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0:09 Ah, my dear, If I'm honest, I wouldn't expect you to make it, what with thee inclement weather we're experiencing. Oh what's that? Well, I do appreciate that you're willing to risk a little bit of life and limb to visit with little old me. Well, I'll be sure to put an extra log on the fire as your tea steeps, something warm to drink, A comfortable chair, and a chilly listen all make for a much more bearable winter time.

0:57 Don't consider this bad weather. Consider this in many ways, your ice palace. That CBS Radio, mystre theater presents. Come in. Welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall, what a fragile species mankind really is.

1:38 We're not nearly so twift. Or agile as many of our lesser cousins. And consider our vulnerability to shift in the temperature on a spectrum that ranges from twelve thousand degrees the temperature of the Sun to the bitter, chilling void of outer space. We can survive unaided only in a microscopic span of less than seventy degrees. There, ghost sun, surely enough? Who was free? Students? We can't get back to our radio our escape has been cut off. The only person who knows we are here on this glacier who would rather see us dead than alive. Our mystery drama, The Ice Palace, was written especially for the Mystery Theater by Percy Grainger and stars Tony Roberts. It is sponsored in part by a Newick motor division. I'll be that shortly with that one. The Arctic regions are a permanent reminder of one of the most dramatic periods in the Earth's history, the Ice Age. Some scientists claim the Earth is cooling down and another ice age is on the way. Others say the Earth is still.

3:10 Warming up and if the trend continues. The vast ice caps will begin to melt. Either way, the polar regions are under constant and careful scooping were lots deep within their massive glaciers, all could be the key to the future of the world. We're board a Canadian naval ice crutters north to be not sup circles, but the time when as here nine hundred Jack, we're ran on schedule a SMA. Around that point of it, there's only ten more miles of ice between us ok or curve. All the boring jut. Cutting channel to ice has got to be the worst. They'll be glad to get back to base.

3:51 And you bet we use the running with ice and snow, the stiff of the forty below prom But I belong up in the air, you know that. So I just don't know why the crowne send. Me on the shoe mission. My eyes are better now, I should be lying there. Well, we're gonna tend more miles of ice and then we're gonna have I shouldn't know. The pilots start bringing here about we're. All my eye get. Ye, hey, yeah, come up here? What is it? My eyes is supposed to be sealed now, right, I didn't have set it just before we left Bate.

4:36 Yeah, and so what's the problem. You tell me? Look the channel, it's already clear. There is no sign of ice anywhere. We are in open water this time of Yeah, the channel is always under a layer of ice. And if we're on course, the immens an iceberg should be off our stop a file, But there's nothing there but open water. When tell a pilet to ten or about we better report this back to the base at once, I. Know, And that's it. Kanel We round his Victoria Point and there was nothing but open water as far as the eye could see. Joe, you know, the ice flows up there never break up.

5:21 Not even during the summer month. Sure you didn't see anything, not even chunks of free floating ice. No, not things. You know, Well, it doesn't make sense. We had a spot a plane over that area not two days ago, and they reported everything was normal. They saw the Mondson iceberg too. So something caused those waters they heat up to the point where it broke up a massive icefield. What kind of a fort could melt that much ice. We don't know for sure that it did. What do you mean or the ice in the channel? Perhaps, but the Mondson iceberg was twenty miles long channel. Nothing could cause something that big to completely disappear. I think it may only have broken up.

6:01 Or shifted, And I think we have to consider that of possibility. And the current and the Victoria Channel flows southwest right into the main shipping lane to the. North slopes of Alaska Sudio. Super Tankers and supplieships moving through that area constantly at this very minute. There could be ice floating directly towards them. We've got to get a scout sign up at one alcohol air wing and have them burn. Please, with your permission, I'd like to go up you and you haven't blown them over a year of My sight's back to normal now, and the doc gave me a clean fleet. But I don't know. It's not that I don't get along with Captain Gates. I do, but I'm a pilot channel. I don't belong on the ship. Okay, when help you, sir? I hope I made the right decision to them. I think you did before.

6:56 That car accident. There wasn't a better pilot than the wing, that's right, or the actions. They'll be fine, He'll be fine. You just need to get his confidence back. Well. I hope you're right. Yeah, when it's up, I wish to speak to our corobat. It is important, all right, come in, come in. You're his courbacks. They had them and they have him over its down the peninsula and afraid I have a serious problem, which belows that your feet cup too. If you will please look out the window. Oh well, hell congratulate, and that's fact. You and your people have had a record feel.

7:37 The overs here. You know we have not brought these things to your Gates for your admiration. To we did not kill them? For then who did? That? Is what I must find out from you, this wondering. They were found to wash up and they before. I can't they just stow them like you always do, or that would not be safe? Oh? Why not? Because we cannot be said them how they died? Excuse me, Connel the cooler back. Did you say these seals that they've walked the shore? Yes? But how can you be. Sure they died at seed? How do you know they weren't already on the beach because we have seen other ceilings in the water floating with their very tunnel. With your permission, I'd like to go out with Kolback and examine those animals.

8:24 Joe, we've got a farm or a serious situation. But it repossible, sir, that there may be a connection between the disappearance of that glacier and the fate of those seals. I think we'd better find out how they died. They haven't even kept them. They did not want this minitary they hear. There's still no proof that we are responsible. There are any visible wounds on the animals. Look more closely, escape, look's discolored and shriveled, almost like it's been charred.

9:06 Is not deep? What happens so skating which has been exposed to nuclear radiation? Yes, actually it is. But there's no nuclear testing going on in the Arctic by either the rest or the ease. How can your state is for testing? Well, any nuclear explosions would have registered on our monstering equipment bodies. Not the whole point for each side could try to think up weapons which would escape detection. But we'll run tests on one of the fields is if our government is in any way responsible, believe me, we'll make it up to you. Nuclear radiation, that's impossible, perhaps, but those animals exhibited all the signs of having died from a massive rate gioactive shock. Captain, do you understand the implications of what you were saying?

10:04 If some nation is using the Arctic of a testing. Ground and they developed a weapon that can eliminate a twenty mile long iceberg without registering so much as a tit on our seize mona. We still don't know the Amonton iceberg is vanished entirely. Wind hasn't radioed in yet. Oh tyl kamswiki, Yeah, be sure of that. Thanks very much. Now that was a lab. They completed the autopsy in one of those seals. There was no sign of radiation sickness, not at all. Well, what if they tire look simple heat frustrations.

10:45 Heat postation at the north pole. Not only that, Joe. While you were out with quarterback, I was getting reports from Halifax, rack of it, to cities from ice under Alaska, and they're all reporting the same thing. Arise in the level of the ocean. Why how much? It's still very slight, but it's enough to be measured in our joy of the conclusion seems inescapable. Somehow, some way, something. Is causing the polar ice cap to warm up. But this rapidly that goes. He gets so scientific predictions And how can it be selective? I mean, why the Aminson iceberg?

11:30 But not all outpost here. Dottal Champaking, Oh yeah good, I'll pick him on in here Win is on a on. Maybe now we'll find out something. Well, when there's a cold chap, do you read me? What can you see from up there? Nothing at all? The Amazon player anywhere? What are you positive. Area? What attitude of you applying at. I can't find so much. That's not possible. Yes, when what is it?

12:12 Spotted? Night spotted? You're gonna believe it? What? What? Believe? What? Hell? Win? Win? The radio? Come Dad? I lost contact? He hello, Win, Yes, yes, I know the radio is Dad put me through to the radar room. So it happened to win. I hello the radar that's the playing we send out. What's its location? Were you sure it isn't malfunctional? Yeah, okay, okay. If anything happens with. Me know they lost him on the radar screen as well.

12:54 At the same time the radio went dead. He's vanished, vanished, all the stout things back Jill. Yes, nothing, no trace of Wind or his play. I never should have let him go up. He wasn't ready to go. I don't think he crashed. Why not? You remember what he said just before losing contact. I double checked on the black boxes the exact words where I've spotted ice, I've spotted ice ah h.

13:37 According to the radar room these were his. Coordinates at that precise moment three h h. So obviously what he was seeing was that the Lancaster I field. You know, right, Except for one thing, Colonel, It isn't fair anymore. Why Scout plans reported no sign of the Lancaster ice field. It's gone twenty five square miles of solid ice. Whatever got that ice field got wind, Joe, I'm calling Ottawa. I think Qutterback is right. There is some kind of nuclear activity going on up here, and it isn't on our side, Joe. Some strange force is causing the polar ice captive milk, and if we can't stop it, the results will be catastrophic. We might say it's an extreme form of water and extreme Aristotle telegraph how to be avoided on principles?

14:53 What would happen should. All the ice on Earth vanish? Well, we know that's not top Nothing just vanishes, And in the case of ice, it would change into water, a great deal of water. But she'll return shortly with that too. All around us there are reminders of the awesome forces of the glaciers. They gouged out valleys and two up mountains. But when we consider the fact that the amount of water contained in the ice sheets at either end of the Earth.

15:36 Is enough to flood most of the world's. Landmasks, perhaps the most awesome thing ice can do is melt all. My orders from Ottawa are very clear We're the only military posts in this area. It's up to us to find out what's going on. I want to know what happened to Wind. I know he was your friend, Joe. But the radar rooms that they lost contact instantaneously. If he was obliterated, If there's only one thing that can do that, some kind of missile. The radar room picked up no other signals. How could a missile destroy a plane and escape all detection? Little speaking, Yeah, I see you now, please keep me in pum thank you. Well, that was the post base. They just reported another rise in the level of the ocean.

