Box 13 - "The Treasure of Hang Li" (Old Time Radio, 2012)
Box 13 presents “The Treasure of Hang Li,” originally broadcast May 29, 1949. Also listed as episode 41, this installment stars Alan Ladd as writer-adventurer Dan Holiday in the syndicated 1948–49 series.
A mysterious letter sends Holiday to a Chinatown curio shop to ask for the Hang Li piece, an enigmatic jade object the proprietor insists he take for free. What begins as an unusual errand soon draws Dan into a dangerous urban mystery. Sylvia Picker appears as Suzy.
Box 13 presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.
Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:39 Original Broadcast
27:12 Closing
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Speaker 1: A letter sends Dan Holliday to a Chinatown curio shop
where he is told to ask for a particular piece
of jade. The shopkeeper insists he take it without payment,
and Holliday finds himself involved with the object and with
those searching for it. From the 1948-49 run of Box 13,
this is episode 41, The Treasure of Hang Lee, originally
broadcast May 29, 1949. Alan Ladd stars as novelist adventurer
Dan Holliday with Sylvia Picker as Susie. Now, back to
the golden age of radio.
Speaker 2: Box 13, with the star of Paramount Pictures, Alan Ladd
as Dan Holliday.
Speaker 3: Box 13, care of the Star Times. If your advertisement
is on the level, I think you'll find this worth
your time. Be in the Quan Hai shop in Chinatown
at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 4: Pretend you want to buy some jade.
Speaker 3: Reject the first two pieces offered, then mention the Hang
Li piece in the window.
Speaker 4: Buy the Hang Li. This will be worth a lot
of money to you. Remember, it's the Quan Hai shop.
A shop in Chinatown. Ask for Jade, but reject the
first two pieces. Then mention the hang leaf piece in
the window. Go back and wait for further instructions. That
was the letter. No signature. It sounded interesting, and it was.
If you like murder.
Speaker 2: And now back to The Treasure of Hang Lee, another
Box 13 adventure with Alan Ladd as Dan Holliday.
Speaker 5: I don't get it, Mr. Holliday. Why should you reject
the first two pieces?
Speaker 4: Ah, that's what makes the letter interesting, Susie. Why reject
the first two pieces and then mention the Hang Lee piece?
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 5: Why?
Speaker 4: I think I've got an idea.
Speaker 5: What is it?
Speaker 4: Pretty obvious, Susie. Look, the letter doesn't say anything about
identifying myself, does it?
Speaker 5: No, it doesn't.
Speaker 4: Well, if I follow instructions, follow them exactly, I'll be
tipping myself to someone in the store. Do you get it?
Speaker 6: Oh, sure.
Speaker 5: Whoever wrote the letter will be there, too, waiting for
you to follow instructions.
Speaker 4: That's a great deduction.
Speaker 5: And I did it all myself, too.
Speaker 4: You sure did. Okay, Susie, I'm going to make like
Marco Polo and visit our Chinese friends. It took me
a half an hour to drive to Chinatown... and another
ten minutes to find the shop of Quan Hai. I
looked in the windows. There was the usual line of stuff.
Back scratchers, Quan Yens, bamboo trinkets, red lacquer bowls. But
only one piece of jade. It was roughly square and
seemed to have been broken. It looked like a part
of a bigger piece. So I went into the shop.
There were six or seven other people besides myself... Well,
they were looking at curios, and no one paid any
attention to me. Then a young Chinese clerk smiled and
came over to me. Oh, yes, sir. Can I help you, please? Oh, yes.
I want to buy a piece of jade. Yes, sir.
You want a certain color? Well, I don't know. This
is a very nice piece, sir. It is what we
call the mutton fat color. It's very nice, but not
quite what I want. A ring, perhaps? Cough links? A
snuff bottle? I don't know. You see, it's for a gift.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 4: This piece is very fine, sir. And the carving is excellent.
