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Wells as The protagonist of kutsu max novel Donovan's brain The producer of suspense and its sponsors the Roma wine company of Fresno, California Felt this story so unusual that it merited more than our usual time So in somewhat of a departure from established radio formulas We are bringing you the story of Donovan's brain in two parts part one You heard last Thursday and tonight you will hear part two the completion of Donovan's brain But before we raise the curtain on our suspense play that's for a moment Wish ourselves a way to Havana, Cuba seated at the table in the fashionable hotel in Asenal de Cuba Near us a group of Cubans are entertaining an American visitor Our American is just remarked that in point of great enjoyment the Cuban Roomba is one of America's most delightful imported dances And then raising his wine glass the Cuban host responds Then we have perhaps discharged some part of our debt to you Americans for this wonderful tasting wine that gives us such great enjoyment it is wine that Cuba imports from your far away, California, it is Roma wine Americans didn't have to wait for wine connoisseurs of other lands to discover the greatness of California's wine districts the superb quality of Roma, California wines So many millions made this discovery for themselves that Roma wines have long been America's largest selling wines But these millions discovered something more in Roma wines They discovered an easy and expensive way to increase the delights of daily living Yes, millions have discovered that Roma wines as a beverage on the table and when used in entertaining Add a charm of a special and wholesome kind. I told you Roma wines cost little That's because here in America you pay no high import duty no expensive shipping charges To Roma wines come from Roma's own wineries in the heart of choice, California vineyard districts So cost to you is only pennies a glass for R. O. M. A. Roma wine made in California for enjoyment throughout the world And now with part two of Donovan's brain and with the performance of Orson Welles as Dr. Patrick Coray We again hope to keep you in suspense As I sit now outside my laboratory door writing out of the heading experiment 87 this final entry in my casebook I know that these are the last words. I shall ever write upon this earth For those who seek some explanation I refer them simply to this casebook Let them read it carefully Perhaps they may then in some measure understand if not condone The awful circumstances under which I have been driven to the most appalling crime against God and nature That it has ever been the fate of mortal man to perpetrate August 24th. It's now six weeks exactly 42 days since I began the experiment For six weeks by artificial means alone. I have kept alive a human brain Completely detached from the body floating in a bath of serum nourished by a synthetic blood plasma fed through its arteries by an electric pump It has remained alive not only alive, but I have succeeded in communicating with it I've even induced new growth of brain cells and so tremendously increased its mental faculties that by sheer brain power alone Does actually been able to communicate its thoughts to me and each day my communion with that living pulsing mass of gray matter That was the brain of William Donovan becomes stronger and stronger Even now I sense it's driving to reveal some plan to me something so truly world-shaking in its implications But only such an organism Developed to a point thousands of years ahead of its time could ever have conceived it So far I sense this only but soon I shall know indeed. I shall be partner in its execution Not a fool I was ever to have considered for a moment my wife's demand that I end the experiment It's because I refused of course that Janice left me a week ago without so much as a word of explanation of farewell Even my son David and my assistant Shrata privy to this conspiracy to thwart me for when I ask about Janice They pretend to know nothing or seek to avoid my questions But the brain will live Yes, I can hear it now It's Delta waves quite audible over the amplifying system. I've arranged for it Almost as though it were calling to me Trying to speak to me The brain will live Donovan What is it? What are you trying to tell me? Go on Donovan. I'm listening Go on go on What do you want? I'm no time to talk. I'm busy. I'm sorry go away. I tell you I'm busy Can't you two leave me alone? All right. All right. What is it? What is it Patrick? Won't you come into the study with us for a few minutes? What have you got to say and say right here? You know, I can't leave the laboratory dad It's only that what we wanted to talk to you in private Don't tell me that you're afraid of this poor massive brain cells. Yeah, it's not that dad But we never mind David at least turn that thing off then You're Patrick What difference would it make? It's still here couldn't it? Well, what is it then? Well, it's it's about mother. So she put you up to this did she I thought the truth had come out sometime dad Listen, she's trying to stop this experiment from the beginning She thought she could blackmail me into quitting by leaving me and she still does and now she's using you as a go-between That's true, isn't it? I've heard enough. We haven't heard a word from Janice. We don't even know where she is That's what we've come to talk to you. Oh have you How could I know where she is? Well, because you were the last person seen with her dad I was don't you remember Patrick? You took her into town with you. You wouldn't tell any of us why? That's of course the more I've forgotten but what of it? Well, don't you remember what happened then? Of course, I remember She left me that's all. Where is dad? Where did she leave you? What were you doing? I don't know. We were in some big public building city hall courthouse taxes or something Next thing I knew she'd simply disappeared. Is that all? Didn't she say anything? Didn't she at least tell you why she was going? No, I remember what she said has been