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Well, hello, my dear. Oh what's that. Oh, just fixing
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the place up a little bit. You know, I've been
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thinking about how while I'm here, I may as well
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make the best of it. So in a way, I've
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started to show the place a little love, as it were.
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Oh please, please have a seat, Have a seat, Get comfortable.
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I've been thinking all night about what we should share,
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what we should listen to, and I've decided where going
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to take another direction because as I show my humble
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abode a little bit of love, it made me think
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about hate, the opposite of love, but yet oddly still
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just as powerful, just as engulfing the state is just
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as powerful as love. For instance, I hate hate Harold's
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radio mystery.
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It isn't.
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I mean?
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Welcome. I'm Tonny Grins. Today's story is about love and hate,
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but I have to admit that hate plays a bigger
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part in the life and adventures of George Wallaby.
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Oh, I know what you think.
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George Wallaby isn't a.
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Very inspiring name for the heir of a crime story.
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But then George it is some different hero. He's not
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very tall, he's not very strong, he's well, let's say it,
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George is short well and what polite people call I'm
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prepresising that he's our hero just the same, and all
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because he meets a man he hates.
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Mister Kipla, I'm sorry to tell you this, but I.
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Hate Harold book Holder.
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No jobs, are you. I'm sorry, mister Kilas. I don't
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usually hate people. I don't think I've ever hated any
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one in my life, but I hate Harold.
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Now, mister drama, I hate Howard was written Specialist of
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Mystery Theater by Henry Sessa Installs Landy Haynes.
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How did that show to you?
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That?
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One?
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The time ten fifteen on Monday morning? The case the
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offices of kit Miss and Company, dealers of fine jewelry
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wholesale only please, It's a soothing, pleasant scene before the
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gentle clacking of a typewriter is soothing, a shuffle of papers,
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the subdued syllables of moment conversations. It's a scene George
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Wallaby knows only too well, since he has viewed it
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from his desk for the past six years, although these
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days that viewers improved considerably because now sitting at the
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desk opposite George is a lovely young woman named Gretchen,
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sweet soft spoken Christen with a long, silky blonde hair,
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who inspired George Wallaby with a delicious dabling. But today
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George is about to have another kind of dream. Attends
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the Steam on a Monday morning. George is about to
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have a nightmare.
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My gorgeous, there's mister Shipmas around way off.
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I think right into his office and tell him that
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Harold Buckholder is here appointment.
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Yes, that reminds me.
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He said something about checking in with his executive assistant that.
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You don't now that's mister Wallaby.
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Oh too bad? Uh, your mister Wallaby? I presume I
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certainly am. What can I do for you, mister Buckholter? Hey,
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come on, it's a small office. The acoustics are perfect.
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Didn't you hear what I told?
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Gorgeous? I want to see the boss.
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I also hurt Miss Simmons ask if you had an appointment?
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Does tell the old man Harold is here? Wallaby Wallaby
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sounds like a guy gargling.
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You got a first name, Wallaby?
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Would you mind telling me what company he represents? I
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represent myself, kidd Oh just myself?
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Now? Will you tell the boss I'm here? Or do
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I just walk into his office.
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I'll tell me to kid, missus George.
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Pue. So that's your name. Good good. I'll call you George,
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and you can call me Harrow. You better call yourself
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a cat buck culter. I doubt very much that mister
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Kipnis will see.
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You, Harold, Harold, my boy, Why didn't somebody tell.
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Me you were here?
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Him?
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Mister Kipner. Sorry, I'm right.
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Come inside, Harold.
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We'll have a nice talk and then we'll go out
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to lunch. No, have you met my assistant George Wallaby?
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Sure, dead, mister Ki Nice fella, George.
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I haven't met mister Buckholter, mister Kipness, not formally anyway.
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Well, I have you introduced you?
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You fellows going to see you larry each other.
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We are.
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Harold is our new sales manager. He's going to replace
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old Demetrius. You know Demetrius is retiring.
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Dead mister Kipness. Well, mister Demetrius died last month.
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Oh yeah, yeah, yes, of course we sent flowers, did me, Yes, sir,
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we This is on.
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Them office, Harold, small litt bit of fish, and this
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will be your desk right here, right behind George.
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I'll keep an eye on in mister k you doll,
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and I certainly intend to keep an eye on you.
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Miss Simons.
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You come into my.
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Office, hold and he likes you yours? Well, what did
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you think of that?
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What?
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George?
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Did you see that? Harold?
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Yeah?
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I did.
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He had an awfully nice smile.
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Inn't me.
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I just don't understand it, Gretcher.
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I talked to mister Kittus about that sales job two
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months ago when Demetrius first left.
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Oh he haplitch steak on the minute today. George, you're safe.
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I've been there six years. Six years, Gretcher.
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You'd think fIF that would entitle me a little considerations.
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A beef patty to Kip this fall for a loud
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mouth super salesman, my Carold Bookholter.
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Our clients will.
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Hate them, Harold says, they're all crazy about him.
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What did you say?
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Harold told me that all our.
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Clients just adore him. Did he tell you that at
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dinner last night?
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Question? You had dinner with Harold Buckhalter? Why? Because he
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asked me, would you living at dinner with me? I
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have lunch with you?
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George.
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You mean I'm more the lunch type and Harold is
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the dinner.
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Type you know I never thought about it. Yes, I
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guess that's true.
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You know something, Gretchen, I don't like Carold Buckhalter than
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George Well. You don't work well enough to be standing up.
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The truth is, I'm not feeling too well. Mister Kitness
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was as well, and you got a virus.
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You could say that I suppose a virus named the Buckholder. Well,
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it's worse than a virus, sir, it's a it's a
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galloping infection.
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It's a plague.
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Why are you talking about I'm talking about your new
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hotshot sales manager. I'm talking about Harold Buckholter. That man
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is plaguing me, mister Kittmers.
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He's driving me crazy, George Taking.
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He's inventing new torches for me every day. He's dedicating
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his life to tormenting me.
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And it's gotta stop.
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You can't be serious, George Way. Hell's too busy doing
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like that. He's out there sewing every day.
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Well before he goes out there, mister Kittnus, he's in
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here at my desk finding new ways to make me suffer.
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Like yesterday, for instance, when Well he put a pinhole
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into my coffee container. He put a little pinhole into
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the bottom of my card bought coffee container. It was
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a slow brown leak all over my desk, my correspondence, everything.
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Now now, George, why Harold Buckholder tility by that he's
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a grown man?
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Or is he put a grown man put a thumb
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tack on another grown man's chair with a grown man
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with a message on my desk to call a mister
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fish at a number that turns out to be the aquarium.
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And the sounds like harmless pranks to me. And last week,
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do you know what he did to me last week?
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Why did he do? George?
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Well, I was having lunch in the House of Health restaurant.
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I was with someone and Harold came in and took
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a table right right near us.
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What's wrong with that? And wait, wait, just listen.
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He kept putting in on our on my private conversation,
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and I got so irritated I gagged a little bit
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on a piece of spinach.
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And do you know what he did then?
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What?
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George?
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He performed ahindlift maneuver. Ah, you know the hindlift maneuver
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where they grab you around the waist to keep you
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from choking.
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Oh, yes, yes, yes, that's a great life saver here.
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Well, only my life didn't need savings, Sir, don't you
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understand he just wanted to humiliate me, make a fool
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out of me in front, in front of the front
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of people.
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And George, you're taking me much too seriously.
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I know you don't like Harold, I know you resent
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him a little.
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But he's a salesman, George, no.
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More than inside man.
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Well, I just can't believe that a vulgar lout like
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Harold Buckholt can be any kind of salesman. And I
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wouldn't be surprised if he turned out to be a
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complete fraud. Now, Dure, Well, how do you know the
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kind of deals he's making out there? How do you
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know he isn't some kind.
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Of a of a crook? Oh, don't be ridiculous that
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you check his references, that you call his last employer. Well,
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no I didn't, mister Kidnis.
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Mister Kipnis, you've got millions of dollars in jewelry in
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this office. Now, how do you know he isn't planning
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something criminal?
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George? That's enough.
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I know you don't like Harold, there's no reason to
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make wild accusations.
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Well, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, mister kiplss. I don't usually
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hate people.
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I don't think I've never hated anyone in my life,
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but I hate Carold.
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Just see about these so called references.
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Directory assistant city please Providence, Rhode Island.
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Please I need the number of the Harriman Jewelry Company.
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I'm afraid I don't have the exact address one moment.
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That number is area code four oh one five five,
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five six seven three seven.
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Hello is this mister Harriman?
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It is?
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What can I do for you?
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Well?
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My name is Wallaby. I'm with Kipness and Company. I'm
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mister Kipnas's executive assistant. Mister Harrimon, do you happen to
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know a Harold Bucklet Held?
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Of course I know?
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How long then he actually worked for your company? Just
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as he says in his serve resume?
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Yes, yes, of course he did not very long, mind you,
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but he was here and Held was a darn good
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sales and all my customers liked him.
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Oh that's such very nice.
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I could have kept him longer.
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But now, the business the way it was, how how
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long did he actually work there?
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Ooh about three months? I guess if you take a
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couple of weeks.
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Well, if he was that good, why did you let
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him go?
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I had to do it, had to do it. Like
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I said, business was pretty tough.
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We had a large and unexpected loss.
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So what what did you say?
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And then we had a loss or or a theft. Well,
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we don't know for sure. The insurance company called in
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a mysterious disappearance.
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Disappearance.
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Yes, unfortunately our policy didn't quite cover the loss, and
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well we had to make up the money some way.
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So we cut then on the staff.
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And so, uh, you let Harold go?
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Well is a man of thank Harold offered to quit.
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He's so we could not afford him anymore. Nice guy, Harold,
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You're lucky to get him.
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Mister my name God, never mind. Thank you, mister Harrilon,
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Thank you very very much.
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Goodbye. Wow.
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Mysterious disappearance. Oh I'd like to see that happen, Harold.
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Excuse me? Is this seat taken?
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No, no, it's not. We're not expecting anyone. Lady, perhaps
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I know? Uh why do you ask? Well, tell you
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the truth.
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I've seen you in here with a lady before, very
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pretty girl, long one hair.
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Well, I'm alone today. Her name is Gretchen, isn't it?
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Yes?
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How did you know?
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And your name is George George Wallaby? All right, well
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wait just more a minute. Have you been eaves dropping?
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Mister says the name call me Walter, So I don't
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think I want to call you anything. Well, now wait
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a minute, let me explain. In fact, maybe this will
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explain it better than words.
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That's a bad keep your voice down rather, people didn't
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know what I did for a living. Have you have
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you been trailing me?
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Oh no, don't look so worried. You're not under suspicion
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that neither is your girlfriend.
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She's not my girlfriend, Gretchen? Who is just someone in
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the office?
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And there's someone else in your office? Isn't there someone
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who calls himself Harold?
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Oh?
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Oh yes, we definitely have a Harold. Well, I wish
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I had a Harold. I wish I had him in jail?
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Did you say jail? That's right, George, You see I
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having to believe.
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That mister Harold book Calder is nothing less than a crook.
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We speak about prophetic visions. Apparently George Wallerby's instincts about
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how Old are correct. Howld may be more.
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Than loud and vulgar.
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If George sits in a help food restaurant, there's a
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strange expression on his face. He doesn't look alarmed, he
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doesn't look willy. Why anyone looking at George Wallaby right
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now would think that he had just said very good news.
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We'll find out how good that news really is when
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we return with that too shortly. They say that every
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dog has a day, and perhaps that day has arrived
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for George Wallaby. Sitting opposite and at the house at
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Hart's restaurant, a grim man in shaggy ground too had
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told him something electrifying, that hollold Buckholes may well be
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a catacoon. The eyes of George Wilby a glowing.
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If he listened, it's true, George.
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Now, they would give me greater pleasure than to put
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a pair of handcuffs on that man.
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Do you know how long I've been after him?
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No?
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No, how long it was, let's see, I guess it
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was four years ago.
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Next month I was working as an investigator for an
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insurance company. There was a brazen robbery at a large
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jewelry firm in the Midwest, and Harald worked there, their
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best salesman. They said, yes, yes, they all say that.
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And the funny thing is the.
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Next case I worked on involving at Jim's f was
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a big firm in the northeast, and Low and Bold
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who their best salesman.
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Hey, excuse me, George, are you listening to me? Oh? Oh,
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Miss Christis. If you only knew how I was listening
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to you, call me, Walter. Something tells me that you
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and I have a lot in common. But this is
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this is incredible, this is wonderful. No wait, wait now,
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don't get me wrong.
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I don't have any actual evidence that Harold Buckholder was
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behind these gem highs GEMI.
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I'd love it.
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If I did have the evidence, I would have been
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flashing my badge in his face, not yours. But Walter,
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do you mean he he commits robberies, not at the
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point of a gun. It's more like a con game
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inside jobs. To me, it's no coincidence that Harold Buckholder
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worked in three companies that sustained large losses of gems.
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I worked on two of those cases. George, and I
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smell a rat. Well, why don't you want my boss?
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Mister kidness wouldn't do any good.
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There's one thing Harold manages to do, it's get himself
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in good graces with the boss. And if he did
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believe me and fired Harold, he just moved somewhere else,
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maybe where I can't find him. And you really think
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she's going to try something here a Kidness and Company.
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I don't know, but I want to know. I want
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to catch this guy with a meat in his mouth.
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Waters if there's anything I can do interesting that you
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should say that.
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You mean there is? You don't like Harold book or he?
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Do you? No?
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I don't. How would you like to help me catch
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this guy? George Ride in the act, he I can't
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do it alone.
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I need somebody on the inside. And since you're Kip,
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this executive assistant.
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What would I What would I have to do? Mister
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Cassis call me Walter? Walter? Look, George, don't you say.
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Harold won't be able to pull his scam without involving you? Well,
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he he could deal with mister kipnas Now, Harold always
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operates with the same m O M O.
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What's that amorus operandi motor.
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Yes, he always waits until the boss is out of
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town before he goes to work.
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That's why you're bound to be involved. And when you
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are get me in the picture and we'll nail him together.
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That appeal to him, Yes, yes, yes it does. As
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a matter of fact, that appeals to me very very much.
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A week's time from Spills, the content introducted George Waller.
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He's being in Cardot.
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Fouit with an indication to adventure.
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It was a bad week for George. On Monday morning,
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how did water a favor? He slacked his wooden swivel chair. However,
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he forgot to advise George that the chair was still
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sticky wet. On Tuesday, howld giants by bringing Georgia Presents
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a new hairbrush.
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George's broad head went peak.
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When Gretchen giggled. On Wednesday, Gretchen took pity on George
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and had lunch with him. I just don't understand, Harold.
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He's so loving, he is, but he just has a
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well developed sense of humor.
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Is that what you call it? She like my chair
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ruining my files?
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Oh and you don't know if he did that.
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Of course he did, Gretchen. That man has been making
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my life miserable ever since he came to gift us
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in company.
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But why would he do that?
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Because because he's well, that's the kind of person he is,
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among among other things?
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What other things?
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George, do you know something I don't know?
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Maybe I do, Maybe I don't.
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Well, oh what is it?
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I can't tell him?
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Yeah, and I could always find out for myself. I
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can ask howd in there?
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All right, I'll tell you which I have to promise,
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not the priest of work.
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Oh, I promise.
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Gretchen had a caller, maybe a jewel.
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Thief, georsh what an awful thing to say.
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Well, it might be true, Gretchen, and I have inside information.
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What you have is aggressor maybe so. But there's more
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to that guy than meets the eye.
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How exciting.
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Is that?
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All you can say?
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But it is exciting, Honey.
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I thought Harold was just a fun person.
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But a jewel thief.
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You know you know something, Gretchen. I think you like
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him better now.
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Oh, you have to admit, George, these international jewel thieves
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are so fascinator.
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I didn't say he was international. I said that he
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was just a local jewel thief.
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Oh, just the thing, something so glamorous about it?
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Did you think, oh, we'll see how collaborous he looks. Sure?
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I put him behind Boris.
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That the days passed slowly and nothing exciting happened at
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the offices of Kidnis in Conomy, except that Greton seemed
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even more impressed by the dashing Harold buck Alter than
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ever before. Then it happened the detective bow to Corstairs
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had told him that how it rarely made his move
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until the boss was out of the office, preferably.
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Out of town. George, I'm going to the priest, am
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I annual mind? Yes, mister kipnas hill On, will you
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be gone this time a couple of weeks.
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First up Hong Kong. Then I'm going to try and
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get over to Kenton.
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And maybe peaking. Ah, that sounds wonderful.
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You'll see about plane tickets, hotel reservations, ground transportation. Yes, sir,
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you'll come to my place tomorrow and back. Oh, yes, sir,
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as usual, of course you'll take Thiefee again.
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Oh do I have to mister kiplas well?
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You know missus Kipners doesn't want to put her dog
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in any kennel, Yes, sir, and don't forget about watering
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the plants.
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Miss Kipness will give you the schedule, Yes, sir.
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She'll give you a list of TV programs to tape.
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Oh naturally, sir, And don't.
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Forget about picking up the kids after school.
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Like you always do. Right now that they're both in college,
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mister Kipnas, don't you think that maybe what are you
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waiting for, George?
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You've got things to do.
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Oh yes, mister Kipnas.
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But this was one year that George didn't really mind
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doing all these things for mister Kittens because it would
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mean that the boss would be out of the office
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and then Harold Buckholt local Jewelphee might make his big move. Then,
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sure enough, only sixtyays after his departure, mister Kidney's share
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Yah boy Hold walked up to Georgia's desk waiting a
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yellow rectangle of people.
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Hey, George, George, look at this. Huh what is it?
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Look it's a cable from the old man from Hong Kong.
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He wants me to show the Contessa collection.
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The Contessa. You must be kiddy. Why would I kid you, George?
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Here's the cable? Well, well that's ridiculous, mister Kipless would
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never never.
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Watch the collections for sale, isn't it. That's why we
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have it on consignment. So go on, George, get it
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for me.
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I can't.
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I just can't look read it yourself. Eh, all right, George,
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I'll read it for you. Show Contessa collection Arnold Rutherford
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Hotel Wooded soonest sending Wallaby authorization today.
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Listen, I didn't receive any authorization. You haven't even looked
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a jamail yet, George. Oh yes, let's let's see. What's that?
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What's that under there? That looks like another cable gram
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to me? Yes, yes it is. Well, this constitute's authorization
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gives called her contestant collection for sales call kiitness. Well
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there you go, George, So hand over this contactic election
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whatever that is? Do you mean you don't even know?
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Why should I? Well, it's the most precious collection in
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the entire catalyze, no kidding. What's in it?
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Well, there are thirteen high quality blue white diamonds. They
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were originally part of a necklace worn by an Italian
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countess of the last That's wow. She must have been
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a pip for mister Kipnas has had this collection on
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consignment for the last two years.
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Couldn't a load of her? Well don't worry, Georgie, super
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salesman is here.
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Oh you don't understand The diamonds are virtually flawless, perfectly matched.
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But they could have been sold individually one hundred times,
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but the owner refuses to sell the gem separate. Okay,
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so I'll sell a whole bunch of them to this
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guy rutherf it and just who is rud of it.
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Of my contacts.
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Don't worry about that, Georgie. Just get this stuff out
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of the vault.
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I assume this contact is coming here. No, no, no,
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I'm bringing the collection to his hotel.
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Like.
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You can't do that? Why not? Because because it's against
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company policy. No one is allowed to leave with more
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than a few thousand dollars worth of samples, and just
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one of the diamonds in the collection is worth at
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least eighty two one hundred thousand. George, will you stop
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giving me a hard time?
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You saw the old man's cable, so don't yammer at
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me about company policy. Now, this this is quite a responsibility, Harold.
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Maybe maybe I should call mister Kidnas in Hong Kong.
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Now, George, if Kipness wanted to give you the instructions
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by phone, he would have called.
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Besides, he never spends more than a couple of days
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in these places. He has a lot of territory to cover.
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In two weeks. Well, anyone could have a cable set.
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Who else do you know named Kitnas in Hong Kong.
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Come on, George, my client is waiting for me. Get
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in there and get those diamonds.
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00:27:01.279 --> 00:27:04.640
Very well. But it isn't in the outside vault. Mister
500
00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:07.440
Kipness keeps them in his private safe in his office.
501
00:27:08.079 --> 00:27:14.759
Excuse me that number? What did I do with that number? Oh? Yes,
502
00:27:14.920 --> 00:27:19.240
here it is two three.
503
00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:25.480
Hello, mister Costas. This this is George Wallaby.
504
00:27:25.880 --> 00:27:26.680
Call me Walter.
505
00:27:26.839 --> 00:27:29.680
George, Yes, Walter, listen, Walter, It's it's just the way
506
00:27:29.720 --> 00:27:31.960
you said it would be. Buck Calter just asked me
507
00:27:32.079 --> 00:27:34.559
to give him some diamonds from mister Kittnus's private vault.
508
00:27:34.920 --> 00:27:38.680
Oh and is away right, yes, right right.
509
00:27:38.759 --> 00:27:41.720
He's in the far East, he's traveling. There were two
510
00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:43.119
cable grams.
