 tired of the everyday grind ever dream of a life of romantic adventure want to get away from it all we offer you escape escape design do free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure you are drifting along the muddy reaches of a South American River you're diving gear in readiness the air pumped going yet you know that in the murky depths below you waiting in the slime there for you is a mortal enemy from whom there may be no escape listen now as a skate brings you Tony Barrett story bloodwaters they take you up slowly always slowly even in a nothing job like this one a harbor bottom dive that a beginner at Lafette I kicked away from the heavy pilings harder than I had to and I knew I was trying to dull my mind again not to think about it trying to sell myself the same old story that a diver shouldn't care where he works because the job's always the same there's something down there they want it you get it period but it didn't work too well the story was wearing thin there you are you know you want to suit off or you want the rest for sir rest from what a 50-foot dive get me out of the suit see see perhaps the man knows best Murdoch a 50-foot dive can be dangerous but then danger never bothered you did it what are you doing here Murdoch what do you want does an old friend have to want something I'm not interested in any of your deals really with this job finished and nothing else in sight I'm busy Murdoch beat it no curiosity Trent not so much as what are you doing in a forsaken hole in Argentina you never were much at small talk were you goodbye Murdoch wait a minute take your hand off me why the rush where are you going you know it all you tell me all right I will what you do between now and tonight does not matter but at nine o'clock I shall expect you at the cafe de rondo promptly and if I don't come and you afford not to come Trent it still takes money to live even down here I'll see you at nine o'clock now you've been talking for an hour now Murdoch and you haven't said anything get to it you have no social graces pity Trent how would you like never to have to get into diving gear again to be rich really rich to have everything you ever wanted I had everything I wanted once you remember that don't you Murdoch how long have you been away from the States Trent what's that got to do with it hello three years three stinking years and don't you want to go back no I like work in jungle holes like this I like 50 foot dock site dives with native boys that fall asleep on the pumps while you're down there what are you building a fortune for both of us what do you want this time my right eye can't you forget what happened can you you're being stupid you're out of your territory down here Murdoch so talk nice to me look Trent in two months we can both walk out of here with more money than you ever dreamed of I don't dream anymore go Trent if I told you how much you would think me mad you want to give me half you will earn it by diving yes did I say something humorous so you fell for the national industry don't you know there's a peddler on every corner down here selling maps of sunken treasure I love that the smooth Vincent Murdoch is a tourist and now do you want to hear what I have to say say your piece did you ever hear of the Grand Chuckles rebellion Maria my dear may I present Senor Trent Paul this is Maria Sandoval Senorita Senors sit down Maria something to drink no you said something about a rebellion 14 years ago to be exact Bolivia and Paraguay were at either each other's throats it's in the history books I didn't know you were a reader Murdoch the Paraguayans were getting the worst of it so they loaded a small boat the Santa Rosa with millions in gold for shipping up the Paraguay river it was to go to Brazil for safekeeping well after the boat left where to be nice go it was never seen again nor was the gold is true Senor storm they never even found survivors besides where would they look have you had the idea of the length of the Paraguay River to governments can't find the gold but you can that is correct I can what do you got charts better than that what then I said before that they never found survivors idea the only one interested Trent I don't want any part of you Murdoch now or anytime so get off my back don't you realize what I'm offering you I understand this it's over I'm through with you in your schemes and I'm not running anymore get that through your head your fat slug you listen to me three years ago I listened to you three years down in this sinkhole is what I got for it three years you foul filthy pigs many times I hit him trying to pay him back for the lonely years but finally it was over finished I was back at the waterfront again tasting the soft breeze coming in from the sea what do you want Maria isn't it Maria I'm sorry if I messed up your friend Murdoch he's all right now besides I have seen men fight before yeah I'm sure you have you always follow the winner anger forces words the tongue does not want to say my name is Trent not Murdoch plain enough I know your names and oh there is a scratch on your cheeks and a little blood let me a woman knows how is that the way you kiss Murdoch your eyes Paulie the anger is still there and it shouldn't be not after that who were you really kissing Maria me or him what do you want the gold Murdoch everybody wants something what's yours I want you to come with me senior no more Paulie though huh please come with me please I show you what I want she turned and moved away without ever once looking back so she was sure I'd follow her she was right the shack she led me to was less than a half mile away no different than any of the others around it she turned to look at me once so she opened the door and her eyes were a thousand years old she little lamp and I looked where she was pointing he lay on a bed in the corner a little Portuguese maybe 50 cackling softly to himself as though he knew a joke that nobody else