Classic Radio 05-13-25 - Haunted Hotel, Out of the Past, and Lust for Gold - Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Now the greatest radio shows of all time.

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As my classic radios Theater.

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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now step back into a time machine. It's your host,
Wyatt Cox.

Speaker 5 (00:34):
Good evening Friend, Savionna Tancan.

Speaker 6 (00:39):
A weird and dramatic Tuesday edition of the podcast with
episodes of The Weird Circle and The Sealed Book, both
from nineteen forty five, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and Suspense
from nineteen fifty two, Mandel Kramer in The Lust for
Gold Matter and Jackson Beck in Hide and Seek. And
we'll wrap it up with an episode of Easy Aces,

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Goodman and Jane Ace from nineteen forty one. That's all
coming up on this Tuesday, thirteenth day of May. Yes,
Friday the thirteenth came on a Tuesday this month. It's
the one hundred and thirty third day of the year,
two hundred and thirty two days remaining. In twenty twenty five,
US declared war on Mexico, starting the Mexican American War.

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In eighteen forty six, Battle of Palmito Ranch in Far
South Texas. On this date in eighteen sixty five, more
than a month after Confederate General lee surrender, the last
land battle of the Civil War ended with a Confederate
victory in winning On your Way Out, you know, in
Menlo Park, New Jersey. On this date in eighteen eighty,

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Thomas Edison performed the first test of his electric railway.
The first commercial FM station went on the air in
this date in nineteen thirty nine in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The
station later became DRCFM. In nineteen forty, on this date,
Germany's conquest of France began. As the German army crossed

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the Meuse River. Churchill made probably one of his most
famous speeches to the House of Commons.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
I have never promised anything about blood, soil and.

Speaker 6 (02:22):
Square, Winston Churchill, speaking to the House of Commons on
this date back in nineteen forty during a visit to Venezuela, Caracas,
to be precise, on this date. In nineteen fifty eight,
Vice President Nixon's car attacked by anti American demonstrators. Belle
Croz trademark registered on this date. Also in nineteen fifty eight.

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In nineteen sixty, hundreds of UC Berkeley students congregated for
the first day of protest against a visit by the
House on American Activities Committee. Thirty one students arrested, and
the Free Speech Movement was born. In nineteen eighty one,
men met ali Akda attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul
the Second in Saint Peter's Square in Rome. Pope rushed

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to hospital to undergo emergency surgery and survived. Cardinal Terrence
Cook spoke in a mass in New York Saint Patrick's Cathedral.

Speaker 7 (03:16):
As we see in it once again the bitter harvest
of violence in our world. Our first reaction must be
one of gratitude to God that the light of this
great and gentle shepherd has been spared, and that he

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will continue to guide the church in health and strength
for the years that God will give him.

Speaker 6 (03:46):
Four days after being shot, the Pope offered forgiveness to
his would be assassined from his hospital bed. The Pope
spent three weeks in the hospital before being released fully
recovered from his wounds. On this In nineteen eighty five,
Philadelphia police stormed MOVE headquarters to end a standoff, killing
eleven move members and destroying the homes of two hundred

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and fifty city residents.

Speaker 8 (04:11):
We intend to evict from the house.

Speaker 5 (04:14):
We intend to evacuate from the house. We intend to
seize control of the house.

Speaker 6 (04:18):
Mayor W. Wilson Good earlier in the day, who later
said the attempt to evict was met by gunfire, and said,
quoting what we have out there is war. It was
on this date in twenty thirteen American physician Kermit Gosnell
found guilty in Pennsylvania of murdering three infants born alive
during attempt at abortions, involuntary manslaughter of a woman during

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an abortion procedure, and other charges. Passing away on this
date in history, the marvelous actor Gary Cooper, Hoss Cartwright
Dan Blocker passing away on this date. Musician Bob Wills,
the King of Tech of Western swing, ah jazz, trumpeter
Chet Baker, heat Waves, Johnny Wilder Junior, actor Frank A.

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Letter Duck, Donald Dunn, the Great bass player, psychologist, doctor
Joyce Brothers, actress Margot Kidder, and the wonderful Doris Day.
Birthdays on this date include Mary Wells.

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Nineteen sixty four.

Speaker 10 (05:34):
Nothing you could say you can tell me away from
my God nothing you could do, because I've stuck like.

Speaker 11 (05:45):
Do my God.

Speaker 10 (05:49):
I'm sticking to my God.

Speaker 12 (05:51):
Stand to.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
Talk the father, stick together.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
I'm telling you from the.

