1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:23,000 And now, tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 2 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:27,000 Tonight, we bring you one of the great mysteries of the sea. 3 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:32,000 A ship found drifting in perfect condition, but with no human aboard. 4 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:36,000 We call it, the mystery of the Mary Celeste. 5 00:00:36,000 --> 00:01:00,000 So now, starring John Danaer, here is tonight's Suspense play, The Mystery of the Mary Celeste. 6 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:10,000 On December 9th, 1872, the American brigantine Mary Celeste was discovered adrift and derelict, close off the coast of North Africa. 7 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,000 She had sustained some storm damage, but she was still an able ship. 8 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:20,000 Her sails were set, her cargo was intact, conditions in her cabins and folkshows seemed normal. 9 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,000 There was no evidence of violence. 10 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,000 Yet not a sign was found of the crew that had manned her. 11 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:34,000 Officers, men and the captain's wife had vanished, and no acceptable explanation of their disappearance has ever been advanced. 12 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,000 Perhaps this is that story. 13 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:46,000 It would start in New York City's harbor district on the night of November 7th, 1872, the eve of the Mary Celeste's departure from that same harbor. 14 00:01:46,000 --> 00:02:08,000 Stop! Stop or I'll shoot! Stop or I'll shoot! 15 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,000 What is it, officer? What's the matter? 16 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,000 Did you see a man running past this way? 17 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,000 No, I didn't see anybody. I heard the shots. 18 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,000 Who is this, your honor? 19 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,000 He just killed some people. 20 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,000 What? 21 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,000 I thought I heard something. 22 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,000 But I don't now. 23 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:27,000 Who did the man kill? 24 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,000 A young girl and the man she was with. 25 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,000 And then he killed the girl's mother. 26 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,000 He's a maniac that we've got to get. 27 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:34,000 I'll look down this way. 28 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:35,000 I'll help if I can. 29 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:43,000 All right. More men from the force will be here shortly. 30 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:56,000 Oh. 31 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:00,000 I didn't remember killing her mother. 32 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,000 Grace I killed because I couldn't help it. 33 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:07,000 The man because he came after me when Grace was down. 34 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,000 But I never meant to kill her mother. 35 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:15,000 And when I heard that I had, I wondered if the officer was right. 36 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:23,000 And then I was insane. 37 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,000 It was not time to think of it then. 38 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,000 Only time to think of getting away. 39 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,000 And through that night I searched for a ship that was leaving soon. 40 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,000 And one that was badly guarded so I could slip aboard. 41 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,000 When I found her, she was the Mary Celeste. 42 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:44,000 And the drunken deck watch stayed in his sleep until I was hidden in number two hold. 43 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,000 There I passed two days in a dream. 44 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:52,000 Neither fully awake nor asleep but always thinking of the horror I had done. 45 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,000 And I knew that escape was wrong. 46 00:03:55,000 --> 00:04:05,000 And that I could never be sane until I cleared my soul of it. 47 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,000 On the third morning I proceeded to make my presence aboard known. 48 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000 So that I can go to the captain and tell him of my crime. 49 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:15,000 And take the consequences I so richly deserve. 50 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:19,000 I climbed to the deck and am immediately seen by a crewman. 51 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Lindley look, who's that? 52 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,000 Who are you mister? What are you doing aboard? 53 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,000 My name is Sam Newcomb and I want to talk to your captain. 54 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,000 You'll talk to him right enough whether you want to or not. 55 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,000 Why'd you get on board? 56 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:39,000 You'll be lucky if you didn't stay in the 12-4 watch your last night in port because that's when it was. 57 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,000 You're uppity for us to away aren't you? You're no better than a thief. 58 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:46,000 I admit that. I want no trouble with you. Please. 59 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:50,000 Take me to the captain. I'll talk to him and no one else. 60 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:54,000 You take him Boal. I'd better stay forward. 61 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Come on Newcomb. 62 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:04,000 You're going to make the rest of the trip with us. You better drop your airs or there'll be trouble. 63 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:08,000 I don't have any airs and I don't think you'll be troubled with my company. 