16:33 It just keeps up. The entire Earth will be flooded. Peaces just don't fit. If some natural phenomenon is causing the Earth to heat up, how does that explain winds disappearance, Or if it's some kind of nuclear activity, why isn't it registering on our monitors that They's. Only two possibilities. Either someone has developed an incredibly sophisticated weapon which our equipment can't detect, or. Or we are face to face with some force we know nothing. About, you mean, supernatural that or some force. From me on the planet.

17:15 Huh. How come. If he give by coming to you twice with the same problem. But my people wish to know what you will do to replace the seals that have been killed. Don't you have any food store awhere you can draw on? Ordinarily? Yeah, we are very provident in these matters, but the cases have been vandalized. Or you're not going to blame up for that too? Are you? No? Know who the guilty party is, and at the right moment I will explose him. Is it someone from our days? No, his name is Stomach. You do not need to interfere. We will take care of this in that own way.

17:56 I know, right, Quarterback, I'll speak to the quartermaster about issuing the village. Thank you. Just a minute, Just a minute, quarter back. Why is one man robbing the meat deposits of the entire village because he's lazy and good for nothing from what happened to him. And he can't eat it all himself? He said it to whom I have been watching him. I have seen him load up the meat and go off up the Northern Channel. In my younger days, I could have followed him in my kayak, but now a motor is too much for me. And when he returns his boat is lighter than before, and.

18:37 Joe, we have an urgent situation favoring as ronold. There are no settlements up the Northern Channel. It's frozen wilderness all the way to the Pole. I'd be very interested to know just who Sami's customers are. What do you want with me? I'd only take my boat out to hum Like the mc. Chulback here says, you go up the northern channels the hunting is better. I have found by a lot to do as the others do, said, I advise you to cooperate with the captain game. You have no power over the old man and unhealthy. Who you take the meat too, I do not know.

19:21 I have never seen the man that I can swear to you. I do not know even if it is one man or many. Tell us what you do now. Several months ago I was in tools. Someone approached me. He said he knew I was from this village. He had the bargain to make the man he worked for would see me very well. All I had to do was hunt for him and once each week take what I had killed to a certain spot at the far end of the Northern Channel. But you found it easier to rob our stores on sam. That is all I know. I need the food, take the money which is there for.

20:01 Me, and go. I see no one, no signs of life at all, no no building. He's easy wilderness. I do not even know how a person can survive this, And it's never struck you as odd. I'm well paid. I have no question. Is that where you're going now? Yes, I'm coming along. You cannot. The man was very clear, no one else not come with me. Don't worry. Don't worry. Whoever's out there isn't gonna see me until I want to. How can he survive such a bleak wilderness as this?

20:45 There's nothing but snow? Nice? Please where I'm about to these the food? He's just around the next tin, all right, I try to question. I will get out here and shut up camp at the top of the glacier, overlooking the drop point. You we'd be safe. Do you think that would establish radio compact with the base? And it's just a matter of watching and waiting. He's a good baggage. Place, and the land is flat for miles in all directions down there. Whoever comes from those supplies can't help but be seen.

21:28 And he's gonna like the look of the sky. He said, blizzard should come, our view will be blinded. Something is leaving. How look he's waiting to us. I have an uneasy feeling about him. He's the only one who knows where we are. I think we can trust him. It is strange. I did not what do you means? Only this morning? You and die now here we are alone and not knowing what it is we say sometimes trut is I'm nevable if you're right? His songs like it's week.

22:10 He's coming through me in bad direction. We must get the tent up at once. But snowstorm is bucking on you. I can't see. The supplies to. My eyes are getting too old. What can you see? Supplies are gone. I'm almost gonna come during the storm and take him. Come on, let's get down there. I'm not sure that is a wise idea. Why not? And maybe maybe they let the crew which way they went. I am beginning to think we are dealing with extra ordinary people. No one should be able to find his way in the storm such as just passed, even the most experienced hunter. We have to stop or run the most certain risk of becoming lost.

23:05 I don't worry about a cullback. I've got a gun, but what if arms. Will not work against such people as we are after? There's nothing here, no trace of the supply samic left. This doorm has covered all the tracks. Snow and ice as far as we can see. What's their job? What? What is happening. Around? Giving ready? He couliback stuff? What doing.

23:51 Clovet? No, You're still alive. That's the metaphorical beauty of snow. It breaks once fall? Hoy who my name is Raven? Raven. In the mythology of the Northern peoples, the raven is considered a bird which can survive anywhere. It's also credited with the creation of the world. Where am I? You are in my fortress, the ice palace. Last thing I remember was falling.

24:32 Of course. Underground. That's how you escape detection. Stand up and I will show you around. A children dream of building snowcastles and of defending them against the world. I have made that dream of reality. But I've added, as you will see, voluntarily, certain refinements, passages everywhere, Yes, like amaze, and everything is so wide finding the entire palace is simply hollowed out of the snow and ice.

25:15 Small holes and the feelings allow for ventilation and carry off the excess heat to prevent the palace from melting, the same principle as the igloo actually accepts. As you can see, my palace is somewhat larger. And is it you who's responsible for everything that's been happening? If you are referring to the abrupt disappearance of one or two other large bodies. Of ice, yes, how how did you do it? Come? I will show you.

26:00 You see before you the work of a lifetime that just looks like a telescope. How could this melt an iceberg twenty miles long? It cannot? And what you are looking at is a machine which, working on. A laser principle, has the capacity to do nothing less than neutralize the Earth's protective magnetic field. Do you follow me? I'm not sure. The sun bombards are stately with ultra violet rays of such intensity they would burn our planet to a crisp were it not for the ozone in the stratosphere. On the normal conditions, ozone is produced continuously by the action of solar ultraviolet radiation on the oxygen in the air.

26:51 This machine arrests that process. You mean, it just opens holes in the atmosphere, and deadly alta viata radiation passed through one dilutic precisely are raised strike the Earth at temperatures of several thousand degrees. So that's what happened to the almonds and iceberg. Yes, yes, I was testing the width of the hole. I could open twenty miles, but I can. Also adjust it down to a point with a diameter of no more than two inches. And that's what happened to Wind. It flew right into the line of ultrava radiation and was burned to a crisp So it was you who killed the h Wow.

27:44 One of my minor inventions. This small gun. It freezes snow into ice. You tried to hit me. I simply fired it. At your feet and you lost your balance. Quiet, gods who control this man on Tempra, I am not entirely alone, but the purpose. Of as what you have witnessed for the final tests of my machine, I've merely been waiting for the sun to move up into the northern hemisphere. Tomorrow I shall begin to systematically melt the polar ice cap. If you're mad, we are all mad. But why why?

28:30 Because it's a challenge, because I don't want others to control my destiny. Because the world needs a good cleansing periodically. Take your pick. Reasons are cheap. I don't deal in reasons. But what is it you want? I make no demands. This is not a petty case of international terrorist extortion. I will not be bought. As soon as a person. Makes demands, he makes himself vulnerable, and I intend to remain absolutely invincible.

29:12 You're trying to flood the entire world? Yes, Why does that surprise you? Consider the seam trillions of tons of water released from frozen bondage in an tidal wave sweeping southward, Whole buildings toppled by their force, Entire cities drowned without warning. And when it is all only those few living in the highest mountains are still alive. And we can draw only one conclusion, literally and figuratively. At this moment, the madman Raven is sitting on top of the world. I shall return shortly with our final act. The Bible tells of a great flood, and the flood was forty days upon the earth, and the water's increased, and the waters prevailed all in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.

30:23 This cataclysmic event was intended as a lesson and a warning, But today we tell ourselves it was only a parable. However, ancient texts from the Orient also record an inundation of the earth by water. So then, how improbable is our tale? Have we taken heed of the one? Do we lead better lives today than we once did? Braven? You can't be mad enough to think you will actually succeed? Can you? Of the contrary? Captain Gates? That is precisely why I shall succeed. When the sun rises tomorrow, I will turn on.

31:04 My machine and I will feel what no man since the great conquerors of the past has felt, the total satisfaction of complete triumph. And you will be right beside me to witness the whole terrible scene. Oh Kidain Gates, Ah, can Gates? Are you all right? Core back? You're alive? Yes, he was the first to regain consciousness from our mutual fault.

31:45 Did you meet that guy, Raven? Oh? Yes, he's crazy, he's stark, raving mad. Did you see that machine? Yes? Yes, And then he brought me here. I see the water now, the ice and the floors packed snow. I have already examined the room with great care. What about the door? Could we could possibly be got away out? Yes? Well, but there is no chance of affecting such an escape in the short time left to us. And the only one who knows this location is Samak, and he has every reason to leave us near or die through through.

32:27 He knows I can expose him to ridicule, and his business with this mad man is too profitable. Even if we could get out of this room, we wouldn't know how to escape. Is ice palaces like a labyrinth? Would you like some fish? Since there is nothing we can do, you might as well eat? Where did you get that? One of the guards brought it to me. He will probably bring you one do in time. But I had my faate, so eat the rest of my And if you're. Honely, no thanks, that's well, it's not even forget it.

