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Suspense - "Blackbeard's Ace" (Old Time Radio, 1962) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A woman troubled by recurring dreams and convinced that spirits
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  Speaker 1: can reach her travels with her husband to a secluded
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  Speaker 1: cottage at Teacher's Cove on the North Carolina coast. There,
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  Speaker 1: local tales of Blackbeard, buried treasure, and an earlier unexplained
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  Speaker 1: death mingle with unsettling discoveries on the shore, including a
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  Speaker 1: planchette found in the sand. As strange signs accumulate, the
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  Speaker 1: couple is drawn toward the cottage's connection with the past.
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  Speaker 1: From Suspense, it is Blackbeard's Ace, Episode 9, dated April 2nd, 1962,
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  Speaker 1: with Elaine Rost, John Thomas, and Bob Dryden. We now
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  Speaker 1: take you back to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: And now, a tale well calculated to keep you in.
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  Speaker 2: Suspense.
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  Speaker 3: In a moment... Act one of Blackbeard's Ace, starring Elaine
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  Speaker 3: Rost and John Thomas, and written especially for suspense.
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  Speaker 2: By Jack Buttram.
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  Speaker 3: This first portion of suspense is brought to you by
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  Speaker 3: the makers of Marlboro Cigarettes.
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  Speaker 4: Why don't you settle back and have a full-flavored smoke?
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  Speaker 2: Have a Marlboro.
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  Speaker 4: You get a lot to like with a Marlboro, the
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  Speaker 4: filter cigarette with the unfiltered taste. Try Marlboro.
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  Speaker 5: I had never believed in ESP, extrasensory perception.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I had heard of universities conducting tests of this
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  Speaker 6: mental phenomenon, but... Their studies covered only those messages transmitted
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  Speaker 6: from one living subject to another.
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  Speaker 5: The messages that came to me were transmitted.
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  Speaker 2: By the dead.
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  Speaker 6: Charles, my husband, was worried about my dreams. And after
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  Speaker 6: he finished his last book, he suggested a rest for
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  Speaker 6: the two of us on the Carolina coast.
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  Speaker 2: Margo, you remember Aunt Ida? She lives down on the
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  Speaker 2: coast near Charleston.
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  Speaker 5: What about her?
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  Speaker 7: Well, she's invited us to vacation in a seacoast cabin
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  Speaker 7: she has in her hands.
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  Speaker 2: Sound good?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, well, I don't know, Charles. You think we should?
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  Speaker 5: With your writing and all, I... I just have the feeling.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, come on, Margo.
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  Speaker 7: She says she can't get a buyer and the place
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  Speaker 7: is just standing idle, so let's go. I.
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  Speaker 5: Well, all right, honey. I had that awful dream.
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  Speaker 2: Now, dearest, the doctor said those dreams were all cured.
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  Speaker 5: You're as good as new. Charles, they weren't dreams. They
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  Speaker 5: were real. They happened. I know they did.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Whatever they were, they're all gone now. And
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  Speaker 2: you do need a change.
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  Speaker 5: All right, dear. I'll go if you really want me to.
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  Speaker 2: That's my girl. Well, we can start packing right away.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get my typewriter. Did you get those books from
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  Speaker 2: the library?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I put them on your desk.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, I see them. What about these?
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  Speaker 7: The Lore of Piracy and Rascals of the Spanish Main.
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  Speaker 2: Where'd you get these?
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  Speaker 6: I don't really know, Charles. I just saw them on
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  Speaker 6: the shelf and picked them up. They just seemed interesting.
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  Speaker 6: I just sort of felt I wanted to read them.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they might come in handy at that.
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  Speaker 7: That section of the coast is full of pirate stories.
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  Speaker 7: We'll probably need a handbook to know one pirate from another.
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  Speaker 5: I won't read a book. No, Charles. I'll know them.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure I'll know them.
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  Speaker 8: Now, how'd you folks happen to buy this place?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're not buying it, Judge. You see, my aunt
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  Speaker 2: acquired this place. What do they call it?
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  Speaker 8: Uh, Teach's Cove?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Teach's Cove.
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  Speaker 7: Well, she bought it along with some other property about
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  Speaker 7: a year ago.
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  Speaker 8: Uh, that'd be right after old Hurd died.
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  Speaker 5: Old Hurd?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, Hurd Simpson. His fella used to own the cove.
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  Speaker 8: Right queer old gent. And lived out here all alone. Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: I reckon his land went up for taxes right after
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  Speaker 8: the accident.
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  Speaker 5: He died in an accident?
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  Speaker 8: Well, the official report said accident. Most folks around here
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  Speaker 8: got their own ideas.
