The Masked Madman's Twisted Game of Revenge

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 4 (00:41):
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Speaker 6 (01:30):
CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents.

Speaker 7 (01:50):
Come in. Welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
I'm E. G.

Speaker 7 (01:55):
Marshall. We all know the phrase brotherly.

Speaker 6 (01:59):
Love use to express strong ties of affection, but actual
brothers may be bitter enemies. Is it because they are
so different or because they are so much alike that
their ties are twisted into a tangled web of misunderstanding,
a form of self hatred rather than love, with the

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shortcomings of one blamed upon the other. Acting together, their
power for evil can be devastating, especially when antagonisms are
passed on from one generation to the next.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
If anything would happen to me, Jerry, what would you do?

Speaker 7 (02:37):
Well, go ahead with a sail, of course, and claim
me inheritant. Not all of it you can't now. Don't worry.
Coord nothing's gonna happen.

Speaker 8 (02:45):
But Jerry, if it does, promise me you'll take care
of my family.

Speaker 7 (02:49):
Look, I don't have any obligation whatever to your wife
and kids.

Speaker 8 (02:52):
Please Jerry, promise. I'm scared something's happening to me. I
can't breathe.

Speaker 6 (03:09):
Our mystery drama Stamped for Death was written especially for
the Mystery Theater by Elizabeth Pennell and stars Lloyd Batista
and Russell Horton. It is sponsored in part by General Electric,
Citizen Band Radios, and Buick Mortar Division. I'll be back
shortly with Act one. George Taylor was a stern and

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taciturn man who was never close to either of his
two sons, although he seemed to favor his younger son, Jeremy.
If he ever shared his true feelings with anyone, it
was his wife. But he had been a widower for
some years, and today, if anyone knew anything about his.

Speaker 7 (03:59):
Personal life affairs, that would be his lawyer.

Speaker 6 (04:02):
Now, George Taylor is dead, and his sons have returned
to the Midwestern town of their youth.

Speaker 7 (04:08):
To attend his funeral.

Speaker 6 (04:10):
Although they arrived from opposite directions, they are now together
waiting impatiently in the lawyer's outer office.

Speaker 7 (04:19):
Come in, gardon, Jeremy, it's been a long time. I
want to know why my father's house is locked. No
one met me at the plane. And yeah, you didn't
tell me where to get the key. I had my instructions.
I thought you might stay with your uncle. Have you
been in touch with him? No? Did you call him?

Speaker 9 (04:36):
Good?

Speaker 8 (04:36):
I haven't talked to uncle Morgan in years.

Speaker 7 (04:38):
I'll have to message, but his wife said he might
not be able to come. Well, what's the matter with him?
Your uncle's a very old man.

Speaker 8 (04:46):
Don't tell me. Dad left something to uncle Morgan.

Speaker 6 (04:48):
A well, since the other party has already been informed,
we might.

Speaker 7 (04:54):
Have said that just just a minute, what other party?
I will proceed with the reading of the will.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
What we're here for?

Speaker 7 (05:02):
Hi, George Taylor, being of sound and disposing mind, declare
this to be my last well and testament. First I
bequeathed my house and its contents to miss Agnes Bodwell.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
What Agnes?

Speaker 7 (05:16):
Who Agnes Bodwell? She's a registered nurse. A nurse? You
said father died suddenly, healthiest man I ever knew all
his life. Who the devil is? Missus Bodwell took care
of your mother years ago when she was bedridden.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
Well, I'll be damned.

Speaker 7 (05:31):
Where is this miss what's her name? You know she's
been called away on a case and won't be able
to attend the funeral.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
What about the house?

Speaker 7 (05:38):
She hasn't had time to decide what to do with it.
Who cares about that old house? I don't want it.
You please read on to my brother at Morgan. I
leave a single stamp, the one known as the Brattleborough Eagle.
He will know what to.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
Do with it.

Speaker 10 (05:54):
A single stamp. Oh, that's rich. Shows what Dad thought
of Uncle Morgan.

Speaker 7 (05:58):
Perhaps he thought more of him than I would have guessed.
What do you mean, Well, your father was a stamp collector.

Speaker 8 (06:06):
Well, of course he was a collector. But what good
is one stamp?

Speaker 7 (06:09):
I understand there are rarities. Oh, some stamps are valued
at fifty seventy five thousand dollars apiece.

Speaker 8 (06:17):
You're kidding, But keep reading. I'm the eldest son, and
I want to know what my father left me.

Speaker 7 (06:22):
Yeah, and you can skip the legal mumbo jumbo. And
he goes on to say there's enough money in his
executive's account to cover funeral and burial expenses and to
clear any outstanding debts. And who is the executor? I am?

Speaker 8 (06:36):
That follows Well, go on, get to the substance of
his will.

Speaker 7 (06:40):
Yeah, what about stocks and bonds or whatever else he
had by way of investments? Well that I don't know.
You don't know. Your father was very secretive man, even
with his lawyer, with everyone. Look, you haven't finished reading
the wheel. Now where do his airs come in? I'm
getting to that. The remainder of my I leave to

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my two sons, Gordon and Jeremy. It is sealed in
the case which has been turned over to my executor
for safe keeping. Ah, that must be the stock certificates
and bank books in witness thereof I have here on
two set my hand and.

Speaker 8 (07:14):
See you look forget all that? Where are these important papers?

Speaker 7 (07:18):
Well, I have no knowledge of the contents of the case,
but I do have the key. Where is it right here?
My instructions are to unlock the container in the presence
of both of you.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
So what are we waiting for?

Speaker 11 (07:30):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (07:30):
I can't do anything more today. Well, in the name
of heaven, why not? Because it's in a vault at
the bank, and the bank closed at three o'clock the
wind Does it open nine tomorrow morning? I'll pick up
the case and take.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
It to you.

Speaker 7 (07:43):
Now, where will you be.

Speaker 8 (07:44):
Well, I'm staying with relatives of my wife.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Here's the address.

Speaker 7 (07:47):
Oh no, you don't, not with a bunch of people
looking on. Well, we'll meet in my hotel room.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Where's that damn fool lawyer? What time is it?

Speaker 7 (08:01):
Ten after ten? We should.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
Hello?

Speaker 7 (08:06):
Yes, yes, yes, I send him right up.

Speaker 8 (08:11):
Do you think this lawyer is on the level? What
if he's pulling a fast one?

Speaker 7 (08:14):
That thought occurred to me. But you know how crazy
cautious Dad was about the people he did business with.

Speaker 8 (08:19):
Just suppose our fine executor removed a few items.

Speaker 7 (08:24):
Don't start imagining things. The certificates will have our names
on him, and he wouldn't do it.

Speaker 3 (08:29):
I'll get it.

Speaker 7 (08:33):
Come in. Oh it's a whopper, isn't it?

Speaker 12 (08:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (08:37):
Heavy too. It feels as if it were for a books.

Speaker 8 (08:40):
I thought you meant a briefcase. That's practically a trunk.

Speaker 7 (08:43):
That's a suitcase actly. And you see it's sealed with
tape as well as lie, well, here goes, but rip
the tape off.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Come on, come on, where's the key?

Speaker 7 (08:54):
I have it right here, And I feel like the
male counterpart of Pandora.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
Air.

Speaker 7 (09:04):
And it's just a bunch of folders.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
I'll take that great.

Speaker 7 (09:07):
One, I George, there are books in there. Wait a minute,
there's nothing in this folder but stamps, sheets and sheets
of them.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
The other stuff must be at the bottom.

Speaker 7 (09:19):
This book is filled with stamps. Too colorful, I think,
And I'm only interested in one color green.

Speaker 8 (09:25):
Don't be stupid. That wouldn't stash away folding money.

Speaker 7 (09:28):
Well, there's got to be something more. But look in
the pockets for bank.

Speaker 8 (09:32):
I felt all along the sides and inside the top
keep looking through those folders.

Speaker 7 (09:35):
Yeah, I had nothing but crummy sheets of stamps. I
don't think you're going to find anything else.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
You said you didn't know what was in here.

Speaker 7 (09:45):
I didn't. But your father told me not long ago
that he had consolidated all his holding. Well, then where
are they? He had stocks and bonds, I know he did,
and a large bank account that one time. Maybe, but
it looks to me as though he converted every and
to his stamp collection.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
What a dirty trick.

Speaker 7 (10:03):
Not with all these unused stamps in perfect condition, you
may have inherited a sizeable fortune.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
How much do you think.

Speaker 7 (10:10):
Well, I'm no stamp collector. I wouldn't have the slightest idea,
and I don't know anyone in this town who would. Well,
then i'll take them back to New York with me.
The big city'll have several stamp appraisers. I'll find out
who's the best.

Speaker 8 (10:23):
Nothing doing as the eldest son, I'll take charge.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Of this suitcase.

Speaker 7 (10:27):
Oh you touch it.

Speaker 8 (10:28):
I can find an appraiser just as well as you can.
There must be plenty in southern California.

Speaker 7 (10:34):
I think you'd be better off in New York, down
by Wall Street. I'm Nassau. There's a whole city block,
so it's settled.

Speaker 8 (10:41):
I'm taking them with me, not unless I come along.
I'll change my plans and fly back east with you.

Speaker 7 (10:47):
Well, then i'll keep the case right here for the night.

Speaker 8 (10:50):
I wouldn't trust you alone with it for five minutes.

Speaker 7 (10:52):
What do I know about stamps?

Speaker 8 (10:54):
And you know enough to remove something which might look tempting.

Speaker 7 (10:57):
We could divide these folders up right now, Oh, path
for you, path for me. Well, you'll be sorry if
you do. I imagine it's the total collection that would
have the highest value.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
When do we leave?

Speaker 7 (11:09):
I'm booked on the first flight out after the funeral tomorrow,
three o'clock in the afternoon. Well, my mission is complete.
As far as you're too many concern I'll be leaving,
not without the suitcase. I don't understand you. See, I
don't trust my brother Gordon anymore than he trusts me.
So you keep the stamps overnight and then bring him

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to us at the airport tomorrow. Are you quite sure
your flight hasn't been canceled? Seems to be right on schedule.
What I thought with all those hurricane warnings on the East.

Speaker 8 (11:45):
Coast, these big jets.

Speaker 7 (11:47):
Well, I'm glad to see the last of this suitcase.
Here you are, oh, thank you, thank you. Incidentally, they
won't let you take it along on board the plane.
It's too big for hand luggage.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
I'll check it through on my ticket.

Speaker 7 (12:00):
No, no, no, you won't. I have almost no luggage,
and I'll check it out on my all right, Snap
out of it, boys, Am I still a family arbiter?
All right? Here, I'll toss a coin your call, garden
heads tails. Suitcase goes on your ticket, Jeremy.

Speaker 8 (12:16):
He always did get the brakes, Jerry. I just thought
of something.

Speaker 7 (12:27):
I don't bother me. I'm trying to sleep, but.

Speaker 8 (12:29):
I just thought, what if Uncle Morgan really got the
best of the deal.

Speaker 7 (12:34):
How could he?

Speaker 8 (12:34):
Well, if that one stamp is so valuable, maybe that's
where all Dad's money went impossible.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
Now, what makes you so sure?

Speaker 7 (12:41):
I told you he cleaned up in that big oil deal.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
You cleaned up on it, too, didn't.

Speaker 7 (12:45):
I never cleaned up on anything, Believe me. I'm just
as poor as you are, So will you shut up
and let me get some sleep?

Speaker 13 (12:57):
Nights, gentlemen, the captain has just an to fasten your
seat belt.

Speaker 7 (13:01):
Sign Jerry, wake up. What do you want to fasten
your seat belt? Why are we getting ready to land?

Speaker 3 (13:07):
Well?

Speaker 8 (13:07):
Not yet, but the steward has made an announcement.

Speaker 7 (13:10):
Where is she a stewardess? I like a cup of coffee.

Speaker 14 (13:14):
I'm sorry, not right now. So we're experiencing a little turbulence.

Speaker 7 (13:17):
Must have slept longer than I thought. It's a pitch
black out there.

Speaker 8 (13:22):
Except for the lightning. We've hit some really rotten weather.
I don't like it, Terry, You know I just thought
of something else.

Speaker 7 (13:32):
What is it now? Is that suitcase insured? Well? I
didn't insured. You should have thought of that before we left.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
How could I?

Speaker 7 (13:40):
Anyway, we don't know the value. Well, relax, we'll soon
know what is worse.

Speaker 13 (13:45):
Please be sure your seatbelts are fastened and observe the
selfie sign.

Speaker 7 (13:51):
What the Devil's going on?

Speaker 4 (13:53):
God? And will you take it easy?

Speaker 15 (13:55):
Ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 13 (13:56):
Your captain has asked me to assure you there's.

Speaker 16 (13:58):
No cause for alarm.

Speaker 9 (14:00):
I experienced a few.

Speaker 17 (14:01):
Moments of discovery.

Speaker 13 (14:02):
We have passed to the eye in the storm.

Speaker 7 (14:06):
Jerry, Jerry, worry your baggage checks so they're in my wall?
Show me well, but he'd say, what if something should happen,
but you were to me either way, show me the
baggage check so that it has to go up, being
more of it to post. Something happens till both of us,
and I guess our friendly lawyer will be left holding
the bag.

Speaker 8 (14:24):
And if something should happen to me, promise you'll take
care of my family.

Speaker 7 (14:29):
Now, what makes you think a bachelor doesn't have responsibility?

Speaker 18 (14:32):
It's like mine. Promise me.

Speaker 7 (14:33):
I don't have any obligation whatsoever to your wife and kids.

Speaker 13 (14:38):
Ladies, gentlemen, your attention, please. Your captain is in fu
comand we can all cooperate by remaining calm.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Why tells them that captain? Come on and tell us
so himself.

Speaker 7 (14:48):
I imagine he's too busy handling the plane. How can
you be so calm, Cherry Jerry, something's happening to me.
I guess I can't breathe.

Speaker 13 (14:59):
Weird, I mean yet for an emergency labby I reat
we are forced to make an emergency lebby shout the
plane because the pressure eyes the compartment over your head
will open automatically set the opposite the mat plate is
peraly on the falcons.

Speaker 8 (15:14):
Do what she has promise me, jeremy, promise me to you.

Speaker 7 (15:18):
Good Lord.

Speaker 19 (15:20):
We're out of control.

Speaker 7 (15:21):
The plane is crash.

Speaker 6 (15:31):
I don't want to frighten anyone with details of a
plane crash. Actually, statistics prove that air travel is the
safest means of modern transportation, and many a storm has
been weathered with little more than a few moments of uneasiness. Nevertheless,
our unloving brothers are in a situation ominous enough to

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terrify the bravest. We'll find out what happens when I
returned shortly with that. Two wills are written for protection,
but sometimes an inheritance causes more dissension than joy. We

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have yet to find out who will reap the benefit
of George Taylor's estate, a stamp collection which could be
of great value. His two sons were planning to turn
it into cash when they got to New York, but
did they reach their destination. You will recall that George
Taylor had an older brother, Morgan, and by the terms

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of the will, this older brother inherited a single stamp
reputed to be a rarity.

Speaker 7 (16:46):
He's examining it right now while his wife does the
breakfast dishes more coffee Morgan nod. I'm fine.

Speaker 14 (16:54):
Oh wouldn't you now? My hands are wet. I'm coming,
I'm coming.

Speaker 20 (17:01):
Well.

Speaker 14 (17:03):
Who oh, yes, who is it your brother's lawyer? You know,
the man who brought you the stamp.

Speaker 7 (17:10):
I don't know what he wants.

Speaker 14 (17:11):
No, no, we never look at television in the morning. No,
the radio's not on just now. Yes, we do have
a newspaper, but we haven't gotten around to it yet.
We save that for the afternoon.

Speaker 7 (17:24):
What is it, Marsa? What's happened some pardner? My goodness?
Is that so? Oh?

Speaker 14 (17:32):
Yes, yes, I will well, thank you very much for calling.

Speaker 7 (17:38):
Now is that all about? Does he want the stamp?

Speaker 18 (17:42):
No?

Speaker 14 (17:43):
No, nothing to do with your stamp? And what is
it your nephews? They've been in a plane crash. What
I thought that would get a rise out of you?

Speaker 7 (17:54):
Please stop teasing. And have they been heard? No?

Speaker 14 (17:57):
Both escaped without a scratch. That's what the lawyer phone
to tell us.

Speaker 7 (18:01):
Thank goodness. All right, wens morning newspaper. Let's find out
what happened.

Speaker 14 (18:10):
Oh here it is all over the front page.

Speaker 7 (18:13):
Read it to me.

Speaker 14 (18:15):
Jetliner flight to New York. The plane was caught on
the tail end of that big hurricane we heard about yesterday,
a really bad storm, And it goes on to say,
emergency landings, skillfully handled by the pilot, courageous crew evacuated
all passengers without a casualty.

Speaker 7 (18:33):
Are the boys pictures in?

Speaker 14 (18:35):
No, But take a look at what was once the plane.
It caught fire right after all the passengers.

Speaker 7 (18:42):
Escaped the glass.

Speaker 14 (18:44):
It says, the mail bags burned up and every bit
of baggage completely destroyed.

Speaker 7 (18:50):
Oh what difference does that make? As long as no
lives were lost?

Speaker 14 (19:00):
My goodness. That telephone ever, seems to stop bringing. Ever
since the boys were in that plane accident, people have
been calling to talk.

Speaker 7 (19:07):
To Henders into some sort of celebrity. Just hurry up,
my lance the phone.

Speaker 14 (19:13):
Hello, Why hello Gordon, Yes, your uncle's here, but it's
hard for him to get to the phone. May I
give him the message.

Speaker 7 (19:21):
I'll come if you just helped me up on his chair.

Speaker 14 (19:24):
Yes, yes, just just a minute. Gordon's in town and
he wants to see you. Asks if he can come
right over.

Speaker 7 (19:31):
Well, of course, of course I'm not doing anything.

Speaker 14 (19:35):
Yes, Gordon, right away.

Speaker 7 (19:38):
Goodbye. Neither of my nephews has set foot in this
house for the last ten years. I want no it's
Gordon has on his mind.

Speaker 14 (19:53):
It certainly was a relief to learn that you'd come
to no harm Gordon. But it must have been a
terrible expl for both of you.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
You bet it was.

Speaker 7 (20:02):
But I'll come right to the point now. I wish
you would, Uncle Morgan. How much money did my father have? Well,
that's a strange question for you to ask me. How
would I know?

Speaker 3 (20:14):
Well, you must have some idea.

Speaker 7 (20:16):
When your father bragged me once a long time ago
that he was well on the way becoming a millionaire.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
Did you believe him?

Speaker 7 (20:24):
He never discussed his personal affairs. But when your father
made up his mind to get what he.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
Wanted, But all that money, what became of it?

Speaker 7 (20:34):
I was under the impression from your father's will that
you and your brother inherited the bulk of his estate.

Speaker 8 (20:40):
What we inherited was a collection of stamps.

Speaker 7 (20:42):
Well, you're lucky. Your father had a very valuable collection.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
How valuable?

Speaker 7 (20:48):
Why his block of Colombian inverts alone would be worth
woo said twenty thousand dollars, and that one sheet of
misprinted commemorator.

Speaker 8 (20:57):
Uncle Morgan, I don't know any thing about stamp collecting,
you see the entire collection burned in that plane Creer.

Speaker 7 (21:06):
Oh well, now that does make a difference.

Speaker 8 (21:11):
John Wright, it makes a difference. Jerry and I are
wiped out. Maybe you don't know that I was recently
laid off and I am completely broken. I'm sorry, Uncle Morgan.
You're the only person I can turn to. You have
to loan me some money. I've got to have money
to live well, so ah, but you're comfortable. Look at

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this house, mortgage.

Speaker 7 (21:33):
To the hill.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
I only want to borrow some.

Speaker 7 (21:35):
Money, and I get by just barely on Social Security
and the interest and a few small investments. It's hardly
enough to pay a monthly bills.

Speaker 8 (21:46):
Look, there's no use feeding around the bush. I happen
to know that by the terms of my father's will,
you would let to.

Speaker 21 (21:54):
Him.

Speaker 14 (21:55):
Now your uncle can't talk anybody. Now I will have
to ask you to be uncle Morton, because that will
be all Gordon, your uncle has had yet for one day.

Speaker 22 (22:06):
I'll be back.

Speaker 7 (22:07):
You can count on it. I'll be back, Morgan. Are
you all right, certainly, I'm all right.

Speaker 14 (22:19):
Oh, thank heaven. You are a cagey one. You were
putting on an act, weren't you.

Speaker 7 (22:25):
Of course, and you did very well too. Morgan.

Speaker 14 (22:30):
You are going to tell the damp that your brother
left you, aren't you? All depends well, it could make
a great difference in.

Speaker 7 (22:37):
Our life, for better or worse.

Speaker 14 (22:40):
Do you think, Well, you know I've never complained.

Speaker 7 (22:42):
Well, I'm suspicious of my so called inheritance. Why is
my dear brother George think kindly of me for once
in his miserable life?

Speaker 14 (22:52):
Well maybe he was trying to make up for the past.

Speaker 7 (22:56):
You know they did plan me for a sucker. This
son nothing but chips off the old rock.

Speaker 23 (23:06):
Morgan.

Speaker 14 (23:07):
Guess who phoned while you were taking a nap?

Speaker 7 (23:10):
No need to tell me. I've been expecting to hear
for my second nephew.

Speaker 14 (23:15):
Jeremy will be here this afternoon.

Speaker 7 (23:17):
Good when he comes, bring him into my bedroom and
I'll be waiting on my stamps. Oh are you uncle Morgan?

Speaker 18 (23:28):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (23:29):
Well enough, I suppose we're old man. I'm sure looks
familiar seeing you with a stamp collection. I remember when
I was a kid. Are you and Dad used to
compare notes? Yeah? Quite mistaken if you think we ever
compared notes. But you're both collected stamps, and I was
never anything but a hobbyist if I was an investor.

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He always said, I didn't know a damn thing about stamps,
Uncle Morgan. I'd like to see the stamp my father
left you. Is it here? No, it's been put away
for safetyeping. Oh you mean it's not in the house.
I didn't say that, but my eyesight is not what
it used to be, and I wouldn't want to get

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it mixed up. And tell me where it is. I'll
get it for you. Oh not now, Jeremie. Let's just
have a visit. Tell me how's your business going? On?
My business? I want to laugh, Uncle Morgan. The fact
is I need money, and I have a proposition to

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make to you. I've already made it clear to a
brother that I'm pennyless, so don't ask me for a hut.
I know a way we can both benefit from the
stamp my father left you. Tell me turn the stamp
over to me and I'll put it up as collateral
for a business loan to tide me over. Then i'll
give you your share of my share. Well, stamp was

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left to me, I'm sure, but you and that Martha,
we'll have plenty of money to live and when I
get on my feet. You'll have a stamp back, don't
you see it's a proposition i'd have to think about.
Why don't you think about it now? In good time, Jeremy,
it's enough for today. Now I'll get in touch with

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you when i've started over. Well, Gordon, he said you
was going to talk to you lawyer, and you come
to any conclusion.

Speaker 8 (25:28):
I haven't been able to see him yet, but I'm
convinced that my father was not in his right mind
when he made his will.

Speaker 7 (25:34):
Oh, what he's going to do?

Speaker 8 (25:36):
Unless you agree to sell the stamp and give me
my rifle share, I'm going to sue you.

Speaker 14 (25:44):
I come in, Jeremy, what lovely flowers or a lovely
lady and my Oh?

Speaker 21 (25:51):
Thank you.

Speaker 14 (25:52):
I suppose you want to see your uncle.

Speaker 7 (25:53):
No, not at all. I came especially to see you.

Speaker 14 (25:56):
I can't believe this is strictly a social call.

Speaker 7 (25:59):
Oh, but it is. I thought you and I could
get together and do something nice for uncle Morgan.

Speaker 14 (26:05):
Oh that's very thoughtful.

Speaker 7 (26:07):
I realize that now he's mostly confined to his bed.
You must be the family decision maker.

Speaker 14 (26:13):
Morgan and I have always worked together.

Speaker 7 (26:15):
Oh, it's only natural with someone his age Uncle Morgan's
mind works slowly. On the other hand, if you and.

Speaker 14 (26:23):
I do want that stamp for collateral, don't you exactly
where is it?

Speaker 7 (26:29):
Aunt Martha?

Speaker 14 (26:31):
Perhaps I shouldn't be doing this, but if we can
do anything to make your Uncle Morgan more comfortable, I'll cooperate.

Speaker 7 (26:38):
WHOA, you have the right idea. So now if you
weld to give the stamp to me, we've.

Speaker 14 (26:45):
Been keeping the package in this desk drawer.

Speaker 7 (26:48):
I assure you you will never regret this. Aunt Martha here, father,
just a minute, Morgan, don't tell him I was here.
I'll leave quiet. Bye, up, eh, Can you come and
hear this, old man.

Speaker 14 (27:06):
It worked just the way you said it would.

Speaker 7 (27:12):
He fell for the whole scheme, a hook lide and
see wait till he opens the package and finds out
nothing with a shape of black paper.

Speaker 14 (27:24):
That worries me, Morgan. If Jeremy would go so far
as to steal, then he might very well time.

Speaker 7 (27:31):
I bet you nickel, mother, that's the arrow one back
to bother us.

Speaker 8 (27:39):
Uncle Morgan. I'm fed up with all this stalling around.

Speaker 7 (27:42):
I've been expecting to hear from your lawyer Gordon. You
did mention legal stamps.

Speaker 8 (27:47):
He said, the suit is inadvisable, and I'm tired of
waiting for you to sell that stamp.

Speaker 7 (27:53):
In all my life, I've never acted in haste.

Speaker 8 (27:55):
You're just like my father, with absolutely no concern for me.

Speaker 7 (27:59):
I take it easy.

Speaker 8 (28:00):
I always got the short end of the stick. No
one ever paid any attention to what I wanted.

Speaker 7 (28:04):
I'd appreciate it if you've stopped taking Michael Morgan. I
could kill you for the way you hate you.

Speaker 14 (28:12):
Cord and stop it.

Speaker 24 (28:13):
Get away from your n you leave this house at.

Speaker 14 (28:16):
Once, Dear, Are you sure you're all right?

Speaker 7 (28:26):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, he.

Speaker 14 (28:29):
Didn't hurt all but the coughing fit. You aren't putting
it on this time, are you?

Speaker 7 (28:33):
No?

Speaker 9 (28:34):
No?

Speaker 7 (28:36):
Oh, I feel better.

Speaker 14 (28:39):
I'm going to call the doctor. The best medicine will
be to keep those wretched deafews away. I will do
anything to worry Mathia.

Speaker 7 (28:47):
Dear, just get a paper and pencil and let me
dictate the letter.

Speaker 14 (28:57):
It certainly was good of you to come all this way.
You look at my husband's stamp.

Speaker 8 (29:01):
Oh, I'd traveled around the world if I thought there
was a chance to purchase a very rare rattleborow eagle.

Speaker 7 (29:07):
Well, then it really is as valuable as is it?

Speaker 8 (29:11):
Oh, very very few are known to exist. And I
have a potential buyer who's been searching for years.

Speaker 7 (29:17):
Right, will you bring us that folder? Please? Now, I
haven't promised that I'm ready to sell this stamp.

Speaker 8 (29:25):
By the way, are you any relation to the late
George Taylor mas He is my brother. We've been wondering
what will become of his fine collection.

Speaker 7 (29:34):
I'll tell you after you've a praised my stamp, if
please examine my Rattleborough egl hm, how beauty isn't it?
The color has withstood the test of time.

Speaker 8 (29:50):
Oh, and the perforations are good. May I go somewhere
with this better.

Speaker 14 (29:55):
Life over here by the window, and if you want
to turn on the.

Speaker 8 (29:58):
May thank you take a moment with the magnifying glass.

Speaker 14 (30:02):
You will sell it, won't you?

Speaker 7 (30:04):
We could be reshh mather. Wait do we hear what
he says? Uh? I? I don't quite know how to
put this. I am really anything you have to tell me? Well,
everything about it looks so right, the blue and this
fleck of white. But on the back did you happen

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to turn the stamp over?

Speaker 25 (30:26):
Real?

Speaker 7 (30:27):
Yes, I'm in the bag, but I've never known enough
about it. Well glue.

Speaker 8 (30:31):
You see, they didn't use this type of adhesive back
when this stamp was issued, And when I held it
up to the light, I could tell that no wooden
hand press could have passed.

Speaker 7 (30:42):
It was manufactured more recently, was it well?

Speaker 8 (30:47):
I have yet to give it the water mark test,
But mister Taylor, I'm very sorry to say that, from
everything I've seen so far, your fine Brattleborough Eagle is
a remarkable forgery.

Speaker 6 (31:03):
Now there's a surprise and a deep disappointment, but perhaps
this is the only.

Speaker 7 (31:11):
Way that Morgan Taylor could.

Speaker 6 (31:12):
Get his grasping nephews off his back. We would hope
that he and Martha can live out the rest of
their lives in peace, even if they must squape along
on very little. You might think this is the end
of our story. Far from it, I assure you. There's
still some quite startling developments in store, which we'll come

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up with shortly in Act three. Perhaps Morgan Taylor knew
more about stamps all along. It would seem his brother
had played a cruel joke, leaving him nothing but a

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worthless forgery. The valuable stamps in that collection are lost
forever and more, who now knows he does not have
long to live, is worried not about his own future,
but about his wife.

Speaker 7 (32:08):
I'm sime maybe it had worked out differently, I would
have put it all in your name.

Speaker 14 (32:15):
Oh, now, don't you worry about me. All we both
missed too is to help you get well. And the
doctor said.

Speaker 7 (32:22):
I know what the doctor said, and I going to
read between the lines.

Speaker 14 (32:27):
Now, Morgan, you're overwrought, but you can be sure we'll
hear no more from your nephews once they know the
truth about your magnificent inheritance.

Speaker 7 (32:37):
It's just it, mother, I don't want them to know what.

Speaker 14 (32:44):
Oh, oh, my dear husband. I should have guessed that
you'd keep on playing the game.

Speaker 7 (32:53):
That's what you call it, a game? Will you playing
with me?

Speaker 14 (32:58):
We've always been talking. I'll do anything you say.

Speaker 7 (33:03):
Then, promise me. And as long as I live, my
nephews will never know that my grand inheritance was nothing
but a scrap of worthless paper.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
We've come to apologize, Aunt Martha.

Speaker 7 (33:21):
I guess that plain wreck really cracked us up for
a while. First there was Dad's death.

Speaker 14 (33:27):
Oh, your uncle, and I understand you boys have been
through a great deal.

Speaker 7 (33:33):
How is Uncle Morgan?

Speaker 14 (33:34):
Well, I'm afraid he's not well. These past weeks have
taken the toll.

Speaker 7 (33:39):
He must be kept very quiet.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
Well may we see him?

Speaker 14 (33:42):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (33:42):
I think not too honestly, Aunt Martha. We just want
to tell him how sorry we are.

Speaker 14 (33:47):
Well just for a minute, but only if you talk
about cheerful things.

Speaker 7 (33:55):
Uncle Morgan, This you George?

Speaker 8 (34:00):
No, No, I'm George's son, Gordon.

Speaker 7 (34:05):
I always wonder George you didn't come to see me,
But now after all these years, Hi, Uncle Morgan, it's
me Jeremy. I'm closer. George and me did a good
look at you.

Speaker 4 (34:21):
He's in bad shape.

Speaker 7 (34:22):
But boy, this is hopeless. You think I fooled the mother.

Speaker 14 (34:30):
You came close to fooling me.

Speaker 7 (34:35):
I am deeply concerned, though you mustn't be. I mean
he's got me even less. Gordon and Jeremy. There's no
reason for them to take it out on you. No,
they never will.

Speaker 14 (34:47):
But when I am God Morgan, why don't we burn
the fort stamp?

Speaker 7 (34:54):
I have a much better solution.

Speaker 14 (34:57):
What have you done with this.

Speaker 7 (35:00):
Drawer on the bedside table? And take out that envelope?

Speaker 26 (35:04):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (35:04):
Move him? I want you to take that envelope right
now and put it in the corner mailbox.

Speaker 14 (35:11):
Anything you say, we'll get it. Look at the address, Morgan,
you've addressed it to the dead letter office. That's exactly
we're balls the dead letter office.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
What's our next move, Jerry?

Speaker 7 (35:29):
That all depends Plan A or Plan B.

Speaker 8 (35:32):
But they've taken the old man to the hospital. That
makes a difference.

Speaker 7 (35:36):
It can have long to live, don't you believe it.
He may be soft in the head, but he can
go on for years and years with good nursing care.

Speaker 8 (35:44):
Hey hello, Yes, yes, my brother and I we're the
only relatives.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
That's right. We'll be right there.

Speaker 7 (35:57):
If that's who I think it was.

Speaker 8 (35:59):
Rode Street High. Doctor Miller wants us to go there
at once.

Speaker 7 (36:02):
Things are happening sooner than we thought. I'm doctor Miller.
Your name is Taylor.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
That's right. You've called us here because of our uncle.

Speaker 7 (36:13):
Oh, why no, it's about Missus Taylor. Your aunt and.

Speaker 8 (36:18):
Martha asked you to call us. We know uncle Morgan
was in the hospital, but.

Speaker 7 (36:22):
They're both here. Missus Taylor was brought in this morning
with a coronary. Aunt Martha, how is she resting? Comfortably
at the moment, but I felt it wise to notify
the next of kin.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
Of course, you did the right thing.

Speaker 7 (36:39):
I'll take you to her room.

Speaker 14 (36:45):
Hello, Gordon, Jeremy, nice of you to come.

Speaker 3 (36:49):
Well, we only just heard Martha.

Speaker 7 (36:51):
This is no place for you. You're looking much too healthy.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
You'll send me out of here.

Speaker 14 (36:57):
I hope Uncle Morgan and I both will.

Speaker 8 (37:00):
Aunt Martha after all that's gone on. Jerry and I
have been doing a lot of thinking, and well, we'd
like to we'd like to really be members of the family.

Speaker 14 (37:10):
Morgan and I have always been quite self sufficient, of course,
but since he's been so ill and all.

Speaker 7 (37:17):
We have a plan we'd like to tell you about.

Speaker 8 (37:20):
Well, the woman who lives in Dad's old house was
much too big for her, and well we understand she's
looking for a couple to share it.

Speaker 14 (37:28):
You're suggesting that your.

Speaker 7 (37:29):
Uncle you see Aunt Martha. This woman's a nurse and
she could help you take care of Uncle Morgan.

Speaker 14 (37:36):
Well, I must say that's very interesting.

Speaker 7 (37:38):
Do you like the idea?

Speaker 14 (37:40):
It's incredible. Wait to Morgan hears about this.

Speaker 7 (37:44):
Of course you would be the one to decide.

Speaker 14 (37:46):
Oh no, indeed, I never do anything without your uncle's
full agreement.

Speaker 7 (37:51):
He's in no condition to make it, of course he is.
But last time, you are to be quite wrong.

Speaker 14 (37:57):
If you think your uncle is incapable of making decisions,
go and ask him.

Speaker 18 (38:03):
On.

Speaker 14 (38:04):
Discuss this unusual scheme with your uncle Morgan. He's in
room three or two, and give him my love.

Speaker 7 (38:15):
This is ridiculous. If the old boy's in as bad
shape as he was last time.

Speaker 8 (38:19):
Hold on, if he doesn't know what he's saying, maybe
we can talk him into anything.

Speaker 18 (38:23):
Oh, there you are.

Speaker 7 (38:25):
I was coming to get.

Speaker 4 (38:26):
You and the doctor.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
We're looking for Uncle Morgan's room.

Speaker 7 (38:29):
I regret to inform you that your uncle is dead.

Speaker 8 (38:34):
Oh well, that's unhappy news, but you must agree doctor,
it was not unexpected.

Speaker 7 (38:40):
Very true. Morgan Taylor was a fine man. I've known
him for many years. Or should we go back to
be with an Ann Martha? Well, I wouldn't if I
were you. Let me be the one to tell her
you can come back later. Well we have clear sailing,

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that's what you think. Well, of course we do. Aunt
Martha has nowhere else to turn.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
You mean we're stuck with her.

Speaker 7 (39:06):
Well, stuck is hardly the word. After what I found out.

Speaker 8 (39:10):
You've been doing something behind my back.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
I wondered why you were so agreeable.

Speaker 7 (39:15):
I've simply been using my time to learn more about
rare stamps. You got hold of it, but I've discovered
that the Brattleborough Eagle is one of the most sought
after stamps in my world, at least two hundred thousand dollars.
Aunt Martha's rich, certainly, and when I give her all
the details, she'll sell. I won't leave her alone with

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you for one minute. I didn't think you would. But
we can't spring this on her right away. Why not diplomacy,
you fool. We must treat her very gently.

Speaker 3 (39:46):
All right, all right, I'm the eldest.

Speaker 8 (39:49):
I'll take care of the funeral arrangements for uncle Morgan, Flowers,
telephone calls, all that sort of thing.

Speaker 7 (39:54):
But first we must get to the hospital and give
Aunt Martha our deepest sympathy.

Speaker 8 (40:05):
We're here to see missus Morgan Taylor.

Speaker 7 (40:08):
Never mind, nurse, I'll speak to them. I'm glad you're here.

Speaker 8 (40:14):
Well, is it all right to see ann Martha and to.

Speaker 7 (40:17):
Come down here where we can be alone. I've been
trying to reach you.

Speaker 8 (40:22):
Well, I know there are things to be taken care of,
and I'm quite ready to accept.

Speaker 7 (40:25):
The whole responsibility. Shit down, please, Well, how is ann Martha.
I have seldom known a more devoted couple than your
aunt and uncle.

