1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:16,000 And now, tonight's presentation of Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 2 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:24,520 Tonight, we bring you a story of courage on a safari in Africa. 3 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:26,320 We call it Game Hunt. 4 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:33,320 So now, starring Raymond Lawrence, here is tonight's Suspense play, Game Hunt. 5 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:54,200 Move on ahead, will you, Charlie? 6 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:56,280 See how much farther this bush stretches. 7 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:57,280 Yes, Warner. 8 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:00,520 You and I'll keep on, Mr. Babson, but more slowly. 9 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:03,840 It seems to me it's been too slow up to now. 10 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,080 It hasn't been, Mr. Babson. 11 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:16,920 You leave the pace to me. 12 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:20,640 The day had begun much the same as other mornings on the safari. 13 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:25,920 They had left their base camp deep in the Kenya country before a cloudy dawn broke. 14 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:32,360 Babson, an American businessman, R. Cross, a professional hunter, and a semi-educated 15 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:39,080 native tracker whose unpronounceable Maasai name had been simplified to Charlie. 16 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:43,200 During the weeks behind them, there had been no vital call on courage. 17 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:47,400 The game had been fleet of hoof rather than dangerous, and many hides and trophy heads 18 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,920 had been gathered without undue incident. 19 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:55,840 But inevitably, a safari such as theirs enters a period when moments of peril will be met. 20 00:01:55,840 --> 00:02:00,760 It is the hope of the professional hunter that by this time all the killings of harmless 21 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:05,640 animals will have prepared the amateur for the dangerous game, assured him of his own 22 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:11,120 power, tightened his reflexes so that he will operate correctly and calmly. 23 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,800 Oftentimes, it works that way. 24 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:20,760 R. Cross, Babson, and Charlie entered this hazardous phase when they started after Lion. 25 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:22,560 Wait. 26 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:26,160 Here comes Charlie. 27 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:28,160 Well? 28 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:33,760 He's not far from a beating on a zebra in a clearing. 29 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,640 He's an ancient one who carries a great black mane. 30 00:02:36,640 --> 00:02:37,640 Good. 31 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:39,120 We've worked hard for him. 32 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,120 I hope he's worth it. 33 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:42,120 Shell in your chamber? 34 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:44,720 You think I'm that stupid, Mr. R. Cross? 35 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:46,720 I just wanted to be sure. 36 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:48,720 All right, all right. 37 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:50,720 Well, can't we go on? 38 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:52,720 The wind is shifting some, Charlie. 39 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:54,720 It will work with us long enough, I think. 40 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:58,520 You think that because you're a lazy beggar and you want to stay on the game trail instead 41 00:02:58,520 --> 00:02:59,720 of fighting the bush. 42 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:00,720 No, Bonner. 43 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:02,720 The wind will help us long enough. 44 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:03,720 There, Bonner. 45 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:07,720 You've been hyena, a piece of his mind. 46 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:08,720 Why are we waiting? 47 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:09,720 Can't we go on? 48 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:28,200 We'll go on. 49 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:29,200 There you are. 50 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:32,720 There's your trophy, a black mane. 51 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:35,360 He's big. 52 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:38,560 He's a beauty. 53 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:39,560 Can he smell us? 54 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:43,000 With that noseful of zebra blood he's got. 55 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:44,000 The wind, Charlie. 56 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,000 It holds. 57 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:50,000 You won't be able to take him the way he is, low behind the zebra, Babson. 58 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,200 But he's bound to move before long. 59 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,960 Now, let's settle into a good position and relax. 60 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:56,960 Right. 61 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:00,960 Say, he's a monster. 62 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:04,760 Lord, look at him, Gorge. 63 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:11,360 He's got a few hundred lazy days behind him, a wife to kill his food and nothing more than 64 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:17,560 to eat and sleep and grow a fine mane so that he'll look good on somebody's wall. 65 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:18,560 Your wall, Mr. Babson. 66 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:19,800 I've got the place for him. 67 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:24,520 The sun came up today for him just like every other day. 68 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:29,120 But it's the last sun he'll see, thanks to you and Charlie and to me. 69 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:30,120 Bonner. 70 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:34,000 We've brought a lot of the last sunrises, haven't we, Mr. Babson? 