1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:11,120 Speaker 1: Welcome to you stuff you should know from HowStuffWorks dot com. 2 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:16,600 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Happy Halloween. That was Chuck there. 3 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: Not the wind, no, but it's it as windy outside 4 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 1: as you can tell, and rainy, and it's like kind 5 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: of spooky. 6 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 2: Yes, but fortunately, Chuck, we have a nice fire going 7 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:26,320 Speaker 2: here in our study. 8 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 3: It is very nice in here. 9 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 2: We're both wearing our best smoking jacket. 10 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 1: Yep, felt like the oak would work. You've done it 11 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:34,840 Speaker 1: with the place. It's very nice. I feel very comfortable 12 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 1: and it feels like a room to read scary things in. 13 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:42,400 Speaker 2: Well, that's precisely what we're about to do, Chuck. 14 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:44,159 Speaker 1: Then we waited for a stormy night too, which I 15 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:45,479 Speaker 1: think we've been waiting for like two weeks. 16 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:46,560 Speaker 3: Has been really lovely weather. 17 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 2: Yeah. The timing could not be better. 18 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 3: It's perfect. 19 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:51,640 Speaker 1: And I don't have to tell everyone this, but you 20 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 1: all know it's midnight. 21 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 3: Oh, yes, so we if you hear the clock strike, 22 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 3: it is, Oh, there it goes. We're a little late. 23 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 3: I thought I wanted to start reading right at midnight, 24 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 3: but it's okay. 25 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 2: We're still within the witching hour okay, which I don't 26 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:09,119 Speaker 2: think is necessarily midnight, but it's still scary. 27 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, now we have to wait for this thing 28 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 1: to ding twelve times a noo. So are we gonna 29 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:21,680 Speaker 1: do the one by Gertrude Atherton first? 30 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 2: I think we should. This is originally published by Old Gertrude, Yeah, 31 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 2: as The Twins Old Gertrude. Yeah, they called her, you 32 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 2: kind of have to. 33 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,559 Speaker 3: She was nineteen when she wrote that, right, what her name. 34 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:36,559 Speaker 2: Is Gertrude, so everybody called her Old Gert. 35 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 3: Yeah. 36 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:40,679 Speaker 2: She published a thing called The Twins. That was the 37 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 2: original name of this story, and I guess it didn't 38 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 2: take off because about ten years later she renamed it 39 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:46,839 Speaker 2: The Striding Place. 40 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 3: I like the Twins? 41 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 2: Do you sure? I did too, until I found out 42 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 2: that there is such a thing as an actual striding Place. Yeah. 43 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 2: It's a real part in a real river in real life. Yeah, 44 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 2: the War River right in Yorkshire. 45 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, this is uh, the waterfall kind of takes center 46 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: stage here at the end of the story. 47 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like boilet, it's a it's a we won't 48 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 2: but I just want to explain because I did a 49 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 2: little extra research, even on the Halloween story episode. Yeah, 50 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:17,839 Speaker 2: this river comes to a point where it's about as 51 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 2: wide as a large stride. So apparently it beckons people 52 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 2: just go ahead and jump. No reason to go walk 53 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:27,800 Speaker 2: to the bridge above or the bridge below, just jump over. Yeah, 54 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:29,919 Speaker 2: but it's also a very treacherous spot in the river. 55 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 2: So Chuck, you want to start reading this one or 56 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 2: do you want me to? It's up to you. I 57 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 2: say we trade off because we have two stories this year. 58 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 2: We didn't we didn't tell everybody yet. Oh yeah, we're 59 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:42,119 Speaker 2: doing two stories this year. Yeah, these are great. 60 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 3: They were a little. 61 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: Shorter, so we thought we'd double it up. I've had 62 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 1: a little kangnac. I think I feel primed and ready 63 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 1: to go. 64 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 2: We've had a lot of kangyac. 65 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 3: That's right, all right, So shall we set go in here? 66 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 3: Has everyone dim the lights at home? 67 00:02:58,480 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 2: Yes? 68 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 3: If you're like I'm subway or something, then you. 69 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 2: Should close your eyes safe. 70 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:03,919 Speaker 3: That's for another time. 71 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 2: Close your eyes very tightly. 72 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 3: Okay. 73 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:14,920 Speaker 1: The Striding Place by Gertrude Atherton. Weagle continental and detached, 74 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 1: tired of early grouse shooting, to stand propped against the 75 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 1: side fence while his host workmen routed up the birds 76 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 1: and long poles and drove them towards the waiting guns 77 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 1: made him feel himself a parody on the ancestors who 78 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:30,080 Speaker 1: had roamed the moors and forests of this west, riding 79 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 1: of Yorkshire, and hot pursuit of game worth the killing. 80 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: But when in England and August, he always accepted whatever 81 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 1: proffered for the season, and invited his host to shoot 82 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 1: pheasants on his estates in the south. The amusements of life, 83 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 1: he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as 84 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 1: its ills. 85 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 3: It had been a bad day. 86 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 1: A heavy rain had made them more so spongy that 87 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 1: it fairly sprang beneath the feet. 88 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 3: Whether or not the. 89 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: Grouse had haunts of their own, wherein they were immune 90 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: from rheumatism, the bag had been small. The women, too, 91 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 1: were an unusual dull lot, the exception of a new 92 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: minded debutante who bothered Weagle at dinner by demanding the 93 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: verbal restoration of the vague paintings on the vaulted roof 94 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 1: above them. But it was no one of these things 95 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: that sat on