Speaker 8 (40:36):
I know, and I'm sure Aunt Martha is going to need.

Speaker 7 (40:38):
All straine, or perhaps it isn't. How often this sort
of thing happens.

Speaker 8 (40:44):
Well, our parents were that way, sort of as if
one always knew what the other was thinking.

Speaker 7 (40:49):
Well, then you'll be better prepared for what I have
to tell you.

Speaker 8 (40:54):
Just let me talk to Aunt Martha. I realized, doctor,
that she has no family of her own.

Speaker 7 (40:58):
When I told her of your uncle's death, she took
it very calmly. Of course, she knew how ill he was.
He was an old man. He couldn't go on forever.
But without him, Oh, don't worry, doctor, I've made up
my mind to take good care of her. I gave
her a sidity. Do you think it's worn off by now?

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When I looked in on her later, she was gone.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
She left the hospital.

Speaker 7 (41:30):
Within an hour of your uncle's death. Your aunt died
peacefully in her sleep. I'm glad you took full responsibility.
That lets me off the hook.

Speaker 8 (41:43):
Not now the whole situation has changed.

Speaker 7 (41:46):
Oh no it hasn't. You're the older brother and you
asked for it. Go on, do your duty, please, Jerry.
The lawyer said that enough cash to cover a decent burial.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
But the will says we share and share a life.

Speaker 7 (41:57):
Share What nothing but build and a mortgage.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
I'm putting their health up for sale.

Speaker 7 (42:01):
You can't until we find the stamp.

Speaker 8 (42:03):
You're the expert. Go through that collection again.

Speaker 27 (42:05):
It must be that.

Speaker 7 (42:05):
It's not nothing but some US commemoratives, maybe a couple
one hundred dollars.

Speaker 3 (42:09):
We're sell them.

Speaker 7 (42:11):
I think the Brattleborough may be in a safe deposit box.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
And where's the key?

Speaker 7 (42:16):
No use, I've looked in every one of those drawers.
What did the lawyer have to say?

Speaker 4 (42:21):
He knows nothing.

Speaker 7 (42:22):
He says he never even met Icle Morgan. Do you
believe him as much as you do?

Speaker 8 (42:27):
Oh, I've been through the closets, in every pocket.

Speaker 4 (42:31):
The books.

Speaker 7 (42:32):
What if you put the stamp between the pages of
one of those books.

Speaker 8 (42:35):
I'll stay here until I go through each one of them.

Speaker 7 (42:38):
And maybe there's a safe behind one of these oars.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
I'll tear down this house if I have to.

Speaker 7 (42:43):
No, no, no, you have to get back to your family.
I'll stay on here and see what I can do.
I'm not leaving here until I find it, not if
I find it first. Good luck, boys.

Speaker 28 (43:01):
We know that no amount of luck in the world
is going to help you find that stamp retribution, perhaps
in payment for an insatiable greed.

Speaker 6 (43:13):
Not everyone earns his own way in this world. But
if you depend upon someone else to make your way easier,
you may be in for an unhappy awakening.

Speaker 7 (43:24):
I'll be back shortly.

Speaker 6 (43:37):
One of the mistakes the brothers Taylor made was writing
their uncle off as a man too old to know
what he was doing.

Speaker 7 (43:44):
Morgan Taylor knew.

Speaker 6 (43:45):
Exactly what he was up to all the way, and
so did his lifetime partner. What a pair of senior citizens.
One unanswered question, did George Taylor really know the stampy
willed his brother was worthless? And if so, what did
he mean when he said that Morgan would know what

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to do with it. I leave you to reach your
own conclusions. Our cast included Lloyd Battista, Robert Dryden, Russell.

Speaker 7 (44:17):
Horton, and Ann Potoniac. The entire production was under the
direction of Hymon Brown.

Speaker 6 (44:26):
And now a preview of our next tale.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
You hadn't said a word all the way home.

Speaker 7 (44:32):
No, but I have been sleeping.

Speaker 4 (44:36):
I've been thinking, Oh dearest, I wish.

Speaker 29 (44:39):
I'd known how to tell you all this differently.

Speaker 3 (44:41):
Oh, Betty, go over to the curb.

Speaker 7 (44:43):
Fire engines wherever they're going. Look but Tony.

Speaker 4 (44:46):
Corner going down the block.

Speaker 7 (44:48):
Away.

Speaker 18 (44:48):
It's our house is on hire.

Speaker 16 (44:56):
Look at our house.

Speaker 7 (44:57):
Director didn't flee?

Speaker 9 (44:58):
How did it happen?

Speaker 16 (45:00):
No, our house is burning?

Speaker 18 (45:02):
Eric?

Speaker 4 (45:03):
Where a you're going?

Speaker 22 (45:03):
Hi?

Speaker 14 (45:04):
Papers all my work?

Speaker 30 (45:05):
I can't let them burn. I can't let them be destroyed.
Or you can't go in for personal papers. Eric, I
have to say this, Stay here, stay, I said, Oh no.

Speaker 29 (45:14):
Eric, don't you go.

Speaker 31 (45:15):
No, you'll be cute.

Speaker 7 (45:16):
Oh nobody, stop him, Stop him.

Speaker 6 (45:19):
Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Contact the
twelve hour Cold Capsule Missus E. G. Marshall inviting you
to return to our Mystery Theater for another adventure in
the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant.

Speaker 7 (45:37):
Stream b.

Speaker 17 (46:07):
FI.

Speaker 32 (47:43):
I am superstitial, a god of omens charm and signed,
a god whose brain spreads fear and uneasiness. I invest
trivial circumstances with significance. I am for action and better
than mine. You don't believe. Listen to those who worship

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but my spriye.

Speaker 33 (48:22):
Come to dinner father, Helen?

Speaker 9 (48:25):
Come?

Speaker 33 (48:26):
Why oh where are you going?

Speaker 15 (48:28):
So? Why are where they is?

Speaker 34 (48:31):
Dining out to night dining hall having dinner?

Speaker 14 (48:34):
It deer above him house.

Speaker 4 (48:37):
I didn't know.

Speaker 18 (48:38):
Yes, I forgot to tell you. You see mother tonight
I question?

Speaker 15 (48:44):
Oh god, it says that's all right?

Speaker 2 (48:46):
Will I understand you?

Speaker 4 (48:48):
Run right along?

Speaker 18 (48:50):
Yes, I better.

Speaker 33 (48:51):
I'll have to hustle too.

Speaker 18 (48:53):
Goodbye, goodbye son, Helen.

Speaker 4 (48:59):
You shouldn't.

Speaker 34 (49:01):
He'll need it. Grit Brown will be there too. Vera
will finally have to make up her mind.

Speaker 33 (49:07):
William going, I'm.

Speaker 34 (49:09):
Going to ask your lady love to set today.

Speaker 35 (49:11):
There, that's the day.

Speaker 18 (49:13):
Did you know about it?

Speaker 15 (49:14):
Mother? A?

Speaker 33 (49:15):
Mother always knows what we'll seeeson?

Speaker 36 (49:18):
Verah Baldwin is more than I can.

Speaker 33 (49:20):
Understand, Helen. You mustn't only my opinions. Leady, Oh me,
excuse me.

Speaker 4 (49:28):
I've forgotten something forgotten.

Speaker 34 (49:30):
We've forgotten the ring at there?

Speaker 36 (49:34):
Who don't laugh, Dad, you may be laughing.

Speaker 37 (49:37):
Your future daughter are right out of the picture. So
don't you know it's bad luck to turn back? After
you've started, because you've forgotten something.

Speaker 18 (49:46):
People sticks.

Speaker 33 (49:47):
Well, it is believe it or not superstition.

Speaker 7 (49:51):
I hope you don't believe in this, Tommy Rott.

Speaker 36 (49:54):
But I do, and so does brother.

Speaker 37 (49:56):
Don't you will, don't I was believe it's had luck
to turn back after you've started.

Speaker 33 (50:03):
I guess so. I mean that's what they say.

Speaker 29 (50:05):
It never failed.

Speaker 37 (50:07):
Now you'll have to wait a while before you go
out again. Rather that breaks the gym.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
Don't be seeing henning.

Speaker 7 (50:13):
If you've found what you forgot, we'll run along.

Speaker 15 (50:16):
I'd better wait, mother, Not that I'm afraid.

Speaker 38 (50:18):
Oh no, not that he's afraid, not superstigiously. Well, if
you must wait, sit down, man, I'll tell you the
yarn on which this belief is based. During the eleventh century,
the Germanic knights were a ruthless lot, wailing and plundering

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the merchants and traders whose root of travel brought them
near their castles. Baron Cooneybert was one of the most
dreaded and daring of these rather barons. It was Eve,
the clever daughter of the French trader Forza, who by
a trick saved her father's precious possessions from falling into
Coonieberd's hands and at the same time ending the Night's

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career forever. On the day the attack on the Merchant's
out that had been planned, Ibet and her father were
guests at Cuniberg's castle.

Speaker 36 (51:10):
Can you know who they were?

Speaker 18 (51:11):
Oh?

Speaker 38 (51:12):
We hadn't the slightest idea I Bet had planned well.

Speaker 35 (51:16):
It was her.

Speaker 38 (51:17):
Intention to fascinate the knight by her charms and hold
them enthralled until her father's carriers had safely passed. Had
she nearly got away with it?

Speaker 39 (51:28):
And she didn't listen? Nay Kunbet, I'm not flattered when.

Speaker 14 (51:39):
You seek my lips and speak of love, And yet.

Speaker 39 (51:41):
Now prepare to leave my arms enjoin some sordid combat.

Speaker 33 (51:45):
Why must you go?

Speaker 39 (51:46):
Cannot your men attender?

Speaker 3 (51:48):
Errand not so, Yvette.

Speaker 32 (51:49):
But is well known in all these rhinelands that none
would venture less high leave the.

Speaker 4 (51:53):
Wol from your brother?

Speaker 36 (51:54):
Cannot hear you?

Speaker 35 (51:55):
Ah, fledgling back?

Speaker 7 (51:57):
Brother?

Speaker 18 (51:58):
We must be for ourselves.

Speaker 14 (52:00):
I come, You must not go.

Speaker 33 (52:01):
If you love me, stay, hey.

Speaker 32 (52:03):
Hold me not, sweet siland I must.

Speaker 14 (52:05):
Go, say Kunnabert be misfortune.

Speaker 7 (52:08):
Oh never fear watch my victory.

Speaker 32 (52:10):
Love from the balcony of your chamber.

Speaker 38 (52:12):
Connerbet, don't go, release miss sorceress.

Speaker 32 (52:15):
I won't belong. My brother will from So stay to
keep your company off water.

Speaker 40 (52:19):
Then away with you.

Speaker 38 (52:31):
Oh, here we await the merchant.

Speaker 18 (52:35):
We are a hoop to the castle wall.

Speaker 7 (52:38):
Where's your name?

Speaker 27 (52:40):
Heed?

Speaker 21 (52:40):
My words?

Speaker 32 (52:41):
Here we stay, no one to move or to advance
until I give the order to attack your life the
pupet swine.

Speaker 33 (52:49):
If you disobey and leo yes, sir, how great judge you?

Speaker 32 (52:53):
The poster will oppose us From this point, sir, it looks.

Speaker 40 (52:56):
As though the merchant had brought a formidable.

Speaker 18 (52:58):
Escort, presless cargo.

Speaker 7 (53:00):
They protect the richest fall in years.

Speaker 35 (53:03):
Look sir, they're making the second turn in the river's bend.

Speaker 18 (53:06):
That surprise them.

Speaker 32 (53:10):
Let them come closer, yet, don't stir until I give
the word.

Speaker 18 (53:16):
Tom.

Speaker 7 (53:17):
What's that?

Speaker 18 (53:18):
A woman? A woman in distress?

Speaker 14 (53:20):
Circle?

Speaker 19 (53:21):
Look, I cannot.

Speaker 33 (53:22):
Trust my eyes.

Speaker 41 (53:23):
Look?

Speaker 21 (53:24):
What see you?

Speaker 29 (53:24):
On the tower?

Speaker 18 (53:25):
Bolton?

Speaker 4 (53:25):
He over the castle's moat?

Speaker 18 (53:26):
Where, sir, look sharp name?

Speaker 41 (53:32):
I see?

Speaker 7 (53:33):
Can I be mistaken?

Speaker 24 (53:35):
Sir?

Speaker 33 (53:35):
Lord dog? What do you see?

Speaker 40 (53:38):
I see a lady struggling in your brother's awe. Now
help me the go by, But the merchant will be
back instant um.

Speaker 35 (53:47):
I've forgotten something, forgotten, forgotten.

Speaker 42 (53:50):
To tell my brother that the lady is my choice.

Speaker 29 (54:17):
You say, your brother's hurrying back, so wilcom I saw
him gallop toward the castle when I carried you.

Speaker 18 (54:21):
Into your room.

Speaker 14 (54:22):
Then all is well.

Speaker 43 (54:23):
What strange fancy did possess you, lady that would impel
you to want to throw yourself into the moat?

Speaker 39 (54:29):
I cannot tell you now.

Speaker 15 (54:30):
Later, I promise you will understand.

Speaker 43 (54:34):
And why you scream and cry for him when I
would try to prevent your rash design?

Speaker 36 (54:39):
And was this dec Please forgive me.

Speaker 43 (54:41):
I feel my brother's Ralph would know no bounds should
he suspect other than the true fact.

Speaker 33 (54:46):
I would be grieved if it were.

Speaker 15 (54:48):
So.

Speaker 18 (54:48):
It is for you to set him right.

Speaker 24 (54:50):
You may depend so welcome that I will.

Speaker 36 (54:55):
But he's here.

Speaker 18 (54:57):
The door he is not locked.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
Which seems to be.

Speaker 7 (55:01):
Ah me you you locked the door over the door.

Speaker 11 (55:10):
You have come back.

Speaker 21 (55:13):
Sound.

Speaker 40 (55:14):
She's hated monsieur, brothers.

Speaker 15 (55:19):
Only hated Monsieur.

Speaker 32 (55:20):
Here you attend to her, I will while I attend
to him.

Speaker 18 (55:26):
Now.

Speaker 38 (55:27):
My fine brother, who we could have let me explain,
had no time to bandy word.

Speaker 18 (55:31):
I swear my would end.

Speaker 25 (55:32):
Brother.

Speaker 32 (55:33):
Do you think wrong? But my eyes all right, I'll
see your thoughts. No you brother to madness, do but
let me speak.

Speaker 35 (55:39):
I turn it over along already can hand yourself.

Speaker 32 (55:41):
Your judgment is unhinged by jealous quicks.

Speaker 7 (55:44):
I'll not fight, will you draw?

Speaker 18 (55:46):
Was all a ruse to bring you back?

Speaker 43 (55:48):
I see it now, and your face handlung suspectingly I
helped her scheme?

Speaker 7 (55:52):
Must I kill an alarm man?

Speaker 4 (55:54):
Not till I knew the door was locked?

Speaker 33 (55:55):
Did I suspect the full treachery? I would look from
the back.

Speaker 32 (56:00):
Look the attack has failed, Henry who has surrendered on
in our prisoners, By all the.

Speaker 18 (56:06):
Gods, I've overstayed.

Speaker 21 (56:07):
We all settled later, reprimand.

Speaker 18 (56:10):
Sound the doors locked.

Speaker 32 (56:12):
There's no key fact, as I feel, what devil tregiousness
to blame is yours bad luck attended to my brother
when you turned back once you had started pull go.
But see look shut, there is the lady in her
worthy sire, riding away upon your charger.

Speaker 4 (56:31):
She has seen us.

Speaker 18 (56:32):
She stops.

Speaker 36 (56:35):
There is nice n and our hate.

Speaker 39 (56:38):
We must rejoin our retainers.

Speaker 44 (56:40):
Now that my father's company has escaped your maps this
noble sea.

Speaker 45 (56:46):
I will recant the kid of your tower prisons. I
will deliver to your king all the course.

Speaker 36 (57:02):
What happened to the.

Speaker 15 (57:02):
Two nights Dad?

Speaker 38 (57:04):
They were unable to escape for two days later they
were brought before the king, tried and convicted. Cooneybert was
banished and became an outlaw. But Wolfram settled in southern France.
And if the story can be relied on, he sawed
wooed and won hand of the fairy bed for Saw.

Speaker 37 (57:23):
Oh, I just hoped he would going, well, yes, I'll
be late.

Speaker 11 (57:28):
Wait for it.

Speaker 27 (57:29):
It maybe for you.

Speaker 34 (57:31):
You had to dad, And if it's Verboven, tell him
William is Honey's way.

Speaker 38 (57:35):
Okay, Hello, Oh this is his father. Oh William isn't here,
He's gone hours ago. H s up at your house.
I couldn't say what. Wait a minute, let me explain.

Speaker 26 (57:53):
Oh, I have it your own way.

Speaker 38 (57:57):
Yes, I'll tell him. You needn't father going over to
the Baldwin house. And your lady friend got herself engaged
to Chris Brown this evening, and she says you can
be the best man.

Speaker 21 (58:09):
At her wedding.

Speaker 7 (58:11):
Don't run away, son, I always.

Speaker 34 (58:14):
Did that he was that sort? Why did I can
you get that ditty guard? But you see that if
we're hadn't turned.

Speaker 38 (58:23):
There, I don't know, daughter, the way you size up
the other girl. Well maybe your brother wasn't so unlucky
after all of these women. I am superstian. You don't believe,

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do you?

Speaker 19 (01:00:42):
Hero?

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
Stories of suspense?

Speaker 19 (01:01:01):
When come in, come in? You look at him, a
love of him, and said down pouring everything they have
at us out there. Yeah, we can't hold up us longer.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
Hey, an, he knows on reinforcements, General, just as the
news a while ago.

Speaker 19 (01:01:18):
That's why I ordered you to come here.

Speaker 26 (01:01:20):
He is here.

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
There will be no reinforcements, Wagner, where can spend the ball?

Speaker 19 (01:01:26):
That is, most of us are, but.

Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
The commanding general wants at least four men to break
out of the tramp, three enlisted men and one officer.
You're the officer.

Speaker 19 (01:01:36):
I don't understandswer.

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
But Jeff is a new enemy. All the stuff we
were told about him is fiction. He may be a
fool in some ways, but he's a clever fool.

Speaker 19 (01:01:44):
Yes, we've learned.

Speaker 21 (01:01:45):
That's it.

Speaker 19 (01:01:46):
We've learned, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:01:47):
We've seen thousands of them in cut down or my
stuff to prison camps. We fought the JEFF from the
Army manual, only to learn that they fight a different way.

Speaker 19 (01:01:57):
We were told that all we.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
Had to doors fire our suppeer weapons and the jet
would run.

Speaker 19 (01:02:03):
He ran, all right, but in our direction. Major.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
There are dozens of things about the jet that we've
learned the hard way. If we had that knowledge in
the beginning, we wouldn't be sitting here.

Speaker 21 (01:02:15):
In this track.

Speaker 19 (01:02:16):
Agree.

Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
I agree here, well, Major Wagoner, that is why you're
going south south on the first stage that'll take you
back to the States.

Speaker 21 (01:02:27):
The States.

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
Yeah, at least I hope.

Speaker 19 (01:02:30):
So you fought the jet from the beginning, Wagoner.

Speaker 2 (01:02:34):
A few months ago you were only a second lieutenant.
You don't go from the second Louis to major in
a couple of months without have you learned something. That's
why they want you back to teach our new army
how to fight the jet. As for the three enlisted
men will go with you. They've been chosen for their
experience too.

Speaker 19 (01:02:51):
Do I know them, sir, No, at least I don't
think so.

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
They've been sleaked from other outfits, They've already been notified,
and they're waiting for you in the eating. You'll meet
them as soon as I've given you complete details. Yes, Wagner,
it's not going to be easy. You have to go
through one hundred miles of jeff Hill jungle, this swamp,
this fever, their hostile naives. But there it'll be foolish

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expects for me to get through.

Speaker 19 (01:03:19):
But you've got to get through me to wagon.

Speaker 21 (01:03:22):
You've got to.

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
I'll be back in just a minute to tell you
more tonight's story Mosque of eight.

Speaker 19 (01:04:04):
And as man, I'm agin wagon.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
How much have you men been told?

Speaker 19 (01:04:11):
Nothing?

Speaker 26 (01:04:12):
Sir?

Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
Oh, we haven't much time, so I'll get it to
you quickly.

Speaker 19 (01:04:16):
But it goes to Lake Sulo laate Sulo.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
That's south, sir, Yes, one hundred miles south.

Speaker 46 (01:04:22):
Were we going by both Major or I know both left?
We're first flogging in Uh huh, I hope at chips
On you about that. They farally will before we finished.

Speaker 19 (01:04:34):
We'll have to go straight through their lines.

Speaker 18 (01:04:36):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:04:37):
Why are we going to Lake Sue? And sir goes
an Australian seat playing can and we'll land.

Speaker 19 (01:04:42):
On that lake.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
We're going down to Australia Major and we'll stop there.

Speaker 19 (01:04:46):
But look, hey, that'll suit me right down to the ground.

Speaker 46 (01:04:50):
I heard about demosy Dane conserve suicide.

Speaker 26 (01:04:55):
Do you mind if I go on?

Speaker 17 (01:04:56):
No, go right ahead. Major, you're another.

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
They're wondering why we've been in order to do this.
The answer is the army needs instructors who actually fought
the jets.

Speaker 47 (01:05:07):
We're gonna be instructors.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
Major if we get through. You force a private Conservative,
that's right, Major, EU Surgeon Burns, yeah, yes, sir, And
US Sergeant Dams, Yes, sir, I'm my service of US
Surgeon Adams four years, Sir, you Burns five years, eleven years.

Speaker 26 (01:05:28):
Major left.

Speaker 48 (01:05:31):
If you wonder why I'm a private, Major, kep a
look at my service record.

Speaker 19 (01:05:35):
You'll see I was a Master serge until a week ago.
The reason I was fusted.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
I'm not interested in knowing why you would have moted.

Speaker 19 (01:05:42):
I smacked the captain and was court Marshall didn't like
that captain. He was a west Pointer. I'm a west
pointer too.

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
If you don't like taking orders from a west pointer.

Speaker 19 (01:05:53):
Better let me know right now. Well, then't that'll take
orders a long time ago?

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
Major, Well, don't forget how, because I think you'll find
me a lot tougher than that camp in what way
made you? And always let's get things.

Speaker 19 (01:06:09):
Straight to three of you. Nice job together is the
Tales with the Lake Zulo to me, you're not man.
You've got serial numbers.

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
Each of you has experienced and supposedly tough. Before we
have finished, we will see how tough he really up.

Speaker 19 (01:06:26):
Well, that goes both ways. Eleven years and the army
hasn't told you very much.

Speaker 2 (01:06:29):
Get serted it.

Speaker 19 (01:06:30):
How are you address an officer?

Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
Oh, sir, that's the way I want you to address
me from now on every time.

Speaker 49 (01:06:39):
The three of you got that, Yes, sir.

Speaker 19 (01:06:44):
All right, you'll draw supplies and get movie.

Speaker 2 (01:07:07):
We should be through the chapter permitive announce.

Speaker 19 (01:07:08):
Sir, just about down down here.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
Why don't you see, sir sent me Walkie's posted.

Speaker 26 (01:07:18):
Yeah, I see him.

Speaker 19 (01:07:21):
Hmm, A verey little fella.

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
Quiet, he's turned around, sir.

Speaker 19 (01:07:33):
He'll be coming back again.

Speaker 7 (01:07:34):
I'll take him.

Speaker 2 (01:07:35):
I don't mind job considered, sir. I'm an expert at this.

Speaker 49 (01:07:38):
I'll do it.

Speaker 19 (01:07:40):
Yes, we're gonna move so before that more chapter.

Speaker 21 (01:07:54):
Yeah, all right, now.

Speaker 19 (01:07:57):
There's a mom by the way. All right, bron come on,
we got old.

Speaker 50 (01:08:06):
Jet on the answers.

Speaker 19 (01:08:27):
It was either that or the jets.

Speaker 25 (01:08:29):
They wouldn't have had any trouble if that jem with
chip quiet, ye think if you get quiet considered, Yes, yeah,
that dog jets giving dogs to track it down.

Speaker 19 (01:08:44):
I'll get old.

Speaker 9 (01:08:45):
Is this what is stuff?

Speaker 18 (01:08:46):
You know?

Speaker 51 (01:08:46):
That also.

Speaker 26 (01:08:55):
Stuck?

Speaker 19 (01:08:56):
And they made decide to come through the swamps. Get
ready for him? Listen getting further away.

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
When I break it, I must have picked up another cent.

Speaker 49 (01:09:09):
Let's come home.

Speaker 52 (01:09:26):
Yeah, it's a pretty dry spot, rest sir, Yes, sagon burns.
He's going through this swamp, takings out of a way
very much.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
About five miles, five miles, five steinking miles, and all
because that champ was given a chance a year long.

Speaker 19 (01:09:51):
Wasn't given a chance.

Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
The first time I had stabbed, the knife glanced off
his shoulder blade. The way I used the knife, I
wouldn't let a glance off, sir. But you weren't given
the job, Concerta, Why wasn't I I start.

Speaker 53 (01:10:02):
Will tell you I was an expert that I don't
have as confidence in an unlisted man.

Speaker 19 (01:10:06):
Who strikes as a peerie officer.

Speaker 2 (01:10:07):
That captain had it coming up at concerto.

Speaker 19 (01:10:09):
But you guys heard about it through the grapevine.

Speaker 21 (01:10:12):
You know that Captain Harris is right? Drop it?

Speaker 19 (01:10:14):
Sure, yeah, drop it.

Speaker 49 (01:10:18):
It took me ten years.

Speaker 47 (01:10:19):
To become a master's suntant, and then in a couple
of minutes.

Speaker 26 (01:10:22):
I lose it.

Speaker 19 (01:10:23):
I'm sure I had a captain.

Speaker 47 (01:10:26):
He didn't deserve to be an officer.

Speaker 26 (01:10:28):
He didn't deserve to.

Speaker 19 (01:10:29):
Be any kind of a soldier. I don't think enough.
Can't I even talk.

Speaker 2 (01:10:34):
All I want you to do is the pay orders
I got for all of you. I've still got almost
a hundred miles of jeff Hill Jungle in front of us.
My job is to get through, and I will even
if I have to do it alone. You won't do
it alone. I'll be right with you, sir.

Speaker 47 (01:10:54):
I'll show you what kind of a soldier I am.

Speaker 2 (01:10:57):
I don't think you have any to be a good soldier.
We'll see, sir, the three of your own trial. Get
that experience in combat.

Speaker 19 (01:11:05):
Sure, but it remains to be.

Speaker 17 (01:11:06):
Seen if you have the guts.

Speaker 2 (01:11:09):
All right, let's get moleaved.

Speaker 19 (01:11:10):
Yeah. Sure, we've only had a few minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
Ray, you haven't had any more rest than us, Sergeant, Yes.

Speaker 21 (01:11:16):
Sir, you gotta.

Speaker 19 (01:11:20):
All right, Adams.

Speaker 21 (01:11:21):
You hurt me on your feet?

Speaker 19 (01:11:24):
Yes, sir, Hey, what's the matter with you?

Speaker 21 (01:11:27):
Adams?

Speaker 19 (01:11:27):
Nothing happen? Yeah, but your eyes, your face.

Speaker 2 (01:11:29):
I'm all right, Okay, I can do anything that Major.

Speaker 19 (01:11:34):
Wagner wants us to do. You'll get a chance to
prove that, Adams. You'll all get a chance, all right,
few men follow me.

Speaker 48 (01:12:00):
In just a moment, we were turned with our story.
Mosca me, I'm brown and last.

Speaker 19 (01:12:27):
I think Kevin's verdict swamp allocan movie and make good
time and ground like this well that we were. We
were in that swamp for quite a while, Sir, so.

Speaker 2 (01:12:37):
Loosen a pretty bad way, Sir, I think he's coming down,
and see all my reason for questioning.

Speaker 26 (01:12:41):
I'm loud.

Speaker 7 (01:12:41):
I can't.

Speaker 24 (01:12:47):
Can't.

Speaker 29 (01:12:47):
I can't.

Speaker 19 (01:12:51):
Holy, what are you gonna do?

Speaker 2 (01:12:53):
You'll see why you can't.

Speaker 19 (01:12:56):
I don't say it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:58):
I won't say it.

Speaker 19 (01:13:00):
I'll be thinking about it, sir.

Speaker 49 (01:13:03):
Als and listen, listen to me, alas if you've got to.

Speaker 2 (01:13:13):
Keep moving, you hear that you're not the wholeness.

Speaker 19 (01:13:16):
That you're sorry at things?

Speaker 2 (01:13:20):
Yes, Madams, Adams, you hear me?

Speaker 49 (01:13:23):
Yes, what did I say?

Speaker 17 (01:13:28):
We have to keep moving?

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
And you, of course you can just let yourself slump
and fall to the ground. It's it's very easy to.

Speaker 19 (01:13:37):
Do that, and the jack patron will hind us keep going.
I'll keep going all right and start Come on, come
in your harmy walks, you come on. If I got

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you as come on, put your arm around my shoulder.
If passed out again, we must keep going.

Speaker 2 (01:14:12):
Are making good time.

Speaker 19 (01:14:14):
You won't get Adams to walk on for a while yet.

Speaker 53 (01:14:16):
Anyhow, you're gonna slap him again, sir, Let me.

Speaker 19 (01:14:19):
Have a look at him. If you can seize Adams
for the time being.

Speaker 21 (01:14:22):
Sir Adam.

Speaker 53 (01:14:24):
Adams, I'd advise you not to slap him this time.

Speaker 21 (01:14:27):
Sir.

Speaker 19 (01:14:28):
I'll do what I think I should do private concerna.

Speaker 47 (01:14:31):
Just don't slap him.

Speaker 2 (01:14:33):
You're threatening an opposite.

Speaker 19 (01:14:35):
I don't care what you call it. It's just not
gonna let just make this guy around.

Speaker 2 (01:14:38):
What would you do?

Speaker 19 (01:14:39):
He said he would be in the bank. It's just
the sort of thing.

Speaker 4 (01:14:44):
We would do.

Speaker 19 (01:14:45):
You you know, don't call me though it wasn't, but
the fact that a patrol might be thereby.

Speaker 49 (01:14:49):
I'd bet that thing like out of you.

Speaker 19 (01:14:50):
And then if we got through your charge, you would
strike in a norposit. It could be a private tight
between you and me. No one else would come into it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:00):
Maybe said we can arrange in a field like that
later on. Huh, when the job is finished private.

Speaker 47 (01:15:09):
Now I really got something to look forward to, sir.

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
So I had Burns and so I had him under cover.

Speaker 17 (01:15:16):
Yes, sir, water water, Yeah, we're here out.

Speaker 47 (01:15:34):
I'll get my canteen and.

Speaker 53 (01:15:40):
Burns.

Speaker 19 (01:15:41):
Give me a canteen, will you. It's for Adams. Yeah,
you are.

Speaker 21 (01:15:47):
Careful.

Speaker 2 (01:15:47):
It's hardly hair for yeah, yeah you Adams.

Speaker 15 (01:15:53):
I just have.

Speaker 17 (01:15:56):
Water water with.

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
The camel canting product.

Speaker 17 (01:15:58):
But he's only had a mouth.

Speaker 19 (01:16:00):
That's all he is getting for the time being.

Speaker 2 (01:16:02):
Put the cat on private.

Speaker 19 (01:16:05):
That's an order.

Speaker 17 (01:16:07):
Yes, what I can't give you any.

Speaker 19 (01:16:11):
More now items have a rest, fella, you get more leave.

Speaker 2 (01:16:17):
Try to sleep, food.

Speaker 19 (01:16:21):
Oats? Think really, how long do we stay here, sir?

Speaker 26 (01:16:29):
Four hours?

Speaker 7 (01:16:29):
Foul?

Speaker 17 (01:16:31):
But Adams needs a rest.

Speaker 19 (01:16:32):
If he's not able to walk in four hours, you're
not gonna leave him in it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:37):
Let's either that or carry him. If a nice to
insert and Burns can take turns.

Speaker 19 (01:16:41):
And helping him along.

Speaker 17 (01:16:42):
Maybe it'll be better if you left us three behind.

Speaker 2 (01:16:45):
My orders had to get all of you through until
it becomes impossible, and I'll try.

Speaker 19 (01:16:50):
To carry out that sell sus gave him up high
from one.

Speaker 54 (01:16:59):
Of those great up Yes, super, we'll be back, and
I'm gonna two peril and our story mosque opping.

Speaker 52 (01:17:30):
We've been lying here for at least ten minutes, and
he's waiting for one of us to show ourselves.

Speaker 19 (01:17:35):
Why don't we go after him? Because he's so well hidden.
As soon as I fired would see him. Might have
been risking one man.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
You weren't worried about risking a man, are you, sir?
Of course the man who shoots had reprobably be you.

Speaker 25 (01:17:53):
The chaps like to get the officers first.

Speaker 2 (01:17:56):
I'm not gonna get myself killed just to make you happy. Private,
Let's not go out there with a rifle. I figure
i'm close enough to where that shot came from. I
want you to cause a commotion here and then sure
yourself so that.

Speaker 19 (01:18:08):
Sniper as a target.

Speaker 2 (01:18:09):
If you move fast enough, you will have a chance
of hitting you. Unless you're afraid, Private Concerno, don't you
worry about my part of it.

Speaker 19 (01:18:20):
You're for getting my rank again, sir, that's fair. You'll
need a signal of some kind, sir, Yes, listene, that'll
be our signal.

Speaker 2 (01:18:35):
The bird call.

Speaker 19 (01:18:36):
Yes, but how we know where it you? This will
be the call. Listen.

Speaker 52 (01:18:45):
That's the bird you won't see in this jungle maybe
bitbut there knows.

Speaker 19 (01:18:49):
That too few people ever really listen to the bird
calls they hear.

Speaker 53 (01:18:54):
Will you recognize that one when you hear it again?

Speaker 2 (01:18:56):
Yes, Ill as soon as you hear it makes some noise,
and know yourself. Briefly, I'm the sipifiers and gives away
his position. I'll let him matter there.

Speaker 26 (01:19:07):
I go, Hey, what what's going on out there?

Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
He's been going for almost ten minutes?

Speaker 41 (01:19:30):
Do you know him?

Speaker 55 (01:19:32):
He's being careful.

Speaker 2 (01:19:34):
He doesn't like the idea of being shut.

Speaker 26 (01:19:37):
I don't know. I don't like him.

Speaker 19 (01:19:41):
What he's doing takes a certain amount of their Yeah,
sure what.

Speaker 21 (01:19:44):
And how about us?

Speaker 19 (01:19:45):
We're making ourself targets.

Speaker 2 (01:19:48):
Yeah, hey, Adams, Adams.

Speaker 47 (01:19:52):
Is coming round.

Speaker 18 (01:19:55):
Water?

Speaker 27 (01:19:57):
What do I do?

Speaker 26 (01:20:00):
Water? Left?

Speaker 19 (01:20:01):
The major said? Tell him what the major said?

Speaker 21 (01:20:04):
Or yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:20:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (01:20:07):
Coming up at him.

Speaker 25 (01:20:10):
Now, fellow, I drink all you want.

Speaker 47 (01:20:15):
That's right, have a good suite.

Speaker 19 (01:20:21):
That's the call makes a noise, okay, s.

Speaker 24 (01:20:30):
Down there?

Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
He goes, he's falling from the tree.

Speaker 19 (01:20:49):
That was nice shooting, sir.

Speaker 2 (01:20:51):
Yeah, and now you can write yourself up for a
middle that's enough. That's he's not too good, sir.

Speaker 19 (01:21:01):
Water give him a small drug of that water, so
I'll gone what I gave it to him a little
while ago. He was crying up with something.

Speaker 2 (01:21:14):
You weren't hit to give him the orders?

Speaker 19 (01:21:15):
So certain Burns. Why did you let him do it?
Are you well, sir? You were in charge? Well, yeah,
I know, I guess I just didn't think, sir. No
I find such.

Speaker 2 (01:21:30):
Let's see, according to the map, as a stream of
the half am out away. I don't have to fill
the canteens there. That's easy enough. Unless those shots bring
a company of Japs down on us.

Speaker 19 (01:21:43):
I'll go for the water, sir.

Speaker 2 (01:21:45):
I can't depend on you, private sir, knowing you Burns,
I'll go for the water.

Speaker 19 (01:21:53):
I get back. I kept moving as.

Speaker 49 (01:21:55):
Soon as my cat.

Speaker 2 (01:22:11):
He's been gone a long time. Yeah, almost almost an hour.

Speaker 19 (01:22:19):
Were you ready for some chaps?

Speaker 2 (01:22:20):
Now we had some shots, but if they used banners,
he sounds I almost worried about him.

Speaker 47 (01:22:27):
That's for myself. I hope the chaps did get it.
Here's the guy I'm worrying about. The major took on
the canteens. We got to get some water for Adams.

Speaker 19 (01:22:41):
Yeah, let's go look for the major. I think we
should wait a little longer, and you can wait. I'm
going all right, consider, I'll go with you.

Speaker 2 (01:23:02):
He should almost eat us a stream by now. There
it is.

Speaker 19 (01:23:05):
I can see him through the trees.

Speaker 2 (01:23:06):
Yeah, yeah, a couple of years away.

Speaker 19 (01:23:10):
What could have happened to the maid? Yet it's taking
us only twenty minutes to yay?

Speaker 29 (01:23:14):
Hold it?

Speaker 19 (01:23:17):
Look over there, did a tree?

Speaker 17 (01:23:21):
See it's heem?

Speaker 19 (01:23:23):
Yeah, he's kneeling.