would ever know his hair was pure white the kind that comes from too much terror too much shock and then I saw his hands from fingertips to elbows they were a mass of little scars ugly needle like scars that spoke of some past moment of horror we moved closer but he never looked up just sat cruning softly to a bottle of whiskey cradle Denise on who is he have you never seen a man who has lost his mind to fear look where for he is such a one have you seen enough is he a my father what is left of him how does it happen Maria you have already been told what Murdock spoke truth tonight when he told the survivor from the Santa Rosa later as we sat staring out at the water she told me all of it and it wasn't hard to follow an old man driven insane by terror who clung to Murdock because Murdock kept him in whiskey the one thing that pushed the terror away for a while very neat and tidy the Murdock touch you understand now Paulito yeah what do you want me to do Maria make the trip with Murdock is his diver is that what you want my father is a child now Murdock will use him and then that's all you want it from the beginning isn't it for me to be a watch dog he is my father Paulito yeah I never asked you're going along see I go alright Maria I'll dive for Murdock oh thank you thank you all right Paulito please gratitude for your father no not this time this time for me Murdock was all sweetness and light next morning when I told him he had a diver you just warned we were old buddies he barked at only one thing my wanting to take along Jose the kid who'd handle pumps for me on the harbor job but I wasn't about to do any diving without somebody I trusted handling lines Murdock didn't like it but he couldn't afford to argue Jose turned out to be a real good investment before we ever got started that night as a matter of fact oh you finish up Jose all finished you know watch him create the gear I did it myself I should have known thanks you know how well you know the channel Murdock too well why well come on Jose what is it while I was taking care of the gear he was getting their permissives how you permits government permits for the interior see see you're supposed to name all the people that go I know that what about it I saw the papers and well it's every name there except yours but why why does he do a thing like that you know what reason to save explain later yeah Murdock's got it all figured out Jose mother still do not understand why are you not on that list it's real simple a man who doesn't make a trip can't be expected to come back from it you are listening to bloodwaters tonight's presentation of escape millions in Asia living on inadequate diets and additional millions in free Europe fighting for post-war recovery are the beneficiaries when you give to care see a RE send a $10 care package or the 695 budget package for further details right care New York that's care New York and now escape and the second act of bloodwaters it's a thing you got to see to believe a thing that exists every foot of the length of Argentina get a couple of hours inland from the coast and you've gone back a thousand years nothing but jungle jungle so thick and green you can travel a full day without ever was getting a glimpse of sunlight bad enough anyway you try it but doing it Murdock's way was the worst Murdock a gold hungry penny pinching man who hadn't hired enough bearers who skimped on food and who hated every minute wasted on rest Maria took it well quiet for the most part her eyes never far from Sandoval the old man was pathetic shambling along falling off and uncaring and never hearing there was only one sound that mattered in his world the court coming out of the bottle and Murdock was master of the bottle four days of it four stinking crawling days and on the morning of the fifth we came out of it stood there looking out at the Paraguay River the gold was showing in Murdock's eyes again look at it trend beautiful isn't it the river it's all it is it's been a long walk where to now three days up river do you have any objections your foot in the bail and you should remember that to check our supplies while I make arrangements for the boat don't you want me to take a look at the boat before you make a deal make sure you got a good winch you have a short memory trend I'd say I'm fairly capable of making deals wouldn't you you just make sure the bearers don't steal anything when they leave I take care of that for you Sino and thanks Jose oh and keep an eye on the old man and see you see no all the other men I keep Paulito Maria you all right I see oh I'm so grateful to you get it oh for what for everything everything Paulito you take care with Murdock yeah yeah now listen to me from here on it's gonna be different we'll all be on a small boat for days maybe weeks I won't always be around because of the diving here take the gun just take it and hope you don't have to use it a couple of hours later Murdoch came back and waved us down to the river instead of being alone now he had a native with him a big man he called but to a lot of man even through the paint on his face you could see the combination of Mayan and Inca the thousand year old dignity as he stood looking at us friends this is but to I just arranged for the boat and he's going up river with us to help with the loading but you but to help what are we taking him for Murdock he wants to go up river to his people and he will work for his passage we can use him you keep adding people somebody's gonna have to swim alongside that ain't much of a boat now Trent this is no time to be at each other's throats I know we are on the right track send of all started getting excited the moment he saw this part of the river for a guy in his condition you're doing a lot of depending on him you let me worry about that all you have to do is handle your end of things and that won't begin until we start diving you're wrong Murdock I started worrying three years ago remember