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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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00:00Have you shaken that spring cold yet?
00:05Wondering if you'll get a new Easter bonnet this year?
00:09Or to get away from it all.
00:11We offer you escape.
00:22You are aboard a Chinese junk on the ground off the coast of Borneo.
00:26And paddling toward you are the canoes of the deadly Dayak headhunters.
00:31Your powder is wet and your throat is dry.
00:34Because for you, there is no escape.
00:47Escape, produced and directed by William N. Robeson.
00:50And designed to free you from the four walls of today.
00:53For a half hour of high adventure.
00:56Tonight we escape to the Orient of 150 years ago.
01:05To the Manila of 1790.
01:07In Richard Matthews Hallett's story of a wooden ship and an iron man.
01:14Misfortune's Isle.
01:15The water witch was lying at anchor so close up against the jetty, I could have leaned over and spit on the wheels of the elegant Spanish carriages clattering along the promenade.
01:32And that's exactly what I felt like doing.
01:35I've been away from Salem for three years now.
01:37Three years of sailing, a trader brig through the China Seas and south into the Spice Islands.
01:45All for what?
01:46The whole thing had grown stale suddenly.
01:49I was plainly and simply bored.
01:52Young foe stood beside me there at the taff rail and tried to console me with philosophy.
02:01He'd anchored his sailing junk alongside earlier in the day and come aboard to renew a friendship that started two years before a Tian Xin.
02:08When I hauled him out from under an executioner's axe.
02:13He was under it because he just sold me six fine fat pigs without remembering they happened to be the sacred property of the Tian Xin temple.
02:21Oh, Yang Po was a real philosopher, all right.
02:25Anyway, my friend, I reserve my sympathies for the poor.
02:28You have gained much wealth in trade.
02:31Aye, and a few measly gold pieces.
02:33But the trouble is out here, a man can't go it on his own.
02:36He needs backing.
02:37What more backing could a rash man desire than those eight brass cannon at the rail?
02:42Aye, they're fair guns, all right.
02:44But it's a flag I'm speaking of.
02:45Do these unworthy eyes not see a pinup there at the masthead?
02:49The bunting of Salem swings no weight out here.
02:52In the south, it's the Dutch who call the turn.
02:55On the coast, the British, and here in Manila, it's the Spanish.
02:58Ah, man has...
03:00Young foe, there she comes now in the second carouser.
03:04That's the fourth time since high noon she's come back.
03:07Ah, four fine horses and two footmen.
03:10She rides in style.
03:11Watch, watch.
03:12She'll look up at the ship.
03:13She has every time today.
03:15Ha!
03:16There you see.
03:17Ah, that one.
03:18The little caged bird.
03:21You'll know her?
03:21I know of her.
03:22She is wife of Don Narciso Crispo,
03:25the Spanish nobleman who is captain general of the island south of Zamboanga.
03:29He is in residence here in Manila.
03:32Ah, she looks very sad.
03:35Uh, why is she called the little caged bird?
03:37One glimpse of Don Narciso would answer your question better than false on words.
03:43Ah, she's very beautiful, too.
03:45I'll swear she looked back and smiled just then.
03:48Captain Arad,
03:49once in pity I set free a parakeet which I had found caught in a net.
03:54I still bear a scar from its beak.
03:57Some things may be worth taking chances for.
03:59Ah, me, I find it so much simpler to go to sleep and dream of maidens on the moon.
04:06Ah, but the moon's too far away.
04:08Arad, where are you?
04:09Huh?
04:10Oh, up here, Michael, on the quarterdeck.
04:11Ah, then the honorable red-headed one is still your first mate?
04:15Aye, that he is.
04:16What's the matter, Michael?
04:18Matter indeed.
04:19Haven't you heard all the excitement in town?
04:20I've been looking...
04:22Ah, young poor, haven't they hung you yet?
04:25This unworthy one is touched by your concern, Mr. O'Keefe.
04:28What do you mean by excitement?
04:30I've been on board all day.
04:31I know.
04:32Last night, with all their soldiers on guard and their stone ramparts and all,
04:35a band of pirates slipped ashore down coast and got through into the city.
04:38Pirates?
04:39Aye, ten thousand bushels of a misfortune.
