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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Ah, so good to see you, my dear The big
day and night is coming right up. I'd be lying
if I said I wasn't positively jovial about it. Well,
and I'm even more so now that you, my dear

(00:30):
dear friend, are here. I hope you're well rested, because
there's so much to get to Tonight. I'll be bringing
you all the chills and thrills that we oh so
enjoy together, and we'll be here till the wee hours,

(00:51):
well beyond the witching hour. So get comfortable. The tea
is almost done steeping, and we'll go searching in the dark,
hoping for the devils goal.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Maybe that's right, well, misturn theater prevent.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
I means welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
I'm eas Marshall, your host in this haven of horrors,
where we tease your imagination with tales of things that
can't possibly happen in real life.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
But then again, maybe they can.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Who knows.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
But at this very moment, someone somewhere might be flipping
a coin to decide an argument, to settle a debt,
or any of the hundreds of things flipping a coin
can settle. In the story about two Unfold, a coin
becomes a matter of life and death. What's that the
coin at your freek West, Captain. It's not what you think, sir.

(02:07):
The coin fell out of your pocket. The coin follow
won from here last night before.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
He was murdered.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
It's the coin, captain.

Speaker 5 (02:15):
But.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
I didn't kill him for it.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
You're confined to corridors West and then away reached Port,
New York. I'm turning you over to the authorities on
a charge of murder. Our mystery drama Devil's Goal was
written especially for the radio mystery theater by Bob Jern

(02:40):
and stars Russell Horton.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
I'll do that shortly with that one.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Coins have been used for currency for thousands of years.
Coins have commemorated great events and great prisons. Coins have
played the part in history, from pieces of silver to
pieces of eight. And yet never has it been a
coin quite like the one that turns up in our story,
a story that begins in a New York City.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Jail, Rusty, I'm Frank Barr.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Oh, yeah, you're the lawyer the court appointed for me.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
That's right. I didn't kill that guy, mister Barr.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Well, that's what the prosecution has to prove. A burden's
on him. But the evidence against you. The only evidence
was that gold coin. There weren't any witnesses.

Speaker 6 (03:32):
There rarely are.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
The murder guy, Fowler was my ship made of Buddy.
I wouldn't kill him over a lousy coin, especially not
that coin. I knew i'd get it back. That's apparently
what you said in front of witnesses at the card game,
and it was in your possession after the man was murdered.

(03:53):
I've got to know everything before with con ton of defense,
and believe me, it's got to be true. It's all true.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
I swear it. Do ahead them.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
I'm a merchant seaman, you know. And this thing started
two months ago. We were in a Mediterranean heading for dinner.
That's in Libya. We were pulling in at night and
the lights on the shore were sparkling. Yeah, it was
warn Gunny Fowler, that guy who was killed. He was
on the deck with me. We were both looking forward

(04:23):
to a couple of days. Leave you good to get
off this tub for a while. I ain't been on
a leaky pete like this in forty years. Doesn't bother me.
You're first Hall. You don't expect any better. What have
you been shipping for twenty years.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
What's this port like?

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Who you been here before?

Speaker 7 (04:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (04:41):
Once?

Speaker 8 (04:41):
Not bad.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Oh, watch out for the shopkeepers or they'll steel your blood.
And I don't have enough money left to steel, and
most of it last night. Yeah, I know you're done
to try to beat these girls at poker.

Speaker 9 (04:54):
Now you're too green.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
I gotta learn all the ropes. I wanted to get
my girlfriend something, you know, souvenir. I heard the guy
is talking about some store in this Port that's supposed
to be so great. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Devil's Boutique.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
They call it.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
That ain't his real name.

Speaker 9 (05:10):
They just call it that because it's so hard to find.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Never seemed to be in the same place twice.

Speaker 10 (05:16):
Yet some guys claim it don't exist at all, but.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
It's probably because they never found it.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Who have you?

Speaker 2 (05:24):
No, No, I ain't got no one to buy anything for.
Who does anyone know what street it's on?

Speaker 11 (05:31):
D Street?

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Names on nothing but Aliway is except for a few
blocks that they called downtown. But they say you recognize
it because it's lighted only with Campbell. Well, maybe I
can find something for Kim there. Sure you can if
you find the shop we tied up in Port and

(05:55):
the next day, I took off alone and warned it
around the town. It with a thrill to be in
a foreign port for the first time. Narrow alleys, street,
vendors all over the place, the sun climbing bright. It
was about noon when I first saw it. Off to
the right was a little lane that seemed to wind
around in the back of below buildings. It was completely deserted.

(06:19):
I took a few steps down the rough cobblestone alley.
It was dimmer, a place where the sun couldn't get to.
There wasn't a sound. The bustle behind me seemed to
have vanished. I walked slowly along the twisting alleyway.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
There were a few shops, but they were all closed.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
I don't know why I kept walking, but something seemed
to draw me along. And then the alley turned and
there it was a small shop, brightly lighted with candle
in the window. Were closed letter things be spices. There

(07:05):
was no name on the door, but I knew i'd
found that Devil's both cheats.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Who afternoon?

Speaker 2 (07:13):
You are Americans, so I was speak English. Welcome, buddy, Thanks,
You are looking for something, particularly something for a girl
in New York. Yes, it's jewelry perhaps, or there's something
less intimate.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
It's cave.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Look herold relapse and take your time. My shop is
at your service. Of yeah, okay, thanks, I'll just look around.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
The place was fantastic.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
I don't know anything about jewels or clothes that stuff,
but what I was seeing in miss shop was dazzling.
I picked out a silver rocket for Kim and it
is then I know. It's this scruffy looking guy handling
everything among the small tables. Suddenly he slipped a gold

(08:07):
candlestick underneath the road he was wearing. Gilked around and
then heading for the door. Hey, hell, WI, what is
the travest that that guy leaving? He took a candlestick
on that table over there.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
He's stealing it.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
I'll get him. No, wait, it's wet.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
It is on the right.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
You're gonna let him get away with that? He is
not getting away with anything. I am used to the
thieves of who aren't you gonna call the police? The police? Oh,
I have my own way of doing with these steeves
and getting my merchandise. But how are you gonna get
it back?

Speaker 3 (08:38):
You know that guy? No, but it doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
The candlestick will be returned to me. No, you know
this price better than I do. Oh, I'm gonna take
this silver locket? How much twenty American dollar?

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Fair enough? It is a lovely pizza work.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Here you are challe in twenty. Thank you, thank you,
And now i'd like to show my appreciation for your
sporting theative. It is nice to meet an honest man.
Why didn't do anything? You wouldn't even let me get
employ it. That does not matter, but your interest in

(09:19):
my well being is greatly appreciated. Still, this coin is
a token of my respect. Please take it in friendship,
A simple gift to any air of the devil's butt
it you mean that's what you call the police? No,
not I really, but I am well aware of my

(09:41):
reputation and how my customers refer to my shop.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
Here.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Take it, okay, but you know I realize that would
take it. It's yours and this coin will always be
yours forever there. Hey it's heavy solid gold. Oh look
now you can't. It's yours, and as I said it, all.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
The ways will be yours.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
No one eight can ever own it. I couldn't believe it,
this guy getting me something like that.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
For doing nothing.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
Really.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
I headed back into the streets of Dernham, and two
days later we headed back for the stage.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
You need a few.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Bucks to get paid on the draangs, guy, My girlfriend
will end me some.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
I'll be okay.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Someday you'll learn not to let them punks take it. Yeah, someday. Well,
we better get down. We'll be pulling in a port
an hour. When I left the ship, I called Kim
and told her i'd pick her up for dinner that night.
I knew she'd spring for a loan, but I kind
of hated to let her know. I gambled away.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
Oh my dough. Then I remember the gold coin in
my pocket.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
Maybe I could hark it for a few days till
I got paid. I headed for a pawn shop on
sixth Avenue. Ah, I want to horn this coin for
a couple of days. What do you give me for it?
Where'd you get there?

Speaker 3 (11:19):
In Libya?

Speaker 2 (11:22):
Look solid to me? It's a solid gold all right,
strange design. I got it in a strange shower, two
hundred bar No, okay, I'll take it. I'll buy it
back in a couple of days before I ship out again.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
Okay, fill off the car.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
I'll get your cash. Want some desert, honey, not on
your loans.

Speaker 12 (11:49):
I'm wanting my figure.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
So am, I looks pretty good from where I sit.

Speaker 8 (11:54):
It's good to have you back.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
I missed you. I thought of you every minute here.
This will prove it. I was saving a craft of
dinner for me, of course for you. Who else?

Speaker 13 (12:08):
I love surprises.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
I bought it in a funny little store in some
place called Derna. I gotta tell you about that. Oh, fusty,
it's done toussy kind of thought you'd like it.

Speaker 12 (12:19):
It's got to be one of a kind. I've never
been anything like it, and I know my jewelry.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
It's my business.

Speaker 12 (12:26):
Here, can help me with the class.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Oh boy, looks even better on you. Seems to pick
up a glow.

Speaker 12 (12:34):
Oh wait, I showed it to Mincha Road at.

Speaker 8 (12:36):
This door tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
Let me tell you about the shop where I got it.

Speaker 12 (12:39):
And let's go back to my place for coffee. We'll
be more comfortable.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Okay, I'll pay the check. O.

Speaker 12 (12:43):
I'm just crazy about it. Okay, you're dropping your money.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
That's impossible, Rusty, what's the matter is coring? Geez?

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Where'd you get that?

Speaker 2 (12:57):
I couldn't have been in my pocket. I left it
with a powmbroker.

Speaker 8 (13:01):
It's a beautiful coin.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
No why he got The shopkeeper where I bought your
Luckett gave me this coin. I spotted a shop lifter.
He gave me this as a reward. But I pawned
this this afternoon. I got two hundred bucks. Now, how
can I have it in my pocket?

Speaker 12 (13:18):
You probably forgot to leave it with the pombroker.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
He wouldn't hand over the money without the coin. I
don't see how else it could have happened. What do
you think to do. I'll go back there tomorrow and
give it to him. I got the money, but he
didn't get the coin.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah, oh, be for it already.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
I got an apology to make. I forgot to leave
the coin with you. Well, you gave me two hundred
dollars for a gold coin yesterday, but last night I
found it in my pocket here.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
I don't get it. That's the coin, at least I
think I did.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
You're sure pain a second, It should be in a
brown envelope. He're on the top shof Well it ain't.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
You got the coin, okay, but probably dined If I
know how that happened.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
Well, here it is it's yours still pay to champ
believe just an oversight. No, I don't mean that. I
can't believe anybody could be that on it.

Speaker 8 (14:26):
How long you've you gone this time?

Speaker 2 (14:28):
We're heading for England, probably four weeks, maybe five, But
all right you I have.

Speaker 12 (14:33):
Your locket to remind you what time you have to
be on board.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
In an hour.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
You gotta get killing. Oh oh, I just thought of something.
I don't have the money to get back my coin. No, no, no,
I don't mean it that way. I'll take care of
it when I get back from England. But I want
you to keep the pawn ticket. I'm sure don't want
to lose that. Got it here someplace in one of
my pockets. Well, that is curious. I thought I heard

(15:03):
the clink of a coin. Could it be again? The
last we heard, Rusty had taken his gold coin back
to the pawnbroker for a second time, And here it
is back. If you remember, at the start of our drama,
Rusty was in jail for murder. How that comes about,
We'll see when I returned shortly with that too. You've

(15:32):
heard about people who keep turning up when are not
wanted referred to as a bad penny. Well, it seems
that Rusty west It's valuable gold coin, far from being
a bad penny, nevertheless, is bound and determined to keep
turning up. When we left Rusty, he was just an
hour away from his next voyage and in his girlfriend's apartment.
They were both surprised by Rusty.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
I'm looking. I don't believe it.

Speaker 8 (15:58):
Are you playing danger?

Speaker 3 (16:00):
No, Kim, I'm not.

Speaker 12 (16:01):
You had that coin in your pocket all the time.
You're just trying to play them seventh.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
John, I swear to you the last time I saw
that coin within the pawnbroker's safe, I saw him put
it there.

Speaker 8 (16:11):
Well here take it.

Speaker 12 (16:13):
You look like you don't want to touch it. I
still think you're pulling my leg, nasty.

Speaker 8 (16:21):
Nothing could matter.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
It's yours, as I said, it's really all ways be yours.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
Oh ow.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Kim the shopkeeper and darner who gave it to me,
he said it would always be mine, no one else
could ever own it. I didn't take anything it at
the time.

Speaker 14 (16:45):
You are serious.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
I even believe me.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
I don't know how or why or what kind of
magic this is, but somehow that coin keeps coming back
to me.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
I can't lose it, Rusty.

Speaker 8 (16:57):
That gives me the creep, got it?

Speaker 2 (16:59):
If I am, I'm not kidding, you really mean it.
I want to make one more test to be sure
what I mean test. I want to leave the coin
with you, hide it, lock it up somewhere, and let's
see what happened. I don't know that it can't hurt you,
but I can't explain it. But nothing is going to
happen to you.

Speaker 12 (17:20):
All right, I'll put it in a face deposit box
to the bank. I don't want the thing around here.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Okay, hold onto the pawn ticket and put the coin
in the bank. And whatever you do, Kim, don't tell
anyone about it, anyone. I made it to my ship
in time, and we sailed with a night time. All
I could think about was that strange coin. It can

(17:45):
come back to me. There was just no way I
could make a mistake with a pawnbroker a second time.
And every minute of every day I wondered when and
where it would come back again. The trip thing and
was smooth and putting at Liverpool on a Friday morning,
and that night Guy and I went out for a

(18:06):
couple of beers. You're really serious, about making to see
your life, kid, Maybe not for life a couple of
years though. Hey he's good and I got no plan
to settle down. Yeah, what about that gal backing a
big apple?

Speaker 3 (18:20):
Kim's just a good friend.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Hey, what do you say we get out of here
and scare up some segments. Oh, I'll take care of
the tab. I owe you a couple anyway. Okay, kid,
Hey you drop something? Uh yeah, it's out of my
pocket when I reached for my dough. Hey, this is
some coin. Feels like solid gold. Yeah, yeah, it is

(18:43):
good luck piece and sort of m hm. Must be
worth plenty. Now you are to wear it around your
neck or something. The way you're carrying around, you're gonna
lose it for sure.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
So there it was again.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
I didn't notice how surprised and nervous I was, but
I had to call Kim right away. I told guy
I was going to manager, and I found a payphone
at the back of the pub and put in a
collect call to Kim.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
I knew you'd be calling Kim.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
It's back. It just fell at my feet minutes ago.

Speaker 12 (19:18):
I knew it was going to knew it was gone
from the safety pibot box today, I drove the bank
people crazy.

Speaker 8 (19:24):
I check it every morning.

Speaker 12 (19:26):
Sometimes I'd go on my lunch.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
Hour too, And today it was gone in my pocket.

Speaker 8 (19:31):
Right now, Rusty, I'm scared of that thing. Get rid
of it, please, how can I?

Speaker 3 (19:39):
I didn't question it anymore.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
I just accepted the fact that I had a gold
coin and would somehow come back to me, no matter
what I did with it, no matter where I was.
After all, Jim would lock it up in a safe
deposit box in New York and had reached me in England,
and I began to realize how I could make some

(20:01):
money with it. We were doomed to sail the following
night back to New York. The next morning, I slipped ashore.
I bought a newspaper and looked up a coin dealer.
I found one in the West End.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
Here, I breathed.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
He paid me five hundred dollars for it American cash.
I went back to the ship, knowing that before I
got back to New York the coin would.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
Be at my feet.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
It was my goose rang the golden ache. The trip
back to New York was as uneventful as the trip over.
Nothing to relieve them or Nott me, but okay, guys,
five card draw this O me okay, first cart down,
f on any of them? One bug, next cart up,

(20:48):
nice deuce jackie, diamonds and arts as beets.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Uh ten bucks Tendnesday a rice five doose and the
Queen the races bed twenty.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
I'm up.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Just when it looked like I had a change of
taking a pot, they all folded except guy. He was
looking straight at me. He had a can and Queen
of hearts showing, got much to bet on? I saw
my change that I kill him fading fast, Ah, buy
another card? Ten fine arts, Uh, there's two bits, uh

(21:31):
twenty raised twenty.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
I'm in.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Last card probably race and king arts well raises beds
or do you say?

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Kid? Four aces? I couldn't believe it. This was my
pot for sure.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
Guy had a possible flush with four hearts showing, but
I knew this one was mine and we had fifty
bucks left.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
But I couldn't blue. I bet it all.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Three aces, bet fifty. Well, the kids playing by high stakes,
we're gonna see me. George, George, raise you fifty, raise
raise fifty. I'm out of girl. You's sure, right, kid,
unless you can raise fifty bucks to see me. Now,
I might have a flush I got for a hard showing,

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but then you'd win. But if that whole card happens
to be a jack, well, hey, maybe I'm bluffing her.
You'll never find out unless you can call What do
you say, kid, I'll call you here. You're gonna bet
that coin. But that's a pure goal. You told me
it's worth hundreds of bucks. I'm seeing you now, Look, kid,

(22:48):
I don't want I am in.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
Let's see what you got.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
Okay, kid, read him and leave straight? Flush nine ten,
Jack in the hole.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Queen and the King.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Right, I got four races? Brothering else would beat you, kid,
but four aces fit was my pot. Look, I'm sorry, kid,
but Devin belongs. I warned you about getting into these games.
You wanted to learn the road, so you just said
your first lesson. I bet it would have been different
if someone else was dealing.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
What was that?

Speaker 2 (23:22):
And I see it now? You set me up with
four races to beat me with a fly?

Speaker 3 (23:26):
Hey, hold on, kid, are you excusing me? And you
just said I said nothing of the kind?

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Now, nobody calls guy Fowler a cheat. It definitely no
green white here now that was a second lesson, kid,
And don't expect your gold coin back now.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
I might have thought about letting you.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
Win it back, but now I'll get it back. I
don't need a cheap card game to do it. I
am gonna get that coin back. I asked him for
less than three kid.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
Yeah, well here's one person cabin. I never telegraph a
funch kid.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
Hey you guys, I take you noise bunk.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
I'm going to my cabin and count my doll. I
woke up at two am with something hammering in my head.
Guy sure had laid on one. It was dark, and
I had a thirst like an elephant. I started for

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the head for a drink of water. As I passed
Guy's cabin, I heard voices why. I wanted to avoid
him for the rest of the night. So I got
my drink and went back to my bunk. And the
next morning all hell broke loose. The guy was found
in his cabin dead. The captain took charge of the

(24:54):
situation and put Guy's cabin out of bounds for the
rest of the voyage, and then he started asking questions
and learned about the poker game in Francus.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
He called me to his cabin.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
And I then say, you and follower had a fight
last night. Well it wasn't a fight, Sari. He decked
me twice. He accused him of cheating one day I did.
But then there's something about a coin.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (25:19):
Are you accusing me of killing guy captain? And I
can't accuse you right now, but you had a damn
good motive.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
You threatened to get the coin.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
Back if I didn't it threaten. I'm told you said
something like you'd get it back without another cheap poker game.
The Follower's dead and the coin is missing. I personally
searched this body, his cabin, and his gear. It's missing.
It's the motive for the killing. That and revenge man

(25:50):
that I can't prove anything, nor do I intend.

Speaker 15 (25:52):
To the authorities in.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
New York will take care of a captain. Last night
I went for a drink of water. I passed and
I heard voices. Now I don't know who it was,
but somebody was there. We think I'm on rusty. Don't
expect me to buy that. Are there any witnesses to
back up this story? When no Sarah was alone? But
I swear I'm having you and your gear searched, which

(26:17):
I probably got rid of the coin by now. I
just don't buy anyone else having a reason of smashing
fouler skull. But who else knew about the coin? Edwards
and King were in on the game, Sir above suspicion.
They've been shipping with Fowler for years. Maybe he showed
it to someone else, and then maybe they killed him

(26:37):
just for a lousy coin. No, rusty, why don't you
give me the truth?

Speaker 15 (26:44):
Make it easy on all.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Of us, Captain, I didn't kill him. I went back
to my quarter, shaking like a leaf. Who had killed die?

Speaker 3 (26:54):
Captain was funny about.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
Edwards and seen they were buddies, No grudge, no envy.
Someone had seen the coin and tried to get it.
I lay down on the bunk, trying his sort of
beings out. When it happened, I looked up like a shot.
The evidence against me was lying right at my feet.
The coin went back.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
I picked it up.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
A wave of panic crushed over me. The Captain was
going to search me. I had to get rid of it,
even if it was only temporary.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
I went up on deck. Stiff wind tore at my jacket.
The sea was heavy.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
I went to the rail, looked around, and hurled the
coin into the water. Disappeared into the waves. I hurried
back to my quarters. The captain and mate searched me
and my quarters, and of course didn't find the coin.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
But I was in a panic.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
I see, I've been thinking this through. We didn't find
a coin in your possession. There's not a shred of
evidence against anyone. Yes, sir, you're so smart.

Speaker 15 (28:01):
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
I am absolutely innocent. You were the one who threatened
to get the coin back.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
You'll admit you said it.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Why because the coin is Yes, what is it?

Speaker 3 (28:15):
You won't believe it.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
I believe you're guilty of killing Fowler, and I won't
listen any more tall tales of yours.

Speaker 16 (28:23):
Will you tell me the truth?

Speaker 2 (28:26):
Well, here we go again, but this time Rusty isn't
so happy to see.

Speaker 3 (28:36):
The coin return.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
Indeed, he did come back at the most inappropriate time.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
It seems that the.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
Goose that was to lay the golden egg is liable
to cook Rusty's goose, if I may be permitted an
appropriate cluche. But we can hardly blame the poor coin.
It's only doing what it has to do. We'll see
what deeper trouble lies ahead for Rusty when I returned
shortly with Act three. He's curious how loyalty and devotion

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can sometimes innocently work to one's disadvantage. Rusty West's Royal
gold coin has once again returned to its owner, only
to incriminate Rusty in murder. Perhaps, if the coin had
picked a more auspicious time to make its appearance, Rusty might.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
Have kept its secret forever. But as we said before,
one can't blame the coin. It only did what it
had to do the coin.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
The coin fell out of your pocket, a coin follow
won from you last night before.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
He was murdered.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
It is the coin, sir, But I didn't kill him
for it. I knew I was going to get.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
The coin bags.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
I signed to corriders for the rest of the voyage.
When we reached the port of New York, I'm turning
over to the authorities. I'm a charge of murder. So
that's it, mister Barr. That's the whole story. The captain
took the coin. The police were waiting for us at
Peer fifty seven, and here I am. That's some story.

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It's the truth. You swear that the coin by some
magic just mysteriously came back. That's what I've been saying
for the last half hour. How can I take that
story into a courtroom? We might just as well plead insanity.
You believe it's liable to turn up any minute?

Speaker 4 (30:31):
Well, I never know when.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
If it hadn't shown up in front of the captain,
I might not be here now. Coins being held with evidence.
It's the one solemn piece against you. Yeah, I know that,
but I wouldn't have any reason to kill guy for
that coin. I knew it would come back to me automatically.
That's what I.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
Meant when I said it. Did you tell the men
of the captain what you meant?

Speaker 2 (30:55):
Oh? How could I did think I was crazy? Well,
the prosecuto has a job ahead of him. The profession
of the coin doesn't prove you killed the man, and
that's what he has to prove.

Speaker 3 (31:07):
To the jury's satisfaction. Oh what are we going to do?
I'm not sure yet.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
I have to think this through carefully, because if we
do what I'm thinking of now.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
This could be the case of the century.

Speaker 8 (31:28):
Honey, what are they're doing?

Speaker 4 (31:29):
You hume?

Speaker 2 (31:31):
They said I had a visitor. I shouldn't think you
didn't choose that man. You couldn't, of course, not honey,
didn't hide did, but the coin and then who was
murdered wanted from me in a poker game. They thought
I'd killed him, but you.

Speaker 8 (31:46):
Told me you didn't.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Why they got you lost up.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
It's not as easy as that for them. I'm guilty.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
They don't know what that coin does.

Speaker 8 (31:53):
I knew it meant trouble you. Remember, I was afraid
of it.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
I begged you to get rid of it. I can't
get rid of it. That's the all trouble. I'm scared, Kim.
I didn't kill a guy, he was my friend. How
can I make them believe it?

Speaker 12 (32:07):
Your lawyer will find a way, Rusty, That's what lawyers before.
And I'll stand by you even know that.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
Yeah, yeah, I know, Kim.

Speaker 17 (32:17):
I can tell him about the coin and how you
got it back.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
We'll have to see what the lawyer wants to do.
I sure hope he's got something, Rusbie. I've made up
my mind. I'm going to put you on the stamp
to tell your story, just as you told it to me.
It's your only defense. You wouldn't kill anyone for the

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coin because you knew you'd get it back supernaturally. But
that's what I've been saying. Is there any way we
can count on the coin coming back now while you're
in jail, because if you could produce the coin now,
they'd have to believe your story. You sounds as though
you do believe me. I'm going into this trial believing you.

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I'm going in admitting that I believe in the magic
of that coin.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
Now.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Do I have your absolute solemn word that all you've
told me is true?

Speaker 3 (33:15):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (33:15):
You do, and even kim Oi'll tell you about the
safe deposit box I plan.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
To call it. I believe you.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Now, we've got to make them believe I'm satisfied with
the jury Rusty. We've got their interest, I've got the
whole court intrigued. I want to keep up this atmosphere.
I want to make them feel the spirit world breathing
down their backs. You sure know what you're doing. I
feel a lot better knowing I've got an experienced lawyer.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
A rusty.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
An experienced lawyer wouldn't dare plead the case I'm going to,
And you happen to be my first criminal case. Things
Sherlock Black for me, Mister Barr only temporarily. The testimony
of the captain and the two shipmates today didn't help,
but the court hasn't heard you yet. I wish i'd

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never found that shop in Dern. I wish i'd never.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
Seen that coin.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
Tomorrow, I'm putting you on the stand and I want
you to tell your story to the court exactly as
you told it to me. Now, mister West, will you
tell the court in your own words what happened.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
To you from the beginning.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
I'm a merchant seaman, and two months ago I had
surely been a town called Durna in Libya. And then
right in front of the captain, the coin fell to
my feet.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
So the coin returned again of its owner.

Speaker 9 (34:50):
Court.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
Yes, Sir, I wouldn't have killed guy for that coin.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
I wouldn't kill anyone, but I knew i'd get the
coin back. That's why I said it, and that's the
true I didn't kill him.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
Anon. It's Morgan.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
Before he sailed for England. The defendant gave you the
coin in question ages and what did you do with it?

Speaker 12 (35:14):
I put it in a fafty post box, just like
first he told you, at National Bank on forty first Street.
I checked it every day, sometimes twice.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
I go the bank, people crazy, and each time you
inspected the safe deposit box. The coin was there until
May fourteenth, And on May fourteenth it was gone. The
box was empty.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
And then and that day.

Speaker 12 (35:42):
Rusty called me from Liverpool to say he had just
gotten it back.

Speaker 8 (35:46):
And that's the truth.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Yeah, yeah, I remember the guy he pawned a gold car.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
Will you tell the court what happened?

Speaker 2 (35:57):
I gave him two hundred bucks for the car, and
and he comes in next day and he gives me
the very same coiny poem said, you must have forgotten
to give it to me.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
You were obviously surprised.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Yeah, I knew. I locked it up in my safe
and I always keep the small stuff in the day.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
And then what did you do?

Speaker 2 (36:13):
Well, I've locked it up again, and this time I
made sure I checked it just before I closed for
the knife, and it was in the safe at the time.

Speaker 3 (36:23):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
A few days later it was God never been able
to find it again.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
A may I have exhibit A please? Thank you? Is
this the coin the defendant pawn with you, mister Shaffer?
That's it.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
I recognize the design.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Okay, that guy owes me two hundred bucks. And in conclusion,
we submit that the coin has or had the mystical.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
Property to act on its own.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
The story of the defendant is true, as born out
by the testimony under oath.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
Of Miss Morgan and mister Shaeffer.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
So I am for you, ladies and gentlemen, to keep
foremost in your minds and deliberation, that Rusty West did
not murder to get his coin back. He knew he
would get it back anyway. The defense read.

Speaker 18 (37:21):
The testimony in this case seems to be without president.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
In fact, it seems also to.

Speaker 18 (37:27):
Be without credibility. I am instruct seeing the bailiff to
Locke exhibit a the coin in question in a double
lock tamper proof container, and.

Speaker 3 (37:39):
One of the keys will be given to me.

Speaker 19 (37:41):
We shall woo out sleight of hand in this preposterous case.
Should be coin subsequently be found in the possession of
the defendant, I shall have no choice but to declare
a mistrial.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
We hear the prosecution firmation.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
Tomorrow at ten am court stand.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
Nobody's going to believe it. Don't give up, Rusty. I've
got one work. It's about what's the matter that man
going out the door. The white coin mustache.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
If you eat the man in the shop, but.

Speaker 3 (38:13):
One gave me the coin?

Speaker 8 (38:14):
What catch him?

Speaker 3 (38:15):
Please stop him? I'll dry.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
You didn't get him, eh, he vanished. He wasn't anywhere
in the hall when I got there, Too bad. You
might have clinched our case. Well, I hadn't seen him
in a cart room earlier.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
He must have been there, though.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
What would he be doing here all the way from Libya?
I think he's come to get his coin back. What
he told me, He had his own ways of getting
his merchandise back. And you'll never see that coin again.
How can you be so sure that that was the
man it was?

Speaker 8 (38:57):
I know?

Speaker 3 (38:58):
Then?

Speaker 2 (38:59):
Why would he take it back? You said he gave
it to you in friendship? Ill No, But if the
coin was coming back to me, it would have been
here before now. I still don't see the connection between
him here and the trial. Why didn't he come forward
to help? I'm thinking of a way he looked at
me just before he went out. I think maybe he

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knew I was making money on the coin, pawning it
and selling it and gambling with it. Maybe he didn't
like that. Maybe he thought I was just using it.
I guess I'm through with that now. Maybe it's just
as well and got me in enough trouble. And if
the jury finds me guilty, I guess it doesn't matter

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much anymore.

Speaker 8 (39:48):
It is a gentlemen.

Speaker 20 (39:50):
You must decide this case on circumstantial evidence, on the
testimony of the prosecution witnesses who claimed the defendant produced
the coin himself and wh there are no magic involved,
And on the testimony of the defense witnesses who swear
the coin vanished mysteriously from their possession. Before sending the

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jury to their deliberation, May I ask if the defendant
can produce the coin.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
It is now locked in a steel box. It's whereabouts
known only to me and the bailer, Your honor, we
would be a jury will decide whom to believe.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
They escort the jury to the jury room.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
I scared, mister barsh hanging musty.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
We don't know what.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
The jury is coming back. It's only been forty minutes,
so what does that mean. I didn't take them long
to decide it. But it doesn't look good.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
But I knew said I'm as guilty.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
The defendant will rise and face the jury, Madam Boorman,
have you reached a verdict?

Speaker 8 (41:05):
We have your honor, I'll say you. We find the defendant.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
Well, Rusty's gold coin has made an auspicious appearance after all.
Reporters are crowding in now, flash bugs are popping. This
case is attracted so much attention in the press it
will make the front pages again tomorrow. After this dramatic
turn of events, King is hugging Rusty and crying.

