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Suspense - "The Death of Barbara Allen" (Old Time Radio, 1952) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Barbara Allen is devoted to Sean, a sailor, while will
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  Speaker 1: a young merchant, seeks her hand. Their rivalry and a
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  Speaker 1: damaging charge form the center of a musical dramatization drawn
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  Speaker 1: from the traditional English language ballad Barbara Allen, with the
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  Speaker 1: song heard through the drama. Originally broadcast October second, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: fifty two, This is Suspense Episode zero, the Death of
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  Speaker 1: Barbara Allen, starring Anne Baxter, William Conrad and Harry Bartel.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Karns and Jeanette Nolan are heard in support, with
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  Speaker 1: Larry Thor as narrator and Ernest Newton as singer. It
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  Speaker 1: was heard on CBS under the sponsorship of Auto Light.
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  Speaker 1: The adaptation is by Morton Fine and David Friedkin, produced
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  Speaker 1: and directed by Elliot Lewis. And now we return to
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  Speaker 1: the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Auto Light and it's ninety eight thousand dealers Bring you
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  Speaker 2: Miss Anne Baxter. In Tonight's presentation of sal Spence, Tonight
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  Speaker 2: Auto Light recreates a classic tale. As with song and story,
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  Speaker 2: we tell of the death of Barbara Allen, our star
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  Speaker 2: Miss and Baxter.
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  Speaker 2: Autolite presents the Death of Barbara Allen, starring Miss Ann Baxter,
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  Speaker 2: hoping once again to keep you in suspense.
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  Speaker 6: In Scarlet, where I was born, there was a firm
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  Speaker 6: made Dwellen made every you ride Welladay and her name.
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  Speaker 7: Was all brow.
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  Speaker 8: His voice was on the wind, calling, calling to me,
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  Speaker 8: and the surface to the west of me into the east,
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  Speaker 8: and the sounds of the night sea were all around,
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  Speaker 8: and on the finger of Strand. I waited for him,
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  Speaker 8: for my love, for my love. As he rode to me,
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  Speaker 8: and the star swung across the moon, and the wind
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  Speaker 8: rose from the night as he rode to me.
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  Speaker 9: As he came to me.
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  Speaker 10: I thought, you wouldn't be here, Barbara.
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  Speaker 9: And where else would I be on such a night
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  Speaker 9: where it's warm.
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  Speaker 2: The young men of scarlet town to knock on.
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  Speaker 10: Your door, Not here where the sea rises and the.
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  Speaker 9: Moon is cold, where I need my love.
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  Speaker 10: But there's a storm coming.
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  Speaker 9: Let it. The storm and the tides.
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  Speaker 8: Will drown this strap and we would drown, Yes, we
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  Speaker 8: would drown, will and you would live no longer than I,
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  Speaker 8: and I no longer than you.
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  Speaker 9: Our love would die at once on a storm.
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  Speaker 10: Why do you talk of death?
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
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  Speaker 9: I talk of love, and I do.
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  Speaker 3: And there's no death in it, No will, only this
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  Speaker 3: will fair. Barbara Allen, Wow, old Barbara Allen.
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  Speaker 11: Right with me?
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  Speaker 12: Yes, they roll they roll on Italian blind, the sea
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  Speaker 12: w of the dwelling and dog doc cloud shadow lay
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  Speaker 12: on the lip of Barbara. Then Willie had her also
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  Speaker 12: cool and he kissedly horam.
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  Speaker 6: Then leave again, won the dude and took her.
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  Speaker 13: Dwelling father in the kitchen shunt here he's been waking.
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  Speaker 10: Hello, bub Brown, I'll get you some tea.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the pillow and back of me, slip down, Bob Brown,
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  Speaker 4: pick it. Are you been on the.
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  Speaker 10: Strand with Will?
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  Speaker 9: With Will?
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  Speaker 4: Sean's been waiting. You knew he was going to bed.
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  Speaker 10: And sitting with your father, waiting doing the things you
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  Speaker 10: should be doing. Or you meet Will on the strand,
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  Speaker 10: you can do for himself.
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  Speaker 9: Thank your tea.
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  Speaker 4: Father, all right, Whiskey in it, Yeah, drink, old man,
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  Speaker 4: all right, whiskey in it, because whiskey keeps the warm down.
