Beyond Midnight - The Paxton's House (The House at Brickett Bottom)

Summary

Podcast Summary

Podcast: Harold's Old Time Radio
Episode: Beyond Midnight - The Paxton's House (The House at Bricket Bottom)
Date: March 13, 2026
Host: Harolds Old Time Radio

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Overview

This episode features a haunting radio play from the series "Beyond Midnight" titled "The Paxton's House" (also known as "The House at Brickett Bottom"). Set in the English countryside shortly after the First World War, it follows Reverend Arthur Maydew and his two daughters as they trade their city parish for a rural retreat, only to encounter something inexplicable and sinister. The episode masterfully weaves a tale of rural isolation, spectral mysteries, and the tragic fate of those who cross paths with a house that may no longer, or never did, exist.

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Key Discussion Points & Story Breakdown

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1. Arrival in Overbury & Idyllic Beginnings

[00:32 – 03:57]

• Exposition: The Maydew family arrives in the countryside, delighted to escape the darkness of their city parish.
  • "Oh, how green it is up here. That's Bricket Bottom down there. The glen." (Alice Maydew, 02:50)
• Characters Introduced: Rev. Arthur Maydew, daughters Alice and Maggie.
• Tone: Light, hopeful, underscored by the excitement about the peaceful, book-filled parsonage and countryside.

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2. Discovery of the House

[04:03 – 05:15]

• Maggie notices a quaint, red-brick house in the glen, set with a garden.
  • "Quaint looking old fashioned house. Red brick, just where the road bends to the right." (Maggie Maydew, 04:29)
• Alice, with poor eyesight, is unable to see the house. This subtly sows seeds of uncertainty.
• The sisters make plans to visit the house the next day.

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3. First Visit & Meeting the Paxtons

[06:07 – 11:41]

• Maggie visits alone: Alice is laid up with an injured ankle.
  • "If you wish to explore, you must go alone." (Alice Maydew, 06:15)
• Maggie returns, enchanted:
  • "The lady was in the garden... she looked up and smiled as I went by. I'm sure they are nice people." (Maggie Maydew, 07:20)
• Mrs. Paxton invites Maggie for tea. Maggie is charmed and sees the encounter as an opportunity for new friendship. Alice, wary, expresses concern.
• Notable dialogue about the enchantment and strangeness of the place:
  • "I kept on dreaming about the house. It was such an odd dream too. The house seemed to be home and yet to be different." (Maggie Maydew, 08:34)

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4. Disquiet and Growing Mystery

[11:47 – 16:47]

• The Reverend becomes uneasy about Maggie visiting new neighbors that no one else has mentioned.
  • "Had there been nice neighbours at Bricketbottom, I'm sure Mr. Roberts would have told us." (Rev. Arthur Maydew, 12:48)
• Smith, the long-serving parish worker, is unfamiliar with any Paxtons or the house.
• When they go to fetch Maggie, there is no house where Maggie claimed it stood—only the remains of old terraces.
  • "But there's no house here." (Rev. Arthur Maydew, 17:11)

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5. Search for Maggie & Supernatural Overtones

[17:19 – 19:30]

• Alice and her father hear Maggie’s voice in distress but are unable to find her.
  • "Maggie, where are you?" (Rev. Arthur Maydew, 18:06)
• A frantic search ensues involving neighbors, but Maggie cannot be found.

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6. The Chilling Revelation

[19:30 – 26:41]

• Four days later, Maggie is still missing. The family is devastated and the police are at a loss.
• Mr. Roberts reveals the history of the Paxtons' house:
  • The house and its owners, Colonel and Mrs. Paxton, existed 70 years earlier.
  • Their daughter died in tragic circumstances related to a forbidden romance.
  • The house was torn down, leaving a reputation for gloom and misfortune.
  • "I am now nearly 75 years old and for nearly 70 years, no house has stood in Bricket Bottom." (Mr. Roberts, 20:23)
• Local rumors surface about sightings of a red-brick house by newcomers, always involving the friendly old lady, Mrs. Paxton—people who linger, like Maggie, often vanish without a trace.
  • "A young maid servant... passed a red brick house at the bend of the road and that a kind-faced old lady had asked her to step in." (Mr. Roberts, 23:59)
  • "Two or three years after that...a traveling tinker and his wife and daughter camped...she was never seen nor heard of again." (Mr. Roberts, 25:06)
• The story ends with unresolved grief and eerie absence, highlighting the supernatural or psychological terror of the countryside.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "Oh Maggie, we really must fly."
  — Alice Maydew on the edge of dusk, signaling both excitement and encroaching dread. (04:53)

