Did you miss out on that big football game last week?

Can't get rid of that head cold?

Want to get away from it all?

CBS offers you escape.

You are groping your way slowly through the dark hold of a ship at sea, moving carefully

step by step, searching intently for something you dread to find, because you know that

this ship carries a cargo of death.

The Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations presents escape produced and directed by

William N. Robson and carefully plotted to free you from the four walls of today for a half

hour of high adventure.

Tonight we escaped to a harbor front in Venezuela

and a grim voyage that started there

as told by Martin Storm in his gripping story

a shipment of mute fate.

Music I stopped on the wharf at LaGuira

looked up the gangplank toward the liner Chan Kay, standing quietly there at her moorings.

The day was warm under a bright tropic sun, and the harbor beyond the ship

lay drowsy and silent. But all at once in the midst of these peaceful surroundings, a cold chill

gripped me, and I shivered with sudden dread, dread of the thing I was doing and was about to do.

But too much had happened to turn back now.

I'd gone too far to stop.

Well, I set the box down on the edge of the wharf,

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