 You Finding life Robert Dell Dreaming again of exotic places Wishing you were somewhere else We offer you escape Escape with us now to England and the story of an innocent man caught up in a murderous web of international intrigue As Jeffrey household tells it in his exciting new novel a rough shoot Yet it happened on an autumn evening so silent and peaceful that no one could have a thought of human violence and Now I was walking home from mr. Blossom's farm in Dorset on which I had rented the hunting rights be rough shooting for the season As I approached our house where my wife and children were waiting supper I took a last anxious look back over my shoulder across the meadow dotted with clumps of thorn gorse and bramble Stretching away until it vanished in a mist of gray and green and Then I hurried on into the house glad for its cozy warmth and feeling of security I'm sorry Well, where are the boys? You must be starved. I'm afraid I'm not hungry what I need the spotter whiskey What's the matter? I don't quite know how to tell you my dear What is it well I'm out there on the shoot That's just a little while ago Roger what happened? Cecilia I Can hardly believe it myself now Tell me what happened. I killed a man It's true. I killed a man and then I threw his body in the sump It's true Listen to me Cecily you see I was walking back from mr. Blossom's farm and I saw three men bending over something by a hedge I thought they might be poachers So I started towards them when a cock peasant suddenly flew up in front of them and then One of the men shot it with an air pistol Well, they well it made me angry and I lost my head This is if they were poachers. I wanted to teach them a lesson to frighten them So I I let one of them have a charge of bird shot in the seat of the pants and Then he fell forward onto the ground and he lay there kicking for a moment and then Then he was still I Ran up to him. I turned him over and I found that he'd fallen onto a sharp spike that he'd been working with Roger Was driven into his head It killed him It was an accident. Yes, I know it was but no one will believe it now Because I've hidden his body under 10 feet of water in the sump Why did you do that? I don't know why Cecily. I don't know why I did it. I just lost my head that's all Roger You said there was three men there. Yes What became of the others? What that that's the strangest thing of all Cecily when he fell they turned and ran I don't know why I can't tell the police Mr. Blossom will go to them It happened on his farm He'll go. No Blossom doesn't know about it. Surely he'll find out. No one will find out That is Not until the body is discovered What about his friends the men who saw it would certainly is if those two men were going to the police they'd have stayed to identify me But they ran away instead. Don't you see for some reason they didn't want me to identify them They were poachers. Oh, no, no, they weren't poachers. I'm sure of that. Then what were they doing there? I don't know my dear, but For my own protection, I'd better find out How? The only thing I can do is to go back there and see what I can discover. Oh, that would be rather dangerous. Well, it would be more dangerous not to find out Yes, perhaps it would But do be careful Roger. Yes, of course my dear Of course I shall I went to a garage in town I went to the bicycle and I peddled out to the back acres of Mr. Blossom's farm I had to wear only a couple of hours ago. I had killed a man It was a gusty night The trees along the road were enveloped in mist and creaked and whispered in the wind. I Came to the great hedgerow with thorn and holly A rattle of whose branches and dying leaves made enough noise to cover the sound of my approach And there I stopped and looked about into the milky and uneasy world that surrounded me And suddenly parked on the road ahead. I saw a motorcycle and sidecar. I left my bicycle I crept down the road past the motorcycle staying close to the hedgerow Here he is all right to come up I raced back down the road still gripping the shovel I'd snatched from the man who would attack me When I reached their motorcycle I stopped up long enough to slash the exposed delicate wiring of the engine with a shovel and then ran on A few minutes later I was pedaling furiously home Next morning after seeing Cecily and the boys off to church in the village I decided to go straight to Mr. Blossom's farm Avoiding for the present and investigation of the scene of the hedgerow I thought it best to see if I could discover anything from Blossom before exposing myself further As I approached the farmhouse I noticed a big shiny limousine parked out by the barn and Mr. Blossom in the yard talking to his landlord Robert Hain Hassingham I would have preferred avoiding Hassingham on that particular morning But they'd already seen me and so I walked on and into the yard I've seen everyone about these premises who's