Speaker 6 (05:58):
Start, I can't be my God. Mary Wells, big hit,
my guy. Mary Wells was born on this dayton history,
along with Francis of ASSISI, the King Consort of Spain.
Also Canadian musician Gil Evans, boxer Joe Lewis, b Arthur

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of Maud and Golden Girls fame and singer Richie Balance
all born on this date in history and have moved
on to brighter lands.

Speaker 13 (06:28):
Hi, this is Jeff Foxworthy. It is now time for
the birthday announcements. The following people are now officially older
than Dirt.

Speaker 6 (06:37):
You remember him from taxi driver Harvey Kytel is eighty
six today.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Not for that apartment already it.

Speaker 14 (06:43):
You're right, I don't want to hear anymore.

Speaker 15 (06:45):
I got off on my hands by now with that
contor of yours.

Speaker 6 (06:47):
You want to move, go on, move, believe me out
of it. From Mean Streets Harvey Kiteitel eighty six years
old today. Actress Santa Berger from Bang Bang, You're Dead
and many other movies, It's eighty four years old. Today
a little Stevie wonder seventy three years.

Speaker 16 (07:07):
Old, professionally at the age of nine. Ever since I
could holler, really, I did a lot of listening to
the radio. So I listened to a variety of kinds
of music. What was admired, gospel music, some classical music.
I've listened to all of the pop artists and R
and B people.

Speaker 14 (07:30):
You are, Sunshine up. That's why I always be here.

Speaker 17 (07:44):
You are.

Speaker 12 (07:52):
For a stay in.

Speaker 6 (07:58):
What wonderful music. Stevie Wonders seventy three years old today.
On the other side of the aisle, Stephen Colbert is
sixty one.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
Welcome to LIGHTHO everybody, thanks so much.

Speaker 18 (08:11):
I'm Stephen Colbert.

Speaker 13 (08:12):
How's every been doing tonight?

Speaker 6 (08:13):
Stephen Colbert sixty one today from Hoody and the Blowfish,
Darius Rucker fifty nine from Loss. Neil Hopkins is forty
eight from HBO's Girls. Lena Dunham is thirty nine.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
That's not what you would describe as like a chill girl.

Speaker 19 (08:30):
I'm not like a cool, relaxed lady like you would
never meet me and.

Speaker 9 (08:33):
Be like that, Hannah. She really goes with the flow
like a funky youth.

Speaker 6 (08:37):
Lena Dunham thirty nine years old today from Twilight and
The Batman. Robert Pattinson is thirty nine.

Speaker 20 (08:46):
Hello, I'm sorry didn't get a chance to introduce myself
last week.

Speaker 5 (08:50):
I'm Edward Cohen.

Speaker 6 (08:52):
Yes, from Twilight. Robert Pattinson thirty nine today, Also from
The Vampire Diaries, Candice King is thirty eight. From Showtime's
Weeds and Godspell, Hunter Parish is thirty eight and country
singer songwriter Morgan Wallen is thirty two. Those just a
few of the people who celebrate the thirteenth day of

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May is their birthday. If this is your birthday, Hi,
We're the four Freshmen and we just want to say
happy birthday to coming up on this thirteenth day of May. Friday,
the thirteenth, coming on a Tuesday this month. An episode
of The Weird Circle eighty years ago. The Haunted Hotel

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That's next.

Speaker 21 (09:45):
No one knows when disaster might strike. It could come
in the form of hurricane, flood, blizzard, or fire, or
by enemy attack, so it's wise to be prepared for
any emergency. It's wise to take a Red Cross, First
daid or home nursing course. At least one member of
the family should know how to take care of an
injured person. Remember, in time of disaster, doctors, nurses and

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other medical personnel will be difficult, if not impossible, to find,
So take a Red Cross First Aid or home nursing course.

Speaker 6 (10:12):
Now we start off this Tuesday with an episode of
The Weird Circle. It was a syndicated drama. It also
aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System in NBC. It lasted
two seasons, thirty nine shows each, so seventy eight shows
mainly radio adaptations of classic horror and supernatural stories. And

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this again was a ZIF production, a syndication group, So
that's where some of that stuff happened from. And we
will listen to this episode of the program, going back
eighty years May thirteenth, nineteen forty five. The Haunted Hotel.

Speaker 22 (11:00):
The Weird Circle. In this cave by the Restless Sea,
we are.

Speaker 23 (11:12):
Met to call from out the past, stories.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
Strange and weird.

Speaker 23 (11:21):
Bellkeeper pull the bell so all may know. We are
gathered again in the Weird Circle.

