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Willis Cooper, in which features Ernest Chaffel. Quiet Please for today is called Calling All Souls. I tell you what happened last Halloween. Car all souls are all halos or whatever you call it near part of the country. I bet you can't guess where I was. Well, that was a couple of places. Where I started. I was sitting in a tight little room in a great big house. Have you ever been west? Well, you know when you cross the Mississippi River on the south of Faye from Illinois to Iowa, about four or five hours out of Chicago, Fort Madison Iowa. Every of us had great big place right alongside the river bank to your right. The big high walls and the towers and the big gates. That's right, the Iowa State Prison. That's where I was last Halloween in a little cell. Oh, very comfortable. Hormone myself.
Waiting. And not much more time to wait. Sure, the death sound. I was just sitting there playing solitaire on the edge of my bed trying not to think about what was coming up and thinking of nothing else but that. I was pretending I'd paid the house $52 for the deck. The house had paid off $5 for a car and you've got it the top roll. I was $32 for the good this particular hand. I didn't hear anybody come up by. Didn't there anybody except the guard walking around? The list was more useful. Red eye on it had a glass. Oh, hello, double. That's right. Coming in? Yeah. How are you? All right. So far.
How are you? All right. Sedone. Yeah. No, so calm. Turn this down. That's right. What do you say? Oh, live things. What? I said difference. He said no. It's tough to open. I didn't do it. Stuff on me too, Louis. Yes, but they're not going to hang you. They give you a two week stay at least. I said his conscience wouldn't let him. Constance said if he felt like it turned up anything at all in two weeks, he'd be tempted to give you the benefit of the doubt. You've had three stays now. Could you turn up anything? Louis. Yeah, I know. I've done everything I could. I know. But I didn't do it, but I know you didn't, but proving it. Want to play cards? I guess I don't want to play this.
Well, I've done my very best, Louis. My very level best. I know. I know. It's pretty tough on me, though. And it certainly is. No hope at all. No hope at all. No witnesses plenty of molding. You think of Prince already? I remember. Holy I didn't do it. Who did you got any ideas? No idea at all. I just opened the door after I knocked a dozen times. I just opened the door. And they were on the floor. I told you. I know. I was so shocked. You know. I couldn't help it. I tried to. That's how I got the fingerprints all over. You told me. I admit I didn't like Harris. I didn't go for edit very much either. But I didn't come, Belbert. You told me. It just went out dead. Ask him to let me have honor. I don't know much. He could have that $2,000. He owed me for the pigs. You should have made all
the statements about how you were going to get the money or else. I know. It shouldn't have. Grungy was just looking for the money either. I don't know why the dickens you did that. Well, I don't know either. But I was. I said it was shocked. I just thought this was a good way to get the money if I could find it. Nobody had no idea. I figured. I knew if I didn't get it down. I'd never get it. He were lying there on the floor. I knew it was listening. It was pretty hard to convince a jury. It didn't do it. Then lying on the floor and you've gone through the dust and blood spots on your suit and everything. I know what Belbert. I'm crazy to do it. But I didn't matter. I know that. I told you. Belbert. I believe. Sure enough. Gonna hang me. Unless. What may discover new evidence. Are they going to discover that after do it awful fat? Where are they going to discover?
You tell me there isn't any more evidence. Whoever really did it cover this tracks too good. I say did. Are you smooching it up for one or a half? I got it. But I was just trying to see if I could help. I'm seeing if you could find the money harrisome. I know it was foolish. Honestly Lewis. Now you wouldn't expect anybody in his right mind to believe your story. But it's true. I know it's true. But I couldn't make the jury believe it. But the governor. How do you know it's true? Why? How do you know it's true? Why? I just know it. Lewis. I've seen mirrors before you know. Who? Don't think I'm a murder? Of course not. Belbert. Why don't you really think there's a chance of uncovering some new evidence? Really? I think the only people saw the murder. The only people who know did it are harrisome at it themselves.
