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Hello, my dear, So good to see you so close
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to the holidays. I do so enjoy your visits. What
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say tonight we stay up late, really late, and enjoy
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something frightful together, try to make ourselves feel merry and bride.
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Or it's that well, I suppose that wouldn't be much
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of a difficulty. Just give me one moment. Hot tea
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is our usual go to, but tonight, why not warm cocoa.
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The fire's burning bright, it's so warm and inviting. Let's
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gather around, because moments like these aren't the celebration, they're
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the gift.
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Radio, mystery theater presents. Come in, Welcome. I'm a g Marshall.
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The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on. Nor
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all your piety nor wit shall lure it back again
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to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash
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out a word of it, or put it this way.
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You can never erase nor rewrite what has been inscribed
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in the book of your life, Or can you What
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are you doing here?
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Water?
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I had to see you, reader, I had to see you.
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Don't you know it's dangerous, Rita? After all, we killed him.
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Oh you've got that all wrong.
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You killed him no, no, we both planned it. We
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both did it. Your fingerprints on the gun, Rita, you
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were there. It was your idea.
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What was my idea?
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Walter?
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I don't know what you're talking about.
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Our mystery drama, The Gift was written especially for the
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Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars Robert Dryden. It
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is sponsored in part by a Bwick Motor division and
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True Value Hardware stores. I'll be back shortly with that one.
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And we have laws against it, both man made and divine,
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practically all civilized and most uncivilized societies as well prohibited.
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So then how do you account for the fact that
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murder has flourished since the dim red dawn of history.
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Murder by individuals, murdered by groups, murder at wholesale, murder
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at retail, but murder everywhere and enough to spare. We
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are in a pretty little cafe law. A man and
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a woman are at a table, holding hands. They seem
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to be very much in love, and yet as we listen,
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the very first word we hear is murder.
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Now what brings the s.
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Plan to do it?
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Don't we?
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Of course time, but we don't have to talk about it.
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What do you mean we don't have to talk about it.
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But what I mean is we don't have to talk
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about it anymore. Everything we have to say has already
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been discussed. It only remains to be deaf.
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Yeah, maybe maybe, Walter, Are you beginning to have second thought?
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I don't know.
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Well, for your information, you were the first to mention
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it six months ago, didn't you say, if only Dennis
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weren't around?
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Well? Yes, what did it mean?
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You have a way?
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I have a way of cutting through the months of
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cracking the shell to get at the meat. Well, do
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you want to call it Austin?
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Do you?
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Walter?
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The time has come for you to take a stand
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and to stay there.
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Those were good court We're going through all that again. Oh,
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it's something to think about.
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It was something to think about.
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It was one of a great many problems and dangers,
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but we considered each one of them, arrive at a
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decision and put them.
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All behind us.
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Yes, there's no guarantee we'll get.
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Away with you. Does it have to be done today?
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Will it be easier tomorrow?
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Yes, you're right.
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No, we're right.
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This is being done by the two of us.
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But five o'clock time to go. I don't see the
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waitress around will have to.
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Leave a ten dollar bill on the table that will
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more than cover it.
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Read I'm leaving now, Walters, with you or without you?
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Oh hello, yeah, uh war right, there's some time of contails. Oh,
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I know how negative you feel about classical music. Walls,
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Why I don't exactly got to tend here, And that's
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your problem. Well, t have a thing Offred Angel Wilstein
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for us. He's a little libation here. No, no, no, Dama,
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you turn the other way. That's lobber now, reader, really
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it's not the blasteria drops now water now? What water? Hey?
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What what you.
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We're gonna do with a gun? Oh?
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No?
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What water? Dog? I'm sorry missus Sollen, I'm all right
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now in your own words. Can you tell us what happened? Well,
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a little tenants savage, I've already Oh I know, mister Powers.
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But another eye witness reported the same event. Usually add
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some details.
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That I don't mind, Lieutenant. I want to help much.
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I can thank you, as Walter and mister Powers.
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Said, we came into the apartment. Well, it must have
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been about four five fifteen. Dennis was listening to his
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music in the study. I recently wanted paging a Thurday landscape.
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I heard of him, Yes, Missus Allen.
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Then you know.
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I had it hung in the living room. Walter hadn't
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seen it yet, so he and I went inside.
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And yes, missus land.
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You know how you can get lost in a Thurday landscape.
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So we must have been looking at it for all
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of ten minutes. Then we went back to the study.
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And and.
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Would you careful drink of water, missus Holland.
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No, no, we saw Dennis flying on the floor. He
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was very still, and you could see that dark stain
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of blood on his shirt over his heart. You knew
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you you could tell that he was.
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And what else did you see?
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What else did I see?
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Not very much? Nothing? Nothing? Well, did you notice that
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the what did you call it, mister Powers, that tacitor
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collection Louisiana. That's the task of a collection. Did you
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notice that it was gone?
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I'm afraid the only thing I really saw was my
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hus lying said, I tried to close my eyes against Lieutenant.
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Now, as I understand that your husband had these coins
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called the Tastit collection.
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Yes, they were twelve English cold sovereigns, minted in sixty
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sixty two by King Charles the second to honor one
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of his friends, Lord Tacitus.
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And what was this collection worth?
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Or been insured for one hundred thousand dollars?
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And your husband wanted to sell?
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Yes?
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Why Dennis was aterial person killed with sudden whims, subject
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to unpredictable moods. He was always buying, selling, changing his mind.
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He was not a part of his charm.
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And where was the collection usually kept?
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In avolved?
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Then how was it he had these valuable coins in
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the house.
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The word was out among collectors and in the trade people.
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Were coming to look.
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Well, isn't it usual or sell these things at auction?
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To turn them over to a dealer.
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Benefiting his own way, he wanted to be sure that
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the buyer would be someone who could appreciate the.
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Meaning of the collection. Then Dennis was whole all day.
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Yeah, he was expecting buyers.
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At about the three I went out for a walk
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the night. I ran into mister Powers here. We stopped
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for a drink and then decided to go home pick
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up Dennis for dinner the theater.
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You came home, now you remember seeing the collection on
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his desk?
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Yes, I'm sure I did.
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It would have to be there because if he'd already
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sold it.
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He'd just said. So.
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Now you went into the other room to look at
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the painting, and you were there for ten minutes. Now,
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during these ten minutes, someone came in. I was a
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person enter.
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The only way is through the front store.
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Money'd have to ring a bell. The door locks automatically,
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and there's no sign of forced entry. You didn't hear
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a bell.
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No, would you see?
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He had his music going.
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It was very loud, and this same somewhat then shoots
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your husband. You didn't hear a shot. No, and you
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didn't either, mister Powers. No, as she said, the music
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was going full blast in the next room. Well, thank you,
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missus Allen h Yes, that's out. Lieutenant Savage. Dennis Holland
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was my closest friend. He was also a fine human being.
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His murderer must not go unpunished. We'll do what we
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can at Tom Mandy got your pictures ready, all right,
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let's leave, Oh goodbye, missus Holland, mis Powers all A,
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don't father. We can let ourselves out. We got away
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with this. This detective bought the story. I could tell
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he bought the story. We need it.
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Easy for him, A simple story.
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Snow frills.
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He had the coins on the desk.
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We were in the next room.
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Someone comes in to buy kills him. He's got the
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music going. We don't hear a thing.
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We come back.
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That's all over beautiful.
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And do you want to know why? It's a good
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story because it's built on a.
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Platform of facts.
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Each one can be readily verifast First, then it's did
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on the Passier collection. I think he did want to
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stop get taken out ads. Third, he did bring it
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home from the vault.
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The clerk would remember, for people.
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Were coming in and out all day. It's I said,
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we went into the living room to look at a
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new Faraday painting, and there is a new Faraday painting.
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Sixth We said we couldn't hear anything because the music
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was so loud. The neighbors will be glad to tell
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the police out Constantly they complained about that love music.
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Wait a minute, wait, good lord, what is it? Should
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we be talking like this? What should we be saying
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what we're saying? It just occurs to me. There were
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two or three detectors spoking about the place while the
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Lieutenant Savage was talking to us. What were they doing?
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What are the features looking for fingerprints and well anything
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that might serve.
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As a pete.
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That's what they'd like us to think they were doing.
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How do you know they weren't planting secret microphones whatever
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for to record this very conversation.
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Oh what if they did it?
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They did it, then you admit they did it.
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Oh, come on, water, it's so far fat.
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Use anything far fits today. Look, a man is murdered,
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the police automatically suspect his wife and his friend, not
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when they're the.
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One hundred thousand dollars robbery.
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Robbery story is our story.
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Now, look, we have a lot to do. Birth and
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hide the gun and the coin upon the farm.
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Take it like a.
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True and loyal for and make the funeral arrangements, will you?
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But before you do that, take me home to my
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mother's and then you can return to your place and
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I'll call you.
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What what's this music? Where's this music coming from?
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From?
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A record player? A record player? But I don't have
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a record player. I bought you one, you book, Dennis, Yes, Dennis,
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you're dead. You have to be dead, Dennis, He's dead,
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and get your standing year. That's a pretty good declarative sentence,
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isn't it. You're dead and you're standing here. It consists
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of two independent faults, and you would think that one
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negates the other. Well, grammar is grammar, and murder is murder.
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But surely in this case something has to give. It
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will give me a few minutes breathing space, and I
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shall return shortly for that too. The basic drawback of
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being dead is that it lasts forever. This bit of
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wisdom was uttered by an anonymous character in a forgotten
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novel by a completely undistinguished writer named T. Presley mcclello. However,
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it does seem to have captured what was always considered
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a fundamental human truth. Are we about to discover a
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new vision? At five point fifteen pm, mister Walter Powers
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shoots and kills his best friend, mister Dennis Holland. At
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nine pm that same evening, mister Walter Powers returns to
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his apartment and who is sitting there listening to a
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Beethoven symphony by mister Dennis Collin? Dennis here, I'm there,
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start with that. So you're dead? Who knows? I've better
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new water? You kill me, but you're here? Will you
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call be here? If I kill you? Less? You're imagining it?
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Yes, yes, that's it.
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It's all in my imagination. If it's your imagination, how
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do you account for the music? I can account for it.
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Turn ything off if you say so, woten, But still
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you must account for it. You know you don't own
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a record player? Did you subconsciously go out and buy one?
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Why would I buy one? Because you're now in the
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hands of your conscience. Remorse what I did, I would
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do again. It's just that I have to expect a
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few bad moments. I think I see what you do
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see me. I'm here. The record player proves it. If
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I'm just a creature of your guilty imagination, then how
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do you account for the plan? And maybe you needed
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it to help the name, But the fact is it's here.
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How did you get here? Well, I must have gone
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out and brought it myself. When you spent the afternoon
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with Rita, you killed me exactly fourteen minutes out of five.
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You were at the apartment with the police and one
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thing or another till eight. Then you had to take
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Rita to her mother's and here you are at nine o'clock.
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But every minute to count it for if it's still
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I don't know, no, no water, the record player is
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here because I brought it, and I brought it as
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a gift, A gift, I orwe you a present for
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what for killing me? Well, you say, if you hadn't
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done it, I'd have had to do it myself, and
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I just wouldn't be able to summon the courage. So
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let did begin by thanking you. Yeah, I don't understand.
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I was very sick. Quarter for that percent. I'd be
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lucky to live a here. Oh I didn't know. Well,
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I just found out lucky to have a year, and
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they said in a few weeks there might be some
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very intense pain. Then you would have died. Yes, I
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would have died anyway, but in terrible agony. That's one
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reason I thank you, one reason, where the other is
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I'm broke. You were broke, croustas, cleaned out, washed up.
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Why do you think I was selling the Tacitor collection?
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I don't know. I thought you were bored with all.
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Never it had to go to meet my debts. In
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about four or five months, the truth about my financial
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juggling would come out. I'd be disgraced. There, I'd be
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deathly illstone broke, and under indictment. You saved me from
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that water. I thank you. That's what I came back
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to tell you. But that the dead cannot come back.
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You know, I used to think that myself. But the
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deads do come back all the time. That so many
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of the living are too blind, too insensitive to see them,
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to feel them, to hear them. I hear you, I
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see you so clearly. But it has to be my imagination.
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I'll turn this on. Listen, that's not your imagination. I
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want you to develop a taste for it. Water. You
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fank me of what's going to happen. I'll go back
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where I belong, where you belie don't belong here. I
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just have some unfinished business. That's all unfinished business. I
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have to take care of you me. You're my best friend.
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Look at what you did for me. But I murdered you.
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I murdered you in cold blood. You had that look
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in your eyes just before I pull the trigger. Do
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you think I'll ever forget that look? Or you're always
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so metodramatic?
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Waldon.
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As I fired, there was a brilliant flash, you're telling me,
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I thought i'd go blind for a second. Your eyes
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became very bright, and then they started to become darker
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and darker as the light has them flickered and slowly faded.
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Then all the light went out of him.
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I was dead.
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Yes, that's exactly what it feels like. All the light
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goes out of you and you're lost in a dark void.
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I'm sorry. Then, Oh, you're not the blame. She puts
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you up to it. I know she did. She knows
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how to drive a man wild. Well, she'll go time
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to you, not awhile. You'll sense it in her eyes,
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her restless eyes. Already she's planning for your successor now
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wait a minute, I unconscious. Then not all she has
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the many men, but she will one day, and then
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she'll be prepared driving it. What did you do with
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the gun and the coins? I hid them? Why didn't
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you destroy them? Because she said to hide them? Hide them?
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Hide them where up at the farm? What for so
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she can have that gun handy in case she'll need it.
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Why would she need it? Why she needed a gun
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for me?
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Didn't she?
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Are you? Are you saying she may not use it
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to shoot you? She'll bring that gun to the police,
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to the police, you know what you'll say? Come on, Dennis,
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what can she say? She's in it up to her neck,
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which is why she wants to get out. But ruttens,
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She says, she is such a resourceful, inventive, creative woman.
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Can't you imagine what she could say? Think, Walter, think.
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He did it? What power did it.
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Are you with?
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She's using water powers. Missus Holland, protect me, don't kill me.
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He's insane?
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What is insane?
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I'll tell you everything.
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We came back to the apartment, or to hateed Dennis.
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She shut Dennis, shut him in cold.
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Just a minute, please, missus Holland was.
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In one of those coins that ties to the collection.
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He shut Dennis and he forced me to go along
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with the story.
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Or ef you kill me.
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You don't know what he's like, missus Holland, have you
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got any sort of proof?
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I know where he hit the coin, hit the cat?
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Could she play a scene like that? Is reader capable
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of it?
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Walter?
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But she loves because she also loved me. It comes
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and goes with herm Why cling to a dying tree?
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Why treasure would no longer blessom? Those words those were?
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How would I know those words? Oh foolish water? Didn't
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she also speak them to me one day? And she
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whispered them on a sailboat. We were running before a
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freshening breeze. A long, honey color hair was flying straight
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back in the wind, a wind that also held her
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shirt taught against that beautiful curving line of the body.
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She didn't make her.
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Believe anything at a moment like that. Tell me where
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and when did she whisper those words to you? It
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can't be real, You can't be real. Listen to the
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music again.
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The water.
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Only I could have brought it here. It proves this
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is real. It proves I'm here to help you, here
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to save you. Saved me from what.
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From her?
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Is that?
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It?
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Yes? Because she'll want to get rid of me one day?
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Right now, there's something you forget. Sure there was another
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guy before you, and she ditched him for you, and
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she got rid of you for me, And you say
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my turn's coming up exactly, Well, maybe it isn't. Maybe
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there's something you can't face up to. Maybe you and
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how many other guys before you simply weren't men enough
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for her. Ah ha, mister Matchau, All right, let's assume
