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I am the marvelous 02:37.360 --> 02:42.000 barastro I've come to tell you a story. How did you get in here? I am a magician by trade I do 02:42.000 --> 02:48.880 such things perhaps you've heard of me barastro. No. I'm the greatest magician alive. No that is 02:48.880 --> 02:55.440 not so I am the second greatest but soon I will be first. I am leaving tonight for Mexico City. You 02:55.440 --> 03:00.080 see me now for the first and last time you will never see me again no one will ever see me again. 03:00.080 --> 03:05.200 It is the last of barastro. How's that? I'm going to Mexico City to murder a man. 03:05.200 --> 03:13.200 Uh well. His name is Rico Sansone. Why are you going to kill him? Because he is the most evil 03:13.200 --> 03:19.520 man in the world. I've been waiting 20 years for his name to appear. For as long as he chose to 03:19.520 --> 03:25.520 hide there was no hope. He's too clever far too clever even for me. But I knew that his vanity 03:25.520 --> 03:31.680 would betray him and that someday I would read again the name Rico Sansone. I knew he would return 03:31.680 --> 03:36.640 to the stage. Is he a magician? He's greatest to ever live. The most profound the most subtle 03:37.360 --> 03:43.040 and the most evil. He's greater than I. He begins his first performance in 20 years in Mexico 03:43.040 --> 03:48.720 next week. I will be there to see it. Well I would like to hear your story. I can tell you all but 03:48.720 --> 03:55.360 the end that I will be unable to provide now but you will find it out for yourself. Well I'd like 03:55.360 --> 04:00.320 to hear what you can tell me. I will tell you Mr. Spearbutt on one condition. And that? I must have 04:00.320 --> 04:05.040 your oath not to interfere. Oh really now you can understand I can scarcely give you that after all. 04:05.040 --> 04:12.320 Ah very well very well very well. I would take my chances with you. The story begins 20 years ago. 04:23.840 --> 04:29.360 I was a young man. I traveled as a magician with a small carnival through southeastern Europe. 04:29.360 --> 04:34.400 One night we came to a village in Malo Russia. Our cymbals sounded, our torches flickered in the 04:34.400 --> 04:39.280 spring wind and the villagers gathered around our tents and wagons. I had taken my place in the black 04:39.280 --> 04:44.240 box outside my tent. There were holes in the box through which I could watch the crowd while the 04:44.240 --> 04:51.440 barker made his announcement. Barastro the marvel of marble. Barastro the magician who speaks with 04:51.440 --> 05:00.640 the dead and reads the secrets of life. At this moment, at this moment I saw her for the first time. 05:01.680 --> 05:08.560 Her young and gentle face surprised me among so many peasants. I said to myself what a strange girl, 05:08.560 --> 05:14.240 what a beautiful child. I kept watching her. I couldn't keep my eyes away from her. At length an 05:14.240 --> 05:21.680 old peasant led her in holding her by the hand. I saw at once that she was blind. My granddaughter 05:21.680 --> 05:28.560 would like you to tell her future. Can you tell my future? Yes. Will it be a happy one my future? 05:29.120 --> 05:37.280 Hold out your hand and I will tell you. Here. A dark mist passed over me. I felt a sudden 05:37.280 --> 05:43.600 chill as I touched her hand. I listened to the voices which would tell the future. Sorrow sorrow 05:43.600 --> 05:52.640 they breathe. Pain and sorrow. Fly run. I studied the girl's face. A fear gripping at my heart. 05:52.640 --> 05:58.320 Her large cyclous eyes were calm resigned. I could not bring myself to tell her what I saw. 05:59.680 --> 06:06.480 These spirits promise you happiness. I lied. Your hands will touch beautiful things. 06:06.480 --> 06:13.040 Love and delight will await you. Oh thank you sir. Thank you. 06:22.080 --> 06:28.960 That was the beginning. Her face haunted me that night. I could not sleep. I'm in inquiries the 06:28.960 --> 06:34.000 next morning and I found her. We walked through the hills. She did not need my hand to guide her. 06:34.000 --> 06:39.600 She knew every stone, every turn of the path. She spoke of the trees around her. She had strange 06:39.600 --> 06:45.440 names for them. I call that tree lullaby because it sings when it sways in the wind. Lullaby. 