Miagal's mind, as when the other men 96 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 1: went up to bed, he let himself out of the 97 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 1: castle and sauntered down to the river. His intimate friend, 98 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 1: the companion of his boyhood, the chum of his college days, 99 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 1: his fellow traveler in many Lands, the man for whom 100 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: he possessed stronger affection than for all men, had mysteriously 101 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,919 Speaker 1: disappeared two days ago, and his track might have sprung 102 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 1: to the upper air for all trace he had left 103 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 1: behind him. He had been a guest on the adjoining 104 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:40,840 Speaker 1: estate during the past week, shooting with fervor of the 105 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 1: true sportsman, making love in the intervals to Adeline Cavan, 106 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 1: and apparently in the best of spirits. As far as 107 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:51,480 Speaker 1: was known, there was nothing to lower his mental mercury, 108 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:54,839 Speaker 1: for his rent roll was a large one. Miss Cavan 109 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 1: blushed whenever he looked at her, and being one of 110 00:04:57,160 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 1: the best shots in England, he was never happier than 111 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:03,520 Speaker 1: in August. The suicide theory was preposterous, all agreed, and 112 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: there was this little reason to believe him murdered. Nevertheless, 113 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: he had walked out of the march Abbey two nights 114 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:11,600 Speaker 1: ago without hat or overcoat, and had not been seen 115 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: since the country was being patrolled night and day. One 116 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:17,599 Speaker 1: hundred keepers and workmen were beating the woods and poking 117 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:20,920 Speaker 1: the bogs on the moors, but as yet not so 118 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 1: much as a handkerchief had been found. So this guy's 119 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 1: best buddy is missing. 120 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's really kind of weighing on his mind. 121 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 1: It's bestie and he's he's hunting grouse and he's bored 122 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:32,480 Speaker 1: out of his mind. 123 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 2: Yeah. It sounds like, yeah, well his mind is elsewhere. 124 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 3: Well, lady Geez going on and on about the painting, 125 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 3: the debute hunt. Yeah, do you blame him? 126 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, you're ready for more. Yeah. Weigel did not 127 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 2: believe for a moment that Wyatt Gifford was dead, and 128 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 2: although it was impossible not to be affected by the 129 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 2: general uneasiness, he was disposed to be more angry than frightened. 130 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 2: At Cambridge, Gifford had been an incorrigible, practical joker, and 131 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:04,159 Speaker 2: by no means had outgrown the habit. It would be 132 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:07,039 Speaker 2: like him to cut across the country in his evening clothes, 133 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:10,039 Speaker 2: boreed a cattle train and amuse himself touching up the 134 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:15,039 Speaker 2: picture of the sensation and west riding. However, Weagle's affection 135 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:18,160 Speaker 2: for his friend was too deep to companion with tranquility 136 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 2: in the present state of doubt, and instead of going 137 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:23,839 Speaker 2: to bed early with the other men, he determined to 138 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 2: walk until ready for sleep. He went down to the 139 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 2: river and followed the path through the woods. There was 140 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 2: no moon, but the stars sprinkled their cold light upon 141 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,839 Speaker 2: the pretty belt of water flowing placidly past wood in 142 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 2: ruin between green masses of overhanging rocks, where sloping banks 143 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 2: tangled with tree and shrub leaping occasionally over stones with 144 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:47,600 Speaker 2: the harsh notes of an angry scold to recover its equanimity. 145 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 2: The moment the way was clear again, it was very 146 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:53,720 Speaker 2: dark in the depths where Weagle trod. He smiled as 147 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 2: he recalled a remark of Gifford's in English. 148 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:58,799 Speaker 4: Wood is like a good many other things in life, 149 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:02,159 Speaker 4: very promising a distance, but a hollow mockery. When you 150 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:05,120 Speaker 4: get within, you see daylight on both sides, and the 151 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:08,440 Speaker 4: sun freckles the very bracken. Our woods need the light 152 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 4: to make them seem what they ought to be, what 153 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 4: they once were before our ancestors descendants demanded so much 154 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:16,680 Speaker 4: more money in these so much more various days. 155 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 2: Weigel strolled along, smoking and thinking of his friend, his pranks, 156 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 2: many of which had done more credit to his imagination 157 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 2: than this, and recalling conversations that had lasted the night through, 158 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 2: just before the end of the London season, they had 159 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 2: walked the streets one hot night after a party discussing 160 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:38,240 Speaker 2: the various theories of the soul's destiny. That afternoon they 161 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 2: had met at the coffin of a college friend whose 162 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 2: mind had been blank for the past three years. Some 163 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 2: months previously they had called at the asylum to see him. 164 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:50,880 Speaker 2: His expression had been senile, his face imprinted with the 165 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 2: record of debauchery. In death. The face was placid, intelligent, 166 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 2: without ignoble a lineation the face of the man they 167 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 2: had known at college. Weigel and Gifford had had no 168 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 2: time to comment there, and the afternoon and evening were full, 169 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 2: But coming forth from the House of Festivity together they 170 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,480 Speaker 2: had reverted almost at once to the topic I cherish 171 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 2: the theory. 