WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:16.000 And now, tonight's presentation of Radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 00:16.000 --> 00:24.520 Tonight, we bring you a story of courage on a safari in Africa. 00:24.520 --> 00:26.320 We call it Game Hunt. 00:26.320 --> 00:33.320 So now, starring Raymond Lawrence, here is tonight's Suspense play, Game Hunt. 00:33.320 --> 00:54.200 Move on ahead, will you, Charlie? 00:54.200 --> 00:56.280 See how much farther this bush stretches. 00:56.280 --> 00:57.280 Yes, Warner. 00:57.280 --> 01:00.520 You and I'll keep on, Mr. Babson, but more slowly. 01:00.520 --> 01:03.840 It seems to me it's been too slow up to now. 01:03.840 --> 01:06.080 It hasn't been, Mr. Babson. 01:06.080 --> 01:16.920 You leave the pace to me. 01:16.920 --> 01:20.640 The day had begun much the same as other mornings on the safari. 01:20.640 --> 01:25.920 They had left their base camp deep in the Kenya country before a cloudy dawn broke. 01:25.920 --> 01:32.360 Babson, an American businessman, R. Cross, a professional hunter, and a semi-educated 01:32.360 --> 01:39.080 native tracker whose unpronounceable Maasai name had been simplified to Charlie. 01:39.080 --> 01:43.200 During the weeks behind them, there had been no vital call on courage. 01:43.200 --> 01:47.400 The game had been fleet of hoof rather than dangerous, and many hides and trophy heads 01:47.400 --> 01:50.920 had been gathered without undue incident. 01:50.920 --> 01:55.840 But inevitably, a safari such as theirs enters a period when moments of peril will be met. 01:55.840 --> 02:00.760 It is the hope of the professional hunter that by this time all the killings of harmless 02:00.760 --> 02:05.640 animals will have prepared the amateur for the dangerous game, assured him of his own 02:05.640 --> 02:11.120 power, tightened his reflexes so that he will operate correctly and calmly. 02:11.120 --> 02:13.800 Oftentimes, it works that way. 02:13.800 --> 02:20.760 R. Cross, Babson, and Charlie entered this hazardous phase when they started after Lion. 02:20.760 --> 02:22.560 Wait. 02:22.560 --> 02:26.160 Here comes Charlie. 02:26.160 --> 02:28.160 Well? 02:28.160 --> 02:33.760 He's not far from a beating on a zebra in a clearing. 02:33.760 --> 02:36.640 He's an ancient one who carries a great black mane. 02:36.640 --> 02:37.640 Good. 02:37.640 --> 02:39.120 We've worked hard for him. 02:39.120 --> 02:41.120 I hope he's worth it. 02:41.120 --> 02:42.120 Shell in your chamber? 02:42.120 --> 02:44.720 You think I'm that stupid, Mr. R. Cross? 02:44.720 --> 02:46.720 I just wanted to be sure. 02:46.720 --> 02:48.720 All right, all right. 02:48.720 --> 02:50.720 Well, can't we go on? 02:50.720 --> 02:52.720 The wind is shifting some, Charlie. 02:52.720 --> 02:54.720 It will work with us long enough, I think. 02:54.720 --> 02:58.520 You think that because you're a lazy beggar and you want to stay on the game trail instead 02:58.520 --> 02:59.720 of fighting the bush. 02:59.720 --> 03:00.720 No, Bonner. 03:00.720 --> 03:02.720 The wind will help us long enough. 03:02.720 --> 03:03.720 There, Bonner. 03:03.720 --> 03:07.720 You've been hyena, a piece of his mind. 03:07.720 --> 03:08.720 Why are we waiting? 03:08.720 --> 03:09.720 Can't we go on? 03:09.720 --> 03:28.200 We'll go on. 03:28.200 --> 03:29.200 There you are. 03:29.200 --> 03:32.720 There's your trophy, a black mane. 03:32.720 --> 03:35.360 He's big. 03:35.360 --> 03:38.560 He's a beauty. 03:38.560 --> 03:39.560 Can he smell us? 03:39.560 --> 03:43.000 With that noseful of zebra blood he's got. 03:43.000 --> 03:44.000 The wind, Charlie. 03:44.000 --> 03:45.000 It holds. 03:45.000 --> 03:50.000 You won't be able to take him the way he is, low behind the zebra, Babson. 03:50.000 --> 03:52.200 But he's bound to move before long. 03:52.200 --> 03:55.960 Now, let's settle into a good position and relax. 