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On September thirtieth, nineteen sixty two, CBS Radio aired the
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final broadcast of Suspense, episode nine hundred and forty five.
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The program is Devilstone, in which Dublin air Timothy Martin
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inherits a long unused castle in northern Ireland and intends
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to rent it rather than make it his home. Warnings
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from his solicitor and the reaction of prospective American tenants
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lead Martin to travel to the property with his butler
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Everts and his dog Kim. Christopher Carey stars as Martin.
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Jonathan Bundy, the byline of Jack Johnstone, wrote the script
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and Fred Hendrickson produced and directed. And now we returned
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to the original broadcast, And now a.
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Tale well calculated to keep you in suspence in a
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moment Act one of Devilstone, starring christ To Precarry and
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Neil Fitzgerald, and written especially for suspense by Jonathan Bundy.
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This portion of suspense is brought to you by the
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makers of Parliament Cigarettes. Ah listen, More and more people
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are smoking to this tune.
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Every day.
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Parliament give Jesus exs and largest Parlament gives you extra
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argin make you stay and meet clean corner in a way.
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This Parlament gives you the largest Parliament gives you x
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the margin you seen meat, you're snacking clean with one today.
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My name is Martin, Timothy Martin. I live here in Dublin,
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and very nicely too, thanks to a considerable inheritance and
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sale of the family estate in County Kilkenny, which bought
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a very good price. I have a comfortable cottage, a
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faithful man servant by the name of Evatts, and everything else.
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I need to live an easy, contented life, and without
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the need of applying myself to any sort of labor.
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Even my financial matters are no Barther told me her
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handled by a penny pinchion old solicitor by the name
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of Ian Carney.
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And mine was a contented life until.
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That is, until a long forgotten uncle died and left
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me some property he'd own but never lived on up
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in County for mana near inner Skillen, a place known
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as Devilstone. And then, but let me digress for a moment,
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I should say, let me seem to digress for a moment,
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and remember this please, for it may have much to
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do with a strange, terrifying tale I'm about to tell
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you deep Ander. Saint Michan's Church here in Dublin is
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a crypt. It possesses most amazing properties. In it lie
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scores of bodies in a state of perfect preservation, albeit
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they are hundreds of years old. The old ones used
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to say it's due to some wondrous form of black magic.
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That modern science, modern chemistry has exploded that ancient belief
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has shown that certain gases generated by the unusual composition
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of the dark, dank earth in which the crypt is located.
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But those gases have produced this amazing phenomenon very well. Now.
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A few days ago I called mister Carney, my solicitor,
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on the telephone.
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I've been hoping at Carne Timothy. I wish to speak
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with you about that house and property and County Fermana
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that your uncle left you.
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Well, I have certainly no desire to move away from Dublin,
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mister Kearney, So I decided to rent up the old place,
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rent it out. And why not, sir, you really think
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you can, for I'm quite certain I can.
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I don't it well.
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As a matter of fact, an American couple by the
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name of Stoker left here only yesterday for a look
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at it.
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I see.
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I expect they'll be back here a moment now to
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agree to lease it for the summer.
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Timothy, you are sure that on the pictures and description
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of the place.
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Yesterday morning they were. They were so intrigued by them,
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they were all to signing e least then and there.
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You'd better to have taken their money and let them
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do it, my boy.
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Oh ay, I'm sure I don't see why.
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Well, surely they're entitled to look at the place over
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before they take it, after all, mister Connie, never haven't
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been there myself. There wasn't too much I could tell
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them about Devils.
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Stone, exactly as it should be, Timothy.
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I'm afraid I don't understand you, sir.
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I mean that now, my boy, you will never rent
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it to them. Do tell anyone else who goes there?
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Why not?
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Now?
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Why do you say that, mister Kearney, Well, yeah, you
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don't know, of course I don't know.
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Then perhaps your tenants, I should say, erstwhile prospective tenants
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will tell you if you ever see them again.
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And now what do you mean by excuse me a moment,
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mister conne, Yes, what is it?
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Evers?
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I beg your partner, But there's a mister Stoker here to.
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See you, Soger, Yes, sir, and.
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If I may say so, it appears to be quite
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his saity about something rather angry. Hello. Shall I tell
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him you're busy and suggest to see you another time?
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Timothy?
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Yes?
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No, effad having come in? Please? Hello, Hello, Timmoth.
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Oh sorry, mister Ghaney, but I have someone here to
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see me.
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No devil Stone. I think I better call you back
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very well if you like.
