In this episode of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, we delve into the eerie and mysterious world of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale, "The Beach of Falesa," adapted for radio by Ian Martin. The story follows Sam Wiltshire, a trader who arrives on the island of Falesa, only to find himself embroiled in a web of superstition, taboo, and danger. As Wiltshire navigates the island's treacherous social landscape, he encounters the enigmatic Jeremy Case, a man who seems to wield an inexplicable power over the island's inhabitants. With the help of Uma, a local woman, Wiltshire uncovers the dark secrets that have plagued the island and its people, leading to a dramatic confrontation that will determine his fate.
Join us as we explore themes of colonialism, superstition, and the clash of cultures in this gripping adaptation. With a cast led by Alexander Scourby and a story that blends adventure with the supernatural, "The Beach of Falesa" offers a thrilling journey into the unknown. Discover how Wiltshire's determination and courage unravel the mysteries of Falesa, and listen as the island's secrets are brought to light in this captivating episode.
(00:50) Welcome to the Mystery Theater
(02:48) The Beach of Falesa: A Mysterious Tale
(05:22) Henry Wiltshire's Arrival and the Island's Dark History
(09:13) A Strange Welcome and an Unwanted Marriage
(17:00) The Enigma of Jeremy Case
(25:20) The Taboo and the Struggle for Acceptance
(33:06) A Missionary's Insight and the Island's Curse
(39:02) Confronting the Devil's Hold
(45:15) The Final Showdown and Redemption
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The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents
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Come in.
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Welcome. I'm EG Marshall. Welcome to the world of your own terrifying imagination. No storyteller is better loved than the gentle Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote Treasure Island and A Child's Garden of beach
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Here. Take a look through my glass. Thank you. Catch a bit of white there at Easter day? Yes. Yeah. That's your house. And George George saw it, he said, oh, I've dropped into a soft thing here. Only saw him once more, and he changed. Alright? What do you mean? Well, I don't know if it was the gin or a strange kind of sickness, but they found him one morning hanging upside down from his veranda rail, crazy as a loon, carrying on about someone watering his cobra.
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He died in a convulsion. Oh, was it thought to be the island? No proof.
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But the next man Vigges short as him, blew his head right off. And the first of the line of the Benton Far East company, old Adams, he just plain up and disappeared as though that damn tropical forest reached out like a octopus and swaddered him. Oop, line and sink. No, sir. No, sir, mister Witcher or not. Promotion with your company or whatever. You wouldn't get captain Ben Randall here to sit one foot on the beach at Falisar.
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Our mystery drama, The Beach of Follysaw, was especially adapted from the Robert Louis Stevenson classic for the mystery theater by Ian Martin and stars Alexander Scurby. It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and Anheuser Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser.
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Well, that's a point.
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What do you tell a husband who comes home and says,
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I just don't know about a vacation
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Copra is the oil from the coconut and is used in the manufacture of soap and margarine. 70 This then is This then is Henry Wiltshire's story, which he can tell better than I.
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It might not seem like much to you, but when you've been down the the line as long as I have, that beach at Fa La Salle looked like a ruddy city. I mean, there were houses, what passed through a couple of streets, a church, and even a few of my own countrymen. For nearly four years, I've been cut off in a mucky little island maybe 15 miles long, but narrow enough so you could spit across it given the right wind. So whatever the rudder captain said about Fallissa, I didn't pay him no mind. It wouldn't be long before I'd be finding out I should have. But right then, I was as excited as a kid at his first circus. Here's a boat coming now. She's right in the pass. Looks to be a 16 foot whaler. Two white men in in the stern sheath. I don't see that glass.
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Oh. Oh, aye. That's Case, alright. And the pastor with him, Case. Trader with another company. I'll be glad of somebody who speaks my own language. Oh, I wouldn't be too sure of that. Jeremy Case has a gallows bad reputation.
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You know what a place the beach is for talking. Well, it's right nice of them to come out to greet and fetch me.
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Not you. What if you bet it's gin they're after? Only you're five to two, they take six cases.
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When the two traders came aboard, I was pleased with both of them. One was a Kanaka, to be sure. Case would have passed muster in a city. He was smallish, had a hawk's nose to his face, pale eyes, and a beard neatly scissor trimmed. It was clear he came of the family, was splendidly educated. He had the courage of a lion and the cunning of a rat. And if he's not in hell today, there's no such place.
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A pleasure to make your acquaintance, mister Wiltshire. Jeremy Case bids you welcome to Feliza.
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Thank you kindly. Sorry we're to be in competition.
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Well, there's enough for all. I'm free you better luck than your predecessors. Oh, thanks for getting my manners. This is our pastor. Pleasure to meet you,
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pastor. It is a honor to have you join our community, which I hope to see you at Sunday service.
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Monsieur, Evelyn, it's a world favorite wind that's blown you our way so soon. All you you mean Vickers left me a cargo of cobra? Oh, sorry to disappoint you, captain. Not a drop, I'm afraid. Either cobra or gin. I'm only praying to guard your ship. It's not as dry as his warehouse.
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What did I tell you, mister Woodshire? Yes. How many cases? You couldn't spare six? Well, Well, even though I don't ship for your corporate company, I laid in plenty. I'll have your six brought up from the old. Cash on the line,
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As always. Mister Wilcher, sir. Yes. If you don't mind the suggestion, let's round up your belongings and load them in the whaleboat. Well, I wouldn't want to be any trouble. No. Please, there'll be a no argument.
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Oh,
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there's nothing like gin and lime to settle the stomach, cool the brain and ease the mind. Yes. Very kind of you to stand being a couple at a bar like this. What's the name of this bloke? Whistling Jimmy's. Oh, must be a cheery sort. Was. We caught him watering the cobra. He took a bullet in the throat.
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Well, let's have another route. No. No. Thanks. I must be off from my house and stop to get things ship shaped. Besides, I must not leave Mano alone too long.
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Mano? Well, you could have knocked me over with a fellow when you hold that 10 year old route from between decks and said he was part of your belongings. You are a strange man. How can you saddle yourself with a can of a rat, club footed if that?
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What happened to the mother? She was killed.
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By whom? Her husband. Why?
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For daring to bear an island chief a son who was not perfect.
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And you
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brought the child up? No. The child was hidden and brought up by its nurse. When I came as traitor to the island, the old woman cooked and cared for me, and I learned to know the boy. Shortly before I left the island, the old woman died. When it came time for me to go, I knew that Mano would be left to die. He was taboo, you see. So I brought him with me.
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For what?
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Well, no one deserves to die before his time.
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A man dies when he has to.
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Well, I I have no wish to quarrel with so generous a house, sir. But, I must be off. No. Then I must go with you.
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Now more than ever, we are ready to consummate the first right for any man of our race on this island. Let's go.
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Case insisted on paying treat and let me outside the bar. And I found myself staring at a crowd of girls all dressed out for me. They're ugly,
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but the best we could muster, old man. Chap has to have a wife. Oh, no. I'm not so sure that You can have any one of these for a plug of tobacco outside. You have it all fixed up nice and bigle. You just nip inside the bar once you've picked your chicken, and blackjack the bartender manages you nice and proper. Now he's a chaplain. You know? Yes. But I I don't want to marry. We've always had to tell him a case. Out of it is easy as in. Besides, you need a cook and someone to clean, and a man's got to have companionship or you go mad. Yeah? Well, that's how. Look them over.
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Yeah. Well, I don't know. They all look a little broad in the bin.
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Not the one I picked for you, lad.
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Look. Look.
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She just come up from fishing, wearing nothing but a chemise all wetted through. She was young and slender with a long face and a high forehead. A shy, strange, cat's and a baby's. Who is she?
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That's Uma. If you take my advice, you take her.
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Aye. Aye. But, will she take me?
