In this episode, we delve into a gripping narrative set against the backdrop of war, exploring the moral complexities faced by a naval commanding officer. As the story unfolds, we are taken on a journey through fog-laden waters, where the officer encounters a mysterious neutral vessel. The tension builds as suspicions arise about the vessel's true intentions and its possible connection to German U-boats. The officer's internal struggle with duty, suspicion, and the weight of his decisions forms the crux of this tale.
Through vivid storytelling, we are immersed in a world where the line between right and wrong blurs, and the consequences of one's actions are uncertain. The episode challenges listeners to ponder the nature of truth and morality in times of war, leaving us with the haunting question of whether the officer's final decision was an act of retribution or murder. Join us as we navigate this complex narrative, rich with suspense and ethical dilemmas.
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Hardie. Ralph Richardson in a funeral. I don't know whether I've done the retribution or murder. I don't know. I don't know about that. Now Joseph Conrad, Nathaniel, starring Ralph Richardson. I've tried the hard thing to do with the light of
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Why not tell me a tale? Tell me. Yes. Why not?
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To find out.
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You used to tell your pencil and the first you played one time. You ever thought of art? That summer, the days before the world. Oh really?
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But now I am seeing the war is going on.
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It could be a tale not of this world. World.
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What do you want a tale of the other, the better world? You must call back someone who's already gone back. No. I don't mean that. I mean, other
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some other world in the universe
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not in heaven. Well, I'm relieved that you forget to I've only had five days leave.
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Yes. And I have also taken five days leave from my duties.
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I like those words.
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What word? Duty. It is horrible sometimes.
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That's because you think it's narrow. Rest of this other word, who's going to look for it and the tail that's in it? You. Have you, Winnie? See that world, David? The horn, once upon a time, a naval commanding officer and a Scandinavian
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continents and islands. Like the earth? Yes.
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A war was going on in that world. And many young women went firstly in war guns and messes used to say to each other, that war was better than no war at all. That sounds flippant, doesn't it? Yes. Let's get back to our commanding officer who, of course, commanded the ship, the warship. But he was to be sent out with her along certain coast to see what he could see, just that. Sometimes he had some preliminary information to help him, and sometimes he hadn't. And within the other days of the war, the ship was standing in northern waters, stinging along her beach, the sight of a rocky, dangerous coast that stood out in pensive black, a Canadian drawing on gray paper. Well, anything to the fort? No, sir. Not the massive fishing boat. Nothing is sailing on shore there. The coast depth will be deserted. I never mind about the coast. It's a few roads to sit I heard of the ship something was floating and rolling lazily on the scene. Something but what?
The ship's course was altered to pass the object close. It was necessary to have a good look at it. It was a scene that one could see close but without touching it was not advisable to come in contact with objects of any form floating carelessly about. Well, wreckage there, but there shouldn't be any wreckage here. No. The last reported torpedoes were a long way westward. The one never knows. And there have been others that weren't reported. Gone with all hands. Seems to be a saddle. Here, have a look through the glasses, sir. Mhmm. Yeah.
Yes. Pretty obvious proof of what we've suspected all along. The certain neutrals around here haven't been quite so neutral as they should have been. Probable than the oversight. Well, it's proof of what we were pretty certain after four. I'm plain too. A much good little doer. Those parties are miles away. The new brother is here. The noble and useful, living away for the East with a regular bit of pack of lies. You know, they won't have to lie very much. Tellers like that, unless caught in the act, are pretty safe. Yeah. I suppose they can afford to tackle. They probably don't even have those left with a bit of evidence left behind.
