October 18, 2025 • 28 mins
Chronicles the exploits of a reformed thief turned detective, solving crimes with wit and charm.
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Harry side bunny, Harry, that bussy yours still in one tree, sir, Well,
fars you can tell in one look it's all in
one piece. But I wouldn't want hep pay a dollar
for every nuts and bolt it's dropped from valley junction
to the main highway where you ought to get the
company to buy you a new bus, Harry. The drivers
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in the city get new buses. Folks on my route
wouldn't know me if I was to turn up with
a new bus. How's business? I oooh good? Always good
this time.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, have a.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Store full of people, knew every day.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
From sun up to sunset, yh sor the glad. It's
a little slow now. Yeah, he was out taking a
little ride near my place yesterday, wasn't you saying? I
want to think of it? I was, Yeah. You don't
recollect who you saw out in the orchard with me
doing no, I don't think I do. Well. Now, that's
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being mighty smart. If you say eh, don't exactly get
what you mean, Harry. I mean exactly what I said.
You're being mighty smart not recollecting who you saw out
at my place yesterday. I don't remember seeing anyone Yeah. Well,
now that's just the thing to remember if anybody asked you,
because if you remember you did see somebody, and if
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you know who he was, why there's no telling what
will happen to you? You know what I mean? A wrongswer,
it's telephone. It's what I'll do. Operated This is Side
(02:10):
Gardener at the General Store and Valley Junction.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
To get me the city, will you?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I want to talk to a fellow named Boston Blackie.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
And now meets Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie. Enemy to
those who make him an enemy, friend to those who
have no friends?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
How many more miles to Side Garden a store? Driving well, Kenny.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Blackie, My run from the main highway through Cross Creek
and Indian Haller and Valley Junction. That's where Side Store is.
It's eighteen miles and three quarries.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, that's for buds. But as the crow flies, it's
only sick sake son. The next time, I think I'll
come by crow.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
But Basha Crow Blackie? What's taking into Alley Junction? Inter
Enough excitement play in the city or is it too much?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I had a phone call from Psy God yesterday afternoon
said it was in some kind of trouble and what
have you had? Mi conic come out here, but it's
in the garage.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Well, it's just why you didn't use it, Blacky. After
this pumpy road likes notart to be in the junkyard
where this bush of mine ought to be said in troubler.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Welly sand as if you were there is mighty peculiar.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Well, I've known Sai gardener for oh eighteen years, come
green up. He never been in any trouble I heard of.
But then for size disorder follow that keeps his trouble
to himself like.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
The pardon me, sir, you see them?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yes? Did I hear the driver refer to you as Blackie?
Uh huh that Beth Boston Blacky Accord. Yes, Well, allow
me to introduce myself. I'm John Jeffrey Well, President of
the Farmer Finance Corporation, savely on business of card.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
How do you do?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I'd like to meet anyone so famous on the bust
of Valley junction. But of course when you travel, you
don't know whom you're.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Going to meet. Oh, you never know whome or what
you're going to meet either.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
That's one of the interesting things about travels. One of
the reasons I like to travel, of course, I mean
into cars break. Anybody that wants out cars break gets
off here.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Wow, that's as if we're picking up an out passenger
and a pretty one.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Another of the hidristic things about travel, blackets, of course,
is this the bust of valley junction? Yeah? Sure is
longs it's going in this direction. It's going to Valley junction. Okay,
come on, we'll you pay you when you get off
next time. In holler.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
If I sat myself next to us, sick to go
ahead me plant yourself.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Just don't go on me.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Wow, I can tell you on some stick.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
A handkerchief in the breast pocket means alive, doesn't it? Well,
my band Dan is a cleaning.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Yes, you have an answer for everything, don't you. So
don't try to give me an answer to this, because
it isn't a question. Getting off the bus right around
the stand in the road, Boston, black here? Really who
says that he can look at the two of us,
me and this gun. Both of us mean business. Come on, Blackie,
we're getting off this bus. No, hey, drivers, yeah, stop
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the bus, we're getting off.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
No, wait a minute, I don't actually.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Don't be stubborn. I'm reasonable, but my gun is restless.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Well, but have you got to say driver, stop the bus?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Okay, you don't want to get out in the middle
of nowhere. Surely not my affair. And you get on
and off where they want. They're still in the franchise,
go on with twelve. Look here, Blackie. If there's something
I could do, would be glad to.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Help you call it and no, thanks, miss Wells. Just
an example of what we were saying about travel. You
never know what's going to happen next.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
What are we are you driving?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Dollar twenty for you? Nothing for the girl?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah, if you see thy gardner in Valley Junction, tell
him that I'll be there, all right, but a little lake?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Yeah, well now, no, thanks, thanks so much for getting.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Off the bus.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
So thank me. Thank you again.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I'm sorry I.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Had to do this justin had to make sure you
got off with me. I'll put the gun away. How's that?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
It's better? But still not so good?
Speaker 5 (06:30):
What do you want, somar, Let's walk up and get
my card. Talk me here and I'll tell you on
the way. My name is Marjorie Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Nice name, but it means nothing to me look.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Black Yeah, I want you to listen. Hard got myself
in a jam. I'm looking, well, you've got to help me, Blackly.