03:55.960 --> 03:56.960 Right. 03:56.960 --> 04:00.960 Say, he's a monster. 04:00.960 --> 04:04.760 Lord, look at him, Gorge. 04:04.760 --> 04:11.360 He's got a few hundred lazy days behind him, a wife to kill his food and nothing more than 04:11.360 --> 04:17.560 to eat and sleep and grow a fine mane so that he'll look good on somebody's wall. 04:17.560 --> 04:18.560 Your wall, Mr. Babson. 04:18.560 --> 04:19.800 I've got the place for him. 04:19.800 --> 04:24.520 The sun came up today for him just like every other day. 04:24.520 --> 04:29.120 But it's the last sun he'll see, thanks to you and Charlie and to me. 04:29.120 --> 04:30.120 Bonner. 04:30.120 --> 04:34.000 We've brought a lot of the last sunrises, haven't we, Mr. Babson? 04:34.000 --> 04:38.440 Elan, Kudu, Congoni, Horix. 04:38.440 --> 04:41.000 No more suns for them. 04:41.000 --> 04:43.240 Don't you want me to kill him, Arcross? 04:43.240 --> 04:44.240 No. 04:44.240 --> 04:46.240 I'm tired of it. 04:46.240 --> 04:49.000 Killing's bad unless it's for food or to save your own life. 04:49.000 --> 04:50.040 Why, now, look. 04:50.040 --> 04:53.280 The wife is coming. 04:53.280 --> 04:54.280 She's pretty. 04:54.280 --> 04:58.440 Yep, well, Babson, he'll move now. 04:58.440 --> 05:01.040 Oh, he's a proper one now. 05:01.040 --> 05:06.480 He doesn't want a woman meddling, even if it is her kill. 05:06.480 --> 05:08.080 Watch it carefully, Mr. Babson. 05:08.080 --> 05:09.800 He's starting to move. 05:09.800 --> 05:11.400 Make your time. 05:11.400 --> 05:13.400 He's only chasing the old lady off. 05:13.400 --> 05:16.840 He'll come back for his meat. 05:16.840 --> 05:17.840 But he's moving away. 05:17.840 --> 05:21.280 He'll be back and give you a good shot as he comes. 05:21.280 --> 05:22.280 No, Babson. 05:22.280 --> 05:23.280 Not now, not now. 05:23.280 --> 05:24.280 Why did you fire? 05:24.280 --> 05:25.280 I hit him. 05:25.280 --> 05:26.280 I hit him. 05:26.280 --> 05:27.280 You didn't stop him. 05:27.280 --> 05:28.280 I hit him well. 05:28.280 --> 05:29.280 I know I did. 05:29.280 --> 05:31.800 I might have done better if you hadn't been yelling at me. 05:31.800 --> 05:33.800 Oh, you'd have done better if you'd listened to me. 05:33.800 --> 05:34.800 You got shot him. 05:34.800 --> 05:36.800 He can live for days or weeks. 05:36.800 --> 05:38.520 He goes into the elephant grass over there. 05:38.520 --> 05:41.240 Sure, it's the nearest place you can think of. 05:41.240 --> 05:43.320 Mr. Babson, there's your trophy. 05:43.320 --> 05:45.120 He's wounded and he's old up. 05:45.120 --> 05:48.160 And he's the most dangerous animal in the world right now. 05:48.160 --> 05:49.360 You want to go in after him? 05:49.360 --> 05:51.400 No, no, I don't know enough about him. 05:51.400 --> 05:54.280 You knew enough to fire when I told you not to. 05:54.280 --> 05:56.160 Well, we've hunted over a week for a good head. 05:56.160 --> 05:58.000 That's all I was thinking of when I saw him running away. 05:58.000 --> 05:59.000 I wanted him. 05:59.000 --> 06:01.680 Well, right now he wants you, Mr. Babson. 06:01.680 --> 06:02.680 Stay here. 06:02.680 --> 06:04.800 Charlie and I'll go in and try and get him. 06:04.800 --> 06:05.800 Why don't you leave him? 06:05.800 --> 06:06.800 He'll die. 06:06.800 --> 06:07.800 I know I hit him well. 06:07.800 --> 06:08.800 Not well enough. 06:08.800 --> 06:11.320 It's against the game laws to leave a wounded animal. 06:11.320 --> 06:14.400 And he'll charge any money he sees until he dies. 06:14.400 --> 06:16.880 Charlie, run back to the truck. 06:16.880 --> 06:28.880 Bring my flask, the big one, and the heavy rifle. 06:28.880 --> 06:34.840 Courage is defined as that quality of mind which enables one to meet danger and difficulties 06:34.840 --> 06:35.840 with firmness. 