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Ah, so good to see you again, my dear. How
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are you well? I'm just just just fine. No worries here,
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although sometimes I find myself considering the dark, not just
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where it's hard to see, but where there's a true
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lack of light. Sometimes I worry that at the end
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of a long, dark, pitch black corridor, what I'll find
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at the end is a mirror hanging there facing me,
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And as I look into it, I realize the man
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is missing.
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CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents.
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Come in. Welcome. I'm e G. Marshall.
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How old were you when you first said I'm going
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to run away and you'll never see me again, and
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then you'll be sorry. Everyone has said it so, Some
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did not say it out loud. Some have run and
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returned the same day, Some have never got round or
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running at all, and some have run and stayed away.
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It is one of these who gives us the title
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of our story.
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The man is missing.
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The letters get smaller, pressure of the pen gets lighter,
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the lines get thinner.
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Man is not well. Are you sure?
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Tees aren't crossed in a few places, see the loops
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aren't completed. Perhaps he's not sick. Perhaps he's only hysterical,
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or perhaps perhaps he's mad.
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Our mystery drama The Man Is Missing was written especially
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for the Mystery Theater by Elspeth Eric and stars Anne
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Williams and Larry Haynes. It is sponsored in part by
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Buick Motor Division and contact the twelve hour Code capsule
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I'll be back shortly with Act one. Within the huge
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New York City Police Department, there's a small coterie of
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men who wear no uniforms. They are the investigative Detectives.
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They have one captain, one lieutenant, and five sergeants.
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They receive about one hundred calls every day.
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Out of sixteen thousand cases, they have solved better than
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ninety nine percent. They are known as the Missing Persons Squad.
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I looked up and there she was back again. I
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told her, and told her over and over, But there
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she was, same bright smile, same eager look, like she
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knew I could do something and she was just hanging
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around waiting for me to do it. My name's Wiley
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Caldwell and I'm captain of the Missing Persons Squad.
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Good job, I like it.
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We know I stopped if I didn't say so myself,
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as perhaps I shouldn't run away kids. We handle a
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lot of those, and old people, the ones who get
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tired of feeling useless and unwanted and just wanted r off.
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We get a lot of those two.
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However, as she was back for the emptyenth time to
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ask me for the empty time to find her.
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Husband, Captain Caldwell, May I talk.
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To you, missus McLachlin. Why don't you call me here?
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We know each other pretty well by.
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Now that we do, so call me me here, please,
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okayre But.
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The answer is the same.
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We've checked the fires, we called them Morgue, Lawrence McLoughlin,
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either place. So he's not in jail, he's not in
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the hospital, he's not dead. What more do you want?
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But where is he? Out there somewhere?
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Can't you look for him?
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Is he under eighteen?
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Of course not?
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Is he over sixty five?
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He's twenty nine?
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Ah well, then even if we could locate him, we
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couldn't do anything about it.
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We couldn't bring him in.
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Why couldn't you because we would.
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Be violating his civil right, you understand, Unless, of course
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he's mental, then we could take him.
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Is he is he mental?
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Off his rocker?
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R out of his mind.
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No, all right, then we can't touch him. I know
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it's hot on you, but I must break the news. There,
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husband's run off all the time. Is Lawrence Saiven don
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the vanishing act of form?
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Certainly?
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Not?
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All right, Bobby, You'll never do it again, provided, of course,
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he comes back. Now you run a wrong home and
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wait to hear from him. Okay, I have heard from him.
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You have he sent me some money?
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Well, then you're all set. But he doesn't say where
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he is, what he's thinking of? You didn't or he
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wouldn't be sending you the money, would he. You see,
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he's worried about you. He loves you. You're his wife.
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He loves you. So why you don't know where he is? Oh?
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Please Captain call her? Please?
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I know you can find him for me if you
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just try.
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You're a missing person since.
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Larry is missing, and I want you to find him.
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If I can't you, I want.
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You right all right now, quick quick crying. Hell's gonna
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do any good?
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You know that?
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All right? I stopped crying. And why won't you help me?
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I'll tell you what.
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I'm going to turn you over to one of our detectives.
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Ben Chase, his name is. He's a very nice man,
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very fatherly tight.
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You like him, Can.
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You tell him all about your missing spouse and maybe
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he can take her something? I'll let be Okay, Okay,
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then come on this way.
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He's right in here.
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Uh, ben, I got a lady here I want you
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to meet.
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This is Mia McLaughlin.
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Maya.
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This is Detective Benjamin Chase. Take care of the little
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lady Benner.
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She was the prettiest thing I've ever seen in my
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whole life. Skin like pink and white alabaster, dark brown hair,
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with a shine to her big round eyes, the exact
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same color as the blue jeans she had on. It
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was like Spring had just walked through the door, and me,
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fifteen eight years old, I'm then Chase, Detective third Grade
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Missing Persons Squad. I was a patrolman for fifteen years.
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Then I did a hitch with public morals for a
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short time, and then somebody smiled on me and I
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landed here. What a swell job. I mean, here is
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where you really get the feeling you're helping people.
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Please find my husband.
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Your husband's missing? Is that it?
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Yes? And don't tell me about a civil rights.
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I want to know where he is well. We could
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probably locate them, but we couldn't make him come back
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to you.
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I just want to know where he is.
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We can check the files hospitals.
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Oh he's alive.
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I know that.
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I don't think he's sick. See I got this from
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him this morning.
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Oh you got a letter from him? It had money
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in it. Okay, if I take a look at it.
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Sure, look look it was mail right here in New York.
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You can tell me the postmark. Oh yeah, yuh mind
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if I read it. I don't mind, Darling Mia, I
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thought you might be sure to cash love Larry Well,
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I'll say, now this sounds like he thinks the world
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of you. But what are you so worried about it?
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He'll come back?
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But where is he?
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What happened to missus? Mclauliny.
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You can call me me or if you want to.
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Husbands do get this urge once in a while, to
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you know, take off, be on their own for a while.
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Not just husbands. See the wives get it too. I
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have to say, I can't see why anyone would go
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off and leave a lovely girl like you.
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Well, he did you.
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You do know you're very pretty, don't you? I guess
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you guess, don't you know?
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I'm a model, photographer's model. You have to have some
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kind of looks for that.
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I guess if you've got more than some kind of looks, yea,
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thank you a lot more. Look.
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Can you help me find Larry?
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Well, I can try.
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I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't go out
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on a job. I just think about him all the
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time and what could have happened to him?
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Yeah, well, I'd have to do it on my own,
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you understand. I mean, it wouldn't be an official police case,
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and it'll take a lot of legwork a lot of
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time too, and I don't have too much free time.
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I don't know if my wife will care for my
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taking on any outside work.
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Are you married?
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Oh? Oh am?
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I married?
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Twenty five years married is what I am. So I
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know about husbands getting the urge to take off? Did
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you ever do it? Oh? No, no, no, no I
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never did. But that doesn't mean I never had the urage. No.
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I'm married to a wonderful woman. Irma is about the
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best wife anybody could imagine. But well, I've had urges now,
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and then you're.
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Very nice to try to help me.
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Yeah, listen, you mind if I take this and globe home.
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With me, No, take it if it'll help.
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And the note inside, Can I take that too.
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Yes, but don't lose it. I want it back.
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Oh, you'll get it back, all right, It's all I've got,
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all right, all right, I don't cry. We'll find them,
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that is, I'll find them, I hope. So yeah, Now
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I got to run along home. Irma will be wondering
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what happens to me, And we don't want her to
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think that she's got a missing husband, not do we.
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I'm Irma Chase, fifty two years old, married twenty five
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years to Benjamin Chase, Detective, third class, husband, first class
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all the way. We've never had children, but we never
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really needed children to bring us together.
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We were together from the start. Oh.
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There have been times a few of them when I
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felt that Ben's eye was roving.
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And that he'd kind of like to rove with it.
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He didn't know that I know about those times, and
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I wouldn't let him know that I know, because he'd
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feel terrible if he thought he'd hurt me in any
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way at all.
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He's just that kind of man. And at fifty two.
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My waist is a good bit thicker than it was
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when I married him, and the hair has gray in it,
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and I almost have a double chin unless I remember
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to stand right. So when he came home that night, herma, yeah,
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well you don't say.
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I'd never get all right, don't be fresh, just okay.
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Now your beer's next to your chair, and there's some
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good cheese to go with a really sharp cheddar.
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You're a great girl. Of course.
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I am.
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There a little late tonight, aren't you. Yeah, yeah, well
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what happened and a girl came into the office, see
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that is Captain Caldwell brought her in, turned her over
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to me. Seems she's been bothering him for quite some time.
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Missing husband, Oh one of those Yeah, he's been missing
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for some time. Anyway, Coldwell checked the files the morgue,
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didn't come up with anything, but Na kept coming back,
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coming back. Na. Yeah, that's her name, Lia McLachlan. Anyway,
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I talked to her as she showed me this note
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she got from him. It was mailed right here in
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the city and there was money in it. He wrote
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a note. Yeah, yeah, sounded very concerned about her having
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some money. I'd like to see that note. M Are
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you still hung up on that stuff.
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Okay, okay, you know you can't blame me if I
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try to be part of your work.
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Oh can you? Or do you? I should say? If
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you'd rather but out, just say the word.
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I'd like to remind you that Rafael Sherman, oh please
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not a Rafael Sherman was attached to the Crackout Police
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Force from the start of the century to a nighteen hundred.
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Please you've got Rafael Sherman on the brain.
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Rafael Sherman started collecting envelopes when he was a little boy.
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Well so did I when I was a little girl.
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I never played with dogs.
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I just looked at handwritings on envelopes, fascinating all different,
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some beautiful, some ugly, and everything in between. And like
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with Sherman, after a while, I started to find things
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that some handwritings had in common. And when I knew
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the people those handwritings belonged to, I found out that
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those people.
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Had certain things in common too.
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Then people with heart trouble write differently from people without
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heart trouble. But the psychological differences, that's where it gets
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really interesting. You can read a person's whole personality in
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his handwriting, his whole life, then everything that's happened to him.
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You really expect me to believe that Sherman could do it?
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He did it over and over.
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They did it for the police.
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I don't say that I'm as good as Sherman, but
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I did know something about it.
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Okay, okay, take a look at this, thank you? Well
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say anything? This man is sick. What look?
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The letters get smaller. You see the pressure of the
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pen gets lighter, the lines get thinner. No, no, wait,
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maybe he's not sick. Maybe he's only hysterical.
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Well, maybe maybe he's mad. Rafiel Sherman had no peers
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in his day.
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After him came Michael Fischer and the French clairvoyant Madame
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Lucy v d. And among the medical men who have
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used graphology to ferret out cruise to mental or physical ailments,
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we find eerlen Meyer, Hauser, Dupatie Jeans and Charcot, famous
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head of the parasol pictrieer.
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I'll be back shortly for that too.
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Captain Wiley, called Well of the Missing Persons Squad, has
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been bothered by repeated visits from Mia McLaughlin begging him
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to locate her husband, who has disappeared.
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Wiley has turned.
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The girl over to Ben Chase, Detective third grade. Ben
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shows the note to his wife Irma. Irma aspiring graphologist
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deduces from the calligraphy that MIA's husband is sick, hysterical,
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or even mad. Did I know what I was doing
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when I turned that dumb little chick over to Ben Chase?
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I thought, of course he'd feed her alive, maybe pick
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up a close some player from some connection words, get
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her off my back. Also, there was always a chance
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that her husband would show up, a very good chance,
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because she was a very neat little dish. The fact
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I felt sure that my friend Ben had not overlooked entirely.
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Now I'm a friend of Ben's, and I also know
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his wife, Bremma, a marvelous woman.
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I is.
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I thought a little interference for me on her behalf
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wouldn't be a miss Yeah, yeah, I.
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See, that's all you can tell me missus does Yeah, yeah,
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well it's something anyways, fight.
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Who's missus Downe's oh her? Yeah, huh oh, well, actually
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she's me his mother, Leah mclaughlan's mother.
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That's so yeah. I thought maybe she could give me
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a lead to go on the Gina. Now, she says
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they got a long grade. He was crazy about her.
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Seems he wanted to be a serious type painter, gave
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it up and went the commercial art right after they
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got married. Maybe he regretted it. Well, me as a model,
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you know, That's how they met. He he was living
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in this artist colony upstate in the Catskills, Brayden Falls.
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You've heard of it, where all the artists stopped together.
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Yeah, anyway, Nea was a model up there for one summer.
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She posed for him for nothing. She was even broken
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than the others. They fell in love and they got married.
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He went with an ad agency. She became a fashion model.
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Everything was hunky dorry till he cut out. And her
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mother hasn't got the foggiest idea. Why have you? No,
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I can't say I have white anyone want to leave
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a girl like Mia? Of course, Irma says, I don't
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put any stock in that. What is Ima saying? Well,
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I don't know if you know this, captain, but Irma's
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very into this graphology stuff. I didn't know that now.
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Oh yeah, she practically worships a guy named Rafael Shermann.
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He's an Austrian. He's dead now, but he was official
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handwriting expert for the Central Law Court of Vienna when
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he was alive. What's wrong with that? Nothing's wrong with that?
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But outside his regular job he had this hobby. Yeah,
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it was more more like an obsession that he could
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read people's characters from their handwriting, and not only that,
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but the past and their future. Now can't you tee that?
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It sounds interesting? And before he died people said he
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could tell a person looked just by his handwriting. Yeah. Well, anyway,
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I showed Irma the note Na got from a husband.
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It was only a line or two, and Irma learned
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onto it like it was a hot clue. I mean,
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she set the handwriting told her that the guy is
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sick or hysterical or.
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Maybe even crazy. She saw all that, she thinks she
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saw all that. What if he's right? Would explain a
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lot without it? If the guy had lost his marbles?
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On was a crazy man doesn't send money?
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Old captain?
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How would you know what a crazy man does? Why
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don't you admit the possibility that AMA's got something there?
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Butt?
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I help you now, I'm doing it all right? Now
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you're not? Are you waiting to see? Okay?
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Ben?
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Okay?
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One more thing you're spending too much time on it.
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I won't call to the girl's mother. You made that
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from here, unofficial time. That girl's been here almost every
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day talking to you, artificial time. The way you look,
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you've been spending an awful lot of your off hours
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on the case.
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Two, am I right? Quite a lot. Yeah, we'll put
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it out. I don't like it.
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I don't think your wife cares too much more in either,
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I was.
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Shook up when the captain walked out. Part of what
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he said was true. I was spending a lot of
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time trying to locate me his husband. I'd gone down
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to the Art Students League and talked to the teacher
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down there. A lot of them remembered them from the
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olden days. Nice Holliday all said, big strong, very outgoing,
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no sign of any kind of ailment, no instability, certainly,
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no signs of being demented. But so much for what
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Irma thought she saw on his handwriting, Irma, what about Emma?
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What was our last crack? The captain had made about
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in not liking the hours I was giving to the case,
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and Irma not liking it either. She hadn't said she
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didn't like it. She hadn't raised any objections. She was
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too busy going over that little scrap of paper. But
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if I didn't find them soon, was she going to
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begin to wonder the hell I was beginning to wander myself.
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Just like that. I made up my mind I was
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going to take myself off the case. I should never
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have taken it on in the first place. I'm crazy
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about my wife. I had my mind all made up
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to tell me I was letting go of the case.
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She walked in. Hello, Ben, oh, hi, Hi, Hi the man. Yeah,
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sit down, I want to talk to you about.
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Is gats and Cole Wroll mad at me about something?
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Well, it's get mad exactly, and not at you.
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Oh look look what I got this morning.
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Other letter.
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Yeah, this one had money in it too, Okay, ridd it.
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Sure it's about the same as the first one.
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Oh yeah, yeah, so I see.
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Only look where it's mailed from.
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Braiden Falls. That's where we met Larry and me. Yeah. Yeah,
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tell me about Braiden Falls.
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Well, it's a very romantic place in the mountain.
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Sometimes, certain times a day the mountains turned blue and purple.
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Oh that's beautiful. And then there's the falls.
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Yeah, yeah, braidy falls.
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They come tumbling down from way higher. Fish match. Some places,
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you can't hear what people are saying. Falls is so loud.
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It's just beautiful.
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Larry and I used to go on picnics, eat sandwiches
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and stuff and listen to the falls and.
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Make love.
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Why do you suppose he went up there? Not just
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the mail and a letter.
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I think I think he went there because it's where
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we were so happy.
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He wanted to remember how it was at first, and.
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You weren't so happy later on. Is that it? Oh?
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We had fights, not very many, not very often, just sometimes.
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Well when what about? Do you mind telling me? Oh?
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I don't know.
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I never knew everything would be going along just fine,
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and then all of a sudden we'd be arguing.
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I wouldn't know why.
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I just know that I was losing, losing, losing what
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the argument?
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It was going to turn out? He was right and
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I was wrong every single time.
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Yeah, look, Miah, I might as well tell you I was.
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I was.
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I was going to give up upon this case. Not fine, Well,
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it isn't official business, and it's taken up a lot
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of time. But you have to well this, uh, this
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note from Braiden Falls. I had a follow up on that.
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You mean go up to Braiden Falls and look for him?
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Than yes, yes, well to mars my day, I'll go
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with you.
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Well, well, I can show you around all the different
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places and in the falls.
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For Larry and I used to go for picnics.
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Oh, your wife wouldn't mind, would she?
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That little piece of paper hadn't been out of my
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sight for days. I picked it up from time to time,
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and now and then I got what I hoped were
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flashes of illumination. Other times I sat down with it
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under a good light and let my unconscious mind just
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play with it. It's a tricky thing, the unconscious mind,
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much trickier than anyone imagines.
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I'm uh, I'm home, good, be right there. Where's my beer?
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I'm getting it? I really need it.
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Do you have a hard day?
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Yes?
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Sort of? Well, drink your beer. There's yours. I don't
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want any where you going on a wagon or something.
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No, I just.
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Want to keep my mind clear. Psychographology is a very
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exacting work. Psycho what psychographology? What Raphael Shechrmann did, what
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I'm trying to do? Analyzing people from their handwrit.
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Are you still doing that.
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Of course I am, and don't try to stop.
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I'm not trying to stop you. Wiley Carlo says I
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should encourage you. I don't know if I can go
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that far.
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Captain Coldwell did.
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That, Yeah, I totally You said Larry McLachlan might be psychotic,
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and he said you could be right. Of course, he
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doesn't know any more about it than I do or
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you do.
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I'm beginning to know more all the time. Pretty soon
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I may.
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Be able to give you a pretty accurate description of
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the man.
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Forget it, I can't, Wiley takes. I'm putting in too
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much time on the case. It's not official business.
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You know.
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But you can't stop now.
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I got nothing to go on.
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May let me help you.
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Well, I give it a couple more days, just long
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enough to track down one more clue. It might mean something.
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What what clue?
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Well? Mia brought this in today. It's another note from
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her husband. Let me see. Yeah, there was money in
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this one too. Doesn't sound like a man who's fed
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up with his wife. According to Missus Downs, McLachlan was
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crazy about his wife. Who's missus down me his mother?
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She says, McLachlan gave up being a serious artist so
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he could support his wife. Oh, by the way, you'll
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notice that the note was mailed from Braden Falls. That's
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the artist's colony place up in the mountains. Well, the
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McLachlan's met there and fell in love there. Mia did
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some modeling for him, and I thought that since tomorrow
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is my day off, I would go up there.
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Mm hmm.
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Yeah. Take a look around, h and Mia is going
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with me.
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Mm hmm.
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That all right with you? Do look at that free down.
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I put the letter down and listen to me.
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What are you still mad?
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I tell you I'm going off of the day with
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a young girl, a young attractive girl, And you've got
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no objection my day off, my one day off, the
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day we go to the beach or the movies or
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do something special. I'll tell you I'm going off to
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the mountains with a young girl used to be.
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A marvel And you don't care.
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Then I was right.
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The person who wrote this letter has something wrong with it.
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Lung, What are you talking about? For Pete's saying some
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kind of respiratory disease, trouble with his breathing.
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Now look look here, Now you see the little pauses
496
00:26:58.119 --> 00:26:59.039
in the writing.
497
00:26:58.799 --> 00:27:02.480
Pauses to see I can see them that they were
498
00:27:02.519 --> 00:27:05.640
in the other note too, but I wanted to be careful.
499
00:27:05.680 --> 00:27:08.799
I wanted to be sure. And here they are again.
500
00:27:10.039 --> 00:27:12.720
It is if every so often he had to stop
501
00:27:13.240 --> 00:27:16.240
and lean on his pen, take a little rest before
502
00:27:16.279 --> 00:27:16.720
he goes on.
503
00:27:18.440 --> 00:27:21.880
Oh, Ben, give me a little more.
504
00:27:21.759 --> 00:27:24.279
Time, and I'll be able to tell you all about
505
00:27:24.319 --> 00:27:25.839
the person who wrote this note.
506
00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:36.559
A violin in the hands of an average person will
507
00:27:36.599 --> 00:27:40.079
have an ordinary sound. The notes may all be correct,
508
00:27:40.440 --> 00:27:43.279
the stops, all, the proper length, the speed and volume
509
00:27:43.319 --> 00:27:47.079
all is prescribed. But the same violin in the hands
510
00:27:47.119 --> 00:27:50.759
of an artist will take on the quality of real music.
511
00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:55.079
Such is the power and the sensitivity of the human hand.
