 Good evening, friend. This is your house to welcome you through the creaking door into the inner sanctum. Another gamble of ghoulish going on. Come in, come in, we're celebrating an anniversary here tonight. Our pet vampires, Oscar and Bertha, have been dead just a hundred years. There's such a devoted couple, with them it was love at first sight. In all their years of unholy wedlock, they've argued only once, over the training of their backward son, Abner. Oscar blames the little vampire's shyness on Bertha. She kept insisting that Abner was much too young to be taught these facts instead. There you should see the new home that Oscar just dug for his family, complete with hot and cold running victims. Tonight's Inner Sanctum Mystery, Beautiful Voyage, was written by Ed Adamson and Robert Sloan, and stars Arnold Moss and the role of Steve, with Elspeth Eric as reader. All right, folks. Set for another saga in the Sanguinary. Well, make yourself comfortable. Sit right next to me. Here, in this coffin. And don't worry about the price of the seat. There's no cover, Charles. Now let's get to the story, as it's told to us by Steve Chappell. The fishing boat fondly is on the reef. It's wooden sides crying out against the punishment of the lashing waves. And there on the deck of the dying ship, the lone fisherman faces the relentless fury of the elements. She won't. She just stands on that rock and just stands at them. She wants me to be your dead. It was only two days ago. And on tackling, he could smell out of school and please you a hundred miles away. In good shape, Steve. All right, Johnny. Carlos, how about the supplies? Or it's not below, Steve. This time I bring extra. See, we'll lose six or seven hours. Well, we'll make it up, Johnny. I'm dropping Reid off at Goldwater. She's going to stay with her sister while we're out. No, Steve, you're not doing that. What are you talking about? A woman on boat. It is bad luck. Yeah, but Reid is my wife. Make no difference. It's bad thing, Steve, to bring a woman on fishing boat. This I know. And to bring much bad luck. Listen to him, will you, Johnny? That's an old fishing superstar. Please, Steve, you hear what I say. Please. It is true. You're a seven-year-old. Oh, you make fun, but it is true, I say. Come on, Carlos. I'm not drinking, Johnny, yet. If you bring life, then Carlos does not go. Carlos does not go. We'll be back today. So if you bring woman on this boat. I wasn't kidding. Carlos was too good a hand of loot. I was down in the cabin when Reid came on towards. He stood in the doorway holding us. Every time I looked at Reid, I was seeing her for the first time. She was always new and more beautiful than ever. Young, alive. That's why I tried so hard to hold on to her. What are you looking at? You. Just you, Reid. What's wrong with it? Wrong. You're about perfect. Oh, that's going to take my bag. Come on, let's boat the Goldwater. He won't sail with me if you come aboard. He says it's bad luck to have a woman aboard. Now, I know what it sounds for. Okay. A sister in Goldwater like you promised. Stop it. Will you let me alone with that promising business? Well, Reid, it's only because I love you so much. Yeah. I just want to get you out of this town while I'm away. I know you're young. I know it's no fun waiting week on those dances. Well, don't blame me. That's nice of you. Real nice. What'd you expect me to do? Sit home and knit? Well, it's just that I don't want you to meet someone else who might go with you. Lookie. That time I told you something. I did meet someone. I know, Reid. Huh? That's why I asked you to go to your sister's. Don't do any good. I wasn't going to stay in Goldwater anyway. I won't be around when you get back to me. Don't read the bookies. No, no, no, no. Let it go. Not really. You gotta wait. You're always grabbing. Make my stop. I promise you I'll give up fishing. This will be my last trip. I promise you I gotta wait. Wait! I wouldn't wait another two minutes. I always hated you. The first time you put those hands of yours on me, I only married you because I needed somebody to take care of me. Oh, no, no. What do you think I married you for? Did you lie and look at yourself in the mirror? A good look? Then she slumped to the floor. I stood over her. I killed her. But I didn't mean to. I loved her, but they're looking down on her. And then I heard the whistling. Carlos and Johnny will come. It's just as Carlos and Johnny come down the stairs. She does not come with us, Steve. No, Carlos. It's better that way. Maybe it is. It's safe. There's two suitcase over there. That's Reader's, isn't it? Ah, she forgot it, maybe. I'll bring it to her right now. Oh, no, no, no. Wait, wait, wait. She's shoving her up right now. What, a bag of