Unknown Broadcast | Four Horror Stories of Fate, Knife-Edges, and Mistaken Identity

0:09 Well, my dear, so good of you to brave the absence of light out there to join me here tonight. Oh what's that? Well, I suppose it is a little more. Hmm. Now I see what you're saying. I'll put another log on the fire and see if I can't remedy the situation quickly. But I do wonder as it gets dimmer and colder, what does that mean for the rest of us? Well, I suppose we can't really know. These are questions for the Queen of Darkness.

1:07 The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents. Come in. Welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall. Two little girls still dream of growing up and becoming queens. Probably not, queens are no longer glamorous. And yet there is a country in this world where a queen still holds power, where she rules as well as reigns, an absolute monarch who holds her throne by divine right, a queen whose smile may mean life and who's frown can mean death.

2:04 I'm afraid I must insist, missus Dennison. I'll be forced to kill you. You can't kill me. How can you say that? Because you don't exist this Dennison? I do exist. No, you don't, because this is a dream. You are not dreaming. This knight is real. If you insist on dying, it's your fault. Is Why don't I wake up? Why? Why don't I wake up?

2:45 Wheah. Our mystery drama, The Queen of Darkness was written especially for the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars Julie Harris. It is sponsored in part by Onenheuser Busch Incorporated, brewers of Buttweiser, and sign off the Sinus Medicines. I'll be back shortly with act one. Statistics say that many of them have problems making a living. The record shows that even the successful ones burn out quickly, and yet we have no shortage of actors and actresses. By acting, we mean that mysterious, magical force which creates in an audience the almost religious conviction that the performer on stage is the embodiment of a living truth. Josephine Dennison is such an actress. Some say she was born with the gift, Others claim it was refined and purified by long years of tedious application. Does it matter. Josephine Dennison only knows this.

4:09 She is thirty eight years old and she is. Out of work. Well, she's been out of work before, but. Never has she been so absolutely, completely and totally out of work as she is right now. Joel, you've had it. Don't say that. I have to say that. You're watch stop throw finished. How could this happen to me? It's it's ridiculous. I'm a good actress. You're a great actress. I don't know why it happens. It's just Joe, You're the only call I had for you in the last week. Somebody wanted me, some clown, some character wanted to be the queen and some pageant and. You turned it down.

4:50 Joe, you played Jonah Rock. You've done Shakespeare. What are you supposed to do? Now? Go back to cheesecake like some winning a beauty contract. That's all there is if you need. I wanted to pay the rent. I don't need money. I need a job. Jimmy, what kind of queen was I supposed to be? And who wanted me? By some farny you could tell by looking at him. A smooth talker. I think it was some kind of foreigner. But what was it about? We'll never know. I threw him out of the office. Jimmy, I'll do anything. You know how it is? Yeah, I know how it is, but you don't. Well. I don't want to take up any more of your time. I just don't know what's the matter. I can't figure people out. I don't know why these things happen.

5:35 But don't feel so bad, Jimmy. Sooner or later, the longest streak of luck, good or bad has to change, Quip, dreaming, Joe, don't tell me to stop dreaming, Jimmy. What else is left? What? Why am I life done? Good? Evening? Miss Dennison? Who who are you? How did you get into my apartment? What do you want? You have just asked me a complex question. It consists of three parts. Just tell me, of course, I will tell you everything in good time.

6:18 What do you mean in good time? Am I there? Miss Dennison? I am a native of a civilized country. One does not borishly blurt out one's business upon an issue confrontation. Americans seem to have so little time for the ceremonies, the niceties. I am here to offer. You a job. You'll have to speak to my agent. I have spoken to your agent. The man is an idiot. Are you a theatrical producer? No? What are you? I am a grand duke of what? I am the grand Duke our son of darrat Run. We surely you have heard of my country?

7:03 Oh, I think? So? What do you want with me? First? We shall have dinner. You must be my guest. I don't feel like going anywhere. We shall dine here. I don't want to sound inhospitable, but I have nothing in the house. Wait a minute, yes, sniff again. That heavenly aroma is coming from your own kitchen. But my servants are preparing a feast fit for a queen. Rna Laura really at the table at once?

7:45 I don't I can't believe it. None of us can be happening. Just the evidence of your senses, my dear. But what is the meaning? The wine will grow warm and the food become cold later? Right now, we must perform a ritual, Miss Dennison. We shall celebrate dinner. Me. I feel your glass. No, no, thank you, I've had enough of everything. I hope you have enjoyed your dinner. I've read a feast like this, but I never.

8:26 Thought would you care to dine this way every night? I don't think I could stand it. You could learn your Highness or your excellency? Is it our sun is good enough? Is it permissible to talk about business? Now? You're entirely appropriate. You are wondering why I am here. Let's say I'm at least mildly curious. You know very little about my country, that's true, But my country knows a great pease about you. Do you know you are the most popular actress in Dhara?

9:07 You're joking. I haven't been in a movie in almost four years. How about your television series? Why must we talk about everything in which you ever appeared? Lifts flourishes in Dhara? Do you know what all this is? It's a dream. Yes, it's a dreams dream. I assure you I am read. Please be good enough to hear me out. Besides, this is my dream, and I should like to do some of the talking. But why do you insist your dreams?

9:47 Because I need this dream. I must have this fantasy. You see, I have reached what can only be considered the nadir of my existence. Nonsense, Oh, you're very kind, But the handwriting is on the wall. We simply disappear. Some of us drop by the wayside as soldiers fall in battle, victims of random misfortune, And now it seems a whole new generation of producers has come along and they never heard of me. Now I insist that you listen to me. You are practically worshiped in Drani, of course. Yes, see what I.

10:28 Have in this folder. Newspaper clippings, magazine articles. You cannot read Darranis, but you can nick out your name, and you can certainly recognize your pictures. Certainly. Uh huh. What do you say now? I say it's significance. Let me tell you about the job I wish to offer you. No, not now right now. I'm tired. I'm even too tired to dream anymore. Very well, then I shall call on you tomorrow. Yes, tomorrow, you do that, call on me tomorrow. Kill, oh, kill, wake up. It's noontime. Oh Sally, you got to get up.

11:24 You should be making the rounds, or you should be out there roiling the water. What are you doing here? Sally? The show folded? Well, why don't you go to your own place? My marriage folded too. He gets custody of the apartment. Do you mind if I move in with you for a while. Let me go back to sleep. I was having such a fantastic dream and say what kind of party did you have here last night? Party? Now the kitchen it's loaded with champagne, champagne, and in the refrigerator caviar and steak. Talking about it is an enormous basket of fresh fruit and Sally, Sally, what's the matter.

12:07 I'm dreaming. I'm still dreaming. How can you be dreaming? You're right away? Oh I am dreaming and you're part of it. Let me get out of it. Approve it, Come with me, prove what? Prove this is a dream? Sure? Here they are, they're still here. Look at these papers, these these magazines. Say what language? Is that? A phony language from a phony country that I'm dreaming about? Dal Ram? Did you ever hear of dal Raum? I can't read this, but I see your pictures. Oh, you must be the hottest property in that country. Ah here you thought you were all washed up? I told you you must never I know. That's why I'm dreaming. Answer it, no, it has to be for you, and go ahead. If it keeps ringing, it'll wake me up. And the stream is too beautiful to lose. Right now, Hello, is that the Grand Duke Arsan? Who's calling?

13:20 Please? Now? How did you know? It's my dream? I know everything. I'll speak with him, but you you're not Hello? And what is the convenient to. Come by and discuss an important matter of business? Say about an hour? Let me consult my calendar. Ah, yes, it so happens. I shall be free in oh one moment, sir, I assume you wish to discuss an acting assignment. Of course, you should be apprised of the fact that my minimum fee is twenty five thousand dollars in advance. In exactly one hour, then I shall grant you an interview. So what you say doesn't matter. What do I have to lose?

14:12 It's only a dream. I I think you ought to see a doctor. And so we should like you to come to Dalran to be the star of our millenniaya what your country has merely approached this bicentennial. Mine is celebrating the one thousandth year of our holy monarchy. I see, the greatest moment of our history occurred when our first Queen was crowned a thousand years ago. Her immortal speech is memorized by every school child. Someone had the idea an actress portray our legendary empress and at first everyone shouted blasphemy.

15:06 But then I said, let us invite Josephine Dennison, who is idolized by our population. How can I deliver this speech? I can't speak your language. Oh, you are an actress with a marvelous here. You could reside it perfectly. On Saturday, you will appear before the country in our national network in ceremonial roles as Queen Amara. That's the day after tomorrow, Joe Coronation Day. Let us discuss my fee. A certified check for twenty five thousand dollars has already been deposited in your bank. The royal plane leaves at seven this evening. You will be picked up here at five. Gooday, Well, what.

15:58 Do you say now? Still think you're dreaming? Clock? Come on the Grand Yukosan the Kingdom of Doran, the Warrior Queen. Oh, it's a crazy fantasy dream mixture of a thousand plays I've been in or read. Well, is it a dream or isn't it? Whatever it is, Josephine Denison is in the grip of it. I'll be back with both dreams and realities in just a few moments.

16:48 Every actress yearns for a dream, part. But Josephine Denison is convinced she is playing a part in a dream. But for an actress, the only reality is the theater, and so awake or asleep, she is determined to prepare for the part of the. Queen of dal Ran. How does an absolute monarch hold her head her shoulders? What is a regal smile, a royal frown, an imperial gesture? Joe, don't you want to think about this? Think about what? Well? It's it's now just ten minutes before noon. A man offers you a check. He's not just a man, he's a grand duke. In five hours you'll be out of the country. What's the problem. Shouldn't you check this out a bit more carefully? It's all happening too quickly. Suppose there's some danger involved selling. Nothing can happen to me.