71 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:38,440 Elan, Kudu, Congoni, Horix. 72 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:41,000 No more suns for them. 73 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,240 Don't you want me to kill him, Arcross? 74 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:44,240 No. 75 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:46,240 I'm tired of it. 76 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:49,000 Killing's bad unless it's for food or to save your own life. 77 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:50,040 Why, now, look. 78 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:53,280 The wife is coming. 79 00:04:53,280 --> 00:04:54,280 She's pretty. 80 00:04:54,280 --> 00:04:58,440 Yep, well, Babson, he'll move now. 81 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:01,040 Oh, he's a proper one now. 82 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:06,480 He doesn't want a woman meddling, even if it is her kill. 83 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:08,080 Watch it carefully, Mr. Babson. 84 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:09,800 He's starting to move. 85 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:11,400 Make your time. 86 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:13,400 He's only chasing the old lady off. 87 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:16,840 He'll come back for his meat. 88 00:05:16,840 --> 00:05:17,840 But he's moving away. 89 00:05:17,840 --> 00:05:21,280 He'll be back and give you a good shot as he comes. 90 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:22,280 No, Babson. 91 00:05:22,280 --> 00:05:23,280 Not now, not now. 92 00:05:23,280 --> 00:05:24,280 Why did you fire? 93 00:05:24,280 --> 00:05:25,280 I hit him. 94 00:05:25,280 --> 00:05:26,280 I hit him. 95 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:27,280 You didn't stop him. 96 00:05:27,280 --> 00:05:28,280 I hit him well. 97 00:05:28,280 --> 00:05:29,280 I know I did. 98 00:05:29,280 --> 00:05:31,800 I might have done better if you hadn't been yelling at me. 99 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:33,800 Oh, you'd have done better if you'd listened to me. 100 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:34,800 You got shot him. 101 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:36,800 He can live for days or weeks. 102 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:38,520 He goes into the elephant grass over there. 103 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:41,240 Sure, it's the nearest place you can think of. 104 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:43,320 Mr. Babson, there's your trophy. 105 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:45,120 He's wounded and he's old up. 106 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:48,160 And he's the most dangerous animal in the world right now. 107 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:49,360 You want to go in after him? 108 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:51,400 No, no, I don't know enough about him. 109 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:54,280 You knew enough to fire when I told you not to. 110 00:05:54,280 --> 00:05:56,160 Well, we've hunted over a week for a good head. 111 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,000 That's all I was thinking of when I saw him running away. 112 00:05:58,000 --> 00:05:59,000 I wanted him. 113 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,680 Well, right now he wants you, Mr. Babson. 114 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:02,680 Stay here. 115 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:04,800 Charlie and I'll go in and try and get him. 116 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:05,800 Why don't you leave him? 117 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:06,800 He'll die. 118 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:07,800 I know I hit him well. 119 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:08,800 Not well enough. 120 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:11,320 It's against the game laws to leave a wounded animal. 121 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:14,400 And he'll charge any money he sees until he dies. 122 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:16,880 Charlie, run back to the truck. 123 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:28,880 Bring my flask, the big one, and the heavy rifle. 124 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:34,840 Courage is defined as that quality of mind which enables one to meet danger and difficulties 125 00:06:34,840 --> 00:06:35,840 with firmness. 126 00:06:35,840 --> 00:06:41,280 Well, the call for it had suddenly come and there was a lack of it. 127 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:46,280 None was really expected of Babson because his money had bought, along with other services 128 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:51,000 and knowledge, that commodity which was Arcross's courage. 129 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:57,160 But Arcross, for the first time in his career, didn't have the required amount for sale. 130 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:00,720 In an intangible way, he was cheating his customer. 131 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:04,520 The natives sensed this lack as he and the white man crossed the clearing. 132 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:09,280 After long and intimate association, he thought he knew the hunter. 133 00:07:09,280 --> 00:07:14,520 But what he saw now made him, in his turn, uneasy. 134 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:19,040 They passed the torn remains of the zebra and continued on toward the inevitable charge 135 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:21,560 of the dying lion. 136 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:26,680 I've finally got so that I hate them, Charlie. 137 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:31,600 I've disliked them for a long time, but for almost a year I've hated them. 138 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:32,600 Which Bonner? 139 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:36,840 The trophy hunters, those and the lords and the movie stars. 140 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:40,760 The complainers about the sun and the rain and the flies. 141 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:44,440 Now the game isn't really as numerous as they've been led to believe by the movies taken from 142 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:45,440 airplanes. 143 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:50,720 Nobody's told them that an airplane flight and a truck safari aren't the same things. 144 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:52,840 Isn't that right, Charlie? 145 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:56,520 For me, Bonner, I hate the tall elephant grass. 