Aug. 18, 2024

Unkown Broadcast | "The Eye of Evil"

Unkown Broadcast | "The Eye of Evil"
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Well, hello, my dear fancy running into you here? Oh no, no, no,

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of course I haven't forgotten you. How could I forget you,

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my one and only dear friend. Please get comfortable. The

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tea kettle's on because winter is very, very long and cold,

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and tonight's special storeses is the eye of evil.

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Evil?

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Have you ever looked in the eye of evil? I

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have I worked with a man. The man his eyes

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were dark and red like a roosters, his hands sharp

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and narrow like a roosters. Come to think of it,

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In many ways he was a roosters, an evil evil

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be hell bent on harm. But this source is more

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fun than evil.

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Tired of the everyday grind, ever dream of a life

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of romantic adventure, want to get away from it all?

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We offer you Escape.

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Escape designed to free you from the four walls of

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today for a half hour of high adventure.

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You are standing in a moonlit clearing somewhere in the

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Burmese jungle, the ruins of an ancient temple at your back,

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while gliding silently across the grass towards you. The knife

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in her hand held pointing at you, is the beautiful

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yet deadly high Priestess of the cult you have profaned,

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the exotic girl who must now take your life.

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Listen now as escape brings you. Kathleen Hite story I

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of Evil.

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I studied Fairchild as he read the letter. He was

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not a man I would ordinarily turn to for help.

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But I was not.

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Acquainted at Mandalay then too. He knew Campbell. I mean

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no slur against Fairchild. He was bright enough as government

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office Clark's go I had simply hoped for more formidable assistance.

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This is the last letter from Campbell, the.

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Last word of any sort, until I cabled him to

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meet me in Mandalay. He cabled back that he would

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and name this hotel at noon today.

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Well it's only two hours late. Two hours doesn't mean

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much in Burma.

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I'm not especially concerned about these two hours the letter day.

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I can't say I blame you, Ah, The sort of

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letter doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

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Not to me, not to anyone at the Historical Society.

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I hate to suggest this, but it sounds as if

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the old boys cracked a bit, wouldn't you say?

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That's more or less what I've been sent to find out.

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This part here he says, I shall fail if where

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I look, my eyes see no beauty candy, and I

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it has a certain ring to it. When was the

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last time you saw Campbell? Let me see it was

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well before the rain set in. I should say a

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good six or eight weeks before. That would make it

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late February or early March.

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Campbell's letter was posted here in Mandalay the fourteenth of May.

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You're certain you didn't see him around that data positive?

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Of course, just because it was posted here, it doesn't

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mean Campbell himself is in Mandalay. Probably sent it up

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here from Pugan by Mungba Mungbai Burmese boy devoted to Campbell.

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There's been all sorts of help to him with all

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that probing.

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About it does around Pugan ruddy ancient shrine and Pagodas

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the places.

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Crawling with him enough.

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Yes, yes, that's what I understand.

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Mumba does a lot of that sort of thing for Campbell,

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and supplies comes out the Ladi by boat. You know,

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there's no trained down to Pugan from Mandale. I don't

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suppose Campbell relish is the boat trip often.

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What was he like the last time you saw him?

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Seems normal enough? We lunched here at the hotels, just

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as we're doing.

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From what you've said, that's about four months or so ago.

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I guess a lot could happen to a man in

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four months.

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It could in Pogan, nothing but those miserable pagodas and

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shined I don't take much to ruin myself.

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You mean that, haven't you lying?

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No, no, no, This was my first trip to Burma.

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Then, might just give you a word about the people,

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all sorts, of course, But those around Pugan seem to

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be given to all manner of strange belief, superstitions, odd things. Well,

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the evil eye, for example, You serious, dead serious?

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Well, we can't be talking about the same thing. If

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I remember correctly, The archaic belief in the evil eye

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is that if one possesses it, anything or anyone he

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looks upon.

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Will die. Only it isn't entirely archaic.