It's a game where practice makes you bold and successful too. Well, perhaps this will be once too often. The fault's coming up again. That's a hollowed white wall of it. In five minutes, we were in the thick of it. Great convolutions of Saint Herb flew over, whirling about our mask and tunnel. It looked as if it were the golden milk. Then the Well, what do we do now? Here, wait a minute. The fog's lifting. I don't know in patches. Look. There's the shoreline again. That's a bit better. Percy, Satan. Now I know where I am again. They're going in the shore. Yes. But I thought I'd I know this thick of toast like the back of my hand. That's deep there is a southern shore of a fjord. We're going to ease round in his little fist tight for the weatherman. The center of his will, and they can drop anchor.
Caution and patience, they crept in closer and closer, seeing no more of the cliffs than the effervescent dark loom of a narrow border of anglerous foam at its foot. At the moment of angling, the fog was so thick, all they could see they might have been a thousand miles out in the open sea. Yet the shelter of the land could be felt. There was a peculiar quality in the stillness of the air that it sank, that it induces. The wash of the whistle against you circling that. We said here the mysterious of the poison. Well, that's that.
It's about half a mile between us and the other side of the fjord. We just stay here on the front desk. We get a chance to see what they're doing again. Seems to be lifting away, sir. Back here towards the open sea, by the way of it down. Quite a bright path. Yeah. Wait a minute. What's that? To do the glasses. I could almost well, well, well, well, you'd be right then. There's a lover ship out there lying at anchor. But hey, Edith. It's the wonder we didn't one step into her when we came in. Certainly is. But why didn't you make us hear more and rung a bell? She must have heard us coming in. We came in pretty quietly, admittedly, but she must have heard our list with me. We couldn't have passed her more than 50 yards off. Right. That you might call a close shave. We never heard a sound from her.
Fellows on board must have been holding her breath. I rather think that's what they were doing. It'd be better to take a look at them, sir. I think we'd better have. At first, I suppose she was just a coaster sending too. I'm not so sure the more I think about it. In fact, I'm not as tall sure. Not a boat who pinned a boarding party across to us. I want to know a little more about that ship, aye, Ayesha. The boat was low and moved away into the fog, the white squareness vapor that lay on the water, all of it is that as though it had been sunk. Only the shadowy outline of the new spaceship remained afloat above the drifting vessel.
For the quarter of an hour with other silence, and then the boarding the officer in charge came up to make his report. Well, but is she a coaster? No, sir. A stranger. A neutral. Oh, really? Tell us a little bit more about her then. What's she doing here anyway? Well, they said they've had engine trouble, sir. They stood in here to keep out of the weather. Did you? Yes. Well, how did they get in here that they had engine trouble? I asked them that, sir. They they said they were drifting about in the fog for three days, and the wind got up and they simply ran before it when they saw where it was taken. What about the ship's papers now? Papers in perfect order, so I checked them yesterday. She fell from Gothenburg last Monday, eight days ago, with a cargo from Newcastle.
General merchandise all checking with the malefets. From what I could see of her, sir, she's quite in the clear. She is, Or the master said he didn't know where they were since they'd been drifting by so long in the fog. He didn't have any good idea of his position. He asked me for a bearing, but I didn't give him one till I checked with you, sir. Of course. Just one thing. What about her engines now? Are they still disabled? No, sir. She has tea, mama. Why she knows? Number one, you know, I think you were right after all. They were holding their breath for some pastures.
They certainly were. I'll tell you number one, I don't like it. I don't like it one little bit. Somewhere around here, we know very well that German universe is being restocked, probably by a nuclear vessel. Here, field, you find a neutral vessel hiding away in the fog. But her story was perfectly plausible, sir. Yes, sir. That's a little bit too plausible to my mind. What did you make of the crew, Johnson? No, the usual lot, sir. The engineers quite typical, I should say. Very full of the way they repaired their engines. The mate a bit sturdy, better. Not much English.
The master, rather an impressive sort of a fellow in his way, typically Scandinavian,
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typically with us, but appear to have been drinking.
