December 3, 2025 • 44 mins
CBS Radio Mystery Theater was a noteworthy attempt to revive in American radio dramas like Inner Sanctum (1941-1952) and Suspense (1942-1962). Radio dramas were widely considered "dead" 12 years prior to this series. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, or simply Mystery Theater, was created by Inner Sanctum creator Himan Brown and ran on CBS from 1974-1982. The show, much like older radio dramas, was introduced by a host (E.G. Marshall in this program), who steers us through the creaking door to start the episode. Many voices from the golden age of radio were featured, including Richard Widmark, Bret Morrison, Agnes Moorehead and many more. Find more classic, old-time radio series at Theater of the Mind - OTR | Spreaker | Apple | YouTube
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents, come in.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I'm e. G. Marshall. Death is a much maligned figure,
an unwelcome visitor the most, but to some becomes as
a friend and a healer, much prayed for and sought
to them. He is Johann Sebastian Bach's zistote sweet Death,
who comes to bind up unbearable wounds, but not.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
To everyone who prays for his soothing touch. Is he allowed.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Some crimes are too great to be forgiven by death.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
You could handle it, Alonge.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Ted Duck SOUPSI just be ready to take off when
I come out. I watched Ted saunter into the bank,
then nothing but waiting when I finally heard them, Like
I guess, I knew all along I was going to
I knew this was one heist which wasn't gonna work.
(01:30):
Our mystery drama, The Curse of Conscience, was written especially
for the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and stars Tony Roberts.
It is sponsored in part by General Electric, Citizen Band Radios.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
And Buick Motor Division.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I'll do that shortly with that one.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
The young strong hands are clenched so tightly on the
cell bars that all the blood is squeezed out of them,
and the veins stand out dark and distended against the
chalk white skin. His eyes are glassy, and his voice
as the edge of hysteria. His name is Simon Berman,
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or once was before he changed it for a number.
And he is not alone.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
He is never never alone anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I'm not looking around.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
She's sitting there waiting for me too, but I ain't fiting.
She just start talking to me, and I don't want that.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
That's the way it all began. But now it's all over,
it's gonna be. She ain't there, She can't be.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
That's the way it is.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
She's just not fair.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Don't be ridiculous, Simon. Of course I'm here. No, you
know it as well as I. I'm never going to
go away, so you might as well turn around.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I don't want to start anything again.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Very well, suit yourself, but I won't ever go away.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
One thing I gotta say is she don't change. I mean,
she's like that old crumbin ancient history or something who
wanted to get across the river and the fool will
let him fly him on his back and never could
get him off again. It's crazy.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I mean, you know who could.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Have figured the way it began?
Speaker 5 (03:40):
A couple of years.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Ago, I'm stuck in Cleveland. The town is dead, I
mean dead. You can't turn a buck doing nothing. So
I pick up this girl, some Jane, I don't even
remember her name now. She drags me into some church
social That's where I meet you, cousin nano ideas.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Wats some tickets to dance?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah? Sure, ma'am?
Speaker 5 (04:04):
How much are they?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
That's our theme of the evening, all for the church.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Ten cents a dance?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
H well, I'll spring for a box worth.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
You might want our special two dollars to dance all night?
Speaker 7 (04:15):
Gee, that's romantic. Sorry, dance all night?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, give me give me two dollars special.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
You'd like some refreshment? We have a nice punch.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
No thanks, not just to dancing.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Maybe after you dance, to like a cool refreshing drink.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
What is it? Lemonade?
Speaker 6 (04:34):
Well, that's what the church provides.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
How much is it a shot?
Speaker 6 (04:38):
The church set a price of twenty five cents a glass.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Okay, okay, fine, we'll be back ma'am.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Okay, candy, Oh sure, sorry, come on, let's dance.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
What do you say, candy, Shall we cut out?
Speaker 7 (04:58):
Oh no, I'm having good time?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
H hi's you?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, it's all right.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
It's a two bit church recreation hall in a jukebox
start us ballroom?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
It ain't you?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Well if keep.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
Going to take me somewhere better, like maybe the Discover one,
a big hotel ballroom.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
And I was figuring, like maybe i'd take you home,
you know, at nine o'clock.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
In the evening. Oh you promised me.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
A big time Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, yeah, sure I did.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
I thought you was a big spender.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
What's your rush?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Turn me on?
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Mama?
Speaker 7 (05:33):
So that's all right, But but a girl doesn't like
to be rushed all that much, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah, and if we hang around here for a while, well.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Then maybe we could, like, you know, stop at your place.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Ah done, No, I just had a painted look the
place ain't fit to live in.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I mean, how about your place?
Speaker 7 (05:54):
Well?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, a roommate us o.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Oh no?
Speaker 7 (05:57):
But yeah, but what so like I don't even hardly
know you.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Hey, what do you want my life history, fingerprints, social
Security number?
Speaker 7 (06:09):
Oh, come on, I don't.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Need anything like that.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
I can tell you you're a real nice guy.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
So after another dancer, we going to your place, okay.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
But first I gotta go to this, you know, and
like when I get back, I could use some of
that lemonade you spring for some force.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah sure, so long as we got that deal.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Oh you got it made handsome.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Time you get back, I'll be waiting for you over
in the corner there.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Go to my place.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
That's a lab I'm down on my last double fin
and a cardboard suitcase full of dirty laundry and a
locker at the bus station.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I gotta make some kind of score, and I need
a pad. That's where the doll comes in.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And I got a player along till I make some
kind of connection. So I figure I can afford to
invest four pits making her happy. And I move you
over to the old dame at the punchbowl.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Well, young man, now, would you like some punch.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yew glass for my old lady? Anyways?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Old lady?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah, the girl I was with, ma'am you know.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
Oh oh, now, maybe you ought to try some yourself first.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
No, no, that's all right.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I don't go in much for you know, soft.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Drinks, and you might like this.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Try it.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
We'll make it on the house.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Oh wow, So uh well, I never refuse a lady,
that's lemonade? Kind of church dance?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Is this?
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Oh? I have them once a month, most of the
customers regular.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah, well I can see why.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
Would you would you like another?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
You wouldn't have to twist my arm. Thanks, he's uh,
he's looking at you. And I'll take one more and
two for my girlfriend.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
And I thought i'd make this the heel. Damn and damn.
I see now that's some one on the house, two
for you and two for the young ladies. That'll be
four dollars sleeve.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, four dollars. Look, I don't you set a quarter right?
There was a sign of.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
That was before the punch was a spiked Yeah. Oh look,
I ain't got that kind of doll dear. I hope
you're not going to you're not going to. Well, chie,
you've drunk two glasses. You know, I'd hate to have
to turn you over to the boys. The boys, it's
such nice boys to play. It's such a brutal getting.
(08:49):
And they have the church hall here Wednesdays for their
karate class.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Uh, cousin ann look if I may call you.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
That, Oh yes, please do everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I just wanted to say from one I just wanted
to say you are something else.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Well, thank you. That's quite a compliment for an old
lady in her eighty fifth year. You're eighty five, I said,
year eighty four. Please don't rush me if I must
you the poor dollars please?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Well except for some change? Oh I got is a
ten dollar bill?
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Why couldn't they change?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
You went? Won want happen to my girl?
Speaker 6 (09:36):
Where did she go?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
The powder room? Oh?
Speaker 6 (09:41):
I can find out for you, But would you mind
running my stand till I come back? Here's your six
dollars change?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Will you trust me with us?
Speaker 6 (09:51):
Why shouldn't I?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Are you all right, my dear?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Yes, thank you, cousin nan, I'm Candy. Mentioned Well why
did you ask if I was all right?
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Well, because you're a young man. Was worried about you.
He's not my young man.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
I just came with him, and.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Now you're sorry you did.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
I didn't say that.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
You didn't have to. He's a bit of a swinger.
Is that what it is? Kenda?
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Here?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Like?