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What choice has she? But if you like, I'll ask her.
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He crossed to her her and spoke to her in Polynesian. For a moment, she spoke to him in her pretty Polynesian voice. And she nodded, and came toward me with her free swinging stride. She was the color breeze or with her as she stood in front of me, she smelled of wild lime and vanilla.
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Me, Umma, I am no ever no man sting. You want me. I marry you.
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I'm Sam Wiltshire. Salma Wiltshire? No. No. Wiltshire.
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Yes. Wiltshire.
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Well, I reckon that's as close as you will get. You'll be calling me Sam anyway. Hey, sir.
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Salma.
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I suppose that'll do too. Did, Kais tell you about the boy?
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Mano? Mhmm. All the same you, son. Where you wife? You have
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other wife? No. No wife.
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Good. Please, Dama. I wish for marry you, but more like this. I I know bumbled woman. I be dressed all the same bride. You see? And I now marry you inside there. I marry you here in open fair. When sun halfway from palm tree tip to sea.
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Light as a feather, she was on her feet and gone. Not running, but moving swiftly. Her head held high as though she was a ruddy countess.
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That means she'd be back about four ish. Well, come on. We have time to hoist a few before the nuptials begin.
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Take a seat, Wilcher. Excuse me for a moment.
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Bartender is also the minister. You remember? Yes, mother case. Gin and I've been In a moment. We'll be drinking all round, and you'll need your paper collar. There's to be a wedding. Savvy. New trader.
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Same kind paper, like always. Of course.
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I'll come with you and write it out for you. Must I still not say who? Lucky
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girl. Uma. No can do. But magic to white man like that. Not with Uma. You know that girl. I know that girl is the one to whom whom I want him married,
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to whom I will have him married. It suits our business. You understand?
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Yes, mister. You mustn't say so. Like Jack, know only one thing. This can only end, but he's written in sun. Two people die.
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What kind of man is this Jeremy Case? And what his purpose? By what combination of charm, legerdemain, or simple threat does he seem to rule Thalassa, to hold its people in the palm of his hand? Last of all, why should the enormous man called Blackjack shake with an unknown terror at the impending marriage of the new arrived traitor Wilshire, to by far the loveliest girl in the atoll. I'll return shortly with act two.
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Tell me, madam Xanadu, can you really tell me anything about my future?
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If you concentrate and gaze with me into the crystal ball. Ah, yes. It is beginning to clear. I can almost see. Oh, tell me what you see, madam Xanadu. I see that you are coming into some money. I am? Yes. And you will continue to receive even more. Oh, how much money will I get madam Zanna do? You will receive $4.20. 4 dollars and 20 cents? Yes. Every payday. Because you will lower the amount of federal income tax you now have withheld from your pay. Oh, for heaven's sake.
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What else do you see in that wall?
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I see you filling out a new w four form so that you can begin receiving your windfall.
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The beach of Fa'lisah, a tropical paradise. Surely one of the loveliest settings for the most sacred right between a man and a woman. And in Robert Louis Stevenson's tale, certainly the scene was magical. In his own words, the sun was down and the sky all afire. Uma was dressed and scented. Her kilt was a fine tapper, looking richer in the folds than any silk. She showed the best bearing for a bride, serious and still.
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And I thought shame to stand up beside her before that great grinning mounted bank with his paper collar, make it believed to read from an old volume of some novel, the words of his service not fit to be set down. And the document we signed, since Case wrote it, let it be his voice to read it.
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This is to certify that Uma, daughter of Faivao of Faleza, is illegally married to mister Sam Wiltshire, and mister Sam Wiltshire is entitled to send her packing when he pleases. Sign this day, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
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It was the practice in these parts, and all I could feel was so ashamed I had to be gone as soon as possible. Uma said she could show me to our house. Now we stroll through the lush vegetation together until forgetting myself. Almost as though she was some girl in the old country, I unconsciously took her hand. To my surprise, after a sudden gasp, she caught my hand to her face and pressed it there.
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You could.
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It was all she said. Then she ran quickly up the path ahead of me.
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It is god? Maki maki a boy. No. No, mano. You must see in English. He know my father. He is your Takasi. Without him, you'll be nothing. Leave off, Uma. Don't upset him. No. He must savvy. You are his Tiki. You give him life.
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Oh, we understand each other. Manbu? Right?
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Right, young governor. Put it there. Good night, Summer. Good night. This place be good. You bad. Good night, Houma. Tonight, Manu, go sleep by and by Farabo's house.
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Why? This is your house. Farabo,
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see more better. Tonight is lighting night, Summer. Oh,
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yeah. Alright. I I'll walk you and Farbao home. Alright? Oh, yeah. Alright. I I'll walk you and Farbao home. Alright our home.
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Alright?
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During the walk back, my mind failing reeled with all that it happened at first, Fallis, and I seem to have suddenly dropped years from my life. Uma had kindled a lamp, and among all my tumbled possessions, she stood straight like a queen, a lamp light shining on her skin. I was ashamed of a wave of feeling I had for this native. Ashamed of the mock marriage and worthless paper. I had to pluck up a lot of courage to enter.
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Hello, Sama. Welcome. This
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your home. Aloha, wahine.
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No wahine. Me, your wife, not know what you want.
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Damn if I know what's come over me.
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Oh, what you do? This case with supply by cobra. This supply buys nothing but trouble.
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Get me the hammer, will you? Yes, Martha. Escrow?
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Yes. Summer.
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That's better. I could regret this. I could regret it a thousand times. It isn't too late. But something good is happening. First, Manos, someone to take care of. And now Here, Ishma.
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What you do?
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Miss.
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That happy juice. Yes. But why you do that?
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You know where we come here, Ruma? From the other side of the world. We who call ourselves white and think we rule the world. Right. So we can make enough money to go back to the old country and become kings. But in the meantime, the rot sets in and the dream gets twisted, is it? It's another world. A bloke don't belong. So he drowns himself in this. No good. A man who drinks it is no good.
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I think you're one good man. Moon seeds, sun die, all things. Belong you till I die.
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For the next three days, Uma, Manu, and I worked our hearts out setting up the store and getting ready for business. I didn't see hide or air of case, but he told me he did a good deal of hunting and that it was very good in the bush, so I paid little attention. By Friday morning, we were ready for business. For Friday noon, not one customer had climbed the veranda steps. By Saturday morning, even the the watching crowd of natives were gone. That night, I went to the bar in search of Caisse.
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Evening, Mazarodjo.
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What do you like? Nothing to drink. Thanks. I'm looking for mister Case.
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Oh, as I case, he take trip one other island.
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Oh, I see. Jack, do the people know my store is open and I'm ready to trade? Sure, mate. Sure. Then why don't they come? Maybe
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no corpora at this time. Not not rain. I not know. Just make drink for a few minutes. Yeah. Jack, tell me, what happened to Vickers, the man who had my station before
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and it suddenly went off and blew his head off? Gun is bad thing.
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In the wrong hands.
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Was mister Case on a trip then? Oh, no. Mister Cassie.
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My I don't remember. I think maybe. Yes. And Adams, the one before.
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He he drink too much. I see. What about under?
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Talk too much, Mazarweger. People, they wait for drink this Saturday.
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I left the bar feeling everyone's eyes on me. I've been too long in the islands not to sense what might be going on. I I just couldn't guess why. And I had a cold shaky feeling at the base of my spine. There's something wrong, Uma. What is it? Nobody come trade.
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Yes? Yes. Why? There'll be taboo.
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Why?
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Nobody will speak.
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How can Uma know? One man knows everything around here. When he gets back, I'll know or find out the reason why.
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Case? Who's that?
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Wilshire. I want to talk to you and put that pistol away.
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Reflex action, old boy. Not much time to talk, though. I just got back and done. I know. I've been waiting for you.