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  Speaker 2: Like what?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I saw it myself, and I don't think it
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  Speaker 8: was no accident. I usually brought out Herd's weekly groceries,
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  Speaker 8: and when I come out one Saturday morning, he wasn't
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  Speaker 8: nowhere about. I sat and waited a spell, but... After
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  Speaker 8: a while, I got suspected, and so I gets to
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  Speaker 8: looking around, and I finds this little trickle coming.
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  Speaker 2: Out from under the door.
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  Speaker 8: Looked like somebody dropped a jar of preserves, but it
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  Speaker 8: was blood.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I busted in the door and found old Hurd
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  Speaker 8: dead as a hammer.
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  Speaker 5: Terrible cut.
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  Speaker 8: That's right, ma'am. Wasn't no sight for a lady. The sheriff,
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  Speaker 8: he come out and marked it down as an accident...
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  Speaker 8: because the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
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  Speaker 8: But our fellow could cut himself from the shoulder... clear
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  Speaker 8: down to here by falling on something... especially when we
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  Speaker 8: couldn't find nothing that big for him to fall on.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, Charles.
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  Speaker 7: There now, honey, there now. I'm afraid your little gory
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  Speaker 7: tail has frightened my wife.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, no, there's no need to be frightened now, ma'am.
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  Speaker 8: That was most a year ago... At least it was
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  Speaker 8: about this same time last year. Time of the full
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  Speaker 8: moon and the highest tide.
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  Speaker 5: Pirate's moon.
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  Speaker 6: Margo.
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  Speaker 9: That's right, ma'am.
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  Speaker 8: Pirate's moon. I reckon they called it that because of
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  Speaker 8: the high tide. They could slip over sandbars and get
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  Speaker 8: farther up the inlets to bury their treasure or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Margo, how did you know about a pirate's moon?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, Charles. Read it in one of those books,
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  Speaker 5: I guess.
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  Speaker 8: There's a cove right up our head.
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  Speaker 2: It's a nice-looking place.
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  Speaker 7: The way you were talking, I expected to see a
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  Speaker 7: tumble-down shack.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, it is a pretty good fellow keeping the place up. Well,
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  Speaker 8: here we are.
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  Speaker 5: Certainly is deserted country.
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  Speaker 6: We didn't see a single soul on the way out here.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I guess I better help you get set up, huh?
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  Speaker 2: I'll unlock the door if you can start bringing in
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  Speaker 2: the bags.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, hurry.
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  Speaker 5: Get in before dark.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know why, but I just knew we must
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  Speaker 6: be inside the cabin with the door locked before dark.
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  Speaker 6: There was something that would not be quiet, something inside
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  Speaker 6: my brain that was trying to speak to me.
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  Speaker 5: I had to shut it out of my mind.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that ought to do it.
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  Speaker 8: Hope you folks are comfortable.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, Jed, for all your help.
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  Speaker 2: That's all right, ma'am. Here, I'll pay you and see
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  Speaker 2: you off.
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  Speaker 4: Goodbye, ma'am.
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  Speaker 5: Goodbye, Jed.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't want to say anything in there, but my
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  Speaker 2: wife's been ill.
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 7: Well, not physically, but, well, she has periods of, well,
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  Speaker 7: hearing people who aren't there.
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  Speaker 2: Hearing people? Do you get what I mean?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, sir. I think so.
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  Speaker 5: She's, uh.
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  Speaker 7: I know we originally arranged for you to come out
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  Speaker 7: at the end of the week to pick us up.
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  Speaker 2: But I think you'd better come back sooner.
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  Speaker 7: You know, if she should have a relapse. Well, I
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  Speaker 7: wouldn't want to keep her out here any longer than
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  Speaker 7: absolutely necessary.
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  Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I reckon I could make it out the day
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  Speaker 8: after tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: That'd be fine, Jed. Here's your money for this trip. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, sir. Oh, uh, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Reed.
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  Speaker 6: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: If I was you.
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  Speaker 8: I wouldn't go taking any moonlight strolls around Teacher's Cove.
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  Speaker 8: It's best to be in after dark.
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  Speaker 6: I determined that my husband should see no abnormal sign
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  Speaker 6: in me.
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  Speaker 5: I laughed.
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  Speaker 6: I acted gay. I ignored the feeling and the thoughts
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  Speaker 6: that kept trying to force their way into my brain.
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  Speaker 2: Darling, look. Look through the window. How beautiful that sunset.
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  Speaker 2: The tops of those clouds are still in the sunlight,
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  Speaker 2: the base in the dark.