512
00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:57.440
I'll be back shortly with that.51300:27:57.640 --> 00:28:08.240
Three.51400:28:08.880 --> 00:28:13.480
Psychographology is a fairly recent word. It describes the process51500:28:13.559 --> 00:28:16.759
by which character and personality can be deduced from the51600:28:16.759 --> 00:28:20.960
analysis of handwriting. Irma Chase has been attempting such an51700:28:20.960 --> 00:28:24.400
analysis from two notes written by the missing husband of51800:28:24.440 --> 00:28:28.039
Mia McLaughlin. Among other things, she has inferred that the51900:28:28.079 --> 00:28:31.559
writer of the notes is emotionally unstable and has some52000:28:31.599 --> 00:28:35.200
sort of trouble with his breathing. She has not tried52100:28:35.240 --> 00:28:37.440
to keep her husband from using his day off to52200:28:37.480 --> 00:28:40.519
travel to a place called Braden Falls, high in the mountains,52300:28:40.640 --> 00:28:44.000
accompanied by the young girl in search of the missing man.52400:28:49.200 --> 00:28:52.240
Maybe I shouldn't have, but it in I thought Ben52500:28:52.400 --> 00:28:54.759
Chase was a good man, a good cop for a52600:28:54.799 --> 00:28:55.480
fine record.52700:28:56.160 --> 00:28:57.720
As far as I know, he was a good husband.52800:28:57.799 --> 00:29:00.880
Though I've met Ama Chase a few times, been to52900:29:00.920 --> 00:29:03.839
their house, they've been to mine. All I can say53000:29:04.000 --> 00:29:07.920
she seemed like a happy woman, very content with the life.53100:29:08.599 --> 00:29:10.000
Seems she had this interest.53200:29:09.759 --> 00:29:14.720
In what she called psychographology, almost an obsession according to Ben.53300:29:15.640 --> 00:29:19.319
But what was a harmonids? Actually there might be a53400:29:19.319 --> 00:29:21.599
lot of good in it. Anyway.53500:29:21.599 --> 00:29:23.480
When I'm a Chase called and said she wanted to53600:29:23.480 --> 00:29:25.799
come in and talk to me. I said, come.53700:29:25.640 --> 00:29:31.000
Ahead, How are you worry? I'm fine, said I What53800:29:31.000 --> 00:29:31.319
can I do?53900:29:32.519 --> 00:29:33.759
I don't exactly know?54000:29:34.680 --> 00:29:37.559
Maybe nothing is it about Ben?54100:29:38.200 --> 00:29:38.440
Well?54200:29:39.319 --> 00:29:43.000
Yes, mostly he went off this morning with that young54300:29:43.079 --> 00:29:44.079
girl near.54400:29:44.039 --> 00:29:48.200
Something or other. They went up to Braydon Falls together.54500:29:49.960 --> 00:29:51.880
I don't think you got a thing to worry about,54600:29:52.119 --> 00:29:55.599
you don't. She's a very pretty young girl. But I54700:29:55.640 --> 00:29:59.240
know Ben, I don't think he's really interested in it54800:29:59.240 --> 00:30:01.720
and gone the Aden Falls because that's where the girl's54900:30:01.759 --> 00:30:02.880
husband wrote his last note.55000:30:02.960 --> 00:30:05.119
I know I've seen the note. Matter of fact, I've55100:30:05.119 --> 00:30:05.680
got it with me.55200:30:06.000 --> 00:30:08.400
There's a chance the man might be in Baiden Falls55300:30:08.440 --> 00:30:11.079
and they've gone there to check it out. Then I'll55400:30:11.119 --> 00:30:12.759
be back by to night. Don't worry about that.55500:30:12.880 --> 00:30:18.440
Oh, I'm not worried about that. No, you're not what55600:30:18.519 --> 00:30:22.960
you Riley. You know I'm interested in graphology. Yeah, Ben55700:30:23.039 --> 00:30:23.480
said something.55800:30:23.519 --> 00:30:26.440
I've been studying these two notes from Larry McLaughlin and55900:30:26.480 --> 00:30:27.799
I've come up with a few things.56000:30:28.440 --> 00:30:29.960
Is it all right if I tell you about them?56100:30:30.519 --> 00:30:33.480
Of course? Smah, I charge you. I got an open mind.56200:30:34.079 --> 00:30:34.279
Now.56300:30:34.279 --> 00:30:36.759
The first thing that started to emerge was that whoever56400:30:36.799 --> 00:30:41.839
wrote those notes is emotionally unbalanced, maybe psychotic.56500:30:42.240 --> 00:30:43.119
Ben told me about that.56600:30:43.279 --> 00:30:45.839
The second thing which I got from the second note56700:30:46.359 --> 00:30:48.319
is that the writer has trouble breathing.56800:30:49.160 --> 00:30:51.559
Now, I'm not going to go into how I deduced that.56900:30:51.640 --> 00:30:55.039
You wouldn't understand it anyway, You're probably right there. Now57000:30:55.519 --> 00:30:59.440
I've come up with something else. Well, come on, let's57100:30:59.440 --> 00:31:00.480
have it, Wiley.57200:31:00.599 --> 00:31:04.319
I could be wrong, but I've got a strong intuition57300:31:04.400 --> 00:31:08.920
that the person who wrote those two notes has criminal tendencies.57400:31:11.640 --> 00:31:21.359
I said, criminal tendencies? What the direction of these criminal tendencies?57500:31:21.400 --> 00:31:25.039
Thank them? And can you tell I.57600:31:24.960 --> 00:31:26.920
Don't like to say it because I'm afraid you're gonna laugh.57700:31:28.799 --> 00:31:33.279
Whoever wrote those notes is capable of murder.57800:31:36.160 --> 00:31:40.480
You could be wrong, I could be right, yes, And57900:31:40.599 --> 00:31:43.279
if I'm right, Ben and that girl are up at58000:31:43.279 --> 00:31:45.920
braden Falls tracking down a man who is capable of58100:31:46.000 --> 00:31:48.680
killing and they don't know it.58200:31:53.359 --> 00:31:56.240
Braiden Falls isn't even a whistle stop. It's not on58300:31:56.319 --> 00:31:59.720
a railroad at all. Nia and I arrived on the58400:31:59.759 --> 00:32:03.359
bi We were the only ones getting off. The center58500:32:03.400 --> 00:32:06.880
of town has a filling station, a grocer, butcher, stationary58600:32:06.920 --> 00:32:10.559
store in a nice green parlor. That's about all but58700:32:10.720 --> 00:32:13.279
tucked away in the mountains or all kinds of houses,58800:32:13.279 --> 00:32:18.000
from large cabins to quantcert huts. We strolled around talking58900:32:18.000 --> 00:32:21.599
to the artists who lived in those houses. Nobody had59000:32:21.680 --> 00:32:25.240
seen or heard from Larry McLachlan, so a lot of59100:32:25.279 --> 00:32:28.400
them remember them pretty well. We planned to take the59200:32:28.480 --> 00:32:31.400
four o'clock bus back to the city when Mia got59300:32:31.400 --> 00:32:34.519
this idea of climbing one of the mountains up to59400:32:34.559 --> 00:32:37.519
where the falls had their origin. She said, there was59500:32:37.519 --> 00:32:40.920
spectacular at that height, and we had nothing to do59600:32:41.079 --> 00:32:45.880
till the bus arrived. So yeah, beautiful, all right?59700:32:46.400 --> 00:32:48.440
Huh the four beautiful?59800:32:49.680 --> 00:32:52.839
Didn't I tell you? See? How how much fun?59900:32:52.960 --> 00:32:53.079
Oh?60000:32:53.200 --> 00:32:53.720
Not not far?60100:32:54.480 --> 00:32:56.799
If you are no, No, I'm fine.60200:32:57.319 --> 00:33:00.799
Well let's sit down for it anyway.60300:33:01.079 --> 00:33:07.200
Okay, Oh long, a couple of sandwiches there, some ginger ale.60400:33:08.319 --> 00:33:10.160
Well I hope it's still cold.60500:33:10.279 --> 00:33:13.920
Oh great, great, you're quite a girl.60600:33:15.119 --> 00:33:17.640
Oh you think so?60700:33:17.880 --> 00:33:21.200
Yeah, yeah I do. If I was a little bit younger,60800:33:22.279 --> 00:33:24.000
twenty or thirty years younger.60900:33:25.039 --> 00:33:27.920
You'd do what?61000:33:27.920 --> 00:33:28.839
What would you do?61100:33:29.440 --> 00:33:32.960
Well, okay, I guess i'd make a pass at.61200:33:35.039 --> 00:33:35.240
Here?61300:33:35.880 --> 00:33:36.720
You take your samuch?61400:33:36.720 --> 00:33:40.960
Would you mind? Would I mind what you're making a pass?61500:33:43.279 --> 00:33:46.079
Yes, i'd mind very much.61600:33:48.880 --> 00:33:52.720
Well, I'm so sorry. I know I'm much too old.61700:33:53.519 --> 00:33:57.119
It isn't that. Oh you're thinking about your husband? At61800:33:57.160 --> 00:34:00.000
you you're thinking about Larry. I'm sorry I should have realized,61900:34:00.000 --> 00:34:03.880
I said, I guess you associate this place with him. Huh.62000:34:04.119 --> 00:34:07.599
We used to come here for picnics.62100:34:07.680 --> 00:34:10.960
Yeah, you know, I'm really sorry. We couldn't pick up62200:34:11.000 --> 00:34:13.679
a clue here. They must have come here just for62300:34:13.719 --> 00:34:15.519
the day. Mailed the letter and left.62400:34:15.960 --> 00:34:18.440
Mary and I used to used to have our picnics62500:34:18.519 --> 00:34:21.840
up at the top. Let's walk up there.62600:34:22.360 --> 00:34:29.320
Okay, okay, that's and I hope you forgive me being fresh.62700:34:29.559 --> 00:34:30.199
That's all right.62800:34:30.760 --> 00:34:34.400
You're a very pretty girl. I suppose a lot of62900:34:34.440 --> 00:34:39.000
man to touch you that, huh. Just a lot of63000:34:39.039 --> 00:34:46.360
them made passes at you. Am I right? Sure, sure,63100:34:46.559 --> 00:34:47.239
right girl?63200:34:47.320 --> 00:34:48.079
Like you top?63300:34:48.599 --> 00:34:52.000
What h We're almost there.63400:34:52.199 --> 00:34:56.159
Oh wait until you see the falls.63500:34:56.199 --> 00:34:59.559
But they come out of the walk, great huge burst63600:34:59.599 --> 00:34:59.920
of walk.63700:35:00.039 --> 00:35:01.719
Hm.63800:35:03.199 --> 00:35:05.679
It has as though they couldn't wait to get out.63900:35:06.239 --> 00:35:07.880
They've been pushing and.64000:35:07.920 --> 00:35:14.320
Pushing, and then they fall out and down into the gorge,64100:35:15.920 --> 00:35:18.440
hitting all the rocks on the way, splashing off of.64200:35:18.480 --> 00:35:22.800
Them, down, down, down, impressive.64300:35:23.000 --> 00:35:26.840
Why, it's the most glorious thing you've ever seen.64400:35:29.880 --> 00:35:30.079
Here.64500:35:30.119 --> 00:35:37.800
We are understands, right, kids, that's how look up there64600:35:39.239 --> 00:35:39.800
and sort.64700:35:39.679 --> 00:35:48.480
Of falls so strong. I can't wait to bristol. Does64800:35:48.559 --> 00:35:50.400
we give you a marvelous chin?64900:35:51.000 --> 00:35:52.280
Yeah, yeah it does.65000:35:52.400 --> 00:35:59.039
I can't I look down. She can't see anything like that.65100:36:01.079 --> 00:36:11.840
Hey, hey talk, hey talk, Wait old man, datty, old man, man.65200:36:12.360 --> 00:36:12.840
Hold.65300:36:14.280 --> 00:36:17.679
She by you hold on girl?65400:36:17.760 --> 00:36:23.280
Then hold on, how God give bet just hang on, Jody,65500:36:24.000 --> 00:36:26.519
wi God, it's kind of shiding.65600:36:26.199 --> 00:36:32.480
Something I gotn't worry, Thank giving.65700:36:33.079 --> 00:36:38.440
Lets call relax the cow please runk give reminder relax man.65800:36:38.719 --> 00:36:41.239
Call the child guy. Wou'd you do anything? Now?65900:36:42.679 --> 00:36:45.760
He was going right into the water here words?66000:36:45.840 --> 00:36:47.840
Do you're lucky? Here?66100:36:47.960 --> 00:36:48.719
He's gonna make it?66200:36:48.800 --> 00:36:50.039
Honey, sure he is.66300:36:50.159 --> 00:36:52.559
Give me your hand wildly, stay right way, am I?66400:36:54.400 --> 00:36:56.320
That's ben. We'll make it.66500:36:57.119 --> 00:37:00.719
Okay, grab hold of the rule that tree you gotta66600:37:01.199 --> 00:37:01.800
I can't.66700:37:01.960 --> 00:37:02.639
Can you put yourself?66800:37:03.159 --> 00:37:03.360
Yeah?66900:37:03.360 --> 00:37:05.079
You give me your hand on right there?67000:37:06.039 --> 00:37:07.400
All right, I'm gonna give you something.67100:37:07.920 --> 00:37:09.599
It's it's okay, I can make it.67200:37:10.079 --> 00:37:15.440
I come o, good girl?67300:37:15.639 --> 00:37:17.079
Press you?67400:37:17.400 --> 00:37:23.199
Why are you okay? Yeah? Okay? Well where's the girl?67500:37:23.760 --> 00:37:26.599
She's still up there, she's out of her head that67600:37:28.079 --> 00:37:30.360
how do you too happy to be here? Or you67700:37:30.440 --> 00:37:31.039
had a feeling?67800:37:31.039 --> 00:37:31.119
Me?67900:37:31.880 --> 00:37:33.239
Well, that is your wife had a feeling.68000:37:33.760 --> 00:37:38.760
Look look over there? What well between your two big68100:37:38.840 --> 00:37:40.880
rock wedged in between?68200:37:42.519 --> 00:37:44.079
It's somebody.68300:37:44.519 --> 00:37:47.320
It's somebody body of a man who you.68400:37:48.840 --> 00:37:54.000
Think it's yeah, must be it has to be her husband.68500:37:55.320 --> 00:38:01.440
A missing that yeah, And.68600:38:01.519 --> 00:38:06.519
It was of course poor Larry McLaughlin's body caught between68700:38:06.559 --> 00:38:08.440
two dragged boulders.68800:38:08.280 --> 00:38:13.360
Almost at our feet. Ben and Wiley rested.68900:38:12.920 --> 00:38:15.880
For a while, then between them they got the body out.69000:38:17.119 --> 00:38:19.239
The police picked it up later, and they picked up the.69100:38:19.199 --> 00:38:20.159
Girl, Mia too.69200:38:21.719 --> 00:38:26.360
She was wandering about the mountain top, very sweet and69300:38:26.599 --> 00:38:31.360
very vague. Ben had been cut badly by the rocks.69400:38:33.039 --> 00:38:34.719
The three of us met the next day in his69500:38:34.800 --> 00:38:35.559
hospital room.69600:38:37.480 --> 00:38:38.840
I should have known all along.69700:38:38.960 --> 00:38:41.760
It was a woman's handwriting. And you were right on69800:38:41.840 --> 00:38:45.440
two other points. She's psychonic and she's a madriss. Hey,69900:38:45.480 --> 00:38:49.119
you were right about the respiratory trouble too, you know,70000:38:49.199 --> 00:38:51.719
climbing up there. She's the one how to stop and rest,70100:38:52.199 --> 00:38:53.679
they said at the satitarium.70200:38:53.719 --> 00:38:56.280
She doesn't remember anything about pushing her husband off the70300:38:56.400 --> 00:38:58.679
ledge or pushing you Ben either.70400:38:59.719 --> 00:39:01.199
Why why would she do it?70500:39:02.039 --> 00:39:02.320
Well?70600:39:02.320 --> 00:39:06.800
According to her handwriting, little miss McLaughlin is a very70700:39:06.840 --> 00:39:07.760
frigid lady.70800:39:08.880 --> 00:39:12.679
You can really see that, I think so.70900:39:12.719 --> 00:39:16.960
She hated men like poison, especially men who were attracted71000:39:17.000 --> 00:39:23.119
to her, like her husband, like like me.71100:39:24.880 --> 00:39:29.679
Well, yeah, you know, I sort of. It wasn't anything,71200:39:29.760 --> 00:39:32.800
you know, when we were climbing up there, just before71300:39:32.840 --> 00:39:35.880
we got to the top. Nothing happened. You understand absolutely nothing.71400:39:35.920 --> 00:39:36.639
I swear.71500:39:37.920 --> 00:39:38.159
Well, I.71600:39:40.239 --> 00:39:44.719
Said something. I admit that, something about making a pass71700:39:44.800 --> 00:39:47.599
at her that I'd like to something like that. But71800:39:47.639 --> 00:39:50.480
that's all I mean it. That's really all, just enough71900:39:50.480 --> 00:39:54.599
to Maga hagia, enough to kill you. Yeah, the what72000:39:54.800 --> 00:39:57.559
on earth gave it to you? The inspiration that drive72100:39:57.719 --> 00:39:58.800
ups up Braydon Fall.72200:40:01.639 --> 00:40:04.440
While studying the second note, I thought I could see72300:40:04.480 --> 00:40:07.079
signs of a criminal personality.72400:40:07.719 --> 00:40:10.159
I figured I should tell Wiley, and you believed that.72500:40:10.280 --> 00:40:13.079
I half believed that enough to drive up here and72600:40:13.119 --> 00:40:13.559
sell ya.72700:40:13.760 --> 00:40:15.960
Of course, neither of us knew Mia had written the72800:40:16.000 --> 00:40:18.880
note herself. We thought we were protecting you from her husband.72900:40:19.199 --> 00:40:24.199
From her. Will she ever be in shape to stand trial? Rennie?73000:40:24.840 --> 00:40:27.199
If she ever remembers what she's done? Do you think73100:40:27.239 --> 00:40:27.599
she might?73200:40:28.159 --> 00:40:28.920
Yes, she might.73300:40:29.159 --> 00:40:32.320
That won't make you say that. Well, look at this.73400:40:32.320 --> 00:40:36.239
This is the second envelope, how she addressed this to herself.73500:40:36.280 --> 00:40:43.119
You see, Mia McLaughlin, take a good look. So don't73600:40:43.119 --> 00:40:44.039
you notice anything?73700:40:45.360 --> 00:40:47.800
Why don't you looks okay to me?73800:40:48.239 --> 00:40:50.400
Compare it with the first one. Look at the m73900:40:50.519 --> 00:40:52.800
in Mia, may see how it starts.74000:40:52.400 --> 00:40:54.440
At the left. Yeah, yeah, what they both do know.74100:40:55.519 --> 00:40:58.119
The second one has a short stroke at the start74200:40:58.239 --> 00:41:01.119
that goes from right to left, then shifts and goes74300:41:01.159 --> 00:41:05.400
into the m. Now she started to write something else74400:41:05.440 --> 00:41:09.320
and then changed. She started to write an.74500:41:09.159 --> 00:41:13.519
E E for Emma. Emma, Why Emma?74600:41:14.320 --> 00:41:18.920
And there's a real her given name. I called her74700:41:18.920 --> 00:41:23.480
mother last night. You see, she was trying without knowing.74800:41:23.639 --> 00:41:27.199
She was trying to get back to her real self.74900:41:29.000 --> 00:41:31.840
If she succeeded, the chances.75000:41:31.480 --> 00:41:33.599
Are she'll remember everything she did.75100:41:34.920 --> 00:41:41.719
And she'll go on trial for murder. This is a75200:41:41.840 --> 00:41:43.599
very nice place where I'm staying.75300:41:44.559 --> 00:41:48.679
I have my own room, and everyone is very kind.75400:41:49.800 --> 00:41:52.719
They ask a lot of questions, but they're very kind,75500:41:55.079 --> 00:42:02.559
too kind. Maybe there's one man, and I don't like75600:42:02.639 --> 00:42:05.719
the way he looks at me. I don't like it75700:42:05.800 --> 00:42:13.320
one bit. He pe tries to get fresh. Oh I75800:42:13.360 --> 00:42:17.079
didn't tell you I'm Nea McLachlan.75900:42:19.280 --> 00:42:31.840
Anyway, I think that's who I am.76000:42:32.119 --> 00:42:36.280
We've accomplished prodigious feats in outer space, invaded the Moon76100:42:36.840 --> 00:42:39.480
and discovered what it's made of. Now we're on our76200:42:39.480 --> 00:42:42.320
way to entering the planets and finding out how they76300:42:42.320 --> 00:42:45.199
are put together. Outer space will one day be as76400:42:45.199 --> 00:42:49.239
familiar as our own lakes and prairies. But what of76500:42:49.440 --> 00:42:55.000
inner space, the space of man's mind. Despite many hints76600:42:55.000 --> 00:42:59.239
and cruise, it is still in the main and alien land.76700:43:00.320 --> 00:43:12.559
I'll be back shortly.76800:43:17.000 --> 00:43:20.000
No one would be so foolish as to suggest that criminals,76900:43:20.199 --> 00:43:24.079
actual or potential, can be detected solely by the use77000:43:24.119 --> 00:43:28.800
of psychographology. But the way things are progressing these days,77100:43:29.559 --> 00:43:34.360
progressing backwards, it sometimes seems law enforcement needs all the77200:43:34.440 --> 00:43:39.119
help it can get. Our cast included Larry Haynes, Anne Williams,77300:43:39.360 --> 00:43:43.920
Ralph Bell, and Terry Keane. The entire production was under77400:43:43.920 --> 00:44:11.519
the direction of Hymon Brown. Until next time, pleasant.77500:44:36.800 --> 00:44:42.440
My dear, another cup of hot tea something to warm77600:44:42.559 --> 00:44:46.719
you up. It's always nice when it comes from the77700:44:46.880 --> 00:44:53.960
inside out. What's that well? I suppose we'll have to77800:44:54.039 --> 00:44:59.800
wait and find out, But I suppose all will be revealed.77900:45:00.840 --> 00:45:04.599
I can't say I'll be losing any sleeps, but then again,78000:45:06.239 --> 00:45:11.960
I don't know. The waiting is the hardest part, Like78100:45:12.079 --> 00:45:16.760
waiting on a shipment of mute fate.78200:45:19.920 --> 00:45:25.280
Tired of the everyday routine ever, dream of a life78300:45:25.320 --> 00:45:29.639
of romantic adventure, want to get away from it all.78400:45:30.239 --> 00:45:37.960
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Tonight, we escaped to a tropic harbor in Venezuela and79200:46:17.880 --> 00:46:21.480
the story of a grim voyage of impending death which79300:46:21.519 --> 00:46:25.199
started from there. As Martin Storm tells it in his79400:46:25.320 --> 00:46:29.239
exciting story, a shipment of mute fate.79500:46:40.920 --> 00:46:43.400
I stopped on the wharf at Laguirer looked up at79600:46:43.440 --> 00:46:46.920
the gang plank toward the liner Chang Kay, standing there79700:46:46.960 --> 00:46:50.039
quietly or her mornings. The day was warm under a79800:46:50.079 --> 00:46:52.719
bright tropic sun, and the harbor beyond the ship lay79900:46:52.800 --> 00:46:55.920
drowsy and silent. But all at once, in the midst80000:46:55.960 --> 00:47:00.079
of those peaceful surroundings, a cold chill gripped me of80100:47:00.119 --> 00:47:02.519
it with sudden dread. Dread of the thing I was80200:47:02.559 --> 00:47:05.920
doing and was about to do. Too much had happened80300:47:05.920 --> 00:47:08.320
to turn back? Now I'd gone too far to stop.80400:47:09.280 --> 00:47:10.920
I set the box down on the edge of the wharf,80500:47:11.119 --> 00:47:13.119
placed it carefully so as to be in plain sight80600:47:13.400 --> 00:47:17.320
and within gunshot of the Captain's bridge, and I turned80700:47:17.320 --> 00:47:19.760
