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Suspense - "Beirut by Sunrise" (1955) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

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Speaker 1: May 31st, 1955, CBS Radio brought listeners the 600th broadcast
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Speaker 1: of Suspense, Beirut by Sunrise. Mary Jane Croft stars as
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Speaker 1: Mildred Gideon, a third-grade teacher traveling aboard a Mediterranean cruise ship.
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Speaker 1: Arriving in Beirut before dawn, she witnesses a wounded American
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Speaker 1: sailor on the dock and is left with a clue
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Speaker 1: that soon draws her beyond the safety of her tour party.
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Speaker 1: Richard Chandley wrote the script. First heard on onstage in 1953,
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Speaker 1: Anthony Ellis produced and directed. Also heard are High Averbach,
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Speaker 1: Jack Krushen, Don Diamond, and Ben Wright. Now back to
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Speaker 1: the golden age of radio.
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Speaker 2: And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. Tonight,
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Speaker 2: the story of a schoolteacher who finds the unexpected on
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Speaker 2: a Mediterranean cruise.
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Speaker 3: We call it, By Route, By Sunrise.
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Speaker 2: So now, starring Miss Mary Jane Croft, here is tonight's
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Speaker 2: suspense play, By Route, By Sunrise.
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Speaker 4: Darling Sister Darling Sister As I told you last, this
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Speaker 4: Mediterranean cruise just hasn't been what I expected.
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Speaker 5: We've sailed from Beirut, but I'm still shaking. After yesterday, honestly,
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Speaker 5: I was positive I'd never see this good old ship again.
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Speaker 5: It's hard to believe my trip to the Near East
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Speaker 5: began as disappointingly as it did. That first stop at
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Speaker 5: Port Said was dreadful. Not that I thought there'd be
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Speaker 5: perfumed nights, but I was hoping I'd feel a little
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Speaker 5: of the mystery of it all. When we left for Beirut,
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Speaker 5: the only stimulating thing was the new dinner companion at
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Speaker 5: our table, a Mr.
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Speaker 4: Haroon.
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Speaker 5: At least, he looked interesting compared to that awfully dull
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Speaker 5: Frank Grady I'd been forced to sit alone with until now.
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Speaker 3: Frank Grady, Mr. Haroon.
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Speaker 6: Mr. Grady?
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Speaker 3: This is Miss Gideon, Mildred Gideon.
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Speaker 5: How do you do?
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Speaker 7: Miss Gideon, charmed. You are both Americans?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we're Americans. I'm from Akron, Ohio. Miss Gideon's
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Speaker 3: from North Dakota, teaches school, third grade.
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Speaker 7: How charming.
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Speaker 5: A haroon. That name's a.
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Speaker 6: Persian.
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Speaker 5: Oh, yes, of course.
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Speaker 3: They say Beirut's really something to see.
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Speaker 6: Beirut. One should see it at sunrise for the first time.
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Speaker 7: A thrilling sight.
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Speaker 3: Oh, swell. We hit there in the night. How about
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Speaker 3: a sunrise date, teacher?
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Speaker 5: Well, I really hadn't planned on it.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's okay by me. Can't say I didn't offer. Well, uh,
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Speaker 3: by route, here we come.
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Speaker 5: By route, here we come. Honestly, he just made me wince.
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Speaker 5: Companions are half the fun, but really, you couldn't commune
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Speaker 5: with anything with Frank Grady around. I was darned if
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Speaker 5: I'd share by route by sunrise with him. It was
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Speaker 5: around five when I awoke. I felt a little thrill
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Speaker 5: when I realized the engines had stopped and we were there.
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Speaker 5: It was dawn when I reached the deck. I was alone.
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Speaker 5: It was marvelously still, like everything holding its breath. Then,
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Speaker 5: just a crack of sunlight and spires of minarets began
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Speaker 5: to appear. Then domes, the whole sweeping outline of the city,
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Speaker 5: rising out of the night. It was just pure Omer Cayenne.
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Speaker 5: I floated with it, completely carried away by the sight
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Speaker 5: and that magic quiet. Ah, then, wouldn't you know something
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Speaker 5: had to spoil it. Down on the dock below, some
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Speaker 5: man had come stumbling out of one of those shadows. Honestly,
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Speaker 5: just reeling. It was still pretty dark, but I could
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Speaker 5: see he was a sailor. An American sailor, coming toward
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Speaker 5: the ship. He looked up. I saw his face. It
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Speaker 5: was filled with pain. Then he swayed and fell... Tried
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Speaker 5: to drag himself. I don't know why I did it,
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Speaker 5: but there just wasn't anyone else around anyplace, and I
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Speaker 5: was positive he needed help. What happened to you? Can
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Speaker 5: I help?
