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An old captain finds himself performing an unusual operation, in an unusual way! You are clinging precariously to a diving, pitching long boat, lashed by mountainous seas in the middle of a hurricane. And at the helm driving you on is a man bent on revenge and willing to kill for it. Based on the ironic story by F.R. Buckley.
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00:00FED UP WITH THE EVERYDAY GRIND
00:04TIRED OUT FROM THE SUMMER HEAT
00:06WANT TO GET AWAY FROM IT ALL
00:10WE OFFER YOU ESCAPE
00:13ESCAPE
00:18DESIGNED TO FREE YOU FROM THE FOUR WALLS OF TODAY
00:21FOR A HALF HOUR OF HIGH ADVENTURE
00:23YOU ARE CLINGING PRECARIOUSLY TO A DIVING, PITCHING LONGBOAT
00:32LASHED BY MOUNTAINESS SEAS IN THE MIDDLE OF A HURRICANE
00:35AND AT THE HELM DRIVING YOU ON
00:39IS A MAN BENT ON REVENGE
00:42AND WILLING TO KILL FOR IT
00:53TONIGHT WE ESCAPE TO THE OPEN SEA
00:56WITH AN ANCIENT TRAMP STEAMER
00:58AND ITS FIGHTING CAPTAIN
01:00AS FR BUCKLEY TOLD IT
01:01IN HIS IROCIC STORY
01:03HABIT
01:04VERY WELL
01:20THE COURT HAS NO MORE QUESTIONS
01:23STEP DOWN, PLEASE
01:24THANK YOU, SIR
01:26I MEAN, YOUR HONOR
01:27WELL, CAPTAIN WEATHERFIELD
01:33YOU'VE JUST HEARD THE COMPLAINING WITNESS
01:35HAVE YOU ANYTHING TO SAY IN YOUR OWN DEFENSE?
01:38YEAH
01:39HIT THE MAN ABOUT A BIT
01:41NO DOUBT OF THAT, YOUR HONOR
01:43IN FACT, WITH HALF CHANCE
01:44THEY'D HAVE POUNDED HIS BLASTED HEAD OFF
01:46QUIET
01:48QUIET
01:49THEY'VE ORDERED THE COURT
01:51THEN YOU ADMIT THE CHARGES, CAPTAIN WEATHERFIELD
01:55THEN I HIT HIM
01:56HERE
01:56BUT I HAD STENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES, YOUR HONOR
01:59I SEE
02:00AND WHAT WERE THERE?
02:02HE LAUGHED AT MY SHIP
02:04AT THE WAITLIN, YOUR HONOR
02:06AS FINE A FREATER AS EVER STEAMED OUT OF HERE
02:08ON THE LIVERPOOL RUN
02:09I DON'T QUITE SEE
02:11HE STOOD THERE ON THE WAF
02:12SCWINT-EYED SON OF A LAND-LUBBERED LAWYER
02:14HE SAID MY SHIP LOOKED LIKE AN OLD WOMAN
02:16WITH HER DRESS ON BACKWARDS, HER HAIR NOT COMED
02:20THAT'S WHERE I FLATTENED IT OUT
02:21YES, AND I STILL SAY THAT'S WHAT SHE LOOKS LIKE
02:26ORDER
02:26WHERE YOU CONFONDED LITTLE PIMSQUEAKER
02:28I'LL BREAK YOUR PART
02:29SIT HIM DOWN, CAPTAIN WEATHERFIELD
02:31GRAB HIM, BAILIFF
02:33LET GO OF ME
02:34LET GO OF ME
02:35LET GO OF ME
02:36ORDER IN THE COURT
02:37CAPTAIN WEATHERFIELD
02:40CAPTAIN WEATHERFIELD
02:42THIS COURT FIND YOU GUILTY OF ASSAULT AND BATTERY AS CHARGED
02:46AND SENTENCES YOU TO SEVEN DAYS IN THE NEW BRISTOL CITY JAIL
02:51ALL RIGHT, BAILIFF
02:53LOCK HIM UP
02:54AND THAT'S THE WAY IT STARTED
03:03WITH THE CAPTAIN GETTING SEVEN DAYS IN THE NEW BRISTOL JAIL
03:07YEAH, BUT IT WENT A WHOLE LOT FURTHER BEFORE IT WAS OVER
03:10IT WAS LIKE A BOLT OF CHAIN LIGHTNING
03:12THAT MAY TAKE A DOZEN STRANGE TURNS OR MORE
03:16BEFORE IT FINALLY STRIKES HOME
03:18AND, ACTUALLY, OF COURSE
03:20THE WAKELAND WAS A FUNNY-LOOKING OLD SCOW
03:24SHE'D HAD THIRTY YEARS IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC
03:27WITH NEVER A POD BEING REPLACED