64 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,000 Oh you mean you don't think you'll quarter with a crew? 65 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:12,000 No. 66 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,000 You expect to be with the officers like an honored guest? 67 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:16,000 No. 68 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Where then? 69 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000 I don't know. 70 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,000 You act like you're deaf. 71 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,000 Don't you say that. 72 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,000 I don't. 73 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,000 You what? 74 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,000 Nothing. 75 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,000 I'm sorry I want to talk to you captain. 76 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:42,000 Watch what you do or say. You'll be over the side. 77 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,000 Here. 78 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,000 Yes come. 79 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:52,000 Watch your language. The skipper's wife is in the next cabin there. 80 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,000 Well, who's this? 81 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:59,000 He just came out of number two hole sir. His name's Sam Newcomb. 82 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,000 Got aboard on the 12 to 4 watch hour last night in. 83 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,000 Hubbard's watch. He'll answer for it. 84 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:10,000 Well Newcomb, will you have to save yourself? 85 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,000 I'd like it if I could talk to you alone sir. 86 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:16,000 That's all Boal. Tell Hubbard I want to see him as soon as he's off watch. 87 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:20,000 Yes sir. 88 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:25,000 You realize Newcomb that you've committed a crime by boarding this ship without permission. 89 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,000 And probably without passport or any other papers I suppose. 90 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,000 I know sir but when I tell you why. 91 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:36,000 I'm not a bad man sir. Nothing like this ever happened before but something drove me. 92 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:37,000 I didn't know what I was doing. 93 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,000 Another one who's always wanted to go to sea I suppose. 94 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:44,000 Oh no sir. I've been sailing for ten years. I'm an able hand. 95 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:49,000 I came aboard because I had to get away. 96 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:50,000 You're in trouble? 97 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:55,000 Yes sir. I don't think it was my fault but I am wrong. 98 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,000 What kind of trouble? 99 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:04,000 It was a girl sir who I was in love with. I don't know what came over me but... 100 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,000 Yes? What'd you do to her? 101 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:13,000 I found her with another man and I just had to get away sir. 102 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:19,000 Ah lovesick. Well that doesn't condone... 103 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,000 Oh yes my dear. 104 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,000 Oh I'm sorry I thought I heard you talking. 105 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:29,000 Yes yes this is Mr. Newcomb. He came aboard illegally the night before we left. 106 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,000 Well where has he been? 107 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:32,000 It's three days. 108 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,000 In number two hold ma'am. 109 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Have you had food and water? 110 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,000 No ma'am. 111 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Why haven't you come to us before this? 112 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,000 I don't know ma'am. 113 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,000 He was going to tell me why he came aboard. 114 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:49,000 I don't suppose it's important to anyone but me. I felt that I had to get away and... 115 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,000 It was a girl. 116 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,000 I almost guessed that. A broken heart? 117 00:07:54,000 --> 00:08:00,000 I thought it was. I know it sounds silly but to me it seemed awfully serious and... 118 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,000 I couldn't think of another way to leave as quickly as I wanted to. 119 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:09,000 Yes yes. Well there's no way I can allow an affair of the heart to influence what I must do in this case. 120 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,000 By reputation I'm a fair and lenient man. 121 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,000 Well I'm a seaman sir. I could work my way. 122 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,000 I'm not so sure you deserve the chance. 123 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:18,000 Whatever you say sir. 124 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:19,000 Ben. 125 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,000 Oh please Grace. 126 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,000 Grace? 127 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,000 What's the matter with you? 128 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:26,000 Nothing sir. 129 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:31,000 My name. Grace is the name of the girl. 130 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:32,000 Yes ma'am. 131 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:44,000 It was learning that the captain's wife was aboard that made me change my mind about telling him the truth. 132 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:50,000 When I talked to him, especially after his wife came, everything was turned about. 