• "But there's no house here."
  — Rev. Arthur Maydew faces the chilling impossibility of Maggie's story. (17:11)

• "I am now nearly 75 years old and for nearly 70 years no house has stood in Bricket Bottom."
  — Mr. Roberts, delivering the central revelation and solidifying the ghostly theme. (20:23)

• "The house seemed to be home, and yet to be different."
  — Maggie Maydew, expressing both familiarity and strangeness at the heart of the mystery. (08:34)

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Timeline of Important Segments

| Timestamp | Segment | Highlights/Notes | |-----------|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:32 | Story Introduction | Maydews arrive, setting is described, holiday mood established | | 02:50 | Description of Bricket Bottom | Alice marvels at the countryside | | 04:29 | First sighting of the house | Maggie spots the mysterious red-brick house | | 07:20 | Return from first visit | Maggie's positive impression of the Paxtons | | 08:34 | Strange dreams and obsessions | Maggie's odd feelings and obsession with house | | 12:36 | Parental concern | Rev. Maydew grows worried about Maggie’s explorations | | 17:11 | Revelation—no house exists | Family discovers absence of the house | | 18:06 | Mysterious voice, Maggie's cries | Ominous search, voices heard, Anxiety peaks | | 20:23 | Full backstory of the Paxtons | Roberts recounts the entire history, real and rumored, of the house and owners | | 23:59 | Haunting local rumors | Accounts of others seeing the house after it was supposedly destroyed | | 26:41 | Episode closing | Final, somber reflection—open-ended, unresolved |

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Overall Tone and Style

The episode preserves the atmospheric and suspenseful style characteristic of "Beyond Midnight." The dialogue adeptly balances naturalism with old-fashioned formality, echoing the time period. The podcast immerses listeners in the Maydews’ mounting dread and helplessness, underscored by repeated motifs of isolation, uncanny perception, and irrevocable loss.

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This ghostly, tragic tale lingers in the mind, posing questions about grief, place, and the way the past haunts the present—a perfect specimen of the Golden Age of Radio’s supernatural storytelling.

Transcript

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[Narrator]

The Rev. Arthur Maydew worked very hard in a large parish for 11 months of the year. He was also a student and a man of no strong physique. So that when an opportunity was presented to him to take a holiday by exchanging his parsonage in a sprawling, dark industrial town with the country living of another clergyman in the sunlit south, he was very glad to avail himself of it. Arthur Mayew had two daughters, the heroines of this story set in an English county shortly after the First World War. Both these girls rejoiced at the prospect of a period of quiet and rest in the pleasant country neighborhood of Overbury. But their dreams were shattered. From the gentle green acres, the Maydew sisters passed into the dark regions of terror that lie beyond midnight.

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

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[Narrator/Storyteller]

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[Alice Maydew]

Quite, quite lovely.

[Maggie Maydew]

Oh, Maggie.

[Alice Maydew]

We shall persuade old Mr. Roberts to exchange Overbury for Father's parish permanently.

[Maggie Maydew]

Oh, as if he would. This lovely place, these surroundings for sure. Sheffield. Oh, Alice. Who in all the world would make such a bargain?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Look.

[Alice Maydew]

That was a song thrush. Did you see him?

[Maggie Maydew]

No. With eyes like yours, I'm surprised you did.

[Alice Maydew]

Well, I will not wear spectacles. And if it contents me to say I saw a song thrush, then a song thrush I saw. Do you think Father is contented here, Maggie?

