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0:09 Ah, good to have you back, my dear. Well, I suppose the witching season is going quite well. Have you been listening to the breeze, I mean interpreting it, understanding its words? Well, I hope so I've been very well, although much better having you here with me. Please relax. I know the fall months get so chilly at night, and the fire is of course burning bright, the tea is steeping, almost ready for your sipping. And of course as I fantasize about looking up at the night sky and seeing shooting star. Well, it's time to make the death wish.

1:06 This radio mystery theater presents. Come in. Welcome. I'm a g Marshall. How well are you plugged into your world? I don't mean the world around you outside of you, I mean your own private world, the one inside of you. Most men and women are content enough to take themselves as they find themselves, but some, either running from the world outside or searching for the one within, seek new frontiers far more dangerous than even the boundaries of space, more exotic than the mysteries of the ancient East.

2:03 If your wife has toned someone else, why. Not do the same, George, Not really, Sena, What does it means if she has the first, I must kill them both. Our mystery drama The Death Wish was written especially for the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and stars Ralph Bell. It is sponsored in part by True Value Hardware Stories. I'll be that shortly with that one. It was Satul Page, the ageless baseball pitcher, who said, never look back, somebody might be gaining on you. That's a pretty apt description of almost any of us these days. Life is a perpetual train. We are running to catch a race, just to stay ahead of the bill collector, a mad dash to accumulate enough of the world's goods to buy security, which dances farther and farther away. George Solway is so little different from any of us that it would not be unfair to say that he could be you for me.

3:24 Take its place. Come on, commuters and the uppat. Oh well, mister Soway, Okay, how's going back and forth? How's it with you? You know it is us brokers up and down to day, down the market. No may, I'm pooped, but at the back of the background, get me a little more started. You gotta watch that stuff. Mister Sollaway could get to you. Well, I hope it does before I fizz off. I have a rocket to the ceiling. Something wrong in the process of coping with every day, Lily, it's getting out of my nerves. I know what you mean. I wonder if you do, Connie.

4:05 I'll hope you don't forget it. I'm just not can. I fell a passenger here. I almost forgot his his ticket. He asked me to give it to you so he wouldn't be disturbed. He looks to it. Better check him before we get to his station. We don't worry, Connie. He gets off before me, and I'll. See he doesn't miss it. You might cook off yourself. Forget it. I wound up like a spring with these days. The last thing I can do is sleep anywhere. It's been building slowly. I can't say I haven't been conscious of it, but I try to put it out of my mind.

4:45 Something specials just where I live. Trade to the market floor all day, hit the commute home, try to be a husband and the father, commute back all the time. Inside it's like a pressure cooking without any safety valve. I'm gonna do something, but what I was gonna live? This is the only way I know how to. When I got back with my double muntednie, my companion was awake. Excuse please, I wish to thank you so much. What for troutating my meditician with your pleasure? My name is Ranji Trabbit at the cord. It was most kind of you to tender. I think it as my pleasure. I have to have it. You see, to have some meditician by this time of day and on the day train, so it was important to me.

5:36 I remain undisturbed, okay, by man, I thought you're going to sleep? Who would not know? So far from that? My mind is too thirty a week. I hear all you and the conductors say, but I do not have to break my concentration. At the same time, I am addressed. You may you could meditrate and hear us at the same time. That what good is it done? The most good, such peace, such redaxation, such risk for result in rhapsodic meditation. I am in perfect balance. I can put away all care, get away from all treasures, step back far enough to. See them for what they are. Rap sonic meditations. What is that one of those new religion?

6:24 No religion at all, My dear man, pure common sense. Yeah, so what what works for you doesn't necessarily work for me, though I have never suggested it might. I only answered your questions. Oh sure, but shows me if I stick to the old food and wine they get me back off the ceiling. To each his own, as long as it works. But I think one is a negative approach and the other it positive. May I give you my card? Sure? What forest market? I am interested in many things, of course, but at the moment will be you. Why Because I think you are looking for Head and in r M you might find him.

7:16 Next me. Please, this is where I must get us. Strange character, and yet I give a lot to be as calm as he seemed to be. So crazy. All this meditation stuff it'll never do for me because my teen he had me all relapsed. So I was ad at a home and face married, maybe just for once, not fly off the handle. I MA, I'm tired, Jude. How is your dead? Oh? You know? Kat on a hots and roof. You feight hours passed? Eventually?

7:58 How about a drink? Honey? You get the late train dinners already. I thought we might skip it tonight. You mean you thought I might well it wouldn't do you any harm? Do you think? So? I take it myself. You're gonna join me? No, what does that mean? You gonna fight me? If I fight? Darling, it's only for us. Please eat dinner instead of drinking it. Hey, what is this? You're going to exhorb the temperance onions. You're so thin, dear, you need proper nourishment from worried, desperately worried. That's all above on you.

8:39 You're driving yourself right over the brink. You're so hyped up, you're making yourself a nervous wrest. You talk as oh I was sick. Well in a way you are, dearest. Even your doctor says you're hypertense. So that's the nature of the beast. What can I do about it? There is something you can do about it, if you'd only maybe I will join you in one drinks so we can talk about it. Oh a week, one please, one week? Un let's sit a minute. Oh, thank you darling to us? Sure, well this is better, I am.

9:24 I was talking to March Finley today. What's she looking for my contribution? Nothing like that. We were talking about traveling, traveling towards She and Bill are just like us, except they're taking advantage of their freedom. Six months ago they have that delirious Caribbean cruise. Now next week they're all for another whole months in the Pacific. That's all very well for Bill. They can afford it. I just don't see. Where he finds the time, same place you could find. I can't get away from the street. Mary, You're not a customer's man. Nobody depends on you. You have no plan. Your employers depend on me to make trades for them.

10:04 Blastonbury and Pepper have plenty of others to fill your shoes, and they don't mind taking vacations. Lord knows you filled in for enough events. It's different for them. We have a children to worry about. What children? Tom and Alex are both off at college. That isn't borting. She goes on weekends and vacation, not many weekends. George, George, you're killing yourself at this pace. You've just got to slow down. Do you want me to do to workaholic? I think you've given yourself till you're ready to snap any moment. I'm trying to save you from that. Don't you understand You've got to see a doctor.

10:46 I've seen a doctor. What does he have to tell me that I don't know? Well, it isn't a medical doctor you need. Oh, so that's what all this is working up to her. You think I've flipped down. Huh, that's what you're think of me. I didn't say that, but. It's what I thought. I don't ride a me me. Do it? Gigs, Where are you going? No? No, Pardia, walk anywhere, Just hide and find a little peace. Every nerve in my body was singing, every vein and artery hammering. I could feel my heart pounding rapidly as if it were rising, my chest pushing up against my throat, so it was.

11:29 Hard to breathe. I had to do something, but I wasn't ready for some jerk to pick my brains or rummage around in my psyche. Not yet. There must be some other way. And then I remember the little Indian gentleman on the train. I fumbled in my pocket for his calm and founded I'd give him one try, mister uh Rabina to gore. You will call Mashi let your name her? Did I see my title? What does it mean? Oh, teacher, will be good enough?

12:13 Is that what you do? Teach? This uh, rhapsodic meditation. I teach that and the way well is there is there some way you could teach me? How do you use it? But of course it is it expensive. That would be up to you to join the society as a fee of two hundred dollars to those who can afford. I think you can do. We think in many ways. I think you cannot afford. Not to mister s. You know me? You know my name? Oh yes, mister, I have been expecting your call.

12:58 It seems that the Marish she operated out of his house in Denton's, so I had to make an appointment for late Friday afternoon. I felt better making it. At least I'd taken some step to relieve my tensions. But I'd reckon without Mary, who had the same object in view. Hi, Marris, me George, we're out on the patio. Well, I'll be right there. I didn't expect your home so soon, George, I have. An apartment in that and I wanted to pick up a car so. I could drive back. I hope I'm not sputting in.

13:41 I didn't know you were expecting company. Well I wasn't. I mean, well, look who just dropped in this is Phil Eagan. I don't believe I've had a pleasure when you haven't met, but. Heavens knows you've heard me talk about him enough. Phil and I went to high school together, not the same class. I think I was too great ahead. How do you do, mister Solway? Would you like to join us for a drink? Darling? Thanks, You've got to be on my way to my appointment. Don't let me break up the party. No party, Your wife and I were just renewing old acquaintance. Yeah, so I see. Don't let me standing away at the bow out anyway? You or you don't understand?

14:23 He's your guest. Yes, you take care of him. I have my own problems. Where are you going? That's my secret? Sony, fair, isn't it, Since you seem to have some of your own. I'll be back for dinner. There is going to be dinner, of course. The last thing I needed was to meet the man that Mary might have married, would have until she met me, Philipagan. Meeting him at last, I had only one blind desire, want to kill him, wipe him up forever. But I never imagine then that that was exactly what I had condemned myself to do the eternal triangle, one of life's most terrifying cliches.

15:16 But stop a minute, do we know that this one is a cliche? Or other angles within angles that may change the shape of things to come? Can rhapsotic meditation bring George Solway a piece that may not passive understanding, but at least may bring understanding itself? Or will it start him on a voyage within himself that will lead him to a whirlpool of disaster. I shall return shortly with that too. What we are concerned with here is.

15:58 A product of our time. A man pushed by the circumstances of his lifestyle to the end of his control. A man afflicted by one of the most prevalent diseases of our century, a silent killer hypertension. Not the least of this condition's results is that it not always only kills, but may develop into something far worse, a situation where the victim not only punishes himself, but becomes psychotic enough to blame his agony on others and seeks their deaths rather than his to achieve redeption. I was stunned at the size of the little man's property. The Marishi owned an estate. A servant in a tucked up sarrey that looked like a loose diaver showed me into a small anteroom with a highest ceiling.

16:49 I was there for a long while, with some sort of bells chiming steadily leaped in the house, and the room heavy withincense. I was more than half. Asleep with She came not in western clothes now, but in a long flowing robe, which made him seem taller and more impressive. Greetings, my friend, mister Sorley. Pretty impressive place you have here, and that me and mister Surley, all of us who study the way belong to it, not it to us. Maybe I'm getting it over my head here. All I wanted to do was to try this meditation. Why not there are no strings attached.

17:32 But we've got kind of a whole thing going here, I mean, like a religion. We want to progress beyond the meditation. That is your election. No one will presdent you to do so. Only three things are asked. What that you pay the initiation fee which you have, that you promise to try to use. This gift for what it is and never try to make it something it is not. And that you keep the word door mantra. We give you a secret norm only to yourself. For sure, I agree, But do you think this will work for me? That is a question only you, yourself can answer. Come let us see what it means for you.

18:23 It was a wrong shrouded in darkness, with flowers all around and a scent of incense everywhere. He told me to remove my shoes, set me in an ordinary chair, told me to close my eyes, and murmured the rhythmic syllables of the mantra quietly in my ear. I remained repeating them in my mind and for forteen minutes, even though I was partly conscious of other sounds, a passing plane, voice someplace in my house, a door closing. I sank through layers and then floated to the top for some lulling sea. For the first time since I could remember in years, I knew peace.

19:20 Were just leaving East Williston. Pambrock is the next stop front two cars. Please come back to third card to the mark for Pembroke. Fambroke is Alexation. Hey George, you awake. We're going to track back a couple of cars. I wasn't a safe I was testing something on that last night raapsotic meditation. Okay, Okay, I just want you right on up to Middleton. That happened to me last week and was my old woman saw at me. By the time I cockbike, I was meditating. Ok. You can lose everything while they're in meditation. There are no thoughts, which is a soft blank We have nothingness a blanket, so forgetfulness. You can't talk to Max Burger.

20:11 He has to put down everything he is. That's why he's not well liked. Still, it's difficult to talk about our m to anyone, even my wife. More confie, George, Oh. This will do so much train time. Oh George, if you would just talk to this psychiatrist. Want I don't need a psychiatrist. I have our end I've been going to and he's wondering. We better off with meditation. I think I'm a lot cheaper. If we don't have to worry about money, George. Which is exactly why I want you to stay out of the crunches. Some headshrinker. That is a terrible thing to say if you knew how much this man has put himself out to help us without asking anything in return.

20:53 I want to help you. Maybe is that it Mary? You just hired me and looking for something better? If that's the last thing you should ever say to me, George. Well, how could I blame you? And I'm such a terrible grouch, impossible to live with already halfway around the bend, for seven's sake, let's stop arguing. I have a train to catch. Driving to the station, parking the car, my nerves were exploding in small bursts all over my body, like electrical charges. I thought, what if Mary was unfaithful to me? And then the corollary, perhaps she already is? And I knew I needed meditation more than ever. I could hardly wait for the train to start rolling. So tell me, George, how were the dreams last night getting better all the time. I don't dray max, at least I try not to. It's night by a time. Yeah, I know what you mean, the way things go sometimes I just no escape. Well I found one, eh, Oh you mean that meditation giving hey showers that you meet any luscious dames while your data. No, it's not the object and it isn't day draining.

22:07 Well whatever it. Is, no dy no, whether you can better if I went in for it, that's what would tease me into the spended animation, or knock it off when the night. Oh, pardon me, you take this thing? See, yes, I do. So what do you get out of it? Peace? Relaxation. I sat back, letting my hands fall on my knees, and I started the rhythmic cadence of my mantra running through my head. Although I could still hear the rattle of the train, it had ceased to be part of my consciousness. I was in a warm, encircling sea, spinning gently but insistently to the vortex in the center.

22:54 It was content. There was no fear, and the voice. Was calling George, George. Who. Is it? Who are you? I am Serena. I'm waiting for you. Where beyond the edge? The edge of what? The edge that separate your world from mine? How can I cross it? When you are ready to leave your world behind, you will.

23:37 Know why should I want to? Because only this will you know? An edge to draw it and the fine peace? Why did you look so hauntingly for media? Why did you draw me so strongly? Confided? I feel, in spite of almost overwhelming desire, that I must resist her. That she meant dangerous and disaster. For your attention, pays. You're coming into Central station last time.

24:19 Please your granny belonging before. You leave this straight Hey hey, hey, hey, hey, better come on back and join the common books. Are we in already? It's just about And don't tell me you've been meditating for a whole hour, I must promisely. Yeah. Sure, from the look of you, you must have had sundary. Oh that must have been some gorgeous babe. Come on, Max lay offer news man, you must have a guilty conscience. It's not me who should have the guilty conscience. How odd does that? I'll forget it when you plan say in I want to get off. All through the business day, I couldn't forget it what I meant by remark Once during the morning I called Mary and twice in the afternoon, but he wasn't home.

