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Speaker 1 (00:09):
My dear, come on in, please please, I'm feeling rather jubilant.
As you likely know, the season of the Witch is
approaching very quickly, and I always get a little extra
pep in my step when such a thing occurs. Please

(00:33):
please have a seat. The tea is already going. It'll
be nice and warm and comforting as we enjoy something cold,
chilling and upsetting. What's that? Well, I'm not sure, but
I sure am glad to have you here with me.

(00:54):
As the season begins. I think I'll be in a
celebratory mood the entire time. I feel positively as if
I had a drink with dionysis.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents. Come in, Welcome.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
I'm E. G. Marshall.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
There is no disguise which can for long conceal love
where it exists, or simulate it where it does not,
So said the French philosopher, to which we might add,
there is.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
No chain so strong, no wall so.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
High, but can imprison love when its time has come
to be free?

Speaker 4 (01:58):
What is it? It says?

Speaker 2 (01:59):
One of this see reap. It is a nuclear warhead.

Speaker 5 (02:06):
A nuclear warhead, that.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Is what it says. What can we do with a
nuclear warhead.

Speaker 5 (02:13):
What can we do? We can sell it, sell it?

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Oh what water purchase a nuclear warhead?

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Our mystery drama A Drink with Dionysius was written especially
for the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars Fred Gwynn.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and
arm Allergy Relief Medicine. I'll be back shortly with that
one breeze there, the man with souls so dead, who

(03:01):
never to himself had said, this is my own, my
native land. I'm not sure. They seem to be such cynical.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Skeptical times, so alien to honest sentiment, so impatient with
the traditional values. But perhaps it's all oppose. Perhaps underneath,
as the songwriter said, every heart beats true under red,
white and blue. Well, our mission today is to examine
the heart of a most unlikely patriot, one Sprinkles Magoon,

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and his story should be told by a man who
is both his best friend and his worst enemy, Detective
Sergeant Francis K. Flummer.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
I wouldn't say I was Sprinkle's best friend, and since
Sprinkles himself was as tereremy, I'm going to fall short there, though,
what you could say without fear of favor is a
Sprinkles was a look and I'm a cop. So from
time to time we meet in the way, a routine business,

(04:08):
a lot of Sprinkles.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
I do not believe we are acquainted.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
I feel it.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
I don't know anything what's done. I have not heard anything,
I have not seen anything.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
All right, Sprinkles, how did it hit you?

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Nobody has ever treated Sprinkles maccoon. He always pays his
own way. Now, if you will be so kind as
to excuse me, I cannot afford to be seen.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
In public chattering with the police side. That is the
German language for the cops.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
And so we'll go. You know, Sprinkles was doing this and.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
That here and now and then they really wasn't bothering
anybody too much. After a while in the department, you learn,
and as far as second things are concerned, it's best to.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
Live and let let if you know what I mean. Well,
you know, one night I'm sitting at the desk, looking
at the clock.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
On the wall and the snow on a sidewalk, hoping
that nobody's gonna do anything bad to somebody to laugh
to midnight, at which time my relief will have to
handle it when the phone.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
Ringers Plumber Flummer, Yeah, this is sergeant Flummer. Sergeant it
is me. Oh who are you? Is this Sprinkles?

Speaker 6 (05:28):
Sprinkles?

Speaker 4 (05:30):
Ooh, Sprinkles, what's up? I Sprinkles? You still laugh?

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (05:37):
I am present.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
It is just it is just what it is. Just
I am wondering, wondering about what.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
I am wondering. I am doing the right thing.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
You know what connection?

Speaker 6 (05:51):
Get this connection talking with the John Toms?

Speaker 4 (05:55):
Why that is the French language work for the cops. Well,
what do you want to talk about? Uh?

Speaker 5 (06:05):
Would you like to come up here?

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Why?

Speaker 7 (06:09):
Why?

Speaker 4 (06:10):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (06:10):
I I believe I may have.

Speaker 4 (06:13):
Killed somebody Sprankles. Therefore, can you come right over? I'm
on my way.

Speaker 6 (06:20):
I thank you.

Speaker 4 (06:22):
Okay, Well wait wait a minute.

Speaker 8 (06:24):
Where are you Sprinkles?

Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah? Well, and yes, that sprinkles.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yes, I believe I neglected to give you a final.

Speaker 4 (06:38):
Piece of information. Yes, Sprinkles, where are you?

Speaker 3 (06:41):
I am a many age.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
Saint Regis please ninety eight?

Speaker 3 (06:44):
Saint Regis, probably Sprinkles.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
What's going on?

Speaker 6 (06:49):
It is big shots, very big shoote.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
A Regius place. Sprinkles must have been stepping up in
class or he'd be.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
Doing a high rent history. Basically, he was a dip.
You know, a pickpocket. You have to work the crowds.

Speaker 9 (07:14):
On.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
He ain't.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Saint Regis was a luxury high rise. I flashed my
start the flunky, and he run me up in the elevator.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
And then patted down.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
And think we competent Carverdan come to a stop in
front of ten B stargrant Flummer, Sprinkles, what happened here?
That's blood? I help him shut shot. The bullet has

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merely fraaced my forehead. You should see the other guy,
one other guy. He is wrest them behind the couch.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
H Hey he's dead.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Oh yes, she is dick And you killed them, Sprinkles,
Yes you could.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
You could say I was the instrument of his departure.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
You kill him and here is the gun.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
Now look, Sprinkles, this ain't your style.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Well have you ever heard it said the leopard will
change his spots? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (08:23):
Yeah, yeah, but that's for rapids, not for pussy cats
like him.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
You do me and I'm just the sergeant. If you
will not believe I vanolated missed the cheery beery who
missed the cheery bery?

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Rough for crying o spring Beers you mean, I'm gonna
have to rest you for murder.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
I do not know what else you can do.

Speaker 4 (08:43):
Maya, howcker you get mixed up in murder?

Speaker 2 (08:47):
I did not know it would come to this.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
But you're a pit pocket, A good one.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
I can no longer earn a'm alice living.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
There's a pit pocket. I'm a victim of progress. I
I need a poor pickpocket. He is obsolete. I am
the victim of what is called the cashless society.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
The cashless society.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Sure there is no longer any cash walking around the street.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
You left the wallet. What do you get? Credit cards?
Travelers checks?

Speaker 4 (09:20):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (09:20):
Yeah, I cannot live on little plastic cards, now, can I?

Speaker 5 (09:25):
No?

Speaker 4 (09:25):
I guess not.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
But you still haven't told me why you had to
shoot this mister cheery bery. Yeah, it's this long story,
sprinkles Jabelle, let me hear it.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
Just start at the beginning.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, the beginning. You could say it up again. When
this female individual whose name I shall not reveal but
shall refer to as Boston Sadie and counted me in
the saloon which I shall likewise not to identify, but

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which shall here enough to be known as Frisco Charlie's.

Speaker 10 (10:07):
Well, look, Colie got here, Sprinkles, magoon.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Sadie, forced than city in the flesh, you have added
a generous amount of thought City marriage life must agree with.

Speaker 5 (10:19):
Oh no, it don't.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
Oh, Oh, I am truly sorry to.

Speaker 5 (10:23):
Get it, Sprinkles.

Speaker 10 (10:25):
I got a little proposition, interested.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Boy, Sadie. I thought you were turning honest.

Speaker 10 (10:32):
Yeah, said I. You know, the little cottage in the country,
the roses climbing over the fence and whipper wheels.

Speaker 5 (10:41):
What's the use?

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Oh, I am indeed sorry to get that. There is
a sour note in the symphony of your happiness.

Speaker 10 (10:47):
I thought I was marrying a civilian.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
So didn't you No a mane of thief, a thief.

Speaker 10 (10:54):
I was under the impression that Elwood was an upright,
legitimate member of society with a job. He's not an
honest thief like you and me and the rest of us.
He's the worst kind.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
The worst kind.

Speaker 10 (11:07):
He's a closet thief. He wants to steal, but he
don't have a nerve.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Oh that is bad.

Speaker 10 (11:14):
I thought it to be a new life for me.
On the wedding night he.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
Said that, I say, are you sure you would like
to discuss this infimate matter with.

Speaker 10 (11:23):
Me, he said, Dalin, and I have a confession to
make me.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Are you sure you want me to listen?

Speaker 10 (11:28):
He said, dearest, I want you to show.

Speaker 4 (11:31):
Me the ropes.

Speaker 10 (11:34):
He said that, yeah, all my life, he said, I
always wanted to be a cook, but I didn't know how. Please,
my dearest, teach me.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Did you.

Speaker 10 (11:43):
There when all my dreams are going straight?

Speaker 5 (11:47):
But when you love a guy?

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (11:50):
Yeah, I said to him, Angel, you can't just go
out and become a thief, especially at you're arranged thirty five.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
True, if you possess calling it showed herself in early life,
like ballet benches, violinits.

Speaker 10 (12:05):
Yeah, I said, what do you want to be a
safe cracker, a pickpocket?

Speaker 5 (12:09):
You gotta first become.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
An apprentice, That is a truth.

Speaker 10 (12:12):
You gotta work and study day and night.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Oh I remember.

Speaker 10 (12:15):
But if that's what you want, I guess I can
support us while you learn.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
And just where is she attending school?

Speaker 4 (12:22):
He don't want to quit his job.

Speaker 10 (12:24):
Oh, but how can I quit the job?

Speaker 9 (12:27):
He says, I got vacation, sick.

Speaker 10 (12:29):
Leave, hospitalization, and in twenty years I get a pension.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Well, those are extremely powerful arguments but he ain't happy,
So what is going to take place?

Speaker 10 (12:38):
Well, I figured out how he could get some action
in the place where he.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Works, good thinking, And just where is he employed?

Speaker 5 (12:46):
On an army base?

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Well, I do not understand what is there for steel
on an army base?

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Challenge?

Speaker 10 (12:53):
No, no, but you're close close pistols? Huh, Well, why
do you say, Sprinkles, What do I say?

Speaker 3 (13:03):
I say, regretfully, no, thank you.

Speaker 10 (13:06):
Forty five caliber automatic.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
I am allergic for firearms. I am a peaceful citizen.

Speaker 10 (13:12):
Plenty of guys are in the market for a nice, new,
shiny forty five caliber automatic.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
I just remembered I have disappointment.

Speaker 10 (13:18):
Come on, you don't know appointment, but.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
I do with a psychiatrist, sprinkle, maybe you'd better see
one though. Also, if you believe you can steal guns
from an army.

Speaker 10 (13:27):
Post but I figured how to do it, then.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
Permit me to issue the very best of look.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
But it needs.

Speaker 10 (13:33):
You, Sprinkles, it needs your fingers.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
My fingers.

Speaker 10 (13:36):
Yeah, we know who carries the keys to the room
where the guns are.

Speaker 4 (13:40):
Capper. I am sorry, say listen, there's nothing to it.

Speaker 10 (13:44):
I even talked it over, mumbles Penny Feather.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Mumbles.

Speaker 10 (13:47):
You have no idea how anxious Mumbles is to get
a hold of some of that hardware.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
Let's say they do not.

Speaker 10 (13:53):
Mumble said to me we were sitting right at this
table here. He said, you know who would be right
for a job like this, Sprinkles.

Speaker 11 (14:02):
The goon.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Mumble.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
So he's always had an exaggerated estimation.

Speaker 10 (14:09):
Of my dollars, Sprinkles, you're in I guarantee five grand.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
Five grand.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
I need to pick that up in a good week city.

Speaker 10 (14:18):
Look, it's waiting for us in a cart, and in
that army storeroom it's packed with forty five caliber pistols.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
How do we get it out of there?

Speaker 10 (14:27):
You don't worry about that, You just get the keys.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
What do you tell them, he sprinkles, You got yourself
into a caper to knock off some pistols from the army.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
They do have a lot of them, Sergeanty, You could
you know, you would think with all those autumn pops
and know if they would not require any more small firearms.
How well, never mind that they actually steal the guns. Yes,
how I don't know. I only know what I did, And.

Speaker 4 (15:02):
What did you do?

Speaker 2 (15:04):
I stole the keys to the keys y is. No
matter how carefully and closely guarded an object may be,
there is always the key that opens the lock that
secures the door. Therefore, one must also carefully guard the key.

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It also follows that one must also carefully guard the
person who has access to the key, and one must
also carefully guard all those who what you see where
this goes Somewhere there has to be a weak link.
There is, and the chain snaps enact too. There was

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the veil through which I might not see. There was
a door to which I found no key. Such was
a lot of mister Edward Fitzgerald, the poet of the Rubia.
Perhaps he might have found the key had he been
fortunate to enlist the cooperation of our own Sprinkles Magoon,
an expert at finding things, especially when they happened to

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be in someone else's pocket. We go forward, now, Sprinkles,
we have to proceed in an orderly fashion. You understand,
without a question, Sergeant Flummer.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
Sir Boston say, he arranges to cut you into a
scheme to swipe some forty five caliber pistols from.

Speaker 9 (16:43):
An army base.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
Right, you are correct, sergeant. Now where's this guy on
the floor? This very dead guy come in.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
He does not come in just yet. He don't know.
It is still too early for him to make his appearance.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Nice springles, Where are we?

Speaker 2 (17:05):
We are still in first Go Charlie's blah and quill.
I am still engaged in conversation with Boston, Sadi Taught,
and the pros and the cons, the alsos and the babies.
What you were saying to me is that all I
have to do is get the key, right? Is that
what you were saying?

Speaker 10 (17:25):
That's the whole grand opera. All you gotta do is
get the key?

Speaker 2 (17:30):
Uh? And where does that key happen to be?

Speaker 10 (17:33):
In somebody's pocket? Namely Lieutenant Melvin McBride, also known as Moonface.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
He has the key to the gun room.

Speaker 10 (17:44):
You got to fixture down, pat, you lift the key
to make a wax impression, then you slip the key
back into Moonface's pocket.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
You follow this, I follow, I follow, but I do
not know if I like where these go.