33:10 See how the orders from this fish collects on the plate. And I think of what that man did to win from here we are helpless. I wonder ifs to live. Yes, good, I did not lose it when we fell one else piece it up blamed. Give me some of the fridge from your PoCA quickly. The guard will be coming any minute with your food. It would be our last chance. Okay, okay, here what we want us for? You listen at the door for his footsteps. While I tried to start the. Fire fire, Hey, you're getting sposhed a pile of bread.

33:56 That's beginning smooth. Yes, now we let it build. Wish some more threads here? And what can you do with the fire like that? I mean it's it's not to mount the walls? Is now? He takes the oil and spread it very carefully under the floor by the door, and now transferred the fire there. Oh now, now we let the fire burn itself out? What good does that do? Yeah? You see the American snow around the door, and so which will. Now if the guard does not come right away? Freeze to ice.

34:41 Here comes the guard now five away from the door. I have food, but I have arm. Gets back. Here is some food water. Now I've gotta come back. Give me the gun back. Will you come. Anyone else in the passageway? No? All right. The next question is how to get at us? Without this man to guide us, we will have to find our own way. All these passages look the same, and we're. Just going around in circles that God's gonna come to and give you alarm.

35:25 Look here the gods fresh snow in the grooves of these bootprints. Hey, if we follow them, perhaps they will lead us to. The way out there. There's a stairway. We've made us. Chrisp Fresh forty below zero are and never felt so good. Quickly, let us get back to the radio and contact the base to the. Pre's one thing, you know. They won't be able to rescue us. And Raven was trying a plane, will Chris? They try to send in all colonels have to be able to do it in order down every missile we got and obliterate this entire area.

36:07 And I understand it means we must die. So what are we waiting for? This man must be stopped. Let's skip to the radio. No, no, you know there's snow in front of like nothing. Da must have discovered our escape and turned on a machine. He's coming toward us. Good quickly got the conductions. We cannot. I cool, he's getting us. I cannot. There's only one thing to do. If we can make it to the ground over the ice palace, we'll be saying, come on, tell us we're there.

36:54 Oh we made. The melting, stopped up raven camping the alphable raise any closely without destroying himself too. Very clever, Captain Gates might congratulations. I know you've taken my God's weapons, so I will not risk sending anyone up after you. But I don't think that will be necessary. H Well, I mean your retreat has been. Cut off, and now I show you melt the ice over all the waters connecting us to the land top of here. And then, Captain Gates, I'm going to forget about you and get a decent night's rest.

37:40 I have a busy day tomorrow. It's getting cold. Think there would be another. Worry losing the feeling in my legs. He says that it's the very peaceful the way to go. The numbness creep towards the heart. And used to be off the sleep, you know, least even they might evening today, you see the northern lights they come out to done for us. Now that's the. Norman light, and you know it's just the hairst time I've ever seen them.

38:24 You say it is the ghost done. They depart in the worthiness the way a minute that can't be the norm of light? Why not? Because but fay think south? Yeah? My eyes what they used to be? But then what is it? It's it's a flashing light and someone sending a signal. Can you see? You know? Not too dark and they're too far away. It's only there was some way to get there. Maybe can you rise guy? I think so? But how can we get their ice?

39:08 Wos very quickly up here? It is just what he says, A already begun to reform over the waters. Who were raving melted it. Who will have to cross it? I not? I don't know if I'm gonna make it come back? My hand's gone on how to let's keep bothing. He's careful, kept us careful. Stretch out. It's getting can and halfway across the water. Is the light still flashing? Yes, but less and less? Whoever it is getting discouraged.

39:50 We must try to miss that holiday. The ice is broken. Both stay flat on the stomach. We get all the you open it stick enough to stay afloat and damn, but the corner is coming over the top. It's freezing. What that it? It's a hortpoon? Can you reach it? I think so? Yes, got it. Hold fast. Whoever who was flushed in that light must have seen us. Hey, I can feel it toughing, the pulling us in. Hold on it starts, let's go. My hands are about thet the wall.

40:32 What could this person bee? It's one of Raven's men, cutting captain case. It is stomach shover. You've gotta. Keep pulay. As I was heading back to the visits, I. Began to think, who that steal the food of my neighbors to sell to a man. I have never seen. He began to ask questions yes, and suddenly the. Money he was paying me did not seem next so much. You know, USh would have to tell the others that it was you who read it theer cushion.

41:18 It was a temptation to leave you there quuraback and try to keep the truth hidden, that you are a tough old crow, and I knew you would manage to return somehow, So it might as well be in my book, And that too, I will tell the others. Almost Sean saanich hal. Close our way to the base. Look you can see the vice now. Joe, it's got to see you and Klabac alive. His right clothes feel great, what's happening?

42:01 Do you know that you two were responsible for a military first? Russia and the United States have joined together and are sending in little from all directions simultaneously. This Raven fellow. Will never be able to. Fend them all off, even with that machine of his. Joe, What are you thinking. And thinking of? When Colonel in a terrible way in which he died as I know, you're a good man and a good officer. Gentlemen, look here out of the window. Sunrise. A few hours ago we thought we would never live to see it. And I think I speak for all of us when I say that that is the most beautiful sunrise I've ever seen. There's a story worry about a certain confident candidate for the presidency.

43:03 He retired early on election. He sure that he won. In the morning, a gentleman called, only to be told by the candidate equally arrogant. Son, I'm sorry the president can't see he's still asleep, well, replied the caller. When he wakes up, you can tell him he isn't president anymore. Raven too made the mistake of retiring too early. I shall return shortly. A Queen of Sheba put a riddle to the wise Solomon, what land has seen the sun but once since the creation of the world. Solomon answered, the land beneath the red Sea, for it saw the sun only on the day God parted.

43:52 The waters for the children of Israel. A great deal of land almost saw the sun for the last time in our story. Today. Our cast included Tony Roberts, Earl Hammond, Arnold Moss, and Ian Martin. The entire production was under the direction of Hymond Brown. Until next time, pleasant, Well.

45:03 My dear, if that hasn't chilled you all the way to your core, well just wait. The wind is gusting harder by the second, and yes, it is getting later and later, but I feel the peak has yet to be reached. Give it a little more time, I suppose, and perhaps you'll see something really surprising, maybe even shocking, Because as we all know, death has a cold breath.

46:00 Yeah. A Mutual Broadcasting System presents the Mysterious Traveler, written produced and directed by Robert A. Arthur and David Cogan, and starring tonight two of radio's outstanding personalities, Frank Reddick and Jan Miner, in an original play titled Death as a Cold. Breath This is the mysterious Traveler inviting you to join me on another journey into the realm of the strange and the terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip, and it will thrill you a little and chill you a little as we discover that death has a cold breath.

46:53 Your name is Andy Marlowe. Once you are a very successful publicity agent. But this morning, as you sloud behind your big mahogany desk, you feel terrible. You're nursing a hangover, You're worrying about the io ewes you've been passing out the last few months to certain rather tough individuals who run gambling houses. You're slipping, slipping fast. Your bank roll is gone. Your girl Julie, who's just as hard and beautiful as the diamond she loves to wear, is looking for greener pastures, and you're on the skids unless you come up with a smart idea. You stare at your appointment pad with bleary eyes. The first name on it is Harold Farrington. Harold Farrington, the matinee idol of twenty years back. Now as a has been ham you almost tell your assistant to send him away, but you change your mind and have him send.

47:56 In Andy and your boy. You're looking splendid and I just got back from Florida. Could I drop in and say hello? Sit down, Harold, cut out the hot air. You haven't the price of a trip to South Jersey much less Florida than. I know it. You're always bluff and direct. Andy. Let's say what I like about you. Yes, it's embarrassing to admit it, but I am financially substandard. At the moment. If it's a touch Harold, the answer is no. I wouldn't dream of asking you for a loan. Andy. I want to retain you, to enlist your services to put me once again on the front pages. Remember six months ago you. Dreamed up that idea of a national theater that I hoped to found that got me nice headlines.

48:41 Andy, Yes, he didn't get a job out of it. I'm going to be frank with you, Harold. Of course, old man, of course, the only way you'll ever work on Broadway again is to get a job in the street cleaning department. Andy, But I know you're only joking. Just remaind the publica of me, and the women will clamor to see me again. Ever always had success with the women. You know. The answer is no. I like to get paid for my services, but. You will end six months ago for your last campaign I made you sold beneficiary in my will you'll collect when I died. Sold Bene Fisher and you're well, what a laugh?

49:21 I think I felt for your line about having trust funds that would pay off when you died. Checked up later. You don't even own a spare suit of clothes. Hey, admit a exaggerated a confessional. That's mighty white of you. However, this might interest you. A letter that was forwarded to me last week. Read what it says, six pages and a woman's handwriting, wreeking with guarding your perfume, poie. It's from a wealthy widow in Boston. It's twenty five years ago. She was an admirer of mine. Her name is Ebbie Winson, missus Ebbie Winston, and she's worth half a million dollars. Harold you me, So does missus Abbe Wilson. Now get to the point, will you.

50:03 I am Andy, she's. Ill, slowly dying, and having read about my plan to start a theater which I would run in the interests of a free on Trammel stage. She decided to make the dream possible by leaving me all her money when she dies. Don't you see, Andy, the will of mine is now worth. Something When missus Abbie Wilson dies, I'm a rich man, pipe dreams Harold. She's probably a crackpot and an old ladies home. And to show you what I think of your will in which I'm sole beneficiary. And let's see, you know have been this drawer? Here? Yeah? He here it is now watch Harold. There there's your precious well where belongs in the wastebasket. Now get out of here, your husband, I'm busy. Your exasperation finally has gotten the better of you.

