 All aboard for the transcribed premiere production, The Cruise of the Paul Parrot. It's time to continue that exciting story of the sea and wailing days aboard the Good Ship Paul Parrot on its return voyage after two years of adventure and treasure hunting away from its home port of New Bedford. When we last heard from our friends Johnny, Sue, Dickon, Captain Dalton, Ezra Grange and Paul Parrot himself, they were beached on an unknown island somewhere in the South Atlantic when the Good Ship Paul Parrot was washed ashore during a terrific storm. The squall struck just as Captain Karsh, the skipper of a privateer vessel, and his crew overpowered the Paul Parrot's crew and were about to take charge in an effort to find the hidden diamonds our friends discovered on Galto Island quite some time ago. After the Paul Parrot was wrecked upon the beach, Captain Dalton told Karsh to take his men and stay on the other side of the island. Karsh demanded that his fiancee Annabelle Wilson accompany him, but having just found out the true character of Karsh, she refuses. At that moment an arrow strikes in a tree barely missing Captain Dalton, which leads them to believe there is a band of South American Indians on the island. Karsh has left for the other side of the island, and Captain Dalton and some of his men go in search of the person or persons responsible for the arrow almost hitting them. Dickon and Mr. Grange have stayed behind with Johnny, Sue, and Annabelle Wilson on the beach, and as we see them now, Grange is speaking with Miss Wilson. I'm mighty sorry for you, Miss Wilson. It must be quite a shock to discover the man you care for and intended to marry turns out to be such a rascal as Karsh. Don't feel sorry for me, Mr. Grange. I consider myself very fortunate to find out all about him. If I'd married him, it would have been too late. Well, you're right there, but you're taking it mighty bravely. Well, after seeing how brave you and your Captain Dalton and little Johnny and Sue here are, I realize there's no other way to be. I shall try to be just as brave. Only I hope I'll rescue from this island before I begin to lose my nerve. You don't have to be afraid, Miss Annabelle. You have us all to look after you. And look after you we will. Karsh will not harm you while we're here. I can assure you. It's not Bruno Karsh, I fear. It's the natives on this island, whoever they may be. Well, don't worry about them. Captain Dalton and his men will see to them. Unless... Unless what, Sue? Unless there are too many natives on this island. I don't believe that possible. We must be miles away from any great number of people. Oh, I hope Captain Dalton and his men return soon. They've been gone for hours. Oh, they'll be. Oh, there they are now. You see? Way down the beach there. Oh, I... What's the matter? Captain Dalton is not with them. No, he isn't. But I suppose he's lagging behind for some reason or other. He'll be along soon. Mr. Grange, I feel as if something happened to Captain Dalton. Nonsense. We'll soon find out. Mr. Wainwright and his men are running this way. Mr. Grange! Mr. Grange! What's up, man? You're white as a sheep. You look like you've seen a ghost. I worse than that, sir, we... Guns and hares happened to Captain Dalton. I must blow me down. Something has happened. Out with it, man. What is it? If I only knew, sir, but I don't, there's something on this island that ain't human it ain't. Oh, Mr. Grange, I knew it. I knew it. Rubbish. What are you talking about, Mr. Wainwright? Oh, help me, Mr. Grange. I'm not one to let my imagination run away with me. I've saved the seven seas a dozen times and more. I've seen the fakers of India perform the tricks of Hindu magic. I've seen witch doctors of the South Sea Islands cast their blooming spells I have, and it ain't phased me in the lease or it hasn't. But fell me a deck with a baleen pin. When a man least weighs your own captain, disappears before your own eyes. Well, less me to a yard arm, sir. It's too much. Mr. Wainwright, the excitement of the past few days is evidently having its effect on you. Now stop this chattering and tell us what happened. And none of this foolishness about someone disappearing in thin air. There's no sense to it. I know, sir. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't. But it's true. And I tell you, sir, there's something uncanny about it all. Wainwright, if something has happened to Captain Dalton, we've just got to find him. But you must pull yourself together and tell us just what did happen. Well, sir, when we left here, we started out in the direction from where that blooming arrow came when it stuck in the tree there. We beat our way along a small path that led us directly into the jungle that most likely covers the entire center part of this year Island. We searched carefully as well as we could, sir. But not a sight of anything or any one could we see. Where was Captain Dalton all this time? The Captain was a short distance ahead of us. When the men in me hauled sails and stopped short, as we hear a sound what sounds like groaning in the underbrush. We rushed into the underbrush to see where the sound was coming from. We did. And we soon found out what it was, sir. Just an old owl. It stood blinking at us. That's right, Mr. Grange. And when we returned to the path, Captain Dalton was gone, sir. But he may have gone ahead. No, sir, he didn't. We called to him, but he didn't answer. He wouldn't have had time to get very far, so we called again. No answer again. We searched and searched, and no trace of him could we find. Not even a footprint. His footprints just seemed to stop. Like I'm telling you, Captain