172 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 1: Gifford had said that the soul sometimes lingers in the 173 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 1: body after death during madness. Of course, it is an 174 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 1: impotent prisoner, albeit a conscious one. Fancy its agony and 175 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 1: its horror. What more natural than that, when the life's 176 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 1: spark goes out, the tortured souls should take possession of 177 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:33,160 Speaker 1: the vacant skull and triumph once more. For a few hours, 178 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 1: while old friends look their last. It has had time 179 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 1: to repent, while compelled to crouch and behold the result 180 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: of its work, and it has shrived itself into a 181 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 1: state of comparative purity. If I had my way, I 182 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:47,839 Speaker 1: should stay inside my bones until the coffin had gone 183 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 1: into its niche, that I might obviate for my poor comrade, 184 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: the tragic impersonality of death. And I should like to 185 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: see justice done to it as it were, to see 186 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,640 Speaker 1: lowered among its ancestors, with the ceremony and solemnity that 187 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 1: are its do I'm afraid that if I dissevered myself 188 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 1: too quickly, I should yield to curiosity and hasten to 189 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 1: investigate the mysteries of space. 190 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:10,840 Speaker 5: You believe in the soul is an independent entity, then 191 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:14,040 Speaker 5: that it and the vital principle are not one and 192 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 5: the same. 193 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:18,839 Speaker 2: Is that a lady, No, that's a legal that's legal. 194 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 3: Absolutely. The body and soul are twins. 195 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 1: Life comrades, sometimes friends, sometimes enemies, but always loyal. In 196 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 1: the last instance, Someday, when I am tired of the world, 197 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 1: I shall go to India and become a Mahatma, solely 198 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 1: for the pleasure of receiving proof during life of this 199 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:37,439 Speaker 1: independent relationship. 200 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 5: Suppose you are not sealed up properly and returned after 201 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 5: one of your astral flights to find your earthly part 202 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 5: unfit for habitation. It is an experiment. I don't think 203 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:52,959 Speaker 5: I should care to try, unless even juggling with soul 204 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 5: and fleshead. 205 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:58,040 Speaker 1: Paul, that would not be an uninteresting predicament. I should 206 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 1: rather enjoy experimenting with broken machine. The high, wild roar 207 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 1: of water smoked suddenly upon Weagle's ear, and checked his memories. 208 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 1: He left the wood and walked out on the huge 209 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:11,319 Speaker 1: slippery stones which nearly closed the river wharf at this point, 210 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 1: and watched the waters boil down into the narrow paths 211 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: with their furious, untiring energy. The black quiet of the 212 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:21,319 Speaker 1: woods rose high on either side. The stars seemed colder 213 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 1: and whiter just above. On either hand, the perspective of 214 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:27,559 Speaker 1: the river might have run into a rayless cavern. There 215 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 1: was no lonelier spot in England, nor one which had 216 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 1: the right to claim so many ghosts if ghosts there were, 217 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 1: all right, man, So he basically was like, I can't sleep, 218 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:40,439 Speaker 1: I'm going to go look for my friend. 219 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, he's thinking a lot. He's thinking about his good 220 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 2: friend Wyatt Gifford. 221 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, he's thinking of walking along the river. He's thinking 222 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 1: about why God tortured him with that voice. 223 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, he didn't like his voice, but it's not he's. 224 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 3: Not in the best of way right now. No, all right, 225 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 3: are you ready to continue, sir? 226 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 2: I'm prepared? You ready? 227 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 1: Yeah? 228 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:05,679 Speaker 2: Weigel was not a coward, but he recalled uncomfortably the 229 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 2: tales of those that had been done to death in 230 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 2: the strid. Wordsworth's boy of Egremond had been disposed of 231 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:16,720 Speaker 2: by the practical Whittaker, but countless others, more venturesome than wise, 232 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 2: had gone down into that narrow, boiling course, never to 233 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:23,959 Speaker 2: appear in the still pool a few yards beyond below 234 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,200 Speaker 2: the great rocks which formed the walls of the strid, 235 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:29,680 Speaker 2: was believed to be a natural vault, unto whose shelves 236 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 2: the dead were drawn. The spot had an ugly fascination. 237 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 2: Weigel stood, visioning skeletons, uncoffined and green, the home of 238 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:41,200 Speaker 2: the eyeless things that had devoured all that had covered 239 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:44,800 Speaker 2: and filled that rattling symbol of man's mortality. Then fell 240 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 2: to wondering if anyone had attempted to leap the strid 241 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 2: of late. It was covered with slime. He had never 242 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 2: seen it look so treacherous. He shuddered and turned away, 243 00:11:54,160 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 2: impelled despite his manhood to flee the spot. As he 244 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:00,760 Speaker 2: did so, something tossing in the foam below the fall, 245 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 2: something as white yet independent of it, caught his eye 246 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:06,960 Speaker 2: and arrested his step. Then he saw that it was 247 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 2: describing a contrary motion to the rushing water, an upward 248 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 2: backward motion. Weigel stood rigid, breathless. He fancied he heard 249 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:19,320 Speaker 2: the crackling of his hair. Was that a hand? It 250 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 2: thrust itself higher above the boiling foam, turned sideways, and 251 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 2: four frantic fingers were distinctly visible against the black rock beyond. 252 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 2: Weegle's superstitious terror left him. A man was there, struggling 253 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 2: to free himself from the suction beneath the strid swept down, 254 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 2: doubtless but a moment before his arrival. Perhaps as he 255 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:40,960 Speaker 2: stood with him back to the current. He stepped as 256 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 2: close to the edge as he dared. The hand doubled, 257 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:46,679 Speaker 2: as if in eprocation, shaking savagely in the face that 258 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 2: force which leads its creatures to a mutable low, then 259 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 2: spread wide again clutching, expanding, crying for help as audibly 260 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 2: as the human voice. Weigle dashed to the nearest street, 261 00:12:57,440 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 2: dragged and twisted off a branch with his strong arms, 262 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 2: and returned as swiftly to the strip. The hand was 263 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:06,640 Speaker 2: in the same place, still gesticulating as wildly. The body 264 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 2: was undoubtedly caught in the rocks below, perhaps already halfway 265 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:13,640 Speaker 2: along one of those hideous shelves. Weegel let himself down 266 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 2: upon a lower rock, braced his shoulder against the mask 267 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 2: beside him, and then, leaning out over the water, thrust 268 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 2: the branch into the hand. The fingers clutched it convulsively. 