17:44 Why do you say that this is only a dream? Look, look, you'll call your bank ask if the money was deposited. Of course it was. We'll call them. Do me the favor, certainly. Is there anything else you want me to do? Oh? Please take this thing seriously? Yes, Oh, mister Howland please and also called Jimmy Higgins. This is miss Dennison, has a deposit been made to my account today? I know Jimmy hasn't done much for you lately. That's the understatement of the year. How much. A certified check for twenty five thousand dollars? Thank you? Oh?

18:26 You should have heard the tone of absolute deference in that little flunky's voice. He made me feel like a queen. Just a minute. Yes, are you, miss Josephine Dennison? Oh well, that's hardly a flattering question to ask an actress. I'm not in the flattery business. Well, whatever business you're in, I'm afraid I don't have time to talk to you about to leave the country. I'm in the intelligence business with your government. I beg your pardon. My name is Harold Foster, my credentials.

19:08 Oh well, I'm impressed. May I come in? Well I'll have to pack while we talk. Sit down anywhere? Thank you, miss Dennison. Why are you going to Dhrhan? Why is that your affair? Your government is interested? Why you're the first American private citizen who has been permitted to enter that country in fifty years? Really, Darrhn is an absolute monarchy. The queen rules by divine right. She holds the power of life and death. Sounds medieval, it is. Why are you going there? I've been invited to appear in their millennial celebration, to play the part of their legendary queen.

19:52 I find that difficult to believe, do you? Why? How had they ever heard of you, mister Foster? I admit I haven't been working lately, but I am a rather well known actress. The most famous actress in the world would still be unknown to the natives of Dalran. And why do you say that, mister Foster? Because the monarchy does not allow the import of any foreign films, or books or publications of any sort. How do you know, miss Denison? It's a fact the monarchy is afraid the pure and innocent and orthodox minds of the Dalrnese will be subverted by dangerous democratic ideas. But I have been informed that I am the favorite actress of the Dalranese.

20:34 My films, my team impossible. No American film has ever been permitted to be shown there. Suppose I were to tell you that the movie fan magazines in dalran are constantly filled with articles about me. It would be my sad duty to inform you that you're mistaken. Why because it's impossible. There are no movie fan magazines in Daarran. There aren't, definitely not. We've been assured by our experts on Dalwiniza affairs that such trivial publications are banned in the interest of the state. It's comforting to know that we have such knowledgeable experts. Would you care to look at these? Well, obviously these are Dalrynese magazines. Obviously they are about the movies. Obviously those are my pictures. But this is it's.

21:26 May. May I take these back to the office, certainly, mister Dennison. Could you postpone your trip. There's something about this entire setup. I don't like it. I say this for your own safety. What could happen to me, mister Dennison. I wish you would listen. I have a commitment to appear before the camera is the day after tomorrow. I'm asking you to wait. And I'm asking you to tell me why. All I have to go on is my instinct as an intelligence officer? Is your instinct worth twenty five thousand dollars? I know it's a lot of money. And even if they weren't paying me a nickel, I go no matter what.

22:10 I'm afraid I don't understand why. It's very simple. The show must go on. Well, how do I look magnificent? You are the queen, the warrior queen. Why did you want me in costume? It is not a costume, my dear. This is how every Queen of Darran has dressed since I'm Aara the first. When we land at the airport, we shall be greeted by a god of honor, a band, a crowd. You have no idea how popular you are in my country, but a guard of honor. Everyone knows you shall be portraying our ancient and holy queen. I'm hear.

23:00 Couldn't I just go quietly to my hotel and study my lines? Let near you speak them again? May D two d, May. Spoking like a native. What does it mean? Our first Queen, our immortal Amara, stood triumphantly on the battlefield and said, in God's name, I conquer. In God's name, I who this fantastic home was never like this was it?

23:44 Why? Why are they so fond of you? You know it's I can feed. The crowd people bolling feeling. Why Milama, you the ancient creed? I never thought anything. She's responsible. You have never lived in a mother heire, Oh, but you must be tired. I shall rady on the escort to move quickly. Where am I staying as a royal guest who must stay at the Color? Oh it's the most magnificent room I've ever seen.

24:26 I am sure you must be very tired. I am strange. You can get tired of dreaming. I hope I don't wake up before my great speech. Everything you will need is here, and this is Tegla. She does not speak a word of English, but you will find her a splend in may. Why she's Oh, she's beautiful with her looks, and well she should. She could go far in that run. One follows the fortunes of one's family for a thousand years. The women in her family were servants. That's an excellent arrangement. People know their place, they know who they are, what they are was required of them. That's we have no problems of identity, no feelings of insecurity.

25:20 I think that's ridiculous. Obviously we differ till tomorrow. Good night. Well, Tecla, is that your name? Or I don't think I'll need anything, so you're free to go. Oh, I forget you don't speak English. I speak English. Oh, oh, well that's great. I need I want culture. In my mother's.

26:01 Time, culture people speak French. Before then, culture people speak German. Today culture people speak English. Even you, even Queen, you do not speak Drm. You speak English? Did you say I was the queen? I work hard to get job in palace, so one. Day I can kill you?

26:44 What do you saying? For one thousand years you and nobility have oppressed common people. Now you pay. But I'm not. Look, I'm not I'm a movie actress. What is movie? I am Josephine Dennison. I'm dal Ryan's favorite actress. You are Queen Amara. Hey will kill you? Hey? Put down that nine in name of the people. All right, I might just as well get out of the stream right now. I kill you in name of freedom.

27:27 Oh I don't wake up? Oh why don't I wake up? Why doesn't she wake up? There can be only one reason. Perhaps she wasn't asleep in the first place. One thing should be obvious. It's a hazardous business to impersonate a queen in. A country like dal Ryan. Evidently they take these things quite seriously. I'll be back shortly without three. There are people who find excitement in dreams.

28:20 The dream world can be filled with the most dangerous hazards, and these can be faced boldly, resolutely, without hesitation, because, after all, what can happen at the point where one falls into the sea among the ravenous sharks, or the split second before the bullet enters the brain or the knife pierces the heart, one wakes up and is saved. Josephine Dennison has been counting on being rescued by reality. But she has. Already taken the point of the knife, and there is blood and pain, and either she isn't waking up or she's been wider awake all the time.

29:01 No die I, oh no, I cannot I see blood? I cannot. I cannot murder. Oh, get me handkerchiefs. Oh some cold water, kill me? Kill me? Hi dezzer to die and nobody's going to die. Oh? What am I doing here? Why don't I wake up? For years? I have blown to kill the queen to free deep people.

29:42 I'm not dreaming. Will I see blood? I have no courage. Oh kill me, kill me? You'll I? Oh shut up? Will you? I have raised my hand to my ruler. I must die that's enough. I'm not the queen. You know me. I'm Josephine Dennison, Jesus, and it is your favorite actress, the biggest hit in all dal ran I have never heard. I have come here to read the speech of Queen Amara in the millennial celebration. Yes, Queen Amara, you are Queen Amara. No, I'm not the Queen.

30:31 I'm an actress dressed as the queen. Hat it is. Dance for any to dress is the Queen. I'm going to read the Queen's speech, the speech Queen Amara the first made a thousand years ago speech. Yes, the speech, the speech that begins two shad no, no, what's the matter. I try to kill you they before I know you? What? You are good kind who do not? Do not leave us?

31:12 Do not do not. What What is English word in in th run means step down from throne. Abdicate, do not abdicate. You are good who. But I'm not saying anything like that. It means in God's name, I conquer. In God's name I rule. It means they may eat, they do they mean is they do? It means in God's I. I am unworthy. In God's name, I abdicate well that's that's in impossible. Oh why do I say it's impossible? Tecla, listen, listen to the rest of the speech and tell me what it means.

32:17 Yeah, that's a guy. So when I threw out of my office, it's Jesseph. Is he the man the one who made Miss Dennis in the offer? There's no doubt at all in my mind. Oh, what kind of a con artist we're dealing with him, mister Foster. He's not a con artist. He's actually the Grand Duke Arsan of Dalrn. You mean there is such a guy. There is such a place. Oh yes, if everything's on the level, where are we worried, especially the government in the first place? There is no such thing in Darlron as a millennial celebration. Well then why would the guy. There's no movie fan magazines published there either. I saw them, and you've got them on your desk. These are fakes. They were printed over here. But guys, legit, what's with the phonny story?

33:03 I have a picture here. Recognize it? Yeah, sure, it's Joe, Miss Jessep. Well, she never wore her hair like that, but it's Joe. No, it's Queen Amara of dal Ram. The queen, but she looks she's the image of Joe for. A reason we're unaware of. They want somebody in that country to impersonate the queen. What's going to happen to Joe? Hopefully nothing? What do you mean? Hopefully? It's a very violent country. Tomorrow she'll be on the National Network. At least we know she'll be okay till then. Now, Look, you just can't sit her out here and do nothing.

33:44 I'm not going to be sitting around here. I'm leaving for Dalram. I don't believe it. I can't believe it. In this speech you say, I am to weak, do ill, do unworthy. I abdicate my throne in favor of Eola Arti. Eola Artie, that's someone's name. Yes, that is sister of Grand Duke arsan Ah. Let me get this whole business straight. The Grand Duke wants to get his sister made the queen, so he creates a story to get me here to pose as the present queen and abdicate in her favor.

