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You are alone in your book lined study listening to the idiot gibberings of a parrot and beside you caressing you is an invisible thing, a loathsome thing, from which you must escape.
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00:00Worried about income tax?
00:05Wonder if spring will ever come?
00:08Want to get away from it all?
00:10We offer you escape!
00:15We offer you escape!
00:20You were alone.
00:25In your book line study.
00:27Listening to the idiot gibberings of a parrot.
00:30And beside you, caressing you is an invisible thing.
00:35A loathsome thing from which you must escape.
00:40A loathsome thing.
00:45A loathsome thing.
00:50Escape.
00:51Produced and directed by William N. Robeson.
00:54And carefully...
00:55I contrive to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure.
01:00...
01:01B-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b.
01:02...
01:03...
01:05Tonight we escape to the west end of London to a little house just
01:10off Hyde Park where lived a man who didn't like people.
01:15Tonight we escape in the remarkable tale of Robert Hitchens, our love for
01:20came to Professor Gildia.
01:25The End
01:30It has been said that no night ever passes over London time.
01:35That sees not some strange and curious event.
01:39Some occurrence too in
01:40incredible to bear repeating in the light of day.
01:43How horribly true are those
01:45words.
01:50It's been over a year now since the night I first met the amazing
01:55Professor Gildia.
01:56I had delivered a sermon at the rectory of St. Swithin in the
02:00East End and was passing through the foyer in departure when I was accosted brusquely
02:05by an odd little man.
02:06Remarkably sharp-featured, his face adorned by a point of
02:10painted black goatee.
02:11Pardon me a moment please.
02:12I believe you're Father Murchison.
02:13Yes, that's right.
02:14But I
02:15I don't think I've had the pleasure of-
02:16Perhaps you've heard of me.
02:17My name's Gildia, Professor Gildia.
02:19Gildia
02:20Why, yes.
02:21You're the famous psychologist.
02:22Yes, psychologist, biologist, anthropologist, philosopher.
02:25That takes care of that.
02:26Sir, I never attend religious services.
02:29It appears
02:30you've done so tonight.
02:31I came for one reason.
02:32To hear you.
02:33Find out why another wise-
02:35normal colleague of mine thinks you're the most convincing speaker he's ever listened
02:39to.
02:40And did you-
02:40find out?
02:41No.
02:42Your talk was intelligent, logical.
02:44Therefore it could never con-
02:45convince anybody of anything.
02:47You're a direct man, Professor Gildia.
02:50No time to be anything else.
02:51I'd like to have you dine with me, Father Murchison, say a week from tonight.
02:557 o'clock.
02:56I live at 100 Hyde Park in the West End.
02:58Can't we make it two weeks?
03:00I'm-
03:00I've been preaching at St. Saviour's that night, just round the corner from the park.
03:04And I'm afraid it'll-
03:05you'll have to be nearer 8.30, then 7.00.
03:07The service isn't over so well.
03:08We can't even agree on a time for-
03:10for dinner.
03:11Very well.
03:128.30, two weeks.
03:13Good night, sir.
03:15Perhaps a-
03:20if I had known then what would no matter.
03:23I kept the appointment of...
03:25of course.
03:26And after an excellent dinner,
03:27we climbed the stairs to Gildia's study.
03:30A large book-lined room running the width of the house
03:33with windows at the end overlooking...
03:35the park.
03:36In front of those windows
03:37stood the one incongruous thing in the room.
03:40A cage holding a large grey parrot.
03:45In fact, as I recall,
03:49it was the parrot.
03:50That was responsible for my first becoming aware
03:52of what exact opposites Gildia and I really were.
03:55The same parrot that was responsible
03:57for so many other things.
04:00That happened later.
04:03Quiet, Napoleon, quiet.
04:05One day that infernal squawking of yours
04:06will drive me to wring your neck.
04:08Somehow it surprises me, Gildia.
04:10Um, I mean you're keeping a pet.
04:11I possess a parrot, Father Murchison,
04:13that's all.
04:15Made a study of the imitative faculties of animals
04:17some months ago.
04:18Bought the bird then.
04:20Never got rid of it.
04:21I see.
04:21Started the bad habit
04:23of scratching the fool thing's head.