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  Speaker 5: It's the way I feel sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 3: Nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Margo, do you know where I put those books?
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  Speaker 5: What books, dear?
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  Speaker 2: You know, the ones you checked out on pirates.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't pack them, Charles.
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  Speaker 2: No, you didn't, but I put them in myself. Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Here they are.
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  Speaker 5: But, Charles, I.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I thought I'd look up your friend Teach, since
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  Speaker 7: this cover's supposedly named for him.
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  Speaker 2: Might even do some treasure hunting myself.
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  Speaker 8: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Look.
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  Speaker 2: Look at this map.
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  Speaker 7: It was drawn a long time ago. Not labeled, of course,
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  Speaker 7: but the general shape seems to correspond with our.
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  Speaker 2: Little inlet out there. I'll bet that's it.
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  Speaker 5: Yes. It is our inlet.
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  Speaker 2: And listen to this, honey.
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  Speaker 7: Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was a giant of
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  Speaker 7: a man standing well over six feet and weighing nearly
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  Speaker 7: 300 pounds.
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  Speaker 2: He was killed in a furious fight in an inlet
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  Speaker 2: on the Carolina coast.
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  Speaker 7: The secret of his supposed hidden treasure went with him
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  Speaker 7: into oblivion.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't that sound exciting?
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  Speaker 5: What was that?
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  Speaker 2: What was what?
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  Speaker 5: I thought I heard a squeaking. Rhythmic. Like an oar lock.
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  Speaker 5: As if someone were rowing.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't hear anything.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll look.
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  Speaker 7: Can't see anything now. Must have been your imagination. Let's see,
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  Speaker 7: where was I? Oh, yes, right here. His favorite weapon
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  Speaker 7: was a cutlass... which could inflict.
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  Speaker 2: A horrible wound... At one blow, there are.
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  Speaker 7: Probably many shallow graves along the coast that attest to
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  Speaker 7: Blackbeard's double insurance when concealing treasure.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting, don't you think, dear?
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  Speaker 5: I think it's horrible.
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  Speaker 2: Can't you just see it? The treasure's buried. The men
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  Speaker 2: start to fill up the get.
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  Speaker 7: Before they can, the giant cutlass flashes twice in the moonlight.
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  Speaker 6: Ah! Charles rushed out to investigate that scream. I knew
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  Speaker 6: he would find nothing. But at least it was a
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  Speaker 6: relief to know I'd not just imagined it. Charles had
• 11:02
  Speaker 6: heard it too. Next morning, there was no indication of
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  Speaker 6: the mysterious sounds of the night before. Only a lingering
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  Speaker 6: dread in my mind. For I knew that night would
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  Speaker 6: fall again.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's just what we need. Sun, sky.
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  Speaker 5: What about the scream last night?
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  Speaker 2: It's probably a swamp cat or something. We were reading
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  Speaker 2: about pirates and such.
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  Speaker 7: Our imaginations coincided with a perfectly natural sound.
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  Speaker 5: Charles, imagination? Coincidence?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I don't believe it was Blackbeard's ghost guarding his treasure,
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  Speaker 7: if that's what you're.
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  Speaker 2: Leading up to.
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  Speaker 5: I hadn't mentioned it at all.
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  Speaker 2: I just know it's on your mind. It's... Say, what's
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  Speaker 2: that over there?
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 7: That piece of iron sticking up out of the sand.
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  Speaker 7: Looks like part of a small boat's anchor.
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  Speaker 2: Looks pretty ancient. Let's dig it out.
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  Speaker 5: Charles, I don't think we're sure.
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  Speaker 2: For Pete's sake, why? It's broad daylight.
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  Speaker 5: Come on. What's this?
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  Speaker 2: Looks like a piece of ivory.
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  Speaker 5: Heart-shaped.
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  Speaker 2: Black diamond shape and made in the middle. You ever
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  Speaker 2: see anything like it?
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  Speaker 5: No, Charles.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if it's valuable. It's a funny little thing.
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  Speaker 2: Just one hole in it down near the point of
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  Speaker 2: the heart.
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  Speaker 5: It's evil, Charles. It's evil. Throw it away.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Margo, don't get excited over a little bit of ivory.
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  Speaker 2: It might be valuable, that's all.
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  Speaker 5: Evil, Charles. It's evil.
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  Speaker 6: Evil.
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  Speaker 5: Evil. A planchette. A planchette.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 6: It's an ivory planchette used to communicate with the dead.
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  Speaker 2: Take it easy, honey.
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  Speaker 6: The small hole is for the insertion of a writing instrument.