Speaker 47 (01:23:27):
Let's get closer that.

Speaker 17 (01:23:33):
Yes, Just give me the strength to go on, give.

Speaker 7 (01:23:37):
Me the courage to make them hold me.

Speaker 17 (01:23:40):
Hey hm, that's the only way I can't get them through.

Speaker 2 (01:23:45):
Don't flat me wake him. Let me be strong so
the thing can be strong.

Speaker 9 (01:23:52):
He ah, he was pretty.

Speaker 52 (01:23:58):
Consider we've got to make him think we still hid him,
because that's his strength too.

Speaker 21 (01:24:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 49 (01:24:11):
But if we get through, I know one thing.

Speaker 2 (01:24:16):
I won't be finding.

Speaker 26 (01:24:20):
Let's go back.

Speaker 56 (01:24:21):
Yeah, and that concludes tonight's peril story.

Speaker 2 (01:24:38):
Mask of eight.

Speaker 1 (01:24:47):
Okay, two b's coming up, Thanks Mike, But in your
eye that's twenty cents.

Speaker 4 (01:24:54):
Pet before your hosting.

Speaker 18 (01:24:56):
Justin guy.

Speaker 57 (01:24:57):
Huh yeah, Oh, Mike, here's a tip for you, a
little something next to it.

Speaker 27 (01:25:10):
It's a good gag.

Speaker 4 (01:25:16):
Huh.

Speaker 27 (01:25:17):
As you know.

Speaker 57 (01:25:18):
I don't think Mike appreciated it.

Speaker 58 (01:25:26):
So big Mike is dead, murdered by two unfriendly strangers.
It seems from the listening to be an open and shutcase.
You simply find the two men who went into the
bar at that particular time. You finding them, it shouldn't

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be difficult, since they each had a drink and left
their glasses on the bar. Oh, creeps, this is T
four y opening the doors to the mystery player. Tonight

(01:26:14):
we bring you another story by your old favorite William Irish.
It's called leg Man. You've already heard the crime being committed.
Now we plan to lead you slowly through the maze

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of clues and evidence.

Speaker 4 (01:26:38):
See if you're as smart as you think you are. Now, then.

Speaker 58 (01:26:44):
Let's hear the rest of leg Man by William Irish.

Speaker 59 (01:27:00):
The Sea Mike's tavern on the lower West side of Manhattan.
The place is jammed with policeman, detectives, photographers. Sprawled behind
the bar is the body of Mike two bullets in.

Speaker 1 (01:27:12):
It, all right, boys, put those two glasses on the bar.

Speaker 33 (01:27:16):
And if these reporters get them pictures.

Speaker 59 (01:27:18):
Spector has chances of some infort when he was burgess
from the globe.

Speaker 1 (01:27:21):
Yeah, how much they take the place for it. Wasn't
the cash killing? Not much dough in a bar at
nine in the morning. We got to take it for
a grudge killing. Don't yourself a suspector Nope, we've got
the culture solid. He's cooked, washed in bottle. You see
those glasses we just put back there in the bar. Yeah,
I see him a whiskey jigger and a beer glass. Yeah,
well the whiskey jigger was covered with fingerprints.

Speaker 4 (01:27:42):
Fools.

Speaker 1 (01:27:43):
A guy named Hastings, Chuck Hastings motive plane is the
nose on your face, had some kind of a row
with Mike and fitting the greeting with him in front
of about one hundred people.

Speaker 35 (01:27:52):
Any alibi, none at all?

Speaker 4 (01:27:54):
Says he was alone in his room all morning.

Speaker 35 (01:27:56):
Who's prints on the beer glass?

Speaker 4 (01:27:58):
None? White clean?

Speaker 60 (01:28:00):
That's funny, isn't it. If the beer glass was wiped clean,
why not the whiskey jigger too? That sounds fishy to me.

Speaker 1 (01:28:07):
Hey, you looking for trouble. One of the two guys
had more presence of mind than the other. One remembered
to wipe the glass, one forgot. The one who forgot
was too busy he was firing the shot.

Speaker 18 (01:28:19):
That's all.

Speaker 7 (01:28:20):
The case is closed.

Speaker 35 (01:28:31):
That's all. It's a very simple case.

Speaker 59 (01:28:33):
A grudge, a killing, and some fingerprints plastered all over
a whiskey glass, and the man who made them locked up.
Everybody was satisfied except Chuck Hasty was the man they
locked up, and a pen so happy leg man called Burgess,
who was crazy enough to start messing around in an
open and shot murder case.

Speaker 35 (01:29:01):
All right, we're just speaking. We're the devil of you, Ben,
I could have run the history of road by now.

Speaker 60 (01:29:10):
Hold on, I'll give you read right man, No wait
a minute, boss, I don't have the whole story yet.

Speaker 61 (01:29:14):
All right, all right, we're not doing pacework here. You know,
Pauls will finish it and arrest is expected.

Speaker 59 (01:29:20):
Well, as a matter of fact, the arrest has been
made already. A guy called Hastings. He had a grudge
against the owner and his prints are on the death glass.

Speaker 50 (01:29:27):
What are you waiting for?

Speaker 61 (01:29:28):
We're running a daily newspaper, on an annual. You have
to wait my execute and bury h me in.

Speaker 60 (01:29:32):
How listen, boss, I know there's something I think the
police have missed, and it makes me think this whole
thing may be a framers.

Speaker 2 (01:29:38):
Just get this straight.

Speaker 31 (01:29:39):
I didn't send you have to solve detective cases. I
sent John to get the facts.

Speaker 61 (01:29:43):
If the police say this Hastings did it, he did
it the tall I'll give you just ten minutes to.

Speaker 2 (01:29:48):
Get back here.

Speaker 35 (01:29:48):
You need to come back, boss, give me a break.

Speaker 7 (01:29:51):
Hello, Hello, going up, blatant?

Speaker 35 (01:29:59):
Get your call? Yeah, give me two fingers coming on.

Speaker 62 (01:30:05):
You're the newspaper guy who was in here this morning
asking questions about the killing, ain't you?

Speaker 41 (01:30:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 60 (01:30:11):
That i'd seen you before? Hey, that's forty cents. What's
the matter? Don't you trust me till I've finished it?

Speaker 4 (01:30:19):
Sure?

Speaker 63 (01:30:21):
Just have it.

Speaker 62 (01:30:21):
I guess the owner of Mike he never trusted anyone.
He always collected for drinks right as he put him down,
instead of waiting until after picked it up from him.

Speaker 60 (01:30:31):
I guess sounds like a tight guy, Mike. You said,
A mouthful guy like that must a plenty of enemies. Ah, sure,
Michaol for instance. Yeah, I know it's a safe bet
i'd picked this fellow, Chuck Hastings. The police pulled in.
What's the scrudge they say had against Mike? Well, I
don't know, as I could say. I was just wondering

(01:30:52):
for the paper, you know, I thought I could quote you.

Speaker 26 (01:30:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 62 (01:30:58):
Well, of course, snow secret Hastings and Mike had a
row in here one night. This Hastings hands a boss
a ten dollar bill to pay him off, and the
boss just gives him change for five. Things start to
get rough, and Mike jumps over the counter and throws
his Hastings out.

Speaker 35 (01:31:16):
I wouldn't say that was too much of a round.

Speaker 62 (01:31:18):
Well, after Mike throws him out, Hastings picks himself off
the street and hollers in the door, I'm gonna get
you for this if it's the last thing I do.
I guess he did all right. Funny thing though, looks
like Mike still didn't trust him. Made him pay up

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this morning when he got his drink like always. When
I came in, the register was rung up at twenty cents.
At twenty cents? Are you sure that I got eyes? Ain't? I?

Speaker 4 (01:31:51):
You know what?

Speaker 60 (01:31:53):
It strikes me that a man as tight fisted as
Mike sounds. We have a lot of people who'd like
to pump him off.

Speaker 62 (01:32:00):
Ally did knock up against a few tough customers like well,
just for the heck of it. Mind you, I ain't
pointing a finger at no one in particular about this.

Speaker 4 (01:32:11):
Shoot. No, no, of course not. Well.

Speaker 7 (01:32:14):
There's a fella named Edge, Joe Edge in the wholesale
liquor racket. He and Mike have had it in for
each other for a couple of years.

Speaker 4 (01:32:22):
Now, I'll come.

Speaker 7 (01:32:23):
Well, Edge had the old squeeze play pretty much on.

Speaker 4 (01:32:28):
He soaked Mike.

Speaker 62 (01:32:29):
The limit for the liquor he soldom, and then was
plenty sore when Mike got tired up and switched to
another out.

Speaker 35 (01:32:34):
Sore enough to kill him.

Speaker 4 (01:32:35):
No, look, I didn't say I forget it.

Speaker 35 (01:32:37):
Forget it?

Speaker 4 (01:32:42):
Say?

Speaker 62 (01:32:42):
By the way, was it a glass like this they
found in the bar? This small Yeah, a whiskey jigger
and a beer glass in front of the other seat.
Do you keep an account of how many jiggers like this?
You haven't stuck, not usually, but it just happens. We
got in three dozen yesterday, lost any since then.

Speaker 60 (01:33:04):
No, I'm pretty careful, and you ought to have thirty five,
not counting the one the police took. Right, Well, thirty
five and eighteen we were down to before we reordered.

Speaker 3 (01:33:16):
That makes it.

Speaker 4 (01:33:19):
Fifty three.

Speaker 59 (01:33:20):
Look, I'm not one of those betting guys, but I've
got nothing else to do. Here's a dollar bill says
you haven't got fifty three in stock?

Speaker 7 (01:33:26):
Right now?

Speaker 35 (01:33:27):
Fade me.

Speaker 62 (01:33:28):
Wow, that's an easy way to double my money. Yeah,
see the stick. I'll hit the glasses so they sing
out and you can keep count with me.

Speaker 60 (01:33:37):
Okay, right, one, two, three, four, five, six, forty six,
forty seven, forty eight, forty nine, fifty fifty one, fifty two,

(01:34:01):
fifty three, fifty four.

Speaker 18 (01:34:04):
Well I'll be doing I must have figured wrong.

Speaker 7 (01:34:07):
No, No, you didn't neither, did I?

Speaker 9 (01:34:10):
Oh?

Speaker 35 (01:34:10):
Don't you see?

Speaker 1 (01:34:12):
You have one extra shotglass? Find out where it came from,
and you've got the guy who killed Mike.

Speaker 60 (01:34:22):
Yeah, buddy, listen, was a whiskey jigger like this taken
from your bar within the last few nights.

Speaker 35 (01:34:26):
No, take a thing like that, don't bother me.

Speaker 18 (01:34:28):
Okay, thanks?

Speaker 35 (01:34:29):
Anyway, did anyone take a shot class like this from
your bar?

Speaker 64 (01:34:35):
Were you kidding?

Speaker 7 (01:34:36):
Mister?

Speaker 35 (01:34:36):
Okay?

Speaker 21 (01:34:37):
Thanks?

Speaker 60 (01:34:41):
No, jigger taking thanks, no thanks, listen was a figger
like this taken from your bar the last couple of nights?

Speaker 7 (01:34:57):
Nah, okay, thanks? That was that you?

Speaker 60 (01:35:02):
Last me I said, was one of these shot glasses
wipe bring your far with him?

Speaker 35 (01:35:05):
The last couple of nights.

Speaker 7 (01:35:07):
Yeah, but how did you know that?

Speaker 35 (01:35:09):
Who tell you you got any idea? Who took it?

Speaker 7 (01:35:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:35:11):
Felling down to Hastings.

Speaker 35 (01:35:13):
He comes in here a lot, Hastings.

Speaker 4 (01:35:15):
Hastings, did you see him take it?

Speaker 3 (01:35:18):
Well?

Speaker 65 (01:35:18):
No, but it was the one he was drinking from,
so he must have.

Speaker 35 (01:35:22):
When I went over to clean up, there was no
glass there.

Speaker 3 (01:35:25):
I couldn't figure it.

Speaker 60 (01:35:26):
Just beginning to see the light myself, quite a fit
of light. I think I'll try and get a few
more gleams from Hastings himself.

Speaker 21 (01:35:47):
You'd think this was all.

Speaker 7 (01:35:48):
Home week and the detention cells.

Speaker 31 (01:35:50):
Hastings is being held from there and you walk in
the whole hands or something.

Speaker 35 (01:35:55):
I just swing it the power of the press officer.

Speaker 21 (01:35:58):
This is self, Yeah, hasty, that's so happy.

Speaker 31 (01:36:02):
Here was the fanny air five minutes.

Speaker 9 (01:36:05):
Be it up.

Speaker 4 (01:36:11):
Hasting's. I had a hard time getting in here.

Speaker 60 (01:36:13):
I didn't listen. I've got to talk fast, Answer me
straight with you. That's the only way I can help.

Speaker 3 (01:36:19):
What do you want to know?

Speaker 4 (01:36:20):
Who would you shake hands with last night?

Speaker 15 (01:36:22):
Oh?

Speaker 35 (01:36:23):
I a little punch he or something?

Speaker 4 (01:36:24):
Listen, I mean it. Wh would you shake hands within
a bar the night before you were arrested for the killing?

Speaker 2 (01:36:29):
I don't.

Speaker 35 (01:36:30):
I didn't meet anyone I knew. I was by myself
the whole time. You weren't a place called Sullivan's on Union.

Speaker 66 (01:36:35):
Avenue, Sullivans. Wait a minute, I didn't shake hands with anyone,
but somebody did grab my pump it. I remember that now.
It was one of those dunks next to me, look
like a mechanic wearing overalls. First you apologize for slapping
over against me. Then he said no hard feelings, and

(01:36:58):
we'd stump and pump my hand about sixty times.

Speaker 35 (01:37:01):
Now what you wanted?

Speaker 4 (01:37:02):
That's exactly what I wanted.

Speaker 35 (01:37:03):
Did you notice your hands when you got home last night?
Was there anything on them? What are you mind?

Speaker 3 (01:37:09):
Reader?

Speaker 35 (01:37:10):
It was grease on them, actual grease or something hastings.

Speaker 4 (01:37:12):
I'm on the right track.

Speaker 35 (01:37:14):
Was he anyone you ever saw before? I never saw
him before in my life. He were just some stray
bar he wasn't straying.

Speaker 4 (01:37:22):
He was no barfly.

Speaker 35 (01:37:23):
But never mind about that now, Hastings, who hates you
pretty much the whole world though it looks tonight, Look,
I'm trying to help who hate you enough to frame
you for a murder? Sometimes you don't know what want they?

Speaker 4 (01:37:36):
Oh, you usually have a pretty fair idea.

Speaker 66 (01:37:39):
Wow, there's Harlem, maybe Tom Strickland al Vogel. Ever since
that mixed up in Jersey City, Joe Edge, Edge, Joe Edge,
what's he got against you? He's a looker distributor now,
but he used to operate as speak. He's doing prohibition.
I worked for him one might be were rated and
federally tried a lot of inside dope turned up during

(01:38:01):
the trial, as though someone that rabbit.

Speaker 35 (01:38:04):
You always thought it was me. I got off pretty
light and got a stiff.

Speaker 60 (01:38:08):
Term probission and in nineteen thirty three, and me he'd
wait twelve years to get even.

Speaker 35 (01:38:12):
He's always had it in for me. I wouldn't be surprised.

Speaker 60 (01:38:16):
I wouldn't be surprised either, Hastings. I wouldn't be at
all surprised. Ah ah, hello, Hello, is this.

Speaker 35 (01:38:53):
The Joseph Edge who's in the liquor distributing business.

Speaker 15 (01:38:57):
Yeah, what can I do for you?

Speaker 4 (01:39:00):
Thing? I figured maybe there was something I could do
for you. I'm in a phone booth.

Speaker 60 (01:39:05):
But Mike's Tavern, that's where you were this morning at
about nine nine fifteen.

Speaker 35 (01:39:11):
Weren't you Mike's tavern?

Speaker 29 (01:39:14):
Where is that?

Speaker 60 (01:39:16):
That's where they shot Mike. I'll explain. I was the
first customer at Mike's tavern this morning. I went in
a minute or two after the place was opened up.
I went into the washroom. I was in there when
you came in. You didn't think to look in there.

Speaker 15 (01:39:37):
Well, tell that the cops.

Speaker 4 (01:39:39):
The only drawback is they don't pay it.

Speaker 9 (01:39:41):
Oh, I say, is that it I've been.

Speaker 60 (01:39:45):
Saving this for a rainy day, and it's pouring cats
and dogs right now, and.

Speaker 15 (01:39:52):
I hate that disappoints you, but it's real dry and sun.

Speaker 23 (01:39:56):
Hit this end.

Speaker 60 (01:39:57):
You don't believe I was there, dude, I'll draw your picture.
There was another guy with you. You stood up against
the bar on the right hand side, he stood on
the left. After the shooting, one glass was white clean
and the other. Now is it clouding up a little bit?

Speaker 4 (01:40:14):
You're here?

Speaker 35 (01:40:16):
Look your proposition interests me.

Speaker 57 (01:40:19):
About how large an umbrella would it take to keep
you dry?

Speaker 4 (01:40:24):
Oh? About a five hundred dollars one.

Speaker 2 (01:40:28):
That's a pretty large umbrella.

Speaker 67 (01:40:30):
This is a pretty heavy rainstorm, all right, But there's
no harm in getting together and talking this over. You
meet me tomorrow morning at nine o'clock in front of
a barbershop called the Empire.

Speaker 15 (01:40:46):
You can't miss it, central ladder, got it, got it?

Speaker 4 (01:40:51):
Okay, see you that fo right?

Speaker 18 (01:40:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:40:57):
Fought tomorrow morning?

Speaker 3 (01:41:00):
You kidding?

Speaker 4 (01:41:06):
Still?

Speaker 35 (01:41:08):
What time do you close up here?

Speaker 7 (01:41:10):
Well? The boss usually kept it open until about four,
but I thought i'd close up in about ten minutes.

Speaker 4 (01:41:17):
Won a nightcap before I woke up with the night. Yeah,
give me a short one.

Speaker 7 (01:41:30):
Here, no change, ess, Hey, look at it.

Speaker 4 (01:41:37):
Just take it over to the register with you.

Speaker 35 (01:41:39):
Good night, good night.

Speaker 62 (01:41:45):
Well I'll be dog gone, he said, keep the change,
And it's nothing but a piece of paper all scribbled
up with some.

Speaker 18 (01:41:54):
Light on it.

Speaker 4 (01:41:56):
Keep the change.

Speaker 21 (01:42:21):
But he could recover you for a light.

Speaker 35 (01:42:22):
Oh sure, say something, buddy, What do you want me
to say?

Speaker 18 (01:42:30):
Just that?

Speaker 35 (01:42:31):
That will be very nicely.

Speaker 3 (01:42:32):
Thanks.

Speaker 15 (01:42:33):
It's him, boys, I know I'm.

Speaker 19 (01:42:34):
By the voice.

Speaker 7 (01:42:35):
There's your matches back, buddy.

Speaker 35 (01:42:37):
That's not matches. That's a gun you've got there?

Speaker 9 (01:42:39):
Right you are?

Speaker 4 (01:42:40):
It says, get in and make yourself comfortable.

Speaker 7 (01:42:43):
Wait, I'm not.

Speaker 35 (01:42:46):
Okay, step on it. Where are we in a warehouse

(01:43:07):
where they store liquer?

Speaker 23 (01:43:09):
Have I been in the warehouse where they store liquer?

Speaker 33 (01:43:11):
It's very instructive, you know, frighten my day?

Speaker 35 (01:43:15):
This guy doesn't frighten us so quick.

Speaker 23 (01:43:16):
You don't have to be afraid. But it is a
nice umbrella in this for you. All we gotta do
is is find out if you're a phony or on
the up?

Speaker 35 (01:43:25):
I see, how are we going to do that?

Speaker 23 (01:43:29):
Well, there's four of us here. You say you saw
two guys come into Mike's tavern and shoot him yesterday.
All right, pick out the two you say you're so give.

Speaker 4 (01:43:42):
Me a minute's time. I want to be sure of
what I'm doing.

Speaker 7 (01:43:47):
Yeah, you want to be funny shooter.

Speaker 3 (01:43:51):
Well there's.

Speaker 60 (01:43:56):
You number one, granted face there and number two eyes
a little shifted.

Speaker 33 (01:44:08):
Come on either you know you don't?

Speaker 29 (01:44:09):
I don't know.

Speaker 60 (01:44:11):
I want to figure out what it's best for me
to say, especially with a very efficient looking gun pointing
at my stock.

Speaker 35 (01:44:21):
So you know who it was?

Speaker 27 (01:44:23):
I suppose you know why it was too, I do.

Speaker 60 (01:44:29):
It was a case of two birds with one stone,
or with one whiskey chiguer A guy had a long
standing grudge against tasties and a hot I went against
Mike Oliver for refusing to be hijacked by his liquor
distributing green. So he figured one murder should be enough.

Speaker 4 (01:44:48):
To take care of both men. Right, go on, well listen, Oh,
it's quite simple.

Speaker 60 (01:44:56):
Joe Edge had one of his men with grease in
his hand, put on a South sax, follow Hastings into
a bar, shook hands with him. Hastings printed his own
tips all over the glass he was using, without even
knowing it then there would be South swiped it and
brought it to Edge. Edge took it the mics with him,

(01:45:16):
shot Mike, switched Glasses, left it behind her to frame Hastings.

Speaker 3 (01:45:21):
Shall I go on?

Speaker 21 (01:45:22):
Sure?

Speaker 60 (01:45:25):
There's not much more except that the two guys I
saw come into Mike's tavern and shoot my daughter?

Speaker 4 (01:45:31):
Where you Joe Edgin in front of me with a gun?
You over there, the fourth guy with a shifty eyes.

Speaker 35 (01:45:44):
That was the wrong answer. You too were the ones
that were there, So what's wrong? About it.

Speaker 23 (01:45:54):
Sure we were there, that's why wrong answer. If you
picked the wrong too, you probably would have walked out
of here alive. You picked the right.

Speaker 57 (01:46:08):
So you'll have to take you a five hundred in
capsule form now, bos.

Speaker 18 (01:46:15):
Hey, Michael, from right here.

Speaker 33 (01:46:19):
Rust can take off the papers covered.

Speaker 4 (01:46:32):
You all right? Byges? Yeah, I guess I am inspector Lions.
You sure got here just in time.

Speaker 1 (01:46:38):
That looked pretty close. He tagged the car and followed it.
You gambled heavily on that bartenders, and.

Speaker 60 (01:46:43):
I know I was afraid to talk to him. I
know someone of the gang was watching or listening. I
scribbled a message for him to call you.

Speaker 1 (01:46:50):
He did better than that. He saw you get in
the car and phone the license in. But look, how
did you ever figure out that whiskey jigger was a plant?

Speaker 21 (01:46:58):
Well?

Speaker 60 (01:46:58):
Edge got carelessly. He didn't think it mattered what he
ordered at the bar from Mikey. He was sticking his
glass out and no one would see it. So he
ordered beer and the character with him acting on the
suggestion or the beer two. But Mike Caliver was a
peculiar cuss. He insisted on being paid when the drinks
were ordered. Me bring up the money before they shot him.
When they found Mike's body, the cash register said twenty cents.

(01:47:21):
What does that prove, specter, You can't break twenty cents
down into a whiskey and a beer any day of
the week. And there was a whiskey and a beer
glass side by side on the bar. Yes, but well,
even if the beer glass was just a chaser for
the whiskey, the price for the cheapest whiskey Mike carried
was twenty five cents. Twenty cents will buy two beers.

(01:47:42):
For the sake of simple arithmetic, the whiskey glass had
to be planted.

Speaker 3 (01:47:46):
We allowed be son.

Speaker 7 (01:47:48):
If you ever want a job on the police.

Speaker 59 (01:47:50):
Force takes I'm plenty satisfied with a job I have
Now wait a minute, what's wrong.

Speaker 35 (01:47:57):
I just remembered I haven't got a job.

Speaker 18 (01:48:00):
I was fired.

Speaker 35 (01:48:01):
Excuse me, I have to call my boss.

Speaker 58 (01:48:02):
Hey wait, that was the story called Legman, written by
William Irish, an old friend to you, mystery playhouse fans.

(01:48:30):
There's a moral to the story too. Moral of the
story is don't ever pay for your drinks. So after
you've dropped them, getting early again, it's almost not night anymore.

(01:48:53):
This is T four or closing the doors of the
Mystery playoffs and saying good night, sleep Tie. This is
the Enforces Radio Service.

Speaker 68 (01:49:16):
Johnny Presents the Philip Morris Playhouse, Produced edited and directed
by William Spear, Tonight star Vincent Price.

Speaker 1 (01:49:44):
It's a wonderful, wonderful feeling to wake up fresh with
no cigarette hangover. Yes, you'll be glad tomorrow you smoke
Philip Morris. Today and now with Vincent Price a star,

(01:50:09):
we bring you Leona's Room tonight's production in the Philip
Morris Playhouse.

Speaker 22 (01:50:27):
Leona was laughing for me.

Speaker 68 (01:50:29):
There was no joy in it anymore. Her room had
suddenly become exactly what.

Speaker 22 (01:50:34):
It was two flights up and walked back.

Speaker 68 (01:50:36):
A cubicle and a cheap rooming house, four sides of
naked plaster with a single electric light bulb strung from
the ceiling and the frayed rug, the furniture with a
patched upholstery, and the rustained basin in the corner and Leona.

Speaker 22 (01:50:51):
Leona was a drink in her hand. The room was
a fine backdrop for Leona.

Speaker 69 (01:50:56):
Go on, Honey, drink your drink. You want Leona to
fresh it up for you forget it. Oh honey, come on,
make Leona last some more. That's why we're here, isn't
it for last?

Speaker 68 (01:51:08):
Just for that, for a big time, the two of us,
Me and Leona, whatever your last name is, and let
the rest of the world go by.

Speaker 22 (01:51:15):
I'm funny. I'm a funny man.

Speaker 69 (01:51:18):
I should have met you a long time ago instead
of just tonight. Leona gets a big reaction from you.

Speaker 22 (01:51:23):
Honey, you got your last one.

Speaker 68 (01:51:25):
Kid, I'm leaving just like that.

Speaker 70 (01:51:28):
Leave it.

Speaker 69 (01:51:29):
Leona remembers when you liked your honey. Leona remembers when you.

Speaker 22 (01:51:34):
That was two hours ago. You looked a lot better than.

Speaker 69 (01:51:37):
Oh that's great. That's the greatest one here, the great
full of Janas.

Speaker 22 (01:51:43):
How do you know my name?

Speaker 71 (01:51:44):
Know your name?

Speaker 24 (01:51:45):
Honey?

Speaker 72 (01:51:46):
Your picture in the paper every day over that lousy
scandal column, as you write you were your famous white
carnation in your lapel.

Speaker 69 (01:51:56):
Sure, honey, I knew who you were all inside.

Speaker 68 (01:52:00):
Yeah, So go dream your dream about how once Philip
Dane was nice to you. Right now, that's all.

Speaker 22 (01:52:06):
Wait, wait a minute, don't go get out of my way.

Speaker 69 (01:52:10):
On tell Leoni you're sorry for what you said.

Speaker 22 (01:52:13):
I like you look I've got no more time to
play with you. Now let me out of it.

Speaker 69 (01:52:18):
Kiss, Give me a kiss.

Speaker 70 (01:52:20):
Phil, You'll see.

Speaker 22 (01:52:21):
Leon what get out of my way?

Speaker 55 (01:52:24):
Filth?

Speaker 72 (01:52:26):
That's what you are, mister Jane, your filth, A two
bit cheapster. Thanks he gives a girl a moon with
a smile and a couple of drinks. You're right poison
about other people and sneak of the side streets to
hand your.

Speaker 14 (01:52:43):
Sure, sure you'd be.

Speaker 73 (01:52:48):
That's what you're supposed to do, you and me?

Speaker 31 (01:52:53):
Well, I don't mark with both of us, Phil.

Speaker 68 (01:53:04):
The second I stirred where she had fallen, motionless, her
face all at once like scraped bone. I turned to go,
but the afterimage of a lot of other faces stopped
me on my beat. I had seen a lot of
dead faces, and hers matched. Her head lay against the
lead piping of the wash basin. I watched a small

(01:53:24):
red pearl squeeze through her lips, and then it died too, fingerprits.
I touched two things in that room, Leona and the
highball glass, smashed it on the floor and grounded with
my heel.

Speaker 22 (01:53:38):
Now there was no possible connection between Leona and me.

Speaker 68 (01:53:41):
I had met her alone, only two hours ago. Sometime
soon the police would look at her and write out
a tag that sat dead on arrival. Maybe they would
even find out what Leona's last name was.

Speaker 22 (01:54:00):
When I got outside, it was raining.

Speaker 68 (01:54:01):
That was a break, because the rain had washed away
the human rubbish that always lited that neighborhood, and there
was no one.

Speaker 22 (01:54:07):
To see me leave the house.

Speaker 68 (01:54:09):
The color bled out of the neon signs and smeared.

Speaker 22 (01:54:12):
Across the wet pavements, and I started walking.

Speaker 68 (01:54:16):
I remembered somewhere in this part of town there was
a five a day vaudeville house that had hung on
through the years, like a broken down acrobat left stranded
on a high fapize. I had meant to cover it
many times in my column for laughs. A figure tonight
was as good as any nagaety.

Speaker 22 (01:54:34):
It looked real happy.

Speaker 68 (01:54:36):
I bought a ticket, went inside and found a seat.
I looked around at the audience what there was of it.
Farmers and juvenile delinquents was what.

Speaker 22 (01:54:48):
I'd call them in the column.

Speaker 68 (01:54:55):
The billing card slipped into place for the next act, Malbrino.
When Maya Is said, the curtain went up. Now Brino
stood with his back to the audience's arms reaching out
from Maya.

Speaker 22 (01:55:11):
I bent forward.

Speaker 35 (01:55:13):
She was something.

Speaker 22 (01:55:14):
Her eyes were enormous and gray and deep enough to brown.

Speaker 68 (01:55:17):
Among you, who will disbelieve what you're about to witness?

Speaker 74 (01:55:20):
I say to you, only wait.

Speaker 33 (01:55:22):
I will descend among you and walk.

Speaker 19 (01:55:24):
Down the arms.

Speaker 74 (01:55:26):
And here I you a gentleman that ask you for some.

Speaker 33 (01:55:28):
Small object whose description is not only to himself.

Speaker 21 (01:55:31):
Do you have such an object? Sir?

Speaker 53 (01:55:33):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got a good one.

Speaker 9 (01:55:36):
Here.

Speaker 2 (01:55:37):
Get yeah, I listen, Malbrino.

Speaker 31 (01:55:40):
What isn't that her hold in my arm?

Speaker 36 (01:55:42):
It is It is something that has come from far away.

Speaker 7 (01:55:47):
It is an envelope.

Speaker 73 (01:55:48):
Who smart, madam, reach into the spaces beyond space and
tell me what is this pressures thing I hold in
my hand.

Speaker 44 (01:56:07):
It is a locket, and inside there is a strand
of golden hair a child.

Speaker 75 (01:56:16):
Yeah, yes, it's far the boys.

Speaker 22 (01:56:20):
That this gentleman has given to me.

Speaker 73 (01:56:23):
Do not do your concentration my identify this object, you mast.

Speaker 44 (01:56:29):
There is darkness here, holy darkness. He is tunned in
the way he's turnning away.

Speaker 16 (01:56:38):
There is a murderer, hair am.

Speaker 22 (01:56:51):
They rang down the curtain and I sat there. I
glanced around at my fellow spectators. Some of the audience
was laughing.

Speaker 68 (01:57:00):
Obviously these were people who had written the thing off
as a dramatic trick.

Speaker 22 (01:57:04):
But others were obviously affected by it. And if you'll laugh, you'll.

Speaker 7 (01:57:10):
Say this was naive, superstitious, ridiculous.

Speaker 22 (01:57:13):
But I had to find out. I had to make sure.
I waited until the house began to give attention to
a song and dance acts.

Speaker 68 (01:57:22):
There was a door to the left of the orchestra
pit that led backstage. I slipped out of my seat
and headed for it, as if it were my business.

Speaker 22 (01:57:31):
I walked down a corridor.

Speaker 68 (01:57:32):
There were settles on each side, tagged with the performer's names.

Speaker 22 (01:57:36):
Maya's door had a star on it. The star was guilt,
and it was peeling a moment. Yes, she was taller
than I had.

Speaker 4 (01:57:49):
Thought, and slender.

Speaker 68 (01:57:51):
Her face was delicate, with an almost wistful expression. But
it was her eyes gray and soft, as if the
color had been drained through gauze.

Speaker 20 (01:58:02):
Yes, what is it?

Speaker 68 (01:58:04):
I came back to congratulate you on your performance, Maya.

Speaker 22 (01:58:07):
That's quite an act, big.

Speaker 70 (01:58:08):
Time, thank you, But it is not an act.

Speaker 22 (01:58:11):
No, you're good, Maya, very good. Why haven't I seen
this act that isn't an.

Speaker 76 (01:58:16):
Act before Malbrino and mayar from Europe.

Speaker 70 (01:58:19):
It is the first time we have been in this country.

Speaker 22 (01:58:21):
How long have you been here?

Speaker 76 (01:58:23):
Tonight was our first performance. It did not end as
we had planned.

Speaker 22 (01:58:27):
It couldn't have looked more rehearsed.

Speaker 76 (01:58:30):
Believe what you like now, please excuse me. I am
quite exhausted.

Speaker 22 (01:58:34):
Don't run out on me. It makes me write bad notices.

Speaker 70 (01:58:38):
Write what you like. It cannot concern Maya.

Speaker 22 (01:58:41):
Why did you say there was a murderer in the theater?

Speaker 76 (01:58:45):
I do not know why I say things. My lips
speak the words. The truth shapes for them. There was
a murderer. I felt his presence.

Speaker 22 (01:58:58):
Do you still feel it?

Speaker 7 (01:59:01):
Yes?

Speaker 68 (01:59:03):
My taxicab is waiting to text to the hotel this.

Speaker 70 (01:59:07):
This is a newspaper, man Malbrino.

Speaker 68 (01:59:09):
Oh, so it's a delight to be developed professional.

Speaker 27 (01:59:12):
Wait for me in the taximia.

Speaker 3 (01:59:13):
I'll be only a moment.

Speaker 22 (01:59:16):
You saw the extraordinary performance, mister Dane.

Speaker 7 (01:59:18):
Philip Dane, Oh.

Speaker 41 (01:59:20):
Philip Dane.

Speaker 15 (01:59:21):
Her column is known even in Europe.

Speaker 4 (01:59:22):
I've overcome, mister Dave.

Speaker 55 (01:59:24):
It's an honor that you should be a convert.

Speaker 4 (01:59:26):
My us miraculous powers.

Speaker 68 (01:59:28):
Now, mal brainer, we don't have to kid each other
the way we fell out professionals.

Speaker 4 (01:59:33):
No, but others are perhaps not so perceptive as you.
It is amusing to kid them. Also, one lives in
this way.

Speaker 22 (01:59:42):
Then that murderer bit was family.

Speaker 68 (01:59:46):
Let's us say an act such as ours needs one
piece of sensationalism to shock a new audience.

Speaker 35 (01:59:52):
I think we have it.

Speaker 4 (01:59:53):
Do you agree you.

Speaker 22 (01:59:54):
Brought yourself a paragraph? Mal brainer?

Speaker 4 (01:59:56):
I like your style.

Speaker 68 (01:59:56):
I'm delighted and gratefully com I as something for yes,
mister day Tell her eyes are the most beautiful eyes
I have ever seen.

Speaker 4 (02:00:03):
She would be pleased for she's blind.

Speaker 68 (02:00:10):
I dropped in to catch Gypsy rose Lee's laid show
at the Martinique. On the way back to my apartment,
I picked up the early edition.

Speaker 56 (02:00:17):
Of the News.

Speaker 68 (02:00:19):
There was a five line stories slice between the financial.

Speaker 22 (02:00:23):
Column and port arrivals.

Speaker 68 (02:00:25):
The police had answered a call from a nervous landlady.
Leona Michaels was dead. Her body had been turned over
to the corner. That was all that was all that
was ever going to feed. I took a pill and
got sleep.

Speaker 53 (02:00:43):
Awoke a couple of.

Speaker 68 (02:00:44):
Times, hearing noises. Towards morning, I had a nightmare. I
was standing in a big stone yard, and I was
watching some men, some blind men, building a scap They
were hammered, and then.

Speaker 22 (02:00:57):
I was awake. I jumped out a bit.

Speaker 68 (02:01:00):
Then I saw what the hammering had did. Mail to
my door a shroud for a dead man, nail to
my door for the funeral wreath of white carnations, and
thinned to one corner of the wreath a small white envelope.

Speaker 22 (02:01:15):
I pulled it down and opened it.

Speaker 68 (02:01:16):
I read the black rimmed card inside in memory of
Philip Dane. It said, thou art cursed because thou hast killed.

(02:01:42):
You've heard Act one of Leona's Room, starring Vincent Price.
In this briefment omission bore a smoke in the pill
of Marris Playhouse. Here is mister John Holbrook with some
important facts, well worth remembering, well worth acting on. Over
two million more smokers have switched to Philip Morris.

Speaker 7 (02:02:01):
Yes, over two.

Speaker 68 (02:02:02):
Million more smokers are now enjoying in Philip Morris a
milder smoke, a cleaner, fresher smoke.

Speaker 22 (02:02:09):
Than they've ever known before.

Speaker 1 (02:02:11):
If you're tired of cigarette hangover, that stale, musty smoke
thout taste in your mouth. Join the millions and switch
to Philip Morris. If you're tired of cigarette hangover that tight,
dry feeling in your throat, join.