06:35.840 --> 06:41.280 Well, the call for it had suddenly come and there was a lack of it. 06:41.280 --> 06:46.280 None was really expected of Babson because his money had bought, along with other services 06:46.280 --> 06:51.000 and knowledge, that commodity which was Arcross's courage. 06:51.000 --> 06:57.160 But Arcross, for the first time in his career, didn't have the required amount for sale. 06:57.160 --> 07:00.720 In an intangible way, he was cheating his customer. 07:00.720 --> 07:04.520 The natives sensed this lack as he and the white man crossed the clearing. 07:04.520 --> 07:09.280 After long and intimate association, he thought he knew the hunter. 07:09.280 --> 07:14.520 But what he saw now made him, in his turn, uneasy. 07:14.520 --> 07:19.040 They passed the torn remains of the zebra and continued on toward the inevitable charge 07:19.040 --> 07:21.560 of the dying lion. 07:21.560 --> 07:26.680 I've finally got so that I hate them, Charlie. 07:26.680 --> 07:31.600 I've disliked them for a long time, but for almost a year I've hated them. 07:31.600 --> 07:32.600 Which Bonner? 07:32.600 --> 07:36.840 The trophy hunters, those and the lords and the movie stars. 07:36.840 --> 07:40.760 The complainers about the sun and the rain and the flies. 07:40.760 --> 07:44.440 Now the game isn't really as numerous as they've been led to believe by the movies taken from 07:44.440 --> 07:45.440 airplanes. 07:45.440 --> 07:50.720 Nobody's told them that an airplane flight and a truck safari aren't the same things. 07:50.720 --> 07:52.840 Isn't that right, Charlie? 07:52.840 --> 07:56.520 For me, Bonner, I hate the tall elephant grass. 07:56.520 --> 07:58.280 The elephant grass belongs here. 07:58.280 --> 08:02.920 It grows so that gutshot lions will have a place to hide. 08:02.920 --> 08:07.240 This lion knew all along that one day our gut shooter would stop making ladies dresses 08:07.240 --> 08:11.320 in Chicago and come and visit America. 08:11.320 --> 08:13.120 Bonner. 08:13.120 --> 08:17.160 It is the wife. 08:17.160 --> 08:20.040 Does she tell him we come? 08:20.040 --> 08:24.520 If she has a great lion's love for him, yes. 08:24.520 --> 08:31.080 If she's shallow, she's scared of the jackal and the hyena so that she can eat. 08:31.080 --> 08:32.760 You know as much about lions as anyone. 08:32.760 --> 08:34.440 Why'd you ask me? 08:34.440 --> 08:37.520 I thought you had a very deep understanding of these two. 08:37.520 --> 08:41.440 I've been sarcastic about the gut shooter. 08:41.440 --> 08:43.800 Have you found sign? 08:43.800 --> 08:44.800 That way. 08:44.800 --> 08:48.440 It went into the grass beyond the highest ant hill. 08:48.440 --> 08:49.920 All right. 08:49.920 --> 09:08.680 Maybe from the top of it we can see what we're getting into. 09:08.680 --> 09:11.840 That's the nastiest stand of cover I've seen. 09:11.840 --> 09:13.200 Grass is over eight feet high. 09:13.200 --> 09:14.200 Yes, Bonner. 09:14.200 --> 09:16.720 Can't see 15 paces into it. 09:16.720 --> 09:22.080 It could take our friend only the time of our breath to cover that distance. 09:22.080 --> 09:27.080 Let's look for a sign. 09:27.080 --> 09:30.360 Bonner. 09:30.360 --> 09:33.760 Blood. 09:33.760 --> 09:39.840 Dark and thick from deep inside. 09:39.840 --> 09:42.240 No artery cut though. 09:42.240 --> 09:46.160 He's a slow bleeder, a ruddy slow bleeder. 09:46.160 --> 09:56.240 Give me the flask, Charlie. 09:56.240 --> 09:58.800 We could wait, Bonner. 09:58.800 --> 09:59.800 Our friend will stiffen. 09:59.800 --> 10:03.840 Our friend will rest and lick his wounds and maybe stop the bleeding. 10:03.840 --> 10:06.440 And we'd have no blood stores for to follow him. 10:06.440 --> 10:09.440 We'll keep on going. 10:09.440 --> 10:13.880 He went in here. 10:13.880 --> 10:14.880 No gain trail. 10:14.880 --> 10:18.720 If it leads to water, we could find him there. 10:18.720 --> 10:21.720 Unless he goes to the water and comes back to wait for us. 10:21.720 --> 10:29.360 There's more blood up ahead. 