269 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 2: Weegel tugged powerfully, his own feet dragged perilously near the edge. 270 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 2: For a moment he produced no impression. Then an arm 271 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 2: shot above the waters. 272 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 3: The blood sprang to Eagle's head. 273 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 1: He was choked with the impression that the striad had 274 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 1: him in a roaring hold, and he saw nothing. Then 275 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:43,199 Speaker 1: the mist cleared, the hand and arm were nearer, although 276 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:45,840 Speaker 1: the rest of the body was still concealed by the foam. 277 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:49,680 Speaker 1: Eagle peered out with distended eyes. The meager light revealed 278 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:52,960 Speaker 1: in the cuff SLINKs of a peculiar device. The fingers 279 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 1: clutching the branch were as familiar. Weagle forgot the slippery stones, 280 00:13:57,040 --> 00:13:59,680 Speaker 1: the terrible death if he stepped too far. He pulled 281 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 1: with pass will, and muscle muscles flung themselves into the 282 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:06,800 Speaker 1: hot light of his brain, trooping rapidly upon each other's heels, 283 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,680 Speaker 1: as if in the thought of the drowning. Most of 284 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:12,760 Speaker 1: the pleasures of his life, good and bad, were identified 285 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 1: in some way with this friend. Scenes of college, days 286 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:18,800 Speaker 1: of travel where they had deliberately sought adventure and stood 287 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 1: between one another and death upon more occasions than one. 288 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 1: Of hours of delightful companionship, among the treasures of art 289 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 1: and others in the pursuit of pleasure flashed like the 290 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 1: changing particles of a kaleidoscope. Weagle had loved several women, 291 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 1: but he would have flouted in these moments the thought 292 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 1: that he ever had loved any woman as he loved 293 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: Wyatt Gifford. There were so many charming women in the world, 294 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 1: and in the thirty two years of his life, he 295 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 1: had never known another man to whom he had cared 296 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:46,440 Speaker 1: to give his intimate friendship. 297 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 2: So, Chuck, it sounds like he's pretty certain this is Wyatt. Yeah, 298 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 2: his long lost buddy. He's in the foamy waterfall and 299 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 2: he's trying to save him. Yeah, so this is getting intent. 300 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 1: It's getting super intense, and it sounds like he really 301 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 1: likes this guy in es, like he really wants to 302 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:03,920 Speaker 1: save his friend. 303 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 2: Sure. 304 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 1: He threw himself on his face. His wrist were cracking, 305 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 1: the skin was torn from his hands. The fingers still 306 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 1: gripped the stick. There was life in them. Yet suddenly 307 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 1: something gave way. The hand swung about, tearing the branch 308 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 1: from Eagle's grasp. The body had been liberated and flung outward, 309 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 1: though still submerged by the foam and spray. Eagle scrambled 310 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 1: to his feet and sprang along the rocks, knowing that 311 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 1: the danger from suction was over and that Gifford must 312 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:34,680 Speaker 1: be carried straight to the quiet pool. Gifford was a 313 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 1: fish in the water and could live under it longer 314 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:39,840 Speaker 1: than most men. If he survived this, it would not 315 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 1: be the first time that his pluck and science had 316 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 1: saved them from drowning. 317 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 2: Weigel reached the pool, a man in his evening clothes 318 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 2: floated on it. His face turned towards a projecting rock 319 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 2: over which his arm had fallen upholding the body. The 320 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 2: hand that had held the branch hung limply over the rock, 321 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 2: its white reflection visible in the black water. Weigle plunged 322 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 2: into the shallow pool, lifted Gifford in his arms, and 323 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 2: returned to the bank. He laid the body down and 324 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:08,800 Speaker 2: threw off his coat, that he might be the freer 325 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 2: to practice the methods of resuscitation. He was glad of 326 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 2: the moment's respite, the valiant life, and the man might 327 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 2: have been exhausted in that last struggle, he had not 328 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 2: dared to look at his face, to put his ear 329 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 2: to the heart. The hesitation lasted but a moment. There 330 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:27,320 Speaker 2: was no time to lose. He turned to his prostrate friend. 331 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 2: As he did so, something strange and disagreeable smote his senses. 332 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 2: For a half moment, he did not appreciate its nature. 333 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:39,520 Speaker 2: Then his teeth clacked together, his feet, his outstretched arms 334 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 2: pointed towards the woods. But he sprang to the side 335 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:45,360 Speaker 2: of the man and bent down and peered into his face. 336 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 6: There was no face, man, that was scary stuff. 337 00:16:58,000 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 3: That's creepy. No face. 338 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, and the guy was struggling helping himself up. Yeah, 339 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 2: clearly dead. Yeah, like they had spoken about previously in 340 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 2: the short story. Yeah. 341 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:12,040 Speaker 1: And also you know he I think he was talking 342 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:14,520 Speaker 1: about the soul and the twins, like maybe this was 343 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 1: his soul or something. 344 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:15,719 Speaker 3: I don't know. 345 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:18,959 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean these guys were clearly related. Yeah, Gertrude 346 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:23,640 Speaker 2: said at least so that was the striving Place by 347 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 2: Gertrude Atherton, and that was one of two. Yeah. 348 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 3: She said that that was her favorite one she ever wrote. 349 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 3: And so I can't disagree. 350 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:34,119 Speaker 2: Nice going, Gert, the old Gert, So chuck with's her. 351 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:38,840 Speaker 2: What's the next selection in our cozy, scary, creepy study 352 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 2: the next. 353 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:42,439 Speaker 3: By the way, I appreciate the Halloween candy put out. 354 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 3: That's a nice touch. 