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Seemed a little covering from a regular visease. Well, I did it. What are the structures did you give him? I told him I couldn't give him permission to proceed, sir. He said he wouldn't dare to move his ship. Her own legside in a fog, but around the inside in a fog like this. Permission or no permission? I left a man on Burwell's End. Quite right. But keep an eye. I'll know as much as you care with all those fog about if you do yours open. I I don't know. Maybe I'm a bit too suspicious, but I I can't help feeling that this very plausible ship may very well have been the one that had the rendezvous with that new boat out there. You could never prove it, sir. Well, I I don't know.
I wanna have a look at this myself. But from the report I've had, I'm afraid you couldn't even make a case reasonable suspicion, sir. Could you? I'd go on board all the same. Must another boarding party. Alright then. What did I expect to find that I couldn't have told anybody? No reason of self. I went aboard. The master, large, would bust Scandinavian lift away to the Charge Room.
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Not very comfortable, but while I am at sea, this is where I live. Uh-huh. So take a seat, please.
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What can I do for you? First, lovely. It's not a routine check. Your papers appear to be an order. You are close.
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If it has not been for trouble with the engines, we we would have been in England. In Newcastle. The celebration, we are here. Uh-huh. No. What I mean is I don't know where I'm here. Believe you, today, last Monday, last week. On Tuesday, I am somewhere south of here, and my engines break down. We drift into fog. I don't know where, and anything gets up until we put in here. Since then, there has been nothing but fog again.
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So you do an anchor here all that time. You know the right forwarding?
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So it's not enough to drive a man out of his mind. Well, I look like this. This ship is my own. Your your officer has seen the papers. She isn't much as you can see for yourself. Just an old cargo boat, a spare living for my family.
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Those are their pictures up there. You'll be making a fortune with your family with this whole ship before you finish? Please. I mean, out of the war.
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Yes. We are comfortable. Well, but of that, you you wouldn't be angry about it, would you? Oh, you are too much of a gentleman if he didn't bring this war on you. No. I suppose he didn't. Well, and suppose we sat down and cried. What good would that be? Let those cry who made all that trouble. Time is money, you say in English. Well, well, this time is money. Yes. It is money. Alrighty. Well, how did you say,
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sir? Well, sir, you made it perfectly clear that the law is not your fault and why you're here. Your logbook confirms that very minutely. Of course, a logbook may be cooked. Believe me. I say a logbook may be cooked safe used as a rabbi. Nothing easier. Oh,
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but you can't suspect me of anything? My cargo is made up for for a new dishwasher in Newcastle. True. Now how can you suspect me? And what is it you suspect me of doing? Well, I haven't said that I do suspect you.
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What makes you think I might? What what you said about the logbook? Well, I find you lying here with steam up,
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hiding in the fog. Look. My engines have been repaired,
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I wonder what he'd do if I killed him to his face of being what I suspected he was. I turned away in disgust and went up on the deck, where I had the crew must have formally for an inspection. You're the chief engineer? Yeah. But there's
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and the steam was not right in the cylinder. Also, the condenser came. What's wrong? Where was this? A bit ago, plus 2¢.
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You're the late? You're on. Can you see your presence? No. No. Here. Where did you join the ship? You're the boy? When? Three months ago. This is your first trip to Howell. We are not bound for Howell. We are bound for Newcastle. I could discover North Slore and the logbook, Cora. At last, I returned to the chat room. The master still lingered there, expressed of being drinking while I was away on deck. I see John. I guess you're wondering of my proceedings. So I'm not the telling you, am I? I mean, you wouldn't care to move them this far? I don't know where I am. Earlier today, I saw something out there that makes me suspect that not so very long since the U boat was contacted and restocked, such by a neutral vessel.
Oh, I see.
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But you only suspect that you have no proof? No. I'll trust not.
