1: felt table with a dozen desperate men waiting for the
Speaker 1: turn of a card. If it's the Ace of Spades,
Speaker 1: you will be next, and you desperately desire the impossible escape.
Speaker 2: Escape produced and directed by William N. Robeson and carefully
Speaker 2: plotted to free you from the four walls of today
Speaker 2: for a half hour of high adventure.
Speaker 1: Tonight we escaped to London of the last century, a
Speaker 1: London of gas lights and handsome cabs, A London where
Speaker 1: a gentleman still valued his word of honor above his life.
Speaker 1: A London of which one terrifying incident is recorded by
Speaker 1: Robert Louis Stevenson and his unforgettable story The young man
Speaker 1: with a cream tarts?
Speaker 3: Oh Lord, or rather city seems to awful little amusement tonight, Well,
Speaker 3: bottom's up, let's be on our way right o. Your
Speaker 3: health and yours.
Speaker 4: Please have a green car Parliment.
Speaker 3: Well, now, what's this you with a tray of cream turts?
Speaker 3: He's giving them away?
Speaker 1: Perhaps one of the turns on the bill perhaps shall
Speaker 1: we go?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: Lets I pray you accept this confection, for if you
Speaker 4: do not, I am bound to eat it myself. You
Speaker 4: must be crazy. It was never more seen I do.
Speaker 4: Then there's nothing for it but my twenty seventh tart
Speaker 4: since five o'clock. Now there are but two left you, sir?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: Will you so far? Under an entire stranger truly excellent pastry.
Speaker 4: I should know, I've eaten off of them.
Speaker 1: It is not the nature of a gift that is important,
Speaker 1: but the spirit in which it is offered.
Speaker 4: The spirits hair is one of.
Speaker 3: Mockray mockery, and whom do you mark myself?
Speaker 4: However, my purpose at the moment is not confession, but
Speaker 4: rather distribution of these cream tarts. Won't you and your
Speaker 4: friend dispose to the laughter?
Speaker 3: Yes, hees on one condition.
Speaker 1: If my friend and I eat your last two cakes,
Speaker 1: we shall expect you to join us at supper.
Speaker 4: Supper. It's a horrible thought. I've already eaten two dozen
Speaker 4: of these pastries.
Speaker 1: Very well, then we shall omit supper. I'm better acquainted
Speaker 1: over a bottle of wine.
Speaker 4: I'm uncertain whether my repugnance for these two remaining parts
Speaker 4: of the attraction of your invitation compels me.
Speaker 3: But I accept excellent.
Speaker 1: Then let us finish off your pastry and seek a
Speaker 1: more quiet place. How about Michelle's and soho splendid?
Speaker 3: Shall we go.
Speaker 4: An excellent restaurant, an excellent wine, and two excellent friends.
Speaker 4: I drink to your health.
Speaker 3: And we drink to yours.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you will understand my curiosity, but you are
Speaker 1: curious naturally. Although I suspect that your story is probably
Speaker 1: a silly one, Indeed you may rest assured that we
Speaker 1: are two of the silliest men in England. My name
Speaker 1: is Godall, theophilis Goodall, and my friend here is Major
Speaker 1: Alfred Hammersmith.
Speaker 4: I like you, mister Godall, Andrew Major Hammersmith. Though I
Speaker 4: suspect there's not your right name. It is of no
Speaker 4: importance exactly, nor is my name, so I will not
Speaker 4: divulge it. Although I see no reason why I should
Speaker 4: deny you my story. It's brief and foolish. Pray tell us,
Speaker 4: then off toall tale a modest fortune which I squandered
Speaker 4: in the usual ways at cards the horse races in Paris.
Speaker 4: Then two months ago I met a young lady exactly
Speaker 4: suited to my taste in mind and body.
Speaker 3: My heart melted.
