Speaker 1: Come in welcome. I need g Marshall him there for
this group of scouting irregulars who assemble here to explore
the mysterious terrain of the imagination. I only regret, said
Nathan Hale, that I have but one life to give
for my country.
Speaker 2: But how did he know? How do any of us know?
Speaker 1: Who can say for certain how many times we are
destined to live? This brief span, this tiny flicker, this
fee will shout? Can this be all? For all eternity?
There must be more to it? Or is there? Our
mystery drama, The Angelus of Devil's Mountain was written especially
for the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars Warren Stevens.
Is sponsored in part by Donald K. Farlow drives through
the summary Connecticut countryside. Donald K. Farlow, at forty one,
is scarcely five pounds heavier than he was twenty years
ago when he was named All Ivy League running back.
Of course, he has some silver in his hair, which
is neither as thick nor as luxuriant as it used
to be. His chin seems somewhat heavier, but all in
all time has been kind. At this moment, Donald seems
to have a problem. He feels a nagging, little pain
in the region of his heart, nothing serious or unbearable,
but it persists, and when Donald sees the sign that
says more hotel, he decides to do the sensible thing.
Speaker 3: Do you have a reservation, mister follow No, I don't. Well,
it doesn't matter. Put you up anyhow. These days nobody's
turning away business. How long you plan I'm staying with him?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, I don't know. I just don't know. Miss
uh that's missus Collins.
Speaker 4: My husband Harry, that is my late husband, Harry bought
this place.
Speaker 1: And I ask you something, Missus Collins? Why are you
staring at me?
Speaker 3: Am I staring?
Speaker 1: Well? Probably the reason I ask is that's so obvious?
Speaker 3: Are that bad? Huh? Well, the minute you walked in
through the front door and approached the desk, I was
all set to say, hi, how you doing? The way
you greet someone you know?
Speaker 1: Oh? Do I look like someone you know?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yes, definitely?
Speaker 1: Who? Oh?
Speaker 3: I don't know? And yet your face is so familiar.
Speaker 1: I've never been in this area before.
Speaker 3: But could you be someone I might have seen on
the TV?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Oh no, I mean you're not a star or somebody in.
Speaker 4: A commercial or something like that, or nothing like that,
or a celebrity.
Speaker 1: Hardly I've seen you.
Speaker 3: I know i've seen you.
Speaker 4: Well, it'll come to me sooner or later. We'll put
your room one twenty fourth. That's just around to your right.
Oh you link your you ocame as father?
Speaker 1: Uh? Yes, uh, yes, I'm all right.
Speaker 3: You look at at something bothering you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm fine, just fine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Marvin, Uh you finished at the pool yet?
Speaker 1: How can I finished? When you call me every fifteen seconds?
Speaker 2: Stave meself?
Speaker 4: Marvin, A man just checked in room one twenty four.
Now what I want you to.
Speaker 3: Do is go go there. Why we'll just take up
an excuse. Say, say you wanna make sure the air
conditioning's okay? What for Marvin? That man's killing me? What
I mean, I I'm just dying. Do you remind you
of somebody? And I just can't please him? You know
something's you?
Speaker 1: It all together too much.
Speaker 3: Curiosity to run a hotel, Marvin. It'll just take your
second or two go to his room and see who
he reminds you of. That you seen him?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I'll tell you something dot he that man
is familiar. I mean, he's really familiar.
Speaker 3: I know, I know, But why he's a spitting image
of who who?
Speaker 2: I don't know, but I've seen him. I know him
from somewhere.
Speaker 3: You see what I mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know that guy.
Speaker 1: Well, it's the same age as me. We we might've
been the service together. Maybe it was somebody I knew
in career.
Speaker 3: Then why should he look miliar to me?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, see what you mean. But I'm positive. I'm positive
the army. He's got something to.
Speaker 1: Do with it.
Speaker 3: What do you mean the army?
Speaker 1: I know, it's just that I I look at the
sky and for some reason I just think of the army.
Speaker 4: Well, maybe he did the army, and for some reason
he's picked has been here in the paper.
Speaker 2: I never saw his picture in the face of it. Hey,
now that you take picture, I did see at some point.
Speaker 1: You're sure, Marvin, I'm not sure of nothing.
