Speaker 1: The Seventh Daughter contains scenes of realistic violence and graphic sexuality.
Speaker 1: It is intended for mature listeners. Have you come seeking knowledge?
Speaker 1: Do you wish to know the truth? Allow me to
Speaker 1: show you. Close your eyes and follow the sound of
Speaker 1: my voice. Allow it to lead you further into the past.
Speaker 1: When I remove my blindfold, you may look into my eyes.
Speaker 1: Don't just look at them, look through them, and you
Speaker 1: will see what they have seen, and all my secrets
Speaker 1: will be revealed. The Seventh Daughter. H Hello, Roy, come
Speaker 1: in Rose. Fine, no one saw you come in. No,
Speaker 1: I came up through the cellar. Good, have a seat, Roy. Now,
Speaker 1: if we can get another booking, we'll bring you back in.
Speaker 1: But right now we're dark. Oh sure, Rose, I understand.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, I hoped I might engage your services
Speaker 1: in another way. Sure, what do you need a little
Speaker 1: gumshoe work? I'm not exaggerating when I say Pandora's future
Speaker 1: depends on it. Hey, I do anything for the kid. Rose.
Speaker 1: You know that I knew I could count on you.
Speaker 1: So Pandora is doing a cabinet sitting completely cold and blind.
Speaker 1: We've got the illusions covered, but we need to know
Speaker 1: something about the woman who's hosting the seance. Truth secrets
Speaker 1: doesn't need to be dirt, just things no body else knows.
Speaker 1: That'll be a cinch. Who's the mark, that's just it?
Speaker 1: I don't know. They won't tell us. Come on, Rose,
Speaker 1: ain't nobody could donny that they have clues. There's a
Speaker 1: famous doctor in town. He set the whole thing up,
Speaker 1: so he's our connection to the mystery woman. Here. I've
Speaker 1: written down his name, Albert fry Hair, his title sort
Speaker 1: of like a Baron von Shrink, not saying I wish
Speaker 1: I could afford a monica like that. He's in town
Speaker 1: to lecture at the mid Atlantic College of Medicine. So
Speaker 1: I'm thinking this person, this woman is connected to the
Speaker 1: school somehow, probably a donor, because we have reason to
Speaker 1: believe she's wealthy, and if she's interested in spiritists, she
Speaker 1: must have some heartrending secret she can't let go of.
Speaker 1: She's a twenty minute cab ribe from the theater, if
Speaker 1: that helps. That doesn't exactly narrow it down. The sitting
Speaker 1: is a week from now, so we haven't much time.
Speaker 1: If Pandora goes in there and gets it wrong, it'll
Speaker 1: ruin her name. They will publicly humiliate. Maybe you should
Speaker 1: put it off until we can figure out. We can't
Speaker 1: show any reluctance, any sign of weakness. Start with shrink.
Speaker 1: Do whatever you need to do. Get us something. I'll try.
Speaker 1: Oh you're the delivery man, right, I expect you to
Speaker 1: deliver here. Take this. It's two weeks payment. Consider it
Speaker 1: an advance against any information you can scrape up. Wow, Rose,
Speaker 1: that that's mighty generous. All right, Roy, I don't mind
Speaker 1: putting my money on a horse like you, a sure thing,
Speaker 1: short odds with a big payoff. Thanks Rose. Don't mention
Speaker 1: it now that business is concluded, take a load off.
Speaker 1: I was just about to smoke a bindle. If you'd
Speaker 1: care to join me, I shouldn't. I just managed to
Speaker 1: get off the stuff and Dora. Pandora's here, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 1: Prepare my pipe enough for myself and our guest. You
Speaker 1: don't have to smoke if you don't want to. You
Speaker 1: can always just snuggle up close to us and breathe.
Speaker 1: Pandora has become quite adept. Look at her soft white hands,
Speaker 1: how gently they tease the little brown pearl perfectly round,
Speaker 1: ready to hatch our little green friend here lie on
Speaker 1: your side, you will have the first breath of paradise.
Speaker 1: Let the lamp warm the pearl, hum. Put the bamboo
Speaker 1: against your lips, moisten the whole with your tongue. That's it. Now,
Speaker 1: breathe it in. Allow the dragon to crawl through the
Speaker 1: pipe into your mouth. M Let its tongue slither down
Speaker 1: your throat. Feel its claws pricking the inside of your lungs.
