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Coming up, it's several episodes from I Love a Mystery, encompassing an entire season and single storyline. I Love a Mystery was a radio show that featured a mix of mystery, drama and adventure. First heard on NBC West Coast, January 16, 1939 and considered one of the best adventure radio shows ever. It followed the adventures of three unlikely heroes, detectives Reggie Yorke, Doc Long and Jack Packard of the A1 detective agency. These detectives were based on Alexander Dumas's Three Musketeers, Aramis, Porthos and Athos. Jack Packard's character is considered the best of the three. He was always the first to solve the crime. Doc Long, on the other hand, is the group's comedian, while Reggie Yorke is the most physically strong. Together, they make money by solving mysteries. The trio met as mercenary soldiers fighting the Japanese in China. Later, they met again in San Francisco where they decided to form the A1 detective agency. Their motto was, No Job Too Tough, No Adventure Too Baffling. The agency served as a plot device to involve the three characters in a wide variety of stories. These straddled the genres of mystery, adventure and supernatural horror and the plotlines often took them to exotic locales. I Love a Mystery is generally acknowledged as one of the greatest adventure serials from the Golden Age of Radio, a mix of humor, adventure, horror and mystery unlike anything you've ever heard before. For the serial we'll be listening to tonight, Temple of Vampires, many of the 20 episodes were believed lost but you could still listen to the remaining episodes and keep up with the story. But the missing episodes were either found or recreated with different actors in order to fill out the series, so you might be surprised that some episodes sound cleaner than others or sound much worse than others. Still, we have the entire story now and it's a classic.  Well, that's all we can do this afternoon. What time is it? About six o'clock. Well, that's called the day. Come on down, Reggie. Righto! Now, here she is. Our very own airplane already first. Why, you don't seem any time since we was aghastin' around because we had to wait two weeks for the fact we'd get ready. Now, these last two weeks have passed in a hurry, haven't they? Now, roll your sleeves down, Reggie. It's all for tonight. I think we'll be ready to take off by tomorrow afternoon. Won't you, Jack? Then look out Central America. We can't get out of San Diego any too fast to suit me after what happened last night. You mean, Phil and Arthur using each other for shooting targets quiet? Forget it. We're going to have a busy time if we get away tomorrow. Reggie, you'll have to finish up the work on the plane. Excuse me? Doc, it's up to you to get our clearance papers for the ship and see them at passports.  Phil, I don't know when I've been so head up. Central America, dog gone! Does promise a bit of adventure, doesn't it? Yes, sir. Hey, that's Sonny's boy. What's she doing out here at the airport? Sonny, here we are. I thought I'd catch you off here. Joe, I hope there isn't any more trouble. Hello, boys. How's the plane coming? Fine, fine. We're pulling out tomorrow. Oh, I see. Why, is there anything to matter? Very much to matter. Yeah, well, what? Me. Well, what do you mean, you? What do you think I mean?  You think I like this place any better than you do after what's happened? Phil and Arthur and Leslie Marx? Fine. A bit like a morgue. Yes. Well, you three have been so swell to me. I know it's an imposition, but I just couldn't help asking one thing more. Well, let's have it, fella. What do you want? Well, take me with you. Oh, look here. Hey, we're going down into the Central American jungle. I can't think of any better place to forget, can you? Won't you please? I'll pay my way and I won't be any bother. I mean, just because I'm a girl won't matter. Anything goes what I don't like, I won't see. Well, now, I don't know about that. What do you say, Jack? Well, we could use some more money. We are going to be kind of short of dough when we get all our equipment. Oh, look here, now, Phil. Oh, please, please. You mean you'll consider it? Why not if Doc and Reggie agree? Well, it ain't the way we planned it. But as you say, why not? Reggie? Oh, I say, yeah, go! Oh, Reggie, are you going to... Oh, I say you're not going to cry. I am too. I'm so disappointed. But I haven't said you couldn't go. Oh, look here. Will you stop those banditiers? Then I can go. Yes, fine, but I bloody well don't like it. Oh, Reggie, you're wonderful. Reggie, son, well, what?  Reggie, how long ago did we leave Madagalpa? Was that the last big jungle town we passed over? Yeah, Madagalpa. 55 minutes ago, Jack, then we should ought to be getting pretty close to Boa Co. Boa Co, Jack. What's this? Boa Co. Not Boa Co. You don't say. Well, anyway, ain't we almost there, Jack? Yes, keep your eyes open, Reggie. You ought to be sighting Boa Co. any moment now. I don't. Nothing on the horizon is yet. Is that a stopping point? Yes, I wired ahead from Guatemala City for them to be ready to refuel us. Well, if I remember my Central America, it ain't going to be much for Airport. No, they told me in Guatemala City they'd have to refuel by hand. Oh, you want to do any checking on the motors while we're down there, Reggie? Yes, just what I had in mind. We're throwing a little oil somewhere. We are. I didn't say nothing serious, but I think I'd better have a look. Yes, don't take anything for credit. After we leave Boa Co, there's nothing between us and 500 miles of jungle but the town of wheat gulpa. And there's no airport there. Wow, the jungles. 500 miles of them. You sound as though you're looking forward to enjoying the prospect, son. Of course. Anything to make me forget that awful Richard Curse and all those murders. Well, a little jungle goes a long way for my money. And what happens after we leave Boa Co, Jack? Well, we fly between the Huapi Mountains and Lake Nicaragua. Lake Nicaragua? Is it much of a lake? Only 50 miles long. 50 miles? Well, that's an infant ocean. Out of Indians all along the lake, I understand. From the lower end of the lake to San Jose Costa Rica is another 150 miles. And that's our destination for tonight? San Jose Costa Rica? That's right, sugar. And we'll be getting in there around eight or nine o'clock. Yeah, if we're lucky. Should be still lighting up to land without flares. Gee. San Jose Costa Rica. Doesn't that sound like fun? And then what do we do? Well, Sonny, then it's about the time and place that I start looking for trouble. What kind of trouble? Well, I don't know about rest of you, but I know what kind I'm looking for. Yes. You'll no doubt find it, too. Doc, you don't mean something tall, dark, and lovely.  Oh, my, my. How can you bear to wait? I can't hardly. Ha, ha, ha. And you, Jack, what sort of trouble are you going to look for? I am reserving the right to pick and choose my brand of trouble when we get there. And, man, oh, man, is there plenty to pick and choose from?  Really? Well, you never saw the light coming. Well, Sonny, the last time we was down this way, Reggie almost got himself skinned alive trying to save a half-breed girl from an Indian sacrifice. Did you save her, Reggie? No. But, Doc, that wasn't it, San Jose. That was in the back country, further east. Oh, sure. Of course it was. But it's all the same in this part of the world. Stuff not only happens, it comes right up and smashes you in the face. You boys must know a side of Central and South America I never knew. You've been here before? Yes. Of course, I always stuck pretty civilized areas. Well, Doc's laying it on pretty thick. The average traveler is a safe in Central America. He is in his own doorstep. You gotta go looking for trouble here, the same as in any other part of the world. Uh-huh. What about you, Reggie? Me? Yeah. What sort of trouble are you going to look for tonight? Oh, look here. I think I'll take it as it comes. I think I'm going to feel cheated, however, if I don't find somebody who wants to do a bit of brawling, sailor fashion. A brawl? Well, I've read, Reggie, and you look so gentlemanly. What would make you want to fight? Money. Politics. Women. Oh, look here. There's one need a reason. Oh, my goodness. What sort of men have I got mixed up with? Didn't you ever daydream, Sonny? Oh-ho-ho. So this is daydreaming. What kind of trouble are you being one? Oh, I hadn't thought it. Let's see. Are the men as handsome as the girls are beautiful? You'd better forget that. Why, Jack, why? Well, we're going to have other things to do besides look after you. Yeah, honey. We're only going to have one night in Costa Rica.  Oh. Well, you hurt me. Now, you boys look here. You pay attention to your own brand of trouble. Let me take care of mine. Quite. I'll buy that. And see that you remember it. All right. Jack, huh? Do I go coming out? Good. Can you spot the airport? Not yet. Do you mind taking a squint through the glasses? Oh, here they are. Oh, thanks. Looks like quite a place. Yeah. How queer the way it seems to be laid right down in the middle of the wilderness. Now, you've got it, Reggie. Fields right straight ahead. On this side of the town? Yeah, it's better start dropping down. Down we go. Watch it, sonny. Uh-huh. How long will we be here? Not more than 20 minutes, sir. Well, just long enough to stretch my legs. And my stomach's telling me it's time to eat. Me, too. I hope they have better coffee than we got in Guatemala City. And better circle the strip to get the feel of the port. Seems to be a bit small for a ship this size. Good idea. All right. See, they're expecting us. They've got a stack of five-gallon cans of gasoline out on the field. You mean they pour the gasoline in five gallons at a time? That's how they do it down here. All right. Hang on. Here we go down. Hold everything. How does he have it? Beautiful. Take it right up alongside the cans of gas. Right on. So far so good. Yep. Open it up, Doc. Everybody up. And a pleasure at ease.  I'll supervise the refueling. Hey, that's no fun. Go ahead, Doc. You and Sonny had up something deep. I'll help Richie check the oil pumps. Okay. Come on down, Sonny. Oh.  I'll catch you. All right. Here I come. Ah, I got you. All right. And I never held it.  Oh, put me down, you leg. Now, why'd you have to say that? Doc, you're shocking the natives. Well, do them good if you ask me.  Well, you insist. Ah.  And not a bad arm full of girl if anyone should ask. Did you just notice? Yes, sir.  Don't tell me I roused the sentimental Texas boy in you. Well, something went and made my heart go flip-flap-flap. Flop, Doc, not flip-flap. Jack, you wasn't supposed to be listening. Yeah. Never mind. It wasn't important. What you mean it wasn't important? Of course it was important. And I thought you two were looking for a place to get some food. Well, where are you going, fella? Well, I gotta take care of the clearance papers and paper this gas thing. I'll join you later. Well, how about it, Sonny? Oh, yeah. I'm crazy to look around. Okay, come on. We won't see any of the town, I guess. No, it's over that way. Looky yonder at the Indians in blanket, the squatting on the edge of the field. They acted as though they didn't believe their eyes. I don't reckon airplanes are one of the things they see the most down here. Goodness. Positively hot. Lady, you're in the tropics now. I know. It's like a new world. Down here on the ground, Boaco looks more than ever like it was carved out of the wilderness. And what a wilderness. Look at the jungle all about it. Yes. That's your grows, Dandy. It looks so rang and indebtly. Every plant trying to strangle the life out of every other plant. Murder in plant life, huh? Yeah, that's just what it looks like. Vicious, unwholesome murder. Hey, here. This looks like it being eaten joint. Shall we try it? Oh, duh. It's dirty. Of course it's dirty. We don't have to eat the dirt, do we? Well, if we don't get something besides food in here, I'll be surprised. Well, let's have a look anyway. Door open. No screams. Flies everywhere. Hi, friend. Would you maybe have some coffee? Yeah, sure. I got coffee. Then we'll have two coffees. What else do you have on the menu? It beans. Want any beans, son? No, for heaven's sake, no. This kind of weather? Well, what else do you have besides beans? You don't like beans. No, neighbor. We don't like beans. What else you got? Maybe you like some free hollies. Free hollies? What do you mean, free hollies? That's just south of the border for beans. Sure it is. Is that all you got in this black plant? Free hollies, beans. What more is there? I guess we're going to take beans and like it. Hey, you got any bread? It was this. Yes. Yeah? Well, look, is this the only eating place around here? What's the matter, you say that? What's the matter with this place? Well, fella, it is kind of dirty. Now, ain't it? You got to admit that. You say this place is dirty? That's right. I say this place is dirty. Sure it is dirty. Who cares? You win, mister. Give us tortillas, free hollies, and coffee. Now you talk, Sam.   Well, I guess we're all ready to take off now, Jack. All right, my man. Doc ships at the controls. Yeah, close her up. Let's get going. Hey, Sonny, what do them beans do to you? They give me indigestion plus heartburn plus a heatcups plus one. Why hardly touch them? But it was good coffee. Well said, Doc. There I go. Okay. Watch it. Look at that, kid. Here we go. The sass he is. Should have licked it around with about half an hour. I'll follow along the shoreline. Good. You both can relax and sleep off your beans. You know, I like that stuff best of all. I really got the feel of the jungle tropics. Lazy and dreamy. Just a little bit rotten and dangerous. Yeah, that's life in the tropics and she is lived. Our first real taste. Hello, everybody. What's up? I just said hello. Jack, I say a valley infant. Why, Jack, it's a little boy. Oh, where did you come from? Back in there. Back in the luggage compartment? Oh, look here. We've got a blooming star. Where did you get on this plane? Back in San Diego. You've been on this plane since we left San Diego? Sure. But little boy, where are your mother and father? I haven't got any mother. My father's back in San Diego. This is great. Don't you know you shouldn't have done this? Your father must be terribly worried. Who know he isn't? He put me in here. Your father put you in this plane? Uh-huh. He gave me a package of sandwiches and told me to stay here until I got hungry. You mean your father abandoned you? I don't know. He just said to stay in there until I got hungry. Oh, what are you going to do now? What is there to do? And if we land in San Jose, we'll take him to the American consul. Did he see that he gets back to the United States? Well, he'll have to. Hey, what's your name? Hermie. Hermie what? That's all. Just Hermie. But Hermie, what's your father's name? His name's Hermie, too, and I'm hungry and thirsty. Well, of course you are, darling. All right, Reggie. Break out some cheese and crackers. And some of that chocolate. Some cherv wetness to an unwashed juvenile. Oh, shame on you, Reggie. How old are you, darling? I'm seven. Please don't call me darling. Well, of course I won't. I'm a man and women are no good. Oh? And put that in your pipe and smoke it, sonny, Reggie. Yeah, that puts me in my place, all right. Boy, I sure do like airplane. Oh, you do? Yeah. When Bob said I was going for an airplane ride, I just about busted my bridge, sir. Well, here you are, Hermie. Sink your teeth into this. Thanks.  