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Suspense - "Murder Aboard the Alphabet" (Old Time Radio, 1947) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On a transatlantic deep sea tugboat. First mate Marshland watches
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: crewman disappear, while Captain Godfrey Walker insists that every shipboard
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: task be done in alphabetical order. That is, the situation
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: aboard Suspense Murder Aboard the Alphabet. Episode one, originally broadcast
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  Speaker 1: August second, nineteen forty seven. John Lund plays Marshland, with
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  Speaker 1: Joseph Kerns as Captain Walker, Raymond Lawrence, Bill Johnstone, Sidney Miller,
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  Speaker 1: and Jerry Hausner join the crew. From a script by
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: Charles Turrell McNair, the story runs from Liverpool to Boston,
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: where Marshland must weigh a challenge to the captain's authority
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: against the risk of mutiny at sea. CBS brings us
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  Speaker 1: Suspense Murder Aboard the Alphabet and now the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 5: In Murder Aboard the Alphabet, a suspense play produced, edited
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  Speaker 5: and directed for Shenley by William Spear.
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  Speaker 3: It is well past midnight now, and I write these
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  Speaker 3: words so that other men may know the full story
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  Speaker 3: of that ill fated voyage of the deep sea tugged Alphabet.
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  Speaker 3: Ours was not a large vessel, but sturdily built for
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  Speaker 3: its task. And though it seems an age, it was
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  Speaker 3: only a little over six months ago that we sailed
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  Speaker 3: from Liverpool, England, out across the North Atlantic to deliver
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  Speaker 3: our ship to her new owners, a salvage firm of Boston, Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 6: Stand by the cast off.
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  Speaker 3: We put out with a reduced company, just a handful
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  Speaker 3: of then twelve in all. We were a new crew
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  Speaker 3: sent on board for this journey over the deep sea Lane,
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  Speaker 3: and I sailed as chief officer under the command of
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  Speaker 3: Captain Godfay Walker, second mate Harvey Goodrum, and Chief Engineer
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  Speaker 3: Alec mccavish being the other members of our small saloon.
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  Speaker 3: I remember we departed on a cold, wet day, with
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  Speaker 3: a bog lying low over Birkenhead, and the northwest wind
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  Speaker 3: blowing fresh in our teeth. As the drab gray of
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  Speaker 3: the Liverpool dark Side dropped back into the soaking mists.
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  Speaker 3: I doubt if any man aboard could have foretold what
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  Speaker 3: lay ahead over those three thousand miles of keeping sea.
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  Speaker 3: When we had cleared the lightship, I went into the
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  Speaker 3: wheel us. When Captain Walker searched the channel ahead, his
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  Speaker 3: deep black eyes staring out from under his shaggy eyebrows.
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  Speaker 3: I saw him, his huge frame bundled in a salt
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  Speaker 3: stained great coat.
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  Speaker 5: Ah, mister Marshaller, everything secured for seed.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, everything on deck is lash down as tight
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  Speaker 3: as a whistle. Good good.
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  Speaker 6: We may get a derry crossing this time of the year.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, she'll be uncomfortable, sir. When it comes to ships,
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  Speaker 3: I'm used to something a little bigger.
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  Speaker 5: There are no ten thousand tons an arms. If we
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  Speaker 5: hit it heavy, there'll be many a man on board
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  Speaker 5: who wish he never left.
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  Speaker 6: The dock side.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I think the crew can take it, sir.
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  Speaker 5: H maybe, mister, maybe two days out of we'll see.
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  Speaker 5: Keep your door course, quartermaster. All right, mister Marshall, and
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  Speaker 5: you can take her now, very good, sir. Your course
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  Speaker 5: is south seventy west, south seventy west, Sir, see these
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  Speaker 5: housemen keep her on the course.
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  Speaker 6: I'll be back in the cabin. If you want a.
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  Speaker 7: Queer cod skipper, say dizzy, I ecives me the creeps
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  Speaker 7: he does.
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  Speaker 3: Oh he's probably harmless enough, used the bigger commands than this, I imagine.
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  Speaker 3: But odd people watch on him so far? With you
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  Speaker 3: keep a watch on it?
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  Speaker 6: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Why if you don't know? Now? Say you'll find out
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  Speaker 3: soon enough. South seventy west. Check your course? Sound something wish?
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  Speaker 3: Did you soon? Marceland? Sir? You sent for me? Take
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  Speaker 3: you chair, thank you, sir?
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  Speaker 6: No, not that one over there.