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Well, like he wants to take me home? See well naturally, yeah,
but you don't see it. I live alone, you know
what I can feel?
Speaker 6 (10:36):
This is like he's trouble and I don't want any fascinating.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
How do you know?
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Well, I wasn't born yesterday. I know his type right now.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
He's some kind of drifter, dead beat.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
I don't know what. All you got to do is
look in his eyes.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
This dude is trouble. I don't think so. Seemed like
quite a nice boy.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
And don't let him fall.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
I think he's just lonely, maybe a bit scared. I'm
not him, But what am I going to do?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Well?
Speaker 6 (11:08):
If you if you want to go home without him,
nothing's easy.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
But I can't slip him. I I just know what
he's He's watching for me to come out.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Well, he won't be when you do. I'll make sure that.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
How very simple.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
I'm going out now and I'm going to ask him
to dance with me.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Dance with you? Why not?
Speaker 6 (11:31):
I've always been a very good dancer. Just a minute,
a nice just nice speed and right on cue they're
playing the Wolves. Now, candy, while he's dancing with me,
you want and when you get the chance, stuck down
the back car to the rear door and out of
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his life.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
He won't see you.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
I guarantee I'll keep him busy.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I'm standing by the punch bowl and this wrinkled up
little prune blows back, almost catching me, sneaking the last
drinking the bowl. I figure that best defenses attack, since
I see she's alone, Hey, where's my girl?
Speaker 6 (12:16):
She's otherwise engaged for the moment. Well, I see the
bowl is empty, and I'm surprised.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Oh, I've been doing a Russian business here. Let's see
here it's twenty three bucks.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Well, that plees me for my duties. So while we're
waiting for your young lady, why don't you ask me
to dance?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Dancing?
Speaker 6 (12:41):
They're playing well my.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Favorite Well, I ain't watching that kind of dancing.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Cousin, cousin, and please use my name, And there's no problem.
I couldn't show you very easily.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Hey, hey, you know you dance pretty good?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
You sy? Is that with a c uh?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
No? It's an s you know for Simon Simon?
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Oh, I might have known it.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
He looks so much like him.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
Quit's almost as if he were alive all over again.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Some guy you know named Simon.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
No, his name was Peter.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
But that's just the same, isn't it. Oh, it's in
the book of Matthew, Chapter four, Verses eighteen and nineteen.
It all just seems as though its fated.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Si, what's that.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
That I should command you as our Lord did to
the man Simon called.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Peter, to follow me where.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
I would hope your salvation.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Well, wow, that's sort of a rocker for a number
one man whose life is dedicated to the pursuit of
the easy butt. Isn't it to say nothing of the
fact that he's a man who doesn't need an elastic conscience,
because in his life to date he's never needed one
at all. Just how do you suppose he'll make out
if he ever has to use one? Let's see when
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I return with Act two, The tall, dark, handsome boy
dances with a little sparrowbird of a woman. A half
a century lies between them. The boy, for all his
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easy carriage, is a coiled spring, tensed, dangerous, his agate,
bright eyes, afraid and menacing behind the surface charm. The
little old lady is serene and unafraid, with a dauntless
armor of extreme age and inner faith. An ill assorted
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couple joined by an accident of faith which can lead
only to disaster.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
You're too much for me, cousin im.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
I don't think so, Simon. Maybe just enough or at
least what you need. You're up against it, aren't you
come again? You're broke, practically down to your last.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Time, and you're looking for a meal again.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Labe, you fracture me, you know? I mean, how's an
old woman like you know where anything's at.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
I've put in my apprenticeship finding out.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
I've lived a.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Lot of years.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, in the past.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
I'm still here. You'll have to tell me if I'm right.
I think you've run out the string side. That ten
bucks I changed.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
For you was your last line.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Of defense.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
And what is I know?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
I'm right, so do you?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
And this girl tonight?
Speaker 6 (16:02):
She was just a means to an end, the place
to spend the night.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
What do you mean? Was?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Look, I gotta find her.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
She isn't here anymore. How do you are you scared her?
She wanted to go home and she's gone alone. I'm
sorry if I broke up your date, but it really
was for the best.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I'm glad you figure it that way.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Now before you get too man, why don't.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
You listen to me?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, listen what I don't have the date.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
So you can be mine? The party's over, Simon, will
you see me home?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I never thinkured this, me walking a little old bundle
of bonds couldn't weigh over eighty five pounds, soaking wet home?
But what else have I got going for me?
Speaker 6 (16:51):
You know? So that's my proposition? Now? How does it
feel for a change?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
What do you mean change?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Aren't you the one who.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Usually makes the proposition?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I say it again, cousin Ann, You are really something melt.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Something melt from you, Simon, Baby, I'd like you to
cross over and join my world.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Well what's your world?
Speaker 6 (17:19):
What I told you the way to salvation?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I mean, you're ready to take me in there, mistake
me till I find a job, get back on my feet.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
But what's the payoff?
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Pay off?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
What am I letting myself in for? What have I
gotta pay back?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Nothing really except companionship and maybe sort of the miracle
of a memory coming alive for even only a little while.
You're so like him, Simon. Well, here we are home.
We can say good night and you keep on walking. Ah,
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you come in with me and make it yours too.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
You're taking some risk at eighty five eighty four, you
really want me.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
To come stay with you.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I really do, Simon.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
I think it would be very good for both of us.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I got a suitcase down at the FRUS station with
my things.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I could go fetch it and come back.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
You do that, and I'll have a nice little supper
waiting for you by the time you come back, Peter,
I mean Simon. This will be your room with Simon,
your own bath right across the hall, but our towels
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for you. Oh, there's a closet over there, and whenever
you're ready, have a little surprise for you. Keeping hot
in the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yeah, well, I can unpack later, when don't I come
on down with you.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Whatever you want from now on your home.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You buy this, you can see this happen. I had
to shake all the cobwebs from that floaded punch out
of my head to make sure it was for real,
and I'd fallen knee deep in it. Somehow, I was cold, sober,
and I knew I'd hit the jackpot if I just
played it right. I washed my face quickly or combed
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my hair and went down to supper in the kitchen.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Mar coffee as much as you want.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
How's the pizza?
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Oh, it's the most erst.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
I don't eat it myself. I really don't remember just
why I bought it. Maybe someone nudged my elbow.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Huh.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Since it wasn't my idea, it must have come from above.
I don't think you crossed my path by accident.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
You, I don't know what else.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
You don't believe in him as easily as I do.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, I ain't no religion, ain't my speed?
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Perhaps not yet? Oh you're so like him.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Go back to Peter again, eh?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Simon called Peter?
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Does that upset you?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Well, you know, I kind of like to be number
one guy.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Who was this Peter guy? Anyway?
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Was the man I should have married, the man I
should have made marry me. I was too romantic for
our own goods. So I just let him walk out
of my life. Yeah he did you, No, not exactly. No,
he had another appointment which kept him in France, billow Wood,
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near Chateau Thierry.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, that's what I say.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Another thing, No, No, a gentleman with a size huh. Death, Simon,
death in the dark ages long before you were born.
May twenty seventh, nineteen hundred and eighteen. A German machine
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gun cut him down Peter Peter Hurst, who should have
been my husband, except that he refused to marry. Why oh,
just exactly because of what happened when he marched away
to war. He had a premonition he'd never come back.
He thought that twenty eight would be too young for
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a widow, and I was fool enough to let him
have his way.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I don't know, cousin an maybe he thinked it right.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
No sense for making a well, you know, like making
a commitment to some poor Joe couldn't be around now.
This way he lets you swing free.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
If we'd been married, we'd have been together. And if
we'd been together, I know we'd have had a child.
