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Escape is an American radio drama. It was radio's leading anthology series of high-adventure radio dramas, airing on CBS from July 7, 1947 to September 25, 1954.
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00:00Tired from a strenuous weekend? Spring fever give you the wanderlust? Want to get away from it all? We offer you ESCAPE!
00:20You are hanging by your fingertips on the sheer face of an ice cliff.
00:25Suspended a thousand feet above instant death, with your strength running out, and with no chance for escape.
00:42ESCAPE! Designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure.
00:48Tonight, we escape to the cold loneliness of a glacier high in the Swiss Alps, and to a man who learned much about death, as told in C.E. Montague's grim story, Action!
01:07I am the Swiss Alps, well above 12,000 feet.
01:27A man clings with desperation to the frozen glass wall of the Shalyok Glacier, hands and feet jammed into shallow steps, chopped in iron-hard ice.
01:38A cold wind drives a spray of dusty sleet along the overhanging wall, and the sun has fallen away among the crags to the west.
01:47Darkness lies one hour ahead.
01:51The man has climbed with painful care a thousand feet up the glacier's face from the broken moraine of the foot,
01:58and has moved now onto the underside of a great bulge in the ice, a part of the wall which breaks out beyond the perpendicular.
02:05And the man is forced to hang from slots cut by his axe, much as a sloth hangs from a tree branch.
02:13Twelve more feet lie between him and the brow of the overhang.
02:18Six more steps to be chopped out with the axe.
02:22And a thousand feet of void space waits beneath him.
02:27The man is unable to lift his heavy axe for even one more stroke.
02:30Look, he's tired, and he's fifty-two years old.
02:35No experienced mountaineer would ever attempt the west face of the Shalyok Glacier.
02:40And yet this man is an experienced mountaineer.
02:44But why?
02:45Why?
02:47What strange events have conspired to bring him along the path of his life,
02:52and leave him hanging now in peril on the brink of eternity?
02:55Through what shadows has that path led him?
03:00And where are those who saw him pass?
03:03Can we ourselves move back along it, move back step by step against the river of time?
03:10Move backward along the life path of Christopher Bell?
03:14My name is Jean Valjour,
03:28and I am a guide for all the mountain trails on the Visehorn and the Shalyhorn.
03:32I talked with Mr. Bell this morning as he was leaving the village,
03:35though, of course, at the time I did not know that was his name.
03:39The season is over, you understand.
03:41Winter will come in another week or two,
03:43and most all the visitors are gone.
03:46So, you see, I was very surprised to hear a stranger call out to me in English.
03:50Hello there.
03:51Bonjour, monsieur.
03:51I mean, good morning, sir.
03:53Good morning.
03:54Well, I'm glad to see there's at least one other early riser in the village besides myself.
03:58Only a few people are left in the village, sir.
04:01It is the end of summer.
04:02The end of summer.
04:04How well I know it.
04:06Oh, by the way, which of these paths takes me to the foot of the Shalyach?
04:09Uh, the one on the left.
04:11But you will find no climbing there, sir.
04:13One arrives very soon at the glacier and can go no farther.
04:16Except, of course, to climb up it.
04:19The glacier?
04:19Oh, that is impossible.
04:21It has never been done.
04:22Of course not.
04:23It's never been tried.
04:24Well, there is not anyone who would be so foolish.
04:27It isn't that.
04:28There are plenty of foolish people in the world,
04:29but even they hold on to their margin of safety.
04:33Margin of safety?
04:35Yes.
04:35The difference between the point where a man thinks he's reached his limit
04:38and the point where the limit rarely is.
04:40Good diable, raconte-vous.
04:42I mean, I'm afraid I do not understand this.
04:44Oh, all right.
04:46Take a mountaineer such as yourself.
04:48Now, you look at a slope.
04:49You estimate the effort needed to climb it.
04:51Then you estimate your own endurance.
04:53And if there isn't a good-sized safety factor,
04:56you just don't make the climb.
04:57But it would be foolish not to do so.
04:59Oh, yes, I dare say.
05:01It's all tied up in the fear of death.
