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Herbert Marshall hoping once again to keep you in suspense After a while After I lay there in the long grass After the end to running for a while from death Night came and with it the fear And later I said to myself Who are you and I answered You bought a hunted man, and you are going to die Carline will find you and he will kill you Then I got up and ran some more Then there was a house There was a wall around it of stone And separating the house from the woods And there was a flame of candle on the ledge of one of the windows, and I thought I saw inside a room a shadow move Then stay dark and motionless It was a house, and I was tired It was a shelter, and I was afraid and outside here somewhere Was car lion. I'll kill you please. I wouldn't be afraid to do it. I've learned to use this gun I wonder hiding place. I mean follow you can't stop here. You'd better go the way you came But I can't they'd get me Look here. I'm on the side of the law. It's not the officers or after me. Oh, don't you see back? You can't stay here, and I turn around and go out when I get you I'll teach you charity. I told you to I'll teach you Now now I have it miss you see No Yes, but I wasn't going to kill you. I pointed it at the sky you saw that yes You're very frightened aren't you? I don't want to die Out there a man named car lion It's too much It's too much my father Dead in his coffin He died this morning. I've seen a dead man before like this Face-to-face tomorrow morning the people will come the villagers, and I will bury him My father must be terribly alone now And I am You can stay if you like there's no one I'll tell it's just that I need to hide There's a shed that door there, and you can hide now listen to me You are my brother do you see tomorrow at the funeral everyone will come here, and they will see you And you will tell them that you are my brother all right What should I call you your name Elizabeth? I am Andrews and tomorrow when they ask you heard of our father's illness And you came back this morning after years in the city and watched him die. I don't know why what I don't know Why I've helped you as much as I have Afraid of me. That's why it was not fear. It'd be a fool who'd be afraid of you I suppose I was tired of being alone Then she led but was shared where I was to sleep and then she went away from me To some upstairs room of the cottage And in an instant I slept And my awakening a swiftly running current of voices The villagers gathered to the funeral An undertaker's man shot in the coffin led casually as a man shots a book Then the nailing of it with no error finality Then village men to carry it from the cottage place it in the farm cart and with dark Elizabeth beside me Elizabeth was now a sister to me Walk into a wall of whiteness that melted before me Clothes behind me And our footsteps sounding no louder than the drip of misty rain that fell from trees and bushes along our road Then reached the burying place Stand beside the dark Elizabeth in the misty graveyard And be aware that yet Somewhere outside my mind But really to deep within the fear the tempest of fear The fear of Carlisle Holy and merciful savior Thou most worthy judge eternal Suffer us not at our last hour for any pains of death to fall from view The mist opened a little and I could see the fields There was no car lion and I stood alone wanting to turn and run and put a wall of mist between me and that gathering of strangers Loneliness and fear were like the emptiness of hunger Only six steps away, and I will be lost to all the world in a blanket of white wool but then I Would be lonely again take me away from here. Take me home brother food Have you any food? I haven't had any for 15 hours. There's tea and bread in the cupboard. I'll get it It's good of you. There's no reason why I should shut you out. I've been alone. You're better than no one even you tea bread butter Andrews The reason I came back with you fear and something else I'll tell you and you can laugh at me I Was homesick for here I'm not making love to you. It wasn't you. It was just the place. I Slept here, and I hadn't slept before for three days Elizabeth I was wondering what why I like you whom are you frightened? Elizabeth whom are you frightened of death? And it is a man. I know a man named car lion another man You're frightened car lion a man with a voice as near to music as any voice I've ever heard except for yours a Man who? What's that? You're imagining things whisper Do you want to tell the whole world I'm here? Yeah Didn't you hear that into the shed quick the place where you slept? There's no door you fool Oh, there are shadows and darkness find one to hide in you and your fear. Well Forgive me. I'm completely lost in this part. Why didn't you knock one can't be too careful around here? You're not alone. I'm alone. My brother's just gone out. He's not far I can easily call to him if you don't go you mustn't be afraid of me Perhaps I know your brother Is he a little over the middle height slightly built dark with frightened? Obstinate eyes not my brother. He's short and squat and very strong Then I'm not looking for your brother He must have been here very lately