Speaker 4 (41:31):
He's holding the coin above his head. The jerug is
standing now. Two shots who even wrapped forward. The foreman
never got a chance to deliver the verdict.

Speaker 3 (41:40):
We'll speculate on what it.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
Might have been when I returned shortly. What do you
think the jury's verdict was? We know Rusty wasn't guilty,
but did the jury think so?

Speaker 10 (41:59):
We'll never know.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
The judge did as he said he would, then declared
a mistrial. The truth of Rusty's strange story was so
graphically and dramatically substantiated. He eventually went free, and the
case became such a cause celeb that every now and
then the cranks and the crackpots would successfully steal a
Rusty's coin for a souvenir.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
But as all we.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
Our cast included Russell Horton, Betsy Beard, Lloyd Batista and
Earl Hammond. The entire production was under the direction of
Pymond Brown.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
Well, my dear, I do hope I have started the
evening in a way you enjoy. I hope you're already
having a very good time. There's so much to do,
so much to experience as we head in to the
special day for those like me at least. So let

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me get another pot of tea going. We're going to
be here a while and the weather has turned so
very cold. We're getting a taste of winter, a time
when our minds begin to wander. But a wandering mind,
well that's the devil's workshop.

Speaker 6 (43:27):
Good evening, friends, this is your host to welcome you
through the creaking door into the inner sanctum.

Speaker 3 (43:36):
Come in, Come in.

Speaker 6 (43:38):
Well, I had my musical bannad on last night. We're
looking for the last cord and I found it dumb
Joko was wearing it as a necklace. I had to
cut him loose from a ceiling.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
Beam to get the cord oh Son. Later on we
sang sentimental songs. Everyone is so touched in the head.

Speaker 6 (44:06):
One game play got so hysterically fell on himself, ran
himself through.

Speaker 3 (44:12):
There he lay dead, but no blood. The zombies. The
party broke up.

Speaker 6 (44:22):
When everybody broke down, aes a little life of an
evening can be deadly.

Speaker 9 (44:40):
The Night's Inner Sanctum mystery.

Speaker 10 (44:42):
The Devil's Workshop was written by John Robert and stars
Mason Adams and the role of Tony, with Joan Banks
as Tina.

Speaker 6 (44:55):
That story was specially devised to get you used to
the winter chill. Just try to shrug it off. I
tell you, our hero is Tony Murillo, creator of the
Devil's Workshop, a talented young man with a genius for evil.

Speaker 10 (45:18):
The Devil's Workshop, I created it, and I live in it.
Dealing with me is every murderer whoever amounted when it's in,
hatchet men, pathological killers, bloody Mary, and the devil himself.
We live in it, all of us, with one difference
only I'm flesh and blood, and they're wax. My hands

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made them. It's a good business. I can't keep up
with the cash orders pouring in from wax musines all
over the world. It's a good business, except that sometimes
it gets in the way of your love life.

Speaker 9 (45:52):
A little your girl wonders about.

Speaker 13 (45:54):
You sometimes, Tony, how did you ever fix some such
a strange occupation?

Speaker 10 (46:01):
Maybe because I'm strange myself, and maybe because it's my name.

Speaker 3 (46:06):
Is Murilla Pillo? See that figure.

Speaker 10 (46:10):
Standing alongside the refrigeration room, the chubby little ball fellow
with the face of an angel. Hmmm, he shot nine
men before a sheriff's posse got he was Caesar Murillo.
Sometimes your girl Tina forgets the blood around her is

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make believe in the lunatic faces of homicidal killers are
only wax.

Speaker 16 (46:38):
Did bloody Mary just swing at you with her egs?

Speaker 14 (46:41):
No?

Speaker 8 (46:43):
No, no, not Mary. It was the devil.

Speaker 13 (46:45):
I could swear he move just now, Tony, Look what
do you want me to see? The devil grinning and
moving his lips. Look, Tony, I'm not crazy.

Speaker 21 (46:52):
Oh you're not crazy. He's always grinning and moving his lips,
always and moving around the room, always restless. Today's behind
this killer tomorrow that killer or watching hickman a butcher,
and always grinning and moving his lips like he was
egging them on.

Speaker 8 (47:12):
Do you know what you're saying?

Speaker 9 (47:17):
Forget it?

Speaker 10 (47:22):
Yeah, things happened to you in my kind of workshop.
You turn in for the night on an iron army,
and the shop comes alive. You're a wax and they're
flesh and blood and all of them having a time
of it for themselves with the devil did hid the rest?

Speaker 3 (47:38):
You can among.

Speaker 10 (47:44):
You wake up and there he is behind someone else
for the day, or you wake up but he's gone.
The Devil's no, we're in the workshop, and then he
just dropped and went on the town.

Speaker 13 (47:57):
Tina, Yes, what are you trying to pull, Paul, I
don't understand the devil.

Speaker 3 (48:02):
He's nowhere in the workshop.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
Tell me what are you saying?

Speaker 16 (48:04):
But you were here during the night and carry him off?
Nobody else could have gotten in.

Speaker 8 (48:08):
Why should I steal your your devil?

Speaker 10 (48:15):
I reported it to the police as a theft to
a sergeant Tracy. And somebody stole your devil? You say,
a wax devil? Is there another cane?

Speaker 22 (48:26):
Hey, you were asleep when the door was locked? Yes,
any windows to the loft so leading to a.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
Fire escape, but they were bolted from the inside.

Speaker 22 (48:36):
Well, if the door and windows were locked, how do
you figure that robberator was worked?

Speaker 3 (48:43):
I don't know. Could he have walked down the devil
at me? I don't know.

Speaker 10 (48:58):
I returned to the workshop by way of the docks.
Just a door or two from the workshop, a man
stopped me, A man in black, black, as if he
was wearing the night around. He wore a hood. Just
his eyes showed like small batteries of light. And make
an up, cry, and I'll kill you. You're going to
rob me. No commission, you commission me? You turn in Marilla. Hyes,

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where's your workshop two doors down? I came to you
because of your genius with your hands. You'll want a figure, No,
just a face, a face for me, you see I
have no face, I mean no adequate one in the workshop.

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The eyes gleaming from holes in the hood turned on me.
Sit down while I unmasked, said it may be a shark.
I'm not pretty. Every day I see things. You're not
pretty to see very well?

Speaker 3 (50:04):
Then look where's your face?

Speaker 9 (50:10):
All that there is you see here?

Speaker 3 (50:14):
You're just a skull like death.

Speaker 9 (50:17):
I can breathe but through holes.

Speaker 10 (50:19):
I can eat and talk, but your mouth is just
a no lips but no fleshl like your face was
eating away.

Speaker 9 (50:27):
It was eating away. It was how you really want
to know?

Speaker 3 (50:32):
I can stand it.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
It was a bandit somewhere in the desert country. The
bandit had a sense of the grotesque. He didn't like
my face, he said, you want a face for me, Yes,
but a wax face? What good would you are? Not?
You're only to comply, not the judge. You will rebuild

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my face. You will model a nose, lips and the chin.

Speaker 3 (51:03):
But out of wax. It's crazy. Better a surge and surgery,
s somebody.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
I want a wax face. Templet us firmly and durablaze
those dummies. But handsomer. I want to be handsome, feat
as handsome as you as me. Yes, make my face
in your likeness. Well, what do you keep staring?

Speaker 3 (51:27):
You?

Speaker 2 (51:29):
You could be the wax devil. You have a lively imagination,
have I and the perverse habit of staring? Now what's
running through your imagination?

Speaker 3 (51:41):
What I just said? You could be the wax devil.
I could be way a wax devil disappeared this morning.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
All right, touch me and satisfy yourself, and let's get
this over with so you can work on my face.
Feel my hands. It's flash and I do believe me.
I wouldn't prefer experimenting with a pin. No, I still
think me a missing devil.

Speaker 3 (52:08):
You you couldn't be. But I got to work.

Speaker 10 (52:16):
I posed myself in the warm mirror and rebuilt his
face in wax, A fine, straight nose and a strong
chin like mine. My next colors into the wax to
get a reddish glow to the cheeks. I made the
face durable as much as my skill could, and when
it was modeled into the warm mass, I kept him
in the refrigerator room as long as I did.

Speaker 2 (52:40):
You now.

Speaker 3 (52:44):
A face. Let me see.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
There's your mirror over there. Ah, A good job, Tony,
and I can breathe, and I can you claim your
work intelligently?

Speaker 3 (53:04):
Look at me. I could be you in wax. Yes,
you could be be How long can the face last?
And definitely if you keep the core temperature? Then I'll
live here with you. I must wear better than here.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
I'll have your hands at my disposals and your refrigerator room. Besides,
I want to show my gratitude by rewarding you, rewarding
me hard.

Speaker 9 (53:28):
And making you rich, enormously rich.

Speaker 2 (53:32):
Money are jewels, treasures, all that coming from everywhere in
the world, from banks and from merchants and from misers.

Speaker 3 (53:41):
I forgot to tell you, not only do I not
have an actual face.

Speaker 9 (53:46):
I haven't the conscience Eiland.

Speaker 3 (53:52):
He was going to steal for me, he said, but
he began by stealing from me. Tina.

Speaker 10 (54:00):
I had a date with her, but she hadn't shown up.
I'd waited half the night, but she never came. The
next day, when she dropped into the workshop, I landed
into what changed your mind changed? We had a date
last night.

Speaker 3 (54:11):
I waited for you. You didn't show up. I didn't.

Speaker 8 (54:16):
You're insane. We kept a date. We what We kept
a date and we had fun for the first time
in weeks. We had fun. I I evedn't fell in
love with you?

Speaker 3 (54:31):
What did we do? You don't remember?

Speaker 8 (54:37):
Tony? What's the matter with you?

Speaker 3 (54:39):
What did we do?

Speaker 13 (54:41):
There was an open air movie and the drive into
the country was sang and joked and.

Speaker 8 (54:47):
Didn't love his name? Tony?

Speaker 13 (54:52):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (54:53):
What's come over you?

Speaker 10 (54:55):
You were hot last night, all right, Tina, but not
with me. You were out joy riding with the Devil.
After that first date, the Devil and Tina kept piling

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together night after night, dates every night, and Tina smiling
like she just discovered herself while she was.

Speaker 3 (55:23):
Having the time of her life. Even when Tina found
out he was a ringer for me, she preferred him.

Speaker 10 (55:29):
I couldn't talk her out, but I couldn't beat her
out of room. Tony all knocked so sensity about the killer.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
Quit taking that the freak you you've no right to
order me, only in your crazy head.

Speaker 8 (55:43):
He's warm and reeling, even tender.

Speaker 16 (55:47):
His faces are dollars worth of worts, like a masty
A month away.

Speaker 8 (55:50):
He told me how that happened, a terrible way he
was mutilated. I cried, Tony. I wasn't repelled.

Speaker 3 (55:56):
I just cried for him.

Speaker 10 (55:58):
You would, for a gag invented that horror story about
his face. And if he did invent it, invent it
doesn't make any.

Speaker 3 (56:05):
Difference to me. Nothing makes any difference to me, not
even if he's the devil.

Speaker 13 (56:10):
Not even then, all these days you've been telling me
he's the devil, a thing with a false face and
no conscience. And while you've been telling me all that,
do you know what I keep thinking, Coney, But I
keep whispering to myself.

Speaker 3 (56:23):
How do you keep thinking? Oh?

Speaker 13 (56:26):
Excliting, so exciting to be in league and in love
with the devil?

Speaker 8 (56:33):
Are you surprised?

Speaker 10 (56:35):
Tolly her laugh as if she was having a thing,
moving away from a deeper into the workshop, losing herself
in a crowd of wax figures, patched lynd and crazy killing.

Speaker 3 (56:51):
I followed over my eyes as far as I could.
Suddenly I saw her as someone else.

Speaker 16 (56:56):
She wasn't Tina any longer, but Mary, bloody Mary, don't go.

Speaker 10 (57:06):
She was down the stairs, gone running from me. I
went back into the workshop. I had to get hold
of myself. I was seeing things.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
You seem a little unsettled. Yes, me, You handled Tina
very clumsily.

Speaker 3 (57:21):
What were you spying?

Speaker 2 (57:23):
I couldn't help overhearing you. I was there in your
refrigerator room.

Speaker 10 (57:28):
You've got Tina in a crazy spouse. It does me
quite naturally, quite natural. It's not just the torture resemblance.
You and I now better which other draws Tina to me.
It's far more than that. I'm more her kind.

Speaker 3 (57:46):
I don't understand you. She told you she found me exciting.

Speaker 9 (57:50):
Couldn't you guess why?

Speaker 16 (57:51):
It was just talk to drive me crazy? To get
even for the pushing around, I can.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
Know it was more than that.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
You see you and I are superficially and quite matched mentally.
Neither of us can lay do too much claim to sanity.

Speaker 10 (58:08):
But you have one attribute that I don't this, and
it's the lack of that attribute and me that attracts Tina.
What haven't you got to attracts Tina? A conscience? You
think I'm joking. I don't think you love Tina. On
the contrary, you don't know. You see her simple and

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lovely and good. In fact, you want her like that. Consequently,
you repress her where I free her.

Speaker 16 (58:38):
No, I know you're the devil, scheming to remake Tina
in your image.

Speaker 9 (58:43):
Am I Did you see her before?

Speaker 2 (58:47):
Did you see the curious transfigurations you underwent when she
dared free us out and laugh, really laugh?

Speaker 3 (58:55):
Yes? She seemed to change right under my eyes, seemed
to change into what.

Speaker 10 (59:00):
An older face, wild and crazy and gloating bike like
Bloody Mary waving her axe.

Speaker 3 (59:09):
Bloody Mary back. There were the wax figures like Bloody Mary.

Speaker 10 (59:19):
That night I crept along after them, the devil and Tina.
There is an observer along the harbor front where ghosts
of ships float into blackness to a small park in
the fancy East End, where tired men sit on benches
and dream into the river. I watched them work as
a teen teena and the devil smoothly, every move coordinated,

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as if they were both powered by one instinct. The
said had got up to go, and then he screamed.
Suddenly it struggled. The Devil's had his arms and a vices.
Tina swung me. I'd been wrong about Tina. The devil
was right. Her face looking down at a victim was

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the face of a man killer, the face of bloody Mary.

Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
The devil had promised to reward me by making me rich.
He hadn't forgotten for you, Tony.

Speaker 10 (01:00:18):
A small down payment on my gratitude for this face
A man's wedding band. It's not much, but the wretch
had a little worth stealing only a watch, A few
paltry dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:00:31):
In this ring.

Speaker 10 (01:00:32):
The money goes to Tina. I will keep the watch.
I don't want to ring, but you must take it.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
It brings the three of us closer, and insures two
of us against notions you may entertain about the police.
It also suggests another way that you will eventually become
a problem to me. How will I become a problem
you took the wedding band reluctantly just now. But soon
you'll become bolder, greedier. Soon you'll want more. You'll demand

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Tina too, You'll try to recapture her from me. I
want no part of Tina.

Speaker 10 (01:01:06):
I do, Tina. Yes, I never want to lose you
to Tony.

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
I don't think you ever will. Will you marry me
then right away? You don't know whatever you've done, but
not that you. You can't marry the devil.

Speaker 8 (01:01:22):
I can, Tony, I can, and I will.

Speaker 22 (01:01:31):
Eva did and I watched, and you, Tina, take this,
this man to be your lawfully wedded husband.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
I do please place the ring on her, saying rings.
I forgot about the ring, Tony. Yes, the wedding band
you quiet earlier, and I borrow it for the bride. Yes,
I have it here in my pocket. It was a

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beautiful ceremony. You don't think so, Tony.

Speaker 10 (01:02:07):
It was a nightmare.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
Your bad company for honeymoon us. Drop us in the
nearest motor cart and then be on your way. Be
on my way here we'll manage without you nicely. I
dropped him at a motor cord, but I didn't go
on my way much. I pulled the car to aside,

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shut the lights, and I tried to sing. I tried
to corner my brain and force one ideas, one idea.
The devil could have t enough, but he couldn't wear
my face. Thought about that the idea grew his power
over me was my face. I was mixed up about everything,

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crazy as all get up. But this one idea was
the clearest thing I understood.

Speaker 10 (01:02:59):
The devil couldn't wear my face any longer, not if
I wanted to hold onto the only thing I had
a conscience. I crept into their cabin, very noiseless. Tina
had dropped off in a chair. He was on a bed,
breathing heavily.

Speaker 22 (01:03:19):
I lit a torch I'd made of paper and twigged
with my knee in the pitch of stomach in.

Speaker 10 (01:03:25):
One hand, like a steel of vice on his throat.
I held the blazing torch. He awaken, but I help
was making whimpery songs. I watched first his chin dub
and then his cheeks, and then little hot rivers, and
watch run down here on.

Speaker 23 (01:03:40):
Him and on me, Gina, stop and a look behind
his face, look at your bright lead.

Speaker 3 (01:04:02):
I escaped. I rolled in the dirt outside, just fulltl
flames on my clothes.

Speaker 10 (01:04:09):
Tina didn't escape. When she saw the planes were too much,
that it was too late to save him, she flung
herself across him on his suneral fire. The last thing
in my.

Speaker 3 (01:04:20):
Ears is the cabin began to fallwards. Was her scream.

Speaker 10 (01:04:35):
I'm back in the Devil's workshop now, winding everything up,
making plans to junk everything here for keeps. Sergeant Tracey's
here with me, trying to make sense out of what
he checked in my story.

Speaker 22 (01:04:52):
I had a whole group with Specialiscus through the rubble
of that cabin that burned to the ground.

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
I started the fire, I destroyed his face, and Tina
ford with.

Speaker 22 (01:05:01):
Me, and Oh he told us that already there weren't
two corpses in the rubble, Tony, just a lot of
wax wax over everything. The Devil was undoubtedly that wax
figure you reported missing, But Tina were checking over your
workshop just now I find another figure in your inventory,

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missing another figure, Bloody Mary, Buddy, Mary's Missy see for yourself.
I didn't know exactly what you did the other night
in acting at your hallucination, but there's no doubt in
my mind that the two people were burned in that
fire was a wax devil and a bloody mary. A

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man was axed to death and robbed in the park
on the east end.

Speaker 3 (01:05:54):
You said.

Speaker 9 (01:05:57):
That murder never took place. To me, I'm as crazy
as that.

Speaker 22 (01:06:04):
Well, let's just say you took that weird business here
in a little seriously. Now that uh just about explains
everything more or less on desert, or does it. There's
uh one big question mark. We're trying to slough off

(01:06:24):
at the department because if we don't, we'll all start
looking under our bed snipes.

Speaker 3 (01:06:30):
One big question, sergeant. We went through the.

Speaker 22 (01:06:33):
Rubble that tapped with a fine chrome. All we found,
as I said, was wax.

Speaker 7 (01:06:41):
And this this.

Speaker 3 (01:06:45):
A wedding band, a man's wedding band.

Speaker 6 (01:07:08):
I helded to sign outside a certain workshop that reads
or sale lonor gone off permanently. You can buy in
cheap anybody a small down payment a wax dollars, say
with your mind the security for the balance of your sanity.

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So the blazing lovers triangle finally boiled down to just tony.
Imagine all at wax and no candlewig at the close
friend of mine, remarked to his keeper. Make a rental
service out of your face, and you're liable to get

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it in the neck.

Speaker 1 (01:08:13):
Well, now that we're getting a little deeper into the night,
I suppose I should I suppose I should get out
some blankets and maybe make things more cozy in here.

Speaker 24 (01:08:30):
Oh what's that?

Speaker 1 (01:08:31):
Oh no, no, no, no worry there. I'll keep the
fire burning bright and the hot tea coming along. We'll
be just fine in here, my dear, as long as
we keep our minds about us. Of course, there are
always the risks of staying up late when those things

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that go bump do so. But in the morning you'll
feel like the walking dead.

Speaker 3 (01:09:12):
We bring you treats. By Night.

Speaker 25 (01:09:36):
The Blue Network presents the thirteenth in a series of
dramatic explorations into the vast and unknown darkness of the
human mind.

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
Tonight, in the absence of Boris Kana, who have been
your host on the program of Nectory, we take the
opportunity to introduce the man who henceforth the serve as
your guide and companion along the dark and often terrifying
pathway of the unexplored.

Speaker 7 (01:10:08):
It will come to you only as a void since
for reasons best.

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
Known to himself, he prefers to remain anonymous. It bands
before me now, ready to lead you into the dim
and distant worlds beyond the realm of human understanding. Treat
by Night presents its master of mystery that direct good evenings.

(01:10:41):
I have been asked to serve as your master of mystery.
I'm these weekly pilgrimages into the unknowns to.

Speaker 4 (01:10:48):
Choose for you stories that's cleared deep into the tortured souls.

Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
Of men's and door side the shadowy Christain of the mind.

Speaker 4 (01:10:56):
For the time being, I shall have to be known
only as Doctor X, my identity quaked in the very darkness.

Speaker 3 (01:11:04):
Of which we speak.

Speaker 4 (01:11:05):
Perhaps fun of you will recognize my voice.

Speaker 3 (01:11:07):
If you do, I tried you to secrecy.

Speaker 4 (01:11:11):
It will be my duty on this program to select
for you stories that have been drawn from the mystery
of life itself. From time to time I will invite
leading actors name like Peter.

Speaker 2 (01:11:20):
Laura La Lugosi, Edmund when danel Lethbum and others to
participate in our grammatic explorations.

Speaker 3 (01:11:28):
But enough for talk jong with.

Speaker 2 (01:11:30):
Me now, as we see unfolded before us, the weird
chronicle of the walking dead side. Let me take you
to the black island of Haiti keep the metlodean to
a coffee plantation, some forty miles from the city of Porto, Pains.

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It is long after dark and the night is not
hout and seltry deadly quiet, save for the rhythmic beating.

Speaker 3 (01:12:00):
You'll meet your drums off in the distance.

Speaker 4 (01:12:02):
At long intervals, a human voice cries out, rising above
the drums, like the dismal wailing of a lost soul.
On the porch of the cottage you're joining the plantation office.
A man stares out into the darkness, obviously waiting for something. Suddenly,
a car springs into the open, gated, headlights blazing. It

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goes up.

Speaker 11 (01:12:23):
Before the cottage.

Speaker 4 (01:12:25):
Wait here man carrying a black man longs to death,
and the land waiting on the porch greeks him. Doctor Mountain, Yeah,
I'm water Cray, manager of the plantation by Annoion.

Speaker 10 (01:12:40):
It's great.

Speaker 4 (01:12:41):
Sorry about being so late that they're called of the
public health office. Somehow got lost in the shop. He's
an under perfect pressure to laugh. Two days gone, doctor.

Speaker 2 (01:12:48):
It's a late day one of the earth formed, wasn't it.

Speaker 4 (01:12:51):
Yes, he's still alive, but I don't think there's much
you can do for him.

Speaker 2 (01:12:55):
While I'll try.

Speaker 3 (01:12:56):
Where is he.

Speaker 4 (01:12:56):
Across the road and that hurt him? But before you
see him, I think i'd better tell you something about this.

Speaker 3 (01:13:02):
Go ahead.

Speaker 4 (01:13:03):
The man, his name is Lreau, the Frenchman. He was
released from the Penal Colony last April on probation. Came
to me for a job, and I took him on
because I needed help badly, I see. I put him
in charge of a crew of native pickers and he
seemed to work out fine. He droves him hard, but
he brought the crop in and that's what counts.

Speaker 3 (01:13:21):
Uh huh.

Speaker 4 (01:13:21):
Ten days ago, one of his crew was found dead
in the fields. Someone had hit the poor beggar over
the head with a bailing hook and with his do
I questioned a couple of them, but you know how
they are tight it all I could learn in life
that lore had had an argument with the man just
before the body was found. Lareau cost the night killing him.
That night Nerada drums started a beast they've been beating

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every night since. Why the natives could start fromlarone murdered
that figger. We've been trying to put the hecks on him.

Speaker 2 (01:13:50):
Yeah, that's a death whale.

Speaker 4 (01:13:53):
Don't know he's dying. They know it because they're killing him.
All now, hold on clay. So all I could talk
about native captives and black I did, But you can't
kill people by beating gums and waiting. Doctor, how long
have you been in Haiti? Six months? What difference did
that make? I've been on the island for fifteen years,
and I've learned one thing. It's a great deal that
goes on down here that we know nothing about. But

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we can't explain all.

Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
Now you'll then call it voodoo, a black magic, or
anything you're wishing, but it's fair.

Speaker 4 (01:14:22):
Let me tell you what happened.

Speaker 9 (01:14:23):
Go ahead.

Speaker 4 (01:14:24):
The more they beat those drums at night, the boiler
roo gover the devils during the day. I warned him,
the layoff that you last. The night before last, I
got two of them sprinkling graveyard brig around this hut.
What's graveyard dirt? They believe that dirt dug from around
the corpse can name and kill. That's rubbish, maybe it is,
but remember this. These natives are experts on poisons. They

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use dogwood rub and bamboo dust, both deadling with no
known antidotes.

Speaker 2 (01:14:51):
They use dried and powdered lizards. Some stuff they get
out of the gall bladders are alligators. Maybe there is
something in graveyard birt. I don't know, doubt very much.

Speaker 4 (01:15:00):
I'll at any Right after I caught those two, I
told Laue better get off here. I haven't have been able.

Speaker 26 (01:15:04):
What was good for him?

Speaker 4 (01:15:05):
He said he'd make it over. They didn't give him
a chance. This morning he couldn't get out of bed.
The waits were paralyzed. Watched them arow day and the
paralysis kept creeping up his body. He can scarcely breathe now.
They can't talk. All he does is mumble, that's strange.
That's get to look at him.

Speaker 3 (01:15:22):
Better.

Speaker 4 (01:15:22):
Tell miss carlaver here. She'll probably want to come along. Incidentally,
she doesn't know anything about this except that la Rue
was sick.

Speaker 9 (01:15:30):
Who's miss Carla?

Speaker 4 (01:15:31):
Her father owned this plantation, died back in the States
last month. She came down and we could go to
look things over. She didn't start the cottage.

Speaker 2 (01:15:39):
I'd rather not have a woman present when I clammed him. Craig,
if it can be helped, well, all right, follow me.

Speaker 4 (01:15:50):
Wait a minute, with the matter a drummer. They stopped,
and that's fine. I'll beginning to get on my nerves.
Come out not a wait. Do you hear anything? Both
voices and the shuffling of feet.

Speaker 3 (01:16:02):
No, I do.

Speaker 4 (01:16:04):
I'd better get a flashlight. Good lord, what's that? I
thought something was wrong?

Speaker 3 (01:16:09):
I surrounded the world?

Speaker 4 (01:16:10):
Cartay, that's miss Carlyle.

Speaker 2 (01:16:13):
Excuse me a minute.

Speaker 4 (01:16:15):
I'm out there on the porch just happening.

Speaker 27 (01:16:17):
All of a sudden, the thumbs in that chanting.

Speaker 8 (01:16:19):
Oh, it's coming with you.

Speaker 4 (01:16:20):
It's doctor Nelson of the Public Health Office and quarter prints.
How are you doing, miss Carlin.

Speaker 27 (01:16:23):
Oh, I'm so glad you're here.

Speaker 13 (01:16:24):
Doctor.

Speaker 27 (01:16:25):
What's going on out Tennis Crag?

Speaker 2 (01:16:26):
The natives have surrounded the road.

Speaker 4 (01:16:28):
Hut hi. I don't know. We better get to a Craig.
We want to do some damage that racket. Certainly can't
have a dying land. It's too late, now, too late.

Speaker 2 (01:16:35):
What do you mean there's only one way to get
along with.

Speaker 4 (01:16:37):
The native's down there, with carlile go, there's a fail
with them. Leave them alone. That's all well and good, Craig,
But you say a man's dying in that hut?

Speaker 2 (01:16:44):
I may be able to do something wrong.

Speaker 27 (01:16:45):
The tridiculous all of them after that happens is to take.

Speaker 4 (01:16:48):
I won't take all it now now wild with religions, fervor,
that canting you here goes back a thousand years, the
one of what savages in the jungle. You want to
pay this of it, Carlyle. I'll send the house boy
over to see what's going on here.

Speaker 27 (01:17:01):
So what I don't quite understand why you can't order them.

Speaker 4 (01:17:05):
As you all understand. If you're down the running, like
the time he comes to house store, you s yes
over the lord's hunt and see what's happening.

Speaker 14 (01:17:13):
Look and go.

Speaker 8 (01:17:14):
You make Booker tent the rule more Booker la moon.

Speaker 28 (01:17:18):
What's he saying?

Speaker 4 (01:17:19):
He said, were rud dead? That's the ball card chant.

Speaker 3 (01:17:22):
We're hearing.

Speaker 4 (01:17:23):
They're going to take his body away. They're going to
turn him into a zombie. We mean, up all the
ridiculous nonsense.

Speaker 8 (01:17:30):
What's a zombie?

Speaker 4 (01:17:31):
What are you talking about, Jumblie, missus Carlyle, is a
corpse that's been brought back to life. Down here, they
call them a walking dead.

Speaker 27 (01:17:38):
You mean to stand there and tell me that you
believe that.

Speaker 4 (01:17:41):
I don't believe or disbelieve, miss car Isle. All I
know is that for centuries and natives of Haitia conducted
weird right over here, I'll tell you some of this
ceremonies to make your hair stand on end. Is that
any reason for letting a man die with savage drums.

Speaker 28 (01:17:53):
Beating in his ears?

Speaker 24 (01:17:54):
He's already dead?

Speaker 8 (01:17:55):
How do we know?

Speaker 4 (01:17:56):
I never used the bow chord chant except over a corpse.

Speaker 27 (01:17:59):
Now, love litter Craig. I own this plantation, and you're
employed by me. And I am sist that you ordered
those naked away from my house.

Speaker 4 (01:18:04):
Und your tramp on my car. I'm not losing my
Tampa battlement. I've had fifteen years of hady, fifteen years
of learning how to get along with native help. You're
not in the United States now, this is in Georgia.
I have a Bama's or West Indies. You're a figner
and a strange land, land where the roots of boodle
and black magic roll deep and strong. We know that clay,

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but the facts do In a minute, doctor, I've seen
men disappear on this island, finish off the fate of
the earth. They were men who laughed and made him
Superstition just the way you are laughing at it healthy stupidness.

Speaker 27 (01:18:37):
The Craig, nobody's laughing.

Speaker 28 (01:18:38):
We're trying to save a man's life.

Speaker 27 (01:18:40):
Why did you call Doc Announcion from Port of Pass
if you didn't intend him to examine the roof?

Speaker 4 (01:18:44):
Yes, forty miles is a long way to come to
listen to native drums. Neither of you can understand what
I'm driving at, can you?

Speaker 27 (01:18:50):
All I know is that the human being is lying
in the hat just may sick. When I saw in
this afternoon, he was in pitiful.

Speaker 4 (01:18:55):
Can oh, body's in nye? That's miss Carlin.

Speaker 27 (01:18:57):
Something fit just because you hear some chanting hands, I'm
grum meeting and you refuse to order that naked the
race so the documentag Can it is.

