WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.120 --> 00:00:06.240 Afraid to face the tax collector tomorrow. Fed up with 2 00:00:06.360 --> 00:00:09.599 high prices, I want to get away from that. 3 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:20.960 Uh. We offer you Escape. 4 00:00:22.359 --> 00:00:26.039 You have shipped aboard a south Sea schooner with a 5 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:30.760 ghost of its dead captain in command. A ghost who 6 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:38.079 shoots guns, resurrects the dead, creates a terror from which 7 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:47.399 you cannot escape. 8 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:56.119 Escape produced and directed by William N. Robeson, and designed 9 00:00:56.159 --> 00:00:58.640 to free you from the four walls of today for 10 00:00:58.799 --> 00:01:01.159 a half hour of high adventure. 11 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:09.920 To night, we escape across the limitless horizons of the 12 00:01:09.959 --> 00:01:14.719 South Seas. An Alfred Nois version of a classic legend 13 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:20.040 of blue water. The log of the Evening Star. 14 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:32.359 Tahiti, French Oilcania, June nineteenth. The sailing schooner Evening Star, 15 00:01:32.599 --> 00:01:35.920 reported missing since the first of April today, was discovered 16 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:38.560 one hundred miles west of here, drifting about in a 17 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:41.959 dead calm, with all sails set but not a soil 18 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:44.959 on board. The ship, when found was well stocked with 19 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:47.840 food and water, and all three of her small boats 20 00:01:47.879 --> 00:01:51.040 were still present. The sun bag body of the ship's 21 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:53.599 cat was lying in the bow, and the mess table 22 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:56.120 in the crew's quarters had been laid in preparation for 23 00:01:56.120 --> 00:02:00.799 a meal which was never served. Otherwise, everything aboard seemed 24 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:03.359 to be in order, and no solution can be offered 25 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:05.799 to explain the whereabouts of the twelve persons who sailed 26 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:09.159 on her from San Francisco. It appears that the fate 27 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:11.800 of the Evening Star will remain permanently one of the 28 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:15.000 weird and unsolved mysteries of the sea. 29 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:26.800 My name is Harper. I'm first made of the south 30 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:33.080 Sea schooner Evening Star. I'm writing this because I believe 31 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:36.080 it my duty to make some record of the terrible 32 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:41.719 things which have just occurred. Events I can't possibly enter 33 00:02:41.759 --> 00:02:46.759 in the ship's log I can't, of course, be certain 34 00:02:47.319 --> 00:02:51.719 that this account will ever come to light, because I'm 35 00:02:51.759 --> 00:03:06.120 not likely to live another twenty four hours. I guess 36 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:08.400 I should have been able to see it three weeks ago, 37 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:13.199 on the day we sailed from San Francisco, but I 38 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:17.199 didn't m I remember I was standing on the deck 39 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:21.960 of the Evening Star talking to Cato, the cook, while 40 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:25.960 we waited for Captain Burgess to come aboard. We were 41 00:03:26.039 --> 00:03:27.360 due to sail in a half hour. 42 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:31.479 Where you think we go on this trip, mister Harper. 43 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:38.039 Oh, I don't know. Cato Marquess first, then Tahiti may 44 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:38.919 beyond Australia. 45 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:43.280 He's good to Reveport. He's bitter on open sea. 46 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:44.680 Hm, you said it. 47 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:49.199 We'll seemed very strange this trip without Captain Derell. 48 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:53.759 Yeah. We'd had the same gang together for over two years. 49 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:54.719 Mm. 50 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:59.439 Some kanakas and the crew, you and I and Burgess Dayrell. 