Escape is an American radio drama. It was radio's leading anthology series of high-adventure radio dramas, airing on CBS from July 7, 1947 to September 25, 1954.
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00:00The End
00:30A ghost who shoots guns, resurrects the dead, creates a terror from which you cannot escape.
00:41The End
00:51Escape, produced and directed by William N. Robeson, and designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure.
01:00Tonight, we escape across the limitless horizons of the South Seas, an Alfred Noyes version of a classic legend of blue water, the Log of the Evening Star.
01:19Bahiti, French Oceania, June the 19th.
01:30The sailing schooner Evening Star, reported missing since the first of April, today was discovered a hundred miles west of here, drifting about in a dead calm, with all sails set, but not a soul on board.
01:42The ship, when found, was well stocked with food and water, and all three of her small boats were still present.
01:49The sun-baked body of the ship's cap was lying in the bow, and the mess table in the crew's quarters had been laid in preparation for a meal, which was never served.
01:58Otherwise, everything aboard seemed to be in order, and no solution can be offered to explain the whereabouts of the twelve persons who sailed on her from San Francisco.
02:07It appears that the fate of the Evening Star will remain permanently one of the weird and unsolved mysteries of the sea.
02:14My name is Harper.
02:25I'm first mate of the South Sea Schooner Evening Star.
02:30I'm writing this because I believe it my duty to make some record of the terrible things which have just occurred.
02:39Events I can't possibly enter in the ship's log.
02:45I can't, of course, be certain that this account will ever come to light.
02:51Because I'm not likely to live another 24 hours.
03:05I guess I should have been able to see it three weeks ago, on the day we sailed from San Francisco.
03:12But I didn't.
03:14I remember I was standing on the deck of the Evening Star, talking to Cato, the cook, while we waited for Captain Burgess to come aboard.
03:25We were due to sail in a half hour.
03:28Where do you think we go on this trip, Mr. Harper?
03:31Oh, I don't know, Cato.
03:34Marques is first.
03:36Then Tahiti.
03:38Maybe on Australia.
03:39It's good to leave port.
03:41It's better on open sea.
03:43You said it.
03:45We seem very strange this trip without Captain Dayrell.
03:49Yeah.
03:51We'd had the same gang together for over two years.
03:54Some Kanakas, and the crew, you and I and Burgess.
03:59Dayrell.
04:00Hard to believe he's been dead four months now, isn't it?
04:03Yes, yes.
04:04Captain Dayrell was proud man.
04:07Was good captain.
04:08Mm-hmm.
04:08He's too bad he died.
04:10Yeah.
04:11Well, Burgess will make a good skipper, too.
04:15He was all right his first mate.
04:17Why he no come on board yet?
04:19Captain Burgess?
04:20Hmm.
04:21Well, I don't know.
04:22Just can't bear to leave that new bride he is, I guess.
04:24You, you have seen her, Mr. Harper?
04:26You know her, maybe?
04:28No, no, I haven't.
04:29He's been staying down on the coast somewhere ever since he got married a couple weeks ago.
04:34I don't even know who she is.
04:36New wife?
04:37New command?
04:38Oh, he's a rocky man.
04:40Oh, Kato, I got a strong hunch you're a sentimentalist down underneath.
04:45Oh, it's possible, Mr. Harper.
04:48It has been said.
04:49Hey, Kato.
04:50Hmm?
04:50There's Burgess now, coming down the pier.
04:52Oh, is somebody with him, too?
04:54Yeah.
04:55Guess she's come down to see him off, huh?
04:58At least we'll get a chance.
05:00No, no, no.
05:02Well, that's Mrs. Dayrell.
05:03Yeah, maybe she go on ship, too, just like old time.
05:07No, no, no.
05:08If she wouldn't want to sail on the ship her husband died on, I wonder...
05:13No, no, no, no.
05:14Mr. Harper, Mr. Harper, look.
05:15Three birds fly around the mast.
05:17Huh?
05:19Yeah.
05:20I see them, Kato.
05:21He's very bad sight.
05:24Very bad.
05:25Well, I don't know what you mean by that, but I...
05:27Mr. Harper, is everything in order?
05:29All right, Captain Burgess.
05:31We can sail any time you want.
05:33How are you, Miss Dayrell?
05:34Why, just...
05:35Dayrell?
05:36Oh.
05:37Yes, yes, of course.
05:39Mr. Harper, even though you're already acquainted with the lady, I'd like to present my wife.