Some adventure, huh, Jack? Yeah. Great. Yes, sir. Now, if we only had a big box of sand, we could start a kindergarten. Jack, Jim Bowles is Doug Long, and Tony Randall is Reggie Orr, with Sarah Fussell as Hermie. Frank McCarthy speaking, this is the mutual broadcasting system. The mutual broadcasting system presents I Love the District, called in more sedentary thriller, Temple of Vampire. Comment is, this Lake Nicaragua is nothing to sneeze at. Quite a body of water, all right. Where are we now? Well, Hermie over on our right is Lake Nicaragua. And those snow-capped markings on our left are the puppies. And what's down below us? Jungles, my fine young soul. What, tigers and bears in them? Well, I don't know about tigers and bears, but there's plenty of spotted panthers and snakes. Not to mention a few alligators and wild Indians. Indians? Is our Indians? In how? With paint on their faces and bows and arrows up both sleeves. What sleeve? Could we go down there? Hey, I hope not. Oh, could we sell her? No, I'm afraid not. And look, how about you calling me Doc, which is my name? Hi, Doc. Why can't we go down, Doc? Well, didn't you just hear Sonny say she didn't want to? Oh, Sonny's a girl. Hey, listen, Hermie. Do you have to keep throwing that up to me?  Well, can I help it? Girls ain't good for very much. Not like men. I say the line has a philosophy about women, apparently. Can I suppose you agree with it? Well, I don't know. Did I say so?  What's your name? I'm Reggie York. I don't like that name very well. Don't you now? Yeah. What's yours, mind? You can call me Sonny. Okay. What's his? That's not over there. That's Jack. He don't like me, does he? You don't think so? Jack? Well, of course he does. No, he don't. He don't talk to me. Now, you hear that, Jack? Hmm? You sleep. No. Hermie is as you won't talk to him. Did he? Oh, Jack. Hermie's a good little guy. I don't doubt it. Well, look at what's come over Jack. Looks like he's got a bit of Mali grubbos. And all on account of Hermie. Are you piloting this ship? That's right. I am that. How about keeping your mind on the controls? Hey, you have got it bad, haven't you? Jack, what does a bower do when he wants to rest in an airplane? Get them tired? I don't said anything about getting tired. Men don't get tired. That's right, Hermie, but men do have to rest sometimes. Sure. That's what I mean. Well, you see that blanket on the floor back there? Yeah. Well, when I need a rest, I go back and lie down on that. Is it okay for me? It most certainly is. Anytime you feel like it. Thanks. Hey, Jack. Yes? You don't like kids? Sure. Then what's the matter? Does anyone say there was something the matter? Aw, but Jack, it's just as you said. The minute we reach San Jose, we can turn him over to the American console. That's right. Then why cut him dead for the three or four hours he's with us? Maybe it's a kid. Maybe it is. All I know is that something's wrong. Wrong? Just what are you driving at, Jack? I don't know. Just a feeling.  Yeah. You hear that, Reg? Fine. And I don't like it a little bit. What's the matter with you folks? Well, it ain't nothing to be laughed at. When Jack smells trouble, it means something. Oh, buddy, you're talking about it.  Feminitions. Men who live by their wits stay alive by paying attention to their hunches. Oh, for Pete's sake. We find a seven-year-old boy stowed away on the plane, and immediately everybody acts like the end of the world has come. How does the instrument board look, Doc? Nothing out of Kilda here. How far would you judge we are from the lake? 25 miles, I guess, off hand. I've been keeping a middle course about halfway between the mountains and the lake. Uh-huh. How about getting over nearer the lake? You say so. But, Jack, what's that for? It takes us off our course. Well, if we had to make a sudden landing, we'd have a better chance along the shore. Jack, are you being serious? I don't know any more than you do. Oh, I think this is a lot of nonsense. How much altitude, Doc? Upwards to 3,000. That looks plenty. Mind if I take the controls? There you are, son. You're welcome to them. Come on, slide in. Thanks. Well, I wish I knew what this was all about. Look, Sonny, a good nose for trouble. It saved our skins more times than I can count on the ten fingers. It's fine. When Jack says there's something in the wind, keep your peoples open. Oh, Reggie? Yes, Jack? Get out of the maps with all the towns in this area. Before you can say Jack Robinson. Oh, and Reggie? Yes. When you're finished with them, put them back in your pocket where they're safe. It's as good as done. You know, I ain't seen Jack worried like this, and I don't know when. Why does he want Reggie to put the maps in his pocket? Well, yes, for instance. Supposing we had to crack up and the plane was to burn. Doc, what do you mean? Well, nothing. Only if we were to be left on foot, these maps would be mighty handy to have to know which way to head to. But you mean we're in danger of cracking up? Sugar, if we knew what was the matter, we wouldn't... Well, we'd be doing something about it, not sitting here talking. And it's all based on... Just on Jack's feelings? Every smidgen of it. The nearest thing to make out the closest town is about 50 miles on the other side of the lake. Well, that don't do us a precious lot of good on this side. Yes, I know. Nothing on this side at all? Nothing on the map. I suppose there must be villages, but not important enough to show here. Supposing there are. What good convenience? Well, any Portland storm is a good motto. I'll go up and tell Jack what I've found. Well, isn't this pleasant? All part of the game, Sonny. You ask for it. Yeah. You want to make a bet? Well, I'd make it. I do like my gambling. I'll bet you $5 we land in San Jose on schedule and no trouble. Hey, Sugar, don't say that. How why not? Well, haven't we got enough trouble without you throwing up a challenge like that? Honest and goodness, Doc. You and your Texas superstition. You don't get it, Sonny. It isn't superstition. That's how a soldier of fortune stays alive, being one jump ahead. It's part of our job to see what's coming. And we've all been doing it so long, it's... Well, it's about like, well, a sixth sense or second nature to us.  No, you go right ahead. Oh, you give me the willies. It's all so silly. Well, maybe it isn't that. Oh, what'd Jack have to say, Reggie? Just shrugged and said we were out of luck if anything went wrong now. No towns or nothing, huh? No? Reggie?  Evil eye? Well, whatever you want to call it. What's so unnatural around this world about a combination? You don't think there's anything wrong with it? Not at all. Something in Jack is simply tuned a bit finer than in the rest of us. Or put it this way, his unconscious has picked up something that isn't apparent to the rest of us. What do you mean picked up something? Well, Jack doesn't know. How would I? But you must have something in mind. What could his unconscious pick up that the rest of us don't get? Well, just for instance, the rhythm of the engine, the vibration of the propellers or of the wings. Something so slightly abnormal that even his conscious mind doesn't get it. And yet it's registered in that subconscious instinct that warms up impending danger. Or again, it might be the weather. Maybe he got a whiff of a storm. And his instinct for approaching danger has been so much more highly developed than ours that he'd get it before we did. That's it. Well, at least that makes some sense. Where do you think you'd be going? Back to see how Hermie the hitchhiker is doing. Most likely he'll be asleep. If he is, he should have something over him. Well, anyway, we're doing all right so far. How you mean? Jack's maneuvered us right along the lake shore. Looks to be places to land in an emergency. Looks it from up here. But, well, it'd be like when we get down there. You think maybe those clear places might be swamps? That or quicksand, if not worse. Just the same it would beat landing in the top of a tree. Not if the swamp were a wriggling of alligators, which sometimes they are. Well, that's a jolly thought. That's one thing that Doc Long's mother never intended. For him to end up in the stomach of no alligator.  Do you sleep?  All tuckered off. Can you imagine a little kid like that? Taking what comes without a wink. A soldier of fortune in the making, I say. The heart of a free builder. He looks like he had plenty of pushing around in his seven years at that. Yeah, I was noticing. He could do with some feeding up.  A whole kid. A boy who can. There it comes. What do you mean? Pass yourself to your seat. But she's caught on alright again, Jack. I don't know what she's going to do. Pass your seat belt. Hold the kid to your left, Doc. Yes, commandant, I'm getting. Here, sonny. I'll show you how to pass yourself in. He's going to be bad. I don't know. There. That'll keep him from getting tossed around. Sorry to be busting up your nap for me. Where are we now? The jungle's still down below us. And is it? Yeah, I'll bet there are. Here, I'll buckle me in and then hold you on the lap. I'm too old to be held on people's laps. This is just to keep you from getting bouncing on your hair. We're losing altitude plans. Or the closer we get to the ground with the help of the engines, the less we'll bounce. Glad you came, sonny. No matter what happens, I'm glad I came. That's the old fast dog. That's all I can do. No passing in. Better rip, Jack. We're ready for anything you've got first. Are we going down? That's what I'm dreaming. How about we can hit you? Yeah, that's all you see, fella.  He's got a landing plane picked out. Looks pretty good, too. Tell him not to hit any allocator. We're going down to Uncle Bay at Seaman. That's right, Hermione. And it's not going to be long now. Hang on to me like everything, Hermione. The ship is still sailing. Anybody hurt? And why would we be hurt? That's about the prettiest piece of land in an airship as anybody's ever going to see. Anybody got any idea where we are? I said take a look out the window. Holy jumping catfish. What is it, huh? It's a gone cathedral. Cathedral? Good lord, a New York skyscraper rising right up out of the jungle. Other adventures of Jack, Doc and Reggie will come to you tomorrow at the same hour. I Love a Mystery, written and directed by Carlton E. Morse, comes to you Monday through Friday, featuring Russell Forsen as Jack, Jim Boles as Doc Long, and Tony Randolph as Reggie Orr, with Sarah Fussell as Hermie. Frank McCarthy speaking. This will be a true broadcasting system. They're miracles, Reggie. I said miracles. There isn't enough damage done to this plane to put it in your eye. We don't want to make sure about that. I am sure. There's nothing a department store janitor couldn't fix up with bailing wire. The undercarriage seems to be the only thing damaged at all. That's all. And I'm just the man who conducted that up for an emergency takeoff. But what I don't understand is why the motor's conked out on us in the first place. I think I have the answer to that. Well, then let's have it. Well, they were in perfect working order when we made the last stop at Boyk. I made sure of that, as you very well know. All right, then there's only one thing it could be. The gasoline. Joe, so that's it. I think that gasoline was watered. I say you think the officials deliberately... Maybe the officials at the airport didn't know it was watered and maybe they did. That doesn't enter into it. But I'll give odds that's our trouble.  But look here, Jackie, if we're stuck out here in this jungle with watered gasoline... No, we've got plenty of chamois. If that's the trouble, we'll have to find some way of straining it. Straining 200 gallons of gasoline through a chamois? It can be done. What a man has to do. It does, but what a job. Besides, strain it into what? Haven't got enough trouble without you thinking up more? Hey, I told Doc and Sonny not to get out of his sight. Where are they? Behind you, down there at the edge of the lake. Oh, have they got the boy with them? No. Hermes hoping to see an Indian. He'll be liable to get his wish. This looks like pretty unhealthy country. I said, Doc, to look along the shore for signs of inhabitants, but that was just hoping against... Don't cry. No such thing as good natives in this part of the world. How far into the jungle would you say that old temple is? A quarter of a mile, I suppose. Or would you guess it is, anyway? Maybe some old Aztec ruins. Oh, here aren't you a little bit mixed up, Jack? The Aztecs were up in Mexico. Well, all I know is it's not inhabited. You can tell that much from this distance. Oh, see, I just have a thought. Maybe we're the first white men ever to set eyes on it. Climb up in the cabin and bring out three revolvers and some ammunition. Good idea. We won't try to work on the plane tonight, I don't imagine. No, we've got to find out what we're up against first. What about a little food? A couple cans of tomatoes, cheese and crackers, and a bar of chocolate apiece tonight. I'm inside. How's it coming, Jack? Oh, Doc. Well, where's Sonny and the boy? Well, they're coming along. Anything desperate to matter of the plane? Nothing smashed. We can't fix. Hell, now, ain't that a relief? What about you? Find anything? Not one dog-gone thing. Not anywhere. On both sides of this clearing, that grove comes right up to the edge of the lake. And I swear to my grandma, you never saw such a grove. All along the lake. A human being couldn't possibly get through that jungle of vines and trees, Jack. And even if we could, the place is running over snakes and bugs and I don't know what kind of burns. Did you warn Sonny and Hermie about drinking any of this water? I did that. All right, Doc. Heads up. Oh, there you are, Reggie. Put up your dukes and catch these. Now you're talking, Reggie. Shooting pistols and ammunition. Here's yours, Jack. I loaded them all around. Thanks. Put some extra shells in your pocket. I already have. And here's some nice dinner.  Then come on down. We're not eating now? No. We're going to do a little exploring. We're going to take the food along. You think there'd be some way of getting food to that temple thing over there? Well, of course there is. There's bound to be somebody living over there. Reggie and I just decided there wasn't. Huh? What you talking about? You mean that you think that that's nothing more than a deserted building standing up there? Well, look at it. All of one corner's crumbled in. Huh? Well, look at it yourself. Yeah. Now you call attention to it. It does look like it's seen better days. But just the same. Well, I might as well like to see what's over there. So it is. There you are. You want to take it, Jack? Well, hand it down.  We'll do. Hey, what's that for? If there's any prowling natives around, we don't want them going through our stuff. Well, if there's a native in these parts, he's sure enough keeping out his side. I'll say that for him. There he is. Jack! Don't! Oh, that's Sonny. I hear, but I don't steer. Hey, Sonny, where are you? You ain't supposed to get out of sight. Come here, all of you. Leave out the pass. Count the pass? Sonny, can you hear me? Yeah. Stay right where you are. We're coming. Come on. Let's have a look. This way. Now, but where come into Jack? A path would indicate human being. Not necessarily. You think not? It could be a path used by well-animals coming down to Lake For Water. Here we are. Here. Hermes turned into a dog-gone explorer. Got an idea. He's on a picnic. Hey, Hermes and I saw those orchids hanging from the tree there, and we came over to look at them, and there was the path. I helped to find the path, didn't I, Sonny? I tried, Hermes. I'm good at finding paths. The ground's too hard to show any footprints. And dog-gone it, well, it ain't headed in the direction of that old temple. That's off that way. So, uh, what would be the adeption to following me?  