50:57 Andy. You kick her out then, feeling worse than ever, you slump in your chair again. You're still slouched there. Half an hour later when the telephone rings. Hello, Hello Darling, Oh, hell hello Julie. My wonder boy sounds as if he had a hangover this morning. Oh I'm all right, just catching a little coll that's on. Oh then you'll probably be glad to have me break our date for the night. Break our date. Yes, I won't be able to make it tonight, Andy, So sorry. Why won't you be able to make it. I've had those tickets for weeks.

51:37 I'm flying out to the coast at midnight, Sweetheart. Bill Wentworth is throwing a really big house party and then a cruise on his yacht afterwards. One He phoned last night to invite me, and I accepted. Julie, you can't walk out of me like this just because Wentworth has money and you have charm. Andy, But the charm's been wearing a little thin lately, and so has your bank roll. So goodbye, Darling. Do you wrong, Julie? Wait, I boy, little gold diggers. I'll get another bank roller somehow. And she'd come running back. And I know, Julie.

52:18 For a moment, Andy, you daydream about being rich again. But you're rudely interrupted by the sound of an argument outside and your office door opened. Hello Mallow, Your office boy didn't want to let me in, but I was sweating to my head business with you. Hello Rocky, I'm glad you dropped in. I've been planning to get in touch with you. I've got a big deal in the fire. Yeah, you're gonna get a big fee out of it. I hope you're doing Andy for your sake, So. Rocky, I just wanted to ask you I could just wait a few days, and as I are yours, I'll really be flesh. Nobody ever said Rocky Smith wasn't a reasonable man? That's your idea of a few days?

52:59 Well, naturally, I don't get my fee until my client begins to see himself in the headlines. Well, how about sixty days, Rocky. Because I never got past the eighth grade, marlow But sixty seems to me considerably more than a few. I'll let you have three days and that's all. When he's gone, you hastily pour yourself a drink. Andy. Just then your telephone rings. You let it drn What can it be but more bad news? Finally, that ringing gets on your nerves. You answer it.

53:39 Hello. Hello, is this mister Andrew Marlowe. Yes, this is marlow speaking. Well, my name is Phelps, mister Marlowe, I'm calling from Boston. Yes, yes, mister Phelps. Well, mister Marlowe, I'm very anxious to contact mister Harold Farrington. I believe he's a client of yours. Well, you could call it that. Yeah, he was here about half an hour ago. Well, can you possibly locate him for me, mister Marlow. It's rather important. You see, I represent the estate of the late missus Abby Wilson. I mag wait a minute, did you say the estate of the late missus Abbey Wilson. Well, yes, mister Marlow. Missus Wilson died day before yesterday, and it appears that her new will leaves everything she owns to mister Farrington. I believe she was once an admirer of his.

54:27 Oh, yes, yes, I know all about that, mister Phelps. I'll tell you. I'll locate Harold for you. You just leave it to me. Well, I certainly appreciated mister Marlow. I'd like him here for the probating of the will. Of course, as soon as the news gets out, he. Goes on talking. You're not listening, Andy, Your mind is working like lightning. Now saw that crazy story of Harold's about a rich widow leaving him everything was true? That like a few you tore up Harold's will, making you his head. That must be some way. About them. He has a whole plan oneiration. Oh, mister Phelps, excuse me. Plays Yes, if you let me handle all the publicity, I can keep it dignified and still make it a valuable asset to mister Farrington's plan.

55:16 Well, yes, I can understand that if if you see to it. That nobody else hears about this until you and me and mister Farrington can get together, I. Think that can be managed. Mister Morlow. Good good. Then I'm going to hang up now and find Farrington, and when I do, i'll phone you. So goodbye for now, mister Phelps, You hang up and snatch that torn up will from the waste basket. Carefully, you paste the torn will together with scotch tape. Then you set out to find Harrow Farrington. You try his rooming house first. Now, missus Faranken ain't in. I don't know where he is, and I don't care unless he comes back with a thirty five thousand dollars Randy oes me. You might try tim O'Sullivan's saloon around the corner.

55:58 That's where it usually. You hurry to the corner saloon, but the actor is not there. Desperately perspiring in your anxiety, you try all the other local saloons. At last, you find him in a corner table in the cheapest bar of them all. You can see he's almost fined. Merely reritten my good old friend, Andy herold Ring. It's not good liquor, but it's cheap. This his great recommendations. I'm sorry, Harold, I can't right now. I've hunted you up to apologize. I was only joking this morning. I am going to put on a campaign for you. I'm going to get your name in all the papers. Well that's righty fin, and he calls for celebration. Waiter two more.

56:53 You sit down, Andy, controlling your impatience, You bring out the damaged will and get Harold to initially eat horn section. Then you tell him about your publicity scheme for him. He is to disappear, you explain, after threatening to kill himself, threatened to kill myself. When to die to sleep? A chance to dream? Ay, there's the rub. We're in that sleep of death. What dreams may come when we. Have shuffled off this mortal coil must give us? Cause he shakes me.

57:35 Andy, all right, sounds like a good scheme, Elie Kaprid. Your plan is working, Andy, working beautifully. You get Harold Farrington into the phone boat. You phone Ross of the Daily Ledger, and Farrington talks to him. Helloey Ross, this is Harold Parrington just wanted to tell you I'm going to play a big role soon in the tragedy of man. I'm going to play the corpse. When am I talking about? I'm just trying to tell you, old boy, your time has come purring down, the curtain going to end the little drama of Harold Ferrying.

58:23 Hello, hey. Andy, how do you like that? He said I was drunk and he hung up? Yes, your scheme is working beautifully. You have Harold Farrington phone all the critics and tell him he's going to kill himself. But then Farrington collapses desperately. You realize you have to have help. You telephone Julie. You persuaded to bring her car and meet you. You show the will, tell her about missus Abby Wilson. Sureley, Julie, you understand if this well is legal, I'll come at a half a million dollar. So you understand that dolling? But just how are you going to collect?

59:05 I mean, suppose dear Harold decides to stay alive and then changes his will. Yeah, he won't. I mean how long can he live drinking as he does? He's on his last legs. You mean you'll keep him supplied with free liquor until he obligingly drinks himself to death. Sandy Deer, Yeah, something like that. I haven't time to tell you the details now, but somebody has to get Harold and my cabin up in the woods and keep him hidden there. That's your job, Julie. Get him there, keep him there, and don't let anybody know he is there. Darling, for both our sakes, say you'll do it. Well means missing Bill Wentworth's party, But all right, I'll do it only Andy Dolling.

59:45 This scheme of yours had better pay off. So that's taken care of him. Julie starts off for your secluded cabin in the mountains with Harold Farrington. You promised to join her the following night. Right the next morning, you get busy on the phone, ostensibly trying to trace Farrington, among others. You call your old friend, the theatrical critic Paul Milton. Yes, Paul, I am worried about Harold Farrington. It's no gag. I know he called you yesterday and trying to commit suicide, and I think he meant it. I'm really worried about him. Okay, I'll keep looking. See you soon, Paul, we'll have a drink together. Paul Milton's skepticism is typical and it's just what you want. Last of all, you call another old friend, Captain Harry Banning in the Bureau of Missing Persons.

1:00:40 On Harry, I'm not trying to drum up a story. Farrington really is missing. I want you to put out a missing person's notice on Well, if that's the way you feel about it, I'll have to find him without any help from the police. You hang up, and you're pleased, Andy, very pleased. That evening, you catch the t for the little town of Ridge Gap, where your cabin is located. At the Ridge Gap Station. You slip away into the darkness without being noticed. It's bitterly cold, but you walk the two miles to your cabin. There you find Julie and Harold Farrington having a drink in the living room. After the necessary greetings, you waste no time in getting down the business.

1:01:23 Well, kids, we're rolling. The editors are beginning to believe in your suicide, Harold, and and too sure that the suis said it's a good publicity angle. The more I think, Corse, it's a good angle in the jury, Why, of course it is Harold, why it'll get the critics to writing long appreciative articles about you. The kinds of thing the produces all noticed. Will maybe, but I still see, Harold, Harold, you hired me to do the thinking a listen, you write me a long letter of farewell. I understand literally farewell? Will I could do that with the quotations from my great Pleas Macbeth and not it, Harold. Yes, yes, I'll take the letter back to New York with me. I'll call all the critics. I'll get a couple of them to rush up here with me. Just before we get here, you take one sleeping tabn then pretend to be unable to wake until we've worked over you for at least half an hour.

1:02:16 You got it, year, Yes, of course I could do that and look absolutely on the level. Tomorrow evening your name will be headlines from coast to coast. Believe you're sure. I'm positive. Now sit out at my desk and start writing that suicide note, and be sure to apologize to me for using my cabin. You understand, Harold. You leave Harold Farrington busy writing the suicide letter, you take Julie into the next room to tell her. The rest of your plan, and as soon as he finishes that letter, Harold's going to die. You understand that, don't you, Julie die. Andy. You didn't say anything about that when you sent me up here with him. I'm not going to have anything to do with murder.

1:02:58 Carol will drink himself to death and another six months. What difference does it make if he goes? Now means half a million dollars to us, me and you. It's perfectly safe by now. Half low York knows Harold was threatening to kill himself. You go on to a marriage persuading rich and when you want to be you can be very very A few hours at last, Julie gives into your scheme. All right, Andy, I'll do it, but let's get it over with quickly. You go back into the living room. Harold has finished writing his farewell to you in the world, and he's reading it aloud with great self appreciation. Out out brief candle.

