1 00:00:01,480 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know, a production of I 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, and welcome to the Spooktacular, the Spooky 3 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: spoek Tacular of the Spooktaculars of All Time Tacular. This 4 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 1: is stuff you should know, the Spooktacular the as tradition dictates, 5 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 1: add free spook Tacular m It's in our contract, it is. 6 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:37,519 Speaker 1: We fight for it. Everyone, do not put ads and 7 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:41,680 Speaker 1: ruin our bad readings of Halloween stories, which we try 8 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:46,159 Speaker 1: very hard to select from the increasingly small pantheon of 9 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:50,639 Speaker 1: public domain horror short fiction. I found a few this year, 10 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:52,560 Speaker 1: so I got a couple in my hip pocket. Oh good, 11 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: I'm glad. I'm glad. I gotta say, uh, nice work. 12 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: I think both of these that we dug up are 13 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 1: really really good stories, agreed, m R James and hl 14 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:06,480 Speaker 1: Mankin right. I thought it was Mr James. That's what 15 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:10,319 Speaker 1: he likes, call me Mr James. He but you're a doctor, 16 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 1: so what. Yeah. The one I picked this year is 17 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 1: Lost Hearts by m R James. And I'm pretty psyched 18 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 1: about this one because it is good. Agreed. It's a corker, 19 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 1: you can figure it out, but it's still it's it's entertaining. 20 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: How about that it's entertaining, it's fun. Uh. There are 21 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:31,959 Speaker 1: a couple of spooky uh dates in this did you 22 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,319 Speaker 1: notice that we'll talk about that? I didn't know. I 23 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 1: can't wait to hear it. And um, you know, I 24 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:44,960 Speaker 1: don't think we need a content warning. It's it's spooky. Um. 25 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: But you know with kids, and there's always a chance 26 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 1: if you have kids, they may not want to listen. 27 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:51,919 Speaker 1: It's not over the top because it was written in 28 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 1: in the nineteenth century, right, yeah, and being written in 29 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 1: the nineteenth century that we should probably point out there's 30 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 1: a couple of um, yes, touchy, semi racist, uh, just 31 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 1: terms that will explain. Yeah, I mean, should we go 32 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:10,600 Speaker 1: ahead and say now, oh sure, go ahead? Yeah? I 33 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 1: mean we did a podcast on the Roma people, and 34 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:16,239 Speaker 1: UH made took great pains to tell people that using 35 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 1: the word gypsy is no longer something you should do. 36 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 1: We're saying jipped off, which is something that I learned 37 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 1: while doing that podcast. And they use the word gypsy 38 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 1: in here a couple of times. They also use chinaman 39 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 1: in here, but they're actually talking about something specific, so 40 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 1: we'll explain later, okay, Right, And there's a general with 41 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: this one lady um sort of xenophobic bent thank people 42 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 1: from other countries. She's a yeah exactly, She's an archetypal 43 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:47,079 Speaker 1: rural died in the wool salt of the earth woman. 44 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 1: So all that is to say, the opinions expressed there 45 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 1: and do not represent those of the hostess. Very nice, 46 00:02:54,480 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 1: here with forthwith guarantee void in Tennessee. Alright, Uh, everyone, 47 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 1: turned the lights down. I've got my lights dimmed. Yeah, 48 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:06,959 Speaker 1: let's do that. I'm going the first time we're not 49 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:08,959 Speaker 1: in the same room holding hands. I know, I'm a 50 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,800 Speaker 1: little scared. A little scared too. I can't see the 51 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 1: paper as well with that light off, So I'm gonna 52 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:17,799 Speaker 1: turn it back on. Okay, Uh, turn the lights down 53 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:22,359 Speaker 1: to get to pour yourself a spooky drink and gather kids. 54 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:27,520 Speaker 1: And here we go for the spook tacular. And this 55 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 1: is Lost Hearts by Mr Mr James. I'll start, Okay, 56 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 1: sure it was, as far as I can ascertain, in 57 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 1: September of the year eighteen eleven. Is that a spooky date? 58 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 1: Chuck Bill, Well, it's coming, Okay, that a post chaise. 59 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 1: I think that's a kind of coach drew up before 60 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 1: the door of Aswarby Hall in the heart of Lincolnshire. 61 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: The little boy who jumped out as soon as it 62 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 1: had stopped, looked about him with the keenest curiosity. During 63 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: the short interval that elapsed between the ringing of the 64 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: bell and the opening of the hall door, he saw 65 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: a tall, square, red brick house built in the rain 66 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:17,159 Speaker 1: of an A stone pillared porch had been added in 67 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 1: the purest classical style of seventeen ninety. The windows of 68 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:23,920 Speaker 1: the house were many, tall and narrow, with small panes 69 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 1: and thick white woodwork. A pediment pierced with round window 70 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:30,479 Speaker 1: crowned the front. There were wings to the left and 71 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 1: the right, connected by curious glazed galleries supported by colonnades 72 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 1: with the central block. These wings plainly contained the stables 73 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 1: and offices of the house. Each was surmounted by an 74 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:46,359 Speaker 1: ornamental cupola with a gilded vein cupola. You know, I 75 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 1: always said coupola, and then every single person on the 76 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 1: Inspiration four crew called that thing on the dragon capsule 77 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: of the cupola, So I'm just going with that now. 78 00:04:57,160 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 1: An evening light shone on the building, making the window 79 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 1: panes glow like so many fires, so many away from 80 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 1: the hall in front stretched a flat park studded with 81 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: oaks and fringed with furs, which stood out against the sky. 82 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:13,279 Speaker 1: The clock in the church tower buried in trees on 83 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:16,280 Speaker 1: the edge of the park, only its golden weathercock catching 84 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:19,840 Speaker 1: the light was striking six, and the sound came gently 85 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 1: beating down the wind. It was an altogether pleasant impression, 86 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 1: though tinged with the sort of melancholy appropriate to an 87 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 1: evening in early autumn, that was conveyed to the mind 88 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 1: of the boy who was standing in the porch waiting 89 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 1: for the door to open to him. The post chaise 90 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:37,919 Speaker 1: had brought him from Warwickshire, where six months before he 91 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: had been left in orphan. Now, owing to the generous 92 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:44,600 Speaker 1: offer of his elderly cousin, Mr Abney, he had come 93 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: to live at as Worthy. The offer was unexpected, because 94 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:51,160 Speaker 1: all who knew anything of Mr Abney looked upon him 95 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:55,280 Speaker 1: as a somewhat austere recluse into whose steady going household 96 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 1: the advent of a small boy would import a new 97 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 1: and it seemed incongruous lament. The truth is that very 98 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:05,159 Speaker 1: little was known of Mr Abney's pursuits or temper. The 99 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: professor of Greek at Cambridge had been heard to say 100 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 1: that no one knew more of the religious beliefs of 101 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 1: the later Pagans than did the owner of Aswarby. Certainly 102 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 1: his library contained all the then available books bearing on 103 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:21,039 Speaker 1: the mysteries, the orphic poems, the worship of Mithras, and 104 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 1: the neo Platonists. In the marble paved hall stood a 105 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 1: fine figure of Mythrust slaying a bull, which had been 106 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 1: imported from the Levant at great expense by the owner. 107 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:34,040 Speaker 1: He had contributed a description of it to the Gentleman's Magazine. 108 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:38,280 Speaker 1: I think not that kind Gentleman's magazine, and he had 109 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 1: written a remarkable series of articles in the Critical Museum 110 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,279 Speaker 1: on the superstitions of the Romans of the Lower Empire. 111 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 1: It was published in Hustler House. Let me tell you 112 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 1: about my Mythress laying a bull statue. He was looked 113 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 1: upon in fine as a man wrapped up in his books. 114 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:56,919 Speaker 1: And it was a matter of great surprise among his 115 00:06:56,960 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 1: neighbors that he should even have heard of his cousin 116 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 1: Stephen Elliott, much more that he should have volunteered to 117 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 1: make him an inmate of Aswarbie Hall. All right, so 118 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 1: this orphan boy showed up at this house to live 119 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 1: with his relative, who seems like a decent guy. It's 120 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 1: a little dark, yeah, but it was a surprise because 121 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: he was, like, you know, wrapped up in his books, 122 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 1: a bachelor, not really interested in having a kid around. 