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NARRATOR: Back then, Scandinavia
was a region not widely

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known to Englishmen.

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Mr Wraxhall was a man
past middle age,

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possessed of some private means,

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and very much alone in the world.

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His travels took him,
in the autumn of 1863,

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with some digressions, to Sweden.

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As to Mr Wraxhall's character,

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he was an intelligent
and cultivated fellow.

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His besetting fault was that
of an inquisitiveness,

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possibly a good fault
in a traveller.

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Certainly a fault for which
this traveller

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paid dearly enough in the end.

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Ah.

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Is it to your liking, Herr Wraxhall?

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Erm...

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HE SPEAKS SWEDISH STILTEDLY

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In English, please, dear sir.

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In English.
I do not expect you to...

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Oh, most kind. I can - erm, if
I flatter myself - read a little

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of your mother tongue,
but as for conversation... Ha!

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Everything is very much to my
liking, Froken De la Gardie.

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And may I say, once again, how
very, very kind it is of you...

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Oh, it is nothing, sir. Nothing.

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But...it-it was to the soup
I-I was referring.

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Well, my palate, like my Swedish,
is somewhat limited.

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Although, as with my languages,
I am determined to broaden it.

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Uh, them.

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We have so few visitors here
in Vastergotland.

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Since my husband passed away...

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..the house has been so very silent.

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Hmm. So sad.

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WRAXHALL SLURPS

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You are indeed most welcome.

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And it is fascinating, is it not,

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to have one's family history
investigated?

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Well, I-I-I very much hope so.

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Well, so long as you do not, erm...

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..erm...

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..disturb any skeletons.

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I have no intention of so doing.

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The papers that I'm particularly
interested in concern

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the correspondence between your
ancestor, Sophia Albertina,

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in Stockholm, and her married
cousin, Ulrica Leonora,

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here in Raback in 1705...

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You are absolutely sure? We have
14 bedrooms here at Raback...

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13 or 14. I forget.

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I wouldn't dream of imposing upon
your hospitality any more, Froken.

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The village inn is perfectly
suited to my purposes.

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Very well.

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Until tomorrow. Until tomorrow.

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Oh.

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Who is this fearsome looking chap?

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Ah.

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You are gazing upon the very first
De la Gardie.

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He who built Raback.

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A most extraordinary man
was Count Magnus.

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Well, he looks it. Yes.

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A most extraordinary man.

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Goodnight, Herr Wraxhall.

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Yes. Goodnight, Froken De la Gardie.

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DOOR CREAKS
Ah!

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WRAXHALL CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY
Ah, thank you. Goodnight, yes.

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Oh.

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Thank you.

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Ah.

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God morgon, Herr Nielsen.
God morgon.

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Herr Nielsen, I-I wondered if you
could just satisfy my curiosity.

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To be sure. How...

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Ah.

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How can I be of service?

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Well, yesterday I was
introduced to a Count Magnus.

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What?

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Oh, his portrait, that is.

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Ah.

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Yes, it's a very fine portrait,
in my estimation.

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And the gracious lady who so kindly
has given me access to her archive

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told me a little bit about him,
but I wondered whether you...

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Count Magnus.

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His name is not good hereabouts,
Herr Wraxhall.

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He's not kindly remembered.

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Oh.

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Do tell.

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Ah... It's a long time ago.

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But for a scholar, like me,
this is just meat and drink.

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Well... Please, please.
I'm most eager to learn.

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Oh...

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There was some trouble
not long after the...

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..the great house was built.

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People rose up,
there was discontent.

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Oh, yes. Oh. I see.

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Peasants, all that sort of thing.

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Yes, you know, you're rather more
prone to it here on the Continent,

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aren't you, than we... Erm...

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Sorry, do go on.

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The uprising,
it was put down by the Count.

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And he, he was merciless,
always merciless.

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Tenants were flogged or branded
if they were late with the rents,

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and some houses that he said
encroached on his land

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were...were burnt down,
with the people still inside.

