WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:05.960 Fed up with a shoveling snow, can't shake that cold 2 00:00:06.040 --> 00:00:09.359 of yours. Wonder what the world's coming to? 3 00:00:10.039 --> 00:00:15.599 We offer you Escape. 4 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:24.879 You are alone in a remote village on the Welsh border, 5 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:30.079 surrounded by silent townspeople who were watching and waiting for 6 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:32.799 you to decide to lose your soul. 7 00:00:43.479 --> 00:00:48.119 Escape produced and directed by William N. Robeson, and carefully 8 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:50.520 contrived to free you from the four walls of today 9 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:52.520 for a half hour of high adventure. 10 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:00.439 To night, we escape to a remote section of whales 11 00:01:01.079 --> 00:01:05.959 and a strange village between two worlds. As Algernon Blackwood 12 00:01:05.959 --> 00:01:10.560 described it in his eerie story Ancient Sorceries. 13 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:29.480 I had spent a week's vacation in Wales and was 14 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:33.359 returning to London by train when it all began. It 15 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:37.280 was late afternoon. We'd left the Welsh mountains and crossed 16 00:01:37.319 --> 00:01:40.920 the border into western England, passing through a countryside which 17 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:46.319 appeared singularly empty, deserted of life. Over the soft hills 18 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:50.920 and the valleys between hung a faintly perceptible haze given 19 00:01:50.959 --> 00:01:55.519 to the whole landscape of feeling of enchantment and unreality. 20 00:01:56.599 --> 00:01:58.760 The train at length slowed down to a stop at 21 00:01:58.760 --> 00:02:02.040 a tiny wayside station. As it did so, a sudden 22 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:05.719 thought occurred to me, Hm, why not leave the crowded 23 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:08.479 train with its irritating noise and spend the night in 24 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:11.400 this peaceful spot, then take a slower and emptier train 25 00:02:11.439 --> 00:02:14.800 in the morning. On the impulse, I rose from my 26 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:17.319 seat and the man sitting opposite to me said. 27 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:19.560 Why, say, sir, we only stop here for a minute 28 00:02:19.639 --> 00:02:21.919 or two if you're thinking all walking. 29 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:24.080 About a bit? No. As a matter of fact, I'm 30 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:26.400 getting off here. I thought you were going to London. 31 00:02:26.639 --> 00:02:28.560 I'll go on in the morning. I'm going to stay 32 00:02:28.560 --> 00:02:31.080 here for the night. I strongly advise you not to. 33 00:02:32.280 --> 00:02:36.479 I beg your pardon. This is the village off Marton Moulton. 34 00:02:36.759 --> 00:02:39.719 I've never heard of it. Few people have outside. 35 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:43.120 But if you place any value on your soul, you'll 36 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:44.080 not spend the night here. 37 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:46.960 My dear sir, what are you talking about? Why not? 38 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:51.560 Because of the sleep and because of the cats. 39 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:56.080 That's all I can tell you. You're insane. I'll take 40 00:02:56.120 --> 00:02:57.199 my bag if you don't mind. 41 00:02:57.400 --> 00:03:00.599 You're making a terrible mistake. You may not even have 42 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:03.520 the chance to regret it. Don't leave this train. I 43 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:06.479 know what I'm talking about, snodot a nonsense. 44 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:13.120 Don't don't I tell you good bye. I stood there 45 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:16.599 on the embankment as the train pulled away. Why what 46 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:18.560 in the world was the matter with the man? Anyway? 47 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:24.199 Cats sleep? His words made no sense. I picked up 48 00:03:24.199 --> 00:03:26.919 my bag and started walking up the long hill toward 49 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:31.479 the village, and suddenly, for no reason at all, I 50 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:41.840 shivered Hello. Hello, is anybody here? 51 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:42.599 Yeah? 52 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:46.400 Oh oh, I didn't see you at first. 53 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:48.479 Is there's something I can do for you? 54 00:03:48.520 --> 00:03:48.759 Sir? 55 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:49.719 Why? 56 00:03:49.800 --> 00:03:52.240 Yes? I saw your sign outside the inn of the 57 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:54.840 Golden Bar. I should like to get a room please. 