Speaker 2: Oh, I know. It's the guy looks familiar, and I
I just can't.
Speaker 3: Place or take another good look. He's headed toward the desk. Well,
how are there, mister Follow?
Speaker 1: Do you do you have a doctor in there by? Doctor?
Speaker 3: Oh, mister Follow, something's wrong. I knew it.
Speaker 1: Well, it's uh, I don't think it's serious.
Speaker 2: Well, if you're sick, you come to the right place.
Speaker 1: We got Devil's Mount Memorial Hospital there with the finest hospital.
Speaker 3: What's the matter?
Speaker 1: I think perhaps it might be wise for me to
check it at your heart.
Speaker 4: It's your heart, isn't it. I can tell by that
look on your face. Mob, and you bring that station
wagon around to the front.
Speaker 1: I'm happy to be able to tell you. It was
to follow that we can find nothing, but absolutely nothing
out of the way. Your chodiogram is completely normal. Ah,
that's a really pressure respiration heartbeat. We just talk people
to find anything. And yet you have this pain. Yes, doctor,
that's why I stopped here in this town. Originally I
was going to tell me, do you have any cardiac history? No, sir,
not that I know of. And the pain. Describe the pain, Well,
it doesn't seem to be the kind of pain that
well I've been told to associate with a heart attack.
Just more of a a stabbing pain, is it? Cause
if i'd been stabbed? Mm? Doctor, yes, doctor? Why are
you staring at me?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: I wasn't wherever it was? Who you are? Why you
still are? Uh? Broll? Let me tell you something else.
Everybody everybody in this town has been staring at me. Everybody, Yes, well,
h wh what do you mean by everybody? Everybody I've
met first the lady who runs the motel dot com. Yes,
and and the fella who seems to be the handyman.
He actually knocked on my door on some pretext, just
to look at me, You're sure. And then there's the
technician right here, the one who gave me the cardiogram.
She kept staring at me. It must be your imagination,
is it? Do I imagine that you're staring at me now? Mr?
Follow haven't we met before? I couldn't say so. He
looks so amilted to me. Well, you don't appear at
all familiar to me.
Speaker 2: Know you from somewhere in this entire town.
Speaker 1: It seems knows me from somewhere, but no one can
say exactly where. Now. Look, I've done nothing that would
call me to public attention, certainly not up here. I'm
not a famous person. You've never been up this way before.
I've only been in the state of Connecticut twice, and
each time was more than twenty years ago. It was
when Pennsylvania played Yale at the Bowl. Well, was your
picture in the local papers at the time. I don't
even remember. Are you telling me that people would recall
a college football game of more than two decades ago
in the face of a visiting player? Follow, I'm only
trying to create a basis of reality for what seems
so mysterious in that little girl who took my cardiogram.
She she probably wasn't even born at the time. I know,
I know. What's the difference whether or not I remind
you of someone? No? None, Really, what does it all
have to do with what's wrong with me? Nothing? Except,
mister Follow, we can't find anything at all that's wrong
with you. Well, then, why do I have this pain
in my heart? Your heart is absolutely solved. How can
you say that I have a pain here that increases?
It seems to increase in severity, It just keeps getting worse. Look,
doctor Steinberg, you remember the elderly. If I have gentlemen examager,
as did doctor Higgins, doctor Summers, we can call it
an other specialist. But you won't find better men anywhere.
And all of them say that you are normal. But
something is wrong. I feel it. Why do I have
this terrible pain in my heart? I suppose you answer this,
do you need a heart attack? What? I don't believe
I heard that. Do I need a heart attack? What?
Why would anyone need a heart attack? It might come
in handy, handy, handy for what. A man will sometimes
find himself in what might be described as an intolerable
situation he cannot face if he cannot fight it, and
yet it will not go away, and so he seeks
to haven the protection of a serious illness. Why do
you tell this to me, mister Harlowe? Tell me, ah,
you presently in some sort of intolerable situation. Doctor, I
don't see that that is any concern of yours. A
physician cannot treat an isolated part of his patient. He
must consider the health of the entire human being. And
I can find no physical basis for your pain. I've
never felt it before. I never even knew what it
was to be sick. And then yesterday morning I was
driving along the highway. I passed a sign that the
one that said welcome to Devil's Mountain. I remember because
I asked myself, what kind of name is that? Devil's Mountain?