1:03:41 Life's put a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. Oh there you are, Andy, listen, I think this is rather good. He begins at the beginning and reads the whole letter to you. It's what you want exactly as he reads, You busy yourself, fixing him a drink, and into the drink you pour the contents of a small bottle. Harold Farrington finishes his letter and waits for your applause. That splendid, Harold, simply terrific.

1:04:22 It nearly made me cry just listening to it. I think without your modesty, one could say it's good theater. Ooh is there to drink from me? Andy? Well, it isn't for anybody else, Harold. Change you. I've earned this drink. Well, he bottoms up, he drinks, and in five minutes it's all over. For one last instant he stares at you accusingly, then his eyes closed and he falls forward on the desk. Instead. Perfectly. Couldn't have worked out better an hour now, what Andy, back to New York and come find him tomorrow or.

1:05:06 The next day. It's all going to be settled tonight. Tonight. Yes, it's a very special reason why I owe some money. But tomorrow I've got to be able to prove I can pay for the inheritance. Now we're going to drive to Ridgecap, have dinner and pretend we're on our way up here from New York. Then we arrive here, find Harold dead, and pull in the sheriff. That's all there is to it. Andy, Now, wait a minute. What is it? What time is Harold supposed to have died? Well, sometime last night when I was in New York, it seemed possible. In his body it'll still be warm when the sheriff gets here. The sheriff will know that Harold must have died this evening. Yeah, if it's ride, I forgot that. I can't wait until tomorrow, just can't. I got it.

1:05:49 What. It's cold out, only about fifteen above zero. We put Harold out on the terraced chair and all for half an hour, and then he'll be cold, plenty cold, it seems if he died hours ago. Swiftly you and Julie lift the chair in which Harold Harrington sits. You carry it out on the terrace in the bitterly cold wind. There, you leave Harold to cool a bit. Back in the house, you set everything straight, remove all evidence of Julie's having been there. You wait half an hour forty five minutes. Then you carry Harold back in chair and all, and pose him properly in front of the desk where he his touching suicide. Note waits. The picture is perfect, cold enough now feels Ford. It's like I sare.

1:06:37 That's because he died last night, My dear, aw let's go. I've dinner at the village. Make sure we're seen. Then come up here and discover Harold. Your program goes off without a hitch. Andy in the village of Bridge Gap. You make sure witnesses see you eating. You tell the wakess you're just on your way to the cabin. Then you drive up and poor Harold's body In half an hour the sheriff is there with the coroner. The sheriff looks around, listens to your story, reads the letter. Harold's so obliging he wrote, and dods Yep, certainly it's plain enough story, mister Marlow, porfella down on his luck decided to end it. Or you say you gave him a key to this cabin six months ago. Yes, that's right, sheriff.

1:07:25 Six months ago. I did a publicity campaign for him, and he used to come up here to work out our plans. I gave him key then and he kept it. Poor Harold crept here to die and hiding. And Shard goes, well, I guess there's new user hanging around any longer, go fellow? Stone cold means he died last night or this morning? Angish, Well, doctor's phone Williams the Undertaker and get the show. Will I guess we'd better wait. A mite before we call the Undertaker. Sheriff, Wait, what for? There's something a bit peculiar here. Peculiar he mean pheeless? Fellow's finn ninety cold, isn't it? It's right? Cold? Is any shows he's been dead? Great chimp time.

1:08:08 Yes, everybody knows that it's an every detective story. His forehead was as cold as ice, which had a dollar for each time I read it. Yes, but I'm afraid you don't get my punt. See, a dead body can only cool off to the temperature of the room it's in. Oh, well, what are you getting at? Just this? I took the temperature the suicide. His body temperature is only forty five degrees. Forty five degrees? Where hell could that be? Dog? This room is semny degrees? Seemed possible and corad. All right, Sheriff, it isn't possible unless this suicide walked outdoors and practically froze himself. He came back in, sat down and waited for us, And I don't think he did what you're saying, Dock is germ. It's not sewish shade.

1:08:56 It's murder, and I reckon, we got the murderers right here in this room with this. Well, folks, how about. It visit of mysterious traveler again. Dear me, it's a cold wind that blows nobody good, isn't it. Yes, Andy and Julie were persuaded to confess. It wasn't hard to get a confession, since each rushed in to blame the other.

1:09:40 Such a clever scheme, too, not a flori in it. Fly. Andy hadn't been in such a hurry to cool the corpse or the moral is never rush a corpse, so let it take its own time, even if it kills you. Oh, that reminds me of next week's story, The hot Seat. It's about a tim witted fellow with but one thing in mind, revenge. However, his weapon was not the knife, gun or poison that well. Oh, you have to get off here. I'm sorry, but I'm sure we'll meet again. I take this same train every week. At this same time, you have just heard The Mysterious Traveler, a series of dramas are the Strange and Terrifying the role of the Mysterious Traveler is played by Maurice Tarplin.

1:10:41 This is Jack Farron speaking. This is the Mutual Broadcasting System. Well, my dear, the wind certainly has picked up quite a bit, but don't worry. What's that? Well, yes, yes, the walls are at least four feet thick, pure concrete.

1:11:24 The idea is nothing comes in, nothing gets out. But I'm getting way too head of myself. I try to remember the idea of flurries and blizzards, but sometimes whatever my memory is gets lost. But I do recall one incident snow on sixty six. And now a tale well calculated to keep you in. Suspense.

1:12:20 Nearly ready, honey, it takes time to put on with the stick properly. Well, I'm sure the natives will love you as you are. What natives? Where are we, Charlie? You mean to sit there making up that utterly provocative lower lift that we arrive at the biggest motel in the only town on one hundred and fifty miles of desert highway and not know where we are. I suppose I could find some postcards or envelopes in one of these drawers. Nah, you just stick with the decorating. I'll billion from this folder. See this is the beat tetekin. Thet Tetecan Motel is located on the outskirts of Red Mountain, Arizona. So that's where we are. That's where we are. Red Mountain, Arizona is four hundred and eighty five miles east of Los Angeles. What's more, of the temperature is now twenty degrees. It's expected to drop the five below to night with snow before morning.

1:13:08 Now it doesn't say that I'm a folder. Oh, the manager told me that when we registered. I've below. I've never been where it got that cold. You California gals, all you've got going for you there is climate. You never have weather. I'm sorry I failed you so early in our marriage. Better to know the worst right away. But come on, let's let's eat. I'm ready. How do I look? You look fine to me? But the Indians may think white men? Go on warpath again, white wall where heat much war paint? Funny got the key, I got it. Let's go.

1:13:48 Ooh it's cold, twenty degrees and dropping. Hey, be careful, that's the ice there. Oh here, Hang on to me. What's It's a train, That's what it is. Look over across the road. Train out here in the middle of nowhere. Sure, this mainline from LA to Chicago runs alongside the highway out here for hundreds of miles. You look at them eating dinner in that dining car. I'll bet they're nice. And wool want to change places? They look so safe. I don't want to be safe. I want adventure. You picked a great place for it. Red mout the hot spot of northern Arizona. Just look at it.

1:14:31 One main street and fifty two hotels, eighty seven gas station. And six restaurants featuring chill mac and canned soup. And the manager shills for the Kachina Doll down towards center town. Will watch out for that little truck, Charlie. I see him. He's far enough away. I think, Oh, that's so and so. I don't know. He waited till I pulled out in front of him, and then he'd let me have his bright lights blinded me in the. Rear vision mirror. Oh maybe he's singling. He wants to pass. Let him. Oh, that's it. And he's blowing his horn. Very good.

1:15:11 He's been in an awful hurry. Oh my god, he's putting on his brakes. He piled into him. He's drunk, that's what. Oh crazy, And now I slowed down to twenty. You won't have to pass him. He won't let you. Is this I speed up? He speeds up. Let him go, then, Charlie, it's a good thing. Nobody was coming toward us. We'll watch out. He's slowing down again. Fifteen. Do you suppose he's doing that on purpose? I don't know. Come on, I'm going to try it again.

1:15:52 He won't let me buy he is doing it on purpose. Well, there's the restaurant, the Kachina dollars over there there on the left. Well, there's one way of losing our comedian. I'll just beal off to the left and let him have a highway to himself. He doesn't seem to want the highway, Charlie. Look up the road. He's turning into the gas station. He's coming back. I'll let him. Come on, let's see, Charlie. You better lock the car. Why him, there's nothing for anybody to take. I'd feel better if you locked it all right. Look, Look he's cruising by looking us over like he was a cop and we did something.

1:16:33 Maybe he is, heccurred to me when he first swung in front of us. Well he isn't in uniform. There, the car is all locked. Let's go, Charlie down the road. He's turning around again. What's the matter with him? Whatever it is, it's his problem. Let's see. Don't know where you. Want to sit? Read? How are you folks tonight? Old? We're not too late for dinner, are we? Oh? No, we can take care of him. Just wait, leave. Well, here's a nice booth for two.