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that's true. Then your whole theory flies out the window,
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only to walk in again through the door. That little
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scene in the police station. What little scene?
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You mean?
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That imaginary little episode will have to take place? You
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know why? Because you say so? Of course, logic demands it.
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What rot it?
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The logic of reality? A man is shot to death
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in the house at the time? Are his wife and
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his best friend?
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Now?
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Woul't be investigating? Detictive asks himself at the very beginning,
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is are these two having an affair? I would say
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he's convinced they are. Why because he's trained, his experience
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teaches him to look for those things. But how can
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he tell people in love give themselves away? And any
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one of an infinite number of little things? Walter A glance,
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a gesture, smile, a frown. Who knows? And so we
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begin with the old Lieutenant Savage. Do you think he's
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adult podding policeman? Don't sell him shorts, Lieutenant Savage. What
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do you think he's doing right now? Howard Diner? You
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can fecture it. He's in his office at his desk,
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Lieutennis Savage. Oh, yes, the inspector. I'm doing the report
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right now. Well, Dennis Holland had these coins worth about
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one hundred thousand, A court could have come in killed
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them and grabbed him. So we have to run a
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net among dealers, collectors, and so forth. On the other hand,
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we got the wife and the best friend. Now they're
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in the next room while a thirty eight caliber revolver
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goes off and they claim they didn't hear a thing.
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Well that's what they say. I think I get a
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little bit of a clique there. Well, I want to
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give it a play. Yeah, I'll get right on it.
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And he's on it this very minute.
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What will we discover?
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Women, Why don't we discover nothing? Are you trying to
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tell me there was nothing? We were very discreet, discreet.
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Nobody knows about us, nobody. Let's check that out. We
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are now in the area of routine, basic police routine.
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The police are experts when it comes to routine, and
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if it's a crime, it can be sound. The use
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of routine. The police crank it every time. I know
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what you're talking about. I wish you didn't know what
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I was talking about. Tomorrow morning till it Savage is
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going to ring Rita's doorbell, and do you know what
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he's going to ask her? How could I call it?
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It's a question. He couldn't ask her this afternoon. She
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was upset. But it's a question both you and she
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can very well expect. What is the question? What you
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should know? It's the question that marks the beginning of
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the routine, From the beginning of the routine, the end
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of which leads to a lifetime in a cell or
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just a fleeting moment on a scaffold. Neither is a
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prospect which actually pleases. And what is this question that
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can give birth to all the wolves and troubles that
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threaten to engulf water Powers? Not to mention Weeta Holland, Well,
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we'll give birth to Act three shortly.
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Me.
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Whoever it was that said we are a world of strangers.
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We see each other dimly as flickering shadows in a
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darkened room may have had something. What do we really
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know about the next fellow? Water Powers and Dennis Holland
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were lifelong friends. And yet did Walter know he'd be
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doing Denis a favor by killing him? What question is
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Lieutenant Savage going to ask? Can't you picture it? He
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will ring the bell, Lita will answer the door. He
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will apologize for a staving her. He will say, I
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just have a few questions, missus Holland yes, you said
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you were at home with your husband till three o'clock
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yesterday afternoon.
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At three o'clock.
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Yes, that's about right.
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And then you went out for a walk. Yeah, and
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then you said ken And I don't remember whether you
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said you met mister Powers or you ran into mister Powers.
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Oh well, it wasn't.
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A set appointment or anything. Yes, that would happen every day.
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I see. Now you said you went in for a drink.
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Yes, we generally worked.
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Where where do we go for a drink?
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Oh?
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Well, that little place is south the square.
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Miletti, I see Mileetti's. Thank you very much, Yes, missus Hollen.
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Is that important?
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It's just routine, rutee. That's the first routine question. I
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wonder what do you suppose will be the second? I
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don't know what are you supposed he's going to ask it?
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Milettis of course, miletteis mil Lettis. You would sit at
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the piano bar, wouldn't you? Yes? And Jerry the piano
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player knew you, didn't he I had? Yeah, what's he
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going to tell Lieutenant Savage?
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How would I know?
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Bar?
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Now you know this is a murder case. Jerry is
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not about to lie to a come, Jerry's going to
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tell Lieutenant Savage exactly what he saw.
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And you know what he saw?
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Well?
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The I mean they come in most the afternoon for
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a happy hour. You know what would they do? What
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would they do?
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Where?
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Well, a couple of grids to listen to me very piano?
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I mean, what were I supposed to do? Did they
497
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all hands? Well? Did you ever see them hold hands?
498
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Now that's a direct question. Yeah, how often every time
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they were here alone? I don't know. I don't come,
500
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but they did hold hands? Play it you go out
501
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for me. They could just be friendly. Did he ever
502
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put his arm around her? You really might have? Once
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a twice? They ever kiss? Maybe once a trice. All right, Jerry,
504
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that's good enough. I'll let you off the hook.
505
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Now.
506
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Now that's where the routine pauses, gathers momentum, and moves ahead.
507
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So what do you suppose Lieutenant Savage is going to do?
508
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Now he knows that you wouldn't be her having an affair,
509
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But he has no pro hole. He knows it in
510
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his bones water. He has the building blocks. All he
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has to do is put them in place. So he's
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going to ask questions, many questions of men people. Think51300:33:01.640 --> 00:33:03.839
of all the people who knew about or suspected that51400:33:03.880 --> 00:33:07.480
you and Reader were having an affair. Think in particular51500:33:07.599 --> 00:33:15.400
of medicent Webber. Milica. The name drains all the color51600:33:15.400 --> 00:33:21.079
from your face, and rightly so. Now, when in the51700:33:21.119 --> 00:33:25.799
course of his routine investigation, Lieutenant Savage talks to Medicine's Webber,51800:33:26.480 --> 00:33:29.480
what do you suppose he's going to tell him? Would51900:33:29.480 --> 00:33:32.680
I love to be there to hear it, But you52000:33:32.720 --> 00:33:38.000
know perfectly well just exactly what she'll say. I would52100:33:38.079 --> 00:33:42.599
rather not discuss Walter Power, missus Webb. This is a52200:33:42.759 --> 00:33:43.839
murder investigation.52300:33:44.039 --> 00:33:45.880
What you want to know from me is was there52400:33:45.960 --> 00:33:49.240
anything between Water and Rita Harland? Yes, ma'am, And let52500:33:49.279 --> 00:33:52.000
me say that about some time I read this story52600:33:52.000 --> 00:33:57.880
in the paper about poor Dennis how a lover shot him.52700:33:57.920 --> 00:33:58.960
I don't believe a word.52800:33:59.559 --> 00:33:59.920
You don't.52900:34:00.160 --> 00:34:01.640
No, and you don't either.53000:34:02.559 --> 00:34:05.640
Walter and Rita were happening in an affair, and you53100:34:05.680 --> 00:34:07.319
would testify the Persian court.53200:34:07.519 --> 00:34:11.320
Not that only because my testimony would be prejudicial.53300:34:12.199 --> 00:34:15.039
We see, I have reason to get test Water Power.53400:34:15.400 --> 00:34:16.519
Where are yes? For reasons?53500:34:17.960 --> 00:34:20.960
He was engaged to my younger sister. He broke it53600:34:21.000 --> 00:34:22.760
off to run around.53700:34:22.519 --> 00:34:27.239
With that married woman. Dolls took it very hard. I53800:34:27.280 --> 00:34:29.360
tried to tell her she was let her off out53900:34:29.400 --> 00:34:29.679
of it.54000:34:30.760 --> 00:34:34.840
But she was a very romantic child. She was at54100:34:34.840 --> 00:34:38.199
the beach last summer. There was an accident.54200:34:39.360 --> 00:34:40.079
She drowned.54300:34:41.519 --> 00:34:43.079
I think she did it deliberately.54400:34:44.119 --> 00:34:47.079
That's all I can tell you. You know of any54500:34:47.159 --> 00:34:50.719
way we could prove reader Holland and water Powers were54600:34:50.719 --> 00:34:57.880
having an affair. No, wait, of course I do your motel.54700:34:58.679 --> 00:35:00.559
I want to twist with him.54800:35:01.480 --> 00:35:02.440
I had him shadowed.54900:35:03.000 --> 00:35:06.159
The detective reported that Walter and Rita had spent several55000:35:06.280 --> 00:35:14.840
nights there. I presented the evidence to Doth. Yes, that55100:35:15.199 --> 00:35:19.199
was the end of things between them. Was off at55200:35:19.239 --> 00:35:21.679
the beginning of the end of everything for Dars.55300:35:21.719 --> 00:35:29.440
The Riverview Motel, Thank you, missus Webbin. The Riverview Motel.55400:35:29.559 --> 00:35:33.000
Water That's what Medison will tell him. And how many55500:35:33.039 --> 00:35:36.559
desk clerks, chambermaids and cocktail waitresses will remember the two55600:35:36.599 --> 00:35:40.199
of you together there. What are you trying to convince55700:35:40.280 --> 00:35:42.639
me of? Well, but you are getting closer and closer55800:35:42.639 --> 00:35:44.960
to that little scene in the police station where she55900:35:45.119 --> 00:35:48.880
sells you down the river. You don't know how much56000:35:48.920 --> 00:35:52.239
she really loves me, she would never do that, which56100:35:52.239 --> 00:35:56.480
she may have no charge water the routine, It's become56200:35:56.480 --> 00:36:00.800
a juggernaut. It threatens the ride right over her. Now,56300:36:00.920 --> 00:36:03.920
Lieutenant Savage is going to go back to her. Now,56400:36:04.119 --> 00:36:07.960
Lieutenant Savage's arms, he's ready, and you can just picture56500:36:07.960 --> 00:36:11.880
what he's going to say. You're crazy, You mean you56600:36:11.960 --> 00:36:15.159
can't picture it? Water? You mean he isn't going to56700:36:15.239 --> 00:36:22.320
ask missus Holland, are you having an affair with Water Powers?56800:36:23.000 --> 00:36:25.480
Should I repeat the question? How care you?56900:36:26.320 --> 00:36:29.159
Would you have no right to ask such an indulting land.57000:36:30.800 --> 00:36:35.599
If I were to go to the Riverview Motel, di,57100:36:35.599 --> 00:36:39.280
did you much? Would I find witnesses among the personnel57200:36:39.280 --> 00:36:42.280
who could testify that you and mister Powers engage the57300:36:42.400 --> 00:36:47.880
room there? Quite often? Would I? You can?57400:36:49.519 --> 00:36:51.920
Did Joseph Powers?57500:36:52.400 --> 00:36:52.639
Gee?57600:36:52.719 --> 00:36:57.360
Did so?57700:36:57.639 --> 00:37:02.480
You see water? The scene? We are ready for the scene.57800:37:03.559 --> 00:37:07.960
You don't believe it. I don't believe any of this,57900:37:08.760 --> 00:37:12.679
and I can't. I'm going crazy.58000:37:12.719 --> 00:37:13.679
I have this.58100:37:14.039 --> 00:37:17.599
Hallucination that you're here, that a dead man is talking58200:37:17.679 --> 00:37:19.920
to me, that a man I killed is here in58300:37:20.000 --> 00:37:23.280
this room targing to me for me. It were an hallucination.58400:37:23.440 --> 00:37:26.119
All of this is Henria all of this is here58500:37:26.920 --> 00:37:31.000
and phantom oh Rita, and I must do is not58600:37:31.239 --> 00:37:33.719
lose our heads. He has to send you down the58700:37:33.800 --> 00:37:38.480
river water. Now you're not really. All I have to58800:37:38.480 --> 00:37:42.679
do is cut you out of my mind. I'm real water.58900:37:43.760 --> 00:37:48.400
It's a reality you can't understand. Yes, in this room, however,59000:37:48.559 --> 00:37:52.079
there is a reality that you can understand. It takes59100:37:52.159 --> 00:37:55.039
up room. You can stub your toe against it, you59200:37:55.079 --> 00:37:57.199
can touch it, try to switch on.59300:37:57.320 --> 00:37:59.199
You can hear it.59400:37:59.320 --> 00:38:03.360
The record player. I brought you the record player. You59500:38:03.480 --> 00:38:07.039
left the house at three this afternoon. It wasn't here,59600:38:07.480 --> 00:38:10.800
was it? No, Like he tells you why, I brought59700:38:10.800 --> 00:38:13.039
it as a gift, so that you would believe me.59800:38:13.920 --> 00:38:14.039
Right.59900:38:14.079 --> 00:38:16.800
It's the finest you can buy water, exactly like the60000:38:16.840 --> 00:38:20.360
one I have, or I had in my house. You see,60100:38:20.960 --> 00:38:27.320
look at it, listen to it. Only I could have60200:38:27.400 --> 00:38:33.440
brought it. Yes, Yes, place yourself in my hands. I'm60300:38:33.480 --> 00:38:34.880
the only one who can help you.60400:38:34.960 --> 00:38:35.280
Really.60500:38:36.280 --> 00:38:39.599
She mustn't play that scene in the police station. She's60600:38:39.679 --> 00:38:40.360
capable of it.60700:38:40.639 --> 00:38:42.679
Didn't he isn't he?60800:38:43.920 --> 00:38:48.679
Yes, one way or another, one day or another. You60900:38:48.880 --> 00:38:52.039
have to be killed, just as I had to be killed.61000:38:54.039 --> 00:38:59.440
Kill her first well, now you have to. But that61100:38:59.480 --> 00:39:03.719
will surely I I I mean the police. U I'll61200:39:03.719 --> 00:39:05.519
be arrested for murder. Know you won't.61300:39:06.840 --> 00:39:07.440
What do you mean?61400:39:07.599 --> 00:39:08.079
I won't?61500:39:08.159 --> 00:39:08.639
For her?61600:39:09.480 --> 00:39:12.360
I'm dead, which means I see things.61700:39:14.000 --> 00:39:14.480
Kill her.61800:39:15.719 --> 00:39:20.079
You won't be caught. Right now, she's asleep, all alone61900:39:20.400 --> 00:39:26.960
at her mother's house. Go there, quietly, kill her quietly.62000:39:28.360 --> 00:39:33.360
No one will know. Kill her. You'll get away with it.62100:39:35.079 --> 00:39:43.360
Trust me, believe me, be believe you. Isn't this music62200:39:43.559 --> 00:39:49.199
proof that you can believe me? Yes? Yes?62300:39:56.079 --> 00:39:56.199
Who?62400:40:00.159 --> 00:40:01.920
Ship? Who?62500:40:02.000 --> 00:40:02.039
No?62600:40:03.199 --> 00:40:04.800
No? Who? Want not?62700:40:04.920 --> 00:40:05.639
Even life?62800:40:06.400 --> 00:40:11.519
Oh?62900:40:12.239 --> 00:40:16.079
I hope you got rid of the nine? Through it63000:40:16.199 --> 00:40:22.119
off the bridge? Good? No one will ever find it?63100:40:22.119 --> 00:40:27.559
Well happen? Is now nothing? The police probe and try63200:40:27.639 --> 00:40:34.320
and poke around, but proof not at all? Sit tip,63300:40:35.679 --> 00:40:43.199
sack tie, sit tip and enjoy the music? Who who63400:40:43.199 --> 00:40:46.280
could that be? Why don't you answer it?63500:40:49.719 --> 00:40:50.119
Oh?63600:40:50.199 --> 00:40:52.920
Hey, this is a break, I've glide. You're home? Well63700:40:53.440 --> 00:40:56.039
who are you? Who do you think I am? I'm63800:40:56.039 --> 00:40:58.920
glad you're enjoying the set. Maybe you want to buy one?63900:40:59.000 --> 00:41:00.000
Eh?64000:41:00.039 --> 00:41:02.039
Hey, maybe that's not such bad play to that size?64100:41:02.159 --> 00:41:05.480
What he was talking about? This game? Wanted to give64200:41:05.519 --> 00:41:08.159
her husband a surprise birthday present an apartment for E.64300:41:09.000 --> 00:41:11.599
She bought him this year record player. What are you64400:41:11.719 --> 00:41:14.719
saying on that stupid salesman the store wrote down tweet64500:41:15.000 --> 00:41:18.159
on a ticket instead the super let me in here earlier.64600:41:18.639 --> 00:41:21.199
You'll make a mistake. That's what I'm saying. I made64700:41:21.199 --> 00:41:25.079
a mistakes this record player. If it's a idea from64800:41:25.199 --> 00:41:28.559
Dennis to look fair, believe me. Explained it again, and64900:41:28.679 --> 00:41:32.239
Dennis tell him. Tell him. You see this woman calls me, Dennis,65000:41:32.519 --> 00:41:35.719
she's having a pit Where's that record player? I paid65100:41:35.719 --> 00:41:39.079
for that record player, I said, lady. I delivered that65200:41:39.199 --> 00:41:42.000
record player. I still live in the apartment three like65300:41:42.079 --> 00:41:45.079
the ticket, Say Dennis, why don't you tell him free65400:41:45.239 --> 00:41:49.400
she is? It's for E. Please tell him gunners. If65500:41:49.400 --> 00:41:52.440
you don't mind, I'll just have to unhook you. What65600:41:52.480 --> 00:41:56.119
are you doing? What am I doing? That's mine? Funny.65700:41:56.239 --> 00:42:01.280
I just explained, Dennis gave it to me. You. Dennis65800:42:01.320 --> 00:42:04.360
told me it would be all right. Look if I65900:42:04.400 --> 00:42:06.679
have to get a cop, Dennis said, nothing's gonna happen66000:42:06.760 --> 00:42:10.119
to me. Even after you killed her. He said, nothing's66100:42:10.119 --> 00:42:15.519
gonna happen to you, Dennis. Dennis knows no, you know66200:42:15.559 --> 00:42:20.679
how Dennis knows? Go ahead and asked me, how how66300:42:21.159 --> 00:42:27.159
does Dennis no? Because Dennis his dad? Oh oh yeah, yeah,66400:42:27.159 --> 00:42:30.440
I say, well, you look, I must have made a mistake.66500:42:30.639 --> 00:42:34.320
Yeah of course he did, Yes, Dennis, who brought me66600:42:34.440 --> 00:42:38.360
this wonderful record player? And oh sure, sure of course66700:42:38.360 --> 00:42:41.880
he did? Well, yeah, yeah, sure, Why well, why don't66800:42:41.920 --> 00:42:43.599
you just excuse me?66900:42:44.440 --> 00:42:45.119
Excuse me?67000:42:53.119 --> 00:42:57.400
The end of the story, it writes itself, that poor67100:42:57.480 --> 00:43:01.519
frightened sound technician. Can't you see him hailing a police67200:43:01.559 --> 00:43:04.880
cruiser or making a frantic call from the nearest phone booths.67300:43:05.079 --> 00:43:07.519
Can't you see the police arrive and take our friend67400:43:07.599 --> 00:43:10.960
Walter into custody. And you know perfectly well that poor67500:43:11.000 --> 00:43:14.159
Water has had it one way or another. It's probably67600:43:14.199 --> 00:43:16.719
a cell in an asylum for the rest of his life.67700:43:17.400 --> 00:43:20.400
If he ever recovers, there'll be a cell in a prison.67800:43:21.360 --> 00:43:26.519
Which would you choose? Choose neither. I'll be back shortly.67900:43:37.199 --> 00:43:42.159
Can the dead? Do the dead ever come back? Of68000:43:42.239 --> 00:43:46.400
course they do all the time. They come back in68100:43:46.639 --> 00:43:51.000
what we do, in what we say, and even in68200:43:51.039 --> 00:43:54.800
what we are. They are gone from our sight, their68300:43:54.920 --> 00:43:59.880
voices are still, and we see them and hear them.68400:44:00.280 --> 00:44:04.480
So clearly sometimes who was it that said to be68500:44:04.599 --> 00:44:07.880
remembered is to live forever?68600:44:08.840 --> 00:44:13.000
Our cast included Ralph Bell, Robert Dryden, Evie Jester, and68700:44:13.079 --> 00:44:17.000
Sam Gray. The entire production was under the direction of68800:44:17.079 --> 00:44:22.559
I'mond Brown, My dear, I.68900:44:22.480 --> 00:44:29.599
Have to admit that was an excellent idea. Oh why69000:44:29.760 --> 00:44:40.119
every sip is so comforting, so cherished? Ah. I don't69100:44:40.159 --> 00:44:44.960
know about you, but I really needed this to have69200:44:45.000 --> 00:44:56.159
a moment, to reflect, a moment too appreciate. Well, I'm69300:44:56.199 --> 00:45:00.159
glad you're here to do it too. I suppose at69400:45:00.199 --> 00:45:03.519
the end of the day we all have our own69500:45:04.239 --> 00:45:18.760
Christmas Story.69600:45:20.679 --> 00:45:25.280
The Mutual Broadcasting System presents The Mysterious Traveler, written, produced69700:45:25.280 --> 00:45:26.400
and directed by Robert A.69800:45:26.559 --> 00:45:27.719
Arthur and David Cogan.69900:45:28.159 --> 00:45:32.079
I'm starring two of radio's foremost personalities, Leon Jenny and70000:45:32.119 --> 00:45:41.079
Anne Shepherd in Christmas Story.70100:45:45.239 --> 00:45:48.719
This is the Mysterious Traveler inviting you to join me70200:45:49.199 --> 00:45:52.039
on another journey into the realm of the strange and70300:45:52.119 --> 00:45:58.760
the terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip and70400:45:58.880 --> 00:46:02.280
it will really woo and cheer you a little. So70500:46:02.519 --> 00:46:05.559
settle back, get a good grip on your nerves, and70600:46:05.760 --> 00:46:08.880
be comfortable. If you can as we hear the tale70700:46:08.880 --> 00:46:23.360
of an enterprising young man. It's the drama called Christmas Story.70800:46:28.519 --> 00:46:31.480
The name is Steve Ferroll, and I've just gotten through70900:46:31.519 --> 00:46:33.440
playing Santa Claus.71000:46:33.639 --> 00:46:35.679
Yeah, you're looking at a guy who really played.71100:46:35.480 --> 00:46:39.280
It to the hills. It all started last month in Seattle.71200:46:39.840 --> 00:46:41.239
I was out of a job and down to my71300:46:41.320 --> 00:46:44.320
last few bucks. I was looking through the morning paper71400:46:44.360 --> 00:46:47.079
when I noticed this small ad in the personal column71500:46:48.039 --> 00:46:51.880
Driving to New York November fifteenth, man wanted to assist71600:46:51.920 --> 00:46:54.800
in driving free transportation.71700:46:54.519 --> 00:46:56.039
Paul Harris Hotel Royal.71800:46:56.880 --> 00:46:58.840
Well, I'd always wanted to see New York, and this71900:46:59.000 --> 00:47:00.519
was as good as anyway getting there.72000:47:00.639 --> 00:47:02.599
So I went up to this Hotel Royal to see72100:47:02.599 --> 00:47:11.079
this guy, Harris Harris. Yes, my name is Farrell. See Farrell.72200:47:11.800 --> 00:47:13.960
I read your ad in the morning paper. Oh yes,72300:47:14.119 --> 00:47:15.280
once you come in, think you.72400:47:17.760 --> 00:47:19.920
If you haven't already found someone to help you drive72500:47:19.960 --> 00:47:21.760
in New York, I'd like them off of my services.72600:47:21.800 --> 00:47:24.519
Well, as a matter of fact, I haven't. Can you72700:47:24.599 --> 00:47:26.280
leave for New York a day after tomorrow?72800:47:26.360 --> 00:47:28.159
Sure, anytime we're good.72900:47:28.639 --> 00:47:30.480
Then when I'd come around at nine in the morning73000:47:30.519 --> 00:47:31.880
and we'll get off to an early stack.73100:47:32.039 --> 00:47:52.639
Okay, mister Harris nine it is. I mean, when you're73200:47:52.639 --> 00:47:54.159
tired driving, mister Harrison.73300:47:53.840 --> 00:47:54.360
I'll take over.73400:47:54.679 --> 00:47:58.079
Thanks you will. Why not call me Paul?73500:47:58.519 --> 00:48:05.159
Okay, See it's my first name. Lewiston, thirty miles Lewiston.73600:48:05.639 --> 00:48:08.920
That's Idaho is Yeah. We're just crossing the state line73700:48:08.920 --> 00:48:09.519
into Idaho.73800:48:09.880 --> 00:48:12.639
This is all new to me. I was born and73900:48:12.719 --> 00:48:16.159
raised in Alaska. It's my first trip to the state.74000:48:16.719 --> 00:48:18.559
Well, you're going to see a lot of scenery between74100:48:18.559 --> 00:48:19.320
here and New York.74200:48:19.400 --> 00:48:22.280
Yes, I'm looking forward to it. Life must have been74300:48:22.280 --> 00:48:23.519
pretty rugged and alast game.74400:48:23.599 --> 00:48:24.199
Oh it was.74500:48:25.440 --> 00:48:28.639
My parents were homestead and I never saw a city74600:48:28.719 --> 00:48:29.800
until a week ago when I.74700:48:29.760 --> 00:48:32.280
Arrived in Seattle. How come here going to New York?74800:48:32.880 --> 00:48:36.159
Well, my parents died last year and my grandfather, whom74900:48:36.159 --> 00:48:38.199
I've never seen, wrote asking me.75000:48:38.199 --> 00:48:38.960
To come visit him.75100:48:39.119 --> 00:48:39.880
You never seen him?75200:48:39.880 --> 00:48:40.039
There?75300:48:40.199 --> 00:48:43.559
No, No, There was some sort of squabble between my75400:48:43.679 --> 00:48:46.760
parents and my grandfather before I was born and they75500:48:46.800 --> 00:48:49.599
went to alash Gang and in all the years since then,75600:48:50.360 --> 00:48:52.000
my grandfather never wrote to them.75700:48:52.519 --> 00:48:53.639
Sounds like a stubborn guy.75800:48:53.920 --> 00:48:55.119
Yeah, he sure died.75900:48:56.679 --> 00:48:58.280
What are you going to New York for?76000:48:58.679 --> 00:49:01.239
Oh, mainly to look for a job, job, and I've76100:49:01.239 --> 00:49:02.679
always wanted to see you the big city.76200:49:02.960 --> 00:49:06.519
Sure, why uh do you mind taking over now, Steve?76300:49:06.599 --> 00:49:07.639
My eyes are getting tired.76400:49:07.760 --> 00:49:09.760
They glad to just pull over the side of their own.76500:49:13.639 --> 00:49:16.239
It's a long way from Seattle to New York, and76600:49:16.320 --> 00:49:18.440
there wasn't the radio in the car, so we just talked,76700:49:19.119 --> 00:49:22.199
and mostly we talked about Paul, his wife in Alaska,76800:49:22.360 --> 00:49:26.360
his parents, his grandfather. By the time we hit Columbus, Ohio,76900:49:26.440 --> 00:49:28.400
there wasn't the thing I didn't know about the guy.77000:49:29.079 --> 00:49:31.679
And from what he told me, his grandfather was loaded.77100:49:32.519 --> 00:49:35.519
And even more, he was the old man's only relative.77200:49:35.760 --> 00:49:39.159
It was obvious the kid was walking into a fortune. Yeah,77300:49:39.199 --> 00:49:40.599
some guys had all the luck.77400:49:42.559 --> 00:49:44.400
So these are the Alleghanium monks.77500:49:44.840 --> 00:49:48.440
Yeah, better take it easy, Paul. The roads a little flippery.77600:49:48.639 --> 00:49:51.719
Okay, how much further than New York two one.77700:49:51.679 --> 00:49:52.960
Hundred and fifty miles.77800:49:53.880 --> 00:49:56.679
It's getting dark. Better stop for the night at the77900:49:56.679 --> 00:49:57.480
next tourist court.78000:49:57.559 --> 00:50:00.239
All right, Proways should be able to make New York78100:50:00.239 --> 00:50:01.159
by tomorrow afternoon.78200:50:01.400 --> 00:50:02.320
Yeah, it's easy.78300:50:03.280 --> 00:50:04.119
What are you going to do.78400:50:04.079 --> 00:50:07.639
When we get there, Steve, start hunting for a job.78500:50:08.880 --> 00:50:11.679
Look, Steve, why don't you come to my grandfather's house78600:50:11.760 --> 00:50:13.960
with me. I'm sure he won't mind putting up for78700:50:13.960 --> 00:50:14.559
a few nights.78800:50:14.920 --> 00:50:17.760
Thanks, kid, but don't worry about me. I'll be all right.78900:50:18.159 --> 00:50:20.440
Hi, Steve, I don't want to lose track of Yeah,79000:50:20.480 --> 00:50:21.559
I thought.79100:50:21.360 --> 00:50:22.880
We were friends. Sure we are.79200:50:23.599 --> 00:50:25.199
As soon as I get located, I'll let you know79300:50:25.239 --> 00:50:29.239
where I am. You know, I thought this, being your79400:50:29.280 --> 00:50:32.400
first visit to New York and mine, we might see79500:50:32.400 --> 00:50:35.880
the town together. You know the Statue of Liberty that's79600:50:35.920 --> 00:50:41.400
your liberty? Yeah, sure, yeah, while we're the same age,79700:50:42.159 --> 00:50:43.920
I'm afraid I haven't been around very much.79800:50:44.679 --> 00:50:47.880
I guess it's like you said, strictly from the woods.79900:50:49.519 --> 00:50:51.079
Just one year in New York and you'll be hip80000:50:51.159 --> 00:50:55.920
to everything. Your eyes bothering. Hell, you better let me80100:50:55.960 --> 00:50:57.719
take over when you get to the bottom of this mountain.80200:50:57.840 --> 00:51:00.320
Okay, you know you want to see an eye doctor.80300:51:01.000 --> 00:51:02.920
Her eyes seemed to get tired off a quake.80400:51:03.000 --> 00:51:04.400
Well, the truth of the matter out.80500:51:04.599 --> 00:51:05.280
We're shutting the shid.80600:51:05.760 --> 00:51:07.599
No, don't cam on the brakes, only make it work80700:51:07.639 --> 00:51:08.840
the reverse your wheel I.80800:51:08.800 --> 00:51:12.159
Have, she was sitting the mountains wheel and do as80900:51:12.199 --> 00:51:18.760
I shined out of control was going over.81000:51:24.280 --> 00:51:27.280
When I regained consciousness, I was lying a few feet81100:51:27.320 --> 00:51:30.559
from the car. We'd rolled three hundred feet down the81200:51:30.599 --> 00:51:33.239
side of the mountain, and the car was completely right.81300:51:34.639 --> 00:51:37.760
I crawled to my feet and felt for broken bones.81400:51:38.800 --> 00:51:40.599
Other than a bad gash on my head and the81500:51:40.599 --> 00:51:45.079
massive bruises, I was okay. I limped the few feet81600:51:45.159 --> 00:51:49.960
to the overturned car and looked in. Paul was still81700:51:50.000 --> 00:51:53.199
behind the wheel. Even before I reached for his pulse,81800:51:53.280 --> 00:51:57.119
I had a feeling he was dead. Paul's luck had81900:51:57.199 --> 00:52:00.840
run out. He'd never see all that dough that was82000:52:00.880 --> 00:52:02.119
waiting for him in New York.82100:52:03.880 --> 00:52:04.159
Yeah.82200:52:04.199 --> 00:52:05.599
It was then that it came to me.82300:52:06.639 --> 00:52:09.840
I hadn't wished the guy did, but now that he was,82400:52:10.840 --> 00:52:13.280
and nobody in the state's Newpaul or what he looked like.82500:52:14.599 --> 00:52:19.760
And on the other hand, I knew everything about him. Well,82600:52:19.760 --> 00:52:22.239
it was a gamble, all right, but there was a82700:52:22.280 --> 00:52:25.559
fortune in the kiddy. I went to work switching our82800:52:25.599 --> 00:52:28.920
clothes and all identification. Just as I finished, the state82900:52:28.960 --> 00:52:31.880
police patrol car came along the mountain road and spotted83000:52:31.880 --> 00:52:34.440
the wreck. They took me to headquarters, where I made83100:52:34.440 --> 00:52:37.440
a complete statement. A couple of hours later, I grabbed83200:52:37.440 --> 00:52:38.320
the train for New York.83300:52:46.400 --> 00:52:49.719
Paul, I'm George Marlow, your grandfather's attorney.83400:52:49.920 --> 00:52:50.920
How'd you do it? Tomorrow?83500:52:51.280 --> 00:52:54.880
A Pennsylvania state police informed me of the dreadful accident83600:52:54.960 --> 00:52:57.079
you had. I understand a man who was with you83700:52:57.800 --> 00:52:58.320
was killed.83800:52:58.679 --> 00:53:01.480
Yes, filled by the name of Farrell. I met him83900:53:01.519 --> 00:53:04.440
in Seattle. Hectickted me with the driving too bad, But84000:53:05.280 --> 00:53:08.360
thank heavens it wasn't. Julie. Would have been your grandfather's84100:53:08.360 --> 00:53:08.960
death floor.84200:53:10.000 --> 00:53:14.239
How is he week? Very weak but eagerly waiting to84300:53:14.239 --> 00:53:14.599
see you?84400:53:15.440 --> 00:53:15.760
All right?84500:53:15.840 --> 00:53:20.239
Come along getting how's that cash on your head?84600:53:20.400 --> 00:53:20.559
Oh?84700:53:20.639 --> 00:53:22.719
Not too bad? It would freezed by a doctor. To84800:53:22.719 --> 00:53:24.000
stay police headquarters.84900:53:24.639 --> 00:53:26.920
You can only spend a few minutes with your grandfather,85000:53:27.119 --> 00:53:30.480
and the excitement must be avoided by all means.85100:53:30.760 --> 00:53:34.079
I understand, And here we are.85200:53:39.800 --> 00:53:40.239
How is he?85300:53:40.360 --> 00:53:40.599
John?85400:53:41.079 --> 00:53:42.480
He's much better this afternoon.85500:53:42.639 --> 00:53:46.639
Good Joan. Now, this is Paul Harris. Paul Joan Deetrich,85600:53:46.719 --> 00:53:47.920
your grandfather's nurse.85700:53:48.559 --> 00:53:49.679
How do you do Hello?85800:53:50.440 --> 00:53:59.320
Oh is that you Paul guessing? Come over here where85900:53:59.360 --> 00:54:00.119
I can see you.86000:54:01.440 --> 00:54:06.239
Yes, grandfamny, So you look for.86100:54:08.239 --> 00:54:09.079
My grandson.86200:54:10.480 --> 00:54:11.000