05:45Your wife?
05:47We were married two weeks ago, Mr. Harper.
05:50I'm sailing with you on this trip.
05:53Well, that's fine.
05:56I'm glad to have you aboard, Mrs. Day...
05:57Burgess, I mean.
05:59Well, it'll be like old times.
06:01Old times, Mr. Harper?
06:03Well, I mean...
06:04All of us together and everything.
06:08Well, congratulations to both of you.
06:10Thank you, Mr. Harper.
06:12Look, I've brought Satan along, too.
06:14He wouldn't miss this trip for anything.
06:16Yeah, he's right at home.
06:18How are you, Satan?
06:19Hmm?
06:21Uh, would you like to look over the clearance papers, Captain Burgess?
06:24I got them right here.
06:24No, thank you, Mr. Harper.
06:26I'll assume they're in order.
06:27We'll sail as soon as Mrs. Dayrell...
06:29As soon as my wife's trunk comes aboard.
06:32Yes, sir.
06:33I'll be in the cabin if you want anything.
06:34Uh, Cato, would you take Satan and give him something to eat?
06:37I think he's hungry.
06:38Yes, will you?
06:38I'll take him right now.
06:40Come on, Kitty.
06:42We'll go fight something to eat.
06:44Well, Mr. Harper, we're all together again.
06:47That's right, Mrs. Burgess.
06:49We've even got Satan on board.
06:51Yes.
06:53All of us, except my husband.
06:57Your husband is down in the cabin, Mrs. Burgess.
07:00You mean we're all here except Captain Dayrell.
07:03Well, once out at sea, things straightened out a little, the way they always do.
07:20After a while, we got so we could think of her as Mrs. Burgess instead of Mrs. Dayrell.
07:25Well, and after that, it wasn't so awkward.
07:30Captain Burgess stayed to himself quite a bit.
07:33But all in all, it was a fairly pleasant three weeks.
07:38Up until yesterday afternoon.
07:40I was standing in the bow, smoking, watching a school of dolphins skip out of the water when Mrs. Burgess came up behind me.
07:54Mr. Harper, I wonder if I could speak to you a moment.
07:56Of course, Mrs. Burgess.
07:57I'm terribly frightened.
08:00You're frightened?
08:01What about her?
08:02Is he around anywhere?
08:04Is who around?
08:06My husband.
08:06I don't want him to hear me.
08:07What?
08:08Now, Mrs. Burgess, I can't listen to you.
08:09No, please.
08:10You're the only one I can turn to.
08:12We're all in terrible danger, you know.
08:14Danger?
08:15What are you talking about?
08:16Mr. Harper, do you have any reason to think my husband may be not quite himself?
08:26Not quite himself?
08:28In what way?
08:30Do you think he may be insane?
08:33Of course not.
08:33Yes, but you don't understand.
08:34I understand one thing, Mrs. Burgess.
08:36I'd better get back to my duties.
08:38I quite agree with you, Mr. Harper.
08:40Captain Burgess.
08:42I believe you really should stay in the cabin, my dear.
08:44It's far too windy for you up here in the bow.
08:46Yes.
08:47I was just going.
08:49I mean, I'm going right now.
08:51She has a rather delicate throat, Mr. Harper.
08:53Catches cold easily.
08:55Used to be a singer, you know.
08:56Yes, sir.
08:57I know.
08:57Oh, yes.
08:58Yes, of course you do.
09:00Well, don't pay too much attention to anything my wife might say, Mr. Harper.
09:03Well, she's, well, she's upset.
09:07Just don't pay any attention to her.
09:12Something was wrong, all right.
09:14No question of that.
09:17I couldn't figure what.
09:18I couldn't think of any terrible danger.
09:23It seemed more likely it was Mrs. Burgess who was not quite herself.
09:29Well, anyway, the whole business didn't make much sense, so I shrugged it off and forgot
09:33about it for a couple of hours.
09:35It was just at dusk.
09:44Most of the crew was below decks.
09:47I was sitting on the afterhatch, scratching the ears of Satan, the ship's cat.
09:53The sun was just dropping past the horizon, and Satan was purring, meowing.
10:00Everything was pretty peaceful.
10:01Until I heard those voices coming from Captain Burgess' cabin.
10:05I knew the way he acted, you told him.
10:06No, no, really, I didn't.
10:07I wouldn't tell anybody.
10:08You know I wouldn't.
10:09It wasn't a matter of eavesdropping.
