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Quiet Please, Quiet Please.
An intual broadcasting system for Don't Quiet Please, which is written in direct by Willis cooper As, which features Lenard Chapel, Quiet Please for the Night, is called Let.
Speaker 2The Lily is considered.
Speaker 1As my wist.
I quite understand.
Well, you're phnographers taking down everything I say.
Speaker 2You and you were witnesses when the stography transcribes.
Speaker 1There's no time to sign them.
Speaker 2And that is my confession.
Is that right?
And whatever I say may be used against me?
Is is that right?
Oh?
Speaker 1I'll sign them all right where you want me to start at the beginning.
Speaker 2I spoke.
Speaker 3All right, so you're iud.
My name is James R.
Speaker 1James Roderick, forty one, third generation American college graduates UCLA University of California.
A last angles no occupation, No, not unemployed, no occupation.
Speaker 3Well I have a.
Speaker 1Small but adequate income.
You have my address.
I was married and oh uh, Gretchen, Gretchen mcmonish.
The astretching is the dominion of the margaret make money.
Speaker 3I'm awesome.
Speaker 4Where's your wife now, Jane Leeves?
Speaker 2Don't try to trap the lieutenant.
Speaker 3But I've told you at.
Speaker 2Least twenty times twice she is.
Speaker 4Tell me again, right there there, little James, he does that?
Weighs up twice.
Now your wife isn't there?
Speaker 2Where is she?
I've told life to do with that.
I don't even know anything with.
Speaker 3The lieutenant, And I told you that, all right?
Speaker 1Go on, I met her at schools in nineteenth thirty.
Speaker 4Get bury her in the blow that there?
Speaker 3May I go on?
Answer my question?
Speaker 4Did you bury?
Speaker 1And oh?
Speaker 4I did not?
And why he keeps saying she's there because you killed her?
No, well she's dead?
What kill her?
I told you she isn't dead.
You can't prove it, James.
Speaker 5I can prove it, lieutenant, but you won't believe it.
Speaker 4Why don't you prove it?
Speaker 3Danny shall?
I so want to.
Speaker 1See did you plant that lily there the Marc's grace.
Speaker 2I didn't plant that lily.
I'm come.
Speaker 1He grows there, I'm coming so much bigger than the others, Anthony, there.
Speaker 3Were other lilies there.
Speaker 4It's alongside it before you and your left.
Doctor up, James, I think I know why.
Speaker 2That lily is bigger than the others.
Speaker 4You do, yes them?
Speaker 5So to you?
Speaker 3You're wrong, pretendant.
Speaker 1You know why we left that lily standing James, when they talk up to the others.
Speaker 6Yeah, because we know why Limter is there, because we are thinking the lily would remind you what we you're thinking about.
Your wife there there because we hope they might leave your Jogan thinking it war petenant.
Speaker 1Yeah, now I have an idea that that lily there is going to hang you, James.
Speaker 3No, it isn't that lily looks continued, the lily to the season.
How they grow, they toil?
Not, I say, do they extend.
Speaker 2From?
Speaker 1Yeah, ain't saying to give it a parliament and all in sory.
Speaker 2It's not a reason like one.
Speaker 3Of what are you talking about.
We consider the lilies, and.
Speaker 2Some of us love them.
Speaker 1You suppose the lilies consider us and sometimes return our love.
I don't think you'll get by with him in the sanity played, James.
Speaker 3I don't know very much about flowers.
I don't know anything about them from the standpoint of books.
Speaker 1I'm not interested in statements and pistols and the anatomy of flowers.
Speaker 3Well, I maybe sit in.
Speaker 2Their souls, in their Yes, in their souls.
I believe flowers love and hate just as people do.
Speaker 4Now we get along with your statements.
Speaker 1Yeah, they love us and hate us, and the proportions of the love of the hate we have for them.
Speaker 2Heights that I've always loved flowers.
My wife Gretchen, she hated them, and.
Speaker 3They love me.
Speaker 1Gretchens, do you know what I'm James, I declare, I think flowers don't like me at all.
Speaker 4I'll can do a thing with them.
Speaker 2How you learn I I'll show you how to handle 'em.
Speaker 3I don't do.
Speaker 2I love to handle 'em.
Speaker 4Then, once we have so mannaise flowers, why I like them?
They're but so many of them.
Speaker 2Well, I haven't anything else to do but praise flowers.
Speaker 3I know that's so follows me.
Speaker 1I don't like to see you're wasting all your times patching around flower there's every single.
Speaker 4Hour, goodness.
Speaker 3I think it's just kind of work your games when there's so many other.
Speaker 2Things you could be doing.
Speaker 3Aren't you happy?
Speaker 1Course, I'm happy, But I could be happy if I didn't have to compete with a lot of silly flowers.