And then there was a stab of pain, as if
well as if i'd been shot through the heart and
it just won't go away. Yeah, I think I can
say for you to do right now is just rest.
What is wrong with me? Doctor? I don't know? And
what's wrong with all of you in this place? Why
do you all stare at me as if I'm someone
you know? You don't know me. None of you knows me.
Mister Farmer, Could you give me the name of your
doctor Philadelphia? No, but a discussion with the medical man
who knows of your I don't have a do in
Philadelphia or anywhere else. Surely you must. I've never been
sick a day in my life. Must have gone in
for check ups? Why I've always been in top shape? O?
Uh alright, Once again I must ask you, mister Potter,
are you facing a desperate or even a serious problem?
And what if I am, that could very well be
what's causing the pain in your chest. My problem is
that a company I've devoted my life to building up
is now well it's going to go under. Why? Why? Why?
And I'll tell you why. You can't fight city hall,
you can't fight government regulations, you can't fight the new
contract demands tight money. You you just can't do it.
That's all. But nobody wants to understand that. Who doesn't
look understanding who? My partners, my son? Could that be
why you suddenly developed this pain in your chest to
get out of a fight. But I don't have to
justify what I do to anybody. But you've got to
do something about this pain, and you will have to
help try to relax, get some sleep.
Speaker 3: Hidd doc Hi Medical society lunches in the Yankee room.
I tried to bean soup.
Speaker 4: I will, oh, by the bye, that that fellow we
brought over to the hospital.
Speaker 3: Yesdee, yes he looked familiar to you too.
Speaker 1: Yes, he certainly did. I just a complished him had
me going.
Speaker 3: All day and most of the night. But finally I
knew where I've seen him before. You did you know
what gave it away?
Speaker 4: Finally that pain in his chest. I couldn't think, Doc, think,
think of that pain, and then you'll know where you've
seen him before.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Come on, doc, just think, and while the
doctor is thinking, we shall just steal away for a
few seconds so that you can do some thinking too. True,
you don't have all the facts, but you do have
enough to make an educated guess. Meanwhile, be inspired by
the following words of wisdom, and before you know it,
I shall return with that too. You see a face
in the crowd. It's the face of no one you
ever met. And yet you know that face. But why, yes,
you have seen it before. But where if only you
had a hint a clue to the folks in the
town of Devil's Mountain, Donald Follows, is such a face.
It's the face of a complete stranger. But why is
it so familiar? You say? You know, we've all seen
mister follow before.
Speaker 4: Dotty, Yeah, yeah, it finally came to me. Well tell me,
with the pain of the chance, that did it?
Speaker 3: Funny, all of us have.
Speaker 4: Been looking at that face for years. Where I can't
tell you, I'd have to show you. Let's go, that is,
if you're curious enough to miss lunch.
Speaker 1: I'm curious enough to miss your special beaten soup, so
you better have the goods.
Speaker 4: Well, doc, we're here here, right in here is where
you find your answer, in the Devil's Mountain Revolutionary War Museum.
Come on, well, you mean by this time you don't know?
Oh yeah, oh, but you you surely should have quote
on by now, I.
Speaker 1: Don't see anything that would remind me, what's.
Speaker 4: The pride and joy of our memorial museum doc the
most valuable thing we got. Wait, that's right, you're looking
square at it. That big painting said to be by
Charles Wilson Peel.
Speaker 1: The Women the Women of Devils or the.
Speaker 4: Full title The Women of Devil's Mountain, tending the wound
on the field of battle.
Speaker 3: And that fellow smack in the middle of the picture dying.
It's like the whole picture is built right around him.
Donald Farm looks like dark. It's him. It's one face, remarkable.
He's lying there and this woman is holding him in
his arms.
Speaker 4: Oh, no, wonder Marvin said, This fellow reminded him of
the army. It was a revolutionary army.
Speaker 1: You can be so familiar with something, but if you
encounter it outside its every day surround and the pain in.
Speaker 3: The chest, and that should have given it away right off.
He's been shot or stabbed. See see how his hand
is is pressed against his chests, and how the blood
is trickling through the fingers. Resemblance dark. It's the same face.