Sonny, you stay in the middle with Hermie.  Fine, but step lively, or I'll be on your heels. So what's that for? What are you supposed it's for? Oh, I don't know. What do you think you are, on Main Street? Come on, Doc.  Take Hermie's hand and keep him on the path. Here, Hermie. Give me your hand.  Take Sonny's hand You don't like me, do you? Look, on both sides of this path is dense undergrowth full of poisonous insects and snakes. Do you understand that? Yes. All right. Give me your hand, Hermie. I don't see any snake-hush. Come on. I've been kind of keeping my eyes open for Prince of one kind or another, but that just plain ain't in for him. Hey, Jack, fella, you know something? Well, I wonder if you should ought to talk to Hermie like you did. Is that so? Of course, it ain't exactly money out of my pocket, but it's the same. I don't think you ought to. Well, Hermie's a nice little fella and he can't have it being here. So what? Oh, I don't know. Only don't you see that hurtin' scared look that comes on his face every time you lay in? All right, Doc. All right. Sorry. What I get for puttin' my nose in another man's business? Funny thing, though, you don't look like a man that I'd expect to find stickin' on kids. Notice how the branches of the trees go over the path? Uh-huh. And all of them climbin' vines and stuff, shuttin' out the sun. Yeah, and getting worse ahead. Hey, Jack, look here, will ya? Just the same as going through a tunnel up ahead. You know, fella, if we don't get much of that, we should oughta have a flashlight. I brought one. Doc, go on. Son of a gun. Horse away. Stop growin' there. He's close together. Don't get so far behind. We're doin' all right. Can't talk now, Sonny? Of course you can talk, Hermie. Getin' dark in here, ain't it? Uh-huh. The vines overhead, shutting out the light. See? I'm not afraid of the dark. That's fine. Are you afraid of the dark, Reggie? Well, now I'll tell ya, Hermie, it's all according to the time it plays. Well, I'm not. Holy, I wouldn't like to meet any old Indians in here. Well, I don't think we need to worry about that. I'd say up front there, Jack. What's the matter? You sure we're not getting a little bit over our heads? I mean, if it gets much darker, the jungle like this? All right, we're coming at the end of it right ahead. Sunlight again? That's right. We're coming out of the tunnel? Whoa, that suits me right down to the ground. Every time one of those hanging vines brushes against my face, I wonder if it's a snake. Uh, I killed a snake once. Well, don't you go bothering any snakes down here. I'll kill them. Hermie, you hear me? You leave them strictly alone. Yeah. Yeah. Why? Because they're liable to be poisoned. Understand? Okay. Now, there's the sunlight ahead. It's a lot cooler in here. Well, I'll take the heat myself.  Is Jack married to you? Oh, goodness, no. What did we give you that idea? Is anybody married to me? Uh, nobody. Then how about you waiting for me? Ha, ha, that's the deal. Now, here we are. Off in the light again. Good minute. Now, can Jack get down on their knees with a hint?  What are they looking at? Hey, Bernie. Yeah? Jack wants you and Hermie to stay where you are for a minute. What is it? What's the matter? Never mind. You stay there. Reggie, come on up here. Hey, but you've got to tell me. You can't just leave Hermie and me like this. All right. If you've got to know, it's a dead man. Funny thing about it, too. There's not a wound on him any place. If there's not a drop of blood in his body. Hey, Jack. Now, can you tell me? Say it as a corpse. Hello. What's this? Just what it looks like.  We're not a stitch. No.  He didn't do certain. What about that? Not a very civilized Indian either. Look at those tribal marks on his forehead and chest. Look, Jack. This business about him not having any blood. How do you know that? Color of his skin. Eyeballs. Fingering. He's all bleached out. Maybe the Indians down here are kind of on the anemic side. Take some of that brush and throw it over the body so Sonny and the boy can pass by without seeing it. Yeah. Good idea. I heard he wanted to see a real Indian. Well, he's not going to see this. No sign of...  No. There, there. That covers him all up there. All right, Sonny, come on. Well, there's one thing. We know now that human beings live here. That's... Even if they're wild ones, we also know they die around here. A lot of comfort there is. Come on, Sonny. We got him covered up. Just pass right on by. All right. Well, what killed him? Keep walking. We don't know. Jack. Jack, look ahead. We're at the temple. Sure. Just step right out of the jungle. Into the courtyard. Yeah. So busy not looking where we were going, we'd all go near run into. Hey! Hey! Courtyard all right. We're walking on paving stones covered with heavy moors. But trees and shrubs are growing right up through the stone. And I was the one who thought maybe folks lived here.  Well, there's only one entrance. Do we have a look inside? Well, of course we'll have a look. We'd come too far to stop now. No, go on. Stone steps as grand as you please. And what stone steps? Fifty or twenty steps up to the door. And they reach all across the front of the building. Somebody put a lot of backbreaking work into this centuries ago. Let's go up, huh? All right, Ernie. Would you stay close to us? Sure. You ever see anything like it? The way shrubs and small trees have grown right up between the stones.  I wouldn't know. Yeah. That's a little bit frightening, isn't it? That's what we came up here for. Come on. Big arch doorways, but not a door in the pikes. The doors must have rotted away centuries ago. Listen, if I didn't hear church bell, you can call me a loon. Yeah. I heard it. Come on. Let's go inside. Look what we've found. What a tremendous place. McRodwin government could hide its whole army in here. Jack. Jack, did you see what I just saw? What the? Something just flew from one side of the temple to the other. Way up yonder. Probably at all. Power of my grandma. It was as big as a man and it didn't have no wings. What's more, it was wearing a human skin and that's all. Temple of vampires. Up there, 40, 50 feet in the air. It started from that wall over there in the left and floated as easy as it could to cross to this ear wall. What must have been a bird? A bird with human skin. Oh, look here. I saw it, dog. Only the thing didn't have no wings. And it was big as a man? That's what I said. Big as a man. Now, look, doc. You're going to see how silly that is on the face. Why, it's a good 150 to 200 feet from one wall to the other. I know that. And I still say I saw. But nothing could pass through the air that distance without wings. Well, if there'd been wings, I'd have seen them, wouldn't it? And the bird as large as a man would have tremendous wings. Yes. And the flapping of such wings would make a tremendous noise. All things like this? More than that, there aren't any birds as large as men. All right, you smart fellows. Have it your way. So I didn't see anything as big as a man through through the air up there in the house, dog. Well, it was almost certainly the deception of light and shadow in the room, doc. You may have thought you did. Skeptics. That's what you are.  Anyway, what do we do now? Well, it's for me, all right. Uh-huh. He's sitting out on the steps with a hamper of food, eating a piece of chocolate. Well, he's looking for inhabitants in this place. But, Jack, this is a genuine ancient temple out of some lost civilization. That's not passable, can it? Well, up to you, sir. What do you want? A 40-cent tour? Well, as it won't hurt, no ground at all. He'd make you dizzy just looking up to the ceiling.  Bit of a feat, all right. Must be a clear hundred feet from those highest factors into the roof to the floor where we stand. And don't our voices sound funny? Listen. Hello! Listen. Gee. That's the second time we've heard that bell. And that lamey, Jack, I still'd say if a bell rings, somebody must ring. I suppose you think it was your wingless man-sized bird who's doing it. Okay, okay. All I'm saying is, why don't you come up with a better explanation? Actually, in a temple this size, there must be bell towers. Bells probably exposed to the weather when the wind blows, the bell rings. Oh, so now, now, now the wind's blowing, is it? It wasn't when we'd come in. Might easily be a hundred feet in the air.  Standing and talking isn't getting us anything. Well, that's no problem. All right. Fortunately, some of the roof is calling in. There's a sunlight. Ain't it the truth? It still reminds me of the inside of an old used coffin. Hey, come here! Sonny! You mustn't get away from a party like this. Okay! What's so exciting over in this department? Look. Uh-oh. Stone stairway going up along the wall. The most mist in the shadows. Say, will you look at this? Now, those stone steps climbing up the side of the wall, going right up toward the ceiling, and no outside railing to hang on to. Must lay to some rooms or something up there. Can't just be steps to the roof. Well, I know one way to find an ant's client, shall we go up? We'll do nothing at a time. Huh? What's eating, you chup? No! I'd vote against it. Well, what about it, Jack? What hurts it going to do to have a move? Some of us could go. Those steps are too dangerous for Sonny. Besides, you're still out from the steps I've been keeping an eye on them. Well, I'm not trying to know stairs. High places make me death real. Well, then, uh, how about a couple of us going up, and the other one stay below here at some? Well, you think that's a good idea? I mean, is there any good reason for going? How about it, Jack? Well, I would like to investigate those stairs, but I agree with Sonny. I don't like splitting up the party. Huh? Why not? You've forgotten the body of that Indian out on the path. What you said yourself, that didn't have anything to do with the temple. Jack, we should know all we can about this place, and we will always be within calling distance. Yes, and maybe here's some time I should investigate. Well, there you are. Here, here's three matches, son. Make them different lengths. We'll draw straw. The short straw stays with Sonny and keeps Nile in her. All right. Well, doc, you're first. Draw one. You bet you. There. Ready? With pleasure. And this one is yours, Jack. Well, I got a whole match, so I have one of those to go. You ready? Let's be seeing your match. Right. Ha, ha, ha. Right in the longest. You used to be on the side of that, doc. Wouldn't you know it jipped again? Well, I like that. Huh? You like what? Crying, because you have the opportunity of my company. Yes, doc. Where's your Texas shooting? Well, all my life it's been like that, a conflict between adventure and female wing. Love of pulling me one way and adventures hauling into the other. Whoa, isn't that just too dog-gone there? Well, see that you watch your step now. See, I don't think I could do it. Steps are so narrow they have to go single file. Oh, doc. Yeah, Jack.   We ain't going no place. You know, I wonder if we should stop for all these now. After six o'clock. Well, what's the time for us down here in the jungle? But we're going to have to go back on that path overhung with that tangle of branches and vines to reach the plane. Oh, it won't be getting dark down here at four nine o'clock. No. What about getting something to eat? There you go. Sonic, will you tell me why it is all beautiful women have such dog-gone voracious appetizers? I hadn't thought about it. Well, you do. Ever wanted it. No, actually, I was thinking of hermit. Oh, well, we brought some food along. Hey, lookie up yonder. Where do they think they're going? Well, they seem to have come to some kind of a ledger or something. Hi, Jack. What's up there? Hello. There seems to be room. Did you say room? That's right. A whole bar in the room. All along the way. Or anything else? We were just investigating. It seemed to be just there's some room, like cells. We'll let you know if we find anything. You know, it seems to be empty. And that's about 20, 30 feet, aren't we? I don't know. I should say just about 30. Do you want to go a little further? Yeah. It seems to be easy to make it all those little empty rooms. As soon as I can make out, there must have been the cells used by the monks and priests. I wonder what religion it could have been out here in the jungle. I noticed some queer marks chiseled on the wall on the cells. Had an oriental look. An oriental religion in Central America? It does sound a little fantastic, doesn't it? Joe, Jack, go easy. Do you mind? Ooh, we're getting up in the air. Don't look over the edge, Rick. Don't worry about me doing it again. The second ledger is just ahead. Oh, right. There. Well, will you look here? Hmm. This ledger's even wider than the one below. And will you look here? More cells. They must have kept an army of priests in this flat. Come on. Let's have a look at some of them. Jack, I'm not even afraid I wasn't made behind the scenes. I wish they wouldn't get so far. You can hardly see them in this dim light. Looks like they're going up there, don't they? Doc, I've lost them. I can't see them anymore. Well, they must have found some more of them cells. But they said they'd keep in sight all the time. Now then, Sonny, Jack and Reggie's been looking out for himself for quite a few years now. Ooh. Into the stiff neck from looking up so much.  Pink in the back of my neck. The bell again. Yeah. It's all gone according to the weekend place where it's coming from, ain't it? Surely the boys must have heard it. Hey, there they are. Up beside the temple. Oh, I don't see anything over there. He must mean that that's where the bell room. What's he mean by those signs? Oh, just a wig wagging there. Everything's OK. Oh, why doesn't he yell?  Too much echo. He couldn't tell what he was saying. Oh, they disappeared again. Oh, why don't they come on down? Oh, it looks like they want to examine some more of themselves. Man, oh, man. Oh, that slag that fella had made. He slipped off that leg. Oh, Doc, how can you even think such things? Hey, son. Hey, son. What? Look at that. There it is again. Oh, Doc, what is it? Floating through the air. I can see it. It is as big as a man. Do you see any wings? Do you? Doc, look, look, look. It's landing on the ledge where Jack and Reggie are. Sonny. Sonny, you stay here. Doc, come back. Where are you going? I'm going up and war on Jack and Reggie. Oh, no. No, I don't want to be alone here. Come in here. No. You are afraid? Who are you? Where did you come from? I've always been here. No. No, but there is no one here. Where? I am here. Who? Who are you? I am Manuel. Have you seen Hermie? Who is Hermie?  A little boy? Yes, East. Seven years old. He was with me just a minute ago and he just disappeared. And I say this is a very bad place for little boys. What are you? Why are you standing here dressed in those black robes from head to foot? Yes. Very bad place for little boys. And not a good place for a beautiful girl. I wish the boys were here. What? Don't. Don't you come any closer. I have not moved since I spoke to you. You should never have entered the temple of vampires. What? Why did you? Temple of vampires. You did not know? Temple of vampires? Yes. But there aren't any such things. No. No. There aren't.  