WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.200 --> 00:00:06.519 Tired of the everyday routine. Ever dream of a life 2 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:11.519 of romantic adventure, want to get away from it? 3 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:20.120 A We offer you escape Escape Design to free you 4 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:22.600 from the four walls of today for a half hour 5 00:00:22.679 --> 00:00:23.839 of high adventure. 6 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:30.879 You are prisoner in the magnificent mountain retreat of the 7 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:33.799 richest man in the world, get in love with his 8 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:38.719 beautiful daughter. While haunting you. Terrifying you is the certain 9 00:00:38.799 --> 00:00:42.320 knowledge that the only sure escape would be death. 10 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:56.520 Today, with Sam Edwards starred as John Hunger, we escaped 11 00:00:56.520 --> 00:00:59.359 to an isolated plateau in the rocky Mountains and the 12 00:00:59.399 --> 00:01:01.719 strange story of a stranger family. 13 00:01:02.119 --> 00:01:02.479 As F. 14 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:07.400 Scott Fitzgerald told it in his fascinating tale The Diamond 15 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:09.040 As Big as the Ritz. 16 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:25.920 I'd been going to Saint Midas Prep School for a 17 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:29.159 couple of years, and this was my second summer vacation. 18 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:33.280 I'd met this fellow, Percy Washington, during the winter and 19 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:36.120 got to be pretty good friends with him. Only I 20 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:38.560 didn't know about his family, or where he came from, 21 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:41.799 or anything like that. Of course, I knew he must 22 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:44.799 be rich. All the fellows at Saint Midas came from 23 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:48.560 wealthy families, So when he invited me to spend the 24 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:52.040 summer at his home out west, someplace that was okay 25 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:56.280 by me. We'd been traveling on the Super Cheap Overnight 26 00:01:56.319 --> 00:01:59.719 when Percy first mentioned it. I don't even remember now 27 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:02.359 what up to it. We've been talking about, first one 28 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:09.520 thing and then another. Exactly where is your home, Percy? 29 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:12.319 I mean you bought the train tickets and all. 30 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:16.039 So I well, it's in the Rockies sort of. 31 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:19.960 That is in the Rockies. Huh. Pretty wild country, isn't it. 32 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:21.879 Some of it is. 33 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:25.319 And now you take Haydes, Missouri, where I come from. 34 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:28.240 It's been settled for one hundred and fifty years, one 35 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:30.240 of the first towns on the Mississippi River. 36 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:34.719 Indeed, Oh, sure, that's very interesting. 37 00:02:36.280 --> 00:02:38.800 You know, I sure do appreciate your not making jokes 38 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:40.879 about it the way some of the fellows do when 39 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:42.800 I say I come from Haydes. 40 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:48.240 John, do you know that my father is the richest 41 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:49.400 man in the world. 42 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:50.759 Huh? 43 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:51.960 By father richest? 44 00:02:52.759 --> 00:02:55.039 I read about a man that paid taxes on a 45 00:02:55.080 --> 00:02:56.560 five million dollar income. 46 00:02:56.919 --> 00:03:00.199 Small fight. If my father paid a tax on his 47 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:04.120 real income, he disrupt the whole economy of the United States, 48 00:03:04.639 --> 00:03:08.120 No kidding, Oh, I like rich people the richer a 49 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:08.919 fellow is the better. 