Hits him.86300:54:12.559 --> 00:54:16.199
Sit down by my bed. Let me look at you86400:54:17.719 --> 00:54:19.599
all right, grand funny, how.86500:54:19.559 --> 00:54:20.039
Are you.86600:54:21.440 --> 00:54:21.840
So dog?86700:54:21.920 --> 00:54:23.039
Look like your mother.86800:54:24.400 --> 00:54:27.360
Must take after your father's side of the family.86900:54:28.000 --> 00:54:28.599
Yes, I do.87000:54:30.360 --> 00:54:30.400
That.87100:54:31.960 --> 00:54:32.880
That bandage.87200:54:34.400 --> 00:54:36.239
What what happened?87300:54:36.280 --> 00:54:38.639
For why I was in an accident? But it's nothing87400:54:38.679 --> 00:54:39.280
to scratch.87500:54:39.400 --> 00:54:43.000
Yeah you're sure, yes, yes, of course I suppose you're87600:54:43.039 --> 00:54:47.119
wondering why I said for you after after all these87700:54:47.199 --> 00:54:51.079
years treutting off your mother father.87800:54:51.760 --> 00:54:55.480
As a matter, now, the main thing is I'm here, you.87900:54:55.480 --> 00:55:01.199
Know, lying here for months. I've had a great deal88000:55:01.239 --> 00:55:05.920
of time to think things over. I was wrong, Paul.88100:55:07.280 --> 00:55:10.559
Your mother she had a perfect right to marry any88200:55:10.599 --> 00:55:16.159
one she wished. It is only my stubbornness that prevented88300:55:16.199 --> 00:55:16.960
the reconcile.88400:55:18.199 --> 00:55:19.559
We all make mistakes.88500:55:19.840 --> 00:55:25.480
Yes, yes, thirty years I have not seen my own88600:55:25.519 --> 00:55:34.519
flesh and blood. It's been lonely, Paul, so lonely. It's88700:55:34.599 --> 00:55:35.559
all my fault.88800:55:36.480 --> 00:55:42.000
But you're not alone anymore, I mean, yes, yes.88900:55:41.920 --> 00:55:46.800
Boy, yeah, what what little time I have left we89000:55:46.920 --> 00:55:48.199
must spend together.89100:55:48.480 --> 00:55:50.559
I think that's enough. And now mister Marshall Pope can89200:55:50.639 --> 00:55:54.400
come and see you later, just a few more minutes,89300:55:54.559 --> 00:55:56.320
yea after your nap.89400:55:58.360 --> 00:56:04.760
She's a wonderful girl. All but they're tired, and come89500:56:04.840 --> 00:56:07.280
see me soon as I have away.89600:56:07.880 --> 00:56:09.639
All right, grandfather, let me take you.89700:56:12.440 --> 00:56:14.840
Just your being here seems to have helped him pull89800:56:18.440 --> 00:56:23.119
What does the doctor see mis tomorrow? Week? Months? Several89900:56:23.199 --> 00:56:25.480
months at the outside? That bad?90000:56:25.920 --> 00:56:29.239
Yes, well, you must be tired off your trip. I90100:56:29.280 --> 00:56:32.079
had your suitcase taken to your room. If you have90200:56:32.119 --> 00:56:33.719
any other luggage on the way.90300:56:34.119 --> 00:56:36.000
There's a small trunk coming, but he won't be here90400:56:36.039 --> 00:56:36.360
for a week.90500:56:36.559 --> 00:56:39.199
You need any money, just let me know your grandfather's90600:56:39.199 --> 00:56:42.199
place to considerable sum at your disposal.90700:56:41.800 --> 00:56:44.320
Says, But I still have two thousand left of the90800:56:44.320 --> 00:56:45.320
five thousand he sent me.90900:56:46.480 --> 00:56:48.800
Never if there's anything at all you want, just let91000:56:48.840 --> 00:56:54.599
me know. Yeah, I was in.91100:56:55.280 --> 00:56:57.920
There was no question that I had passed as Paul Harris,91200:56:58.519 --> 00:57:01.639
and why not. I had all the answers, and I91300:57:01.719 --> 00:57:04.880
was playing a careful I walked through a room after91400:57:04.920 --> 00:57:08.000
a room of that Fifth Avenue mansion, knowing that within91500:57:08.039 --> 00:57:09.199
a matter of months.91600:57:08.920 --> 00:57:09.719
It would be mine.91700:57:10.760 --> 00:57:12.679
In the weeks that followed, not a day passed and91800:57:12.719 --> 00:57:14.760
I didn't spend a few hours with the old land.91900:57:15.599 --> 00:57:18.159
He liked me. I could see that. And the funny92000:57:18.199 --> 00:57:20.000
thing is I liked him too.92100:57:21.000 --> 00:57:23.480
During our little chats, there were times I felt I92200:57:23.679 --> 00:57:27.480
was his grandson, and sitting in at these little sessions,92300:57:27.519 --> 00:57:31.199
not saying much, just watching with those gray eyes of hers.92400:57:31.280 --> 00:57:36.079
With Joan Dietrich, she was one lovely dish and I92500:57:36.079 --> 00:57:39.320
could feel things building between us. Whenever she got an92600:57:39.360 --> 00:57:46.199
evening off, we went out together, having a good time.92700:57:48.360 --> 00:57:51.880
I love dancing. Well, mister Harris, what are we doing92800:57:51.920 --> 00:57:53.519
out here on the Terrence music?92900:57:53.639 --> 00:57:53.719
In?93000:57:53.800 --> 00:57:54.039
There?93100:57:55.440 --> 00:57:58.360
Too many people in there. You know, if you don't93200:57:58.360 --> 00:58:00.039
make a pass at me soon, I'm going to get.93300:58:00.159 --> 00:58:05.000
Girls of this shoulder quaint three weeks?93400:58:06.119 --> 00:58:07.360
What's the time I got to do with it?93500:58:08.599 --> 00:58:13.840
The day I walked into my grandfather's room first saw you.93600:58:13.840 --> 00:58:15.519
You knew this moment would come.93700:58:16.320 --> 00:58:23.079
Mm hmm, oh my gosh, you the same way, baby,93800:58:23.960 --> 00:58:27.760
So I was flying love me, you know, I do?93900:58:29.199 --> 00:58:33.480
In my the tears, Oh, I do love you, and94000:58:33.559 --> 00:58:36.360
I want to believe in I'm so confused, so.94100:58:36.559 --> 00:58:41.679
Confused back, Why go on? I want to you?94200:58:44.519 --> 00:58:47.000
Are you really poor?94300:58:47.079 --> 00:58:49.920
Hair? What makes you ask better?94400:58:51.000 --> 00:58:56.599
In your talks with mister Marshall, several things he said94500:58:57.280 --> 00:59:02.400
seem strained such a well, your grandfather spoke of a94600:59:02.400 --> 00:59:06.360
restaurant in San Francisco, and you said you knew it. Yeah,94700:59:06.400 --> 00:59:09.800
if you are Paul Harris, how could you not Paul Harris.94800:59:10.840 --> 00:59:12.400
He's never been to San Francisco.94900:59:13.119 --> 00:59:14.920
I might have taken in San Francisco on the way95000:59:14.960 --> 00:59:15.440
to New York.95100:59:15.480 --> 00:59:15.800
You know.95200:59:17.559 --> 00:59:18.199
What else about it?95300:59:19.800 --> 00:59:23.760
You mentioned that television show you've seen six months ago.95400:59:25.440 --> 00:59:29.119
There is no television in Alaska. If you're Paul Harris,95500:59:29.119 --> 00:59:30.119
how could you have seen it?95600:59:30.800 --> 00:59:34.079
People up in Alaska see chemiscopes of television shows. Baby,95700:59:34.800 --> 00:59:35.880
they shown like movies.95800:59:38.039 --> 00:59:40.159
Darling, Just tell me I'm wrong, That's all I wanted95900:59:40.159 --> 00:59:40.480
to hear.96000:59:42.880 --> 00:59:46.400
I wish I could tell you I'm Paul Harris, but96100:59:46.519 --> 00:59:46.800
I'm not.96200:59:48.519 --> 00:59:49.400
You're no.96300:59:49.400 --> 00:59:54.760
No. The name is Farrell, Steve Farrell, Steve har.96400:59:56.039 --> 00:59:59.239
Wasn't that the fellow that was chilled him? That it96500:59:59.440 --> 01:00:03.760
was Paul Harris who was killed? You changed identity?96601:00:04.119 --> 01:00:04.440
Yes?96701:00:05.800 --> 01:00:06.480
How could you?96801:00:06.960 --> 01:00:07.840
How could you?96901:00:08.360 --> 01:00:11.199
I was tired of being broke, of going from one97001:00:11.280 --> 01:00:14.760
lousy job to another. I saw a chance to grab97101:00:14.800 --> 01:00:16.599
a fortune and took it.97201:00:20.039 --> 01:00:20.760
What are you gonna do?97301:00:22.880 --> 01:00:28.880
I should go to the police. I can't mister Marshall97401:00:28.920 --> 01:00:33.599
thinks you're his grandson. He's extremely fond of you. If97501:00:33.639 --> 01:00:38.920
the truth were to come out, kill him.97601:00:39.320 --> 01:00:42.039
Is that the only reason you can't go to the police.97701:00:42.000 --> 01:00:43.320
Steve, What are we gonna do?97801:00:44.000 --> 01:00:44.320
Nothing?97901:00:44.679 --> 01:00:45.039
Nothing?98001:00:46.079 --> 01:00:46.559
That's right.98101:00:47.360 --> 01:00:50.199
I'm going on being Paul Harris until the old man dies.98201:00:50.800 --> 01:00:51.880
Then I'm taking the estate.98301:00:53.000 --> 01:00:54.079
You can't?98401:00:54.400 --> 01:00:54.840
You can?98501:00:55.119 --> 01:00:55.480
Why not?98601:00:56.280 --> 01:00:59.679
While the old man's alive. I'm making him happy if98701:00:59.719 --> 01:01:02.719
I get his estate when he dies? Who loses by it?98801:01:02.760 --> 01:01:03.199
Business?98901:01:03.280 --> 01:01:05.800
Though he has other relatives, Why shouldn't I get it?99001:01:06.119 --> 01:01:07.599
It's wrong, Steve, It's wrong.99101:01:08.119 --> 01:01:11.760
It's wrong only if you're a caught baby, Only if99201:01:11.800 --> 01:01:12.400
you're caught.99301:01:26.880 --> 01:01:30.000
Hello baby, If you don't up here on the room.99401:01:30.239 --> 01:01:32.840
It's getting a little fresh air while mister Marshall's state.99501:01:33.400 --> 01:01:35.360
How is he?99601:01:35.360 --> 01:01:39.800
He can't last more than a few days?99701:01:40.440 --> 01:01:48.039
Who you playing for the old man? Oh me, Steve?99801:01:48.079 --> 01:01:49.800
Ever since the other night when you told me, I99901:01:49.840 --> 01:01:53.400
haven't been able to think of anything else. It's wrong, Steve,100001:01:53.480 --> 01:01:54.400
It's so wrong.100101:01:54.760 --> 01:01:57.440
Who am I hurting? If I get the estate? I100201:01:57.519 --> 01:01:57.960
deserve it.100301:01:58.000 --> 01:02:00.880
If anyone does, at least I'm making the old man100401:02:00.960 --> 01:02:03.000
happy in his life down What is your course.100501:02:03.360 --> 01:02:05.119
Do you realize I'd send you to prison?100601:02:05.199 --> 01:02:07.440
That's the chances you take, baby. Besides, who's going to100701:02:07.480 --> 01:02:08.159
get wise to me?100801:02:08.320 --> 01:02:11.880
There's mister Marlowe and he's nobody's fool. Just one little slip, Steve,100901:02:12.000 --> 01:02:12.880
and he'll be on to you.101001:02:13.039 --> 01:02:15.679
Marlow is a sharp citizen, all right, but I don't101101:02:15.719 --> 01:02:17.480
intend to make that one slips.101201:02:18.519 --> 01:02:19.760
Someone's coming up on the door.101301:02:20.519 --> 01:02:23.559
Hello, you too, thought I find you up here? Hello?101401:02:24.239 --> 01:02:25.400
Oh are you mister Morrow?101501:02:25.480 --> 01:02:25.639
Right?101601:02:25.679 --> 01:02:29.199
Well, thank you, I'll stand there. Mister Marshall's asleep.101701:02:29.440 --> 01:02:32.840
Yes, I left missus Walker to look after him. He101801:02:32.880 --> 01:02:33.960
should be waking up soon.101901:02:34.199 --> 01:02:37.760
May we better go down? My grandfather? And oh, what's102001:02:37.800 --> 01:02:39.159
the matter shopping your eye?102101:02:39.159 --> 01:02:39.400
Paul?102201:02:39.519 --> 01:02:41.760
Yes, he's a cinder left eye.102301:02:41.840 --> 01:02:46.000
Huh, yes, stop rubbing it. Put your handkerchief over it.102401:02:46.159 --> 01:02:48.360
Yeah, things like the devil.102501:02:48.719 --> 01:02:52.320
Going over and sit on the chair and I'll try102601:02:52.320 --> 01:02:53.760
to take it out for you.102701:02:53.760 --> 01:02:56.760
Want me to assist you to the chair, No, no,102801:02:56.800 --> 01:02:57.639
I can still walk.102901:03:02.920 --> 01:03:07.039
Let's sit down and tilt your head back. Take the103001:03:07.079 --> 01:03:14.480
handkerchief away, oh, I said, hope still, yeah, I got it,103101:03:15.119 --> 01:03:18.960
Thanks John. I think we better go down. Okay, you103201:03:19.039 --> 01:03:19.920
coming mister Marlow.103301:03:20.639 --> 01:03:24.880
Right, Oh, yes, yes, I'm coming.103401:03:38.920 --> 01:03:41.519
Missus Walker said that mister Marshall was asleep and she103501:03:41.559 --> 01:03:42.920
looked in on him a few minutes.103601:03:42.719 --> 01:03:45.880
Ago, and she's still sleeping. Perhaps we'd better leave him103701:03:46.000 --> 01:03:47.000
wait until he wakens.103801:03:47.079 --> 01:03:49.800
No, no, no, I'm waking. It's time for his medicine,103901:03:51.119 --> 01:03:59.960
mister Marshall. Mister Marshall, time for your medicine. Mister Marshall,104001:04:00.039 --> 01:04:05.920
What is it, John, Yes, no, pump is suet.104101:04:07.519 --> 01:04:09.760
Yes he did.104201:04:11.719 --> 01:04:16.159
At least the end came peacefully. He died in his sleep.104301:04:19.239 --> 01:04:21.360
Joan took the old man's death hard, and I felt104401:04:21.360 --> 01:04:23.000
pretty upset myself.104501:04:23.320 --> 01:04:24.920
Even with all that go awaiting.104601:04:25.800 --> 01:04:29.199
As for Marlow, he was his usual efficient self, looking104701:04:29.239 --> 01:04:32.719
after all the tails of the funeralom Maybe it was104801:04:32.760 --> 01:04:35.480
the tension I was on there, but Marlow seemed changed104901:04:35.519 --> 01:04:35.760
to me.105001:04:36.719 --> 01:04:38.280
He wasn't quite so friendly.105101:04:38.760 --> 01:04:41.800
And sometimes I turned to find him watching me, giving105201:04:41.840 --> 01:04:43.920
me the cold eye.105301:04:44.519 --> 01:04:47.039
I couldn't be sure whether it was my imagination or not.105401:04:48.440 --> 01:04:50.199
After we got back from the funeral, I was in105501:04:50.239 --> 01:04:52.280
my room when there was a knock on the door.105601:04:53.800 --> 01:04:57.199
Come in, Ollo, Johnes, come in.105701:04:57.679 --> 01:04:59.800
Mister Mortows. Downstairs the library.105801:05:00.119 --> 01:05:01.159
To see you close the door.105901:05:01.760 --> 01:05:07.039
Yeah, anything wrong, plenty? Whose trunk is that you're going through?106001:05:07.320 --> 01:05:10.440
Paul had arrived this morning while we were at the106101:05:10.440 --> 01:05:13.960
tune room. I've just been going through some of Paul's106201:05:13.960 --> 01:05:16.840
personal papers. I knew, of course that he was four106301:05:16.960 --> 01:05:17.800
F in the draft, but I.106401:05:17.800 --> 01:05:20.280
Never knew why what are you trying to tell me?106501:05:20.679 --> 01:05:22.920
Paul was for f in the draft because he was106601:05:22.920 --> 01:05:28.719
blind in the right eye wind in the Yes, that's.106701:05:28.599 --> 01:05:30.519
Why I've been getting the cold shoulder from marlow on106801:05:30.519 --> 01:05:32.840
these past three days, ever since the afternoon we were106901:05:32.840 --> 01:05:33.320
on the roof.107001:05:33.880 --> 01:05:34.800
I don't understand.107101:05:35.079 --> 01:05:38.159
Somehow Marlowe knew that Paul was blind in the right eye.107201:05:38.199 --> 01:05:40.239
And when I got that cinder in my left eye107301:05:40.280 --> 01:05:42.559
and I covered it with my handkerchief, you told me107401:05:42.599 --> 01:05:44.719
to walk across the roof of the chair sit down.107501:05:45.800 --> 01:05:48.519
I remember at that point Marlowe offered to lead me107601:05:48.599 --> 01:05:49.440
to the chair.107701:05:49.519 --> 01:05:51.559
Knowing you were blind in the right eye and had107801:05:51.599 --> 01:05:52.920
your left eye covered with the hack.107901:05:53.320 --> 01:05:53.519
Yes.108001:05:54.880 --> 01:05:58.000
When I walked over to the chair without hesitation, that108101:05:58.199 --> 01:06:01.360
must have started him thinking, I don't get panicky, baby,108201:06:01.880 --> 01:06:04.000
marlow can't be sure he's right at the moment, he's108301:06:04.039 --> 01:06:04.599
just suspicious.108401:06:04.639 --> 01:06:06.280
But if he really investigates, you got.108501:06:06.199 --> 01:06:08.519
To kill the suspicion in his mind, stop him from108601:06:08.519 --> 01:06:13.440
doing any check. But I don't know yet. On he's108701:06:13.440 --> 01:06:27.400
waiting for it in the library. Sorry, who kept you waiting?108801:06:27.400 --> 01:06:27.960
Mister Tomorrow?108901:06:28.199 --> 01:06:31.239
Quite all right, if you'll excuse me now, John, don't go.109001:06:32.159 --> 01:06:36.920
No reason why you shouldn't hear what I have to say. Tomorrow,109101:06:37.199 --> 01:06:42.119
Christmas Day, I'll officially read mister Marshall's will. However, I109201:06:42.280 --> 01:06:44.719
don't think I'm violating a trust and telling you the109301:06:44.880 --> 01:06:48.920
contents of the will. Two weeks ago, mister Marshall had109401:06:48.960 --> 01:06:52.119
me draw up a new will, leaving his entire estate109501:06:52.440 --> 01:06:54.000
to you will Paul.109601:06:54.800 --> 01:06:58.000
I see. He was quite taken by you, felt that109701:06:58.079 --> 01:07:02.159
you were a credit to his name. Why are you crying? John?109801:07:03.199 --> 01:07:03.239
Not.109901:07:05.599 --> 01:07:09.039
As administrator mister Marshall's will, it is my duty to110001:07:09.079 --> 01:07:13.039
see to it that the heirs or air receive their110101:07:14.199 --> 01:07:21.000
just inheritances. This duty I shall fulfill. I understand I110201:07:21.000 --> 01:07:23.679
am responsible. I'm the law for the awarding of the110301:07:23.760 --> 01:07:26.880
huge estate left by mister Marshall. I shall have to110401:07:28.400 --> 01:07:30.559
see your eye troubling you. You've been doing nothing but110501:07:30.639 --> 01:07:32.280
rubbing it since you came into this room.110601:07:32.480 --> 01:07:33.320
Sorry tomorrow.110701:07:33.480 --> 01:07:36.119
As you know, I'm blind in my right eye, and110801:07:36.159 --> 01:07:39.119
now and then my left eye feel quite trained, particularly110901:07:39.119 --> 01:07:47.679
a time like this, my grandfather's death funeral. Understand right, yes, yes,111001:07:47.880 --> 01:07:51.039
of course you're saying right.111101:07:51.519 --> 01:07:53.960
Oh, well, it's not important at the moment. I'll be111201:07:54.039 --> 01:07:57.559
here tomorrow at three for the reading of the will.111301:07:57.599 --> 01:07:59.559
See to it that all the servants are here very well.111401:08:00.079 --> 01:08:02.119
That Joan, Paul, good.111501:08:02.039 --> 01:08:12.199
Night tomorrow, good name. See he's confused, that's business to111601:08:12.280 --> 01:08:14.719
the eye. He doesn't know what to think now.111701:08:15.239 --> 01:08:18.279
Yeah, it stopped him for the moment, but only for111801:08:18.319 --> 01:08:20.720
a moment. Hard to tell, but I've got to do111901:08:20.800 --> 01:08:27.479
something once and for all to convince him. I'm Paul Harris.112001:08:28.159 --> 01:08:30.920
I didn't get to sleep that night. I just tossed112101:08:30.960 --> 01:08:33.359
and turned, trying to come up with an angle that112201:08:33.399 --> 01:08:37.079
would kill Marlowe's suspicions. Maybe that business of rubbing my112301:08:37.119 --> 01:08:39.520
eyes it's satisfied in but I had to make sure112401:08:40.520 --> 01:08:43.399
it was a difference between being handed a fortune and112501:08:43.439 --> 01:08:44.279
the prison sentence.112601:08:45.760 --> 01:08:48.239
This afternoon, at three o'clock, the servants.112701:08:47.880 --> 01:08:51.520
Joan, Marlowe, and myself gathered in the library the whole112801:08:51.520 --> 01:08:54.560
thing was over in an hour. The servants all congratulated112901:08:54.600 --> 01:08:57.199
me and left the library, reading only the three of113001:08:57.279 --> 01:08:57.640
us there.113101:09:00.199 --> 01:09:03.319
I should like to offer a toast to mister Marshall's memory,113201:09:03.640 --> 01:09:06.960
if you'll permit me. Of course, Sir was his favorite113301:09:07.079 --> 01:09:15.119
cherry John. Thank you, oh thanks. He is to Peter Marshall,113401:09:15.760 --> 01:09:21.760
man who lived honorably, died honorably. May his air be113501:09:22.600 --> 01:09:27.399
worthy of him. As the three of us raised our113601:09:27.399 --> 01:09:29.960
glasses to our lips and drank, I could see Marlow113701:09:30.039 --> 01:09:32.119
watching me over the brim of his glass, with those113801:09:32.159 --> 01:09:35.600
cold blue eyes of his. We set down our glasses113901:09:35.680 --> 01:09:38.439
and I turned to give Joan a cigarette. Out of114001:09:38.439 --> 01:09:40.600
the corner of my eye, I saw Marlow pick up114101:09:40.640 --> 01:09:44.479
one of the three wine glasses. Suddenly I realized it114201:09:44.520 --> 01:09:49.079
was my glass he picked up. He held it casually,114301:09:49.560 --> 01:09:52.479
almost as if he didn't know he was holding it.114401:09:53.399 --> 01:09:55.359
In that moment, I was going nuts trying to guess114501:09:55.399 --> 01:09:57.880
whether he was satisfied that I was Paul Harris or114601:09:57.920 --> 01:10:01.520
he was still suspicious and going out to me. My114701:10:01.520 --> 01:10:04.479
fingerprints were on that glass, and the army had a114801:10:04.479 --> 01:10:05.920
copy of those prints in Washington.114901:10:07.039 --> 01:10:07.840
This was it.115001:10:08.079 --> 01:10:09.199
Either I play my.115101:10:09.399 --> 01:10:12.279
And go for the fortune or throwing my hand.115201:10:13.000 --> 01:10:16.800
Suddenly I felt Jones hand in mine and say, mister115301:10:16.840 --> 01:10:21.439
marlow yes, you say this will leaving me my grandfather's115401:10:21.560 --> 01:10:22.680
estate is a new one.115501:10:22.960 --> 01:10:26.479
Yes, I drew it up only two weeks ago. What115601:10:26.560 --> 01:10:27.199
was the old will?115701:10:27.319 --> 01:10:27.399
Like?115801:10:28.159 --> 01:10:31.439
Well, under the old will, your grandfather's of state went115901:10:31.479 --> 01:10:36.079
to charity. I thought as much to marlow Joan and116001:10:36.079 --> 01:10:39.520
I have been talking things over. I don't want the estate.116101:10:40.279 --> 01:10:44.159
I wanted all to go to charity as originally intended.116201:10:45.640 --> 01:10:45.680
Me.116301:10:45.840 --> 01:10:49.640
I seem to drop my glass. You realize, of course,116401:10:50.880 --> 01:10:52.039
what you would be giving up.116501:10:52.640 --> 01:10:55.720
I never really had it, mister Marlowe, so I hardly116601:10:55.760 --> 01:10:58.479
think I'll miss it. Joan and I will get along,116701:10:58.520 --> 01:11:04.560
won't We may be, Paul, Is that your considered decision?116801:11:05.039 --> 01:11:05.319
It is?116901:11:06.680 --> 01:11:10.159
It's a gesture worthy of Peter Marshall's grandson.117001:11:13.439 --> 01:11:15.880
Yes, and that little gesture did it.117101:11:16.960 --> 01:11:19.079
Any guy who gives up a two million dollar estate117201:11:19.159 --> 01:11:22.439
can hardly be called an imposter, can he? You know, sir,117301:11:24.640 --> 01:11:27.359
it's Christmas and I've just played Santa Claus to the117401:11:27.399 --> 01:11:31.479
tune of two million bucks. The thing I keep wondering117501:11:31.520 --> 01:11:34.359
about is what would have happened If I hadn't given117601:11:34.439 --> 01:11:37.479
up the estate, would Marlow have gone after me?117701:11:38.439 --> 01:11:38.880
Or was he.117801:11:38.960 --> 01:11:45.119
Satisfied that I was Paul Harris? Yes, sir, that little puzzle.117901:11:44.880 --> 01:11:47.079
Is going to give me plenty of thought for a118001:11:47.279 --> 01:11:48.760
long time to come.118101:12:00.199 --> 01:12:08.039
Yes, this is the mysterious traveler.118201:12:08.119 --> 01:12:08.399
Again.118301:12:09.479 --> 01:12:13.760
Did you enjoy our trip? Or what happened to Pearl Harris?118401:12:13.880 --> 01:12:18.159
Or rather I should say Steve Tavel? He and John118501:12:18.239 --> 01:12:19.199
were married.118601:12:19.159 --> 01:12:23.560
And the poor fellow is now working at an honest living. Yes,118701:12:23.960 --> 01:12:26.520
sometimes he thinks it'd be two million dollars of stead118801:12:26.560 --> 01:12:27.119
he gave up.118901:12:27.640 --> 01:12:30.279
But then, with taxes what they are, what could he119001:12:30.319 --> 01:12:31.479
have kept? In any case?119101:12:32.399 --> 01:12:36.800
Only a fortune, which reminds me of the story in119201:12:36.880 --> 01:12:40.359
which another enterprising young man allowed himself to be killed119301:12:40.399 --> 01:12:42.239
for the sake of acquiring what.119401:12:43.920 --> 01:12:46.079
Oh, you'll have to get off here.119501:12:46.319 --> 01:12:50.399
I'm sorry, but allow me to wish you a merry119601:12:50.479 --> 01:12:54.920
Christmas before you go, And remember I take this same119701:12:55.000 --> 01:12:57.920
train every week at this same time.119801:13:13.039 --> 01:13:20.920
The snow is coming down rather intensely. No worry here,119901:13:22.439 --> 01:13:26.600
the fire is so warm. In fact, I'll put another120001:13:26.720 --> 01:13:31.560
log on just to just to be sure. Oh, what's that?120101:13:33.119 --> 01:13:33.359
Well?120201:13:34.680 --> 01:13:42.119
I suppose I suppose so, I don't know. It's not120301:13:42.239 --> 01:13:46.680
something I like to think about it, but I appreciate120401:13:46.800 --> 01:13:53.800
your concerns. No, no, all will be just fine. In120501:13:53.840 --> 01:14:00.399
a way, my lot in life is kind of like120601:14:01.760 --> 01:14:04.279
a delayed Christmas present.120701:14:06.680 --> 01:14:23.720
The Signal Oil Program. The Whistler. That whistle is your120801:14:23.880 --> 01:14:26.960
signal for the Signal Oil Program.120901:14:27.319 --> 01:14:28.880
The whistler.121001:14:38.680 --> 01:14:49.520
M I am the whistler, and I know many things121101:14:49.560 --> 01:14:53.119
before I walk by night. I know many strange tales121201:14:53.600 --> 01:14:55.560
hidden in the hearts of men and women who have121301:14:55.600 --> 01:15:00.439
stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless errors121401:15:00.439 --> 01:15:02.079
of which they dare not speak.121501:15:07.399 --> 01:15:10.479
Yes, friends, it's now time for the Signal Oil Program.121601:15:10.600 --> 01:15:14.239
The Whistler rated tops in popularity for a longer period121701:15:14.319 --> 01:15:17.920
of time than any other West Coast program in radio history.121801:15:18.720 --> 01:15:22.960
And here's an important announcement for whistler fans in California. Only,121901:15:23.840 --> 01:15:28.279
Beginning next Sunday, January twod you to California's going off122001:15:28.399 --> 01:15:32.359
daylight saving time. The Whistler will be heard in California122101:15:32.439 --> 01:15:37.640
only one hour earlier, from eight thirty until nine. Remember122201:15:37.680 --> 01:15:41.079
the change in time in California, only, the Whistler will122301:15:41.079 --> 01:15:44.600
be heard at a new time from eight thirty till nine.122401:15:45.319 --> 01:15:47.279
In other states, the whistler will be heard at the122501:15:47.319 --> 01:15:52.600
same time as always, And now the whistler's strange story122601:15:53.880 --> 01:15:55.600
delayed Christmas present.122701:15:58.880 --> 01:16:01.960
Christmas was really for it was one o'clock in the122801:16:01.960 --> 01:16:05.239
morning at Pete's canteena a tough little night spot on122901:16:05.279 --> 01:16:07.159
the outskirts of Panama City.123001:16:07.399 --> 01:16:08.560
But the melody lingered on.123101:16:09.399 --> 01:16:11.319
You could hear the chimes of the Big Church a123201:16:11.359 --> 01:16:17.039
block away playing a death stay for daylis there was123301:16:17.079 --> 01:16:21.600
practically no business. Four hostesses, all Americans, were sitting drearily123401:16:21.720 --> 01:16:22.640
at the far end.123501:16:22.479 --> 01:16:23.760
Of the ballroom, near the bar.123601:16:24.600 --> 01:16:28.680
One of them, Merry Winslow, billed as Candy Porter, just123701:16:28.880 --> 01:16:33.159
sat gazing drearily into space, thinking bitterly of a past123801:16:33.239 --> 01:16:35.479
from which for a while he had seen no escape.123901:16:36.159 --> 01:16:39.640
But for five months now she'd been relatively safe. No124001:16:39.720 --> 01:16:43.720
one had been around asking any questions. As Candy Porter,124101:16:43.840 --> 01:16:47.399
Blue Singer, Mary Winslow had found a kind of security,124201:16:47.640 --> 01:16:51.159
not a happy security, for she was far away from home,124301:16:52.039 --> 01:16:55.399
and as the chimes became silent, Mary wondered if it124401:16:55.479 --> 01:16:59.119
was worthwhile her reverie was broken up. As she looked124501:16:59.159 --> 01:17:02.439
up and saw Miss Pete, a fat, greedy owner of124601:17:02.479 --> 01:17:06.079
the cantina approaching her table, Gondy candy.124701:17:06.279 --> 01:17:08.520
Look, this American general just came in.124801:17:08.920 --> 01:17:11.479
He wants to buy you some Champagne's champagne.124901:17:11.479 --> 01:17:14.439
You here, Pete, Not tonight, it's Christmas. I'd rather be alone,125001:17:14.479 --> 01:17:15.359
if you don't mind.125101:17:15.239 --> 01:17:16.000
I don't mind.125201:17:16.319 --> 01:17:18.680
Look all right, all right, let.125301:17:18.680 --> 01:17:20.319
Him spend his money on champagne.125401:17:20.960 --> 01:17:22.800
Now, you smart baby?125501:17:22.960 --> 01:17:24.960
Here he goes.125601:17:27.199 --> 01:17:27.680
You turn.125701:17:27.920 --> 01:17:32.079
See the tall, heavy set American approach suddenly become tense.125801:17:32.920 --> 01:17:36.439
You recognize the type, don't you. After a year of125901:17:36.520 --> 01:17:39.319
running away, you've learned to spot his kind. In a moment,126001:17:39.840 --> 01:17:41.439
you'll fight to remain calm as.126101:17:41.279 --> 01:17:42.319
He reaches your table.126201:17:43.399 --> 01:17:45.600
Sit down, sit down?126301:17:45.920 --> 01:17:46.800
Sure you don't mind?126401:17:48.880 --> 01:17:49.199
Nice?126501:17:49.399 --> 01:17:50.840
In that case, I guess it will.126601:17:50.880 --> 01:17:53.600
I'll go get this champagne. I keep him all nice.126701:17:53.840 --> 01:17:55.520
Eleven years old, cool.126801:17:56.920 --> 01:18:01.399
Sire at mister Fontaine. In mind of Christmas?126901:18:03.439 --> 01:18:03.560
Right?127001:18:05.000 --> 01:18:12.880
Thanks strange spending Christmas are far away from home? How127101:18:12.960 --> 01:18:14.199
come business?127201:18:15.479 --> 01:18:17.720
Important business, couldn't it?127301:18:17.760 --> 01:18:18.000
Wait?127401:18:18.239 --> 01:18:21.960
No, this business means a lot.127501:18:21.880 --> 01:18:22.079
To the.127601:18:24.439 --> 01:18:25.319
People I work for.127701:18:27.079 --> 01:18:31.760
Well, here's what you say for the water for Marseille.127801:18:31.920 --> 01:18:33.039
Thirteen years old?127901:18:33.159 --> 01:18:35.560
You said eleven that was from the harbor.128001:18:36.279 --> 01:18:38.720
This is even better now I put him back in128101:18:38.760 --> 01:18:39.119
the ice.128201:18:39.439 --> 01:18:42.199
You had some more. You just called Peeve. I got128301:18:42.199 --> 01:18:43.239
another one on ice.128401:18:43.159 --> 01:18:43.560
Just like you.128501:18:45.520 --> 01:18:47.399
Well, I guess it's kind of late to wish you128601:18:47.479 --> 01:18:51.479
a merry Christmas, MIAs Porter, so I guess i'd better128701:18:51.640 --> 01:18:55.640
just say season's greeting. Anyway.128801:18:56.640 --> 01:19:00.479
There's luck, here's helping you find whatever you can A year.128901:19:00.439 --> 01:19:05.479
After I've already found what I came after.129001:19:06.000 --> 01:19:06.560
I'm glad.129101:19:06.960 --> 01:19:08.239
I hope you will be.129201:19:09.119 --> 01:19:12.359
Why shouldn't I bee because I came after you.129301:19:13.079 --> 01:19:14.000
Mary Winslow.129401:19:24.079 --> 01:19:27.760
With the prologue of Delayed Christmas Present, the Signal Oil129501:19:27.840 --> 01:19:34.439
Company brings you another strange story by the Whistler. But now,129601:19:34.560 --> 01:19:37.079
since this is Christmas weekend, I want to thank you129701:19:37.239 --> 01:19:39.920
for inviting us of the Whistler cast into your home129801:19:40.039 --> 01:19:44.199
on this special occasion. During the six consecutive years that129901:19:44.279 --> 01:19:47.960
The Whistler has been broadcast by Signal Oil Company, many130001:19:48.039 --> 01:19:50.439
of us have had the pleasure of celebrating Christmas with130101:19:50.600 --> 01:19:53.560
many of you a number of times, and believe me,130201:19:53.680 --> 01:19:55.840
we feel it a real honor that you consider us130301:19:55.880 --> 01:20:00.119
a part of your entertainment family. Tonight on behalf a130401:20:00.199 --> 01:20:03.560
signal oil company and the independent signal dealers who serve130501:20:03.680 --> 01:20:08.520
the states of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, and Arizona.130601:20:09.399 --> 01:20:12.800
I want to say we hope that your Christmas has130701:20:12.880 --> 01:20:16.359
been a merry one. May your new year be filled130801:20:16.399 --> 01:20:20.399
with peace, prosperity, and the good health with which to130901:20:20.600 --> 01:20:21.960
enjoy these blessings.131001:20:23.319 --> 01:20:24.680
And now back to the whistler.131101:20:42.319 --> 01:20:45.520
After a year, it doesn't seem fair, does it, Mary Winslow,131201:20:46.079 --> 01:20:48.760
After a year of hiding using one name and then another,131301:20:49.439 --> 01:20:53.000
After five bitter months of singing at peace Canteena's candy131401:20:53.119 --> 01:20:57.000
Porter blues singer, this man Fontaine has come to take131501:20:57.079 --> 01:21:00.159
you back to the States to face the consequences of131601:21:00.279 --> 01:21:01.359
one horrible night.131701:21:02.159 --> 01:21:04.760
You're sure he's the detective. It couldn't be anything else.131801:21:05.520 --> 01:21:07.600
You can't run again. There's no place you could go.131901:21:08.720 --> 01:21:11.479
You've only one card left, and as you faced the132001:21:11.560 --> 01:21:14.800
man across the table and listen to his even level voice,132101:21:15.199 --> 01:21:16.159
you decide to play it.132201:21:16.720 --> 01:21:18.960
If you play it carefully, it might be an ace.132301:21:22.279 --> 01:21:24.800
I don't think you know why I'm here, and we're132401:21:24.840 --> 01:21:26.039
leaving in the morning for Los Anglis.132501:21:26.079 --> 01:21:29.920
Miss Winslow, like the billing says, my name is Candy Porter.132601:21:30.119 --> 01:21:32.840
I know what the building says. I know what it132701:21:32.920 --> 01:21:34.800
said in Brooklyn when you would build His Daughters Trent132801:21:35.039 --> 01:21:38.359
in Denver, when you were building Gladys James. But when132901:21:38.399 --> 01:21:40.279
you first took a potter out of los Anglish, who133001:21:40.319 --> 01:21:41.319
were Mary Winslow.133101:21:43.000 --> 01:21:47.680
You know, it's almost funny you should call me Mary Windsor.133201:21:48.000 --> 01:21:49.319
We used to work together, her.133301:21:49.239 --> 01:21:50.960
And me in the same floor share. We could have133401:21:51.000 --> 01:21:53.960
been built as twin sisters. But the curitoments used to133501:21:54.079 --> 01:21:55.319
mistake us for each other too.133601:21:55.479 --> 01:21:57.640
Look, miss Winslow, that's quit kidding, kidding.133701:21:59.439 --> 01:22:01.479
A lot of the people have made the same mistake133801:22:01.600 --> 01:22:07.199
you had. And like I said, I knew Mary Winsol intimately.133901:22:08.880 --> 01:22:12.319
I think I could help you solve your case if134001:22:12.359 --> 01:22:13.680
you let me tell you about her.134101:22:13.840 --> 01:22:17.159
Sure, sure, go ahead to make your feel any better.134201:22:17.960 --> 01:22:24.560
Thanks you See, Mary Winslow is really just a good134301:22:24.640 --> 01:22:28.079
kid that got a bad break in love with a.134401:22:28.199 --> 01:22:32.880
Swell guy and scared the death of a hoodlum. She134501:22:33.119 --> 01:22:36.479
told me all about it. It's quite a story.134601:22:45.800 --> 01:22:48.119
Yes, this was quite a story, wasn't it, Mary?134701:22:48.800 --> 01:22:51.359
And it all began a year ago Christmas Eve, at134801:22:51.399 --> 01:22:54.479
the Christmas party given by your employers in the pink134901:22:54.600 --> 01:22:58.880
room of the slank Welchister Hotel. You really enjoyed yourself135001:22:58.960 --> 01:23:01.439
that night, didn't you? And you were quite the hit135101:23:01.520 --> 01:23:04.800
of the evening. You sang three numbers and went over bag.135201:23:05.279 --> 01:23:09.159
Your fellow workers didn't know your many talents. Everyone told135301:23:09.239 --> 01:23:12.319
you what a fine singer you were, and when you left,135401:23:12.359 --> 01:23:15.039
you were feeling good, so good you decided to drop135501:23:15.119 --> 01:23:17.920
into the cocktail lounge, make a phone call and have135601:23:18.000 --> 01:23:19.920
a nightcap before going home.135701:23:21.319 --> 01:23:22.600
Scotch and said, Mike.135801:23:22.600 --> 01:23:24.199
It make mine the same girl.135901:23:24.279 --> 01:23:24.560
Gotcha?136001:23:26.079 --> 01:23:28.479
I heard you sing tonight.136101:23:29.239 --> 01:23:31.279
You were terrific. Thanks.136201:23:33.119 --> 01:23:37.439
What's the matter? Did he stand here? Who the guy136301:23:37.439 --> 01:23:41.399
you were just talking to on the phone. No, I136401:23:41.600 --> 01:23:44.279
guess he didn't stand here, didn't he? And he's on136501:23:44.359 --> 01:23:49.000
his way here right now. Yep, that's the answer, lucky gay.136601:23:49.960 --> 01:23:51.520
I want to take it out of here. Bill. Now136701:23:51.680 --> 01:23:55.000
look here, let's make it easy. It's practically Christmas. At136801:23:55.039 --> 01:23:58.319
the harm of my buying you one drink. Like I said,136901:23:58.359 --> 01:23:59.920
I write your voices.137001:24:00.640 --> 01:24:01.199
It's a change.137101:24:01.279 --> 01:24:03.920
Oh thanks, boy, you must be a detective.137201:24:04.000 --> 01:24:05.359
You know my name and everything?137301:24:06.319 --> 01:24:09.800
No, no, not everything, but if it wasn't any picked137401:24:09.840 --> 01:24:11.399
to find out your name. I just asked one of137501:24:11.439 --> 01:24:14.600