new around here and I've just crossed Mr. Blossom I was just wondering government know very strict about poachers Ah This morning, Colonel Hain. Good morning, Hassingham Mr. Blossom Good morning, sir Oh, I've just been protecting your hunting rights What do you mean? Protecting them Some poachers about How do you know that? Ah, one of the men, man who saw them, he came to me Well, now he shouldn't be bothering you with that I don't understand why a man who saw someone poaching on my hunting preserve wouldn't come to me Perhaps he tried, perhaps he couldn't find you Who was he? Haven't any idea, never saw him before in my life, Colonel Hain Mr. Hain, if you don't mind, or just Hain, I'm not fussy, but not Colonel I'm only a military man in case of war Your military heritage is something you can't ever cast aside, Hain If you're trying to recruit me for your people's union organization, you might just as well forget it Many of your fellow officers are in it, Hain I doubt it there are very many All right, all right A few But we don't want everyone I don't like your outfit, Hassingham It's too exclusive for my taste Dispiminating the word Fanatical is a better one And perhaps fascistic is the best of all We are not a political organization Well, I still don't like it You'll come around, Hain You'll have to come around I'll have to You're not talking to one of your hirelings, Hassingham No, Hassingham, we must get back to town before 10 This is an in a moment hired Of course, Hain, we shouldn't argue Men like ourselves whose basic interests are so close Are they? Colonel Hain, this is Mr. Hyatt Mr. Hyatt? Well, yes Nothing unusual about that It was the mister I wondered about How so? Are you an executive in the People's Union? Yes Why? I thought all executives were officers in your organization But I am a kind of officer, Mr. Thien What kind? Security Intelligence work? In a way A sort of super policeman? Sort of You see, Hain, we have men of varied abilities in our organization Hassingham, we'll be late for the meeting Ah, yes, yes, of course You're right Oh, by the way, Mr. Thien You ever go shooting in the early evening? What? I... Oh, I know, of course not That's odd Why? Why should it be odd that I don't shoot in the early evening? Last evening someone was shooting on your game preserves Well, what of it? It happens all the time What are you trying to imply, Hyatt? Why nothing, sir, but it seems curious that a man who loves to shoot wouldn't be interested in who poached on his own grounds Good day, sir As I walked back across Plusson's farm across the great expanses of close rabbit turf dotted with dense thickets of bramble it seemed more and more clear that Hassingham's and Hyatt's questioning of me about the previous night shooting meant only one thing They were somehow involved with the man I had killed And then it suddenly occurred to me that theirs was not a personal interest but that the people's union was mixed up in all this I wished more than ever that I had gone to the police immediately They head up near here, suddenly dashed out of a ticket and scampered away across the water Stay where you are What? You are a foolish man, Mr. Thien What do you want? You're an amateur, I've intrigued Mr. Thien You are no competition for Hassingham Are you a friend of Hassingham? He would like me to be Or rather once he would have liked me to be Hyatt? Hyatt needs no one, he is evil unto himself You're a German I was German Then you mean you're a Nazi? Ah, the loyal Englishman who never forgets a war Perhaps I can You're a bungler Your English bungling delayed my plans How stupid to shoot at one click One click? Yes, you're bungled into killing a man you don't even know That is terrible luck, my friend I'm not your friend nor are you my enemy Do you know why? Because I don't care about you I don't care whether you live or die After we have served each other's purposes Arthur Who are you? Mordell General Mordell A general without an army The most useless of all useless things Mordell I will refresh your memory I was part of the Nazi general staff There was a point in the war where some of us As some generals who had put Hitler into power Decided his leadership was no longer useful He could have led us to victory But he was leading us to defeat Worse, to total destruction Oh yes, yes, Mordell The Nazi general staff Correct Yes, they said you were dead They said all of us who failed to kill Hitler were dead And it was true except the one for this one, for me I want nothing to do with you Listen, my dear fellow Three former friends killed my family After I failed in the bomb plot Three good staff officers Since then I've had but one mission in life To kill them I waited To our gun The last one was due to land here on a plane until Do you want a plane? In this field? There's a strip a plane can land on About a hundred yards west of us Funclic was helping to install one of the