03:29SO LONG AS THERE WAS SOME WAY OF PATCHING IT UP
03:32YEAH, SHE WAS A REGULAR JOKE OF A SHIP
03:35THAT IS, TO EVERYBODY EXCEPT CAPTAIN WEATHERFIELD
03:39YEAH, THOSE OF US WHO WERE OFFICERS OF BORDER
03:42HAD LEARNED A LONG TIME BEFORE NOT TO HINT ANYTHING LIKE THAT TO HIM
03:46NO, SHE WAS THE QUEEN MARY AND THE NORMANDY AND HIS FIRSTBORN CHILD ALL ROLLED UP INTO ONE
03:53SO YOU CAN BET YOUR LIFE WE ALL KEPT SOBER FACES WHEN THE CAPTAIN FINALLY CAME ABOARD AT THE END OF THE WEEK
04:00Mr. Connolly
04:02Yes, sir
04:03Well, everything in order
04:05Will we be able to sail in an hour?
04:07Yes, sir
04:08I've been keeping her ready for the last four days
04:10Just in case you might, uh
04:12I'm fully aware that we're four days past schedule
04:15And the reason for it will not be discussed on board
04:18Is that clear?
04:20Yes, Captain
04:21I've been badly treated in this town, Mr. Connolly
04:24Thrown behind bars like some thieving dock rat
04:27I don't feel good about it
04:29And if it takes me the rest of my life, I'm going to even up the score
04:33Do you understand that?
04:35I, uh, think so
04:36You think so, sir?
04:38Yes, sir
04:39All right
04:40Then button up your collar
04:42And go get up ahead of steam
04:44So three days later, we were plowing through a heavy sea
04:55580 miles out on the Atlantic
04:58The spray was freezing in the rigging
05:00We were flirting with the fringe of a northeast hurricane
05:04Past this double blasted confounding wind
05:13Mr. Connolly
05:16Well, how's she looking, Mr. Connolly?
05:21Not so bad
05:22We're taking the seas in our quarter
05:23And so far, we're making only about four inches of water an hour
05:26Four inches of water an hour, sir
05:28Yes, sir
05:30Good
05:30Then we'll take a chance on it
05:33Take a chance on what, sir?
05:36A distress message
05:37Just picked it up in the wireless shack
05:39Oh
05:39Here, take a look
05:41Freighter, Johannes
05:43Out of New Bristol
05:44Main shaft broken
05:46Auxiliaries out of commission
05:47Shipping water fast
05:48Latitude 4630
05:50Longitude
05:51Let me see
05:53Yeah, yeah
05:56About 90 miles from us
05:57Norburn to west
05:58Yeah
05:59That's right, Mr. Connolly
06:00Lay out the course
06:01You
06:02What?
06:03We should sight her sometime around dawn
06:05If we hold to full speed all night
06:07Full speed
06:08Dead into a hurricane
06:10Why, the Wakelin would fall apart in two hours
06:12I doubt it
06:13She's a good ship
06:15Lay out the course
06:16Yeah, but the Johannes is right in the main shipping lane
06:19Somebody else is bound to pick her up before morning anyway
06:22Mr. Connolly
06:23We can hope not
06:24What do you mean, hope not?
06:27Evidently, you didn't notice her registry, Mr. Connolly
06:29She's out of New Bristol
06:31Well, what of it?
06:33That, as you may recall, is the town that threw me into jail
06:35Got in all the papers
06:37Like as not my daughters up in Maine have probably read about it for now
06:41I'll not have them think in their fathers
06:43A man who does nothing but go around punching people in the dogging
06:46All right, but what's it got to do with this?
