 good evening friends of the inner sanctum this is your hope to welcome you through the squeaking door our cast assembled here in a highly unique manner tonight the angineau flew in the window did anyone whisper which window another nimble member of the cast crawled out of the studio woodwork this creep said that he simply loved popping up where he suspected oh unforgettable character meet him once they'll haunt you right to your grave but seriously every last one of them is really and truly wrapped up in his work like a shall we say a scorpion tonight's inner sanctum mystery hangman's island was written by John Robert and stars Mason Adams in the role of Regan with else with Eric as Wilma we're on an island somewhere off the Florida key hangman's island a bleak ruin of marge rubble and scotch pine trees it is sometime between night and morning cowering in the marsh crawling on all fours like a giant is a man ragged smeared with his own blood it is life slowly as the way he draws like a hunted animal with a calming voice of the hunter exploding in his brain I can hear you just one more hour and it will be more one more hour up there in the sky I can see a gold ball the sun burning up the night a gold I'm gonna get it all began the day I got the feeling that fat was about to dust me off part company that's had that little greedy gleam in his eye that spelled a secret bankroll I could tell he didn't want me around to help him count it yeah I could use fine who couldn't get hey you're not hinting you think I've got fire you've got that well fed look the last couple days lobster dinner look you're talking from hunger kid I've been bombing coffee and just like you hand me that necked iron step and I yeah Reagan why I haven't been thinking we haven't done so good teamed up our luck has been all bad so we ought to face up to it and part company huh yeah I was thinking that they're starting in the morning one of us ought to shove off go it alone sure no hard feeling no hard feeling fat had some swindled cooking and he wanted a hug I followed right behind him to a shack on the war that furnished cheap piano music and heaping plate of fish and ships I was right behind a paper thin partition watching fat and a blonde sitting over a lobster dinner the doll had hair as golden as anything in the mid he was the last day I'm in the world you'd expect to make a pitch for a rolly pulley that's so crock I didn't catch your name the other day go to lunch Wilma your mind made up a half what's the other half of you holding out for more on the line how much more the same slice in advance that's your friend down at the heel pan and learn you'll find another slice in this envelope how about the rest of the instruction find them written on this how long have I got today and you're finished we'll meet again that's was cooking a fancy dish all right early that night in the wormy room we shared I waited till fat's was asleep I had to find things out fast before daylight brushed me out of his life once was pockets that's had a bank all right more dull than he'd ever seen outside of his dreams $10,000 yellow back gold most the kind of treasury called in back in the 30s and all soiled and damp like they've been buried in another pocket I found the note the girl is it was a map of an island drawn by hand like a treasure map with arrows leading in from a beach and pointing to what looked like a cave somewhere in the middle of the map red Hinkley's Island a treasure map right out of a kid's storybook there was a big star over the last arrow where the cave showed a star that yelled pot of gold I mean so loud my pulse jumping made enough noise to wake and fat's out of dream man but he's still be around my clothes for what's the gun for oh double crossing roll up blubber so you were thinking one of us ought to shove off in the morning I was joking kid one of us will shove off just one of us kid don't be fooled you don't know what it's about I can read map to and I can cut off gold back Reagan it's not your kind of a pitch this isn't petty last me something small time what's the pillow for but you're going to do yes we can don't we'll go together I'll split the roll with you I'll go fat I couldn't trust you alive I could feel the war to blow out of him like escaping steam and then he grew cool door then rode across crocodile Creek and in the Everglades I dumped him I did not to wait him down or worry that he might float to the mainland and be discovered not a chance not in crocodile Creek I read the map again Hinkley's Island four miles out in the ocean made my way to a boat landing I wanted to go after the money at once it had to be hidden treasure what else I wasn't beating my brains out figuring what were the exact terms of pockets deal with the blonde or what else lay behind I still hot the boat landing the ocean was acting up sign read Peterson's boats for higher day or week by not for Peter's yes want to rent a motorboat tonight tonight my skin I'll cover the liability where you figure it on it Hinkley's Island hangman I said Hinkley's Island what made you say hangman's Island because that's its name as we know it what would a young fella like yourself be wanting with Hinkley why is he poison rather brand of the devil Hinkley now you've got me it's exactly who is Hinkley Hinkley used to be a public executioner hangman somewhere in the islands 5000 gold every time Hinkley threw the trap and send a man swinging to eternity how do you come to settle on the island and bought it retired to it 20 years ago by the young bride in the islands to settle there with him nobody's seen hide the hair of the bride ever since that first day 20 years ago anybody around here ever seen hangman not the easiest with your life to try Hinkley's got barbed wire all around it they trick voltage it'd burn you to a crisp if you touched crack pie hermit you you can have your money back lands drier and safer I said I wanted to rent a boat a victim motorboat off Peterson's Wharf headed for hangman's Island the seas were calmer and the lightning had quit as if someone had pulled a master switch the midnight moon was peeping through I covered the four miles to the island straight as an arrow and ran the motorboat up on a sandbar that opened into a short rocky beach I'd company on the sandbar another boat I got the map out to figure my course when I sound like the death cry of an animal broke the air it was a human cry a man I looked following the direction of the screen and then in the distance outlined high against the sky a man was hanging from a tree with a crossbar that looked like a gallows he was hanging by one foot face down I started forward toward him before I could stop to take it for the idea friend you're having a chance in the world of reaching him who are you Burnside Lieutenant Burnside of the Coast Guard without a uniform it's still Lieutenant Burnside of the Coast Guard did you mean I haven't got a chance of reaching them the island