the boys I you're dancing with. My name is Joe Clark.137601:24:16.920 --> 01:24:18.720
I see you've never heard of me. Should I have137701:24:19.279 --> 01:24:21.680
a lot of people? Have most of the boys and137801:24:21.760 --> 01:24:22.840
girls around on nights plots?137901:24:22.920 --> 01:24:22.960
No?138001:24:23.359 --> 01:24:25.399
Well, and that accounts for my ignorance. You see I138101:24:25.560 --> 01:24:27.479
seldom haunt a night spot.138201:24:27.600 --> 01:24:29.560
Well you should. With a voice like yours, you could138301:24:29.560 --> 01:24:31.079
be packing them in in a good night club.138401:24:31.359 --> 01:24:32.840
Oh no, I get it.138501:24:32.920 --> 01:24:35.159
You're a professional talent scout and you want to get138601:24:35.239 --> 01:24:36.119
me into the movies.138701:24:36.640 --> 01:24:40.000
No, no, I'm a gambler. Shocking.138801:24:40.520 --> 01:24:42.640
Well, I should have lived and let live is my mother,138901:24:44.199 --> 01:24:47.079
and that's exactly what I'm gonna do right now, live139001:24:47.159 --> 01:24:48.840
my life and let you live here as good night,139101:24:48.920 --> 01:24:52.039
mister Clark, my mim. I just think tomorrow I can139201:24:52.079 --> 01:24:53.600
tell all the girls at the office I met a139301:24:53.720 --> 01:24:55.239
real live gambler.139401:24:55.760 --> 01:24:57.239
You could tell them all a lot more than that,139501:24:57.520 --> 01:25:02.840
if you believed in your voice as much as I do. Huh, Really,139601:25:05.039 --> 01:25:07.560
you've heard of Domingo's on Sunset out near the ocean.139701:25:07.920 --> 01:25:09.520
It's an undercovered gambling club.139801:25:09.600 --> 01:25:12.399
It's more than a gambling club. There swall floor show.139901:25:12.640 --> 01:25:14.439
A lot of big people are out there, people.140001:25:14.239 --> 01:25:17.039
That count, and they're all intimate friends of yours.140101:25:17.119 --> 01:25:19.159
I'm sure not all, but I know quite a few140201:25:20.039 --> 01:25:21.920
to push. You're right to the top with that voice.140301:25:22.119 --> 01:25:23.960
Oh that's the oldest line I've ever heard.140401:25:24.159 --> 01:25:27.159
Not a line, but skip it.140501:25:28.079 --> 01:25:31.039
Go on home, listen to the radio, eat candy. You're140601:25:31.039 --> 01:25:34.560
gonna have a terrific time. Got a Domingos with me.140701:25:34.680 --> 01:25:37.279
You can't tell what might happen. They might have to140801:25:37.359 --> 01:25:40.600
meet a couple of show producers. So play it safe140901:25:40.640 --> 01:25:43.439
and go home. It's maybe dull, but you'll always get141001:25:43.560 --> 01:25:44.199
to work on that.141101:25:45.239 --> 01:25:46.359
That's all you have to say.141201:25:46.960 --> 01:25:49.720
That's home. Ninety ninety Quit.141301:25:49.600 --> 01:25:56.359
A minute, Yeah, could we here? Could we be back141401:25:56.439 --> 01:25:57.000
fairly early?141501:25:57.439 --> 01:25:57.720
Believe?141601:25:57.960 --> 01:26:01.079
Then you say, well, what are we waiting for?141701:26:01.199 --> 01:26:01.239
It?141801:26:01.560 --> 01:26:02.960
Now you're making sense off all.141901:26:02.880 --> 01:26:04.920
The care never mind, I have a car. It's pract142001:26:05.000 --> 01:26:05.760
that on the corner.142101:26:10.359 --> 01:26:13.640
Clark Us, just the right approach. Didn't be married. You142201:26:13.800 --> 01:26:15.960
realize you're being a fool, But.142301:26:16.039 --> 01:26:19.520
As the hours pass, you tell yourself your fears are groundless.142401:26:19.960 --> 01:26:21.720
Joe treats you with perfect courtesy.142501:26:22.199 --> 01:26:24.800
You watch the gambling for a while, then proceed to142601:26:24.880 --> 01:26:26.760
the Silver Room and enjoy the floor show.142701:26:27.279 --> 01:26:30.239
Afterwards, you have a little food and watch the dancer.142801:26:49.319 --> 01:26:50.600
Suddenly you've had.142901:26:50.600 --> 01:26:55.039
Enough, Joe, do you mind if we leave now?143001:26:55.800 --> 01:26:59.479
I said we'd leave anytime. You said, but it's is amusing.143101:27:00.279 --> 01:27:06.119
Yeah, I guess that's it. Another guy, Another guy, my143201:27:07.560 --> 01:27:13.840
fancy what happened to him? The Philippines research Dennis doctor143301:27:14.840 --> 01:27:18.800
doctor Frank was an. That was his car we drove143401:27:18.880 --> 01:27:19.199
out here.143501:27:21.079 --> 01:27:23.760
He told me to keep it warm for him.143601:27:24.920 --> 01:27:25.680
Well't too bad.143701:27:25.760 --> 01:27:28.840
We could have had a lot of fun right now143801:27:28.920 --> 01:27:29.079
we go?143901:27:36.359 --> 01:27:37.319
Was it just a song?144001:27:37.479 --> 01:27:37.760
Mary?144101:27:38.319 --> 01:27:41.159
Well, wasn't that uneasy feeling you have about Joe that144201:27:41.279 --> 01:27:44.279
made you want to leave? So suddenly it must.144301:27:44.159 --> 01:27:44.880
Have been the song.144401:27:45.520 --> 01:27:47.680
Well, as you're ready to leave the club grounds, Joe144501:27:47.880 --> 01:27:56.520
is still a considerate escort hopping Oh, unless you want144601:27:56.640 --> 01:27:57.199
me to drive?144701:27:57.840 --> 01:27:59.439
Drive, unless your mind too much?144801:28:00.039 --> 01:28:12.279
I don't mind. Probably can be safer too. For several miles,144901:28:12.399 --> 01:28:16.399
Joe says, little seems preoccupied, and you feel relieved when145001:28:16.439 --> 01:28:19.960
he breaks it rather strange silence. Oh, say, Mary, would145101:28:19.960 --> 01:28:22.640
you mind stopping from? And I said, drive in. Out145201:28:22.680 --> 01:28:24.840
of a sudden, I have an awful, heady. Maybe I145301:28:24.880 --> 01:28:27.159
can get some ask for my daughter, but we'll give145401:28:27.159 --> 01:28:33.640
it a try. You can keep the model running while145501:28:33.680 --> 01:28:35.000
I'm gone. I've already gone a few.145601:28:34.920 --> 01:28:42.560
Seconds, okay, dreaming of a way Christmas?145701:28:49.199 --> 01:28:53.399
Get gone? You shot him, it's get gone. Pass there's145801:28:53.439 --> 01:28:55.399
a gun any roots. Baby, you just saw what happened145901:28:55.399 --> 01:28:56.279
to one guy that crossed me.146001:29:05.319 --> 01:29:07.680
It is it?146101:29:08.319 --> 01:29:10.800
I don't know you you?146201:29:11.600 --> 01:29:11.760
Oh?146301:29:11.840 --> 01:29:13.000
Why was I such a fool?146401:29:13.239 --> 01:29:15.039
At the next corner, car's been tail.146501:29:14.880 --> 01:29:17.479
And God, I hope it's a pro card to take me.146601:29:17.560 --> 01:29:18.720
The trouble a phone and the police.146701:29:23.800 --> 01:29:27.399
He didn't turn Baby, You shouldn't have said what you146801:29:27.520 --> 01:29:30.399
did about phone and the cops. You had better pull146901:29:30.439 --> 01:29:33.279
over and Clark. We got a couple of things to147001:29:33.399 --> 01:29:33.960
talk over.147101:29:35.079 --> 01:29:35.960
I pull over.147201:29:42.239 --> 01:29:42.760
That's better.147301:29:44.880 --> 01:29:48.119
Please, please, Joe, don't kill me. I know you can147401:29:48.199 --> 01:29:50.279
do it easy. But I'll never talk about tonight.147501:29:50.520 --> 01:29:52.760
That's the way you feel now. An hour from now,147601:29:52.800 --> 01:29:54.520
you'll know I won't have a word about.147701:29:54.760 --> 01:29:56.560
I'm making a deal with you, Joe. I'm taking in147801:29:56.640 --> 01:29:57.600
my silence for my life.147901:29:57.600 --> 01:29:57.960
I smell.148001:29:57.960 --> 01:29:58.960
I won't talk about it ever.148101:30:00.119 --> 01:30:04.199
Okay, I'll take a chance. You drove the getaway console.148201:30:04.319 --> 01:30:08.079
We're partners now. Anyway, we're gonna have a lot of148301:30:08.159 --> 01:30:12.199
fun together, you and me. Now, I'll about dropping me148401:30:12.239 --> 01:30:13.399
off in my own place.148501:30:17.199 --> 01:30:18.000
Any way to come.148601:30:18.439 --> 01:30:27.560
I love about. After you drop Joe and you reach148701:30:27.640 --> 01:30:31.399
your apartment, you're so weak you can hardly stand. Your148801:30:31.479 --> 01:30:34.720
senses are real and your brain is spinning. You practically148901:30:34.840 --> 01:30:37.760
fall into bed. You try to snatch a little sleep,149001:30:37.840 --> 01:30:41.840
but sleep is impossible. Finally, at six o'clock in the morning,149101:30:41.920 --> 01:30:48.399
the newspaper is shoved under your apartment door. The headline149201:30:48.600 --> 01:30:49.039
sicken you.149301:30:50.600 --> 01:30:53.960
Driving operators shot and pulled up dies.149401:30:55.680 --> 01:30:57.319
The subheadings are even worse.149501:30:58.159 --> 01:31:02.079
I'm identified man and I've seen saying from Santa Krant149601:31:02.680 --> 01:31:07.399
in dark green forty seven model Chevrolet pedestrian believes you149701:31:07.439 --> 01:31:08.720
can identify.149801:31:08.199 --> 01:31:10.399
It both car and woman.149901:31:11.960 --> 01:31:14.399
There it is Mary, hopeless, isn't it?150001:31:15.079 --> 01:31:17.920
Even if you call the police your story what sounds phony?150101:31:18.000 --> 01:31:21.159
Now it's closing in on you, isn't it, Mary?150201:31:21.720 --> 01:31:21.920
Yet?150301:31:21.960 --> 01:31:25.199
Frightened as you are, you're certain of two things that150401:31:25.319 --> 01:31:28.159
you're not going to become further involved with Joe Clark,150501:31:28.800 --> 01:31:31.640
and you won't allow any unfavorable publicity to fall on150601:31:31.720 --> 01:31:34.439
your absent feance doctor Frank Wilson.150701:31:35.520 --> 01:31:37.359
You are foolish to risk a life.150801:31:37.159 --> 01:31:40.119
Of happiness with him, weren't you for a few moments150901:31:40.159 --> 01:31:42.199
of excitement with a gambler.151001:31:41.760 --> 01:31:43.359
A murderer like Joe Clark.151101:31:44.720 --> 01:31:47.079
But you decide there's only one thing you can do. Mary,151201:31:47.199 --> 01:31:51.760
leave town, disappear and never see Clark again. You address hurriedly,151301:31:52.119 --> 01:31:54.960
packing only a few belongings, and then spend Christmas day151401:31:55.000 --> 01:31:58.720
and night at the home of a girlfriend. The next morning,151501:31:58.800 --> 01:32:03.279
you're on an eastbound Three months later, you're singing in151601:32:03.359 --> 01:32:07.319
the Golden Lion, a prosperous little nightclub in Brooklyn, New York,151701:32:08.079 --> 01:32:10.680
where you become a featured performer under the name.151801:32:10.640 --> 01:32:12.159
Of Doris Trent.151901:32:13.359 --> 01:32:16.760
You're a great success under your new name, and then152001:32:16.840 --> 01:32:19.439
one night you have a visitor. You're sure it's mister152101:32:19.640 --> 01:32:22.640
Vern Shield's London musical comedy producer.152201:32:24.319 --> 01:32:26.680
Comn I'm.152301:32:28.720 --> 01:32:30.560
Whoa what do you know?152401:32:31.359 --> 01:32:35.800
Long time no see Miss Trent doors Trant, It says152501:32:35.880 --> 01:32:36.600
on the program.152601:32:39.119 --> 01:32:41.239
All right, Joe, now that you've prom me what's.152701:32:41.119 --> 01:32:42.520
On your mind, you double cross me.152801:32:42.600 --> 01:32:44.399
Baby, You're crazy. That's why I left town so I152901:32:44.439 --> 01:32:45.720
wouldn't have to talk to anybody.153001:32:45.840 --> 01:32:48.479
But you could still, right, couldn't you. I don't get153101:32:48.560 --> 01:32:51.720
you that anonymous note to the police written just after153201:32:51.760 --> 01:32:55.119
you left, telling all about that driving job. Give the153301:32:55.199 --> 01:32:58.279
exact time, my name, where I live, what I head on, everything,153401:32:59.520 --> 01:33:03.800
but not a word about the girl with me. Funny Huh,153501:33:04.600 --> 01:33:04.920
you're the.153601:33:04.960 --> 01:33:05.920
Only one that know all of that.153701:33:06.000 --> 01:33:06.279
Baby.153801:33:06.359 --> 01:33:07.239
Oh no, Joel, you're wrong.153901:33:07.319 --> 01:33:07.680
Believe me.154001:33:07.720 --> 01:33:08.640
I didn't write me note.154101:33:08.720 --> 01:33:12.399
Couldn't have been anyone else. Two days after you left,154201:33:12.439 --> 01:33:13.439
they picked me up for question.154301:33:13.560 --> 01:33:15.359
Anybody could have written a note like that, But one154401:33:15.399 --> 01:33:17.359
of your enemies might have wanted you out of speculation154501:33:17.479 --> 01:33:18.279
and tried to frame you.154601:33:18.720 --> 01:33:20.439
Maybe, but I dined sure, I didn't write it.154701:33:21.000 --> 01:33:22.840
I've kept my bargain with you one hundred percent.154801:33:23.760 --> 01:33:27.920
There is one way you can convince how marry me tonight?154901:33:30.640 --> 01:33:30.920
Chase.155001:33:31.319 --> 01:33:34.800
Yeah, that way I'll be sure of you. Wives don't155101:33:34.840 --> 01:33:38.319
testify against their husbands. Besides, I don't know what you're155201:33:38.359 --> 01:33:39.119
doing all the time.155301:33:41.840 --> 01:33:43.600
So I gotta go through my show.155401:33:43.640 --> 01:33:47.439
Let's talk this an else from hunt up to Connecticut.155501:33:47.920 --> 01:33:51.039
But go ahead, do your show. If you've got any155601:33:51.079 --> 01:33:54.880
ideas about calling in the cops, don't forget you drove155701:33:55.000 --> 01:33:58.279
the getaway car. And in case anything's serious should happened155801:33:58.279 --> 01:34:01.520
to me, is a written confession my pocket, telling exactly155901:34:01.640 --> 01:34:04.439
how you help me pull the job. I will use156001:34:04.479 --> 01:34:07.720
your boyfriend's car. I kept the motor around waiting for me.156101:34:09.600 --> 01:34:14.840
Your doctor would love reading about that, wouldn't he. Well,156201:34:16.800 --> 01:34:19.479
and don't get funny b heading on to your show.156301:34:19.520 --> 01:34:20.239
I'll wait for you here.156401:34:26.119 --> 01:34:29.399
Do you start down the hallway toward the powder of offstage.156501:34:30.279 --> 01:34:33.720
Suddenly you realize what a fool you've been, But you're156601:34:33.760 --> 01:34:35.520
not going to keep on being a fool.156701:34:35.600 --> 01:34:36.199
Are you married?156801:34:36.840 --> 01:34:36.880
Not?156901:34:37.039 --> 01:34:40.319
With that wall telephone just five steps ahead.157001:34:40.000 --> 01:34:47.720
Of it, get me police headquarters.157101:34:49.159 --> 01:34:53.479
I mean quick. I mean you should have looked around157201:34:53.560 --> 01:34:56.520
before you're called. They don't want you to try to157301:34:56.600 --> 01:35:00.560
doublecross me. Now I know for sure said no to157401:35:00.680 --> 01:35:05.920
that car. I didn't call him, didn't you All of157501:35:06.039 --> 01:35:10.680
a sudden, I've lost interest in getting married. We're just157601:35:10.800 --> 01:35:15.279
going for a little ride. Come on, babe, start, won't Joe.157701:35:16.000 --> 01:35:18.039
I'm not moving a foot up and inch. If I157801:35:18.079 --> 01:35:19.239
have to be shot, I'll take it right here.157901:35:19.319 --> 01:35:20.119
Let's go on my arm.158001:35:20.279 --> 01:35:21.199
What's going on here?158101:35:22.039 --> 01:35:24.680
Something wrong? Dars? This guy bothering you.158201:35:24.840 --> 01:35:27.720
Yes, he wants to date me. Tell him to leave.158301:35:27.720 --> 01:35:28.159
We heady.158401:35:28.520 --> 01:35:30.560
Maybe i'd better take him into the office and call158501:35:30.640 --> 01:35:31.039
the no.158601:35:32.119 --> 01:35:35.199
No, thank said he. There's no need to Daddy. He's158701:35:35.279 --> 01:35:36.039
just another wolf.158801:35:36.600 --> 01:35:37.279
Tell him to believe.158901:35:37.319 --> 01:35:37.920
That's good enough.159001:35:38.720 --> 01:35:43.720
You heard what the lady said, Bud, start traveling, okay, Jim,159101:35:44.560 --> 01:35:45.359
anything you say.159201:35:46.680 --> 01:35:47.880
I'll see the lady later.159301:35:48.960 --> 01:35:50.520
He parked right across the street.159401:35:51.039 --> 01:35:51.920
It's trengthful.159501:35:52.479 --> 01:35:54.079
You should have let me call the cops.159601:35:54.720 --> 01:35:57.119
I would have it he hadn't had you covered with159701:35:57.199 --> 01:35:57.640
his gun.159801:35:57.920 --> 01:36:01.000
Oh thanks, kid, Hetty.159901:36:01.039 --> 01:36:03.560
I gotta get out of town fast after what you just.160001:36:03.600 --> 01:36:06.760
Did for me. That's a cinch. Grab some clothes while160101:36:06.760 --> 01:36:07.399
I sold my wife.160201:36:07.439 --> 01:36:10.039
I'm bringing you home. We'll go out the rear entrance.160301:36:10.119 --> 01:36:12.479
My car's on the lot next door. Tomorrow, I'll call160401:36:12.520 --> 01:36:14.239
a friend of mine in Denver. It'll put you to160501:36:14.279 --> 01:36:14.880
work right away.160601:36:15.920 --> 01:36:17.920
Yeah, you better change your name.160701:36:17.800 --> 01:36:35.159
Though, that'll be easy. I'm getting used to it, so.160801:36:37.760 --> 01:36:40.960
That's sir. I met Mary Winsom in Denver, the high160901:36:41.000 --> 01:36:47.600
head come Builders, gladess chains. She lumined me about two months,161001:36:47.640 --> 01:36:49.119
and then she she.161101:36:49.239 --> 01:36:50.319
Left, just like that.161201:36:50.479 --> 01:36:52.760
One night when I went away to told to some guy,161301:36:52.840 --> 01:36:57.600
one of the interviewers for a magazine, that's.161401:36:58.920 --> 01:36:59.680
That's the last day.161501:37:01.319 --> 01:37:02.399
That's the end of the story.161601:37:03.640 --> 01:37:12.680
Vaccine and Mary Winslow told you, who are very close friends, I'll.161701:37:12.479 --> 01:37:16.279
Say your word. You expect me to believe.161801:37:16.039 --> 01:37:17.399
That it's true, every word of it.161901:37:18.399 --> 01:37:20.399
You know something you ought to.162001:37:20.399 --> 01:37:34.680
Be writing stories for the movies. The whistler will return162101:37:34.760 --> 01:37:37.960
in just a moment with a strange ending to tonight's story.162201:37:39.920 --> 01:37:41.800
Now the Christmas shopping is out of the way for162301:37:41.880 --> 01:37:44.159
another year, most of us are figuring ways to get162401:37:44.199 --> 01:37:47.960
our badly stretched budgets back into shape, which makes now162501:37:48.159 --> 01:37:51.520
a mighty appropriate time to talk about Signal. The famous162601:37:51.640 --> 01:37:55.520
go farther gasoline. My age, of course, is only one162701:37:55.560 --> 01:37:57.560
of the reasons that folks who insist on getting the162801:37:57.640 --> 01:38:02.000
most from each gasoline dollar choose. In addition, they like162901:38:02.079 --> 01:38:05.680
the superior performance that goes hand in hand with mile age.163001:38:06.399 --> 01:38:09.640
You see, the only way today's signal gasoline can give163101:38:09.680 --> 01:38:12.479
you such good mile age is by helping your motor163201:38:12.640 --> 01:38:16.159
run more efficiently. And when your motor runs more efficiently,163301:38:16.520 --> 01:38:21.039
you also enjoy quicker starting, faster pickup, smoother power. The163401:38:21.159 --> 01:38:23.359
things that make driving more pleasures.163501:38:24.199 --> 01:38:25.239
So among your.163601:38:25.239 --> 01:38:28.880
Resolutions for the new year, how about resolving to put163701:38:28.960 --> 01:38:32.640
signal gasoline to the test in your car. See for163801:38:32.760 --> 01:38:36.960
yourself why drivers who insist on quality as well as163901:38:37.000 --> 01:38:40.279
those with an eye for economy are both switching to164001:38:40.439 --> 01:38:46.239
signal the famous go farther gasoline. And now back to164101:38:46.279 --> 01:38:46.800
the whistler.164201:38:51.279 --> 01:38:54.840
Well, Mary, it let's as though you've lost, that your164301:38:54.880 --> 01:38:58.520
one card wasn't enough. The man across the table, the164401:38:58.600 --> 01:39:01.039
man you're sure of, the detective, him who has come164501:39:01.079 --> 01:39:03.920
to take you back to Los Angeles to stand trial164601:39:04.039 --> 01:39:06.000
for a hold up and murder you had nothing to164701:39:06.119 --> 01:39:09.800
do with, doesn't believe you, does it? And but jury164801:39:09.840 --> 01:39:14.239
in Los Angeles won't believe you either. Yes, Mary, it164901:39:14.359 --> 01:39:17.159
looks as though you've lost. But you're going to play165001:39:17.239 --> 01:39:20.039
the game to the end anyway. And as the piano165101:39:20.119 --> 01:39:23.199
player across the floor plays the tune he's played a165201:39:23.359 --> 01:39:27.039
thousand times in the last two weeks, you quietly watched165301:39:27.119 --> 01:39:29.760
Fontaine and await his next word.165401:39:33.079 --> 01:39:34.560
How long did you say you've been here?165501:39:35.199 --> 01:39:41.159
I didn't say I got here about five months ago.165601:39:42.319 --> 01:39:45.399
Here no.165701:39:47.279 --> 01:40:03.199
Figure looks, Thanks night, Thanks again, Miss Porter.165801:40:05.880 --> 01:40:08.479
Did you say, Miss Porter?165901:40:09.560 --> 01:40:12.079
That's what you said your name was, didn't you. That's166001:40:12.119 --> 01:40:13.359
what the building says too, isn't it.166101:40:13.880 --> 01:40:15.920
Thanks for believing.166201:40:16.079 --> 01:40:19.239
There's just one thing I'd like to ask you ask166301:40:19.319 --> 01:40:24.680
me anything? Uh blowing windslow as well as you do.166401:40:26.239 --> 01:40:28.079
Do you think she might come back to Los Angeles166501:40:28.159 --> 01:40:31.359
sometime sort of clear things up?166601:40:33.520 --> 01:40:35.840
I think she might someday.166701:40:37.800 --> 01:40:41.079
You see, a girl like Mary Winds will get to166801:40:41.159 --> 01:40:45.520
feel kind of soiled, have to work in around in166901:40:45.640 --> 01:40:46.199
joints like this.167001:40:48.239 --> 01:40:50.039
She'd probably want to spend a little time.167101:40:51.920 --> 01:40:56.439
Maybe up in the desert in the sunshine, sort of.167201:40:58.399 --> 01:41:01.680
Freshening up before any buddy she cared about.167301:41:03.560 --> 01:41:09.600
Yeah, came the shoe and this was a pretty long167401:41:09.680 --> 01:41:10.439
trip for nothing.167501:41:10.520 --> 01:41:12.359
You mightst say, just.167601:41:12.439 --> 01:41:17.399
One more bum stair, But I'm glad I came. I167701:41:17.479 --> 01:41:20.319
always figured that confessionally found on Joe Clark was a phony.167801:41:21.960 --> 01:41:23.920
It is Joe Clark in jail.167901:41:24.119 --> 01:41:27.479
He's dead. The Brooklyn police got him one night, about168001:41:28.399 --> 01:41:31.439
five months ago. You know how they got the tip.168101:41:32.119 --> 01:41:33.920
A woman called the police one knife from the Little168201:41:33.960 --> 01:41:37.239
Knife Club, the Golden Lion Club. She hung out before168301:41:37.239 --> 01:41:39.199
they answered the phone. But the Brooklyn boy decided to168401:41:39.239 --> 01:41:42.239
investigate anyway, one of them spotted Clark parking the car168501:41:42.319 --> 01:41:45.159
across the street and he got triggered. Happy what was168601:41:45.199 --> 01:41:46.880
that joke?168701:41:47.000 --> 01:41:48.960
Clark fished?168801:41:50.680 --> 01:41:53.399
Call a Porter if you ever run into I wouldn't.168901:41:53.560 --> 01:41:56.039
Tell her all about the Christmas present I got from169001:41:56.079 --> 01:41:58.239
a swell cop named Front Team.169101:42:00.880 --> 01:42:05.600
I'm not a cop, miss, but you're not then, And169201:42:05.760 --> 01:42:09.560
who are you? I'm a private investigator working for a169301:42:09.600 --> 01:42:14.520
guy named Who's doctor Frank Wis.169401:42:15.760 --> 01:42:16.359
Frank Wos.169501:42:16.800 --> 01:42:23.319
That's right, he's in love with Mary Winsbo. Doesn't care169601:42:23.399 --> 01:42:26.680
where she's been, just wants her to come back and169701:42:27.520 --> 01:42:32.520
marry him. Well, it's a long miss, Porter, and New Year.169801:42:33.359 --> 01:42:34.119
It's a fun thing.169901:42:35.119 --> 01:42:37.319
Yes, do you.170001:42:38.880 --> 01:42:40.399
Do you think you could arrange for me to go170101:42:40.520 --> 01:42:41.479
back to the States with you?170201:42:42.399 --> 01:42:44.319
I guess I could, and I was figuring on taking170301:42:44.760 --> 01:42:48.039
one lady back. Are you going on through the laws? Angons?170401:42:49.520 --> 01:42:50.039
Not true?170501:42:50.119 --> 01:42:55.279
While I kind of like to spend a little time170601:42:55.359 --> 01:43:05.840
in the country somewhere, but I think maybe before next Christmas, Well,170701:43:05.880 --> 01:43:09.079
I think outside, Mary wins Lack.170801:43:29.159 --> 01:43:32.159
Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal oil program.170901:43:32.279 --> 01:43:32.840
The whistler.171001:43:33.439 --> 01:43:36.119
Now let me repeat an important announcement for whistler fans171101:43:36.159 --> 01:43:40.119
in California only beginning next Sunday, January two, due to171201:43:40.239 --> 01:43:43.680
California's going off Daylight Saving time, the whistler will be171301:43:43.760 --> 01:43:46.960
heard in California only one hour earlier from eight thirty171401:43:47.039 --> 01:43:50.680
until nine. Remember the change in time. In California only,171501:43:51.000 --> 01:43:53.000
the whistler will be heard at a new time from171601:43:53.039 --> 01:43:55.840
eight thirty till nine. In other states, the whistler will171701:43:55.840 --> 01:44:03.600
be heard at the same time as always featured in171801:44:03.640 --> 01:44:07.760
tonight's story where Joan Banks and Jack Petruzzie. The Whistler171901:44:07.880 --> 01:44:11.279
was produced by George w Allen and directed by Gordon Hughes,172001:44:11.399 --> 01:44:14.319
with story by Edward Bludworth and music by Wilbur Hatch,172101:44:14.800 --> 01:44:17.119
and was transmitted to our troops overseas by the Armed172201:44:17.159 --> 01:44:26.079
Forces Radio Service. This is Marvin Miller speaking. This is CBS,172301:44:26.359 --> 01:44:28.960
the Columbia Broadcasting System.172401:44:47.239 --> 01:44:49.239
Why you shouldn't have?172501:44:50.680 --> 01:44:50.920
May? I?172601:44:52.359 --> 01:44:53.239
May I rap it?172701:44:53.399 --> 01:44:53.560
Now?172801:45:00.359 --> 01:45:00.560
Why?172901:45:02.159 --> 01:45:02.359
How?173001:45:03.800 --> 01:45:12.960
How on earth did you know? Thank you so much? I? Well,173101:45:13.039 --> 01:45:17.000
it's rare. I'm ever speechless. I'm sure you've noticed that.173201:45:18.239 --> 01:45:25.119
But my dear I I'm simply so grateful. Your gift173301:45:25.359 --> 01:45:28.720
will be ready in just a moment, but for now,173401:45:29.600 --> 01:45:32.399
how about a present for Benny.173501:45:41.359 --> 01:45:49.039
And now tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspence.173601:45:54.520 --> 01:45:57.920
Tonight we bring you a story of Christmas shopping and173701:45:58.039 --> 01:46:02.319
a present that went astray. We call it a present173801:46:02.479 --> 01:46:07.520
for Benny. So now, starring Jack Krusian, here is tonight's173901:46:07.560 --> 01:46:10.399
suspense play, A present for Benny.174001:46:32.319 --> 01:46:38.319
Honey, lamb They got a gorgeous ermine on sale at Halgrim.174101:46:39.159 --> 01:46:39.920
Just gorgeous.174201:46:40.039 --> 01:46:43.960
Love later be the rest of the male and not174301:46:44.079 --> 01:46:44.600
the bills.174401:46:44.880 --> 01:46:53.439
Sure, baby doll, Oh honeypot it's gorgeous like the stuff174501:46:53.479 --> 01:46:55.359
you got in atric job last month.174601:47:01.880 --> 01:47:03.680
Something wrong, lover, shut up?174701:47:05.039 --> 01:47:06.399
You call me boss, He'll call you.174801:47:06.399 --> 01:47:08.399
You want to get thrown out the window.174901:47:08.560 --> 01:47:10.920
He's all upsets with the unaccount of a letter.175001:47:11.399 --> 01:47:16.439
Sure, I'm upset you're listening to this there, Ricky.175101:47:17.399 --> 01:47:20.039
I'm sending you this letter like kind of Xmas greeting.175201:47:20.920 --> 01:47:23.079
I got a holiday feeling on me, So I'm gonna175301:47:23.119 --> 01:47:26.520
give you the new straight. Me and my boys is175401:47:26.520 --> 01:47:28.560
the ones who hijacked that load of first from you175501:47:28.840 --> 01:47:32.119
last month because you were a thirty note good fake.175601:47:32.920 --> 01:47:35.279
I'm stating to you that there ain't no room for175701:47:35.359 --> 01:47:37.640
the two of us in this town, So me and175801:47:37.720 --> 01:47:38.920
the boys is moving you out.175901:47:39.760 --> 01:47:40.880
You were a big chiseler.176001:47:41.159 --> 01:47:42.960
And if you don't drop that when you read this176101:47:43.039 --> 01:47:44.319
for me and the boys will pump you full of176201:47:44.359 --> 01:47:48.479
letter next time we see you. Yours truly, and a176301:47:48.600 --> 01:47:53.840
merry Xmas machine gun, Benny, he's a dirty run.176401:47:54.199 --> 01:47:57.119
Baby, Honey. You could give it to me for Christmas.176501:47:57.479 --> 01:47:58.359
It's only two.176601:47:58.359 --> 01:48:02.279
Geez, and it's just will you shut your trap? I176701:48:02.359 --> 01:48:03.239
got enough trouble.176801:48:03.880 --> 01:48:05.279
What's what are you going to do?176901:48:06.119 --> 01:48:06.840
What do you think?177001:48:07.520 --> 01:48:08.439
Where do you think?177101:48:09.680 --> 01:48:09.720
Go?177201:48:09.960 --> 01:48:10.560
Call the boys?177301:48:10.800 --> 01:48:11.039
Sure?177401:48:11.319 --> 01:48:15.880
No, wait a minute, we got to do this careful.177501:48:17.119 --> 01:48:19.600
We don't want no open war. You know what I mean?177601:48:20.279 --> 01:48:21.760
Yeah, yeah, I know what you mean. Boss.177701:48:22.279 --> 01:48:26.960
Just a couple of us, see, two good heads and177801:48:27.079 --> 01:48:28.960
you and me. That's the best.177901:48:29.520 --> 01:48:31.279
Yeah, yeah, sure, that's the best.178001:48:33.159 --> 01:48:39.079
Ardi the Grunt, Yeah yeah, Addie. And no one knows fibers,178101:48:39.159 --> 01:48:40.039
that's it, just him.178201:48:40.119 --> 01:48:42.880
Arey the grunt? And no one knows fire bus Okay, Rick.178301:48:43.239 --> 01:48:45.960
That's small time things. Sure is room for only one178401:48:46.000 --> 01:48:47.399
of us, and he's gonna find out.178501:48:47.279 --> 01:48:47.960
Which one it is.178601:48:48.239 --> 01:48:51.600
You tell him, honey, Lamb, didn't I.178701:48:51.680 --> 01:48:55.159
Tell you to make me a drink. No, you calling178801:48:55.239 --> 01:48:55.840
me a liar?178901:48:56.600 --> 01:48:59.159
Honey, lamb, I calling you a liar. You never told179001:48:59.199 --> 01:49:00.920
me to make you drink? He did, he swiftly.179101:49:01.119 --> 01:49:02.680
I told you to make me a drink a minute ago.179201:49:02.920 --> 01:49:03.399
I got it.179301:49:03.760 --> 01:49:06.359
You never said calling you again, gonna make me a drink?179401:49:06.520 --> 01:49:10.840
Okay, okay, big thing giving it. It's like a general.179501:49:11.520 --> 01:49:16.199
And don't get so smart, dumb dame.179601:49:18.439 --> 01:49:21.039
Okay, swifty, you get the boys over here. We gotta179701:49:21.079 --> 01:49:35.319
have us a conference, all right. Not the way I179801:49:35.439 --> 01:49:38.840
see it. It's machine gun bunny on me, see, and179901:49:39.000 --> 01:49:42.319
it's gonna be me right. Sure, he wants trouble. I180001:49:42.359 --> 01:49:44.039
find the right party you want to?180101:49:44.399 --> 01:49:46.760
You want we should go over and rubble mouth bulls?180201:49:47.079 --> 01:49:50.079
What's the matter Wi? You know knows he may be stupid,180301:49:50.119 --> 01:49:53.239
but he ain't dumb. Yeah, that's what he figures. Who180401:49:53.279 --> 01:49:54.880
will go gunning on him? That's what he figures.180501:49:54.920 --> 01:49:59.319
See, so we ain't gonna We're gonna play it smart,180601:50:00.359 --> 01:50:06.880
adi m you got any ideas, no nose, cheap bush.180701:50:06.680 --> 01:50:08.720
You don't want to use, no choppers?180801:50:09.399 --> 01:50:14.840
O Gee, how about a good old ride? Are you180901:50:15.000 --> 01:50:16.479
gonna get at him for a ride?181001:50:16.560 --> 01:50:17.159
What a dope.181101:50:18.640 --> 01:50:20.800
Why what don't bother me?181201:50:22.520 --> 01:50:22.680
By?181301:50:22.960 --> 01:50:24.920
Good good? That's good Now, shut up, boss.181401:50:25.560 --> 01:50:27.960
I gotta thought maybe we could send this bomb a bomb? Maybe?181501:50:28.079 --> 01:50:28.279
Huh?181601:50:28.600 --> 01:50:31.000
You can't send no bomb through the mail. You know181701:50:31.119 --> 01:50:33.640
that it's against the law, ain't you guys?181801:50:33.720 --> 01:50:39.159
Got any whoa wait a minute, yeah, I got some181901:50:39.960 --> 01:50:43.159
What boss, how's about we could send them a little present?182001:50:43.239 --> 01:50:43.399
Huh?182101:50:43.840 --> 01:50:44.760
What do you want?182201:50:44.840 --> 01:50:46.680
You should send them a present.182301:50:46.520 --> 01:50:50.479
For Xmas presidency, all wrapped up with paper, ribbon and everything,182401:50:50.560 --> 01:50:51.000
ice box?182501:50:51.039 --> 01:50:54.159
About Oh about this big and this wide and when182601:50:54.199 --> 01:50:54.720
he opens it?182701:50:55.520 --> 01:50:59.159
Boom, boss, you just said we couldn't through the mail182801:50:59.760 --> 01:51:04.960
from the store from Hey, mil mil what's the name182901:51:05.000 --> 01:51:06.399
of that store you always buying that?183001:51:08.119 --> 01:51:10.239
Hey, you're gonna buy me that almond?183101:51:10.600 --> 01:51:12.920
Go make me a drink, make for the boys too183201:51:14.039 --> 01:51:18.520
with okay hell grums. Yeah that's the place, real high class.183301:51:18.880 --> 01:51:19.880
Yeah, I liked it.183401:51:20.560 --> 01:51:24.119
I like that. Merry Christmas, Benny.183501:51:24.960 --> 01:51:29.359
Boom, Boss? You figure here far for this?183601:51:29.479 --> 01:51:31.840
You figure sure you would we get the store to183701:51:31.880 --> 01:51:34.520
deliver it. How's he gonna suspect? But how are we183801:51:34.640 --> 01:51:35.840
going to get him to deliverate?183901:51:35.920 --> 01:51:36.159
Boys?184001:51:36.279 --> 01:51:41.119
We don't worry about now it gets delivered. Addie, you184101:51:41.239 --> 01:51:43.319
got to make us for a bomb shoe, the old184201:51:43.359 --> 01:51:45.039
fashioned card. You know a lot of broken glass and184301:51:45.119 --> 01:51:46.319
nails shoe.184401:51:46.880 --> 01:51:47.399
What do you say?184501:51:47.640 --> 01:51:49.000
Yeah? Yeah, he says he can make it.184601:51:49.119 --> 01:51:50.840
Oh okay, now you take care of that. And now184701:51:50.840 --> 01:51:52.920
I want to day after tomorrow and you make it184801:51:52.960 --> 01:51:54.880
a ticker seat. But don't say nothing until already.184901:51:56.039 --> 01:51:58.199
Rick, I got a handle to you. You're a genius.185001:51:58.960 --> 01:51:59.439
You are.185101:52:02.119 --> 01:52:04.119
She's got the Christmas spirit too.185201:52:04.760 --> 01:52:08.600
It's better to give and to receive. Okay, can I185301:52:08.640 --> 01:52:11.239
shut up? I gotta figure out a plan for the185401:52:11.319 --> 01:52:12.039
store of delivery.185501:52:12.399 --> 01:52:14.279
Yeah, we gotta.185601:52:14.119 --> 01:52:32.720
Figure honey, Lamb.185701:52:33.000 --> 01:52:34.319
Ain't you coming to bed?185801:52:35.039 --> 01:52:36.479
No, I ain't coming to bed.185901:52:36.640 --> 01:52:39.520
But it's two o'clock am. I'm hired.186001:52:40.119 --> 01:52:43.039
Go make some coffee, honey, sandwich is too. I'm hungry.186101:52:43.199 --> 01:52:46.000
What did you thinksh thinking tomorrow so I can get186201:52:46.079 --> 01:52:46.600
some sleep.186301:52:47.439 --> 01:52:50.199
Don't you never think about nothing else but sleeping?186401:52:50.439 --> 01:52:54.640
Sure, I've been thinking all day about that Ermin and halguns.186501:52:54.640 --> 01:52:58.319
I was telling you, babe, feel baby.186601:52:58.840 --> 01:52:59.760
I love your baby.186701:53:00.079 --> 01:53:01.680
I love you too, honey, Lamb.186801:53:02.000 --> 01:53:03.840
So why don't boy.186901:53:07.520 --> 01:53:07.880
Fullis?187001:53:08.600 --> 01:53:09.000
I got it?187101:53:10.479 --> 01:53:12.560
Mill is going to get a nymen from halb.187201:53:12.760 --> 01:53:18.319
Oh, baby lover, and make some coffee.187301:53:19.760 --> 01:53:21.920
Now, listen, boys, here's how we do it.187401:53:36.520 --> 01:53:40.319
Hey, gorgeous, honey, just simply gorgeous.187501:53:40.439 --> 01:53:43.600
Feel the pelsa notice the she I felt that I187601:53:43.720 --> 01:53:45.760
seen it to Jesus too much. I'll give you fifteen187701:53:45.840 --> 01:53:48.640
hundred cuie. Sorry, sir, it's been mocked down from thirty two.187801:53:48.760 --> 01:53:51.319
We positively cannot sell it for under two thousand.187901:53:51.680 --> 01:53:53.720
Now we have a nice mink for fifteen.188001:53:54.000 --> 01:53:55.960
Oh wrecky, honey, don't be chancy.188101:53:56.119 --> 01:53:57.000
It's Christmas.188201:53:57.359 --> 01:53:59.479
Will you shut your mouth and go buy your old188301:53:59.520 --> 01:54:01.119
lady some then I'll see at the house.188401:54:01.399 --> 01:54:02.399
Ain't you going to buy it?188501:54:02.840 --> 01:54:06.319
It's so gorgeous for fifteen hundred, I'll buy it for two.188601:54:06.399 --> 01:54:07.640
I'm interested and I'll beat it.188701:54:07.800 --> 01:54:13.239
Oh gee, okay, but don't go buy me no lousy mink.188801:54:13.520 --> 01:54:14.800
You know it gives me the hive.188901:54:18.000 --> 01:54:18.880
She'll live it dow.189001:54:19.760 --> 01:54:23.359
Okay, wrap it up, you'll you'll take the ermens sure189101:54:23.399 --> 01:54:29.279
I'm taking. I want to surprise it fifth one too. Geez, yes, sir,189201:54:29.399 --> 01:54:31.720
thank you, sir. Would you like it wrap as a189301:54:31.760 --> 01:54:33.319
gift for the lady?189401:54:33.680 --> 01:54:35.520