25:08 But it wasn't until after. An unsuccessful meditation on the train going home that I finally faced the truth. I couldn't wait to face Mary with him. Where were you all day? Mary? I went shopping in the morning, had lunch with some of the girls, had my session with a psychiatrist in the afternoon. Why I was trying to reach you all day. I'm sorry, George. Anything important that depends on the point of view. Mary. Are you having an affair? An affair. With whom a psychiatrist, whatever his name is, and you're out of your mind? George, strange question for you to ask.

25:53 I thought you decided I was, but you haven't answered my question. I won't dignify it by giving it one as you are, which means nothing of the source. You're lying. I am not lying. Oh really, George, this is the last straw. If you don't do something to put yourself together again, and I'm going to have. To leave you, or maybe I will have that affair. You better not. I wouldn't think you'd care much anymore. I care this much. If I catch you even so much as looking at another man, I'll kill you and him. Oh, don't be ridiculous. I mean I believe you do.

26:33 Don't you see how sick you are? I'm not you. Look at you to vain, standing out in your throat. You're shaking all over. Even if you're not sick, then you must be feeling guilty about something. What is it, George? Is it you the telling the affair? N Nay? You know I've remained so much as much of another woman. But what is the word in my mind? What is it? Darn? What is it that's driving you, pulling you apart, destroying you on me? For once, I had to admit Mary was right.

27:13 I was shaky. I could hear myself coming apart of the scenes, and she was right about something else. I hadn't told her the whole truth. All day long, I had been thinking about. Another woman, the woman in my meditation, Serena, the woman every instinct told me I must resist, and yet whose spells still lay on me, drawing me irresistibly back to her. I couldn't wait to return to my meditation the next morning. You mean. Yes, sor Ena, I knew you would. Are you put to me?

27:56 How can I tell me? Come your ties? If your way, I'm stepping to mine. I don't know how to help. Stand up. That's stressed. Look back. Up your feet. I can see myself. Sitting eyes closed, only eight thirty seven, on my way into the city.

28:37 That's me George alway, that's my buddy, not the. George always cold, the welcome with pelfilled. Why don't you leave the honor behind George? I turn and look at the woman. She is blindingly beautifully, so beautiful. I can't separate her features, only the overall loveliness and the radiance of calm and promise that makes me long to go to her arms. But another force drags my glance back to the figure sitting so still and unmoving on the swaying train seat. I'm cold, Suddenly I'm afraid, and for the first time in my life, I understand what is meant by the death wish. What a terrifying thing it is to invade the privacy of a man's mind, to watch him struggle between illusion and reality.

29:52 The sense of decency prompts us to walk away, And yet how can we deny the fascination of a struggle unresolved? Won't you join me to discover how it is? When I return with Act three? Now, shall we return again to the haunted chambers of George so Alway's mind. As he rides in the suspended animation on his morning Commuters train, he hangs in a half world between the bright promise of illusion and the black, stark reality of his crumbling personal life.

30:33 Which way should he reach for. The blessed anodyne of total nothingness and a shadowy world of release from pain, or the old world, which has become as agonizing as the tortures of the rack. Let us find out. I'm absurd, sir, nothing. To be afraid. Coue before it's too late, too late for what to say in your arm old possess. Me me your own.

31:13 I can't Serena. I have a wife. I know I can't leave her. Why not? She don't love you anymore? No, no way I've been lately. I could hardly blame her. If she's turned to someone. I don't know. I'm afraid I think she has. If she. I think you do the same. No, not first, what. It means that Mary has?

31:54 And I find that first, I kill them both. If you did that, and you wouldn't be able to return to me, why they would be wrong. For you and my feet? It or never to be. I guess it has. It has to be never. No what went? She was gone. I took some steps after her, but she was swallowed in the midst. Quickly, shakily, I stumbled back to where my body lay like a wax star on the train seat.

32:42 In sudden weakness, I reached for the armor of its protection, collapsing into it and coming awake with a roaring in my head, my mouth dry and burning. It was an endless day and exchange by the cloth well. My head was one solid dull ache. I couldn't wait to get to the train and go back into meditation. It was strange. I dropped quickly away into nothingness. But as soon as I reached that plane, I found myself leaving my body easily and quickly. I roamed endlessly, free of the shackles of my aching head and twitching nerves. There was no times.

33:24 It could have been a week, a day, and eternity. It was a shock to get home and find no Mary waiting for me. My choptor turned quickly into a nail biting fury that drove me straight to the bar. George, Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be late like this. Where did then? Out nowhere? Just driving? What train did you catch at four o'clock? Oh? I wasn't expecting you back till the four fifty at the earliest.

34:05 Ye, I'll bet. I don't like your tone, and I don't like your lies. What lies? H Do you think you're kidding? Just driving around? If you were who with myself. You'll expect me to believe that. Who do you think I was with a guy? God, my god, Where you're having an affair with you are impossible. I can't take it anymore. If you have to know where I was, I'll tell you. I was with Ruth Harris. Oh, Ruth Harris. She's a travel agent. I was talking with her about going away for a couple of weeks so I could get hold of myself, and maybe you could do the same. Your dinner's on the stove, you can heat it yourself.

34:46 I'll leave breakfast in the morning while you're. Going upstairs to get my stuff and move. It into the guest room. I have had all I can take. I had a lousy night, couldn't sleep. By morning, I was ready to break down the door of the guest room. Then I had a better idea. I clumped downstairs to a noisy breakfast, which I didn't eat, and left for the station by a car at my usual time. But I didn't go to the station. I parked at the nearest shopping mall and walked back to the house. I found a place in the shrubbery where I could watch the front door and settle down the way. It was nearly eleven o'clock that he came, getting out of his car and going up bowl of his breast during the front door bell. The man I'd surprised Mary with less than a week before, something Eagan.

35:44 Oh yeah, Philip, that was here. Oh Phil it's you. I've been frantic waiting. I came as soon as I could. Oh, you don't know how wonderful it is to see you or Mary. Take it easy. I can't anymore. This thing has got to be settled, phil, I can't live with it anymore. Look at me, dear. I'll simmer down. We'll find a way to settle it. Let's go inside, now, shall I've seen it. I'd seen the proof, but for a moment I couldn't believe it. I was being driven to murder, But coldly I decided I had no intention of paying the price for it.

36:29 I didn't have to, but just punishment. For that treachery to me could be meted out. While I was miles away from the scene and securely alibied, I turned and headed for the railroad station. You're taking a very dreemsy Ah, Yes, I had some business that attain that home. I have some that takes me from man, and may I enjoin you? Well, we are sure? Why not? Thank you so much? Are you meditating regularity? I sure I am. Has it brought you a redic season?

37:12 Yeah? In its own way? Oh? Would you excuse me? I usually meditate on the train. But of course I have steered my harbing paper to. Read for what I had in mind that couldn't suit me better. And I witness my presence on a train miles away from my house established as an unshakable alibi and an opportunity to prove the incontrovertibility whether or not my wife was cheating on me before I killed her and her lover. No effort. I stepped away from my body to become my astral self, you know, with an instant, I stepped through space and time to my house, climbing the stairs to our big room.

38:01 It was just as I suspected. Mary was already in bed. The man seated beside her, smoothing back her hair from her forehead is. A cold only just a minute. Please do all right? But I hope you're not going to change your mind. No, no, I won't back out now. I see that he's got to go. I didn't have to hear anymore. It was beyond revenge. It was my life for theirs. I turned to the table drawer on the opposite side of the bed, knowing they couldn't see me, I took out the revolval we kept there for household protection. And even knowing they couldn't.

38:46 Hear me, I had to say the words die, die, both of you. I have no life now, George, George, Darling, can you hear me? Well, well, oh, my darling, listen to me. It's Mary, Mary, Yes, dear. He can't be set dead. No, no, Darling, open your eyes and look.

39:27 I don't understand. I fired the shots, I sweep ut fall back. The blood, the blood. I don't think of all that. Now it's over. I think you'd better talk to the doctor. What doctor my name is, doctor Egan, Mister Solway. If you remember we have met once, I killed you in your mind. Perhaps, Fortunately the wish only remain the father to the deed. It never actually happened. I don't understand what did happen?

40:08 Where am are in a hospital? Darling? How did I get here? A nice little Indian gentleman with a name I couldn't even pronounce let alone. Remember we're sitting next to you on the train when you had your seizure. He brought you here. What you made seizure for? You went into convulsions, and if you hadn't gotten to the hospital in time, you would have been dead. I still don't understand, Phil. It wasn't just hypertension. That was a result, not a cause. What was the cause? That was the difficult thing to pin down. If the orangines had been psychiatric, I couldn't have promised you a cure.

40:52 But they weren't. Almost entirely somatic, somatic physical. The anorexia nervosa was the clue under eating From that. Here in the hospital they managed to pin it down to hypoglycemia lack of sugar. All the other symptoms devolved from that, fatigue, irritation, delusions and so on. And can he be cured, of course, once he'll cooperate. But he thought we were lovers. He thought he'd killed us only in the mind, and he had the total excuse that at the time he was not in his right mind. He was very ill. Don't hold it against him, Mary. I won't. If only I could be sure that he wants me back.

41:35 In his right mind, he will cherish your marry. If he didn't feel as deeply as he does about you, he wouldn't have been ready to risk everything to make sure that no. One else could have you. I do a lot of meditating these days, Oh not the rhapsonical cond I don't need any magic or mantras to daydream where I. Am with Mary. It's part of the course on the island of Maui, where the waves breaking the shore and form again to run backwards to the horizon. There's something to this traveling, after all, and taking a long break every so often, no matter what it costs.

42:22 Why didn't I find it out sooner? An object lesson for all of us. It is William Wordsworth who warned us a century and a half ago that the world is too much with us getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. George saw where was lucky. He had a fearful warning, of course, but it was enough to save the rest of his life. I'll be back shortly, Hi, This is Michael. The pace of life today is inexorable. We're all in danger of being driven faster than we have the physique physical as well as mental.

43:10 To ride the treadmill. What's the answer if one falters or fails, stop the world because we want to get off? That's scarcely practical. But how about just getting off, stop yourself and let the world go on until you're ready to catch up? Impossible, impractical. It's an individual choice. It's a matter of what values you place upon life and the living of it. Our cast included Ralph Bell, Caroll t Tell, William Griffith and Ian Martin. The entire production was under the direction of Hymon Brown. Until next Time, Pleasant Dreams.

44:28 I feel positively jubilant after that one. How about you, my dear? Oh what's that? Well? I suppose we'll just have to wait and see, won't wait. I keep thinking about the big day. I'm so excited to see just a little beyond this world I've built. Well, we've built, I suppose. Well. It's always nice to have something to look forward to, like a hot cup of tea or walking the streets as a well dressed corpse.

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47:29 And Ali she lost her dress and one of the boys gave his overcoat. Got your name? My name is Ruth Franklin. How old are you? Thirty three? Where do you live? Pickwick Arms on Riverside Drive. Do you drive a car? Yes, a blue convertible Mediterranean blue. Did you go to school in the city. Graduate school, Columbia University? I went to Stanford. I worked for the Rington Green Advertising Agency. My secretary's name is P. D. Wright. I'm the murderer you're looking. For, Okay, I guess you're Ruth Franklin.

48:11 All right, I guess I can't blame you for not recognizing me. Did you know that six weeks ago I was voted one of the ten best dressed women in America? Yeah, I've read something about it. I always knew that someday I would be, but when it actually happened, it was just as exciting as if it had been a total surprise. The invitation to the buffet luncheon to meet the press came on Friday. I ran right out and bought the most elegant and expensive dress I could find, and when I swept into the luncheon, everyone was looking at me, including the other nine well dressed women. Percy Hamilton of Radcliffe, a little bald headed man who moved and looked like a startled chipmunk, met me as I came in.

49:02 Oh, who, Miss Franklin. I'm so happy to see you right this way. Please, you're a little. Date, you know, Percy, Baby, You've confused me, perhaps with the debutante I work for a living. I'm going to put you here at table thirteen. Oh pardon me, mister Mason. I'm sorry, mister Mason. May I present Miss Franklin. How do you doing. How do you do that? You two are going to be luncheon partners? Well, I run along. You, of course, couldn't be anyone else but the best dressed Franklin. I'm not sure I like the way you said that, mister Mason. My tone was not meant to imply a personal indictment, as Franklin in facts accommodation.

49:45 You play your part very well on this racket. Racket, racket. Oh, I always draw the most charming luncheon partners. It was undoubtedly something in your childhood. They made you wear buster brown collars of velveteen. I wore dungarees. No, it's just that I have the best prima vasia evidence anyone ever had that this is a travesty on good taste in artistic judgment. Before I moved to another table, mister Mason, I'd be utterly amused to hear one sentence telling me why you feel this way. I'd be happy to oblige. You. See, I was picked as one of the best dressed. Men, mister Mason, for the first time. I'm beginning to savor the sweetness of your judgment. Well, that was the way it began a little careless banter while we sized each other up, and something in our measurements had meaning because, despite speeches and cold chicken, Ala King and news photographers interfering with most of our conversation, we later found ourselves at the Start Club, analyzing everything from Picasso to paper hanging.

50:56 Sometime in the evening, he said he had to catch a plane somewhere, but he'd get in touch with me soon. The next morning, when I walked into my office, Pete, my secretary, was wearing the smug smile of a girl who had caught her older sister with a boy on the back porch. Hammock seen it yet, boss? The gimbal ads, how were they? I can wait all right, seem what the picture of you and Roy Mason? Mason, I hardly spoke a word to the man. They told me to look at him as if he just found a cure for the common cold. Hardly a word of how'd you converse at the Star Club? Smoke signals with your cigarettes, pe d you're very close to being fired. Let me read what some of the columnists say.

51:40 The most handsome tusome in town last night were Ruth Franklin, the best dressed huckster and Roy Mason. Pety, what do you know about him? I'll save you the embarrassment of asking me to get a file on him. I've already done it. Here you are, boss. The Life and Loves of Roy Mason, assembled by Pete Wright, girl Old Boswell. All right, tell it. He was a work correspondent, distinguished. He's written two books on world politics, The Long Road of Destruction in the Coming Asiatic War. I've ordered both of them so you can talk his language. He has a weekly car I'm in a weekly radio program, Yale thirty eight, unmarried. Just call me quick, thank you, and goodbye. I'll just leave these things here so you can drool over them. Have fun, pd, Yes, boss man, you've had your fun. Now, hands off. I'm going to marry him.

52:40 I read those clippings through from beginning to end, and when I went home that night, I took both of Roy Mason's books with me, and the following night he called me. And then it was practically every evening and cocktails and weekends and meals and fireplaces and books and talk and talk. I knew, and I let the papers know that Ruth Franklin finally found a man. Who came up to her epic requirements. I had him hooked. Now it was time to real him in. Roy, I have some news I know you'll be interested in. You're going to run for president? Oh no, nothing as small as that. I'm going to get married.

