 You must not forget it the first appearance of bleeding some days following operation is of the utmost significance to the surgeon it Will almost invariably be a recurrence unless measures are taken to prevent it and it will ultimately prove fatal the vessels most commonly affected of the lingual The facial and the internal maxillary arteries unless this offending vessel can be isolated Mr. Briggs it behooves me to pause in the middle of this lecture to remind you of one important thing Apparently not important to you, but extremely important to me I have been paid as high as $1,500 an hour for lecturing on the after-treatment of surgical patients I lecture here for the college medical class free of charge. I At least expect the courtesy of attention I do not expect my students to tabulate their meter bank accounts Well, I am making every effort to instill some portion of physical knowledge into their thick-covered craniums I was making note professor apparently mentally you were tabulating your money in the bank Gentlemen, I regret that the lecture this morning will not be continued dismissed Julius is lecture over so soon stupidity nothing, but stupidity stupidity Julius Trying to teach those idiots the secrets of surgery is like trying to drill the alzonian theory into a two-year-old Sit down Julius you're tired. I'm not tired. I'm simply exasperated. Let's come over you Julius You've suddenly become so well so cantankerous ever since the death of Stefan Hamlin. I know Kyle I know they're very close to you wasn't it close I Wonder if anyone knew how close I wonder If anyone you've known him ever since you were a boy. Yes ever since he was a near child I Remember when he first came here to the university. He didn't impress me as all the others did There was no eagerness about him to learn He seemed to have no ambitions to learn near these grades were the highest that have ever been made in the history of our institution Yes Just so that's a pity that he had to die perhaps Perhaps Julius all of us naturally expected you to be quite shocked to hear Stefan Hamlin's passing But you fooled us completely Well, you didn't seem the least bit startled when we broke the news to you. No you when you seemed almost a almost glad Did I a dr. Miller? Yes dr. Semeck Has the body been cremated? Yes this morning where my directions carried out to the letter Judas Brain of Stefan Hamlin was removed. I myself makes the solution you gave me I submerged the brain into the solution and remove the air from the container. Where is it now? My laboratory It's a perfect specimen the best developed human brain. I've ever seen doctor. Take me to it now Yes, take me to it, but haven't you another lecture, Julius? Don't argue with me. Take me to your laboratory Why must I go alone? What? Well, of course it is of course This way I have the second solution at the boiling point for you. Just as you ordered Dr. Semeck. Good. Excellent here the brain Yes, just so just so most excellent work. I'll most excellent. I'm glad you're satisfied Do you wish to add the solution now? It should be done. I believe Stefan Hamlin's brain must be preserved. This is one sure way of doing it must admit I don't know what your method is certainly. I've never heard of it before I Wouldn't think a solution like that would preserve anything It is a preservants No one has ever known of before. Are you ready doctor? Yes quite ready. Yeah You can insert this glass funnel through the rubbish top on the container. I'll do it doctor There now you may extinguish the Bunsen burner doctor Miller. You want the second solution just below the boiling point? Yes, very well Is there anything I can do for you now? No, nothing stand back now about to add the hot solution to the other There perfect. Yes, perfect. Is it necessary to remove the air from the chamber again? No, not now Not now. I'll replace the punctured rubber stopper with a new one. Yes, do that dr. Miller. Just a moment Dr. Semeck Yes, dr. Miller this this brain Look at it. I have looked at it Carl Julius That brain It's alive Does that amaze you Julius? It's a beautiful specimen, isn't it alive? It is actually alive. Oh, yes indeed It always has been Julius. I'm an old man. I don't much relish your your tricks. This is no trick, Carl I assure you Where that brain is displaying the normal reaction you've often witnessed in viewing the human brain by means of x-ray Yes, but this brain has no cranium And the body nobody attached to it yet it lives calm it lives Only Stefan Handlin's brain could do that live After his death now, it's a trick the solution. It must be the solution. No, Carl It is not the solution that causes the brain to live I Admit it could not live without the solution near pickling would have destroyed it But the solution will preserve the life Carl the life That is never left impossible But to leave fantastic. No my dear dr. Miller not at all Not at all fantastic. No impossible, but the brain cannot live outside the body the human