010- A Shipment of Mute Fate -Jack Webb

Did you miss out on that big football game last week? Can't get rid of that head cold? Wanna get away from it all? CBS offers you escape! You are groping your way slowly through the dark hole of a ship at sea, moving carefully step by step, searching intently for something you've dread defined

because you know that this ship carries a cargo of death. The Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations presents escape! Produced and directed by William N. Robson, and carefully plotted to free you from the four walls of today, for a half hour of high adventure.

Tonight we escaped to a harborfront in Venezuela, and a grim voyage that started there, as told by Martin Storm in his gripping story, a shipment of mute fate. I stopped on the wharf at La Guirere and looked up the gangplank toward the liner Chan Kay, standing quietly there at her moorings.

The day was warm under a bright tropic sun, and the harbor beyond the ship lay drowsy and silent. But all at once in the midst of these peaceful surroundings, a cold chill gripped me, and I shivered with sudden dread.

Dread of the thing I was doing and was about to do. Too much had happened to turn back now. I'd gone too far to stop. I set the box down on the edge of the dwarf, placed it carefully so as to be in plain sight, and within gunshot of the captain's bridge.

And then I turned and started up the gang plane. I knew what I was going to do, but I couldn't forget that a certain pair of BDIs were watching every move I made. Eyes that never blinked and never closed, just watched and waited.