53:22 Are you going to get what. Married? Uh? Come a man named Roy Mason? I just decided, Ruth. I'm sorry, I can't. I'm already engaged. Who is it? Roy? A Long Island socialid Elizabeth Granger? You know him? No, and I don't believe i'd want to. Oh, Ruth, did you think we were going to be married? Of course I did, and so did every newspaper and columnist in town. I never pay any attention to the gossip columnists. A lot of people do. Oh. Now, don't make it like this. You must have known I had a light before I met you.

54:02 I should have known a lot more, I guess than I do. Ruth. Don't lose your head over this. What do you expect me to do? Break down and beg you to change your mind and marry me. I'm sorry, Roy, I'll go home and read an old coward play and get over it. So that's the way it was. I'd saved myself for the one man who had what I had brains and guts and talent. And I suddenly found out I'd saved myself for what I couldn't have. I went home through his books in the fireplace and sat down to have a long look at me, and all I found was a big, ugly hurt. Then it was light and time to go to the office. Pete, what are you doing at my desk? Oh?

54:54 Boss? I really didn't think you'd be in today, considering everything. Why shouldn't I be in? One of the best dressed women in America doesn't find out that her boyfriend is a wolf in best dressed clothes every day. That's enough, Pete, to get out of here and get to work, all right, Boss, But it's happened to all of us one time or another. You should have practiced when you were young. Then you'd know more about what happened to you. Listen, you brainless little typist. Get out of here, Go on, get out. Okay, I'm going, But I know a good psychiatrist. He has a couch just made for people like you. You know I could quit too. The whole office knew about it. It pleased their tight little minds that I'd been caught off guard. Most everyone, including our three vice presidents, found some sort of excuse to come in and see the woman who'd been taken in love. They were disappointed when they didn't find me planning a sudden trip to London or enrolling in Helena Rubinstein's charm school. But the lower echelon was even worse, especially the stenographers. They handed me those grief sharing eyes usually reserved for sixteen year old girls who've been jilted by the high school full back.

56:13 But by five o'clock I swallowed two aspirin and my pride and called Roy, you. Had three cigarettes and two martinis? Any conversation coming up? What is it? Gross newsprint? For one thing, those nasty little black tracks on those clean sheets of white paper. They came right out and said you jilted me, the same way they came out and said we were a torrid twosome. Oh yeah, it's my fault. How fun tomorrow? Un tell them how wrong they've been. You will not. Did it only make me look a bigger fool. Besides they aren't the only ones. Oh, for heaven's sake. To ROI, I asked that strange looking little man to fill my glass at tempty. Sure, waiter, I haven't seen one person today who isn't in high glee over the whole thing.

57:02 And incidentally, you look a little too smug to suit my taste. Right now, if we don't, don't do this to yourself. You're too good a guy. It's easy for you to say, I wish I were in your position and you were in mine. Oh, don't you look at me that way. I'm I'm truly sorry. It's embursed. You're distressed now, but it'll pass. Can you marry someone like her? You'll be bored to death in six weeks. Let's not talk about it. What she ever done to deserve you? Gone to a few parties, made a trip to Europe every year, learned how to play six hand canasta? Or maybe it's her figure, y ruth. If it's her figure, remember somebody pounds it back into shape every morning after those big nights. And if it weren't for several dozen foundation guards.

57:42 Let's stop at roths. You made a fool out of me for some grown up child who probably never did anything for herself. Servants paid to live for. Please, you're raising your voice people are looking. Let them look. A scene in a cocktail lounge makes good reading. And we always make the papers. Don't voice? Will you keep your voice? Why don't you go back to Asia someplace and write another book? I hope I never see you again. Ruth. Roy looked foolish shouting after me. I looked even more foolish, trying to make a dignified exit through the tears. Oh, leave it to me. I did a good job. I went off stage like a second lead in a little theater production. The next day, I didn't go to the office.

58:33 I felt weak and weary and sick all over, and I didn't answer the phone until three in the afternoon. Hello me, Oh, trying to get you all day? What for to tell you that we're friends? You and I. I ain't like the levil to think that you really meant it when you said you never wanted to see me again. I sent you a letter last night. I got to tell you what I said in person. Now, look, I'll let me go on you. A man rarely meets a woman like you. I was lucky, real lucky, Ruth. You can send me away all together if you want to, But I'd miss you for the rest of my life, and that's the truth.

59:15 But you're going to marry her, Ruth. I want to talk with you, calmly, decently, honestly. I want you for a friend. Mixing a couple of drinks in my apartment around five tonight, I hope you'll be there. All of a sudden, I saw a way out of everything, and I spent the next two hours getting ready for roy. I remember I was wearing a new black crape sheet by there, and my pastel mink. It was a cold night, but the air made me feel good, better than I've ever felt. I was politely late.

1:00:04 You came. Let me take your coat. Huh, it's a little chili. I think I'll keep it on Martini Manhattan Music. I think now a Martini. Already had them fixed. I knew you wouldn't pass up a Mason special. You were rather certain in your pretty speech on the phone, weren't you. I met it, and I am glad you're here, Ruth, all of that highly lacquered veneer. You're sure your public is all right for them, but it's for me. I'll take you away. I know you. Oh tell me more. Underneath forty thousand dollars a year and being the best dressed. You're quite a galon one.

1:00:44 Luck told me that this amounts to a hats off conversation. Ruth. We're ready to talk to you and I let's do it. Huh. For the first time since we met. I know all about you, I know what makes you work, and I don't like. That one bit. Roy. I don't like being ripped open for the. Public to watch it and understand. Touch me, Ruth. Yes, it's a gun, right. If I haven't sake, will stop this. He got a little wrong. Put down that gun, Get a doctor him, We'll say it was an accident. Stay away from me. No, No, it wasn't supposed to be this weight off, Ruth, I wrote you.

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1:03:46 It hadn't occurred to me exactly what I was going to do after I had killed Roy Mason. I remember, though, I finished my Martini, wiped up the spill drink, and then just sat and looked at Roy lying there on the floor. Hello. And then I was aware of someone pounding. Hello there, What happened? Hello? Answer me? Somebody? Hello? Hello? Is everything all right in there? Oh? Hello, missa. I live in the apartment next door. I heard gunshots in here? You did what? I'll be there? Oh?

1:04:27 Oh, well, I've been phone the police. Is there a phone on the desk? But hello, I'll have an operator. I give me the police. Yes, I said the. Police right away. There's gonna shoot. No one lifted a hand to stop me. Downstairs, I got a taxi back to my own apartment, changed threw some things into a bag, gathered up my jewelry and what money I had. I took my car out of the garage and drove to the station and caught a train as far as Greenwich. There I registered under another name at a small hotel. I was going to go on up to Canada the next day, but there was something I just had to see before I left the country, So instead I caught a train back to New York. Sergeant, Colinside, Sergeant, I wonder if you could give me some information.

1:05:35 I'll try. I'm from the Kansas City Star. I happened to be on vacation in New York. But as long as I'm here, I'm trying to cover the Mason case. Yeah. Well, has mister Mason been buried yet? Or do you? Edge Flower Mortuary Rosary tonight, very old tomorrow. Thank you, sergeant. I was at the edge Flower or early waiting across the street. It was cold and blustery, but I wanted to see her walk in. I wanted to see how well she could take it. But Elizabeth Granger didn't appear at his rosary. The next morning, I wore dark glasses and a veil. I went to his funeral, but she didn't. Hello, Pet, I've been waiting for.

1:06:34 You, boss. Don't you know the police are looking all over town for you. Pet. Who is Elizabeth Granger? Where does she live? Oh? That she isn't in the phone book. She wasn't at his funeral. There are no pictures of her in the papers. You know these things. Tell me, please, I can't help you. Nobody can help you. Now. You're a walking dead woman. Pete, listen to me. I don't want to listen to you. I'm afraid to I'm afraid I'll end up. Like you someday, well fed, well dressed, successful, well known, but dead. I came here for help, not to listen to your repeat. Everything you ever said in your life was a lie. I did your legwork, looked up things for you, verified them, checked them well. I checked about you, just to satisfy my curiosity. You didn't go to Stanford or graduate school at Columbia. You were born and brought up in Hell's kitchen.

1:07:26 You went as far as PS four thirty two. You hated everything you had and were, and you tried to wipe it out. Peter, you must know tell me about Elizabeth Granger. I'll tell you this much. You're not gonna have the pleasure of watching her suffer along with you. You know why, because Roy Mason wrote you a letter that came this morning. I read it because I never thought i'd see you again. Do you want to know what's in it? Yes? Please? It makes you look ten times as foolish as you do even now. He said that there was no such person as Elizabeth Granger. You're lying. He just invented her, just invented her to get away from you. You're lying.

1:08:11 There has to be an Elizabeth Granger. Here's a letter, look for yourself. It was true, every word of it. There was no Elizabeth Granger. Roy just didn't want me and had to find some excuse. I walked to the door, wondering what to do, where to go? One more thing, Boss, ten seconds after you're out that door, I'm going to call the police here. I didn't answer or look back. I just ran out of the apartment house and found a cab and had him drive me around and around, through streets and down streets and across streets. I scarcely even saw a policeman or people. Finally, I left the cab and began walking around, trying to understand myself and why I'd killed Roy, and everything that came out of my mind revolted me. I wanted to drink a dozen drinks, a hundred drinks.

1:09:21 You sure you're in the right place, lady, Just give. Me a double Bourbon Scotch. Triple. I don't care. Well, you're old enough. Hurry it up. Here's my money. Hey, Eddie, get a load of the doll. Haven't got any dame dressed like that from in the place like this? Slumming? What are you stupid? As something? I like to content where life is rough, where men and men I've seen lots of in my day looking for thrills. Yeah, yeah, what do you think she came in here for? I thought it was the White House and something talk talk talk, talk talk. So you had a handle a. Doll like that. By your drink, ma'am?

1:10:02 Hmmm, no, get away from me. Oh no, you don't really mean ned, Tony. The drink's on me. Why don't we have it in the booth over here? We can talk? Get away from me? Who do you think you are? All right? Eddie? No? So what does she think she is? Anyway? She's got no right in here unless she wants to be sociable. She's a bombing you know it, Tony, Eddie, can't you see this as a lady and I go for a walk? Lady? Since when do we have ladies in here? Give me the drink bartender? Hey, wait a minute, but she was in the paper this morning. She kills somebud. I ran out of there. It was only a matter of seconds until they called the police.

1:10:46 So I just ran. I saw a police car and I ran the other way. Two blocks away. There was another police car at the intersection. I found an alley and ran down and fell over sharbage can into the dirty, foul snow. I couldn't get up, and I cried cold tears. Come on, dearie, come on, what are you doing? You'll need this cult where you So that's all right, dearie, that's all right. Come on the dress now, Ruby, help me get it off your b. I can hear that sense of dressed like that, and you can't wear it in jail. I'll tear it off your flat.

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1:13:57 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis. Music composed by Lucian more Awake and conducted by lud Bluskin. The Well Dressed Corpse was written for suspense by E. Jack Newman and John Michael Hayes. Steve Varden appeared through the curtesy of the Colgate Palmelli Fleet Company, sponsors of our Miss Brooks. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. Oh, please have a little more. It is so chilly as we go deeper into the night. I'd hate for you to catch cold. Or what's that?

1:14:42 What's that? Well, well perhaps perhaps, yes, we'll see, we'll see. I stand by that, we'll see see. But for now, just. Enjoy the moment. Just enjoy the dark, the fire burning by our feet, the warmth fighting the cold to chill. A battle I don't know will ever end, almost like a song that never ends, a song of hope and dread, almost murder. In jazz time, Mutual presents the mysterious Traveler.

1:15:53 This is the mysterious traveler, inviting you to join me on another journey into the realm of the strange and the terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip, and it will frie you a little and chill you a little. So settle back, get a good rip on your nerves, and be comfortable if you can, as you hear the story I call murder in Jazz Time. Tonight, we're going to delve into the strange and confusing events in the life of Alexander Drake. But what person can tell you these events better than alex Drake himself. As our story begins, Drake is seated at the small table, staring at several blank sheets of writing paper. Slowly, he picks up a pen, hesitates, and starts to write.

1:16:54 I scarcely know at what point to begin telling of the things that have happened to me these past months. I suppose I should begin with Vicky. Vicky, whom I have loved ever since we were children. If my love was never returned by her, I was contented to wait, ever, hopeful that someday she would reciprocate my feelings. We saw a great deal of each other after she graduated college, and I watched with interest as she embarked upon a singing career. Success came to Vicky quickly and smoothly, as all things did. She sang with several named bands and then became a star attraction.

1:17:37 At the swankier nightclubs. Several years passed, and then one night, as I had always dreamed of it happening, Vicky agreed to marry me. That was the happiest moment of my life. A week later we were married and driving to New Orleans on our honeymoon. Happy darling. Oh yes, Alex, Yes, no. Regrets about giving up your career, none at all. Oh, it's good of you to say that, Vickie. I'll try to make it up to you. No, really, Alex, giving up my career is in any sacrifice. For a long time now, I've known that I wasn't very good, not. Very good while you were getting one thousand dollars a week at the Casa Blanca.

1:18:18 And look at the way your recordings are selling. Oh, let's face it, Alex. I have a nice voice, I'm fairly attractive, and thanks to find publicity, I've come a long way. But I'm not really a very good singer. Oh nonsense. I think you're a wonderful singer. That's because you're in love with me, Darling, but I know better. Take for example, that recording of Easy Living that I made. That was one of the best things you ever did. Yes, Alex, it was. But have you ever heard the recording that Billie Holiday made of that number? No, I don't think I have. Well, if you had heard it, you'd know the difference between good singing and really great singing. You mean, she was so much better, Yes, Alex.

1:18:59 And if I can't be a top blue singer, then I won't. Sing it all. Oh, Vicky, you're young yet it takes time. No, Alex, you either have it or you don't. I see. Is that why you decided to give up your career marry me? Yes, Darling, I'm glad you told me. Oh look, Vicky, that sign only thirty seven miles to New Orleans. Oh wonderful. At last, I'm going to see New Orleans. You don't know how long I've waited for this. Why all this enthusiasm for New Orleans? Why, Alex? New Orleans is the birthplace of jazz. Think of all the great musicians and singers who come from there and the wonderful jazz they created. People like Willie Johnson, Bertha Hill and Jack Simmons, and just think Jeff Becker is still in New Orleans and we can hear him play.