Speaker 4: I was in love too Late yesterday my solicitor warned
Speaker 4: me that I had but a hundred pounds left in
Speaker 4: the world. Forty of these I used last night for
Speaker 4: a spatial purpose, and I have agreeably spent the day
Speaker 4: disposing of the remaining sixty pounds in as foolish a
Speaker 4: manner as I could devise.
Speaker 3: And the future, the.
Speaker 4: Future, has been taken care of by the forty pounds.
Speaker 3: Is it not odd that we three should have met
Speaker 3: by the merest accident in so large a wilderness as London,
Speaker 3: and be so nearly in the same condition.
Speaker 1: Yes, Major Hammersmith, I was thinking the very same thing.
Speaker 3: What's this?
Speaker 4: Are you too also ruined? Is this bottle of excellent wine?
Speaker 4: The last folly? Like my cream pots?
Speaker 1: Very nearly, sir, I'm perhaps a week behind you. I
Speaker 1: still have a few bank notes in my wallet. However,
Speaker 1: here now this bill take care of the bottle of
Speaker 1: wine and the others I throw into the fire.
Speaker 4: Oh no, you shouldn't have burned all of them. You
Speaker 4: should have kept forty pounds. Forty pounds, why why not
Speaker 4: fifty or seventy? For to my certain knowledge, there were
Speaker 4: more than a hundred in his wallet. It was only
Speaker 4: just forty pounds he needed. But without them, there is
Speaker 4: no admission. The rule is strict. What do you mean
Speaker 4: I have not yet completely emptied my pocket book. You
Speaker 4: are not fooling me. You are indeed ruined men like me. Oh, indeed,
Speaker 4: could you muster eighty pounds between you?
Speaker 3: Well, let me look in my wallet. Yes, eighteen, a little.
Speaker 4: Over than you are, indeed most fortunate. Forty pounds each
Speaker 4: is the initiation fee of the suicide Club.
Speaker 3: The suicide Club. What the devil is that?
Speaker 4: The suicide club is death's private door. It's the ultimate
Speaker 4: convenience in our modern world. It exists for unfortunates like costs,
Speaker 4: those to whom the painful agony of corrosive poison, and
Speaker 4: is distasteful for those whose courage fails them when the
Speaker 4: cold muzzle chills the forehead, for those whose fear of
Speaker 4: drowning is greater than their compulsion to die. For these
Speaker 4: sensitive misfits, the suicide Club ranges every detail. If you
Speaker 4: are truly tired of life, I will introduce you to night,
Speaker 4: to a meeting, and I can assure you that within
Speaker 4: the week you will be relieved of the burden of living.
Speaker 4: What do you say it's more serious than a cream tart?
Speaker 4: And I suspect more palatable.
Speaker 3: More serious certainly, so I I wonder if you would
Speaker 3: give mister Goodall and me five minutes alone to discuss it.
Speaker 3: Certainly I shall wait outside your highness. This adventure must
Speaker 3: stop here. Nonsense, Colonel d'erldin, I propose to see this through,
Speaker 3: see you through to what death? You forget your obligations,
Speaker 3: not only to yourself but to your country. Prince Floriesail
Speaker 3: of Bohemia cannot risk to night. I am plain, mister Godall,
Speaker 3: and so I proposed to remain. And please remember, Colonel Geraldine,
Speaker 3: under no circumstances are you to betray my incognito what
Speaker 3: your height. We have survived graver adventures than this one
Speaker 3: promises to be. And now, Colonel Geraldine, let us pay
Speaker 3: our bill and accompany our young wastrel two Death's private door.
Speaker 4: We will.
Speaker 3: Here your gunner Fox Court.
Speaker 4: Gentlemen, we have a rig.
Speaker 3: Here. You are cabby. Keep the change.
Speaker 4: Well, mister Godar Mantor Hammersmith. There is still time to
Speaker 4: change your minds.
Speaker 3: Lead on, sir, my mind's made up and mine.
Speaker 4: Follow me then dark as a tomb an aptain concise similar.
Speaker 4: Here we are gentlemen, have death's private door. Shall we enter?