04:25Loves it, you see.
04:28And...
04:30In five minutes you'll be screaming
04:31for more of it.
04:33Why would it surprise you?
04:35So much if I kept a pet.
04:36Well, because I believe
04:38you're the most self-sufficient man
04:39I ever...
04:40More than that, actually.
04:42I detest affection.
04:43Any display of sentiment...
04:45But you do feel the need
04:47of close human sympathy in your life.
04:49None whatsoever.
04:50A reasonable amount of companionship,
04:52naturally, but that's all.
04:54Well, the merchant...
04:55And I'm one person
04:56who does not love his fellow men.
04:57Nonetheless,
04:58some of your discoveries
04:59have been...
05:00been of great benefit to mankind.
05:01Oh, entirely accidental.
05:03I thought you'd be liking a coffee now.
05:05Oh, yes, Pitting.
05:06Put it there on the table, please.
05:07Thank you, sir.
05:08Will there be anything else, sir?
05:09No, that's...
05:10Or, Pitting.
05:10Yes, sir.
05:12Excellent servant there.
05:15I know nothing of Pitting's
05:16thoughts or feelings,
05:17nor he of mine.
05:18Perfect relationship.
05:19And if a Christ...
05:20Tis occurred...
05:21If you needed to call on him
05:23as a friend...
05:23It would take...
05:25a considerable crisis.
05:26But what about the parrot?
05:27Surely you must regard it
05:29with some affection?
05:30Otherwise, you'd get rid of it.
05:31Napoleon?
05:32Napoleon?
05:32Merely a specimen.
05:34The birds...
05:35as devoid of sentimentality
05:36as I am.
05:37Can only imitate
05:38whatever he sees and hears.
05:40Still, dear,
05:41have you ever been in love?
05:43Neither with anyone in particular.
05:45nor with love itself.
05:47Being in love,
05:48as you put it,
05:48or having someone in love with...
05:50me would be the most monstrous
05:52and horrible situation
05:53I can possibly imagine.
05:55All of a sudden,
05:57I feel a very great sense of pity.
06:00For whom?
06:01For you.
06:01For you.
06:05Yet as different as we were,
06:08my life dedicated to...
06:10all humanity.
06:11Gildia's life stripped
06:12of its own humanity.
06:15I called again
06:15at the house
06:16at Hyde Park many times,
06:18and we became friends.
06:20We talked away
06:21many evening hours
06:22and the months had followed.
06:24Sitting back...
06:25by the book-covered table
06:26in the long study.
06:27The grey parrot
06:28chattering away
06:29in the background.
06:30with the lamplight
06:31barely reaching
06:32the farther corners.
06:35It was on such a...
06:40night not long ago
06:41that the thing began.
06:43Gildia had seemed uncommonly...
06:45nervous since dinner
06:46and had spent much
06:47of the time pacing
06:48in front of the windows
06:49that faced the...
06:50dark confounded, Murchison.
06:51I can't seem to relax tonight.
06:53I...
06:54uh...
06:55ever feel a completely
06:57unaccountable presentiment?
06:59A sense...
07:00that something remarkable
07:01was about to happen.
07:02Oh, yes.
07:03And usually it never did.
07:05Turned out to be
07:06the effect of too much coffee.
07:07No, it's not that.
07:08Coffee doesn't bother me.
07:10Nothing does.
07:10Well, then suppose
07:11you stop pacing the floor
07:12and sit down.
07:13You're wearing me out.
07:15You're wearing me out.
07:15You're wearing me out.
07:16Have you noticed
07:17how well Napoleon's
07:18learned to imitate your voice?
07:19Yes.
07:20almost insulting at times.
07:22The worst thing
07:23is feeling
07:23such a strong comp...
07:25to do something
07:25which I know
07:26to be ridiculous.
07:27Exactly what is it
07:29you're talking about?
07:30Gildiard?
07:30Ah, foolish even
07:31to mention it.
07:32But I...
07:33I wonder if you'd
07:33pardon me for a few minutes.
07:34Oh, no.
07:35Why, of course.
07:35Have yourself
07:36to more coffee.
07:36I'll be right back.
07:37Bye.
07:38Bye.
07:39I...