1:19:49 He's the fellow that owns the famous waterfront cafe, isn't he. Oh, Alex, Jeff Becker isn't famous because he owns a cafe. Why he's one of the great names of jazz. Many critics think he's the finest jazz pianist who ever live. Forgive my ignorance, Darling, I'm afraid I'm just the long hair at heart. Tell me if this fellow Jeff Becker is as great as you say, how come I haven't heard more about him? Because he's always refused to leave New Orleans. He's had some fabulous office to play in New York, but he's turned them all down. That's why he isn't widely known. But real lovers of jazz come from all over the country to hear Jeff Becker play at his cafe. Well, and I guess there isn't any question as to where we're going tonight, Jeff Becker's it is. An hour later, we were in New Orleans and registered at a hotel.

1:20:44 Early that evening. Vicky and I had suppered Antwin's and then we left for Jeff Becker's cafe. As we drove, Vicky was unable to hide the excitement she felt. Jeff Becker's cafe turned out to be a long, rambling, shabby building with a balcony that ran the length of it and hung over the river. The inside of the cafe was as unpretentious as the outside. There were forty ancient tables or so, a small bandstand, and an equally small dance floor. A mahogany bar ran the length of one wall, with a long mirror behind it, reflecting the shabbiness of the cafe. As we were seated, a few musicians began to drift in and take their places on the bandstand. Vicky whispered excitedly to me the names of the musicians, whom she seemed to know without ever having seen before.

1:21:32 And suddenly Vicky clutched. At my arm, Alex, Look, there's Jeff Becker. Where there he is, walking towards the piano that little Sandy heard man. Yes, that's Jeff Becker. I stared at him and felt somewhat disappointed. For no good reason whatsoever, My imagination had led me to see Jeff Becker as an impressive looking individual, whereas in reality he was a slight man, being no more than five feet five with a plain, undistinguished looking face. He looked a good deal younger than the fifty he was reputed to be. There were two very attractive looking women with him, both of whom followed his every move. As he sat down at his piano, the talk and the laughter in the cafe died out, and Jeff Becker and his men began to play. As Jeff Becker played, the disappointment I had felt about him passed with me As he sat there at the piano, playing smoothly, effortlessly. He was no longer a small, slight man with a plain face. There was a warmth and greatness about him, and even I, who was no lover of jazz, could sense the genius of Jeff Becker.

1:23:27 Oh, Alex, isn't he wonderful? Yes? Thinker, he is, he really is, Alex. Look he's coming this way, Yes. He seems to be coming to our table. Good evening, Miss Saunders. Welcome to New Orleans. Why, thank you, mister Becker, Thank you very much. Just call me Jeff. Only tourists call me mister. All right, Jeff. Oh, This is my husband, Alex Drake. Read to meet you. How do you do won't you join us? Sorry? No, I only have a minute. The boys and me got some playing to do. I've heard brown Bee Boogie played before, but never as wonderfully as you do it. Thanks very much, Vickie. How did you know who I was? I've seen pictures.

1:24:08 Have you ever heard my wife sing? Jeff? Yes, and I have. Well, I got to be getting back to work. It's been nice meeting you folks. See you around, Yes, of course. Huh. An abrupt sort of fellow, isn't it. He was being tactful, darling, not abrupt. He was afraid you might ask him what he thought of my singing. Well, what's wrong with my asking him that? Oh? Nothing, I mean it would have made Jeff Becker unhappy to have told you the truth about my singing. Well, anyway, I still think you're great. Thank you, darling. Oh look they're going to play now.

1:24:56 We sat listening to the magic of Jeff Becker's music for our When I suggested to Vicky that we leave, she refused, insisting that we remain until closing time, which was four in the morning. The next evening found us once again at Jeff's cafe, and again we remained until closing. Try as I might, I couldn't get Vicky interested in the sights of New Orleans and a fascinating swamp country nearby. Night after night, despite my protests, we would end up at Jeff's cafe. Life to Vicky came to revolve around these nightly visits, and all else seemed unreal to her. Soon even I lost track of time.

1:25:37 Weeks passed, and then one night, at closing time, Jeff Becker came over to our table for the first. Time since the night we'd met. How do you folks? Glad to see you still with it? Hello, Jeff? Well, how do you folks like New Orleans having a good time? Frankly, we've seen very little of New Orleans outside of this cafe. Well just between earths, ain't very much more to see, I agree. Oh dear, it's closing time already. No sooner do we get here than it's time to go home. Well, if you'd like to hear more music, why not stay on? The boys and me always have a small session after closing hour. Well, thanks very much, Jeff, but I'm afraid. That we really oh we'd love to stay on. Jeff. It's wonderful of you to ask us, glad to have you see you're around, Vicky.

1:26:21 Enough is enough. We've been here since nine o'clock, Alex. You don't understand it's an honor to have Jeff ask you to stay on. Few people get that invitation. Well, I'm duly appreciative, believe me. But seven hours is enough of this place for one night. Now, come along, Vicky, Let's go back to the hotel. No, I want to stay for this session, Ricky. I think I've been more than reasonable, coming here night after night for weeks. Now it's about time I got my way. I insist we leave. I won't go. I tell you I'm staying here. If you want to go back to the hotel, don't let me keep you. As Vicky screamed at me, for a brief, flashing moment, I almost imagined I'd seen hate in her eyes. The shock of that moment was like a revelation. Suddenly I realized that Vicky had changed, that I was losing her.

1:27:10 Her face as she listened to the music was like the faces of the musicians and Jeff Becker's himself. Their emotion laid there my turns ecstatic, impassioned and resisting. I was an outsider looking in on a way of life of which I could never be part. The lateness of the hour, the smoke filled room, and my confused thoughts were too much for me, and I fell asleep with my head on the table. I have no idea how long I slept, but when I awoke it was daylight.

1:27:54 I became aware of a woman singing. I looked up. I saw it was Vicky. Vicky standing on the piano, singing to Jeff Becker, the jazz. Jezz. Well, Jeff, I don't know, Vicky, what's wrong? Hard to say, oh, Vicky. Jazz was born in these parts. They came from the people people worked on the levees, the riverside, whalers and in the fields. It was part of the bone and flesh of old timers like Willie Johnson and Joe Fletcher. They played jazz the way it was in their hearts, singing like Chippy Hill just stepped up, flapped our anne's.

1:28:56 And gave out with the blues. That's what I did. Great. They played and sang as they felt pissy. Second rate musicians picked up something that was fine and clean, and took it to the big cities in the north that they weren't playing for the sake of music, they were playing for greenbacks. And is that what's wrong with my singing? Praid? So I reckon you had too many teachers, Vicky, and they all torture to sing by the book or maybe popular. But it ain't good. Do you think it's too late to go back? Hard to say, Vicky? Do you want to start all?

1:29:37 Oh? Yes, Jeff, yes? Would you let me stay on here and sing with your band? Alex, you're not singing with the band. Were leading New Orleans. At once, Alex be reasonab but you know you, Spicky, we're leading. New Orleans today and that's final. I'll get your suitcases from the closet key so that you can start packing. I tell you, Alex, I'm not leaving New Orleans. Not only am I staying, but I'm going to sing with Jeff Becker's band. Vicky, are you blind? Can't you see what's happening? You're losing all sense of perception of values. Life to you has come to mean only Jeff Becker's cafe.

1:30:20 I don't care. That's where I belong where I really feel alive. If you love jazz felt about the way I do, you'd understand. I do understand. But there are other things besides Jeff Becker and his musing. There aren't. Now here's a suitcase, start packer. It's no use, Alex, I'm not leaving. You will have to choose between Jeff Becker and myself. Vicky. Well, I'm sorry it's come to this, Alex, but I'm still going to sing with Jeff Becker's band. It was at that moment I knew that I had lost Vicky has she turned away from me. An overwhelming hatred for Jeff Becker surged up within me. Had he been in the room at that moment, I would have killed him without any hesitation.

1:31:06 I left the hotel, walked the streets of New Orleans. I knew that Vicky would never be mine as long as Jeff Becker were alive, and I also knew that I couldn't go on without Vicky. There was only one answer. I returned to the hotel, told Vicky I would remain in New Orleans with it. Night after night, we continued going to that waterfront cafe, and each night after the place had closed, Vicky would sing with the band. As I listened to Vicky sing, even I, who knew very little of music, for sense that her singing was superb.

1:31:56 The musicians in the band. Looked approvingly and accepted her as one of themselves under Jeff Becker's almost hypnotic guidance, and she sang with war. Really, as much as I hated Jeff Becker, I couldn't help but admire his genius for bringing out talent. The music ended, and Jeff rose from piano and padded Vicky on the shoulder encouragingly. He left the band stand and started walking through the cafe towards his office in the back. This was the moment I had long waited for. I quickly eased out of my chair, which was in the darkened part of the cafe, and slipped out into the balcony. I then ran quietly along the balcony until I reached the French door that opened into Jeff Becker's office.

1:32:43 I got there just as Jeff sat down at his desk. He was alone. I opened the door and stepped into his office. Oh hello, Alex, what can I do for you? I've come for my wife. My wife isn't in here. Vicky is wherever you are, and I can't have that. Jeff. She's got to be mine. She is yours. You know that. No, no, she belongs to you now, she said, as much as long as you're alive, Vicky will never be mine. I know that You're wrong, Alex, believe me. It's mule. She's got to be mine, She's got to. Be I felt Jeff's body go limp in my hands, and I knew he was dead. I quickly picked up his slight body in my arms and carried it out to the balcony.

1:33:40 There was no one in sight. I leaned over the balcony rail and dropped Jeff's body. It fell into the river with a small splash. And was gone. I quietly walked to the other end of the balcony and slipped into my seat in the dark and cafe. The musicians and Vicky were still on the band stand talking, and I knew they hadn't missed me during the few minutes I had been gone. The ordeal was over. A week past, and Jeff Becker's disappearance was the talk of New Orleans. The police questioned everyone, but were unable to solve the mystery. Vicky was inconsolable and locked herself in her room at the hotel, refusing to see anyone. Salix, Darling, please let me in, Darling. You can't stay in your room like this day after day.

1:34:40 You know it isn't good for you. Vicky. Let's leave New Orleans, go to New York. Now, I'm gonna wait until Jeff comes back. Vicky, Jeff isn't coming back. What what do you mean? A body was found floating in the gulf this morning. The police think it's Jeff's body. Oh no, after a week in the water, naturally, it was hard to identify it. Dead. Yes, Darling, it's in all the papers. Oh allie, you mustn't cry, Darling. Here, let me wipe your tears.

1:35:25 Don't you think it would be better if we left New Orleans? All right, Alex, anything you say. A few days later, we were back in New York. There was snow on the ground and the air was invigorating. What had happened in New Orleans seemed like a dream, a bad dream. At first, Vicky was melancholy, but as days passed she grew better, and I felt confident that in time she'd. Be her old self. We saw the shows in town and dined at the finest restaurants, and then one night I took her to Carnegie Hall to hear the Philharmonic Orchestra.

1:36:07 Here, Darling, here's a program. Thank you. Oh, I see they're going to play the rock maninav first piano Concerto with Andre de Vana soloist. You've always liked that concetto, haven't you. Yes, Alex? Look well, just come up on street young, isn't it Yes? He is happy, Alex. They're going to play now.

1:36:57 As I sat there in that great concert hall listen into the orchestra, I became aware of this cordon playing. I looked at Vicky at other concert doors, but none seemed aware of it. But this cordancy grew, and then suddenly I. Realized it wasn't the music of Black Monatof I was hearing. It was the music of Jeff Ficker being played faster and faster, louder and louder. I walked the post to scream out. As I put my hands to my ears, I became aware of my arm being shaken. It was being corrected. Gave the music. Listen to it. Let's be quiet everyone is looking at it. I can't stand at anymore. That's gonna right. Please be quiet.

1:37:37 Everybody's looking. Hurry, hurry. Oh it's gone. Thank goodness. I can't hear anymore. What's gone? The music? You aren't making any sense. We came to the concert to hear music. What's wrong with you? Wrong? Nothing? Nothing at all. I just suddenly felt ill in there and had to get out. Perhaps we'd better see a doctor. He looks so pale. No, no, I'm all right now, are you sure? Yes, yes, Let's go home. Now, Vick. All the way home, I kept thinking of the amazing hallucination I'd had. Obviously it was the result of a mental strain I had undergone in New Orleans, but with sufficient rest and relaxation, I would soon forget the horrible events that had occurred there. Arriving home, I went to bed, but found it difficult to fall asleep. Hours later, I drifted off into an uneasy sleep, and then I started dreaming.

1:38:42 I dreamt that I was in Jeff Becker's cafe. I'm the only people there with Jeff and myself. He was seated at the piano, playing smiling at me. I walked over to the bandstand, and he spoke. To me, Hello, Alex, how do you like this number? Pretty good? Red dead Man? Eh, you can't play if you're dead. Yes I can, Alex. You hear my music, don't you? Yes? I am always gonna hear it, Alex. Always. My music will never die. Even if you did kill me, It'll go on and stop. Way, Alex, Alex, what is it you were having a nightmare?

1:39:31 You screened and wrote me up? I remember now? What are you dreaming about? New Orleans? Yes, go back to sleep, not the game. I'm all right, I'm all right, I said to her. But I wasn't. That was the beginning of a series of nightmares and hallucinations in which I heard Jeff Becker playing that I cursed music of his. When an attack came, I would flee from room to room, my fingers against my ears, but there was no escape. I could hear the rhythmic pounding of Jeff Becker's music in my head join a lot of relentlessly hammering away. I knew that it would only be a question of time of bory.

1:40:12 Don't be mad. I fucked for my sanity. Good morning, mister Drake. Are you feeling today? Oh, I see you've done quite a bit of writing. Good. I'm glad you followed my suggestion. It's all written down, doctor, everything that happened to me. It's fine, mister Drake. I'm sure it'll be of great help to both of us. You were feeling the mood for a visitor. Visitor? Yes, your wife, Yes, I'd like to see the keys. She's just outside. I'll have a come in. Will you come in to today? Hello, Alic, how are you done? Vicky?

1:40:52 It's good to see you again and have you near me? Oh, Alex. Doctor Mitch just says that you're much better. Yes, yes, I'm much better. Doctor. Will you tell him? Yes? Tell me what? Won't you sit down? Mister Drake. That's it. Now. What I'm going to tell you will. Come as a shock, but I'm hopeful, little Ridge of the hallucinations you suffer from. Yes, doctor, mister Drake, you did not murder Jeff Becker. But I did. I did. I choked him until he was dead, and then I threw him into the river. Now, mister Drake, Jeff Becker was not dead when you threw him into the river. He was only unconscious, and the water revived him.