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  Speaker 4: And it's a cold house. It's a seasonal storm. And
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  Speaker 4: I have a daughter who's never home father warmth of
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  Speaker 4: my daughters for a Sarah named Will father, and my
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  Speaker 4: house is a cold.
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  Speaker 10: You'll need a pillow for his chair, Barbrah.
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  Speaker 9: He can do for himself. He can do whatever he
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  Speaker 9: needs for himself. He sits there and rocks and remember
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  Speaker 9: the time when he had a wife to do for him,
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  Speaker 9: do everything, but work for him.
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  Speaker 10: Listen to him, Barbara Allen, Yes, Sean, will is a sailor, Yes,
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  Speaker 10: with a small boat. Yes, and a narrow life.
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  Speaker 9: Ha ha, you couldn't know.
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  Speaker 11: I know.
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  Speaker 10: And one day he'll say goodbye to you and sailor's
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  Speaker 10: small boat. That will be the day when the sea
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  Speaker 10: will throw him back to you, wrapped in kelp and drowned.
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  Speaker 9: And what of you, sean shopkeeper, Sean sell her pots
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  Speaker 9: and fish hooks and whiskey. Jean. Should I love you, Sean?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 9: And what will you make of me? One like him
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  Speaker 9: who sits in a rocker and remembers you love.
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  Speaker 10: Will How many others love Willie the sailor? And how
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  Speaker 10: many does he love? There's a girl you've seen her,
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  Speaker 10: Barbara Allen. She's new to scarlet tone. Her name is Mariya,
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  Speaker 10: and she drinks wine with will They whisper and laugh together.
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  Speaker 10: One will leave you. He goes to hurt you. Lie,
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  Speaker 10: And if I'm not lying, if he hurts you, Barbara,
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  Speaker 10: al and I'll kill him.
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  Speaker 9: Get out of here, Sean.
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  Speaker 10: I would I kill him?
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  Speaker 8: And later I could still hear my father rocking and
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  Speaker 8: the sounds of his remembrance for me, it was a
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  Speaker 8: night of no sleep. I lay there in my bed,
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  Speaker 8: and outside was fit for squaw of rain began, stopped,
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  Speaker 8: and began again. Outside was surfed that eddied in the
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  Speaker 8: rocks and mists and choke and tangle of kelp lung
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  Speaker 8: against the strand, and Will's face and his words and
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  Speaker 8: the words of Sean, and a sudden ray of right
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  Speaker 8: across my bed. The night greamed against the sea, and
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  Speaker 8: then the night was still. Then it was morning. I
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  Speaker 8: got up and dressed, walked through the room where my
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  Speaker 8: father was still sleeping in his chair. The beach had
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  Speaker 8: been pitted by the rain. When I walked to the dune,
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  Speaker 8: grass of green and shining. The windhill downe the stand
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  Speaker 8: against my legs, and down the curve of the beach,
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  Speaker 8: and near the end of it Willed boat, the sail
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  Speaker 8: on it to be mended from me to mend or Will.
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  Speaker 9: Hello, What are you doing on Will's boat? That's where I.
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  Speaker 14: Belong Now on Will's boat to mend his nets and
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  Speaker 14: the sails. We'll scent you here he left me here.
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  Speaker 9: I know who you are.
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  Speaker 8: You are more year you were a sift dressed in
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  Speaker 8: the morning to mend a net here's this mend it.
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  Speaker 9: Let me watch what you He.
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  Speaker 4: Will do with it.
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  Speaker 9: He will teach me. When he returned. When did you
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  Speaker 9: see Will?
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  Speaker 14: I saw him when when I was with him, when
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  Speaker 14: he told me to stay here?
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  Speaker 9: And today we would go sailing together? Sailing where?
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  Speaker 11: Why?
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  Speaker 9: To some place? This coast is new to me? Will
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  Speaker 9: wants me to know it? What other places? Has He's
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  Speaker 9: shown you?
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  Speaker 14: Scarlet town and what's around it? And ridden with him
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  Speaker 14: on his black horse, ridden astrand at night? Yes, the
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  Speaker 14: ruined church at the end of it. Yes, all of
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  Speaker 14: these things. Where is will we sail today? Wills in
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  Speaker 14: Scarlet Town? He's buying things for the sailing.
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  Speaker 9: Why and shones? What will the shawns? And he'll stay there.
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  Speaker 9: He won't sail with you.
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  Speaker 7: Across the dude.