Look at the hair.
Speaker 4: It's black awe, but with the strands of gray in
exactly the same places. Well, what, there's the same dimple
on the chin.
Speaker 3: M I could be quinn to them, dot it's him.
Speaker 1: It can't be.
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 1: Because this picture was painted some two hundred years ago.
Speaker 4: Everything about the painting, the face, even when I look again.
Speaker 3: There's a birthmark just on the side of his left eye.
Speaker 1: Dotty, what's he trying to say?
Speaker 4: If you could even imagine what I'd like to say,
you decide maybe I'd.
Speaker 3: Better be put away?
Speaker 1: Oh no, God, say it anyhow?
Speaker 3: Oh, mister, follow is the soldier in that painting?
Speaker 1: M How is that possible? Even if that soldier survived
his wound, he'd still be dead for more than a
century and a half.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know how it's possible.
Speaker 4: I'm just telling you what I think. Or look at
the face. He's the same soldier.
Speaker 1: Are you telling me he's the reincarnation of the soldier
and the painting.
Speaker 4: I don't know anything about all that, and I couldn't
care less. All I'm saying is he's the same soldier. Now,
don't ask me how why? And when he drove through
here something came he felt that terrible pain Again.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid I couldn't accept that diagnosis.
Speaker 3: Okay, you are turn how do you account for it?
Speaker 1: I'm afraid I can't.
Speaker 3: Hello there.
Speaker 1: Oh it's missus.
Speaker 3: Dottie Collins.
Speaker 1: You remember me.
Speaker 3: I I own the motel, Yes.
Speaker 1: And we were very kind.
Speaker 4: Well, I thought i'd drop around to see how you feel.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid I don't feel any better.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry to hear that. What does the doctor say?
Speaker 1: Long and short of it? Seems to be that the
pain is psychosomatic?
Speaker 3: Well why why should that be?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I didn't mean deprived.
Speaker 1: Oh that's all right.
Speaker 3: No, it's not all right.
Speaker 4: I'm sure it's something highly personal. One thing we pride
ourselves on around here wes the.
Speaker 1: Next fella's privacy. And yet I feel I can talk
to you. I don't know why. I I'm not the
kind of man who talks to strangers about personal things.
I don't usually talk to strangers at all, But somehow
I feel that we're not strangers.
Speaker 3: But I know we've we've never met.
Speaker 1: Must be something about about this place. I I just
can't explain it or understand it. Everybody thinks I look
like somebody. They know I have this terrible pain that baffles.
The doctors will. No, it doesn't. They claim, I've got
it because I'm running away.
Speaker 3: Where you were running away from a fight. You don't
look like that kind to me.
Speaker 1: And this, this is a fight I can't win. Why
Because I'm up against too much money, too much power. Besides,
I I don't have to fight, you See, I could
sell out to this big company and take a job
with them. That'd be the smartest thing I could do. Why, Well,
my own future would be assured. I I wouldn't have
to worry about debts or loans. I could save the
jobs of maybe a hundred men in the long run. Besides,
I wouldn't have to work so hard.
Speaker 3: We'll tell me what's wrong with all that?
Speaker 1: Nothing really, except that I could no longer call my
soul my own.
Speaker 3: And that's why you've got this pain.
Speaker 1: Oh, there's a lot of medical jargons surrounding it, but
I guess that's what it all boils down to.
Speaker 3: So how can you get rid of it?
Speaker 1: Ah? The way I'm going, I'll never get rid of it,
because now I get used to it. After a while,
I won't even notice it. So I intend to leave
here this afternoon, go home. Sign the agreement, cause.
Speaker 3: There could be another reason why it hurts.
Speaker 1: Nah, The doctors have just about ruled out everything that
might Do you.
Speaker 3: Remember everyone stared at you as if we all thought
we knew you?
Speaker 1: Yes, and I'd like to know why.
Speaker 3: What's because we do know you?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 3: Everyone in this town we've known you all our lives.
Speaker 1: Are you sure you're not all crazy?
Speaker 4: Yes, I'm sure all of us who were born here
and went to school here we met you for the
very first time when when we were a little kids.
Speaker 1: I wish I knew what you were talking about.