355 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 2: I know. I sprung for the full size once. Forget 356 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:47,240 Speaker 2: that fun size crud. 357 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 3: It's a little weird to eat Reese's pieces while I'm all. 358 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:53,480 Speaker 2: Creeped out, but they're still delicious. 359 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 3: It's still delicious. 360 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:56,880 Speaker 1: So this one's called The Pale Man by Julius Long 361 00:17:56,920 --> 00:18:00,399 Speaker 1: and it is from Weird Tales, Volume twenty four, issue 362 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:04,359 Speaker 1: number three. Weird Tales was a pulp rag a Chicago 363 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:07,920 Speaker 1: started in nineteen twenty three and has had several iterations 364 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:11,680 Speaker 1: over the years, including a modern one. You can still 365 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:13,679 Speaker 1: I think by it's something called weird Tales. 366 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 3: You know, it's been shut down here and there over 367 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:16,000 Speaker 3: the years. 368 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:17,399 Speaker 2: Well, I know, I don't know if that's where he 369 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:20,200 Speaker 2: got to start, but he definitely supplied a lot of stories. 370 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:23,680 Speaker 2: HP Lovecraft, Yeah, weird tales. Totally love weird tales. 371 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:25,439 Speaker 3: Yeah, I kind of missed the old days like this. 372 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:26,920 Speaker 3: I mean, I know you have stuff like this on. 373 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 1: The internet now, but it's kind of neat to be 374 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:30,920 Speaker 1: able to buy a little pulp thing for ten cents, 375 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:32,560 Speaker 1: you know, back in the nineteen twenties. 376 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 3: Like I did. Alrighty, So this is The Pale. 377 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 1: Man by Julius Long, with the subtitle A queer little 378 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:42,639 Speaker 1: tale about the eccentric behavior of a strange guest in 379 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 1: a country hotel. 380 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:46,200 Speaker 2: Nice kind of describes it perfectly. There. 381 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 3: All right, ready, has everyone got the lights? Do very important? 382 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:53,880 Speaker 2: Remember close your eyes on the subway. 383 00:18:53,760 --> 00:18:55,680 Speaker 3: And get your brandy and your Resi's pieces up. 384 00:18:56,920 --> 00:18:59,560 Speaker 2: And chuff Juffy Reese's pieces India Brandy. 385 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:02,959 Speaker 3: That might be nice. All right, here we go. 386 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 1: I have not yet met the man in number two twelve. 387 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 1: I do not even know his name. He never patronizes 388 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 1: the hotel restaurant, and he does not use the lobby. 389 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:16,320 Speaker 1: On the three occasions when we passed each other by, 390 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:19,520 Speaker 1: we did not speak, although we nodded in a semi cordial, 391 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:22,160 Speaker 1: non committal way. I should like very much to make 392 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 1: his acquaintance. It is lonesome in this dreary place. With 393 00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 1: the exception of the age lady down the corridor, the 394 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:31,399 Speaker 1: only permanent guests are the man in number two twelve 395 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:35,120 Speaker 1: and myself. However, I should not complain for this utter quiet. 396 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:38,480 Speaker 1: It is precisely what the doctor prescribed. I wonder if 397 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:40,359 Speaker 1: the man in number two twelve, too, has come. 398 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:42,960 Speaker 3: Here for a rest. He is so very pale. 399 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 1: Yet I cannot believe that he is ill, for his 400 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 1: paleness is not of a sickly cast, but rather wholesome 401 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 1: in its ivory clarity. His carriage is that of a 402 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:55,080 Speaker 1: man enjoying the best of health. He is tall and straight. 403 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:58,879 Speaker 1: He walks erectly with a brisk, athletic stride. His pallor 404 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,160 Speaker 1: is no doubt conj else he would quickly tan under 405 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 1: this burning summer sun. He must have traveled here by otto, 406 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:07,240 Speaker 1: for he certainly was not a passenger on the train 407 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:09,520 Speaker 1: that brought me, and he checked in only a short 408 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:12,320 Speaker 1: time after my arrival. I had briefly rested in my 409 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:15,400 Speaker 1: room and was walking down the stairs when I encountered 410 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:18,480 Speaker 1: him ascending with his bag. It is odd that our 411 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:20,960 Speaker 1: venerable bell boy did not show him to his room. 412 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:23,400 Speaker 1: It is odd, too, that, with so many vacant rooms 413 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:26,119 Speaker 1: in the hotel, he should have chosen number two twelve 414 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:29,120 Speaker 1: At the extreme rear. The building is a long, narrow 415 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:31,680 Speaker 1: affair three stories high. The rooms are all on the 416 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:33,840 Speaker 1: east side, as the west wall is flushed with a 417 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:37,159 Speaker 1: decrepit business building. The corridor is long in drab, and 418 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:40,359 Speaker 1: its stiff bloated paper exudes a musty and pleasant odor. 419 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaker 1: The feeble electric bulbs that light it shine dimly, as 420 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:47,200 Speaker 1: from a tomb. Revolted by this corridor. I insisted upon 421 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:50,159 Speaker 1: being given number two oh one, which is at the 422 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 1: front and blessed with southern exposure. The room clerk, a 423 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:57,480 Speaker 1: disagreeable fellow with a Hitler mustache, was very reluctant to 424 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:00,080 Speaker 1: let me have it, as it was ordinarily reserved for 425 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 1: his more profitable transient trade. Wink wink, I fear my 426 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,119 Speaker 1: stubborn insistence has made him an enemy. If only I 427 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:10,960 Speaker 1: had been as self assertive thirty years ago, I should 428 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:13,359 Speaker 1: now be a full fledged professor instead of a broken 429 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 1: down assistant. I still smart from the cavalier manner in 430 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:20,399 Speaker 1: which the president of the university summarily recommended my vacation. 431 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 1: No doubt he acted for my best interests. The people 432 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:27,600 Speaker 1: who have dominated my poor life invariably have. Oh well, 433 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:30,359 Speaker 1: the summer's rest will probably do me considerable good. It 434 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,240 Speaker 1: is pleasant to be away from the university. There's something 435 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:36,879 Speaker 1: positively gratifying about the absence of the graduate student faiths. 436 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:40,719 Speaker 1: If only it were not so lonely. I must devise 437 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:42,959 Speaker 1: a way of meeting the pale man in number two twelve. 