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Oh. Gracious.

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And then, of course,

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there was the other matter.
DOOR OPENS

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MAN CALLS OUT
Other matter?

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NIELSEN RESPONDS

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Uh, you must excuse.
W-w-what other matter?

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The Black Pilgrimage.

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Oh.

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What's that? I must go. I'm sorry.

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I have businesses in Skara.
I will be back this evening.

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One moment more.
I'm sorry. Herr Nielsen.

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What was the Black Pilgrimage?

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It's said that Count Magnus
brought something back with him.

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Something...

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..or someone.

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Oh.

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METALLIC CLINKING

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METALLIC CREAKING

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Yes, I wonder...

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Erm...

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IN SWEDISH:

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I don't do that.

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Oh. The Count built it?

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His mausoleum. His tomb.

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Oh, how fascinating.

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Ah. Sophia Albertina...

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Where are you?

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TUNEFULLY: Sophia Albertina...

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..she got so much leaner.

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When she ate the beetroot soup...

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..that made her...greener!

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WRAXHALL CHUCKLES

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HE HUMS TO HIMSELF

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Ah. The Talmud.

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BOOK THUMPS LOUDLY

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Oh, blast.

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Well...

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Talk of the devil.

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Metals...

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Ironmongery...

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Dry goods. Hmm!

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Kitchen expenditure.

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How very disappointing of you,
Count Magnus.

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Turba Philosophorum.

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The Book Of The Phoenix.

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Book Of The Thirty Words.

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Book Of The Toad?

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He was an alchemist.

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Liber Negrae...

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..Peregrinationis.

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The Book Of The Black Pilgrimage.

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That's indubitably the Count's hand.

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Indubitably.

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"If any man desires
to obtain a long life,

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"if he would obtain
a faithful messenger

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"and see the blood of his enemies,

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"it is necessary
that he must first...

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"..travel into the city
of Chorazin."

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Chorazin, Chorazin...

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"And there salute...

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"..the Prince.

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"Prince...

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"..of the Air."

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Ah.

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I trust my ancestors'
correspondence isn't proving

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too tedious, Herr Wraxhall.

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Oh, on the contrary, dear lady.
On the contrary.

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The, erm...

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The mausoleum, the Count's tomb,

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might I crave a... Yes?

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..a visit?

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It would be so helpful
for my researches.

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Certainly.

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It is in the care of the church
in the next village.

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I shall have a word with the deacon.

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Ah. Now, that must have been
him I saw earlier.

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I beg your pardon?

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Well, I saw someone,
standing on the steps.

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Locking - or unlocking,
I suppose - the door.

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That must have been
your deacon. Yes.

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It must have been.

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LIVELY CHATTER

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Herr Nielsen!

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I know something about that
Black Pilgrimage you mentioned.

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What was it that the Count
brought back with him?

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I, erm... Go on. You may as well
tell me everything you know.

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Herr Wraxhall, I will tell you
this one little tale and no more.

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Not any more.

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You must not ask me anything
when I have done.

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Is that agreed?

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Very well.

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In my grandfather's time...

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..there were two men,
Anders Bjornsen and Hans Thorbjorn.

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They were simple men
from hereabouts.

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Hans was a blacksmith, I think,
and Anders Bjornsen a carpenter,

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and he was a beautiful man.

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Note that, Herr Wraxhall -
he was once a beautiful man.

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THEY ALL SING

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These men, they said,
"Count Magnus is dead.

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"The count is long dead.
We don't care for him.

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"Tonight we will go for
a free hunt in his wood."

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That's the long wood on the hill
that you have seen outside Raback.

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Those who heard them say this,
they said,

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"No.

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UNTRANSLATED

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"Don't go.

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"If you go, you will meet
persons walking

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"that should not be walking.

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"They should be resting.

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"Not walking."

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But these men, they laughed.

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Vi kommer!

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Vi kommer, Greve Magnus!

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So, that evening
they go into the wood.