a week or more of how they slept You know, I've been working night and day. Yes, that's just it. What do you know that Patrick? You say this the brain communicates with you Tells you things about his past life suggests thoughts. Yes, the brain can make you think of things might not also be able to make you forget things You're out of your mind dad. Are you sure you sure you don't know what's happened the mother now? I tell you no, I don't know what don't you see what you might have done what heaven's name stop now Well, there's still time out of here. Well, there's still time to help Janice if there is well There's still time to help yourself shut off the current Kill it Patrick kill it August 26th the brain Continues to communicate thought fragments more and more easily but nothing further on what I've come to think of as the plan I'm now sleeping a great deal But my dreams are becoming increasingly troublesome all I have to lost to analyze the most frequent as a sort of Vars cosmic ballet presided over by the colossal figure of a young man whom I Silled to recognize yet. I never Never see his face It is now the entire population of the earths were moving past him in review David Mine I help me with shoddy's fainted Here's a glass of water the matter you're trembling all over Frighten after death dad you what happened here anyway came and found you on the floor with your hands around your own throat Deadman for me. Why is your luggage all packed? I was Going to leave leave in the middle of the night. Why because the rules marks. It's been opened. It was you shrot You're gonna shut off the current you are going to kill the brain Patrick You tried to strangle me what? It's true dad. That's why I had to slap you But it's absurd. I came in here and found shot with his hands around his own throat Please think a minute nobody can strangle himself look at these marks on my throat. You think I could have done that Possible in yet. It's true Patrick that I tried to shut off the current. I was afraid for you But as I opened the fuse box, I heard the Delta waves in the laboratory suddenly become Stronger and louder than they'd ever been before and then Then I yes, and the brain. No Are you even spoken Donovan's voice voice his recurring phrase of his sure sure sure and his very toes is very access You've created a monster Patrick has the power to make me commit Brain The brain must die pull the switch in the fuse box Patrick. It will only be a matter of yes, and then Yes, I But I You've got to Patrick Shroud David help me. I can't move come on Pull the switch honey Shroud David go on You You too Paralyzed dispatch the brain won't let it so be killed Then it has the power to live on and on To command us as long as we live Make us do anything it wants kill What we're gonna do September 7th Shroud has left he had to of course resolve protection if nothing else Before he left he swore to eternal secrecy. He's going to try to find Janice Well, it's thought that any harm might come to us through me is enough to drive me almost mad That's what David all though. He's strong enough to prevent any on toward accidents. I don't know He's volunteered to stay with me. I can sleep at night behind locked doors We must devote every faculty we possess together and independently to finding a way of destroying the brain Perhaps while it sleeps It seems to have developed tremendous powers the subconscious which operate even in sleep The recurring dream the now oppressive sense of some further task to be performed Continues if Janice were only here Even her presence. I know would help immeasurably to combat this fearful thing Terrible thought crosses my mind Could trot of left if the brain had not for some reasons of its own actually Wanted him to leave September 10th my thoughts are less and less my own The dream of the young giant Bestriding the earth the figure without a face pursues me now even in my waking hours Increasingly I seem to live in a world of Evil fantasy people and controlled by the mind of William Donovan Hello We Janice why did you leave me that day? Why don't you at least tell me? Where did you go down? I was with friends. What did try to tell you anything? No, nothing special Janice. I know I have been a very good husband these last months I have been very kind and very considerate or even civilized. I Haven't been myself Janice. I know I You don't even know how I missed you after you left. I needed you. I need your help. I know I came back to help you, but but what? He's asleep in the next room That is it ladies tried to make it a point to sleep only when I didn't try to Keep an eye on things Patrick. I'm going to help you all I can anyway I can But first I want to take David away David why because I don't think it's good for him to be here No, I don't think that you Patrick I Don't want to torment you It's only perhaps we can find a way if we know all the facts Hot jenice Don't you know? really Where I was now, how could I? Don't you remember? Where you took me? Well, I took you You took me to a psychiatric clinic You had me committed To a madhouse jenice No Not you Donovan It was because I tried to make you stop the experiment kill the brain As you left me there You even spoke in Donovan's voice Sure sure sure you said sure I thought they were the last words. I would ever hear you speak Well, Janice, forgive me Forgive me. I couldn't persuade anyone. I was sane. Oh sweet after what you told him Everything I said only made him think I was bad I'm Not mad Am I Patrick? I'm not mad. Am I? Janice will be gone for some three hours. I've sent her into town for dr. Zanger the psychiatrist Maybe he can help but now suddenly I'm I'm overcome with the thought of the humiliation I shall have to suffer when other Other medical men become aware of the position I'm in it'll be the end of my career and my reputation or my hopes Folly to think that Zanger'd keep it to himself indeed. I He'd have no right to I I I can bear it if I must but another way of possibility Curses to me and I've been thinking it over There's no harm in trying it in