066- When the Man Comes Follow Him
Escape · April 9, 1949 · 29 min · 5,370 words
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Tired of the everyday routine, ever dream of a life of romantic adventure? Want to get away from it all? We offer you escape, escape, transcribed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure.
You are standing in a lonely canyon in the shadows of superstition mountain, while facing you, tempers ragged, guns drawn, of three men, who at your first move toward hidden treasure will kill you. Today with Paul DuBov starred as Pascal, we escaped with the Arizona desert and a lost treasure of a million dollars, as Ralph Bates told it in his most unusual story, when the
The man comes. Follow him. I was wrong. I know that now. But what good's it to? How could you tell dead men that it's all your fault and you're sorry? No matter what you tell them they're still dead.
So what's the use? It never would have happened if we hadn't got mixed up in this superstition business. We was going along fine. All the other boys and wrists, Fisco, Respectless, stayed out of our territory at least most of the time.
That was under kind of the boss, Mr. Heinemann. He was too smart for him and they knew it. Smart and a great guy along with it. Of course, some people might call him an ordinary racket tear, but he wasn't like that. Nobody could have treated me no better. And he was cultured, too. Loved music. Play the violin almost as good as this fellow heifetz or whatever his
name is. While one time he sent me clear to New York to pick up a strata various he'd heard about, and I had to hang around the dealer store for two weeks before I got a chance to lift it.
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