This way, I was left with nothing. You mean, you
never nothing to bother about yet. But if I had
had that child, he might have looked just like you.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Ah, come on, cousin Anny PVB. Would have been old
enough to be my father. I could have been a girl.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Either way, I might have ended up with a grandson.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
I ain't a guy, No, not yet, huh.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
I'll forget that now. The first thing to do is
get you a job, isn't it Well, how would you
like to work in a bank, a bank, as mister
Gillette is the man who handles my affairs. And I'm
sure if I recommended you, he might find something for you.
Should I recommend you, Simon?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Why not?
Speaker 6 (22:52):
I'm the one who was asking the questions. I mean,
can you be trusted?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
What do you think? I mean? I think I want
to hoist the.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
Joint and I'd like to feel that I could be
sure you wouldn't. I told you I was interested in
your salvation.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I get a job at the bank interest clerk in
the savings department.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
And I lived with cousin Anna. She she tried to
make my peace with her God. And maybe it wasn't
all come because she sort of got to me, you know.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
And who knows the way things could have gone it
except for Ted Slade turning.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Up one day. Hey, man, I've been waiting for you.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yeah, you don't recognize me, Ted Tennis Slade? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I know. Hey, where are you aheading?
Speaker 5 (23:46):
It's my bunch?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
How someplace to grab a fast sandwich? Okay, I'll walk
with you.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Hey, where can I joint? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Oh man, I never thought i'd see you go square.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I gotta eat And the best you could do and
ain't like that. Tell how is it?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Tell me shit happened?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Just figured you for a little inside info.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah about what the way banks work like. Since you're
on the inside, what he's got in mind? Hey, help
by your luncheon, maybe we could get our heads together.
I'm not hopping out. I'm not trying to duck it.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I I knew as well as head did where he
was headed.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
You know, we we were both main chance boys, and
we had stacked up whatever religion I had got kind
of like melted, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
All it looked so easy.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Ah, who's trying to knock off your bank?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Chill man? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Then what well I've cased his little neighborhood bank corner
is still well in seven same pattern as yours. Our
Friday should be the big day when the cash is
still alive, not buried in the ball you drive. That's
all the risk you take. I pay off one thirty.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Yeah, is it worth it? You gotta know it is.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
That's payday with the consolidated machine plan. There's like a
hundred and fifty thousand riding and there's you won in.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Yeah, you got me. I won in. When next Friday
take off?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Sick in the morning, you pick up to get away car.
From then on in it's smooth, saben. Sure I should
have told him to get lost, you know, you think
I don't know that.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
But there were other things going for me right then,
like I was broke and anyway, I I had a
grab at it.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Hm, what did you say, cousin Ann, I'll come on,
she was just a lucky break I'd launched on too,
or or she well, she may be a I don't
know what to call it, like maybe a force that
was shoving me into a corner I couldn't break out
of it. See, so maybe Ted was handing me a
(26:15):
brass ring. I I could grab it and I could
get off the merry go around?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Wrong or right? I grabbed it?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
You okay, sure, alright, I'm going out now. I just
saw a consolidated make the big deposit.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
And you can have a little loan.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Uh duf.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
So you just hold fast, be ready to take off
when I come out. No rough stuff you playing with children.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Not a listener has to be.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Hanging their partner.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I saw him saunter into the bank, did nothing but
the waiting. When I finally heard them, like, like, I
guess I knew all along was going to that this
was one heist which wasn't gonna work.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
No problem. I shoved that get a wick car in
the gear and took off.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I junked at four blocks away.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I went back meekly to.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
My job as interest clerk. But I knew right then,
no matter how it went, I had to get out,
even away from cousin Ann.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
Oh, terrible, what a waste. A young man robbing a bank,
shot to death and what for?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Let me see, said slid Oh did you know him?
I'm just reading his name here in the paper where
eah right there?
Speaker 6 (27:55):
Oh at the end of the story, I hadn't got
that far. Pleaseated that the robber could not have been alone.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Missus.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
James C. Needleson returning from lunch, remembers a gray sedan
sitting near the bank with its engine running. A search
is being made for the car and a possible driver.
A terrible thing, a young man throwing away his life
for a few dollars. You wouldn't have to do that, Simon.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Huh.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
You have a future if you want it with me.
May not be much, but all I have when I
die is going to you, And I just hope you're
willing to wait.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
But I wasn't, and I was too scared some smart
cop would get a make on me. And I was
long past being mama's boy. So that night I picked
up steaks and I took off for the Big Apple.
If you want to get lost, where else is better
than New York. And I thought I'd said goodbye to
cousin Ann forever. Sooner or later, every grifter, every guy
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with an angle, gravitates to New York. The city isn't
a blame. It's just so big that, like blotting paper,
it absorbs and disidentifies anyone who wants to become anonymous.
A petty crook like cy could have remained forever that
way if but that's the story, so we'll say that
(29:33):
till our return shortly with a three three months in
New York have not been very kind to Cyberman. Oh
he has a new girl. There's always a girl in
(29:53):
the life of a manlike sigh. But what he doesn't
have is money or what he would call a ce
to raise anything worse than that, He's in the hands
of the loan sharks. So he knocked at his best pas.
Mom who hey, who, Yes, I mean God, is this
(30:14):
that sever wreck?
Speaker 6 (30:15):
Oh they're tearing down the building next door.
Speaker 7 (30:17):
They've been out of some eight o'clock this morning.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Check the window way, cut down the noise.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
The place will get like a steam bed.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I don't care and let a sweat and have my
brain swambled.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
I want a movie.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Do what I say us I should don't don't flip?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Hmm, how's that my gracious stillness to knock my head off?
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I need a drink. Where's a bottle? I threw it out?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
What let's take it easy?
Speaker 7 (30:43):
S you'll mock me up again?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
It was empty, it would hit again.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
Oh no, you knocked it off.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Your suffla's not crazy.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Lay one across and you'll go on. Get out of here,
Get me another one? Oh?
Speaker 4 (30:54):
What will I use for money?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
And clean again? You ought to know.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
What are we gonna do? Sign?
Speaker 5 (31:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
I can't get no way.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
Well, if it hadn't been for me, we'd have been
on welfare the past month.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
And a half.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Sure, sure, a big deal of your brother wrung me
in and get me in the hands of the loan shocks.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
How am I gonna dig myself out of that?
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Huh?
Speaker 7 (31:14):
If you could only get something.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Going not legitimate, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I'm never gonna dig myself out there.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Oh I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Maybe sal Yeah, give me my gun, just as I.
Speaker 7 (31:26):
Don't go off like a rocket sign.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I'm sure it's only my brother.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I'm not taking any chances. Oh is it?
Speaker 5 (31:32):
It's there?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Go alone? Yeah? What do you think?
Speaker 5 (31:38):
You're better be?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Be nervous and relations opened that door?
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Side?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Go ahead, loo, open it up.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
You put the gun away?
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Side.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I'm alone this time. What do you want? You're overdue? Side?
I haven't got it. Well you'd better get it.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
You know. The man gets nervous when it goes over
a gram a thousand bucks.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Hey, I only followed three bills. That's the way it is.
With interest, it mounts up. Am I going to get
that kind of doll? Search me? But if I was,
you I get it. I mean by Monday next week.
That's all the time you got.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Oh, so can't you give him a break?
Speaker 6 (32:24):
You're my brother after all, Blue Hunt.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
There ain't no family connections with the man.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
I am just a messenger. It's my neck or size.
So who's do you figure I'm gonna look out for it?
Speaker 7 (32:35):
If he hasn't got it, honestly, we'd.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Better find some way to get it. Hey, ain't you
got no family that can put the b on? Hussie?
Speaker 1 (32:43):
I've been on my own ever since I was a Yeah, hey,
wait a minute, Yeah, maybe there.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Is a way.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
It took me pretty near ten minutes on the phone
to get cousin and to stop tying hang up on me.
She sure sounded on me the way I walked out
on her. But when the chips are down, I can
weel with the best.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
Oh, I am probably being very foolish, simon, when that's
another privilege of old age. Do you want to come
home again?