34:37 Do you understand what I'm telling you? No? How does he know your people will accept his sister as the queen? Ah? The old Queen appoint new queen. What do you mean when old queen wish to rule no more? He a point, new queen? Where is the queen? The queen? The queen is here? You are cool now, No, I'm talking about the queen. Where is the real queen?

35:19 The Queen? Well, you see the queen is not well. Oh, in the ordinary way she would read the traditional speech. But since she's indisposed, you are as you would say in your country, a pinch hitting. Oh. Then I suppose we could say that I'm not here as an actress playing a part. I'm actually posing as the queen. Precisely. That isn't quite the way this. Job was sold to me.

35:59 Ah. Well, and my opening lines do not really mean in God's name, I conquer in God's. Name, I rule na. What do they mean. In God's name? I am unworthy? In God's name, I abdicate. Whatever gave you such an idea. And I abdicate in favor of iola Rd, who happens to be your sister. So what has become of the queen? Queen? Amara is dead? Really? How did it happen? Let us say her time had come?

36:42 Ah, and who knows about it? In addition to you and me a small select group. No doubt is you have a brilliant woman his days. And afterward what was supposed to become of me? In time you would be really quietly and you could return home. That's an unfortunate word released. It implies that I would be a prisoner. Well, you are a prisoner. You will be in a form of custody, restricted to an estate in a remote province, and you would live comfortably, even luxury as well.

37:22 I'm not interested in the part as it has been rewritten, and I shall not appear. May I have a lift to the airport? I'm afraid not. You can't force me to read that speech. Would you rather be shot? Oh? I see, the sophistication is only a venier. You're basically a barbarian. You have, as I said, two choices. Read the speech or die. You think you can get away with killing me? Duke Carsan, Oh oh yes, yes, indeed I shall speak with him, immediately show him into the audience chamber. How may I serve you, mister.

38:19 Foster, Your highness, I wish to speak with Josephine Dennison. Miss Dennis Hunt. Yes, she is here to portray your queen. Mister Foster, if you knew anything at all about our customs, you would know it is sacrilege for an act. We knows that you engaged during New York City for precisely this purpose. Who dares accuse me of this? Utterly false and criminal. I resented this baseless accusation, this slur by my personal integrity or highness. I have never heard of miss Josephine Denison. I have never met Miss Josephine Denison. I can tell you nothing of Miss Josephine that is on, and that's a must. End the matter? Well, Miss Dennison, obviously there shall be no international incident.

39:21 How do I know that I won't be quietly disposed of after I addlicate? What more people would I have for giving you? How do I know I won't be shot or killed afterward? Refuse to deliver this speech and you will be killed immediately. This way, at least you can enjoy this suspense. Please, your majesty will not live. Look, Tetler, how. Many times do I have to tell you I'm not the queen? You are the queen? Why do you think I'm the queen? Because God say you are queen? And I see now you are a good queen. Tell me if you were queen. A queen, suppose God says tech class shall be queen, what would you do? What would I do? You wanted to kill me because I was bad? What would a good queen do?

40:23 A good queen would help the people, the poor people, peasant people. A good queen would not be Queen of darkness, a queen of darkness, or queen our queen of darkness. I see, what are you going to do? My dear? I shall wait, I shall wait for God to tell me. He is of her.

41:05 Nobles, tree, soldiers and people. Silence or the queen of dogess speak speak people of dal Ran. I choose to speak in English? What are you? I am Queen? A divine voice speaks within me. She's not the queen. Haress him. Listen to me, people, She is silencing God. To remove him. People. I have been commanded by the divine voice to abdicate the throne. It is to be my fate to leave this lovely country. I have been commanded to appoint a new queen. From now on, the Queen shall no longer be a queen of darkness. She shall be known as the Queen of light. The divine voice within me commands that the first queen of light shall be Tecla.

42:18 Your majesty, I kneel before the new queen. Let the multitude kneel also, what, your majesty, you wanted to help your people. Let's see you do it. How will you turn out a queen of light or a queen of darkness? But I, hey, the queen, how can I do? Thank you? What can I do for you? Put me on the first plane headed for America.

43:02 You remember, of course, the queen who abdicated some time ago and came here. She pursued a rather successful career as an actress. She reminded so many people of an actress Josephine Dennis Denson, something like that. You know how it is in showbiz. People come and go like skyrockets. They flare up in momentary brilliance and then fall silently into the unknown darkness. I, however, shall return with some light in just a few. Moments, power things in Dahran.

43:46 What kind of queen did Tecla turn out to be? I'm sorry, we only give you one story at a time. It is certainly the classic situation the idealistic young reformer who wishes to change the system suddenly acquires unlimited power. Who changes what changes the system or the reformer? Well, we don't have definite answers to these philosophical questions, but you must admit we certainly kick them around. Our cast included Julie Harris, Robert Dryden, E. V. Jester and Gordon Gould. The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.

44:30 Well, my dear, how about another cup of hot tea? It's just about ready. I smell the aromas, telling me comfort is here. Well, at least in theory, I suppose, Oh what's that? Well, if it's hot, the warmth might take to us. No more fear, no more cold, no more dare I say? Dark? Dark destiny?

45:22 Mutual presents the mysterious Traveler. This is the mysterious Traveler inviting you to join me on another journey into the realm of the strange and the terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip, that it will thrill you a little and the chill you a little. So settle back, get a good rip on your nerves, and be comfortable if you can. What is our story tonight? Why tonight we're going to see what happens when Alhana's man yields to temptation and descends into the murky depths of murder and despair.

46:06 It's the story I call dark Dark destiny. In the office of doctor William Norris, Joseph Harrison, a man in his thirties is waiting anxiously as in the next room, doctor Norris is finishing his examination of pretty young Mary Harrison. It isn't anything serious, is it, Doctor Norris. Please tell me it isn't. I'm afraid it's too soon to say, Missus Harrison. Until the X ray plates are developed, I can't say yes or no. Now your husband is waiting outside, and he's probably beginning to worry.

46:47 So poor Joe, he does worry about me. Well, here's your wife, mister Harrison, who must have thought I'd kidnapped her. No, but I was getting a little worried. Doctor, I hope you didn't find anything very wrong. Well, I took a complete X ray series. I won't be able to tell much until they developed. I'd like missus Harrison to come back the day after tomorrow if she can, of course, Doctor any time in the day that's convenient to you will be quite all right. I meanwhile, I'll write out a prescription your husband can have filled. Will you step in a minute, mister Harrison, Sure thing. Won't you sit down, mister Harrison? Hi, what is it? Doctor? Bad news? I'm afraid so? Does that mean Mary's trying to die?

47:34 No, mister Harrison, not that serious. But within a few months she will be confined to her bed. I'm afraid she faces a life of invalidism. Oh no, no, I can't be I'm sorry, mister Harrison. There must be something you can do for well. Well, I don't want to raise your hopes, but yeah, there's one doctor in this country who, through a very remarkable type of operation, has been able to help people like you. Why didn't you say so, let's get him? Well? I must warn you, mister Harrison, this operation doesn't always meet with success. In many cases the patient shows no improvement at all. After all, it's still in the experimental stay. There's one chance in a hundred. I want Mary to have that chance. Please get this doctor to operate on my wife.

48:17 All right, I'll try it. But his services are in great demand, and his average fever an operation is about fifteen hundred dollars fifteen hundred, because if you can't afford that, he might consider the second. No, I can afford it. I can afford anything that Mary needs very well. Then I'll get in touch with him. It well, I'm sure you make the arrangements right away. I'll get hold of the money. I'll have it by tomorrow. Sure, Darling, help me off with my coat when you're sure? Sure? How are you feeling?

48:58 Oh? My back ache is much better since I took them as doctor Norris gave me. I'm sure I'm going to be all right, Joe, crush you I. He's one of the best doctors in the city. They'll have you well in no time. Did he tell you anything more, Joe, No, not a thing except that the treatment may take a little time. That's all a little time. Yeah, Oh, dear, I hope it won't be too expensive. Your business has fallen off and we've used up our saving Now, don't. You worry about the money. Don't you worry about anything? All right, Darling, I won't. But aren't you going to take your coat off? No? I I uh got to get that prescription the doctor gave me Phil. Now you just take it easy to like get back. I might stop in at the shop too.

49:42 There's something and something I have to tend to. The denvers. I'm Joe Harrison. Oh yes, mister Hanson, and please sit down, thank you, eh. I see that you want to borrow fifteen hundred dollars from us. That's right, I've got to have it right away. Unfortunately, the security you wish to offer your home is what's wrong with it? To swallow a house in a good section. It's all in good repair. Houses are worth money these days.

50:26 Quite true, But you already have a first and second mortgage on it, and I well, prices are falling, so I'm afraid we can't make any. Further loans on it. I've got to have the money. I've just gotta. I'm sorry to hear that, because there's nothing we can do to help you. And forget about the loan. I'll sellar house. Many people want houses, that's true too. I don't think you can possibly clear much over the mortgages on a sale two hundred dollars. Perhaps you see those mortgages we issued when prices were at their peak, and now well see you have changed. Yeah, yeah, I see they have. You say you're not employed, mister Harrison. No, I own a shop, you see, I'm a locksmith.

51:17 That means you're never certain of your income. Now if you had a job, a regular income, that could be depended the party. You're getting at. You mean you're not gonna let me have the money. I'm afraid I can't. Mister Harrison. Your head say that you lend up to two thousand dollars on a personal note. I only want fifteen hundred dollars, but you got to let me have it. I certainly wish I could, but under the circumstances, I'm sorry, very sorry, but there's nothing I can do. I'm afraid the collateral you suggest isn't satisfactory. Mister Harrison. We'd lend you the money if. We could, but we just can't. Sorry, but I've just got to have it.