Speaker 10 (17:57):
Oh you're gonna love it. You'll see that. We'll get
the box with the guns, bring it to you, and
you make the delivery. The Mumbles pick up the cash,
and we're home.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
But they will not the guns are gone on it today?

Speaker 10 (18:11):
How would they know?

Speaker 9 (18:12):
What?

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Don't they check up on his situation?

Speaker 5 (18:15):
Sure?

Speaker 10 (18:15):
But sorely is the inventory clerk?

Speaker 2 (18:19):
And the who may I ask?

Speaker 3 (18:21):
Is that thor leaf?

Speaker 4 (18:22):
My husband?

Speaker 5 (18:25):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (18:27):
Do we spend the rest of the night showing the
fat or do we say green light?

Speaker 4 (18:32):
Leave us go? Then you said let's go. Yeah, right, Sprinkles,
I said leave us go?

Speaker 3 (18:43):
And we went where to a place that is named
the Big Burger, Big beggar. Yeah, this is where Lieutenant
Won't facement pipe takes on his lunch.

Speaker 4 (18:54):
Don't have a messh or baseball?

Speaker 2 (18:56):
What did they do? But this lieutenancy, he finds something
wrong with it?

Speaker 4 (19:00):
Something wrong?

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah, on the base they serve meals that are full
of proteins and vitamins and all the good things to
give a person rosy cheeks, wear rest, a big burger.
A little town of moon Face is able to consume four.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
Big burgers, four fries, two thick masks, an apple pie
and jerry pie. Put chocolate ice cream on the Jurry
pie and vanilla on apple.

Speaker 4 (19:23):
That's him.

Speaker 12 (19:24):
Lift the key.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
It's on a ring.

Speaker 10 (19:26):
It's gonna have to lift the whole things. Uh, just
which key isn't It don't matter whitch you mean? You
can swipe it off the ring?

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Please?

Speaker 9 (19:36):
Please?

Speaker 3 (19:36):
Which one is it?

Speaker 4 (19:38):
It'll be the longest one. But you can't just lift
one key from my clothes ring.

Speaker 9 (19:43):
Please?

Speaker 3 (19:44):
Why don't you go up and say a social holo
to loot ton of moon face while I go to
work on.

Speaker 10 (19:49):
Hello Lieutenna McBride, Hi, theresavelare having your lunch. I see
a haha as merely a snack as it were a snack. Yeah,
just keep body and so to get it.

Speaker 8 (20:00):
Oh god, oh, I'm sorry. I saw the home cup
of coffee and it is all over your nice clean uniform. Here,
let me take this napkin a nice all right?

Speaker 3 (20:11):
No no, no, no, it is not all right.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
We must wipe away all of that.

Speaker 4 (20:15):
I have it clean. My burgers and fires are getting cold.
I shall have you cleaned in enough time at all.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
And my ice cream is getting warm there there there? Oh,
oh it all did get cold, uh, little sister, not
a order to work for this gentleman. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (20:30):
Well, now, you, sir, are fighting for our country. You
need all your strength.

Speaker 4 (20:35):
Hey you don't have, oh but I do.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
I do have to wish for our country. Come on now,
go ahead, lieutenant.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
To eat up.

Speaker 4 (20:42):
Well, this is very nice, sir, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
It is because you uphold the flag.

Speaker 10 (20:48):
Actually, I just trying to supply round.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
Well, they have got a flag in their throat. Ah,
the flag. I remember it was my favorite poem in school.
Sprinkled with white for a cause that is right, sprinkled
with blue for hearts that are true, sprinkled with red
for those that are bread, the undying story of our

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own old glory.

Speaker 4 (21:17):
That's very noble Salmon.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
I would recite that poem so much they gave me
a nickname, Sprinkles. Well, it has been a fighter to
serve you, lieutenant. Enjoy your lunch.

Speaker 4 (21:33):
And uh, you got the key?

Speaker 3 (21:36):
Oh yeah, while the guy was sitting there, you got
the key off the rain, made the impression and put
it back.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
It is all how you say in a phase work.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
But then why did the din It was up to
Boston City and my husband four leaf and this guy
on the floor, where's he coming?

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Uh, Lieutenant, there's not yet to arrive.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
What was the next step?

Speaker 2 (22:04):
I give the impression of the Keith P. Sde and
she says, meet me the night nine o'clock the corner
of depth and Roosevelt, which is where I did find myself.

Speaker 3 (22:22):
Sprinkles hot, Sadie.

Speaker 5 (22:24):
It's all yours.

Speaker 6 (22:26):
What is a.

Speaker 10 (22:27):
Carton in the trunk?

Speaker 5 (22:29):
And you take the car?

Speaker 4 (22:30):
You got a Mumbles place.

Speaker 10 (22:31):
He's expecting you to give him the guns. He gives
you the money to come back to my house and
we split.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
Hey you got the guns.

Speaker 10 (22:40):
Oh we're shooting fish in a barrel.

Speaker 8 (22:52):
Yeah yeah, who oh shoe sprinkers. Sure, I thought you
was never going to kill you. Well, I command, leave
me set this down. Mumbles, must wear it done. Yeah, fifty,
that's what she said.

Speaker 13 (23:07):
Fifty.

Speaker 8 (23:08):
And you got fifty pieces of merchandise.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
And huh you bought and say they said fifty? Then five?

Speaker 3 (23:14):
Oh is the number? And now so Mumbles, Uh the cash?

Speaker 4 (23:20):
What the mother?

Speaker 14 (23:21):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (23:21):
The cash? Sure? Sure but yeah, yeah, first we count
the merchandise. We open up the box.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
Hed, ain't I don't trust nobody.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
I mean, you get the idea. Oh, I understand your position.

Speaker 8 (23:34):
One time in Chicago, we will Yeah, just take this here.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
Crow bar and we.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
Let me give me a hand.

Speaker 8 (23:42):
Mumbles, Yeah, I once done time and see, yeah we
can get her off a little bit of faith is
all you need, Mumbles, and now come on, we remove
this pattern and here we should have fifty little beauty.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
So all lined up for a row?

Speaker 8 (23:59):
Yeah yeah they hey, hey what and now Mumbles if
you wilt the cash? Mumbles, Mumbles, why do you point
that that? Roscoe at me? Fifty little beauty? Sure you
and city you.

Speaker 4 (24:16):
Think you can put a fast one?

Speaker 2 (24:17):
And old mumbles or what is it that you are
exactly talking about?

Speaker 8 (24:20):
You drop the box, take the cash, and old mumbles
here holds the bag?

Speaker 4 (24:25):
What bag?

Speaker 8 (24:25):
Where are the pistols? Pistols are in a box? Well,
fifty pistols. They should they should be in a box,
you know, Mumbles here is gonna bump you off? And
then he who is he going to.

Speaker 4 (24:38):
Have a date with?

Speaker 5 (24:39):
Saidy?

Speaker 2 (24:40):
Mumbus.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
Listen, I did not mean any harm. I did not
drop the box and run.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
Huh did I not stay and help? I am as
surprised as you are. There was a mistake, an honest mistake.
Let us see, shall we what is inside the box?
There ain't no pistols will leave us sea. It's a
it's a big tube. This thing at the end something

(25:04):
something's written down on it. Let me read what it
says uh. It says, come.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
On, come on, coime on, what are your mumbling now?
But what does it say?

Speaker 2 (25:14):
It? It says warhead type Dionysius nuclear. You you what?
What did you say? I guess it is a Dionysius missile.

Speaker 8 (25:29):
War Sprinkles, Get that thing out of here, work it out, mumbles?
Do you comprehend the possibility you're for your boys?

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Mumbles?

Speaker 8 (25:39):
You Now they can walk into a bank instead of
a pistol, they will use this genuine us Dionysius nuclear
wore her out.

Speaker 13 (25:47):
But you have your imagine the house.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
Way spring, because that is the missile that's been reported missing.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
The very lieutenant, how did you? It seems to say
these husbands made them feel mistake? He pitched up the wrong.

Speaker 4 (26:06):
Cut and c fi to see.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
I hate a whole mul that's been hunting for these thing, sprinkles.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
So I returned to say the house, and when I
informed Thorif of what he had accomplished, he fainted.

Speaker 4 (26:21):
So don't expect to me, how sprinkles.

Speaker 10 (26:23):
What are we gonna do about him?

Speaker 2 (26:25):
What are we gonna do about him?

Speaker 8 (26:26):
What are we gonna do about war had type dionysis nuclear?

Speaker 10 (26:31):
We will not lose our heads.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
A nuclear missile war.

Speaker 10 (26:35):
It's only a small one.

Speaker 4 (26:38):
You mean I was just laying around where anybody could
get out of it.

Speaker 10 (26:41):
Oh no, no, you have no idea the security. There
are gods and computer timelocks, and nobody could ever get
this thing that that?

Speaker 3 (26:49):
Then how do we get it?

Speaker 10 (26:50):
All that security is up in the front. Around the back,
there's a small door.

Speaker 8 (26:55):
Lady, you have broken the unwritten rule. You have worked
with an amateur.

Speaker 10 (27:01):
What could I do? I'm in love? It meant so
much to him. But quite we could have an even
bigger deal. Yeah yeah, it's a chance to make the
biggest store of all time.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
To what kind of score are you referring?

Speaker 10 (27:16):
We'll sell the warhead.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
You may be no offense who will purchase a.

Speaker 8 (27:21):
Nuclear war here?

Speaker 10 (27:23):
It be worth a million?

Speaker 2 (27:24):
No, no, city, leave me inform you as to our
immediate course of a Wait, sprinkle we shall take the
warhead back to the army base and leave her on
the doorstep like there was a new born base.

Speaker 10 (27:37):
Sprinkles, you gotta listen to me.

Speaker 4 (27:38):
Did I not.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
Already listen to you?

Speaker 4 (27:41):
Were? You're not gonna steal fifty pistols?

Speaker 9 (27:44):
For us.

Speaker 10 (27:44):
This time, we're gonna make a fortune.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
I do not think so.

Speaker 10 (27:47):
We are gonna sell this warhead. And I know who
would want to buy it? You do, I know just
the customer. I know just the right customer.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
A customer for a fully armed nuclear warhead? Who would
want to buy one?

Speaker 7 (28:09):
Now?

Speaker 2 (28:10):
There are all sorts of interesting possibilities, all kinds of
potential situations. And when you consider our good friend Sprinkles
and the company he keeps, their permutations and combinations, well
they add up to infinity.

Speaker 4 (28:26):
But three is only a few minutes.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
There is no substitute for hard work, said mister Thomas Albaddison,
And of course he was right. Those who choose to
chase easy money soon find themselves working harder and harder
to catch it. And somehow it just keeps eluding the grasp.
As mister Sprinkle's magoon, our protagonist has discovered.

Speaker 10 (28:59):
I know who'll buy a missile?

Speaker 5 (29:01):
Who?

Speaker 10 (29:02):
Who do you think? An enemy agent?

Speaker 4 (29:05):
Oh? What you hurt me?

Speaker 10 (29:06):
An enemy agent?

Speaker 5 (29:07):
But but saity.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Watch, I do not think it is right?

Speaker 5 (29:12):
Why not?

Speaker 10 (29:13):
Well, and they'll pay a big price.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
Say the money, it's not all there is the life?

Speaker 4 (29:18):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (29:18):
I agree with that one hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
And this is a sacred thing, Sadie.

Speaker 10 (29:22):
How do you know? Well, I okay, I just figured
it out. So either it's a secret thing or it ain't.

Speaker 4 (29:30):
Right, well, yes, right, Well, if it ain't a.

Speaker 10 (29:33):
Secret, then the enemy already knows about it and there's
no harm done. Right, Well, and it's okay to sell it, right?

Speaker 4 (29:40):
Uh?

Speaker 13 (29:41):
Yeah, right?

Speaker 10 (29:42):
But what if it is a secret then we cannot
sell it. Then we have to sell it?

Speaker 3 (29:47):
Oh sure, I'm afraid I do not see what so.

Speaker 10 (29:50):
We can make sure there will be peace in the world.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
How does that work?

Speaker 10 (29:54):
But you see, the enemy will now know what kind
of secret weapon we got, what can do to him
if he steps out of line? What's gonna happen if
he tries to mes around with a good old United
States of America? You see, oh, sprinkles, How else is
he gonna know how important it is for him to
behave himself. I've done any job in my life, but

(30:17):
this is the first one I ever done that was
gonna help my country too.

Speaker 4 (30:23):
And the city. Just where are you gonna discover an
enemy agent?

Speaker 7 (30:27):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (30:27):
That shouldn't be a problem, don't you read the papers?
The country's full of enemy agents. It's just a detail,
you understand. Sooner or later we're bound to find one.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
And did you find one, Sprinkles, Yes, Lieutenant, we found
mister cherry Berry, the dead guy on the floor, the
exact self same poison. Lieutenant, he's an enemy agents. I
fear you are correct. And as you get to them,
they say the country is full of enemy agents. They

(31:05):
could be right, but enemy agents are like taxi gaps.
There's never any around when you need one.

Speaker 4 (31:12):
And where as you get this, mister civ.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
Bieby, well, you are no doubt aware of the French
language expression church has left fun.

Speaker 4 (31:22):
Oh yeah, I think so.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
It means you should always look for the name Sprinkles.

Speaker 4 (31:28):
I'm always amazed that you're It was the way erudition.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
I am a self educated personalistn and I hang around
libraries and museums where I read books and I admire
pictures and also pick up games. There were good places,
especially smart, skinny ones not my tipe. Well, as they
say in the Latin language, they gusty bush known disputandem.

Speaker 4 (31:56):
What does that mean?

Speaker 2 (31:57):
Do not split into the wind?

Speaker 9 (32:00):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (32:01):
We'll getting back to mister Jimmy Perry Riga Mortis has
already set in and we have yet.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
To account from.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
There is a lady of my acquaintance. She has a
certain type of establishment. I shall not tell you her name,
but I shall refer to him for now on his
Madam Venus.

Speaker 4 (32:19):
An excellent alias.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
She meets all kinds of people. I will die and
so on might.

Speaker 8 (32:24):
I figured I would just drop by for a sociable check.

Speaker 5 (32:33):
Spring proof.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
I was tricks.

