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A Passage to Benares

Suspense · September 23, 1942 · 29 min · 4,393 words

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The Columbia Network takes pleasure in bringing you suspense suspense Columbia's parade of outstanding thrillers produced by William spear and scored by Bernard Herman notable melodramas from stage and screen fiction and radio

Presented each week to bring you to the edge of your chair to keep you in Suspens. Tonight's story by the noted American author T.S. Dribbling deals with a crime of murder on an exotic and atmospheric island with ragged beggars who slept in a Hindu temple and a walk with gold in their pockets and a dead

girl lying near them and with a strange and mystical entrance into the life of hereafter, was the experience of an American psychologist. For your suspenseful listening, we invite you to join us for a passage to Benares. In Port of Spain, in Trinidad, at half past five in the morning, Mr. Henry Pojorli, an American psychologist, stirred uneasily,

became conscious of a splitting headache, opened his eyes in bewilderment, and then with a shock, So where he was. He got up, arranged his clothing. He tried with his neat psychological mind to recapture his dream to bottle up again the little smoking wisps that still floated about within his aching head.

By seven o'clock he'd found his way back to the house of Mr. Lowell, his host in Port of Spain. Lowell was already about his coffee with an interested spoon poised above the morning paper. Ah, there you are. Good morning, Bojoli. I say you are quiet, didn't here you get up at all.

Have some breakfast? Oh, thanks. I am an out for breath of air. But for news today. Well, the new governor will arrive in Trinidad on the 12th and, uh, hello. Another native's killed his wife. Tell me Bojoli, as a psychologist, why do coolies kill their wives?

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