123 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: All right, shall I whatever may have been expected by 124 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 1: his neighbors, It is certain that Mr Abney, that's all 125 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 1: the thin. The austere seemed inclined to give his young 126 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: cousin a kindly reception. The moment the front door was opened, 127 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 1: he darted out of his study, rubbing his hands with delight. 128 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 1: How are you, my boy? How are you? How old 129 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: are you? Said he? That is, you are not too 130 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: much tired? I hope by your journey to eat your supper? Now, 131 00:07:55,880 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 1: thank you, sir, said Mr Elliott. I'm pretty well. Oh 132 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 1: that's a good that, that's a good lad, said Mr Abney. 133 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:08,760 Speaker 1: And how old are you, my boy? It seemed a 134 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 1: little odd that he should have asked the question twice 135 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 1: in the first two minutes of their acquaintance. I'm twelve 136 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 1: years old. Dick's birthday, sir, said Stephen. And when is 137 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:25,560 Speaker 1: your birthday, my dear boy? Eleventh of September a spooky 138 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 1: date I think he predicted the whole thing. I got you, okay, 139 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: Mr James did eleventh of September. A. That's well, that's 140 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: very well, nearly a year. Hence, isn't it. I like, 141 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 1: ha ha, I like to get these things down in 142 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:46,680 Speaker 1: my book. Sure it's twelve certain, Yes quite, yer, sir, well, 143 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 1: well take him to Mrs Bunch's room, Parks and let 144 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 1: him have his tea, supper whatever it is. Yes, sir, 145 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 1: answered the state Mr Parks, and conducted Stephen to the 146 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 1: lower regions. Mrs Bunch was the most comfortable and human 147 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:04,960 Speaker 1: person whom Stephen had as yet met in as Warby. 148 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:08,560 Speaker 1: She made him completely at home. They were great friends 149 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:11,640 Speaker 1: in a quarter of an hour, and great friends they remained. 150 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 1: Mrs Bunch had been born in the neighborhood some fifty 151 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,079 Speaker 1: five years before the date of Stephen's arrival, and her 152 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 1: residence at the hall was of twenty years standing. Consequently, 153 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:24,439 Speaker 1: if anyone knew the ins and outs of the house 154 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 1: and the district, Mrs Bunch knew them, and she was 155 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:34,520 Speaker 1: by no means disinclined to communicate her information. So we 156 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 1: got a nice lady that lives there, who knows everything 157 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 1: that's going on. Very nice person, seemingly nice. Aside from 158 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:45,960 Speaker 1: the xenophobia, as we will see, certainly, there were plenty 159 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:48,679 Speaker 1: of things about the hall and the hall gardens which Stephen, 160 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: who was of an adventurous and inquiring turn, was anxious 161 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:55,560 Speaker 1: to have explained to him. Who built the temple at 162 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 1: the end of the Laura Walk, Who was the old 163 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 1: man whose picture hung on the staircase sitting at a 164 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 1: table with a skull under his hand. These and many 165 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 1: similar points were cleared up by the resources of Mrs 166 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 1: Bunch's powerful intellect. There were others, however, of which the 167 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 1: explanations furnished were less satisfactory. One November evening, Stephen was 168 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 1: sitting by the fire in the housekeeper's room, reflecting on 169 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 1: the surroundings. It's best having a good man, and will 170 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:25,440 Speaker 1: you go to heaven? He suddenly asked, with a peculiar 171 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:28,880 Speaker 1: confidence with which children possess in the ability of their 172 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 1: elders to settle these questions, the decision of which is 173 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: believed to be reserved for other tribunals. Can't wait to 174 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:41,439 Speaker 1: hear this one. I don't really haven't even worked out 175 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 1: how I'm gonna do it. Let's try this. Good bless 176 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 1: the child, said Mrs Bunch. Masters as kind a soul 177 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 1: as I ever see, didn't I she's like my age, 178 00:10:56,440 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 1: she's fifty. Yeah, but old timey nineteenth century way different, 179 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 1: did didn't? I never tell you the little boy as 180 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:08,160 Speaker 1: he took in out of the street, as you may 181 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 1: say this seven years back, and the little girl two 182 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 1: years after I first come here. Now, do tell me 183 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 1: all about them, Mrs Bunch, Now this minute easy. Sorry, 184 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:24,000 Speaker 1: I added that, so this guy took in a couple 185 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:28,280 Speaker 1: of other kids. Huh, all right, well, said missus much. 186 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 1: The little girl I don't seem to recollect so much 187 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 1: about I know. Master brought her back with him from 188 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:36,439 Speaker 1: his walk one day and give orders to Mrs Ellis, 189 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:40,319 Speaker 1: as was housekeeper then as she should be, took every 190 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:43,480 Speaker 1: care with and the poor child had no one belonging 191 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:46,679 Speaker 1: to her. She told me so her own self. And 192 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:49,839 Speaker 1: here she lived with us a matter of three weeks, 193 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 1: it might be, and then whether she were somethink of 194 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 1: a gypsy at her blood or whatnot, But one morning 195 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:00,719 Speaker 1: she out of her bed, for any of us had 196 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 1: open an eye, and neither trek nor yet trace of 197 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 1: her have I set eyes on sense. Master was wonderful 198 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: put about and had all the ponds dragged. But it's 199 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 1: my belief she was had away by them gypsies, for 200 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: there was singing round the house for as much as 201 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 1: an hour the night she went. And Parkes, he declares 202 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:24,960 Speaker 1: he heard them a colin in the woods all that afternoon. Dear, Dear, 203 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 1: a odd child, said odd. I think she's saying odd 204 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 1: in the old timing way with an okay, an odd child. 205 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 1: She was so silent it always and all, but I 206 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 1: was wonderful taken up with her, so domesticated, she was surprising. 207 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 1: And what about the little boy, said Stephen, Oh, that 208 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:52,960 Speaker 1: poor boy, sighed Mrs Bunch. He was a foreigner, jeviny, 209 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 1: he called himself. And he come a tweaking his hurdy 210 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:02,119 Speaker 1: gurdie round about. He was tweaking, speaking his hurdie gurdie. 211 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 1: He wasn't working at least, uh tweaking his hurdy gurdie 212 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 1: rounded about the drive. When went to day and Master 213 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:13,680 Speaker 1: Adam in that minute and asked all about where he 214 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 1: came from, how old he was, how he made his way, 215 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:21,040 Speaker 1: and where was his relatives, and all his kind heart 216 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 1: could wish but it with the same way with him. 217 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 1: They're an unruly lot, them foreign nations, I do suppose. 218 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:30,480 Speaker 1: And he was off one fine morning, just the same 219 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:33,319 Speaker 1: as the girl. Why he went and what he done 220 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 1: was our question for as much as a year after. 221 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 1: But he never took his urdie gurdie And there it 222 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 1: lays on the shelf. What is urdie gurdie, Hurdy gurdie. 223 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:49,440 Speaker 1: It's like a kind of like a musical instrument. I think, um, 224 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: like a squeeze box. Maybe. So a little boy named 225 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 1: Jovanni showed up squeezing his squeezebox on their driveway and 226 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:02,080 Speaker 1: and Mr Mr Abney it is Abney, right, I think so. 227 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:04,800 Speaker 1: Mr Abney brought him in the house and was asking 228 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:06,680 Speaker 1: him a bunch of questions and then took him under 229 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 1: his wing. Yeah, like every kid he finds. He's like, 230 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: how old are you? Win your birthday? Come inside your mind? 231 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 1: So I think you guys can all see what we 232 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 1: were talking about with Mrs Bunched, right, Yeah, I think so. 233 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 1: I think so. The remainder of the evening was spent 234 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 1: by Stephen and miscellaneous cross examination of Mrs bunch and 235 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 1: in efforts to extract a tune from the hurdy gurdy. 236 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,080 Speaker 1: That night he had a curious stream. At the end 237 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 1: of the passage. At the top of the house in 238 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:39,160 Speaker 1: which his bedroom was situated, there was an old, disused bathroom. 239 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 1: It was kept locked, but the upper half of the 240 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 1: door was glazed, and since the Muslim curtains which used 241 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 1: to hang there had long been gone, you could look 242 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:50,240 Speaker 1: in and see the lead line bath affixed to the 243 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 1: wall on the right hand, with its head towards the window. 