04:41They may possibly think it was me.
04:43Oh, they have no clue as to who it was.
04:45Got away scot-free, they did.
04:46And they almost abducted the Captain General of Zambuango himself.
04:49What?
04:50Aye, aye.
04:51An important grandee by the name of Don Narcisco something or other.
04:54His guard finally heard them.
04:56Ah, pity.
04:57Fortune not with you.
04:59Captain, all right.
04:59Ah, but here's the part that'll stop you.
05:02There is no one in Manila that knows who they were, except yours truly, Michael O'Kane.
05:07Go on.
05:07Eh?
05:08Here, have a look at that.
05:10Hmm.
05:11Why, it's a Manchester Cutler.
05:13Aye.
05:15And there's a mark on the handle.
05:16Aye.
05:17It's one we traded to Serif.
05:19Aye, aye.
05:19The bandit king of North Barneo.
05:21And it was me found this morning on the beach where the pirate boat came ashore.
05:25You found it?
05:26No, no, no, no.
05:27Not quite.
05:27Uh, a melee by the name of Jambu brought it to me.
05:30Oh, Jambu.
05:31Ten thousand sampans filled with spoiled fish.
05:35You know the fellow?
05:35I have used him as interpreter.
05:37He speak Dayak.
05:39But in some former incarnation, he undoubtedly was ill.
05:44Hmm.
05:46You know, I think this may be exactly what I need.
05:50Need?
05:51For what, Eric?
05:52Hmm.
05:53To make fortunes for the three of us.
05:54Uh, I certainly remember an unexpected appointment.
05:57Uh, uh, young Poe.
05:59It's a plan that won't work without you.
06:01I'm not talking a bear profit.
06:03This means a fortune.
06:05Uh, I am amazed.
06:06There is much talk of money and yet very little talk of Spanish lady.
06:11Ha, ha.
06:12I heard rumors on shore about these Spanish glasses.
06:15For one thing, they wear no stockings.
06:18Huh?
06:19And how's a man to know it, Michael?
06:21You can't count too much on his sake.
06:23Well, no, it was a Spaniard that told me.
06:25All right, now listen, lads.
06:26Let me tell you the plan.
06:28And if we're all agreed, I'll go ashore and talk to this Don Narciso.
06:32After I have heard it, I think I shall go and sacrifice White Rooster to Queen of Heaven.
06:37Though I doubt it will do a great deal of good.
06:39The only thing I can't understand is why this Jambu didn't take the cutlass to Don Narciso in the first place.
06:44It is quite possible he did take it there in first place, Captain Harad.
06:48It is point worth consideration.
06:53It took a bit of talking right enough, but finally the others agreed to the plan.
06:58And no more than two hours later, I was talking to the Captain General of Zambo Ango himself.
07:05He turned out to be a little monkey of a man.
07:07Yellow as a faded sunflower and much older than I expected to find.
07:11You are quite well satisfied regarding your identification of those who perpetrate the outrage, Captain Harad.
07:18But, uh, maledictions and fatalities.
07:21I have also heard the stories of this pirate, Serif.
07:24Well, I think a broadside of my 32-pounders can furnish him enough fatalities, Excellency.
07:29Oh, God, it's not that simple.
07:31They say he said quarters on the Borneo coast is nothing less than a fortress.
07:36Ah, it's only a bamboo stockade lying at the mouth of the river.
07:39And it's in range of the guns on my break.
07:42My friend Yang Po has been there.
07:43But hard against the mouth of the river is the blue chalaka.
07:48Hmm.
07:48Misfortune's isle, hmm?
07:50Aye.
07:51And on it, limestone caves filled with birds' nests worth $50 a pound in Canton.
07:56That may well be, Captain Harad.
07:59But there is also the yupas tree.
08:01You must have heard of it.
08:03Aye.
08:04But I count a little on hearsay, Excellency.
08:06It is not hearsay.
08:08The Diak headhunters poison the spears and owls with its juices.
08:12I have seen men scratched by them die like that.
08:17But some things are worth taking chances for.
08:20They must say that I quite agree with you, Delfino.
08:23Delfino, hey.
08:24Uh, Captain Harad.
08:26May I present my wife, Donia Delfino de Crispo?
08:29Captain Harad.