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Speaker 8: Dead sailor.
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Speaker 3: What? Message.
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Speaker 8: Listen.
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Speaker 1: Yes?
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Speaker 6: Sultan's turret. Fifteen step. Tell it to.
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Speaker 5: Then I saw it. A knife buried in his back.
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Speaker 5: He just died. I turned and ran. Oh, I'm terribly sorry.
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Speaker 8: Oh, you are America. What are you running from, mademoiselle?
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Speaker 5: Down the street, back there on the dock. Oh, are
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Speaker 5: you a police?
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Speaker 8: Yes, mademoiselle, Beirut police. I presume you are from the
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Speaker 8: passenger ship?
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Speaker 5: Yes, that's right. On the dock, there's a dead man.
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Speaker 5: A sailor, there's a knife in his back.
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Speaker 8: Yes, of course. Now, what is it you wish me
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Speaker 8: to do?
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Speaker 3: Do?
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Speaker 5: Well, he's just lying there, dead.
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Speaker 8: Isn't it a little early for dead bodies, mademoiselle? A sailor? Pardon.
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Speaker 8: You're sure he's not just drunk?
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Speaker 5: Drunk? I told you there's a knife in his back. Well,
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Speaker 5: you could take a look, you know. You can almost
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Speaker 5: see it from here.
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Speaker 8: Please, I don't mean to doubt you, but.
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Speaker 5: Look, I'm only telling you what I saw. I didn't
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Speaker 5: imagine this. It just happened. The poor man's dead.
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Speaker 8: American tourists. All right, mademoiselle, I shall accompany you to
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Speaker 8: the dead body. Well.
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Speaker 7: Now, you see?
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Speaker 5: I was standing right up there on the deck.
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Speaker 8: Yes, I see. Now, where exactly?
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Speaker 5: Just at the edge of those packing cases. I don't
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Speaker 5: want to look.
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Speaker 8: Mademoiselle.
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Speaker 5: Oh, please. I couldn't bear to look.
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Speaker 8: There is nothing here.
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Speaker 5: What? This is... This is the exact place.
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Speaker 8: You're sure?
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Speaker 5: I swear they must have moved him.
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Speaker 8: They?
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Speaker 5: Well, someone.
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Speaker 8: Mademoiselle, when a man is drunk... He wasn't drunk, believe me.
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Speaker 5: There was a knife in his back.
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Speaker 8: Then there should be blood. There is no blood.
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Speaker 5: Look, I saw it.
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Speaker 8: Possibly the shadow.
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Speaker 5: I swear I saw it. He was dead.
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Speaker 8: With a body, there is little we can do. You agree?
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Speaker 7: Yes, but.
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Speaker 5: You don't believe I saw anything, do you?
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Speaker 8: Something, yes. Beirut is a modern city, but it still
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Speaker 8: has charm. Sometimes a visitor is overwhelmed.
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Speaker 5: Well, I don't understand it. I'm not wearing my glasses, but.
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Speaker 5: Well, it was so real.
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Speaker 8: The report will be filled. Now, if I may escort
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Speaker 8: you back to the ship.
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Speaker 5: All right. I don't understand it, but all right. All right.
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Speaker 5: I felt absolutely ridiculous. The policeman couldn't help thinking I
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Speaker 5: was only a giddy, excited tourist. Saying any more would
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Speaker 5: just make it worse. I looked back at the place.
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Speaker 5: It was broad daylight now, and everything did look different. Well,
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Speaker 5: there wasn't anything to do except try and push it
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Speaker 5: out of my mind if I was going to enjoy
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Speaker 5: Beirut at all. When I got to my cabin, I
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Speaker 5: put some cold water on my face and went up
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Speaker 5: for breakfast. Well, I wasn't that happy.
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Speaker 3: Hey, you're late this morning, teacher. Oversleep, did you?
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Speaker 5: No, no. I was just buying some film for my
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Speaker 5: camera at the ship's store. Good morning, Mr.
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Speaker 7: Haroon.
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Speaker 6: Good morning.
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Speaker 3: Well, by route, here we are. Hey, see the sunrise, teacher.
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Speaker 3: Thanks for the suggestion, Mr. Haroon. It was really something.
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Speaker 5: Did you see the sunrise, Mr.
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Speaker 1: Grady?