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But there is something about devil Stone. It's history that
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you might not be cognizant.
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Though, Hi, will I'll get back to you shortly, Timothy
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Goo adviser.
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Well, at least you didn't try to skip out on me.
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Mister Stoker. How are you?
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Nice to see you again? Oh? It is eh?
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Did you and your wife get over to look at
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Devil's Stone as your plan?
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We certainly did.
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And by heaven, Martin, if this is your idea, some
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practical joke? May what sending me alone to that ungodly
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place would have been bad enough? My wife, Martin, you
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want to be horsewhiped?
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Now?
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Wait please, I'll have you know that as a result
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of your having let her go there, you and your.
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Twisted sense of humor? What what does the matter with you? Anyway?
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The poor woman nearly went out of her mind.
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Mister Stoker.
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He still hasn't recovered from it. Sure, sure I got
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her back to Dublin, all right, but the doctor's ordered
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to bed and to give her strong sedatives. Now, I
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warn you, young man, if she doesn't recover, Stoke won't
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bother Martin. The less you say, the less I have
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to see of you from here on out, the better.
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Here Here are the keys, so that that place.
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And now look here, mister goodbye Martin.
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If I ever see you again, it will be in.
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A corner of wall. And believe me, mister Stoke, I
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don't know what you're talking about. What are yourselufset about?
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Oh you don't, eh?
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Do you mean to say that's something something wrong with Devilstone?
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And do you mean to say that you the owner
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of it don't know?
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We don't know what, sir, You.
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Don't know that ungodly places haunted?
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What you heard me haunted? They passively have had right
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so haunted. But that's what he said, mister Matten, Yes,
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that's what he said. Oh dear dear pig cure patterns
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but really, really, it's too.
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Amusing proably all right have it? You go right ahead
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and laugh and I'll join you.
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Well, that's about an absurd excuse i've ever heard. Excuse me, sir,
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you don't think he meant it? But the devils Stone
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is haunted? How could he haunted? Houses went out of
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fashion a hundred years ago? No, everts it was simply
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a sillyk excuse for not leasing the place, and now
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that he and his wife have had a look at it,
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But what an excuse? But does he think that we
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Irish are nothing but a lot of stupid, superstitious idiots.
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That's right, sir, what I mean, of course, not sir.
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For anyhow, it's completely ridiculous.
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So we'll simply forget it, forget about the stokers, place
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an advertisement in the papers, and find ourselves some other tenants.
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Yes, sir, maybe we'd best reduce the rate on it
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a bit.
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Perhaps that's what scared them off, now that could be, sir,
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or who knows, And perhaps devil'stone isn't in as good
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condition as we've been led to believe. But can you
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imagine anyone coming up with an excuse so patently absurd?
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So completely asinine and so utterly foolish and expecting us
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to believe him, to take him seriously. Yes, but she said, sir,
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everts the truth? Now, yes, do you believe? Do you
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think possibly? Oh?
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No, no, of course not. It couldn't be.
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Could that have been what mister Kearney was talking about,
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or at least implying mister Kenney was solicitous? But mister
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Kenney seems to be a man of good sense. He
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was so definite about it, though, and when he told
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me I should have let them do what they wanted
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after this, all the pictures to sign a lease.
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Immediately before they even saw the store.
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Yes, they would have, you know, he would have signed
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and paid a couple of months rent. And mister Kearney
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said I was wrong and not letting him do it
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and not getting what I could and immediately that would
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have been Would it have been completely ethically?
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No?
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Do you mean if something is wrong with the place?
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But haunted sir? No, no, of course, not ridiculous And yes,
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well there's one way to find out. Yes, shall I
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put in the car to mister Karny.
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No, no, no, no.
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By doing that, I'd been admitting that I might believe
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in such ridiculous possibility. No, no, Evatts, you and I
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would drive up to Devilstone and we'll investigate ourselves.
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Capital a splendid idea. How you like it?
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Well, never having seen the place for mister Stoker's reaction
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to it, it might be quite exciting, sir. Let's see
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now if we leave right away, we should be able
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to reach Devilstone by nightfall, Yes, sir, and so watched
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the car and a couple of flash lights too. Perhaps
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perhaps I'd better take a long a pistol just in case.
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And of course, to conduct our investigation in the ghostly
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place and style, we'll take along one of the dogs
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with us, say Red Kim of Hellscope. An excellentary, da sir,
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And now.
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Let's get underway.