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And my grandfather,
he was sitting here in this inn.

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It was, uh...summer
and a light night,

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and with a window open, he could...
he could see out to the wood.

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And hear.

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So, he sat there,
and two or three men with him,

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and they listened.

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At first, they hear nothing at all.

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Then...

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TERRIFIED SCREAM

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DISEMBODIED LAUGHING

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It was not one of those
two men that laughed.

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Indeed, they have all of them said
that it was not any man at all.

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When it was quite light enough,
they fetched the priest.

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They said, "Father, put on
your gown and your ruff

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"and come and bury these men,
Hans Thorbjorn and Anders Bjornsen."

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Understand, they were sure
these men were dead.

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But they went to the wood,
and they found the men there.

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Hans Thorbjorn was standing
with his back against a tree,

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and all the time he was
pushing with his hands.

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Pushing.

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Pushing away something from him
which wasn't there.

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So, they led him away and they...

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..they took him to the house
at Nykoping, the madhouse.

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And he died before winter,
but he...he went on pushing.

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And, also,
Anders Bjornsen was there.

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But he was dead.

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I told you this about
Anders Bjornsen

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that he was once a beautiful man.

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But now his face was not there,

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because the flesh of it had been
sucked away off the bones.

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You understand that?

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My grandfather couldn't forget it.

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And so they laid him down on
the bier that they had brought,

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and they put a cloth over his head.

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MEN SING PSALM

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They could not close the eyes
of Anders Bjornsen

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because there was nothing
to close over them.

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This they could not bear.

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Therefore, the priest
sent for a spade,

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and they buried him in that place.

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You will need a drink.

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NARRATOR: It could not be
denied that all this threw

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a rather lurid light upon the
tastes and beliefs of the count.

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But to Mr Wraxhall, separated
from him by so many, many years,

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the thought that the great man
might have added to his general

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forcefulness alchemy, and to
alchemy, something like magic...

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WRAXHALL: Oh. God morgon!

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..only made him a more
picturesque figure.

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Chorazin.

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Chorazin?
Oh, yes, yes, Chorazin, yes.

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You're a man of God.
What do you know of it?

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Why do you want to know?

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I have an inquiring mind.

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As I recall, erm,
it's in the Apocrypha, isn't it?

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It was a town in the Holy Land.

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If you know, why do you ask?

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Oh... I beg your pardon.

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It was a town cursed by our Lord,

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for they were unaffected
by his mission.

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Then began He to upbraid
the cities wherein most

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of His mighty works were done,
for they repented not.

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Woe unto thee, Chorazin!

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Woe unto thee, Bethsaida!

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Matthew 11, 20 to 24.

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Luke 10, 13...
Yes, it must be a bit of...

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..to 15.

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Yes. It must be a bit of a ruin now.

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Mm.

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And didn't I read somewhere...

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..the Antichrist?
The Antichrist will be born there.

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Yes.

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Uh...

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Erm...

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Tack.

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DEACON CLEARS THROAT

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So, the Count, he journeyed
to Chora...Chorazin?

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Is that the tale?

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And he wasn't alone
when he returned?

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Do you happen to know
what the panels represent

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on the sides of the tomb?

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There is one figure, it's most
peculiar. Is it a man at all?

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It has some kind of protuberance,

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like the tentacles of a devil-fish.

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There are tales, Herr Wraxhall.

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Oh, yes?

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Tales I was going to say...

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..that I have forgotten.

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God dag, min herr.

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Oh. Well, thank you, once again,
for sparing the time.

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Oh... Oh!

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PAPERS RUSTLE
Sorry.

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Here, allow me.

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Are you awake, Count Magnus?
Are you asleep, Count Magnus?

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WRAXHALL CHUCKLES

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Oh.

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How odd I didn't notice that.

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I felt sure. Hmm.

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Yes.

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No, no, no, no.

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The Count sleeps safe enough.

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Right.

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Well, alas, dear lady,
the old country beckons.