06:46.160 --> 06:52.800 And that one see when its branches open towards heaven. I call that one prayer. How do you know 06:52.800 --> 06:58.480 its branches open toward the sky? When I was younger I climbed it. Anna. Come I'll raise you 06:58.480 --> 07:04.560 to the bed of flowers at the turn. Anna. Hurry I ran far. We walked often through the hills. 07:05.520 --> 07:11.040 I knew that she was aware of her destiny. The stars had told me she would not live long. 07:12.000 --> 07:19.760 And that agony and terror awaited for her on the short journey. Our caravan remained for two weeks 07:19.760 --> 07:27.040 in the village. At the end of that time I asked Anna to come with me as my wife. You make me very 07:27.040 --> 07:34.080 happy Shari. I could live only with you. I will love you with all my heart. And you will teach me 07:34.080 --> 07:42.960 Shari. You will teach me to see. To see? Does one need eyes to see as you do? Shari you will teach 07:42.960 --> 07:50.640 me to see beyond the horizons. You will teach me to see as you see. We were married. We rode 07:50.640 --> 07:59.760 together in the gilded wagon and the vows were taken under a clear sky. Suddenly the sky changed. 08:04.000 --> 08:09.120 It was only then that I realized what I had done in seeking to save her. I was fulfilling the 08:09.120 --> 08:19.360 terrible message of the stars. For it was I Shari Barastro who was the instrument fate had selected 08:19.360 --> 08:37.360 for her ruin. Then it came. One night as I stood in the black box outside my tent 08:37.360 --> 08:48.880 I knew that I needed no further word from the mists of prophecy. It was there. It had come. 08:49.840 --> 08:57.200 He stood among the peasants before our tent. A graceful figure smiling, leaning on his cane. 08:57.200 --> 09:02.480 A man of the world amusingly out of place in this far away little village. I looked at him through 09:02.480 --> 09:10.560 the holes in my box as I looked. I turned cold. I watched him and I felt afraid. He was studying 09:10.560 --> 09:16.480 Anna. Never once did he stop looking at her. My temper is quick and fiery. I went up to him 09:16.480 --> 09:22.160 as he was watching Anna. How subtle he was. How graceful. I seized his arm and demanded to know 09:22.160 --> 09:26.880 what he meant by staring at my wife. He removed my hand as if I were a child. I can tell you there 09:26.880 --> 09:32.800 was something, something terrifying in his strength. My most humbly beg your pardon for this 09:32.800 --> 09:37.600 misunderstanding. Let me introduce myself. My name is Rico Sansone. I'm a student of the occult 09:37.600 --> 09:42.560 traveling about the world in search of knowledge. Inside of me I feel that girl has the remarkable 09:42.560 --> 09:48.240 psychic powers. I'd hope to be able to induce her to join me as my assistant. Soon planning to go 09:48.240 --> 09:54.400 on the stage but now that I know she's your wife I apologize again for my seeming forwardness. 09:54.400 --> 10:04.800 Oh I suppose there's nothing to do but to accept that apology. And you madame? 10:06.400 --> 10:15.760 Anna, I think it is fair Anna. Anna? No, I have nothing to say. 10:15.760 --> 10:27.040 I have nothing to say. It was thus Rico Sansone entered our lives. Little by little during the 10:27.040 --> 10:32.800 days that followed he attached himself to us. We listened, Anna and I, to his tales. He'd been 10:32.800 --> 10:39.120 everywhere, seen everything. He brought the world into our gilded wagon. In his presence I always 10:39.120 --> 10:46.000 felt elated and flattered. Thus does a man move in the grip of his destiny. Thus do we dig with 10:46.000 --> 10:52.800 our own hands the appointed grave for our happiness. For one night Anna came to me 10:53.520 --> 10:58.800 and took my hands and told me something that made my heart grow black. 10:58.800 --> 11:06.800 Shari, Rico Sansone has made love to me. Anna. I've done nothing wrong. I'm afraid of Rico. 11:07.840 --> 11:14.640 I tell you this so you will understand my fear. You, you want to tell me about it now? Yes. 11:16.080 --> 11:22.880 Tell me then. Rico came to me this afternoon while I was alone. He took my hand and held it gently 11:22.880 --> 11:29.680 in his. I suspected nothing until he asked me if I loved you and how deeply I loved you. 11:30.560 --> 11:36.320 Then he asked me if I love you more than happiness or life. I took my hand from him and said I cannot 11:36.320 --> 11:46.320 talk of love to you. Even if my love for my husband, please go. Yes? Rico. She's told you. 11:46.320 --> 11:53.520 Shari, forgive me. For a moment I grew weak. Let me remain your friend. I brought you both some 11:53.520 --> 12:04.560 flowers. I picked them myself. Will you accept them? You won't accept them? Of course we will, my friend. 