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  Speaker 6: So she did run the wind with word siring, and
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  Speaker 6: she ran a more. She grieved until she burst all crying.
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  Speaker 6: When she came down to scar A Town. The street
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  Speaker 6: with crawl was filling.
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  Speaker 7: When they saw her.
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  Speaker 6: They set aside, made way for ball.
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  Speaker 9: Now he's in there, by Brillan, in Shaun's place. Why
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  Speaker 9: is there a crowd? Mystery in Seaun's place? Will's in there?
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  Speaker 9: What happened.
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  Speaker 10: I was in there.
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  Speaker 9: Will was buying things of sean. Will was laughing. He
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  Speaker 9: broke up in a bottle of wine. He made a toast,
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  Speaker 9: a toast to whom to the ladies all around, to
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  Speaker 9: maya to her. And what happened? There was talk. Then
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  Speaker 9: Will had a knife in his hand and Shun did too.
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  Speaker 9: There was a fight. Will's in there, Barbara, and he's
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  Speaker 9: lying on the floor. He called your.
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  Speaker 15: Name, fellow, Will, I'm dying, Barbara. What did you say,
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  Speaker 15: Will h I'm dying?
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  Speaker 4: Die?
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  Speaker 2: and Baxter in Elliott Lewis's production of the Death of
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  Speaker 2: Barbara Allen, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.
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  Speaker 7: In Scarlet.
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  Speaker 4: Where I was born.
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  Speaker 9: To widlight wall.
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  Speaker 6: On William Green all dely no Green from.
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  Speaker 9: Be carried Will to the edge of the stre and
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  Speaker 9: the people Scarlet Town, and I was not there.
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  Speaker 8: They opened the earth of the old churchyard, and they
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  Speaker 8: scattered the earth over the body of will When I
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  Speaker 8: was not there, I walked the sands of Scarlet shore,
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  Speaker 8: and I cursed the grave that held him.
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  Speaker 9: Is that you what do you want, old woman?
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  Speaker 7: Is that you, Barb Radam.
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  Speaker 4: I'm old.
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  Speaker 9: I can't see so good, especially with a myth so
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  Speaker 9: heavy in drifting. I to do. What do you want?
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  Speaker 16: Oh?
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  Speaker 9: Give me some of the drift wood you're gathering.
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  Speaker 16: I'm an old woman, and when I bend for the wood,
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  Speaker 16: the sea snatches it from my hands.
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  Speaker 9: Sick what I have, there's more. Let me walk with
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  Speaker 9: you and fill my apron for me. All right, Your
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  Speaker 9: Will is dead.
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  Speaker 4: He's dead.
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  Speaker 9: They're burying him. The whole town is there.
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  Speaker 16: You're not there, Barbra Allan, And you're not there, old woman.
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  Speaker 16: I buried three sons on that strand, in the churchyard
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  Speaker 16: at the end of it. Never do I want to
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  Speaker 16: be on that strip of land again.
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  Speaker 9: But you will, and I Your death places there and
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  Speaker 9: mine and all of us are scarlettown. The earth covers
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  Speaker 9: us in summer, and the sea in winter and storm.
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  Speaker 9: I'll give me that piece of wood from my apron.
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  Speaker 9: Take it. You met Will there on the strand, didn't you,
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  Speaker 9: Barb Allan.
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  Speaker 7: There's the place of love and death.
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  Speaker 9: I will was handsome.
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  Speaker 8: Listen to me, old woman, Walk with me and beg
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  Speaker 8: my driftwood, and I'll give.
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  Speaker 15: It to you.
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  Speaker 9: But don't talk to me, Will, and why not he
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  Speaker 9: died for the love of you, for the love of me,
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  Speaker 9: and one called Moya, and the rest of the ladies
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  Speaker 9: all around, for.
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  Speaker 16: The love of you.
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  Speaker 17: I was there in Sean's place, touching the bolts of
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  Speaker 17: dress gooods, and close. I heard what happened, all of
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  Speaker 17: it for the love of Jean spoke your name lightly
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  Speaker 17: in a teasing way, and he moved over with a
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  Speaker 17: smile and whispered a question in Will's ear.
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  Speaker 9: Then in Will's hand was a knife. Because of what
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  Speaker 9: Sean had asked, you lie your womed's How Will died
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  Speaker 9: for the love of you.