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It's been so good to have life
in the old house again.

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Jollity and singing.

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Oh, gracious, um,
you didn't hear me?

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Upon occasion, ja. Most ingenious.

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Oh! And what of your researches?

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Oh, illuminating,

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if only one had more time.

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That is the one thing
none of us have enough of.

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Is that not so, Herr Wraxhall?

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Well, your ancestor, the count,

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he certainly tried his best

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to beat time's winged chariot,
I mean. Indeed.

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But it's all nonsense,
of course, isn't it?

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Local superstitions and fears
all mixed up with titbits

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of fact and speculation.

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As you yourself observed,
he was an extraordinary man,

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but I hardly think he would have
made a bargain with the devil

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to live forever.

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The Black Pilgrimage.

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Oh, you know of it?
We're an old family, Herr Wraxhall.

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The count, he cast
a long shadow over us.

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I was raised on these stories
of his journey to the Holy Land,

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a most unholy business.

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Of his coming back with...

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..a companion.

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It's deeply fascinating,

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as I say, for a scholar like myself,
these, um...these fairy tales.

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Fairy tales?

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I wish you a safe journey,
Herr Wraxhall.

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Take care.

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Take good care.

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Oh.

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Yes, well...

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It would be remiss of me

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not to say goodbye to
the old boy, wouldn't it?

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After all the fun he's given me.

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Oh, Count Magnus. Count Magnus.

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It is with sadness...

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HE CHUCKLES

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..that I bid thee farewell.

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Oh, dear old Magnus, Count Magnus,

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be thee in heaven
or be thee in hell...

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Oh, best not say that.

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Yes.

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You may have been
a rascal in your time,

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but I'd dearly like to see you.

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Or rather...

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Oh.

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RUMBLING

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CHAIN RATTLES

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STONE SCRAPES

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SQUELCHING

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HE YELLS

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What have I done?!

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SHOUTS: What have I done?!

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NARRATOR: Poor Mr Wraxhall.

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He set out on his journey
to England the next day

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and eventually reached there
in safety.

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And yet, as can be gathered
from the changed hand

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and inconsequent jottings
of his notebooks,

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he was a broken man.

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He seems to have become
obsessed with enumerating

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and describing
his fellow passengers...

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Commercial traveller.

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There's no...no trouble there.

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Black cloak.

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Brown hat.

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I couldn't see his face!

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I couldn't see his face.

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CARRIAGE RATTLES

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DISTANT FOX SCREECH

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DOOR CREAKS

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They're coming.

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That much is obvious.

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They're coming to get me.

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00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,519
It's coming.

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It!

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00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,439
What did I ever do wrong?
What wrong did I do?

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00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:35,999
I didn't do anything. What did I do?

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00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,559
I can't go to the doctor, can I?

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00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:40,640
He'll lock me up.
HE LAUGHS HYSTERICALLY

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Policeman. Policeman.
HE LAUGHS

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They'd just laugh at me.

401
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:53,199
Why not?
Who'd believe such a story?

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00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:57,319
I scarcely...scarcely
believe it myself.

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00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,519
The Deacon. The Deacon.

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Vicious...

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He knew all along.

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Perhaps they warned you.

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All of them!

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00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,079
Oh, God!

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00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:18,240
What have I done?

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CREAKING

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HANDLE RATTLES

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Oh, God. God. God. Oh, God!

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00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:40,559
Oh, God. Oh!

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00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,879
Oh, God!

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DOOR CREAKS

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EVIL LAUGHTER

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HE YELLS

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CHURCH BELL CHIMES

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People in that village
still remember

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how a strange gentleman
arrived one evening years back.

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And how, the next morning,
he was found dead.

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There was an inquest
and seven of the jury

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that viewed the body fainted.

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And none of them would
speak of what they saw.

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The verdict was "visitation of God".

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And here I lie with my companion.

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Waiting.

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And still they come,
like poor Mr Wraxhall.

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Curious, over-inquisitive.

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Fresh...

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