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Speaker 3: Well, sure, through my porthole.
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Speaker 5: Not from the deck?
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Speaker 3: No, I just got out of bed, took a look,
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Speaker 3: went back to sleep.
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Speaker 9: Oh.
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Speaker 10: It looks like a pretty good town. A little on
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Speaker 10: the gaudy side. You're signed up for the tour, aren't you?
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Speaker 5: I haven't yet.
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Speaker 3: Well, you better hurry.
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Speaker 5: Are you going on the tour, Mr.
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Speaker 6: Haru? I am familiar with Beirut.
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Speaker 5: Oh, well, then you must know those little out-of-the-way places
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Speaker 5: that tourists ordinarily don't see.
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Speaker 6: Some. The street of the seven nightingales.
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Speaker 5: Oh, I'm just dying to see something like that. Well,
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Speaker 5: you know, tours are so commercial.
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Speaker 3: You want to see some of that hoochie-coochie stuff? Why, teacher, I.
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Speaker 5: That's not what I mean, Mr.
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Speaker 7: Grady.
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Speaker 5: If you were at all sensitive, you'd... You understand, don't you, Mr.
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Speaker 9: Haroon?
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Speaker 6: A touch of Omar Khayyam?
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Speaker 5: Oh, that's it. That's it exactly, to be a part
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Speaker 5: of it. To see and feel antiquity with someone who.
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Speaker 6: I could show you, Miss Gideon.
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Speaker 5: You must think I'm rather forward, but.
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Speaker 6: But unfortunately, I have business.
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Speaker 5: Oh, I see.
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Speaker 7: The tour is really excellent. It will not disappoint you.
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Speaker 7: I have taken it myself.
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Speaker 10: Sure, there's still time to sign up. We'll have big time,
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Speaker 10: just like Port said.
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Speaker 5: Well, I guess I'd better go get my things.
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Speaker 8: Atta girl.
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Speaker 3: I'll go put your name down.
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Speaker 5: See you this evening, Mr.
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Speaker 2: Haroon?
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Speaker 7: You will have a nice time, I am sure.
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Speaker 8: Yes.
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Speaker 5: Well, goodbye.
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Speaker 3: Meet you at the gangplank, teacher. Now, hurry up.
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Speaker 11: The Bazaar of the Hussat Eldin.
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Speaker 8: 300 years old. Now, you'll have a half hour to.
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Speaker 11: Observe the interesting native handiwork and make purchase.
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Speaker 3: That's some joint. Just like a Hollywood set, eh, teacher?
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Speaker 5: My name is Mildred Gideon.
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Speaker 1: Mr.
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Speaker 7: Grady.
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Speaker 3: Oh, sure. Hey, get a load of those shoes they're selling.
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Speaker 10: Now, wouldn't you get the razz if you clumped around
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Speaker 10: home in those?
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Speaker 5: It's the style here.
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Speaker 3: Well, sure, I realize that, but wouldn't you get the razz?
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Speaker 8: I think I'll buy a pair.
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Speaker 3: Hey, sorry.
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Speaker 11: The marketplace of Rashamir, 500 years old, former slave market.
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Speaker 11: You will have a half hour to observe the interesting
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Speaker 11: native handiwork and make.
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Speaker 5: Slave market.
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Speaker 3: This dump doesn't look like the one in the movies.
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Speaker 5: Really, Mr. Grady, do you have to compare everything with home?
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Speaker 5: Use your imagination. Let it come to you. The camels
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Speaker 5: coming in carrying new slaves for sale. The slave dealers
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Speaker 5: cracking whips. Can't you see it?
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Speaker 3: Say, that's pretty good. Did you read it somewhere?
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Speaker 5: Oh, forget it. Just forget it. I gave up after that.
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Speaker 5: Frank Grady was going to be Frank Grady, and that's
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Speaker 5: all there was to it. I tried to slip away,
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Speaker 5: be alone for a minute, but he was just like
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Speaker 5: a leech.
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Speaker 8: Uh-uh, teacher.
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Speaker 3: Better stick with me. You don't want to get lost,
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Speaker 3: do you?
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Speaker 5: I was just about ready to call it quits, go
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Speaker 5: back to the ship, find a good book to read, when.
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Speaker 11: The next point of interest is El Kassir, the Sultan's turret.
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Speaker 5: The Sultan's turret. That seemed familiar. I was certain I'd
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Speaker 5: heard that name before. Then it suddenly hit me. The sailors.
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Speaker 5: The dead sailor. He'd said, message, Sultan's turret, 15th step. Oh,
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Speaker 5: I could have kicked myself for not remembering for that policeman.