511
00:27:42.920 --> 00:27:46.480
Phonies, George, take my word for it. He probably has
512
00:27:46.559 --> 00:27:47.559
a consederate sandum.51300:27:47.720 --> 00:27:50.799
Yes, yes, I'm sure that mister Kipnus would never never51400:27:50.960 --> 00:27:52.480
let that collection out of his office.51500:27:52.519 --> 00:27:54.960
He never lets anyone ever show it but himself.51600:27:55.519 --> 00:27:57.359
Sounds like our boy is making his move.51700:27:57.559 --> 00:27:59.920
Well, what should I do water. I can't possibly get51800:28:00.160 --> 00:28:02.720
the diamonds. I know that it will be the last51900:28:02.839 --> 00:28:03.559
we see of them.52000:28:04.759 --> 00:28:07.880
Give them to him, George, What what did you say?52100:28:08.480 --> 00:28:11.839
Give him those rocks? The only way we're going to52200:28:11.920 --> 00:28:12.960
catch this guy right handed?52300:28:13.000 --> 00:28:14.119
No, no, no, I can't do that.52400:28:14.400 --> 00:28:16.319
Oh of course you can do it. Believe me, he52500:28:16.359 --> 00:28:17.559
won't get very far with him.52600:28:17.599 --> 00:28:19.640
Well, if he got away with this before, he didn't52700:28:19.680 --> 00:28:20.960
have me on his tail.52800:28:21.279 --> 00:28:24.880
This time will be different, I promise. Now here's what52900:28:25.039 --> 00:28:29.480
you do. Stall him for about half an hour. That's53000:28:29.519 --> 00:28:31.640
how long it'll take for me to get in front53100:28:31.640 --> 00:28:34.359
of your building. When he comes out with the goods.53200:28:35.759 --> 00:28:36.359
I'll be there.53300:28:37.279 --> 00:28:38.319
No, no, I won't.53400:28:39.359 --> 00:28:41.680
Don't you want to see justice done? George?53500:28:41.799 --> 00:28:44.720
I can't possibly release all those valuable diamonds.53600:28:44.960 --> 00:28:48.079
Don't you want to see that pony behind bars? Ray Blog?53700:28:48.279 --> 00:28:50.599
Yes of course I do, But I don't like the guy.53800:28:50.680 --> 00:28:52.680
Do you enjoyge Harold, and what.53900:28:52.759 --> 00:28:53.359
Are you waiting for?54000:28:53.599 --> 00:28:53.960
George?54100:28:55.319 --> 00:28:58.319
Yes, yes, you're right. You're right. It's the best way.54200:28:58.880 --> 00:29:01.440
I'll give him the diamonds, but I'm going with them54300:29:01.559 --> 00:29:04.599
to meet this customer. I want to see this arrest54400:29:04.640 --> 00:29:05.160
for myself.54500:29:05.480 --> 00:29:07.799
No, George, that's no good. You'll scare them off.54600:29:08.000 --> 00:29:09.920
Well, just the same as to Carstairs. If I'm going54700:29:10.000 --> 00:29:12.440
to do this thing, I will have to be part54800:29:12.559 --> 00:29:13.000
of the action.54900:29:13.720 --> 00:29:15.559
You really are a good citizen.55000:29:15.680 --> 00:29:18.400
George has nothing to do with the diamonds. I want55100:29:18.440 --> 00:29:22.519
to see those handcuffs go on because I hate herld.55200:29:26.279 --> 00:29:29.839
And so in the next few minutes, George Wallaby is55300:29:29.920 --> 00:29:33.000
going to get all chance for of them. Of course,55400:29:33.039 --> 00:29:36.240
at the same time Harold Buckhouter is going to get55500:29:36.319 --> 00:29:39.640
his chance. It's several hundred thousand dollars worth of diamonds.55600:29:40.480 --> 00:29:42.519
Which one of them is going to be the happy55700:29:42.640 --> 00:29:46.240
non We'll find out when the atturn with that sea.55800:29:56.400 --> 00:29:59.279
It's a moment of crisis in the offices of Fitness55900:29:59.319 --> 00:30:03.480
and Company Julius, a moment that George Wallaby will look56000:30:03.559 --> 00:30:06.519
upon as the turning point of design. He has made56100:30:06.519 --> 00:30:09.400
a faithful decision and now there is no going back.56200:30:10.759 --> 00:30:13.079
As he steps out of the private office that is56300:30:13.160 --> 00:30:17.000
informed to Kidney, there is a flat feel box in56400:30:17.039 --> 00:30:17.400
his hand.56500:30:18.400 --> 00:30:20.799
And how back holder looks at the box and smile.56600:30:22.039 --> 00:30:26.640
Well, that's being sensible, George. Mister Kiptness would have been56700:30:26.759 --> 00:30:29.000
very upset if you had to listen to him. Yes,56800:30:29.200 --> 00:30:32.920
we wouldn't want to upset mister Kittles with me. No, George,56900:30:32.920 --> 00:30:36.039
who wouldn't well hand it over?57000:30:36.720 --> 00:30:38.960
No, no, no, but all right, I'll be glad to57100:30:39.000 --> 00:30:41.640
carry them. You're really sure you want to do this? Huh?57200:30:42.200 --> 00:30:43.799
Come along with me? Well why not?57300:30:44.839 --> 00:30:48.200
You can tell him, mister Rutherford, that I am your assistant.57400:30:48.279 --> 00:30:50.880
That's the way you treat me around here, Isn't it57500:30:51.119 --> 00:30:53.279
all right, George? If that's the only way you'll have it,57600:30:53.400 --> 00:30:56.200
let's go. Oh, just one moment. I want to tell57700:30:56.240 --> 00:31:01.680
Gretcha and something. Oh, Gretchen baby, call from London this afternoon,57800:31:01.759 --> 00:31:04.000
maybe one for Marrakesh. Tell him I'll call back in57900:31:04.000 --> 00:31:04.640
a couple hours.58000:31:04.880 --> 00:31:07.960
Yes, and don't forget about tonight. I just got the58100:31:08.000 --> 00:31:09.599
tickets fifth Row Center.58200:31:09.960 --> 00:31:10.839
I won't forget.58300:31:11.119 --> 00:31:14.079
I'll we go back to my place later and listen58400:31:14.119 --> 00:31:15.240
to mine new stereo.58500:31:15.440 --> 00:31:15.599
Huh.58600:31:17.119 --> 00:31:23.039
Well, George, ready to leave? Oh? Yes, I'm ready. You58700:31:23.519 --> 00:31:25.400
don't know how ready I am.58800:31:30.640 --> 00:31:34.039
It was exactly twenty five minutes since George's last word58900:31:34.160 --> 00:31:37.960
with Walter Carsty when he and Harold emerged into the street.59000:31:39.160 --> 00:31:42.920
He's heart beating twice as fast as nor. George clutched59100:31:43.119 --> 00:31:46.839
the black spear box against his chest. If Horod guest,59200:31:46.920 --> 00:31:50.720
he waved the taxis to stop against the car. George59300:31:50.759 --> 00:31:53.920
looked about for Walter Carsty, but there's no sign with59400:31:54.039 --> 00:31:57.400
thee and he began to wonder if he'd need.59500:31:57.319 --> 00:31:57.839
It on time.59600:32:00.119 --> 00:32:02.799
Tell what it please, mously.59700:32:02.920 --> 00:32:05.319
George look out the real window to try and catch59800:32:05.359 --> 00:32:08.839
a glimpse of go stairs trailing vehicle. He saw nothing.59900:32:09.640 --> 00:32:12.400
He's not sure that they protected was behind him.60000:32:13.359 --> 00:32:16.759
You think you don't trust me, do you? George? Why60100:32:17.039 --> 00:32:19.480
why do you say that that's the reason you came60200:32:19.559 --> 00:32:20.160
along with me?60300:32:20.319 --> 00:32:24.480
Obviously you thought I might do something foolish like walk60400:32:24.559 --> 00:32:25.440
off with a diamond.60500:32:25.519 --> 00:32:28.319
Oh no, I didn't take any such thing.60600:32:28.839 --> 00:32:30.720
I could see from the way you looked at those60700:32:30.880 --> 00:32:33.759
cablegrams you thought they just might be.60800:32:33.880 --> 00:32:38.480
A fake, didn't you? Certainly not. Yeah, I'll bet you.60900:32:38.559 --> 00:32:41.759
Were hoping they were a fake, George, And I'll bet you're.61000:32:41.640 --> 00:32:44.200
Hoping there ain't a mister Rutherford at the hotel? Am61100:32:44.240 --> 00:32:47.559
I right now? I have no idea what you're talking about.61200:32:47.599 --> 00:32:50.880
Harry'll tell me something. Why do you keep looking out61300:32:50.880 --> 00:32:54.240
of the back window at the bell well, it's just61400:32:54.279 --> 00:32:56.039
a habit. That's a habit of mine. I'm always a61500:32:56.079 --> 00:32:59.319
bit nervous when I'm carrying so much, so much precious Richard.61600:33:00.519 --> 00:33:05.440
Well, I can help make you less nervous, George, give61700:33:05.519 --> 00:33:06.119
the box to me.61800:33:06.319 --> 00:33:11.839
I know, thank you. Hey, here we are and there61900:33:11.880 --> 00:33:19.119
you go, buddy. Well are you all set? George? All set?62000:33:24.519 --> 00:33:25.119
Is the end of the.62100:33:25.119 --> 00:33:28.799
Lovey of the hoothel doesn't share. Poor George Willerbys is62200:33:28.880 --> 00:33:31.720
shaking so high he can hardly navigate across the thick62300:33:31.799 --> 00:33:36.000
carpet there is in the sun Walter consty, And for62400:33:36.160 --> 00:33:40.799
a depressing moment, George wonders if the detective who's been mistaken,62500:33:41.720 --> 00:33:45.400
if the cablegram was indeed genuine, If here really is62600:33:45.480 --> 00:33:48.720
a mister Rapperford in the hotel room upstairs, waiting to62700:33:48.799 --> 00:33:51.160
make an offer on the most precious gems in the62800:33:51.240 --> 00:33:52.920
Kittens and Company inventory.62900:33:53.279 --> 00:33:56.000
One moment, George, I'll have to use the house phone63000:33:56.480 --> 00:34:02.200
tell Rutherford that we're here. Oh uh, mister Rutherford, please,63100:34:02.279 --> 00:34:04.119
I think the room number is eight eleven.63200:34:04.279 --> 00:34:07.880
George Hart is beating faster than ever he's been. Really63300:34:08.000 --> 00:34:11.480
enough offit is he a genuine customer? Or perhaps the63400:34:11.599 --> 00:34:15.719
consider it is Harold buckhater. If he goes upstairs with Harold,63500:34:16.239 --> 00:34:19.639
will his life be in danger? George's hand and fat63600:34:19.679 --> 00:34:23.320
stew Bucks to come sleep with perspiration and an esteem,63700:34:23.639 --> 00:34:25.800
signed walters the thing.63800:34:27.280 --> 00:34:29.320
Oh, George, huh, he uh?63900:34:29.559 --> 00:34:32.440
He wants me to come up alone? What Rutherford? He64000:34:32.519 --> 00:34:35.760
wants me to come upstairs by myself with the diamonds?64100:34:35.800 --> 00:34:37.840
Of course, Well I told you I can't permit it.64200:34:38.039 --> 00:34:39.880
Rutherford is a very private person.64300:34:40.039 --> 00:34:42.480
He doesn't like a lot of people around our Come on, George,64400:34:42.519 --> 00:34:44.000
give me the bar now, I will do it. He's64500:34:44.039 --> 00:34:46.719
only going to be in town one day now. If64600:34:46.760 --> 00:34:50.039
he doesn't see the contestic election right now, we lose64700:34:50.119 --> 00:34:50.519
the sale.64800:34:50.519 --> 00:34:53.440
Well I can't. I still, I still sorry, George. It64900:34:53.639 --> 00:34:55.840
just has to be this way. Hey, give me that65000:34:56.079 --> 00:34:59.119
box later, Harold suck. I can't keep it waiting. I65100:34:59.199 --> 00:35:01.159
can just catch that elevator, Harold.65200:35:03.960 --> 00:35:04.679
It is no use.65300:35:06.000 --> 00:35:08.719
Hand was gone behind the closing doors of the elevator.65400:35:09.559 --> 00:35:11.840
He had moved too swiftly for George to stop him,65500:35:12.400 --> 00:35:15.519
and there is still no sign of the detective. Frankly,65600:35:15.679 --> 00:35:17.400
George tries to decide what to do.65700:35:18.400 --> 00:35:19.320
Then he has an idea.65800:35:20.840 --> 00:35:27.480
Hello, mister Rutherforth, please Rutherforth or r u T No, No,65900:35:27.599 --> 00:35:29.039
I don't know his first name, but he must be66000:35:29.079 --> 00:35:29.679
registered here.66100:35:29.719 --> 00:35:35.719
I just heard someone. Oh, oh I see, yes, yes,66200:35:35.800 --> 00:35:38.599
thank you very much. Oh my gosh, my gosh.66300:35:38.639 --> 00:35:41.199
He didn't call upstairs at all. He must have had66400:35:41.239 --> 00:35:43.800
his finger on the hook. There is no rubberport that66500:35:44.000 --> 00:35:48.039
Harold has the diamonds. George, what oh, oh, mister Carstes,66600:35:48.639 --> 00:35:49.039
have you been.66700:35:49.119 --> 00:35:52.119
He's got the diamonds. Harold has the diamonds. Of course66800:35:52.159 --> 00:35:54.320
he has them. He has to have them, George, her66900:35:54.519 --> 00:35:55.079
The whole thing.67000:35:55.039 --> 00:35:55.480
Is no good.67100:35:55.599 --> 00:35:57.000
What I told you.67200:35:57.679 --> 00:35:59.480
The only way I'm going to get a conviction is67300:35:59.519 --> 00:36:00.639
by cat seeing the guy.67400:36:00.719 --> 00:36:03.400
Red handed, and that's what I'm going to do. But67500:36:03.679 --> 00:36:06.239
he's gone. He took the box and went into the elevator.67600:36:06.280 --> 00:36:08.039
He could be anywhere in the hotel by now. I67700:36:08.159 --> 00:36:11.199
know exactly where he is, George, I know exactly how67800:36:11.280 --> 00:36:13.440
that man operated. Well where where where is he?67900:36:14.000 --> 00:36:16.440
I'm sure he did exactly what he did in Chicago68000:36:16.800 --> 00:36:20.199
and Detroit and lord knows how many other places. He68100:36:20.280 --> 00:36:23.199
got off the elevator at the next time and then68200:36:23.239 --> 00:36:25.039
took the service elevator to the street.68300:36:25.760 --> 00:36:26.599
Come on, we don't have a.68400:36:26.639 --> 00:36:27.199
Moment to lose.68500:36:29.719 --> 00:36:30.280
Do you see him?68600:36:30.559 --> 00:36:32.920
Do you see him, mister Costas, Yes, here he is.68700:36:33.000 --> 00:36:35.679
Where where coming out of that alley? Oh quick, he's68800:36:35.719 --> 00:36:40.760
heading to that cab stand buck hold her? Stop, hurry,68900:36:40.920 --> 00:36:45.400
hurry quick, don't let him get away? Got her hand? Hey,69000:36:45.519 --> 00:36:46.000
what is this?69100:36:46.199 --> 00:36:46.760
What do you want?69200:36:47.159 --> 00:36:50.000
I know what you want? Buck hold her, But you're69300:36:50.039 --> 00:36:52.639
not getting away with it this time. George, who is69400:36:52.760 --> 00:36:54.880
this man? Is he a friend of yours?69500:36:54.880 --> 00:36:55.039
All?69600:36:55.320 --> 00:36:57.800
Yes? He is one of the best friends I ever had.69700:36:57.920 --> 00:36:58.039
Now.69800:36:58.280 --> 00:37:01.480
Look, I was just going to bring diamonds to the airport.69900:37:01.639 --> 00:37:04.719
I found out that Brotherford couldn't wait for me and70000:37:04.920 --> 00:37:06.119
was on his way back home.70100:37:06.360 --> 00:37:07.320
I thought I could.70200:37:07.519 --> 00:37:12.599
Yes, I know exactly what you bought, Buckholder, But you're70300:37:12.639 --> 00:37:13.599
not going to the airport.70400:37:14.480 --> 00:37:15.159
You're going with me.70500:37:15.400 --> 00:37:16.960
Hey, Hey, what is it?70600:37:17.199 --> 00:37:23.559
Is called a bad Buckholder? And these these are called handcuffs.70700:37:25.199 --> 00:37:28.679
Harold Buckholder. You're under arrest at the climb of grand70800:37:28.800 --> 00:37:29.199
last name.70900:37:30.000 --> 00:37:32.360
It's my duty to warn you that anything you might say,71000:37:33.039 --> 00:37:34.800
maybe he is in testimony against you.71100:37:41.559 --> 00:37:43.440
Good morning, Gretchen's mister Kitnas.71200:37:43.599 --> 00:37:49.159
Yet it's all true, Yes, yes, it's true. All right,71300:37:49.159 --> 00:37:52.039
I'll tell you all about it at lunch if you like. Oh, yes, yes,71400:37:52.079 --> 00:38:02.960
I'll see you later. Oh George, George h said, I'm George,71500:38:03.239 --> 00:38:04.840
say talk to me.71600:38:06.119 --> 00:38:08.760
But whatever you do, don't tell me what a fool71700:38:08.760 --> 00:38:09.239
would have been.71800:38:10.320 --> 00:38:11.719
And I know I'd only too.71900:38:11.719 --> 00:38:15.079
Well with child. Now, don't you be too hurt on yourself,72000:38:15.159 --> 00:38:15.840
mister Kipness.72100:38:16.719 --> 00:38:19.639
You warned me, George, You told me I was being72200:38:19.679 --> 00:38:22.880
a silly, old fool trusting that young man without even72300:38:23.039 --> 00:38:24.360
checking out his references.72400:38:24.440 --> 00:38:25.400
Well, it wouldn't have helped.72500:38:25.440 --> 00:38:30.000
Mister Harold's reference would have been verified. Nobody he ever72600:38:30.079 --> 00:38:31.840
worked for a thought that he was a crook. That's72700:38:31.880 --> 00:38:33.840
why he got away with it for such a long time.72800:38:34.320 --> 00:38:39.719
You do have insurance, of course, insurance. Who are you72900:38:39.840 --> 00:38:42.480
talking about, white to cover the loss?73000:38:43.159 --> 00:38:43.760
What loss?73100:38:44.960 --> 00:38:50.280
What are you talking about? You mean you don't know when.73200:38:50.239 --> 00:38:52.079
You told me on the phone where there was.73300:38:52.119 --> 00:38:56.519
A trap if this detective he well, what was his name?73400:38:56.559 --> 00:38:59.679
Why I call him Walter? He told me this to73500:38:59.800 --> 00:39:00.239
take if.73600:39:00.159 --> 00:39:02.239
You've wanted to catch a book hold him yet?73700:39:02.519 --> 00:39:04.920
Yes, yes, that's what he told me. Of course he73800:39:05.119 --> 00:39:09.039
was lying here? Why he didn't want to trap Harold.73900:39:09.119 --> 00:39:11.199
He wanted to trap me, and that's what he did.74000:39:11.599 --> 00:39:14.480
He was a crook too. Well, did you say.74100:39:14.800 --> 00:39:18.079
I just came from the police, mister Kipness, and they74200:39:18.159 --> 00:39:20.960
told me there isn't any cop named Walter Carstairs, private74300:39:21.119 --> 00:39:25.559
or otherwise. They told me that Walter is Harold's confederate.74400:39:26.320 --> 00:39:27.400
Oh good lord.74500:39:27.519 --> 00:39:30.039
Yes, they've been working this con game for years, and74600:39:30.159 --> 00:39:32.280
that's why Walter kept the contestant collection.74700:39:32.760 --> 00:39:35.519
Yeah, if you told me he needed them for verdence.74800:39:35.639 --> 00:39:38.599
Yes, that's that's what he always says. Of course, then74900:39:39.760 --> 00:39:41.599
the diamonds are gone.75000:39:41.800 --> 00:39:44.719
Oh yes, sir, Yes, I'm sure they're both out of75100:39:44.760 --> 00:39:48.000
the country by now. Mister Kitnas deciding how to spend75200:39:48.039 --> 00:39:50.119
the money, you know, and I.75300:39:50.480 --> 00:39:51.639
Just decided join.75400:39:51.800 --> 00:39:55.000
What's that? Mister, You're fired?75500:40:00.440 --> 00:40:01.880
I don't understand, George.75600:40:02.440 --> 00:40:04.360
Didn't you like the House of Health and your.75700:40:04.599 --> 00:40:07.840
No, Gretchen and I feel healthy enough, thanks, But this75800:40:08.039 --> 00:40:08.199
is the.75900:40:08.320 --> 00:40:10.440
Most expensive restaurant in town.76000:40:10.599 --> 00:40:13.960
Well, I just wanted us to have lunch someplace special76100:40:14.159 --> 00:40:14.679
for a change.76200:40:14.800 --> 00:40:18.039
Oh but you can't afford that, George. I mean, didn't76300:40:18.079 --> 00:40:20.400
you just tell me that, mister Kidneys fired you that's right.76400:40:20.719 --> 00:40:22.960
But did he give you a severance pay or something?76500:40:23.039 --> 00:40:23.960
No, not a penny.76600:40:24.679 --> 00:40:25.840
You're not upset about it?76700:40:26.000 --> 00:40:31.119