51 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:02.800 I to believe he's been dead four months now, and. 52 00:04:02.759 --> 00:04:08.960 Then Captain Derrelle was proud man was good captain. He's 53 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:10.120 too bad he died. 54 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:15.319 Yeah, well, Burgess will make a good skipper too. Who's 55 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:16.319 all right? His first mate? 56 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:18.800 Why he not come on board yet? 57 00:04:19.639 --> 00:04:22.839 Captain Burgess? M I don't know, just can't bear to 58 00:04:22.920 --> 00:04:23.800 leave that new Briday is. 59 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:28.040 I guess you have seen her, mister Harper, you know her? Maybe? 60 00:04:28.279 --> 00:04:30.920 No? No, I haven't. He's been staying down the coach 61 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:33.399 somewhere ever since he got married a couple weeks ago. 62 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:35.519 I don't even know who she is. 63 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:39.800 New wife? You come on? Who is a rocky man? 64 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:41.800 Kto? 65 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:45.439 I got a strong hunch you're a sentimentalist down underneath. 66 00:04:45.519 --> 00:04:47.519 Ooh, it's possible, mister Harper. 67 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:51.839 It has been said, Hey, Keto, there's Burgess now, coming down. 68 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:54.120 The Piero's somebody with him too. 69 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:57.160 Yeah, guess she's come down to see him off. Huh. 70 00:04:57.879 --> 00:05:03.600 At least we'll get a chance. Nah, that's missus Dayrell. 71 00:05:03.800 --> 00:05:07.480 Yeah, maybe she go on ship to just like all time. 72 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:10.279 No, she wouldn't want to sail on the ship her 73 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:14.519 husband died on. I wonder, mister Harper. 74 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:17.439 Mister Harper, Look, three birds fly around the bust. 75 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:21.040 Yeah, I see him, Kato. 76 00:05:21.240 --> 00:05:24.959 He's really bad side, really bad. 77 00:05:25.879 --> 00:05:29.680 Well, I don't know what you mean by that. All right, 78 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:33.439 Captain Birges, we can sail any time you want. How 79 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:35.439 are you, miss Daiel Dayrell. 80 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:39.720 Oh gouse, mister Harper. 81 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:42.319 Even though you're already acquainted with the lady, i'd like 82 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:46.920 to present my wife your wife. 83 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:50.639 We were married two weeks ago. Mister Hopper, I'm sailing 84 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:51.519 with you on this trip. 85 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:58.279 Well that's fine, glad to have your board, Missus dal Birges. 86 00:05:58.399 --> 00:06:01.759 I mean, well little be like old times. 87 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:03.360 Old times, mister Hopper, Well. 88 00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:09.759 I mean all of us together and everything. Well, congratulations 89 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:10.240 to both of you. 90 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:14.040 Thank you, mister Harper. Look, I've brought Satan along too. 91 00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:16.000 He wouldn't miss this trip for anything. 92 00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:21.560 Yeah, he's right and all. Oh yes, adan, uh, would 93 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:23.720 you like to look over the Clarence papers, Captain Burgess, 94 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:24.800 I got 'em right here. 95 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:27.399 Oh, thank you, mister Harper, I assume there in order, 96 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:30.600 He'll say, as soon as missus David, as soon as 97 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:32.199 my wife's trunk comes aboard. 98 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:33.959 Yes, sir, I'll be in the cabin if you wanted 99 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:34.160 to be. 100 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:36.759 Uh, Kato, would you take Satan and give him something 101 00:06:36.759 --> 00:06:37.079 to eat? 102 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:40.160 I think he's hungry, Yes, missy, I'll take him right now. 103 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:42.639 Come on, kiddy, we gonna fight. 104 00:06:43.160 --> 00:06:47.000 We well, mister Harper, we're all together again. 105 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:51.160 That's right, Missus Burgess. We've even got Satan on board. 106 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:55.800 Yes, all of us except my husband. 