radio beacons Though used to guide the plane in When you shot him and upset everything Now I want your help It's ridiculous When you shot Funclic and threw his body in the sump You committed yourself to helping me I'll have nothing to do with you or your plans Mordell never has a choice It was an accident Which has become a murder How do you know that I won't kill you? Because you need me No matter how vehemently you protest the association Because I can help you What could you possibly do to help me? I can get evidence against Hassingham and Hyatt Which can destroy them On what basis? The People's Union The People's Union? That's a farce No one cares about it No It is more powerful than you think Exposing it can set you free Victoria who will arrive on the plane in this field He will carry a portfolio And what will be in the portfolio? Nation You might use to convict these men of sedition Sedition? Are you implying a fascist coup? Why, that's ridiculous indeed Precisely why it is possible And assuming what you say to be true It is true Assuming that I believe that Assuming that People's Union think I stumbled under something last night And may either testify against me or kill me They will Unless you help me What must I do? Kill the courier? No I will do that You will merely be my accomplice We will return to escape and today's story a rough chute in just a moment Edmund O'Brien stars as yours truly Johnny Dollar Radio's most expensive, exciting insurance sleuth Johnny Dollar writes up the fanciest expense accounts and while he's doing it He takes his listeners along on thrilling unusual insurance investigations Of arson, robbery and murder Every Wednesday night listen in over CBS radio as Johnny Dollar totes up his swindle sheet While he treats you to action and mystery galore Yours truly Johnny Dollar will be in action later tonight on most of these same stations And now back to escape That's such an understanding wife you have pain Never forces a husband to do anything he does not want to do I had a wife once and children They killed my family because they couldn't find me Nothing moves you got it nothing no compassion for the outcast You created your own monster and it destroyed you Now what made you do it? Exactly no one you're right I do not seek pity nor do I give it The German general staff created Hitler and part of the staff eventually changed its mind Falling out of peace Don't worry mrs. Payne your husband and I cannot have a falling out We are not bound together by loyalty. We have more powerful motivations I revenge your husband fear fear and revenge All your life fear and revenge Don't you think you're good hasingham and high art function the same way Hasingham's a fool come to his senses soon never You don't understand the British mind do you? I understand the fascist mind Getting dark shall we go to the field? Roger that's all right my dear What a shame it would be if we were to fail and hasingham was a success Your wife and children would be left alone You're a cruel A vengeful man as the courier would discover when he lands I don't worry my dear it will be all right The ex-soldier speaks in all his bravery Come then As we had for the last three nights we approached the landing strip from the woods The whole affair seemed fantastic For three nights Mordell and I had hidden at the north end of the landing strip And waited for the plane to arrive In spite of myself I was going impatient Wait what is it? The men they're waiting down the galley And then the plane must be due tonight Yes it will be tonight Come you may not have much time Well perhaps we don't have time for anything We must move the radio beacons We can't move both of them Those men are too close to the south beacon But if we move the north beacon just that one it would bring the plane right to us Well if it comes in from the south But if it comes in from the north it will stop in front of us We must take that chance We were close enough to recognize Hyatt sports He was talking to the other men We couldn't catch what they were saying So we began to make our waves slowly from thicket to thicket Causing Waiting for us to see if we've been detected Finally we came to the radio beacon It was larger than a wireless set and would require both of us to carry it We took it and as quiet as possible carried it to the far end of the field Near the woods and set it up on its spiked legs Then we stepped back into the trees and waited Mordell pulled something from this bucket It won't be long now What do you have there An automatic pistol English make I prefer them Didn't you bring one thing? No of course not Of course not Why of course not Oh why I don't know I haven't carried one since the war Certainly you couldn't conceivably think of killing anyone except in a war Then you really are going to kill that man on the plane That has been obvious since our first conversation You're determined to kill him If