Oh no, No, I deserve being fired, and I certainly76800:40:31.400 --> 00:40:33.000
didn't deserve any severance pays.76900:40:33.159 --> 00:40:35.880
But what happened wasn't your fault, wasn't it? Would they77000:40:36.039 --> 00:40:39.199
fooled you, George? They were just too clever for you?77100:40:39.360 --> 00:40:39.440
Oh?77200:40:39.519 --> 00:40:43.119
Yes, they were clever, wasn't they. I'm sure Howld dreamed77300:40:43.159 --> 00:40:43.960
up the whole scheme.77400:40:44.480 --> 00:40:44.679
Yeah.77500:40:44.719 --> 00:40:46.079
I know this is awful to.77600:40:46.159 --> 00:40:48.239
Say, but but I can't help you.77700:40:48.360 --> 00:40:51.239
You can't help thinking that Hold was clever.77800:40:51.599 --> 00:40:55.039
Well, you have to admit there was something romantic about77900:40:55.079 --> 00:40:55.559
what they did.78000:40:55.880 --> 00:41:00.400
Yes, I knew you felt that way, Gretchen. Then how78100:41:00.559 --> 00:41:04.440
romantic jewel thieves were? That's why I did what I did?78200:41:05.199 --> 00:41:05.760
What do you mean?78300:41:05.920 --> 00:41:06.159
Well?78400:41:06.400 --> 00:41:11.800
You see I didn't give Hold the Contessa collection people. No, no,78500:41:12.920 --> 00:41:15.199
you see, when Harold asked me for them, I went78600:41:15.239 --> 00:41:19.039
into mister Kitmas's office safe and took the diamonds out78700:41:19.079 --> 00:41:22.159
of the box, and then I put some cheap paste78800:41:22.239 --> 00:41:25.559
imitation in their place, and I locked the box.78900:41:25.719 --> 00:41:28.000
Can since the diamonds is still here?79000:41:28.719 --> 00:41:34.119
Oh no, no, the diamonds are Gorman, Gretchen. We just79100:41:34.400 --> 00:41:39.800
to those clever, clever international jewel thieves took them.79200:41:40.199 --> 00:41:51.039
Gretchen. Remember, oh you, by the way, have you ever79300:41:51.159 --> 00:41:52.960
been to South America? Gretchen?79400:41:58.079 --> 00:42:00.559
It looks as if the Contessa collection, who has just79500:42:00.679 --> 00:42:04.480
been added to George Wallerby's collection, and so for that matter,79600:42:04.639 --> 00:42:08.199
has Gretchen. You might say there's a moral to our story.79700:42:08.920 --> 00:42:12.320
Even though George started out hating Harold, he ended up79800:42:12.400 --> 00:42:15.880
by being very grateful to her, which goes to prove79900:42:16.519 --> 00:42:19.559
that you can always find something to like in everyone80000:42:19.679 --> 00:42:22.639
you meet. I'll be back with a further report on80100:42:22.760 --> 00:42:33.440
the Contessa Collection shortly. There was only one problem in80200:42:33.519 --> 00:42:37.079
George Wallerby's life. The day he and Gretchen showed up80300:42:37.119 --> 00:42:39.960
at the airport to board a plane for Brazil, they80400:42:40.000 --> 00:42:43.760
were approached by two gentlemen with badges. This time, the80500:42:43.880 --> 00:42:48.119
badges were the real thing, you see. George decided it80600:42:48.159 --> 00:42:51.559
would be much better to carry the Contessa collection aboard80700:42:51.599 --> 00:42:55.679
by hand. What he forgot was that all hand luggage80800:42:55.719 --> 00:43:00.280
went through X ray inspection. Oh well, they do say80900:43:00.480 --> 00:43:05.159
crime doesn't pass the timing mystery can also be entertainment,81000:43:05.880 --> 00:43:06.719
so we hope you'll be.81100:43:06.760 --> 00:43:08.000
Listening for us next team.81200:43:08.800 --> 00:43:13.679
I cost included later Haynes Project, Robert Dadon's and Dinatur Group.81300:43:14.119 --> 00:43:17.519
The entire production is under the direction of timing down.81400:43:20.599 --> 00:43:20.840
Well.81500:43:21.800 --> 00:43:24.480
I found that one a bit on the chilling side.81600:43:24.719 --> 00:43:30.039
Wouldn't you say? Well, please please allow me to freshen81700:43:30.119 --> 00:43:30.679
up your teeth.81800:43:31.639 --> 00:43:32.280
The chair is.81900:43:32.360 --> 00:43:39.360
Comfortable as good, very good. Well, as we continue our82000:43:40.400 --> 00:43:47.400
theme about the extremes of detestment, I don't want to82100:43:47.519 --> 00:43:54.320
keep things all in the realm of a distant dislike. No, no, no,82200:43:55.880 --> 00:43:59.880
I think that one of the most underrated of all82300:44:00.360 --> 00:44:06.000
the abhorrence. Let's see about your brotherly hate.82400:44:07.679 --> 00:44:10.119
And now stay tuned for the program that has rated82500:44:10.159 --> 00:44:13.280
tops in popularity for a longer period of time than82600:44:13.320 --> 00:44:16.760
any other West Coast program in radio history, The Signal82700:44:16.840 --> 00:44:17.639
Oil program.82800:44:18.079 --> 00:44:19.159
The Whistler.82900:44:29.119 --> 00:44:42.400
Signal, the famous go Farther Gasoline invites you to sit83000:44:42.519 --> 00:44:47.840
back and enjoy another strange story by the Whistler for83100:44:48.000 --> 00:44:50.800
extra driving pleasure. The signal to look for is the83200:44:50.880 --> 00:44:54.840
yellow and black circle sign that identifies signal service stations83300:44:54.880 --> 00:44:58.760
from Canada to Mexico, and for Sunday evening listening pleasure,83400:44:59.159 --> 00:45:03.039
the signal to listen, for is this whistle that identifies83500:45:03.119 --> 00:45:23.119
the signal oil program the whistler. I am the whistler,83600:45:23.800 --> 00:45:26.280
and I know many things. For I walk by night.83700:45:27.119 --> 00:45:30.239
I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of83800:45:30.360 --> 00:45:33.639
men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes,83900:45:34.519 --> 00:45:38.079
I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.84000:45:41.000 --> 00:45:45.440
And now the whistler's strange story brotherly hate.84100:45:53.599 --> 00:45:54.840
Visiting hours were over.84200:45:55.360 --> 00:45:59.039
The Jeffrey Long Museum in San Francisco was quiet, and84300:45:59.199 --> 00:46:01.519
in the private office of the owner. Jeffrey sat at84400:46:01.599 --> 00:46:04.599
his desk, staring at the note in his hands, a84500:46:04.719 --> 00:46:07.519
note that was damp, almost wet with his own perspiration.84600:46:08.360 --> 00:46:10.800
The hands trembled, and there was a tight, nervous feeling84700:46:10.840 --> 00:46:14.639
in the pit of his stomach, symptoms of terror. It84800:46:14.719 --> 00:46:17.480
had all started three months ago, when Jeffrey Long had84900:46:17.559 --> 00:46:21.800
received the first envelope while in Cairo. Then followed days85000:46:21.880 --> 00:46:26.400
and weeks of mounting fear, because each Saturday thereafter, like85100:46:26.480 --> 00:46:30.519
a gentle stabbing, before the final thrust, came an identical note,85200:46:30.800 --> 00:46:32.519
and the message was always the same.85300:46:33.480 --> 00:46:37.440
If you've killed the Stelle, you will die on the85400:46:37.519 --> 00:46:39.440
anniversary of her death.85500:46:40.599 --> 00:46:44.280
And now it's Saturday again. The feeling of terror grows stronger,85600:46:44.360 --> 00:46:49.199
doesn't it, Jeffrey. The beads of perspiration on your forehead colder. Yes,85700:46:49.960 --> 00:46:54.360
because it's Saturday, and tomorrow, Sunday, the seventeenth is the85800:46:54.440 --> 00:46:56.559
anniversary of Estelle's death.85900:46:59.239 --> 00:47:01.960
Yes, Burton is here, sir, Thank you, Miss Grant. Send86000:47:02.039 --> 00:47:06.920
him in. Come in, Burton, come in.86100:47:07.880 --> 00:47:09.000
It's on your mind long.86200:47:09.159 --> 00:47:10.079
You know how I called you.86300:47:10.960 --> 00:47:14.800
Sit down, let me discover the lamp used by Rameses86400:47:14.880 --> 00:47:15.320
the fourth.86500:47:16.800 --> 00:47:18.920
Oh what I do for money? You're a private detective,86600:47:18.920 --> 00:47:22.679
aren't you? What about a Stelle Blair's brother. Look, if86700:47:22.719 --> 00:47:26.000
you didn't kill the girl, why worry this? This brother,86800:47:26.159 --> 00:47:28.440
the one who's been sending me these letters, he's obviously86900:47:28.480 --> 00:47:30.760
a crackpot. He might do anything.87000:47:31.159 --> 00:47:32.920
Ah, the police, they'll give you a protection.87100:47:33.360 --> 00:47:34.760
He's got to be found. You've got to find him.87200:47:36.239 --> 00:47:39.360
I can't go around afraid of everyone I meet, everyone87300:47:39.400 --> 00:47:42.480
from cab drivers to the the caretakers. Here in my87400:47:42.559 --> 00:47:43.079
own building.87500:47:43.559 --> 00:47:46.360
Listen, when I walk in here nearly a year ago87600:47:46.400 --> 00:47:48.480
with a hunk of of pyrus and an alabaster cup,87700:47:48.519 --> 00:47:51.480
that Belanda king Tot You hired me like that, so87800:47:51.679 --> 00:47:53.679
since then, I've been doing your dirty work. I've even87900:47:53.719 --> 00:47:56.400
swiped scaabs and jewel boxes for you all over the world.88000:47:56.840 --> 00:47:57.960
But murder's another.88100:47:57.840 --> 00:47:58.960
Thing, even for me.88200:48:00.119 --> 00:48:02.079
I want to know what I'm getting into, that's all.88300:48:02.840 --> 00:48:04.679
If you kill Estelle Blair, then I want to know88400:48:04.760 --> 00:48:05.119
about that.88500:48:05.480 --> 00:48:11.400
That's clear. I told you death was an accident, and I'm.88600:48:11.320 --> 00:48:14.480
Telling you the result of my investigation as far as88700:48:14.559 --> 00:48:18.480
I'm concerned. As tell Blair never had a brother. Anytime88800:48:18.559 --> 00:48:20.960
you decide to give out with what really's got you scared, just.88900:48:21.199 --> 00:48:22.000
Dial my number.89000:48:22.119 --> 00:48:23.719
You can't walk out of me now, but you can89100:48:23.760 --> 00:48:25.639
get another private No, no, there isn't time.89200:48:25.800 --> 00:48:29.000
Like I said, when you're ready to tell me why89300:48:29.079 --> 00:48:32.079
you're so scared, just dial my number.89400:48:33.159 --> 00:48:34.880
But don't wait too long.89500:48:43.679 --> 00:48:48.039
It's turned out as you feared it would, hasn't it yet? Yes, Burton,89600:48:48.119 --> 00:48:51.199
the private detective hasn't been able to find Estelle Blair's brother,89700:48:51.719 --> 00:48:54.840
and now there's only one thing to do. You know,89800:48:55.000 --> 00:48:57.800
there's too much to lose if you are murdered. The89900:48:57.920 --> 00:49:02.199
resultant investigation would certainly the ugly facts surrounding your former90000:49:02.280 --> 00:49:03.119
assistance death.90100:49:04.199 --> 00:49:06.480
You have immortality to lose.90200:49:06.599 --> 00:49:07.039
Jeffrey.90300:49:07.679 --> 00:49:11.159
Your name is the greatest private collector of Egyptology in90400:49:11.199 --> 00:49:14.679
the world, the proud name that shines brightly from the90500:49:14.800 --> 00:49:18.760
brass plaque on your great museum, the museum you intend90600:49:18.880 --> 00:49:23.079
to wielder the city on your death. Quickly you'll get90700:49:23.119 --> 00:49:25.920
to your feet, hurry to the small cabinet and take90800:49:26.000 --> 00:49:27.440
down a bottle mark poison.90900:49:28.199 --> 00:49:29.000
There is a way out.91000:49:29.079 --> 00:49:32.480
Isn't there a way you can preserve the honored name91100:49:32.679 --> 00:49:33.960
of Jeffrey Long?91200:49:35.280 --> 00:49:37.079
Excuse me, mister Long?91300:49:38.519 --> 00:49:42.880
Oh oh, what is it, miss, if you won't be91400:49:43.039 --> 00:49:44.239
needing me anymore this evening?91500:49:44.320 --> 00:49:47.920
Sir, No, no, I won't be needing you, miss. Grant91600:49:48.000 --> 00:49:55.519
you now, and second thought, perhaps you'd better stay a91700:49:55.639 --> 00:50:01.079
few minutes. There is something you can do. Yes, I'll91800:50:02.119 --> 00:50:02.440
call you.91900:50:07.119 --> 00:50:10.079
As you walk back to your desk, you unscrew the92000:50:10.159 --> 00:50:13.719
cap on the bottle of poison. A herculean force dragged92100:50:13.719 --> 00:50:15.760
at your arm as you try to lift the bottle92200:50:15.800 --> 00:50:16.360
to your lips.92300:50:17.039 --> 00:50:18.000
Finally you succeed.92400:50:18.519 --> 00:50:22.280
Your throat is numb as you take one swallow, then another,92500:50:23.360 --> 00:50:27.199
and another. Then a sudden stiffness seizes your hand. The92600:50:27.280 --> 00:50:32.880
bottle slipped through your fingers. Slowly you walk around the desk,92700:50:33.039 --> 00:50:35.800
slump into the chair. You wait a minute or so,92800:50:36.039 --> 00:50:37.559
and then press the buzzer.92900:50:40.440 --> 00:50:47.840
Come in, miss scratch, mister long, is something matter?93000:50:48.039 --> 00:50:54.199
Yes, sir, made a terrible stake in the cabinet. Two93100:50:54.280 --> 00:50:59.719
bottles almost identical. One contains cough Melson, the other deadly.93200:50:59.440 --> 00:51:01.840
Poisonous, too long. It didn't really take.93300:51:04.159 --> 00:51:07.159
It was a mistake. Do you understand? Be sure they know.93400:51:08.239 --> 00:51:13.239
They mustn't think otherwise. It wasn't suicide. Remember that it93500:51:13.440 --> 00:51:14.440
wasn't suicide.93600:51:16.079 --> 00:51:22.840
You're not going to die. I was afraid you'd do93700:51:22.960 --> 00:51:26.679
something like this. I poured the poison down the sink93800:51:27.639 --> 00:51:33.559
yesterday afternoon. What you drank was just colored water.93900:51:47.119 --> 00:51:47.159
Ed.94000:51:47.239 --> 00:51:50.320
Stevens of Long Beach, California is the Whistler fan who94100:51:50.360 --> 00:51:53.840
receives a twenty dollars signal gasoline book this week as94200:51:53.880 --> 00:51:56.599
a token of our appreciation for sending in this limerick.94300:51:59.480 --> 00:52:02.599
There once was a driver named Abbot whose car took94400:52:02.679 --> 00:52:05.719
off like a rabbit signal. Ethyl said, he is the94500:52:05.800 --> 00:52:08.880
fuel for me. From now on, I'll make it a habit.94600:52:09.199 --> 00:52:16.079
Signal signal gasoline your carvcal.94700:52:15.679 --> 00:52:16.320
Far with no.94800:52:18.760 --> 00:52:18.960
If.94900:52:19.159 --> 00:52:21.960
Like our friend Abbot, you like pickup that's quick as95000:52:22.000 --> 00:52:25.159
a rabbit. Then signal ethyl is a gasoline for you.95100:52:25.920 --> 00:52:28.239
But flashing pickup, mind you, is only one of the95200:52:28.320 --> 00:52:30.960
improvements you'll discover when you power your car with this95300:52:31.119 --> 00:52:35.639
super fuel. In addition, you'll enjoy signal ethyl's extra power95400:52:36.039 --> 00:52:39.639
that makes cars fairly fly uphills and makes passing safer,95500:52:40.199 --> 00:52:42.920
and you'll be amazed at your engine's contented, ping free95600:52:43.119 --> 00:52:46.960
per For signal ethyl is scientifically engineered to bring out95700:52:47.000 --> 00:52:49.480
the very peak of performance your car is capable of,95800:52:50.079 --> 00:52:53.840
regardless of age. So why not discover how much fun95900:52:53.960 --> 00:52:54.840
driving can be?96000:52:55.800 --> 00:52:56.280
Next time?96100:52:56.400 --> 00:52:58.639
Treat your car to a tank full of the gasoline96200:52:58.679 --> 00:53:03.000
that's packed with more gold. Next time, fill up with96300:53:03.199 --> 00:53:04.000
signal ethel.96400:53:22.639 --> 00:53:25.079
When you raised the bottle of poison to your lips,96500:53:25.360 --> 00:53:27.719
you thought it was the only way out, didn't you, Jeffrey,96600:53:28.760 --> 00:53:31.280
you would cheat a stelle Blair's brother, the man who96700:53:31.320 --> 00:53:33.760
had sworn to kill you, if you took your own96800:53:33.840 --> 00:53:36.280
life and make it appear as an accident, and you96900:53:36.320 --> 00:53:37.960
would preserve the honored.97000:53:37.719 --> 00:53:38.800
Name of Jeffrey Long.97100:53:39.840 --> 00:53:41.960
Then, as you sat at your desk waiting for death,97200:53:42.559 --> 00:53:46.000
your secretary, Bernice Grant, informed you that you wouldn't die97300:53:46.800 --> 00:53:49.119
because she'd poured the poison out of the bottle the97400:53:49.239 --> 00:53:54.079
day before, replace the deadly contents with harmless colored water.97500:53:54.599 --> 00:53:59.000
I was afraid you'd try to kill yourself. You see,97600:54:00.039 --> 00:54:01.199
I've known about the letters.97700:54:03.119 --> 00:54:03.679
You knew all.97800:54:04.639 --> 00:54:10.800
Yes, I've seen the fear worry in your eyes of torture.97900:54:12.039 --> 00:54:12.719
But I couldn't.98000:54:13.199 --> 00:54:15.199
I'll do it again. You and no one else can stop.98100:54:15.320 --> 00:54:17.039
No, no, you mustn't. I can help you.98200:54:17.159 --> 00:54:20.559
Please leave me alone. You won't leave me alone. Please,98300:54:22.320 --> 00:54:25.639
I can help you. I want to help, I said,98400:54:30.039 --> 00:54:30.440
what did I.98500:54:30.480 --> 00:54:32.039
Do to you?98600:54:32.159 --> 00:54:35.400
Must find a Stale Blair's brother. You can talk to him.98700:54:35.559 --> 00:54:36.639
Tell him that was an accident.98800:54:37.280 --> 00:54:41.880
Yes, yes, I I could tell him how she slipped98900:54:42.920 --> 00:54:45.440
fell off the ball day. I could show him I99000:54:45.519 --> 00:54:46.000
wasn't to blame.99100:54:46.320 --> 00:54:47.599
I'm sure I could find him.99200:54:48.320 --> 00:54:50.679
I know, if you'll trust me, it's impossible.99300:54:51.719 --> 00:54:54.199
What if I told you I'd already located a Stale99400:54:54.239 --> 00:54:59.760
Blair's father. What, Yes, I learned about him the other day.99500:54:59.800 --> 00:55:03.440
He living in the old man's home in Santa Parata.99600:55:04.519 --> 00:55:07.920
I know if I can talk to him. Please let99700:55:08.039 --> 00:55:11.280
me try. Well, you promise not to try again to99800:55:11.320 --> 00:55:11.840
take your life.99900:55:12.119 --> 00:55:13.679
Sure you're not making all this up, Jets.100000:55:13.760 --> 00:55:16.239
I tell you, I know I can find his tale's brother. Now,100100:55:17.360 --> 00:55:24.840
promise me all right and go to the king tat100200:55:24.880 --> 00:55:27.599
room in the basement. There's a telephone there on the couch.100300:55:28.599 --> 00:55:31.119
Stay there until I call you. I'll bring you some100400:55:31.199 --> 00:55:33.320
food later. Will you go?100500:55:34.320 --> 00:55:37.440
Yes, please, if you say so.100600:55:38.280 --> 00:55:42.719
And please, no matter what happens, trust me.100700:55:44.400 --> 00:55:45.719
You must trust me.100800:55:47.360 --> 00:55:49.719
You see, I love you.100900:55:49.880 --> 00:56:03.320
Jeffrey, Still numb with shock, you find your way down101000:56:03.360 --> 00:56:06.639
to the king tut Room, the large storage room filled101100:56:06.679 --> 00:56:08.840
with relics from the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.101200:56:09.679 --> 00:56:11.960
Without even taking off your tie. You lie down on101300:56:12.039 --> 00:56:15.480
the couch and drop into a deep sleep. You awake101400:56:15.639 --> 00:56:17.880
much later, and when you look at your watch, you101500:56:17.960 --> 00:56:21.000
