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In this episode, we delve into the world of auto racing with a spotlight on the Big Bend Bash, an exciting auto rally reminiscent of the Baja race on the West Coast. Our guest, Sasha Lance, the rally master for the Big Bend Bash, shares insights into the thrilling world of rally racing. We also touch on historical sports trivia, such as the Grand Prix Formula One driving champion of 1973, and provide a sneak peek into upcoming sports events on Sports Central Dallas.
Additionally, we explore the eerie and suspenseful world of Gothic storytelling with a feature on "The Fatal Marksman," a mystery drama written by Ian Martin. This tale, set in the late 18th to mid-19th century, weaves a chilling narrative of love, betrayal, and supernatural elements, culminating in a dramatic and tragic conclusion. The episode also includes a discussion on the making of magic bullets, the consequences of breaking sacred oaths, and the haunting presence of spectral figures, all set against the backdrop of a foreboding forest.
(00:51) Introduction to Gothic Tales
(02:26) The Fatal Marksman Begins
(05:11) A Forbidden Love and Family Duty
(11:22) The Enchanted Gun
(18:02) The Struggle with Fate
(27:06) The Magic Bullet
(35:02) The Night of the Ritual
(44:28) The Tragic Conclusion
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Oil whisk. Thursday night on Sports Central, we'll look at auto racing, specifically the Big Bend Bash, an auto rally like the Baja race on the West Coast. Our guest, Sasha Lance, the rally master for the Big Ben Bash. Our first sports question, who is the Grand Prix, Formula one driving champion for 1973? Sports Central Dallas, weekdays, six to 7PM. Thursday, the Big Bend Bash, right here on KRLD.
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The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents
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Come in. Welcome. I'm EG Marshall.
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For seventy five years, from the late eighteenth to the middle of the nineteenth century, was the heyday of the writers of the Gothic story. Here is one of the most popular, which the great composer von Weber used as the libretto of the opera, Der Freischen. And appropriately enough, it begins in a graveyard.
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William, don't let that gun touch my headstone.
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Sorry, mother.
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You have much to be sorry for.
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I could not help it. Mother, I love her. I must
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You broke your sacred oath, sworn on my death deathbed. You will have cause to regret it, but more so the pride will never be yours.
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Our mystery drama, the fatal marksman, was written especially for the mystery theater by Ian Martin and stars Michael Wager and Suzanne Grossman. It is sponsored in part by Anheuser Busch Incorporated, Brewers of Budweiser, and Buick Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with act one.
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Ever had a tall, frosty glass of amplitude? Well, if your beer is Budweiser, you've had it often. Amplitude is a fancy word for the entire taste phenomenon, the total experience of flavor. Next time you take a healthy swallow of bud, watch what happens. Think about the sensations you're experiencing. Notice how the flavor of bud comes on nice and easy. Not too strong, not too quick, just bright. Notice the clean, crisp togetherness of Bud's taste. Everything in perfect balance with no single element jumping out at you. And there'll be no aftertaste either. No hanging on. And you'll be refreshed and ready for another glassful. Actually, butt drinkers have been experiencing amplitude for years, but they never phrase it that way. They just say, butt wiser, and that says it all. Anheuser Busch, St. Louis. It's a
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Anheuser Busch, St. Louis.
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It's a beautiful day. I'm waxing my car, and my neighbor comes out with antifreeze. And I say antifreeze now, and he starts to sing.
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You can never bypass down too worthy. Early. Do it now, do it now, don't you wait. You can never buy Pressed on too early.
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You can only buy it too late. Hey. Sounds crazy, but a fifty fifty mix of Pressed on two, winter summer, formula, and water, about two gallons for most cars, helps prevent boil over even in traffic jams. Because it helps your cooling system handle heat better than water. Fresh boil over protection and fresh corrosion protection too. Because only Prestone two has a patented silicone silicate inhibitor system. Nothing beats it for corrosion protection. Summer, winter, all year round, you can never buy Pressedone too early. You can only buy it too late. I don't you
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can trust Pressedone.
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Who can you trust?
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No one in the Duchy Of Grausenland would have argued that Catherine Adam, daughter of the forester of Linden, was the loveliest bride in West Germany, and that Robert Stock, the hunter, was a lucky man to be getting her for his bride. No one except Katherine and her mother, that is. For Katherine was very much in love with William Braegher, a young bailiff's clerk. But kind as her father, Bertram Adam, was, on the subject of his daughter's marriage, he was inflexible.
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Now listen, Elsa, once and for all.
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Drive this notion out of your head, root and branch. But, Bertram, why shouldn't our Katherine live just as happily with a bailiff's clerk as with a hunter? Elsa,
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for better than two hundred years, this farm in the Forest Of Linden has come down from father to son in my family. If I had a son, Kate could marry whom she will.
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My fault that I wasn't able to give you a son. I wouldn't change her for any son in the world.
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No more than I would change you for anything in the world. No. I, you, Bert.
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We've had wonderful years together. And I could only wish the same for Kate. That's why I argue so hard for William. He's such a good, kind hearted boy. Kind hearted? Maybe.
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But not a hunter. And if anything happens to me, unless there is a son, a hunter in my family, to replace me, there goes our tenancy. And you are left with nowhere to live. But William and Kate would take me in with them. Take you in with them? Where?
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Where could they afford to live on a bailiff clerk's salary? He won't be a bailiff's clerk forever. They're long enough for all we know. Not William. Oh, no. He has a good head on his shoulders. And when he gets to be a bailiff, what a step up in life for our daughter.
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No, wife.
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Kate will marry Robert. But she doesn't like Robert. Alright. Alright.
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It's not altogether Robert I care about myself. So Robert or no Robert, you tell Kate. It must be a line to the forest. I know she put you up to this. 02:00. Well, late enough for dinner today. I'd best back to my preserves.
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Kate, you can come out now. Did you hear? It's enough to know he won't agree. He has his reason. He's just a stubborn old man, and I'll never forget him. I'll run away. Oh, no. You don't mean anything you're saying. I do. I do. I'll never marry anyone. I'll take the bath. I'll Come now, Kate. Stop like nursing. William or no one? Oh, you're as stubborn as your father. What am I gonna do? Oh, what could that be? Go see like a good girl. Yes, mother. William. Hey.
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Hey.
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Hey. Your mother present Will, take me away, please. Please. I think my father won't let me marry you. He says I must marry a hunter or no one. Is this true, Frau Adams? I'm afraid so, William. You see, we only hold the farm as tenants and here Adam his title of forest ranger only so long as there is a hunter in the family to pass them on to, which means that Kate must be married to a forester.
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Tell me, love.
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Would you prefer me as a hunter or a bailiff? Oh, I wouldn't care what you were, darling. As long as we could spend our lives together. You can't suddenly turn yourself into a hunter within a few weeks, William.
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Don't be too sure of that, Frau Adam. What do you mean? I can't tell you now, but could you give me your work to keep the hell Adam from betrobing Kate to anyone
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for three days? How could that help?
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There's a place I have to visit where I was born and some a question I must have answered before I can let you know. What? Whether or not you and I can be the ones to be betrothed and married and with your father's consent. It took most of what money I had to pay my coach fair to Manfredstein, and it was long past dark when I was dropped off. The best I could afford at the inn was a bowl of soup. And by the time I set off for the graveyard, the heels end of the moon was all the light I had, skittering in and out of the clouds, driven over it by a scudding wind. It was still before midnight when I dug up my father's rifle where it had lain beside his grave. The oil skin still unrotted by the dam. Case still not pierced by the worms.
And the gun itself in the fitful moonlight, still gleaming with the thick coat of oil I put on it myself. And now the worst part, to cross the few steps to my mother's grave and stand there waiting for the midnight hour. The only time they say you can speak to a ghost. The church bell was sounding the magic hour as I know. Walk the three leaning against the headstone. William,
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don't let that gun touch my headstone.
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Sorry, mother.
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You have much to be sorry for.
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I know why you come. I had to mother. I love her.
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You want to break your sacred oath worn on my deathbed. If you do, you will have cause to regret it.