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Case, here's a queer thing maybe you can answer. I'm tabooed.
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No. You can't be. Not possible. However, just to put your mind at rest, I'll scout round and make sure. Well, I rounded it up with the Chiefs. And if you ask me, it's the worst kind of thing I've ever heard of. I am tabooed then, Something of the sort. The people won't go near you, will you? It seems, for some reason, they're frightened of you. You've gone crazy, Kace. What are they frightened of? I wish I could make out. It's like all that tom fool superstitions.
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He hasn't been to my house once, Case, since I came. Own up now.
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Well, I was busy. It was an oversight. I'm sorry for it. But about coming now, Wilcher, I'll be quite plain.
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No. You mean you won't?
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Roughly sorry, old man,
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but that's about the size of it. In short, you're afraid?
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In short, I am afraid.
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You belong here, Uma, if anyone can understand. You mean, you know Savvy? How could I? We we don't have such crazy things where I come from.
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Taboo belong all the same me.
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To you?
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Yes. Please want me for his woman, but I no want him. Just tell me you love me so much. You no care. He no tell me. He no get Chopra. So he call me. What? Double go too. Then you get much, Cobra. You like it or better that way.
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Don't fall in. No. No. No. Hold on. Hold on. Kay seems to have played a pretty mean on the two of us. But I know now, and I don't want you to go away. I love you too much.
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No.
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Tell me true. Toma, I tell you true. I would rather have you than all the copra in the South Seas.
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Now I don't need to be good. I am so much love.
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Me too. But, Umut, tell me, why are you taboo?
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Puma! Puma! Mika! Mika! Who? Listen, I he tell you everything more better for
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me. As I came out on the veranda, the mission boat was shooting for the mouth of the river. So I started strolling down towards the river. From the opposite side, there was a man heading for same place. And as he saw me, he started to run and got there first as though to keep me from seeing the missionary. At the sight of him, rage flew into my nostrils and I raced him to the pier. Get out of here, you little swindling thief. Don't be a fool. Well, I have been since I came here. I have business here with the missionary. So have I. And I don't want you eavesdropping, so I give you notice to clear out.
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I don't take it, though.
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He was quick with his hands, but had neither my height nor weight. Besides, I was blazing with a wrath that would have fit into a chisel. I hit him twice, once with each hand, and he went down with blood spreading on his face like a napkin.
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Have you had enough there? Handsome here or take it out of your eye. I could have put a bullet through you. Yes. Enough for this time with the missionary and this who has witnesses. But next time, I'll kill you.
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Father Talton, sir. I'm Sam Wiltshire, Benton Company's new trainer. Same. You make a poor impression rolling on the dock with a man half your size. The giant on this island, father Tolfen, he seems to control it. Elder Tolfen, I need your help. It was case that you knocked down, he was, rather a brave or a foolish man, I can promise you nothing except extreme unction when you need it, as I fear you may, since I know no way to protect you from the evil Valazar casts on your kind.
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Why should a missionary, constantly out of touch with the process of life as he travels from forsaken island to island, envisage the imminence of death. There are more mysteries that haunt these islands than the ancient one of taboo. I'll return shortly with act three.
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There's nothing wrong with drinking Budweiser sip by sip, is there? Well, the brewers of Budweiser think there's a better way. Sipping's fine if you're drinking wine, but Bud is the king of beers, a hearty drink. Look. Rinse a 10 or 12 ounce glass with cold water. Then open a can or bottle of Bud and pour it right down the middle so it kicks up a good head of foam. Now take a big drink and then swallow big. No sips. That's how it should be done. More taste, more beer drinking enjoyment. Thanks to exclusive Beechwood aging, Budweiser has a smoothness that lets it go down especially easy. Sure. It's an expensive way to brew beer, but brewing beer right does make a difference. That's why when you say Budweiser, you've said it all.
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jungles.
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Sir Tran, go first class. Okay.
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The pace that Wilshire set up the hill to his house left poor father Tarlton sweating under his bulky robe and more than a little out of breath. But if he harbored any unchristian thoughts about his host, they were quickly cleared when he learned the first purpose of his visit. Now here's the way of it, father Tarlton. This is Uma, the woman I was married to by blackjack.
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The bartender? Mister Jeremy Case Esquire informed me he was a pastor. The certificate was written by that same mister Case, a dandy piece of literature, I promise you. But I'm not knocking any responsibility. I'm what you call call a sinner, and I want you to help me to make it up to the person I deceived. I should be happy if I can. Right. Uma, give me your marriage certificate. Oh. Oh. What you want? Come on. You can trust
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wait. I wait.
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Now since I signed this piece of paper, I found I'm taboo in this place because of my so called wife, and I cannot trade. I want to be married right by a real missionary. So fire away, father. Well, there was quite a to do, I can tell you. Mano and Favau had to be brought in. Umair had to be back in a wedding togs. And I took the father aside and asked him to save a service in native to please the others. We had two of the crew in for witnesses, and finally, it was all bound up right and proper. Mister Wilcher, I have rarely performed a marriage ceremony with more grateful emotions. Thank you for the talking.
Do you want to know why your wife is taboo? Of course, I do. I can tell you at least part of it. Old John Adams traded for your company. Shortly after he came here, he was stricken with the palsy, massive, general, all of him frozen except one eye which winked, constantly winked. This vile fellow case worked up the word that he was the evil eye, that he was the devil, and would destroy the island. He persuaded the villagers to take this poor old man to the other end of the village and bury him alive. Only one person tried to save him, your wife.
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I work for him. He kind. No jabber. Case won two battles.
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He removed a rival trader, and he was able to punish Umar for refusing his advance. Because she tried to stop the burying, he said the evil eye had entered her, and she was made taboo.
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But, Keith, he promised cyber my taboo, not yours.
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You're alright, wife. I don't blame you. Father? Yes, sir? It's all over the place, isn't it? Because never blew his head off. That was done for him. Underhill, he was a bull's hound which should have made it easy. He was poisoned. And Adam's buried alive. Now, I'm tabooed. The motive is obvious, even if we have no proof. A man like case could only enjoy his single handed control through fear. Fear? What fear? He's only a man, and a small one at that. But he holds some dread terror over their heads. I cannot stay this trip, for I am due at Fale'i Alihi. I will return as soon as I can.
As for case, without proof, there's little I can do. Don't you worry about case, father. Now that everything's in the open as it were, you let me handle Caicedo. I didn't seem to speak to for several weeks. Meanwhile, Manu, Uma, Faavao, and myself occupied our time making copra with our own hands, a piddling amount for all the labor. Finally, out of sheer frustration and boredom, and because we were tired of a steady diet of canned goods and local fruit and nuts, and to cheer up lonely little Manu, we went hunting. And I bumped into Blackjack.
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Hey, Jack. No road going eastward? Oh, one time, one road. Now he dead. Nobody he go there? No good. Too much double he stop there. Man, he go there.
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No come back. You know plenty about devil. You think me one?
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Wolfgang. Devil are the same fool. She devil?
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Before he could answer, far across the bay, I see Case come out from the hanging front of the woods, a gun cradled in his elbow. Hello, my friend. You know, talk all this thing through. Caisse go. He come back. Caisse no. I met Blackjack when I was hunting today, and I saw a case coming from the east end of the island where there's no trail. Tell me, what does Tiepolo mean? Devil. I thought Aitu was the word for that.
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Aitu. Other kind devil. Live in bush. Eat Kanata. Tiepolo. Big cheap son. Suppose, Keith, he wish something. Thiapalo,
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he make him. That's right, Convenience. Like what? Out came such a rigmarole of stories I couldn't make had no tail of them. It seemed that in the forest, Case had a a church where Case worshipped. I now began to have a glimmer of how Case had acquired his position. And though he was a tough nut to crack, I was no ways cast down.