146 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:58,280 The elephant grass belongs here. 147 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:02,920 It grows so that gutshot lions will have a place to hide. 148 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:07,240 This lion knew all along that one day our gut shooter would stop making ladies dresses 149 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:11,320 in Chicago and come and visit America. 150 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:13,120 Bonner. 151 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:17,160 It is the wife. 152 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:20,040 Does she tell him we come? 153 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:24,520 If she has a great lion's love for him, yes. 154 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:31,080 If she's shallow, she's scared of the jackal and the hyena so that she can eat. 155 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:32,760 You know as much about lions as anyone. 156 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:34,440 Why'd you ask me? 157 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,520 I thought you had a very deep understanding of these two. 158 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:41,440 I've been sarcastic about the gut shooter. 159 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:43,800 Have you found sign? 160 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:44,800 That way. 161 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:48,440 It went into the grass beyond the highest ant hill. 162 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:49,920 All right. 163 00:08:49,920 --> 00:09:08,680 Maybe from the top of it we can see what we're getting into. 164 00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:11,840 That's the nastiest stand of cover I've seen. 165 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:13,200 Grass is over eight feet high. 166 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:14,200 Yes, Bonner. 167 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:16,720 Can't see 15 paces into it. 168 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:22,080 It could take our friend only the time of our breath to cover that distance. 169 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:27,080 Let's look for a sign. 170 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:30,360 Bonner. 171 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:33,760 Blood. 172 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:39,840 Dark and thick from deep inside. 173 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:42,240 No artery cut though. 174 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:46,160 He's a slow bleeder, a ruddy slow bleeder. 175 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:56,240 Give me the flask, Charlie. 176 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:58,800 We could wait, Bonner. 177 00:09:58,800 --> 00:09:59,800 Our friend will stiffen. 178 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:03,840 Our friend will rest and lick his wounds and maybe stop the bleeding. 179 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:06,440 And we'd have no blood stores for to follow him. 180 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:09,440 We'll keep on going. 181 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:13,880 He went in here. 182 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:14,880 No gain trail. 183 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:18,720 If it leads to water, we could find him there. 184 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:21,720 Unless he goes to the water and comes back to wait for us. 185 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:29,360 There's more blood up ahead. 186 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:31,280 Wind isn't for us now, Charlie. 187 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:33,120 It's coming in from every quarter. 188 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:34,560 You get our scent from any direction. 189 00:10:34,560 --> 00:10:37,000 There's a smell of rain now too. 190 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,520 I don't catch it. 191 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:40,840 You sure? 192 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:43,480 It comes another hour, I think. 193 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:47,400 If you smell up a rain, the blood spore will be washed away. 194 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:52,240 You smell too much. 195 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:55,160 You smell the fear that's in me, haven't you? 196 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:57,560 For the first time? 197 00:10:57,560 --> 00:11:00,240 What is there about this lion and his wife? 198 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:01,240 Nothing. 199 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:05,000 Except a new feeling that I have. 200 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,640 This is the last time out with a trophy hunter. 201 00:11:07,640 --> 00:11:10,520 There are better things to do than this. 202 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:13,400 Why do I do it? 203 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:16,120 The trophy hunters pay you much money. 204 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:19,160 You're an insolent beggar. 205 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:21,880 Find some more for our signs. 206 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:26,680 It is there, ahead where he lied down. 207 00:11:26,680 --> 00:11:32,600 There you see. 208 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,360 His head was here and looking this way. 209 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:36,360 Sure. 210 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:40,120 Down the back trail, waiting for us. 211 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:41,480 He was running when he got up. 212 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:43,960 You look here, the claw signs. 213 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:48,080 He's close enough that he caught our scent and got up and ran. 214 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:49,080 He's not stiffened. 215 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:51,640 And he's waiting again, up ahead. 216 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:53,960 There's nothing else to do. 217 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:57,720 To wait for us and to fight, or to wait for the slower death. 218 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:01,520 You have a wife and children, Charlie. 219 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:03,520 How are they? 220 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:05,360 Eat well, Warner. 221 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:07,640 The doctor has done much to stop the sickness. 