Blood? Uh-oh. Don't look at me like that. You are mistaken. This temple belongs to the vampires and it is not given to many people to leave this temple once they have entered. But, Hermie, I've got to find Hermie. You are outside the temple now. You are wise. You will not ever again enter. But, Hermie... I don't think you will ever see the boy Hermie again. Oh. I don't think you will ever want to see Hermie again. Oh, no. No. Ah. She sleeps. She falls to the floor to forget. Sonny. Sonny, where are you? Jack, Reggie. Sonny's gone. Sonny. Doc, I told you not to leave her. I know her. But I thought I had warned you. Sonny, can't you hear? Jack. Reggie. Hey, here she is. Here she is. She's as white as a sheet. Has she hurt? What's the matter? Here, lift her up. Oh, no. She must have fainted. What is it, Sonny? What's the matter? Has he gone? Has he gone? Has who gone? It's just us, son. The man in the black robe. You saw the man in the black robe? He said we'd never see Hermie again. Hey. Where is her? The vampires. The vampires. The blood-gassing system prevents high-level restoration. The most adventurous thriller, Temple of Vampires. Seven o'clock in the evening on the steps of an ancient abandoned temple somewhere in the jungles of Nicaragua. Originally, Jack, Doc, and Reggie had intended to take their adventure into Central America alone. But the last minute, they agreed to include Sonny Richards, young Eris. Then out over the Nicaraguan jungle, they found Hermie, One-year-old boy, stole away. Engine trouble caused a forced landing on the shore of Lake Nicaragua near an ancient temple now overgrown by jungles. They found a path leading from the shore to the temple, a quarter-mile distant. And on the path, they found the corpse of an Indian whose body had been drained of blood, although there was no wound on him. They found the temple a huge affair, a hundred feet high and a hundred and fifty to two hundred feet square. While Jack and Reggie were examining some stone stairs which led up to the side of the wall, the boy Hermie disappeared and then Sonny vanished. The three comrades found her semi-conscious on the stone steps outside the door of the temple. You all right now?  Yes, of course. Don't bother about me. Find Hermie. Oh, lookie. He's probably just wandering around somewhere. No, you don't understand. He said we'd never see Hermie again. Never see Hermie again? Who said that? What are you talking about? The man in the black robe. No, Doc, listen to me. I'm telling you the truth. I ran out here to find Hermie and there was a man. Out here on the steps of the temple? Yes. He wanted to know who Hermie was. And when I said he was a little boy, he said that this was a bad place for little boys and for me too. Oh, did he say why? Yes. He said that this was the temple of vampires. Vampires? Joe. What did I tell you, Jack? I knowed all along. Doc, you stay here with Sonny. Reggie, you're coming with me. Right now. Just a minute, Jack. Don't argue. Reggie and I are going back in there for Hermie.  Well, my shooting pistol is always handy. But, but, Jack...  Are you really saying that you think that these here vampire critics... Well, you know as much as I do. Come on, Reggie. You got a cigarette, Doc? Taylor made her. Roll your own. Oh, come on. You can smile, can't you? Yes. Thanks. I need it. Like? No. Sonny, your hand's trembling like a leaf. Yeah, I feel my hands. They're like ice. Oh, here now, she is. That way all over. Well, that ain't no way for a person to be down here in a tropics. Hey, maybe you're coming down with children things. Hey, shouldn't we all be looking for Hermie? Now, you said right where you are. Doc... Jack said for me and you to stay here. So relax. Well, I don't like... Well, neither do I. Man, now tell me what happened. Well, you remember, we both saw that big thing floating through the air in the temple. Yeah. Jack and Reggie were up on the ledge. That's right. They were inexamining one of them pre-sales. And the thing landed on the same ledge that they was on. Yeah. Well, you ran up the steps to warn them and being left alone frightened me. I looked around for Hermie and he was gone. Just gone, huh? Yeah, and then I was scared. I ran around calling for him. I mean, I came out here on the steps and there was a man here. Indian? No, he talked with the soft Spanish accent and he was dressed from head to foot in a black robe. Did he try to grab yourself? No, no, no, no. He was gentle and he was soft-spoken. The only thing was that I kept having the feeling that he was drawing closer to me. But the distance between us was always the same. He didn't move. Hypnotizing you sounds like. Yeah. Well, anyway, I think it was his eyes. And he said, we shouldn't have come here. That this was the temple of vampires. Now, you listen to me, son. I may be a superstitious Texas boy, but even I know vampires is in the same category along with witches and werewolves. Well, I mean, stuff stories are made out of. Yeah, they are, aren't they, doc? There isn't any such thing. Of course, I've heard of vampire bats. Look, they don't have the shape of a human body. Well, I don't know.  Yeah, and then what happened? Well, then everything began to go wrong. I felt myself falling. The next thing I knew, I heard you boys bending over me and talking. Well, you don't know what become of this Spanish on break. Uh-uh. Well, there wasn't hiding a hair of him when he came. We come out on the steps. Yeah, but vampires, doc. Vampires. Well, sonny, the trophic jungles sure enough do breed a lot of my queer things. Just like those vines and plants out there and a slimy and bloated. A lot of them are poisonous, too. What else? Well, where else but in the tropics would you find stuff like that? Doc, you don't suppose he meant vampire bats, do you? Well, I don't know, sonny, but they don't sound very reasonable. Now, does it? I mean, bats having a temple of their own. I'm so worried about her, me. Just hold your horses now. Jack and Red, you'll take care of that part. Yeah, but supposing they don't. The man said that we'd never see him again. Now, look here, sonny. Am I going to have trouble with you? What do you mean? Well, this here is the sort of thing that you'll have to expect to get into if you're going to bum around the world. You ask for it and you got it. Yeah, but, Doc... Well, we're going to always have plenty of things to think about without you going female on us and making us things harder for us. Look, female... That's what I said. Tears and jitters and fainting fits. If you can't take it, you shouldn't have come along. Yeah, I get it. Well, what about doing something about it? Well, I'll try. I'm really over it. Sure. You see, all the matter with you is that you're anticipating trouble. Well, there's nothing happening to anybody. Wait until you hurt before you start yelling. Yeah, but hurt me, Doc. It's just what I've been telling you. He's wandered all. Jack and Reg, you'll find him and that's all there is to it. All righty, over here. Can you find something? Yeah. Look here. Oh, so, more sunset. Yeah, it's only this time getting down. Down to the bowels of the earth. Look at them. Shall I back down there, too? I've got my flashlight. We're going down? Well, it's certain Hermie isn't up here in this main auditorium, or whatever you want to call him. He is not. And he couldn't have gone up the stone steps along the wall because we were up there when he disappeared. So, here's the next place to look. Jack, a little cheaper like that would never have gone down to this dark. Unless it was on pre-will. I know that. But if he wandered off... How do we know he wandered off? Look, well, I thought that's what we decided. Come on, let's go down. Anything you say? We're done. He's right behind me. Jack, are you taking what? Are you taking what Sonny said? Serious? Such as what? I mean, that chitter-chatter about this being the temple of vampires. Wait a minute. Yeah, look there on the walls. Oh, look. Yeah. What kind of juicy mind would do a thing like that? Ancient religious symbols. Chittled in the rock.  But they're graphic. And even to the old pagans, they knew how. You mean there was a time when people would allow that kind of sound? Yeah. In the old days, people did what they were told. They sacrificed everything from recent garlic to their virgin daughter. No, under their civilization disappeared. Now let's go. Ali Lo doesn't grasp me. Well, it gives you a pretty good idea what this place stands for. Something pretty ugly. Are you insinuating this has taken religion into the line? What does the lame temple of vampires suggest anyway? Well, I've said one time, but this is a modern world, Jack. Not down here it isn't. This old temple is as isolated from the modern world as it was when it was built. Under the years. Well, I don't mind saying I feel a bit on the crawly side. Hey, look ahead here. Looks like a rat run. The ground under this temple must be a regular rabbit run. Look. Three, four, five runways leading from the foot of these steps. Jack, we could get lost down here and never get out. No, I don't think it's that bad. Look at the arch stonework overhead. John, each one a stone tunnel. Jack, it's not stone under our feet. The dust of a thousand years accumulated over our packed place. Dust? Well, then, if there was anyone here, wouldn't there be footprints? Yeah, that's what I'm looking for. I don't believe it, Jack. In spite of what Sonny said, I don't believe there's a living human creature in this place. Don't. Hmm. You know that. Take a look at this. Here in the dust. Well, Jack. Jack, that's the print of a human foot. A girl's foot. A girl? Yeah.  A barefoot girl. Hmm. Jolly, am I? Yeah, come on. We'll follow this tunnel. A girl with simple vampires. Oh, yes. Yes, they're female vampires. They're supposed to be very beautiful. Oh, that's crazy, top Jack. Is it? As you well know, as crazy as a Jumbo. What about the body of that dead Indian we found out on the jungle path? Oh, look here. Got an eye. I haven't. Not a wound on him, yet his body was drained of blood. Are you saying this really is a temple of vampires and it's preying off the native Indians down here? Isn't that what's indicating? Hmm. Uh-oh. What's this? Looks like a breaking wall. Uh-huh. A stone ballast ray running along Santa's path.  What's on the other side of the stone wall? I don't see. There's some kind of a pit below the line. Can you see the bottom? Jack. Jack. Hmm. Well, well. Quite a collection of bones. Human bones. All of them human bones. The pit is littered with them. Not such ancient bones. Oh, Jack. Let's get out of this place. Yeah. I don't think we'll find Hermie down here.  That's what it is. It's been done for long, Jack. If you're going to find Hermie, I should think you'd have come at bite by this time. Now look, you sonny. Am I gonna have to give you another pep talk? But how can you sit there like that? Haven't you got any nerves in your body? Well, you should just ought to take a look at my nerves sometimes, sugar. Well, there's been times when they get pulled so tight I can play tunes on them. I could get caught. Oh, stop trying to be funny. Yep, honey. You'll be a female all right. There's no getting away mad. I don't care if I am. A person's got a right to be frightened and worried. Hold it. What? Oh, here they come. And now ain't you sorry. Jack and Reggie? The doc. The doc can't even go Hermie with him. I'll see if they ain't. Jack, couldn't you find him? Where's Hermie? Don't know. You didn't find anything? Not of Hermie. But you did find something. Nothing. Except what I'd valet well want to forget. Why? What do you mean? Forget it. Did you search everywhere, Jack? Well, that's impossible. It'll take days to go through all the passageways under this temple. Well, what are we standing here for? Oh, I was wondering. Hermie! I wonder where all you folks were. Oh, Hermie, darling. Hermie, fellow, where in the place have you been? Hermie. Hermie, what do you mean by frightening us all like this? Hey, what are you crying about? Where have you been? In there. We were just in there looking for you. I guess you didn't see us on camera. We was in a little war. Who were you? Who was with you? A most beautiful lady I about ever saw. A lady? Yeah. She was all dressed in black. She gave me some food. Hermie, you didn't eat them. Sure I did. I liked her a lot. And she liked me. Did she say so? Yeah, a lot of times. She said I had the nicest white neck she ever saw. The nicest white neck? Oh, Jack, let's get out of here. Just a minute. When did she let you go? Wow, man, all dressed in black came in. She took me by the hand and said you folks were waiting for me. The man? The man in the black rose? And was she? The black rose. And was she? Man! The man took you away? Uh-huh. He brought me right over to the door there and showed me where you were. And I'll beat dog gone. Sonny, maybe you wasn't seeing things after all. Yes! And she had the reddest lips and the whitest teeth I ever saw. Temple of vampires. Get away from this place. Before I go, I want Hermie to show me the room where he met this woman. Jack, you don't mean you're going to take Hermie back in there. Give me a second. Well, how about the time, Jack? It's past seven o'clock now. It won't be too long before it starts getting dark. That won't be dark for another hour and a half, two hours. The sky, Jack. Yeah. Clothing over. One of those tropical jungle storms brewing. And then we'd better be off here than back in the plane. You mean spend the night in this temple? That's right. This place in the world to get chills and fever in the tropics is to get drenching wet. I don't need to get drenching to get chills in this place. Well, I'm taking Hermie back in the temple for a minute. Rest, do you want to come? No. All right. Reggie, you stay out here with Sonny. Doc, you come with Hermie and me. Well, suits me. If you think it's that important. Jack, interest. I know it. I don't care what you're calling. Reggie, look after you. No, I didn't mean to. I don't know what you're talking about. You see, it's plain as anybody. There ain't no room there. Stone's the way along the wall. There's stone benches in them. You mean... We saw one of them things float over to the same ledge. Yeah. Well, when I got out there to warn them, there wasn't a sign of any. Well, maybe it's just an illusion. Lights and shadows play funny tricks in a great place like this. Don't feel better with something inside this. Give me them cans, Reggie. I'll open them with my knife. What's the use? We've got nothing to eat them out of. What's the matter with cans? It's a little wish. Cold tomatoes out of a can. Well, you'll be surprised how good they'll taste. Here you are, Hermie. Thank you, Reggie. Thank you, Reggie. Dig in, Jack. Yeah. Can of tomatoes for you, Sonny. No, I don't think I want any. Eat them. Oh, but you're heavy. Just to make you from getting thirsty. Tomatoes are good for you in this kind of climate. But I really don't want any. Are you going to give us trouble? Give them to me, Doc. Okay. Somebody don't cut your juggling in on that tin, Hermie. He brought you to San Diego and stowed your way into our plane. Touch. You must have another name. Tomatoes. It wasn't so bad, was it, huh? I ate them. Now do I have to say I liked them? Yes, plane don't like tomatoes, huh? Yeah, just nibble on a little bit of chocolate.  Got some for me, too. No, I'll just bet I have, Hermie. Man, is she getting dark. More rain clouds. Looks like we're in for a real storm. Yeah. It's dark in the temple now.  