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But more so, the bride will never be yours. She will never be mine unless you release me from the oath.
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I have no part to release you even if I wanted to. That's the last I can ever say to you. Mother,
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don't make me break my oath. Don't.
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Mother,
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she can't.
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I had hoped against hope my mother could change, but I knew in my heart when I came that my mind was already made up one way or another, and the main thing that had brought me home was to find my father's gun. It took me two full days and a night to retrace my way along the road, and the coach had brought me. And dusk was beginning to fall when exhausted, famished, and dirty from the road, I knocked on the door of the Adams house.
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Will you? Oh, will, darling, come in. Where have you been? What?
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Forgive me. Oh, food, water, no. Sleep, Bert. Bert, get some schnapps. Right away, Elsa.
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Mother, he's not no. No. He's just fainted. Get that big case out of the way, whatever it is. That's a gun case.
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That's good quality too. I wonder. I wonder if you'd forget guns just long enough to get some schnapps into this poor boy. Oh, no. I'm I'm I'm alright. I I can get up. Yeah. Now get some of this into your belly first. You'll put some strength in your legs.
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I feel better now. Thank you.
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What happened to you, darling?
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Nothing happened to me. I did it all to myself. And for us, I can get up now. Yeah.
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I'll help you.
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Oh, thank you. I I just overdid a little. And, when have you been up to? I went to fetch my father's gun. My father was forester general Wilbregher of Mumfordstein. So if it's a hunter you want for your son-in-law, it's a hunter you've got.
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Kate, would you come away from that window and help me get the meal ready for those men? They should be home soon. That's why I'm watching, mama. Oh, I'm doing a little praying too, I suppose. That will shoot straight and true. He must be very out of practice. From the way he handled his gun this morning when they were getting ready to leave, I don't think it'll take him long to get his eye back. Oh, mama. Are you sure? Who can be sure? The proof is in the pudding. Oh, which reminds me, the dough for my apple strudel, if I let that too long in the oven oh, Will, my darling, shoot true.
Straight and true as my love for you.
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A perfect shot. Ho ho. Dropped him in his tracks. He never even felt it. Will, you studied well with your father. You stay with me and before we are finished, we'll make you a second Cunard. Cunard? You you don't know Cunard? Why, he was my father's grandfather and the first man who ever occupied this forest and cultivated this farm. When his good fortune happened, he was a riding boy to a young gentleman of Wipaa. And one day attending him while he was riding hunt with the Duke, the dogs turned up a stag on the back of
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which a man was bound. Oh, I've heard of that. The Lord used to punish four men who would poach by binding him like that sort of herd would gore him to death. He would eventually die of thirst or hunger. Right. Right.
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Now, the Duke was a stern but just man, and he had made a law against stag binding. And he wanted the man taken alive to find out who had broken his law. So he offered a reward to any huntsman who would bring down the stag without hurting the man. But if the man was shot and killed, he threatened the shooter with equal displeasure and his banishment from court.
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How? Waging none of the nobility where you get to take that gamble, but Kuno did. Aye, lad.
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That very man whose picture you might have seen hanging above the mantelpiece of the house. Oh, I noticed him alright. He had an eye like a hawk. And nerves of steel. Well, just as the stag turned into a thicket, he clapped his gun to his shoulder and fired. At that same moment, out brushed the stag, staggered and fell, and the man unwounded,
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save for some scratches. And the reward was the farm and the title of title of far stranger. Tacunno himself and his heirs forever. Oh, what a magnificent reward for one shot.
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I so thought many people, especially those who had been afraid to take the risk. And so the gossip stopped him. And since it was the nobility mainly who wished to save their faces, what did they do but persuade the Duke that Crono's shot hit the mark through witchcraft
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and the black arts? But surely the Duke knew what a fine shot Kuno was. Well, it was the quickness of the thing you see.
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Kuno could line up a target as fast as lightning, but the others argued that it was so fast, he just fired at random. They said he never took aim, which makes it a devil shot. A devil shot never fails of hitting the mark.
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But the Duke didn't take away the farm. No. No. But
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from there came the regulation that every descendant of Kuno's must fire a probationary shot that drops the deer before he's admitted as tenant.
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I may only know that Kate might be mine. I shall practice every moment to make sure I cannot miss. Miss. Good lad. Good lad.
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After today, you have my confidence.
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Suddenly, the sun went out. The forest greenery changed to weird and ghostly shapes. And standing in front of me was the corpse gray shade of my mother, clad only in her winding sheet.
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I want you, Will. I want you. Only God can help you now.
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With everything he wants in the world almost within his grasp, this spectral race of his mother seems to threaten Will with disaster. Or is she only a figment of the imagination, a prick of conscience in the young man's mind, already overtired and heady with excitement of the oath that circumstance is forcing him to break.
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I'll return shortly with act two. Say, do you know what happens this time of year? The swallows come back to Capistrano. Nope. The buzzards come back to Hinkley Ridge, Ohio? No.
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Bulldogs all over the world begin to shed? Not even close.
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This, my friend, is the time of year when you can get a super little deal on the practical but elegant Buick Apollo. And just between you and me, it may very well be the best chance you'll ever have to buy a Buick. I could have sworn this was buzz a day in Hinkley.
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company.
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It was an exciting and and wonderful dinner that night for the Adams and Will. In the warmth and regard of his future father-in-law, the unutterable delight of his bride to be, Will was all most able to forget that frail, grieving wraith who had faced him in the forest. But as day succeeded day and the time of the trial grew nearer and nearer, the memory of his dead mother and her agony over his broken oath haunted him more and more.
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Will? Darling, what brings you home to life?
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You can see.
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Oh, not an empty bag again. What's the matter? What's happened?
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Kate, darling, I I don't know. I'll have a deer in my sights and the gun will misfire. I'll I'll come up on a partridge at point blank range and my shot will veer and hit a tree three feet to the left. I swear I think that gun is enchanted. You're just having a run of bad luck. It happens to every hunter, even fire. And I like this. And the worst of it is he's claiming it now on sheer heedlessness on my part. He he thinks that all I think about is you.
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Well, at least some of the time you do, don't you? It's okay.
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I I have to struggle very hard to keep you out of my mind. I love you so. And that makes it even worse because I'm beginning to think to think my fear is affecting my shooting. What fear? I fear that your father will change his mind and that he'll withdraw his approval of our marriage.
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But he knows how well you shoot. You proved it to him that first day. Your hunting bag was bulging and you dropped that great stag whose antlers hang there beside my ancestor, Kuno's portrait. That was one day out of two weeks. What you have done once, you can do again for me. Here, Will. Here's your gun. It still lacks fifteen minutes of three and the sun is still high for me, for your Katherine. Bring me a heart. Take the dogs to be sure to round up one,
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and my heart and my prayers to bring you love. By heaven, I will. I will not show myself again. There's a prize book. Let me just get a bead on you, my beauty. Not 50 paces away. I can't miss. I couldn't have missed him. I I couldn't. Okay. Forgive me. I'll reload and still bring you your game.
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I'll be damned to whatever devil may try to lay his curse on me. Hey. Hold fast, comrade. What ails a man to cry out so on a day such as this one?
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I turned in my tracks, and there sitting under a nearby tree was an old soldier with a wooden leg and a dusty travel worn uniform, threadbare and barely holding together.
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Well, is it body or purse that's sailing? Health or wealth that escapes you? Or has someone put a spell on your gun?
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What did you say about my gun?
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Man and boy, I've spent my life with guns. And if I say it shouldn't, there's no one knows more about them than I do. You can't. I see you're looking at my wooden legs. Oh, I'm I'm sorry. I meant no harm. What happened so long ago? I never think of it. Cabellary saber separated that from me. You, you wouldn't have a bit of tobacco you could share with an old soldier? Why why yes. Just just a minute. Here. Let me hold your gun while you dig it out. That's as fine a piece as I have ever seen. No man could have missed that buck with this unless it's been charmed.
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Oh, I never thought on that. Here's your tobacco, sir. Oh, thank you. I'll just take a pipe load. Keep it. Keep it. I have more at home. Charmed, you say? Then all I'd have to do would be to change my gun and say
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Oh, not so fast. If the spell has been proper laid, you'll have no better luck with any other gun.