08:30I'm on it.
08:31Delfino, I have heard it all.
08:33You must agree to this expedition.
08:35Huh?
08:35You know the King's offer?
08:37Any man who reads these islands of pirates to be made a conde with lands and titles.
08:41To have both lands and titles, my dear?
08:44Uh, uh, what is it you expect from this, Captain Harad?
08:49A fortune, Excellency.
08:51Huh?
08:51The bird's nest themselves should be worth a half million Yankee dollars.
08:54And there's gold and antimony in the river.
08:57And trade with the Diaks.
08:58Uh, uh, precisely what is the plan of yours?
09:02Well, 50 of Seraph's men are Chinese who once served Yang Po.
09:07They'll come in with us if he can get word to them.
09:10That'll make things easier.
09:11And how do you expect to get word to them?
09:13Well, Yang Po and I will sail in ahead of his junk and try to contact them.
09:17My mate will bring up the water witch 24 hours later and then we'll attack.
09:21And exactly why have you come to me?
09:25Oh, were I to do it without official support, I'd be judged a pirate myself, wouldn't I?
09:30I don't know.
09:32It would be a great thing if it could be done.
09:35Narciso.
09:36Yes?
09:36Why not think of it tonight and decide in the morning?
09:42That may be a wise suggestion.
09:43May I allow me to show you out, Capitan Harris?
09:46By your leave, Excellency?
09:47I'll see you tomorrow then.
09:49Good day, Captain.
09:50This way, please.
09:54He will agree.
09:55You may depend on it.
09:57Good.
09:57I hope also that His Excellency will accompany us personally.
10:01He will.
10:02You can be certain of it.
10:03You seem quite sure of that.
10:06Who do you think it was who had the cordless pen to you?
10:10You?
10:11Here is the door, Capitan.
10:14I will say, are you seated or not?
10:16In our language, it means goodbye for a little while.
10:22For a little while, huh?
10:24Well, in that case, adiosito.
10:37Delfino was right.
10:39The next morning, he agreed to it.
10:41And two days later, we sailed out of Manila Harbor.
10:45Don Narciso accompanied me on Young Poe's junk,
10:48and Michael O'Kane followed up the helm of the Water Witch.
10:52Our luck deserted us as we rounded the Corregidor,
10:55and sailed square into the tail end of a typhoon.
10:59There was little wind, but a heavy sea was running,
11:02and it took us on the port bow for all that night and the next day.
11:05We lost sight of the Water Witch,
11:07and the leaky old junk pitched and rolled like a dory.
11:10Young Poe stayed mostly below in his bunk
11:12and dreamed peacefully of the maidens on the moon.
11:15Well, I stayed on deck and skippered her through it.
11:18It was late the second night
11:19before I had a chance to go down to my cabin.
11:25Delfina!
11:26What in the name of the devil are you doing aboard?
11:28Being forced about mostly.
11:30It is a very unsteady ship you have, Capitan.
11:33There should be a lot more unsteady
11:34when a hundred dyak head-oners start trying to board her.
11:37How did you arrive here?
11:38Any sack of feathers.
11:39It's really all that saved me during the storm, you know.
11:42Oh, confound it.
11:43Don't you realize your husband is on board?
11:45Sleeping in the deck cabins.
11:47Suppose he should come down here for something.
11:48He did once.
11:50I see it in the wardrobe.
11:51Oh, all the fool tricks.
11:53But you did, Señor Yusito.
11:56For a little while.
11:58Yes, but it wasn't an invitation.
12:00Who could tell?
12:02Anyway, I shall prove quite valuable to you.
12:05I doubt it.
12:06You will see.
12:07Martiza will become frightened at the last moment.
12:09He always does.
12:10Now, what will you do?
12:12Whatever is required at the time.
12:14I am not afraid of finding my capital.
12:16I have seen it before.
12:17Oh, confound it.
12:18We had a fortune in our reach,
12:20and now you come along and ruin it.
12:21You underestimate me.
12:22Well, I won't do that again.
12:24You are very rude.
12:25I meant to be.
12:26Well, why did you marry him?
12:31I had no choice.
12:34My father was ambitious.
12:36Martiza was influential.
12:38And did your father realize his ambition?