The reason I got on that bus is because I
knew you were honest.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
How'd you know that I was in tide.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Gardener's store when he phoned. You told you what bus
to take and when.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
To take it.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
So that's the background for us on my back.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Huh yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Let's have it.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Okay, listen, parents, police cars are they rolling?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
We would have started hopping now. I wasn't going down
for anything.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Wenna jumped the bush shopping.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I'm telling that what those police guards would have done
to them and you.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
They didn't even see it.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
My best nylon.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Too, My best friend is the reason you ron them.
It's like the Saturday of the Metropolitan Police was in
the first squad car.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
So were city Blue.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, it's been from the Homicide Bureau. If they're going
to Value Junction or just lay for a picnic, well
I'll find out pretty soon. Let's have your story now
my drink.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
I don't think i'll bother you with it, Blackly, Why not? Oh,
I don't know what I've just changed my mind. Okay,
get moving.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Black Oh no, not a gun. Again.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
You wouldn't want me to prove it was a gun.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I don't take your word for it.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
What happens now now I'm getting in the car.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
It's like you're going to start walking.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Not me.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I'm allergic footstep.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I think you'd be more allergic to leads. Start walking, Blackie.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
There's been around the village, inspector Saturday. Yeah, no one
in Valley Junction heard the shop at killed gardener, Thanks Cougan.
No one heard the shot. Huh, well that could be
the sheriff. Figure's gardener was killed about four hours ago.
So I guess everybody in town was taking a noontime
la ing.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
So have we found anything in the store to think
why Gardener was killed? It's a simple case of murder
and the act of robbery, Gogan. Gardener's safe have been
opened and his cash register's empty. I guess religious.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Blackie, You yes, Saturday, me or what's left? And he
has to walk in practically all the way from Cross
Creek the Valley Tunction walking.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
You look as if you'd been crawling through a dust
ball too.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Never mind about me, what are you here for? He
decided to go back the farm where you belong.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I'm here on business for the sheriff.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
What's the murre Does the sheriff want to be re elected?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
There's been a murder here and the sheriff asked me
to have it for him, because this county's never had
a killing before.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Don't tell me, Saturday. I know who the victim is
side Gardner.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
But how did you know? Because Gardener called me up
yesterday and he told me he was in trouble when
Lusy killed about four hours ago. H makes sense?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Why doesn't make sense?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I was on the Valley Junction bust a girl named
Mandrie Cleveland that invited me to get off. I had
the idea that she got me off that bus as
a stall. But that was only two hours ago.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Look, I talked to everybody on that bus when I
got here. And if you pay less attention to pretty
girls and that more attention to what you.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Start out the electure Saturday. I still think that girl
is connected with Gardener's murder in Someway.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Or other Gardener was killed by someone who robbed him.
It's that simple. Come on, I'll brite you back to town.
Gogan yes, inspector locked this place up good and tight,
so nothing is touched before I sent a special investigator.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Come.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I'm like, hey, I'll drive you.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Thanks, No, thanks, Friday, I think I'll stick around.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I'm gonna find that Marjorie's creaming again.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
When it quit wasting my time.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Come on, tell you what you can do, Friday flat.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I saw a room Sperans sign about five miles down
the road. You can bribe me that far.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Why do you want to stay?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Do you like it here?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
No? But I would like to find out who didn't
like thy gardener?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Our driver? Oh, hi, miss Will. When do we make
our next up?
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Well?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
See we left Varry Juncson hour ago, next up North Hill.
See done about a minute. So say, by the way,
I noticed the police question you back at Varie Juhnson.
Yeah they should did, poor, said Gardner. They questioned you too,
didn't they, mister Will? Yeah, they questioned everybody on this bus.
So why they question this? I don't know. We were
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going toward Bali Junction now the way from it the
murderer would be doing. Yeah, get that toe, poor Shi
Godnes night fella.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Oh the bed.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Well, I'm glad the police didn't hold us up too long,
like keep this bus on schedule? Oh God, who did it?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Harry?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Who killed Gardners? No? Baby, but I didn't. If that's
what you're thinking, are you sure sure?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I'm sure that I was.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Thinking you did it? Well?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
All out for Northio.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Passion gets the Northia all out.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
There's a room for rest. Time stop here, Bardy, all.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Right, Gogan, we'll let Blackie off.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
There, light is Bager. Thanks for Ferdy. I'll pull a
murder for you.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Sometimes we'll wait for your blackies.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
It might not be a room. Then you'll have to
walk all the way to the main heart God, bother.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I understand it's fun sleeping in the Hayloffs anyway, my face.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
The mice start complain.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yeah, you have rooms end.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Don't you.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I'm particularly who I rent to? Who are you, Boston Blackett?
