Vacation from Life

Mutual presents the mysterious traveler, written, produced and directed by Bob Arthur and David Colgan. Good to you! This is the mysterious traveler, inviting you to join me on another journey into the realm of the strange and the terrifying.

I hope you will enjoy the trip, that it will thrill you a little and cheer you a little. So settle back, get a good rip on your nerves and be comfortable, if you can. And by the way, did you have a good vacation this summer?

A nice quiet time, no unusual excitement, no unpleasant event that shook your nerve, so that you jump when a strain hand knocks on your window at midnight or a slow, heavy footsteps come up to your door?

That's good. Then you're in shape to go on another vacation with me tonight. It's the story I call... The spot I have in mind for your vacation is a tiny harbor along the northern main coast.

An isolated beach reached only by boat from the nearest town two miles away. And so lonely there's only a single cottage. But it's going to be very consumed. The President Ono won't be needing it after tonight.

My name is Matthew Clark. I am forty years old and I teach Greek in New York City. I suppose you could say I'm a typical professor since I wear glasses, stupid little, am absent minded at times, and as my wife has said so many times in the ten years we've been married, I hardly know a school driver from a monkey venture how to replace a burned out electric

light bulb, a fumbler. That's her favorite word to describe me. Well she's going to find out it's not true. But I mustn't get excited. I won't be able to fish as if I... I might not keep calm.