But it is not very old. There's a piece in
the window. The only piece. What is that? The piece
in the window, sir? Yes, it's a hang leaf piece,
isn't it? Well? If you will please to follow me, sir.
But the piece is in the window. I know, sir.
But for that piece, you will have to see Mr. Kwan.
This way, please. If you please, sir, in here. I
will send for Mr. Kwan. You will please excuse me now, sir,
the other customers. Yeah, sure, thank you. It is nothing
at all. He went out, and I heard a key
turn in the lock of the door. For a moment,
I was left alone in a room that was different
from the rest of the store. Very different. Instead of
the usual junk that tourists buy, this room was a
treasure house. Rose quartz, wonderful jade screens, beautiful porcelain bowls
that seem to be lighted from inside. Lack of wear
that's shown like satin in the dim light. I was
looking around me when... Good afternoon, sir. Oh, how do
you do, Mr. Kwan?
Speaker 7: I am Mr.
Speaker 4: Kwan.
Speaker 7: Pleased to sit down, sir.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 7: May I help you, Mr.
Speaker 4: My name is Holliday, Dan Holliday.
Speaker 7: I am honored, Mr.
Speaker 4: Holliday. Uh, your clerk told me I'd have to see
you about that Hang Lee jade in the window.
Speaker 7: Yes, that is true. You want that piece, Mr. Holliday?
Speaker 4: Yes, I'd like to buy it.
Speaker 7: One moment.
Speaker 4: It is strange.
Speaker 7: That Hang Lee piece has lain in the window for
two weeks now. You are the first to ask for it. I, uh,
I saw it and liked it.
Speaker 4: Of course.
Speaker 7: You are a man of excellent taste. It is a
very fine piece. Incredibly ancient and incredibly valuable.
Speaker 4: Oh? Well, maybe... Maybe I can't afford it.
Speaker 7: The Hang Li piece, Mr.
Speaker 4: Kwan.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Lan. That is all.
Speaker 4: Yes, Mr. Kwan. Does he always lock the door when
he leaves this room?
Speaker 7: There are very valuable things in this room, Mr.
Speaker 4: Holliday. Oh, I see. But the Hang Li piece, is
it valuable, Mr. Kwan?
Speaker 7: Yes, Mr.
Speaker 4: Holliday.
Speaker 7: So valuable that there is no price on it. Odd
that you should ask for it.
Speaker 4: You have no idea how odd.
Speaker 7: It is a piece of a larger work. A twelve
inches by twelve inches to be exact. This is only
one third of the original.
Speaker 4: May I see it? Certainly. It looks like a wonderful
piece of jade.
Speaker 7: Do you know what Confucius said about jade?
Speaker 4: Well, I seem to have heard quite a few things
Confucius was supposed to have said. but I doubt if
any of them would fit the bill just now.
Speaker 7: Yes, but Confucius said that jade is like truth. It
gives out a bright rainbow, and it shows a pure
spirit among the hills and stream.
Speaker 4: Truth gives out a bright rainbow. That's a very pretty
figure of speech, Mr. Grime.
Speaker 7: Yes. Truth is very often a figure of speech.
Speaker 4: Is it not, Mr. Holliday? Yes, I'm afraid you're right.
What about this piece? Ah, yes.
Speaker 7: You will note the carving. Very beautifully done.
Speaker 4: These are Chinese characters, aren't they?
Speaker 7: Yes. It is too bad the other two-thirds of the
entire piece are missing.
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Why is that? I mean, beyond the fact that it
seems a shame to ruin such a magnificent thing.
Speaker 7: Foolish old Chinese legend, Mr.
Speaker 4: Holliday.
Speaker 7: It says that he who translates the writing will be
led to a treasure beyond all price.
Speaker 4: But you'd have to have all three pieces.
Speaker 7: You would need all three pieces.
Speaker 4: And where are the other two?
Speaker 7: I do not know.
Speaker 4: I see. Well, Mr. Kwan, how much for this piece? Mr.