06:48I'm going to be alongside the Johannes before anybody else is, Mr. Connolly
06:52I'm going to rescue every man aboard her
06:55Then I'm going to take them back to New Bristol
06:57And get a public apology out of that town
07:00And I'll see that that gets in the papers, too
07:03I've never heard of anything so crazy
07:05I don't care what you've never heard of, Mr. Connolly
07:07Lay out that cross now before I get mad
07:11Decide to punch somebody's blasted head off
07:14Well, the little cock of the walk made good the first part of his plan, all right
07:29In spite of a broken steam injector that had to be patched up with rigging wire
07:35By shortly after dawn, he had us hoved to
07:38Half a cable length off from the Johannes
07:40But he was down by the stern and listening badly
07:44But he's still afloat
07:45The wind was howling like a banshee
07:47And the flying spume was freezing all over our decks
07:51There was no doubt that what the next part of our job
07:54Was going to be a lot tougher than the first part
07:56Help me, Connolly
07:59We've got to both crew together
08:00Yes, sir
08:01There'll be five seamen and a third mate
08:03I'll take charge myself
08:04Leave the third mate aboard
08:06I'll take charge myself
08:07It's my show
08:08I'm going to run it
08:09All right, Captain
08:10Whatever you say
08:11Well, let's hold him this up
08:13Let's get this boat over the side
08:14Not so broken, Captain
08:16Carpenter's trying to break the loose
08:18Well, he's not cracking wall dance at a tea party
08:20Fair chips, give me that mallet
08:22Mr. Rowitz
08:24Yes, sir
08:25You'll stay on board
08:26Yes, sir
08:27Keep my oil slick running
08:28Waves out there
08:30Pretty high
08:32Pretty high?
08:33I've never seen him any higher
08:34Well, I can't help it, Mr. Connolly
08:37I've got it
08:38There, that did it
08:40One, two, ready
08:41All right, man
08:43Lower away
08:44For the seven of us who went over side in the longboat
08:56That command was the beginning of a nightmare
08:58If things had been bad up on the Wakelands deck
09:01They were a hundred times worse down there
09:04In the very midst of that smash in that tumbling maelstrom of water and wind
09:09A continuous driving spray was torn from the wave crests
09:13And froze solid on the gunnels and the boat seats and on our faces
09:18One man bailed constantly while the others pulled away on the oars with bleeding hands
09:24And even then
09:26We were never far from foundering
09:27Captain Weatherfield sat in a stern
09:31And shouted orders
09:32None of us could hear
09:33But we could see his face
09:35And that was enough to keep us at it
09:37With a halo of sheet glass around his souwester
09:41And his gray beard turned to a frozen mass of jumbled icicles
09:45He looked like Neptune come to life
09:48Or maybe even more like
09:50Like the devil himself
09:52It took us over two hours before we finally hauled in
10:03Against the rusty side of the battered old Johannes
10:06Ahoy, the deck
10:08Ahoy, sir
10:10Been watching you
10:12Hard to admit it
10:15You'll have to jump for it
10:17Can't use a ladder
10:18Sea's too heavy
10:20Understand
10:22Already here
10:25Wait till we come up on a swell
10:28We'll hold as steady as we can
10:30Stand by now
10:33No
10:33Not yet
10:34Good Lord
10:36He fell on the gun
10:37Lasted fool
10:38Told him to wait
10:39He smashed in his chest
10:40Why
10:41He's the captain of the ship
10:42Then he had no business jumping fast anyhow
10:44Call him aboard, Mr. Conley
10:45Get him on the way
10:46All right
10:48Ready on deck
10:49All right there
10:52Steady
10:53Now
10:55Good
10:57Stole that man after
10:58On deck
10:59Wait till the swell
11:00Wait, wait
11:01Now
11:01Get him, Conley
11:03A blast to sea
11:04You are decked
11:06Jump now
11:07Wait
11:09You better help him out there
11:10Here comes another
11:11Catch him, catch him
11:12There he is
11:13Call him in, Conley
11:14Good
11:15Back horse, you
11:17Stand by
11:17Four and a half later
11:19Here comes another one
11:20Hold her steady
11:21Keep one horn against the side there
11:24Anybody else up there, mister?
11:25No
11:26No, sir
11:27Six of us
11:28Others lost overboard
11:30Last night
11:31All right then
11:31Back off yours
11:32You there, Plano
11:33Get a hold of that horn
11:34He can't do it very well
11:35With only one arm, Captain
11:37What do you mean, one arm?