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (33:17):
More than anything, cousin ann, But well only I can't
see it. Watch the matter.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
You're in trouble?
Speaker 5 (33:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (33:26):
W with the police?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Oh no, no, no, nothing like that.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Uh uh a girl, Well no, I don't have any
trouble with them.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
Yes, I don't imagine you do. Well, what is it then?
Speaker 8 (33:39):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (33:40):
I I was very foolish, See I.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
I had to live.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
I'm I mean hocke.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
You mean you owe money?
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Yeah you can say that again?
Speaker 6 (33:51):
Uh how much.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
A thousand dollars? Hum?
Speaker 1 (33:56):
But maybe I could I could stave 'em off, you know. Uh?
With less.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
You're asking me for the money, Simon, just just as
a loan, but you'd rather have it as a gift.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Oh well, you know you once said something about put
me in your will. I'm I'm I'm suld rather have
it now you.
Speaker 6 (34:15):
Know, thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
You gotta help me.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Uh, Cousin Ann, please give me your New.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
York address and phone number, Simon, and I'll think it's over.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I guess I don't have to tell nobody how I
sweated out the next couple of days like I must
have jumped the foot every time the phone rang, and
I had Lou running up and down the stairs ten
times a day looking.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
For the mail.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Who's had Lou search me? But they said I had
till Monday.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
I still got time.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Yeah, who is its?
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Cousin Ann?
Speaker 6 (34:50):
Simon.
Speaker 7 (34:52):
Will do you come down and help me with my bank?
Speaker 5 (34:55):
Please?
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Who is it?
Speaker 2 (34:57):
It's cousin Ann. What the devil is she's doing here
in New York?
Speaker 6 (35:05):
So this is how you're living?
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Yeah, it's the best I've been able to manage.
Speaker 6 (35:10):
Well, now that cousin Ann is here, we'll see if
we can improve things for you.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
I mean, yeah, you brought the I mean the money.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
Now, that's something we can discuss when I get settled in.
I want us to enjoy my visit while I'm here
before we go back to Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
The next few days was enough to get me annoyed
enough to murder.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
This old babe.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Like it gets to be Saturday and I sneak out
of the house to phone a loof from a boot
and let her know how the land lays.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
See shouting here right now?
Speaker 7 (35:44):
Sy Nothing he could do anyways.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Hey, look, lou don't be mad at me.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
I'm just trying to play the angles. Only nothing pays off.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
She hasn't come up with a dough.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Nah, she says it's usury and it's against the laws.
You want to bring in a Yeah?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
It was all I could do to stop her. WHOA,
What am I gonna do?
Speaker 7 (36:05):
Don't tell me.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
You've run out of snake oil?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Joan boy?
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Yeah, I tell you.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
I'm scared, silly, and when's driving me bananas?
Speaker 5 (36:13):
Is?
Speaker 1 (36:13):
All she's gotta do is write a check and I'm
home free.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
I've only got today and tomorrow and make a see reason.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
If she doesn't come through, I'm gonna murder it.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
Oh there you.
Speaker 6 (36:26):
Are Simon, I didn't know where you'd got to. I
was afraid you'd forgotten her little trips to the Metropolitan
Art Museum Today.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Mccare cousin, Ann, maybe this trip here is a big
blast to you, but with me, it's life and death.
I got less than twenty four hours to come up
with a thousand big ones, or else I'm gonna get hurt.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
I'm hurt bad. I gotta know you're gonna give it
her me or not.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
I have no intention of having any traffic with crooks
and criminals, or of condoning usury. I am not going
to pay it, and neither are you. That the matter
is in much better hands than ours, Simon. And that's
the last time then to say about it.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Those hands.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
You think this is something that the guy you pray
to is gonna take care of.
Speaker 6 (37:15):
I have no doubt to the last analysis. I am
sure when we go to church tomorrow you will answer
my prayers. There's the right way and the wrong way
to go about things. Now, you listen to me, Simon, No, oh.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
You listen to me. You sell you old doll. You're
gonna make that payoff.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
You see this, Yes, it's a pistol. Yeah, with real bullots,
one of which, so help me, is gonna make you
very dead if you don't sit down and write me
a check for that thousand.
Speaker 6 (37:45):
I can't do that, simon.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
You better, cousin. I am not kidding, I'm desperate.
Speaker 6 (37:50):
It wouldn't do any good, even if if I had
a chance, which I haven't. I haven't even the bank account,
and I haven't any money, certainly not a thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (38:03):
You won't.
Speaker 6 (38:03):
And I have a small insurance inuity policy which pays
me barely enough to live on. But the house, oh
don't own that. The church has been kind enough to
let me use it these last year's rent free.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
In return what you said i'd be in your will.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
You are, But it's only a few dollars that I
thought might help you.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Silly old fraught.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
You let me down a garden path, and because of you,
are'm going to get my brains knocked out.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
I could kill you for.
Speaker 6 (38:35):
That, only you won't, because God wouldn't allow a boy.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Like you name you and your.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Oh oh no, cousin, ann look.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
And me.
Speaker 6 (38:54):
Got down and open up.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
When the door opens, you better have your hands up
out of your head. Okay, okay, I got the gun.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
I'm opening up.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
That's nice, buddy, Just hold it like that. See to
the old lady there, Riser, how did you know how
to be here? We weren't looking for homicide, buddy, just
answering a complaint at the precinct two days back by
the old lady, something.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
About usury and loan shocks. We just came by to
check it out.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
It's a matter of crumble.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
She didn't want to pay off. They had me dead
to rights. They threw the book at me. Maximum security
saw the.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Good night. I arrived here in jail, so did cousin Anne.
I was getting ready to turn in, washing my face
as a reached Flatu say. She was sitting on a
bed knit non something.
Speaker 6 (40:02):
Hello, Simon, what are you doing here? Keeping your captain?
Speaker 2 (40:10):
But you can't get dead?
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Oh no, no, you took my life in the midst
of the deception, and.
Speaker 6 (40:21):
My punishment is I cannot die with you. We're going
to be together alone time.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
Oh no, no, here we are here, Good God, hear
me out. I can't stand it.
Speaker 6 (40:45):
I'd rather die.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
I'd rather be dead. Not the pleasant story. I'm sorry
to say. But then Simon Berman wasn't, I should say,
isn't a very pleasant character, So perhaps the punishment fits
the crime. You'll have a long long time to learn
(41:08):
with Hamlet that conscience does make cowards of us. All.
I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 6 (41:16):
I guess I'm lucky.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
My family's always been healthy.
Speaker 7 (41:20):
Oh, a touch of constipation now and then, but we've
got x slax for that.
Speaker 8 (41:25):
When you need a laxative, shouldn't your first choice be
the one more families buy than any other. That's today's xlax.
Families like the chocolate, the taste, you like the way
x slax works gently overnight for relief in the morning.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Next time, make.
Speaker 8 (41:39):
Gentle chocolate de deck slacks your first choice for occasional
use only as directed.
Speaker 6 (41:44):
We've always been healthy and x slax is part of that.
Speaker 9 (41:47):
Yes, Remember your last hay fever attack, Your medicine turned
out to be just antihistamine.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Yes, next time arm.
Speaker 9 (41:54):
Yourself with arm allergy relief medicine.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
One tablet helps.
Speaker 9 (41:58):
Itching drippingskneesy then does what your plane at a Histaman
won't do for congestion relief even in your sinuses.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
Remember, don't give up farm yourself.
Speaker 9 (42:08):
With a m yet and a histaman Willie even more
take arm when needed only as directed.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Cyberman is no longer housed on death Row. He lives
part of the time in a padded cell when he
doesn't have to be confined to a strait jacket in
his own room. They've even given up treatments. No form
of therapy helps. He lives in his private world with
only one other companion, a gentle ghost named Cousin Ann,
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whose kindly presence, far from soothing him, has driven in man.