10:11They'd even forgotten anyone might hear them.
10:12You don't know me.
10:13You're only saying it.
10:14I mean it, all right.
10:15Then you don't care about me.
10:16If he were alive, I'd still be with him.
10:18You can say that when you know about the thing that's here on board with us?
10:22Oh, it's your imagination.
10:23I told you that.
10:24Imagination, then?
10:25Is that what you told Harper?
10:27Is it?
10:28No.
10:28Don't.
10:29Answer me.
10:30Let go.
10:30Look out, Satan.
10:32This is what he wants me to do.
10:35Captain Burgess.
10:37Captain Burgess.
10:40Yes, Mr. Harper.
10:43What is it?
10:44I wondered if you wanted Cato to bring your dinner here to the cabin, sir.
10:50No, Mr. Harper.
10:52I'll eat at the wheel.
10:54Yes, sir.
10:54Going after now.
10:55Tell him to bring it up right away.
10:57All right, Captain Burgess.
10:57Mr. Harper, listen carefully.
11:03You've got to help me.
11:04All right.
11:04How?
11:05Meet me on the after deck as soon as it's dark.
11:06In an hour, if I can get away from him.
11:08Do you want something else, Mr. Harper?
11:10No, sir.
11:11Nothing else, Captain.
11:11I suppose you go about your duties.
11:13But your wife, sir.
11:14Doesn't she want something to eat?
11:16She does not, Mr. Harper.
11:17She's indisposed.
11:19She does not wish to be disturbed.
11:21Is that perfectly clear?
11:22Now I was convinced that there was danger aboard the evening star.
11:32I had a feeling that something deadly was stirring itself and coming awake below decks.
11:41The first night's shadows were bringing a terrible, threatening tenseness.
11:46I felt that I ought to scream to keep from laughing.
11:49Yet there was nothing to laugh about.
11:51I was quite certain that if I hadn't knocked on that door, Captain Burgess would have killed his wife.
11:59But why?
12:03Well, I hadn't found any sensible answer by the time Cato brought a tray of food to my cabin.
12:08Good evening, Mr. Harper.
12:10Oh.
12:11Put it there in the chart table, will you?
12:13Thank you, Mr. Harper.
12:16How's it look on deck, Cato?
12:18Oh, deck.
12:19I do not understand you, Mr. Harper.
12:22I mean, well, is it dark yet?
12:25Oh, it's get dark soon, I think.
12:28And I think, too, tonight is not good night.
12:33What do you mean by that?
12:35It's something bad on board ship, Mr. Harper.
12:39Well, that's your imagination, Cato.
12:53Is the imagination bother you, too, Mr. Harper?
12:58No.
12:59This morning, three birds fly over ship together.
13:04All day, I burn much incense.
13:08Again, tonight, three birds fly over ship together.
13:14Well, what about it?
13:15It's a sign of death, Mr. Harper.
13:20Tonight on this ship, somebody die.
13:23You all right, something else, maybe?
13:27No.
13:29No, Cato, that's all.
13:30Thank you, Mr. Harper.
13:33Good night, please.
13:38So, I wasn't the only one on board who was feeling something was wrong.
13:42I wondered if Cato knew any more of what was back of it than I did.
13:49You couldn't tell by looking at him.
13:51He could be busting with joy or scared half to death.
13:54And that face of his would never show either one.
14:00Anyway, ten minutes later, I was out on the dark fantail,
14:05watching the moon cast shadows from the rigging.
14:08After a while, I heard her calling my name.
14:11Mr. Harper.
14:11Mr. Harper.
14:12Here I am, Ms. Burgess.
14:13Oh, thank heaven.
14:14Where's the captain?
14:15I don't know.
14:15He didn't come back to the cabin.
14:17All right.
14:18Now, suppose you tell me what it's all about and talk fast.
14:20I don't know what it's about, Mr. Harper.
14:22Not really.
14:23I only know that my husband has gone insane.
14:25You told me that earlier.
14:27What makes you think so?
14:29He tried to kill me.
14:30Yes, I know.
14:32Why?
14:33Because of last night.
14:34He came into my cabin and woke me up.
14:37He was trembling, white as a sheep.
14:39But why?
14:40He said he'd just seen Captain Dayrell on deck.
14:43Dayrell, but he's...
14:44Yes, he died four months ago.
14:45I told him he imagined it.
14:47But he keeps talking about it.
14:48He says Captain Dayrell has come back to punish us.
14:53Punish you?