58 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:57.280 You're planning to stay here? 59 00:03:58.759 --> 00:03:59.719 Why? Why? Yes? 60 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:05.520 H very well. You may sign the register here. 61 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:10.560 Thank you. I'm going to catch another train and go 62 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:11.280 on in the morning. 63 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:20.279 Yes, of course there Arthur Llewellyn, Llewellyn, Yes, from London, 64 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:27.560 Authur Llewellyn. You've been a long time coming back. 65 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:28.720 Huh. 66 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:32.240 But now that you're here, you'll find there are some 67 00:04:32.399 --> 00:04:34.319 things that never change. 68 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:38.040 Madam. I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about, 69 00:04:38.759 --> 00:04:41.959 you rang, madam? Where did you come from? 70 00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:42.319 Done? 71 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:45.360 Really? The gentleman would like a room for the night, 72 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:49.000 His name is Arthur Llewellyn. 73 00:04:49.720 --> 00:05:01.160 Hie, so it is welcome back to Morton, sir, Huh? 74 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:05.199 Why I knew I'd never been here before? What was 75 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:07.480 it all about? Thus the men on the train, and 76 00:05:07.519 --> 00:05:13.600 now these people. Were they crazy or was I? I 77 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:17.399 left the inn and walked along narrow, cobbled streets beneath 78 00:05:17.439 --> 00:05:21.879 quaint gables, leaning out from the silent shuttered houses through 79 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:27.240 dappled pools of light and shadow. It gradually dawned upon 80 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:30.680 me that the village of Malton was centuries old, older 81 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:33.800 than any town in England ought to be. And the people, 82 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:36.399 the people I passed now and then, were dressed in 83 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:39.879 the fashion of another day. They paid no attention to me, 84 00:05:40.439 --> 00:05:45.439 went silently about their own business. Yes, that was it, 85 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:53.639 That's what I'd been noticing. Silently they came and went, 86 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:58.279 with only soft padding sounds to mark their passing, as 87 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:05.160 though they walked in shoes with sod of velvet. When 88 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:13.120 I stopped, there was no sound. Silence was unbroken. I 89 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:15.000 hurried on through the streets and came at last to 90 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:17.639 the far side of the village, to a place where 91 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:19.839 the hill broke away sharply from a low, flat wall 92 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:24.120 of stone, perhaps a ramp at Once I sat down 93 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:27.279 upon it, in the dreamy, laziest sundolence of the place 94 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:31.120 stole over me presently, I don't know how much later, 95 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:35.639 I became aware of the sound of weird music rising 96 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:38.800 out of the veil below me. I looked down from 97 00:06:38.879 --> 00:06:42.720 the rampart, the sunken plane at the bottom melted away 98 00:06:42.759 --> 00:06:46.720 into a sea of gathering shadow, blurred in a swirl 99 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:58.120 of thickening mist. I thought of dead trees swept by 100 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:02.000 the night wind, of animals with half human voices singing 101 00:07:02.040 --> 00:07:05.040 to a white moon, of the wailings of cats on 102 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:08.600 the roof tiles at night, of unearthly creatures far off 103 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:11.560 in the sky calling to one another in chorus. I 104 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:14.639 felt my heart beat faster and faster, felt the vague 105 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:17.680 stirrings of some urge inside of me, trying to answer 106 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:21.000 the awful call of that music. I fought against the feeling, 107 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:23.959 fought against myself, and even as I did, I found 108 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:27.040 