1:17:13 Good here for a drink? No, I don't think we do. I'm pretty hungry. Let's just have some food because we're starved. I'll see the menu. Okay, coming right up, Charlie. Why the driver of that pickup. Truck he just came in so it's a public place. But he's coming over here. Let him. Hey, you don't pay any. Attention to him here? You were you speaking to me? And that blue sixty one Chevy outside that belong to you? It does? But I want to talk to you. What's on your mind? Outside, Charlie, don't go. I said, what's on your mind? Look, but I don't like people cutting in front of me when I drove out of the motel.

1:17:57 Yeah, that's what I mean. I'm sorry about that. I didn't realize you were coming on so fast. Yeah, well, I could have killed you. I could have run you down and killed. You as you could. Stupid of me not to realize the dangers. Well, I don't like people doing things like that. I don't blame you, and believe me, it won't happen again. Better not, because the next time, brother, I'll kill you. I'm sure you will. Yeah, I'll kill you next time. I'll remember that. Yeah, you do that. I don't. I don't like that kind of jazz. And I don't blame you. Yeah. Well, well I accept your apology, and. You remember the next time.

1:18:38 I remember next time. You'll kill me. Yeah, and then don't you forget it. Believe me, I won't, he Charlie. At least I could smell it all the way across the table, and. That's why I agreed with him. You were wonderful. Do you think I was chicken? No? No point arguing when they're that fire gone. No, wonder he drove the way he did. I'm proud of you. You left him with nowhere to go. But did he give you any troubles? No, not really, but he might have. He might have killed us out there on the road. Lee, Roy don't mean no harm, you know him? Hush, Sure everybody knows Leroy. He talks rough, but she don't mean no harm.

1:19:26 Well, your folks decided. I'm not very hungry now. But you must need something you order for me, gracious, I'm afraid i've lost my appetite too. Frye work chops, A nice night with flour, gravy, No, I think not. Have you any shoes? Oh? Yes, nan, vegetable tomato, green tea and cans? Well? As a matter of fact, yes, good good, I prefer it that way you do. Then the cook can't get at it. We'll have vegetable soup. Well, okay, two vegetable soup and what else? That's all, yes, ma'am. And listen, don't let me Roy upset you.

1:20:09 He's just a big kid, that's all. Oh who puts that on? Another folk song? Charlie? And you sure you lock the car? I'm sure? Maybe better? Look why I don't know, maybe he's done something, broke in a window with a tire. I don't know. I was thinking the same thing. Okay, I'll go look it. We'll be careful. Everything, Okay, everything's okay.

1:21:28 I've been thinking, hunhy, I think we ought to report him of the police. Maybe we could have been killed. You know, if anybody had been coming the other way when he wouldn't let us pass him, we'd have been killed. I know if he tried the same thing on somebody else and they were hurt or worse, I'd never forgive myself. Well here we are. Folks too, vegetables too there, say are you sure you don't want to try the fried pork shops? Or quite sure? Thank you? Miss? And you call the police for me? The police for I'm asking? Now, can you call him for me? Look if it's on account of Leroy, Well, I wouldn't do that if.

1:22:09 I was you. You're not me, are you? No? Well? How call if you say so? But you know, I'm kind of glad I'm not you. Kind of a crack as that Leroy. You don't bother me, Yes, officer, I wrote down the license number. Eight eight oh oh eight, Yeah, that's right. Officer. It was an International Harvester pickup painted red and shining. That's Leroy, all right, that's his horn.

1:22:49 No, lady, that ain't Leroy. That's the Orange Empire Express goes through here every night at nine forty two. Oh well, anyway, this Leroy was drunk morning. He's driving in a fog, and you want me to arrest him. I don't think you should before he causes an accident or hurts or kills somebody. Oh, that ain't likely. How do you know? I know Leroy. Look, I know my rights. I hope you know your duty. I want you to swear out of Warren for the arrest of this Leroy. I want you to go out and pick him up and put him. In jail to lee sobers up. Oh, Leroy is the same, drunk or sober. It makes no difference. And maybe he should go to another kind of institution.

1:23:30 You sure you want to make a formal complaint. What's going on here? Is this Leroy the son of the mayor or the nephew of the governor or something. What kind of a conspiracy is is your boy Leroy could have killed me and my wife? And yes, I do want to make a formal complaint. That's what I thought I was doing. Look at it this way. You're just passing through town. Chances are you won't be back this way for months, years, maybe never. But me, I gotta live here. With Leroy and all the other Leroy in town. We get quite a few of them. They're just big kids. They don't really need no harm, but they get restless. There ain't enough to do in this burg. Only one movie show the TV don't come through good.

1:24:13 That leaves the bars, so they get their kicks on sixty six. Scaring the pants off of tourists as they passed through. Sounds kind of silly when you put it that way, but that's about the size of it. Tell you what I'll do. I'll have a dog with Leroy next time I see him. Well, I want you to put him behind bars now tonight before he kills someone. He mister, she would like to oblige her that I wouldn't know where to begin looking for him at this our night, for the weather kicking up a blizzard, I just wouldn't know where to begin. That's a fact.

1:24:54 We invade your privacy on. But she already filed the nails on that hand, Oh. Yes, Charlie. I'm so nervous. I don't know what I'm doing, and I keep hearing noises outside. Your imaginations playing tricks. I suppose so, but just a minute ago I thought I heard them again. Oh Charlie, I know it's silly, but would you please check the car again for me? Come on, please? Then, I promise I'll get ready for bed all right? What is it? Left? The hair out of the backfire?

1:25:38 Lee Roy? Come on, come on answer the phone. Hurry, Charlie, hurry. You don't answer, no wonder that's his card here. It says the motel switchboard is closed after ten pm. But we've got to get air in those tires. We couldn't wait a morning, No. Charlie, I will not stay in this place a minute longer with that crazy man out there beeping his horn at us, and I don't know what all next, they'll murderers at our beds.

1:26:20 I can't get anybody to answer the phone, so. We'll just have to wake up the manager. I don't like it. I couldn't care less. I can do for you, man, I'm on, can't you come out and then call in the morning. Somebody will take care of you them. Same thing, same thing. I could have told you. Nobody's coming out in this weather to fix a time. How do you get the police? Are? They ain't coming out either? Pretty? Will you give me the police? Look, you folks are cheaping me up.

1:27:02 I'm sorry, it's only take a minute. Read Mount boyees. Uh listen, did you pick up Leroy? Oh? Yeah, it's me. You got Leroy in jail. No, I ain't run into him. I didn't think so well. He's just let the air out of my tires. Sure was him? See him do it? Of course I didn't see. Him do it. But my rear tires are flat. And what's more, I can't get anybody to come out here and pump them. Up for me. Sorry, I ain't a police matter. You can get somebody in the morning, no doubt. I don't want to wait till morning. I don't want to spend another. Minute in your coming town. I want to get out of here right now.

1:27:43 And you're gonna have to pump up your tires your own self. It's a good idea. I just might do that. That's about all I could suggest. And don't you friend, I'll. Speak to Leroy so to say thanks, thanks, a lot. Let's get out of here in just a minute. You owe me for those home calls. Yeah here, keep the change by a trip to the moon. How's it going, honey? And the last one's nearly up. He's the car package, everything's ready to go. Listen, that's him, that's his horn. Hurry, Charlie, turn.

1:28:32 Off, don't let panic. So what can he do? No? I don't know. I don't know what's he done? Really, Charlie, just don't try to reason with me. Get that tire pumped up and take me away from here, please, please, please, please? What's the idea of parking? I was from the police station bowing that horn. You'll give me this town of bad names? Can them terrasts? They wanted me to arrest you or you wouldn't do that?

1:29:14 They're old friend. I didn't want to. But then you had to go and let the out left down. You know, I do the darnedest thing sometimes. I know you're going home. H lock yuh for Ben Hornery. You better do that, Pete, because I never make it. You know, I can't see the drive home. All right, climb out there. I'll give yourself to sleep it off there, Yeah, I said, knock off that horn. Any town so pretty, Pete, you know you're you're a real pal, just a real. Pal putting up a pal for the night.

1:29:58 In the jail house. See that sign on city limits Red Mountain. Come back soon, I'm sure. We will. Trying. I never was so glad to get. Out of any place in my whole life. I didn't exactly enjoy it too much myself. On the radio. Huh, It's funny how a little thing like that can work on grow and grow to on the edge of panic. You know. Oh, those snowflakes are so big and it comes straight out.

1:30:42 What a duck because they seem to be coming through the wind. Shoot the best driving conditions, I can tell you that can do much better in twenty oh. I don't care to have to curl. We're getting further away from that dreadful town every minute. That's all I need. Some idiot behind me with his high bamb only one headlight. It's murdered, Charlie. Don't suppose, Charlie, it's Lee. Why he's overtaking us fast. You can't let him past, You can't let him boxes out here in this lizard, I can't drive much faster you've got to, Charlie, Charlie, You've got to.

1:31:24 But I can't see this wholes just a white wall. Faster, Charlie, Charlie. He's gaining on it with. The one headlights in the mirrors binding his fall. He's on his Charlie fast, so I can't see. I can't see a thing, but Moto, that is pain. At the police station. You woke me up. I'm sorry, Sam that Durser was beaten by Leroy.

1:32:06 And he's still are Yeah, I wouldn't know. I was trying to get some sleep. Yeah. Well, well if you see him, tell him. I picked up Leroy telling Leroy sleeping. It all in the jail. Saft Spence. You've been listening to snow On sixty six, written especially for suspense by William N. Robson and starring Grayson Hall and Jimmy Blaine. I have a nice tamp. Don't forget your fun. Lanning your vacation or a weekend trip well, long distance can be a big help you decide where you want to go, then just pick up your phone and call ahead for reservations, make sure of a good place to stay, and while you're away, it's so easy to keep in touch with home by telephone. Well, have a good trip, and don't forget the phone.