Our cast included Tony Roberts, Mary Jane Higbee, Brina Raeburn,
and Earl Hammond. The entire production was under the direction
of Hymond Brown. Radio. Mystery Theater was sponsored in part
by a arm allergy relief medicine. This is e. G.
(43:10):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents, come in.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I'm e. G. Marshall. Death is a much maligned figure,
an unwelcome visitor the most, but to some becomes as
a friend and a healer, much prayed for and sought
to them. He is Johann Sebastian Bach's zistote sweet Death,
who comes to bind up unbearable wounds, but not.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
To everyone who prays for his soothing touch. Is he allowed.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Some crimes are too great to be forgiven by death.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
You could handle it, Alonge.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Ted Duck SOUPSI just be ready to take off when
I come out. I watched Ted saunter into the bank,
then nothing but waiting when I finally heard them, Like
I guess, I knew all along I was going to
I knew this was one heist which wasn't gonna work.
(01:30):
Our mystery drama, The Curse of Conscience, was written especially
for the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and stars Tony Roberts.
It is sponsored in part by General Electric, Citizen Band Radios.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
And Buick Motor Division.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I'll do that shortly with that one.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
The young strong hands are clenched so tightly on the
cell bars that all the blood is squeezed out of them,
and the veins stand out dark and distended against the
chalk white skin. His eyes are glassy, and his voice
as the edge of hysteria. His name is Simon Berman,
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or once was before he changed it for a number.
And he is not alone.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
He is never never alone anymore.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I'm not looking around.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
She's sitting there waiting for me too, but I ain't fiting.
She just start talking to me, and I don't want that.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
That's the way it all began. But now it's all over,
it's gonna be. She ain't there, She can't be.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
That's the way it is.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
She's just not fair.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Don't be ridiculous, Simon. Of course I'm here. No, you
know it as well as I. I'm never going to
go away, so you might as well turn around.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I don't want to start anything again.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Very well, suit yourself, but I won't ever go away.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
One thing I gotta say is she don't change. I mean,
she's like that old crumbin ancient history or something who
wanted to get across the river and the fool will
let him fly him on his back and never could
get him off again. It's crazy.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I mean, you know who could.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Have figured the way it began?
Speaker 5 (03:40):
A couple of years.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Ago, I'm stuck in Cleveland. The town is dead, I
mean dead. You can't turn a buck doing nothing. So
I pick up this girl, some Jane, I don't even
remember her name now. She drags me into some church
social That's where I meet you, cousin nano ideas.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Wats some tickets to dance?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah? Sure, ma'am?
Speaker 5 (04:04):
How much are they?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
That's our theme of the evening, all for the church.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Ten cents a dance?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
H well, I'll spring for a box worth.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
You might want our special two dollars to dance all night?
Speaker 7 (04:15):
Gee, that's romantic. Sorry, dance all night?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, give me give me two dollars special.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
You'd like some refreshment? We have a nice punch.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
No thanks, not just to dancing.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Maybe after you dance, to like a cool refreshing drink.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
What is it? Lemonade?
Speaker 6 (04:34):
Well, that's what the church provides.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
How much is it a shot?
Speaker 6 (04:38):
The church set a price of twenty five cents a glass.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Okay, okay, fine, we'll be back ma'am.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Okay, candy, Oh sure, sorry, come on, let's dance.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
What do you say, candy, Shall we cut out?
Speaker 7 (04:58):
Oh no, I'm having good time?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
H hi's you?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, it's all right.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
It's a two bit church recreation hall in a jukebox
start us ballroom?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
It ain't you?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Well if keep.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
Going to take me somewhere better, like maybe the Discover one,
a big hotel ballroom.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
And I was figuring, like maybe i'd take you home,
you know, at nine o'clock.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
In the evening. Oh you promised me.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
A big time Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, yeah, sure I did.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
I thought you was a big spender.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
What's your rush?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Turn me on?
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Mama?
Speaker 7 (05:33):
So that's all right, But but a girl doesn't like
to be rushed all that much, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yeah, and if we hang around here for a while, well.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Then maybe we could, like, you know, stop at your place.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Ah done, No, I just had a painted look the
place ain't fit to live in.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
I mean, how about your place?
Speaker 7 (05:54):
Well?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, a roommate us o.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Oh no?
Speaker 7 (05:57):
But yeah, but what so like I don't even hardly
know you.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Hey, what do you want my life history, fingerprints, social
Security number?
Speaker 7 (06:09):
Oh, come on, I don't.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Need anything like that.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
I can tell you you're a real nice guy.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
So after another dancer, we going to your place, okay.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
But first I gotta go to this, you know, and
like when I get back, I could use some of
that lemonade you spring for some force.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yeah sure, so long as we got that deal.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Oh you got it made handsome.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Time you get back, I'll be waiting for you over
in the corner there.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Go to my place.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
That's a lab I'm down on my last double fin
and a cardboard suitcase full of dirty laundry and a
locker at the bus station.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I gotta make some kind of score, and I need
a pad. That's where the doll comes in.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And I got a player along till I make some
kind of connection. So I figure I can afford to
invest four pits making her happy. And I move you
over to the old dame at the punchbowl.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Well, young man, now, would you like some punch.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yew glass for my old lady? Anyways?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Old lady?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah, the girl I was with, ma'am you know.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
Oh oh, now, maybe you ought to try some yourself first.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
No, no, that's all right.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I don't go in much for you know, soft.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Drinks, and you might like this.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Try it.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
We'll make it on the house.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Oh wow, So uh well, I never refuse a lady,
that's lemonade? Kind of church dance?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Is this?
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Oh? I have them once a month, most of the
customers regular.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah, well I can see why.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
Would you would you like another?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
You wouldn't have to twist my arm. Thanks, he's uh,
he's looking at you. And I'll take one more and
two for my girlfriend.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
And I thought i'd make this the heel. Damn and damn.
I see now that's some one on the house, two
for you and two for the young ladies. That'll be
four dollars sleeve.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, four dollars. Look, I don't you set a quarter right?
There was a sign of.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
That was before the punch was a spiked Yeah. Oh look,
I ain't got that kind of doll dear. I hope
you're not going to you're not going to. Well, chie,
you've drunk two glasses. You know, I'd hate to have
to turn you over to the boys. The boys, it's
such nice boys to play. It's such a brutal getting.
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And they have the church hall here Wednesdays for their
karate class.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Uh, cousin ann look if I may call you.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
That, Oh yes, please do everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I just wanted to say from one I just wanted
to say you are something else.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
Well, thank you. That's quite a compliment for an old
lady in her eighty fifth year. You're eighty five, I said,
year eighty four. Please don't rush me if I must
you the poor dollars please?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Well except for some change? Oh I got is a
ten dollar bill?
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Why couldn't they change?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
You went? Won want happen to my girl?
Speaker 6 (09:36):
Where did she go?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
The powder room? Oh?
Speaker 6 (09:41):
I can find out for you, But would you mind
running my stand till I come back? Here's your six
dollars change?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Will you trust me with us?
Speaker 6 (09:51):
Why shouldn't I?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Are you all right, my dear?
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Yes, thank you, cousin nan, I'm Candy. Mentioned Well why
did you ask if I was all right?
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Well, because you're a young man. Was worried about you.
He's not my young man.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
I just came with him, and.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Now you're sorry you did.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
I didn't say that.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
You didn't have to. He's a bit of a swinger.
Is that what it is? Kenda?
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Here?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Like?
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Well, like he wants to take me home? See well naturally, yeah,
but you don't see it. I live alone, you know
what I can feel?
Speaker 6 (10:36):
This is like he's trouble and I don't want any fascinating.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
How do you know?
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Well, I wasn't born yesterday. I know his type right now.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
He's some kind of drifter, dead beat.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
I don't know what. All you got to do is
look in his eyes.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
This dude is trouble. I don't think so. Seemed like
quite a nice boy.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
And don't let him fall.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
I think he's just lonely, maybe a bit scared. I'm
not him, But what am I going to do?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Well?