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  Speaker 3: Hope, certainly, sir, it is? Is there anything wrong?
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  Speaker 6: Nothing's wrong.
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  Speaker 5: I just want to talk to you, discuss the affairs
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  Speaker 5: of the ship with you. Give you some idea of
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  Speaker 5: what I expect. Oh here cigarette, oh thank you? Or
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  Speaker 5: by the way, you will not use that ash straight
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  Speaker 5: on your right, No, you will not use it. You
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  Speaker 5: may please your ash carefully on the other one. This one, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 5: that one?
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  Speaker 6: There? I am How long since you're at your last birth? Mister?
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  Speaker 3: Why? It's been some time? Said four? Captain says, you
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  Speaker 3: know me well only by reputation, Sir?
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  Speaker 5: Would it surprise you to learn that I know something
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  Speaker 5: of you by reputation?
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  Speaker 3: Mister why, I don't exactly.
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  Speaker 6: We ought to make quite a fair mister, quite a beir.
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  Speaker 6: O will no matter.
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  Speaker 5: Now I shall tell you the reason I savened you
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  Speaker 5: to my cabin. Mister Marshall, you will find, if you
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  Speaker 5: do not know already, that I have very definite ways
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  Speaker 5: I wish things to be.
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  Speaker 6: Done, very definite ways.
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  Speaker 5: First of all, I demand complete unquestioning obedience.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, Sarah, I'm sure you'll get the fullest cooperation
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  Speaker 3: from myself and the crew.
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  Speaker 6: Good good. I want there to be perfectly clear.
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  Speaker 5: I also insist that your supervision of the work on
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  Speaker 5: the ship be done in a certain manner. I shall
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  Speaker 5: prescribe all items of work will be carried out in alphabetical.
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  Speaker 3: Order, alphabetical orders.
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  Speaker 5: Precisely starting with A and carrying.
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  Speaker 6: Through the Z. A.
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  Speaker 3: I'm afraid I don't understand.
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  Speaker 6: I think my meaning is perfectly clear.
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  Speaker 5: If the hands are painting ship, they will start with
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  Speaker 5: the alleyways and all other items at the beginning with A,
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  Speaker 5: then the bulkheads and the decks.
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  Speaker 3: And so.
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  Speaker 6: You understand me now.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Oh, yes, yes, sir, I think I understand. But
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  Speaker 3: I'm afraid I don't quite see your reason.
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  Speaker 6: Mister Mars, My reasons are not to be questioned.
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  Speaker 5: You will remember, while I'm in command of this vessel,
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  Speaker 5: I hold the power of life and death.
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  Speaker 6: Well, sir.
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  Speaker 3: He was sitting across from me on the small settee
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  Speaker 3: of his cabin, his massive face half hidden in the shadows,
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  Speaker 3: his eyes piercing into mind. In the nearness of him,
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  Speaker 3: I could see the bloodshot veins, like thin red tracings
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  Speaker 3: against the white. The man was mad. Higgins was right,
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  Speaker 3: he was mad, Yes, life and death. I looked about
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  Speaker 3: his cabin. There was something inhuman in its ordered neatness,
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  Speaker 3: as if the warmth of man had not touched it.
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  Speaker 3: I saw the books stacked evenly in the bookshelf. I
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  Speaker 3: saw the titles arranged in alphabetical order. It was a
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  Speaker 3: pattern complete in itself. The desk, the bunk immaculate, not
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  Speaker 3: a wrinkler speck of dust visible to the naked eye.
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  Speaker 3: On the bulkhead were four photographs and largements of outdoor scenes.
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  Speaker 3: With a start, I realized they too were in perfect order,
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  Speaker 3: arranged according to the seasons, from left to right, spring, summer, autumn, winter.
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  Speaker 3: My eyes darted about me again, and on the shelf
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  Speaker 3: above his bunk, I saw three cameras. They also fitted
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  Speaker 3: the pattern, the smallest on the left, the largest on
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  Speaker 3: the right. I remembered the chair and the ash tray,
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  Speaker 3: and turned towards him as he spoke again.
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  Speaker 6: He then, perfectly clear, mister.
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  Speaker 3: Marshall, Yes, sir, perfectly clear.
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  Speaker 6: The good now unfinal.
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  Speaker 5: I insist that the quartermasters taking the wheel appear in
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  Speaker 5: sequence of the first letter of their surnames.
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  Speaker 3: But sir, that will mean rearranging the watches. Surely for parents.
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  Speaker 6: You will do as I order.