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It's a widespread belief in Ninja, parts of Egypt, Arabia,

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and certainly here in Burma.

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That's fantastic.

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If I may Lorling, You're apt to find a great

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many things in Burma fantastics. Not so much in Mandalay,

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perhaps a rangoon, But around Pugan and to the west

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and north. There's a feeling, a mystic something that's been

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known to take hold of men.

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You're suggesting that can I don't know.

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You'd have to go there to find out.

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As fair Child left me, something drew my attention across

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the room. She was alone, and quite possibly the most

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beautiful woman I have ever seen, utterly strikingly beautiful, and

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the look in her eyes was a compelling invitation. In

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no time at all, I accepted.

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You were a very long time, a.

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Matter of seconds after I saw you.

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But you were a long time seeing me. I have

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been looking at you for almost an hour.

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Oh not like that, you haven't, No, I'd have known.

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I wonder.

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Your face, a very nice face, is being clouded with concern,

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and so with mine. Have been with your luncheon companion.

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He was a bit drab, wasn't he.

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I saw no reason for you to spend more time

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with him. Gina decided you should spend your time.

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With her China.

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I like that, and I like the name Stephen Loring.

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How on earth could you know that?

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Either I have the gift of claire rooyance or I

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paid to look at the hotel register.

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Well, in either case, I'm flattered, and because I haven't

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much time, I agree with China. I should spend what

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time I have with her? How much time? Today? Perhaps tonight?

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And tomorrow? No, no, tomorrow. I'm off to Pugan and

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a feeling a mystic, something that's been known to take

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hold of men. You choke about Pugan. Oh no, no,

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not really, I was quoting my drab friend. I've never

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been to Pugan myself.

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I do not think you would like it there. Oh,

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pu Guan is very different. I should think you would

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find Mandolas much more to your taste.

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I should think I would too. And Gina, knowing Mandlai

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was strange to me, wrote out instructions that would lead

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me to a rendezvous that night, and and she was gone.

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I found it difficult to believe our meeting it ever occurred,

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except that the memory of her was vivid and haunting.

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I lingered over a brandy and was preparing to leave

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the dining room.

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Greeedy's turkey, you are, I am certain one, mister Loring.

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Is everyone in Burma clairvoyant?

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No Turkin? I am pleased to be Mumba Who Mumba?

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Oh, Campbell's friend from Pugan. Were where easy? Isn't he

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with you?

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Regrettively not with Mumba. His timid friend remained in Pugan,

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asks that you understand and kindly to return to Pugan

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with Mumbai.

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Oh well, is is anything the matter with Campbell?

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To say again, Stephen's friend remains in Pugan, asks that

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you understand and kindly to return to Pugan with Mumbai.

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No, no, I understand you all right, I'm inquiring about Campbell?

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Is he well?

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To say again?

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Is I understand? I am to come with you to Pugan. Campbell?

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Is there?

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Good?

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Good?

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To live? Now? Is to arrive at Pugan as the

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sun rises? No?

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Not good? Not today tomorrow morning, when the sun lives again,

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we will go.

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To say again to leave now?

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No, no, no, no, never mind that I said not today?

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Do you understand? Tomorrow morning you and I go to Pugan.

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Not good?

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Very good? Here? Can you lead me to this address

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or show me how to get there?

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Seem to answer Mungbah is able to lead to this address?

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I have splendid Then meet me here at the hotel

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at seven this evening.

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No, thank you?

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Take in no? Now, what's all this about to.

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Beg pardon takin. Though able Mumba think not wise for

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one mister Loring to present himself at stated address, So

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Mungba not to lead him.

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There, and he smiled and bowed and scurried off. It

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didn't matter. I knew that somehow I would find my

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way to China. That night, when evening came, I left

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the hotel and began a bewildering tour of the countless bazaars,

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my asking a direction here and a question there. I

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came finally to a dark cluster of buildings in a

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remote section of the Zegio Bazaar. And there at the

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proper door, I stopped. You are the most welcome one.

