Stunned and confused I began edging through the crowd, and then there was a sudden stillness.

7 seconds sound clip from the Consequence (1949) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:10:20 in the radio play.

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- That's when you'll see yourself at last in the pitiless glare of all your poor, frightened childish helplessness.

- And I walked alone... And I was sick to the depths of my soul. And I walked some more.

- Somewhere in the distance I heard a siren, there was a glow against the sky, a fire. And then I realized I was near my home.

- And then, it wasn't just a glow against the sky of any fire. It was my own house, it burned almost to the ground!

- Well, this is terrible how did it happen?

- Somebody said they think it was the gas stove.

- Stunned and confused I began edging through the crowd, and then there was a sudden stillness.

- And a few men took off their hats and then I saw it - the stretcher, the blanket thrown over the shapeless form. And the blackened shriveled cowboy boot...

- And I remembered... Ted! Ted had been in that house.

- They just got him out now. Yeah, what's left of him.

- They say you wouldn't hardly know it was a man.

- Frantically, I started forward and then I stopped, because I thought somebody had spoken to me... but - they hadn't, they weren't looking at me.

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