Speaker 1: You feel it, roy, I'm sure you do, warming your
Speaker 1: blood with its breadth, every drop that flows through your veins.
Speaker 1: Did you see her hands? What's that, roy Her hands? Oh? Yes,
Speaker 1: she has lovely hands. Pandora. Stroke the pearl like I
Speaker 1: taught you, so it can feel the flame. Hats it
Speaker 1: and I'll take the pipe. Now. I think you've had
Speaker 1: enough for the dragon to properly spread its wings. You've
Speaker 1: got a job to do. I want to stay. It's
Speaker 1: too late, roy Already I see you rising up, your body,
Speaker 1: leaving the straw matt. Your head is no longer resting
Speaker 1: on the silk pillow. You are levitating above us, moving
Speaker 1: out through the walls, lifted skyward on dragons wings, sinking
Speaker 1: down to the street, crawling along the ground like a
Speaker 1: winter fog, a vapor permeating everything, spreading like a virus
Speaker 1: from one person to the next, until you reach the
Speaker 1: sidewalk outside the Medical College, and you lie there, silent
Speaker 1: as a shadow, waiting until a door or window is
Speaker 1: opened just enough to quietly steal inside and tip toe
Speaker 1: through the hallways, searching, searching, starting at the College of Medicine,
Speaker 1: lurking in the holes, crawling over the transoms, searching, watching. Yes,
Speaker 1: excuse me, I have a message to deliver the Baron
Speaker 1: von Shrink. He's in a lecture right now. Leave it
Speaker 1: with me. I'll see that it gets a no. No, no,
Speaker 1: I have strict orders to deliver it personally. Which way
Speaker 1: is the lecture hall? You can't go in the lecture.
Speaker 1: It's fine, It's fine. I'll just wait outside third floor,
Speaker 1: south end of the hall. Thanks plans today, city, I
Speaker 1: leave Tuesday peak. I am rather excited to have scheduled
Speaker 1: a cabinet city at the young medium here in the city,
Speaker 1: who is apparently quiet gifted not only with materializations but
Speaker 1: psychic pummunications. Is Davenport of the American Society for Psychical Research,
Speaker 1: has graciously offered to host us as should be quite
Speaker 1: a demonstration indeed, but I hope that if my lecture
Speaker 1: was well received, to be able to form a professional
Speaker 1: association with admitted lat the County of Patters Davenport, Davenport, Davenport, Davenport, Alan, Avery,
Speaker 1: Charles Charless, Clarence Ferman, George, Mrs Harold Davenport, Mrs Harold Davenport,
Speaker 1: Mrs Harold Davenport, Mrs Harold Davenport, socialite, philanthropist, Widow Harris,
Speaker 1: Mrs Harold Davenport, Mrs Harold Davenport, forty three brock Avenue.
Speaker 1: When I have observed she has a staff of eight groundskeeper, butler, maid, chauffeur,
Speaker 1: cook and cook's assistant stable hand, two housekeepers and a
Speaker 1: girl companion. Say, fella, you work for miss Davenport, don't you?
Speaker 1: What if I do? I could use a swell set
Speaker 1: up like that does a guy getting good with the
Speaker 1: lady upstairs? What's it worth do you? Fella? This is
Speaker 1: your lucky day. I am the delivery man. I can
Speaker 1: get you whatever you want. Girls straight to your door,
Speaker 1: rum fresh off the boat, diamonds. You got a girl,
Speaker 1: Bet she love you a little better if you put
Speaker 1: a fox stole over her shoulders. Tell me what you want,
Speaker 1: and I will deliver. That's the problem. I want to
Speaker 1: cancel a delivery if you follow enlightening. I want to
Speaker 1: halt delivery of a package due to arrive in uh
Speaker 1: just shy a nine months. If you want to stop
Speaker 1: that bundle from arriving, I can see that it gets
Speaker 1: uh rerouted. Not me personally, minds you, but a woman
Speaker 1: I know, educated, real experienced. What's it worth to you?
Speaker 1: Fella always worth the world to me? Money I ain't
Speaker 1: God sorry to hear that, but happy to report that
Speaker 1: cash isn't the only currency I accept. I am a
Speaker 1: buyer and seller of useful information. And like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm looking to get in good with your boss. Then
Speaker 1: the girl you want to speak to was my girl,
Speaker 1: all of them, you know, like that, the one who's
Speaker 1: addresses on the package. The girl works for Mrs Davenport.