07:40I walked over
07:40and stood
07:41stroking the feathers
07:42of the parrot
07:42through the bars
07:43of his cage.
07:44I'd grown up
07:45rather fond
07:45of the ugly bird
07:46but it always
07:47startled me
07:48to hear him
07:49mimic some friend
07:50ways of mine
07:50or Gildiard's.
07:53Napoleon...
07:54Ah!
07:55You're a true
07:56creature of the devil.
07:57Creature, devil.
07:58Creature, devil.
07:59I happened to glance
08:00out the window
08:00toward the park
08:01across the street.
08:02The arc lamp
08:03at the corner
08:04threw a...
08:05dim gleam
08:05across a bench
08:06set just inside
08:07the paling.
08:09And I...
08:10I was surprised
08:10to see
08:10Professor Gildiard
08:12moving about
08:12the bench
08:13peering under it
08:14behind...
08:15staring into
08:16the shadows
08:16nearby.
08:18He kept this up
08:19for some minutes.
08:20then crossed
08:21the street
08:21and came back
08:22toward the house.
08:23In a moment
08:24I heard him
08:24as...
08:25ascending the stairs.
08:27Mother Murchison,
08:28has anyone
08:29entered this room
08:29since I went...
08:30out of...
08:30Why, no.
08:31You mean
08:31pitting, of course,
08:32but he hasn't
08:33been in.
08:33Ah.
08:34Strange.
08:35Very strange.
08:36I saw you
08:37across the street
08:38in the park.
08:39What were you
08:39doing?
08:40I...
08:40thought I saw
08:41something.
08:42Wondered what it
08:43was, that's all.
08:43Did you find out?
08:45Now, what's wrong
08:46with that parrot?
08:47Never made a sound
08:48like that before?
08:48What do you mean?
08:49He sees...
08:50seems all right.
08:50Napoleon, stop that!
08:51Napoleon!
08:52What was it
08:53you thought you saw?
08:54Nothing.
08:55As you said,
08:56it most likely
08:57it was the coffee,
08:58only I'm very much
08:59afraid that...
09:00Now, in this day and age
09:03it's...
09:04it's...
09:05impossible.
09:10It's...
09:11It's...
09:12It's...
09:13It's...
09:14It's...
09:15It was nearly a week
09:18later that I received
09:19a phone call.
09:20in my quarters
09:20at the rectory.
09:22Father Murchison here.
09:23This is Pitting, sir.
09:25Professor Gildy's man.
09:26Oh, yes, Pitting.
09:26How are you?
09:27Very well, thank you, sir.
09:29The master...
09:30I would greatly appreciate
09:30your calling
09:31at the house this evening
09:32if it's convenient, sir.
09:33Oh, anything wrong?
09:35I...
09:35I...
09:36couldn't say, sir.
09:37But why didn't he
09:37phone himself?
09:38He isn't ill.
09:39I...
09:40Think not.
09:41He suggested
09:41eight o'clock, sir.
09:43May I tell him
09:43you'll come?
09:44Yes.
09:45Yes, by all means.
09:47Tell him I'll be there
09:48at eight.
10:00There's no use
10:00speaking about the bush,
10:01Father Murchison.
10:02I am nervous.
10:03Of course I am.
10:03Plenty of reason for it.
10:05You're working too hard.
10:06Now I'm working too hard.
10:08The other night it was coffee.
10:10As a matter of fact,
10:10it's neither one.
10:12Be quiet, Napoleon.
10:14Maybe...
10:15Maybe you'd better
10:15tell me what is
10:16the matter, Gildia.
10:19Do...
10:20Do you feel the presence
10:22in this room
10:22of anyone
10:23beside the two of us?
10:24Mm-hmm.
10:25Well, there's
10:25Napoleon, of course.
10:26Oh, I am.
10:27No.
10:27No, I don't mean
10:28the parrot.
10:30He senses it too, though.
10:32Senses what?
10:33When you were here
10:34last week,
10:34I let...
10:35left the house
10:35for a few minutes,
10:36you remember?
10:36Yes.
10:37I'd been watching
10:37someone sitting
10:38on that bench
10:39across in the park
10:40a shadowy sort of figure.
10:42I have to find out
10:43what it was.
10:44But you found nothing.