Speaker 4 (01:19:04):
That I refused?

Speaker 27 (01:19:04):
It's him where if you mount out of them away,
I come back with Cary.

Speaker 4 (01:19:09):
Don't want to go over there alone, but doctor after
we will never find it this way, Craig, we better
go back to the house and Pom for help. We've
got to find her. I don't trust those devils tonight.

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I never saw anything like it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:32):
She went across the road toward the huts, and.

Speaker 4 (01:19:34):
Before we could get to where they swallowed up like
an avenging to hours and then they were gone. That's
how they work. Did they take the Louise body with them. Yes,
come on, we'll take a chance and put in on
that ceremony. I may be able to keep them in check.
Are you sure to say? I'm not sure about anything? See,
that's flash right off. I don't want them to know
where coming.

Speaker 3 (01:19:51):
That's told.

Speaker 4 (01:19:53):
I didn't though. It's always been a mystery to me
why the authorities haven't stepped into control of these natives.
They've tried, but it doesn't work.

Speaker 2 (01:19:59):
It's we're looking with them.

Speaker 4 (01:20:00):
That's no excuse for killing and kidnapped. They only joe
when someone is telling them armed road to tell me
to one, what about this car he tried to win
up bear in one of their sacred ceremonies. Hold over
a minute, I see the light of their talking.

Speaker 2 (01:20:11):
Yeah, go behind their shag, hit them flickering yet to
see the map working on devils?

Speaker 4 (01:20:18):
Nothing make your blunt run cold. That poor girl, if
she's alive, but the out of her mind was get
a little closer and keep your eyes open. They move
like boats in the darkness. Can't hit them as a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:20:26):
On top of me.

Speaker 4 (01:20:27):
I certainly never expected to be fucking natives when I
joined the Public House service.

Speaker 2 (01:20:30):
Outside of that, let's go.

Speaker 4 (01:20:31):
Let's speak up behind the shags and see what they're doing.
All right, every cling? How many of the day think?
There are about two hundred? Who is the boy?

Speaker 2 (01:20:42):
Under ordinary certain stances? They're quiet and peaceful. Oh I
should have known better than the people have run a plantation.

Speaker 4 (01:20:47):
Or lost and hit though we well it's too late,
not a veray ma anyone over this way? Doctor rutch
down the team?

Speaker 2 (01:20:53):
Now hold up, they're all kneeling with the sau get
the one in the middle. Who is he? O?

Speaker 3 (01:21:00):
Card? I guess?

Speaker 4 (01:21:02):
Head man?

Speaker 2 (01:21:02):
Oh stout channing?

Speaker 3 (01:21:05):
Now what I don't know?

Speaker 4 (01:21:06):
Anything can happen.

Speaker 3 (01:21:08):
Don't move.

Speaker 4 (01:21:10):
That's a new chair. He's asking question of the answering.

Speaker 2 (01:21:15):
I've heard that before. Don't like the sounderus?

Speaker 4 (01:21:17):
What do do you stay here? I'm going to walk
right into that circle. You've better be careful, Craig. That
automatic is going to be much help against the London maniac.
They'll have to tell your pieces. I doubt it anyway,
it's what's the chance.

Speaker 28 (01:21:26):
Oh wait, I better go with you?

Speaker 4 (01:21:27):
That isn't your a ferret's mind. In case I go
run gets back to the house. The side saget Tennis
put in the call of the public.

Speaker 2 (01:21:33):
Yes, I will.

Speaker 4 (01:21:34):
Okay, wish we love good luck. Craig he me what
was that? He it's so bo it's going up behind us.
I wondered, what had happened to Henry?

Speaker 8 (01:21:43):
Go back, card back, stay here.

Speaker 4 (01:21:45):
We've got to find a girl. No the missy lady, No, no, no,
no book on man, make you back what you see
that chance it's the killed chance. Go but l you
know where he is signed?

Speaker 3 (01:21:57):
She lies?

Speaker 4 (01:21:57):
Ask him missy lady lives.

Speaker 2 (01:21:59):
So won'll find superill bring back school?

Speaker 4 (01:22:02):
All right? Come on, I just bang the house. I
tell you, Craig, I don't trust your houseboy. It's been
almost an hour since he tend it's back here. But
drum stop beating. Long ago it's always been trustworthy. It's
been with me fifteen years. Let's see if that phone

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works now, maybe we can get through to the port
of France. And what good will it do? They can't
get here a less in an hour, and anyway, the
whole police department couldn't tackle two hundred of them. Hello, Hello, fo.
There's something wrong with the line. I've got a feeling
we'll never see that girl again, Craig, dead or alive.
I wonder her not to word it fears.

Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
Why didn't you listen to me?

Speaker 4 (01:22:43):
Why didn't she stay where she belongs? Banking the stakes?
How would I enough tubble down here without did?

Speaker 3 (01:22:47):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:22:47):
Now, don't load your head, Craig, take it easy, waving
and landing it more to get us anywhere, I said,
Get to go out there and look for her again.
Drums them at channing of stopped. Maybe they'll calm down.

Speaker 3 (01:22:55):
I'll go out.

Speaker 4 (01:22:56):
You'll get into your car and drive over to the
lot of more plantation. It's about ten mins from here
on the road to Port of Prince. Get some house.
You think it's time for that?

Speaker 2 (01:23:02):
Well you want in foreman. They're both in Port up
Princes loading a coffee chargo. You would be all wait
till night of all night. Anyway, I think that's the
best plan.

Speaker 4 (01:23:11):
You'll go for help and i'll see if I can
look cape sobo wait.

Speaker 2 (01:23:14):
Need someone coming, Craig, don't open the door, why not?

Speaker 4 (01:23:17):
I'll open it. Got a gun hold out there, get
the flass fight out the table direct my house boy
got the Carlisle, good boy.

Speaker 2 (01:23:27):
Really go on, how did you watch a light on
the step?

Speaker 3 (01:23:33):
Doctor? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:23:33):
Yeah, we need so we watch the steps.

Speaker 2 (01:23:36):
The drums are beating again on faith, all right, Cary
and the touch, oh the nord not to make sure.

Speaker 4 (01:23:42):
It's not yeah, put it down so carefully, monthly. Let
they look at her grave. You mean time?

Speaker 2 (01:23:49):
Get some more water here? All right, now it's Carlile.
Just relax my back, Craig if my fidu the mon's
life and uh just relax.

Speaker 3 (01:23:58):
There you are. Thanks now.

Speaker 4 (01:24:06):
Once more, there we are. He comes the water ports
some declare put it on the table.

Speaker 3 (01:24:12):
So we need to.

Speaker 2 (01:24:15):
Feel better now, don't you.

Speaker 3 (01:24:19):
Here? You are about it? I'll thank you.

Speaker 9 (01:24:21):
No drink business color.

Speaker 4 (01:24:24):
I'll hold your head up.

Speaker 8 (01:24:31):
Horrible play.

Speaker 2 (01:24:33):
I don't think you're better.

Speaker 8 (01:24:34):
Talk so a while I've got.

Speaker 27 (01:24:37):
He put his body in gray, an open grave.

Speaker 4 (01:24:42):
What happened when you run across the road?

Speaker 3 (01:24:43):
Talk about?

Speaker 12 (01:24:45):
I don't know, it's kinda what's surrounding me.

Speaker 28 (01:24:48):
I could see her teeth baking.

Speaker 2 (01:24:50):
In the darkness.

Speaker 28 (01:24:51):
I speak it all. I'm never until I woke up.
I was nine in the ground.

Speaker 12 (01:24:57):
They were all around the grave get by.

Speaker 28 (01:25:00):
It was one of them was training.

Speaker 3 (01:25:05):
Make you moves him? And what that?

Speaker 4 (01:25:07):
Sobo says the man chatting with the Bokoor, the one
who makes the dead rise and becomes zombies.

Speaker 2 (01:25:12):
However, I think we've had enough of natal superstition to night, Craig.
Let's speak to the fact. How to get away from
missus Camile.

Speaker 28 (01:25:18):
No one was watching.

Speaker 27 (01:25:20):
They were all watching the body in the graves.

Speaker 12 (01:25:23):
I crawled off in the darkness and sub found got
me back here.

Speaker 2 (01:25:29):
Yes, it's all over.

Speaker 4 (01:25:30):
Now it's way for I think you're going to try
to get to sleep.

Speaker 29 (01:25:34):
I can't sleep.

Speaker 28 (01:25:35):
All I keep saying is that.

Speaker 2 (01:25:37):
Pulling his body?

Speaker 4 (01:25:38):
Don't think about it.

Speaker 12 (01:25:39):
Ain'tthing we conclude.

Speaker 8 (01:25:41):
Isn't the sound way of getting.

Speaker 4 (01:25:42):
In a decent might as well know what this is
all about, Miss Carlyle.

Speaker 3 (01:25:47):
We're all murdered.

Speaker 4 (01:25:47):
One of the natives. Oh murdered him ten days ago.
They've been not to get him ever since, in their
own way. That's why the drums were beating every night.
I told you what was there usual ceremony, just tho,
not the fighting you. But it was more than that.
They were seeking revenge. Now they've got it. You mean
the cat, that's only part of it. They're going through

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the zombie ritual. Now, that's what you saw at the
open grave. According to their belief, they can bring the
rule back to life, make him a living corpse who
will blay their orders.

Speaker 27 (01:26:19):
Then why were they putting his body in a grave?

Speaker 4 (01:26:22):
That's part of the ceremony. They bury him until midnight,
then the corpse rises at the zombie.

Speaker 12 (01:26:28):
That's right, and so's the most ghastly thing.

Speaker 2 (01:26:31):
I ever heard of.

Speaker 4 (01:26:32):
I am the most ridiculous. I wouldn't be too sure
about the doctor Noshan.

Speaker 27 (01:26:34):
How long does he the person remain a zombie?

Speaker 4 (01:26:38):
As long as they want him to? The polk or
the head man controls that. They can stop and it will.
How you're asking the questions, I can't answer doctor questions,
I wouldn't even attempt to answer. But this much, I
know there are zombies on this island right now. How
they came into being? I don't know what they're here.
I don't believe.

Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
I hope I never have to prove it to your doctors.

Speaker 12 (01:26:58):
Did he these zombie talk and act that human beings?

Speaker 4 (01:27:02):
No, it's a horrible thing to say, but they look dead.
Their eyes are hollow in, their skin has no color.
They walk like people in a dream, heavy footed and bledding.
When they try to speak, all what comes out is
weird mouthings been very pleasant, I can assure you.

Speaker 28 (01:27:21):
And that's what they're going to do with the rue.

Speaker 4 (01:27:23):
Suppose why revenge? They told you he not only killed
one of them, but he drove them unmercifully. Once heesars
do but they'll drive him make in sweat. You'll become
their slave anything they order. You know, that's nonsense, Crave.

Speaker 2 (01:27:37):
I'm not so sure.

Speaker 26 (01:27:38):
Doctor.

Speaker 4 (01:27:38):
Have you ever seen the zombi a living corpse? Only once?
I never want to see another.

Speaker 12 (01:27:44):
You mean they're actually people who've been raised from the dead.

Speaker 3 (01:27:47):
Of course not.

Speaker 4 (01:27:48):
You can take it from me.

Speaker 2 (01:27:48):
In the position that death is final, absolutely fine, we're
absolutt the rest of the world.

Speaker 4 (01:27:53):
But not in the eighties. I listened, Craig. All your
managed to do is fip miskl.

Speaker 2 (01:27:57):
I think perhaps the best thing is Tyler, I would
leave you to drive back into de Princes with me
just midnight, be there at one thing, how about it?

Speaker 4 (01:28:04):
I don't know it's a good idea. Chances are nothing's
going to happen. But God toobo yep on foot here
the right steps on the porch. Don't feel armed. I
don't hear anything, be the shape ye wait.

Speaker 2 (01:28:18):
A flashlight. I haven't hear my wait, don't move. It
was right, you stand over there with a flash. Doctor
get back, sob while open the door.

Speaker 4 (01:28:33):
No man back, I said, somebody.

Speaker 28 (01:28:40):
You know I can take him into bedro line.

Speaker 4 (01:28:43):
Come back here, all right, yes, come in time.

Speaker 2 (01:28:49):
Comes nothing to be afraid of.

Speaker 4 (01:28:54):
I ain't no hope, but we'll take Carol. I don't know. Yes,
I'm coming back back, so I said. It's kind of
black man.

Speaker 3 (01:29:00):
Pray good.

Speaker 4 (01:29:00):
Now stand behind me a little bit. A leponds that
flaf flight on the door. You're not serious about it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:04):
Being a dumby?

Speaker 3 (01:29:05):
Are you play?

Speaker 4 (01:29:05):
Whatever it is? It doesn't sound human. Step now, yes,
all right, I'm going to open the door. That light
steady dot it. The door is locked, you know I
locked at whom he came hin No cree PEPs might defire,
you don't worry. The rest six pullets is automatic. That
should be enough anybody now they don't. There's nobody out
there careful crag.

Speaker 3 (01:29:30):
Fortune is empty. Are you sure?

Speaker 4 (01:29:31):
Positive? Come on there with that flye flighty joke. Sobo,
we heard any footsteps.

Speaker 2 (01:29:36):
Didn't mean you're that weird morning, there's that.

Speaker 4 (01:29:37):
There's no one there now, white light around, that's just
see anything, No got a thing. There may be some
footprints in the driveway, let's check hard to tell it.
Nice bears a good queer print. That could be mine
when I got out of the car. Matter of fact,
it is. I suggest Craig that we lock up when

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wemin in the house until daylight. No tiense taking chances.
I will wait the best idea, but I don't understand it.

Speaker 2 (01:30:05):
Good Lord, that's the car I want.

Speaker 4 (01:30:07):
Well, I'm you was into the hall. What happens?

Speaker 2 (01:30:13):
He was standing at the window. Who was standing at
the window, Miss carl Ause noon, I've never seen anything viable.

Speaker 4 (01:30:19):
I'm sure it wasn't your imagination.

Speaker 17 (01:30:20):
No, no, it's like a death pest that's doing.

Speaker 12 (01:30:24):
It's still right.

Speaker 4 (01:30:27):
You stay here with Miss Carlou. But doctor and I
are going out for us. If you'll say your hear
anything else? Wait on, come on, I get would you
make it?

Speaker 3 (01:30:36):
Crag?

Speaker 4 (01:30:37):
I don't know what they'll make up it. Do you
think she really saw someone at the window would to
be a bit surprise. White dog point steps. I know
it's one of Them's a little rickety.

Speaker 2 (01:30:44):
What are you supposed to do?

Speaker 4 (01:30:45):
They go around, stay cause and keep that light swinging.
That's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:30:49):
I really tend to do much better off.

Speaker 4 (01:30:51):
We lost all day in the windows.

Speaker 8 (01:30:52):
Hold up.

Speaker 4 (01:30:56):
Well, thanks right to someone moving up ahead. When you're
like slowly to go right across the road, m hold
it in heaven.

Speaker 3 (01:31:06):
It's a man stealing it.

Speaker 2 (01:31:07):
He's punning away to go.

Speaker 4 (01:31:09):
Light on him, Hello, hello, not to.

Speaker 2 (01:31:13):
You miss him.

Speaker 8 (01:31:14):
He's tucking in the hut.

Speaker 4 (01:31:15):
Oh hush, we've got him now. The two buck windows
and the door they only act to come on right,
all right, fin you take the gun, doty, I'll go
back to some eyes and some oils, right and oil
the fool. I'm going to set that hot on fire.
S creaker, you are your mind.

Speaker 2 (01:31:29):
You can't burn a man alive up.

Speaker 4 (01:31:31):
Makes you think he's alive, He's.

Speaker 8 (01:31:32):
Good to be alive.

Speaker 2 (01:31:32):
We saw him morning.

Speaker 4 (01:31:33):
You still won't admit that. Strange things happening here on
the island with you.

Speaker 15 (01:31:36):
Strange?

Speaker 4 (01:31:37):
Yes, all right, if you'll think he's alive, we'll take
him alive. Get down, a low and talk towards that
hust He tell, light out ready, however, hunt's opening. We
get talked enough, flash a light through.

Speaker 3 (01:31:51):
He says, you can't get any other way.

Speaker 4 (01:31:53):
Now, the all out, the front windows. I'm watching them all.
This pretty doesn't stop him nothing, well enough f himself?

Speaker 3 (01:32:03):
Time money.

Speaker 4 (01:32:03):
If you go ahead, write the light through the open door?

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
The hut empty?

Speaker 4 (01:32:08):
No it isn't he stretched out on a bed, dave.

Speaker 8 (01:32:11):
Yes, what do you do that for?

Speaker 15 (01:32:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:32:13):
Take the light on him.

Speaker 4 (01:32:14):
Come on, this may be a trap.

Speaker 2 (01:32:17):
Cree care I'm watching him over the light, steady, steady
as I can.

Speaker 4 (01:32:21):
Are we going into the hut?

Speaker 3 (01:32:22):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:32:23):
The right behind me? Well, there he is, Dante over
the light, Craig, Let me get a look at him.

Speaker 2 (01:32:34):
Keep it down. Mistakes this ti I was right with
the blue the skin ghostly wife. Are you sure this
man is the rude you're for him?

Speaker 3 (01:32:43):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:32:44):
I can't believe it's what you need. He sit the
man we saw running into the hut, Yes, of course,
And you were right evidence.

Speaker 2 (01:32:51):
Very strange things do happen on this island.

Speaker 3 (01:32:53):
They do, yes, Craig.

Speaker 4 (01:32:56):
It's man has been dead for three hours.

Speaker 1 (01:33:18):
Ah the air is so cool, so brisk and crisp.
I do love fall and winter so very much. I'll
put a few more logs on the fire and we'll
put a stop to that, at least as best we can.

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As the cool air spins around, lapping against our walls. Well,
even concrete walls as thick as this, they are no
match for the non stop assault. But I say we

(01:34:02):
just kick back, relax and enjoy the night.

Speaker 3 (01:34:09):
Melody the Signal Oil Program. Whizzler.

Speaker 30 (01:34:18):
Yeah, that whistle is your signal for the Signal Oil Program.

Speaker 9 (01:34:32):
No whizzler.

Speaker 15 (01:34:36):
Yeah, I am the whispler, and I know many things
where I walk by night. I know many strange tales

(01:35:00):
hidden in the hearts of men and women who have
stepped into the shadows. Yeah, I know the nameless parents
of which they dare not speak.

Speaker 26 (01:35:15):
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Speaker 3 (01:35:18):
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Speaker 26 (01:35:19):
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(01:35:41):
Whistler Strange story night Melody.

Speaker 3 (01:35:58):
Marshall was nervous.

Speaker 7 (01:36:00):
His hands shook as he dialed Helen's number on the
phone in the drug store a block away from the apartment.

Speaker 15 (01:36:07):
He realized he shouldn't be calling her now, of all times.
He knew he was coming back tonight, knew every.

Speaker 3 (01:36:13):
Step of the prams.

Speaker 15 (01:36:15):
They've gone over it carefully a week ago before he'd left,
foreseen it. But even though it was dangerous, he had
the caller. I'm the still that terrible unsure feeling in
the pit of his stomach, and Helen reacted us as
he infected.

Speaker 28 (01:36:31):
But I told you not to call me, Marshall.

Speaker 3 (01:36:33):
I had to, Helen. I had to make sure.

Speaker 2 (01:36:35):
What about the alley doors a few minutes ago?

Speaker 15 (01:36:38):
You know what you're going to say when they call you?

Speaker 7 (01:36:39):
In course, Sure, mister Princess will be coming home at
the same time, Marsham, he's a regulars.

Speaker 4 (01:36:45):
Cockwork be silly, darling. You can trust me.

Speaker 28 (01:36:51):
Everything is just waiting for you to walk in.

Speaker 15 (01:36:54):
Oh I do.

Speaker 7 (01:36:55):
I'll be there in ten minutes. Yes, it's all waiting
for you, Marshall. Your side door open and ready for you.
The vial of poison in your pocket, your wife Melody
alone in the apartment. It's sister Helen upstairs, ready with

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her story of the strange man. But the tense, uncertain
feeling is still there, worse now as you sit in
the room with Melody talking to her, knowing what's going
to happen in a.

Speaker 2 (01:37:31):
Matter of minutes.

Speaker 31 (01:37:34):
My dear wandering husband, same is ever, always doing unexpected, surprised,
not exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:37:41):
Only one thing could have brought you home from Toomi
this way.

Speaker 8 (01:37:45):
Come to say good bye, haven't you?

Speaker 3 (01:37:47):
Very direct? Melody?

Speaker 28 (01:37:50):
I I'm sorry it didn't work out, Marshall.

Speaker 3 (01:37:55):
I mean, that's beside the poem, as I guess it is.

Speaker 31 (01:37:59):
I suppose it's my own fault in a way. I
have pretty your little like a toy, an expensive one
of chray Let's forget that, Charlie.

Speaker 7 (01:38:11):
All were adults, and there's no reason why we shouldn't
part good friends.

Speaker 8 (01:38:15):
You're so right, Marshall, always so.

Speaker 3 (01:38:19):
Right, skirt, have a drink on it, huh? All right, Scott.

Speaker 15 (01:38:23):
And because.

Speaker 31 (01:38:27):
Remember your new playmate is Marshall, I hope she has money,
because you certainly won't get any of mine.

Speaker 3 (01:38:34):
I was not talking to my sister this eason Ella
she got to do.

Speaker 27 (01:38:39):
I told her again, and if anything happens to me,
everything I have goes to her.

Speaker 3 (01:38:45):
That's all rap as it should be.

Speaker 15 (01:38:48):
Huh, what's better music box?

Speaker 31 (01:38:51):
I'm going ahead with my makeup if you don't mind
my new persume Bottle Deer.

Speaker 15 (01:38:58):
I just got it yesterday. Clever, isn't it same old perfume?

Speaker 28 (01:39:04):
Night?

Speaker 3 (01:39:04):
Melody?

Speaker 28 (01:39:06):
Suppose to it my personality?

Speaker 15 (01:39:07):
You know I never liked it you.

Speaker 3 (01:39:13):
I was rather surprised to find your dressed.

Speaker 15 (01:39:15):
You going somewhere?

Speaker 28 (01:39:17):
Does it matter?

Speaker 3 (01:39:19):
I suppose it's none of my business. Now, Well, here's
your drink.

Speaker 2 (01:39:25):
Let me put that to some mad Why can I
doesn't mean to do it.

Speaker 3 (01:39:30):
I'm sorry, Melody here, you are wrong.

Speaker 15 (01:39:38):
You don't like it.

Speaker 28 (01:39:39):
You never like.

Speaker 3 (01:39:41):
We're good friends. Remember if you drink?

Speaker 15 (01:39:46):
Oh, all right, in the future.

Speaker 2 (01:39:50):
To the future.

Speaker 28 (01:39:57):
I've never tasted a quite promise promise.

Speaker 8 (01:40:03):
Marc Michael.

Speaker 7 (01:40:15):
Well it worked, Marshal and quickly. Yeah, trial Cranan always
drs and the full vial and Melody's drink made.

Speaker 2 (01:40:23):
It almost instantaneous.

Speaker 15 (01:40:26):
You bend over a check and straighten up and look
at your watch. One fifteen, still unscheduled. It takes on
me a moment to rinse out the two glasses, then
hurry to the door, open.

Speaker 3 (01:40:38):
It and look into the hall. No one in sights, Marshall,
it's perfect.

Speaker 7 (01:40:48):
One minute later you're carrying Melody to the automatic elevator,
held on the fourth floor by the little block of
wood you left to prop the door open.

Speaker 3 (01:40:57):
You put her inside, lest the door clothes and start
down the stairs.

Speaker 7 (01:41:05):
At one twenty six, you're standing in the shadows of
the trubbery outside the building. At your feet the suitcase
you hit there drinking ranking Well, it's finish. Uh uh oh, blake,

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you startled me. I said, no, you were coming along the.

Speaker 3 (01:41:36):
Side long trying to catch up with you for a block.

Speaker 7 (01:41:39):
Well, the suits well back from another business took yes
from flight dollars. We all thanks rather nice to meet
someone for the change. I'm usually a lone wolf, you know.
I suppose it's a lot of every nightclub manager. Oh
you're in for the elevator, yep, already started down your wife,

(01:41:59):
expect can you blake?

Speaker 3 (01:42:00):
Why no? I didn't get a chance to wire her.

Speaker 7 (01:42:04):
Probably be quite a surprise, and it will be quite
a surprise wounded Marshal. Yeah, you'll probably have to take
Trentis off the floor when that elevator door opens and

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he sees what's inside.

Speaker 15 (01:42:26):
But most important of all, Trentis will produce an alibi.
No one could possibly break down. Yes, it's so natural.
You're walking up to him outside. This two's case in
your hands, just back from Phoenix, the two of you
walking in together, discovering melody together.

Speaker 3 (01:42:46):
Yes, Marshall, it's air tight.

Speaker 15 (01:42:48):
And if the elevator dial moves around you begin.

Speaker 3 (01:42:51):
To brace yourself for.

Speaker 15 (01:42:54):
Three two.

Speaker 3 (01:42:57):
One.

Speaker 7 (01:43:01):
You're ready now waiting Frantish flags the door back, the
elevator is.

Speaker 3 (01:43:10):
And well, what's the matter, blench? Step in. There's plenty
of room.

Speaker 26 (01:43:26):
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For instance, suppose I were to broadcast that message you
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Speaker 3 (01:43:52):
Now if I said that through the filter mic, here's
how it would sound.

Speaker 26 (01:43:57):
It takes extra quality to go farther and signal is
the famous go farther gasoline.

Speaker 3 (01:44:05):
On the other hand, through the echo chamber, it would
sound like this.

Speaker 26 (01:44:09):
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Speaker 15 (01:45:32):
You stand at the door of the elevator like an
idiot to stun the speak It's It's unbelievable, isn't it. Marshall.

Speaker 7 (01:45:40):
You put Melody's body in that elevator that's five minutes ago.

Speaker 15 (01:45:44):
That the car is empty.

Speaker 3 (01:45:50):
You'll fight an impulse to run.

Speaker 7 (01:45:51):
Out of the elevator upstairs to the fifth floor and
Helen's department.

Speaker 3 (01:45:55):
But you can't, can you, Marshall.

Speaker 15 (01:45:58):
No one must know there was ever more than a
casual friendship between Hugh and Helen.

Speaker 7 (01:46:04):
As the car rises, you'll tell yourself that your wife
Melody is dead.

Speaker 3 (01:46:08):
But she couldn't get up and walk away, or could she?

Speaker 7 (01:46:13):
You follow pranted out under the fourth floor and got
down the corridor, deciding now it's.

Speaker 15 (01:46:18):
Best to keep close to him for the time being.

Speaker 3 (01:46:21):
You seem a little ruffer to night blake anything wrong?

Speaker 7 (01:46:24):
Oh, no, no, no, I had kind of a rough
time on the plane through. And well, come on in, Prentice,
have a nightcap, which won't redisturb your wife. Oh she
won't mind, just a quickie. Well you know me good,
I know Melody'll be happy to see. Your lights are wrong.

(01:46:45):
Perhaps she's still up.

Speaker 3 (01:46:47):
Melody, Oh, Melody, Melody dolling, I'm home. What's the matter?
She's not here, she's not mere part.

Speaker 15 (01:47:00):
What's wrong with that? I don't know?

Speaker 3 (01:47:02):
Or she might have gone out for the evening, or
wait a minute, look there.

Speaker 15 (01:47:06):
Huh at all?

Speaker 3 (01:47:07):
The night bag next to to the band. Was she
going somewhere? She couldn't, I mean she couldn't have gone far,
of course, not well, Blake, what about it? What about fun?
Didn't you ask me in for a drink? Yes?

Speaker 7 (01:47:22):
Sure, happy stuff for it's on the sideboards right o.
And I'd say you could use a drink. Well, that's strange.
She couldn't have leasted very long ago. These glasses must
have been rinsed in hot water. They're still warm. Oh yes, cry.

Speaker 3 (01:47:43):
Now how do you suppose it?

Speaker 7 (01:47:47):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (01:47:47):
What is that confume? Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:47:49):
Yes, it's a favorite of my wife, named for her
something night melody.

Speaker 15 (01:48:03):
And the scent of it, heavier than ever now, makes.

Speaker 7 (01:48:07):
You almost feel melody near you, freet beckoning, filling the
room with her presence, her brittle, mocking laugh.

Speaker 15 (01:48:16):
At long last, Francis finishes his drink.

Speaker 7 (01:48:19):
And the minute you hear his door close across the hall,
you hurry out, search the corridors on the fourth floor,
and down the stairs to the third, the second, and
finally into the lobby.

Speaker 3 (01:48:31):
Where is she, Marshall? What happened to Meredith? Oh?

Speaker 32 (01:48:45):
Missus, I thought I heard someone or something wrong?

Speaker 3 (01:48:50):
But my wife.

Speaker 2 (01:48:51):
I'm awfully worried, Miss McPherson.

Speaker 3 (01:48:52):
She's not only apart worse. But didn't you know now what? Well?

Speaker 4 (01:48:56):
I thought she was leaving on a trip tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:48:58):
She didn't tell me. I just got in from fat.

Speaker 15 (01:49:01):
Oh dear, yeah, you must have just missed each other.

Speaker 2 (01:49:04):
I'm sure I leard missus Blake go out. And I.

Speaker 15 (01:49:08):
I'm sure that now that your wife's perfume.

Speaker 28 (01:49:10):
Can't you smell it?

Speaker 3 (01:49:11):
Yes? I do smell.

Speaker 2 (01:49:13):
Oh well, baby, I'll check, are you mister Blake?

Speaker 4 (01:49:15):
I'll call the nightmare.

Speaker 2 (01:49:17):
Brought her trunk up from the basement this afternoon. Now,
I'm sure you know.

Speaker 15 (01:49:30):
And you say she didn't.

Speaker 8 (01:49:31):
Mention anything to you this afternoon, mister.

Speaker 33 (01:49:33):
Novello, Yes, I say, well, mister Blake's quite worried. And
oh you did you saw her leave the building short
time ago?

Speaker 15 (01:49:44):
What did he say? The nightmare saw her leave?

Speaker 10 (01:49:47):
God?

Speaker 2 (01:49:48):
What time, mister Novello?

Speaker 8 (01:49:51):
One thirty or so?

Speaker 15 (01:49:51):
Wait a minute, what's he?

Speaker 8 (01:49:55):
And she was carrying her over night day?

Speaker 2 (01:49:56):
I say, well, thank you, yeah, good night. Tell me
what do you say about she was carrying it with her?

Speaker 4 (01:50:03):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:50:04):
Now, there's nothing to worry about. This to Blake, top off,
fixes some key and gonna be a moment and I'll.

Speaker 8 (01:50:13):
That's ascume it's easier too. Is that odd?

Speaker 4 (01:50:28):
Gee?

Speaker 3 (01:50:30):
Go wrong? Key? Har oh?

Speaker 15 (01:50:35):
What's wrong with it? Soy sae.

Speaker 4 (01:50:40):
Blame?