51:57 I've got to. Sorry you hear me, I've got I have it. Sorry? Sorry, right, sorry? Sorry? Jill? You're not eating and he's so quiet? If anything wrong? What? Oh no, no, of course not. You're worrying about me, aren't you? No, Mary, of course not. I I uh, I was just thinking about some changes. At the shop. Darling. You don't have to lie to me. I know you're worrying, but I'm going to get that. Really I am.

52:38 I promise sure, you are sure, doctor Narra said, So you're going to be well in no time. I have to go out now. I have an appointment with Horst Latimer. Can't remember I told you about him. We grew up together. I may be pretty late, so. Don't wait up for me. Joe had no appointment with Horace Latimer, but he went to see Horrace anyway, for they had been boyhood friends until their paths had separated. Horrors had grown rich, and Joe hoped desperately that Horace would lend him the money he had been trying to raise all day. There some that would mean nothing at all to Horace.

53:19 Fifteen hundred dollars, that's rather a lot of money, Joe, No, it is Horace. But it's for Mary. It's for an operation. I've got to have it. I see, well, now, why don't you try the bank? You have a house. I had tried the bank and a half a dozen loan companies. They all turned me down. They said my security wasn't good enough. Oh I see, Oh that's too bad. Do you know I don't quite understand why you came to me, Joe. Because we're friends, That's why. Because when we were boys, we agreed that each of us would always lend the other helping hand if we could. Boys don't understand business very well, I'm fraid, Joe. I guess not. They don't understand business. They just understand friendship. You know, if I had the money, I'd lend it to you if you need it.

54:05 I don't doubt that at all, Joe. And you can bet I'd lend it to you if I had it. But that's the trouble. I haven't any ready cash the income tax, you know, and well a couple of shaking investments that I'm trying to at hers. Never mind explaining I got the idea. You're not going to lend me any money. Now, really, Joe, I would if I could, but I can't. I'm sorry, said yes sorrow for somebody who wants it. I don't need your money, you hear. I'll get it someplace else. I'll get it someplace some whow After he had slammed out of Horace Sladom's expensive home, Joe stood for a moment on the. Dark street corner, staring back with bitterness.

54:47 In his face. Yeah, you're sorry. I'll bet you are sap. I was to think you were a palam right. I should have known that. I should have known you speaking to me. Oh no, sorry, I guess I was just thinking out loud. It's okay, heyna match not sure? Yeah? Yeah, thanks, okay, hold it just like that, make a moment, I'll plug you done. Well, you're yeah, this is a stick up. Hand over your dough and make it fast. Sea my dough. That's a hot one. I'm not trying to raise money, and so are you. But I only got a dollar on me. Take that if you want it.

55:34 I mean, how it's more than. I could raise. Try to kid me and still, well, I see what you got in your pocket? Sure, I head wallet, a liver, chase, some chime. You'll find exactly one buck in that wallet. You made a mistake. I tell you, I don't live in this ritzy neighborhood. I just came here to try to borrow. A little money. Oneasy book. I'll bet you got a roll hidden in this leather case. It's heavy enough. It's nothing in there but my emergency care. Well, I'll say for myself. Kid is full of skeleton keys and picklocks and stuff. But now, are you anyway a second story worker? I'm a locksmith and a safer repairmi of living to you?

56:14 Oh yeah yeah? How about taking that dollar and letting me go on my way. I'm gonna hurt so fast, pal, were you leveling just now when you said you were trying to raise doll Sure? I was. I gotta have fifteen hundred dollars by tomorrow. What's it to you? You'd be surprised, Pals. Okay, I'm putting the gun away, but you ain't leaving yet. Why not, because me and you are gonna talk business. I got a plan that will get. Us both all the dough. We need.

56:58 Two more bears where well, Joe's the deal on my proposition? Hey, no, my, sure you do. There's nothing to it. You can open locks and safes. Yeah, I know a house where there's a safe with plenty of dough in it. You and me need to get it. We'll go get it. They'll make a team. But Burglary, I've never stolen anything in my life. Listen, you need dope bed dungeon instead of why plenty bad? I'll put out your said you could do anything to get it didn't you? Yeah, yeah I did. Then what are you hanging back for? All you got to do is get the back door open and they're safe. You can do that, can't you. Yeah? I suppose. So, then forget the butts. In a half an hour you'll have your fifteen hundred more. How else you ever gonna get it? Answer me that I don't know. Hey, look you saw all of those big houses lived in by guys with do how'd they get it?

57:50 They took it from somebody else, every one of them. Yeah, I suppose, So be sure the money's there. I'm positive a guy was casing that joint and I looked in the window just in time to see the old geezer put a roll of bills in a safe you can open with your teeth. All right, I'll do it. I gotta have that money. And so half an hour later, Joe and his new founder, quaint And stood in the shadows of the rear entrance of an imposing brick house, listening intently. Not a sound any place, A good thing. There's no dogs or aud wanna climb. Everybody's hit the hanglong and go. This'll be a cinch. That lot looks easy enough, I shouldn't be doing this. Must be some other way to get the Money't be a sucker all your life. You gotta take what you want in this world. Go wand and get the door open. Gotta get inside before we're spotted. Well, alright, only take a second, I think, Yeah, tell me, Yeah, it's an out. Let's get side. Come on, yeah, good, we're in. Nobody spotted. It's the safest in the library this way. Don't make any noise.

59:18 Sure, there's the way. The two of them are the dollars. Yeah, the old guy and has the butler, probably both deaf ast posts. Here we are. Here's a library to it. Come on in. The safest behind a picture on this wall, a picture there. Yeah, that's the one I would pick out. And yeah, there's the safe. If the kid's toy, kids doing nothing, the baby's tough. Well you can hope, I can't. She Yeah, but it'll take at least half an hour and get going. We can't stay here all night.

1:00:06 I'll way it up. You have been forty minutes on that thing. It told you it was tough. It's coming now. Here. Yeah, got time too. Let's see what's in it. There's the cash box. Well, I open it and we'll know what we got. There. Look, oh, cash Mazuma, what did I tell you? There must be thousands there? Easy, come on, let's count it and give it up. No, no, never mind. Just give me the fifteen hundred. That's all I want. You can keep the rest of your kidding. That's all I want. Just the fifteen hundred that I need. Okay, that's the way you want it. Here you are ten eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen hundred dollars.

1:00:49 Fifteen hundred dollars just for an hour's work. Easy money. Huh? And look what do you say we crack a couple of more cribs? No, no, no, I just want to get out of here. Now that's almost coming, someone's coming there. Get behind this door. I'll take care of this. What do you want to do? Never mind, I shut up. Who who's there? Jenkins? Dagens? Is that you? H well? The thieves? So the. Jenkins Dakins called the police quick, nobody's calling any cop tonight, mister, But you you're a thief? Jenkins Jenkins?

1:01:33 Maybe that'll convince you. Why did you hit him? What do you expect me to do? Hold his hand? Wait a minute, it looks like he's dead. He wouldn't be surprised. He don't seem to be breathing. I need to speaker. It's murder, so much murder. You're in it just as much as me. Don't forget that. Yeah, I have an accessory to murder. Cut that guff and let's get out of here. Or do you want to get caught? No? No, of course not didn't. Come on. Let's get going. Okay, here we are, Come on in? Why did you make me come here? Why can't I go home? You heard me?

1:02:17 Come on in? That's better? Nor take off your hat and stay awhile? Well I can't stay mike. My wife shall be worrying. I got to go home to her. You've got worse things than your wife to worry about. How what do you mean? I mean the cops? Or have you forgotten you wanted for murder? No? I haven't forgotten. I'll never be able to forget. Why did you kill him? Why so we wouldn't have to go to jail? Would you rather have gone to jail? Jill? Of course, yes, I would. I'm all mixed up. How did I get in this? Anyway? You need a dough.

1:03:02 That's how you got into this, and you got it, so kind out the sob stuff. We're in the clear. What you got a peepa? Well? Why won't you let me go home? Why do you make me come to your room? Here? Two reasons. The first is I want to make sure you know what it'll mean if you let anything slip. I know you don't have to tell me. I won't let anything slip. If I thought you might not slit your throat right now, I won't. I tell you. I have to live. My wife's say okay. And the second reason you're here is so you and me can have a little talk talk. What kind of a talk, Joe? I like the way you got that door and that's safe open, and I you and me got a future to get it.

1:03:46 I don't know what you mean. Oh yes you do. As soon as the heat's off, we're gonna do another little job to get it. Oh no, no, I won't. I won't. I tell you. I won't. You can't make me. Oh yes I can, because if you don't, I can always send a little note to the cops telling them that you they want for that killing tonight. You wouldn't do that that gets you too. I'd be a long ways away by then, but you can't get away. You got a business here and a sick wife. You couldn't leave them. Well, now you see, while you're gonna do what I say? You dirty you? No, no, no, don't say it. You don't think you can pull a job and then go on as if nothing had happened to you. You're mixed up in murdered, and somebody has always got to pay for murder, one way or another. I only do it for Mary's sake, no matter why you did it. You're in it now and you can't get out, not without paying in some way.

1:04:40 I got a good mind to go to the police to confess. Get this off my chest? On how you dog? You see this gun? I'd plug you in a second if I get away, go my head. You got me into this. You're not going to make me go into it, right Mike m that dead try to shoot me and shot himself. I gotta get away from her. I gotta get back to marry.

