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Got a play for you today from The Weird Circle. The title of this one is The Moonstone, and this one first aired March 11th of 1945.

Enjoy.

Enjoy. Out of the past, phantoms of a world gone by, speak again the immortal tale, the moon stone.

One thousand years ago, in the holy city of Sonnet in Mother India, they stood a temple of gold.

And in this temple, sitting in sombre judgment on his cringing worshippers, was he whom they called the moon god.

And deeply embedded in his golden forehead, there stood a great yellow diamond, fabulous

beyond all price.

And from it came the evil light of the moon, waxing bright when the moon was full, and waning pale when the moon grew dim.

This was the holy treasure of ageless India. This they called the moonstone.

And it came to pass that the great God Vishnu, the preserver, came upon the wings of a monsoon wind,

and appeared to the three high priests of the temple and said to them,

I, Vishnu, have breathed the breath of divinity into the moonstone.

Ye three shall watch it, and after you three other Brahman priests,

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