Speaker 3 (01:50:41):
Oh? Oh, prendis I'm having a little trouble to key here?
I get it in a minute.

Speaker 15 (01:50:47):
Matter?

Speaker 3 (01:50:47):
All the key is locked?

Speaker 15 (01:50:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 34 (01:50:48):
Let me?

Speaker 3 (01:50:52):
Oh you want thanks? Is there something wrong?

Speaker 2 (01:50:55):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:50:56):
No, nothing, funny way. I don't mean to be curious,
but good lord man, there's nothing.

Speaker 3 (01:51:01):
To get worked up about me. See why is it?

Speaker 15 (01:51:03):
Excuse me? And I would excuse me?

Speaker 3 (01:51:08):
See her?

Speaker 2 (01:51:08):
Either? God?

Speaker 3 (01:51:10):
What's gone? Uber knight fag melody?

Speaker 15 (01:51:13):
It was here a minute ago.

Speaker 3 (01:51:15):
I guess that's what she came back for. What did
you say?

Speaker 15 (01:51:19):
Well, I thought it was she someone came and went
only a minute ago.

Speaker 3 (01:51:22):
But she couldn't have. I mean, I looked, Blake. There's
one way to settle it.

Speaker 15 (01:51:27):
Let's go up and check with her sister, Helen. And
that's not on the program either, is it.

Speaker 3 (01:51:38):
Marcia.

Speaker 15 (01:51:39):
You're too bewildered to even think now that mister Prentiss
guide you up the stairs to the next floor and
Helen's apartment. Someone knows. You're sure of it now. Someone
has been in on it from the first and the
whole thing is a castle insidious plan to drap you.

Speaker 3 (01:51:58):
But who, marsal who could have be?

Speaker 7 (01:52:00):
Then as the two of you start down the sixth
floor corridor, something hits you between the eyes.

Speaker 31 (01:52:08):
Don't be silly, darling.

Speaker 28 (01:52:10):
You can trust me. Everything is just waiting for you
to walk in.

Speaker 7 (01:52:16):
You stop short for a minute, your mind spinning, then
continue on after Prinice walk in, Marshall.

Speaker 3 (01:52:26):
Walk into what's nothing at all?

Speaker 15 (01:52:35):
Miss Maids.

Speaker 7 (01:52:35):
I'm sorry, Helen, something's wrong. What if we didn't want
to disturb you? Miss Mason be I'm a little concerned
about Melody.

Speaker 10 (01:52:41):
Helen.

Speaker 3 (01:52:42):
I well, you know, I've been in Phoenix for the
past two weeks.

Speaker 7 (01:52:45):
I just return unexpectedly and tell me tell me, Marshall,
wonder well she isn't at.

Speaker 2 (01:52:50):
Home, Melody?

Speaker 8 (01:52:52):
Is he at home?

Speaker 7 (01:52:53):
There's really nothing to be get alarmed about you? No,
of course, that she planned a trip can't seem to
convince Blake. Look that, please, mister Prennis, would you mind
if I talked to Helen alone?

Speaker 3 (01:53:03):
Not at all?

Speaker 15 (01:53:04):
The madness Mason worried that serves you, but.

Speaker 28 (01:53:07):
Poor Blake here of course, come in Marshall and thank you,
mister pretis.

Speaker 3 (01:53:13):
What's not everything?

Speaker 15 (01:53:14):
Did you do it?

Speaker 18 (01:53:15):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (01:53:15):
Right, I'll schedule only one thing. When Trennis and I
opened the elevator door, she wasn't there, you lad, She
wasn't there.

Speaker 15 (01:53:22):
Everybody's trying to tell me she's walking.

Speaker 2 (01:53:24):
Around the building.

Speaker 3 (01:53:25):
Oh, Marshall, are you sure you are dead? I tell
you when I put it in that elevator, she will.

Speaker 2 (01:53:30):
Tell me. Now tell me exactly what happened.

Speaker 3 (01:53:33):
It went off perfectly. I got up to her apartment
just after one. We talked a while.

Speaker 2 (01:53:38):
I suggested a farewell drink, and.

Speaker 25 (01:53:41):
Then I go on, wait a minute, Helen, it's the
latter she's been here to headens. I shall Melody here
in this room.

Speaker 2 (01:53:56):
I can smell it. Are you Talkinglody?

Speaker 3 (01:53:58):
Perfume?

Speaker 2 (01:54:00):
I didn't know. Only one way it could have happened, Helen,
Just one way.

Speaker 3 (01:54:06):
No, you're double crossing me, Helen. You're trying to use
me for a fall. Guy.

Speaker 2 (01:54:10):
It's Melody's money, isn't it. That's all you're life.

Speaker 3 (01:54:13):
Did you do with Helen?

Speaker 4 (01:54:14):
What did you do with Melody? The next thing I
know she'll tam up in my lafe of fifteen witnesses.

Speaker 2 (01:54:18):
And you're gonna spring that.

Speaker 28 (01:54:20):
Do you don't know what you're saying?

Speaker 2 (01:54:21):
You credit for better sense, you're in it.

Speaker 15 (01:54:23):
You know you're in as deep as I am. Well,
it's not gonna work, Helen.

Speaker 2 (01:54:25):
You better understand that.

Speaker 3 (01:54:26):
Right now.

Speaker 2 (01:54:27):
I shall listen listening to you.

Speaker 3 (01:54:32):
It's god to believe, the need.

Speaker 15 (01:54:34):
Be first to late hell and I.

Speaker 3 (01:54:38):
I couldn't believe.

Speaker 8 (01:54:39):
Oh my good gone.

Speaker 2 (01:54:41):
Listen to me now I know where I live. It's
only one way we can win.

Speaker 3 (01:54:47):
We've got I love you. I love you so much.

Speaker 15 (01:54:55):
If she's gone, it's because.

Speaker 7 (01:54:56):
Someone found it, because someone knows all the manager even
there's only one way.

Speaker 28 (01:55:02):
Out now, Marshall, there's much time for me. They do
know Donald that they don't know enough.

Speaker 2 (01:55:08):
They'll get to be here by now.

Speaker 8 (01:55:10):
We've got to get out of here right now. My
car's down in the basement garage. We can be out
of the state by daylight.

Speaker 2 (01:55:19):
Know what that means, Yes, Marshall, I know what that means.

Speaker 7 (01:55:31):
There's a sick feeling of deceit inside you as you
wait for her to drift. If you know what it means,
to run now, don't you, Marshall. From this minute, i'me
the two of you are giving up all start of
the money, admitting to the world and the law that
you murdered.

Speaker 15 (01:55:48):
Melody play that. Helen's right.

Speaker 3 (01:55:51):
There's only one expliment.

Speaker 15 (01:55:54):
They know everything, and from now on it's only.

Speaker 2 (01:55:57):
A matter of time.

Speaker 26 (01:56:00):
M hmm.

Speaker 7 (01:56:01):
Five minutes later, the two of you are in the
elevator going down to the basement, and Helen.

Speaker 8 (01:56:06):
Car that's a master.

Speaker 2 (01:56:10):
Get the door.

Speaker 8 (01:56:16):
Over here.

Speaker 3 (01:56:19):
So dark.

Speaker 2 (01:56:20):
I can't take my Arn't.

Speaker 3 (01:56:23):
There anyone on duty?

Speaker 8 (01:56:25):
The nightmare's working upstairs? I think, Honey, darling, that's the
less Helen.

Speaker 3 (01:56:34):
Look, I'll staple over there under the window.

Speaker 8 (01:56:39):
I'll see you.

Speaker 15 (01:56:55):
Tell do you are dead?

Speaker 29 (01:56:58):
You are.

Speaker 8 (01:57:01):
Awful? I had no idea when.

Speaker 15 (01:57:04):
I please, Miss McPherson, who you, Lieutenant Brackett homicide?

Speaker 3 (01:57:08):
Missus mcpherston called it.

Speaker 28 (01:57:10):
But why what are you doing here?

Speaker 15 (01:57:12):
I don't think it's necessary to explain that.

Speaker 2 (01:57:15):
You surprised Helen nor your son.

Speaker 15 (01:57:18):
Don't you right out of a clear sky? You had
no idea?

Speaker 28 (01:57:22):
Please?

Speaker 7 (01:57:22):
I believe that that's the trouble. I did believe we
should have had better sense. Helen it won't work. You know,
it's the wrong kind of a frame. There's still two
of it, not more to helen you and I. You
get that, Lieutenant, two of it. I didn't tell her I.

Speaker 3 (01:57:37):
Was a machine, the dummy.

Speaker 15 (01:57:37):
She pulled the strings.

Speaker 2 (01:57:41):
I'm pulling the strings.

Speaker 3 (01:57:42):
Now on them all right, officer. Will make yourself comfortable.
I've got quite a story to tell you.

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(01:59:13):
to the whisper.

Speaker 15 (01:59:20):
Ooh, it's a terrible thing, marshall.

Speaker 7 (01:59:29):
The four of you standing in the gloom of the
basement glide just enough lights from the street lamp outside,
filtering through the dirty window to give the whole picture
an ethereal, ghostly pallor.

Speaker 3 (01:59:42):
You hear yourself talking now, slowly at first, and faster.

Speaker 15 (01:59:46):
As the hatred inside you drives the whole thing out
of your brain, and in.

Speaker 9 (01:59:51):
A flood of words, you tell everything.

Speaker 7 (01:59:54):
How you fell in love with Tell them about the
night you discovered you were both thinking of murder and
a Melody's money, have the poison drinks, the elevator, the
maddening discovery that Melody's body was gone.

Speaker 15 (02:00:07):
Helen begins to sob missus mcpherston and the Lieutenant just
stand there quietly listened.

Speaker 7 (02:00:13):
Well that's all, Lieutenant, I don't know what she's done
to try to implicate me.

Speaker 2 (02:00:20):
I'm kind of a yarn, she's told you.

Speaker 3 (02:00:22):
But that's the truth. No one will ever make me change.

Speaker 15 (02:00:29):
Well, what about it, officer. Amazing what you can run
into in an apartmenthouse, garage.

Speaker 3 (02:00:37):
Come on, where are we going? The night man's room
is down here.

Speaker 15 (02:00:41):
I like to have you talk to him.

Speaker 2 (02:00:43):
The night man.

Speaker 15 (02:00:44):
Bring the lady, missus McPherson.

Speaker 3 (02:00:47):
Won't You don't know what I tell you. They're both
under arrest suspicion of murder. But the nightman what he
got to do?

Speaker 15 (02:00:56):
I get easy. You'll see in a minute, oh flann, Yes,
we can, and we'll see him.

Speaker 30 (02:01:03):
Now.

Speaker 3 (02:01:05):
Come on, and now, mister I don't know you know,
mister Blake.

Speaker 32 (02:01:17):
Here, mister Blake, mister blakeer, please believe me.

Speaker 2 (02:01:21):
I didn't mean to do it.

Speaker 32 (02:01:22):
I tried to explain. After it happened, I got scared
and I lost my head. That's why I lied about.

Speaker 15 (02:01:29):
Seeing your wife go out every time minute, Tell mister
Blake exactly.

Speaker 4 (02:01:35):
What you did.

Speaker 32 (02:01:35):
I was cleaning up on the photo floor and I
found Missus Blake in the elevator.

Speaker 15 (02:01:41):
She's fainted roans.

Speaker 32 (02:01:45):
I picked her up to carry back from her apartment
and as I passed the stairway, I trip and fell
down all the way to the landing shed the head.

Speaker 15 (02:01:55):
I know it, I killed her.

Speaker 4 (02:01:57):
I might didn't mean.

Speaker 2 (02:01:58):
Dot mit.

Speaker 15 (02:02:01):
You mean he's told you fire, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (02:02:06):
We thought he was lying, had him already to book
until you cleared him? Good?

Speaker 35 (02:02:14):
H Hell, never mind, marshals, it's no use.

Speaker 15 (02:02:20):
Now, well let's go you to him. Oh, mister Novella.

Speaker 34 (02:02:26):
A word of advice, next time you fall downstairs with
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Are you. You don't know your name?

Speaker 2 (02:10:45):
No, who's shot? Rip over the rest of his shirt
and get your tethoscope on his heart. Yeah you see
how he's doing, sir?

Speaker 15 (02:10:55):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 9 (02:10:58):
Damn me?

Speaker 3 (02:10:59):
Wasn't shot all of us? We must have hemorrhaged the
eternally like mad.

Speaker 2 (02:11:03):
Holy you will then taking straight to emergency doctor Ryello.

Speaker 3 (02:11:07):
We're going to need anathesia. He doesn't look like the
kind of man to get mixed up in issue books
can be this eating, as you'll find out ms. In turn,
what is he going to die?

Speaker 8 (02:11:18):
Not?

Speaker 3 (02:11:18):
As long as it's breathing, nerd. Get me some gloves on.

Speaker 10 (02:11:22):
A good look about bullet wan swub up the area.

Speaker 4 (02:11:26):
Again and.

Speaker 2 (02:11:31):
See the one kiss. It's small, definitely point of entry.
Just one shot, Thank youness. Get me a probe and
some retractors.

Speaker 9 (02:11:42):
Thank you. Let's head a better look.

Speaker 3 (02:11:49):
With no toy bullets. Have a thirty eight told be
a police special.

Speaker 10 (02:11:55):
The bullet's still inside, all right, Get us an emergency doctor.

Speaker 3 (02:12:00):
We're gonna have to go in doctor. Shoot you with
operating without a release. I mean, who knows who this
man is?

Speaker 2 (02:12:08):
We have information, we know he's white male and from
his hands. Let's say some kind of workman. The police
will have to take it from the murder. So all right,
so we are ducks. You're in a hospital and your faith.
Now what's your name?

Speaker 35 (02:12:32):
Name? Remember?

Speaker 2 (02:12:42):
Okay, okay, job, I'll call the police then come up
to Uh. You can scome and assist me on this one.
Any changed now he's holding on. You got the police.

Speaker 3 (02:13:05):
Yes, they're on their way. They have an idea who
our misputatient might be.

Speaker 2 (02:13:10):
They as soon as we get that bullet out of
his in sizes are happier, I'll be. It's behind his
spleen resting on the spine. You say the police think they.

Speaker 15 (02:13:21):
Know who he is?

Speaker 3 (02:13:23):
Yes, a man named Roy Richardson.

Speaker 8 (02:13:26):
Name mean anything to.

Speaker 9 (02:13:27):
You, of course, don't you?

Speaker 3 (02:13:30):
Dame's ever read the papers? Of course not doctor. We're
only too busy curting our hair, we coloring our nail.
Don't get your back. Oh, then stop looking down your nose.

Speaker 40 (02:13:41):
I happen to have been on duty sixty hours out
of the last seventy two.

Speaker 3 (02:13:44):
No, I haven't read the papers. Who is Roy Richardson?

Speaker 9 (02:13:49):
You know who are the larchers?

Speaker 3 (02:13:52):
He'd hed a little hard on.

Speaker 40 (02:13:53):
This, Our big time racketeers who got nailed on income
tax evasion is about to go on tire yep, you know,
because someone in his organization was willing to turn state's
evidence in order to.

Speaker 3 (02:14:07):
The what's the guys name, Yeah, the witness. If we
can bring him food, chiny change jaw?

Speaker 10 (02:14:30):
Where I.

Speaker 3 (02:14:32):
Spittling that? You cut me after we thought your fault. Yeah,
it's a public fall right here, all the big Yeah,
give me the dumber. I'll call you back on safe form.

Speaker 10 (02:14:55):
Such cut off that bleader, tony.

Speaker 3 (02:14:59):
Factor plant tied off doctor Peterson.

Speaker 10 (02:15:06):
Yeah, that's a little better now we can see what
there's a trouble.

Speaker 2 (02:15:14):
It's a big slug with lots of philosophy, just to
bounce around plenty bullets.

Speaker 3 (02:15:21):
As a baby.

Speaker 2 (02:15:25):
Yeah thirty eight, All right, stop nosed. I just hope
we don't have too many intestinal perforations. Hold on to
that nurse, please go on.

Speaker 3 (02:15:35):
I don't see any damage to the vital organs.

Speaker 2 (02:15:38):
Mister Richardson is still going to be lucky to pull
out of this one, and even if he does, to
stay alive one way or another. I see hospital, Okay, okay, school,

(02:16:01):
they're operating a down here.

Speaker 3 (02:16:03):
Did he talk I don't think so. He bred in
the door. I short of luck but couldn't get tom
and done. Is he gonna naked? I got no norm
for you. Better make sure he don't.

Speaker 8 (02:16:17):
What can I do here the hospital?

Speaker 2 (02:16:19):
You better figure that luck never comes to He can
nail me, and I don't tend to be nailed.

Speaker 3 (02:16:26):
But if I should be, you better know you are
deep six. Don't talk.

Speaker 14 (02:16:31):
Move.

Speaker 2 (02:16:33):
I'm gonna give you a safe number you can contact
me through, and if you need guts, I'll send them
to you. If that fink's mouth has gotta be shut,
that guts handle it. That dummy is expandable. Oh now
you buck him up and make sure. And doctor Peter

(02:17:00):
I as detective search and Sam Marshall, Oh how are
you detected? I'm sorry I've kept you wedding that I
just got down from the operating room. Agitation, good constitution.
He came through a very tough operation. Very well, he's
gonna live. Then, well I can tell you that the
next twenty four hours. Holl tell I understand he was

(02:17:22):
in no condition to talk when he got him. That's right,
or give his name. I'm try know something about murder,
but I had a notion from doctor Grant who reported
the bullet one. But you had a pretty fair idea
who he was. Well, we know that a witness and
a trial do to start next week against Augie Lars

(02:17:42):
disappeared last night or at least somewhere between midnight and
eight this morning.

Speaker 3 (02:17:48):
Rian Richardson.

Speaker 2 (02:17:48):
Yeah, we've been keeping his picture out of the papers
to protect him.

Speaker 3 (02:17:53):
Looks as if you didn't do a very good job
of that.

Speaker 37 (02:17:55):
Hard Richardson was the one who ducked us. It's the
man you walkerated on, doctor Peterson.

Speaker 3 (02:18:04):
Oh no, no, I've never seen this man before in
my life. That's the way cops life goes.

Speaker 9 (02:18:11):
Doc, No, I've got to open a new file.

Speaker 3 (02:18:14):
Who the devil is your John Doe?

Speaker 2 (02:18:16):
And we found no identification on him? Looks like that's
your problem. And that's unless what less. I guess everyone
can resist trying to play cops sergeant. But when this
man got to the hospital, he'd been carrying that slug
in him for some time. Uh. I don't see how
he could have made it on his feet for so

(02:18:37):
long unless oh what is it? Look down her as
a parking lot for the hospital. Uh, she had caught
on her next to my red convertible?

Speaker 3 (02:18:51):
Is that yours? No?

Speaker 2 (02:18:53):
I hope I could do a better job of parking
than that. Anyway, isn't that space reserved for doctors? Yes,
but it's as right near the emergency entrance. Come on target.
Maybe we can find out the easy way who mister
Roy Richardson isn't and just how he's mixed up in this.

Speaker 9 (02:19:14):
Blood all over the seat.

Speaker 2 (02:19:15):
Don't touch the wheel, doctor you finality registration for the
car Joseph C.

Speaker 41 (02:19:21):
Wilson fourteenth booty four of all avenue height five eleven
one half wait one seven er eyes be gray, hell
like brown, age thirty six.

Speaker 3 (02:19:33):
Help him in it?

Speaker 2 (02:19:34):
Yeah, it could be the man I operated on description
pet eight picks some shirts in case of accident, noted
by missus Joseph Wilcock.

Speaker 3 (02:19:44):
Let's go do that little thing, doctor.

Speaker 2 (02:19:47):
Do you.

Speaker 3 (02:19:49):
Know that's Wilsome? I mean, was he another witness?

Speaker 37 (02:19:51):
Never heard of them, but I give a lot for
a few words with him. Richardson is still missing in
my hunches. Any deal he thought he could make with
Larch was one way. The odds that Richardon is already
at the bottom of some convenient lake. The big question
is did they intend to dumb mister Wilson there too,
or was he one of them something with law? Either way,

(02:20:15):
you've got to help me get something out of the guy.
We had Augie Larch just where we wanted him, and
I don't want to see him get off the hook.

Speaker 2 (02:20:29):
All day that take the sword shall perish by the sword.
Is Joe Wilson's fate just retribution? Or is he an
innocent victim? Is he another unfortunate possessor of information about
the illegal operations of a ruthless criminal, or is he

(02:20:50):
something else entirely, someone with no contact at all with
Augie Larch, and yet who is infinitely more dangerous to him.

Speaker 9 (02:21:00):
I'll return shortly with that.

Speaker 3 (02:21:02):
Two. Need your hand to friends, to give your heart
to your love.

Speaker 14 (02:21:11):
But dear your cold, your condown.

Speaker 9 (02:21:17):
Six or three or what?

Speaker 14 (02:21:19):
Please don't give me problem. I'm catching a common cold, nasing,
trip congestion me.

Speaker 2 (02:21:26):
For those symptoms, you'd need six cold tablets, two every
four hours, or three ounces of colds liquid one every
four hours, or.

Speaker 3 (02:21:35):
Just one contact.

Speaker 14 (02:21:36):
I know the tiny time pio right.

Speaker 2 (02:21:40):
All the others are things for aches, fever, and the
liquid something of course not found.

Speaker 3 (02:21:44):
Contact your cold, your choice.

Speaker 2 (02:21:47):
Sneezy trip congesture, I'll take the contawn your.

Speaker 14 (02:21:52):
Cold, you contact.

Speaker 2 (02:21:57):
Six or three or what they got only is directed.
The Marine call is that are looking for a few
good men to help cheap the peace. We're looking for
men who understand that nobody likes to fight, but somebody

(02:22:20):
has to know how.

Speaker 3 (02:22:22):
We want men who want to see their children grow
up in an age of peace.

Speaker 9 (02:22:28):
Men who will do more than wish for it.

Speaker 3 (02:22:31):
Men who will work for it.

Speaker 2 (02:22:33):
Men who don't need the draft to know their the
job to be done. Men who ask themselves what they
can do for their country and do it. We're looking
for a few good men to stand with the Marine
Corps reserve. No shortcut, no compromising, no promises except one.

(02:22:55):
You will be a Marine and you will.

Speaker 3 (02:22:57):
Be ready back the job. I'm a peace.

Speaker 2 (02:23:18):
At the hospital, in the intensive care unit lies the
man for whom we seem to have found a name.
But while the doctors monitor and fight to save the
patient's life, Detective Sergeant Sam Marshall doggedly follows his job
of finding out if he really is Joseph C. Wilson,

(02:23:38):
and if he is who he is, what he is
and what led him to being the target of a
perhaps lethal bullet. As soon as the necessary police machinery
has been set in motion, he goes personally to interview
Joe's wife, Helen, And.

Speaker 14 (02:23:54):
I was Friday, I was just going to call you
the police. I mean none. Now you tell me this
is how could anyone ever shoot my Joe?

Speaker 37 (02:24:05):
The point is somebody did missus Wilsem Now I've seen
a picture of him.

Speaker 9 (02:24:10):
There's no doubt it's your husband.

Speaker 14 (02:24:12):
But why Joe didn't have any enemies, but not that
kind anyway.

Speaker 3 (02:24:18):
What does your husband do for a living.

Speaker 14 (02:24:19):
He's a plumber.

Speaker 3 (02:24:21):
Does he have a partner, work for a fud? No,
He's just in business for himself. Does he stay out
much night?

Speaker 14 (02:24:27):
Oh not Joe outside of his work to Kim's near
his whole life.

Speaker 3 (02:24:31):
How many children you have?

Speaker 8 (02:24:32):
Two?

Speaker 14 (02:24:33):
Ronnie he ate and the Babysoo County T three.

Speaker 3 (02:24:37):
How come he went out last night?

Speaker 40 (02:24:39):
Well it was an emergency call. Yes, the bensions up
on Longridge Road there. Well they're old customers and kind
of friends. That's why he went out so late.

Speaker 37 (02:24:52):
Would there be any reason for him to come back
by the old high Road?

Speaker 14 (02:24:58):
Yes, yes, as he's stubborn about something.

Speaker 3 (02:25:02):
It's a shortcut, but what's not to use it?

Speaker 40 (02:25:07):
There's so many blind curves, and it twists and now,
and it's awful of poptholes, and but nobody uses it
much since it's so deserted, and since you if you
do meet someone coming the other way, it's.

Speaker 14 (02:25:20):
So easy to have an action. I was only afraid
that is had one.

Speaker 2 (02:25:31):
But I want to go to my husband.

Speaker 14 (02:25:33):
I want to talk to him.

Speaker 2 (02:25:40):
Mining I'm doctor Peterson, I'm I doing doc thanks to
a good strong constitution.

Speaker 9 (02:25:48):
Five you got any pain?

Speaker 3 (02:25:52):
Some hell.

Speaker 29 (02:25:58):
Yeh h.

Speaker 2 (02:26:02):
That's all any of us knows. Yet there here's a
detective police down in my office who look like, oh,
I want to see my wife first, she's right outside.

Speaker 9 (02:26:17):
Now you can get missus Wilson and.

Speaker 3 (02:26:21):
Yes Oka.

Speaker 9 (02:26:25):
Say it alone for a minute.

Speaker 2 (02:26:30):
If you promise not to over excite yourself. I don't
want to scare you. You're a long way from being
out of the worlds yet, I promise.

Speaker 3 (02:26:43):
Oh baby, you all like Honey told me, I can
eat anything, even though let's well, I'll give you two
a moment, a long colonna.

Speaker 2 (02:26:57):
You know.

Speaker 9 (02:27:01):
They gone?

Speaker 14 (02:27:03):
Did you step outside the door?

Speaker 8 (02:27:06):
What did you need, didn't you. I want to know why.

Speaker 3 (02:27:15):
I can tell you, but I'm not so sure.

Speaker 15 (02:27:19):
I'm not.

Speaker 37 (02:27:21):
Oh, why did I take that short gun after all
the time you asked me not to, Helen, I think
I saw a guy merchant and I don't want to
start throwing any waiter on doctor. But if there's any possibility.

Speaker 2 (02:27:42):
Your patient in there may die, I need a statement
and some information from him. I uh, I don't know
if I can permit that's out. And his wife was
allowed to see him this morning, only for a little while,
and only if she didn't allow him to get over excited.

Speaker 9 (02:27:56):
I promised to take it easy.

Speaker 3 (02:27:58):
It's just.

Speaker 37 (02:28:00):
Well, Roy Richardson is still missing. Without him, we have
no case against Augie Large.

Speaker 2 (02:28:07):
Very well, then, for a few minutes, I'm going to
be in there to make sure you don't upset him.

Speaker 3 (02:28:13):
Be my guest.

Speaker 9 (02:28:14):
Why should I upset him if he's got nothing to hide?

Speaker 2 (02:28:23):
Now, this is Detective Sergeant Marshall Joe. He wants to
ask you a few questions or the sergeant feeling better, well,
kind of weak like go ahead, and you're a plumber,
mister Wilson, And last night you were called on an
emergency job late after dinner. That's right to Benson's good customers,

(02:28:44):
good friend's mine, and say, sprung the leak in the
main water valve coming under the house, and quite a
time of.

Speaker 3 (02:28:51):
It before I could get a new washer in there.
And afterwards you came home by the old high road.

Speaker 9 (02:28:57):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (02:28:59):
Saves about three miles over going around a new road.
At what time was this, mister Wilson, Oh, eleven maybe
quarter twelve? And what time did you leave to go
to the benches around seven point thirty, got there maybe
about eight mm hm.

Speaker 37 (02:29:16):
Three hours to put in a washing. Oh well, like
I say, I had a tough time of it, and
the benches are old friends. I stuck around talking, had
a beer or so, and it was coming back on
the old high road. You were shot, that's right. How well, see,

(02:29:37):
I was coming around a sharp bend where the road
kind of dips down in a hollow, and I hear
what sounds like a blowout, So I hit the brakes
slow down as I come around the bend, and I
see in my headlights this car parked off the road
by the lake facing me with the headlights off.

Speaker 9 (02:29:59):
The car was off the road all.

Speaker 37 (02:30:01):
Half on the shoulder and right decided there was two
other guys looked in someone like he was hurt. He
stopped and I got out and I yelled, could I help?
And before I knew it, one of them pulled a
gun and took a shot at me and hit you.

Speaker 9 (02:30:23):
And so why I'm here?

Speaker 3 (02:30:25):
What did you do?

Speaker 37 (02:30:26):
Then?

Speaker 3 (02:30:27):
What would you do?

Speaker 37 (02:30:28):
I dived from my car and got to left the
engine running, and I took off right past them like
a I'm not going to be up the stairs.

Speaker 2 (02:30:37):
They shoot at you again, serge, And I don't know.
All I knew was I was hurt and heading for
the hospital. Another thing that thank God for they hadn't
pulled off the road. I'd never got past them.

Speaker 3 (02:30:52):
Hey, you know.

Speaker 37 (02:30:54):
Roy Richardson mitter Wilson name is familiar, But here of
Augie Lunch. Oh, I mean the gangster, the mob guy.
You tell me, Was he one of the men you
saw murder? Roy Richardson, Oh, I don't know, or even

(02:31:16):
if it was, or you must have seen these men
in your headlights? Could you identify any of.

Speaker 3 (02:31:20):
Them for us? Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:31:24):
I don't know, if if you'd be willing to try,
and well, I guess sure, sure, I.

Speaker 10 (02:31:32):
Mean, I am sorry, but I'll have to stop you.
That's quite enough for a Now, okay, he're the doctor,
but I'm gonna have to talk to him again. Just
so long has it Mormon dangered his life? Oh, don't
worry about that. His life is just as important to
me as it is to you, doctor. From here on in,

(02:31:53):
I'm gonna do everything I can to protect it.

Speaker 40 (02:32:01):
I haven't told the kids about your Joe, because all
day I've been doing a lot of thinking what.

Speaker 3 (02:32:09):
Kind of thin can help?

Speaker 14 (02:32:11):
You? Got yourself mixed up with some real bad, no
good trash.

Speaker 10 (02:32:15):
Don't you think I know that you left me with
a big enough message to remind me.

Speaker 40 (02:32:21):
Their messages from the other side too. You know there's
a policeman on guard outside your door. Why, Joe Darling,
those men are.

Speaker 14 (02:32:31):
The one who shot you and the other one. Could
you recognize them if you saw them again?

Speaker 37 (02:32:39):
I'm still mixed up, Like sometimes, I tell myself, I'm
not one hundred percent sure I could, and then I
shut my eyes and I know I could think them
out of that Jampag ballpark. But if I really had
to tell the truth, I think maybe the reason is

(02:33:06):
I'm just playing scared.

Speaker 14 (02:33:08):
Joe Darning, don't you see that just the way I feel.
I don't want you to identify those men, even if
you could. They've gone enough you already. I don't want
you to take any chances they'll do anymore.

Speaker 9 (02:33:22):
Helen, I gotta do what's right.

Speaker 40 (02:33:27):
Why you didn't ask to get tangled up and the
filth and crime. You want all of us to creep
around scared to death from here on in if you
identify these.

Speaker 14 (02:33:38):
Men, Ronnie, Sue, Carol me what happened to you already?