244 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:56,480 Speaker 1: On the night of which I am speaking, Steven Elliott 245 00:14:56,480 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 1: found himself, as he thought, looking through the glazed door. 246 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 1: That means there was a window in it. The moon 247 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 1: was shining through the window see, and he was gazing 248 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 1: at a figure which lay in the bath. His description 249 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 1: of what he saw reminds me of what I once 250 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 1: beheld myself in the famous vaults of Saint McCann's Church 251 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:19,160 Speaker 1: in Dublin, which possesses the horrid property of preserving corpses 252 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 1: from decay for centuries. A figure inexpressibly thin and pathetic, 253 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 1: of a dusty leaden color, enveloped in a shroud like garment, 254 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 1: the thin lips crooked into a faint and dreadful smile. 255 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 1: The hands pressed tightly over the region of the heart. 256 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:38,240 Speaker 1: As he looked upon it, a distant, almost inaudible moan 257 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:41,840 Speaker 1: seemed to issue from its lips, and the arms began 258 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 1: to stir. The terror of the site forced Stephen backwards, 259 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 1: and he awoke to the fact that he was indeed 260 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:51,080 Speaker 1: standing on the cold boarded floor of the passage in 261 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:54,080 Speaker 1: the full light of the moon, with a courage which 262 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 1: I do not think can be common among boys of 263 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 1: his age. He went to the door of the bathroom 264 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 1: to ascertain if the figure year of his dream were 265 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 1: really there. It was not, and he went back to band, 266 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 1: keep going, yeah, look, this is getting creepy. I know, 267 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. It's a good one. He saw 268 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:18,360 Speaker 1: a straight up scary, decaying ghost in the bathtub. M 269 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 1: Mrs Bunch was much impressed next morning by his story, 270 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 1: and went so far as to replace the muslin curtain 271 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 1: over the glazed door of the bathroom ak the window. 272 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:34,840 Speaker 1: Mr Abney moreover, to whom he confided his experiences at breakfast, 273 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 1: was greatly interested and made notes of the matter and 274 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:42,359 Speaker 1: what he called his book. The Spring Equinox was approaching, 275 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 1: as Mr Abney frequently reminded his cousin, adding that this 276 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 1: had been always considered by the agents to be a 277 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 1: critical time for the young, that Stephen would do well 278 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 1: to take care of himself and shut his bedroom window 279 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: at night, and that the sense or innus had some 280 00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: valuable remarks on the subject. Two inside that occurred about 281 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 1: this time made an impression upon Stephen's mind. Chuck will 282 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 1: share those two incidents with us now. The first was 283 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 1: after an unusually uneasy and oppressed night that he had passed, 284 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 1: though he could not recall any particular dream that he 285 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:21,120 Speaker 1: had had. The following evening, Mrs Bunch was occupying herself 286 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 1: and mending his nightgown. Grace is me, master Stephen, She 287 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:28,280 Speaker 1: broke forth, rather irritably. How do you manage to tear 288 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 1: your night dress all to flinders this way? Look here, sir, 289 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 1: what trouble you do give to poor servants that have 290 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 1: to darn and mend after you. It was indeed a 291 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:43,200 Speaker 1: most destructive and apparently wanton series of slits or scorings 292 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 1: in the garment, which would undoubtedly require a skillful needle 293 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:49,080 Speaker 1: to make good. They were confined to the left side 294 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:53,200 Speaker 1: of his chest, long parallel slits about six inches in length, 295 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:56,679 Speaker 1: some of them not quite piercing the texture of the linen. 296 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:00,880 Speaker 1: Stephen could only express his entire ignorance of their origin. 297 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:03,679 Speaker 1: He was sure that they were not there the night before, 298 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:08,840 Speaker 1: but he said, Mrs Bunch stays just the same as 299 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 1: the scratches on the outside of my bedroom door, and 300 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:16,639 Speaker 1: I'm sure I'd never had anything to do with making them. 301 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 1: I think it gets it across. They think I've nailed 302 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:23,119 Speaker 1: young Stephen. I think you're nailing it. He's moving closer 303 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:26,800 Speaker 1: and closer to cockney as we go. That's the one 304 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:29,200 Speaker 1: I can do. That's the one anybody who can only 305 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 1: do one can do. Mrs Bunch gazed at him open mouth, 306 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:37,359 Speaker 1: then snatched up a candle, departed hastily from the room, 307 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 1: and was heard making her way upstairs. In a few 308 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:45,160 Speaker 1: minutes she came down. Well, she said, Master Stephen. It's 309 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:47,639 Speaker 1: a funny thing to me how them marks and scratches 310 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:50,760 Speaker 1: can have come. They're too high up for any cat 311 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:53,200 Speaker 1: or dog to have made him much less a rat 312 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:56,639 Speaker 1: for all the world, like a chinaman's fingernails. As my 313 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: uncle and the tea trade used to tell us of 314 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:01,920 Speaker 1: when we was girls together, I wouldn't say nothing to master, 315 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:05,280 Speaker 1: not if I was you, Master Stephen, my dear, and 316 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 1: just turned the key of your door when you go 317 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:13,800 Speaker 1: to your bed, so I should probably say like she, 318 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:18,160 Speaker 1: I was like, what is this daft, old middle agist 319 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 1: woman talking about? And it turns out she's referring to 320 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:25,679 Speaker 1: apparently there was a trend among the nobility and the 321 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 1: courtisans of China at this time in the early nineteenth 322 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 1: century I think before, of wearing their fingernails very long 323 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 1: and pointy. She's saying, these scratches look kind of like 324 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:38,440 Speaker 1: claw marks, and she kind of likened it to something 325 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:42,360 Speaker 1: that had long and pointing fingernails like that. So okay, 326 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:45,720 Speaker 1: not that that excuses everything, but you know, I got you. 327 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:48,119 Speaker 1: There's a little background to it. I think we all 328 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 1: learned something here. Mrs Bunch is not totally out of 329 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:53,359 Speaker 1: her mind, all right, So she yells at Stephen to 330 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 1: go to bed, and he says, I always stay, Mrs 331 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 1: Bunch as soon as I've said, my prey, oh that's 332 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:04,440 Speaker 1: a good child. Always say your prayers and then no 333 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 1: one can't hurt you. Here with Mrs Bunch addressed herself 334 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:13,520 Speaker 1: to mending the injured nightgown with intervals of meditation until bedtime. 335 00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:18,639 Speaker 1: Interesting this was on a Friday night in March eighteen twelve. 336 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 1: On the following evening, the usual duet of Stephen and 337 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 1: Mrs Bunch was augmented by the sudden arrival of Mr Parkes, 338 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:29,159 Speaker 1: the butler, who as a rule kept himself rather to 339 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:32,320 Speaker 1: himself in the pantry. He did not see that Stephen 340 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 1: was there. He was moreover flustered and less slow a 341 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:38,919 Speaker 1: speech than was his. Wont master may get up his 342 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:41,760 Speaker 1: own wine if he likes of an evening was his 343 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 1: first remark. Either I do it in the daytime or 344 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:46,800 Speaker 1: not at all. Mrs Bunch, I don't know what it 345 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:49,560 Speaker 1: may be, very like it's the rats or the wind 346 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 1: got into the cellars. But I'm not as young as 347 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:54,000 Speaker 1: I was, and I can't go through with it as 348 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,639 Speaker 1: I have done. Well. Mr Parks you know it is 349 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,680 Speaker 1: a surprising place for the rats, is the hall. I'm 350 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 1: not the nying that to Mrs Bunchen. To be sure, 351 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:04,120 Speaker 1: many a time I've heard the tale from the men 352 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 1: in the shipyards about the rats that could speak. I 353 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:09,720 Speaker 1: never laid no confidence in that before, but tonight, if 354 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 1: I demeaned myself today my ear to the door of 355 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:15,000 Speaker 1: the further bin. I could pretty much have heard what 356 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:20,240 Speaker 1: they was saying. Oh man, you're crushing it. Oh damn, 357 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:23,479 Speaker 1: Mr Parks, I had no patience with your fancies rats 358 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 1: talking in the wide cellar aded well, Mrs Munch, I've 359 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:29,399 Speaker 1: no wish saw ague with you. All I can say is, 360 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:31,680 Speaker 1: if you choose to go to the far bin and 361 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 1: lead your ear to the door, you may prove my 362 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:39,439 Speaker 1: words this minute. What nonsense you do talk? Mr Parkes 363 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 1: not fit for children to listen to. Why you'll be 364 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:45,680 Speaker 1: frightening Master Stephen. They're out of his wits. What Master 365 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:50,360 Speaker 1: Stephen said, Parks awakening to the consciousness of the boy's presence. 