14:54For what?
14:55Well, for not waiting longer to get married.
14:58Oh, you've got to do something.
14:59Well, if I use force, Mrs. Burgess, it's the same as mutiny.
15:03Yes, but he's insane.
15:04He may do anything.
15:06Yes, you're right there.
15:07I don't know, but what...
15:08Wait.
15:09Hmm?
15:10There by the mast.
15:12Look!
15:12It's Dayrell.
15:16No.
15:17Oh, no.
15:18There wasn't any doubt about it.
15:19The moonlight behind him threw his shadow toward us on the deck.
15:24And he had on that tall, peaked cap.
15:27And the white muffler he'd always worn when he was...
15:30alive.
15:32He didn't move.
15:33Didn't say anything.
15:35Just stood there, looking at us.
15:36No.
15:37Please.
15:38Mrs. Burgess.
15:38No.
15:38Before I could stop her, Mrs. Burgess turned and ran for the rail and jumped overboard.
15:43One of the Tanaka saw her, grabbed a life preserver, and went in after her.
15:46I ran to the longboat hanging in the davits of the fort rail.
15:49Oh, what happened, Mr. Hocker?
15:50I don't know.
15:50Let's get this boat in the water.
15:51Mrs. Burgess is overboard along with one of the boys.
15:53Did you see anything on deck?
15:54What did I see?
15:55I don't believe.
15:56All right.
15:56Come on.
15:56Move.
15:57Here.
15:57Take the oars.
15:58Schooner's not got much steer his way, so they shouldn't be far astern.
16:00Come on.
16:01Come on.
16:04Ah!
16:05Somebody's shooting on deck.
16:06All right.
16:06Never mind.
16:06Keep rowing, will you?
16:07We'll find out about it later.
16:08We've got to pick up those two before they go under.
16:19We didn't find them, though.
16:21The shooting on board stopped after a while.
16:25We rode around for a half hour or more.
16:28We couldn't find a trace of them.
16:31Finally, there wasn't anything else to do.
16:33So I told the Kanaka to pull for the schooner.
16:37We were about ten yards away from the side when...
16:44Mr. Hopper, look!
16:47I looked up at the rail.
16:48And there stood Dayrell.
16:51He didn't say anything.
16:52Just stood there.
16:53He had a gun in his hand.
16:55Dayrell, what are you trying to do?
16:56Grab that oars, Joe.
16:57We've got to get away from it.
16:58Joe, I said...
16:58We were drifting away from the side of the schooner.
17:06I felt a sharp pain in my shoulder when the bullet had hit.
17:09But the Kanaka was worse off.
17:11Blood was running down over his face from a hole in the center of his forehead.
17:15That's when I passed out.
17:16When I came to, it was broad daylight.
17:26The boat was lying.
17:27I was lying and was bumping up against the side of the schooner.
17:30Captain Burgess was calling down on me from the rail.
17:33Mr. Hopper!
17:34Are you alive?
17:35I'm...
17:35I'm all right, Captain Burgess.
17:38It's been a horrible night, Mr. Hopper.
17:41It's all right now.
17:43Can you help me aboard, sir?
17:44Yes.
17:45Can you lift up your arms?
17:47Yes, sir.
17:48Here.
17:48Easy now.
17:50Kato, give me a hand here.
17:53Careful now.
17:54All right.
17:55Easy.
17:56There.
17:59It's a pretty bad wound.
18:02I'm kind of weak.
18:04Guess I lost a lot of blood.
18:07Sorry about your wife, sir.
18:09We couldn't find her.
18:11I know.
18:12There's only three of us left alive on board now, Mr. Hopper.
18:17You and I and Kato here.
18:19What happened?
18:21You may not believe it.
18:23It was Captain Dayrell.
18:24Yes, I saw him.
18:26Got a hold of the ship's guns and killed the whole crew.
18:28Locked me in the cabin while he did.
18:30But he's dead, Captain Burgess.
18:31We buried him at sea four months ago.
18:33No matter.
18:34He's come back now, Mr. Hopper.
18:36It's his ship the Evening Star is and he wants it.
18:38No, it's not possible.
18:39The man is dead.
18:40That's what his wife, I mean my wife, said when I told her I'd seen him.
18:44Said I was crazy.
18:44I think she knows better now.
18:49Maybe we could search the ship.
18:51Kato and I went through it at daylight this morning.
18:53We found nothing.
18:54Well, there has to be some explanation.
18:56There is.