and started up the glend plank. I knew what I80800:47:19.800 --> 00:47:22.159
was going to do. I couldn't forget that a certain80900:47:22.199 --> 00:47:24.559
pair of beady eyes were watching every move I made,81000:47:25.079 --> 00:47:28.159
eyes that never blinked and never closed, just watched and81100:47:28.239 --> 00:47:29.440
made it.81200:47:29.719 --> 00:47:33.960
Oh, sir, I didn't. Oh likes mister Warner.81300:47:34.119 --> 00:47:36.239
Hello, mother Willis. I was the best looking stewardess on81400:47:36.280 --> 00:47:36.920
the Seven Seas.81500:47:36.960 --> 00:47:40.440
Oh I'm I'm fine, mister Warner. It's nice to see81600:47:40.480 --> 00:47:40.880
you again.81700:47:40.920 --> 00:47:43.400
Wait a minute, that's a fine greeting after two months.81800:47:43.480 --> 00:47:45.400
Well, it's just that I'm so busy.81900:47:45.559 --> 00:47:48.079
Oh, don't believe a word of it. Sailing days tomorrow.82000:47:48.199 --> 00:47:49.559
You're simply avoiding me, that's all.82100:47:49.639 --> 00:47:51.599
Oh no, no, really, I'm on the trip.82200:47:51.360 --> 00:47:53.519
Down from New York. You said I was your favorite passage,82300:47:53.519 --> 00:47:54.480
but I'm over here.82400:47:54.519 --> 00:47:55.800
What's that you're carrying in your apron?82500:47:55.840 --> 00:47:59.840
Oh it's nothing, it's just supplies supply.82600:48:00.519 --> 00:48:03.440
Let's have a look. Oh no, please, ah, Why it's82700:48:03.480 --> 00:48:04.000
a cat.82800:48:04.320 --> 00:48:07.119
It's Clara, mister Warner, mister Bowman said I had to82900:48:07.199 --> 00:48:08.760
leave her ashore, but I just couldn't.83000:48:09.000 --> 00:48:10.880
Who's mister Bowman, the new chief steward.83100:48:11.480 --> 00:48:13.400
Clara has been aboard with me for two years and83200:48:13.480 --> 00:48:15.760
I just can't leave her here in a foreign country,83300:48:16.320 --> 00:48:18.519
especially with her conditions so delicate.83400:48:18.639 --> 00:48:18.840
Now.83500:48:19.360 --> 00:48:22.239
Ah, yes, sir, I see what you mean. Well, I83600:48:22.280 --> 00:48:23.039
hope you get away with it.83700:48:23.239 --> 00:48:25.719
You won't tell anyone, not a soul.83800:48:26.760 --> 00:48:28.800
Matter of fact, Mother willis. If I don't get my83900:48:28.840 --> 00:48:30.719
way with the Captain, you and I may both end84000:48:30.800 --> 00:48:31.400
up smuggling.84100:48:38.800 --> 00:48:40.400
I was happy to have had your board on the84200:48:40.400 --> 00:48:43.480
trip down two months ago. Christopher. I'm very glad you're84300:48:43.519 --> 00:48:45.320
coming along with us on the run back to New York.84400:48:45.360 --> 00:48:48.159
Thanks Captain. Would There is one thing, though, I'm having84500:48:48.199 --> 00:48:50.639
a little trouble with the customs man here, and I84600:48:50.880 --> 00:48:51.480
wondered if.84700:48:51.559 --> 00:48:53.800
They can't do it, Christopher. I just cabled your father84800:48:53.840 --> 00:48:55.360
this morning, told him I'd have done it for you84900:48:55.400 --> 00:48:57.480
if I possibly could. He sent a request from New York.85000:48:57.519 --> 00:48:59.880
You know, yes, I thought he would. I wired him85100:48:59.880 --> 00:49:00.880
from up river last week.85200:49:00.920 --> 00:49:02.880
All I hated to refuse, but it's absolutely out of85300:49:02.880 --> 00:49:03.280
the question.85400:49:03.679 --> 00:49:05.239
Kavin, what I'm afraid I don't follow you.85500:49:05.440 --> 00:49:09.280
Responsibility to the passengers, Son, We'll have women and children aboard,85600:49:09.559 --> 00:49:11.480
and on a line of the safety of the passengers85700:49:11.480 --> 00:49:12.559
comes ahead of anything else.85800:49:12.639 --> 00:49:14.960
But with proper precaution, something might happen.85900:49:15.000 --> 00:49:16.440
I don't know what, but something might.86000:49:16.559 --> 00:49:17.719
You've carried worse things kept.86100:49:17.800 --> 00:49:20.840
There isn't anything worse, Christopher, and any skipper afloat will86200:49:20.880 --> 00:49:24.280
bear me out. Oh. I simply can't take the chance.86300:49:25.239 --> 00:49:26.000
And that's final.86400:49:28.719 --> 00:49:31.440
Final wasn't final. If I could do anything about it,86500:49:32.039 --> 00:49:33.719
I hadn't come down here to spend two months in86600:49:33.760 --> 00:49:35.400
that stinking back country and then be stopped on the86700:49:35.480 --> 00:49:40.639
edge of the wharf. Two months of it heat, rain, insects, malaria.86800:49:41.199 --> 00:49:43.400
I've gone clear in past the headwaters of the Orinoco,86900:49:43.719 --> 00:49:46.199
travel through country where every step along the jungle trail87000:49:46.280 --> 00:49:52.239
might be the last one. Sanchez, better tell the man87100:49:52.280 --> 00:49:54.119
to start looking for a place to camp. Be dark87200:49:54.119 --> 00:49:54.679
in a little while.87300:49:54.719 --> 00:49:56.800
We see Senor very soon. We turned to the river,87400:49:57.119 --> 00:49:59.719
camp on rocks by water. This very bad count.87500:49:59.599 --> 00:50:01.519
It's very very bad country. You've been saying that for87600:50:01.559 --> 00:50:03.519
ten days now, Very bad country.87700:50:03.599 --> 00:50:05.480
Seas and your wonner this is very bad.87800:50:05.559 --> 00:50:07.239
God has skipp it, will you? For all the luck87900:50:07.239 --> 00:50:09.280
we've had so far, it might as well be Central.88000:50:08.960 --> 00:50:10.480
Park, Central Park.88100:50:10.880 --> 00:50:13.079
I don't understand, never mind, never mind, But if we88200:50:13.119 --> 00:50:18.119
don't find something quick, Yeah, what's the matter? Quiet now, anchus,88300:50:18.119 --> 00:50:18.559
what's wrong?88400:50:18.639 --> 00:50:19.400
They're in the bath?88500:50:19.880 --> 00:50:28.039
See bush Master, bush Master, the deadliest snake in the world.88600:50:28.440 --> 00:50:31.960
Bush Master. Its Latin name was Lakisa's mutus mute fate.88700:50:32.360 --> 00:50:34.119
It lay there in the center of the path, an88800:50:34.199 --> 00:50:37.039
eight foot length of silent death, coiled loosely in an88900:50:37.079 --> 00:50:39.760
undulant loop, ready to strike violently at the least movement.89000:50:40.840 --> 00:50:42.559
Here was the one snake that would go after any89100:50:42.559 --> 00:50:45.840
animal that walked, or any man. It lay there and89200:50:45.880 --> 00:50:49.039
watched us, not moving, not afraid, ready for anything. The89300:50:49.039 --> 00:50:51.360
splotch of its color stood out like a horribly gaudy89400:50:51.480 --> 00:50:54.519
floor mat, lying there on the brown background of the jungle,89500:50:54.519 --> 00:50:57.280
waiting for some of the step on it. Here was89600:50:57.320 --> 00:51:03.920
what I'd come two thousand miles for a Bushmaster, Sanchez.89700:51:04.039 --> 00:51:06.079
I didn't want touch snake kills he not kills, and89800:51:06.079 --> 00:51:07.440
you are he gone bushmaster?89900:51:07.639 --> 00:51:09.719
Very smart, very quick see bullet in.90000:51:09.719 --> 00:51:12.119
Time to dodge anyway is gone, the only one we've90100:51:12.119 --> 00:51:13.079
seen in five weeks.90200:51:13.159 --> 00:51:15.800
Oh, we find the other this very bad country.90300:51:15.840 --> 00:51:18.440
Well, lay off that gun next time. Don't shoot you understand.90400:51:18.800 --> 00:51:21.000
Why you say no shoot? You want bush Master?90500:51:21.079 --> 00:51:22.360
Sure, but I wanted to lie.90600:51:22.800 --> 00:51:25.280
Remember it is a crystal. Then you're worning. You tell90700:51:25.320 --> 00:51:27.079
me you want Bushmaster, but you know, say a lie.90800:51:27.119 --> 00:51:29.320
You're getting two hundred dollars for it for dead man?90900:51:29.360 --> 00:51:32.079
What is two hundred dollars? Tomorrow we go back to Karaka.91000:51:32.159 --> 00:51:33.239
I'll make it five hundred sanches.91100:51:33.320 --> 00:51:35.679
Hi catch water, snake, rattlesnake, any other kind, but I91200:51:35.760 --> 00:51:36.760
know catch bush Master.91300:51:37.039 --> 00:51:38.880
We go back to Karaka, Sanchez, I'll give you one91400:51:38.880 --> 00:51:46.480
thousand dollars. It cost me fifteen hundred. Three days later,91500:51:46.519 --> 00:51:49.480
Sanchez brought me the snake and a rubber bay. He91600:51:49.639 --> 00:51:51.239
was shaking so hard I thought for a moment to91700:51:51.280 --> 00:51:52.079
think it struck him.91800:51:52.199 --> 00:51:54.840
One thing, you make sure sen your one not turn91900:51:54.880 --> 00:51:58.039
him loose in Venezuela, because he knows either one who92000:51:58.119 --> 00:51:58.760
catch him.92100:51:58.880 --> 00:52:00.079
And you know where I live.92200:52:00.000 --> 00:52:01.559
All right, Sanchez, I'll keep an eye on him.92300:52:01.519 --> 00:52:03.639
Dumbie, and he know you pay me to catch him.92400:52:04.039 --> 00:52:05.880
All the time. You watch him wit for you too.92500:52:06.800 --> 00:52:10.039
You no forget that singer Warner because he no forget92600:52:10.599 --> 00:52:11.360
not the ever.92700:52:15.599 --> 00:52:17.320
I have to going through all that trouble and danger.92800:52:17.360 --> 00:52:19.480
I wasn't gonna let a pig headed ships captain stop92900:52:19.519 --> 00:52:22.159
me at the last minute, at least not as long93000:52:22.199 --> 00:52:24.679
as the cables were still in operation. Between Laguira and93100:52:24.719 --> 00:52:34.679
New York morning, Captain Woulden Boy at the hotel said,93200:52:34.679 --> 00:52:35.320
you wanted to see me.93300:52:35.639 --> 00:52:40.280
That's right, Christopher, No sit down nice, And it seems93400:52:40.320 --> 00:52:42.199
you want willing to let matters stand the way we93500:52:42.320 --> 00:52:43.119
left them yesterday.93600:52:43.199 --> 00:52:44.960
I'm sorry to go over your head, Captain, but I93700:52:45.000 --> 00:52:47.039
had to. The museum sent me all the way down93800:52:47.119 --> 00:52:49.159
here fort and I'm not gonna be stopped by red tape.93900:52:49.880 --> 00:52:51.880
Don't you realize this will be the only live Bushmaster94000:52:51.960 --> 00:52:53.039
ever brought to the United States.94100:52:53.159 --> 00:52:58.920
If I had my way orders or orders got a94200:52:58.920 --> 00:53:01.960
cable from the head office, this one all right, Suppose94300:53:02.000 --> 00:53:03.039
we talk about precautions.94400:53:03.039 --> 00:53:03.880
I'll handle it any way.94500:53:03.920 --> 00:53:06.159
You say, Now, let's got to have a stronger box94600:53:06.199 --> 00:53:07.320
that crates too flimsy.94700:53:07.400 --> 00:53:10.000
Stronger than it looks, Captain. That wire's screen on top94800:53:10.039 --> 00:53:13.159
it hold a wildcat anyway. I bought a heavy sea94900:53:13.239 --> 00:53:16.159
chest this morning. We'll put the crate inside of that h.95000:53:15.760 --> 00:53:18.119
And that sounds all right. I got a lock on it,95100:53:18.239 --> 00:53:18.960
heavy padlock.95200:53:19.199 --> 00:53:20.840
It's fixed so the lid can be propped open a95300:53:20.880 --> 00:53:23.480
crack without unlocking it. The snake's gotta have air, you know.95400:53:23.559 --> 00:53:25.559
But in dirty weather that lid stays shut. I'll take95500:53:25.599 --> 00:53:26.079
no chances.95600:53:26.119 --> 00:53:26.599
Fair enough.95700:53:26.960 --> 00:53:29.360
We'll keep the thing in my inside cabin where I sleep.95800:53:30.000 --> 00:53:32.760
Can't have it in the baggage room, and nobody on95900:53:32.800 --> 00:53:33.719
boards to know about.96000:53:33.480 --> 00:53:36.559
It, and whatever you say, Captain, but we won't have96100:53:36.559 --> 00:53:39.440
any trouble. After all, it's only a snake. Doesn't have96200:53:39.440 --> 00:53:41.039
any magical powers.96300:53:40.920 --> 00:53:44.639
Eh, you know, Christopher, I saw a bushmaster in the96400:53:44.719 --> 00:53:48.079
zoo at Karakas once at it in a glass cage96500:53:48.079 --> 00:53:52.239
with double walls. It had never moved, just lay there96600:53:52.280 --> 00:53:54.159
and look at you as long as you were in sight.96700:53:56.320 --> 00:53:57.280
Give them man, the creeps.96800:53:57.679 --> 00:53:59.840
I didn't know they had a bushmaster at the Karakas Zoo.96900:54:00.239 --> 00:54:03.800
They don't now on The glass broken one morning and97000:54:03.800 --> 00:54:06.639
the snake gone. The night watchman was dead. I never97100:54:06.679 --> 00:54:07.599
found out what happened.97200:54:08.400 --> 00:54:10.559
The watchmen must have broken the glass by accident.97300:54:10.599 --> 00:54:13.119
Some way the way they figured it. The glass was97400:54:13.159 --> 00:54:18.400
broken from the inside. We sailed in four hours.97500:54:25.320 --> 00:54:28.039
Enter the Caribbean with perfect weather and the sea as97600:54:28.039 --> 00:54:31.199
smooth as an inland lake. The barometer dropped a little97700:54:31.199 --> 00:54:33.000
on the third day, but cleared up overnight and left97800:54:33.000 --> 00:54:36.119
nothing worse than a heavy swell. But in spite of97900:54:36.119 --> 00:54:39.159
the calm seas and the pleasant weather, I was becoming98000:54:39.159 --> 00:54:43.719
possessed with an ominous anxiety. I was developing an obsessive98100:54:43.760 --> 00:54:47.199
fear of that snake. I stayed clear of the passengers,98200:54:47.199 --> 00:54:49.679
pretty much got the habit of dropping into Captain Wood's98300:54:49.719 --> 00:54:53.119
quarters several times a day. He kept the heavy box98400:54:53.199 --> 00:54:56.800
underneath his berth. I'd approached it quietly and shine my98500:54:56.840 --> 00:55:00.000
flashlight through the open crake. Never once could I catch98600:55:00.199 --> 00:55:04.039
that eight foot devil asleep or even excited. He'd be98700:55:04.079 --> 00:55:06.400
lying there, half coiled, his head raised a little, staring98800:55:06.440 --> 00:55:11.039
at me with those beady black eyes, waiting. He'd still98900:55:11.079 --> 00:55:14.039
be like that when I turn away to leave. Maybe99000:55:14.039 --> 00:55:18.039
that's what bothered me, A horrible and constant watchful waiting.99100:55:19.280 --> 00:55:21.039
What in the name of heaven was he waiting for?99200:55:22.480 --> 00:55:25.559
Well, Hello there, mister Warner, Oh how are you mother99300:55:25.599 --> 00:55:28.039
willis my but you and the captain spend an awful99400:55:28.039 --> 00:55:30.400
lot of time around this cabin. I'm beginning to think99500:55:30.440 --> 00:55:32.280
that two of you must have some guilty secret.99600:55:32.960 --> 00:55:35.559
Nah, nothing like that, Mother Willis. I don't know about99700:55:35.599 --> 00:55:48.920
Captain would, but I certainly don't have any guilty secret. Well,99800:55:49.760 --> 00:55:51.800
he's running quite as swell out there, mister Bumman.99900:55:52.039 --> 00:55:54.639
Yeah, it's a little heavy alright. Mister wanna guess the100000:55:54.679 --> 00:55:56.039
storm passed through to the west.100100:55:55.840 --> 00:55:58.000
Of us yesterday when the glass drop think it missed100200:55:58.000 --> 00:55:59.440
this then huh, yeah, that's.100300:55:59.360 --> 00:56:00.360
What the mate gus.100400:56:00.639 --> 00:56:03.280
Sure start up some water though, this will put half100500:56:03.280 --> 00:56:04.440
the passengers in that bunx.100600:56:04.760 --> 00:56:06.199
Makes it great for my department.100700:56:06.440 --> 00:56:06.920
Two thirds.100800:56:06.920 --> 00:56:08.599
I'm gonna want a steward to hold their heads.100900:56:08.639 --> 00:56:11.440
I'll keep Mother will Is so busy. Shit, Hey, look101000:56:11.440 --> 00:56:12.440
at the size of that wave.101100:56:12.639 --> 00:56:15.000
What Rachel husse If not, we're gonna take it on101200:56:15.000 --> 00:56:15.480
the port bow.101300:56:15.559 --> 00:56:25.440
Hang on, Wow, that was a freak. If the river101400:56:25.599 --> 00:56:28.800
was one another wave that size and sight you see101500:56:28.840 --> 00:56:31.960
him like that sometimes even in a calm See, I101600:56:32.000 --> 00:56:33.440
gotta get top side, mister Warner.101700:56:33.800 --> 00:56:35.679
Water probably did some damage on the office's day.101800:56:35.800 --> 00:56:39.239
Yeah, wait a minute, yeah, what did you say?101900:56:39.559 --> 00:56:42.039
The wheal companionway was open on the port side bridge.102000:56:42.079 --> 00:56:45.000
Cabins must have taken a pretty bad smashing. They're right below.102100:56:46.239 --> 00:56:47.480
Something wrong with mister Warner.102200:56:48.480 --> 00:56:52.920
No, I'm nothing at all, mister Bowman, at least I102300:56:52.920 --> 00:57:00.480
hope not. Of course, I knew it was only one102400:57:00.559 --> 00:57:03.639
chance in a thousand. The chances against that freak wave102500:57:03.679 --> 00:57:06.199
were one on a thousand and two. I stumbled up102600:57:06.199 --> 00:57:08.320
the companion way and along the passage to the captain's cabin.102700:57:09.559 --> 00:57:12.280
Oh, come on in, mister Warner, Mother Willis, why isn't102800:57:12.320 --> 00:57:13.119
this cabin a mess?102900:57:13.119 --> 00:57:14.880
I'm trying to get some of these things out to dry.103000:57:15.239 --> 00:57:19.119
Yeah, I just wanted to check. Where's that box that103100:57:19.199 --> 00:57:20.159
was under the captain's bunk?103200:57:20.440 --> 00:57:20.760
All that?103300:57:20.920 --> 00:57:23.159
Well, I just threw it out on deck here what103400:57:23.639 --> 00:57:25.559
pull the desk over there? Slid into it? It was103500:57:25.559 --> 00:57:27.239
all smashed, so the small box inside of it.103600:57:27.239 --> 00:57:27.840
But what happened to it?103700:57:28.119 --> 00:57:28.280
Oh?103800:57:28.320 --> 00:57:33.280
They were both splittered, mister Warner, broke wide open. Oh no, why,103900:57:33.360 --> 00:57:35.639
mister Warner, you're white as a sheet.104000:57:36.400 --> 00:57:40.920
Mother Willis. Will you go find Captain Wood tell him104100:57:40.920 --> 00:57:42.039
to come down here immediately.104200:57:42.199 --> 00:57:44.159
Well, of course, mister Warner, I'll go tell him right104300:57:44.199 --> 00:57:44.519
to wood.104400:57:46.199 --> 00:57:48.159
I pulled open the top drawer of the bureau beside104500:57:48.199 --> 00:57:51.679
me and took out the Captain's flashlight and the loaded pistol.104600:57:53.039 --> 00:57:54.880
Mother Willis had left a mop standing by the door.104700:57:54.880 --> 00:57:56.000
I put my foot on the head of it and104800:57:56.039 --> 00:57:59.920
snapped off the handle. Every move I made turned into104900:58:00.079 --> 00:58:05.159
slow motion. I could hear my own heart beating slowly.105000:58:05.239 --> 00:58:09.280
I started to search the cabin. Sudden heaps of clothing105100:58:09.320 --> 00:58:12.519
were scattered around on the wet, black floor. I punched105200:58:12.559 --> 00:58:14.320
at them one at a time, holding the gun, cocked105300:58:14.719 --> 00:58:16.280
the flashlight, pointing along the stick.105400:58:17.480 --> 00:58:17.800
Nothing.105500:58:19.440 --> 00:58:21.159
I worked around the room, throwing the light into the105600:58:21.199 --> 00:58:26.760
dark corners, back at the desk under the bunk. Wherever105700:58:26.800 --> 00:58:29.599
I turned, I could feel those cold and blinking eyes105800:58:29.639 --> 00:58:34.840
at my back, watching and waiting. Using the stick, I105900:58:34.880 --> 00:58:37.880
pushed open the closet door and through the light inside. Carefully,106000:58:37.960 --> 00:58:40.000
I poked at the boxes and the junk on the floor.106100:58:41.760 --> 00:58:45.400
The snake was not in the closet. Inch by inch,106200:58:45.480 --> 00:58:50.440
I covered the entire cabin, and then I realized the horrible.106300:58:50.039 --> 00:58:58.679
Truth, Christopher, Captain, So it's happened. That's right, Captain, it's happened,106400:58:58.719 --> 00:59:00.639
and I see you found the gun. We'd better start106500:59:00.639 --> 00:59:01.320
searching the cabin.106600:59:01.360 --> 00:59:04.760
Captain Wood, I just finished searching it.106700:59:05.079 --> 00:59:12.920
Then women kids, that thing loose on board thousand places106800:59:12.920 --> 00:59:16.280
to hide? Heaven help is Christopher?106900:59:24.280 --> 00:59:27.599
Can you guess what this is? Research scientists worked for107000:59:27.679 --> 00:59:30.519
years to produce it. It gives your car new high antonoch.107100:59:30.880 --> 00:59:35.639
It costs you nothing extra. Well, it's xilene. Xilene is107200:59:35.679 --> 00:59:39.559
one of the highest antonok gasoline components ever discovered, and107300:59:39.679 --> 00:59:45.280
today every gallon of Richfield gasoline contains the super component xilene.107400:59:46.000 --> 00:59:49.719
Richfield Gasoline with xilene gives you new high antonoch power,107500:59:50.559 --> 00:59:53.440
power that purs like a kitten, but pulls like an107600:59:53.480 --> 00:59:56.920
ox smooth, knockless power to zip you out ahead in107700:59:56.960 --> 01:00:00.719
traffic and keep you there. In addition, the Richfield dealer107801:00:00.760 --> 01:00:03.760
offers you a choice of two great Richfield gasolines with107901:00:03.840 --> 01:00:08.039
xilene by Richfield High Octane at regular price. For the108001:00:08.079 --> 01:00:12.239
average motor, Get Richfield ethyl ethyl at its best for108101:00:12.400 --> 01:00:16.119
best results in the highest compression motors. Stop where you108201:00:16.159 --> 01:00:19.199
see the Richfield Eagle and the cream and blue pumps.108301:00:19.920 --> 01:00:24.800