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Oh, I can't believe that if no gun I put to my shoulder will shoot through. How how then can I ever be a forester?
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Drawn here. I like you, lad, for your generosity, and I'll pose you a riddle, which if you have not the answer, I'll give it to you. What riddle? If the gun refuses to bring down the prey, what what else lets the huntsman have his way? I'm
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I'm afraid I don't know the answer to that.
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Quiet up all that. A bullet.
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But where could I find such a bullet? Why it just so happens that I,
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have about me some gifted bullets that cannot fail to go through.
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Now just give it a try now. No. No. No. I'll answer for it. No doubt. I hate to waste a shot knowing I shall miss before I pull the trigger. The dogs have lost the deer. Where shall I find a target? I'll pick one for you.
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Hey. Look up. You see your own kite up there?
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Bring him down. Oh, not only is he almost out of range, but he's but a speck. I can can't see him. Still take him on fire. Never doubt. Well, what have I got to lose? That's That's the spirit I like. Fire away.
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I hit him.
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There's no surprise. But where would one find bullets like these? Oh, it is not difficult to cast them. Hey. Here's a few braces of my bullets for you in exchange for the tobacco.
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Try other.
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I don't know how to thank
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you. Hey, lad. You'll find your own way.
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See that hair? Drop him.
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I hit him. I hit him. Old soldier, how can I
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I turned to thank my benefactor again, but he had slipped away into the forest as silently as he had come? One mistake I made. I shrank from telling anyone, not even my beloved Kate, of the gifted bullets.
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Oh, it was a now. So much for your nonsense about enchantments on Will's gun. Enchantments? Mama was afraid that someone had cast a spell over you or your gun. Oh, women and their superstitions. Men are just as bad, if not worse. Not foolish enough to imagine some devil knocked down old Kuno's portrait when anyone knows it was a cankered nail. What's that about a devil? Oh, nothing but but nonsense.
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This afternoon, just shortly after you went back to the park, the picture fell off the wall. How long after I left the house? Not over fifteen minutes. Just as the clock was striking three. You see how foolish the whole thing is?
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Three. The luckiest hour of the day.
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Lucky for me at least. I thought remembering that it was just about the time I met the old soldier. I was tempted to speak about him, but my pride held me back. For within a few days, I was the talk of all the foresters again. No one brought more game home than I. But my stock of the enchanted bullets was running desperately low, and I prayed to find old wooden lug. And to my horror, I was down to a single bullet which I had to hoard for the competition. And suddenly, every shot began again to go astray. And then the final blow
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struck.
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Gun. I
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feel very well. Now I couldn't care less if you were about to take to your deathbed. You know the duke has sent an emissary ordering nearly double the amount of venison necessary for the festival. It'll take every huntsman within the next 10 miles to bring in enough to satisfy his honor. What good am I to you? I'll I'll only waste the bullets. You know I've lost my eye. You have lost more than your shooting eye if you don't bring in your fair share of the game today. Now, you'll have lost my daughter. But you promised me that I promised a forester. Not some mealy mouthed quill pusher who can only see to shoot on certain days.
Now, make haste while I bring the dogs around.
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Oh, well, I overheard. What are you going to do? Kate, I
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I don't know. Hand me my bag.
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Here, darling. Surely for my sake, somehow you can down a buck today. Hand me my gun.
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Kate, as I promise you, I'll I'll bring at least one home if I have to club him to death with a gun stock. I threaded my way through the trees and despair. Kate, I had resolved to me was lost. Which way to lose her? To use my magic bullet now and escape her father's displeasure only to fail the competition shot? Or to hang on to the bullet, the duke's competition? All of a sudden, a ridge away through the trees, I saw a herd of deer coming. Automatically, I load loaded the last precious bullet in the breach in my gun, but still my finger refused to squeeze off a shot. Away, boy. Fire, you'll never have a better chance. I promise you, you'll hit not one, but two. Coming down the hill towards me waving encouragement. Oh, it wouldn't make secure now that I could get at least one more charm bullet. I turned and fired.
He was right. I have not not one, but two robots with one shot. I turned to hurry and meet him and greet him, but there was no sign sign of him. He was gone as if the Earth had literally opened up and swallowed him, and all my hopes with him.
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What a shot, Kate. You should have seen your husband to be. You would have been proud of him. $2
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at one shot. One might almost think it was a magic bullet.
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Women and their superstitions. Is that what happened, Will? Hey? Did you make his own a magic bullet? Like the scandalous charge they tried to make about old Kuno two centuries ago? I'm thank you. Pardon her? Adam, what did you say? Will isn't feeling himself today. Sometimes I wonder about the stories of old Kuno and the devil shot. Kuno's was no devil shot. Are you saying there is no such thing? Oh, there's always gossip of such a thing. You say that's how Peter Franz died. They found him on the road all torn and clawed to pieces. By whom? One thing he never could say in his confession to the magistrate.
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What did he say to the magistrate?
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Why, that he and some old wooden legged soldier had been trying to make some magic bullets.
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Did did he say how such a bullet could be made? Oh,
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it is all a pack of nonsense, of course. But for the sake of a good tale to give us all the goosebumps, you must go to a crossroads, make a circle with a bloody sword, and in this circle lay a skull and bones crosswise. On On the stroke of 11, you start to cast the walls, 63. No more, no less. Nor must you step from out that charm circle no matter what apparitions appear or shrieks rend the air, or owls, or bats, or other hideous things might beat against you until the last stroke of 12. And of the bullets cast, 60 will carry true and only three candies.
Peter was so scared at, whatever happened to him inside that circle that long before twelve, he fled from it. And little more could he tell before he died in horrible agony.
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Oh, God preserve all God fearing folk from such snares of Satan. You frightened the heart out of me. And look at Will. He's pale as a sheep. The poor darling hasn't been feeling well all day.
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You should never have forced him to the hunt, Bob. Yeah. True enough. He said he was out of sorts. Well, god grant he be the same way when the provisional shot comes up day after tomorrow so he may shoot as he shot today.
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But Will Brager, knowing now the secret of the bullet that could not miss, would sleep little that night. Knowing what preparations he had in mind for the morrow and what he planned to do, he knew that this night might well be his last above ground. I'll return shortly with act three.
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Rise. Hold. Cigarette? No need for that. I'm ready. Blindfold. Dash it, man. Let's get it over with. As you wish. Ray,
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Ray,
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Ray. Henry, wake up. Uh-huh. You're dreaming again. Your tax audit? Yeah. Today's the day. But you got all your records together?
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Well, Are we all here for an audit? Uh-huh.
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Won't you have a seat? Thank you.
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Well, now let's see. If you have good records of your income and receipts for your deductions, an audit of your federal income tax return can be easier than you think.
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How did it go, Henry?
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No problem. Nothing I couldn't handle.
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That same night, once all the rest were asleep, Will stole from the house. Then having borrowed a staid in a sack, he stole away to the nearest graveyard. Well before dawn, he returned with a skull, two thigh bones, and a sword. The bones still caked with earth, and the sword rusted in the scabbard from their sojourn in some unnamed soldier's grave. After cleaning them off carefully, he stole back into the house, hiding them under his bed. It was nearly dawn before he fell into a deep sleep,
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just before the rest of the house awakened. Well, I'm off. I'll pick off a couple of bags of Cornish hen to garnish the table for the duke. Oh,
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Will, still asleep? You gave him the day off. Quite right too. The boy should be well rested for his ordeal tomorrow.
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I'll see you later, sir. And Kate, you, look a little peaking. Anything wrong? No.
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No, papa.
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Is it the the closeness of marriage that gives you the trumbles? Oh, now off with you. It is will that concerns her, Abirt. Oh, have no fear for will. He will not miss. His bullet will find his mark. Well, I would like companionship.