1:41:41 His body made a splash, a small splash. Jeff Becker is alive. He was picked up by a fishing trawler going to see. Do you understand, mister drake, Jeff Becker is alive. You come in please. I didn't want to do it, but he made me hello. I like, oh, no, you're dead. You're dead? Ye? What? Your music? It goes on and on. I can't get away from your music. It follows me everywhere.

1:42:22 Can't you fail again? Overwhelming? It's getting a lot of I can't estate from him. This is the mysterious traveler again. Too bad about poor Alex, wasn't it. It just goes to prove you may be able to escape the law, but there's always your conscience to reckon with.

1:43:10 What happened to Alex? Oh? He finally responded to medical treatment, and today and VICKI are a very happy couper. However, there are still two things Alex can't stand, jazz and the sight of rivers. He's strictly a long hair these days. I recall another young man once who decided that two murders are better than one, and so, oh, you have to get off here. I'm sorry, but I'm sure we'll meet again. I take this same train every week at the same time.

1:43:58 You've just heard The Mysterious Trouble, a series of dramas of the strange and terrifying. All characters in tonight's story were fictitious, and any resemblance to the names of actual persons was purely coincidental. In tonight's cast were Maurice Toplin, Frank Barns, John Alexander, and John Gibson. All recordings heard in this program were played by Miss Hazel Scott and may be found in her latest album Dat Scott. Organ music was played by Paul Taubman, sound by George Cooney, broadcast engineer Al King. The Mysterious Traveler is written, produced, and directed by Robert J. Arthur and David Cogan.

1:44:39 Well, my dear, I suppose things are getting a bit exciting, eh, Well, your visit is generally the most excitement I get, aside from during the witching season. As you know, things get more exciting for me. My world gets a little bigger, The world in general gets a little bigger, a little darker. And as I think about all the things I could do, all the places I could be, all the hope I could hold on to. I feel comfortable and safe being the thing from the darkness.

1:45:41 Guy, and just be eating on the darkness. Yeah. H h. H what's that? Oh? Telephone close? The first chance of d gets sleep in this country in the dead. Blame telephone that's awakened. I should let it ring till doomsday. Yes, yes, this is San Canyan Airport. Oh, it's a Don Thurman speaking. Yeah, there's a plane.

1:46:42 Here where. Mantella. I don't care much for that trip across the desert, but you need the plane or willing to pay me for flying into yet it will make it six hundred. It's a deal. Oh right, I'll make the arrangements. Yeah, you can expect me in about about seven hours if everything goes all right. Yeah fine, I have that six hundred waiting for me. I'll need it at Mantella. Mm hmm.

1:47:30 And let's see north and northeast thirteen degrees and then tell lies in that direction. I'm gonna buck ahead wind most of the way. I'm afraid and mountains worry me dangerous. Let's see now this way is Sania. No, not that way for me? If I ever ended up in Santia, right, wouldn't want to bet anything on my chances of getting to that place coming out to tell about it. M hm m hm hm. I can't stay up here much longer. That sandstorm over the desert's getting worse every minute. I can't see a thing down there like his peace soup. Oh confounded, There goes the motor choked up with sand. Yeah, here goes.

1:48:35 I can't see where I'm heading, but maybe I can bring her in on her belly war drums, trouble. I have been pounding in my ears for hours. Oh, my eyes blinded. But that awful sand storm. I can't see whether it's a dead or night. Oh I know. Is that someone found me out there on that desert and brought me here? Is that someone? Someone there?

1:49:16 I have come to take you through the King will be placed in the den of the leopards. Leopards. It is our custom here to feed uninvited guests as a sacrifice to the leopards of the pit. What is this? It nears the time of the full moon. When the moon is full, it's rays affect our leopards, maddens and makes them vicious me uncontrol. Only the flesh of man will quiet, and only the king can perform the ceremony for sacrifice. King what King dingels Sentia? Am I it's SENTI you are.

1:50:02 Yes, you have come. A white man is forbidden. But my plane was forced down on the desert. I was purposely avoiding Santia. I was trying to reach Mantella. You wort five hundred miles from Mantella. But I can't be I was only in that storm for a few hours. M has been raging for three days. Three days. Why I've been only two hours on the desert. The storm came up only a few hours ago. The entire desert has been covered with a storm for three days. I don't understand. You were discovered only because the Hona has once again displayed her temper towards her father, daughter of King Janasi.

1:50:45 It's been arranged that Theanna was to wed within the changing of the moon. Theanna has reveled, and you attempted to flee Santia through the desert storm. She was followed. She were discovered there with you. Then she found me. Yes, the two of you will return here the tear to the village. Oh, it will come with me. I can't see a thing. Is the justice of Santia. What do you mean you have to guide me and take my arm? No?

1:51:25 All right, let's go this way? How far right? Anama Hush said, what's the matter? Canamahs tam a Hossey? What fundre you talking about? There in a sand Canama Hussey? Pig? What I told you? I can't see me? What Canama hassee? Pig? Leppard foot follow my man leopard. Yes, they're in the sand. Leopard tracks followed by man tracks. Come, Hiraate, waits a minute. We must hurry. Evil spirits that loose against my old Hannema Hassei big lewards, come we hurried. I have brought you the prisoner, wise one prisoner. Look here?

1:52:10 What is this? You have come? Mister Thurman? Where you are not? I tried to tell you flunky here that I didn't come to sands here purposely. I was headed for Mantella. Not a very wise man, mister Gorman, to make such an non wise statement. And Telly is half a thousand miles from you. No, I got off my course. I ran into a sandstorm. My plane was forced down a lack. But it's true I was blinded by the sand. I'm still blind. If you have a doctor, I'm. Blind. I am I need medical attention right away. It is the justice of what are you talking about?

1:52:51 Should a white man look up on the countenance of Princess Yana's I shall be blind. I don't know what you're talking about, Nazi. I've never seen your We've found you with her on the descercald I was unconscious when you found me, but she was with you. Then she found the same spot where I took refuge. We are not fool share, mister darmand fools. I don't understand. It is so ridiculously evidence. What's so evident? I have met complete arrangements for my daughter the web. She has refused to marry as I wish her to. Last night she fled from Santia, and when we found her, she was with you. What you think isn't true. You had the rendezvous there with her.

1:53:31 No how many times should have met, I do not know. But each meeting has been in complete defiance of the laws of Santia. No white man may look upon. The count and ends of the pre night deny it. I don't know your print. The evidence speaks for itself. Blind on the sandstone, because the gods are venge I tell you the Scian blinded me. It's only temporary. It was written ages ago. Whatever white man looks upon the countenance of Santia princess will be doomed forever doing time out. It's not eternal. It's sand blindness. It happens to lots of men who get caught in sandstones. All I need is a.

1:54:16 Dark can cure the blindness and down. But the God give me a chance. I may be blind permanently if you don't let a doctor look in my eyes. Change gassi. Oh, doctor approaches. My daughter and my father? My father, have you heard what he was in the campan game last night? Let could put prince on near your heart? Followed by many Marcy's spirit again in the full of the moon. I saw them too many tracks big we most tell the wise ones. They would work a charm to protect us.

1:54:59 Must oh look chilence, my daughter, Yeah, yeah. He's a white man. Look you at his face and tell me where have you seen him before? My child? Right, I do not know him. I've never seen him before. But my king I saw them together. Most wise, my daughter what most wise? To deny your foreign enough? But I'm not her lover. I've never seen her. I can't even see her now. The American is blind enough because he has broken the law, because he has looked upon the face of the Princess of Santia.

1:55:47 The gods have blinded him. It's not true. I've never seen her face. Ask her, she'll tell you it's not true. He go back to the prison mate. Wait there toil the body of wise ones in George. One of his drive. H m h m hmmm. Mm hmm. The knife. He's a nine huey on. Mm hm. H m hm.

1:56:29 H h h h h h. H those drums. He's still pounding. My eyes burning in my head. If I could only find a little cool water. Yeah, I wonder where I am. King told you I'm to take me to the prison, but instead he brought me here here where m hm, somewhere off in the open, bushes, shrubbery all around it. Wait a minute, what's that a light up there through the trees. A light? Why it's a star. I can see. I can see again, one lonely, single little star in a sky of heavy clouds. There coming over the ridge, the full moon. What's that? Someone something there in those bushes? Is someone there.

1:57:45 Who is it. Princess Sanna, do not. Speak too loudly. Why are you here? I came to see you. I went first to the prison, but it was empty. Then I knew there had been chickery. Jvan did not do when I order, no, drop me here instead. When are we on the edge of the corner, the connor the precipice. Yes, tis hundreds of feet over the side of the corner. Listen this rock, I will show you. One knew you were blind. He left you here alone, knowing you would eventually wander over the edge and be crushed on the jagged rocks down there. He could not wait for the sacrifice.

1:58:36 Sacrifice. Yes, with each fullness of the moon, the leopards in the pitus on Tea become madly enraged. The wise men say the moon rays affects them. They must be appeased by the flesh of a. Human, and the moon will soon be full again. Yes, Donaldo, pleasant thought. But Ivanne could not wait. He years all americanus, so he brought you here to be a victim. Of the Khanah nice fellow. I despise him, My father says I must marry him. You mean you don't mean you're supposed to marry him.

1:59:19 Do you blame me for running away? I certainly don't. Even dead on the desert would have been deader than him. Princess, Why have you come here? Because I would not have you die as Ivan wishes? How did you find me? I have ways? Tell me? Evan said, the storm on the desert had been blowing for three days? Is that true? Is it is true? But I was only an hour and a half journey from San Filidor. I ran into the storm suddenly. I cannot say about that. Snato your eyes you look upon me as though as though you see me. I you said, just come back. I'm not glad I can see again.

2:00:05 No, I mean, oh, yes, that to know to look upon. My faith nonsense, it's all a lot of tribe. Evil leopard. Oh look here, what is this evil spirit? Leopard? But if it goes tracks always followed by those of men they killed there full of morn. A leopard man, because he is a leopard man. Have you ever seen him? Come on, that's right over here someplace, And now don't have care. If he is an evil. You have any kind of a weapon, give it to me. No weapons will hunt him as I will.

2:00:46 See wait the clouds. Oh there he is over there. Defun o O look at him. He would die. We must take him back to the villain's unconscious jule when not task you, who's that? Advance to your hut, remain there. I fear the gods even now hired their faces from you. But father, he vanished sadly ad once, Oh. Mister man, this man needs attention. Put him out what I said, put him down. But he's badly wounded by the claws of an anime. Yes, he heard the animal screaming.

2:01:27 The princess tells me it's a leopard. Man, it is Strowdmase, the evil spirit, a spirit which takes possession of a man and changes him into a leopard. Yes, but what man who we have not known up to now? Up now? Look at your hands. Mhm blood, Ye needs your nails. But it is an evil disease, mister Turman. To bring it here among us, he is still more evil. But I say, look here, do you think I did that a bit? Look at your hand so no, you're wrong.

2:02:14 It's Evan's blood. So it is. I got it on my hands when I try to help you. Put him down, mister Turman, I do not try to escape, then will be returned to the camp. Our medicine men. Will heal him. Oh, will go with me? Now where your spirit? What's be destroyed? Mm hmmmm. Mm hm. Hm m hm. You have held division of our head there is mister tarman.

2:02:54 You are guilty of the most power scene against us. You must pay the penalty, and your unfortunate daughter are equally easy with him. I cannot pay for you. The law is so written. You have seen two yana. Tomorrow night, the two of you shall perish. Mm hmmm. Mm hmmm mm hmmahah.

2:03:35 The stone stairway leads to the leopard pit. The two of you row. First, come another deep taith and thinking of you Ianna yah yah. H h. H h. This pitches a hundred feet into the earth.

2:04:16 We're halfway down there. Look up above us, good Lord, This pit is immense, huge and wrong. Yes, you look up there. All the tribes people send to your perched around its ridge, peering down to watch this tacrify. How can they see down here? It's pitch dark. Can hardly make our way in the blackness. Soon the full moon will be directly above the pitch. It is only when the moon is full, that its rays rich here into the tat, and its beams madden the leopards. I see the beasts, now, two of them. There's a man down there with them, petting them. Look your father, No, he's a white man. M I too am white, but I am not his daughter.

2:05:05 He has been king of Dantia for many years. He stole me when I was an infant at Montayla because he wanted a white princess's coming over the edge of the pit. The people up there canzias. Now you see the moon rays affects the beasts. Quickly move one down through the pit's bottom. Come, Donaldo h. Iana, there must be some escape for you.

2:05:47 I am not afraid, Donaldo noh. Isn't there any way to escape? Only one? An impossible one? What does he mean? It has always been a belief if the prisoners are not truly guilty, the leopards will not harm them. There the full moon is directly over the pit. I remain here, you too, through this irony is. Come.

2:06:29 There is only one margate now, the one that separates us from the animals. Come that man controls those animals of the full moon. Then there is another way if we can keep away from the animals until the moon has crossed the pit, No, that would be ours. Never will be released upon us any moment. This is as far as we go. Yeah, I don't know. Ye. If I could only save you, there's no way. Courage.

2:07:10 No, I'm not afraid for myself. Oh oh die oh I offered you all for the gods upping the game. Where is he yelping? Look the moon? He is gone. No no, I didn't have it behind the clough. And do you kill you? Oh no, no, no, do. Join me? No, do stand to see you have heard the thing from the Darkness. Tonight's original Tale of dark Patasay by Scott Bishop, originating in the studios of w K. Y.

2:08:21 Ben Marris was heard tonight as Donald Thurmon. Eleanor Naylorcarran was Princess Eanna. Fred Wayne played King Tanase and your hype was Yvonne. I think savoring your time of year is very important. It's why holidays are soul beil. It makes sense, you know. We get used to everything. We get used to our nights and our evenings and our days. We get used to our jobs and our friends. We get used to well. The air in our lungs. So hard for anything to be special after so long. But when a day is special, when a time is special, it breaks apart the monotony and allows you to appreciate the moment that much more so that you don't waste your time, or worse, you don't commit murder in haste.

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2:10:09 I am the Whistler, and I know many things. For I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak. Yes, friends, it's time for the Whistler, rated by independent research, the most popular West Coast program. And remember, let every traffic signal remind you with new signal gasoline you do go farther than ever. Look for the familiar big yellow and black circle sign that identifies those popular signal service stations in seven Western states from Canada to Mexico.

2:11:00 And now the Whistler's strange story Murder in Haste. Albert Taylor was two people to the Cafe Society crowd in Miami. He was the charming young husband of a silver fortune from Denver, aged forty five, amply mature, and a little crotchety. To his wife Helen the silver fortune, he was something else again, an unpleasant little boy whose unpleasantness had to be bought off with hundred dollar bills instead of chewing gum was made for friction.