12:40He became a colonel
12:43and was killed at Santiago of the Chilean.
12:47Oh.
12:48Oh, I'm sorry.
12:49Ann, now if you'll remove yourself from my bunk,
12:52I need some sleep.
12:54If you are going to move in here,
12:57then what am I going to do?
13:00Oh, you'll think of something.
13:01You made all your own plans so far.
13:05Oh.
13:07But if my husband sees me,
13:09then he may think you brought me on board.
13:11Well, in that case,
13:12I shall be forced to kill him in the duel.
13:14Good night.
13:16You,
13:17you are going to sleep?
13:20I hope to.
13:22Try the shrine of the Queen of Heaven.
13:25It's the last cabin in the stern.
13:27No one goes there but Yang Po,
13:28and he'll have to be told about you anyway.
13:31Good night.
13:32Even when you are rude to me,
13:37your mouth is so very sweet.
13:42Why not much?
13:49Well,
13:49woman or no woman aboard,
13:51it was too late to turn back now.
13:53And so two days later,
13:54we dropped anchor at the mouth of Serif's River.
13:57Off the port rail a quarter mile away
13:58lay the pirate stockade.
14:00It was backed up by the dark green mass of jungle.
14:04And on the opposite side of the junk,
14:06across a hundred yards or so of water,
14:08was the beach of Miss Fortune's Isle,
14:10sloping back to break sharply
14:12on the foot of the limestone cliffs.
14:14On the upper shoulders of those cliffs
14:16were the caves without fortune
14:18and edible bird's nest.
14:21And between the cliffs and the water
14:23stood the Yupus tree.
14:24A hundred legends were told about the Yupus tree,
14:34how its shadow could kill a man,
14:37how the spirit of a white goddess
14:38was prisoned in the thick, dark foliage of its top,
14:42and how birds that lighted on its branches
14:44fell dead to the ground.
14:46Well, one thing at least was true enough.
14:48The Dayaks made a horrible poison
14:51from the juice of its bark,
14:53and they worshipped the tree.
15:02Yang Po took the renegade interpreter,
15:04Jambu, with him
15:05and went ashore to pay his respects to Serif,
15:08and at the same time
15:10was to pass the word to his Chinese friend.
15:14It was late afternoon when he came back,
15:16and I'd become nearly as uneasy as Don Narciso.
15:18Yang Po came aboard alone
15:20and motioned me to follow him below,
15:22saying nothing until we were alone in my cabin.
15:25It is my humble opinion, Captain Aran,
15:27that heaven favors us
15:29with a decided lack of fortune.
15:31Why? What happened?
15:32Serif, most polite.
15:33I, most polite.
15:34We enjoy most friendly conversation
15:36while we both held our knives,
15:38beneath our robes,
15:39all very polite.
15:40Well, did you get word to your men?
15:42Serif, blessed with presence
15:44of 200 Dayaks and 50 Meleys.
15:47My own brethren are unfortunately
15:49down the coast for two days.
15:51Oh, that's a bad piece of luck.
15:53But I have news of much worse one.
15:55Jambu, that son of 10,000 devils,
15:58has deserted us.
16:00Deserted?
16:00He has joined Serif.
16:02Oh, he'll tell them
16:04exactly what we're planning.
16:05Do not believe Jambu
16:06would do such a thing?
16:07Dolphina!
16:08I told you to stay
16:09out of this cabin.
16:09Jambu worships me.
16:10He's my slave wife.
16:12It was you who helped me
16:13sleep on board.
16:14Oh, so that's why he's done it.
16:16He has no disorder.
16:18What could he hope to gain by it?
16:20You, probably.
16:21this unworthy one offer a suggestion
16:23that we stand out to sea
16:24until water which come tomorrow.
16:27A fine idea, except for one thing.
16:29Your sleepy little sons of heaven
16:31left the cable slack.
16:33We're grounded on a mud bar
16:34with no chance of moving
16:35before the tide tomorrow morning.
16:38We'll have to stand and fight.
16:40Ah, yes.
16:41They are so careless.
16:42I forgot to tell you,
16:44they even neglected
16:45to cover powder during storm.
16:48The water ruined it.
16:50Well, then we'll not even have
16:50the four cannons.
16:51Really matter of slight importance.