Speaker 5 (32:36):
Venus, like, there's no tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (32:38):
That is good, Uh Venus, you could do something for me.

Speaker 5 (32:43):
Sprinkle honey. All you have to do is name it.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
Uh Venus. You got all kinds of uh.

Speaker 10 (32:49):
People here, you know the saying through these portals, pass
all of mankind.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
Yees, doctor's, lawyer's, politicians.

Speaker 15 (32:57):
You name it.

Speaker 9 (32:58):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
Do you ever get a uh an enemy agent?

Speaker 5 (33:02):
Why do you ask I need one? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
I sure could use an enemy agent.

Speaker 10 (33:09):
I'm sure we get an occasional enemy agent now and then.
But what we can't go around telling everybody would.

Speaker 12 (33:17):
Be bad for business.

Speaker 5 (33:19):
You'd be surprised who comes in here.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
But you wouldn't be telling everybody.

Speaker 5 (33:23):
Just me. I'd like to do It's pring Rusbie.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
I'm not asking this for myself. No, it is for
the good of our country.

Speaker 10 (33:32):
Oh well that's different. I'll notify my associates here and let's.

Speaker 5 (33:39):
See how we can turn up.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
Here.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
No, yeah, mister sprinkles muggle, No, this is a Sprinkles muggoon.

Speaker 7 (34:06):
Yes, we have connected.

Speaker 4 (34:08):
Hey, do you know what time it is? It is
half past three o'clock. An, Well, well, what is it
you want?

Speaker 6 (34:17):
I am the person you have been looking for.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
The person.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
And then Madam Marinus means something for you?

Speaker 4 (34:26):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure sure, And do you
have something for me?

Speaker 2 (34:33):
I would have something for you if you would have
something for me.

Speaker 4 (34:39):
I understand one hand, but wash the other. What have
you got?

Speaker 2 (34:46):
I have got a nuclear warhead?

Speaker 4 (34:50):
What kind of nuclear warhead?

Speaker 5 (34:53):
Hey?

Speaker 13 (34:53):
Us?

Speaker 2 (34:54):
Nuclear warhead?

Speaker 9 (34:55):
Is that not sufficient?

Speaker 3 (34:57):
Nove so many? Tell me what one you have and
I shall see if it is worth my time and trouble.

Speaker 8 (35:05):
The one I have is called the Dionysius deep Dinesius.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
Are you sure that's how I was labeled?

Speaker 3 (35:14):
Now?

Speaker 2 (35:15):
How much you're gonna pay for that?

Speaker 6 (35:17):
How much?

Speaker 9 (35:18):
Okay?

Speaker 13 (35:19):
Wait for what? Wait?

Speaker 9 (35:21):
And I consult my prize list.

Speaker 16 (35:24):
Let me see.

Speaker 5 (35:27):
Here.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
Dionysius ten thousand dollars ten thousand.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
Puss is thorough.

Speaker 17 (35:33):
But you are free, of course to try somewhere else.
But you will find that we paid top price. But
it is it is worth it should be a lot more.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
Die, friend, this is not his salms market.

Speaker 4 (35:48):
I am not sure.

Speaker 3 (35:50):
The Sprinkles bring here the merchandise.

Speaker 9 (35:52):
We would have a glass wine. We will talk and
we will see.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
Okay, you come to ninety eighth Centralgious Place, Apartment tend Covin,
mister Sprinkles magoon. I am mister Chirivieri.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
I am place to mitch. Now let us see what
you have for me here. It is just what I said.
The Dionysius warhead.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
Ah, so yes, the Dionysia's forehead.

Speaker 8 (36:37):
It is actual facts and good.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Nor to see the merchandise. Let's talk money. Have we
agreed on ten thousand?

Speaker 4 (36:46):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (36:46):
No, no, no, no, you said ten thousand, now, well
fifteen money too much? It is not your money, true,
but I must not exceed my budget. You give a little,
I will give a lot.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
Uh leave us make it seventeen five, my soft heart,
it will be the death of me. Sold, my friend,
you have done well for yourself cash.

Speaker 9 (37:13):
Ah.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
Yes, of course let me count it out for you.
I'm sorry, I come and take a check. I understand
one thousand, two thousand three d how convenient it would
be if I could use a credit card, But I
do not suppose it would be. Facts seventeen thousand and

(37:37):
five hundred every were thank you very much, a glass
of wine and have a touch stuff. Then, mister Sprinkles,
I beat you good night, and may we do more
business in the near future. I do not think so.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
Oh have you any complaints about how you haven't treated?

Speaker 3 (37:57):
No, no, no, it's not that.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
It's just madness.

Speaker 4 (38:00):
Oh, I see.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
I only show you this low item for one reason.
I understand for money. No no, no, no no, do
not polude yourself that money was just for expenses.

Speaker 4 (38:13):
Then why have you solved me the warhead?

Speaker 2 (38:16):
So you can learn what it does? And this will
make you think twice about getting funny? Were the United
States of America?

Speaker 4 (38:26):
Mister sprinkle still begin We already know what the warhead does?

Speaker 12 (38:32):
You do?

Speaker 3 (38:33):
Of course, the Dionysius missire. Then that's her, the ancient
god of wine. It is fired into a concentration of
advancing troops. It explodes and sends fumes a pure whiskey
in such great strength that the soldiers fall to the
ground in a drunken stupor.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
It's the workers. But of course, and you know all
the time to be sure.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
And Sweed, help us to conquer your that had a democracy,
just Paula. Yes, we shall bring you through freedom, full liberty,
complete justice were a minute, and anyone who does not
like it, we shall put him.

Speaker 4 (39:14):
I can stay all.

Speaker 13 (39:18):
That is how the deal with all the enemies of
the people.

Speaker 9 (39:21):
Do you agree?

Speaker 3 (39:21):
Hold on, mister, we shall tear down that flag. What
a flag of oppression?

Speaker 9 (39:27):
The American flag?

Speaker 4 (39:29):
Oh no, you will me. I'll never again fly and pall.

Speaker 13 (39:33):
You the breed.

Speaker 8 (39:35):
You cannot talk the way Parl Glory.

Speaker 5 (39:37):
The deal is off.

Speaker 4 (39:39):
You are beginning to talk like an enemy of the people.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
Here's your money. Oh yes, and I am taking back
that missile, you fool. Stand back that little here that
does not scare me.

Speaker 4 (39:51):
Will not take one more stare, I said.

Speaker 13 (39:53):
The dealer is off.

Speaker 5 (39:54):
I have warned you.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
Week, mister cherry Berry. Uh, mister cherry Bery. Yeah, here's
a slummer.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
I'm at ninety eight Saint Regis's apartment, tend I got
one dead body, one Dynasius nuclear warhead. I got one
prime suspect. You better call the FBI, the CIA, and
anybody else who wants.

Speaker 4 (40:33):
A piece of it.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
And that is my story started Plumber.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
Yeah, Sprinkles, I have to arrest you for the murder
of mister Jimmy Bery. I don't have to inform you
that as if now anything you say could be used
against you. Factum sorry, Uh, Sprinkles, I'll let poem go again.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Sprinkled with white for a chorus, that is right, sprinkled
with blue? Or hearts that are thus.

Speaker 5 (41:11):
Well?

Speaker 4 (41:12):
I says, you never read about them?

Speaker 9 (41:14):
Right there?

Speaker 3 (41:15):
You never read about Sprinkles and I'm missing a warhead. Yeah,
I'll tell you what happened. The big wheel has decided
to hush it up. And then somebody figures maybe Sprinkles
isn't that dip but as a member of one of
the security.

Speaker 4 (41:31):
Outfits and don't want to blow his cover.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
Anyhow, Sprinkles is are on the streets, alive and well
and neither looking wallets uh trapping foreign agents.

Speaker 4 (41:47):
Take your pictures?

Speaker 13 (41:54):
And what do you think me?

Speaker 2 (41:57):
I don't know if it could be either of the
alternatives that Lieutenant Flummer suggests, or it might be a
third who knows one thing and one thing only is
for sure.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
I shall be back in just a short while.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
I suppose it began way back in Exodus, where it
is written spies were sent to spy out the land,
and we've had spies ever since. Spying, as you know,
is supposed to be a serious business, and therefore that
is really what's funny about it. Our cast included Fred Gwynn,

(42:44):
Robert Dryden, Bryana Rayburn and Ian Martin.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
Well, I feel like that was a good way to
kick off the evening. What do you think, my dear, Oh,
fair enough? Well, I do hope you're enjoying yourself. I
hope you're comfortable. It's very chilly in here, but I'm
starting to enjoy it quite a bit. Well, I suppose

(43:18):
at the end of the night, it's all about how
you feel about how you feel. And I know myself
quite well and I know you a bit too. We're
both simply happy as long as we're terror stricken.

Speaker 18 (43:38):
The Signal Oil Program the whistler. That whistle is your
signal for the Signal Oil Program.

Speaker 8 (43:59):
The Whistler.

Speaker 19 (44:17):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things. For
I walk by night.

Speaker 20 (44:22):
I know many strange tales.

Speaker 19 (44:24):
Hidden in the hearts of men and women who have
stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors
of which they dare not speak.

Speaker 18 (44:40):
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Speaker 4 (45:06):
And now the Whistler's strange story. Terror stricken.

Speaker 19 (45:19):
Fear can become a terrible thing, gangrenous, disintegrating, warping, twisting,
gnawing at a man's mind until he is conscious of
nothing else but its presence. That was the kind of
fear that took hold of Benjamin Reynolds, and oddly enough,
it was the natural outgrowth of the very thing that
started him on the road to success. There was a trial,

(45:42):
an important trial. There were big names involved, particularly the
name of Andrew Miller, the accused and at that trial.
Ten years ago, young Benny Reynolds, investment clerk just out
of college, became Benjamin Reynolds star witness for the prosecution,
and he was a good witness. Investment bankers in San

(46:04):
Francisco and Wall Street in London glanced at the headlines
and commented that this time, because of Benjamin Reynolds, Andrew
Miller and his crowd were washed up for good.

Speaker 4 (46:14):
They were right.

Speaker 13 (46:18):
Order, please order in the court.

Speaker 21 (46:21):
Will the prisoner face the bench? Andrew Miller, you have
been found guilty of the charge of grand lasnie. I
therefore sent you to be confined within the state prison
for a term of ten years.

Speaker 4 (46:32):
They lived. Remove the prisoner, you dirty, right, Renolds.

Speaker 19 (46:35):
I'll get you for this, Yes, Benjamin, that was the
big break. Overnight you became the banker's champion, the man
who almost single handedly broke up the Miller crowd. Today,

(46:57):
just ten years later, you're head of the investment company,
a pillar of the community. It's a nice morning as
you sit.

Speaker 4 (47:05):
At the desk in your private office looking at reports.

Speaker 22 (47:09):
John, will you send mister Barton and please yes forty
six thousand alum. I can that can't be right? Gross
commissions chargeable. Wait a minute, now, I know that's wrong.
You wanted to see me, Ben, Yes, Ralph, these figures.
Are you sure they're correct? Of course I prepared the
statement myself. Things like this don't do my heart any good, Ralph,

(47:33):
I say, sit down, will you. I'm sure there must
be a mistake somewhere. I don't think so, But of
course it's possible. Well suppose you recheck the may just
to be sure.

Speaker 4 (47:40):
Well, that's a big job. I had to have to
go through all the records for the whole year. Again.

Speaker 22 (47:44):
I wouldn't ask you if I didn't think it was important. Well,
perhaps I ought to call in the Monroe auditing company.

Speaker 4 (47:50):
No, I'll do it, Ben, No use taking on that expense.

Speaker 22 (47:53):
Well, all right, if you can have it by next Monday,
otherwise I'll have to call Monroe.

Speaker 4 (47:57):
I've got to have those figures for the director's meeting.

Speaker 23 (47:59):
I'll have them for you.

Speaker 4 (48:02):
By the way, Ben, have you seen the papers? Yes?
I glanced through them at breakfast. Did you buy any
chance see this?

Speaker 2 (48:13):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (48:13):
I missed that.

Speaker 22 (48:15):
Among those released from state prison today is Andrew Miller,
convicted ten years ago grand larceny in a trial that
caused worldwide comment in financial circle.

Speaker 4 (48:25):
Remember him, what do you think?

Speaker 3 (48:28):
I remember what he said when the judge sentenced him. Yeah,
does it make you a little nervous, ben I mean
just knowing the man is on.

Speaker 4 (48:36):
The loose again.

Speaker 3 (48:37):
I doubt very much of Andy Miller will do anything
that will send him up again. Still you never know,
do you, No, Benjamin.

Speaker 4 (48:54):
You never know?

Speaker 13 (48:55):
Do Yet?

Speaker 19 (48:56):
Andy Miller wouldn't think of making good on his promise,
or would somehow you can't concentrate, find yourself thinking about it,
wondering walking to the water cooler in the corner of
your office every five minutes, wiping perspiration from your forehead
until your handkerchief is soggy, and the next morning it's
worse as you answer your morning mail order for.

Speaker 22 (49:18):
One hundred chairs consolidated power and light at the market,
thereby acknowledge it and say that was consolidated, wasn't it?

Speaker 24 (49:26):
I think it was Southern California?

Speaker 22 (49:28):
Edison, Oh, yes, make it Edison man, and uh, we'll
be executed immediately, Vir truly yours received ker McDonald's and.

Speaker 9 (49:40):
What's sis.

Speaker 4 (49:43):
You rat?

Speaker 3 (49:45):
I'll get you and don't forget it. But she had
the nerve to sign it. What's the matter, where's the
envelope to this thing?

Speaker 24 (49:53):
Why Vera takes them off?

Speaker 4 (49:54):
Get very in here right away, right and get Boughton. Yes,
and don't forget it, Andrew Miller.

Speaker 6 (50:07):
All the crust?

Speaker 15 (50:10):
Is that for me?

Speaker 2 (50:11):
Ben?

Speaker 22 (50:11):
Yes, take a look at this same word he used
at the trial. That guy must be crazy.