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Well I have rooms for rent, but not to you?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Well, what's the matter, Blackets? Did you like your represents?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
God?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Ahead?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
And last Saturday?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Sad I help laughing once you climbed that door on
your face?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Come on, get Ino. No, I'm saying Saurday. I mean
it's time.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
But I was flint, I request, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
The three words on this little slip of paper right
here that the woman just gave me. Maybe she slammed
the door in my face.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
But look what you wrote. I'm gonna see the thing.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Oh, let me see it now. I'm sure you can
read it, Saturday. It's just three simple words.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
It says, don't go away.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
And go back to Boston, Blackie. Blackie receives a phone
call from Psy Gardner, storekeeper in the rural town of
Valley Junction, but en route there by bus he is
met by Marjorie Cleland, who promises him a ride in
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her car, but changes her mind, goes out a gun
and forces him to walk. Blackie arrives in Valley Junction
to learn that Gardner has been murdered.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
He feels the girl had something to.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Do with the killing.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Tries to rent a room in a farmhouse and is refused,
but the woman owner passes him a note telling him
to stay. As we return to our story, Marjorie Cleland
is in the farmhouse clocking to the arm.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
You were a smart cookie, missus Davis selling Blackie ways,
like I told you, just somebody hps you up pretty.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Good, didn't I?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
He was that gun?
Speaker 5 (13:57):
You were holding It made me say what I did
to Blackie?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
What I meant?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Worth smart?
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Hey, this isn't the bad joins you got here.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
This is the kitchen, isn't it. Yeah, it's the kitchen
so difficult to recognize.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
The gals like me don't ever have to know.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
What a kitchen looks like.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Where's your telephone?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
We don't have any, fat You're just one of down
at side Gardner's story at Valley Junction.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
But the police have that store padlock since I got
knocked off.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
No, what do I do?
Speaker 5 (14:27):
I'm sure that's no concern of mine, young lady.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
But I have my chores to do, and I'm gonna
do them.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Oh this, I gotta sing?
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Hey, what was that?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Help?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Was fly's noise at the back door?
Speaker 5 (14:37):
It sounded like somebody pulling went the lock.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I didn't hear a thing that's been getting nerved.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Well, go on, missus Davis, go ahead with those chores.
You were nobody at the door. Huh, it's you Blackie.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
That's gonna get her.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Blackie, thank you?
Speaker 5 (15:01):
How did you know to come back here after the
same sent you away?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Black If she held a gun and back of me, Blackie,
that's why I had to tell you to go away
when you knocked at the door.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I figured that from the note. Well, Marjorie, what goes on?
What's the scar?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
You're supposed to be smart, figure it out.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Okay, let me see.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
You got me off the bus so that you could
keep me from getting the guard in the store. Then
while I was talking to you, the police cars came by,
heading in the direction of Valley Junction.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
How am I doing?
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Mouth is moving and words are coming out, but they.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Don't mean a thing.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I think they do. Yeah, I'm beginning to like this now.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
When the police car came by, you knew they'd get
to Valley Junction in a hurry, so there was no
reason to keep me away. You didn't want anybody there,
did you.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Why don't you turn around?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Why don't what a you're on your face?
Speaker 5 (15:49):
I'd like to set her a slap where it would
do the most good, Blackie, Now, please, I want to
get on with this.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I think you wanted the bus to reach Vallet Junction
before anybody got there, and the reason could be that
you and whoever Medici Garden they're working together.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, yeah, this is making sense.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
The murderer dropped something at the scene of the crime,
realized that later when he was away, and then had
to get back to the valley junction before the murder
was discovered, and had to make sure nobody got there first.
But Paraday didn't find whatever he left. So I'm going
back there right now.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
You were the keys car?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Here they are?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yes, thanks being very cooperative.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
It's being smart.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Tried driving the car and see what happens. Black there's
no a sparse plug in the engine. I took them
all out and hit them. Thought maybe you'd try something fancy.
Cute kid, Why don't you try forcing me to tell
you where I hit them?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
The idea sounds like fun, but times had work to do, right,
Missus Davis?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
And missus Davis, where's your talk on?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Oh? I don't have any blackies.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
The nearest one is at the gardener's store.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Oh fine, fine?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
How do I get that bus you were on some
back to swinging? About an hour too vain?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I'll wait.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
I tried walking there once and I didn't blink it.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
That's the bus driver will be going in the opposite direction, Blackie.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
That's what he thinks. And if the driver doesn't want
to turn around, we'll find out how he likes walking.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Hey, there.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
That you're the bus right? Where?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Right?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah? What is it, Blackie?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Turn the bus around. We're going where you just came from.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Oh, sorry, you can't do it, jentleeller. This bus runs
on the schedule.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Subject to change without notice. I'm getting in. Yeah, close
the door and swing the bus the other way.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I guess maybe you're looking for trouble Blackie. Oh I'm
glad to convenience you that way. I'm gonna knock you
up waiting a.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah, Well, people are getting hurting cars these days. Oh well,
I guess I can drive this name the Valley Junction.
I don't think I shouldn't have fit.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
This guy so hard.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
No, I've had nobody to talk to.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Yes, yes, did you get at the car full of
the city? Yes?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Ready, Now it's just a say it's quarters. Well you
are ready and I'm ready? So what are we waiting for?