50 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:09.439 I like him. 51 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:12.199 My father could buy out all the millionaires in the 52 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:14.159 country and not even know he'd done it. 53 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:17.960 As that a fact. I visited at the Schlitzer Murphys once. 54 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:21.800 They're plenty rich. Why their daughter Vivian's got rubies as 55 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:22.960 big as hen's eggs. 56 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:26.599 I like jewels, always have. I used to collect them 57 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:30.560 instead of stamps and diamonds. The Slitzer Murphys had diamonds 58 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:34.560 as big as walnuts. Oh that's nothing, huh, nothing at all. 59 00:03:35.479 --> 00:03:39.439 My father has a diamond as big as the Ritz. Please, 60 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:44.680 I'm not joking, but you mean as big as the 61 00:03:44.759 --> 00:03:50.039 Ritz Carlton Hotel exactly. My father has a diamond as 62 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:53.639 big as the Rits. O. 63 00:03:57.719 --> 00:04:00.599 Well, from there on it was something like a dream. 64 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:03.560 We got off the train about dusk, get a little 65 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:06.319 whistle stop where there was no town or anything, not 66 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:09.919 even a station, just a broken down or buggy Now 67 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:13.199 Percy and I climbed in, and without saying a word, 68 00:04:13.240 --> 00:04:17.519 the driver cracked his will and off we went. I 69 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:20.360 don't know how far we travel we didn't seem to 70 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:23.240 be following any road, and after an hour or so 71 00:04:23.319 --> 00:04:25.879 it got dark. The driver kept right on. 72 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:30.759 I hope you'll pardon this inconvenience, John, but we have 73 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:34.560 to take certain precautions, you know. Oh that's all right, Percy. Anyway, 74 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:37.519 we're almost there. You're a home you mean, oh, no, 75 00:04:38.040 --> 00:04:40.560 to the place where we consider it's safe to transfer 76 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:42.360 a transfer? 77 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:43.600 What do you mean? 78 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:44.600 There's the signal? 79 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:46.360 Now, headlights? 80 00:04:46.680 --> 00:04:47.079 Pull up? 81 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:52.360 The horse absent they've seen us an automobile. Yeah, but 82 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:53.759 how there's no road? 83 00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:58.160 Oh it's special build doesn't need roads. Welcome home, must 84 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:01.199 good evening, Gigson. Come on, John, let's get in. 85 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:04.319 Josh, what's the body made out of? Silver? 86 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:08.680 No platinum? Those are emeralds in the hubcats and the 87 00:05:08.839 --> 00:05:14.199 uphole string. It's for me you already must have anytime, Gigson. 88 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:19.079 You'll probably notice, John, the exceptional brightness of the headlights. 89 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:21.399 The lenses are cut from diamonds. 90 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:23.160 Why what a car? 91 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:38.399 This old junk keep? We use it for a station wagon. Hey, 92 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:42.560 why didn't we stop, Percy? This is just a deserted canyon. Wait, John, 93 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:45.160 you'll see they sent the hooks down while we were 94 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:48.680 coming from the train. The hooks, yes, to attach to 95 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:51.199 the wheels. You know, that's what Gigsam's doing. 96 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:51.480 Now. 97 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:55.519 Oh. Incidentally, Gigsam will look after you during your visit, 98 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:59.319 look after me your personal valet. Of course, there'll be 99 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:02.160 other slip is available to whenever you need them. 100 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:06.639 Do you have a lot of slaves. 101 00:06:06.439 --> 00:06:10.920 Three or four hundred? I suppose muster Oh already, Gigson, yes, must. 102 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:15.720 Oh, I say. 103 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:21.319 Yeah, Look we're leaving the ground. 104 00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:23.639 Yes, there's a hoist up there on the top of 105 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:26.399 the cliff, has cables about a quarter. 106 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:26.879 Of a mile long. 107 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:29.720 Yeah, but what four, Well, it's the only way. 108 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:34.439 In imagine hoisting an automobile a quarter of a mile 109 00:06:34.519 --> 00:06:35.560 up the side of a cliff. 