11:39He broke his arm
11:40A couple of minutes ago
11:41When we bumped the side
11:42Then give him a bucket
11:43At least he can bail
11:44All right
11:45Let's go
11:45It was six hours before we finally got back aboard the Wakelin
11:56But we did get back
11:58And I doubt if any other man but Captain Weatherfield could have done it
12:02True enough, he fainted across the engine room hatch once we were on board
12:06But, uh, I don't forget
12:08He was 72 years old
12:10He'd taken a crew of six
12:12Out in an open boat on the high seas
12:15In the middle of a hurricane
12:16Rescued six more men off a sinking ship
12:19And brought the whole twelve back alive
12:21Well, one of them, of course, was only barely alive
12:25And that was Captain Miller of the Johannes
12:26He was still unconscious
12:28I had him put in a bunk
12:30And hoped for the best
12:31And then I turned in to grab a few hours' sleep
12:36I guess it was sometime after midnight
12:49When the third mate called me
12:50I got dressed
12:52Went down
12:53Woke up the captain
12:54Confounded, Mr. Conley
12:57Can't the man even close as I spot this ship
13:01Without somebody rousing him out of his bunk
13:03I'm sorry, Captain
13:04Thought you ought to know
13:05Uh, Miller's conscious now
13:07He wants to see, uh
13:08He thinks he's
13:09He's dying
13:09Dying, is it?
13:11Yeah
13:12I'll see about that
13:13Where's my pants?
13:14Well
13:14Uh, here you are, sir
13:18Thank you
13:19Yeah, might be a good thing
13:21If Miller did die
13:23According to his first mate, Larson
13:25Huh?
13:26Well, Larson says they, uh
13:28They had plenty of warning of this storm
13:30But Miller drove straight on into it
13:31He was racing for port
13:33Oh, racing for port
13:34Yeah
13:34Bad business
13:35There'll be an inquiry on it
13:37He'll lose his ticket when they find out
13:39It's also bad business, Mr. Conley
13:42When first mates talk out of turn
13:44Come on
13:45Where is he?
13:48I put him in the cabin off the ward room
13:50The third mate's in there with him now
13:52How is the ship heading?
13:54New south
13:55New south?
13:56Well, we're running before the wind
13:57Can't do anything else
13:58I told you, Mr. Conley
13:59To lay a course for new pistols
14:01I know
14:01But we can't do it
14:02The main boiler's out
14:03And we're on the auxiliaries
14:04It may take two days to fix it
14:06Confound the luck
14:08Risk my life to rescue a man
14:10Tries to die on me
14:12Now that bonehead engineer
14:13Has let the main boiler break down
14:14That's not his fault
14:15It should have been replaced five years ago
14:17Five years ago?
14:18What, Mr. Conley?
14:19Five years ago, sir
14:21Good
14:21Here we are
14:23Oh, glad to go to you, sir
14:27I was getting worried
14:28It's all right, Mr. Roberts
14:30Here, stand back a bit
14:32To hold the night up
14:33Yes
14:33There
14:34That's fine
14:35Evening, Captain Miller
14:37Evening
14:39Captain
14:40You're in some pain, I take it?
14:43Yeah
14:43Feels like
14:45Something sharp
14:47Sticking my chest
14:49Getting worse
14:52Hmm
14:52Something sharp, eh?
14:54No doubt the broken end of a rib
14:56Poking into your lungs
14:57Yeah
14:57Guess so
15:01Feels like there's a rib gone
15:04Well
15:09I want to make a statement
15:13Of a log
15:14I do
15:15Figure you're getting ready to die
15:17Is that it?
15:18Yeah
15:18Not much chance
15:21Shouldn't I
15:23Shouldn't I jump first?
15:25No
15:25Shouldn't have
15:26Understand you was racing for pot
15:28Drove straight into the storm
15:30Yeah
15:31I had to
15:33It's my wife
15:35Her first baby
15:37Wanted to be with her
15:39What's he saying, sir?
15:41Wife's thinking of having a baby, Roberts
15:42Oh
15:43Statement
15:44Responsibility
15:46We'll discuss that later, Captain
15:48That lung gets a hole punched in it
15:51You're done for
15:52It's practically done for now
15:54You know, Mr. Connolly
15:55I saw a doctor open up a man once
15:57Take a broken rib out of him
15:59Think I can remember fairly well how he went about it
16:01And there ought to be some chlorofob on board
16:04Captain, Captain, where is it?