18:58The wicked shall be punished for their sins.
19:01What do you mean by that?
19:04Nothing, Mr. Hopper.
19:05Nothing at all.
19:07Well, I was his friend.
19:08I always thought a lot of Captain Dayrell.
19:10You know that, don't you, Mr. Hopper?
19:12Yes, sir.
19:13It's all right now in the daylight.
19:16But he'll come back tonight as soon as it's dark.
19:18It's only the three of us now to face him, Mr. Hopper.
19:23Four, if you count Satan.
19:26And I'm thinking there's more than one Satan on board this ship.
19:31They helped me to the bunk in my cabin and left me there.
19:39That was about noon today.
19:41I could tell by the look on Captain Burgess' face that, well, it was pretty certain I wasn't going to live.
19:50That's why I decided to write this account.
19:53Try to set down everything that happened.
19:54In a way, this is the real log of the evening star, even if it doesn't make much sense.
20:04Anyway, right after sundown, Kato brought me in a tray of food.
20:09How do you feel now, Mr. Hopper?
20:11I guess not too bad, Kato.
20:13You like something to eat, maybe?
20:16Later, maybe.
20:17You can leave it there, huh?
20:18It's better.
20:19You eat now.
20:20Later, I think we all did.
20:22Has anything happened yet?
20:25He's not dark yet.
20:27When he's dark, then he come.
20:29Yeah.
20:31Where's Captain Burgess?
20:32I no see him.
20:33He's hide somewhere, I think.
20:36Kato, all those who were killed last night, what happened to their bodies?
20:41He's buried in sea.
20:43This morning I helped Captain Burgess.
20:46You...
20:46You like something else, maybe?
20:48No, thanks, Kato.
20:49Then I go burn much incense.
20:52Make peace with many gods.
20:55For a last time now, I think.
20:58Goodbye, please.
21:00I lit the lamp over the bunk, and I lay there for a long time.
21:05I don't know how long.
21:07I didn't know where Captain Burgess and Kato were, or what they were doing.
21:12I kept waiting to hear the sound of shooting.
21:15Kept lying there, dreading it.
21:18And then gradually, I began to realize that somebody was singing on board, way off.
21:24And I knew that voice.
21:26I'd heard it somewhere before, singing the same song.
21:29It was Mrs. Burgess.
21:46Mr. Harper.
21:48Mr. Harper, do you hear it?
21:49I hear it, Captain Burgess.
21:50What in the name of heaven is going on?
21:52It's her.
21:53She's come back, too.
21:54She's in there with him now in the cabin.
21:56Oh, that's impossible.
21:57She drowned last night.
21:58She's dead.
21:59They're both dead, but they've come back.
22:01They're in the cabin now, and she's singing for him.
22:04She never sang for me, Mr. Harper, but now she's singing for him.
22:08Come, Mr. Harper.
22:09You've got to help me.
22:10I tell you, they're both in the cabin right now.
22:12Yes, sir.
22:12I don't know if...
22:13Oh, you're too weak.
22:14I forgot.
22:14I'll go alone.
22:15I'll stop them somehow.
22:16I've got to stop them.
22:17I pulled myself up in the bunk, and I put my feet on the floor.
22:21Weak or not, one way or another, I had to get to that cabin.
22:24I managed to stagger outside onto the deck.
22:29Captain Burgess had disappeared somewhere, and there was no sign of anything moving there
22:33in the moonlight, except Satan the captain, who came up and rubbed against my ankles.
22:38The singing had stopped, and the ship was quiet.
22:42I made my way forward, and finally was looking through the skylight, down into the captain's
22:46cabin.
22:46One lamp was lit.
22:50Its light fell on the hunched figure that strode about the cabin.
22:53Cap pulled down low, hands sunk in his pockets, all the old familiar gestures.
22:59It was Captain Dayrell, and he was alone.
23:10I crouched there with the skylight, shivering from the night wind and from the terror inside
23:13of me, watching that awful figure.
23:15After a while, I'd walked over and stood beside the phonograph.
23:21Then I realized where that voice had come from.
23:25Dayrell had always been crazy about his wife singing, and he'd made a lot of records of
23:28her voice.
23:29I was playing one of them now.
23:31The song went on, and he paced back and forth.
23:44I still couldn't figure it out.
23:46And then, for just a moment, the white muffler fell back from his throat, and for the first
23:50time, I saw Captain Dayrell's face.
23:52I'm not sure how I managed to stumble back here to my cabin.