107 00:06:57.240 --> 00:07:00.720 Your husband is down in the cabin. Missus Burgess, you 108 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:14.040 mean we're all here except Captain Dayreel. Well, once out 109 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:17.480 at sea, things straightened out a little, the way they 110 00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:22.120 always do. After a while, we got so we could 111 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:25.160 think of her as Missus Burgess instead of Missus Dayrell, 112 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:31.160 And after that it wasn't so awkward. Captain Burgess stayed 113 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:35.720 to himself quite a bit, but all in all it 114 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:40.240 was a fairly pleasant three weeks up until yesterday afternoon. 115 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:49.079 I was standing in the bow smoking, watching a school 116 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:52.600 of dolphins skip out of the water, when Missus Burgess 117 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:53.439 came up behind me. 118 00:07:54.040 --> 00:07:55.480 Mister Harper, I wonder if I could speak to you 119 00:07:55.480 --> 00:07:59.519 a moment. Of course, Miss Burgess, I'm I'm terribly frightened. 120 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:02.160 You're frightened. What about? 121 00:08:02.920 --> 00:08:04.040 Is he around anywhere? 122 00:08:05.079 --> 00:08:05.639 Is who around? 123 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:06.399 My husband? 124 00:08:06.439 --> 00:08:07.319 I don't want him to hear me? 125 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:09.759 What now, missus Burgess, I can't listen. 126 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:11.600 No, please, you're the only one I can turn to. 127 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:13.839 We're all in terrible danger. 128 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:16.399 You know danger. What are you talking about. 129 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:20.519 Mister Harper? Do you have any reason to think my 130 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:24.480 husband maybe not quite himself? 131 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:29.079 Not quite himself? In what way? 132 00:08:30.199 --> 00:08:34.000 Do you think he may be? Insane? Of course, but 133 00:08:34.039 --> 00:08:34.720 you don't understand. 134 00:08:34.840 --> 00:08:37.600 I understand one thing, Missus Burgess. I'd better get back 135 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:38.320 to my duties. 136 00:08:38.440 --> 00:08:42.240 I quite agree with you, mister Harper. Captain Burgess, I 137 00:08:42.279 --> 00:08:44.720 believe you really should stay in the cabin. My dad's 138 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:46.480 far too windy for you up here in the bow. 139 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:50.399 Yes, I was just going, I mean, I'm going right now. 140 00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:54.879 She has a rather delicate throat, Mister Harper, catches cold easily. 141 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:57.200 Used to be a singer, you know, yes, sir, I know. 142 00:08:57.720 --> 00:09:01.120 Oh yes, yes, of course you do. We don't pay 143 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:03.279 too much attention to anything. My wife might say, mister 144 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:05.799 hoppoh Jesus, well she's upset. 145 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:08.399 Just don't pay any attention to him. 146 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:17.279 Something was wrong, all right, no question of that. But 147 00:09:17.320 --> 00:09:21.960 I couldn't figure what. I couldn't think of any terrible danger. 148 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:25.720 It seemed more likely it was missus Burge's. It was 149 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:31.000 not quite herself. Well, anyway, the whole business didn't make 150 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:33.600 much sense, so I shrugged it off and forgot about 151 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:43.759 it for a couple of hours. It was just at dusk. 152 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:48.240 Most of the crew was below decks. I was sitting 153 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:50.919 on the after hatch, scratching the ears of Satan, the 154 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:56.080 ship's cap. The sun was just dropping past the horizon, 155 00:09:56.120 --> 00:10:01.200 and Satan was purring, me owing. Everything was pretty peaceful 156 00:10:02.879 --> 00:10:05.240 until I heard those voices coming from Captain Burgess. 157 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:07.679 Captain No, no, really, I didn't. 158 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:08.799 I wouldn't tell anybody, you. 159 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:11.679 Know, it wasn't a matter of eavesdropping. They even forgotten 160 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:12.600 anyone might hear him. 161 00:10:14.279 --> 00:10:16.279 I mean it, all right, you don't care about me. 162 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:17.639 If he were alive, I. 163 00:10:17.720 --> 00:10:18.519 Still be with him. 164 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:21.159 You can say that when you know about the thing 165 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:21.879 that's here. 166 00:10:21.759 --> 00:10:22.480 On board with us. 167 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:23.759 That's your imagination. 