Speaker 37 (02:33:45):
But Helen, it's like I'm I'm a citizen. If I've
got rights, I got duties too. Joe, promise me you'll
stay out. But the only way all of it can
be sure will be safe.

Speaker 8 (02:34:05):
Especially you.

Speaker 2 (02:34:06):
And you're sure, Sargeant Marshall positive identification Doctor, you haven't
been in the water that long. After talking to mister Wilson,
we located the spot where the shooting took place.

Speaker 9 (02:34:22):
We had a crew with this and they brought up Richison.
The third time down blewet threw his head.

Speaker 3 (02:34:28):
So there goes your witness on the Evasion of Taxes trial.

Speaker 37 (02:34:31):
Small potatoes. Now we can get them on a bigger
rap murder. If you're patient, mister Wilson comes through. Can
I see him now?

Speaker 10 (02:34:47):
I'm sorry to have to break in on your visit,
Missus Wilson, but Sergeant Grant has to talk to your husband.

Speaker 2 (02:34:53):
More questions, and not so much this time. I had
a copy of the transcript you made to me this morning,
typed up. I'd like to get it signed. I'm not
gonna look at your pictures. Why not, for the same
reason I won't sign a statement. I can't identify the
men he indicated you might well, I'm not sure anymore.

Speaker 14 (02:35:13):
He'd be in terrible danger if he could.

Speaker 37 (02:35:16):
Missus Wilson. Every precaution is being taken for your husband's safety.
You saw the police guard outside the door. What about
my wife and children? I'm trying to cover your house too.

Speaker 14 (02:35:24):
With killers like these, there's no protection.

Speaker 3 (02:35:27):
What else could I do?

Speaker 2 (02:35:30):
Could I come up with an idea and welcome Well,
it's the need of of adage, which solves all problems.

Speaker 3 (02:35:38):
Dead man tell no tales.

Speaker 14 (02:35:40):
I don't understand.

Speaker 2 (02:35:42):
Look, suppose everyone thought your husband had died from the
bullet or did those gunsels have to worry about?

Speaker 3 (02:35:48):
Then you released that story to the press. I'll substantiated
a big little white lie.

Speaker 2 (02:35:53):
Doctor. Would you be willing to look at the pictures then,
mister Wilson and make an identification if you find.

Speaker 9 (02:36:00):
One or two?

Speaker 3 (02:36:04):
Helen, Joe, I don't know what to say.

Speaker 2 (02:36:08):
If everyone is willing to put themselves out like that,
how can we let them down?

Speaker 3 (02:36:22):
Good morning, Joe. Well, how's it going today? Well?

Speaker 10 (02:36:27):
I ready to take on Muhammad Ali, but I'm getting there.

Speaker 3 (02:36:31):
Well, this may give you a list.

Speaker 2 (02:36:33):
The Morning Paper page one shooting victim succumbs Joseph Wilson,
aged thirty seven, died at Mercy Hospital last night as
the result of a mysterious bullet wound inflicted.

Speaker 3 (02:36:48):
While he was driving along the Old high Road.

Speaker 2 (02:36:52):
Wilson, a plumber by trade, leaves a wife, Helen, and
two children, ages eight and three.

Speaker 9 (02:36:59):
Let me see that, well, you have the right.

Speaker 3 (02:37:02):
Not many men get to see their own obituary. Sure
gives a matter of funny feeling.

Speaker 11 (02:37:07):
How bad.

Speaker 37 (02:37:09):
The victims will said, he will be buried in Clandon Cemetery.
That policeman sure did it up thoroughly, didn't they.

Speaker 2 (02:37:20):
Well, they could cares to release a story that you
died without being nice enough to bury you.

Speaker 3 (02:37:26):
At least now the killers are off your trail.

Speaker 42 (02:37:33):
Oh lookie, johnny A you seen the papers this morning?
Huh good nows nothing, forget it.

Speaker 3 (02:37:41):
I'm telling you the guy ain't bad.

Speaker 42 (02:37:45):
About a half hour ago I seen his wife sticking
to the hospital.

Speaker 3 (02:37:49):
Just to make sure.

Speaker 42 (02:37:50):
I took a chance and went by his room at
the hospital just a bit of the goal. There's still
a top outside the door. You don't need funs to
god a dead man.

Speaker 2 (02:38:07):
So it appears that our innocent bystander is still in
jeopardy as a brilliantly performed operation saved his life, only
to have it threatened once again. I returned shortly with
the answer to that, and at three.

Speaker 13 (02:38:27):
Inside jury, inside jokey.

Speaker 43 (02:38:32):
After all, yeah, peno steen, lack of laver collar, inside jokey,
inside jokey, under all.

Speaker 3 (02:38:46):
Very live and.

Speaker 2 (02:38:50):
You feel like breaking loose, And so off you go
in a sky hawk. You e sleek, low slung two
plus two road machine. Its streamline knows.

Speaker 37 (02:38:59):
Thrust, wake ahead, dispirited V six engines supplying the motion
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Speaker 3 (02:40:29):
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Speaker 2 (02:40:40):
It was Robert Burns, the Scottish poet who penned the
lines the best laid Schemes of Mice and Men gang
Off de Glay. Certainly, all the plans to protect Joe
Wilson by announcing his apparent death have been negated by
his wife's thoughtless and untimely visit and the fifth color
list in the hospital. Unfortunately, the doctors and the police

(02:41:05):
are unaware of this. Still, what can men, even as
desperate as Augie LARTs, do to stop Joe from identifying them?

Speaker 7 (02:41:13):
Now?

Speaker 3 (02:41:14):
It ain't good enough?

Speaker 9 (02:41:15):
Johnny?

Speaker 26 (02:41:16):
What Arcky?

Speaker 3 (02:41:17):
What else can I do?

Speaker 18 (02:41:20):
I do?

Speaker 40 (02:41:20):
You know?

Speaker 3 (02:41:22):
Well, fool, I was to be with you when we
were up Douc richardson the way it was.

Speaker 9 (02:41:27):
We didn't have time to handle it any other way.

Speaker 3 (02:41:30):
All I know is this isn't just beating a little
income tax evasion.

Speaker 2 (02:41:34):
My neck is on the line for the big m
So fine hockey. Well that's what I'm coming on. I'm
sending your guests between years. You better figure out some
way to make that over it come true.

Speaker 3 (02:41:48):
Okay, boss, what don't you give Guss a gun? I'll
handle that end if we need it.

Speaker 9 (02:41:55):
Don't worry, it's muscle.

Speaker 3 (02:41:56):
I'm sending you.

Speaker 9 (02:41:58):
I wouldn't trust.

Speaker 2 (02:41:59):
Him with a gun either, But don't forget. I don't
care how you do it, but I want that witness dead.

Speaker 42 (02:42:08):
I guess said, that's my neck online too, walkie. Why
are that's just what he'll be before the days now?

Speaker 3 (02:42:20):
And missus Wilson is up with him now too.

Speaker 2 (02:42:22):
I.

Speaker 3 (02:42:24):
Guess so I've been on rounds after all our arrangements.
Why did you let her go up there?

Speaker 40 (02:42:30):
She was already in the hospital and on his floor
before I bumped into her by accident.

Speaker 14 (02:42:36):
I tried to argue her.

Speaker 28 (02:42:37):
Out of the doctor, but she insisted on seeing him.

Speaker 2 (02:42:40):
Yes, and that those mobsters are having the hospital watched.
The whole cover scheme maybe out the window by now. Well,
even if he was dead, she had a right to
come and make arrangement for his dual.

Speaker 10 (02:42:51):
Yes, I suppose, but when Sergeant Marshall turns up, he'll
probably bore a gasket.

Speaker 3 (02:43:00):
The damage.

Speaker 10 (02:43:00):
If an, he's done already, so there's no use O
getting excited about it. One thing we can do far
smuggle her out of here the best way possible.

Speaker 3 (02:43:09):
Without a chance of her being seen.

Speaker 10 (02:43:13):
I have four throwness is this well, this is doctor Peterson,
he is, oh, well, would you tell him?

Speaker 3 (02:43:23):
I'll be right down.

Speaker 2 (02:43:27):
That's a sergeant. He's downstairs and look till me. I'll
go down and delay him a little. We can't wait
for Doc. You go along to the room and get
missus Wilson out of there. I don't care how you
do it, but if possible without being recognized.

Speaker 3 (02:43:45):
I don't care how much how long you igal with me.
I can change my mind. So why should you risk
You're not alone?

Speaker 2 (02:43:57):
I know you love me.

Speaker 37 (02:44:00):
You should have gone on out to date and with
the kids, like we plan. He took an awful chance
coming here today when I'm supposed to be I know, but.

Speaker 40 (02:44:09):
I told you I sent the kids off last night
and your mom and father were going to need them.

Speaker 14 (02:44:15):
I couldn't go, Joe.

Speaker 40 (02:44:17):
I late a week, all night worrying about the chance
you're taking, and I had to come to ask you.

Speaker 14 (02:44:23):
Not to take it.

Speaker 3 (02:44:25):
Maybe I'm a citizen, it's my duty.

Speaker 2 (02:44:28):
I'm sorry to break in on you, but Sergeant Marshall
is downstairs and on the way up. Missus Wilson, I
think you'd better get out of here.

Speaker 9 (02:44:37):
Helen, listen to the doctor and me.

Speaker 1 (02:44:41):
You go.

Speaker 3 (02:44:42):
Let me do what I have to, Joe.

Speaker 37 (02:44:44):
If I'm going to live, I have to live with myself,
and there's only one way I guess.

Speaker 3 (02:44:52):
I can do that.

Speaker 37 (02:45:00):
I'm not going to try to pretend I'm not sorry
the wife came here, but there's no sense in worrying
over spoked milk, Doctor peters in. So we get a
positive identification on who murdered Roy Richardson. The sooner Joe
Wilson will be out of danger.

Speaker 9 (02:45:14):
From outside the threats.

Speaker 2 (02:45:15):
Perhaps the man is still fighting for his life the
damage that bulleted to him inside.

Speaker 3 (02:45:22):
So take it as easy on him as you can,
cop sir.

Speaker 9 (02:45:26):
Human doc.

Speaker 2 (02:45:27):
And that's all right, officer, Just relax, but keep your
wits about you.

Speaker 3 (02:45:31):
Can we go in, doctor joh.

Speaker 2 (02:45:35):
Wow, afternoon, mister Wilson. This shouldn't hurt too much. I've
brought some pictures so it wouldn't be too heavy. I
have the computer select them so you didn't have to
wade through the whole mug file for.

Speaker 9 (02:45:47):
Example this year.

Speaker 37 (02:45:49):
First one, do you recognize him as one of the
men you saw killing Lawyer Richardson's body the night of
the murder?

Speaker 2 (02:45:55):
Why that's I've seen his picture in the newspaper. Yeah,
he's a prominent man.

Speaker 3 (02:46:02):
Was he one of them?

Speaker 37 (02:46:05):
I like to get something straight first, I asked, if
I identify the guys, what happens? Oh, we pick them
up and arrest them, and I'm out of it. Well
not exactly. Why not because your statement will not be
admissible in court unless you're there to be questioned not
only by the state but counsel for the defense new

(02:46:27):
process of law. I see, why do you ask? I'll
get that because I'm afraid if my wife will feel
I sold her and the children down the river.

Speaker 9 (02:46:39):
It's the other way.

Speaker 37 (02:46:41):
You're buying her, your children, and yourself freedom from fear.

Speaker 3 (02:46:47):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 10 (02:46:48):
There's some flowers for Joe's special receipt requestion.

Speaker 2 (02:46:53):
Powers for a dead manner as a god? Here do
you read it? Sergeant Joseph C. Wilson.

Speaker 37 (02:47:06):
Room for twelve best wishes Joe from your watchful friends.

Speaker 9 (02:47:12):
Both here and in.

Speaker 3 (02:47:15):
Dayton.

Speaker 37 (02:47:15):
That's right, Dayton, where I sent my kids to be safe.
I'll forget about this. Your wife shouldn't have come to
see you this morning, but you be protected here. We're
gonna be protected. Sergeant Marshall, you can get your little
pen and pencil out. I'm gonna give you my final statement.
Now wait a minute, not even a second, you start writing.

(02:47:37):
It was too dark on the Old Eye road for
me to see a thing. I don't know what happened.
I couldn't identify anyone in a million years. Just camp
me out as a witness. Hell, tell me you look bushed.

Speaker 2 (02:47:56):
Tired enough to step out of channels and say to
the chief of staff, so do you well?

Speaker 3 (02:48:02):
It's an occupational habit. Can't you take a break? No, jee,
I have an emergency clinic from eight to twelve.

Speaker 8 (02:48:10):
How about you?

Speaker 3 (02:48:10):
Oh, twenty four hours a day for me?

Speaker 10 (02:48:14):
Cheer up a further you go the worst it gets, well,
happy clinic.

Speaker 3 (02:48:19):
Oh, it shouldn't be too bad, hits a Tuesday. Tuesday
is only sing to be slow for some reason. I'll
that's hope it runs through a farm.

Speaker 2 (02:48:30):
Okay, Gus, Let's try to forget your billy and concentrate
on what you need.

Speaker 10 (02:48:34):
Clinic service for him?

Speaker 2 (02:48:36):
Oh yeah, yeah, sure, I got a bummt per. Concentrate
on your ink. Here, it's spain. It heights like hell,
maybe it's even broken. Okay, yeah, it's dark enough.

Speaker 3 (02:48:49):
Let's go.

Speaker 9 (02:48:54):
Yeah, Hi, doc, not some busy tonight.

Speaker 3 (02:48:59):
Which makes doctors thankful for small mercies.

Speaker 8 (02:49:03):
I guess you are right.

Speaker 3 (02:49:05):
Finds the matter with your Oh well, we was visiting
a finding in the hospital. Yeah yeah, And on a
way out.

Speaker 11 (02:49:11):
I turned my ankle on a step down the foot door.

Speaker 3 (02:49:15):
Oh, the steps down leading the hospital. Well i' have
a look whichntle? Right?

Speaker 4 (02:49:25):
Doctor?

Speaker 3 (02:49:25):
Yeah? Yeah, and I don't see any evidence of Well,
now we're all alone. Did you see this, doctor? Don't?
That's right? You must be tynnoying.

Speaker 2 (02:49:41):
One shot in this whole hospital. The new silence. See
close the door, Gay, what is it you want? Get
us in to see Joe Wilson and get us out
with him. You ought to be able to figure a way.
But real quick, do you really think you can parade

(02:50:03):
me through the hospital at the point of a gun,
even a silenced one. No parade, Doc, nobody's gonna pay
us any attention. You're already dressed upot Gus on a
rolling cart like this. Here, you get me a set
of whites like an orderly we're taking poor Gus and
there's badly sprained ankle to X ray or whatever. Now

(02:50:26):
let's stop stalling and get moving. Okay, I guess you
just slide down. Yeah, Doc, you want to front end
of the cart and me pushing on the back. Only
stay outside, real close feel the gun.

Speaker 3 (02:50:43):
What are you going to do with mister Wilson when
you get there? Get rid of them?

Speaker 2 (02:50:48):
But I promise you he hasn't identified anyone to the police.
He ain't gonna have the chance and falk about me.
You're not so hot at gets them? How are you
a doctor?

Speaker 3 (02:51:06):
Hi, Toby? I mean doctor grant what you got there?

Speaker 35 (02:51:11):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:51:11):
Madly sprained ankle? Doctor, it may be a break of
going to X ray.

Speaker 3 (02:51:17):
Why don't you lovely orderly take him. I shall have
a cup of coffee.

Speaker 14 (02:51:21):
I'm afraid I can.

Speaker 3 (02:51:23):
Doctor.

Speaker 14 (02:51:25):
This is a little more serious than that.

Speaker 2 (02:51:28):
It looks like he has a tourist pylorum and I'm
afraid the constrictor farringus.

Speaker 3 (02:51:36):
May be involved. The constrictor and you know how dangerous
that can be.

Speaker 14 (02:51:41):
Doctor.

Speaker 2 (02:51:41):
There may even be a break involved. I want to
stop that if it's possible. Okay, doctor, that's your problem.
You'll be able to handle it.

Speaker 3 (02:51:52):
I'll just go hit the hay for the night.

Speaker 2 (02:51:53):
Do you do that, doctor, I've got to get this
man up to fourth floor X ray for special pictures.

Speaker 3 (02:51:58):
Oh, by the way, you better take the back elevator.
The funk ones out of whack again.

Speaker 14 (02:52:02):
Oh I didn't know.

Speaker 9 (02:52:04):
Oh didn't they orderly tell you?

Speaker 15 (02:52:06):
He's a new man.

Speaker 28 (02:52:07):
Doctor will will handle it.

Speaker 3 (02:52:08):
Okay, it's your problem. I'm going home and forget.

Speaker 9 (02:52:12):
The hospital exists.

Speaker 2 (02:52:16):
It's going with Doc. You had a lot real sensible.
Now how far to the other elevator?

Speaker 3 (02:52:22):
Oh? Not far, just a few zigs and zags. It's
in the old buildings.

Speaker 14 (02:52:28):
But what do you expect to do when you get there?

Speaker 37 (02:52:32):
Just substitute our stretch of passenger for Joe will suit.
Gus says, an orderly suit.

Speaker 2 (02:52:38):
It can change to then we just wheel our patients
back down and out of your life, out of mine.
It's like any professional job. You can't believe any loose ends.
Just the elevator. Yes, I guess this is it.

Speaker 3 (02:53:05):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:53:05):
Look this is the last lap. So far everything has
gone pretty smooth. Let's keep it that way. Okay, guess
you're blessed? Hear these white things feel nice?

Speaker 3 (02:53:17):
Fine?

Speaker 9 (02:53:18):
Fine, fine, just let's concentrate.

Speaker 3 (02:53:20):
I'm trumbling.

Speaker 2 (02:53:20):
This got past that top with the doctor's help. And
pick up our boy. Now when we get that cap.
You already got to him, Johnny Angel, that's a police
positive in your back.

Speaker 9 (02:53:32):
Just don't move or you gus. I got three guys
covering you. Step beside document.

Speaker 14 (02:53:38):
All do she shut me?

Speaker 2 (02:53:42):
I want you? Oh but oh didn't I chat? Get lost,
Scott Prety.

Speaker 9 (02:53:55):
Don't worry.

Speaker 3 (02:53:56):
Joe Wilson will be able to identify him. Now how
come he nailed me?

Speaker 37 (02:54:04):
Oh? You shouldn't fool around with doctors, Johnny ain't male
or female.

Speaker 9 (02:54:09):
You're just not smart enough.

Speaker 3 (02:54:10):
What do you what do you mean? Well, you tell him.

Speaker 2 (02:54:14):
Doctor gust was supposed to have a sprained ankle, and
doctor Peterson asked me, what was the matter with him?

Speaker 3 (02:54:20):
Remember what I told him? So doublet? I said he
had an erectus pailo him.

Speaker 2 (02:54:28):
Well, certainly it's a very small muscle at the base
of the hair follicles the old co Yeah, nothing ankle,
A muscle the base of each hair in your head.

Speaker 3 (02:54:45):
It's enough to make your hair stand on end, isn't it,
Johnny Angel.

Speaker 2 (02:54:56):
With the help of Joe Wilson's identification, Augie Larch and
Johnny Angel were charged with criminal homicide and held without bailed.
Later both were convicted and sentenced to maximum terms. Joe
recovered successfully, and he and Helen subsequently had two more children.
It's really another story with a happy ending, and more

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or less except for one thing. In the state where
our story took place, murder in the first degree is
once again the death penalty. I'll be back shortly. Some
people think we played king pong all day. They're wrong.

Speaker 37 (02:55:38):
The USO isn't all fun and games today. The USO
has millions of problems like this one in Germany.

Speaker 2 (02:55:45):
My family's going crazy living in a tiny apartment.

Speaker 3 (02:55:48):
Where can we live?

Speaker 37 (02:55:49):
Today's USO has millions of problems like this one in Asia,
unhooked on drugs.

Speaker 3 (02:55:55):
Where can I get help? Or this problem in Athens?

Speaker 28 (02:55:58):
Our marriage is break now can you help?

Speaker 37 (02:56:02):
Today's USO has little time for ping pong. We've got
serious work to do. We've got lots of new problems
here and overseas. The problems are big.

Speaker 9 (02:56:12):
How big?

Speaker 37 (02:56:13):
Well, if someone asks you who needs the USO, tell
them over five million American military personnel and their families
need today's USO. And because we get no government funds,
we need all your support. Please give to USO through
the United Way or local USO campaign.

Speaker 2 (02:56:46):
The one thing that remained strongest in Joe Wilson's mind
after the horror and pain of his experience had faded,
was the decision he had come to finally to make
the identification.

Speaker 3 (02:57:00):
Or whatever satisfaction the.

Speaker 2 (02:57:01):
Criminals attempt to stop him may have given them on
the way to the grave. For the rest of his life,
Joe had a far better one. He could face himself
every morning in the mirror and be sure more than
most of us that he was a man and a
good one. Our cast included Joan Shay, Ken Harvey, Sam Gray,

(02:57:22):
and Ian Martin. The entire production was under the direction
of Hyman Brown.

Speaker 1 (02:57:31):
My dear, you seem a bit pique. Are you tired?
The hour is getting late, but we have quite a
way still to go. What's that? Oh, well, that's totally understandable.

(02:57:55):
I have confidence you'll be able to make it through
the night with minimal issues. And if not, well, let's
not think about that. Let's stay positive, keep our minds
on the good or what's that, Oh, don't worry about me,

(02:58:18):
My dear. The dead sleep lightly.

Speaker 9 (02:58:29):
The Spain.

Speaker 2 (02:58:41):
This is the Man in Black you're again to introduce
Columbia's program The Spain. Our stars this evening at Slee
the order their parents. They are Walter Hampton, one.

Speaker 3 (02:58:56):
Of the theatre's proudest names for two generations, and Hayward
and Leave Bowmen, two of Hollywood's rightest youngest stars. The
story called The Dead Sleep Lightly by John Dixon Carr
is Tonight's tale love suspense. If you've been with us

(02:59:16):
on these Tuesday nights, you will know that suspense is
compounded of mystery and suspicious and dangerous adventures. In this
series are tales calculated to intreat you, to stir your nerves,
to offer you.

Speaker 2 (02:59:28):
A precarious situation, and then withhold the solution until the
last possible moment. And so with The Dead Sleep Lightly,
and with the performances of Walter Hampden, Susan Hayward and
Lee Bowmen, we again hope to keep you in.

Speaker 3 (02:59:45):
The stent.

Speaker 45 (02:59:48):
Ashes through ashes and dust who dust Meadowvale Cemetery, not
far from New York.

Speaker 2 (03:00:00):
Meadowvale Cemetery a dim gray morning in early April, when
rain forms a mist across leafless trees and white graves stores.
You see over there a group of silk hatted gentlemen,
each with his protecting umbrella, gathered around an open grave.

(03:00:20):
You see the clay soil specially done. You can hear
perhaps the creaking of support, and the coffin is lowered
into its ever lasting house, and the droning voice of
a person, and.

Speaker 3 (03:00:36):
The resorection, and the life with the lord.

Speaker 2 (03:00:40):
He that believeth on me though he were dead, yet
tell he'll live?

Speaker 8 (03:00:46):
Lirim quiet, mister Templeton, Please, what's wrong with old Templeton?
Remember where you are?

Speaker 3 (03:00:52):
It's not alive. It's not alive. Ye, It might seem
a long distance in the Cosmopolite Club in Gramercy Park
on the following evening, when that same well fed man,

(03:01:15):
and hard and unemotional as a diamond pin in his tie,
hurries up.

Speaker 2 (03:01:19):
The steps into the club. Man, Yes, mister Templeton, tell me, well,
not in the club, you know?

Speaker 3 (03:01:26):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (03:01:27):
Don't you see him? Came where in the lounge over
the sitting by the fire. Just of course, I'm a
little up check, a little good fellow, and I won't
forget your thank yourself.

Speaker 3 (03:01:35):
Excuse myself. But aren't you going to take off your
hat and overcoat? Never mind? My happing coat.

Speaker 2 (03:01:40):
Just tell me one other things. When I came into
the club, there's anybody following me?

Speaker 3 (03:01:45):
Following you? Miss Templeton is a woman, a woman with
a long skirt and heavy black veil. There aren't many
women who wear that kind of dress nowadays. Look out
into the street. Do you see anybody? No, sir, there's
just what's that? That's one of the old chief musicians. Sir,

(03:02:08):
he doesn't mean any harm.

Speaker 2 (03:02:09):
I won't have that tune played, you hear, I'm missed
getting my order as a bathe and I'm going to
have this one a babe here. Somebody go out and
tell him to go away, Yes, sir if you insist,
but who is not told? And don't ask questions anybody
wants me.

Speaker 3 (03:02:22):
I shall be with.

Speaker 2 (03:02:23):
Mister Wilmot very good, sir, will anything? Willmas mind if
I down for a minute, I'm not at all.

Speaker 3 (03:02:42):
Pull up a chair some coffee, No thanks, I'll get
down to brass text right away. You always do.

Speaker 2 (03:02:49):
I've noticed that.

Speaker 3 (03:02:50):
Well, I'm a pretty self subvision kind of a fellow, Wilmas.
I made a name for myself, even if I do
say it myself. But well, the fact is I need advice.
Stressful publisher asking advice from one of his own authors.
That's something new, isn't it. Look here? Well, what I'm serious?
All right? All right? I take it back.

Speaker 2 (03:03:09):
What's on your mind? When you've studied what we'll call
the supernatural, haven't you? I've lectured and written books about it?

Speaker 3 (03:03:16):
Yes? And did you ever meet a ghost?

Speaker 2 (03:03:21):
No? I can't say I ever did, have you?

Speaker 3 (03:03:24):
It might only be my own imagination. Yes, that's what
scares me. You get on in years, ftter is hardened.
You don't take enough exercise. You think something ought to
be done about your waistline, but you never bother see Wilmas,
I went to a funeral yesterday.

Speaker 2 (03:03:40):
You did funeral?

Speaker 46 (03:03:42):
What?

Speaker 3 (03:03:42):
The person who died has nothing to do with this.
It was Old Simpson of Holly and Sons. We thought
it was only decent to make up a party and
go to the tuneral. And I took my secretary along,
well named Molly Carroll. I'm believe it for Washington tomorrow.
Besides a moving house, so there was a lot of
work to do. I couldn't stand with that infernal cemetery

(03:04:03):
in the rain. We must have gone in by the
wrong gate. Because we were in a neglection desperate part
of the cemetery, the rank grass over the grave. You'll

(03:04:24):
oblige me, Missus Carroll, if you first find out the
proper directions about places. We've come in the wrong gates
of the cemetery. Well, I'm sorry, mister Templeton. I just
thought doesn't matter. Now this is the wrong part of
the cemetery. My shoes are absolutely ruined.

Speaker 9 (03:04:38):
But let's play.

Speaker 28 (03:04:39):
And it isn't doing my own shoes and stockings any good.
I'm mister Templeton.

Speaker 3 (03:04:42):
We've been any mister them. Missus Carroll, I replacement. You
never found me ungenerous.

Speaker 28 (03:04:47):
Now I'll have you not exactly ungenerous.

Speaker 3 (03:04:50):
No, I'll tell you the compliment, Missus Carroll, saying that
you are the best sectary of a head.

Speaker 2 (03:04:54):
Thank you.

Speaker 9 (03:04:56):
Yet you want to leave me?

Speaker 3 (03:04:57):
Yes, I want to get married as love. Mister Barnes,
who is this paragon of yours? What does he do?
He's making any money?

Speaker 28 (03:05:06):
Thanks for radio technicians.

Speaker 3 (03:05:08):
He's not very wealthy, Alan wealthy radio technicians, but it
doesn't make as much as I pay you. Yet you
want to get married?

Speaker 28 (03:05:17):
But is there anything very strange about that?

Speaker 15 (03:05:19):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (03:05:20):
If it interfears with your career. It lord, look a
look at.

Speaker 9 (03:05:28):
Who there?

Speaker 3 (03:05:29):
We're und pointing.

Speaker 28 (03:05:31):
You mean that that's only an old gravestone covered with
weeds and bramble.

Speaker 9 (03:05:35):
I haven't seen that raising year.

Speaker 28 (03:05:37):
It looks rather neglected.

Speaker 9 (03:05:40):
Is no blected, isn't it? Will you go close to
please and read the inscription?

Speaker 28 (03:05:43):
Mister Templeton, who as I tell you please, It says,
let's see if I can get some of these weeds decides,
It says, sacred to the memory of Mary Ellen Pleaver
Rawn September fifth, eighteen ninety two, departed this life March
twenty fifth, nineteen nineteen, thou should still be adored as

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this moment are lett my loveliness, stay as it wins.
If you know that umbrella, mister Templeton, you'll get soaking.

Speaker 2 (03:06:18):
Wet into mental crash.

Speaker 3 (03:06:21):
But she always liked it. She always liked it, Mary
Ellen Creeber, did you know it very well? Indeed she
was my wife, your wife, but I never knew you
were married either, as anybody else Where's my flask of brandy?
What have I done with it?

Speaker 28 (03:06:37):
It's in your hip pocket, mister Templeton. But do you
think that's very wise, you've already had more of than.

Speaker 3 (03:06:41):
Whatever I do is wise, Miss Carrol, we were married
very young. She was a nice little thing. I was
fond of her yet, but she couldn't have helped me.
I'm not a snob, but she wasn't in my class.
No style you, no no manners, no no education. Indeed,
but I have been produced to the friends I was making.
No would have been kind to her. You didn't even

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want to go to the places where I was invited.
She'd sit at home and say, what was it like?
You have a nice time? What was missus so and
so wary?

Speaker 15 (03:07:13):
And she loved me.

Speaker 9 (03:07:15):
I put that to her credit.

Speaker 8 (03:07:17):
But you left her.

Speaker 3 (03:07:18):
I thought it was the kindest thing to do. Yes,
she went away, and I heard she'd had ad was
nothing doesn't matter? Well, there was a war on. I
attended the peace conference in Europe. Never even knew she
was dead until I heard some friends that buried her.
I always promised to call her up. She said she'd
come back to me if I did.

Speaker 28 (03:07:40):
You couldn't call her up now, mister Templeton, even if
you wanted to know, I suppose not.

Speaker 3 (03:07:46):
I was was fond of her.

Speaker 9 (03:07:48):
I wish there was something I could do.

Speaker 28 (03:07:50):
You could have her grave care for, have some flowers
put on it.

Speaker 9 (03:07:54):
Actually, that's an idea.

Speaker 2 (03:07:56):
She'd have liked that.

Speaker 3 (03:07:57):
Can you take care of that for me?

Speaker 28 (03:07:58):
I'll look after it tomorrow morning, temple.

Speaker 3 (03:08:00):
But how will they ever be able to locate the grave?
It must be houss In this cemetery, each grave had.

Speaker 2 (03:08:06):
A number, you know, cut into the stone so you
can identify it.

Speaker 28 (03:08:10):
This is number one two one.

Speaker 9 (03:08:13):
Two one too, one too. It sounds like a telephone number,
doesn't it? Yes, one two one too? Poor girl?