222 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:11,080 When did you see them last? 223 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:13,760 Before this hunt. 224 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:16,480 You must want to get back to them as quickly as possible. 225 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:18,480 Yes, Warner. 226 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:23,880 I see more sign up ahead. 227 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:30,000 A wife again. 228 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:31,000 She's closer. 229 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:32,000 What direction? 230 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:33,000 Where is she? 231 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:36,080 The wind is against us now. 232 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:37,560 You don't know where she is? 233 00:12:37,560 --> 00:12:38,560 No, Warner. 234 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:39,560 Give me the flask. 235 00:12:39,560 --> 00:12:47,600 This does nothing to build bravery. 236 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:50,560 I have never seen you when you needed to ask for it. 237 00:12:50,560 --> 00:12:51,560 I haven't either. 238 00:12:51,560 --> 00:12:54,560 I've never been afraid until this time. 239 00:12:54,560 --> 00:12:58,560 You've been to Nairobi, Charlie? 240 00:12:58,560 --> 00:12:59,560 Yes, Warner. 241 00:12:59,560 --> 00:13:01,560 Do you like it? 242 00:13:01,560 --> 00:13:02,560 No. 243 00:13:02,560 --> 00:13:05,000 There was too much noise. 244 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,360 I hate the city too. 245 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,040 But I found myself there. 246 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:14,280 More of a reason to live, I mean a woman. 247 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:17,160 Said she'd be my wife. 248 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:18,960 Something I've never had before. 249 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:21,200 A wife is good? 250 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:24,560 Not with this kind of business in the elephant grass. 251 00:13:24,560 --> 00:13:30,480 When you think of a wife, you don't do well with the problem of a gutshot lion. 252 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:34,640 It is the ancient one. 253 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:37,080 Where is he waiting for us, Charlie? 254 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:39,240 He has many places to be. 255 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:41,600 Stupid, misnomerical logic. 256 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:42,600 Give me the big rifle. 257 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:43,600 I'll carry it now. 258 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:44,600 Yes, Warner. 259 00:13:44,600 --> 00:14:09,480 Keep it dry, because the rain is coming. 260 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:11,800 You are listening to Game Hunt. 261 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:26,320 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 262 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:29,800 Now a message from CBS Radio. 263 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:34,120 United States savings bonds when held in maturity pay 3% interest. 264 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:38,340 That's guaranteed interest, not subject to any gamble whatsoever. 265 00:14:38,340 --> 00:14:42,280 When planning your savings program, you should have a steady flow of United States savings 266 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:47,280 bonds as part of your plan to make sure that some of your earnings will reap guaranteed 267 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:48,960 dividends. 268 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:53,460 Ask at your bank about the bond a month plan by which deductions are made automatically 269 00:14:53,460 --> 00:14:55,920 in whatever amount you can afford. 270 00:14:55,920 --> 00:15:00,360 Buy United States savings bonds. 271 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:05,320 And now we bring back to our Hollywood sound stage, Raymond Lawrence, starring in tonight's 272 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:24,880 production, Game Hunt, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 273 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:29,400 The rain started to fall approximately 45 minutes after our cross and the native entered 274 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:31,800 the stand of grass. 275 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:35,800 The Babson took refuge under a tree from where he could watch the jackal and the hyena worrying 276 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:40,680 the remains of the zebra and the increasing numbers of vultures patiently awaiting their 277 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:41,680 turn. 278 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:47,600 He fully admitted to himself now that he'd been wrong, shooting the lion the way he did. 279 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:51,920 He was filled with self-incrimination at having sent two men to search out a danger that he 280 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:53,360 had caused. 281 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:58,280 He imagined their bodies being torn by the jackal and the hyena with the vultures waiting 282 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:08,520 their turn. 283 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:14,800 The center of the stand of grass was now a place of dull gray light and darker shadows 284 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:17,080 and a place of sound. 285 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:21,880 The beat of the rain and the gusty wind made any attempt at silence unnecessary. 286 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:27,280 In a way this was good because talk was a tension release that our cross very much needed. 287 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:32,760 Do you still find sign in this muck Charlie? 288 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:33,760 Too much Bonner. 289 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:38,520 He stayed on the old trail and his wife has been to him. 290 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:40,040 Has been to him? 291 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:45,760 See here he's limping on the right leg in the back. 292 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:48,640 Look at the size of that fork. 293 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:50,160 He's bigger than I thought. 294 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:53,400 Here are hers going the other way again. 