She grounded very softly on a reef not two hundred yards from the key.

8 seconds sound clip from the Three Skeleton Key (Escape) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:25:32 in the radio play.

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- And then I saw the sky and the stars. The rats were gone.

- I went to the glass. Out there in the water, a small freighter... a banana boat... showing a few lights, came softly and innocently at us.

- The light was out. They didn't know.

- I wanted to open the windows to call out to them, to warn them somehow, but... I was afraid.

- What if the rats were hiding from me? Tricking me? So I waited.

- She grounded very softly on a reef not two hundred yards from the key.

- Grounded so gently that the man playing the cornet... was he a passenger or a crewman or watch? didn't even stop playing.

- They tried washing her back off.

- I could have told them to save their fuel. The tide was rising, would've floated her free.

- And I waited.

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