110 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:39.319 It's nothing really, as you may have guessed, John, this 111 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:42.240 is not going to be like anything you ever saw 112 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:55.600 before in your life. Well, John, there it is. 113 00:06:56.639 --> 00:07:01.639 That's your home. Yes, Why, it's magnificent, it's palatial. 114 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:04.759 It's not a bad little place. How big is it? 115 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:08.480 I think there are around one hundred and forty rooms, 116 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:12.720 but father may remember exactly. Then, of course there are 117 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:15.120 other buildings, slaves, quarters and things. 118 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:18.000 Well, uh, why hasn't anyone ever found out about it? 119 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:18.759 This place? 120 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:21.600 I mean, for one thing, it's the only five square 121 00:07:21.639 --> 00:07:23.879 miles in the country that have never been surveyed. 122 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:24.600 Why not. 123 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:30.360 Oh, things were arranged. I don't see how that's possible. 124 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:34.839 Believe me, it hasn't been easy. I understand. Grandfather had 125 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:38.120 to bribe three government bureaus, and half of Congress wants 126 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:39.720 to keep the place off the maps. 127 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:44.639 Oh yeah, but surely somebody stumbled onto it. Prospectors people 128 00:07:44.759 --> 00:07:45.079 like that. 129 00:07:45.160 --> 00:07:49.160 Oh yes, that happens occasionally. Then, of course we have 130 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:54.199 to arrange things, you mean, not always. Usually we just 131 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:58.360 take them prisoner and keep them like the aviators. Planes 132 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:01.360 come here once in a while, the flyover. Of course, 133 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:04.920 they never get away. We have nine anti aircraft batteries 134 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:05.959 around the hill here. 135 00:08:06.439 --> 00:08:07.639 You shoot them down. 136 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:12.040 Oh yes, great sport does upset mother a bit, though, 137 00:08:12.079 --> 00:08:14.879 And there's always the chance one might get away. That's 138 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:16.639 father's greatest worry. 139 00:08:17.240 --> 00:08:20.759 This place is, this whole thing is fantastic. 140 00:08:21.079 --> 00:08:24.399 Oh come now, John, I picked you for a fellow 141 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:26.839 with his feet on the ground, and you haven't seen 142 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:30.360 anything yet. You know, this is only the beginning. 143 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:43.480 And it was only the beginning. We crossed the acres 144 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:47.039 of lawn and entered the Great Chateau, and from that 145 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:51.159 moment on, vision upon vision tumbled together in a gigantic 146 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:56.039 kaleidoscope of color, symmetry and exquisite harmony. There were corridors 147 00:08:56.120 --> 00:09:00.159 lined with gleaming crystals, lit by lamps cut from emerald, 148 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:05.080 and great halls carpeted with tinchillifour and erman. Why even 149 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:08.240 the air I breathed carried a subtle fragrance, like the 150 00:09:08.279 --> 00:09:13.720 scent of platine. There was a white haired man, pink 151 00:09:13.759 --> 00:09:16.559 faced and pleasant. Who was Percy's father? 152 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:18.480 More champagne, mister Dunger. 153 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:22.759 Oh, thanks, mister Washington. It's it's very good. 154 00:09:23.720 --> 00:09:26.440 It's the very best I have it made, especially by 155 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:30.840 Paul Masso himself. Gosh really, However, mister Dunger, I don't 156 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:33.000 want you to think our life here is just a 157 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:38.720 bed of roses. Upon occasion, we do have to arrange things. Oh, yes, 158 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:39.559 indeed we do. 159 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:44.240 I went to my room thinking there could be no 160 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:49.600 more nor greater wonders. I was wrong. There were many 161 00:09:49.639 --> 00:09:52.799 more and greater ones, and one of them I discovered 162 00:09:52.799 --> 00:10:10.159 the next morning in the gardens. Hello there, Yeah, Oh 163 00:10:10.200 --> 00:10:11.039 you're lovely. 