he's the man I'm looking for and I'm certainly is The minute he steps off the plane Oh no I'll wait He must know it is I Mordell who is killing him I must first remind him of many things You must Mordell Yes I'm going to turn myself into the police By all means I don't need you any longer I can't Well why don't you go I'm not going to have any part of this murder You're going to throw yourself on the mercy of the court There is so justice in the court Not if two such estimable gentlemen as Hyatt and Hassingham testify against you You have enough to claim it's coming in And it's coming in from the south Now Now Lower Lower He's coming to Abhikan He must Your last chance came coming Your last chance came coming Yes Yes I'm coming You there In the plane Hurry don't stand there follow us Where is it? On Greek is it you? We can talk in the woods Jump from the plane There we are It is to the police Hurry We've got the pilot to go now Can I see your face? Quickly Hey get that plane out of here Eric Yes All right for a nurse Into the woods Yes it's on time Be silent Lux Hassingham and the others ran up In the wrong direction But his gun Mordell prodded the reluctant Lux Deeper into the woods And then stopped It has been six years Lux I did what was ordered I tried to stop it But everyone who was a friend of yours was suspect Everyone It had to be done My good friend Lux My old comrade in arms Lux The murder of my family Lux I didn't realize it was once done I was only there Mordell That's a lie That's true Don't understand You had failed And if we followed your example If we turned down the fuel also There wouldn't have been anyone left to prepare Oh what for? Defeat for destruction What preparation was needed? No no no no no to prepare for afterwards Here look look in this briefcase A list of names Made all over the world Still ready to help strong men Important men Hey dear Mordell Look Mordell In the briefcase Step back then Throw it to me Lux Let me see it Stay I hoped you I have helped my part of the bargain It was no bargain at all You had no choice Now Lux What was this about preparing for afterwards? Yes yes prepare We had to protect the staff Hitler himself meant nothing any longer But we needed time to make plans to protect the staff A lot your preparations did That's why you're wrong Mordell wrong We did well You live in the past to defeat We are not defeated Little by little we come back Little by little we take over important work Big work An illusion Like the illusion we all had once The illusion of the defeated Our Colonel Hussingham and he aren't illusions This is the same idiot song you sing No Mordell Don't you see There is no past for us No murdered wife No murdered children looks No past all forgotten man This had to be done I had to go along with the others You outdid the others You can't The past it's over We all did our duty Still friend good friend Don't do it Don't try to interfere This is England it's not Nazi Germany Be silent Licks Mordell you'll never get out of England alive The police who The argument is over No more talk For my wife Mordell For my daughter Luke For my son Luke Hussingham You'll kill us Follow me through here I am not meant to run Is me the briefcase then No no no I will go Take time to fire back I can hardly Hardly move Mordell Mordell I'm hit I'm hit Then for me The briefcase Give it to me Enough Let go of the briefcase I crept quietly to the edge of the woods And then ran as I have never run before It was raining when I reached the village And as I walked through the deserted streets Towards the familiar blue light That flowed over the entrance to the constabulary I wondered if the police would believe The incredible story they were about to hear And then I remembered the briefcase under my arm With its documents And its proof Sergeant My name is Roger Tain Four nights ago I shot a man You'll find his body in the sun from Mr. Blossom's palm Under the direction of Norman McDonnell Escape has brought you a rough shoot by Jeffrey Hussle Especially adapted for radio by Arthur Ross And starring Ben Wright Featured in the cast were John Boehner, Stan Waxman Mary Lansing, Howard McNeer, Larry Dubkin And Lou Krugman The special music for Escape Is composed and conducted by Leith Stevens Escape with us to New Guinea And the story of a man who is to die at the hands of Papuan cannibals The second his watch stops ticking As Hugh Cave tells it in his unusual tale The silent horror The meanest crooks who deliberately trap teenagers into a life of crime Those are targets for tomorrow night When Agent Shepard and the FBI in peace and war Tackle first offense specialists In a manhunt packed with action as well as human interest Don't miss CBS radio startling FBI in peace and war program Tomorrow evening on most of these same stations For thrilling inside into rackets and racket smashing This is Roy Rowan speaking This is the CBS radio network