05:04Hmm.
05:05Take that out of a man for one instant.
05:07There's no telling what he might be able to do
05:09or what limit he might reach.
05:11And how should a man lose that fear?
05:13He can't.
05:14He can't lose it.
05:16It has to be done for him by...
05:19by things outside.
05:20He turned and left me then, this Mr. Bell.
05:29Walked up the path toward the glacier.
05:31That was early this morning, and I did not see him again.
05:34His talk with me made no sense,
05:36and I could not understand what he meant to do
05:38or why he was going to do it.
05:40I remember thinking,
05:42ah, what a strange man.
05:44But I know really nothing more about him.
05:46Well, I believe he arrived in the village only last night
05:49and took a room in the Zinal Inn.
06:00My name is Greta de Gaspar,
06:02and I'm staying out the week here in Zinal
06:04to close up the inn for the winter.
06:06I have known Mr. Bell for the last 30 years.
06:11Always before, he came in the summer season for the climbing,
06:14and I was most surprised when he arrived last night.
06:18I opened one of the rooms
06:19and found something for him to eat,
06:22and then later,
06:24we sat and talked in front of the fire
06:26in a big empty lounge.
06:29This is very good coffee, Madame Gaspar.
06:32Oh, thank you, Mr. Bell.
06:34Well, had you let me know,
06:36I would have had everything ready for you,
06:38just like all the other times.
06:40Like all other times, eh?
06:43But this one's a little different, Madame Gaspar.
06:46You might call it a special visit.
06:49Ah, it is all so different now from the old days.
06:54Then it was you and your madame would come here,
06:58and it was Gaspar and I,
07:00and the summer seemed to last forever.
07:03I thought everything would be forever
07:05when she was alive.
07:08Now I'm rarely alone in the world.
07:11As I am.
07:12It is not good to be alone.
07:14It gives one little reason for living,
07:17and makes one no longer afraid of dying.
07:20Yes, but there are stronger reasons for that
07:23than just being alone.
07:26Mr. Bell,
07:27you look so strange.
07:29Is there something troubling you?
07:33Why, no.
07:34Not now.
07:36Oh, there may have been, but not now.
07:40Well, I should be leaving quite early in the morning for a climb,
07:43so I think I'll go on to bed.
07:46Good night, Madame Gaspar.
07:47Mr. Gaspar left the inn this morning
07:52before I wakened
07:54and have not seen him again.
07:58I have never known him to act so strange before.
08:01I have no idea what the reason is
08:03or what he may be planning to do,
08:06but I'm sure something is troubling him.
08:09Perhaps it may be something
08:11connected with his business
08:13back in London.
08:21My name is Matthew Brough.
08:24I've been Chief Clark
08:25in Mr. Bell's running office
08:26over the past 25 years.
08:29I've always found him to be
08:30a considerate and dependable employer.
08:33I've never noticed anything
08:35you might call unusual about him
08:37until one day about three weeks ago.
08:41Mr. Bell entered the establishment
08:43a bit late, as I recall,
08:45and passed immediately into his own office
08:47without acknowledging my customary greeting.
08:51A little while afterward,
08:53he sent for me.
08:55Well, Matthew,
08:56where do we go from here?
08:58I can't say that I follow you, Mr. Bell.
09:00Well, I mean,
09:02the company's on a steady footing,
09:03so if we use our heads at all,
09:05we don't stand much chance of losing anything.
09:07Our position is quite secure.
09:09On the other hand,
09:11we can't expect to do any more growing.
09:13We're through expanding.
09:14From now on,
09:15it's just a matter of operation.
09:17A most enjoyable condition, sir.
09:19Is it?
09:21There's nothing more to look forward to,
09:23nothing more to work for.
09:25So, as I said,
09:26where do we go from here?
09:27Matthew,
09:30I'm putting you in charge of the business,
09:33turning it over to you,
09:34effective this week.
09:35Mr. Bell,
09:36you can't possibly mean that.
09:37Oh, yes.
09:39I've just decided.
09:40But, uh,
09:41what are you going to do?
09:42I'm taking a trip.