see that it's Sunday morning, the morning of the day101600:56:21.079 --> 00:56:24.920
you expect to be killed. Your thoughts fastened on the101700:56:25.039 --> 00:56:28.360
tiny bit of halfe Bernice gave you yesterday, you quickly101800:56:28.400 --> 00:56:29.239
reached for the phone.101900:56:37.760 --> 00:56:39.920
Good morning, Messiah, partners.102000:56:39.800 --> 00:56:46.400
Miss Grant, please thank you. Hello and Bernice, this is Jeffrey.102100:56:47.360 --> 00:56:49.039
Have you found anything more about a Stell's brother?102200:56:49.400 --> 00:56:53.199
Not yet, But Jeffrey, I've made progress. I definitely know102300:56:53.360 --> 00:56:55.960
she had a brother. He's somewhere in San Francisco.102400:56:56.079 --> 00:56:59.360
Today is the anniversary of was Tell's death. The days102500:56:59.400 --> 00:57:03.679
couldn't happen. I can't just wait, got to wait.102600:57:04.559 --> 00:57:07.360
You must be patient, Jeffrey. At any moment, I may102700:57:07.480 --> 00:57:08.159
have some news.102800:57:08.800 --> 00:57:10.400
What about the father in Sanda Peralta.102900:57:10.719 --> 00:57:12.199
You must trust me, Jeffrey.103000:57:13.079 --> 00:57:15.719
I know, But what did he say? What's the brother's name?103100:57:15.840 --> 00:57:17.960
I don't know you if the father didn't he tell you.103200:57:18.480 --> 00:57:20.880
I'm working as fast as I can, Jeffrey. You must103300:57:20.920 --> 00:57:25.679
believe that I'll call you later this afternoon. Maybe I'll103400:57:25.760 --> 00:57:27.000
have some very good news.103500:57:28.079 --> 00:57:29.199
Just wait and be patient.103600:57:29.280 --> 00:57:29.599
Will you.103700:57:31.519 --> 00:57:32.400
Don't go out?103800:57:33.719 --> 00:57:39.480
Oh all right, Bernice, Remember Jeffrey, I love you.103900:57:40.960 --> 00:57:44.239
I will benife. I guess I should have known it104000:57:44.760 --> 00:57:45.239
long ago.104100:57:53.079 --> 00:57:56.519
She convinces you to wait, doesn't she. Jeffrey and you sit.104200:57:56.440 --> 00:57:59.719
There quietly in the near darkness, trying to fight down104300:57:59.760 --> 00:58:03.719
your desire to run away and leave town. You're debating104400:58:03.800 --> 00:58:06.119
this when you hear footsteps from the direction of the104500:58:06.159 --> 00:58:12.559
stairs outside. You're tense, nervously staring at the door. Someone104600:58:12.679 --> 00:58:16.039
is coming, Jeffrey in this room, someone who moves quietly104700:58:16.760 --> 00:58:17.400
and has a key.104800:58:18.239 --> 00:58:20.000
You want to run, but the door is the only way.104900:58:20.079 --> 00:58:26.079
And then, good morning, mister Longs.105000:58:27.320 --> 00:58:28.239
What are you doing here?105100:58:29.119 --> 00:58:29.280
Right?105200:58:29.440 --> 00:58:29.840
Grady?105300:58:29.960 --> 00:58:33.320
The regular caretaker is on his vacation, Sir, I.105400:58:33.360 --> 00:58:34.679
Am relieving him this room.105500:58:34.760 --> 00:58:36.360
But this is Sunday. You're not supposed to be here105600:58:36.400 --> 00:58:37.039
on Sunday.105700:58:37.440 --> 00:58:40.960
This grant instructed me that you were here, sir, doing105800:58:41.039 --> 00:58:42.079
some special work.105900:58:43.079 --> 00:58:47.039
She asked me to bring this breakfast tray.106000:58:48.119 --> 00:58:51.360
Oh oh, yes, of course I didn't see it.106100:58:52.800 --> 00:58:58.840
Sorry, it's all right, sir. Anything else, no.106200:59:00.440 --> 00:59:02.400
No, nothing else. Thanks.106300:59:08.360 --> 00:59:11.960
You watch him leave, stare at the food, suddenly realize106400:59:11.960 --> 00:59:14.400
you're unable to eat editor even think of hunger.106500:59:15.360 --> 00:59:17.440
Your nerves are getting the best of you, aren't they.106600:59:17.519 --> 00:59:19.039
Jeffrey and You.106700:59:19.119 --> 00:59:21.599
Decide to take a chance and drive to Santa Parralta106800:59:21.679 --> 00:59:25.960
yourself at once talk to a still father. You're sure106900:59:26.000 --> 00:59:28.800
you can make it and be back before Bernice calls you.107000:59:34.239 --> 00:59:37.559
You're on the highway in five minutes, headed south. An107100:59:37.599 --> 00:59:40.159
odd feeling tells you that a car somewhere behind you107200:59:40.280 --> 00:59:43.360
has been making the very same turns, and that it107300:59:43.480 --> 00:59:46.079
picked you up near the museum. You try to put107400:59:46.119 --> 00:59:48.480
it out of your mind when no attempt is made107500:59:48.480 --> 00:59:51.599
to catch up with you. Hours later, you pull up107600:59:51.639 --> 00:59:54.960
before an ancient stucco building bearing the sign sands a107700:59:55.039 --> 00:59:56.559
Perlta home for the agent.107801:00:05.800 --> 01:00:09.199
Well you visiter so Worthy who welcome?107901:00:09.760 --> 01:00:10.159
Welcome.108001:00:10.760 --> 01:00:12.960
I'm looking for a man with the name of Blair.108101:00:13.760 --> 01:00:16.159
I'm sorry, mister Long.108201:00:16.480 --> 01:00:17.119
Jeffrey Long.108301:00:17.519 --> 01:00:18.800
I'm sorry, mister Long.108401:00:19.440 --> 01:00:20.559
No one here by that name.108501:00:20.599 --> 01:00:23.400
Maybe he's here under another name. He he had a108601:00:23.480 --> 01:00:24.480
daughter named the Stele.108701:00:25.800 --> 01:00:28.719
No one here with a daughter named de Stell's.108801:00:28.440 --> 01:00:31.920
The pretty girl Blonde. It's tragically killed about two years108901:00:31.920 --> 01:00:35.519
ago at see the Mediterranean. She fell overboard.109001:00:35.639 --> 01:00:36.760
Oh pity.109101:00:37.960 --> 01:00:41.599
Yes, but I'm afraid you have the wrong place. We109201:00:41.719 --> 01:00:44.639
have only ten gentlemen here, and I know their records109301:00:44.760 --> 01:00:48.000
very well. We've never had your mister Blair here in109401:00:48.440 --> 01:00:49.199
San Berralta.109501:00:49.679 --> 01:00:52.000
You're sure, absolutely, mister Long.109601:00:58.639 --> 01:01:02.440
Something has gone wrong, hasn't it different. Bernice told you109701:01:02.639 --> 01:01:05.719
Estelle's father was in the old man's home at Santa Peralta,109801:01:06.199 --> 01:01:09.760
but apparently she was lying. Suddenly you look around. You109901:01:10.239 --> 01:01:13.239
find that you're driving through the Marina district, not far110001:01:13.360 --> 01:01:15.519
from the little cottage Estelle used to share with her110101:01:15.599 --> 01:01:18.840
mother in the days when Estelle was your assistant at110201:01:18.880 --> 01:01:22.320
the museum. You turn left, then right, and you see110301:01:22.360 --> 01:01:26.920
the house, hardly recognize it after all these years. You110401:01:27.079 --> 01:01:29.559
stop and get out of the car and walk toward110501:01:29.599 --> 01:01:32.079
a tall woman who was watering the lawn next door.110601:01:32.920 --> 01:01:35.639
Hello, a lovely day, isn't it?110701:01:36.079 --> 01:01:37.719
You like him? Hot? This is going to be a110801:01:37.800 --> 01:01:43.480
scorcher you you live here long, nine to fifteen years.110901:01:44.320 --> 01:01:45.880
Not a collector, aren't no?111001:01:46.800 --> 01:01:50.679
I'm neither a bill collector nor a processor. An old111101:01:50.719 --> 01:01:55.159
friend of mine used to live next door, Andrews. Maybe no, No,111201:01:55.440 --> 01:01:58.280
the name was play Oh dam.111301:01:58.960 --> 01:02:02.519
Mother, big arms like the poats on that porch.111401:02:02.880 --> 01:02:03.679
It was the girl.111501:02:03.800 --> 01:02:07.480
The Stelle was my friend, sweet little thing, blondest corn111601:02:07.599 --> 01:02:11.239
celt She was killed, you know, fell off a boat111701:02:11.320 --> 01:02:14.800
somewhere near Europe for rasure Somewhere's like that worked for111801:02:14.880 --> 01:02:15.480
a museum.111901:02:16.559 --> 01:02:19.239
I I've been trying to locate her brother.112001:02:19.840 --> 01:02:23.440
Brother. Hmmm, I don't seem to remember any man in112101:02:23.480 --> 01:02:24.360
the Blair family.112201:02:24.880 --> 01:02:26.599
Seems like there was just a Stelle on their mother.112301:02:26.920 --> 01:02:30.320
Oh I see, well, I got to be going.112401:02:30.480 --> 01:02:32.440
There was a girl though, used to live with the Blairs,112501:02:32.480 --> 01:02:33.880
a friend of the Stells.112601:02:34.400 --> 01:02:38.480
Dark girls slim, about five to two, criminal thing, wore112701:02:38.599 --> 01:02:39.199
hair and a bun.112801:02:40.079 --> 01:02:41.679
You know, I used to say to my husband Mac,112901:02:41.760 --> 01:02:43.760
that dark girl looks more like Missus Blair than the113001:02:43.840 --> 01:02:44.440
Stelle does.113101:02:44.639 --> 01:02:45.639
I got you their sisters.113201:02:45.880 --> 01:02:49.559
I used to say to my husband's what the car113301:02:50.159 --> 01:02:52.440
he went past? Now I was turning around on the street,113401:02:53.800 --> 01:02:54.239
What is it?113501:02:54.599 --> 01:02:55.440
What's the matter.113601:03:02.760 --> 01:03:03.440
In your car?113701:03:03.639 --> 01:03:04.400
Driving fast?113801:03:04.480 --> 01:03:06.239
You begin to pull away from the car and back113901:03:06.280 --> 01:03:10.320
of room, soon lose sight of it altogether, slowing down,114001:03:10.440 --> 01:03:13.320
your mind stops racing tool and then it hits.114101:03:13.159 --> 01:03:18.039
You, Jeffrey, something that woman back there said, dark girl, slim,114201:03:18.119 --> 01:03:21.280
about five two, criminal thing, war hair in a bun.114301:03:21.840 --> 01:03:24.039
And I used to say to my husband mag Mad,114401:03:24.159 --> 01:03:26.760
dark girl looks more like Missus Flair than a Stelle does.114501:03:27.000 --> 01:03:29.760
But you sisters, sisters.114601:03:30.079 --> 01:03:34.679
Of course, yes, Jeffrey, that's it, an exact description of Bernice,114701:03:34.719 --> 01:03:38.440
your own secretary. Suddenly it all becomes very clear to you,114801:03:38.559 --> 01:03:41.519
doesn't it. You noticed it the first day she came114901:03:41.599 --> 01:03:42.239
to work for you.115001:03:42.679 --> 01:03:44.400
It was something familiar about her.115101:03:45.119 --> 01:03:47.320
She reminded you of someone, but you were never able115201:03:47.400 --> 01:03:49.000
to figure out who she resembled.115301:03:49.239 --> 01:03:52.760
And now you know you've been a fool, haven't you, Jeffrey,115401:03:53.079 --> 01:03:56.800
the way you've played into her hands. You're certain Bernice115501:03:56.920 --> 01:03:59.719
is a Stelle sister, and all the while she's the115601:03:59.760 --> 01:04:03.159
one has been sending the notes intending to avenge her115701:04:03.280 --> 01:04:13.519
sister Estelle. Back at the museum, you see no sign115801:04:13.599 --> 01:04:16.519
of the other car, but you're no longer worried about it,115901:04:16.639 --> 01:04:19.960
are you, Jeffrey. You're certain now that Bernice is your116001:04:20.079 --> 01:04:23.679
would be assassin. You hurry inside and wait for her call.116101:04:24.679 --> 01:04:27.079
The hours dragged by, and.116201:04:27.159 --> 01:04:32.400
Then Hello, Jeffrey Darling.116301:04:32.880 --> 01:04:35.400
I'm calling from a payphone and a drugstore on Broadway.116401:04:35.800 --> 01:04:37.800
Someone is watching me, so don't ask any questions.116501:04:38.159 --> 01:04:38.880
Just do as I say.116601:04:39.599 --> 01:04:42.800
All right, Berne, Jeffrey, I found a brother.116701:04:43.639 --> 01:04:46.559
He's going to try to kill you tonight. But he116801:04:46.599 --> 01:04:48.800
doesn't know where you are. But you be sure you116901:04:49.000 --> 01:04:51.119
keep all the lights out there in the basement.117001:04:51.679 --> 01:04:52.960
Oh yes, yes, of course.117101:04:53.159 --> 01:04:53.920
Don't call anyone.117201:04:54.480 --> 01:04:55.800
Don't tell anyone.117301:04:55.519 --> 01:04:56.000
Where you are.117401:04:56.199 --> 01:04:57.360
No, of course, not.117501:04:58.880 --> 01:04:59.960
Meet you there in half an hour.117601:05:01.079 --> 01:05:01.800
Don't call anyone.117701:05:02.920 --> 01:05:06.960
Understand, Yes, yes, I understand.117801:05:07.760 --> 01:05:09.880
Goodbye, Jeffrey Darling.117901:05:12.440 --> 01:05:14.119
She is clever, isn't she, Jeffrey.118001:05:15.159 --> 01:05:18.639
She's maneuvered you on the very anniversary of Estelle's dead118101:05:19.320 --> 01:05:21.840
into the basement of the museum, where no one can118201:05:21.920 --> 01:05:25.800
hear a sound through the thick walls. But it's over118301:05:26.000 --> 01:05:28.440
for her, now, isn't it all over?118401:05:38.760 --> 01:05:40.480
Burton Detective Agency, Burton speaking.118501:05:40.559 --> 01:05:44.519
This is Jeffrey Long Burton. Oh, but now I know,118601:05:45.360 --> 01:05:49.079
I know who's been sending me those notes. Yes, my secretary,118701:05:49.119 --> 01:05:54.760
all Alonge, Bernice Grant. Yes, she's a Stelle's sister. Now118801:05:54.840 --> 01:05:55.559
you've got to help me.118901:05:56.159 --> 01:05:59.119
H look here, Long, I've told you where eyes. Then119001:06:00.079 --> 01:06:02.519
before I do anything, I have to know.119101:06:03.920 --> 01:06:07.119
Are you Are you prepared to go along with me119201:06:08.360 --> 01:06:09.039
the whole way?119301:06:09.639 --> 01:06:12.000
If I tell you what do you mean by that?119401:06:12.800 --> 01:06:18.360
I mean even the doing away with someone? You mean, yes,119501:06:19.760 --> 01:06:22.800
if it's necessary, anything for money?119601:06:23.800 --> 01:06:25.480
You know that? All right?119701:06:27.000 --> 01:06:30.320
Yes, I killed this Stile. I pushed her overboard, but119801:06:30.400 --> 01:06:32.159
she had it coming. I'll tell you about it later.119901:06:34.000 --> 01:06:36.239
Are you with me now?120001:06:37.000 --> 01:06:38.159
Of course, I'll be right over.120101:06:38.320 --> 01:06:41.199
You better bring along a man you can trust. Bernie120201:06:41.400 --> 01:06:42.599
is coming here to the King tut Room in the120301:06:42.639 --> 01:06:45.639
basement in half an hour. She'll probably have a gun.120401:06:47.159 --> 01:06:48.159
Can I depend on you?120501:06:48.639 --> 01:06:54.320
Don't worry about a thing. We'll meet you there, It.120601:06:54.440 --> 01:06:56.840
Seems ages as you sit there in the dark waiting.120701:06:57.679 --> 01:07:00.760
Then when the illuminated hands on your watch to eight thirty,120801:07:01.480 --> 01:07:02.719
you hear Bernice coming.120901:07:08.280 --> 01:07:11.039
Jeffrey, Jeffrey, what are you?121001:07:12.239 --> 01:07:12.719
I'm here?121101:07:13.079 --> 01:07:15.960
Oh, I've been so worried. Here, let's turn on the light.121201:07:17.719 --> 01:07:20.360
Oh I'm so tired, darling, I've been so worried.121301:07:20.760 --> 01:07:22.480
Isn't this carrying things a little too far?121401:07:22.599 --> 01:07:22.960
Bernice?121501:07:23.320 --> 01:07:24.239
Jeffrey, what do you mean?121601:07:24.400 --> 01:07:25.559
How stupid do you think I am?121701:07:25.719 --> 01:07:26.079
Jeffrey?121801:07:26.159 --> 01:07:26.920
What's this all about?121901:07:27.400 --> 01:07:31.159
Playing the game? Didn't you think I'd see through it all?122001:07:32.199 --> 01:07:35.199
You know, Benee, I visited sant Brava, and as you know,122101:07:35.480 --> 01:07:37.000
as Tell's father has never been.122201:07:36.920 --> 01:07:39.280
There, I had to tell you something to keep it122301:07:39.320 --> 01:07:43.320
from doing away with yourself. With all I could think of, Jeffrey,122401:07:43.360 --> 01:07:46.559
I've been working every minute working for you. Yes, do122501:07:46.679 --> 01:07:47.239
to trust me?122601:07:47.440 --> 01:07:50.679
Trust you. You got me so worked up. I suspected122701:07:50.719 --> 01:07:53.440
everybody I ran into, even thought it might be Corruther.122801:07:53.440 --> 01:07:56.079
It's the caretaker. And in the car, I imagine someone122901:07:56.199 --> 01:07:56.639
was following you.123001:07:56.880 --> 01:07:59.320
Didn't imagine it you were being followed. What I was123101:07:59.360 --> 01:08:02.199
afraid you might go? I called and the police begged123201:08:02.239 --> 01:08:03.119
them to put a man on it.123301:08:03.239 --> 01:08:06.440
Do you expect me to believe that? Can you give123401:08:06.480 --> 01:08:10.679
me that perse? Jeffrey, you're carrying a gun.123501:08:12.320 --> 01:08:17.000
Well, what, Jeffrey, it's for your protection. I was afraid123601:08:17.680 --> 01:08:22.800
he might find you here. You are you goun at me?123701:08:22.880 --> 01:08:23.239
Jeffrey.123801:08:23.479 --> 01:08:27.039
You see, Benissa, I know all about you found out123901:08:27.039 --> 01:08:28.560
from a woman next door to your old house in124001:08:28.600 --> 01:08:31.319
the Marina district. I know you are the one who124101:08:31.399 --> 01:08:33.720
wrote me those notes. I ste never had a brother.124201:08:34.920 --> 01:08:38.720
I discovered something even more interesting. I've discovered that you Panice,124301:08:38.760 --> 01:08:41.359
the sweet secretary who said she loved me. You are124401:08:41.399 --> 01:08:43.479
the one who intends to kill me because you're a124501:08:43.520 --> 01:08:47.760
Stelle sister. That's why I'm going to kill you.124601:08:59.000 --> 01:09:01.920
There are two ways to buy new tires. One way124701:09:02.039 --> 01:09:05.640
is to keep driving on smooth, unsafe treads until one124801:09:05.760 --> 01:09:08.960
day you're sailing down the highway, probably miles from nowhere,124901:09:09.600 --> 01:09:13.119
when all of a sudden, broom room roomp, you've got125001:09:13.199 --> 01:09:16.479
a flat. Your old tire is probably ruined before you125101:09:16.600 --> 01:09:19.439
can stop, so it's now worth nothing. All you can125201:09:19.479 --> 01:09:21.279
do is take whatever make of tire the near a125301:09:21.359 --> 01:09:25.720
station carries, at whatever price they're charging it must be125401:09:25.760 --> 01:09:28.479
a better way to get new tires, and there is.125501:09:29.279 --> 01:09:32.439
That way is to trade in those remaining unsafe miles125601:09:32.479 --> 01:09:36.119
to your signal dealer now while he's giving today's biggest allowance.125701:09:37.000 --> 01:09:39.399
What's more than new tires on which signal dealers are125801:09:39.439 --> 01:09:43.319
giving this generous trade in allowance are first line Lee tires,125901:09:43.720 --> 01:09:47.199
famous over forty seven years for long mile age, And126001:09:47.319 --> 01:09:50.600
today's Lee's made of coal, rubber, tough, and still further126101:09:50.680 --> 01:09:54.399
with patented fill black O's. Actually we'ar thirty to forty126201:09:54.439 --> 01:09:57.680
percent longer than ever before. So from a dollars and126301:09:57.760 --> 01:10:00.800
cents standpoint, you just can't afford to keep on driving126401:10:00.880 --> 01:10:05.119
on treadbare old tires, not now, while signal service stations126501:10:05.159 --> 01:10:08.600
will trade them for new Lee tires at such surprisingly126601:10:08.760 --> 01:10:12.399