Speaker 7: Holliday, it has no price.
Speaker 4: You mean it's not for sale? It is not for sale.
But I don't understand. It was in the window.
Speaker 7: Yes, and no one inquired about it. Perhaps because collectors
would not be interested in a broken piece.
Speaker 4: That could be. But that still doesn't explain why you
had it in your window and yet not have it
for sale.
Speaker 7: The piece is yours.
Speaker 4: I beg your pardon? What did you say?
Speaker 7: The hungry piece is yours. There is no price on it.
Speaker 4: But I can't take it without paying for it. You
asked for it? Of course I did, Mr. Kwan, but
I'm prepared to pay for it.
Speaker 7: I am sorry. There is no price. The piece is
yours for the taking.
Speaker 4: Well, suppose someone else had come in and asked for it.
Would you have given it to anyone?
Speaker 7: Only to one who asked for it by name, as
you did.
Speaker 4: I don't understand.
Speaker 7: Truth, Mr. Holliday, is a figure of speech. I have
told you the truth. The hungry piece is yours. Please
take it. Now, if you will excuse me.
Speaker 4: Just a moment, Mr. Kwan. Suppose I refuse to walk
out with this. It is a matter of indifference to me. Then,
as a matter of curiosity, how much is the piece worth?
That depends upon who has it. And that means what?
Speaker 7: That is hard to say. To a collector, the hungry
piece would be worth perhaps no more than a hundred dollars.
To you, it is worth what you make it. To me,
to me it is priceless. Ah, here is Lund. Lund,
please show Mr. Holliday to the door. His business here
is concluded.
Speaker 4: It will be great honor, Mr. Kwong. Just so.
Speaker 7: Well, goodbye, Mr. Holliday, and may the bat roost upon
your roof.
Speaker 4: May the what rest for where?
Speaker 7: The bet is a Chinese symbol for good fortune.
Speaker 4: Goodbye. Pleased to come with me, Mr. Holliday. You're sure
you won't change your mind, Mr. Kwan?
Speaker 7: About what?
Speaker 4: The hangley piece.
Speaker 7: It is yours.
Speaker 4: Perhaps we shall meet again. again, Mr. Holliday. Oh, wait.
Just a minute, Mr. Kwan. He is gone, Mr. Holliday. Now,
if you would please to follow me. All right. Thanks.
Is there anything else you wish, Mr.
Speaker 7: Holliday?
Speaker 4: Yes, I think there is. And that is? I wish
someone would tell me why I advertise for adventure and
get mixed up in things like this. Goodbye. So with
a Hang Lee piece tucked under my arm and a
great big question mark tucked under my hat, I left
Kwan Lee's place. For a moment, I stood in front
of the store. No one followed me out, although I
knew that whoever had sent me the letter was watching.
So I drove home and waited in my apartment. I
didn't wait long. Hello?
Speaker 8: This Holliday?
Speaker 4: Yes, it is.
Speaker 8: I'm the one who sent you the letter. Bring the
Hangley piece to 721 South Ferry Street, room 6.
Speaker 4: Oh, uh, just a minute. How do you know I've
got the piece?
Speaker 8: I was in the store this afternoon.
Speaker 4: And why didn't you ask me for it there?
Speaker 8: You're wasting time. Please bring the Hangley piece. You will
be sorry.
Speaker 4: What was that address again?
Speaker 8: 721 South Ferry Street, room 6.
Speaker 4: And the name?
Speaker 8: You've got all you need to know. I'll be waiting.
Speaker 4: Well, well, well. All right, Mr. South Ferry Street. We'll
see what you have to offer.
Speaker 6: Please go back in, Mr.
Speaker 7: Holliday.
Speaker 4: Oh, I've got company.
Speaker 6: Please, go back.
Speaker 4: Sit down. I, uh, I just gotta.
Speaker 6: Sit down.
Speaker 4: Oh, thank you. Won't you? No.
Speaker 6: You're much younger than I thought you'd be.
