The Devil's Fortune

This is your host to welcome you through the creaking door into the inner sanctum. Come in, come in. I've been reading my fan mail. Ah? Oh sure, I get lots of it delivered in a hearse every morning.

One lonely heart writes, despite your sinister voice, you strike me as a fine gentleman in the hog body. I am companionable, good-natured, unmarried, and I've been hardly dead a year. Won't you please exchange photographs signed loans soon?

Ha ha ha. Did somebody say the lady spoke out of terms? Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Tonight's Inner Sanctum Mystery, The Devil's Fortune, was written by John Robert and stars Carl Swenson the role of Tracy with Charles Irving as McNamara.

And now for tonight's chaos. In the deep, hinterland of Mexico on the ground level over a mine shaft, a ceremony is being performed by a frightened group of men, a ceremony of fear, drum speed, and a roaring fire licks up the night sky.

a ground in the mine called El Fortuno Diablo, the Devil's Fortune, flood waters rise slowly to choke off all life in the shaft. Clinging to the elevation of a ledge, trapped and at bay, where the water is lapping at his ankles is a young man.

His expression is desperate as he fires a gun into the subterranean shadows at an unseen target. Give me a break, Mac! I've got a right to live! You're gonna talk really shoot me down So who's the way I want to die Michael get me even if it costs him his own life Mac happened to me in a furnished room across the border and El Paso I