I was staring down into that valley, peering desperately into 109 00:07:27.079 --> 00:07:31.480 the darkness, trying to see I don't know what. And 110 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:41.079 then suddenly the music ended. I stood on the ramput alone, 111 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:45.600 dusk fallen around me, and the early night wind moaned 112 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:49.920 with a chill breath. Quick terror rose up in me. 113 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:53.839 I turned and ran through the darkened street, ran with 114 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:56.920 my heart pounding, dodging its shadows, through one dim alley 115 00:07:56.959 --> 00:08:00.959 after another, and arrived at last, panting, almost breathless, at 116 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:02.000 the door of the golden Bar. 117 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:10.519 It's been a long time, returning, mister Llewellen. It's past 118 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:11.519 seven h. 119 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:14.519 Yes, yes, I I guess I walked farther than I 120 00:08:14.600 --> 00:08:16.319 meantor I didn't realize it was so light. 121 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:19.560 You heard the music, didn't. 122 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:26.519 You, Yes, strangest music I've ever heard. How did you 123 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:28.560 know who? Please it? 124 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:29.240 Anyway? 125 00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:32.039 Then you didn't remember it? 126 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:33.240 No? 127 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:40.320 Why should I? The thing was becoming irritating, this quiet 128 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:44.639 insistence that I was someone else. I went into my 129 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:49.159 lonely dinner ate as quickly as possible, then, taking the 130 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:52.320 candle down Dreary gave me, I crossed the lobby, climbed 131 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:55.600 the stairs behind the desk, and walked past silent doors, 132 00:08:55.600 --> 00:08:57.639 down the long empty hall that led to my room 133 00:08:57.639 --> 00:09:00.519 at the end. I was half way to my door 134 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:05.840 when suddenly the flame of my candle went out. I 135 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:09.360 stood stuck still in the pitch blackness, fumbling from etch. 136 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:14.200 At that moment I knew that some one or something 137 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:17.679 was there with me in the darkness. Held my breath 138 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:20.440 and listened. There was no sound, no movement. I reached 139 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:22.519 out and felt the wall and moved along it, feeling 140 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:26.039 my way in the inky blackness. It was then I 141 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:32.360 touched it near my face, another soft, warm, yielding and life. 142 00:09:32.759 --> 00:09:41.320 Who what is it? It is? I? Ill? Sir? Who? Who? Ill? Sir? 143 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:50.200 Don't you remember me? Arthur? Ah ah? 144 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:54.279 But wouldn't you like to remember me? Don't you want 145 00:09:54.279 --> 00:10:01.919 to see me again? To look at me now? I 146 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:09.120 I don't know, But not to night either. The heats 147 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:15.600 to morrow, to morrow. 148 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:22.240 I stumbled blindly through the door of my room and 149 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:24.960 shut it behind me. I lit the candle and flung 150 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:30.399 myself across the bed. The room was small, with one 151 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:33.480 shuttered window, and the light of the flame flickered on 152 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:37.919 the walls and ceiling. I stared at the hand that 153 00:10:38.039 --> 00:10:41.360 had touched her out there in the dark hall. I 154 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:45.039 lifted it up to my face and smelled of the 155 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:51.320 barbaric sent still clung to my fingers. It was evil. Madly, 156 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:56.360 the candle sputtered and burned and the melted minutes dripped away? 157 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:02.960 Who was I? Who were these people? Who was il Sir? 158 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:12.519 I fell asleep finally and dreamed of soft moving creatures 159 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:16.720 and