brain. No But Stefan Handlin's brain can but doctor Stefan was human Was he wasn't he? No one knew Stefan Handlin as well as I did Carl. No one not even his parents Oh, they knew he was different. Yes, they knew he wasn't just an ordinary person But they had no idea how truly Extraordinary he actually was I I can't believe a human brain existing After the body has been cremated Perhaps my good friend if I were to tell you his story You would see the reason why such a thing could happen. Yes, perhaps sit down Carl sit down Look deeply into the mystery you see there before you The living brain of Dead and cremated Stefan Hamlin. It was a most extraordinary brain Carl Yes, most to know the mystery behind it was to know Stefan Hamlin. I remember the first time I met him Little place in Kansas a small town called Emporia Stefan was born there 37 years ago. I Was 10 years old when I met him. He was nine And yet he was crawling about from place to place on all fours like a mere infant He'd been examined by the best doctors in America taken to New York to the West Coast everywhere for observation And each examination brought the same verdict Perfectly capable of walking but apparently unable to do so Probably because of some mental handicapped A good enough excuse a good enough diagnosis For the stupid It may have been a mental handicapped. Yes but if it's so It was of Stefan Hamlin's all making He had never spoken a word uttered a single guttural sound in all those nine years He'd never smiled never frowned never cried Nine long years crawling on hands and knees never uttering a sound and yet His vocal cords were pronounced perfectly normal completely developed and yet he had never spoken never That first day I met him. I was put in charge of him while our elders attended a ballgame It was the first day I really knew Stefan Hamlin. It was the first day Anyone ever knew him when we had been left alone. I went off to a corner of the room by myself I turned my back to that crawling bulk of a loud there on the floor and Chose a book to help while away the time until my uncle should return for me and Suddenly after a brief passage of time Suddenly, there was a hand upon my shoulder. I Probably should have been startled. I knew Stefan and I were alone in the house, but I wasn't startled Instead I turned my head and look slowly around behind me Looked up into the wide innocent staring eyes of Stefan Hamlin He was standing there beside my chair gazing down on me. Yes down. Yes standing Stefan Hamlin was standing For a full minute our gazes met infused I was too startled Too amazed too puzzled to speak, but after that long burning minute, he spoke You don't like me. Do you Julius? I was too bewildered to answer Stefan Hamlin had not only completely astonished me by standing walking But he had actually spoken to me and I knew he had never spoken a single word to a single living soul before In all his nine years upon this earth His walking his talking completely mystified me And yet there was something else Yes, something besides mere walking something apart something far superior to mere talking And then when he spoke again, I knew I knew what it was. I said Julius You don't like me. Do you? He talked with the voice of an adult I Was more speechless now than I've ever been before Stefan Hamlin not only completely overwhelming me by a sudden and unheralded display of an ability to walk But also causing my hair to stand on end by actually addressing me in perfect manish English With the voice of an adult After what seemed a compilation of beyond upon the arm I Found my voice. I I have never had occasion to like you I said nor Have you ever had an occasion to dislike me? I Admitted that was true and then I said Why is it you never walked until now never talked To which he replied I had no occasion to walk because there was no place interesting to which my walking could take me and As for talking so far. I've never found anything interesting to talk about or any one of enough interest to talk to How long I asked Have you been able to do both? I have had the ability to walk and to talk who said ever since the day I was born After a while they became acquainted Long before the elders had returned joyously from watching their favorite ballclub whitewash the visiting team Stefan Hamlin and I were bosom pals It was a friendship that was to exist Until death did aspire After that Stefan Hamlin stood upright on both legs spoke like any other human Did I say? Human forgive me The only difference was that his was a fully developed mind a fully developed voice But a highly underdeveloped anatomy. I remember one day when Stefan and I were playing together on the school ground I remember I was practicing high jumping at the time Stefan was watching me And all of a sudden he jumped to his feet from where he had been sitting and stood staring wide-eyed Then quickly he raised both hands before his face as though to shut out an evil horrible sight Suddenly there was a noise in the air