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The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written and directed by Willis

Cooper, in which features Ernest Chaffel. Quiet Please for today is called Calling All Souls.

I tell you what happened last Halloween. For all souls, or 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.

But where I started, I was sitting in a tight little room in a great big house.

Do you ever been west? Well, you know when you crossed 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, great comfortable.

Hormone myself, waiting, and not much more time to wait. Sure, the death cell.

I was just sitting there playing solitaire on the edge of my bed trying not to think of 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 all $5 for a car and you've got it at the top row. I was $32 to the

good, this particular hand. I didn't hear anybody come up by. Didn't hear anybody except the guard

walking around. Lewis, more smokey. Red died on the tent at last, Lewis. Oh,

hello, double. Yeah, that's right. Come again? Yeah.

All right. All right. So far. How are you? All right.

Sit down. Yeah. No, so far. Turn this down. That's right.

What do you say? Oh, a lot of things. What? What's the difference? He said no.

It's tough to open. I didn't do it. Stuff on me too, Lewis. Yes, but they're not going to

hang you. I begged him to give you a two-week stay at least, but I said his conscience wouldn't let him.

Concentrate. He said if he felt like he'd turn 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? Lewis.

Yeah, I know. I've done everything I could. I know.

But I didn't do it. I know you didn't, but proving it. You want to play cards?

I guess I don't want to play this. Well, I've done my very best, Lewis. 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. If you think of prints all ready,

I remember. Only I didn't do it. Who did you? Got any ideas? Oh, I did 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 know. I was so shocked.

You know. I couldn't help it. I tried to. That's how I got the fingerprints all over.

He told me. I admit I didn't like Harris. I didn't go for edit very much either.

But I didn't jump, Albert. It told me. It just went out there to ask him to let me have

Oliver. I don't know much. He could have that $2,000. He owed me for the pay.

You should have made all the statements about how you were going to get the money or else.

I know it.

Shouldn't have gone to his desk looking for the money either.

I don't know why the dick and she did that. Well, I don't know either, but I was.

I said I was shocked. I just thought this is a good way to get the money. I could find it.

Nobody had known I figured. I knew if I didn't get it down, I'd never get it.

You were lying there on the floor. Lewis, listen. It was pretty hard to convince a jury.

You didn't do it. Then lying on the floor and you've gone through the desk and blood spots on

your suit and everything. I know what, Albert. I crazy to do it. But I didn't matter. I know

that. I told you. Albert, are they sure enough going to hang me?

Unless, unless what? They discover new evidence.

Where are they going to discover that? I don't have to do it awful fast.

Where are they going to discover it? You tell me. There isn't any more evidence.

Whoever really did it covered his tracks too good. I'll say it did.

Are you smooching it up for one or another? I got stuck, but I was just trying to see if I could

help. I'm seeing if you could find the money, Harrison. 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.

No, 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 murders before, you know?

You don't think I'm a murder? Of course not.

Albert, why don't you really think there's a chance of uncovering some new evidence?

Really? I think the only people who saw the murder, the only people who know did it,

are Harrison and Ed of themselves. They're dead. That's right, they're dead, Lewis.

Look, when I stopped in for, you want me to ask Father McIntyre to come around and see you now.

13 steps up. Move your hands fast and behind you.

13 steps. Stop and turn around. The man says, stand here.

Look down the 13 steps of the reporter as the doctor with a stepist go hanging around his neck.

13 steps up.

Feel the man tying your feet together. Feel the floor give a little underfoot.

See how the man stays away from the little cap door, reaching out to make the rope

hide around your ankles. Listen, Father McIntyre's voice in your ears.

A little rustling behind you in a black hood over your head and you can't see any more.

But you can feel it. Feel the rope as it brushes against you,

make a little hairy and creepy crawly on your skin.

The weight of the knot, nine turns on your shoulder.

Troy gives a little underfoot.

No, I can't, I can't, I thought I didn't do it, I tell you I didn't do it.

I like it, think of what my lawyer said, what Delbert said before he got up and opened the door in one way.