Speaker 3: The hero of Devil's Mountain?
Speaker 1: Look are you all right? Well?
Speaker 3: Why do you ask?
Speaker 1: Why do I ask? Do you realize what you're saying?
How could I be the hero of whatever it is? Well?
Speaker 4: I may sound a little bit crazy, but that's only
because I'm saying. Okay, I admit it sounds strange, but
I'm saying I'm sound.
Speaker 3: Ask anyone in town about me.
Speaker 1: Just exactly what are you trying to tell me?
Speaker 3: Can you come with me? Can you leave here?
Speaker 1: Well? Yes, but where are you gonna be? I want
you to meet someone who.
Speaker 3: I want you to look at him.
Speaker 4: And here here's my mirror, and look at yourself, look
at your own face.
Speaker 3: Now, now what do you say? But you, the soldier
in that painting is you, and the pain you feel
is his pain, your pain.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 4: I can't prove it, but I don't have to prove it.
The things we really know are all past proving anyhow.
They couldn't be two faces like that, nor the world
in all of eternity.
Speaker 1: You have to be the same women, the women of
Devil's Mountain. No, No, they're angels. They're the angels of
Devil's Mountains, the angels. That's what I told mister Peel,
mister Charles Wilson Peel. But I suppose he thought angels
and devils couldn't go together. Follow follow? Who who is
mister follow? Oh m m m m.
Speaker 3: Maybe you'd better sit down.
Speaker 1: You're angels. All of them are angels, you see you see?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I see not now you just sit there on
this bench, and uh, could I get your glass of water?
Speaker 1: See they've come out on the field, but the British
artillery is still firing. And and see see how I've fallen.
I I've fallen in the fight. I I took a
baronet through the chest. But this one is this saying you.
She knelt beside me and she held me in her arms.
I'm dying.
Speaker 3: No, no, don't say that, y You'll be all right.
Speaker 1: I I don't regretted it. It's so much better to
die in battle than to die of shame.
Speaker 3: Oh please try it.
Speaker 1: I must, I must tell this to someone. I must
have and listen to me, and listen. I at first
I said no. Never. Every day someone else would march
through the village, and it was always the same thing. Ay, Ay,
Colonel Josiah have burned the organizing a trip of light
cavalreets the light the very pirates, all evil bodied men
are too infantry. Everybody wanted us too, wanted us to enlist,
to volunteer to follow.
Speaker 3: I I think I better get you back to the hospital.
Speaker 1: Hospital. Oh no, no, no, you don't know what it's
like in the hospital now. The dirt and screams are
the poor devil's how how we die one by one? No?
You you, you just hold me. Huh. I'll be all right.
You just hold on to me. Drums drums. It's funny.
No matter how smarter man is he, he can't hold
out forever against the drums, So you don't talk, because
the beat of the drums is it's like the beat
of your heart, and sooner or later that it becomes
the beasts of your heart. I held out against the drums.
I held out longer than anyone else. I held out, Father, Father,
Here I am jeb hid done it, Pa, I went
and done it. I see, I see the feather in
your I'm going to ride with Hepron's cavalry or the
British right. He stuck a feather in his hat and
called it MACARONI now, Pa, who was just seventeen years old.
I'm old enough to fight, sir, if you're too young
to die. Now, who's been filling your head with such nonsense?
It ain't nonsense, paws damn right, it ain't. It's trasy.
I don't recognize the authority of the King of England.
Well I'll listen. Listen to this bunch of plowboys who
are now gonna ride their horses instead of following him. Pa,
I know you don't hold with Paul with independence, but
I wouldn't be so free with my mouth.
Speaker 2: No, Pi, I t disrespect In other words, Well that.
Speaker 1: That would be smartestes it's just getting sort of a
man that's got to choose. Choose betwixt what you know,
park for the crown, you better make plans to leave.
If you're for independence, you better enlist. That's the choice, Yes, sir,
you got to choose one or the other. What do
you say? What do I say? I say that? Well,
I say those words. William Shakespeare said, I say the
truest words ever spoken. A plague on both your houses,
and for some reason, a revolutionary war painting has become
painfully alive for Donald K. Filo. Suddenly he is back
there in those troubled and turbulent times. And from what
we have just heard, he doesn't seem to be in
tune with those times either. Well, the time has come
for us to listen to some sage words of advice,
and then I shall return with Act three.
