WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:01.000 Suspense. 00:30.000 --> 00:42.400 The thrill of the night time, the hushed voice and the prowling step, the crime that is almost 00:42.400 --> 00:49.200 committed, the finger of suspicion pointing perhaps at the wrong man, the stir of nerves 00:49.200 --> 00:55.040 at the ticking of the clock, the rescue that might be too late or the murderer who might 00:55.040 --> 01:00.960 get away, mystery and intrigue and dangerous adventure. 01:00.960 --> 01:11.560 We invite you to enjoy stories that keep you in suspense. 01:11.560 --> 01:31.920 For suspense, tonight we present The Lord of the Witch Doctors by John Dixon Carr. 01:31.920 --> 01:34.640 The drums were beating that night. 01:34.640 --> 01:38.920 The Lord of the Witch Doctors was on his way. 01:38.920 --> 01:43.320 Thirty miles off the East African coast, fanned by the blistering heat of the Indian 01:43.320 --> 01:47.160 Ocean, lies the island of Zanzibar. 01:47.160 --> 01:53.960 Here many years ago, to be exact in the year 1889, three nations were rivals for imperial 01:53.960 --> 01:54.960 German eagles. 01:54.960 --> 02:03.800 At Mogadishu were the Italians, a mixed population boiled along that coast, Portuguese, Arabs, 02:03.800 --> 02:04.800 Swahili. 02:04.800 --> 02:11.720 On the island itself, Sayyid Khalif, Sultan of Zanzibar, ruled the remains of a once mighty 02:11.720 --> 02:16.200 empire, Mohammedan Bantus of the tribe of Zeng. 02:16.200 --> 02:23.480 Look over there in the moonlight, that white building patched and rotted was the palace 02:23.480 --> 02:31.560 where Sayyid Khalif lived with his fat wives and his captive lions. 02:31.560 --> 02:37.400 Not far away on the hill overlooking the harbor stood the British Residency. 02:37.400 --> 02:43.360 The British Residents, or Crown official, held uneasy sway against German and Italian 02:43.360 --> 02:45.120 influence. 02:45.120 --> 02:48.960 And at the Residency on that hot night long. 02:48.960 --> 02:49.960 Martha. 02:49.960 --> 02:50.960 Yes, Father? 02:50.960 --> 02:53.720 Come away from the windows, please. 02:53.720 --> 02:55.520 But Father, those drums are on the mainland. 02:55.520 --> 02:56.520 Never mind. 02:56.520 --> 02:57.520 Twenty miles from here. 02:57.520 --> 02:58.520 I'd rather you stood there. 02:58.520 --> 03:00.720 It's the fires I don't like, sir. 03:00.720 --> 03:02.880 You can see the red light all this distance. 03:02.880 --> 03:04.720 They're having a beano of some kind. 03:04.720 --> 03:06.680 You'd better stand back too, Mr. Harris. 03:06.680 --> 03:07.680 What's up here, sir? 03:07.680 --> 03:08.680 Yes, Mr. Harris? 03:08.680 --> 03:12.400 I've been your diplomatic attache in this place for three years. 03:12.400 --> 03:14.240 Couldn't you call me by my first name in private? 03:14.240 --> 03:15.720 Just as you please. 03:15.720 --> 03:18.400 Lower the sun blinds and turn down the wick of that lamp. 03:18.400 --> 03:20.280 You don't think there's any danger? 03:20.280 --> 03:21.280 There's no danger whatever, but... 03:21.280 --> 03:23.280 The air out seems terribly restless tonight. 03:23.280 --> 03:26.280 Only natural, my dear, with the drums going. 03:26.280 --> 03:27.280 Everybody seems restless. 03:27.280 --> 03:28.280 This has been going on for days. 03:28.280 --> 03:31.280 You begin to get in your nerves. 03:31.280 --> 03:32.680 So you feel it too, eh? 03:32.680 --> 03:35.440 And I do wish, said, Collet wouldn't tease Nero. 03:35.440 --> 03:38.040 Jab at him with the meat fork and that kind of thing. 03:38.040 --> 03:40.040 If that lion ever got me... 03:40.040 --> 03:42.440 Nerves, my dear, nothing but nerves. 03:42.440 --> 03:43.440 Let's face it, sir. 03:43.440 --> 03:45.920 There's something very queer going on over on that mainland. 03:45.920 --> 03:47.640 Well, suppose there is. 03:47.640 --> 03:50.000 All we know is what Nyoka knows. 03:50.000 --> 03:51.760 This great witch doctor, whoever he is, 03:51.760 --> 03:54.040 been making a triumphal progress to the coast. 03:54.040 --> 03:55.560 The whole bush is afraid of him. 03:55.560 --> 03:57.120 You alarm me. 03:57.120 --> 03:58.920 Nyoka says he's got horns. 03:58.920 --> 04:01.880 He can make himself seven feet tall, 04:01.880 --> 04:02.880 like stretching an accordion. 04:02.880 --> 04:03.880 Oh, really, Bill Harris. 04:03.880 --> 04:05.680 Well, I don't say I believe it. 04:05.680 --> 04:07.720 I say it might be dangerous. 04:07.720 --> 04:11.840 Now, for instance, could this be one of Dr. Schmidt's tricks? 04:11.840 --> 04:13.640 Dr. Schmidt is a friend of ours. 04:13.640 --> 04:16.200 Yes, he's also head of the German East Africa Company. 04:16.200 --> 04:17.800 Dr. Schmidt is a gentleman. 04:17.800 --> 04:19.520 Look at that coast over there. 04:19.520 --> 04:21.720 He's got every native chief in his pocket. 04:21.720 --> 04:24.160 Dr. Schmidt assured me that the German emperor 04:24.160 --> 04:27.640 has no more territorial claims in East Africa. 04:27.640 --> 04:30.840 We get our trade concessions from Said Khalif. 