1:33:13 Suspense is produced and directed by Fred Hendrickson, music supervision by Etha Huber. Heard in Tonight's Story where Gwen Davis, James Dimitri, Bill Mason, and Sam Radskin sound patterns by Walter Otto. This is Stewart Mett speaking Shaft spense. I don't often keep up with the ways outside. I suppose it's not in my purview, but I've heard a lot about this weather of yours, this cold, wet, icy.

1:34:01 It seems deliciously dangerous, or almost delightful in its stillness, because the cold is what comes after the war is gone. We truly live in the Time of the Big Snow. The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written and directed by Willis Cooper, which features Ernest Chaplin. Quiet Please for Today is called the Time of the Big Snow. We were so small and it was such a big snow, wasn't.

1:34:57 It, dere My, I remember remembered it. It was the day after New Year's New Year's Night. I remember we hadn't had much snow that year, only a little Thanksgiving Day. No, the day before Thanksgiving. When you were Miles standings in the exercises and I was Priscilla, and Irving Bauer was wrought a warm at the Indian Bar. I'll never forget that he was the fattest Indian I ever saw. I can still hear him now. What a woman can see by the fiery eyes of the captain. Angry is he. In his heart? But the heart of the brave. What a woman is not afraid of the scond. And then you handed him a bag full of bullets and he dropped them and yelled arms and his Indian headdress fell.

1:35:41 Off, and Missus Mavedy was so mad. And then we went out and it was snowy. Oh, but that was a little bit of a snow, not like the big one, not a bit like. The big one. I remember MoMA was just lighting the lamps and I looked out the window and I saw the first flakes coming down, and I said, oh, Mama, the old woman's. Picking your gee. My Grandma always used to say just that. Everybody did when it started to snow. And I remember how I wanted to go out with my new sled that I got for Christmas, and my dad wouldn't let. Me, and there wasn't snow enough. I knew it, but I was so disappointed, and I sat for the window and looked out bald and bald.

1:36:30 So my dad spanked me. I had to carry in the cold. That was one time I didn't mind it because it was snowing and it got dark so quick. We sat by the snow after supper and Mama read us, what are your snowbomba? I remember you too. It the next day of the day after New Year's and. We finally got off see you. It was so high, almost at the top of the fence. Mama said not to go far because it was snowing so hard. Remember they didn't want me to go out at all, that i'd get lost, but I said I was going to be with you. With Ted and Keed's a big boy. He got lost.

1:37:11 We lived on South Fifth Street, then, didn't we. The houses were trying to far apart and trying to back from the street. There were big trees on each side of the streets that almost met in the middle, and it kept the snow from getting too deep out in the street. I dragged you along on your sled, me with my new twenty two rifle I got for Christmas. There was hardly anybody on the street. Everything was so white, so quiet. We heard sleigh bells. Remember it was mister the male man in this cutter. Yeah, it wasn't a pretty kate. How that old horse a hit? Who her name was? It's right, queen?

1:37:51 Oh, Queen's boots made the snow fly without making any noise at all. Why were the sound of the sleigh bells? We got out of his road with a different dad down. I just kind of all just bundled up. Yeah, it was cold too, wasn't it. We were bundled up too. I had on my red tassel cap. I remember you had on that little squirrel skin muff and red bittons. We were seven years old, so happy. It was a long time ago. Don't mind how the snow was coming down. You could almost see it getting deeper and deeper. We could hardly tell where we were. Was that Mars this house there on the right, or was it walf Myers?

1:38:34 Just fun, wasn't a cake? Just the two of us alone together in the great, big white world. And then I began to get a little worried. The wind was starting to blow pretty hard. I couldn't see a thing. I turned around cold to you, I said, Katie, we better turn around. And get back. And turning around and go back. I can't see where I'm gone. Yeah he can. No, I'm not scared. I mean we might get lost, and you know what where I don't want to get no spanking. Uh ye might be wrong staff here, Yes she will. She said, to stay right now home? Well where at?

1:39:21 You know here? But I don't know where? Well stays life to. Caw then's well made? Then living, Bollman says. Then there's ball Anders and Willie Jensen and Judge comes. Holy, I don't know where I am. I don't even laugh. No, we ain't lost here, but I want to know where we are. Let's go into the same way and look and see. Snow's awful deep over there, Ralph, if you can't fuller, thank you. I'll get off the waft. You can help me pulling all right? My business said school, I'm cold, h come on a little swift fifty?

1:40:08 Shut up? Where are you going? The side walks over here? Chis lost, sisters, not tis talk the final Besides, you told your mother you wouldn't get lost if you was with me? Well, well thought you get me lost? Come on now it's this way, n w, I don't see it. Geez no right here, come on, nay, this is make stea flash, isn't it? Say sure you look out for the polar bears?

1:40:50 Oh highness bredest sey old collar dance. Hi shot him anyway, see us though, not about you? Day back. I shoot to see you so and get you a real skin coat. I don't see the side walks. Ready, that's right here where he hit a minute man step through and there's the deep the skin the world. Yeah, hot, say there. A sidewalk, Noliday, I tay you was that way? How? I don't know where I'm going? And cold?

1:41:35 You say? He's what? See what teddy? Well got call me Teddy? My name's Tip. Oh did you fall down? It's not. Very taty pash. You're scared, you know, my hom the sidewalks here, No it is, it's the other way, all right, let's see it's right over there. She's the snow wrong right up and then we really could see. Oh, I'm just coming up perriage and need to see.

1:42:17 She's all in the snow. So you need a fight. I can't see anything. I'm getting awful. Page, put your arms around me. I don't think I could look another step. You want to stop and rest snow wellness. When me get to the sidewalk, fies hay on me. Then it's this way you you're. Going out, It's this way. And then the wind came up stronger. The snow was a solid white wall before, because it's true, we were both very small, but nevertheless it was a deep so oh, I'm going deeper by the second. I don't know how long we wandered, but my legs were getting off retired.

1:43:07 I was staggering a little. The lede seemed to be dragging us backward as we struggle along. And I admit that I hid the intrepid explorer. And I was very close to tears. Only the thought of Kate's reaction to my tears kept me from busting out bawling. And then I smacked full force. And there's something colid and I saw on. Me in sid Oh, who's tone? I've rubbed in my head? Now I've bumped into a tree. I see last I here? Oh, well, anyway, that's on the sidewalk. Now we'll see what we all lady, is we nest on somebody you do?

1:43:49 Somebody? You'll take us home? I rose her, I'll get some arnic or something. People in the house. Yes, let's play. The half. Light up here has to be right up here. Maybe it's graduation and high. Yeah, that's still. How do you know. How well? Whoever it is? Hi, now listen, did you hear something? Oh God, maybe I'm play a girl. I never had such a welcome sound in all my life.

1:44:31 Did you okay? I should say not. I know what I thought. A nice, great, big red. Hot stove and me sitting just as close to. It as I could without bursting into flames and steam rising up from our wet clothes, and a good smell of coffee and fresh baked bread coming from the kitchen. Yeah. I thought about coffee too, even though my mother had never let me taste it. And I thought, Hi, maybe they'll have something oyster stew. Only it's kind of earlier in the day for people to have oyster stew. That's birre tonight. But maybe a cup of cocoas they'll probably the Albert Morris or Willie Jnson eat a bowlander to help drink the cocoa, eat the oyster stew if they have any, can I tell you?

1:45:18 I just crashed my way through the snow toward the sound of that voice we heard calling. Then suddenly Katie yelled, I see the hole. Hi, Hi, I see. Who's I can't tell. Oh, you're the steps, Hollo, there is anybody? They went inside, so I seem they're going to stand out here in the snow and they. Don't have food, so well not get. Hum. Maybe they went into the other.

1:46:02 Very often. Come on, come on, I can't see you all there. There wasn't any nice. Big red hot story. There wasn't any oyster stewl either of coffee col cold. There wasn't anything. The house was empty. Katie and I walked into the big, bare, empty room, and it was almost as cold in air as there wasn't outside, only of course it wasn't snowing. But now we could hear the sound of the snow on the windows and its soft, little padding sound, the.

1:46:43 Sounds you wouldn't hear ordinarily. There was a loud in the beating of our. Hearts, and we just stood there. Katie was still sniffing, and I admit I didn't feel much like Commodore Perry because the house was empty, you see, And there wasn't an empty house anywhere on South fifth Street. Mars's, Bob Myers, Reverend Bowman's, Ball Andrews. And Willie Jensen's and Judge Curns. But no empty house. Where are we? And I couldn't think where we are at all? I knew we were on South fifth Street, but I didn't know where.

1:47:25 Explorer is always wandering through. And I looked around. There wasn't a thing in the room, not a chair or a table, not anything, but the. Room seemed somehow to look as if somebody lived there anyway, And I said to Katie, I don't know where we are. Maybe we better get out of here. Throng to stay a minute and try to get warm. We better not stay your room. I'm cold, woll let's. Sit down in the corner and try to get warm. Lease through than any wind, no wonder go no, but yes, my goodness, will have to take with us to go home.