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Yes, well, Everittts is the man of the petrol station
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told us right the ramban a mention you now see
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before you is Devil's Stone. Yes, I see.
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You know what kind of reaction is that?
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Man? I drew my old place, if I may say so?
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So, Now, don't you start conjuring up some ghosts.
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Even kimopenly finds nothing particularly friendly about it. Now, look,
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if you're going to become superstitious about devils stone. Oh no, sir,
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come along, we'll have a look at Come along, Kim,
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come away. Now, let me see if I can unlock
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this door here so here, I hold the flash on it.
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Fature good.
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I believe this is the key. Well, the door is
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already a jar.
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Why you, sir, so I said, well, come along, you two,
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come on here. He's protesting. Rather, we'll just get him
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inside and we'll close the door. Jim, what the devil's
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the matter with you?
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Come now, boy?
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Are you a dog or a mouse who certainly is
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frightnant or something? So? Yes, he doesn't look like a
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ghost hunter clouds down there in the corner that way,
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And if I remember the pictures correctly, this store here
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should lead to a small out and close court.
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Just another night bird, everts. Don't let him bother you?
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Now? Do you mind?
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When telling me? Why why did you do that?
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I beg your pardon? What? Wait, you're still over there
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at the door and you I distinctly felt something or
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someone bump against my shoulder, and I thought someone walked
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on past me. Okay, look here, mister Martin. Yes, what
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is it in the modern out here? In the court?
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Shine your light on this, sir? Where mine is? Why? Why? Yes?
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Footprints but big ones and fresh and do you see
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more of them were being made even as we look
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at him. No, I get this normal here to make the.
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Impossible.
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I know her.
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But you're right, You're right. I'm back inside now and quickly.
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Now. Whatever is making those footsteps can't follow us. It
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does feel a bit safer in here. No wonder Kim
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is frightened. There are things like that going on. But
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why and how do you suppose, sir that one of
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the old lamps could be lighted? Well, if they have
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any oil in them, and it shouldn't take us long
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to find out if they Oh no, no, no, no,
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wait a minute, now, what are we acting this way? For?
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It's trickery, that's all it is. It's trickery by whom, sir?
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And why?
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That is something we shall have to find out. Now.
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Where is Kim?
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Oh?
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There, he is still in the corner, right, do you suppose, sir?
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No, nonsense.
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Whoever it was that scared Stoke and his wife out
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of here is trying to scare us now and I
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mean to find him out. But the dogs, sure, and
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if it's true about them, and then that there is
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a ghost. Nonsense, we'll just look about here where Now,
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what's the matter? The door at the other end? What
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behind you? It's opening by yourself into a small room
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beyond a good then we shall start our investigation in
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that room.
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Well are you coming?
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Oh clumsy? Now, you dropped your flashlight. I didn't, sir,
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I didn't. It was no door in behind. It's what, honest, honest,
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it wants sir. I swear it, sir, now, but don't
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be silly. Go on back in there and get it.
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I really rather not said if you don't know. Oh,
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oh the door.
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It's close by itself.
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I know we're locked in.
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Oh we are it? Who did this? Who closed this door?
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Who's there?
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Who's there? They? Same? What? What? The same thing?
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What are you talking about?
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The same thing that struck your shoulder, that made the
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footprints in the mud, and that frightened poor Kim so
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badly and frightened you too. Where I say, it's trickery, trickery,
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it has to be.
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Who's doing this? Answer me?
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Answer me? Y? Y begun? What?
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Yes?
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Begun? Yes?
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Yes, I guess we'd better yes, sir, No, no, not
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a bit of it.
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Please in the heaven sa. No, we're going to stay
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right here, evants until we find out this.
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Begun.
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No, no, no, not until we learn just what's going
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on and.
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Where's that voice coming from. I've tried to warn you, sir.
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They've tried to scare us, that's all. Try to scare us.
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Yes, yes, so that you leave this place. Why because
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if you do not, he will suffer the same faith
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as the dog Kim faith.
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What are you talking about?
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Look shut, the door is open. Yes, look in the
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light of the flash that was dropped in there, Kim
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Everts Everts, Kim is dead. Mister Martin, Oh please, sir,
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I beg of you.
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Who did this? Who did this? Show yourself?
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Yes, I will show myself.
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Who what?
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Oh?
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Look shut out of thin air? Yes, yes, yes, I
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see him, mister mister Martin. Yes, yes, yes, this is
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all right, all right, believe come along, Everts come.
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Yes, yeah, yeah, yes, mister Connie.