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You no go there. I no like you. Uma, nothing would stop me now.
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I want to have a look at that place of worship myself, and then we'll see about the glorifying.
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But nobody go there unless Diapolo,
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he protect him. I'll chance it with God's protection. I'm a good enough sort of fellow. I hope for God to con me through. I left at dawn the next day, began to hack my way laboriously through the jungle. Queerness of the high bush is impossible to describe. Suddenly, I heard a sound that was so strange, it killed my blood and left me twittering in my shoes. But this was a sound my ear could follow. And finally, I spotted it and climbed a tree to it. Crudely made from a candle box with a brand still on it and banjo strings. A wind harp.
I think the upper class name is Ye Oldeian or something like that. Alright for you, mister Case. You frightened me once, but I defy you to frighten me again. I slid down the tree and coming to the bottom of the town, the path that led me to my destination. Some sort of place place too. There was a wall no Kanaka ever built, must have been century upon century old, winding around a longish mound of earth. On top of the wall was a line of queer idols, carved and painted faces, and a of queer idols, carved and painted faces, ugly to view with teeth of shell and brightly clothed with cloaks that blew in the wind.
And other harps were sounding from all sides. In a moment, I was up over the wall into the mound of earth. Digging off the roof of earth, I found a tarpaulin stretched on board. So this was the roof of a cellar. I climbed in, and near around the corner was a shining face of appalling ugliness, waxed and covered with luminous paint that occasionally smoked. Now that I knew how to fix mister Case, I went home. I no let you go. I'll tell you what. You fish me out your bible, and I'll take that with me. That'll make me alright. Maybe.
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But I know let Mano go with you. Mano isn't scared of
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not white man's. Right, Mano? Mano no scale. Win sama. Besides, I need him to carry the fuses and the lantern. I have gunpowder, two dynamite bombs, gun, and my shit to chop down those harps,
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knife. Runo, go. He's no joke or woman. That's telling
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her. Mind wild girl, I come back. Whole world is right. We almost didn't make it that night. Poor little mano with his lame leg. But once there, it was easy. With charges set in the cellar, the harps hacked down as we passed them, the statues piled on the top, the fuse laid, my patent match lit. Only once more difficulty, on the way, half our fuse line had been lost, and I must have overestimated the amount of explosives needed for when they caught. Keep the head to Almano.
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You alright? Pew patch up. Bow. Bow. Some are the same bingo
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You better get out of here. Now wait. Let me light the lantern. There. Now let me lift it and see just where
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Nothing else. What? Well, why you talk so big
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voice? Case, he's coming. My god, whom am I? Is that you? You're not afraid?
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Too much afraid.
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I think I died. Me too. I'll pour this case beyond you. I not know.
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I lost.
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He be here one to two. Good lord. And me with a lantern lit, fool that I am. Bruno.
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Bruno. And this is for you, Wilcher.
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You've never had a leg bone smashed and tried to move. You've never known pain. It was a foolish move all around for I couldn't reach my gun and it alerted Case. He approached me carefully as Winchester trained on me, his lips drawn back in a snarl that was supposed to be a smile. You
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fool. If you left well enough alone, I'd have made some deal with you later. Liar. You murderer.
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You have one more shot at me. Better be sure to be close enough so you don't miss again.
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Right between the eyes. Are you ready?
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Ibenas taught as a ship's forester, but the moment he was close enough, I had him by the ankle, plucked the feet right from under him, and was on top of him with broken leg and all before he could breathe. His gun was gone, and he fastened his teeth in my arm like a weasel. Much I cared, my leg gave me all the pain I had used for, and I drew my knife and I got it in place.
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That's for Underhill. That's for Adams. That's for
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Where am I?
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Home.
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My leg?
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It is set. It will heal.
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Oh, my you're alright. Yes.
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I steal your little wife. Bullet hit only shoulder. Soon heal.
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In my ancestors. Poor little boy.
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You listen me, my husband. Uma, your wife. I make promise. I bear you strong boy. Take Mano's place.
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As it happened, according to Robert Louis Stevenson, Uma bore Sam his son, just as she promised. And for good measure, two daughters who fortunately looked like her. With the curse at last removed, Sam Wilshire wanted no other home than the beach of Faiza. I'll be back shortly.
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Pardon me, miss. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Can you tell me what happens this time of year? Rhubarb reaches its peak. Nope. Muskmelon reaches its peak? No. No. Does it in any way involve something reaching its peak? No. Not really. Oh. What happens this time of year is that you can get a really outstanding deal on Buick's small but surprisingly elegant Apollo. And with what's happening to prices, you may never have a better chance to buy a Buick. Hey. I know what happens. Yeah? The buzzards come back to Hinkley Ridge, Ohio. Oh. Uh-huh. I hadn't thought of
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that.
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How long would it take you to read a brief three page pamphlet on drugs? Three minutes? Four minutes? Well, not very long. And it would be time well spent. For your free pamphlet, write write Drugs Box 8200, Albany, New York. That's Drugs Box 8200, Albany, New York. But don't wait. Time might be running out. This message, nation nationwide brought to you by the New York State's Drug Abuse Control Commission.
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This was not Sam's headstone. It was Robert Louis Stevenson, but it might as well have been. Under the wide and starry sky, dig the grave and let me lie. Here did I live and gladly die, and I laid me down with a will. Our cast included Alexander Scourby, Evie Juster, Ian Martin, and Robert Dryden. The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
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Now a preview of our next tale.
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I tried writing about of
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the guts of the typewriter. Get up, Dorn. Look at of the guts of the typewriter. Get up, Dorn. Look at you. You're a miserable sight. Can't be. I'm just hearing things. A typewriter that talks, I must be going off my rocket. No. You're
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not. I exist and what I say is real.
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Who are you?
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What are you? To start with, I am not a typewriter. I control it like I control you. You're both equally primitive
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mechanisms. Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Anheuser Busch Incorporated, Brewers of Budweiser, and Buick Motor Division. This is E. G. Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until next time.
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Pleasant dreams.
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Of all the leading laxatives, only one, Phenomint, is a gentle chewing gum laxative.
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And for a very good reason. It's pleasant to take. Phenomint goes into your system gradually, little by little. And after Phenomint has entered your system, it begins to work gently, predictably, to relieve occasional irregularity.
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Phenomint, a gentle chewing gum laxative.
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Becoming a magician takes thousands of hours. Right, Ashley? Oh, I'm not a magician. I'm a design specialist at at The Container Store. But you transform closets and pantries. Well, I turn your most frustrating spaces into ones you love. With a magic wand? With Alpha, our customizable, adjustable, and affordable shelving and drawer system. The amazing Ashley,
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What you're hearing is Hardie fiber cement siding living up to its reputation as the siding that handles hail impact with ease. James Hardie knows how important a reputation is, especially when you're a contractor. That's why Hardie's siding withstands severe weather better than vinyl siding, with styles to match its strength, so you can be sure you're providing your clients with the best. Protect your reputation with exterior products by James Hardie.
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The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents
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Come in.
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Welcome. I'm EG Marshall. Welcome to the world of your own terrifying imagination. No storyteller is better loved than the gentle Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote Treasure Island and A Child's Garden of beach
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Here. Take a look through my glass. Thank you. Catch a bit of white there at Easter day? Yes. Yeah. That's your house. And George George saw it, he said, oh, I've dropped into a soft thing here. Only saw him once more, and he changed. Alright? What do you mean? Well, I don't know if it was the gin or a strange kind of sickness, but they found him one morning hanging upside down from his veranda rail, crazy as a loon, carrying on about someone watering his cobra.
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He died in a convulsion. Oh, was it thought to be the island? No proof.