Just a minute? So I haven't second by finday? This
is Blackie.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I'm up here at Gardener's store in Valley Junction.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Now don't get cuted. I've been trying to reach you
for an hour.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Where have you been?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I've been feeding the pigeons in the pot. But I
saw a couple of squirrells last feel.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
It's a good thing they didn't get too close to you,
or you never have come back Saturday.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Listen to me, will you?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I've found something here at garden the store, part of
pad on.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
The door and the windows boarded up. Hard did you
get in?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Because I thought there was some kind of a tie
between this place and the bus trip I took.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I was looking for something here in the store and
I found it.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
What was it?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Part of a coupling? It's right here on the counter,
right beside the telephone. And guess what else there is here?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Why should I get you?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Ought to know three bags of what you're going to seed?
What you're going But to skip that, Saturday, I want
you to do something. Look in your files and see
if you can find someone who looks like that John
Jeffrey Wells character. That coupling belongs to him. Now, hurry, hurry,
say I my life good?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Then it wouldn't last so long.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I don't know why I do these things. Maybe what
you hang it up for.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I'll give it to you right here.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
You want me to hang up the.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Fun If you have a nice, chatting Inspector Friday.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Ooh nice as usual.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
I didn't mean to eave drop Blackie, but I was
standing in the norway and I will heard everything you said.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Of course, does everybody in this neighborhood carry again?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
What's the matter of world? Don't you want me to know?
When inspected Paraday is going to find out about you?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I can tell you everything, Saturday, I can tell you,
But will you Why not tell me? Brady? I'll tell
you what Saturday is going to find out. There's not
going to do you any good.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Just knowing you killed God, you know, won't make me happy.
I'm such a curious fellow.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
I always want to know why.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I'll tell you why, because he recognize me any crime
in that I went to.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Prison for a crime. I didn't like the place, so
I left it without benefit of pearls fifteen years ago.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Well, you've been been hiding a long time, haven't you.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I've been hiding as an importantly legitimate businessman for fifteen years.
But when I came to visit my brother the other day,
my garden I saw me and recognized me. I had
to kill him to keep them some talking, and I
robbed the store to cover up.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
You came here to visit your brother.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Yeah me blackish?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Oh oh so, mister Wells, you and the bus rival
of brothers.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Don't tell me Marjorie is your sister.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
No, Marjorie the girl from the city.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
I hired for the occasions. One occasion the occasion of
your arrival in Valley Johnston.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
You knew I was coming.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Oh yeah, and done what birth too?
Speaker 6 (21:38):
I was listening in the window when Harry he had
talked to Sigh about recognizing me.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Oh, I see or do I? You didn't try to
keep me away before the murder.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
It was after the murder.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Was that because you knew you'd dropped this company?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Huh? And I wanted to get here before you.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I get it now. When Marjorie saw the police cars
go by, she realized there was no use in sawing me.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Then the police locked up the store after they left.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
You could still have picked up the evidence iphon.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Well instead, I'm taking you up but already, Harry, Yeah,
it's ready, biggie.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Oh if we use it, yay? Or do I still
call you as well?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
You won't call me anything. A little while Harry was
taking a special passenger for a special trip to the
main highway. Yea a special delivery.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Well thanks, thanks a lot.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
It's both of you. It's nice for you to give
me left.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I hope you like it, Lucky, because it's the last
thing you're going to get from anybody. Harry, can't we
make better time in two hours since we left Valley Junction?
You want me to get off the road and pile
up in a ditch, Biggie, the range made this root
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slippery's week, Melassy.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Take your time, Harry. I'm in no hurry.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Oh I guess you wait, Lucky, tag a news for you.
Another mile and we were at the highway. One more
mile your last one, black.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Man, of course, But why are you bothering to take
me all the way out of the highway to kill me?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Well? I could have died just as dead. And Valley Johnson,
and I'm so peaceful in the country.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Who goes home? Back to that black ape. We're gonna
knock you out. Put you on.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Tiring, Harry and a snmen so busy talking.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
You would have heard them before. Look at what's coming around?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
A turn up?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
There ahead a police guard.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
They was one. They had no reasons. Got to slow down.
They'll go Bye, that's what I was going to do, Biggie.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Really, well, here's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
I'm yanking a bus into this stay told him to
take my purpose being over the gun.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
He's any him with a gun and a bump on
his head.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Frieday, we're ali hike like you?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
All right, Yes, as long as you think.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Don't take my driver's license away from me for this.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I jumped this craight into the bitch.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
N it's going. But look, it's a lucky thing for you.
There was something wrong with that pe and guards store.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
There wasn't anything wrong with it.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
It wasn't How can I hear everything you want? Biggie said,
after he made you hang up?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
How you remember those bags of seed?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
I told you were on the counter next to the telephone. Yeah,
so what so instead of hanging up the receiver, I
just leaned it against one of the bags.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
So you said, hear what was going on? Biggy thought?
I hung it up when he told me to. Well,
I'll be it.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Well I checked out files and found Welles was piggy.
Now he's got him and his breather. But where's the girl?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Probably still at missus Davis's rooming house.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Oh she'll be as finished to pick up what's paradaying.
You better open the door and get inside this butt
and inside?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Why far you don't know what for?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
No, you're soaking wet. Well I'll last your cool, good
turning Cruz. What you don't even know enough to come
in out of the rain?