1:05:22 In Days of Horror, Joe Harrison found his hat and made his way to the street. His mind was a dizzy whirl of thoughts which he could not control that went around and around in his hand. A murderer. Catch me, though, hang me. I didn't mean to do it. I just wanted the money. The money was all. I wanted the money to make marry Well, that's all. Oh, don't catch me, hang me. He must I gotta escape, got to it, Mike said. The murder has to be paid for somehow. That is true.

1:06:03 Escape if you're lucky. I just gotta be lucky. I need a drink. Gotta have a drink before I go crazy. So Joe Harrison stumbled into a tiny bar on a dark street, Struggling to control his shaking hands and to keep his voice normal. He ordered a double rye and gouted it down. Then, as his senses cleared a little, he heard the radio at the end of the bar broadcasting a warning to the city Police. Department is asking you to be on the lookout for the following man wanted for the brutal murder committed in Gramercy Park section two hours ago. Please make a note of the following description given by the victim before he died.

1:06:46 The description follows, All right, luck party, what's the idea? What you shut the radio off for? Answer me? What'd you do it because I was sick of listening to it, That's why. Oh is that so? Well? I'm not saying. And I got an idea. Maybe there was some other reason you didn't want to hear it. So I'm gonna turn it on again. No, no, you mustn't. Well, I'm going to and if you want to make a try for a break. I got a gun right here on the bi you see. Now, let's hear what the killer looked like. I repeat, be on the lookout for a man of medium height, lean and wiry, with reddish brown hair. If you see such a man, report it once to headquarters.

1:07:26 We now turn you back to a regular night program of popular dance tunes. Lean and wiry with reddish brown hair. Huh, well that ain't shew that kind of heavy set in blackhead for a minute day you had me go, and I was positive viewed the killer the way you didn't want me to hear the description, just jumpy. I well here, I have another drink on the house. Huh thanks, I. Gotta go home. Need some sleep, Yeah, that's what I need, some sleep. I guessed at how close he had come to giving himself away. Joe Harrison hurried home. It was Mike the police were looking for, not Joe Harrison. It was Mike, whose description they had. Joe Harrison was safe, safe, Hardly able to believe in his own good luck, Joe reached his home and let himself in. Mary was already asleep. Quietly, he got into bed and at last fell asleep himself, asleep, troubled by nightmares that gave him no peace. When he woke, it was morning and Mary was preparing breakfast.

1:08:34 Good morning, darling. What time did you get home? Anyway? I waited up for you almost till too. I I was pretty late. I stopped at the shop little work forgot to watch the time, and. This morning you looked terrible. I know you're worrying about me, but you mustn't, darling. I'm going to be all right, really, I am for sure. I'm going to say to that. What do you think? Doctor Norris called up last night wanted to talk to you. He said he had good news for you, good news, but he wouldn't tell me what it was. I don't know why. He asked for you to stop in at his office this morning. I think I know what it is. Yeah, sure, I'll go right over and see him.

1:09:15 Oh, but dying, you're going to eat breakfast first time? SI. When I get back, I won't see the doctor first anyway. I'm not very hungry, all right, Joe, but please hurry back. I want to know what the doctor said. Yeah, sure, Mary, how you right back? Everything's okay, now, everything's okay. After he left the house, Joe bought a morning paper. Big headlines told of the murder the night before, but he scarcely saw them. His eyes hurried through the story until he found what he was looking for. The news that Mike's body had been found. The man Mike had struck had given his buttler Mike's description before he died, but he hadn't seen Joe at all. So the police had listed Mike's death as a suicide or an accident and.

1:10:00 Closed the cave. Joe Harrison was safe, perfectly safe, safe, I'm safe. Sometimes you can't get away with murder. I have to pay anything. You're lucky, and I've been lucky. When he entered the doctor's office, Joe's expression was that of a man who had just face disaster and been rescued. At the last moment, he seated himself and tossed the folded newspaper into the waste basket. You a right exactly, Mary said, you phoned that you had good news. Oh yes, mister Hawrison, as I called you last night after I got in touch with the surgeon I spoke of yesterday, doctor Nelson Richards, I wanted to tell you that he had.

1:10:46 Agreed to operate on your wife. That's well, that's well. I got the money right here in my packing the money. Yes, as I was going to tell you that doctor Richard had said not to worry about that. You could take as long as you wanted to pay it, as long as I wanted. And I wasn't necessary. I didn't have to do it. I I didn't have to do it. I'm afraid I don't understand, mister Harrison. Oh never mind, doctor. I mean, here's the money. I got it. I got it right here. I want to pay for it. He's got to take it right away. What's the matter? Why are you looking at me like that? For the operation is gonna cure Mary, isn't it? You said it would. You can't go back on your word now, you can't, do you hear?

1:11:32 It's not that, mister Harrison. Yes, the chances are the operation would have cured your wife. But well, unfortunately doctor Richards was the only man in this country able to perform it. Well, so what he said he'd do it, didn't he? So what's the hitch, mister Harrison. Doctor Richards won't perform the operation? Now? Why not? Doctor Richards was tragically killed last night by a burglar who broke into his home on Gramercy Park.

1:12:15 This is a mysterious traveler. Again. Faith plays strange jokes sometimes, doesn't she. Poor Joe Harrison, he forgot that good can never come out of evil, and that crime must always be paid for by someone. If only he hadn't let himself be tempted. But he did, and what became of him? While he devoted himself to taking care of his invalid wife Mary, But his deed continued to weigh on his mind, and when she died several years later, he confessed everything to the police. I do hope his experience has proved that crime really doesn't pay. I always sit. Oh, you have to get off here. I'm sorry, but I'm sure we'll meet again. I take this same trade every week. At this time.

1:13:10 You've just heard the mysterious Traveler, a series of dramas of the Strange and Terrifying, and Tonight's cast were Maurice Toplin, Joseph Julian, Elaine Kent, Farmer, Ward Kenny Lynch and Bill Smith. Original music was played by Charles Paul. The Mysterious Traveler is written, produced, and directed by Rob Arthur and David Cogan. The Mysterious Traveler has come to you from our New York studios. Carl Caruso speaking, this is the mutual Broadcasting system.

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1:15:37 Roma Wines bring you the distinguished actor who has just won the New York Film Critics Award for his performance in Watch on the Rhine, Mister Paul Lucas. The suspense play which stars mister Lucas and which is produced and directed by William Spear, is called A World of Darkness, and so with the performance of Paul Lucas as the musician named Antony Jacques, to whom the world was a world of darkness, we again hope to keep you in suspends. All patrol cars in Jay area Jay for Johnson. All patrol cars in Jay area go to three twenty five West fifty seconds. Three two five West fifty two A theatrical rooming house. Homicide. This is homicide A young woman staff that is all.

1:16:43 Mercer. Okay, okay, Okay's everybody here now, Yes, I think I've got all of them. It's missus Collins, mister Farrell, miss Walker, mister Gunther. Yes, they're all here. Lieutenant you're the landlady, missus Washburn. Right, Well, if you want to, but be blunt about it. I'm afraid I'm a blunt man. Maybe it's a business I'm in. Last night a girl was killed in this house, according to the car, and it happened about two in the morning. She was killed in a particularly cold blooded manner. Stabbed and that's murder. There's no two ways about it. Are you intelligent people? You're all connected with the theater? No, not all, not all. France is my sort of caretaker.

1:17:24 Handyman, Yes, handy man, but not to do with that theater, that place of sin, an abomination. Don't mind him. France has always been a little prejudice. I know when the sword of righteousness is ready to strike. Where were you at two o'clock in the morning. I was in my room waiting. What were you waiting for? Now? Look, don't you people realize what you're up against? So you're going to count your actions last night? You're all under suspicion of murder. What makes you so sure one of us did it? Oh you were miss Nancy Collins fiance, Is that right, mister Farrell? Yes? What were you doing last night? I was out working. Anybody see you? I don't know, I don't think so how do I know? What were you doing out walking around at two o'clock in the morning? Well after what happened?

1:18:10 Uh? What I have? Oh? Nothing? I was upset, that's all. Why don't you tell him the truth, Daniel? The truth? What's the use of ble as talking? It's not going to bring up back? What did you mean by that, Missus Collins? What truth? It's not my place to say. Daniel considers it a personal matter. It couldn't have had. Anything to do with what. Oh, I'm sure no one is concealing anything of the slightest importance. Everyone loved Nancy. Everyone, Please, I know what you're getting around to. Why cage that everyone loved it but me that I hated it? But I didn't Well, not enough to do. A thing like that. Where were you two this morning? Miss Walker? In my room?

1:18:50 Can you prove that? No? Of course I can't. That's the whole thing. Don't you listen? Listen who's playing that piano? That's mister Rejack in the room across the hall. He's a musician. Do they live here? Yes? Why didn't you tell me? I thought that everybody was here. No use talking to him. He doesn't even know about you. Will you please let me handle lieutenant. He couldn't tell you anything. You see you get him in here, Hackitty, go get him? Okay, Well, listen, you people have got an awful lot of explaining to though none of you can prove where you were or what you were doing or why you were doing it. What about you, Missus Carlins. You don't think after all, I am poor Nancy's mother. Missus Collins, are just trying to get at the facts. You have. The room next to Nancy didn't even hear anything.

1:19:30 No, I've had insomnia for years. I have to take a strong sedative every night. Here comes mister Reejack. Oh, mister rae Jack. I'm sorry to disturb you. So I didn't realize that that that was blind. It is no matter. I was waiting for you to send for me. Officer. You you knew the police were here, but of course, oh missus Washburn. Has anyone seen anything of Carlia morning? No, not yet. Who is carl Mister Reger my Belgian police dog who guides me. He has wander dog somewhere, although I cannot say I blame him. It is not much fun being a companion only to a blind man. Or hey, he'll come back that kind of overst Oh, I'm not worried.