09:44I'm,
09:44I'm going to Switzerland.
09:46Uh,
09:46climb a mountain.
09:47Oh?
09:48Oh, well,
09:49then at least it's only temporary,
09:51just for whatever time you're gone.
09:52That's right.
09:53Yes,
09:54for whatever time I'm gone.
09:55Just, uh,
09:56for whatever time I'm gone.
10:00Before the end of the week,
10:01he had arranged all the necessary papers
10:03and had left London.
10:05I haven't heard a word from him since,
10:08although I presume he's somewhere in Switzerland.
10:11Actually, however,
10:12I haven't the faintest idea
10:13of where Mr. Bell may be
10:15right at this moment.
10:24Men's pass on the glacier
10:25and the shadows grow longer
10:28from the jagged peaks
10:29to the west of the Shariok Glacier
10:31and reach out with dark fingers
10:34toward the man who clings to the icy wall
10:36while his pounding heart
10:38beats out the number of his time on Earth.
10:40Already those shadows have flowed
10:43into the awful depths below
10:44his swaying figure,
10:47blurring the sharp points
10:48of the tumbled rocks
10:49a thousand feet down
10:51and making the harsh void
10:53seem soft and inviting.
10:56The man's thoughts have grown
10:58as unwieldy
10:58as the heavy ice axe
11:00gripped in his hand.
11:01He keeps trying to remember
11:03that he is Christopher Bell,
11:05a human being
11:06and not a part of this
11:08free and empty space.
11:11For he knows
11:11if he stops remembering that
11:13he may forget all else too
11:16and then
11:16let go.
11:18There's been no reason
11:28for trying to locate Mr. Bell
11:29since nothing of any importance
11:31has occurred
11:31during these three weeks.
11:33I'm sure he's quite all right.
11:36Only
11:36one thing
11:38still puzzles me a bit.
11:40The remarkable change
11:41in him on that morning
11:43three weeks ago.
11:44I never heard him
11:45talk like that before.
11:47and
11:48whatever the reason
11:49for it
11:50I'm quite sure
11:51it was something
11:51that happened that morning
11:52before he came
11:54to the office.
12:02My name is John Huxford
12:04and I've been a conductor
12:06on the Westminster route
12:07for some 14 years now
12:09and during all that time
12:11Mr. Bell
12:11has been a daily passenger
12:12of mine
12:12on the early morning
12:13inbound run.
12:14As I recall it
12:17the first time
12:17anything you might say
12:18out of the way
12:19ever happened between us
12:21was one morning
12:22about three weeks ago.
12:24I saw Mr. Bell
12:25waiting at the usual place
12:26so I signaled to the driver
12:28to stop.
12:31Good morning Mr. Bell.
12:33Good morning.
12:34I'll be right there.
12:35Here now
12:36let me come down
12:37and help you sir.
12:38I'll make it.
12:39If you'll just
12:40take my arm
12:41Mr. Huxford
12:41my arm please.
12:43But I have taken
12:45your arm Mr. Bell.
12:46Oh yes of course
12:46I'm sorry.
12:48Up we go now.
12:53There you are sir.
12:55I had a bit
12:56of a shock
12:57this morning.
12:57I'm all right now.
12:58Well if it's all right
12:59now that's fine
13:00I say.
13:01Now take hold
13:02of the strap there now.
13:02Oh yes of course.
13:04Oh let me see
13:05I have the fare
13:07here somewhere.
13:08Oh yes
13:09here you are.
13:10Thank you sir.
13:11And
13:11and thank you.
13:13I
13:13I'm afraid you've
13:15brought something
13:16home to mind.
13:17I don't understand
13:18what you mean sir.
13:19Well
13:19Mr. Huxford
13:20have you ever had
13:22anyone take your arm
13:23and help you
13:24up a flight of steps?
13:25No.
13:26And I might say
13:26that I hope the day
13:27never comes when I
13:28well
13:29I'm sorry sir.
13:31Not at all.
13:32Thank you Mr. Huxford.
13:33Thank you very much.