10:45You told me
10:45when you came back.
10:46That's right.
10:47But I'd left
10:47the front door open.
10:49And when I...
10:50came back in,
10:50I felt suddenly
10:51that someone
10:52or something
10:53had entered
10:53ahead of me.
10:54Oh, no.
10:55Oh, really, Gildia?
10:55I knew also
10:56that they'd found
10:57their way to this room.
10:59But I was here
10:59all...
11:00all the time.
11:00No one came in.
11:01Father Murchison,
11:03whoever or whatever
11:04came into the house
11:04that...
11:05that night
11:05came into this room
11:06is still here
11:07right now.
11:08You, Gildia.
11:09A scientist.
11:10Yes.
11:11Ridiculous, isn't it?
11:13But it's true!
11:14I...
11:15I'm only able
11:15to feel its presence.
11:17Napoleon can see it.
11:18Look at him now.
11:20Wouldn't you say
11:21he was watching
11:21something over there
11:22in that far corner
11:23of the room?
11:24No, I...
11:25I'd say he was just
11:25being as foolish
11:26as a parrot usually is.
11:27You, a skeptic?
11:28About this, yes.
11:30You've been working
11:30too hard.
11:31You need a vacation.
11:32I haven't told you
11:33the worst part of it.
11:35Would you say
11:35that I'm
11:36an attractive man?
11:38Frankly,
11:39no.
11:40Oh, I suppose
11:41to a certain
11:41type of society woman?
11:43No, no, no, no.
11:44That's not what I'm...
11:45talking about.
11:45Well, then,
11:46what are you
11:46talking about?
11:47I don't know
11:48whether this intruder
11:49is a woman.
11:50Man, child, animal,
11:52but whatever it is,
11:54it holds...
11:55of vast affection
11:56for me.
11:56What?
11:57You imagine anything
11:58so utterly mo...
12:00monstrous, horrible...
12:01Murchison,
12:02the thing
12:03is in love with me.
12:05Love me, love me!
12:10Love me, love me, love me!
12:15I could not...
12:16would not accept
12:17Gildy's belief.
12:20Yet the alternative
12:20was even more
12:21effectful.
12:23For I could only
12:23decide that the
12:24long-hour...
12:25hours of study
12:25and lecturing
12:26had affected
12:26his mind
12:27and brought him,
12:28in fact,
12:29to the verge
12:29of...
12:30I persuaded him
12:32finally to get
12:32away for a while,
12:33to leave the house
12:34and...
12:35forget his professional
12:35problems,
12:36take a short trip.
12:38I accompanied him
12:39to Victoria Station.
12:40saw him off
12:41on the boat train
12:42and then,
12:43caught up in my duties,
12:44I had...
12:45little time
12:45to consider
12:46the strange affair
12:47for nearly ten days.
12:50Father Murchison here.
12:55I hope I haven't
12:55disturbed you.
12:56Professor Gildia,
12:57then you're back
12:57in London.
12:58Yes, I've been back
12:59for three days.
13:00You should have called me.
13:01How was the trip?
13:02Quite pleasant.
13:03I took passage
13:03on a channel coaster.
13:05See, I was wonderful.
13:06You weren't...
13:07troubled on the trip?
13:08Oh, no.
13:09Not at all.
13:10It waited here for me.
13:13What?
13:14Would you come over here?
13:15here tonight.
13:16You mean now?
13:16Yes, if you could.
13:18You see,
13:18I can prove it to you now.
13:20Very well.
13:22I'll come right over.
13:25I stood there
13:25by the phone
13:26and shivered.
13:28The thing
13:29had become...
13:30so real to him now
13:31that he felt
13:33he could go away
13:33and leave it.
13:35Then come back
13:35and find it
13:36waiting for him.
13:37The thing
13:40That's why
13:44I didn't call you
13:44when I...
13:45first came back
13:45I wanted to be sure.
13:47So I've waited
13:47three days
13:48and every day
13:48has been worse
13:49than the one before.
13:50In what way?
13:50What do you mean?
13:51I mean the thing
13:52was waiting for me here.
13:54Glad I was...
13:55his back
13:55formed
13:56or over me.
13:57Came more insistently
13:59obnoxious
13:59all the time.