Speaker 22 (12:04):
Out of the path, phantoms of a world gone by
speak again, the Immortal Tale.

Speaker 19 (12:12):
The Haunted Hotel. Venice is a beautiful city which climate
is ideal. Its buildings picturesque, his atmosphere charming, but I

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felt almost physically incapable of pleasure as the oarsmon tied
his gondola to the castle's hotel mooring, where in my
brain there was just one thought, kept flying around and
around like an imprisoned bat. Why is Philip dead? Why
is Philip dead? And it was this that had brought
me clear across an ocean to Venice.

Speaker 8 (12:58):
Ah, good evening.

Speaker 19 (13:00):
You have a reservation for Henry Westwick?

Speaker 23 (13:03):
Yes, signor it was you who requested a northeast room
on the ground floor, was it not.

Speaker 19 (13:08):
That's right overlooking the canal.

Speaker 24 (13:10):
You are lucky.

Speaker 23 (13:11):
The very next mail and other American name, Miss James,
asked for the same room.

Speaker 19 (13:15):
Huh, But of course you had the priority, Oh.

Speaker 9 (13:18):
I, Miss James? Does that mean I can't have room fourteen?

Speaker 19 (13:22):
Or sinnerina? I am afraid so, unless, of course, you
can persuade mister Westwick to trade with you. Yours just
number fifteen, next door to the young man here, but
without a view of the canal.

Speaker 9 (13:35):
You wouldn't like to exchange, would you, mister Westwick?

Speaker 19 (13:38):
I wish I could be more the land, Miss James,
But I have a special reason for wanting fourteen.

Speaker 22 (13:45):
Boy, Yes, take these bags Room fourteen and fifteen.

Speaker 19 (13:50):
Just follow the page signor scena.

Speaker 9 (13:52):
Thank you a special reason. You sound so mysterious.

Speaker 19 (13:57):
Well, as a matter of fact, I'm here solve a mystery.

Speaker 9 (14:01):
Really, please tell me about it. Ah, that is, if
you don't mind.

Speaker 19 (14:06):
No, I think I'd like to miss James, just to
make up for not being able to switch rooms with you.
Six weeks ago my brother married was very sudden. He'd
met this Countess Narona and her brother Rivar while traveling
through Italy, fallen deeply in love with her, and they
came here to spend a honeymoon.

Speaker 9 (14:22):
Oh, I felt the hotel opened just last week we
did er.

Speaker 19 (14:27):
This was formerly an old castle. Philip rented it for
a month. He was scheduled to leieve the day before remodeling.

Speaker 9 (14:32):
Began, but something happened.

Speaker 19 (14:36):
He was only here two weeks when he died.

Speaker 9 (14:39):
How shocking.

Speaker 19 (14:41):
Not only that, but when I wrote to his wife
in more particulars I I got no reply. She and
her brother seemed to have vanished off the face of
the earth. And this took me a month to wind
up my business affairs. But I'm determined to stay here
until I find out exactly what happened to Philip Powell. Why.

Speaker 9 (14:57):
Yes, I can understand how you'd feel about your brother,
mister Westwick, but you haven't told me the reason you
want Room fourteen.

Speaker 19 (15:05):
Oh uh, that was the master bedroom. I've got a
hunch if no owner left any cloth, it could be there.

Speaker 9 (15:12):
Here are your rooms, sir, madame, Well, good night and
very good luck.

Speaker 19 (15:18):
I'll see you around tomorrow evening.

Speaker 9 (15:21):
While I was changed, I think so, after all, we
Americans have got to stick together. And uh, Henry, Yes,
my first name's Elaine.

Speaker 19 (15:34):
I went into my own room, shut the door, and
immediately that overwhelming sense of depression closed in on me again.
For a few minutes there in the hall of Lane's
warmth and vitality had dispelled it. Now alone in the
very place of my brother's death, I felt more than
ever confused and discouraged. Where to start my search? I

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didn't know. As I crept between the cool sheets, I
thought how much this room could tell me. It would
only speak if I were only sensitive enough to grasp
what it was saying. Then I just drifted aimlessly with
the sound of the canal in my ears, lifting me up,

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bearing me along like a bit of.

Speaker 5 (16:19):
Wood on its surface.

Speaker 19 (16:23):
For a while, I didn't realize the sound had changed,
that it had become a murmur of voices speaking floored Italian.
But then I began to see them, a man and
a woman. Their images were slightly distorted, like an improperly
focused motion picture, and even through my dreamer, I knew
I was outside the scene, invisible to them, an audience one.