1:20:18 But now you wish to speak up the terrible thing that has happened to pull Nancy. Oh you know about that? Unfortunately? Yes. By the way, here is the key to her room. It was lucked and you were obliged to force it, were you not? Why? Yes? But how did you? How do I have the key? And how do I know? You? See, I'm a blind man, but there are many ways for a blind man to know many many things. Yes, I say, poor Nancy, poor child. How much do you know about that? Quite a bit? I'm afraid I know how she was killed, I know why she was killed, and I know who killed her.

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1:22:40 And now it is with pleasure that Roma wines bring back to our sound stage. Mister Paul Lucas in a world of darkness, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. You think it is a great affliction to be bind Yes, in a way it is. If he yields to it, it can make a man bitter and distort his mind. But if he struggles against it, there are merciful compensations. In time, he reaches out into the world again and finds he can perceive the meaning of the life around him without his eyes. A world of darkness becomes to him a place of add more sensitivity to other things, to touch, to smell, but above all to sound. The ticking of a watch, the rustle of clothing, the sound of breathing, or even the beat of a heart. I have only to focus my attention on a sound so distant or so slight as to be utterly imperceptible to anyone else, and to me it is magnified and amplified a hundred times. Last night, though sitting in my room and confined in my eternal darkness, I heard what I could not see, and I was witnessed to a murder.

1:24:19 The bells of Trinity had just run a three quarter hour. They are at the lower extremity of the city, but I always liked to listen for them. It was a quarter to midnight. I was about to go back to my piano. I had been working on a little composition of my own. When I heard Nancy coming down the street from the direction of the theater, she was walking very fast. It was clear to me that she was disturbed about something, so I knew she would want to see me. I waited for her neck. Come come, yes, Nancy, come, I mean, oh, you are troubled.

1:25:05 What is it? How did you know? You know? I can always tell these things. See, even Carl knows he can. He's so nice. You're both so nice, Carl and I. Huh, you know he loves your Nancy. I think he really does, almost as much as. He loves me. I know. Oh, I'm going to miss your booth terribly. You are going away, Anton, I'm going to marry Danny Ferrell. To Mary, Yes, he's quitting the stage and he's going into the army. I'm going with him. That's what I want to tell you about. I see, Anton, You've always been so good to me. You've helped me so much, and I I've always felt.

1:25:53 That you liked me more than that. Nancy, I'm very, very fond of you. Oh, and you're the best friend I've ever had. But I'm nearly twice your age and blind. Oh that doesn't matter. We've had some wonderful times together. Yes, and now you wish to talk to me because you are still not sure you have made that right decision. Yes, not to leave the stage now, just when you are having the first time such a wonderful success. It isn't that I've always hated the stage. No, Nancy, Now you have a very great talent. You can't have a talent for anything you don't like, and you can't like anything you've had crammed down your throat ever since you were barely able to talk.

1:26:34 Oh it's your mother. She's counted on it all these years. She sacrificed everything for my career. Oh. Mother loves me in her way. But sometimes she's so strange. When I told her about Danny tonight, I thought she was going to have a stroke or something. I've seen her angry before, but never liked that. Oh we feel passed, Tom. For a minute, she she looked insane. I was frightened, really frightened. Listen, what.

1:27:19 And don what is it? Your mother leaving her room? She will be coming down here to look for you. How do you know the rustle of her saad sat and robe, I hear it often. Perhaps you better not speak anymore just now of your little trouble. I shouldn't have bothered you. I know it must seem childish and silliny. No, no, Nancy, it is not for me. But perhaps your mother will not like it that you confide in others. How could you know that she sy? You see? She is coming, Nancy? Yes, mother, Oh there you are. I thought you might be here. Good evening AGAINA.

1:27:59 Nancy really must come upstairs now. If I'm going to have your new dress ready for the equity party, I've got to cut it from the patent tonight, and I want you to help me. Mother. I'm not going to the party, why, Nancy, of course you are. It's very imporant. Mother. Do we have to go through it all again? Nancy, dear, I'm sorry I lost my temper this evening. I know this seems like the. Only thing in the world that matters just now, love and all. But you simply can't walk out of the lead in a hit play and ever expect to be successful. I don't want to be successful. Can't you get that through your head? After I've slaved and skimped and planned all these year. You'll be all right, mother, there'll be enough. I'll be all right.

1:28:41 I'm not thinking of myself. I've never had a chance to think of myself. Only last week I drew every penny of my own savings and took an out insurance policy on you, one hundred thousand dollars so that you'd have something for. Your old ale. Shouldn't have done that, mother, And now you want to throw away everything I've done for that hair brained boy. SE's in love. You keep out of this, mother, please. Oh I've watched you too, Anton Rejack, but I knew she wouldn't have anything to do with a blind man. You couldn't see her, but you could. Touch her, couldn't you. You could be in love with her. Well, I hope you see now what the fool you've made of yourself, You fool, you blind fool, fool of fool.

1:29:28 Fall quiet, she struck me. I'm sorry you deserved it. Mother. I think you'd better go night. Ancy. I want you to come upstairs right away. We're going to cut out your new dress tonight. Oh, Anton, forgive. Me, no, it is nothing. I'm sorry I did what I did, but I was afraid she would become. His teach and I didn't know. Believe me, I didn't nothing. You had better go up to her now. Yes, Oh I'm afraid, but there is nothing to be afraid of.

1:30:09 Yes, but I'm afraid. I could not sleep, although it was late. I tried to go back to my work, but my attention wandered. I could not keep from mine from what was going on in the room upstairs. I heard it sound as clearly as though the cause of it were there at my very side. Nancy was weeping, and against the sound of her tears like an inexorable counterpoint, the scissors, deliberate mechanicals, snipping and crunching of heavy dressmaker shares, nothing material on the table. Then there was an interruption, footsteps running up the stairs. The footsteps up, Danny Fair. I knew what would happen. Then I did not want to listen for a moment.

1:31:12 I did, Danny, I don't know what to do? What about timing? About hour, isn't it? I shut my mind to it. I didn't want to hear anymore. There was to be another quarrel, another agonizing scene, and then presently I heard the steps again, slow and heavy, this time coming down the stairs. They went towards the front door instead of to his own room. He was going out. I did not know what he might do. I went to my own door, and as casually as I could, I opened it. Oh hello, Aunt, Why hello, Danny? Were you going out for a little walk? It's late, I.

1:31:55 Guess it is. I'm sorry. You know about it, do you? Yes? Nancy told me tonight there was a scene with her mother again. But it will come out all right. Oh no, it won't. Why Nancy's changed her mind, Rather, her mother's changed it for her, the poor child Anton. Nancy is a lovely girl. She's the loveliest girl in the world. But she's weak. But we are all weak in one way or another. But she doesn't know what she does to people. She doesn't know the torture she puts people through. No, and I can't stand it any longer. If I can't have Nancy, I'll do something up. Dannya. It will be all right. It can't be all right.

1:32:36 How do I know it won't go on like this after we're married. I'm crazy, I suppose, but I. Know how these things are. Two young people in love cannot be kept apart by anyone or anything In dessert. No, Anton, I. Thought it over and over every way there is. It won't work. Oh, come in, Anton, I. Didn't know you were here, Danny. Okay, I just heard the news over the theater. Congratulations. Thanks. I suppose I had to say that. You know. I don't mean it, Danny. Please, I don't think you love her, Danny. I don't see how you could. Okay, I don't want to talk about it tonight.

1:33:17 You're afraid to talk to me, Danny, are you? I'm sorry? Kay? Good night, an ton Danny, Danny, listen to me. Oh, let him go. He's upset tonight. He's upset. Kay, Kay, stop it, get hold of yourself. I love him, I love him. I can't let him go, but you must, don't. You See he's going to be married. Before she came. Along, he couldn't even think of anyone but me. She planned it very nicely, just the way she's planned everything else. She doesn't care how many lives she recks, including his. But it won't be so. Easy, that can't. Kay, You are talking foolish. Listen. Before i'd let her get away with this, I'd killer so help me, I'd kill her.

1:34:07 She left me at flast I paid no heed to where she went. I was disturbed, in trouble. I sat in the darkness of my mind thinking. Then I heard steps again, those odd dragging steps coming towards my door. Franz, Yes, mister reject. Did you want to see me? Frans? No, no, I was only listening, listening to what. Don't you hear it? The beating of the wings. They've been close about the house all evening? Oh have they? The time is very near? Are you a good man, mister reject?

1:34:50 I don't know, Frans. I try to be a black angel with a bright sword of righteousness and vengeance. Do you think we can escape him? Well? I hope so. No. No, Oh, don't you know what goes on in this house? Haven't you seen them with the painted lips, the tinkling rings and bracelets, and the vanity. And the scar Yes, fans, what have you in your bag there? Oh? Yes, my tools? Or as I work work day and night. There's a dripping faced up in this colum room. I have to fix it, ripping faucet? Oh yes, what's the meta mystery deck? Did you think of something?

1:35:38 Oh? Yes, yes, yes, I was thinking that I must take Carl out for a walk. Oh lord, Carl, down down, down. There, Carl, he's a fine dog. Frans, Yes, yes, go along, do what I told him. It's late. Yes, yes, I do that. I'm told. Remove out of the midst of Debylon and go forth to the land of the county. And for the city. Will I humble to the dust. And this horse? Will I make a pace of weeping and desolation.