13:36I don't rightly know
13:38what was wrong with him
13:39though it's certain
13:40that something was.
13:42I haven't seen him
13:43for nearly
13:44oh three weeks now.
13:46I can't imagine
13:47what it might have been
13:48what happened to him
13:49that morning
13:49before he got on the bus.
13:55My name is Jenkins.
13:56I've been Mr. Bell's
13:57personal valet
13:57for the past
13:58twelve years
13:58and seven months.
14:00The master is travelling
14:01somewhere on the continent
14:02and just a present.
14:03I've been gone
14:04something over two weeks now.
14:06Decided rather suddenly
14:07I believe.
14:08In fact
14:08I rather think
14:09something happened
14:10one morning
14:10about three weeks ago
14:11that caused him
14:12to make up his mind
14:13though I really haven't
14:14faintest idea
14:14what it might have been.
14:16I can remember
14:16noticing a very strange
14:17look on his face
14:18when he came down
14:18to breakfast that morning
14:19but thought nothing
14:20of it at the time.
14:21Good morning Jenkins.
14:23Good morning sir.
14:23Trust you had a pleasant
14:24night's rest?
14:25Oh yes
14:25yes yes I did
14:26thanks Jenkins.
14:27Are you having the usual
14:28aren't it just toast
14:28and tea?
14:29No no I
14:30I want nothing
14:30except some coffee.
14:32Very well sir
14:32I'll bring it right away.
14:33I can't let him find out.
14:35I can't let anyone
14:36find out about it.
14:38Maybe it's a little
14:38better now
14:39maybe it's going away.
14:40Maybe I'm giving it
14:41too much importance
14:42but
14:42no no no
14:43it's still there.
14:45That same lack
14:45of feeling clear
14:46down the whole
14:47right side of my body.
14:48No
14:49I can move my arm
14:50and leg all right
14:51but there's no
14:52feeling in them
14:52they're numb.
14:54It's simply that
14:55at 52 years of age
14:56I've had a light stroke.
15:00Your coffee sir.
15:01Oh thank you Jenkins.
15:02Would you care
15:03for something more sir?
15:04No no no
15:04that's all.
15:05If you'll pardon me sir
15:06you don't seem
15:07quite yourself this morning
15:08I do hope you're not here.
15:09No no no
15:09I'm all right Jenkins.
15:10I hope you won't
15:11mind my saying this
15:11Mr. Bell
15:12but you don't take
15:12very good care
15:13of yourself anymore.
15:14Oh please.
15:14It's been years now
15:15since you had a check up
15:16not since the mistress
15:16passed away in fact.
15:17I'm quite all right Jenkins
15:18I'm quite all right.
15:20Yes sir.
15:20I'm relieved to hear it sir.
15:21I'll bring your paper now sir.
15:23Good lord.
15:25Is this what a man
15:26slaves his life away for
15:27to end up helpless
15:28dependent on others
15:29to be wheeled about
15:30put out in the sun
15:32taken in
15:32like some great fat lava
15:34that's disgusting.
15:38Pardon me sir
15:38I didn't quite hear you.
15:40Oh nothing nothing Jenkins.
15:41Here's your paper sir.
15:42Oh thank you.
15:43Please call
15:44if you need anything else sir.
15:46I'll be in the pantry.
15:47I couldn't go on that way.
15:50I'd rather not go on.
15:52I've got to face it.
15:54This stroke
15:55is the first warning.
15:56There'll be others
15:56worse ones
15:57and in a short time
15:59I'll be helpless.
16:00There must be
16:01some way out.
16:02Not suicide
16:03but some way.
16:05There's got to be
16:06some way.
16:07The icy wall
16:14hardens into
16:15cold vitreous steel
16:16as the dust
16:17born shadows
16:18chill its surface.
16:21The merciless ice
16:22is beginning to freeze
16:23the cramped joints
16:24of the man's fingers now
16:25and the heavy axe
16:27swings idly at his belt
16:28tracing a fumbling pattern
16:30on the thin air
16:31of the void.
16:32How much longer
16:33can he cling to those
16:35slots in the glacier's face?