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  Speaker 3: Very good, sir, The watches will be changed.
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  Speaker 6: That's better, much better, well, mister.
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  Speaker 5: Now that we understand one another, we shall cease talking
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  Speaker 5: about the ship.
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  Speaker 6: Ah. I see you've noticed my photographs.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I can't say I know much about it, sir,
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  Speaker 3: but i'd say they're excellent.
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  Speaker 6: Of course they're excellent.
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  Speaker 5: I took to myself a hobby of mine. You may
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  Speaker 5: have noticed. I have three cameras. To them or of German, make,
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  Speaker 5: the other American. The medium sizement in the middle I
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  Speaker 5: use with infrared fill comparatively recent development. The other two
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  Speaker 5: are used for general purposes. Are you interested in photography,
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  Speaker 5: mister Marshlen.
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  Speaker 3: I can't say I am, particularly, Sarah. I've never done
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  Speaker 3: anything like that for a.
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  Speaker 6: Howily, Well, if you're not interested, you may go.
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  Speaker 3: Or I didn't mean that I would know of mister marshaller,
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  Speaker 3: you will now go. I left him then and stumbled
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  Speaker 3: into the cold darkness outside, the thoughts tumbling unendingly through
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  Speaker 3: my head as I made my way to my cabin.
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  Speaker 3: We were pushing our way over the restless waters of
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  Speaker 3: the North Atlantic with a madman in command. On the
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  Speaker 3: morning of the third day, the second officer came running
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  Speaker 3: onto the bridge and flung himself excitedly into the wheelhouse.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Marshall's I'd like a word.
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  Speaker 3: Will you go ahead? Godam? What is it?
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  Speaker 6: Will?
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  Speaker 3: Did you come outside? I can't tell you here certainly. Now,
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  Speaker 3: what in the world is the matter with you?
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  Speaker 5: It's the wireless operator, said Abercrombie.
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  Speaker 3: He's gone. You mean he's disappeared off the ship.
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  Speaker 5: Disappeared maybe, but I wouldn't wonder if there.
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  Speaker 3: Was a better name for it than that. What do
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  Speaker 3: you mean? I mean murder? Abercrombie was gone, vanished without
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  Speaker 3: a trace with the decks of the alphabet. And although
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  Speaker 3: I didn't have the feeling myself, there was an uneasiness
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  Speaker 3: within the crew. They seemed furtive, frightened. They quietly drifted
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  Speaker 3: out of sight. Whenever the Captain made an appearance on
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  Speaker 3: the deck, you could see they feared him, and somehow
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  Speaker 3: connected his madness with the disappearance of the wireless operator.
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  Speaker 3: That night, I stood in the aness of the wheelhouse,
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  Speaker 3: made light from the binnacle of shining on the face
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  Speaker 3: of Higgins as he stood his trick at the wheel.
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  Speaker 7: It's a rub gozer and Heather Chrombie didn't just fall
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  Speaker 7: over the side by himself.
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  Speaker 6: Mark my words on.
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  Speaker 3: That of come now Higgins. Many a man has disappeared
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  Speaker 3: from shipboard, swept over the side by a sea on.
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  Speaker 7: A stormy night. That may be, but last night was
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  Speaker 7: pretty quiet. One just a little kiss her rain, Danny.
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  Speaker 3: He was soon? But why what reason?
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  Speaker 8: Reason?
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  Speaker 6: No one had no reason, sir, except maybe the queer one.
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  Speaker 3: The queer one? Why the skipper? Good? Heavens man? Are
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: you accusing the captain of he's not a normal man's
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be too loud about the captain, Higgins. You
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  Speaker 3: can't accuse people without evans.
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  Speaker 7: I'll keep me cough. But the skippers off his rocker.
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  Speaker 7: You know that as well as I do, Sir.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he's got some set ideas about things. But that
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  Speaker 3: does have that Betty to lie dear sir, well, yes,
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  Speaker 3: but think you thought of this?
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  Speaker 6: It's nine he back Crombie?
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  Speaker 3: What have it?
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  Speaker 6: Beginning with the hay the first patter of the alphabet.
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  Speaker 3: Heh back Crombie was the first. But he won't be
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  Speaker 3: the last.
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  Speaker 6: He won't be the lost or suspense.
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  Speaker 5: keep you in suspend.