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Stas stistists to st
Harry side bunny, Harry, that bussy yours still in one tree, sir, Well,
fars you can tell in one look it's all in
one piece. But I wouldn't want hep pay a dollar
for every nuts and bolt it's dropped from valley junction
to the main highway where you ought to get the
company to buy you a new bus, Harry. The drivers
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in the city get new buses. Folks on my route
wouldn't know me if I was to turn up with
a new bus. How's business? I oooh good? Always good
this time.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, have a.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Store full of people, knew every day.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
From sun up to sunset, yh sor the glad. It's
a little slow now. Yeah, he was out taking a
little ride near my place yesterday, wasn't you saying? I
want to think of it? I was, Yeah. You don't
recollect who you saw out in the orchard with me
doing no, I don't think I do. Well. Now, that's
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being mighty smart. If you say eh, don't exactly get
what you mean, Harry. I mean exactly what I said.
You're being mighty smart not recollecting who you saw out
at my place yesterday. I don't remember seeing anyone Yeah. Well,
now that's just the thing to remember if anybody asked you,
because if you remember you did see somebody, and if
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you know who he was, why there's no telling what
will happen to you? You know what I mean? A wrongswer,
it's telephone. It's what I'll do. Operated This is Side
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Gardener at the General Store and Valley Junction.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
To get me the city, will you?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I want to talk to a fellow named Boston Blackie.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
And now meets Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie. Enemy to
those who make him an enemy, friend to those who
have no friends?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
How many more miles to Side Garden a store? Driving well, Kenny.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Blackie, My run from the main highway through Cross Creek
and Indian Haller and Valley Junction. That's where Side Store is.
It's eighteen miles and three quarries.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, that's for buds. But as the crow flies, it's
only sick sake son. The next time, I think I'll
come by crow.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
But Basha Crow Blackie? What's taking into Alley Junction? Inter
Enough excitement play in the city or is it too much?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I had a phone call from Psy God yesterday afternoon
said it was in some kind of trouble and what
have you had? Mi conic come out here, but it's
in the garage.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Well, it's just why you didn't use it, Blacky. After
this pumpy road likes notart to be in the junkyard
where this bush of mine ought to be said in troubler.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Welly sand as if you were there is mighty peculiar.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Well, I've known Sai gardener for oh eighteen years, come
green up. He never been in any trouble I heard of.
But then for size disorder follow that keeps his trouble
to himself like.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
The pardon me, sir, you see them?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yes? Did I hear the driver refer to you as Blackie?
Uh huh that Beth Boston Blacky Accord. Yes, Well, allow
me to introduce myself. I'm John Jeffrey Well, President of
the Farmer Finance Corporation, savely on business of card.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
How do you do?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I'd like to meet anyone so famous on the bust
of Valley junction. But of course when you travel, you
don't know whom you're.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Going to meet. Oh, you never know whome or what
you're going to meet either.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
That's one of the interesting things about travels. One of
the reasons I like to travel, of course, I mean
into cars break. Anybody that wants out cars break gets
off here.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Wow, that's as if we're picking up an out passenger
and a pretty one.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Another of the hidristic things about travel, blackets, of course,
is this the bust of valley junction? Yeah? Sure is
longs it's going in this direction. It's going to Valley junction. Okay,
come on, we'll you pay you when you get off
next time. In holler.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
If I sat myself next to us, sick to go
ahead me plant yourself.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Just don't go on me.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Wow, I can tell you on some stick.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
A handkerchief in the breast pocket means alive, doesn't it? Well,
my band Dan is a cleaning.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Yes, you have an answer for everything, don't you. So
don't try to give me an answer to this, because
it isn't a question. Getting off the bus right around
the stand in the road, Boston, black here? Really who
says that he can look at the two of us,
me and this gun. Both of us mean business. Come on, Blackie,
we're getting off this bus. No, hey, drivers, yeah, stop
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the bus, we're getting off.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
No, wait a minute, I don't actually.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Don't be stubborn. I'm reasonable, but my gun is restless.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Well, but have you got to say driver, stop the bus?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Okay, you don't want to get out in the middle
of nowhere. Surely not my affair. And you get on
and off where they want. They're still in the franchise,
go on with twelve. Look here, Blackie. If there's something
I could do, would be glad to.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Help you call it and no, thanks, miss Wells. Just
an example of what we were saying about travel. You
never know what's going to happen next.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
What are we are you driving?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Dollar twenty for you? Nothing for the girl?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah, if you see thy gardner in Valley Junction, tell
him that I'll be there, all right, but a little lake?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Yeah, well now, no, thanks, thanks so much for getting.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Off the bus.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
So thank me. Thank you again.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I'm sorry I.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Had to do this justin had to make sure you
got off with me. I'll put the gun away. How's that?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
It's better? But still not so good?
Speaker 5 (06:30):
What do you want, somar, Let's walk up and get
my card. Talk me here and I'll tell you on
the way. My name is Marjorie Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Nice name, but it means nothing to me look.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Black Yeah, I want you to listen. Hard got myself
in a jam. I'm looking, well, you've got to help me, Blackly.
