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Vincent Price by portaging the rapids and walking the mules in the shallower stretches we'd managed to get our supplies and equipment more than 1700 miles up the river after this further navigable passage being impossible we'd traveled by foot hacking our way through the thick steaming jungle coaxing and goading the heavily laden beasts we'd left the jungle and begun the climb 11 days later high in the Andes we found our objective we set to work hard work and then on a hazy afternoon in late May we found the scene below us the mountain swung down to the jungle which stretched eastward far as the eye could see the peaks above us had cut off the setting sun and the light had a curious vial at quality the dank chill wind whispering and gusting set the sparse timber scrubs to trembling and shuddering at the mules disdainful of their five strange masters forage the cacti and dwarf pine the instruments were set up and the specimens were at hand and now crouched and tense we leaned forward how about it has wait the tube's got a warm-up come on come on wait will you I've waited five years for this moment five five hundred you mean five million come on has he how about it has okay give him the sample O'Brien yeah here come on baby shut up will you here goes switch on holy cow good good it's fantastic fantastic yeah yeah come on has he what's the word yes he give gentlemen gentlemen unless this machine is busted unless this Geiger counter has forgotten its multiplication table we have discovered the richest load of uranium or known demand I won't go into the details of how we'd come to locate the orbit because that's a story in itself suffice it to say that late in the afternoon of that hazy May Day the five of us gamblers all came to the end of our rainbow found our pot of gold the vein runs all the way up the side of the mountain must be worth a million bucks a million a billion a trillion bucks do you boys realize what we've got here sure we do we've got the world at our feet by the man who gets the strike registered in his name can be a king every country in the world is going to come running up to him with trunks full of money and power you tell him has he power yeah we'll make the United States the most powerful nation honor why the United States oh you wouldn't sell to anybody else would you have a businessman house you're a fool no no I'm a businessman a trillion oh gents we've got the world at our feet split five ways the world at our feet split five ways that night as I lay huddled under my thin blanket I wondered what it would be like being a wealthy man wondered if it were really true wondered how it would affect the others how it would affect me in the morning we were to set off on the long return journey down to the jungle and through the jungle to the launch and down the river to civilization there we register our claim purchase if need be the land lease it perhaps from the government oh millionaires uranium enough to blow up the home you're a wake up oh good morning millionaires wake up the sun's coming up hey hey where are the others gone yes do not know Brian they took the mules and most of the food and cut out when how do I know when sometime during the night but why why a trillion bucks that's why no no no once they get down to the jungle they'll have to travel on foot there's 10 days March to the river they beat us to the boat we're stuck with 1500 miles of jungle between us and safety impossible we'd never make a hundred that's right we've got to catch them or we're dead traveled as lightly as possible it was a risky business doubly so because O'Brien and Dumont had taken our guns with them the only weapons we had between us were one long machete and two pocket knives these would be of little protection against Jaguar's Bushmaster's tapeers bow constrictors and the rest of it fortunately they'd left our number one necessity to survival they'd forgotten to take our quinine this and our food was all we carry long descent to the jungle was slow going on foot it was here that we nearly gave up hope we moved as fast as we could but we were no match for men who were riding but we reached the jungle then things took a better turn here the thick vines and heavy undergrowth was we knew almost an impossible hazard for a riding man and we could see their boot prints mingled with those of the mules we knew that they were having trouble too the animals were afraid of many things in the jungle would box suddenly require careful handling we pushed ahead as rapidly as possible battling mosquitoes peon flies matukas and the blood-sucking carpato ticks and of course the jungle itself with its never-ending barrage of razor grasses needle vines swamps bog traps and so forth it was hot stinking hot and the going was hard but we had to make it couldn't travel at night they'd taken our flashlights we'd bundle up as best we could protecting ourselves not from the cold it was hot and muggy even at dawn but from the mosquitoes and as we progressed towards the river area from the bats vampire bats ever seen them there's small rather fragile looking little things by day they hang heads down from the trees wings folded like like clusters of rotten fruit by night they hunt they have razor sharp teeth bite like the finest steel scalpels their object is to break the skin very delicately start the blood becoming and then they simply hang on and sit without mosquito netting we had a rough time of it a sleepless time but we managed to keep on going and on the third day we can't make it to the river before them we've got to lose it we've got to make it right we even if we do catch up they got the gun what are you something who quiet quiet what did you hear shh gunfire yeah come on they can't be more than a mile or two ahead come on we ran through the jungle following the fresh marks of the animals