They're dead. That's right. They're dead Lewis. Look. When I stopped in for a while you want me to ask Father Macinty how to come around and see you now. 13 steps up. Move your hands fast and behind you. 13 steps. Stop and turn around the men's. Stand here. Look down the 13 steps up the reporters. The doctor with a stepist go hanging around his neck. Feel a man tying your feet together. Feel a floor. Give a little into foot. See how the men stays away from the little cap door. Reaching out to make the rope tight around your ankles. Listen. How the Macinty has voiced in your ears. Little rustling behind you.
Of lack of a head you can't see anymore. But you can feel a little. Feel a rope as it brushes against you. Macinty, little hairy and creepy crawly on your skin. The weight of the map. Nine turns on your shoulder. Forgives him a little on the front. No. I can't. I can't. I thought I didn't do it. I said I didn't do it. I think I was what my lawyer said. What Belpert said before he got up and opened the door in one way. The only people saw him there. The only people who know who did it are Harrison and himself. And Harrison that is new. I didn't do it. Maybe they didn't know who it was. But they didn't know that I didn't do it. Maybe they didn't. And maybe they did. Maybe they didn't know. Maybe they could tell me. Maybe they could discover some new evidence. So I got what put it. Maybe they could tell me where to go. Who to look for. What I find.
I could tell the guy on the job but he could go tell the guy. I got to stay. Maybe I'll be good enough. So they let me go. Maybe they wouldn't. But Harrison's dead. And that was dead. I saw them dead on the floor of their house when I went. And they accused me of murdering them. They have a guilty. I'm in a bad cell waiting. And Harrison had a dull let me die. Don't let them. At a... Harrison. I see on my soul. And when I heard the bell, tolling somewhere in the distance, I remembered. I didn't remember what night this was. This was all so night.
This was the night when the souls of the weary dead locked the earth again. I remember when the graveyard's young and children's give up their dead. And the sound of the bell tolling away in the darkness of early evening. Calling our souls. Calling our souls. And they wondered. If my soul had to leave my body when I woke up at the 13th steps and... ...after. If my soul had to leave my body then. Why could it not leave my living body for a while and go seeking it to the others? Step from the tomb this night. The souls of the weary dead. The souls of the unhappy dead. The murdered. The kindly souls that knew.
Then I said down again quietly. The fit of dead be terror was gone for a moment. As it tossed in weeks. I closed my eyes and the sound of the distant bell. Baby, how much I thought. I can't be possible, I thought. All these things are not mere superstition. And there's some foundation in that being believed, I thought. I... I can't die. I'm innocent, I thought. And only those true nobotures. Calling our souls. I repeat it again myself. Calling our souls. And I stood up. I stood up in that brightly-like, it's a sorrowful place. And as I rose, I turned out behind me. And there, on the bed still in that attitude of despair.
I sat my body. And in the flash of darkness, the place stayed at the way of the stone walls. The iron bars and a bare-nourle bed. The man in prison uniform seated motionless on its edge. And I stood alone. In a darkness of a place I knew. Call my little shits, gleaming faintly in the starlight. Curving gravel roadways' hedge-boarded. Mascented, moldy flowers in a darkness. A dry rustle of a weather-beating fire, that had a little mound beside me. Hell-onliness. All alone, this pressing in with a balley-like-o. Living thing. The evil for all souls. And suddenly, quietly in cold shadows. A little... Little whispers of innumerable voices.
The voices of the wondering souls that hasten past me seeking their dusty desires across the face of the world they once all knew. And then a voice. Speaking to me in the dark. Speaking my name in the darkness. Calling me. Loha. And another voice. Loha. And I knew I had won for these with her voices of the two they said I murdered. Well, of course you didn't, Loha. Of course you did. And a little child, a little boy. Ran up in the darkness and took my hand and laughed to hear my name. You remember little Tommy, a little boy that died when he was seen. And I remember it. And in the darkness I saw many another idol that forgotten Charlie Column that was killed at Romaine in our gun 30 years ago. Albert Newhouse, my voice-cow-come-ed that drowned so many years ago. Grace Williams had died at her house.