Speaker 32 (02:02:26):
The millions and switch to Philip Morris.

Speaker 1 (02:02:29):
Remember Philip Morris is the one, the only cigarette prove
definitely less irritating, definitely milder than any other leading brand.
No other cigarette can make that statement.

Speaker 68 (02:02:41):
Remember eminent doctors, top ranking nose and throat specialists, actually
suggest Philip.

Speaker 29 (02:02:48):
Morris in cases of irritation due to smoking.

Speaker 1 (02:02:51):
And above all, remember this. You'll be glad tomorrow you
smoke Philip Morris today.

Speaker 68 (02:03:00):
Now Vincent Price in Act two of Leona's Room Tonight's
production in the Philip Morris Playhouse.

Speaker 1 (02:03:23):
Something for you, sir, Just this morning, sir, just arrived
some fresh cut.

Speaker 22 (02:03:27):
Cameino flowers or shroud. Talked to me about that.

Speaker 7 (02:03:30):
Oh, my condolences, sir, of course, if you will come
this way.

Speaker 68 (02:03:34):
A shroud that was delivered to twelve fifty six Park Boulevard,
Apartment three this morning from your shop.

Speaker 77 (02:03:39):
Oh yes, yes, I remember such an order.

Speaker 68 (02:03:42):
I hope it met with your requirements.

Speaker 22 (02:03:43):
I'm crazy about it. Why was it nailed on my door?

Speaker 9 (02:03:47):
Why?

Speaker 7 (02:03:48):
I don't understand.

Speaker 22 (02:03:49):
I didn't order it.

Speaker 21 (02:03:50):
Who did?

Speaker 9 (02:03:51):
Why?

Speaker 18 (02:03:52):
Early this morning, sir?

Speaker 2 (02:03:53):
Early this morning?

Speaker 77 (02:03:54):
There was a special delivery letter in it was an
order for a shroud and a wreath, with instruction just
to their disposition.

Speaker 22 (02:04:01):
Yeah, but who who wrote the order? Who gave the instructions?

Speaker 77 (02:04:05):
I don't really know, So that the note was typewritten unsigned.
I thought someone who desired to remain anonymous.

Speaker 68 (02:04:12):
Your boy, to tear that thing off my door. Oh
but sir, it was too early in the day to drink.
But I found myself at the Chatham Bar. If I
expected to find an answer in the bottom of a
shot glass, it wasn't there.

Speaker 22 (02:04:25):
It wasn't anywhere I could think of.

Speaker 68 (02:04:28):
Nobody could have known.

Speaker 22 (02:04:29):
I was in the owner's room, nobody.

Speaker 68 (02:04:32):
I told myself that I felt better. I went back
to my apartment for the thousand little details that Carliumist
has to do, the phone calls, the letters. That someone
was waiting in front of my door, I took the liberty.

Speaker 74 (02:04:44):
I knew you wanted to see me.

Speaker 4 (02:04:46):
Who are you?

Speaker 19 (02:04:47):
Hill thick one?

Speaker 22 (02:04:48):
My god, that's all right. I can see from right
here it's real pretty. What does it say on it?

Speaker 4 (02:04:53):
John Quldy lily podon cymmetery, I see.

Speaker 18 (02:04:58):
Now?

Speaker 68 (02:04:59):
Tell me it was a newspaper man asked you to
come around and see me, wasn't it?

Speaker 78 (02:05:02):
You know?

Speaker 22 (02:05:02):
We at Lily pand like to think, never mind that.

Speaker 21 (02:05:05):
What do you want in this hour of your greatest need?

Speaker 22 (02:05:07):
We of Lily Pand are you going to tell me
what you want to do?

Speaker 20 (02:05:10):
I have to beat it out of you, by hi, sir,
I am here to make the final arrangement for the funeral.

Speaker 19 (02:05:15):
Funeral?

Speaker 22 (02:05:17):
What funeral?

Speaker 68 (02:05:17):
Nobody's dead, nobody's even feeling bad? Look now, lox say,
I live here, I live all by myself.

Speaker 22 (02:05:23):
I feel great. I never felt better, Sir.

Speaker 20 (02:05:25):
I'm confused about the cast.

Speaker 68 (02:05:27):
Look if the Joker gang something the boy's cooked up?

Speaker 22 (02:05:29):
That'said, isn't it that?

Speaker 3 (02:05:31):
It?

Speaker 7 (02:05:31):
Isn't it? Talk through me? Please?

Speaker 74 (02:05:34):
Who sent you a letter?

Speaker 20 (02:05:37):
A letter this morning with money and.

Speaker 68 (02:05:39):
Instructure pipe written, no sicknature.

Speaker 4 (02:05:41):
That's right.

Speaker 20 (02:05:42):
It's said to come to this address and make arrangements
to receive the body whose body the letters said the
body of Philip Dan. It said Philip Dane was about
to die. It said he was going to be executed
for murder.

Speaker 45 (02:05:57):
All of a.

Speaker 22 (02:06:01):
Sudden, there were no more words.

Speaker 3 (02:06:02):
His jaws were moving, but there was no sound.

Speaker 22 (02:06:05):
He was out of focus, Bleary.

Speaker 68 (02:06:07):
I ran past him and out into the street. The
cab took ten minutes to get me to Leona's rooming house.
If someone in that house recognized me as a murderer,
I would know it, no matter how he tried to
hide it, I would know it. Taste him and take
it from there.

Speaker 14 (02:06:21):
That was the Yeah, what is it?

Speaker 7 (02:06:24):
Well?

Speaker 68 (02:06:25):
Have you ever seen me before? I mean it, Have
you ever seen me before? Have I ever been here before?

Speaker 79 (02:06:31):
How do I know if I ever seen you wearing
a necktie? Aintil you got shave? That makes it ten
to one against?

Speaker 28 (02:06:37):
Huh?

Speaker 79 (02:06:38):
And a carnation yet that makes it a hundred?

Speaker 68 (02:06:40):
Please please, It's just that I have a feeling that
I've been here before.

Speaker 22 (02:06:43):
I've got to find out.

Speaker 16 (02:06:45):
Hey, you sick.

Speaker 68 (02:06:47):
It happens like this lots of times. Amnesia you know
the war? Sure you've never seen me?

Speaker 63 (02:06:54):
Who knows?

Speaker 7 (02:06:54):
Run in this fleabag?

Speaker 79 (02:06:56):
They signed a register and they pay in advance.

Speaker 80 (02:06:59):
Hey wait a minute, I'm I'm came here that that's.

Speaker 79 (02:07:03):
My husband, he snoops, and he's got a memory. Call me, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah.

Speaker 68 (02:07:09):
Why did you say you had mister amnesia?

Speaker 14 (02:07:11):
Amnesia? It's interesting and real interesting.

Speaker 53 (02:07:14):
Gentlemen.

Speaker 79 (02:07:14):
Wants to know if he ever saw him before. He says,
he's gotta know.

Speaker 7 (02:07:17):
Uh ah, no, no, no, never did.

Speaker 22 (02:07:21):
How about your other guests? Could I see them?

Speaker 79 (02:07:23):
Well, now I tell you. One of the rumors are
sleeping north or three days drunk, and it'll take him
three days to sleep it off. Another one I ain't
seen for a week, and the third ones in the
morgue moved there this morning dead.

Speaker 75 (02:07:33):
Not leono.

Speaker 22 (02:07:34):
It's a gag, then, gag?

Speaker 79 (02:07:37):
What's a gag?

Speaker 7 (02:07:38):
Never mind?

Speaker 16 (02:07:39):
Thanks Len?

Speaker 74 (02:07:52):
All right, all right, yeah, hello mister Dan.

Speaker 22 (02:07:59):
Yeah, Mabrino speaking Mabrino.

Speaker 74 (02:08:01):
Yes, will you do me the honor to meet me
at eleven thirty to night in the park. The IFO
will be charming.

Speaker 22 (02:08:06):
Charm me over the phone, Malbrino. I don't like the
cold night air.

Speaker 74 (02:08:10):
It can be so helpful. Bring money with you, say
five thousand dollars for this first time and come along.

Speaker 22 (02:08:16):
Have you gone crazy?

Speaker 78 (02:08:17):
Now?

Speaker 22 (02:08:17):
Brino?

Speaker 74 (02:08:18):
The murderer does not question another sanity to him. All
other beings are insane.

Speaker 2 (02:08:23):
It's not so.

Speaker 68 (02:08:26):
How would I know about murderers? Ask leonor Michaels leonor
how did you find out about her?

Speaker 74 (02:08:33):
You told me when you was so curious about a murderer.

Speaker 19 (02:08:35):
After the performance.

Speaker 74 (02:08:37):
You told me when you permitted the grisly humors of
the shroud and casket to force you to revisit the
seat of days.

Speaker 22 (02:08:43):
You've been following me.

Speaker 68 (02:08:44):
Of course, each of your flights of terror became more
promising when you went to the rooming house.

Speaker 74 (02:08:49):
I made inquiries. They told me of the lonely girl
who had been murdered.

Speaker 7 (02:08:54):
That was nice, wasn't it.

Speaker 74 (02:08:56):
I can expect you then at eleven thirty, mister Dane, that.

Speaker 68 (02:08:58):
Would give me time to change after my sure, sure,
eleven thirty.

Speaker 22 (02:09:03):
I'll be glad to do you the honor. Malbrino.

Speaker 19 (02:09:11):
Now it was easier.

Speaker 68 (02:09:13):
Now I knew what to be afraid of, Malbrino, the
clever Malbrino, who's wife Maya had pale, lovely blind eyes.
What an act they had, I wondered, how many times
there sensational finish had paid off like.

Speaker 22 (02:09:27):
This, there's a murderer in this theater.

Speaker 68 (02:09:31):
And maybe he'll come backstage after this show and visit us.

Speaker 53 (02:09:45):
Hey, wait a minute, night, your ticket. They got a
rule here, everybody shows me a ticket.

Speaker 69 (02:09:50):
A ticket, yeah here, uh huh, that's one aisle over
tenth row.

Speaker 19 (02:09:55):
You won't have no trouble finding it.

Speaker 53 (02:09:57):
You can hunt deer in here tonight.

Speaker 22 (02:10:00):
She wasn't kidding. There weren't thirty people in the house.
At the Gaery.

Speaker 68 (02:10:04):
The opening act was on a family of Armenian jugglers
whirling shiny hooks on every loose piece of anatomy on
the stage.

Speaker 22 (02:10:12):
Malbrino and Maya were next to closing, so I figured
I had about an hour.

Speaker 68 (02:10:17):
I waited until the Armenians were balancing everything but the proscenium, and.

Speaker 22 (02:10:22):
Just as they were taking their bows.

Speaker 68 (02:10:24):
I used the same orchestra entrance to back stage. The
door to Maya's dressing room was open, and the room
was dark. I eased inside. Just as the next act
came hurrying down the corridor, still hooking up their costumes.

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I brushed against a moldy curtain hung from wooden rings.
I pulled it back and hid behind it.

Speaker 76 (02:10:52):
And I waited, seel, I cannot understand why you must
leave me tonight, Malbrino, what is so important.

Speaker 68 (02:10:59):
To Through the dim light of the corridor, I saw
Maya walk into the Roman senator dressing table. Malbrino was
behind it. He was reaching for the light switch when
my hands found his mouth and throat and began to
strangle him. My fingers stuck into his flesh. I crushed

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his breath back into his insights, and he made no sound.
It was only the soft laughter that seeped through the theater,
and his soft throat in my hands, And then Maya's
soft voice.

Speaker 70 (02:11:34):
Why do you not answer, Malbrino? Is it a rendezvous? Malbrino? Malbrino?

Speaker 14 (02:11:44):
What is it?

Speaker 70 (02:11:46):
What is so silent? Marlbrino?

Speaker 14 (02:11:51):
Marbrino?

Speaker 68 (02:11:54):
Suddenly her fingers were on my face, furtive and quick
as the wings of a frightened bird, And slowly they
began to searched the empty air for the dead Maltrino.
She turned and her blind eyes stared at me.

Speaker 49 (02:12:05):
I threw her.

Speaker 7 (02:12:05):
Aside and down the corridor an old dorm.

Speaker 22 (02:12:08):
I was reading a newspaper on the stage store.

Speaker 68 (02:12:10):
I couldn't get out that way without his seeing me.

Speaker 22 (02:12:12):
There was only one way back back through the theater.

Speaker 16 (02:12:16):
My yah.

Speaker 68 (02:12:23):
I started up the aisle. Then I knew I was
doing the wrong thing.

Speaker 22 (02:12:26):
There was a nusher at the head of it.

Speaker 68 (02:12:28):
In this tiny audience. If I left in the middle
of an act, he would remember me. So I sat
down in the row that was most filled. When I
looked back after the next act, there were men in
overcoats standing at each exit. And then the curtain rose,
and Maya stood there with a man I had never
seen before.

Speaker 44 (02:12:49):
Gentlemen, to night, I shall descend among you, accompanied by
this gentleman, and read your mind through my finger.

Speaker 76 (02:13:01):
User, I can read your innermost secrets by touching your face.

Speaker 81 (02:13:08):
So, sir, you told your wife you were working late
at the office tonight, and User, my fingers revealed that
you came here on a pass.

Speaker 16 (02:13:29):
Peet pee.

Speaker 7 (02:13:34):
And now.

Speaker 76 (02:13:36):
There is a gentleman in this row wearing a carnation.

Speaker 21 (02:13:42):
I don't throw away.

Speaker 82 (02:13:43):
What's mad a bunch of friend miles, give away your secrets.

Speaker 68 (02:13:46):
Your hands off of me, Go on, come up away,
one side, let's go.

Speaker 75 (02:13:49):
Let me get this guy.

Speaker 21 (02:13:50):
So he's got secrets.

Speaker 31 (02:13:51):
You got secrets, mister, Hey, Maya, there's a guy.

Speaker 73 (02:13:54):
He's got secrets up.

Speaker 78 (02:14:02):
Star.

Speaker 22 (02:14:04):
They held me there, laughing.

Speaker 68 (02:14:06):
The others turned in their seats to stare the man
with Maya took her arm and led her to me.
Her fingers reached out, trailed across my face.

Speaker 22 (02:14:18):
They were cool and gentle, almost a kiss.

Speaker 27 (02:14:25):
This is the man, this.

Speaker 70 (02:14:31):
Is a murderer.

Speaker 68 (02:14:50):
Tonight the Philip Morris Playhouse presented Leona's Room, produced, edited
and directed by William spear Our star Vincent Price will
be back in a moment for a curtain call. In
the meantime, watch out, watch out, watch out for cigarette hangover.

Speaker 7 (02:15:05):
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Speaker 1 (02:15:08):
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Cigarette hangover. That's what takes the joy out of smoking.
And when that happens to you, it's time to switch
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Speaker 68 (02:15:50):
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Speaker 1 (02:15:59):
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Speaker 68 (02:16:04):
You know, Johnny, it's amazing to me how our hero
Tonight had time to write his column, what with all
his extracurricular activities. And speaking of heroes, I understand Academy
Award contender Dan Daily is to be your star next week.

Speaker 83 (02:16:19):
That's right, mister Price. And we've informed mister Daily by
special messenger that there will be no dancing come next Friday.

Speaker 31 (02:16:26):
He's to be the.

Speaker 71 (02:16:26):
Villain in the piece.

Speaker 22 (02:16:27):
It sounds intriguy.

Speaker 83 (02:16:29):
Before you go, mister Price now presents you with his
carton of Philip Morhers cigarettes, and thank you for an
exciting performance.

Speaker 22 (02:16:36):
Thank you, Johnny.

Speaker 83 (02:16:37):
Good night, mister Price. This is Johnny again reminding you,
if you're tired of cigarette hangover, call for the one
cigarette that give you a milder pressure, cleaner smoke.

Speaker 16 (02:16:49):
Yes, come.

Speaker 1 (02:16:52):
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Speaker 68 (02:17:28):
Appeared through the courtesy of Universal International Studios, now releasing
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radio play was by Morton Fine and David Preakin. Music
on The Philip Morris Playhouse is under the direction of
lud Gluskin. All names and characters used on this program
are fictitious. Any similarity to persons living or dead is
purely coincidental.

Speaker 22 (02:17:47):
This is art balance.

Speaker 68 (02:17:48):
You're saying goodnight for Philip Morris. This is CBS, the
Columbia Broadcasting System.

Speaker 9 (02:18:18):
The Price of Fear brought to you by Vilcil Price. Hello,
let's call our story meeting in Athens. So how better
to evoke the right atmosphere than with a little Greek music.

(02:18:42):
It was August and I was in Athens in high summer,
with the blazing heat battering down on the city Athens,
this five thousand year old capital, the pride of that
bygone ancient world whose wonders had gone to make up
the glory that was Greefed. I've been in Yugoslavia on

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location working on a film, another of my excursions into
the cinema's fantasy celluloid world, one more story of blood,
horror and the grotesque that I'd thoroughly enjoyed myself playing
in it. And when it was over, I decided to
travel south to send a little more time in the city,
which had taken its name from Athena, the ancient Greek

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goddess of wisdom. That morning, like other tourists, I'd braved
the heat to climb the height of the great Limestone
rock of the Acropolis, and I'd been strolling among what
was left of the splendors of Greece's golden age. As
I stood for a moment looking over towards Mount Hymetus,

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I heard someone approaching.

Speaker 11 (02:19:53):
Marca.

Speaker 33 (02:19:53):
I don't think we shall, won't mind excuse me, sir.

Speaker 9 (02:19:59):
I turned to see a a young man and a
young woman, and I guess tho in their mid twenties
and a very good looking couple.

Speaker 33 (02:20:07):
I hope you won't think we're intruding, even though we are.

Speaker 9 (02:20:11):
Of course, she was a tall, honey blonde, and although
she was wearing one of the shortest mini dresses I'd
ever seen, there was an air of elegance about her.

Speaker 33 (02:20:21):
You probably don't remember me.

Speaker 9 (02:20:24):
There was something about him which seemed familiar. He had
dark hair, broad shoulders, and a muscular build, shown to
advantage by the denim shorts and open necked shirt which
he wore.

Speaker 33 (02:20:35):
By'm Mark Haxton.

Speaker 9 (02:20:37):
Oh you know, at times like these, I always believe
there's just one thing to do, be honest and apologize
for my bad memory. I'm sorry.

Speaker 36 (02:20:46):
Oh yeah, we've embarrassed you.

Speaker 14 (02:20:48):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 9 (02:20:48):
Oh no, no, there's no need to be none at all.
This is Gillian Gilroy and the lighted miss DEI I
know for sure that you and I have never met before.
I couldn't possibly have forgotten it if we had.

Speaker 36 (02:20:59):
Wasn't nice thing to say.

Speaker 9 (02:21:00):
I'm just being honest, as I told you.

Speaker 67 (02:21:03):
Now.

Speaker 33 (02:21:04):
As for you Mark. I know we have met, but
where was it Exactly in England?

Speaker 84 (02:21:10):
About four years ago in England at Denwood Studios when
you were making that film Theater all lunch.

Speaker 33 (02:21:17):
Yes, of course I've got it.

Speaker 9 (02:21:19):
Now you work on the picture too, didn't you.

Speaker 33 (02:21:21):
That's right, Well that's one we're putting.

Speaker 84 (02:21:24):
You were a second assistant and yes, or in other words,
messengable in general, dog's body the lowest form of life.
We all have to start somewhere.

Speaker 9 (02:21:34):
That's right. It's nice to see you again. What are
you doing with yourself these days? Are you still in
the film business.

Speaker 33 (02:21:40):
No, I'm working in television now as a floor manager, which.

Speaker 85 (02:21:43):
I've had called the second lowest form of life. So
I imagine you could say it's a step up for him.

Speaker 33 (02:21:49):
And that is spoken from a great height.

Speaker 84 (02:21:51):
You'll notice the rarefied atmosphere only breathed by doctor's.

Speaker 85 (02:21:54):
Perceptionist sarcasm will get you nothing except perhaps there.

Speaker 9 (02:22:00):
I've found them two very likable young people. They were
in Athens on holiday. I learned in fact, this was
their last day. So I invited them to have a
drink with me and took them back to my hotel,
the Grand Bretagnia constitution square. Well here see if safe

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flight back to London tomorrow?

Speaker 33 (02:22:24):
Thank you cheers.

Speaker 7 (02:22:25):
But time did you?

Speaker 33 (02:22:26):
Plainly lunch round three?

Speaker 36 (02:22:28):
Isn't it?

Speaker 33 (02:22:29):
Hang on and I'll check. I've got a note of
it here in my diary. Yes, a quarter past three
to exact.

Speaker 36 (02:22:35):
You and your diary. I've never known anyone like him, mister.

Speaker 33 (02:22:39):
Price, Oh please, Vincent.

Speaker 9 (02:22:41):
Thank you.

Speaker 36 (02:22:42):
You know he makes notes of absolutely everything.

Speaker 85 (02:22:45):
You should see what he's got on the front there,
name and address, car registration.

Speaker 36 (02:22:49):
Number next to king, his national insurance number of lord
knows what else?

Speaker 33 (02:22:53):
Even if blood great, it's just a safety precaution, that's all.

Speaker 84 (02:22:57):
Well, supposing I'm in an accident sometime I need a transfusion, Yes,
of course, it's.

Speaker 9 (02:23:01):
Very senseful of you. Let's hope it never happened, and
especially not tomorrow.

Speaker 84 (02:23:07):
Like that, she's always a trifle nervous about flying. It's
too bad though, having to go back on Wednesday.

Speaker 9 (02:23:12):
Why is Jillian nervous about Wednesdays?

Speaker 33 (02:23:15):
Well, no, no, nothing like that.

Speaker 84 (02:23:17):
It's only that next Sunday would be better. The point
is that neither of us is actually due back at
work until the monday. Oh I follow Three more days
here would be great. There's so much to say. We've
hardly scratched the circuit. Leave needs must when the money
runs out. Jilly has put us on a.

Speaker 33 (02:23:32):
Very tight budget. Now you know what we agree to sure,
the economy is the watch.

Speaker 4 (02:23:36):
We're all in the.

Speaker 33 (02:23:37):
Interests of next spring and what happens next spring.

Speaker 9 (02:23:40):
If I'm allowed to ray.

Speaker 33 (02:23:41):
Church bells and orange blossom the full bit, You're getting married.

Speaker 9 (02:23:45):
We congratulations, thank.

Speaker 36 (02:23:47):
You, Yes, I finally got him round to it.

Speaker 9 (02:23:50):
I have a suggestion to make. I think we might
celebrate next spring a little in advance with the bubble
of champage.

Speaker 33 (02:23:57):
Pain.

Speaker 36 (02:23:59):
Oh it happens, sweet sort, No it doesn't.

Speaker 33 (02:24:02):
Of course we can't alive my dear Mark.

Speaker 9 (02:24:04):
You can't stop me, I insist, waiter. The champagne was good,
and their company was lively, and the next hour passed
by most agreeably. All in all the very pleasant chants encounter.

(02:24:26):
When they got up to go, I expected that to
be the last I'd see of either of them, but
I was to be proved wrong. Later that afternoon, Jillian
and Mark wandered into the National Gardens. They found themselves
a bench by a small secluded pool where the broad

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leaves of water lilies lay floating on the sun speckled
surface of the water.

Speaker 33 (02:24:54):
Oh, this is a light champagne at midday and then
just blazing.

Speaker 27 (02:24:58):
In the sun.

Speaker 36 (02:25:00):
Lovely, it's so peace for here.

Speaker 63 (02:25:03):
All right, fatally got the place to ourselves except for
that one chap on, then extension arm and the pigeon.

Speaker 33 (02:25:10):
Listen to them.

Speaker 36 (02:25:11):
Do you notice they've got.

Speaker 33 (02:25:13):
Their own nothing of the sort. Pigeon talk is international.

Speaker 21 (02:25:17):
No, it's not.

Speaker 36 (02:25:19):
Yes, these birds go.

Speaker 9 (02:25:23):
Car.

Speaker 36 (02:25:25):
One of the London say, cute.

Speaker 33 (02:25:27):
Cue, keep your you know something, you're a nut.

Speaker 86 (02:25:31):
But no, mister, the young lady is completely correct.

Speaker 9 (02:25:35):
The man from the nearby bench and leaned forward. He
was clearly Greek of the Middle Age and grind the stoutness,
with a balding head, a round face and a neat
clipped massage. He rose and came towards them, fanning himself
with his straw hat. Forgive me, but I cannot help
hearing what you say, and you agree with me.

Speaker 33 (02:25:57):
Certainly, our great figures naturally to speak their own. All right,
I'll go quietly. Besides, it's too hot to argue. Yes,
very hot, you like.

Speaker 9 (02:26:09):
You are to.

Speaker 33 (02:26:10):
That's right, this is your first time. Yes, you like
our city. Well, that's putting it mildly.

Speaker 36 (02:26:17):
Sorry, it's been leaving.

Speaker 33 (02:26:18):
Ah, you go shoe tomorrow more. But perhaps there will
be another time and you will come back. Just give
us half a chance.

Speaker 36 (02:26:27):
I wonder if we could ask you for a little advice.
We'd like to find somewhere.

Speaker 85 (02:26:32):
To have dinner tonight, A nothing expensive, just a genuine
Athenian place. Where is real Greek dancing?

Speaker 33 (02:26:40):
Yes, I understand it. Let me think, Yes, I know
of such a a very great I will make a proposal.
I will take you there tonight to eat with me.
You are no, we couldn't hear of that. It's very
nice of you.

Speaker 87 (02:26:55):
But but I do not give you the choice or
else I do not tell where it is you see Allen,
please the young people today we shall prove please.

Speaker 9 (02:27:09):
Very well. Then we are going.

Speaker 7 (02:27:12):
How do you.

Speaker 33 (02:27:15):
Okay, we go Dutch.

Speaker 7 (02:27:17):
That's a deal.

Speaker 88 (02:27:19):
Now we picks up where we will meet.

Speaker 33 (02:27:22):
And then.

Speaker 9 (02:27:24):
The hospitable stranger arranged to pick them up in his
car outside the gates of the gardens at nine o'clock
that evening. His name, he told him was Yannis. That
was his first name. The rest of it, he said,
was very Greek, very long, and far too difficult for
them to pronounce.

Speaker 36 (02:28:05):
That was marvelous, wasn't it now?

Speaker 45 (02:28:07):
It certainly was no doubt about the Greek men when
it comes to dancing.

Speaker 33 (02:28:11):
So you like this place? There is your own?

Speaker 36 (02:28:14):
Yes, yeah, we're terribly.

Speaker 33 (02:28:15):
Grateful to you and the name you enjoyed it.

Speaker 45 (02:28:18):
Fabulous food, and I love your custom of going into
the kitchen and making our own choice of watching me.

Speaker 33 (02:28:23):
Oh yes, I'm all for that. I'll tell you what else.

Speaker 84 (02:28:25):
I like all the ornaments they got around the place,
those little statues and cards.

Speaker 36 (02:28:30):
They look terribly ancient, but I don't imagine they really are.

Speaker 86 (02:28:33):
Oh so you are right, all of them are faith
in this city. It is a flourishing industry, the fake
and the illegal, the black market, you understand. For a price,
anything can be obtained. Yes, whatever you wish, you can
get it.

Speaker 33 (02:28:50):
Let us say a ford.

Speaker 86 (02:28:50):
Stresspot or counterfeit coins, was age figure, statue, anything.

Speaker 33 (02:28:56):
That you desire.

Speaker 84 (02:28:57):
Heaven, I say, we finished our one, Let's have another
bottle of Look, I have a better idea.

Speaker 33 (02:29:03):
We will go to the party. A party.

Speaker 86 (02:29:05):
It's a friend of mine, he has a fine dealer
by the seat. Tonight he's giving a practice.

Speaker 33 (02:29:10):
Who will go?

Speaker 36 (02:29:11):
I don't really think we can.

Speaker 33 (02:29:13):
We like plenty of people, eat interesting people.

Speaker 86 (02:29:17):
Writers and doctors, students, actors.

Speaker 84 (02:29:20):
All kinds of people, with plenty of music, plenty of
who sounds like fun?

Speaker 36 (02:29:25):
That Mark is getting quite late already. We are leaving tomorrow.
Don't forget. There's all that packing today.

Speaker 33 (02:29:31):
We will have tons of time for that. And a
party is the perfect way to round off a holiday. Now,
you're not going to be a wet blanket, are you really?

Speaker 7 (02:29:37):
No?

Speaker 36 (02:29:38):
No, of course I'm not. Yeah, if you'd love to come.

Speaker 89 (02:29:41):
Over, Mark, Mark, really there you are?

Speaker 36 (02:29:56):
I wonder where you.

Speaker 33 (02:29:57):
Got to I just circulated.

Speaker 18 (02:30:00):
Yes, quite a party, isn't it.

Speaker 24 (02:30:09):
Yes?

Speaker 18 (02:30:10):
We are going.

Speaker 33 (02:30:12):
Oh she really is something. Not only that, but she
can sing too. Pan If I'm just in time, what
do you mean.

Speaker 36 (02:30:19):
To drag you away?

Speaker 33 (02:30:20):
No, there's no hurry, oh darling, you know the time.

Speaker 36 (02:30:22):
It's nearly three in the morning. I've got a headache.
All that noise and cigarette snow.

Speaker 18 (02:30:27):
Poor old Julie.

Speaker 33 (02:30:28):
Why don't you go back to the hotel, take a
couple of tablets and get yourself to bed. I'll roll
up later, Mark, and I won't be drunk. That's a promise.

Speaker 36 (02:30:37):
But Darling, aren't you forgetting that tomorrow.

Speaker 33 (02:30:39):
We have to package worry about tomorrow.

Speaker 84 (02:30:42):
Do you know something that Staffianis was telling us about
in the taverna Well, according to a couple of fellows
I've been talking to, and there he was dead right.

Speaker 33 (02:30:51):
In this celebrated cradle of civilization, there's a market for
just about anything, even something I could offer you.

Speaker 88 (02:30:57):
Yes, you name it, they've got a market for it.

Speaker 21 (02:31:00):
Oh what of it?

Speaker 84 (02:31:00):
Just that I've got a notion that we can have
those three extra days after all. I think we'll be
up to stay till Sunday with no cheese pairing either.

Speaker 36 (02:31:08):
What do you mean?

Speaker 33 (02:31:09):
I ask no questions.

Speaker 36 (02:31:12):
I'm not going to get mixed up in anything.

Speaker 33 (02:31:13):
You leave, I said, no questions, Jernie, what could it be?

Speaker 36 (02:31:16):
Something to do with that girl Siler? Nothing like love Dale.

Speaker 33 (02:31:21):
Just you travel your beautiful head about it.

Speaker 84 (02:31:23):
Now, come on, let's find Yannis an organized and transport
back to the city for you.

Speaker 33 (02:31:27):
There are abound to be people driving back in the
next few minutes.

Speaker 9 (02:31:30):
It was the following day, Wednesday, at some time after
half past twelve that the phone rang in my room
at the hotel.

Speaker 35 (02:31:41):
Hello, mister Simpson.

Speaker 90 (02:31:44):
Yes it's Jillian.

Speaker 18 (02:31:47):
Jillian you're Oh.

Speaker 9 (02:31:48):
Hello, Jillian, Hell, I hearing from you.

Speaker 36 (02:31:51):
I'm too sorry to bring you this way, but I
just don't know what to.

Speaker 69 (02:31:55):
Do, who to turn to?

Speaker 18 (02:31:56):
My dear, what's the matter?

Speaker 36 (02:31:58):
Can may I come up and see you?

Speaker 16 (02:31:59):
Please?

Speaker 36 (02:32:00):
I'm phoning from downstairs.

Speaker 18 (02:32:01):
I'm in the play, but of course come straight on up.

Speaker 9 (02:32:06):
When I opened the door to her eye, I hardly
recognized her as the self composed young woman I had
met only the day before.

Speaker 36 (02:32:14):
Oh please, I'm so sorry. Please forgive me bothering.

Speaker 7 (02:32:18):
You like this.

Speaker 9 (02:32:19):
Look, don't be steady, Jillian, Come along in and tell
me what's wrong.

Speaker 36 (02:32:22):
It's Mark. I'm nearly going out of my mind.

Speaker 11 (02:32:26):
I don't know where he.

Speaker 36 (02:32:27):
Is or what's happened to him. He's disappeared.

Speaker 9 (02:32:32):
I sat her down and gave her a large brandy
and listened while she told me the whole story from
the beginning.

Speaker 45 (02:32:39):
When I left the party, some woman gave me a
lip and dropped me not far from our hotel.

Speaker 36 (02:32:45):
I took a couple of pills and fell into bed.
When I woke up, Mark wasn't there. There was no
sign of him.

Speaker 45 (02:32:52):
It went quite late, half last ten, and she said,
hadn't you slept him?

Speaker 9 (02:32:56):
Well, but if it was one of those all night parties,
perhaps he.

Speaker 67 (02:33:00):
Just stayed on.

Speaker 36 (02:33:00):
So if you'd done anything like that, he'd have phoned me.
Certainly by half past ten.

Speaker 9 (02:33:04):
Did you check at your reception desk? And Katy left
the next well, of course, not a word.

Speaker 45 (02:33:10):
I'd stayed there in our room waiting, And then I
realized that last night, everything that happened was like a
complete blank.

Speaker 9 (02:33:18):
I don't understand.

Speaker 45 (02:33:21):
I don't know a thing about where we went or
who any of the people were, but Havanna the villa.

Speaker 36 (02:33:26):
Everyone who was at that party have no way of
finding them.

Speaker 33 (02:33:30):
But surely you were introduced to some of the other
guests at the party.

Speaker 36 (02:33:34):
Some of them, yes, but only by their first name.
Now do you understand what I mean?

Speaker 3 (02:33:40):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (02:33:40):
I think I do.

Speaker 36 (02:33:43):
I was so frighted.

Speaker 9 (02:33:44):
I'm trying to take it.

Speaker 36 (02:33:45):
Easy to I can't. It's been growing and growing on me.

Speaker 9 (02:33:49):
That's what made me come to you, and I'm very
glad that you did.

Speaker 36 (02:33:51):
There's no one else I know here. I can't speak
the language.

Speaker 33 (02:33:55):
What am I to do?

Speaker 36 (02:33:57):
I even thought of the British consort perhaps.

Speaker 9 (02:34:00):
Yes, yes, But all they do, I think is to
get in touch with the local police and we can
take a short cut there.

Speaker 21 (02:34:06):
Well.

Speaker 9 (02:34:06):
As it happens, there's a police officer in Athens whom
I know rather well. I met him a year or
so ago when I was making a film here. His
name is Costas Palitis. He speaks very good English. M Yes,
I think he's just the man we need. Costas Palidis

(02:34:29):
was younger than you'd expect a police officer to be.
He was tall and lean, with dark, watchful eyes and
a polite but cool manner. While Jillian went through the
whole story again for him, he made notes with a
gold pen in a small Moroccan leather notebook, and.

Speaker 88 (02:34:48):
That is all is deroy. Yes, thank you, you have
given me a description of mister Hudson. Do you have
perhaps the photograph?

Speaker 36 (02:34:56):
No, wait a minute, I've got his pass here.

Speaker 33 (02:35:00):
A very good thank you.

Speaker 36 (02:35:04):
That doesn't really do him justice.

Speaker 9 (02:35:05):
First sports photographs?

Speaker 3 (02:35:07):
Ever?

Speaker 33 (02:35:07):
Do the Garstas? What do you think this is all about?

Speaker 18 (02:35:10):
Me?

Speaker 33 (02:35:10):
It is too soon for thinking.

Speaker 88 (02:35:11):
My friend, missus Gilroy, what was he wearing just a
shirt and a pair of slacks.

Speaker 36 (02:35:17):
The trousers was sky blue and it was a floral shirt.

Speaker 88 (02:35:20):
Think very colorful. You have any other documents, the paper,
anything of it.

Speaker 36 (02:35:25):
So that's his story. I put it in my handbag
along as his passport.

Speaker 33 (02:35:32):
Thank you.

Speaker 88 (02:35:34):
Mister Hackston had no old friends in Athens, for your knowledge,
it was their first basic So what about that man
they met, Yannis?

Speaker 9 (02:35:43):
Any chance of getting a line on him.

Speaker 33 (02:35:45):
I'll try to answer that for yourself, my friend.

Speaker 9 (02:35:48):
Oh, yes, yes, I see what you mean. Just the
first name, and it is.

Speaker 33 (02:35:51):
A very common one in Greece.

Speaker 7 (02:35:53):
You know what.

Speaker 88 (02:35:54):
We will make our enquiries and we will give out
a description and check with all the hospital hospitals.

Speaker 33 (02:35:59):
Oh gosh, is routine, Miss Deilroy.

Speaker 88 (02:36:03):
I understand you cancel your flight, So where would you
be that I can contact you at the same hotel.

Speaker 9 (02:36:08):
No, no, she'll be here with me.

Speaker 36 (02:36:11):
Really I couldn't.

Speaker 9 (02:36:12):
You can, and we'll keep in touch with your hotel
in Keith.

Speaker 3 (02:36:16):
Mark shows that very good.

Speaker 33 (02:36:18):
Then I will go now I'll see.

Speaker 36 (02:36:20):
You out, goodbye, and thank you.

Speaker 9 (02:36:25):
costUS. What's your opinion of what well that business about
the boy having found some way for them to stay
here a bit longer. The black market.

Speaker 33 (02:36:35):
This is a big city, my friend, like any other.
It contains bad people like any other. She and twitters
and criminalness.

Speaker 88 (02:36:44):
Of course, it also contains many young women, often very beautiful.

Speaker 33 (02:36:49):
And he is a young man.