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I thought at first it was trickery, or perhaps some
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kind of joint hallucination by evertson myself, then used perhaps
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by the gloomy atmosphere of the old house and whatever
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it was that Stoker had said about his wife and
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her being so terrifying, Oh my boy. But when it
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actually happened, that he actually appeared there before us out
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of thin air, this misty, tenuous, impalpable figure. And then
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when we found there wasn't so much as a little
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mark on Kim and the dog, who up to that
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moment had been as healthy as I. But why didn't
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you tell me about whatever it is and that that
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inhabits that place?
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And I talked to you on the phone.
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I tried to Timothy, but you cut me off. And
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after all I'd known about it only as a legend
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from hearsay. It was a huge man and powerful, this ghost. Yes,
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I should say it was Jason O'Flynn, your ancestor, who
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built the place for his wife. It was to have
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been her castle, it was, yes, But the first day
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she sow to enter into it, she fell tripped upon
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the threshold.
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She struck her head, and.
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She never agained consciousness.
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I see.
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The doctor was summoned, did all he could for her
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there in a smaller room off the mean salon.
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Yes, but she died that night.
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And then Jason O'Flynn swore by the book that no
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one would live in that house but he until his
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body turned to dust. He walked out of that little
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room then and was never seen again and ever since
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that time. But now you know the rest Wait, yes,
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until his body turns to dust his own words, and
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he wasn't seen to leave.
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No, what are you thinking of, Timothy?
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I'm going back there, mister Conney tomorrow in daylight. Hm.
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I I just don't guess.
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I sept they found no signs aupill of walls or
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hidden panels on the floors.
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Above, sir.
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And yet everth somewhere somewhere close to that small room. Hum,
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don't you think it best? We simply laved the place,
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and no one but he until his body turned to dust? What, sir?
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And although there must have been other people about, he
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wasn't seen to leave. And to me, evats that means
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only one thing somewhere in this house lies the key
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to this mystery. But we've been here most of the day, sudden,
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we've found nothing. Let's getting done towards dusk.
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I know, I know, I know, but until I find.
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Some But sorry, sir, let me help you. Old rover
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so badly a wrinkle, it's no wonder you're tripped. Wait,
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everts listens, very very hollow floor. I should say, here,
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help me fold this rug back, yes, sir, here now
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and look a sort of trap door and fitted on
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the floor so tightly. Yes, and this it looks like
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a seal around the edge. Oh, yes, sir, and a
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heavy lifting. Leave and then give me a hand. We'll
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see if we can raise it.
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Now. Oh, it's very tighter.
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However, the seal is giving away a little yea, put
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everything you have into it. Show a good We made it.
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What it says it hollowed over coming up out of
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that place. Yes, yes, it's like that in the caves
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and the kaza comes under some micans. You mean we're
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all the parties. And yes, quickly now the flash sight
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give it to me here sir. Now now look look
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look down there on the earth and floor below. Do
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you see how do you see? The wrists are cut?
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He killed himself? No, no, it's he. It's the course
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that we saw. Yes, everts the body of Jason O
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Flim and so perfectly preserved as as though he died
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only moments ago. Oh horrid, until his body turned to dust,
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he said, so we know, no know that we've phoned it.
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So please sir, please leave this place. Weight everts, Wait,
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but do you see now the fresh air has reached it? Oh?
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Oh course, lord, Yes, the color is leaving the cheeks.
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The pallor of death is taking its place. And yes,
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but now, at long last, the body will turn to dust.
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No longer will Jason O Flim walk the night requie
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a scout in patche.
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Sauce spent.
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You've been listening to Devilstone, starring Christopher Carrey and Neil Fitzgerald,
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and written especially for suspense by Jonathan Bundy. The spence
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is produced and directed by Fred Hendrickson.
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Heard in Tonight's.
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Story were Gilbert Mack, Walter Grise, Reynald Osburn, and Frank Milano.
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Music supervision by Ethel Huber, Sound patterns by Walter Otto,
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Technical direction by Fred Cusick, Associate director Bernie Seabrooks. This
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is Duart Meant speaking every weekday evening. Chris Schenkel is
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anchorman for a globe girdling roundup of first hand reports
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on sports activities everywhere. Make this your address for worldwide
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sports every weeknight. He who laughs oftenest hears Arthur Godfrey
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time weekdays on the CBS Radio network.
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That was suspense with Devilstone from nineteen sixty two. This
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is Victor Sterling. Until next time, goodnight. Follow Oldtime Horror
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Radio for more classic horror broadcasts.
