Come in, welcome. Welcome to the inner sanctum. I'm Hymen Brown. I have a strange and

frightening story about a non-excite and the effect it had on the lives and happiness

of several people. It's a well-known law of physics that any action has an equal and

opposite reaction. If you press down on one side of a seasaw, the other side goes up.

If you drop a stone into a puddle of water, the water rises in exact proportion to the

displacement of the stone. If good luck is on the face of a coin, wouldn't the other side

bring the reverse? It's for you, Kathy. A birthday present. Now close your eyes and hold out

your hand. There. You may open your eyes now. Oh, fire. It's beautiful. You don't like it.

Oh, yes. Yes. I do. It's very unusual. It looks like an eye. The little man I bought it from

said it would bring us luck. It's onyx. The eye in the onyx makes it valuable as an oddity.

Oh, what's the matter? It moved. It moved in my hand. Take it away, Jack. Take it away. Please.

Our mystery drama, The Onyx Eye, was written especially for the mystery theater by Sidney Sloan

and stars Francis Sternhagen and Michael Wager. I'll be back shortly with Act One.

It was on a cold, slushy day in January that Jack Evans found himself on the run-down

side street in a section of town in which he had seldom been before. He was weary and cold from

job hunting, but he knew he could not go home and face Kathy his wife on her birthday without some

small gift. Then he saw it, a little curious shop. He looked in the window at the collection of

junk jewelry and his eye was attracted to an interesting egg-shaped object, dusty and half-covered

by other things. He immediately knew that this was what he was going to buy for Kathy.

Hello? Anybody here? Yes. Can I help you? Oh, I didn't see you. What can I do for you? I haven't much time.

I was just about to close at 3.15 in the afternoon. Young man, I am closing the doors and leaving.

I will not return. I have been here for over 60 years. Long enough? Long enough, wouldn't you say?

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