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I'm Stephen Loring, much in a wits for you kindly

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and thank you. Let me see. It's a bit dark

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in here, isn't it. The lights of a thousand candles

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are soon to contact in One morning, I took a

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few steps on past the servant and suddenly I held

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a pair of arms around me. I struggle to free

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myself in then a blinding tent flashed through me, and

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I felt myself sinking to the floor. Faintly I heard

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the voices and only one that I recognize, and that

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of the little Burmese.

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Man bow.

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Yah.

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Take m mm hmmm.

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Take two, Wake from a dream not always pleasing, Taking.

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Well Mumbai, m hmm, what happened?

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Not to remember? Often rewarding. Oh we're on the boat

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soon to land at Bougard. While last night you will

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followed me. You saved my life. No trouble to serve

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a friend of a stement friend.

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Oh yeah, yes, yes Campbell, I wonder how i'll find him.

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In time taking all questions are answered.

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No, no, you're wrong. Some questions are never answered.

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Maybe that's just as well spoken like man of wisdom

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in light men.

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Very little of either. This morning Mumba. It is morning,

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isn't it sun warm?

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And you, like Mumba, has much to learn before it dies.

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We all do to beg pardon, takin some more than others.

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People of village are in their hearts good people, but

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wisdom to them new and fears all.

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Yes, so I understand, But what is people?

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A village require patients. Leader who shows patience and no

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fear can bring my people to enlightenment, away from superstitions

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and ancient religious teachings.

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Oh, now you've got the wrong idea. I have not

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come to lead your people anymore than Campbell didn't. Now understand,

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I've come only to get data on the ancient shrines

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and for godders nearby, and to help your esteem from Campbell.

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Takin to see many past glories of Fugan, but a

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big part and villagers of Pugan also.

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There the village. When we reached it was somewhat inland

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from the river port of Fugan. Propper Wood and bamboo

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huts lined the four sides of a square that served

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as a compound. A pack of wild dogs swarmed ahead

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of us, yapping a signal to the groups of villagers

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bunched together near a central hut. Mungba raised his hand

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in greeting hunt for a moment of frozen silence. The

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villagers turned and ran.

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They run from us. Something very wrong, not much of

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a welcome. Must walk ahead to hut of a stupid friend.

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Must smile, show no fear, comeentucky.

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I fixed this smile on my face that Mungba ordered,

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and I followed. If I showed no fear, it was

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not because I felt them. There wasn't a soul in sight.

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But my back straightened rigid, with the feel of one

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hundred eyes upon it. Mangba's steps slowed at the sound

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of the bell, his head cut slightly to one side,

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as if to listen. We walked on slowly now until

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we came to the Central Hut. There, Mungba, stop cold,

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boo ooh not so, what is it? What's wrong?

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He he will I it has come hee, evil eye.

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You are listening to I of Evil. Tonight's presentation of Escape.

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of I of Evil.

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Mugba had disappeared as quickly and completely as the others

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fled in terror from a crude sign I could not understand.

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At the door of the Central Hut, the temple bells

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tolled ominously as I walked inside, not knowing what to expect.

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Mugba had called this Campbell's Hut, but there was no

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one inside, only the strange signs and symbols affixed to

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everything in sight. I wanted to run two desperately, but

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something told me that if I were safe at all,

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I was safer inside the hut. As the silent day

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wore on, I found many of Campbell's papers, garbled and strange.

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They were a chronicle of the steady deterioration of a man.

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When I finally put them down, it was night.

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Takin, Takin, Mumba falls before you. Are you hurt only

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with hurt of shame? Takin and get up? When Julie forgiven,

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I said.

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Get up and tell me what this madness is all about?

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These signs, this poppy talk about the evil Eye.

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Mumba. Upon seeing the signs of evil, Ie forgot his enlightenedment.

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Did you find out about Campbell? He is said to

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be possessed, and that accounts of these signs.

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Signs are charmed to evil eye take away power. So say, my.