Speaker 9 (02:36:50):
The singer is the party you think you know. But
he talks about having something that was something that he
could offer just so oh no, no, no, he didn't
give me that kind of impression.

Speaker 18 (02:37:02):
Oh perhaps not.

Speaker 88 (02:37:04):
But we of the police, my friend, we live in
a trained world, and in it, people are the most
strange things. Of all. I have seen much that is extraordinary,
much that you would not believed if I suppose.

Speaker 9 (02:37:20):
The time dragged by, each hour stretching out till it
seemed like a day with no news of Mark and
no word from Costas. I could see the fear and
tension mounting and jillion at every passing moment. Suddenly she
announced she wanted to go to the National Gardens. I

(02:37:40):
went with her.

Speaker 36 (02:37:44):
It was here by the pool.

Speaker 9 (02:37:48):
We were sitting on that bench, so that's why we
were here. You were hoping to find that man Yannis.

Speaker 36 (02:37:54):
But I thought maybe no, I don't know what I
well it.

Speaker 9 (02:37:58):
Was worth trying. And at least it's pleasant here in
this time.

Speaker 36 (02:38:01):
No, it's cold, so cold. That's the most awful thing
of all.

Speaker 45 (02:38:06):
Stand here in the bright sunlight and know all the
time that something horrible.

Speaker 36 (02:38:10):
Has happened to him.

Speaker 33 (02:38:11):
But you can't know that, that for sure.

Speaker 7 (02:38:14):
But I do.

Speaker 36 (02:38:15):
I know it, I can feel it. I don't understand it.
It's not just that Mark and I were going to
be married. It's more than that.

Speaker 9 (02:38:22):
What way exactly the.

Speaker 45 (02:38:24):
Last two years we've been living together, we've been so close,
closer than anyone could imagine. That's why I know you see,
take my hand, feel it.

Speaker 3 (02:38:36):
It's like I.

Speaker 33 (02:38:38):
Poor chair, Do you believe me?

Speaker 9 (02:38:41):
Now, come on, I'm going to get you back to
the hotel.

Speaker 45 (02:38:45):
Doesn't matter, nothing matters anymore. Whatever's happened is something terrible.

Speaker 70 (02:38:53):
It's something I can't even put a name too.

Speaker 9 (02:39:00):
It was close to midnight that the telephone call came
from Costas Plidis. A body had been taken out of
Prius Harbor an hour before. It fitted the description of
Mark Haxton. I offered to go alone to make the identification,
but Gillian insisted upon coming with me. The small room

(02:39:25):
at the mortuary was piled and white. A hard white
light shone down on a rubber wheeled trolley covered with
a white sheet. Costa stood beside at the corner of
the sheet, held in one hand.

Speaker 33 (02:39:41):
You are ready, miss Gilroy. Yes, well, yes, if mark.

Speaker 9 (02:39:53):
His eyes were closed, His dark hair made an incredible
contrast to the rest of him, for the motionless body
was pale, not just with the pallor of death, but
a chilled, terrifying whiteness which echoed the fright of the
tiles and the light and the sheet.

Speaker 33 (02:40:15):
He looks like a wax wax.

Speaker 88 (02:40:20):
Perhaps you have better going on, miss Deilroy. No, not
yet got what in Heaven's name has been done to it?
Look at before arms, my friend. You see the punctual Yes,
needle marks?

Speaker 33 (02:40:38):
Is that what you mean?

Speaker 88 (02:40:39):
Just so on the bend in the inside of each oni.
It is the usual place for junkies, drug addicts.

Speaker 33 (02:40:48):
Is that what you're saying?

Speaker 88 (02:40:49):
No, my friend, for blood dose, Oh my god. But
normally it's just a pinch, now, isn't it? With him, Yes, yes,
with him, let must have thrown four and a half winter.

(02:41:11):
That would be eight times every drop that it was
possible for them to take.

Speaker 9 (02:41:18):
In other words, they.

Speaker 33 (02:41:21):
They drained him.

Speaker 90 (02:41:23):
Yes, I have seen many dreadful things, but never anything
so horrible as this.

Speaker 33 (02:41:35):
Why, for what reason? Look in his diary? Oh, my dear,
forgive me. For a moment you forgot I was you. Yes,
it doesn't matter.

Speaker 36 (02:41:45):
I told you that. The reason is in his diary.
His blood group isn't that it.

Speaker 88 (02:41:52):
Mis Yes, it is a very unusual group, abs negative,
very rare from his special plan with the same groove
whose life could be saved by it.

Speaker 9 (02:42:07):
It would fetch.

Speaker 2 (02:42:09):
Big money, very big money, my friend.

Speaker 88 (02:42:14):
And this city, like any other, contains those of need
such money to buy drugs to satisfy the cravings.

Speaker 18 (02:42:22):
And that.

Speaker 9 (02:42:25):
That is what he had to offer.

Speaker 88 (02:42:26):
They must have told him that it would be only
a pint, perhaps two of the most.

Speaker 3 (02:42:34):
That you see.

Speaker 36 (02:42:37):
All he wanted was another three days here, just three
more days, and it cost him his life's blood.

Speaker 33 (02:42:48):
Oh Mark, Mark, Mark.

Speaker 9 (02:42:56):
I took Jillian Gilroy back with me to the Grand Britain.
She was given a room and put to bed with acetative.

Speaker 18 (02:43:04):
In my own room, I found.

Speaker 9 (02:43:05):
An urgent cable waiting for me for my agent, asking
for an immediate reply. I was offered the title role
in a new film to be called The Bloodmaster. I
threw the cable into a drawer just then I'd had
more than enough of the subject.

Speaker 12 (02:43:26):
Oh my, that was Vincent Price, bringing you the Price

(02:43:51):
So Fear with Kate Coleridge, Steve Plibus, Michael Deacon and
Robin Brown. Ka meeting in Athens was first recounted by
Charles Berkin, who called it so cold, so pale, so fair.

(02:44:11):
The story was dramatized by Maurice Travers, produced by John Dys.

Speaker 19 (02:45:30):
Ellery Queen.

Speaker 91 (02:45:37):
In the interest of a day for American home, a
happier American community, a more United States. The American Broadcasting
Company and it's the Bully agentation Bring You Ellery Queen.

Speaker 60 (02:45:51):
I dedicate this program to the fight against crimes, not
only crimes of violence and crimes of dishonesty, but also
crimes of intolerance, discriminate and bad citizenship crimes against America.

(02:46:12):
The American Broadcasting Company presents another case and the Career
of Ellery Queen, celebrated fighter of crime. As usual, Ellery
invites you to match with with him as he relates
the mystery, and before revealing the solution, he gives you a.

Speaker 33 (02:46:24):
Chance to solve it.

Speaker 91 (02:46:26):
Tonight Ellery's guest arm Chair Detectives, who will represent you home.
Arm Chair Detectives is the famous columnist of Daily Variety,
Miss Bourbellnure and now here's ellery Queen, your host for
the next half hours.

Speaker 60 (02:46:39):
Thank you, Paul Masterson, and good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
Tonight's case is much more nikky than mine. I heard
everyone interested in the problem of juvenile delinquency to.

Speaker 15 (02:46:48):
Listen to the free frogs.

Speaker 92 (02:47:01):
All right, NICKI, so you decided to find a new apartment.

Speaker 55 (02:47:04):
But did you have to pick that?

Speaker 41 (02:47:05):
You decide?

Speaker 11 (02:47:06):
The slum around this corner?

Speaker 24 (02:47:07):
Ellery garbage tossed out.

Speaker 7 (02:47:09):
The gangs of young voodlums.

Speaker 15 (02:47:11):
Look, do you know what the incidents of crime is
in this neighborhood?

Speaker 24 (02:47:16):
Well, for the love that three story and basement brownstone
over there.

Speaker 89 (02:47:21):
Ell take it back, mister que Oh see.

Speaker 15 (02:47:28):
Around the corner and it's a.

Speaker 7 (02:47:30):
Very nice trene.

Speaker 24 (02:47:31):
Nothing wrong with the whole thing.

Speaker 7 (02:47:33):
Sure the place isn't hearted.

Speaker 15 (02:47:34):
Don't want be something wrong with it.

Speaker 24 (02:47:35):
I'd like to see the ghost who could make me move?

Speaker 51 (02:47:39):
Thanks?

Speaker 29 (02:47:40):
Sorry, all wait, Becky, I'll go up with you.

Speaker 3 (02:47:42):
I'd like to see that apartment.

Speaker 24 (02:47:43):
Nothing doing and wait till I pick it up.

Speaker 53 (02:47:45):
Well, all right, nice.

Speaker 21 (02:47:56):
Good evening, Oh, good evening.

Speaker 15 (02:47:58):
I believe we're neighbors.

Speaker 60 (02:48:00):
My name is thank and Clyde.

Speaker 24 (02:48:02):
Oh yes, you're on the f about me, mister, my
name is Nicky Porter.

Speaker 35 (02:48:06):
How do you do?

Speaker 15 (02:48:08):
No?

Speaker 21 (02:48:08):
No, allow me?

Speaker 4 (02:48:08):
Miss Porter?

Speaker 88 (02:48:09):
Oh thank you.

Speaker 60 (02:48:11):
You know, young women really shouldn't live in this neighborhood,
finds too much crime.

Speaker 21 (02:48:17):
There was just oh mister quarter, mister t.

Speaker 14 (02:48:26):
Mister, did you hear mister Gazau was reporting U Win.

Speaker 15 (02:48:29):
For a Paris paper?

Speaker 4 (02:48:30):
Miss Porter?

Speaker 7 (02:48:31):
Yes, no, said very dune.

Speaker 24 (02:48:34):
I had much rather report your crime music, monsieur.

Speaker 7 (02:48:38):
Did you hear on the ideals that street.

Speaker 19 (02:48:40):
Fight two blocks away? Yes, because I've just.

Speaker 15 (02:48:43):
Been over there.

Speaker 4 (02:48:45):
Man.

Speaker 15 (02:48:45):
Then he teas where I'm going? Does anybody hurt?

Speaker 33 (02:48:51):
Mister?

Speaker 60 (02:48:52):
Thank yes, dang Pudlam's mere boys started. Oh dear, well,
I will be saying good night.

Speaker 21 (02:48:58):
Good night, mister, good night.

Speaker 7 (02:49:00):
This for it?

Speaker 15 (02:49:08):
No, where was that light switch again?

Speaker 86 (02:49:11):
Oh yeah, this is a real rot, sister, So don't
get no ideas.

Speaker 24 (02:49:16):
What are you doing in my apartment?

Speaker 29 (02:49:17):
I was in a fight.

Speaker 15 (02:49:19):
I'm on the lamb from the lousy cops on you
a little young to be afraid of policemen.

Speaker 7 (02:49:23):
Hold are you stay where you are? Fourteen?

Speaker 33 (02:49:27):
And no cracks?

Speaker 18 (02:49:28):
Fourteen?

Speaker 7 (02:49:29):
And what's your name?

Speaker 11 (02:49:30):
Rankey?

Speaker 7 (02:49:30):
Kluck?

Speaker 18 (02:49:31):
And you're gonna hide me? Odd sister up?

Speaker 15 (02:49:34):
Uh you're bleedy.

Speaker 11 (02:49:37):
Uh it's not a life still, thank you.

Speaker 24 (02:49:57):
Oh no, it hurts, but I've got to wast some
of the blood away.

Speaker 15 (02:50:00):
Frankie's know.

Speaker 24 (02:50:01):
You're something around to your artillery.

Speaker 15 (02:50:03):
I've hidden it you.

Speaker 7 (02:50:04):
Oh it's the trap, sister.

Speaker 17 (02:50:08):
You call it, cops?

Speaker 18 (02:50:09):
And who's that?

Speaker 11 (02:50:11):
Yees?

Speaker 92 (02:50:11):
Who there?

Speaker 33 (02:50:12):
Cops?

Speaker 60 (02:50:13):
You Nicky's new apartment, nikkiy come on open.

Speaker 53 (02:50:20):
I'm getting out of here.

Speaker 11 (02:50:24):
I was staying right here.

Speaker 33 (02:50:25):
I can't keep your mouth shut.

Speaker 21 (02:50:27):
Coming all.

Speaker 24 (02:50:31):
Well, if it is niek ewing fudgin Veeley, fine, time
for a visit.

Speaker 15 (02:50:34):
What's up?

Speaker 21 (02:50:35):
All Alla? Loy has brought clows over. I'm stuck the street,
miss Porter.

Speaker 60 (02:50:38):
I was on my way home and I ran into
the thick of it and really.

Speaker 21 (02:50:41):
Here, yeah, somebody in the back. I thought he saw
a kid duck into the alley behind this house. Mistake.

Speaker 3 (02:50:48):
He wouldn't be in your apartment, would he?

Speaker 15 (02:50:49):
Nikki? Why who is he?

Speaker 6 (02:50:51):
What do you do?

Speaker 15 (02:50:51):
Oh, try, he's done.

Speaker 19 (02:50:52):
A great deal, Nikki.

Speaker 60 (02:50:53):
He's one of the ring leaders of the juvenile gang
who called himselves the Frog.

Speaker 21 (02:50:56):
This kid is known as the Bubble Come the Trug's
pulled a.

Speaker 60 (02:50:59):
Big job to night, then apparently got into a fight
over the division.

Speaker 4 (02:51:02):
Of the spoils.

Speaker 24 (02:51:02):
Well, what's going to happen to this boilers caught?

Speaker 21 (02:51:04):
What's going to happen to him? He's gonna get what's
coming to him, and that's probably you're gonna.

Speaker 24 (02:51:08):
Caught, and probably the reformatory that's going to cure him, won't.

Speaker 15 (02:51:12):
I know, Nikki, it's a tough problem. But what are
we standing here in the hall for as long as I'm.

Speaker 24 (02:51:17):
Here, Nikki, not till the place is fixed up?

Speaker 15 (02:51:19):
Why, Nikki, you'll have me thinking you've got that young
hudlam in.

Speaker 38 (02:51:22):
Mary.

Speaker 21 (02:51:23):
Oh, go on a right, good night, miss, thank you.

Speaker 15 (02:51:35):
Well Frankie does still thinks this is a trap.

Speaker 53 (02:51:40):
I don't get it.

Speaker 24 (02:51:42):
Hey, lady, what are you doing? You're going to bed
and stay bed hotel. You're gonna undress me and you
can't go to bed with your clothes on. I don't
undress myself. Oh I thank you, but be very careful
you're gonna stay in the room.

Speaker 15 (02:51:59):
There my dramas.

Speaker 30 (02:52:00):
Put on a dangers pajamas, no soul.

Speaker 11 (02:52:02):
Put this on, frank here, I put it on for you.

Speaker 15 (02:52:06):
Okay, okay, I'll be right back where you're going.

Speaker 24 (02:52:09):
The doctor is on the ground floor now and then
thank you, you and I if I have a little talk.

Speaker 60 (02:52:27):
Oh no, young man, you're killing me. God, this is
going to hurt. It has lost a lot of blood.
But I wouldn't worry, Miss Border. These slum boys are.

Speaker 15 (02:52:45):
My nephew. Really, how did you get this knife wound? Frankie,
that's not from a knife. I'm climbing a fence with
glass on top.

Speaker 14 (02:52:58):
Cut me all up?

Speaker 15 (02:52:59):
I see he mustn't be moved, Miss Porter. And that
wound has to be watched.

Speaker 29 (02:53:03):
Now, I'll be okay, let me along, I'll watch.

Speaker 15 (02:53:05):
It, Doctor Curdle, I've had a nursing experience.

Speaker 21 (02:53:07):
Good, good, Hey, young man, how does that dressing for you?

Speaker 15 (02:53:11):
How's great? Should be changed every twelve hours?

Speaker 21 (02:53:14):
Miss Border?

Speaker 15 (02:53:14):
And the watch his temperature?

Speaker 9 (02:53:16):
Yes?

Speaker 33 (02:53:16):
Something?

Speaker 15 (02:53:17):
What do I owe you?

Speaker 18 (02:53:19):
Well?

Speaker 15 (02:53:19):
Since the neighbor's Miss Porter, I'll i'll send you a bill.
I'll take a looking at him tomorrow. Good night and
night doctor, and thank you. That's the rest over. Feel better.
I may be nervous.

Speaker 24 (02:53:38):
Hey, what are you doing?

Speaker 15 (02:53:39):
Stop talking?

Speaker 21 (02:53:40):
You in a little guy.

Speaker 24 (02:53:42):
Don't look like no real doctor anyway, looks more like
a toad, all hunched over, cranky. We don't talk about
other people's physical defects. No, doctor, Curdle's fault and he
has a hunchback. And then to his credit that he
was able to overcome his handicap.

Speaker 14 (02:53:56):
Handicapp.

Speaker 24 (02:53:57):
Everyone has some handicapped overcome.

Speaker 15 (02:54:01):
Some of us have to overcome the way we like
me and me and I'm doing okay.

Speaker 7 (02:54:07):
There you are, Thank you.

Speaker 15 (02:54:10):
I think we lunch father and mother.

Speaker 21 (02:54:11):
Know we are doing to my hero.

Speaker 7 (02:54:15):
Hey, what do you think I am a boy scout?

Speaker 15 (02:54:18):
No?

Speaker 24 (02:54:18):
Thanks, I don't think you're a boy scout.

Speaker 15 (02:54:20):
You're not mad enough to people say listen, baby, the
name is miss Porter.

Speaker 7 (02:54:24):
Thank you. Don't you have any parents? Ah sure sure.

Speaker 24 (02:54:29):
My old man's doing a stretching stir and my old lady.

Speaker 15 (02:54:32):
I don't know where she is. I ain't seen her
for two years. I see now.

Speaker 4 (02:54:36):
Who do you live?

Speaker 35 (02:54:37):
Thank you?

Speaker 6 (02:54:38):
Ah?

Speaker 24 (02:54:38):
Around We frog's got a clubhouse kind of I sleep
there on the floor most of the time. Hey, this
bed is the nuts dog, my dang the big god
to organize it. Call themselves a frog.

Speaker 15 (02:54:51):
And yes, thank you, go with my interesting I made
it all up. Hey him, where are you gonna sleep
in my bedroom?

Speaker 26 (02:55:02):
Man?

Speaker 15 (02:55:03):
Now you gotta get them left? And wait a second,
why are you doing all this for me? What's your
ankle angle?

Speaker 7 (02:55:11):
Thank you?

Speaker 15 (02:55:12):
Not everyone has an angle? Oh no, I suppose you're
doing this because you like me.

Speaker 18 (02:55:17):
Huh.

Speaker 15 (02:55:19):
That's one reason.

Speaker 18 (02:55:21):
Huh.

Speaker 24 (02:55:21):
Another is that everybody talks about helping boys like you,
but if you actually do, nobody's got to do nothing
for me. Thank you. I'd like you to talk to
that man. It was here a while ago.

Speaker 15 (02:55:31):
Long I call ellery. Yeah, well for who is it?

Speaker 18 (02:55:34):
Queen?

Speaker 11 (02:55:35):
Ellarry?

Speaker 21 (02:55:35):
Queen?

Speaker 24 (02:55:36):
That cop love?

Speaker 33 (02:55:37):
I knew this was a trap.

Speaker 11 (02:55:39):
Thank you.

Speaker 21 (02:55:39):
Now you want to cool?

Speaker 15 (02:55:41):
No, thank you?

Speaker 9 (02:55:42):
Cool?

Speaker 7 (02:55:46):
So bushed.

Speaker 93 (02:55:47):
I can't even get away.

Speaker 15 (02:55:48):
From a lousy day. You're saying, right here, do'll you
get well?

Speaker 33 (02:55:52):
This queen will pick the cops on me.

Speaker 15 (02:55:54):
No, thank you, he'll help you.

Speaker 2 (02:55:55):
This old man's a cop.

Speaker 18 (02:55:56):
He's got cop blood.

Speaker 24 (02:55:58):
I hate every lousy cop that a thanky. Suppose suppose
I promised, promised the queen about to tell you say
the word haws that.

Speaker 15 (02:56:08):
Okay, okay, it's a deal. Now I'm gonna turn the
light off, say uh this porch.

Speaker 11 (02:56:14):
Yes, thank you.

Speaker 15 (02:56:17):
I I'm sorry I called your lobby gang. Nice, good night,
thank you.

Speaker 24 (02:56:33):
We've got to find that bubble gum kid.

Speaker 15 (02:56:35):
We've gott yes, Oh, dad, take it easy.

Speaker 24 (02:56:39):
Why is this boy because making I think he knows
who the frog is. You do all night the kid
gang and directs their operation.

Speaker 15 (02:56:46):
Oh you make him talking.

Speaker 21 (02:56:48):
We've got to break the back of this gang.

Speaker 24 (02:56:50):
Relieve. The boy is hiding out around Stockar Street somewhere.
You get down there and don't come back here.

Speaker 21 (02:56:55):
You find him, Yes, sir, and I think we've been trying.

Speaker 24 (02:57:00):
I knew to go n Why do these boys hate
policemen because they're on the street and they think of
the office?

Speaker 21 (02:57:08):
Is there? The spoiler pop.

Speaker 15 (02:57:09):
Nikki feer Nikki hate is made by fear.

Speaker 24 (02:57:12):
Any cop workers.

Speaker 21 (02:57:13):
All.

Speaker 24 (02:57:13):
No, he's gotta tell the kids on the idea that
he's their friend, which he is. They learned, obay the
rule the way they've got to want to grow up.

Speaker 15 (02:57:19):
Look at the way they have to grow up and
say min Nicki.

Speaker 24 (02:57:22):
But after all, we're only cops. We can't change social conditions.
That's the job for everybody. And I got to report
to the bar.

Speaker 74 (02:57:29):
All right.

Speaker 15 (02:57:33):
Well, Nikki, why this sudden interest in slimkins? Oh, generally
I've got to get on book.

Speaker 7 (02:57:40):
Sure, I'll thank you.

Speaker 15 (02:57:41):
Father, No father at all.

Speaker 21 (02:57:42):
I'd like to come on. I know what's med, Nikki.

Speaker 15 (02:57:45):
Isn't jo apartment fixed up yet?

Speaker 27 (02:57:47):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (02:57:47):
Well not entirely? Or don't you want me to see
the boy you're hiding out?

Speaker 4 (02:57:52):
How do you know?

Speaker 15 (02:57:54):
I didn't you just told me. Oh he's only fourteen
years old. His father's in prison and his mother.

Speaker 60 (02:57:59):
The boy he's broken the law, I know, But Eloie,
he's just a child and he's hurt. Oh but Nikki,
if he can put the finger on this man they
call the frog.

Speaker 24 (02:58:07):
He doesn't know, Dollarry, he doesn't.

Speaker 51 (02:58:09):
I'll tell you he doesn't. He sends the messages. They've
never seen him, That's what Frankie says.

Speaker 24 (02:58:14):
And I believe him.

Speaker 15 (02:58:15):
But even if he's lying, to turn him over to
the police now, Ellery.

Speaker 24 (02:58:19):
I want to show him that not everyone's an enemy,
that there are decent people in this world.

Speaker 11 (02:58:24):
People who give him what he's never had.

Speaker 24 (02:58:27):
Long and I'm doing Hillary, I'm getting somewhere.

Speaker 15 (02:58:31):
He's fighting me.

Speaker 18 (02:58:32):
But he's losing.

Speaker 24 (02:58:33):
Let me have him for just a little fall on
the lord.

Speaker 21 (02:58:36):
You please, please, Nikki.

Speaker 15 (02:58:40):
If Dad ever finds out about this, you'll have to hide.

Speaker 21 (02:58:42):
Me out too.

Speaker 24 (02:58:55):
I take a look at himself in the mirror of Frankie.

Speaker 21 (02:58:58):
Am I shot.

Speaker 15 (02:59:01):
That soup?

Speaker 24 (02:59:02):
Much to set your back plenty, I'm all, I'll never
mind that.

Speaker 15 (02:59:04):
You're sure you feel well enough? Frankly, I end up
pink and the paint.

Speaker 24 (02:59:07):
Then come on.

Speaker 19 (02:59:11):
From where are we going?

Speaker 7 (02:59:13):
What's the mystery?

Speaker 18 (02:59:14):
Well?

Speaker 21 (02:59:15):
Thank you?

Speaker 7 (02:59:17):
Hello?

Speaker 94 (02:59:18):
And did the nephew miss palker? Mister this is thank you,
very nice looking boy. Hello, Hello, and that's the sunsano.
This boy looks familiar to me. That's gonna move on.

Speaker 15 (02:59:33):
That's thank you, nice of thing a boat?

Speaker 24 (02:59:36):
Sorry here y'are thank you at the door. Thank you, ah,
thank aunt Nikki. Who's that little frenchman? What's his rackety?
Little misterspaper? And who is that great big, tall old guy,

(02:59:56):
mister Tanklan another nighbor apartment over mind? You have a
gong box full of bombs and yeah something nothing? Thank
you you scared I'd crack his box, wiped the barne
wouldn't you?

Speaker 15 (03:00:09):
You wouldn't like it?

Speaker 18 (03:00:09):
Would you have?

Speaker 7 (03:00:10):
Don't?

Speaker 15 (03:00:10):
Thank you? I wouldn't. That's what I thought.

Speaker 24 (03:00:15):
Steeling is for suckers. Say well, we're gone and to
the subway to Booklyn.

Speaker 15 (03:00:21):
I thank you. She's in junior high. I love you
do to me a girl. I'm nothing going.

Speaker 51 (03:00:27):
I've feel thanking. You'll find Ivy. It looks different from
the girls. Is known ah, not a tough fade. Huh, no,
thank you. I thought maybe you'd like to take Ivy
in the optomovie tonight. She's terribly anxious to meet you.
She is, huh, time's okay.

Speaker 24 (03:00:47):
Yeah, hey for you, let me have a dime.

Speaker 15 (03:00:52):
Sure, thank you. I feel like I'd like to have.

Speaker 62 (03:00:56):
Some doubble comes.

Speaker 15 (03:01:09):
You'll want the frank sit down here on the But
why would't you tell me what I said?

Speaker 24 (03:01:16):
And Nikki, you might get a twelve head you mean
she liked me. She couldn't get over you'll, being only fourteen.
Of course, Ivy goes for the tall, lanky type.

Speaker 15 (03:01:25):
Anyway, what she say?

Speaker 60 (03:01:26):
What she's saying?

Speaker 24 (03:01:27):
She said, you look and asked like a great big
man at least seventeen your kid, No, I do like her.

Speaker 27 (03:01:34):
Thank you.

Speaker 15 (03:01:36):
Oh she's solid. I never met a girl like that before.

Speaker 21 (03:01:41):
Thank you, Nikki.

Speaker 15 (03:01:45):
How how soon can you.

Speaker 7 (03:01:48):
For me to.

Speaker 15 (03:01:50):
Meet mister queen?

Speaker 4 (03:01:52):
Thank you?

Speaker 15 (03:01:54):
I just why, hey, hey, thank you? Take Mikey.

Speaker 51 (03:02:00):
Go into the house where you're going in the poll
of the drug?

Speaker 15 (03:02:15):
Is the wonderful?

Speaker 16 (03:02:16):
I won?

Speaker 4 (03:02:16):
I won.

Speaker 15 (03:02:20):
About the tank before.

Speaker 6 (03:02:21):
That's all.

Speaker 15 (03:02:21):
We couldn't we send him away to school, I say him.

Speaker 24 (03:02:23):
I feel I can't swing it all along.

Speaker 21 (03:02:24):
I want to talk to him.

Speaker 15 (03:02:26):
Well, of course a matter. I was coming over to
your place anyway with.

Speaker 24 (03:02:30):
That looks as well?

Speaker 27 (03:02:34):
Do you know that?

Speaker 2 (03:02:35):
I think it's nothing else?

Speaker 15 (03:02:37):
That?

Speaker 26 (03:02:38):
Correct?

Speaker 9 (03:02:39):
Nick?

Speaker 7 (03:02:40):
What is it?

Speaker 24 (03:02:40):
Infectors?

Speaker 11 (03:02:41):
Really came up with sergeant?

Speaker 53 (03:02:45):
Really?

Speaker 15 (03:02:50):
Yes, sergeant you know that call himself the pro that
kid gang. Yes, well, I just got one of the
kids to open up, git.

Speaker 11 (03:02:58):
Him the rock.

Speaker 21 (03:02:59):
But he's know where we live in your house with
one of those apart.

Speaker 11 (03:03:07):
Okay, you'll better not go back there, and maybe.

Speaker 45 (03:03:13):
Ye don't hang up.

Speaker 21 (03:03:15):
Okay, really.

Speaker 9 (03:03:18):
Yes, that.

Speaker 2 (03:03:22):
It might be wise to get the boy.

Speaker 21 (03:03:23):
They take you to the talking there and come back
quick before.

Speaker 47 (03:03:29):
We get there.

Speaker 15 (03:03:42):
That's the cordless pleading his head.

Speaker 21 (03:03:51):
The cord with the just called me, miss porter.

Speaker 19 (03:03:54):
I just got to give it.

Speaker 11 (03:03:55):
That's okay.

Speaker 24 (03:03:55):
So I was going out for new split and moms in.
I stumbled over your nephew. He was lying in the hole,
bleeding unconscious. Bad blow on the head doesn't seem to
be concussive. But mister Gajo lift him.

Speaker 11 (03:04:08):
He's so big.

Speaker 21 (03:04:12):
He on, mister, I believe.

Speaker 24 (03:04:27):
My life, my farm I.

Speaker 21 (03:04:39):
Nick Now, look miss don't talk to me any of you.

Speaker 7 (03:04:42):
Nikki.

Speaker 24 (03:04:42):
In the first place, that boy is the bubble gum
dad we've.

Speaker 21 (03:04:44):
Been looking for. I've been looking for when all the
time she had I'm sorry, sage, and he was hurt.

Speaker 53 (03:04:49):
I had to get in his chance.

Speaker 21 (03:04:50):
And look what he did with stup.

Speaker 24 (03:04:52):
In the second place, we found a word of bubble
gum stuck the tank and stung back. And it's got
the print of the kids right for big a smack
on it clear as a nicky.

Speaker 7 (03:05:00):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 24 (03:05:01):
I suppose Franky hit himself over the head. Yeah, he
found Skane, like we found the brunt on. It was
made to order for a fake.

Speaker 21 (03:05:10):
All he had to do.

Speaker 24 (03:05:11):
Nikki was holding high over his head and let it
talk and the prints around that fantastic said, what.

Speaker 3 (03:05:17):
This could be a frame up?

Speaker 15 (03:05:18):
You know?

Speaker 16 (03:05:18):
Yes, that's what we now know.

Speaker 60 (03:05:21):
The man whom they call the frog the brains of
the gang lived in this house. Then he's seen Frankie
here and he's realized Nikki was rehabilitating him. He'd want
to make Frankie an example so that the kids still
in the gang would be held in line.

Speaker 15 (03:05:32):
So he not sawed Frankie, plusses Frankie's.

Speaker 60 (03:05:34):
Right four finger into the bubble gum, rob Stanklin's strong
box and leaves the gum on the.

Speaker 15 (03:05:38):
Box and I M uncle top, And that's just what happened.

Speaker 21 (03:05:42):
Yes, didn't we find traces of bubblegum and the kids
right four fingers?

Speaker 24 (03:05:45):
Of course you did, sus and he was fine.

Speaker 15 (03:05:48):
But traces of gum found anywhere else on Frankie dead?

Speaker 21 (03:05:51):
No, don just on his right four finger.

Speaker 15 (03:05:53):
Fie, I want to talk to Frankie.

Speaker 16 (03:05:55):
Oh, ry Oh, don't.

Speaker 24 (03:05:57):
Get him excited, please please still two week?

Speaker 21 (03:06:00):
Doctor Oh?

Speaker 24 (03:06:02):
Thank he's not well enough to the question yet, is he,
Doctor Cardle Oh?

Speaker 60 (03:06:06):
I think so, Miss Porter Oh. Even though the blow
was directly on top of his head. He's made of
fine recovery.

Speaker 15 (03:06:12):
Frankie, I thrankly. I'm sorry you're too had to meet
this way, but this is only queen. Hi, mister queen.

Speaker 35 (03:06:22):
Hello, thank well, fellow.

Speaker 21 (03:06:24):
It looks as if you're in a gym.

Speaker 15 (03:06:26):
Yeah, yeah, they told me, but I didn't do it,
mister queen. But he probably got that crack on the skull.

Speaker 24 (03:06:33):
While miss Porter was fawning, somebody knocked on the door.
I open it and there's nobody there. I go out
in the hall and why am that's all I remember?

Speaker 15 (03:06:44):
It's from behind? Yeah, and somebody was.

Speaker 7 (03:06:47):
Laying for me.

Speaker 21 (03:06:48):
Queen, thank aim h, thank aide.

Speaker 15 (03:06:52):
Who's the fob?

Speaker 27 (03:06:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 21 (03:06:55):
He's somebody lives in this house, kid now always he.

Speaker 27 (03:06:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 24 (03:06:59):
Let me alone, allows it, Crankey, I'm.

Speaker 15 (03:07:04):
Sorry, top to my friend fantasy telling the truth.

Speaker 24 (03:07:09):
The fog is missing, as doctor Coddle here, I beg well,
you couldn't be doctor, or maybe it's all saving himself,
Dolly lone bund or something.

Speaker 27 (03:07:17):
The pig.

Speaker 29 (03:07:17):
He had nothing to do with it.

Speaker 24 (03:07:18):
I'm kyry, nicky, but I'm going.

Speaker 21 (03:07:20):
To have now stop bad.

Speaker 15 (03:07:22):
I can seer the whole thing up for you.

Speaker 60 (03:07:24):
There he goes again. I can't help that, Sargeant. But
now I know who the frog is and all the
rest of it. Gentlemen, you have the mystery. Now suppose

(03:07:49):
you home, arm share detectives and our guests in the
studio compare solutions.

Speaker 24 (03:07:53):
Nicky certainly Lary Ladies and gentlemen, neatness plug on your
famous column of Daily Variety, the Entertainment World Played publication,
and also West Coast correspondent.

Speaker 15 (03:08:06):
For the New York Daily News.

Speaker 60 (03:08:07):
Welcome to the armchairm it's your Well, you shouldn't have
too much trouble solving this case tonight. If memory serves
you've had a great deal of experience covering criminal cases
as a newspaper woman.

Speaker 15 (03:08:19):
Well, ellery, you're correct.

Speaker 24 (03:08:20):
On Wenesday, I have had plenty of occasions.

Speaker 15 (03:08:22):
To write about actual murder cases. But when it comes
to something.

Speaker 51 (03:08:26):
Like your thriller tonight, well that's another story.

Speaker 24 (03:08:29):
I'm not too much on the actual solving end of
the mystery.

Speaker 60 (03:08:35):
Now, suppose we get down to the business at hand.
Tell us who is the frog and who stole the bonds?

Speaker 51 (03:08:43):
I think the Frenchman is the fog, because that's the
name we apply to Frenchman probably might.

Speaker 15 (03:08:50):
Have taken it for that reason.

Speaker 60 (03:08:52):
I see as many people do that use that term.
What is your reason for selecting him as the Gilly Party?

Speaker 51 (03:09:00):
Well, he doesn't seem to have any real connections anywhere.
He seems to be running around his seeing himself in
crime of one sorting another. He seems to have some
sort of a connection with Stangler or attempting to get
acquainted with Stangler. How will they find out whether Stangler
having any bonds or not any money?

Speaker 60 (03:09:19):
Thank you very much for a bellure. We'll find out
it just a moment if your solution is correct. Now
here's paramasterison.

Speaker 91 (03:09:27):
The economic and political upheoples this country is experiencing now
as a result of the war provides fertile ground for
those who sow the seeds racial and religious prejudice, either
through ignorance or indifferent. Many Americans these days are using
the old scapegoat technique blaming all modern day difficulties on racial, religious,
and other minority group Straighten o your friends who slander

(03:09:51):
a whole group because of one petty personal dislike. Encourage
respects of minority religions and races. Keep America great by
promoting the racial and religious freedom that made it great.

Speaker 1 (03:10:09):
First, Frankie didn't steal those bonds. See what I tell you,
It's truly a matter of bubble gum technique. The print
of Frankie's forefinger was found on the gum stuck to
the old man's strong box. Traces of gum were found
on Frankie's forefinger and nowhere else. Watch your kid remove
a lot of gum from his mouth. You'll find that
he uses two fingers, his forefinger.

Speaker 15 (03:10:29):
And his thumb. No trace of gum on Frankie's thumb,
no thumbprint.

Speaker 4 (03:10:34):
On the gum.

Speaker 60 (03:10:35):
Frankie never took that gum out of his mouth. Someone
else did and pressed Frankie's forefinger into it.

Speaker 15 (03:10:41):
A frame up as Nicky said, Yeah, why do you
think of that?

Speaker 35 (03:10:45):
Looks as if we figured you all wrong?

Speaker 21 (03:10:47):
Thank him?

Speaker 9 (03:10:48):
Maybe sure does Hi.

Speaker 15 (03:10:50):
It's some key. Second, who's the frog? Somebody living in
this house? Outside from Mickey? Who lives here?

Speaker 3 (03:10:57):
Doctor Cardle?

Speaker 18 (03:10:58):
The frog? You remember?

Speaker 7 (03:11:01):
And Nikki, I said, the dot look like Frank's all right.

Speaker 4 (03:11:04):
It doesn't bother me, and he's a child.

Speaker 15 (03:11:07):
But believe me, gentlemen, I'm not this man they call
the frog.

Speaker 21 (03:11:10):
I wait a minute, frog for Frenchman. That's a slang
word for frenchmen.

Speaker 15 (03:11:15):
Yes, and his nasty word dogen does kite, nigger.