16:06You shut up, Mr. Connolly
16:07Uh, Captain Miller
16:09It's one chance in a million
16:10But you've got no chance now
16:12How about it?
16:15Anything
16:15Doesn't matter
16:17Be an inquiry boy
16:20Better to die
16:23Well, we'll worry about that later
16:24All right, then
16:25Go find that chlorofob, Mr. Roberts
16:27Yes, sir
16:28And bring me a bar of soap
16:29Yes
16:29And get a couple of them little knives
16:31Uh, whatever they call them
16:33Out of the medicine locker
16:34Yes, sir, right away
16:35Uh, Mr. Connolly
16:36Go wake up that fast freight of his
16:38Get him in here
16:39We'll need a witness to Captain Miller's consent
16:41All right, sir
16:41And Mr. Connolly
16:42Yes, sir
16:43Find chips and borrow his chest of tools
16:45Never can tell what you'll find
16:47Once you start to open a man up
16:48In ten minutes, we had everything ready
17:01Larson signed a statement
17:02Swearing that Captain Miller had agreed to it
17:05And the third mate, with his face white as a sheet
17:08Stood at the head of the bunk
17:10Dripping chloroform onto a towel
17:13And holding it over Miller's nose and mouth
17:16I held the light in one hand
17:18And kept the other on the patient's pulse
17:21While Captain Weatherfield rolled up his sleeves
17:23And started in on a major operation
17:26That he thought he'd seen some doctor perform once
17:30Everything snug and proper
17:38How's he seem to be getting along, Mr. Connolly?
17:41Uh, I don't know
17:41He's still breathing
17:43I know he's breathing, man
17:44It's his chest I'm operating on
17:46How's his pulse?
17:47Pretty weak
17:48Uh, no worse than it was
17:50Hmm
17:50Keep that chloroform dripping, Mr. Roberts
17:53Yes, sir
17:54Well?
17:55There's no time like the present
18:00Oh
18:00Hold that light steady, Mr. Connolly
18:03Yes, sir
18:03Steady yourself
18:04Now, let me see
18:06I think that doctor did it like, like this
18:11Hmm?
18:13I've used up half the chloroform, Captain
18:15Keep it dripping, Roberts
18:17Hmm
18:18Well
18:19Well, now
18:20Don't remember anything like that being in there
18:23See now
18:25Uh, pulse is getting pretty weak
18:28Mr. Connolly, don't bother me
18:29We've got more important things here to think about
18:32Mm-hmm
18:33That's it
18:36Here's the end of the rib, all right?
18:39Now, if I can, uh, just
18:41That's all right, let it go
18:43Don't need the knife anymore
18:44Confound it, Connolly
18:46Give me a little more room to work in
18:48Cabin's small enough stairs
18:49Captain
18:50His pulse has stopped
18:52No, it hasn't, Mr. Connolly
18:53Now
18:55Now, why the devil
18:57Doesn't that rib come loose when I
18:58It's no use, Captain
19:00He's dead
19:01His heart stopped beating
19:02Mr. Connolly
19:03Don't stand there
19:05Try to tell me his heart stopped
19:06When I can see it beating
19:08Right now
19:08Mr. Larson
19:10Uh, yes, sir
19:11Would you look at that tool chest behind you?
19:13See if you can find me a pair of pliers
19:16I doubt if there's ever been another operation like it before or since
19:28By all rights, Captain Miller should have died ten times over
19:32Right there on the bunk
19:33Only he, uh, he didn't
19:36He was unconscious for 48 hours
19:43But on the fifth day he was sitting up on a deck chair and cussing
19:47Because somebody had slung his broken rib overboard
19:50Instead of saving it so he could whittle out a letter opener
19:54We were driven 600 miles to the south before the storm blew itself out
20:04And we got the main boiler back into operation
20:06And could lay a course for New Bristol
20:08And three days away from port
20:11Captain Weatherfield called all of us officers of the Wakeland together in the chat room
20:16Along with first mate Larson of the Johannes
20:18Gentlemen
20:20There may be some questions in your minds in regard to what this meeting is all about
20:25No doubt you're wondering, even if you aren't asking
20:28Am I right?
20:29Well, yes, sir
20:30We have been trying to guess
20:32Then I'll tell you, gentlemen
20:34I called this meeting to put a stop to certain idle rumors
20:38Which I hear have been floating around
20:40Uh, just what kind of rumors, Captain Weatherfield?