small cost. Stop in at your nearest signal dealers tomorrow,126701:10:13.039 --> 01:10:16.000
get his generous trade in order, and you'll know what126801:10:16.159 --> 01:10:16.560
I mean.126901:10:27.199 --> 01:10:30.720
You watch Bernice standing against the wall weeping. Everything is127001:10:30.800 --> 01:10:32.079
under control, now, isn't it.127101:10:32.159 --> 01:10:32.520
Jeffard.127201:10:33.399 --> 01:10:35.920
You are certain that you've outsmarted the girl you think127301:10:36.039 --> 01:10:38.960
is a Stelle sister, the girl you think wanted to127401:10:39.039 --> 01:10:42.600
kill you in vengeance for her sister's dead. Now There's127501:10:42.640 --> 01:10:45.359
only one thing on your mind, to get out of127601:10:45.439 --> 01:10:48.680
the museum with Bernice and do away with it. You're tense,127701:10:49.439 --> 01:10:52.760
listening for the approaching footsteps, which you know will be buttons.127801:10:54.479 --> 01:10:58.680
Thank Heaven, Jeffrey, he's coming to Detective. I've had following you.127901:10:59.039 --> 01:11:02.239
I'm sorry wrong, that's someone I sent for.128001:11:02.880 --> 01:11:04.680
But I've told you not to callin.128101:11:04.920 --> 01:11:07.720
I know you did. You wanted me all to yourself,128201:11:07.800 --> 01:11:08.159
didn't you.128301:11:08.359 --> 01:11:09.399
You're out of your mind?128401:11:12.079 --> 01:11:18.880
Yes, in here, Burton, Dick Burton, Yes, Shall I bring Bernice? No?128501:11:19.600 --> 01:11:22.039
Leave herb a while? Am I not alone?128601:11:22.319 --> 01:11:24.479
Don't go, Jeffrey, I found that for sure.128701:11:25.119 --> 01:11:27.399
Use Bernice. I fell for your lives for a long time.128801:11:27.479 --> 01:11:31.119
Wait, please, Jeffrey, uncle to please for be here soon.128901:11:32.279 --> 01:11:34.239
Dick Burton is the South Brother.129001:11:55.520 --> 01:11:58.840
Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil program.129101:11:58.960 --> 01:12:02.600
The Whistler each Sunday night at this same time, brought129201:12:02.680 --> 01:12:05.199
to you by the Signal Oil Company, marketers of Signal129301:12:05.239 --> 01:12:10.680
Gasoline and motor oil and fine quality automotive accessories. Remember, friends,129401:12:10.760 --> 01:12:12.880
if you'd like the fun of having your friend's hero129501:12:13.000 --> 01:12:15.720
Limerick of yours read on the whistler, the address to129601:12:15.760 --> 01:12:19.439
which to send. It is Signal Oil Company, Los Angeles, California.129701:12:19.960 --> 01:12:22.800
Your limerick must be your own composition. It would be129801:12:22.880 --> 01:12:26.399
judged on the basis of originality, humor, and suitability, and129901:12:26.520 --> 01:12:29.479
the decision of the judges is final. All entries become130001:12:29.560 --> 01:12:40.239
the property of the Signal Oil Company. What featured into130101:12:40.319 --> 01:12:43.880
Night's story were Willard Waterman, Virginia Gregg, and Wilms Herbert.130201:12:44.760 --> 01:12:47.560
The Whistler was produced and directed by George W. Wallen,130301:12:47.680 --> 01:12:51.319
with story by Harrison Negley, music by Wilbur Hatch, and130401:12:51.520 --> 01:12:54.159
was transmitted to our troops overseas by the Armed Forces130501:12:54.239 --> 01:12:58.399
Radio Service. The Whistler is entirely fictional, and all characters130601:12:58.439 --> 01:13:02.199
portrayed on the Whistler are also fictional. Any similarity of130701:13:02.359 --> 01:13:08.279
names or resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Remember,130801:13:08.479 --> 01:13:14.680
at the same time, next Sunday, another strange tale by130901:13:15.039 --> 01:13:37.800
the Whistler Signal Gad, your announcer has been Marvin Miller.131001:13:38.560 --> 01:13:41.960
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.131101:13:46.199 --> 01:13:49.640
Well, my dear, I know that that usually I have131201:13:49.760 --> 01:13:54.600
a bit more of a positive attitude toward my fellow man,131301:13:55.880 --> 01:14:01.159
even if I may not really be among them anymore. Well,131401:14:01.920 --> 01:14:06.520
the fact is, you can't have one without the other.131501:14:07.840 --> 01:14:13.039
You can't have kindness without cruelty. You can't have light131601:14:14.119 --> 01:14:20.680
without darkness. So love and hate are intertwined. But now131701:14:21.000 --> 01:14:24.119
let's look a little deeper and take a look at131801:14:24.199 --> 01:14:27.560
the Man who Knew how to hate.131901:14:29.720 --> 01:14:36.760
And now a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.132001:14:38.000 --> 01:14:40.520
Standing alongside the five year old station wagon, was a woman,132101:14:41.640 --> 01:14:45.359
a woman, the woman.132201:14:46.039 --> 01:14:48.840
But the woman wasn't his woman.132301:14:50.159 --> 01:14:53.279
In just a moment, The Man who Knew how to Hate,132401:14:54.039 --> 01:14:58.079
starring Joan Loring and Leon Jenny, and written especially for132501:14:58.279 --> 01:14:59.960
suspense by Walter.132601:15:02.199 --> 01:15:06.760
The lovely crowds to they are greens. Those who think young,132701:15:06.960 --> 01:15:07.800
say pepsi.132801:15:08.119 --> 01:15:08.520
Please.132901:15:09.000 --> 01:15:12.680
They picked the right one, the modern like one. Now133001:15:12.760 --> 01:15:17.079
it's pepsi for those who think young, So go ahead133101:15:17.800 --> 01:15:21.520
and pick the drink that lets you drink young as133201:15:21.600 --> 01:15:22.039
you think.133301:15:22.880 --> 01:15:25.880
Yes, get the right one, the modern like one.133401:15:26.439 --> 01:15:30.039
Now it's pepsi for those who think young.133501:15:36.520 --> 01:15:40.680
Well, let's see where the Yankees lost again. The Yankees133601:15:40.720 --> 01:15:43.359
they lost again. That's three in a row. Oh, now133701:15:43.399 --> 01:15:45.439
you take the Tigers for a change. They got a133801:15:45.520 --> 01:15:46.880
well rounded wall plug.133901:15:51.479 --> 01:15:56.720
Tigers yoke is a stupid slub baseball is probably his134001:15:56.840 --> 01:15:58.560
whole life, and what's mine?134101:16:00.720 --> 01:16:03.680
Oh why not? It's a good, honest emotion. You can134201:16:03.760 --> 01:16:05.880
feed on it and live on it, and you never134301:16:05.920 --> 01:16:10.680
get enough better than love. It dries up, So DOA's lust.134401:16:12.079 --> 01:16:15.840
Lust on a rhyme with grace and hate on a134501:16:15.960 --> 01:16:21.159
rhyme with Albert miserable, Penny pitching mousey. Albert.134601:16:22.279 --> 01:16:24.840
First time I saw him, we were on the five134701:16:25.000 --> 01:16:25.920
h ninth high log.134801:16:26.319 --> 01:16:28.079
I was sitting next to him, and he was marking134901:16:28.159 --> 01:16:30.720
down things in a little ten cents story.135001:16:30.560 --> 01:16:30.640
So.135101:16:34.880 --> 01:16:38.840
Totally up your racetrack winnings. Oh oh you mean this?135201:16:39.119 --> 01:16:41.920
Oh no, no, no, I was just mounting down my135301:16:42.039 --> 01:16:44.039
daily expenses that way I keep track.135401:16:44.239 --> 01:16:45.920
See sounds like fun.135501:16:46.239 --> 01:16:48.800
Oh you'd be surprised how one's expenses can mount up135601:16:48.840 --> 01:16:52.199
if they're not constantly with Jay lunch, for instance. Unless135701:16:52.279 --> 01:16:54.399
I keep it down at ninety or ninety five cents,135801:16:54.479 --> 01:16:57.119
my daily expenses can go over three or three and135901:16:57.199 --> 01:16:59.920
a half dollars that much, so easily.136001:17:00.119 --> 01:17:04.960
Years. I'm Albert Lardy Friendly.136101:17:06.319 --> 01:17:11.920
I saw very well, well that's my station. Excuse me, mister.136201:17:11.760 --> 01:17:13.399
Friendly, Relax, it's mine too.136301:17:13.920 --> 01:17:18.079
Oh I didn't realize we were neighbors, so to speak.136401:17:21.880 --> 01:17:23.520
What a creep.136501:17:24.600 --> 01:17:26.560
I made a mental note to avoid him in the future,136601:17:26.680 --> 01:17:29.600
but I tore it up when I saw who was136701:17:29.720 --> 01:17:32.600
waiting for him. He made a b line for a136801:17:32.640 --> 01:17:35.359
five year old station wagon. Standing alongside it was a woman.136901:17:36.640 --> 01:17:41.680
A woman. The woman red hair.137001:17:41.680 --> 01:17:46.600
And sexy figure and everything else any man would ever want.137101:17:48.039 --> 01:17:50.079
It was eyes right for every commuter passing by.137201:17:50.159 --> 01:17:54.920
I stood there, her eyes slid over me, stopped, slipped back.137301:17:56.800 --> 01:18:01.359
My mouth felt dry. I knew the symptoms. Oh brother,137401:18:01.479 --> 01:18:06.359
did I know the symptoms? I had to meet her toucher.137501:18:07.520 --> 01:18:10.159
Oh, mister friendly, I'd like you to meet my wife, Grace.137601:18:10.560 --> 01:18:13.760
His wife had to be a joke, a woman like that.137701:18:14.800 --> 01:18:15.760
I walked over to the car.137801:18:15.920 --> 01:18:20.239
We shook hands and I felt the contact so that.137901:18:20.319 --> 01:18:21.239
She could tell.138001:18:22.880 --> 01:18:25.159
I'm very glad to meet you. Mister.138101:18:26.039 --> 01:18:31.600
The name's Peter, Peter, Mine's Grace.138201:18:32.800 --> 01:18:34.119
Can we give you a lift?138301:18:35.479 --> 01:18:35.520
No?138401:18:35.880 --> 01:18:38.680
No thanks. My my car is up in the lot.138501:18:39.720 --> 01:18:41.560
Your wife doesn't use it during the day.138601:18:42.359 --> 01:18:45.439
My ex wife can't afford a car on the alum only.138701:18:45.399 --> 01:18:49.520
She's into me for Oh, I'm sorry.138801:18:50.039 --> 01:18:50.079
No.138901:18:51.039 --> 01:18:52.079
We hated each other.139001:18:55.640 --> 01:18:58.039
An all the time, I was wondering what she was139101:18:58.159 --> 01:19:01.600
doing with that little creep. How could she even talk139201:19:01.640 --> 01:19:03.880
to him for five minutes when I'm dying of boredom.139301:19:05.439 --> 01:19:06.920
I had to get to her.139401:19:08.239 --> 01:19:11.079
The easiest way was by being friendly with Albert.139501:19:12.199 --> 01:19:13.600
Two days later, in the drug store.139601:19:13.439 --> 01:19:15.399
I gaged down a part of a glue sandwich that139701:19:15.520 --> 01:19:18.119
was advertised as eche salad and watched him munch away139801:19:18.159 --> 01:19:20.760
on lettuce and cottage cheese, just like a five for139901:19:21.119 --> 01:19:22.319
six inch rabbit.140001:19:22.960 --> 01:19:24.920
Munch much much?140101:19:28.880 --> 01:19:31.920
Something wrong with your sandwich, Peter, I'm not hungry.140201:19:32.640 --> 01:19:33.319
Well, this place is.140301:19:33.359 --> 01:19:36.479
Quite a fine, you know, seventy cents for the salad blade.140401:19:37.840 --> 01:19:39.399
Your wife for a good cook?140501:19:40.079 --> 01:19:43.239
Oh well, frankly, I drew most of my own cooking.140601:19:43.840 --> 01:19:44.079
Yeah.140701:19:44.760 --> 01:19:46.960
You see, I'm a diabetic and a lot of things140801:19:47.000 --> 01:19:50.359
are forbidden to me. I can't eat just anything.140901:19:51.039 --> 01:19:52.600
Sorry to hear that. Oh, don't be.141001:19:52.720 --> 01:19:54.960
As long as I take my insulin, I'm fine. But141101:19:55.119 --> 01:19:57.960
it does limit the men use at home. So Grace141201:19:58.119 --> 01:20:00.239
usually fixes something for herself, and I do the same141301:20:00.279 --> 01:20:06.439
for myself. She's the intellectual type, you know. He paints,141401:20:07.119 --> 01:20:11.560
takes evening glasses at the library. She's very interested in Art,141501:20:12.399 --> 01:20:13.439
I'll bet.141601:20:14.279 --> 01:20:19.399
Especially if Art is a man. What was I feeling141701:20:19.479 --> 01:20:21.840
so superior about this creep lived with her?141801:20:21.960 --> 01:20:22.520
I didn't.141901:20:23.640 --> 01:20:25.520
A week later, I took him out to a local inn.142001:20:25.640 --> 01:20:30.319
Albert had vegetable juice. Grace and I had four martinis142101:20:30.359 --> 01:20:34.359
a piece and played Nasis under the table. My chance142201:20:34.399 --> 01:20:36.840
came after dinner, when Albert went to bring the car around.142301:20:39.119 --> 01:20:43.239
I've got to see you, Grace. Yes, I know, I've142401:20:43.279 --> 01:20:49.520
got crazy thinking about you. When tomorrow noon at my place.142501:20:50.479 --> 01:20:51.640
Let's stay home from work.142601:20:53.239 --> 01:20:54.520
Noon tomorrow, dying.142701:21:00.720 --> 01:21:03.760
Sun my place. It took the hands on my nine142801:21:03.800 --> 01:21:06.319
o'clock an hour. It traveled from eleven fifty five to142901:21:06.439 --> 01:21:09.960
twelve up to then. Waiting and anticipating was almost fun.143001:21:11.079 --> 01:21:14.199
I'm twelve, I'll know what it was. Murdered twelve oh five,143101:21:15.119 --> 01:21:20.159
twelve oh seven. Something had happened twelve twelve. She wasn't143201:21:20.199 --> 01:21:20.880
going to show.143301:21:21.760 --> 01:21:24.520
The creep stayed home. Maybe maybe she hadn't met it143401:21:24.640 --> 01:21:27.279
last night, maybe she'd forgotten, Maybe she had another sucker143501:21:27.359 --> 01:21:27.920
on the string.143601:21:28.439 --> 01:21:45.119
Maybe hello, Hello, I knew what the first one would143701:21:45.159 --> 01:21:45.560
feel like.143801:21:46.880 --> 01:21:55.199
I just imagined. Well, truth is greater than the fiction.143901:22:00.640 --> 01:22:13.039
Mm hmmm, kay mm hmm.144001:22:16.319 --> 01:22:22.479
Yeah, uh got it. Uh it's the French for thirty five.144101:22:24.439 --> 01:22:30.119
I'd better be going mm hmmm. Why have you forgotten Albert?144201:22:30.960 --> 01:22:31.239
Mmm?144301:22:31.319 --> 01:22:32.239
For four hours?144401:22:32.399 --> 01:22:40.800
Yeah, well, I've got to get home and change, run144501:22:40.840 --> 01:22:44.239
a couple of errands before I pick him up. When144601:22:44.279 --> 01:22:45.079
do I see you again?144701:22:46.960 --> 01:22:51.119
Not this week? Listen, if you think I'm going to144801:22:51.199 --> 01:22:52.960
be satisfied, I would be mad, Darling.144901:22:53.039 --> 01:22:56.399
I'm married, and remember, so get I'm married.145001:22:57.520 --> 01:23:01.319
Your divorce that's bothering you? H Are you laughing at145101:23:01.399 --> 01:23:02.279
I say something funny?145201:23:02.720 --> 01:23:05.680
No, just terribly sweet.145301:23:07.239 --> 01:23:10.279
You are quite a guy, Darling, and you are all145401:23:10.439 --> 01:23:12.079
the woman I who wanted him.145501:23:14.279 --> 01:23:19.039
There's something you don't understand, though, I can't leave Albert.145601:23:19.720 --> 01:23:23.520
Why he's short and baald On one hundred years older145701:23:23.680 --> 01:23:26.520
than you, and the way he pinches every penny until145801:23:26.520 --> 01:23:28.760
it turns green. You certainly aren't sticking with him for his.145901:23:28.880 --> 01:23:29.760
Money, aren't I?146001:23:29.960 --> 01:23:35.800
Darling Peter. Every week for twenty one years, Albert has146101:23:35.880 --> 01:23:39.159
taken exactly ten percent of his salary check, right down146201:23:39.239 --> 01:23:42.760
to the exact penny, and invested it in the stock market.146301:23:43.479 --> 01:23:44.039
Good kidding.146401:23:44.319 --> 01:23:48.680
Sometimes he buys, sometimes he sells, but always he reinvests146501:23:49.760 --> 01:23:53.439
good times bad times. Every week without fail, ten percent146601:23:53.479 --> 01:23:56.960
of his paycheck has gone right into the kitty. He146701:23:57.039 --> 01:23:59.399
doesn't believe in banks. You see our life insurance for146801:23:59.479 --> 01:24:03.079
saving money. He even kept it a secret from me146901:24:03.199 --> 01:24:04.399
until about two years ago.147001:24:06.560 --> 01:24:07.840
How much as he saw a way.147101:24:09.840 --> 01:24:14.119
One hundred and thirty three thousand.147201:24:14.079 --> 01:24:18.079
Dollars one hundred grand.147301:24:18.640 --> 01:24:20.960
One hundred and thirty three grand.147401:24:22.359 --> 01:24:27.079
And that was back in March. So you see why147501:24:27.159 --> 01:24:32.399
I'm so upset. You've turned my safe little world upside down.147601:24:37.640 --> 01:24:43.279
There is another way. What do you mean, baby, I147701:24:43.439 --> 01:24:47.439
mean there is another way to be free of Albert147801:24:49.119 --> 01:24:50.079
and keep the money.147901:24:53.119 --> 01:24:55.319
You mean what I think you mean?148001:24:56.520 --> 01:24:58.279
Who do you think I mean, darling?148101:25:01.720 --> 01:25:01.880
Oh?148201:25:02.159 --> 01:25:06.479
No, accidents happen every day.148301:25:09.239 --> 01:25:11.319
I don't say an accident.148401:25:12.399 --> 01:25:12.800
Of course.148501:25:13.800 --> 01:25:15.279
All we have to do is figure out what kind148601:25:15.319 --> 01:25:16.920
of an accidents need to happen to Albert.148701:25:21.960 --> 01:25:26.720
Sure, I went for it. I have to have her,148801:25:26.960 --> 01:25:29.079
and the only only made it more urgent.148901:25:30.000 --> 01:25:31.039
So don't go maral on me.149001:25:32.880 --> 01:25:36.520
A week went by the longest I ever suffered through,149101:25:36.600 --> 01:25:39.399
and then she called. We made a date in Midtown,149201:25:39.479 --> 01:25:41.600
New York at a French restaurant where they never heard149301:25:41.680 --> 01:25:44.960
of cottage cheese or eggs, salad sandwiches.149401:25:46.600 --> 01:25:48.079
You're staring at me, Peter.149501:25:48.920 --> 01:25:52.319
Do you realize how long it's been.149601:25:54.079 --> 01:25:56.000
Eight days less thirty minutes.149701:25:57.199 --> 01:25:58.279
Oh, maybe you can stand.149801:25:59.039 --> 01:26:01.479
You will have to, Darling, from now on, we're just149901:26:01.680 --> 01:26:02.800
casual acquaintances.150001:26:03.560 --> 01:26:05.159
You're crazy, No.150101:26:05.359 --> 01:26:10.239
You are if you think I'm going to jeopardize our chances, Oh, Darling,150201:26:10.479 --> 01:26:16.840
don't pouch. After the funeral, I'll move away to Florida, California,150301:26:18.359 --> 01:26:19.960
and in a couple of weeks you can join me.150401:26:20.560 --> 01:26:22.000
You talk as if you were already dead.150501:26:22.680 --> 01:26:26.239
Why not after tomorrow morning? He will be.150601:26:27.960 --> 01:26:31.159
Tomorrow. We haven't made any plans.150701:26:32.640 --> 01:26:36.399
We're not going to the best. Murders are the simplest kind.150801:26:37.439 --> 01:26:40.399
Most people make their biggest mistake in doing too much planning,150901:26:40.640 --> 01:26:41.840
leaving too many loose ends.151001:26:41.880 --> 01:26:44.520
You know, No, I don't. I'm of the real estate firm,151101:26:44.640 --> 01:26:45.439
not with the mafia.151201:26:45.680 --> 01:26:47.000
Temper temper.151301:26:48.960 --> 01:26:49.920
Anyway, it's tomorrow.151401:26:52.000 --> 01:26:52.279
Hmm.151501:26:53.640 --> 01:26:59.119
This cocova is delicious, and I thought I was cold blooded, Darling,151601:26:59.199 --> 01:27:03.800
I'm just really stick like most women. Of course, if151701:27:03.840 --> 01:27:04.640
