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May 2, 2025 • 45 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dale says Miller had a gun when the chase ended,
but bystanders apparently took the weapon before police could get
it out of Miller's car. The weather forecast for Denver
in Vicinity rain or snow showers, changing the snow late
tonight and ending Friday. The snow has already begun. North
of Denver, driving is becoming hazardous, particularly to the north.
It's been snowing hard in Broomfield for several hours. It's
snowing between Golden and Boulder with blowing snow and poor visibility.

(00:23):
The going is slow and slick. Otherwise variable cottiness tonight
through Saturday, colder Friday and Friday night, but warmer again
on Saturday. The low to night in the upper twenties,
the high Friday in the mid forties, the low Friday
night in the low twenties, and the high Saturday.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Near fifty degrees.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
At the KOA Weather station in downtown Denver, it's still
thirty three degrees.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
This has been the Night Report.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
For Thursday, March sixth This is Dick McDaniel saying good
night for the Night Report News team. Stay tuned for
the CBS Mystery Theater, The Mutual Radio Theater and our
next news at twelve midnight.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents come in. Welcome. I'm

(01:17):
e G. Marshall. Do you like most people resent and
even fear the computer, then this is a story for you,
because we must all learn to realize that, no matter
how much its cold objectivity turns us off, it is
just as human as you or I, and as open
to error. Whatever its output, it is only the result

(01:42):
of what some fallible human being fed into it. A
case in point is this story. Don't you worry about
Sally JM. She may look like a reincarnection of Marilyn Monroe,
but she's all Tiger or Josh. If you're sure, Oh,
I'm sure?

Speaker 4 (01:58):
What do you mean about another way?

Speaker 2 (02:01):
I'll tell you that as we go along. If we're
going to do it, there's no time to lose our
mystery drama. The nine and ninety nine thousand dollars Error
was written especially for the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin

(02:23):
and stars Jackson Beck and Ralph Bell. It is sponsored
in part by True Value Hardware Stories. I'll be back
shortly with that one today. It's a small world, isn't it.

(02:47):
Everyone who's in everyone else's backyard, right, well, yes, and no. Manila,
for example, is still a day's travel by air from
New York, and it's the other side of the world
that makes us virtually neighbors compared to how far removed
a little town like Alimino's is from Manila, even if

(03:08):
it is less than one hundred and fifty miles from Manila.
All of this is only to explain how a thing
like this could happen. I don't know if my white
foolish chickens cause cel on eggs, charrang mcparty, who is calling?
It's not cls mea U sent for me?

Speaker 5 (03:26):
Ah, excuse me? Lawyers, mio, I have been waiting for you.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
You will forgive me. But I am a busy man.
How can I help you?

Speaker 5 (03:35):
There has come to me. Let do you see by
the processes?

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Oh, he's from the United States. How can you tell
this stamp? There is a return address? Do you see
Charles Nidler and Braganza lawyers, East Filipino, the last.

Speaker 5 (03:56):
One from the United States?

Speaker 2 (03:58):
And see why should an American form me writing you
challenge my body? Does it not tell you in the letter?

Speaker 5 (04:07):
I don't understand English. I cannot read even Tagalog.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
You wish me to translate? Yet peace, My time is
valuable challenge. There will be explained. I am poor woman,
a lawyer in a poor town. There must be a
feat How much that will depend on what the letter contains?
Shall we say? Plenty pacils?

Speaker 5 (04:33):
I have only ten.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
You can one me the other time. Give me here.
You have a sister, Aladia in the United States.

Speaker 5 (04:43):
A yes, Elena, seven years since I have heard from her.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Oh, sadly she has died.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
Poor Lena. But she is older than me. How did
she die?

Speaker 2 (05:00):
I does not say. But what it does say is
that she has left you some money? How much one
thousand American dollars? Oh?

Speaker 5 (05:10):
How much is that in Pasos?

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Well? Like today? Exchange about seven two hundred.

Speaker 5 (05:19):
Seven thousand, two hundred a fortune? When may I get it?

Speaker 2 (05:27):
He says that a bank draft has been sent to
the Amerpillip Bank in Manila, and you may get it
anytime Manila.

Speaker 5 (05:34):
But that is so far away. I cannot speak English.
You must help me get it.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
You'll be glad to assist, but there will be expenses.
How much I have three hundred? Well, the wife of
an old friend to fifty two hundred. That leaves you
seven thousand.