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  Speaker 3: Needless to say, The conclusions of the men were no
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  Speaker 3: surprise to me, but I didn't feel the time was
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: ripe for further action. On the evening of the following day,
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  Speaker 3: the barometers started dropping, and next morning saw the low
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: gray clouds scudding swiftly before the wind, and the alphabet
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  Speaker 3: laboring heavily, and the rising sea. It was at eight
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  Speaker 3: bells of the morning, watch the sixth day at sea?
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Who's there?
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  Speaker 6: It's October spider made.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, come in, cheep, take a chair, cheef, What is it?
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: You look bothered?
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: Butterf mister he's lost lost?
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  Speaker 3: Hi? Are you sure, mcdavin Oh, I'm sure enough.
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  Speaker 6: We've searched for a more ruined the ship. There's at price, mister.
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  Speaker 3: Have you informed the captain ah old man?
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  Speaker 6: Didn't you think he knows it?
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: Come on, I come well, mister, there's another man gone,
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  Speaker 3: Sir Butterfield. Butterfield, I sir, how long have you known this?
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  Speaker 3: Mister Marshall? And the chief engineer informed me only a
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  Speaker 3: few moments ago.
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  Speaker 5: Sir, are you sure of there's mister mctavis.
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  Speaker 3: I am sure.
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  Speaker 6: There's nee a trace of him anywhere aboard the ship. Anywhere,
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  Speaker 6: mister mcdavish, you may go.
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: I wish to speak to the chief officer alone.
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  Speaker 6: Butterfield said, oh, mister mccavig, that's an honor.
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  Speaker 3: I said, I'll go.
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  Speaker 6: Here, mister Marshall.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm afraid this is beyond me.
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  Speaker 6: Sir.
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  Speaker 5: No, I'm not referring to the engineer, mister. He's obviously disappeared.
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  Speaker 5: There's nothing we can.
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  Speaker 6: Do about it. Well, why are you standing? Why don't
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: you sit down?
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: I thank you, sir, it's Thursday, May sit in the armchair.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Well?
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: What do you think of my ship? Now? You still
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: find it uncomfortable?
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: Oh? No, Sarah, I like her very well. I thought
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  Speaker 3: a long time before I shipped aboard you today, mister.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: Where she's small, then any ship to ship, I'd like
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  Speaker 5: something a little more.
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  Speaker 6: But then then the seas the lady that cows? Am
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  Speaker 6: I right?
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: That's right, sir.
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: You love her? You love her very much, don't.
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  Speaker 3: You, Marshall? I do, Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 5: You're young, but you love her more than anything, more
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  Speaker 5: than anything more than is more than is natural, Captain.
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  Speaker 5: And now you're seated.
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  Speaker 6: You like to inspect my cameras and tell me what
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  Speaker 6: you think of it.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm afraid I don't know a great deal about
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: that sort of thing, sir.
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  Speaker 6: Oh you know nothing about them. Hey good, you may leave.
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  Speaker 3: My cabin certainly, sir, I shall look into the butterfield matter.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: He's left this ship. Mister, you're only wasting your time.
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  Speaker 6: Now go.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: For the second time, I left the cabin of that
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: strange man. I left him alone with his madness, and
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: studying myself against the roll of the ship, to walk
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: the deck, thinking my own thoughts. It was that night
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: that Higgins came to me in my cabin. I bat
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: him ent her, and he settled his wizen body down
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  Speaker 3: upon my arm chair. I was lying in my bunk,
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: watching him as he sat there awkwardly twisting his cap
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: in his hands.
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: An unusual request I have saying that I hope I
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: can speak in confidence, like.
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  Speaker 3: Go on, Higgins, whatever you have to say will be
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: just between the two.
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  Speaker 6: Of Us'll say, we think the skipper should be put.
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  Speaker 3: Away, Sir, put away? What do you mean? Not toupsy?
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: But he can't arm us.
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  Speaker 3: You know that's mutiny.
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: It's mutiny.
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: But but mister Marshlam, even murder's all ebber crumpie. But
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: feel you go gear on down the Outphae that if
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: we don't stop him, there's no proof.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: The lads are sure enough, are they Just give us
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: the word chair and.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: We'd help you.
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: We'll put him away very well.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Higgins, keep it among yourselves that you can tell them
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: in this there's any more trouble, I'll take matters into
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: my own hands. You can rest asshirt of it, thank you, sir.