04:30.840 --> 04:34.520 Said's our only friend, but we can't even be sure of him. 04:34.520 --> 04:37.840 The Germans give him trade gin and a grand piano. 04:37.840 --> 04:41.240 The Italians give him three new wives for his harem. 04:41.240 --> 04:42.240 What do we give him? 04:42.240 --> 04:44.040 I have no instructions from London 04:44.040 --> 04:46.040 about the situation in this island. 04:46.040 --> 04:46.960 No. 04:46.960 --> 04:49.280 Somebody in Whitehall probably forgot to post them. 04:49.280 --> 04:51.400 For the last time, Mr. Harris, I will not 04:51.400 --> 04:54.320 hear His Majesty's government criticized like that. 04:54.320 --> 04:55.120 Sorry. 04:55.120 --> 04:57.720 Sorry. 04:57.720 --> 04:59.120 These things take time. 04:59.120 --> 05:03.120 If there's any danger, we'll be notified in due course. 05:03.120 --> 05:05.040 Yes, sir. 05:05.040 --> 05:06.640 They're only our own natives. 05:06.640 --> 05:09.480 They beat their own drums, you know. 05:09.480 --> 05:11.200 Somebody went past that window. 05:11.200 --> 05:13.440 That's probably only Nyoka, my dear. 05:13.440 --> 05:15.640 Surely you're not afraid of our own servant. 05:15.640 --> 05:16.640 No, but I... 05:16.640 --> 05:17.640 Master! 05:17.640 --> 05:18.640 Master! 05:18.640 --> 05:19.640 Master! 05:19.640 --> 05:21.160 Nyoka, listen to me. 05:21.160 --> 05:22.720 Don't hang on to that big curtain. 05:22.720 --> 05:23.720 You'll pull it down. 05:23.720 --> 05:25.400 Now stand up straight and tell me. 05:25.400 --> 05:26.120 What is it? 05:26.120 --> 05:27.320 He here, Bonner. 05:27.320 --> 05:29.040 He here, yes, please. 05:29.040 --> 05:29.800 Who's here? 05:29.800 --> 05:32.960 Big witch doctor here, yes, please. 05:32.960 --> 05:34.880 He come up passing moonlight. 05:34.880 --> 05:37.120 He walks slow boom boom. 05:37.120 --> 05:38.880 He got big teeth. 05:38.880 --> 05:43.960 He with me outside front door now. 05:43.960 --> 05:45.520 What was that? 05:45.520 --> 05:46.360 Drums are stopped. 05:46.360 --> 05:51.240 Nyoka's right, sir. 05:51.240 --> 05:52.440 We have got a visitor. 05:52.440 --> 05:54.240 There's somebody coming down the hall. 05:54.240 --> 05:56.240 Better turn down that lamp, Arthur. 05:56.240 --> 05:57.240 I... 05:57.240 --> 05:59.240 I can't seem to find the lamp. 05:59.240 --> 06:01.240 My fingers are all thumbs. 06:01.240 --> 06:03.600 There's a revolver in the table drawer behind you, sir. 06:03.600 --> 06:04.600 I don't need it. 06:04.600 --> 06:07.120 Stand perfectly still, all of you. 06:07.120 --> 06:12.480 Now, please, friends all, don't be alarmed. 06:12.480 --> 06:14.960 Are you English? 06:14.960 --> 06:17.480 That's right, miss, born and bred in Stredden. 06:17.480 --> 06:19.080 Which of you is the British Consul? 06:19.080 --> 06:20.720 I am the British resident, sir. 06:20.720 --> 06:21.920 My name is Richardson. 06:21.920 --> 06:23.920 May I ask the meaning of this tomfoolery? 06:23.920 --> 06:25.760 Well, that's just what I'm here to tell you. 06:25.760 --> 06:27.480 Or maybe I'd better show you. 06:27.480 --> 06:28.880 Now, observe me right hand. 06:28.880 --> 06:32.800 I hold it up so and as I live, I light it cigar. 06:32.800 --> 06:35.720 That perhaps the lady doesn't like smoking in the drawing room. 06:35.720 --> 06:37.840 Now, lucky, there's nothing up my sleeves. 06:37.840 --> 06:39.680 I wouldn't deceive you for the world. 06:39.680 --> 06:42.240 I turn over me hand and would you believe it? 06:42.240 --> 06:43.160 A glass of water. 06:43.160 --> 06:44.640 Is this man insane? 06:44.640 --> 06:47.560 Father, I think he's trying to tell you he's a magician. 06:47.560 --> 06:50.840 That's right, miss, direct from the Egyptian hall, Piccadilly. 06:50.840 --> 06:52.320 Animal taming and magic. 06:52.320 --> 06:53.560 That's my line. 06:53.560 --> 06:55.560 Then you're the famous witch doctor that's 06:55.560 --> 06:56.920 got all the natives in an uproar? 06:56.920 --> 06:58.400 Nobody else, young fellow. 06:58.400 --> 07:00.600 Yes, well, you tell us what you mean by this nonsense, 07:00.600 --> 07:02.560 scaring everybody when there's no danger. 07:02.560 --> 07:03.880 No danger? 07:03.880 --> 07:06.040 I suppose you haven't heard about Saeed Caleb 07:06.040 --> 07:07.280 and his Gatling guns. 07:07.280 --> 07:08.240 Gatling guns? 07:08.240 --> 07:11.000 Kindly presented by Dr. Otto Schmidt. 07:11.000 --> 07:13.920 And believe me, all you've got is an appointment 07:13.920 --> 07:17.480 with a Gatling gun unless my nonsense steps in. 07:17.480 --> 07:18.680 Here, take a look at this. 07:18.680 --> 07:21.080 What, you can't be from the British Foreign Office? 07:21.080 --> 07:22.640 Well, that's just what I am, Governor, 07:22.640 --> 07:24.760 and going up in the world, don't you think? 07:24.760 --> 07:27.240 By the way, I'd better give you your instructions. 07:27.240 --> 07:28.920 The envelope's pretty dirty and a little bit 07:28.920 --> 07:32.160 smelly from being under my furs and devil pink, but, uh. 07:32.160 --> 07:33.280 Read it, sir. 07:33.280 --> 07:34.000 Go on and read it. 07:38.240 --> 07:41.920 Foreign Office, Whitehall, British Consul Zanzibar. 