366 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 1: Master Stephen knows well enough that I'm playing a joke 367 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:57,680 Speaker 1: with you, Mrs Bunch. In fact, Stephen knew too well 368 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 1: to suppose that Mr Park's head, in the first instance 369 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:05,119 Speaker 1: intended a joke. He was interested, not altogether pleasantly in 370 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 1: the situation, but all his questions were unsuccessful in inducing 371 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 1: the butler to give any more detailed account of his 372 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:17,080 Speaker 1: experiences in the wine cellar. And we have now arrived 373 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 1: at March eighteen twelve. Spooky nope, okay. It was a 374 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 1: day of curious experiences for Stephen, a windy, noisy day 375 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:31,359 Speaker 1: which filled the house in the gardens with a restless impression. 376 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,240 Speaker 1: As Stephen stood by the fence of the grounds and 377 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:36,639 Speaker 1: looked out into the park, he felt as if an 378 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:40,199 Speaker 1: endless procession of unseen people were sweeping past him on 379 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 1: the wind, borne on restlessly and aimlessly, vainly striving to 380 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 1: stop themselves, to catch at something that might arrest their 381 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:50,600 Speaker 1: flight and bring them once again into contact with the 382 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 1: living world of which they had formed a part. After 383 00:22:54,080 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 1: luncheon that day, Mr Abney said, you're Mr Abney. I'm Emney. 384 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:03,320 Speaker 1: Yeah you are. Remember you asked him what his age was, 385 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:06,679 Speaker 1: and that's right, that's right. We should probably leave that 386 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:10,480 Speaker 1: in there. Stephen, my boy, do you think you could 387 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:12,520 Speaker 1: manage to come to me tonight? I don't know if 388 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 1: this is the same accent. It sounds like Mrs Mrs 389 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 1: a Bunch is transforming into Mr Abney. Do you think 390 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 1: you could manage to come to me tonight? As late 391 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,600 Speaker 1: as eleven o'clock in my study, She'll be busy until 392 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:27,680 Speaker 1: that time, and I wish to show you something connected 393 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:30,879 Speaker 1: with your future life, which it is most important that 394 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:33,359 Speaker 1: you should know. You are not to mention this matter 395 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:35,720 Speaker 1: to Mrs Bunch, nor to anyone else in the house, 396 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:37,800 Speaker 1: and you had better go to your room at the 397 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 1: usual time. Here was a new excitement added to life. 398 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:45,160 Speaker 1: Stephen eagerly grasped at the opportunity of sitting up till 399 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:48,040 Speaker 1: eleven o'clock. He looked in at the library door on 400 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 1: his way upstairs night evening, and he saw a brazier 401 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:55,879 Speaker 1: right which he had often noticed in the corner of 402 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,239 Speaker 1: the room. It's like a little girl, I think, so 403 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,840 Speaker 1: moved out before the fire. An old silver gilt cup 404 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,840 Speaker 1: stood on the table filled with red wine, and some 405 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 1: written sheets of paper lay near it. Mr Abney was 406 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 1: sprinkling some incense on the brazier. I'm pretty sure that's 407 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:14,440 Speaker 1: it from a round silver boxes. Stephen passed, but did 408 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:19,840 Speaker 1: not seem to notice his step. All right, So what's 409 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:23,360 Speaker 1: going on here is he's he's doing some some right, 410 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,399 Speaker 1: some ritual looks like he told Stephen like this is 411 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 1: important for him to be a part of right. Yes, 412 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:31,959 Speaker 1: and so now it's the night that he's told Stephen 413 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,479 Speaker 1: to come down to his study at eleven, all right, 414 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:41,119 Speaker 1: go ahead. The wind had fallen, and there was a 415 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:44,240 Speaker 1: still night in a full moon. At about ten o'clock, 416 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 1: Stephen was standing at the open window of his bedroom, 417 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:50,159 Speaker 1: looking out over the country. Still as the night was, 418 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 1: the mysterious population of the distant moonlit woods was not 419 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 1: yet lulled to rest. From time to time, strange cries 420 00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 1: as of lost and despairing wander sounded from across the mirror. 421 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,439 Speaker 1: I think that's a weird way to say meadow. They 422 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,560 Speaker 1: might be the notes of owls or water birds. Yet 423 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 1: they did not quite resemble either sound. Were they not 424 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,760 Speaker 1: coming nearer? Now? They sounded from the nearer side of 425 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,159 Speaker 1: the water, and in a few moments they seemed to 426 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:21,320 Speaker 1: be floating about among the shrubberies. Then they ceased. But 427 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:23,600 Speaker 1: just as Stephen was thinking of shutting the window and 428 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:27,680 Speaker 1: resuming his reading of Robinson crusoe Great Book, he caught 429 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,840 Speaker 1: sight of two figures standing on the gravel terrace that 430 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,679 Speaker 1: ran along the garden side of the hall, the figures 431 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,320 Speaker 1: of a boy and a girl. As it seemed, they 432 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:39,920 Speaker 1: stood side by side, looking up at the windows. Something 433 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,000 Speaker 1: in the form of the girl recalled irresistibly his dream 434 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:46,439 Speaker 1: of the figure in the bath, the boy inspired him 435 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 1: with more acute Whilst the girl stood still, half smiling, 436 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,879 Speaker 1: with her hands clasped over her heart, The boy, a 437 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 1: thin shape with black hair and ragged clothing, raised his 438 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,560 Speaker 1: arms in the air with an appearance of menace and 439 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:05,520 Speaker 1: of unappeasable hunger. Longing. The moon shone upon his almost 440 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:10,320 Speaker 1: transparent hands, and Stephen saw that the nails were fearfully long, 441 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 1: and that the light shone through them. As he stood 442 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 1: with his arms thus raised, he disclosed a terrifying spectacle. 443 00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:20,879 Speaker 1: On the left side of his chest. There opened up 444 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 1: black and gaping rent, and there fell upon Stephen's brain, 445 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 1: rather than upon his ear, the impression of one of 446 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 1: those hungry and desolate cries that he had heard resounding 447 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:34,920 Speaker 1: over the woods at Aswarby all that evening. In another moment, 448 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:38,119 Speaker 1: this dreadful pair had moved swiftly and noiselessly over the 449 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 1: dry grass, and he saw them no more. Wow, I 450 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:48,840 Speaker 1: know this, poor Stephen. He's like, what the h is 451 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,880 Speaker 1: going on around here? So this ghost skin he has 452 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:57,359 Speaker 1: like no heart? Right, he's turned into John Travolta. Oh boy, 453 00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:58,720 Speaker 1: all right, this is getting good. You want me to 454 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:05,679 Speaker 1: pick it up? Just please all right. Inexpressibly frightened as 455 00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:07,800 Speaker 1: he was, he determined to take his candle and go 456 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 1: down to mister Abney's study, for the hour appointed for 457 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,879 Speaker 1: their meeting was near in hand. The study or library 458 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 1: opened out of the front hall on one side, and Stephen, 459 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,919 Speaker 1: urged on by his terrors, did not take long in 460 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,439 Speaker 1: getting there. To effect an entrance was not so easy. 461 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,200 Speaker 1: The door was not locked, he felt sure, for the 462 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:28,679 Speaker 1: key was on the outside of it. As usual, his 463 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:32,719 Speaker 1: repeated knox produced no answer. Mister Abney was engaged. He 464 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:36,440 Speaker 1: was speaking what Why did he try to cry out? 465 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,080 Speaker 1: And why was the cry choked in his throat? Had 466 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,840 Speaker 1: he too seen the mysterious children? But now everything was quiet, 467 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,600 Speaker 1: and the door yielded to Stephen's terrified and frantic pushing 468 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,239 Speaker 1: on the table. In mister Abney's study, certain papers were 469 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,760 Speaker 1: found which explained the situation to Stephen Elliott when he 470 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 1: was of an age to understand them. The most important 471 00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:02,360 Speaker 1: sentences were as follows. It was a belief very strongly 472 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:05,919 Speaker 1: and generally held by the ancients, of whose wisdom in 473 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:10,000 Speaker 1: these matters I've had such experiences as induces me to 474 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 1: place confidence in their assertations. The wordy that by enacting 475 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:19,680 Speaker 1: certain processes which to us moderns have something of a 476 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 1: barbaric complexion, a very remarkable enlightenment of the spiritual faculties 477 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: in man may be attained. That, for example, by absorbing 478 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 1: the personalities of a certain number of his fellow creatures, 479 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:37,359 Speaker 1: an individual may gain a complete ascendency over those orders 480 00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:45,080 Speaker 1: of spiritual beings