168 00:10:23.879 --> 00:10:26.840 I told you that imagination then, not what you told Harper? 169 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:28.960 Is it do? 170 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:33.919 Look satan? This is what he wants me to do, 171 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:38.399 Captain Burchason, Captain Burgess. 172 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:44.039 Yes, mister Harper, what is it? 173 00:10:44.600 --> 00:10:48.600 I wondered if you wanted Cato to bring your dinner 174 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:49.559 here to the cabin, sir? 175 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:55.879 No, mister Harper, I'll eat at the wheel. Tell them 176 00:10:55.919 --> 00:10:57.000 to bring it up right away, all. 177 00:10:57.039 --> 00:10:57.840 Right, capt'n Burgess. 178 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:02.919 Mister Harper, listen carefully. 179 00:11:02.960 --> 00:11:04.399 You've got to help me, all right. 180 00:11:04.559 --> 00:11:06.360 How meet me on the after deck as soon as 181 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:07.799 it's dark in an hour, if I can get away 182 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:08.159 from him. 183 00:11:08.200 --> 00:11:11.919 Did you want something else, mister Happer, No, sir, nothing else, Captain. 184 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:13.080 I suppose you know about you do this? 185 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:15.919 But your wife, Sir, doesn't she want something to eat? 186 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:19.480 She does not, mister Harper, She's indisposed. She does not 187 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:28.360 wish to be disturbed. Is that popping declare? Now? 188 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:31.320 I was convinced that there was danger aboard the Evening Star. 189 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:36.399 I had a feeling that something deadly it was stirring 190 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:42.559 itself and coming awake below decks. The first night's shadows 191 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:47.519 were bringing her terrible threatening tenseness. I felt that I 192 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:50.360 ought to scream to keep from laughing. Yet there was 193 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:54.720 nothing to laugh about. I was quite certain that if 194 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:57.519 I hadn't knocked on that door, Captain Burgess would have 195 00:11:57.600 --> 00:12:04.360 killed his wife. But why well, I hadn't found any 196 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:06.600 sensible answer by the time Cato brought a tray of 197 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:07.039 food in my. 198 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:10.039 Chappin good evening, mister Harper. 199 00:12:10.200 --> 00:12:16.399 Oh put it there in the chart table with how 200 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:18.240 does it look on that Cato? 201 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:19.000 Oh? 202 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:21.840 That I do not understand you, mister Harper. 203 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:26.399 I mean, well, was it dark yere oohs. 204 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:30.240 Get dark soon? I think, and I think too. Tonight 205 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:31.960 is not goodnight? 206 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:34.440 What do you mean by that? 207 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:41.200 He's something bad onboard ship, mister Harper? I know understand 208 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:44.840 what I know see it, I know hear it, but 209 00:12:45.159 --> 00:12:50.559 inside I've seence it all the time, grew bigger. 210 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:53.720 Well, that's your imagination, Cato. 211 00:12:54.279 --> 00:12:58.279 He's the imagination bother you too, mister Harper. 212 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:03.480 Ah, this morning three birds fly over ship together. 213 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:08.879 Oh, dey a bun much incense? The can uh to 214 00:13:09.159 --> 00:13:12.480 night three birds fry over ship together? 215 00:13:14.320 --> 00:13:15.159 Well, what about it? 216 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:20.759 He's a sign of death? Mister Hopper, to night on 217 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:24.679 this ship. Somebody die? 218 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:26.879 You like something else? 219 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:27.320 Maybe? 