 Tired of the everyday grind? Ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you... Escape! Escape! Transcribe to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure! You are aboard a dead ship drifting aimlessly in the endless reaches of the Indian Ocean while the three men who are your companions unaware of your innermost thoughts are making their own plans for the division of treasure which because you are a woman can mean life or death for you all. Listen now as Escape brings you Larry Roman's unusual story The derelict! I'm rich now good looking too a lot of guys have said so 29 and that's on the square dark eyes, dark hair and I've been a dancer all my life so you can figure out for yourself how I'm built I'm not telling you this out of conceit or anything I just want you to know what you'd have if you had me and you can have me any one of you all you gotta do is come out and get me a couple of weeks ago I climbed aboard the freighter Capricorn out of Singapore for Suez with a load of porcelain and six passengers I had a job waiting for me in Cairo but I took a ship instead of a plane one for the dough two because I was in no hurry to start working the honest truth was my feet were giving me fits four days out in the Indian Ocean a monsoon started up and the Capricorn just busted to pieces on the reefs I don't know how long I floated around hanging on to some wood till they hauled me into a lifeboat easy with her gently, gently do not bruise her on the side very cool do you know if that canvass who was sent her down I'm alright certainly here, throw this jacket around here I'm okay no kidding the jacket thanks can you clamp your legs under the seat okay we're just going to have to ride her out alright sure you're not sick anymore all done kind of silly wasn't it like a kid no, not so silly no thanks I'm really okay Kitman, Henry Van Kitman's my name it was my cargo porcelain on the ship I'm Mike Borman Coral Moore hello this is Lu Wa or is it Wa Lu my name is Lu Wa Chinese part of the crew some predicaments others all drown I suppose or they drift like us no drown I think we were the lucky ones some are some aren't well, spirits up everybody look we have water for a few days so that is fine sure well people do not get lost at sea these days not with airplanes and so much ocean travel alright we'll set up watches and take turns trying to catch fish yeah sure who can think of who now there's always later you take the first watch Kitman Lu Wa and I will take are you setting yourself up as captain Mike I haven't thought of it that way I want to be captain I've always wanted to run a ship well I don't care who's captain but someone's got to watch and someone's got to fish very well we all got jobs to do well Lu Wa you fish Mike will watch I shall tender the water pushing out the proper amounts and go to my dear you shall sit there and be wombingly the water sits in the middle so everyone can see it Cora helps out like everyone else well sure Mike just tell me what you want settle Mr. Kitman settle captain Bournemont I got a long look at them Kitman big around the middle and chest white shiny face powerful arms Mike middle size not bad looking with clear blue eyes kind of girl ought to have Lu Wa small good at catching fish so there we were three men and me in a tub bobbing around the Indian Ocean drifting then on the afternoon of the second day look at you see you see a ship coming right for us Mike look at it I told you I told you it will be found hello hello save your breath it's a mile zone no we roll to it the oars well Lu the oars Mike the oars it was dusk by the time we got aboard she was a three-masted sailing ship all her lifeboats were gone and junk was all over her deck seaweed and ocean stuff so you knew she'd been under once an old Barkantine Mike said a ghost ship her deck cabins were caved in and she stank from rot we looked her over then down in the captain's quarters we saw it first a couple of human skeletons in a pile of junk that was once closed then a metal box near the skeletons open and in it were bricks of greenish yellow stuff Mike knew right off what it was gold gold impossible it cannot be gold all right I've seen gold before well sure it is sure it is feel it hold one 20-30 pounds of brick but that's a fortune no kiddin how much I don't know but a fortune easily a great amount easily shut the box keepin they're the salvage laws it's ours if we bring it in we will we've got another problem first but I'll tell you you do not get lost at sea these days this is 1953 at sea in 1933 no shut the box it won't swim off shut it who are you to tell me what to do oh stop it you two squabble squabble like a couple of chorus girls ah sorry I apologize all right now let's check the galley we ought to figure out a way to start a fire what about the skeletons what about them you should get them overboard I do not like to share the ship with them you do what you want you throw them overboard Mike I wouldn't care to touch them other things come first that is right and before we do anything don't you think we should have an understanding about what the gold what's there to understand there are four of us we bring it in it's split four ways four ways yeah then I have a right now you go to the galley Mike I will stay here I want to count the gold all right come on Corin no I'll stay down here if you don't mind I'd like to know how much there is too honest to Pete I don't know why I said it I wasn't thinking