Speaker 9 (16:47):
How can you ask that of me? Revv? You're my brother,
the only one on earth I care about it? How
can you ask me to sacrifice myself to.

Speaker 25 (16:55):
That unattractive ball of an American? Do you think I'm
unaware of your feelings their own? That I'm totally blind
to how much he repels you? But what can I
do there?

Speaker 19 (17:03):
After?

Speaker 9 (17:03):
Me again?

Speaker 25 (17:04):
For my gambling debts? And those men of vicious completely unprincipled?
Why killing me would mean as little to they miss
snapping a toothpick?

Speaker 19 (17:10):
And surely you don't want my death on yourself?

Speaker 9 (17:13):
Oh please, River, don't try to work on my sympathies.
You sound like such a.

Speaker 25 (17:17):
Pool but nor ownA. He's not an unkind man. Didn't
he lease this castle? For us and let us move
in just on the whole.

Speaker 9 (17:24):
Did you marry keep still? Can't you?

Speaker 26 (17:29):
Very well?

Speaker 9 (17:31):
I shall send Westwick a note by messenger saying I
accept his proposal. What's the day's date? River?

Speaker 25 (17:39):
It's the sixteenth, December sixteenth, and.

Speaker 19 (17:44):
Thank you Norna. I don't know which happened first, the
screen going blank, on my mind refusing any more of
the vision, But suddenly I found myself sitting up straight
in bed, my eyes wide open, my hands digging convulsively
into the quilt on each side of my What soak body?
How a horrible nightmare, I thought, And perhaps I could

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have accepted it as such, except for one thing. In
the dream. There had been a waste paper basket near
Narona's desk, with a newspaper lying on top of it,
And while I could not see the Countess nor her
brother clearly, the date of that paper had been quite plain,
December fifteenth, and my brother had written to me that

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his fiance was so eager for their marriage she had
inadvertently dated her acceptance a day ahead. That detail had
left my mind completely. Could this dream have been an
extension of reality? Emotions undergone so vivid they had left
their impress on the walls, to be returned to whomever
would receive them. I I did not sleep much the

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rest of the night. I spent the next afternoon own
in a thoroughly fruitless search for some clue in Corona's
present whereabouts. It was rather glad by the clock to
shower and change clothes at the hotel. I just finished
dinner and decided on a stroll when I heard Elane
calling me.

Speaker 9 (19:12):
Henry, Hi, do you always eat dinner so late? I
waited for hours and hours, and then I decided I
was just too hungry.

Speaker 19 (19:21):
Well, I am flattered. Want to go for a.

Speaker 24 (19:23):
Walk with me?

Speaker 9 (19:24):
I'd love to. And you needn't be so pleased with yourself,
nor really, isn't any special accomplishment of your own that
you're the only decent looking mail in the hotel?

Speaker 19 (19:34):
Thank you for that left handed compliment. And are you
going to chase me all over the place you lank?

Speaker 8 (19:39):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (19:40):
Madly? Tell me? How did today's suthing go? Sherlock?

Speaker 19 (19:45):
Oh, not very well, I'm afraid. The only new factor
I've discovered is that no one in all Venice seems
to have ever seen Rona. Oh that's incredible, I know,
But Philip alone signed the least, and then he and
Norona and Revard moved into the castle. That much, the
real estate agent told me.

Speaker 9 (20:01):
How about the servants, surely they must have seen her?

Speaker 19 (20:04):
Well, there was only one, a man named Ferrari have
been with a countess a long time. Now he's disappeared completely.
I suppose they took him with them wherever they've gone.

Speaker 9 (20:15):
You have got a puzzle, haven't you.

Speaker 19 (20:17):
Well, even if I did discover that Philip was murdered,
I still don't have the faintest idea of what his
murderess looks like. And nobody seems familiar with their titles.

Speaker 9 (20:27):
Probably phonies, say, I never thought of that, you know
a name? What?

Speaker 19 (20:33):
I'm not sure, of course, but there really may be
something under that hair? Why out?

Speaker 9 (20:40):
And I should wear my brass knuckles in the.

Speaker 19 (20:42):
Future, madam, please, I have a very delicate stomach. Did
you hear the sounded made when you built a me?

Speaker 9 (20:47):
Idiot? That was my bracelet feet, six tiny slagh bells
and a silver chain.