the silence of life in a dim muffled world, 160 00:11:16.840 --> 00:11:23.039 devoid of all feeling but ecstasy. And I dreamed too, 161 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:35.480 of cats. You slept quite late this morning, mister LewAllen 162 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:39.960 erh oh morning, Dundreary. I I felt as if I 163 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:43.080 had been drugged. The night air here in Morton is 164 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:47.320 very conducive to sleep. I'd meant to catch the morning 165 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:56.000 train for London. Now it's too late. What a terrible shame. Oh, 166 00:11:56.000 --> 00:12:00.679 by the way, Dundrelly, Yes, mister rowan Er, do you 167 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:04.480 I mean? Well? I was wondering if if you'd know 168 00:12:04.759 --> 00:12:07.159 anyone by the name of Il Sir. 169 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:10.120 Ilsir happens to be my daughter. 170 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:13.960 Mister Llewellen, H I didn't hear you come in. 171 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:18.279 I hope you were able to sleep well without any 172 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:20.240 unpleasant dreams. 173 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:21.679 I guess so. 174 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:24.000 I'm so happy to hear it. 175 00:12:25.399 --> 00:12:28.440 Perhaps then you may decide to stay with us for 176 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:30.000 a long time. 177 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:35.559 That it's very kind of your It is in kindness. 178 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:39.399 Mister Llewellen, but all of us are hoping that you 179 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:42.799 may decide. 180 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:54.799 Soon, decide, decide what It was no use none of 181 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:57.720 them would answer my questions. They seem to think I 182 00:12:57.720 --> 00:13:01.679 should know already. I left the inn as soon as 183 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:05.480 I'd eaten, walked around the streets of the village, and 184 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:08.399 I began to notice that I was never completely alone. 185 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:13.080 If I turned down an empty street, some one always 186 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:15.639 stepped from a doorway or entered from the opposite end 187 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:19.519 wherever I went. Within five minutes, a dozen people were 188 00:13:19.559 --> 00:13:23.799 strolling near me, and I realized these people were watching 189 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:32.679 me tensely, as a cat watches a mouse or another cato. 190 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:42.080 It's quite fortunate you came back early, mister de wharen 191 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:46.320 your dinner this evening? Is there other special? One special? 192 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:48.399 What do you mean by that? You are to have 193 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:49.440 a guest? 194 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:49.879 Uh? 195 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:50.559 Who? 196 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:50.679 He? 197 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:55.759 An old friend? She's coming now. The girl who came 198 00:13:55.840 --> 00:13:59.720 toward taught us across the room was blithe and slim, 199 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:03.360 and she moved with the sinuous grace of a young panther. 200 00:14:05.159 --> 00:14:12.279 She was lovely, exotic and terrifyingly beautiful. I present, mister 201 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:16.559 darthur Lewell and Masilta. He's been with us for two days. 202 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:22.559 Yes, I know, my mother told me. May I sit down, 203 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:23.799 mister Llewellyn. 204 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:29.120 Oh, oh, yes, please do here, permit me. 205 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:33.919 Thank you, Messirre. 206 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:37.879 Thank you Masilsa, then your il sir. 207 00:14:38.879 --> 00:14:42.080 Yes, don't you remember Missa. 208 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:47.960 From last night? It was you? What last night, wasn't it? Yes? 209 00:14:48.759 --> 00:14:53.360 And other knights? Can't you remember all the other knights? 210 00:14:54.840 --> 00:14:54.879 No? 211 00:14:56.720 --> 00:15:03.120 No, then we shall have to try that much. It's 212 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:04.919 been such a very long time. 213 00:15:05.919 --> 00:15:09.879 Please else, what is it all of you talk about? 