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Speaker 5: It was a big stone tower, broken down in places,
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Speaker 5: but it was solid and real. Proof that I hadn't
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Speaker 5: imagined that poor man. My heart was simply pounding. I
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Speaker 5: couldn't wait to get inside.
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Speaker 6: It was dark inside.
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Speaker 5: Just little lights near the showcases. I looked around for
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Speaker 5: the steps. In one of the corners, I saw them
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Speaker 5: curving upward. They were roped off. I edged away from
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Speaker 5: the others, praying Frank Grady wouldn't see me. I slipped
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Speaker 5: under the rope, started up.
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Speaker 9: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, Ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen.
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Speaker 5: It was very dark, only a glimmer of light.
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Speaker 2: I waited.
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Speaker 5: It felt as if there was someone else there in
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Speaker 5: the shadows. Then a tiny white something.
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Speaker 9: Caught my eye, a piece of paper.
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Speaker 5: I picked it up. I looked at it.
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Speaker 9: There was writing. It said, Ship 6.
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Speaker 5: That's all.
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Speaker 6: Well, Miss Gideon.
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Speaker 5: Mr. Harun.
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Speaker 7: I have been waiting for you.
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Speaker 2: You are listening to By Route, By Sunrise, tonight's presentation
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Speaker 2: in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense.
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Speaker 12: You can't shortchange today's students in their classrooms and hope
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Speaker 12: that tomorrow's leaders will be up to the international competition.
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Speaker 12: Give a thought to how well today's schools can train
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Speaker 12: tomorrow's leaders. Join your local groups fighting for better schools.
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Speaker 2: And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage Miss
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Speaker 2: Mary Jane Croft, starring in tonight's production of Beirut by Sunrise,
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Speaker 2: a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.
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Speaker 6: I am sorry, Miss Gideon. I really did not mean
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Speaker 6: to frighten you.
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Speaker 5: Don't come near me.
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Speaker 6: All right.
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Speaker 5: What are you doing up here?
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Speaker 6: I do like forbidden places. I knew the tour would
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Speaker 6: arrive here about this time. Fortunately, I finished my business early,
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Speaker 6: so I came to meet you. Is that so frightening?
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Speaker 5: No, I guess not.
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Speaker 6: I thought you might like me to show you what
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Speaker 6: I know of the city. You are all right now?
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Speaker 9: Oh, yes, I'm all right.
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Speaker 5: Mr. Haroon, was there anyone else up here just a
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Speaker 5: minute ago?
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Speaker 6: No. You and I are the only curious ones.
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Speaker 4: Oh, no.
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Speaker 5: No, there had to be someone. I've got proof.
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Speaker 6: Proof?
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Speaker 8: Hey, teacher!
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Speaker 6: Mildred! Where are you?
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Speaker 4: Hey, we're leaving!
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Speaker 9: Mr.
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Speaker 6: Grady... Well, shall we go down?
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Speaker 5: No, please, let's wait till they go. I've had just
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Speaker 5: about enough of Mr.
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Speaker 7: Grady.
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Speaker 9: Teacher!
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Speaker 6: They will think you are lost.
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Speaker 5: Oh, let them. I've got to talk to you, Mr.
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Speaker 8: Haroon.
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Speaker 5: Somebody, I've just got to.
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Speaker 6: I know of a charming place. We will talk there.
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Speaker 5: We waited for the tour to leave, then I took
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Speaker 5: hold of Mr. Haroon's arm and we started down those
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Speaker 5: awful stairs. It seemed like hours to go through the darkness,
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Speaker 5: and I shuddered all the way to the bottom. Then
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Speaker 5: we were out in the sunlight and I felt like
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Speaker 5: breathing again. We walked, gave me a chance to pull
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Speaker 5: myself together. Finally we stopped in front of a little place,
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Speaker 5: didn't look like anything from the outside, and Mr. Haroon
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Speaker 5: opened the door and we went in.
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Speaker 6: What do you think of it?
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Speaker 5: Oh, it's just charming. This garden, it's the Arabian Nights.
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Speaker 5: It must be very old.
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Speaker 6: They say Omar Khayyam once visited here.
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Speaker 5: Oh, well, you can tell. Come fill the cup and
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Speaker 5: in the fire of spring your winter garment of repentance fling.
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Speaker 6: The bird of time has but a little way to
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Speaker 6: flutter and the bird He's on the wing.
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Speaker 5: You know the Rubaiyat?