Tea is hot and he left in a hurry with his tea unfinished Curious if we didn't meet it's my cup you have will you allow me to finish it? I'm sorry. I didn't meet your brother There's another door That's the shed and they're only tools and withered plants the man you described the frightened obstinate man He's here he slept here last night and now he went with the morning north. I think I don't know He may return here then. I don't think so The frightened man who's here a sort of Judas. He was afraid of you. He's an informer Then because of him six men are in jail on a charge of murder There was a fight in the customs guard was shot for a devil This man Andrews, yes, he spoiled everything Three of us escaped Harry Frawley who is with me And Andrews Informer he's made up us jailbirds and fugitives and murderers The man killed because of smuggled casks of brandy Not a dull dirty game. He's made it all up here and if you find him I Should talk with him Make sure I was right And then what I should kill him He was laughing at me the whole time. He were friends. I Told him all the things I liked shared what I loved with him. I Can only make him forget what I told him by killing him You say you want more yes If he comes back Do not shelter him or warn him Stay with peace Stay alive Andrews. He's gone This knife I would have killed him and you what you were told What he said Yes Coward and informer. You heard him. He would kill me. You informed Whatever your reason you were driven to the side of the law to stay there go into the open Bear witness against the men they've caught Carl. Ion will kill me. Do you understand? Do you? Sure the coward is cold. I Want to stay I want to live coward's hand of my cheek and it is cold Elizabeth let go of me the fog is gone the sky is quite clear and I can see six stars Because I want you to love me and you will go to town and bear witness testify at the trial Tomorrow a long walk to the town. You must sleep Where you slept last night? Good night, Andrews Autolight is bringing you mr. Herbert Marshall in Graham Greene's the man within tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills suspense Say half what type of ignition engineered auto light spark plugs did you get where the resistor type? 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Andrews, I must tell you you're a very brave man. No. No, I'm not a coward She said so. Oh, who said such a ridiculous thing. No, buddy. It doesn't matter It's in the viewpoint to me you are brave to come here to my rooms as you did because she told me to come It seems yeah, it seems that it is necessary. I change somehow So that you can love me To be a man. I see I'll do my best for you. I've taken a room for your shirt at the end, but I won't go back to her You want to stand that if she will love you now then why the fear? Carl iron is not caught. He will find me After tomorrow I must get away You will have the whole of England to drop into but I must tell you this well forget smuggling when this is over act Honestly in the future. Don't pray to me. Don't talk to me. Honestly You're not risking your life with this pile as I am and don't you be impertinent You're doing this to save your own skin else. You'd stand trial tomorrow like the rest Drink a whiskey go to bed My name is Francis Andrews Order order in the court. Where were you on the night of February 10 on board the ship good chance What were you doing there? I was engaged in smuggling We better run a cargo that night so as not to pay the duty tell the court what happened that night I helped load the dinghy with the casts of brandy then I got in with them and help wrote a shore When they began to unload the cargo I slipped away There was no moon was very dark and they did not see me They didn't see me go. I got away among the dunes and hid Then I ran again to where to a house on the moors that I found there to a girl who was in it Elizabeth Tell us about the letter. Mr. Andrews two days before I had sent an anonymous letter To the officer in charge Stating the time in the exact place and who judge of this court order order Another question miss Andrews how long have you been in your profession? Three years and you hated what you were doing. Yes. Why didn't you leave them? I had nowhere to go and no money. Did it ever occur to you to work honestly? No, why did you first join? friendship for a man a man who you're not caught Carlion the man friend of these others in the dark who you betray yes Then what were your motives for laying information with the revenue the man hated me all of them Except Carlion. Oh go on and I was afraid of being hurt and I hated the sea and the noise and the danger and I wanted to show these men that I was someone to be considered that I had the power to Smash all their plans and your friend Carlion. Did you do nothing to ward? It was a case of him or me That that is all mr. Adros. Will the defense cross-examine? No You may step down mr. Andrews You may continue sir Henry. I call the prisoner Jason Collier So he was called Jason Collier and sworn in He refused to talk as did the two who came after him instead They looked at me and each in his turn smiled Smiled I could not understand why and The courtroom became