214 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:12.600 I don't understand any of it. 215 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:17.679 You will other unless you leave, of course. Weren't you 216 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:20.039 planning to take a train to London in the morning? 217 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:29.759 Yes? It No, No, I have changed my mind. I'm 218 00:15:29.799 --> 00:15:30.559 glad you did. 219 00:15:32.200 --> 00:15:36.279 We'll try to make you happy here, my mother and I, 220 00:15:36.559 --> 00:15:40.519 and then perhaps you'll stay a long long time. 221 00:15:40.919 --> 00:15:43.759 No, I must live for sure in a day or two. 222 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:50.639 Suppose we wait and see. And meanwhile, if there's anything 223 00:15:50.679 --> 00:15:55.200 you want, all you have to do is ask me. 224 00:15:56.799 --> 00:16:02.960 All right, why don't you tell me about Yes, Arthur, 225 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:10.600 about what? No? No, I don't want to know. I 226 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:17.279 I don't want you to tell me. Suddenly I realized 227 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:22.480 I was afraid to know, afraid I should leave now, 228 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:31.720 but I couldn't leave. It was ill, sir. She attracted, repelled, fascinated, 229 00:16:31.799 --> 00:16:37.000 and and horrified me, all in single flashes of blasting emotion. 230 00:16:38.720 --> 00:16:41.519 I felt the presence of a great gray curtain, ready 231 00:16:41.559 --> 00:16:44.200 to roll back at any moment and leave me on 232 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:48.519 the brink of an awful adventure. I knew. The village 233 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:52.200 yelled its breath, watched and waited, and then on the 234 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:56.120 evening of the fifth day, the whole ghastly secret exploded 235 00:16:56.159 --> 00:17:01.759 into hideous life. After dinner, Ilsa had asked me to 236 00:17:01.799 --> 00:17:04.079 walk with her. It was the first time I'd been 237 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:06.920 outside the inn after dark. We walked through the village 238 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:10.960 in the moonlight, saying little, and came finally to the 239 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:15.680 stone rampart above the sunken plain. We were quite alone. 240 00:17:16.680 --> 00:17:20.279 Look, Arthur, it's a full moon to night. Do you 241 00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:21.279 know what that means? 242 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:25.000 Yes, it means I can see more clearly how beautiful 243 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:25.279 you are. 244 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:30.319 Do you really believe there? Do you think I'm beautiful? 245 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:34.000 Like a soft, sleek leopard in a warm jungle of shadows? 246 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:39.079 But wait out, I'll see you even better in a moment. Ah, 247 00:17:39.160 --> 00:17:41.240 what are you doing? These dry leaves by the wall? 248 00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:44.599 They'll make an excellent bonfire. Eh, eh, you. 249 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:50.240 See, no, no, the fire, no other put it out. 250 00:17:50.279 --> 00:17:54.039 All right, il sir, Eh, don't worry. It's all right, 251 00:17:54.599 --> 00:17:57.240 and I had a chance to get started. He there, 252 00:17:57.279 --> 00:18:01.799 you see it's all ot. Yes, I see you'll, sir? 253 00:18:02.440 --> 00:18:05.279 Why did it bother you so much? Don't you remember? 254 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:07.359 Don't you remember? The fire? 255 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:08.519 No? 256 00:18:09.480 --> 00:18:10.079 What fire? 257 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:16.559 Oh no, don't talk of it. Look at me instead, 258 00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:17.880 look at me, Arthur. 259 00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:27.319 Yes, Sila, father, do you love me? Yes? Yes, Silsa, 260 00:18:27.359 --> 00:18:31.799 I love you. I love you and I want you. 261 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:35.519 I'm glad that means you'll come back to us. Then 262 00:18:36.880 --> 00:18:38.440 I don't know what you mean, Elsa. 263 00:18:38.839 --> 00:18:43.279 You can know everything to night if you want to. 264 00:18:43.519 --> 00:18:44.559 Yes, I do, I do. 265 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:48.480 You must know a part of it already down inside. 266 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:50.440 You must remember some of. 267 00:18:50.359 --> 00:18:54.839 It, don't you. Yes, It's like something buried for centuries 268 00:18:54.839 --> 00:18:57.880 inside of me, and now it's beginning to come alive. 269 00:18:57.960 --> 00:19:01.160 Let it come alive. Don't fight again instead. You belong 270 00:19:01.240 --> 00:19:03.920 to us once long ago, and you still belong. 