2:11:42 Of course, after. Three years of marriage, Helen was heartily sick of both Albert's and more careful with the hundred dollar Billhoos and Elbert too had reached the saturation point. As a matter of fact, the unpleasant little boy was on the verge of a tantrum. Elvers, Is that you? Yeah, Elvers? I'm awfully upset. Oh what now? My bracelet, the diamond and Emerald room. I put it in the drawer of my vanity. Last night after the party. Well what about it? It's gone. I've questioned the servants and the as you call the police. No good, what do you mean?

2:12:24 I told you i'd get money somewhere, Helen, you of course I took it, I see, And what did you do with it? I sold it? Of course? What do you expect? I think I'm going to sit up and beg you for every time I need five dollars. Sure that's what you want, isn't it. Come on, come on, watch Albert the train terrier. He sleeps, walks, talks, thinks like a human being. Enough you better, it's enough. I'm sick of it. I'm through being your favorite charity. You do know how right you are? What does that mean? It's very simple. I'm going to call the police and tell them you've stolen my bracelet. Wait a minute, don't be rich it. Keep straight from give me. That phone for you. It's a disagreeable.

2:13:08 Do you want to watch me? You want to crack the weapon? Watch me jump. Go feet to ours. I'd like to shake you unto. Thee. Well, Albert, why don't you do something? Why don't you go over there to the heart and help her up? Or perhaps you're not as dazed as you look standing there in the middle of the room. Maybe even now you realize Helen isn't going to get up because she struck her temple on the end and when you held her across the room. Yeah, Albert, she's lying there, so they still because she's.

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2:15:28 And now back to the whistler. Mm yeah, Albert, There'll be no more ugly squabbles over money, no more jumping through hoops, for Helen because the last argument was final. Wasn't it so final? That Helen lies dead in front of the high A minute later, you've decided I'm the only course of action possible. You leave her in her bedroom and lock the door. The servants in their separate quarters are used to your arguments and probably have paid no attention. Two hours and twenty minutes later, you're standing on the observation platform of the Limited Express bound for Jacksonville in Points North.

2:16:29 Nice night, Oh I didn't hear you come up? Sorry? I said it was a nice night. Yeah, yeah, I saw you running for the train when we were pulling out. Just made it, didn't you. Yeah, it's kind of close, are right? You've been in Miami long? No, I've been fishing off the keys just a week or so to see. My name's Ricketts. I know you. I'm Brown, Richard Brown. You going up to New York Brown? That's right? Well, I uh, I guess I'll be getting inside Ricketts.

2:17:10 Good idea, I'll go with you. You knew at the minute he opened his mouth, didn't you. Albert Ricketts is a plain clothes cop, and there can be only one reason why he's so interested in you. He's right behind you as you walk back through the train to your seat, and you're wondering if you'll sit beside you when you stop there. Then when you're ten feet from it, it hits you. You realize why he's following you. Your luggage with your initials et on it is in the baggage rack over the seat, and Ricketts is just waiting for you to stop there.

2:17:51 You'll hold your breath and keep on going. Uh Brown, Yeah, isn't this your seat? Why? No? Oh? I have a compartment up ahead. Oh I see, Oh, good night Brown, good night. There's only one place to go, the club car and the bar where you can sit for a minute and think. Yes, sir, I make it to Manhattan, dry rye, Manhattan, right, thank you? Oh is this your magazine here? Sir? What? Oh? No? No?

2:18:32 Sure? Are you going to New York? Yes? I want to be cool up there this time of year, A lot of snow and all that. Yes, I suppose, So you know, I'm as excited as a kid. I haven't seen snow for an age. Matter of fact, I haven't set foot in America for twell five years. It's great to be back. I get a kick out of just talking to Americans again. Yeah, I was sitting in my compartment a few minutes ago, and you have a compartment. Oh yeah, yeah, a couple of cars ahead. Oh my name's Brown, mister Jamison, Leslie, Jamison, Jamison. Wait a minute, jown up the mystery writer. I'm afraid I am here, sirra man hands. Oh thank you, Well, here's to you, mister.

2:19:20 What's the matter? Oh? Nothing, say see Jamison. Why don't we go to your compartment be quieter there, we could have the drinks and. Why of course you'd like. Yeah, al, but the compartment would be quieter and you would feel a little more comfortable, particularly since you noticed your friend mister Ricketts stroll into the bar and sit down, still hunting for the occupant of your seat. No doubt, mister Jamison finds the compartment pleasanter too. Well. A man can't stay forever in Buenos Aire's and continue to write for the American public. Has to keep in touch, you know, don't you think so? Oh yes, yes, of course.

2:20:10 So you say you left Buenos Aires. Huh, yeah, it's planned to anyway, but made it a little earlier on a kind of that nasty business with my assistant. Yes, I see. Oh, I'll probably go back in a year or so. Did you ever read anything of mine? Bron? I can't say I've done much reading in the detective storyline. You have a serial running in one of the magazines right now, haven't you, Yes, Murder in haste. I don't suppose you're reading it. No, I'm sorry. If i'd known I was going to meet the author, i'd have bulled. Up on it. Oh, don't apologize, Bron. Well, how about a nightcap before we turn in? Eh? Oh, it's early, Jamison. Surely you're not going to give up the ship so soon. Well, I've got to confess on a little bush I've. Been writing on like a magpie all evening.

2:20:52 Yeah, there you are. Thanks. Ah, that's beautiful, brandly none better? Well Brown, What do we drink too? Oh? I have? It's a crime, Bron, mighty profitable business for me at least. Yeah, here's the crime. Hey, you know that's a murder is my business. And yet I've never in my life seen a murdered man a thank, No ever been in a police court, hardly ever known a policeman. I'm really sort of a phony. When you get right down to it. Well, Brown, it has been great talking to you. Tell me more about your agents. You were saying you've never met him personally. Oh, Pharaoh, he's a great agent. I've often wondered what he looks like.

2:21:36 Sometimes I think he must be a magician with a long beard, the way he pulls royalties out of her hat. Uh huh? Who sold by leading character to a radio series? Wow, you've never even been to New York never, Probably the only man in the business who can say that. Well, Brown, it's close to Josh. What about the cereal you're running? Maybe you could bring me up to date on it. I tell you about it tomorrow, Brown, awfully tired. I'll see here. I don't want to be rude, but I'll have to. Ask you to. But what what's back? It's going to stop, stop. And.

2:22:20 An open switch, a signal down, and the southbound local is suddenly there on the same track without warning. It's over in a split second. And then you open your eyes. Albert, you're all. Right, miraculously safe in the tangled network of steel and sprinted wood. That used to be a pullman car. And there's Leslie Jamison. He wasn't so lucky Albert. There's nothing you can do for him. Now. The other end of the coaches in flames, and they're moving towards you. Finally you manage to get out. Gotta get up through this window, watch this glass. Let me help you give you a hand.

2:23:01 Oh thanks, all right, I think son a little Disney for shuret oh to mister Brown. Oh rickets, you're lucky. This coach got it worse the ball I got fire got out justin John I Funny were drinking with at the bar. What're your compartment with you? He's still in there my compartment. Pretty sure he's Albert. He tailor murdered his wife in Miami. Is he still there? No? No, he he left a few minutes before the crash. Well you better get on ahead, mister Brown. I gotta get my hand here. Can you make it up to the crossing. There's a highway restaurant up there. Show sure. I'm okay, thanks, okay. Well, Albert, you stand there dazed for a minute, watching the fire move closer.

2:23:45 Then you decide to take a chance. Go back to Leslie Jamison's body, take his wallet, his ring, and watch exchange them for your ring and watch. Engraved to Elbert with all my love Helen. Then, as the flames move close, in his briefcase and bag and crawl out for him. Ten minutes later, you stagger into the Highway restaurant, into the grade crossing, say one, if you fellows can help. Me, I hurt, mister, We got the doc in the back room. Come on, no, no, I'm all right. I just want to get out of here. I thought I could hire a car, get a bus. In New York. You were in the wreck, yeah, they I'm the AP correspondent here. Could you give me a name? Uh, I'm Leslie Jameson. Say aren't you the fellow who writes those murder mysteries? Yeah?

2:24:32 Yeah, that's right. Well if they adn't a coincidence, Frank, only last night you and me made that bet. Yeah, and now we can settle it once and for all. Yeah, we was betting which one would turn out to be the murder in that Syria you're running in a post. Oh wow, that's very flattering. Now I wonder if you could help me about the bus I named mister Jamison. Could could you give us an advanced tip on the murderer? Yeah? Then we won't have to wait for the magazine to come out tomorrow. Who wasn't mister Jamison? Pooh, well I don't think that would past couple of coffee? Yeah sure, oh, rickets Oh pretty rough out there, three cars gone. What do you guys stand around here for? You've been out there and looked at it? Why I gotta stand by that. I'm a reporter, Palin, I'm getting a story, or I was until you. How do you feel? Brown? Brown?

2:25:13 That's Leslie Jamison, the writer. Huh, I thought your name was brown? Well, of course, I well, do you know how it is? Here's your coffee? Thanks so, mister Brown, I don't know how it is? How is it LESLEYE. Jamison, famous mystery story writer? Well, traveling incognito? Escape you see, Ricketson, I didn't want to. Oh, I get it. We've been reading mister Jamison cereal in the post murder in Haste, had a little bit with Frank here on who the murder was. Well, I can tell you that I read the last installment last night. Yeah, sure, got it the newsstand in Miami. Well, we ain't got it here yet. Well, mister Jamison, who done it?

2:25:55 Well? I don't want to spoil the story for you. You ought to finish braid me? Want buy another copy of the magazine? Yeah? Yeah, Come on, Jamison. Well it's a matter of ethics. A writer in ethics, I know how it is. You're Jamison. I can tell the boys. I got it straight from the office mouth. Come on, now what goat? Well, I don't want I got your car, lieutenant. Oh good, I'll be right with you. Hey, you guys know anyone wants to go to New York. I got a car and I want someone to share the driver. Well, James, jo I used that you were going to New York, didn't you, Jamison. As a matter of fact, you can come with me. Huh, give me a hand with the driving. Come on, all right, well the first give him a break. Tell them who the murderer was. Oh no, I'm sorry, it's against my principles.

2:26:39 Well it's your business. Come on, Hey, was the old lady? Did it? You got hotel space in New York? Jameson, No, no, jet, I thought i'd arrange that when I arrived. You haven't been around much lately, I say, probably isn't a room that he had had that worse, But I think I might be able to fix up at the Midtown I. Know the manager. Oh I couldn't possibly, Oh forget it. Jameson glad to help you out.

2:27:23 M m. Can you fix them up? Waller? Oh I think so. Just signed the register, mister Jamison, Leslie Jamison, the writer. Why didn't you say so? Look, I don't want to put you out own nonsense. We're honored, mister Jamison. I'm a mystery fan myself. I want to tell you that murder and Haste has me food right up to the last page. Oh, Peters, this is mister Leslie Jamison. I get the boys over. I want to take a few pictures. Pictures, No, no, no, wait a minute. I don't want to know nothing to it, mister Jamison. Just a couple of the boys in the Star Express. I know you're tired, but it won't take long. And Peters, have some flowers sent up to mister Jamison's room. We'll have the pictures taken there. Peters is our press agent, mister Jamison. He'll take care of you. Oh certainly will, mister Jamison. Right this way. See look here, Peters, you look like a reasonable man. I never have my picture taken and I don't intend to stand for it.

2:28:20 Now, you just don't know. New York News paper photographers, mister Jamison, it's much easier if you give in. What will happen if I refuse? You'll find out? And you did find out, didn't you, Elbt, You were helpless. There was nothing you could do. They came, they saw, they took pictures, and all you could do was rage and try to keep your face covered. That only made a better story for them. They were delighted, Elbert. The next day there are pictures of you in the tabloids, hiding your face under the caption Leslie Jamison, mystery author stages publicity scene in room at Midtown Hotel. And to complete the success of your change of identity, the second page of the same paper carries the news that you, Albert Taylor, wanted for the murder of his wife in Miami, perished in the train rate. You're all mixed up now, aren't you, Albert. But you almost wish Helen was with you again to make the decisions for you like she used to, And then suddenly there's nothing for you to do.

2:29:29 The decision is all made, Yes, mister Jamison, Yes. And missus Jamison is on our way up. What your wife? I assumed it would be all right to tell. Us, sir? Never mind? Hello, Leslie? What are you? Maybe i'd better commandm. Well, well, what all right? What you're gonna do about it? You're an awfully simple thought, aren't you? Mister whatever your name is?

2:30:13 All right? I suppose I am. How did you expect to get away with it? After all the publicity? All right? Worthy? What have you done? Oh? Wait a minute, missusjameis and I can explain, maybe you better. Your husband was killed in that train wreck in Florida. I had reasons for wanting to disappear, so I took his identity. You never meant to keep it up. If you'll just guess what now? Look, there's nothing we can do for your husband now he was killed. You believe that, don't you. I'm going to leave town. All I ask is that you forget you ever saw I see? What do you? What are you gonna do? I I could go to the police.

2:30:54 Wait a minute, I can make it worth your while too. Oh stop simpering? Does anyone know you here in New York? That's very fortunate. You see, Well, Leslie and I we didn't get along as a matter of fact, we'd been separated for some time. He said he was cutting me out of his will. So with Leslie dead, I don't get anything at all. But with Leslie alive, Wait a minute, you wouldn't. Why not? He could retire right now and live off his royalties without doing another link. You want me to keep this up? Come will be ridiculous. A dozen reasons why I can't. You'll discover it in a week.

2:31:34 You have his baggage, yes, and I know his signature. I can imitate it perfectly. I know his background like a book. You may as well get used to it. Mister James, I tell you I won't do it. It's the most fantastic thing I ever heard. Kenneth Ricketts down on the lobby. You know, he seemed quite interested in the in our relationship. Of course, if you like, I'll bring him up to. Date, all right, missus jameson Darling. Just call me Ruth. There's a dear.

2:32:16 Ruth. Ruth. I tell you this can't go on. You're spending money like a child, twenty eight thousand dollars in three months. Besides the deposits I made your account while we're behind in the rent. The mate hasn't been paid. Just look at these bills. Look at them. I haven't got a penny. Are you all through? You know there's your quarterly royalty check do tomorrow. That'll only pay part of them. It's not saying any of them, darling. It's going into my account. I see. Maybe you've got a fast way of getting out from. Under these bills that you're worried, dear, Not mine, I having trouble.