220 00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:31.159 Oh, kidto that's all, thank you. 221 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:34.759 Mister Happer, good night please. 222 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:41.399 So I wasn't the only one on board it was 223 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:46.360 feeling something was wrong. I wondered if Catroo knew any 224 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:47.879 more of what was back of it than I did. 225 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:52.080 You couldn't tell by looking at him. He could be 226 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:55.039 busting with joy or scared half to death, and that 227 00:13:55.200 --> 00:14:01.840 face of his would never show either one anyway. Ten 228 00:14:01.879 --> 00:14:05.600 minutes later I was out on the dark fantail, watching 229 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:09.679 the moon cast shadows from the rigging. After a while 230 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:10.840 I heard her calling my. 231 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:12.240 Name, Harper. 232 00:14:12.440 --> 00:14:15.360 Here, I am, miss Burgess. Where's the captain? 233 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:16.840 I don't know. He didn't come back to the cabin. 234 00:14:17.759 --> 00:14:19.559 All right, I suppose you tell me what it's all 235 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:20.480 about and talk fast. 236 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:22.759 I don't know what it's about, mister Harper, not really. 237 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:25.759 I only know that my husband has gone insane. 238 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:28.159 And you told me that earlier. What makes you think 239 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:33.039 so he tried to kill me? Yes? I know why, 240 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:34.120 because of last night. 241 00:14:34.879 --> 00:14:36.720 He came into my cabin and woke me up. 242 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:38.320 He was trembling. 243 00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:40.639 Why does a sheep but why? 244 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:42.799 He said he'd just seen Captain Dalrel. 245 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:44.399 I'm dead Deyrell, but he's yes. 246 00:14:44.440 --> 00:14:46.840 He died four months ago. I told him he imagined it. 247 00:14:47.159 --> 00:14:50.440 He keeps talking about it. He says, Captain Dyrel has 248 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:52.519 come back to to punish us. 249 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:55.799 Punish you for what well, but. 250 00:14:55.919 --> 00:14:57.399 Not waiting longer to get married? 251 00:14:57.759 --> 00:14:59.159 Who You've got to do something? 252 00:15:00.399 --> 00:15:02.919 Well? If I use force, missus Burgess, it's the same 253 00:15:02.919 --> 00:15:03.600 as mutiny. 254 00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:04.440 But he's insane. 255 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:05.440 He may do anything. 256 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:09.080 I se you're right there. I don't know, but what wait? 257 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:14.879 Hm, there by the mast, it's day rail. 258 00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:20.639 There wasn't any doubt about it. The moonlight behind him 259 00:15:20.759 --> 00:15:24.440 threw his shadow toward us on the deck, and he 260 00:15:24.519 --> 00:15:28.879 had on that tall peaked cap and the white muffler 261 00:15:28.919 --> 00:15:32.919 he'd always worn when he was alive. He didn't move, 262 00:15:33.559 --> 00:15:38.080 didn't say anything, just stood there looking at us, Miss 263 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:40.279 Burgess Before I coul stop or. Miss Burgess turned the 264 00:15:40.320 --> 00:15:44.080 round to the rail and jumped overboard one of the kanaka. 265 00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:45.840 Saar grabbed a light reserver and went in after it. 266 00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:48.360 I ran to the long boat hanging in the davits 267 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:50.840 of the port rail. I don't know, Let's get this 268 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:52.600 boat in the water. Missus Burgess is overboard along with 269 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:54.240 one of the boys. Did you see anything on deck? 270 00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:55.440 Oh? What I see? 271 00:15:55.679 --> 00:15:56.840 I believe, But come on. 272 00:15:56.840 --> 00:15:59.559 Move here, take the oars. Schooner's not gotten much stories way, 273 00:15:59.559 --> 00:16:03.200 so they should be far astern. Come on, come on. 274 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:04.519 Bye. 275 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:06.360 Somebody's shooting on day all right? 