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You know, you do look pale and worn, love. Why not rest a little? No. No. There's too much to do. Will has been so strange since last night too. You you haven't Tell me about it. Well, it isn't really much to tell. I I dreamed I I was a white dove. A happy omen for a bride, surely? Except that that I wasn't flying free. There was a ring around my neck. It was holding me. I wanted to fly away but couldn't. And then Then? Then there was a loud noise, and I fell. I fell down beside you, and you were kneeling beside me. And Will was turning to look at us in agony, and I saw that you were all covered with blood.
Me? My blood, mother. My blood.
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It was too late, but I was cast. Tonight, I would try to forge the magic bullets.
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So a little wine for all of us. For this night, we will keep the bridal peace. Tomorrow, it would be impossible with the Duke and his retinue here. This is our last chance as a family before the wedding to dine confidentially and affectionately.
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Rose it. Rose it. All the best of luck. Rose it. Rose it.
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And
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all the best of luck. But it is tomorrow. The young people will be happy.
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The Duke has insisted the vicar be there. And the moment Will has passed his examinee who knows? Victor has fallen again. What the devil can be the matter with that nail?
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There's blood on your face. It's nothing. The corner just grazed my temple as it fell. Let let me see. No. No. It's already wiped away. Please, let's begin the wedding feast. We've waited too long already.
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It's Instead of a feast, the evening was a nightmare for me. By 08:00, I was getting desperate. How could a man steal away from his own bridal festival? Then with the last strike here, Adam broke it up and we all, after exchanging kisses and hand shakes and hugs of affection, went to bed. It was a long, long wait for me until at last 09:00 struck it. Gathering the lead bullet mold, coals, and all the other requisites into my sack, I stole quietly downstairs and out of the house. Quietly downstairs and out of the house. I was less than 200 yards from the house when I heard the rapid patter of feet catching up with me.
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Will. Will. Where are you?
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Go back to the house. But where are you going? Somewhere you cannot follow me. You're running away. Running away from you? What what would make you think that?
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That bag over your shoulder. Don't you want to marry me?
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Want to? Oh, god, Kate. If I can't be married to you, then I don't want to live. That's how I feel about you. Then go go quickly back to bed and leave me to do what must be done.
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If I let you go now, I may never see you again. I'm going so we can be together for the rest of our lives. You are starting that this minute. I'm going with it. You can't. You don't understand this terrible danger. If you can face it, so will I. How can I explain it to you? There isn't time. You can explain to me on the way to wherever we're going. I will not allow you to come. Now you listen to me. I want to spend my life with you. But in the light of the moon, I can see the shadow of possible death in your eye. If it's death you're to find tonight, then I choose to find that with you.
Whatever our future is, it lies together. Now, shall we get started? And you can explain to me what it's all about as we go.
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It was a long walk to the crossroads, but even at that, I was still finishing my story to a cafe struck dumb by the time I had drawn my circle with a bloody sword, spread the bones, and started my coal. 10:00, it struck on the church deep long ago, and it was hard by eleven. All was in readiness as the moan buried itself deeper and deeper in the clouds. It was a faint hattering of rain that hissed on my ladle where the lead melted in the heat. And all about were the sounds of fat smells and other horrible light, chilling things that came and went to this cape, clung to me in dismay.
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Oh, Will. I should never have been the cause of your breaking your oath to your mother. My mother would forgive me. I know.
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Kate, there's still time for you to go.
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It's already too late. The hour is striking.
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Yes. Now remember, Kathy, no matter what you hear, no matter what you see or feel, don't step out of the circle till we're done.
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Remember. I remember. A prayer. Oh, god. If Will has offended you, he did it only for love. And for what he is about to do, forgive him. For if he were not to have me or me him, I would be ready to take my own life. Too late.
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Too late. Oh,
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Oh, no.
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The bellows are on fire. The light will drive them away.
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See? See, they are gone. Shut your ears. Shut your eyes, Kate. Stay in the circle. Who looked that horrible old man with the wooden leg? Yes. Nothing
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long road that's still right over across town. Okay.
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No use describing the rest of that hellish hour. The coach reaching circles soared into the air to vanish. It did a ravening, slathering huge hairy boy that charged down at us from the crossroad. And all the while I molded the bullets while Kate kept the lead liquid for me. And my watch was almost twelve. And if the sixtieth bullet was cast, the cock began to strike. And the moon came out full as I hastily cast the last three. As I did, all of a sudden silence as they are standing beyond the circle, was all wooden legs.
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The witching hour and the task is finished. You've stood the trial well. What would you have of me?
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Nothing. Nothing at all. What I want, I have prepared myself.
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Help.
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But with my help By no means I bargained for no help. I did not summon you.
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I summoned your boulder the most. So take the bullet you cast, but remember, 60 for thee, three for me. The 60 go true, but three askew. All will refrain when we meet again.
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In a puff of black smoke, he was gone, vanished into thin moonlight air. And I took my bullets and my fainting bride home, torn by black despair and frightening hope. By next morning at dawn, the duke and his party arrived for the hunt. And I was chosen to ride by his side as his gunsmen and hunter. If I had any fear of my magic bullets, the first shot dispelled it forever.
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Where hell damn I hide that is shooting? The lead duck in that flight which is not yet over as well.
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Partly from relief, but mainly I am ashamed because of the Duke's flattery. I lost my head. By the time I returned from the hunt, I had but three bullets left. Of the other 62, missus only, all the rest have found their mark.
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Well, by get, Adam. I've never seen such shooting in my life as this young fellow here. Oh, are they? William is the name. Right?
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Yes, your honor.
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And I swear after today's exhibition, it seems foolhardy to carry through the old tradition. Still, it is the law, and we must allow him to show off for his lovely bride. Come come, my dear. Bring your mother and stand near me. Thank you, your mother. And you stand on my other side, Will. Come come load up whilst I pick your target.
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With shaking hand, I fingered the three bullets left. Which to the good and which the one that could miss,
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I had to gamble. And just as I loaded The white dove on that pillar far down the road. Bring her down. Oh, no. No. No. No. Hush girl. Hush. What? Don't you want this nightly lad with your husband? Now fire away with you. What on earth is the matter with the girl? Painted? Oh, blessed man. Yeah. No.
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Six day go through. Three go rescue.
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I turned to see Kate's mother mother bent over her, soaked with the blood that ran down her bridal veil from the fatal wound in her head. I had picked the devil's bullet, but I knew the one that I loaded for myself would go through. And I would join my bride wherever she was.
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A true gothic terror, suspense, blood, death, and tragedy. Not the stuff one would think to sleep on, and yet more gothic stories are read in bed than in the parlor or library. Perhaps because it is only human nature to be able to say as we turn out the light, such things, of course, could never happen to us.
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I'll return shortly. Excuse me, sir. But do you know what happens this time of year? Right on, pal. I happen to know that right about now, a freak blizzard falls on Dumont, New Jersey, and they're snowed in for the rest of the summer. Happens every year. No. No. No. No. You see, what happens this time of year is that you can get a particularly good deal on what is perhaps the most luxurious midsize car on the market, the midsize Buick Century Regal. What good's a car when you're hopelessly snowed in?
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Well, it's a point.
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A variety of assistance is available to the blind. Rehabilitation and library services can be had in every part of the nation. Cash payments for the needy and training in skills and techniques. You can help. For information, contact your local affiliate of the National Federation of the Blind, or write me, Kenneth Jernigan, president, National Federation of the Blind, two eighteen Randolph Hotel Building,
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nine.
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Don't think too hard on William who broke a sacred oath, or Kate who loved well, but not wisely. It was Daniel Dafoe, Robinson Crusoe's writer, who said it. Wherever
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congregation.
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Let's hope none of us join it. Our cast included Michael Wager, Suzanne Grossman, Ian Martin, Reiner Rayburn, and William Johnstone. The entire production was under the direction of Hyman
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Brown. Now a preview of our next tale.
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You sounded just like Handsome Harry.
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I am Handsome
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Arlie's body? Until I learn how to materialize,
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if I ever do. They tell me on the other side in that limbo joint, it's me on the other side in that limbo joint, it takes a lot of patience and practice. Yeah. What do they know? They even told me I'm getting this hate out of my soul the wrong way. Well,
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I haven't wanted to say anything about that. Alright. So don't.