Well, everyone finished. I'm all with the chocolate. Now bring it along. Let's get settled for the night. Where are we going? Got the stone steps along the wall. Jack, I'd rather not. Well, I'd rather not be in the situation at all. Yeah, but I'm afraid of high places. The first leg of cells is only 20 or 30 feet up. Besides, in the dark you won't have any sense of height. Is it really necessary? Yes. We can all get into one of the cells. One person can stand guard, the rest gets some sleep. It makes sense, honey. All right. We'll back and take Reggie's hand. All side of the stairs and you'll be safe enough. High places. Now don't worry. You couldn't fall if you wanted to. I'm making the knees. Here you are. Now just lay there until you get your breath. Good idea. Oh, just a minute. I want to see if Sonny feels as bad as she thinks she does. Okay, I'll wait outside. How about trying one of these stone beds? See the little boy? You did, huh? Well, what's all this business about this being the temple of empire? Now, don't go getting mad. The furthest thing he ever seen. He said you had the reddest lips and the sharpest, widest teeth. He did that. Why you don't go away? There's something else I want to ask you about. Oh, yes, you just disappeared. The more sedentary thriller, Temple of Vampire. This is your time to catch some sleep, Doc. Well, no, it's Son Binky. Not me. The others seem to be making up. Yeah, I know. Now they do. It's more than I can take you out. I'd rather sit out here and talk with you. Keep your voice down. I don't get what the rest they can. Sure. Oh. You kind of make your stomach turn over. What's up?  About three feet is nothing to space. It doesn't actually want to keep away from us. Uh-huh. And that female vampire, whatever she was, just jumping out into it and floating off. You mean that's what you think she did? I ain't a foodie, Jack. She did it. All right then, you tell me what to come up with. I don't know, but she didn't float off. But I had a grip on it. I felt it go out and she slipped through my face. Maybe. And more than that, I stand in between her and Steph, so she couldn't have gone down that way. Now you said that before. Yeah. You and I searched every free cell on this blacked leg. That's right. And it would find any sign of it? No. So there was no way for her to get off this leg but to jump? Now tell me everything you can remember about her. Well, it was dark, of course, so I didn't see her. I know. But she could see me. Did she say so? Yes, she did. And even before that, I reached out my hand in the dark to feel where she was and she stopped me. She said not to touch. No, her. What did she want? Well, she wanted to talk a little away. I got it.  Did you ask any questions? Well, I don't think so. I asked most questions. Oh, wait a minute. There was one thing. Well, I wanted to know if we'd be keeping Hermie here or not. She made a point of asking about the boy? Yeah, asked particularly. Did she say why? She seemed awfully interested in his nice white skin. Maybe she likes him young. White people must be pretty excited in there. After centuries, there's nothing but Indian. Huh? Indian foot. The vampire. Jack, you shouldn't have think I was talking to a little sea vampire. Very red lips and sharp white teeth and characteristics. Uh-huh, so I've been told. Yeah, in story books. Was she barefooted, you know? Well, I wouldn't be knowing that. Why? Well, I told you about Reggie and me finding the footprints of a girl in the dust of the underground chambers. Probably hers, all right. Unless there'd be a lot of them. You think maybe they're my thing? I don't know. Oh, yeah. Oh. Yeah, I asked her about the human bones down in that underground pit. What did she say? No. That's a great help. Yeah. What else did you ask her? I don't remember much. Oh, yeah. About that dead Indian. There's no blood in him. I don't know. Uh-huh. And she said, this is the temple of vampires. Well, all about the Indians. But I acted like it. Jack, you know, that'd explain those big, man-sized things with no wings. We've seen them open back and forth across the temple. But dead Indians? No, that vampire was jumping off his legs. Maybe they do it all the time. Good trick. Make a lot of money in the circuses. It's true. Yeah, I'll tell her next time I see it. No kidding, though. It does tie up on the wings. Well, you better forget it. Doesn't make sense, huh? No. Yeah. There. Huh? What do you make of her? Me. Darn you, Vanna. You like it? Well, how can you have it? It looks me like a little fella. Do you think you're wanted by no one? No. He's a man with no account and got fired.  Does it seem to miss his father? The way I got his father figured he missed him, all right. But it's good news. Glad to be rid of him. Yeah. You've got something different figured out? Yeah. I thought so. He's been down on him from the start.  Look, you've got reasons. How have you figured it? Did you notice his clothes? Not much. You don't get it? Interesting. Do you usually find it expensive and reasonably pressed and clean the suit of clothes on the son of a tramp? Well, I'll be rolled over and found one. Hand is clean. Neck and knee it is clean. That's how to do when you're on the bump, like a freight car, a thumb and a ride. Yeah, don't I know. Jack, maybe he cops up me. Another thing. It isn't natural for a seven-year-old not to know his last name. You mean he's a kid from some nice home that's run a wedding? He's not telling the truth? It is, sir. What's that? I don't explain it. You rivaling the way you think. I think it does. He's got coming anything he gets if he's run away from home, worried and frightening his folks. Oh, yeah, that's that all right. As far as I'm concerned, he's gonna wish he'd never seen an airplane by the time I'm through with him. He is my kid, though. No kid's nice for my money. We haven't got more sense of responsibility than that. Well, yeah, you might be wrong. Maybe not. Hey, big hat. No, but somebody's coming down, down below with a torch. No, it's to put them. Three, four, five, six. Wow. What do you think you're looking at, that man? That must be some crime and election rat. Have a carry or something. Circling around the all here. Must be 20 or 30 of them. Listen. Bunch of the room, the boys. Get me together. The rest of the black robe is like the man's sonny sock. Can you see what the third is? Jack. It's the body of a man. That's an Indian.  Suppose he's dead? He's dead, all right. Look, they're going down the steps of the underground passages. More bones for the pit, huh? Looks like it. Hold it. And there goes the torch parade. What sort of goings on is that, anyway? Some sort of rites for the Temple of Vampires. Jack, you need to sit there and say all that game with a vampire. How do I know? At least they seem to be priests of the temple. Yeah, robes and torches and stuff. Hey. Hey, Jack. That was mine. You just now get colder. You're getting colder in here. Am I having a chill? Must be you. You have to get in by the creeps. Ah. Another dead Indian. Doc. Eh? There's someone on this ledge with us. Hey, don't sound that. You are quite right. Who said that? I say it for you. You have keen perception to know I have come. How did you get on this ledge? You didn't come up the stairs. No, I did not come up the stairs. I asked who you are. I am Manuel. Manuel? You're the fellow who frightened Sunny this afternoon. That is the girl that's Sunny? Yeah. She is inside the doorway? She sure is. She's asleep. Ah, asleep. A beautiful woman asleep. Man, look. I don't like the way you said that. No. And if you've got any ideas about getting into where Sunny is, you'd better think again. How do you mean no hurry? You're not in any hurry about what? Doc, kick your voice down. You'll have everybody awake. And that would be too bad. I like to think of a beautiful girl last night. Well, see if you can get off your mind with something long enough to tell us how you got on the ledge.  But it's not suffice that I am here. Look, you better. Did you sure enough float back and forth between this here wall and that one over here? My means of locomotion interest you, Sunny? They sure do. And that's the fact. See, I passed from one wall to the other. No wings? No wings. Well, there you are, Jack. Say, it doesn't like it so. And is that pretty little female girl, girl of vampire, able to do the same thing? Girl of vampire? The one who's talking to her. He's over here on the ledge. He's talking to me a while ago. Ah, Angelina. She, in honest to goodness, no fooling. She, vampire? Angelina is priestess of the temple of empire. Am I? Oh, you would be a vampire, too? I am priest to the temple. Oh, nice work. I am happy. What was that parade of monsters, tortures and shakers you passed down below a few minutes ago? The blood sacrificed. Yeah, we saw them carrying the body of an Indian. Is that where you get your sacrifices? Among the native Indians? See, I think they get money or part-party or using them for burnt off things. We are their religion. Religion, huh? Everyone expects to make sacrifices to his religion. You mean the native tribes are out here believing vampire worship? Human sacrifice? You disapprove. Well then, I reckon Indians are the only human being here interested in sacrificing. Except once in a great while when the white man stays within our boundaries. And just a minute, son. If you've got any notion about using us in your vampire ceremony, you just get the thought right out of your head right now. Man, so? You heard me. I was talking out there. Jack, turn this way. Is that you, Jack? Hermie, don't go barging around in the dark. Why, Jack? Now, you forget this. If you're up on a done-in-high ledge here, what are you doing away? Oh, you heard me, Jack. I never, I don't treat very good on stone. Now, here, sit down here. I'll put my arm around you. All right. Good evening, little one. Well, who's that? You do not remember me? Hey, you're the man in my long black coat. That is right. You took me away from the pretty lady. True. I did that. So what did they ask you about that? Apparently, she didn't like it. No. Angelina did not like that. She was fascinated by the little, unsolved, white skin. I see that. Angelina. Well, hello. You back again? Yes.  You remember me, little one? A little of pretty lady? Yes. And you think so? You think we're good, don't you? You are not afraid of me? No. I'm not afraid of no one. Well, then you come to me now. Sure. For me, stay where you are. I got him. I got him. Okay, but I still got a hand on him. You will not let him come. You folks listen to me. Vampires are not a couple of slugs. The lead aren't going to feel very good in your givers. That's just what you're going to get if you don't clear out. Angelina. Yes. Go. Go on, my friend. Go on. Angelina. The boy goes with me. Yes, she's got him. No, I don't want him. Yes, she jumped off the ledge. You can't do it, Manuel. I am here.  I will bring the boy back, my friend. Oh, yeah. Call her. Tell her to bring him back. I will bring the boy back. It is the girl I want. Jack, what do you mean? I have to watch him this kind of doctor. Go ahead. I can hear his voice. Slote him out there. Well, I told you to hang out with him. Slote him out there in the arms of a female vampire. The episode for today is one of the missing ones. And now my guest cast will take over for you. I want you to understand that these were not done to sound like the people that you've been hearing for these first several episodes. We simply want to fill in the dialogue for you. So for the next several, you'll have to get you to a different Jack, Doc, Reggie, Sonny, et al. Jack, hadn't we ought to wake up Reggie and Sonny? What good will that do? Fright and Sonny right out of her way? Well, we can't just stand here on this ledge and let them awful vampire critters have a hurry. I know that as well as you do. What are we going to do then? You heard what that priest Manuel said. He's bringing Hermie back. And do you believe a word that comes out of his mouth?  But it was the girl he wanted. He wants Sonny and that she-vampire wants Hermie. And she's got him. Well, at least we know where they are. Over on the ledge on the other side of the temple. What good is that, Doc? We don't know how to get over there. I know, Doc. Things like that just don't happen. Well, that's sure enough happening to us. We don't do something about it in a hurry. Hermie's going to be right where that Indian was. A dead body at the head of a parade of vampire priests. Can you suggest anything? Well, we can get down off this ledge and go across the other side of the temple and look for some way to get up there on the ledge. Well, that's out. We examine the other wall, and there's no stairway leading up to the ledge on the other side. But we've got to get over there. Well, you figure a way, and I'm with you. You mean you're just going to stand here? Until I can think of something better to do. Well, you think. I want action, Doc. How is it possible for a human being to pass through the air? Made human beings? They're vampires. Yes, they're flesh and blood. They were afraid of my revolver. Maybe they know some way of making themselves lighter then. Oh, that's silly. Well, you put all I know about vampires in your eyes. Well, I do know. They do jump off this ledge and roll around. Yeah, but I want to know how. And we can do it, too. What did you say? This place is driving me nuts, too. Well, they can float from one ledge to the other. So can we. Jack. Bend over here, and let me examine your head. Well, a law of gravity applies to vampires as much as it does to us. If they can do it, we can. Now, look, Jack. You're not aiming to jump off this ledge, are you? Well, maybe. Oh, no, you're not. What do you mean? Just to make sure. Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh, gosh! No, needy! Sorry. I'll put this. I'll put this in five places. Come on.  There you are. Get yourself some rest. Ah. There you are. Hey. Who's that? It is I, Manuel. Doc! Oh, Doc! Hermie! Hermie, you back? Oh, hang on a minute, Doc. You're playing rather hard. Hang on to you. The small one has nothing to fear. Act the small one. You all right, Hermie? Yeah. Oh, he doesn't let go of me. I brought him back, as I said I would. So you did. Thanks a million, fella. No, there is no thanks to it. It is the girl I want. Well, friend, you're going to have one blaze and heck of a time getting her. So? That's what I said. Doc! Yeah, Hermie? I-I don't like this place. Do me both, son. Where's that female vampire that grabbed off Hermie? I'm Halina. Yeah, Javina. She's the cross on the other ledge. Salking. Doc! Do you know what she did to me? What, fella? What? When we got older there, she held my arms and tightened and kissed me. Kissed by a she-vampire, huh? I don't like to be kissed, Doc. You sure she was kissing you? Yeah. She held me so tight. I couldn't not have to get my breath. I don't like her anymore. Sounds interesting. You didn't get her telephone number, did you? No. That's too bad. You still here, neighbors? I am still here. Well, you can tell that you're in a babe. I'm a Texas boy myself. Yeah, Doc. Yeah, that Texas boy don't mind being kissed a bit. I will tell her. Hey, now, of course you'd sense the humor. Humor? Humor. What is that? Forget it. Just the same. Thanks a lot for bringing back Hermie. You are more kindly disposed toward me? If you mean do I appreciate it? You're done too. Then you will allow me to enter the priest's cell and look upon these sleeping girls? Not for all the blondes in California. You will not. No, mister, and I'm standing right here with a gun in my hand. So don't cry anything funny. You had better ask. That's where we don't agree. Give me the girl. And the rest of you may go in peace. I can't understand a word you say. And if you do not do as I ask, you will all be sacrificed. I'll bet you even money on that. That too. Is your answer? That's it, son. The answer is no. The vampires were feasted as they've never feasted before. The vampires shall feast as they've never feasted. Now he's back, too. Well, let him be mad. He's got as much chance to get it. Sonny, is the snow breaking up? Bon fun.  Doc, what hit me? I did, son. You did? Yeah, Jack. I had to. You was talking about jumping off this ledge.  