07:41.920 --> 07:45.160 Bearer of this letter, the great Mephisto. 07:45.160 --> 07:48.760 That's me, real name Barney Ick. 07:48.760 --> 07:50.240 They must be out of their minds. 07:50.240 --> 07:51.160 Are they? 07:51.160 --> 07:52.320 Listen, old man. 07:52.320 --> 07:53.800 I've been three weeks in that jungle 07:53.800 --> 07:55.760 with a Swahili interpreter. 07:55.760 --> 07:58.480 I've been bitten and stung and fried to death. 07:58.480 --> 08:01.160 But Schmidt or no Schmidt, I've got those native chiefs 08:01.160 --> 08:03.120 just where I want them. 08:03.120 --> 08:04.720 You see what happens when I announce 08:04.720 --> 08:06.840 I'm a friend of the great white queen? 08:06.840 --> 08:08.840 Well, you'll have them eaten out of your hand. 08:08.840 --> 08:09.680 Well, that's true. 08:09.680 --> 08:11.920 And all we've got to do is get around St. Kelly 08:11.920 --> 08:12.920 if he had only silence. 08:12.920 --> 08:14.520 But do we need to get around him? 08:14.520 --> 08:16.280 The young lady would be good enough not to speak 08:16.280 --> 08:17.280 until you're spoken to. 08:17.280 --> 08:18.880 Oh, I'm sorry, Father. 08:18.880 --> 08:22.040 Say it may be lazy and as fat as a hippopotamus. 08:22.040 --> 08:23.480 He's rather a fine old boy. 08:23.480 --> 08:24.840 Is he? 08:24.840 --> 08:26.480 You said something about Gatling guns. 08:26.480 --> 08:27.640 Now listen. 08:27.640 --> 08:29.280 Here's the game. 08:29.280 --> 08:30.760 Father, I don't like this. 08:30.760 --> 08:32.840 I've never heard Nero's restless as that. 08:32.840 --> 08:34.080 Never mind, Nero. 08:34.080 --> 08:34.800 Go on. 08:34.800 --> 08:37.120 I came over here tonight in a steam launch. 08:37.120 --> 08:39.840 Tomorrow I'm paying my state visit to the great sultan 08:39.840 --> 08:41.160 Sayed Caliph. 08:41.160 --> 08:43.600 Now you present me as your friend 08:43.600 --> 08:45.840 and a friend of the great white queen. 08:45.840 --> 08:48.760 And I do me best tricks at home. 08:48.760 --> 08:51.320 Is anything wrong with your native boy? 08:51.320 --> 08:52.560 My old girl, be still. 08:52.560 --> 08:54.840 You're not afraid of our witch doctor friend, are you? 08:54.840 --> 08:55.480 No. 08:55.480 --> 08:57.000 I could Christian. 08:57.000 --> 08:58.040 Here, what are you doing? 08:58.040 --> 08:59.440 Come out from under that sofa. 08:59.440 --> 09:01.760 But, Puanah, I see something. 09:01.760 --> 09:04.400 I look out through window slats. 09:04.400 --> 09:06.920 See Puanah bald head coming apart? 09:06.920 --> 09:07.800 Puanah bald head? 09:07.800 --> 09:08.880 That's Dr. Schmidt. 09:08.880 --> 09:09.880 Dr. Schmidt? 09:09.880 --> 09:11.200 Well, he mustn't find me here. 09:11.200 --> 09:12.400 Yes, I quite agree. 09:12.400 --> 09:14.600 This is most irregular. 09:14.600 --> 09:15.840 Is there a back way out of here? 09:15.840 --> 09:17.200 Yes, through that arch. 09:17.200 --> 09:18.400 Stay in the back room. 09:18.400 --> 09:19.400 Naoka will show you. 09:19.400 --> 09:20.760 Me go with witch doctor. 09:20.760 --> 09:22.000 Yes, hurry, please. 09:22.000 --> 09:22.800 I don't like, I don't like. 09:22.800 --> 09:23.760 Never mind what you like. 09:23.760 --> 09:24.360 You go. 09:24.360 --> 09:25.640 I don't like, master. 09:25.640 --> 09:26.560 I don't like. 09:31.520 --> 09:31.960 It's all right. 09:31.960 --> 09:32.920 They've gone. 09:32.920 --> 09:35.680 Yes, about time, too. 09:35.680 --> 09:37.520 Good evening, Dr. Schmidt. 09:37.520 --> 09:39.080 Pleasure to see you. 09:39.080 --> 09:40.840 Always a pleasure to see you. 09:40.840 --> 09:45.320 Ah, my friends, I wish I could say it was such a pleasure to see you. 09:45.320 --> 09:46.600 Isn't it, doctor? 09:46.600 --> 09:48.320 This at any time, but now. 09:48.320 --> 09:49.680 Do not mistake me, I beg of you. 09:49.680 --> 09:52.880 No, it is that confounded line, Nero. 09:52.880 --> 09:55.960 Always I said it will happen, and now it has happened. 09:55.960 --> 09:57.320 What about Nero? 09:57.320 --> 09:59.280 My friends, I regret. 09:59.280 --> 10:00.760 Their smite is killing. 10:00.760 --> 10:02.280 Theirs tasted blood. 10:02.280 --> 10:03.280 What's that? 10:03.280 --> 10:07.600 You permit that I sit down and take off my sun helmet. 10:07.600 --> 10:09.560 I am not young and I am tired. 10:09.560 --> 10:10.920 It's not saying it, Kelly. 10:10.920 --> 10:12.320 Yeah, yeah, it is so. 10:12.320 --> 10:13.800 Yes, these at line once too often. 10:13.800 --> 10:15.840 Oh, poor old boy. 10:15.840 --> 10:17.560 He was our friend. 10:17.560 --> 10:19.080 He's not dead. 10:19.080 --> 10:20.560 Yeah, yeah, I regret. 10:20.560 --> 10:22.240 Yeah, he is dead. 10:22.240 --> 10:23.960 Certain of sense of ours dead. 10:23.960 --> 10:25.400 Oh, God. 10:25.400 --> 10:27.200 But how did the lion ever get at him? 10:27.200 --> 10:28.960 He drink too much pum. 10:28.960 --> 10:30.280 That was his trouble. 