Yeah, I want it in a box with lots of189501:54:35.600 --> 01:54:38.119
ribbons and experts junk all over, you know, and I189601:54:38.199 --> 01:54:40.079
want you should give me another box the same size,189701:54:40.399 --> 01:54:41.239
ribbons and everything.189801:54:42.079 --> 01:54:43.800
It's going to be kind of an experts joke on189901:54:43.840 --> 01:54:44.159
a pile.190001:54:44.439 --> 01:54:45.159
You get what I mean?190101:54:45.760 --> 01:54:46.159
You box?190201:54:47.319 --> 01:54:49.000
Oh, and give me a couple of cards to ride.190301:54:49.039 --> 01:54:51.760
I think yes, sir, Will you have them? Say no,190401:54:52.079 --> 01:54:53.920
I'll take them both with me. We'll just take a190501:54:53.960 --> 01:55:07.840
few minutes, sir. So I'll wait, heydie, when you got190601:55:07.880 --> 01:55:11.319
the time of set forth to go off to do?190701:55:12.520 --> 01:55:13.039
What do you say?190801:55:13.520 --> 01:55:16.000
He says he got except for twenty three hours. It'll190901:55:16.079 --> 01:55:17.960
go off at four o'clock tomorrow afternoon.191001:55:18.960 --> 01:55:21.560
What happens if he opens it before?191101:55:21.760 --> 01:55:27.520
Because he says it'll go off anywhere. That's good.191201:55:28.199 --> 01:55:31.520
Nice work, got a nice work. Hey, I bet you191301:55:31.520 --> 01:55:33.279
he opens it. Don't worry. I bet he ain't got191401:55:33.319 --> 01:55:33.840
no patience.191501:55:34.199 --> 01:55:37.000
For instance, he gets a big tree beginning of December,191601:55:37.119 --> 01:55:39.439
all the trimings, his pals around him, a couple of191701:55:39.520 --> 01:55:42.880
cases of old stag Christmas presents means something.191801:55:42.760 --> 01:55:44.479
To a guy like that, it is going to do191901:55:44.640 --> 01:55:48.680
this year, that is for Sureuse you all right now,192001:55:48.800 --> 01:55:51.720
you carry swifty and I'll take the ermine home. Sure, boys,192101:55:53.279 --> 01:55:54.279
now you know what you got to do.192201:55:55.119 --> 01:55:57.439
I am to take the farm back to the store. There,192301:55:57.520 --> 01:55:59.279
I'm the final guy. What sold you to earn?192401:55:59.399 --> 01:56:01.000
Yeah? And I missed the minchi minschi.192501:56:01.159 --> 01:56:02.720
Yeah, then I give him the boy. I'm gonna tell192601:56:02.800 --> 01:56:04.560
him that he's to send it on to Benue.192701:56:04.680 --> 01:56:06.199
And you tell him it's the gag that I was192801:56:06.239 --> 01:56:07.680
talking about, and you give him a C note for192901:56:07.760 --> 01:56:10.920
doing you the favor. I got it, okay, Audi, when193001:56:10.960 --> 01:56:12.760
you get through clean enough, come over to my place193101:56:12.800 --> 01:56:15.840
with place of poker and I okay. Yeah, see Audie,193201:56:20.960 --> 01:56:22.520
he's a good boy at Audi. You know I'm gonna193301:56:22.520 --> 01:56:23.039
get him one of the.193401:56:23.000 --> 01:56:25.640
New forty five's Rex pers Hey, i'd be an ice spots.193501:56:25.680 --> 01:56:28.359
He should like some me. I like a thirty eight better.193601:56:28.800 --> 01:56:30.680
Don't make this big a hole, but it don't weigh193701:56:30.720 --> 01:56:31.439
get on so much.193801:56:31.880 --> 01:56:32.439
You know what I mean?193901:56:32.840 --> 01:56:33.439
I know what you mean.194001:56:38.479 --> 01:56:39.960
Here, Well, you hold my box a minute. I want194101:56:40.000 --> 01:56:49.000
to get a citarette. Sure, boss, boss, look out at Minnie.194201:56:49.039 --> 01:56:49.319
Get on.194301:57:03.800 --> 01:57:08.159
You are listening to a present for Benny Tonight's presentation194401:57:08.319 --> 01:57:12.479
in Radio's Outstanding Theater of Thrills Suspense.194501:57:20.840 --> 01:57:23.560
Let's look ahead to nineteen sixty six, and there you194601:57:23.640 --> 01:57:26.640
are in your beautiful new home. You've got automatic gadgets everywhere.194701:57:26.760 --> 01:57:29.520
There's a sparkling new dream car in your garage. The194801:57:29.600 --> 01:57:32.600
youngsters are in a fine college. All's right with the world.194901:57:33.439 --> 01:57:34.680
Is this just an idle dream?195001:57:35.199 --> 01:57:35.319
Now?195101:57:35.520 --> 01:57:37.640
This is a real future that you can start building195201:57:37.760 --> 01:57:41.239
right now, A secure, carefree, prosperous future built with the195301:57:41.359 --> 01:57:44.680
United States Savings bonds. In ten years, you will get195401:57:44.760 --> 01:57:47.920
back four dollars for every three dollars you've invested. Join195501:57:48.000 --> 01:57:50.840
the payroll savings plan where you work, or buy bonds195601:57:50.880 --> 01:57:53.920
where you bank. Start in nineteen fifty six. To make195701:57:54.039 --> 01:57:56.479
nineteen sixty six the beginning.195801:57:56.199 --> 01:58:01.319
Of the Golden years. How we bring back to our195901:58:01.399 --> 01:58:07.000
Hollywood soundstage. Jack Krucian starring in tonight's production A Pleasant196001:58:07.119 --> 01:58:13.359
for Benny, A tail well calculated to keep you in Suspin.196101:58:25.520 --> 01:58:29.439
Boss, that was close, no good, dirty note Benny.196201:58:29.520 --> 01:58:33.199
He was not kidding about his kidding, and me I196301:58:33.399 --> 01:58:34.680
wasn't kidding about getting him.196401:58:35.439 --> 01:58:38.239
I wait five minutes and you take the bomb down196501:58:38.279 --> 01:58:43.840
the store like I said, Uh, Boss, which one do196601:58:43.880 --> 01:58:44.199
you got?196701:58:45.560 --> 01:58:47.039
You got the bomb of mills Erman?196801:58:47.640 --> 01:58:47.840
Yeah?196901:58:48.439 --> 01:58:48.600
Oh?197001:58:48.640 --> 01:58:50.920
Should I know you were holding them when we hit197101:58:50.960 --> 01:58:53.359
the dirt. I just picked one up. We come back197201:58:53.399 --> 01:58:53.640
in here.197301:58:57.199 --> 01:58:58.279
They sure do look alike.197401:59:00.279 --> 01:59:01.079
Stupid dope.197501:59:01.159 --> 01:59:03.359
You gotta mixed up the packages, Boss, What would that197601:59:03.479 --> 01:59:07.279
chop are going? I just didn't notice they give you197701:59:07.439 --> 01:59:07.960
such a hit?197801:59:08.720 --> 01:59:09.479
What are we gonna do?197901:59:09.640 --> 01:59:09.800
Now?198001:59:10.760 --> 01:59:11.239
You got me?198101:59:11.359 --> 01:59:11.479
Boy?198201:59:11.520 --> 01:59:14.479
I guess they're way about the same. We cannot tell198301:59:14.520 --> 01:59:17.279
that way, Boss. Maybe we should have put different colored198401:59:17.359 --> 01:59:21.039
ribbons on him so as we could tell No, now198501:59:21.119 --> 01:59:22.039
you're getting smart.198601:59:22.199 --> 01:59:23.560
No, now he thinks of it.198701:59:24.640 --> 01:59:28.600
Uh, come on, we're going back up the arties.198801:59:28.840 --> 01:59:30.840
Yeah, he'll open them up, find him on with the bomb,198901:59:30.880 --> 01:59:32.079
and then we'll wrap him up again.199001:59:32.279 --> 01:59:35.159
Oh sure, Rick, Sure that's Benny.199101:59:35.960 --> 01:59:37.840
I should have rupped him out a long time ago,199201:59:38.960 --> 01:59:40.520
you know, Boss, I sure wish I could be there199301:59:40.520 --> 01:59:42.359
and see his face when he opens up the bomber.199401:59:43.000 --> 01:59:44.439
You know, it's too bad. He will not get time199501:59:44.520 --> 01:59:46.039
to read the guards to hold his problem.199601:59:48.119 --> 01:59:48.920
Are they open up?199701:59:48.960 --> 01:59:54.079
It's Rick, because that's the true.199801:59:54.399 --> 01:59:57.920
Yeah, we had some trouble Benny and some of his boys.199901:59:57.960 --> 01:59:58.920
As we was walking out.200001:59:59.439 --> 02:00:02.840
They missed we ain't gonna jerk your here. Got the200102:00:02.920 --> 02:00:04.880
packages mixed up though, you gotta open up to see200202:00:04.880 --> 02:00:10.079
which is which. Well, come on, come on, the rule,200302:00:10.960 --> 02:00:12.680
so opening up so it don't blow up.200402:00:14.800 --> 02:00:15.279
You can't.200502:00:15.840 --> 02:00:17.399
What do you mean you can't? What are your nuts?200602:00:17.439 --> 02:00:19.079
How am I gonna know which one you send that rat?200702:00:20.439 --> 02:00:23.359
Boss? Boss? Maybe we could have thrown a bomb in200802:00:23.439 --> 02:00:24.800
the river, then it would be okay.200902:00:24.960 --> 02:00:27.720
Oh sure boy, what a shnook we throw to ermine201002:00:27.720 --> 02:00:30.079
and the river too? What you know which is the bomb?201102:00:31.600 --> 02:00:34.000
I forgot that on account of you. I'm gonna be201202:00:34.279 --> 02:00:34.840
too gees.201302:00:34.920 --> 02:00:36.239
And you know what it comes out of your cut201402:00:36.319 --> 02:00:38.960
in the next job we do, we gotta send boat201502:00:39.000 --> 02:00:39.800
boxes to Betty.201602:00:39.880 --> 02:00:42.920
Now, Boss, maybe the Ermine one blow up when he does,201702:00:42.960 --> 02:00:44.600
and then we can take it back from his tomato201802:00:44.720 --> 02:00:45.680
after he is buried.201902:00:47.600 --> 02:00:51.560
Swifty, do me a favor. Stop making me feel so202002:00:51.720 --> 02:00:55.399
good before they kick your brains in. Now, look you202102:00:55.520 --> 02:00:57.479
take them boxes back to the store. Get him sent202202:00:57.560 --> 02:00:59.720
out right away, you here, I don't want to know202302:00:59.760 --> 02:01:01.079
when some people hurt when.202402:01:01.000 --> 02:01:01.520
It goes off.202502:01:02.079 --> 02:01:03.119
Just look at me, Bottles.202602:01:05.279 --> 02:01:05.800
What do you say?202702:01:06.760 --> 02:01:08.119
He says? You really got a heart?202802:01:08.199 --> 02:01:11.359
Well, and don't either you say nothing about the arm202902:01:11.399 --> 02:01:13.000
and the mill see or I'll have to get another one.203002:01:13.199 --> 02:01:17.199
I won't say nothing. Okay, swifty, I'll get gone. I'll203102:01:17.199 --> 02:01:32.039
see you both back in my place, bet you honey, baby?203202:01:32.640 --> 02:01:34.720
Yeah me, no, no, just having a game in gee,203302:01:34.720 --> 02:01:36.119
And I couldn't wait for to get back to you.203402:01:36.239 --> 02:01:36.640
I love you.203502:01:37.039 --> 02:01:37.640
Did you get it?203602:01:38.640 --> 02:01:42.119
Why say i'mond no, go make me a drink?203702:01:42.800 --> 02:01:45.399
Oh, baby, limb, you didn't really?203802:01:46.239 --> 02:01:49.079
Oh your kidd and you're gonna make it a surprise.203902:01:49.199 --> 02:01:50.880
Ain't gonna be no surprise on the kind of I204002:01:50.920 --> 02:01:52.439
didn't get it? And go make me a drink?204102:01:53.159 --> 02:01:55.600
Hey, no, nos yere boss, Gee.204202:01:56.039 --> 02:01:59.800
I bought you were pretty Oh well, you're sure gonna204302:01:59.840 --> 02:02:00.880
look like something in it?204402:02:01.359 --> 02:02:02.119
Well do you see?204502:02:02.520 --> 02:02:05.039
Okay, okay, yes, what I got to get.204602:02:05.199 --> 02:02:07.000
Look, I don't feel like no games. It's been a204702:02:07.079 --> 02:02:07.520
tough day.204802:02:07.520 --> 02:02:08.000
I'm tired.204902:02:08.119 --> 02:02:09.680
Do me a favor, Make me a drink, then go205002:02:09.720 --> 02:02:12.720
to a movie or something. Will you see here? Rick?205102:02:13.479 --> 02:02:13.960
Where was I?205202:02:14.479 --> 02:02:14.640
Oh?205302:02:14.880 --> 02:02:15.680
Oh? Yeah?205402:02:15.920 --> 02:02:17.960
Look, you better call the rest of the boys and205502:02:18.000 --> 02:02:20.159
tell him that Bennie's out gunning for us. Tell him205602:02:20.159 --> 02:02:21.760
to stay head out until they hear from me. See205702:02:21.760 --> 02:02:23.239
you know, I don't want no trouble with the da,205802:02:23.840 --> 02:02:24.720
he's up for reelection.205902:02:25.039 --> 02:02:26.880
You got Benny's president? Say awful?206002:02:26.880 --> 02:02:30.840
Okay, huh yeah, Well when he croaks he'll die to laugh.206102:02:30.920 --> 02:02:33.600
And if he opens the other box first, another box,206202:02:34.079 --> 02:02:35.640
I'll tell you about it when mill gone out.206302:02:36.479 --> 02:02:42.680
Oh yeah, Boss is a swifty Yeah, you've got nothing206402:02:42.760 --> 02:02:43.399
to worry about.206502:02:43.880 --> 02:02:46.039
Everything is taken care of. The stuff goes off the206602:02:46.119 --> 02:02:47.000
first thing in the morning.206702:02:47.359 --> 02:02:49.319
Okay, come on back, sure, Rick, I.206802:02:49.399 --> 02:02:50.520
Just thought that you should like to know.206902:02:51.119 --> 02:03:07.560
So on, Alrtie, what do you call these?207002:03:09.319 --> 02:03:12.119
I asked for three minute boiled? HeSE ain't even born yet.207102:03:14.640 --> 02:03:16.600
Ain't you never going to learn how to boil an egg?207202:03:16.760 --> 02:03:17.800
I'll take you some more.207302:03:18.279 --> 02:03:23.159
I ain't hungry, forget it, Hardie. What time is it? Look?207402:03:24.439 --> 02:03:27.600
No, it ain't aardi. It's one thirty, boss, and.207502:03:27.720 --> 02:03:29.359
He should have got the bomb by now.207602:03:30.520 --> 02:03:31.000
What do you want?207702:03:31.039 --> 02:03:33.399
I should call him and kind of ask after his help.207802:03:33.520 --> 02:03:35.720
No, no, if he ain't got it jet, he might207902:03:35.760 --> 02:03:39.840
get suspicious. Oh boy, it's waiting, you know. It's making208002:03:39.880 --> 02:03:40.880
a nervous wretch out of me.208102:03:41.520 --> 02:03:42.920
Take it Easier'll go up.208202:03:43.079 --> 02:03:45.600
If you don't want eggs, honey, how about a nice hot.208302:03:45.560 --> 02:03:48.199
Coffee, lover, okay, okay, you'll.208402:03:48.039 --> 02:03:50.399
Feel good when when you see what I've got for you.208502:03:50.680 --> 02:03:51.800
They're sending it today.208602:03:52.319 --> 02:03:58.520
Yeah, okay, should I open a boss, Yeah.208702:03:58.359 --> 02:03:59.000
I'll cove here.208802:03:59.239 --> 02:04:02.439
Oh you should nervous all of a sudden this morning, honey, Right,208902:04:02.479 --> 02:04:02.880
all right.209002:04:02.760 --> 02:04:03.279
I'm nervous.209102:04:04.880 --> 02:04:05.520
So who is it?209202:04:06.479 --> 02:04:07.039
No nose?209302:04:08.079 --> 02:04:16.760
I let him in? What do you say, Bosh? What's209402:04:16.840 --> 02:04:17.479
in the package?209502:04:17.680 --> 02:04:18.880
Oh?209602:04:19.159 --> 02:04:19.199
This?209702:04:19.840 --> 02:04:23.159
Will it just come up for your from Holgrams elevator209802:04:23.279 --> 02:04:24.000
was bringing.209902:04:23.680 --> 02:04:26.319
It up on I don't just spoil it, honey, lamb210002:04:26.680 --> 02:04:29.399
that's my present to you. You can take the wrapping210102:04:29.479 --> 02:04:31.800
paper up, but you can't open the box. We got210202:04:31.880 --> 02:04:33.800
to put it under the tree when we get the tree.210302:04:39.960 --> 02:04:43.399
Hey, boss, that box looks awful familiar.210402:04:45.039 --> 02:04:49.000
Yeah, mil you sure you bought this yesterday?210502:04:49.279 --> 02:04:49.960
Sure, I'm sure.210602:04:50.319 --> 02:04:53.079
Looks just like the ones we sent to Benny. Don't it?210702:04:53.920 --> 02:04:58.960
Same size, same rebon, same everything. Kind of makes you wonder.210802:04:59.159 --> 02:05:01.760
Don't be silly. They got millions of boxes like this.210902:05:02.800 --> 02:05:05.960
Oh it happens. There's something very special in there for211002:05:06.119 --> 02:05:06.720
my sweete.211102:05:07.920 --> 02:05:08.960
Go ahead and open it.211202:05:09.159 --> 02:05:12.359
Go ahead, No, no, I'll wait. I ain't like Benny.211302:05:12.399 --> 02:05:12.840
I can wait.211402:05:12.920 --> 02:05:15.840
Oh, honey, you open it. It's okay, I'll get you211502:05:15.920 --> 02:05:17.520
something else to open on Christmas.211602:05:17.880 --> 02:05:20.119
I'm sure. Why not, boss, you need something to make211702:05:20.159 --> 02:05:21.880
you feel I feel good?211802:05:22.039 --> 02:05:23.520
No, I don't want to feel no better.211902:05:23.960 --> 02:05:26.760
Oh and I thought you'd like it so much you'd212002:05:26.800 --> 02:05:29.239
go with me and maybe buye chin chilla they got212102:05:29.319 --> 02:05:32.479
on sale at Hogrooms. It's only fifteen hundred, just what212202:05:32.600 --> 02:05:33.920
you wanted to play for the omond.212302:05:34.279 --> 02:05:35.239
I like chinchilla?212402:05:36.399 --> 02:05:36.840
Open it?212502:05:38.239 --> 02:05:44.359
All right, all right, I'll open it, hey, Swifty, go212602:05:44.439 --> 02:05:44.680
get it.212702:05:46.039 --> 02:05:48.319
Oh I can't wait for the lid to come up.212802:05:50.079 --> 02:05:56.560
Oh yeah, yeah, now, well wait a minute, Wait a minute.212902:05:57.279 --> 02:06:00.000
What it's a a guy at the store.213002:06:02.520 --> 02:06:10.119
Yeah, do you want me to no, yeah, mister McQueen,213102:06:11.000 --> 02:06:13.640
this is mister Minch in the third apartment at Halgrims. So,213202:06:14.640 --> 02:06:17.880
mister McQueen, I'm terribly sorry, but I think there's been213302:06:17.920 --> 02:06:18.479
a mistake.213402:06:18.920 --> 02:06:19.960
Well what kind of stake?213502:06:20.000 --> 02:06:22.279
What do you mean a little confusion? But I'm sure213602:06:22.319 --> 02:06:23.439
it can be easily rectified.213702:06:23.760 --> 02:06:26.239
Your wife bought something for you yesterday which was to be.213802:06:26.279 --> 02:06:27.119
Delivered this morning.213902:06:27.279 --> 02:06:28.520
Yeah, yeah, it's already come.214002:06:29.039 --> 02:06:30.760
Yes, Well, there.214102:06:30.640 --> 02:06:32.439
Seems to have been an error made in the shipping214202:06:32.479 --> 02:06:35.439
department a matter of mislaided dress slips. Now, I wonder214302:06:35.439 --> 02:06:37.920
if you'd mind opening the package which you just received,214402:06:38.520 --> 02:06:40.760
or perhaps since it's a Christmas parcel and a surprise214502:06:40.880 --> 02:06:43.119
which you no doubt your wife would rather do it.214602:06:44.600 --> 02:06:46.000
Why what's wrong with it?214702:06:46.199 --> 02:06:46.359
Well?214802:06:46.880 --> 02:06:50.560
You see those two boxes which your your man brought214902:06:50.600 --> 02:06:53.399
in yesterday afternoon haven't gone out yet. They were to215002:06:53.479 --> 02:06:55.159
be sent to mister Benjamin Mollusk.215102:06:55.279 --> 02:06:56.039
I believe it is.215202:06:57.359 --> 02:06:59.960
I think the gift which you have is one of those,215302:07:00.239 --> 02:07:02.319
and well yours is his.215402:07:02.560 --> 02:07:04.399
And that is if you follow me, now, if you215502:07:04.600 --> 02:07:12.920
open it, I'm sure, boss, there's something wrong.215602:07:13.319 --> 02:07:14.680
Hey, you're pail.215702:07:15.279 --> 02:07:17.399
You seek what's the time?215802:07:18.039 --> 02:07:20.039
That's a quarter to two?215902:07:21.039 --> 02:07:21.560
Your present?216002:07:21.960 --> 02:07:26.119
Nobody touched that boxes? Loaded the bomb?216102:07:26.880 --> 02:07:27.119
Yeah?216202:07:27.880 --> 02:07:31.319
The bomb? Well, of course a quarterbacks.216302:07:31.479 --> 02:07:34.640
You shut up swiftly. I got enough trouble without her216402:07:34.720 --> 02:07:35.079
hair and that.216502:07:35.560 --> 02:07:37.359
Oh oh yeah, I get you.216602:07:37.520 --> 02:07:38.399
Are you talking about me?216702:07:39.119 --> 02:07:39.239
Oh?216802:07:39.279 --> 02:07:40.840
You get that thing out of here, get it.216902:07:40.880 --> 02:07:41.479
Down to the store.217002:07:41.520 --> 02:07:44.159
I gotta send a special messenger. Let him send all217102:07:44.239 --> 02:07:45.680
three boxes to that punk Benny.217202:07:45.720 --> 02:07:48.239
Well, what do I care? Maybe I should send him217302:07:48.239 --> 02:07:50.000
a Cadillac to go with it, you.217402:07:50.039 --> 02:07:50.640
Know, what I think.217502:07:51.079 --> 02:07:52.720
I think it'll be cheaper to kill myself.217602:08:11.159 --> 02:08:13.680
Hey, what's the time for a baby?217702:08:14.319 --> 02:08:16.720
Where is that swift yet here?217802:08:17.239 --> 02:08:18.880
Maybe Benny got him?217902:08:19.479 --> 02:08:21.800
Hereeah, maybe I should have sent you an Artie with him.218002:08:23.239 --> 02:08:25.239
Get it, Otie? You don't know's the meal cover here?218102:08:29.920 --> 02:08:30.159
Eh?218202:08:32.119 --> 02:08:33.000
It's me Artie?218302:08:33.039 --> 02:08:34.199
Sway over up?218402:08:38.399 --> 02:08:41.399
What I have got it all straightened out? Everything is218502:08:41.479 --> 02:08:44.880
okay for some dope. Those guys down at the store.218602:08:45.399 --> 02:08:46.560
What's that this?218702:08:47.079 --> 02:08:47.239
Oh?218802:08:48.239 --> 02:08:50.680
This is your president of mill got for you. I218902:08:50.800 --> 02:08:52.840
told you they have got it all straightened out. Okay,219002:08:52.920 --> 02:08:56.520
now you know it's Christmas rush. Everybody's sure, guy, you know?219102:08:57.239 --> 02:08:59.079
So now I have found the right slips, wrapped up219202:08:59.079 --> 02:09:01.720
the boxes again, and Benny's presence have been delivered right now.219302:09:02.000 --> 02:09:03.880
And this one this is yours.219402:09:04.479 --> 02:09:05.960
You're sure this time? I sure?219502:09:06.119 --> 02:09:08.800
Boss? Would I make a loud on myself. There's part219602:09:08.920 --> 02:09:09.520
you can open.219702:09:09.680 --> 02:09:11.159
I guarantee it, yeah.219802:09:11.000 --> 02:09:12.920
Because you might not like the color I got you,219902:09:13.279 --> 02:09:15.039
so I wish you would open it. And if right,220002:09:15.119 --> 02:09:16.800
we can take it back this afternoon and you can220102:09:16.920 --> 02:09:19.359
change it and maybe take a look at Chinchilla.220202:09:19.359 --> 02:09:22.159
As I was telling you about this time, I'm gonna220302:09:22.199 --> 02:09:24.680
wait when Benny blows up, I open it.220402:09:26.119 --> 02:09:26.720
What's the time?220502:09:27.399 --> 02:09:29.439
That's uh two minutes to four?220602:09:30.279 --> 02:09:31.720
You should is your what's right?220702:09:32.319 --> 02:09:32.439
Well?220802:09:32.520 --> 02:09:34.960
Boss, I just call it tomato and a telephone that gives.220902:09:34.840 --> 02:09:35.279
You the time.221002:09:35.439 --> 02:09:37.760
Honey, Pat, you're too nervous. This ain't like you.221102:09:38.119 --> 02:09:39.279
Here, I'll open it for you.221202:09:39.840 --> 02:09:43.439
Mil you quit that? Oh sure, turn of easy sports.221302:09:43.600 --> 02:09:44.560
You're all right?221402:09:44.960 --> 02:09:46.800
Oh, I guess you're just gonna love it.221502:09:46.960 --> 02:09:50.159
I just bet it's about Benny. He opened it.221602:09:50.399 --> 02:09:50.960
What are your bet?221702:09:51.279 --> 02:09:51.600
Sam?221802:09:51.880 --> 02:09:52.720
Right through the wall?221902:09:56.039 --> 02:09:58.079
Yeah? Rick is the machine gun?222002:09:58.199 --> 02:10:02.039
Benny, Benny, listen, I feel like a diary rat.222102:10:02.159 --> 02:10:05.079
That's what I feel like a didy rat when I222202:10:05.239 --> 02:10:07.520
think what I try to do to you yesterday, and222302:10:07.720 --> 02:10:10.039
all the time you was making never minds with the222402:10:10.159 --> 02:10:13.199
presence which I am my gyl right now wearing.222502:10:13.399 --> 02:10:14.600
I think I could eat one.222602:10:15.640 --> 02:10:18.600
Yeah, she says she never sees such an oymon and222702:10:18.800 --> 02:10:20.760
the raw Bart's the greatest.222802:10:21.159 --> 02:10:24.399
Oh, Paul, I am a heel. But it ain't too222902:10:24.479 --> 02:10:25.079
late to change.223002:10:25.319 --> 02:10:27.239
Hey, what do you say we bury the Hatchetay?223102:10:27.880 --> 02:10:30.840
Yeah, I'll speak with you, and first I hijack from223202:10:30.880 --> 02:10:32.279
you and we're potting this.223302:10:32.399 --> 02:10:34.039
You and me run the town together.223402:10:34.359 --> 02:10:35.199
What are you saying?223502:10:36.159 --> 02:10:36.520
All right?223602:10:36.960 --> 02:10:39.840
So your and mil and your boys come on over and.223702:10:39.960 --> 02:10:41.600
Pot take him some excellence.223802:10:41.680 --> 02:10:42.520
Cheer you hear me?223902:10:42.600 --> 02:10:46.319
Boy, you're great guy, Rick the greatest.224002:10:46.920 --> 02:10:50.000
So long, Poul, Merry Xmas.224102:10:50.399 --> 02:10:51.000
So long.224202:11:00.119 --> 02:11:05.760
Benny. Yeah, this one's the bomb?224302:11:08.039 --> 02:11:10.680
Yeah, too bad.224402:11:13.000 --> 02:11:16.760
What's the time? It's three minutes after four?224502:11:18.359 --> 02:11:19.840
We asked.224602:11:21.079 --> 02:11:23.680
Adi. The time has come and gone.224702:11:23.720 --> 02:11:24.920
How come it didn't go off?224802:11:25.640 --> 02:11:26.399
Look up over the.224902:11:29.039 --> 02:11:29.520
What do you say?225002:11:32.000 --> 02:11:34.199
He says he did not want to blow nobody up?225102:11:34.720 --> 02:11:35.760
Sun there to Christmas?225202:11:36.920 --> 02:11:39.159
Then what's in the box of curci?225302:11:40.079 --> 02:11:40.279
Huh?225402:11:40.720 --> 02:11:41.560
It's gonna show it?225502:12:22.199 --> 02:12:27.479
Suspense, in which Jack Crusian starred into Night's presentation of225602:12:28.199 --> 02:12:46.319
a present for Benny. Suspense is produced and directed by225702:12:46.359 --> 02:12:50.039
Anthony Ellis, who also wrote Tonight's script. The music was225802:12:50.079 --> 02:12:54.159
composed by Renee Garagang and conducted by Wilbur Hatch. Featured225902:12:54.199 --> 02:12:57.399
in the cast were Stacy Harris, Eve McVeigh, Benny Ruben,226002:12:57.560 --> 02:12:59.560
Junius Matthews, and Joseph Kerns.226102:13:01.119 --> 02:13:04.199
Times growing short for the youngsters to write to Bing Crosby.226202:13:04.359 --> 02:13:08.079
The deadline for postmarked letters is Thursday, December fifteenth, midnight.226302:13:08.560 --> 02:13:10.520
All your youngster has to do is write a letter226402:13:10.600 --> 02:13:13.720
to Bing telling what Christmas means to me, then mail226502:13:13.760 --> 02:13:17.800
it to Bing Crosby, CBS Radio, Hollywood, twenty eight, California.226602:13:18.319 --> 02:13:19.720
The winner will read his letter in.226702:13:19.840 --> 02:13:24.319
Person when America sings with Bing Christmas Eve on CBS Radio.226802:13:25.000 --> 02:13:27.880
All youngsters twelve years of age and under are eligible.226902:13:28.239 --> 02:13:33.159
That address once again, Bing Crosby, CBS Radio, Hollywood, twenty eight, California.227002:13:33.760 --> 02:13:35.960
Be sure the young letter writer puts his name and227102:13:36.079 --> 02:13:39.800
address on the letter. Stay tuned now for five minutes227202:13:39.840 --> 02:13:42.239
of CBS Radio News to be followed on most of227302:13:42.279 --> 02:13:43.760
these same stations.227402:13:43.560 --> 02:13:45.359
By the Jack Carson Show.227502:13:58.640 --> 02:14:01.560
Thrill to Gun Smoke every Saturday and Sunday on the227602:14:01.640 --> 02:14:03.079
CBS Radio Network.227702:14:56.840 --> 02:15:01.359
The suspenses is well is palpable? My dear?227802:15:02.800 --> 02:15:03.439
Do you like it?227902:15:04.960 --> 02:15:10.000
It wasn't exactly easy for me to obtain, but I228002:15:10.159 --> 02:15:15.800
knew you would appreciate it. Oh what's that? Oh no, no,228102:15:16.479 --> 02:15:26.079
just regular water well and absolutely no sunlight. Well, I228202:15:26.239 --> 02:15:28.920
assure you it's easier than it sounds like.228302:15:30.279 --> 02:15:30.560
I do.228402:15:30.800 --> 02:15:37.560
Hope this brings you a very happy holiday. What's that? Well?228502:15:38.640 --> 02:15:43.840
I suppose we could also have a present for Ricky.228602:15:58.560 --> 02:16:02.119
I'm there and I know many things.228702:16:02.359 --> 02:16:03.479
For I walked by night.228802:16:04.159 --> 02:16:05.800
I know many strange.228902:16:05.479 --> 02:16:08.239
Tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who229002:16:08.279 --> 02:16:12.439
had stepped into the shadows. Yet I know the nameless229102:16:12.600 --> 02:16:18.039
terrors of which they dare not speak to night. It's229202:16:18.079 --> 02:16:33.559
the whisper's strange story are present for Ricky dressed. The229302:16:33.639 --> 02:16:37.520
spotlight subtly changed from white to a delicate blue, and229402:16:37.639 --> 02:16:41.319
the small nightclub orchestra slid into three quarter times as229502:16:41.360 --> 02:16:44.959
the dance team began their waltz. The Croydons, Clyde and229602:16:45.040 --> 02:16:47.719
Marie had held top filling at the club for almost229702:16:47.760 --> 02:16:52.120
a year, and it was well deserved. Drinks stood unnoticed229802:16:52.159 --> 02:16:56.920
on the table, conversation stumped. Everyone now was watching the Croydon,229902:16:57.360 --> 02:17:03.159
or rather Marie kreud slim, graceful blue velvet, Marie smiling230002:17:03.280 --> 02:17:06.360
as she spun across the floor, poised for a moment,230102:17:06.799 --> 02:17:11.159
and floated effortlessly back to Clyde, waiting on. The customers230202:17:11.200 --> 02:17:14.760
loved felt that there was a first time look about it,230302:17:15.200 --> 02:17:17.399
even in the way they murmured to each other as230402:17:17.440 --> 02:17:21.879
they swayed gently together in three quarter times and your230502:17:21.920 --> 02:17:22.520
chose tonight?230602:17:22.639 --> 02:17:26.479
Each are you why did it long for a change?230702:17:26.600 --> 02:17:27.479
To take it easy?230802:17:28.159 --> 02:17:30.840
If I have to prop you up on another ternnel spot.230902:17:36.040 --> 02:17:39.719
Yes, the customer's love. Clyde and Marie husband and wife,231002:17:40.360 --> 02:17:45.040
quiet maturity and breathless youths. And at the same time,231102:17:45.159 --> 02:17:47.920
on the other side of the room, a theatrical agent231202:17:48.079 --> 02:17:52.280
named Stanley Craig appraised the Croydon's a little more critically.231302:17:52.879 --> 02:17:56.760
You like her Asian girl's good. He just needs a231402:17:56.840 --> 02:18:04.959
younger partner. The old boy slows her up. Let me231502:18:05.000 --> 02:18:07.799
see what I mean? Well, that's been that's.231602:18:07.680 --> 02:18:08.479
Just the old boy.231702:18:08.479 --> 02:18:09.440
He's killing me act.231802:18:10.079 --> 02:18:12.360
You wouldn't be fiction to cut him off at the ankles.231902:18:12.440 --> 02:18:13.719
What do you mean?232002:18:14.360 --> 02:18:17.200
You just might be promoting the rumber expert you just picked.232102:18:17.040 --> 02:18:20.399
Up as a new partner names Ricky.232202:18:21.479 --> 02:18:22.200
What if I am?232302:18:23.239 --> 02:18:25.360
He's the boy who can do it. He's young, Mike,232402:18:25.440 --> 02:18:27.719
he's got looks and you you see what I mean?232502:18:46.079 --> 02:18:48.719
All right, Marie, let's get it over with.232602:18:49.440 --> 02:18:50.159
Get what over with?232702:18:50.920 --> 02:18:52.639
You're likely speech that.232802:18:52.840 --> 02:18:54.079
Fact you made out on the floor.232902:18:54.719 --> 02:18:56.319
Oh yes, that.233002:18:58.559 --> 02:18:59.520
My head is quick hard.233102:19:00.680 --> 02:19:03.440
I'm waiting, Marie, don't forget it.233202:19:04.680 --> 02:19:06.079
I don't want to go through it all again.233302:19:06.200 --> 02:19:08.159
Now I think it's time we had it out.233402:19:08.600 --> 02:19:11.680
Listen, Clyde, why you tiny kids yoursel?233502:19:12.239 --> 02:19:13.639
You know it can't go on like this.233602:19:13.920 --> 02:19:16.879
I don't know, just got a pretty good hand.233702:19:17.200 --> 02:19:18.479
You mean I got a good hand.233802:19:18.520 --> 02:19:19.479
You might as well admit it.233902:19:19.719 --> 02:19:21.040
I don't think that's quite fair, but.234002:19:21.079 --> 02:19:21.959
That's true, Clyde.234102:19:23.280 --> 02:19:27.479
You'reting tired of popping you up, covering up your fumbles, Harry,234202:19:27.559 --> 02:19:29.079
my hair, my mouth every time, it's going to it.234302:19:29.200 --> 02:19:30.840
Now, wait a minute, you wait.234402:19:30.680 --> 02:19:35.840
A minute, maybe you might maybe we better have it234502:19:35.920 --> 02:19:36.479
out right now.234602:19:36.680 --> 02:19:39.600
When I picked you up, you were nothing jitterbug camp234702:19:39.639 --> 02:19:42.360
you know, West Washington Heights. Why in five years, don't234802:19:42.399 --> 02:19:43.520
give me that loyalty?234902:19:43.680 --> 02:19:45.040
Kid, I've heard it before.235002:19:46.760 --> 02:19:49.520
If you really want to talk about loyalty, let's talk about.235102:19:49.239 --> 02:19:50.040
Your first wife.235202:19:50.879 --> 02:19:52.159
You forgot about her in a hurry.235302:19:52.200 --> 02:19:53.840
Didn't you sure she was too old?235402:19:53.959 --> 02:19:56.520
Throwing up the ass? Didn't let if you then?235502:19:56.680 --> 02:19:56.920
Did it?235602:19:57.399 --> 02:19:57.440
No?235702:19:58.280 --> 02:19:59.879
Sorry, baby, I got to get rid of you.235802:20:00.360 --> 02:20:02.000
I know it's tough for the show business.235902:20:02.479 --> 02:20:03.559
Off you go to Reno.236002:20:04.399 --> 02:20:05.719
What makes you think I'm old?236102:20:05.959 --> 02:20:06.680
You're forty.236202:20:07.440 --> 02:20:11.840
That's too old for me, and it's not just my opinion.236302:20:12.719 --> 02:20:14.840
Talk about who's talking about it?236402:20:15.159 --> 02:20:15.879
People who ought to.236502:20:15.920 --> 02:20:18.680
Know telling each other. I'd be on top.236602:20:19.360 --> 02:20:21.760
I had a partner, boon didn't creak.236702:20:22.239 --> 02:20:25.680
You got somebody in mind, we'll forget it. I have236802:20:25.840 --> 02:20:29.159
no intention of letting you go. There's a partner, or236902:20:29.239 --> 02:20:31.000
as a wife, yes.237002:20:31.600 --> 02:20:35.959
Much without me, you would be right bottom, billing at237102:20:35.959 --> 02:20:38.680
our third rate, by less than Jersey City.237202:20:38.799 --> 02:20:41.239
That has nothing to do with it, all right, give237302:20:41.280 --> 02:20:42.840
me a better reason over there.237402:20:42.799 --> 02:20:43.760
On the table.237502:20:45.120 --> 02:20:45.520
Roses.237602:20:48.799 --> 02:20:53.239
It's the reason Marie, these roses night after night, the237702:20:53.360 --> 02:20:54.040
same card.237802:20:54.319 --> 02:20:54.600
Ricky?237902:20:59.360 --> 02:20:59.959
Who is Ricky?238002:21:01.239 --> 02:21:02.040
One of the customers?238102:21:02.079 --> 02:21:02.799
He likes my dance?238202:21:02.920 --> 02:21:05.799
Is that all so far? I think you're in love238302:21:05.879 --> 02:21:08.360
with him? That's what's behind all of it. Stuck about238402:21:08.399 --> 02:21:08.879
my dancing?238502:21:08.959 --> 02:21:09.239
Isn't it?238602:21:09.879 --> 02:21:12.799
You love this guy and my dancing is as good238702:21:12.799 --> 02:21:13.959
an excuse as any that.238802:21:15.920 --> 02:21:16.280
Who is.238902:21:18.280 --> 02:21:18.879
The name is?239002:21:19.239 --> 02:21:20.200
What's his last name?239102:21:20.319 --> 02:21:22.559
It's not yours at the moment I think it is.239202:21:23.920 --> 02:21:25.920
He's a dancer, isn't it? Yes?239302:21:26.280 --> 02:21:28.440
Imstor he's the dancer.239402:21:30.000 --> 02:21:32.280
You might as well end the third degree right here.239502:21:32.520 --> 02:21:36.639
You're planning to team up with a mart won't get239602:21:36.680 --> 02:21:37.399
away with him.239702:21:38.360 --> 02:21:40.559
In my career?239802:21:40.680 --> 02:21:44.120
Doesn't mean anything you doesn't only when it affects mine.239902:21:44.280 --> 02:21:46.200
That's why you married me, isn't it for the effect240002:21:46.280 --> 02:21:47.399
I have on your career?240102:21:47.559 --> 02:21:49.440
You married me for the same reason.240202:21:49.559 --> 02:21:51.719
Well, maybe I did, but the reason is gone now.240302:21:51.799 --> 02:22:00.520
I don't need you any more, pride. I need Ricky now,240402:22:00.600 --> 02:22:00.799
you know.240502:22:02.840 --> 02:22:06.360
Let's handle the whole thing reasonably. Shall we wind up240602:22:06.399 --> 02:22:08.799
here in another week? How come you sh up with you?240702:22:10.399 --> 02:22:13.200
Then I can find myself another clues.240802:22:14.200 --> 02:22:18.360
Now that has take too long. I can't start all240902:22:18.399 --> 02:22:22.360
over again now, I guess I'll have to start at241002:22:22.399 --> 02:22:25.879
the other end with Ricky. I'll look him up tomorrow.241102:22:25.959 --> 02:22:26.879
I don't even know who.241202:22:27.440 --> 02:22:29.440
I have a pretty good idea who his agent is241302:22:29.760 --> 02:22:32.600
that ought to get me somewhere? Stan Ley Craig, isn't241402:22:32.639 --> 02:22:36.799
it Marine? How did you know dan Ley Craig theatrical agent?241502:22:38.040 --> 02:22:41.000
You shouldn't have left his card on your desk yesterday,241602:22:41.120 --> 02:22:47.520
Darling Ry, Why if you do anything to you do241702:22:47.760 --> 02:22:48.479
love him? Don't you?241802:22:49.120 --> 02:22:49.520
All right?241902:22:49.600 --> 02:22:50.879
I love him for the last time?242002:22:50.959 --> 02:22:52.879
What's it gonna be, Ricky on me?242102:22:53.159 --> 02:22:56.719
I've already told you nothing can change his card.242202:22:57.840 --> 02:23:01.959
This is our last week, all right?242302:23:04.280 --> 02:23:05.760
That's all I wanted to miss.242402:23:20.600 --> 02:23:23.559
In just thirty seconds. The whistler will continue to night story.242502:23:24.760 --> 02:23:27.239
Don't be half right, use U Staffe.242602:23:27.639 --> 02:23:30.559
For example, would you say that the use of calendars242702:23:30.680 --> 02:23:35.239
goes back twelve hundred years. No, that's only half right.242802:23:35.719 --> 02:23:38.799
Brush up on your ancient history. Tell your I and242902:23:39.000 --> 02:23:41.879
E officer you want to study with the United States243002:23:42.079 --> 02:23:46.959
Armed Forces Institute U Staffy. It's easy, it's simple. If243102:23:47.000 --> 02:23:49.920