Speaker 5 (05:56):
I will sign the papers and you will go to
Manila and bring me back my fortune.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
I brought you here to my private office, singers media,
because it is a little quieter than on the bank
floor dying see. Please have you seat.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
I have all your documents here on my desk.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
It was there is no trouble, I assured my client
they wouldn't be.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
No, no, no.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Trouble at all. But I hope you don't plan to
draw out the entire amount when not well. I had
hoped that the bank would be able to serve your
client and such a sum of money, and you would,
excuse me, in it's no time like any means. Besides,
on such short notice, even a commercial bank of this

(06:45):
size would be hard put without at least twenty four
hours notice to be able to pay out one million
American dollars in cash. Excuse me, I hope I'm not
a feelure. One million dollars. Yes, of course that is

(07:06):
what the bank drafted percent to us from America.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
Is fat.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Oh, of course that is as it should be. Let
me ask you something. I see it not by all means.
I hope I can help. I hope you can my
client to say you're a Mcpalley is in the means
of some difficult and delicate negotiations. She is contracting to

(07:33):
build a huge resort of tele Dagupan. This money is
the basis of the financing. Ah if she needs further financing,
I'm sure the bank would extend looms at the Ribridge.
That was a matter that I had planned to take
up with you once we have secured the proper t

(07:54):
That is what this million dollars is.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
I will try to the disbursement through.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
But as I say, how much could I withdraw from
my client today? When I'm sure we could manage maybe
three hundred thousand?

Speaker 4 (08:10):
Would you want it in pesos or dollars?

Speaker 2 (08:12):
We are dealing with Americans dollars? Now, how weakly do
you suppose we can get the rest of this cash?

Speaker 4 (08:20):
Wait?

Speaker 2 (08:20):
I could promise you another four hundred thousand in cash
by by by Wednesday and the rest of it by
the end of the week's pley is a pleasure to
do business with you. I will arrange for your three
hundred thousand immediately. Do you care what denominations the bills are?

Speaker 5 (08:41):
Not?

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Really? Although why not keep two hundreds or peoplow as
just one more thing. See see senoresda get me one
thousand dollars in pesos? Will't you please seven thousand, two

(09:02):
hundred pass one thousand Ammarian dollars.

Speaker 5 (09:05):
I can't believe such riches, that Elina would leave me
such a fortune. Can you believe such good luck? Promise
me you will help me with my esta. I want
to have a big dinner for all my friends in Alimino,
when it will take me two weeks to prepare, two

(09:28):
weeks from this Saturday.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
I will try to be there sharing, but I may
have to be out of town.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
I was afraid you were going to disappoint us.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Todays upon you, Senori, we have the third and the
last installment ready for you in cash small views. As before,
you are most kind by have all the papers drawn
up for the Lord.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
Did you bring your principle with you this time?

Speaker 2 (10:06):
We should have the Senora mcpartty's signature as she is.
I anxious to sign them, but first I have to
take this last payment for the Americans. Once she has
given them that her title is clear, I would drive
her up Sunday night to Manila and then we can
meet for launch one.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
Then I had hoped that today, but.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Not, they will be just as well as I am
so glad it will suit your plans. Now if I
can have the money, I hope there's no trouble for you.
Why should there be troubled it's your money, or rather
I should say the Senora, and it comes from the
American bank, so as the Americans would say, it is
no skin of my nose, Senora. I was directed here

(10:58):
as the house of this your mag Paddy, I am she?

Speaker 4 (11:02):
Do you are charing mag Puddy? Who else?

Speaker 2 (11:05):
I am? Sorry, Senor. I would have thought it would
be Oh, excuse me, I am Senor Garcia from the
dank from many.

Speaker 5 (11:14):
Oh if I had known, I am not presentable and the.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
House I was actually looking for your lawyer, Senor is mia.
But I am told he's away.

Speaker 5 (11:28):
Is this true?

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (11:29):
Yes? He has been gone since one two five days now,
since Saturday.

Speaker 4 (11:37):
He had an appointment to see me on Monday. Do
you know where he went?

Speaker 5 (11:41):
No, he said, only it was for his health.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
Surely he needs to be here for your affairs. Don't
you need to have the loan arranged? For loan? What loan?