is a big booby trap you got to get through electrified barbed wire to get anywhere get through the barbed wire and you still got to get by delayed action bombs it'll blow you to smithereens and quick sands cleverly covered over and camouflage and lime bits that would eat you alive he dropped into one Maca boy there walked into one of the simpler devices steel jawed animal trapped it swung him in the midair hanging by one heel who is Maca boy he's my sidekick I mean was you get stranded on that sandbar yeah yeah I lost my bearings and ran up on that map you were reading a minute ago let's let's see it maybe I can set you back on your course how do you know it was a map I guess shaking your head I'm doing more than shaking my head I see you mean to shoot that gun if I don't get some straight talk and fast okay straight talk that map you're carrying what if I told you the map is the biggest booby trap of all I'd laugh out loud the girl palmed off a similar map on a couple of characters a month ago in Key West they run at a boat in school for Hangman's Island and and what that's all they never came back you'll probably run into them in one of the lime bits or under their quicksand Tucker don't believe me huh still shaking your head I've got goldbacks mister a pocket full of missus you're just trying to scare me off the goldbacks of the bait the girl snitched them from Hinkley saving why would she bother just to give him away some insanity of hers let's just say that the golden-haired siren baits men to their murder for reasons of her own you um still pushing ahead I still want to know who you really are mr. Burnside still Lieutenant Burnside of the Coast Guard we've been watching the girl we came here to arrest Hinkley for the murder of those two men who never returned them once the girl I'll let Hinkley identify me stay where you are no tricks Burnside or I'll shoot just this rock I'll hit one of those wires and start the bell ringing how was it? Lieutenant Burnside this is Hinkley your man hanged by a heel head down strangled by his own blood rushing to his head ha ha ha ha ha see your next Burnside believe me now sure crazy I believe it then give it up and don't hamper me I've got enough to do have tangling with Hinkley put your gun down no I'm in it for the whole ride how far can you get right to the star on that map okay Burnside turn around you're regretting I might regret giving you a break but turn around Burnside fell like a slaughtered ox somehow I didn't have the heart to drill him it was one murder I wasn't up to he'd be out cold stay put until I worked my way to the cave on the map luck lady luck couldn't give me the horse lap not after what I done chasing her she couldn't she stayed with me as if I was somebody special I pass an arrow marker on the map an inch closer to the cave and the landmine had blow a shower of sand and rock into the air just 20 yards away maybe 30 but I stayed alive and unhurt like I was brushed live wise and started bells ringing in a jangling chorus but I pushed on like a foot soldier crossing no man's land inch inch yard I made it on my hands and knees I made the cave only it wasn't a cave really it had a heavy door with polished brass fittings tooled into an opening near a yellow light shown from a square little window it looked like a like a mausoleum where the dead were put to rest I went in with my gun drawn it was a mausoleum casket and all sitting solemnly in mourning clothes like a high priestess of the black arts with the golden girl Wilma you or is he that one I'm reagan subject to any objection not if you have the steel at me I have the steel I'm here in the cave with all the booby traps I'm right here yes you have the steel for the job job what do you mean job you don't know not exactly I guess that Hinkley has a fortune hidden the gold horde maybe and you're betting he loses it to whoever has a steel to take from you made that kind of a deal with joke your guess is so funny who is no gold horde come again I said there's no gold no fortune all you'll get is what I pay look sister don't play cat and moss with me I killed a man I crawled here in my hands on my knees I'm covered with blood and sweat I follow that map I died with every arrow now I'm here at the end of the rainbow I can't help what you imagine I imagine the pot of gold imagine a pot of gold in my brain radio back story and go to it boy where does the loony hermit keep the gold right here in this cave just like the star in the map show that they're not that good is it why not see for yourself sure sure I'll see for myself what do you see you're in there lying with her arms forwarded on your chest dead is it me or the exact image face bigger size beautiful and the hair we golden like yours as golden as anything in the men there's your gold rig and just that no more what kind of crazy who is she was my mother she's not a day older than you just carefully preserved she died is exactly my age now the idea was it preserving like she's his Hagan got it he pretends she's alive ages but she never really died and you you're think we've got it and you you hate him yeah I hate him Coast Guard another beach said you were a siren luring men to their death wrong I lure men here to kill him you'll have to kill him now he knows you're here he's overheard our whole talk this cave is wired and Hinkley listens so if you want to live want to escape hangman's island alive you'll have to kill where you going well we'll come back you can't go well I don't know my nose she disappeared as if she pulled it through the walls I'd have to kill Hinkley I didn't have any choice if I wanted to escape I'd have to kill Hinkley I was in the devil's backyard all right my old Peters and it said I tried to crawl back to the beach infantry style of my hand you need luck the lady luck was more you couldn't desert me now not now the bullet got me right in the stomach a rifle shot from somewhere I couldn't fight my boy it got you you cry out freaking get in inch inch it seemed the hours I passed a hat sitting on the edge of a lime pit just a heart whoever owned it had tumbled in there must be some place to escape some place to go off my 30 yards away the whirling dust cake my clothes chips of flying rock get me in the bay just one more hour one more two shots in the scream a death cry like a boy screaming the trap swung them into the tree that looked like a gal I looked up over the island there was an old man Hinkley he had to be Hinkley hang by a hill face downward it was Hinkley no gold what a story a crazy hammered booby trap the gallows quicksand the morselium a blonde witch an informant tells me that Dracula was scheduled to appear on page 25 but the author to a lime pill at page 24 moral there's some jittery Joe want me to hang out a homely hint on how to keep from going cold when bitten by the gold bug don't yell Eureka be cautious place safe you'll have good 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