Speaker 4 (50:18):
He signed it himself.

Speaker 6 (50:20):
What do you make of him? I don't know.

Speaker 22 (50:22):
Didn't lose any time, did he? I think he's trying
to bluff you, or maybe he didn't write it.

Speaker 4 (50:27):
Oh he wrote it all right.

Speaker 9 (50:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 22 (50:30):
It's pretty fantastic after ten years, but in view of
the threatening tone, i'd certainly checked to say it genuine. Yes,
a center and please, well, don't see what she knows
about it, Renald, Yes, Vera, did you notice this letter
in the morning mail?

Speaker 5 (50:48):
Well?

Speaker 24 (50:48):
I don't read the mail, mister Renolds. I just opened
it and put it on your desk.

Speaker 4 (50:51):
I've instructed them not to read company mail. Ben. Oh,
of course I.

Speaker 24 (50:55):
Might remember if I saw the envelope.

Speaker 22 (50:58):
Have the waste basket containing the envelopes for today's mail
brought into my office.

Speaker 20 (51:01):
Will you?

Speaker 11 (51:01):
I'm sorry, mister Reynolds.

Speaker 24 (51:03):
The janitor emptied all the waste baskets.

Speaker 6 (51:04):
An hour ago.

Speaker 4 (51:05):
HU, very well, what are you going to do now?
I guess there's nothing I can do but call the police.

Speaker 18 (51:26):
With the prologue of terror stricken, the Signal Oil Company
brings you another strange story by the whistler. If you've
been reading the new car ads, and who hasn't, you've
no doubt noticed the emphasis that's being put on increased
mile age twenty five to thirty miles per gallon from
some of the new models.

Speaker 4 (51:45):
Now, why do you suppose this is? Is it because
folks today are.

Speaker 18 (51:48):
Interested in making dollars go farther well partly, but even
more so they're interested in the increased engineering efficiency which
makes that greater mile age possible. Yes, and right there
you have the reason why Signal Oil Company is so
proud of the fact that you now go farther than
ever with new Signal gasoline. You see, Signals improved mileage

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is the result of increased power. Amazing new power, the
same power that gives new Signal gasoline quicker starting, faster pickup,
and quieter, higher anti knock. That's why we say look
to your spidometer for the final measure of gasoline quality.
You will find that the superpowered new gasoline that gives
you peak performance is also the gasoline that now helps

(52:30):
you go farther than ever new signal gasoline. And now
back to the whistler.

Speaker 19 (52:58):
Well, Benjamin, the price tag on that testimony you delivered
so efficiently at the trial of Andrew Miller ten years ago,
and you're beginning to pay for it now. The police
don't help much. All you can do is swear out
a warrant for Miller's arrest and leave the rest up
to them. They can't do a thing about that weak
heart of yours, stop it from pounding every time someone

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comes to the door. And they can't bring your appetite
back or help you still sleep at night. It's later
than usual when you arrive at the office next day.
Ralph Barton's busy on the books. As you go into
your office, hang up your hat and go over to
the water cooler for a drink.

Speaker 4 (53:44):
Hey guess.

Speaker 24 (53:51):
Yes, doctor cranees in the next office. Get him hurted.

Speaker 10 (54:01):
Yes, you're out of water.

Speaker 4 (54:02):
What's going on in the Toronto's what's happened?

Speaker 24 (54:04):
He call for help?

Speaker 4 (54:06):
Get a doctor.

Speaker 24 (54:06):
Here's a gun, for.

Speaker 23 (54:07):
One, what's keeping it as a doctor right down the hall.

Speaker 11 (54:11):
Time?

Speaker 4 (54:11):
Don't you realize every second?

Speaker 24 (54:12):
Talk here she comes?

Speaker 19 (54:13):
Now, stand back, stand back, Yes.

Speaker 3 (54:16):
Yes, he's a room doctor.

Speaker 4 (54:18):
Is it serious?

Speaker 3 (54:19):
Hmm?

Speaker 2 (54:20):
I can't tell yet.

Speaker 19 (54:22):
Looks very much like some form of poisoning. Well that
was a close call, wasn't it, Benjamin. When you leave
the hospital that night, you're still weak positive now that

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Miller means business. The police report that afternoon poison in
the water cooler, just enough to knock a man out.
No fingerprints, no way of knowing how Miller could have
entered the office without being seen.

Speaker 4 (54:58):
Nothing they can tell you except to carry on as usual.

Speaker 19 (55:02):
For the next two days, you find yourself waiting for it, tense, expectant,
but nothing happens, and you begin to relax a little
to believe what the police lieutenant said about Miller being
too smart to try it again.

Speaker 9 (55:16):
Perhaps they're right, Benjamin.

Speaker 19 (55:18):
Perhaps what you need is a change, a dinner out
with your wife, Sally at a restaurant on sixth Streets.

Speaker 4 (55:26):
Then, dear then, or I'm sorry, Sally, I was thinking.

Speaker 11 (55:32):
Please try and forget a darling. How the whole thing's ridiculous.
The man wouldn't have to take a chance like that. Oh,
there must have been a mistake at the bottling. Come
near some of.

Speaker 4 (55:42):
Course, Dear, No, let's forget it. No, I'm not, but
I am hungry.

Speaker 5 (55:48):
Then do you mean it?

Speaker 4 (55:49):
Of course they don't.

Speaker 11 (55:50):
Why because you've hardly touched your meals last few days.

Speaker 4 (55:54):
Well that's order, I'm started. Well where do we start with?

Speaker 5 (55:58):
Well?

Speaker 11 (55:58):
What about a shrimp cocktail?

Speaker 4 (56:00):
Wonderful? Then the mixed green.

Speaker 11 (56:02):
Talent and their line for two?

Speaker 19 (56:08):
I'm the manager, you hurt?

Speaker 4 (56:09):
No, No, I'm all right. It missed me see there
in the lord. Oh, I don't know how. Who did it?
Oh I don't know, sir.

Speaker 19 (56:15):
I came from over there somewhere.

Speaker 4 (56:17):
Well, don't stand it with your mouth, hope and call
the police of course.

Speaker 13 (56:20):
Right away, come on, come on, telling, let's get out.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
Of course.

Speaker 19 (56:31):
Well, whoever fired that shot meant business, didn't he? Benjamin?
Your heart's pounding like a trip hammer again as you
walk out of the nightclub. The hole in the wall
was six inches from your head, and that's awfully close.
Your heart almost stopped, didn't it?

Speaker 4 (56:47):
Your terrorist?

Speaker 19 (56:49):
You jumping every sound? And then you wonder why Miller
doesn't come right out and kill you. But you remember,
he's had ten long years to play his revenge. No
sudden death would be too easy. He wants to make
you suffer. Of course, sleep is out of the question.
Even the powders the doctor gave you have little effect

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on your frenzied nerves. You imagine all kinds of things
as you lie there in bed.

Speaker 11 (57:17):
Then yes, then why is he trying to kill you?
There's the poison water in the trip to the hospital,
then that shot tonight. Yeah, but the police will catch
him soon, he can.

Speaker 2 (57:32):
I just hope it's soon enough.

Speaker 11 (57:35):
Oh, that's the door in the world, no doubt it.

Speaker 4 (57:44):
Hold your horses, I'm coming.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
Oh what do you want?

Speaker 20 (57:52):
What do I want?

Speaker 4 (57:53):
Yes, that's what I said. What do you want?

Speaker 20 (57:54):
I'm calling for the remains of the deer departed?

Speaker 2 (57:58):
Are you drunk?

Speaker 5 (57:59):
No?

Speaker 20 (57:59):
I don't think so.

Speaker 4 (58:01):
Now Look it's cold here at the door. Hurry and
state your business, please, I did.

Speaker 20 (58:05):
I was sent to coal for the mortal remains.

Speaker 4 (58:07):
Man a lie, will you talk? Since I haven't time
for foolishness.

Speaker 20 (58:10):
This is sixteen twenty Runyon Avenue, isn't.

Speaker 4 (58:13):
Yes it is?

Speaker 20 (58:14):
Then it's the right place.

Speaker 4 (58:16):
Who sent you anyway?

Speaker 20 (58:17):
The gold Hills Mortuary. Now do you understand?

Speaker 4 (58:21):
No, I don't. That must be some mistake.

Speaker 19 (58:23):
The party on the phone was very explicit. He said,
sixteen twenty, Runyon avenue the remains of the late Benjamin Reynolds.

Speaker 8 (58:30):
That's not funny, mister, I'm Benjamin Reynolds.

Speaker 3 (58:34):
Oh now get out, Get out of the body of
Benjamin Reynolds.

Speaker 4 (58:37):
Will give you a very black eye. Oh what's gonna
happen next?

Speaker 19 (58:55):
How much more can you stand, Benjamin before your heart
gives out completely. You can't eat, you can't sleep. You
almost jump out of your skin at the slightest sound.
Miller is getting his revenge. He must be enjoying it immensely.
Sally makes you rest all day Sunday, but you're still befuddled.

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You can't even talk straight anymore. You stutter. Monday morning,
you decide to walk to the office. You want to
try to think, Yes, that's it, walk and try to think, monitor,
monitor that booster, Dad.

Speaker 24 (59:34):
Try to run this man down.

Speaker 4 (59:35):
Hey, Hey, what's going on?

Speaker 11 (59:38):
Try to run over this van?

Speaker 13 (59:39):
You hurt me soon?

Speaker 6 (59:41):
No, no, no, all right?

Speaker 13 (59:44):
The devil you say.

Speaker 23 (59:45):
You're shaking like a leaf.

Speaker 4 (59:47):
Should should's my nurse? Quiet?

Speaker 10 (59:50):
John?

Speaker 13 (59:51):
Them? That's short?

Speaker 23 (59:52):
Shamed to think it was a delivered attempt to kid you?

Speaker 5 (59:54):
Yes, I think so too.

Speaker 23 (59:57):
Any idea who might be trying to kill it?

Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
And deep Miller?

Speaker 23 (01:00:02):
Okay, oh, I got to make a reporter of this ship.

Speaker 4 (01:00:05):
What's your name? Ben? Benjamin?

Speaker 13 (01:00:09):
Benjamin?

Speaker 23 (01:00:10):
You better see your doctor, mister Reynold. Joe, you're in
bad shape.

Speaker 9 (01:00:14):
I'll be all right.

Speaker 23 (01:00:15):
I better send you home in a cap and no
condition to walk.

Speaker 19 (01:00:24):
Another close call and you're scared almost to death, aren't you.
You wonder how much longer your heart will be able
to stand it? Not much longer.

Speaker 14 (01:00:33):
Now.

Speaker 19 (01:00:34):
You tremble so violently you can't even light a cigarette.
Even at home. You can't sit still. You pace the
floor back and forth all day long, until finally night comes.

Speaker 4 (01:00:46):
You can't sleep.

Speaker 19 (01:00:47):
You toss and turn. Yes, the days are bad, but
the nights are filled with terror.

Speaker 4 (01:00:55):
Who's there?

Speaker 6 (01:01:02):
What's that?

Speaker 4 (01:01:02):
What's the house?

Speaker 24 (01:01:05):
The shutter?

Speaker 4 (01:01:09):
Huh?

Speaker 19 (01:01:11):
Yes, yes, of course, only the shutter. It was only
the shutter, wasn't it then? But all the noises in
the night have a sinister meaning, haven't they? After what
seems like ours. Exhaustion finally takes over and you've just

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fallen asleep.

Speaker 25 (01:01:33):
When who's who's the door of this hard He's not
the door.

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
The phone?

Speaker 4 (01:01:47):
Who the devil?

Speaker 6 (01:01:48):
Can that be?

Speaker 4 (01:01:49):
I've give them a piece of my Hello.

Speaker 6 (01:01:53):
Is this Benjamin Reynolds?

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
Yes it is.

Speaker 4 (01:01:55):
What's the big idea of calling me this house the night?
Don't you know?

Speaker 5 (01:01:59):
No one?

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
I don't care?

Speaker 6 (01:02:00):
Oh, yes you do. You got a letter the other day?

Speaker 4 (01:02:04):
Remember Andrew Miller?

Speaker 6 (01:02:08):
Why how do you guess.

Speaker 4 (01:02:12):
I'm going to get you? Remember say say say wait
a minute.

Speaker 6 (01:02:17):
You haven't much time left to live, Reynolds. It's coming tomorrow.

Speaker 19 (01:02:22):
But hello, Hello, Hello?

Speaker 8 (01:02:29):
Hung up?

Speaker 4 (01:02:33):
Whoa but trace? I called? Quick? Please? What is your
number the morning?

Speaker 9 (01:02:41):
Is?

Speaker 4 (01:02:41):
I'd one or two?

Speaker 5 (01:02:41):
Four on? Hurry?

Speaker 4 (01:02:42):
Please one moment?

Speaker 9 (01:02:43):
Please?

Speaker 6 (01:02:46):
Number did you call?

Speaker 4 (01:02:47):
I didn't call any number they called me.

Speaker 6 (01:02:49):
Do you know the other body's number?

Speaker 9 (01:02:51):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:02:51):
I don't.

Speaker 23 (01:02:51):
That's why I asked you to trace the call.

Speaker 4 (01:02:53):
Please hurry.

Speaker 24 (01:02:54):
There is no one connected with your number now I know.

Speaker 4 (01:02:57):
I know they hung up. Can't you hurry?

Speaker 23 (01:02:59):
I want to trace the call was connected with his phone?

Speaker 10 (01:03:01):
Please, I'm sorry, But after the other party has hung up,
it's impossible to trace.

Speaker 14 (01:03:05):
The call, so sure, I wonder, I wonder if my
hunch yet.

Speaker 9 (01:03:20):
See mm.

Speaker 4 (01:03:29):
Hello, hello, Barton, this is Reynolds.

Speaker 3 (01:03:32):
What the deuce makes you call me at this time
of the night, Barton, Andrew Miller called.

Speaker 4 (01:03:38):
He said, I haven't much time to live, Yes, and
I'm at my wits end. What can I do? He's
coming here, Ralph Blood knows what you do to me?

Speaker 6 (01:03:47):
He's coming there.