Speaker 2 (03:08:23):
Where was fond of her?

Speaker 28 (03:08:24):
Please, mister Templeton, come along and and please no more, Brandy,
You've got a funeral to attend.

Speaker 9 (03:08:42):
And then will much The light came and the horror?

Speaker 3 (03:08:47):
What horror? Take it easy, man, there's nothing to worry about.
You were sitting here in the Cosmopolites club. Yes, but
I wasn't sitting in the club last night.

Speaker 2 (03:08:56):
I was on my way home. And why should that
scare you? I don't know, but I did. I'd been
jumping all day.

Speaker 10 (03:09:02):
I'd internal number kept running through my head, Meadowvale one
two one two.

Speaker 9 (03:09:08):
Have you ever seen my house?

Speaker 3 (03:09:09):
Yes, there's that big sham gothic place on Riverside Drive,
isn't it. There's big and dark and drafty like a mausoleum.
I told you it was moving house to an apartment downtown,
but there were some papers there I had to get
out of the safe in the library to take with
me to washingtmorrow when you the servants have been gone,
of course, but I hope missus Bloom, that's my housekeeper,

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would still be there. Then when I went up the
park about six point thirty.

Speaker 47 (03:09:42):
Meadow Vale one two one two, meadow Vale one too
one two, meadow Vale.

Speaker 10 (03:09:50):
One too one two, meadow Vale one two one two,
the surprise, Sorry to trouble Mission room.

Speaker 2 (03:10:07):
I think you have mislaid my key.

Speaker 9 (03:10:09):
Yeah, they got to swall I had at my key
in this morning.

Speaker 8 (03:10:11):
It's no trouble, mister Templeton. Only I hope you're not
planning to spend the night here.

Speaker 3 (03:10:17):
No, I'm going to a hotel.

Speaker 48 (03:10:20):
What do you was because they disconnected everything except the
electricity and taken.

Speaker 3 (03:10:24):
Away most of the furnitures, have touched anything in the library, No, sir,
I told.

Speaker 8 (03:10:28):
Him you said to leave that.

Speaker 28 (03:10:31):
But it does seem a pity in a way.

Speaker 48 (03:10:32):
What seems a pity to break up a lovely home
like this after all these years.

Speaker 2 (03:10:37):
Oh, this big, ugly picture gallery, it's been a home
to me, sir. I pretty you generously, haven't I?

Speaker 28 (03:10:44):
Yes, sir, I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (03:10:46):
I've got several hours work to do with his room,
the whole safe full of papers.

Speaker 15 (03:10:50):
That thought over.

Speaker 3 (03:10:50):
I'm going to the library, and I'll hiding behind your back.

Speaker 48 (03:10:54):
I'm not hiding anything. It's only a music foster I
found with the epic when the moving men were here.
If I hadn't now never well known ladies in your life,
I'd have said it belongs to one of them.

Speaker 8 (03:11:09):
I love to hear them, sir, may.

Speaker 3 (03:11:11):
I if we don't want me to that music box, Yes,
but I'm.

Speaker 2 (03:11:17):
Sure I've never I'm going to the library. We can't
find any family to probe bring them, yes, sir, seriously,
same old library, same old claw for this. There's the

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nice mirror she brought for you. Look at yourself in
the mirror. Templeton we'll meet. You can't face it, we'll
you can't work here tonight. You've got to have lights
of music and that's it.

Speaker 3 (03:11:49):
Go out for dinner. Telephone will want if we've let
the phone. Oh yes, good here it is. Oh hell, yes,
I'm up. I uh, I.

Speaker 2 (03:12:03):
Want a there, want to want to wait?

Speaker 3 (03:12:10):
What the devil's name am I saying? Change that? I want?

Speaker 8 (03:12:12):
Hello, my darling, I knew you'd call me.

Speaker 15 (03:12:15):
When you needed.

Speaker 3 (03:12:16):
Who's speaking?

Speaker 8 (03:12:17):
Why it's Mary Ellen, dear? Don't you recognize it's not very.

Speaker 3 (03:12:25):
Dead?

Speaker 28 (03:12:26):
But the dead sleep rightly and they can be lonely too.

Speaker 3 (03:12:31):
And now that you do me, I don't need you,
don't need anybody.

Speaker 8 (03:12:34):
I'm coming back to join you there.

Speaker 28 (03:12:37):
It's not easy, but I'll be there by the time
the clock strikes seven.

Speaker 35 (03:12:42):
We're there because I don't look very pretty. I will,
my dear, remember when the clock strike seven?

Speaker 8 (03:12:57):
What on earth is the matter?

Speaker 15 (03:12:58):
Who the ticks pair?

Speaker 3 (03:13:00):
I don't understand who spoke to me on this phone.

Speaker 28 (03:13:03):
But sir, nobody could have spoken to you on that phone.

Speaker 3 (03:13:06):
Nobody could have What are you talking about?

Speaker 8 (03:13:08):
That phone's disconnected?

Speaker 3 (03:13:10):
Disconnected, sair.

Speaker 48 (03:13:11):
The man came here this afternoon and took that meccal
box off the wall and rolled all the wires up
and put everything on the desk chair, said he'd.

Speaker 28 (03:13:19):
Be back to Marrath take it away.

Speaker 3 (03:13:21):
That's impossible.

Speaker 8 (03:13:23):
Look for yourself.

Speaker 48 (03:13:24):
You're standing in the middle of the room holding that phone,
and the wires don't lead anywhere.

Speaker 3 (03:13:29):
That's true.

Speaker 48 (03:13:30):
So you couldn't very well have talked to anybody on
the phone that wasn't connected, Now, could you?

Speaker 3 (03:13:35):
I tell you I got the operator, I heard it ring.
I talked to to someone else.

Speaker 28 (03:13:40):
Oh and what did that person say?

Speaker 3 (03:13:43):
She said he'd be here to visit me when.

Speaker 14 (03:13:58):
The templeton Boston.

Speaker 3 (03:14:09):
And so Wilma. That's what happened last night? Who was disconnected?
It was Mary Ellen's voice. There's no doubt about that.
Am I out of my mind?

Speaker 2 (03:14:18):
Or what before I say anything about that?

Speaker 3 (03:14:21):
My friend? Well, what's hear?

Speaker 2 (03:14:23):
The end of your story? What did happen when the
clock struck seven? I don't know, You don't know.

Speaker 3 (03:14:29):
No, I lost my head, ran out of that house,
though the devil were after me. Maybe he was then
spent the night at the hotel. Today. I walked past
that house fifty time, one hundred times, trying to muster
up enough nerve to go in.

Speaker 2 (03:14:43):
I couldn't do it, But I've got to go in there.
Why it's those peoples I've got to take to Washington
and somebody else to get them.

Speaker 3 (03:14:51):
I can't do that, Wilmot is confidential the nation for
the government. I've thought of everything. I even put her
revolve see.

Speaker 2 (03:15:00):
Love of Heaven. Man, put that gun away if you
want the other club members to think you have gone insane.

Speaker 3 (03:15:04):
And I thought of you. We know all the ticks
of fake spiritualists. You've written about it, lectured about it.

Speaker 2 (03:15:10):
Which reminds me by the way that I'm lecturing before
the Acropolis Club in about twenty minutes.

Speaker 3 (03:15:15):
You've got to break that engagement, Wilma. Why because you're
going with me.

Speaker 2 (03:15:18):
To my house tonight. No, it's impossible, old man. I'll
sit quietly and listen to me. I'll go with you
willingly tomorrow morning.

Speaker 3 (03:15:25):
That's too late. I'm taking it early play to Washington. Well,
then wait until i can get away from the lecture,
say around midnight. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll
take a taxi and join you as soon as I can.

Speaker 2 (03:15:35):
I won't do I've got to know no the answer.

Speaker 3 (03:15:38):
Now, you understand you being a little unreasonable about this
unreasonable not I usually get my own way, and I
need to have it now. Well, then I played you'll
have to go to the house alone. Besides, no, will
not worry me. Shit there puffing at that pipe, looking
at me out of those queer eyes of yours like
a young satan. I've often wondered what you were really

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thinking about, since you flatter my intelligence so much. I
was wondering whether you'd been quite frank with me? Frank
with you?

Speaker 10 (03:16:06):
How about your late wife, Mary Ellen Kleeber?

Speaker 3 (03:16:10):
What about her after she left you? Something happened that
you don't like to talk about. Was there, by any
chance a child, a son, for instance.

Speaker 9 (03:16:21):
Or did you say your son?

Speaker 2 (03:16:24):
Yes, I don't know what you're talking about. And let's
agree not to understand each other, shall we?

Speaker 3 (03:16:30):
How are you coming with me.

Speaker 15 (03:16:31):
Or aren't you?

Speaker 2 (03:16:31):
I tell you, man, I'll get there as soon as
I can.

Speaker 3 (03:16:34):
All I can think about was the wick wed play
in that cemetery with hismal graves in the rain, what
her face might look like she raised the veil?

Speaker 2 (03:16:46):
And what am I going to see in that house?

Speaker 3 (03:16:51):
What am I going to see in that house?

Speaker 2 (03:17:05):
So the clocks chime, the hours dwindle, the traffic roar
of the city sinks to a low growl. Behind twin
spring lights. It is midnight when the taxi moves along
a certain steak toward a certain house out of a
bygone age, lifeless black against the stars, surrounded by iron railings,

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and with a path bordered by fir trees leading to
the front door. Looked too with the face of mister
Patrick Wilmot.

Speaker 4 (03:17:36):
When that taxi draws.

Speaker 2 (03:17:42):
All right, drivers, just as the price, I mean away fair, No,
needn't wait, keep a change, thank your shirt.

Speaker 10 (03:17:54):
Night.

Speaker 2 (03:18:01):
Hmmm. So the front gate is open, and he did
go in, and I beg your pardon. I didn't mean
to bump into.

Speaker 8 (03:18:10):
You, mister Wilmot.

Speaker 2 (03:18:13):
You know who I am.

Speaker 28 (03:18:14):
Yes, I've seen you several times in our office. I'm
Molly Carroll, mister Templeton secretary.

Speaker 3 (03:18:20):
What are you doing here?

Speaker 8 (03:18:21):
Well, it's mister Templeton.

Speaker 2 (03:18:23):
What about him?

Speaker 8 (03:18:24):
Well, that's what I want to know.

Speaker 28 (03:18:25):
I was out with Frank, that's my fiance, and when
I got home, the girl I room with said that
mister Templeton had been phoning and phoning all evening. She
said he sounded drunk or something. He wanted somebody to
go with him.

Speaker 8 (03:18:37):
To this house.

Speaker 2 (03:18:38):
Evidently I wasn't the only person he applied to shall
we go in?

Speaker 8 (03:18:44):
Yes, the whole house is talk. Suppose he isn't there?

Speaker 2 (03:18:46):
He is there, all right, You don't know men like
Bert Templeton put us. I'll push the gate wider. Now,
straight up the walk to the front door. I've got
what are we going to find? Something rather unpleasant? I
got to warn you.

Speaker 8 (03:19:05):
How do you know?

Speaker 2 (03:19:06):
I have my ways of knowing, Carol? Oh?

Speaker 8 (03:19:09):
Look what is it that French window to left the
front door. Yes, it's part in the open.

Speaker 2 (03:19:16):
There's nothing in that Necessarily. Temple And said he lost
his key. He might have had to open a window.

Speaker 8 (03:19:21):
That's true.

Speaker 3 (03:19:23):
So you see it too.

Speaker 8 (03:19:24):
Do you see what?

Speaker 3 (03:19:27):
There's a footprint across the cell of that French window,
A footprint made in wet clay.

Speaker 8 (03:19:32):
It's like like the clay of the cemetery.

Speaker 2 (03:19:36):
So I should imagine. Will you go in first? Or
shall I into that dark room?

Speaker 7 (03:19:40):
I will not?

Speaker 3 (03:19:41):
Well, then stay here please until I get some lights on.

Speaker 8 (03:19:44):
No, wait, I'll go.

Speaker 28 (03:19:46):
Let me take your arm, all right.

Speaker 2 (03:19:47):
Be careful now, hmm?

Speaker 3 (03:19:52):
I thought?

Speaker 17 (03:19:52):
So?

Speaker 2 (03:19:53):
Which room is the library? And there are more footprints
of somebody or something walking in?

Speaker 3 (03:20:01):
Really there.

Speaker 49 (03:20:06):
It's only me, sir, this is Bloom, the housekeeper. And
what's the idea of standing in the dark room in
the middle of the night with what sounds like it's
only a music boxer. I left it behind along with
some other things, and came back to get them. I've
got my own key. I thought I heard a noise
in here.

Speaker 2 (03:20:22):
Why aren't there any lights?

Speaker 8 (03:20:24):
The electricity is cut half, sir? It was cut half today?

Speaker 3 (03:20:28):
Might be.

Speaker 2 (03:20:31):
Templeton is here or was here? You had some kind
of light. I turned the splashlight on a desk, maybe si,
miss Carol, what.

Speaker 3 (03:20:40):
Is it, sir?

Speaker 28 (03:20:41):
And it's blind as a bet without my glasses.

Speaker 2 (03:20:43):
Mister Templeton, who's lying on the floor beside the desk? Oh,
he isn't dead based the color of putty, I think
he's had some kind of stroke. Better not take any chances,
missus Bloom, Yes, sir, get outside of the nearest telephone
and call for an ambulance. Tlem it's an emergency case.

Speaker 15 (03:20:58):
You're mister will but aren't you?

Speaker 8 (03:21:00):
But but what happened to him?

Speaker 2 (03:21:02):
Ask a dead woman?

Speaker 8 (03:21:03):
I beg your pardon.

Speaker 2 (03:21:05):
Never mind, honey, what are we going to do? Let's
have a look around. Temperton seems to have been working
at his papers. For the light of a couple of
candles which somebody's blown out. We'll relight them. Uh, where's
the best with all the papers?

Speaker 3 (03:21:28):
Got it round, Wilma, Please?

Speaker 8 (03:21:29):
What happened to him?

Speaker 15 (03:21:31):
I'll tell you.

Speaker 2 (03:21:33):
As he sat there in the dim light of two candles,
that ghostly figure appeared at that French window.

Speaker 3 (03:21:39):
Wore a long old fashioned skirt and a heavy black
veil to hide the face. Walked toward Templeton, tracking graveyard clay.
It stretched his arms to him like this, keep away please.
Templeton couldn't stand it. He collapsed, And now before the
old housekeeper attends. Would you care to hear how the
whole trick was worse trick? Have you heard about the

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ghost voice that talked on a disconnected telephone?

Speaker 17 (03:22:04):
Oh?

Speaker 28 (03:22:04):
Yes, yes, he said tempting about it this morning.

Speaker 3 (03:22:06):
But I thought he wasn't in tilf he wasn't, but
he heard it.

Speaker 2 (03:22:11):
Remember missus Bloom's story about the telephone man. Yes, we
don't send a man around to yank the whole apparatus
off the wall, put it on the desk and say
he'll be back for it next day. This man from
the telephone company was an imposter.

Speaker 8 (03:22:25):
The man from the telephone company was an imposter.

Speaker 3 (03:22:28):
Exactly.

Speaker 28 (03:22:29):
Oh look he's moving his hands, he's trying to open
his eyes. Isn't there anything we can do for him?

Speaker 2 (03:22:35):
No, there's nothing we can do to The doctor arrived
in the meantime. Listen to me, all right, what did
this imposter do? We took away the real phone and
substituted a spirit telephone. You don't know what a spirit
telephone is. It's an old device used by fake mediums.
You see a telephone without wires standing on a desk
like that one, We pick up the receiver and talk

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to the dead. Of course she really talking to the
phone at all. But if you don't talk into the phone,
then fixed underneath the desk is a tiny microphone with
hidden wires leading to another room in the same house.
That microphone picks up every word you think you were
saying to the phone. Is that clear?

Speaker 8 (03:23:13):
I think so.

Speaker 3 (03:23:15):
The dummy telephone is really a low power radio receiving set.
Somebody in another room didn't talk back to you after
hearing what you say on the wired microphone.

Speaker 8 (03:23:23):
Then mister Templeson.

Speaker 2 (03:23:25):
If Templon hadn't rung meadow Vale one two one two,
when rest assured that same number would have rung him.

Speaker 8 (03:23:31):
Well in the scheme, couldn't sail either way.

Speaker 3 (03:23:33):
But you see, there's one thing in this matter I
haven't got quite clear even yet.

Speaker 8 (03:23:37):
And what's that?

Speaker 3 (03:23:39):
Tell me, miss Carol? Just why did you work this
whole trick?

Speaker 2 (03:23:41):
Why did you try to scare your part of the
desk Templon is your father, isn't he?

Speaker 28 (03:23:46):
That might be rather difficult to prove, mister Wilmot bry George,
I admire you.

Speaker 8 (03:23:52):
Thanks very much. I'm flatted, expressionless.

Speaker 2 (03:23:55):
As ever, eyes as hard and cold and blue, and
hands him as well. Make your own comparisons. But I
knew you were gilly of course when I heard your
fiance was a radio tick.

Speaker 28 (03:24:06):
You can leave Frank out of.

Speaker 3 (03:24:07):
This, Oh scrupled. Have I touched you?

Speaker 8 (03:24:11):
Nothing can touch me. Not since my mother died.

Speaker 3 (03:24:14):
Your fiance installed the ghost mechanism and took it away today.
He probably thought it was only a joke.

Speaker 8 (03:24:19):
He did, I swear he did.

Speaker 2 (03:24:20):
And the rest of it was plain enough. Who led
Temple into the wrong gate in the cemetery past that
woman's grave?

Speaker 3 (03:24:25):
You did?

Speaker 2 (03:24:26):
Who was the only one who could have stolen the
key to his house off that key ring he took
to the office. You were you needed that key to
come and go as you liked and impersonate the two
voices on the phone.

Speaker 28 (03:24:34):
Is there any need to go on with this?

Speaker 2 (03:24:36):
He killed her, you know, Temple and killed your mother.

Speaker 28 (03:24:40):
Oh, not with a knife or a bullet or poison.
All he did was break a heart and that's no
offense in law. I've done what I wanted to do.
I've torn his whole rotten life to pieces. And there
he is, gasping for breath on the floor, and I'm glad.

Speaker 4 (03:24:56):
I'm glad.

Speaker 28 (03:25:00):
Don't forgives me he.

Speaker 3 (03:25:01):
Is my father, if you know you're his daughter? No, no,
of course not.

Speaker 28 (03:25:07):
When I went to work for him as a secretary,
he hadn't even seen me since child. But I got
near him. I worked for years to get near him.

Speaker 2 (03:25:16):
I wish I hadn't here.

Speaker 3 (03:25:18):
You've got to pull yourself together.

Speaker 28 (03:25:20):
Boy, who kids?

Speaker 2 (03:25:22):
The ambulance coming and maybe the police.

Speaker 13 (03:25:24):
What do I tell the police?

Speaker 2 (03:25:25):
What you like, my dear girl, You don't think I'll
tell him anything.

Speaker 10 (03:25:29):
I'm merely an onlooker, an amateur thinking who doesn't believe
in ghost voices.

Speaker 3 (03:25:35):
What's that temper?

Speaker 2 (03:25:36):
His eyes are open. He's trying to get up so
he could see something that we can't.

Speaker 28 (03:25:43):
Man, he's got his hands.

Speaker 16 (03:25:45):
It's a revolver.

Speaker 2 (03:25:45):
He had one at the clubs.

Speaker 28 (03:25:46):
He's putting it against his chest. I'll stop there forgot
he good lover after all, And now he's tried to Joy.

Speaker 2 (03:25:58):
I don't let him all right, now, why you grab
a gun just in time.

Speaker 28 (03:26:01):
If he doesn't die, I'll make it up to him.
I swear I'll make it up to him.

Speaker 2 (03:26:06):
I tell you now, it's just going to die.

Speaker 10 (03:26:08):
But where whey Ellen?

Speaker 15 (03:26:12):
Very amen?

Speaker 10 (03:26:13):
But what.

Speaker 2 (03:26:15):
I was I was just wondering, is there a ghost
in this room? Tonight? H and so closes The Dead Sleep,

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lightly starring Walter Hampden, Susan Hayward, Lee Bowman. The Night's
Tale Love Suspense, This iss your narrator, the man in
black Okay, who conveys to you Columbia's invitation to spend
this half hour in suspense with us again Next team.

Speaker 3 (03:27:08):
Hayward appeared to the courtesy of Paramount Pictures and mister
Bowman appears to the courtesy of Metro Golden Mayer's Studios.
William Spear, the producer, John Deet, the director of Anard
Herman the composer, conductor, and John Dixon car the author,
collaborated on tonight's This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.

Speaker 1 (03:27:59):
My dear, I see you've perked up a little bit.
Perhaps I have as well. I'd be lying if I
said that my joviality isn't a bit intense and relentless.
It's good to have that feeling that something good is

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coming up. What is the opposite of dread?

Speaker 3 (03:28:27):
Well?

Speaker 1 (03:28:27):
I suppose I'll have to wonder that for a while.
It can be hard to feel good about the future
when you're not sure if you're a part of it
or simply the past. Especially on this side of Nowhere, you.

Speaker 2 (03:28:53):
Finding life rather dull, dreaming again of exotic places, wishing
you were somewhere else.

Speaker 9 (03:29:02):
We offer you escape.

Speaker 50 (03:29:19):
Escape with us now to the barren wastes of northern
Mexico and the story of a fortune in cash to
be had for the asking. As Anthony Ellis tells it
in his exciting.

Speaker 24 (03:29:30):
Story This Side of Nowhere, You want to know where
you can pick up a quarter of a million dollars well,
I know a place. The money's ane hundred dollars bills.

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The last time I saw it. It was all in
one place, and the people who had it were the
friendliest people in the wood, that is, if you don't
mind the particular kind of friendship. There hadn't been much
business in Missouri. Too much competition, and the yocles were

(03:30:17):
spoiled taking rides, and the new stuff flying around my
old Stenson didn't look like much and I couldn't rest
during tricks in her with me. When the customer paid
three bucks for a ride, that's what I got a ride.
So there wasn't much business in Missouri. I've been luckier
in Kansas, though, hit a couple of towns where a
plane is still a fancy contraption. As I headed west,

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I was a couple of bucks ahead. About fifty miles
east of Wichita. I put down on a grass field
outside Willing, and I figured a day or so here
would get me enough to buy a new tire for
the right wheel.

Speaker 3 (03:31:00):
Hell, hello, there is this your field?

Speaker 26 (03:31:02):
Say?

Speaker 51 (03:31:03):
That was pretty coming down out of sky like that.
I've seen you from a long way.

Speaker 24 (03:31:08):
You like planes?

Speaker 15 (03:31:09):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (03:31:10):
Is this your field?

Speaker 3 (03:31:11):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (03:31:12):
Down?

Speaker 5 (03:31:12):
Spurs bogan stream.

Speaker 24 (03:31:14):
Oh look, I'd like to make a deal with you
and shoe. I'll be here for a couple of days.
Let me keep the plane here, and I'll give you
five bucks fine and a free ride.

Speaker 3 (03:31:23):
Mister, you got a deal. My name's Bill maydo Cake.

Speaker 24 (03:31:34):
I put up my posters in town and waited, and
by six o'clock that night I made thirty six bucks.
It looked as if the town of Willing would keep
me around for maybe three or four days. I put
the stints in the bed and Bill Maydew's bond, and
then started out to find a place for myself. The
old man walked along with me, Say, have you got

(03:31:55):
any suggestions where I can put up while I'm here?

Speaker 51 (03:31:57):
See that flying red horse shine up there? Yeah, yeah,
right across the street he is, may dude is Willing Hotel,
Nice and quiet. Two dollars a night, breakfast fifty cent
Oh yours, huh thirteen fancy, but it's RESTful. Got a
city woman staying there, down from Kansas City.

Speaker 24 (03:32:14):
Now taking the rest Oh that sounds fine.

Speaker 51 (03:32:17):
Hey, we're having steak for dinner.

Speaker 3 (03:32:19):
I'll get the wife to put on an extra one.

Speaker 10 (03:32:21):
For you.

Speaker 24 (03:32:25):
With a steak inside. I felt pretty good. About an
hour after dinner, I got to look at the hotel's
other guests. She was tall, with a big city rye
crisp figure, and special looking too. She didn't seem to
notice me as she went over to the desk and
started to write a letter. I got quiet and long.

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About nine o'clock I was ready to.

Speaker 3 (03:32:49):
Hit the hay.

Speaker 52 (03:32:56):
Excuse me, Yeah, you're the man with the plane, aren't you.

Speaker 24 (03:33:03):
Yes, that's right. Name's Gunnet.

Speaker 52 (03:33:04):
Mister Maydew told me about you. No, I'm Phyllis Naylor.

Speaker 24 (03:33:08):
Well, it's nice to meet you.

Speaker 52 (03:33:09):
I wonder if you'd do me a favor.

Speaker 3 (03:33:10):
For sure.

Speaker 52 (03:33:11):
I wanted to go to witches How tomorrow, but the
bus service is so bad i'd have to wait until afternoon.

Speaker 24 (03:33:15):
Oh you want me to fly here? Yes, well that's
about fifty miles. I'd lose business here.

Speaker 52 (03:33:21):
I'll pay you fifty dollars fifty.

Speaker 24 (03:33:24):
I wouldn't lose that much. Let's make it twenty.

Speaker 52 (03:33:27):
Five if that's what you want.

Speaker 24 (03:33:29):
Can we leave early anytime? Seven?

Speaker 52 (03:33:31):
Okay, I'll meet you down here at seven.

Speaker 3 (03:33:34):
All right, so long.

Speaker 51 (03:33:50):
You all set, Miss Naylor cat, I put your suitcase
on the plane.

Speaker 52 (03:33:53):
Oh no, thanks, mister maydew Well, I can manage.

Speaker 3 (03:33:56):
We'll miss you.

Speaker 51 (03:33:57):
Come business again sometime, yes I will. Well, let's go
all right, come along, keep the company, mister Gannett.

Speaker 3 (03:34:04):
Okay, it's all right with me.

Speaker 52 (03:34:05):
No, i'd rather he didn't.

Speaker 24 (03:34:06):
I'll let your ticket. Anything you say, I'll take you
up when I come back. Bill a couple of hours. Huh,
I saw me up some business.

Speaker 3 (03:34:13):
Huh?

Speaker 14 (03:34:14):
So long?

Speaker 24 (03:34:36):
Have you done much flying?

Speaker 52 (03:34:39):
Quite a bit?

Speaker 3 (03:34:40):
Oh?

Speaker 24 (03:34:41):
Do any yourself?

Speaker 18 (03:34:42):
Yes?

Speaker 24 (03:34:43):
I swell swell. Would you like to move up here
beside me and take over?

Speaker 14 (03:34:47):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (03:34:47):
No thanks?

Speaker 52 (03:34:48):
Oh, mister Gannett? Yeah, how much would you want to
fly me to Mexico?

Speaker 15 (03:34:56):
Are you kidding?

Speaker 3 (03:34:57):
No?

Speaker 52 (03:34:57):
Don't you think it might be nice?

Speaker 3 (03:34:59):
Sure?

Speaker 24 (03:35:00):
But not in this scrape short hops for me. Try
the airline in Wichita. I can pay, I'll bet you can't,
but not me. The old windmill wouldn't take it.

Speaker 53 (03:35:09):
Five thousand dollars five. I could buy a ticket, but
I prefer you to take me. Oh why maybe because
I like you?

Speaker 24 (03:35:22):
I'm glad. Look are you in trouble?

Speaker 52 (03:35:26):
Of course not?

Speaker 24 (03:35:27):
Then why don't you use a scheduled line?

Speaker 52 (03:35:29):
That's not your business. I've got the cash.

Speaker 2 (03:35:32):
Will you do it?

Speaker 24 (03:35:34):
No, you better try somebody else.

Speaker 52 (03:35:36):
We're not going to land Wichita.

Speaker 3 (03:35:39):
That's what you think.

Speaker 52 (03:35:41):
I've got a gun, mister Gannett. Don't turn around here.

Speaker 24 (03:35:45):
Hey, look, I'll be a good girl, will you. We've
only got enough guess to get the Wichita.

Speaker 52 (03:35:49):
You're lying. The gauge says full.

Speaker 24 (03:35:52):
Well, it's it's broken.

Speaker 52 (03:35:54):
I'll take a chance.

Speaker 24 (03:35:55):
We can't make it in one hop. I'll have to
come down sometime.

Speaker 52 (03:35:58):
That's all right.

Speaker 24 (03:36:00):
You don't want to get me in trouble, do you.

Speaker 2 (03:36:02):
No?

Speaker 52 (03:36:04):
I told you I like you, just as long as
you take me where I want to go? Head south?

Speaker 20 (03:36:11):
Go on?

Speaker 24 (03:36:13):
Okay, where do you want to go?

Speaker 52 (03:36:22):
Torrion?

Speaker 24 (03:36:24):
That's over a thousand miles. We'll never make that.

Speaker 52 (03:36:26):
I think we can. Where do you think you'll have
to stop to refuel?

Speaker 24 (03:36:32):
I guess we can make Dallas if we don't blow up.

Speaker 52 (03:36:34):
All right, Please remember, mister Gannett, I'm quite serious. I
can easily shoot you and fly myself. I'd rather not.

Speaker 3 (03:36:44):
Yeah. I remember.

Speaker 24 (03:36:54):
An hour later, we were flying over Tulsa, Oklahoma, and
I turned around just once to look at it. She
hadn't been bluffing. The gun lay in her hand steady
and pointed at me. I began to think about Dallas.
We'd have to come down there. It wouldn't be hard
to get the gun away from her then. But there
was something else five thousand bucks. I thought of what

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I could do with it. And the more I thought,
the more I wondered if I was a sucker, Why
fly with a gun in your back when you could
make a deal just for the asking. She was in trouble.
That was her business. I didn't know anything about it,
and I didn't want to. I reached for the map.

Speaker 8 (03:37:32):
What are you doing?

Speaker 24 (03:37:33):
Don't get nervous, honey, I just want to take a
look at the map. Oh Torreon, Eh eh, I am,
And I'd say, that's about three hundred miles below the
border southwest. I know that's bad country in between it.
We had to come down.

Speaker 54 (03:37:50):
I know that too.

Speaker 24 (03:37:52):
Were you kidding about that? Five grand?

Speaker 3 (03:37:54):
No? All right?

Speaker 24 (03:37:57):
But the way your gun?

Speaker 52 (03:37:59):
What happened when we land at Dallas?

Speaker 24 (03:38:01):
Yes, up, check the motor and go on.

Speaker 52 (03:38:03):
If you try any.

Speaker 24 (03:38:04):
Tricks, Why should I good looker like you? Five thousand bucks?

Speaker 52 (03:38:10):
Can I sit next to you?

Speaker 24 (03:38:12):
Yeah, sure, come on, there we go.

Speaker 52 (03:38:17):
Your first name's Deek, isn't it.

Speaker 24 (03:38:19):
You've been reading hotel registers.

Speaker 52 (03:38:21):
Yes, you won't be sorry about this.

Speaker 9 (03:38:24):
I'll bet I want.