you don't want to be half right, use Usafie.243202:23:51.040 --> 02:24:09.559
Now back to no whistler, Well, Clyde, it's all over.243302:24:10.360 --> 02:24:13.000
Her mind is made up, and you know Marie well243402:24:13.120 --> 02:24:15.760
enough to realize that nothing you can do or say243502:24:15.879 --> 02:24:19.120
will change it now and everything she said was truth.243602:24:19.680 --> 02:24:23.319
Without her, you're nothing. There'll be no more top billings243702:24:23.319 --> 02:24:26.840
at one thousand a week, in expensive nightbocks, no more243802:24:26.959 --> 02:24:31.719
polite applause from the cafe society crowd, no more penthouse apartments,243902:24:32.639 --> 02:24:35.760
nothing but a seat on the sidelines while Marie and244002:24:35.920 --> 02:24:40.360
Ricky drifts across ballroom floors, on and up to the top.244102:24:41.799 --> 02:24:44.159
It's early the next morning when you leave your apartment244202:24:44.239 --> 02:24:47.840
by the private elevator, and twenty minutes later you walk244302:24:47.959 --> 02:24:51.479
up a flight of creaky stairs to Stanley Craig Hawk244402:24:52.079 --> 02:24:58.159
in the West forties. Here, sir, what can I do244502:24:58.319 --> 02:25:01.959
for it? Stanley Craig, that's name?244602:25:02.360 --> 02:25:03.000
Pull up a chair.244702:25:03.639 --> 02:25:04.000
Thank you.244802:25:06.479 --> 02:25:08.319
I thought I might be a little early.244902:25:09.760 --> 02:25:12.680
Hey, I didn't recognize you from you're Clyde Crowdon.245002:25:13.559 --> 02:25:15.079
I saw you act again last night.245102:25:15.479 --> 02:25:17.760
Really yeah, good act too.245202:25:18.479 --> 02:25:18.799
Thank you?245302:25:20.280 --> 02:25:21.079
What can I do for it?245402:25:21.639 --> 02:25:22.799
Answer a few questions?245502:25:23.600 --> 02:25:29.399
Yeah, glad to you manage a dancer named Ray. I245602:25:29.479 --> 02:25:30.319
see what you get, man.245702:25:31.840 --> 02:25:33.120
Yeah, I'm managing new.245802:25:33.079 --> 02:25:35.280
Boy specialist numbers and time goes.245902:25:35.559 --> 02:25:36.399
If i'd dancers.246002:25:36.520 --> 02:25:40.319
That's what Marine tells me. Make a great team, mister246102:25:40.399 --> 02:25:45.120
c Reggy and Marie. She's not at liberty, mister Craig.246202:25:45.200 --> 02:25:49.479
She's my popul and my wife. I'm amid this sort246302:25:49.520 --> 02:25:53.280
of thing going behind my back, but I'm sure she246402:25:53.479 --> 02:25:57.920
resents it too. That's not what Ricky tell me. Well,246502:25:58.000 --> 02:26:00.559
mister Croydon, you've been in the game long enough to246602:26:00.680 --> 02:26:02.079
know what youth means.246702:26:01.879 --> 02:26:02.680
In a dance ing.246802:26:03.120 --> 02:26:04.600
I don't think you're being very fair to me.246902:26:08.000 --> 02:26:10.040
If she goes for it, I guess Ricky'll be a247002:26:10.120 --> 02:26:10.680
new apartment.247102:26:11.280 --> 02:26:12.360
There's just nothing you can do.247202:26:13.639 --> 02:26:17.319
I would like to talk to him if you don't mind, sure,247302:26:18.040 --> 02:26:22.040
just say when today? Where is he not out in247402:26:22.120 --> 02:26:25.440
the park somewhere? He walks for two hours every morning,247502:26:25.520 --> 02:26:30.799
good for the legs, you know, alone. So I had247602:26:30.879 --> 02:26:32.920
to find another guy who'd knock off eight miles in247702:26:33.000 --> 02:26:35.920
the park before lunch. Don't you think, hey, he's a247802:26:36.000 --> 02:26:41.399
long well does he come here after his walk? Sometimes yes, sometimes.247902:26:40.959 --> 02:26:42.159
No, It might be a couple hours.248002:26:42.559 --> 02:26:43.520
I have all morning.248102:26:44.479 --> 02:26:48.000
Okay, the new variety's on the desk.248202:26:48.680 --> 02:26:50.239
You'll be alone here now in the bottom.248302:26:50.600 --> 02:26:57.799
Thanks. H Sure I met the card?248402:26:58.040 --> 02:27:01.079
Yeah, no, i'd feel right.248502:27:01.959 --> 02:27:05.479
No hard feelings, Why.248602:27:12.079 --> 02:27:15.719
No, Clyde, no hard feelings at all. That's the amazing248702:27:15.840 --> 02:27:19.000
realization that, not one minute ago, as you talked to248802:27:19.079 --> 02:27:24.959
Stanley Craig, you calmly, unemotionally, coldly decided to murder your248902:27:25.040 --> 02:27:26.280
wife Marie.249002:27:33.079 --> 02:27:34.440
There was no shock to it at all.249102:27:34.680 --> 02:27:36.360
If it is that it had been there all the249202:27:36.520 --> 02:27:39.040
time in the back of your mind, waiting to be249302:27:39.239 --> 02:27:43.479
formulated in the thought, Yes, Clyde, here you are. I'll249402:27:43.520 --> 02:27:47.159
stand at Craig's office alone. Ricky is walking in the249502:27:48.040 --> 02:27:51.840
Marie is at home alone. You realizement that he likes249602:27:51.879 --> 02:27:56.079
it might not happen in a thousand years. If you're249702:27:56.159 --> 02:27:59.120
going to do it at all, Clyd, you've got to.249802:27:59.200 --> 02:27:59.760
Do it now.249902:28:02.639 --> 02:28:04.559
On the top of the file cabinet you find a250002:28:04.639 --> 02:28:09.319
package of Stanley Craig's letterhead on his desk about her typewriter.250102:28:10.120 --> 02:28:12.760
In your pocket, the cards signed Ricky that came with250202:28:12.799 --> 02:28:19.280
the flowers, and most important in your mind, an idea, Marie,250302:28:19.799 --> 02:28:24.360
my darling. It is useless to try to put this250402:28:24.559 --> 02:28:29.000
into words. I've told no one of your decisions to250502:28:29.120 --> 02:28:34.120
stay with Clyde, because I know it isn't final, but you.250602:28:34.360 --> 02:28:36.280
Love me and always will.250702:28:37.440 --> 02:28:40.399
That's the only future for either of our feet together.250802:28:43.399 --> 02:28:45.520
You finish the note, and at the bottom of it,250902:28:45.719 --> 02:28:49.680
after all my love, you'll carefully copy Ricky's signature from251002:28:49.719 --> 02:28:53.159
the card on the desk is a sharp letter opener251102:28:53.239 --> 02:28:54.680
with Stanley Craig's naman.251202:28:55.600 --> 02:28:56.520
That's part of it too.251302:28:56.719 --> 02:28:56.959
Card.251402:28:57.760 --> 02:29:00.319
You put it in your coat pocket ready when you251502:29:00.440 --> 02:29:00.680
need it.251602:29:01.719 --> 02:29:04.959
Now back to your departet. You still have over an251702:29:05.000 --> 02:29:05.920
hour and.251802:29:06.120 --> 02:29:21.520
You know Marie will be alone. Hello, Marie, Oh, how.251902:29:21.520 --> 02:29:21.920
Are you ben?252002:29:22.399 --> 02:29:23.159
You know where I went?252102:29:24.120 --> 02:29:25.959
Did you see him? Ricky?252202:29:26.719 --> 02:29:27.360
Who else?252302:29:27.639 --> 02:29:30.680
He wasn't there? I think he was taking his morning252402:29:30.760 --> 02:29:35.840
walk in the park. Remember when we used to walk252502:29:35.879 --> 02:29:41.000
in the park together, Marie yet breaking my heart? All right,252602:29:43.040 --> 02:29:45.479
all right, I want to show you a letter.252702:29:46.000 --> 02:29:46.200
Huh.252802:29:47.600 --> 02:29:54.239
Yes, really, it's addressed to you, Marie.252902:29:54.040 --> 02:29:54.559
My dying.253002:29:55.479 --> 02:29:58.120
It's useless to try to put this into woods.253102:29:58.879 --> 02:30:02.120
I've told no one of your decision to stay with Clyde,253202:30:02.200 --> 02:30:03.959
because I know it is in final.253302:30:05.000 --> 02:30:09.319
But you love me and always, oh God, go.253402:30:09.479 --> 02:30:10.000
On, Marie.253502:30:10.079 --> 02:30:10.959
Read the rest of it.253602:30:12.719 --> 02:30:17.840
True, always will that the only future for either of253702:30:17.959 --> 02:30:21.639
us is together. You must believe me, Darling. I'd rather253802:30:21.840 --> 02:30:24.239
die than have it any other way. I'm coming to253902:30:24.280 --> 02:30:27.440
your apartment tomorrow morning at eleven. We must decide this254002:30:27.719 --> 02:30:31.680
one thing for all all my love Ricky.254102:30:33.200 --> 02:30:34.239
That the Madame Marie.254202:30:36.680 --> 02:30:37.120
Clyde.254302:30:37.280 --> 02:30:39.360
That's the funniest thing I've ever read in my life.254402:30:40.399 --> 02:30:51.920
You're doing, if you're doing this, play okness.254502:30:53.879 --> 02:30:57.159
He's going for the chair, Marie, for your murder.254602:31:00.280 --> 02:31:02.040
Try please please.254702:31:03.399 --> 02:31:23.040
No? Oh still aromas a cr yes, Still around, beginning254802:31:23.079 --> 02:31:25.879
to wonder if Ricky will show up at all? Anybody call,254902:31:27.079 --> 02:31:29.799
not unless they called. While I was out stretching my legs,255002:31:29.879 --> 02:31:31.680
walked around the block a couple of times.255102:31:32.440 --> 02:31:33.559
Sorry had to wait so long.255202:31:33.680 --> 02:31:34.479
Oh that's all right.255302:31:36.079 --> 02:31:40.319
It gave me a chance to think things over. That's255402:31:40.719 --> 02:31:45.639
good or bad. I think it's good. I decided it's255502:31:45.680 --> 02:31:48.600
wrong for me to try to stand in her way.255602:31:50.319 --> 02:31:53.319
This looks like a break for her and Ricky. I255702:31:53.399 --> 02:31:57.319
think they deserve a chance. I was hoping you see255802:31:57.360 --> 02:31:57.840
it that way.255902:31:58.840 --> 02:31:59.360
Thanks a lot.256002:32:00.639 --> 02:32:07.239
Well, i'd better be going tell Ricky about that when256102:32:07.319 --> 02:32:13.520
he comes. Sure the gun home? Yes, I think i'd256202:32:13.559 --> 02:32:34.479
better tell Marie. Police headquartered. This is Clyde Croydon. I256302:32:34.680 --> 02:32:37.479
live in the penthouse at twelve thirty two Warwick Place,256402:32:38.280 --> 02:32:41.559
twelve thirty two. That's time. Please send somebody up here256502:32:41.600 --> 02:32:44.040
as quickly as you can. My wife has been murdered.256602:32:52.799 --> 02:32:58.319
Feel better, mister Cruden, I think so. Sidon, there's quite256702:32:58.360 --> 02:33:00.600
a letter we found on the waist bash get what256802:33:00.719 --> 02:33:03.959
do you think of it? I don't know what to think.256902:33:04.520 --> 02:33:06.600
You knew what was going on between this man and257002:33:06.680 --> 02:33:09.280
your way? There was nothing going on. It was all257102:33:09.399 --> 02:33:10.200
in his mind.257202:33:11.079 --> 02:33:11.520
What do you mean?257302:33:12.159 --> 02:33:15.760
Well, look, I've never seen this Ricky.257402:33:16.159 --> 02:33:17.239
I don't know who he is.257502:33:17.639 --> 02:33:21.520
All I know is that he started sending Marie flowers257602:33:21.600 --> 02:33:25.680
after every performance. He had some crazy idea she was257702:33:25.760 --> 02:33:30.079
in love with him. It was ridiculous. She hardly knew him,257802:33:30.680 --> 02:33:34.559
and what about the dance business that was part of257902:33:34.639 --> 02:33:37.440
it too. He thought she'd leave me and team up258002:33:37.479 --> 02:33:37.840
with him.258102:33:37.920 --> 02:33:38.520
Don't ask me.258202:33:38.600 --> 02:33:42.760
Why, but she laughed at him. H that's as good258302:33:42.799 --> 02:33:46.079
a motive as I've seen in twenty years, you know.258402:33:46.280 --> 02:33:46.319
So?258502:33:46.319 --> 02:33:48.239
I wonder he didn't leave a confession note.258602:33:48.120 --> 02:33:48.840
Right on the table.258702:33:49.319 --> 02:33:52.440
He left e anything else? First class motive letter In258802:33:52.520 --> 02:33:54.879
the waist past is the knife for his manager's name258902:33:54.959 --> 02:34:02.040
on it, and the butcher's outside. Yet, after practically shouting259002:34:02.079 --> 02:34:05.159
from the housetops said he'd killed her, he carefully wipes259102:34:05.200 --> 02:34:12.399
his punch off the knife. Funny how a murderer's mind works,259202:34:12.479 --> 02:34:18.360
isn't it? Yes, it's hard to understand, by the way,259302:34:18.360 --> 02:34:22.159
missus Croydon, this is only a formality, of course. What259402:34:22.399 --> 02:34:26.399
were you yesterday morning? In Craig's office, waiting for Ricky259502:34:26.520 --> 02:34:27.079
to show up?259602:34:27.760 --> 02:34:30.239
Craig seemed to think she'd go for him as a.259702:34:30.280 --> 02:34:32.920
New partner, and I finally decided to go down and259802:34:33.040 --> 02:34:37.079
settle it. Have any words, No, I just told him259902:34:37.079 --> 02:34:39.040
if it was all right, with Marie. It was all260002:34:39.159 --> 02:34:41.799
right with me. I knew, of course, how she felt260102:34:41.840 --> 02:34:45.200
about him. Where it was Ricky at the time, walking260202:34:45.280 --> 02:34:48.879
in the park, exercising his leg alone.260302:34:49.959 --> 02:34:52.639
I yes, here it is again.260402:34:53.319 --> 02:34:54.520
I bet the guy hasn't even.260502:34:54.360 --> 02:34:57.079
Got himself an alibi. Have you talked to him yet?260602:34:57.600 --> 02:35:00.520
The boys are looking him up now, they ask me,260702:35:00.639 --> 02:35:03.399
mister Croydon, that guy's a dead pigeon.260802:35:14.280 --> 02:35:16.559
All of us are proud of our hometowns, and rightly so.260902:35:17.399 --> 02:35:19.760
In this brief moment, before we continue with our program,261002:35:20.159 --> 02:35:21.840
we'd like to offer a salute to one of our261102:35:21.920 --> 02:35:22.920
hometowns in America.261202:35:23.239 --> 02:35:27.319
Cleveland, Ohio, the seventh largest city in the United States.261302:35:28.000 --> 02:35:31.680
Cleveland was founded in seventeen ninety six by General Moses Cleveland,261402:35:32.079 --> 02:35:35.840
chief surveyor for a land company. His employers bought three261502:35:35.879 --> 02:35:39.200
million acres in what is now northern Ohio, paying forty261602:35:39.280 --> 02:35:42.840
cents an acre. Just by way of comparison, an acre261702:35:42.920 --> 02:35:46.399
in downtown Cleveland today would bring some two million dollars.261802:35:47.680 --> 02:35:50.079
It is an important great Lake shipping point in the261902:35:50.159 --> 02:35:55.559
sight of iron and steel manufacturings. Other Cleveland products include paints, varnishes,262002:35:55.639 --> 02:36:00.239
electrical appliances, chemicals, and automobile and airplane parts. It is262102:36:00.319 --> 02:36:03.479
well known for its cultural developments. Also, the city owns262202:36:03.520 --> 02:36:06.879
and operates its own dramatic theater, and the Cleveland Symphony262302:36:07.000 --> 02:36:10.959
Orchestra is widely acclaimed. In the Cleveland Cultural Gardens, a262402:36:11.040 --> 02:36:14.239
mile long strip of park area, more than thirty nationality262502:36:14.280 --> 02:36:18.399
groups represented in Cleveland's population are creating gardens as memorials262602:36:18.440 --> 02:36:21.959
to peace. One hundred and twenty years is a short262702:36:22.040 --> 02:36:25.559
time in the world's history, but during that time, Cleveland262802:36:25.680 --> 02:36:28.319
has taken its honored place in the building of America.262902:36:29.680 --> 02:36:48.840
Now back to the whistlers, well cried.263002:36:49.079 --> 02:36:51.959
All it took was a little nerve. You're over the hunts,263102:36:52.040 --> 02:36:55.120
now all ready to act as number one witness for263202:36:55.159 --> 02:36:59.040
the prosecution in the case against break. Tomorrow the story263302:36:59.079 --> 02:37:02.399
will break in the paper and the notoriety. The public263402:37:02.559 --> 02:37:05.799
sympathy over your bereavement should make it easy to pick263502:37:05.879 --> 02:37:08.600
up a new party, one who'll keep you in the263602:37:08.719 --> 02:37:14.239
top spot in penthouse apartment with private elevators. Yes, God,263702:37:15.040 --> 02:37:27.040
you can relax now you've decided it's all. Oh, Rogeant,263802:37:27.479 --> 02:37:30.760
I'm sorry to disturb you, mister Croydon. I was about263902:37:30.840 --> 02:37:36.760
to go to bed. Anything wrong we've got Ricky. Oh good, yeah,264002:37:36.879 --> 02:37:43.200
just finished questioning him. Mind a recommend not at all. Well,264102:37:43.319 --> 02:37:47.200
we check the note against Greg's typewriter. That's where it264202:37:47.280 --> 02:37:49.440
came from, all right, And then it looks like you've264302:37:49.479 --> 02:37:53.200
got a kick. No throws a curve for a while,264402:37:54.639 --> 02:37:58.280
mean for a while, until we found Ricky. He claims,264502:37:58.280 --> 02:38:00.600
you didn't write it. Good lord, what did you expecting264602:38:00.719 --> 02:38:06.959
to say? In just a minute? Show you what I mean? Whatever,264702:38:10.559 --> 02:38:15.040
cluden missus. Ricardo Montez, also known as Ricky.264802:38:15.239 --> 02:38:15.719
He did it.264902:38:15.840 --> 02:38:16.799
He killed my wife.265002:38:16.879 --> 02:38:25.040
He wrote the note, said the Carolina said, wait a minute,265102:38:25.040 --> 02:38:27.799
that's what I mean about the note. Croydon. The boy265202:38:27.840 --> 02:38:30.559
doesn't know a word of English, he said, fake. We265302:38:30.760 --> 02:38:33.040
checked that too, But there was another thing about that265402:38:33.200 --> 02:38:36.239
note that really tied it up, Croydon. If he could265502:38:36.280 --> 02:38:38.680
have written it, he'd have signed it in his own handwriting.265602:38:38.799 --> 02:38:43.399
But it was his handwriting, it was his name, but265702:38:43.600 --> 02:39:11.440
the florist's handwriting. Featured in Tonight's Story, where Bill Foreman265802:39:11.520 --> 02:39:15.000
is the whistler, Vic Karnjeene Bates, Kerry Bartel and Jack265902:39:15.079 --> 02:39:19.079
Moyles the Whistler, directed by Gordon T. Hughes, the music266002:39:19.120 --> 02:39:22.440
by wilbra Hatch is produced by Joel Malone and transmitted266102:39:22.479 --> 02:39:25.920
overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service. The Whistler was266202:39:26.079 --> 02:39:28.840
entirely fictional, and all characters portrayed on the Whistler are266302:39:28.920 --> 02:39:33.040
also fictional. Any similarities of names or resemblances to persons266402:39:33.200 --> 02:39:37.000
living or dead is purely coincidental. This is Dan Cubberley266502:39:37.040 --> 02:39:39.680
speaking and reminding you to listen again next week for266602:39:39.719 --> 02:39:55.200
another strange tale by the Whistler. This is the United266702:39:55.239 --> 02:39:57.639
States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.266802:39:59.479 --> 02:40:04.120
Well, I'm glad you seem to have warmed up to266902:40:04.239 --> 02:40:04.760
your gift.267002:40:06.559 --> 02:40:06.760
Ah.267102:40:09.040 --> 02:40:13.399
I think this calls for even more hot cocoa and267202:40:13.520 --> 02:40:19.520
another log on the fire. These walls are thick and stone.267302:40:21.000 --> 02:40:25.840
They do hold a chill if they want to, and267402:40:26.040 --> 02:40:32.600
believe me, their mood is well unpredictable, to say the least.267502:40:34.360 --> 02:40:37.040
I don't know about you, but sometimes I like to267602:40:37.159 --> 02:40:41.440
let the temperature drop. I like to feel the chill,267702:40:42.000 --> 02:40:45.479
like I'm some kind of abominable snowman.267802:40:46.319 --> 02:40:51.360
Tired of the everyday grind, ever dream of a life267902:40:51.440 --> 02:40:56.040
of romantic adventure, want to.268002:40:56.040 --> 02:40:57.159
Get away from it all.268102:40:58.760 --> 02:40:59.520
We offer you.268202:41:01.639 --> 02:41:09.440
Escape, escape designed to free you from the four walls268302:41:09.520 --> 02:41:12.360
of today for a half hour of high adventure.268402:41:26.280 --> 02:41:29.360
You are high on the frozen slopes of a great mountain,268502:41:30.319 --> 02:41:33.920
terrified and caught in a blizzard, while the thing for268602:41:34.079 --> 02:41:38.920
which you've been hunting has suddenly become the hunter. And268702:41:39.040 --> 02:41:43.159
if it finds you, then for you and your companions268802:41:44.639 --> 02:41:46.799
there can be no escape.268902:41:47.639 --> 02:41:51.040
So listen now as escape brings you Anthony Ellis's exciting269002:41:51.159 --> 02:41:53.239
story The Abominable Snowman.269102:42:17.520 --> 02:42:19.559
Our first bit of luck was when we hired our269202:42:19.639 --> 02:42:24.159
shepherd guide, Nassang, that was in Darjiling. When I told269302:42:24.280 --> 02:42:26.920
Nasang what we were after, he hesitated for a moment,269402:42:27.879 --> 02:42:28.799
and then he said.269502:42:29.200 --> 02:42:31.920
These shybes have not come to climb Shomolongma.269602:42:32.319 --> 02:42:34.479
Oh no, we're a little late for that. It's already269702:42:34.520 --> 02:42:37.200
been done. The other two sibs and myself are here269802:42:37.280 --> 02:42:37.920
for the reason I.269902:42:38.000 --> 02:42:40.079
Told you met to Kungmy.270002:42:40.719 --> 02:42:41.120
That's right.270102:42:42.159 --> 02:42:45.000
These sibs always hired me to climb the mountain with them,270202:42:45.680 --> 02:42:46.520
but never this.270302:42:47.239 --> 02:42:48.239
Are you afraid of them?270402:42:49.079 --> 02:42:49.879
I have seen one.270502:42:51.079 --> 02:42:51.799
You've seen one.270602:42:52.239 --> 02:42:54.159
Yes, many of us have seen them.270702:42:55.399 --> 02:43:02.959
Wait a minute, Alan, yeah, what's up? I meant of270802:43:03.040 --> 02:43:05.200
viewing a sherpa and here he says he's seen one270902:43:05.239 --> 02:43:08.319
of the things. He was Frank, we'll have to give271002:43:08.360 --> 02:43:10.040
some tobacco, all right, Come on in.271102:43:10.159 --> 02:43:11.200
I think this is our man.271202:43:14.280 --> 02:43:14.639
Nasan.271302:43:15.440 --> 02:43:19.920
This is mister Ferris sad Helona San Nasan was telling271402:43:19.959 --> 02:43:20.799
me about what it's seen.271502:43:21.399 --> 02:43:22.120
Go ahead, Nassan.271602:43:22.799 --> 02:43:24.479
It has a face that is evil.271702:43:25.440 --> 02:43:28.479
And when it saw me, it uttered a strange cry271802:43:28.559 --> 02:43:33.639
and bounded away, sometimes leaping, sometimes running with great strides.271902:43:34.639 --> 02:43:37.840
It was dusk, and after a moment I lost sight272002:43:37.920 --> 02:43:40.520
of it in this snow. Where were you with the272102:43:40.760 --> 02:43:46.239
French expedition? It was at nineteen thousand feet a show Maluma.272202:43:47.040 --> 02:43:47.920
How far were you from it?272302:43:49.200 --> 02:43:53.319
Thirty feet perhaps thirty five? You're sure it wasn't an ape?272402:43:53.600 --> 02:43:56.639
I am sure there is no ape in Imaria to272502:43:56.840 --> 02:44:00.280
make such a track for about bears two I have272602:44:00.399 --> 02:44:04.440
been asked. But does a bear walk always upon its272702:44:04.520 --> 02:44:05.120
hind legs?272802:44:06.840 --> 02:44:07.040
Wow?272902:44:07.159 --> 02:44:12.520
That's enough for me, Alan, Yeah, he'll do. If you273002:44:12.559 --> 02:44:14.200
want the job. In the song, you're hired.273102:44:16.360 --> 02:44:21.120
You are going to try to capture a Yetty. Yes273202:44:21.840 --> 02:44:25.680
it will be a difficult thing, but I will serve with.273302:44:25.719 --> 02:44:43.200
You Yetty wild man network Kung me abominable snowman. That's273402:44:43.239 --> 02:44:46.360
the name the natives had for the things, and Alan Ferris,273502:44:46.479 --> 02:44:48.399
Frank Davis and I were going to try to get one.273602:44:49.479 --> 02:44:52.520
We've all done some climbing, but climbing was secondary here.273702:44:53.520 --> 02:44:56.280
Expeditions since the beginning of the twentieth century had heard273802:44:56.319 --> 02:45:00.319
of the abominable snowmen, observed their tracks, and one or273902:45:00.360 --> 02:45:05.399
two white men claim to have seen them great ape, bear, monkey,274002:45:06.280 --> 02:45:10.760
wild men. We didn't know, but we were going to274102:45:10.840 --> 02:45:18.239
find out. Four weeks later, we were in the Wrong274202:45:18.319 --> 02:45:21.200
Book Valley for our interview at the monastery with a lama.274302:45:22.079 --> 02:45:24.520
The journey from our base had been uneventful. The weather274402:45:24.639 --> 02:45:27.719
was good and our spirits were high. From the lama's274502:45:27.760 --> 02:45:30.479
window we could see the great Peak of Everest in274602:45:30.559 --> 02:45:31.079
the distance.274702:45:34.079 --> 02:45:37.600
Why, gentlemen, do you desire to capture metal Kung.274802:45:38.040 --> 02:45:40.280
Because we believe it will be an invaluable aid in274902:45:40.319 --> 02:45:43.159
our prehistoric research, that is, if these things are in275002:45:43.319 --> 02:45:44.520
any way human.275102:45:44.719 --> 02:45:48.760
And for this reason, then you have formed the expedition. Yes,275202:45:50.239 --> 02:45:54.399
you are all familiar with climbing, Yes we are. You275302:45:54.440 --> 02:45:59.719
would need to be the YETI move at high places dangerous,275402:46:00.479 --> 02:46:04.680
so my people tell me. Also the monsoons are arriving275502:46:04.920 --> 02:46:05.799
in a short time.275602:46:06.079 --> 02:46:09.200
I understand that. Then do we have your permission to275702:46:09.280 --> 02:46:11.280
investigate in the valet and beyond?275802:46:11.799 --> 02:46:12.319
You have my.275902:46:12.360 --> 02:46:13.840
Permission now I appreciate it.276002:46:14.000 --> 02:46:17.799
There is one point, however, I must request that no276102:46:18.079 --> 02:46:21.559
wild animal or being in this valley be shocked.276202:46:22.520 --> 02:46:26.280
Our religion does not allow it. Well respect your wishes, sir.276302:46:27.280 --> 02:46:29.719
Now may I ask you one more thing? Of course,276402:46:29.920 --> 02:46:33.840
my son, do you believe in the existence of matter?276502:46:33.920 --> 02:46:34.239
Kangli?276602:46:36.200 --> 02:46:39.680
I myself have never seen them, but I know that276702:46:39.799 --> 02:46:43.680
they live here above the value on the Goddess Mother276802:46:43.879 --> 02:46:47.600
of the world. It is also true that at least276902:46:47.799 --> 02:46:52.280
five and possibly more inhabit the upper Wrong Book and277002:46:52.479 --> 02:46:53.280
its glaciers.277102:46:54.600 --> 02:46:54.879
Thank you?277202:46:56.000 --> 02:46:57.200
Do you have portons?277302:46:57.639 --> 02:46:59.760
Our guide in Masan is hiring them now.277402:47:00.120 --> 02:47:03.959
Yeah, I trust that he meets with good fortune.277502:47:11.000 --> 02:47:14.319
The old man with great dignity about slightly to us,277602:47:14.360 --> 02:47:15.239
and we were dismissed.277702:47:16.239 --> 02:47:18.079
But I thought I saw the shadow.277802:47:17.760 --> 02:47:19.760
Of a smile on his lips as he turned away.277902:47:21.079 --> 02:47:24.399
And it wasn't long before I found out why. Nasang278002:47:24.520 --> 02:47:26.840
returned to us in our quarters, and his face warned278102:47:26.879 --> 02:47:27.600
of bad news.278202:47:27.879 --> 02:47:31.639
So I am unable to hire any porters why not.278302:47:32.200 --> 02:47:34.120
They know the purpose of the expedition.278402:47:34.879 --> 02:47:35.799
They will not go.278502:47:36.440 --> 02:47:40.319
Why they are afraid the snowmen.278602:47:40.639 --> 02:47:44.520
Yes, they live in peace with them. They wish no trouble.278702:47:45.200 --> 02:47:46.000
They are afraid.278802:47:47.399 --> 02:47:50.319
Well, all right, it'll be rough, but we can't waste278902:47:50.360 --> 02:47:52.440
time talking them into it. The monsoons will be coming279002:47:52.479 --> 02:47:55.159
in a couple of weeks. It's not the same as climbing.279102:47:55.239 --> 02:47:57.760
Everest will travel light. Just the four of us, set279202:47:57.799 --> 02:48:02.680
up a base and start hunting, all right with fellows. Yeah, sure, Nassan, I.279302:48:02.719 --> 02:48:03.360
Will go with you.279402:48:04.159 --> 02:48:05.040
I am not afraid.279502:48:05.239 --> 02:48:05.440
God.279602:48:06.239 --> 02:48:10.799
Well, let's take a look at the map. I will279702:48:10.840 --> 02:48:14.239
each carry a capacity load. We should be able to279802:48:14.319 --> 02:48:18.319
make this point below the glacier in two days. That's279902:48:18.399 --> 02:48:22.879
sixteen thousand feet. And if are abominable snowmen are in280002:48:22.959 --> 02:48:25.239
the vicinity, we've got two weeks.280102:48:25.040 --> 02:48:27.319
To find them when we start tomorrow.280202:48:27.719 --> 02:48:27.920
Good.280302:48:28.920 --> 02:48:32.799
Well, that's it, that's right.280402:48:33.280 --> 02:48:35.239
One thing, or what do the natives mean when they280502:48:35.239 --> 02:48:36.760
say they don't want any trouble with the things?280602:48:37.040 --> 02:48:37.600
Superstition?280702:48:37.680 --> 02:48:38.040
Probably?280802:48:38.360 --> 02:48:42.319
Oh no, sir, it is not superstition. It is because280902:48:42.360 --> 02:48:46.520
the Yetti are cannibals. That is why reporters are afraid.281002:49:01.520 --> 02:49:03.840
The weather turned ugly that day we left the village.281102:49:04.360 --> 02:49:06.760
A cold Tibetan wind blew down from the west, and281202:49:06.840 --> 02:49:08.879
with our heavy packs, it took us much longer than281302:49:08.879 --> 02:49:10.799
we'd thought to arrive at the point just below the281402:49:10.840 --> 02:49:13.559
Wrong Book Glacier. We set up a camp and made281502:49:13.559 --> 02:49:17.760
ourselves as comfortable as we could. The next morning wasn't281602:49:17.799 --> 02:49:21.079
so bad. There was a heavy overcast, a promise of snow,281702:49:21.959 --> 02:49:24.399
and the peak of Everest looming over us was shrouded281802:49:24.440 --> 02:49:27.079
in clouds. The four of us sat in the tent,281902:49:27.159 --> 02:49:29.120
looking at our charts and drinking hot tea.282002:49:30.840 --> 02:49:33.040
I figured it'd be easiest if we started at the282102:49:33.040 --> 02:49:35.399
East Glacier. It's only about three miles from here, and282202:49:35.399 --> 02:49:37.040
where the weather is stinking as it is, we won't282302:49:37.079 --> 02:49:39.639
run too much of a risk. How do you think, boy, Well, that.282402:49:39.680 --> 02:49:42.239
Sounds all right. What do you say we split up,282502:49:47.000 --> 02:49:49.079
you and Na sung Alan and me.282602:49:50.040 --> 02:49:52.559
We'll work up on either side of the ridge here,282702:49:53.360 --> 02:49:56.680
and if we spot any tracks, fire two shots. Now282802:49:56.760 --> 02:49:59.639
the big thing, though, No matter what, don't shoot at282902:49:59.639 --> 02:50:03.200
the thing if you do see it. Okay, okay, all right.283002:50:04.120 --> 02:50:06.399
If we lose touch with each other, we'll meet back here.283102:50:06.440 --> 02:50:06.799
At five.283202:50:08.879 --> 02:50:23.760
All right, let's get going. We'd left the base at283302:50:23.840 --> 02:50:27.159
six that morning, and the going was rough. Alan was283402:50:27.200 --> 02:50:29.000
pretty well shot by the time we got to the283502:50:29.159 --> 02:50:32.719
seventeen thousand foot mark. He was having a tough time breathing,283602:50:33.559 --> 02:50:35.920
and the wind had come up again, and with it283702:50:36.040 --> 02:50:39.399
a fine, powdery snow that blinded choked us.283802:50:44.879 --> 02:50:50.200
Hey, I gotta take five all right, yeah, I'm move283902:50:50.200 --> 02:50:51.920
over here. It might cut some of the wind.284002:50:54.159 --> 02:50:57.920
Oh oh, oh, oh.284102:50:57.920 --> 02:50:58.360
That's better.284202:51:00.680 --> 02:51:02.200
We might as well start back for the bass. We284302:51:02.239 --> 02:51:03.879
couldn't see anything in this anyhow.284402:51:04.079 --> 02:51:08.079
You know right now, I don't care whether we're doing that.284502:51:08.840 --> 02:51:11.879
This is good weather, waiting until the monsoon start.284602:51:12.680 --> 02:51:13.159
Not me.284702:51:14.639 --> 02:51:18.760
Oh cool, I have been so cool in all my life.284802:51:33.399 --> 02:51:35.680
We stayed in the half shelter of an overhang for284902:51:35.840 --> 02:51:38.559
ten minutes, and the wind was quieter and the snow285002:51:38.600 --> 02:51:41.559
at letter. I noticed that the tracks we'd made coming285102:51:41.600 --> 02:51:44.200
into the shelter were gone now, but we didn't have285202:51:44.239 --> 02:51:45.639
any worry finding our way back.285302:51:46.360 --> 02:51:46.879
I figured that.285402:51:46.920 --> 02:51:49.200
Frank and Nassang had met pretty much the same thing285502:51:49.280 --> 02:51:50.920
on their side of the ridge, and we'd meet them285602:51:50.920 --> 02:51:51.399
at the base.285702:51:52.440 --> 02:51:55.079
So Alan and I picked ourselves up and started off.285802:51:58.920 --> 02:52:01.200
Boy, I thought I was in pretty good shape. But285902:52:01.840 --> 02:52:04.120
up here, boy, I'm nothing.286002:52:06.120 --> 02:52:07.079
Well, I'm tired again.286102:52:07.399 --> 02:52:11.559
We'll just take it easy going down. You haven't got frostbined,286202:52:11.600 --> 02:52:11.760
have you?286302:52:12.159 --> 02:52:12.200
No?286402:52:13.079 --> 02:52:13.680
No, not yet.286502:52:13.719 --> 02:52:15.959
But what.286602:52:17.440 --> 02:52:18.120
The left there?286702:52:22.559 --> 02:52:28.479
Yeah, they're not our tracks, not unless you took your286802:52:28.520 --> 02:52:29.600
boots off on the way up.286902:52:31.719 --> 02:52:35.799
Must have just passed by, must have seen us.287002:52:36.760 --> 02:52:43.360
Yeah, come on, we were looking at a set of tracks,287102:52:43.479 --> 02:52:46.920
newly made in the fresh snow, and they'd passed so287202:52:47.120 --> 02:52:49.319
close to our shoulder that the thing must have known287302:52:49.360 --> 02:52:52.959
we were there. They weren't the tracks of a bear287402:52:53.520 --> 02:52:57.079
or an ape, but more like a splay footed, naked foot,287502:52:58.680 --> 02:53:00.760
the tracks of the Abomina snowmen.287602:53:11.639 --> 02:53:14.200
We will return to escape in just a moment, but first,287702:53:14.760 --> 02:53:17.680
thirty million school children make their way back to class287802:53:17.760 --> 02:53:20.280
this year. There are just ten million too many for287902:53:20.440 --> 02:53:26.200
existing school facilities. Contact Better Schools to West forty fifth Street,288002:53:26.559 --> 02:53:30.040
New York, nineteen for information on ending this menace to288102:53:30.079 --> 02:53:35.879
America's educational standards. And now back to escape.288202:53:57.239 --> 02:54:00.000
We began to follow the tracks, and for a while,288302:54:00.280 --> 02:54:03.000
perhaps one hundred and fifty yards, it was easy. And288402:54:03.120 --> 02:54:05.200
then the thing made a left wood traverse down a288502:54:05.239 --> 02:54:08.479
deep slope. We could see the prince clearly, angling with288602:54:08.600 --> 02:54:11.719
a side step, as share footed as a mountain goat,288702:54:12.639 --> 02:54:15.719
except that it was walking on two lages.288802:54:16.479 --> 02:54:20.879
His way walk Take it easy, I'll get any staper.288902:54:21.760 --> 02:54:23.360
What that thinks your cat climb?289002:54:24.079 --> 02:54:30.399
Hold up all, I think, and he dropped out of289102:54:30.479 --> 02:54:33.239
sight over the lip of the crevasse. We went roped together.289202:54:34.079 --> 02:54:36.079
I got as close as I dared to the edge.289302:54:36.639 --> 02:54:40.399
The low snow crumbled away from my outstretched body, and289402:54:40.520 --> 02:54:43.200
I looked down into the blue black darkness below, falling289502:54:43.239 --> 02:54:44.159
away into nothingness.289602:54:45.319 --> 02:54:47.040
He was gone, finished.289702:54:48.319 --> 02:54:50.120
All I could think of was the noise he'd made289802:54:50.159 --> 02:54:56.600
when he went over, Surprise, angry, then silence. The crevass289902:54:56.680 --> 02:55:02.120
might have been five hundred feet The snow started to290002:55:02.159 --> 02:55:06.879
fall again, big flakes this time, and wet. I stood290102:55:06.959 --> 02:55:09.840
up and across the gap, twenty feet away. I saw290202:55:09.879 --> 02:55:13.399
the tracks of the thing continuing on and away until290302:55:13.440 --> 02:55:15.920
they became lost in the blank whiteness of the glacier.290402:55:16.879 --> 02:55:19.760
It had jumped and landed still upright on the opposite side.290502:55:22.120 --> 02:55:25.280
I went back to the base, and an hour later290602:55:25.399 --> 02:55:29.479
Frank and the Song returned. I told them, and we290702:55:29.600 --> 02:55:30.879
were quiet for a long time.290802:55:32.680 --> 02:55:36.600
Then all, are we going on again tomorrow?290902:55:37.520 --> 02:55:37.840
Why not?291002:55:38.799 --> 02:55:40.520
I just wanted to We should go back.291102:55:41.040 --> 02:55:42.479
It is an omen, I tell you.291202:55:42.559 --> 02:55:44.479
It was going too fast. He didn't have a chance291302:55:44.520 --> 02:55:46.520
to see the cravas. That's not an omen. It's bad291402:55:46.680 --> 02:55:47.719
sense made to Kung.291502:55:47.840 --> 02:55:48.639
We cannot be got.291602:55:48.799 --> 02:55:49.639
We'll catch him up.291702:55:49.639 --> 02:55:51.159
But there are only three of us. If we had291802:55:51.159 --> 02:55:52.000
a few more men.291902:55:51.920 --> 02:55:53.719
I tell you, the thing was so close that if292002:55:53.760 --> 02:55:55.239
we'd looked up at the right time, we'd have seen it.292102:55:55.440 --> 02:55:56.920
You think I'm going to give up now? Next time292202:55:56.959 --> 02:55:57.399
we'll get it.292302:55:59.120 --> 02:56:02.360
There was not chance to get Alan out. No, you292402:56:02.440 --> 02:56:03.200
think if we went back.292502:56:03.319 --> 02:56:05.639
Listen, you think I don't want to. He's gone. I tried,292602:56:05.680 --> 02:56:06.239
but he's gone.292702:56:06.280 --> 02:56:10.360
Okay, okay, I wish that winded letter.292802:56:12.200 --> 02:56:16.319
Maybe by morning we'll try again tomorrow.292902:56:29.920 --> 02:56:34.120