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But the next man Vigges short as him, blew his head right off. And the first of the line of the Benton Far East company, old Adams, he just plain up and disappeared as though that damn tropical forest reached out like a octopus and swaddered him. Oop, line and sink. No, sir. No, sir, mister Witcher or not. Promotion with your company or whatever. You wouldn't get captain Ben Randall here to sit one foot on the beach at Falisar.
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Our mystery drama, The Beach of Follysaw, was especially adapted from the Robert Louis Stevenson classic for the mystery theater by Ian Martin and stars Alexander Scurby. It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and Anheuser Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser.
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I'll be back shortly with act act one. 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.
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No. Nope. 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, that's a point.
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Once upon a time, it came to pass a new law, and great changes came over the people. They were happy and busy themselves at work they enjoyed. They were kind to the earth, and it gave back to them. No one had to lock doors or put fences around their land. Everyone had enough to eat. The sick and the aged were cared for. The people stood proud and tall In the land of make believe, there were no poor. The campaign for human development is working to make the same thing happen in our real world. Campaign for human development, United States Catholic Conference.
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What do you tell a husband who comes home and says,
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I just don't know about a vacation
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this year. Well, you tell him about Ramada Inn's family plan, where your kids 18 and under share your room free. And you tell him about the toll free Ramada Inn's reservation number, 802282828. At least that's what I tell him.
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This is Frank Lieber. Join us Saturday night at eight from Texas Stadium as the Dallas Cowboys return home to meet the Houston Owners in the annual salesmanship club game. The play by play is brought your way by Jack in the Box family restaurants, inviting you to stop in and try the Jack steak sandwich. And by Chevrolet. Many Chevrolet dealers are featuring year end savings now. Another reason we say, Chevrolet makes sense for America.
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Copra is the oil from the coconut and is used in the manufacture of soap and margarine. 70 This then is This then is Henry Wiltshire's story, which he can tell better than I.
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It might not seem like much to you, but when you've been down the the line as long as I have, that beach at Fa La Salle looked like a ruddy city. I mean, there were houses, what passed through a couple of streets, a church, and even a few of my own countrymen. For nearly four years, I've been cut off in a mucky little island maybe 15 miles long, but narrow enough so you could spit across it given the right wind. So whatever the rudder captain said about Fallissa, I didn't pay him no mind. It wouldn't be long before I'd be finding out I should have. But right then, I was as excited as a kid at his first circus. Here's a boat coming now. She's right in the pass. Looks to be a 16 foot whaler. Two white men in in the stern sheath. I don't see that glass.
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Oh. Oh, aye. That's Case, alright. And the pastor with him, Case. Trader with another company. I'll be glad of somebody who speaks my own language. Oh, I wouldn't be too sure of that. Jeremy Case has a gallows bad reputation.
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You know what a place the beach is for talking. Well, it's right nice of them to come out to greet and fetch me.
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Not you. What if you bet it's gin they're after? Only you're five to two, they take six cases.
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When the two traders came aboard, I was pleased with both of them. One was a Kanaka, to be sure. Case would have passed muster in a city. He was smallish, had a hawk's nose to his face, pale eyes, and a beard neatly scissor trimmed. It was clear he came of the family, was splendidly educated. He had the courage of a lion and the cunning of a rat. And if he's not in hell today, there's no such place.
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A pleasure to make your acquaintance, mister Wiltshire. Jeremy Case bids you welcome to Feliza.
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Thank you kindly. Sorry we're to be in competition.
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Well, there's enough for all. I'm free you better luck than your predecessors. Oh, thanks for getting my manners. This is our pastor. Pleasure to meet you,
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pastor. It is a honor to have you join our community, which I hope to see you at Sunday service.
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Monsieur, Evelyn, it's a world favorite wind that's blown you our way so soon. All you you mean Vickers left me a cargo of cobra? Oh, sorry to disappoint you, captain. Not a drop, I'm afraid. Either cobra or gin. I'm only praying to guard your ship. It's not as dry as his warehouse.
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What did I tell you, mister Woodshire? Yes. How many cases? You couldn't spare six? Well, Well, even though I don't ship for your corporate company, I laid in plenty. I'll have your six brought up from the old. Cash on the line,
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As always. Mister Wilcher, sir. Yes. If you don't mind the suggestion, let's round up your belongings and load them in the whaleboat. Well, I wouldn't want to be any trouble. No. Please, there'll be a no argument.
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Oh,
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there's nothing like gin and lime to settle the stomach, cool the brain and ease the mind. Yes. Very kind of you to stand being a couple at a bar like this. What's the name of this bloke? Whistling Jimmy's. Oh, must be a cheery sort. Was. We caught him watering the cobra. He took a bullet in the throat.
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Well, let's have another route. No. No. Thanks. I must be off from my house and stop to get things ship shaped. Besides, I must not leave Mano alone too long.
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Mano? Well, you could have knocked me over with a fellow when you hold that 10 year old route from between decks and said he was part of your belongings. You are a strange man. How can you saddle yourself with a can of a rat, club footed if that?
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What happened to the mother? She was killed.
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By whom? Her husband. Why?
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For daring to bear an island chief a son who was not perfect.
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And you
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brought the child up? No. The child was hidden and brought up by its nurse. When I came as traitor to the island, the old woman cooked and cared for me, and I learned to know the boy. Shortly before I left the island, the old woman died. When it came time for me to go, I knew that Mano would be left to die. He was taboo, you see. So I brought him with me.
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For what?
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Well, no one deserves to die before his time.
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A man dies when he has to.
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Well, I I have no wish to quarrel with so generous a house, sir. But, I must be off. No. Then I must go with you.
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Now more than ever, we are ready to consummate the first right for any man of our race on this island. Let's go.
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Case insisted on paying treat and let me outside the bar. And I found myself staring at a crowd of girls all dressed out for me. They're ugly,
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but the best we could muster, old man. Chap has to have a wife. Oh, no. I'm not so sure that You can have any one of these for a plug of tobacco outside. You have it all fixed up nice and bigle. You just nip inside the bar once you've picked your chicken, and blackjack the bartender manages you nice and proper. Now he's a chaplain. You know? Yes. But I I don't want to marry. We've always had to tell him a case. Out of it is easy as in. Besides, you need a cook and someone to clean, and a man's got to have companionship or you go mad. Yeah? Well, that's how. Look them over.
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Yeah. Well, I don't know. They all look a little broad in the bin.
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Not the one I picked for you, lad.
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Look. Look.
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She just come up from fishing, wearing nothing but a chemise all wetted through. She was young and slender with a long face and a high forehead. A shy, strange, cat's and a baby's. Who is she?
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That's Uma. If you take my advice, you take her.
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Aye. Aye. But, will she take me?
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What choice has she? But if you like, I'll ask her.
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Here's a late weather advisory from KRLD News. A tornado warning has just been issued for Ellis County directly South of Dallas. It's in effect until eleven tonight. Radar shows a tornado some five miles north of Ennis, Texas. That's a tornado warning until eleven for Ellis County directly South of Dallas. A tornado warning is also in effect until 10:30 for people in Kaufman County. That's a tornado warning until 10:30 for Kaufman County. For Dallas County, along with Ellis and Kaufman Counties, a severe thunderstorm warning in effect till 10:30. There are severe storms with heavy rains, damaging winds, and some hail moving through Dallas, Ellis, and Kaufman Counties. That severe thunderstorm warning until 10:30. And in addition for Dallas, Kaufman, Ellis, and Denton Counties, a flash flood warning in effect until 11:30 tonight because of the heavy volume of rain. That's a flash flood warning for Dallas, Kaufman, Ellis, and Denton Counties until 11:30 tonight. This late weather advisory from KRLD News.