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  Speaker 6: There are two small casters attached to it. You place
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  Speaker 6: it on a piece of paper. Let the hands rest
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  Speaker 6: lightly on top. And it writes messages.
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  Speaker 5: Evil messages.
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  Speaker 4: Evil.
• 13:23
  Speaker 5: Evil.
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  Speaker 2: Here, darling. Lie down on the bed. Here's something to drink.
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  Speaker 2: It'll help you rest. Make you feel better. There, now. Now,
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  Speaker 2: what kind of evil messages are you worried about?
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 2: You were just telling me about messages from the dead.
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  Speaker 2: What were they?
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  Speaker 5: I don't remember.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you just said something about this planchette, right? You
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  Speaker 2: don't remember, do you? No.
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  Speaker 5: I really don't know what you're talking about. It's like
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  Speaker 5: I blacked out for a moment.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's see if you were right about that thing.
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  Speaker 2: I'll look it up in that pirate book of yours.
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  Speaker 2: It's a glossary. Pirate, right plane. Oh, yes, here.
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  Speaker 7: Planchette used in a form of automatism. Especially believed to
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  Speaker 7: be used in communication with the dead.
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  Speaker 2: You're right, Margo. Absolutely right. Well, by golly, we're going
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  Speaker 2: to try.
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  Speaker 5: No, Charles. It's evil. I know that, too.
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  Speaker 3: It's evil.
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  Speaker 2: There, there, baby. Now you just go to sleep. You
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: get some rest now.
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  Speaker 7: Charles.
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  Speaker 2: That's my girl. You'll sleep for a few hours.
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  Speaker 5: Well, now.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe the planchette will tell me where Blackbeard's treasure lies.
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  Speaker 2: That is, unless his ghost is still guarding it.
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  Speaker 9: Charles?
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  Speaker 5: Charles, where are you?
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  Speaker 2: Right here, darling.
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  Speaker 5: Charles, the planchette, did you.
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  Speaker 2: No dice, baby.
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  Speaker 7: Old Blackbeard just won't tell me where his treasure is.
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  Speaker 7: I fixed up the little plaything there, put a pencil in,
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  Speaker 7: sat for over an hour with my hands resting on it,
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  Speaker 7: waiting for it to write on the paper.
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  Speaker 2: Still blank.
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  Speaker 5: I'm glad.
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  Speaker 8: I'm glad.
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  Speaker 7: I guess the way those things really work is your
• 15:27
  Speaker 7: muscles finally get tired and you write out the messages
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  Speaker 7: that are already in your brain.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe so, Charles. But how do the messages get in
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  Speaker 5: your brain in the first place?
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: Don't ask me. Ask old Blackbeard. Hungry?
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: No, not very.
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  Speaker 2: You've been sleeping all afternoon. It's already dark.
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: Is the moon up yet? It should be full tonight. Why?
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  Speaker 2: I hadn't noticed.
• 15:57
  Speaker 8: Why?
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  Speaker 6: You said it wasn't quite full last night. Tonight must
• 16:02
  Speaker 6: be the pirate's moon with the highest tide. Good night
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  Speaker 6: for reclaiming buried treasure.
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: Yes, I.
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  Speaker 2: I guess so.
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: I guess I will fix a little something. You had
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: dinner yet? Just a snack. Let's see. Where did I
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: put that Did Charles put this here to scare me?
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: Does he want to drive me out of my mind?
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  Speaker 6: I won't make a scene. I'll just ignore it like
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: it wasn't even there. I won't even mention it.
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  Speaker 5: Charles?
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  Speaker 2: Did you hear it?
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  Speaker 5: What, dear? That sound again. Like the rowing we heard
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: last night.
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  Speaker 2: Just.
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  Speaker 5: Before the screen.
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  Speaker 2: No, Margo. You're really letting this thing get too big
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  Speaker 2: a hold on you.
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  Speaker 5: You didn't hear it.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't hear a thing.
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  Speaker 5: I won't then either. I won't imagine I heard anything.
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: He's trying again.
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  Speaker 6: Trying to make me think thoughts that don't belong to me.
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: Telling me I'm hearing things.
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  Speaker 2: Charles. Well, I think I'll turn in early tonight. Oh, boy.
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: City boys like me get tired pretty quick in the outdoors.
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: Yes, it's a good idea, Charles. You need some rest? Yes.
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: You need a rest. After tramping around this afternoon while
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: I was asleep, finding that cutlass, putting it in here
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  Speaker 6: to make me think I'm going crazy. Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, you sleep. Where is that planchette? Oh, yes, here.
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  Speaker 5: Put in the pencil. Now, on the paper.