Get Richfield Gasoline with xilene tomorrow and now we return108401:00:24.840 --> 01:00:25.159
you to.108501:00:26.599 --> 01:00:27.519
Escape.108601:00:33.039 --> 01:00:35.440
There's no use starting to blame anybody now, gentlemen, I108701:00:35.440 --> 01:00:37.920
didn't call you officers in here to pass judgment. The108801:00:37.960 --> 01:00:39.039
thing's done, and that's that.108901:00:39.320 --> 01:00:40.360
You're right there, Captain.109001:00:40.480 --> 01:00:42.039
What we have got to do is make up our109101:00:42.039 --> 01:00:43.519
minds how we're going to handle it.109201:00:43.519 --> 01:00:45.039
It'd be easier if we didn't have to tell a109301:00:45.079 --> 01:00:48.000
passengers and cruiser. I've seen panics aboard ship before.109401:00:48.159 --> 01:00:50.000
Yes, I agree with you, mister Bowman, but I don't109501:00:50.039 --> 01:00:51.239
quite see how we can avoid it.109601:00:51.280 --> 01:00:53.039
So they got a right to know as long as109701:00:53.039 --> 01:00:55.559
that snakes lose everybody on boards in the same danger109801:00:56.000 --> 01:00:57.280
they all ought to know about.109901:00:57.079 --> 01:00:59.119
Captain Wood. That thing is eight feet long. It can't110001:00:59.159 --> 01:01:00.880
simply crawl into one crack. Why don't we make a110101:01:00.920 --> 01:01:03.000
quick search of the whole ship before we spread any alarm.110201:01:03.199 --> 01:01:04.760
Yes, I've thought of that, Christopher.110301:01:04.880 --> 01:01:06.559
As far as I can see, the only place it110401:01:06.639 --> 01:01:08.559
couldn't be is in the boilers or on top of110501:01:08.559 --> 01:01:11.000
the galley stove might have crawled overboard.110601:01:11.039 --> 01:01:13.280
We can't count on that. We've got to assume it's110701:01:13.280 --> 01:01:14.239
on the ship somewhere.110801:01:15.679 --> 01:01:16.639
That could be anywhere.110901:01:17.159 --> 01:01:20.119
A coil of rope or and a pile of clothes.111001:01:19.719 --> 01:01:24.000
Yes, or under some woman's birth or a baby's crib111101:01:24.239 --> 01:01:25.119
or you've.111201:01:24.960 --> 01:01:27.239
Already said it, That Bushmaster could be anywhere. We've got111301:01:27.280 --> 01:01:28.320
to do something. We've got to do it.111401:01:28.320 --> 01:01:30.320
Fast, all right, gentlemen. I think the best idea is111501:01:30.400 --> 01:01:33.000
to follow mister Werner's suggestion to make a quick search first.111601:01:33.199 --> 01:01:34.800
You agree to that, yes, I do. And if we111701:01:34.800 --> 01:01:36.480
don't find it, we'll have to warn the passengers.111801:01:36.519 --> 01:01:38.119
Captain. We've got to find it.111901:01:41.559 --> 01:01:41.920
Alone.112001:01:41.960 --> 01:01:44.599
In the dim baggage room, I went through the same112101:01:44.639 --> 01:01:47.719
movements as I had earlier in the captain's cabin. Gun112201:01:47.760 --> 01:01:50.079
in one hand, flashlight in the other, poking into every112301:01:50.159 --> 01:01:53.760
dark corner, behind every trunk, in every box. Since there's112401:01:53.800 --> 01:01:55.239
no one in the baggage room, I could keep the112501:01:55.239 --> 01:01:58.079
gun cocked and ready. The rest of those poor devils112601:01:58.079 --> 01:02:02.119
were having to do the same thing bare handed all112701:02:02.159 --> 01:02:03.639
over the ship. The search went on.112801:02:04.320 --> 01:02:07.320
You know, Stuart, what if you're doing ramage.112901:02:07.039 --> 01:02:09.519
Through my cabin just checking up man, Well, I'm quite113001:02:09.519 --> 01:02:11.320
sure there's nothing in here that has to be checked.113101:02:11.360 --> 01:02:12.679
Sorry, man, Captain's orders.113201:02:12.679 --> 01:02:13.719
It'll only take a few minutes.113301:02:13.760 --> 01:02:15.719
But I never heard of such a thing. A passenger113401:02:15.760 --> 01:02:18.800
simply doesn't have any privacy at all. I've traveled on113501:02:18.840 --> 01:02:21.119
a lot of different lines, but I've certainly never heard113601:02:21.159 --> 01:02:22.360
of anything so completely.113701:02:22.440 --> 01:02:28.320
I'm sorry, sir.113801:02:28.360 --> 01:02:29.960
I wonder if you would mind moving over to the113901:02:29.960 --> 01:02:30.440
other rail.114001:02:30.480 --> 01:02:31.719
I'd like to look through these lockers.114101:02:31.800 --> 01:02:34.400
Yeah, sure, go ahead. Does the matter you lost something?114201:02:34.519 --> 01:02:34.679
Oh?114301:02:35.480 --> 01:02:36.480
Just looking things over?114401:02:36.760 --> 01:02:38.320
Nothing in there but life preservers.114501:02:38.880 --> 01:02:39.960
Yeah, that's right.114601:02:40.679 --> 01:02:43.199
You must be getting ready to sink the boat. Huh.114701:02:43.480 --> 01:02:46.000
Gonna collect all the insurance, eh, Gonna send us all114801:02:46.039 --> 01:02:46.599
to the bottom.114901:02:46.679 --> 01:02:52.960
Eh. Not one of us could find that deadly shape,115001:02:53.519 --> 01:02:56.039
perhaps coiled in some dark corner, are outstretched along a115101:02:56.079 --> 01:02:58.960
window seat. Not one of us caught a glimpse of115201:02:58.960 --> 01:03:03.880
that horrid head with its beady, black, watchful eyes. It115301:03:03.920 --> 01:03:05.920
was nearly dark when we met again together in the115401:03:06.000 --> 01:03:06.440
chart room.115501:03:06.840 --> 01:03:09.280
Well, gentlemen, there's no other way around it. We've risked115601:03:09.280 --> 01:03:11.960
all the time we can. We've got to warn the passengers.115701:03:11.440 --> 01:03:12.320
But we do it.115801:03:12.400 --> 01:03:15.119
Kept call them all together in the lounge. No, we115901:03:15.199 --> 01:03:17.280
did anything like that would be asking for a panic.116001:03:17.480 --> 01:03:19.159
We'll get one, whether we ask for it or not.116101:03:19.559 --> 01:03:21.360
Pick a few men and go through the cabin decks.116201:03:21.480 --> 01:03:24.760
Tell them individually inside their cabins, watch for any of116301:03:24.760 --> 01:03:26.559
that act like they might cause trouble, and we'll keep116401:03:26.559 --> 01:03:29.079
an eye on them. Had all the crew the same way,116501:03:29.719 --> 01:03:31.639
as soon as you finished, arm all the deck offices116601:03:31.679 --> 01:03:35.159
and start searching again. Our only chance of preventing a116701:03:35.199 --> 01:03:36.639
panic is to find that snake.116801:03:40.920 --> 01:03:43.440
A slow nightmare that followed drew works by the hour.116901:03:43.559 --> 01:03:46.400
None of us slept. All the ship's officers not on117001:03:46.519 --> 01:03:49.679
duty kept on with that endless search. Passengers locked themselves117101:03:49.719 --> 01:03:51.880
in their cabins or huddle together in the lounges, knowing117201:03:51.920 --> 01:03:53.880
all the time that no spot on board could be117301:03:53.920 --> 01:03:58.000
called safe. Fear was a heavy fog, and the lungs117401:03:58.000 --> 01:04:00.639
of us all and every light on the vessel burned117501:04:00.639 --> 01:04:05.519
throughout the night. Morning came and brought no relief. Terror117601:04:05.559 --> 01:04:07.119
and tension mounted by the hour.117701:04:10.960 --> 01:04:13.559
There Now, missus Crane, go back to your counting. The117801:04:13.639 --> 01:04:15.400
horrid thing's probably crawled overboard it.117901:04:15.480 --> 01:04:16.639
Now you're not saying.118001:04:16.400 --> 01:04:17.840
That, you're made to say it.118101:04:18.000 --> 01:04:19.639
You don't know nobody.118201:04:19.760 --> 01:04:22.840
Now, Now everything's gonna be all wrong if we can118301:04:22.920 --> 01:04:23.800
only get off the ship.118401:04:23.920 --> 01:04:24.920
They're confulgated.118501:04:25.400 --> 01:04:27.079
Yes, yes, that's what we've got to do.118601:04:27.400 --> 01:04:29.440
We've got to get off with mister ball. She's got118701:04:29.519 --> 01:04:30.280
all you do.118801:04:31.079 --> 01:04:31.400
Let me go.118901:04:32.559 --> 01:04:34.039
That's mister Obama Knight's work.119001:04:34.599 --> 01:04:36.840
I got it down to wake Heaven and whatever you do,119101:04:36.840 --> 01:04:38.000
don't turn a loose.119201:04:41.519 --> 01:04:41.679
Well.119301:04:43.519 --> 01:04:45.519
I'm telling you, you don't know where it might strike you.119401:04:46.320 --> 01:04:47.800
You can't put on a coat of over a chair119501:04:47.840 --> 01:04:50.920
without risking your life. Something's gotta be done. I might119601:04:50.960 --> 01:04:53.440
be right here in this low all right, you better119701:04:53.480 --> 01:04:55.400
quiet down and take it easy. Take it easy.119801:04:55.480 --> 01:04:55.920
Huh.119901:04:56.079 --> 01:04:58.239
You're a great officer. I want you to do something120001:04:58.280 --> 01:05:00.679
about it. The thing might be crawling around here, right120101:05:00.719 --> 01:05:01.880
under our feet somewhere.120201:05:02.039 --> 01:05:04.360
I said, shut up, Are you trying to start a panic?120301:05:04.440 --> 01:05:06.239
I got a right to talk. I don't want to die.120401:05:06.480 --> 01:05:07.639
Nobody's gonna tell me what.120501:05:13.239 --> 01:05:17.320
The second night passed, and morning came around again, a120601:05:17.400 --> 01:05:20.639
gray and rainy day that dragged by with leaden hours,120701:05:21.199 --> 01:05:25.639
and the night came down again, third night of the terror. Again,120801:05:25.679 --> 01:05:27.920
every light burned, and the whole ship seethed in the120901:05:27.960 --> 01:05:31.000
throes of incipient panic, faced by a horror they'd never121001:05:31.079 --> 01:05:33.760
met on the sea before. Crew and officers alike were121101:05:33.760 --> 01:05:36.320
on the virtue of a volt, Passengers huddled in a121201:05:36.400 --> 01:05:39.920
trance like stupor, ready to scream at the slightest unknown sound.121301:05:44.639 --> 01:05:46.599
At seven bells, I made my way forward to the121401:05:46.679 --> 01:05:51.400
chart room and found Captain Wood bent over a disk. Hello, Christopher,121501:05:52.199 --> 01:05:54.880
come on in, said, it's got to be somewhere, Captain.121601:05:54.880 --> 01:05:57.880
But it's got to be And I don't know. You121701:05:57.960 --> 01:06:00.320
could search this ship for six months. I have to121801:06:00.320 --> 01:06:04.400
touch all the hiding places aboard. If we can only121901:06:04.440 --> 01:06:06.480
hold out for two more days, we'll be in put.122001:06:06.719 --> 01:06:07.639
What's your home office?122101:06:07.679 --> 01:06:12.639
Say, here's the latest wireless from them. Keep quiet and122201:06:12.719 --> 01:06:18.159
keep coming. What else can we do? You want a cigarette?122301:06:18.639 --> 01:06:18.840
Yeah?122401:06:18.920 --> 01:06:20.840
Yeah, thanks?122501:06:22.639 --> 01:06:23.760
How was it below Christopher?122601:06:24.199 --> 01:06:26.280
That's pretty bad. Anything could happen.122701:06:26.480 --> 01:06:29.079
Yeah, that's why I took the guns away from the men.122801:06:29.400 --> 01:06:31.920
One pistol shot and we'd have a riot on our hands.122901:06:32.039 --> 01:06:34.320
The whole thing's my fault, Captain. Well, that's what I123001:06:34.360 --> 01:06:34.960
can't forget.123101:06:35.000 --> 01:06:35.559
How take it?123201:06:35.599 --> 01:06:37.480
There was only one way I could pay for it123301:06:37.519 --> 01:06:38.400
myself alone.123401:06:38.519 --> 01:06:40.440
Oh now, I know how you feel, but it's no123501:06:40.519 --> 01:06:43.000
more your fault than mine or the man who asks123601:06:43.000 --> 01:06:49.000
you to bring that snake back alive. Nobody planned this hell, Christopher,123701:06:49.039 --> 01:06:50.800
I think you'd better try to get a little sleep. No,123801:06:51.639 --> 01:06:53.920
mister Bowman made some coffee down in the Steward's galley123901:06:53.920 --> 01:06:55.480
a while ago. You better go down and get yourself124001:06:55.480 --> 01:06:56.440
a cop and then rest.124101:06:56.280 --> 01:06:57.440
For a couple of hours. Rest.124201:06:57.559 --> 01:07:00.400
I can't, Christopher. It's not going to help if you124301:07:00.440 --> 01:07:02.639
stumble through a hatch half asleep and break your neck.124401:07:04.320 --> 01:07:08.199
Now go on and get some coffee. One way or another.124501:07:08.280 --> 01:07:10.199
We've got to hold out for two more days.124601:07:17.800 --> 01:07:20.480
The light was on in the Stewart's galley. Coffee pot124701:07:20.480 --> 01:07:23.400
was standing on the stove, still warm, so I didn't124801:07:23.400 --> 01:07:27.079
bother to heat it. Poured out a cup, jerried it over,124901:07:27.119 --> 01:07:29.079
and set it on the porcelain tabletop in the center125001:07:29.119 --> 01:07:33.119
of the room. Started to light a cigarette. The door125101:07:33.159 --> 01:07:35.679
of the pan covered beneath the sink was standing slightly ajar.125201:07:37.039 --> 01:07:41.039
I happened to glance toward it. I dropped the cigarette125301:07:41.559 --> 01:07:48.599
and moved slowly backward. I'd found the Bushmaster. As I moved,125401:07:48.639 --> 01:07:50.559
the snake slid out of the cupboard in a single125501:07:50.559 --> 01:07:52.719
sinuous slide and drew back into a loose coil on125601:07:52.760 --> 01:07:55.760
the galley floor, never taking his eyes off me. I125701:07:55.800 --> 01:07:59.199
backed slowly away, waiting any moment for that deadly, slithering strike.125801:07:59.440 --> 01:08:01.880
How had he known? It was me each day quiet125901:08:01.880 --> 01:08:03.360
when Bowman was here? How it he picked the first126001:08:03.360 --> 01:08:04.960
time in five days that I was without a gun.126101:08:05.960 --> 01:08:07.760
My hands touched the wall behind me, and I stopped126201:08:07.760 --> 01:08:10.960
in terror. A call button and the door were on126301:08:11.000 --> 01:08:14.320
the far side of the room. I becked into a126401:08:14.360 --> 01:08:19.439
dead end. I stared at the snake in fascination, expecting126501:08:19.479 --> 01:08:23.239
any moment the ripping slash of those poisoned fangs. The126601:08:23.319 --> 01:08:28.840
leeful coils tightened a little, then were still again, ten126701:08:28.880 --> 01:08:31.680
million years of evolution to produce this moment. Homo Seppi126801:08:31.760 --> 01:08:37.319
ends versus Lascia's mutness, A man against mute fate, and126901:08:37.479 --> 01:08:41.840
all the odds were on fate. I knew then that127001:08:41.920 --> 01:08:48.159
I was going to die. I could feel the sweat127101:08:48.239 --> 01:08:49.840
ran down between the wall and the palms of my127201:08:49.880 --> 01:08:53.279
hands pressing against it. My skin crawled and twitched, and127301:08:53.319 --> 01:08:56.479
the pit of my stomach was cold as ice. There127401:08:56.520 --> 01:08:58.319
was no sound but the rush of blood in my ears.127501:08:59.399 --> 01:09:03.119
The snake gifted again, drawing into a tighter coil, always tighter.127601:09:03.560 --> 01:09:06.840
Why didn't the devil get it over with and for127701:09:06.880 --> 01:09:10.119
an instant his head veered away. Something moved by the stove.127801:09:10.560 --> 01:09:13.239
I didn't dare turn to look at it. Slowly it127901:09:13.359 --> 01:09:17.079
entered my line of vision. It was a cat, that128001:09:17.199 --> 01:09:20.520
scrawny cat Clara, that mother Willis had sneaked aboard in Laguira.128101:09:25.399 --> 01:09:28.319
Its back was arched and every hare stood on end.128201:09:28.760 --> 01:09:31.119
It moved stiff legged, now walking in a half circle128301:09:31.159 --> 01:09:34.439
around the snake. The bushmaster moved slowly and kept watching128401:09:34.439 --> 01:09:38.039
the cat. He tightened, he was going to strike. At128501:09:38.039 --> 01:09:43.119
any second. He struck a mist. The cat was barely128601:09:43.119 --> 01:09:46.479
out of reach while she was walking back and forth.128701:09:46.520 --> 01:09:51.359
Again she was asking to die. Missed again by a128801:09:51.479 --> 01:09:53.760
fraction of an inch. He was striking now without even128901:09:53.760 --> 01:09:56.840
going into full coil. Missed again, and again all was129001:09:56.880 --> 01:09:59.319
missing by the barest margin. Each time the cat danced129101:09:59.359 --> 01:10:01.000
barely out of reach, and each time she coned with129201:10:01.039 --> 01:10:03.560
one precise spot of a dainty paw, bracing her skin129301:10:03.720 --> 01:10:06.800
frame on three stiff legs. And then suddenly I realized129401:10:06.800 --> 01:10:10.039
what she was doing. The bushmaster was tiring, and one129501:10:10.079 --> 01:10:12.880
strike was just an instant slow, but in that split second,129601:10:12.880 --> 01:10:15.479
sharp claws raked across the evil head and ripped out129701:10:15.520 --> 01:10:19.079
both the littless eyes. The cat has deliberately blinded the snake.129801:10:20.159 --> 01:10:22.399
He didn't bother the coil now, but slid after her129901:10:22.439 --> 01:10:25.079
in a fury, striking wildly, but always missing, and every130001:10:25.159 --> 01:10:28.439
strike was a little slower than the last one, until finally,130101:10:28.479 --> 01:10:30.479
as the snake's neck stretched out at the end of130201:10:30.479 --> 01:10:33.199
a strike, the cat made one leaf and sank her130301:10:33.279 --> 01:10:35.680
razor sharp teeth just back of the ugly head sank130401:10:35.760 --> 01:10:38.640
him until they crunched bone with tooth and claw. She130501:10:38.680 --> 01:10:41.399
clung as the monstrous snake flailed and lashed on the floor,130601:10:41.439 --> 01:10:44.039
striving to get those hideous coils around her, trying to130701:10:44.039 --> 01:10:46.279
break her hold, to shake off the slow and certain130801:10:46.399 --> 01:10:50.720
paralyzing death that gradually crept over him, and at last130901:10:51.800 --> 01:10:59.399
still his struggles forever. I took a deep breath the131001:10:59.439 --> 01:11:03.239
first and minute A cat lay on her side on131101:11:03.279 --> 01:11:06.359
the floor, panting, resting from the fight just over. While131201:11:06.399 --> 01:11:10.800
she had a right to rest, that mangy, brave, beautiful131301:11:10.840 --> 01:11:13.279
alley cat had just saved my life and maybe.131401:11:13.079 --> 01:11:13.800
Others as well.131501:11:15.560 --> 01:11:19.000
But as I turned toward the stove, I suddenly became131601:11:19.119 --> 01:11:22.039
very humble, and I knew all at once what a131701:11:22.079 --> 01:11:26.640
small thing a human being really is. There were three131801:11:26.640 --> 01:11:29.119
reasons why that cat had fought and killed the world's131901:11:29.119 --> 01:11:33.199
deadliest snake. And those three reasons came tottering out from132001:11:33.239 --> 01:11:36.920
under the stove on shaky little legs, three kittens, with132101:11:36.960 --> 01:11:41.079
their eyes bright with wonder and their tails stiff as pokers.132201:11:42.159 --> 01:11:44.279
Upon the decks. Hundreds of passengers were waiting for the132301:11:44.319 --> 01:11:46.520
news that the days and nights of terror were ended. Well,132401:11:46.560 --> 01:11:50.239
they could wait a little longer. I pulled open the132501:11:50.279 --> 01:11:53.000
doors of the cabinet and found a can of milk132601:11:53.039 --> 01:11:56.920
and a saucer when I dropped down on my knees132701:11:57.680 --> 01:11:58.760
on the floor of the galley.132801:12:10.159 --> 01:12:12.920
In summer heat, when the old sun beats down and132901:12:13.000 --> 01:12:16.119
the thermometer goes up and up, your car's motor gets133001:12:16.279 --> 01:12:20.399
really hot, and that can mean trouble because that searing133101:12:20.399 --> 01:12:24.439
heat is mighty hard on your motor oil. In summer time, especially,133201:12:24.479 --> 01:12:27.600
you need the protection of oil that holds its body133301:12:27.720 --> 01:12:31.760
under the toughest driving conditions. You need richlube all weather133401:12:31.840 --> 01:12:35.520
motor oil. Rich lube is refined one percent from the133501:12:35.560 --> 01:12:41.239
costliest Pennsylvania crude obtainable. Richlube is tough, It protects your133601:12:41.239 --> 01:12:44.760
motor by drawing excess heat away from moving parts and133701:12:44.800 --> 01:12:49.520
by its great lubricating qualities. Moreover, it contains special chemicals133801:12:49.600 --> 01:12:53.880
that combat carbon and harmful deposits. It cleans your motor133901:12:53.920 --> 01:12:57.479
as you drive, So get real motor protection this summer.134001:12:58.079 --> 01:13:00.920
Ask the rich Field gasoline Delate. Change You're oil to134101:13:01.079 --> 01:13:05.000
rich Loop all weather motor oil. Keep your motor clean,134201:13:05.560 --> 01:13:14.560
Keep your motor young. Escape is produced and directed by134301:13:14.560 --> 01:13:18.319
William N. Robson and Tonight has presented a shipment of134401:13:18.399 --> 01:13:22.319
mute Fate by Martin Storm, adapted for radio by Les Crutchfield.134501:13:23.239 --> 01:13:27.439
David Ellis was Chris Bill Conrad the Captain. Sarah Selby134601:13:27.600 --> 01:13:30.800
was Mother Willis, and David Light was Clara the Cat.134701:13:31.399 --> 01:13:34.880
Others in the cast were Werner Felton, Ted Decartia, Harry134801:13:34.920 --> 01:13:38.399
Bartel and Paul Freese. Special music arranged and played by134901:13:38.479 --> 01:13:39.359
Ivan Admirs.135001:13:40.760 --> 01:13:45.640
Next week, You're running a charter fishing boat in the135101:13:45.680 --> 01:13:51.359
waters off Nicaragua, until one day a client suddenly offers135201:13:51.439 --> 01:13:54.720