and the two men and I half an hour or so later we broke into a little clearing and there was do mark he's dead shot good old sweet guy that old come on let's turn him over but even sweating huh yeah it's malaria see his face good old and do mark came down with malaria probably started to slow him down sweet guy come on come on let's go hey they should have remembered the quinine I got no sympathy for two months you know you know what it'd be nice if that if that OB should get malaria now yeah it'd be helpless he asked me for quinine and I throw him a stone on we went now there were no boot marks with the mule tracks apparently O'Brien was riding one of the animals from time to time we'd see a flurry of tracks churned up as though he had had to dismount to tug one of the beast back onto the trail we followed the tracks for another two days and then on the sixth day we found one of the mules how you feeling boy huh where's your saddle he really looks big look at those marks on his flanks vampire bats yeah that leaves O'Brien on foot yeah hey you hear that launch where did the river he's not in the motor come on it wasn't very far just a few hundred yards and the path was strewn with O'Brien's discarded supplies quite suddenly we came out of the jungle and onto a narrow white sandbar the river and they are not 30 feet away from us just drifting off into the deep dark fast-moving waters was O'Brien in the launch O'Brien look at him he's like a skeleton the launch lurched dizzily as it floated downstream O'Brien was feeble sweating possessed he had the fever had it bad come on let's go after him you can't this is piranha water carnival fish they'll eat you up yeah hey O'Brien hey you know me O'Brien your old pal has me hey what do you say O'Brien huh? he staggered dizzily about the cock that tried to start the engine he was laughing and he was so weak that he could barely spin the flywheel to the kicker O'Brien good lord he's in the water the fish the piranhas they ain't gonna look at this one moment we saw him swimming weakly his large fever-ridden eyes turned imploringly toward us and the next moment he was gone leaving only a large red churning patch on the water the piranhas are small rarely more than 12 or 14 inches long small fish with large powerful jaws teeth like broken glass and an insatiable maniacal appetite for flesh the launch caught by the deep fast moving waters rocked softly this way and that and moved on downstream away way around a bend and out of sight the march of science over the years has produced better than ever gasoline for your car but now science adds one of the greatest gasoline components of all it's called xylene xylene a super gasoline component adds two great qualities to gasoline xylene gives higher than ever antonok performance xylene means power today every gallon of richfield gasoline contains xylene if you want a motor that runs quiet as a whisper if you want pick up and power to spare try richfield gasoline with xylene your richfield dealer offers a choice of two great richfield gas allines with xylene richfield 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here yeah yeah dad yeah but what about the fish how deep does it look to you harris at the deepest part of me well I know maybe two and a half feet maybe three most of us less than that I got an idea shoot we've got to get across the launch see so here's what we do we throw away everything there'll be food and water in the launch see yeah now you see that little patches sand in the middle of the river with a bar shows yeah we go that way that's bound to be the shallowest way see how do we go on the mule the three of us yeah this mule ain't such bad condition it can't get the three of us across 70 Peter shallow water where do you say house why not all right I'll get aboard first come on get farther up whimsy you're the lightest yeah harris you get on next hang on the whimsy here here carry this coral rope around your neck we may need it I've got the machete strapped to my back you set wings yeah hold tight to me yes don't worry if I go you go yeah the feet goes I go so let's hang on gents let's really hang on long as he's moving fast they can't get it his legs and that right he's not showing anything to him but whoops and hair hold his head up whims don't let him look down y'all yeah all set here we go I get off come on baby I felt the new alert when he steps into the water is the sand was softer here than on the shore a head not 40 feet away lay the little spit of land the mule refused to run couldn't run and before he'd taken 10 steps I knew he was too weak to support the three of us hey from every direction in the swirling water about his came small shadowy dark shapes the piranhas don't stop come on baby come on baby he can't do it what are those piranhas returning the water about us and coming in from beyond them were four or five long dark shaped six and seven feet long thick and wriggling electric eels get into the sandbar made it straw bottle electric eels I can throw a jolt that'll kill a jaguar like a jaws like a vice so here we are gentlemen stuck just 30 feet of water between us and the shore get across it we can get to the launch and the civilization and all three of us are too much for that new only 30 feet why you could run it in seconds you see those little shadows around us in the water I see those little shadows around us you don't have to draw pictures hey oh here's another bright idea coming up it's a matter of fact yeah hold on to your hat Harris we got that curler rope yes the mule could carry one of us that mules not in such bad shape you know yes tie the robo brisk bridle then one of us pulls him over with him fast you see one rides and then the other two pull him back yeah yeah the next one gets on yeah what do you say oh it can't stay here it's a natural who goes first me on a kind of in the latest I won't