Speaker 5 (11:51):
I do not need money. Thanks to you, I am
rich rich thanks to me and my poor sister, you
helped me to get the thousand dollars she left me
so easily.

Speaker 4 (12:05):
One thousand dollars.

Speaker 5 (12:07):
Yes, see here it is all here in the letter
from America. Here see you can read English.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
I hope so. I wouldn't be much good at the
bank if you.

Speaker 5 (12:18):
Oh what is it, Senor Glass here you don't look well.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
I don't feel well.

Speaker 5 (12:25):
Oh you want some water?

Speaker 2 (12:27):
No? No, no, no, no water me the lawyer, Senor
is mea? He gave you only one thousand dollars?

Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (12:37):
Is that not what it says here in the letter?

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Because that's what he says in the letter. I should
say this, Senors Mea.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
Does he have a family?

Speaker 5 (12:47):
No, he is a lone poor man, not poor.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Senor not anymore? Is there anyone who would know where
he has gone?

Speaker 5 (12:57):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Sorry, if I've kept your wedding, Oh please don't worry,
at least not yet.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
This is mister J. M.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Foster. Great are you you're calling from my dollars and
your own? Yes, from the bunko the Amarqidite. We have
been in the receipt of a bank draft ten days
ago from your bank, which we honored in the amount
of one million dollars to be credited to the account
of the Senora charing my piro. Oh yes, when you

(13:31):
placed your call, my secretary looked up the transaction and yes, sir,
and are we sent you a draft in the senor
not piers name? All right? But what is a slight
discurpacy the map? The draft was for one thousand dollars. Oh,

(13:51):
I was afraid of this. I am sorry, but I
have some unfortunate news for you. Mister. Oh no, now
don't tell me when I'm afraid you're going to I
have to say. When you transmitted to draft, someone on
your side made a computer error added three digits, helping

(14:14):
it to one mansion. That is correct.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
Wow, what it only an accident? Surely it's not too lighty.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Money has already been dispersed and the man who cashed
it has disappeared. It is my set but in its
capable duty, to inform you that I am very much
afraid that your bank has taken in US of nine
hundred and ninety nine thousand American dollars. What is your

(14:48):
first impulse to say? Impossible? Don't because two years ago.
It happened in Manila, in the Philippines. Truth, again, stranger
than fiction, was the embezzler, or whatever you may choose
to call him court That is still a matter for
the courts. We leave that to truth, and now go

(15:09):
on to fiction to imagine if perhaps he might have
been caught and how, which we will leave for act
two when I return shortly. We live in a push

(15:30):
button world, a world where the.

Speaker 4 (15:32):
Machines are incapable of error.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
But how do we program the human being to make
sure that he is infallible? We can't. The error has
now been made. Three extra zeros added to one thousand
make one million, and an astute gentleman named narcisso Esmila
has siphoned off the difference to become an instant millionaire.

(15:58):
Will he get away with it?

Speaker 4 (16:00):
Excuse me? You are mister Jay and Foster.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
That's my name.

Speaker 4 (16:05):
I had having to introduce myself. I am Pedro Gastia
from a bank.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yes, a pleasure to meet users. I hope you had
a good fight. Nineteen hours May. Why can we talk?
I have booked you into the Continental at McCary. I
have the car waiting and we can talk on the way,
then let's get on with it. You say you know
where this guy is?

Speaker 4 (16:30):
Mea is I believe in Brazil? You believe I have
a friend who is Shall we say hi?

Speaker 2 (16:38):
In these security police? He assures me that they have
checked and Narciso is me was issued the passport and
visa and flew.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
There five days ago.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
As anything, Mendando rust in Gawd and Brazil. How can
we do that? The man has taken off with almost
a million dollars in the bank's money, not our bank,
mister Foster, your bank's money. What's the difference? And so
I beg you to understand. We receive the draft, which
we are in good faith. It is not up to

(17:06):
us to prosecute.

Speaker 4 (17:09):
Mister Foster. I think you are in the wrong country.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
If you want your money, you would only find it
in brazilent and how the travel Am I going to
get it out of there? I suppose you will have
to extraditing, yes, or make a deal. The general policemen
have any idea where there's dead be days in Brazil?
Where else? The genre? What name's using?