Speaker 19 (20:52):
Oh well, I thought that they only put sleigh bells
on horses. Oh wow, Maybe we'd better get back to
the hotel. Where you really get angry, didn't let to
carry people home. I'd never met a girl like e
Lain before, pretty intelligent, with a sense of humor, all
at the same time. It was with the greatest reluctance

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that I finally consented to us saying good night, to
making her promise that she'd see me next evening. But
was that the only reason? I wondered? Was I afraid
that I might have another dream? I pulled the cover
up to my shoulders, and almost instantly, as if it

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had been impatient for my coming, the dream began again.

Speaker 9 (21:41):
I can't stand him any longer, even not another day.
We've been married just two weeks, and already he's scrimping.
Already he's being economical. Why don't you take the bus,
Maarona instead of a cat It's just as comfortable. And
he seems to think.

Speaker 25 (21:56):
That paying my debts absolves him of all other responsibility
toward me, and what's more, that I should be eternally
grateful to him for it.

Speaker 19 (22:03):
As he said, anything about those suits I bought?

Speaker 9 (22:05):
No, he hasn't seen the building yet. Oh it's hard
enough on you, what I'll admit, But how about me?
He just stays in that library, reading all the time,
and refuses even to let me go outside the door
without you revalve I'm leaving him. No, why not. We've
paid off those gangsters you call your friend.

Speaker 25 (22:26):
Look, let's not fool ourselves in the runa. We'll always
be spending more than we've got.

Speaker 9 (22:30):
We come throw him away.

Speaker 19 (22:31):
Just yet, mister Westburio wants to see you.

Speaker 5 (22:38):
I'm afraid it's that tailorville.

Speaker 25 (22:40):
Oh lord, now I'll have to stand there like a
disobedient little boy while he gives me a dressing gown.

Speaker 19 (22:46):
I said, I thought you were out of the house,
but but he etshen.

Speaker 5 (22:52):
You come in.

Speaker 9 (22:53):
How's your call, Ferrari?

Speaker 27 (22:55):
Oh not too good, goddess, not too good.

Speaker 25 (22:58):
If only there was some way to have Westwick's money
without his presence, or if we could just make.

Speaker 19 (23:02):
A quick killing, and yes, a quick killing. No, do
you want to live with that man the rest of
your days? Tell me nor ownA. Does your husband carry
any life insurance? All had gone black again, and I
was pushing desperately through the thick sludge of sleep, struggling
back into consciousness. It was nearly dawn. The world from

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my window looked cool and clean, and quiet. I was
so shaken I I could barely dress, But I knew
only a long walk would calm my shivering nerves. And besides,
there were a few telegrams I had to send, telegrams
which might clear up the mystery of Philip's death. Oh,

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the day went well, incredibly better than I'd hoped. And yet,
getting Mikey from the desk that evening, I realized I
was right back where I started. I walked down the
corridor and hesitated in front of the lane store. Should
I knock and say hello? Or wait till I was
dressed for dinner? That problem was quickly solved.

Speaker 9 (24:40):
Good evening.

Speaker 19 (24:41):
Well, how did you know I was here?

Speaker 9 (24:43):
Well? Ours are the only rooms at the end of
this hall. I heard you walk by and stop and
no sound for key.

Speaker 19 (24:50):
For a moment you had me worried. I thought you
were psyched.

Speaker 9 (24:52):
Oh I am. Didn't you know? I am the seventh daughter,
have a seventh son of a seventh son. They slipped
me in because they felt it aga really.

Speaker 19 (25:01):
Oh, then I don't have to tell you what I
found out today, do I? Oh you know it already.

Speaker 9 (25:05):
Oh, come on inside, you horrible creature, and stop keeping
into spen. Now tell me all about it.

Speaker 19 (25:13):
Well, I feel like a pawn in a chess game
in name. The minute my side forges ahead, something occurs
to checkmate it. Like what?

Speaker 9 (25:21):
For instance?

Speaker 19 (25:22):
Oh, like discovering Philip had been insured for fifty thousand dollars.

Speaker 9 (25:26):
Fifty thousand dollars.

Speaker 19 (25:28):
I telegraphed all the insurance companies in America today and
one of them cabled the information immediately.

Speaker 9 (25:33):
Why hear, you're brilliant. Whatever gave you the idea?

Speaker 19 (25:36):
Well, I've been having just a hunch. They gave me
the name of Phillip's examining physician here in town who
filled in the death certificate, and I checked up on
him this afternoon. Yes. No, he's straight as a die,
got the best reputation of any doctor in Venice. And
he's where's my brother died of bronchitis? And well, I

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I'm sure the insurance examiners weren't any cheerful about handing
our fifty thousand dollars, especially with only one premium paid
on it. But they believed him.