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People, Your people are insane.

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Only frightened, Takin.

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Look, can't you talk to them, reason with them? Telling

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they had nothing to fear that even if they did

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these obscene charms of there's a no answer.

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Not Moonba Turkeen must do me. That's ridiculous to say again,

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Takin must do. The evil eye is on this house.

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Only Takin can prove this is not so, so, say

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my people. But how tomorrow Takin look upon chosen one.

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If chosen one not die, spell of evil eye broken,

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if chosen one die not good.

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Oh all the idiotic too beg.

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Pardon to do this only way to save esteemed friend

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and self.

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There was no sleep. The bugan night spent itself slowly, weirdly,

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washed in moonlight, and filled with strange sounds. The paddy bird,

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the barking deer, the cries of wild cattle lay, and

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always always the eerie toll of the temple bells. I

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could feel it building in me, a fusion of strangeness,

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a fear, a fear that was somehow compelling. Drawn to

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an opening at the back of Campbell's hut, I worked

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out from there, I saw a moonlight fantasy in a

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clearing before an ancient pagoda, A single dancer performed, and

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then somehow I was outside the hut, walking slowly across

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the compound. No Takin, look, get out my way.

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Hear me here here mumba you must not answer the

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call of the temple.

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Bells stand aside.

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To follow is to die.

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I tried to free myself from Mungba's grip. I could not.

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And if the dancer danced on, and if the bell's

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toll longer, I don't know, because me the night was

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black and silent and the madness was gone. You know,

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each night I don't know how I got to bed.

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Every morning I find you here, ta keen? Sleep well

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like I will hit on my head, Mungba? Was there

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really a dancer out there?

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Mumba? Fixty takin feel fine?

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Was there a dancer?

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What has gone before belongs to the night, no longer

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to us.

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I don't understand your bloody country, Mumba, or even you.

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I am pleased to be a simple man.

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You've saved my life twice now Why.

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Ta quin Mumba? Friend? Life O friend more precious than

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one Kmmba?

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What happened to me last night? What happened to Campbell

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before I got here?

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Mumba? Not no fixed t takin feel fine?

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Everything here plays on your feelings, emotions, The cries of

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the animals, the tolling of the bells, the sight of

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ruin after ruined pagodas and shrines in crumbling decay, is

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that it does the very decay. Here hold the power

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to degenerate a man. Oh, temple bell again.

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Our has come takin hot hour before bright sun, and

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my people takin look upon chosen one. Only way to

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say this, devid friend and itself.

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Outside, the villagers lined the compound, some war coverings over

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their entire heads. Others, with the same fear that I

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might possess the evil eye, hid their faces from my view.

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All of them so far as I could see war

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signs and symbols as charms against my spell. It was madness,

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all of it. Madness taken ready, Just tell me what

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I'm supposed to do, Chosen one.

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We'll walk to the center of cleaning temple. Bells will stop.

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That becomes signal for takin to look for first time

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upon chosen One.

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When the bell stopped, he is all right, well, let's

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get on with it.

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Kindly turn back. Taken all right.

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Now to make quick work of it.

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Turkein have nothing to fear.

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My heart very nearly stopped with the bells. Slowly I

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turned around to look upon the chosen one. He stood

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proudly straight smiling confidently at me, my little Burmese friend Mumbah.

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And I looked and smiled and watched him fall. Mumba, Mumba, Mumba.

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How how in Heaven's name.

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Not to Turkey his stewart friend camber.

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He Campbell mm hmm, poor wretched devil Mumba was dead.

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When I was alone, I started to lift him to

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carry him back to the hutton. Then I saw the

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thin arrow in his back, a blow gun. I looked

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up in the direction the arrow must have come there.

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It was the ancient pagoda where the dancer had been

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the night before. It was also the direction of the

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temple bells. This time, without anyone to stop me, I

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walked into the ruins of the temple. Campbell, Campbo, where

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are you? I'll find you, you know, Campbo? Campbo? Over here, Lauren.