to shoot you in the lake and throw you overboard135301:13:54.840 --> 01:13:59.560
to the ravenous sharks and barracuda, from which there can135401:13:59.600 --> 01:14:20.199
be no escape.135501:14:21.680 --> 01:14:28.159
Well, my dear, another log on the fire, another smile135601:14:28.319 --> 01:14:32.399
at the fear. I'm so glad to have you here.135701:14:34.239 --> 01:14:41.479
What's that? Well, I suppose there's always one more, or135801:14:41.520 --> 01:14:47.159
maybe even too. We'll just have to wait and see,135901:14:47.319 --> 01:14:52.760
won't we. Perhaps the idea of waiting for something is136001:14:52.800 --> 01:14:59.800
all the more exciting. Perhaps that is true. However, I136101:15:00.079 --> 01:15:07.000
worry the other truth is that death flies blind.136201:15:24.119 --> 01:15:24.800
Suspense.136301:15:34.520 --> 01:15:37.359
This is the Man in Black here again to introduce136401:15:37.439 --> 01:15:43.000
Columbia's program Suspense. Heading our starring Hollywood cast this evening136501:15:43.479 --> 01:15:46.520
is mister Richard Dicks, who appears as a United States136601:15:46.640 --> 01:15:50.560
Naval officer who found himself in a remarkable predicament on136701:15:50.640 --> 01:15:53.159
what should have been an uneventful flight from New York136801:15:53.279 --> 01:15:58.159
to Philadelphia, and fellow passengers aboard the airliner on Miss136901:15:58.239 --> 01:16:02.119
Gale Page is a girl named Monica, and mister Montague Love,137001:16:02.560 --> 01:16:06.600
who plays that aged and dominating millionaire Silas Nayla. A137101:16:06.720 --> 01:16:11.880
story by John Dixon Carr called Death Flies Blind is137201:16:11.920 --> 01:16:15.600
tonight's tale of suspense. If you have been with us137301:16:15.640 --> 01:16:18.640
on these Tuesday nights, you will know that suspense is137401:16:18.680 --> 01:16:20.159
compounded of mystery and.137501:16:20.079 --> 01:16:22.720
Suspicion dangerous adventure.137601:16:23.800 --> 01:16:27.600
In this series our tales calculated to intrigue you, stir137701:16:27.680 --> 01:16:31.720
your nerves, to offer you a precarious situation, and then137801:16:31.800 --> 01:16:35.840
withhold a solution until the last possible moment. And so137901:16:35.920 --> 01:16:38.840
it is, with death Flies Blind and the performances of138001:16:38.920 --> 01:16:42.760
Richard Dixcale Page, Montague Love and our other players, we138101:16:42.880 --> 01:16:54.800
again hope to keep you in suspense. The Guardier Field,138201:16:54.920 --> 01:16:59.000
Municipal Airport of New York. The Guardier Field bask behind138301:16:59.000 --> 01:17:02.000
its white buildings on a gray spring afternoon, when rain138401:17:02.119 --> 01:17:06.159
splashes across the runways, dims the sky, and spatters on138501:17:06.199 --> 01:17:09.199
the wings of a great silver painted airliner waiting beyond.138601:17:09.960 --> 01:17:12.560
Already is the limousine bus from the New York terminus138701:17:12.560 --> 01:17:14.199
slowly draws up to the waiting shed.138801:17:14.680 --> 01:17:15.560
You can hear the louds.138901:17:15.920 --> 01:17:18.680
Seventy two to Los Angeles.139001:17:18.680 --> 01:17:22.279
The big limousine bus, besides its driver, contains only two persons.139101:17:22.600 --> 01:17:23.920
One is a tall young man.139201:17:23.800 --> 01:17:26.520
In the United States Naval uniform with the stripes of139301:17:26.520 --> 01:17:29.439
a lieutenant commander around his sleeve. The other is a139401:17:29.479 --> 01:17:32.520
tall and dark haired girl and faces a little fight.139501:17:32.479 --> 01:17:33.159
In the glue light.139601:17:33.279 --> 01:17:35.479
Seventy two to.139701:17:35.479 --> 01:17:39.640
Los Angeles, playing ready to take off at gate number six,139801:17:40.279 --> 01:17:41.680
have your tickets ready, please.139901:17:43.159 --> 01:17:44.199
That can't mean us.140001:17:44.279 --> 01:17:47.199
Now take it easy, Monica. We're not too late. They140101:17:47.239 --> 01:17:47.960
won't go without us.140201:17:48.039 --> 01:17:50.359
No, I mean it says we are to Los Angeles.140301:17:50.399 --> 01:17:53.000
That's right, Monica, We're only going to Philadelphia.140401:17:53.079 --> 01:17:55.840
You're still right, my dear. Arrange for a special stop140501:17:55.880 --> 01:17:58.239
at Philadelphia. It won't take long, and then they go140601:17:58.359 --> 01:17:59.319
on non stop from there.140701:18:00.199 --> 01:18:02.159
Just it. Who's going on for me?140801:18:02.399 --> 01:18:03.640
Oh, you'd be surprised.140901:18:03.920 --> 01:18:06.840
The airport bus must hold twenty people, but there's nobody141001:18:06.880 --> 01:18:09.760
in it except ourselves in the river. Who's going on141101:18:09.800 --> 01:18:11.399
to Los Angeles or anywhere else?141201:18:12.119 --> 01:18:12.600
We're going to.141301:18:12.600 --> 01:18:14.520
Tell you about that, Monica?141401:18:14.720 --> 01:18:15.039
All right?141501:18:15.079 --> 01:18:17.600
Miss, all right, sir, up under that shed and out141601:18:17.600 --> 01:18:18.439
the door on the other side.141701:18:18.520 --> 01:18:19.680
Oh, got your tickets ready?141801:18:19.760 --> 01:18:22.079
Yes, our government old set, Monica.141901:18:22.479 --> 01:18:25.399
Rain is certainly coming down. Do they take off when142001:18:25.399 --> 01:18:26.000
it rains like this?142101:18:26.239 --> 01:18:26.359
Oh?142201:18:26.520 --> 01:18:27.960
Miss, A little rain don't bother them.142301:18:28.079 --> 01:18:30.680
What does bother them is unsettled weather at other places?142401:18:30.960 --> 01:18:32.399
You mean, it's it's perfectly see.142501:18:32.680 --> 01:18:34.760
They never take off, miss, unless it is safe.142601:18:34.800 --> 01:18:35.520
You better hurry up.142701:18:35.560 --> 01:18:45.479
Now there's a plane, Monica, so we run for it.142801:18:45.760 --> 01:18:47.520
But I'd rather not run if you don't mind.142901:18:48.000 --> 01:18:49.319
Aren't getting nervous, are you?143001:18:50.760 --> 01:18:53.319
I know, it's stupid of the men I flown before.143101:18:53.359 --> 01:18:57.920
It's follows two seconds before the takeoff. You're moving and143201:18:57.920 --> 01:19:00.680
the motors have been island. Of a sudden, they start143301:19:00.720 --> 01:19:03.960
to roar. The plane races ahead, and the roar gets louder,143401:19:03.960 --> 01:19:06.039
and suddenly you think, am I ever going to get143501:19:06.039 --> 01:19:06.520
down a line?143601:19:06.640 --> 01:19:11.800
Now? Look here, my dear, I'm sorry. There's nothing to143701:19:11.840 --> 01:19:13.319
worry about, you know, of course not.143801:19:13.399 --> 01:19:13.920
I'll be good.143901:19:15.000 --> 01:19:18.359
It's just this dismal day and ghostly busted out any past.144001:19:18.439 --> 01:19:22.520
Jud Look where.144101:19:22.640 --> 01:19:25.760
It's the plane. They've got all the windows covered inside144201:19:25.800 --> 01:19:26.720
with a little great curtains.144301:19:26.720 --> 01:19:29.199
Oh that's all right, monica. It's only a wartime measure,144401:19:29.720 --> 01:19:33.119
wartime issue. Yes, just keep those curtains closed for some144501:19:33.159 --> 01:19:36.039
minutes after taking off for landing, so no one can144601:19:36.079 --> 01:19:39.479
make maps or take pictures of our airports.144701:19:40.720 --> 01:19:42.039
Anything can happen with them.144801:19:43.640 --> 01:19:46.279
And what's more, if you're worried about your fellow passengers,144901:19:46.279 --> 01:19:47.640
look over your shoulder.145001:19:47.680 --> 01:19:49.319
Well, there are some people coming through the game.145101:19:49.479 --> 01:19:51.000
Yes, you see the little gray haired man or the145201:19:51.000 --> 01:19:53.720
big fellow on each side of him, the secretary dashing145301:19:53.720 --> 01:19:55.960
around him like a since destroyer and a convoy.145401:19:56.760 --> 01:19:59.520
You know, I've seen that gray head man somewhere before, and.145501:19:59.479 --> 01:19:59.920
You've seen it.145601:20:00.119 --> 01:20:00.479
Picture.145701:20:01.279 --> 01:20:05.000
That's Silas Naylor, the third richest man in the world.145801:20:05.880 --> 01:20:07.800
Those two big fellows are his bodyguard.145901:20:08.399 --> 01:20:09.479
Does he need a bodyguard?146001:20:09.600 --> 01:20:13.479
Well, I not more than most of us, I imagine.146101:20:14.199 --> 01:20:16.760
I don't like nonsense. Fight here, Come on up the146201:20:16.760 --> 01:20:19.119
steps the plane. Give your name to the air hostess.146301:20:19.159 --> 01:20:23.760
The door said, good afternoon, Miss Now I have your146401:20:23.800 --> 01:20:26.239
name please, I'm Monica Veil.146501:20:26.439 --> 01:20:27.399
You're the air hostess.146601:20:27.399 --> 01:20:30.119
That's right, Miss Veil. Take any seat you like, and you.146701:20:30.199 --> 01:20:32.520
Sir Alow the commander Fred Arnslow.146801:20:32.640 --> 01:20:36.119
Oh yes, commander. We've had instructions about you. Happy to146901:20:36.159 --> 01:20:37.760
have you with us, even if it's only as far147001:20:37.760 --> 01:20:38.560
as Philadelphia.147101:20:38.680 --> 01:20:39.079
Thank you.147201:20:39.159 --> 01:20:41.159
May I take your overcoat or your briefcase.147301:20:41.239 --> 01:20:43.359
One of the overcoat please, I'll keep the briefcase.147401:20:45.159 --> 01:20:46.600
Look there, what is it now?147501:20:46.920 --> 01:20:49.720
That man you called mister Naylor's secretary, light hand man,147601:20:49.840 --> 01:20:52.640
rather good looking. He's springing towards this plane as fast147701:20:52.680 --> 01:20:53.319
as you can run.147801:20:53.359 --> 01:20:55.680
Really better be careful on that slippery surface.147901:20:55.760 --> 01:20:56.640
He certainly has.148001:21:00.359 --> 01:21:05.800
Man, will come and watch your step Are you all148101:21:05.880 --> 01:21:08.479
right here? Let me help you up. I'm all right, thanks,148201:21:08.600 --> 01:21:12.039
perfectly all right, their hostess. Yes, sir, my name is148301:21:12.079 --> 01:21:14.800
Michael Shepherd. I'm mister Naylor's secretary, and I think there148401:21:14.880 --> 01:21:15.840
must be some mistake here.148501:21:15.920 --> 01:21:16.399
Mistakes.148601:21:16.479 --> 01:21:19.239
Yes, When mister Nayler travels, he's in the habit of148701:21:19.239 --> 01:21:22.199
booking every seat in the plane to ensure privacy. Yeah,148801:21:22.319 --> 01:21:24.840
we seem to have two extra passengers. I'm afraid that's148901:21:24.840 --> 01:21:27.399
my fault, mister Shepherd. Indeed, sir, then would you and149001:21:27.479 --> 01:21:29.600
the young lady be good enough to take some later plan.149101:21:29.720 --> 01:21:32.039
I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do that. No, and149201:21:32.079 --> 01:21:32.399
why not?149301:21:32.880 --> 01:21:36.119
Maybe I ought to, explained mister Shepherd. Commander Onslow had149401:21:36.199 --> 01:21:38.319
last minute orders to join his ship.149501:21:38.600 --> 01:21:41.119
He and miss Vale have priority as far as Philadelphia.149601:21:41.119 --> 01:21:43.000
Philadelphia, must we stop there.149701:21:42.960 --> 01:21:45.000
Only for a few minutes, mister Shepherd.149801:21:44.720 --> 01:21:48.199
This is outrageous. Mister Naylor is traveling in a sense149901:21:48.239 --> 01:21:49.720
on government business.150001:21:49.399 --> 01:21:51.720
So am I old man. The Navy often does.150101:21:51.880 --> 01:21:55.000
That doesn't alter the principle of the thing. I don't150201:21:55.000 --> 01:21:58.079
want to seem ungracious. You understand, mister Naylor is always150301:21:58.079 --> 01:22:01.199
glad to help our our brave soldiers and the savors150401:22:01.279 --> 01:22:05.239
of the choir will now sing him number two for150501:22:05.439 --> 01:22:07.960
two now the God. This time you've gone too far.150601:22:08.199 --> 01:22:11.640
I shall appeal to mister Naylor himself. Mister Naylor, mister Naylor.150701:22:11.560 --> 01:22:12.920
Yes, mister Shepherd, I can hear you.150801:22:13.000 --> 01:22:13.359
What is it?150901:22:13.760 --> 01:22:16.000
This naval articis, sir? And the young lady?151001:22:16.000 --> 01:22:18.800
Oh, I know, Shepherd, I know. Isn't the plane big151101:22:18.880 --> 01:22:19.239
enough at all?151201:22:19.239 --> 01:22:19.640
Of us?151301:22:19.880 --> 01:22:22.159
I was only following your or as mister Naelo. You151401:22:22.199 --> 01:22:24.800
asked for privates, all right, Shepherd, but.151501:22:24.880 --> 01:22:27.279
I'm asking for an hour is less noise and the151601:22:27.359 --> 01:22:29.920
tenant commander in the navy eighth that's right, mister Miller151701:22:30.279 --> 01:22:32.079
of another fishing trip, I sup post.151801:22:32.239 --> 01:22:34.119
That's just exactly right, sir.151901:22:34.279 --> 01:22:37.279
I never have to steps yet, No, never, But I152001:22:37.399 --> 01:22:41.119
had twenty thousand a year. I've had pay doctors, and152101:22:41.199 --> 01:22:44.960
what do they give me the stomach. I'm not surprised152201:22:45.000 --> 01:22:48.199
you've got priority, Commander, but I am the surprise about152301:22:48.199 --> 01:22:48.520
the girl.152401:22:48.640 --> 01:22:52.680
She's my fiance, mister Neller, Miss Vale, meet the rest152501:22:52.720 --> 01:22:53.479
of my family.152601:22:54.000 --> 01:22:56.239
These two bruises here, including the one with the mouth152701:22:56.319 --> 01:22:58.520
organ and my bodyguard, mister.152801:22:58.279 --> 01:23:00.920
Cohen, please to meet your commander.152901:23:00.960 --> 01:23:01.359
How do you do?153001:23:01.760 --> 01:23:06.479
This is mister o'reiley, that's your command? You sing the cone?153101:23:06.520 --> 01:23:07.279
Can't butt you ever?153201:23:07.319 --> 01:23:10.000
Get tired of playing that mouth dog and stand away153301:23:10.000 --> 01:23:11.279
from the door and they want to close it?153401:23:13.840 --> 01:23:15.800
Will everyone see your seat?153501:23:15.880 --> 01:23:18.640
Can pack the seat pilts. Are we ready to take off?153601:23:18.720 --> 01:23:18.920
Yes?153701:23:19.039 --> 01:23:20.119
And just a mom shober?153801:23:20.760 --> 01:23:24.199
Alrighty, come along to the pun compleate.153901:23:24.520 --> 01:23:26.479
Yes, Oh we'll sit in the batch here, won't we?154001:23:26.560 --> 01:23:30.000
Tod Yes, yes, of course I am.154101:23:31.000 --> 01:23:31.760
Is anything wrong?154201:23:31.880 --> 01:23:31.960
No?154301:23:32.880 --> 01:23:33.520
No, of course not.154401:23:34.319 --> 01:23:35.479
Why what should be wrong?154501:23:35.920 --> 01:23:37.720
And you better sit down? We're starting the move.154601:23:37.920 --> 01:23:41.199
That's good advice, Commander Anslow. But I must ask you,154701:23:41.239 --> 01:23:43.279
miss Bail, not to touch the curtain on the window.154801:23:44.159 --> 01:23:46.239
How caon before we can open the curtains as.154901:23:46.159 --> 01:23:48.239
Soon as we're well away from New York. You see155001:23:48.239 --> 01:23:50.920
that illuminated sign no smoking, fastened seatbelts.155101:23:51.319 --> 01:23:52.520
Yes, quite about it.155201:23:52.760 --> 01:23:54.640
When the lights and the sign go out, you can155301:23:54.680 --> 01:23:57.079
open the curtains and smoke as much as you like.155401:23:57.479 --> 01:24:02.119
Now, if you'll excuse me, certainly you didn't try to155501:24:02.159 --> 01:24:02.880
fill me shut on?155601:24:03.000 --> 01:24:05.920
So you saw what I saw?155701:24:05.960 --> 01:24:07.680
You pick up that scrap of paper one of those155801:24:07.720 --> 01:24:08.279
men dropped?155901:24:08.479 --> 01:24:10.600
Why Why that wasn't anything? Monica?156001:24:10.960 --> 01:24:11.960
May I see the paper?156101:24:12.159 --> 01:24:12.439
No?156201:24:13.199 --> 01:24:16.600
Why not? Well, because because I'd rather you didn't see?156301:24:16.640 --> 01:24:17.119
If that's all?156401:24:17.359 --> 01:24:18.520
There is something wrong, isn't this?156501:24:18.640 --> 01:24:19.239
Look Monica?156601:24:19.880 --> 01:24:22.079
Let me repeat over and over what could be wrong?156701:24:22.359 --> 01:24:25.800
Why there's Silas Naylor, an internationally famous figure with a156801:24:25.800 --> 01:24:29.319
group of trusted attendants. Here's an ACA plane as safe156901:24:29.359 --> 01:24:33.479
and dependable as the old gray Mayor all the same.157001:24:33.520 --> 01:24:36.960
What I wish I hadn't brought you along? I wish157101:24:37.000 --> 01:24:38.800
there was some kind of an emergency for it, like157201:24:38.800 --> 01:24:39.199
a train.157301:24:39.319 --> 01:24:40.600
So did you stop this plane?157401:24:44.079 --> 01:24:52.359
Right that way?157501:24:53.720 --> 01:24:58.680
Fifteen minutes, thirty minutes, forty minutes, the great silver plane157601:24:58.760 --> 01:25:01.760
throbbed against dead quiet. Yeah, it's warm and stuffy in157701:25:01.760 --> 01:25:05.039
the cabin, despite the hissing. Ventally dim white reading lamps157801:25:05.039 --> 01:25:07.439
shine down on a double roll of cushion chairs along157901:25:07.520 --> 01:25:10.319
one side and a single row of cushion chairs along158001:25:10.359 --> 01:25:13.079
the other. Ahead, above the closed door to the pilot's158101:25:13.079 --> 01:25:17.000
controlled cabin, the red glowing sign still warns against opening158201:25:17.079 --> 01:25:20.840
those curtains. Aft in the plane, sits commander onslow, his158301:25:20.960 --> 01:25:34.640
eyes fixed on the clock under that illuminated sigh.158401:25:29.359 --> 01:25:34.039
Monia, Yes it's not exactly all right.158501:25:34.600 --> 01:25:35.399
Why do you say that?158601:25:35.720 --> 01:25:38.439
Because we should have been in Philadelphia five minutes ago158701:25:39.520 --> 01:25:41.399
at least we should have been circling over the field,158801:25:41.840 --> 01:25:42.319
and we're not.158901:25:42.520 --> 01:25:45.760
No, we're still ten or twelve thousand feet up.159001:25:45.640 --> 01:25:47.479
If the pressure in my ear drums count for anything,159101:25:48.239 --> 01:25:50.159
and traveling like a bat out of hades.159201:25:50.760 --> 01:25:54.920
Weather's delaying us, as belibe it is. It's awfully bumpy,159301:25:54.960 --> 01:25:55.560
is yes?159401:25:55.640 --> 01:25:57.960
A little makes you gasp for breath in your stomach chair.159501:26:00.920 --> 01:26:01.760
That was a bad one.159601:26:02.000 --> 01:26:03.920
Not getting air sick, are you?159701:26:04.159 --> 01:26:06.640
I don't think so. I wish I had some of159801:26:06.640 --> 01:26:07.840
that chewing gum they gave you.159901:26:07.920 --> 01:26:09.880
Ring for the air hostess. She'll bring us home.160001:26:11.000 --> 01:26:12.720
I did ring the bell fad and there's no ante.160101:26:12.840 --> 01:26:14.920
Oh she's busy in the pantry back there, that's all.160201:26:15.800 --> 01:26:17.439
She didn't hear you here. I'll get you some gum.160301:26:17.520 --> 01:26:18.560
No, no way to I'll go.160401:26:19.039 --> 01:26:19.800
So you're all right?160501:26:21.000 --> 01:26:24.039
I want a pot of my nose anyway. Besides, you're160601:26:24.039 --> 01:26:26.960
going to have company. Mister Shepherd is reading along this160701:26:27.039 --> 01:26:29.079
sile as though he didn't like air pockets.160801:26:28.680 --> 01:26:31.399
Either, Thank the Lord, one of that parties awake up there.160901:26:32.039 --> 01:26:33.920
I thought they were all dead.161001:26:34.079 --> 01:26:35.159
Say what dead?161101:26:36.319 --> 01:26:41.119
Spooky? Playing with everything so quiet and dead itself. Remember161201:26:41.119 --> 01:26:42.800
how the pilot walked through a while ago and looked161301:26:42.840 --> 01:26:44.880
around and you walked walked right back to the control cabin.161401:26:45.000 --> 01:26:45.960
Yeah, I didn't notice him.161501:26:46.279 --> 01:26:48.800
That's what I mean. It was like a ghost.161601:26:50.800 --> 01:26:51.640
I'll be right back.161701:26:52.520 --> 01:26:53.640
It's like, am I no anso?161801:26:54.319 --> 01:26:58.199
Yes, mister Sheppard, mind if I sit down, not at all,161901:26:58.199 --> 01:27:02.159
go ahead back to Amanda. I won't apologize. Well, that's162001:27:02.159 --> 01:27:05.000
all right, forget it. I'm not such an ill mannered guys.162101:27:05.000 --> 01:27:07.880
I must have sounded it's no joke, you know, taking162201:27:07.920 --> 01:27:11.000
care of the Chief. I've got to go ahead like162301:27:11.039 --> 01:27:14.079
a sycphone so so that everything would be quiet when162401:27:14.079 --> 01:27:17.600
he gets there. And it's a great responsibility too. I162501:27:17.600 --> 01:27:20.920
can imagine I go on these long trips.162601:27:21.680 --> 01:27:23.560
There's the Chief half asleep.162701:27:23.239 --> 01:27:27.239
And O'Reilly reading detective magazines and Coin with his mouth Organ.162801:27:27.399 --> 01:27:29.039
Doesn't that mouth organ bother.162901:27:28.920 --> 01:27:29.399
The old boy?163001:27:29.760 --> 01:27:33.199
No, he likes it, especially when Coin plays the old163101:27:33.199 --> 01:27:37.279
square answers chiefs a great man in his way. I163201:27:37.359 --> 01:27:41.199
was just wondering about that, wondering what is it true?163301:27:42.000 --> 01:27:43.840
It stop me if I'm talking out of turn.163401:27:44.079 --> 01:27:45.520
Go ahead, we can dress the navy.163501:27:46.319 --> 01:27:46.760
Is it true?163601:27:46.800 --> 01:27:49.119
He's offered to design and build at his own expense163701:27:49.439 --> 01:27:53.760