16:54They're only ornaments.
16:56They would blow up
16:57if we fired them.
16:59You could hardly have picked
17:00a more suitable time
17:01to tell me.
17:03Well, we'll fight without them.
17:05Ah, the impetuosity of youth.
17:09I think I sleep for a while
17:11and dream of maidens on the moon.
17:13Young Poe, you'll stay on your feet
17:15and start your men
17:15boiling kettles of oil
17:16and piling rocks by the rail.
17:18It would be so much pleasanter
17:19to die in one's sleep.
17:21If I know, sir,
17:22if you'll not attack
17:23until nearly midnight.
17:25Telfina, can you swim?
17:27I can do anything.
17:28Primarily, I want to know
17:29if you can swim.
17:31I can.
17:32Good.
17:33Young Poe,
17:34I'll be back and help you
17:35in an hour,
17:35but I have a job to do first.
17:38Come along,
17:39Kondesa.
17:45It was dark
17:46when we slipped into the water
17:47and struck out for the island.
17:49If I had tried
17:50to lower a boat,
17:51they might have seen us
17:51from the shore.
17:53I could see no other way
17:54to keep her out of it.
17:56The rest of us
17:57had no chance.
17:58I knew how the Dyaks fought.
18:00We could expect no help.
18:03And on board,
18:03she would have been
18:04the only one of us
18:05left alive.
18:07Aye,
18:07Jambu would see to that.
18:12We made the beach safely,
18:14crossed it,
18:14and worked our way
18:15up the steep path
18:16on the face of the cliff.
18:18Finally,
18:19we reached the ledge
18:20in front of the caves.
18:21Boy,
18:22it is so dark here.
18:25It frightens me.
18:26Well,
18:27there's nothing to harm you.
18:28Bats in the caves,
18:29perhaps,
18:29but nothing else.
18:31I am to stay here alone,
18:32then?
18:33Aye,
18:33until the water witch
18:34comes into anchor tomorrow.
18:36Light this torch,
18:37then,
18:37and signal them.
18:38They'll come ashore
18:39and pick you off.
18:40Tomorrow?
18:42Where will you be tomorrow,
18:44Aret?
18:47You are going back there
18:48to die with him,
18:49aren't you?
18:49We'll have a fighting chance.
18:50You have no chance at all.
18:52You know it.
18:52Don't go.
18:53Stay with me, Aret.
18:54You know that's impossible.
18:56No.
18:57This man,
18:58young,
18:58poor,
18:58is no better
18:59than a pirate himself
19:00and you cannot help him
19:01by losing your own life
19:02or stay with me.
19:03And
19:04what of your husband?
19:09Do not go back.
19:12I beg you.
19:13Please,
19:14Aret.
19:16Delfina,
19:17you have a deadlier poison
19:19than the Yupus tree itself.
19:22Will you force me then
19:23to stay here
19:24in safety
19:24and watch you die
19:27on those decks
19:27there below us?
19:29Will it make so
19:31very much difference to you?
19:34So much
19:35that I will not care
19:37to be alive tomorrow.
19:40In Manila,
19:40I hated my life.
19:42I prayed for earthquakes,
19:44pirates,
19:44dead,
19:45anything.
19:47But now I pray only
19:48that you may live
19:49through this night.
19:51Delfina.
19:53Delfina,
19:54I...
19:56There...
19:57There's nothing
19:58can be said.
20:01Leave me
20:02if you must.
20:04But before you do,
20:07kiss me.
20:12Delfina.
20:14When is not just
20:15ready or so?
20:16Adiosito.
20:21Adiosito.
20:23For a little while.
20:29Had I
20:30stayed there
20:31one moment longer,
20:32I should never
20:33have left her.
20:40Back aboard the junk,
20:41I found young Poe
20:42rushing preparations
20:43for the hopeless fight
20:44that stood ahead of us.
20:46Don Narciso
20:47was shivering
20:48on the quarter deck
20:49and I saw no reason
20:50to tell him
20:50his wife had made
20:51the trip with us.
20:53The Chinese crew
20:54had piled stones
20:55and smoke pots
20:56at the rail,
20:57ready to throw down
20:58on the heads
20:58of the dyaks
20:59who had tried
21:00aboard us,
21:01and kettles of oil
21:02were being heated
21:03over a brick hearth
21:04by the mast.