14:00You mean
14:00you've seen
14:01this thing
14:02heard it?
14:03No, no
14:03I haven't seen it
14:04haven't heard it
14:05but I know
14:05it's here
14:06I can feel it
14:07sense it
14:08try to put it
14:09in words
14:10in it
14:10it becomes absurd
14:11If you'd like
14:12some unsolicited advice
14:14call in a
14:15doctor
14:15have him look you over
14:16And what doctor
14:17in London
14:18knows any more
14:18about the human mind
14:19than I...
14:20do
14:20I know
14:20but when it's your own
14:21No, no, no
14:22you're thinking of
14:23hysteria
14:23hallucination
14:24I know
14:25all the symptoms
14:25it's not that simple
14:26Anyway
14:28I told you
14:28I'd prove it to you
14:30Now
14:30you'll notice
14:31I've thrown a cover
14:31over Napoleon's cage
14:32Yes
14:33I've been wondering
14:33about it
14:34It's part of my...
14:35proof
14:35He's been here
14:36you know
14:36all the time
14:37I was gone
14:37here in this room
14:38Yes
14:39but I still...
14:39I want...
14:40you to get behind
14:40those curtains
14:41with me
14:42Then I'll reach out
14:43and pull the cloth
14:43off his cage
14:45I don't want him
14:45to see us
14:46I don't know
14:47what you're hoping
14:48to prove
14:48but...
14:50All right
14:50Come on
14:54Ready?
14:55I'll uncover him
14:56I'll uncover him
14:57I'll uncover him
14:59I'll uncover him
15:00We crouched there behind the curtains watching the parrot.
15:05He protested a while, being so rudely disturbed by some unseen agency, then...
15:10He climbed about the cage with claws and beech, pecked at crumbs, and appeared entirely normal.
15:15After time, he began to...
15:20It's his attention on a spot across the room.
15:23There was nothing there.
15:24Watch him!
15:25Look at him now!
15:26In the parrot's mind, at least someone or something was a...
15:30...approaching the cage.
15:31And yet the room was empty.
15:33SIREN
15:35SIREN
15:38Whatever it was apparently had reached...
15:40...the cage now...
15:41...and Napoleon welcomed with friendly chocolate.
15:45The hair rose on the back of my neck.
15:48The bird was cooing and...
15:50...gurgling as he did when I, a gilder, scratched the feathers on his head.
15:54I could only...
15:55...most fancy that I saw long, white, ghostly fingers reaching through the bars of the cage.
16:00Watch him!
16:01And listen to him!
16:02He's talking to the thing, imitating its...
16:04SIREN
16:05...and see what you think.
16:06SIREN
16:07SIREN
16:08SIREN
16:09SIREN
16:10SIREN
16:11SIREN
16:12SIREN
16:13SIREN
16:14SIREN
16:15SIREN
16:15I see who is moving about in the cage now, nodding his head in a very peculiar manner...
16:20the most extraordinary sounds. I began to realize he was
16:25imitating the thing he saw standing by his cage
16:28and then the fo-
16:30The total horror of it came over me. I tried to hide the thought from Gildia, but-
16:35He'd already seen it in my eyes.
16:37So you see it too. If that's all I wanted to know, that I was-
16:40I wasn't imagining it.
16:42No point in hiding there any longer. That was my proof.
16:45But perhaps someone was here while you were gone.
16:47I have questioned pitting and the cook. No one has-
16:50I've been here.
16:51But it can't be. Such a thing can't be.
16:53Oh, the emergency it is.
16:54But where? Where is it now?
16:55Can you tell me where it is?
16:56Not exactly. Somewhere here in the room, not too far away. I can feel that.
17:00Napoleon, of course, can see it.
17:02There is some rational explanation that-
17:05There has to be-
17:06You're whistling in the dark, Father. You recognize the same thing I did.
17:09I know-
17:10What do you mean, of course?
17:11I can't stand much more of it. If it were only something I could fight. Strike out it.
17:15I'm not a coward. But I can't see it, hear it. I can only feel it, trying to-
17:20Touch me somehow, trying to get close to me, drooling with desire and affection and fondness for me-
17:25And I can't keep it away. It gets closer all the time.