10:30.280 --> 10:32.760 He get drunk and think he can do too much. 10:32.760 --> 10:35.560 So he open the door and went to the lion's cage. 10:35.560 --> 10:36.440 Into the cage? 10:36.440 --> 10:37.800 Yeah, would you believe it? 10:37.800 --> 10:38.600 Not easily. 10:38.600 --> 10:39.840 But it is true. 10:39.840 --> 10:43.000 Over the palace there is what you call gnashing of teeth. 10:43.000 --> 10:44.960 It's unobvious in tears. 10:44.960 --> 10:46.160 Did you see this happen, doctor? 10:46.160 --> 10:49.480 No, no, no, I go there later and they tell me. 10:49.480 --> 10:51.760 It's all the worse because of some foolish toy, 10:51.760 --> 10:53.200 tomb head story. 10:53.200 --> 10:55.400 He has been stuck over the head and thrown into the cage 10:55.400 --> 10:57.160 by someone who did not like him. 10:57.160 --> 10:58.800 That's more likely, if you ask me. 10:58.800 --> 11:00.920 My friend, it is foolishness. 11:00.920 --> 11:02.600 Everybody liked old man. 11:02.600 --> 11:05.480 There was a father to his people and a kind friend. 11:05.480 --> 11:08.920 Doctor, are you telling us that Said may have been put 11:08.920 --> 11:10.760 into that cage unconscious? 11:10.760 --> 11:13.280 It is what one African soldier says, yeah. 11:13.280 --> 11:14.800 Well, then he may still be alive. 11:14.800 --> 11:15.880 Life? 11:15.880 --> 11:17.400 It is impossible. 11:17.400 --> 11:19.560 It's more than possible. 11:19.560 --> 11:21.560 A lion may maul an unconscious man, 11:21.560 --> 11:23.560 but it doesn't often kill him. 11:23.560 --> 11:24.840 This is vital. 11:24.840 --> 11:27.680 Vital to Said himself and others as well. 11:27.680 --> 11:28.640 You're a doctor. 11:28.640 --> 11:29.760 Can't you go and make sure? 11:29.760 --> 11:31.160 My friend, I regret. 11:31.160 --> 11:33.040 I am not that kind of a doctor. 11:33.040 --> 11:34.520 That is, you may be right. 11:34.520 --> 11:35.800 I think I'd better go myself. 11:35.800 --> 11:37.680 Is this a good idea, sir? 11:37.680 --> 11:40.800 I'll stay here and entertain Dr. Schmidt, 11:40.800 --> 11:42.000 unless of course he wants to go too. 11:42.000 --> 11:43.400 No, no, no, I think. 11:43.400 --> 11:45.080 I do not like sides of that sort. 11:45.080 --> 11:47.640 I have a tender heart and I have illnesses. 11:47.640 --> 11:49.600 Besides, you can do nothing. 11:49.600 --> 11:51.000 I tell you, he is dead. 11:51.000 --> 11:51.840 We'll see. 11:51.840 --> 11:53.200 Martha, you better come with me. 11:53.200 --> 11:55.680 Your nurse is training, maybe of some use at last. 11:55.680 --> 11:57.240 Of course. 11:57.240 --> 12:00.480 Haven't we better go the back way and speak to Nyoka? 12:00.480 --> 12:03.920 Yes, Nyoka mustn't be troubled in that back room. 12:03.920 --> 12:06.280 A very good evening to you, Dr. Schmidt. 12:06.280 --> 12:10.720 Ah, Mr. Harris, they have good hearts, 12:10.720 --> 12:12.400 but they're so foolish. 12:12.400 --> 12:15.440 I would give my own right arm to aid that poor man. 12:15.440 --> 12:19.840 But, well, we must have philosophy. 12:19.840 --> 12:21.840 We must cheer up and be at ease. 12:21.840 --> 12:23.520 Yes. 12:23.520 --> 12:25.760 Now, doctor, we're all alone. 12:25.760 --> 12:28.400 So we are, so we are. 12:28.400 --> 12:32.120 We must sit down and have a nice, comfortable chat. 12:32.120 --> 12:32.720 Yes? 12:32.720 --> 12:33.600 Definitely, yes. 12:37.200 --> 12:40.160 I wanted to have a word with you anyway. 12:40.160 --> 12:41.080 So? 12:41.080 --> 12:43.120 About what, Mr. Harris? 12:43.120 --> 12:44.520 Various things. 12:44.520 --> 12:47.240 I am happy to give you all the time in the world. 12:47.240 --> 12:49.640 I like talking to young people. 12:49.640 --> 12:51.920 It makes me feel young again myself. 12:51.920 --> 12:54.120 Like Nobby? 12:54.120 --> 12:55.280 Nobby? 12:55.280 --> 12:58.520 Said Khalif's eldest son, the new sultan. 12:58.520 --> 13:02.440 Ah, one fine young man, for a savage. 13:02.440 --> 13:07.960 Yes, but weak, easy to manage, and very fond of his father, too. 13:07.960 --> 13:09.800 It's a wonder he didn't have the lions shot 13:09.800 --> 13:13.200 after they got the body away. 13:13.200 --> 13:15.360 Shot with what, my friend? 13:15.360 --> 13:18.560 I beg your pardon, I do not consider the matters funny. 13:18.560 --> 13:20.000 No, no, no. 13:20.000 --> 13:22.840 But, uh, shot with what? 13:22.840 --> 13:26.040 These spruits, they have nothing but tiloting muskets. 13:26.040 --> 13:28.680 You're near overdose? 13:28.680 --> 13:31.400 Suppose they had gatling guns. 13:31.400 --> 13:32.320 Pardon? 13:32.320 --> 13:34.480 Just suppose that, of course. 13:34.480 --> 13:35.520 Of course. 13:35.520 --> 13:40.520 Well, ah, my friend, gatlings would be of no better use. 13:40.520 --> 13:41.880 You're only a wound. 13:41.880 --> 13:43.720 To kill a lion, you must reach the eye or heart 13:43.720 --> 13:46.000 with a high-power bullet. 13:46.000 --> 13:47.720 What is the matter with us? 13:47.720 --> 13:50.160 Why are we talking of these things? 13:50.160 --> 13:52.280 Talking of death, you mean? 13:52.280 --> 13:55.200 Of Sayed Khalif, who gave all the trade concessions 13:55.200 --> 13:57.040 on Zanzibar to the British? 