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Speaker 6: Some of it I remember.
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Speaker 5: Oh, I'm dreaming again. Just couldn't be real.
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Speaker 6: Oh, it is real, all right. Miss Gideon, back at
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Speaker 6: the Sultan's turret. What? You said you wanted to tell
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Speaker 6: me something.
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Speaker 5: Oh, yes, that.
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Speaker 3: Well?
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Speaker 5: Well, it's been so strange all day. First I see beauty,
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Speaker 5: then death. Then it was gone. And suddenly terror again.
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Speaker 5: And now this beauty, all without warning. I want to
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Speaker 5: remember this place without anything to spoil it. Please take
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Speaker 5: me somewhere else.
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Speaker 6: Aren't you carrying this romantic theme a little too far?
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Speaker 5: What do you mean?
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Speaker 8: I mean.
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Speaker 7: All.
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Speaker 6: Right. I will take you someplace a little less overwhelming.
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Speaker 5: Look, it's almost sunset. Funny I didn't realize it was
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Speaker 5: so late.
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Speaker 6: Just this place and we will go back to the ship.
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Speaker 5: Up these stairs?
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Speaker 6: If you please.
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Speaker 8: Oh, the view.
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Speaker 5: There's the harbor. There's our ship. We'll make it back
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Speaker 5: in time, won't we?
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Speaker 7: In here, Miss Gillian.
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Speaker 5: Oh, it's a nice room, but I... Oh, the view
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Speaker 5: from this window. It's lovely. Is that what we came
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Speaker 5: to see?
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Speaker 6: Not exactly.
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Speaker 7: Mr.
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Speaker 5: Haroon, I don't know whether I'll be sad or glad
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Speaker 5: to leave Beirut, but this time with you has been.
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Speaker 6: Miss Gideon.
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Speaker 1: Yes?
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Speaker 7: Time is growing short. We must discontinue this.
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Speaker 5: I know it's growing short, Mr.
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Speaker 6: Haroon.
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Speaker 5: Short the time, but long my memory for that garden
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Speaker 5: and the moments there.
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Speaker 6: I am not sure whether you are extremely clever or
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Speaker 6: extremely foolish. Foolish?
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Speaker 5: Oh, no, Mr. Haroon, please, not foolish.
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Speaker 8: Foolish?
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Speaker 5: I thought you realized what I truly feel.
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Speaker 6: This place is not romantic, Miss Gideon. You can stop
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Speaker 6: it now. Stop it?
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Speaker 7: You have caused me a great deal of trouble, and
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Speaker 7: I am finished playing games.
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Speaker 3: Mr.
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Speaker 2: Harun.
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Speaker 6: What happened on the stairs of the Sultan's turret? You
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Speaker 6: are going to tell me, Miss Gideon, what time is
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Speaker 6: the meeting?
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Speaker 5: Meeting?
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Speaker 6: The masquerade is over. Do not force me.
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Speaker 7: You know.
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Speaker 5: I don't know what you're talking about.
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Speaker 6: Death and terror, Miss Gideon. Come here. You recognize this?
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Speaker 5: The sailor. The dead sailor. You murderer!
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Speaker 2: You murderer!
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Speaker 12: Stop!
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Speaker 5: Stop!
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Speaker 1: I ran.
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Speaker 5: Just ran. The vision of the dead man on the
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Speaker 5: floor of the room still in my eyes. And Mr.
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Speaker 5: Haroon was coming after me. He was going to kill me.
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Speaker 5: I knew he was going to kill me. I didn't
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Speaker 5: know where I was or how to get back to
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Speaker 5: the ship. And it got darker and darker. The streets
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Speaker 5: twisted and turned in front of me. shadow after shadow,
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Speaker 5: growing bigger and bigger. I had to get to the ship,
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Speaker 5: but I didn't know how. Oh, my leg. Oh, a dirty,
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Speaker 5: ugly man appeared beside me. I backed away for a minute.
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Speaker 5: He slithered after me, and then I felt my back
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Speaker 5: against a wall. Walls all around. There wasn't any way out.
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Speaker 5: I could feel a scream gathering in my throat. I
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Speaker 5: saw a door just out of reach. I edged toward it.
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Speaker 5: It was a big room, dim and evil-smelling. There were people,
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Speaker 5: but they didn't pay any attention to me. They were
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Speaker 5: watching a dancing girl weaving through a greasy yellow light.
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Speaker 5: I saw another door and slid along the wall toward it.
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Speaker 5: And he was there, following me.