16:37How much longer
16:38does he have to live?
16:39Thirty seconds?
16:40A minute?
16:42What's the margin
16:43of safety now?
16:45And what does a man
16:46think of
16:46while his pulse
16:48beats slower
16:49and he waits
16:51to die?
16:55Strange how I'm able
16:56to go on
16:56hanging to this slope
16:58clinging on to life.
16:59I can't feel
17:00another ounce of strength
17:01left in me.
17:02Strange too
17:04how it seems
17:06I could stay here
17:07forever
17:07becoming part
17:09of the glacier
17:09itself
17:10looking down
17:11at the rocks below
17:12and out across
17:13the peaks
17:13and the ice.
17:15I was right.
17:17Dying isn't so bad
17:18really.
17:19Not when it's like this.
17:20Rather pleasant
17:21in fact.
17:23It looks so soft
17:24down there
17:24the shadows
17:25and the snow
17:26and the wind.
17:27perhaps I could
17:30let go
17:30float out on the wind
17:32like an eagle
17:33I'll be blown along
17:34by it like
17:35drifting snow.
17:38Well
17:38the sun's
17:40gone now
17:41it will be full dark
17:43in a few minutes
17:44maybe I can
17:46hold on that long
17:46but everything
17:48is dark
17:48even the snow
17:50and the ice
17:50and who knows
17:53perhaps I'll watch
17:54the sunrise tomorrow
17:55and set again
17:56and even beyond
17:58oh no no no
18:00I can't last
18:02even one full minute
18:03longer
18:04I'm through
18:05I'm finished
18:07I can't even
18:08last a half
18:09eh
18:10chips of ice
18:12sliding over the edge
18:13it's funny
18:15how a glacier
18:15sheds off that way
18:16I suppose
18:18the difference
18:18in temperature
18:19between day
18:19and
18:19oh wait
18:21an ice axe
18:26that was an axe
18:27no other sound
18:28in the world
18:28like it
18:29fell from up above
18:30the overhang there
18:31there must be
18:32somebody up there
18:33on the slope
18:33coming down
18:34from the top
18:35hello
18:35there is
18:37wait
18:38that's
18:39five
18:40six
18:41seven
18:42eight
18:43nine
18:44ten
18:45hello
18:45that's a mountaineer's
18:48call for help
18:49someone's dropped his axe
18:50and he's in trouble up there
18:51it's right above this bulge
18:52if I can only
18:54oh no no no
18:57my throat
18:58my throat's to dry
18:59well
19:00six more steps to cut
19:02to reach the edge there
19:04all right
19:06six
19:09more
19:10steps
19:12I was done in
19:18I was finished
19:19and now
19:20now
19:22five
19:24more
19:25steps
19:26just about
19:34does it
19:35last
19:36step
19:37Ted cut the rope
19:38and let me go
19:38there's no use of
19:40good lord
19:40it's a woman
19:41and there's a man
19:42upon the slope
19:43hold on up there
19:45I'll be with you
19:46in a minute
19:46Ted
19:47somebody's coming
19:48there's someone
19:49down here
19:50over
19:50the edge
19:51take it easy there
19:54everything's going to be
19:55all right
19:56thank heaven
19:58I don't know where you
19:59came from
20:00but thank heaven
20:00you're here
20:01yeah easy now
20:02let's get a step out
20:03for your feet
20:04I was
20:06just below
20:07the overhang there
20:08I heard the fellow up above
20:10call out
20:11he's got quite a voice on him
20:12it's my husband
20:14please hurry
20:15easy now
20:16step out here in a second
20:18you can put your feet on it
20:20you get your breath
20:21then we'll tackle the slope
20:23all right
20:23here now
20:24I'll scrape this ice away
20:26easy now
20:28there
20:30oh
20:31that's better isn't it
20:33oh yes
20:33oh
20:34oh you're all right now
20:35just lean there
20:36when you feel like it
20:37we'll
20:38we'll go on up
20:39my name is Christopher Bell
20:41by the way
20:42I'm
20:42I'm Anna Gerland
20:44thank you
20:45I
20:46I thought we were done
20:48I was cutting steps
20:50down ahead on the slope
20:51and I slipped