[Maggie Maydew]

Of course. He has Mr. Roberts library. What could content him more Books, books and more books. A hundred thousand books.

[Alice Maydew]

Oh, how green it is up here. That's Bricket Bottom down there. The glen. How long do you think it is?

[Maggie Maydew]

1 mile, 3 quarters perhaps. You must ask Smith. He knows all the county's history.

[Alice Maydew]

I would not dream of asking Smith anything. He's quite stupid. Look. You see? That's the road which leads to Blaise's farm. Ah. Oh, I wish there were a few friendly neighbours, that's all. Then it would be paradise here. That's the only trouble. Once we've fully explored what shall we do then? On this side of Brick and Bottom there's nothing but Carew Court. And that's miles and miles and miles away.

[Maggie Maydew]

I wonder what he's like.

[Alice Maydew]

Who?

[Maggie Maydew]

The owner. Lord Carew, of course. They say he's one of the worthiest men in England.

[Alice Maydew]

I've heard tell that he doesn't have a handsome 25 year old son, Maggie, Only a rather plain daughter.

[Maggie Maydew]

I was thinking nothing of the sort. I merely wondered what he was like. It is bleak though, isn't it? All about here. Beautiful, yes, but bleak. Oh, come on, it's getting dark. We must.

[Alice Maydew]

Tomorrow we'll explore. Right to Blazes Farm. Who knows, we may be treated to fresh, warm creamy milk.

[Maggie Maydew]

Alias.

[Alice Maydew]

Look,

[Maggie Maydew]

look. How very curious. There's a house down there in the bottom which we have never. Leastways I have never noticed before. House. Well, do you see? We've walked along the path down there.

[Alice Maydew]

But I.

[Maggie Maydew]

No, no. There girl, there, you see.

[Alice Maydew]

I don't see any house.

[Maggie Maydew]

You must be able to see it. Quaint looking old fashioned house. Red brick, just where the road bends to the right. See the garden?

[Alice Maydew]

No, I certainly can't see a house.

[Maggie Maydew]

Oh Alice, I am very sorry but if you don't persuade father to buy spectacles for you, soon you'll be incapable of seeing anything.

[Alice Maydew]

Yes, yes, perhaps I can see a house. But the light is getting so bad. Oh Maggie, we really must fly.

[Maggie Maydew]

All right, but tomorrow we shall come and explore it. Perhaps we shall meet some charming people, make new friends.

[Alice Maydew]

Wait for me.

[Maggie Maydew]

Perhaps we may persuade Father to desert his books and come with us too. We must meet the people in the hospital, otherwise Father will be too shy.

[Alice Maydew]

We can't go tomorrow. Maggie.

[Maggie Maydew]

What in heaven's name.

[Alice Maydew]

Alice. My ankle. Oh Maggie, help me.

[Maggie Maydew]

Why did you come down the stairs like an elephant? It's your own fault.

[Alice Maydew]

You told me to hurry.

[Maggie Maydew]

Don't stand. Sit down. Rested Well? I wanted to go to the house. Father's forgotten all about visiting Overbury. We can go this morning.

[Alice Maydew]

Oh, it's swelling. Oh, look. Oh Maggie, it's so painful. I shan't leave the house this morning, that's evident. If you wish to explore, you must go alone.

[Maggie Maydew]

Yes, father. If we don't go now we'll never get away. He's sure to want to go to Overbrick. It's no good.

[Alice Maydew]

I cannot stand. Go alone and tell me about it when you come back. If there is a house in Brick and Bottom, I swear I saw nothing.

[Maggie Maydew]

I shall see you soon. If they are pleasant people and we are invited to tea. And your ankle still pains you. Tomorrow we shall take the trap over.

[Alice Maydew]

Maggie, you are so forward.

[Maggie Maydew]

Don't try to walk. Preserve your ankle at all costs. I shall not be late. Tell father I am just walking. He will be cross if he thinks I have gone to the house without any. Very old fashioned but. Oh, absolutely charming. Oh, and Alice, if you just stop.

[Alice Maydew]

See the garden?