Speaker 1: She dresses her in the morning and puts her to
Speaker 1: bed at night. She and the old girl, and just
Speaker 1: sort of like that. Gee, this olive sounds like a
Speaker 1: swell kid. Well, don't get me wrong, I just want
Speaker 1: to do right by all. One day she's gonna have
Speaker 1: my name. I'm just you know, I'm not there yet,
Speaker 1: not this soon. Listen, pal, what's the doctor removes the pit,
Speaker 1: You'll be free to start a family whenever you're ready.
Speaker 1: So how far along is the little lady? Not enough
Speaker 1: of Miss daven Boy to get wise. But if the
Speaker 1: old lady does find out, show ship all of off
Speaker 1: to some homeful way with girls, the nit booties and mittens.
Speaker 1: So you've discussed this with the girl. Yeah, she's not
Speaker 1: happy about it, but she knows it's the only thing
Speaker 1: we could do right now. So when is Olive's next
Speaker 1: Liberty Sunday? Shall I send a car to pick her up? Here?
Speaker 1: I'm a chauffeur, I'll drive it. I can borrow Mr
Speaker 1: Davenports to day Sundays in my day off to Ah.
Speaker 1: I'm getting the picture now. I'll give you an address.
Speaker 1: You memorize it, but you don't write it down. Madam
Speaker 1: Francis Howard, she's a specialist, but you can't hang out
Speaker 1: a shingle for obvious reasons. You'll bring her over at
Speaker 1: nine thirty Sunday morning. You'll walk her up to a
Speaker 1: flat on the fifth floor. You'll greet the doctor. Then
Speaker 1: you go back to your car and wait. You don't
Speaker 1: pay her anything. You'll just say hello, doctor, delivery man
Speaker 1: sent me here to return a package. Got that? Hello doctor, Hello,
Speaker 1: Madame Francis. Yes, this is my gal. All of the
Speaker 1: sent me here. Delivery man sent me here to cancel
Speaker 1: a package. Olive. Such a pretty name, such a beautiful girl.
Speaker 1: Please come in. Do you mind if I think it'd
Speaker 1: be better if you wait downstairs? Come back in an
Speaker 1: hour if you'll say so, Drew, I say so. Lie
Speaker 1: down here, be as comfortable as you can. Is this
Speaker 1: the first time you've been in this situation? Yes? M hm,
Speaker 1: trust me, it's nothing to be frightened of. I'm going
Speaker 1: to give you something to help you relax. What is it? Laudanum? Nonsense,
Speaker 1: it's no different from ether. Most doctors use one or
Speaker 1: the other. I prefer laudanum, and this is my own formulation.
Speaker 1: I find that it provides pleasant dreams. It will, to
Speaker 1: be sure, it will allow you to have a nice
Speaker 1: rest while I perform my work. Here one spoonful M
Speaker 1: and then another to sweeten the dream. M fine, Now
Speaker 1: I'll lie you back, sweetheart. I will need you to
Speaker 1: keep talking while I do this. I need to know
Speaker 1: that you are awakened, that your mind is alert and
Speaker 1: that you're feeling no pain. Yes, ma'am, that's a girl.
Speaker 1: One day you will have a baby, just not today. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: and I'll be very careful so that you are unchanged
Speaker 1: by this experience. I want to have a child. I do,
Speaker 1: and I think Drew will be wonderful father. But but
Speaker 1: we can't. We don't have the money. And my employer
Speaker 1: I wouldn't understand. Mm hmmm, her ladyship, I would have
Speaker 1: to quit my job. Your boyfriend does not make enough
Speaker 1: money for the two of you know, maybe I don't
Speaker 1: think so take a deep breath. Take a deep breath,
Speaker 1: hold it. That's it good. Mm hmm. I thought about
Speaker 1: having the baby, giving it up to the orphanage. Mrs Davenport.
Speaker 1: That's what she would have had me do. Keep talking.
Speaker 1: The cook's helper was having a baby. Mrs Davenport had
Speaker 1: everything set for her, but may went back to the
Speaker 1: country to have the baby instead. There are ways to
Speaker 1: avoid this situation, you know. I hear the club women
Speaker 1: Mrs Davenport's friends talk about birth control at their meetings.