Speaker 13 (01:03:48):
Well, he just told me.

Speaker 6 (01:03:51):
You can't take as much longer. Man, Why don't you
call the police?

Speaker 4 (01:03:54):
So I've called the police a dozen times. I tell
you Miller's too private for them.

Speaker 6 (01:03:57):
And there's only one thing to do. Get out.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
Yes, but he followed me.

Speaker 3 (01:04:01):
If he knows where, doesn't check me.

Speaker 26 (01:04:03):
Look, it's out of the question for you to stay
there under the circumstances. I'll be over in the morning
and we'll go up to my cabin for a few days.
You've got to get a complete rest.

Speaker 22 (01:04:10):
Yes, you're absolutely right, Ralpha, I've simply got ten.

Speaker 26 (01:04:14):
Listen, there's someone tipping that guy off on your movements
this time. Make sure don't tell anyone where you're going.

Speaker 4 (01:04:22):
Yes, yes, but what about Sally telling you're off on a.

Speaker 6 (01:04:24):
Business trip or something.

Speaker 4 (01:04:26):
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 6 (01:04:26):
The convention start tomorrow and see the city. If necessary.
You can call a later from the cabin.

Speaker 4 (01:04:31):
Yeah yeah, all right, Ralph.

Speaker 26 (01:04:33):
I'll pick you out in front of the signal station
at running in broad More tomorrow morning at eight right,
right right?

Speaker 4 (01:04:47):
How much farther around? How about fourteen miles?

Speaker 5 (01:04:50):
Hey?

Speaker 4 (01:04:50):
They are hearts banging away again? Doctor said six thousand
feet was my limit.

Speaker 6 (01:04:55):
You know, well, we'll stay pretty well under that point.
Oh goodness, by look at that view. You can see
you all the way back to.

Speaker 9 (01:05:02):
What's the matter?

Speaker 4 (01:05:03):
So that's strange. There's that car again. You don't suppose
he's following.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
Us to you?

Speaker 4 (01:05:09):
Probably one of the natives. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:05:13):
Wait a minute, you don't think no.

Speaker 6 (01:05:16):
You're sure you didn't tell anyone where you were going.

Speaker 4 (01:05:18):
But positive, I will have to call salilater though.

Speaker 9 (01:05:21):
Yeah sure.

Speaker 3 (01:05:23):
Hey, here's the spot where I always stop. You can
get a good view clear back to the valley. How
about it drain.

Speaker 4 (01:05:33):
This way? Yes, kind steeper? Better take it easy. There's
a level spot up here at the top.

Speaker 22 (01:05:42):
Well, you go ahead, Ralph, I gotta watch myself in
this solitude. Get that hair you know there's what I needed.
Mountain air, sunshine, quiet.

Speaker 4 (01:05:56):
Hey, where are you up here?

Speaker 6 (01:05:58):
Come on?

Speaker 4 (01:05:58):
Huh is a real inspiration, Ralph? How'd you think of it?

Speaker 5 (01:06:02):
You means's who I mean?

Speaker 3 (01:06:06):
Getting away from everything like this when sniff of that
air and forgets you ever had any words? Look over here, hey,
not take it easy, kind of close to that edge,
you know, Look, Ben, fifteen hundred feet straight down.

Speaker 4 (01:06:20):
Yeah, I'd just as soon stay back here.

Speaker 5 (01:06:22):
If you don't mind.

Speaker 4 (01:06:23):
So it might have been afraid, No.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
Just sensible, I sow. You know, funny thing about me
in high places. It seems to ought to be afraid. Ben,
that's where you're going. Fifteen hundred feet straight down.

Speaker 4 (01:06:37):
But that's good.

Speaker 22 (01:06:39):
Fifty You're you're serious, aren't you. I'd hate to have
you call in the auditors. Ben, I was afraid that
was it. There was something wrong with those figures, Yes
there was.

Speaker 3 (01:06:56):
But I learned something from Andy Miller. You're not going
to be around to testify. You're going to have a
dizzy spell, and they're going to find you fifteen hundred
feet down there on those rocks. Smooth.

Speaker 18 (01:07:20):
The whistler will return in just a moment with a
strange ending to tonight's story. Meantime, here's news about one
of the first of the new post war developments to
make driving safer and more RESTful. You know how our
bright western sunshine glares off pavements and off the windshields
and polysh chromium of other cars, causing eyestrain. It makes

(01:07:40):
you squint and get headaches. Well, during the war, the
Army and Navy used a new principle of glare control.
It's called polaroid, and unlike old fashioned colored filters that
dockned everything and changed the colors of flowers and scenery,
polaroid is as clear and colorless as your own windshield.
But look through the polaroid and presto, all glare is gone.

(01:08:03):
Now here's the good news. This same polaroid principle has
been made into a visor for your car and therefore
sale for the first time on the Pacific Coast at
your signal dealers. The polaroid visor snaps onto your present
visor in a jiffy. It's smart looking, and it flips
out of the way when you're not using it. If
it's sunny tomorrow, drive into your signal dealers for a demonstration.

Speaker 4 (01:08:24):
When you see the wear and tear it saves on
your eyes.

Speaker 18 (01:08:27):
My bed is you want to buy one of these
polaroid visors now to make your summer driving more pleasant.

Speaker 4 (01:08:35):
And now back to the whistler.

Speaker 19 (01:08:49):
Well, Benjamin, you seem to be in a tight spot,
just the two of you there alone at the top
of the cliff button staring at your white face tense,
his fists clenched at his sides, and oddly you find
yourself struggling to keep the smile inside you from showing
on your face. It's probably only a few seconds, but

(01:09:12):
it seems like an hour that the two of you
stand there silent.

Speaker 4 (01:09:15):
Then listen, Ralph, hear that the car. Yes, they won't stop,
Sure he will. That's what they came for.

Speaker 3 (01:09:26):
What do you mean there's a detective and two patrolmen
in the car, Ralph, They followed us all the way
from town.

Speaker 19 (01:09:30):
You're lying.

Speaker 22 (01:09:31):
You'd better restrain yourself for a minute and see. Of course,
you could put it off now if you wanted to, Ralph.
But it be kind of foolish, wouldn't it. The embezzlement charge.

Speaker 3 (01:09:41):
Will put you away for only four or five years,
with perhaps a few more for attempted murder.

Speaker 4 (01:09:46):
But if you go ahead, and how did you know?

Speaker 2 (01:09:50):
You did it again?

Speaker 4 (01:09:52):
That it's a habit of yours, Ralph.

Speaker 22 (01:09:55):
Every time you're about to say something important, you clear
your throat like that. That's why it hit me between
the eyes last night when you called me and said,
I'm gonna get you.

Speaker 4 (01:10:07):
Remember.

Speaker 22 (01:10:09):
Come on, Ralph, let's walk down to the road. We'll
save the policeman a few steps.

Speaker 18 (01:10:45):
Next Monday, at nine o'clock, the Whistler will bring you
another strange tale. The Whistler is broadcast for your entertainment
by the marketers of signal gasoline and motor oil and
fine quality automotive accessories, and by your neighborhood signal dealer.
This program, produced by George w Allen, with tonight's story
by Walter Jensen, music by Wilbur Hatch, is transmitted to

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our troops overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service.

Speaker 13 (01:11:28):
That whistle is.

Speaker 18 (01:11:30):
Your signal for the Signal Oil program the Whistlers. This
is Marvin Miller speaking, reminding you to look for those
familiar yellow and black circle signs that identify those popular
signal oil stations in seven western states from Canada to Mexico.
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.

Speaker 1 (01:12:06):
Now that you're feeling a bit more keyed up, which
is a strange thing to imagine. I mean, you're here
to relax lean into the night, yet our favorite ways
are through fear. Well, I suppose humans are very complicated creatures,

(01:12:30):
but still it does seem a bit odd. What's that?

Speaker 6 (01:12:36):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:12:37):
Heavens know, I don't know that there's much more healthy
than enjoying affright in a safe place, at least a
place you believe is safe. I say we kick back,
relax and voyage through the Darkness.

Speaker 4 (01:13:00):
Now, Roma Winds present.

Speaker 16 (01:13:13):
Suspense tonight Voyage through Darkness, starring Olivia de Haviln and
Reginald Gardner. Suspense is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines.

Speaker 4 (01:13:32):
That's our m a Roma.

Speaker 16 (01:13:34):
Winds, those excellent California wines that can add so much
pleasantness to the way you live, to your happiness and
entertaining guests to your enjoyment of everyday meals Yes, right
now a glassfel would be very pleasant as Roma Winds
bring you suspense. This is the man in Black here

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for the Roma Wine Company of Presno, California. The Night
from Hollywood will bring you the distinguished American leading lady
of the screen, Miss Olivia de Havelen. Mister Haveland appears
as a girl named Judith Webster who found herself embarked
upon a journey into darkness. Traveling with her on this
perilous voyage is that suave and debonair actor.

Speaker 13 (01:14:23):
Mister Reginald Gardner.

Speaker 16 (01:14:25):
So with the performances of mister Haveland and mister Gardner
in the Sea Going Adventure play, we again hope to
keep you in suspense.

Speaker 27 (01:14:45):
It happened in nineteen thirty nine, shortly before England and
Germany were at war. I was in London serving as
traveling companion missus Edna Prescott, a wealthy, quite elderly American woman,
isn't a pleasant person, and the city's practiced blackouts were a.

Speaker 11 (01:15:04):
Particular source of annoyance to her.

Speaker 27 (01:15:06):
I remember thinking how ironic it was that she should
die during one of them. I even thought it because
until the doctors assured me her death was due to
a common heart ailment.

Speaker 11 (01:15:18):
I was very busy for the.

Speaker 27 (01:15:19):
Next few days, arranging passage to America, getting my train
ticket down to Southampton, and and carrying out the promise
I had made so many times.

Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
To missus Prescott.

Speaker 11 (01:15:30):
I didn't relish any part of that.

Speaker 2 (01:15:34):
This webster and this webster.

Speaker 4 (01:15:35):
Oh, yes, yes, yes, the young woman who's escorting the casket.
Oh here's your ticket a gate fire please, we'll praise.

Speaker 7 (01:15:42):
But this.

Speaker 27 (01:15:46):
The young woman who's escorting the casket. He said it
so so matter of factly, as if such things occurred
every day.

Speaker 5 (01:15:55):
I suppose they do.

Speaker 27 (01:15:57):
Yet minute on that train I felt uncomfortable on edge.
It seemed as if the trip to Southampton and the
steamer docks.

Speaker 11 (01:16:07):
Would never end.

Speaker 27 (01:16:10):
I remember how glad I was when it did, and
how cheerful Stewart's.

Speaker 11 (01:16:15):
Voice sounded as he greeted me at the head of
the gang way.

Speaker 4 (01:16:18):
Good evening, miss, welcome aboard. May I show you here, Kevin?

Speaker 11 (01:16:23):
Please do, Stewart, I'm very tired.

Speaker 4 (01:16:26):
Twelve are b dick this way? Miss? I hope they
get him all right?

Speaker 6 (01:16:36):
Miss h get who.

Speaker 3 (01:16:41):
Boy?

Speaker 4 (01:16:41):
That black eyed killer? Please have a new claw on him,
he says.

Speaker 11 (01:16:45):
Oh, oh, yes, an awesome thing.

Speaker 4 (01:16:49):
Ah, here we are, Miss twelve. Ay you have it
all yourself.

Speaker 11 (01:16:54):
Thank you, Stewart. Oh I'm sorry here you are.

Speaker 4 (01:16:57):
Oh it's quite all right, miss faint, and good night,
and told me if you need me, good.

Speaker 27 (01:17:03):
Night in my state room, perfectly safe. I realized how
gitry I've been, how upset, and now how relieved. Suddenly
I began to laugh right out loud. My fears had
been so foolish, so very foolish. An hour later, I

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went out on deck. I no longer felt tired, and
I wanted to watch the lights of the coastline fading
away from us. I was standing near the art rail,
quietly looking out across the water when.

Speaker 13 (01:17:52):
He first spoke, beautiful, isn't it. Oh, I'm sorry. Did
I frighten you?

Speaker 11 (01:17:59):
Yes, yes you did. I didn't realize there was anyone
near that life boat.

Speaker 13 (01:18:03):
Hell, I'm sorry. I was sure you saw me. I
never would have.

Speaker 27 (01:18:06):
Well, it's all right, really, i've been nervous tonight anyway,
I am.

Speaker 11 (01:18:10):
Not always he jumpy.

Speaker 13 (01:18:13):
What you need is an ocean voyd.

Speaker 11 (01:18:16):
Maybe that's it.

Speaker 4 (01:18:17):
Were you watching the shore lights?

Speaker 15 (01:18:19):
Yes?

Speaker 11 (01:18:20):
And I never did answer your question.

Speaker 4 (01:18:22):
They are beautiful, very and the sea alone is beautiful.

Speaker 13 (01:18:26):
She has moods, you know, just like a woman, gentle
sometimes and soothing and suddenly flying into a rage and
dashing things to pieces.

Speaker 11 (01:18:34):
And then fighting right down again.

Speaker 4 (01:18:36):
That's right, I see we feel the same about her.

Speaker 27 (01:18:39):
Does she frighten you sometimes the same way women frighten me?

Speaker 13 (01:18:44):
Oh, I mean when I don't understand them.

Speaker 27 (01:18:47):
Well, I thought it was the general male consensus that
we weren't supposed.

Speaker 4 (01:18:50):
To be understood, only loved. Isn't that the rest of it?

Speaker 13 (01:18:54):
It's something like that anyway. It's a philosophy I disagree with.

Speaker 11 (01:18:57):
That's refreshing.

Speaker 13 (01:18:59):
Ah, the lady is mused.

Speaker 11 (01:19:01):
Not at all. It's just that the lady detects.

Speaker 13 (01:19:04):
A bachelor because I have a mind of my own.

Speaker 11 (01:19:09):
That's one good too.

Speaker 27 (01:19:11):
Listen to me, I'll let singing to you as if
I believe i'mit, have tried to ends up as if
I'd known you all my life.