Speaker 60 (03:11:17):
Wap, prolac, or any of the other insulting terms some
people used to assert their purely imaginary superiority over their
fellow citizen.

Speaker 21 (03:11:24):
Oh, I didn't mean it that way, my stow.

Speaker 27 (03:11:25):
I just my.

Speaker 21 (03:11:28):
His voice.

Speaker 8 (03:11:29):
That frog is held.

Speaker 60 (03:11:30):
I think we can arrive at the frog by I'm
more as satisfactory.

Speaker 15 (03:11:33):
Rude dad, Oh, what do we know the frog did?
He struck really directly on the top of a head.

Speaker 7 (03:11:39):
But Frankie is.

Speaker 60 (03:11:40):
Tall, Doctor Cardle is small. Monsieur Gazeu has been described
as the little Frenchman. But what about Stanklan, a big
tall man. Only Stanklin was tall enough of the three
possibilities despite the top of Frankie's head. Stankland trained Frankie.
Stanklin is the frog.

Speaker 21 (03:11:58):
I think really will go up.

Speaker 24 (03:12:00):
There's an interview, mister, Thanks mister Queen Frankie.

Speaker 15 (03:12:09):
This time I didn't have to remind you.

Speaker 7 (03:12:11):
Boy.

Speaker 11 (03:12:11):
That was something that was okay.

Speaker 4 (03:12:14):
Ella.

Speaker 15 (03:12:15):
Will they have to go to court?

Speaker 60 (03:12:17):
I mean those other charge I don't think we'll have
much trouble in persuading the judge that Frankie deserves a chance,
Nicky to be put on probation in his aunt Nikki's
custody and mine.

Speaker 93 (03:12:29):
Gee, don't don't start falling. Makes a doesn't want to fallen, So.

Speaker 7 (03:12:41):
You love me doing it in a minute.

Speaker 75 (03:12:42):
Then when you come that out, frank you can.

Speaker 60 (03:12:58):
And very ladies and gentlemen, you have the solution to
our mystery. Thank you, Miss Barrabelmure for serving as our
guest armchair detective this evening. As the members of the occasion,
I have for you a copy of my latest mystery anthology,
The Queen's Awards nineteen forty seven, and a subscription to
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.

Speaker 15 (03:13:16):
Oh Paul, and what's for next week?

Speaker 7 (03:13:18):
Ellery?

Speaker 15 (03:13:19):
Well, Paul week? Oh by the way, are you interested
in cards?

Speaker 18 (03:13:24):
Cards?

Speaker 21 (03:13:25):
You mean bridge, poker and suff Well?

Speaker 15 (03:13:28):
It isn't about cards, Paul, even though.

Speaker 35 (03:13:31):
I call it.

Speaker 7 (03:13:33):
One diamond.

Speaker 15 (03:13:50):
This is Ellery Queen saying.

Speaker 60 (03:13:51):
Good night until next week and enlisting all Americans every
night and every day in the fight against bad citizenship, bigotry, discrimination,
the crimes which are weakening.

Speaker 3 (03:14:03):
America, Quiet Please, Quiet Please.

Speaker 68 (03:14:43):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper and which features Ernest Chappel.
Quiet Please for Today is called good Ghos.

Speaker 10 (03:15:02):
I never did anything wrong in my life. That's why
I was so upset when Shuster murdered me. I'm just
standing there in mind on my own business, and Shoes
three pulls out this cannon and he points it at
me and it goes boom, and I say ouch, and
I'm lying there and he walks away down Lake Street
towards Michigan Avenue. Yeah, right there on the corner of
Lake in Wabai sh at a quarter after one in

(03:15:23):
the morning. Outch, I said, And I just laid there.
After a while, I got up and I walked away.
I was all mixed up. I guess I didn't realize
I was dead, because I walked over to Randolph Street.
I started up the elevated steps, but something to stop me,
something like a rope or something across the bottom of
the stairsteps, and I couldn't get up. So I looked

(03:15:44):
around to see what it was, and there was nothing.
There was a voice speaking kind in my ear. You
can't go up that, That's what the voice said, and
there wasn't anybody there. I looked, well, all right, I
says to myself, there's more in one way in a
cat So I walked over the State street and I
started down the subway stairs. You know what, I couldn't

(03:16:07):
go down there either. There was this same voice whispering
in my ear. You can't go down there us. Well,
I said, where am I going to go? And I
didn't hear any answer to that. So I put one
foot in front of the other.

Speaker 18 (03:16:22):
And you know what I did.

Speaker 10 (03:16:25):
I walked, and for the first time in my life,
for the first time, my feet didn't hurt. So that's
one consolation, I said, being a ghost, your feet don't hurt.

Speaker 3 (03:16:39):
Well, I was bewildered.

Speaker 10 (03:16:40):
See I walk, and I walk, and I walked in
pretty soon. It's about five o'clock in the morning, and
I'm out in Logan Square. And I said to myself, wife,
Shuster lives around in some place, don't I And I
am in Shuster's house. See, I was a pretty new,

(03:17:01):
inexperienced ghost. Then gosh, if by the note, I wouldn't
have had to walked all the way out to logan square,
and I could have flew or whatever it is I do,
but I've learned now I'll tell you about it. Well,
like I said, there, I am in Shuster's house. Well
you didn't know Shuster, did you. He was laying there,

(03:17:23):
sound asleep on the bed, and he was pretty good
looking fella in a kind of fat way. He was
laying there snoring. He had his hand hanging over the
edge of the bed, and I never thought. I just
went over and I took cold of his hand, and.

Speaker 7 (03:17:37):
I said, Hey, Shuster, Shuster, Hey Shuster, sesay, wake up?

Speaker 18 (03:17:47):
Who's wake up?

Speaker 7 (03:17:48):
Shuster?

Speaker 18 (03:17:49):
It's me, gee wit Shuster.

Speaker 4 (03:17:53):
Enough to murder a guy, you have to scare the
life on him.

Speaker 95 (03:17:57):
Somebody had go to my head. It was me, cold hand,
It was me. I told you who's that? It's me, Shoester,
better head, it's gus.

Speaker 7 (03:18:10):
Guys.

Speaker 3 (03:18:11):
You awake now?

Speaker 18 (03:18:13):
You got awake from me?

Speaker 7 (03:18:15):
You did?

Speaker 18 (03:18:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 26 (03:18:15):
I know.

Speaker 3 (03:18:16):
And I didn't mean to wake up so violent.

Speaker 18 (03:18:21):
I'm asleep. I'm dreaming now.

Speaker 19 (03:18:25):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 18 (03:18:26):
I'm hearing things. Oh why did I knock him up?

Speaker 78 (03:18:31):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (03:18:33):
Why did you knock me off?

Speaker 18 (03:18:35):
Is that really?

Speaker 7 (03:18:37):
You?

Speaker 27 (03:18:37):
Guys?

Speaker 18 (03:18:37):
Sure? Did you come to lout me.

Speaker 3 (03:18:40):
No, not especially.

Speaker 18 (03:18:41):
I was just wondering, why did you shoot me? I'm
going to turn on the light. There ain't nobody here.
I had a nightmare there, see you, chump, There ain't
nobody here.

Speaker 3 (03:18:55):
I'm here.

Speaker 18 (03:18:55):
It's a nightmare. Uh uh, guys, I hear you. Sure,
what do you want to do?

Speaker 3 (03:19:03):
I told you? Why did you kill me?

Speaker 18 (03:19:06):
Will you go? If I did it? Well? It was
at Aida?

Speaker 9 (03:19:11):
Aida? Yeah?

Speaker 10 (03:19:12):
Aida, when you're going out and leave me, Shuster, Shuster?
Is your intentions towards Ada?

Speaker 3 (03:19:19):
Honorable?

Speaker 17 (03:19:20):
Oh?

Speaker 26 (03:19:21):
Why?

Speaker 7 (03:19:21):
Why?

Speaker 18 (03:19:22):
Sure? Gush where you're going?

Speaker 7 (03:19:25):
Now?

Speaker 3 (03:19:27):
Move over, Shuster. I want to do a little thinking. Well, Schuster.

Speaker 10 (03:19:35):
He put his head underneath the covers and he shriveled
up in a nod, and I thought and thought. He
kept shivering and shaking a bed, and so pretty soon
I went to sleep, and when I awoke, Shuster was gone.
So I got to thinking about Ada.

Speaker 3 (03:19:55):
Gee? Who is Aida?

Speaker 18 (03:19:57):
Was cut?

Speaker 3 (03:19:59):
I sure that like Aida?

Speaker 10 (03:20:01):
Aida always wore a hair and a pompadoor, and her
hair was so black, and her eyebrows was so cute,
and she always smells so nice. And Aida I always
thought Aida liked me pretty much too. Whenever I had
a couple of bucks, I used to take Aida out
to the tree and on advance. He was about three
point inches taller than me, but we danced all right together.

(03:20:24):
That's where Shuster run into set the tree an she
wish I never thought a'da fall for Schuster.

Speaker 3 (03:20:32):
Funny in it, you're always the last one to find out.

Speaker 18 (03:20:34):
I thought she liked me.

Speaker 10 (03:20:37):
I never even had a chance to be jealous of Schuster.
I sure did like Ada. I was thinking about the
time Schuster drove us out to the forest preserve, aided me,
and the three of us had a picnic, whenies and
she made potato salad, and when he had a swell time,
and then I remember I didn't notice it. Then she

(03:20:58):
kept sitting next to Schuster all the time. Well, I thought,
laying there on Shuster's bed, I'm too late. And if
Ada likes Shuster, well, all I can do is try
to help him out. Shuster, mayeh I could do without him,
but Ada, I want.

Speaker 18 (03:21:19):
Her to be happy.

Speaker 10 (03:21:21):
And thinking about it, all of a sudden, I mean
AIDA's apartment and Shuster's there with her, and Ada's crying
a little bit.

Speaker 18 (03:21:31):
It sure is too bad.

Speaker 29 (03:21:32):
Ada.

Speaker 18 (03:21:32):
He he was a nice little fella.

Speaker 69 (03:21:34):
I can't hardly believe he said, Shuster.

Speaker 18 (03:21:38):
Well he is.

Speaker 4 (03:21:39):
I'll say to him, what did you say?

Speaker 18 (03:21:42):
I didn't say nothing.

Speaker 55 (03:21:43):
I thought you did.

Speaker 70 (03:21:46):
Poor little fella.

Speaker 18 (03:21:48):
To go so sudden, too bad? Geez, where's Shuster? You'd
done it?

Speaker 24 (03:21:53):
I was so fond of him.

Speaker 18 (03:21:55):
I know you was, Ada.

Speaker 14 (03:21:57):
And now I'm all alone in the world.

Speaker 18 (03:22:00):
Oh no, yeah, Aida, I'm here, Sure, Rada, he's here.

Speaker 11 (03:22:05):
Oh it's Suster.

Speaker 7 (03:22:07):
I'm so lonesome.

Speaker 18 (03:22:10):
Put your head on my shoulder, Raida, honey, and leave
us weep together. Oh, shooter.

Speaker 10 (03:22:17):
And so she put her head on the shoster's shoulder,
but she wished he didn't weep. He kissed her, and
so I come away after out.

Speaker 18 (03:22:29):
How much can you take?

Speaker 27 (03:22:30):
Huh?

Speaker 3 (03:22:35):
Well, so it looks like it's on the up and up,
And besides, what could I do? I am dead.

Speaker 10 (03:22:42):
So I sat down on a bench in Lincoln Park,
and I think, funny, Then, concrete benches used to feel
cold when I sat on them, But now they don't
feel cold anymore. I guess because I'm a ghost. Well,
I figure I have to talk to Shuster again. What Well,
I figure I have to help him out. That help Aida,
What I mean? I don't want Aida to go around

(03:23:02):
being unhappy. And so if her and Shuster is going
to get married, well, at least I can do is
give him my hand. I know Shuster ain't got a quarter,
and there's ways a guy in my position can help.
See No, I don't know how I knowed, but it's true.
A ghost can do pretty nearly anything if he works
it right. So I wait till night and I start

(03:23:24):
to walk out the Logan square and then I remember
I don't have to walk and zing, I am in
Shuster's room. Shuster is sitting there thinking, and I say, Shuster,
Hey Shuster. He don't give me a tumble, but I
can see his eyes moving looking around the room. Hey Shuster,
I say again, I.

Speaker 3 (03:23:46):
Want to talk to you.

Speaker 10 (03:23:48):
And you know what he'd done. He jumped out the window.
Well I'm so surprised, I can't even follow my window.
You know what, that shooster. He was the hardest guy
the haunt I ever seen. And look, I didn't want
to do nothing. All I wanted to do was help Aida. Sure,

(03:24:12):
what if he does shoot me, that's sober? I gotta
help Aid. The heck guy I loved at to see.
A couple of nights later, I seen him getting his car.

Speaker 3 (03:24:22):
I run.

Speaker 10 (03:24:22):
I got in alongside him, and I figure this is fine.

Speaker 19 (03:24:24):
We're all alone in the car.

Speaker 10 (03:24:27):
And then I begin to worry if I say something
while we're.

Speaker 3 (03:24:31):
Driving, he'd probably wreck the car.

Speaker 10 (03:24:33):
So I wait till we're stopped by the light of
Diversity in Lincoln Park. We're standing still, what can happen?
So I put my hand on top of his on
the gearshift and I say, hey, shoster, damn crash, jingle bounce.
He takes his foot off in the clutch and we're
throw a high iron fencing. The car is upside down
on Shoester has got a sprained ankle.

Speaker 18 (03:24:53):
She whiz.

Speaker 10 (03:24:55):
I said, I'm a heck of a ghost. But he's
laying there and I I think this is a good
time to talk to him before the ambulance comes. He
can't move, but he crosses me up, he thinks. And

(03:25:15):
while see he's laid up with his ankle all bandage.
That Ada comes and sees him, and the way she
puts her arms around him and kisses him. I says,
this is no place for me. So I come away again.

Speaker 3 (03:25:26):
I couldn't take it, but that only made it worse.

Speaker 10 (03:25:31):
I should talk to him and see what I can
do for Aid and him. So after a while he's well,
and I see him and Aida every once in a while.

Speaker 26 (03:25:39):
And they well.

Speaker 18 (03:25:41):
He treated here like.

Speaker 3 (03:25:43):
She pass the way I wished I could have treated her,
and she ded up.

Speaker 7 (03:25:50):
Well.

Speaker 3 (03:25:51):
One night, Shuster goes into a movie. I saw the
movie before.

Speaker 10 (03:25:54):
You got a lot of time on your hands when
you're ghost, usually you can get in movies free. I
followed him inside and while he was running the sign
on the screen and said next week hollow triumph, I
lean over close to.

Speaker 18 (03:26:07):
Him and I say, Shuster, gee whiz.

Speaker 3 (03:26:10):
He went up like a balloon.

Speaker 96 (03:26:11):
People was hollering, and he was hollering, and the ushes coming,
the cops and they drug him away.

Speaker 18 (03:26:18):
You know what the upshot of that was.

Speaker 10 (03:26:20):
He kept hollering to the cops that he was haunted,
and they thought he was touched in the head, and
they put.

Speaker 3 (03:26:26):
Him in a wagon.

Speaker 10 (03:26:26):
They took him out the psychopathic for observation. I sure
made a mess out of things, didn't I. And all
I'm trying to do is be a good guy, a
good ghost. Timing, so come evening out the psychopathic. I go, well,
I went a place and I hunt high and low

(03:26:48):
for Shuster till it's about two o'clock.

Speaker 3 (03:26:51):
Then I hear a kind of gargirle. I think it's familiar,
and I go through a little door, and oh boy,
there he is in a straight jacket.

Speaker 10 (03:27:00):
Well, for pity's sake, Shuster, I says, stop it. I
ain't gonna hurt you, Sster. Listen to me, Shuster. Don't
you bust something now? Listen, Shuster, Listen to me. I
ain't mad, nah Shuster, I ain't mad at all.

Speaker 7 (03:27:19):
I want to what kill you?

Speaker 3 (03:27:25):
Nah Shoster. All I want to do is.

Speaker 18 (03:27:27):
Help you, don't Shooster.

Speaker 4 (03:27:29):
Somebody will hear you.

Speaker 10 (03:27:32):
Look, I'm only allowed to kill one person, see, Shuster.
You ain't allowed to kill a fellow that killed you.

Speaker 7 (03:27:40):
See.

Speaker 10 (03:27:41):
I can only knock off one fella, and he has
to be a bad fellow.

Speaker 3 (03:27:47):
I know you're kind of bad, but you can't be
all bad, Shuster. I'll say they wouldn't love you? Does
say they love you? And do you love her?

Speaker 7 (03:28:00):
That's what I thought?

Speaker 3 (03:28:02):
What listen?

Speaker 42 (03:28:04):
I said.

Speaker 10 (03:28:05):
I wasn't going to kid you. I just want to
help you. Yeah, that ghost can do lots of things. Shuster,
you need money, Shuster.

Speaker 3 (03:28:18):
You broke.

Speaker 10 (03:28:19):
Yeah, well you can't marry Ada without money. Yeah, I'll
get you the money. I'm not kidding. Only will you
promised to marry Aida as soon as you get the money?

Speaker 4 (03:28:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (03:28:33):
Well, I says, okay then, and I reached over and
patted him on the forehead, and he heaved himself up
and the gag came out of his mouth. So I
have to start all over again. I stopped the thing
back in his pots and all he can say is
and I lay it all out to him again. He

(03:28:54):
was bound and determined. I was going to knock him off.
He must have had a guilly conscience or something. But
it was daylight when I finally sold them a bill
of goods. Look, I kept saying, it's Aida I'm thinking of.

Speaker 3 (03:29:05):
I want Ada to be happy. I have to help you.

Speaker 10 (03:29:08):
If I'm going to help Aida, can't you see? And
it was, like I said, broad daylight when I took
the guy away from him again, and I was all
ready to put it back.

Speaker 18 (03:29:16):
But okay, guys, okay, I believe you.

Speaker 3 (03:29:19):
You got to believe me.

Speaker 18 (03:29:20):
But you gotta remember. If you hurt me, you'll be
hurting Aida. Guys. I know it, Shuster.

Speaker 3 (03:29:26):
Why else would I go to all this trouble?

Speaker 18 (03:29:28):
Heck, Shuster, I love data.

Speaker 10 (03:29:31):
And he just looked at me funny, and I said, Okay,
I'll meet hut Rollos next Wednesday night and I come away, Rolls.
I don't suppose you've ever been there, huh, gambling jointed.
I used to go there once in a while when
I was.

Speaker 53 (03:29:51):
Alive, pick up a couple of dollars, shooting crap.

Speaker 3 (03:29:54):
Say something.

Speaker 10 (03:29:54):
Shuster goes there a lot too. I'm standing by the
wheel when Shoester come in. I'm just standing there, and
of course Shoester can't see me.

Speaker 18 (03:30:03):
When he comes up.

Speaker 3 (03:30:04):
He stood there looking a minute, and Rollo give them
a hello.

Speaker 1 (03:30:08):
Hello, shiester y Rollo gets your bets down, gents, just
so you're gonna play seventeen?

Speaker 18 (03:30:13):
What'd you say?

Speaker 7 (03:30:14):
I said, you're gonna play?

Speaker 18 (03:30:15):
Got your money downs?

Speaker 97 (03:30:16):
Said seventeen five and seventeen our bets time, that's all, gents,
And I left.

Speaker 3 (03:30:23):
They spin a minute when I put your finger on
the seventeen.

Speaker 7 (03:30:27):
And I stopped you seventeen.

Speaker 29 (03:30:30):
Hey, yeah, sister gets your bets down, gents.

Speaker 3 (03:30:33):
Four four one hundred dollars, one.

Speaker 97 (03:30:35):
Hundred dollars, legend man, sir, spin the wheel our bets time,
round and run?

Speaker 15 (03:30:42):
She goes, and why she stops nobody knows.

Speaker 3 (03:30:46):
Nobody knows. I know she stops on four.

Speaker 7 (03:30:51):
Oh well, nice gone, Shuster, Yeah, it is nice in it.
Eleven shoester, Yeah, eleven five hundred dollars, get easy, shoester
the wheel.

Speaker 18 (03:31:04):
That was an awful short spin.

Speaker 7 (03:31:05):
Roller real bated about it, stopped that forward and the.

Speaker 10 (03:31:08):
Hey, Shuster, what ain't you got enough enough to marry Aida?
You went three times?

Speaker 18 (03:31:14):
Oh, come on, Gus, let's not quit yet, okay, thirteen
thirty a thousand bucks.

Speaker 10 (03:31:27):
At half past four in the morning, Roller declared that
the bank was busted. Shuster took every diamond a joint. Well,
Shuster with me the help. Hen He went out of
that place with money sticking out every pocket in his hat.

Speaker 3 (03:31:41):
Hey, Shuster, I said.

Speaker 18 (03:31:42):
Well, Gus, you're terrific. I'm set for life.

Speaker 10 (03:31:45):
You ain't set for life, Shuster, I said, not jet Shane,
what do you mean you forgot about Aida?

Speaker 7 (03:31:51):
Aida? Oh?

Speaker 18 (03:31:53):
Oh ai?

Speaker 3 (03:31:54):
Yeah, this dough is to get married on Shuster remember, well, what.

Speaker 11 (03:31:58):
Do you know?

Speaker 18 (03:32:00):
Did you forget about Ada?

Speaker 4 (03:32:02):
Can you measure that?

Speaker 3 (03:32:08):
And so two days afterwards, Shuster.

Speaker 10 (03:32:11):
And Ada drive over the Crown Point to a little
Justice of the Feast and they get married.

Speaker 18 (03:32:16):
She was it was a happy day.

Speaker 3 (03:32:19):
Ada shirt looked pretty with her pompador.

Speaker 10 (03:32:22):
On a new dress from Carson Pirie's, and their eyes shining,
and she was nervous and.

Speaker 18 (03:32:28):
Cute and even shoes.

Speaker 3 (03:32:30):
She looked pretty good in a double breasted green suit.

Speaker 96 (03:32:34):
And I got sentimental and I kind of ball stand
there watching. Only of course nobody knows I was there,
and I thought, gee, that might.

Speaker 7 (03:32:42):
Have been me.

Speaker 18 (03:32:43):
Maybe, Only it's too late I do.

Speaker 3 (03:32:47):
And the least I can do is to see that
she has everything she wants.

Speaker 10 (03:32:50):
I can do that on account I'm a ghost and
I can do practically anything.

Speaker 96 (03:32:58):
There is Ada looking all about the bust. She's so happy,
and Shuster holding his arms around her and grinning, and
the old JP grinning too, and looking at the one
hundred dollar bill, and I couldn't help it. I step
right up close.

Speaker 18 (03:33:12):
Wasn't that a honey? And it was only me kissing
the bride? I love you?

Speaker 3 (03:33:23):
Oh sure?

Speaker 10 (03:33:24):
They was as happy as bumblebees. Heck, no, I wouldn't
never intrude into their privacy. I never went to their house,
but I used to meet Schuster once in a while
and I'd say, Schuster, how they're going?

Speaker 18 (03:33:39):
Oh fine, guys, fine, well, guys, it is very happy, and.

Speaker 10 (03:33:42):
I'd always feel glad happy about it. And then one
day I meet Schuster and I asked him the same question.
He kind of stutters and stammers for a minute.

Speaker 18 (03:33:50):
Well, look, Gus, he don't want some meant coat.

Speaker 3 (03:33:55):
Why don't you get her?

Speaker 18 (03:33:56):
What? Well, I I'm not holding guys. I made a
couple of bad investments.

Speaker 3 (03:34:00):
In so Shuster and me we busted the bank and
rollers again.

Speaker 10 (03:34:04):
Roller he wasn't very happy about it, But what could
the man do with was his business, wasn't it? And
Ada was happy? I figured Shuster hit me again. When
the island and race season started, I.

Speaker 18 (03:34:15):
Said, Gus, can you do anything about horses?

Speaker 14 (03:34:18):
Like?

Speaker 51 (03:34:19):
What you know?

Speaker 18 (03:34:21):
What's the matter? You broke again? No, but I kind
of like to get a new car. Farted a goat.

Speaker 10 (03:34:27):
But the name of lollipopsy come into one hundred and
thirty four to one, and I nearly warm myself out
flagging down the other horses.

Speaker 98 (03:34:32):
Shuster had two hundred dollars on Lollipopsy's nose. Gee whish,
I said, i'da ought to get two cars, both of
them coronium plated. Shuster said to me, Hey, guys, you see,
I was always around someplace that wasn't no place for
me to go. I kept trying the subway in the
elevated but no soap, I was stuck, so I stayed

(03:34:55):
with him, calling distance.

Speaker 3 (03:34:57):
Ada was awful, nice whiz.

Speaker 18 (03:35:02):
Shuster said to me, say, guys, say guys, what uh
you know the sweep steaks?

Speaker 3 (03:35:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (03:35:10):
Well, what I got a ticket?

Speaker 97 (03:35:15):
She wish Suster, Well, Ada wants a house in lake
Forest that cross bucks.

Speaker 3 (03:35:21):
Oh wow, Well Island is a nice place.

Speaker 10 (03:35:29):
But starting through all of them ticket steps to find
BB forty six thirty seven twenty nine was.

Speaker 3 (03:35:34):
Quite the job of work.

Speaker 10 (03:35:36):
What one hundred and ten thousand dollars you can buy
quite a joint in lake Forest for that kind of mover.
Oh boy, I thought, Ada is doing all right, and
I'm glad, even if Shoster is getting to be kind.

Speaker 3 (03:35:49):
Of a paint in the neck.

Speaker 18 (03:35:51):
Everything about the stack market, guys, No, oh, that's where
the guy could really clean up or lose his shirt,
not with my little mask, at my little tawsy wellsie,
who's that? You me? Sure?

Speaker 33 (03:36:09):
Well?

Speaker 3 (03:36:09):
I don't know.

Speaker 18 (03:36:10):
Oh, I guess you can do anything.

Speaker 42 (03:36:13):
Well.

Speaker 18 (03:36:13):
Ada wants to go to Mexico for the summer. Well,
oh boy, a million dollars. Let's get another million.

Speaker 3 (03:36:25):
And another million?

Speaker 7 (03:36:26):
What more for fiddy?

Speaker 3 (03:36:28):
Say?

Speaker 18 (03:36:28):
Why feraider guys? Her birthday's tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (03:36:35):
Boy, you know what I forgot that?

Speaker 10 (03:36:40):
I used to buy her a box at the Mets
candy or when I had the money Fanny May's, And now.

Speaker 3 (03:36:45):
I forgot her birthday.

Speaker 7 (03:36:48):
She whiz well.

Speaker 96 (03:36:52):
First I went over to Losalle Street, and I went
up to the stock Exchange and I sent consolidated to
something up eighty one points.

Speaker 10 (03:37:00):
And then I said to myself, I just got to
see Ada on her birthday and see how happy she is.
She and meant cold and a new automobile. I bet
it's a Rose Royce the house in Lake Forest. No,
she's in Mexico, I thought, But I'll stay happy birthday
in Mexican even if she won't hear it.

Speaker 15 (03:37:20):
And so.

Speaker 18 (03:37:23):
She wasn't in Mexico.

Speaker 10 (03:37:29):
I looked all over lake Forest and there wasn't any
shoester living there. And then I just thought, Ada, I
want to see Ada, and I was right alongside her.

(03:37:53):
Ada didn't have any meant coat, she didn't have any automobile.
She was living in a flat on Taylor Street and
there wasn't any heat in the house. There wasn't anything
to eat either. She was laying on a cotton.

Speaker 3 (03:38:05):
I hardly even recognized her.

Speaker 10 (03:38:07):
The pampa door was all stringy and kind of dirty gray.
And her eyes she had a black eye. She was sick,
she was hungry, she was lonesome. She was pretty close
to dying.

Speaker 3 (03:38:27):
How do you like that?

Speaker 14 (03:38:28):
My Aida.

Speaker 96 (03:38:30):
And Shuster the wheel horses, sweepstakes, the stock market a
million dollars.

Speaker 3 (03:38:37):
I kissed Dated and Ada know that was there? Ada
spoke my name. She laid back on the cot and
she cried some.

Speaker 18 (03:38:49):
I couldn't take that. Gee whiz, I come away.

Speaker 3 (03:38:57):
Shuster was in Rollos.

Speaker 10 (03:39:01):
Did I tell you Roller had some very tough customers around,
and he did. I went up to Schuster and I said, Shuster, Schuster,
I said, Roller wants to see you in his office.
I'm busy, guys, better go on in. Shuster there's something
for you in there?

Speaker 18 (03:39:21):
Is there no go see?

Speaker 3 (03:39:26):
So Shuster went on in and I after him.

Speaker 9 (03:39:31):
Where do you want?

Speaker 3 (03:39:35):
Hello, Row, he's dead, Shuster.

Speaker 18 (03:39:42):
Look at that knife in his back, Shuster, that's my knife, got.

Speaker 22 (03:39:50):
Your name on it.

Speaker 3 (03:39:52):
I know you didn't, but they'll think you did. So
you're got the big guy, sam Well, the guy.

Speaker 10 (03:40:00):
With the brass knox, Ralph, the guy that bites said no,
I'd done it.

Speaker 3 (03:40:05):
Shuster. You sure remember I told you I was allowed
to knock off one guy.

Speaker 10 (03:40:13):
One bad guy was an awful bad guy. Should sorry
you for that matter. And them guys liked Rollo an
awful lot.

Speaker 18 (03:40:24):
Shust. What they'll do to the guy they think killed him?

Speaker 3 (03:40:31):
The doors locked from the outside, Shuster, the door's locked.

Speaker 7 (03:40:34):
The tough boys are coming.

Speaker 3 (03:40:37):
Can you pray Schuster.

Speaker 2 (03:40:43):
Not to me?

Speaker 18 (03:40:43):
Shuster, so long, lad.

Speaker 10 (03:40:53):
And I walked up just as the tough guys, the
bodyguard of the dead man started hammering on the door.
I could still hearses to crying and moaning in there.
And you know what, out there in the big room
there was a set of stairs I never seen before.

(03:41:14):
I started up the stairsteps and there wasn't anybody to
stop me, and I climbed up and up and up, and.

Speaker 3 (03:41:22):
The stairway went right on up.

Speaker 18 (03:41:24):
Ahead of me, and there was somebody at the top, black.

Speaker 10 (03:41:30):
Pomper door, shining eyes. What I'm not such a bad
ghost after all, am I.

Speaker 3 (03:42:04):
The title of.

Speaker 68 (03:42:04):
Today's Quiet Please story is good Ghost was written and
directed by Willis Cooper.

Speaker 3 (03:42:11):
The man who spoke to you.

Speaker 10 (03:42:12):
Was Ernest Chapel, and Murray Forbes was Shuster, Aida was
Ruth Last and Rollo was played by Arthur Cole.

Speaker 18 (03:42:19):
As usual.

Speaker 10 (03:42:20):
Music for Fire Please is by Albert Berman. Now for
a word about next week, here is our write, a
director of my good friend Willis Cooper.

Speaker 18 (03:42:27):
Thank you for listening to Quiet Please.

Speaker 65 (03:42:29):
For next week, I have a story for you. For you,
it's called Calling All Souls, and so.

Speaker 10 (03:42:43):
Until next week. At the same time, I am quietly yours,
Ernest Chapel.

Speaker 29 (03:43:20):
Most for murder, I've always had a pretty low opinion
of guys that commits murders.

Speaker 41 (03:43:39):
That's because I'm a cop myself. David D. Murphy, detective,
second grade.

Speaker 3 (03:43:44):
Age thirty four.

Speaker 29 (03:43:46):
I've always said, anybody who murders is chiefs and thirty
and yellow. The word does that leave me when my
wife put the twelve in spread, might throw a vacuum
cleaner sails on.

Speaker 15 (03:44:04):
It.

Speaker 55 (03:44:05):
Just burst on us out of nothing. I came home
around five one afternoon and married was Mary.

Speaker 29 (03:44:10):
I'll call on the couch with a bourbon breath he
could use for cutting torch, still whiskey, broken glass, the
place all torn up and in a red velvet chair,
a funny little guy named Hamilton with our bread night
right clean throwing.

Speaker 55 (03:44:23):
I just went mum.

Speaker 41 (03:44:25):
I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 55 (03:44:27):
I watched the boys do all the routine things.

Speaker 29 (03:44:30):
Pictures, fingerprint measurements, all the things I've done in Third Avenue,
fly tracks.

Speaker 41 (03:44:36):
They took Mary down to the police.

Speaker 53 (03:44:37):
Emergency warden, and after she'd come cool and been sick
and then gone.

Speaker 29 (03:44:42):
Back to sleep for a couple of hours, I managed
to get a little time along with her.

Speaker 41 (03:44:47):
She sat on the edge of the bed, shaking and
still half sick.

Speaker 55 (03:44:51):
We tried to put the story.

Speaker 29 (03:44:52):
Together from the beginning. Still, honey, honey, this thing's real there,
don't you see? The newspapers will tell.

Speaker 53 (03:45:02):
Your part CoP's wife extant a nice vacuum cleaner salesman.

Speaker 55 (03:45:06):
You've got to remember the baby you've got to.

Speaker 71 (03:45:12):
It was that it is serious.

Speaker 99 (03:45:17):
You all and asked if I wanted to buy a
vacuum clear. I. Actually, you put on a demonstration.

Speaker 75 (03:45:22):
A living woman.

Speaker 97 (03:45:22):
I said, I take it the like.

Speaker 99 (03:45:25):
I gave him a side depart Yes, he said, he
delivered the machine today.

Speaker 41 (03:45:30):
Did you get a receipt?

Speaker 14 (03:45:31):
Yes, yes, it's mus be around behind sen.

Speaker 41 (03:45:34):
We'll find it. Then one and came back to day
with a new machine.

Speaker 9 (03:45:37):
Yes.

Speaker 41 (03:45:38):
Did your forum a drink?

Speaker 71 (03:45:40):
David was so hot?

Speaker 79 (03:45:42):
Did you look so tired you're already yetting around?

Speaker 99 (03:45:45):
I actually if you'd like a high hole, and he
said yes.

Speaker 15 (03:45:47):
I asked him to sit down, really drink it.

Speaker 99 (03:45:49):
I was only being DC.

Speaker 14 (03:45:50):
Dad.

Speaker 29 (03:45:51):
You looked so tired and it was very hot.

Speaker 55 (03:45:53):
Did you have one with him? No, honey, honey, your
wreathed the bourbon.

Speaker 29 (03:45:56):
You were practiced drink it.

Speaker 75 (03:45:58):
Indeed, you've got to believe you.

Speaker 55 (03:46:00):
Then what happened?

Speaker 45 (03:46:03):
I want to get my purse, the money when I
was a whole persparticularly that everything went for uxtras.

Speaker 14 (03:46:10):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (03:46:12):
Something just seemed to hit me.

Speaker 99 (03:46:14):
Maybe it was I don't know, but the next thing I.

Speaker 42 (03:46:16):
Knew out I was seeing sick and all the.

Speaker 53 (03:46:19):
Men was standing around taking produce of it.

Speaker 16 (03:46:23):
I didn't do it.

Speaker 29 (03:46:24):
I can't say, come.

Speaker 55 (03:46:25):
On, hang on, you so funny.

Speaker 53 (03:46:27):
I can't stay much longer.

Speaker 15 (03:46:29):
Thanks, this is cool.

Speaker 29 (03:46:34):
As she came over the bar some butter and saw
this guy handle and sitting on a chair, and I
want to reread my chicken.

Speaker 75 (03:46:40):
This isn't happening.

Speaker 99 (03:46:41):
It just didn't really, did.

Speaker 38 (03:46:43):
You know that?

Speaker 55 (03:46:44):
They was mistick all over his mouth.

Speaker 29 (03:46:57):
They wanted me to believe that Mary got past And
what a little guy who told at him fling here
a drunken, lecherous Mary kissing this guy, leaving lipstick on him.
Kiss this one minute, my blind's having raised. The next
a paper's call her a breach blond extensis. Everything I'd
ever said about dames and knocked off. Their boyfriend turned
up and smashed.

Speaker 55 (03:47:14):
Me right in U face in the apartment that decided
she was guilty. Even even Jack Susan, my boss and
my friend.

Speaker 21 (03:47:20):
Even Jock had decided.

Speaker 41 (03:47:21):
He said so right in his office.

Speaker 21 (03:47:24):
He said, so.

Speaker 41 (03:47:28):
It was real bad day, real bad jock.

Speaker 55 (03:47:31):
Jock.

Speaker 41 (03:47:32):
You know Mary, you know she couldn't.

Speaker 55 (03:47:33):
It's just possible. She couldn't do a thing right in
to day.

Speaker 41 (03:47:35):
But you can't hate this system.

Speaker 29 (03:47:37):
Everyone's leaned backwards all down the line, trying to help
you out, but they all come out with the same man.

Speaker 41 (03:47:43):
Did you check the towel after she was picking? No narcotics,
but plenty of whiskeys.

Speaker 29 (03:47:47):
She was clashed and then somebody poured it down us
thro Look, she doesn't drink hardly, even a high ball,
and then only when she's with me.

Speaker 53 (03:47:54):
What do you want me to say, Dames, I'm just
telling you the fact.

Speaker 11 (03:47:58):
What about the.

Speaker 41 (03:47:58):
Bruise on her head? You still think she was slugged.

Speaker 53 (03:48:01):
I only know she did not pass out from drinking bourbon?

Speaker 41 (03:48:04):
Then the medical boys are wrong.

Speaker 29 (03:48:06):
They got a specialist from Mercy Hospital examine her head.
He found the bruise, the inturn lists skin isn't broken,
it's like to be no swellings. Doc thought it was
sumpas he'd done herself on a door, r on the
arm butt and she blacked out.