1:48:07 Maybe I come looking for it here anyway? How could we find our way home again? I could find it. I found this house, didn't I you'll hit yourself on a tree. Then I found it though, okay, put your arms around me. Why hold well, put your arms around me. I'm cold, fool. Let's let's put our arms around to each other. Oh all right, I'm hungry. Oh my mama was making sure. I'll stop at your house when we go back. Maybe your mother will.

1:48:48 Give me some. I sure wish we had some now, so stop thinking about it. I surely shake cold. I want to go home. Oh shut up, I want shut up? I want and go home. Katie lives, and who can't go home while it's snowing? So hold lord, stuff snowing? I don't know when the old woman finishes picking her geese as folly? Who canting? Somebody come and. Looking for us? You see Katy still as a braid? Is that you're dead? I'm based? Who who is this house? You? It is? Hello?

1:49:29 Oh I find or somebody calling for the few children? Yes, ma'am, yes, ma'am. Well you're all right now, so stop squalling. I'm not squalling. I'm just cold. Huh, Well go down, we're cold, are you so? Am? I excuse me, ma'am. We got lost and we'd go where we are? Who are you in my house? Yes, ma'am? But we go long. I mean, is this so the street? No, it isn't. Slowly, you'd be surprised. Children, how I can go home? Well, you can't go home right now, Katie, So you and Teddy might as well come along and help me with my work. Well, don't you want to?

1:50:17 Well what kind of world means? Why I'm picking the feathers off my geese? Well, sir, you know what. There was another room, and there were well, it seemed like a million white geese stacked up out there, and she put us to work without another word. Did you ever put geese or pluck him or whatever you call it when you're part of the country geese almost as big as yourself, geese that. Didn't especially want to be plucked, I guess not. But we did, kt and me, didn't you, Kate? We certainly did. And it was so cold. She was a nice old wasn't she.

1:51:01 Teddy called, my name's ted. And it got darks and there wasn't much night, and we just sat there on the floor kicking the geese, and the old woman talked to us so nice, My, how nice she was. You. You see, if you're keep working like that, you won't feel the cold so much. Kitty, I do feel it though. Well, if you stayed home like your mother wanted you too, you wouldn't have to be doing. All this work, and you wouldn't be so cold. But I wanted to go out and play. I was with her. I wouldn't let anything happened to her, but you did. You got lost. Well, I wanted a fade with Teddy. Ted You like Teddy, don't you, Kitty?

1:51:43 Yes? Now you like her? Tim? Wow? You too? Going to get married when you grew up? Whoa? Well, ru, I was gonna be a fireman and firemen aren't usually home much. I guess I don't think you want to be a fireman, Teddy. I one wouldn't want to be one. Why too warm? You like cold? You? Bet? Hi? John Kay? Aren't you pretty many when you grow up? I haven't decided, Well you are, Teddy? I can promise to that, Katie. I know unless unless why unless you freeze to death?

1:52:23 Oh well, I'll try not to let you freeze to death. Oh agree, and less grand free. Cold now and you'll keep right on working. There's lots more geese to be picked. This is going to be known for years as the time of the Big snow, and I need all the help I. Can get it. Do you always pick your geese on it snows? Of course, that's why it snows. You must have a lot of geese, hundreds thousands all over the world. Keeps me pretty busy. You don't have any GeSe in Africa? That ware hot. Oh, I have them there, Teddy, But they're way up high up on top of the mountains. There's always snow up there. Do you have lots of helpers?

1:53:03 No, you're the first I ever had my head. He's enough to light here. We need him, Katie. I'll tell you though, I think we might as well get rid. Of this bunch. Open the window and the window blow them out? Can I open the window? Sure? No? No, no, not that one. This one the whims from the north, and the wing. Came reaching right in, and the white feathers threw out the open window with it. Katie and I gathered up great armloads of the feathers and tossed them out the window, and the laugh and laughed. If the rings briled them high in the area, they seem to murtherfly. The air was full of white flurries. With him in the dust house side.

1:53:48 I think the left, some more on the left. Gracious, we did that just in time, didn't we. It's pretty near show you know what I've got a there's people that ever helped us to know. You certainly are children, and you're doing a very. Good job of it. I don't know but what I'll have to call on you again to help me. Until we get warm though. Well, I've hand. Lived pretty well all by myself all these years. So have you been doing it a long time? Now? Ever? So long? Two? Yea longer than that? Ten? Yeah, twenty? Why I've been doing it ever since?

1:54:31 Well, just ever since? Have you got a name? Oh? Yes? Would you talk? Well? When I lived on that mountain in Greece, they used to call me the met Her. I was pretty important. Then many Indians they called me the comas Comas. Wait, your high life is good? Of course? Suppose I get all these Geese Hia, Walter's a fine hunter. Why do you have any more names? Oh? Yes? Up in the Northland they called me free, and the Japanese people call me. I'm a rutsall. I've got more name than you can shake a stick that and all I do is pluckyes. Oh, close that window Teddy, will you mine?

1:55:15 Oh? Sure? Don't you ever gets coldness? Miss? I'd rather be called nicoleness. No, I never get cold gee, I do well. You should have stayed home. Do you think I get spangy. When I get hurt? No? I don't think so, Katie. I think I could promise you you won't. Well, then I'm glad we did get lost and founders. Prices all mine. I don't get a looking geez. It's getting dark, isn't it. Yes, and I'm as go outside and get small geese. I have to keep working children, you. Know, yes, but I like to go home please. Oh plenty of times for that, Teddy. We've got work to do.

1:55:57 My mamaway gives me and Nicholas. I work hard. Do you earn as many nickels? Teddy? Wow? Not very many? Really, I haven't got any nickels, yes, ma'am. And you mustn't you know? No, ma'am. But I'll give you something, Teddy for all the work you did. It you too, kitty, your ty, I'll be right fast. I am kind of scared, Teddy, I am too, Katie. How do we do? I don't know. I'm tired too. Should I put my arms around your Katy. Yes, please, I'm getting so sweety, so cold, said you don't go to sleep, you'll please. I can't help, but I have to go and sleep.

1:56:45 Teddy. You don't please, Katie. Whoa, you're tired. I'm so sleepy. You too, Teddy, I'm not very sleepy. Why you poor kids? You work so hard? You just go to sleep. We're free. You know you won't. I'll cover you up with feathers less so calm. They'll be nice, warm, soft, downy warm things. Here, put your head on Teddy's arm, Katie ossip, Now these nice fat geese with lots and lots of nice salt feathers, lots and lots of nice white feathers.

1:57:48 Go to sleep, Teddy. And Katy. You said maybe you'd give us something to all the work. Why? Why, of course. I gave my little grandson gifts. Here, Teddy, here's Katie. Now, go to. Sleep. Thank you, thank you and your comas. Kiss me the night, Teddy, whoa, Wipe your nose.

1:58:46 And the very last thing I remember was the feathers. How they were all star shaped and crystal was not at all like. The feathers I've ever seen. It was almost midnight on they founders Katy's father and mine, and the blacksmith was to write. In Arthur Donahue and his brother Harry. And there wasn't any house there at all. There wasn't anything. We were buried under a huge snowdrift and a vacant lot, not one hundred feet from our backyard. There wasn't any old woman either, just two kids. We sleep in the snow in each other's arms.

1:59:27 I'm not frozen to death after all. And they took us home, and we had our oyster stew and our coke cone, and we sat at a big stove, and then we slept. We slept and slept, and. Neither one of us ever did this about our Paris again, goodly kid, well. Hardly ever done. But we never did tell anybody before because they wouldn't have believed this. They have said it was a dream. But how could we both dream the same dream? And we we could get married, just as she's everywhere boom, and we still have got that little red clay priestpipe, just like Hiawatson.

2:00:14 I'm a little bull in all. Besides it, wait a. Minute, thanks Weather Bureau. Forecast for January seconds, nineteen forty nine, five thirty PM. Temperature thirty sixty degrees, humidity sixty two percent, barometer twenty nine point eight. Tonight considerable snow somewhere. Tomorrow snow Tuesday. More snow. All right, Kitty and Katy, come on, we've got teeth to pick.

2:01:02 M M. The title of today's Quiet Please story is The Time of the Big Snow, which was written and directed by Willis Cooper. The man who spoke to you was Ernest chap. And Kate was Abby Lewis. Jeddy was Sarah fussele. Katie was played by Cecil Roy, and the old woman was Vicky Buller. As usual, music for Choie Please is played by Albert Berman. I'll for a word about next week.

2:01:49 I'll run a director Willis Cooper. Thank you for listening to Quiet Please. Next week I have a story for that I call the biography of a character. And so until next week. At the same time, I am quietly yours, Ernest Chapel. Now a listening reminder. Tonight, Drew Person analyzes the news and predicts future events for the year nineteen forty nine. So for sure to hear Drew Person's exciting predictions Tonight this is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company WJZ, New York's first station, WJZ AM and FM.

2:02:38 Well, my dear, I appreciate you spending this inclement time with yours, truly, but now I think it's time for you to return to your humble abode. Hopefully the pipes are still piping and the heat is still bellowing. I'm sure you'll be fine. But as you make your way home in the cold, dark, icy reality all around us, I do hope i'll see you again very soon. I'll be here, same time, same place, and I do hope you'll join me. But now make your way home, skate if you have to. Soon you'll be in your cozy, comfy bed, warmth, embracing, fending off the cold. But if I may ask one last favor, as you close your eyes and head away, be thankful for what you have.

2:03:41 I'll be seeing you Lay call you your death