2:33:00 Oh, nothing at all, sweetheart. It's just that my account's over drawn by five hundred dollars. Because you could finish your book. There, sure finish the book writer Leslie Jamison mystery novel. Well, then I suppose you'll just have to think of something else, Ruth. Be honest with me, Actually, how long do you intend to carry on with this? Infinitely? Dear? I know when I have a good thing, you mean, then there's no end. Oh there is if you want one? There are always the police. Are you quit throwing that up to me? If you could be decent about it, you know there could have been plenty without you bleeding me.

2:33:42 I fair with you. No sleep a day and night. I can't eat. This isn't getting us anywhere to dodge my shadow. I'm getting nowhere afraid all the time, there's dagger hanging over my head. But what happened to you? Get ahold of you? I'm trapped, run into a corner, no way to turn, no. Where to turn. M h. M m mm hmm.

2:34:29 It's sir. Yeah, the deak sighton. That's right. What can I do for you? He will take this down. I h matter bell just killed my wife. The whistler will return in just a moment. With the strange ending of tonight's story, we time a word about that extra something you get when you have your car service and independently operated signal gasoline stations. I'm talking about that feeling.

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2:36:00 That's the kind of service you want these days, when your car has to last until who knows when. That's the kind of service you'll get from your friendly neighborhood signal gasoline dealer. Now back to the whistler. Well, well, but for the first time since that awful night in Miami, you feel relaxed. It's over now, isn't the hounding, the fear, the dagger hanging over your head? They're gone. Now you sit down on a chair by the sergeant's desk and start to tell him the whole thing. And then I wandered around the streets all night. I thought about running away again, and.

2:36:56 Then it all seems so so useless. So you came into the station and spilled it. Eh, aren't you going over there? You've been there found her an hour after you did it. Let's see, you. May as well know that she's not my wife. Yeah, yeah, we know that, mister Jamieson. She was your assistant, bonus Aire's you're saying she was shaking you down? Eh, what you have on your my sister? Oh, that's right, your assistant. If you had a lapse of memory or something, Jamison, your sister, tell me, Jamison, what was she threatened undertake to the police. Okay, but at three year old would have known it was a bluff. That's the last thing in the world she would have done.

2:37:46 No, you don't know her. She would have done anything. Met her neck fowl. Huh. You have got above memory, Jamison. It was all over, bonus Aires, six months ago. She's wanted down there the murder.

2:38:27 This program, produced by George w Allen, with tonight's story by Eleanor Beeson, music by Wilbur Hatch, is transmitted to our troops overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service. Ah. Well, it is getting rather late, I suppose, But I don't fear the sun like I did. Oh what's that? Well? I suppose that is true, but I'm just I'm just feeling so different. The the leaves skittering across the ground, the sound of the trees as they die, but not truly. Well, what's not to like about that? I suppose in the end, if all things are considered, I just love the Terror in the Air.

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2:43:52 Than you may realize. For example, when you go to the supermarket, you see weights expressed in grams on more and more packaged items. Now for more information on this whole metric system, right to Metric Information Office, National Bureau of Standards, Washington, d C. And Flight one one three Transaway's Airlines took off from Miami a sleek DC nine four engine jet bound for Seattle, Washington, with one set down at Kansas City. The bulk of her manifest was a large charter of meatpackers returning from the convention to be dropped off at Kansas City. The small remaining nucleus of passengers was to be increased by only one pickup, sixty five year old doctor Sam McCall, a man the crew, and his fellow passengers were to thank God for the rest of their lives. For Flight one one three was the junction ship doom to a nightmare that is shared by anyone who flies, and against which every precaution is taken so that it won't come true.

2:45:14 This is the story of the million to one chance when it did, and which began before the floor. As you take off. This is flight one one three, Transways Airline Post K two. I'm ready to roll as soon as you get me someone to hold my hands. He's on his way right now from reserve. What happened to Davey? His father had a corner. It's pretty hairy, I guess second time around. Dave took off for the hospital like he was fired from a gun. We're all checked out. I'll get back as soon as Dave's relief gets here. Come all right, Freddie, Well, what the sam Hill is at? It's just a moment, Captain that I jolly little cargo one hundred and fifteen slap happy meattackers on their way.

2:45:58 Home from the convention. Oh brother, let's just be glad you don't have to move among them. It's worse than being in Rome. I probably won't be able to sit down. For a week. I'll get my blast on the horn they tone them down. Oh no, they're all right. I can handle them. I just wanted you to know we're loaded and your relief co pilot is on the way. Who draw you know? Lucky day, Captain Thomas. Look what you got, Doug Flitcher, not you now. I know we're jixed. Dicks and stones will break my bones. But a few breasts coming through that crowd out there, and I'm already as high as kite. Oh come on, let's cut the comedy we're telling us late already? Friend, did Charlie check you out on the manifest?

2:46:38 Yes, Captain, is the off plan yet we're all buttoned up. Okay, I'll go get that bunch quieted down out there. Hit the no smoke and seatbelts right. Nice to have you board. Let's earn our pay. This is K flight one one three transways Port K two. The ground can control requests permission to start engines. You have permission, Captain, hit them, Doug. Ready to roll as soon as we get the good word and hold it a second, Roger, Doug, where gee all at home? The little woman, you and babies. I never can pass up that Chiffon pumpkin pie.

2:47:24 Hey, that's funny. You know I have my way down. They're still on the pipe Transways one, one, three. Yeah, waiting to roll. Okay, you're player to taxi to runway five. Roger, we still have CAVU for the flight. As far as Kansas City, ceiling in visibility unlimited. Thanks, we're on our way. Have a nice fight waiting, please, it's the Lord. We're caring. We can't lose. Most of them can make it under their own car. Otherwise looks like a milk run all the. Way, a new run, the flight where nothing happens, where everything goes according to the book. And so it did as far as Kansas City, in spite of the slightly raucous conventioneers who soon passed out quietly to be poured off the plane gently by the stewardess.

2:48:17 Is two and a half hours. Later, waiting to take off again, Captain Thomas and his co piloted Fletcher could have no slightest suspicion that the second half of a flight was to make disaster history. What are we waiting for? Captain clearance? Anything wrong? Something coming in? I guess to have load? You could shoot deer back there. Let's see, we have only thirty two left. We didn't pick up anyone here, only. One a doctor, very handy to have a board. Now what does that mean? Well, just that we have a lady aboard. A married lady who's very pregnant. Ooh, I hope we don't pick up any rough Will you knock it off? YouTube Cassandra's And now let's get airborne before you discourage me from the whole flight. This is flight one one three Transways Airlines. I am at number one requesting permission for takeoff.

2:49:14 Acknowledge one one three Transways ad fis you are now cleared for takeoff. Though here goes nothing. We're on our way, my happy captain, the only way to go. Thanks Kansas and. Out any takers I need? Yes, but now you have to get the drink cart out to Scotch. Is one better than a stinger for. The lady in first? We got not a stinger. I'll take that one to a personally crabby old bitty I can then. Oh, I'm going up on anyway I need Maybe the boys want some coffee?

2:49:55 Shall I call them? No, any little exercise. I want to check on our little mother to anyway. She's pretty near up time, I think not too. I hope ever been a midwife of what? Did you ever deliver a baby? Oh? Not me? Either for myself or anyone. I think I would freak out. How that makes two of us? I hope we don't have to find out? Are you sure? If you all right? Honey? Will you stop worrying? Free? It's just maybe I worry we shouldn't let them. It's a little late for that now.

2:50:35 So I didn't mean the baby. I mean find the seattle. It's still too late. Everything okay? With you to love for it? Oh? Sure, So everything's just fine. Start is to make it. Frand where it's small enough group to be a family. Anything I can get you, Mary Banks, how about you? It's beer? Oh no, no, no, no, I'm just fine. It's only Jackie. No worry. What of the world about everything? It's just his nature. All this time, I really have something to worry about. Well, not much. Longer, only about an hour and a half to Seattle. I wouldn't want anyone to be embarrassed. I'll hold on until then. Oh, Jackie, she's putting you on. He bought a stop watch so he can time the pains when they start.

2:51:19 But don't get me wrong, I love him. If that's my exit cue, I've got to deliver this drink to someone. Excuse me, and doctor McCall, isn't it what? Oh? Oh yeah, I just delivered a drink to your only companion, the lady in the back. Is there anything I can get for you for me? Oh? Ah, fasten your seat. Belt, doctor, it is fast. Mind if I sit beside you for a moment. Ok? What is it? Big storm? You weren't expecting it, or the seatbelt fights would have been up for now. Are you feeling okay?

2:52:00 Me? Oh yes, yes, what it's just the airpock. General turbulent. We should be through it in a moment. I just wanted to make sure you didn't feel sick. I feel sick, all right, but not from this. I'm sorry. What can I say? Nothing? What can anyone say? Pete would have been thirty next week. From my angle, that's where life begins, but his ended. Pete, my son, the first time. I ever flew first class in my life. Thanks to the Air Force.

2:52:42 They're flying Pete's body and the rest of his crew back from wah that's when they crashed. His mother is buried in Winks where I used to practice. I wanted him to lie with her. I'm sorry, I misunderstood about the way you were looking. That's all right. If it worked for the rest of you board, I just soon cash in my chips right here. Well, it won't be that bad. It's just a peewee squad. We're coming out of it. You can go on about your business free and me. I guess we did blow right through it.

2:53:23 Maybe I should get up and see if the captain the copilot. Wants to coffee. Do you travel control yet, Doug, I'm on my third frequency? Nor response? Were the devil already not? Couldn't they have picked up what we just came through on the radar? Search me. There's flight one one three transways to control tower. Do you read me? Negative? The Baker's up? No, Captain, I checked, Well, what do you want from what happened? No warning on the fireworks came out of nowhere, no advance from control. Yeah, we can't dig them up. Not do you want anything? No, just as long as we're off the bar. So I thought you might like some coffee. Yeah, heavy on cream, easy on the sugar. Skip the coffee.

2:54:06 I'm feeling a little off the feet hold of This. Is flight one one three Transways traffic Control. Do you read me anything serious? Duck? It will be. If we don't make contact, I'll forget it. There's so many backup systems beyond the regular frequencies. Emergency Army, Navy, Sea rescue. Relayed through another plane. One sweat, baby, I was worried about you. You don't look so hot, and. You should feel my stock. Look, bring me a color, lots of ice. Wait a minute, we read you loud and clear. Where the hell have you been? We've been trying to raise you did oh here? Now, where the devil have you been? I'm an emergency back up now and we are.

2:54:48 Twenty seven thousand cruising speed or eight five knots holding steady heading two nine zero. You didn't get anything from us on the regular channels, and we just came through a freak electrical storm. Didn't you picked that up on radar? That's why we were trying to reach you. It came in from nowhere. It's a whole front by now. Now maybe that's what not the radio as I was thinking of turning back, but maybe I better off as we go. I what's up ahead? C Avu on present course? A little storm to the north over the rockies. But you should bypass it, and we better. We got a pregnant lady aboard. I like to void any more turbulence, just in case you want to.

2:55:29 Send us up top stand by? Call I clear you standing by? Well it looks okay now except. For you, Doug. Well, what's the matter with me? You're a little green around the gills. It's out home cooking or did a few buffs make years? Sie? Oh no, no, no, I don't know what it is. I got the cold sweats seeing double. Wasn't anything I got from Helen. Maybe I should have five past ant Phoebe's what do you mean? Amt bhibious? I try? I tell you. Before we took off in Florida, I couldn't. Resist stopping offer and having some shift on pumpkin pie and dessert.

2:56:12 Damn it, that's what I am. So you're lucky it wasn't too rich for you. H I don't know. I think I'm gonna pass out. Friend, Trin, I hate to layness on you, but I've been having the symptoms. Doug's complaining about. Good Lord, it's crazy. It can't be happening and just couldn't be. But you'd be to get babe and bring that doctor up here. I feel like I can hardly move, But look at Doug. He's out your doctor, friend, that'd be for real, and get one of us. There's gonna be nobody left the lands right away. Hello, Flight one one three, Transways two, Traffic Control. You read me, damn Fly one one three, the traffic controull Oh you read me?

2:57:25 Read me, Harry, trans see her? Can't be out? Fly one one three translad. Way may day, the final and ultimate cry for help when an aircraft is disabled or out of control. The last word air traffic Control, ever wants to hear. For Once that dread alert is sounded, everything moves with controlled pandemonium.

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3:00:27 In the air, secure on automatic pilot, the Big DC nine is a symbol of man's ability to conquer a hostile medium, to make it his own, as safely and sure as any bird. Inside this big bird from. The cockpit aft, the passengers have no notion of what lies ahead as yet, but on the ground, if the May day alert has gotten through, control tower will be in charge. His voice arm but precise, but underlying it the ragged edge of knowledge he shares with every pilot who receives that man may conquer the elements, but never wholly subdue them.

3:01:14 Excuse me, doctor mccallar, Oh, oh yes, stars, I'm sitting down beside you because I have no wish to alarm the rest of the plane. You are a medical doctor, aren't you. If I'm not, I've kept up the pretense successfully for more years than that. Care say, do you have a doctor's bag with you? By any chance? He is? I don't know, I force of heaven. Why, yes, there's some trouble in the cockpit. The pilot and the co pilot seem to be in some sort of well, have some sort of food poisoning. Could we just walk up there casually? We better get there fast.

3:01:54 Not too fast as a lady watching us, who is how volatile? For one of a better words, I don't want to get the rest of the plane alarmed. I tell you what. I left the cabin door open. I'll keep her busy while you go forward. Whatever you say, my dear. The conscious I don't know the captain was when I left. Don't worry. The plane's on automatic pilot. Well, missus Miller, did you enjoy your stinger? Perhaps you like a ring beat. The scene in the control room of the plane is enough to turn anyone's blood to water. In the co pilot's seat, Guvn. Fletcher is half slumped to the floor out cool. In the pilot's seat to the left. Captain Thomas is valiantly trying to fight off his blackout.

3:02:42 But only half conscious himself. Like one three is there? See you rescue? Do you do you read? I'm a doctor, Captain. What's trouble in the stomach? How to flow up? But I can let's see the double I can't keep my. Eyelids from clothing. Let us have a look. The same with your co pilot. Yeah, did you heat together before you left on this flight? I know we both have the same pie in Miami place called Anne babies form.

3:03:27 Can ship from I don't sound so I'm afraid. How are they doctor? What's your name again? Friend? Okay, fred? I ain't got to make a snap diagnosis and damn little information. Looks like we have a couple of cases of botulism. That's kind of food poisoning that affects the nervous system. Both of them are in coma, and there's some toxins that might be helpful. I don't have them in my bag. The best we're going to do is get plenty of cold towels and hope. That we can bring one of them out of it. If we don't, we are in real trouble.