two days on the river two long days with Murdock never once taking his eyes off Sandoval watching each slightest reaction the bottle always ready the old man needed that bottle now his terror growing by the minute and Murdock loving it because it told him we were getting closer that night I was laying out my gear back in the stern when but to the big native came toward me he wasn't the calm giant anymore just a man a terrified man with words tumbling out of his mouth you tell about to you tell you what about crazy man great Sandoval or what about him hands the scars you mean how did he get him yes I don't know what happened to his hands but what about him why you come here to dive to bring something up from the water why no not going water no why not what's wrong not go devil water devil water you not going devil water and that's all I could get out of just that a long time before I got to sleep late on the third day we dropped anchor just outside a small cold Murdock was out of his mind with excitement but it was too dark for diving we'd start in the morning but to wanted to go ashore to see his people swore he'd be back before sunup Murdock didn't like it but he had no choice we needed the big man on pumps in the morning we were up at dawn and but to was back aboard he didn't say much he was never more than a couple of feet away from me and his eyes never left me but I didn't have time to think about it I had my own troubles what's the use along trade for you and your penny pension you've been had Murdock well what's wrong well not a thing except this winches on its last leg well let's not argue repair it the best you can talk cheap but I'm the guy who goes down there listen to me Trent we're close really close Sandoval swears it's right beneath us he has to be right he's pointed out landmarks all the way wait a minute what's that it's native drums probably welcome get that shoot close Trent we're losing time you'll remember what I say about clear lines down there Sandoval I'll remember and don't you forget look Sandoval look on the shore native six or seven of them it's part of Batu's tribe what's that they're carrying looks like a pig or a goat and they throw this cut what is it but to what are they doing make sacrifice to river God but why now save you from what what's down there a native superstition Trent where's your intelligence are you ready but to you not stay in water long on the beach they heard his command and the pig was thrown into the river moment later Jose had bolted my helmet in place and I was being lowered over the side of the boat everything was forgotten now the work is staying alive that's how it is with diving you can do it a thousand times but it's always new Jose knew it through the phone I could hear him worrying with me yeah read me stay with me I'm gonna have a look around I checked my lines and started toward a large mass of shadow distances underwater fool you I was on it almost before I started it was a ship or what was left of one her back had been broken in two and her stern was right in front of me I read it aloud Santa Rosa I found it start a line down I went in carefully slowly making sure of my lines it didn't take me 20 minutes to find it tremendous iron bound chest I scratched the slime off with my knife and there it was the official seal of Paraguay there wasn't any doubt now what was inside I got a line around it told them which way to swing the winch and managed to get it out in the clear for the trip up I just about finished when I felt a signal on my lines what is it but you said to get up here quick you've been down too long why friends let's not take chances on a foul line let's not take chances on me tell Jose to take me up comes up first turn clear trench Murdoch listen my knife is across the line you turn that winch and I'll cut the line you hear me you're I could cut your own hose go on cut it I'm tired of living with you on my back anyway all right all right don't get excited we will take you up slowly they began taking me up and then I realized why Murdoch knew once I started up I couldn't possibly cut the line that held the chest he took me up just far enough to get my hands on the bottom rung of the Jacobs ladder and hang there helplessly through the phones I could hear the creek of the winch as he started hauling up the chest looking up through the water I could see Murdoch leaning over the rail as he waited for the chest to break water and then it happened a sudden sharp sting on my hand when I looked I saw blood blood in a six-inch fish racing in for another fight in a second there were more of them little needle-toothed devils plunging at the canvas soup even trying to bite through the steel of the helmet to get at the flesh inside and at last I understood everything why but to call it devil water why Sandoval had gone insane and what happened to the crew of the Santa Rosa that six-inch fish was the South American piranha a cannibal so deadly it strips a man to the bone in 30 seconds then I heard something else the winch Murdoch had been driving it too fast even for a good winch it started to crumple just as the chest broke water Murdoch saw the chest inches from his hand start slipping back and the thought of losing the gold drove in crazy he grabbed for it even as the chest pulled him down past me he was still holding on to it even as the piranha left me to strip easier pickings than steel and canvas he held on to it and I knew he'd never let go how could he hadn't the gold pulled him halfway around the world and then climbed out of the water to get him under the direction of Norman McDonald escape has brought you bloodwaters by Tony Barrett starring Vic Perron featured in the cast were Jack Krushen Lily and Bayev Tony Barrett and Barney Phillips your announcer George Walsh the special music for escape is composed and conducted by Leith Stevens next week you are one of four 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