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But I also have my information. That's why I happen to be here at all. Shooting is too good for people to confuse brutality and that sort of manner. Oh, yes. Yes. Perhaps. No. There's no perhaps about it. Oh, no. No. You are right. But
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but what about the tempters? We better kill off that lot. Have you ever seen a poor man on one side and had a bag of gold on the other? Oh, of course. I couldn't be tempted. I have a nervous about it. Oh, I thought it was just nodding to me. I I just talk openly for lunch. Yes. I'm listening to you. Well, now that I know, you have no suspicions I talk. You don't know what a poor man is. I do. Some poor myself. Did old cities much since his mortgage to bear living no more. Well, of course, I wouldn't have to know, but but a man who has, then, there's only 70 daily stuff he takes aboard looks like other cargo packages, barrels, steels, copper tube, whatnot.
He doesn't see it work. He isn't real to him, but but he sees the goal. That's real. Reason. Or or because nothing would induce me. I suffer from an internal disease. I would go crazy with anxiety or or take a drink or something. Now the risk is too great. It may it would be ruined. Ruined. It will be death. We're afraid it is not into me. I am not one of those. No. No. Of course not.
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But I will tell you, sir, enough is cursed as well, all of you. Now the deal of you. You must leave it half an hour. Leaving this fog. Yes. You'll have to go in this fog.
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But but I don't know where I am. I told you that three days I drifted lost in the fog. Uh-huh. So you don't know how to get out, don't you?
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Well, I'm giving you a New York course. Just go south I'm ordering you to do it unless you want it. No. No. I tell you I have had enough work. It's good. Yeah. It'll be within the next half hour. You've seen me, and I've given you your course. But the police, I do not know where I am. I've given you your course.
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Very well, sir. I have no choice.
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I returned my ship leading the master, standing there as if we were routed to the deck. Within the next ten minutes, I heard their anchor being waved. Then, shadowy in the fog, she steamed away out of the field onto a given quarters. My dear, that's the end of the tail.
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That's me. Let him go.
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Now listen. That course would lead the ship straight onto the rocks beyond the mouth of the fjord. He steamed out, he ran into them, and went down. So he had spoken the truth. He did not know where he was. But surely I proved nothing. Nothing either way. There may have been one of the truth in your story. Yes? It seems to have been driven out by many things, and nothing more.
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And what? Oh, yes. I gave that costume.
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It came to me as a supreme test. I believe no. No. I don't believe. I I don't know. At the time, I must swim. Slim. They're always done. I don't know whether I've done this term retribution or murder. I don't know.
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I shall never know. Oh, god. I will never know.
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Hardie. Ralph Richardson in a funeral. I don't know whether I've done the retribution or murder. I don't know. I don't know about that. Now Joseph Conrad, Nathaniel, starring Ralph Richardson. I've tried the hard thing to do with the light of
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Why not tell me a tale? Tell me. Yes. Why not?
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To find out.
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You used to tell your pencil and the first you played one time. You ever thought of art? That summer, the days before the world. Oh really?
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But now I am seeing the war is going on.
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It could be a tale not of this world. World.
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What do you want a tale of the other, the better world? You must call back someone who's already gone back. No. I don't mean that. I mean, other
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some other world in the universe
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not in heaven. Well, I'm relieved that you forget to I've only had five days leave.
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Yes. And I have also taken five days leave from my duties.
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I like those words.
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What word? Duty. It is horrible sometimes.
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That's because you think it's narrow. Rest of this other word, who's going to look for it and the tail that's in it? You. Have you, Winnie? See that world, David? The horn, once upon a time, a naval commanding officer and a Scandinavian
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continents and islands. Like the earth? Yes.
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A war was going on in that world. And many young women went firstly in war guns and messes used to say to each other, that war was better than no war at all. That sounds flippant, doesn't it? Yes. Let's get back to our commanding officer who, of course, commanded the ship, the warship. But he was to be sent out with her along certain coast to see what he could see, just that. Sometimes he had some preliminary information to help him, and sometimes he hadn't. And within the other days of the war, the ship was standing in northern waters, stinging along her beach, the sight of a rocky, dangerous coast that stood out in pensive black, a Canadian drawing on gray paper. Well, anything to the fort? No, sir. Not the massive fishing boat. Nothing is sailing on shore there. The coast depth will be deserted. I never mind about the coast. It's a few roads to sit I heard of the ship something was floating and rolling lazily on the scene. Something but what?