which control the elemental forces of our universe. Wow, 481 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:50,120 Speaker 1: what is like possessing these people? Something like that? Keep reading, 482 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 1: Keep reading. It is recorded of Simon Magus that he 483 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,640 Speaker 1: was able to fly on the air, to become invisible, 484 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 1: or to assume any form he pleased, by the agency 485 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 1: of the soul of a boy whom, to use the 486 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 1: libelous phrase employed by the author of the Clementine recognitions, 487 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,520 Speaker 1: he had murdered. I find it set down moreover with 488 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:21,160 Speaker 1: considerable detail in the writings of Hermes Trismegistus, that similar 489 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 1: happy results may be produced by the absorption of the 490 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 1: hearts of not less than three human beings below the 491 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:32,480 Speaker 1: age of twenty one years. Ah, that's why he's got 492 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 1: another ages. Huh. To the testing of the truth of 493 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,880 Speaker 1: this receipt, I have devoted the greater part of the 494 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:43,280 Speaker 1: last twenty years, selecting as the corpora vilia of my 495 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:48,800 Speaker 1: experiment such persons as could conveniently be removed without occasioning 496 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:52,480 Speaker 1: a sensible gap in society. The first step I affected 497 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 1: by the removal of one Phoebe Stanley, a girl of 498 00:29:56,080 --> 00:30:03,240 Speaker 1: gypsy extraction, on March fo not creepy. The second by 499 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:07,800 Speaker 1: the removal of a wandering Italian lad named Giovanni Paoli 500 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 1: on the night of March twenty three five, not spooky. 501 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,280 Speaker 1: The final victim to employ a word repugnant in the 502 00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:21,560 Speaker 1: highest degree to my feelings must be my cousin Steven Elliott. 503 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:25,960 Speaker 1: His day must be this March twenty four, eighteen twelve. 504 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,000 Speaker 1: It's a creepy date. Any of those dates in they're creepy. 505 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,040 Speaker 1: I don't think creepy. The best means of affecting the 506 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:35,440 Speaker 1: required absorption is to remove the heart from the living subject, 507 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 1: to reduce it to ashes, and to mingle them with 508 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,920 Speaker 1: about a pint of red wine, preferably port. That's a 509 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,920 Speaker 1: lot of port, A lot of port. The remains of 510 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,760 Speaker 1: the first two subjects, at least will be well to 511 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:53,080 Speaker 1: conceal a disused bathroom or wine cellar will be found 512 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:56,720 Speaker 1: convenient for such a purpose. Some annoyance may be experienced 513 00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:00,000 Speaker 1: from the psychic portion of the subjects, which popular language 514 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,960 Speaker 1: which dignifies with the name of ghosts. But the man 515 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:07,920 Speaker 1: of philosophic temperament, to whom alone the experiment is appropriate, 516 00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:10,880 Speaker 1: will be little prone to attach importance to the feeble 517 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,120 Speaker 1: efforts of these beings to wreak their vengeance on him. 518 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:19,080 Speaker 1: I contemplate with the liveliest satisfaction, the enlarged and emancipated 519 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:23,680 Speaker 1: existence which the experiment, if successful, will confer on me, 520 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,920 Speaker 1: not only placing me beyond the reach of human justice 521 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:31,320 Speaker 1: so called, but eliminating to a great extent the prospect 522 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:42,520 Speaker 1: of death itself. Wow. So he's basically saying like, I 523 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 1: can't even be haunted, and this may make me live forever. Yeah, Like, 524 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:48,960 Speaker 1: I'm going to rip the hearts out of two, now 525 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 1: three little children and it'll be worth it because I'm 526 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:55,400 Speaker 1: going to be immortal and an amazing dude. Wow, Alright, 527 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 1: we're gonna be I'm gonna be like Bradley Cooper and limitless. 528 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,360 Speaker 1: That's his goal on what failing at the box office. 529 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:04,920 Speaker 1: So this last paragraph is pretty important. Everybody hanging there 530 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,440 Speaker 1: with us. And remember Stephen heard a cry in the 531 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:10,360 Speaker 1: office and then later found these papers that Chuck just 532 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:15,760 Speaker 1: read right right. Mr Abney was found in his chair, 533 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:19,680 Speaker 1: his head thrown back, his face stamped with an expression 534 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:24,520 Speaker 1: of rage, fright, immortal pain. In his left side was 535 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:28,960 Speaker 1: a terrible lacerated wound, exposing the heart. There was no 536 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,400 Speaker 1: blood on his hands, and a long knife that lay 537 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:35,200 Speaker 1: on the table was perfectly clean. A savage wildcat might 538 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 1: have inflicted the injuries. The window of the study was open, 539 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,680 Speaker 1: and it was the opinion of the coroner that Mr 540 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:42,880 Speaker 1: Abney had met his death by the agency of some 541 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,800 Speaker 1: wild creature. But Stephen Elliott study of the papers Chuck 542 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:56,959 Speaker 1: just quoted, led him to a very different conclusion. Wow, 543 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:02,760 Speaker 1: so little Stephen Abney Cockney boy at large owes his 544 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,720 Speaker 1: took us to the little boy and girl who saved 545 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:10,800 Speaker 1: his life. Yeah, they killed him. Murderous ghosts killed a 546 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,800 Speaker 1: very bad man. I love it. Good stuff, good voice work. 547 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,120 Speaker 1: That was great, Chuck. I guess now we should put 548 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:20,400 Speaker 1: some ads in here, right. Oh wait, there's no need 549 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,240 Speaker 1: for us, because this is our ad free Halloween version. 550 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:30,080 Speaker 1: This spooky story brought to you by stamps dot com. Wow, 551 00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:33,840 Speaker 1: that was great, So it's time for yours, right, that's right? 552 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,840 Speaker 1: Oh boy, who wrote this? Arthur Mock And I believe 553 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,240 Speaker 1: that's right m A. C. H. E. N who was 554 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,760 Speaker 1: a Welsh writer. And I think the deal with the 555 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,280 Speaker 1: Great God Pan, which is what we're going to read, 556 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:51,200 Speaker 1: is that it was a I think this is the 557 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,520 Speaker 1: first chapter that originally stood on its own as a 558 00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:58,440 Speaker 1: short story published in a a literary journal or something, 559 00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:04,040 Speaker 1: or a magazine, the Gentleman's magazine. That's right. And then 560 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,200 Speaker 1: he later I guess what's like he and this is 561 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,879 Speaker 1: not too bad and expanded it into a novella linked thing. 562 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,480 Speaker 1: But uh yeah, we're gonna stick to the first chapter. 563 00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:14,399 Speaker 1: It's one of those ones that, like, if you ask 564 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,799 Speaker 1: any horror writer with the greatest horror story of all 565 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,319 Speaker 1: time is probably the majority of them will say the 566 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:24,879 Speaker 1: Great God Pan. Oh really interesting? All right? So nice, fine, 567 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,359 Speaker 1: I guess is what I'm trying to say. Here we go. Then, 568 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:37,600 Speaker 1: I'm glad you came, Clark, very glad. Indeed, I was 569 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:41,000 Speaker 1: not sure you could spare the time. Wait a minute, 570 00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:43,880 Speaker 1: that's Abney and the Old Lady. Yeah, that was that 571 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,120 Speaker 1: was a lot all right, this is gonna I'm gonna 572 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:49,080 Speaker 1: have to workshop this as we go. Folks, Okay, I 573 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,319 Speaker 1: know you're locked in the punch. That's it, all right, 574 00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:55,560 Speaker 1: So he's glad, Clark came, Yeah, Clark with any Yes, 575 00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,560 Speaker 1: I was able to make arrangements for a few days. 576 00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:01,600 Speaker 1: Things are not very live just now, but you have 577 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:06,319 Speaker 1: no misgivings, Raymond, Is it absolutely safe? The two men 578 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:09,000 Speaker 1: were slowly pacing the terrace in front of Dr Raymond's house. 579 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,600 Speaker 1: The sun still hung above the western mountain line, but 580 00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,520 Speaker 1: it shone with a dull red glow that cast no shadows, 581 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:19,120 Speaker 1: and all the air was quiet. A sweet breath came 582 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,239 Speaker 1: from the great wood on the hillside above, and with it, 583 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:25,000 Speaker 1: at intervals, the soft murmuring call of the wild doves 584 00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:27,920 Speaker 1: below in the long, lovely valley, The river wound in 585 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,480 Speaker 1: and out between the lonely hills, and as the sun 586 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:33,520 Speaker 1: hovered and vanished into the west, a faint mist, pure 587 00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,880 Speaker 1: white began to rise from the hills. Doctor Raymond turned 588 00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:43,120 Speaker 1: sharply to his friend. Safe. Of course it is in itself. 589 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:46,279 Speaker 1: The operation is a perfectly simple one. Any surgeon could 590 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:50,480 Speaker 1: do it, and there's no danger at any other things. None, 591 00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:54,200 Speaker 1: absolutely no physical damage whatsoever. I give you my word. 592 00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:58,360 Speaker 1: You are always timid, Clark, always with an E. But 593 00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:02,960 Speaker 1: you know my history. I have devoted myself to transcendental medicine. 