Speaker 4 (17:33):
Oh, he's own? He is quite prison about that.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
Do you have any pictures of the guy?

Speaker 4 (17:38):
Yes? We even have an address, the hotel Maniana.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
Okay, that Settle says, I'm going to a hotel to
catch some shadow, but first I'm booking a flight to
Rio and the Maniana Hotel.

Speaker 4 (17:51):
It is the most unfortunate, yess.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
You are too well ready to Senor Gussia, and there's
no way I can crawl out from under the fact
that our bank made the mistake.

Speaker 4 (18:01):
But I can promise you one thing, one.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Way or another. Signor innaciso Smea is not going to
get away with him. Ah see, Senores, see, let's speak
in English. That's your language just as much as mine.

(18:27):
I just got into Rio from the Philippines. My name
is jam Fosters. I represent the Mohawk Bank and Press Company.
I believe you have a lot of money that belong
to us. I don't cover anything of yours well that
belongs to Senora Charny and mcballey. However, we're going to
play this throw one channel or another, we intend to
recover it. I really don't know what you're talking about me, Staw,

(18:49):
why don't you see me and let me explain. I
would be delighted to see you if you and ceased,
So you refuse to admit it, of course my name.
You are quite correctly about that, and that you are
a fugitive from the Philippines, not the fugity.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
I came here for my health.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
And I find i'd respond marvelously to the climate, and
you came here with a Minyon bucks you stole. I
really must correct you about that. First of all, I
deny I have the money that you accuse me of taking,
which secondly, if we examine your accusation, mister Foster, how
could money that was freely given me stolen? You know

(19:33):
it was only a mechanical error that made it available.
I had no idea, of course, that there was error involved.
But in any case, the money went to the seaor
in MCFI.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
You know damn well.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
It didn't prove it I could. I don't have expense,
and I don't particularly want to go to That's a
simple way I'll settle said. I want to avoid publicity.
I'm wanting to pay for that. The bank made a mistake,
will absorb it twenty five cents on the dollar. I
don't quite understand you can keep two hundred and fifty

(20:06):
less than thousand you so generously allowed send You're to
m party to have give me the rest. Now'll fold
my tent and silently steal away. No prosecution, prosecution for what?
I don't have to answer that II things you do? First,
what proof do you have that I have the money
that is still not with say you're my party in

(20:28):
the Philippines?

Speaker 3 (20:29):
Second, whoever has it?

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Who does it really belong to? Your bank extended the draft?
No one else? Supposing the money is already spent?

Speaker 3 (20:39):
Carry you recover it?

Speaker 4 (20:41):
If I can't, I could see you in jail.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
Really a tradition? In what court do you sue? Who
do you accuse? Since you can't prove yet which us
has the money? Headlines a bank that is a laughing
stocking which no one wants to invest, is worth it all?

Speaker 3 (21:02):
I've made my last offer. When you accept, why.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
Should I I hold all the guards? That's where you
made your mistake as me. Then, now that you raised
my Yankee hackles, you're not going to get away with
the swindle. I did not swim to anyone your computer
did diet isily nice to think that there is no
real way to reverse the mistake.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
Thank you, Bud, and get the chance.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
I'm sorry, excuse me? Did not.

Speaker 4 (21:39):
Hey, Jimmy, Jimmy Foster.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
Yes, that's right.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
Take a good long look.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
Hey, Josh, welcome you old son of a god.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
I haven't seen you since Sid can'tommy reunion Captain Simon's dream?

Speaker 4 (21:53):
Now what was it six eight years ago?

Speaker 2 (21:56):
I shouldn't even have showed up there?

Speaker 4 (21:57):
Well, how come?

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Oh you know occupation?

Speaker 5 (22:00):
No?

Speaker 2 (22:00):
No, no, keep a lid profile at all times. Hey,
you're out of all that by down Josh standard answer,
no comment. He's the son of a gun and he
kept out with him. No comment. What the heck are
you doing in Rio?

Speaker 4 (22:14):
Is helling with you? No?

Speaker 2 (22:15):
No, no, I'm here in business, monkey business or legitimate.
How can you ask old straight arrow that I'm still
the same old cube you know who took a bullet
from me at Romegan so I could be first across
the bridge. When do you call me in and asked
me to pay?