Speaker 2: The following things.
Speaker 6: Businessmen who will handle everything themselves ten phone calls, they've
got ten important let us out to any parts of
the country. I think it makes your business more efficient.
Speaker 3: Well, what about the cost.
Speaker 6: For a few dollars, I can have the mail grams
sent and a copy sent to me. The mail graam
is definitely a valued It gives me additional time for
other work.
Speaker 5: I've been talking with Harry Odell, one of many small
businessmen who have discovered the convenience of mail grams.
Speaker 1: It's easy to send the mail gram. Just call Western
Union's toll free eight hundred number any time, day or night.
Mail gram impact of a telegram at a fraction of
the cost. According to mister Henry David Thoreau, it is
permissible for a man to march to the beat of
his own drummer. However, this is never true during wartime then,
and everyone must listen to one drummer only, and that
is the drummer who sets the beat for the armed forces.
Mister Donald k Filo has suddenly found himself back in
our revolutionary struggle and completely at odds with a popular
opinion of the day.
Speaker 2: Well, Pa, maybe you don't have to listen.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're too old. I'm not too old, jeb, I'm
only forty. What I'm trying to say, is, Pa, nobody
really had the right to expect you to join up,
And so if I keep my mouth shut, maybe nobody'll notice.
Is that it? Well, yes, Pa, Well I never kept
my mouth shut my whole life. I ain't gonna start
now either, Pa. You'd better do some threatening me. Son.
Has this revolutionary nonsense driven the Bible's teachings from your head?
Honor thy father. Remember, I'm only telling you that the
diplomatic thing to do. I'm too old to be a diplomat.
Jeb right off, hurry in the morning with Hepphen's cavalry.
Give me your blessing, Sir, I can't huh. Oh yes,
I could hold my hands over your head and bless
your mission, but it'd be a lie because I don't
believe in it. All right by, I understand. I'll do
the best I can without it.
Speaker 3: Oh, good evening, sir.
Speaker 1: May I have a muggy dail Sydney, Sir, didn't know yourself?
Red coats? Here? Have it in a red colly? That turnpe?
That's right? Why doesn't somebody get a rope? There's but
one of me in six or eight of you. Those
are just about the safest eyes, ain't they. Ain't you
skulking cowardly scum. I noticed you won't try to hang
me one at the time.
Speaker 3: There ain't gonna be no hanging at all. Now, gentlemen,
I must ask about you to behave yourselves.
Speaker 4: It's my business dispense hospitality to all who seek it.
Speaker 3: Here we are neither Yankee, no Tory.
Speaker 4: I remember the proverb all men who are like in
the side of God in a tavern keeper.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, mister sporter. Maybe I shouldn't come in here anymore. Well,
why not, I'm driving away your trade taverin vagabonds.
Speaker 3: You don't notice them going off to fight, not by
a lung show.
Speaker 1: Well it's not just the town loafers. Man, I'm not
popular anywhere.
Speaker 3: No, I guess not.
Speaker 1: I can't help it. I'm a man who has to
speak his mind.
Speaker 4: Man, I wonder why all of you think it's so
important to say what you think.
Speaker 3: Now, look at us women. We never say a word,
and we're happier for it.
Speaker 1: I only ask to be left in peace.
Speaker 4: Well, I might recommend you try to go spend some
time in New York or Philadelphia. Do why well, because
those are Tory cities. The British still hold them, and
your views would be more in keeping with the popular sentiments.
Speaker 1: I won't be driven away from my land.
Speaker 4: Speaking frankly, sir, do you know why you ain't been
hung or jailed or t and feathered and ridden on
a rail because her son, because of Jeb, because he's a.
Speaker 3: Trooper with Heppen's cavalry. Nobody wants to break that lad's heart.
Speaker 1: My son has caught the popular madness.
Speaker 3: Why do you call it madness?
Speaker 1: Because no better word describes it. This motley collection of
country bumpkins. Yes, Mistress Porter, that's all. We are, provincials, rustics.
That's how the British see us. We're a joke to them.
Speaker 4: Then they must be laughing with tears in their eyes.