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They say taking out my hate on Tex and Dory only make my hate grow bigger. Said I gotta find forgiveness in my
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heart.
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I told him to take a pot. I know what I'm doing. I hope so. Radio mistress deal was sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and Anheuser Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser. This is EG Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until next time. Pleasant dreams.
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Where this fall, you'll enjoy Gomer Pyle US Marine Corps each evening at 06:30 on channel thirty nine. Yes. It's Gomer Pyle, that well intentioned but inevitable muddler of the Marine Corps doing everything the wrong way. You'll break out in laughter as Gomer breaks up the company each evening at 06:30 on channel thirty nine. Another good reason to keep an eye on.
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Thirty nine.
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At ten eighty on the dial, you're listening to KRLD Dallas.
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Oil whisk. Thursday night on Sports Central, we'll look at auto racing, specifically the Big Bend Bash, an auto rally like the Baja race on the West Coast. Our guest, Sasha Lance, the rally master for the Big Ben Bash. Our first sports question, who is the Grand Prix, Formula one driving champion for 1973? Sports Central Dallas, weekdays, six to 7PM. Thursday, the Big Bend Bash, right here on KRLD.
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The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents
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Come in. Welcome. I'm EG Marshall.
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For seventy five years, from the late eighteenth to the middle of the nineteenth century, was the heyday of the writers of the Gothic story. Here is one of the most popular, which the great composer von Weber used as the libretto of the opera, Der Freischen. And appropriately enough, it begins in a graveyard.
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William, don't let that gun touch my headstone.
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Sorry, mother.
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You have much to be sorry for.
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I could not help it. Mother, I love her. I must
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You broke your sacred oath, sworn on my death deathbed. You will have cause to regret it, but more so the pride will never be yours.
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Our mystery drama, the fatal marksman, was written especially for the mystery theater by Ian Martin and stars Michael Wager and Suzanne Grossman. It is sponsored in part by Anheuser Busch Incorporated, Brewers of Budweiser, and Buick Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with act one.
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Ever had a tall, frosty glass of amplitude? Well, if your beer is Budweiser, you've had it often. Amplitude is a fancy word for the entire taste phenomenon, the total experience of flavor. Next time you take a healthy swallow of bud, watch what happens. Think about the sensations you're experiencing. Notice how the flavor of bud comes on nice and easy. Not too strong, not too quick, just bright. Notice the clean, crisp togetherness of Bud's taste. Everything in perfect balance with no single element jumping out at you. And there'll be no aftertaste either. No hanging on. And you'll be refreshed and ready for another glassful. Actually, butt drinkers have been experiencing amplitude for years, but they never phrase it that way. They just say, butt wiser, and that says it all. Anheuser Busch, St. Louis. It's a
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Anheuser Busch, St. Louis.
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It's a beautiful day. I'm waxing my car, and my neighbor comes out with antifreeze. And I say antifreeze now, and he starts to sing.
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You can never bypass down too worthy. Early. Do it now, do it now, don't you wait. You can never buy Pressed on too early.
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You can only buy it too late. Hey. Sounds crazy, but a fifty fifty mix of Pressed on two, winter summer, formula, and water, about two gallons for most cars, helps prevent boil over even in traffic jams. Because it helps your cooling system handle heat better than water. Fresh boil over protection and fresh corrosion protection too. Because only Prestone two has a patented silicone silicate inhibitor system. Nothing beats it for corrosion protection. Summer, winter, all year round, you can never buy Pressedone too early. You can only buy it too late. I don't you
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can trust Pressedone.
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Who can you trust?
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No one in the Duchy Of Grausenland would have argued that Catherine Adam, daughter of the forester of Linden, was the loveliest bride in West Germany, and that Robert Stock, the hunter, was a lucky man to be getting her for his bride. No one except Katherine and her mother, that is. For Katherine was very much in love with William Braegher, a young bailiff's clerk. But kind as her father, Bertram Adam, was, on the subject of his daughter's marriage, he was inflexible.
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Now listen, Elsa, once and for all.
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Drive this notion out of your head, root and branch. But, Bertram, why shouldn't our Katherine live just as happily with a bailiff's clerk as with a hunter? Elsa,
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for better than two hundred years, this farm in the Forest Of Linden has come down from father to son in my family. If I had a son, Kate could marry whom she will.
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My fault that I wasn't able to give you a son. I wouldn't change her for any son in the world.
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No more than I would change you for anything in the world. No. I, you, Bert.
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We've had wonderful years together. And I could only wish the same for Kate. That's why I argue so hard for William. He's such a good, kind hearted boy. Kind hearted? Maybe.
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But not a hunter. And if anything happens to me, unless there is a son, a hunter in my family, to replace me, there goes our tenancy. And you are left with nowhere to live. But William and Kate would take me in with them. Take you in with them? Where?
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Where could they afford to live on a bailiff clerk's salary? He won't be a bailiff's clerk forever. They're long enough for all we know. Not William. Oh, no. He has a good head on his shoulders. And when he gets to be a bailiff, what a step up in life for our daughter.
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No, wife.
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Kate will marry Robert. But she doesn't like Robert. Alright. Alright.
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It's not altogether Robert I care about myself. So Robert or no Robert, you tell Kate. It must be a line to the forest. I know she put you up to this. 02:00. Well, late enough for dinner today. I'd best back to my preserves.
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Kate, you can come out now. Did you hear? It's enough to know he won't agree. He has his reason. He's just a stubborn old man, and I'll never forget him. I'll run away. Oh, no. You don't mean anything you're saying. I do. I do. I'll never marry anyone. I'll take the bath. I'll Come now, Kate. Stop like nursing. William or no one? Oh, you're as stubborn as your father. What am I gonna do? Oh, what could that be? Go see like a good girl. Yes, mother. William. Hey.
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Hey.
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Hey. Your mother present Will, take me away, please. Please. I think my father won't let me marry you. He says I must marry a hunter or no one. Is this true, Frau Adams? I'm afraid so, William. You see, we only hold the farm as tenants and here Adam his title of forest ranger only so long as there is a hunter in the family to pass them on to, which means that Kate must be married to a forester.
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Tell me, love.
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Would you prefer me as a hunter or a bailiff? Oh, I wouldn't care what you were, darling. As long as we could spend our lives together. You can't suddenly turn yourself into a hunter within a few weeks, William.
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Don't be too sure of that, Frau Adam. What do you mean? I can't tell you now, but could you give me your work to keep the hell Adam from betrobing Kate to anyone
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for three days? How could that help?
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There's a place I have to visit where I was born and some a question I must have answered before I can let you know. What? Whether or not you and I can be the ones to be betrothed and married and with your father's consent. It took most of what money I had to pay my coach fair to Manfredstein, and it was long past dark when I was dropped off. The best I could afford at the inn was a bowl of soup. And by the time I set off for the graveyard, the heels end of the moon was all the light I had, skittering in and out of the clouds, driven over it by a scudding wind. It was still before midnight when I dug up my father's rifle where it had lain beside his grave. The oil skin still unrotted by the dam. Case still not pierced by the worms.
And the gun itself in the fitful moonlight, still gleaming with the thick coat of oil I put on it myself. And now the worst part, to cross the few steps to my mother's grave and stand there waiting for the midnight hour. The only time they say you can speak to a ghost. The church bell was sounding the magic hour as I know. Walk the three leaning against the headstone. William,
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don't let that gun touch my headstone.
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Sorry, mother.
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You have much to be sorry for.
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I know why you come. I had to mother. I love her.
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You want to break your sacred oath worn on my deathbed. If you do, you will have cause to regret it.
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But more so, the bride will never be yours. She will never be mine unless you release me from the oath.
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I have no part to release you even if I wanted to. That's the last I can ever say to you. Mother,
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don't make me break my oath. Don't.
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Mother,
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she can't.
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I had hoped against hope my mother could change, but I knew in my heart when I came that my mind was already made up one way or another, and the main thing that had brought me home was to find my father's gun. It took me two full days and a night to retrace my way along the road, and the coach had brought me. And dusk was beginning to fall when exhausted, famished, and dirty from the road, I knocked on the door of the Adams house.