The reason I got on that bus is because I
knew you were honest.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
How'd you know that I was in tide.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Gardener's store when he phoned. You told you what bus
to take and when.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
To take it.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
So that's the background for us on my back.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Huh yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Let's have it.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Okay, listen, parents, police cars are they rolling?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
We would have started hopping now. I wasn't going down
for anything.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Wenna jumped the bush shopping.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I'm telling that what those police guards would have done
to them and you.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
They didn't even see it.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
My best nylon.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Too, My best friend is the reason you ron them.
It's like the Saturday of the Metropolitan Police was in
the first squad car.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
So were city Blue.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, it's been from the Homicide Bureau. If they're going
to Value Junction or just lay for a picnic, well
I'll find out pretty soon. Let's have your story now
my drink.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
I don't think i'll bother you with it, Blackly, Why not? Oh,
I don't know what I've just changed my mind. Okay,
get moving.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Black Oh no, not a gun. Again.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
You wouldn't want me to prove it was a gun.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I don't take your word for it.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
What happens now now I'm getting in the car.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
It's like you're going to start walking.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Not me.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I'm allergic footstep.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I think you'd be more allergic to leads. Start walking, Blackie.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
There's been around the village, inspector Saturday. Yeah, no one
in Valley Junction heard the shop at killed gardener, Thanks Cougan.
No one heard the shot. Huh, well that could be
the sheriff. Figure's gardener was killed about four hours ago.
So I guess everybody in town was taking a noontime
la ing.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
So have we found anything in the store to think
why Gardener was killed? It's a simple case of murder
and the act of robbery, Gogan. Gardener's safe have been
opened and his cash register's empty. I guess religious.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Blackie, You yes, Saturday, me or what's left? And he
has to walk in practically all the way from Cross
Creek the Valley Tunction walking.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
You look as if you'd been crawling through a dust
ball too.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Never mind about me, what are you here for? He
decided to go back the farm where you belong.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I'm here on business for the sheriff.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
What's the murre Does the sheriff want to be re elected?
Speaker 1 (09:04):
There's been a murder here and the sheriff asked me
to have it for him, because this county's never had
a killing before.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Don't tell me, Saturday. I know who the victim is
side Gardner.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
But how did you know? Because Gardener called me up
yesterday and he told me he was in trouble when
Lusy killed about four hours ago. H makes sense?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Why doesn't make sense?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I was on the Valley Junction bust a girl named
Mandrie Cleveland that invited me to get off. I had
the idea that she got me off that bus as
a stall. But that was only two hours ago.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Look, I talked to everybody on that bus when I
got here. And if you pay less attention to pretty
girls and that more attention to what you.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Start out the electure Saturday. I still think that girl
is connected with Gardener's murder in Someway.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Or other Gardener was killed by someone who robbed him.
It's that simple. Come on, I'll brite you back to town.
Gogan yes, inspector locked this place up good and tight,
so nothing is touched before I sent a special investigator.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Come.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I'm like, hey, I'll drive you.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Thanks, No, thanks, Friday, I think I'll stick around.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I'm gonna find that Marjorie's creaming again.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
When it quit wasting my time.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Come on, tell you what you can do, Friday flat.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I saw a room Sperans sign about five miles down
the road. You can bribe me that far.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Why do you want to stay?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Do you like it here?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
No? But I would like to find out who didn't
like thy gardener?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Our driver? Oh, hi, miss Will. When do we make
our next up?
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Well?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
See we left Varry Juncson hour ago, next up North Hill.
See done about a minute. So say, by the way,
I noticed the police question you back at Varie Juhnson.
Yeah they should did, poor, said Gardner. They questioned you too,
didn't they, mister Will? Yeah, they questioned everybody on this bus.
So why they question this? I don't know. We were
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going toward Bali Junction now the way from it the
murderer would be doing. Yeah, get that toe, poor Shi
Godnes night fella.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Oh the bed.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Well, I'm glad the police didn't hold us up too long,
like keep this bus on schedule? Oh God, who did it?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Harry?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Who killed Gardners? No? Baby, but I didn't. If that's
what you're thinking, are you sure sure?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I'm sure that I was.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Thinking you did it? Well?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
All out for Northio.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Passion gets the Northia all out.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
There's a room for rest. Time stop here, Bardy, all.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Right, Gogan, we'll let Blackie off.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
There, light is Bager. Thanks for Ferdy. I'll pull a
murder for you.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Sometimes we'll wait for your blackies.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
It might not be a room. Then you'll have to
walk all the way to the main heart God, bother.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I understand it's fun sleeping in the Hayloffs anyway, my face.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
The mice start complain.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yeah, you have rooms end.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Don't you.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I'm particularly who I rent to? Who are you, Boston Blackett?