13:57.040 --> 14:02.320 My friend, I was talking about express rifles. 14:02.320 --> 14:04.320 OK, don't you find it warm in here? 14:04.320 --> 14:05.680 Yeah, yeah, a little. 14:05.680 --> 14:11.120 Yes, it smells of animals' fur, doesn't it? 14:11.120 --> 14:12.640 I'll just raise those sun lines. 14:12.640 --> 14:15.480 No, no, no, no, you must not trouble yourself to do that. 14:15.480 --> 14:16.360 It's no trouble. 14:16.360 --> 14:18.440 I-I-I beg of you, not to trouble. 14:18.440 --> 14:19.800 It is not necessary. 14:19.800 --> 14:21.240 Doctor, you've been mopping your fart 14:21.240 --> 14:23.200 for a long time since you've been here. 14:23.200 --> 14:25.600 Little fresh air never hurt anybody. 14:25.600 --> 14:27.360 Here. 14:27.360 --> 14:29.600 Here, isn't that better? 14:29.600 --> 14:32.280 Much, much. 14:32.280 --> 14:35.720 Why not sit down, my boy, and we have a nice chat? 14:35.720 --> 14:37.480 It's a fine enough night. 14:37.480 --> 14:40.240 No smell of the animals' cage here. 14:40.240 --> 14:43.760 My friend, you talk like a hunter. 14:43.760 --> 14:47.960 Yes, or a victim. 14:47.960 --> 14:50.600 Yes, it's a fine night. 14:50.600 --> 14:54.240 At least for this part of the world. 14:54.240 --> 14:57.400 Fire's still burning on the mainland. 14:57.400 --> 14:59.800 I wonder if that's a good sign. 14:59.800 --> 15:01.520 Of what? 15:01.520 --> 15:03.880 I wish I knew. 15:03.880 --> 15:07.560 And the sea is like skim milk under the moon. 15:07.560 --> 15:09.720 And... 15:09.720 --> 15:10.680 Good Lord. 15:10.680 --> 15:11.840 What is it? 15:11.840 --> 15:13.560 What makes you jump? 15:13.560 --> 15:16.880 Look there, in the harbor. 15:16.880 --> 15:20.800 My friend, I see nothing. 15:20.800 --> 15:22.640 Perhaps if I take off my spectacles and dive... 15:22.640 --> 15:25.080 Why, man, you must see it, in the harbor, out at the left there, 15:25.080 --> 15:27.120 beyond the shadow of those big palm trees. 15:27.120 --> 15:28.880 Don't you see our riding lights? 15:28.880 --> 15:31.520 It looks like... 15:31.520 --> 15:33.040 By George, it is. 15:33.040 --> 15:34.000 It's a warship. 15:34.000 --> 15:37.120 It's only a German gunboat, my friend. 15:37.120 --> 15:40.040 Only very little German gunboat. 15:40.040 --> 15:40.920 German gunboat? 15:40.920 --> 15:43.520 My friend, you must not be so distrustful. 15:43.520 --> 15:44.960 That is not kind. 15:44.960 --> 15:45.800 Let me get a telescope. 15:45.800 --> 15:47.120 But I tell you who she is. 15:47.120 --> 15:48.280 It is nothing. 15:48.280 --> 15:52.040 She is on what you call a goodwill tour. 15:52.040 --> 15:54.040 You're not angry. 15:54.040 --> 15:56.160 Angry? 15:56.160 --> 15:58.360 My friend... 15:58.360 --> 15:59.320 I did not know. 15:59.320 --> 16:01.440 I could not guess. 16:01.440 --> 16:04.400 That is, England is our heart and the stand. 16:04.400 --> 16:05.720 We know that ourselves. 16:05.720 --> 16:08.920 I tell you something in confidence. 16:08.920 --> 16:10.520 The Germans are sensitive. 16:10.520 --> 16:12.160 The British object it. 16:12.160 --> 16:13.960 The natives feel too strong. 16:13.960 --> 16:15.880 I tell the gunboat to go away. 16:15.880 --> 16:17.120 I fire an express rifle. 16:17.120 --> 16:18.080 It has a sound. 16:18.080 --> 16:19.480 Boom! 16:19.480 --> 16:21.240 You cannot mistake one another. 16:21.240 --> 16:23.800 That is why I think of an express rifle. 16:23.800 --> 16:25.480 But nobody will object. 16:25.480 --> 16:29.080 Why, not the least bit. 16:29.080 --> 16:33.320 Tell me, doctor, do you like it here on this island? 16:33.320 --> 16:36.800 Well, just not barely. 16:36.800 --> 16:39.680 Don't you ever want to get away from a forsaken mud heap 16:39.680 --> 16:41.000 like this? 16:41.000 --> 16:44.600 My friend, I am a chairman. 16:44.600 --> 16:47.360 My duty is here, and so I stay here. 16:47.360 --> 16:49.440 Yes, I know. 16:49.440 --> 16:52.360 Between ourselves, that's exactly my position. 16:52.360 --> 16:53.600 Oh, try young. 16:53.600 --> 16:55.120 That's not the point. 16:55.120 --> 16:57.480 It's the importance of the job. 16:57.480 --> 16:59.080 The British don't rule Zanzibar. 16:59.080 --> 17:01.760 We hold the trade concessions from Said Khalif, 17:01.760 --> 17:04.440 and our residency has to protect them. 17:04.440 --> 17:06.960 But even you, doctor, would be surprised at the amount 17:06.960 --> 17:09.320 of trade that we have to protect. 17:09.320 --> 17:11.360 And the revenue that comes out of this island. 17:11.360 --> 17:12.280 Is it so now? 17:12.280 --> 17:13.440 You don't say so. 17:13.440 --> 17:14.400 I do say so. 17:14.400 --> 17:16.160 You say it so much. 17:16.160 --> 17:18.240 More than you think. 17:18.240 --> 17:21.120 Of course, I'm not allowed to give you any figures. 17:21.120 --> 17:21.960 No, no, no. 17:21.960 --> 17:22.840 Of course not. 17:22.840 --> 17:26.720 I would not deem of asking you. 17:26.720 --> 17:29.920 How much would you say it comes to, roughly? 17:29.920 --> 17:32.280 Oh, come now, doctor. 