276 00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:08.360 Never mind keep rowing, will you. We'll find out about 277 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:09.919 it later. We've got to pick up those two before 278 00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:22.559 they go under. We didn't find him, though, the shooting 279 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:26.080 on board stopped after a while. We rode around for 280 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:31.480 a half hour more. We couldn't find a trace of them. Finally, 281 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:34.159 there wasn't anything else to do, so I told the 282 00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:43.159 kanaka to pull for the schooner. We were about ten 283 00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:44.799 yards away from the side when. 284 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:46.559 Mister Hopper look. 285 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:50.240 I looked up at the rail and there stood Dayrell. 286 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:53.960 He didn't say anything, just stood there. He had a 287 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:56.080 gun in his hand. Hey, Reel, what are you trying 288 00:16:56.120 --> 00:16:58.399 to do that over Joe? We gotta get away from it, Joe. 289 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:06.119 We were drifting away from the side of the schooner. 290 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:08.160 I felt a sharp pain in my shoulder with a 291 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:11.960 bulleted hit, but the kannaka was worse off. Blood was 292 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:13.720 running down over his face, from a hole in the 293 00:17:13.720 --> 00:17:23.440 center of his forehead. That's when I passed out. When 294 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:27.079 I came to, it was broad daylight. The boat was lying. 295 00:17:27.240 --> 00:17:29.359 I was lying and was bumping up against the side 296 00:17:29.359 --> 00:17:32.400 of the schooner. Captain Burgess was talling down on me 297 00:17:32.440 --> 00:17:32.920 from the rail. 298 00:17:33.119 --> 00:17:35.400 Mister Hopper, are you alive? 299 00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:39.079 I'm all right, Captain Burgess. 300 00:17:38.519 --> 00:17:42.200 In a horrible night, mister Hopper, it's all right. Now. 301 00:17:43.240 --> 00:17:44.799 Can you help me boort you? 302 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:47.839 Yes? Can you lift up your arms? Yes, sir? 303 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:49.039 Here easy? 304 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:53.799 Now, okay, Joe, you can't get me a hand here, caple. 305 00:17:53.839 --> 00:18:03.319 Now, there's pretty bad wound and kind of weak. 306 00:18:04.559 --> 00:18:08.920 Yess. I lost a lot of blood. Sorry about your wife, sir. 307 00:18:09.839 --> 00:18:11.279 We couldn't find her. 308 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:15.880 I know. Only three of us left alive on board. Now, 309 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:18.680 mister Hopper, you and I and Cato here. 310 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:20.640 What happened? 311 00:18:21.240 --> 00:18:24.160 You may not believe it. It was Captain Darrell. 312 00:18:24.759 --> 00:18:26.599 Yes, I saw him, got a. 313 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:28.519 Hold of the ship's guns and killed the whole crew. 314 00:18:28.599 --> 00:18:29.920 Locked me in the cabin while he did. 315 00:18:29.960 --> 00:18:32.319 But he's dead, Captain Burgess. We buried him at sea 316 00:18:32.359 --> 00:18:33.000 four months ago. 317 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:36.079 No matter, he's come back now, mister Hopper. It's his 318 00:18:36.200 --> 00:18:38.279 ship evening star. Isn't he wants it now? 319 00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:39.920 It's not possible. A man is dead. 320 00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:41.160 That's what his wife. 321 00:18:41.559 --> 00:18:43.599 I mean, my wife said when I told her i'd 322 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:45.839 seen him, said I was crazy. 323 00:18:46.599 --> 00:18:48.240 I think she knows better now. 324 00:18:49.480 --> 00:18:51.240 Maybe we could search the ship. 325 00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:53.480 Kato and I went through to daylight this morning. We 326 00:18:53.559 --> 00:18:54.160 found nothing. 327 00:18:54.319 --> 00:18:56.000 Well, there has to be some explanation. 328 00:18:56.559 --> 00:19:00.839 There is the wicked. She'll be punished their sins. 329 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:05.480 What do you mean by that, I think, mister Harper. 330 00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:06.519 Nothing at all. 331 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:09.680 Well, I was his friend, always thought of a lot 332 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:12.119 of Captain Dayell. You know that, don't you, mister. 