Speaker 55 (03:48:19):
Plenty of people have I did him A specific guy.
I hit the base.

Speaker 41 (03:48:22):
The next thing I knew I was in a field.

Speaker 55 (03:48:23):
Hospital, maybe in a battle.

Speaker 41 (03:48:26):
I'm sorry, David, it looks real bad.

Speaker 55 (03:48:28):
You better get a smart lawyer.

Speaker 41 (03:48:30):
Oh, Josh Jock. It's wrong, don't you know? It's wrong?

Speaker 29 (03:48:33):
As everything points to the fact that Hamilton was saying
a social cause.

Speaker 41 (03:48:37):
Now he was delivering a vacuum clean aware is it?
But killer took it?

Speaker 21 (03:48:40):
Why?

Speaker 55 (03:48:41):
Why killed for a thirty nine to ninety five vacuum?

Speaker 53 (03:48:44):
I don't know, but there's an answer somewhere.

Speaker 75 (03:48:46):
And this five dollar deposit and we've been all over
the house looking for that receipt.

Speaker 55 (03:48:51):
People whose receipt, Yeah, yeah, they do.

Speaker 41 (03:48:54):
She didn't kill Hamilton.

Speaker 53 (03:48:56):
I know what's going on here. The department's embarrassed, embarrassed
because the wife of the department man is in a
tough spot. They're afraid of the paper. I should not
get it over with, and let's forget about the whole thing.

Speaker 41 (03:49:05):
I will look, I quit, take your page.

Speaker 75 (03:49:08):
And go to the down day.

Speaker 41 (03:49:09):
They take it easy.

Speaker 53 (03:49:10):
I don't want your bags, but you just can't work
on this case.

Speaker 55 (03:49:13):
To see why, I might just store I have little.

Speaker 29 (03:49:16):
Dave were As far as I'm concerned, you're working on
that guy who knocks over those services. I remember who's
been into trouble on this ownre you I'll have to
the newspapers haven found.

Speaker 55 (03:49:27):
Out you're working on your wife's murder.

Speaker 75 (03:49:29):
Rap, they'd have my shirt.

Speaker 55 (03:49:30):
So take it easy that I've arranged for bails.

Speaker 41 (03:49:35):
She'll be out the morning. Can I go see your
two a day's.

Speaker 55 (03:49:39):
Shore, But remember keep out of trouble.

Speaker 53 (03:49:42):
Oh take it easy, honey, you'll be out in the morning.
I got the bails.

Speaker 41 (03:49:58):
Please Base, please, please, It's gonna be all right.

Speaker 27 (03:50:02):
What is it.

Speaker 7 (03:50:05):
I say?

Speaker 29 (03:50:05):
Won't it's really say that.

Speaker 14 (03:50:08):
I can't explain.

Speaker 19 (03:50:09):
I'm working on it.

Speaker 53 (03:50:10):
I'm leaving here to see Hambleton's landlady.

Speaker 55 (03:50:12):
He lives in a rooming house.

Speaker 7 (03:50:13):
He shies.

Speaker 55 (03:50:14):
Then I'll cover his office. There are a couple of
vacuum cleaners missing.

Speaker 29 (03:50:18):
Yeah, Hambledon had a new machine in the demonstrator, the
sales manager told Jock.

Speaker 75 (03:50:22):
Is that important?

Speaker 29 (03:50:23):
Jock doesn't see that, thinks, so says it isn't connected
with a Try finding two vacuum cleaners in the city.

Speaker 55 (03:50:29):
This size is gonna truss, but I'll figure it somehow.

Speaker 41 (03:50:32):
I'll figure it.

Speaker 55 (03:50:33):
Don't cry anymore, huh.

Speaker 53 (03:50:34):
I know you didn't kill him, even if you were
in my wife, I know you didn't kill him.

Speaker 99 (03:50:39):
Oh how can you get everybody else?

Speaker 55 (03:50:44):
When a woman sticks a knife and a man's rip.

Speaker 4 (03:50:45):
She stands there.

Speaker 55 (03:50:46):
No, no, no, it's just experiences the other harmon size.

Speaker 19 (03:50:50):
Don't worry, honeywo I'll figure I believe and I love.

Speaker 53 (03:50:56):
Just hang on to that hut.

Speaker 41 (03:50:57):
You'll be all right.

Speaker 55 (03:50:58):
He'll be out tomorrow.

Speaker 75 (03:51:00):
Do you have to go now?

Speaker 55 (03:51:02):
I gotta work coming.

Speaker 53 (03:51:03):
I gotta do a lot.

Speaker 55 (03:51:05):
And first call is that landlady where Hamilton lives.

Speaker 16 (03:51:21):
Yeah, what do you want?

Speaker 53 (03:51:22):
I'm from the police department.

Speaker 99 (03:51:23):
Lady, police paline, say from here a dozen times about
poor mister Hamilton.

Speaker 41 (03:51:27):
Well they're here again.

Speaker 99 (03:51:28):
I told him everything I know. So you guys are
too dumb to figure something out. It's plain as you
know that this baby killed him. If a day he
blenches a hey, you know what he is, I can
sut him a mile. Sit a minute, No mercy, you're
a husband. How are we being high and mighty?

Speaker 29 (03:51:47):
Look?

Speaker 55 (03:51:48):
Look, I just want to ask you a few questions.

Speaker 41 (03:51:52):
Give me a break, will you.

Speaker 99 (03:51:54):
Mister Hamilton stayed in night, he didn't drink, He never
took anybody up to his room. He paid his rent
and that's all I know.

Speaker 53 (03:52:01):
There are too clean is missing one a demonstrator. The
other one was new cleaners.

Speaker 99 (03:52:05):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 53 (03:52:06):
Hamilton had two airbrush cleaners. One was a demonstrator.

Speaker 55 (03:52:09):
I'm all one in the case. The other was a
new machine. His office doesn't know.

Speaker 41 (03:52:12):
Where they are either.

Speaker 55 (03:52:14):
I thought maybe you might have some idea.

Speaker 16 (03:52:16):
How should I know?

Speaker 99 (03:52:17):
I didn't follow him around? They said for Pate, I'm
really crazy. You want to look at his room too?

Speaker 18 (03:52:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:52:22):
Why not?

Speaker 53 (03:52:23):
It's been over It's ten times, so I'll look again.
Come on, take me up.

Speaker 27 (03:52:29):
Oh.

Speaker 53 (03:52:37):
It was call and had dirty gray hair, and I
hated her.

Speaker 41 (03:52:41):
She watched me go over Hammelton's room.

Speaker 55 (03:52:43):
There was nothing, no letters, no vacuum cleaners, no nothing.

Speaker 53 (03:52:47):
Somehow I didn't trust her.

Speaker 55 (03:52:48):
But I couldn't figure why.

Speaker 41 (03:52:50):
Finally I left.

Speaker 53 (03:52:52):
My next call was the airbrush vacuum cleaner company in
the Morgan building.

Speaker 41 (03:52:55):
The sales manager's name was Richard.

Speaker 55 (03:52:58):
All he wanted to do was the chief Everything quiet,
He said, So.

Speaker 75 (03:53:07):
This is very upsetting, mister Mercy. Ever, salesman have always
had the highest reputation for integrity and honesty.

Speaker 55 (03:53:13):
Yeah, so has my wife.

Speaker 53 (03:53:15):
Yes, yes, of course Hamilton has co cleaners, right.

Speaker 75 (03:53:18):
Yes, the demonstrator and the new machine wear are than now.
I don't nobod I don't care. This publicity is ruining
our businessmen can even get inside places anymore. For four days,
nobody's even made a demonstration.

Speaker 55 (03:53:30):
Too bad.

Speaker 41 (03:53:30):
Where's Hamilton's sales books?

Speaker 55 (03:53:31):
I don't know that either. You've got any sort of
record of his call.

Speaker 75 (03:53:34):
We have electored of every house where he gets inside
and makes the demonstration.

Speaker 53 (03:53:38):
I want a list of his demonstrations for the last
five days he worked.

Speaker 26 (03:53:41):
I have it here.

Speaker 55 (03:53:42):
The police have already been over. It is the last
three pages in this book.

Speaker 53 (03:53:50):
Why isn't my name in there?

Speaker 41 (03:53:52):
Well, mister Mercy, am on, let.

Speaker 21 (03:53:53):
Me have it.

Speaker 55 (03:53:54):
I've taken a lot of trouble.

Speaker 75 (03:53:56):
So he either didn't make a demonstration in your.

Speaker 55 (03:53:59):
House at all. Uh, well, it could have been that.

Speaker 75 (03:54:03):
What if he made a sail right away? He just
make out a sales flip in his order book and
not bother lifting one call. It's both a sale and
the demonstration.

Speaker 55 (03:54:11):
I say, there's nothing else you can tell me.

Speaker 53 (03:54:14):
No phone calls to Hamilton, nothing unusual.

Speaker 75 (03:54:16):
Sales can often get called the customers phone into service.

Speaker 55 (03:54:20):
I can't remember anything unusual.

Speaker 41 (03:54:23):
Several people have been phoning.

Speaker 75 (03:54:24):
Since mister Hamilton's murder accidents. Several people have been into the.

Speaker 55 (03:54:29):
Office about him. If you get me a list, there
isn't a list.

Speaker 53 (03:54:32):
Okay, I'm gonna check his call for the last five
days he worked.

Speaker 75 (03:54:35):
I just hope this can get off page one.

Speaker 55 (03:54:37):
That's all.

Speaker 75 (03:54:38):
It's ruining business.

Speaker 55 (03:54:39):
Yeah, it's ruining a lot of things, mister Richards, A
lot of things.

Speaker 41 (03:54:53):
I started in making his call. The last five days.

Speaker 55 (03:54:56):
He's been on Van Duren.

Speaker 41 (03:54:57):
Street, and believe me, that's a law on the street.
Can I interest you on a vacuum cleaner?

Speaker 29 (03:55:02):
Ladies?

Speaker 41 (03:55:03):
The old colored.

Speaker 53 (03:55:04):
Cried doorbell after the door bell, after door bells.

Speaker 15 (03:55:13):
I'm from the police.

Speaker 29 (03:55:14):
We're checking on a man who called here to sell
you a vacuum cleaner, over and over and over again
and nothing. House wide maid kids, old men, old ladies, nuts.
And I came to the forty house on Hamilton's list,

(03:55:35):
a big place that had seen better day.

Speaker 53 (03:55:38):
I leaned on the doorbell, and finally the door opened.

Speaker 29 (03:55:41):
The guy was nervous, A called pretty boy in a
two hundred bucks shut. I couldn't figure why, he says.
We just stood there on the doorsteps looking at each other.

Speaker 53 (03:55:57):
I don't understand what it is you want.

Speaker 29 (03:55:59):
Look, miss, we're checking a little guy who sold vack
him for me. He rang your door bell, along with
a lot of others.

Speaker 41 (03:56:05):
He got himself killed. You see, we look into things
like that. He was still a nice in his rib.

Speaker 4 (03:56:13):
I remember him.

Speaker 41 (03:56:15):
He woke up my aunt ringing the doorbell.

Speaker 29 (03:56:17):
I told him often sent him away.

Speaker 4 (03:56:18):
He didn't get inside.

Speaker 15 (03:56:19):
Oh no, no he didn't.

Speaker 19 (03:56:21):
That's funny, funny.

Speaker 7 (03:56:23):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 29 (03:56:24):
He made a list of every house where he gave
a demonstration.

Speaker 4 (03:56:27):
Four houses on the list.

Speaker 7 (03:56:29):
Well, there must be some mistakes that he made, mistakes about.

Speaker 4 (03:56:31):
His other demonstrations.

Speaker 18 (03:56:32):
What do you mean?

Speaker 4 (03:56:34):
Is your throat dried up?

Speaker 7 (03:56:36):
Say? What is this? What are you trying to do?

Speaker 4 (03:56:38):
Nothing?

Speaker 29 (03:56:38):
But a thousand years ago they hang guys who couldn't spit.

Speaker 4 (03:56:40):
I think you're lion. But I can check it with
the neighbors.

Speaker 41 (03:56:44):
People see things.

Speaker 4 (03:56:46):
I'll find somebody who saw him go into your house.

Speaker 22 (03:56:49):
Well, yes, yes, he.

Speaker 51 (03:56:52):
Was in fine.

Speaker 27 (03:56:52):
Then why the runner around?

Speaker 4 (03:56:53):
Well, my aunt's very sick and very old.

Speaker 29 (03:56:57):
I thought you might want to question her, and I
didn't want you to stir.

Speaker 4 (03:57:00):
I thought you might just go away. I think i'll
talk to your aunt.

Speaker 7 (03:57:04):
Oh please, she's not well at all.

Speaker 4 (03:57:06):
She's smile.

Speaker 29 (03:57:08):
You upset her if you're trying to cross examine.

Speaker 3 (03:57:10):
Mister.

Speaker 4 (03:57:10):
I may look tough, but I can be very gentle
with sick old ladies.

Speaker 36 (03:57:29):
Dad, it's half past three, really coming up to the housework.

Speaker 4 (03:57:32):
Keep you He'll be here, honey. I didn't want to
talk at the office. I'm not supposed to be working
on a case.

Speaker 14 (03:57:37):
Oh, honey, you look so tired. You want out?

Speaker 36 (03:57:40):
A that's just now.

Speaker 4 (03:57:43):
I'll go.

Speaker 36 (03:57:44):
Shall I make something?

Speaker 7 (03:57:45):
No, no, we'll keep the liquor out of sight. Hi, Dave,
come in, Jack, Sorry, I'm lee Ah, that's all right.

Speaker 4 (03:57:53):
Come on in and sit down.

Speaker 53 (03:57:55):
Jack.

Speaker 36 (03:57:55):
I'm glad you got here.

Speaker 29 (03:57:57):
How are you?

Speaker 4 (03:57:58):
Hell Mary, I'm fine, Thanks Jack. I've spotted something.

Speaker 29 (03:58:03):
Yeah, yeah, I've been checking all the calls Hambling made
in the last five days. I got into a big
house on Van Buren Street. Big place used to have dough.
Guy named Dolf. Harold Dove keeps house for his aunt.
Her name's Stone, Miss Allie Stone.

Speaker 4 (03:58:18):
Ever hear of her?

Speaker 41 (03:58:19):
Don't think so?

Speaker 4 (03:58:20):
They used to have dough.

Speaker 7 (03:58:21):
Now they broke.

Speaker 29 (03:58:22):
The ant's about seventy sits in a wheelchair, won't talk.
I think she's got a skin full of dope.

Speaker 4 (03:58:28):
Chuck. I had trouble get nim Alf tried to give
me the run around.

Speaker 53 (03:58:33):
When I got in.

Speaker 4 (03:58:33):
The old lady just sat there and wouldn't speak.

Speaker 29 (03:58:36):
Dolf says she's a bit off, but I think she
was afraid to talk in front of him. So so
I want to get into the house when Dolf isn't
there and have a talk with the old lady.

Speaker 68 (03:58:47):
Why I can smell something.

Speaker 29 (03:58:48):
Dolf's wearing two hundred bucks suits, and the grass and
the lawn hasn't been cut all summer. He's greedy and
he's hired up. I think he's trying to kill his act.
A guy that will torture old ladies will kill.

Speaker 7 (03:58:58):
But Davy, you've got nothing to go on.

Speaker 4 (03:58:59):
Nothing I know. I know, but it's a hunch, and
there's some connection. I'm sure of it. I don't see it.

Speaker 7 (03:59:04):
Maybe the old lady's in pain, Maybe she has to
take dope.

Speaker 4 (03:59:06):
There's any one of a hundred reasons.

Speaker 29 (03:59:08):
Why Look, well, you put somebody to watch the house.
If Tall and Pretty goes out, I want him tail
and I want to be phoned. Why I want to
talk to the old lady alone. You mean breaking if necessarily, Jock.

Speaker 14 (03:59:20):
Why can't you give us a break.

Speaker 29 (03:59:21):
Because I have a wife and three kids and I
need my job married.

Speaker 39 (03:59:24):
I know what you're thinking, Jock.

Speaker 99 (03:59:25):
Yes, yes, I was a dancer.

Speaker 69 (03:59:27):
I danced a nightclub.

Speaker 72 (03:59:28):
Have dave how long it took him to get a date?

Speaker 26 (03:59:30):
Quarry?

Speaker 4 (03:59:30):
I know, I know.

Speaker 16 (03:59:31):
I don't bleach my hair.

Speaker 29 (03:59:32):
I pleach it a little because it's so fair. Anyway,
does that make me a trail?

Speaker 33 (03:59:35):
Clearly?

Speaker 29 (03:59:36):
Every man in the department has been in this house.

Speaker 15 (03:59:37):
They know me.

Speaker 29 (03:59:38):
They're supposed to.

Speaker 16 (03:59:38):
Be a fan.

Speaker 4 (03:59:39):
Very please, I know how you feel.

Speaker 26 (03:59:42):
It's the system.

Speaker 29 (03:59:43):
The system has got us licked, our fair time friend.

Speaker 4 (03:59:46):
Don't believe her. What's true, isn't it?

Speaker 21 (03:59:48):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (03:59:50):
Okay, I'll put a man in.

Speaker 29 (03:59:51):
The house, But if you get caught, I'll nail you.

Speaker 4 (03:59:54):
That old lady makes a scene.

Speaker 1 (03:59:55):
If anything happens, i'll sway you had no orders for me,
that you were acting on your own.

Speaker 4 (04:00:00):
I'll take that risk.

Speaker 29 (04:00:08):
Jock said. Two men to watch the house on Van
Buren Street. Late the next afternoon, Tall and Pretty came
out and hailed a cab.

Speaker 4 (04:00:15):
One of the men followed him.

Speaker 29 (04:00:17):
The other beat it for a phone and telephoned Jock,
and jockphoned me, and I went over. The old girl
wouldn't or couldn't come to the door, so I broke
in a back window.

Speaker 4 (04:00:28):
I tiptoed to the living room door and picked in.

Speaker 29 (04:00:33):
She was sitting in a wheelchair by the window. When
she looked up and saw me, her eyes went wide
with terror. A tiny, delicate old lady in a wheelchair.
She whimpered with fright when I came over and took
her hand. Look, look, auntie, I'm your friend.

Speaker 4 (04:00:54):
I'm not gonna hurt you. Can you talk? Can you
answer me?

Speaker 29 (04:01:01):
Bye? Bye?

Speaker 3 (04:01:01):
Bye?

Speaker 41 (04:01:02):
Nodding?

Speaker 4 (04:01:03):
Uh? Oh, come on, please none it, don't be afraid. Look,
I'm in trouble.

Speaker 29 (04:01:07):
See they think that my wife killed that little man
who came here to sell vacuum cleaners.

Speaker 4 (04:01:13):
Do you remember him?

Speaker 14 (04:01:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (04:01:17):
You do? Well?

Speaker 4 (04:01:18):
Can you tell me anything about him?

Speaker 7 (04:01:19):
Anything at all?

Speaker 4 (04:01:23):
Honey? I don't get it. Are you being kept in
this house against your will? Does does does that mean? Yes?

Speaker 55 (04:01:30):
Huh?

Speaker 4 (04:01:32):
You are? Does it give you a stuff? Does it
give you a dope?

Speaker 21 (04:01:36):
He does?

Speaker 7 (04:01:37):
Well?

Speaker 4 (04:01:38):
What do you want to get out of here.

Speaker 3 (04:01:40):
Well, i'll take it.

Speaker 4 (04:01:41):
I'll take it. I've got my car outside.

Speaker 7 (04:01:46):
Rings.

Speaker 4 (04:01:47):
Oh, I just don't understand it.

Speaker 23 (04:01:49):
Why do you cheap?

Speaker 4 (04:01:50):
What are your fingers?

Speaker 15 (04:01:53):
Three?

Speaker 7 (04:01:57):
That's you?

Speaker 4 (04:01:59):
Yeah, the rings are in the vacuum cleaner. Oh honey, honey, honey,
God bless you, God bless you.

Speaker 29 (04:02:05):
Have to stay in this house one more day. I
can't take with me now a pretty boy, catch on.
But we'll get them, don't you worry?

Speaker 4 (04:02:11):
Is there a picture of them anyway?

Speaker 15 (04:02:14):
Yes, I.

Speaker 4 (04:02:19):
Get it.

Speaker 29 (04:02:19):
Look, I'm gonna take it, and don't you worry, honey,
I'll be back tomorrow. I was so excited, I was shaking.
Everything was starting to fit in the place. I made
a quick search of the house, but there.

Speaker 4 (04:02:36):
Was no cleaner there.

Speaker 27 (04:02:37):
That made me glad.

Speaker 29 (04:02:39):
It meant he still hadn't got the rings back. Now
I could see the whole picture, Golf waiting for the
old lady to die, pushing her towards death, keeping a dope.
She hating him, knowing he was waiting for those rings,
so she decided to beat them to it. She dropped
them on the carpet in that dark, old room. The
vacuum cleaner sucked them up Hamilton finishes them cration left

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no sail. Then Dolf missed the rings from his aunt's
hands and did a tailspin.

Speaker 4 (04:03:05):
He must have been.

Speaker 29 (04:03:06):
Afraid to go to the airbrush company, afraid to talk
too much, for fear his aunt would have to identify
the rings and people would find out he was persecuting
an old lady. So he started tailing Hamilton, and he
tailed him right up to our house, right till Mary.
I was so excited I went through three red lights
on the way home.

Speaker 33 (04:03:24):
Oh, Mary, Marry, is it's only true?

Speaker 36 (04:03:29):
Is it only true?

Speaker 4 (04:03:29):
Look, I've got a picture of Dolf.

Speaker 29 (04:03:31):
If Richard's can identify him as one of other people
who in quiet about Hamilton within the last week.

Speaker 4 (04:03:35):
We're hot, really hot.

Speaker 36 (04:03:37):
It's gotta be right, you've got.

Speaker 4 (04:03:38):
We'll nail him right to the world.

Speaker 93 (04:03:41):
Any good work, is it?

Speaker 3 (04:03:43):
You bet it is.

Speaker 4 (04:03:44):
Dolf is afraid to come right out and say the
rings are missing.

Speaker 29 (04:03:47):
Afraid, sure, afraid they'd find out he was slowly killing
his aunt with dope.

Speaker 4 (04:03:51):
So he followed Hamilton, getting more frighten all the time.
It clicks, It clicks all the way down the line.
See that's the way it works on me. One piece
of the time.

Speaker 29 (04:04:00):
Suddenly the puzzle isn't a puzzle anymore.

Speaker 4 (04:04:02):
Dolf was afraid the cleaner would be emptied.

Speaker 29 (04:04:05):
He got hysterical thinking about those rings dumped in somebody's garbage.

Speaker 4 (04:04:08):
Oh, Honey, I'm so excited. I can't sit side and
do it. I knew it, can't You see what happened then, Mary,
It's like a mirror. He followed Hammlon. He followed hammeling.

Speaker 29 (04:04:18):
Here he sneaked in the back way through the kitchen.

Speaker 4 (04:04:22):
He can hear what's going on. See, this is a sailor.

Speaker 29 (04:04:25):
This is goodbye cleaner, goodbye rings, goodbye everything.

Speaker 68 (04:04:27):
So he gets panicky.

Speaker 4 (04:04:29):
He's got to get that cleaner back. He picks up
a bread knife. You go for your purse and he
slaps you when you past the kitchen door.

Speaker 14 (04:04:37):
I knew it. Everything gets went back and handle the meat.

Speaker 29 (04:04:40):
Little salesman charges out to help, charges straight into twelve inches.

Speaker 4 (04:04:44):
Of bread knife.

Speaker 36 (04:04:45):
If you can prove it, if you can only throw.

Speaker 4 (04:04:47):
Him, then cover up the cover up.

Speaker 29 (04:04:49):
He puts handled in the in the red chair, pours
half a quarter of bourbon down your throat. Honey, slings
you onto the couch, smears your lipstick and handling's. It
sits all away now now, if I can only get
hold of those cleaners somewhere there are two vacuum cleaner's
covered with Dal's fingerprints.

Speaker 4 (04:05:05):
If I can get what he got the wrong cleaner.

Speaker 29 (04:05:11):
What do you mean there were two cleaners to clean
a new one in a demonstrator. The rings are in
the demonstrator. Hamilton brought you a new clean go old pleady.

Speaker 55 (04:05:20):
I'm getting hot on this.

Speaker 4 (04:05:20):
Listen.

Speaker 29 (04:05:21):
The rings would be in the demonstrator. Don't you see
pretty boy swipe the wrong cleaner. That means he still
hasn't got the rings back.

Speaker 4 (04:05:27):
There's no vacuum cleaner in his house. I looked, Oh, honey,
I'm hot on this. I gotta go now quick.

Speaker 14 (04:05:31):
I have luck day, have luck for me.

Speaker 4 (04:05:33):
I'll have luck, Honey, we'll win this.

Speaker 18 (04:05:39):
He yet.

Speaker 29 (04:05:47):
My head was going like a hammer. I phoned Jack.
He told me that, well, I've been talking to the
old lady.

Speaker 64 (04:05:51):
His man a tail.

Speaker 29 (04:05:52):
Pretty boy to the airbrush vacum pleanter company.

Speaker 4 (04:05:54):
There he asked for Hamblin's a rings.

Speaker 29 (04:05:56):
I went up to the airbrush, placed myself and checked
that Richard's identified down by a picture i'd swipe. Dolf
had just left, just left after getting Hamlin's address. He
still didn't have the rings. He still didn't have the cleaner.
Then then the last thing fell in the place. I
got so excited. I was sick that lamb lady, that dirty,
greasy head landlady that held out on me. Hell out

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on a beaten up old vacuum cleaner.

Speaker 36 (04:06:24):
Are you here again?

Speaker 24 (04:06:25):
What's the matter?

Speaker 29 (04:06:25):
Can't you leave me alone?

Speaker 4 (04:06:27):
Where is it? Where's what that cleaner?

Speaker 18 (04:06:29):
Are you crazy?

Speaker 36 (04:06:31):
Listen?

Speaker 15 (04:06:31):
You get out of here on yell for help, No,
wipe off.

Speaker 4 (04:06:34):
Don't know where it is.

Speaker 55 (04:06:35):
I'll break your up. I'll just break it.

Speaker 4 (04:06:37):
So help me, I'll pull it out of the socket.

Speaker 31 (04:06:39):
Now where is it?

Speaker 4 (04:06:40):
Where is it? I don't know this Hamilton had to
clean No one I don't care about.

Speaker 29 (04:06:45):
We'll find that later.

Speaker 4 (04:06:46):
But you swipe the demons. It's either you or the nephew.

Speaker 29 (04:06:50):
He hasn't got it because he wasn't asking for the
sad dress in Hamblin's office less than half an hour ago.

Speaker 27 (04:06:54):
No, come on, ye.

Speaker 41 (04:07:00):
There, yeah, yeah, this is it man, we.

Speaker 21 (04:07:08):
Paybe This is it?

Speaker 4 (04:07:12):
Empty? It empty the bag?

Speaker 29 (04:07:15):
Look, you don't have to pull a donne isn't for you.

Speaker 4 (04:07:18):
Come on, that's a newspaper.

Speaker 55 (04:07:20):
Spread it out.

Speaker 68 (04:07:21):
Yeah, hurry, I am, I am, impty the bag, come on,
step on it.

Speaker 4 (04:07:30):
Shake it harder, don't get so.

Speaker 29 (04:07:31):
I'm doing the best.

Speaker 33 (04:07:32):
I can't shake it harder.

Speaker 11 (04:07:34):
Yeah, that's it. That's it.

Speaker 9 (04:07:41):
He ring.

Speaker 33 (04:07:43):
Horrible hemoral look at Simonds and.

Speaker 21 (04:07:48):
Yeah four from the Papa.

Speaker 51 (04:07:53):
Look, I didn't know that was ringing.

Speaker 29 (04:07:54):
The try to steal a demi and you can keep
the crew?

Speaker 15 (04:08:02):
Will I answer?

Speaker 4 (04:08:04):
Yeah, I'll be behind my door.

Speaker 7 (04:08:08):
Just ask him in.

Speaker 4 (04:08:10):
That's all you have to do.

Speaker 33 (04:08:12):
Okay, okay, I'm from the airbrush company.

Speaker 29 (04:08:19):
Mister Hamilton has a cleaner here, hap me to pick
it up?

Speaker 39 (04:08:24):
Come in, it's here?

Speaker 41 (04:08:25):
Thank you?

Speaker 33 (04:08:30):
Are you open?

Speaker 55 (04:08:31):
What's going on here?

Speaker 35 (04:08:34):
Hello?

Speaker 18 (04:08:35):
Pretty boy?

Speaker 4 (04:08:37):
Looking for something? O?

Speaker 63 (04:09:30):
This is Mersa McLoud, the man with the story. In
the stillness of the night, the sound of the door
buzzer seemed strident and demanding. There was a pause, then
it rang again.

Speaker 27 (04:09:48):
Tony, Tonny, wake up someone.

Speaker 71 (04:09:51):
At the door, Tonny shall, I answered, dear, all right,
I'm coming, I'm coming.

Speaker 64 (04:10:23):
Where is he?

Speaker 63 (04:10:24):
Who don't stole sister loope? There's blood on the doorsteps.
He came in here.

Speaker 71 (04:10:29):
There's no one here, and I'm.

Speaker 14 (04:10:30):
Going to close the door. Give me an.

Speaker 15 (04:10:36):
Why did you come in.

Speaker 89 (04:10:37):
Here like this?

Speaker 63 (04:10:40):
Another squawk out of you and I'll slap your silly Okay, Joe,
I'll set the place.

Speaker 7 (04:10:54):
Well.

Speaker 27 (04:10:55):
I'll tell you of this midnight encounter in just a moment.

Speaker 7 (04:10:59):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 27 (04:12:11):
Blood on the doorstep.

Speaker 14 (04:12:20):
Who's there?

Speaker 27 (04:12:23):
Sheila sat up in bed. She listened.

Speaker 63 (04:12:28):
Moonlight poured in through the open window, bathing her bare
shoulders and rippling jet black hair with a silvery glow.
Holding her breath, she listened. Sheila's heart pounded madly. Except
for this intruder, she was alone in the house. Her

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mother and dad were away on their vacation. Again, there
was a slight noise, this time from the stairs.

Speaker 27 (04:12:57):
She watched the door of her room with dull terror.

Speaker 63 (04:13:01):
For the first time in her life, she wished the
family hadn't bought this lonely house time by the lake.
What good was a lovely garden and the cool lake
breeze if one were going to be murdered? Sheila opened
her mouth to scream and found she couldn't utter a sound.
And now the door opened. Who the moonlight illuminated a disheveled,

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swing grim faced young man in a stained white shirt
and dark trousers.

Speaker 27 (04:13:31):
Sheila, Sheila, I, Tonny, tell me what is it?

Speaker 24 (04:13:40):
Tony?

Speaker 27 (04:13:42):
Sheila? I'm sorry I.

Speaker 7 (04:13:47):
Had to come here.

Speaker 26 (04:13:49):
Tony.

Speaker 71 (04:13:49):
What happened?

Speaker 27 (04:13:51):
I I've been shot.

Speaker 63 (04:14:00):
Sheila ran into the bathroom and returned with I diamond bandages,
the wildering thoughts racing through her head.

Speaker 27 (04:14:06):
What was her fiance running away from?

Speaker 7 (04:14:08):
And what's this?

Speaker 63 (04:14:09):
What was Tommy, the quiet, friendly chief designer of space
aircraft doing with a gun under his arm? She smoothed
down the last piece of adhesive tape, decided that the
bleeding had stopped, and started for the telephone to call
the police. But wait, suppose Tommy was running away from
the police. She shuddered and slipped on a negligey What

(04:14:32):
should she do?

Speaker 33 (04:14:39):
Tommy?

Speaker 27 (04:14:40):
Tommy?

Speaker 39 (04:14:41):
Wake up the thumb at the door?

Speaker 14 (04:14:43):
Tommy?

Speaker 71 (04:14:46):
Should I answered?

Speaker 27 (04:14:51):
All right?

Speaker 70 (04:14:58):
Just a moment, h.

Speaker 64 (04:15:09):
Where is he?

Speaker 63 (04:15:10):
Don't star system? Look, there's blood on the doorstair.

Speaker 64 (04:15:13):
He came in here.

Speaker 71 (04:15:14):
There's no one here, And I'm going to close the door.

Speaker 21 (04:15:21):
Right after the.

Speaker 27 (04:15:21):
Break in here like this.

Speaker 63 (04:15:24):
And I'll squall out of here and I'll slip your
silly okay, Joe sets the place.

Speaker 64 (04:15:32):
Now you in there, go on now, switch on the light,
and I sit down. You care. When we get this guy,
we'll clear out of here and you can go back
to bed.

Speaker 63 (04:15:57):
H This part of the forest, chance looks like the
days patching him up the nonsense. Go where I can
find him if he make some move.

Speaker 21 (04:16:07):
Shoot.

Speaker 63 (04:16:09):
Okay, so you're in on this too.

Speaker 64 (04:16:15):
What do you mean where.

Speaker 25 (04:16:17):
Him?

Speaker 9 (04:16:19):
We don't get him.

Speaker 4 (04:16:21):
You're here cold?

Speaker 41 (04:16:24):
All right?

Speaker 63 (04:16:24):
God, drag him down here, No, he's bad, Bring him down, Joe. Okay,
we're getting somewhere.

Speaker 16 (04:16:39):
You killing Dan like this?

Speaker 64 (04:16:40):
What we want them?

Speaker 63 (04:16:42):
Drawings?

Speaker 7 (04:16:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (04:16:46):
Here we are, boss, all right?

Speaker 7 (04:16:48):
Set him?

Speaker 21 (04:16:49):
I heard Boss.

Speaker 63 (04:16:50):
They're not holding I got his gun though.

Speaker 21 (04:16:52):
He must have given them to the dame.

Speaker 64 (04:16:54):
Yeah that's what I've been wondering.

Speaker 63 (04:16:58):
Look, Babe, you them drawings and we'll scram out of here.

Speaker 71 (04:17:03):
But I don't know anything about them.

Speaker 63 (04:17:08):
Probably they have climbed it upstairs. Joe, turn a rome
inside and out. You'd save yourself a lot of grief
if you're telling us where they're hidden. Your friend here
will probably com out if he doesn't get to a hospital.

Speaker 64 (04:17:23):
So how about it?

Speaker 71 (04:17:25):
What makes you think he carries his things around in
his pocket? They locked their drawings up in the vault
at the plant.

Speaker 63 (04:17:32):
He's been working on this design at home in the evenings.
He was working on tonight when we called on him. Unfortunately,
he slipped through our fingers and took the drawings with him.

Speaker 27 (04:17:42):
Where did he put them?

Speaker 99 (04:17:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 63 (04:17:46):
When he regains consciousness, I'm afraid we might have to
hurt you a bit.

Speaker 64 (04:17:51):
He'll force him to be.

Speaker 63 (04:17:53):
Reasonable, providing of course, that Joe doesn't locate him as
much time.

Speaker 70 (04:18:02):
What are you going to do, well, we might have
to cut.

Speaker 27 (04:18:05):
Your pretty face up a bit with a pen knife.

Speaker 64 (04:18:08):
That should arouse if chivalry, don't you think?

Speaker 63 (04:18:11):
How are you making out?

Speaker 77 (04:18:12):
Joe?

Speaker 18 (04:18:15):
And that's what I thought?

Speaker 63 (04:18:17):
Oh, your friend looks like he's coming to I want
to see the knife.

Speaker 41 (04:18:26):
There it is.

Speaker 64 (04:18:29):
Yep.

Speaker 63 (04:18:30):
I guess we wasted enough time, all right, sister, Come on, no, no,
this is mussa McLoud again, and I'll be back to
tell you the rest in just a moment. Now back

(04:20:16):
to Sheila, Doc and the unconscious Tommy.

Speaker 27 (04:20:19):
Sprawled on the floor.

Speaker 63 (04:20:24):
Sheila shuddered, Then she tensed had Tommy moved. She tried
hard not to look directly at him. Lett Doc notice too, Yes,
he had shifted his arms slightly. Then he sighed. Doc
turned and met over him. Gun poised, Sheila stealthily reached
out and picked up a heavy bronze book, and she

(04:20:46):
sprang to her feet and crashed it down on Doc's head.

Speaker 27 (04:20:49):
He sank to his knees in a limp. Heap had
a girl, Sheila, Tommy got you, dish. I'm just a
bit glocky, that's all.

Speaker 63 (04:21:01):
And that smoothie held you in front of him. I
didn't know what to do, so I pretended to faint.
It seemed to take care of things for the moment.
Got It was mighty hard to keep still when he
was pushing you around, a crack about cutting you upright
with me?

Speaker 4 (04:21:14):
Too much?

Speaker 27 (04:21:17):
Pass me that bronze book, and.

Speaker 16 (04:21:20):
I don't, oh.

Speaker 27 (04:21:25):
A pretend, doug. He's giving her the works. Eh, I'll
make slaps.

Speaker 14 (04:21:31):
Ohmen, you hear me?

Speaker 27 (04:21:42):
Oh boy, well that's that now for the police.

Speaker 63 (04:21:55):
You know, she when we get married, there will be
no heavy objects around me. You aim too straight for
the woman. Oh hello, please Russian ambulance and the doctor
as well as a squad car over to the hall
residents out of the turnpike.

Speaker 4 (04:22:09):
All right.

Speaker 71 (04:22:12):
To me, I thought we'd never get out of this.

Speaker 27 (04:22:15):
That's thanks to you.

Speaker 9 (04:22:16):
Here.

Speaker 39 (04:22:17):
Tell me what about that drawing?