it just came out well it rained that night and we collected a lot of clean fresh water next day it was real sunny and warm we cleaned the ship up a bit all of a sudden I got the feeling how funny things were a drift at sea on a ghost ship but we had food water sun at times it was almost like a pleasure cruise good morning morning sleep well not too good of course the place you fixed up for me was real nice but well I kept thinking about things Cora Moore from San Diego with a jackpot you know you don't seem too happy about it yeah first problems first we'll get found keepin's right you don't get lost at sea these days ship is bound to crosses isn't it sure so then we'll all be rich and happy you still don't feel good about it I uh I remember once when I was a kid I reached for a pot in a dice game my winning was fair I got the back of my hand ripped open with a knife I never got the winnings I see count of your chickens that's it everybody does that look at me I was gonna be a ballet dancer I was a ballet dancer in my mind I mean pirouettes and all that who knew I was gonna end up a fan dancer that's not so bad no oh well what are you gonna do with your share of the gold I mean if we bring it in go back to Australia get a ranch sheep sounds like work you won't have to work you'll have enough I don't mind good morning morning hi fine this morning where's Waluw Lou why it's making breakfast this morning I would like fish for breakfast have him make fish I feel good I slept well I always knew the rich slept well no matter what they tried to tell you yeah I see the skeletons are gone I tossed them over side last night thank you Mike Lou why found a barrel of nails we're going to board up some cabin hulls after we eat you'll help certainly I'll see you later Cora surely follow well you look lovely this morning my dear a fresh look the sea area you are a beautiful girl sure I'll get better looking to you the longer we're at sea Cora my dear I've been doing some calculations in regard to our wealth if the bars weigh 20 pounds a piece and since there are 100 of them we have 20 by 12 by 100 by 35 the value of gold per ounce in dollars 840,000 hmm why a lot of meat and potatoes ah filet mignon pheasant pompano almondine what's that ah something very delicious now suppose the bar weighs 25 pounds one million dollars a million bucks if the gold is sold at Macau where the market is free say 50 dollars an ounce one million five hundred thousand oh it keeps getting bigger matter of multiplication multiplication is a wonderful thing it makes everything grow uh huh division however is not so wonderful what do you mean well take a large satisfactory number and divide say by four what are you left with a small unsatisfactory number do you follow me no molly to yourself my dear I I'm sure it will come to you sure I knew what he was getting at but I wasn't letting on sometimes it pays to play dumb well the day went on as usual our ship drifting and us not seeing anything but the water and sky and then that night laying in my bunk suddenly began to think of something I don't know why there I was all of a sudden thinking about Keatman those are ideas of his on multiplication and division it just jolied me out of my bed I ran out on deck Mike came from one way Keatman from the other one we met at the railing luah luah where are you no need to shout more look a few feet from us the railing was all ripped away when you ride off luah was overboard we could see the fin of a great shark cut the dark water and disappear he will return to escape in just a moment but first you should not have leaned against the railing the wood is rotten what makes you think he leaned the ship's tossing then it threw him against the side luah was a sailor it's a calm sea he could keep his feet in this ocean I don't understand you Mike how else could they have gone overboard there are ways I can't imagine look do we have to stand around talking about it oh of course not my dear accidents do happen there's no point Keatman you watch your step oh what could you mean by that Mike just watch your step that's all I don't know what happened to luah but you just watch your step as you say captain Borma come on Corey I'll walk you back to your cabin Mike walk me back I had my chance to do some talking to tell him about the conversation I had with Keatman I should have told Mike I know it but somehow the words just wouldn't come out I don't know why Mike left me I asked him to and I tried to get some sleep no luck I kept thinking about poor luah and also something else I don't really know why I thought about it but the fact is I did without me doing anything I just got Richard are you asleep may I come in well I just brought a few moments my dear I want to talk to you alright just a sec it's real late oh just a little while the thing is I do not get to see you enough alone oh Corey no wait a minute oh it's alright Mike is asleep he will not hear hands off mister that's all oh have I made a mistake I thought you had some feeling for me well it it's just that you sure rush a girl oh I see I'm sorry why don't you go now Keatman oh no Henry why don't you go Henry I uh I feel kind of upset tonight you know what I mean Luan everything alright my dear you're not mad oh no no there'll be other times oh yes of course other times Cora hmm when we are safe on land and rich we will go someplace you and I Italy perhaps or the south of France Cora one million and a half to buy it by three is a