25 - The Deliverers of Their Country

[A privately hired train goes missing en route from Liverpool to Manchester, baffling the public and professionals for eight years.]

"The Lost Special" by Arthur Conan Doyle
Performed and Edited by Joseph Wetzel

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Two stories for the nonexistent price of one!

Firstly:
[In spite of dreadful stories, a governess is sent across the moors at night to fetch a doctor.]

Followed by:
[An artist and a stonemason, unknown to one another, unconsciously predict each other's grave futures.]

"Across the Moors" and "August Heat" by W. F. Harvey
Performed and Edited by Joseph Wetzel

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[A young couple struggle to buy each other Christmas gifts with little money.]

"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
Performed and Edited by Joseph Wetzel

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[A university student, desperate to pass an exam, receives an unexpected visit in the form of an old friend.]

"Keeping His Promise" by Algernon Blackwood
Performed by Matthew Penalva
Edited by Joseph Wetzel

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[A devoted old woman maintains the Province House long after the British depart from New England.]

"Old Esther Dudley" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Performed and Edited by Joseph Wetzel

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[When their country is beset by a plague of dragons, two siblings set out to bring peace so they can play outside again.]

"The Deliverers of Their Country" by Edith Nesbit
Performed and Edited by Joseph Wetzel

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[A foolhardy Englishman scoffs at superstition and chooses to explore a long-abandoned village.]

Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker
Edited by Joseph Wetzel
Performed by Aaron Clark Burstein

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[A little girl left on her own discovers the surprising contents of an old trunk in the attic.]

"The Box of Robbers" by L. Frank Baum
Performed by Kirstin Wolf
Edited by Joseph Wetzel

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[A self-important young English woman comes to live in Boston with a relative just before a horrible smallpox outbreak.]

"Lady Eleanore's Mantle" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel

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[A local shares the tale of how a wicked man met his end.]

"The Last of Squire Ennismore" by Charlotte Riddell
Edited and Performed by Joseph Wetzel

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