rips? She, uh, she brought some stuff down for me, some things I forgot. Get the motor started, Johnny. Oh, OK, Skepper. Carlos, what are you standing there for? I didn't leave my cabin. I didn't sleep. I just sat there for hours. My eyes fixed on a chest. I wanted to open it and look at her again. But I... Hey, I was shot, Steve. Well, fix it, Johnny. I can't. Power supplies burn out. It's the funny thing about that. I put a new condenser in there before yesterday. A brand new one. It's funny. For no reason it should burn out. It's never a superstitious man, but the cues are things like that. And that was only the first. Johnny, sir, I should show it to you. Why? Well, look at it. We are headed north. But the needle points this way. Oh, no. Now you see. You break twice. But there was something Carlos didn't know. A woman can curse a ship. Reader's body was in that chest. A compass needle coin. Why? Is it any of your business? Are you only asking, Steve? Well, it's... Got some of my old clothes in it. Yeah, yeah. Some old clothes. I was going to dump them overboard. Let me see what you have in the bag, Steve. I told you I only got... But you all the time give me old clothes. Some very good. This coat I wear. I take before you throw it away. You remember? So don't let me see. I told you there's nothing in here for you. Nothing. Look on the deck. It comes from that bag. If Carlos went up to the deck house where Johnny was at the wheel, I threw the bag over the side. You're cutting. Well, why? There's someone in the water. What? That's the port side. Carlos is going out in the lifeboat to get her. Her? Yes, Steve. It's a woman. Or get Carlos. Call him back. But Steve, you can't do a thing like that. I said we're getting out of here. No, no, no, Steve. She isn't. Come on over to the side. You can see her swimming out there in the water. Ah, it's only the moonlight. It's just the way things look in the moonlight place. Tricks on your eyes, Johnny. Steve, I saw her. She's alive. Oh, it was Reader out there. I knew she was dead. Johnny left me and crossed the port side of the boat. I looked up. The same black cloud was over the mast. And then I... I heard it. It wasn't. I clapped my hands to my ears to shut out the terrible sound. But it struck through my fingers like a... You fall down stairs. You get sick, don't you, Steve? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We have a woman. You told me yourself it's bad luck. I know, but this is what we've got to tell. Carlos and Johnny saved me. Well, you don't look the same, but that's a trick to fool them. You told the host? I plain clashed into the ocean. They don't know. You can trick them. Oh, why, you come back from the dead. You want to see me destroyed. You can't fool me because I know who. I went up on deck. The superstition was being fulfilled right in front of my eyes. The black cloud above the mast spread itself out into a giant blanket snuffing out the light of the moon and its stars. Cold wind came before it was too late. I went forward to the deck house. I don't understand, Steve. What did you try to say? That woman, Carlos, is cursing this boat. Look how it's blowing up. Hey, yes, Steve. Big storm coming. Well, she's doing it. It's because she's on this boat. We'll all be killed. I think we can do, Steve. You've got to. If we're going to come out of this storm alive, we've got to get rid of her. Throwing out a thing like that, Steve. Carlos, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something. That woman, that woman, she's not who you think she is. Rita, come on board before we left port. I lied to you. She didn't go back on shore. I killed her. And it's a trick. The dead who returned can play tricks. But there's one sure thing I know about. That dress she's wearing, I gave it to her. I gave the woman that dress. I look in your closet in cavern for something for her to wear. I find the dress and read the suitcase. Why? The suitcase, you say, Rita, bring your thing, Steve. What then? I knew when I see the blood fall on deck from that. You never said anything. She was a bad woman, Steve. No good. But she's come back, Carlos. No, Steve. Rita's dead. She's come back. I tell you, she's down below in Johnny's bunk. She's bringing this storm on. You want to die? Hey, woman, either to loss him, I must sever it. She's hurt, too. I must get her in the lifeboat. Carlos, Carlos. And when you let your wife go, what a darned theme song composed by the free ancient marathoners. Both lines. Now let's see. How's it go? For CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. As Henry broadcasts the service men and women over seas through the facilities of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service, the voice of information and education.