Speaker 6 (11:08):
If you if you want to go home without him,
nothing's easy.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
But I can't slip him. I I just know what
he's He's watching for me to come out.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Well, he won't be when you do. I'll make sure that.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
How very simple.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
I'm going out now and I'm going to ask him
to dance with me.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Dance with you? Why not?
Speaker 6 (11:31):
I've always been a very good dancer. Just a minute,
a nice just nice speed and right on cue they're
playing the Wolves. Now, candy, while he's dancing with me,
you want and when you get the chance, stuck down
the back car to the rear door and out of
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his life.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
He won't see you.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
I guarantee I'll keep him busy.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I'm standing by the punch bowl and this wrinkled up
little prune blows back, almost catching me, sneaking the last
drinking the bowl. I figure that best defenses attack, since
I see she's alone, Hey, where's my girl?
Speaker 6 (12:16):
She's otherwise engaged for the moment. Well, I see the
bowl is empty, and I'm surprised.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Oh, I've been doing a Russian business here. Let's see
here it's twenty three bucks.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Well, that plees me for my duties. So while we're
waiting for your young lady, why don't you ask me
to dance?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Dancing?
Speaker 6 (12:41):
They're playing well my.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Favorite Well, I ain't watching that kind of dancing.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Cousin, cousin, and please use my name, And there's no problem.
I couldn't show you very easily.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Hey, hey, you know you dance pretty good?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
You sy? Is that with a c uh?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
No? It's an s you know for Simon Simon?
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Oh, I might have known it.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
He looks so much like him.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
Quit's almost as if he were alive all over again.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Some guy you know named Simon.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
No, his name was Peter.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
But that's just the same, isn't it. Oh, it's in
the book of Matthew, Chapter four, Verses eighteen and nineteen.
It all just seems as though its fated.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Si, what's that.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
That I should command you as our Lord did to
the man Simon called.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Peter, to follow me where.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
I would hope your salvation.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Well, wow, that's sort of a rocker for a number
one man whose life is dedicated to the pursuit of
the easy butt. Isn't it to say nothing of the
fact that he's a man who doesn't need an elastic conscience,
because in his life to date he's never needed one
at all. Just how do you suppose he'll make out
if he ever has to use one? Let's see when
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I return with Act two, The tall, dark, handsome boy
dances with a little sparrowbird of a woman. A half
a century lies between them. The boy, for all his
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easy carriage, is a coiled spring, tensed, dangerous, his agate,
bright eyes, afraid and menacing behind the surface charm. The
little old lady is serene and unafraid, with a dauntless
armor of extreme age and inner faith. An ill assorted
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couple joined by an accident of faith which can lead
only to disaster.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
You're too much for me, cousin im.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
I don't think so, Simon. Maybe just enough or at
least what you need. You're up against it, aren't you
come again? You're broke, practically down to your last.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Time, and you're looking for a meal again.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Labe, you fracture me, you know? I mean, how's an
old woman like you know where anything's at.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
I've put in my apprenticeship finding out.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
I've lived a.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Lot of years.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, in the past.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
I'm still here. You'll have to tell me if I'm right.
I think you've run out the string side. That ten
bucks I changed.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
For you was your last line.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Of defense.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
And what is I know?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
I'm right, so do you?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
And this girl tonight?
Speaker 6 (16:02):
She was just a means to an end, the place
to spend the night.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
What do you mean? Was?
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Look, I gotta find her.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
She isn't here anymore. How do you are you scared her?
She wanted to go home and she's gone alone. I'm
sorry if I broke up your date, but it really
was for the best.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I'm glad you figure it that way.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Now before you get too man, why don't.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
You listen to me?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, listen what I don't have the date.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
So you can be mine? The party's over, Simon, will
you see me home?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I never thinkured this, me walking a little old bundle
of bonds couldn't weigh over eighty five pounds, soaking wet home?
But what else have I got going for me?
Speaker 6 (16:51):
You know? So that's my proposition? Now? How does it
feel for a change?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
What do you mean change?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Aren't you the one who.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Usually makes the proposition?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I say it again, cousin Ann, You are really something melt.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Something melt from you, Simon, Baby, I'd like you to
cross over and join my world.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Well what's your world?
Speaker 6 (17:19):
What I told you the way to salvation?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I mean, you're ready to take me in there, mistake
me till I find a job, get back on my feet.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
But what's the payoff?
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Pay off?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
What am I letting myself in for? What have I
gotta pay back?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Nothing really except companionship and maybe sort of the miracle
of a memory coming alive for even only a little while.
You're so like him, Simon. Well, here we are home.
We can say good night and you keep on walking. Ah,
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you come in with me and make it yours too.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
You're taking some risk at eighty five eighty four, you
really want me.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
To come stay with you.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
I really do, Simon.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
I think it would be very good for both of us.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I got a suitcase down at the FRUS station with
my things.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I could go fetch it and come back.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
You do that, and I'll have a nice little supper
waiting for you by the time you come back, Peter,
I mean Simon. This will be your room with Simon,
your own bath right across the hall, but our towels
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for you. Oh, there's a closet over there, and whenever
you're ready, have a little surprise for you. Keeping hot
in the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yeah, well, I can unpack later, when don't I come
on down with you.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Whatever you want from now on your home.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You buy this, you can see this happen. I had
to shake all the cobwebs from that floaded punch out
of my head to make sure it was for real,
and I'd fallen knee deep in it. Somehow, I was cold, sober,
and I knew I'd hit the jackpot if I just
played it right. I washed my face quickly or combed
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my hair and went down to supper in the kitchen.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Mar coffee as much as you want.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
How's the pizza?
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Oh, it's the most erst.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
I don't eat it myself. I really don't remember just
why I bought it. Maybe someone nudged my elbow.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Huh.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Since it wasn't my idea, it must have come from above.
I don't think you crossed my path by accident.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
You, I don't know what else.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
You don't believe in him as easily as I do.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, I ain't no religion, ain't my speed?
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Perhaps not yet? Oh you're so like him.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Go back to Peter again, eh?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Simon called Peter?
Speaker 6 (20:17):
Does that upset you?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Well, you know, I kind of like to be number
one guy.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Who was this Peter guy? Anyway?
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Was the man I should have married, the man I
should have made marry me. I was too romantic for
our own goods. So I just let him walk out
of my life. Yeah he did you, No, not exactly. No,
he had another appointment which kept him in France, billow Wood,
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near Chateau Thierry.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, that's what I say.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Another thing, No, No, a gentleman with a size huh. Death, Simon,
death in the dark ages long before you were born.
May twenty seventh, nineteen hundred and eighteen. A German machine
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gun cut him down Peter Peter Hurst, who should have
been my husband, except that he refused to marry. Why oh,
just exactly because of what happened when he marched away
to war. He had a premonition he'd never come back.
He thought that twenty eight would be too young for
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a widow, and I was fool enough to let him
have his way.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I don't know, cousin an maybe he thinked it right.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
No sense for making a well, you know, like making
a commitment to some poor Joe couldn't be around now.
This way he lets you swing free.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
If we'd been married, we'd have been together. And if
we'd been together, I know we'd have had a child.
This way, I was left with nothing. You mean, you
never nothing to bother about yet. But if I had
had that child, he might have looked just like you.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Ah, come on, cousin Anny PVB. Would have been old
enough to be my father. I could have been a girl.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
Either way, I might have ended up with a grandson.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
I ain't a guy, No, not yet, huh.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
I'll forget that now. The first thing to do is
get you a job, isn't it Well, how would you
like to work in a bank, a bank, as mister
Gillette is the man who handles my affairs. And I'm
sure if I recommended you, he might find something for you.
Should I recommend you, Simon?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Why not?