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Crows and crows are the ones who had gone before, spending this their brief holiday on their well-outdirt. And I have the only living Solomon when spending my brief moment with them to seek my life from them. And also Zee the year ago. Is it helped me? And that I answered me. What is there we can do now, Louis? You know I didn't kill you, Evan. Of course. Of course. They're going to hang me for it. You're busy, Louis. But how can I prove it? Delbert said if we could find you evidence, there's plenty of evidence, Louis, to be far away. How? Why, let me see. Keep on the money. That's why you couldn't find it, Louis. How's that? But if he found the money, it must be gone by now. No. Here's some of it left. But what could it do?
Why, there's a list of the numbers of the bills somewhere. They look for it, they couldn't find it. Have them look in the bedroom, Louis. Behind the third drawer in my chest of drawers. I know where it is. It fell down there. Oh, that's wonderful. What good will it do now? Unless we know, unless you tell me, there's plenty of evidence, Louis, if you'll just look for it. He ripped his coat on the catch of the living room door. There's threads there that could be identified. You know who did it? You know who did it? Yes, we know. Where's we know? Don't tell me. Tell me, and I'll see. Don't but I'll see that he confesses. Look, I tell you, they're going to hang me for it. Do you hear? Tell me.
And you still hate me. And you haven't learned mercy since you... You're going to let me die because you hate if you run you in a lie. You're going to carry it beyond the grave. You're going to keep it to yourself and let me hang. You hated us? Yes, I hated you and I hated you now. Ghost or no ghost, so I know so I... No. No, where is Aunt Teddy on me? It's all over now that Miss Mary was hating me. Don't you hate the man that tunes you? Don't you? No, slow. We don't hate you. Don't you hate me? You're going to let me die. You know I'm innocent. You're going to let me die just because we didn't hide each other on earth. Lewis, listen to us. There's no such thing as hate anymore with us. Then why would you give me a chance to live? Go back, Lewis. Go back to your body. Go back. Go back.
To die. Dying isn't so bad, Lewis. You don't see any unhappiness among all these soles, do you? I don't want to die. You'd rather save your life for a while at the expense of somebody else's life. I'm not guilty. He is. Go back, Lewis. I won't go back until you tell you. Listen to me, Lewis. You're a tampering with things that... Things that you have no right to know. Your soul has left your body before it's time. You have come upon secrets that no living man should know. Your body is waiting for you. Go back to it while there's time. While there's time. It is only this one night that soles me what's here. And when morning comes... Well, when morning comes, if you are still here, Lewis, I can make you no promises.
So back, Lewis. Tell me the man's name. No, Lewis. No, it's none of your affair. None of my affair. Don't you understand what I said to you? Take on the helmet. None of my affair, Lewis. There was no need for you to send your soul out seeking us, Lewis. I don't get that. We have been waiting for this night, Lewis. Well, tell him, Harry. He will have to come with us now. Yes, that is good. You should not have come here. Lewis, there is still time, but only a little time. If you go back now, I will come back. I will come back and send you something. I have no right here. You know, Lewis. But I'm here. And now it is too late. Yes. You will have to come with us. Where are you going? Tell him, Harry. We are going to visit the man who murdered us.
Your father? I told you there was no need for you to come here, Lewis. We have a way of taking care of this man. Hi. Don't know what you mean. Haven't you ever heard of haunting Lewis? Ah! Ah! Come with us now, Lewis. No. You must come. You're really going to haunt him? And make him confess. We are going to appear to him, Lewis. What do you do? We cannot say it. But when he sees us, I'm going back to the prison. No. I'll go back and I'll call the ward and I'll get dealt with. Tell him that there will be a confession. Double to get me a state of execution. Then when he confesses, I'll be... Who is it, Harry? Come with us and you will see. No, I'm going back to the prison. I told you, get things all set up. No. You changed your mind too late, Lewis. Too late. Why? Lewis, you have never too much.
You have gone too far. The souls of the living have no place here. But you have come. We told you to go back while there was tan, Lewis. Yes, but now you must come with us. No. No. I want to go back. Come, Lewis. I... I up over the face of the sleeping starlit world with the tiny lights of the living Phabilos. The broad piece of fire names the sleeping cities, the broad breasts of the great river Phabilos. The universe scrubbing with strange, compelling song. And above us, around us, the sense of a million souls, a million merrier, the countless moditudes returning joyously to the single night upon the earth they lost.