Speaker 3 (22:29):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (22:29):
Come when it's all of thirty five years ago, Josh?
Why dredged up? Because I still owe you and I
want to repay if I could figure out how well
maybe you could, Josh, Hey, you still of the the organization?
No comment, which means you want watch It's all right,
I when I could use your help, Josh with me. Talk. Okay,

(22:55):
I'm going fishing tomorrow with a fascinating crew. You want
to join us? I think I just might like to
do that. You got your up a date, old buddy.
We'll save all the talk until then. So how do
you like my crew?

Speaker 4 (23:15):
I'm not quite sure how to answer that.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Huh. She's so beautiful, she stirs every red paw pustle
and my old arter makes me feel youngy, And but
then she's so young, she makes me feel older than
I thought. I don't like to tell a fool you
she's not quite as young as she looks. I haven't
rubbed the cradle, j Im, not quite.

Speaker 5 (23:34):
Don't let Josh feed you any romantic double talk, mister Foster.
I was the one who took one look at him
and said, that's for me.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
That's a pleasant fiction.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
Sally likes to leave.

Speaker 5 (23:45):
It's no fiction. Does plain truth. Look, Josh, there's no wind.
We'll have to get out of the harbor under power
I can take over. So why don't you two old
cronies go below and catch up on whatever you have
to catch up on.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
So you are left holding the back, buddy, The way
it goes. We made the mistake originally, but I am
not going to let him get away with it. Yeah,
maybe there is another way. I wish you'd tell me. Ah,
you know, us cloak and Dagger boys, we tell as
little as we can. What do you mean about another way?

(24:30):
I'll lay it out for you right now, if you're
going to do it. There's no time to lose.

Speaker 5 (24:41):
A dakery. Please.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
Oh oh, I'm so sorry. He's all right, No it isn't.

Speaker 5 (24:48):
I come to drink all over your nap, drowned.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
By an angel's fortune, no happiness.

Speaker 5 (24:55):
You turn a nice praise my pleasure.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
Really, most of his speel at the bar, not on me.

Speaker 5 (25:01):
Well, it doesn't excuse my clumsiness.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
It would be hard to imagine yous clumsily that such
an ugly world for so beautiful a woman.

Speaker 5 (25:10):
You're very kind. I'm beginning to be glad I.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
Not to drink of it, not only in my dream,
but me say you are seems my seat is a
little dam May I say yes? Perhaps I can render
and have my drink and you're sent out by the pool.

Speaker 5 (25:27):
I think that would be a lovely idea.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
This was the most pleasant accidents in your wasn't. But
I think you are not alone here at the hotel.

Speaker 5 (25:44):
My husband he has his own interests. I love all
you Latin people so much you couldn't possibly understand. But
drives us, not the Americanos, particularly someone like my husband.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
I don't know if I follow you.

Speaker 5 (26:02):
I hope you will signor oh, I am so sorry.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
My name is narcisso as me, but they call me peppy.

Speaker 5 (26:11):
I like that dippy. My name is Sally and what
I do is my business. What my husband does is his.
It bores me. Why his only interest is money?

Speaker 2 (26:26):
How does he make it?

Speaker 5 (26:27):
He's a finder? Why a finder? He's a geologist and
a miner. He goes all over the world finding precious
ores and oil.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
I don't know what.

Speaker 5 (26:38):
I suppose he's very good at it. We're rich enough
in money, but not much else. How can anyone be
in a town like Rio de Genio and not long
for romance? I'd like to bring you so, I'm sure
you can. I knew it the moment I saw you, Ah,

(27:00):
but not now I see my husband coming. You better
leave household?

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Can I see you again?

Speaker 5 (27:06):
Trust me to arrange it?

Speaker 2 (27:07):
Now? Cool? Hey, what are you doing out?

Speaker 4 (27:10):
Here, Sam, I thought you said you'd meet me in
the bar.

Speaker 5 (27:12):
Oh, but I just wanted to get some air. I
just hope you're fish, darling. When and how do you
want me to land him?

Speaker 4 (27:25):
So far, Esmila has gotten away with everything without breaking.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
The law, except technically. Is Josh Slogan able to trump
his ace and reverse the process?

Speaker 4 (27:36):
Can human ingenuity reverse.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
The computer's mistake? And how? I shall return shortly with that? Three?
The poison of greed is the most insidious in the world.