Speaker 6 (22:52):
I'm the one who was asking the questions. I mean,
can you be trusted?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
What do you think? I mean? I think I want
to hoist the.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
Joint and I'd like to feel that I could be
sure you wouldn't. I told you I was interested in
your salvation.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I get a job at the bank interest clerk in
the savings department.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
And I lived with cousin Anna. She she tried to
make my peace with her God. And maybe it wasn't
all come because she sort of got to me, you know.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
And who knows the way things could have gone it
except for Ted Slade turning.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Up one day. Hey, man, I've been waiting for you.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yeah, you don't recognize me, Ted Tennis Slade? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I know. Hey, where are you aheading?
Speaker 5 (23:46):
It's my bunch?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
How someplace to grab a fast sandwich? Okay, I'll walk
with you.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Hey, where can I joint? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Oh man, I never thought i'd see you go square.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I gotta eat And the best you could do and
ain't like that. Tell how is it?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Tell me shit happened?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Just figured you for a little inside info.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah about what the way banks work like. Since you're
on the inside, what he's got in mind? Hey, help
by your luncheon, maybe we could get our heads together.
I'm not hopping out. I'm not trying to duck it.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I I knew as well as head did where he
was headed.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
You know, we we were both main chance boys, and
we had stacked up whatever religion I had got kind
of like melted, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
All it looked so easy.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Ah, who's trying to knock off your bank?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Chill man? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Then what well I've cased his little neighborhood bank corner
is still well in seven same pattern as yours. Our
Friday should be the big day when the cash is
still alive, not buried in the ball you drive. That's
all the risk you take. I pay off one thirty.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Yeah, is it worth it? You gotta know it is.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
That's payday with the consolidated machine plan. There's like a
hundred and fifty thousand riding and there's you won in.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Yeah, you got me. I won in. When next Friday
take off?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Sick in the morning, you pick up to get away car.
From then on in it's smooth, saben. Sure I should
have told him to get lost, you know, you think
I don't know that.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
But there were other things going for me right then,
like I was broke and anyway, I I had a
grab at it.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Hm, what did you say, cousin Ann, I'll come on,
she was just a lucky break I'd launched on too,
or or she well, she may be a I don't
know what to call it, like maybe a force that
was shoving me into a corner I couldn't break out
of it. See, so maybe Ted was handing me a
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brass ring. I I could grab it and I could
get off the merry go around?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Wrong or right? I grabbed it?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
You okay, sure, alright, I'm going out now. I just
saw a consolidated make the big deposit.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
And you can have a little loan.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Uh duf.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
So you just hold fast, be ready to take off
when I come out. No rough stuff you playing with children.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Not a listener has to be.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Hanging their partner.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I saw him saunter into the bank, did nothing but
the waiting. When I finally heard them, like, like, I
guess I knew all along was going to that this
was one heist which wasn't gonna work.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
No problem. I shoved that get a wick car in
the gear and took off.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I junked at four blocks away.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I went back meekly to.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
My job as interest clerk. But I knew right then,
no matter how it went, I had to get out,
even away from cousin Ann.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
Oh, terrible, what a waste. A young man robbing a bank,
shot to death and what for?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Let me see, said slid Oh did you know him?
I'm just reading his name here in the paper where
eah right there?
Speaker 6 (27:55):
Oh at the end of the story, I hadn't got
that far. Pleaseated that the robber could not have been alone.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Missus.
Speaker 6 (28:04):
James C. Needleson returning from lunch, remembers a gray sedan
sitting near the bank with its engine running. A search
is being made for the car and a possible driver.
A terrible thing, a young man throwing away his life
for a few dollars. You wouldn't have to do that, Simon.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Huh.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
You have a future if you want it with me.
May not be much, but all I have when I
die is going to you, And I just hope you're
willing to wait.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
But I wasn't, and I was too scared some smart
cop would get a make on me. And I was
long past being mama's boy. So that night I picked
up steaks and I took off for the Big Apple.
If you want to get lost, where else is better
than New York. And I thought I'd said goodbye to
cousin Ann forever. Sooner or later, every grifter, every guy
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with an angle, gravitates to New York. The city isn't
a blame. It's just so big that, like blotting paper,
it absorbs and disidentifies anyone who wants to become anonymous.
A petty crook like cy could have remained forever that
way if but that's the story, so we'll say that
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till our return shortly with a three three months in
New York have not been very kind to Cyberman. Oh
he has a new girl. There's always a girl in
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the life of a manlike sigh. But what he doesn't
have is money or what he would call a ce
to raise anything worse than that, He's in the hands
of the loan sharks. So he knocked at his best pas.
Mom who hey, who, Yes, I mean God, is this
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that sever wreck?
Speaker 6 (30:15):
Oh they're tearing down the building next door.
Speaker 7 (30:17):
They've been out of some eight o'clock this morning.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Check the window way, cut down the noise.
Speaker 7 (30:22):
The place will get like a steam bed.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I don't care and let a sweat and have my
brain swambled.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
I want a movie.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Do what I say us I should don't don't flip?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Hmm, how's that my gracious stillness to knock my head off?
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I need a drink. Where's a bottle? I threw it out?
Speaker 1 (30:42):
What let's take it easy?
Speaker 7 (30:43):
S you'll mock me up again?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
It was empty, it would hit again.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
Oh no, you knocked it off.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Your suffla's not crazy.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Lay one across and you'll go on. Get out of here,
Get me another one? Oh?
Speaker 4 (30:54):
What will I use for money?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
And clean again? You ought to know.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
What are we gonna do? Sign?
Speaker 5 (31:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
I can't get no way.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
Well, if it hadn't been for me, we'd have been
on welfare the past month.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
And a half.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Sure, sure, a big deal of your brother wrung me
in and get me in the hands of the loan shocks.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
How am I gonna dig myself out of that?
Speaker 5 (31:13):
Huh?
Speaker 7 (31:14):
If you could only get something.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Going not legitimate, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I'm never gonna dig myself out there.
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Oh I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Maybe sal Yeah, give me my gun, just as I.
Speaker 7 (31:26):
Don't go off like a rocket sign.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I'm sure it's only my brother.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I'm not taking any chances. Oh is it?
Speaker 5 (31:32):
It's there?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Go alone? Yeah? What do you think?
Speaker 5 (31:38):
You're better be?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Be nervous and relations opened that door?
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Side?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Go ahead, loo, open it up.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
You put the gun away?
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Side.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I'm alone this time. What do you want? You're overdue? Side?
I haven't got it. Well you'd better get it.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
You know. The man gets nervous when it goes over
a gram a thousand bucks.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Hey, I only followed three bills. That's the way it is.
With interest, it mounts up. Am I going to get
that kind of doll? Search me? But if I was,
you I get it. I mean by Monday next week.
That's all the time you got.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Oh, so can't you give him a break?
Speaker 6 (32:24):
You're my brother after all, Blue Hunt.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
There ain't no family connections with the man.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Now.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
I am just a messenger. It's my neck or size.
So who's do you figure I'm gonna look out for it?
Speaker 7 (32:35):
If he hasn't got it, honestly, we'd.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Better find some way to get it. Hey, ain't you
got no family that can put the b on? Hussie?
Speaker 1 (32:43):
I've been on my own ever since I was a Yeah, hey,
wait a minute, Yeah, maybe there.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Is a way.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
It took me pretty near ten minutes on the phone
to get cousin and to stop tying hang up on me.
She sure sounded on me the way I walked out
on her. But when the chips are down, I can
weel with the best.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
Oh, I am probably being very foolish, simon, when that's
another privilege of old age. Do you want to come
home again?
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (33:17):
More than anything, cousin ann, But well only I can't
see it. Watch the matter.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
You're in trouble?
Speaker 5 (33:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (33:26):
W with the police?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Oh no, no, no, nothing like that.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Uh uh a girl, Well no, I don't have any
trouble with them.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
Yes, I don't imagine you do. Well, what is it then?