12:05.440 --> 12:09.920 How good I have doubted you. I understand. Come, forget the entire incident. 12:09.920 --> 12:15.520 You are kind. Really, you're kind. 12:24.560 --> 12:29.600 This was the third month of our friendship and now I began to feel it was my companionship he desired. 12:29.600 --> 12:37.600 Not Anna's. We spent long hours together without Anna under his wing. I was afraid of him. 12:37.600 --> 12:43.680 We spent long hours together without Anna under his care. My mind was expanding. My power was developing. 12:43.680 --> 12:50.400 He seemed interested in my every move and again I was flattered, lured, disarmed. You have a funny 12:50.400 --> 13:01.200 way of saying the word beautiful, my friend. How is it you said? Beautiful. That's it. That's it. 13:01.200 --> 13:11.520 Beautiful. Is that all right? You're telling me about the Houdini method of the respiration. 13:11.520 --> 13:21.840 Oh yes, so I was. Beautiful. Very good. I like you, Shari. I like you very much. 13:21.840 --> 13:29.040 Amazing, isn't it? Amazing how one can be drawn in by flattery and charm. 13:30.640 --> 13:36.160 Then one day I was sitting in my tent. When a curious sense came over me I felt a pressure on 13:36.160 --> 13:43.760 my heart as if a hand were closing around it with a warning. I left quickly. I hurried to the apartment. 13:43.760 --> 13:48.720 Anna had remained there. She frequently did in the afternoon. I found myself running toward the door. 13:48.720 --> 13:57.840 I paused, waited until I recovered my breath and then forcing a smile to my lips opened the door. 14:00.240 --> 14:12.560 Oh, I saw Rico. Rico standing with his arms around her face raised to his lips. 14:12.560 --> 14:17.600 Speechless, powerless, I looked at them. I heard her voice murmuring words of love. 14:17.600 --> 14:24.880 Her arms moved around his neck and she kissed him. Then I heard his voice. 14:26.880 --> 14:36.000 Anna, Anna my darling. Shari my love. Anna my darling, my beautiful darling. 14:36.000 --> 14:44.160 My beautiful darling. The sound of his voice a horror seized me. Now I knew why he had spent 14:44.160 --> 14:51.280 so many hours with me. Why he was so interested. It was my voice. It was Barastro talking. 14:52.160 --> 14:56.640 It was a voice that seemed to come from my own throat. A horrible familiar voice and I understood 14:56.640 --> 15:02.320 what had happened. I sprang forward shouting his name Rico. He turned and faced me. He pointed 15:02.320 --> 15:06.160 his finger at me as if he were an image in a mirror. Rico! The echo. 15:12.880 --> 15:20.720 Murder was in my heart. I flew at this monster. We struggled across the room. He answered my cries 15:20.720 --> 15:27.840 with cries that echoed his notes. His inflection of my voice. I saw him through my rage. His face was 15:27.840 --> 15:35.440 contorted like my own. His every feature had changed. He was Barastro. There were two Barastros 15:35.440 --> 15:38.160 screaming together, tumbling over each other. 15:45.200 --> 15:53.200 He held me in his hands. In his hands that were like steel. I could not move or cry out. 15:53.200 --> 16:00.480 His hand was on my throat. I lay gasping crazed and it was Barastro who was holding me. 16:01.440 --> 16:08.400 Then this horrible and familiar figure changed. It became Rico. It was Rico Sansone who spoke. 16:08.400 --> 16:14.640 The breath was leaving my body. I was strangling dying yet I could hear him. Barastro, God, you're 16:14.640 --> 16:24.480 killing me. Shari Shaya Merzi, I'm dying. His voice was faint. I felt in this moment the 16:24.480 --> 16:31.920 agonies of a hundred deaths. For as my eyes grew dark, I saw with horror the thing he had in his mind. 16:32.960 --> 16:38.560 He was pretending it was I who was killing him and thus he would kill me and go to her. 16:38.560 --> 16:44.480 He would be Barastro. It would be Rico Sansone who would be buried. It would be Barastro who 16:44.480 --> 16:49.520 remained. For a moment I caught a glimpse of his cold ruthless eyes burning now over my face as 16:49.520 --> 16:55.200 he enacted his false death groaning, pleading for mercy and the strength drawn from his soul filled 16:55.200 --> 17:02.960 my lungs. I cried out with all my might, Anna, Anna! Knowing that by this she would understand 17:02.960 --> 17:11.520 that it was I, I who was dying and darkness, darkness seized me. 17:22.800 --> 17:27.120 An hour had passed when I opened my eyes. My head was splitting. My throat was stiffened. I raised 17:27.120 --> 17:34.880 myself and looked. He was gone. I saw her. She was standing in the corner of the room, crouched 17:34.880 --> 17:39.760 against the wall, her hand against her teeth and staring, staring into the terrible dark around her. 17:39.760 --> 17:48.880 Anna! I whispered to her, Anna! It is I, Anna. I, Shari. 