17:32.280 --> 17:34.400 As one gentleman to another, you're not asking me 17:34.400 --> 17:35.280 to give away secrets. 17:35.280 --> 17:38.240 Oh, no, no, no. 17:38.240 --> 17:40.440 That's only a joke, you understand? 17:40.440 --> 17:42.360 Please do not try to uptrip me. 17:42.360 --> 17:47.600 I would try to pull your leg, and it was only a joke, believe me. 17:47.600 --> 17:48.880 It's all in the game, isn't it? 17:48.880 --> 17:51.400 Yes, all in the game, as gentlemen. 17:51.400 --> 17:53.680 Doctor, you're quite a humorist. 17:53.680 --> 17:55.160 You're not defended? 17:55.160 --> 17:57.280 Not at all. 17:57.280 --> 18:00.400 No, as I was saying, I hold a rather important job. 18:00.400 --> 18:03.720 Of course, Mr. Richardson holds an even more important one. 18:03.720 --> 18:07.920 He's been very friendly with old Said Khalifa in this job. 18:07.920 --> 18:11.560 Um, of course you know what that job is. 18:11.560 --> 18:13.040 Of course. 18:13.040 --> 18:14.520 It's the British Council. 18:17.240 --> 18:20.480 What is the matter with you? 18:20.480 --> 18:24.440 You're not smiling any longer. 18:24.440 --> 18:27.000 Why are you looking at me like that? 18:27.000 --> 18:28.640 So that's it. 18:28.640 --> 18:30.520 That's the game. 18:30.520 --> 18:33.560 You made exactly the same mistake that he did. 18:33.560 --> 18:35.200 Let's shoot it. 18:35.200 --> 18:40.160 Dr. Schmidt, have you met the great lord of the witch doctors, 18:40.160 --> 18:42.680 the maker of spells and the tamer of lions? 18:42.680 --> 18:43.600 I am a good Christian. 18:43.600 --> 18:45.080 I pay no attention to what natives say. 18:45.080 --> 18:46.680 I do not believe in witch doctors. 18:46.680 --> 18:47.640 No, neither do I. 18:47.640 --> 18:49.160 Not in this one at any rate. 18:49.160 --> 18:50.000 What one? 18:50.000 --> 18:51.680 The witch doctor who came here tonight 18:51.680 --> 18:54.880 and said that he was on a mission for the British Foreign Office. 18:54.880 --> 18:58.720 He's an imposter from the word go, and you're working with him. 18:58.720 --> 19:01.160 Oh, don't upset your chair like that, Dr. Schmidt. 19:01.160 --> 19:03.120 Because if you fall on it, you may hurt yourself. 19:03.120 --> 19:04.280 I have not hurt myself, young man. 19:04.280 --> 19:06.040 Oh, yes, you have. 19:06.040 --> 19:07.800 The fellow who came here tonight addressed Mr. 19:07.800 --> 19:10.680 Richardson as the British Consul. 19:10.680 --> 19:12.960 That might have been a slip of the tongue. 19:12.960 --> 19:14.480 But then you see the letter on the table there. 19:14.480 --> 19:15.760 I have eyesight, I thank you. 19:15.760 --> 19:18.360 That letter is supposed to come from the Foreign Office. 19:18.360 --> 19:21.080 And it calls him the British Consul, too. 19:21.080 --> 19:23.600 I heard it read aloud. 19:23.600 --> 19:28.720 Foreign Office may make mistakes, but they don't make mistakes like that. 19:28.720 --> 19:30.720 That letter, doctor, is a forgery. 19:30.720 --> 19:33.160 It was forged by a German and probably by the German who 19:33.160 --> 19:38.840 calls himself Barney Hicks or the great Mephisto. 19:38.840 --> 19:40.040 He's in the back room now. 19:40.040 --> 19:41.760 No, he's not, Governor. 19:41.760 --> 19:44.280 He's standing in the doorway behind you now. 19:44.280 --> 19:45.840 Yes, I thought I heard you. 19:45.840 --> 19:47.920 Don't turn around to look at me. 19:47.920 --> 19:49.760 I'm just warning you. 19:49.760 --> 19:51.160 Have you got anything to enforce that? 19:51.160 --> 19:52.280 Yes. 19:52.280 --> 19:56.480 I've got a 500 Express rifle that could smear you all over the opposite wall. 19:56.480 --> 19:58.320 Kyle, what's the matter with you? 19:58.320 --> 20:00.240 No, I'm not in the mood for this. 20:00.240 --> 20:02.880 If you fellows are going to shoot me, I wish you'd speak English about it. 20:02.880 --> 20:04.520 Kyle, I beg of you. 20:04.520 --> 20:05.720 No, no, no. 20:05.720 --> 20:06.840 Don't fire that rifle. 20:06.840 --> 20:08.160 Exactly. 20:08.160 --> 20:10.480 You see, Kyle, I'm turning around. 20:10.480 --> 20:12.000 This is all very... 20:12.000 --> 20:12.640 Now, Kyle. 20:12.640 --> 20:14.680 You see what the doctor means, Kyle? 20:14.680 --> 20:18.080 If you fire that rifle, you'll send your gunboat out of that harbor 20:18.080 --> 20:19.880 just when you need it. 20:19.880 --> 20:22.520 Isn't that the signal, doctor, to send the gunboat away? 20:22.520 --> 20:23.320 Kyle, I beg of you. 20:23.320 --> 20:24.920 Yes, it is. 20:24.920 --> 20:28.920 Very simple, economical German signal. 20:28.920 --> 20:32.320 So you two kill Saeed Khalif. 20:32.320 --> 20:34.520 But the slender, that cannot be proved. 20:34.520 --> 20:36.280 Had to do it, I imagine. 20:36.280 --> 20:39.360 Saeed was the one chief that you couldn't buy or frighten with your witch doctor, 20:39.360 --> 20:40.840 so you got rid of him. 20:40.840 --> 20:42.760 Tomorrow morning, the witch doctor would have appeared. 20:42.760 --> 20:46.120 He'd have scared the daylights out of a weak and superstitious son, Nobby. 