20:51and dropped my axe
20:52the rope held me
20:53but
20:53neither of us
20:55dared to move
20:55you're all right now
20:58as soon as you rest up a minute
20:59we'll cut some more steps
21:00back up the slope
21:01you should have started
21:03down this way
21:03you've never been able
21:05to pass that bulge
21:06yes I can see that now
21:07of course
21:08it's hard to tell
21:09when you're moving
21:10down the slope
21:10yes I
21:11I suppose it is
21:12you were
21:13coming up the slope
21:14weren't you
21:15yes I
21:15I came up from the foot
21:16alone
21:17and without a rope
21:18and you deliberately
21:20climb onto the underside
21:21of an
21:22overhanging wall
21:23let's
21:24just say
21:25we're both
21:26foolhardy
21:26is that what you call it
21:28if you've got your breath
21:30back now
21:31suppose we start up
21:32the slope
21:33oh here
21:34I can take my axe
21:35and cut the first step
21:36you trust me with it
21:37after I dropped
21:38my own
21:39anybody could make
21:40a mistake like that
21:41dropping an axe
21:42or climbing up
21:43under an overhang
21:44my name is Theodore
21:54and I'm the husband
21:55of the woman
21:56who slipped and fell
21:57on the wall
21:57of the glacier
21:58I'm a physician
22:00formerly of
22:01Harley Street
22:01London
22:02who I've practiced
22:03in Paris
22:03for several years
22:04now
22:04I met Mr. Bell
22:06when he and my wife
22:07reached the ice ledge
22:08where I stood
22:09waiting above them
22:10I was not immediately
22:12aware of his trouble
22:13but found out about it
22:14a short time later
22:15when we reached
22:15the rest hut
22:16at the top of the ridge
22:17while my wife
22:19heated water for tea
22:20at the far side
22:20of the room
22:21Bell and I
22:22fell into a much more
22:23personal conversation
22:24than strangers
22:25normally do
22:25but this sometimes
22:27happens when people
22:28have been very close
22:29to death
22:29at any rate
22:35Dr. Gerland
22:36well you can see
22:37how it is
22:38the life of an invalid
22:39doesn't seem
22:40very appealing
22:41tell me something
22:43Mr. Bell
22:43I gather you were
22:45pretty well done in
22:46when I called out
22:47there on the glacier
22:47you couldn't lift a hand
22:49then how do you
22:51account for being
22:52able to chop
22:53six steps into
22:54that ice
22:54in a matter
22:55of some five minutes
22:56I don't know
22:58exactly
22:58I was through
23:00I couldn't have
23:01lasted thirty seconds
23:02more
23:02but when I realized
23:05someone was in danger
23:06I don't know
23:08I forgot about it
23:09and this numbness
23:10this lack of feeling
23:11in your right side
23:12it didn't bother you
23:13no I didn't notice
23:14it isn't quite so bad
23:16now as a matter of fact
23:17and there's your
23:18answer Mr. Bell
23:19I
23:20I don't believe
23:21I follow you
23:22action
23:23when you were in action
23:24working because
23:25you had a reason
23:26living because
23:27you had to
23:28because somebody
23:29was depending on you
23:30then you were all right
23:32everything was back
23:33in its place again
23:34perhaps but
23:35a man can't spend
23:36all his time
23:37climbing up a mountain
23:38to save someone's life
23:39oh I don't mean
23:40physical action
23:40movement
23:41call it incentive
23:43if you like
23:43maybe that's a better
23:44way to put it
23:45incentive
23:45that's right
23:46it's the one top
23:48pressure that keeps
23:49life moving and
23:50growing
23:50and it's what
23:51you need
23:51well
23:53it's an interesting
23:54theory doctor
23:55but it's only
23:57a theory
23:57I'll have the tea
23:59ready in a moment
24:00is anybody
24:00interesting
24:01I am my dear
24:01lucky we brought it
24:02if no one minds
24:04I believe I'll have a