any event. I must try I Have three hours What's your blood type you know your blood type matter of fact, I don't think I do why no matter we easy find out David I think at last I know a way to kill the brain. It's simple It's perfectly natural yet nine chances out of ten is something Donovan and never had known about I'll do it myself Unfortunately my blood type and his are They're the same Of course, I have to replenish the blood substance periodically and it's about time to do it again I've always used my own because it was the same type was his but if yours is a different type The right type I mean the wrong time Yes, you've given the wrong the brain the the brain will die given the wrong type I'm sure of that. I know it but suppose the brain. Yes knows it knows other things I I've thought of that is a chance. We'll have to take if you're willing David my boy Of course, I am then you take the blood sample now come into the laboratory I only have the right blood type Rather the wrong type. Yeah, if you haven't we'll find someone who has maybe Maybe shot now lie down there on the table David. We want to turn again. You're on here as long syringe will do it Go ahead. I'm ready. David. Don't watch me. It'll be easier if you easy if you don't For me. It's a funny one coming from you. Well Doctors and never quite as steady with members of their own family, you know ready sure Here we are You're you all right, you know, yeah Be throwing just a second Just a second I'm sleepy you'll be over it It's a matter Sleepy you'll be all right Sure sure sure Sure sure sure that's what an anesthetic is for Make you sleep. I Was I'm not surprised to find the instrument sterilized already laid out, but I worked more rapidly and skillfully than Ever before in my life, I think I Made an incision just below the hairline laying back the scalp as far as the base of the skull I Trap and the cranium at two centimeter intervals working back and downwards to the upper edge of the occipital bone with the Gley saw I cut through the connecting bone structure and Remove the entire top of the cranium Placing it in saline solution to preserve it. I Made a semi-circular incision in the Dura matter Laying it to one side exposing the brain As I dissected out the facial auditory and pneumogastic nerves to free the medulla and regatta. I I Became conscious of an insistent clamoring something like a mounting hysteria in the distant reaches of my mind Almost as strong as the irresistible compulsion that drove me on But my hand did not falter with a sure stroke I severed the spinal cord just below the first cervical nerve As I make this last entry with that awful guilt for my soul Even now I cannot fully comprehend how it has been possible for any man by mortal or immortal means To be driven to such a crime Even the divinity himself Did not demand of Abraham that final sacrifice of expiation And here with his only begotten son Ascended the Mount of Olives Perhaps Schroett is right Perhaps there is indeed in man some spark of the divine that will elude our test tubes and our laboratories Until the end of time Perhaps that is the one thing that even Donovan did not foresee I Only know that at the instant my son died under my own hand I was set free At that instant I saw and understood for the first time that monstrous plan Born in the brain of William Donovan of which I was to be the instrument It was the plan I had glimpsed but never grasped in the recurring dream Donovan did aspire to the domination of the world And with those tremendous mental faculties that I myself had given him it was literally within his power To become the absolute ruler of all mankind Only one thing was lacking a body a body a young strong body into which those ever-growing brain cells Could graft and affix themselves to live on And on perhaps for centuries He chose the body of my son and now at last too late. I Am free to destroy this foul thing of my creation. I know it as surely as I know that my own life must be forfeit The brain also knows I can hear the disturbed erratic Oscillations of the Delta waves coming through the laboratory door There's no room left in me now for fear I shall take the six steps from the desk where I'm writing this across to the laboratory door How often I've taken them in happier times We shall open the door close it behind me for the last time And right finish To the mortal life of Patrick Arthur Corey and the brain of William Horace Donovan Me others learn from the record I leave here the lessons I've learned so bitterly and profit by them And for the things that I have done May God have mercy on myself Phoenix, Arizona September the 15th the bodies of Dr. Patrick Arthur Corey and his son David were found in Dr Corey's own laboratory early today Young Corey had apparently died on the operating table as a result of a delicate brain operation performed by his father In the case of dr. Corey medical authorities gave us their opinion that he might have died of shock as a result of the unsuccessful operation on his son a Curious feature of the case was the fact that numerous pieces of tissue identified as being from a human brain Were found scattered about the laboratory floor While a larger section of brain was found in the midst of an elaborate apparatus Evidently part of a scientific experiment Medical authorities stated however that they were unable to explain the nature of the apparatus and that the brain itself was in such a State of decomposition as to indicate that it had been dead and slowly decaying for at least three months Dr. Corey is survived by his wife Janice. She was committed to the county asylum for the insane late this afternoon Burial of dr. Corey will be at the Mount of Olives cemetery Donovan's brain part two the completion of two half-hour presentations of kutzi od max story presenting Orson Welles a star of suspense Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear Did you know that these Roma wine suspense dramas are setting a record for the millions of delighted listeners? 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