Speaker 3Well, I don't think they're chilly.
Speaker 4Besides, there's so many lilies.
Well, they're so beautiful, they're so depressing.
Speaker 2I love 'em.
That's what thoughts with James.
Speaker 4Why well, I'm I'm Jens.
Speaker 3Help the James.
Speaker 4Gretch James, you do love me.
Speaker 1More than you're out the flowers, don't you.
Speaker 3Isn't that a pretty foolish question?
Speaker 2What look look at the lilies, or what's happened?
Speaker 1They're listening?
Speaker 4So where did you feel?
Speaker 1What you say?
And I looked, and I told her there was a silence in the garden there that that you could almost feared.
Speaker 2And the lilies around us were leaning forward, leaning toward us as they stood there, and there was an attitude of expecting to be about them, take their grateful stems bent toward us, trembling.
Speaker 3They weren't listening.
And suddenly, Gretching broke from my arms and ran, topping a little house.
Speaker 2Trampling their beautiful and telling good bodies on the foot of she ran no height.
I didn't follow her.
Speaker 1So I stood for a long time in the twilight, considering these lilies at the field, and they watched me, considering me, and and said I lifted.
Speaker 3Up the murdered.
Speaker 1Flowers from the marks of Gretchen's shoes and the soils, and wept some moments for them, And I never did answer.
Speaker 2Gretchen quick.
I could have answered it, but she never asked me again.
Perhaps she thought she knew me.
Speaker 4So that's why you killed her, because you thought more of the flowers than you did of her.
I didn't kill her, go on.
I did love Gretchen.
Speaker 2I love her now more than I ever did.
Speaker 3It sounds as if you did.
We were very happy for a long time that winter.
Speaker 2There are no flowers in the winter, and she had no cars to be neglected.
It was very pleasant here in the house.
Speaker 5But the spring came and above to peer to the tree, and one day she brought up a subject again, MM, what about the flowers this year?
Speaker 4I'm gonna start on a garden tomorrow.
Speaker 3I wish, wish, What do I do?
Speaker 4We have to have the flowered again?
Speaker 3We don't have to have them, but I want them.
Speaker 2It's been so nice or winter without them.
Speaker 3I've missed him.
Speaker 5I'd hope you'd maybe forgotten.
Speaker 2Them, dreams forgotten them, my darling.
Speaker 3I I don't believe I could live without them.
Speaker 2If they all died, what would you do?
Speaker 4I don't know, would you die?
Speaker 2What are you talking about, Gretchen?
Speaker 3I'm the very fool.
Speaker 4It's very silly, James, But I don't want the flowers.
I hate salad.
Speaker 2I hate them.
You mustn't say that, Gretchen, They'll hate you.
Let's stop.
Don't let those flowers Like I'm in a person with you.
Speaker 1I don't got to feel it downline that they have see it.
Speaker 2Don't let me take Gretchen.
Speaker 3You're being I said, I have been.
Speaker 1Say no, I am, but it's the truth.
Speaker 3That's the same.
Oh, we could do so many things.
It's time I go to so many places.
Speaker 1I don't want it.
Speaker 2No play of gretch you volume I deal with flowers?
Speaker 1How horrible lily?
Speaker 4So beautiful today?
I am beautiful?
Speaker 1Well you are?
Speaker 2It's not as beautiful as a lily?
Am I?
Speaker 4My dear?
Speaker 2You're you're like a little yourself.
Your skin is so white.
Speaker 3Your yellow hair, and that green drink.
Speaker 4You can tell me with one of those teens.
Do you hear me?
How looks like a flying Do you know what I think?
Speaker 1Sometimes I think there's something wrong with your mind.
Times I think you're a little crazy.
Speaker 2Do you realize that I'm your life?
Speaker 3Do you?
Speaker 2But do you think you are without flowers?
How you've got the truth?
Speaker 1Between those deeps of li and me?
I wondered if my mind was all right.
There's nothing wrong with loving flower Almost definitely weren't.
But for my wife to be jealous of them, I wandered for a moment whether it was my.
Speaker 3Mind or or hers.
Speaker 5Yes, I did spend too much time in the gardens, I thought, and I resolved.
Speaker 3I am to be to change my way, said it wrote, only a few hours a day.
Speaker 5The cultivation and admiration of my treasures on me.
Speaker 2I would compromise.
Speaker 3I would try to follow my wife's.
Speaker 5Wishes, try to remember her.
For instead of the flowers, I reckoned.
Speaker 1Without the flowers, I tried it only half as many this year, and Gretchen watched suddenly from the house.
They came up eagerly, and I could have sworn that there were twice as many as I kinded.
Greteaen wouldn't speak to me for days at a time, and morning when I awoke, I would sometimes find her staring out the window at the.