10:29.360 --> 10:31.280 Wind isn't for us now, Charlie. 10:31.280 --> 10:33.120 It's coming in from every quarter. 10:33.120 --> 10:34.560 You get our scent from any direction. 10:34.560 --> 10:37.000 There's a smell of rain now too. 10:37.000 --> 10:39.520 I don't catch it. 10:39.520 --> 10:40.840 You sure? 10:40.840 --> 10:43.480 It comes another hour, I think. 10:43.480 --> 10:47.400 If you smell up a rain, the blood spore will be washed away. 10:47.400 --> 10:52.240 You smell too much. 10:52.240 --> 10:55.160 You smell the fear that's in me, haven't you? 10:55.160 --> 10:57.560 For the first time? 10:57.560 --> 11:00.240 What is there about this lion and his wife? 11:00.240 --> 11:01.240 Nothing. 11:01.240 --> 11:05.000 Except a new feeling that I have. 11:05.000 --> 11:07.640 This is the last time out with a trophy hunter. 11:07.640 --> 11:10.520 There are better things to do than this. 11:10.520 --> 11:13.400 Why do I do it? 11:13.400 --> 11:16.120 The trophy hunters pay you much money. 11:16.120 --> 11:19.160 You're an insolent beggar. 11:19.160 --> 11:21.880 Find some more for our signs. 11:21.880 --> 11:26.680 It is there, ahead where he lied down. 11:26.680 --> 11:32.600 There you see. 11:32.600 --> 11:35.360 His head was here and looking this way. 11:35.360 --> 11:36.360 Sure. 11:36.360 --> 11:40.120 Down the back trail, waiting for us. 11:40.120 --> 11:41.480 He was running when he got up. 11:41.480 --> 11:43.960 You look here, the claw signs. 11:43.960 --> 11:48.080 He's close enough that he caught our scent and got up and ran. 11:48.080 --> 11:49.080 He's not stiffened. 11:49.080 --> 11:51.640 And he's waiting again, up ahead. 11:51.640 --> 11:53.960 There's nothing else to do. 11:53.960 --> 11:57.720 To wait for us and to fight, or to wait for the slower death. 11:57.720 --> 12:01.520 You have a wife and children, Charlie. 12:01.520 --> 12:03.520 How are they? 12:03.520 --> 12:05.360 Eat well, Warner. 12:05.360 --> 12:07.640 The doctor has done much to stop the sickness. 12:07.640 --> 12:11.080 When did you see them last? 12:11.080 --> 12:13.760 Before this hunt. 12:13.760 --> 12:16.480 You must want to get back to them as quickly as possible. 12:16.480 --> 12:18.480 Yes, Warner. 12:18.480 --> 12:23.880 I see more sign up ahead. 12:23.880 --> 12:30.000 A wife again. 12:30.000 --> 12:31.000 She's closer. 12:31.000 --> 12:32.000 What direction? 12:32.000 --> 12:33.000 Where is she? 12:33.000 --> 12:36.080 The wind is against us now. 12:36.080 --> 12:37.560 You don't know where she is? 12:37.560 --> 12:38.560 No, Warner. 12:38.560 --> 12:39.560 Give me the flask. 12:39.560 --> 12:47.600 This does nothing to build bravery. 12:47.600 --> 12:50.560 I have never seen you when you needed to ask for it. 12:50.560 --> 12:51.560 I haven't either. 12:51.560 --> 12:54.560 I've never been afraid until this time. 12:54.560 --> 12:58.560 You've been to Nairobi, Charlie? 12:58.560 --> 12:59.560 Yes, Warner. 12:59.560 --> 13:01.560 Do you like it? 13:01.560 --> 13:02.560 No. 13:02.560 --> 13:05.000 There was too much noise. 13:05.000 --> 13:07.360 I hate the city too. 13:07.360 --> 13:10.040 But I found myself there. 13:10.040 --> 13:14.280 More of a reason to live, I mean a woman. 13:14.280 --> 13:17.160 Said she'd be my wife. 13:17.160 --> 13:18.960 Something I've never had before. 13:18.960 --> 13:21.200 A wife is good? 13:21.200 --> 13:24.560 Not with this kind of business in the elephant grass. 13:24.560 --> 13:30.480 When you think of a wife, you don't do well with the problem of a gutshot lion. 13:30.480 --> 13:34.640 It is the ancient one. 13:34.640 --> 13:37.080 Where is he waiting for us, Charlie? 13:37.080 --> 13:39.240 He has many places to be. 13:39.240 --> 13:41.600 Stupid, misnomerical logic. 13:41.600 --> 13:42.600 Give me the big rifle. 