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Will you? Oh, will, darling, come in. Where have you been? What?
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Forgive me. Oh, food, water, no. Sleep, Bert. Bert, get some schnapps. Right away, Elsa.
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Mother, he's not no. No. He's just fainted. Get that big case out of the way, whatever it is. That's a gun case.
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That's good quality too. I wonder. I wonder if you'd forget guns just long enough to get some schnapps into this poor boy. Oh, no. I'm I'm I'm alright. I I can get up. Yeah. Now get some of this into your belly first. You'll put some strength in your legs.
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I feel better now. Thank you.
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What happened to you, darling?
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Nothing happened to me. I did it all to myself. And for us, I can get up now. Yeah.
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I'll help you.
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Oh, thank you. I I just overdid a little. And, when have you been up to? I went to fetch my father's gun. My father was forester general Wilbregher of Mumfordstein. So if it's a hunter you want for your son-in-law, it's a hunter you've got.
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Kate, would you come away from that window and help me get the meal ready for those men? They should be home soon. That's why I'm watching, mama. Oh, I'm doing a little praying too, I suppose. That will shoot straight and true. He must be very out of practice. From the way he handled his gun this morning when they were getting ready to leave, I don't think it'll take him long to get his eye back. Oh, mama. Are you sure? Who can be sure? The proof is in the pudding. Oh, which reminds me, the dough for my apple strudel, if I let that too long in the oven oh, Will, my darling, shoot true.
Straight and true as my love for you.
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A perfect shot. Ho ho. Dropped him in his tracks. He never even felt it. Will, you studied well with your father. You stay with me and before we are finished, we'll make you a second Cunard. Cunard? You you don't know Cunard? Why, he was my father's grandfather and the first man who ever occupied this forest and cultivated this farm. When his good fortune happened, he was a riding boy to a young gentleman of Wipaa. And one day attending him while he was riding hunt with the Duke, the dogs turned up a stag on the back of
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which a man was bound. Oh, I've heard of that. The Lord used to punish four men who would poach by binding him like that sort of herd would gore him to death. He would eventually die of thirst or hunger. Right. Right.
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Now, the Duke was a stern but just man, and he had made a law against stag binding. And he wanted the man taken alive to find out who had broken his law. So he offered a reward to any huntsman who would bring down the stag without hurting the man. But if the man was shot and killed, he threatened the shooter with equal displeasure and his banishment from court.
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How? Waging none of the nobility where you get to take that gamble, but Kuno did. Aye, lad.
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That very man whose picture you might have seen hanging above the mantelpiece of the house. Oh, I noticed him alright. He had an eye like a hawk. And nerves of steel. Well, just as the stag turned into a thicket, he clapped his gun to his shoulder and fired. At that same moment, out brushed the stag, staggered and fell, and the man unwounded,
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save for some scratches. And the reward was the farm and the title of title of far stranger. Tacunno himself and his heirs forever. Oh, what a magnificent reward for one shot.
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I so thought many people, especially those who had been afraid to take the risk. And so the gossip stopped him. And since it was the nobility mainly who wished to save their faces, what did they do but persuade the Duke that Crono's shot hit the mark through witchcraft
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and the black arts? But surely the Duke knew what a fine shot Kuno was. Well, it was the quickness of the thing you see.
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Kuno could line up a target as fast as lightning, but the others argued that it was so fast, he just fired at random. They said he never took aim, which makes it a devil shot. A devil shot never fails of hitting the mark.
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But the Duke didn't take away the farm. No. No. But
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from there came the regulation that every descendant of Kuno's must fire a probationary shot that drops the deer before he's admitted as tenant.
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I may only know that Kate might be mine. I shall practice every moment to make sure I cannot miss. Miss. Good lad. Good lad.
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After today, you have my confidence.
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Suddenly, the sun went out. The forest greenery changed to weird and ghostly shapes. And standing in front of me was the corpse gray shade of my mother, clad only in her winding sheet.
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I want you, Will. I want you. Only God can help you now.
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With everything he wants in the world almost within his grasp, this spectral race of his mother seems to threaten Will with disaster. Or is she only a figment of the imagination, a prick of conscience in the young man's mind, already overtired and heady with excitement of the oath that circumstance is forcing him to break.
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I'll return shortly with act two. Say, do you know what happens this time of year? The swallows come back to Capistrano. Nope. The buzzards come back to Hinkley Ridge, Ohio? No.
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Bulldogs all over the world begin to shed? Not even close.
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This, my friend, is the time of year when you can get a super little deal on the practical but elegant Buick Apollo. And just between you and me, it may very well be the best chance you'll ever have to buy a Buick. I could have sworn this was buzz a day in Hinkley.
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It was an exciting and and wonderful dinner that night for the Adams and Will. In the warmth and regard of his future father-in-law, the unutterable delight of his bride to be, Will was all most able to forget that frail, grieving wraith who had faced him in the forest. But as day succeeded day and the time of the trial grew nearer and nearer, the memory of his dead mother and her agony over his broken oath haunted him more and more.
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Will? Darling, what brings you home to life?
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You can see.
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Oh, not an empty bag again. What's the matter? What's happened?
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Kate, darling, I I don't know. I'll have a deer in my sights and the gun will misfire. I'll I'll come up on a partridge at point blank range and my shot will veer and hit a tree three feet to the left. I swear I think that gun is enchanted. You're just having a run of bad luck. It happens to every hunter, even fire. And I like this. And the worst of it is he's claiming it now on sheer heedlessness on my part. He he thinks that all I think about is you.
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Well, at least some of the time you do, don't you? It's okay.
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I I have to struggle very hard to keep you out of my mind. I love you so. And that makes it even worse because I'm beginning to think to think my fear is affecting my shooting. What fear? I fear that your father will change his mind and that he'll withdraw his approval of our marriage.
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But he knows how well you shoot. You proved it to him that first day. Your hunting bag was bulging and you dropped that great stag whose antlers hang there beside my ancestor, Kuno's portrait. That was one day out of two weeks. What you have done once, you can do again for me. Here, Will. Here's your gun. It still lacks fifteen minutes of three and the sun is still high for me, for your Katherine. Bring me a heart. Take the dogs to be sure to round up one,
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and my heart and my prayers to bring you love. By heaven, I will. I will not show myself again. There's a prize book. Let me just get a bead on you, my beauty. Not 50 paces away. I can't miss. I couldn't have missed him. I I couldn't. Okay. Forgive me. I'll reload and still bring you your game.
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I'll be damned to whatever devil may try to lay his curse on me. Hey. Hold fast, comrade. What ails a man to cry out so on a day such as this one?
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I turned in my tracks, and there sitting under a nearby tree was an old soldier with a wooden leg and a dusty travel worn uniform, threadbare and barely holding together.
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Well, is it body or purse that's sailing? Health or wealth that escapes you? Or has someone put a spell on your gun?
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What did you say about my gun?
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Man and boy, I've spent my life with guns. And if I say it shouldn't, there's no one knows more about them than I do. You can't. I see you're looking at my wooden legs. Oh, I'm I'm sorry. I meant no harm. What happened so long ago? I never think of it. Cabellary saber separated that from me. You, you wouldn't have a bit of tobacco you could share with an old soldier? Why why yes. Just just a minute. Here. Let me hold your gun while you dig it out. That's as fine a piece as I have ever seen. No man could have missed that buck with this unless it's been charmed.
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Oh, I never thought on that. Here's your tobacco, sir. Oh, thank you. I'll just take a pipe load. Keep it. Keep it. I have more at home. Charmed, you say? Then all I'd have to do would be to change my gun and say
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Oh, not so fast. If the spell has been proper laid, you'll have no better luck with any other gun.
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Oh, I can't believe that if no gun I put to my shoulder will shoot through. How how then can I ever be a forester?
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Drawn here. I like you, lad, for your generosity, and I'll pose you a riddle, which if you have not the answer, I'll give it to you. What riddle? If the gun refuses to bring down the prey, what what else lets the huntsman have his way? I'm
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I'm afraid I don't know the answer to that.