[Maggie Maydew]

Oh, there are hollyhocks and roses and Canterbury bills and foxgloves. It is absolutely lovely. A darling little house. It set close to the woods, just where the lane turns off to Blazer's farm. And Alice, I saw the people too. An old lady and gentleman. The gentleman was sitting on the porch. I couldn't see him clearly, but the lady was in the garden tying up her flowers or weeding or something or the other. Oh, and she looked up and smiled as I went by. Oh, Alice, I'm sure they are nice people. It would be awfully pleasant to make their acquaintance. And we shall too. I shall make their acquaintance if it is the last thing I do.

[Alice Maydew]

Hello. Hello.

[Maggie Maydew]

You're walking. The ankle is fully healed.

[Alice Maydew]

I hobble. What's the matter?

[Maggie Maydew]

Matter?

[Alice Maydew]

Yes, you don't look yourself this morning. Father was not angry yesterday, was he? I'm sure he was not awfully keen on going into Overbury.

[Maggie Maydew]

No, no, not angry. I'm all right. Only I did not sleep very well. I kept on dreaming about the house. It was such an odd dream too. The house seemed to be home and yet to be different.

[Alice Maydew]

What? That house in brick at bottom. What on earth is the matter with you? You seem perfectly obsessed with the place.

[Maggie Maydew]

Well, it is curious, isn't it? I mean that we should only just have discovered it and it looks to be lived in by nice people.

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

I don't know.

[Maggie Maydew]

Do wish we could get to know them. There's going to be a storm.

[Alice Maydew]

Oh, the swelling just will not go down.

[Maggie Maydew]

Alice, I went to the house.

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House?

[Alice Maydew]

Oh, the house in brick at bottom.

[Maggie Maydew]

Well, I saw the old lady and she is absolutely a darling. I believe she simply lives in that garden. Mind you, it's absolutely enchanting. Oh, anyway, she came to her gate and talked with me and she asked me to look at her flowers. She's terribly keen on flowers. Anyway, the thing is, I was a little shy, I suppose, and she said, you needn't be afraid of me, my dear. I like to see young ladies about me and my husband finds their society quite necessary to him. She's awfully attractive. Lovely silver hair. Anyway, she told Me about herself and the Colonel. That's her husband. He used to be in India in the army. Paxton's their name. Colonel and Mrs. Paxton. She said they were awfully lonely at times and she asked me in to meet the Colonel.

[Alice Maydew]

I hope you didn't go in. Why not? Well, I don't like her asking you in that way.

[Maggie Maydew]

Well, I didn't actually go in because it was getting late, but. But what? I have accepted Mrs. Paxton's invitation to pay her a little visit to Morrow.

[Alice Maydew]

Well, I do think you ought to find out a little more about them before you go calling Maggie.

[Maggie Maydew]

Why? Oh, what on earth is the matter? They are lovely people.

[Alice Maydew]

How do you know?

[Maggie Maydew]

Well, I'll tell you when I come home. Oh, you would have to go and hurt your ankle. Look, I'll go this afternoon, just for a short visit. I'll be back for tea and then we can have some croquet. You know how happy father is when he plays croquet. Oh, Alice, don't look so disapproving. Maybe the Colonel and his lady have a handsome son after all. You're getting awfully old, Alice.

[Alice Maydew]

20.

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

Where is Maggie, Father? Where is Maggie?

[Alice Maydew]

Out for a walk. And she is bound to pay a call on some neighbours whom she has recently discovered.

[Narrator]

Neighbours?

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

What neighbours? Mr. Roberts never spoke of any neighbours to me.

[Alice Maydew]

Well, I don't know much about them. Maggie and I were out walking the other day, the day before I hurt my ankle and we saw, at least she saw, a house in Bricket Bottom. Honestly, Father, I am so blind I can't.

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

What house?

[Alice Maydew]

It belongs to Colonel and Mrs. Paxton in brick at bottom. A little red brick house. Maggie has made the acquaintance of the Paxtons. It's perfectly all right. He's a retired Indian army officer. Maggie went along this afternoon, but she said she'd be back long before this.