594 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,120 Speaker 1: For the last twenty years. I have heard myself called 595 00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:09,640 Speaker 1: quack and charlatan, an impostor. But all the while I 596 00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,399 Speaker 1: knew I was on the right path. Five years ago 597 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:15,640 Speaker 1: I reached the goal, and since then every day has 598 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:19,480 Speaker 1: been a preparation for what we shall do tonight. I 599 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:23,120 Speaker 1: should like to believe it at all true. Clark knit 600 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:26,520 Speaker 1: his brows and looked doubtfully at Dr Raymond. Are you 601 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,840 Speaker 1: perfectly sure, Raymond, that your theory is not a fantasmagoria, 602 00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:33,319 Speaker 1: A splendid vision, certainly, but a mirror vision? After all, 603 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,840 Speaker 1: speak up? This is as much as I could speak. 604 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:42,360 Speaker 1: It's the Eco are weak of chest and breath and 605 00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:46,239 Speaker 1: very timid. All right, we made all that up here 606 00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:50,000 Speaker 1: we go. Maybe we should just riff on this whole thing. Uh. 607 00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:53,680 Speaker 1: Dr Raymond stopped in his walk and turned sharply. He 608 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:55,640 Speaker 1: was a middle aged man, gaunt and thin, of a 609 00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:59,760 Speaker 1: pale yellow complexion. But as he answered Clark and faced him, 610 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:04,440 Speaker 1: that was a flush on his cheek mhm. Look about you, Clark, 611 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:10,400 Speaker 1: do you see? Look about you, Clark. You see the 612 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:14,120 Speaker 1: mountain and hill following after hill, as wave on wave. 613 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:17,040 Speaker 1: You see the woods and orchard, the fields of ripe corn, 614 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,879 Speaker 1: and the meadows reaching to the reed beds by the river. 615 00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:22,920 Speaker 1: You see me standing here beside you, and hear my 616 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,959 Speaker 1: voice as pleasant as it is. But I tell you 617 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:30,359 Speaker 1: that all these things, yes, from that star that has 618 00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:32,880 Speaker 1: just shown out of the sky, to the solid ground 619 00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,960 Speaker 1: beneath our feet. I say that all these are but 620 00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:39,200 Speaker 1: dreams and shadows, the shadows that hide the real world 621 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,160 Speaker 1: from our eyes. This is a real world, but it 622 00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:46,000 Speaker 1: is beyond the glamour and this vision, beyond these chases 623 00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:48,960 Speaker 1: and aras dreams in a career, beyond the mall, is 624 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,360 Speaker 1: beyond a veil. Do you even know what I'm talking about? 625 00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,160 Speaker 1: I just realized who you're doing, and it's Truman Campody, 626 00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:01,960 Speaker 1: Truman cap I do not know whether any human being 627 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,400 Speaker 1: has ever lifted that veil, but I do know, Clark, 628 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,000 Speaker 1: that you and I shall see it lifted this very 629 00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,799 Speaker 1: night from before another's eyes. You may think this all 630 00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:13,400 Speaker 1: strange nonsense. It may be strange, but it is true 631 00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:17,719 Speaker 1: and The ancients knew what lifting the veil means. They 632 00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:28,040 Speaker 1: called it seeing the god pan nice Clark shivered. The 633 00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:32,320 Speaker 1: white mist gathering over the river was chilly. It is wonderful. Indeed, 634 00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:34,880 Speaker 1: he said, we are standing on the brink of a 635 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:38,440 Speaker 1: strange world. Raymond, if what you say is true, I 636 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:43,280 Speaker 1: suppose the knife is absolutely necessary. Yes, a slight lesion 637 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,200 Speaker 1: in the gray matter, that is all, A trifling rearrangement 638 00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:50,680 Speaker 1: of certain cells, a microscopical alteration that would escape the 639 00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:54,560 Speaker 1: attention of brain specialists out of a hundred. I don't 640 00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:57,320 Speaker 1: want to bother you with shop Clark. I guess he 641 00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:00,960 Speaker 1: means shop talk. Ye. I'm give you a mass of 642 00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:04,200 Speaker 1: technical detail which would sound very imposing and would leave 643 00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:06,680 Speaker 1: you as enlightened as you are now. But I suppose 644 00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:09,480 Speaker 1: you have read, casually and out of the way corners 645 00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,760 Speaker 1: of your paper that immense strides have been made recently 646 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,760 Speaker 1: in the physiology of the brain. I saw a paragraph 647 00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:19,680 Speaker 1: the other day about Digby's theory and brown Fabers discoveries, 648 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:23,840 Speaker 1: theories and discoveries. Where they are standing now? I stood 649 00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,279 Speaker 1: fifteen years ago, and I need not tell you that 650 00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:28,880 Speaker 1: I have not been standing still for the last fifteen years. 651 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:30,799 Speaker 1: It would be enough if I say that five years 652 00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,799 Speaker 1: ago I made the discovery that I alluded to when 653 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,560 Speaker 1: I said that ten years ago I reached the goal. 654 00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:40,120 Speaker 1: It's very confusing. I feel like I'm driving people literally 655 00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:42,960 Speaker 1: away from this. No, I think, I think you. It's 656 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:47,120 Speaker 1: very luring in a weird way. Okay. After years of labor, 657 00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:50,680 Speaker 1: After years of toiling and groping in the dark, after 658 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:54,040 Speaker 1: days and nights of disappointments and sometimes of despair in 659 00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:56,239 Speaker 1: which I used now and then to tremble and grow 660 00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,520 Speaker 1: cold with the thought that perhaps there were others seeking 661 00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:01,919 Speaker 1: for it, I saw it at last, after so long. 662 00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:04,880 Speaker 1: A pang of sudden joy thrilled my soul, and I 663 00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,680 Speaker 1: knew the long journey was at an end by what 664 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,840 Speaker 1: seemed then and still seems a chance. The suggestions of 665 00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:14,279 Speaker 1: a moment's idle thought followed up upon familiar lines and 666 00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:17,560 Speaker 1: paths that I attract a hundred times already, the great 667 00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,759 Speaker 1: truth burst upon me, and I saw, mapped out in 668 00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:24,960 Speaker 1: lines of sight, a whole world, a sphere unknown continents 669 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,240 Speaker 1: and islands and great oceans in which no ship has sailed, 670 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:31,439 Speaker 1: to my belief, since a man first lifted up his eyes, 671 00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:34,120 Speaker 1: and beheld the sun and the stars of heaven, and 672 00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:38,400 Speaker 1: the quiet earth beneath yep keep going, Oh, good Lord, 673 00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:42,440 Speaker 1: you will think this all high flown language, Clark, But 674 00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,080 Speaker 1: it is hard to be literal. And yet I do 675 00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:47,840 Speaker 1: not know whether what I am hinting at cannot be 676 00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:50,799 Speaker 1: set forth in plain and lonely terms. For instance, this 677 00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:54,320 Speaker 1: world of ours is pretty well girded now with telegraph 678 00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:57,920 Speaker 1: wires and cables fought with something less than the speed 679 00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:01,360 Speaker 1: of thought, flashes from sunrise sunset, from north to south, 680 00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:05,520 Speaker 1: across the floods and the desert places. Suppose that an 681 00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:09,160 Speaker 1: electrician of today were suddenly to perceive that he and 682 00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:12,000 Speaker 1: his friends have merely been playing with pebbles and mistaking 683 00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:15,040 Speaker 1: them for the foundations of the world. Suppose that's such 684 00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:18,480 Speaker 1: a man saw uttermost space lie open before the current, 685 00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,360 Speaker 1: and words of men flashed forth to the sun and 686 00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:24,920 Speaker 1: beyond the sun, into the systems beyond, and the voice 687 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:28,200 Speaker 1: of articulate speaking men echo, and the waiste void that 688 00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:31,279 Speaker 1: bounds our thought. What do you think about that analogy, sir? 689 00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:36,239 Speaker 1: As analogies go, that is a pretty good analogy of 690 00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:39,640 Speaker 1: what I've done. You can understand now a little of 691 00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:42,200 Speaker 1: what I felt as I stood here one evening. It 692 00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:44,680 Speaker 1: was a summer evening, and the valley looked much as 693 00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:47,520 Speaker 1: it does now. I stood here and saw before me 694 00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:52,320 Speaker 1: the inutterable, the unthinkable gulf that yawns profound between two worlds, 695 00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:54,960 Speaker 1: the world of matter and the world of spirit. I 696 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:58,600 Speaker 1: saw the great, empty, deep stretch dim before me, and 697 00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:01,279 Speaker 1: in that instant of ridge of light leapt from the 698 00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:03,920 Speaker 1: earth to the unknown shore, and the abyss was spanned. 