295 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:55,760 That puts her behind us now. 296 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:59,520 She's hunting us Charlie. 297 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:01,160 We'll move on ahead. 298 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:03,240 I'll watch the back trail. 299 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:11,560 Charge may come from there first. 300 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:12,560 Disclose Bonner. 301 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:14,920 Blood spores here again. 302 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:19,880 Here very close or the rain would have washed it away you see. 303 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:22,880 Very close Charlie. 304 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:27,240 Would be nice if we could see farther into this grass. 305 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:33,160 We'll rest here for a while. 306 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:35,640 You know why I wanted to stop don't you? 307 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:38,520 I've never seen this in you before. 308 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:40,960 My roby fear. 309 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:46,360 And I'm not ashamed to show it to you because you're my friend and you've seen me in better 310 00:17:46,360 --> 00:17:48,520 times. 311 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:51,520 Flask please Charlie. 312 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:58,800 I'm going to quit this business. 313 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:00,600 You'll stop all hunting? 314 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:01,760 Except for table meat. 315 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:02,760 Get a city job. 316 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:07,240 A nice safe dull job in the city where you can go home every night after work. 317 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:14,360 I've been a good... 318 00:18:14,360 --> 00:18:15,680 She's still behind us. 319 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:18,520 I've been a good hunter. 320 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:23,120 It's been said that I think like an animal when I'm on the stalk that I know what the 321 00:18:23,120 --> 00:18:25,880 game is going to do before it's done. 322 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:27,640 I have seen this with you. 323 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:28,640 Not anymore. 324 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:30,840 Not after Nairobi. 325 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:32,940 It left me. 326 00:18:32,940 --> 00:18:36,040 After the woman I thought only is a man. 327 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:37,560 I've been very bad with Mr. Babson. 328 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:39,960 I'm in very bad right now. 329 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:42,680 Female crossed the trail. 330 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:43,680 Did you see her? 331 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:44,680 Yes Bonner. 332 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:46,240 I'm going to put her out of the way. 333 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:49,760 She can't have her trading along behind. 334 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:55,920 Where is she Charlie? 335 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:58,160 It was close to here that she crossed. 336 00:18:58,160 --> 00:18:59,520 Oh father ahead Bonner. 337 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:00,520 You see it? 338 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:01,840 This small grass broken. 339 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:03,880 I see it now. 340 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:06,880 Come on. 341 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:09,880 Babson! 342 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:16,640 If he'd fired it I hope he did better than the last time. 343 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:19,000 Farcross is that you? 344 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:20,000 Yes. 345 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:21,000 You all right? 346 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:22,000 I'm fine. 347 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:23,000 I got the female. 348 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:26,160 Bend some of the grass against the wind so that we can locate you. 349 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:32,240 I see it. 350 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:33,560 Here she is. 351 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:34,560 She never did see me. 352 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:38,120 She was lying with her back to me in the old game trail looking in your direction I guess. 353 00:19:38,120 --> 00:19:39,520 Yeah waiting for us. 354 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:40,680 She was stalking each other. 355 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:44,800 When she got up to move to the side I had my sights on her shoulder as simple as that. 356 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:47,520 Isn't she a beauty. 357 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:50,040 Yes lovely. 358 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:52,640 It'll go well next to the males. 359 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:53,640 Where is he? 360 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:57,840 We've been only a few paces away from him but we haven't seen him yet. 361 00:19:57,840 --> 00:19:59,960 Mr Babson I told you to stay out in the clearing. 362 00:19:59,960 --> 00:20:01,440 Why'd you come in here? 363 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:05,280 Because I felt like a coward letting you two finish a job that I'd bunk. 364 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:06,960 I want you to go back. 365 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:08,760 You've done enough for us killing the female. 366 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:10,800 I'm going to stay with you. 367 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:12,880 It was my excitement and bad shooting that caused it all. 368 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:14,440 It's my responsibility more than yours. 369 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:16,160 I'm staying with you. 370 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:20,320 I'd call myself a coward every time I looked at my trophies if I didn't. 371 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:21,320 All right. 372 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:22,320 It's your privilege. 