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: Maybe mutiny, but a right a court in the world
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  Speaker 7: as ever, would convict you at it.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, Higgins, I don't think there is. It had
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: to be done very carefully, and for quite a while
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  Speaker 3: I lay back upon my bunk thinking of what Higgins
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  Speaker 3: had said. It would be risky, but the men were
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: behind me that would more than sway the balance. Higgins
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: was right. Any court of law would see the wisdom
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: of my action. They would never convict from mutiny, and
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Captain Walker would be locked away forever. We continued on
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: our way, and in the howl of the wind and
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  Speaker 3: the long seas, you could sense the cold hand of
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: fear that had settled over the alphabet. By the evening
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: of the seventh day, we stood well out on our
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Great Circle track, more than halfway between Liverpool and Boston.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: We plunged through dirty seas, rising to each crest and
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: falling to the trough below, with the water curling green
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: over the flare of our pluck bows. But we made
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: fair time, and the knots slipped steadily. Astern It was
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: during the inky blackness of that night that that struck
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: again on the decks of the Alphabet, and another member
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: of our dwindling band disappeared into the unknown, Abercrombie Butterfield.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: And now the third man. His name was Chadwick.
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  Speaker 9: Who's that good evening, sir dirty weather?
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  Speaker 6: Sir?
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  Speaker 9: Well, I'll be getting below, sir, would you please let
• 23:01
  Speaker 9: me buy?
• 23:01
  Speaker 10: I want to go below?
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: Are you frampy fool?
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: You drop something?
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: Sir? Never mind, I'll kid.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: Eh a brother late, an't you?
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: Mister Marshall?
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  Speaker 3: You are too, aren't you? Captain? I thought I heard
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: a scream? Oh did you.
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: Now, mister did you?
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: We're only yes, sir, you all know why you're here.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: Yes, let us now we're with you, mister Hey, we'll
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: stop these tricks. We will.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Now we must do this lee and quickly. There must
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: be no bungling understand all right, here goes Captain Walker.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Will you come on deck a minute. Well, mister, what
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: is it you are? Come out here, sir. I want
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: to show you something. Mars Never mind that man, Captain,
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: stay where you are. This gun is loaded, so now
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: it's mute today. Marsham you better shut up. One move
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: and I'll shoot.
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: You'll get more Norphin gets it, mister Marshall, and Jesus
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: kipping out if you swing.
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: For this marshroom, you and all the rest.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Do you really think they'll hang a mate for mutiny
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: when they can to hang a captain from murder. We
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: sailed in the Boston Harbor with Captain Walker lash securely
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: to a chair and his cabin. After the first brief struggle,
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: he had grown quieter, and during the last days of
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: our voyage he had just sat there silently saying nothing,
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: a strange mad smile leering from his lips. We arrived
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: in Boston late in the afternoon, and as we sailed
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: up the harbor, we hoisted the international signal calling for
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: the Harbor Police. After we had docked alongside, I went
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: up to his cabin to ensure that all was in
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: readiness for the arrival of the police, and as I
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: put over him, bound there in his chair, his eyes
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: seemed to mock me, his smile taunting me.
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: So, mister marshallt this is to be the success of
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: your little plan.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: I have nothing to say to you, Captain. The police
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: will be aboard at any moment.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: You think I'm mad, don't you? Well, maybe I am.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: But you bungled badly, mister. You've bungled it very badly,
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: have I?
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: Who's that police? Come in?
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Come in, officer, this man case.
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: You've bungled it.
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: Mister Marshall, Why won't you contend to let me be
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: with my madness as I was content to let you
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: be with yours. Oh, we'd have made quite a pair,
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: as I told you, if you hadn't bungled it.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: What are you talking about?
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: I know all about you, mister under a bit of
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: a cloud. Eh haven't shipped.
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: For quite a while.
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: Not the first vessel you've been on where men have
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: disappeared in the black of the night.
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: Eh. Oh, but I wouldn't have cared.
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: Oh, I like true methods, business like by the letters,
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: by the alphabet.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: You are mad? Take him away?
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: Yes, mad, quite, But you should have taken more interest
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: in my photography, mister.
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: My infrared film, for instance, you can.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: Take pictures on the darkest night. Would I have one, mister,
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: an excellent likeness, a likeness of you, mister the.
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: Night you pushed Chadwick over the side.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: The police have been very understanding. They could readily understand
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: how a man could hate and fear the sea and
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: yet love it like a woman, love it enough to
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: follow it and hunger for it, and make every sacrifice,
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: even human sacrifice. But now they say they must send
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: me away to a place where the sea can no
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: longer torture me, a place of no land or sea
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: or wind or rain. But only rest.
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: This time?
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Can you pray yes to the sea, only to the sea?
• 28:19
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• 28:30
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• 31:18
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