very hot the faces blobs and Time became drone of voices and put accused and denied accused again Abed They were found guilty Then through streets filled with jarring an officer to escort me Through succession of backdoors and dirty lanes through stables then The white heart and the room I had in it Lighted start this was candle and in the floating wisdoms of its rays an image in mirror an image Informer brave courageous informer and the mirror shadow coward coward Still coward fear ridden man fear sick man Because Carlion was free Carlion alive in Carlion's hands still my death coward and No love from Elizabeth for a coward room candle dancing with fear shadow drifting with fear Harry Harry frolly knife says stay where you are unless you want to squeak to a new tune There are offices in this hotel What do you want Harry? Why do you want a quarrel? I'm here to do you a service straight. I am you're out. You ain't very grateful Don't you want to hear my news? What do you shouldn't have squealed? Not on the others it was like your mother you might say when we was to see and see storms and things made your whispers Wimper like a pewdian baby. You were a squeaker. You said you had news of Carlion. I Finished with him But he ain't finished with you look don't interrupt squeaker now. I've got the role of it It's like this Carlion finished with you Nor with your lady bird What do you mean your lady bird? The one of the cottage and the missus her dear caller Elizabeth Elizabeth pity to shelter a squeaker and then to die pity pity Carlion wouldn't do anything to her. I know he wouldn't you'd be off to give it to her tomorrow or the next day You're lying. It's a trap to get me to go back to her. So Carlion will catch me, but I won't I Won't go back. I tell you I lie and that has soon killed you as a look at her But he says killings too good for you. He says you ought to have some fun with your first. He says Elizabeth tell you I'm not go back Tell him it's no use laying that trap for me good. I Have brought your car lion's news and we're quits And silence now and again alone and the coward's image to reach for mirror offer its embrace It's only whisper Only a trap Why is that a trap for a coward who's only repelled by danger? Carlion would not kill a woman Carlion Snuffer candle and his images leave the hotel walk with no fear of death But a terror of life without escape without will walk and reach the downs as a first orange Lifted above the eastern horizon then run to stifle thought run fast until there's no more breath Only the flinging down again upon salt tufts of grass and cool And silver sky touch now with green up and run again Then the house and the wall around it and an opening door and Elizabeth you at last come back. Oh, yes, I can see that I get you tea From that cup That was the cup we both drank from not that one. I remember the one it had a chip out of the ring this one come Bread tea here. Oh, tell me what are you doing here? Has anything happened since I've been away. No, nothing ever happens here. The door was unbolted Do you think that's safe? It was unbolted when you first came I didn't want a less warm welcome for you when you came back. You knew I would come back We are friends. He will laugh at me. You despise me You know, I'm a coward. I betrayed you. How have you betrayed me? It came out in court that you sheltered me in court Were you there? I betrayed you. I told them you sheltered me and now Carl Leon means to punish you for it He'll be here today or tomorrow And I have no fear. He will kill you and me no fool go from here Go away. I love you and I will stay here in this house where you came to me. Do you hear? I love you Elizabeth why were you so long? I Was afraid am I worse than death? You're not afraid of that. I don't fear it in a longer You are filling me with yourself That means courage peace Holiness I love me so long alone Andrews yes, what what what is it? Have you seen something? Nothing. I remembered we shall need water before tonight We must go with a pale now before it's dangerous to the well the pale's in the corner there What a time to remember My knife take it half minutes walk no more the path behind the trees and half a minute and no more the knife take it yes Now kiss me a farewell for a half minutes absence. I kiss you when I come back go Now now she's dead Andrews She meant the knife for me She came for me and she stumbled fell to the floor and the knife pierced her I'm sorry Intensely deeply sorry She was fine Finer than you or I She knew you were here And she sent me away. I wanted you Andrews not her Not the death of that lovely girl You not her With my knife You will kill me Andrews You the coward you brought death to what you loved because of her of Elizabeth No more car lion There is peace now And a kind of happiness Car lion is dead Car lion is dead of the wounding of my knife The knife that had tasted of Elizabeth Car lion dead And I killed him and I am free And the coward who whimpered in the darkness is a fear Is a man Who waits for the coming of the police Who waits in a cottage where fear is dead And well love lies dead Suspense Presented by auto light tonight star mr. 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