Speaker 2Lifeness of the garden, and in their eyes I saw a look of autiful hate.
Speaker 1It was her attitude, I supposed that that led me to spend more and more time in.
Speaker 2The garden, and the flowers rewarded me.
Speaker 4They were more beautiful and more gracious, more.
Speaker 1Abundant than I've ever seen them, And they returned the loving care I gave 'em.
Speaker 3They poured out their love.
Some of them waved to.
Speaker 2Them, and they leaves to rest.
Speaker 1My hands as I bent over them, and as I labored among them, they they bent their perfect heads to brush against my chees.
Speaker 2And for long hours I could forget wretch my way, until a ruffle among the lilies caused me to look up and see my wife standing in the window of the.
Speaker 3House, gazing out hate.
Speaker 2So they had.
Speaker 1And the lilies, and I looked back at her with them, and the garden grew and flourished beyond my fond of copes.
Slowly I came to the realization of my garden of lilies was increasing in size.
But there were hundreds more than I set out in a spring, and I smiled on them happily.
Speaker 2Then the lilies smiled back at me.
The lilies loved me.
Oh.
There was a summer night and before moon, and I sat on the porch alone and dreamed of what did I dream of?
There was a voice, a murmurous voice, about a little breeze in the garden, and the voice was without words, and it was a loved one of a lover, and it spoke.
Speaker 1To me sadly, caressingly, and the sounds that did not need the formal words.
And right back there alone in the darkness.
Speaker 4And this.
Speaker 2And the last game.
Speaker 4I love you?
Speaker 2Oh, why say that I've started me longer?
What's the mat aggression?
Speaker 4I told you a long time ago that you've got the truth between me and no slow love you.
I'm not gonna live in this house like a prisoner any longest.
Speaker 1The stars is driving you net.
Speaker 4I never seen you from morning from love you forgot to do me.
Speaker 3That's not true, wression.
Speaker 2But I do love you.
Speaker 1I I love you?
Speaker 2And how did you get to do?
A boy?
Speaker 4What shall I do?
Speaker 1Do you want?
Speaker 4For all?
I thought you?
Speaker 1You want me?
Speaker 2I school him, Wretchen, No, No, I can't.
Speaker 4I can't.
Speaker 5And Gretchen turned away without another word and went into the house.
Speaker 2I could not move.
Speaker 1The chanting in my ears had become a hypnotic lullaby man, and my eyes closed, and.
Speaker 3I think I like.
Speaker 5And suddenly I awakened.
Speaker 2But Gretchen shrill out for somewhere.
Speaker 3And the telling of the brain of light, and the garden was a sheet of light among the lily Russian.
Speaker 2Banks to the great horse stashion and took.
Speaker 1The ketchine and the noble saul lilies littered in its plasticies clattered in their faces, and above it, cracking with the flames above.
Speaker 2Her staclast, I could hit a tel of flames, lost voises, and I missed the make up words about the.
Speaker 1Sound of a catastrophe, that my wife's gaged, and they were passed beyond the lease, and I allused myself, Amanda the cotton, that that was too late, my commer venging.
Damon, my wife says triumph, and events of thotched and flipped.
Speaker 3Dying flowers, and she laughed again, and.
Speaker 2Now she thought she'd won.
Speaker 3And they went almost flowers to be telegot.
Speaker 1And when the sun rose in the morning, I went sadly out of the house to contemplate the miserable remain of my level.
Speaker 2It was easy.
Nothing had happened, said from the lilies that I.
Speaker 1Had last scenes smoldering, and the moonlight had rays the smiling head began, and there was no time.
Speaker 2Of fire in the bottom.
Speaker 3And listen to this, you who re choose to being the flowers, to live and lease them and love.
Speaker 4There were thousands more lilies.
Speaker 1Now than that than the night before.
I had first the sounds of the garden, and they extended halfway across the gravel walk that farted the gardens, tent from the house, and the despairing sobbins of the Orders, who had tried desperately could destroy.
Speaker 2The flowers.
Speaker 3I had seared for.
Speaker 4My wife's done it.
Speaker 3Now I fear it for my own.
Speaker 2It was hours before she could do more than weeks.
At last, she spoke to.
Speaker 4Me, thay, I'm going to be live here.
Speaker 2No print I've got too.
Speaker 4I didn't believe, but.
Speaker 2I won't let you go.
Speaker 1They don't love me.
Speaker 2Why should I stay?
Say one.
They're never to kill me.
Speaker 4They'll kill me.
Speaker 1No, James, I want you to listen to me.
Speaker 3I love you.
Speaker 2I always love you.
If I love you, princh, but you love the flowers more than you do me.
Speaker 3I no, no, I don't.
Speaker 4You don't mean that.
Speaker 2I do mean, but it's no use.
Speaker 4They love you, James.