Speaker 13 (01:19:17):
Wait a minute, there's another which makes it perfectly all right.
It's that the shipboard friendships last forever business. However, my
name is Alan Bruce, yours Judith Webster, miss or myth good. Well,
we got through that quite nicely. You suppose we could

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get through a dance. There's music in the sonle.

Speaker 27 (01:19:41):
Well, there's no longer any view of the shorelight. However,
you did say the sea alone was beautiful.

Speaker 13 (01:19:48):
II was so wrong. There's nothing as monotonous as all
that water.

Speaker 11 (01:19:52):
It is kind of sad.

Speaker 13 (01:19:54):
Yes, well, let's trade it for Champagne. Shall we be believe?
In a minute? Where are you going over here? I
wanted to do the skipper a little favor.

Speaker 2 (01:20:03):
What is it?

Speaker 9 (01:20:04):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (01:20:04):
Oh, the lifeboat cover? How did that ever get so loose?

Speaker 13 (01:20:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:20:10):
I I noticed it a while back there, Well, that
should do it?

Speaker 11 (01:20:17):
Strange.

Speaker 13 (01:20:19):
It was almost as if, oh, no, what are you
going to say?

Speaker 5 (01:20:23):
Well?

Speaker 27 (01:20:23):
I was going to get melodramatic and suggest that someone
might have been hiding there.

Speaker 13 (01:20:29):
You mean a stowaway?

Speaker 11 (01:20:30):
Yes, well, of course it's silly.

Speaker 13 (01:20:33):
I wouldn't say so. You're joking, not at all. It's
quite possible someone could have slipped on board and hid
in that boat. That's why I think we shouldn't mention
this to anyone, what but only cause and alarm.

Speaker 4 (01:20:51):
But I don't.

Speaker 27 (01:20:51):
Understand you really think there might have been someone someone.
I shall never forget that moment and the thoughts which
went racing through my mind by my nervousness on the train,
those horrible headlines about about the blackout killer, that newsboy

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shouted an hour before Alan's strange attitude about the lifeboat,
the whole unpleasant nature of this voyage, and I promised
to missus Prescott. I wanted to turn and run, wanted
to cry out, but somehow I couldn't. If it looked
like a dream when you when you can't move.

Speaker 11 (01:21:34):
And then the darkness was swept away, and I was
no longer dreaming.

Speaker 3 (01:21:38):
I was.

Speaker 11 (01:21:39):
I was in Alan's arms, dancing there.

Speaker 27 (01:21:41):
Was There were laughing, care free people all about us,
and the ships set all was so bright and friendly.

Speaker 11 (01:21:48):
I was ashamed for even thinking there might have been
anything wrong.

Speaker 13 (01:21:56):
Had enough they just brought out champagne.

Speaker 11 (01:21:59):
Well in that case, yes, I'd about giving up.

Speaker 13 (01:22:02):
Well a fine way to talk about my dan.

Speaker 11 (01:22:03):
You know perfectly well what I mean?

Speaker 13 (01:22:05):
All right, let him go, waiter, right, you answer there,
We are all right, thank you, waiter. That'll be all?

Speaker 4 (01:22:14):
Yes, Oh that does look good?

Speaker 13 (01:22:17):
And is well what should we talked to? Shipboard friendship?

Speaker 11 (01:22:21):
Shipboard friendship?

Speaker 19 (01:22:23):
You know?

Speaker 15 (01:22:23):
I what is it?

Speaker 11 (01:22:26):
Something wrong?

Speaker 13 (01:22:27):
No, im nothing at all? Just thought I saw some
and I will excuse me a moment. Well, of course
I won't be long.

Speaker 2 (01:22:35):
It would be all right, Oh excuse me, miss, But
the gentleman he dropped this billfold.

Speaker 11 (01:22:41):
Oh thank you, waiter, I didn't notice. Would you just
leave it there on the table?

Speaker 13 (01:22:44):
Very good miss, the day you are.

Speaker 27 (01:22:48):
The billfold fell open as the waiter placed it on
the table. I couldn't take my eyes from it. There
was an identification card in plain sight. The name on
the card it was not Alan Bruce, it was Charles Drew.

Speaker 13 (01:23:13):
Sorry to a runof that way. I never should have
didn't know the fellow at all. Say you you haven't
touched your champagne. You'll you'll let all the kick go
out of it?

Speaker 11 (01:23:22):
You, i'm a said, all the kick has gone out
of it.

Speaker 13 (01:23:25):
Well, we'll soon take care of it. Oh my phill phone?
Where did you find it?

Speaker 11 (01:23:30):
It was on the floor the way to pick it up?

Speaker 13 (01:23:32):
The waiter did he look at it? No, Well he
found an honest man, Eh have to remember him.

Speaker 11 (01:23:39):
Hadn't you better look to see if you found an
honest woman.

Speaker 13 (01:23:43):
I'll take a chance and my honesty.

Speaker 11 (01:23:44):
Yes, what about a woman's curiosity?

Speaker 5 (01:23:46):
He wrote?

Speaker 10 (01:23:47):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:23:47):
I see well now you know well I must stay
more careful of my things in future. But you know,
I'm sure you wouldn't tell anyone anything. No, no, I
knew from the very first, so I can trust you.
It's interesting.

Speaker 4 (01:24:03):
Stuck your music? What's up? Sure?

Speaker 25 (01:24:08):
Then I can't show everybody everybody the first off, internets.

Speaker 3 (01:24:14):
Something to say to.

Speaker 13 (01:24:15):
Usk, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 25 (01:24:18):
I'm sorry to break in on your dancing this way,
but I assure this won't take long. You've just received
a radiogram from London and I must ask your cooperation
something important.

Speaker 7 (01:24:28):
War.

Speaker 9 (01:24:29):
Oh no, no, it isn't war.

Speaker 4 (01:24:31):
Nothing nearly as alarming as that.

Speaker 25 (01:24:33):
However, the London police suspect that we're carrying a stowaway,
and they've asked us to make a thorough search of
the ship and report fact to them.

Speaker 11 (01:24:41):
Criminal.

Speaker 25 (01:24:46):
No, wait, wait a moment, fees, Ladies and gentlemen. It
won't help you get excited. The ship is being searched.
You'll never get off. All we ask is that you
keep your cabins.

Speaker 4 (01:24:57):
Luck.

Speaker 13 (01:25:00):
I was afraid this might happen.

Speaker 11 (01:25:02):
How long did you expect to keep it from them?

Speaker 13 (01:25:04):
Actually?

Speaker 4 (01:25:04):
I was hoping they'd never Judah, but Judith, what's wrong?

Speaker 13 (01:25:09):
Where are you going? What's the devil?

Speaker 10 (01:25:12):
See?

Speaker 5 (01:25:12):
What's the matter?

Speaker 11 (01:25:13):
Hasn't she run out on you?

Speaker 13 (01:25:14):
Please let me through, will you?

Speaker 11 (01:25:15):
Okay?

Speaker 5 (01:25:16):
Sure, go do it, mister, Don't let her get away.

Speaker 24 (01:25:19):
You know, maybe she thinks that you're the blackout killer.

Speaker 13 (01:25:32):
Night for suspense.

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Speaker 27 (01:27:50):
I'll never know why I left the dining salon without
telling him. Certainly they could no longer be any doubt.
It was all too clear that loose canvas covering on
the lifeboat, the way he'd been standing there, even the
name he had given me, Alan Bruce.

Speaker 11 (01:28:03):
I saw it later on the regular passenger list.

Speaker 27 (01:28:06):
He must have killed Bruce and thrown him overboard, taking
not only his name, but his stateroom and clothes.

Speaker 5 (01:28:12):
It was also so fantastic, worse.

Speaker 11 (01:28:16):
Than anything else. I had almost fallen in love with him.
He knew that, I'm certain it was why he was
so confident.

Speaker 27 (01:28:25):
That I wouldn't tell anyone, and I didn't, not even
when I spoke to the first officer about my promise
to missus Prescott, I wanted to tell him somehow.

Speaker 28 (01:28:40):
I'll arrange it for early tomorrow morning, and most of
the passengers will be asleep, thank you.

Speaker 27 (01:28:45):
I I suppose it's rather unusual, but then missus Prescott
was an unusual woman.

Speaker 28 (01:28:54):
I hadn't conducted a burial at sea since the last war. However,
I'm nothing entirely unprepared. The company officials spoke to me
about this before sailing, and well, now don't you worry,
miss Webster.

Speaker 13 (01:29:05):
The ceremony will be quite in order. I assure you.

Speaker 4 (01:29:08):
Thank you, I'll meet you for day.

Speaker 13 (01:29:18):
I wish you hadn't done that. Well, I'm sorry. I
if you have a habit of startling you.

Speaker 11 (01:29:23):
What do you want? How long have you been standing there.

Speaker 13 (01:29:26):
Long enough to overhear that conversation?

Speaker 11 (01:29:28):
You had no right?

Speaker 5 (01:29:29):
What are you doing?

Speaker 13 (01:29:30):
Please? I know what you're going to say. I had
no right to be here or to listen. However, it's
fortunate that I did.

Speaker 11 (01:29:36):
What do you mean?

Speaker 13 (01:29:38):
I didn't know that it was missus Prescott's desire to
be bettered at sea.

Speaker 11 (01:29:42):
No one knew it, but it was her last wish.
I promised her.

Speaker 13 (01:29:45):
Would be carried out, and tomorrow morning you're keeping that promise.

Speaker 11 (01:29:49):
Yes, And now, if you'll excuse me, I don't feel
very well.

Speaker 4 (01:29:54):
I'd like wait, please, Judith. You've been avoiding me, haven't you.

Speaker 3 (01:29:59):
Yes, I have.

Speaker 13 (01:30:00):
I hope it's only because you've been upset about missus Prescott. Honey,
that's one reason I'm sorry. I I almost thought we
were beginning to well, to become very good friends. You
know you're the only person on board whom I can trust.

Speaker 11 (01:30:16):
You're very sure about that, aren't you.

Speaker 13 (01:30:18):
Of course, you know who I am and what I'm
doing on this ship, and yet you've told no one
I've wanted to. I know women were never meant to
keep secrets. However, I'm going to ask you to keep
one more.

Speaker 5 (01:30:31):
I'd rather not.

Speaker 13 (01:30:32):
Sorry, I must include you this time, you see, it
requires a change in your plans, so they will fit
in with mine.

Speaker 11 (01:30:40):
I'm afraid I don't understand.

Speaker 13 (01:30:42):
It's very simple. Judith. This may upset you, but I
must ask that you tell them that you've changed your mind,
that you don't want Missus Prescott buried at sea. What
you remember what they said, even if they couldn't find
the stowaway, he'd never get off the ship. Well, he

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could get off very easily if you'd allow him to
take Missus Prescott's place in that casket?

Speaker 5 (01:31:10):
What in that casket?

Speaker 7 (01:31:12):
Yes?

Speaker 13 (01:31:13):
Clever, eh, clever? Well, not every man would think of it,
simple as it may seem. Everyone searching the ship, questioning
each passenger, and all the while the man they were
seeking would be safe inside the casket. You would only
have to wait patiently and then be hoisted from the
ship's hold, lowered onto the pier, and whisked safely away

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in a funeral car.

Speaker 11 (01:31:37):
When he was discovered by the funeral attendance.

Speaker 13 (01:31:39):
Oh, I'm sure they'd be so shocked that the dead
coming to life. He'd have little trouble in dot it stop.

Speaker 27 (01:31:46):
At you here, If you haven't any respect to the dead, I'm.

Speaker 13 (01:31:50):
Afraid I have, Oh, Missus Prescott, you mean I should
have told you that part of it. Her last wish
has already been carried out. You see, her body was
removed from the casket the night we sailed. Missus Prescott
is already very to see.

Speaker 11 (01:32:11):
You've thought of everything, haven't you.

Speaker 13 (01:32:13):
Yes, in my position, one must.

Speaker 27 (01:32:28):
I remained in my cabin all that day and the
next I was afraid to see him again. I can't
explain the strange fascination he held over me.

Speaker 11 (01:32:41):
I remember how.

Speaker 27 (01:32:41):
Surprised the first officer looked when.

Speaker 11 (01:32:43):
I told him I had changed my mind about burial.

Speaker 27 (01:32:46):
It was as if he sensed the truth, as if
he knew Missus Prescott's body wasn't in the casket, that.

Speaker 11 (01:32:52):
It was empty.

Speaker 27 (01:32:54):
But of course it was only my imagination and my
sense of guilt for this terrible wrong I was doing.
When we sailed into New York car where I went

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out on deck, he was standing there near the port rail.

Speaker 11 (01:33:21):
I went up to him. He turned and smiled as
if he'd been expecting me.

Speaker 13 (01:33:25):
Oh, there you are. I've missed you haven't been under
the weather.

Speaker 11 (01:33:29):
No, I've been perfectly well.

Speaker 13 (01:33:31):
You had me worried not showing up at dinner. You know,
I've come to depend on you. Yes, I know, I've
decided not to let you get away from me. After
this is all over, we must.

Speaker 11 (01:33:44):
We haven't much time.

Speaker 13 (01:33:45):
Oh that's right, this may not be easy.

Speaker 4 (01:33:47):
Wish me luck.

Speaker 11 (01:33:49):
Haven't I done more than that already?

Speaker 13 (01:33:50):
Yes, of course, only I mean like this student.

Speaker 11 (01:34:00):
As suddenly as he had taken me in his arms,
he released me, and I remained there by the rail
as he hurried away.

Speaker 27 (01:34:06):
I watched as the ship moved on into the harbor
under the guidance of the tugboats.

Speaker 11 (01:34:10):
With their shrill, insistent little whistles.

Speaker 14 (01:34:13):
I listened to.

Speaker 11 (01:34:16):
The shouts of the crew were long shoreman.

Speaker 27 (01:34:19):
Soon we were.

Speaker 11 (01:34:20):
Alongside the pier and the steward was shouting from the
head of the gangway.

Speaker 19 (01:34:26):
And then then I.

Speaker 11 (01:34:28):
Saw it, the casket. They were lowering it to the pier.
There was a car waiting, a long black car.