373 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:25,120 If any time you feel like turning back do it. 374 00:20:25,120 --> 00:20:26,120 I won't turn back. 375 00:20:26,120 --> 00:20:27,120 I'll be all right. 376 00:20:27,120 --> 00:20:42,960 Bonner here is where we were close to him. 377 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,400 The blood is gone but his marks still show. 378 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:46,760 They stay on the trail. 379 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:47,760 Not for long I think. 380 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:51,040 Well let's find out how long. 381 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:57,360 Here we are. 382 00:20:57,360 --> 00:20:58,360 He's off to the left. 383 00:20:58,360 --> 00:21:00,560 His back leg is very bad now. 384 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:02,400 I see here Babson. 385 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:04,200 The signs of his dragging it. 386 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:06,280 Wouldn't mean anything to me without being told. 387 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:08,800 I feel good now Charlie. 388 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:09,800 No Nairobi. 389 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:10,800 What does that mean? 390 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:11,800 No Nairobi. 391 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:14,160 It's a vague term we sometimes use in our trade. 392 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:15,160 Sort of uneasiness. 393 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:19,480 Now this will go well if we all do our jobs carefully and calmly. 394 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:21,520 Do you still want to stay with us Babson? 395 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:22,520 You don't have to you know. 396 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:25,160 I shouldn't want to I suppose but I do. 397 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:26,160 I feel good. 398 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:27,160 I'm calm. 399 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:31,960 I said a lot of bad things about you Mr. Babson and I thought a lot worse. 400 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:32,960 I'm sorry. 401 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:33,960 Oh. 402 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,480 Now this is really quite simple. 403 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:39,880 We'll move in the line a few paces apart. 404 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:42,600 You on my left Charlie on my right. 405 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:47,280 When he decides to come he'll charge anything that moves so freeze when he starts. 406 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:50,720 Charlie and I'll draw his attention and swing his charge towards us. 407 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:53,480 Well this isn't a favor you Babson it's to give you a better target. 408 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:55,320 I'll have him broadside you mean. 409 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:56,320 Right. 410 00:21:56,320 --> 00:22:00,120 And don't move your position and keep firing until your rifle is empty. 411 00:22:00,120 --> 00:22:02,520 Reload and start firing again. 412 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:05,480 We'll be doing the same but he can carry a lot of steel. 413 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:06,480 Right. 414 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,640 A few paces this way for me. 415 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:10,640 That's good. 416 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:12,760 All right Charlie. 417 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:13,760 Take us to him. 418 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:14,760 Yes brother. 419 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:17,680 Charlie. 420 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:22,160 Ahead. 421 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:26,320 See the tops of the grass moving against the wind. 422 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:27,320 I see it. 423 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:29,720 It could mean he's down and he can't get up. 424 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:38,120 At any rate we know where he is. 425 00:22:38,120 --> 00:22:39,120 All right Babson. 426 00:22:39,120 --> 00:22:40,120 I'd like to see him. 427 00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:41,120 You will. 428 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:45,040 Carefully now. 429 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:50,240 He'll be less than 20 paces away when we first see him. 430 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:54,240 Do you see him? 431 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,720 Do you see him? 432 00:22:57,720 --> 00:22:58,720 Not yet. 433 00:22:58,720 --> 00:22:59,720 Don't fire. 434 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:00,720 We want him closer. 435 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:01,720 Lord. 436 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:02,720 Good Lord. 437 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:03,720 Hold. 438 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:04,720 Hold Babson. 439 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:07,720 You swing him this way. 440 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:08,720 I can't stay. 441 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:09,720 Freeze Babson. 442 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:10,720 Don't run. 443 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:11,720 Catch him. 444 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:12,720 I can't hold. 445 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:13,720 I can't. 446 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:14,720 Open up Charlie. 447 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:15,720 I'll find the gun. 448 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:23,640 Stop him right now. 449 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:28,400 Juana. 450 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,560 Wana? 451 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:33,160 Does he die? 452 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,160 Careful, Charlie. 453 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,160 He's dead, Wana. 454 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:40,160 He doesn't look it, Charlie. 