the noise of wheels upon rails of steel spinning speeding racing wheels Clickety-clack clickety-clack clickety-clack screaming as they went At that very instant Stefan covered his eyes with a firing resounding crash As though a million planetoids had collided in the stratosphere and come crashing down around us like pellets of falling hailstorms When I looked at Stefan he had slumped to the ground. I rushed to him my heart leaped within me. I Raised Stefan into my arms as I threw myself down beside him when he opened his eyes He asked quietly was Anyone saved anyone Tell me Stefan. What in the name of heaven happened? He was quiet for a moment Then he pulled himself away from me a rose to his feet. He looked about him momentarily on all sides It's been a terrible accident A train has just left the rails and plunged headlong into a hundred foot gorge Today our newspaper headlines screened the details of the most destructive and death dealing train accident ever to happen in the city of Paris Yes in France happened at the very moment Stefan had covered his face in terror some crash It was not until several years later when we both entered Oxford College that I saw Stefan Hamlin again At first he avoided me tried to pretend he didn't know me But when I finally managed to get in a word with him and remind him of our first meeting He told me he was glad to see me again But he was extremely cold Almost insultingly reserved The very few times I saw him after that first day for the next year was between classes He never perturbed in student activities. He never strolled the campus or climbed the cliffs Swam in the lake or enjoyed soccer or cricket with the rest of us He was never seen with the rest of us There were constant whispers about him in his strange weird actions Many whispers most of them ugly and vicious and vile Long years before I talked to Stefan Hamlin again four years at Oxford. I Heard those whispers about him all that time. I heard professors say he was the most amazing student of all times Perfect grades in all subjects a born doctor a truly great scientist a prospect for the world's greatest surgeon and then Stefan and I suddenly found ourselves to be classmates Even then I had difficulty in finding an opportunity to make speech with him But after much effort having exerted a great amount of patience. I finally cornered him. Yes, Dr. Semeck Oh, please call me Julius Stefan. I Think I want to talk to you Julius. Good excellent. My dear fellow. Where should we go? My room should be as good a place as any suppose we go there. All right Stefan. That's perfectly right with me So we went to his room There were no books there none But there were a few sheets of composition paper and pen and ink. I Picked up several of the closely written sheets It was the most profound and complete and exquisitely worded treatise in diseases of the human brain I had ever read in all my life. I Remarked to Stefan that it was odd that he could pin such a masterpiece and yet had no books whatsoever for reference He didn't smile when he answered He simply said I don't use books Julius because I don't need books What I write what I recited in my classes comes not from anything I have ever read not from anything I have ever been taught or have studied but from somewhere deep within you mean You're fully aware of all these facts without having studied or read or heard about them Yes, you see there is nothing I don't know to me the theories of the scientists and the theologians and the professors and the doctors I'm really nothing more than the alphabet is to you. I have no interest in them whatsoever Save that they are convenient at times to know and most of those profound theories profound to you understand Most of them are so terribly false so astonishingly wrong and untrue and unsound that they fail to interest me in the least Yes Stefan Hamlin was the fount of all the world's most intellectual knowledge Everything that all mankind had ever known the secrets of science of medicine of astronomy of surgery and numbers and mechanics and all the millions and millions of other subject matters We're all embedded there They're deep in that superhuman unbelievable brain of his After our graduation from Oxford After we came here to medical college to study surgery Stefan and I grew closer and closer together Never did he open a textbook Never did he study or concentrate upon the lectures of Europe's most eminent and distinguished scholarly instructors and yet His grades his papers his recitations were perfect In every degree and then one day Stefan Hamlin told me his secret poured forth his very soul at my feet and threw himself at my mercy You think I'm odd you call me different you despise me the first day you met me because I didn't walk didn't talk despite My apparent ability to do so Men everywhere have always shunned me all my life. I've been whispered about behind my back all my life I've been lonely my heart has been heavy with loneliness that no human words No, not