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  Speaker 4: I swear it on the graves of my three sons
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  Speaker 4: who lie.
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  Speaker 9: Dead for the love of me, not for the one
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  Speaker 9: called Moya, her of the silk dress, who paid Will
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  Speaker 9: to take her sailing.
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  Speaker 17: Paid him this I heard too, when the toasts were
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  Speaker 17: drunk in Sean's place, the money to take her savings.
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  Speaker 9: Will spoke her name lightly and laughed when he told
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  Speaker 9: us of it. Oh, fetch me that piece of wood there,
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  Speaker 9: Barb Allan and my apron were before.
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  Speaker 8: And then she left me, the old woman did. And
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  Speaker 8: for an hour I walked the beach gathering goodwood from
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  Speaker 8: my house, and all the while the bell of the
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  Speaker 8: ruined church told for Will, the death of Will, or
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  Speaker 8: my true love for Will. Night Jean swiftly with the
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  Speaker 8: rain and the moon said blind, something black in the sky,
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  Speaker 8: and played there.
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  Speaker 9: The sea was grasped, rolled.
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  Speaker 8: In and broke, and the end of it was chill
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  Speaker 8: against my feet, far away the file of morning's life
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  Speaker 8: as they walked home.
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  Speaker 9: And I went home too, and made a fire, waited till.
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  Speaker 8: The sound of my father's returning. The funeral was over,
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  Speaker 8: the dead had been buried.
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  Speaker 9: My father asked, pretty put whiskey in it, and I
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  Speaker 9: gave it to him.
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  Speaker 2: I left.
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  Speaker 9: I went to a place, Sean's place.
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  Speaker 10: Barbara Allen, the stormerside, your drench kit, my coat shown.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, you killed Will.
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  Speaker 2: It was a fair fight.
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  Speaker 9: You killed him with a knife in my belt. You'll
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  Speaker 9: hang for it.
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  Speaker 7: No, it was a fair fight.
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  Speaker 10: According to the law of Scarlet Town.
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  Speaker 7: He could have killed me.
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  Speaker 10: I'm alive, he's dead. No one will hang Ah.
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  Speaker 9: I'm glad.
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  Speaker 10: I was worried for you, Barbara Allen.
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  Speaker 9: No wait, tell me about it, about what good fight?
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  Speaker 9: How you killed Will?
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  Speaker 10: Will was your love and you want to know how
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  Speaker 10: he died.
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  Speaker 8: Will is dead and I can't breathe Tell me why, Shan,
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  Speaker 8: I'll make you happy.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, tell me how you killed Will.
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  Speaker 10: Will was the sailor. But he was clumsy with a knife.
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  Speaker 10: And when I drew mine and we faced each other
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  Speaker 10: and we suckled, I could tell it heavy footed and awkward.
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  Speaker 10: And when he rushed me, I stepped aside and he
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  Speaker 10: fell and everybody laughed, and I let him get up.
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  Speaker 10: And somehow he closed with me and cut me here
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  Speaker 10: on my arm.
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  Speaker 9: A poor Sean.
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  Speaker 10: We bent back over the counter. The two of us
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  Speaker 10: are struggling, and I looked into his face, and I
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  Speaker 10: saw a thing fright. Willie the sailor was scared, okay,
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  Speaker 10: And I brought my hand up. Oh, Bob Brallen or
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  Speaker 10: you should have seen it his face when the knife
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  Speaker 10: went into it.
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  Speaker 11: That knife in your belt, Yes, I want to see it.
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  Speaker 11: Put it there on the table where I can look
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  Speaker 11: at it, Sean.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, what else will you do for me? What the
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  Speaker 9: a j and I came to you? What will you
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  Speaker 9: do for me? Now?
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  Speaker 10: I love you? Oh, with fine things, Barbara Allen, with
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  Speaker 10: soap from my shoves, whatever you want, this one this
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  Speaker 10: bolt of silk, well, this one, well, this one, which
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  Speaker 10: one barb all and which one?
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  Speaker 7: At your feet?
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  Speaker 10: Whatever you want? And listen, I have these two mirrors,
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  Speaker 10: and these buttons of shell, and then these combs of
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  Speaker 10: mother of pearl for your.
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  Speaker 3: Hair, bar Sean, for your hair.
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  Speaker 9: You will love me forever, Sean, for as long as
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  Speaker 9: I live.