tire him so much how about it Harris all right well get going then okay tie that rope to his brow I'm doing it right give me the machete what do you want the machete for I want it that's all getting okay all right now you two get at the end of the spit so it's when you pay out the line you don't get it caught in his legs you think of everything that's right I'm a smart boy ready with a line sure it's tied fast to the bride I'm sure no funny business weems all we got to do is jerk this rope once while you're over that water and you're done for you're a sharp article yeah that's right but not sharp enough hey we need to cut the rope the rope our only salvation was cut and now weems grinning and riding was out into the stream heading for the shore and safe he went not 15 feet when one of the long dark wriggling shapes made for the mule and got his leg the mule reared up on his hind legs the eel clinging to his foot pumping paralyzing shocks into him weems clutched his neck with one hand and slapped him on the flank with the flat of the machete with the other the mule came down and more eels went for his legs he began to lurch sideways weems swung the long steel blade in an arc barely missing the mules leg and connected with one of the eels seemed to stand on end his other arm released the mules neck the arm holding the blade was extended stiffly still caught in the thick muscular back at the electric deal and then the mule reared again and weems fell back into the water the mule freed of weems made the shore and vanished into the jungle we turned away no man could watch what was happening to weems and retain his sanity and so there we were hess and I on that sense bit which the river was slowly washing away night coming vampire bats coming and all about us the electric eels and the little cannibal fish waiting there was no moon there were evil stars red and yellow it was a black sky and against it blacker shapes the vampire bats we waved our arms and kept them off but again and again during that long and terrible night they brushed against the squealing and squeaking trying to get us dark evil thirsting bats thousand years later came the dawn that waters taken a lot of sand away this thing isn't much bigger than a card table look at them look at those fish you think they had enough to eat yesterday listen Harris no matter what happens now at least you and I have played that square right yeah that's right shake my hand Harris all right because I think I got an idea on how we can get out of here what yeah look up there yeah see see that vine hanging down from the big tree it's over the water and it must be 15 feet up yeah yeah but if you were on it you could do a Tarzan to the shore the rope that's right now if we can just lasso the end of that and pull tight we'll have enough swing to make it across swing like a pendulum if you follow me one guy gets on the other shoulders to swing over to get the start see then when he gets to shore he fastens a rock and swings the rope back to the other that vine will hold it'll work took us two hours before we managed to lasso the end of that vine and then we tested it again and again until we were positive it would hold a man's weight and then we were ready you stand good and steady now pal I'm gonna go easy on you but don't shake because if you spill me in that water I'm a gone guy I'm ready I'm ready good luck here then he was off skimming the water with his feet drawn up and then miraculously he was on the shore like a breeze and he rocks around there smiled at me and shrugged and then look down the stream at the launch I knew that smile that trillion dollars smile it said so long sucker don't do it yes send me the rope you can have it all yes every scrap of it only for the love of mercy send me the rope he stood there laughing at me and shaking his head slowly but above him just over his head was another vine thick and modeled and it was moving look out yes just stood there smiling and shaking his head the boy constricted dropped heavily and accurately a thrashing tangle of scaly must the sun was hot blistering I was alone all alone except for the ever-waiting piranhas Hess's body was hidden by the low scrubby vines and palmetto's several hours later I saw the boy now gorgeous slither lumpily away I waited and I waited from time to time I thought of stepping out into the stream it would be over very quickly I told myself very quickly I couldn't and then I noticed the current which had been sweeping the sand away had shifted slightly a whim of miracle and now new sand from some sunken bar was beginning to pile up between me and the shore grain by grain rib by rib and I watched and at five o'clock that afternoon I walked the shore and didn't even get my feet wet it's nice where I live quiet little streets nice people nice kids nice country peaceful nice peace I know where there's enough uranium to blow it all the hell what it just go up the river up the river it's it's worth it taking as Dumont and Obi and Wiens and Hess a trillion bucks worth enough to give the whole world a bloodbath yourself included warm summer weather makes you think of baseball games picnics and 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walley mayor ted decorsia paul freese and tony barrett special music arranged in played by ivan ditmars next week you are groping your way slowly through the dark hold of a ship at sea moving carefully step by step dreading to find what you know is there death in the form of a deadly bush master from which there is no escape next week at this time the richfield oil corporation of new york invites you to escape to the carabin and a grim voyage of impending death as martin storm tells it in this exciting tale a shipment of mute fate goodbye then until the same time next week when once again we offer you escape tom hanlon speaking this is cbs the columbia broadcasting system