Speaker 24 (03:38:31):
I was proud of the old windmill. I never thought
she could make it. But by five o'clock that afternoon
we landed at a town a little north of Laredo.
We talked about how we were going to get across
the border. She still hadn't told me anything, but I
knew that she wanted to get into Mexico with no
questions asked. So we decided to steer clear of Laredo
and border guards and hang around until it got dark

(03:38:52):
and then take a chance. Took some extra gas aboard
and what over the motor. Then there was nothing to
do but wait for the night. We went to a
cafe to eat. Oh hot, that's the American idea of
Mexican food. Unless it burns your tongue off, it's not

(03:39:14):
the real thing.

Speaker 52 (03:39:17):
You've done much night flying, oh plenty.

Speaker 24 (03:39:19):
Used to be with a commercial outfit. Oh they fired
me for fighting with a passenger. That was before the war.
Flew B twenty fours out of England and came back.
Now I'm too old for jets and too independent for
commercial jobs. So just a skybump. What's so funny?

Speaker 52 (03:39:38):
Oh you you sounds so tough. I wonder what about you?
I think you'd make love like a high school boy.

Speaker 24 (03:39:48):
You want to find out?

Speaker 52 (03:39:49):
No, how soon do you think we can take off
a torrion?

Speaker 24 (03:39:54):
How about an hour or so?

Speaker 52 (03:39:56):
What about our lights? From we crossed the border.

Speaker 24 (03:39:58):
We won't have any good anyone ever tell you that
you're good to look at?

Speaker 52 (03:40:05):
Yes, but you can tell me again.

Speaker 9 (03:40:08):
I like your eyes.

Speaker 24 (03:40:10):
It's soft, sometimes sometimes mean. It's exciting though, God patrol, Hey,
you're not listening to me. That's the first time I've
seen that. What you look scared when the cop came in.

Speaker 52 (03:40:27):
Come on, it's time to go.

Speaker 24 (03:40:36):
We took off soon after dark. I took her up
to about eight thousand feet and we crossed the border.
Next stop.

Speaker 3 (03:40:42):
Torry On.

Speaker 24 (03:40:52):
A Rado was nearly two hundred miles behind us, with
a stensome.

Speaker 2 (03:40:55):
Die just quit cold.

Speaker 24 (03:41:00):
We went down nice and easy. I couldn't see anything below.
All I knew was that we weren't going to make Torryon.
Liylis didn't scream, She just watched me then before we hit,
grabbed a suit case up and held it in a lap.
I remember thinking then it was a funny thing to do,
and that was all for what.

Speaker 50 (03:41:34):
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(03:41:56):
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Speaker 3 (03:42:12):
And now back to Escape. I woke up for a moment.

Speaker 24 (03:42:32):
Everything was a surprise. I was alive.

Speaker 3 (03:42:36):
It was getting light.

Speaker 24 (03:42:38):
A lock of the girl's hair was falling over her eye.
I reached out for it, felt it. It was wet, bloody.
She was alive, but I couldn't tell how much I
looked at my watch it was four point thirty. As
the gray light came through the brook and window, I

(03:43:00):
saw something else. The suitcase. It had broken open and
spilled out four or five neat green packages. Thing was full,
packages of new hundred dollars bills. Must have been a
quarter of a million dollars phyllis phyllis fellas you okay,

(03:43:24):
come on, come on, come on? Can you sit that?

Speaker 8 (03:43:28):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (03:43:29):
All right?

Speaker 52 (03:43:30):
Oh my head hurts.

Speaker 24 (03:43:31):
I'll take it easy for a while, can't I give
me your gun? No, come on, come on, I want
to have a look outside. All right, I'll be right back.
So we'd come down in a kind of basin, and
all around were riches and low peaks. There was rough

(03:43:53):
country all right, from what I could see. Mean, I
had an idea water was going to be a problem.
As far as you could see, there was nothing but
cactus and yuka trees. I started back for the plane,
and that's when I saw him, sitting under a bush,
his hat on his knees.

Speaker 5 (03:44:13):
Morning Senor.

Speaker 24 (03:44:17):
He was round, and his face was the color of sand,
and there's a smile with lots of flashing white and
gold teeth. I guess he was mostly Indian. They had
the happiest voice I'd ever heard.

Speaker 5 (03:44:31):
You've had a terrible accident, Signor, I'm so glad you're alive.

Speaker 24 (03:44:35):
How long have you been here?

Speaker 5 (03:44:37):
Since earlier?

Speaker 24 (03:44:38):
How much earlier?

Speaker 5 (03:44:39):
Ohmuch earlier, Senor.

Speaker 24 (03:44:41):
Why didn't you try and get us out?

Speaker 5 (03:44:43):
If you were that one must awaited a reasonable time
to allow the spirit to depart.

Speaker 24 (03:44:50):
Oh well, I'm glad to see you. My name's Gannett, Ganet.

Speaker 5 (03:44:56):
You're American? Yeah, oh good, I love the America. They're
so rich. I am a Stellan.

Speaker 3 (03:45:04):
I will help you.

Speaker 5 (03:45:06):
There is another in the machine with you.

Speaker 24 (03:45:08):
Yeah, girl, she's hurt.

Speaker 5 (03:45:10):
We take her to my village. There she will be
taken care of. I'm so happy that you are alive, Senor.

Speaker 24 (03:45:18):
Where are we?

Speaker 3 (03:45:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (03:45:19):
A little from my village, No.

Speaker 24 (03:45:21):
I mean halfar from Torreon, Dorreon.

Speaker 5 (03:45:25):
It is many days from here.

Speaker 15 (03:45:27):
Ah.

Speaker 24 (03:45:29):
What's the name of your village?

Speaker 5 (03:45:30):
El Zilo? It means Heaven send you.

Speaker 2 (03:45:33):
You will like it now.

Speaker 5 (03:45:35):
People will be so happy to see you.

Speaker 3 (03:45:37):
Come.

Speaker 5 (03:45:38):
We must help your friend.

Speaker 24 (03:45:45):
When we got back to the plane, Fellows was on
her feet, and I noticed that the suitcase was closed again.
She had a cut on her head, but otherwise she
was okay. She let me carry the case and we
followed a staban for about a mile to a little canyon,
and there we saw Elsiello a dozen adobe huts sprawled
over the canyon floor.

Speaker 5 (03:46:10):
Then let me take your suitcase, Senor. I will put
it to where it will be safe.

Speaker 24 (03:46:15):
No thanks, I'll take care of it as you.

Speaker 5 (03:46:17):
Wish that once you step in here, I would bring
you food and water. Thank you, disaplacure. I love Americans.
You are our guests that we are happy to see you.

Speaker 9 (03:46:33):
How do you feel?

Speaker 52 (03:46:34):
Oh much better?

Speaker 3 (03:46:35):
Thank you.

Speaker 24 (03:46:36):
I'm not so sure about that guy. I've heard about
these Indians. They're not usually very fond of Americans or
any strangers for that matter.

Speaker 52 (03:46:42):
Do you think he'll help us Gettorio?

Speaker 24 (03:46:44):
I know the way he talks. It must be about
one hundred miles from here. Oh person, honey, it's none
of my business. But that suitcase of yours?

Speaker 15 (03:46:52):
What about it?

Speaker 24 (03:46:53):
There's no sense kidding.

Speaker 3 (03:46:54):
I know what's in it.

Speaker 24 (03:46:56):
It's a good idea not to let these people know.
They steal, not the way we do, but because they
feel it's right. Americans are rich and anything they've got
must be valuable, they see anything wrong in it.

Speaker 52 (03:47:05):
We've got a gun.

Speaker 24 (03:47:06):
They soon not have to use it. You want to
tell me about the suitcase? No, okay, we let it
go at that. They Stepan brought us food, and afterwards
we met the rest of the village. They were very polite,
too polite. I couldn't figure it out. Maybe I don't

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trust people, but nobody, nobody can be that happy to
see a stranger.

Speaker 3 (03:47:34):
Now.

Speaker 24 (03:47:34):
They gave us a hut for the night, and after
the dogs had quieted down, it got very quiet.

Speaker 3 (03:47:43):
You asleep? No, how's the head?

Speaker 28 (03:47:47):
Fine?

Speaker 3 (03:47:47):
Thanks?

Speaker 24 (03:47:50):
I'm sorry about this. I'm going to have to get
out as soon as we can. These people, I don't know,
they're just too happy. Something wrong. The way a fat
friend looks.

Speaker 52 (03:48:01):
At you, maybe you thinks I'm pretty Yeah, maybe what
are you gonna do about it?

Speaker 24 (03:48:11):
Look in the morning, we're going back to the plane.
There's a chance I can do something to fix it up,
just a chance.

Speaker 3 (03:48:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 52 (03:48:20):
Well, you were telling me something back at the cafe
in Larrado, about me.

Speaker 24 (03:48:27):
Yeah I was, wasn't I. I. I guess you're not
very scared about all this, are you.

Speaker 52 (03:48:34):
I do you want to think about it.

Speaker 24 (03:48:35):
You ought to be thinking about it.

Speaker 8 (03:48:38):
Deeck.

Speaker 24 (03:48:39):
Look we're in a tight spot. But I do maybe
if we ever got out.

Speaker 52 (03:48:45):
Of here, then all right, high school boy, good night.

Speaker 24 (03:48:57):
The next morning is stay by and went with me
back to the plane. Were still there, That is most
of it. Of course, they'd taken everything movable from inside,
strip the rubber tires off, stolen the prop. Now I
know why I hadn't trusted them.

Speaker 3 (03:49:12):
What about it?

Speaker 24 (03:49:13):
As Steban eat sen your nice hospitality. I wanted to
patch her.

Speaker 5 (03:49:19):
Up, senor some dirty thieves must have come out of
the night and done this thing.

Speaker 24 (03:49:26):
Say that again.

Speaker 5 (03:49:27):
Surely you would not suspect it might people?

Speaker 24 (03:49:31):
Oh no, no, not your people.

Speaker 5 (03:49:34):
I'm so happy.

Speaker 24 (03:49:35):
Then, well, we'll have to run a couple of your mules.
Maybe you'll guide us to a town that's got a
bus or a railroad or something.

Speaker 5 (03:49:41):
You have money to pay for these things.

Speaker 3 (03:49:45):
I uh.

Speaker 24 (03:49:47):
Little, Yeah, we talk.

Speaker 5 (03:49:49):
About it maybe tomorrow. Now we go back to the village.

Speaker 24 (03:49:58):
We didn't talk about it tomorrow or the next day
or the next it. Stayburn always made some excuse we
weren't prisoners, But wherever we went there was always one
of them watching just watching and smiling. But there was
something about those smiles. It was on the fifth day
that things really went wrong. The villagers had left our
hut alone, and I guess we got a little careless

(03:50:19):
about the suitcase. Phyllis and I had been up to
a ridge four miles away to take a look at
the country and our chances for hiking up. When we
got back it was almost dark.

Speaker 52 (03:50:32):
The suitcase it's gone. Well, i'll be he's stolen it.

Speaker 2 (03:50:38):
You think it's funny, I'm super.

Speaker 3 (03:50:46):
What's that for?

Speaker 24 (03:50:48):
Don't you see how funny it is? At quarter of
a million bucks stolen by Indians? Where are they going
to spend it all?

Speaker 55 (03:50:52):
Want got to get it back? You help me, I'll
share it with you. You will, Yes, listen, you might
as well know. Remember the bank hold up in Chicago
last year?

Speaker 24 (03:51:06):
Yeah, million bucks and securities.

Speaker 52 (03:51:08):
That suitcase is part of it. A friend of mine
left it with me.

Speaker 8 (03:51:12):
He got out of the country.

Speaker 24 (03:51:13):
Now he's in Torreon.

Speaker 3 (03:51:15):
Yes.

Speaker 52 (03:51:16):
I was to hang around in small towns until things
got quieter.

Speaker 55 (03:51:21):
When you came along. It gave me a chance. I
was to meet him in Torreon. I don't care about him.
Now it's you and me, Ah, we've got to get
away from here and go to Mexico City.

Speaker 52 (03:51:35):
Anywhere.

Speaker 24 (03:51:36):
How far do you think we'd get in this country?

Speaker 8 (03:51:38):
We'll take their mules.

Speaker 24 (03:51:40):
We can try the stay bands the boy to find.

Speaker 3 (03:51:45):
You and me?

Speaker 52 (03:51:46):
Yes, yes, don't you know that?

Speaker 3 (03:51:50):
By now?

Speaker 24 (03:51:52):
Okay, Senor?

Speaker 5 (03:52:01):
What can I say that? No one, no one has
been in your house? It is unthinkable.

Speaker 24 (03:52:07):
Look you know what this is.

Speaker 5 (03:52:10):
It's a good senor.

Speaker 3 (03:52:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (03:52:12):
Only the rich can afford such things.

Speaker 24 (03:52:15):
I'm telling you around up that suitcase or else I
tell your friends, I mean no, go ahead, and I'm
very kind of the.

Speaker 5 (03:52:23):
Letter. You know, even a hermuttolus r.

Speaker 24 (03:52:33):
Well, they say they are very much afraid get made
the suitcase.

Speaker 5 (03:52:40):
We've brought you here when you might have died in
the desert. Surely you would not harm.

Speaker 24 (03:52:46):
That's a lot of double talking brothers here. That's still
as blind.

Speaker 5 (03:52:50):
You have made a terrible accusation. We're very unhappy. Perhaps
you would care to search the village that soup?

Speaker 24 (03:53:02):
Ah, what's the use? There wasn't any use. I couldn't
shoot them down in cold blood, and you'd never find
a suitcase. I also knew that we had to get
out of there. We'd lost the money, but at least
for the moment, we still had our lives. I asked
a stay Ban for mules.

Speaker 5 (03:53:20):
Send you're a terrible thing has happened last night. The
mules straight away. We have none left. It is a
great loss.

Speaker 24 (03:53:30):
Oh I could call him a liar, and he was too,
but I couldn't find the mules that decided it.

Speaker 52 (03:53:37):
I'm afraid of them.

Speaker 24 (03:53:38):
Yeah, I don't like the way stay Ban's been looking
at that ring of yours. We're gonna have to make.

Speaker 52 (03:53:41):
It out on foot than staying here.

Speaker 24 (03:53:44):
If I only had that map. Oh well, I I
don't think they'll try to stop us. We'll start tonight
when it gets cool. You better get some sleep. I
heard the villagers moving around outside the hut. I kept
our gun ready, but nothing happened. And then about midnight

(03:54:06):
we took a couple of skins of water, some tortillas
and walked out of else's yellow Nobody said goodbye. Nobody
tried to stop us, but as I looked back, I
saw in the moonlight a group of people huddled together
watching us. We walked for three days, desert, heat, night, cold.

(03:54:36):
Then the water was gone.

Speaker 10 (03:54:42):
How are you doing?

Speaker 2 (03:54:44):
All right?

Speaker 24 (03:54:47):
Try not to think about it. We will we rest
a minute, Hey, butter not not yet. Try to get
to the hills. It's only a few miles.

Speaker 3 (03:54:58):
It'll be hollow.

Speaker 24 (03:55:00):
I save your bread.

Speaker 15 (03:55:05):
Huh.

Speaker 24 (03:55:06):
Don't move, do move. It's a helo monster, all right, now, fellas,
don't move, just no move, and I'll blow his head off.
I keep still, that's it, keeps. She lived on for

(03:55:36):
about two hours, then died, raving cursing me, my money
and herself. A week later I was picked up. That
was six months ago. The Mexican police tried to find
my plane, but I couldn't tell them.

Speaker 16 (03:55:53):
Where it was.

Speaker 24 (03:55:54):
They'd never even heard of El Cielo. So somewhere in Coahuila, Mexico,
there's a village. Maybe if you go down there, you'll
find a suitcase with a quarter of a million bucks,
And maybe you'll just find kids cutting paper dolls out
of one hundred dollars bills. Just crash your plane this

(03:56:18):
set of Torreon, and then look for a round smiling
Indian and his happy friends.

Speaker 50 (03:56:41):
Under the direction of Norman McDonald, Escape has brought you
this side of Nowhere by Anthony Ellis William Conrad was
starred as Deeck and Virginia Greg as Phyllis, with Don
Diamond as Esteban. In the sporting cast were Lou Krugman
and Ralph Moody. The special music for Escape was composed
and conducted by Ivan det Mars.

Speaker 1 (03:57:08):
Well, my dear, the night is waning a bit, but
we're not quite done just yet. How about one more
just for good luck? We could all use some good luck?

Speaker 24 (03:57:27):
Am I right?

Speaker 3 (03:57:29):
Well?

Speaker 1 (03:57:30):
How put two more logs on the fire and get
one more kettle of tea to steep. Let's shift our
focus to things that are more beautiful. That sounds so nice, Yes,
good good. I think I'm thinking what you are thinking.

(03:57:55):
They are beautiful, but roses are for funeral.

Speaker 3 (03:58:01):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents come in. Welcome, I'm e. G. Marshall.

Speaker 2 (03:58:26):
Once again, it's my pleasure to tantalize you with a mystery,
and not a who done it, but a so to speak,
why done it? Frankly, I much prefer the why to
the who done its, because they're just so darn difficult
to solve if you manage to solve them at all.
For example, why but no let rose Corbin, our heroin,

(03:58:51):
ask the question, but.

Speaker 8 (03:58:52):
Why why would anyone commit murder because of this coat?
I don't get a leather, Rose, It's just a plain, ordinary,
imitation leopard skin coat.

Speaker 3 (03:59:01):
We know that, well do we?

Speaker 2 (03:59:04):
What do you mean?

Speaker 3 (03:59:06):
I mean?

Speaker 2 (03:59:07):
This coat has been the cause of more than one
murder and unattempted murders. It may look plain and ordinary,
but Rose, it can't be. Someone wants this coat, wants
it badly enough to kill for it. And Rose, do
me a favor?

Speaker 3 (03:59:21):
Will what say? Thank? Stop wearing it.

Speaker 2 (03:59:34):
Our mystery drama Roses Are for Funerals was written especially
for the mystery theater by George Lowther and stars Carol Shelley.
It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and
Uncle Den's Long Grain and Wild Rice.

Speaker 3 (03:59:51):
I'll be back shortly with Act one.

Speaker 2 (04:00:05):
Well, now, I'm not going to make the mistake the
famous mystery writer Eve Philips Oppenheim once made and bet
that you can't solve this mystery.

Speaker 3 (04:00:13):
You know what happened to him? You don't.

Speaker 2 (04:00:16):
Well, he bet his readers a large sum of money
that they couldn't solve the mystery, and many of them
did so. No bets tell you what I will do, though,
I'll play fair as always and make sure you have
all the clues.

Speaker 3 (04:00:32):
I have, every single one.

Speaker 2 (04:00:36):
I'll even tell you when you've got all the pieces
you need to put the puzzle together. And nothing can
be fairer than that, right, Okay, then let's start at
Kennedy International Airport in a passenger lounge where a very
attractive young lady named Rose Corbin sits patiently waiting for
her cousin Hank North Pardle.

Speaker 17 (04:00:56):
Mademoiselle, Yes, please, man, introduce myself. My name is Simon
Simone level. Yes, I must talk quickly, very fast, because
my flight has already been announced for Paris.

Speaker 8 (04:01:05):
What is it you want to think?

Speaker 17 (04:01:06):
It's such a foolishness, mademoiselle, But I wish to buy
your coat? He wished to buy my coat I'm wearing. Yes, please,
it's a strange thing to ask.

Speaker 8 (04:01:16):
I know, it's very strange things to ask, especially when
you're wearing the same kind of coat. No, no, no, no,
it's not the same. Yours is real leopard skin of crosse,
while mine is only imitation that different style too.

Speaker 17 (04:01:27):
But it lets me explain, and then I know you
you will agree to my very strength request that you
can explain.

Speaker 8 (04:01:32):
But I'm not selling you this coat. The problem is
my sister.

Speaker 17 (04:01:36):
She's my twin sister in Paris, so the trepool, but
she's she's very poor and she's married to a man
who does not make much money.

Speaker 8 (04:01:42):
Sorry about but pretty Please listen.

Speaker 17 (04:01:45):
When we bought children, my sister and I always wore
identical clothes. There was sales coats that everything was the same.
And so today when I buy something like this coat
I am wearing, which I bought here in the city,
I always vay for already you take it very very.

Speaker 8 (04:02:01):
Kind, But you see, I'm very selfish. When I see
this scot I want it.

Speaker 17 (04:02:06):
I want it so much, and so I said to
the salesperson, I will take this and another one just
like it, of course from my sister. You understand, but
there is not another one like it. So please quickly
now I have only a few minutes before my flight.
And how much did you pay for it? How much
do you wish for it? I'm sorry, but I just
don't want to sound like after it's only look here,

(04:02:30):
even if you offered me too, Dmoisellino, please please try
to understand. I must have it one thousand dollars, one
thorough imitation Leopards.

Speaker 8 (04:02:40):
You're so concerned over your sister having a coat like yours,
buy her one.

Speaker 17 (04:02:44):
When you get to hiring lap she's meeting you at
their poult and she will say, where is my coat?

Speaker 8 (04:02:49):
And I'm sorry, I'm really very sorry, but.

Speaker 17 (04:02:52):
I hear one thousand dollars and I tug the gold.

Speaker 8 (04:02:57):
Please tell you don't look you.

Speaker 3 (04:03:01):
Hey, hey, cool it. I'll be happy to if one
of you wears a rose cord.

Speaker 8 (04:03:05):
But that's me. Are you hanging hank?

Speaker 3 (04:03:07):
That's me? That's me. I was pretty sure you were rose.
You're wearing that rose in your coat, lapel? What is
all of this?

Speaker 8 (04:03:11):
This woman insists that I sell her my cab for
the one souls and done.

Speaker 3 (04:03:15):
But if my cousin doesn't want to sell you, you
don't want to do your own. Well, but I do
have time.

Speaker 8 (04:03:21):
Dog you are show me smip like.

Speaker 4 (04:03:23):
Please prove you're a big of your city to me.

Speaker 3 (04:03:26):
I'd better find a cop. Well, then you must be
on your way.

Speaker 8 (04:03:29):
Please the coat to go the rest of it.

Speaker 3 (04:03:31):
Okay, okay, there's a cop over there. I'm just going no, no, please,
I'm going.

Speaker 8 (04:03:35):
I am Thomas. Thank you, Hank. I'm so glad you
came along when you did.

Speaker 9 (04:03:43):
She gave you a hard time, huh.

Speaker 8 (04:03:44):
She tried to tear the coat off me.

Speaker 2 (04:03:46):
Even my lapel put a kind of crimp in your
rose too, broke the stem.

Speaker 8 (04:03:51):
I might as well throw that away, and now it
served its purpose.

Speaker 2 (04:03:54):
Well, there's no need for that. Look, I think I
can repent it. I see say it's still pretty fresh.
In fact, it's very fresh after an eight hour trip
from London.

Speaker 8 (04:04:03):
I didn't get it in London. I got it here
at the airport florist when I landed. When I told
you i'd be wearing a rose so that you'd recognize me, well,
I decided if the girl looked wilted, at least the
rose didn't have to.

Speaker 2 (04:04:16):
Well there you are good as new, except for your
torn lapel. Mother will take care of that. Okay, I've
got your bags, so let's go. Fun City awaits you, cousin,
rose hunk.

Speaker 8 (04:04:31):
She seems to be awaiting me too well, the French girl. See,
she still hasn't gone through the flight gate. She's standing
there looking at us as if well as if she
was still hoping to buy this coat again.

Speaker 9 (04:04:44):
The world is full of nuts.

Speaker 3 (04:04:45):
Let's go.

Speaker 8 (04:04:53):
Well, yes, we have bridges in London, but nothing like this, Hank,
the triborough you said.

Speaker 3 (04:05:00):
Yeah, we're over there.

Speaker 9 (04:05:01):
How's that for your first sight of New York City?

Speaker 8 (04:05:03):
Oh it's sensational.

Speaker 2 (04:05:05):
It's too bad you didn't arrive at night. That's skyline
all lit up out of sight.

Speaker 8 (04:05:10):
I'm sure it is. Oh, Hank, I'm so grateful to
you and Aunt Ruth letting me stay with you on
my first trip to the.

Speaker 2 (04:05:17):
States, letting you stay. Now happy to have you. In fact,
now that I see you, I'm delighted to have you.
I'm very glad. We're cousins twice removed. Why no, it
makes us kissing cousins.

Speaker 8 (04:05:30):
I hope you're right about being second cousins. I mean, personally,
I can't figure it out. Maybe you were that lawyer's
braid of your essays?

Speaker 2 (04:05:39):
What is it?

Speaker 8 (04:05:40):
What's wrong? The car next to us?

Speaker 3 (04:05:43):
Hey? Watch it? Hey man, you're two dawn cold?

Speaker 8 (04:05:45):
Because heavens is certainly are crazy cool?

Speaker 2 (04:05:48):
What are you doing?

Speaker 8 (04:05:50):
Get over? We'll have an absidence.

Speaker 3 (04:05:52):
I'll be sure will.

Speaker 2 (04:05:52):
If they don't, I got the idea they're pulling ahead,
Thank Heaven, pulling.

Speaker 8 (04:05:57):
Ahead, but right in front of us?

Speaker 3 (04:06:00):
What hand?

Speaker 14 (04:06:00):
Look out?

Speaker 8 (04:06:01):
They've stopped?

Speaker 3 (04:06:04):
Posey, okay, you know what? Hey here, what do you
think you're doing?

Speaker 8 (04:06:08):
You creep me?

Speaker 3 (04:06:09):
Yes? You giving that?

Speaker 8 (04:06:11):
Oh, never mind, I'll take it.

Speaker 3 (04:06:13):
Take your hands off?

Speaker 4 (04:06:14):
What kind of nune?

Speaker 3 (04:06:14):
Are you let her? A times?

Speaker 8 (04:06:16):
He's trying to take my cue your hands off?

Speaker 3 (04:06:18):
Or I said, all right?

Speaker 8 (04:06:21):
Can you look him out?

Speaker 3 (04:06:22):
Oh no, no, she's getting up.

Speaker 4 (04:06:24):
Come out here.

Speaker 3 (04:06:25):
You're dirty, and don't go after him.

Speaker 28 (04:06:26):
He could be arms.

Speaker 3 (04:06:27):
You could be had getting back in his car.

Speaker 2 (04:06:30):
Keep the license, sorry, pose the garment, patta pens.

Speaker 3 (04:06:33):
Dropped the number down quick. He's bringing rubber to get
away fast. He tried to kill us, mother, They did,
I know they did.

Speaker 8 (04:06:49):
And he the man who jumped from their car and
ran back to us. He wanted my coat as badly
as that woman at the airport.

Speaker 17 (04:06:56):
It's believable all together, unbelievable, incredible, that's what it is.

Speaker 15 (04:07:02):
You say.

Speaker 17 (04:07:02):
She was willing to pay one thousand dollars for it,
imitation leopard skin, but she.

Speaker 8 (04:07:08):
Wanted it and had to have it for her twin sister.

Speaker 2 (04:07:11):
Well, I don't buy that, mother, this second attempt to
get a hold of the coat, and by a guy
who was ready to kill us in an accident if
it turned out that way.

Speaker 10 (04:07:20):
No, there's something about that coat, something somebody wants.

Speaker 8 (04:07:24):
But what could anyone want for an imitation leopard skin coat?
Would you buy it? Rose Harrod's in London?

Speaker 3 (04:07:31):
I wish I knew how to straighten out the mystery
a Rose's coat.

Speaker 8 (04:07:34):
Oh, dear, you don't straighten out a mystery, You solve it.

Speaker 2 (04:07:38):
And I ought to know.

Speaker 8 (04:07:39):
I've read hundreds of them every year. I solve most
of them too. Try solving this one. And Aunt Ruth well, as.

Speaker 17 (04:07:45):
A matter of fact, I've been thinking and I may
have the answer you have.

Speaker 8 (04:07:51):
I just may have would bring me the coat, dear?
Of course I won't be a minute.

Speaker 3 (04:07:57):
What do you think of her mother?

Speaker 8 (04:08:00):
She's beautiful and she's just so charming, so poised. She
may not have much money done, but she does know
how to wear clothes with.

Speaker 9 (04:08:08):
A figure like that. The clothes were her.

Speaker 17 (04:08:11):
Well, I don't mind saying she's exactly the sort of
girl I hope you'd marry one day.

Speaker 2 (04:08:16):
Yeah, well, in that case, I'm glad she came over
I'm glad you infind her.

Speaker 17 (04:08:20):
Oh that's why I invited her. Shere it his auntle,
Thank you, my dear.

Speaker 3 (04:08:26):
Oh this rose you wore is wilted, poor Sish.

Speaker 8 (04:08:30):
No wonder it's really taken a battering. I suppose it
just decided to give up.

Speaker 3 (04:08:36):
Mother. What are you doing now?

Speaker 28 (04:08:37):
You know my mother's wats them?

Speaker 52 (04:08:39):
Apply them.

Speaker 17 (04:08:40):
I'm examining the lining. I could be wrong, but it
wouldn't surprise me. I's something we're hidden in this lining
for what?

Speaker 8 (04:08:47):
For goodness sake? Well, you see, certainly not jewels, or
i'd be able to feel them.

Speaker 3 (04:08:53):
You're going over that lining like an expert. Mother.

Speaker 17 (04:08:55):
Well that's what comes of being a mystery story addict. Right,
not Heroin either.

Speaker 8 (04:09:02):
Heroine.

Speaker 17 (04:09:03):
Oh, it's been done, not anymore, though the customs people
were onder that, Oh ages ago.

Speaker 8 (04:09:09):
I'll go now.

Speaker 17 (04:09:10):
If Heroin more concealed in the lining, i'd be able
to feel that, you know, the crinkly, little glassy envelope.

Speaker 14 (04:09:16):
So there's nothing in in.

Speaker 8 (04:09:17):
The lining, nothing I can see anyway.

Speaker 3 (04:09:20):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (04:09:21):
Was it paper delivery deer?

Speaker 3 (04:09:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 28 (04:09:26):
Why are you looking at the front pages?

Speaker 3 (04:09:29):
Was it?

Speaker 8 (04:09:29):
You've just been shocked out of the year's growth.

Speaker 3 (04:09:32):
Because it could be I just have been.

Speaker 2 (04:09:37):
Listen to this headline reads woman murdered on Paris bound plane.

Speaker 8 (04:09:43):
What.

Speaker 2 (04:09:45):
A woman identified as Simon Leveaux of Paris, France.

Speaker 8 (04:09:49):
Uh, that's for woman who wanted to buy my coat.

Speaker 11 (04:09:52):
I know, I know.

Speaker 2 (04:09:53):
Just listen now, was found dead in her seat aboard
flight two nineteen for Paris late this afternoon. An hour
after take off, a hostess, Andrea Kleine, noticed that miss
Lavaux was slumped in her seat and thought she was asleep.
She secured a cushioned to place behind the young woman's head,
and on doing so, discovered she was dead.

Speaker 23 (04:10:13):
Oh no.