3:04:09 Any idea of our ata. About midnights theattle time, that's about an. Hour and a half. It's about well. The first thing is to try to save these boys. Can you call back on the intercom to one of the other hostesses and. Get some ice and play it towels? Yes, sir, yeah, First, help me move the captain out of the floor. DCD, know what you want to control. Take a deep breath on you sound like you's bought enough. News for me to possible are out. It isn't good, but I'm counting on you. You put it that way from you can come only have. Much of trouble up front, but we don't want to get the passengers panicked.

3:04:53 Sure, but kay, what goes? We need all the ice and towels we can get up front, use the drink card of the and come throw as fast as you can't. And kada leave it the way. Is you all right? Baby? I'm fine? Why fred I don't know. You seem to be sort of squirming around. That isn't me. It's your first born. If he comes to hostess with a card knock, he wants some milk or something. You were shut in air maybe active, but he's not quite ready for that yet. What milk? I don't know. Jackie may get the notion you're working me over. Maybe we shouldn't have taken this trip.

3:05:35 Why not because you resent it. I just thought, you know, a first baby and all you'd be safer in Seattle with mom, and then all alone in Kansas City. I wasn't exactly alone there. Well, you didn't have any kids, hope to help us. Did it ever occur to you, I'd just like to have my baby by myself. Oh, it's my baby too, Sure it is. You've just got to excuse us uptight females. The end of the pregnancy route, we forget it's anything but just us in junior. You're the only two the count, and you first. Cheer up, Honey, everything's going to be all right. I was thinking about something cold to drink, But we missed the boat, or I should say, card denez is already all the way through the first class.

3:06:22 I could go and get us. No, no, no, it doesn't matter. So I'll catch her them fly the way back. Who dens with the towels and ice? Dolement? Let me in quick, big nose? There is smelling trouble. Who the lady with the singers, Oh. She doesn't matter. Help me and the doctor get some cold towels on the captain and Doug. They are pasted out. I hope that's all. Then who is flying the blade? That's a good question. It's no use. Girls, they're in deep coma. Can't you bring them out of it?

3:07:03 I doubted? Do we get them hospitalized? If then they're not going to die from food poisoning, botualism that may be academic unless we figure out some way to land this plane either you pilots, no, not me. Are we dead heading any back? There no jet manifesto, I've had it right here. None of our pilots. Anyone on the list who flies? I doubt it. No, So that leaves me you're a pilot. In a matter of speaking, Before my wife died, when we lived in Wenatchki, I used to share beat up old Cherokee one prop plane with another doctor. Only way to get the patients in outlying areas. I guess that's what got Pete all strung out on fly.

3:08:00 That was small potatoes. It's over six years since I touched the controls. What can I do with this? Somebody's got to do something, not only to save the captain and dug lives, but thirty four more of us, including you. Well, what do we got to lose? You keep those coal towels on the captain on the floor and will leave the coat pilot in a seat to save room. Doc. Oh, this maze the forest Prime egle all right, give me the headphones. Now where's radio in this mess? Right here? Doctor, But they were having trouble with the regular frequencies. What's it said on now?

3:08:41 I don't know Army Air rescue emergency maybe, So. Let's see what we can raise. Hello, Hello, anyone, and you call me. Can you hear me? We are receiving identify yourself please? Oh sure, there's doctor Sam McCall. We are awaiting identification. I just told you this. I guess I have to remember to press down the button on the wheel for you to hear me. We can hear your reply. What did you say? Wait a minute, what did you say? Let go of the button. Oh, to explain to you that to receive us, you must release the red button on the wheel and to transmit you must press it down over to you.

3:09:29 I get it. Then what do you identify? Sure? I'm doctor Sam McCall, Pete McCall's father. You go, my son, very well, but that doesn't matter for the moment. When do you identify your aircraft? Oh? Yes, this is flight what's the number one one three Transways Airlines? And as you hang in here, I'm going back to check the passengers. The flight one one three Trensway's hair line. Oh yes, you're the may Day that's us, brother, Well, can you give us your position? I can try, but with this maze of instruments, I'm not familiar with them. Where are your pilots both in a coma botulism poisoning.

3:10:19 Any chance they'll be out of it within the next hour and a half hard. To tell, I'd say, kind of doubtful. They both hit so bad it's a toss up where they can hold out against respiratory paralysis. And there's no other qualified commercial pilot aboard. That's right. The only guy ever flew anything as me, And then it was just a little one lung Cherokee prop. You flew by the seat of your pants. If you can fly at Cherokee, you can fly at DC nine. You're going to have to teach me, brother, And I sure hope you can in the next hour and a half, because if you don't tell me how to bring it down, I guess we're just gonna head out over the Pacific till we run out of gas drop into the sea.

3:11:06 A situation to challenge the worst nightmare you ever dreamed. Behind him are over thirty people depending on him for their lives. Facing him is a mass of instruments, dials, switches, buttons, and levers, most of them unfamiliar to him, which control one hundred plus tons of airplane that he must put down on the ground safely within a short span of ninety minutes. I shall return as soon as I can with Act three, Like the. Carnival, I like to.

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3:13:33 People start pollution, people. Can stop it. A public service message in this station and the advertising Council. He sits in the cockpit of a fore engine jet monster, thirty one thousand feet above the ground alone, a sixty five year old man who joined this flight with nothing but death on his mind. Doctor Sam McCall, widow word, now flying to pick up the coffin and the body of his pilot's son who died tragically.

3:14:15 In a crash on Guam. Now suddenly, by a massive wrench of fate, he is thrown back into the stream of life because he is the only person aboard who can fly this plane and landing it safely depends on the quiet. Voice in his headphones. Now, did you. Locate the altimeter? Yeah? I have it. What does it read? Thirty ten? Good? Good? Now you're at thirty one thousand, and that is your altitude until further instructions. Look at the instrument panel. I hate to excuse the hell out of me.

3:14:56 There's the bank of turned indicator and this looks like I think it could be the airspeed indicator. So just take it easy, Doc, You've got this thing licked. You know enough about it? Okay, Doc confirm Hey I like the doc part too. Something about having a name makes me feel more at home. Do I get one for you, affirmative? This is Colonel Blake? Okay, Colonel, Well here's our titles. Now, how do I fly this? Crazy? That's a breeze, Doc to just look down and you'll see the rudder pedals. Put your feet on them. Now look for your air speed indicator and get familiar with it.

3:15:41 That's the one left of the two circles. Dead ahead. Yeah, I got it, enough of That is your climb and dive indicator. I see it. Directly to your right are stabilizer and trim levers. Now you come to your throttles. They should be set at cruising speed. What is your ear speed indicator? Read? I have four eighty five roger. That's right where she should be. Now the pedestal, those are the yellow throttles. The forward increases your speed check. Shake a back decreases right right, right, But they must be coordinated and gentle.

3:16:27 Now do you locate the automatic pilot switch. It's up there on the console over your head, to the right slightly. Yeah, I have a colonel. Now you are ready to fly the plane? Doctor, he who knows what? Now you've flown before? This baby's ja just a little bit bigger. Now, hands on the wheel, feed on the runners, reach forward and flip off automatic. Shake What she lurks? Not? No, No, that's to be expected. You now have control of the aircraft. Keep her just as she is. Watch your climb and dive indicator, watch your ear speed all it steady?

3:17:16 How's she coming? Brother? What a difference? I can feel every ton of her. It sluggish, heavy. Don't let her fool you. Sure, sure she feels different from a Cherokee. But remember, Doc, all controls are on serble mechanism, the reacting you over the slightest touch, the like power controls in a car. And we're gonna let you feel that out very very gently. We're gonna have you descend a little. Okay, Doc, you're the boss, colonel. Justin you take over, So rip the four knobs in the center. We're gonna ease up on the throttle. Not so fast, easy, ease it off. You notice it's getting quiet?

3:18:05 Now easy? Push forward slowly. On the wheel, boy, She responds, quick, full. Back, all back now the ease forward again. You notice she's going quiet? Yeah, I don't like it. That's the way she goes. Now push forward on the wheel. Easy, easy, she's getting away from me. Took it right out of my head. But slow, Yeah, I am. But she's puffing like a stree. You're over correcting, easy, Edie, does it? Remember Doc, it's justin touch the serbo mechanism. Does all rest? Now, bring your nose down.

3:18:51 Will go. That's a comforting gold word. It's all scary, real scary. Are you going? Oh right, I'm making you. Can cut it, Doc. As soon as we get you off top again, we're gonna dry banking left and right a little. Just so you have the plane well in hand. Huh. What is a Jackie baby? Baby? I'm afraid, yes, it's so near. The peans romans every minute. Oh oh lord, what are we gonna do.

3:19:34 I'll try to hold on, honestly I will. But Stewardess friend, it's Jackie, it's my wife. She's having the baby here. Help me get these seatbacks down in front, stretch her out. I'll get blankets. I now, Yes, get up to the cockpit and tell doctor missus Pearce's baby is coming. I'll do my best to handle it. I'll try not to bother him, but I might have to call for instructions on the intercom. Sure, sure, so get going. Ladies and gentlemen, listen to me, please, there is no reason for panic. The plane is in good hands. I want to get all of us as far back towards the tail as we can.

3:20:19 Everyone find their life. Jackets and inflate them as instructed when we were taking off. We have a lady who is about to deliver her child. I'm asking you to the rear as much for her privacy as for any other reason. We are all going to be all right. If the Good Lord grants us a new somebody into the world. He sure doesn't plan to take all the rest of us out of it. Excuse me, doctor, how is it going? I'm not so bad. Now back on automatic, taking a little rest.

3:21:01 How's everything back there? Oh? Not fad and not good. I mean Fran. She asked me to tell you she is handling it, but she might have to call by the intercom in case because there's a lady having a baby. Oh that's nice. Oh, try to set it down easy as I can. When is it do? I don't know exactly when, but it's on the way right. Now, in the midst of death. We are in life? Or is the other way around? Does Fran know what to do? I don't know. She said she would do her a this. But what's that intercom? You throw this switch here? Oh? Hello, hello doctor, it's France.

3:21:44 Everything okay up there for the moment. I'm sorry to. Bother you, but I have a problem the lady who is giving birth. Yes, the baby is coming, but it's positioned the wrong way. Breach birth. Look, you can't handle that. I'll tell you what. We have an odd twenty five minutes to play around with. Hold everything, I'll be right back Flight one one three to control. I am receiving you. Well, how much time do I have before we start decent approach? Twenty five thirty minutes? All right, Then to hang on till I get back to you. Before I try to land this plane, I got to do something I really know about. I've got to go deliver a baby. This is flight one thirteen of my term to control.

3:22:39 We have you, Doc, how's the baby? A fine boy? Kind of makes up a little for my own. How do we stand? You're ready to get off automatic and commence descent at four hundred and eighty five knots. You should be coming down at fifteen hundred feet. Per minute, Roger, I'm now commencing dissent. Very good. Now, all that dissent rate to eighteen hundred feet a minute, and then we'll go into landing approach. Funny thing, Colonel, what's that? Doctor? I just accomplished something very difficult, bringing one life into the world. I hope I'm successful in keeping thirty seven lives protected that are already here.

3:23:36 We're now coming in on your final approach. The descent is fine. How do you feel? Oh, I'm okay, going a little fast? No, no, okay, all right, now we lower the wheels. You remember the exercise affirm pull out rear lever and pushed down. Watch the three lights indicating wheels down. I agree, okay, the landing gear is down. We have you in sight. Now give her some throttle as the gear slows you down. I feel the drag boards. Rob to watch the flap indicator.

3:24:18 You remember, yeah, I remember? Ten degrees of flaps at. It confirmed, Roger, Old there, maintain air speed at one twenty seven. That maintaining speed. You're doing fine. To keep your feet on the pedals, keep her nice in the level. Can you see the runway? I see you all right? All right, now, maintain all configurations. You're doing just fine. Doctors, fine, we like the picture. Come as easy as you are. I'm getting awful flows. Just keep your nose up. Watch the ear speed. Yeah, yeah, it is ten twenty. That's as all right. You know you're slowing her up and you're in So get your.

3:25:00 Breaks and drop your nose a firm, Hey, she's yours your rudder. Firm, hold your attitude, keep back you up, back far back, keep back your back. Push hard on those breaks. Not push hard? Should I reverse? He Joe? No, steady on the rudder pedals, keep that nose down. Give it all you have on the brakes. I'm a. I'm amaze. That's all your son asked for. Signing off now, Doc and turning you over.

3:25:46 The plane is down, and in the operations office of the airport, the hero of the hour has been sequestered in blessed relief from all the hooplah and excitement by. The airport director. Anything I can get you a drink or something. Doctor a bed Mainly. First, I've got some thank yous to dispense. Was it you who talked me down? I don't understand with somebody. On ground communications landed that big crate without damage, not me who was on the horn with me all the way, And well nobody, what do you mean nobody? I was talking to myself. All I mean is that out of Kansas City everyone lost contact with flight one one three.

3:26:35 As far as we're concerned, on the ground, only one man set her down. Doctor Sam McCall, Yeah, but that's crazy. Colonel Blake was the one who monitored every move I made. If it wasn't for him, me and everyone aboard, including the new young man, would have been gone. Geese. I couldn't have landed that skyscraper by myself. You say you were in radio contact all the way for sure with Colonel Blake. Colonel Jackson Blake. I never did get his first name. Well, why you know him? But no, not personally, but well he was the pilot of the plane in which your son crashed and all personnel were lost. He said he knew my son Pete.

3:27:30 You're trying to say he was dead all the time. Well, the only thing I know is that right beside your son, petch coffin is one that contains a Colonel Blake. And your radio was out cold, but no one else could. Have talked you down. What can you add to that? An elderly man who hadn't touched a plane control in six years and then only a single engine landed several tons of modern multi engine jets by himself in radio silence.

3:28:11 Or was there some other. Force beyond that which brought him home? You make up your minds. I'll be back shortly.

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3:29:36 I won't vouch for the story you just heard. It's part and parcel of many legends. There was a whole crew who got poisoned eating keey lime pie. There is a story of the radio operator of a sunken aircraft carrier who talked the plane home. Tale of a dead son who brought his father down, and so on and so on. All we asked on this program is not belief, just suspension of disbelief. Our cast included Robert Dryden, Jennifer Harmon, Earl Hammond, Richard Seth and Hetty Galen. The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.

3:30:19 I do so appreciate you staying up so late with me. Next week, when I hope to see you again, well it will be so close to time. We may have to do something special. At the very least, make the most of what time we have left. Oh, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Now. Why don't you just get ready and head back to your home, and I'll spend my time wherever it is I belong, and I'll be waiting right here for you, my dear, But one favor if I may, As you make your way home, As you enter your soft, delicate bedroom, and lay your head on that cushy, cool pillow. Take one moment and be thankful for what you have. I'll be seeing you