133 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:55,000 It was as though I was the captain and the stowaway was someone else. 134 00:08:55,000 --> 00:09:03,000 It was as though my wife, my Grace had come in from the next cabin and together we talked to this stowaway. 135 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:07,000 And we felt sorry for him and wanted to be kind to him. 136 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:18,000 The wife can't be more than three or four years older than I. 137 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,000 And I feel close to her right away. 138 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:25,000 I think that even if she doesn't know what I've done, she understands me. 139 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,000 It is a good feeling to have one friend on the ship. 140 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:53,000 Through her please I am sure I am not restrained and instead sent to take my place with the crew and their folks. 141 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:59,000 Well, what are you doing here? Couldn't you find a better place to quarter? 142 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,000 I was told where to come. 143 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:03,000 Ah, Hubbard. 144 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:04,000 Huh? 145 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,000 Wake up. 146 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,000 Here's the one came aboard during your watch. 147 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,000 Huh? 148 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,000 What did you figure you'd be fined, Hubbard? 149 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,000 A week's pay? 150 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,000 Yeah, that's right. 151 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,000 Newcombe, huh? 152 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,000 Yes. 153 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,000 Why'd you come aboard? 154 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,000 I wanted to get away from New York. 155 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:32,000 Man's gotta have a better reason than that. 156 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:33,000 You running away from the police? 157 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:34,000 No. 158 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,000 What then? 159 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,000 That I wouldn't interest you. It's not important. 160 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,000 It's important to me. 161 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:50,000 And I want you to know how I feel about it. 162 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:52,000 Are you gonna get up? 163 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,000 No. I want no trouble with any of you. 164 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:04,000 You don't want any trouble. You caused me trouble, haven't you? I'll be called up in front of the captain because of you. 165 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:07,000 That's done. There's no way I can change it. 166 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:21,000 We've got three weeks before we make Naples. You'll pay for it. I'll see to that. 167 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,000 Through the following days I knew no peace. 168 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:31,000 There were four deckhands and a first officer, and although I had reason to fight because of the way they beat me and used me, I did not. 169 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:35,000 I was afraid of my own violence now that I had killed. 170 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:42,000 The one named Hubbard was the worst. His eyes were always on me, and I wondered why. 171 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:47,000 There was a night when I woke to find him bending over my bunk. He was smiling. 172 00:11:47,000 --> 00:12:01,000 And from that moment on, even in sleep, I felt him watching me. 173 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:14,000 On another night, I am on deck. I'm crossing from port to starboard, and when I pass under the main yard, a marlin spike falls from a loft and sticks in the planks beside me, narrowly missing my head. 174 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:22,000 I look up to see Hubbard smiling down at me from the rigging. I try to avoid him, but he drops to the deck to face me. 175 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,000 I dropped my spike. 176 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,000 I know you did. 177 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,000 What are you gonna do about it? 178 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:32,000 What do you think? 179 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,000 You take more than any man I've ever known, Nookum. 180 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:41,000 I'm not proud of that. But why do you keep after me? Why don't you leave me alone? 181 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:53,000 Because I'm a curious man. I want to know truly why you're on this ship. Your story to the captain about trouble with some woman just doesn't set right. 182 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,000 It's the truth. 183 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,000 Not all of it. 184 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,000 Why do you say that? 185 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:18,000 Anybody ever tell you you talk in your sleep? 186 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:37,000 You are listening to The Mystery of the Merry Celeste, tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 187 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:43,000 We all have treasured possessions, keepsakes, and mementos which are irreplaceable regardless of cost. 188 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:50,000 You'd be heartsick if you lost yours, yet probably you are risking their loss by fire every day through carelessness. 189 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:58,000 So CBS radio reminds you, don't give fire a place to start. Be sure all cigarettes are out before discarding them. 190 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:03,000 Clear your house of old newspapers, damaged furniture, and inflammable debris. 191 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:10,000 Repair electrical wiring as soon as it shows signs of wear. These simple rules will keep your valuables safe. 192 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:15,000 And even save your life. 193 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:24,000 And now we bring back to our Hollywood soundstage, John Danaer starring in tonight's production, The Mystery of the Merry Celeste. 