455 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:43,160 You'd think he's ready to charge again, wouldn't you? 456 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,160 He's dead. 457 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,160 No, he isn't. 458 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,160 Not for Mr. Babson, he isn't. 459 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:51,160 Wana. 460 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:53,160 He's dead. 461 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,160 He's dead. 462 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,160 He's dead. 463 00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,160 He isn't. 464 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,160 Wana. 465 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:03,160 Get the trophy hunter and bring him here. 466 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:05,160 Load his gun with expanding ammunition. 467 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,160 Bullets to finish the thing. 468 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,160 To smash it. 469 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:11,160 Yes, Wana. I understand. 470 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:23,160 Mark Cross, I... 471 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,160 I'm ashamed that I ran, but I... 472 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:27,160 I just couldn't help it. 473 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,160 There was nothing I could do. 474 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:31,160 Of course there wasn't. 475 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:33,160 Your first time and all? 476 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,160 Where is he? 477 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,160 From here. I'll show you. 478 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:45,160 Over there. 479 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,160 You can just see his head. 480 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,160 Oh, yes, I see him. 481 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,160 He'll be ready to charge again if we let him rest. 482 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,160 I thought you'd like the final shots. 483 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,160 I would. 484 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,160 Put your sights right under his ear. 485 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,160 And a bit to the front. 486 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:01,160 Check the safety. 487 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,160 Yes. 488 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,160 Go ahead. 489 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,160 I hit him. 490 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,160 Again. Don't take any chances. 491 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:13,160 One more. 492 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:19,160 That'll do it, I think. 493 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:23,160 Let's take a look at him. 494 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:33,160 Congratulations, Mr. Babson. 495 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,160 You've killed your lot. 496 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,160 But his head... 497 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,160 He's worthless as a trophy. 498 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:41,160 Yeah. Which ruined. 499 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,160 Isn't it a shame. 500 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,160 I'm afraid he'd have to be this way. 501 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,160 It's one of those things. 502 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:59,160 It was a gesture of contempt toward many trophy hunters. 503 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:03,160 The destruction of an already dead trophy. 504 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:07,160 Childish perhaps for a man of our cross's age and experience. 505 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:11,160 But it was important to him as the final act of his last hunt. 506 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:15,160 Something that would be told and retold when old hunters gathered in Nairobi. 507 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:19,160 A retribution that would be understood by the others. 508 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:23,160 A thing that should happen to all uncontrollable gut shooters. 509 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:29,160 The fear that was so important a part of the situation would never be mentioned. 510 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:37,160 Except perhaps sometime very late at night to his wife. 511 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:41,160 When there would be true understanding of it. 512 00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,160 Suspense. 513 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:05,160 In which Raymond Lawrence starred in tonight's presentation of Game Hunt. 514 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:11,160 Be sure to listen again next week when we bring you another presentation of Radio's outstanding theatre of thrills. 515 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,160 Suspense. 516 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:31,160 Suspense is produced and directed in Hollywood by Anthony Ellis. 517 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,160 Tonight's story was written by Gil Dow. 518 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:37,160 The music was composed by Lucian Morrowak and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 519 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:41,160 Featured in the cast were Stacey Harris, Joseph Kearns and Jack Crouchon. 520 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:51,160 You bring the girl on the dance floor and we'll supply the music for a rock and roll dance party any Saturday night over most of these same stations. 521 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,160 Starring Count Basie and Alan Freed. 522 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:58,160 CBS Radio's rock and roll dance party features top named guest stars. 523 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:03,160 Plus the vocals of Joe Williams with Count Basie's band every Saturday night. 524 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:09,160 And on the guest list for this Saturday you'll find the Cordettes and Tony Bennett. 525 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:17,160 Add rock and roll dance party to your weekend listening and your heart can go dancing even if you never tap a toe. 526 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:42,160 Stay tuned now for five minutes of CBS News to be followed on most of these same CBS radio stations by the Jack Carson Show. 527 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:47,160 America listens most to the CBS Radio Network. 528 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:40,160 Music