164 00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:16.799 My name is his mine. You're John Hunger. You're offended, 165 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:19.039 my brother. Are you from the east? 166 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:26.120 No, at least not exactly I'm I'm from Hades, Oh Missouri. 167 00:10:27.960 --> 00:10:30.200 Would you like to sit down here on the grass? 168 00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:32.879 Oh? Yes, sure I would. 169 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:36.759 I'm going east to school this fall. Do you suppose 170 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:37.360 I like it? 171 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:38.039 Well? 172 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:38.679 I think so. 173 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:41.720 Of course it'll be different from all this. 174 00:10:42.360 --> 00:10:45.159 That's what my sister, Jasmine says, and she's in the east. 175 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:48.120 Now I've never been outside. 176 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:54.320 I hope you won't be offended. But you're the most 177 00:10:54.639 --> 00:10:56.360 beautiful girl I've ever seen. 178 00:10:57.080 --> 00:11:02.440 Yes, I know what. I've surprised you didn't I a 179 00:11:02.519 --> 00:11:05.000 year ago I would have said thank you, but father 180 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:08.440 says it's very necessary to learn to take things for granted. Sure, 181 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:13.559 I like you, John. I wish you'd spend some of 182 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:16.960 your time with me this summer, not all with Percy. 183 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:20.279 I will kiss mine. I will. 184 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:22.639 You may be in love with me if you would 185 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:25.519 like to. I'm absolutely fresh ground. 186 00:11:25.519 --> 00:11:30.759 You know. I think I am in love with you already. 187 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:34.000 Of course we'll have to meet secretly. My parents wouldn't 188 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:34.320 permitted it. 189 00:11:34.440 --> 00:11:36.240 They knew. Then that's what we'll do. 190 00:11:36.879 --> 00:11:38.759 I have to go now. I'm supposed to be with 191 00:11:38.799 --> 00:11:43.039 mother at eleven. Aren't you going to ask me for 192 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:43.559 a kiss? 193 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:44.240 Huh? 194 00:11:44.679 --> 00:11:48.200 Jasmine says, boys always do nowadays, Oh. 195 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:52.720 Some of them do, but not me. We don't expect 196 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:55.960 nice girls to do that sort of thing. And hades, 197 00:11:56.399 --> 00:12:07.320 and it was a funny thing. Percy's family were polite, friendly, 198 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:11.080 always smiling, and yet all the time I had a 199 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:14.440 feeling that some terrible and golden mystery lay hidden just 200 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:19.039 around the corner. A few days after I'd met kids mine, 201 00:12:19.120 --> 00:12:24.039 Percy remarked casually that unusually that had occurred, a man 202 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:27.759 had escaped from the cage. Of course, I didn't know 203 00:12:27.759 --> 00:12:29.679 what he meant then, But the next morning I was 204 00:12:29.720 --> 00:12:33.840 walking with Percy's father on the grounds of the estate. Oh, 205 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:38.039 mister Washington, Percy said something about a man escaping from 206 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:40.879 the cage. I didn't quite get it. 207 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:44.840 In the cage, eh, Well, perhaps you'd like to see it. Yes, 208 00:12:44.919 --> 00:12:50.279 it might prove interesting, just as a novelty. It's over here, 209 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:50.960 these trees. 210 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:55.120 They're sixty feet tall, and they have roses blooming all 211 00:12:55.120 --> 00:12:55.519 over them. 212 00:12:55.639 --> 00:12:59.399 It's a rather interesting development by a Swiss botanist. These 213 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:00.840 are the only ones in the world. 214 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:03.120 Oh, I suppose you'll see them all over the country 215 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:03.799 in a few years. 216 00:13:03.879 --> 00:13:10.240 M No, No, these are the only ones that was arranged. Ah, 217 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:11.519 here we are the cage. 218 00:13:12.440 --> 00:13:15.320 Why it's a pit dug in the ground and a 219 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:16.120 greeting on time. 220 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:19.120 Well, boys, how are you getting along? 221 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:21.840 How? 222 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:25.120 How many men are there down there? 