It was cold that night, and somehow colder because Alan293002:56:34.319 --> 02:56:37.479
was gone. I heard Frank tossing around, and I knew293102:56:37.520 --> 02:56:41.319
he was thinking about a body, broken and lonely, lost293202:56:41.479 --> 02:56:46.040
somewhere in a deep and dark place. In the morning,293302:56:46.120 --> 02:56:48.440
the three of us packed our gear, camera, food, and293402:56:48.719 --> 02:56:52.319
there was a light pack. We started up again, this293502:56:52.559 --> 02:56:56.920
time to a crest above the ridge, it was tougher293602:56:56.959 --> 02:56:59.520
than it looked, and we weren't even halfway up before we.293702:57:00.159 --> 02:57:02.920
Had to rest. As a look to the west, I293802:57:02.959 --> 02:57:04.000
saw clouds.293902:57:03.639 --> 02:57:09.040
Boiling up, not white but somber, threatening, and below the294002:57:09.200 --> 02:57:11.680
valley looked grim, ugly gray.294102:57:13.040 --> 02:57:17.000
And then the sun was gone, and we kept on294202:57:17.159 --> 02:57:20.840
going up. And then I had a strange feeling. And294302:57:20.920 --> 02:57:23.000
there's nothing I could see, nothing I could hear, only294402:57:23.079 --> 02:57:32.000
a sensation of being watched followed. Wait a minute, see something? No,294502:57:34.280 --> 02:57:37.799
I have filled it to sade something following us.294602:57:38.079 --> 02:57:41.239
Yes, it is me to cull me. How do you294702:57:41.360 --> 02:57:44.959
know it came to be nothing else? At the sight?294802:57:45.680 --> 02:57:47.920
There is nothing else that there is.294902:57:48.520 --> 02:57:52.440
Maybe it's curious. No, don't turn a roughing. Listen.295002:57:53.600 --> 02:57:56.479
When we got up to the crest, you two flopped down.295102:57:56.600 --> 02:57:59.120
Stay in side of the slope here, what are you295202:57:59.200 --> 02:58:01.520
gonna do? Move around the hump and watch. If it295302:58:01.639 --> 02:58:03.520
thinks we're all together, it may come close enough to295402:58:03.520 --> 02:58:03.920
give us a.295502:58:03.959 --> 02:58:04.520
Chance to get it.295602:58:05.959 --> 02:58:06.920
You better watch a step.295702:58:08.040 --> 02:58:08.799
It looks nasty.295802:58:09.000 --> 02:58:10.680
I will now come on.295902:58:14.920 --> 02:58:16.879
It took us another fifteen minutes to get up to296002:58:16.920 --> 02:58:19.440
the crest, and then Frank and Nassang hunched down to rest.296102:58:20.479 --> 02:58:22.760
They were in clear view of the slope we just descended.296202:58:23.920 --> 02:58:25.840
I moved back out of sight and made my way296302:58:25.879 --> 02:58:28.000
toward the hump, which backed a long shelf on the296402:58:28.040 --> 02:58:28.920
north side of the crest.296502:58:29.799 --> 02:58:31.479
In a couple of minutes I lost sight of them296602:58:32.000 --> 02:58:32.799
and of the slope.296702:58:33.799 --> 02:58:36.000
The wind had increased and the clouds had spread. No296802:58:36.159 --> 02:58:39.440
who become an iron gray canopy over the mountain. It296902:58:39.600 --> 02:58:40.719
was getting colder again.297002:58:42.239 --> 02:58:43.520
I don't think. It took over five.297102:58:43.399 --> 02:58:46.159
Minutes to reach my lookout point, and when I did,297202:58:46.200 --> 02:58:48.239
I had a perfect view of the ground we'd covered.297302:58:50.319 --> 02:58:53.920
There was nothing there. The men were out of sight,297402:58:55.399 --> 02:58:59.280
and I waited a minute two.297502:59:00.879 --> 02:59:01.799
There was nothing.297602:59:03.120 --> 02:59:13.319
Until it came, carried on the wind to cry, and297702:59:13.559 --> 02:59:16.479
then shots. I scrambled back to where I left them,297802:59:17.200 --> 02:59:22.280
and when I got there. When I got there, Frank297902:59:22.479 --> 02:59:25.440
was lying on his back and I couldn't look at298002:59:25.479 --> 02:59:28.200
what was left of his face. There were terrible, deep298102:59:28.239 --> 02:59:32.840
rents in his clothing, and he was dead. The song298202:59:32.959 --> 02:59:35.799
lay huddled a few feet beyond a gun in his hand.298302:59:36.520 --> 02:59:39.079
So what is it?298402:59:39.879 --> 02:59:47.760
But metter cuny. It came from behind us. Before I298502:59:48.200 --> 02:59:57.319
could the good killed, and it sprang it to me.298603:00:00.319 --> 03:00:04.319
It is strongside, Hugh, the strain of ten men.298703:00:04.479 --> 03:00:06.680
All right, all reight, can you sit up.298803:00:08.120 --> 03:00:09.120
My leg?298903:00:09.920 --> 03:00:16.040
It is SKay to be my leg broken. I shut299003:00:16.239 --> 03:00:21.520
at it, but I missed it jumped away and who's gone.299103:00:21.680 --> 03:00:24.600
Okay, we'll have to figure out a way to get299203:00:24.639 --> 03:00:25.079
you done.299303:00:27.680 --> 03:00:29.920
We were four hours from camp, and with the song299403:00:30.040 --> 03:00:33.920
practically helpless, it could well be four days or never.299503:00:35.000 --> 03:00:37.200
I buried Frank where he was lying, then began to299603:00:37.280 --> 03:00:40.680
work down the slope. The song was in great pain.299703:00:40.799 --> 03:00:43.920
He half slid and crawled as best he could. That299803:00:44.040 --> 03:00:45.799
part of it wasn't too bad. Then we were at299903:00:45.799 --> 03:00:48.239
the bottom and there was a ledge to climb. It300003:00:48.360 --> 03:00:50.840
took well over two hours to do that, and we300103:00:51.000 --> 03:00:53.399
still had three miles of difficult to rain to cover.300203:00:54.479 --> 03:00:56.200
The stops became more frequent.300303:00:57.840 --> 03:01:04.120
Go back, No, my leggi'es fersen. There is no feeling anymore.300403:01:04.479 --> 03:01:06.760
I shall not leave much longer.300503:01:07.120 --> 03:01:09.719
Therefore, after the rest, you'll be able to go.300603:01:09.840 --> 03:01:13.920
On Soonday night comes, if we are both caught here,300703:01:14.479 --> 03:01:17.479
we both die, there will be snow.300803:01:17.440 --> 03:01:18.040
Much snow.300903:01:19.000 --> 03:01:19.360
Leave me.301003:01:19.639 --> 03:01:20.760
No, we're going back together.301103:01:21.399 --> 03:01:26.559
Please let me sleep. Let me sleep here. I cannot301203:01:26.639 --> 03:01:26.840
go on.301303:01:27.120 --> 03:01:28.559
You've got tons no.301403:01:30.360 --> 03:01:30.520
More.301503:01:30.760 --> 03:01:32.520
The ridge is only about a half mile from there.301603:01:32.600 --> 03:01:40.799
It won't be too bad. No, no, come on, come on,301703:01:40.879 --> 03:01:43.479
you're not going to spell all right, sir?301803:01:45.840 --> 03:01:48.440
I turned, and for an instance I saw it outlined301903:01:48.440 --> 03:01:53.200
against the snow, crouching of medium height. It was covered302003:01:53.239 --> 03:01:57.399
with thick hair. The face was reddish and bare, a302103:01:57.600 --> 03:02:00.760
semi human face. And it was not an ape.302203:02:02.719 --> 03:02:04.600
Nothing made it from into sleep and was gone.302303:02:04.680 --> 03:02:05.239
But I hit it.302403:02:05.600 --> 03:02:06.399
I knew I hit it.302503:02:07.920 --> 03:02:09.040
Was he did you kill it?302603:02:09.200 --> 03:02:09.239
No?302703:02:09.520 --> 03:02:10.079
I don't think so.302803:02:10.239 --> 03:02:13.559
Then it will be back. It has tisted blood. You302903:02:13.680 --> 03:02:14.280
must leave me.303003:02:14.719 --> 03:02:18.040
Get up, Get up, Come up, let's go.303103:02:26.200 --> 03:02:26.719
That song?303203:02:27.639 --> 03:02:34.479
M very sorry, sad. Will you ask Hell to make303303:02:34.559 --> 03:02:35.479
a prayer for me?303403:02:35.959 --> 03:02:36.239
Sure?303503:02:37.280 --> 03:02:37.479
Sure?303603:02:37.520 --> 03:02:41.040
I well my song, but my pay to my wife303703:02:41.120 --> 03:02:46.879
and dairy healing. Sorry, Sad, I uh.303803:02:49.719 --> 03:02:50.159
That song?303903:02:53.319 --> 03:03:17.239
That song, and the darkness came, and with its shadows304003:03:17.319 --> 03:03:22.840
in the snow, every hillock mound became the thing, motionless304103:03:23.000 --> 03:03:27.600
waiting in my mind. I kept seeing it, its long arms, powerful,304203:03:28.479 --> 03:03:32.680
and the dreadful clause it must have possessed. I carried304303:03:32.760 --> 03:03:34.559
my gun and my gloved hand, but I knew that304403:03:34.600 --> 03:03:37.639
I couldn't fire it unless I was bare handed, and304503:03:37.719 --> 03:03:41.280
that met my hand would freeze to the gun. And304603:03:41.360 --> 03:03:49.920
then suddenly I felt myself slipping. It was a short incline,304703:03:49.959 --> 03:03:52.520
but when I reached the bottom, the gun was gone.304803:03:53.479 --> 03:03:54.079
I'd lost it.304903:03:56.200 --> 03:03:56.920
I've got to find it.305003:03:57.760 --> 03:03:58.760
I've got to find.305103:04:01.200 --> 03:04:02.840
And I saw a glitter of metal in the snow305203:04:02.959 --> 03:04:06.639
ten feet away, and at the same time, above me,305303:04:06.719 --> 03:04:08.760
at the top of the bank, the thing.305403:04:09.799 --> 03:04:12.159
It stood swaying a little, looking down at me.305503:04:14.760 --> 03:04:19.440
I moved slowly, slowly, inch my way toward the gun,305603:04:21.280 --> 03:04:23.399
and as I drew closer, I kept my eyes looking up,305703:04:24.200 --> 03:04:27.000
but it didn't move, only stared down at me. And305803:04:27.120 --> 03:04:30.719
I thought I saw its little eyes glittering, and I thought,305903:04:31.479 --> 03:04:35.079
if the gun's frozen. Now, if it's frozen, it doesn't fire.306003:04:36.559 --> 03:04:38.399
And I was nearer to it, near enough to tick306103:04:38.440 --> 03:04:39.040
off my glove.306203:04:40.200 --> 03:04:42.040
But that moment in which i'd have to bend to306303:04:42.120 --> 03:04:44.879
pick it up, that's when it would leap down at me,306403:04:45.200 --> 03:04:46.959
tear my throat out terror.306503:04:47.000 --> 03:04:50.120
And I had the gun, and I pulled the ticker.306603:04:58.440 --> 03:04:59.920
And lay there.306703:05:00.079 --> 03:05:09.600
Yeah, strange, terrifying. It's blood staining the snow It looked306803:05:09.639 --> 03:05:17.600
at me, looked at me until the sound died away.306903:05:23.280 --> 03:05:27.760
It was dead, but the eyes kept on staring.307003:05:32.760 --> 03:05:34.799
It must have been the shots that loosened the snow307103:05:34.840 --> 03:05:35.840
and ice on the ridge above.307203:05:36.520 --> 03:05:43.239
I heard the sound and I ran rahm.307303:05:53.559 --> 03:05:56.680
It passed me and swept on down toward the valley,307403:05:57.639 --> 03:05:59.319
the thunder of it dying in the distance.307503:06:01.840 --> 03:06:08.920
And when I went back, there was nothing there. It307603:06:09.120 --> 03:06:13.120
was buried somewhere under tons of snow.307703:06:17.159 --> 03:06:19.399
I made my way back to the Wrong Book village.307803:06:20.760 --> 03:06:25.799
I don't remember how. I didn't remember anything for two307903:06:25.879 --> 03:06:33.799
weeks after. But I'm alive and I'm not going back308003:06:33.879 --> 03:06:41.600
there again. That's all I know. I want to know308103:06:43.920 --> 03:06:45.760
about the Abominable snow Men.308203:07:00.239 --> 03:07:04.520
Escape has brought you The Abominable Snowman, written and directed308303:07:04.639 --> 03:07:09.799
by Anthony Ellis, starring William conrad Is Lane. Featured in308403:07:09.879 --> 03:07:13.719
the cast were Anthony Barrett, high have Herbach, Jack Krushian,308503:07:14.079 --> 03:07:18.440
and Edgar Barrier. The special music for Escape was composed308603:07:18.479 --> 03:07:20.600
and conducted by Leith Stevens.308703:07:22.000 --> 03:07:32.799
Next week, Well, my dear, the hour is getting late,308803:07:32.959 --> 03:07:39.600
and the chill in the air is well, it's gotten308903:07:39.719 --> 03:07:45.440
more intense, I suppose, Ah, No matter more wood on309003:07:45.559 --> 03:07:50.719
the fire, more hot in your cup. I'm starting to309103:07:50.879 --> 03:07:59.280
feel even more Julie. Is that a term, Julie, Well309203:08:00.479 --> 03:08:11.360
it is now. I haven't felt this jovial since all Saints. Usually.309303:08:11.559 --> 03:08:15.680
I feel like a kind of cold canvas.309403:08:17.760 --> 03:08:20.799
Another tale, well calculated to keep you in.309503:08:23.520 --> 03:08:30.920
Suspense in just a Moment's cold canvas, written for Suspence309603:08:31.040 --> 03:08:43.719
by Walter Black. Yeah, oh bad, Come in, sir.309703:08:44.479 --> 03:08:46.440
I thought i'd better check with you before I went out.309803:08:46.600 --> 03:08:51.479
Fine, fine, Oh the big day, isn't it?309903:08:51.840 --> 03:08:52.200
Sure is?310003:08:52.719 --> 03:08:54.920
I remember my first day in the field. I was310103:08:55.000 --> 03:08:57.040
really champing at the bit, couldn't wait to get out310203:08:57.079 --> 03:09:00.920
there and sell all those prospects. What's on the agenda?310303:09:01.120 --> 03:09:03.280
Well, I thought, maybe I just get out and knock310403:09:03.360 --> 03:09:03.959
on some doors.310503:09:04.040 --> 03:09:04.680
Good good.310603:09:05.239 --> 03:09:07.280
A lot of men in this business near at cold canvassing,310703:09:07.319 --> 03:09:09.239
but not me. But you can sell a lot of310803:09:09.280 --> 03:09:12.799
insurance just by going around knocking on doors. Just remember310903:09:12.840 --> 03:09:16.120
one thing, don't be discouraged. Don't ever give up.311003:09:29.959 --> 03:09:31.840
Well I get thrown out of here, it'll probably be311103:09:31.920 --> 03:09:37.399
bare Butler. Even the door shines round rich Yes, Oh,311203:09:37.520 --> 03:09:41.040
good afternoon, madam. Are you the mistress of this beautiful establishment?311303:09:41.360 --> 03:09:43.799
Aren't you a little fancy. I thought the praise was311403:09:44.040 --> 03:09:44.719
lady of the house.311503:09:44.760 --> 03:09:47.040
Oh yes, ma'am, it is usually. But someone as attractive311603:09:47.079 --> 03:09:49.319
as you with such a magnificent home deserves nothing but311703:09:49.440 --> 03:09:49.719
the best.311803:09:50.239 --> 03:09:51.120
Whatever you're selling.311903:09:51.200 --> 03:09:53.479
You're probably very successful at it, aren't.312003:09:53.239 --> 03:09:55.360
You, well, ma'am? If I am, it's only because I'm312103:09:55.440 --> 03:09:58.079
lucky enough to have the right kind of client. Client312203:09:58.680 --> 03:10:01.399
for what piece of mind and security? Madam?312303:10:01.799 --> 03:10:03.280
Yes, I have not heard before.312403:10:03.440 --> 03:10:04.000
This is new.312503:10:04.680 --> 03:10:06.799
All right, mister bones, you've piqued my interest.312603:10:07.239 --> 03:10:10.319
Exactly what little gadget in that shiny new briefcase of312703:10:10.399 --> 03:10:13.159
yours is going to provide me with peace of mind312803:10:13.280 --> 03:10:13.959
and security?312903:10:14.719 --> 03:10:17.600
Life insurance man, you should have known. Oh no, please, ma'am,313003:10:17.680 --> 03:10:20.000
don't be too hasty. Let me ask you something.313103:10:20.520 --> 03:10:24.879
When mister the name is Fouchet, f ouc h.313203:10:25.000 --> 03:10:28.840
E oh, thank you. Well, when mister Fouchet brought you313303:10:29.000 --> 03:10:31.520
this beautiful home, he wasn't just buying lumber and bricks,313403:10:31.559 --> 03:10:34.280
He was also buying shelter and comfort. And when he313503:10:34.319 --> 03:10:37.319
bought your television said he was buying entertainment and pleasure.313603:10:37.440 --> 03:10:38.879
Have you watched television lakers?313703:10:39.200 --> 03:10:41.520
Well, but his intent was to provide pleasure. And now313803:10:41.600 --> 03:10:45.319
wasn't that missus Fouchet so so? A good provider doesn't313903:10:45.440 --> 03:10:48.079
just buy life insurance. He buys peace of mind for314003:10:48.239 --> 03:10:51.840
himself and security for you. I mean, in case anything314103:10:51.879 --> 03:10:52.680
should happen to him.314203:10:53.159 --> 03:10:58.159
Your elliptical phrasing is so comforting. You mean if he dies, well.314303:10:58.239 --> 03:10:59.920
Yes, ma'am he's only forty one.314403:11:00.520 --> 03:11:03.920
Well, but can he guarantee how long he's going to live? No, ma'am,314503:11:04.040 --> 03:11:06.760
no one can guarantee that. But I can guarantee that,314603:11:06.840 --> 03:11:09.799
no matter what happens, whether he lives or dies, his314703:11:10.079 --> 03:11:13.239
and your future will be provided for life insurance.314803:11:13.280 --> 03:11:13.440
Ma'am.314903:11:13.479 --> 03:11:16.360
It's the only answer, you know. We have an old315003:11:16.399 --> 03:11:20.600
saying in our business, someone always pays for life insurance,315103:11:20.920 --> 03:11:21.840
whether it's bought or not.315203:11:22.600 --> 03:11:26.440
The breadwinner pays in premiums, or the widow in privation315303:11:26.600 --> 03:11:29.319
and suffering. What's your name, uh Phillips?315403:11:29.559 --> 03:11:33.079
Eugene J. Phillips. My friends call me Bud.315503:11:33.399 --> 03:11:34.120
I'll bet they do.315603:11:35.079 --> 03:11:37.319
Would you care for a cup of coffee, mister Eugene J.315703:11:37.440 --> 03:11:39.200
Phillips, Well, if you're sure it's no trouble.315803:11:39.360 --> 03:11:41.360
And I almost never go to trouble for other people315903:11:41.440 --> 03:11:44.120
mister Phillips, come on in and meet my husband. You316003:11:44.239 --> 03:11:47.200
can tell us both all about this peace of mind316103:11:47.399 --> 03:11:48.120
and security.316203:11:54.000 --> 03:11:57.079
Well that's pretty much the story, mister Fouchet. You're a316303:11:57.159 --> 03:11:59.399
successful business man. I don't have to tell you the316403:11:59.479 --> 03:12:00.760
value of sound investing.316503:12:00.879 --> 03:12:03.760
Okay, okay, I get the pitch. If I dropped dead,316603:12:03.799 --> 03:12:05.120
I'm worth one hundred thousand dollars.316703:12:06.200 --> 03:12:07.319
You want me to buy this home.316803:12:07.680 --> 03:12:09.440
I want you to do what you feel is right.316903:12:10.680 --> 03:12:12.639
How much does a one hundred thousand costs?317003:12:13.639 --> 03:12:16.959
Let me see now with a double indemnity in the317103:12:17.000 --> 03:12:22.040
event of accidental death and fifty seven dollars annually out317203:12:22.040 --> 03:12:23.799
of the question forgetting Well, that's all right, sir. I317303:12:23.879 --> 03:12:26.399
mean what could you conveniently afford.317403:12:26.399 --> 03:12:30.159
Maybe at the outside, maybe a thousand years?317503:12:30.239 --> 03:12:30.639
All right?317603:12:31.280 --> 03:12:33.319
When would it be convenient for you to be examined317703:12:33.319 --> 03:12:33.879
by our doctor?317803:12:33.959 --> 03:12:35.000
I haven't said yes yet.317903:12:35.040 --> 03:12:37.440
Well no, sir, but you see, regardless of whether you318003:12:37.520 --> 03:12:39.600
put a thousand or one hundred into the plan, you're318103:12:39.639 --> 03:12:42.239
going to have to have a medical examination. So at318203:12:42.319 --> 03:12:44.559
least we'll find out if you can qualify. It can't318303:12:44.639 --> 03:12:47.319
hurt you to have a physical Where do I have318403:12:47.399 --> 03:12:49.719
to go to get it. Oh, nowhere, sir. I'll have318503:12:49.840 --> 03:12:53.040
the doctor here at the house house tomorrow evening around318603:12:53.120 --> 03:12:53.559
eight thirty.318703:12:53.680 --> 03:12:56.040
Can tomorrow make it Friday?318803:12:56.120 --> 03:12:58.840
All right, sir, Friday at eight thirty. Now, if you'll318903:12:58.959 --> 03:13:00.959
just sign this up application and give me.319003:13:01.079 --> 03:13:03.680
I haven't definitely made up my mind yet. I don't319103:13:03.760 --> 03:13:06.079
sign papers until I'm sure I'm ready to go ahead.319203:13:06.680 --> 03:13:09.200
Well, this is just an application, sir. It doesn't bind319303:13:09.319 --> 03:13:11.559
you or the company, which you see. We must have319403:13:11.680 --> 03:13:13.239
it in order for you to be examined by the day.319503:13:13.319 --> 03:13:15.639
I have no intention of giving you any money tonight.319603:13:15.959 --> 03:13:18.319
You don't have to, mister Fouchet. You can pay the319703:13:18.360 --> 03:13:21.959
first premium when the policy is issued. Now, what is319803:13:22.040 --> 03:13:23.200
your exact date of birth?319903:13:33.920 --> 03:13:36.959
In just a moment we will return for the second320003:13:37.040 --> 03:13:37.399
act of.320103:13:39.200 --> 03:13:39.920
Suspense.320203:13:49.879 --> 03:13:52.159
Well, of course he kept throwing in arguments, but I320303:13:52.319 --> 03:13:54.399
just said uh huh and yes, sir, and kept right320403:13:54.520 --> 03:13:55.760
on filling out the application.320503:13:56.879 --> 03:13:58.760
And when does he take his physical Friday night?320603:13:59.159 --> 03:13:59.879
So you go through it?320703:14:00.639 --> 03:14:03.760
Oh, why sure, Howard, don't get your hopes up too high.320803:14:03.920 --> 03:14:06.079
Well, now, this is a business of the law of averages.320903:14:06.120 --> 03:14:06.559
You told me.321003:14:06.639 --> 03:14:09.079
If I can knock off one hundred thousand dollar case321103:14:09.120 --> 03:14:10.840
every week. A lot of them are bound to stick,321203:14:10.920 --> 03:14:11.280
aren't they?321303:14:13.040 --> 03:14:14.600
And I wish i'd had you as spurred when I321403:14:14.719 --> 03:14:17.799
was your age. Sure, Bud, you keep on knocking them off,321503:14:17.840 --> 03:14:21.520
and you will be rolling in though, only don't concentrate321603:14:21.559 --> 03:14:23.920
on the big ones. It's the fives and tens that321703:14:24.000 --> 03:14:24.559
pay the freight.321803:14:26.600 --> 03:14:31.319
Yeah, oh yes, yes, for you.321903:14:31.479 --> 03:14:32.079
But a woman?322003:14:32.239 --> 03:14:33.079
Oh thanks?322103:14:33.959 --> 03:14:34.200
Hello?322203:14:34.840 --> 03:14:35.719
Is that Phillips?322303:14:35.799 --> 03:14:36.280
It sure is?322403:14:37.920 --> 03:14:40.600
Oh yes, ma'am, about that insurance for my husband?322503:14:40.639 --> 03:14:42.479
Oh well, there's nothing wrong, is that, ma'am? I mean322603:14:42.559 --> 03:14:45.120
it's it's a fine policy, Missus Fouchet. Believe me, I322703:14:45.159 --> 03:14:46.159
wouldn't have recommended it.322803:14:46.719 --> 03:14:49.760
Upset mister Phillips. Mister Fouchet wants to go through with it.322903:14:49.879 --> 03:14:52.360
But after you left last night we got to talking323003:14:52.399 --> 03:14:52.760
about it.323103:14:53.239 --> 03:14:55.760
He's figured out a way that his cooperation can pay323203:14:55.840 --> 03:14:58.079
the premiums and they'll be tax deductible.323303:14:58.399 --> 03:14:59.600
Oh yes, ma'am.323403:15:00.000 --> 03:15:02.920
You know we've decided to increase the size of the policy.323503:15:04.399 --> 03:15:07.159
Oh how much would it cost for two hundred and323603:15:07.239 --> 03:15:10.479
fifty thousand dollars the least expensive kind of insurance?323703:15:10.760 --> 03:15:15.159
Well, one second, missus Fouche, Howard, look up the rate323803:15:15.200 --> 03:15:18.159
for two hundred and fifty thousand convertible term age forty one.323903:15:18.360 --> 03:15:19.479
What you're kidding, I'm on the.324003:15:19.520 --> 03:15:23.040
Level by the year, Missus Fouchet.324103:15:23.200 --> 03:15:25.799
Oh no, mister Fouchet was very explicit on that point.324203:15:26.079 --> 03:15:32.399
He said, monthly, yes, ma'am, monthly. Okay, let's see we've324303:15:32.520 --> 03:15:35.280
doubled and down the two three hundred and fifty five,324403:15:36.079 --> 03:15:39.120
three hundred and fifty five dollars per month, Missus Fouchet.324503:15:39.319 --> 03:15:39.719
All right.324603:15:40.159 --> 03:15:43.079
Oh, by the way, will this also provide for my324703:15:43.200 --> 03:15:44.040
husband's retirement?324803:15:44.120 --> 03:15:46.079
Oh well, no, don't worry about that. We'll convert it324903:15:46.120 --> 03:15:47.840
at a later date to the right kind of plan.325003:15:48.000 --> 03:15:50.920
But meanwhile, you'll be protected in the event of his premature.325103:15:51.120 --> 03:15:53.879
Yes, yes, mister Phillips, all right, I'll put the check325203:15:53.920 --> 03:15:54.639
in the nail tonight.325303:15:55.000 --> 03:15:57.000
Make it out to the company, Missus Fouchet.325403:15:57.200 --> 03:15:58.680
Yes, and i'll market to your attention.325503:15:58.760 --> 03:16:01.799
Well, thank you very much. Oh, don't forget that the325603:16:01.920 --> 03:16:03.120
doctor's coming on Friday.325703:16:03.239 --> 03:16:08.159
I haven't forgotten. Good times hill, Oh.325803:16:08.200 --> 03:16:12.159
One hundred and fifty thousand, Yeah, well, I'll be in325903:16:12.280 --> 03:16:17.040
no good Three toad tree climbing South American sloth. What326003:16:17.159 --> 03:16:17.760
did I tell you?326103:16:17.920 --> 03:16:20.000
Hey, Howard, what is my first year commission?326203:16:20.319 --> 03:16:23.959
Fifty five percent, you lucky boy, fifty five percent of326303:16:24.079 --> 03:16:26.959
three fifty five And let me see, that's close to326403:16:27.040 --> 03:16:29.680
two hundred a month, twenty four hundred bucks for.326503:16:29.719 --> 03:16:32.520
One hour's work. Oh, I think I'm going to like326603:16:32.600 --> 03:16:47.319
the insurance business. You wanted me, Howard, Yes, come on in, Buddons.326703:16:48.719 --> 03:16:51.000
You see the paper this morning? Oh no, I didn't326803:16:51.000 --> 03:16:53.200
even take time out for a real breakfast. My first326903:16:53.239 --> 03:16:54.959
appointment was at eight fifteen, all the way on the327003:16:55.000 --> 03:16:58.000
other side of town. Why here, huh?327103:16:58.520 --> 03:17:01.159
What is it on the front page down at the327203:17:01.239 --> 03:17:01.920
right hand side.327303:17:03.040 --> 03:17:10.840
Oh, we're Howard. I don't see anything. Oh no, oh no,327403:17:11.159 --> 03:17:11.840
it couldn't be.327503:17:12.319 --> 03:17:14.680
Yes, that's what I said when I first read it.327603:17:15.280 --> 03:17:16.040
Victor L.327703:17:16.280 --> 03:17:20.799
Fouchet, forty one, a local contractor residing at eleven Edgewood Terrace,327803:17:20.920 --> 03:17:22.559
was the victim of a hit and run accident early327903:17:22.639 --> 03:17:28.000
this morning on South Wearing Boulevard. According to his wife,328003:17:28.079 --> 03:17:30.799
Fouchet was on his way home from a business conference328103:17:30.840 --> 03:17:34.079
when he was struck by the speeding car. He died328203:17:34.079 --> 03:17:38.840
at Mercy Hospital without regaining consciousness. Police say no clues.328303:17:39.200 --> 03:17:45.399
Early developments. One lousy monthly premium two thousand bucks right328403:17:45.399 --> 03:17:49.840
out the window. Yes, I shouldn't say that, Howard, But328503:17:50.719 --> 03:17:52.479
well I only met him that once, and after all,328603:17:52.520 --> 03:17:56.200
it was my first big case. I suppose I ought328703:17:56.200 --> 03:17:59.000
to be thinking of her, missus Fouchet.328803:17:59.040 --> 03:18:01.520
I mean she is pretty rough on her.328903:18:02.000 --> 03:18:04.760
Yes, well she'll have the money to console her. Half329003:18:04.799 --> 03:18:07.360
a million dollars can be very soothing, that's right.329103:18:07.799 --> 03:18:12.799
Double indemnity in case of accidental debt. Wow, listen, how329203:18:14.040 --> 03:18:17.040
maybe it sounds crazy, but do you think she could have,329303:18:18.719 --> 03:18:18.959
you know.329403:18:19.479 --> 03:18:23.319
Run over it. It wouldn't be the first time. Don't worry.329503:18:23.600 --> 03:18:26.639
The company will check in, double check, and then triple check.329603:18:27.360 --> 03:18:30.360
They don't just hand out all that money without really investigating.329703:18:31.040 --> 03:18:31.280
Yeah.329803:18:32.399 --> 03:18:34.360
See, I wish I'd been able to wangle the whole329903:18:34.399 --> 03:18:35.760
annual premium out of him.330003:18:35.680 --> 03:18:38.520
First, though, Ill cheer up. There are lots more prospects330103:18:38.559 --> 03:18:41.120
where he came from. Come on, I'll buy a lunch.330203:18:49.879 --> 03:18:52.719
M I was sure a good meal. How I thanked330303:18:52.760 --> 03:18:53.000
a lot.330403:18:53.319 --> 03:18:54.200
Feeling a little better now?330503:18:54.319 --> 03:18:57.079
Yeah, sure, just just a little.330603:18:58.479 --> 03:18:59.399
That's great.330703:18:59.399 --> 03:19:01.879
I think Now what you got to do now, kid,330803:19:01.920 --> 03:19:04.200
is simply forget all about Fouchet and settle down to330903:19:04.280 --> 03:19:07.079
making up the difference in other policies. Yeah, four or331003:19:07.159 --> 03:19:08.559
five medium sized cases.331103:19:08.399 --> 03:19:09.399
Will make it all back for you.331203:19:10.079 --> 03:19:11.879
Never look back, but always ahead.331303:19:12.040 --> 03:19:15.680
Well, hey, Howard, over there just coming in.331403:19:17.799 --> 03:19:21.200
It's not there, not bad at all, that's missus fouchet.331503:19:22.680 --> 03:19:24.559
Oh look the guy with her?331603:19:24.760 --> 03:19:26.440
And what about Why.331703:19:26.319 --> 03:19:28.120
Would she be going out to lunch with some guy331803:19:28.239 --> 03:19:29.840
the day after her husband is run over?331903:19:30.479 --> 03:19:32.959
Don't go leave into a lot of conclusions, son, A332003:19:33.040 --> 03:19:35.159
man could be her brother, or her lawyer, or her332103:19:35.239 --> 03:19:37.719
husband's lawyer, or just somebody who's taking you out to332203:19:37.719 --> 03:19:40.959
get her mind off her troubles. No loss, the widow332303:19:41.040 --> 03:19:44.719
has to go into hiding. Come on, come on, drink332403:19:44.760 --> 03:19:46.719
your coffee. I have to get back to the office.332503:19:46.799 --> 03:19:49.920
Howard, would you do me a favor? I mean, go332603:19:50.159 --> 03:19:52.239
pay a call on her later today with me?332703:19:52.920 --> 03:19:53.239
What for?332803:19:53.920 --> 03:19:57.319
Well, you're more experienced about people than I am. I332903:19:58.040 --> 03:19:59.920
just like you to meet her and see what you're333003:20:00.040 --> 03:20:00.319
think of it.333103:20:01.079 --> 03:20:02.399
Well, I will make you feel any better.333203:20:03.000 --> 03:20:03.319
Okay.333303:20:04.479 --> 03:20:07.159
Besides, and every day I get to meet someone as333403:20:07.200 --> 03:20:08.040
good looking as you is.333503:20:16.639 --> 03:20:20.000
In a moment, we will return for the third act of.333603:20:22.079 --> 03:20:22.840
Suspense.333703:20:36.200 --> 03:20:37.280
Its flankly neighborhood.333803:20:37.440 --> 03:20:41.639
You know what do you see the inside of the house, Oh,333903:20:42.360 --> 03:20:45.600
mister Phillips, Yes, ma'am, I'd like you to meet my associate,334003:20:46.040 --> 03:20:48.799
mister Wigley, Missus Bouchet alone.334103:20:49.840 --> 03:20:50.479
You've seen the.334203:20:50.520 --> 03:20:54.280
Paper, yes, I still don't believe it.334303:20:54.360 --> 03:20:57.559
I only last night at supper we were discussing our334403:20:57.639 --> 03:20:58.200
vacation and.334503:20:58.280 --> 03:21:04.040
Now you must excuse me hopefully Please don't apologize, man,334603:21:04.120 --> 03:21:07.360
That's that's why we came to offer our condolences.334703:21:07.840 --> 03:21:08.879
That's very kind of you.334803:21:09.000 --> 03:21:12.239
I feel so so laws.334903:21:13.319 --> 03:21:16.000
If it weren't for my husband's lawyer, Roger, what your335003:21:16.920 --> 03:21:20.000
I don't know what I'd do. He even insisted on335103:21:20.120 --> 03:21:22.280
taking me out for lunch today to get my mind up.335203:21:23.840 --> 03:21:24.440
What did I tell me?335303:21:25.719 --> 03:21:28.159
And we won't bother you anymore, Missus say. If there's335403:21:28.159 --> 03:21:29.440
anything we can do, just let us know.335503:21:29.479 --> 03:21:32.680
I come on, buddy, would you like to come in335603:21:32.799 --> 03:21:33.239
for a moment?335703:21:33.319 --> 03:21:40.399
No, man, no, we wouldn't even imposing goodbye goodbye. What335803:21:40.520 --> 03:21:42.639
do you think she's a fine woman taking me like335903:21:42.719 --> 03:21:45.280
a soldier? Like I said, budd, you're leaving to a336003:21:45.319 --> 03:21:46.520
lot of wrong conclusions.336103:22:02.360 --> 03:22:05.600
Oh, mister Philli, h I hope.336203:22:05.360 --> 03:22:06.600
I'm not interrupting anything.336303:22:06.959 --> 03:22:09.360
No, I was just doing my separatatious This is a336403:22:09.399 --> 03:22:10.159
maze nine house.336503:22:10.399 --> 03:22:12.760
I just thought, well, it's been almost three weeks now,336603:22:12.799 --> 03:22:16.200
and I was passing by, and well I thought maybe336703:22:16.280 --> 03:22:16.920
there was something I.336803:22:16.920 --> 03:22:19.639
Could do to have And that's very kind of mister Phillips.336903:22:19.680 --> 03:22:24.239
But really there isn't anything all But now that you've stuck,337003:22:24.360 --> 03:22:25.760
why don't you come in for a moment?337103:22:25.959 --> 03:22:27.479
Oh? Are you sure it's all right?337203:22:27.639 --> 03:22:28.440
Perfectly all right?337303:22:28.760 --> 03:22:29.040
Thank you?337403:22:30.719 --> 03:22:32.040
Won't you come into the living room?337503:22:34.879 --> 03:22:35.399
Were alone?337603:22:36.200 --> 03:22:37.559
No, there's a spy from.337703:22:37.440 --> 03:22:38.399
Your insurance company.337803:22:38.520 --> 03:22:40.639
End of the piano. Of course we're alone.337903:22:40.719 --> 03:22:43.840
You get to check it's already deposited. Angel, five hundred338003:22:43.920 --> 03:22:46.600
thousand dollars. I keep saying it over and over again,338103:22:46.840 --> 03:22:49.000
the most beautiful words in the English language.338203:22:49.079 --> 03:22:49.760
No one's going to run.338303:22:49.879 --> 03:22:50.840
Do you mean to invest me?338403:22:51.319 --> 03:22:51.360
No?338503:22:51.680 --> 03:22:52.799
Not since right after the act?338603:22:53.079 --> 03:22:54.120
Oh you know what that means?338703:22:54.159 --> 03:22:55.559
Maybe we are in the clear.338803:22:55.680 --> 03:22:56.719
Nobody's got a thing to go on.338903:22:56.840 --> 03:22:57.479
We're in the clear.339003:22:57.639 --> 03:22:59.360
Oh I never thought we wouldn't the Angel.339103:23:02.520 --> 03:23:05.719
I can't wait much longer for you sneaking in and339203:23:05.799 --> 03:23:09.000
out like this. It's been driving me crazy. When do339303:23:09.120 --> 03:23:11.879
we go well, then I think up a good story339403:23:11.959 --> 03:23:13.879
for Rigby, something that will give us two or three339503:23:13.920 --> 03:23:17.280
weeks head start off, be a vacation, and then we339603:23:17.440 --> 03:23:19.639
just take off from Extao from there down to top339703:23:19.639 --> 03:23:24.239
of America. But the spect we'll be long gone and339803:23:24.399 --> 03:23:27.079
we'll be where they can't extra di us either. You've339903:23:27.079 --> 03:23:30.000
gotten rid of the current, drifted it down in my340003:23:30.079 --> 03:23:30.840
own garage and.340103:23:30.920 --> 03:23:32.399
Sold it for junk, pis bipe.340203:23:33.120 --> 03:23:35.360
Don't you worried, baby, You've got it made.340303:23:35.639 --> 03:23:37.680
I'm not worried as long as I happy.340403:23:38.120 --> 03:23:41.079
Hello, call you tomorrow the next day. That the whole time,340503:23:42.639 --> 03:23:45.760
so long, gorgeous, take care of my going to bed.340603:23:46.000 --> 03:23:46.760
I love my sofa.340703:23:49.239 --> 03:23:49.639
Good night.340803:23:49.959 --> 03:23:52.399
Say there's anything else, mister Rigby.340903:23:52.280 --> 03:23:53.079
Or I can do for you?341003:23:53.399 --> 03:23:54.680
Please just say the word.341103:23:59.440 --> 03:24:01.159
Much got step down?341203:24:01.479 --> 03:24:04.920
Were your bags? Okay, let's get going on back doors?341303:24:05.600 --> 03:24:07.600
But what about your bag? How fin would I need341403:24:07.639 --> 03:24:09.200
in Mexico? Soon we're across the border.341503:24:09.239 --> 03:24:09.799
The better.341603:24:11.879 --> 03:24:13.879
We picked a good night, Madeline pitch Black.341703:24:18.920 --> 03:24:21.120
The garage doors are already open though.341803:24:21.159 --> 03:24:26.120
Of everything, gas tanks, boot shout, of everything, you guy?341903:24:37.520 --> 03:24:38.120
Are you thinking?342003:24:39.040 --> 03:24:39.319
I am?342103:24:39.719 --> 03:24:46.840
Your dear mister Eugene J. Phillips job on him, and342203:24:47.319 --> 03:24:49.920
so he calls you when tomorrow and the next day342303:24:50.600 --> 03:24:51.200
you're gone?342403:24:51.440 --> 03:24:52.280
And what can we do?342503:24:52.680 --> 03:24:53.000
Nothing?342603:24:53.399 --> 03:24:54.479
Absolutely nothing.342703:24:54.559 --> 03:24:56.639
He's left pulling up big every bag.342803:24:56.799 --> 03:24:59.639
Well he couldn't go to the police and welcome into.342903:24:59.520 --> 03:25:04.079
The gas m anyway. Give us one week and who cares?343003:25:04.360 --> 03:25:06.200
There is no extradition where we're going.343103:25:06.440 --> 03:25:07.959
That's funny he mentioned that too.343203:25:08.319 --> 03:25:10.120
No, it only goes to show that he's a very343303:25:10.200 --> 03:25:11.200
intelligent stooge.343403:25:13.200 --> 03:25:15.520
Tell me something. Is this a private joke or can343503:25:15.559 --> 03:25:19.079
I get in on it? I will just call me343603:25:19.200 --> 03:25:20.040
stooge for sure.343703:25:20.680 --> 03:25:21.520
How are you mister?343803:25:21.760 --> 03:25:24.719
Uh, mister Whittier. Isn't that you such a fallen for us?343903:25:24.719 --> 03:25:26.680
Once he thought I had, didn't you maddle any lovely344003:25:26.760 --> 03:25:27.760
little double crosser?344103:25:28.000 --> 03:25:28.840
Well, Bud, listen to.344203:25:28.879 --> 03:25:31.680
Me, Donnie, you won't believe this, but you're right, I won't.344303:25:31.520 --> 03:25:32.760
Believe it, So save your breath.344403:25:32.840 --> 03:25:33.200