271 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:06.400 Yes. I seem to know that. 272 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:09.079 That's why you came back. You heard them calling, you 273 00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:12.799 heard me calling, and you came seeking the old life again. 274 00:19:13.039 --> 00:19:17.759 Yes, but he'll, sir, You'll say, I'm afraid. Are you 275 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:23.440 afraid of me? Look at me? Will sir kiss me? 276 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:30.400 M I'll sir. 277 00:19:31.359 --> 00:19:33.720 Will you live the old life again with me tonight? 278 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:34.079 Yes? 279 00:19:34.200 --> 00:19:37.079 Yes, I've known that you would, because I own you, Arthur, 280 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:39.119 who belong to me, and I want you, and I 281 00:19:39.119 --> 00:19:40.839 shall never let you escape from me again. 282 00:19:41.000 --> 00:19:41.240 Yes. 283 00:19:41.359 --> 00:19:46.000 Yes, go back to the inn, then wait for me, Arthur. 284 00:19:47.079 --> 00:19:49.680 I shall come for you tonight. 285 00:19:55.799 --> 00:19:58.039 Back at the and I paced the floor of my room, 286 00:19:58.559 --> 00:20:02.799 a tense, uncontrollable excitement driving me along in a nervous frenzy. 287 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:06.319 The dry crypt of memory broke open, and all the 288 00:20:06.359 --> 00:20:09.480 things I'd hidden away for centuries poured into my consciousness. 289 00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:13.559 I knew now why I'd come here, I knew what 290 00:20:13.640 --> 00:20:16.680 I was going to do, and I knew that I 291 00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:20.440 was lost. I sensed the rising stir of movement throughout 292 00:20:20.440 --> 00:20:23.720 the inn and outside in the courtyard below my window. 293 00:20:24.920 --> 00:20:27.640 I knew what to expect when I threw open the shutter. 294 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:31.720 From every window of the Inn and from those of 295 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:35.640 the houses about the court, were leaping great monstrous beasts 296 00:20:36.039 --> 00:20:39.680 with soft, dark fur and eyes that gleamed with eerie phosphorescence. 297 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:44.680 Cats cats of human size. This, then, was the secret 298 00:20:44.759 --> 00:20:49.880 of molten lycanthropy, the witchcraft of centuries long dead and buried. 299 00:20:50.640 --> 00:20:53.079 Their half human cries flooded up to me, and the 300 00:20:53.119 --> 00:20:55.200 moon cast their dark shadows on the ground as they 301 00:20:55.240 --> 00:20:57.799 padded across the courtyard and vanished through the narrow streets 302 00:20:57.799 --> 00:21:00.920 of the village, heading for a hideous run of This 303 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:03.480 is what i'd been, This is what I want it 304 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:08.160 to be. Now, I scarcely heard the door of my 305 00:21:08.319 --> 00:21:09.720 room open behind me. 306 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:17.119 Shall we join them? El sir, here Arthur, the sacred 307 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:22.440 bomb made of a vein and mistletoe and blind things 308 00:21:22.519 --> 00:21:23.200 out of the sea. 309 00:21:24.720 --> 00:21:32.640 Remember, yes, yes, I remember, take it, use it. 310 00:21:32.680 --> 00:21:36.440 We'll change now transform, leap from the window and join them. 311 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:38.079 Lead us again, Arthur. 312 00:21:38.359 --> 00:21:41.759 Yes, but not here, Elsa, not yet. Wait until we 313 00:21:41.799 --> 00:21:44.319 get there. Then we'll change if. 314 00:21:44.119 --> 00:21:47.119 You wish, Come then, Arthur, to the stone wall above 315 00:21:47.119 --> 00:21:50.640 the grove. That's where we'll change. On the stone rampart. 316 00:22:00.279 --> 00:22:04.240 On the sunken plane beneath the wall, insane shadows rithed 317 00:22:04.279 --> 00:22:07.759 in the moonlight and postured in the luminous mist. A 318 00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:10.640 thousand of the Devil's owne were dancing in the unearthly 319 00:22:10.759 --> 00:22:14.599 music borne from the harmony of the black sacrifice, crying 320 00:22:14.680 --> 00:22:17.440 out in delirious abandoned, calling to the thing that now 321 00:22:17.480 --> 00:22:21.319 lived inside of me, and struggled screaming in my skull, 322 00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:25.119 trying to answer them back. I fought against them, fought 323 00:22:25.160 --> 00:22:28.480 against Ilsa, pleading and clinging with her soft arms about 324 00:22:28.480 --> 00:22:28.920 my neck. 325 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:33.720 Now, now, Arthur, come with me, now, if you love me. 326 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:35.359 I love you, but I can't do it. I can't 327 00:22:35.359 --> 00:22:36.119 do it, not again. 328 00:22:36.319 --> 00:22:38.440 Yes, my love? On an instant, a change, and then 329 00:22:38.480 --> 00:22:39.319 we'll live forever? 