20:43Them which says that Captain Miller of late ship Johannes
20:46Deliberately drove head on into a storm
20:48While racing to make port
20:50There's no rumor about that
20:52It's what he was doing
20:54As his first mate, I should know
20:56And I say he wasn't, Mr. Larson
20:58The way I figure it
21:00Got caught by the storm without any warning
21:02He gave orders for full speed to try to beat out of it
21:05A couple of hours later, the main shaft broke
21:08Left him helpless without steerage way
21:09Could happen to anybody
21:11Maybe
21:12Only it didn't
21:14I was there, Captain Weatherfield
21:17I know what happened
21:19And there's five of my crew left to back me up
21:22They'll back up anything you say, Mr. Larson
21:24You know that
21:25Then there's nothing to talk about
21:27When the board of inquiry gets through with Miller
21:30He won't command another ship as long as he lives
21:33So, there's not going to be any board of inquiry
21:37Huh?
21:39Maybe that's not up to you
21:40Which is what we're here to decide
21:42I don't get it, Captain
21:44Miller's a rat
21:45He was the first one to jump when we come alongside
21:47Anything that happens to him serves him right
21:49Now why should you stick up for him?
21:51My personal opinion of the man has nothing to do with this, Mr. Conley
21:54I say there'll be no board of inquiry
21:57Because it suits my purposes that there be none
21:59And, uh, just what are your purposes, Captain?
22:03I drove my ship 90 miles off a course in a hurricane
22:05Risked my life in an open boat
22:07Just for one reason, Mr. Larson
22:09Because I knew you were registered out of New Bristol
22:12Oh, so that's it
22:14Aye, Mr. Conley
22:15That's it
22:15I operated on a man saved his life
22:18Just so he could stand up alongside of me
22:19Have our pictures taken for the newspapers
22:21I get it
22:23So, you don't want some messy board of inquiry
22:25Throwing scandal in the story of your noble rescue on the high sea, eh?
22:29You want to be a blasted hero?
22:31Mr. Larson
22:32Being a hero has got nothing to do with it
22:34But I am planning to get a public apology out of the town of New Bristol
22:37And you or nobody else is going to do anything to stop me
22:41Ah, well, it's too bad you haven't got the whole say about it, Captain
22:44And it's too bad you're so bullheaded
22:46Set on swear it away your captain's ticket
22:47That you force me to teach you a lesson
22:50And just how are you aiming to do that?
22:52By knocking a little sense into your thick noggin
22:55Something like this
22:56Oh, so it's a fight you're after, all right
23:01Come on, Captain, teach me a lesson
23:06I'll teach you a race
23:09Get up, Mr. Larson
23:12I'll get up, all right
23:16He's got a pair of dividers
23:18So you'd try to stab him, would you?
23:20Ow, I'll jump
23:21Well, Larson
23:25What about it?
23:27All right
23:28All right, I'm through
23:32There going to be a bard of inquiry?
23:35No
23:35I'll back up anything you say
23:39Good
23:39What about the rest of you?
23:41Anything I say go?
23:43Yes, sir
23:44All right, then
23:45Get back on watch
23:47What do you think this is?
23:48A peaceful hover of a Sunday?
23:50It was a clear, sunshiny day
24:00When we steamed into New Bristol Harbor
24:02And dropped anchor at the mouth of the river
24:04Captain Weatherfield sent Miller on a short quarantine
24:08Insisting that his reason was not just to make sure of having a reception ready
24:15Nonetheless, he spent an hour and a half
24:17Shaving, trimming his hair, and dressing up in his best shoregoing clothes
24:23But he had a right to strut a little at that
24:26He'd move through a whole series of tough jobs
24:29Every one against almost impossible odds
24:31And he'd come out on top
24:33And all because he wanted his daughters up in Maine
24:36To know he could do something once in a while besides
24:39Punch people in the noggin
24:42It was mid-afternoon
24:49By the time we finally rowed ashore on the long boat
24:52And a good-sized crowd had assembled on the walk
24:55And when we got in close
24:57We could see Captain Miller
24:58Waiting by the landing
24:59Along with the regular reception committee
25:02All dressed up in striped pants and top hats
25:05Like a bunch of foreign diplomats
25:08And the head man of the whole layout
25:10Was the same judge who'd given the captain
25:12Seven days in jail
25:14Easy now, Mr. Connolly
25:16I'll hold it steady, sir
25:24Thank you
25:25Welcome, Captain Weatherfield
25:32On behalf of the town of New Bristol
25:34Well, now, it's mighty nice of you, Judge
25:35Not at all, Captain
25:37We're the ones who are honored
25:38The whole town
25:39And we want you to know it
25:40Well, thank you, Judge
25:41Captain Miller here has given us the complete story
25:44The rescue at sea
25:45The daring operation that saved his life
25:47Here, here
25:48How you feeling, Captain Miller?