21:06Paper lanterns
21:06had been lighted
21:07and hung
21:08about the rigging.
21:09But outside
21:10the narrow limits
21:11of the deck
21:11we could see nothing.
21:12nothing but the black wall
21:15of the Borneo night.
21:18The same dark wall
21:19shut off any side
21:20of the Yupus tree
21:21and of the cliff face
21:23where Delfina
21:24lay hidden.
21:25But I knew
21:26from the ledge
21:27she could see us
21:28moving about
21:29on the lighted deck.
21:31I loaded my pistols
21:32with the only dry powder
21:34aboard
21:34and we waited.
21:35There was no light
21:37I'm sure
21:38and no sound
21:39and three hours
21:42went past.
21:50Senores,
21:51have all possible
21:53measures been taken?
21:54My venerable
21:55Captain General,
21:56I have offered
21:57incense and rice
21:58to Queen of Heaven.
21:59If our enemies
22:00prevail after that,
22:02then we have
22:02mistreated them
22:03in some form
22:04of our life.
22:05I go below
22:06to sleep.
22:07Sleep?
22:08And who is to
22:09give orders
22:09to your men?
22:10They give them
22:11to one another,
22:12Excellency.
22:12They are all
22:13commanders
22:13in their own right.
22:15We may perhaps
22:16meet later
22:17in third
22:17or fourth heaven.
22:19With powder,
22:20I trade their boat
22:21in the ground
22:22of the ship.
22:23I might warn you
22:23before the attack
22:24starts,
22:25Your Excellency,
22:26stay away
22:26from the rail,
22:27at least until
22:28after the smoke
22:29pots are thrown.
22:30Oh?
22:30The diacs
22:31use bamboo poles
22:32with iron hooks
22:33on the end
22:34and...
22:35Well,
22:35they can reach
22:35up and drag
22:36a man over
22:36the rail
22:37easier than
22:38picking coconuts.
22:40Captain Rat,
22:41perhaps we could
22:43surrender
22:44and make peace
22:46somehow.
22:47Well,
22:47take no surrender,
22:48they want our heads.
22:49Look!
22:50They're on us!
22:50They're on us!
22:52They're on us!
22:52They're on us!
22:53What's the rail
22:53direction?
22:54Use your cup
22:55and the head
22:55comes over the side
22:56and look out
22:56for the hook.
22:57Oh,
22:57they're on us!
22:58They're on us!
23:00The rest of
23:00giant warriors
23:01had run their boat
23:02coming up the sides
23:03as a jerk
23:03and now were pushing
23:04their murderous
23:04hooks over the rail.
23:06The tiny school
23:07was fighting
23:07like madmen
23:08tossing over
23:09smoke pots
23:09slashing those
23:10heavy rocks
23:10down on the heads
23:11of the pirate mob,
23:12pouring out
23:13smoking kettles
23:14of boiling oil.
23:15And the whole
23:16curtain of night
23:17was torn
23:18by the screams
23:19of the bag.
23:21We find ourselves
23:23suddenly without
23:24smoke pots
23:24or soothing oil
23:25and rocks
23:26are nearly caught.
23:27I'll be swarming
23:28aboard it
23:28in another two minutes.
23:29Where's the captain's
23:30general?
23:31He has retired
23:32to cabin.
23:33It would be
23:33unprofitable
23:34to say he hides there.
23:36Well,
23:36a lot of good
23:37it'll do him.
23:39What happened?
23:40Young foe!
23:42They're on the island.
23:43Look!
23:44It would appear
23:45top of
23:45sacred
23:46upast
23:46tree
23:46has
23:47burst
23:47into flame.
23:50The great
23:51flaming torch
23:52of the tree
23:53spread into
23:53full bloom
23:54and leaped
23:55up to the heavens
23:55lighting the
23:56whole sea
23:57around us
23:58and everywhere
23:58about us
23:59screaming in
24:00horse terror
24:00the diet
24:01grew off
24:01in their boast
24:02and stared
24:03at the
24:03blazing death
24:03of the sacred
24:04tree.