223 00:13:25.559 --> 00:13:30.159 About fifties? I recall aviators. We've shut down wandering prospectors, 224 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:31.320 many of that sort. 225 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:33.200 But why are they kept there? 226 00:13:33.480 --> 00:13:36.399 Well, they've all had the common misfortune of having discovered 227 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:37.039 El Dorado. 228 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:42.159 Gentlemen, gentlemen, I am sure that you would like to 229 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:46.360 know that your companion, who departed without my permission, has 230 00:13:46.440 --> 00:13:49.720 been taken care of. He was shot by some of 231 00:13:49.759 --> 00:13:53.240 my agents in fourteen different places. 232 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:55.559 Golf, mister Hunger. 233 00:13:57.759 --> 00:14:01.480 They found him, then the man who got away. 234 00:14:01.639 --> 00:14:05.200 It will actually by places I meant towns. No, No, 235 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:08.440 my agents were over eager. They shot fourteen men, but 236 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:11.600 none of them could offer a positive identification. So I'm 237 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:13.840 afraid the man I seek may still be at large. 238 00:14:14.519 --> 00:14:15.360 You see, mister Dronger. 239 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:20.320 It's not all utopia here. Oh, we do have our difficulties. 240 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:24.279 Isn't it a little unnecessary holding them like that? 241 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:25.360 Not at all. 242 00:14:25.399 --> 00:14:27.120 It's the only way to keep this place hidden. 243 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:32.440 Yeah, Or mister washington Er. Percy was telling me something 244 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:35.159 on the train. I guess he was just kidding, but 245 00:14:36.200 --> 00:14:38.720 he said you had a diamond as big as the 246 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:40.200 reds Carlton Hotel. 247 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:42.960 Oh, yes, use indeed, as a matter of fact, it's 248 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:52.600 much bigger than the Ritz, much bigger er. 249 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:58.759 Well, summer went on, and I was more and more 250 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:04.279 in love with Kimine. She too was priceless, exquisite, like 251 00:15:04.399 --> 00:15:08.600 no other girl in the world. After a couple of weeks, 252 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:12.600 I'd kissed her, of course, and I was really in 253 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:16.639 love for the first time. Yeah, I should have known. 254 00:15:16.679 --> 00:15:19.399 I should have put two and two together when Percy's 255 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:22.759 father showed me the cage, but I didn't until one 256 00:15:22.759 --> 00:15:25.720 morning late in the summer I'd slipped off with kiss 257 00:15:25.799 --> 00:15:29.519 Mind to the Rose Gardens. Kiss Mine, I think we 258 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:32.200 ought to Elope. I don't know. 259 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:36.200 It would be much nicer to be married here, but 260 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:39.000 then it would be much more romantic to Elope. All 261 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:41.080 the Sunday supplements would write stories about it. 262 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:43.200 Old kiss Mine, I knew in. 263 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:46.159 Aires the MoMA ho Ones, But I don't think you'd 264 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:48.600 like her. She visited my sister here. 265 00:15:49.039 --> 00:15:50.960 Oh you've had other guests then. 266 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:54.679 Huh, well, yes, we've had a few. 267 00:15:55.240 --> 00:15:58.000 No, wasn't your father ever afraid they might talk outside. 268 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:04.360 Well, to some extent, but let's talk about something more pleasant. 269 00:16:04.840 --> 00:16:06.000 What's unpleasant about it? 270 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:09.559 I grew quite fond of some of them. 271 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:14.360 You mean they told and your father. 272 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:16.960 They didn't get a chance to Father had to be sure. 273 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:18.600 But that's murder. 274 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:22.320 What else could we do in the cage. They'd be 275 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:26.600 a constant reproach to us, and father does it so nicely. 276 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:30.320 They're always drugged in their sleep, and we tell their 277 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:34.240 families they died of scarlet fever and butte, I'm not 278 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:36.799 sure what effect that has on theistics. 