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  Speaker 10: Tell me again, for as long as I live.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, you with a knight you killed Will. I killed you.
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  Speaker 4: Your home, Barbara. Nothing happened for you left me alone again.
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  Speaker 4: Fire has gone out.
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  Speaker 9: I went to Sean.
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  Speaker 4: Fire has gone out, and I killed him. The sea
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  Speaker 4: spilled over the kirchyard, and the dead little drowned, the
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  Speaker 4: dead and the old graves, the dead.
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  Speaker 10: And the new graves.
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  Speaker 9: Will That's why I kill Sean. Father, Because of Will,
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  Speaker 9: his grave.
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  Speaker 4: Will sink beneath the sea. The storm will wash over oon.
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  Speaker 9: Don't you hear what I'm saying? Father, I killed Sean.
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  Speaker 9: Will is dead.
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  Speaker 4: I kill Sean, and your life is over.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, I cline.
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  Speaker 4: Shit with me by Brellon.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 9: And I sat with him at his feet while he rocked.
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  Speaker 7: He remembered, and I remembered.
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  Speaker 8: And once my father got up, walked to the fire
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  Speaker 8: and threw on root, get down again rock.
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  Speaker 9: And I remembered will Will. The grease came from the tears.
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  Speaker 9: Will Will, it's gray, would.
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  Speaker 10: Think beneath the sea.
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  Speaker 4: I'll make your bed, Barbara, all right, see you killed Sean.
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  Speaker 9: I did.
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  Speaker 4: Look through the window. Oh, I like the people from
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  Speaker 4: Scarlettown are coming after you.
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  Speaker 9: Oh they'll hang me for what I did.
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  Speaker 4: Your love lies on the strand.
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  Speaker 9: He sleeps on the strand.
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  Speaker 7: Your love is alway.
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  Speaker 8: Then I remember where my love was, where will war
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  Speaker 8: down to the beach under the strand. And they followed me,
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  Speaker 8: the lights of the people from sleet, and their voices on.
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  Speaker 9: The howling wind.
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  Speaker 6: And I ran down the.
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  Speaker 9: Strand where the black sea was covering it.
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  Speaker 8: And they followed me their voices and the bell on
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  Speaker 8: the wind, and their voices on the wind, ran ran bell,
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  Speaker 8: and man came where my love lay lonely, the will
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  Speaker 8: in his grace in the churchyard.
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  Speaker 9: I found him, and no longer was he lonely.
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: Sweet William lay in the old church yard.
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  Speaker 10: His love for.
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  Speaker 6: Fine him out of Williams hard, through a red red rose,
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  Speaker 6: out of barbarous, through brier, they grew and grew to
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  Speaker 6: the old Church Tower, and they could.
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  Speaker 7: Not run higher.
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  Speaker 6: Than Lady and the tide on Love is kN.
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  Speaker 7: And the Rose Red Road. The Brier.
• 26:55
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  Speaker 2: our suspense microphone on Miss Anne Baxter. Miss Baxter, we
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  Speaker 2: of Autolite would like to thank you for another magnificent
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  Speaker 2: performance and to announce to our listeners that you have
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  Speaker 2: Feminine Performance of the past year on Suspense. And here
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  Speaker 2: Anne is your handsome Golden Mic to add to the
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  Speaker 2: Baxter Trophy.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you, Harlow, It's beautiful and thanks to Autolife. I'd
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  Speaker 8: also like to thank the wonderful group of suspense players
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: who work with me, especially Joseph Kerns and Jeanette Nolan.
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  Speaker 8: on Suspense.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you for all of us. Good Night.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Next week a story that will prove once again that
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: truth is stranger than fiction. Mister Cornell Wilde will star
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: as a man who inadvertently was hired to be an assassin.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: The story is called Allen in Wonderland and will be
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: heard on Suspense. Suspense was produced and directed by Elliott Lewis,
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  Speaker 2: with music written by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by Lud Bluskin.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: The Death of Barbara Allen was written for Suspense by
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Morton Fine and David Freitkin. In Tonight's story, Jeanette Nolan
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  Speaker 2: was heard as the old Lady. Joseph Kerns as Barbara's father,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: featured in the cast for Harry Bartel, William Conrad, Louise Lewis,
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: and Junius Matthews, and Baxter is soon to be seen
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: in Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess and Remember Next week on Suspense,
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