Dalton just disappeared into thin air. Aye, it's a truth, Mr. Wainwright saying. Something got the Captain. And whatever it was, it was a new man. Oh, I knew something happened to Captain Dalton. I knew it. Lash me to a yard, I'm sir. I'd rather have gone down with a good old pal parrot than try to hook up with something you can't see. Blimey, if I wouldn't. Mr. Grange, I'm frightened. Look here now. We must keep our wits about this thing. We've got to find Captain Dalton, so I'm taking charge. Wainwright? Aye, sir. Captain Dalton puts left of our crew, an old Deccan. He's down looking over the old parrot to see what has to be done to put her in repairs. We'll search for Captain Dalton, but we won't take any chances. So we'll all stay together until we find him. Aye, aye, sir. At that it may have been better to allow Carsonese men to stay with us. We'd have more men, then, and we'd stand a better chance. I'm sure we can make out without them, Mr. Grange. I hope so, yet I can't help but think that if we had let them stay... Johnny, do you suppose Bruno Carson, his man, had anything to do with Captain Dalton's disappearing? I don't think so. They went in the opposite direction to the path Captain Dalton took through the jungle. Still, I'm not so sure. I wouldn't put it past him. You know how he hates Captain Dalton, especially for knocking him down like the Captain did a perfect Paul Parrot. What I'll bet right now, if he isn't the one who captured Captain Dalton, he's most likely plotting to do something so he can get Miss Annabelle Beck and those diamonds. Last decide, Bryony. I'll settle matters with that Captain Dalton if it takes me to my dying days. He's as smooth as he is. What's helped me? He laid you low for fair, he did. Hold your lip, you bloomin' hookaharm. Or you'll know what's good for you. You ain't scaring me none, you bloomin' barnacle. Now listen here, Bryony. I am still your Captain, and you'll not talk to me like this. Captain of what? Cast away like we'd be here on this island without a ship and you still want to be Captain. Blimey, that's good it is. Ratchet, you swab. I'd tear your part, I would, with my bare hands before one thing. Aye, and you know what that one thing is. Bryony, Bryony, keep that hookaharm to yours away from me. Keep it away. I wouldn't use it on you, me pet. It's just to remind you we be on even keel now we be. Besides, I'm a-willing to work with you. But remember, on even keel. All right, Bryony. I need you. You're my first mate, you are. A captain's got to have a first mate. I was your first mate. I'm skipper and I'll same as you. Remember, even keel, says I. All right, all right. Now listen. There are two things Dalton's got what we want. Aye, you betrothed Annabelle. And a swagger diamond. You're right. Annabelle and those diamonds. Somehow we'll get them both. I'll have my Annabelle back and we'll spit the diamonds. You'll have your Annabelle and I'll take the diamonds. Why, bless you. Even keel. Remember, even keel. Seems like we've been walking for hours through this jungle and still no sight of Captain Dalton. It seems like ours, Sue, but it hasn't been very long. Wainwright, how far are we from where Captain Dalton disappeared? Not far, sir. We're almost there now. If we don't find Captain Dalton, at least I hope we come to some kind of a clearing so we can pitch camp. From the looks of it, sir, I don't think there's a clearing for miles. Ah, Keerney! Well, you're as blind as a bat, ya. Mr. Grange, here's the spot. Wait there, Mr. Wainwright. We'll be right with you. Just as I told you, sir, here is where Captain Dalton's footprints stop. No, me down, sir. They don't go anywhere. That does seem to be right. But why? How? So help me, it's past all right thinking it is. Johnny, how could that be? How could anyone's footprints come to a stop like that and then go nowhere at all? I'm thinking of that myself, Sue. Now, how could that happen? Wait a minute. What, Johnny? What's wrong, lad? Nothing's wrong. I think I've got the right answer. Johnny, what are you getting at? Mr. Grange, Captain Dalton's footprints stop here, don't they? That's right. Mr. Wainwright says these are Captain Dalton's tracks. And if the tracks don't go ahead, and you see they haven't gone to either side, and then if he had retraced his steps, you could see the shoe prints going in the opposite direction, couldn't you? That's right. But what are you getting at, lad? There's only one other way he could go. Weird, Johnny. Straight up. Johnny, lad, you've hit it. You've hit it. Someone in that tree up there could have dropped a rope around Captain Dalton and pulled him up from the ground. Yes. And the way those vines hang from the trees, they could have swung from tree to tree without ever coming back down to the ground. That looks like the plausible answer, all right. Where did that arrow come from? From above in that... Good lord. Savages. What a spot for Johnny and Sue and all our friends to be in. Right in the middle of a jungle island, savages all around them threatening. And not to forget Captain Karsh and Briney plotting against them. And where is Captain Dalton? Is he alive? Is he held captive? What are Johnny, Sue, Mr. Grange, Dickon, and the rest going to do to get out of this tight spot? Well, they've been in many tight spots before, and they always manage to get out of them. But then they had Captain Dalton with them before. Now they don't even know where he is. Something's bound to happen soon, so don't fail to be with us when we continue with another transcribed episode on the Cruise of the Paul Parrot. Until then, this is your Paul Parrot announcer, Dave Ward, saying goodbye.