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On September thirtieth, nineteen sixty two, CBS Radio aired the
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final broadcast of Suspense, episode nine hundred and forty five.
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The program is Devilstone, in which Dublin air Timothy Martin
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inherits a long unused castle in northern Ireland and intends
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to rent it rather than make it his home. Warnings
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from his solicitor and the reaction of prospective American tenants
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lead Martin to travel to the property with his butler
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Everts and his dog Kim. Christopher Carey stars as Martin.
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Jonathan Bundy, the byline of Jack Johnstone, wrote the script
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and Fred Hendrickson produced and directed. And now we returned
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to the original broadcast, And now a.
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Tale well calculated to keep you in suspence in a
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moment Act one of Devilstone, starring christ To Precarry and
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Neil Fitzgerald, and written especially for suspense by Jonathan Bundy.
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This portion of suspense is brought to you by the
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makers of Parliament Cigarettes. Ah listen, More and more people
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are smoking to this tune.
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Every day.
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Parliament give Jesus exs and largest Parlament gives you extra
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argin make you stay and meet clean corner in a way.
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This Parlament gives you the largest Parliament gives you x
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the margin you seen meat, you're snacking clean with one today.
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My name is Martin, Timothy Martin. I live here in Dublin,
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and very nicely too, thanks to a considerable inheritance and
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sale of the family estate in County Kilkenny, which bought
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a very good price. I have a comfortable cottage, a
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faithful man servant by the name of Evatts, and everything else.
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I need to live an easy, contented life, and without
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the need of applying myself to any sort of labor.
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Even my financial matters are no Barther told me her
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handled by a penny pinchion old solicitor by the name
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of Ian Carney.
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And mine was a contented life until.
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That is, until a long forgotten uncle died and left
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me some property he'd own but never lived on up
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in County for mana near inner Skillen, a place known
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as Devilstone. And then, but let me digress for a moment,
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I should say, let me seem to digress for a moment,
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and remember this please, for it may have much to
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do with a strange, terrifying tale I'm about to tell
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you deep Ander. Saint Michan's Church here in Dublin is
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a crypt. It possesses most amazing properties. In it lie
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scores of bodies in a state of perfect preservation, albeit
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they are hundreds of years old. The old ones used
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to say it's due to some wondrous form of black magic.
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That modern science, modern chemistry has exploded that ancient belief
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has shown that certain gases generated by the unusual composition
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of the dark, dank earth in which the crypt is located.
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But those gases have produced this amazing phenomenon very well. Now.
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A few days ago I called mister Carney, my solicitor,
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on the telephone.
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I've been hoping at Carne Timothy. I wish to speak
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with you about that house and property and County Fermana
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that your uncle left you.
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Well, I have certainly no desire to move away from Dublin,
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mister Kearney, So I decided to rent up the old place,
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rent it out. And why not, sir, you really think
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you can, for I'm quite certain I can.
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I don't it well.
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As a matter of fact, an American couple by the
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name of Stoker left here only yesterday for a look
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at it.
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I see.
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I expect they'll be back here a moment now to
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agree to lease it for the summer.
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Timothy, you are sure that on the pictures and description
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of the place.
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Yesterday morning they were. They were so intrigued by them,
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they were all to signing e least then and there.
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You'd better to have taken their money and let them
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do it, my boy.
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Oh ay, I'm sure I don't see why.
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Well, surely they're entitled to look at the place over
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before they take it, after all, mister Connie, never haven't
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been there myself. There wasn't too much I could tell
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them about Devils.
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Stone, exactly as it should be, Timothy.
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I'm afraid I don't understand you, sir.
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I mean that now, my boy, you will never rent
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it to them. Do tell anyone else who goes there?
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Why not?
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Now?
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Why do you say that, mister Kearney, Well, yeah, you
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don't know, of course I don't know.
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Then perhaps your tenants, I should say, erstwhile prospective tenants
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will tell you if you ever see them again.
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And now what do you mean by excuse me a moment,
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mister conne, Yes, what is it?
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Evers?
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I beg your partner, But there's a mister Stoker here to.
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See you, Soger, Yes, sir, and.
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If I may say so, it appears to be quite
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his saity about something rather angry. Hello. Shall I tell
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him you're busy and suggest to see you another time?
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Timothy?
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Yes?
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No, effad having come in? Please? Hello, Hello, Timmoth.
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Oh sorry, mister Ghaney, but I have someone here to
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see me.
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No devil Stone. I think I better call you back
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very well if you like.