330 00:22:39.680 --> 00:22:39.880 Is it? 331 00:22:39.960 --> 00:22:40.880 Living without a soul? 332 00:22:40.960 --> 00:22:42.279 Outs matter? When I'm here? 333 00:22:42.480 --> 00:22:45.160 No once before I escape, but I can never escape 334 00:22:45.160 --> 00:22:47.519 again this time? There be no turning back. 335 00:22:47.640 --> 00:22:48.480 Am I not worth it? 336 00:22:48.559 --> 00:22:49.000 Look at me? 337 00:22:49.039 --> 00:22:50.039 Look at me, my love. 338 00:22:50.519 --> 00:22:52.599 I clung to the very edge of my sanity, thought 339 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:54.400 that I would not be lost and damned forever. And 340 00:22:54.440 --> 00:22:57.920 at this moment, at this moment, I knew, knew what 341 00:22:58.039 --> 00:22:58.599 I could do. 342 00:22:58.880 --> 00:23:00.720 Arthur, Wait, what are you doing? 343 00:23:00.759 --> 00:23:02.799 I found a matchine my pocket, struck and dropped it 344 00:23:02.839 --> 00:23:04.640 into the dry leaves that lay bank across the whole 345 00:23:04.720 --> 00:23:09.000 length of the stone wall. No, no other doubt. I 346 00:23:09.079 --> 00:23:12.119 can't come to you through the fire. You're driving away? Yes, 347 00:23:12.960 --> 00:23:17.039 go go else to go into the valley. Goodbye, hell sir, 348 00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:34.240 good bye. He follow you. I turned from the wall 349 00:23:34.279 --> 00:23:36.119 of flame that for a few minutes would shut me 350 00:23:36.160 --> 00:23:38.720 off from the valley, ran through the moonlight streets, not 351 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:41.559 back toward the Inn of the Golden Bar, but down 352 00:23:41.559 --> 00:23:44.119 the long road that led away from that cursed village 353 00:23:44.160 --> 00:23:54.039 of Malton, where mister Llewellen. 354 00:23:54.160 --> 00:23:56.759 I find this one of the most interesting cases of 355 00:23:56.839 --> 00:24:01.000 hallucination I've encountered since I began the practice of psychiatry. 356 00:24:01.920 --> 00:24:04.240 I tell you what really happened, doctor. 357 00:24:04.039 --> 00:24:07.119 And having investigated your story a bit during the past week, 358 00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:09.440 I'm in a position now to answer most of the 359 00:24:09.519 --> 00:24:11.880 questions that have been worrying you since you came back 360 00:24:11.880 --> 00:24:12.440 to London. 361 00:24:13.240 --> 00:24:15.039 What do you mean investigated? 362 00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:16.839 I went up to Herford and looked over some of 363 00:24:16.880 --> 00:24:19.960 the old records there. Then I motored over to Marlton 364 00:24:20.039 --> 00:24:21.079 for a couple of hours. 365 00:24:21.359 --> 00:24:24.400 Well, then you know it's all true. You saw it. 366 00:24:24.480 --> 00:24:25.480 You know I was there. 367 00:24:25.519 --> 00:24:28.480 Oh, there's no question, But what you were there, mister Llewellen. 368 00:24:28.960 --> 00:24:31.119 The lady who runs the inn showed me your name 369 00:24:31.160 --> 00:24:34.519 in the register, said you left suddenly without taking your 370 00:24:34.559 --> 00:24:36.079 luggage or paying your bill. 371 00:24:36.599 --> 00:24:44.559 She was really quite put out. I see, well, well, 372 00:24:44.599 --> 00:24:46.759 what of the records, doctor, the ones you spoke of. 373 00:24:47.240 --> 00:24:49.720 I think they really explained the whole thing. 374 00:24:49.799 --> 00:24:50.519 Mister Llewellyn. 375 00:24:51.400 --> 00:24:54.880 It seems that during the fourteenth century the village of 376 00:24:54.920 --> 00:24:58.119 Marton became a kind of headquarters in that part of 377 00:24:58.160 --> 00:25:01.720 the country for the practice of witchcraft. 378 00:25:02.960 --> 00:25:04.279 He's gone. 379 00:25:04.519 --> 00:25:07.720 Numerous trials were held there in the late thirteen hundreds, 380 00:25:08.119 --> 00:25:10.480 and a great many men and women were convicted of 381 00:25:10.599 --> 00:25:14.400 sorcery and burned to death. In the records of a 382 00:25:14.480 --> 00:25:18.759 trial in thirteen seventy two, I found the name of 383 00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:22.359 an Arthur Llewellen, and of Ilsa and her mother. 384 00:25:23.880 --> 00:25:24.839 That proves it. 385 00:25:24.920 --> 00:25:28.680 Then, it proves a clear case of hallucination. You knew 386 00:25:28.680 --> 00:25:32.000 that story before you went there, not consciously but somewhere 387 00:25:32.039 --> 00:25:33.720 deep in your latent memory. 388 00:25:34.200 --> 00:25:36.160 I knew nothing about it before. 389 00:25:36.279 --> 00:25:39.720 That man was an ancestor of yours. The story must 390 00:25:39.720 --> 00:25:43.319 be known in your family when you arrived in Malton. Accidentally, 391 00:25:43.400 --> 00:25:46.839 the association of the name just pulled the trigger and 392 00:25:46.920 --> 00:25:48.440 your imagination did the rest. 393 00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:52.160 Yes, But doctor, my parents died when I was four, 394 00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:55.960 Ah I've never been around any of my family. 395 00:25:55.640 --> 00:25:59.640 Ever, No matter you see, a childhood memory is a 396 00:26:00.039 --> 00:26:04.920 singly persistent at times. 397 00:26:05.759 --> 00:26:17.000 Yes, yes, I suppose it is. I knew then what 398 00:26:17.119 --> 00:26:20.519 I had to do, the only. 399 00:26:20.400 --> 00:26:24.279 Thing I could do. There'd be no use in talking 400 00:26:24.319 --> 00:26:29.039 further with the doctor. He'd find some phrase of science 401 00:26:29.079 --> 00:26:33.519