194 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,000 A tale well calculated to keep you in... 195 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:42,000 Suspense. 196 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:49,000 I had never been told that I talked in my sleep until the one named Hubbard said I did. 197 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:53,000 He may have been lying, but I could not trance that. 198 00:14:53,000 --> 00:15:04,000 Therefore I carefully abstained from regular sleeping habits, allowing myself short naps only when I knew that Hubbard was at the helm or some other ship's business that he could not leave. 199 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:12,000 The horror that I had done became a secret that pressed against my head, wanting escape. 200 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:23,000 But I held it in and I took the abuse of the men aboard. 201 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:30,000 The only kindness and relaxation I find are during the moments when I chance to meet the captain's wife. 202 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Off watch one night, when it is not safe to sleep, I am alone, taking a cup of tea in the galley when she comes in. 203 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,000 Oh, Mrs. Briggs. 204 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:43,000 Mr. Newcomb, I've been thinking of you. I haven't seen... 205 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:46,000 Well, you look ill. Is there something wrong? 206 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:50,000 Nothing, ma'am. Oh, my sleep has not been so good. 207 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:53,000 And your cheek is bruised. What happened? 208 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,000 Nothing serious. Some trouble with the other hands. 209 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:57,000 Have you told the captain? 210 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:58,000 No, no, ma'am. 211 00:15:58,000 --> 00:15:59,000 Why not? I shall. 212 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:04,000 No, please, don't. I've caused enough trouble. I wouldn't want there to be any more. 213 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,000 May I have some tea, Mr. Newcomb? 214 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,000 Oh, yes, ma'am. 215 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,000 Thank you. 216 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:30,000 I think you're a very kind man, Mr. Newcomb. 217 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:31,000 Oh, you do? 218 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:36,000 Yes. To protect the other hands, for one thing. They're a rough lot, I know. 219 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:39,000 No, no, worse than most men, ma'am. 220 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,000 You're very unhappy, aren't you? 221 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:45,000 This girl, Grace... 222 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:52,000 I know this is hard for you to understand, but really, no one girl is worth ruining your life for. 223 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,000 Not even losing sleep for. 224 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:55,000 Yes, ma'am. 225 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,000 I wish you'd stop calling me ma'am. 226 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:00,000 Perhaps if you did, you could talk to me about this girl. 227 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,000 I think it would do you good, don't you? 228 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:04,000 I don't know. 229 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:08,000 Tell me about her. I'm sure she's quite beautiful. 230 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:09,000 I thought so. 231 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:10,000 And you plan to be married? 232 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:11,000 Yes. 233 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,000 But she changed her mind. 234 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:17,000 Well, she was never sure. She was ambitious for me. 235 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:18,000 That's natural. 236 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:23,000 And I disappointed her like I did my family, my mother, everybody. 237 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:27,000 I'm always thinking that I'm doing my best, but I always disappoint people. 238 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:30,000 What did she want you to be, this girl? 239 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:38,000 Oh, a ship's master like your husband. We dreamed of the day she could sail with me like you do on this ship. 240 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:43,000 You mustn't lose faith in yourself. It took my husband years to get his papers. 241 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,000 There are no years for me anymore. 242 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:46,000 She wouldn't wait. 243 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:52,000 No, she wouldn't wait. You must have waited, but she wouldn't. 244 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:57,000 She promised to wait, but she didn't. She never understood that it took time. 245 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:02,000 She was ambitious, and she pushed me for my officer's papers, and I failed. 246 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:08,000 My family pushed me, too, when I wasn't ready, and they made me fail. 247 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:14,000 And I went away, six months trip to South America. I tried to jump overboard, and they stopped me. 248 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,000 And I got back and found her married to a ship's captain. 249 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:22,000 And her mother was there laughing at me. I tried to tell her that I was happy about it. 250 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,000 Then Grace smiled at me, and something happened. 251 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:29,000 Mr. Newfield. I was only going to kill her. I didn't even know the others were there. 252 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:34,000 I hit her, and when she went down, the man came after me, and I hit him, too. 253 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:37,000 When you get in a mix-up like that, you just don't know what you're doing. 