Speaker 8 (33:39):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (33:40):
I I was very foolish, See I.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
I had to live.
Speaker 5 (33:44):
I'm I mean hocke.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
You mean you owe money?
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Yeah you can say that again?
Speaker 6 (33:51):
Uh how much.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
A thousand dollars? Hum?
Speaker 1 (33:56):
But maybe I could I could stave 'em off, you know. Uh?
With less.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
You're asking me for the money, Simon, just just as
a loan, but you'd rather have it as a gift.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Oh well, you know you once said something about put
me in your will. I'm I'm I'm suld rather have
it now you.
Speaker 6 (34:15):
Know, thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
You gotta help me.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
Uh, Cousin Ann, please give me your New.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
York address and phone number, Simon, and I'll think it's over.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I guess I don't have to tell nobody how I
sweated out the next couple of days like I must
have jumped the foot every time the phone rang, and
I had Lou running up and down the stairs ten
times a day looking.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
For the mail.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Who's had Lou search me? But they said I had
till Monday.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
I still got time.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Yeah, who is its?
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Cousin Ann?
Speaker 6 (34:50):
Simon.
Speaker 7 (34:52):
Will do you come down and help me with my bank?
Speaker 5 (34:55):
Please?
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Who is it?
Speaker 2 (34:57):
It's cousin Ann. What the devil is she's doing here
in New York?
Speaker 6 (35:05):
So this is how you're living?
Speaker 1 (35:08):
Yeah, it's the best I've been able to manage.
Speaker 6 (35:10):
Well, now that cousin Ann is here, we'll see if
we can improve things for you.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
I mean, yeah, you brought the I mean the money.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
Now, that's something we can discuss when I get settled in.
I want us to enjoy my visit while I'm here
before we go back to Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
The next few days was enough to get me annoyed
enough to murder.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
This old babe.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Like it gets to be Saturday and I sneak out
of the house to phone a loof from a boot
and let her know how the land lays.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
See shouting here right now?
Speaker 7 (35:44):
Sy Nothing he could do anyways.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Hey, look, lou don't be mad at me.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
I'm just trying to play the angles. Only nothing pays off.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
She hasn't come up with a dough.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Nah, she says it's usury and it's against the laws.
You want to bring in a Yeah?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
It was all I could do to stop her. WHOA,
What am I gonna do?
Speaker 7 (36:05):
Don't tell me.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
You've run out of snake oil?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Joan boy?
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Yeah, I tell you.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
I'm scared, silly, and when's driving me bananas?
Speaker 5 (36:13):
Is?
Speaker 1 (36:13):
All she's gotta do is write a check and I'm
home free.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
I've only got today and tomorrow and make a see reason.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
If she doesn't come through, I'm gonna murder it.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
Oh there you.
Speaker 6 (36:26):
Are Simon, I didn't know where you'd got to. I
was afraid you'd forgotten her little trips to the Metropolitan
Art Museum Today.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Mccare cousin, Ann, maybe this trip here is a big
blast to you, but with me, it's life and death.
I got less than twenty four hours to come up
with a thousand big ones, or else I'm gonna get hurt.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
I'm hurt bad. I gotta know you're gonna give it
her me or not.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
I have no intention of having any traffic with crooks
and criminals, or of condoning usury. I am not going
to pay it, and neither are you. That the matter
is in much better hands than ours, Simon. And that's
the last time then to say about it.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Those hands.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
You think this is something that the guy you pray
to is gonna take care of.
Speaker 6 (37:15):
I have no doubt to the last analysis. I am
sure when we go to church tomorrow you will answer
my prayers. There's the right way and the wrong way
to go about things. Now, you listen to me, Simon, No, oh.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
You listen to me. You sell you old doll. You're
gonna make that payoff.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
You see this, Yes, it's a pistol. Yeah, with real bullots,
one of which, so help me, is gonna make you
very dead if you don't sit down and write me
a check for that thousand.
Speaker 6 (37:45):
I can't do that, simon.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
You better, cousin. I am not kidding, I'm desperate.
Speaker 6 (37:50):
It wouldn't do any good, even if if I had
a chance, which I haven't. I haven't even the bank account,
and I haven't any money, certainly not a thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (38:03):
You won't.
Speaker 6 (38:03):
And I have a small insurance inuity policy which pays
me barely enough to live on. But the house, oh
don't own that. The church has been kind enough to
let me use it these last year's rent free.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
In return what you said i'd be in your will.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
You are, But it's only a few dollars that I
thought might help you.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Silly old fraught.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
You let me down a garden path, and because of you,
are'm going to get my brains knocked out.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
I could kill you for.
Speaker 6 (38:35):
That, only you won't, because God wouldn't allow a boy.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Like you name you and your.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Oh oh no, cousin, ann look.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
And me.
Speaker 6 (38:54):
Got down and open up.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
When the door opens, you better have your hands up
out of your head. Okay, okay, I got the gun.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
I'm opening up.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
That's nice, buddy, Just hold it like that. See to
the old lady there, Riser, how did you know how
to be here? We weren't looking for homicide, buddy, just
answering a complaint at the precinct two days back by
the old lady, something.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
About usury and loan shocks. We just came by to
check it out.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
It's a matter of crumble.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
She didn't want to pay off. They had me dead
to rights. They threw the book at me. Maximum security
saw the.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Good night. I arrived here in jail, so did cousin Anne.
I was getting ready to turn in, washing my face
as a reached Flatu say. She was sitting on a
bed knit non something.
Speaker 6 (40:02):
Hello, Simon, what are you doing here? Keeping your captain?
Speaker 2 (40:10):
But you can't get dead?
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Oh no, no, you took my life in the midst
of the deception, and.
Speaker 6 (40:21):
My punishment is I cannot die with you. We're going
to be together alone time.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
Oh no, no, here we are here, Good God, hear
me out. I can't stand it.
Speaker 6 (40:45):
I'd rather die.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
I'd rather be dead. Not the pleasant story. I'm sorry
to say. But then Simon Berman wasn't, I should say,
isn't a very pleasant character, So perhaps the punishment fits
the crime. You'll have a long long time to learn
(41:08):
with Hamlet that conscience does make cowards of us. All.
I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 6 (41:16):
I guess I'm lucky.
Speaker 4 (41:18):
My family's always been healthy.
Speaker 7 (41:20):
Oh, a touch of constipation now and then, but we've
got x slax for that.
Speaker 8 (41:25):
When you need a laxative, shouldn't your first choice be
the one more families buy than any other. That's today's xlax.
Families like the chocolate, the taste, you like the way
x slax works gently overnight for relief in the morning.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Next time, make.
Speaker 8 (41:39):
Gentle chocolate de deck slacks your first choice for occasional
use only as directed.
Speaker 6 (41:44):
We've always been healthy and x slax is part of that.
Speaker 9 (41:47):
Yes, Remember your last hay fever attack, Your medicine turned
out to be just antihistamine.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Yes, next time arm.
Speaker 9 (41:54):
Yourself with arm allergy relief medicine.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
One tablet helps.
Speaker 9 (41:58):
Itching drippingskneesy then does what your plane at a Histaman
won't do for congestion relief even in your sinuses.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
Remember, don't give up farm yourself.
Speaker 9 (42:08):
With a m yet and a histaman Willie even more
take arm when needed only as directed.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Cyberman is no longer housed on death Row. He lives
part of the time in a padded cell when he
doesn't have to be confined to a strait jacket in
his own room. They've even given up treatments. No form
of therapy helps. He lives in his private world with
only one other companion, a gentle ghost named Cousin Ann,
(42:48):
whose kindly presence, far from soothing him, has driven in man.
Our cast included Tony Roberts, Mary Jane Higbee, Brina Raeburn,
and Earl Hammond. The entire production was under the direction
of Hymond Brown. Radio. Mystery Theater was sponsored in part
by a arm allergy relief medicine. This is e. G.
(43:10):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.
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