a feet of underwater cargo boots, uh, submersible printers up163801:27:53.800 --> 01:27:56.479
to five or six thousand tons, but a do away163901:27:56.479 --> 01:27:57.960
with the submarine minutes altogether.164001:27:58.039 --> 01:27:58.800
Where did you hear that?164101:27:59.199 --> 01:27:59.439
Well?164201:27:59.560 --> 01:27:59.880
Just through?164301:28:01.159 --> 01:28:05.680
Is it true? Yes, it's true?164401:28:05.760 --> 01:28:05.880
Or not?164501:28:06.600 --> 01:28:08.680
You see, mister Shepherd, I'm one of the cute people164601:28:08.680 --> 01:28:11.840
who believe that plan is practical. There must be a164701:28:11.880 --> 01:28:13.720
lot of people who would like to see mister Nayler164801:28:14.439 --> 01:28:17.560
put out of the way. There are commander only they164901:28:17.600 --> 01:28:20.159
can't get at him. You're quite sure of.165001:28:20.119 --> 01:28:23.560
That dead Sure Hitler himself isn't better?165101:28:23.600 --> 01:28:23.840
God?165201:28:25.079 --> 01:28:27.880
Why you can no more shoot or stab or poison165301:28:27.960 --> 01:28:28.520
the chief.165401:28:28.319 --> 01:28:28.800
Than you could?165501:28:30.760 --> 01:28:31.199
What does that?165601:28:31.239 --> 01:28:31.720
What happened?165701:28:31.800 --> 01:28:35.920
Monica? Is anything wrong back there? It's all right, sir,165801:28:35.960 --> 01:28:37.960
It's only a noise in the pantry. We'll say to it.165901:28:38.079 --> 01:28:39.840
Runica, Nica, put yourself together.166001:28:39.880 --> 01:28:40.279
What's wrong?166101:28:40.560 --> 01:28:41.399
It's that airhouses?166201:28:41.479 --> 01:28:41.840
Miss Lee?166301:28:42.159 --> 01:28:42.600
What about her?166401:28:42.640 --> 01:28:44.640
She's lying back in the pantry among the broken dishes166501:28:44.680 --> 01:28:47.359
with a headhole over blood. Nobody beat her over the166601:28:47.399 --> 01:28:48.439
head and left to there to die.166701:28:48.600 --> 01:28:51.319
Somebody yes, but nobody's gone back to the pantry.166801:28:51.600 --> 01:28:53.479
Nobody's gone past the success kept the part of the166901:28:53.479 --> 01:28:55.760
co part of this plane. Remember, excuse me.167001:28:55.720 --> 01:28:58.560
Mister Shepherd, I'm going to open the curtains on that window.167101:28:58.600 --> 01:29:00.479
Do you think it's wise, Commander? We would told not to.167201:29:00.760 --> 01:29:03.000
We were told a lot of things. I'll just take167301:29:03.000 --> 01:29:07.960
the responsibility of Good Lord San har Monica, mister Naylor,167401:29:08.039 --> 01:29:10.439
mister Nayler, yes, son, what's up? Draw the curtain on167501:29:10.479 --> 01:29:13.039
your window and take a look down. O'reiley and Cohen167601:29:13.039 --> 01:29:15.000
have got guns. They better keep them handy, he says.167701:29:15.000 --> 01:29:15.039
So.167801:29:15.279 --> 01:29:18.479
No, why because we're not flying west. We're over the167901:29:18.560 --> 01:29:21.560
Atlantic Ocean now and headed straight out to sea from.168001:29:43.399 --> 01:29:48.000
Ray Water in cloud must be miles and miles away168101:29:48.039 --> 01:29:48.560
from land.168201:29:48.920 --> 01:29:50.560
We are miles away from land.168301:29:51.159 --> 01:29:52.840
Does anybody here know anything about first aid?168401:29:53.119 --> 01:29:55.640
I do with, Commander, I started medicine the other day.168501:29:55.640 --> 01:29:56.880
And then you better go back and look after the168601:29:56.880 --> 01:29:59.439
hostess you joined, mister Nailer, steady.168701:29:59.119 --> 01:30:03.159
Minae, I'm all right, it's this horrible blind team air pocket.168801:30:03.159 --> 01:30:05.359
Look where over the ocean?168901:30:05.640 --> 01:30:06.840
What the devil's going on here?169001:30:06.840 --> 01:30:07.039
Eh?169101:30:07.800 --> 01:30:10.640
You were being kidnapped, mister Naylor, that's my guess, hid169201:30:10.720 --> 01:30:11.880
napp Did you say.169301:30:11.800 --> 01:30:14.640
Ah, come off at commander. We in as dumb as.169401:30:14.439 --> 01:30:16.600
That the pilot and the co pilot of this plane169501:30:16.640 --> 01:30:20.479
are fakes. They replaced the real officer on a dark169601:30:20.560 --> 01:30:23.239
day like this, with their raincoat collars turned up, they169701:30:23.239 --> 01:30:25.680
could have gotten away with it. Have hijacked us straight169801:30:25.680 --> 01:30:26.399
off the airfield?169901:30:26.880 --> 01:30:27.239
Is that?170001:30:27.399 --> 01:30:27.600
Yes?170101:30:27.640 --> 01:30:30.479
I'm afraid the hostess must have spotted one of them170201:30:30.520 --> 01:30:31.159
and knocked her out.170301:30:31.319 --> 01:30:33.680
And what about the airport? They know a plane was170401:30:33.720 --> 01:30:34.359
missing or not?170501:30:34.479 --> 01:30:37.479
Until we failed to show up at Philadelphia, the pilot170601:30:37.520 --> 01:30:40.680
would report by aero radio telephone about.170701:30:40.840 --> 01:30:42.159
Fifteen minutes out of New York.170801:30:42.560 --> 01:30:46.960
But after that silence, excuse me, come, they say, these170901:30:46.960 --> 01:30:50.359
two fake pilots are still aboard in that compartment there171001:30:50.399 --> 01:30:51.159
with the closed door.171101:30:51.239 --> 01:30:52.239
Yes, that's right.171201:30:52.479 --> 01:30:54.439
What are we waiting for a corn We'll get to171301:30:54.439 --> 01:30:56.680
work on them. Wait a minute, Wait a minute, both171401:30:56.720 --> 01:30:56.920
of them.171501:30:56.960 --> 01:30:58.439
You wouldn't be trying to stop us, would you?171601:30:58.479 --> 01:30:58.760
Command?171701:30:59.039 --> 01:30:59.399
One thing?171801:30:59.439 --> 01:31:01.680
We don't want. There's a gunfight twelve thousand feet up.171901:31:03.039 --> 01:31:04.359
Can any of you fly a plane?172001:31:04.720 --> 01:31:06.880
No, not one of us and leave the can I172101:31:08.000 --> 01:31:09.720
So if anything happens to those two pilots.172201:31:09.760 --> 01:31:13.039
How are we going to get down? I say, young fellow, Well,172301:31:14.039 --> 01:31:17.520
what are you going to do? First of all, we'll172401:31:17.600 --> 01:31:18.880
try rapping on the door.172501:31:20.239 --> 01:31:26.960
Have your gun right, you can cut on that quiet.172601:31:26.680 --> 01:31:29.680
Mind the scrap of paper you picked up?172701:31:29.720 --> 01:31:34.840
Off the scrap of paper, Never mind, sir, fight this door.172801:31:35.800 --> 01:31:36.680
It's unlocked.172901:31:37.279 --> 01:31:40.640
Unlocked now, don't take any food chances, young feller, the173001:31:40.680 --> 01:31:43.119
way I always did when I was your age, Stand173101:31:43.159 --> 01:31:45.399
on one side. When you open that door, the corner173201:31:45.399 --> 01:31:46.399
will already take care of it.173301:31:48.960 --> 01:31:49.239
Good.173401:31:49.319 --> 01:31:55.279
Look, well the controlled cabin is empty. There's nobody at173501:31:55.279 --> 01:31:55.920
the controls.173601:31:59.840 --> 01:32:03.439
You mean, way we're flying without a pilot.173701:32:04.239 --> 01:32:08.279
Yes, see that stick move back and forth as though173801:32:08.279 --> 01:32:12.760
a ghost head whole of it. Those crooks do they173901:32:12.800 --> 01:32:16.680
set the automatic controls. It's a gyroscope attachment that keeps174001:32:16.680 --> 01:32:18.720
are steady. And then they must have bailout.174101:32:19.239 --> 01:32:20.520
And what's that happened to us?174201:32:21.359 --> 01:32:23.680
You see, Monica? The fact is, go on, said tell174301:32:23.680 --> 01:32:24.159
me the truth.174401:32:25.039 --> 01:32:27.760
I'll know If you don't, well, we'll go on so174501:32:27.880 --> 01:32:29.960
our gas runs out, or until the storm it's us.174601:32:30.600 --> 01:32:33.319
Then we'll dive into the sea. It's a good way174701:32:33.359 --> 01:32:34.960
of killing mister Naylor, is any.174801:32:35.399 --> 01:32:40.359
I see, son, have we got any chance at all?174901:32:40.399 --> 01:32:41.359
Frankly, I don't know.175001:32:42.920 --> 01:32:45.319
Well I get a look inside of that control cabit.175101:32:45.640 --> 01:32:47.880
Holy whether that's till us.175201:32:51.960 --> 01:32:54.000
Go and stop it? Stop it?175301:32:54.640 --> 01:32:57.479
Yeah, mister Naylor, stop playing that in front of my organ,175401:32:58.079 --> 01:32:59.960
or you must play it. Play something cheerful.175501:33:00.239 --> 01:33:03.960
Yes, sure, mister Nayler's sure. How long do you think175601:33:03.960 --> 01:33:04.960
it'll be before.175701:33:05.520 --> 01:33:08.600
Mister commander back again? Then fell?175801:33:09.319 --> 01:33:12.319
Radio telephones out of order? We can't signal?175901:33:12.399 --> 01:33:14.760
Said? What about those patrol ships you staid? They're two176001:33:14.800 --> 01:33:17.720
hundred miles out to watch for unidentified aircraft.176101:33:17.760 --> 01:33:21.680
They've seen us already. I expect they'll send for an176201:33:21.800 --> 01:33:23.279
army fighter plane to investigate.176301:33:23.279 --> 01:33:25.199
But what can it do?176401:33:25.520 --> 01:33:28.800
Yeah, shout us down? Maybe, Eh, that's fine.176501:33:28.479 --> 01:33:30.479
If only somebody could fly the plane.176601:33:30.560 --> 01:33:33.239
Well, nobody can't skip us, So think of something else.176701:33:34.279 --> 01:33:38.279
See, mister Naylor, I was wrong, wrong, son, about what.176801:33:39.039 --> 01:33:43.199
One of your party? And I can guess which one dropped?176901:33:43.199 --> 01:33:46.239
A torn piece of paper. There was a line of177001:33:46.239 --> 01:33:50.159
writing on it, probably the end of some instructions. Well177101:33:50.760 --> 01:33:56.039
those instructions ended. You should land just as your fuel fails.177201:33:56.039 --> 01:33:57.840
At seven o'clock a m.177301:33:58.279 --> 01:34:03.159
You should land just as your fails at seven o'clock am.177401:34:03.399 --> 01:34:05.760
But that might not have anything to do with the sun.177501:34:06.439 --> 01:34:09.319
What made you suspicious of it because it was written177601:34:09.399 --> 01:34:09.920
in German?177701:34:10.560 --> 01:34:14.560
Jamous, quiet Colin, I can't hear myself think.177801:34:14.720 --> 01:34:16.880
Okay, okay, mister Naylor, I'm sorry.177901:34:17.279 --> 01:34:20.159
I thought the fake pilots were kidnapping you maybe abroad.178001:34:20.479 --> 01:34:22.960
There's not enough cure that is that if there's enough178101:34:22.960 --> 01:34:24.760
fuel for Los Angeles, then there's enough for Europe.178201:34:26.279 --> 01:34:28.840
Well, that won't work. They bailed out and left us178301:34:28.880 --> 01:34:29.279
to crash.178401:34:29.640 --> 01:34:33.239
Excuse me, sir, Well it's getting black as pitch out there.178501:34:33.680 --> 01:34:36.680
I think there's a storm coming up. What happens when178601:34:37.039 --> 01:34:39.800
that hits clenty? O'Reilly clinchy?178701:34:40.239 --> 01:34:41.560
Oh well, I was afraid of that.178801:34:42.199 --> 01:34:45.439
If only somebody could fly this plane, I could navigate it,178901:34:45.640 --> 01:34:46.159
navigate it.179001:34:46.439 --> 01:34:48.239
Yes, you have to learn.179101:34:48.199 --> 01:34:49.960
Areal navigation in my business.179201:34:50.239 --> 01:34:53.840
With enough figuring, I might even set a new course179301:34:53.880 --> 01:34:55.520
and try the automatic controls on it.179401:34:56.560 --> 01:34:58.159
No, I don't dare handle the ship.179501:34:58.359 --> 01:34:59.159
Wait a minute.179601:35:00.079 --> 01:35:00.680
All the way out of.179701:35:00.600 --> 01:35:02.960
This well speak up list is the ninety fi win179801:35:03.000 --> 01:35:04.079
is going to hit us any minutes.179901:35:04.159 --> 01:35:06.279
The air hostess, of course, miss Lee.180001:35:06.720 --> 01:35:07.319
What about her?180101:35:07.520 --> 01:35:10.520
I remember reading somewhere the most air hostesses get flying180201:35:10.520 --> 01:35:12.479
instructions when they've been with the company for a well180301:35:12.479 --> 01:35:13.720
a given length of time.180401:35:13.720 --> 01:35:16.199
You know, miss Dale, that's true. There was a girl180501:35:16.199 --> 01:35:17.840
have been her Airways who told me the same thing.180601:35:17.920 --> 01:35:19.399
And if this one can even make a try at180701:35:19.479 --> 01:35:21.800
landing a plane, who we may get back to New York.180801:35:21.880 --> 01:35:23.479
Yet she said, you'd be knocked out.180901:35:23.760 --> 01:35:25.800
She isn't badly hurt, but there's just a chance that181001:35:25.880 --> 01:35:27.239
maybe she's there.181101:35:27.319 --> 01:35:30.640
Shepherd coming back from the pantry, got a drink. Wasn't181201:35:30.720 --> 01:35:31.720
very pleasant back there.181301:35:31.840 --> 01:35:33.760
How is she? You know? We were just wondering whether181401:35:33.760 --> 01:35:35.880
miss Lee might be in any Sheep to pilot the plane.181501:35:35.960 --> 01:35:39.239
Pilot the plane, ye Blazer, Should she pilot the plane?181601:35:39.279 --> 01:35:42.119
There's no time to explain now, Shepherd, that we're bound181701:35:42.199 --> 01:35:44.920
for Davy Jones unless something's done. Could she do it?181801:35:45.560 --> 01:35:49.720
No, not even if we vibed her. Not of all181901:35:49.720 --> 01:35:52.720
the doctors on earth to the side. But I don't182001:35:52.760 --> 01:35:56.000
think you understand, sir. Miss Lee has just died.182101:36:00.039 --> 01:36:00.399
Mhm.182201:36:09.640 --> 01:36:13.119
In singing of wind above the clouds, then storm with182301:36:13.159 --> 01:36:16.039
a white eye of lightning at the windows, losing height,182401:36:16.119 --> 01:36:19.239
gaining it again, blown off her blind course, flung part182501:36:19.279 --> 01:36:22.760
way back again, always racing forward on a flight to nowhere.182601:36:23.319 --> 01:36:27.560
Late afternoon, evening night, the steady throbbing of motors like182701:36:27.600 --> 01:36:31.000
a pulse beat inside the head. Towards morning, the storm182801:36:31.119 --> 01:36:35.119
dies away. In that dim cabin, there is exhaustion of nerves.182901:36:36.279 --> 01:36:39.119
The hands of the clock stands at a quarter of183001:36:39.199 --> 01:36:40.319
two in the morning.183101:36:46.119 --> 01:36:57.520
Mania, Monica, wake up, Oh it's spread. Keep your voice down, yes, for.183201:36:57.479 --> 01:36:59.920
A couple of hours.183301:37:00.039 --> 01:37:02.800
The condemned criminals sleep on the night before their execution.183401:37:04.439 --> 01:37:05.239
Where are the others?183501:37:06.880 --> 01:37:09.720
I was a boy back home the county, down the183601:37:11.039 --> 01:37:14.640
valley's academy, and where ther rillies? And he did you183701:37:14.680 --> 01:37:15.760
ever see a bad seat?183801:37:16.520 --> 01:37:17.239
A bands?183901:37:17.479 --> 01:37:19.880
He is the old woman and lets you know you're184001:37:19.920 --> 01:37:20.439
gonna die.184101:37:20.560 --> 01:37:22.159
Wipe down you two.184201:37:22.600 --> 01:37:26.319
I'm sorry, no, no offense, chief And the man.184301:37:26.279 --> 01:37:29.279
Played a fart game solidaire without somebody gating all the time,184401:37:30.279 --> 01:37:31.600
like nine on Red Dead.184501:37:32.159 --> 01:37:36.920
Listen Monica, and listen carefully. My first idea was, right,184601:37:36.960 --> 01:37:40.840
after all, what are you talking about? There's somebody aboard184701:37:40.880 --> 01:37:42.840
this ship who can fly a plane?184801:37:43.560 --> 01:37:48.119
Sh there is. I proved it by the automatic controls184901:37:48.720 --> 01:37:49.119
proved it.185001:37:49.199 --> 01:37:52.920
How if those controls had stayed as they originally were,185101:37:53.560 --> 01:37:55.840
the side winds would have brown us clear off our course.185201:37:56.520 --> 01:37:58.119
But we're still on our course.185301:37:59.119 --> 01:38:01.239
That shows that some but he's been sneaking in there185401:38:01.680 --> 01:38:04.640
and setting us right again when we do straight and185501:38:05.720 --> 01:38:07.720
you mean, I mean we're headed for someone.185601:38:08.640 --> 01:38:14.479
We're being taken somewhere. We may out with this gentleman.185701:38:14.159 --> 01:38:18.720
Yet out who if somebody's still talking about I'm sorry,185801:38:18.760 --> 01:38:21.279
mister Naylor, Monica is just right up. None of us185901:38:21.279 --> 01:38:23.199
can see you very much like sleeping anyway.186001:38:23.039 --> 01:38:25.600
All right, son, I admitted come up here and joy186101:38:25.760 --> 01:38:26.000
with it.186201:38:26.199 --> 01:38:27.159
The pleasure.186301:38:28.640 --> 01:38:31.760
Tightens card game, but I still can't make it come out.186401:38:33.199 --> 01:38:36.319
Oh what's the use pretending anyway? We know we're in186501:38:36.399 --> 01:38:39.760
for it. It's this waiting the kitchen.186601:38:39.920 --> 01:38:42.640
Yeah, yeah, that goes for all of us, mister Nayler.186701:38:43.079 --> 01:38:46.760
What I'm reading is when those motors choke from good186801:38:46.840 --> 01:38:54.720
dead and we start worrying down, down down? What does186901:38:54.840 --> 01:38:58.199
sound like, commander, when when motors come out. I've never187001:38:58.239 --> 01:38:58.960
heard of, mister.187101:38:58.840 --> 01:39:03.000
Nannor, but I imagine it sounds like I imagine it187201:39:03.039 --> 01:39:03.720
sounds like fat.187301:39:03.920 --> 01:39:05.640
You're a losing higher. I could feel it.187401:39:05.880 --> 01:39:07.920
Well, Corn, I guess this is the payoff.187501:39:08.000 --> 01:39:08.800
Yeah, you said it.187601:39:10.439 --> 01:39:13.439
Look, chemist Naylor, we can't be out of fuel because.187701:39:13.119 --> 01:39:13.680
It's too early.187801:39:14.079 --> 01:39:16.680
Look at the club, it's only five minutes to two o'clock.187901:39:16.720 --> 01:39:18.720
I beg your pardon, old man, it's five minutes to188001:39:18.800 --> 01:39:19.439
seven o'clock.188101:39:19.479 --> 01:39:20.119
Seven o'clock.188201:39:20.680 --> 01:39:21.359
Are you crazy?188301:39:21.479 --> 01:39:21.560
No?188401:39:22.279 --> 01:39:24.840
Haven't you forgotten the cross ocean changes in time.188501:39:25.000 --> 01:39:26.880
By George the Commander's.188601:39:26.399 --> 01:39:29.319
Right, European time is five hours ahead of our time.188701:39:30.079 --> 01:39:30.760
You don't believe me.188801:39:30.880 --> 01:39:34.119
Just notice that it's getting daylight outside. I was thinking188901:39:34.159 --> 01:39:38.199
of that message. You should land just as your fuel189001:39:38.319 --> 01:39:43.039
fails at seven o'clock. Am, Stand perfectly still, all of you.189101:39:44.479 --> 01:39:46.920
What's got in a little arge? Parcelroy, I'll show you189201:39:46.960 --> 01:39:48.119
what's got into me and my friend.189301:39:48.199 --> 01:39:49.439
Yes, I rather thought you would.189401:39:49.680 --> 01:39:51.600
I shall go into that control cabin.189501:39:52.319 --> 01:39:53.199
Follow me if you like.189601:39:53.960 --> 01:39:56.600
I shall sit down at the controls, and I shall189701:39:56.600 --> 01:39:59.239
bring this plane safely to the ground, safe me to189801:39:59.279 --> 01:40:03.239
the ground where in Germany? Of course Germany. Don't pull189901:40:03.239 --> 01:40:04.920
a gun, Corn, if you're pugin, we're all done for.190001:40:05.279 --> 01:40:08.359
That is good advice, mister Cohen. I might add that190101:40:08.359 --> 01:40:10.960
we're getting closer to the ground every minute. For that,190201:40:12.000 --> 01:40:13.159
do I take control?190301:40:13.439 --> 01:40:17.600
Yes, go ahead, but we're following.190401:40:17.159 --> 01:40:22.920
You follow by all means. All right, let's get comfortable here.190501:40:23.319 --> 01:40:24.560
I take up my position, so.190601:40:24.800 --> 01:40:25.520
It's pot blow.190701:40:25.600 --> 01:40:27.199
Can you see well enough?190801:40:27.319 --> 01:40:27.760
Mistakes?190901:40:27.920 --> 01:40:28.479
Well enough?191001:40:29.560 --> 01:40:32.800
We must go down rather quickly, and I can't help191101:40:33.000 --> 01:40:34.159
if it's somewhat rough.191201:40:33.960 --> 01:40:36.159
On your head, young, Fine, what's the idea?191301:40:36.439 --> 01:40:39.279
The idea, dear patron, is to bring you and your191401:40:39.319 --> 01:40:42.359
plans for a submarine crater to a country which will191501:40:42.359 --> 01:40:46.119
appreciate them. And those two fake pilots were a colleagued mine.191601:40:46.800 --> 01:40:50.279
Unfortunately they have remained. Your pug auglies would have started191701:40:50.279 --> 01:40:52.920
a gunfight, and none of us might have got here well.191801:40:53.560 --> 01:40:57.000
So they left by parachute, and I brought you safely191901:40:57.039 --> 01:41:00.199
without blood or toil the boundaries of the third right.192001:41:01.000 --> 01:41:03.359
You're going down too fast, man, I'll take it easy.192101:41:03.520 --> 01:41:11.600
I am perfectly in command, thank you.192201:41:14.600 --> 01:41:15.079
M hm.192301:41:16.520 --> 01:41:19.960
Oh h h.192401:41:22.640 --> 01:41:25.359
Are you all right? Manka? Are you all right?192501:41:26.800 --> 01:41:26.960
Oh?192601:41:27.000 --> 01:41:27.800
My bits shaking up?192701:41:27.800 --> 01:41:30.279
We're all okay here, skipper. Shall I give this kut192801:41:30.319 --> 01:41:31.760
of works now before they come to get us?192901:41:32.119 --> 01:41:34.039
Don't you let him alone?193001:41:34.239 --> 01:41:37.560
That also is good advice. And now, my friends, my193101:41:37.600 --> 01:41:41.039