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But there is something about devil Stone. It's history that
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you might not be cognizant.
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Though, Hi, will I'll get back to you shortly, Timothy
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Goo adviser.
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Well, at least you didn't try to skip out on me.
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Mister Stoker. How are you?
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Nice to see you again? Oh? It is eh?
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Did you and your wife get over to look at
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Devil's Stone as your plan?
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We certainly did.
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And by heaven, Martin, if this is your idea, some
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practical joke? May what sending me alone to that ungodly
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place would have been bad enough? My wife, Martin, you
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want to be horsewhiped?
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Now?
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Wait please, I'll have you know that as a result
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of your having let her go there, you and your.
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Twisted sense of humor? What what does the matter with you? Anyway?
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The poor woman nearly went out of her mind.
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Mister Stoker.
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He still hasn't recovered from it. Sure, sure I got
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her back to Dublin, all right, but the doctor's ordered
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to bed and to give her strong sedatives. Now, I
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warn you, young man, if she doesn't recover, Stoke won't
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bother Martin. The less you say, the less I have
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to see of you from here on out, the better.
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Here Here are the keys, so that that place.
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And now look here, mister goodbye Martin.
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If I ever see you again, it will be in.
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A corner of wall. And believe me, mister Stoke, I
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don't know what you're talking about. What are yourselufset about?
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Oh you don't, eh?
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Do you mean to say that's something something wrong with Devilstone?
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And do you mean to say that you the owner
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of it don't know?
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We don't know what, sir, You.
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Don't know that ungodly places haunted?
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What you heard me haunted? They passively have had right
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so haunted. But that's what he said, mister Matten, Yes,
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that's what he said. Oh dear dear pig cure patterns
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but really, really, it's too.
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Amusing proably all right have it? You go right ahead
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and laugh and I'll join you.
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Well, that's about an absurd excuse i've ever heard. Excuse me, sir,
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you don't think he meant it? But the devils Stone
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is haunted? How could he haunted? Houses went out of
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fashion a hundred years ago? No, everts it was simply
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a sillyk excuse for not leasing the place, and now
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that he and his wife have had a look at it,
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But what an excuse? But does he think that we
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Irish are nothing but a lot of stupid, superstitious idiots.
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That's right, sir, what I mean, of course, not sir.
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For anyhow, it's completely ridiculous.
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So we'll simply forget it, forget about the stokers, place
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an advertisement in the papers, and find ourselves some other tenants.
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Yes, sir, maybe we'd best reduce the rate on it
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a bit.
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Perhaps that's what scared them off, now that could be, sir,
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or who knows, And perhaps devil'stone isn't in as good
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condition as we've been led to believe. But can you
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imagine anyone coming up with an excuse so patently absurd?
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So completely asinine and so utterly foolish and expecting us
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to believe him, to take him seriously. Yes, but she said, sir,
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everts the truth? Now, yes, do you believe? Do you
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think possibly? Oh?
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No, no, of course not. It couldn't be.
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Could that have been what mister Kearney was talking about,
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or at least implying mister Kenney was solicitous? But mister
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Kenney seems to be a man of good sense. He
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was so definite about it, though, and when he told
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me I should have let them do what they wanted
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after this, all the pictures to sign a lease.
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Immediately before they even saw the store.
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Yes, they would have, you know, he would have signed
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and paid a couple of months rent. And mister Kearney
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said I was wrong and not letting him do it
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and not getting what I could and immediately that would
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have been Would it have been completely ethically?
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No?
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Do you mean if something is wrong with the place?
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But haunted sir? No, no, of course, not ridiculous And yes,
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well there's one way to find out. Yes, shall I
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put in the car to mister Karny.
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No, no, no, no.
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By doing that, I'd been admitting that I might believe
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in such ridiculous possibility. No, no, Evatts, you and I
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would drive up to Devilstone and we'll investigate ourselves.
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Capital a splendid idea. How you like it?
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Well, never having seen the place for mister Stoker's reaction
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to it, it might be quite exciting, sir. Let's see
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now if we leave right away, we should be able
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to reach Devilstone by nightfall, Yes, sir, and so watched
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the car and a couple of flash lights too. Perhaps
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perhaps I'd better take a long a pistol just in case.
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And of course, to conduct our investigation in the ghostly
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place and style, we'll take along one of the dogs
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with us, say Red Kim of Hellscope. An excellentary, da sir,
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And now.
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Let's get underway.