The only people who saw him there, the only people who know who did it, are Harrison at it himself.

And Harrison, that is new, I didn't do it. Maybe they didn't know who it was that they did it,

but they didn't know that I didn't do it. Maybe they didn't know.

And maybe they did. Maybe they didn't know.

Maybe they could tell me, maybe they could discover some new evidence where Delbert put it.

Maybe they could tell me where to go, who to look for, what I find.

I could tell a guy on the job that he could go tell a guy, now I've got to stay.

Maybe they'll be good enough so I, so they let me go.

Maybe they wouldn't hang.

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 found me guilty.

I'm in the death cell waiting.

And Harrison had a dull, let me die.

Don't let them.

Um,

better,

Harrison,

I'm not seeing my soul.

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And when I heard the bell,

tolling somewhere in the distance, I remembered.

I didn't remember what night this was.

This was also a night.

This was the night when the souls of the weary dead walked the earth again.

I remember when the graveyard's yawn and the twins give up their dead.

In the sound of the bell, tolling away in the darkness of early evening.

And I wondered if my soul had to leave my body when I woke up at the 13th section.

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.

I murdered the kindly souls that knew.

Then, I sat down again quietly.

A fit of deadly terror was gone for a moment.

I was exhausted and weak.

I closed my eyes in the sound of a distant bell.

Faded out as I thought.

I cannot be possible, I thought.

All these things are not mere superstition.

There's some foundation in that being believed, I thought.

I can't die. I'm innocent, I thought.

And only those two know the truth.

Calling all souls.

I repeat it again myself.

Calling all souls.

And I stood up.

I stood up in like brightly lighted, sorrowful place.

And as I rose, I turned out behind me.

And there, I'm the bed still in an attitude of despair.

I sat my body.

And in the flash of darkness, the place stayed the way the stone walls of the iron bars and a bare narrow bed.

The man in prison uniform seated motionless on its edge.

And I stood alone in a darkness of a place I knew.

All marble sheds gleaming faintly in the starlight.

Curving gravel roadways' hedge-boarded.

The scent of motoring flowers in a darkness.

A dry rustle of a weather beaten fire, the head of a low mound beside me.

Hell oneness.

All aloneless, pressing in with a body like a living thing.

The evil of all souls.

And suddenly, quietly in the cold shadows.

A little, little whisper is an innumerable voices.

The voices of the wandering 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.

Lois.

And another voice.

Lois.

And I knew I had won for these with her voices of a two they said I murdered.

Well, of course you didn't, Lord.

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.

It was killed at Romaine in an hour gone thirty years ago.

Albert Newhouse, my boy scout, come at it.

Grounds so many years ago.

Grace Williams had died at her husband's hand.

Crowds and crowds of the ones who had gone before, spending this their brief holiday on their well-outers.

And I, the only living soul among them, spending my brief moment with them to seek my life from them.

And also Zee the year ago.

Listen, help me.

And that I answered me.

What is there we can do now, Lois?

You know I didn't kill you, Evan.

Of course.

Of course.

They're going to hang me for it.

You're busy doing this.

But how can I prove it?

Albert said if we could find you evidence, there's plenty of evidence, Lois, to be found where?

How?

Why, let me see.

Keep on the money.

That's why you couldn't find it, Lois.

But if he found the money, it must be gone by now.

No, he has some of it left.

But what could it do?

Why, there's a list of the numbers of the bills somewhere.

They couldn't find it.

Have them look in the bedroom, Lois, 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, Lois, if you'll just look for it,

he rips 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 is?

We know.

Don't tell me.

Tell me, and I'll see.

Double will see that he confesses.

Look, I tell you they're going to hang me for it.

Do you hear?

Tell me.

Oh.

And you still hate me.

And you haven't learned mercy since you...

You're going to let me die because you hate me when you were alive.

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?

Oh, no, so I...

No.

Now where is that kitty on me?

It's all over now that Miss Mary was hating me.

Don't you hate the man that killed you?

Don't you?

No.

No.

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.