(28:01):
Once you succumb to it, it is a fever that
can't be halted. And I siso s Mila has been
bitten by this fatal disease and all of the symptoms
that go with it. Desire is blind, they say, And
our friend Esmila sees nothing any more but what he desires.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
Yes, Hary, come here, my darling.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
Only you're calling me Peppy instead of Narciso would have
given me the Strengthen.

Speaker 5 (28:31):
Knock and here we are. I'm sugar Loaf Mountain. I'm
far belowis rio. It's sparkling like diamonds in the sun.
Did you ever see anything more beautiful?

Speaker 3 (28:44):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (28:45):
What you?

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Only you could have gotten me up though, incredible rolled
I must be mad. I am a shosh ah, poor.

Speaker 5 (28:56):
Peppy, but I had to, you see, weaken you a little.
You're much too ardent for me to handle. I have
to figure ways to keep you at arm's length.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
How much longer do you see you can do that?

Speaker 5 (29:12):
Not much, I'm afraid.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
So can you still send? Keep on trying?

Speaker 5 (29:17):
No, my darling, I'm only human too, but we must
be careful. My husband may have little romantic interest in me,
but he is very jealous of his possession.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
They believe him run away with me?

Speaker 5 (29:31):
Could you support me in the style to which I've
become a customer?

Speaker 2 (29:34):
I think so? I'm a millionaire?

Speaker 5 (29:37):
How many times?

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Just once? Well? E' isn't that enough?

Speaker 5 (29:42):
I don't know. If the deal Josh is working on
goes through, he'll be a multimillionaire, maybe even a billionaire.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
What deal?

Speaker 5 (29:51):
Oh, I can't talk about it. It's all very hush hush.
It involves the government somehow.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
I like to know more about it. Where is he now?

Speaker 5 (30:00):
He's upriver with they're done. He had to go into
the interior on business.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Will he be back tonight? No?

Speaker 5 (30:08):
No, not until tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Dinner. Read me in my room.

Speaker 5 (30:12):
No, I must have dinner with a friend. But later,
why don't you come to my rooms? Quen, shall we
say eleven? I'll be waiting for you, and I will.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
Be coming the minute. Now, look here, my gal, sal
you're sure you can handle.

Speaker 5 (30:34):
It, Nurcy, so don't worry, Josh, he's a paper tiger.
Trust me to keep enough distance between us so neither
one of us has to worry. As long as you
come in on time.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Okay, how long do I give you after your eyes?

Speaker 5 (30:50):
Not more than five minutes. Just as soon as we
get into the bedroom.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
I'll be hiding out on the terrace. The moment I
see you go inside, I'll slip in and out the
front door of the suite.

Speaker 5 (30:59):
You should have make plenty of noise with the keys
so we can hear you come in.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Chack, you make sure he hears the phone call before
you get rid of him.

Speaker 5 (31:06):
I'll leave the bedroom door open a crack. Where are
you going now.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
To get jm all primed. I don't want just to
catch our little spider. I want to make sure we
stick a tin in him.

Speaker 4 (31:22):
Gosh, oh, Josh, I want to board Jim.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Let's go below out of the rain. Oh brother, I'm
s one.

Speaker 4 (31:33):
Did I have to drag all the way down to
the boat to meet you?

Speaker 2 (31:35):
We're in the same hotel. I couldn't take any chances
about being seen together up now. Why I don't want
our little pigeon, little Peppy, to fly the coop till
we get the doors slammed tight on him. Tonight we
are going to dangle that extra carrot in front of him,
and by tomorrow we ought to be ready to lower
the boom. You get everything set up through a bank. Yes,

(31:56):
someone said they're going to sit still for our jiggery pokery.
All this one will They don't use our name, but
it's an affiliated of ours. What's it called Bunco Fididino.
It's just two blocks now from the hotel. Okay, we'll
find it all right, don't buddy. We better scram I've
got a date with an angel.

Speaker 4 (32:12):
An angel.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
You better believe it's Sally. She's going to pull your
arms out of the fire. Jay, I'm just like you
did for me thirty four years ago. Josh, you don't
owe me anything all on the point of view anyway.
By the time we have finished with this little caper,
the board is going to be clean. Nobody's going to
be owing anyone nothing.

Speaker 5 (32:35):
It's eleven o'clock.