24:05turn outside while
24:06we're waiting
24:06of course not
24:07only be careful
24:08out there in the dark
24:08the ridge breaks off
24:10pretty sharply here
24:10oh yes I'll be careful
24:12oh um
24:13Dr. Gerland
24:15yes
24:15if things were
24:16turned around
24:17I wonder if it would
24:19be any more than
24:20just a theory to you
24:22Mr. Bell
24:36where are you
24:37I'm over here
24:38Mrs. Gerland
24:39beautiful isn't it
24:42with the stars
24:44so clear and bright
24:45yes
24:45well there won't be
24:47any more clear nights
24:48before the winter storms
24:49it would be a shame
24:51to give it up
24:51you and I
24:52what do you mean
24:54I've got to say this
24:56quickly
24:56because I don't want
24:57my husband to know
24:57we're not the kind
25:00who commit suicide
25:01you and I
25:01but I think we
25:02understand each other
25:03well you
25:04you'll have to
25:05say more than that
25:06you deliberately
25:08climbed into
25:09a dead end
25:09out on that glacier
25:10deliberately extended
25:12your safety margin
25:14beyond all possible limits
25:15didn't you
25:16what do you mean
25:18we understand each other
25:20because I did the same thing
25:21I went ahead
25:22I picked that route
25:24down the slope
25:25but
25:25no please wait
25:26in 30 seconds
25:28I would have cut myself
25:29loose from that rope
25:30oh we went to an awful
25:32lot of trouble
25:32so we wouldn't have to
25:33call it suicide
25:34didn't we
25:34you
25:35but why
25:36I have a brain
25:38condition
25:38there's no point
25:41in going into it
25:41but it's incurable
25:43and sooner or later
25:44at any moment
25:46I shall go blind
25:48oh no
25:48my husband doesn't
25:49know about it
25:49and I don't want him
25:50to
25:50Mr. Bell
25:52yes
25:53I'll make a bargain
25:55with you
25:55what sort of bargain
25:57I'm not brave really
25:59to go on living
26:01I need something
26:02to cling to
26:03I need to know
26:04all the time
26:04that there's someone
26:05else with courage too
26:06Mr. Bell
26:08I'll go on living
26:10if you will
26:11I'd say
26:12you're amazingly brave
26:14if I were
26:15I could do it alone
26:15without having to
26:17make myself
26:17dependent on you
26:18and your courage
26:19that sort of thing
26:21could work both ways
26:23I wouldn't dare
26:25let you down
26:26nor could I you
26:27do you want to
26:29make the bargain
26:30shall we go on
26:32living Mr. Bell
26:33as I said before
26:37I'm Dr. Theodore Guerin
26:39and I met Mr. Bell
26:41some three hours ago
26:42on the Chaliyoch Glacier
26:43at the moment
26:45he's outside the hut
26:46a few yards away
26:47talking to my wife
26:48I can hear the sound
26:50of their voices
26:51but I can't make out
26:52the words
26:53however I know
26:54what they're talking about
26:55what his answer
26:57would be
26:58my wife and I
26:59discussed that
27:00before she went out
27:00to join him
27:01you may have heard
27:03of my wife
27:03incidentally
27:04though it would
27:05likely have been
27:06under the stage name
27:07she uses in the
27:08Paris theater
27:09you see she's
27:10she's quite a
27:12talented actress
27:13escape is produced and
27:34directed by Norman
27:35McDonald
27:36and tonight brought
27:37to you action by
27:38C.E. Montague
27:39adapted for radio by
27:41Les Crutchfield
27:42and featuring
27:43Joseph Kearns
27:44as Christopher Bell
27:45and Eric Rolfe
27:47as the voice
27:48with Louis Van Rooten
27:49as Dr. Golan
27:50Marta Mitrovich
27:51as Greta
27:52Jeff Corey
27:53as Brough
27:54Ray Lawrence
27:55as Huxford
27:56Barry Kroger
27:57as Jenkins
27:58and Joan Banks
28:00as Mrs. Golan
28:01the musical score
28:02was conceived
28:03and conducted
28:04by Wilbur Hatch
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