20:46.120 --> 20:49.240 I told you I was fairly good at my work, Governor. 20:49.240 --> 20:49.960 And I am. 20:49.960 --> 20:50.520 Yes. 20:50.520 --> 20:53.280 And then the witch doctor would have taken over everything. 20:53.280 --> 20:55.880 The British resident had to be bamboozled for 24 hours 20:55.880 --> 21:01.400 to keep him out of the way with a ghost story about a British agent. 21:01.400 --> 21:03.760 And there was a gunboat in the harbor in case of trouble. 21:03.760 --> 21:05.760 Slight mistake there, Governor. 21:05.760 --> 21:07.800 There is a gunboat in the harbor. 21:07.800 --> 21:08.520 Yes. 21:08.520 --> 21:10.840 It's really worked out beautifully. 21:10.840 --> 21:12.600 The emperor should be pleased. 21:12.600 --> 21:15.640 I don't think your white queen will be very happy, though. 21:15.640 --> 21:19.280 I'm the great witch doctor to that frightened mob over there. 21:19.280 --> 21:20.960 Saeed is dead. 21:20.960 --> 21:24.080 And there's a German gunboat in the harbor. 21:24.080 --> 21:28.560 Listen, I think I hear something. 21:28.560 --> 21:31.200 Whoever's out there, stay back. 21:31.200 --> 21:33.320 Whoever's out there, stay back. 21:33.320 --> 21:35.280 Bill, listen to me. 21:35.280 --> 21:36.640 Saeed's alive. 21:36.640 --> 21:37.760 He's alive. 21:37.760 --> 21:38.680 This is impossible. 21:38.680 --> 21:39.880 We can see him breathe. 21:39.880 --> 21:41.240 We don't even think he's badly hurt. 21:41.240 --> 21:42.880 But he's still in the cage, unconscious. 21:42.880 --> 21:44.440 Still in the cage? 21:44.440 --> 21:46.080 You mean they can't get him out of there? 21:46.080 --> 21:47.840 If he wakes up or they attempt anything nearer, 21:47.840 --> 21:49.320 we'll tear him to pieces. 21:49.320 --> 21:51.440 The whole crowd over there is nearly crazy. 21:51.440 --> 21:53.400 But they don't dare go into the cage. 21:53.400 --> 21:55.840 Well, gentlemen, you should have been more careful. 21:55.840 --> 21:58.640 If they do get Saeed out of there alive, you're done for. 21:58.640 --> 21:59.840 Be quiet. 21:59.840 --> 22:00.640 Listen. 22:00.640 --> 22:02.720 Nobby and the rest of the natives are coming up here now. 22:02.720 --> 22:03.560 See here, miss. 22:03.560 --> 22:05.080 Are you talking about the old boy's son? 22:05.080 --> 22:06.040 Nobby, yes. 22:06.040 --> 22:07.680 He wants to see the witch doctor. 22:07.680 --> 22:09.000 The witch doctor? 22:09.000 --> 22:11.120 This puts you in some slight trouble, Carl. 22:11.120 --> 22:11.920 Listen to me, miss. 22:11.920 --> 22:13.600 I couldn't get that old buzzard from the... 22:13.600 --> 22:16.080 out of the way from that line, even if I... 22:16.080 --> 22:17.320 I've got to get out of here. 22:17.320 --> 22:18.880 Too late now, my dear witch doctor. 22:18.880 --> 22:22.600 The natives have surrounded the house. 22:22.600 --> 22:23.640 Who's that? 22:23.640 --> 22:24.200 It's Nobby. 22:24.200 --> 22:25.280 He's coming down the hall. 22:25.280 --> 22:28.280 Seva, abudu sabe. 22:28.280 --> 22:31.560 My Nobby, speak white language. 22:31.560 --> 22:33.720 Tarry Sultan's wand. 22:33.720 --> 22:36.640 Witch doctor, much respect. 22:36.640 --> 22:38.640 Fall on floor. 22:38.640 --> 22:39.640 Go ahead. 22:39.640 --> 22:41.200 Play your part, Carl. 22:41.200 --> 22:42.520 Play your ruddy part. 22:46.280 --> 22:48.360 Get up again. 22:48.360 --> 22:50.360 Great medicine man. 22:50.360 --> 22:55.360 Father hurt, in cage with lion. 22:55.360 --> 22:56.000 You come. 22:56.000 --> 22:57.000 Say something, Carl. 22:57.000 --> 22:58.800 You can't be a dumb wizard. 22:58.800 --> 22:59.600 You come. 22:59.600 --> 23:01.120 My dear Nobby, my friend. 23:01.120 --> 23:03.240 The witch doctor can't understand you. 23:03.240 --> 23:05.080 Be witch doctor. 23:05.080 --> 23:07.120 Not speak everything. 23:07.120 --> 23:08.120 Part witch doctor. 23:08.120 --> 23:08.920 No, no. 23:08.920 --> 23:09.920 It is not that. 23:09.920 --> 23:11.240 He does not hear you. 23:11.240 --> 23:12.920 He's in another world. 23:12.920 --> 23:15.320 See how his eye is closed. 23:15.320 --> 23:16.920 See how his face is. 23:16.920 --> 23:18.280 He's not a child. 23:18.280 --> 23:20.600 He's close. 23:20.600 --> 23:21.800 See how his face. 23:21.800 --> 23:23.960 I know this. 23:23.960 --> 23:26.280 He saved my father. 23:26.280 --> 23:28.040 Or maybe all of you. 23:28.040 --> 23:31.080 We will kill all white people here. 23:31.080 --> 23:33.800 Witch doctor saved my father from lion. 23:33.800 --> 23:34.680 You come. 23:34.680 --> 23:36.880 Nobby, listen to me. 23:36.880 --> 23:38.480 You needn't worry. 23:38.480 --> 23:42.280 The great witch doctor can save your father. 23:42.280 --> 23:43.280 Go in cage? 23:43.280 --> 23:45.760 No, not go in cage. 23:45.760 --> 23:46.760 Strike with fire? 23:46.760 --> 23:48.080 Yes, that's it. 23:48.080 --> 23:49.400 Set fire. 23:49.400 --> 23:50.840 Open heaven. 23:50.840 --> 23:52.560 Flash great light. 23:52.560 --> 23:54.600 Narrow scream and die. 23:54.600 --> 23:56.200 Father saved. 23:56.200 --> 23:57.360 You must not save him. 23:57.360 --> 23:58.080 He will remain alive. 