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

I am not too well pleased about this, Alice. Maggie should not be so impulsive and scrape acquaintance with unknown people. She said she'd be home early.

[Alice Maydew]

Well, yes.

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

Had there been nice neighbours at Bricketbottom, I'm sure Mr. Roberts would have told us. It's getting late. Can have delayed her. You say she saw the house.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

You didn't.

[Alice Maydew]

It was getting dark. You know how short sighted I am.

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

But surely you must have seen it at some other time.

[Alice Maydew]

Well, that is the strangest part of the whole affair, Father. We have often walked along there, but neither of us have ever seen the house till that evening. And as I said, it was getting dark. Father, perhaps we should ask Smith to Harness the pony and bring Maggie back. I am not happy about her. I am rather afraid. I must confess. I don't know why.

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

Afraid of what? What could have gone wrong in a quiet place like this? Still, I. I'll send Smith over for her.

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[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

Yes, Smith, if you feel you can manage with that ankle of yours, perhaps you'll come too. Poor dear departed mother always swore she would have preferred sons less trouble. Not that she wasn't terribly fond of her two daughters of course, bless her so. But ah. Smith, I want you to harness a pony at once and go over to Colonel Paxton's house in Bricket Bottom and bring Miss Maydew home. Well, what are you waiting for man?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Go where, sir?

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

To Colonel Paxton's house. Bring Miss Maggie home.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

I never heard of Colonel Paxton, sir. I don't know what else you mean.

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

Alice, tell this fellow where your sister has gone to and let us be off to fetch her. The Paxton's house, man. In brick at bottom. Colonel Paxton.

[Alice Maydew]

Smith, you must know the house, you really must. Why, we saw it only the other day. At least Maggie saw it.

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

I not too heavily on that ankle now girl, harness the pony at once.

[Narrator]

Yes, sir. Dear.

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

Stupid man. Alice, is your ankle strong enough?

[Alice Maydew]

Yes, father.

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

Then you must show Smith where this house is. I. I must own. I'm worried, Alice.

[Alice Maydew]

But why father? Maggie merely went to pay a visit to the Colonel and his wife.

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

And why have I not heard of the Colonel? Roberts would have informed me if there had been pleasant neighbors hereabouts. Ah, be that as it may. Come let me help you. I shall find it difficult not to be stern with your sister when we meet her again. The Place depresses me, Alice, that I must own. It depresses me. The country all around is beautiful, but I'm not fond of this part. Where is the house?

[Alice Maydew]

At the bend of the road.

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

It should be there, coming dark. Yet you remember no house. Smith, how long have you worked hereabouts? Nigh on five and 20 years, sir. I shall be fierce with her, I promise you.

[Alice Maydew]

Here we are, Smith. It's here. Just.

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

This is the place.

[Alice Maydew]

Yes, father.

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

But there's no house here,

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[Narrator/Storyteller]

Look, sir.

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

What?

[Alice Maydew]

Some part of a building here. And here in the grass.

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

There. There was a dwelling here at one time. A long time ago. There were terraces here, running. What does it all mean, Alice? Are you sure of yourself, girl? You're not mistaken. Perhaps further.

[Alice Maydew]

No, Father. I promise. It stood here, the house. Maggie pointed it out to me from. From up above.

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

And she went to visit the Paxtons. Well then, where is Maggie? Listen, Smith.

[Alice Maydew]

Maggie, where are you?

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

That was Maggie's voice. She's nearly in some trouble. Where did it come from, Smith? I didn't hear anybody call in, sir. Alice, go back to the trap. Let me help you. Smith. We must search.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Miss Maggie. Miss Maggie, where are you? We heard you call again. Where are you?

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

Alice, drive on to Blaze's farm. Bring help. Ask Mr. Rumbold to come and his sons too, if they're at home. And ask them to fetch lanterns.

[Alice Maydew]

Father. She might have returned over the downs while we were going by road. Perhaps she saw us and called out.

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

Try to place his farm girl. Maggie.

[Narrator]

Maggie.

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

Maggie.

[Alice Maydew]

Maggie.

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

Maggie.