438 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:45,439 Speaker 1: Perhaps the room clerk can arrange matters. 439 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 2: So this guy, he's a bit of a whiner. 440 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:54,439 Speaker 1: Yeah, he's like a little whiny assistant professor who was 441 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 1: kind of. 442 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:56,160 Speaker 3: Told to go on vacation. 443 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:57,480 Speaker 2: It sounds like pretty much. 444 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 3: And he took the room, the nicest room. Even though 445 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,280 Speaker 3: it sounds like that was saved for prostitutes. 446 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:04,439 Speaker 2: It was being saved by the man with the Hitler 447 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 2: mustache for prostitutes. 448 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:08,320 Speaker 3: I get one of the transient trade, and that what 449 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:08,640 Speaker 3: he means. 450 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,959 Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think he's also saying here immense possible interpretation. 451 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:14,919 Speaker 6: Sure, but he appears to have settled. 452 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:16,040 Speaker 2: In for a very long stay. 453 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:16,920 Speaker 3: Yeah that's true. 454 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:19,360 Speaker 2: It might rather than like a traveling salesman. 455 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:21,760 Speaker 3: The brandy is getting to me. My mind's in the gutter. 456 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 2: The Reese's pieces are getting to you. 457 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:26,199 Speaker 3: All right, So he wants to meet the man in 458 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:28,880 Speaker 3: two twelve. He something about this guy. 459 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 2: He's also just pretty content to whine. It sounds like, yeah, 460 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 2: that's true. May I please? Okay, I've been here exactly 461 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 2: a week, and if there is a friendly soul in 462 00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 2: this miserable little town, he has escaped my notice. Although 463 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,840 Speaker 2: the trades people accept my money with flattering eagerness, they 464 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:52,080 Speaker 2: studiously avoid even the most casual conversation. I am afraid 465 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 2: I can never cultivate their society unless I can arrange 466 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,760 Speaker 2: to have my ancestors recognized as local residents. For the 467 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:01,439 Speaker 2: last one hundred and fifty years, despite the coolness of 468 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 2: my reception, I have been frequently venturing abroad. In the 469 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 2: back of my mind, I have cherished hopes that I 470 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:10,920 Speaker 2: might encounter the pale man in number two eleven. Incidentally, 471 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:13,320 Speaker 2: I wonder why he has moved from number two twelve. 472 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:16,920 Speaker 2: There is certainly little advantage in coming only one room 473 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 2: nearer to the front. I noticed the change yesterday when 474 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 2: I saw him coming out of his new room. We 475 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:25,320 Speaker 2: nodded again, and this time I thought I detected a 476 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 2: certain malign satisfaction in his somber black eyes. He must 477 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:32,000 Speaker 2: know that I am eager to make his acquaintance. Yet 478 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 2: his manner forbids overtures. If he wants me to go 479 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 2: all the way, he can go to the devil. I 480 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,719 Speaker 2: am not the sort to run after anybody. Indeed, the 481 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 2: surly diffidence of the room clerk has been enough to 482 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 2: prevent me from questioning him about his mysterious guest. I 483 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:49,679 Speaker 2: wonder where the pale man takes his meals. I have 484 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,919 Speaker 2: been absenting myself from the hotel restaurant and patronizing the 485 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:56,439 Speaker 2: restaurants outside. At each I have ventured inquiries about the 486 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 2: man in number two ten. No one at any restaurant 487 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 2: remembered his having been there. Perhaps he is entree into 488 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:05,359 Speaker 2: the brahm and homes of this town, and again he 489 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,639 Speaker 2: may have found a boarding house. I shall have to 490 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 2: learn if there be one, the pale man must be 491 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:13,359 Speaker 2: difficult to please, for he has again changed his room. 492 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:16,080 Speaker 2: I am baffled by his conduct. If he is so 493 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,560 Speaker 2: desirous of locating himself more conveniently in the hotel, why 494 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:21,680 Speaker 2: does he not move to number two oh two, which 495 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:24,399 Speaker 2: is the nearest available room to the front. Perhaps I 496 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,439 Speaker 2: can make his inability to locate himself permanently as an 497 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:31,640 Speaker 2: excuse for starting a conversation. I see we are close neighbors. Now, 498 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,760 Speaker 2: I might say casually, but that is to banal. I 499 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:36,440 Speaker 2: must have waited a better opportunity. 500 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,360 Speaker 1: This guy is whinny. Yeah, he's like, well, I'm not 501 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 1: gonna go chase this guy down. And then he's like, 502 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:46,119 Speaker 1: I wonder where he eats. He's just like sitting around 503 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 1: thinking about him, and he's getting closer. 504 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:49,440 Speaker 3: And I don't think that's a good thing. 505 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 2: No, I don't either. It's a peculiar behavior for a 506 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:55,640 Speaker 2: short story. Yeah, things like that kind of stand out. 507 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:59,120 Speaker 3: You know. This guy's like, oh, he's moving closer. How delightful. Yeah, 508 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 3: what a dummy. He has done it again. 509 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:07,719 Speaker 1: He's now occupying number two O nine. I'm intrigued by 510 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:11,040 Speaker 1: his little game. I waste hours trying to fathom its point. 511 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 1: What possible motive could he have? I should think he 512 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,720 Speaker 1: would get on the hotel people's nerves. I wonder what 513 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 1: our combination bell hop chambermaid thinks of having to prepare 514 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:21,280 Speaker 1: four rooms for a single guest. 