17:48.880 --> 17:59.920 Anna! Oh, God! Anna, please! Anna! Anna, darling, listen to me! Anna, give me your hand! Anna! 17:59.920 --> 18:07.440 Anna, listen! It is I, Anna! Anna! Shari, your husband, Anna! Listen, Anna! Remember, Anna! 18:07.440 --> 18:13.440 Remember! Remember when we first kissed! When we first kissed, Anna! That time on the hill, Anna, 18:13.440 --> 18:19.280 remember! I called you little princess, remember, Anna, and Anna about your trees, Anna, about lullaby, 18:19.280 --> 18:25.360 the names you had for them, lullaby and prayer, Anna! One with its branches pointing toward him, 18:25.360 --> 18:35.360 the one we climbed, Anna, please! Anna, please! Please, Anna! It is I, Anna! Come here, listen! 18:35.360 --> 18:46.080 Listen carefully, Anna! The spirits promise you happiness. Your hands will touch beautiful things. 18:46.080 --> 19:03.040 Love and delight await you. Oh, Shari! Oh, my darling! My Anna, my sweet! Oh, Shari, hold me close! 19:03.040 --> 19:09.040 Yes, my darling, yes. Oh, my spirit, you are his darling. There, there, my darling, it's all right now. 19:09.040 --> 19:17.040 It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. 19:17.040 --> 19:27.040 Oh, my darling, oh, my darling! 19:29.040 --> 19:37.040 Rico had disappeared. We laid our plans, Anna and I. As soon as she was able to walk, we abandoned the carnival. 19:37.040 --> 19:43.040 We were in separate revenge. She could not bear to have me wait for a moment. I understood everything, everything in her soul. 19:43.040 --> 19:51.040 Yes, even the trembling that would seize her sometimes when I took her in my hand. It was I alone he could not deceive. 19:51.040 --> 20:01.040 I alone, to anyone else, he could become Barastro, even to her, whose senses had learned every breath, 20:01.040 --> 20:11.040 every inflection of the man she loved. Even to her, he had been Barastro. 20:11.040 --> 20:21.040 The months passed. Her life had become again almost like a honeymoon. Almost, I say, for there were nights when I would awake 20:21.040 --> 20:31.040 to find her fingers tracing the contours of my face. Then it was I pretended to be ill and remained at her side. 20:31.040 --> 20:39.040 We said nothing, but we knew the shadow, the shadow in each other's mind. Everything went smoothly, though, until one evening. 20:39.040 --> 20:45.040 When I entered the cabaret, when I was performing, I felt unusually disturbed. It was winter. 20:45.040 --> 20:53.040 I was removing my coat when it came again. As I had known it would, the warning, the hand closing over my heart. 20:53.040 --> 20:59.040 I ran from the place and raced home. I entered our cottage by the back door quietly like a thief, and I stood listening. 20:59.040 --> 21:03.040 From inside, I could hear a voice. 21:03.040 --> 21:11.040 Oh, sorry, dear. Darling, you're ill again. I'll take care of you, darling. I'll make you feel better. 21:11.040 --> 21:15.040 Anna, my dear Anna, how I love you. 21:15.040 --> 21:29.040 He was back. One doesn't reason. One does not reason in the midst of a nightmare. 21:29.040 --> 21:35.040 Yet terror can wake the mind to a clairvoyance and understanding beyond thought. 21:35.040 --> 21:44.040 I stood motionless, silent, listening. The light was turned out. I heard her laugh, laugh like a child in the dark. 21:44.040 --> 21:53.040 And this sound killed me. Yes, one is dead forever. When happiness is torn from the heart. 21:53.040 --> 22:00.040 I wanted to rush into the room. I wanted to shout, Anna, Anna, don't touch him. He's Rico. 22:00.040 --> 22:05.040 But instead, I slept quickly from the house. I walked in the cold streets. My thoughts returned. 22:05.040 --> 22:12.040 I had acted out of one clear impulse. Through the terror and agony of those moments when I heard him take her in his arms, 22:12.040 --> 22:19.040 there had remained a certainty above everything else. I must save her. 22:19.040 --> 22:25.040 And I knew I had acted wisely had I rushed into the room and made a noise. 