The ship's course was altered to pass the object close. It was necessary to have a good look at it. It was a scene that one could see close but without touching it was not advisable to come in contact with objects of any form floating carelessly about. Well, wreckage there, but there shouldn't be any wreckage here. No. The last reported torpedoes were a long way westward. The one never knows. And there have been others that weren't reported. Gone with all hands. Seems to be a saddle. Here, have a look through the glasses, sir. Mhmm. Yeah.
Yes. Pretty obvious proof of what we've suspected all along. The certain neutrals around here haven't been quite so neutral as they should have been. Probable than the oversight. Well, it's proof of what we were pretty certain after four. I'm plain too. A much good little doer. Those parties are miles away. The new brother is here. The noble and useful, living away for the East with a regular bit of pack of lies. You know, they won't have to lie very much. Tellers like that, unless caught in the act, are pretty safe. Yeah. I suppose they can afford to tackle. They probably don't even have those left with a bit of evidence left behind.
It's a game where practice makes you bold and successful too. Well, perhaps this will be once too often. The fault's coming up again. That's a hollowed white wall of it. In five minutes, we were in the thick of it. Great convolutions of Saint Herb flew over, whirling about our mask and tunnel. It looked as if it were the golden milk. Then the Well, what do we do now? Here, wait a minute. The fog's lifting. I don't know in patches. Look. There's the shoreline again. That's a bit better. Percy, Satan. Now I know where I am again. They're going in the shore. Yes. But I thought I'd I know this thick of toast like the back of my hand. That's deep there is a southern shore of a fjord. We're going to ease round in his little fist tight for the weatherman. The center of his will, and they can drop anchor.
Caution and patience, they crept in closer and closer, seeing no more of the cliffs than the effervescent dark loom of a narrow border of anglerous foam at its foot. At the moment of angling, the fog was so thick, all they could see they might have been a thousand miles out in the open sea. Yet the shelter of the land could be felt. There was a peculiar quality in the stillness of the air that it sank, that it induces. The wash of the whistle against you circling that. We said here the mysterious of the poison. Well, that's that.
It's about half a mile between us and the other side of the fjord. We just stay here on the front desk. We get a chance to see what they're doing again. Seems to be lifting away, sir. Back here towards the open sea, by the way of it down. Quite a bright path. Yeah. Wait a minute. What's that? To do the glasses. I could almost well, well, well, well, you'd be right then. There's a lover ship out there lying at anchor. But hey, Edith. It's the wonder we didn't one step into her when we came in. Certainly is. But why didn't you make us hear more and rung a bell? She must have heard us coming in. We came in pretty quietly, admittedly, but she must have heard our list with me. We couldn't have passed her more than 50 yards off. Right. That you might call a close shave. We never heard a sound from her.
Fellows on board must have been holding her breath. I rather think that's what they were doing. It'd be better to take a look at them, sir. I think we'd better have. At first, I suppose she was just a coaster sending too. I'm not so sure the more I think about it. In fact, I'm not as tall sure. Not a boat who pinned a boarding party across to us. I want to know a little more about that ship, aye, Ayesha. The boat was low and moved away into the fog, the white squareness vapor that lay on the water, all of it is that as though it had been sunk. Only the shadowy outline of the new spaceship remained afloat above the drifting vessel.
For the quarter of an hour with other silence, and then the boarding the officer in charge came up to make his report. Well, but is she a coaster? No, sir. A stranger. A neutral. Oh, really? Tell us a little bit more about her then. What's she doing here anyway? Well, they said they've had engine trouble, sir. They stood in here to keep out of the weather. Did you? Yes. Well, how did they get in here that they had engine trouble? I asked them that, sir. They they said they were drifting about in the fog for three days, and the wind got up and they simply ran before it when they saw where it was taken. What about the ship's papers now? Papers in perfect order, so I checked them yesterday. She fell from Gothenburg last Monday, eight days ago, with a cargo from Newcastle.