515 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 3: If he were not stone deaf, I would ask him. 516 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: At present, I feel too exhausted to attempt such an 517 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:29,919 Speaker 1: enervating conversation. I am tremendously interested in the pale man's 518 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 1: next move. He must either skip a room or remain 519 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:35,400 Speaker 1: where he is for a permanent guest. The very old 520 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:38,719 Speaker 1: lady occupies number two O eight. She has not budged 521 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,200 Speaker 1: from her room since I've been there, and I imagine 522 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:42,359 Speaker 1: that she does not intend to. 523 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:44,360 Speaker 3: I wonder what the pale man will do. 524 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,480 Speaker 1: I await his decision with the nervous excitement of a 525 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:49,920 Speaker 1: devote of the track on the eve of a big race. 526 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:54,919 Speaker 1: After all, I have so little diversion. Well, the mysterious 527 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,880 Speaker 1: guest was not forced to remain where he was, nor 528 00:25:57,920 --> 00:25:59,879 Speaker 1: did he have to skip a room. The lady in 529 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,479 Speaker 1: number two O eight simplified matters by conveniently dying. 530 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:05,480 Speaker 3: That ain't good. 531 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:09,359 Speaker 1: No, no one knows the cause of her death, but 532 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 1: it is generally attributed to old age. She was buried 533 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:14,919 Speaker 1: this morning. I was among the curious few who attended 534 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,959 Speaker 1: her funeral. When I return home from the mortuary, I 535 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:19,960 Speaker 1: was in time to see the pale man leaving her room. 536 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:23,440 Speaker 1: Already he has moved in. He favored me with a 537 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:26,000 Speaker 1: smile whose meaning I have tried in vain to decipher. 538 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,240 Speaker 1: I cannot but believe that he meant it to have 539 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:32,919 Speaker 1: some significance. He acted as if there were between us 540 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,479 Speaker 1: some secret that I failed to appreciate. But then perhaps 541 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:40,679 Speaker 1: his smile was meaningless after all, and only ambiguous by chance, 542 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 1: like that of the Mona Lisa. My man of mystery 543 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,920 Speaker 1: now resides in number two O seven, and I am 544 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,679 Speaker 1: not the least surprised. I would have been astonished if 545 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 1: he had not made his scheduled move. I've almost given 546 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:56,000 Speaker 1: up trying to understand his eccentric conduct. I do not 547 00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,200 Speaker 1: know a single thing more about him than I knew 548 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:01,400 Speaker 1: the day he arrived. I wonder whence he came. There's 549 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:05,080 Speaker 1: something indefinably foreign about his manner. I'm curious to hear 550 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,760 Speaker 1: his voice. I'd like to imagine that he speaks the 551 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,720 Speaker 1: exotic tongue of some far away country. If only I 552 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:14,600 Speaker 1: could somehow inveigle him into a conversation. I wish that 553 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,000 Speaker 1: I were possessed of the glib assurance of a college 554 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,840 Speaker 1: boy who can address himself to the most distinguished celebrity 555 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,359 Speaker 1: without batting an eye. It is no wonder that I 556 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 1: am only an assistant professor. Man, this guy's really hung 557 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:26,960 Speaker 1: up on that. 558 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,199 Speaker 3: He showed the kind of moxy at work as he 559 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 3: shows in this Man. 560 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:32,720 Speaker 2: Oh he shows in his head. 561 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:36,159 Speaker 3: Really yeah, maybe he'd be a professor by now. Jeseu. 562 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:40,280 Speaker 3: This guy hope somebody kills him. My money's on the 563 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:40,760 Speaker 3: tail man. 564 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,040 Speaker 2: It could. I was guessing it was the old lady 565 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,640 Speaker 2: in the other room, but she died. She got a chance. 566 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:48,200 Speaker 2: He knows what will happen. 567 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:49,719 Speaker 3: Maybe the chambermaid. 568 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:55,320 Speaker 2: Everybody wants to kill this guy, I do. I am worried. 569 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 2: This morning, I awoke to find myself lying prone upon 570 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:03,119 Speaker 2: the floor, was fully clothed. I must have fallen exhausted 571 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:06,199 Speaker 2: there after I returned to my room last night. I 572 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:09,280 Speaker 2: wonder if my condition is more serious than I had suspected. 573 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:12,520 Speaker 2: Until now, I have been inclined to discount the fears 574 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 2: of those who have pulled the long face about me. 575 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,120 Speaker 2: For the first time, I recall the prolonged hand clasp 576 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:22,360 Speaker 2: of the President when he bade me goodbye from the university. Obviously, 577 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 2: he never expected to see me alive again. Of course 578 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:29,119 Speaker 2: I am not that unwell. Nevertheless, I must be more careful, 579 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,440 Speaker 2: Thank Heaven, I have no dependence to worry about. I 580 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 2: have not even a wife, for I was never willing 581 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:38,040 Speaker 2: to exchange the loneliness of a bachelor for the loneliness 582 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:42,920 Speaker 2: of a husband. Burne, I can say in all sincerity 583 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:46,040 Speaker 2: that the prospect of death does not frighten me. Speculation 584 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 2: about life beyond the grave has always bored me. Whatever 585 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,080 Speaker 2: it is or is not, I'll try to get along. 586 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:55,040 Speaker 2: I have been so preoccupied about the sudden turn of 587 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 2: my own affairs that I have neglected to make note 588 00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:00,480 Speaker 2: of a most extraordinary incident. The pale maid has done 589 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:03,840 Speaker 2: an astounding thing. He has skipped three rooms and moved 590 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,600 Speaker 2: all the way to number two zero three. We are 591 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,840 Speaker 2: now very close neighbors. We shall meet oftener, and my 592 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:14,120 Speaker 2: chances for making his acquaintance are now greater. I have 593 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 2: confined myself to my bed during the last few days, 594 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,600 Speaker 2: and have had my food brought to me. I even 595 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,320 Speaker 2: called the local doctor, whom I suspect to be a quack. 596 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,640 Speaker 2: He looked me over with professional indifference and told me 597 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,280 Speaker 2: not to leave my room. For some reason, he does 598 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,480 Speaker 2: not want me to climb stairs. For this bit of information, 599 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:34,320 Speaker 2: he received a ten dollar bill, which, as I directed him, 600 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:37,680 Speaker 2: he fished out of my coat pocket. A pickpocket could 601 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,640 Speaker 2: not have done better. He had not been gone long 602 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,960 Speaker 2: when I was visited by the room clerk that worthy suggested, 603 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,560 Speaker 2: with a great show of kindly concern, that I used 604 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,920 Speaker 2: the facilities of the local hospital. It was so modern 605 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,520 Speaker 2: in all that, with more firmness than I have been 606 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 2: able to muster in a long time. I gave him 607 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 2: to understand that I intended to remain where I am, 608 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:02,600 Speaker 2: frowning sullenly, still retired. The doctor must have paused long 609 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,440 Speaker 2: enough downstairs to tell him a pretty story. It is 610 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:07,440 Speaker 2: obvious that he is afraid I shall die in his 611 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,720 Speaker 2: best room. The pale man is up to his old tricks. 