17:27Gildia, you've got to get hold of yourself.
17:29Get hold of myself!
17:30You saw the way that parrot imitated this thing-
17:33Those mannerisms, that gibberish-
17:35You know what it means as well as I do-
17:37I saw it, but it can't possibly-
17:39Don't you feel-
17:40How hideous it is for me. I can't stop it! The thing makes love-
17:45Come to me, caresses me! And whatever it is, it has no mind! You saw-
17:50That thing is-
17:52Is a slobbering idiot!
17:55I can't stop it!
17:56I can't stop it!
17:57I can't stop it!
17:58I can't stop it!
18:00I can't stop it!
18:01I walked home at a late hour, trying-
18:05Desperately to think of some reasonable answer to the whole strange affair.
18:09I can't stop it!
18:10I could not accept Gildia's explanation of the actions of the parrot. Though the bird had
18:15produced an extraordinary illusion of an invisible presence in that room.
18:20In a day gone by, perhaps I might have been called in to deal with an evil spirit.
18:25I thought of retribution. Gildia had always born an evil spirit.
18:30An unnatural distaste for human love. Was he now being forced to-
18:35To endure the unnatural love of a monstrous being as punishment?
18:40I cast such thoughts away from me. Yet I could not quite accept the only-
18:45The only other reasonable solution. But my friend was insane.
18:50It was very late when I fell asleep.
18:55It was very late when I fell asleep.
18:56It was very late when I fell asleep.
19:00The following evening, I preached at Warwick Chapel and returned to my quarters about nine.
19:05I found that Pitting had called a short time before and left a rather puzzling message.
19:09Implore-
19:10How did you come to Hyde Park at once? Otherwise I cannot answer for the consequences.
19:15How did you come to Hyde Park at once?
19:16How did you come to Hyde Park?
19:20How did you come to Hyde Park?
19:22How did you come to Hyde Park?
19:25not himself. In what way is he not himself? I can only suggest, sir, that you talk to him.
19:30Here we are. Yes, come in, come in. I'll leave you now, sir.
19:35Oh, Madison, come in. What did the name of heaven is?
19:40Wrong. Pilling said that you'd been a... It happened in a human machine.
19:43What happened? What did he do? Nothing.
19:45But just it, nothing. But I... I don't know...
19:47Oh, you warned me about it once, said I'd meet a crisis.
19:50Need him as a friend and he wouldn't be there.
19:52Well, it happened.
19:53Good care. I am going to...
19:55Call a doctor. I've never seen you in a state like that before.
19:57No, no, no. I don't need a doctor. I'm all right now.
20:00Little while anyway. At least I think I am.
20:03Then what was it? What happened?
20:05That thing touched me. Really touched me. I mean, for the first time.
20:10It's only been trying to before. The only way I can put it is...
20:15It rubbed itself against my soul.
20:19Oh, it...
20:20It was horrible.
20:20Now, Gellia, you...
20:21Don't tell me to get hold of myself. I know what I'm saying.
20:24Yeah.
20:25I... I'm sorry.
20:28But if... if you'd felt it for...
20:30For yourself, you'd know what I mean.
20:32It was disgusting.
20:34Filthy.
20:35If it had lasted one more minute, I know I should have gone screaming mad.
20:40But you don't... you don't feel it now.
20:43No, no, no. Not now.
20:45I lost my head, I guess.
20:47I struck out with my fists.
20:48I tore at myself screaming.
20:50Waiting for help, Pitting came and thought I was drunk.
20:53But I... I could feel it touching.
20:55Me sickening, soft and tender inside of me.
20:59But it left...
21:00Left you then, you forced it away.
21:01Yes.
21:02But it's still in this room somewhere.
21:05But it hasn't tried to touch me again.
21:08Well, that settles it.
21:09You'll...
21:10Earlier, you're leaving here tonight.
21:12It didn't follow you when you took that trip before.
21:14It stayed here.
21:15That's one way you can be free of it.
21:16Then, you believe in the thing too.
21:18Believe it's real.
21:19It's real?
21:20For you, and that's enough.
21:22If I remember it, you're giving a lecture at Archford the last of the week.
21:25You're going on up there now.
21:27I'll help you pack.
21:27But I could do that.