254 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,000 Time means nothing. It's like everything else. 255 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:42,000 Mr. Newfield. And then her mother. I don't remember that. 256 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:48,000 But she's dead, too, and then they blame me. Maybe I did. 257 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,000 Miss Briggs, where are you going? 258 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,000 Stay away from me. Oh, no, you've been nice to me. 259 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,000 Why did it have to be you that I told everything? 260 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:59,000 No, please, please. And I like you. Why did it have to be you? 261 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:03,000 No, no, no. No, I don't want to kill you. I never wanted to kill anybody. 262 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:07,000 Let me go. No, please. I won't hurt you. You've been nice to me. 263 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:12,000 Stay away from me. I won't touch you. I won't touch you. 264 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:16,000 But you've got to promise. You won't tell. 265 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:20,000 I don't know why I said those things. They aren't true. 266 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:27,000 I get mixed up. I dream things, and then they seem real after I wake up. 267 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:33,000 That's why I'm such a liar. I always lie. 268 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:39,000 Nothing I told you was the truth. Nothing. You believe that? 269 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,000 Yes. Yes. 270 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,000 And you won't tell anybody what I said? 271 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:47,000 I won't tell anyone. 272 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:51,000 I'm glad. Now, come, Mrs. Briggs. Finish your tea. 273 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,000 We'll talk about something else. 274 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:57,000 No. No, I've got to go to my cabin. 275 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:00,000 Mrs. Briggs! 276 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,000 Don't tell. 277 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,000 I knew she would tell, and so I hid. 278 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:16,000 I went back to Number 2 Hole, where I had felt safe before. 279 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:20,000 I don't know how much time passed. 280 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:28,000 There they find me. I see their lantern as they come closer. 281 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:32,000 The truth is out, and there's no place for me to go. 282 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:36,000 So I stand up and wait. 283 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,000 Captain, I hear him, I think. 284 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,000 Yes, Hopper. Keep your pistol ready. We'll have to be careful. 285 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,000 Yes, sir. 286 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,000 There he is, sir. Come out of there, Nogum. 287 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:57,000 Keep your lantern down, Hopper. Keep us out of the light. He's dangerous. 288 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,000 I won't cause any trouble, sir. 289 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,000 Get him out of there! 290 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,000 I won't cause any trouble, sir! 291 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,000 It's all right, sir. He's down. 292 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:15,000 Dirty scum, lock him up! 293 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:26,000 I am not sure how many days passed, but I found comfort in being locked up, 294 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:30,000 because I could sleep without the fear of Hubbard leaning over me, 295 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:33,000 listening for what I might say. 296 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:39,000 Then there was one night when shouting on deck woke me up. 297 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:51,000 I couldn't hear the words being in the middle of the ship, but soon the shouting stopped, 298 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,000 and it was silence. 299 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:57,000 It was a new silence that I studied for a long time. 300 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,000 I heard no footsteps on the deck. 301 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:02,000 I heard no voices. 302 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:05,000 I heard no creaking timbers. 303 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:09,000 It was a dead ship. 304 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:17,000 I wait for the one daily meal that they allow me. 305 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,000 No one comes. 306 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:22,000 Then I shout. 307 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,000 Let me out! 308 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,000 Get me out of here! 309 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:32,000 Somebody come! Let me out! 310 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:37,000 If one were insane, he would surely break at a moment like that. 311 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:41,000 I was locked up and alone on a ship that was held motionless, 312 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,000 as if gripped by some great hand. 313 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,000 But I did not break. 314 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:52,000 I dismantled my bunk and from the wood and fashioned a ram with which I attacked the door. 315 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,000 The task of freeing myself consumed most of the day. 316 00:22:55,000 --> 00:23:01,000 And such was my concentration that I didn't realize the exact moment that the ship began moving, 317 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:06,000 as if the great hand had released its grip and set her free. 318 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:10,000 And I was free. 319 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:23,000 I come out on deck to find a cloudless sky and empty sea horizons all around, 320 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:29,000 as if I am alone in the world, the wheels spinning idly with no one to attend it. 321 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:34,000 I lash it after fitting a new course to the sail she is wearing. 