Speaker 9 (26:06):
Oh that means a dead trail again.

Speaker 28 (26:08):
Huh.

Speaker 19 (26:08):
I'm afraid so, Oh.

Speaker 9 (26:10):
Henry, I wish I could help you is the only
something I could do.

Speaker 19 (26:13):
I'll tell you why, Eleyne, get into a fluffy dress
and clasp those funny little sleigh bells around your wrist,
and we'll go out and really see Venice tonight.

Speaker 9 (26:21):
Okay, Henry, I'll meet you in the lobby in ten minutes. Henry,
what is it you've been trying to act gay all evening?
That's exactly what it's been, an act.

Speaker 19 (26:34):
I'm sorry, Elene. I I didn't mean to worry you
with my troubles.

Speaker 9 (26:37):
Do you worry me much more when you won't tell
me what worries you.

Speaker 19 (26:42):
I know you're tired. It's nearly two o'clock and you've
been yawning for the past half hour. Elene. Would you
think me crazy if I told you I was afraid
to go back into my room, afraid to to go
to sleep. But why I I have the most hideous
dreams all about Philip and the Countess and her brother.

Speaker 9 (27:01):
Oh good heavens, Henry, that's perfectly natural. The three of
them are constantly on your mind, and you are using
your own as old room.

Speaker 19 (27:09):
But the nightmare seemed to be planned. They seemed to
have a purpose behind them.

Speaker 9 (27:14):
Look if you wish, I'll gladly change rooms with you.

Speaker 29 (27:17):
No.

Speaker 19 (27:18):
Oh, thanks a lot, Lane, But the least I can
do for whatever is trying to give me the messages, receive.

Speaker 5 (27:25):
It good Night's funny face.

Speaker 19 (27:31):
Sleep didn't come so easily now, perhaps because I was
too anxious to get into the dream, or because for
the first time I'd acknowledged a complete belief in it.
Then he rate. My eyes simply wouldn't stay closed. My
mind kept whirling ceaselessly. I tried to lie very quietly
without thrashing, and my body grew taut and straining with

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the effort. Finally, just as I felt I could stand
the symability no longer, the thread slapt my brain whim
limp and a shadow play.

Speaker 9 (28:01):
Take another look, River. He promised you'd come immediately.

Speaker 19 (28:04):
The doctor's not here yet, nor ownA. Do you think
I'm blind?

Speaker 9 (28:06):
No, no, no, I'm sorry, it's just nervousness, I guess.

Speaker 19 (28:11):
Poor sister. Never mind, it'll be all over with spy tomorrow.

Speaker 9 (28:14):
Countess, yes, ferrari Ah, but we should come to this
river the only friend we have lift will we bury
him in another's grave?

Speaker 27 (28:26):
I don't mind, Countess. In fact, I should be flattered.
Think how long I shall be pointed out as a
millionaire instead of the pauper I really am. Twice before
I had this illness. I knew a third attack would
be fatal.

Speaker 9 (28:45):
He's coming quickly now, Ferrari, repeat your story.

Speaker 5 (28:48):
Yes, I am Philip Westwick.

Speaker 27 (28:53):
Last week I caught cold, but I refused to have
a doctor, though my wife pleaded strenuously that I should.
I hold a fifty thousand dollar policy on my life,
had any of it of my death. I wish the

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doctor to communicate with him. My wife will arrange all
the funeral details and notify by relatives in America.

Speaker 9 (29:26):
Right now, I must go into the library and find
my husband. He'll be pleased to see me. I'm sure
there's a small jewelers bill of mine. He's taken him
there to study. Oh well, that'll soon be over for good.
And it's most important. Philip doesn't want into this part
of the house while the doctor's still here. That might

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prove awkward there or not?

Speaker 19 (29:51):
When do we finish with.

Speaker 9 (29:52):
Philip tonight after the doctor's safely gone. How a knight, But.

Speaker 19 (29:57):
You know I can't stand the sight of luck.

Speaker 9 (29:59):
Don't worry. I'm trying to do this thing myself. I
do not propose to have it bungled. There he's at
the door. Now wait until I'm outside, then answer it
and river yes. If the doctor asks where Missus Westwig is,
tell him my constant vigilance has tired me. So I'm

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asleep in another room.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Very well, no rona, very well.

Speaker 19 (30:29):
Tablov faitted slowly before my eyes, and try, as my
subconscious would call it back, make it unringal further for me.
The curtain remained stubbornly closed. I didn't wake after this dream,
as I always had before, sank into a dense, hypnotic slumber.
Then I felt hot, bright fingers of sunlight touched my eyelids.