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Quiet up all that. A bullet.
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But where could I find such a bullet? Why it just so happens that I,
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have about me some gifted bullets that cannot fail to go through.
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Now just give it a try now. No. No. No. I'll answer for it. No doubt. I hate to waste a shot knowing I shall miss before I pull the trigger. The dogs have lost the deer. Where shall I find a target? I'll pick one for you.
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Hey. Look up. You see your own kite up there?
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Bring him down. Oh, not only is he almost out of range, but he's but a speck. I can can't see him. Still take him on fire. Never doubt. Well, what have I got to lose? That's That's the spirit I like. Fire away.
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I hit him.
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There's no surprise. But where would one find bullets like these? Oh, it is not difficult to cast them. Hey. Here's a few braces of my bullets for you in exchange for the tobacco.
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Try other.
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I don't know how to thank
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you. Hey, lad. You'll find your own way.
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See that hair? Drop him.
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I hit him. I hit him. Old soldier, how can I
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I turned to thank my benefactor again, but he had slipped away into the forest as silently as he had come? One mistake I made. I shrank from telling anyone, not even my beloved Kate, of the gifted bullets.
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Oh, it was a now. So much for your nonsense about enchantments on Will's gun. Enchantments? Mama was afraid that someone had cast a spell over you or your gun. Oh, women and their superstitions. Men are just as bad, if not worse. Not foolish enough to imagine some devil knocked down old Kuno's portrait when anyone knows it was a cankered nail. What's that about a devil? Oh, nothing but but nonsense.
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This afternoon, just shortly after you went back to the park, the picture fell off the wall. How long after I left the house? Not over fifteen minutes. Just as the clock was striking three. You see how foolish the whole thing is?
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Three. The luckiest hour of the day.
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Lucky for me at least. I thought remembering that it was just about the time I met the old soldier. I was tempted to speak about him, but my pride held me back. For within a few days, I was the talk of all the foresters again. No one brought more game home than I. But my stock of the enchanted bullets was running desperately low, and I prayed to find old wooden lug. And to my horror, I was down to a single bullet which I had to hoard for the competition. And suddenly, every shot began again to go astray. And then the final blow
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struck.
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Gun. I
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feel very well. Now I couldn't care less if you were about to take to your deathbed. You know the duke has sent an emissary ordering nearly double the amount of venison necessary for the festival. It'll take every huntsman within the next 10 miles to bring in enough to satisfy his honor. What good am I to you? I'll I'll only waste the bullets. You know I've lost my eye. You have lost more than your shooting eye if you don't bring in your fair share of the game today. Now, you'll have lost my daughter. But you promised me that I promised a forester. Not some mealy mouthed quill pusher who can only see to shoot on certain days.
Now, make haste while I bring the dogs around.
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Oh, well, I overheard. What are you going to do? Kate, I
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I don't know. Hand me my bag.
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Here, darling. Surely for my sake, somehow you can down a buck today. Hand me my gun.
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Kate, as I promise you, I'll I'll bring at least one home if I have to club him to death with a gun stock. I threaded my way through the trees and despair. Kate, I had resolved to me was lost. Which way to lose her? To use my magic bullet now and escape her father's displeasure only to fail the competition shot? Or to hang on to the bullet, the duke's competition? All of a sudden, a ridge away through the trees, I saw a herd of deer coming. Automatically, I load loaded the last precious bullet in the breach in my gun, but still my finger refused to squeeze off a shot. Away, boy. Fire, you'll never have a better chance. I promise you, you'll hit not one, but two. Coming down the hill towards me waving encouragement. Oh, it wouldn't make secure now that I could get at least one more charm bullet. I turned and fired.
He was right. I have not not one, but two robots with one shot. I turned to hurry and meet him and greet him, but there was no sign sign of him. He was gone as if the Earth had literally opened up and swallowed him, and all my hopes with him.
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What a shot, Kate. You should have seen your husband to be. You would have been proud of him. $2
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at one shot. One might almost think it was a magic bullet.
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Women and their superstitions. Is that what happened, Will? Hey? Did you make his own a magic bullet? Like the scandalous charge they tried to make about old Kuno two centuries ago? I'm thank you. Pardon her? Adam, what did you say? Will isn't feeling himself today. Sometimes I wonder about the stories of old Kuno and the devil shot. Kuno's was no devil shot. Are you saying there is no such thing? Oh, there's always gossip of such a thing. You say that's how Peter Franz died. They found him on the road all torn and clawed to pieces. By whom? One thing he never could say in his confession to the magistrate.
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What did he say to the magistrate?
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Why, that he and some old wooden legged soldier had been trying to make some magic bullets.
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Did did he say how such a bullet could be made? Oh,
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it is all a pack of nonsense, of course. But for the sake of a good tale to give us all the goosebumps, you must go to a crossroads, make a circle with a bloody sword, and in this circle lay a skull and bones crosswise. On On the stroke of 11, you start to cast the walls, 63. No more, no less. Nor must you step from out that charm circle no matter what apparitions appear or shrieks rend the air, or owls, or bats, or other hideous things might beat against you until the last stroke of 12. And of the bullets cast, 60 will carry true and only three candies.
Peter was so scared at, whatever happened to him inside that circle that long before twelve, he fled from it. And little more could he tell before he died in horrible agony.
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Oh, God preserve all God fearing folk from such snares of Satan. You frightened the heart out of me. And look at Will. He's pale as a sheep. The poor darling hasn't been feeling well all day.
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You should never have forced him to the hunt, Bob. Yeah. True enough. He said he was out of sorts. Well, god grant he be the same way when the provisional shot comes up day after tomorrow so he may shoot as he shot today.
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But Will Brager, knowing now the secret of the bullet that could not miss, would sleep little that night. Knowing what preparations he had in mind for the morrow and what he planned to do, he knew that this night might well be his last above ground. I'll return shortly with act three.
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Rise. Hold. Cigarette? No need for that. I'm ready. Blindfold. Dash it, man. Let's get it over with. As you wish. Ray,
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Ray,
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Ray. Henry, wake up. Uh-huh. You're dreaming again. Your tax audit? Yeah. Today's the day. But you got all your records together?
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Well, Are we all here for an audit? Uh-huh.
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Won't you have a seat? Thank you.
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Well, now let's see. If you have good records of your income and receipts for your deductions, an audit of your federal income tax return can be easier than you think.
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How did it go, Henry?
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No problem. Nothing I couldn't handle.
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That same night, once all the rest were asleep, Will stole from the house. Then having borrowed a staid in a sack, he stole away to the nearest graveyard. Well before dawn, he returned with a skull, two thigh bones, and a sword. The bones still caked with earth, and the sword rusted in the scabbard from their sojourn in some unnamed soldier's grave. After cleaning them off carefully, he stole back into the house, hiding them under his bed. It was nearly dawn before he fell into a deep sleep,
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just before the rest of the house awakened. Well, I'm off. I'll pick off a couple of bags of Cornish hen to garnish the table for the duke. Oh,
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Will, still asleep? You gave him the day off. Quite right too. The boy should be well rested for his ordeal tomorrow.
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I'll see you later, sir. And Kate, you, look a little peaking. Anything wrong? No.
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No, papa.
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Is it the the closeness of marriage that gives you the trumbles? Oh, now off with you. It is will that concerns her, Abirt. Oh, have no fear for will. He will not miss. His bullet will find his mark. Well, I would like companionship.
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You know, you do look pale and worn, love. Why not rest a little? No. No. There's too much to do. Will has been so strange since last night too. You you haven't Tell me about it. Well, it isn't really much to tell. I I dreamed I I was a white dove. A happy omen for a bride, surely? Except that that I wasn't flying free. There was a ring around my neck. It was holding me. I wanted to fly away but couldn't. And then Then? Then there was a loud noise, and I fell. I fell down beside you, and you were kneeling beside me. And Will was turning to look at us in agony, and I saw that you were all covered with blood.
Me? My blood, mother. My blood.
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It was too late, but I was cast. Tonight, I would try to forge the magic bullets.