24:05And then
24:06in full view
24:06on the glaring
24:07face of the cliff
24:08the beautiful
24:08and weird
24:09figure of a woman
24:10hair streaming
24:11behind it
24:12swung slowly
24:13out from behind
24:14the flames
24:14and up
24:15and up
24:16and then
24:16disappeared
24:17over the ledge
24:18in front of the cave.
24:20And at the sight
24:21of their white
24:21goddess escaping
24:22from her prison
24:23in the tree
24:24the dyaks
24:24broke in panic
24:25and turned
24:26their boats
24:26and raced
24:27for the shore.
24:29And while I
24:29thought of the
24:30signal torch
24:31I'd left
24:31with Delfina
24:32suddenly the
24:33battle was over.
24:3410,000 bushels
24:36of unexpected
24:37good fortune
24:37the little
24:38periquita
24:39saved our
24:39worthless lives.
24:41All right
24:41then you recognize
24:41these venerable
24:42eyes have never
24:43looked upon
24:44sight more
24:45fair.
24:46I shall
24:46address her
24:47hereafter
24:47as princess
24:48of heaven.
24:50And I think
24:52perhaps another
24:53recognized her
24:54also.
24:54Remember
24:55did you not
24:55see it?
24:57That was
24:57Delfina
24:58it was my
24:59wife.
25:00I know
25:00she was aboard
25:01with us.
25:03Aboard with us?
25:04By your
25:05permission
25:06senor?
25:07No
25:07she stowed
25:08away
25:08and asked
25:09that the
25:09knowledge
25:09of her
25:09presence
25:10be kept
25:10from you.
25:11I have
25:12no doubt
25:12she found
25:13you quite
25:14agreeable
25:14to such
25:15a plan.
25:16Take care
25:16excellency.
25:17Take care
25:17I will
25:18steal your
25:19hands
25:19senor.
25:20And as
25:20for her
25:21I shall
25:21rip her
25:22through
25:22the street
25:22of vanilla.
25:23We will
25:23discuss
25:24that later.
25:24I do
25:25not
25:25discuss
25:25my
25:26decisions.
25:27In
25:27fact
25:27maybe
25:28that I
25:28bring
25:28her boat
25:29at once
25:29and perhaps
25:30beat her
25:30or dead
25:31on this
25:31very
25:31deck.
25:32You
25:32pardon me.
25:32It is
25:34my
25:34humble
25:34opinion
25:35that
25:35elderly
25:35men
25:36should
25:36learn
25:36to
25:37control
25:37their
25:37emotions.
25:38Wait
25:38there is
25:38a
25:38dayic
25:39warrior
25:39hiding
25:40there
25:40by
25:40the
25:40rail.
25:41The
25:41boss
25:41have
25:41gone
25:41and
25:42left
25:42him.
25:43Excellency
25:43Excellency
25:44away from
25:44that
25:45rail.
25:45Get back
25:47look out.
25:48Take it.
25:48Stop it.
25:51Very
25:52commendable
25:52shooting
25:53Captain
25:53Aran.
25:54Aye.
25:54I'm a
25:54little
25:55used to
25:55the
25:55captain
25:55general
25:56I'm
25:56afraid.
25:57See
25:57what you
25:57can do
25:57for him
25:57young
25:58Po.
25:58I'm
25:58going
25:59ashore
25:59to
25:59look
25:59after
25:59her.
26:00See
26:01what I
26:01can do
26:01for him.
26:03Now
26:03how can
26:03I be
26:04expected
26:04to
26:04replace
26:05man's
26:05head
26:06on his
26:06barbie
26:06especially
26:07when
26:08head
26:08seems
26:08to
26:08have
26:09rolled
26:09overboard.
26:20There's
26:20not the
26:21least
26:21bit of
26:21use
26:21in
26:22giving
26:22me
26:22a
26:22poet's
26:23blimey
26:23old
26:23reprobate.
26:24It was
26:24nothing
26:25but pure
26:25luck
26:25that kept
26:26me
26:26from
26:26sailing
26:26in
26:26here
26:26this
26:27morning
26:27and
26:27finding
26:27nothing
26:28but your
26:28heads
26:28all
26:29is
26:29smoking
26:29in
26:29a
26:30row.