Speaker 3: Pray?
Speaker 4: Let's you may hang your things in here, shall be
Speaker 4: good enough to wait.
Speaker 3: I shall call the President of all our foies. This
Speaker 3: is the wildest and most dangerous. I am beginning to
Speaker 3: believe you are right. Let me beseech your Highness to
Speaker 3: not forget you are my aide. Decombe, not your father
Speaker 3: yet I am responsible to the King for your will.
Speaker 3: Colonel Geraldine, you are not afraid, certainly, not for myself,
Speaker 3: but for your Highness.
Speaker 4: The President will see you in his office. I have
Speaker 4: vouched for you, but you must give him honest answers.
Speaker 4: The indiscretion of a single member might lead to the
Speaker 4: dispersion of the society forever. He can't afford to take
Speaker 4: that risk.
Speaker 3: Follow me in here. He's waiting for you. Good evening.
Speaker 3: I am told that you wish to speak to me.
Speaker 3: We have a desire, sir, to join the suicide Club.
Speaker 1: Sir, you've made a mistake. This is a private house.
Speaker 1: You must leave it instantly. We have come here upon
Speaker 1: the invitation of a friend of yours. He's already told
Speaker 1: you of our desires. Believe me, sir, when one has
Speaker 1: come this far along the path, one is not likely
Speaker 1: to be turned away, and certainly will tolerate little rudeness.
Speaker 1: Permit me to assure you either you will oblige us
Speaker 1: in the matter, or you'll regret ever having admitted us
Speaker 1: to the premises. Well, now that's more like it. This
Speaker 1: is no place for men not yet desperate. I believe you, sir,
Speaker 1: But what of your friend? My reasons are even more
Speaker 1: cogent than mister Goodarll's. I er, I was cashiered out
Speaker 1: of my regiment last week. Why cheating at cards?
Speaker 3: I see?
Speaker 1: And you, sir, what is your reason for being tired
Speaker 1: of life unadulterated laziness? Don't trifle with me, sir. You
Speaker 1: must have a better reason than that. I have no
Speaker 1: more money and I'm much too lazy to come by
Speaker 1: any hum. If I did not have a great deal
Speaker 1: of experience in these matters, I would turn you down.
Speaker 1: But I have learned that the most frivolous excuses for
Speaker 1: a suicide often cover a deep and life long desire
Speaker 1: for self destruction. Thank you for your understanding. Sir, very
Speaker 1: well to business. I shall read you the oath of membership,
Speaker 1: to which you will each subscribe. I swear to obey
Speaker 1: without question the instructions of the President of this Association
Speaker 1: or any of his appointed deputies. Realizing that desirable death
Speaker 1: could scarcely be a penalty for violating this oath, I
Speaker 1: am aware that any violation will be met at the
Speaker 1: discretion of the Resident by those means deemed suitable by him,
Speaker 1: namely excommunication from the church, loss of whatever honor still
Speaker 1: attaches to my name, and or, when necessary, violent reprisals
Speaker 1: against my bereaved family. In full knowledge of the sacredness
Speaker 1: of this earth, I subscribe my name. Well, gentlemen, you
Speaker 1: are in a position to enforce those penalties.
Speaker 3: I am.
Speaker 1: Hand me the pen, my friend, the pen please, Major Hammersmith,
Speaker 1: thank you. That will be forty palms a peace.
Speaker 3: Please.
Speaker 1: Here you are, thank you, And now would you like
Speaker 1: to join the members in the smoking room? Indeed we
Speaker 1: would this way. Please just make yourself at home. Every
Speaker 1: one's quite informal here, If your pardon me, I have
Speaker 1: some other matters to attend. Come along, Major, let's mingle
Speaker 1: with the company.
Speaker 3: Your highness.
Speaker 4: Quiet Oh, there you are, got in all right, I see,
Speaker 4: naturally you'll never regret it.
Speaker 3: I'm sure we Shan't you care for.