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He crossed to her her and spoke to her in Polynesian. For a moment, she spoke to him in her pretty Polynesian voice. And she nodded, and came toward me with her free swinging stride. She was the color breeze or with her as she stood in front of me, she smelled of wild lime and vanilla.
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Me, Umma, I am no ever no man sting. You want me. I marry you.
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I'm Sam Wiltshire. Salma Wiltshire? No. No. Wiltshire.
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Yes. Wiltshire.
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Well, I reckon that's as close as you will get. You'll be calling me Sam anyway. Hey, sir.
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Salma.
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I suppose that'll do too. Did, Kais tell you about the boy?
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Mano? Mhmm. All the same you, son. Where you wife? You have
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other wife? No. No wife.
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Good. Please, Dama. I wish for marry you, but more like this. I I know bumbled woman. I be dressed all the same bride. You see? And I now marry you inside there. I marry you here in open fair. When sun halfway from palm tree tip to sea.
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Light as a feather, she was on her feet and gone. Not running, but moving swiftly. Her head held high as though she was a ruddy countess.
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That means she'd be back about four ish. Well, come on. We have time to hoist a few before the nuptials begin.
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Take a seat, Wilcher. Excuse me for a moment.
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Bartender is also the minister. You remember? Yes, mother case. Gin and I've been In a moment. We'll be drinking all round, and you'll need your paper collar. There's to be a wedding. Savvy. New trader.
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Same kind paper, like always. Of course.
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I'll come with you and write it out for you. Must I still not say who? Lucky
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girl. Uma. No can do. But magic to white man like that. Not with Uma. You know that girl. I know that girl is the one to whom whom I want him married,
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to whom I will have him married. It suits our business. You understand?
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Yes, mister. You mustn't say so. Like Jack, know only one thing. This can only end, but he's written in sun. Two people die.
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What kind of man is this Jeremy Case? And what his purpose? By what combination of charm, legerdemain, or simple threat does he seem to rule Thalassa, to hold its people in the palm of his hand? Last of all, why should the enormous man called Blackjack shake with an unknown terror at the impending marriage of the new arrived traitor Wilshire, to by far the loveliest girl in the atoll. I'll return shortly with act two.
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Tell me, madam Xanadu, can you really tell me anything about my future?
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If you concentrate and gaze with me into the crystal ball. Ah, yes. It is beginning to clear. I can almost see. Oh, tell me what you see, madam Xanadu. I see that you are coming into some money. I am? Yes. And you will continue to receive even more. Oh, how much money will I get madam Zanna do? You will receive $4.20. 4 dollars and 20 cents? Yes. Every payday. Because you will lower the amount of federal income tax you now have withheld from your pay. Oh, for heaven's sake.
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What else do you see in that wall?
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I see you filling out a new w four form so that you can begin receiving your windfall.
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This message presented on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service.
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This season's extra light for entertainment at Dallas Theatre Center is almost sold out. As of August 1, there were only 20 seats available for each performance. Call 526-8920 today, and ask for Max. She'll arrange for you to pick out your season seats, and give you one free play. Call Max today at 526-8920. sold out season begins October 8.
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This is KRL news director, Dick Wheeler. Believability is the key to effective news reporting, and no broadcast news organization in Texas is more believed than KRL KRLE News. Number one in audience ratings, number one in journalism awards, number one in believability, number one in now reporting. That's KRLE News, believed and respected by more people than any other radio station in the Southwest. You can believe it.
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The beach of Fa'lisah, a tropical paradise. Surely one of the loveliest settings for the most sacred right between a man and a woman. And in Robert Louis Stevenson's tale, certainly the scene was magical. In his own words, the sun was down and the sky all afire. Uma was dressed and scented. Her kilt was a fine tapper, looking richer in the folds than any silk. She showed the best bearing for a bride, serious and still.
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And I thought shame to stand up beside her before that great grinning mounted bank with his paper collar, make it believed to read from an old volume of some novel, the words of his service not fit to be set down. And the document we signed, since Case wrote it, let it be his voice to read it.
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This is to certify that Uma, daughter of Faivao of Faleza, is illegally married to mister Sam Wiltshire, and mister Sam Wiltshire is entitled to send her packing when he pleases. Sign this day, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
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It was the practice in these parts, and all I could feel was so ashamed I had to be gone as soon as possible. Uma said she could show me to our house. Now we stroll through the lush vegetation together until forgetting myself. Almost as though she was some girl in the old country, I unconsciously took her hand. To my surprise, after a sudden gasp, she caught my hand to her face and pressed it there.
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You could.
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It was all she said. Then she ran quickly up the path ahead of me.
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It is god? Maki maki a boy. No. No, mano. You must see in English. He know my father. He is your Takasi. Without him, you'll be nothing. Leave off, Uma. Don't upset him. No. He must savvy. You are his Tiki. You give him life.
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Oh, we understand each other. Manbu? Right?
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Right, young governor. Put it there. Good night, Summer. Good night. This place be good. You bad. Good night, Houma. Tonight, Manu, go sleep by and by Farabo's house.
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Why? This is your house. Farabo,
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see more better. Tonight is lighting night, Summer. Oh,
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yeah. Alright. I I'll walk you and Farbao home. Alright? Oh, yeah. Alright. I I'll walk you and Farbao home. Alright our home.
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Alright?
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During the walk back, my mind failing reeled with all that it happened at first, Fallis, and I seem to have suddenly dropped years from my life. Uma had kindled a lamp, and among all my tumbled possessions, she stood straight like a queen, a lamp light shining on her skin. I was ashamed of a wave of feeling I had for this native. Ashamed of the mock marriage and worthless paper. I had to pluck up a lot of courage to enter.
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Hello, Sama. Welcome. This
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your home. Aloha, wahine.
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No wahine. Me, your wife, not know what you want.
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Damn if I know what's come over me.
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Oh, what you do? This case with supply by cobra. This supply buys nothing but trouble.
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Get me the hammer, will you? Yes, Martha. Escrow?
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Yes. Summer.
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That's better. I could regret this. I could regret it a thousand times. It isn't too late. But something good is happening. First, Manos, someone to take care of. And now Here, Ishma.
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What you do?
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Miss.
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That happy juice. Yes. But why you do that?
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You know where we come here, Ruma? From the other side of the world. We who call ourselves white and think we rule the world. Right. So we can make enough money to go back to the old country and become kings. But in the meantime, the rot sets in and the dream gets twisted, is it? It's another world. A bloke don't belong. So he drowns himself in this. No good. A man who drinks it is no good.
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I think you're one good man. Moon seeds, sun die, all things. Belong you till I die.
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For the next three days, Uma, Manu, and I worked our hearts out setting up the store and getting ready for business. I didn't see hide or air of case, but he told me he did a good deal of hunting and that it was very good in the bush, so I paid little attention. By Friday morning, we were ready for business. For Friday noon, not one customer had climbed the veranda steps. By Saturday morning, even the the watching crowd of natives were gone. That night, I went to the bar in search of Caisse.
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Evening, Mazarodjo.
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What do you like? Nothing to drink. Thanks. I'm looking for mister Case.
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Oh, as I case, he take trip one other island.
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Oh, I see. Jack, do the people know my store is open and I'm ready to trade? Sure, mate. Sure. Then why don't they come? Maybe
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no corpora at this time. Not not rain. I not know. Just make drink for a few minutes. Yeah. Jack, tell me, what happened to Vickers, the man who had my station before
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and it suddenly went off and blew his head off? Gun is bad thing.
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In the wrong hands.
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Was mister Case on a trip then? Oh, no. Mister Cassie.
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My I don't remember. I think maybe. Yes. And Adams, the one before.
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He he drink too much. I see. What about under?
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Talk too much, Mazarweger. People, they wait for drink this Saturday.