13:42.600 --> 13:43.600 I'll carry it now. 13:43.600 --> 13:44.600 Yes, Warner. 13:44.600 --> 14:09.480 Keep it dry, because the rain is coming. 14:09.480 --> 14:11.800 You are listening to Game Hunt. 14:11.800 --> 14:26.320 Tonight's presentation in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 14:26.320 --> 14:29.800 Now a message from CBS Radio. 14:29.800 --> 14:34.120 United States savings bonds when held in maturity pay 3% interest. 14:34.120 --> 14:38.340 That's guaranteed interest, not subject to any gamble whatsoever. 14:38.340 --> 14:42.280 When planning your savings program, you should have a steady flow of United States savings 14:42.280 --> 14:47.280 bonds as part of your plan to make sure that some of your earnings will reap guaranteed 14:47.280 --> 14:48.960 dividends. 14:48.960 --> 14:53.460 Ask at your bank about the bond a month plan by which deductions are made automatically 14:53.460 --> 14:55.920 in whatever amount you can afford. 14:55.920 --> 15:00.360 Buy United States savings bonds. 15:00.360 --> 15:05.320 And now we bring back to our Hollywood sound stage, Raymond Lawrence, starring in tonight's 15:05.320 --> 15:24.880 production, Game Hunt, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 15:24.880 --> 15:29.400 The rain started to fall approximately 45 minutes after our cross and the native entered 15:29.400 --> 15:31.800 the stand of grass. 15:31.800 --> 15:35.800 The Babson took refuge under a tree from where he could watch the jackal and the hyena worrying 15:35.800 --> 15:40.680 the remains of the zebra and the increasing numbers of vultures patiently awaiting their 15:40.680 --> 15:41.680 turn. 15:41.680 --> 15:47.600 He fully admitted to himself now that he'd been wrong, shooting the lion the way he did. 15:47.600 --> 15:51.920 He was filled with self-incrimination at having sent two men to search out a danger that he 15:51.920 --> 15:53.360 had caused. 15:53.360 --> 15:58.280 He imagined their bodies being torn by the jackal and the hyena with the vultures waiting 15:58.280 --> 16:08.520 their turn. 16:08.520 --> 16:14.800 The center of the stand of grass was now a place of dull gray light and darker shadows 16:14.800 --> 16:17.080 and a place of sound. 16:17.080 --> 16:21.880 The beat of the rain and the gusty wind made any attempt at silence unnecessary. 16:21.880 --> 16:27.280 In a way this was good because talk was a tension release that our cross very much needed. 16:27.280 --> 16:32.760 Do you still find sign in this muck Charlie? 16:32.760 --> 16:33.760 Too much Bonner. 16:33.760 --> 16:38.520 He stayed on the old trail and his wife has been to him. 16:38.520 --> 16:40.040 Has been to him? 16:40.040 --> 16:45.760 See here he's limping on the right leg in the back. 16:45.760 --> 16:48.640 Look at the size of that fork. 16:48.640 --> 16:50.160 He's bigger than I thought. 16:50.160 --> 16:53.400 Here are hers going the other way again. 16:53.400 --> 16:55.760 That puts her behind us now. 16:55.760 --> 16:59.520 She's hunting us Charlie. 16:59.520 --> 17:01.160 We'll move on ahead. 17:01.160 --> 17:03.240 I'll watch the back trail. 17:03.240 --> 17:11.560 Charge may come from there first. 17:11.560 --> 17:12.560 Disclose Bonner. 17:12.560 --> 17:14.920 Blood spores here again. 17:14.920 --> 17:19.880 Here very close or the rain would have washed it away you see. 17:19.880 --> 17:22.880 Very close Charlie. 17:22.880 --> 17:27.240 Would be nice if we could see farther into this grass. 17:27.240 --> 17:33.160 We'll rest here for a while. 17:33.160 --> 17:35.640 You know why I wanted to stop don't you? 17:35.640 --> 17:38.520 I've never seen this in you before. 17:38.520 --> 17:40.960 My roby fear. 17:40.960 --> 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 17:46.360 --> 17:48.520 times. 17:48.520 --> 17:51.520 Flask please Charlie. 17:51.520 --> 17:58.800 I'm going to quit this business. 17:58.800 --> 18:00.600 You'll stop all hunting? 