333 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:16.359 Harper, Yes, sir, all right now in the daylight. But 334 00:19:16.440 --> 00:19:18.160 he'll come back tonight as soon as it's dark. 335 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:20.079 It's only the three of us now to face it, 336 00:19:20.119 --> 00:19:26.920 mister Happer, for if you count Satan, and I'm thinking 337 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:29.440 there's more than one Satan on board this ship. 338 00:19:29.599 --> 00:19:29.799 Ah. 339 00:19:35.359 --> 00:19:37.599 They helped me to the bunk in my cabin and 340 00:19:38.119 --> 00:19:43.119 left me there. That was about noon today. I could 341 00:19:43.160 --> 00:19:47.039 tell her with the look on Captain Burges's face, it well, 342 00:19:47.079 --> 00:19:50.839 it was pretty certain I wasn't going to live. That's 343 00:19:50.839 --> 00:19:53.680 why I decided to write this account, try to set 344 00:19:53.720 --> 00:19:58.400 down everything that happened. In a way, this is the 345 00:19:58.440 --> 00:20:01.559 real log of the Evening Star, even if it doesn't 346 00:20:01.599 --> 00:20:07.000 make much sense Anyway, right after sundown, Cato brought me 347 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:07.759 in a tray of food. 348 00:20:09.119 --> 00:20:11.039 How do you feel, no, mister Harper. 349 00:20:11.160 --> 00:20:13.160 I guess not too bad, Cato? 350 00:20:13.720 --> 00:20:15.119 You like something to eat? 351 00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:18.160 Maybe later? Maybe you can leave it there? 352 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:18.839 Uh is? 353 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:22.440 But you eat now? Rita, I think we all did. 354 00:20:23.559 --> 00:20:25.279 Has anything happened yet? 355 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:29.279 He's not dark yet? When he's dark, didn't he come? 356 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:32.160 Yeah? Where's Captain Burgess? 357 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:34.759 I no see him? He's hide somewhere. 358 00:20:34.440 --> 00:20:38.720 I think, Kato. All those who were killed last night, 359 00:20:39.640 --> 00:20:40.720 what happened to their bodies? 360 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:45.240 He's buried in Cea. This morning, I helped Captain Burgess. 361 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:47.480 You you like something else? 362 00:20:47.519 --> 00:20:47.920 Maybe? 363 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:49.119 No? Thanks, Cato. 364 00:20:49.559 --> 00:20:52.200 Didn't I go burn much incense? 365 00:20:52.559 --> 00:20:56.200 Make peace with many gods for last time? 366 00:20:56.279 --> 00:20:56.440 Now? 367 00:20:56.519 --> 00:20:58.799 I think goodbye, Breeze. 368 00:21:00.720 --> 00:21:03.200 I lit the lamp over the bunk, and I lay 369 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:06.359 there for a long time. I don't know how long. 370 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:10.559 I didn't know where Captain Burgess and Cato were, what 371 00:21:10.599 --> 00:21:13.799 they were doing. I kept waiting to hear the sound 372 00:21:13.839 --> 00:21:19.240 of shooting, kept lying there, dreading it, and then gradually 373 00:21:19.960 --> 00:21:23.480 I began to realize that somebody was singing onboard way off, 374 00:21:24.799 --> 00:21:28.160 and I knew that voice. I'd heard it somewhere before, 375 00:21:28.279 --> 00:21:32.440 singing the same song. It was Missus. 376 00:21:32.079 --> 00:21:49.039 Burgess, stopper, mister Harp, with you. 377 00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:51.400 Here, I heard, Captain Burgess. What in the name of 378 00:21:51.440 --> 00:21:52.160 heaven's going on? 379 00:21:53.200 --> 00:21:55.960 She's come back to She's in there with him now 380 00:21:56.000 --> 00:21:56.519 in the cabin. 381 00:21:56.599 --> 00:21:58.559 Oh, that's impossible. She drowned last night. 382 00:21:58.599 --> 00:22:01.720 She's dead, they boasted. But they've come back there in 383 00:22:01.759 --> 00:22:03.920 the cabin now. But she's singing for it. 384 00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:07.319 She never sang for me, mister Harper, but now she's 385 00:22:07.359 --> 00:22:08.279 singing for him. 386 00:22:08.599 --> 00:22:10.599 Come, mister Harper, you gotta help me. I'll tell you. 387 00:22:10.640 --> 00:22:12.039 They're both in the cabin right now. 388 00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:13.680 Yes, sir, I don't know too. 389 00:22:13.759 --> 00:22:16.160 Week I forgot. I'll go aload, I'll stop them. Somehow. 390 00:22:16.200 --> 00:22:17.519 I got to stop them. 391 00:22:17.839 --> 00:22:19.640 I pulled myself up in the bunk and I put 392 00:22:19.640 --> 00:22:22.599 my feet on the floor. Weak or not, one way 393 00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:26.680 or another, I had to get to that cabin. I 394 00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:29.920 managed to stagger outside under the deck. Captain Burgess had 395 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:33.119 disappeared somewhere, and there was no sign of anything moving 396 00:22:33.160 --> 00:22:35.960 there in the moonlight except satan the cabin and came 397 00:22:36.039 --> 00:22:39.960 up and rubbed against my ankles. Singing had stopped, and 398 00:22:40.200 --> 00:22:43.480 the ship was quiet. I made my way forward and 399 00:22:43.559 --> 00:22:46.759 finally was looking through the skylight down into the captain's cabin. 400 00:22:49.039 --> 00:22:51.960 One lamp was lit. Its light fell on the hunched 401 00:22:51.960 --> 00:22:54.799