Speaker 4: A game of belliards and perhaps some whists?
Speaker 1: No, not immediately, thank you. I'd like just to wander
Speaker 1: around and listen to the conversation.
Speaker 4: You'll find it most revealing understanding. She had always stood
Speaker 4: in the way of anything I wanted to do, and
Speaker 4: I don't care if she was my mother.
Speaker 3: She crossed me one time to offer.
Speaker 5: I would never have joined this wretched club. If I
Speaker 5: had not read the Origin of the Species by Darwin.
Speaker 5: I could not bear to be descended from an ape.
Speaker 6: Certainly some men who cannot abide the restrictions of the monastery.
Speaker 6: And after the abbot discovered me, there was nothing I
Speaker 6: could do.
Speaker 1: It seemed comprehensible to me. What is by this talk,
Speaker 1: this boasting the self justification. If a man has made
Speaker 1: up his mind to kill himself, let him do it
Speaker 1: like a gentleman. Be done with the matter.
Speaker 4: As I told you, there are some of us more
Speaker 4: frightened of the act than.
Speaker 3: Of the result.
Speaker 1: There's only one man in this room who does not
Speaker 1: seem to be in a state of hystery. Who is
Speaker 1: that mister Godan by the gentleman sitting under the van.
Speaker 4: Oh? Yes, yes, mister Marthas, would you like to meet him?
Speaker 3: Yes? Please? These others are too obvious. There's nothing very
Speaker 3: subtle about mister Maltas. He looks like death himself, wearing
Speaker 3: thick eye glasses.
Speaker 1: Let us discover for ourselves the reason for his relaxation.
Speaker 4: Mister Marcus, Eh, I should like to present two new members,
Speaker 4: mister Goodall and Major Hammersmith.
Speaker 3: Are you do, gentlemen? How do you do? It's a pleasure, sir.
Speaker 4: Won't use it down new comers, You comers, I envy
Speaker 4: you the novelty of your first visit. You will learn
Speaker 4: to relish it if you're spared.
Speaker 1: Why, my dear sir, this club.
Speaker 7: Gentlemen, is the temple of intoxication. If my health would
Speaker 7: permit it, you may be sure I would be here
Speaker 7: more often, for this is my last disivation.
Speaker 3: Believe me, sir, I've tried them all.
Speaker 4: All the vicests.
Speaker 7: Yes, people trifle with love and ignorantly call it man's
Speaker 7: most powerful passion. Nonsense, nonsense, fear. Fear is the strongest passion.
Speaker 7: It is fair that you must trifle with if you
Speaker 7: wish to taste the intense joys of living.
Speaker 3: Envy me, sir, envy me. I am a poward er.
Speaker 1: How, sir, is the excitement so artfully prolonged?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Of course, of course I must tell you how the
Speaker 4: victim for every evening is selected, as well as the
Speaker 4: member who is to be death, Sir, High Priest, for
Speaker 4: the occasion.
Speaker 3: Great heavens, you mean they kill each other.
Speaker 4: The guilt of suicide is removed in that way, then I,
Speaker 4: or my friend or you, any of us might be
Speaker 4: selected this evening to murder another man exactly.
Speaker 3: But have they escaped the attentions of the law.
Speaker 4: Ah, The ingenuity of our president knows no limits.
Speaker 3: The debarchers always appear to be accidental.
Speaker 1: It's monstrous. On the contrary, my dear Major, it is godlike.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, yes, of course.
Speaker 1: But mister Malthus, I am still in the darkest to
Speaker 1: how the members are select did for the evening's work.
Speaker 7: Oh of course I've got to explain. But I see
Speaker 7: that the others are filing into the card room now
Speaker 7: and the play is about to begin. You shall see
Speaker 7: for yourself.
Speaker 4: Will you lend me the help of your arm I'm
Speaker 4: quite paralyzed, you.
Speaker 3: Know, Oh, of course, eh, thank you, eh ah.