Speaker 1: What kind of meetings, she said, pick shot in the
Speaker 1: reform movement? Oh yes, what is she reforming the vote, temperance,
Speaker 1: clean milk for the poor, fresh air for the orphans,
Speaker 1: something new every week. I hear it when I serve
Speaker 1: them tea. After they had a meeting to talk about
Speaker 1: birth control, I asked Mrs Davenport if I could have
Speaker 1: one of the pamphlets they had given her. She wouldn't.
Speaker 1: She said birth control is for the criminal class, the
Speaker 1: negroes and the emigrants, that healthy people should have babies.
Speaker 1: Deep breath, Where does this come from? Is she a
Speaker 1: deeply religious person? Breathe? She goes to church? She goes
Speaker 1: to church. Does she have a husband, this lady, no,
Speaker 1: he died years ago. Tell me more about her, Mrs Davenport.
Speaker 1: Why we have to talk about something? And the Laudanum
Speaker 1: works better when you're speaking, and I need to know
Speaker 1: you are awake. I don't want to think about her,
Speaker 1: about him, about the way things are. I'd rather think
Speaker 1: about the way I want things to be. Tell me
Speaker 1: about the woman. It is the fair you must pay
Speaker 1: to get on the ferry, and once the boat leaves
Speaker 1: the shore, you will have the most wonderful dreams, and
Speaker 1: this Davenport woman will be in none of them. Yes,
Speaker 1: and you will walk in this land of promise, this
Speaker 1: land where happiness is still possible, where a man's word
Speaker 1: is never broken, where a woman can follow the path
Speaker 1: of her own juices. She's a widow. Her husband made
Speaker 1: his fortune and copper mining enough for her to live
Speaker 1: on forever. They had a child, but it died before
Speaker 1: its second birthday. It was a girl. This happened before
Speaker 1: I was in her service. She never talks about her husband.
Speaker 1: She's a photo. If I decide I want to walk
Speaker 1: on the path Withdrew, then I will. Ye will stop drinking,
Speaker 1: or her stop wasting his money on dices first love,
Speaker 1: and become the kind of man he could be if
Speaker 1: he would just allow himself the chance an artist. And
Speaker 1: if he doesn't, then but her parents refused, I could
Speaker 1: choose another path with another man, itself, unkind man, a
Speaker 1: man who is true to his word, who will love
Speaker 1: me in spite of everything and help me forget the
Speaker 1: difficult years of my youth. Yes, he'll let me speak
Speaker 1: my mind. He'll want me to speak my mind. He'll
Speaker 1: want to hear the things I have to say. He'll
Speaker 1: be interested in me, and I will reward his love
Speaker 1: with faithfulness, loyalty and children, healthy children. I will surround
Speaker 1: him with their bright smiles and blonde hair and soft
Speaker 1: voices and love. Feeling me arms of a child around
Speaker 1: my neck. I don't want to give it up. I
Speaker 1: want my baby olive. I don't want to lose my child.
Speaker 1: I want to stop and let my baby live. We're
Speaker 1: all finished. I need you to come back to us,
Speaker 1: Come back where follow the trail of smoke. No back
Speaker 1: here to my room and there so dark, filthy. You
Speaker 1: can't stay in your dreams forever. You have to come
Speaker 1: back to our world. But I I don't want to
Speaker 1: live in that world. You must, please, please, if you'll
Speaker 1: let me stay and let me dream, just another hour,
Speaker 1: just a few more minutes. Feel yourself slipping back into
Speaker 1: your own skin, your own But I don't want to
Speaker 1: be here. I'm sick of being me. Let me be
Speaker 1: the woman I wish I could be. You did it once,
Speaker 1: I felt so true. You can do it again. Only
Speaker 1: make it less longer, make it last for I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I'll live, truly I am, but we all have to.
Speaker 1: Please don't bring me back, Mrs Howard. I can't live
Speaker 1: this life much longer. It's not as bad as all
Speaker 1: that things will let me die now while I'm happy,
Speaker 1: things will be better when you return, better than they
Speaker 1: were before. I promise you can't promise me that I
Speaker 1: can come back. I will prove it to you. But
Speaker 1: it was so warm there. The light was golden, and
Speaker 1: my skin never felt warmer than when the sun the
Speaker 1: sun was shining on me. There. He was standing in
Speaker 1: a pond, at the edge of a pond in the sun.
