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.

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

You can hear this line at 00:10:45 in the radio play.

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- 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.

- They were looking at the ground, in the stretcher, and that thing that lay there on it.

- Dr Philip Martin.

- Yeah, I knew him. He was a good man.

- Oh, poor Dr Martin. What an awful way to die.

- Suddenly, I was shaking with excitement.

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