322 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,000 The whole ship is mine. 323 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,000 I am master and crew. 324 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:45,000 And I have found peace and well-being, 325 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:50,000 as if I've been absolved of any wrongs I had to do. 326 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:57,000 Because what, if not Providence, held the ship that night and sent the others to certain death in the endless sea? 327 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:06,000 What, if not kind Providence, decided that I, I alone would survive? 328 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:10,000 The meek and humble shall inherit the earth. 329 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,000 This narrative I swear to be true. 330 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:17,000 And on this second day of December, the year of our Lord 1872, 331 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:22,000 I hereby sign it and seal it in a bottle to be delivered to the ocean currents, 332 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:31,000 in the hope that someday it will drift back to the hated world from which I am forever parted. 333 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,000 According to scientific theory, 334 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:38,000 a strange phenomenon takes place now and again off the coast of Africa, 335 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,000 near where the Mary Celeste was found. 336 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:45,000 Great rivers of sand are swept out from the coastal deserts. 337 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:49,000 When certain conditions prevail, this sand is constantly being swept out. 338 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,000 The sand is being swept out of the coast of Africa, 339 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,000 and the sand is being swept out of the coast of Africa, 340 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,000 and the sand is being swept out of the coast of Africa, 341 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:01,000 and the sand is being swept out of the coast of Africa. 342 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:05,000 When certain conditions prevail, this sand is concentrated by the ocean currents. 343 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:11,000 Millions of tons are massed until an island is born, lives briefly, 344 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:15,000 and then is swept away by a shift in the currents that created it. 345 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:19,000 One such island formed under a small ship during World War II, 346 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:23,000 held it for a number of hours, then released it, 347 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:27,000 much in the same manner that Sam Newcomb's Providence acted. 348 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:31,480 of the Mary Celeste, but no one knows. 349 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:38,060 According to some reports, Sam Newcomb's signed confession did drift ashore many years later. 350 00:25:38,060 --> 00:25:42,480 If that is true, perhaps another of the many mysteries surrounding the Mary Celeste has 351 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:44,560 been solved. 352 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:49,720 That mystery was a short length of line that reportedly was found secured to the stern 353 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:55,280 of the ship, close up under the transom where someone would hide. 354 00:25:55,280 --> 00:26:01,040 Attached to this line was a man's leather belt that had parted in the middle. 355 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:05,320 Could Sam Newcomb have hidden there when the salvage crew was put aboard to sail the ship 356 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:07,840 to Gibraltar? 357 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:13,400 Could he have hung suspended there against the weakening belt until it parted and let 358 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:29,280 him sink silently into the sea? 359 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:45,720 Suspense, in which John Danner starred in tonight's presentation of the mystery of 360 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:47,800 the Mary Celeste. 361 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:54,140 Next week, the story of a murder plan that was discovered and which led to a double execution. 362 00:26:54,140 --> 00:26:57,440 We call it the eavesdropper. 363 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:14,560 That's next week on Suspense. 364 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:17,360 Suspense is produced and directed by Anthony Ellis. 365 00:27:17,360 --> 00:27:19,320 Tonight's script was written by Gil Dowd. 366 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:24,280 The music was composed by Lucian Morrowek and Rene Gerrigang and conducted by Wilbur 367 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:29,760 Hatch, featured in the cast were Victor Perrin, Joseph Kearns, Paul Fries, Ben Wright, Joe 368 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:33,120 Duvall and Helen Kweeb. 369 00:27:33,120 --> 00:27:35,640 Have you heard any good Geiger counters lately? 370 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:37,320 Better stick to the ones you own. 371 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:41,040 The latest dodge of the lads in the lookout for easy money is to hold up a Geiger counter 372 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:45,080 until any old used bricks make like solid uranium. 373 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:49,960 Tomorrow night our FBI in peace and war tackles a slick confidence man with a rigged Geiger 374 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,780 counter and a fistful of beautifully engraved uranium stock certificates. 375 00:27:53,780 --> 00:27:59,200 Be sure to meet the FBI in peace and war on most of these same CBS radio stations tomorrow 376 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:00,620 night. 377 00:28:00,620 --> 00:28:04,560 Stay tuned for five minutes of CBS news to be followed on most of these same stations 378 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:14,840 by the Jack Carson Show. 379 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:32,320 You hear America's favorite shows on the CBS radio network. 380 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:52,560 Uhh, millions of rednecks!