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I left the bar feeling everyone's eyes on me. I've been too long in the islands not to sense what might be going on. I I just couldn't guess why. And I had a cold shaky feeling at the base of my spine. There's something wrong, Uma. What is it? Nobody come trade.
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Yes? Yes. Why? There'll be taboo.
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Why?
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Nobody will speak.
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How can Uma know? One man knows everything around here. When he gets back, I'll know or find out the reason why.
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Case? Who's that?
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Wilshire. I want to talk to you and put that pistol away.
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Reflex action, old boy. Not much time to talk, though. I just got back and done. I know. I've been waiting for you.
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Case, here's a queer thing maybe you can answer. I'm tabooed.
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No. You can't be. Not possible. However, just to put your mind at rest, I'll scout round and make sure. Well, I rounded it up with the Chiefs. And if you ask me, it's the worst kind of thing I've ever heard of. I am tabooed then, Something of the sort. The people won't go near you, will you? It seems, for some reason, they're frightened of you. You've gone crazy, Kace. What are they frightened of? I wish I could make out. It's like all that tom fool superstitions.
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He hasn't been to my house once, Case, since I came. Own up now.
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Well, I was busy. It was an oversight. I'm sorry for it. But about coming now, Wilcher, I'll be quite plain.
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No. You mean you won't?
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Roughly sorry, old man,
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but that's about the size of it. In short, you're afraid?
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In short, I am afraid.
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You belong here, Uma, if anyone can understand. You mean, you know Savvy? How could I? We we don't have such crazy things where I come from.
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Taboo belong all the same me.
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To you?
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Yes. Please want me for his woman, but I no want him. Just tell me you love me so much. You no care. He no tell me. He no get Chopra. So he call me. What? Double go too. Then you get much, Cobra. You like it or better that way.
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Don't fall in. No. No. No. Hold on. Hold on. Kay seems to have played a pretty mean on the two of us. But I know now, and I don't want you to go away. I love you too much.
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No.
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Tell me true. Toma, I tell you true. I would rather have you than all the copra in the South Seas.
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Now I don't need to be good. I am so much love.
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Me too. But, Umut, tell me, why are you taboo?
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Puma! Puma! Mika! Mika! Who? Listen, I he tell you everything more better for
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me. As I came out on the veranda, the mission boat was shooting for the mouth of the river. So I started strolling down towards the river. From the opposite side, there was a man heading for same place. And as he saw me, he started to run and got there first as though to keep me from seeing the missionary. At the sight of him, rage flew into my nostrils and I raced him to the pier. Get out of here, you little swindling thief. Don't be a fool. Well, I have been since I came here. I have business here with the missionary. So have I. And I don't want you eavesdropping, so I give you notice to clear out.
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I don't take it, though.
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He was quick with his hands, but had neither my height nor weight. Besides, I was blazing with a wrath that would have fit into a chisel. I hit him twice, once with each hand, and he went down with blood spreading on his face like a napkin.
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Have you had enough there? Handsome here or take it out of your eye. I could have put a bullet through you. Yes. Enough for this time with the missionary and this who has witnesses. But next time, I'll kill you.
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Father Talton, sir. I'm Sam Wiltshire, Benton Company's new trainer. Same. You make a poor impression rolling on the dock with a man half your size. The giant on this island, father Tolfen, he seems to control it. Elder Tolfen, I need your help. It was case that you knocked down, he was, rather a brave or a foolish man, I can promise you nothing except extreme unction when you need it, as I fear you may, since I know no way to protect you from the evil Valazar casts on your kind.
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Why should a missionary, constantly out of touch with the process of life as he travels from forsaken island to island, envisage the imminence of death. There are more mysteries that haunt these islands than the ancient one of taboo. I'll return shortly with act three.
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There's nothing wrong with drinking Budweiser sip by sip, is there? Well, the brewers of Budweiser think there's a better way. Sipping's fine if you're drinking wine, but Bud is the king of beers, a hearty drink. Look. Rinse a 10 or 12 ounce glass with cold water. Then open a can or bottle of Bud and pour it right down the middle so it kicks up a good head of foam. Now take a big drink and then swallow big. No sips. That's how it should be done. More taste, more beer drinking enjoyment. Thanks to exclusive Beechwood aging, Budweiser has a smoothness that lets it go down especially easy. Sure. It's an expensive way to brew beer, but brewing beer right does make a difference. That's why when you say Budweiser, you've said it all.
Anheuser Busch, It's indoor golf time all this week at Northtown Mall. It's a great way to beat the heat and sharpen up your putting or driving game on Northtown's air conditioned malls. Play a round of miniature golf on the tricky nine hole course, or drive a bucket of balls on Northtown's indoor driving range. And there's even a practice putting green. So go play miniature golf at Northtown, only 25¢ per round, and the hours of play are from 11AM to 9PM every day this week at Northtown Mall, LBJ Freeway at Webb Chapel Road.
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There's only one way to travel between Dallas and Fort Worth and the new airport. SirTran, the world's only luxury ground transportation system of its kind can take you direct to any airline from any one of four of our airport
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jungles.
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Sir Tran, go first class. Okay.
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The pace that Wilshire set up the hill to his house left poor father Tarlton sweating under his bulky robe and more than a little out of breath. But if he harbored any unchristian thoughts about his host, they were quickly cleared when he learned the first purpose of his visit. Now here's the way of it, father Tarlton. This is Uma, the woman I was married to by blackjack.
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The bartender? Mister Jeremy Case Esquire informed me he was a pastor. The certificate was written by that same mister Case, a dandy piece of literature, I promise you. But I'm not knocking any responsibility. I'm what you call call a sinner, and I want you to help me to make it up to the person I deceived. I should be happy if I can. Right. Uma, give me your marriage certificate. Oh. Oh. What you want? Come on. You can trust
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wait. I wait.
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Now since I signed this piece of paper, I found I'm taboo in this place because of my so called wife, and I cannot trade. I want to be married right by a real missionary. So fire away, father. Well, there was quite a to do, I can tell you. Mano and Favau had to be brought in. Umair had to be back in a wedding togs. And I took the father aside and asked him to save a service in native to please the others. We had two of the crew in for witnesses, and finally, it was all bound up right and proper. Mister Wilcher, I have rarely performed a marriage ceremony with more grateful emotions. Thank you for the talking.
Do you want to know why your wife is taboo? Of course, I do. I can tell you at least part of it. Old John Adams traded for your company. Shortly after he came here, he was stricken with the palsy, massive, general, all of him frozen except one eye which winked, constantly winked. This vile fellow case worked up the word that he was the evil eye, that he was the devil, and would destroy the island. He persuaded the villagers to take this poor old man to the other end of the village and bury him alive. Only one person tried to save him, your wife.
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I work for him. He kind. No jabber. Case won two battles.
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He removed a rival trader, and he was able to punish Umar for refusing his advance. Because she tried to stop the burying, he said the evil eye had entered her, and she was made taboo.
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But, Keith, he promised cyber my taboo, not yours.
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You're alright, wife. I don't blame you. Father? Yes, sir? It's all over the place, isn't it? Because never blew his head off. That was done for him. Underhill, he was a bull's hound which should have made it easy. He was poisoned. And Adam's buried alive. Now, I'm tabooed. The motive is obvious, even if we have no proof. A man like case could only enjoy his single handed control through fear. Fear? What fear? He's only a man, and a small one at that. But he holds some dread terror over their heads. I cannot stay this trip, for I am due at Fale'i Alihi. I will return as soon as I can.
As for case, without proof, there's little I can do. Don't you worry about case, father. Now that everything's in the open as it were, you let me handle Caicedo. I didn't seem to speak to for several weeks. Meanwhile, Manu, Uma, Faavao, and myself occupied our time making copra with our own hands, a piddling amount for all the labor. Finally, out of sheer frustration and boredom, and because we were tired of a steady diet of canned goods and local fruit and nuts, and to cheer up lonely little Manu, we went hunting. And I bumped into Blackjack.