699 00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:06,600 Speaker 1: You may look in brown Favor's book if you like, 700 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:10,000 Speaker 1: and you will find that to the present day men 701 00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:12,759 Speaker 1: of science are unable to account for the presence or 702 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,279 Speaker 1: to specify the functions of certain group of nerve cells 703 00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:20,480 Speaker 1: in the brain. Last one. I'm sorry, everybody. That group is, 704 00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:23,360 Speaker 1: as it were, land to yet a mere waste place 705 00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:26,200 Speaker 1: for fanciful theories. I am not in the position of 706 00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:30,239 Speaker 1: brown Favor and the specialist. I am perfectly instructed as 707 00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:33,080 Speaker 1: to the possible functions of those nerve centers in the 708 00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:35,440 Speaker 1: scheme of things. With a touch, I can bring them 709 00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:38,200 Speaker 1: into play. With a touch, I say, I can set 710 00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:41,040 Speaker 1: free the current. With a touch, I can complete the 711 00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:44,880 Speaker 1: communication between this world of sense, and we shall be 712 00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:48,120 Speaker 1: able to finish the sentence later on. Yes, the knife 713 00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:51,279 Speaker 1: is necessary, but think what that knife will affect. It 714 00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:55,719 Speaker 1: will level utterly the solid wall of sense, and probably 715 00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:59,080 Speaker 1: for the first time since man was made, a spirit 716 00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:04,120 Speaker 1: will gaze on a spirit world. Clark, Mary, we'll see 717 00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:12,160 Speaker 1: the God pan. Very nice, Chuck, Wow, I feel like 718 00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:15,560 Speaker 1: we need to recap that. So he's doing these brain 719 00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:19,920 Speaker 1: experiments basically where he says he can connect I mean 720 00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:23,480 Speaker 1: he really just needed that last paragraph where he can 721 00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:26,600 Speaker 1: connect people to the spirit world, right, Yeah, that basically 722 00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:29,680 Speaker 1: with the with the scrambling of a few neurons that 723 00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:33,000 Speaker 1: only he knows the true purpose of, he can basically 724 00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:36,880 Speaker 1: he can take you to a new different dimensions. You 725 00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:41,799 Speaker 1: can see God. Yeah, God pan at ly sure. Uh So, 726 00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:44,359 Speaker 1: now we're picking up with Clark with an e speaking again. 727 00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:49,800 Speaker 1: You're ready, I'm ready. But you remember what you wrote 728 00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:52,160 Speaker 1: to me. I thought it would be requisite that she 729 00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:55,080 Speaker 1: he whispered the rest of the doctor's ear. You don't 730 00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:58,319 Speaker 1: be a virgin, not at all. That at all, That 731 00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:01,400 Speaker 1: is nonsense, I assure you. Indeed, it is better as 732 00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:05,000 Speaker 1: it is. I'm quite certain of that. Consider the matter well, Raymond, 733 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,160 Speaker 1: it is a great responsibility. Something might go wrong, you 734 00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:11,400 Speaker 1: would be a miserable man for the rest of your days. No, 735 00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:14,520 Speaker 1: I think that even if the worst happened, As you know, 736 00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:17,960 Speaker 1: I rescued Mary from the gutter and from almost certain 737 00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:20,880 Speaker 1: starvation when she was a child, I think her life 738 00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:24,000 Speaker 1: is mine to use as I see fit. Come, it's 739 00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:30,760 Speaker 1: getting late. We had better go in. No being canceled 740 00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:33,799 Speaker 1: as we speak. So he's saying, like, you know, he 741 00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:37,440 Speaker 1: found this, this poor homeless girl, and now that he 742 00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:39,040 Speaker 1: raised her and gave her a life, he can do 743 00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:41,960 Speaker 1: whatever he wants with her life. So now poor Mary 744 00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:46,000 Speaker 1: is going to be the first test subject for seeing 745 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:49,040 Speaker 1: the Great God Pan And I'll take up take up 746 00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:56,239 Speaker 1: some slack from you, please do. Dr Raymond led the 747 00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:58,560 Speaker 1: way into the house, through the hall and down a 748 00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:01,840 Speaker 1: long dark passage. He took a key from his pocket 749 00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:04,640 Speaker 1: and opened a heavy door and motioned Clark with any 750 00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:07,880 Speaker 1: into his flab recording. It had once been a billiard 751 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,080 Speaker 1: room and was lighted by a glass dome in the 752 00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:12,839 Speaker 1: center of the ceiling. Whence there still shown a sad 753 00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:15,440 Speaker 1: gray light on the figure of the doctor as he 754 00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:17,759 Speaker 1: lit a lamp with a heavy shade and placed it 755 00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:20,360 Speaker 1: on a table in the middle of the room. Clark 756 00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:23,439 Speaker 1: looked about him. Scarcely a foot of wall remained bare. 757 00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:26,680 Speaker 1: There were shelves all around, laden with bottles and files 758 00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:29,320 Speaker 1: of all shapes and colors. And at one end stood 759 00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,400 Speaker 1: a little Chippendale bookcase with its shirt off and oiled 760 00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:36,120 Speaker 1: and baby oil. Raymond pointed to this. You see that 761 00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:40,040 Speaker 1: parchment Oswald Crolius. He was one of the first to 762 00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:42,520 Speaker 1: show me the way, though I don't think he ever 763 00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:45,360 Speaker 1: found it himself. That is a strange saying of his. 764 00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:49,680 Speaker 1: In every grain of wheat, there lies hidden the soul 765 00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:53,120 Speaker 1: of a star. I guess it makes sense in a 766 00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:57,239 Speaker 1: weird way. Sure. There was not much furniture in the laboratory. 767 00:45:57,440 --> 00:45:59,880 Speaker 1: The table in the center, a stone slab with a 768 00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:02,719 Speaker 1: rain in one corner, the two arm chairs on which 769 00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:05,759 Speaker 1: Raymond and Clark were sitting. That was all except an 770 00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,920 Speaker 1: odd looking chair at the furtherest end of the room. 771 00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:11,799 Speaker 1: Clark looked at it and raised his eyebrows. Yes, that 772 00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:14,640 Speaker 1: is the chair, said Raymond. We may as well place 773 00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:17,359 Speaker 1: it in position. He got up and wheeled the chair 774 00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:19,879 Speaker 1: to the light, and began raising and lowering and letting 775 00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:22,719 Speaker 1: down the seat, setting the back at various angles and 776 00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:26,360 Speaker 1: adjusting the foot rest. It looked comfortable enough, and Clark 777 00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:28,960 Speaker 1: passed his hand over the soft green velvet as the 778 00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:34,400 Speaker 1: doctor manipulated the levers. Now, Clark could make yourself quite comfortable. 779 00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:37,279 Speaker 1: I had a couple of hours worked before me. I 780 00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:41,040 Speaker 1: was obliged to leave certain matters to the last. Raymond 781 00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:43,880 Speaker 1: went to the stone slab, and Clark watched him drearily 782 00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:46,000 Speaker 1: as he bent over a row of files and lit 783 00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:49,280 Speaker 1: the flame under the crucible. The doctor had a small 784 00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:52,360 Speaker 1: hand lamp shaded as the larger one on a ledge 785 00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:55,600 Speaker 1: above his apparatus, and Clark, who sat in the shadows, 786 00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:58,640 Speaker 1: looked down at the great shadowy room, wondering at the 787 00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:02,719 Speaker 1: bizarre effects of brilliant light and undefined darkness contrasting with 788 00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:06,280 Speaker 1: one another. Soon he became conscious of an odd odor, 789 00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:11,120 Speaker 1: at first the merest suggestion of an odor in the room, 790 00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:14,279 Speaker 1: and as it grew more he decided he felt surprised 791 00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:16,600 Speaker 1: that he was not reminded of the chemist's shop or 792 00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:22,400 Speaker 1: the surgery. Laver smelted doubt it. Clark found himself ugly, 793 00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:26,440 Speaker 1: endeavoring to analyze the sensation, and half conscious, he began 794 00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:29,319 Speaker 1: to think of a day fifteen years ago that he 795 00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:31,640 Speaker 1: had spent roaming through the woods and meadows near his 796 00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:34,440 Speaker 1: own home. It was a burning day at the beginning 797 00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:37,279 Speaker 1: of August. The heat had dimmed the outlines of all 798 00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:40,560 Speaker 1: things and all distances with a faint mist, and people 799 00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:44,239 Speaker 1: who observed the thermometer spoke of an abnormal register of 800 00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:48,399 Speaker 1: a temperature that was almost tropical. Strangely, that wonderful hot 801 00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:51,520 Speaker 1: day of the fifties rose up again in Clark's imagination, 802 00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:55,160 Speaker 1: the sense of dazzling all pervading sunlight, seeming to blot 803 00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:57,920 Speaker 1: out the shadows and the lights of the laboratory, and 804 00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:01,240 Speaker 1: he felt again the heated air beating gusts about his face, 805 00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:04,360 Speaker 1: saw the shimmer rising from the turf, and heard the 806 00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:07,520 Speaker 1: myriad murmur of the summer. I hope the smell doesn't 807 00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:11,200 Speaker 1: annoy you, Clark. There's nothing unwholesome about it. It may 808 00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:16,880 Speaker 1: make you a bit sleepy, that's all. Clark her the 809 00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:20,880 Speaker 1: words quite distinctly, and knew that Raymond was speaking to him. 810 00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:22,759 Speaker 1: But for the life of him, he could not rouse 811 00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:25,520 Speaker 1: himself from his lethargy. He could only think of the 812 00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:28,840 Speaker 1: lonely walk he had taken fifteen years ago. It was 813 00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:30,920 Speaker 1: his last look at the fields and woods he had 814 00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,120 Speaker 1: known since he was a child, and now it all 815 00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:36,719 Speaker 1: stood out in brilliant light as a picture before him. 816 00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:39,440 Speaker 1: Above all, there came to his nostrils the scent of summer, 817 00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:42,920 Speaker 1: the smell of flowers mingled, and the odor of the woods, 818 00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:46,760 Speaker 1: of cool shaded places deep in the green depths drawn 819 00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,279 Speaker 1: forth by the sun's heat, And the scent of the 820 00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:52,120 Speaker 1: good earth lying as it were, with arms stretched forth 821 00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:56,560 Speaker 1: and smiling lips overpowered all his fancies made him wander 822 00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:59,359 Speaker 1: as he had wandered long ago, from the fields into 823 00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:02,400 Speaker 1: the wood, tracking a little path between the shining undergrowth 824 00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:05,200 Speaker 1: of beech trees and the trickle of water dropping from 825 00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:08,120 Speaker 1: the limestone rock. Sounded as clear as a melody in 826 00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:14,240 Speaker 1: the dream. All right, so he's experiencing, dude, his trip 827 00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:18,879 Speaker 1: and sleep induced drug induced feel goods. Yeah, I mean 828 00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:23,719 Speaker 1: it sounds like a pretty great picture. I'll have what 829 00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,319 Speaker 1: he's having. You want me? Keep going? Yeah, keep going. 