even those words. I can summon may ever describe I'm different. Yes to me complete universal knowledge has always been more an instinct than an Acquirement all my days. I have had nothing nothing to acquire nothing for which to exist nothing save one thing Ever since the day I was born I Have been looking For my brother your brother Stefan. I thought you were the only child. I am I don't mean my worldly flesh and blood brother No, I mean something far greater than that Julius I've spent my life searching for my spiritual brother as it were and yet not altogether It will know you see Julius. I am not of this race Startles you doesn't it But it's nonetheless true. I was born 10,000 years too soon. Yes at least 10,000 years Something went wrong in the plan of things some mix up in regeneration some grave calamity in the routine of creation For my kind my race It's not to be born into this world until thousands upon thousands of years hence How I came to be I have no answer, but I am and so I shall be till my span is ebbed I had the complete knowledge of your universe because according to the plan of things to come all that is knowledge here with you Now I'll be merely common inborn knowledge for the race in the future. That is to be mine. That's why I need no books That's why I'm different because the things you know are as mere nothingness to me because the things I know are 10,000 years beyond your understanding I've brought you here dr. Julius Semek to announce to you the end of your civilization I found the means of destroying it at one fell swoop The sooner to bring about the appearance of my race the better for the world I've sought the world over for my brother the one like me one of my race, but now I'm certain there is none That I am alone I Can foretell everything I know everything that is to come all save one thing I do not know my destiny my own individual end I do not have the power to foresee that or to foresee who will bring it about and then He outlined to me the most devastating the most terrible the most death rendering plan of all history For the dispilation of the present race from the face of the earth Bitterly he outlined it poison dripping viciously from his every word Was so simply done so quickly so painlessly That it's very programmed rendered unto me a nausea that I found almost impossible to overcome I argued with him pleaded begs I reason bullied threatened All to know they He had made his plans. He was determined that they should be carried out If he were to be destroyed too, he did not know He could not foresee his destruction Nor his destroyer is destroyer No He didn't know what his own end of honor it was to be he could foresee all future things save his own destruction save his own destroyer his destroyer Someone had to destroy him someone had to someone He was still babbling about that wicked wretched plan of his outlining it like a madman I looked about me cautiously at first then desperately when I realized he had forgotten my existence I go for a solution to this terrible impending calamity And just then step and open at best drawer with drew a small compass I caught a glimpse of a small gun in that drawer I could see even at that distance that the gun was loaded He was still talking about his plan still bewailing the fact that he alone on this earth Had the power possessed within him still decrying the fact that he had searched the world over for his brother Not his flesh and blood brother But a brother of his kind His race he knew that were there another soul of his kind alive on earth That soul could foretell the end The destruction of Stefan Hamlin Suddenly he rose from his chair He ordered me to come with him He was about to work his havoc upon an unsuspecting world and then desperately I acted quickly I yanked open the drawer of his study desk took out the gun. I leveled it at his head. He stood terrified a moment and then then there was a pleading in his eyes a pleading Not for his life But a pleading to spare him the damage a ripping bullet would do to his masterly brain and In that instant in that final desperate second before he lunged at me in an effort to save his life There was recognition the flash of an age old suspicion At last fulfilled and as I lowered my gun to a level with his heart. I Knew that the pain within my heart at that moment would never be removed Like lightning he made for me speeding across the room charging at me I tried to stop him tried to warn him shouted at him keep back Not foreseen his end. He did not know He could not know his brother. I am your brother written and directed by Scott Bishop and Originating in the studios of Wky. Us was heard as dr. Julius Semeck Royce Wright was Stefan Hamlin and Muir height played dr. Carl Miller Next Friday at the same time the 30th original dark fantasy adventure the sleeping death created for you by Scott Bishop Tom Paxton speaking dark fantasy comes to you each Friday night from Oklahoma City. This is the national broadcasting company