you want to back.151801:27:04.840 --> 01:27:08.000
Listen, I hate that little creek. I'm not backing out.151901:27:09.319 --> 01:27:11.199
But how subway.152001:27:12.359 --> 01:27:14.119
You both take it every morning from the station.152101:27:14.319 --> 01:27:15.760
Yeah, when I go up town and he goes down.152201:27:15.920 --> 01:27:21.640
Tomorrow you both go downtown. Make up a reason and152301:27:21.840 --> 01:27:25.079
be sure you're on the platform with Albert. Better sit152401:27:25.159 --> 01:27:26.239
with him on the train going in.152501:27:26.680 --> 01:27:27.000
Then what.152601:27:28.840 --> 01:27:33.199
Do I have to draw you a diagram? The subways152701:27:33.239 --> 01:27:36.199
are jammed at Russia, or aren't they. It's a wonder152801:27:36.239 --> 01:27:38.520
the more people aren't shoved over the edge of the platform.152901:27:39.880 --> 01:27:43.399
But listen, whatever you do, don't be obvious. Pretend to153001:27:43.439 --> 01:27:44.439
buy a paper and leave.153101:27:52.319 --> 01:27:55.159
I don't think it's quite as crowded this morning as usual.153201:27:55.840 --> 01:27:58.880
I'm gonna get more. Jam I can't even raise my153301:27:58.960 --> 01:28:00.000
hand and stretch my nose.153401:28:00.000 --> 01:28:01.560
Oh, you should.153501:28:01.319 --> 01:28:04.159
Cultivate the attitude of always looking on the bright side day.153601:28:04.479 --> 01:28:06.880
You'd be surprised at the difference it can make.153701:28:06.920 --> 01:28:09.840
And you're daily living Nichols and dimes do at u153801:28:10.439 --> 01:28:10.920
in a way?153901:28:11.199 --> 01:28:14.199
Yes, yes, my sainted mother used to say, a penny154001:28:14.279 --> 01:28:18.399
saved is a penny earned. That's what your mother said, Oh, yes,154101:28:18.520 --> 01:28:22.920
many times. Of course it wasn't original, And oh wasn't154201:28:22.960 --> 01:28:25.960
it No, if I remember correctly, it was Benjamin Pratt. Uh.154301:28:26.840 --> 01:28:28.840
No, the holds of forlide. Albert, I forgot to get154401:28:28.880 --> 01:28:34.199
a paper. He excuse me, please coming through. I have154501:28:34.359 --> 01:28:36.279
four or five rows of people get between me and154601:28:36.399 --> 01:28:39.000
the creep. And then I stopped and looked back. He154701:28:39.199 --> 01:28:41.319
was right at the edge of the platform, reading his paper,154801:28:41.479 --> 01:28:44.399
these stock market quotations, No doubt. It wasn't paying an154901:28:44.399 --> 01:28:47.560
attention to anyone around him. I started inching my way back.155001:28:48.079 --> 01:28:49.560
Grace was right, it was going to be a let155101:28:49.680 --> 01:28:52.760
pipe cinch. I was maybe four feet behind him when155201:28:52.760 --> 01:28:54.439
I heard the train barreling down the tunnel.155301:28:54.880 --> 01:28:56.399
It was forward like everybody else.155401:28:56.840 --> 01:28:58.279
There were the trains, heavy lights.155501:28:58.920 --> 01:29:17.439
It was hi, the simplest thing in the world.155601:29:17.560 --> 01:29:17.840
And you.155701:29:18.159 --> 01:29:20.600
But I did everything just the way I was supposed to.155801:29:20.680 --> 01:29:22.560
It's not my fault to train stopped in time.155901:29:22.680 --> 01:29:24.920
Yes, it was pushed him too soon.156001:29:24.880 --> 01:29:29.399
All right, all right, Just lucky Albert, so unsuspecting what156101:29:29.520 --> 01:29:29.960
he's saying.156201:29:30.479 --> 01:29:31.359
Just how glad he was.156301:29:31.439 --> 01:29:33.600
You were there to keep him company until he calmed down.156401:29:35.119 --> 01:29:37.119
Actually he blamed himself for standing too close to the156501:29:37.239 --> 01:29:37.960
edge of the platform.156601:29:40.479 --> 01:29:43.359
Oh no, what, and don't say we try that again.156701:29:43.439 --> 01:29:44.720
Shut up and let me think.156801:29:48.359 --> 01:29:49.000
You got an idea.156901:29:51.119 --> 01:29:51.920
I just might have.157001:29:52.720 --> 01:29:54.079
So what is it this time? Push him in front157101:29:54.079 --> 01:29:56.439
of the fifth Avenue bus. How about noontime on forty157201:29:56.439 --> 01:29:59.720
second Street, or better yet, how's this? I get Albert157301:29:59.720 --> 01:30:01.760
down to the aquarium, and when nobody's looking, I pick157401:30:01.840 --> 01:30:03.720
him up and throw him into the shark tank and157501:30:03.840 --> 01:30:06.640
he looks enough like a shark and selvera that pointed those.157601:30:06.800 --> 01:30:08.359
Of course, he might last for a day or two,157701:30:08.399 --> 01:30:09.279
but eventually the sharks.157801:30:09.279 --> 01:30:12.239
Wait a minute, Why didn't I think of that right away?157901:30:13.520 --> 01:30:16.319
It's been there all along, staring me in the face.158001:30:16.880 --> 01:30:19.319
The sharks shut up and let me think a minute.158101:30:20.640 --> 01:30:22.000
You really have him up with an idea.158201:30:23.079 --> 01:30:24.039
You're darn right.158301:30:24.159 --> 01:30:24.439
I have.158401:30:26.319 --> 01:30:31.960
Fool proof too, die what never mind? Unless you know,158501:30:32.039 --> 01:30:35.239
the better off we are, and this time.158601:30:35.359 --> 01:30:35.920
I'll do it.158701:30:43.520 --> 01:30:45.880
Oh, by the way, grace here, I spoke to mister158801:30:45.960 --> 01:30:46.760
Thatcher today.158901:30:47.439 --> 01:30:49.479
I is old Fatsos.159001:30:49.560 --> 01:30:51.359
As a matter of fact, he did speak of going159101:30:51.439 --> 01:30:54.399
on a diet, believe for him. But we were talking159201:30:54.439 --> 01:30:57.159
about my vacation. I get three weeks this year, you know,159301:30:57.439 --> 01:30:59.800
so I asked him for the first three weeks and159401:30:59.840 --> 01:31:02.520
all August. That's satisfactory with you, isn't it?159501:31:02.560 --> 01:31:02.880
My dear.159601:31:03.079 --> 01:31:08.319
Why not, Oh, ten o'clock, I'm for your insulin, Albert.159701:31:08.680 --> 01:31:09.199
Oh, so it is?159801:31:09.279 --> 01:31:09.640
So it is?159901:31:11.039 --> 01:31:13.960
Or could I impose on you, my dear, I'm rather.160001:31:14.000 --> 01:31:18.359
Tired, of course, you just sit and relaxed.160101:31:17.920 --> 01:31:21.279
Thank you, dear. Oh, by the way, shall we go160201:31:21.399 --> 01:31:24.279
to that same hotel again? It was most RESTful.160301:31:24.760 --> 01:31:27.079
Doesn't matter anything you say.160401:31:27.640 --> 01:31:31.000
Although we might try the seashore as a change, even160501:31:31.039 --> 01:31:33.560
if I do sunburn too easily your.160601:31:33.520 --> 01:31:35.840
Vacation, Albert, you've make the decision.160701:31:36.960 --> 01:31:37.119
Here.160801:31:38.119 --> 01:31:40.920
Oh you fill the hypodermic. I see that's very thoughtful160901:31:40.960 --> 01:31:41.199
of you.161001:31:44.600 --> 01:31:45.319
Ere you are?161101:31:47.359 --> 01:31:48.520
Did you inject it all?161201:31:49.800 --> 01:31:51.000
Every last drop?161301:31:51.119 --> 01:32:01.840
My dear, I was just thinking, thinking of something amusing.161401:32:03.720 --> 01:32:13.600
Odd coincidenceicide? What was in the hypodermic?161501:32:13.680 --> 01:32:13.960
Grace?161601:32:14.920 --> 01:32:16.720
A Seyline solution? I should imagine?161701:32:16.920 --> 01:32:20.079
What are you talking about?161801:32:20.239 --> 01:32:24.079
Oh, come, come, no more games? It was a Seyline solution.161901:32:24.239 --> 01:32:28.920
I'm sure water alone isn't efficient enough. I should go162001:32:29.039 --> 01:32:32.319
into a coma within the hour. If you're wondering, Albert,162101:32:32.359 --> 01:32:38.000
I don't know what you're doing. Dead sometime before oh say,162201:32:38.199 --> 01:32:39.079
six in the morning.162301:32:39.640 --> 01:32:40.920
Why are you talking this way?162401:32:41.000 --> 01:32:42.319
I don't know what do you think I've done.162501:32:42.359 --> 01:32:46.800
Don't The police will tomorrow when they play the tapes.162601:32:46.840 --> 01:32:47.560
I've sent them.162701:32:49.000 --> 01:32:52.720
Tapes, Albert, what are you talking about?162801:32:53.720 --> 01:32:59.560
Briefly, and to the point, you and mister Friendly white Mouse.162901:32:59.680 --> 01:33:04.000
I'm maybe and to some even a creep, but no163001:33:04.119 --> 01:33:07.359
one has ever accused me of being deaf, down and blind.163101:33:07.800 --> 01:33:11.399
But I know you, Grace. I can read you like163201:33:11.520 --> 01:33:14.920
a book, a nasty, dirty book.163301:33:15.199 --> 01:33:15.560
Albert.163401:33:15.800 --> 01:33:17.199
I know why you've stayed with me.163501:33:17.359 --> 01:33:18.600
I know what you think of me.163601:33:19.800 --> 01:33:22.920
Ah, isn't it that you've never known what I think163701:33:23.000 --> 01:33:23.199
of you?163801:33:23.840 --> 01:33:24.199
Albert?163901:33:24.239 --> 01:33:28.720
I thought it would bear me. I've loathed you for164001:33:28.880 --> 01:33:33.199
a long time. I have loathed you for your mean164101:33:33.319 --> 01:33:38.560
little soul and your petty mind, and you, yes, for164201:33:38.680 --> 01:33:43.880
your beauty, which was never mind. And I think I've164301:33:43.960 --> 01:33:45.880
loathed you most of all because.164401:33:47.720 --> 01:33:49.199
I still loved you.164501:33:51.760 --> 01:33:52.079
Albert.164601:33:52.319 --> 01:33:54.960
Have had private detectives working for me since the day164701:33:55.000 --> 01:33:58.359
you first set eyes on mister Friendly. You were the164801:33:58.439 --> 01:34:00.840
ones who have what's the expression?164901:34:02.239 --> 01:34:03.399
Bogged his apartment?165001:34:04.520 --> 01:34:08.319
Very interesting listening, Grace. Of course, I must admit the165101:34:08.439 --> 01:34:14.279
subway was a surprise and so messy too. I knew165201:34:14.319 --> 01:34:21.680
you'd revert to this. Oh yeah, you're even attractive when165301:34:21.720 --> 01:34:30.319
you cry. Oh one more surprise, my good wife. Had165401:34:30.359 --> 01:34:33.319
you possessed the patience to wait another six months at165501:34:33.359 --> 01:34:37.560
the most a year, all that money would have been165601:34:37.720 --> 01:34:46.960
yours legally. What my last little secret? You thought I'd165701:34:46.960 --> 01:34:50.800
been going to the doctor only for diabetes, Alas, no165801:34:52.640 --> 01:34:59.560
cancer dread word, isn't it We discovered it two years ago?165901:35:00.439 --> 01:35:03.520
Oh no, I haven't suffered any pain yet. I'm told166001:35:03.600 --> 01:35:07.720
that comes only in the final stages. Oh that's what166101:35:07.840 --> 01:35:12.960
I couldn't face. Oh no, thank you very much for166201:35:13.079 --> 01:35:13.760
your assistance.166301:35:14.119 --> 01:35:14.520
Albert.166401:35:14.640 --> 01:35:16.600
Couldn't we just once more turn him.166501:35:16.520 --> 01:35:17.199
That we couldn't?166601:35:20.479 --> 01:35:26.119
Now, would you leave me alone? The condemned man is166701:35:26.159 --> 01:35:29.920
supposed to get his last wish, and mine is really166801:35:30.479 --> 01:35:35.520
quite simple. I don't want to look at you again.166901:35:37.319 --> 01:35:44.119
Never how he.167001:35:44.319 --> 01:35:46.760
Fooled us both who would have dreamed it have? In167101:35:46.920 --> 01:35:51.079
the miserable little creep. Well, let me think the last chapter.167201:35:50.920 --> 01:35:54.720
Is over awesing austining the next station.167301:35:56.039 --> 01:35:58.079
Okay, buddy, on you you don't have to make with167401:35:58.159 --> 01:36:00.960
the muscle. Now, you'd be a good boy and I'll167501:36:01.000 --> 01:36:03.840
take the cups off. That's cool.167601:36:04.279 --> 01:36:06.720
So that's how it ends for me in a cell167701:36:06.840 --> 01:36:11.359
and sings that like mouse, Elberg must be laughing his167801:36:11.439 --> 01:36:12.479
head off wherever he is.167901:36:13.399 --> 01:36:14.960
And I thought I knew.168001:36:14.760 --> 01:36:23.520
How to hate suspense.168101:36:27.399 --> 01:36:29.840
You've been listening to the man who knew how to hate,168201:36:30.439 --> 01:36:34.239
Starring Joan Loring as Grace Larabie and Leon Jenney as168301:36:34.319 --> 01:36:38.359
Peter Friendly and written for Suspense by Walter Black in168401:36:38.439 --> 01:36:39.520
a moment the names of our.168501:36:39.479 --> 01:36:45.560
Players and the word about next week's story of suspense. Mommy,168601:36:45.920 --> 01:36:47.159
I scraped my elbow.168701:36:47.560 --> 01:36:49.760
Oh dear, you ought to be more careful.168801:36:50.520 --> 01:36:51.319
Wait, I'll get the on.168901:36:51.439 --> 01:36:54.319
Gwintine waid, Mommy, isn't that advance?169001:36:54.560 --> 01:36:54.880
Sure?169101:36:55.159 --> 01:36:57.199
But I'm Gwintine's wonderful for scratches too.169201:36:57.479 --> 01:37:00.359
Went for cuts and scrapes as well as burns.169301:37:00.720 --> 01:37:04.359
Science has proved that unguantine boosts nature's healing power as169401:37:04.439 --> 01:37:07.439
no plane at as ef They can forms a protective169501:37:07.520 --> 01:37:10.439
cover to lock out germs and speed healing.169601:37:10.800 --> 01:37:12.760
Stops to haint killee.169701:37:13.159 --> 01:37:14.520
It's not just for burns.169801:37:14.840 --> 01:37:19.840
And now there's something new. Unguantine First aid spray looks169901:37:19.880 --> 01:37:23.800
like a fire extinguisher, but inside is special unguantine medication170001:37:24.000 --> 01:37:28.319
that puts out pain, kills germs, and starts healing fast170101:37:28.399 --> 01:37:33.720
as you spray it on cools and soothe sunburn on contact.170201:37:34.199 --> 01:37:38.760
Get both unguantine first aid spray and unguantine antiseptic dressing170301:37:39.000 --> 01:37:52.439
that boosts nature's healing power. Sauspense is produced and directed170401:37:52.520 --> 01:37:56.880
by Bruno Zerato, junior music supervision by Ethel Huber, and170501:37:57.000 --> 01:38:00.800
featured in Tonight's story whilst Bob Dryden. This Albert Labe170601:38:01.239 --> 01:38:04.880
also heard in our cast where Bill Smith and Barbara Kassar.170701:38:07.960 --> 01:38:12.159
Ah, Well, since we've faced a bit more of the170801:38:13.399 --> 01:38:20.720
harsher darker size, why not have a little fun now, Because,170901:38:20.960 --> 01:38:26.359
after all, not everything in love and hate is so acerbic.171001:38:27.640 --> 01:38:34.560
Sometimes it's more of a feeling, an odd inkling, like171101:38:34.720 --> 01:38:39.680
our herald from earlier. So let's talk a little bit171201:38:39.840 --> 01:38:44.000
less about the man who knew to hate and learn171301:38:44.079 --> 01:38:47.600
a little bit more about a gentleman just going about171401:38:47.640 --> 01:38:54.479
his life, not realizing or perhaps only subconsciously, that he171501:38:55.239 --> 01:39:00.039
would become the man the insects hated.171601:39:07.359 --> 01:39:09.840
Mutual presents the mysterious traveler.171701:39:19.000 --> 01:39:22.119
This is the mysterious traveler inviting you to join me171801:39:22.680 --> 01:39:25.000
on her journey under the realm of the strange and171901:39:25.119 --> 01:39:25.880
the terrifying.172001:39:26.880 --> 01:39:29.439
I hope you will enjoy the trip that it will172101:39:29.560 --> 01:39:31.560
thrill you a little and chill you a little.172201:39:32.199 --> 01:39:34.359
So settle back, get a good grip on your nerves,172301:39:34.399 --> 01:39:36.800
and be comfortable if you can.172401:39:42.600 --> 01:39:45.359
It's the end of July and rather war, isn't it.172501:39:46.439 --> 01:39:49.399
There's probably an insect or two buzzing around in your172601:39:49.439 --> 01:39:53.199
living room right this moment. I'm banging against your screen trying.172701:39:53.000 --> 01:39:53.319
To get in.172801:39:54.680 --> 01:39:55.840
Before we go any further.172901:39:56.800 --> 01:39:57.760
You better get rid of it.173001:39:58.479 --> 01:40:01.600
If you do, you'll read easier as you hear the173101:40:01.720 --> 01:40:05.199
unusual story I have for you today, the story I.173201:40:05.319 --> 01:40:09.960
Call the man the insects hated.173301:40:15.800 --> 01:40:19.319
My story begins in a homemade laboratory, in a crumbling173401:40:19.399 --> 01:40:22.319
mansion on the edge of a bayou deep in the173501:40:22.399 --> 01:40:27.359
heart of the Louisiana Swamps. Outside, the air is filled173601:40:27.399 --> 01:40:32.079
with the strident hum buzzles of insects, uncounted swarms of them,173701:40:32.520 --> 01:40:36.359
crawling and hopping and flying in the hot, lash atmosphere.173801:40:38.000 --> 01:40:40.880
Inside the laboratory, the air is filled with the same173901:40:41.039 --> 01:40:44.720
sound as a small man with graying hair lifts a174001:40:44.800 --> 01:40:46.560
wire insect trapped to a table.174101:40:48.600 --> 01:40:51.119
Listen to the merry How they hate me.174201:40:51.199 --> 01:40:54.520
Every one of them flies, The bees the hottest, the beatles,174301:40:54.560 --> 01:40:56.039
the locust, the spiders.174401:40:56.119 --> 01:40:57.239
They all hate me.174501:40:57.640 --> 01:41:01.920
Oh shan, they don't hate you. The bugs they can't174601:41:01.960 --> 01:41:02.239
hate you.174701:41:02.720 --> 01:41:04.760
Yes, but listen to them hum and buzz when I174801:41:04.840 --> 01:41:05.239
come near.174901:41:06.000 --> 01:41:08.520
They know me, and the reason that's so upset is175001:41:08.560 --> 01:41:10.880
that they know the Bay enemies, and that I'm going175101:41:10.960 --> 01:41:18.039
to destroy them, destroy them utterly, all right, John, Oh Mary,175201:41:18.119 --> 01:41:21.000
you look tired. This life we've been leading the last175301:41:21.039 --> 01:41:23.239
few months. It's very dreary for you, isn't it.175401:41:23.840 --> 01:41:27.159
It's all right, John, It doesn't matter what it does.175501:41:27.479 --> 01:41:30.319
These swamps, they must seem like the last outpost of175601:41:30.439 --> 01:41:31.199
creation to you.175701:41:31.640 --> 01:41:34.439
You always did love the city and the lights, the movement,175801:41:34.520 --> 01:41:36.279
the gaiety. I'm all right.175901:41:37.880 --> 01:41:42.239
You mustn't worry about me. It's only it's such a struggle.176001:41:43.039 --> 01:41:45.199
If we had someone to help us, it would be easier.176101:41:46.000 --> 01:41:48.039
But no one will come out here and work for us.176201:41:48.119 --> 01:41:50.279
Yes, I know, my darling, believe me, I do. But176301:41:50.359 --> 01:41:52.680
it's only for a little while. Soon we'll be rich,176401:41:52.800 --> 01:41:53.520
I promise it.176501:41:54.560 --> 01:41:57.439
All right, John, I'll be patient.176601:41:57.600 --> 01:41:58.760
You do, believe me, Mary.176701:41:59.000 --> 01:42:01.000
You know that I'm on the words of success, now,176801:42:01.079 --> 01:42:03.840
don't you That last formula you saw how quickly it176901:42:03.920 --> 01:42:05.000
killed every insect.177001:42:04.760 --> 01:42:05.279
In the cage.177101:42:05.800 --> 01:42:08.199
Yes, I know it was wonderful, John.177201:42:08.079 --> 01:42:09.560