Speaker 4: Oh, is that so? Well, keep pointing that gun at
me and I can age ten years.
Speaker 6: You have quite a sense of humor.
Speaker 4: For a murderer. Murder? Well, this is news. Go on, Miss... Loring.
Speaker 7: Greta Loring.
Speaker 4: How do you do?
Speaker 6: Doesn't the name Loring mean anything, Mr.
Speaker 4: Holliday? Beyond the fact that it belongs to a very
pretty girl holding a very ugly gun. I'm completely at loss.
Speaker 6: Lying seems to be another of your doubtful accomplishments.
Speaker 4: Oh, yes, I'm very talented, but I'm no good at puzzles.
You see, I give up too easily.
Speaker 6: I had a hard time finding you, especially since you
changed your name.
Speaker 4: No, this is news. I'm a murderer, a liar, and
I'm living under an alias.
Speaker 6: This afternoon, you gave yourself away by getting the hangly
jade from that shop. Sooner or later, I knew I'd
trace you through that piece of jade.
Speaker 4: Oh, so you were there, too.
Speaker 6: I watched that shop for days, waiting for you to
get the hangly.
Speaker 4: And now that I've got it?
Speaker 6: I'm going to take it. Then kill you?
Speaker 4: In that order, I suppose.
Speaker 6: Give it to me.
Speaker 4: It's right there on the table in front of you.
Speaker 6: It was a long time ago that you killed my father.
I was a little girl then.
Speaker 4: Lady, how you've grown up, complete with a gun and
a murderous desire to kill me.
Speaker 6: I've had that desire for a long time. Ever since
I found my father dead.
Speaker 4: Murdered. Go on, Miss Laurie. What then?
Speaker 6: You know as well as I do. And being charming
in flip won't help.
Speaker 4: Now, look, Miss Loring. Maybe you've got the wrong man.
Have you thought of that? After all, you said I
seemed to be much younger than you thought I'd be.
Speaker 6: All I know is that you went after the hangly jade.
No one else in the world but you would want
that piece. No one else would know what it means.
Speaker 4: That's circumstantial evidence, Miss Loring.
Speaker 6: Stay where you are. We're through talking, Mr.
Speaker 4: Holliday.
Speaker 6: Or shall I call you Benson?
Speaker 4: You can call me anything you like, but think before
you squeeze that trigger.
Speaker 6: I've thought quite a lot. Now, I'm going to take
the jade.
Speaker 4: All right. Here. Take it.
Speaker 6: Giving it to me won't solve everything. Stay there.
Speaker 4: No, don't. With a slam at the door, Miss Loring
was gone, and so was the hangly jade. And so
was a piece of my coat where the bullet from
her gun ripped through it. But I had the gun.
Maybe it could be traced. But first, I had to
see a man about a piece of jade at 721
South Ferry Street.
Speaker 8: Yes, who is it?
Speaker 4: Holiday. All right, just a minute. Come on in. Now,
give me the hangly piece. I'm sorry, but you're about
a half hour too late. What are you talking about? Well,
I haven't got it. Maybe this will show you I
don't like jokes. Now, look, whatever your name is, take
that gun out of my ribs. Developing analogy. Give me
the hangly piece. What if I told you a girl
who called herself Greta Loring took it away from me?
Speaker 2: Loring?
Speaker 4: You have that name right? I have every reason to
remember it. But good. Where is she? I don't know. Well, you...
All right. Turn around. Face the window. Now, look, fellow.
Turn around.
Speaker 7: Turn around.
Speaker 4: Now, where did that girl go? I told you, I
don't know. How did she find you? The same way
you did. She was in Kwan High Shop this afternoon.
Speaker 7: Uh-huh.
Speaker 4: Okay, Mr. Holliday. Thank you for running that errand for me.
Speaker 2: And now, back to Box 13 and Dan Holliday's newest adventure,
The Treasure of Hang Lee.