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Hey, Jack. No road going eastward? Oh, one time, one road. Now he dead. Nobody he go there? No good. Too much double he stop there. Man, he go there.
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No come back. You know plenty about devil. You think me one?
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Wolfgang. Devil are the same fool. She devil?
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Before he could answer, far across the bay, I see Case come out from the hanging front of the woods, a gun cradled in his elbow. Hello, my friend. You know, talk all this thing through. Caisse go. He come back. Caisse no. I met Blackjack when I was hunting today, and I saw a case coming from the east end of the island where there's no trail. Tell me, what does Tiepolo mean? Devil. I thought Aitu was the word for that.
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Aitu. Other kind devil. Live in bush. Eat Kanata. Tiepolo. Big cheap son. Suppose, Keith, he wish something. Thiapalo,
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he make him. That's right, Convenience. Like what? Out came such a rigmarole of stories I couldn't make had no tail of them. It seemed that in the forest, Case had a a church where Case worshipped. I now began to have a glimmer of how Case had acquired his position. And though he was a tough nut to crack, I was no ways cast down.
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You no go there. I no like you. Uma, nothing would stop me now.
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I want to have a look at that place of worship myself, and then we'll see about the glorifying.
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But nobody go there unless Diapolo,
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he protect him. I'll chance it with God's protection. I'm a good enough sort of fellow. I hope for God to con me through. I left at dawn the next day, began to hack my way laboriously through the jungle. Queerness of the high bush is impossible to describe. Suddenly, I heard a sound that was so strange, it killed my blood and left me twittering in my shoes. But this was a sound my ear could follow. And finally, I spotted it and climbed a tree to it. Crudely made from a candle box with a brand still on it and banjo strings. A wind harp.
I think the upper class name is Ye Oldeian or something like that. Alright for you, mister Case. You frightened me once, but I defy you to frighten me again. I slid down the tree and coming to the bottom of the town, the path that led me to my destination. Some sort of place place too. There was a wall no Kanaka ever built, must have been century upon century old, winding around a longish mound of earth. On top of the wall was a line of queer idols, carved and painted faces, and a of queer idols, carved and painted faces, ugly to view with teeth of shell and brightly clothed with cloaks that blew in the wind.
And other harps were sounding from all sides. In a moment, I was up over the wall into the mound of earth. Digging off the roof of earth, I found a tarpaulin stretched on board. So this was the roof of a cellar. I climbed in, and near around the corner was a shining face of appalling ugliness, waxed and covered with luminous paint that occasionally smoked. Now that I knew how to fix mister Case, I went home. I no let you go. I'll tell you what. You fish me out your bible, and I'll take that with me. That'll make me alright. Maybe.
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But I know let Mano go with you. Mano isn't scared of
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not white man's. Right, Mano? Mano no scale. Win sama. Besides, I need him to carry the fuses and the lantern. I have gunpowder, two dynamite bombs, gun, and my shit to chop down those harps,
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knife. Runo, go. He's no joke or woman. That's telling
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her. Mind wild girl, I come back. Whole world is right. We almost didn't make it that night. Poor little mano with his lame leg. But once there, it was easy. With charges set in the cellar, the harps hacked down as we passed them, the statues piled on the top, the fuse laid, my patent match lit. Only once more difficulty, on the way, half our fuse line had been lost, and I must have overestimated the amount of explosives needed for when they caught. Keep the head to Almano.
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You alright? Pew patch up. Bow. Bow. Some are the same bingo
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You better get out of here. Now wait. Let me light the lantern. There. Now let me lift it and see just where
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Nothing else. What? Well, why you talk so big
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voice? Case, he's coming. My god, whom am I? Is that you? You're not afraid?
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Too much afraid.
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I think I died. Me too. I'll pour this case beyond you. I not know.
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I lost.
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He be here one to two. Good lord. And me with a lantern lit, fool that I am. Bruno.
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Bruno. And this is for you, Wilcher.
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You've never had a leg bone smashed and tried to move. You've never known pain. It was a foolish move all around for I couldn't reach my gun and it alerted Case. He approached me carefully as Winchester trained on me, his lips drawn back in a snarl that was supposed to be a smile. You
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fool. If you left well enough alone, I'd have made some deal with you later. Liar. You murderer.
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You have one more shot at me. Better be sure to be close enough so you don't miss again.
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Right between the eyes. Are you ready?
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Ibenas taught as a ship's forester, but the moment he was close enough, I had him by the ankle, plucked the feet right from under him, and was on top of him with broken leg and all before he could breathe. His gun was gone, and he fastened his teeth in my arm like a weasel. Much I cared, my leg gave me all the pain I had used for, and I drew my knife and I got it in place.
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That's for Underhill. That's for Adams. That's for
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Where am I?
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Home.
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My leg?
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It is set. It will heal.
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Oh, my you're alright. Yes.
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I steal your little wife. Bullet hit only shoulder. Soon heal.
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In my ancestors. Poor little boy.
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You listen me, my husband. Uma, your wife. I make promise. I bear you strong boy. Take Mano's place.
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As it happened, according to Robert Louis Stevenson, Uma bore Sam his son, just as she promised. And for good measure, two daughters who fortunately looked like her. With the curse at last removed, Sam Wilshire wanted no other home than the beach of Faiza. I'll be back shortly.
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Pardon me, miss. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Can you tell me what happens this time of year? Rhubarb reaches its peak. Nope. Muskmelon reaches its peak? No. No. Does it in any way involve something reaching its peak? No. Not really. Oh. What happens this time of year is that you can get a really outstanding deal on Buick's small but surprisingly elegant Apollo. And with what's happening to prices, you may never have a better chance to buy a Buick. Hey. I know what happens. Yeah? The buzzards come back to Hinkley Ridge, Ohio. Oh. Uh-huh. I hadn't thought of
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that.
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How long would it take you to read a brief three page pamphlet on drugs? Three minutes? Four minutes? Well, not very long. And it would be time well spent. For your free pamphlet, write write Drugs Box 8200, Albany, New York. That's Drugs Box 8200, Albany, New York. But don't wait. Time might be running out. This message, nation nationwide brought to you by the New York State's Drug Abuse Control Commission.
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This was not Sam's headstone. It was Robert Louis Stevenson, but it might as well have been. Under the wide and starry sky, dig the grave and let me lie. Here did I live and gladly die, and I laid me down with a will. Our cast included Alexander Scourby, Evie Juster, Ian Martin, and Robert Dryden. The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.
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Now a preview of our next tale.
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I tried writing about of
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the guts of the typewriter. Get up, Dorn. Look at of the guts of the typewriter. Get up, Dorn. Look at you. You're a miserable sight. Can't be. I'm just hearing things. A typewriter that talks, I must be going off my rocket. No. You're
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not. I exist and what I say is real.
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Who are you?
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What are you? To start with, I am not a typewriter. I control it like I control you. You're both equally primitive
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mechanisms. Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Anheuser Busch Incorporated, Brewers of Budweiser, and Buick Motor Division. This is E. G. Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until next time.
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Pleasant dreams.
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And for a very good reason. It's pleasant to take. Phenomint goes into your system gradually, little by little. And after Phenomint has entered your system, it begins to work gently, predictably, to relieve occasional irregularity.
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Phenomint, a gentle chewing gum laxative.
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Welcome to the Mystery Theater
The Beach of Falesa: A Mysterious Tale
Henry Wiltshire's Arrival and the Island's Dark History
A Strange Welcome and an Unwanted Marriage
The Enigma of Jeremy Case
The Taboo and the Struggle for Acceptance
A Missionary's Insight and the Island's Curse
Confronting the Devil's Hold
The Final Showdown and Redemption