23:58.080 --> 23:59.200 He will talk. 23:59.200 --> 24:00.600 Then the natives will know. 24:00.600 --> 24:01.840 You don't want to save father? 24:01.840 --> 24:04.400 The witch doctor does want to save your father, Nobby. 24:04.400 --> 24:05.800 You see that gun under his arm? 24:05.800 --> 24:06.680 Gun? 24:06.680 --> 24:08.280 Gun no good. 24:08.280 --> 24:09.960 Not used gun. 24:09.960 --> 24:11.800 Only wound lion. 24:11.800 --> 24:13.320 Lion in pain killed father. 24:13.320 --> 24:16.040 No, that's not like your muskets, Nobby. 24:16.040 --> 24:17.280 It's an express gun. 24:17.280 --> 24:21.480 It's a magic gun. 24:21.480 --> 24:22.360 Magic gun? 24:22.360 --> 24:23.600 Listen, Nobby. 24:23.600 --> 24:26.280 Magic gun save your father with one shot. 24:26.280 --> 24:27.760 Just like that. 24:27.760 --> 24:29.600 Lion fall over dead. 24:29.600 --> 24:31.320 Your father well again. 24:31.320 --> 24:33.200 And our friend. 24:33.200 --> 24:35.680 We use gun? 24:35.680 --> 24:36.240 Give me gun. 24:36.240 --> 24:36.880 No. 24:36.880 --> 24:38.440 You could not use it, Nobby. 24:38.440 --> 24:40.480 Witch doctor can use it best. 24:40.480 --> 24:41.960 Tell him to use it. 24:41.960 --> 24:44.160 Tell him to be sure that he hits the lion. 24:44.160 --> 24:45.080 Look here, Harris. 24:45.080 --> 24:46.280 I don't know for this. 24:46.280 --> 24:47.560 Yes, Nobby. 24:47.560 --> 24:50.000 If he wants to hit narrow with that white fire, 24:50.000 --> 24:53.160 he can strike the lion dead before you could wink your eyes. 24:53.160 --> 24:54.800 Then do. 24:54.800 --> 24:56.000 You better try it, Carl. 24:56.000 --> 24:57.840 And you better not miss him, or you know what will happen 24:57.840 --> 24:59.320 to every white person in this room. 24:59.320 --> 25:01.240 My hands are shaking like... 25:01.240 --> 25:02.520 Magician with shaky hands? 25:02.520 --> 25:03.440 That won't do. 25:03.440 --> 25:05.160 I take your shoulder. 25:05.160 --> 25:07.240 You follow. 25:07.240 --> 25:10.200 Yalla, n'gomba. 25:10.200 --> 25:27.360 All come. 25:27.360 --> 25:29.120 There is cage. 25:29.120 --> 25:31.160 By Palastor. 25:31.160 --> 25:32.800 All caught over river. 25:32.800 --> 25:34.640 Bright as day. 25:34.640 --> 25:36.000 Thousand torches. 25:36.000 --> 25:38.760 All make light. 25:38.760 --> 25:42.040 Now do. 25:42.040 --> 25:47.600 Now do. 25:47.600 --> 25:50.240 See how quiet they get when Nobby raises his hand. 25:50.240 --> 25:51.440 They're praying. 25:51.440 --> 25:52.360 So are we. 25:52.360 --> 25:53.360 Won't do it. 25:53.360 --> 25:54.200 You better. 25:54.200 --> 25:55.400 I told you that. 25:55.400 --> 25:57.080 They're out of hand now. 25:57.080 --> 25:59.400 If you miss, you're no witch doctor. 25:59.400 --> 26:01.760 And if you had any thought of hitting Said instead, 26:01.760 --> 26:03.160 just imagine what they do to you. 26:03.160 --> 26:05.960 I can't see these torches flying me. 26:05.960 --> 26:07.400 You do. 26:07.400 --> 26:09.320 I think the old man's moving. 26:09.320 --> 26:11.120 If he stirs, the lion will kill him. 26:11.120 --> 26:13.080 You know what that means. 26:13.080 --> 26:14.360 That's right. 26:14.360 --> 26:15.360 Up with a rifle. 26:15.360 --> 26:16.960 My hands are shaking. 26:16.960 --> 26:18.520 Be careful of your sights. 26:18.520 --> 26:25.320 It's a point blank shot. 26:25.320 --> 26:28.520 Alla, focus. 26:28.520 --> 26:30.040 All right, Nobby. 26:30.040 --> 26:31.720 The lion is dead. 26:31.720 --> 26:35.520 They can go in and carry our father out now. 26:35.520 --> 26:40.000 Lion dead? 26:40.000 --> 26:43.800 German magic is great magic. 26:43.800 --> 26:45.800 Yes, Nobby, it is. 26:45.800 --> 26:49.640 But English magic is greater. 26:49.640 --> 26:52.880 English magic better than German magic? 26:52.880 --> 26:53.600 Yes, Nobby. 26:53.600 --> 26:55.360 Now prove it. 26:55.360 --> 26:56.800 Turn around. 26:56.800 --> 26:59.200 Look out towards the harbor. 26:59.200 --> 27:00.840 I stand here. 27:00.840 --> 27:03.120 I wave my hand like this. 27:03.120 --> 27:04.920 Nothing up my sleeves. 27:04.920 --> 27:07.520 I wouldn't deceive you for the world. 27:07.520 --> 27:13.240 I wave my hand towards the gunboat in the bay. 27:13.240 --> 27:16.200 The gunboat sails away. 27:16.200 --> 27:18.720 English magic, Nobby. 27:18.720 --> 27:36.760 English magic. 27:36.760 --> 27:40.720 And so ends the Lord of the Witch Doctors. 27:40.720 --> 27:45.720 Tonight's story of suspense. 27:45.720 --> 28:13.200 Next Tuesday, when CBS again brings you suspense, our story will be The Devil in the Summerhouse. 28:13.200 --> 28:19.760 The broadcast for next week only is scheduled for 10 p.m. Eastern wartime, a half hour later 28:19.760 --> 28:21.320 than usual. 28:21.320 --> 28:27.960 William Spear, the producer, John Dietz, the director, Bernard Herrmann, the composer-conductor, 28:27.960 --> 28:42.720 and John Dixon Carr, the author, are all collaborators on suspense. 28:42.720 --> 28:44.640 This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.