Speaker 4 (32:36):
Chart.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
Okay, here I go gently into the dark night.

Speaker 5 (32:42):
And here comes my lover breathing fire. Don't leave me
with him too long. I don't want to have to
belt him one.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
Leave that for me later.

Speaker 5 (32:55):
You wouldn't be so impatient, lover boy, if you only
knew by say come in, come in quickly.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
Yes, yes, oh you are so beauty all I want
to lose. Stay you in my arm.

Speaker 5 (33:12):
There isn't quite room for the moment. Roses, Oh how lovely?

Speaker 2 (33:18):
Lovely enough for you and champagne to celebrate our wellad
to celebrate I.

Speaker 5 (33:25):
Sweet of you? Will I'll just put these in water
champagne Oh no, no, no, we will put it in
the refrigerator to Chila. I have them all ready for us.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
Well, it should be my champagne.

Speaker 5 (33:35):
Later, Paps, you brought me the roses, I bring the champagne.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
All I want you to bring me is you?

Speaker 5 (33:42):
Oh what is it?

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Well? For every rose there is it for?

Speaker 5 (33:48):
Oh? I'm sorry. I was just lifting them to put
them in the base. When you put your arms around me,
there aren't they lovely?

Speaker 2 (33:57):
Yes, Oh baby, you bleed that the matter is nothing
next to the way my heart bleeds for you.

Speaker 5 (34:04):
How poetic. I think that should lead us straight to
the bedroom.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
The bedroom.

Speaker 5 (34:12):
Yes, that's where we have to go to find what
we want, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (34:18):
Yes? But I did exactly think.

Speaker 5 (34:20):
That there we are something. Will you open it?

Speaker 2 (34:24):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (34:25):
Yes, yes, of course.

Speaker 5 (34:27):
I think I just turned down the lights and make
it more romantic. How's that?

Speaker 2 (34:33):
Ah? That's more I like it, It says the mold.
This should complete it, I hope.

Speaker 5 (34:40):
Yes. Let me drink some fast to give me courage.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
What's that? Oh?

Speaker 5 (34:48):
Lord, it's my husband. There's no way.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
What are we going to do?

Speaker 5 (34:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
What is he doing?

Speaker 5 (35:00):
Someone international code and now I could probably.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
Sitten well, Brad, it's josh, yeah, it's selling real. Look,
we're in business.

Speaker 4 (35:12):
It's great.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
Couldn't be greater.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
I just came downe early from the camp.

Speaker 4 (35:15):
They're bringing him up in handfuls.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
All we got to do is get him out. We're billionaires.
That a billionaires. Did you get the money? Why? But
you gotta be kidding. I gotta have it, Brad. I
told you what. I need one million cold cash to
pay off all around for the divers. The government here,
buy a helicopter to get to the boat, another boat
to get us to the Florida Keys.

Speaker 5 (35:39):
But you promised.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
I know it doesn't grow on trees. But this is
the biggest thing I ever ran across. For one lousy million,
the money guy could come out clean, no taxes, one
thousand percent. Yeah, all right, keep in touch. But I
tell you, and I kid you not. If we don't
make it by tomorrow, this boat will never come in.

(36:03):
It'll be long gone.

Speaker 5 (36:06):
He's coming in here.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
What am I going to do?

Speaker 5 (36:10):
Yes, he always carries a gun. Now, let me get
the light, and if you value your life, stay right
here in the bedroom. Hello, Josh Darling. I didn't expect
you home.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
I didn't expect to be back so soon. I thought
I was bringing in the best news in the world.
Did did you hear any of that phone call?

Speaker 5 (36:34):
Enough? Brad let you down again?

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Yeah? I didn't figure this time the chance of a
lifetime right up the flu.