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So a little wine for all of us. For this night, we will keep the bridal peace. Tomorrow, it would be impossible with the Duke and his retinue here. This is our last chance as a family before the wedding to dine confidentially and affectionately.
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Rose it. Rose it. All the best of luck. Rose it. Rose it.
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And
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all the best of luck. But it is tomorrow. The young people will be happy.
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The Duke has insisted the vicar be there. And the moment Will has passed his examinee who knows? Victor has fallen again. What the devil can be the matter with that nail?
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There's blood on your face. It's nothing. The corner just grazed my temple as it fell. Let let me see. No. No. It's already wiped away. Please, let's begin the wedding feast. We've waited too long already.
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It's Instead of a feast, the evening was a nightmare for me. By 08:00, I was getting desperate. How could a man steal away from his own bridal festival? Then with the last strike here, Adam broke it up and we all, after exchanging kisses and hand shakes and hugs of affection, went to bed. It was a long, long wait for me until at last 09:00 struck it. Gathering the lead bullet mold, coals, and all the other requisites into my sack, I stole quietly downstairs and out of the house. Quietly downstairs and out of the house. I was less than 200 yards from the house when I heard the rapid patter of feet catching up with me.
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Will. Will. Where are you?
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Go back to the house. But where are you going? Somewhere you cannot follow me. You're running away. Running away from you? What what would make you think that?
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That bag over your shoulder. Don't you want to marry me?
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Want to? Oh, god, Kate. If I can't be married to you, then I don't want to live. That's how I feel about you. Then go go quickly back to bed and leave me to do what must be done.
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If I let you go now, I may never see you again. I'm going so we can be together for the rest of our lives. You are starting that this minute. I'm going with it. You can't. You don't understand this terrible danger. If you can face it, so will I. How can I explain it to you? There isn't time. You can explain to me on the way to wherever we're going. I will not allow you to come. Now you listen to me. I want to spend my life with you. But in the light of the moon, I can see the shadow of possible death in your eye. If it's death you're to find tonight, then I choose to find that with you.
Whatever our future is, it lies together. Now, shall we get started? And you can explain to me what it's all about as we go.
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It was a long walk to the crossroads, but even at that, I was still finishing my story to a cafe struck dumb by the time I had drawn my circle with a bloody sword, spread the bones, and started my coal. 10:00, it struck on the church deep long ago, and it was hard by eleven. All was in readiness as the moan buried itself deeper and deeper in the clouds. It was a faint hattering of rain that hissed on my ladle where the lead melted in the heat. And all about were the sounds of fat smells and other horrible light, chilling things that came and went to this cape, clung to me in dismay.
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Oh, Will. I should never have been the cause of your breaking your oath to your mother. My mother would forgive me. I know.
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Kate, there's still time for you to go.
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It's already too late. The hour is striking.
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Yes. Now remember, Kathy, no matter what you hear, no matter what you see or feel, don't step out of the circle till we're done.
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Remember. I remember. A prayer. Oh, god. If Will has offended you, he did it only for love. And for what he is about to do, forgive him. For if he were not to have me or me him, I would be ready to take my own life. Too late.
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Too late. Oh,
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Oh, no.
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The bellows are on fire. The light will drive them away.
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See? See, they are gone. Shut your ears. Shut your eyes, Kate. Stay in the circle. Who looked that horrible old man with the wooden leg? Yes. Nothing
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long road that's still right over across town. Okay.
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No use describing the rest of that hellish hour. The coach reaching circles soared into the air to vanish. It did a ravening, slathering huge hairy boy that charged down at us from the crossroad. And all the while I molded the bullets while Kate kept the lead liquid for me. And my watch was almost twelve. And if the sixtieth bullet was cast, the cock began to strike. And the moon came out full as I hastily cast the last three. As I did, all of a sudden silence as they are standing beyond the circle, was all wooden legs.
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The witching hour and the task is finished. You've stood the trial well. What would you have of me?
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Nothing. Nothing at all. What I want, I have prepared myself.
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Help.
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But with my help By no means I bargained for no help. I did not summon you.
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I summoned your boulder the most. So take the bullet you cast, but remember, 60 for thee, three for me. The 60 go true, but three askew. All will refrain when we meet again.
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In a puff of black smoke, he was gone, vanished into thin moonlight air. And I took my bullets and my fainting bride home, torn by black despair and frightening hope. By next morning at dawn, the duke and his party arrived for the hunt. And I was chosen to ride by his side as his gunsmen and hunter. If I had any fear of my magic bullets, the first shot dispelled it forever.
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Where hell damn I hide that is shooting? The lead duck in that flight which is not yet over as well.
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Partly from relief, but mainly I am ashamed because of the Duke's flattery. I lost my head. By the time I returned from the hunt, I had but three bullets left. Of the other 62, missus only, all the rest have found their mark.
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Well, by get, Adam. I've never seen such shooting in my life as this young fellow here. Oh, are they? William is the name. Right?
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Yes, your honor.
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And I swear after today's exhibition, it seems foolhardy to carry through the old tradition. Still, it is the law, and we must allow him to show off for his lovely bride. Come come, my dear. Bring your mother and stand near me. Thank you, your mother. And you stand on my other side, Will. Come come load up whilst I pick your target.
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With shaking hand, I fingered the three bullets left. Which to the good and which the one that could miss,
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I had to gamble. And just as I loaded The white dove on that pillar far down the road. Bring her down. Oh, no. No. No. No. Hush girl. Hush. What? Don't you want this nightly lad with your husband? Now fire away with you. What on earth is the matter with the girl? Painted? Oh, blessed man. Yeah. No.
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Six day go through. Three go rescue.
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I turned to see Kate's mother mother bent over her, soaked with the blood that ran down her bridal veil from the fatal wound in her head. I had picked the devil's bullet, but I knew the one that I loaded for myself would go through. And I would join my bride wherever she was.
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A true gothic terror, suspense, blood, death, and tragedy. Not the stuff one would think to sleep on, and yet more gothic stories are read in bed than in the parlor or library. Perhaps because it is only human nature to be able to say as we turn out the light, such things, of course, could never happen to us.
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I'll return shortly. Excuse me, sir. But do you know what happens this time of year? Right on, pal. I happen to know that right about now, a freak blizzard falls on Dumont, New Jersey, and they're snowed in for the rest of the summer. Happens every year. No. No. No. No. You see, what happens this time of year is that you can get a particularly good deal on what is perhaps the most luxurious midsize car on the market, the midsize Buick Century Regal. What good's a car when you're hopelessly snowed in?
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Well, it's a point.
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nine.
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Don't think too hard on William who broke a sacred oath, or Kate who loved well, but not wisely. It was Daniel Dafoe, Robinson Crusoe's writer, who said it. Wherever
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congregation.
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Let's hope none of us join it. Our cast included Michael Wager, Suzanne Grossman, Ian Martin, Reiner Rayburn, and William Johnstone. The entire production was under the direction of Hyman
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Brown. Now a preview of our next tale.
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You sounded just like Handsome Harry.
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I am Handsome
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Arlie's body? Until I learn how to materialize,
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if I ever do. They tell me on the other side in that limbo joint, it's me on the other side in that limbo joint, it takes a lot of patience and practice. Yeah. What do they know? They even told me I'm getting this hate out of my soul the wrong way. Well,
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I haven't wanted to say anything about that. Alright. So don't.
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They say taking out my hate on Tex and Dory only make my hate grow bigger. Said I gotta find forgiveness in my
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heart.
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I told him to take a pot. I know what I'm doing. I hope so. Radio mistress deal was sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and Anheuser Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser. This is EG Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until next time. Pleasant dreams.
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Where this fall, you'll enjoy Gomer Pyle US Marine Corps each evening at 06:30 on channel thirty nine. Yes. It's Gomer Pyle, that well intentioned but inevitable muddler of the Marine Corps doing everything the wrong way. You'll break out in laughter as Gomer breaks up the company each evening at 06:30 on channel thirty nine. Another good reason to keep an eye on.
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Thirty nine.
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At ten eighty on the dial, you're listening to KRLD Dallas.
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