21:28I could stay at the grove...
21:30tonight and take a train in the morning.
21:31It's right near the station.
21:32And it's all agreed.
21:33I'll...
21:33Wait, wait.
21:35Look at Napoleon.
21:35Look at Napoleon.
21:35Look at Napoleon.
21:40It's...
21:40It's standing there by his cage.
21:43He's talking to it.
21:45Imitating it.
21:46Can you imagine what that thing must look like?
21:48Number one.
21:50Let me help you start packing.
21:51But I didn't tell you what it really did this evening.
21:54What came that close...
21:55It's just driving me insane.
21:55It doesn't matter.
21:57The thing kissed me, Murchison.
22:00It starts from the outside.
22:02I could feel it.
22:05Warm and wet.
22:07Kissing my lips.
22:09From the inside.
22:10Inside.
22:10Inside.
22:15Gilius stayed at the hotel that night.
22:20caught the train out to Oxford the next morning.
22:23Four days later, I received...
22:25a wire from him.
22:26I'm still feeling a bit shaky, but everything else is all right.
22:30No sign of any visitor.
22:33Why don't you try to come...
22:35up for the lecture Friday night.
22:37And please get rid of Napoleon for me.
22:40Signed, Gildia.
22:42On sudden impulse, I decided to accept his invitation.
22:45The end.
22:46The end.
22:47The end.
22:48The end.
22:49The end.
22:50My train was late, and I arrived at Oxford...
22:55with only time enough to go directly to the seminar.
22:58I slid into my seat...
23:00just as Gildia was introduced and began his talk.
23:02He was pale and perhaps a bit...
23:05drawn, but seemed otherwise composed and in control of himself.
23:10As I sat there, my mind wandered away from his talk, seeking...
23:15some solution for the horrible problem which I regarded as being as much my own as...
23:20as Gildia's.
23:21I decided I would try to persuade him to sell the house in Hyde Park...
23:25place since his strange fixations seem to be bound up with him...
23:28and try to...
23:30find lodgings elsewhere.
23:32One replay scanning...
23:33Some ten minutes passed when...
23:35suddenly I noticed Gildia was becoming very nervous.
23:37He faltered in his talk.
23:39He...
23:40He seemed to be...
23:41confused.
23:42I...
23:43He stood there on the platform deathly...
23:45pale...
23:46his hands out...
23:47as though pushing something away from him.
23:48No!
23:49No!
23:50Please don't!
23:50No!
23:51I knew what was wrong!
23:52No!
23:53I stopped it!
23:54Something's wrong!
23:55Pardon!
23:55Pardon me!
23:56Pardon me please!
23:57Could I get through?
23:58Pardon me!
23:59Let me get to him please!
24:00I'm his friend!
24:00Gildia!
24:01Gildia!
24:02Gildia!
24:03Can you hear me?
24:04Father!
24:05Murchison?
24:06Yes!
24:07Everything's all right!
24:09It...
24:10came here!
24:11Found me out!
24:12It...
24:13It...
24:14It...
24:15Crumped up against me on the platform!
24:18It...
24:19It's...
24:20No use!
24:21Take me back to London!
24:25It...
24:26It...
24:27It...
24:28It...
24:29It...
24:30It...
24:31It...
24:32It...
24:33We arrived back in London late the next afternoon.
24:35Gildia was a broken old man.
24:39He shivered...
24:40Continually trembled as though shaken by her chill.
24:43He claimed to sense the awful...
24:45presence of that thing always nearby us.
24:47Accompanying us.
24:48And he was constantly...
24:50terror-stricken lest it might try to touch him again I stayed with him in the
24:54house
24:55in Hyde Park and as night drew on we sat in the long book filled study on
25:00the second floor
25:03pitting brought coffee to us
25:05and then withdrew
25:06we found little to talk about
25:08and the silence of the rooms
25:10he seemed doubly oppressive without the familiar chatter of the parrot in the background
25:13what did you do with him, Murchison?
25:15Napoleon, I mean
25:16I boarded him with a pet shop in Shaftesbury Avenue
25:18I thought you might want him back again
25:20after you'd reconsidered
25:21no
25:21no, I won't want him back
25:25you still can feel its presence
25:28can't you?