279 00:16:36.200 --> 00:16:39.039 There of all the horrible No, it's not. 280 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:42.559 After all, it would be terribly boring here without ever 281 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:46.000 having anybody. Why father and mother have sacrificed some of 282 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:47.480 therapist friends. 283 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:50.840 That's what they plan to do with me. 284 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:54.799 Then, see, now you're sort of depressed. 285 00:16:55.399 --> 00:16:56.639 I knew you would be. 286 00:16:57.039 --> 00:17:00.840 And we could have had such fun fun, couldn't you. 287 00:17:01.240 --> 00:17:03.720 Couldn't you try to forget it and be nice to 288 00:17:03.759 --> 00:17:06.759 me until you put away. It's only for two or 289 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:07.319 three weeks. 290 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:11.279 You'd go on this way, kissing and talking about love 291 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:13.359 when you know I'm not much better than a corpse. 292 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:16.319 You're not a corpse. You're not. I won't have you 293 00:17:16.359 --> 00:17:17.519 saying I kissed a corpse. 294 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:19.640 That wasn't what I said. You did too, I did not, 295 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:20.720 you said at. 296 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:24.240 The moment, father, Oh kissed a corpse? 297 00:17:24.880 --> 00:17:26.799 No, Boddy, we were joking. 298 00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:29.400 No, you too, haven't any business here anyway, kis Mine, 299 00:17:29.480 --> 00:17:32.000 you go read, go play golf, and don't let me 300 00:17:32.079 --> 00:17:33.319 find you here when I come back. 301 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:38.000 Yes, bothery, Yeah, well, good day children, you see nowing. No, 302 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:41.119 you've spoiled at all. You don't really. 303 00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:47.880 Love me, kis mind you? Oh what's the use look 304 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:51.519 kiss mine? Why would it be so terrible if anyone 305 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:52.880 found out about this place? 306 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:56.519 Why is that account of the diamond? Of course, But 307 00:17:56.559 --> 00:17:59.039 you'd better ask, Percy. I'm always getting things messed up. 308 00:17:59.400 --> 00:17:59.920 I will ask. 309 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:02.920 And another thing I'm getting out of here tonight. If 310 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:05.359 I have to dig through the mountains, I'm going back east. 311 00:18:05.359 --> 00:18:06.319 Take me with you, Hona. 312 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:06.839 Why not? 313 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:08.240 Your father wouldn't permit it. 314 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:10.640 If you won't take me, I'll go tell him I'm 315 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:12.000 in love and want to marry you. 316 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:12.759 You can't do that. 317 00:18:12.799 --> 00:18:14.160 He'd bump me off this afternoon. 318 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:17.480 Please take me, darling, and we'll be terribly poor and 319 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:21.599 very happy. And I'll cook things for you, herbs and 320 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:23.440 berries and stuff. Won't that be fun? 321 00:18:24.200 --> 00:18:25.400 You will, won't you? 322 00:18:25.559 --> 00:18:25.960 John? 323 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:35.319 Well, my head was really in a whirl. This whole 324 00:18:35.359 --> 00:18:39.480 thing was fantastic, and so was the family, even kids mine. 325 00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:42.160 I couldn't think of anything to do, but I rushed 326 00:18:42.200 --> 00:18:42.839 to see Percy. 327 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:45.240 But John, why didn't you ask me before? 328 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:47.240 Because I thought you were kidding all the time. 329 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:50.279 I know you wouldn't have believed me if I had 330 00:18:50.359 --> 00:18:53.440 told you. I'm ready to believe anything now. Well, it 331 00:18:53.559 --> 00:18:57.000 was grandfather who started the whole thing, purely an accident. 