We bled them pretty bad at Breed's Hill up in Boston.
A little what Ethan Allen and his boys have done
and our own is real butt now.
Speaker 1: But soon they'll begin to take us seriously, and then
the ball will be over. Their invincible fleet will strangle
us with a brockade.
Speaker 4: I must say, sir, you do take a dim view,
take a realistic view.
Speaker 1: And who needed this war? Hotheads in Boston, slave owners
in Virginia.
Speaker 3: Now you know there's more to it than that?
Speaker 1: What more we could have lived in peace? This nonsense
about taxation without representation. The average person doesn't have the
right to vote in Great Britain either. What do we
want to vote for anyhow, what does it matter what
scoundrel has chosen to loot the public treasury and misgovern
the country.
Speaker 3: It matters because we have the right to choose him
and turn him out.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a right worth dying for.
Speaker 3: It's the principle of the thing principles.
Speaker 1: My principle is to be let alone, to live in peace,
not to provoke a war which cannot be won.
Speaker 3: Why do you insist we can't win.
Speaker 1: Because the odds are against us. Common sense is against us,
reality is against us. The overwhelming weight of men, money, ships,
guns are all against us. I agree, And why do
you support this insane enterprise?
Speaker 4: I agree that the odds are against us, but I
insist we can win.
Speaker 1: Why because we must, even in the face of all.
Speaker 3: Even in the face of all your overwhelming odds.
Speaker 4: And I should like to ask you, sir, why are
you opposed to the cause of independence?
Speaker 1: I told you why. First, I would rather live in peace. Second,
we have no chance.
Speaker 3: Of obtaining I you are you sure there isn't a
third reason?
Speaker 1: What's sir?
Speaker 3: You're afraid to fight?
Speaker 1: Madam? I can assure you no man could ever say
that to me.
Speaker 4: Oh, I don't mean that kind of fight, a fight
that proves nothing, settles nothing.
Speaker 3: I mean the fight for human freedom.
Speaker 1: I'm free now.
Speaker 4: Slavery is no bad. There are pleasant forms of it too.
The life we let here was in many ways the
life of a slave. We were told what to do,
what the rays, what the manufacture, what to buy? What
the cell plagued by restrictions.
Speaker 3: Limits, boundaries.
Speaker 4: Everything was that the pleasure of a king in his
tyrannical minister.
Speaker 1: I could live with it.
Speaker 3: Well, it takes all kinds.
Speaker 1: I guess maybe it does. Order. Good morning, reverend horn It.
I see you've packed for a journey at at, so
come in rest awhile have a bike. A can't have
no time. See the British are sending a raiding party
all through the valley here, our valley. Yeah, they were
a little burden and killing. So most of the town's
moving out, heading north to Boston. But why well, as
they say, we're a hotbed of rebel sentiment, heire, and
we're to be taught a lesson.
Speaker 3: I don't think you've got too much to worry about, though.
Speaker 1: Why why do you say that? Well, you're known as
a supporter of the king. But I am not a
supporter of the king. I don't support anyone in this madness.
Even if that's so, you can't call what folk about
me believing in madness.
Speaker 3: And you know how it is in time of war.
Speaker 1: They're not with us.
Speaker 2: They're a Guinness.
Speaker 1: So we are about to reap the whirlwind. I got
to be moving on to say, I don't think you're
in any danger. You'll sweep through here like savages. You'll
carry off all the livestock they looked, and they'll burn
the houses and barns, but not yours. Timmins, my neighbor
by the creek, and Sanderson over the edge of the woods.
They're off with Jebb, fighting with jeb down south with
Hephn's cavalry.
Speaker 3: I suppose those are the fortunes.
Speaker 1: Of war men of my neighbors. They'd never face them again.
They returned to find the labor of a lifetime destroyed. Well,
everything that belonged to me still flourishes. I could never
face my own sons doing eight now they outnumbers you know,
they're always outnumbered us. Reverend the village of Devil's Mountain
will fight.
Speaker 3: We ain't got no soldiers.
Speaker 1: We never had soldiers. Who are we anyhow? We're just
farmers and shopkeepers, artisans and clerks. Now, who's our commander
in chief? He's just a planter from Virginia. Reverend, the
war is here.