They're going to have you.
Speaker 6I try to destroy them and they can't be the well.
Speaker 4It's if I don't say the wind from here.
Speaker 3I can't let you go, grind.
Speaker 4I love you, Jim.
Speaker 2Stay.
Speaker 5What if I do stay, I'll die?
Speaker 4Did Iver have you?
No?
They hate me, gretch you, they love you.
Speaker 2What can I do?
I don't know.
Speaker 4But you can't fight them.
You won't fight them.
Speaker 3I know I I can't fight them.
They won't.
Speaker 4But I love you, Jam.
It's too late now to choose.
I won't let them have you.
Speaker 3I love you.
Speaker 4Look at the windows.
Speaker 2I looked at the window.
Outside stood another lily.
Speaker 3There had been none there before this morning.
Speaker 1There stood, And as I raised my head, I could see more and more of them, all the way across the lawn.
Speaker 2Overflowing the garden walls.
Thousands of 'em each would it fly?
Speaker 3Came to the house, each.
Speaker 2One with me.
And I turned back to Gretchen.
Miserab wasn't afraid.
Speaker 1She risen from the badness thing before her dress, hairdressing.
Speaker 3I called, so I knew what was in the second jog.
Speaker 2I thatch air.
There's no other way, James put it down, Gretchen.
Speaker 3We'll think of a way.
There's no other way.
I don't know how this has happened.
Speaker 4But I believe now, I believe they love you, James, and they hate me, Gretcha.
Speaker 1No play it out.
Speaker 2It's no, James.
Speaker 1This is the way out.
Speaker 2It's the only way else.
Speaker 4I won't lesson, have you, I won't give you up.
Speaker 2And she raised the pistol and I pointed straight in my art and I said once more, no, Gretchen, it has to be this way, James.
Speaker 3And then I'll go out and give myself off Pippon, I mean, I love you.
Speaker 2I must have lain there for a long while.
At last my eyes opened and it was dusk again.
Speaker 1I struggled to rise, my side hang horribly, and it was a long time before I could reconstruct what had happened.
Speaker 3And I lay there thinking, wondering what had happened to Gretchen.
Was I had to die here alone?
Was she dead too?
Speaker 4Oh?
Speaker 1No?
Speaker 2And then I heard the boy.
Speaker 4I love you.
You will not die.
Speaker 2Gretchen has not died.
We love you, We want you to be happy.
You love Gretchen.
Speaker 3Gretch'em you gretch and loves you.
Speaker 1And I drifted away again into the gathering ducky with a voice no, still ring low.
Speaker 3It's a fine story, James.
Speaker 4Yes, you didn't go as before that you had been shot.
Speaker 3Here's the star.
Speaker 2Uh yeah, what became of your wife?
Speaker 1Well, that's a remarkably beautiful lily there, uh, the big one, uh, the one you.
Speaker 3Couldn't remove when you were digging.
Well, Gretchen was gold and quite like a lily.
Speaker 2Gretchen's green dress with the color of leaves.
Speaker 4What are you trying to tell me, James?
Speaker 3Do you do you see something on the stem of that lily?
Lieutenant?
Speaker 2Where uh?
Speaker 3Uh?
Just below the flowers?
Speaker 4Let me see.
Speaker 1It's a ring, our wedding rings.
Speaker 4How did it get there?
Speaker 3Gretchen?
Speaker 2What I I told you?
Speaker 3She was here with him, Dolly, love you, love you, love you.
Speaker 4No, I didn't get it signed, chiefs.
There wasn't anybody there to sign it.
Speaker 1I'm telling you.
Speaker 2I heard the voice myself.
Speaker 4It kept saying, love you, love you, love you.
Speaker 2That's right.
Speaker 1We looked around to see where it was coming from, and when we turned around again, James was gone.
Speaker 4I don't know.
Speaker 1All I know is there were two lilies there now, close together, great big ones, and they uh, they looked as if they had their arms around each other.
Speaker 4Quiet pleas fortnight was called What's the Lily is considered?
Speaker 2It was written and directed by Willis.
Speaker 4Cooper James the man who spoke to you was Ernest Campbell and.
Speaker 1Kathleen Cordell played Gretchen.
The voice of the Lilies was Stecky Stanley, and James Bowles was the police lieutenant.
As usual, music for Chui Plees is played.
Speaker 3By Albert Remmer.
Speaker 4No I'll for worry about next week here is our writer, director Willis Cooper.
Speaker 2Of course you will never meet any of the characters in night story.
They didn't exist before I thought the month, and they're not imitations of anybody.
Next week, Quiet Flee's story will because Zach tay thankful until next week.
Speaker 3At this time, I am quietly.
Speaker 2Yours Ernest double Quietly has come to you from New York and was transcribed.
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