Speaker 1: And I saw someone I know I haven't seen for years,
Speaker 1: and I was talking to her. She was holding something
Speaker 1: and it was and you sit up for me, trying
Speaker 1: to remember now what was her name? She was holding
Speaker 1: something and it was so important that day. What time
Speaker 1: is it? Quarter past ten in the morning. But I was, oh,
Speaker 1: wait for so long that can't be stand up and
Speaker 1: let's see if you're feeling well enough to walk. Your
Speaker 1: boyfriend Drew, isn't it. He's waiting for you. I asked
Speaker 1: him to come back for you. Drew is still here. Yes,
Speaker 1: he waited like the gentleman. He is beneath his course exterior. Yes,
Speaker 1: you can come in now. I wish you every happiness
Speaker 1: as you start your life. Anew, thank you, thank you, madam.
Speaker 1: Howard is Is she okay, She's fine, healthy as can be.
Speaker 1: Take her directly home and see that she goes to
Speaker 1: bed and stays in bed until morning. And tomorrow she
Speaker 1: should stay off her feet as much as possible. Sure thing, doctor, goodbye,
Speaker 1: my child? Good bye? Were you watching, Pearl? I think
Speaker 1: I'm going to be sick? Were you watching as I
Speaker 1: told you to? So you understand why I did what
Speaker 1: I did. It is important that you learn about such things,
Speaker 1: whether it serves as a warning to you, something to
Speaker 1: avoid at all costs, or something you could do if
Speaker 1: you had to to survive. You killed that woman's baby.
Speaker 1: You may be a child, but there are things you
Speaker 1: need to learn, painful and difficult things. Sacrifices a mother
Speaker 1: must make for the sake of herself and her child.
Speaker 1: You kill it to avoid it, having a childhood with
Speaker 1: no future, to avoid, a kind of motherhood that is
Speaker 1: death itself. You cannot understand. But she did it for
Speaker 1: the sake of her child. Not this woman, but the
Speaker 1: child to come, the second daughter, maybe the third, or
Speaker 1: the seventh. I wish to God your mother were alive.
Speaker 1: If you knew your mother, you would understand sacrifice valued
Speaker 1: her child's life more than her own. Sometimes I think
Speaker 1: she was a fool to do such a thing, but
Speaker 1: it's what she wanted. Prepare my pipe. I'm tired. I'm
Speaker 1: going to sleep. Fine, fix my pie, and then get
Speaker 1: in bed. Pearl, Could you prepare the pipe yourself? Prepare
Speaker 1: it myself? Not one night, after all, I've been doing
Speaker 1: just this once. That's fine. You don't have to prepare
Speaker 1: the pipe. I don't no go to bed. You won't
Speaker 1: prepare my pipe tonight, and I won't prepare it either,
Speaker 1: and no spoonful of YINCHI yes, it will be a
Speaker 1: valuable lesson for you to see what happens to me
Speaker 1: if I don't have the pipe. I'll tell you now,
Speaker 1: neither of us will sleep tonight. By sunrise, you'll be
Speaker 1: begging me to taste the dragon's breath, but I won't
Speaker 1: because you need to see how strong my will is
Speaker 1: and what a monster become. If denied the pipe, you
Speaker 1: could quit if you wanted to. We could see a doctor.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there. Why would I want to quit? Deny myself?
Speaker 1: One of the only pleasures to be had in this
Speaker 1: foul and rotten world here, breeze world, devoid of meaning,
Speaker 1: permeated with filth, lacking justice. We don't count for much
Speaker 1: in this world, but we will put one thing right.
Speaker 1: There's still time for you to do some reading before
Speaker 1: you sleep, Madame Blavatsky. I think a hint of Eastern
Speaker 1: religion would serve as a little more bait for the hook.
Speaker 1: M hm. We just need to coax the baron to
Speaker 1: come a little closer and have a taste and want
Speaker 1: it's in his throat. We pull just firmly enough, Pearl, Pearl,
Speaker 1: I must now replace my blind hold. As my vision
Speaker 1: begins to fade, your own senses will gradually return, Return
Speaker 1: to the warmth and the light of your own reality.
Speaker 1: The Seventh Daughter is a pro auction of I Heart Radio,
Speaker 1: written and directed by Brett Wood, recorded and mixed by
Speaker 1: Rob Gal, featuring Minca Wilkes as Rose and Elizabeth Hunter
Speaker 1: as Pearl. There you may now open your eyes