Speaker 4: It was a nice hit. It was the top of
my head. When the birds and the bees left my skull,
I sat up. The room was dark. I started to
get to my feet when... You're feeling better, Mr. Holliday? Huh? Mr. Kwan?
Speaker 7: Oh, I am flattered you recognize my voice. But you
are feeling better? Except for a new head, I couldn't
ask for anything more. I'm sorry I did not arrive
in time to save you that inconvenience.
Speaker 4: But now that you are here, why?
Speaker 7: Why am I here? I came to see your friend.
Speaker 4: Today I have no friends.
Speaker 7: Wait a moment. I shall turn on the light.
Speaker 4: I could use some. Mostly on what's going on.
Speaker 7: Yes, here. You gave our friend the hungry jade?
Speaker 4: Now, wait a minute. I... Just a moment.
Speaker 7: Before you answer, you had better look in this little alcove.
Speaker 4: Look, Mr. Holliday. Who? Who's that?
Speaker 7: He's dead.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 7: Quite dead. Stubbed in the back.
Speaker 4: But he's not the man I came here to see.
Speaker 7: I'm afraid not. I wish he were.
Speaker 4: Well, then who is this?
Speaker 7: One of the men I have been seeking for ten years.
Speaker 4: Ten years? Yes. Look, Mr. Kwan, I have a large headache.
You're no aspirin with your Chinese puzzles.
Speaker 7: The man you came to see was named Benson.
Speaker 4: That doesn't help.
Speaker 7: The dead man there is a man named Fisher.
Speaker 4: And what about a man named Loring?
Speaker 7: Oh, you know a man named Loring.
Speaker 4: I met his daughter today.
Speaker 7: Ah, his daughter. Now I am beginning to see. But
I presume you gave Mr. Benson the hungry jade you
got from me today?
Speaker 4: I did not. Mr. Loring's daughter relieved me of it.
She has it? You know she has.
Speaker 7: I have only your word for that.
Speaker 4: That's all you're going to get, Mr. Kwan.
Speaker 7: I think you mean that. Very well, Mr.
Speaker 4: Holliday.
Speaker 7: I shall have to leave now.
Speaker 4: Oh, no, you don't. There's a murdered man here. How
do I know you didn't kill him?
Speaker 7: That is a reasonable question. You have only my word
that I did not kill him.
Speaker 4: Then you'll go with me to the police. Oh, it's funny, huh? No.
Speaker 7: I was thinking of something.
Speaker 4: A proverb.
Speaker 7: And being Chinese, I am permitted one proverb.
Speaker 4: I've got one for you, Mr. Kwan. A bird in
the hand is worth two in the bush. Right now,
you're the number one bird.
Speaker 7: Very good, Mr.
Speaker 4: Holliday.
Speaker 7: But my proverb is more to the point. Two men
of different minds must soon say goodbye. We're going to
the police, Mr.
Speaker 4: Kwan.
Speaker 7: You leave me no alternative but this.
Speaker 4: What? Would you use that gun?
Speaker 7: I'm afraid I would. if you tried to stop me.
But please, do not blame me, Mr.
Speaker 4: Holliday.
Speaker 7: This is the fault of my ancestors. Your ancestors? They
invented gunpowder.
Speaker 4: Goodbye. And so there I was, but where? I called
the police and reported the murder without telling my name.
I didn't want to stick around because I had other
things to do. I had a bullet hole through my
coat and out of my head and a big burning
desire to catch up with Mr. Benson and Miss Loring.
Not to mention a certain Mr. Kwan. The only lead
I had was Greta Loring's gun that I'd taken from her.
If she had bought it in the city, it would
be registered. So I made one more phone call and
found out what I wanted. Her address. It was an
apartment building. And her apartment was number eight. I pressed
the buzzer.
Speaker 7: Yes.
Speaker 4: Good evening, Miss Loring.
Speaker 6: How did you find me?
Speaker 4: Oh, I had to. I always return things that I borrow.
I believe this is your gun.