Come on, Tyler. Take it easy for a little. I had to get up and stamp the living daylight for you. But I was only saving you from yourself. I had no intention of jumping out into space than the man in the moon. But you said... Look, I said when I found out how the vampires did it, I could do it, too. But I thought you were making a mess. And because you haven't got sense enough to pound sand in a rat hole, I'm gonna... Oh, splitting headache. Look, I'm sorry. I only did it for your own good. Oh, nuts. What's the matter, Jack? Oh, yeah. The old he-vampire brought Hermie back. Manuel? Sure. He brought me back. Where is he now? He left all burned up because I wouldn't let him go in and look at Sonny. You mean he tried to get in? I stood in the door and said I'd fill him so full of lead that I could use him for a paperweight. Well, for once in your life, you did the right thing. There's gratitude, boy. Hermie, Hermie, maybe you can help us. I will if I can. Oh, where did the girl take him? Over on the other wall. There's a ledge over there, too. Well, how did you get over there? Through the air. But what held you up? What kept you from falling? The girl did. But what held up the girl? I don't know. Did you go across fast or slow? Oh, fast. We kind of spooked down and then up. Spooked down and up? You mean you didn't go right straight across? No, down and up. Make anything out of that, Jack? No. How can I make anything out of anything with a large size headache? I'm sorry. Well, I'm a fan.  Sucking me the moment I think about it, the matter, it gets me. It seemed the right thing to do at the time. Well, you got a sucking coming in return and don't think you're not going to get it. You mean you'd hit a friend when he wasn't looking? Gladly, if the friend happens to be you. Good fellow, if you feel rotten. No, if I feel rotten.  Well, still my watch. That's okay. I'm not the least bit sleepy. Neither am I, Doc. Well, you will be tomorrow. You're going along with Jack. Go on, son. Can I depend on you not to pull some hair-brain stunt? Now then, didn't I own the poor one? You were sleeping like a baby. And call me if anything happens to you. Of course I will. All right, now come on, Hermie. Come on. But I'd rather stay with Doc. You'll be safer inside. Besides, a boy your age needs some sleep. Well, will you let me lay close to you? What's that for? I ain't afraid. It ain't that. It's just that I want to be close to somebody. All right. Well, we'll share the same bunk. Oh, that's swell. It ain't that he's afraid. He just naturally wants to be close to somebody. Make myself kind of comfortable. Uh-huh. Man, here's Doc in this man's temple. Hello? Who'd do that? You? No, I wish you'd done vampires quit sneaking up on a film. You think I'd go away? Are you Angelina? I am Aunt Helena, the High Priestess. High Priestess, huh? See? Well, I don't ever take this who-do-you-are. If you're back here with the idea of getting your hands on Hermie again, you'd better beat it. So? Why don't you folks spend your lives roosting around on the ledges of this temple anyway?  You say vulture to me? That's what I said, vulture. No fooling, Angelina. How do you do it? Do what? Swoop around in the air the way you and that man well better do it. You do not know? Would I be asking you if I did?    What about it?  See?  See? Doc Long. You know, I'd like to have a look at you. You've got a kind of cute talking boy. It's not that I've fallen for that chitchat with female vampires. You understand that? Doc Long? Yeah. What is Texas Boy? Texas Boy. See? Why? I'm a Texas Boy. What is there about Texas Boy? Well, now you're talking about something I know all about you. Now, is Texas Boy just playing death on women? No. Yes, sir. Ain't no two ways about it. Honey, us Texas boys don't figure we're grown-up men until we beat King Solomon's record. You know about love? No about it. Why did you read it with boys who thought it out? That is good. Good. It's here now. Wait a minute. See? Are you kind of crowned a little? You show me about this love, no? Well, now, you put it like that. See, I put it like that. Well, look at what I got. Honey, you ate my bed in a minute. Is that bad? She wants to know if that's bad.  You're quite a healthy kid. You put your arms around me, no? Now, just a minute. I thought I was showing you about love. See? Well, sister, you're way ahead of me already. You don't like it? You know there must be something about a vampire. You talk and talk and do nothing. That's our Texas boys. Oh, I'm the update. Ma'am, once we get going, look out. I do not think you want to make love. You know, honey, I think you're right. But why?  Oh, maybe if you see me, you think different. Maybe. Hey, Angelina. See? Take your arms around my neck. Enough. Look out. Why, you guys, look. Right, feel up there. What? What? Doc! Doc! Doc! Doc! Doc! What's the matter? Come here! What? Doc! Where are you? Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Oh, my God. I've got you. Can you help yourself? All right. I'll feed you. Come now. All right. We're getting it. All right. Once more. No! Oh. Oh. Yeah. There. There. I wasn't going at that time. What? What happened? That little double-crossing witch in the vampire did it. She came back? Got her. She rubbed my neck a feathered bag of meat at the edge. When I yelled, she let go and she won't feed it. Why? Why didn't you let her get that close to you? Well, you know how I haven't bought women yet. Yeah.  A little piece of lace with a girl inside of it. My son, that's a beautiful day. Well, there you had today on the second installment of Bud Carey's Old Radio Theater. I love a mystery in Temple of Vampires. In the first episode, we began the recreations of the missing episodes. My hat is very deeply off to Frank Knight, Del Bubelle, Pat Franklin, and Nicky Emanuel. And in the weeks to come, Rosemary Lieber, because they all just stepped in like real troopers and said, okay, we'll do it.  The scripts, even though I had a working script, I did not have all the parts. They came Thursday, and we recorded on Sunday. And we'll be doing the same tomorrow, as a matter of fact, as you're listening to this yesterday. Temple of Vampires. Five o'clock in the morning in the ancient Temple of Vampires, somewhere in the Central American jungles. The nightmarish experiences of one long night in the decayed cathedral are over. Now in the light of day, it's hard to believe the terrors of the darkness ever existed. That the girl's sonny actually talked to the high priest in the Temple of Vampires. That the boy Hermie was carried off the high ledge and through the air in the arms of a beautiful girl vampire and safely returned. That the same lovely female creature tried to throw duck long to his death from the high ledge. And that Jack and Reggie found below the floor of the Temple a great pit littered with human skeletons. All this is hard to believe because the rainstorm passed with the night and the sun is streaming in so that even the old temple is taken on the air of benign sanctity. You can open your eyes now, sonny. Just a few more steps down. I'm keeping my eyes closed until I feel my feet on solid floors. Those stone steps are solid enough to probably be here forever. I tell you, I can't stand in high place. Well, we're hanging on to you Jack in front of me behind. Reggie and I, I don't. We've done all right, ain't we, Reggie? That's right, Army. There we are. We're at the Temple again. Oh, golly, I feel like I've just been rescued from something horrible. Ooh, doesn't that floor into your feet feel good? You really don't like high places, do you? When I think we spent the night up there and out where it's well, never again. Yes, that was nothing. I floated from the air out there. Hermie, you did what? Now look, young fellow, we weren't going to talk about that. But I did talk. What's he talking about? Are you weren't supposed to know whatever happened? How about that, Jack? But I want to know. Ah, Hermie spilled the beans. Okay. Last night while you were asleep, that little female vampire Angelina swooped down on our ledge and went, Hermie, carried him over to that ledge. Oh, no. Yes, sir, honey. She did. And then the man came and stopped me and brought me back. You were carried through the air up there at 30 or 40 feet above the floor? Oh, I wasn't so bad! Come on, let's sit out of here. I don't ever want to see the inside of this place again. I agree. Besides, it's time we got back to where we left off today. Ah, good. We'll get some breakfast and start to work on that thunder carriage, huh? Yeah, I agree. Well, you stay right here with us, Hermie. Sure! Oh, it's like playing here for a morning. Ah, the whole world's full of sunshine that they end up being like. Oh, and this is a bird. I guess they don't like it very much. Yes, I'm busting their little hearts after the rainstorm. Ah, I get it. Absolutely this way. You watch the steps for a little stone. Oh! And here we go on the mark. Going over the stone face, tick-a-tack walking in a purpose. We're going to have breakfast this year as we get to the airplane, Hermie. Oh, honey, you have that, Jack. Are we, Jack? That's right. I like bacon and eggs. What do you like, Doc? Well, Summer, I tell you, I like hot cakes and sausage, but I bet you can't do one that ain't what we'll be getting. What are we going to have? Cheese and crackers and another piece of chocolate. A breakfast? That's right. And here's the end of the terrace. And good buying, good riddance to the Temple of Vampires. I hope that's the last we'll see of that. It'll still be in view until we get the plane and run in order. Well, I guess I can bear it from the distance. Okay. Here's the path. Doc, you come up ahead with me.  Be quiet. Reggie, you're up in the old cow's tail. You take Hermie's hand, Sonny, and give him away from the bushes along the edge. All right, Hermie. You're going to take my hand again. Sure, we're together. Sissy stuff. Our young man's ideas do change when you get older. All right. Here we go. Oh, it's Sissy hot out here in the juggle, isn't it? Who would have thought it? Some difference from the inside of the Temple. It was nice and cool in there. But can you imagine it being like this at five o'clock in the morning? My clothes are sticking to me already. Yeah, lots of humidity after the rain. Hey, Jack, look here. Well, what's that? The body of that idiot's gone when we covered up the bush last night. Yeah, I see that it is. Maybe he was the guest of honor at that parade of vampires we saw last night. Yes, I wonder. Well, let's keep going. He's in our funeral. Here comes our tunnel through the jungle just ahead. What became of the bush? Maybe they feel the same way we do about this particular piece of jungle. Unhealthy place to be. That's a pleasant part. Sonny, I'm hot. Well, so am I, Hermie. And I know what I'm going to do the minute I get back to the plane. Yeah, what's that, Sonny? I've got a swimsuit in the luggage. I'm going to skip down and struggle into it. Oh, no, you're not. Hey, I'd like to know why I'm not. There are too many poisonous vines and bugs and snakes. Now, you keep your arms and legs covered up, yeah? Aw, Jack. You heard me. You should know better. Sure, I suppose I do. Hey, we could go swimming in the lake. That's an idea.  We didn't see any alligators. That doesn't mean there wouldn't be. Can we can't go swimming? Yes, Jack. Can we, Jack? No. How do you want us to do anything, do they, Sonny? Well, they're right, of course. Oh, look out. Snake! Snake! Snake! Hermie, come back here.  You bet I will. I will. No. There he is. I ask you tonight. Hey, he's already looking pretty. Ooh, look at him. Pretty. Come on. Come on. Where did he come from? I was behind. Dropped right in at our feet here from those branches overhead. Well, it's good for nothing but fly bait now. There. We won't be seeing him again. Are you beginning to see what I mean? It makes me crawl all over. Let's get through the tunnel of vines and hurry up about it. Well, we're almost through now. I think I'll get inside the cabin when we get back to the plane and just stay there. Don't like Central America as much as you thought you were going to, huh? Well, I did think we were going to be in at least semi-civilization. Hey, don't tell us yes. Sorry, you came. No, darling, I'm not sorry. It was just that I expected something different.  Round folks like Jack and Reggie and me, that's what makes life interesting. We start out to do one thing and end up doing something else again. I'm beginning to find that out. That's why we never make any definite plans when we start out. But we were headed for Costa Rica when the plane came in. Sure. I don't expect Central America could be any more interesting than this. Interesting. Good. Sure. The Temple of Vampires cost a risk, I don't expect. You really enjoy that? Well, of course I did. Now, I can tell my grandchildren I've been made in love to by Angelina, a high priestess of the Temple of Vampires. Oh, some distinction. Well, maybe you don't like it now, but where do you get back home? And don't forget the old, he-vampire-priest man. Well, put the shine to you. You ought to top it. Well, he did. I don't think it's a bit funny. Come to think of it, Jack. The last time I talked to him, did I tell you? No. I don't think so. Well, when I would let him get in the priest cell where his son was sleeping... What did you say? That's right. He said if we give you to him, the rest of us wouldn't be bothered.  Jack? Well, what did you have to spill back? Well, I thought Sonny'd like to know so she can tell her grandchildren. But we're not out of this yet. Oh, now sure we are. Well, you talk too much. That'll be my Texas tone, no doubt. Well, go on. What was the threat? Well, when I wouldn't let him get in at Sonny, he said, All right, keep the girl for now. I warn you, the vampires will have such a feast as they've never known. That's great. Do you like it? Oh, I'm excited. Okay then. Let's make that a thought for the day. The vampires will have such a feast as they've never known. Your sense of humor is completely ghastly, Doc Long. Hey, look! This is the Anthony! As big as life and twice as beautiful. Oh, I never saw anything that looked so good. It seems years since we left there last night. Can I have a drink of water? I think we could all do with some. How about that, Jack? What about a lot of supply? We've got a couple of canteens. We'll have to boil some more right away. There's the water. I'll keep Sonny. The ones that helped us find this pass. That's right, Herming. But they don't look half as appealing this morning. Joe, feel that sun coming down. It's hot out here in the open and it wasn't the jungle. Hot enough to blister the palms of our hands if it keeps up. It's going to be a great place to jack up the plane and work on the undercarriage. Well, nothing else for it. Soon as we have some food, we can get to work, you know. Is that Peter the Doll Reggie? No, I think so. Give it to me. I'll climb up and open her up. Here you are. Uh-huh. Climb up. There. There she is. All right. You climb in and hand down one of those canteens and break out some food. Okay, Jack. Oh, man. It's a big government here. Holy. Everything just as relaxed as? Yeah. There you are with the water. Okay. Drop a dump. There. Thanks. Doc, give me a hand up. Hey, Sonny. Sure thing. You don't want up in here. Hot box. Okay, Rose, give me your hand. Oh, you come. Oh, thanks. I'm mothered. I've got to get out of these things. Forget that baiting suit, Sonny. All right, but you don't mind if I get into a pair of slats, do you? Suit yourself. Oh, probably it's a big government in here. Hey, watch what you're doing. Don't start scraping off up front here.  