25:49A little tired right now, Captain
25:51Been pretty busy
25:53Arranging things, you know
25:55Here, here
25:56Of course
25:57You're a hero in this town, Captain Weatherfield
25:59There's nothing too good for you
26:01We're proud of you
26:02I was wondering if you'd recall a little incident
26:05Where we met before, Judge
26:06Not so long ago
26:07A terrible mistake
26:08I'll never forgive myself
26:09I feel I owe you a public apology, Captain Weatherfield
26:12Well, now, I don't believe
26:13I know just what to say, Judge
26:14Nothing at all to say, Captain Weatherfield
26:17As I said before
26:19We're the ones who are honored
26:20The whole town of New Bristol
26:21And all of New England, too, by Jove
26:23Once those reporters get their stories on the wire
26:26Hmm
26:26Reporters, eh?
26:28Well, now, that's going to too much trouble, Judge
26:30Oh, not at all, Captain
26:31Not at all
26:32They'll be wanting an interview with you, you know
26:34We've had quite a time keeping them off this long
26:37You're a hero, ma'am
26:38Don't you realize that?
26:39I only did my duty, Judge
26:40The New Bristol needs more men
26:42Who only do their duty, Captain Weatherfield
26:45Mighty nice of you to say so
26:46When I recall the way you were treated here
26:49A few weeks ago, Captain
26:50Well, all I can do
26:52Is to ask your forgiveness
26:53Publicly
26:54I suspect that might be arranged, Judge
26:56I'm not a man, fair grudge
26:57A fact which your actions have proven, sir
26:59Hmm
27:00Them there fellas with the cameras
27:02Are they reporters, are they?
27:04Oh, yes
27:04Yes, indeed, Captain
27:05Well, of course, they're photographers, really
27:07They're taking them pictures to print in the newspapers, are they?
27:10That's right, Captain
27:11They'll be seen by people all over the country
27:14Aye
27:15I suppose we might walk over that way?
27:18Certainly, Captain Weatherfield
27:19Certainly
27:20Anything you like
27:21What's your joy, Captain Miller?
27:23Thanks, gentlemen
27:23You know
27:26I was just thinking
27:28If they print a picture of that ship out there
27:30Nobody will believe the story
27:32What did you say, Captain Miller?
27:35I said they wouldn't believe it
27:37To look at that old mud sky
27:39You wouldn't think she could float in a calm sea
27:41Much less...
27:42Good heavens, he struck them
27:44I'll teach you to call my ship a mud scowl
27:46Squint-eyed son of a five-nicked salamander
27:48Stop, I say
27:50Stop
27:51Stop it
27:52Stop it
27:53Constable
27:55Constable
27:56Arrest that man and look him up
27:59I'm filing the charge of assaulting battery
28:02Escape
28:10Escape
28:10Produced and directed by Norman McDonald
28:12Tonight brought you Habit
28:14By F.R. Buckley
28:15Adapted for radio by Les Crutchfield
28:17With editorial supervision by John Dunkel
28:19Featured in tonight's cast
28:21Were John Boehner as Mr. McConley
28:23And Louis Van Rooten as Captain Weatherfield
28:25With Wilms Herbert as Captain Miller
28:28Barry Kroger as the judge
28:29And Bill Boucher as First Mate Larson
28:32Special music by Ivan Ditmars
28:34Next week
28:38You're making your painful way over the great India desert
28:42Alone and dying of thirst
28:44While behind you, pursuing you, are the fanatical Kafirs
28:49Who once bowed to you as king
28:51And now, call for your life
28:59Next week
29:03We escape with Rudyard Kipling's exciting story
29:06The Man Who Would Be King
29:07Good night then until this same time
29:10Next week
29:10When once again we offer you
29:12Escape
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