Speaker 27 (01:34:39):
And suddenly I realized what I had done, What a
fool I had done, What a cowardly, frightened little fool.

Speaker 11 (01:34:49):
Wait, stop them, don't let them take it, don't let them.

Speaker 5 (01:34:54):
Wait. Please, you mustn't touch that casket.

Speaker 11 (01:34:57):
There's something wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:34:58):
Hey, what's the matter with you?

Speaker 13 (01:35:00):
Get out of the way.

Speaker 11 (01:35:00):
Well, but there's a man in there alive.

Speaker 10 (01:35:03):
He's hiding.

Speaker 13 (01:35:04):
Yeah, sure, hide and go seek. He's played in a coffin.

Speaker 4 (01:35:07):
Go on, let him got work to do. Mammon, where
it all?

Speaker 9 (01:35:10):
Pea?

Speaker 11 (01:35:11):
Please, you must listen to me. If you won't call
the police, someone has got to stop him.

Speaker 13 (01:35:15):
Hills, did I hear you call for the police.

Speaker 9 (01:35:17):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (01:35:17):
Yes, these men won't listen to me. But there's a
oh man hiding.

Speaker 4 (01:35:22):
In this casket across there is. We put him in there, Judith,
what did you say?

Speaker 13 (01:35:28):
I said we put him in there, or rather we
let him walk right into our trap.

Speaker 11 (01:35:33):
Wait a minute, are you trying to tell me that
someone else inside that casket?

Speaker 13 (01:35:38):
Well, surely you're not trying to say that you thought
I was in there?

Speaker 5 (01:35:41):
Who else?

Speaker 13 (01:35:42):
Who else?

Speaker 6 (01:35:44):
Why?

Speaker 13 (01:35:44):
The blackout killer?

Speaker 3 (01:35:45):
Of course?

Speaker 11 (01:35:46):
Then when he's getting away, you're letting him get away.

Speaker 13 (01:35:50):
Those men know who's inside that castle, and they know
right where to take him. You, you know, Judith, for
someone who helped plan this entire thing, right, very strangely.

Speaker 11 (01:36:01):
I'm acting strangely.

Speaker 13 (01:36:02):
It's almost as if you didn't know who.

Speaker 4 (01:36:04):
I am at all.

Speaker 11 (01:36:06):
I don't what I said, I don't know you I
still don't.

Speaker 4 (01:36:12):
But the night I dropped my billfold, I thought, surely.

Speaker 11 (01:36:15):
All I learned that night was your real name, Charles Drew.

Speaker 4 (01:36:19):
You mean you didn't look at the rest of my papers?

Speaker 11 (01:36:22):
Certainly not.

Speaker 4 (01:36:23):
But that's amazing.

Speaker 13 (01:36:24):
Say you are.

Speaker 27 (01:36:25):
Different, yes, and I suppose you're the everyday run of
the mill type.

Speaker 5 (01:36:29):
Look what is this?

Speaker 13 (01:36:31):
Oh it's all very simple, Judith. I thought you'd learned
of my affiliation with Scotland Yard when you had my billfold.

Speaker 11 (01:36:37):
You mean you're a detective.

Speaker 13 (01:36:40):
I've even been called a bloodhound.

Speaker 11 (01:36:43):
Then all this time you've been trailing the killer.

Speaker 4 (01:36:47):
That's right.

Speaker 13 (01:36:48):
We had a tip off he might be on this ship,
and when I discovered the loose lifeboat covering, I was
certain of it.

Speaker 11 (01:36:53):
Then, Alan Bruce, he wasn't murdered at all.

Speaker 13 (01:36:57):
He never existed, just a name I was using. Good
by Lord Jude. If you know detectives never travel under
their own names. Just isn't done.

Speaker 11 (01:37:03):
No, no, everything has to be done the hard way.

Speaker 27 (01:37:06):
I suppose that that's why you just didn't find the
killer and arrest him on board.

Speaker 4 (01:37:10):
Oh no, hardly.

Speaker 13 (01:37:12):
You see, I couldn't find him search the ship from
top to bottom, I guess he really would have given
me the slip if I hadn't looked in the casket.

Speaker 11 (01:37:19):
He was hiding there all the time.

Speaker 13 (01:37:20):
No, it was empty.

Speaker 11 (01:37:22):
I don't get it.

Speaker 13 (01:37:23):
Neither did I at first. Then I began to wonder
why he would remove missus Prescott's body from her casket
unless it was part of some plan. And I decided
that it was a weird, yet thoroughly clever plan. Remember
I told you not every man would think of it.

Speaker 11 (01:37:38):
Yes, you did say that he had only to.

Speaker 13 (01:37:42):
Wait patiently until the ship.

Speaker 11 (01:37:44):
Stocked, then at the last minute slip into the.

Speaker 13 (01:37:46):
Casket and be hoisted out of the hole onto the
pier and whisked safely away in the funeral or car.

Speaker 11 (01:37:52):
And I think if it hadn't been for you, he
might have gotten away with it.

Speaker 13 (01:37:56):
For you helped plenty by calling off that bury on
leaving away.

Speaker 11 (01:38:00):
Open point, Charles, I really arrest everything. I thought you
were the killer.

Speaker 13 (01:38:10):
Well, no, wonder you avoided me.

Speaker 11 (01:38:11):
I was so mixed up. I thought I knew so much.

Speaker 13 (01:38:14):
No, it's my fault, darling, I overestimated you. Is it
all cleared you now?

Speaker 1 (01:38:20):
Well? I, no, that is it.

Speaker 11 (01:38:23):
It's clear about how well they the killer and the tasket.

Speaker 13 (01:38:27):
But I don't know whether you mean about the lifeboats
and no.

Speaker 5 (01:38:32):
No about you.

Speaker 11 (01:38:34):
I'm not clear whether you mean.

Speaker 13 (01:38:37):
Whether or not I'm really Scotland Yard.

Speaker 11 (01:38:39):
Well I am, you can really no, I'm just not
sure whether.

Speaker 4 (01:38:43):
But Judith, there's nothing else, oh except because that I
love you?

Speaker 11 (01:38:47):
And what was that again?

Speaker 13 (01:38:50):
I said I love you?

Speaker 11 (01:38:52):
How can I be sure?

Speaker 13 (01:38:55):
Julia Darling?

Speaker 11 (01:38:58):
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Speaker 1 (01:42:58):
I've been thinking a lot about friendship. I'm sure you
have many, many other friends, more corporeal friends than I,
and unfortunately I can't quite say the same. But I'm very,
very happy to have your friendship, your kindness, your thoughts.

(01:43:21):
It means the world to me.

Speaker 4 (01:43:24):
But of course.

Speaker 1 (01:43:26):
Friendships take time. They have to be nurtured, they have
to be given kindness and compassion forgiveness. It's a lot
like gardening, where you plant to seed and you water
it and you hope against all hope that you are

(01:43:47):
not growing a demon tree.

Speaker 9 (01:44:03):
Die fantasy. I am the spirit of the demon tree.

(01:44:29):
I had three pounds on the Jack of diamonds.

Speaker 29 (01:44:31):
You should tear your money up, Humphreys, It would last
you longer.

Speaker 30 (01:44:36):
Perhaps you're right, Crane, But this way I get a
sense of honest toil, I say, isn't anyone else betting?

Speaker 12 (01:44:46):
Oh, let's quit, I'm tired of losing.

Speaker 9 (01:44:50):
Oh look here, old girl, could I loan you a
few pounds?

Speaker 15 (01:44:53):
No, thank you, Crane.

Speaker 5 (01:44:55):
I do enough to get me back to London if
we ever do get back.

Speaker 9 (01:44:58):
Now, why do you say that, Claire.

Speaker 29 (01:45:00):
It's only a matter of a stage getting through here
to the resort, taking us out of this beastly place.

Speaker 12 (01:45:05):
Beastly place is right.

Speaker 15 (01:45:08):
Why people come here for a rest is more than
I can determine, honestly, I've never spent such an uncomfortable.

Speaker 12 (01:45:15):
Week in all my life.

Speaker 9 (01:45:16):
Well, think of me. I've been here three so have you?
Humph reason. Oh look, here you two.

Speaker 30 (01:45:22):
It's three o'clock and I'm expecting the stage around eight tonight.
What do you say the three of us go for
a bit of a walk through the forest.

Speaker 9 (01:45:28):
I say, why not? Or here comes Danvers. Perhaps you'll
join us.

Speaker 12 (01:45:32):
Anything to get away from this place. Good afternoon, Danvers.

Speaker 9 (01:45:37):
Greeting is good.

Speaker 13 (01:45:37):
People.

Speaker 9 (01:45:38):
I take it you're not happier than when I left
you a while ago.

Speaker 29 (01:45:41):
Now the place is as gloomy as a morgue. We've
just agreed to take a walk in the forest.

Speaker 9 (01:45:45):
Back of the inn.

Speaker 30 (01:45:47):
Invited to come along if you like. Sounds like a
good enough way to pass the time.

Speaker 9 (01:45:50):
Good, and we all go together.

Speaker 30 (01:45:53):
Besides, I'm quite interested in that forest out there. You remember,
of course, the star the night clerk told us last evening.

Speaker 29 (01:46:02):
Yes, I don't like him.

Speaker 9 (01:46:03):
He talks through his nose. People should talk through their mouth. No, No,
I mean what he told us about the forest.

Speaker 12 (01:46:11):
What about the forest? I didn't hear it.

Speaker 30 (01:46:14):
Well, the clerk said it was a gorgeous place, lots
of beautiful foliage, red colors.

Speaker 9 (01:46:21):
Clear water lakes. But nobody goes there so beautiful, just
did Clara. You see people have gone there never come back. Ruddish.
It's a lot of nonsense.

Speaker 29 (01:46:37):
Why the clerk is just superstitious, that's all I am
inclined to agree with you, Danvers. Why he even told
us an absurd story about about a tree out there
in that forest that's supposed to strangle people, strangle them?

Speaker 9 (01:46:51):
Oh, I don't know, with its branches.

Speaker 29 (01:46:53):
I suppose just some absurd legend that people around here
like to believe.

Speaker 9 (01:46:58):
I believe it's more than just a legend. Crane, And
what makes you say that?

Speaker 2 (01:47:02):
Old man here?

Speaker 30 (01:47:04):
I talked to the clerk again later last night. He
dug out this old newspaper clipping for me. Read it, Danvers, Hello,
old is right, almost illegible?

Speaker 9 (01:47:17):
Well read it, it says. London, England.

Speaker 30 (01:47:23):
April twenty first, eighteen fifty seven, is reported that s
Harace Wakefield, Earl of Dorsha, was found strangled last night
in Barlow Forest.

Speaker 9 (01:47:34):
His body was discovered entangled in the branches of a.

Speaker 4 (01:47:37):
Huge oak tree.

Speaker 9 (01:47:38):
Ah, go on with the rest of us.

Speaker 30 (01:47:41):
The earl's death recalls to mind the weird tale of
the Witch of Barlow Forest, who is said to have
lived in the sixteenth century, an evil old hag who,
upon having a falling out with Sir Thomas Holly Wakefield,
cursed him and warned him that any of his descendants
went aedest but surely perish.

Speaker 29 (01:48:03):
Charming old girl wasn't all. Don't scoff until you've heard
the rest of it.

Speaker 30 (01:48:09):
She also added that any person or persons with the
Wakefield descendant would also die. She is said to have
planted an acorn smeared with her own blood. The acorn
is supposed to have grown into a towering oak, capable
of moving about from place to place in Ballow Forest.

(01:48:32):
So Horace is the sixth of the Wakefield Lion to
have perished by strangulation in the forest. Thomas Hurly Wakefield.
I wonder, hmph, No, wonder what cray? My mother's name
was Wakefield. I was just wondering if she was related

(01:48:54):
to Sir Thomas.

Speaker 12 (01:48:55):
How, of course, Doc Crane, It's just a story.

Speaker 9 (01:49:00):
Straordinary story.

Speaker 4 (01:49:01):
Would you say, yes?

Speaker 30 (01:49:03):
It wouldn't do very well as a bedtimes to HORRYBOODI
demon try, I wonder if we could find it.

Speaker 9 (01:49:10):
Well, let's have a try. I don't let anybody say,
and let's go. Humprey is going along, I say, Humphreys,
are you daydreaming? M I was just thinking, wouldn't it Beard,
if the whole thing we're true? If we all went in.

Speaker 15 (01:49:35):
There and didn't come back, Well, do you, gentlemen, see
any way we can get into that forests?

Speaker 11 (01:49:57):
Dancers?

Speaker 9 (01:49:57):
Father times? Beard doesn't seem to be an opening anywhere.
I think we can get in over here? All right,
coming divers.

Speaker 19 (01:50:05):
There seems to be a footpath over here, only.

Speaker 9 (01:50:08):
One along this line of the forest. They seem Yes,
you're right, Come on, I leave. We'd better remember the
way back. It'd be hard to get out of here
if we didn't know where this opening is.

Speaker 5 (01:50:18):
And don't worry, I'll remember it. I'm good at landmark.

Speaker 9 (01:50:21):
Go ahead, fair, I'm right behind him. I say, do
any of you feel that? Feel? What? Denvers? A chill?
I feel like like it's twenty degrees colder in this place.

Speaker 12 (01:50:38):
I feel that way too, so do I.

Speaker 30 (01:50:42):
It's naturally cooler in the woods where the sun doesn't.

Speaker 9 (01:50:45):
Shine, but not this much cooler.

Speaker 14 (01:50:47):
I don't like this place.

Speaker 5 (01:50:49):
I'm for going back to the end.

Speaker 9 (01:50:51):
Oh, let's get on ahead a little ways. I say
it is pretty in.

Speaker 12 (01:50:57):
Here, preuly, I'm not. It gives me the creep.

Speaker 30 (01:51:01):
Isn't the kind of cold caused by climatic changes I
was at, Denver, I said, it's a different kind of cold.

Speaker 9 (01:51:11):
It's the kind that creeps up your spine when some
some evil comes over your.