And I looked up in the clearness of a haunted night. And above me, the endless pathway of the Milky Way glowed with a strange thunder. And I'd have put my sleeve. The pathway of the soul, Lewis, the way we all return. And I sought the features of the ones I had loved, the strangers, the men, the women, the little children, the boys and ragged uniforms of bearded ancients and smiling babes in them of designs. And on their faces in a sparkling night an expression of lost religiousness, have long waited realization that this night they would once again rest upon the mortuary. And I, even I had the only living soul and I stole an out of view of the dead. Even I had thought of an overpowering desire to set my feet again this moment upon the reality of earth. And I closed my eyes for a moment. And I opened him, we three were in the room.
And on a bed there was a sleeping man. Where are we? Is this the man? This is the man. This is the man. Who is he? Go and look. No. Go and look. I don't want to go and look, Lewis. He must go and look. Lewis. He lay there, sleeping as innocently as any time. He lay there, sleeping as innocently as any child. And covers were drawn up about his faces if he were shutting out some childish fancy abogument in a dark. But I knew him for a wicked guilty man, a man who held my own life in jeopardy. Look at him, Lewis. Look at him, Lewis. And I lifted up the comforter that he had his face and bent down to look at him. Delbert. Delbert, my friend.
The man who would defend his being in the courtroom and lost. The man who had gone to the governor or had he gone to plead for my life. Delbert. The man who told me, of course, I know you didn't do it. Of course, I know you didn't do it. Of course, he knew. He alone, mortal man knew the murderer. For the defender of the accused man was the murderer himself. Wake him, Lewis. No. Wake him. Delbert. Delbert. Delbert. Delbert, wake up. Delbert, wake up. Lewis. Lewis, wait. Wait here. He came with us, Delbert. Harris. Harris and Etta.
Delbert. No. Delbert, wait. You're ghost. We are human souls, Delbert. Come to hear your testimony. No. Delbert, I will tell you anything. You heard it. I'm dead in your Delbert. No. You murdered us, Delbert. No, no. I am best, Delbert. I can do it. You did do it. You know this. You'll get me here. And pass. Well, I... Yes. Lewis must hear you, Delbert. Lewis. Lewis. Lewis, I can do it. I killed Lewis. I was. I was. I was. I could probably blame on you. I know I could get you convicted. I could save myself. I held you the tool, Lewis. All, Lewis. Lewis. Lewis, forgive me. Lewis, forgive me. Please forgive your Delbert. Fast, Harrison, editor, forgive you. Aritz. Eddett. We have already forgiven you, Delbert. But you have done a great round to Lewis. You will be punished, Delbert.
I'll get best. I'll follow prison. I'm going back to my body, Mal, in the prison. Lewis. I forgive me. I'll get your Harris, Eddett. Lewis. I'm going back. Oh, Harris. You can't go back, Lewis. I can't go back. Why, what about? What? You must stay. Stay. Stay. Why must I stay? My body's back down the prison waiting for me. I've got to go back and live. No, Lewis. Why? Tell me why. Everything's out. What's the matter? You. I'm going back. I'm going back. I'm going back. I'm going back. I'm going back. I'm going back. I'm going back. I'm going back. I'm going back. I'm going back. I'm going back. You. Tell him, Delphi. Lewis. Well? Lewis. They hanged you half an hour ago. Lewis. They hanged you half an hour ago.
The title of today is Quiet Please Story. It's calling all souls. The equipment directed by Willis Cooper. The man who spoke to you was Ernest Chafford. And Kermit Burdock, played Delbert, Harris, and Adela, where respectively Ralph Sculman and Mary Patton. The Cooper and I are very grateful for the support of efforts of Albert Berman, who was always responsible for our quietness music. Now for a word about next week. Here is our ready director, Willis Cooper. Thank you for listening to Quiet Please Again. Next week, I have a story for you called Adam and the darkest day.
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