25:29no, Gildia
25:30afraid I can't
25:32I wish to heaven I couldn't
25:34it's been here with us
25:35now, you know
25:36now please
25:37it doesn't matter
25:39it's no
25:40use
25:41I can't fight it any longer
25:42there's no way to fight it
25:43perhaps that may be the answer
25:44to stop
25:45stop fighting it
25:46you said yourself that you felt it was fond of you
25:48meant you no harm
25:50why not stop fighting
25:51try to return its fondness
25:53its
25:54love if you will
25:55I don't know what you're asking
25:56even the thought of it sickens me
25:58fondest
25:59love
26:00for that
26:01thing
26:02perhaps it may be the only way out
26:03then there's no way out
26:05I tell you Murchison
26:07I've only one feeling for that creature
26:09and that's hatred
26:10hatred
26:11disgust
26:12and
26:13hatred
26:14please try to be calm
26:15wait
26:15wait
26:16what is it
26:17perhaps
26:18that's it
26:20listen
26:21whatever you are
26:22beast of devil
26:23I hate you
26:24do you hear
26:25I hate you
26:25Murchison
26:26that's doing it
26:27it's recoiling
26:28withdrawing
26:29I can feel
26:30it
26:31Gildia please
26:32I hate you
26:33I hate you
26:34Murchison
26:35you want to leave
26:36it
26:35beginning to hate me too
26:36but it wants to leave now
26:37open the door
26:38go downstairs
26:39and open the front door
26:40open the front door
26:41and let it out
26:42alright Gildia if you'll feel better about it
26:43it wants to take me along
26:44but I know how to
26:45fight it now
26:46go Murchison hurry
26:47I hate you
26:48I hate you
26:49I hate you
26:50I hate you
26:51I ran down
26:50the stairs
26:51and threw open the front door
26:52I stood there
26:53breathing in the night air
26:55it was clear and cold
26:57and the stars hung overhead
26:59I looked across
27:00to the park
27:01and saw the glow
27:02from the street lamp
27:03falling on the empty bench
27:04directly opposite
27:05and at that moment
27:06came a sound
27:07that froze
27:08my blood
27:09with horror
27:10I stood there
27:13paralyzed
27:14I stood there paralyzed
27:15unable to move
27:16seconds past
27:17perhaps
27:18minutes
27:19I don't know
27:20I don't know how to move
27:20so long
27:21I stood there
27:22I glanced across
27:23at the empty bench
27:24and for one moment
27:25out
27:26thought I saw a shadow
27:27sitting on it
27:28a vague shadow
27:29as guilty
27:30I saw it
27:31one night
27:32weeks before
27:33and then the bench
27:34was empty
27:35and I heard pitting
27:36running down the stairs
27:37Hold the bench
27:38come quickly
27:39Professor Gildy
27:40it was his heart
27:42I think
27:43yes
27:44yes I believe
27:45it was his heart
27:47but he's
27:48Father Murchison
27:49he's lying
27:50up there sir
27:51he's
27:52dead
27:53dead
27:55dead
27:56bidding
27:57I hope so
28:00I sincerely hope so
28:05he's
28:07dead
28:08dead
28:09dead
28:10escape
28:14escape
28:15is produced and directed
28:16by William N Robson
28:17and tonight brought you
28:18how love came to
28:19place
28:20Professor Gildy
28:21by Robert Hitchens
28:22adapted for radio
28:23by Les Crutchfield
28:24with Louis
28:25Harry Van Rooten
28:26as Professor Gildy
28:27Parley Bear
28:28as Father Murchison
28:29Harry Bartell
28:30as Pitting
28:30and Paul Freese
28:31as the parrot
28:32music is conceived
28:33and conducted
28:34by Cy Fuhrer
28:35next week
28:37next week
28:39when you're
28:40retired out from
28:41doing nothing
28:42all weekend
28:43when Blue Mondays
28:45stares you in the face
28:47next week
28:48at this time
28:49when your problems
28:50just seem too much
28:51for you
28:52we offer you
28:53escape
28:55a
28:57a
28:58a
28:59a
29:00next week
29:03next week
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29:05story of high adventure
29:07goodnight then
29:08until the same time
29:09next week
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