Speaker 29 (01:51:17):
Phone out, Danvers, just letting that newspaper story play on
your mind.

Speaker 9 (01:51:22):
Wait a minute, look at tree there in front of us.
Looks like a human giant off your right, Denvers swearing
moved just a moment ago.

Speaker 5 (01:51:36):
It didn't move. I started too.

Speaker 9 (01:51:41):
That's the strangest looking tree I ever saw. Look at
that bark. I wonder if play what's wrong? Man?

Speaker 29 (01:51:52):
I just touched the bark of that tree and it
it didn't feel like bark at all. No, it felt
like like human skin.

Speaker 9 (01:52:09):
Yeah, let me feel it.

Speaker 13 (01:52:12):
I haven't.

Speaker 9 (01:52:14):
It's true. It does feel like skin, warm.

Speaker 12 (01:52:21):
The smooth, and so yeah, it feels that way.

Speaker 9 (01:52:28):
To meet up, praise you touch it?

Speaker 19 (01:52:32):
No?

Speaker 9 (01:52:32):
Thanks, go ahead, Hamhras feel it.

Speaker 4 (01:52:37):
I have no desire to.

Speaker 9 (01:52:40):
You. See, I'm sure you're right.

Speaker 13 (01:52:44):
What's that?

Speaker 9 (01:52:46):
I feel that this is the demon tree of all
of ours.

Speaker 30 (01:52:53):
I think we've seen enough of this place, haven't we.
Let's get back to the end of all right month, right, ay,
Wait a minute?

Speaker 9 (01:53:08):
Have you noticed how dark it is? All of a sudden,
the sun's behind the cloud. Probably it's impossible to see
the sky through this foliage.

Speaker 5 (01:53:18):
It is darker.

Speaker 12 (01:53:20):
I can hardly see where I'm walking.

Speaker 9 (01:53:22):
Are you quite sure this is the right way? I
don't remember this clearing. I don't either. Wait a minute,
Why heaven, this isn't the way?

Speaker 4 (01:53:35):
Must be We're on the path, aren't we.

Speaker 15 (01:53:38):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:53:40):
No, I don't think we are so dark. Do any
of you have a fly?

Speaker 9 (01:53:45):
I certainly don't remember this clearing?

Speaker 4 (01:53:47):
I think, hm, what was that?

Speaker 12 (01:53:51):
What was what?

Speaker 9 (01:53:52):
Claim you?

Speaker 29 (01:53:56):
You'll think this is foolish, But I swear I felt
the branch of a tree brush across my face and shoulders.

Speaker 9 (01:54:05):
That's impossible, there's not a tree.

Speaker 13 (01:54:08):
But in defeat.

Speaker 9 (01:54:09):
But I felt it.

Speaker 13 (01:54:10):
I tell you.

Speaker 29 (01:54:12):
It rustled like a branch, covered with leaves and det
It felt warm and soft, like human flesh.

Speaker 5 (01:54:26):
Are you sure?

Speaker 7 (01:54:27):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (01:54:28):
Look, we're lost here. It's dark, dark as night, right.

Speaker 29 (01:54:33):
In the middle of the afternoon, and we've lost the
path in that tree. Easy, Crane, I'll keep your head man,
I'm getting out of here. I'm not going to stay
here and be murdered.

Speaker 4 (01:54:43):
Dan stay with us.

Speaker 9 (01:54:45):
No, no, I'm going to find the path and get
out of here.

Speaker 5 (01:54:48):
Paine, stay here, we'll find a way back.

Speaker 9 (01:54:50):
I don't want to stay here and die.

Speaker 4 (01:54:52):
I want to get away from this way to.

Speaker 8 (01:54:54):
Be a fool.

Speaker 9 (01:55:00):
Yeah gone, Now he is in for it. We're better
off by staying together. I don't know, but we are not.

Speaker 13 (01:55:18):
Sounds like he's trying.

Speaker 8 (01:55:19):
Come on, we kind have gotten five right over here.

Speaker 9 (01:55:22):
I think I'll take it easy. I'll be cauble. Oh daddy, Yes,
stretched out on the ground like.

Speaker 19 (01:55:34):
Like he was dead.

Speaker 9 (01:55:43):
M Look look at him. Marks on his throat. Five
hands with me. That wasn't done by hands?

Speaker 12 (01:55:57):
See Dames on his skin, greenstain.

Speaker 9 (01:56:09):
Thomas Wakefield, Craye.

Speaker 5 (01:56:12):
Oh, what a horrible way for him to die.

Speaker 9 (01:56:16):
Craya a tree. This is where we first saw it.
Now it's gone.

Speaker 8 (01:56:23):
This is where it was.

Speaker 5 (01:56:24):
I'm sure of it.

Speaker 9 (01:56:25):
Then what's happened to it? Important question is what are
we going to do with Crane? And have to leave
him here and we can find a way out of
this place for Crane.

Speaker 5 (01:56:39):
It happened so quickly.

Speaker 9 (01:56:42):
One minute he was with us, in the next we
wanted him not to leave us. The three of us
had better stay close together.

Speaker 11 (01:56:47):
Oh yes, for heaven's sakes, let's not get that, and
don't come on.

Speaker 30 (01:56:52):
There's nothing we can do for Crane. Now, we've got
to find our way out of here. Just doesn't seem right.
Leaving him there.

Speaker 9 (01:57:03):
It's all we can do. Come on, how do we
know which way to go?

Speaker 6 (01:57:10):
We don't.

Speaker 9 (01:57:12):
All we can do is keep moving and hope to
find into out again.

Speaker 15 (01:57:17):
It's horrible wandering about like this, like like nothing but
a group of Marionnette.

Speaker 30 (01:57:24):
Controlled by what strange properteer? What's that, Humphreys.

Speaker 9 (01:57:31):
I said, controlled by what strange properteer?

Speaker 5 (01:57:37):
Surely you don't think we've been purposely led into this?

Speaker 9 (01:57:40):
Who can say? Oh, now, train without the deep end.
We've got to keep out him.

Speaker 5 (01:57:46):
We found a way in, surely we'll find a way out.

Speaker 9 (01:57:50):
Yes, so we didn't find a way in. But what
about the chill, the darkness?

Speaker 5 (01:57:58):
Who ex nation?

Speaker 9 (01:58:02):
Perhaps the storm is coming up. That could be, It
couldn't if storms don't rise that quickly.

Speaker 13 (01:58:09):
In this part of the.

Speaker 12 (01:58:10):
Country, and the darkness came down on this forest like
a strad Yes.

Speaker 30 (01:58:20):
Came so quickly, reminded me of how a corpse must
feel in his coffin, and the lid is put over.
Look at, Humphries, I'm about fed up with that sort
of talk. Only a fool refuses to face the fact standards.

(01:58:41):
You know, this isn't in the ordinary situation.

Speaker 8 (01:58:43):
We're in.

Speaker 30 (01:58:45):
A chill of winter, in the summer time, darkness and
mid afternoon, and the tree that strength.

Speaker 9 (01:58:54):
It is probably just an accident trains day.

Speaker 30 (01:58:59):
Why don't you stop trying to tell yourself that the
tree was only an imaginary thing. We all know that
it's real, Hungris, and there's alive as any of us.
The bark didn't feel like human flesh.

Speaker 5 (01:59:15):
Humphries. Look what.

Speaker 9 (01:59:20):
What is it? A gold light that ahead of us?
It's the tree there? Now, what do you think, Danvers?

Speaker 30 (01:59:31):
Look, it's the tree moving along in a glow phosphorescent light. Hiddens,
it's the same tree. It looks like a human giant.

Speaker 5 (01:59:42):
It was low well near here, it.

Speaker 2 (01:59:44):
Was back there?

Speaker 9 (01:59:45):
Do you too see what the tree is carrying.

Speaker 30 (01:59:48):
It's carrying crane it's got him tucked up under that
huge branch that looks like a human arm.

Speaker 9 (01:59:58):
It's fading now, disappearing again, fading away.

Speaker 12 (02:00:04):
It is.

Speaker 9 (02:00:07):
Gone.

Speaker 5 (02:00:09):
It's gone.

Speaker 9 (02:00:10):
Now Do you believe, Davers? Now? Do you admit that
the tree is alive?

Speaker 5 (02:00:16):
What else can I believe?

Speaker 9 (02:00:18):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:00:21):
He's falling into a water pool.

Speaker 4 (02:00:24):
Has really think you?

Speaker 9 (02:00:29):
I ended my wais Get me out of hair stands,
till dampers. You just sink deeper.

Speaker 7 (02:00:34):
Wait, help me.

Speaker 5 (02:00:35):
Out of here.

Speaker 19 (02:00:37):
That's something I can get onto.

Speaker 4 (02:00:39):
Here, Grady, end of that pool.

Speaker 8 (02:00:43):
Rabbit averas grabbitte and that three brands if they ain't.

Speaker 13 (02:00:51):
Me, Lord listen Clara.

Speaker 5 (02:00:54):
A three brands.

Speaker 9 (02:00:56):
But we can't be I can't get you Boom.

Speaker 4 (02:01:01):
The gods didn't leading me.

Speaker 5 (02:01:03):
By Humphrey do something he's up to.

Speaker 8 (02:01:05):
He showed us now because I can't make it, I
can't help tag may save me.

Speaker 5 (02:01:15):
You go under the big stands.

Speaker 13 (02:01:17):
There's nothing I can do that.

Speaker 4 (02:01:20):
The damon's drain.

Speaker 7 (02:01:22):
There's not shaving.

Speaker 9 (02:01:25):
Mad.

Speaker 5 (02:01:36):
He's gone.

Speaker 9 (02:01:38):
Poor devil didn't have a chance.

Speaker 12 (02:01:43):
We've got to get out of here.

Speaker 5 (02:01:45):
We're all doomed.

Speaker 9 (02:01:47):
It's the way you curse Lever stop it.

Speaker 5 (02:01:49):
It is the curse.

Speaker 9 (02:01:51):
We're helpful.

Speaker 5 (02:01:52):
There's nothing we can do to save ourselves.

Speaker 30 (02:01:54):
Clever, Stop. We can't give up. We've got to find
a way out of this place. Be careful for your
step whatever happens, keep your head Clara, for heaven.

Speaker 5 (02:02:07):
See h.

Speaker 9 (02:02:36):
Oh wow, praise.

Speaker 2 (02:02:39):
I'm so tired.

Speaker 5 (02:02:42):
We've walked for hours.

Speaker 9 (02:02:45):
I say, it's getting a little lighter.

Speaker 6 (02:02:48):
Clara.

Speaker 9 (02:02:50):
Up ahead, there isn't that a path? What?

Speaker 5 (02:02:54):
Oh, you're right, humphries the path we came in on.

Speaker 9 (02:02:59):
And look there's an opening through the tree.

Speaker 5 (02:03:02):
Yes, I remember the landmarks. Oh, thanks God for the life.

Speaker 31 (02:03:06):
Come on out of this place. There's nothing we can
do for Danvers or claim now, Clara.

Speaker 12 (02:03:35):
Yes, I.

Speaker 30 (02:03:38):
Wonder if you feel as I do. I thought we'd
be safe back here in a hotel. I don't know
how to describe it. I have a feeling that this
whole business isn't over yet.

Speaker 15 (02:03:51):
I know I've had the same feeling, a feeling that
we're not finished with the demon.

Speaker 30 (02:03:59):
Tree, or that it's not finished with us. Yes, exactly,
yeah my room. Bet I go in there and have
a drink, Claire, Heaven knows we need one.

Speaker 5 (02:04:13):
Yes, I certainly do.

Speaker 30 (02:04:17):
What's worrying me is how am I going to explain
what happened to Craig in the Danvers?

Speaker 9 (02:04:22):
Wait a minute, how get the light? Humphrey, good lord.
The branch of a tree about two feet long. Look
at it? Look at it, a fresh living branch.

Speaker 3 (02:04:37):
Down.

Speaker 5 (02:04:38):
Oh Humphries, I'm getting out of here.

Speaker 10 (02:04:39):
Where are you going down to the lobby and wait
for this tape?

Speaker 4 (02:04:42):
Hold on, I'll go with you.

Speaker 9 (02:04:43):
Wait, Clara, Wait, it's three flights down. Let's take the elevator.

Speaker 5 (02:04:48):
We can get the thing up here.

Speaker 9 (02:04:49):
It's automatic. Just push the button, it'll come up.

Speaker 5 (02:04:52):
Humphrey, Look, someone, let this deal gate open.

Speaker 9 (02:04:56):
I say, that's dangerous, certainly, But why.

Speaker 5 (02:05:01):
Is pushing stow me?

Speaker 9 (02:05:03):
Brow? Wow?

Speaker 4 (02:05:09):
Good lord Clara, Clara, a branch.

Speaker 5 (02:05:17):
It pushed her on the shif.

Speaker 8 (02:05:20):
It's that to me, get away, get away, help me,
help me somebody for three.

Speaker 2 (02:05:30):
Three.

Speaker 5 (02:05:31):
It's stalking.

Speaker 32 (02:05:41):
Any descendant of Sir Thomas Hurley Wakefield Renters Barlowed forest
is doomed to die, and all who enter the forest
with him are likewise doomed.

Speaker 15 (02:05:59):
Mm hm.

Speaker 30 (02:06:19):
Dark Santasy, you have just heard The Demon Tree, an

(02:06:43):
original tale of dark fantasy. By Scotch Bishop to Night's
cast included Eleanor Naylor Coran as Clara, Ben Morris who
was Humphreys. Garland Moss took the part of Danvers, and
Murrella Schofield was heard as cream.

Speaker 1 (02:07:01):
Well, my dear, I hope the music helps soothe the
savage soul. But I am so glad you join me tonight.
And I hope as you head out for the evening
and I to wherever it is, that if I go,
you know that I'll always be here for you at

(02:07:24):
the same time and the same place. All you have
to do is show up. And before you leave, before
you make your way through the woods, through the streets,
through the dark, can you do me just one little favor.

(02:07:47):
As you lay your head down on your soft and
cool pillow and begin to make your way to the
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for for what you have. I'll be seeing.

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