 Suspense and the producer of radio's outstanding theater of thrills William and Robeson Considering the bad time the Spanish conquistador Pizarro gave the Incas of Peru some 400 years ago You can hardly blame them for leaving a few booby traps scattered around the Andes And while you may not consider the rainforests of the headwaters of the Amazon and exactly appropriate place for a honeymoon You must agree that it is people with such wacky ideas who are apt to live dangerously They do live in door of gold Starring Myron McCormick a tale well calculated to keep you in Suspense Peruvian jungle is no place for a woman a Janice insisted she was an archaeologist first and my bride second was rugged in addition to the snakes bugs and mildew There were the unfriendly ketua Indians Each of whom claimed to be a direct descendant of the Inca manco Copac himself it had been slow going We excavated burial mound after burial mound and found nothing Perhaps they were right Maybe my translations were wrong and the Porto de Oro was only a legend We had only one native guide a solan Indian named Juan So everyone worked dr. Clayton myself even Janice Inside the mound that morning. I could hear old dr. Clayton and Janice chipping away Suddenly Janice shouted Finally Congratulations Philip you were right professor weldman's translation was in error. Well, it's bound to make you famous old boy You realize that I'm so very pleased for you. They'll have to listen to you now Say look even who I'm impressed see senor For many last times my people have It's a money my nificat as the Porto de Oro This burial mound was built against the mountain side Like all ancient Inca structures Marvel of shaped stone and groove rock Fitted so neatly no mortar was required We had torn down a section of the wall facing the mountain until the door was revealed a Door that glittered dully after Janice used chemicals to dissolve the corrosion There was no mistaking it and bossed on the metal was a rising sun It's raised throwing streamers of pure gold across the pan Did is there anything in the inscription that would indicate how to open it? Oh, let's say it says Light to the city comes through the shafts of God That makes everything clear Patience child your impressions Philip. Well, you see where the Sun slants through the cracks in the stones up there See, yes, yes, it hits the wall in two places. I say so there are the shops of God They're God correct you take one. I'll try the other. What should we try? Oh, I'd say Press in on the stones where the light hits Most of their hidden doors are counterbalance Chill along my spine The religious chanting of the college educated Scratch of stone on stone and the musty odor that crept forth from the now open tunnel raised the short hairs on the back of my neck So silly I guess The early Sun streamed across the bare floor, but from that dank opening came the odor Smells pretty bad that child is inexperienced talking the matter of fact by getting the odor means that there's circulation in there How shall we handle the search inside? Well Dr. Clayton You wouldn't mind we'd like to know not really I'll go in later you and the child go honeymoon trip cool darkness young bride Sounds romantic with that smell. I don't think I could raise a pocket you wish one to grow senior Well, if you don't mind no If anything happens a pivot or a counterbalance stone or something closes the door We'll need both of you out here to get it open again. Ah, see see wish and await We quickly gathered the necessary equipment I belted on two flashlights before battery type and filled my side pack with spare batteries sidearms medicine kit sandwiches water of course finally a rope When we were tied together I gave Janice the long bamboo probe Janice would better go in first. Don't you think old boy? Yes, yes, I think she should now listen carefully Janice both of our lives may depend on it walk Place your feet carefully and test each slab before stepping on that gentlemen, please I may just be out of college, but I have studied their culture. I know all about the flip-flop stones Very true. Yes, sir. It is different in the classroom There you can laugh for the mistake the most important thing is to remember if I should go through somewhere You can't hold me unless you drop flat Go before I lose my nerve completely one. Okay, senior I brought up the rifle so you and dr. Clayton can keep an eye out for unfriendly natives If anything should happen fire two shots see By a condo, senior the senior Go with which God who on all the Christian one senior the song God He would not like it We move slowly down into the slanted passageway Nervously Janice stabbed at each of the fitted blocks with a long probe while I map them numbering them on our chart the corridor slanted upward again and The entrance was gone We were alone Suddenly block 87 swung from under and she dropped through Yes, yes, you all right, can you reach your flash what's down there? Okay, hold tight. I'll pull you up. See Daisy. We're lucky that