830 00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:31,560 Speaker 1: Now it gets a little weird. Thoughts began to go 831 00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:35,160 Speaker 1: astray and to mingle with other thoughts. The beach alley 832 00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:38,839 Speaker 1: was transformed to a path between elix trees, and here 833 00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:41,520 Speaker 1: and there a vine climbed from bow to bow and 834 00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:45,160 Speaker 1: sent up waving tendrils, and drooped with purple grapes, and 835 00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:47,960 Speaker 1: the sparse, gray green leaves of a wild olive tree 836 00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:51,360 Speaker 1: stood out against the dark shadows of the eyelex Clark, 837 00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:54,480 Speaker 1: in the deep folds of the dream, was conscious that 838 00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:57,440 Speaker 1: the path from his father's house had led him into 839 00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:00,840 Speaker 1: an undiscovered country, and he was wondering at the strangeness 840 00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:03,640 Speaker 1: of it all, when suddenly, in place of the harm 841 00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:07,840 Speaker 1: and murmur of the summer, an infinite silence seemed to 842 00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:11,960 Speaker 1: fall on all things, and the wood was hushed, and 843 00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:14,560 Speaker 1: for a moment in time he stood face to face 844 00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:17,720 Speaker 1: there with a presence that was neither man nor beast, 845 00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:21,920 Speaker 1: neither the living nor the dead, but all things mingled, 846 00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:26,000 Speaker 1: the form of all things, but devoid of all form. 847 00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:28,760 Speaker 1: And in that moment the sacrament of body and soul 848 00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:32,840 Speaker 1: was dissolved, and a voice seemed to cry, let us go. Hence, 849 00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:36,680 Speaker 1: and then the darkness of darkness beyond the stars, the 850 00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:46,359 Speaker 1: darkness of everlasting. Whoa, He went deep, he really did, 851 00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:49,399 Speaker 1: he went. Hence is how you'd put how the kids 852 00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:54,400 Speaker 1: would put it? Uh? Should I pick up? Yeah? Okay, 853 00:50:54,680 --> 00:51:02,400 Speaker 1: is your throat? Okay, it's fine. When Clark woke up 854 00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:04,680 Speaker 1: with a start, he saw Raymond pouring a few drops 855 00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:07,680 Speaker 1: of some oily fluid into a green file, which he 856 00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:12,560 Speaker 1: stopped her tightly. You've been dozing. The journey must have 857 00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:15,440 Speaker 1: tired you out. It is done. Now I'm going to 858 00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:19,399 Speaker 1: fetch Mary. I'll be back in ten minutes. Clark lay 859 00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:21,839 Speaker 1: back in his chair and wondered. It seemed as if 860 00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:24,600 Speaker 1: he had but passed from one dream into another. He 861 00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:27,520 Speaker 1: half expected to see the walls of the laboratory melt 862 00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:31,120 Speaker 1: and disappear, and to awaken London, shuddering at his own 863 00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:33,880 Speaker 1: sleeping fancies. But at last the door opened and the 864 00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:37,560 Speaker 1: doctor returned, and behind him came a girl about seventeen, 865 00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:41,760 Speaker 1: dressed all in white. She was so beautiful that Clark 866 00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:45,240 Speaker 1: did not wonder at what the doctor had written to him. 867 00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:48,520 Speaker 1: She was blushing now over face and neck and arms. 868 00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:54,319 Speaker 1: But Raymond seemed unmoved. Mary, the time has come. You 869 00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:59,280 Speaker 1: are quite free. Are you willing to trust me entirely? Yes? Dear, 870 00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:04,239 Speaker 1: do you hear that? Clark? You are my witness. Here 871 00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:07,040 Speaker 1: is the chair, Mary, It is quite easy. Just sit 872 00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:10,320 Speaker 1: in it and lean back Are you ready, Yes, dear, 873 00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:14,920 Speaker 1: quite ready. Give me a kiss before you begin. The 874 00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:21,160 Speaker 1: doctor stooped and kissed her mouth kindly enough. Now shut 875 00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:25,200 Speaker 1: your eyes, he said. The girl closed her eyelids as 876 00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:29,680 Speaker 1: if she were tired and longed for sleep, and Raymond 877 00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:33,840 Speaker 1: placed the green file to her nostrils. Her face grew white, 878 00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:37,080 Speaker 1: whiter than her dress. She struggled faintly, and then, with 879 00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:40,120 Speaker 1: a feeling of submission strong within her, crossed her arms 880 00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:42,560 Speaker 1: upon her breast as a little child about to say 881 00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:45,680 Speaker 1: her prayers. The bright light of the lamp fell full 882 00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:48,920 Speaker 1: upon her, and Clark watched changes fleeting over her face 883 00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:51,400 Speaker 1: as the changes of the hills when the summer clouds 884 00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:55,080 Speaker 1: flowed across the sun. And then she lay all white 885 00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:59,520 Speaker 1: and still, and the doctor turned up one of her eyelids. 886 00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:03,000 Speaker 1: She was quite unconscious. Raymond pressed hard in one of 887 00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:06,080 Speaker 1: the levers in the chair instantly sank back. Clark saw 888 00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:08,919 Speaker 1: him cutting away a circle like a tauns sheer from 889 00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:12,319 Speaker 1: her hair, and the lamp was moved nearer. Raymond took 890 00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:15,920 Speaker 1: a small glittering instrument from a little case, and Clark 891 00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:19,600 Speaker 1: turned away shudderingly. When he looked again, the doctor was 892 00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:22,000 Speaker 1: binding up the wound he had made. Clark is so 893 00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:27,440 Speaker 1: timid she will awaken. Five minutes, Raymond was still perfectly cool. 894 00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:30,760 Speaker 1: There is nothing more to be done. We can only wait. 895 00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:35,680 Speaker 1: The minutes passed slowly. They could hear a slow, heavy ticking. 896 00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:40,879 Speaker 1: There's an old clock in the passage. Clark felt sick 897 00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:48,080 Speaker 1: and faint. His knees shook beneath him. He could hardly stand. 898 00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:52,680 Speaker 1: And suddenly, as they watched, they heard a long, drawn sigh, 899 00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:56,279 Speaker 1: And suddenly did the color that had vanished returned to 900 00:53:56,320 --> 00:54:01,120 Speaker 1: the girl's cheeks, and suddenly her eyes opened. Clark quailed 901 00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:05,160 Speaker 1: before them. They shone with an awful light, looking far away, 902 00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:08,319 Speaker 1: and a great wonder fell upon her face, and her 903 00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:10,960 Speaker 1: hands stretched out as if to touch what was invisible. 904 00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:14,520 Speaker 1: But in an instant the wonder faded and gave place 905 00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:17,719 Speaker 1: to the most awful terror. The muscles of her face 906 00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:21,200 Speaker 1: were hideously convulsed. She shook from head to foot. The 907 00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:24,600 Speaker 1: soul seemed struggling and shuddering within the house of flesh. 908 00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:28,480 Speaker 1: It was a horrible sight, and Clark rushed forward, and 909 00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:45,720 Speaker 1: she fell, shrieking to the floor. Three days later, Raymond 910 00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:48,960 Speaker 1: took Clark to Mary's bedside, she was lying wide awake, 911 00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:53,640 Speaker 1: rolling her head from side to side and grinning vacantly. Yes, 912 00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:58,040 Speaker 1: the doctor said, still quite cool. It is a great pity. 913 00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:03,040 Speaker 1: She is a hopeless it it however, it could not 914 00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:07,040 Speaker 1: be helped, and after all she has seen the Great 915 00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:21,880 Speaker 1: God Pan very nice. Wow wow we wow wow. Definitely 916 00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:28,120 Speaker 1: not a doctor feel good. No, a doctor I feel bad, 917 00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:30,239 Speaker 1: I guess is the best way to put in. I think, 918 00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:33,120 Speaker 1: so doctor make bad. That was really great, Chuck. This 919 00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:37,600 Speaker 1: is truly the most spooky spook caacular spook time. Yes, 920 00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:41,719 Speaker 1: and we appreciate everyone who listens to these every Halloween. 921 00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:44,799 Speaker 1: It's one of our favorites to do because we get 922 00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:46,640 Speaker 1: to just have a little bit of fun and beat goofy. 923 00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:52,600 Speaker 1: What do you mean? Like? That was a straight read? 924 00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:57,640 Speaker 1: But everyone, you know, Halloween looks like it's probably on 925 00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:01,000 Speaker 1: for the most part this year, So be careful out 926 00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:05,760 Speaker 1: there still and stay safe and enjoy yourselves. 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