large number that should mean a lot to you yeah I have to admit I've been thinking about it one million and a half divided by two should mean even more in the morning I found Mike at the ship's bow looking out at the sea I remember saying to myself he looked kind of good to me funny how a guy can look one way to you at one time then at another looks so very different hello what do you see the usual nothing it's not so bad still got fish and water it's only the third day guys were adrift during the war for weeks they got saved they had a worse than us mind if I sit here with you no Cora's not you saying keep them but low I guess counting yeah he sure has gone off on that gold you know I've been thinking about what those skeletons we found you wonder who they are who they were they're little you think they were part of the crew or come on later like us well it looks to me like the whole crew abandoned ship no I'd say those two came on later that after the ship came up from the bottom and they found the gold huh just like us uh huh what happened then sure smells good up here it's about the only place aboard you don't smell the ships rocked maybe I should have been a sailor instead of a dancer a lot of good outdoors ranching gets you outside too yeah bet Australia's just loaded down with fresh air what about sheep huh what about them they smell sheep aren't so bad maybe I ought to use my share of the gold to buy a ranch next to yours we could be neighbors and get together to talk about hard times all this I mean um hmm I don't know I can't quite tell whether it's because of the mess we're in or well I suppose it might be different on land when we're safe but what are you trying to say Mike oh nothing can you get it Kora sure all right Mike Keetman came into my cabin last night he did I thought there was going to be trouble well now look Kora no it's all right the only thing is well I think you better watch yourself well what do you mean well it's what he said to me he said him and me he told him too yeah I just thought I ought to tell you thanks there's a knife in the galley I don't want to suggest anything but nobody's going to blame you if you move first I don't know why I said it the way I said it I didn't mean to say it that way just so it came out funny how you do things sometimes for no real reason I mean well the third day went by and we just kept drifting and drifting nothing to look at but ocean and sky then toward late afternoon we saw something just a speck in the sky but then it came closer and closer a plane one of those big floor engine passenger jobs Keetman waved his shirt and screamed to beat the van the plane saw us dipped its wings and then took off again we knew it would send a ship and that we'd soon be saved that night in the galley we sat down for what we hoped would be our last meal on the derelict fish have some delicious fish thank you I don't want any more for a I don't feel much like eating water then have a big drink of water no I don't want any watch out you're spilling it who needs it anymore I told you you would be found this is 1953 the ship will come to us tomorrow I bet all right and we'll celebrate tomorrow you put the water down we've still got tonight tonight yeah tonight Keetman shut up then in a few minutes later left the galley then Mike went out too that's when I noticed that the galley knife wasn't there anymore you see got kind of choppy that night and I was sure restless wind started acting up began to rain looked like a storm was building then I heard the scream I ran out along the wet deck and stood outside the hold looking down into the blackness I couldn't see but I knew what it was Mike and Keetman and only one was going to come up only one Henry I I got the knife in him before he knew what happened Mike done we divide by two my love by two as it should be I've got to get into my cabin I'm getting all wet all the way yeah the ship will come to us today to us, to you and me the million and a half is ours I know Henry South of France or would you rather Italy whatever you want Henry anything yeah Cora my love I don't know why I did it I wasn't thinking about it I just did it all of a sudden I gave him a shove and he went right over the side I could see him in water just for a second his face whiter than ever and his eyes bugging out and then he was gone the storm lasted for days three, four I don't remember now and it tossed the ship I don't know how many which ways then the sky cleared up sun got all warm again been this way a couple of days now but I haven't seen the rescue ship water's gone fish too and I'm alone but like I say I'm rich I'm still good looking any of you can have me me and gold all you gotta do is come out and get me but please please come quick please come quick under the direction of Anthony Ellis escape has brought you the derelict adapted by Larry Roman from a story by Victor Schwartz and starring Charlotte Lawrence as Cora featured in the cast were Joseph Kearns as Keatman Ben Wright as Mike and Charlie Long as Luwaw the special music for escape is composed and conducted by Leith Stevens next week God deep in the forests of Africa while around you closing in on you of a dreaded Malmo who if you relax your God will kill you so listen next week when escape brings you John Daner's terrifying story Lily and the Colonel this coming Tuesday night mystery fans will want to stop listen and thrill to Mr. and Mrs. 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