Speaker 63 (04:22:21):
I hit them under one of the flag stones at
the front door, one of the flagstones.

Speaker 27 (04:22:26):
Yes, I know which one, because I dripped some blood
on it.

Speaker 14 (04:22:43):
Well is the well mercer?

Speaker 70 (04:22:45):
What about those drawings?

Speaker 27 (04:22:48):
I didn't know that I could draw?

Speaker 71 (04:22:49):
Or you can draw yoursel.

Speaker 27 (04:22:52):
Pretty as a picture, aren't you.

Speaker 71 (04:22:54):
I'm not as bad as I'm painted.

Speaker 63 (04:22:57):
Again, Well, there's always friends. All cats were payed by
Rita and myself. And as Rita says, good man, I say,
I'll be telling you another soon. This is yours, truly
mess him the cloud, the man with the story.

Speaker 3 (04:23:25):
Truth is stranger the fiction.

Speaker 27 (04:23:28):
This is the truth.

Speaker 3 (04:23:29):
This is ripley, sir, believe it or not.

Speaker 100 (04:23:37):
George Bothwell of Clintonville, Wisconsin sold his car, and two
months later, as it was being tought away, it broke
loose careen down the street and crashed into his store.

Speaker 18 (04:23:48):
They leave it or not.

Speaker 100 (04:23:50):
In a moment, I'll tell you about an odd place
to live. Aukmann, a poor foundling of Lahore, Pakistan, lived
for sixty two years years upon the marble steps of
the Mosque of Busier.

Speaker 5 (04:24:03):
Khan in Lahore.

Speaker 100 (04:24:04):
He was abandoned there by his parents at age five,
and from then on the marble steps were the only
home he knew. Supported by the charity of pious visitors,
he lived ate and slept there in all kinds of weather,
never leaving until he died at the age of sixty seven.

Speaker 7 (04:24:20):
They leave it or not, The.

Speaker 1 (04:24:26):
National Broadcasting Company presents the Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.

Speaker 69 (04:24:40):
Sam Say Detective Agency.

Speaker 39 (04:24:42):
This is Missus Bergemov.

Speaker 70 (04:24:43):
Oh, miss Bergmann.

Speaker 16 (04:24:44):
I'm so sorry, kem.

Speaker 92 (04:24:45):
Let's just state, isn't in He ought to be back
any moment, however, that is if you wish to imply him.

Speaker 36 (04:24:50):
This is a secretary of the Spree.

Speaker 69 (04:24:52):
Well, it's act miss Pin.

Speaker 72 (04:24:53):
You'll be available.

Speaker 69 (04:24:54):
I know the matter he's attending to is that it's
just it's purely routine.

Speaker 36 (04:24:58):
What he calls a humgum number hundred.

Speaker 92 (04:25:01):
Well, if the private detective version of babysitting, all Missus
Bade had to do was sit on.

Speaker 69 (04:25:05):
A chair for twenty four hours. And that's why I
say you'll be back any minutes.

Speaker 36 (04:25:09):
His last words to me will.

Speaker 92 (04:25:10):
Take anything, so if he desires nervy me.

Speaker 69 (04:25:13):
And I do not desire Missus Spade's services.

Speaker 29 (04:25:15):
As a matter of fact, he's using mine.

Speaker 69 (04:25:17):
I'm his nurse at the Harbor Emergency Hospital.

Speaker 18 (04:25:20):
Nurse another shot please this time.

Speaker 69 (04:25:23):
Oh, he's coming along quite nicely. The bullet didn't ender
the crimium at all.

Speaker 3 (04:25:29):
Bullet cramy.

Speaker 99 (04:25:31):
Missus Staide wants to but I refuse.

Speaker 18 (04:25:33):
Nurse, I refuse.

Speaker 30 (04:25:35):
But Missus Nightingale, I am fab wonder girl. Oh why
those big brown eyes jerub PLoP up the sofa and
spread out some laugh for me to lay my poor
bullet written head on and practically no time at all.
I'll I'll be staggering in the gas by the humdrum
report on the Kimberly Cross Caper for n DC, William Spear,

(04:26:03):
Radio's outstanding producer director of mystery and crime Drama brings
you the greatest private detective of them all in the
Adventures of Sam's Bay.

Speaker 19 (04:26:16):
Hospitals.

Speaker 1 (04:26:17):
Mill have to break down your whole constitution, give you fits.

Speaker 7 (04:26:25):
Ah else.

Speaker 36 (04:26:30):
He looks like a drummer man in a spirit of
seventy six.

Speaker 1 (04:26:32):
Nothing nothing, nothing as you know, angel no professions without
its hazards, least of all this caldary one of ours?

Speaker 7 (04:26:41):
Pass?

Speaker 1 (04:26:43):
Now, may I put my poor wounded head in your lap?

Speaker 3 (04:26:49):
Company?

Speaker 18 (04:26:53):
Stupid too, honey?

Speaker 3 (04:26:54):
What's saynn A new feeling I do?

Speaker 11 (04:26:58):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (04:27:00):
Yeah? They fill it into GJ.

Speaker 1 (04:27:03):
Runcible claims Manager Sunset, an indemnity company from Samuel Spade,
license number one three, seven, five, nine six, subject the
Kimberly Cross Caper. Dear, mister Runcible, it's just as well
for private investigators that we have no way of knowing
by the way a job starts, how it's going to end.

(04:27:24):
I remember once I went beating the bushes for a
mad dog killer and ended up playing monopoly with him
in a hotel room for six hours. And I remember
two the time I agreed to take a box of
homemade candy to an old lady wound up with a
double murder.

Speaker 7 (04:27:36):
In the case of arson yours.

Speaker 1 (04:27:38):
Mister Runcible, belonged to this species.

Speaker 21 (04:27:42):
Spade.

Speaker 18 (04:27:42):
GJ.

Speaker 1 (04:27:43):
Runcible Sunset Indemnity You available?

Speaker 7 (04:27:45):
Maybe?

Speaker 99 (04:27:46):
Are you?

Speaker 1 (04:27:46):
Are you not available?

Speaker 7 (04:27:47):
Mister Spade?

Speaker 3 (04:27:47):
Answer yes or no?

Speaker 29 (04:27:48):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (04:27:49):
Yes? How am I fifty a day expenses?

Speaker 4 (04:27:51):
Right?

Speaker 1 (04:27:51):
I got a job boy in next twenty four hours.
All you got to do is sit on a chair
and keep your eyes on something beautiful sounds. Keen might
call it a babysitting job, She Kimberly cross pretty like
a quarter of a million dollars. Oh, Rich too, he's
on exhibit at the Bergendorf Gallery's on Sutter Street.

Speaker 7 (04:28:07):
She's on exhibit.

Speaker 1 (04:28:08):
Get over there right away. Well, I better check with
mister Bergendorf personally, and then see Johnny Stroud, our company man.

Speaker 7 (04:28:12):
He'll give you instruction.

Speaker 1 (04:28:13):
Bye, Now, why don't you tell me what word hello
Hello always happens on page six.

Speaker 31 (04:28:33):
Mister Burgendorf. Mister Bergendorf, you.

Speaker 7 (04:28:40):
Sorry, sir.

Speaker 29 (04:28:42):
The exhibit officially does not until ninety m begin as
you said.

Speaker 7 (04:28:45):
Say forty five. I don't charge you, mister Bergendorf. I
won't charge it.

Speaker 1 (04:28:48):
You can bring out the baby anytime now, mister Runcible
of the sunset and damn that he sent me here.

Speaker 7 (04:28:52):
Mike, that's you, mister Speed. You are, mister Speed.

Speaker 101 (04:28:56):
I am Oh, what's for this, Kimberly, to a single
horse gallery such as mine comes such an honor. Only
ones today, only Bergen Dogs is with Tiffany's in the
same class.

Speaker 57 (04:29:10):
Here here.

Speaker 101 (04:29:13):
His picture of Kimberly Cross. Fourteen stones, all blue, white,
eight down, six across. Total two hundred and sixty eight
thousand dollars plus twenty percent tax.

Speaker 3 (04:29:25):
Oh, jewelry.

Speaker 101 (04:29:27):
To call this jewelry is to call Elizabeth Taylor a
garden variety. Tomato is a crown jewel from Thuringia, mister Spain.
Really it's part of a state of a dead duke
is price tag two hundred and sixty eight thousand dollars plus?

Speaker 7 (04:29:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, where is it involved? Timelock comes nine
o'clock on the nose. She opens, Then the exhibit begins.

Speaker 1 (04:29:48):
Yeah, there's a company man here from the insurance offic
isn't it.

Speaker 7 (04:29:52):
Johnny Stroud? Where is it?

Speaker 101 (04:29:54):
He's working conceal this ment Stroud under cover clever stuff.
As you see a parked a curve across the street,
one out of bus.

Speaker 3 (04:30:04):
Oh oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:30:05):
Department of Public Health, City and County of San Francisco.

Speaker 101 (04:30:08):
What the antitober Culoosies campaign is giving.

Speaker 7 (04:30:13):
To public for free grants one x ray.

Speaker 101 (04:30:15):
Per citizen for chest cavity, Oh chest x ray Handerley
Parking opposite the Bergendorf Gallery, So inside, mister Stroud can
take for himself a plant again it clever, clever.

Speaker 1 (04:30:32):
The free Gratis autobus for chest X rays was a
square end job, complete with reception compartment, X ray machine
and attendem, the latter of sincere type with horn red
glasses and white starched bluffs.

Speaker 7 (04:30:44):
I use the word.

Speaker 1 (04:30:45):
Sincere advisedly, since he was at the moment doing a
selling job on Johnny Stroud.

Speaker 33 (04:30:50):
You know what I always say, Stroud?

Speaker 62 (04:30:51):
What do you always say?

Speaker 78 (04:30:52):
Job?

Speaker 53 (04:30:53):
You never can tell about a call.

Speaker 31 (04:30:54):
You'll never never see you.

Speaker 50 (04:30:57):
See right there, I got a call maybe eight to five.

Speaker 53 (04:31:00):
It's only a cold but five to eight.

Speaker 15 (04:31:03):
Let me take a picture. No charge, no pain, no dice.

Speaker 74 (04:31:07):
Go away, go away?

Speaker 15 (04:31:08):
Oh spain, yeah good, good, come on in, come on in.

Speaker 4 (04:31:11):
The boss city was sending you up front of your room?

Speaker 21 (04:31:13):
Back here.

Speaker 14 (04:31:14):
You realize you're standing right in front of my X
ray machine.

Speaker 1 (04:31:17):
We'll move when you get a customer.

Speaker 14 (04:31:18):
Oh customers, Yes, where are they? Where are those chests?
If people only knew that eight to five, it may
be a call.

Speaker 74 (04:31:26):
Yah, brief you on this space.

Speaker 7 (04:31:28):
It was brief, all right?

Speaker 21 (04:31:29):
How do you make it?

Speaker 1 (04:31:30):
Fourteen vulgar seized diamonds looking for a buyer sunset of dmnity,
insuring Bergendorf against loss during the twenty four hours.

Speaker 19 (04:31:36):
They're on his hand.

Speaker 7 (04:31:37):
That's two for you. It's two against me too.

Speaker 1 (04:31:40):
Oh my, quite a sunset indemnity. Need outside of help
when they have you? And why are you playing like
a movie dick when a sensible thing to do is
to sit down next to the exhibit with both eyes
open and a rot under your arm.

Speaker 7 (04:31:50):
What are you doing, George, I'm testing my machine.

Speaker 41 (04:31:54):
Don't interfear with you.

Speaker 7 (04:31:55):
Boy, George doesn't like me.

Speaker 3 (04:31:57):
I see that.

Speaker 67 (04:31:58):
Well.

Speaker 1 (04:31:59):
I guess the boss left out one item Sam a tip. Yeah, yeah,
last night some schmoke called him around midnight and got
him out of bed. Ohnciple is a pessimist, you know.
When the Sunset indemnities on the line for a quarter
of a million, he tends to get jumpy.

Speaker 3 (04:32:13):
Who had the tip?

Speaker 4 (04:32:14):
Anonymous?

Speaker 3 (04:32:15):
They all are right from the open.

Speaker 1 (04:32:17):
The guy says, somebody's going to take a run and
jump at the Kimberly Cross while it's at Bergendor's. Needless
are safe with the balance of the night, funcible does
not sleep. So today we got three enforcements. Georgie, Yeah,
I'm going to leave you now, George, to take my
post across the street while mister speed Wait a minute, Johnny,

(04:32:39):
look look in front of Bergendor's the Dame, the Dame.
To paraphraise bergendor calling her a dame was like calling
the Kimberly Cross a hunk of jewelry.

Speaker 22 (04:32:54):
That's not what interested me, at least not right then.

Speaker 1 (04:32:57):
She was walking back and forth in front of Bergendorf's
like a kid at the tennis door, trying to get
up the nerve to push the button voting for my notes,
it says nine O two am. Girl five feet two, blonde,
early twenties, gray sweet suit, spent a few indecisive minutes
in front of Bergendors finally went in. She came out
almost immediately started west on Sutter, then evidently saw a

(04:33:18):
patrol officer approaching on the same side of street, hurriedly
crossed toward our post in Public Health Department Mobile Unit
number two.

Speaker 78 (04:33:25):
And entered, Hello, Well, good morning, good morning, m Hi
too early for the oh you're just in time, first
customer of the day.

Speaker 6 (04:33:36):
Eh.

Speaker 7 (04:33:37):
Let's see now.

Speaker 14 (04:33:39):
Name Martin, Martin, first name Bernice, addressed eight.

Speaker 1 (04:33:48):
She wasn't a very good liar while she was telling
him her name was Bernice Martin. She filled with a
leather handbag with the initials PC on it, thigre enough
to read from across the street. George filled the foremouth
and moved around to the machine buy all the cops
she was ducking, and walked by and turned the corner.
Shall I no, no, it won't be necessary to take
off your code.

Speaker 11 (04:34:06):
Is this all right?

Speaker 7 (04:34:07):
That's good?

Speaker 14 (04:34:08):
Stand right there, old still, now, take a deep breath.

Speaker 21 (04:34:13):
Hold it.

Speaker 3 (04:34:16):
Eh, it's all there is to it.

Speaker 14 (04:34:18):
You're doing a wise thing, lady. You think that certainly eight.

Speaker 1 (04:34:21):
To five it's only a cold, but five to eight
you'll never never know.

Speaker 9 (04:34:25):
Eh.

Speaker 14 (04:34:25):
Here's your stub with your number on it. We'll notify you.

Speaker 4 (04:34:28):
In a few days.

Speaker 14 (04:34:28):
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1 (04:34:35):
Whereupon this PC also down to the corner and into
a drug store. Five minutes later, she still hadn't come out.

Speaker 7 (04:34:41):
Stroud was beginning to.

Speaker 3 (04:34:42):
Champ at the bit.

Speaker 7 (04:34:42):
So oh she's worried.

Speaker 3 (04:34:44):
Ah, she's ducking cops.

Speaker 7 (04:34:45):
She's using a phony name.

Speaker 1 (04:34:47):
Her girlfriend's handbag suck. I'm going hey, wait a minute,
wait a minute. I'm sure I've seen her somewhere before
where I don't know but I think it was around headquarter.

Speaker 2 (04:34:55):
Now, who's playing movie?

Speaker 68 (04:34:56):
Jack?

Speaker 4 (04:34:57):
Look it's ten after nine.

Speaker 1 (04:34:59):
I'll go and settled down next to the bog of diamonds,
and you make yourself comfy with Georgie.

Speaker 31 (04:35:04):
If I get busy out, you gold.

Speaker 1 (04:35:06):
Pies on the customers going in and out. There's a
good loud, regular alarm over the door there.

Speaker 55 (04:35:11):
You can hear it the block away.

Speaker 9 (04:35:13):
Do you see what I mean?

Speaker 7 (04:35:14):
It's good laser?

Speaker 18 (04:35:15):
Holy cow.

Speaker 1 (04:35:21):
Sproud took the gallery and I set sailed with the
corner drug store, pulling up in twenty seconds flat.

Speaker 7 (04:35:25):
She was gone. Of course. The druggist was at the
fountain mixing a coat, but she spilled when I reached
the cross and grabbed them bottle La Pels blonde.

Speaker 1 (04:35:32):
You're saying, yeah, yeah, young gray suit h I told you, Jack,
she just came in here.

Speaker 9 (04:35:38):
I know.

Speaker 7 (04:35:38):
What do you want to know about her?

Speaker 55 (04:35:39):
What you do telephone?

Speaker 15 (04:35:41):
No? She was just like you asked me about a guy?

Speaker 19 (04:35:43):
What guy?

Speaker 7 (04:35:44):
Larry Galiano?

Speaker 27 (04:35:45):
His name is?

Speaker 3 (04:35:46):
I want to know if i'd seen him come by
this morning?

Speaker 7 (04:35:48):
Who's he? I don't know? Did she describe him? Didn't
have to Pictures on page one in the morning paper. Here,
take a look.

Speaker 1 (04:36:02):
There was no time to dawdle, but I gave her
ten seconds.

Speaker 7 (04:36:04):
Larry Galiano, a one time gas.

Speaker 1 (04:36:06):
Station stick up artist, had just been released from Quenton
after doing five years. On the way across the street
to Bergendorff, it came back to me where i'd seen
her standing outside the court room crying when they sentenced him.

Speaker 3 (04:36:17):
Five years ago. Yeah, oh no Bergendorf.

Speaker 9 (04:36:28):
H yeah, yeah, I shot from behind the.

Speaker 1 (04:36:31):
Stones, needless to say, maybe you were right about that day.

Speaker 7 (04:36:35):
No, no, she didn't have time.

Speaker 3 (04:36:36):
Someone was hiding in here waiting for Bergendorf's open up
this morning.

Speaker 9 (04:36:38):
How'd you get out?

Speaker 7 (04:36:39):
There must be a back door in this joint.

Speaker 74 (04:36:41):
I'll check it.

Speaker 7 (04:36:42):
The phones on the desk.

Speaker 74 (04:36:43):
Wake up, Lieutenant, tendya.

Speaker 1 (04:36:44):
Right, how you love it too? Two of us holding
hands across the street.

Speaker 7 (04:36:48):
Well, Johnny, look at me.

Speaker 3 (04:36:54):
Berkendorf, same space. He's checking the back door.

Speaker 4 (04:36:57):
Who did it? Oh?

Speaker 15 (04:37:00):
Crust me once it is all?

Speaker 7 (04:37:02):
Who what are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (04:37:12):
It was as plain as a man in his condition
could have made it obvious to anyone with average intelligence,
But for stupid Sam, it was still a long voyage.

Speaker 19 (04:37:21):
Halt you are.

Speaker 1 (04:37:27):
Listening to the weekly adventure of radio's most famous detective,
Sam Spade. Three chimes mean good Times on NBC. There's

(04:37:51):
music for you tomorrow on NBC with the distinctive four
keyboard styling of the First Piano Quartet. This widely acclaimed
and unique musical organization brings you a melodic blend of
classical and light classical selections in four part harmony. Every
Saturday and Tomorrow. There's also a one hour concert by
the NBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Walter du Clo.

(04:38:12):
Featured in tomorrow's symphony performance are works by Sibelius and Schumann.
It's the best in music every Saturday with the NBC
Symphony and the First Piano Quartet. And now back to
the Kimberly Cross Caper. Tonight's adventure with Sam Spay. It

(04:38:41):
was a dirty, selfish trick, but I left Johnny Stroud
at the Brigandalf Gallery to play for cheese with dundeean Company,
knowing in advance pretty much how the platta was going
to run. Then call the Chronicle and found the picture
of Larry Galiano had been taken yesterday as they walked
out of a fleabag on Mission Street called the Aeolian Hotel.

Speaker 82 (04:38:58):
Here Gallia, Yeah, sure, sure, sure, I know him stayed
here night before.

Speaker 1 (04:39:05):
Last until I found out about him.

Speaker 7 (04:39:08):
Oh father, what hey, he was.

Speaker 15 (04:39:09):
The next conner.

Speaker 82 (04:39:11):
This yere's a respectable joint house, monsieur. We don't cater
the felon's, mister Miners or any other members of the Dmond.
Yes needed he and I found where Galliano come from.

Speaker 5 (04:39:25):
Yah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 7 (04:39:27):
Did he give you a powarding address?

Speaker 29 (04:39:29):
I know?

Speaker 7 (04:39:31):
Let me see you.

Speaker 82 (04:39:35):
Yes, oh yeah, Christopher apartments on Joe, you see see
you're lucky young man.

Speaker 41 (04:39:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 82 (04:39:42):
My girlfriends and Landlady over there now looking here, don't
you sweet talker?

Speaker 16 (04:39:47):
Nom out of the way, boy on the way.

Speaker 1 (04:40:00):
All I want, madam, is one moment of your time.

Speaker 16 (04:40:03):
I already told you.

Speaker 3 (04:40:04):
Boy, I don't know no guy, never heard of him?

Speaker 18 (04:40:09):
Try to want to?

Speaker 7 (04:40:11):
Well wait a minute now, will you just take a
look a.

Speaker 39 (04:40:16):
There?

Speaker 1 (04:40:18):
No time, Well, missus, landlady, I'm afraid you've lost off.

Speaker 7 (04:40:22):
What Yeah, you were in lying to win a bagless
vacuum cleaner.

Speaker 9 (04:40:26):
You know what?

Speaker 29 (04:40:27):
Wait wait, wait, wait, wait a minute, curly, what do
you want to know Bud.

Speaker 1 (04:40:33):
Well, this Galleano just might be using another name.

Speaker 7 (04:40:37):
This is his picture right here. Now I will rephrase
my question. Has he been around?

Speaker 43 (04:40:45):
Nope?

Speaker 4 (04:40:47):
I see landlady.

Speaker 72 (04:40:48):
Well do I win?

Speaker 7 (04:40:49):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (04:40:50):
I am sorry, but stand by for the giant jackpod
is an electric.

Speaker 22 (04:41:00):
I patted her.

Speaker 1 (04:41:00):
Cheek, made a detour around her, and left, figuring to
check with the parole board. But as I was climbing
into the cabin in front of the building, a stray
thought hit me and I went back to the doorway
and cased the name plates again, this time or someone
with the initials I'd remembered seeing on the blonde handbag PC.

Speaker 3 (04:41:15):
I did better.

Speaker 1 (04:41:16):
Patricia Conroy was living in an apartment four old two.
I buzzed four times, then tried the door.

Speaker 4 (04:41:22):
It was open.

Speaker 1 (04:41:23):
I gave the living room and bedroom a fast hoss,
moved onto the kitchen and chased a hammerful.

Speaker 7 (04:41:27):
Of laundry on the back porch. Result nil, and.

Speaker 1 (04:41:30):
About decided I was in the wrong apartment when I
noticed something that changed my mind. I crumpled up envelope
in a wastepaper basket in the living room with today's
date on it marked Western Airlines Flight six to Los
Angeles passenger LP Galiano. I had the phone in one
hand and a finger on the dial and down.

Speaker 15 (04:41:49):
H Oh, Are you going to put the phone down?

Speaker 16 (04:41:53):
Or do I have to shoot?

Speaker 3 (04:41:54):
You mean there's no third choice?

Speaker 24 (04:41:56):
Put this down?

Speaker 7 (04:41:58):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (04:42:00):
Now?

Speaker 24 (04:42:00):
What sit down?

Speaker 14 (04:42:03):
You'll be here for a while.

Speaker 3 (04:42:04):
Huh.

Speaker 80 (04:42:05):
His playing lines at Burbank in a half hour. If
you have any dates between now and four point thirty,
forget them?

Speaker 15 (04:42:11):
Mm hmm. Mind if I smoke, go ahead.

Speaker 1 (04:42:16):
You know, Uh, this is pretty heavy handed stuff for
a nie.

Speaker 69 (04:42:19):
You know, I've grown up a lot in the last
two days.

Speaker 1 (04:42:24):
Enough, honey, Or if you wouldn't be stooging for Galliano,
he can't run away from this kind of rack.

Speaker 80 (04:42:28):
You know, forty eight hours, that's how long Larry's been
out of the pen.

Speaker 1 (04:42:36):
Well, he didn't waste any time getting back in shrine.

Speaker 7 (04:42:40):
Look, what's your name, Spade?

Speaker 11 (04:42:44):
Spade?

Speaker 80 (04:42:45):
What if I told you Larry Galliano had nothing to
do with it?

Speaker 15 (04:42:49):
I might give you quite an argument, And I.

Speaker 14 (04:42:51):
Don't feel like arguing. No, I'll just tell you good.

Speaker 80 (04:42:54):
Someone offered him the job at Bergendorf's the day he
got out. Larry thought it was legitimate until I heard
a couple of things by accident, like what like getting
hired to play Paul Guy and a phony robbery?

Speaker 3 (04:43:06):
You mean Bergendorf was in sure till this morning.

Speaker 80 (04:43:10):
I think good Larry'd be a handy guy to have
hanging around with his big fat prison record when the
diamonds disappeared.

Speaker 14 (04:43:17):
That's what he told me, and I believe him. I
love him.

Speaker 70 (04:43:21):
Whether or not you believe or.

Speaker 80 (04:43:23):
Love me or him, I do not care. I also
do not care what kind of a wrap you pin
on me. When this is all over all I want
is time enough to do a couple of errands. Now
hoisted out of that chair and put it down in
the closet there.

Speaker 18 (04:43:38):
Do you hear what I said?

Speaker 4 (04:43:40):
Yes, ma'am, I was wrong.

Speaker 7 (04:43:50):
She was no ango Happily in the closet had a
light in it.

Speaker 1 (04:43:58):
So I settled down on my headbox and read some
old copies of Mademoiselle until five point thirty when I
heard the door close, but with sound proof outside walls,
no window, a double slab door with a lock sheet
fluffilly filled with gum. Was almost seven when I got
back to my office. The next move, of course, was
to call Lieutenant Dunde, why's up the Los Angeles Police
on Galliano. I picked up the phone and put it

(04:44:18):
down four times.

Speaker 7 (04:44:19):
There was no use kidding myself.

Speaker 1 (04:44:21):
The iron she told was pretty wild, but there was
something about the way she told it, and I believed her.

Speaker 14 (04:44:28):
And here, yeah, do you remember me this morning? George
is the technician from the X ray mobile union.

Speaker 3 (04:44:33):
Yeah, George, what's on your mind?

Speaker 14 (04:44:34):
The funny thing? That girl thirty four chests?

Speaker 55 (04:44:37):
You remember the blonde?

Speaker 14 (04:44:38):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (04:44:38):
Yeah, I remember very well, George.

Speaker 7 (04:44:40):
What about the blonde?

Speaker 9 (04:44:41):
Well?

Speaker 14 (04:44:41):
I tried to call her. Operator says there's no such
number and the company has no record of a Bernice.

Speaker 1 (04:44:46):
She was using a phony moniker, Georgia. Her name's Patricia Conroy.

Speaker 14 (04:44:50):
Oh now, why would she do that?

Speaker 3 (04:44:53):
Well?

Speaker 14 (04:44:53):
Girls, gotta be careful, you though, she does for sure?

Speaker 4 (04:44:56):
How come?

Speaker 18 (04:44:57):
How come?

Speaker 14 (04:44:57):
I I kind of took an interest in her case?

Speaker 18 (04:45:00):
You.

Speaker 14 (04:45:01):
I rushed the pictures through as soon as we closed
up tonight. She's an incipient case. Oh yes, I wanted
to wise up right away. You see here?

Speaker 35 (04:45:09):
Yes, Oh, this is no no.

Speaker 14 (04:45:12):
This one's Johnny Stroud. I took him when he wasn't looking.
I thought him I was testing. He was right at
that nothing wrong with him. But I always say you
never never.

Speaker 3 (04:45:20):
Ye, yeah, how about the girl?

Speaker 7 (04:45:22):
How about how about the girl?

Speaker 9 (04:45:23):
Oh?

Speaker 14 (04:45:24):
Yes, yes, here now now look you see this shadowy
part here?

Speaker 4 (04:45:29):
Yeah, hey, wait a minute.

Speaker 7 (04:45:34):
I wasn't looking at the shadow pot.

Speaker 1 (04:45:35):
I was looking at something at the left side of
the picture, right where the inside coat pocket would be,
the clear black.

Speaker 3 (04:45:41):
Outline of the Kimberley Cross.

Speaker 7 (04:45:44):
Do you mean she had to pay?

Speaker 3 (04:45:45):
Yeah, d give me the phone.

Speaker 29 (04:45:46):
Well, I thought it was one of those clip makes
the girls.

Speaker 1 (04:45:48):
Wear on the phone, the phone, okay, Spade, Johnny Stroud, Look,
I got news for you.

Speaker 21 (04:45:54):
I got news for you too.

Speaker 1 (04:45:55):
I spotted that blonde again where in the bar on
Connie Street talking to gift shoes?

Speaker 3 (04:46:00):
You mean Galliano?

Speaker 47 (04:46:02):
Who's he?

Speaker 11 (04:46:03):
Never mind?

Speaker 15 (04:46:04):
Never mind?

Speaker 1 (04:46:04):
Who was she drinking Withdopolis the biggest jewelry fence on
the coast for you now outside of the PoTA Jones
in your post, I think the numbers.

Speaker 7 (04:46:13):
Him five minutes.

Speaker 14 (04:46:20):
Like I told you, state, I don't want to argue.

Speaker 1 (04:46:24):
She says she doesn't want to argue, saying too bad,
too bad.

Speaker 7 (04:46:27):
I don't mind telling you.

Speaker 3 (04:46:29):
I'm a little burned up.

Speaker 29 (04:46:30):
Baby.

Speaker 3 (04:46:30):
I fell for that line you handed me this afternoon.
I didn't even mind sitting in your closet.

Speaker 7 (04:46:34):
For two hours. What's that?

Speaker 35 (04:46:35):
Sure?

Speaker 7 (04:46:36):
She's got a thirty two.

Speaker 1 (04:46:36):
Tucked away here somewhere had me looking up the barrel
while she did.

Speaker 7 (04:46:39):
Thought was got the cross? Honey?

Speaker 3 (04:46:41):
You or Gallioto?

Speaker 70 (04:46:43):
We don't know anything about it.

Speaker 1 (04:46:44):
And what were you doing in that bar with Papadopolis?

Speaker 70 (04:46:46):
Larry said, whoever had it would try to move it
through him.

Speaker 80 (04:46:49):
I thought I could get to him, but I was wrong.

Speaker 15 (04:46:51):
How does that sound?

Speaker 3 (04:46:52):
What do you think?

Speaker 24 (04:46:54):
Look?

Speaker 80 (04:46:55):
I walked in the Bergendorfs this morning?

Speaker 3 (04:46:57):
Why'd you run out?

Speaker 36 (04:46:58):
The vault was opened?

Speaker 80 (04:47:00):
Sure was overturned with Bergendorf didn't answer when I called.

Speaker 69 (04:47:03):
I think it was a setup for Larry to check in.

Speaker 18 (04:47:05):
He was on his waist.

Speaker 27 (04:47:10):
It does sound phony, it sure does.

Speaker 71 (04:47:15):
I don't lie.

Speaker 14 (04:47:16):
I guess I could make up a better story than.

Speaker 1 (04:47:18):
Oh you're doing great, white, Larry Bottom.

Speaker 24 (04:47:21):
You need a diagram.

Speaker 36 (04:47:22):
He was scared.

Speaker 80 (04:47:23):
What chance is the next convict when it's his story
against someone else's.

Speaker 9 (04:47:26):
What did you do with the Teddy two in the drawer?

Speaker 1 (04:47:32):
Ah, here's the big question, honey, I did send anything else.

Speaker 7 (04:47:36):
Where are the diamonds?

Speaker 1 (04:47:40):
Look, you're a real modest girl, Pature, she has a liar,
You're a sensation.

Speaker 89 (04:47:44):
Believe me.

Speaker 1 (04:47:44):
You had the Kimberly Cross in your inside cold pocket
when you came into the wagon this morning.

Speaker 79 (04:47:48):
Are you talking about it?

Speaker 7 (04:47:50):
I get it the X ray. Baby. Take a look.

Speaker 1 (04:47:52):
If you asked for a diagram, there it is and
your inside left pocket.

Speaker 50 (04:47:55):
Wait a minute, hello, mister, Yeah, this is George T again.

Speaker 7 (04:48:00):
This is all wrong. Hold of George. Let me see
that I don't have.

Speaker 36 (04:48:03):
Any inside podcast.

Speaker 69 (04:48:04):
Look, I'm wearing the suit right.

Speaker 7 (04:48:05):
Now, Hold it, George, what is it?

Speaker 11 (04:48:07):
Well?

Speaker 50 (04:48:07):
I got worrying about that print of miss Conroy's the incipient.

Speaker 7 (04:48:10):
Case thirty four yest, Yeah, what about it?

Speaker 50 (04:48:12):
I called the lab and they checked again. It's a mistake,
mister Spade, a switch. It belongs to someone else, John Stroud.

Speaker 1 (04:48:19):
Oh oh well, well, George, you won't have to worry
about making more extra prints. The ones you have will
do now. Thanks, thanks a lot, George.

Speaker 3 (04:48:29):
George is getting worried, extra prince.

Speaker 1 (04:48:31):
Yeah yeah, I had to run off a batch evidence
trial to the a's office, you know.

Speaker 3 (04:48:34):
Now, let's take her in huh just.

Speaker 33 (04:48:36):
A minute, this is crazy.

Speaker 14 (04:48:37):
I have no inside pocket house.

Speaker 3 (04:48:39):
You wouldn't argue with a picture, would Johnny?

Speaker 4 (04:48:41):
Give me the gun?

Speaker 3 (04:48:42):
Johnny, we'll take her in together.

Speaker 7 (04:48:43):
No, no, wait, I want to settle something else. Johnny.

Speaker 3 (04:48:46):
You're you're pointing a thing at me. It might go,
oh yeah, it might have that. What's eating you, Johnny?

Speaker 80 (04:48:53):
I know what's eating him?

Speaker 33 (04:48:55):
He's you want a very good liar, either, are you, Sam?

Speaker 7 (04:48:59):
They're on in the Extra Prince and.

Speaker 3 (04:49:00):
There's always George.

Speaker 1 (04:49:01):
In a couple of hours, there won't be any.

Speaker 4 (04:49:13):
Okay, Johnny, on your feet, let me go, then you go.

Speaker 9 (04:49:15):
We can work out it.

Speaker 69 (04:49:17):
Then your head, your shirt, you take the gun.

Speaker 21 (04:49:21):
Call Danny to get it in Dandy.

Speaker 1 (04:49:24):
Homicide And the next voice I heard belonged the cool,
brisk Miss Bergham of the Harbor Emergency Hospital period and
a babysitting session.

Speaker 36 (04:49:43):
How intred it is.

Speaker 1 (04:49:46):
Nothing, sweetheart, nothing is hop along, Cassidy always says in
real six. Don't worry, honey, it was only a scratch.

Speaker 3 (04:49:53):
No wait, now wait, can't you get up without moving
your last?

Speaker 4 (04:49:59):
One?

Speaker 16 (04:49:59):
Important me?

Speaker 14 (04:50:00):
Oh Ki Cross?

Speaker 36 (04:50:02):
What did Stroud do with it?

Speaker 1 (04:50:04):
That that cherub is an innermural affair between Stroud and
mister Runcible. Well as you know, this report is an
affair between you and the portable scoot Scoutscoo three chimes
mean good Times. On NBC, there's music and mystery for

(04:50:25):
you tomorrow evening. For music, it's your Hit Parade, bringing
you the top tunes in the land with Eileen Wilson,
Snookie Lanson and Raymond Scott's Orchestra. For mystery, it's The
Man called X, starring Herbert Marshall as an intrepid adventurer
and international intrigue who travels wherever there is mystery, danger
and romance. Oh brisk, efficient, miss Parade. You may lay

(04:50:58):
it on my desk and restore your life up to
its original position.

Speaker 14 (04:51:02):
Yes, oh.

Speaker 1 (04:51:05):
Mmm, comfortable sam ah loving every minute Sam.

Speaker 92 (04:51:13):
A girl can't have wonderings sometimes about oh the way
you described the blonde in your report, glamorous like the
Kimberly Cross and all you like that. Oh, I just
wish sometimes someone else could be your secretary, and I'd
be the one you'd meet in a room with velvet
draperies and a long cigarette holder and standing glasses and

(04:51:36):
a black lace.

Speaker 1 (04:51:37):
Neglige older girl, hold that you've gone quite far.

Speaker 92 (04:51:40):
And I know, but it's only natural for a girl
to want to be glamorous.

Speaker 7 (04:51:42):
Sad ard me.

Speaker 3 (04:51:46):
You show up with any of those props and I'll
turn you over my knee.

Speaker 28 (04:51:50):
You like me the way I am?

Speaker 15 (04:51:51):
Sam?

Speaker 21 (04:51:52):
Ye?

Speaker 14 (04:51:55):
Why is it always this way?

Speaker 69 (04:51:57):
Just when I think I'm getting somewhere, I find.

Speaker 36 (04:51:59):
Myself saying night.

Speaker 18 (04:52:02):
Oh, I swear.

Speaker 1 (04:52:20):
The Adventures of Sam Spade are produced, edited, and directed
by William Spear. Sam Spade was played by Stephen Dunn.
Loreen Turtle is Effie. Also in the cast were Wally Meyer,
Fritz Feld, Georgia Ellis, Sidney Miller, Olin Sulay, Alice Wellman,
and John Monaghan. Script Fortnite's Adventure by Harold Swanton, Musical
scoring by Lud Gluskin, conducted by Robert Armbruster. Join us

(04:52:48):
again next week, same time for another adventure with Sam Spade.

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