Speaker 6: What are you going to do?
Speaker 4: Play questions and answers.
Speaker 6: Please, get out of here.
Speaker 4: This afternoon you called me a murderer. Why?
Speaker 6: I thought you were someone else.
Speaker 4: Who? Benson?
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 4: Oh, but I'm not.
Speaker 6: I know that now.
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Now she tells me. After she puts a bullet through
my coat. You know, Miss Loring, two inches higher and
you'd have had yourself a corpse. Me. I dislike being
a corpse. Now you'll talk.
Speaker 6: Benson killed my father in China ten years ago.
Speaker 4: Seems he also killed a man called Fisher. Fisher?
Speaker 6: David Fisher?
Speaker 4: David or not, he's just a number at the morgue
by now.
Speaker 6: Then Benson is still alive.
Speaker 4: I think he is.
Speaker 6: And you came here.
Speaker 4: Of course, why not?
Speaker 6: Don't you see what you've done?
Speaker 4: Done?
Speaker 6: Think about it.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 4: He wouldn't know where to find you, but I told
him I'd met you. And he'll keep track of me.
Speaker 6: And come here.
Speaker 4: Listen, have you still got that hang leaks, Jade? Yes. Well,
he wants that. If you give it to him, maybe
he'll go away.
Speaker 6: My father was killed because he had the Hangley piece.
Speaker 4: What is there about that piece?
Speaker 6: There were three pieces, all part of the same screen.
It was something about a treasure.
Speaker 4: And the carving on the screen would lead to the treasure?
Speaker 7: Yes.
Speaker 4: You have one piece. Benson has the other two. One
he killed your father to get, the other he killed
Fisher to get.
Speaker 6: And he'll come here after this third piece.
Speaker 4: Come on, we've got to get out of here. Wait,
where's your phone?
Speaker 6: Right there, but.
Speaker 4: I'm going to call the police.
Speaker 2: Not yet, Mr.
Speaker 7: Holliday.
Speaker 4: Quan.
Speaker 7: Yes, I followed you, Mr.
Speaker 4: Holliday.
Speaker 7: Then, because I feared Miss Loring would not extend her
hospitality to me, I came up the fire escape. Kwan.
Speaker 6: Kwan, my father told me.
Speaker 7: Yes, Miss Loring, yes. Your father, Fisher and Benson, killed
an old Taoist priest in China to get the Hongli
screen and its secret.
Speaker 6: My father never killed anyone.
Speaker 7: I'm afraid he did.
Speaker 4: But there are three pieces of the screen. Yes, Mr. Holliday.
Speaker 7: The three men did not trust one another. They broke
the screen up into three pieces. One valueless without the
other two.
Speaker 4: Why? Why did they do that?
Speaker 7: Because they had to leave China and go their separate ways.
They arranged to meet later.
Speaker 4: But Benson killed Lauren.
Speaker 7: Yes, but Lauren did not have his piece of the
Hang Li. I got it before Benson got to him.
Speaker 4: And you, you put the piece in the window to
trap Benson. Why, Mr. Kwan? Why?
Speaker 7: The Taoist priest was my honorable father.
Speaker 4: Oh, I didn't know.
Speaker 6: I didn't know that.
Speaker 7: I'm sure you did not. I've been all over the world, waiting, waiting,
hoping that sooner or later, the murderers of my father
would trap themselves. Two are dead, and the third.
Speaker 4: Benson?
Speaker 7: Yes, Benson.
Speaker 4: Must be Benson.
Speaker 7: You let him in, Mr.
Speaker 4: Holliday. Let him in, are you crazy? Kwani's a killer.
I said let him in, one moment.
Speaker 7: I will take that gun you put on the table, Mr.
Speaker 4: Holliday. Give it to me. Take it. Thank you. Now
I have two guns. Mr.
Speaker 7: Benson probably has one.
Speaker 4: Let him in, Mr. Holliday. If you think I'm going
to open that door and let him in, you're crazy.