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Yes, well, Everittts is the man of the petrol station
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told us right the ramban a mention you now see
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before you is Devil's Stone. Yes, I see.
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You know what kind of reaction is that?
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Man? I drew my old place, if I may say so?
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So, Now, don't you start conjuring up some ghosts.
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Even kimopenly finds nothing particularly friendly about it. Now, look,
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if you're going to become superstitious about devils stone. Oh no, sir,
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come along, we'll have a look at Come along, Kim,
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come away. Now, let me see if I can unlock
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this door here so here, I hold the flash on it.
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Fature good.
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I believe this is the key. Well, the door is
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already a jar.
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Why you, sir, so I said, well, come along, you two,
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come on here. He's protesting. Rather, we'll just get him
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inside and we'll close the door. Jim, what the devil's
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the matter with you?
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Come now, boy?
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Are you a dog or a mouse who certainly is
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frightnant or something? So? Yes, he doesn't look like a
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ghost hunter clouds down there in the corner that way,
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And if I remember the pictures correctly, this store here
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should lead to a small out and close court.
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Just another night bird, everts. Don't let him bother you?
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Now? Do you mind?
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When telling me? Why why did you do that?
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I beg your pardon? What? Wait, you're still over there
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at the door and you I distinctly felt something or
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someone bump against my shoulder, and I thought someone walked
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on past me. Okay, look here, mister Martin. Yes, what
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is it in the modern out here? In the court?
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Shine your light on this, sir? Where mine is? Why? Why? Yes?
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Footprints but big ones and fresh and do you see
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more of them were being made even as we look
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at him. No, I get this normal here to make the.
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Impossible.
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I know her.
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But you're right, You're right. I'm back inside now and quickly.
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Now. Whatever is making those footsteps can't follow us. It
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does feel a bit safer in here. No wonder Kim
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is frightened. There are things like that going on. But
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why and how do you suppose, sir that one of
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the old lamps could be lighted? Well, if they have
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any oil in them, and it shouldn't take us long
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to find out if they Oh no, no, no, no,
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wait a minute, now, what are we acting this way? For?
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It's trickery, that's all it is. It's trickery by whom, sir?
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And why?
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That is something we shall have to find out. Now.
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Where is Kim?
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Oh?
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There, he is still in the corner, right, do you suppose, sir?
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No, nonsense.
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Whoever it was that scared Stoke and his wife out
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of here is trying to scare us now and I
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mean to find him out. But the dogs, sure, and
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if it's true about them, and then that there is
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a ghost. Nonsense, we'll just look about here where Now,
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what's the matter? The door at the other end? What
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behind you? It's opening by yourself into a small room
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beyond a good then we shall start our investigation in
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that room.
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Well are you coming?
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Oh clumsy? Now, you dropped your flashlight. I didn't, sir,
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I didn't. It was no door in behind. It's what, honest, honest,
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it wants sir. I swear it, sir, now, but don't
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be silly. Go on back in there and get it.
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I really rather not said if you don't know. Oh,
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oh the door.
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It's close by itself.
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I know we're locked in.
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Oh we are it? Who did this? Who closed this door?
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Who's there?
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Who's there? They? Same? What? What? The same thing?
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What are you talking about?
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The same thing that struck your shoulder, that made the
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footprints in the mud, and that frightened poor Kim so
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badly and frightened you too. Where I say, it's trickery, trickery,
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it has to be.
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Who's doing this? Answer me?
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Answer me? Y? Y begun? What?
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Yes?
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Begun? Yes?
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Yes, I guess we'd better yes, sir, No, no, not
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a bit of it.
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Please in the heaven sa. No, we're going to stay
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right here, evants until we find out this.
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Begun.
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No, no, no, not until we learn just what's going
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on and.
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Where's that voice coming from. I've tried to warn you, sir.
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They've tried to scare us, that's all. Try to scare us.
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Yes, yes, so that you leave this place. Why because
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if you do not, he will suffer the same faith
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as the dog Kim faith.
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What are you talking about?
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Look shut, the door is open. Yes, look in the
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light of the flash that was dropped in there, Kim
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Everts Everts, Kim is dead. Mister Martin, Oh please, sir,
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I beg of you.
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Who did this? Who did this? Show yourself?
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Yes, I will show myself.
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Who what?
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Oh?
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Look shut out of thin air? Yes, yes, yes, I
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see him, mister mister Martin. Yes, yes, yes, this is
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all right, all right, believe come along, Everts come.
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Yes, yeah, yeah, yes, mister Connie.