You said, you know yourself what it will mean to177301:42:09.640 --> 01:42:13.960
the world, the perfect insect killer, something much better than DDT. Why,177401:42:14.039 --> 01:42:17.399
it will be tremendous. It will make the worst jungle livable.177501:42:17.720 --> 01:42:20.960
It will cut down disease and increase the crops. To177601:42:21.079 --> 01:42:23.920
someone at the door, Yes, it's very odd.177701:42:23.960 --> 01:42:24.680
I wonder who it could be.177801:42:25.319 --> 01:42:29.359
I'll see. Perhaps it's doctor Guernsey or mister Conway, the druggist.177901:42:29.479 --> 01:42:35.960
They promised to call. Why it's Professor Hanson in but why,178001:42:36.079 --> 01:42:36.640
yes he is.178101:42:37.399 --> 01:42:39.039
And then quickly there's so many flies.178201:42:39.880 --> 01:42:43.960
Yeah, seems like there is full of bugs outside.178301:42:44.279 --> 01:42:45.680
Never saw so many in my life.178401:42:45.760 --> 01:42:46.600
What is it, Mary?178501:42:47.439 --> 01:42:50.399
It's someone to see you, John, I don't.178601:42:50.560 --> 01:42:55.880
Know who andrews the name professor Martin Andrews. Hey, you178701:42:56.479 --> 01:42:58.399
really are at the wilds here, aren't you?178801:42:58.920 --> 01:42:59.840
That I'd never find you?178901:43:00.279 --> 01:43:04.039
Yes, we are rather isolated, But you're wondering who I179001:43:04.159 --> 01:43:07.199
am and what I want here. The truth is I179101:43:07.319 --> 01:43:09.479
was in Conway's drug store back in town and he179201:43:09.640 --> 01:43:11.920
told me you might be able to use a handyman.179301:43:12.439 --> 01:43:13.640
Ooh a handy man.179401:43:13.840 --> 01:43:15.399
Yes, we can use a handyman.179501:43:16.159 --> 01:43:20.199
How much do you want Ooh, not very much. I179601:43:20.279 --> 01:43:22.000
guess twenty five bucks a week.179701:43:21.840 --> 01:43:22.239
Could do me.179801:43:23.159 --> 01:43:26.159
We can manage that, I think, but done, second thought,179901:43:26.199 --> 01:43:30.319
I don't know. I'm not crazy about these swamps or180001:43:30.520 --> 01:43:34.520
these bugs around. And oh, please try it anyway, mister Andrews.180101:43:35.000 --> 01:43:38.319
My husband is engaged on some very important research and180201:43:38.439 --> 01:43:43.319
he needs help badly. Oh well, when you put it180301:43:43.560 --> 01:43:47.840
like that, missus Hanson, then you will stay. Yeah, I'll stay.180401:43:49.560 --> 01:43:52.079
What have I got to lose? Maybe I like it180501:43:52.159 --> 01:43:53.520
better than I thought at first.180601:43:53.720 --> 01:43:54.840
Excellent, mister Andrews.180701:43:54.920 --> 01:43:59.079
Excellent. Oh just call me Martin, professor. Yes, Martin, yes,180801:44:00.000 --> 01:44:02.039
Now there are a lot of details that you can180901:44:02.119 --> 01:44:06.119
help me with. Now take this watch and you can't181001:44:06.159 --> 01:44:07.359
still be ready in a minute.181101:44:07.600 --> 01:44:10.279
Oh yes, my dear, yes it take this watch Martin,181201:44:10.359 --> 01:44:13.159
and you see this? Why are trap full of insects?181301:44:14.000 --> 01:44:14.199
Yeah?181401:44:15.439 --> 01:44:17.319
There must be thousands of bugs in there?181501:44:17.640 --> 01:44:19.239
There are you see.181601:44:19.279 --> 01:44:22.159
I'm working to discover the perfect insect exterminator.181701:44:22.479 --> 01:44:24.920
Oh yeah, I say, And in this spray.181801:44:24.720 --> 01:44:27.600
Gun, I have my latest solution, formula three hundred and twelve,181901:44:27.800 --> 01:44:30.000
and I'm going to spray it just once at this182001:44:30.119 --> 01:44:32.000
trap full of insects, and you are the time.182101:44:32.399 --> 01:44:34.560
How long it takes them all to die?182201:44:34.960 --> 01:44:38.000
You're gonna kill all those bugs with just one squirt182301:44:38.079 --> 01:44:38.680
from that spray.182401:44:39.279 --> 01:44:43.640
I hope so. And they know it too. Listen to182501:44:43.760 --> 01:44:47.640
them how they hate me. They know I'm going to182601:44:47.760 --> 01:44:48.239
kill them.182701:44:48.159 --> 01:44:51.159
And they wish they could get free to kill me.182801:44:51.760 --> 01:44:54.239
Ah oh, yes, yes they know me.182901:44:55.000 --> 01:44:58.159
Insects hate me, all insects just as I hate them.183001:44:58.800 --> 01:45:00.920
They kill me if they could, but instead I'm going183101:45:01.000 --> 01:45:04.039
to kill them. If you get your eye on the183201:45:04.079 --> 01:45:08.399
watch what oh yeah, yeah, sure, then start timing.183301:45:12.079 --> 01:45:13.960
Now, watch and listen.183401:45:18.439 --> 01:45:22.840
Say that stuff really mosum down? Professor.183501:45:23.000 --> 01:45:25.600
Yes, they're dying now. A few of them are still183601:45:25.680 --> 01:45:27.199
trying to crawl around, but.183701:45:28.800 --> 01:45:29.840
There they go.183801:45:31.960 --> 01:45:33.399
Now, how long did it take?183901:45:34.680 --> 01:45:35.800
Twenty nine seconds?184001:45:36.520 --> 01:45:39.399
It's good, but not quite good enough. But I'm sure184101:45:39.439 --> 01:45:42.600
I'm on the right track. Lunch is John, Oh, yes,184201:45:42.640 --> 01:45:45.840
my dear, Yes, we're coming. Well, Martin, do you think184301:45:45.920 --> 01:45:48.239
you're going to like working here helping me develop my184401:45:48.319 --> 01:45:49.520
new insecular.184501:45:49.359 --> 01:45:52.960
Yes, sir, professor, Eh, I've got an idea. It's going184601:45:53.039 --> 01:45:56.760
to be a lot more interesting here than I ever imagined.184701:46:07.000 --> 01:46:07.640
Some more coffee.184801:46:07.760 --> 01:46:08.960
John, thank you, my dear.184901:46:09.039 --> 01:46:10.560
No, I want to go back to the lab to185001:46:10.640 --> 01:46:13.800
try a new formula. And while i'm mixing it, why185101:46:13.840 --> 01:46:17.439
don't you show Martin around the place. Why that's a185201:46:17.680 --> 01:46:21.520
swell idea, Professor. I'd like to get wise to just185301:46:21.640 --> 01:46:22.479
what you're doing here.185401:46:23.119 --> 01:46:25.039
But I'm sure that John could show you around and185501:46:25.199 --> 01:46:25.920
explain everything.185601:46:26.720 --> 01:46:26.880
Then.185701:46:27.319 --> 01:46:29.159
No, no, no, not at all. Marine. Besides, you know185801:46:29.199 --> 01:46:30.880
how I feel about going outdoors.185901:46:32.039 --> 01:46:35.560
Well, all right, John, if you want me to, fine.186001:46:35.680 --> 01:46:37.920
I'll get started on the new mixture right away, and186101:46:38.279 --> 01:46:40.039
when you're through, i'll have something for you to do.186201:46:40.199 --> 01:46:40.479
Martin.186301:46:40.680 --> 01:46:46.880
Okay, Professor, Well, missus Hanson, I'll be obliged to you186401:46:47.119 --> 01:46:49.720
if you'll give me the load down on everything.186501:46:50.439 --> 01:46:54.199
Well, all right, Martin, there are things that you really186601:46:54.239 --> 01:46:54.640
should know.186701:46:55.680 --> 01:47:04.880
So yeah, So that's how it is.186801:47:05.039 --> 01:47:05.239
Huh.186901:47:06.319 --> 01:47:09.039
The Professor is hipped on the subject of bugs and187001:47:09.199 --> 01:47:12.880
wants to rid the world of him, and he thinks187101:47:12.960 --> 01:47:14.399
they all know it and hate him.187201:47:16.800 --> 01:47:17.680
That's a hot one.187301:47:19.319 --> 01:47:22.680
The bees and the mosquitoes and the flies, they all187401:47:22.760 --> 01:47:23.680
got it in for him.187501:47:24.640 --> 01:47:27.720
You mustn't laugh. I know it's a strange quirk of187601:47:27.800 --> 01:47:30.640
his mind. But it's a harmless one, and you must187701:47:30.680 --> 01:47:32.239
pretend not to notice anything odd about it.187801:47:32.760 --> 01:47:34.760
Oh, okay, missus Hanson, if you say so.187901:47:35.439 --> 01:47:38.000
You see, when he was a small boy, my husband188001:47:38.079 --> 01:47:39.960
was almost stung to death by a swarm of bees188101:47:40.800 --> 01:47:43.520
that wrote on his peculiar hatred of all insects and188201:47:43.680 --> 01:47:45.520
his belief that they hate him.188301:47:46.239 --> 01:47:49.119
Sure, I can see how that would be, and that's the.188401:47:49.119 --> 01:47:51.560
Reason why all his life he's been experimenting to find188501:47:51.760 --> 01:47:53.479
the perfect insect exterminator.188601:47:54.239 --> 01:47:58.560
It's screwy, but if he does find this perfect bug killer,188701:47:58.640 --> 01:47:59.920
it'll pay off bee.188801:48:00.399 --> 01:48:03.159
Oh he will find it. I'm sure that that's why188901:48:03.239 --> 01:48:06.760
I'm willing. I mean, I'm sure he will.189001:48:07.239 --> 01:48:09.279
You were going to say, that's why you're willing to189101:48:09.359 --> 01:48:11.640
stay here in this swamp because you think you'll find189201:48:11.720 --> 01:48:13.680
this bug killer and make a lot of money from me.189301:48:15.439 --> 01:48:19.319
Well that's the truth, and missus Hanson, you're being impertinent.189401:48:19.680 --> 01:48:21.680
The first time I looked at you, I could see189501:48:21.760 --> 01:48:24.119
you weren't meant for a life like this. You were189601:48:24.199 --> 01:48:28.159
meant for pretty clothes and soft music, dancing fun, not189701:48:28.399 --> 01:48:31.520
for routing away in a swamp that's only fit for bugs.189801:48:32.239 --> 01:48:35.520
You mustn't talk like that. I've got to go back189901:48:35.520 --> 01:48:35.960
to the house.190001:48:36.159 --> 01:48:40.640
No, no, not yet. Listen. The minute I stepped inside190101:48:40.720 --> 01:48:42.640
that house, I knew you were eating your heart out190201:48:42.720 --> 01:48:44.840
off of fun and people and pretty things.190301:48:45.399 --> 01:48:46.600
I don't know what you're talking about.190401:48:48.159 --> 01:48:49.000
Let go my rest.190501:48:49.159 --> 01:48:53.760
Not yet, listen. I'm no handyman. I know how to190601:48:53.800 --> 01:48:56.560
make money when I want to. It's just good luck190701:48:56.640 --> 01:48:59.720
that brought me here. My good luck. It is meant190801:48:59.760 --> 01:49:02.960
to be something between us. I know that the second190901:49:03.000 --> 01:49:04.199
you opened the door this morning.191001:49:05.640 --> 01:49:06.279
You're crazy.191101:49:08.319 --> 01:49:08.800
Let me go.191201:49:09.760 --> 01:49:11.439
Sure, I'll let you go.191301:49:13.479 --> 01:49:17.079
There. Well, why don't you run away from me now191401:49:17.159 --> 01:49:17.640
as you can.191501:49:19.279 --> 01:49:20.640
You mustn't say things like that.191601:49:22.279 --> 01:49:25.079
You mustn't, but I already have and I will again.191701:49:26.520 --> 01:49:29.199
You weren't meant to be married to a doddy old191801:49:29.359 --> 01:49:33.520
dodo like the professor. You were meant to live. And191901:49:33.680 --> 01:49:36.800
I'm gonna hang around here until I prove it to you.192001:49:43.840 --> 01:49:47.239
And so Martin Andrews joined the Strange household in the swamps,192101:49:47.600 --> 01:49:51.000
the household where Professor Hanson flooded death for the insect world.192201:49:52.199 --> 01:49:54.359
Mary suggested to him that it had been a mistake192301:49:54.520 --> 01:49:58.680
to hire Martin, so hastily without investigating his background, that192401:49:58.800 --> 01:50:02.079
her husband pooh pooh her arguments, and she was silent,192501:50:03.079 --> 01:50:05.800
knowing she could not explain that she was both frightened192601:50:05.880 --> 01:50:09.359
and fascinated by a man whom she'd seen for the first.192701:50:09.199 --> 01:50:13.800
Time that day. So Martin stayed, and in the days that.192801:50:13.880 --> 01:50:17.560
Followed, Professor Hanson found him invaluable. With his health, the192901:50:17.680 --> 01:50:22.079
work went much more quickly and daily. As the work progressed,193001:50:22.840 --> 01:50:27.039
a number of insects swarming about the house increased, buzzing193101:50:27.279 --> 01:50:30.479
and humming ominously, as though news of the Professor's success193201:50:31.000 --> 01:50:32.920
were spreading throughout the whole swamp.193301:50:33.840 --> 01:50:36.039
Then one morning in the laboratory.193401:50:36.279 --> 01:50:42.279
Guy Martin, exactly fifteen seconds, Professor, fifteen seconds, and every193501:50:42.319 --> 01:50:43.720
insect in the trap is dead.193601:50:44.039 --> 01:50:49.640
We've done it, Martin, Mary, Mary, Yes, yoah, what is it, Mary,193701:50:49.720 --> 01:50:52.039
We've done it. At last, I found the formula that193801:50:52.079 --> 01:50:55.520
will kill any insect no normost instantly, Oh joah, oh,193901:50:55.600 --> 01:50:58.159
I'm so glad this formula three ninety seventy. Here it194001:50:58.279 --> 01:50:59.960
is just a few marks on this piece of paper,194101:51:00.399 --> 01:51:03.079
but it's man's final victory over the insect world.194201:51:03.239 --> 01:51:07.239
Ha, listen to the bugs outside home, Professor They sound194301:51:07.319 --> 01:51:09.199
almost like they know what you've done.194401:51:09.560 --> 01:51:13.119
Oh, yes, they do know, but they're helpless, they're beaten,194501:51:13.199 --> 01:51:13.720
and they know it.194601:51:14.600 --> 01:51:14.800
Yes.194701:51:15.079 --> 01:51:16.640
Now I've got to write a note to Doctor Guernsey194801:51:16.680 --> 01:51:18.760
and mister Conway. Martin wait here for me.194901:51:19.000 --> 01:51:22.399
Yeah sure, Professor Martin, what are you doing with that formula?195001:51:22.760 --> 01:51:25.239
Just putting it in my pocket where it will be safe.195101:51:26.359 --> 01:51:28.439
You know how the Professor is always losing things.195201:51:28.960 --> 01:51:31.079
Give it to me, please, I'll take care of it.195301:51:31.239 --> 01:51:35.039
No, I think i'd better hold on to it. But195401:51:35.159 --> 01:51:38.199
I have something else for you. No, let me go195501:51:39.600 --> 01:51:43.039
on me ever since that first day, and I've been195601:51:43.119 --> 01:51:45.520
waiting until you know as well as I do that195701:51:45.640 --> 01:51:46.760
we were meant for each other.195801:51:47.479 --> 01:51:48.800
You must say such things.195901:51:49.239 --> 01:51:50.239
You do know it, don't you.196001:51:51.079 --> 01:51:51.119
No?196101:51:52.439 --> 01:51:59.960
No, maybe this will convince you, oh Martin, Oh Martin,196201:52:00.680 --> 01:52:02.920
now you know it, don't you?196301:52:04.279 --> 01:52:04.520
Yes?196401:52:06.720 --> 01:52:06.840
Oh?196501:52:07.079 --> 01:52:10.640
Crazy, I suppose I can't help it. You've got to196601:52:10.680 --> 01:52:11.399
go away, Martin.196701:52:12.039 --> 01:52:15.640
Now today you are crazy if you think I'm going196801:52:15.720 --> 01:52:20.520
without you. Here comes a professor. We'll talk about later, Martin.196901:52:20.920 --> 01:52:23.079
Here's a note from mister Conway, the druggist. I've asked197001:52:23.159 --> 01:52:24.960
him to come out with doctor Guernsey tomorrow night.197101:52:24.960 --> 01:52:27.920
Will you drive into town and deliver it to him, please, Hull, Professor,197201:52:28.079 --> 01:52:29.640
be glad to right away.197301:52:42.800 --> 01:52:46.720
Come in Martin quickly. Oh my, your clothes are covered197401:52:46.720 --> 01:52:48.479
with insects. Yes, stands still a minute.197501:52:48.479 --> 01:52:52.560
I get rid of them. Yeah, it takes care of that.197601:52:53.479 --> 01:52:55.119
How in the world did so many get on you?197701:52:55.560 --> 01:52:57.479
And I got out open the garage to her. They197801:52:57.520 --> 01:53:00.199
were crawling all over it. They dropped on to me.197901:53:00.279 --> 01:53:01.279
I couldn't knock them off.198001:53:02.960 --> 01:53:06.119
Yes, Mary, John John, there are ants in the kitchen,198101:53:06.359 --> 01:53:08.159
a whole swarm of giant black ants.198201:53:08.920 --> 01:53:11.159
The monster's giant ants in the kitchen.198301:53:11.199 --> 01:53:11.800
How did they get in?198401:53:11.960 --> 01:53:14.680
I don't know, but they're there and more coming all198501:53:14.760 --> 01:53:15.079
the time.198601:53:15.199 --> 01:53:17.760
In my mind, we'll take care of them. Come on, Martin,198701:53:17.880 --> 01:53:21.079
bring the spray gun. Ride. They mustn't get into the house,198801:53:21.119 --> 01:53:23.000
and we'll bet them. They want to get at me,198901:53:23.239 --> 01:53:26.079
but they're not going to. Yeah, they got John. The199001:53:26.159 --> 01:53:29.399
floors giant dance, the floors black with them. And look199101:53:29.439 --> 01:53:31.600
at them. Come this way toward me. They know who199201:53:31.680 --> 01:53:32.560
I am, Quod Martin.199301:53:32.720 --> 01:53:37.720
Here's the spray, yes, Professor, and this fix them half.199401:53:38.680 --> 01:53:44.359
So let them turn up their toes and felicism.199501:53:44.960 --> 01:53:46.800
How in the world did they get in? I thought199601:53:46.800 --> 01:53:48.159
i'd made this house insight proof.199701:53:48.319 --> 01:53:50.560
Here are some more coming through this hole in the woodward.199801:53:50.680 --> 01:53:51.399
I'll take care of me.199901:53:53.239 --> 01:53:56.000
Yeah, now plug up the hole.200001:53:57.600 --> 01:53:58.840
No morell come in that way.200101:53:59.439 --> 01:54:02.840
There's such good dance. I've never seen any of that.200201:54:03.000 --> 01:54:04.920
Big before, and they were after me.200301:54:05.359 --> 01:54:06.920
But we've talked them a lesson.200401:54:06.760 --> 01:54:10.680
Professor, You've almost convinced me you're right about the bugs200501:54:10.720 --> 01:54:14.199
hating you. I mean, what do you say, it's the truth.200601:54:14.800 --> 01:54:16.560
You never saw so many bugs in your life as200701:54:16.560 --> 01:54:19.239
there are outside right now. When I got back from town,200801:54:19.239 --> 01:54:20.960
I could hardly see the house for the beatles and200901:54:21.000 --> 01:54:23.159
the flies and the hornets that are buzzing around it.201001:54:23.880 --> 01:54:26.159
A couple of times the car ran over columns of201101:54:26.239 --> 01:54:28.439
ants so thick I thought they were gonna clog the wheels.201201:54:28.760 --> 01:54:29.960
Columns heading this way?201301:54:30.279 --> 01:54:30.479
Is that?201401:54:30.720 --> 01:54:33.039
So? I'm gonna go over to the window and see201501:54:33.079 --> 01:54:33.680
for myself.201601:54:35.600 --> 01:54:38.199
Yes, good heavens, the screen is so covered with insects201701:54:38.199 --> 01:54:38.960
I can't see out.201801:54:39.159 --> 01:54:41.319
I'll give them a dossier bug killer. That'll make them201901:54:41.399 --> 01:54:47.880
move on. Eh, that cleared them off.202001:54:49.119 --> 01:54:53.279
Nah, take a look outside, Professor, did you ever see202101:54:53.279 --> 01:54:55.039
anything like that in your life?202201:54:55.960 --> 01:54:58.880
Oh Lord, the sky is black within sicts. Look at202301:54:58.920 --> 01:55:02.640
that swarm over the trees, drying beetles, wasp bees.202401:55:02.760 --> 01:55:04.439
Looke, I can't identify them all.202501:55:04.680 --> 01:55:10.359