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  Speaker 2: Write.
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  Speaker 1: Write.
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  Speaker 5: Write out the message that is in my brain. Reveal
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  Speaker 5: it to me.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: Right. They're moving. Thriving.
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  Speaker 3: K-I-L.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: Kill? Kill whom?
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  Speaker 6: Why?
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: D-H-A-R-L.
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  Speaker 9: No.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: No, why should I kill Charles? He's my husband. He
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: takes care of me. He keeps me....
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: Wait a minute. Does Charles think I'm crazy?
• 19:10
  Speaker 9: Y-E-S.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: What was that?
• 19:14
  Speaker 9: Oh.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: Did you hear something, Charles?
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Yes, I... I thought I did. Something like we heard
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: last night.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: Don't you think it's your imagination, Charles?
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: There.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: There you are. You must have heard it that time, Margo.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Didn't you?
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: Really, Charles, you've been awfully jumpy lately.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Margo, what's the matter with you?
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: Nothing, Charles. Absolutely nothing. I've just been using the planchette.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: You have? Here, let me see this paper. Here's this
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: what the planchette wrote?
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: It says, kill Charles.
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Margo, Margo, what does this mean? Are you, are you crazy?
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: I don't know, Charles.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: Is that what you want me to be? Did you
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: put this in the kitchen so I would think Blackbeard
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: had been here?
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Margo, what are you doing with that thing? Put it down.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: You could hurt yourself.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: Do you want me to say I'm crazy, Charles?
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: Do you want me to say that I've been talking
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: to Blackbeard and he wants me to keep you from.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: Disturbing his treasure? Is that what you want me to say, Charles?
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: I don't... Margo. Margo, stay back. Put that down.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Margo.
• 20:48
  Speaker 9: Margo!
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: Hello, the house. That's funny.
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: Nobody seems to be around. Mr. Reed said I should
• 21:07
  Speaker 8: come out and check on things today. I guess I'll
• 21:09
  Speaker 8: just take.
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: A look.
• 21:19
  Speaker 9: Oh.
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: Oh, Lord, look at that. Now, now, that Miss Reed
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: there now, I'm here to help you. No use to
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: cry no more right now.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: Oh, Jed.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: Oh, Jed, it's horrible. Yes, ma'am. It sure is.
• 21:36
  Speaker 8: Now, come on, let's go outside, away from all this, huh? Now,
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: why don't you tell me all about it, huh? How
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: it happened?
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: The last thing I remember, yesterday.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: Charles gave me a sedative to make me sleep. That
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: horrible nightmare is all about blood. And this morning I.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: I woke and found it.
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: Now, now, ma'am, it won't do no good to cry
• 22:09
  Speaker 8: no more.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: It sure is terrible.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Terrible cut.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: What?
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: Terrible cut your husband had there. Terrible, just like one
• 22:19
  Speaker 8: herd had.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: Herds and.
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: Yes, ma'am. Of course, you wouldn't know it unless you've
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: seen them both like I have, but them cuts are
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: almost identical. Exactly alike. What's that you're.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Hanging on to?
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: This?
• 22:35
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: I don't know. We found it on the beach yesterday.
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: That's mighty hard to explain. Old Hurd had one of
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: them things, too.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: He did?
• 22:48
  Speaker 8: Yeah. Practically had to pry his fingers off of it.
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: Funny little things, ain't they?
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: But I thought this.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: I mean.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: I thought mine was the only one. Oh, no, ma'am.
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: Some kind of gambling ship, I reckon. Sunk out there
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: a couple of years ago. And ever since then, them
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: things been washing us over. Then.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: Then they're not valuable as antiques or anything.
• 23:17
  Speaker 8: Oh, shucks, no, ma'am. They got so plentiful around here,
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: folks got to calling them Blackbeard's Ace.
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: Not much use to them, I reckon. No, Jed.
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: Not much use. Not much use to him at all.
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: Except to Blackbeard.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Suspense.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: You've been listening to Blackbeard's Ace, starring Elaine Rost and
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: John Thomas, with Bob Dryden as Jed and written especially
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: for suspense by Jack Buttram. Suspense is produced and directed
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: by Bruno Zerato Jr. Music supervision by Ethel Huber. Sound
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: patterns by Joe Cabibo. Listen again next week when we
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: return with The Second Door, written by Robert Reddick. Another
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: tale well calculated to keep you in.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: Suspense.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Betty Furness talks about the Seattle World's Fair tomorrow on
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: the CBS radio network.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Our presentation of suspense, Blackbeard's Ace, has come to its close.
• 24:25
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