Don't holler before you'll hurt my fine-tested friend. Before I'm hurt, she said. Hey, Jack. Yeah? There's some cans of orange juice. How about a cup of them with our cheese and crackers? Okay, toss them up. Yeah. Oh, what are you doing up here, Reggie? I'm going to break out the tools. Not wasting any time, huh? The longer we put it off, the longer we're going to be here. Something of what you say, no doubt. All right, Jack, here's breakfast. Okay, hand it down. Reggie, don't come back in here. Keep your shot down. I had no intention of it. I thought I hurt you funny. You're all funny. The girls got to protect your privacy. Yes, well, you know what you can do. I'm coming down, Jack. There. Oh, boy. I never tasted any water that tasted as good as that. Well, then, how about sharing something with me, Hermie? Sure. Much too good to run under bridges. Give me any of these tools, Jack. All right, shoot them down. All right, come on down. Yes, I think that's everything. Can I help fix their thing? Sure. You can be the grease monkey. Grease monkey? And why not? Well, I feel a little better. Well, son of a gun, hauls, will you look what's come to live with us? Hollywood in pants. Don't try to be funny. These are cute. Did I say they weren't? Of course they're cute. Just like the stuff in it. Very nice, Sonny. My thing. You reckon? And on my dad, you've just a figure for it. You sure it won't strain your sense of propriety to add that, Reggie? Oh, I say, not on the least. You're wonderful, Reggie. Help me down. Honest to goodness, I'm sweating like a horse. Come on, jump. Oh, well, you asked for it. Look out. Gotcha. First breeze I've felt today. Thanks. The pleasure was all mine. Where's some of the water? Here it is, Sonny. Thanks, Hermie. Oh, who is that good? What? Is it mine or mine? We're being watched. We are? From where? Over there on the edge of the jungle. Just caught a glimpse of something and the movement of vines. Indiana, do you think? Don't say anything to the others for now. Yeah. We're safe enough out here in the open, I think. We're going to have to keep guard. What about tonight? I was thinking about that. I don't think our troubles are over yet. Look, did you see that? Yes, sir. You know something, Jack? Well, it did want to be an empire ever since I could remember. What have you done with Sonny? Well, she's up on the plane trying to make Hermie comfortable for the night. Little champs pretty well tuck it out, eh? We all have to spend the last night trying to sleep on a stone bench. Quite. With vampires roosting about. Well, we accomplished a good day's work, even with eyes watching us from the jungle every minute. Funny thing. Them watching us all day is not making a move. It might be different tonight. I wouldn't be surprised. It seems like vampires in the dark made for one another. We should be safe enough on the plane with one of us on guard. As long as we're armed and keep our wits about it. You know something, Reggie? I ain't shot me wild in the neck all the while. Not very much. These are Indians. Priests of the temple, maybe. Most likely. But who are these priests of the temple? It sounds like they were on the Spanish side to listen to them. Bound to be with all that senior, senior leader and senior business. Well, there's no telling, eh? Sunkers though, they've been here for centuries. Bound to have been. All that business about vampire worship, being the native Indian religion. You don't establish a religion overnight. At least not one that will permit human sacrifice. Are you two trying to sell me on the idea that the same folks have been here for centuries? Manuel and that little chief vampire Angelina? Well, according to all the best authorities, the vampire is Ageless, you know? Well, Angelina didn't sound to me like no two, four hundred year old Billy. No matter the fact, she's not. Yeah. How would you know about that? I don't know it. But I know it isn't reasonable. There isn't. There never was such a thing as a true vampire outside of some author's imagination. But what about all the stuff we've been running into? No, undoubtedly it has been some kind of a sympathetic vampire worship set up down here. All the mysteries and trappings that go with it, even human sacrifice. But Manuel and Angelina are human beings. Then what about Angelina's red lips and sharp white teeth? Well, most Latin girls do have red lips and naturally her teeth would flash white against her dark skin. And how do they both from ledge to ledge up yonder and temper? I don't know. Well, Angelina is sure enough mighty anxious to get her hands on her knees. And Manuel is just as interested in summing and it wouldn't take a vampire to find Sonny attractive. Now that there was the most astute observation of the day, fella. There's plenty of he-men to go for Sonny. And I don't have to spit over my chin to hit one of them. And more truth and poetry in that observation. One thing, though. Don't you think we ought to warn Sonny and Hermione about us being watched from the jungle? No. I hope they might wander off a little piece without thinking anything about it. Well, I've warned them to stay close to the plane. I agree with Jack, Doc. Sonny's worrying Sonny any more than's necessary. Uh-huh. Well, I'm telling you. It feels good to lay in their back, even on the ground. Still pretty much on the muggy side, though. And the sun's been gone a couple of hours. Reason may be coming up off the lake very soon. Well, that's just plain optimism. Maybe. Uh-oh. Will you be looking at the stars up in Earth, Guy? Hmm. How many million, I suppose, is? Who cares? Quite. Oh, man, Son. It takes more than a thaw to flutter Jack's thoughts. Don't you know that by this time, Doc? It takes more than a woman, even. You're just plain towered on the female sex the way I figure you, Jack. Ah, I can take them and leave them. I know that.  That's gonna be enough of that. Talking out of turn. No. Forget. I still owe you a bust on the jaw for what you did to me last night. What's that got to do with us, Son? No, this would be as good as time as any. Now, is that nice? Then change this up. Okay. Okay. I'll be going to draw straws to see how to do out of the walks tonight. Well, if you like. Oh, Jack? Yup. Somebody give me a hand down. I'm your man, Sonny. There. All right. Throw it down. You won't miss me in the dark. You'll never be Doc left for that. All right. I got you. Thanks. Wanna set a wound? Yes. I thought we'd turn in with Remy. It's positively suffocating in that plane. I don't know how the poor little kids are going to get any sleep. No, we're all in the same fix. We couldn't bring some blankets down and sleep out here under the plane. No, not a chance. It really is that dangerous? Yes. How long do you think we'll have to be here? A week probably. How about it, Reggie? Well, maybe not as long as that. Now that we've got the plane jacked up and I'd have a chance to look at the undercarriage. It isn't as bad as you thought. Now, good luck with riding with us. And how about the gasoline? No, it's water all right. I tested some of it this afternoon. That's going to be a nice job. Filling 200 gallons of gas through a shed. Well, it's got to be done. Tomorrow I've got to hunt out a big flat rock I can use for an anvil. We've got a couple of twisted rods and I'm going to have to beat them back into shape again. Well, down along the lake shore we should find something. No, quite. We should find something. Do you think that's funny? I was wondering if I was going to be left out. You three enjoying your pipe? I hope yourself and I'll call what you want. Thanks. What? That's better. Notice how many bats there are flying around. They're not liable to get in my hair, are they? No. You know something, Jack? If it wasn't for Sonny and Hermie I wouldn't mind sticking around here for a little... What are you trying to do? Make me feel in the way? Friends, sure, they don't be so touchy. Yeah? I just meant that you and Hermie are up against something down here. You can't let Jack and Reggie and I get as good as we get. So what? Well, it wasn't for you two. I'd like to go back to Temple and really find out what's going on. Oh, not for me. If we pull out now we never will know more we know now. I know enough. This doesn't seem like us to pull out of anything before we've got our curiosity satisfied. Well then, for goodness sakes, go back. Don't let me stop you. Hey, honey, you don't need to take it that way. Well, if I'm cramming your style... Forget it, Sonny. Well, gosh, anyway, I tried to be a good guy. And you have, too. I didn't mean that and just... that girls would be for stuff like this. I wish I hadn't come. Hey, you folks down there. Hermie, I thought you were asleep. It's too hot. I come down there. No, Hermie. You've got to get some sleep. I'm coming up in the plane, too. You smother! Well, then, we'll just smother. I'm coming right up right now. But, Sonny, you only just came down. What difference does it make? Well, okay, I'll help you. Don't bother. All right. That's how you like it. Oh, dear. Get out of the door, Hermie. I'm coming up. Yeah, sure. Oh, darn. Hey, it's your something. Get out of the way, Hermie. Give you a hand. No, you can't give me a hand. I'll help you. Thanks. Oh. Oh!  Well, we'll be sweating together. Come on. Be made of the species. Hmm? Get mad at us. Then we'll rip your slacks down. And they were but beautiful slacks, too. I don't like slacks on women myself. Well, not much anyway. God, that wasn't a very typeful thing to say. My what? I'm not wishing she wasn't a woman. I didn't say that. Well, she took it that way. I'd get to say a woman who didn't take things differently than you said it. Oh! Gord, Jack. You're not sleepy. I'm about to drawing lots to stand watch. Sure. I'll take some different lengths, too. All right. Short stick watches from now until midnight. Next from midnight until three. And the long one from three to six. And that's when everyone gets off. Okay, Doc. Take one. Uh-huh. Reggie? Right now. Well, as you're up. Well, doggone, I didn't draw the last watch. And I have the short one. From now until midnight. All right. That puts me in the middle. You're welcome to it. Me and I'd rather sleep all in one piece. Well, what about it, Jack? What do I do? Well, just watch now. You either sit up in the doorway of the plane or patrol down here in the ground. No, then I'll stay down here. All right. Now, keep your gun handy. And don't move out into the open. You may depend on that. Going up now, Jack? Yes. Okay. Yes, I will, too. You in? Yeah. Okay. Hey. Come on, Reggie. Talk about your turkey's back. All right. Yeah. Which side of the floor do you want? I'm putting my blanket right here. Okay. Good thing we could take these feet out and give her some room. Yeah. Right there will be a... You can cut the pie. Yeah.  Nasty bats. Good mosquitoes, though. Who's that? Reggie? Hello. Is that you, Sonny? It's just too darn hot inside. Dock and jacket, please. I don't know. They act like it. I don't know whether you should be sitting in that doorway or not. Please, my slacks are sticking to me like red bathing suit. They're not much cooler out here. Well, at least I can breathe. Purchase of when you slipped getting into the plane? No. Just tore the leg of my slacks. Situation like this. Good idea for everyone to keep his temper. I know it. But darn dock long, anyway. Quiet. I see your point.  No, I wouldn't say that. What? Crabbing about eating tomatoes out of a tin, making a fuss about going up those steps in the temple, and just being plain female like dock said, darn it all. I don't think that's has much to do with it. You don't? As I see it, you're not toughened out to it. Now put a wide column man from behind a desk down here and his reactions will be just about the same as yours. Reggie, you're wonderful. I am. I was beginning to get an awful complex about being a girl. Where you really? Well, I had a gun. Maybe I could give as good as I had got to. You never shot one? Nope. Then I wouldn't advise it. But all you have to do is pull the trigger. Was that all? Are you standing right below me? Yes, why? It must be getting darker. I can't see you. I moved into the shadow of the plane. Oh, could you teach me how to shoot? In time. But we'll be out of here before you really get the hang of it. Well, that's the first thing I'm going to do when I get back home. Go to a shooting range and get a lesson. What's the matter? Don't you think I could learn? Reggie? Reggie? Where are you? Oh, is that you? Why didn't you? Ah, what are you doing? Let's go on me! Help, dog! Yeah. Help, Jack! Dog! You got me! Something's got me! Jack! I'm Sunny! She was yelling for us. for sunny sunny are you all right here she's not I tell you're hurting yelling outside but playing but Reggie's on guard Reggie Reggie where's that flashlight it's something the matter I heard me you stay right where you are sure doc get down out of the plane I'm getting there you got your gun you think I have it there hey Reggie Jack bring that flashlight all right I'm coming with it do I have to stay in here you stay right where you are hey come here well what's the matter I found him anyway I think it's Reggie put on the flag here let me see yeah they tried to strand him will you look at that Roy round his toe quick cut him loose got it there what no count you can't do that no right we've got him just in time get some water quick while I pump some air into his lungs here yeah okay yeah yeah Jack won't swallow some all right throw it in his face uh-huh yeah help me lay him over this rock head down you bet you let's go all right easy there is he breathing I'm beginning to hurt going like a machine gun are you up there we're up here honey you stay right where you are till we say so what's the matter with Reggie he ain't feeling so good better all the time though he's gonna have to have an awful sore throat in the morning look at costing news over his head and then jerk him backwards off his feet yeah wonder didn't break his neck probably thought they had there okay he said he's gonna be all right now we paid much attention to Sonny what are we doing now well load him into the plane all right treble yeah all right come on all right let him down all right I'll climb up into the ship and you hold up so I can uh so I can get hold of him okay I guess nothing like this ever happened to me before all right now you just you stand out of the way here all right Jack lift him up your army you hold the flashlight yeah just a little bit more all right you got him by the coat color give him a boost with him yeah yeah there he's unconscious all right he'll be all right no little while now look for me now just listen to me yeah sure you're one of the men in this outfit from now on how about that sure all right now I got a job for you you think you can do it good you're gonna have to stay here and look after Reggie until he comes to yeah I'm gonna have to go find Sonny now we don't know that's what we got to find out can you do that I guess so all right now we'll lock up the plane so nobody can get in now you just stay here and keep very quiet pretty soon Reggie you'll wake up and talk to me I'll try hey Jack what are you doing I'll climb down again now Hermie's gonna stay here with Reggie yeah what's that for Reggie's got to have fun about he to look after him I get it that's great to me that's what I call a man after a moment all right come on doc hurry yeah my old boy my job remember just keep quiet now if anybody comes around the plane don't move they can't get in all right all right we'll be back as quickly as we can we're still on so long Santa what's the matter the path from the lake to the template should be here somewhere I should hey there he is oh we on all right come on better keep the light on running the way we