1:36:19 The moment the old man called my attention to the face that I had heard it. When I went back into my room, I still heard it. I heard the old man tinkering with the pipes, and the dripping grew less and stopped. Then the shears began again. It was long, sharp scisses cutting the dress. I forced myself to return to my work, and for a while I heard nothing more. Then I heard it. The dripping had begun again, but this time it was no longer water that was dripping.

1:37:09 It was then that I knew. I sat frozen with horror. It was the most terrible sound I had ever heard in my life. At last, I got up and took my cane and went. To the door. Car wished to go with me, but I closed the door on him. It was later, somehow, in my confusion that he slipped away. I started up the stairs. That terrible sound grew louder. It came from Nancy's room. I had just reached the top of the stairs. There was no way for anyone to leave Nancy's room except in my direction. It was then when I heard a fair tale whisper. The murder had passed me in the darkness.

1:37:57 I went to Nancy's door. There was no need to go in. I knew what was there as surely as though I had seen. It happened with the eyes I. No longer have, for I could hear the steady dripping of her blood. I closed the door and locked it. I put the key in my pocket. I wish to make certain that the criminal would have no chance to return and cover up any evidence of the crime. Then I returned to my room to wait for you officers of the police to come. And now you would know, as I knew, why Nancy Collins died and who killed her.

1:38:49 Well, are you people here confirmed what mister Jack says about your movements last night? Wait? What did you mean about the tell tale whisper? What is the U so any longer pretending? And you killed her. Now you must pay for it. No, no, doctors, you have already found her fingerprints and decisions with which Nancy has stepped. Oh naturally there were, missus Collins says as anyway, and I have a suspicion that you will find the insurance policy she took out on her daughter's life only last week. That makes Edna Collins the beneficially in the event of Nancy's death. No, no, I didn't do it. You better take her along, Come on, no, please. Maybe I'm him selfish, but I hugged her. He's lying because.

1:39:34 Well, mister Jack, I get several people. Are you there? Thanks for this? And you owe me nothing if it could only bring her back to life. Come in, we found in TV Jack Dorman down in the Tellar dinner all night. Here, Carl, Carl, my poor old car here, Carl. What's the matter? Now? Where are you? What's the matter? Don't you know me? Mister Jack? You say you shut your dog in your room before you went upstairs last night. Yes, yes, you're certain, but of course, and you say you did not go into the Nancy Collins room after you discovered the murder.

1:40:17 No, no, I did not. Well that's very strange, mister Reejack, because your dog did his code is mattered. With her blood. I realized now that the dog must have followed me. I heard him whimper when I struck. Then somehow he disappeared. But before I locked the room, the beast must have. Fallen on her. Where she fell, Yes, I I killed her. It is no matter now she reill Meaty, no, and now nor will I. Yet it is true I heard those things, yes, most of them. You would be amazed what I can hear now, Even from where I sit, I can hear the men at work at the place where they will take me, although that place is many miles away. They are hammering on the scaffolding interparation for me, and now they are clambering up upon the platform. And now they are about to test that ingenious device that will snuff out my life.

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1:44:48 I can feel the warmth coming off of your neck, off of your body. It's not going anywhere, not if I have anything to say about it. Just breathing and out, knowing that the cold cannot win, that the light has to come. We're in our way, simply on a dark island.

1:45:37 I am the whistler, and I know many things. For I walk by night. I know many strange. Tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak. And now for the Whistler's strange story. Dark Island. Dark island was a fitting background for the grim scene just offshore. The waves on the beach all but drowned the staccato reports of gunfire. But the man crouched low in the tiny sailboat could see the stabbing bursts of flame with each shot, hear the bullets sting into the water around him. Yes, it was a very fitting background because the tiny island had once been the sole property of an underworld boss named Sid Stauffer. The huge old mansion he'd built was still standing. It had been a mute witness to many a shooting fray in years past.

1:46:43 Now it was a hotel, a focal point of the little artist colony that had sprung up on Dark Island, a gay bohemian group two preoccupied with their own activities to be aware of the excitement taking place in the nearby coal But the man in the boat, Earn Weagan, was more than aware. Yes, er Nie, you maneuver the boat frantically, fighting your way toward shore, and then abruptly. The firing ceases, doesn't it. And a half hour later you're back at the boat dock, tying up and very much relieved. Have a good cruise, mister Reagan. Uh yeah, fine, Sam, give me a hand with a stern line, William sure totch you're over, Yeah, got it, Thanks Sam. Else she's made fast.

1:47:34 Missus Kennan was down to the dock looking for you. Oh she's having a party there at the place. I want you to stop in and meet some folks. Oh all right, thanks Sam, I'll do just that. Right night, mister Reagan. Strange, isn't it, Ernie. The contrast from those terrifying moments in the boat, with someone firing down at your trying to kill you, someone who might even be among the guests at the gay patio party. It's still in your mind, isn't it. As you stop by and Missus Tennor immediately takes you in tow, mister.

1:48:18 Reagan, I'm so glad. You dropped in on us. Well, the regular Islanders told me not to miss one of Missus Tenner's parties. This is just one of those impromptu things, mister Reagan. But I guess practically everyone's here. Yes, what, Oh Julie, my dear, good talkings were running low on Firewood. But oh, excuse me, quite all right, my dear, I was just trying to talk mister Reagan into joining us, mister Reagan, Miss vincent. Ernie, Hello, Ernie, not bashful, are you? Oh it's not that out, then, come along. You were asking me something, Julie in Firewood. Oh yes, I'll see to it. You take Ernie on up to the party. Go you one of the old timers on the island.

1:49:00 Underney hardly I got here day before yesterday, sort of you sort up? Missus State wasn't kidding. Practically everybody is here. They're all a lot of fun. You probably know most of them a few, alright, Summary's having fun. I was until Aims showed up. Aimes, Yeah over there, the one with the bill. Hidden sneer, he writes, doesn't he trash? Strict play trash? Another drink? Doesn't seem to care much for honester Aimes? Does he? How many do understand? Ames? Isn't the friendly type? He resents?

1:49:42 New comings to the island. Better watch my step. I wouldn't worry about it. I feel like dancing. How about your drink? I can wait. The incident at the cliff isn't forgotten, is it ronity? But Julie helps to take your mind off at occasion, and as the party progresses, you manage to meet some of the islanders, and you wonder if one of them was responsible for the attempt on your life. Later, you find yourself in a small group seated near the fire, Julie, Missus Tennor, Summers, and Winston Ames. The conversation suddenly veers to a subject of great interest to you.

1:50:25 Yes, yes, i'n you, sid stopper. I saw the house up there being built back. In twenty seven. I think it was What was he like, Missus Tenner? Not what you'd expect. QUI salt spoken, cultured, interested, in the arts opposed perhaps to cover up. No, I don't think so, do. You, mister Summers. Oh he was genuinely interested, that's for sure. You knew Stopper. Yes, I was a newspaper man in the old days. Stuffer took a liking to make. For some reason or other, I got known pretty well. That's what your novel is about, Summers. No aims it isn't about Stuffer. Well, then what is it about. You wouldn't understand, and if you could, you wouldn't like it.

1:51:08 Philosophical? Uh, perhaps deep, not very commercial, yes, so let's just let it. Go with that. Huh, mister Summers, I've heard a story about Stafford. Well, there's been a lot of them, Julie. Do you think it's true that he actually buried over a quarter of a million dollars somewhere on this island? H malauckey, ridiculous. I'd say, why should he do that? What are banks for? After all? A man in his position? Yeah, I'd be a little afraid of bank accounts. Check up income text. Right, friend, mister Reagan has a point there, Summers. Now, the story that there's a quarter of a million bucks buried on this island is bunk, just bunk, But it isn't you know?

1:51:57 The story is true, don't you any Do you know where the money is buried? Yes, that's what brought you to the island, and someone else, apparently that's someone who tried to kill you. It's almost two in the morning when you leave the party at Missus Tennis, start up the path towards your cottage, and then you hear footsteps behind you. Ernie. Ernie, Yeah, oh, Julie, I thought you'd gone back to your cottage. I wanted to talk to you. Oh tell me, Ernie, how does it feel to be a free man again? Free man? Ten years in San Quentin is a long time, isn't it?

1:52:40 What's on your mind? Julie? Like I said, I wanted to have a talk with you, Ernie rut what a quarter of a million dollars darling Bury somewhere on this island. I know it's here, and so do you. Wouldn't it be smarter if we worked together instead of working against one another?

1:53:34 A quarter of a million dollars, Ernie, Yes, that's what brought you to Staffer's Island because you knew it was buried here. And now you learn that the attractive Julie Vincent is well aware of that fact too, and you wonder if she's responsible for the attempt on your life earlier in the evening, as you cruised off the island in a small boat, searching out the cave where you're certain the money is hidden. Look, sweetheart, I don't follow this line up conversation. Don't you, Ernie. I had a boyfriend once. His name was Jim Corsy Corsey, your roommate at San Quentin. I used to visit him frequently, and then he died six weeks ago pneumonia.

1:54:17 They said Jim Corcy was never what you might call robust. And prison finished him. He didn't have to take that rap, but he did to save his old friend Stopper. They were very close, were they very That's how we know the money is buried on the island, don't we, Ernie? Did that Corsi say it was? He was pretty certain of it, only he didn't know just where it was. But he had a few ideas ideas he might have passed on to you. You heard what Summer said. The yarn about the money being buried on the island is bunk, just bunk. And what are you doing here? I told you vacation.

1:54:58 Oh sure, sure. The funny thing Jim Corson never never mentioned a girl named Julie to me. How about a girl named Agatha? Oh yeah, Agatha, Julie, same girl. I sort of wanted to break off the old ties. Agatha Clark Bright. Right, So here we are, Ernie. What's the next move? Is it up to me? Sweethe it is, but do think it over. I'll be down at the beach in the morning for a swim. Let me know what your answer is. Then good night, Ernie.