General merchandise all checking with the malefets. From what I could see of her, sir, she's quite in the clear. She is, Or the master said he didn't know where they were since they'd been drifting by so long in the fog. He didn't have any good idea of his position. He asked me for a bearing, but I didn't give him one till I checked with you, sir. Of course. Just one thing. What about her engines now? Are they still disabled? No, sir. She has tea, mama. Why she knows? Number one, you know, I think you were right after all. They were holding their breath for some pastures.
They certainly were. I'll tell you number one, I don't like it. I don't like it one little bit. Somewhere around here, we know very well that German universe is being restocked, probably by a nuclear vessel. Here, field, you find a neutral vessel hiding away in the fog. But her story was perfectly plausible, sir. Yes, sir. That's a little bit too plausible to my mind. What did you make of the crew, Johnson? No, the usual lot, sir. The engineers quite typical, I should say. Very full of the way they repaired their engines. The mate a bit sturdy, better. Not much English.
The master, rather an impressive sort of a fellow in his way, typically Scandinavian,
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typically with us, but appear to have been drinking.
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Seemed a little covering from a regular visease. Well, I did it. What are the structures did you give him? I told him I couldn't give him permission to proceed, sir. He said he wouldn't dare to move his ship. Her own legside in a fog, but around the inside in a fog like this. Permission or no permission? I left a man on Burwell's End. Quite right. But keep an eye. I'll know as much as you care with all those fog about if you do yours open. I I don't know. Maybe I'm a bit too suspicious, but I I can't help feeling that this very plausible ship may very well have been the one that had the rendezvous with that new boat out there. You could never prove it, sir. Well, I I don't know.
I wanna have a look at this myself. But from the report I've had, I'm afraid you couldn't even make a case reasonable suspicion, sir. Could you? I'd go on board all the same. Must another boarding party. Alright then. What did I expect to find that I couldn't have told anybody? No reason of self. I went aboard. The master, large, would bust Scandinavian lift away to the Charge Room.
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Not very comfortable, but while I am at sea, this is where I live. Uh-huh. So take a seat, please.
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What can I do for you? First, lovely. It's not a routine check. Your papers appear to be an order. You are close.
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If it has not been for trouble with the engines, we we would have been in England. In Newcastle. The celebration, we are here. Uh-huh. No. What I mean is I don't know where I'm here. Believe you, today, last Monday, last week. On Tuesday, I am somewhere south of here, and my engines break down. We drift into fog. I don't know where, and anything gets up until we put in here. Since then, there has been nothing but fog again.
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So you do an anchor here all that time. You know the right forwarding?
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So it's not enough to drive a man out of his mind. Well, I look like this. This ship is my own. Your your officer has seen the papers. She isn't much as you can see for yourself. Just an old cargo boat, a spare living for my family.
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Those are their pictures up there. You'll be making a fortune with your family with this whole ship before you finish? Please. I mean, out of the war.
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Yes. We are comfortable. Well, but of that, you you wouldn't be angry about it, would you? Oh, you are too much of a gentleman if he didn't bring this war on you. No. I suppose he didn't. Well, and suppose we sat down and cried. What good would that be? Let those cry who made all that trouble. Time is money, you say in English. Well, well, this time is money. Yes. It is money. Alrighty. Well, how did you say,
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sir? Well, sir, you made it perfectly clear that the law is not your fault and why you're here. Your logbook confirms that very minutely. Of course, a logbook may be cooked. Believe me. I say a logbook may be cooked safe used as a rabbi. Nothing easier. Oh,
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but you can't suspect me of anything? My cargo is made up for for a new dishwasher in Newcastle. True. Now how can you suspect me? And what is it you suspect me of doing? Well, I haven't said that I do suspect you.