[Alice Maydew]

May I offer you more tea, Mr. Roberts?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

No, thank you, my child. No, thank you.

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

Nothing. Four days. Nothing.

[Narrator]

Where?

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

What can have happened to her, Roberts? The police have questioned the old woman. She saw her on the path to bricked Bottom, but no one else has seen her since.

[Alice Maydew]

She. The old woman said. What was it, Father?

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

She described Maggie as smiling, but looking queer. Like the house. There is no house. And yet.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Have you ever heard any local gossip concerning this Colonel and Mrs. Pexton?

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

No, I never heard mention of their names until.

[Alice Maydew]

I think the pup needs more hot water, Father.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Well, I'll tell you all I can about them, which is not very much, I fear. I am now nearly 75 years old and for nearly 70 years no house has stood in brick at bottom. But when I was a very young child, there was an old fashioned red brick house standing in a garden at the bend of the road such as you have described. It was owned and lived in by a retired Indian soldier and his wife. A Colonel and Mrs. Paxton. At the time I speak of certain events having taken place at the house and the old couple having died. It was sold by their heirs to Lord Carew, who shortly after pulled it down on the ground that it interfered with his shooting. The Paxtons were well known to my father, who was the clergyman here before me, and to the neighbourhood in general. They lived quietly and were not unpopular. But the Colonel was supposed to possess a violent and vindictive temper. Their family consisted only of themselves and their daughter, the Colonel's old army servant and his Eurasian wife. Well, I cannot tell you the details of what happened. I was only a child. My father never liked gossip and in later years when he talked to me on the subject, he always avoided any appearance of exaggeration or sensationalism. However, it is known that Miss Baxter fell in love and became engaged to a young man to whom her parents took a strong dislike. They used every possible means to break off the match and many rumours were set on foot as to their conduct. Undue influence, even cruelty, were charged against them. I do not know the truth. All I can say is that Miss Paxton died and a very bitter feeling against her parents sprang up.

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

Yes, but Roberts, I pray, betray you. What?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Please let me continue. I know how shocked you are. This story. Well, it may shed some light. My father never saw Paxton after his daughter's death and only saw Mrs. Paxton once or twice. He described her as an utterly broken woman and no one seemed at all surprised when she followed her daughter to the grave. Within three months, Paxton himself became recluse. He was rarely if ever seen and himself died in a very short time, some said by his own hand. He was buried like his wife and daughter in the churchyard at my church. The property passed to a distant relative who came down to it for one night. Soon afterwards he never came again. It said he conceived a violent dislike to the place. He sold it to Lord Carew, who later pulled it down and the garden was left to relapse into a wilderness. Those are the facts.

[Rev. Arthur Maydew]

But there is something more. I can see it in your face.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

You have a right to know. What I'm going to tell you now is rumor, vague and uncertain. About five years after the house had been pulled down, a young maid servant at Karoo Court was out walking one afternoon. She was a newcomer to the district. On returning home to tea, she told her fellow servants that as she walked down Bricket Bottom, which place she described clearly, she passed a red brick house at the bend of the road and that a kind faced old lady had asked her to step in for a while.

[Alice Maydew]

I saw the old lane and she

[Maggie Maydew]

is absolutely a darling. She came to her gate and talked with me and asked me in to look at her flowers. She's awfully attractive. Lovely silver hair.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Did this girl go in? No. She feared that she might be late back at the hall for tea. She never visited the bottom again. But two or three years after that, after my father's death, a traveling tinker and his wife and daughter camped for a night at the foot of the bottom. The girl strolled away up the glen to gather blackberries, and she was never seen nor heard of again.

[Narrator]

Father

[Alice Maydew]

Alice Father

[Narrator/Storyteller]

of course one does not know the truth, and she may have run away voluntarily from her parents, although there was no known cause for her doing that. That is all I can tell you of either facts or rumors. All that I can do now is to pray for you and for her. Beyond Midnight is presented every Friday night at half past nine by Biotechs the New Soak and Pre Wash Powder. The program is adapted for broadcasting and Produced by Michael McCabe.

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