18:00.600 --> 18:01.760 Except for table meat. 18:01.760 --> 18:02.760 Get a city job. 18:02.760 --> 18:07.240 A nice safe dull job in the city where you can go home every night after work. 18:07.240 --> 18:14.360 I've been a good... 18:14.360 --> 18:15.680 She's still behind us. 18:15.680 --> 18:18.520 I've been a good hunter. 18:18.520 --> 18:23.120 It's been said that I think like an animal when I'm on the stalk that I know what the 18:23.120 --> 18:25.880 game is going to do before it's done. 18:25.880 --> 18:27.640 I have seen this with you. 18:27.640 --> 18:28.640 Not anymore. 18:28.640 --> 18:30.840 Not after Nairobi. 18:30.840 --> 18:32.940 It left me. 18:32.940 --> 18:36.040 After the woman I thought only is a man. 18:36.040 --> 18:37.560 I've been very bad with Mr. Babson. 18:37.560 --> 18:39.960 I'm in very bad right now. 18:39.960 --> 18:42.680 Female crossed the trail. 18:42.680 --> 18:43.680 Did you see her? 18:43.680 --> 18:44.680 Yes Bonner. 18:44.680 --> 18:46.240 I'm going to put her out of the way. 18:46.240 --> 18:49.760 She can't have her trading along behind. 18:49.760 --> 18:55.920 Where is she Charlie? 18:55.920 --> 18:58.160 It was close to here that she crossed. 18:58.160 --> 18:59.520 Oh father ahead Bonner. 18:59.520 --> 19:00.520 You see it? 19:00.520 --> 19:01.840 This small grass broken. 19:01.840 --> 19:03.880 I see it now. 19:03.880 --> 19:06.880 Come on. 19:06.880 --> 19:09.880 Babson! 19:09.880 --> 19:16.640 If he'd fired it I hope he did better than the last time. 19:16.640 --> 19:19.000 Farcross is that you? 19:19.000 --> 19:20.000 Yes. 19:20.000 --> 19:21.000 You all right? 19:21.000 --> 19:22.000 I'm fine. 19:22.000 --> 19:23.000 I got the female. 19:23.000 --> 19:26.160 Bend some of the grass against the wind so that we can locate you. 19:26.160 --> 19:32.240 I see it. 19:32.240 --> 19:33.560 Here she is. 19:33.560 --> 19:34.560 She never did see me. 19:34.560 --> 19:38.120 She was lying with her back to me in the old game trail looking in your direction I guess. 19:38.120 --> 19:39.520 Yeah waiting for us. 19:39.520 --> 19:40.680 She was stalking each other. 19:40.680 --> 19:44.800 When she got up to move to the side I had my sights on her shoulder as simple as that. 19:44.800 --> 19:47.520 Isn't she a beauty. 19:47.520 --> 19:50.040 Yes lovely. 19:50.040 --> 19:52.640 It'll go well next to the males. 19:52.640 --> 19:53.640 Where is he? 19:53.640 --> 19:57.840 We've been only a few paces away from him but we haven't seen him yet. 19:57.840 --> 19:59.960 Mr Babson I told you to stay out in the clearing. 19:59.960 --> 20:01.440 Why'd you come in here? 20:01.440 --> 20:05.280 Because I felt like a coward letting you two finish a job that I'd bunk. 20:05.280 --> 20:06.960 I want you to go back. 20:06.960 --> 20:08.760 You've done enough for us killing the female. 20:08.760 --> 20:10.800 I'm going to stay with you. 20:10.800 --> 20:12.880 It was my excitement and bad shooting that caused it all. 20:12.880 --> 20:14.440 It's my responsibility more than yours. 20:14.440 --> 20:16.160 I'm staying with you. 20:16.160 --> 20:20.320 I'd call myself a coward every time I looked at my trophies if I didn't. 20:20.320 --> 20:21.320 All right. 20:21.320 --> 20:22.320 It's your privilege. 20:22.320 --> 20:25.120 If any time you feel like turning back do it. 20:25.120 --> 20:26.120 I won't turn back. 20:26.120 --> 20:27.120 I'll be all right. 20:27.120 --> 20:42.960 Bonner here is where we were close to him. 20:42.960 --> 20:45.400 The blood is gone but his marks still show. 20:45.400 --> 20:46.760 They stay on the trail. 20:46.760 --> 20:47.760 Not for long I think. 20:47.760 --> 20:51.040 Well let's find out how long. 20:51.040 --> 20:57.360 Here we are. 20:57.360 --> 20:58.360 He's off to the left. 20:58.360 --> 21:00.560 His back leg is very bad now. 21:00.560 --> 21:02.400 I see here Babson. 