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Speaker 6: Keep away from me.
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Speaker 3: Keep away.
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Speaker 8: Mildred!
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Speaker 3: Mildred!
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Speaker 2: Frank!
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Speaker 5: Mildred, hey, hey, teacher! Frank!
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Speaker 7: Frank!
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Speaker 4: Grady!
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Speaker 8: Here, here, over this way. That's it.
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Speaker 2: Hey.
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Speaker 5: Oh, Frank. I was never so glad to see anybody
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Speaker 5: in all my life.
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Speaker 3: Well, what happened to you? I've been looking all over.
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Speaker 3: You know, the ship's almost ready to leave.
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Speaker 5: He was going to kill me.
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Speaker 3: Who was going to kill you?
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Speaker 5: That horrible, terrible Mr.
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Speaker 3: Harrow.
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Speaker 5: Let's get to the ship, please.
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Speaker 3: No, no, I won't. Wait a minute. I gotta know
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Speaker 3: what time that drop is.
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Speaker 7: Drop?
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Speaker 3: The message you got at the Sultan's turret. I know
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Speaker 3: you got it or you wouldn't have ditched me.
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Speaker 6: What?
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Speaker 3: The film.
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Speaker 10: Documents on the film, teacher. A little white slip of
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Speaker 10: paper tells place and time and you've got it. Now
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Speaker 10: you forget your act and I'll forget mine.
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Speaker 2: Sailor.
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Speaker 5: He said tell it to.
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Speaker 3: To me. To Frank Grady. He was my contact. You've
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Speaker 3: gotten away. No, no.
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Speaker 7: Come on now.
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Speaker 3: Give me that paper.
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Speaker 5: Let go.
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Speaker 8: Look, teacher.
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Speaker 3: Give me that paper or I'll kill you.
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Speaker 6: I mean it.
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Speaker 3: Grady.
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Speaker 1: What?
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Speaker 7: Miss Gideon?
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Speaker 1: Yes, what?
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Speaker 9: Mr.
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Speaker 5: Haroon, don't touch me.
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Speaker 6: No, it is all right.
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Speaker 7: Everything is all right, I assure you.
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Speaker 9: All right? Where am I?
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Speaker 8: A pilot's launch, Miss Gideon. I'm escorting you back to
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Speaker 8: the ship once more.
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Speaker 7: A policeman?
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Speaker 8: We are sorry you had to go through as much
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Speaker 8: as you did.
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Speaker 7: It was imperative to find out which one was the spy, Mr.
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Speaker 6: Grady or you.
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Speaker 8: Spy?
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Speaker 9: Yes.
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Speaker 6: Dealers in state documents, collected and sold to the highest bidder.
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Speaker 6: We knew someone would meet the sailor.
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Speaker 5: Oh, I see now.
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Speaker 8: Then you didn't... He was stabbed in a street brawl
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Speaker 8: before he could reach the ship.
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Speaker 6: Unfortunately, you complicated things also for us as well as Mr.
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Speaker 8: Grady.
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Speaker 6: I am sorry I had to treat you roughly at
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Speaker 6: the house.
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Speaker 3: On the hill.
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Speaker 5: Because you thought I... And I thought you....
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Speaker 8: Oh, Mr.
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Speaker 5: Haroon, I'm so glad I was wrong about you. I
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Speaker 5: don't mind anything now.
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Speaker 6: I am staying here in Beirut. I wish you a
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Speaker 6: pleasant trip and bon voyage.
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Speaker 5: Perplexed no more with human or divine.
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Speaker 6: Then tomorrow's tangle to the winds resign.
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Speaker 5: Thank you, Mr.
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Speaker 8: Harun.
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Speaker 5: Thank you very much.
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Speaker 2: Suspense, in which Miss Mary Jane Croft starred in tonight's
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Speaker 2: presentation of Beirut by Sunrise. Next week, the story of
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Speaker 2: terror in the streets. We call it The Whole Town Sleeping.
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Speaker 2: That's next week on Suspense. Suspense. Suspense is produced and
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Speaker 2: directed by Anthony Ellis. Tonight's script was written by Mr.
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Speaker 2: Richard Chandley. The music was composed by Lucian Morawick and
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Speaker 2: conducted by Wilbur Hatch. Featured in the cast were High Averbach,
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Speaker 2: Jack Prussian, Don Diamond, and Ben Wright.
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Speaker 12: Thursday nights, The Whistler brings mystery on the CBS radio network.
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Speaker 12: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Suspense has concluded with Beirut by Sunrise. Until our next
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