Die isn't so bad, Lewis.

You don't see any unhappiness among all these sorrows, 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.

It is.

Go back, Lewis.

Go back.

I won't go back until you tell me or kill you.

Listen to me, Lewis.

You're 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.

Only this one night that shows me what's here.

And when morning comes.

Well, when morning comes, if you are still here,

Lewis, I can make you no promises.

Go back, Lewis.

Tell me the man's name.

No, no.

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.

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 won't go back.

I'll come back and send you something.

You 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 wife?

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?

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 he will 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 will 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?

I know, 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 time, Lewis.

Yes, but now you must come with us.

No.

No.

I want to go back.

Come, Lewis.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

Hi.

Hi up over the face of the sleeping styled world with the tiny lights of the living phabilos.

There were peaceful firemen's the sleeping cities, the broad breasts of the great river phabilos.

The universe throbbing with strange, compelling song.

And above us, Durandas, the sense of a million souls,

a million merrier than countless moditudes,

returning joyously to their single night upon the Earth they loved.

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 solar fluid, the way we all return.

And I saw the features of the ones I had loved,

the strangers, the men, women, the little children,

the boys and ragged uniforms of bearded ancients

and smiling babes in their modestyles.

And on their faces in a sparkling night,

an expression of lost religiousness,

a long-awaited realization of this night

they would once again rest upon the Marshal Earth.

And I, even I had the only living soul

amongst all the nudity of events,

even I thought an overpowering desire

to set my feet again this moment upon the reality of Earth.

Can I close my eyes from moment?

Can I open the door?

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.

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

a buggy man in the 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 hid his face

and bent down to look at him.

Dalbert.

Dalbert.

My friend.

The man who would defend me in the courtroom and lost.

The man who had gone to the governor

or had he gone to plead for my life.

Dalbert.

The man who told me,

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.

Dalbert.

Dalbert.

Dalbert, wake up.

Lewis.

I was waiting to hear.

He came with us, Dalbert.

Harris.

Harris and Etta.

Dalbert.

No.

Dalbert.

You're ghost.

We are human souls, Dalbert.

Come to hear your testimony.

No.

Dalbert.

I will tell you anything.

You heard it.

I've didn't you, Dalbert.

No.

You murdered us, Dalbert.

No.

Nobody confessed Dalbert.

I did do it.

You did do it.

You know this.

You'll get me here.

And Fess.

Well, I...

Lewis must hear you, Dalbert.

Lewis!

Lewis!

I did do it.

I killed the Lewis!

I murdered them!

I ale вы fly my new,

you are your.

I can get youеш...

and bigger, I can say myself.

I held you until Lewis.

Overs!

Lewis, it's your game!

Lewis, Fess!

May you forgive your dumbert,

asks Harris, and Etta, forgave you.

Aris!

Aris!

We have already forgiven you, Delbert.

But you have done a great round to Lewis.

You will be punished, Delbert.

Out of the fish! Out for the prison!

I'm going back to my body now in the prison.

Lewis!

I'm going back to my body now in the prison.

Lewis!

I'm going back.

Oh, where is he?

We?

Lewis.

What?

Lewis!

Be quiet, murderer.

Got, Harris.

You can't go back, Lewis.

I can't go back.

Why, butterfly?

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 tell him, Delbert.

Lewis.

Well?

Lewis.

They hang you half an hour ago.

The title of today is Quiet Please Story.

It's Calling All Souls.

It was written and directed by Willis Cooper.

And the man who spoke to you was Ernest Chaffell.

And Kermit Murdoch, played Delbert.

Harris and Adela were respectively rough schoolmen

and Mary Patton.

The Cooper and I are very grateful for the support efforts of Albert Drummond.

It was always responsible for our questions, isn't it?

Now, for what about next week?

Here is our ready director, Willis Cooper.

Thank you for listening to Quiet Please Again.

Next week, I have a star for you as far as Adam and the darkest day.

I am sorry until next week at the same time.

I am Quietly Orr's Ernest Chaffell.

And now, a listening reminder.

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