Speaker 7: This is the moment for which I live, the quindescence
Speaker 7: of poignancy, the cultimate of fashion, coming here as infrequently
Speaker 7: as I do. I've savored this better taste to fear
Speaker 7: longer than the others.
Speaker 4: But my turn will come. Who knows?
Speaker 3: That's night? But how is it done? Tell us what
Speaker 3: to expect? Oh, it's so simple.
Speaker 4: The President deals from an ordinary deck playing cards, and
Speaker 4: each man turns up his guard as he receives it.
Speaker 4: The ace of spades, the card of death. Ace of
Speaker 4: clubs designates the official of the Knight, the murderer.
Speaker 3: If you like.
Speaker 7: Ah, here three chairs together, happy, happy young men. You
Speaker 7: have good eyes and you can follow the cards. I
Speaker 7: can only make out the faces.
Speaker 1: Is everyone here, my friend?
Speaker 3: We still have a fighting chance to escape the quiet?
Speaker 3: Let us play the game.
Speaker 8: Attention, gentlemen. Three clubs, Jack of hearts, ten of diamonds.
Speaker 9: King of clubs, Queen of hearts, three of spades, nine
Speaker 9: of clubs.
Speaker 3: Six spades. All the host that's are young men of
Speaker 3: the cream. Tw He's drown the Ace of clubs.
Speaker 4: I came here to be killed, not to kill I
Speaker 4: want a gentleman, not murder.
Speaker 1: I want to harshen the members against such unsanemly odverst.
Speaker 8: The ace of spades has not yet turned up.
Speaker 6: I will continue the deal.
Speaker 3: Of half seven of clubs, King of diamonds, Jack of spade,
Speaker 3: Ace o spades.
Speaker 1: Mister, that concludes the play for the knight. Gentlemen, Will
Speaker 1: the member who drew the ace of clubs come to
Speaker 1: my office for his instructions?
Speaker 3: Did you have this dream? Yes?
Speaker 1: Good morning, Roderick. I shall have my breaks in bed
Speaker 1: this morning.
Speaker 5: And Colonel Geraldine has been waiting for you to awaken him.
Speaker 1: Oh, very well show him, can you now? Good morning Geraldine?
Speaker 1: Sleep well, not too well? Did I dream it? Or
Speaker 1: were we initiated into the suicide club last night?
Speaker 3: Hm? Seems like a nightmare. It was a nightmare, but
Speaker 3: you didn't dream it. Here look at this the morning paper.
Speaker 1: Well melancholy accident this morning about two o'clock, mister Bartholomew
Speaker 1: Mouthless of sixteen Chepstow Place, Westbourne Grove, on his way
Speaker 1: home from a party at a friend's house, fell off
Speaker 1: the upper parapet in Trafalgar Square, fracturing his skull. Death
Speaker 1: was instantaneous. Mister Malthus, accompanied by a friend, was engaged
Speaker 1: in looking for a cab at the time. If Heather
Speaker 1: a soul went straight to Helen, was that poor paralytic? Yes,
Speaker 1: at least he is dead and out of it. But
Speaker 1: think of our young man of the cream tarts last night.
Speaker 1: That lad was as innocent as you and I. This
Speaker 1: morning he is a murderer.
Speaker 3: And thank heavens, we're safely out of it, are we. No,
Speaker 3: you are not going to return. I must you are
Speaker 3: infected with a passion of fear, just as poor Malthus was.
Speaker 1: Perhaps whatever it is to night once more, we take
Speaker 1: our places at the table of the Suicide Club. Good evening,
Speaker 1: Good evening, mister goodall back again to try your luck. Yes, indeed,
Speaker 1: and Major Hammersmith, good evening you were. You are to
Speaker 1: be congratulate late sir on the matter of mister Malthus,
Speaker 1: very neatly handled.
Speaker 3: I go, but I shall miss for ol Marthe he
Speaker 3: was a man.