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I can't see you any shadows. I'm here in the dark,

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and you can hear me. If your eyes fail, you

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follow your ears. Why did you do it? Campbell? He

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worshiped you. Why did you have to kill Mungba Mangba?

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Cowering in the darkness won't help you, Campbo. There's a

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window down there. Why don't you stand proudly in the

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bright Sunlight's heated Maungba died proudly. I'll get it. Callum

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visible you are mad? Come here here the light he

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now stand there and tell Camble are we at the window?

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Now?

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Lorning Campbell? You're blind? Your eye stand proudly in the

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bright sunlight? What happened to you? Who did this to you?

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I shall fail? Where I look, my eyes see no beauty,

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Oh Campbell, we didn't understand in your letter, None of

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us understood. Tell me who didn't that to your eyes?

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Where one sees no beauty, no good, one sees evil.

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And once the eye becomes absorbed with the evil, it

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is said the eye must no longer see. Campbell, listen

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to me. We'll go now, you and I I'll take

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you home. I am home. No, no, no, we'll go

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to England now together. Do you understand me? You don't

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understand me. I want to be here. I must be here.

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But why why? This place is strange and terrifying and beautiful, loring,

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But you you must go before you see it's beauty,

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before it draws you and holds you and never lets

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you go. There is no beauty here.

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Have you not seen our beauty, Stephen loring Na. Have

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you not watched the dancer by moonlight and felt compelled

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to follow her?

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Go Lring, Go now it's not too late for you, Campbell.

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Did Sheina? Did she do this to you? Go lauring

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while you can.

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You were supposed to die in Mandalay Stevens.

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You tried to have me killed. My people are happy

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as they are. Believe me, lauring and go now too

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late is very soon upon you, I'll go. I've had

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my fill of this madness?

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Is it madness?

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Are you sure? You must be very sure.

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It might be madness, or again, it might be a feeling,

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a mystic, something that has been known to take hold

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of men.

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I ran hard and fast from the ancient pagoda, away

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from China, away from Campbell, through the compound. I ran

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told Pugan in the river and freedom. And when the

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river was in sight, my legs became heavy leaden, and

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in my mind I knew I would run as far

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into the world as I could. But I also knew

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that someday I would have to come back under the

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direction of Norman McDonald.

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Escape has brought You Eye of Evil by Kathleen Heights

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starring John Dayner. Featured in the cast were Lynn Allen

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and Jack Krusian, with Parley Bear and Ben Wright. You're

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announcer George Walsh. The special music for Escape is composed

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and conducted by Leith Stephens.

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Next week, you are adrift in the small boat somewhere

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in the English Channel, the fog lying heavy on the

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greasy moving waters, while in the dark ahead of you,

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moving through the war to or night towards you is

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a thread of death from which there may be no escape.

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So listen next week when Escape brings you David divine

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story flood on the goodwinds. This coming Monday Night on

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CBS Radio's gun Smoke, he will discover, along with United

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States Marshal Matt Dillon, that the problems facing a US

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Marshal of the Old West were just as vital and

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real as those facing law enforcement officers today. Remember Monday

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Nights on most of these same stations, CBS Radio presents

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realistic Western thrills on gun Smoke. This is the CBS

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Radio Network.

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I don't know what it is about a chilling story

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on a cold evening that just well brings a warmth

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inside me that I honestly don't get very oft. I

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hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. I

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see you finish your tea. Let me get that cup

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for you. If you're enjoying what we're doing. I hope

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I'll see you right here tomorrow night, because I'll be

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here where else would I be? What do you know?

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What do you know? And please? If you want to

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email me, you can do so at Weird Mysteries Show

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at gmail dot com. I read every bit of communication

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I get from you, or of course you can bust

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out a Ouiji board. Until tomorrow, my dear, sleep in

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your cozy bed and remember them, be thankful for what

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you have.

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Mumbling plenty of pregnant

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Boudo