332 00:18:57.440 --> 00:18:59.960 He came out here from Virginia and stumbled on it. 333 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:05.119 Under what the diamond. Of course, Grandfather spent two years 334 00:19:05.160 --> 00:19:07.920 going around to different cities of the world selling bits 335 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:11.039 of it, and then he started building this place. First 336 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:13.599 he started putting his money in jewels, and then he 337 00:19:13.680 --> 00:19:17.319 found the radium took up much less space. Father's carried 338 00:19:17.359 --> 00:19:21.000 on since, you know, But why the secrecy. It just 339 00:19:21.039 --> 00:19:24.319 wouldn't do if anyone found out ruin the economy of 340 00:19:24.359 --> 00:19:26.039 the world. The thing's too big. 341 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:30.119 This thing has been going on for three generations. The cage, 342 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:34.440 this thing of inviting friends. Yes, you see there wasn't 343 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:38.519 really any danger before airplanes there what worries? And you 344 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:40.680 knew when you invited me here what would happen? 345 00:19:40.920 --> 00:19:44.480 Please, John, I thought you'd be more sensible about it. 346 00:19:44.960 --> 00:19:47.119 After all, you can see my position. 347 00:19:47.599 --> 00:19:52.000 Yeah, where is it? Where do you keep this diamond 348 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:53.720 that's CAUs ocockeyed much trouble? 349 00:19:54.200 --> 00:19:56.960 I thought you'd guessed you've noticed the hill the chateau 350 00:19:57.079 --> 00:19:59.839 stands on. Oh yes, but it contains a cubic mile, 351 00:20:00.559 --> 00:20:04.839 and except for a thin covering of dirt, it's one big, 352 00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:06.240 solid diamond. 353 00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:17.720 It was nearly midnight. I didn't know what awakened me, 354 00:20:18.839 --> 00:20:21.400 but all of a sudden I was staring across the 355 00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:24.559 patches of moonlight, spotting the ermine carpet of my bedroom, 356 00:20:25.640 --> 00:20:29.680 staring at three slaves I had never seen before. They 357 00:20:29.759 --> 00:20:33.240 just slipped inside the door and stood there, each with 358 00:20:33.319 --> 00:20:41.920 a vicious length of shiny copper wire, the official executioners. 359 00:20:42.839 --> 00:20:45.160 I lay there on the bed, washing and counting heartbeats, 360 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:48.279 not daring to move, not daring not to move. They 361 00:20:48.279 --> 00:20:52.240 didn't know I'd awakened. They began edging across the room. 362 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:54.519 Come on, all three of you, there's no time now 363 00:20:54.519 --> 00:20:57.960 for this hurry. 364 00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:04.039 I took one long, deep breath, the first in several moments. 365 00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:06.039 Then I was out of the bed in an instant, 366 00:21:06.119 --> 00:21:08.200 throwing on my clothes and dashing through the long pistol 367 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:13.160 corridor the Kismin's rope. Kiss mine, Are you awake over 368 00:21:13.240 --> 00:21:14.079 here by the window? 369 00:21:14.799 --> 00:21:15.960 So they woke you up too? 370 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:17.960 If you mean three of your father's slaves? 371 00:21:17.960 --> 00:21:19.000 Oh? Airplane? 372 00:21:19.160 --> 00:21:21.000 Airplanes, So that's what it is. 373 00:21:21.119 --> 00:21:23.680 At least a dozen. I saw them crossing against the moon. 374 00:21:24.319 --> 00:21:26.119 Look they're third clean way over there. 375 00:21:26.279 --> 00:21:27.359 You think they're here on purpose? 376 00:21:27.480 --> 00:21:27.680 Oh? 377 00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:30.519 Yes, they dropped warnings to father. It's that man who 378 00:21:30.519 --> 00:21:31.680 got away from the cage, you know. 379 00:21:31.960 --> 00:21:33.160 Good for him, Yes. 380 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:35.400 Wasn't he clever? I think we'll open up on them 381 00:21:35.400 --> 00:21:35.960 many seconds. 382 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:40.839 Now, open up, yes, our anti aircraft. Oh this is thrilling, thrilling. 383 00:21:41.240 --> 00:21:45.119 Oh look they're in range now, bravo, bravoes. 384 00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:46.400 Mind get away from that window. 385 00:21:49.720 --> 00:21:51.079 Good heavens, did you see that? 386 00:21:51.519 --> 00:21:53.599 Yes, And we've got to get out of here. Can't 387 00:21:53.640 --> 00:21:55.799 you understand? They'll bomb the chateau. 388 00:21:55.480 --> 00:21:57.359 Next to they're the little grove across on the side 389 00:21:57.400 --> 00:21:59.480 of the mountains. We always keep one of the cars there. 390 00:21:59.559 --> 00:22:02.000 We'll have a nice view of every a nice. 391 00:22:01.880 --> 00:22:03.079 View, kis mine. 392 00:22:03.079 --> 00:22:05.720 You don't seem to understand. They mean business. They're out 393 00:22:05.759 --> 00:22:07.279 to finish off you and your whole family. 394 00:22:07.440 --> 00:22:10.079 It all seems so silly. Why when you come right 395 00:22:10.119 --> 00:22:23.119 down to it, they've never even met us. Is it 396 00:22:23.359 --> 00:22:24.039 morning yet? 397 00:22:24.119 --> 00:22:27.480 John seems to be getting lighter. 398 00:22:28.039 --> 00:22:29.160 It's quieter too. 399 00:22:30.200 --> 00:22:35.759 It's your guns. They're knocked out, every last one of them. 400 00:22:35.759 --> 00:22:36.960 It won't belong now. 401 00:22:37.799 --> 00:22:41.799