1:55:51 There it is, Ernie. The cards on the table Julie Vincent suggesting a partnership, a fifty to fifty split of the money. An attractive exciting, isn't she? But you're not ready to accept her offer because you feel you can't trust her. You're certain she's in leak with someone. Perhaps there's someone who tried to kill you. Yes, it could be a double cross, couldn't it, Julie working with someone else, trying to find out what you know? What your plans are? You think it over very carefully that night and decide what you must do the following morning down at the beach. Well, oh, Ernie, morning, Julie, have a good night's rest.

1:56:35 Fire slept like a log. Hading on your mind? No problem, No, well maybe one. Oh. Someone tried to kill me last night, about half an hour before I got to missus Tenney's. Where did it happen near the caves? Huh? So there's someone else on the island who knows about the money. It rather complicates things, doesn't it? Yeah? Sort of. You see, the cave can only be entered at low tide and only by an experienced swimmer. Our competition isn't an experienced. Swimmer neither, am I, Darling? That's why I need a partner.

1:57:17 I don't. Is that your answer? No? No, no, I thought it over very carefully, Julie. I have decided we should team up. I'm glad to hear that, Ernie, very glad to hear that. What are your plans? I'm going to get into that cave tonight. The tide will be at its lowest step around eight o'clock, and Summers is giving a party. What's the party got to do with it? I've got to hunch our competition is going to be there, and that's where you come in. What am I supposed to do? Create a little diversion, you pull a faint faith me.

1:58:00 Really it all happens a few minutes before eight o'clock. It will give me a chance to slip away unnoticed. The trap is set, isn't it, Ernie. Yes, you've tipped off Julie what your plans are, and you're certain she'll reveal those plans to whomever she's working with that night at Summer's party, Julie plays her part to perfection, and in the excitement the confusion, you slip out the side door and hurry down the path toward the cliffs. And suddenly you veer off and wait in the darkness. Then you hear the footsteps.

1:58:47 Hallo Ane, Oh, mister Regan, seeking inspiration, full of the party. Got frightfully dull. I thought I'd go for a walk. Cigarette. Yeah, don't tix my names? Cold sort? Did I get this? Just thirty eight? No novelist went around carrying thirty eight. Seems I've been double cross doesn't it. Well, never trust a woman, Riagan, You mean Julie. Of course, I've made a few mistakes in my lifetime, Reagan, but the biggest I ever made was trusting Julie and she'll.

1:59:34 Double cross you too, she will. I tell you, Oh look, Reagan. Why don't we play it smart, meaning we split the money fifty to fifty. Leave Julie out of it. I intend to leave her out of it, and you too. Wait a minute, Reagan, Reagan, you wouldn't kill me in cold. About those pot shots you took at me while I was out in that boat. No, sorry, sure, sure, I've thought about it, Julie. But well, everybody these days is writing a historical novel.

2:00:19 Very good one, well true, true, But I don't Oh, hello Reagan, Julie, Hello Ernie. Where are you? Then? Outside? Jellygo colored me? He can really beat in the ear drum off that boy. You're telling me? Oh here here, You can't stand around with a half empty glass in your hand. Let me give you a refill, how about you, Julie? Oh no, no, this is fine, Okay, be right back. You were gone a long time, darling. Did you know what happened? I was followed, followed? Did you see who it was? No? I didn't see anyone. As a matter of fact, had a feeling someone was tailing me. I decided to shelve my little plan. That was smarting can't take any chances.

2:01:02 I'll I'll try again tomorrow night. As soon as they get the money, we'll take off. We'll leave, We'll leave the island. I've always wanted to go to South America. Rio is a nice place. So they tell me a quarter of a million dollars. Darling and just the two of us. You're not sorry we teamed up? Are you? I'm not sorry at all? Selearn what time are. You going to the cave tomorrow night? And what can I do to help? Around eight? You can run a boat with offshore? All right, we'll talk more about it in the morning. Huh. Right now, I feel like dancing, if you don't. Mind, Ernie, I think i'd better go back to my cottage.

2:01:43 I have quite a headache, excitement, nervousness. I guess, sure, Julie. Sure. So you walk Julie back to her cottage and outside, in the shadow of the rose covered arbor, A tender good night. Yes, And as you hold Julie close in your arms, you wish things could be different, don't you wear aname? As she kisses you. You want to believe she means it, but you can't because you're certain she's just playing a part, that she's been working with Ames, that it was she who tipped off Ames to follow you from the party, That she's only interested in the money and will do anything to get it. You want to tell her Aimes is dead, his body now washed out to sea. You wish she'd confessed she'd been working with.

2:02:39 Ames, Julie Mesty, you know when you call me darling, Anne, I almost believe you mean it, but you're not sure. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars there's a lot of money. It's enough to gall to stage of big romantic pitch to get her hands on some of them. You took the words right out of my mouth. Baby. You know something, Ernie. Yeah, a few hours ago you'd have had something. But that was a few hours ago. Meaning money doesn't mean so much anymore, daring, but.

2:03:23 I do, don't you know? Yeah? I guess I do anything else you want to. Say, There isn't anything else, Darling, at least for now. Back at your cottage, a few minutes later, you'll pack your bag, glance at your watch. You'll still have several hours to wait before the dawntide, when you can get the money.

2:04:03 You feel bad about Julie. Wish she'd told you about her working with Aames, then you could believe in her. But she didn't, not even when you gave her a perfect. Opportunity, and you're almost certain she intends to double cross you when it serves her purpose. Then you realize you can find out, make certain whether Julie is really with you or merely playing a part. Julie doesn't know Eames is dead, his body washed out to see quickly, you hurry outside, walk down the path toward ames cottage. Inside the cottage, you type a note to Julie on Aimes stationery, sign it with Ames initials w A. In it, you say Aames is getting the hidden staffer money at Dawntide.

2:04:49 Ask her to meet him at a secluded spot near the pier at three point thirty next morning. Be ready to leave the island with him. Then you hurry to Julie's cottage and slip the note under julie door. If she shows up, you'll know that all she wants is the stuff her money. You'll decide then what to do about Julie. You start back towards your cottage. You hear them close by. Recognize missus Tenner's voice summers his party guests. You look around for a place to hide, but you're too late. Riggan Holder. Why it's Ernie. How nice We're going out on Jellicoe's boat for a couple of hours. Why don't come along?

2:05:30 Wow? Thanks, I was just on my way back to the cottage. You gotta catch a little sleep. No, no, no, really, thanks, some other time. I've got to get up early tomorrow. Oh okay, okay, too bad you won't come along. Ernie must have a big day plan for tomorrow. Yeah, big days, a real big day. Staffer's Island, usually quiet and peaceful, not at all a reflection of its early days as a gangster's hideaway, was now vibrant and alive with excitement. Its present day residents clogged together, babbling nervously, wondering, talking in hushed tones about the boats arriving one after another from the mainland, police boats, newspaper boats, boats filled with the plane curious why, because a killing had occurred, a killer had been apprehended, and further a confession was forthcoming.

2:06:47 And it was all over. Only a few pertinent details to be cleaned up for the police and the press. Ah come on, Sheriff, I need a good story. Come on, give me the lowdown. Why was this guy murdered? Well, it was a case of mistaken identity, and I got that straight from the killer. You mean, this guy that was killed, murderer thought he was somebody else, a guy named Winston Ames. Fuck he breaked for Ames. Now maybe but maybe not. Ames is still missing. Nobody's seen him since yesterday. But the motive, Sheriff, The motive was Stauffer's money. Now, you boys know the story about a quarter of a million dollars that Stoffer was supposed to have hidden here. Ohh yeah, Well, according to the confession, this guy Aames got a tip from somebody as to where the money was hidden. He and his girlfriend Julie Vincent came here to get it. But apparently that tip was a phony.

2:07:40 Oh it's been a million phony tips about that though. Well, a little later on, this guy Reagan showed up. Now I'm beginning to get the picture. And Julie Vincent made a play for Reagan to see if she could learn anything. But then she felt for Reagan in a big way and decided to double cross Aimes him. Besides, huh, oh no, no, her original idea was just to skip with Reagan. Then last night she got a note apparently written by Ames, telling her Ames was picking up the money early this morning and. Asking her to meet him and skip with him. Well, how come she shot Reagan? Well it was still pitch dark at three point thirty this morning, of course, and when Reagan showed up at the same time in the same place that the note said Ames would be, Julie Vincent naturally figured Reagan was Ames and let him have it.

2:09:10 Featured into Night's story were Bill Foreman as the Whistler, Lamon Johnson, Gene Bates, Tom Brown, Glory, Ann Simpson, Brittwood, and Larry Dodkin. The Whistler was produced by George w Allen, directed by Robert Hafter, with story by Adrian John Doe, usy by Wolver Hatch, and was transmitted overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service. The Whistler was entirely fictional, and all characters portrayed on the Whistler are also fictional. Any similarity of names or resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. My dear, it's going to be fine. The sun is coming up very very soon the darkness will received.

2:09:57 For now. You can breathe easy, knowing that now please consider joining me here again, same time, same place. I'll be so glad to have you here. It's such a delight. Yes, so please do visit again. But now it's time for you to return to your home, to your beautiful abode. Once you conquer the darkness of your journey and go through that warm threshold and lay your head on that soft, cool pillow, do me one last favor and be thankful for what you have. I'll be seeing you, you.

2:11:03 Mumbling lately of pregnant Poo