26:30Life
26:30moves
26:31only
26:31according
26:32to
26:32dreams
26:32of
26:33Queen
26:33of
26:33Heaven
26:33and
26:34Mr.
26:34O'Kane
26:34not to
26:35mention
26:36of course
26:36those
26:37of
26:37Princess.
26:39Oh
26:39that's
26:39Spanish
26:40life
26:40and
26:41quite
26:41a
26:41one
26:42she
26:42turned
26:42out
26:42to be.
26:43I
26:43plan
26:43to
26:44devote
26:44a
26:44remainder
26:44of
26:45my
26:45unworthy
26:46life
26:46to
26:47rescue
26:47of
26:47small
26:48birds
26:48from
26:49nets.
26:49Now
26:49that's
26:50a
26:50silly
26:50way
26:50for
26:51a
26:51grown
26:51man
26:51to
26:51spend
26:52his
26:52time.
26:53Oh
26:53come
26:58sail
26:59in
26:59the
26:59morning.
26:59Both
27:00ships
27:00are
27:00nearly
27:00loaded.
27:01Good
27:01we'll
27:01head
27:02for
27:02Canton.
27:04Young
27:04Poe
27:05this
27:05friend
27:06of
27:06you
27:06is
27:06there
27:06this
27:06own
27:07quad
27:07do you
27:09think
27:09he
27:09might
27:09have
27:09some
27:09good
27:10quality
27:10of
27:11silk
27:11to
27:11trade?
27:11It
27:12is
27:12possible.
27:13Silk
27:13is it
27:14now?
27:14And
27:14what
27:15will
27:15you
27:15be
27:15wanting
27:16silk
27:16for
27:16Erad?
27:17Well
27:18it's
27:20not
27:20silk
27:20I
27:21mean
27:21not
27:22exactly
27:22it's
27:23what
27:23what?
27:23It's
27:24not
27:24silk
27:25Erad
27:25then
27:25what
27:26is
27:26it
27:26huh?
27:27Oh
27:28all right
27:29Michael
27:29if you
27:29have to
27:29know
27:29everything
27:30I
27:31want
27:31to
27:31trade
27:31with
27:31him
27:32for
27:32a
27:33dozen
27:34pair
27:34of
27:34silk
27:35stockings
27:36Escape
27:48is
27:49produced
27:49and
27:49directed
27:50by
27:50William
27:50N.
27:50Robeson
27:51and
27:51tonight
27:52brought
27:52you
27:52Misfortune's
27:53Isle
27:53by
27:53Richard
27:54Matthews
27:54Hallett
27:55adapted
27:55for radio
27:56by
27:56Les
27:56Crutchfield
27:57with
27:58Paul
27:58Freese
27:59as
27:59Captain
27:59Erad
27:59Virginia
28:00Gregg
28:01as
28:01Doña
28:01Delfina
28:02Bill
28:02Conrad
28:03as
28:03Jean
28:03Po
28:03Barry
28:04Kroger
28:05as
28:05Don
28:05Narciso
28:05and
28:06Tony
28:07Barrett
28:07as
28:07Mike
28:08O'Kane
28:08next
28:11week
28:11when
28:13you're
28:14tired
28:14out
28:14from
28:15doing
28:15nothing
28:16all
28:16weekend
28:16when
28:17Blue
28:18Monday
28:18stares
28:19you
28:19in the
28:19face
28:20next
28:21week
28:21at
28:21this
28:21time
28:22when
28:22your
28:22problems
28:23seem
28:23just
28:23too
28:24much
28:24for
28:24you
28:24we
28:25offer
28:26you
28:26escape
28:28next
28:40week
28:40we
28:40bring
28:40you
28:40another
28:41exciting
28:41story
28:42by
28:42one
28:42of
28:42the
28:42world's
28:43great
28:43authors
28:44good
28:45night
28:45then
28:45until
28:45this
28:46same
28:46time
28:46next
28:47week
28:47when
28:47once
28:48again
28:48we
28:48offer
28:49you
28:49escape
28:50this
29:01this
29:01is
29:01cbs
29:02the
29:02columbia
29:03broadcasting
29:04system
29:04on
29:19on
29:20on
29:20here
29:21to
29:21Wow
29:21you
29:21can
29:22answer
29:23the
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