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Well I have rooms for rent, but not to you?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Well, what's the matter, Blackets? Did you like your represents?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
God?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Ahead?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
And last Saturday?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Sad I help laughing once you climbed that door on
your face?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Come on, get Ino. No, I'm saying Saurday. I mean
it's time.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
But I was flint, I request, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
The three words on this little slip of paper right
here that the woman just gave me. Maybe she slammed
the door in my face.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
But look what you wrote. I'm gonna see the thing.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Oh, let me see it now. I'm sure you can
read it, Saturday. It's just three simple words.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
It says, don't go away.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
And go back to Boston, Blackie. Blackie receives a phone
call from Psy Gardner, storekeeper in the rural town of
Valley Junction, but en route there by bus he is
met by Marjorie Cleland, who promises him a ride in
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her car, but changes her mind, goes out a gun
and forces him to walk. Blackie arrives in Valley Junction
to learn that Gardner has been murdered.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
He feels the girl had something to.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Do with the killing.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Tries to rent a room in a farmhouse and is refused,
but the woman owner passes him a note telling him
to stay. As we return to our story, Marjorie Cleland
is in the farmhouse clocking to the arm.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
You were a smart cookie, missus Davis selling Blackie ways,
like I told you, just somebody hps you up pretty.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Good, didn't I?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
He was that gun?
Speaker 5 (13:57):
You were holding It made me say what I did
to Blackie?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
What I meant?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Worth smart?
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Hey, this isn't the bad joins you got here.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
This is the kitchen, isn't it. Yeah, it's the kitchen
so difficult to recognize.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
The gals like me don't ever have to know.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
What a kitchen looks like.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Where's your telephone?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
We don't have any, fat You're just one of down
at side Gardner's story at Valley Junction.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
But the police have that store padlock since I got
knocked off.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
No, what do I do?
Speaker 5 (14:27):
I'm sure that's no concern of mine, young lady.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
But I have my chores to do, and I'm gonna
do them.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Oh this, I gotta sing?
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Hey, what was that?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Help?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Was fly's noise at the back door?
Speaker 5 (14:37):
It sounded like somebody pulling went the lock.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I didn't hear a thing that's been getting nerved.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Well, go on, missus Davis, go ahead with those chores.
You were nobody at the door. Huh, it's you Blackie.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
That's gonna get her.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Blackie, thank you?
Speaker 5 (15:01):
How did you know to come back here after the
same sent you away?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Black If she held a gun and back of me, Blackie,
that's why I had to tell you to go away
when you knocked at the door.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I figured that from the note. Well, Marjorie, what goes on?
What's the scar?
Speaker 5 (15:12):
You're supposed to be smart, figure it out.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Okay, let me see.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
You got me off the bus so that you could
keep me from getting the guard in the store. Then
while I was talking to you, the police cars came by,
heading in the direction of Valley Junction.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
How am I doing?
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Mouth is moving and words are coming out, but they.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Don't mean a thing.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I think they do. Yeah, I'm beginning to like this now.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
When the police car came by, you knew they'd get
to Valley Junction in a hurry, so there was no
reason to keep me away. You didn't want anybody there,
did you.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Why don't you turn around?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Why don't what a you're on your face?
Speaker 5 (15:49):
I'd like to set her a slap where it would
do the most good, Blackie, Now, please, I want to
get on with this.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
I think you wanted the bus to reach Vallet Junction
before anybody got there, and the reason could be that
you and whoever Medici Garden they're working together.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, yeah, this is making sense.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
The murderer dropped something at the scene of the crime,
realized that later when he was away, and then had
to get back to the valley junction before the murder
was discovered, and had to make sure nobody got there first.
But Paraday didn't find whatever he left. So I'm going
back there right now.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
You were the keys car?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Here they are?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yes, thanks being very cooperative.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
It's being smart.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Tried driving the car and see what happens. Black there's
no a sparse plug in the engine. I took them
all out and hit them. Thought maybe you'd try something fancy.
Cute kid, Why don't you try forcing me to tell
you where I hit them?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
The idea sounds like fun, but times had work to do, right,
Missus Davis?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
And missus Davis, where's your talk on?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Oh? I don't have any blackies.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
The nearest one is at the gardener's store.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Oh fine, fine?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
How do I get that bus you were on some
back to swinging? About an hour too vain?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I'll wait.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
I tried walking there once and I didn't blink it.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
That's the bus driver will be going in the opposite direction, Blackie.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
That's what he thinks. And if the driver doesn't want
to turn around, we'll find out how he likes walking.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Hey, there.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
That you're the bus right? Where?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Right?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah? What is it, Blackie?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Turn the bus around. We're going where you just came from.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Oh, sorry, you can't do it, jentleeller. This bus runs
on the schedule.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Subject to change without notice. I'm getting in. Yeah, close
the door and swing the bus the other way.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
I guess maybe you're looking for trouble Blackie. Oh I'm
glad to convenience you that way. I'm gonna knock you
up waiting a.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Yeah, Well, people are getting hurting cars these days. Oh well,
I guess I can drive this name the Valley Junction.
I don't think I shouldn't have fit.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
This guy so hard.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
No, I've had nobody to talk to.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Yes, yes, did you get at the car full of
the city? Yes?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Ready, Now it's just a say it's quarters. Well you
are ready and I'm ready? So what are we waiting for?