mission is ended. I stand up on the pilot's chair.193201:41:41.520 --> 01:41:44.239
I throw open this glass hatch, and toward Germany to193301:41:44.319 --> 01:41:46.520
all the world, I cry, here's just ask your stolen193401:41:46.520 --> 01:41:48.880
a flut so I can be grief to London, now193501:41:48.479 --> 01:41:54.560
fell Island, Franci high head. Now will strike me blind193601:41:54.600 --> 01:41:57.319
to attaint another one? Yes, first Rudolph has and all193701:41:57.359 --> 01:41:57.800
this blow?193801:41:58.000 --> 01:41:59.479
What just suppose they want over there?193901:42:00.880 --> 01:42:03.520
Why are you speaking English?194001:42:02.199 --> 01:42:05.960
Why it's an even advatt We've gotten this contract. This194101:42:06.199 --> 01:42:09.399
isn't England's. Oh yes it is better. Climb out of194201:42:09.399 --> 01:42:11.439
here and with your hands up. But it can't be.194301:42:12.119 --> 01:42:14.840
I followed the course laid down on those instruments. Unfortunately,194401:42:14.920 --> 01:42:17.800
old man, I altered our course last night. Keep back, shepherd,194501:42:17.880 --> 01:42:19.159
or you may get the bullets in the head. Yet,194601:42:19.239 --> 01:42:21.520
your instructions were all right, but they didn't tell you194701:42:21.560 --> 01:42:24.960
about the five hours difference in time. When we got194801:42:24.960 --> 01:42:27.000
to the right navigation point, I let the fuel out194901:42:27.000 --> 01:42:29.279
of the tanks and made you think we were landing195001:42:29.279 --> 01:42:32.439
in Germany. You know, there's nothing like having a good195101:42:32.640 --> 01:42:34.159
Nazi for a taxi driver.195201:42:34.319 --> 01:42:34.640
Is there?195301:42:36.079 --> 01:42:54.359
And so ends death flies blind starring Richard Dix with195401:42:54.479 --> 01:42:58.079
Gaiale Page and Montague Love The Night's Tale.195501:42:57.760 --> 01:42:59.720
Of the Ten.195601:43:04.399 --> 01:43:08.600
William Spear, the producer, Head Bliss, Director at Laska, and195701:43:08.640 --> 01:43:13.119
Lucian Mahowick the conductor and composer. John Dixon Carr, the author,195801:43:13.640 --> 01:43:16.439
collaborated on Tonight's a.195901:43:16.520 --> 01:43:46.680
Spend This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.196001:43:47.079 --> 01:43:54.000
Well, my dear, as the night grows deeper, I can't196101:43:54.079 --> 01:43:59.439
help but wonder what things in life can we fight against?196201:44:00.520 --> 01:44:06.600
And how often is that fight for not? After all,196301:44:07.560 --> 01:44:15.279
many things we resist are simply self evident. Our concerns,196401:44:15.520 --> 01:44:23.039
our worries, our fear, in a way, just a law196501:44:24.079 --> 01:44:26.039
of physics.196601:44:27.720 --> 01:44:30.319
And now stay tuned for the mystery program. That is196701:44:30.439 --> 01:44:33.800
unique among all mystery programs because even when you know196801:44:33.880 --> 01:44:37.680
who is guilty, you always receive a startling surprise at196901:44:37.680 --> 01:44:54.479
the final curtain. In the Signal Oil program, the Whistler signal,197001:44:54.800 --> 01:44:57.600
the famous go Father gasoline invites you to sit back197101:44:57.640 --> 01:45:01.920
and enjoy another strange story by the whistler.197201:45:19.600 --> 01:45:23.159
I am the whistler, and I know many things. For197301:45:23.319 --> 01:45:27.239
I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden197401:45:27.239 --> 01:45:29.239
in the hearts of men and women who have stepped197501:45:29.279 --> 01:45:33.760
into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of197601:45:33.840 --> 01:45:35.520
which they dare not speak.197701:45:39.680 --> 01:45:43.039
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler strange197801:45:43.079 --> 01:45:47.359
story a law of physics.197901:45:57.680 --> 01:46:00.600
The narrow, twisting road that hugged the canyon wall was198001:46:00.640 --> 01:46:04.720
precarious at best, but at the height of a driving rainstorm,198101:46:04.800 --> 01:46:09.079
it became a treacherous, uncharted course, and Ross Warren's car198201:46:09.159 --> 01:46:11.399
was literally out of control as he tried to steer198301:46:11.479 --> 01:46:14.640
it safely down the canyon. The headlights were of little198401:46:14.640 --> 01:46:17.239
help as the rain washed across the windshield in great198501:46:17.279 --> 01:46:21.000
sheets that obscured his vision. The older man seated next198601:46:21.039 --> 01:46:24.720
to Ross, his hands braced against the panel, peering tensely198701:46:24.760 --> 01:46:28.680
through its windshield, was Dexter Brand, important client of the198801:46:28.760 --> 01:46:32.960
Ross Warren advertising agency. Suddenly, in between the waves of rain,198901:46:33.479 --> 01:46:35.760
Ross could see the road ahead of him quite clearly.199001:46:35.840 --> 01:46:38.800
For just an instant, a split second, the car was199101:46:38.840 --> 01:46:41.000
headed for the far side of the road and a199201:46:41.079 --> 01:46:44.720
sheer drop of several hundred feet. With one tremendous effort,199301:46:44.840 --> 01:46:46.760
Ross turned sharply, plied the.199401:46:46.760 --> 01:46:48.880
Wet brakes, and green headlong toward them.199501:46:48.920 --> 01:46:49.039
Up.199601:46:58.039 --> 01:46:59.199
Are you all right, mister Brad?199701:47:01.279 --> 01:47:05.880
Yes, I'm all right, Thank goodness, I'm sorry, really sorry.199801:47:06.119 --> 01:47:08.399
I don't know what happened to this car, and I199901:47:08.439 --> 01:47:12.840
couldn't see never seen such a storm. Now what do200001:47:12.920 --> 01:47:16.560
we do? I don't think we have much choice, mister Brand.200101:47:17.319 --> 01:47:19.479
You know there aren't many cars on this road, even200201:47:19.479 --> 01:47:22.520
in good weather. Come on, I guess we'll have to200301:47:22.560 --> 01:47:27.000
walk at least as far as the Edgeley Place. Of course,200401:47:27.000 --> 01:47:29.119
that's a good mile down the canyon from here. But200501:47:29.399 --> 01:47:33.520
they've got a phone. All right, But well, i'll be200601:47:34.039 --> 01:47:37.640
what is it, mister Brand? A car coming around the200701:47:37.680 --> 01:47:43.159
curve ahead of us, Hey, you're there, give it the200801:47:43.199 --> 01:47:43.920
head we are.200901:47:46.640 --> 01:47:48.600
That looks like you needed anybody hurt?201001:47:48.760 --> 01:47:53.039
No, no, not hurt. Can you take us back to town? Sure,201101:47:53.159 --> 01:47:54.640
pil in, I'll get the bags.201201:47:54.720 --> 01:47:55.640
Ain't any help with them?201301:47:55.760 --> 01:47:57.520
No, no, I've got them.201401:47:57.520 --> 01:48:02.399
Okay, I'll just put him in the back seat here.201501:48:06.399 --> 01:48:09.079
I don't know who you are, young man, but you're201601:48:09.119 --> 01:48:12.920
a friend of mine. My name's Brand, Dexter Brand.201701:48:13.039 --> 01:48:14.960
Glad to know you, mister Brand. I'm Bob Turner.201801:48:15.279 --> 01:48:18.359
Oh and this is Ross Warre and mister Turner, how201901:48:18.399 --> 01:48:21.159
do you do I think if you'll drive ahead for202001:48:21.199 --> 01:48:23.000
about a quarter of a mile. You'll find a place202101:48:23.000 --> 01:48:24.720
wide enough to turn around in, mister Turner.202201:48:24.800 --> 01:48:27.640
Okay, thanks, yeah, but what about your car? We'd better202301:48:27.680 --> 01:48:28.640
call a garage, hadn't we.202401:48:28.880 --> 01:48:31.800
It's a good idea, but hadn't we better wait till202501:48:31.840 --> 01:48:32.560
we get to a phone.202601:48:32.640 --> 01:48:34.640
We don't have to, mister Warren. I've got a phone202701:48:34.640 --> 01:48:38.279
here in the car you have. I've heard of him,202801:48:38.439 --> 01:48:40.600
a wonderful gadget. Believe me, I wouldn't be with that.202901:48:40.720 --> 01:48:44.239
One just installs service in this area. What's the name203001:48:44.239 --> 01:48:45.319
of your garage.203101:48:44.920 --> 01:48:50.359
In Tom Hoffman's phone numbers Lawton three two sixty four.203201:48:50.560 --> 01:48:52.720
Well, this star might give us some trouble on the call,203301:48:52.800 --> 01:48:55.600
but it's worth a try. Only trick is this button.203401:48:55.720 --> 01:48:57.880
You push it down to talk, release it to listen.203501:49:01.680 --> 01:49:03.159
This is your mobile operator.203601:49:04.479 --> 01:49:08.359
This is w J six five three eighty three. I203701:49:08.399 --> 01:49:10.560
want Lawton three two sixty four.203801:49:11.439 --> 01:49:12.359
One moment, please.203901:49:25.920 --> 01:49:30.079
Pakman's garage is Plotton three two six four.204001:49:31.319 --> 01:49:34.960
I have a call for you one moment, Please go ahead.204101:49:34.640 --> 01:49:37.039
Please here, mister Warren. The garage is on the lone.204201:49:37.039 --> 01:49:40.520
Oh thanks, Hello, This is Ross Warren.204301:49:41.159 --> 01:49:42.600
Oh, yes, this is Tom.204401:49:42.680 --> 01:49:43.720
Mister Warren what's the.204501:49:43.680 --> 01:49:46.840
Trouble wreck my car on Willow Canyon Road?204601:49:46.960 --> 01:49:50.680
Tom, I'm okay, but the car's in bad shape far up,204701:49:51.560 --> 01:49:55.199
about about fifteen miles from town, a mile or so204801:49:55.319 --> 01:49:57.760
above the Edgeley Place. Better send a toe car and204901:49:57.800 --> 01:50:00.600
get this wreck off the road before someone piles in it.205001:50:00.880 --> 01:50:04.159
Right away, mister Warren, you'll be riding in with us.205101:50:04.640 --> 01:50:08.399
No, no, I've got a ride, Tom. Do the best205201:50:08.439 --> 01:50:10.159
you can, huh, and let me know when you get205301:50:10.159 --> 01:50:13.960
through looking her over you'll be mister Warren. Goodbye, Tom,205401:50:14.359 --> 01:50:14.920
and thanks.205501:50:28.359 --> 01:50:31.279
The car phone made a deep impression on dexter Brand's,205601:50:31.279 --> 01:50:34.479
your biggest client, didn't it, Ross, And you're certain that205701:50:34.520 --> 01:50:37.479
Bob Turner, owner of the car, made an even deeper one,205801:50:38.159 --> 01:50:41.079
And his dramatic appearance on the seldom travel road from205901:50:41.079 --> 01:50:45.920
dexter Brand's cabin into town seems more than a mere coincidence, doesn't.206001:50:46.880 --> 01:50:50.239
The next morning, as you reach your office, you find that.206101:50:50.239 --> 01:50:53.079
It is you been.206201:50:53.079 --> 01:50:53.760
I'm frantic.206301:50:54.079 --> 01:50:56.479
No, no, it couldn't be as bad as all that.206401:50:56.640 --> 01:50:57.319
Well, couldn't it?206501:50:57.520 --> 01:50:59.880
Oh morning, I've been crazy looking for you.206601:51:00.000 --> 01:51:01.800
I'll suppose you calm down. Oh I'm done?206701:51:01.880 --> 01:51:04.079
How can I He's dead? I tell you he's dead.206801:51:04.079 --> 01:51:04.560
All right, dead?206901:51:04.640 --> 01:51:06.720
Now he's dead. Now, who's dead.207001:51:06.640 --> 01:51:07.920
Mister average American?207101:51:08.239 --> 01:51:12.800
That's who's dead, Wayne Parks, the man we're featuring in207201:51:12.800 --> 01:51:13.479
this month's ad.207301:51:13.600 --> 01:51:17.119
Yes a stroke and Graphic Magazine is holding their presses207401:51:17.159 --> 01:51:20.319
and howling for another layout right away, because well, how.207501:51:20.239 --> 01:51:22.800
Can we salute mister average American when he's dead?207601:51:23.479 --> 01:51:26.920
What are we going to do? Rush them next month's layout?207701:51:26.920 --> 01:51:28.039
Of course, there isn't.207801:51:27.880 --> 01:51:30.359
Any mister Warren. That was the last of the series.207901:51:30.359 --> 01:51:32.920
Don't you remember next month it's all different.208001:51:33.359 --> 01:51:34.560
That's right, I'd forgotten.208101:51:36.119 --> 01:51:37.359
We are in a hole, aren't.208201:51:37.159 --> 01:51:38.000
We, mister Warren?208301:51:38.119 --> 01:51:39.520
If I may, you'll have to wait.208401:51:39.560 --> 01:51:42.279
Mister Warren is very busy now and emergency has come up.208501:51:42.439 --> 01:51:44.439
I know you left the door open, and I couldn't208601:51:44.439 --> 01:51:47.800
help overhearing, mister Warren, I'm familiar with your campaign, and208701:51:47.840 --> 01:51:49.600
I believe there's a simple way to save that.208801:51:50.039 --> 01:51:52.840
Mister Turner again, you seem to have a knack of208901:51:52.840 --> 01:51:54.279
turning up at just the right minute.209001:51:54.479 --> 01:51:55.359
You've got an idea.209101:51:55.560 --> 01:51:58.680
Yes, why not change the caption we salute do we209201:51:59.039 --> 01:52:01.840
mourn mister average America? All the rest of it can209301:52:01.880 --> 01:52:03.039
remain pretty much as it is.209401:52:03.800 --> 01:52:07.680
Hey, hey, maybe you've got something there, Edna, did you hear?209501:52:07.920 --> 01:52:09.039
I think that's wonderful.209601:52:09.600 --> 01:52:12.680
I'm so relieved all morning, the magazine calling and me209701:52:12.760 --> 01:52:13.800
not knowing where you were.209801:52:14.079 --> 01:52:16.000
I don't know what you came to see me about,209901:52:16.079 --> 01:52:18.000
mister Turner, but the way I feel right now, you210001:52:18.000 --> 01:52:18.800
can ask anything.210101:52:18.840 --> 01:52:19.520
I'll just make it.210201:52:19.560 --> 01:52:19.800
Bob.210301:52:20.039 --> 01:52:22.399
I'm with Blaine and Blaine, mister Warren, the big Hollywood210401:52:22.399 --> 01:52:25.239
advertising agency. No wonder you had to know how on210501:52:25.359 --> 01:52:28.760
the d h Okay, Bob, what can I do for you?210601:52:28.880 --> 01:52:30.319
And you can make it ross?210701:52:30.399 --> 01:52:30.800
Okay?210801:52:31.079 --> 01:52:34.239
Well, let me tell you a story. On my last vacation,210901:52:34.520 --> 01:52:38.279
someone looted my car, took everything, including my fishing tackle. So,211001:52:38.479 --> 01:52:40.720
passing through Laketown here on my way to the lake,211101:52:40.920 --> 01:52:43.520
I bought some new gear made by a manufacturer here in.211201:52:43.520 --> 01:52:46.359
Town, the man you met last night, mister brand I211301:52:46.399 --> 01:52:47.399
handle his advertising.211401:52:47.479 --> 01:52:48.239
I know well.211501:52:48.279 --> 01:52:50.600
His gear's wonderful, But later, when I tried to get211601:52:50.600 --> 01:52:52.960
more of it in some of the eastern cities, nobody211701:52:52.960 --> 01:52:54.840
had ever heard of brand fishing equipment.211801:52:54.920 --> 01:52:56.680
He only sells in the Western States.211901:52:56.800 --> 01:52:59.640
That's what I don't get. How Come why if he212001:52:59.720 --> 01:53:02.960
everise more, is that what you're here for. Don't get212101:53:03.000 --> 01:53:05.600
me wrong. I'm not trying to chisel your account, just212201:53:05.640 --> 01:53:06.520
the opposite.212301:53:06.720 --> 01:53:07.279
You see.212401:53:07.760 --> 01:53:09.520
I'm fed up with my job and I've got a212501:53:09.520 --> 01:53:12.039
little money put by, and I thought of starting my212601:53:12.079 --> 01:53:16.960
own agency, maybe in some place like Laketown. Here, Oh, competition,212701:53:17.079 --> 01:53:19.560
huh not if you don't want it. This is a212801:53:19.560 --> 01:53:22.520
manufacturing town. I figure there must be lots of local212901:53:22.560 --> 01:53:24.439
men who could triple their business if they went in213001:53:24.479 --> 01:53:27.640
for wider advertising. Now you've got a nice setup here.213101:53:28.199 --> 01:53:30.039
If I can sell some of them on the idea,213201:53:30.760 --> 01:53:35.159
could you and I maybe talk partnership? Partnership, say on213301:53:35.199 --> 01:53:37.920
any new accounts I bring in and any hikes on213401:53:37.960 --> 01:53:38.640
old ones.213501:53:39.560 --> 01:53:42.199
You know, Turner, I think maybe I'll give it a try.213601:53:42.560 --> 01:53:45.600
Swell on one condition, you either sell mister Brand on213701:53:45.680 --> 01:53:48.279
national advertising or you find yourself another town.213801:53:48.640 --> 01:53:49.239
Fair enough.213901:53:49.560 --> 01:53:51.720
By the way, mister Brand and his daughter are having214001:53:51.760 --> 01:53:54.279
dinner with me tonight, Why why don't you join us? Hey,214101:53:54.399 --> 01:53:56.479
that's great, that'll give you a chance to sound up214201:53:56.520 --> 01:54:01.000
mister Brand. But no passages a kittie Brand. She's beautiful214301:54:01.039 --> 01:54:04.199
and she's mine engaged. Eh, Well, we haven't announced it,214401:54:04.279 --> 01:54:17.960
so mum's the word. Huh, Okay, I'll be good. You214501:54:18.039 --> 01:54:20.880
thought you did that rather well, didn't you, Ross? But214601:54:21.079 --> 01:54:23.520
you know that in Dexter Brand Bob Turner will come214701:54:23.600 --> 01:54:26.800
up against a stone wall, and you have Bob's word214801:54:26.800 --> 01:54:28.399
that if he fails, he'll leave town.214901:54:29.119 --> 01:54:32.600
Yes, Ross, he'll leave. Never knowing you lied about being215001:54:32.600 --> 01:54:35.000
engaged to Kitty. You couldn't know, could you that by215101:54:35.039 --> 01:54:38.720
inviting him to dinner with the Brands, you were inviting disaster.215201:54:39.680 --> 01:54:42.600
I'll tell you why I'm being so hard headed. You see,215301:54:42.640 --> 01:54:45.920
I hate manufacturing. Got into it in spite of myself.215401:54:46.239 --> 01:54:48.279
I couldn't get the kind of fishing rod I wanted,215501:54:48.319 --> 01:54:50.399
so I went ahead and made one and saw it.215601:54:50.600 --> 01:54:53.079
I had to make another, then another and another. First thing,215701:54:53.119 --> 01:54:56.239
I know, I'm manufacturing all kinds of fishing tackle.215801:54:56.560 --> 01:54:57.359
That's why I hate.215901:54:57.399 --> 01:54:58.000
It.216001:54:58.039 --> 01:55:00.560
Doesn't leave me enough time to fish. If I were216101:55:00.600 --> 01:55:03.439
to expand, it would leave me even less. And I216201:55:03.640 --> 01:55:04.520
love fishing.216301:55:05.680 --> 01:55:06.520
I don't believe it.216401:55:07.159 --> 01:55:08.600
I beg your pardon.216501:55:08.880 --> 01:55:10.640
I said, sir that I don't think you give a216601:55:10.640 --> 01:55:11.560
hoot about fishing.216701:55:11.600 --> 01:55:13.960
Okay, young man, are you trying to tell me I'm216801:55:14.000 --> 01:55:17.279
afraid you read the wrong line that time. Yes, young man,216901:55:17.880 --> 01:55:19.600
I wish you'd explain that remark.217001:55:19.760 --> 01:55:22.279
Well, you said yourself, sir, that you made rods for217101:55:22.319 --> 01:55:25.159
your friends, and why because you wanted them to have217201:55:25.239 --> 01:55:27.119
the best, so they could enjoy their fishing as you217301:55:27.239 --> 01:55:29.760
enjoyed yours, of course, which proves you'll think of the217401:55:29.800 --> 01:55:32.840
thousands of Isaac Waltons whose vacations will be spoiled for217501:55:33.039 --> 01:55:35.920
lack of brand equipment. Why every time a good one217601:55:35.960 --> 01:55:39.399
gets away from a polly hook or snap's an inferior rod, You,217701:55:39.640 --> 01:55:41.720
mister brand, are directly responsible.217801:55:43.960 --> 01:55:46.680
By Joe, That's the best argument I've heard yet.217901:55:47.640 --> 01:55:52.239
Ross, you ought to take this. This caniveron as a partner,218001:55:53.199 --> 01:55:56.000
you really think so, sir, He will, sir, if you'll218101:55:56.039 --> 01:55:57.159
expand your coverage.218201:55:57.239 --> 01:55:59.039
Oh so it's a plot.218301:55:59.800 --> 01:56:02.880
Well, Ross, it looks like I'm stuck with more advertising218401:56:02.960 --> 01:56:05.800
and you're stuck with a partner. And if I were218501:56:05.840 --> 01:56:08.600
you right, look out, he's likely to take over your218601:56:08.640 --> 01:56:12.159
whole business. In that case, I'm afraid I'd have to218701:56:12.159 --> 01:56:20.279
find a way to dissolve the partnership.218801:56:27.840 --> 01:56:30.279
If a shiny new car doesn't happen to fit within218901:56:30.319 --> 01:56:32.760
your budget, this year. No need to envy the other guy.219001:56:33.479 --> 01:56:35.960
After all, it's easy to enjoy the next best thing.219101:56:36.520 --> 01:56:40.279
And what's that why any car? Your car powered with219201:56:40.399 --> 01:56:45.760
Signal ethel the premium grade of Signal's famous go Farther gasoline. Yes,219301:56:45.840 --> 01:56:50.000
this super powerful super fuel is scientifically engineered to bring219401:56:50.039 --> 01:56:52.920
out the best in cars of any age. And when219501:56:52.960 --> 01:56:55.439
I say best, I mean the kind of performance many219601:56:55.520 --> 01:56:56.840
drivers never thought their.219701:56:56.680 --> 01:56:57.560
Car is capable of.219801:56:58.159 --> 01:57:00.359
I mean pick up, the kind that carry with it219901:57:00.399 --> 01:57:03.479
that satisfying feeling when the back of the seat comes220001:57:03.560 --> 01:57:06.760
up and nudges you gently forward. And I mean power220101:57:07.159 --> 01:57:10.520
the kind of rockets you easily smoothly over hills, steep220201:57:10.600 --> 01:57:14.000
hills that used to call for shifting. Don't get the idea,220301:57:14.079 --> 01:57:16.760
of course, that Signal ethyl's going to let you step away.220401:57:16.520 --> 01:57:17.880
From all new cars.220501:57:18.479 --> 01:57:21.560
After all, smart new car drivers use Signal Ethyl two220601:57:21.800 --> 01:57:24.720