Speaker 1: I could talk to him.
Speaker 3: Yes, your bereavement must weigh heavily upon you, and.
Speaker 1: Did it does, sir, But then it's all in the game.
Speaker 1: And now you will pardon me. We will sit down
Speaker 1: to play directly.
Speaker 3: The fiend, the foul fiend of hesteady, my friend, once more,
Speaker 3: let me plead with you, leave this evil house before
Speaker 3: it's too late. You're very tiresome to night.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, here's a young friend of the cream Tarts,
Speaker 1: grievening old chap.
Speaker 4: Oh, mister goodar Mantor Hammersmith. Oh, I wish I'd never
Speaker 4: brought you to this infamous place. Or leave, leave while
Speaker 4: your hands are still clean.
Speaker 3: But our oath we could not go back upon. Our oath, will.
Speaker 4: Renounce it, forget everything, Let them do their worst, but leave,
Speaker 4: Leave before it's too late. If if you could have
Speaker 4: heard the old man scream as I pushed him from
Speaker 4: the parapet, crunch of his little bones as he fired
Speaker 4: the pace.
Speaker 3: I perceive the dealing is about to begin. Shall we
Speaker 3: go in? Mister mister good, if you.
Speaker 4: Have any kindness in your soul, wish the Ace of
Speaker 4: Spades for me tonight. There's nothing left for me but
Speaker 4: to die.
Speaker 8: Attention, gentlemen, three of hearts, Queen of Spades, Ace of diamonds.
Speaker 3: Three times around, and neither black ace has come up.
Speaker 3: We are just thirteen. They set the table, this force round,
Speaker 3: this will this will tell thee and I am next
Speaker 3: to last.
Speaker 4: Yes, of course, only four more gods.
Speaker 3: King of Spades.
Speaker 4: Oh, pray for me, mister Godald, pray for me. I
Speaker 4: have one chance in free.
Speaker 3: Pray that I get the ash.
Speaker 1: Six of diam And now I have one chance in two,
Speaker 1: my friend, don't silence.
Speaker 3: Piece of Spades very well.
Speaker 8: That concludes the night's play.
Speaker 4: Gentlemen, Oh, mister good Dal, I'd give a million if
Speaker 4: I had.
Speaker 3: It for your luck. I would sell you this card
Speaker 3: for much less if I could.
Speaker 1: Well, Well, mister, my congratulations. I am pleased to have
Speaker 1: met yourself and to have been in the position to
Speaker 1: do you that trifling service. At least you can't complain
Speaker 1: of delay. Yes, yes, and now before I leave forever,
Speaker 1: I should like to ask a question, A purely hypothetical question,
Speaker 1: of course, since I am not a man to go
Speaker 1: back upon my word. But you wonder what would happen
Speaker 1: if you did, if upon the turning of the card
Speaker 1: you had changed your mind and now wish to live. Precisely, Suppose,
Speaker 1: my friend Major Hammersmith and I elected to ignore our oath.
Speaker 1: Suppose we began by tearing this place apart. You wouldn't
Speaker 1: even get started. The guests themselves are desperate men. But
Speaker 1: if they did not stop you, the servants, who were
Speaker 1: even more desperate, would you would never leave this house alive.
Speaker 1: I see, well, it was purely an academic question. Naturally,
Speaker 1: very well, then, what are my instructions? You will proceed
Speaker 1: along the strand in the direction of the city and
Speaker 1: the left hand pavement until you come upon a black
Speaker 1: carriage with drawn curtains. In this carriage will be the
Speaker 1: member who has to night drawn the ace of Clubs,
Speaker 1: my executioner, your collaborator in suicide. You will enter the
Speaker 1: carriage and he will continue your instructions. Please have the
Speaker 1: kindness to obey him in every detail. The authority of
Speaker 1: the club is vested in his person for the nights.