Just a minute? So I haven't second by finday? This
is Blackie.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I'm up here at Gardener's store in Valley Junction.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Now don't get cuted. I've been trying to reach you
for an hour.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Where have you been?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I've been feeding the pigeons in the pot. But I
saw a couple of squirrells last feel.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
It's a good thing they didn't get too close to you,
or you never have come back Saturday.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Listen to me, will you?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
I've found something here at garden the store, part of
pad on.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
The door and the windows boarded up. Hard did you
get in?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Because I thought there was some kind of a tie
between this place and the bus trip I took.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I was looking for something here in the store and
I found it.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
What was it?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Part of a coupling? It's right here on the counter,
right beside the telephone. And guess what else there is here?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Why should I get you?
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Ought to know three bags of what you're going to seed?
What you're going But to skip that, Saturday, I want
you to do something. Look in your files and see
if you can find someone who looks like that John
Jeffrey Wells character. That coupling belongs to him. Now, hurry, hurry,
say I my life good?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Then it wouldn't last so long.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I don't know why I do these things. Maybe what
you hang it up for.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I'll give it to you right here.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
You want me to hang up the.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Fun If you have a nice, chatting Inspector Friday.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Ooh nice as usual.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
I didn't mean to eave drop Blackie, but I was
standing in the norway and I will heard everything you said.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Of course, does everybody in this neighborhood carry again?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
What's the matter of world? Don't you want me to know?
When inspected Paraday is going to find out about you?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I can tell you everything, Saturday, I can tell you,
But will you Why not tell me? Brady? I'll tell
you what Saturday is going to find out. There's not
going to do you any good.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Just knowing you killed God, you know, won't make me happy.
I'm such a curious fellow.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
I always want to know why.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I'll tell you why, because he recognize me any crime
in that I went to.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Prison for a crime. I didn't like the place, so
I left it without benefit of pearls fifteen years ago.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Well, you've been been hiding a long time, haven't you.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I've been hiding as an importantly legitimate businessman for fifteen years.
But when I came to visit my brother the other day,
my garden I saw me and recognized me. I had
to kill him to keep them some talking, and I
robbed the store to cover up.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
You came here to visit your brother.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Yeah me blackish?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Oh oh so, mister Wells, you and the bus rival
of brothers.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Don't tell me Marjorie is your sister.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
No, Marjorie the girl from the city.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
I hired for the occasions. One occasion the occasion of
your arrival in Valley Johnston.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
You knew I was coming.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Oh yeah, and done what birth too?
Speaker 6 (21:38):
I was listening in the window when Harry he had
talked to Sigh about recognizing me.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Oh, I see or do I? You didn't try to
keep me away before the murder.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
It was after the murder.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Was that because you knew you'd dropped this company?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Huh? And I wanted to get here before you.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I get it now. When Marjorie saw the police cars
go by, she realized there was no use in sawing me.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Then the police locked up the store after they left.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
You could still have picked up the evidence iphon.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Well instead, I'm taking you up but already, Harry, Yeah,
it's ready, biggie.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Oh if we use it, yay? Or do I still
call you as well?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
You won't call me anything. A little while Harry was
taking a special passenger for a special trip to the
main highway. Yea a special delivery.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Well thanks, thanks a lot.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
It's both of you. It's nice for you to give
me left.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I hope you like it, Lucky, because it's the last
thing you're going to get from anybody. Harry, can't we
make better time in two hours since we left Valley Junction?
You want me to get off the road and pile
up in a ditch, Biggie, the range made this root
(22:50):
slippery's week, Melassy.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Take your time, Harry. I'm in no hurry.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Oh I guess you wait, Lucky, tag a news for you.
Another mile and we were at the highway. One more
mile your last one, black.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Man, of course, But why are you bothering to take
me all the way out of the highway to kill me?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Well? I could have died just as dead. And Valley Johnson,
and I'm so peaceful in the country.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Who goes home? Back to that black ape. We're gonna
knock you out. Put you on.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Tiring, Harry and a snmen so busy talking.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
You would have heard them before. Look at what's coming around?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
A turn up?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
There ahead a police guard.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
They was one. They had no reasons. Got to slow down.
They'll go Bye, that's what I was going to do, Biggie.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Really, well, here's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
I'm yanking a bus into this stay told him to
take my purpose being over the gun.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
He's any him with a gun and a bump on
his head.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Frieday, we're ali hike like you?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
All right, Yes, as long as you think.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Don't take my driver's license away from me for this.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I jumped this craight into the bitch.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
N it's going. But look, it's a lucky thing for you.
There was something wrong with that pe and guards store.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
There wasn't anything wrong with it.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
It wasn't How can I hear everything you want? Biggie said,
after he made you hang up?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
How you remember those bags of seed?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
I told you were on the counter next to the telephone. Yeah,
so what so instead of hanging up the receiver, I
just leaned it against one of the bags.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
So you said, hear what was going on? Biggy thought?
I hung it up when he told me to. Well,
I'll be it.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Well I checked out files and found Welles was piggy.
Now he's got him and his breather. But where's the girl?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Probably still at missus Davis's rooming house.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Oh she'll be as finished to pick up what's paradaying.
You better open the door and get inside this butt
and inside?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Why far you don't know what for?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
No, you're soaking wet. Well I'll last your cool, good
turning Cruz. What you don't even know enough to come
in out of the rain?
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Stas stistists to st
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