to bring out all the exciting performance that's built into220701:57:24.720 --> 01:57:28.840
today's power packed, high compression motors. But of this, you220801:57:29.000 --> 01:57:32.039
can be sure the next best thing to a new220901:57:32.119 --> 01:57:44.079
car is your car powered with Signal Ethyl gasoline.221001:57:54.159 --> 01:57:56.880
Well, RUSS, A lot of things have changed since Bob221101:57:56.960 --> 01:57:59.720
Turner came into your life. Six months ago in that221201:58:00.159 --> 01:58:03.079
arm on the Willow Canyon Road. He's become a full221301:58:03.119 --> 01:58:04.079
fledged partner in.221401:58:04.000 --> 01:58:05.279
Your advertising agency.221501:58:05.640 --> 01:58:09.000
After selling Dexter Brand on the idea of a national campaign,221601:58:09.720 --> 01:58:12.560
and other accounts of followed Brand's lead, until your business221701:58:12.640 --> 01:58:15.319
has nearly tripled, Bob sold you too, hasn't he?221801:58:15.439 --> 01:58:16.399
Ross? True?221901:58:16.479 --> 01:58:18.920
You work harder and longer than you ever have, but222001:58:19.000 --> 01:58:21.760
you've acquired a great many things you've wanted. A healthy222101:58:21.800 --> 01:58:25.319
bank account, a big new car with all the extras, yes,222201:58:25.960 --> 01:58:30.079
even including a car telephone. Through it all, you've had222301:58:30.239 --> 01:58:32.760
just one regret, haven't you, Ross? You haven't been able222401:58:32.800 --> 01:58:35.399
to see Kitty Brand nearly as often as you'd wanted to.222501:58:35.880 --> 01:58:37.800
But as you walk up the front steps to her222601:58:37.840 --> 01:58:40.880
home to keep your first date in weeks, you're certain222701:58:40.920 --> 01:58:43.640
that tonight will make up for all the nights you've222801:58:43.640 --> 01:58:49.279
been away from Kitty.222901:58:49.439 --> 01:58:49.560
Hi.223001:58:50.279 --> 01:58:53.239
You the official greeter here now only when it's the223101:58:53.279 --> 01:58:55.039
maid's night out or Dad's packing.223201:58:55.319 --> 01:58:56.039
Come in Ross.223301:58:56.159 --> 01:58:58.279
Your father taking a trip just up to the lake.223401:58:59.159 --> 01:59:01.439
He and Bob I have a theory about some special223501:59:01.520 --> 01:59:04.439
tackle or something. You couldn't prove it by me, but223601:59:04.479 --> 01:59:06.399
anyway they're going to try it out. Come on in223701:59:06.399 --> 01:59:08.439
the library. I'd mixed some cocktails.223801:59:08.720 --> 01:59:11.319
Bob's going too huh, funny you didn't mention it.223901:59:11.600 --> 01:59:14.319
I think he's just driving Dad up tonight. Probably spend224001:59:14.319 --> 01:59:18.319
a morrow fishing. Oh, I see here we are, sit down, Ross.224101:59:19.880 --> 01:59:22.960
Oh, you look wonderful, Kitty. Do you mind if I224201:59:23.039 --> 01:59:23.439
drink to that?224301:59:23.720 --> 01:59:25.680
Well, let's make it that we both look wonderful, so224401:59:25.760 --> 01:59:26.560
we can both drink.224501:59:26.720 --> 01:59:34.880
That's fair enough, yeah to us, because we're beautiful.224601:59:37.880 --> 01:59:39.920
Oh. I missed you, Kitty so much.224701:59:40.279 --> 01:59:42.159
Well that's nice for us.224801:59:42.279 --> 01:59:43.279
No, it isn't nice.224901:59:43.560 --> 01:59:44.439
I don't like missing you.225001:59:45.279 --> 01:59:46.560
I don't ever want to miss you again.225101:59:46.760 --> 01:59:48.760
Oh, my, so serious.225201:59:49.159 --> 01:59:51.640
I am serious, Kitty. I don't think I realized how225301:59:51.680 --> 01:59:53.479
serious I was until I saw you again a few225401:59:53.479 --> 01:59:53.960
minutes ago.225501:59:54.560 --> 01:59:56.199
Chitty Darling, I love you, Rose.225601:59:57.600 --> 01:59:59.960
My goodness, just one swallow from a martine.225702:00:00.159 --> 02:00:01.239
I want you to marry me, Kitty.225802:00:01.800 --> 02:00:04.960
I've wanted you to for a long time, but now225902:00:04.960 --> 02:00:05.600
I'm in a position.226002:00:05.720 --> 02:00:05.920
Ros.226102:00:06.000 --> 02:00:09.159
Please don't don't say these things, not now.226202:00:09.319 --> 02:00:11.239
This is the first time I've been able to say them.226302:00:11.479 --> 02:00:14.039
You've known all along, you must I thought.226402:00:13.840 --> 02:00:14.720
I knew, Ross, But.226502:00:16.359 --> 02:00:17.600
Why did you wait so long?226602:00:17.880 --> 02:00:21.159
I had to, Darling. I wanted money, lots of money.226702:00:21.199 --> 02:00:23.960
It wouldn't have mattered before, Ross, don't you see it226802:00:23.960 --> 02:00:24.840
would have been all right?226902:00:25.760 --> 02:00:26.239
But now.227002:00:27.680 --> 02:00:28.960
Now it's all.227102:00:28.800 --> 02:00:31.239
Different, Kitty.227202:00:31.479 --> 02:00:32.439
What's so different?227302:00:33.239 --> 02:00:35.359
I just got more money now. I haven't changed, but227402:00:35.439 --> 02:00:35.760
I have.227502:00:36.880 --> 02:00:39.359
I didn't want to, Ross, really I didn't, but I227602:00:39.479 --> 02:00:43.159
changed in spite of myself. I guess I'm in love, Ross,227702:00:43.359 --> 02:00:46.760
really in love for the first time, Kitty.227802:00:48.079 --> 02:00:50.479
But who with the man.227902:00:50.399 --> 02:00:53.279
Who doesn't even know it? He's never said anything or228002:00:53.479 --> 02:00:54.079
done anything?228102:00:54.159 --> 02:00:55.960
Or Ross.228202:00:56.000 --> 02:00:59.239
I don't want to hurt you, but it's it's.228302:00:59.079 --> 02:01:04.960
Bob, Bob, Bob Turner, Boilin.228402:01:05.560 --> 02:01:08.880
I've told you he's done absolutely nothing about it. I'm228502:01:08.880 --> 02:01:13.720
sure he hasn't any idea how I feel. But since228602:01:13.760 --> 02:01:18.439
I do feel that way, Ross, I well, there's not228702:01:18.520 --> 02:01:23.000
much I can do about it. Is there no no Kitty?228802:01:24.319 --> 02:01:25.359
I guess there isn't.228902:01:35.920 --> 02:01:38.960
Kitty and Bob. It's quite a shock, isn't it, Ross,229002:01:38.960 --> 02:01:41.720
Not at all the way you plan. You realize you'll229102:01:41.760 --> 02:01:44.600
have to do something about Bob because you're determined that229202:01:44.640 --> 02:01:47.640
no one can have Kitty, but you you're still searching229302:01:47.680 --> 02:01:50.640
for a solution. Shortly before midnight, as you enter your229402:01:50.640 --> 02:01:52.760
apartment to find the phone naming.229502:01:55.760 --> 02:01:56.960
Hello, Ross.229602:01:57.000 --> 02:01:57.560
This is Bob.229702:01:57.720 --> 02:01:58.800
Didn't wake you today.229802:01:59.159 --> 02:02:02.520
O just got in. Where are you calling from?229902:02:02.600 --> 02:02:05.119
I've hoped mister Brand's cabin. Going to spend the night230002:02:05.159 --> 02:02:08.079
here do some fishing tomorrow, but I'm driving back to town230102:02:08.039 --> 02:02:08.640
tomorrow night.230202:02:09.800 --> 02:02:10.760
I see.230302:02:10.399 --> 02:02:13.199
I'd like to see you tomorrow night, if you can230402:02:13.239 --> 02:02:15.560
make it. Ross, I've got some things to talk over230502:02:15.600 --> 02:02:15.840
with you.230602:02:16.840 --> 02:02:20.720
Okay, Bob, but if you're off on a little fishing junket,230702:02:20.800 --> 02:02:21.720
forget about business.230802:02:21.720 --> 02:02:23.600
Oh, I don't want to see you about business.230902:02:23.680 --> 02:02:23.960
Ross.231002:02:23.960 --> 02:02:26.319
It's well, I just want to talk with you a while.231102:02:26.560 --> 02:02:27.880
I'd prefer to do it in person.231202:02:28.159 --> 02:02:32.760
Uh fine, fine, suppose we meet at your apartment whenever231302:02:32.760 --> 02:02:33.359
you say.231402:02:33.359 --> 02:02:35.760
Oh good, I'll leave here at seven point thirty. That231502:02:35.760 --> 02:02:38.239
should get me back to town about nine. How does231602:02:38.279 --> 02:02:38.680
that sound?231702:02:38.880 --> 02:02:39.079
Nine?231802:02:39.079 --> 02:02:40.319
It is tomorrow night.231902:02:40.439 --> 02:02:41.079
I'll see you then.232002:02:41.279 --> 02:02:43.279
Good night, goodbye, Bob.232102:02:44.159 --> 02:02:47.960
Your solution came suddenly, didn't it, Ross, and Bob gave232202:02:48.000 --> 02:02:51.760
it to himself. A little after eight the next evening,232302:02:52.159 --> 02:02:54.239
you park your car in the heavy woods at the232402:02:54.279 --> 02:02:57.199
foot of a well known slide area on Willow canyon road.232502:02:57.760 --> 02:03:00.159
In a matter of minutes, you roll several bowldersn't the232602:03:00.199 --> 02:03:02.319
middle of the road, and then as you hear.232702:03:02.199 --> 02:03:04.880
A car approaching, you rush back to your own car.232802:03:05.079 --> 02:03:08.720
Completely hidden from sight, you peer through the thick trees232902:03:09.000 --> 02:03:12.920
see Bob's car approaching. He suddenly swings to miss the boulders,233002:03:13.319 --> 02:03:16.239
balances precariously on the drop side of the road, and233102:03:16.279 --> 02:03:19.399
then the car miraculously rights itself, hugs the road again,233202:03:19.439 --> 02:03:21.039
and moves past the.233302:03:21.000 --> 02:03:22.640
Boulders to a safe stop.233402:03:31.720 --> 02:03:35.279
You fail, didn't you ross You watch Bob get out233502:03:35.319 --> 02:03:37.840
of his car, push the boulders to the side of233602:03:37.840 --> 02:03:41.000
the road, return to his car, and start for town.233702:03:42.000 --> 02:03:43.000
As you pull your.233802:03:42.840 --> 02:03:45.279
Car onto the road and drive slowly down the canyon233902:03:45.319 --> 02:03:48.479
toward town, you realize you must get rid of Bob Turner.234002:03:49.039 --> 02:03:51.880
Once he's out of the way, you'll control all the234102:03:51.920 --> 02:03:54.399
new business he's brought in and have a clear field234202:03:54.439 --> 02:03:56.920
with Kitty. Then it hits you an even better plan,234302:03:57.520 --> 02:04:00.399
and you're certain you'll not fail again. There's an automatic234402:04:00.479 --> 02:04:03.600
in your glove compartment and an alibi in your car telephone.234502:04:03.840 --> 02:04:05.720
He will stop the car and place it called the234602:04:05.800 --> 02:04:07.840
Huffman's garage in Laketown.234702:04:09.880 --> 02:04:11.640
Halfman's Garage, Tim speaking.234802:04:12.439 --> 02:04:15.560
This is Ross Warren, Tom afraid I need your toe234902:04:15.600 --> 02:04:16.119
car again.235002:04:16.720 --> 02:04:18.039
Uh oh, don't tell me.235102:04:18.079 --> 02:04:19.479
You're Strandon and Willow.235202:04:19.279 --> 02:04:20.199
Canyon Road again.235302:04:21.079 --> 02:04:25.439
Well not this time, Tom. I'm about twenty miles out235402:04:25.479 --> 02:04:27.840
on the Merylton Road. A car went out of control235502:04:28.319 --> 02:04:30.199
just by those bluffs. You know the spot?235602:04:30.760 --> 02:04:33.640
Sure, hello, mister Warren, who will be there?235702:04:33.720 --> 02:04:35.159
But it may take an hour or so.235802:04:35.560 --> 02:04:38.039
The truck's out now and there's another call ahead of you.235902:04:38.560 --> 02:04:42.079
Well that's okay, Tom, there's no hurry. I'll wait right236002:04:42.079 --> 02:04:43.039
here in the car for you.236102:04:50.279 --> 02:04:51.239
It's a break, isn't it.236202:04:51.319 --> 02:04:51.680
Ross.236302:04:51.960 --> 02:04:54.359
An hour will give you ample time to get to town.236402:04:54.840 --> 02:04:57.520
Take care of Bob Turner and drive out to the236502:04:57.520 --> 02:05:00.800
bluffs on the Merylton Road. You'll wreck your car there.236602:05:01.319 --> 02:05:03.720
Make certain of a perfect alibi in the.236702:05:03.680 --> 02:05:21.119
Bark Well, Ross, you're punk, Joe, you've a little ahead236802:05:21.119 --> 02:05:21.439
of time.236902:05:21.640 --> 02:05:22.399
I just got here.237002:05:24.359 --> 02:05:24.640
I know.237102:05:25.399 --> 02:05:29.600
Sit down, man, I need a drink down near turn237202:05:29.680 --> 02:05:31.880
the car over coming down here boulders in the road237302:05:31.880 --> 02:05:35.159
along that slide area. I know that too, you do,237402:05:35.960 --> 02:05:39.680
But how I just bob this personal matter? You want237502:05:39.680 --> 02:05:43.439
to discuss with me. It's Kitty, isn't it? Well, yes, Ross,237602:05:43.439 --> 02:05:45.439
it is. I thought we could talk it out, you237702:05:45.479 --> 02:05:46.159
and I.237802:05:46.239 --> 02:05:47.880
You're in love with her? Want to marry her?237902:05:48.319 --> 02:05:48.520
Well?238002:05:48.600 --> 02:05:51.159
Yes, let she in love with you. I don't know.238102:05:52.279 --> 02:05:54.199
Look, Ross, this isn't the way i'd planned it.238202:05:54.319 --> 02:05:55.000
Sit down, won't you?238302:05:55.039 --> 02:05:55.239
And we'll?238402:05:55.279 --> 02:05:57.600
But this is the way I planned it. No, I238502:05:57.640 --> 02:05:59.720
won't sit down. I aim straighter if.238602:05:59.680 --> 02:06:02.199
I stay a Ross, you're crazy.238702:06:02.600 --> 02:06:03.520
Put that gun away?238802:06:03.800 --> 02:06:10.800
Don't okay, Bomb, I don't mind putting the gun away.238902:06:11.720 --> 02:06:22.760
Now he's dead, disn'te Ross. As you turn to leave,239002:06:22.840 --> 02:06:25.479
you pull the draps aside slightly to look out, and239102:06:25.560 --> 02:06:28.520
walking toward the apartment just a few houses down, you239202:06:28.640 --> 02:06:32.239
recognize a familiar figure passing under the street light. It's239302:06:32.399 --> 02:06:39.319
Kitty brand. You sigh with relief that you saw her239402:06:39.399 --> 02:06:42.000
before she could see you. Then you turn quickly race239502:06:42.039 --> 02:06:44.199
for the back of the apartment, let yourself out the239602:06:44.239 --> 02:06:46.960
back entrance, and rush out into the night towards your car,239702:06:47.039 --> 02:06:49.560
parked in the side of the street. Once there, you239802:06:49.680 --> 02:06:52.680
check your time. You have half an hour, Ross Ampul239902:06:52.760 --> 02:06:54.880
time to drive for the bluffs on the Marroquon Road240002:06:55.239 --> 02:06:57.840
before the toe car from the Hoffman garage is due240102:06:57.840 --> 02:07:01.720
to arrive, and you make it with five minutes to spain.240202:07:04.920 --> 02:07:14.399
No to make this alibi Hord there don't ought to240302:07:14.439 --> 02:07:14.800
do it.240402:07:38.840 --> 02:07:41.439
Well, Ross. You're pleased with the way things worked out,240502:07:41.479 --> 02:07:43.720
aren't you. You bashed in the front of your car240602:07:43.800 --> 02:07:46.600
right by the bluffs, just as you plan, and before240702:07:46.640 --> 02:07:49.399
the toe car arrived from town, you had time to240802:07:49.439 --> 02:07:53.159
bury the automatic that killed Bob Turner. You're confident, now,240902:07:53.199 --> 02:07:55.640
aren't you, Ross? Certain that it's just a matter of241002:07:55.680 --> 02:07:58.600
time until Kitty Brand gets over the shock of Bob's241102:07:58.600 --> 02:08:01.239
death and agrees to marry you. The next day, you're241202:08:01.279 --> 02:08:04.479
properly shocked and bereaved as Lieutenant Norris calls for you241302:08:04.520 --> 02:08:07.199
in his police car and the two of you discussed241402:08:07.239 --> 02:08:10.680
the crime. As you ride along. You become so engrossed241502:08:10.720 --> 02:08:13.680
in the discussion you're unaware that he's driven you far241602:08:13.760 --> 02:08:16.479
out from town on the Merylton Road.241702:08:16.960 --> 02:08:20.520
Naturally, I'm anxious to help all I can, Lieutenant Bob241802:08:20.560 --> 02:08:23.600
Turner was well like a brother to me.241902:08:23.840 --> 02:08:25.720
I'm going to take you up on that hell bangle,242002:08:25.760 --> 02:08:26.359
mister Warren.242102:08:26.760 --> 02:08:29.600
Tom Hoffman's already pointed out the spot on the Merylton242202:08:29.720 --> 02:08:31.920
Road where he picked up you and your car last night.242302:08:32.640 --> 02:08:34.560
Why did you to verify that if you don't mind.242402:08:34.800 --> 02:08:40.279
By of course, be glad to I didn't even notice.242502:08:40.439 --> 02:08:45.479
We're almost there, aren't we. That's right, you see, mister.242602:08:45.319 --> 02:08:49.720
Warren, the two stories are a little confusing.242702:08:50.279 --> 02:08:51.399
What two stories?242802:08:51.800 --> 02:08:55.359
Yours and Kitty Brands. She was out for a walk242902:08:55.439 --> 02:08:59.760
last night, dropped by Turner's apartment and discovered his body,243002:09:00.800 --> 02:09:03.479
and she saw your car parked on the side street243102:09:03.600 --> 02:09:04.680
next to the apartment.243202:09:05.159 --> 02:09:06.840
But she couldn't have.243302:09:09.560 --> 02:09:12.760
Both you and Tom Hoffman say you were right here243402:09:12.800 --> 02:09:14.720
in a smashed car at the time.243502:09:15.119 --> 02:09:18.239
But that's true. Hey, that's my car there.243602:09:18.399 --> 02:09:18.560
Now.243702:09:18.600 --> 02:09:21.119
We took the liberty of bringing it back out here,243802:09:21.199 --> 02:09:23.960
mister Warren, to prove something to both of us.243902:09:24.279 --> 02:09:25.000
Come on over here.244002:09:25.000 --> 02:09:29.399
From that, I'm afraid I don't understand, Lieutenant.244102:09:30.000 --> 02:09:35.680
Oh well, now, just for the record, will you get244202:09:35.680 --> 02:09:37.840
in your car and show me how you place that244302:09:38.039 --> 02:09:39.760
call to the garage last night?244402:09:40.199 --> 02:09:40.439
Why?244502:09:41.159 --> 02:09:46.039
Of course, I just picked up the receiver, pushed this244602:09:46.159 --> 02:09:56.800
button and the operator answered, that's funny, something's wrong with244702:09:56.840 --> 02:09:57.399
this phone.244802:09:57.680 --> 02:10:02.279
No, and there's something wrong with you story. I'll see here.244902:10:02.479 --> 02:10:04.680
Tom Hoffman picked me up right here at the same245002:10:04.680 --> 02:10:07.840
time Kitty Brand found Turner dead twenty miles away. In245102:10:07.880 --> 02:10:09.520
case you don't know it, Lieutenant, there's a law of245202:10:09.520 --> 02:10:12.039
physics that says nobody you can occupy two places at245302:10:12.079 --> 02:10:13.079
the same time, that's right.245402:10:13.720 --> 02:10:16.079
And there's a law of electronics that says you couldn't245502:10:16.079 --> 02:10:19.800
possibly have made the phone called Huffman's Garage from this spot, Warren.245602:10:19.600 --> 02:10:21.239
What do you mean I couldn't Just.245702:10:21.359 --> 02:10:25.520
That nobody can make or receive calls from here because245802:10:25.600 --> 02:10:28.600
his whole stretch of road is an absolute dead spot245902:10:28.680 --> 02:10:51.039
for radio.246002:10:53.960 --> 02:10:57.720
Featured in tonight's story, We're Bill Foreman, Let's Tremaine, Gene Bates,246102:10:57.760 --> 02:11:01.880
Bob Bruce, Elizabeth root, Her Butterfield, and Charles Seal. The246202:11:01.880 --> 02:11:04.840
Whistler was produced and directed by George W. Wallen, with246302:11:04.920 --> 02:11:08.439
story by George Asnes, music by Wilbur Hatch, and was246402:11:08.479 --> 02:11:11.680
transmitted to our troops overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service.246502:11:12.239 --> 02:11:15.279
The Whistler is entirely fictional, and all characters portrayed on246602:11:15.319 --> 02:11:18.479
the Whistler are also fictional. Any similarity of names or246702:11:18.520 --> 02:11:22.800
resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Remember246802:11:22.800 --> 02:11:25.000
to tune in at the same time next Sunday, when246902:11:25.000 --> 02:11:28.000
the Signal Oil Company will bring you another strange story247002:11:28.159 --> 02:11:31.720
by the Whistler entitled The Man in the trench Coat,247102:11:32.000 --> 02:11:35.000
in which a topcoat belonging to another man leads the247202:11:35.000 --> 02:11:40.079
wearer to the unmasking of a blackmailer and murder. Marvin247302:11:40.079 --> 02:11:43.079
Miller speaking for the Signal Oil Company. Stay tuned now247402:11:43.119 --> 02:11:46.319
for Armist Brooks starring Eve Arden, which follows immediately over247502:11:46.359 --> 02:12:04.520
most of these stations. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.247602:12:06.960 --> 02:12:12.760
My dear, the sun will be up soon. You should247702:12:12.800 --> 02:12:17.079
return home, and I'll go back to well wherever it247802:12:17.239 --> 02:12:23.119
is I come from. But please do come back. You247902:12:23.319 --> 02:12:27.359
know where I'll be. And if I could ask one248002:12:27.520 --> 02:12:32.880
more small request. As you make your way home, as248102:12:32.960 --> 02:12:38.760
you gallop along the frigid road, as you enter the248202:12:38.800 --> 02:12:43.439
warm embrace of your humble abode, and as you lay248302:12:43.479 --> 02:12:49.319
your head on that soft, cool pillow and prepare to248402:12:49.439 --> 02:12:54.159
head off to the land of gnawd, take one moment248502:12:55.239 --> 02:13:00.359
and be thankful for what you have. I'll be three.248602:13:00.239 --> 02:13:07.399
Years musical body. Emily, Come along with me in my memily, like.248702:13:07.560 --> 02:13:11.159
Your favors when them like you him to follow, all248802:13:11.279 --> 02:13:13.479
the calling him all.248902:13:14.840 --> 02:13:16.319
I'm king.249002:13:17.720 --> 02:13:18.359
That's the wrong.249102:13:18.439 --> 02:13:26.439
Bringing mumbling I think of break
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