Angel.344503:25:33.680 --> 03:25:35.639
You got a gun, mister Whittier.344603:25:35.719 --> 03:25:36.440
You're a lawyer.344703:25:36.559 --> 03:25:39.120
You know the penalty for carrying a deadly weapon. I344803:25:39.200 --> 03:25:43.600
don't need a gun that Oh no, you see, I344903:25:43.719 --> 03:25:46.040
have a lawyer too, and I left a letter with him.345003:25:46.680 --> 03:25:48.559
If he doesn't get a phone call or a cable345103:25:48.639 --> 03:25:50.399
from me every three days. He gives the letter to345203:25:50.440 --> 03:25:53.280
the police. They may not be able to extradite us345303:25:53.280 --> 03:25:55.959
for Cluchet's murder, but they wouldn't be too happy about345403:25:56.000 --> 03:25:58.959
one committed right under their noses, now, would they. You345503:25:59.159 --> 03:26:02.959
can around, Angel, I figured you were planning summer, so345603:26:03.120 --> 03:26:05.680
I just took some natural precaution.345703:26:06.159 --> 03:26:08.239
Roger, we've got to kill him before we reach Mexico.345803:26:08.559 --> 03:26:10.159
Sure, take a chance from being seen.345903:26:10.600 --> 03:26:12.319
And what do we do with a body ticket with us?346003:26:12.719 --> 03:26:15.159
He's right, Angel, You see between here and the border,346103:26:15.200 --> 03:26:15.799
it's it's.346203:26:15.719 --> 03:26:19.079
Kind of open, pretty well traveled too. Why don't you346303:26:19.200 --> 03:26:22.000
just relax? Even after I take my third you and346403:26:22.200 --> 03:26:25.200
Clarence Darrow, there still have three hundred and thirty three346503:26:25.280 --> 03:26:26.399
thousand bucks left.346603:26:26.440 --> 03:26:30.520
And that's not hey, shut up, such a poor sportsmanship.346703:26:31.440 --> 03:26:33.879
Who will we go take a little.346803:26:33.719 --> 03:26:48.200
Map back here with a border, James Senor, Well, we've346903:26:48.280 --> 03:26:50.879
just come across the border, my friend, and we're celebrating347003:26:51.040 --> 03:26:54.200
Bueno Senor. See my two friends here on their honeymoon,347103:26:54.280 --> 03:26:56.319
and I'm the best man, and we're all going on347203:26:56.440 --> 03:26:57.120
the trips together.347303:26:57.319 --> 03:27:01.479
You you joke, Signo, Yeah, I joke.347403:27:02.280 --> 03:27:07.879
Three double scouts come on now, don't look so grounty347503:27:07.959 --> 03:27:09.920
you too. I think of all the fun we're going347603:27:09.959 --> 03:27:13.600
to have together. Who knows, maybe I can tell Old347703:27:13.760 --> 03:27:17.239
Roger here a nice fat insurance policy, and then Madeline can.347803:27:17.200 --> 03:27:17.879
Run him down.347903:27:19.200 --> 03:27:22.159
I thought, anyway, what's the matter?348003:27:23.239 --> 03:27:23.799
What are you say?348103:27:24.719 --> 03:27:26.600
I guess you's surprised to see me, bun.348203:27:28.600 --> 03:27:31.360
How alright?348303:27:31.479 --> 03:27:33.879
How did you? Wasn't too hot? Kids, you weren't quite348403:27:33.879 --> 03:27:36.680
as smart as you thought. Don't bottoms a cliche? The348503:27:36.719 --> 03:27:41.639
place of the place around, okay, Captain Gomez. But I'm348603:27:41.680 --> 03:27:44.079
sorry for you. I try to tell you it was348703:27:44.120 --> 03:27:47.040
a small cases that paid off if you were too greedy.348803:27:54.840 --> 03:28:03.760
Suspensing to Cold Canvas written or suspend by water Black348903:28:04.479 --> 03:28:06.159
in a moment, the names of our players, and a349003:28:06.200 --> 03:28:09.120
word about next week's story of stuff ben heard in349103:28:09.200 --> 03:28:12.799
tonight's story, where William Redfield as Bud Phillip's Ginger Jones349203:28:12.840 --> 03:28:16.319
as Madeline Bouchet, Less, Damon as Hard Rigby, and Guy349303:28:16.399 --> 03:28:20.239
Repp as Victor Fouchet. Listen again next week when we'll349403:28:20.280 --> 03:28:25.600
return with Endgame by David Carr. Another tale well calculated349503:28:25.639 --> 03:28:26.200
to keep you in.349603:28:28.319 --> 03:28:29.079
Suspense.349703:28:32.959 --> 03:28:37.319
Well, my dear, I know it's about time for us349803:28:37.360 --> 03:28:40.159
to part, at least for now, but I hope to349903:28:40.280 --> 03:28:45.360
catch you once more before well a new year downs.350003:28:47.319 --> 03:28:51.040
This is one more kind of gift. We listened so350103:28:51.319 --> 03:28:57.719
often to these disembodied voices, these distant stories. It's rare350203:28:57.879 --> 03:29:05.040
there's a familiar voice among them. But tonight, well, this350303:29:05.239 --> 03:29:10.719
one's it's extra special. I hope you enjoy it as350403:29:10.799 --> 03:29:13.799
much as I do. I hope it means as much350503:29:13.920 --> 03:29:19.239
to you as it does to me. The open end wrench.350603:29:19.840 --> 03:29:31.760
This is Awson Weld speaking from London, the Black Museum.350703:29:33.000 --> 03:29:35.879
Here in the Grimstone structure on the Thames, which houses350803:29:35.920 --> 03:29:41.200
Gartland Yard, is a warehouse of homicide, where everyday objects,350903:29:41.760 --> 03:29:45.920
an ink bottle, a child's raincoat, of sofa pillow.351003:29:46.319 --> 03:29:59.000
All are touched by murder. Is an open end wrench.351103:30:00.000 --> 03:30:00.799
Familiar object.351203:30:01.280 --> 03:30:03.559
If you own an automobile, you own one of these.351303:30:04.399 --> 03:30:06.200
Very least you've seen a mechanic used one.351403:30:06.360 --> 03:30:10.319
The steel shaft about eight inches long, the shaft bulging351503:30:10.399 --> 03:30:14.079
into a curve shaped like a horseshoe, which fits a351603:30:14.120 --> 03:30:19.239
bold exactly simple tool, almost beautiful in its slim efficiency.351703:30:20.000 --> 03:30:21.159
Well made, isn't it?351803:30:21.280 --> 03:30:25.840
Inspector We're familiar with these things dot com quite common351903:30:25.879 --> 03:30:26.479
as weapons.352003:30:26.639 --> 03:30:30.639
Yes, of course one skull could be cracked rather efficaciously352103:30:31.079 --> 03:30:33.239
if this were brought down hard on it.352203:30:40.079 --> 03:30:44.920
And today this open end wrench can be seen in352303:30:45.040 --> 03:30:45.959
the Black Museum.352403:30:55.399 --> 03:30:58.200
From the annals of the Criminal Investigation Department of the352503:30:58.280 --> 03:31:01.520
London Police. We bring you the dramatic stories of the352603:31:01.639 --> 03:31:05.719
crimes recorded by the objects in Scotland Yards Gallery of Death,352703:31:06.760 --> 03:31:07.959
the Black Museum.352803:31:23.920 --> 03:31:29.000
Here we are the Black Museum, Scotland Yards Museum of Murder.352903:31:30.399 --> 03:31:32.000
Yes here lies death.353003:31:33.440 --> 03:31:37.239
Here in silent Rows is the orded catalog of the353103:31:37.440 --> 03:31:38.639
violence wreaked by.353203:31:38.639 --> 03:31:42.799
Man or fellow man. He is an empty cardboard match cover.353303:31:43.399 --> 03:31:45.879
Perhaps you've tossed one into your own waistbasket at this353403:31:46.079 --> 03:31:51.079
very moment, but not like this. Let's hope now from353503:31:51.120 --> 03:31:53.959
this one. The sulfur headed matches were ripped to start353603:31:54.000 --> 03:31:59.319
a fire. A woman died in the burning building. Later353703:31:59.399 --> 03:32:05.120
Amanda the end of a rope trapped by the printed advertisement.353803:32:04.559 --> 03:32:06.239
On this match cover. Ah.353903:32:06.360 --> 03:32:11.120
Yes, here we are at the open end wrench, at354003:32:11.200 --> 03:32:14.360
the common tool among mechanics, even among non mechanical types.354103:32:14.399 --> 03:32:16.479
Bookkeepers clerks teaches.354203:32:16.159 --> 03:32:18.959
No sign of violence or death upon it, merely a354303:32:19.040 --> 03:32:22.000
bit of shaped patterned steel produced for use in the354403:32:22.079 --> 03:32:27.479
manufacturing repair of modern machines. Look at it in ordinary circumstances,354503:32:27.559 --> 03:32:29.440
and it will evoke no thought of tragedy in you,354603:32:30.200 --> 03:32:32.920
or even in the motorists. To travel an English highway354703:32:33.399 --> 03:32:37.840
one quiet spring morning, going at a normal speed, enjoying354803:32:37.879 --> 03:32:41.239
the fresh sunlight, a new, clean green of fields and354903:32:41.440 --> 03:32:42.239
rising hills.355003:32:42.600 --> 03:32:43.760
The road curved ahead.355103:32:44.639 --> 03:32:46.760
White posts mark the edge of the endankment.355203:32:47.559 --> 03:32:49.520
The road heels slightly, turning to the left.355303:32:50.600 --> 03:32:54.639
Ah, quite a view. Get god, it's a nasty curve.355403:32:55.079 --> 03:33:03.239
It's not awake. That fence it flashed. God hemns, there's.355503:33:03.000 --> 03:33:03.799
A car down there.355603:33:12.920 --> 03:33:16.120
Minutes only until he's back in his own car, speeding355703:33:16.200 --> 03:33:19.280
toward the nearest town, toward the nearest police station.355803:33:20.680 --> 03:33:26.040
There, Constable, there's a wreck on the curve about a355903:33:26.120 --> 03:33:27.000
mile south of here.356003:33:27.120 --> 03:33:28.959
You have anything to do with it, mister, No, no, no,356103:33:29.040 --> 03:33:29.479
of course not.356203:33:29.760 --> 03:33:32.200
I noticed the broken fence and saw the car down356303:33:32.239 --> 03:33:34.799
the hill. I say there seemed to be a woman356403:33:34.879 --> 03:33:37.280
in it. Look, you better come and bring help.356503:33:40.079 --> 03:33:43.360
The doctor, who was also the local coroner, needed little356603:33:43.440 --> 03:33:45.799
time to determine which of his functions were called for.356703:33:45.920 --> 03:33:46.399
It the wreck.356803:33:50.680 --> 03:33:52.120
He's been past help for hours.356903:33:52.399 --> 03:33:53.879
Must have gone off the road during the night.357003:33:54.200 --> 03:33:56.200
I've notified the superintendent about the extent.357103:33:56.239 --> 03:33:56.559
Doctor.357203:33:57.000 --> 03:33:59.120
Yes, well, you fellows will want to trace the car357303:34:00.079 --> 03:34:01.319
identification on the body.357403:34:01.639 --> 03:34:04.360
Nothing in the woman's purson, It ought to be laundry357503:34:04.440 --> 03:34:08.319
or dry cleanness marks. It's pretty hard to stay identified357603:34:08.360 --> 03:34:09.280
these days, doctor.357703:34:09.200 --> 03:34:11.239
Yes, of course, you can show the ambulance men to357803:34:11.280 --> 03:34:13.639
take her to the hospital. Hospital, say or a topsy357903:34:13.879 --> 03:34:16.360
I can't just cibe a certificate accidental death.358003:34:16.399 --> 03:34:18.719
You know, Constable is very well, sir.358103:34:25.959 --> 03:34:29.000
The ambulance drove off to the local hospital. Doctor Mason358203:34:29.040 --> 03:34:30.040
followed in his own car.358303:34:30.520 --> 03:34:33.399
At the wreck. The constable saluted a newcomer.358403:34:33.600 --> 03:34:37.680
Good morning, sir, Good morning Johnson turn Turtle.358503:34:37.719 --> 03:34:40.600
I see, yes, sir, this is the man who discovered358603:34:40.600 --> 03:34:42.120
the excerpt, mister Frisbee.358703:34:42.280 --> 03:34:43.959
Superintendent fostered, Oh how.358803:34:43.879 --> 03:34:44.360
Do you do, sir?358903:34:44.920 --> 03:34:49.479
Mister Frisbee. Yeah, you left your name and address.359003:34:50.360 --> 03:34:53.440
With the constable. Sir, If I may I have a359103:34:53.520 --> 03:34:54.639
business appointment.359203:34:54.360 --> 03:34:56.159
Yes, youme go ahead. We will send for you if359303:34:56.200 --> 03:34:57.239
we need you for the inquest.359403:34:57.319 --> 03:34:59.280
Oh, thank you, sir. Well, just let me know if359503:34:59.319 --> 03:35:01.879
you want me I'll be available any time, sir.359603:35:02.959 --> 03:35:07.360
Anything extraordinary, Johnson, nothing is as fast we've seen no fire, No, sir,359703:35:08.040 --> 03:35:09.520
I'll never look at it a little.359803:35:09.239 --> 03:35:13.440
To Superintendent Foster poked around in the twisted metal and359903:35:13.600 --> 03:35:14.680
point Gonne's attention.360003:35:15.639 --> 03:35:18.239
Johnson, any idea which way she was traveling?360103:35:18.600 --> 03:35:19.239
Downgrade?360203:35:19.280 --> 03:35:19.440
Sir?360303:35:20.079 --> 03:35:22.600
There are rather clear tire marks on the roadway leading360403:35:22.639 --> 03:35:24.040
to the break of a fencer.360503:35:24.159 --> 03:35:29.239
Down grade Strange. The gear shift levers in second position,360603:35:29.840 --> 03:35:36.639
second gear. Apparently that grade isn't that steep? Just the point? Well,360703:35:36.760 --> 03:35:39.360
a woman driver strange road at night.360803:35:39.799 --> 03:35:41.239
She wasn't in the driver's seater.360903:35:41.760 --> 03:35:44.520
Oh, tossed over as the car Feddle.361003:35:44.639 --> 03:35:47.559
I can't say, sir. I'd have expected, sir, that she'd361103:35:47.600 --> 03:35:49.639
have been pinned behind the steering wheel.361203:35:51.159 --> 03:35:54.520
May be right about that. Well, we'll leave things as361303:35:54.559 --> 03:35:59.000
they are. The insurance people usually want to see these ricks. Hello,361403:35:59.559 --> 03:36:03.760
what's this open end register? Probably from the years Constable361503:36:04.959 --> 03:36:08.719
I was going to say, the toolboxer. The toolbox was locked,361603:36:09.280 --> 03:36:11.920
no other tools around. We'll bring it along to the361703:36:11.959 --> 03:36:14.680
station house. There's ense leaving it out here to rust361803:36:15.120 --> 03:36:18.399
and the usual routine trace the registration of the car361903:36:18.680 --> 03:36:22.040
locate the owner or the extra kin and check if362003:36:22.079 --> 03:36:23.440
it was the woman's car.362103:36:41.959 --> 03:36:47.520
The usual routine for another auto accident, another careless, sleepy driver.362203:36:48.360 --> 03:36:51.799
The usual telegrams were sent, the usual telephone calls were made.362303:36:52.200 --> 03:36:56.719
The same afternoon, Comfortable Johnston reported to a superintendent.362403:36:56.799 --> 03:37:03.360
Yeas Johnson papers on the extracer. Hum, I see owner362503:37:03.680 --> 03:37:09.040
Martin beach avon MWS, London. Has he been not divide?362603:37:09.399 --> 03:37:12.200
Yes, sir, he's on his way down. The woman was362703:37:12.239 --> 03:37:16.239
his wife's, Sir asked Ben a shock I took the cars.362803:37:16.639 --> 03:37:18.840
He kept saying he couldn't understand what she was doing.362903:37:18.719 --> 03:37:19.440
All the way out here.363003:37:19.719 --> 03:37:23.159
Well, we'll deal gently with him, doctor Mason reported.363103:37:23.239 --> 03:37:25.520
Yet, no, sir, nothing on the autopsy is yet.363203:37:25.639 --> 03:37:29.879
Taking him a long time. Let's see, kept me, doctor363303:37:29.920 --> 03:37:34.959
Mason pears at the hospital. Did you make certain on363403:37:35.120 --> 03:37:36.680
the tire tracks, Johnson.363503:37:36.520 --> 03:37:36.959
We did, sir.363603:37:37.360 --> 03:37:40.159
They metch perfectly. The car was coming down, sir, on363703:37:40.200 --> 03:37:42.520
the side of the road away from the fence. It363803:37:42.559 --> 03:37:45.920
seems to have swerved suddenly just above the curve and363903:37:46.040 --> 03:37:47.680
made rather a bee line for the edge.364003:37:48.000 --> 03:37:50.520
Are you suggesting she went over purposely? Johnson?364103:37:50.680 --> 03:37:53.760
No, sir, it seemed like a point, sir, Most cars364203:37:53.799 --> 03:37:55.479
at least tried to follow the road.364303:37:55.559 --> 03:37:55.680
Sir.364403:37:55.920 --> 03:37:58.520
I notice you keep referring to the car and not364503:37:58.680 --> 03:37:59.159
to the woman.364603:37:59.680 --> 03:38:02.319
She wasn't in the driver's seats when we found her364703:38:03.520 --> 03:38:11.600
stickler for detail, aren't you constable? Ah, I'll both yere good.364803:38:12.559 --> 03:38:13.719
I just put a call through to you.364903:38:13.840 --> 03:38:14.120
Doctor.365003:38:16.799 --> 03:38:20.719
Yeah, he is thinking, yes, he's ad to arrive. Well,365103:38:20.879 --> 03:38:23.280
what did you find, doctor? You asked that as if365203:38:23.319 --> 03:38:26.879
you knew asked the deduction. You don't usually take this365303:38:27.040 --> 03:38:28.120
long time on these jobs.365403:38:28.159 --> 03:38:31.000
I didn't expect you until I found alcohol in her stomach.365503:38:31.600 --> 03:38:32.440
Drunken driver, I.365603:38:32.440 --> 03:38:35.319
Wouldn't know about that. In any case, she wasn't driving365703:38:35.399 --> 03:38:37.079
when the car went through that fence.365803:38:37.440 --> 03:38:40.559
Johnson's been suggesting that rather stubbornly, he couldn't be more365903:38:40.639 --> 03:38:43.440
right faster? Why not? The dead don't drive?366003:38:44.360 --> 03:38:44.639
Hello?366103:38:45.319 --> 03:38:45.920
Anything else?366203:38:46.040 --> 03:38:46.440
Quite a bit.366303:38:46.840 --> 03:38:49.520
In the first place, death was not caused by the accident.366403:38:49.879 --> 03:38:52.079
She was dead well before the car went over. You366503:38:52.200 --> 03:38:57.040
told us that stangredation choked, probably unconscious of the time.366603:38:57.760 --> 03:39:00.360
What do you base that conclusion on? Four uses?366703:39:00.600 --> 03:39:02.040
Pay the neck pose?366803:39:02.120 --> 03:39:04.760
I thought the extent, the dead don't drive, and they366903:39:04.840 --> 03:39:09.079
don't bruise, Constable, those marks were made while she was367003:39:09.159 --> 03:39:09.760
still alive.367103:39:10.440 --> 03:39:16.319
I see definitely murder, doctor, definitely, I'd like to see367203:39:16.319 --> 03:39:19.840
the body. Come along, Constable, your instinct.367303:39:20.680 --> 03:39:23.040
Three men enter the morgue at the small country hospital.367403:39:23.719 --> 03:39:26.360
Three grim faces betray no emotion as they view the367503:39:26.399 --> 03:39:27.120
woman's body.367603:39:28.040 --> 03:39:31.639
The doctor says, you'll notice the marks the strangler's thumbs367703:39:31.680 --> 03:39:32.559
made there.367803:39:33.200 --> 03:39:36.479
The obvious bruise is here, just below her hairline on367903:39:36.639 --> 03:39:37.159
her forehead.368003:39:37.360 --> 03:39:39.200
The superintendent of police says.368103:39:39.840 --> 03:39:44.000
I see interesting in the shape of that bruise, almost368203:39:44.159 --> 03:39:45.639
like a small horseshoe.368303:39:46.200 --> 03:39:50.879
Diffidently, the constable clears his throat, inquiring glance from his superintendent.368403:39:52.040 --> 03:39:53.280
The young officer says.368503:39:55.120 --> 03:39:57.239
We might dry for actual size, Sir.368603:39:57.760 --> 03:39:59.600
That kind of mark could have been made by that368703:40:00.319 --> 03:40:00.799
end wrench.368803:40:06.239 --> 03:40:11.040
Today at open end wrench is to be seen in368903:40:11.159 --> 03:40:12.479
the Black Museum.369003:40:21.840 --> 03:40:24.639
The doctor placed the bulged end of the two against369103:40:24.639 --> 03:40:25.520
the woman's forehead.369203:40:26.280 --> 03:40:28.280
The three men stood there silently a moment.369303:40:29.440 --> 03:40:33.079
The constable spoke no question about it, as they say,369403:40:33.600 --> 03:40:37.680
not as far as I can see, Johnson. When the369503:40:37.760 --> 03:40:41.000
speech fellow arrived, say nothing about any of this, and369603:40:41.079 --> 03:40:44.079
I don't want a trunk call plays immediate day. I369703:40:44.200 --> 03:40:46.520
want to speak with Inspector Hall at Scotland Yard.369803:40:49.799 --> 03:40:53.520
The ponderous, inevitable juggernaut that his police work began to369903:40:53.639 --> 03:40:58.040
move gained momentum. A fast car brought Inspector Hall and370003:40:58.120 --> 03:41:01.120
Sergeant Williams from the yard before train connections permitted the370103:41:01.200 --> 03:41:05.079
arrival of Martin Beach. The inspector listened intently as Superintendent370203:41:05.200 --> 03:41:11.680
Foster outlined the details, then quietly, no fuss, no newspaper headlines.370303:41:12.360 --> 03:41:16.159
Detectives were dispatched to run a check. Shortly thereafter, a370403:41:16.239 --> 03:41:18.600
grief stricken husband arrived at the station house in the370503:41:18.639 --> 03:41:19.760
company of doctor Mason.370603:41:20.920 --> 03:41:24.559
There's no question about my identification, Superintendent Doctor.370703:41:24.319 --> 03:41:27.040
Mason will bear me out. I knew her the moment.370803:41:27.120 --> 03:41:28.680
That is darkner.370903:41:29.280 --> 03:41:30.719
Yes, it's missus Beech.371003:41:31.360 --> 03:41:34.639
I can't understand it. I simply can't. She was a371103:41:34.680 --> 03:41:35.719
good driver, better than I.371203:41:36.159 --> 03:41:38.840
How did it happen that she was out alone?371303:41:39.399 --> 03:41:42.600
We lived a quiet life, even Moses in the suburb371403:41:42.639 --> 03:41:45.639
of London. Really, she'd often take the car for a drive.371503:41:45.799 --> 03:41:47.520
I'd go to sleep. I had to get up early.371603:41:48.159 --> 03:41:51.239
My business is in the city. She said she wanted371703:41:51.280 --> 03:41:54.239
some pressure last night. I didn't miss her until I371803:41:54.280 --> 03:41:56.600
woke this morning. I can't understand it.371903:41:57.360 --> 03:42:01.360
Why did you be a simple story? Quite commonplace, quite honest.372003:42:02.559 --> 03:42:05.440
One question seemed to puzzle a husband more than it372103:42:05.559 --> 03:42:06.280
disturbed him.372203:42:07.559 --> 03:42:12.399
Liquor whisky? You mean, no, an occasional drink of friends placed,372303:42:12.399 --> 03:42:15.799
that was all. Why are you suggesting Louise was a372403:42:15.879 --> 03:42:16.600
drunken driver?372503:42:17.040 --> 03:42:21.360
Now they were suggesting nothing, merely asking a routine question. Yes,372603:42:21.520 --> 03:42:23.200
they would release the body shortly.372703:42:23.680 --> 03:42:27.319
We have no relations, no one, We had only each other.372803:42:28.159 --> 03:42:29.639
I shall have to notify our friends.372903:42:30.040 --> 03:42:30.280
Yes.373003:42:30.399 --> 03:42:34.239
The police agreed sympathetically, and Superintendent First turned doctor Mason373103:42:34.319 --> 03:42:35.680
escorted him to his London train.373203:42:37.159 --> 03:42:39.280
Meanwhile, on the Middlebury Road.373303:42:46.440 --> 03:42:49.719
Your name Carrie, yes, sir, my name's williams C. I373403:42:49.840 --> 03:42:52.319
d my identification, yes, Sorgian.373503:42:52.559 --> 03:42:53.399
Shall we go wrong?373603:42:53.959 --> 03:42:57.040
You heard of the accident down the hill?373703:42:57.200 --> 03:42:57.840
Yes, of course.373803:42:58.479 --> 03:43:01.600
How late do you keep this petro station open? Twelve373903:43:01.760 --> 03:43:02.319
one o'clock?374003:43:02.440 --> 03:43:05.319
You paint her a tterffic and last night I closed374103:43:05.399 --> 03:43:09.959
up about one, locked the tanks and any customers around374203:43:10.000 --> 03:43:11.040
that time, whether there was your.374303:43:11.040 --> 03:43:14.079
Dog, sedan men or woman, you got a good look374403:43:14.120 --> 03:43:17.120
at the woman. He was driving, bought five gallons. She374503:43:17.319 --> 03:43:20.760
was asleep at the front seat. Any sign of whiskey, well,374603:43:20.799 --> 03:43:23.040
he had a breath on him, Sergeant seemed in a374703:43:23.159 --> 03:43:24.520
Larry too agy.374803:43:24.719 --> 03:43:27.479
Now look this photo mean anything to you?374903:43:28.399 --> 03:43:31.399
Yes, it looks a little chary to tell at night375003:43:31.440 --> 03:43:34.920
that the light's beard. Is she sleeping there in a picture?375103:43:35.159 --> 03:43:36.920
No, she's dead.375203:43:40.959 --> 03:43:44.959
They call it backtracking. They tried to trace the car375303:43:45.040 --> 03:43:45.680
along the road.375403:43:45.719 --> 03:43:47.040
It traveled the.375503:43:47.120 --> 03:43:50.760
Gas stations first, in this case where whiskey was present.375603:43:50.840 --> 03:43:53.000
The taverns and the inns were checked as well.375703:43:54.000 --> 03:43:58.799
You're the landlord here, yes, sir, my wife siddy, you're375803:43:59.040 --> 03:44:03.280
the police, Yes, trying to trace the man and a woman.375903:44:04.280 --> 03:44:08.479
This picture mean anything to you, Yes, sir?376003:44:09.360 --> 03:44:14.600
She was here last night till closing time, had a376103:44:14.879 --> 03:44:17.280
bit too much arm afraidser.376203:44:18.280 --> 03:44:19.680
Was she alone?376303:44:19.879 --> 03:44:25.280
No, sir, now with a shortish fellow, dark quiet in376403:44:25.399 --> 03:44:26.600
a nervous sort of way.376503:44:27.360 --> 03:44:31.319
I remember, because well he wanted to buy a bottle.376603:44:31.479 --> 03:44:34.600
But I'd none despair, and I rather.376703:44:34.559 --> 03:44:38.559
Thought what was driving? And all laid already had enough.376803:44:43.440 --> 03:44:43.959
That evening.376903:44:44.079 --> 03:44:46.680
Sergeant Williams gave the inspector his own reports from that377003:44:46.799 --> 03:44:49.000
of the men assigned to the railroad portion of the inquiry.377103:44:49.600 --> 03:44:53.040
They routed the conductor out of his bed. He remembers377203:44:53.040 --> 03:44:55.520
the fellow all right, bought his ticket on the train.377303:44:56.079 --> 03:44:58.799
Complete stranger, shortish and dark.377403:45:00.079 --> 03:45:03.319
Yes, she was with a man, all right. Seems to377503:45:03.639 --> 03:45:07.079
me we'd better break the news to Beach. It won't377603:45:07.120 --> 03:45:07.600
be pleasant.377703:45:07.920 --> 03:45:12.120
It wasn't pleasant, Martin. Beach took it quietly. But will377803:45:12.120 --> 03:45:12.879
it not be a shock?377903:45:14.000 --> 03:45:16.239
Who is with another man?378003:45:17.200 --> 03:45:17.559
Spector?378103:45:17.600 --> 03:45:19.520
You can't be serious. I'm afraid i am.378203:45:20.360 --> 03:45:24.440
Your wife's picture has been tentatively identified by a petrol378303:45:24.520 --> 03:45:25.799
station owner, by.378403:45:25.680 --> 03:45:28.840
An innkeeper on the Middlebury Road. We'll be taken over378503:45:28.920 --> 03:45:30.879
to the hospital to check tomorrow.378603:45:32.479 --> 03:45:33.879
And she was with the man.378703:45:34.440 --> 03:45:38.520
No, it's not possible. No one could have been that secreted.378803:45:38.680 --> 03:45:41.120
And why we just lived for each other?378903:45:41.879 --> 03:45:44.680
It's an old story to us, mister Beach, you're a379003:45:44.719 --> 03:45:48.559
busy man. Your my wife was alone a good deal.379103:45:48.840 --> 03:45:52.799
But when how you told yourself? She used the car alone,379203:45:52.879 --> 03:45:55.600
and quite often at night. If I could get my379303:45:55.760 --> 03:45:58.559
hands on him, Oh what fools we mortal to be.379403:45:59.159 --> 03:46:01.920
We want him to the beach now.379503:46:02.319 --> 03:46:03.200
Will you help us, of.379603:46:03.280 --> 03:46:09.479
Course, anything, anything at all? Then maybe search your wife's effects.379703:46:09.360 --> 03:46:11.440
Of course, Inspector, search the whole house if you think.379803:46:12.000 --> 03:46:14.959
They were quite thorough, of course, and very quickly they379903:46:15.000 --> 03:46:16.280
were successful.380003:46:17.079 --> 03:46:19.639
I found these in the stocking box at the rear380103:46:19.719 --> 03:46:21.520
of the bureau draw Inspector, I.380203:46:21.680 --> 03:46:29.600
See, hmm letters, mister Beach, do you know of Fred Hennessy?380303:46:30.120 --> 03:46:31.680
No? May I?380403:46:32.280 --> 03:46:32.399
May?380503:46:32.440 --> 03:46:33.200
I see the letters?380603:46:33.600 --> 03:46:33.719
Right?380703:46:34.159 --> 03:46:37.879
Well, I I think you'd rather not, and we'll be380803:46:38.000 --> 03:46:38.920
checking them. The fingerprints.380903:46:38.959 --> 03:46:43.399
Of course, they're all addressed to your wife. The last381003:46:43.479 --> 03:46:48.159
one makes arrangements for a meeting place with the car.381103:46:49.639 --> 03:46:53.000
Is there is there a return addressed, Inspector? There is381203:46:54.239 --> 03:46:55.159
good luck, Inspector.381303:46:59.399 --> 03:47:08.440
The Inspector and Sergeant Williams had luck. However, it was381403:47:08.520 --> 03:47:10.280
not exactly good luck.381503:47:11.479 --> 03:47:15.000
Fred Annessey. No, there's no Nercy living here.381603:47:15.479 --> 03:47:18.920
Well now, perhaps he use another name, a shortish dark381703:47:19.000 --> 03:47:21.159
pillow with the flare of a letter writing.381803:47:21.440 --> 03:47:24.600
No, haven't heard any shortish men staying here in months.381903:47:24.760 --> 03:47:27.399
Well, this is three four six Greenville Street, isn't it.382003:47:27.760 --> 03:47:30.760
Well, there's nowhere else, Inspector. Once more, I don't have382103:47:30.799 --> 03:47:33.600
any letter writers here. Every one of my men roomors382203:47:33.639 --> 03:47:37.399
except one, works at the car factory. They're a tough crowd, inspector,382303:47:37.440 --> 03:47:38.440
but they're nice enough to me.382403:47:39.040 --> 03:47:40.159
I take good care of him.382503:47:40.200 --> 03:47:40.399
I do.382603:47:40.879 --> 03:47:43.680
And the one who doesn't build automobiles, how is it?382703:47:43.760 --> 03:47:44.520
Constably is?382803:47:45.719 --> 03:47:45.799
Now?382903:47:45.879 --> 03:47:48.360
What would you want to see him for a good383003:47:48.440 --> 03:47:50.520
question and a big disappointment.383103:47:51.479 --> 03:47:55.559
Still, the machinery ground on the reports came in to the.383203:47:55.600 --> 03:47:57.000
Small bear office of the Arron.383303:47:57.360 --> 03:48:00.959
Here we are fingerprint reports, inspector. Now, the prints on383403:48:01.040 --> 03:48:03.879
the letters matched those they found on the gear shift383503:48:04.040 --> 03:48:08.159
lever in the wrecked car. The ridge patterns conformed to383603:48:08.239 --> 03:48:09.920
the smudges on the wrench touser.383703:48:10.319 --> 03:48:11.600
The conclusion is obvious.383803:48:12.239 --> 03:48:14.319
At the very least, it placed the maker of those383903:48:14.399 --> 03:48:15.760
finger prints in contact with.384003:48:15.799 --> 03:48:20.120
A murdered woman in the murder car with the murder weapon.384103:48:20.799 --> 03:48:23.360
It looks so as if he pulled off the road,384203:48:23.840 --> 03:48:27.600
did the job, then started the car down grade and384303:48:27.799 --> 03:48:29.079
jumped hers.384403:48:29.239 --> 03:48:33.000
Probably the unlocked door on the driver's side would indicate that.384503:48:33.840 --> 03:48:35.600
But what about this prince? I told her try and384603:48:35.680 --> 03:48:38.840
get we have'm sir lifted him neatly. I was saving384703:48:38.879 --> 03:48:43.440
that for the last, sir. You see they match? Yes,384803:48:43.840 --> 03:48:48.719
very good, Oliver is clever well. Murders usual in amateur's crime,384903:48:48.799 --> 03:48:51.840
isn't it, Sergeant? What about the men to identify him?385003:48:51.959 --> 03:48:53.559
They'll be in London in the morning, Sir.385103:49:00.120 --> 03:49:01.040
To Sergeant Williams.385203:49:01.079 --> 03:49:05.639
The case seemed complete, the inspector was still somewhat cautious.385303:49:06.680 --> 03:49:08.879
It will stick, sir, in any court.385403:49:09.239 --> 03:49:12.319
I'll feel better if we have the motive, Sergeant. I385503:49:12.600 --> 03:49:13.559
like a complete case.385603:49:14.520 --> 03:49:19.559
Identifications have been upset before, and even fingerprints give him385703:49:19.559 --> 03:49:20.239
a good motive.385803:49:20.360 --> 03:49:23.920
We'll hang the gentleman. In fact, we may be able385903:49:23.959 --> 03:49:32.879
to see he hung himself with his own cleverness. Inspector386003:49:32.879 --> 03:49:40.520
all here, hmm, I see very good, Davis. Oh, I'll386103:49:40.600 --> 03:49:42.920
just keep your eye on the place, Williams, and I386203:49:42.959 --> 03:49:43.799
will be along directly.386303:49:44.559 --> 03:49:45.920
Get your head, sergeant, Very good, sir.386403:49:46.239 --> 03:49:47.440
Our quarry has gone calling on.386503:49:47.479 --> 03:49:49.040
My lady, and so we.386603:49:51.840 --> 03:49:54.840
The police car sped silently through the London streets out386703:49:54.879 --> 03:49:57.159
to a pleasant suburb. He drew up to the curb,386803:49:57.280 --> 03:50:00.360
near a small house detached from its neighbors, wanted by386903:50:00.360 --> 03:50:03.000
a hedge and trees. A man stepped out of the387003:50:03.040 --> 03:50:05.520
shadows spoke softly to the inspector. He remained at the387103:50:05.600 --> 03:50:08.040
car as the inspector in the searcheant walked to the387203:50:08.040 --> 03:50:10.719
front door of the house and rang the bill.387303:50:12.319 --> 03:50:17.760
Yes, Miss Jeffrey, missus Dorothy Jeffrey, that's right. My name387403:50:17.879 --> 03:50:23.760
is hall Cee, I D identification. Maybe come in, I387503:50:23.959 --> 03:50:26.280
hear why not hang you?387603:50:27.840 --> 03:50:28.680
What can I do for you?387703:50:29.079 --> 03:50:31.840
Well, as a matter of fact, Miss Jeffrey, we stopped387803:50:31.840 --> 03:50:34.879
by to see your caller, a mister Marchin Beach.387903:50:35.000 --> 03:50:38.799
I believe, inspector. Well, this is a pleasure to see388003:50:38.879 --> 03:50:41.040
all the way out here, is it, mister Beach. Of388103:50:41.120 --> 03:50:44.280
course you know why they heard, don't you. I assume388203:50:44.319 --> 03:50:45.120
you saw me come by.388303:50:45.520 --> 03:50:47.719
Wait a minute, what's going on here?388403:50:47.879 --> 03:50:48.319
Don't you know?388503:50:48.360 --> 03:50:49.520
Miss Jeffrey, I know.388603:50:49.639 --> 03:50:54.000
The idea inspectors dust, don't drop in or come by, Martin?388703:50:54.319 --> 03:50:57.239
Have you been up to something? I'll not stay out388803:50:57.280 --> 03:50:57.399
of it.388903:50:57.520 --> 03:50:59.000
If we're to be married, I've a right to know389003:51:00.159 --> 03:51:01.799
to tell mister Beach about his wife.389103:51:02.799 --> 03:51:03.120
Wife.389203:51:04.239 --> 03:51:05.879
You never mentioned a wife, Martin.389303:51:06.000 --> 03:51:08.520
You're not arresting the inspector have his home and asleep389403:51:08.520 --> 03:51:09.120
when she was killed?389503:51:09.159 --> 03:51:12.559
Inn keeper says not, Beach. So does the petrol station owner.389603:51:13.479 --> 03:51:15.360
So does a conduct with the train you took back389703:51:15.360 --> 03:51:16.399
to London for Middlebury.389803:51:16.479 --> 03:51:17.399
I said, you're not taking me in.389903:51:17.719 --> 03:51:18.479
You're not, You're not.390003:51:21.159 --> 03:51:23.760
There are prince DAWs into the garden, well covered front390103:51:23.799 --> 03:51:27.799
from back, Miss Jeffrey, he won't get far. It's his warning.390203:51:28.040 --> 03:51:32.040
He'll stop running now. This is not the expected way390303:51:32.120 --> 03:51:35.760
to break an engagement, to be mad. Yes, I understand, miss,390403:51:36.360 --> 03:51:37.360
but you'll get over it.390503:51:38.319 --> 03:51:41.680
This manner of ending or relationship is far less permanent390603:51:42.000 --> 03:51:44.799
than the one your fans used to gain his freedom.390703:51:44.520 --> 03:51:49.200
From his wife. You know, miss, the chances are quite good,390803:51:49.280 --> 03:51:50.319
but they've got a way of it.390903:51:51.559 --> 03:51:55.200
If you hadn't written some fake love letters, I'm forgotten391003:51:55.239 --> 03:51:58.600
to hide a certain open end wrench.391103:52:02.840 --> 03:52:06.319
And today the open end wrench can be seen in391203:52:06.440 --> 03:52:09.920
its special place in the Black Museum.391303:52:15.440 --> 03:52:18.360
Orson Wells will be back with you in just a moment.391403:52:20.360 --> 03:52:23.520
It's an old guard, of course, may have worked many times.391503:52:24.440 --> 03:52:27.879
Commit a murder, wreck an automobile to cover its traces.391603:52:28.520 --> 03:52:31.719
It might have worked this time if Martin Beech had391703:52:31.799 --> 03:52:35.520
known that dead bodies do not bruise. If he'd been391803:52:35.639 --> 03:52:38.120
really clever, and it succeeded in burning the car.391903:52:38.239 --> 03:52:44.639
And the body. If if if, But he was not392003:52:44.799 --> 03:52:45.360
really clever.392103:52:46.280 --> 03:52:50.239
His cleverness failed him failed him at eight o'clock one392203:52:50.319 --> 03:52:56.360
morning in Dartmoor Prison. As for Dorothy Jeffrey, she disappeared392303:52:56.479 --> 03:52:59.760
when she had come into the great anonymity, which is London.392403:53:01.719 --> 03:53:04.479
That's until next time we meet in the same.392503:53:04.319 --> 03:53:07.200
Place for another story about the Black Museum.392603:53:08.120 --> 03:53:10.680
I remain, as always obediently yours.392703:53:27.920 --> 03:53:36.440
Oh well, it certainly is almost early. I suppose you392803:53:36.559 --> 03:53:40.520
should get home, and I should prepare to go to392903:53:40.760 --> 03:53:47.120
wherever it is I come from. Hopefully it'll be as393003:53:48.040 --> 03:53:52.360
holly and jolly as you've been. I do hope to393103:53:52.440 --> 03:53:55.520
see you here again. I'll be right here at the393203:53:55.600 --> 03:54:01.040
same time and same place. But if you could do393303:54:01.239 --> 03:54:06.239
me one favor. As you make your way home, as393403:54:06.319 --> 03:54:12.680
you eye the bright lights and wonderful smells baking cookies393503:54:12.879 --> 03:54:17.239
and incense, as you lay your head on your pillow393603:54:17.959 --> 03:54:22.159
waiting for the tap tap tap on the roof, one moment,393703:54:23.120 --> 03:54:28.520
just one moment, be thankful for what you have. I'll393803:54:28.639 --> 03:54:29.399
be seeing you
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