Speaker 7: I have two guns. Are you afraid, Mr. Holliday?
Speaker 4: All right. Slow and get back. Next to the wall. Now. Hugh,
get back in there. Better not come in, Benson. Move away.
Who's that? Come in, Mr. Benson. Come in. Holliday, stand
in front of me. Right where you are. All right?
Go ahead and shoot. I would hit Mr. Holliday. That's right.
I'm sorry, Mr.
Speaker 7: Holliday, but you seem to have been caught between the
dragon and the tiger.
Speaker 4: I want that hangly piece.
Speaker 6: I'll give it to him.
Speaker 7: Yes, do that, Miss Loring. Give it to him.
Speaker 4: Benson, you've already killed two men. A third won't make
any difference. A hangly piece, Miss Loring. On the table.
Speaker 7: There.
Speaker 6: Take it, take it.
Speaker 4: Good enough. All right, Holliday, move in front of me.
Always in front of me. Now stop. Hand me the jade. You,
Miss Loring, hand it to me. That's it. Now I'm
going to move back toward the door. If you shoot,
Holliday gets it. Stop right here.
Speaker 7: Mr. Holliday, my life means nothing because I have devoted
it to this moment. But I regret this inconvenience to you.
Speaker 4: Quan, think what you're doing. Benson won't get away. The
police will have his description and be picked up within
an hour. Nice dreaming, Holliday. Mr. Kwan, don't. Stay where
you are. I regret, Mr. Holliday. Twist away quickly!
Speaker 7: Twist away!
Speaker 4: Mr.
Speaker 2: Holliday!
Speaker 4: I'm all right. I got out of the way. But Mr.
Speaker 7: Benson has gone to his ancestors.
Speaker 4: Mr. Kwan, are you all right? Yes. It's quite all right,
thank you. You're hit. Ms. Loring, call a doctor fast.
Speaker 6: No, no, please.
Speaker 7: The three pieces of this screen. Give them to me.
You will find two of them in Mr. Benson's pocket.
Speaker 4: But, Mr. Kwan, you're hurt badly. You've got to have
a doctor.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 7: That would do no good. Old Chinese proverb. Greatest coward
is he who fears death.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Mr. Kwan. The heavenly pieces. Please. Put them together.
All right. There they are.
Speaker 7: The treasure of Hong Lee.
Speaker 4: Right here. Treasure? But... Not gold.
Speaker 7: My people learned centuries ago that real treasure is not gold.
Treasure of Hong Li is written here.
Speaker 4: Jade.
Speaker 7: But happy is the man who is contented with his lot.
Speaker 4: Mr. Kwan. Mr. Kwan. It's all right, Miss Long. Mr.
Kwan is contented now.
Speaker 5: You mean that was all there was to the treasure, Mr.
Speaker 4: Holliday?
Speaker 5: Just... just that proverb?
Speaker 4: That's right, Susan. Maybe it's the best after all. You see,
we beat our brains out going after something, and when
we've got it, the thing on the other side of
the hill always looks better.
Speaker 5: Happy is the man who is contented with his lot.
Speaker 4: Gee.
Speaker 5: You know something, Mr. Holliday?
Speaker 4: Hmm? What, Susie?
Speaker 5: I can't think of anything silly to say.
Speaker 4: That's as it should be. Good night, Susie.
Speaker 2: Next week, same time, through the courtesy of Paramount Pictures,
Alan Ladd stars as Dan Holliday in Box 13. Box
13 is directed by Richard Sandville, with this week's original
story by Mark Hopling. Original music is composed and conducted
by Rudy Schrager. Martin Susie is played by Sylvia Picker,
and production is supervised by Vern Carstensen. Box 13 is
a Mayfair production from Hollywood. Watch for Alan Ladd in
his latest Paramount Picture.
Speaker 1: We conclude with Box 13, Episode 41, The Treasure of
Hang Lee. Good night, and thank you for sharing this broadcast.