22:25.040 --> 22:37.040 She would have died. She would have known in that moment, as I knew listening to him, that he had been there before. 22:37.040 --> 22:46.040 That he had been there before. That he had crept through our defenses as our shadow creeps. 22:46.040 --> 22:53.040 And we had not known. I thought of them together as I walked. 22:53.040 --> 23:02.040 And then I thought again that I had only to rush back to speak her name. Yes, and destroy her. 23:02.040 --> 23:10.040 Destroy her. I kept on walking. And as I walked, I began to understand him. Yes, I was dealing with a monster. 23:10.040 --> 23:16.040 He would manage to leave her, as he must have done so often before, a few moments before I was due to return from the cabaret. 23:16.040 --> 23:21.040 And if I sensed something was wrong, he would rely on my lover to keep this sense of secret. 23:21.040 --> 23:27.040 He knew me well. He understood I would allow my heart to be eaten away with grief. 23:27.040 --> 23:32.040 And I would not make a sign lest I destroy her whom I love more than myself. 23:32.040 --> 23:40.040 It was I who must be careful. Not he. Yes, he knew me. He gambled on me. 23:40.040 --> 23:43.040 I determined to kill him the first moment I saw him. 23:43.040 --> 23:48.040 And I began to think. To think of his superhuman strength. 23:48.040 --> 23:53.040 That he might kill me, even as he had first intended. 23:53.040 --> 23:56.040 And that he would go on living with her as per astro. 23:56.040 --> 24:00.040 She would never know I was dead. She would continue to love me in his arms. 24:00.040 --> 24:04.040 To press her kisses upon my murderer. 24:04.040 --> 24:09.040 And this was the thought that contained in it. The fullest measure of horror. 24:09.040 --> 24:15.040 The thought of that moment when she would see him. 24:15.040 --> 24:22.040 And not me. You understand the grief? The grief of that night? 24:22.040 --> 24:27.040 Yes, it is fortunate I cannot remember it all. 24:27.040 --> 24:32.040 I returned home. At the time, at the time Rico wanted me to. 24:32.040 --> 24:36.040 I wasn't careful about my coming. I trusted him. 24:36.040 --> 24:43.040 Do you understand? I trusted him that out of his evil he would spare her. 24:43.040 --> 24:47.040 As I spared her out of love. 24:47.040 --> 24:53.040 I entered the bedroom, opened the door and walked in. She was alone. 24:53.040 --> 24:57.040 Anna. Anna dear. 24:57.040 --> 25:05.040 Anna! Anna, it's I. It's I, it's not Rico, it's I. It's I. 25:05.040 --> 25:10.040 Anna! Anna! 25:15.040 --> 25:20.040 This is my memory of Anna. My memory. 25:20.040 --> 25:26.040 She seized her face with her hands. As if she were tearing something. 25:26.040 --> 25:32.040 Yes, the darkness. As I rushed towards she fell. 25:32.040 --> 25:54.040 She did not speak again. In the morning she died. 25:54.040 --> 25:58.040 That is the story as nearly in Barastro's words as I can remember them. 25:58.040 --> 26:02.040 When he finished he got up quietly, looked at me a moment and said, 26:02.040 --> 26:09.040 Thank you for listening to me Mr. Spear. You understand now my prediction that there will be one less magician alive in the world within a fortnight. 26:09.040 --> 26:15.040 And he turned and left my office. I must admit that the whole thing shook me rather badly. 26:15.040 --> 26:21.040 I've been spent the whole week wondering if something might happen. Something I couldn't predict this morning. 26:21.040 --> 26:28.040 I think perhaps it came, at least while I was reading through the theatrical weekly variety and my eye caught a notice. 26:28.040 --> 26:33.040 You probably saw it too, of a magician who had been killed in Mexico City. 26:33.040 --> 26:38.040 The account said that two magicians had been together in an automobile accident. 26:38.040 --> 26:46.040 While driving through the railyard district their car stalled on a track and had been demolished by an oncoming train. 26:46.040 --> 26:51.040 One of the magicians, unidentifiable, had been cut to pieces. 26:51.040 --> 26:54.040 The other miraculously escaped with his life. 26:54.040 --> 27:01.040 Although his features were so horribly disfigured that plastic surgery will have to create a new face for him. 27:01.040 --> 27:21.040 The survivor identified himself as the Marvelous Barastro. 27:21.040 --> 27:26.040 And so closes Ben Heck's story of the Marvelous Barastro starring Orson Welles. 27:26.040 --> 27:35.040 Tonight's tale of suspense. 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