21:02.400 --> 21:04.200 The signs of his dragging it. 21:04.200 --> 21:06.280 Wouldn't mean anything to me without being told. 21:06.280 --> 21:08.800 I feel good now Charlie. 21:08.800 --> 21:09.800 No Nairobi. 21:09.800 --> 21:10.800 What does that mean? 21:10.800 --> 21:11.800 No Nairobi. 21:11.800 --> 21:14.160 It's a vague term we sometimes use in our trade. 21:14.160 --> 21:15.160 Sort of uneasiness. 21:15.160 --> 21:19.480 Now this will go well if we all do our jobs carefully and calmly. 21:19.480 --> 21:21.520 Do you still want to stay with us Babson? 21:21.520 --> 21:22.520 You don't have to you know. 21:22.520 --> 21:25.160 I shouldn't want to I suppose but I do. 21:25.160 --> 21:26.160 I feel good. 21:26.160 --> 21:27.160 I'm calm. 21:27.160 --> 21:31.960 I said a lot of bad things about you Mr. Babson and I thought a lot worse. 21:31.960 --> 21:32.960 I'm sorry. 21:32.960 --> 21:33.960 Oh. 21:33.960 --> 21:36.480 Now this is really quite simple. 21:36.480 --> 21:39.880 We'll move in the line a few paces apart. 21:39.880 --> 21:42.600 You on my left Charlie on my right. 21:42.600 --> 21:47.280 When he decides to come he'll charge anything that moves so freeze when he starts. 21:47.280 --> 21:50.720 Charlie and I'll draw his attention and swing his charge towards us. 21:50.720 --> 21:53.480 Well this isn't a favor you Babson it's to give you a better target. 21:53.480 --> 21:55.320 I'll have him broadside you mean. 21:55.320 --> 21:56.320 Right. 21:56.320 --> 22:00.120 And don't move your position and keep firing until your rifle is empty. 22:00.120 --> 22:02.520 Reload and start firing again. 22:02.520 --> 22:05.480 We'll be doing the same but he can carry a lot of steel. 22:05.480 --> 22:06.480 Right. 22:06.480 --> 22:09.640 A few paces this way for me. 22:09.640 --> 22:10.640 That's good. 22:10.640 --> 22:12.760 All right Charlie. 22:12.760 --> 22:13.760 Take us to him. 22:13.760 --> 22:14.760 Yes brother. 22:14.760 --> 22:17.680 Charlie. 22:17.680 --> 22:22.160 Ahead. 22:22.160 --> 22:26.320 See the tops of the grass moving against the wind. 22:26.320 --> 22:27.320 I see it. 22:27.320 --> 22:29.720 It could mean he's down and he can't get up. 22:29.720 --> 22:38.120 At any rate we know where he is. 22:38.120 --> 22:39.120 All right Babson. 22:39.120 --> 22:40.120 I'd like to see him. 22:40.120 --> 22:41.120 You will. 22:41.120 --> 22:45.040 Carefully now. 22:45.040 --> 22:50.240 He'll be less than 20 paces away when we first see him. 22:50.240 --> 22:54.240 Do you see him? 22:54.240 --> 22:57.720 Do you see him? 22:57.720 --> 22:58.720 Not yet. 22:58.720 --> 22:59.720 Don't fire. 22:59.720 --> 23:00.720 We want him closer. 23:00.720 --> 23:01.720 Lord. 23:01.720 --> 23:02.720 Good Lord. 23:02.720 --> 23:03.720 Hold. 23:03.720 --> 23:04.720 Hold Babson. 23:04.720 --> 23:07.720 You swing him this way. 23:07.720 --> 23:08.720 I can't stay. 23:08.720 --> 23:09.720 Freeze Babson. 23:09.720 --> 23:10.720 Don't run. 23:10.720 --> 23:11.720 Catch him. 23:11.720 --> 23:12.720 I can't hold. 23:12.720 --> 23:13.720 I can't. 23:13.720 --> 23:14.720 Open up Charlie. 23:14.720 --> 23:15.720 I'll find the gun. 23:15.720 --> 23:23.640 Stop him right now. 23:23.640 --> 23:28.400 Juana. 23:28.400 --> 23:30.560 Wana? 23:30.560 --> 23:33.160 Does he die? 23:33.160 --> 23:36.160 Careful, Charlie. 23:36.160 --> 23:38.160 He's dead, Wana. 23:38.160 --> 23:40.160 He doesn't look it, Charlie. 23:40.160 --> 23:43.160 You'd think he's ready to charge again, wouldn't you? 23:43.160 --> 23:45.160 He's dead. 23:45.160 --> 23:47.160 No, he isn't. 23:47.160 --> 23:49.160 Not for Mr. Babson, he isn't. 23:49.160 --> 23:51.160 Wana. 23:51.160 --> 23:53.160 He's dead. 23:53.160 --> 23:55.160 He's dead. 23:55.160 --> 23:57.160 He's dead. 23:57.160 --> 23:59.160 He isn't. 23:59.160 --> 24:01.160 Wana. 24:01.160 --> 24:03.160 Get the trophy hunter and bring him here. 24:03.160 --> 24:05.160 Load his gun with expanding ammunition. 