pivots down This means We'll make professor Holloway in that entire bunch at the university crawl when we get back No money no official recognition and all those so-called scholars peering down their noses at us You wait It'll be a pleasure to make them eat their words Yes, darling Meanwhile, will you please mark that darned 87 block red? We went on skirting the still tilted lip of the pivot stone and inching forward Twice more we located swinging traps the second over a swiftly moving stream That was why the air was relatively good Suddenly Jenna stopped yanking on our connecting rope What's the matter it's no pivot, but but it's not solid it it feels like it wants to give downward Count a balance. Maybe don't put away on it Let's work around it and see what's beyond door Yeah, some kind That may be what block 590 controls You game to try it Sure, we went back to block number 590 on the child Janice way flat and I stepped gingerly on it Think about a foot and the hollow thunder reached us the pressure caught us a moment later. What was that? afraid to think Put your hand down near the tunnel floor Feel anything no why should I I'm afraid not we Have lost our air circulation Probably means 590 closed the main entrance Maybe who on and and dr. Clayton will open it in a minute. Yeah, maybe maybe Though we're going a bit Perhaps that second panel opened at the same time. Don't you think we ought to go back why? We can't open it from the inside. They'll either Get it open or they won't We crept along silently until we reached the second door It had not moved Remembering the entrance. We fumbled with the stones on either side, but they didn't work We found the combination by accident None of the stones help but when we move to either end of our rope preparing to go back Both blocks move downward slightly and it Hey I can't hurt you They've been sitting there for over 400 years Yeah, you mean they they were trapped here in their own hidden passage No, no, it was the bidding of their Sun God. They Sat there until it no longer married and one way Yet in another rather magnificent When Pizarro raided their city in the sky what gold they had not thrown in Lake Titicata Was brought down into this tunnel. They stayed to guard it They'll put your arms around me Until I stopped shaking. I managed to soothe her jangled nerves, but there was no one to calm mine Where was the confounded air circulation? The minute the outer door opened we would feel it Surely if Juan wasn't tall enough Clayton could rig something for him to stand on or Was there something else? We made quick work of it going back Using the other flash in the chart we hurried along the tunnel carefully avoiding the marked traps Until we made the last dip and reached the golden door It was still closed Your strength that door is two feet thick Clayton we're back Can you get it open? Where's dr. Clayton the two of you can get this open Action what kind of it? Well never mind now go get help open door You hear Cannot What do you mean from nowhere? You his gas He would not like if you leave The one stop dr. Clayton from the second Can we get out and losing our heads or help we might What's the altitude of this burial mound? I don't remember Wait a minute wait a minute Dr. Clayton marked it yesterday about 30 about 3,600 feet above about sea level why I think a minute My translation said the Porta de Oro would be here. Yes, it was That means this tunnel must be the one which leads up to Machu Picchu So if Clayton's figures are nearly correct. It's about a mile west and Three miles straight up inside the mountain. Oh That's a welcome idea. I thought I know come here honey. We mustn't ever give up We're both trained we studied the ancient Incas And if anybody can out with them We can thank you, darling I'm all right now Let's go we went back into the now familiar part of the tunnel Counting blocks and squeezing past the dangerous ones When we reached the second doorway we stopped Poor devil They don't look so frightening the second time all huddled over their belongings Janice what's wrong with you? Look here? Pardon me old man There Does that look like personal belongings to you? Pure gold What you're staring at is the ransom of the Inca Sun God. Fizarra murdered him So the Incas hid the gold here to prevent the Spanish from finding it What? There must be millions. Yeah Even at the tiny percentage that would be allowed us by the Peruvian government this would make us wealthy for life What? Okay, well that better It was hard to keep the note of doubt from creeping into my voice The gold had been here for centuries. Why? Didn't make sense unless There was no trouble with traps the next half mile until Another door seems bigger Let's try the same positions before it might work When I start to drop that way keep your eyes open for getting tired. We're getting to be sloppy What's the difference There's well have that one closed to Doubt if we'll be back Then Suddenly I heard Janice slump to the steps ahead Janice Janice, you all right? I