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What makes you think I might? What what you said about the logbook? Well, I find you lying here with steam up,
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hiding in the fog. Look. My engines have been repaired,
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I wonder what he'd do if I killed him to his face of being what I suspected he was. I turned away in disgust and went up on the deck, where I had the crew must have formally for an inspection. You're the chief engineer? Yeah. But there's
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and the steam was not right in the cylinder. Also, the condenser came. What's wrong? Where was this? A bit ago, plus 2¢.
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You're the late? You're on. Can you see your presence? No. No. Here. Where did you join the ship? You're the boy? When? Three months ago. This is your first trip to Howell. We are not bound for Howell. We are bound for Newcastle. I could discover North Slore and the logbook, Cora. At last, I returned to the chat room. The master still lingered there, expressed of being drinking while I was away on deck. I see John. I guess you're wondering of my proceedings. So I'm not the telling you, am I? I mean, you wouldn't care to move them this far? I don't know where I am. Earlier today, I saw something out there that makes me suspect that not so very long since the U boat was contacted and restocked, such by a neutral vessel.
Oh, I see.
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But you only suspect that you have no proof? No. I'll trust not.
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But I also have my information. That's why I happen to be here at all. Shooting is too good for people to confuse brutality and that sort of manner. Oh, yes. Yes. Perhaps. No. There's no perhaps about it. Oh, no. No. You are right. But
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but what about the tempters? We better kill off that lot. Have you ever seen a poor man on one side and had a bag of gold on the other? Oh, of course. I couldn't be tempted. I have a nervous about it. Oh, I thought it was just nodding to me. I I just talk openly for lunch. Yes. I'm listening to you. Well, now that I know, you have no suspicions I talk. You don't know what a poor man is. I do. Some poor myself. Did old cities much since his mortgage to bear living no more. Well, of course, I wouldn't have to know, but but a man who has, then, there's only 70 daily stuff he takes aboard looks like other cargo packages, barrels, steels, copper tube, whatnot.
He doesn't see it work. He isn't real to him, but but he sees the goal. That's real. Reason. Or or because nothing would induce me. I suffer from an internal disease. I would go crazy with anxiety or or take a drink or something. Now the risk is too great. It may it would be ruined. Ruined. It will be death. We're afraid it is not into me. I am not one of those. No. No. Of course not.
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But I will tell you, sir, enough is cursed as well, all of you. Now the deal of you. You must leave it half an hour. Leaving this fog. Yes. You'll have to go in this fog.
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But but I don't know where I am. I told you that three days I drifted lost in the fog. Uh-huh. So you don't know how to get out, don't you?
[00:21:26] Unknown:
Well, I'm giving you a New York course. Just go south I'm ordering you to do it unless you want it. No. No. I tell you I have had enough work. It's good. Yeah. It'll be within the next half hour. You've seen me, and I've given you your course. But the police, I do not know where I am. I've given you your course.
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Very well, sir. I have no choice.
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I returned my ship leading the master, standing there as if we were routed to the deck. Within the next ten minutes, I heard their anchor being waved. Then, shadowy in the fog, she steamed away out of the field onto a given quarters. My dear, that's the end of the tail.
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That's me. Let him go.
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Now listen. That course would lead the ship straight onto the rocks beyond the mouth of the fjord. He steamed out, he ran into them, and went down. So he had spoken the truth. He did not know where he was. But surely I proved nothing. Nothing either way. There may have been one of the truth in your story. Yes? It seems to have been driven out by many things, and nothing more.
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And what? Oh, yes. I gave that costume.
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It came to me as a supreme test. I believe no. No. I don't believe. I I don't know. At the time, I must swim. Slim. They're always done. I don't know whether I've done this term retribution or murder. I don't know.
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I shall never know. Oh, god. I will never know.