Yeah, and just listen to them, Listen to that son202601:55:10.520 --> 01:55:11.159
of hate.202701:55:11.600 --> 01:55:16.079
Don't say that it's just a natural phenomenon. These swamps202801:55:16.680 --> 01:55:16.880
by the.202901:55:16.920 --> 01:55:19.600
Millions, Yeah, yeah, I know, and every one of those203001:55:19.680 --> 01:55:20.880
millions is headed right.203101:55:20.800 --> 01:55:21.560
For this spot.203201:55:22.000 --> 01:55:22.880
But that's ridiculous.203301:55:22.960 --> 01:55:25.319
No, it's not all the way to town.203401:55:25.399 --> 01:55:28.279
I didn't see a single bug because they're all gathered203501:55:28.359 --> 01:55:30.279
right around here, right around this house.203601:55:30.479 --> 01:55:31.359
You mustn't say that.203701:55:31.560 --> 01:55:31.960
He's right.203801:55:32.079 --> 01:55:34.079
They know what's happening here, and they want to stop me.203901:55:34.319 --> 01:55:37.479
No, Town, No, If you want my advice, the thing204001:55:37.560 --> 01:55:39.840
to do is make up all a formula three nine204101:55:39.960 --> 01:55:41.159
seven Weeken.204201:55:41.960 --> 01:55:43.920
Those bugs ever get into this house.204301:55:44.119 --> 01:55:45.199
We're gonna need it.204401:55:51.560 --> 01:55:54.600
As the day wore on, the clouds of insects surrounding204501:55:54.640 --> 01:55:58.960
the old mansion and the swamps grew steadily bigger. At times,204601:55:59.000 --> 01:56:01.880
the house was almost hidden by the black swarms of204701:56:02.000 --> 01:56:05.840
tiny creatures flying and crawling over it, as if they204801:56:06.039 --> 01:56:09.760
really were trying to force their way inside. Only a204901:56:09.840 --> 01:56:12.880
few did get into the house through unnoticed cracks.205001:56:13.319 --> 01:56:19.640
But as night came on, John, Yes, John, the lights205101:56:19.640 --> 01:56:20.079
won't go on.205201:56:20.279 --> 01:56:20.720
They won't.205301:56:20.920 --> 01:56:24.119
No, look, confuse must have blown out.205401:56:24.279 --> 01:56:26.439
I'll go take a look, Professor, I have the flashlight.205501:56:26.600 --> 01:56:27.239
Thank you, Martin.205601:56:27.319 --> 01:56:28.239
I want to be a minute.205701:56:29.319 --> 01:56:33.680
Listen to them, Mary, listen to them swarming about the house,205801:56:33.800 --> 01:56:36.319
beating against the screens, trying to get in at me.205901:56:36.600 --> 01:56:38.399
Oh, John, they're just insects.206001:56:38.840 --> 01:56:39.640
They don't hate you.206101:56:39.920 --> 01:56:41.840
They don't table Then where they come from? Why are206201:56:41.880 --> 01:56:44.239
they surrounding this house? Answer me that, Oh, I don't know.206301:56:44.560 --> 01:56:46.840
Martin agrees with me. You said so this afternoon.206401:56:47.520 --> 01:56:49.039
You mustn't pay any attention to Martin.206501:56:49.279 --> 01:56:50.039
Listen to them.206601:56:50.479 --> 01:56:53.279
If they could get in, we'd be dead in fifteen minutes.206701:56:54.000 --> 01:56:57.239
There's death. We here humming and buzzing out there, Mary.206801:56:57.279 --> 01:57:01.039
Professor, Professor, this what is it? Did you find the trouble? Yes,206901:57:01.119 --> 01:57:03.319
it's in the switchbox aller right. All the fuses are207001:57:03.319 --> 01:57:06.399
blown out, all of them. But how the switchbox is207101:57:06.479 --> 01:57:09.039
full of little beetles. I don't know where they came from,207201:57:09.079 --> 01:57:10.880
but they caused a short circuit that blew out all207301:57:10.920 --> 01:57:11.399
the fuses.207401:57:11.439 --> 01:57:12.439
They did it on purpose.207501:57:12.560 --> 01:57:15.600
Oh John, Well, anyway, we'll be using candles tonight.207601:57:16.159 --> 01:57:17.880
And there's another thing, what button?207701:57:18.279 --> 01:57:19.079
The cellar is.207801:57:19.239 --> 01:57:22.199
Full of little white ants. I couldn't find out where207901:57:22.199 --> 01:57:22.840
they're coming from.208001:57:23.079 --> 01:57:24.720
White ass not ants, Martin.208101:57:24.720 --> 01:57:27.800
Those are termite, well termites, and they're all over everything.208201:57:28.560 --> 01:57:32.560
Termites. They can eat their way through wood. They can208301:57:32.600 --> 01:57:35.399
eat holes that the other insects can enter through. Yeah,208401:57:36.319 --> 01:57:39.680
that's right, isn't it, Martin? Come on, get two insects sprays.208501:57:39.920 --> 01:57:42.039
We've got to get down there and destroy them before208601:57:42.079 --> 01:57:42.840
they destroy us.208701:57:54.119 --> 01:57:54.800
Listen to them.208801:57:56.439 --> 01:57:56.560
There.208901:57:56.600 --> 01:58:01.279
Let's be billions of bugs out there, crickets, bees, flies, hornets,209001:58:01.479 --> 01:58:04.520
wasp lance, every kind of insect there is. It's a209101:58:04.560 --> 01:58:06.640
good thing you put tight screens on this house.209201:58:07.119 --> 01:58:08.000
Yeah, what is it?209301:58:08.119 --> 01:58:08.359
Mary?209401:58:09.239 --> 01:58:10.479
I thought I felt the house shake.209501:58:10.600 --> 01:58:12.840
Then ah, I don't let your imagination get you. I209601:58:12.880 --> 01:58:13.560
didn't feel anything.209701:58:13.640 --> 01:58:15.760
No, no, no, you must keep control of your nerves.209801:58:16.520 --> 01:58:20.800
I suppose I imagined it. Then, Oh, John, it's almost midnight.209901:58:21.560 --> 01:58:22.920
Are they ever going to go away?210001:58:23.520 --> 01:58:26.720
Maybe not. If the professor's right and they're after him,210101:58:26.760 --> 01:58:29.880
they'll just hang around until we starve to death, or210201:58:30.239 --> 01:58:32.680
until they get in and finish us off.210301:58:32.960 --> 01:58:33.439
Oh, Martin.210401:58:34.079 --> 01:58:37.199
Martin is right. We've used up all the formula three210501:58:37.319 --> 01:58:39.720
ninety seven, and if they ever do get into the house,210601:58:39.800 --> 01:58:42.560
we're doomed. I was just thinking that myself.210701:58:43.800 --> 01:58:46.439
We have got to get help, go out of the heart. Yes,210801:58:46.640 --> 01:58:48.039
oh no, John, not all of us.210901:58:48.760 --> 01:58:50.239
But maybe if I were to take the car and211001:58:50.319 --> 01:58:52.560
make a dash for town, they might follow me.211101:58:52.960 --> 01:58:53.960
John, that's madness in.211201:58:54.039 --> 01:58:55.920
This Si Dan. With all the window shut, they couldn't211301:58:55.920 --> 01:58:57.520
get at me. And in town I could get help.211401:58:57.640 --> 01:58:58.800
Yeah, yeah, you caught.211501:58:58.880 --> 01:59:00.720
I could make a more for me three ninety seven211601:59:00.760 --> 01:59:03.279
at Conway's drug store, and he and doctor Guernsey can211701:59:03.319 --> 01:59:03.920
come back with me.211801:59:04.159 --> 01:59:05.880
And if we use a big pumpa spray, we could211901:59:05.880 --> 01:59:06.560
destroy every.212001:59:06.439 --> 01:59:07.359
Insect that's outside.212101:59:07.479 --> 01:59:08.920
No, you mustn't try it.212201:59:09.079 --> 01:59:11.800
It sounds like a good idea to me. I go212301:59:11.960 --> 01:59:13.960
only I couldn't mix the formula.212401:59:14.119 --> 01:59:15.760
No, John, you mustn't go out.212501:59:15.880 --> 01:59:18.039
Yes, I'm going to do it. If those ants ever212601:59:18.199 --> 01:59:20.239
get at the car, they'd cut the tires to shreds212701:59:20.279 --> 01:59:21.920
and then we would be at their mercy. I've got212801:59:21.960 --> 01:59:23.000
to go for help while I can.212901:59:23.479 --> 01:59:24.199
Then let's all go.213001:59:24.800 --> 01:59:26.479
We can all get in the car, and it'd be213101:59:26.640 --> 01:59:29.960
safer to stay here. His hassle hold them off for213201:59:30.039 --> 01:59:30.479
a good while.213301:59:30.560 --> 01:59:33.960
Yet I think the Professor's scheme is the best.213401:59:34.279 --> 01:59:36.640
Go right, Martin, Now, I'll get ready, and then you213501:59:36.720 --> 01:59:38.720
come downstairs and help me with the garage doors, and213601:59:38.800 --> 01:59:40.520
you're going to have to open and shut them off213701:59:40.640 --> 01:59:42.000
with fast when I take the car out.213801:59:48.560 --> 01:59:52.720
Despite Mary's protests, Professor Hansen carried out his plan, with213901:59:52.880 --> 01:59:56.560
the car tightly closed, the motor racing Martin flannel opened214001:59:56.560 --> 01:59:59.399
the garage doors. The car shut out into the night214101:59:59.600 --> 02:00:03.159
ad by showing great swarms of flying insects in its path.214202:00:03.760 --> 02:00:06.399
Then Martin swiftly closed and bolted the door again and214302:00:06.560 --> 02:00:07.359
hurried upstairs.214402:00:09.640 --> 02:00:11.560
Oh he's gone.214502:00:12.319 --> 02:00:13.479
Oh why did you let him go?214602:00:14.640 --> 02:00:18.399
That ought to be obvious. What do you mean I214702:00:18.479 --> 02:00:19.239
didn't let him go.214802:00:19.439 --> 02:00:20.119
I made him go.214902:00:21.000 --> 02:00:22.479
I put the whole idea in his mind.215002:00:22.560 --> 02:00:26.439
So he go off and leave us alone here? Oh no,215102:00:27.079 --> 02:00:30.600
sure I did. I'm a bright boy. Now on, it's215202:00:30.680 --> 02:00:35.199
going to be just you and me and fun. What215302:00:35.319 --> 02:00:39.600
are you saying John isn't going to come back from215402:00:39.680 --> 02:00:40.960
his little trip to town.215502:00:42.000 --> 02:00:42.840
I don't understand.215602:00:43.239 --> 02:00:45.760
I'll make it simple in the first place. All those215702:00:45.840 --> 02:00:48.520
bugs outside don't mean a thing. When I was in215802:00:48.600 --> 02:00:51.319
town this morning, Conway the druggist told me it happens215902:00:51.359 --> 02:00:54.239
out here every seven years or so. There's something about216002:00:54.239 --> 02:00:56.520
the way the wind blows that makes millions of bugs216102:00:56.600 --> 02:00:59.119
come out of the swamp to swarm around this house216202:00:59.199 --> 02:00:59.840
in certain years.216302:01:00.439 --> 02:01:03.000
Oh, but then, why did you pretend to believe John216402:01:03.039 --> 02:01:05.239
when he said it was because they were after him.216502:01:05.720 --> 02:01:08.439
Just so as he'd go to town for help. Those216602:01:08.479 --> 02:01:10.760
bugs are harmless. As soon as the wind shifts, they'll216702:01:10.800 --> 02:01:15.399
be gone. But then, right this minute, John's driving to216802:01:15.479 --> 02:01:18.399
town as fast as he can go. And any second216902:01:18.479 --> 02:01:24.520
now the steering gear is gonna bust. No, yes, baby,217002:01:24.960 --> 02:01:28.279
because I fixed it too. And when that steering wheel goes,217102:01:28.319 --> 02:01:30.760
it'll be curtains for John. The car hid a tree,217202:01:30.960 --> 02:01:36.039
and you'll be free to marry me. We'll have Formula217302:01:36.159 --> 02:01:38.279
three nine seven and all the door will bring in.217402:01:40.439 --> 02:01:45.039
That's murder, Nah, it isn't murder, it's being smart.217502:01:46.720 --> 02:01:51.399
You've murdered John. I'm guilty too, because I didn't make217602:01:51.479 --> 02:01:52.159
him send you away.217702:01:52.760 --> 02:01:54.560
You never really wanted me to go.217802:01:58.560 --> 02:01:59.479
I ought to load with you.217902:02:00.720 --> 02:02:01.680
I myself too.218002:02:01.920 --> 02:02:10.319
But but you don't, No, Mam, I don't. That's small,218102:02:10.479 --> 02:02:15.560
like a baby. We'll always be together, always, forever.218202:02:15.800 --> 02:02:16.159
Martin.218302:02:18.600 --> 02:02:20.800
Huh, it's the house.218402:02:21.880 --> 02:02:24.760
Did you say you gotta get out of here? I'll218502:02:25.159 --> 02:02:27.600
begin it very quick. I'm holding.218602:02:28.079 --> 02:02:49.680
Come on, m hm, mister Conway, can't you drive faster?218702:02:49.800 --> 02:02:50.920
We must get back to the house.218802:02:50.960 --> 02:02:53.399
I'm driving as fast as I can, Professor.218902:02:53.159 --> 02:02:57.279
Professor, you must control yourself. That was the sheriest accident219002:02:57.359 --> 02:03:00.239
you were in. It's a miracle you weren't killed us.219102:03:00.720 --> 02:03:03.880
Were you're kid at that tree? I'm just glad it219202:03:04.039 --> 02:03:05.960
wasn't me. Yes, please drive faster.219302:03:06.520 --> 02:03:08.760
I should never have allowed you to return to your219402:03:08.800 --> 02:03:11.439
home with us. You should be in a hospital, a doctor,219502:03:11.520 --> 02:03:13.680
my wife and Martin. I've got to save them. Those219602:03:13.760 --> 02:03:16.399
insects they hate me. They're out to destroy all of us.219702:03:16.560 --> 02:03:18.399
They'll kill my wife and Martin if we don't get219802:03:18.439 --> 02:03:22.479
there in time. Professor, you must calm yourself. I'm sure219902:03:22.520 --> 02:03:23.840
it isn't as serious as all that.220002:03:24.000 --> 02:03:26.439
Oh, doctor, You, like everyone else, you don't know how220102:03:26.560 --> 02:03:27.960
dangerous the insect world is.220202:03:28.079 --> 02:03:28.560
But I know.220302:03:29.039 --> 02:03:30.920
And that's why they hate me, and that's why they're220402:03:30.960 --> 02:03:32.920
out to destroy me and my wife and Martin.220502:03:34.319 --> 02:03:35.199
How we're almost there.220602:03:35.520 --> 02:03:37.840
House is just around this bend in the road. Just220702:03:37.920 --> 02:03:40.079
but please hurry. You mustn't slow down, Professor.220802:03:40.279 --> 02:03:43.039
I gotta take this curve flow after all. We don't220902:03:43.039 --> 02:03:43.439
want no more.221002:03:44.720 --> 02:03:49.479
Good Lord, the house it's collapsed.221102:03:50.319 --> 02:03:52.359
They've rented the insective rented.221202:03:52.920 --> 02:03:55.520
I don't do they were out to get me. Now,221302:03:55.560 --> 02:03:57.479
come quickly, we must find my wife and Martin.221402:03:57.840 --> 02:03:58.760
Come along, Conway.221502:03:59.000 --> 02:04:02.760
This looks bad, doctor, Mary, Mary, where are you?221602:04:04.239 --> 02:04:04.359
Very?221702:04:04.439 --> 02:04:08.199
Answer me, Conway, you'd better start looking through the wrecked.221802:04:08.000 --> 02:04:10.960
Okay, very very, where are you?221902:04:11.279 --> 02:04:13.800
Oh Lord, I've never seen so many bugs in all222002:04:13.920 --> 02:04:16.319
my life. We've only had more of my Formula three222102:04:16.399 --> 02:04:16.840
ninety seven.222202:04:16.880 --> 02:04:20.159
We could kill all of them, all of them, but222302:04:20.319 --> 02:04:21.479
they won't get the better of me.222402:04:22.079 --> 02:04:24.720
They won't, Professor, What are you doing?222502:04:25.479 --> 02:04:25.600
There?222602:04:25.680 --> 02:04:27.000
Isn't anny spray in that gun.222702:04:27.079 --> 02:04:31.920
It's import I'll show them. I'll show them, doctor, Doctor.222802:04:33.000 --> 02:04:33.600
I found them.222902:04:35.039 --> 02:04:36.520
They're under the wreckage of the house.223002:04:36.760 --> 02:04:39.680
Oh you'd better take me to them, Conway. Perhaps, which223102:04:39.840 --> 02:04:40.720
is too late, Doc.223202:04:42.159 --> 02:04:43.159
They're both dead.223302:04:45.079 --> 02:04:49.039
They're dead, yes, Professor. They were killed by falling timbers223402:04:49.159 --> 02:04:50.239
when the house collapsed.223502:04:50.520 --> 02:04:53.760
No, no, it wasn't the falling timbers that kill them.223602:04:53.880 --> 02:04:55.960
It was the insect world that killed them. They tried223702:04:56.000 --> 02:04:58.560
to destroy me, and instead they murdered Mary. But now223802:04:58.560 --> 02:05:00.600
they're trying to break me down. I won't get them.223902:05:01.079 --> 02:05:01.960
I won't get them.224002:05:04.159 --> 02:05:09.199
Populously ninety seven. The sprays will just slide the balls. Yes, yes,224102:05:09.840 --> 02:05:14.119
they're dying. That's the right, they're dying dark.224202:05:14.479 --> 02:05:15.279
What's wrong with them?224302:05:15.399 --> 02:05:16.840
That spray uns empty?224402:05:18.399 --> 02:05:19.279
Conero?224502:05:21.600 --> 02:05:23.600
It is completely mad.224602:05:25.119 --> 02:05:29.239
The insect world has destroyed his mind.224702:05:49.279 --> 02:05:55.720
M this is the mysterious traveler again. How did you224802:05:55.920 --> 02:06:00.159
enjoy our visit with the man? The insects hated? Too224902:06:00.199 --> 02:06:02.319
bad about poor professor Hansen, wasn't it?225002:06:03.600 --> 02:06:03.800
Yes?225102:06:03.960 --> 02:06:07.000
They found it gone completely mad, and in his madness,225202:06:07.239 --> 02:06:11.079
had completely forgotten his newly discovered formula three nine seven,225302:06:11.560 --> 02:06:16.239
which would destroy all insects. What happened to the copy225402:06:16.319 --> 02:06:20.560
of the formula which Martin had stolen, Well, strangely enough,225502:06:21.159 --> 02:06:25.279
when Martin's body was removed from the wreckage, a formula225602:06:25.520 --> 02:06:26.680
was not in his pockets.225702:06:28.119 --> 02:06:30.680
Some people say that the insects.225802:06:31.880 --> 02:06:35.399
You have to get off here. I'm sorry, and I'm225902:06:35.479 --> 02:06:36.560
sure we'll meet again.226002:06:37.880 --> 02:06:41.279
I take this same train every week at the same time.226102:06:58.159 --> 02:07:01.520
You've just heard The Mysterious Trouble, a series of dramas226202:07:01.560 --> 02:07:05.000
of the strange and terrifying. In today's story, the cast226302:07:05.079 --> 02:07:09.560
included Maurice Toplin, Eric Dressler, Helen Shields and Robert Dryden.226402:07:10.079 --> 02:07:14.039
Original music was played by Geen Piazzo. A Mysterious Traveler226502:07:14.279 --> 02:07:18.439
is written, produced and directed by Bob Arthur and David Cogan.226602:07:22.439 --> 02:07:30.520
O love well, my dear.226702:07:32.159 --> 02:07:36.479
I do hope you know that if one thing is certain,226802:07:37.680 --> 02:07:42.279
it's that I do not hate you. In fact, quite226902:07:42.319 --> 02:07:46.600
the opposite. One of the best parts of my my227002:07:46.760 --> 02:07:52.159
week is spending time with you, having something fun and227102:07:52.359 --> 02:07:56.079
scary to enjoy and share. So thank you from the227202:07:56.159 --> 02:08:00.000
bottom of whatever it is in place of my home227302:08:00.439 --> 02:08:04.640
for all of your kind companionship and fellowship.227402:08:05.600 --> 02:08:06.680
I do appreciate it.227502:08:07.600 --> 02:08:11.680
But now well, the sun will be up soon, so227602:08:12.760 --> 02:08:16.279
you should probably make your way home. But as you227702:08:16.479 --> 02:08:21.199
go down the dark and narrow streets, cutting through yards227802:08:21.359 --> 02:08:25.720
and woods, having the sticks and branches of bushes and227902:08:25.840 --> 02:08:29.720
trees snapping against you as you try to get home228002:08:29.840 --> 02:08:32.960
in time, as you lay your head down on your pillow,228102:08:33.800 --> 02:08:37.520
take a moment and be thankful for what you heard.228202:08:38.279 --> 02:08:39.319
I'll see you next time.
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