Speaker 1: I wish you a pleasant walk, Thank you, But first
Speaker 1: I must say farewell to my friend Major Hammersmith. I
Speaker 1: regret that is strictly against the rules. No farewells too
Speaker 1: disturbing for the still living members. You will leave through
Speaker 1: this side door to the work room, but I must
Speaker 1: have we won't have any trouble now.
Speaker 3: Where we must have call No, no, of course not.
Speaker 3: You're caught, and that you'll stick. Thank you again. Must
Speaker 3: have got all the most pleasant that's private door. Why
Speaker 3: didn't I listen to Geraldine before it was too late?
Speaker 3: I heard this my instructions. Under meet the coach in
Speaker 3: the strand.
Speaker 4: We'll take this couch right now, get him of me,
Speaker 4: all right, take us.
Speaker 3: H Your Highness will pardon the violation of his person. Geraldine, Oh,
Speaker 3: my friend, it was quite necessary under the circumstances. As
Speaker 3: soon as you turned up the ace of Spades, I
Speaker 3: slipped out of the house to prepare for your escape.
Speaker 3: But how did you manage it? When I realized I
Speaker 3: could not dissuade you from attending the club tonight? I
Speaker 3: retained the services of a certain capable and reliable private detective.
Speaker 3: But his secrecy has been bought and paid for. His
Speaker 3: men are now raiding the Suicide Club. The members will
Speaker 3: be removed to your townhouse, where it remains for you
Speaker 3: to pass judgment upon them.
Speaker 1: That I will gladly do and with the utmost dispatch.
Speaker 5: What if they brought us here for they didn't look
Speaker 5: like Scotland Yard meant to me?
Speaker 3: What difference does it make? Perhaps this will be a
Speaker 3: quicker way out, gentlemen?
Speaker 4: Why that's my friend, Mentor harms Smith.
Speaker 3: Is Royal Highness, Prince Florizel of Bohemia.
Speaker 4: That's mister God always thought there was something odd about
Speaker 4: this too, gentlemen.
Speaker 1: To night, we have removed you from a house of
Speaker 1: death to a house of life, and hope those of
Speaker 1: you who have come to your present condition through lack
Speaker 1: of fortune will receive employment and remuneration from my treasury.
Speaker 1: Those who have been driven to this unnatural solution of
Speaker 1: their problems by the agonies of guilt must find amnesty
Speaker 1: from a power greater than mine, power that eternally promises
Speaker 1: the forgiveness of sins, no matter how grievous. Only one
Speaker 1: of you is truly evil, and him I shall deal
Speaker 1: with myself.
Speaker 3: Where is he?
Speaker 1: Where is the president of the club, Colonel Geraldine?
Speaker 3: Why he should be here, your Highness, begging your honest pardon?
Speaker 3: Who is this man? Gulda, the chief of the detectives. Yes,
Speaker 3: what is it?
Speaker 6: Was you referring to the sallow chap with the sawed
Speaker 6: whiskeys and a black suit.
Speaker 3: That's the one the president of the suicide Club? Where
Speaker 3: is he?
Speaker 4: Yeh I hear?
Speaker 3: Why not? Well?
Speaker 6: When we broke into the little office down there at
Speaker 6: the club. We found him sprawled over the desk with
Speaker 6: a little empty bottle in his hand. He committed suicide.
Speaker 2: Escape is produced and directed by William N. Robson and
Speaker 2: Tonight Brought You The young Man with the Cream Tarts
Speaker 2: by Robert Louis Stevenson, adapted for radio by mister Robson,
Speaker 2: with Paul Freeze as Prince Florizelle, Bill Johnstone as Colonel Geraldine,
Speaker 2: and Martin Yarborough as the young Man. The special musical
Speaker 2: score was conceived and conducted by Cypiuer.
Speaker 1: Next week, after you've put in a tough day at
Speaker 1: the office, leaning over a hot stove when you're four,
Speaker 1: wall seem to be closing in on you. Next week,
Speaker 1: when you want to get away from it all, we
Speaker 1: offer you Escape.
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