24:05.160 --> 24:07.160 Bullets to finish the thing. 24:07.160 --> 24:09.160 To smash it. 24:09.160 --> 24:11.160 Yes, Wana. I understand. 24:21.160 --> 24:23.160 Mark Cross, I... 24:23.160 --> 24:25.160 I'm ashamed that I ran, but I... 24:25.160 --> 24:27.160 I just couldn't help it. 24:27.160 --> 24:29.160 There was nothing I could do. 24:29.160 --> 24:31.160 Of course there wasn't. 24:31.160 --> 24:33.160 Your first time and all? 24:33.160 --> 24:35.160 Where is he? 24:35.160 --> 24:37.160 From here. I'll show you. 24:43.160 --> 24:45.160 Over there. 24:45.160 --> 24:47.160 You can just see his head. 24:47.160 --> 24:49.160 Oh, yes, I see him. 24:49.160 --> 24:51.160 He'll be ready to charge again if we let him rest. 24:51.160 --> 24:53.160 I thought you'd like the final shots. 24:53.160 --> 24:55.160 I would. 24:55.160 --> 24:57.160 Put your sights right under his ear. 24:57.160 --> 24:59.160 And a bit to the front. 24:59.160 --> 25:01.160 Check the safety. 25:01.160 --> 25:03.160 Yes. 25:03.160 --> 25:05.160 Go ahead. 25:05.160 --> 25:07.160 I hit him. 25:07.160 --> 25:09.160 Again. Don't take any chances. 25:11.160 --> 25:13.160 One more. 25:17.160 --> 25:19.160 That'll do it, I think. 25:19.160 --> 25:23.160 Let's take a look at him. 25:31.160 --> 25:33.160 Congratulations, Mr. Babson. 25:33.160 --> 25:35.160 You've killed your lot. 25:35.160 --> 25:37.160 But his head... 25:37.160 --> 25:39.160 He's worthless as a trophy. 25:39.160 --> 25:41.160 Yeah. Which ruined. 25:41.160 --> 25:43.160 Isn't it a shame. 25:43.160 --> 25:45.160 I'm afraid he'd have to be this way. 25:45.160 --> 25:47.160 It's one of those things. 25:55.160 --> 25:59.160 It was a gesture of contempt toward many trophy hunters. 25:59.160 --> 26:03.160 The destruction of an already dead trophy. 26:03.160 --> 26:07.160 Childish perhaps for a man of our cross's age and experience. 26:07.160 --> 26:11.160 But it was important to him as the final act of his last hunt. 26:11.160 --> 26:15.160 Something that would be told and retold when old hunters gathered in Nairobi. 26:15.160 --> 26:19.160 A retribution that would be understood by the others. 26:19.160 --> 26:23.160 A thing that should happen to all uncontrollable gut shooters. 26:23.160 --> 26:29.160 The fear that was so important a part of the situation would never be mentioned. 26:29.160 --> 26:37.160 Except perhaps sometime very late at night to his wife. 26:37.160 --> 26:41.160 When there would be true understanding of it. 26:57.160 --> 26:59.160 Suspense. 26:59.160 --> 27:05.160 In which Raymond Lawrence starred in tonight's presentation of Game Hunt. 27:05.160 --> 27:11.160 Be sure to listen again next week when we bring you another presentation of Radio's outstanding theatre of thrills. 27:11.160 --> 27:13.160 Suspense. 27:27.160 --> 27:31.160 Suspense is produced and directed in Hollywood by Anthony Ellis. 27:31.160 --> 27:33.160 Tonight's story was written by Gil Dow. 27:33.160 --> 27:37.160 The music was composed by Lucian Morrowak and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. 27:37.160 --> 27:41.160 Featured in the cast were Stacey Harris, Joseph Kearns and Jack Crouchon. 27:41.160 --> 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. 27:51.160 --> 27:53.160 Starring Count Basie and Alan Freed. 27:53.160 --> 27:58.160 CBS Radio's rock and roll dance party features top named guest stars. 27:58.160 --> 28:03.160 Plus the vocals of Joe Williams with Count Basie's band every Saturday night. 28:03.160 --> 28:09.160 And on the guest list for this Saturday you'll find the Cordettes and Tony Bennett. 28:09.160 --> 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. 28:17.160 --> 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. 28:42.160 --> 28:47.160 America listens most to the CBS Radio Network. 29:12.160 --> 29:40.160 Music