612 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 2: Last night, when I tottered down the hall, the door 613 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,840 Speaker 2: of number two zero two is a jar. Without thinking, 614 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:20,280 Speaker 2: I looked inside. The pale man sat in a rocking chair, 615 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,960 Speaker 2: idly smoking a cigarette. He looked up into my eyes 616 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:28,200 Speaker 2: and smiled that peculiar, ambiguous smile that has so deeply 617 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,440 Speaker 2: puzzled me. I moved on down the corridor, not so 618 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 2: much mystified as annoyed. The whole mystery of the man's 619 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:39,320 Speaker 2: conduct is beginning to irk me. It is all so inane, 620 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:43,600 Speaker 2: so utterly lacking and motive. I feel that I shall 621 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:45,760 Speaker 2: never meet the pale man. But at least I am 622 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,120 Speaker 2: going to learn his identity. Tomorrow I shall ask the 623 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:53,480 Speaker 2: room clerk and deliberately interrogate him. 624 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,960 Speaker 1: So sounds like this guy's really relaxing. Oh it's a 625 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:58,240 Speaker 1: forced leave from work. 626 00:30:58,360 --> 00:30:59,800 Speaker 2: He gets found up about stuff. 627 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 1: All right, I'm ready for this to uh to happen 628 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,160 Speaker 1: one way or the other, bringing on home chuck hard 629 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 1: to hearing this guy. 630 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:07,560 Speaker 2: Everybody's tired of hearing this guy. 631 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,400 Speaker 1: I know now, I know the identity of the pale man, 632 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,960 Speaker 1: and I know the meaning of a smile. Early this afternoon, 633 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:19,720 Speaker 1: I summoned the room clerk to my bedside. Please tell me, 634 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,480 Speaker 1: I asked, abruptly, who is the man in number two 635 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:24,720 Speaker 1: oh two? 636 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,440 Speaker 3: The clerk stared wearily and uncomprehendingly. 637 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:32,200 Speaker 2: M M, you must be mistaken that room is unoccupied. 638 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:36,720 Speaker 1: Oh but it is, I snapped in irritation. I myself 639 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 1: saw the man there only two nights ago. He is 640 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:42,560 Speaker 1: a tall, handsome fellow with dark eyes and hair. He's 641 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:46,120 Speaker 1: unusually pale. He checked in the day I arrived. The 642 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,000 Speaker 1: hotel man regarded me dubiously, as if I were trying 643 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 1: to impose upon him. 644 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,480 Speaker 2: But I assure you there is no such person in 645 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,120 Speaker 2: the house. As for his checking in when you did, 646 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,840 Speaker 2: you were the only guest we registered that day. 647 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,440 Speaker 3: But why I've seen him twenty times. First he had 648 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,960 Speaker 3: number two twelve at the end of the corridor, then 649 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,160 Speaker 3: he kept moving toward the front. Now he's next door 650 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:09,720 Speaker 3: number two O two. 651 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,760 Speaker 1: The room clerk threw up his hands. You're crazy, he exclaimed, 652 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 1: and I saw that he meant what he said. I 653 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,000 Speaker 1: shut up at once and dismissed him. After he had gone, 654 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,120 Speaker 1: I heard him rattling the knob of the pale man's door. 655 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:23,680 Speaker 1: There's no doubt that he believes a room to be empty. 656 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,520 Speaker 1: Thus it is that I can now understand the events 657 00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:29,680 Speaker 1: of the past few weeks. I now comprehend the significance 658 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:31,920 Speaker 1: of the death in number two O seven. I even 659 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:35,520 Speaker 1: feel partly responsible for the old lady's passing. After all, 660 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,240 Speaker 1: I brought the man with me, But it was not 661 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,280 Speaker 1: I who fixed his path. Why he chose to approach 662 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,960 Speaker 1: me room after room through the length of this dreary hotel. 663 00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:48,200 Speaker 1: Why his path crossed the threshold of the woman in 664 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 1: number two O seven, Those mysteries I cannot explain. I 665 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:56,000 Speaker 1: suppose I should have guessed his identity when he skipped 666 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,560 Speaker 1: the three rooms the night I fell unconscious upon the floor, 667 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,480 Speaker 1: in a single night of triumph, he advanced until he 668 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:05,680 Speaker 1: was almost to my door. He will be coming by 669 00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:10,120 Speaker 1: and by to inhabit this room, his ultimate goal. When 670 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,880 Speaker 1: he comes, I shall at least be able to return 671 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:17,080 Speaker 1: his smile of grim recognition. Meanwhile, I have only to 672 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:19,200 Speaker 1: wait beyond my bolted door. 673 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:22,280 Speaker 3: The door swings slowly open. 674 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:42,240 Speaker 1: WHOA, that's got his Yeah, I have a feeling the 675 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,600 Speaker 1: pale man now resides in room to A one. 676 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:50,400 Speaker 2: I think he resides inside mister Julius long. Yeah, if 677 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:53,120 Speaker 2: that was autobiographical. 678 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:53,960 Speaker 3: He kind of sounds like the Slender Man. 679 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,520 Speaker 2: A little bit, you know, Yeah, I did know. 680 00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,840 Speaker 3: Uh So that's it. Happy Halloween. 681 00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:01,800 Speaker 2: Ever, let's have some more brandy, Chuck. 682 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:03,520 Speaker 3: I know, I feel like reading like six more of these. 683 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,520 Speaker 2: We don't have to not slur any longer. 684 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:07,800 Speaker 3: That's right, pour it up. 685 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,759 Speaker 2: All right, here you go, and some Reces pieces. 686 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,400 Speaker 1: Thank you, sir, very nice, All right, Joey Chuck Halloween tradition. 687 00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:17,120 Speaker 2: Happy Halloween to you, Chuck. 688 00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:18,600 Speaker 3: Happy Halloween to you. 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