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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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Each week's CBS Radio issues an invitation to go on
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the prowl in a real squad car. You will hear
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the stories of real witnesses in real cases. As you
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join us on CBS radios. Might watch It's Unusual, thoroughly factual,
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and thoroughly exciting. Might watch every week on most of
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these same stations. And now Escape and the second act
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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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