guess so There's another door Use the light. Yeah, sure honey. Now rest yourself. I'll Know what's wrong? It was all there right in our Margaret's diary. All I had to do was read simple Spanish No, no, I've got to be clever and find the Porto de Oro. Anyway That isn't a door. No, it's not in the diary Diego. I'll Margaret wrote Their gods were angry and the mountain shook Look, you see that step It's shared right in half Right when the quake struck it shifted the other half of the tunnel Maybe two or three hundred feet one way or another This is a dead end You're trying to frighten me Yeah, me stop right now Going to pieces won't help I Hated to slap me but I had to And she understood She didn't say a word She just turned and went slowly back down It seemed ours before we reached the bottom of the stairs Well the air was much better Minor consolation So we would die of thirst and hunger instead of of suffocation We came up against the first of the closed doors And it wasn't that easy. We tried combination after combination then Just as we were ready to drop from exhaustion. We happened to move back from the door She on the third block and I on the sixth Instantly there was that sinking sensation and the door moved toward us and disappeared flush into the wall Oh, come on I know what it might but we'll take it easy Charter no charge. It's dangerous to write. Oh, don't be I felt sick There was no tension on the road the revolving pivot stone had cut it easily I Scramble to the pivot stone and lay at arms length while I tried to move it No dice Nervously I felt for the flash and press the button nothing happened again I tried and cut my finger as I found the reason the lens and bulb were smashed I Formal for the other flash it too had broken. I was alone in the darkness. What's think Pressure. Yeah, that was it pressure The third block back needed weight. I Crawled to the nearest skeletons and dragged them aside Digging for the sacks of gold beneath I Crawled slowly tugging some of the heavy ingots with me Finally, I had a pile of them on the block where I'd been standing. I crawled back to the pivot stone This time it moved Janice Janice, can you hear me broke when I tried to stop your fall both of them Are you hurt how far are you're lucky? There's quite a pile of them I'd say 15 feet Stay still. I'll rig something. I took the remainder of the cord fortunately about nine feet and tied my belt to it I added my shirt to the upper end and lowered it through the half moon opening Janice light another match. Okay Now here Can you reach that easy? I've got my shirt on this end Just take your end and square knot the two don't try to help I Want to get hold of the belt before I really pull? easy That pivot standing straight up. Don't touch it It might not be so lucky a second time. Let me just hold you I'll teach you to run in tunnels. Oh, come on now and cross everything We've still got a chance That's all it was chance We edged down the tunnel in the dark staying close together now since the rope was gone We tested everything carefully Then found the second door It was a thrill to stand on the third and six blocks and feel them move. I Used one of the precious matches to refresh our minds from the chart Then we began to count backward walking hand in hand 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, this is awful Hey Hold it I'll stay here and pray You go to three Here goes nothing. Well, we found no trouble knocking the stones down from inside At last we were free Blackness had long settled on the jungle It was dark in the mound, but to us it was bright. I Saw Janice on her knees beside dr. Clayton. He's dead I'm not surprised Come on run See up there against the night sky That's who aren't hiding the Sun God's horde And what we didn't even get a little snitching of gold With dr. Clayton gone They'll never believe your discovery. Yeah, I forgot Let them keep on believing wellman's translations Me for Cuzco and home coming Try and stop me In which Myron McCormick starred in William and Robeson's production of door of gold by he's got floor listen Listen again next week when we return with another tale. Well calculated to keep you in Suspense Supporting mr. McCormick in door of gold were Shirley Mitchell as Janice Jane Avello as Juan and Ramsey Hill as dr. Clayton Original musical score composed and conducted by Emery go marino You'd think that jewelry worth a hundred thousand dollars would shine through a concrete wall But later on today when yours truly Johnny dollar tries to locate a bootle of missing gems the sparklers seem to be lost in darkness Johnny dollar however is an insurance investigator for all that his work is adventuresome He has to work for a living like anybody else and where those missing gems are concerned He cannot take no for an answer for thrill a minute listening follow him to the end of the Templeton matter When the next thrill-packed episode of yours truly Johnny dollar comes your way over most of these same stations a little later on in the day today