24:09I'm writing this now, just as rapidly as I can.
24:12I may be interrupted at any minute.
24:14If that happens, I'll try to slip it behind the map here on the cabin wall, in the hopes
24:19that it may be...
24:21I can hear him coming now.
24:22Whoever may read this, please, try to get word to my family in San Francisco.
24:26Yes, come in.
24:39I thought you might be asleep, Mr. Harper.
24:42How could anybody sleep, Captain Burgess, as long as Dayrell's loose on board?
24:46Yes, that's true, Mr. Harper.
24:49Should have seen him down there in the cabin, and her too.
24:52He was walking up and down, as proud as ever, and she was singing for him, just like she
24:58used to.
24:58You should have seen him.
25:00I did see him.
25:01He never sang for me like that, not at...
25:03You saw him?
25:05Did he look natural, just as always?
25:08Captain Burgess, it was you I saw, dressed up in Dayrell's clothes that were stored in
25:13the sea chest there in the cabin.
25:14Oh, no, Mr. Harper, you're mistaken.
25:16It was his spirit come back to punish us.
25:19It was you all the time, you who fired those shots last night.
25:21You're insane.
25:22That's what she said, too.
25:24That's because he told her.
25:25Because it's the truth.
25:26Now he's been talking to you.
25:26He's talked to nobody, he's dead.
25:28And you've never seen him except in your own guilty conscience.
25:32Just what is that guilt, Captain Burgess?
25:35Did you kill him?
25:36Oh, don't!
25:39Don't say that, Mr. Harper.
25:42I was his friend.
25:44I thought a lot of him, and Mrs. Dayrell, too.
25:46Everybody knew we were friends.
25:48I...
25:48Did he tell you that?
25:52You're completely mad.
25:53Don't say that, Mr. Harper.
25:54I've got to save you from him.
25:56He talks to you, and you're weak, and you can't run away.
25:59I've got to save you.
26:00Captain Burgess, put on that gun.
26:01Don't!
26:01I've got to save you!
26:02Got to go someplace where he can't find us, Mr. Harper.
26:10Go up deck.
26:11I'll take you, Mr. Harper.
26:13Come on.
26:17Don't worry.
26:19I'll...
26:19I'll save you from him.
26:22It's his ship.
26:24Everything on it.
26:26He wants it back.
26:27We've got to give it to him, Mr. Harper.
26:29Got to let him have it.
26:31Got to get off the ship.
26:33Captain Burgess, what is happening?
26:34It's you!
26:35Dayrell!
26:36Go away!
26:37It is no, Captain Dayrell.
26:38It's me, Kato.
26:39You can't stop us, Dayrell.
26:40I'll show you.
26:41No!
26:41No!
26:41No!
26:43You see, Mr. Harper?
26:47I killed him.
26:48Dayrell.
26:50Now he can't stop us.
26:52There he is again.
26:56There by the vas.
26:57See you, Mr. Harper?
26:59I'll...
26:59He's coming this way.
27:01He won't stop.
27:04Got to get away.
27:06Got to save you, Mr. Harper.
27:08Here is the rail.
27:10I'll help you.
27:11There!
27:13See?
27:14He's gone, Dayrell.
27:16Now there's just me.
27:18And I'm going too.
27:19You see, it's all yours now.
27:20The evening star, just like you wanted it.
27:22No.
27:23No.
27:24No.
27:24Stay back.
27:25I'm going.
27:25I'm going.
27:26I'm going.
27:26Ah!
27:32Ah!
27:36Ah!
27:37Ah!
27:49Escape is produced and directed by William N. Robeson.
28:00And tonight brought you The Log of the Evening Star by Alfred Noyes.
28:04Adapted for radio by Les Crutchfield, with Jack Webb as Harper,
28:08Alan Reed as Captain Burgess,
28:10Gail Page as Mrs. Burgess,
28:12Louis Van Rooten as Cato and the Cat,
28:14and Pettel Kovig as the Conica.
28:16Music is conceived and conducted by Wilbur Hatch.
28:22Next week...
28:24When you're tired out from doing nothing all weekend,
28:30when Blue Monday stares you in the face,
28:34next week at this time,
28:36when your problems seem just too much for you,
28:41we offer you...
28:43Escape.
28:46Next week, we bring you another exciting story of high adventure.
29:00Good night, then, until this same time next week,
29:02when once again we offer you...
29:04Escape.
29:05Escape.
29:05This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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