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I knew it was morning, and I awoke. Between bat
and my breakfast, I formulated a final plan. Something in
last night's vision had given me idea. It was just
a little lead, to be sure, but everything else had
turned out blind dolly, so I had to try it.
I was sitting on the floor in the library, surrounded

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by books when you lane walk it oh, looking for someone? Lady?

Speaker 9 (31:14):
What oh is this where you've been all afternoons? I
just came in to get a magazine because when you're
not around, the hotel's so boring.

Speaker 19 (31:25):
Thank you for them kind words, man. You can add
them to my bill when I leave.

Speaker 9 (31:29):
What are you doing this? Another clue in the case
of the mission count is or have you simultaneously lost
your mind and found a new variation on paper dollis?

Speaker 19 (31:38):
It's a clue? I think? Sit down here, make yourself useful,
all right?

Speaker 9 (31:44):
Now?

Speaker 19 (31:44):
What I'll look through this pile of books and see
if you can find a bill or a letter. I
have reason to believe in Noirona bought some jewelry.

Speaker 9 (31:51):
So what all women by jewelry, even I do?

Speaker 19 (31:55):
If we can find out where she bought it, we'll
be able to get her description.

Speaker 5 (31:58):
See.

Speaker 9 (31:58):
Oh, what a dope I am.

Speaker 19 (32:02):
Oh, I never argue with a lady. What if the
bill's not here, it won't matter too much. I'll canvas
every jewelry store in Venice till I hit the right one.

Speaker 9 (32:11):
How come you so sure of this angle? Hemmy, did
you find out something new?

Speaker 19 (32:15):
Well? I had a dream about Narona last night.

Speaker 9 (32:19):
Oh, well, kill me, Henry. What does she look like?
Is she beautiful?

Speaker 19 (32:23):
It's funny, but I don't really know It's as though
I'm near sighted and can't get the image distinctly. Help me,
I've tried.

Speaker 9 (32:33):
Hey what, oh, Henry, it's a letter. Open me quickly,
see what's the one we want?

Speaker 19 (32:42):
It is a bill made out the Phillip for three
thousand lira.

Speaker 9 (32:46):
Oh Alene, this is.

Speaker 19 (32:47):
The break, This is the opening wedge. I've got a
hunch it. From now on, the mystery gonna crack wide open.
I'm gonnall the joy for an appointment.

Speaker 9 (32:54):
I don't wanna be a kill joy Henry, but he
says on the bill still hours from ten to six.
It's now.

Speaker 19 (33:01):
Oh ope, well, it doesn't matter. I'll go tomorrow. Tonight
we'll celebrate. We'll have puffles and Nightingale's tongues and champagne,
the works.

Speaker 9 (33:09):
Anyway, Henry, we'll have the champagne.

Speaker 19 (33:15):
Late that night, when we returned to the hotel, I
felt more than ever that at last I was getting
into the root of Philip's death. I crept into bed.
I could wait for the dream calmly now, because I
was no longer running around in circles, but right at
the threshold to my brother's vengeance. I I recognized the

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car at the outside my own door, and Rivard and
Marona walking softly toward it. You're sure you can do it.

Speaker 9 (33:45):
I'm not afraid. I'll go through with my end of it.
Just be sure you don't mess up yours. Remember now,
the biggest wine cast you can find in the cellar,
and saw a widen a hole in the tops of
the body will go through. Have you got the knight,
of course? Now go for Heaven's sake, you make me nervous.

Speaker 19 (34:05):
I watched her, whether a nicey agonized horror nor her
dream had produced. She stealthily opened the door, and I
could see Philip at the window, his back toward us,
gazing out over the canal. Didn't seem to hear her
footsteps sliding across the floor.

Speaker 30 (34:22):
Coming nearer and nearer to him.

Speaker 19 (34:25):
I wanted to shout, scream at him, order him against
the roder. I knew I was just a spectator watching
a hideous motion picture, and I could not change this ending.

Speaker 5 (34:36):
She stopped him, motionless, just.

Speaker 9 (34:39):
In back of him.

Speaker 19 (34:41):
I saw her hand come up slowly the shot slender knife,
the blade glittering up right in his the bracelet on
her wrists just as it started downwards for the final Proust,
I heard her familiar sound. It was then I realized
the dream of dissolve, and I was teasing up in reality.
I grabbed her hand.

Speaker 31 (34:56):
Oh, let me gold.

Speaker 19 (34:58):
Win, what it was you?