Speaker 5 (36:41):
Oh, I don't think so. You didn't count on your
clever little wife. I think I found just the man
to bankroll you. Betty. Come on in here and meet
your silent partner. The man who's going to make you
really rich.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
You don't know how lucky we both are. Sendure as me.
I hope. So I'm very nervous about commeeting so much
cashion a ventch. You ain so lil a bob. But
you're not committing it. You're just depositing it in a
bank this morning as evidence of good faith in your
own name your account. Then I'll take you to see
what you're investing in and establish my good faith. Are

(37:28):
the profits really so fabulous? O? Just let us get
the diamonds out of Brazil, and the sky is the limit.
If the government ever dreamed of the bonanza eye uncovered,
they move in and stop us dead. Look at the
quality of these diamonds. Just let me spill them out
inside the limb eh. And that was brought up by

(37:50):
just one diver. Diver. See we mind these from the
river bottom. A diver goes down with an air hose
and blows a pit in the river bottom. In the
deposits we find diamonds. We found one bend where the
clay washing down built up and got trapped, and we
have mined it practically dry. But what we took out'll

(38:10):
make you and me rich for the rest of our
lives thanks to my little wife. Yes, he's an excellent
business woman. Oh don't I know it? I mean another
guy might have put the wrong interpretation of you and
she being together last night. Only I know Sally too
well to doubt her.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
He Wasn't it Lucky for both of us she found
you to come up with the cash.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
We need to swing this. I guess I ought to
sign my lucky stars. I guess you better. Okay, GM,
everything else set? Yes, papers all in order? Right?

Speaker 5 (38:52):
Then?

Speaker 2 (38:52):
I guess I'll go break the news to old narcisso
want to be in at the death. I think I'll
wait to spring the bed news. Then I'll come in
and bask in the good Okay, here goes mistress media.
It's the slogan. Are we all ready to go up?

(39:13):
And I will look at the diamond mine? If that's
what you call it, Well, I'm afraid not. I've got
bad news for you. We've we've been closed out on
that deal. What but what about my money? We don't worry.
That's being returned to you in full. This is your
receipt of which you.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
Have a thought.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
Hey, thank you? Wait, wait a man, this is only
for one thousand dollars I put in a medium. Is
that so well? Perhaps it's just a computer error. You
had better be I cover a receiver right here, which state?
But that's not possible. What isn't mistress media? These receipt

(39:55):
reads only one thousand, but there were three extra digits
on it when I departed in the money. Maybe you
better talk to one of the bank officials. Hello, Senoresma
you yes, we meet again. Is there some way I
can help Hill find deposited a million dollars in the bank.

(40:16):
This morning? I realized now it was a mistake.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
I want it back.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
You know, our bank wants deposited a million dollars by
the mistake, and we wanted it back. I sympathize with you.
It seems we have both been the victims of computer errors.

Speaker 3 (40:32):
But I had a receipt for my deposits.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
The receipt reads one thousand. What I watched it being
written by the bank official for one million. Do you
remember that he changed pens? I let him mine for
the last three digits. What I didn't tell him was
that it was a trick pen. My grandson gave me
for Christmas with an ink that fades to invisibility. Oh crook,

(40:58):
I saw your bank by all means, which will bring
you to America where we can enter a counter suit.
Do you want to spend the rest of your life
tied up in courts with only one thousand dollars to
pay lawyers? Or do you just grin and bear it
and figure if you didn't win, at least you didn't lose.

(41:24):
I don't have too much sympathy for narcisos Meno. Do
you I think he got off lucky, But I must
say I'm glad he didn't get away with it, as
the people in the real case on which this was
founded still seem to be doing. I'll have more to
say about that when I return shortly.

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Speaker 2 (42:51):
At the moment I sat down to tell you this tale,
the story on which it was founded broke again in
the national papers, the nine hundred and night ninety nine
thousand dollars error. In real life it is still tied
up after over two years in legal spaghetti. I prefer
our ending, which ties up the red tape and sees

(43:12):
justice done, don't you. Our cast included Jackson Beck, Ralph Bell,
Carol Titel, and Ian Martin. The entire production was under
the direction of Hymon Brown and now a preview of
our next tale.

Speaker 5 (43:30):
Is it sounds?

Speaker 7 (43:31):
I pick someone at the door, at the door, one minute,
all right, all right, up coming, just find my slippers.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
Who is it?

Speaker 2 (43:50):
Oh my god, Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
Who's out there?

Speaker 2 (43:53):
Who is it?

Speaker 3 (43:55):
Who's out there?

Speaker 2 (43:57):
Go away?

Speaker 7 (43:59):
Go away?

Speaker 5 (43:59):
Who are you on the way.

Speaker 3 (44:06):
It's coming in here, it's coming in.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
Lord, help me, help me not marry missus. E. G.
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dream

Speaker 5 (45:00):
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