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I thought at first it was trickery, or perhaps some
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kind of joint hallucination by evertson myself, then used perhaps
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by the gloomy atmosphere of the old house and whatever
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it was that Stoker had said about his wife and
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her being so terrifying, Oh my boy. But when it
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actually happened, that he actually appeared there before us out
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of thin air, this misty, tenuous, impalpable figure. And then
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when we found there wasn't so much as a little
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mark on Kim and the dog, who up to that
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moment had been as healthy as I. But why didn't
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you tell me about whatever it is and that that
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inhabits that place?
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And I talked to you on the phone.
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I tried to Timothy, but you cut me off. And
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after all I'd known about it only as a legend
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from hearsay. It was a huge man and powerful, this ghost. Yes,
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I should say it was Jason O'Flynn, your ancestor, who
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built the place for his wife. It was to have
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been her castle, it was, yes, But the first day
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she sow to enter into it, she fell tripped upon
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the threshold.
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She struck her head, and.
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She never agained consciousness.
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I see.
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The doctor was summoned, did all he could for her
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there in a smaller room off the mean salon.
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Yes, but she died that night.
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And then Jason O'Flynn swore by the book that no
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one would live in that house but he until his
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body turned to dust. He walked out of that little
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room then and was never seen again and ever since
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that time. But now you know the rest Wait, yes,
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until his body turns to dust his own words, and
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he wasn't seen to leave.
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No, what are you thinking of, Timothy?
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I'm going back there, mister Conney tomorrow in daylight. Hm.
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I I just don't guess.
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I sept they found no signs aupill of walls or
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hidden panels on the floors.
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Above, sir.
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And yet everth somewhere somewhere close to that small room. Hum,
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don't you think it best? We simply laved the place,
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and no one but he until his body turned to dust? What, sir?
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And although there must have been other people about, he
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wasn't seen to leave. And to me, evats that means
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only one thing somewhere in this house lies the key
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to this mystery. But we've been here most of the day, sudden,
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we've found nothing. Let's getting done towards dusk.
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I know, I know, I know, but until I find.
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Some But sorry, sir, let me help you. Old rover
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so badly a wrinkle, it's no wonder you're tripped. Wait,
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everts listens, very very hollow floor. I should say, here,
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help me fold this rug back, yes, sir, here now
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and look a sort of trap door and fitted on
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the floor so tightly. Yes, and this it looks like
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a seal around the edge. Oh, yes, sir, and a
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heavy lifting. Leave and then give me a hand. We'll
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see if we can raise it.
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Now. Oh, it's very tighter.
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However, the seal is giving away a little yea, put
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everything you have into it. Show a good We made it.
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What it says it hollowed over coming up out of
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that place. Yes, yes, it's like that in the caves
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and the kaza comes under some micans. You mean we're
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all the parties. And yes, quickly now the flash sight
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give it to me here sir. Now now look look
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look down there on the earth and floor below. Do
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you see how do you see? The wrists are cut?
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He killed himself? No, no, it's he. It's the course
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that we saw. Yes, everts the body of Jason O
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Flim and so perfectly preserved as as though he died
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only moments ago. Oh horrid, until his body turned to dust,
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he said, so we know, no know that we've phoned it.
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So please sir, please leave this place. Weight everts, Wait,
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but do you see now the fresh air has reached it? Oh?
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Oh course, lord, Yes, the color is leaving the cheeks.
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The pallor of death is taking its place. And yes,
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but now, at long last, the body will turn to dust.
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No longer will Jason O Flim walk the night requie
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a scout in patche.
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Sauce spent.
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You've been listening to Devilstone, starring Christopher Carrey and Neil Fitzgerald,
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and written especially for suspense by Jonathan Bundy. The spence
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is produced and directed by Fred Hendrickson.
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Heard in Tonight's.
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Story were Gilbert Mack, Walter Grise, Reynald Osburn, and Frank Milano.
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Music supervision by Ethel Huber, Sound patterns by Walter Otto,
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Technical direction by Fred Cusick, Associate director Bernie Seabrooks. This
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is Duart Meant speaking every weekday evening. Chris Schenkel is
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anchorman for a globe girdling roundup of first hand reports
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on sports activities everywhere. Make this your address for worldwide
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sports every weeknight. He who laughs oftenest hears Arthur Godfrey
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time weekdays on the CBS Radio network.
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That was suspense with Devilstone from nineteen sixty two. This
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is Victor Sterling. Until next time, goodnight. Follow Oldtime Horror
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