are all right give us away soon as big given we're gonna break my neck all right we're on the path now seem to be and yeah do what we're gonna do we get there well I do is our best bet if he's got Sonny over now the ledge was sunk hey where's our footsteps one of the moss of the stone courtyard now look after those bushes that one here Jack and here's the steps leading up to the temple close all right okay sticking our necks out those things like take it easy now well we just walk right in why not put the steps leading up to the ledge I'm with you up we go change this morning to expect things like to be some kind of celebration catching a wife with him first ledge hey trolley parade of the goons every time they have a parade around the older they have a new sacrifice well what about it but Jack he just took Sonny away from us how about you and I getting down there and busting up the little old duck I said they had to break the character body it's stripped down to a loin cloth would we make sure wait nothing what doc it's another Indian you sure look for yourself well what you know and it's sunny at all another dead in you sure looks like a weird bunch in his back row was lit up by tortures and they go on to the underground passage you the guy who loves a parade anyway we know Sonny wasn't the guest of honor we do the one up to the next ledge you remember yesterday when we saw those shadows floating back and forth from the ledge to ledge I did well they were landing on the higher ledge activity was up there all right now that's why we're going up why not only we're going to need wings if anything happened you know that there's climb and put us up about 40 or 50 feet in the air if they can take it so can we if they took Sonny at this high she ain't never gonna be good for nothing again what Lisha feels about high place now I'm keeping close to the wall steps are getting pretty narrow I show this cut not groove an inch deep in this stone wall all right here we are be careful you gotta be careful now we're at what well there's gonna be some answers to why they float over on the other ledge we're going to walk along edge and look for something examine every inch of it well get out your magnifying glass here we go we'll have to be satisfied with a flashlight I'd rather have a parachute I'll use the flashlight on the ledge now you go into each priest's cell as as we come into it are you got matches don't you got a box of you know we'll use them usually same as there's a debutante they doc if there's something I never noticed before look at those iron hoax in the wall there seems to be one every so often what about they must be for something maybe the monks used to hang their clothes when they went to bed go and examine the rooms yeah nope nothing here doc doc doc come come out here on the ledge I found it you did you found what all right all right here it is this is how they float from legs to ledge naturally it would have to be this way see how simple it is oh what's happened Richie you awake oh what's that oh that's you Hermie yeah took you an awful long time to wake up oh my throat I I feel like I've been honored guest at a necktie party I say what happened where are we in the airplane oh but where's jack and dog they're gone and so is sunny sunny I guess somebody choked you and ran off with sunny choked me by joke now I remember something slipped around my neck and I was jerk off my feet well that's the last I remember I'm glad you're awake I don't like being out here alone well they went off and left you jack locked the door of the plane I don't like it oh but where did they go I don't know to find sunny those blasted roots jumped me and carried sunny off that's what jack said well we can't stay here I've got to get out and help but we can't we're locked in I have a key but jack said to stay here I don't care what he said it quiet oh listen what's the matter Rich listen it is something the matter there's someone outside the plane oh you think you think it's a vampire I know jolly well it's the vampires what are you doing with your revolver you're going to shoot somebody with pleasure a vampire side will look jolly well nailed to the door of my trophy room you stay close to me Hermie no matter what happens yeah I will settle I don't move around I don't hear anything now something's nosing around outside crawling up over the plane I guess we're all right with the door lock maybe thank you yes did you know where the windows is open what's that sunny oh just a little crack so we could get some air in here now have a look we'll come along with me I wonder what it is out there hold it yes the air is I guess nothing could get in that nothing bigger than a june bug her me her me little one with the white skin she's calling me well that isn't sunny oh it's a girl jumped off the leg with me and kissed me with the female vampire her me you'll hear me don't enter her no I won't I don't like her anymore little boy I have some nice right things for you what is she saying things uh-uh she gave me things the first time I saw her listen Hermie I'm going to talk to her but you keep quiet all right you do not need to be afraid of me little boy you're quite right about that miss oh you heard me you are not dead do I sound dead no thanks to you however that I did not do it well somebody did it and give me a bad case of tonsillitis where are you anyway I can't see you sitting out here on the wing of the plane see still perching around on things I see did you fly over here from the temple fly that's what I asked you I am not bird well you seem to get around like one you were open door and let me come inside no no so I'm more out to take a pot shot at you with this revolver if I get side of you where is her me over in the temple I guess that is not true so you say no Manuel take only the girl no so it was the priest chappy see I don't want the girl I want her me why why yes why do you want him he has nice white skin you should see my skin sometime so that's right underneath my shirt I'm as pink as a spanked baby that is very interesting so what does her me god I haven't got her me is little boy he is there with you is he not I told you isn't here but I know he is you still haven't told me why do you want him you do not know about vampires so you admit you're a vampire I am high priestess of vampires yeah I know a museum that would like you museum yeah that's right stop so believe me they would love you what is this stop never mind you wouldn't like it are you alone see I just about have a notion to come out there and pick you up I am not afraid you open the door and I will come in what do you mean that see it's a deal you will you've got yourself a proposition climb over the door you're not going to open the door keep back if I can capture her then maybe we can trade her back for sunny I wish you wouldn't don't worry we'll make out you catch down in the corner here I'm afraid Reggie you've got to be a man about these things Sammy besides I'll shoot holes in anything that bothers us keep quiet now see now in there where are you see I am here with the doors open come on in it is difficult reach out your hand I don't see you this way I am now then no the newt put it about his neck make sure this time Reggie Reggie I'm here little boy no no go away go away I will hold you very gently gently and hold me put me down put me down come our task is done I don't want to I don't want your doctor this is how they swing from legs to legs swing yeah sure swing look look at this vine rope tied to one of these hooks on the wall mine was banged me for a baby we don't look at that it must reach clean up to 100 feet in the ceiling ah that's it the ropes fastened in the center of the ceiling they just swing from the ledge of one wall to the other but Jack 40 50 feet but floor that's maybe Tarzan there must be more than one of those ropes too must be the she been by a man we are both with a half an hour off the ledge last night and the girl carried her in the inner arm and hand on to the rope but strong enough man your arms would develop in short order if you did much of this monkey stuff monkey stuff no fool huh both the day was the greatest of ease well now we can get across to the other leg you don't mean it why not you mean you've got nerve to jump off this ledge on that rope will you tell me how else we're going to get to cross to the sunny if sun is over there you know she is as well as I do yeah reckon I do well I wish you didn't well we're wasting our time I mean we're gonna do it now son and you think of any better time it's a pain in dark and I can't see all the pressure that's below me and you can't see where you're landing even though that's the chances yeah I'm gonna make a blind airplane land them in a grand canyon that are trying to hit that ledge over yonder like an only try wait a minute doc this is getting us nowhere we've got to get to sunny okay then I do you crazy idiot you and me both but if you can do it so this is my idea now look son I have to knock you go like I've done last night I was just thinking of the same thing oh so you want to wrestle for the privilege of committing suicide act like you had some sense will you just much sense for me you need to go as it is for you doc I places don't bother me me need a fella what you think I'm yelling about things nothing I'd rather do than swing out on that rope from that so sure things I used to do with my father's bombing of the kid in Texas makes it look like child so here I've had experience he turned that during the last night yeah like swinging on a rope 50 feet up in the air do you know that's what I say well why are you gripping that door jam of that to sell so hard for just hanging on I mean I know what you mean just the thought of swinging through the air makes you uh squeamish now look Jack I'll take a lot yeah yeah yeah you're in a mood and I'm scared you're no more scared than I am I hate it it just happens it doesn't make me sick to my stomach who is sick to their stomach you are you're greener on the guilt don't let me fight more it's shut up would you try that nice and quick for us look over the ledge down on the floor well son of a gun never thought you'd fly a parade oh if you're doing a heap of sacrifice and down in this country second time tonight quiet quiet for a minute can't hear them shakers they use so well up in this high ledge one of the only kind of music they like doc do you see what I see what do you see there's a girl leading the priest well I'll be a small detail yeah you suppose that's how the range of me the vampire doc it isn't the body of an Indian man this time ain't got anything other lines often that is who you jack isn't that a little kid yeah he's alive look look at him fight they've got him gagged so where we're going to lay here and watch him sacrifice a little kid and he's alive all right and he's gonna stay alive for my money wait wait wait wait look how white his skin is it doesn't make sense any kid skin is white well then that isn't an Indian kid that that's her me her me jack look what's happening they're not taking him down into the underground passage the girl's taking him hey the priests are going down underground without him ah he's coming this way she's bringing him up the stairs well let's go get her no she's coming up here jack if we lose her me without lifting a finger don't you get it she's got to come up here she does this is rope this rope she's got to come up here to a rope to swing across to the other ledge she'll probably come up on these steps a lot faster than we could so keep quiet but she could see in the dark she'll see us before we even know the chids around yeah i forgot that quick into the into the preso what about the rope if we can't hear her she'll have to get away before we know she's here i fixed that i tied it up on her reach now you're talking not hold it her me and where's reggie i was just wondering you do not be afraid little her me do not struggle in my arms angelina don't move so keep the flash on her jack get between her and the stairs with pleasure now then put her me down i will not don't try to be clever put him down never doc yeah go up and take her me out of her arms you do not you make one move and i'll shoot you dead go on doc i'm sponsored i'm doing it you keep back oh so you come one more step and i throw little boy over the ledge yeah you wouldn't yeah i will what about that jack uh-huh she knows better than that yeah but does she yeah she's a dead pigeon if she tries listen you i'll give you to the count of three to put that child down and if i do not shoot you dead in your tracks and if you do that they don't hurt me and i will both roll off the ledge together hi jack dangerous be careful you won't give up the boy if we let you go no well looks like we're licked doc might as well put up your gun all right see that is better get her get her doc you better no no piece of all right hang on to her me i've got it pull her on here pull her into the priest cell now and yeah here we go you dare touch the high priest now why still you keep bit me and scratch me like an animal jack never mind get her me's gag off wait about reggie yeah wait a minute huh here little fella oh i want some clothes job i want some clothes never mind your clothes where's reggie they hit him and put a rope around his neck thank you doc get back to the plane leave you here don't argue you've got to save reggie 10 o'clock at night high on the ledge above the floor of the temple of vampires someplace in the jungles of central america first the girl's sonny was stolen from the crippled plane and carried back to the temple by manwell a vampire priest leaving reggie orc and the boy hermie in the plane jack and doc raced to the temple and up to the high ledge 50 feet above the floor level here they found the temple priests floating through the air from ledge to ledge there were vine ropes fastened to hooks in the wall which reached 100 feet into the air to the center roof of the temple as doc and jack discussed swinging to the ledge across the room where sonny was a captive the high priestess angelina came up the stone steps with hermie under arms he was stripped down to a loincloth jack and doc grabbed angelina and rescued hermie he said they had knocked reggie out and pulled a rope tight around his neck without waiting for more doc dashed down to the stairs and back to the plane leaving jack sitting astride the high priestess and hermie standing by very naked and scared i will not be treated this way listen you you lie still or you're gonna get an awful headache you do not sit on me you want to crack behind the ear with a butt of my revolver i am angelina the high i don't care if you're the floridora sextet you lie still you will die all right that's better hermie i'm here yet well come closer all right now you see this rope this rope belt around angelina's waist yeah i can you untie it too well go ahead why you do this thing i need it to tie your hands behind you right there i am not laid to have my hands tied you got it hermie yeah all right now pull it out from under her all right there i got it all right now take this gun yeah sure all right careful now you better take it into both hands that's it now hold the muzzle of it against her head and if she moves pull the trigger hey i don't want to kill her i don't want you to she doesn't either i don't think hey keep out of the way of that flashlight yeah all right lady put your hands behind you see now that's it have you trust up here like a chicken in no time hey you've got little hands haven't she are you keep an eye on that gun sure little hands but strong plenty of calluses from swinging on these ropes you do this to me that's right this is insult the vampir