Speaker 3: And run, run like rass.
Speaker 1: Leave your homes and your farms to be cutting, looted,
burn to the ground. I intend to march to the
south meadow, take cover at the edge of the woods,
and when they come up the road we can hit
them in the flank. We can turn them away. I
intend to fight. Now, who's gonna follow me? No, all right,
I'll fight alone.
Speaker 3: Will you let him go on alone? Will you? What
kind of men are you? You there with a drums?
Strike off a march.
Speaker 1: I'll tell the tackle up to me to be glads,
kick it out. Oh no, don't try to talk. Oh
one of them turned suddenly caught me with it.
Speaker 3: May here person snipped me, holding what are you lads
doing here? They are a wounded man, Reverend.
Speaker 1: But the British men attack again, Rever, don't let the
men disperse for warn them up again and see that
they have enough.
Speaker 3: I mean, don't try to talk. You'll be all right.
I'll try to stop the bleeding. I'm not just lies still.
Oh are you you know who I am? You must
be an angel?
Speaker 1: It hurt, doesn't It's all right, you must be an angel.
What's an angel doing on Devil's Martin? I'm not afraid
to die.
Speaker 3: You won't die.
Speaker 1: It's better to die this way. The other way. I
could have stayed home and I didn't died a shame.
Speaker 3: You won't die, you you heal. See the blood isn't
flowing so quick time. You'll live to fight again.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'll live.
Speaker 1: I'll fight again. I'll never stop fighting for for what
belongs to me. I'll fighting never never never stop fighting
or whatever they they have lined up against you, never
stop fighting. They won't take away my factory. It's mine.
It belongs to me. What what am I saying?
Speaker 3: Are you alright, mister follow?
Speaker 1: Yes? Yes, yes, I'm alright.
Speaker 3: Well you look better better than what we b better
than you did before.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, ma'am? What am I doing here?
Speaker 3: Well? Uh, you you weren't. Feelings are good? It wasn't
and and you stopped orf at the Devil's Mountain Hotel.
Speaker 1: How does it happen? I can't remember any of this.
Speaker 3: Well, you had a well, uh, a bad pain in
your heart.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever had a bad pain in
my life.
Speaker 3: The doctor would call it empathy. I think empathy for
who well, uh, that wounded soldier in the painting.
Speaker 1: Hey, you know I I do think there's a slight resemblance. Ah,
I guess, Uh, I guess I've been working too hard. Uh,
I've been quite worried. What I did was well, I
must have been tired. I stopped at the motel and
just passed out.
Speaker 3: Are you sure you're all right now?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yes, positive. I have to get back home at once.
I've got a lot to do. Funny, I never passed
out before, and I don't remember coming here either. How
did I get here?
Speaker 4: Well, the the doctor thought a little war might be
good therapy.
Speaker 1: It certainly was. I'm I'm feeling just great. I'm much
obliged to you.
Speaker 3: Well what's funny, Well, it's it's not funny.
Speaker 1: Those women in the pictures, see see how they're helping
the wounded. Will you're keeping the tradition alive? You helped me.
That's a beautiful painting. It's called the Angels of Devil's
mountains ending the wounded.
Speaker 3: Why do you say angels? It reads women?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, that's a mistake. It should be angels.
And he ought to know did he recover as the
revolutionary soldier and marry missus Porter. We don't know. We
don't even know if he married Dotty. All we know
is the tale we told you. You notice both ladies
were innkeepers? Or were they the same lady? Nothing should
stop you from providing a romantic ending if you think
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Speaker 2: That word from the New York Racy Association.
Speaker 1: We're celebrating the by centennial of our great country, and
how wonderful it would be if, in addition to donning
the clothes and shouting the slogans of our ancestors, we
found the heart, the beating heart of their dedication, the
soul and the spirit of their devotion. Well, we work
a great deal with the spirit on this program, and
we can infuse you with it seven times each week.
Our cast included Warren Stevens, Anne Seymour, James McAllion, and
Barry Kroger. The entire production was under the direction of
Hyman Brown Radio. Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by
Buick Motor Division and Anheuser Busch Incorporated Brewers of Budweiser.
Speaker 2: This is E. G.
Speaker 1: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.