Speaker 2 (04:10:15):
The further examination disclosed a deep knife wound in her
left side. Since the flight was only an hour out
from New York City, Hostess Cline recalls that a man
was seated next to her just before takeoff was nowhere
to be found on board following the discovery of the murder.
What does this mean, Hank, I'll tell you one thing.
It means mother, I'm going at police headquarters right now,

(04:10:38):
and I'm taking that coat with me. Rose a woman
who was willing to pay one thousand dollars for this
piece of imitation. Leopard skin was murdered an hour or
so later. Why a man neither of us ever saw
before nearly killed us in a crash on the triborrow
so he could get this coat off you?

Speaker 3 (04:10:56):
Why? Well we better find out why?

Speaker 2 (04:11:01):
Because yes, because I could be wrong, I hope I am,
But this coat, it could be a death warrant.

Speaker 3 (04:11:10):
Rose, who's yours? Now?

Speaker 2 (04:11:19):
Of course you're thinking so Ruth North Hank's mother examined
the lining of that coat and found nothing. So what
obviously the coat contains something? Maybe it does, then again
maybe it doesn't. In fact, to be absolutely truthful with you, no,
why should I be. You have all the clues, use them.

(04:11:43):
I'll be back shortly for act two. I'm sure most
of you will recall the famous incident when Sherlock Holmes
said to doctor Watson, consider Watson the curious behavior of

(04:12:06):
the dog, and Watson said, but Holmes, the dog did
nothing precisely, Watson, Holmes answered, precisely. Now that, my dear listeners,
is precisely the sort of clue you now have in
your possession, and, like Watson, must figure out for yourselves.
I can almost hear Holmes saying, but consider the coat,

(04:12:28):
Watson the imitation leopard skin coat, and Watson answering, but
the coat is valueless Holmes, and Holmes nodding wisely as
he replies, precisely, Watson, precisely.

Speaker 3 (04:12:41):
Now shall we go.

Speaker 56 (04:12:43):
On, Joe, Hello, contact ballistics. I'm fabrics. They're bullets and
that's what you want to know about, Joe. Joe, listen. Granted,
I have what you call a special flaff for forensic

(04:13:06):
but okay, okay, I'll look into it. Yeah, yeah, leave
it to me.

Speaker 10 (04:13:16):
Joe.

Speaker 56 (04:13:17):
Bye, Lieutenant Maxwell, show him in. Come in, mister North,
Miss Corbyn, thank you, turn please coffee? No thanks Rose, No,

(04:13:40):
thank you.

Speaker 2 (04:13:41):
Well here's your coat, Miss Corbyn. We found nothing, not
the thing.

Speaker 3 (04:13:48):
Nothing.

Speaker 29 (04:13:49):
I leveled with you, mister North, when you brought this
coat in the other night. I figured, well there's something
and I'll find it. Like there had to be something.

Speaker 56 (04:14:00):
I mean, I mean, who offers one thousand clamps for
an imitation leperdskin code then get yourself murdered an hour later?
Who crashes his car against another guy's car on the
tribe yet and tries to grab the coat off a dame?

Speaker 10 (04:14:16):
Who somebody that wants something in that coat, that's who.

Speaker 8 (04:14:21):
Yes, but you found nothing.

Speaker 9 (04:14:23):
I have personally put this code through every test.

Speaker 56 (04:14:26):
We know, every inch of it has been examined under
the microscope, the X ray, the fluoroscope. We took the
lining API and don't worry. We put it back together
again better than before.

Speaker 2 (04:14:39):
It's beautiful and we'll look blank.

Speaker 3 (04:14:42):
I don't get it, Lieutenant.

Speaker 2 (04:14:43):
I mean, if it was just that woman, wouldn't to
pay one thousand dollars for this coat. But a guy
crashing his car in a mine on the bridge and
trying to rip that coat off rose miss Corman. Lieutenant,
has got to be something about this coat.

Speaker 56 (04:14:59):
And I felt the the same way myself, mister North.
But there's nothing, No invisible markings, nothing hidden in the scenes,
nothing between the layers of the fabric and the color.

Speaker 3 (04:15:09):
Nothing. So, to be honest with you, I don't get
it either.

Speaker 8 (04:15:14):
Excuse me? Could I ask a question?

Speaker 9 (04:15:16):
Certainly?

Speaker 8 (04:15:17):
What about the woman Simon Lavaux? Have you found out
why she was murdered?

Speaker 23 (04:15:22):
No?

Speaker 56 (04:15:23):
I checked a couple of times with homicide. Last time
twenty minutes ago. We got nothing here on her. Us,
the FBI, the tea boys. All right, now we're checking
the CIA and enterpol Lake. It maybe have something, but
will take a little time.

Speaker 2 (04:15:40):
Well, thanks, Lieutenant, you'll let us know if anything turns up.

Speaker 57 (04:15:45):
You'd better believe it. Mister North, Well, so much for
the coat, ROAs that's that. I guess what would you
like to do?

Speaker 8 (04:15:59):
No, don't you have to get that to your office?

Speaker 2 (04:16:01):
Well not until late this afternoon. I scheduled my day
so I could spend most of it with you. See,
I know, how about the Museum of Art. We could
spend a few hours there, even have lunch if you'd
like that.

Speaker 8 (04:16:14):
How wonderful, Hank. Only I don't like the idea of
having to carry this coat around all day.

Speaker 2 (04:16:20):
Well you won't have to. I mean we'll check it
at the museum. Okay, okay, Hey taxi Taxi.

Speaker 3 (04:16:32):
Enjoy sandwich row?

Speaker 8 (04:16:33):
Oh yes? I mean, oh, I'm so full. You Americans
make much bigger sandwiches than we do in Britain.

Speaker 3 (04:16:39):
The American way everything on a big scale. Would you
feel up looking at small pennies?

Speaker 14 (04:16:45):
Hank?

Speaker 8 (04:16:45):
Would you mind? I really don't two hours walking around
those galleries upstairs?

Speaker 3 (04:16:49):
Sure? Sure you're tired, I'll tell you what. I'll drop
you off of home and then head down town to
my office.

Speaker 8 (04:16:55):
Are you sure you don't mind?

Speaker 4 (04:16:57):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (04:16:57):
To be honest, bros, I do.

Speaker 3 (04:16:59):
I want to spend as much time with you as
I can.

Speaker 2 (04:17:02):
You want to stop and look at the Greek and
Roman sarcophagus sarcophagride tombs.

Speaker 8 (04:17:08):
No, I've seen enough. Let's just get my coat from
the checkroom and go home where I can rest these
aching feet.

Speaker 10 (04:17:13):
Whatever.

Speaker 3 (04:17:14):
You say, Hey, there's something going on.

Speaker 8 (04:17:16):
Over there, I should say so right, there's a big
crowd around the checkrooms police. Thank what do you suppose
this happens?

Speaker 3 (04:17:24):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (04:17:24):
I'm gonna have a rough time though, getting through that
crowd to reclaim your coat.

Speaker 3 (04:17:28):
Excuse me, Yeah, you know what's going on over there?
There's been a murder. I think we're a murder robbery
or a theft or whatever it's called. Anyway, somebody stole
a colt. Yeah, that's what I heard. You were. You
don't have to know what kind of coats?

Speaker 19 (04:17:44):
Yeah, I think they said at somebody said imitation.

Speaker 8 (04:17:53):
Another cup rows. Thank you for getting to like coffee?
Or is that another way of saying you don't care
for my tea?

Speaker 7 (04:18:00):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (04:18:00):
No, no tea, your coffee when you when you finish that,
I think you'd be smart to stretch out for a while,
have yourself a nap.

Speaker 17 (04:18:06):
I mean, if you've had kind of a rough day,
tiring anyhow, at least you're rid of that coat once
and for all. Now you don't have to worry about
that anymore. But you don't, dear, I don't well, I
just don't know. I'm I'm not so sure.

Speaker 3 (04:18:23):
What do you mean.

Speaker 8 (04:18:24):
I have sort of, oh, I don't know, a feeling
that what happened at the museum today isn't the end
of all this for me? I mean, oh, now, now
it's nothing more than nerves my day. It's just nerve, perhaps,
but I don't think so. Maybe it's the mystery of
the thing, not knowing why someone wanted that coat badly

(04:18:47):
enough to kill for it, murder for it looks like
we'll never know.

Speaker 7 (04:18:52):
Now.

Speaker 2 (04:18:52):
Well, look it's it's over now and we can forget it,
as mother says. And now I few ladies will excuse.

Speaker 8 (04:18:58):
Me, well where are you going to?

Speaker 3 (04:18:59):
The Oh?

Speaker 2 (04:19:00):
But this late in the afternoons, after four, and the
brief I wanted to finish up at three is still
waiting to be finished.

Speaker 8 (04:19:07):
So Hank, you work too hard. Couldn't it wait until tomorrow?
Don't forget it's the theater.

Speaker 2 (04:19:11):
Tell me back at six thirty the latest, so i'll
get it.

Speaker 58 (04:19:17):
Hello, you missed it off? Yes, Lieutenant Maxwell, Yeah, I
tried you at your office. They said I might find
you at home. You're going to be there another.

Speaker 3 (04:19:26):
Hour or so.

Speaker 58 (04:19:28):
Well, if it's important, I think it is. I've got
the answer. Anyhow, I think I've got the answer to
our little mystery. I want to come over and check
it out.

Speaker 9 (04:19:38):
Yeah, well sure, but what is the answer?

Speaker 3 (04:19:40):
One thing?

Speaker 9 (04:19:41):
Missed it off?

Speaker 11 (04:19:41):
We got a report from the tires brant your interval
on the simoon.

Speaker 3 (04:19:45):
La Po woman?

Speaker 9 (04:19:46):
Yeah, what about her?

Speaker 11 (04:19:48):
He was a foreign agent, one of the higher ups
in aspiring Aspiring. Yeah, now, uh, the way I figured it.
She oh wait just a minute, said yeah, what is
it eddie.

Speaker 2 (04:20:00):
Lieutenant Maxwell says Simon Nvaux was a foreign agent part
of Aspiring.

Speaker 8 (04:20:04):
Heavens.

Speaker 9 (04:20:06):
Hello, alms, yes you, lieutenant.

Speaker 3 (04:20:09):
Listen, something has just come up here. I gotta hang up.

Speaker 10 (04:20:12):
Well, i'll be at your place and i'll say half
an hour.

Speaker 2 (04:20:16):
Wait a minute, what's the answer to the mystery?

Speaker 10 (04:20:18):
I say?

Speaker 3 (04:20:18):
In half an hour, Lieutenant, don't leave us.

Speaker 2 (04:20:21):
Hanging like, well, I'll be or what was that all
at about? Hank Well Maxwell says he has the answer
to the mystery, or he thinks he has. He'll be
over here in half an hour to check it out.

Speaker 8 (04:20:31):
What is the answer?

Speaker 3 (04:20:32):
He didn't tell me?

Speaker 2 (04:20:34):
He got called away on something he had to hang up. Well,
what are you calling the office? That brief will have
to wait until tomorrow?

Speaker 3 (04:20:44):
On that?

Speaker 8 (04:20:49):
Well, where is he?

Speaker 3 (04:20:51):
Give him time? Mother, give him time.

Speaker 17 (04:20:53):
But that is nearly six o'clock. He should have been
here at least an hour ago. And we are going
to the theater tonight, remember.

Speaker 9 (04:20:59):
Yeah, well we may have to skip that.

Speaker 17 (04:21:00):
I'm so sorry, Aunt Ruth's all right, my dear, It's
not your fault.

Speaker 8 (04:21:04):
Somehow I feel it is.

Speaker 3 (04:21:06):
Rose.

Speaker 9 (04:21:06):
How could it possibly be your fault?

Speaker 8 (04:21:08):
Well, I'm the one who bought that silly coated Harrod's,
and if I hadn't bought it, none of this would
have happened, not to you, perhaps, but certainly to someone
else if someone did buy it.

Speaker 17 (04:21:17):
And for all we know, if you hadn't bought it,
it could still be hanging on the rack in London.

Speaker 8 (04:21:22):
Yes, well, I wish it were. It isn't nerves aren't ruth.
It's it's knowing that because of that coat, two people
were murdered. Hank and I came close to death, and
that car crash, and well it's just too m I
couldn't agree more.

Speaker 3 (04:21:37):
Ah, this must be Lieutenant Maxwell.

Speaker 2 (04:21:39):
Okay, okay, I'm coming, lieutenant, your lieutenant.

Speaker 3 (04:21:47):
And.

Speaker 8 (04:21:48):
Oh my, heavens, hanky quick he's come happy an ambulance.

Speaker 16 (04:21:53):
Thank you.

Speaker 8 (04:21:54):
She hurt that.

Speaker 3 (04:21:57):
All right? Let me get him on the couch, get
his coat on, and sure, no, late, that's what you think.
That's what rose sandiches. Yes, listen, look you better not talk.
Just want to get these things off your sorde. Oh
my dear, I've never seen so much blessed. Yes, yes, lieutenant.

(04:22:20):
The guy that did this, how did he do it?
Not much time? She rose life and danger roses life
in danger?

Speaker 8 (04:22:35):
Yes, spandards and some did.

Speaker 2 (04:22:42):
Did this?

Speaker 3 (04:22:43):
Must I know, I know?

Speaker 2 (04:22:48):
And the.

Speaker 46 (04:22:52):
One only one that knows me My, it's bugg not
to be tell them, tell them bugget sure, sure, come
on it.

Speaker 9 (04:23:10):
What is the answer, lieutenant.

Speaker 3 (04:23:13):
The coat that.

Speaker 2 (04:23:16):
That not?

Speaker 52 (04:23:17):
What do you mean?

Speaker 33 (04:23:18):
Not?

Speaker 2 (04:23:19):
Not?

Speaker 13 (04:23:19):
What?

Speaker 3 (04:23:21):
Lieutenant?

Speaker 59 (04:23:23):
Oh you see, yes, another death. We never see the
end of this.

Speaker 8 (04:23:35):
Why are you looking at me like that? Thank, aunt Ruth?

Speaker 3 (04:23:39):
What is it?

Speaker 8 (04:23:40):
Tell me?

Speaker 2 (04:23:42):
He said your life's in danger now mine?

Speaker 8 (04:23:47):
Yes, dear, but it can't be.

Speaker 14 (04:23:50):
How can it be?

Speaker 8 (04:23:51):
I haven't got the coat anymore?

Speaker 59 (04:23:54):
You know what they've got the coat, they've got what
they were after?

Speaker 8 (04:23:59):
Why would they kill me?

Speaker 2 (04:24:01):
I don't know, but I'd better find out, Honey, I
damn well better find out.

Speaker 9 (04:24:15):
He'd certainly better do just that.

Speaker 2 (04:24:17):
Or Rose Corbin, the very attractive young woman Hank North
has fallen in love with, may not live much longer.

Speaker 3 (04:24:25):
But how can he find.

Speaker 2 (04:24:26):
Out the answer to this battling mystery? Where does one start?
What does one do? Where would you start?

Speaker 3 (04:24:35):
What would you do?

Speaker 2 (04:24:37):
I'll be back shortly for act three. Well, now let's
see where we are. Rose Corbin arrived in the United
States from London, England, wearing an imitation leopard skin coat.

(04:25:01):
On her arrival, a woman named Simon LeVaux tried to
buy the coat, and when Rose refused to sell, tried
to take it away from her. Later, Simon LeVaux was
murdered aboard the plane taking her to Paris. Since then,
the coat seems to have triggered two more murders, that
of a checkroom attendant at the Museum of Art, at

(04:25:22):
which time the murderer made off with the coat, and
as we heard only minutes ago, that of Lieutenant Maxwell
of the police. All right, Rose, let's go over it
and over it. And we've gone over it and over
I know, but Maxwell said your life is in danger now,
and Rose, if anything happened to you, well it isn't

(04:25:44):
going to not if I can help it. You bought
the coat in Harron's the day before you took off
to visit us here. Yeah, and no one accostajew at
Heathrow before you boarded the plane or on the plane.

Speaker 3 (04:25:55):
Nobody even mentioned the coat.

Speaker 2 (04:25:57):
No, no one. But minute you got off the plane
at Kennedy International this, Simon Levau.

Speaker 8 (04:26:04):
Well, not the minute I got off the plane. First
I went to the florist to buy the flower the
rose I said i'd wear so you'd recognize me. But
just after that she came up to me and asked
to buy the coat and got very upset when I
said I wouldn't sell it. Im practically began to tear
it off me.

Speaker 2 (04:26:21):
I just don't kid it we know there was nothing
hidden in the coat, no invisible message.

Speaker 3 (04:26:27):
No nothing. But we do know that Simone Leavaux was
a foreign agent.

Speaker 2 (04:26:32):
Now there's just got to be some connection between the
coat and her being a foreign agent.

Speaker 8 (04:26:37):
There has got to be, Hank, Dear, why don't we
forget it till after we've had dinner. We're all so
tired and upset.

Speaker 2 (04:26:43):
Yeah, you're right, you're right, you're right, Go and get
ready and we'll take off right And Allison.

Speaker 8 (04:26:48):
I won't belong right?

Speaker 2 (04:26:53):
What?

Speaker 8 (04:26:54):
Who are you? What are you doing there?

Speaker 4 (04:26:58):
Rose? What is it?

Speaker 14 (04:26:59):
Hank?

Speaker 8 (04:27:00):
Thank the man here in my room, he's just later,
he's gone out the window to do to see.

Speaker 3 (04:27:05):
He's probably do on the fire escape by now?

Speaker 8 (04:27:07):
What was he doing to see for yourself? I mean,
look at the mess he made of my dressing day.
He was going through the drummers of your jewel case. Well,
there's junk jewelry, most of it.

Speaker 2 (04:27:14):
Oh, this is all we need right now, a sneak
thief on top of everything else. Check your things she
would have got away with if anything like, I'll call
the police.

Speaker 8 (04:27:30):
And to what, mister North, do I owe this? Royal treatment?

Speaker 9 (04:27:35):
Royal treatment?

Speaker 8 (04:27:36):
The call from your secretary saying to meet you at
five o'clock at this swank watering hole, and then the
arrival by a messenger of this absolutely lovely little nosegay
with instructions to wear it.

Speaker 2 (04:27:48):
Well, you leave tomorrow for England, and there's something I
want to say to you, something important. That's why I
wanted to meet you here alone and without mother this time.
Well as for the little nosegay, it's just a little
something to make the occasion.

Speaker 8 (04:28:05):
Well, here I am wearing my most attractive suit and
the nosegay. So what do you want to say?

Speaker 3 (04:28:12):
Good afternoon? May I take your order? Martini? Rose?

Speaker 9 (04:28:17):
Rose?

Speaker 11 (04:28:17):
What Martini?

Speaker 3 (04:28:19):
Oh? Yes to Martinis. Wait, very very dry, he said, Who, Madame,
may like me to take a jacket?

Speaker 8 (04:28:27):
Take my jacket?

Speaker 3 (04:28:28):
You should be a woman here this afternoon.

Speaker 8 (04:28:29):
And no, thank you, I'm quite comfortable.

Speaker 2 (04:28:32):
Sisly madame too Martinis. Well, now, Rose, what I wanted
to say?

Speaker 3 (04:28:40):
Something wrong?

Speaker 2 (04:28:42):
No?

Speaker 8 (04:28:42):
No, I was just wondering if I had seen that
waiter somewhere before.

Speaker 9 (04:28:47):
Not likely?

Speaker 8 (04:28:49):
Well now, yes, well, now what.

Speaker 3 (04:28:54):
Rose.

Speaker 2 (04:28:54):
We've only known each other for a few weeks, but
in that short time him I've fallen in love with you,
and I want you to marry me, will you?

Speaker 3 (04:29:10):
Of course? Of course, just like that.

Speaker 8 (04:29:15):
What did you expect me to say? Oh, sir, this
is so sudden. No, but I'm in love with you too.
Hank head over heels.

Speaker 10 (04:29:26):
All rose. Well, I guess it's time.

Speaker 3 (04:29:31):
Then for me to give you this.

Speaker 8 (04:29:34):
Oh heck, it's gorgeous for darling. That diamond must have
cost a fortune.

Speaker 3 (04:29:41):
You're worth of fortune.

Speaker 9 (04:29:43):
Hold at your hand.

Speaker 3 (04:29:46):
There.

Speaker 2 (04:29:47):
Oh, thank you, dearest, thank you so much. Well, if
that's only a sample, i've underrated you.

Speaker 3 (04:29:59):
You're worth a qu to martinis. A thank you one
for madame.

Speaker 8 (04:30:07):
Oh my dam you spilled it all over my jacket.

Speaker 29 (04:30:10):
Give me, madame, forgive me for weren't over those things
he just slipped from my fingers.

Speaker 3 (04:30:15):
Allow me, I will take you out of everything. Let
me have the jacket met him and I will dry it.

Speaker 8 (04:30:20):
It's all right.

Speaker 4 (04:30:21):
I can wipe it with my naps, you know, madam.

Speaker 8 (04:30:23):
It it's my fault. You most a little. Will you
take your hands off the.

Speaker 3 (04:30:28):
Now?

Speaker 2 (04:30:28):
Will you start? I only reach well, the lady doesn't wish. Now,
just forget it and then bring another martine.

Speaker 3 (04:30:34):
You're so very good too.

Speaker 2 (04:30:36):
Oh I'm awfully sorry this happened, Darling. Are you sure
you wos what.

Speaker 14 (04:30:42):
That week?

Speaker 3 (04:30:43):
What about him?

Speaker 8 (04:30:44):
You remember?

Speaker 35 (04:30:45):
Now?

Speaker 8 (04:30:47):
Why does he want this coat? This jacket? What has
he wanted me to take it off? Pretending it was
hot in here? And spilling that drink just now was
no accident. He did it deliberately, Rose, I don't understand.
He is the man who caused that accident on our
way from the airport, the man who tried to rip

(04:31:07):
the leopard skin coat off me.

Speaker 17 (04:31:10):
Oh, Hank, what is this all about? That's your flight,
they just called. I have a good trip home, Rose,
and we'll be looking forward to seeing you again in
a week or ten days here quicker than that, aren't Ruth?

Speaker 8 (04:31:28):
If I can wind up my affairs in London sooner
and look so down in the mouth, Darling, I.

Speaker 2 (04:31:33):
Don't like even letting you out of my sight, Rose,
especially after last night that waiter.

Speaker 8 (04:31:38):
It'll be all right, Darling, don't worry. Oh, and thank
you for the rose.

Speaker 3 (04:31:44):
That's our flower, like you know our song.

Speaker 2 (04:31:47):
You are right wearing a rose, you depart wearing one.

Speaker 8 (04:31:51):
Goodbye sweetheart, dearest, goodbye aunt ru, not goodbye Rose.

Speaker 17 (04:31:57):
Oh a war now don't worry about the wedding now,
I'll arrange everybody. Dear, I'll see you in a week,
ten days at most at most. No, shall we go
out and watch the take off?

Speaker 8 (04:32:10):
Hank Son? Could that be?

Speaker 3 (04:32:15):
It?

Speaker 8 (04:32:17):
Could it? Could?

Speaker 14 (04:32:19):
What be?

Speaker 8 (04:32:20):
What? Hank? What are you talking about?

Speaker 2 (04:32:23):
The coat she was wearing when she arrived, the jacket
she was wearing last night, good Lord, the.

Speaker 3 (04:32:29):
Jacket she's wearing now?

Speaker 8 (04:32:31):
Could it be that?

Speaker 2 (04:32:33):
What in the world you I've been thinking, I've been
thinking what did Lieutenant Maxwell mean when he said, just
before he died, said.

Speaker 3 (04:32:40):
The coat not not?

Speaker 8 (04:32:43):
No, I know it wasn't the coat at all. It
wasn't the jacket.

Speaker 3 (04:32:48):
If I'm right, they they are after what?

Speaker 8 (04:32:52):
Hang after what?

Speaker 2 (04:32:54):
The flower pinned the Rosa's lapel, mother, Not the coat.

Speaker 3 (04:32:58):
Not the jacket? Flower? Well help one at last? And
the credit for the old England young idea.

Speaker 29 (04:33:13):
Oh yes, since we've seen the next to each other,
let me introduce myself, Emier Tenco Rose Corbyn.

Speaker 8 (04:33:22):
Have you been visiting in the States long? Not really
a few weeks. I'm going to.

Speaker 3 (04:33:29):
How did you know that?

Speaker 8 (04:33:31):
But how did I know that I was visiting in
the States? I could be living there. I could be
an American citizen for all you know.

Speaker 3 (04:33:39):
I assumed your Are you.

Speaker 8 (04:33:44):
Behind those dark glasses?

Speaker 29 (04:33:48):
Yeah, very perceptive young woman, Miss Covill. No, don't let
a move or I'll give you what I gave him
on a level.

Speaker 3 (04:33:58):
That's it with moves.

Speaker 54 (04:34:00):
No pennies. Good, Just relax. Now, enjoy the trip and
we'll be at Heathrow Airport before you know it.

Speaker 8 (04:34:12):
Enjoy the trip.

Speaker 9 (04:34:14):
I would if I wire you.

Speaker 2 (04:34:17):
It's the last trip you're ever going to make.

Speaker 3 (04:34:26):
Thank you, Thank you very much. Well, we're to go
to the.

Speaker 2 (04:34:30):
Operations office at once, he said he'd have a government
agent there by.

Speaker 8 (04:34:33):
Then, come on, why won't you tell me? There is
no need for you to know, since you're going to
kill me when we get to Heathrow.

Speaker 3 (04:34:48):
No, not that Heathrow.

Speaker 29 (04:34:50):
I'll take you to my place in London and Saul
and really, I'm sorry about the need to kill you,
but I must. Why Why must? Because you know my face?
Then in my business that's a serious liability for the victim.
But dear good Year, the more I look at you,

(04:35:11):
the more I'm inclined. Would you let you live for
the miss emiletic Dad?

Speaker 8 (04:35:17):
I don't understand.

Speaker 29 (04:35:19):
You're a very desirable woman, miss father, very desire it.

Speaker 2 (04:35:33):
Yes, thank what the government meant said to wait here,
they're going to radio the pilot. I gave them a
clear description of the man, the guy who tried to
get the coat from Rose in that accident on the bridge,
and who palmed himself off as a waiter last night.
And then well he will check the plane, you know
the way that captain comes through the plane now.

Speaker 3 (04:35:50):
And then chats with the passengers.

Speaker 2 (04:35:52):
Yes, and then and then we'll check to see if
this guy's on the plane, and if he is, and
if he is, we'll take it from there, said the
government man.

Speaker 9 (04:36:02):
We'll take it from there. Did you enjoy the movie?

Speaker 8 (04:36:15):
Are you joking?

Speaker 3 (04:36:17):
Just making a small dog?

Speaker 8 (04:36:20):
If you must talk, why not tell me what it
is you want? Why did you cause that accident on
the Tribara Bridge and try to get the jacket I
had on last night? What is it you're aft?

Speaker 29 (04:36:32):
Pasions, miss Cobbin. We'll be landing at the Heathrow in
half an hour. Another hour or so we'll be at
my place in Soho, and perhaps an hour or so
after that I'll tell you and perhaps not.

Speaker 8 (04:37:04):
Thank you son. Are you sure, mother?

Speaker 2 (04:37:06):
There are at least a dozen plane clothes, police and
government men down there, disguised as airport attendants. A minute
they disembrot there they've wrote the landing platform in place.
The drawer is opening.

Speaker 8 (04:37:19):
Man whoever he discovers that this isn't he, don't worry.

Speaker 3 (04:37:22):
Everything has been arranged.

Speaker 2 (04:37:24):
There they are rose and the man is the captain
right behind them, and they're walking right into the arms.

Speaker 3 (04:37:32):
He put up a fight. It was as simple as
that rose.

Speaker 2 (04:37:44):
The captain turned the plane around and circled Kennedy International
for a few hours of pretending you were flying to Heathrow.
Who fooled me?

Speaker 3 (04:37:50):
But not him?

Speaker 8 (04:37:51):
Halfway down the steps of that landing platform, he realized
he's foolishly tried to shoot things out. Oh, I know,
I suppose I ought to feel sorry.

Speaker 3 (04:37:59):
For It's just it's understandable.

Speaker 8 (04:38:02):
It's all just unbelievable when I think that because I
said i'd wear a rose and bought one at the airport.
When I arrived, there'll be.

Speaker 2 (04:38:09):
Attendant at the florist shop, an agent who'd been planted
there would never have mistaken you for Simon le'vau and
pinned that rose to your lapel with well, I guess
you could call it the fatal pin.

Speaker 17 (04:38:20):
You know, I'm still not sure I've got this straight, dear.
Let me see, she on her way to Paris was
to go into the florist shop wearing a leopard skin
coat and ask for a rose. Right now, That was
the agent's cue to use the what you called the
fatal pin exactly.

Speaker 3 (04:38:39):
See.

Speaker 2 (04:38:39):
Amiel Tenko knew he was under surveillance and so he
had a problem, I mean, how to get that top
secret information out of the country.

Speaker 8 (04:38:46):
So he had it engraved on the head of a pin.
You know, Aunt Ruth, the ware they engraved the Lord's
prayer on a pin head. The trouble began when the
agent thought that I was simun Levo on her way
to Paris wearing an almost identical leopard skin coat.

Speaker 2 (04:39:00):
To mind, and naturally, when Rose threw the rose away
after at Wilton, she kept the pimp and used it
again last night, the pin on the nosegay I gave her.

Speaker 8 (04:39:09):
It's all over, and thank Heaven it is Rose. How
about some dinner. I'm starving, but before we go, I
am going to change out of this suit into address,
Oh and Hank, Dear, yes, weetheart, no flowers please, not
for a long long time, no flowers please.

Speaker 2 (04:39:38):
And so as you see, like all good, seemingly insoluble mysteries,
the solution to roses are for funerals was very simple. Indeed,
in fact, I even gave you a clue in the title.
What could be fairer than that? I'll be back shortly. Mysteries,

(04:40:11):
it seems to me, are like a magic show. Like
the magician, the author shows you everything, but directs your
attention elsewhere. Perhaps I should say, misdirects it. So be
on your guard next time. Oh, yes, there will be
a next time. And although I always play one hundred

(04:40:32):
fair with you, I warn you now I'll do all
I can to mislead you.

Speaker 3 (04:40:39):
Can you blame me?

Speaker 2 (04:40:41):
Our cast included Carol Shelley, Tony Roberts, Mildred Clinton and
Dan Acko.

Speaker 3 (04:40:47):
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.

Speaker 1 (04:40:52):
Well, my dear, we've went quite a distance here tonight,
and now the sun is teasing its return to dominance.
It's time for you to head home and for me
to head to well wherever it is I come from.
But not for long as the veil will be thinner

(04:41:15):
in no time, and soon it will be our time.
O what's that? Oh no, no, no, You're a dear friend,
nothing to be concerned about. But when I see you
here again, hopefully next week, well who knows what could happen.

(04:41:37):
But until then, as you make your way home through
the darkened streets, as you enter your beautiful bedroom and
lay your head on that pillow, take one moment and
be thankful for what you have, and I'll be seeing you, amomma.

Speaker 2 (04:42:02):
The beginning, the romping, by, the grumbling, the probing, the
wombling climate

Speaker 17 (04:42:12):
Reco famous O.

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