Speaker 12 (35:00):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (35:00):
Let me go?

Speaker 19 (35:01):
No, I seeing one member of the west Cook Family's
quite enough, countless and rona.

Speaker 9 (35:09):
One moment more, and you'd never have known my identity.

Speaker 19 (35:12):
Yes, I would. I'd seen your hand with a knife,
with a sleigh bell bracelet two.

Speaker 9 (35:20):
That gave me a way to the last thing your
brother ever paid for alive, Henry, if you had not
found the bill for it, I shouldn't have tried to
kill you tonight.

Speaker 19 (35:31):
No, when would you have tried to kill me?

Speaker 9 (35:34):
Compass, That's never I liked you, Henry. We run. I
learned of your arrival from the shipping news while we
were in the line collecting Philip's insurance from the branch
office there. I followed you, of course, to make sure
you discovered nothing. However, we were both.

Speaker 19 (35:50):
Unfortunate, especially you know. Oh no, walk in front of
me to the telephone. I've got the dagger now, remember
my clerk. Will you please call the police, tell them
there's a murderers in room. Fourteen. Yes, thank you, go

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on a rona. What about your American accent? It's quite perfect.

Speaker 9 (36:18):
I really am a countess, even though from an obscure
town in Luxembourg, and I was given the appropriate education.
I could speak six languages fluently at the age of ten. However,
one cannot turn titles into bread nowadays, and so we
had to live by our wits. Revived eyes.

Speaker 8 (36:35):
Come in and you're a westbook. They are here.

Speaker 9 (36:38):
Shall I send 'em in?

Speaker 2 (36:39):
No?

Speaker 9 (36:40):
I should go out to them. Henry, take this bracelet
to remember me. By such little deal, one would not
see them capable of sounding a death now, of course, goodbye, Henry, goodbye, goodbye.

Speaker 6 (37:05):
Names From Sunday, May thirteenth, nineteen forty five, the Weird

(38:15):
Circle on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Coos, take a
look at some of the headlines coming up next here,
as Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox continues.

Speaker 18 (38:31):
When buying your emergency food and water supply, choose foods
that provide a well balanced diet. For instance, canned soups, fruits, vegetables,
fruit juices, package cereals, and dried foods are excellent for storing.
Raisins and chocolate are good energy building foods and take
up little storage space. Avoid storing salty foods because they
will only add to the problem of drinking water. Remember,

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in case of attack, your emergency food and water supply
may have to last your family two weeks.

Speaker 6 (39:00):
On this Tuesday edition of Classic Radio Theater with Wyatcox,
So let's take a look at a few of the
news headlines from Sunday, May thirteenth, nineteen forty five. Administrationists
conceded yesterday serious doubts of putting through their full program
as Congress approached a two way showdown on the first
legislation dealing with postwar international cooperation. Breton Wood's World Bank

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and Monetary Adjustment plans and postwar terra policy were set
for votes this week in the House Banking and the
Ways and Means committees. Both committees will produce legislation, but
administration leaders are not sure it'll be what they want.
State Department closed its case before the Ways it Means
Committee yesterday for both breton Woods and its terror proposals.

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The plea presented by the brother of Ohio's re Republican
Senator Robert A. Taft, Charles P. Taft, and he is
the head of the Department's Office of Transportation and communit
Nications Policy. In other news, Heinrich Himmler, number one surviving
Nazi terrorists, reportedly an Allied prisoner. Last night it was

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learned that hepty Hermann Gering, who blindly denies any wrongdoing,
has been indicted as a war criminal on several books
full of evidence. The Allied dragnet for the Nazi murderers
and scavengers of overrun nations was rapidly catching the fugitive
and dossier's and witnesses were being prepared for the judgment
of international courts determined to meet out full exploitation and punishment.

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CBS correspondent Charles Collingwood reporting from Paris at Himler, Nazi
home front dictator chief of the Gestapo as the late
Reinhardt Heinrich had been held under house arrest in Flinserg
by Admiral Carl Donuts. Suspension of new Lenley shipments to

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Soviet Russia up pending review of the whole mutual aid
program in the light of Pacific war requirements, was disclosed
last night by Foreign Economic Administrator Leo T. Crowley. Crowley
announcing specifically new shipments to Europe are being held up,
except those destined the countries now at war with Japan,
or to countries through which redeployment of our troops now

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in Europe will be facilitated. The sections of the British
press said yesterday the next meeting of the Big Three,
President Truman, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin might be
on German soil, possibly in some Prussian country house near Berlin.
London Sunday Chronicles said Stalin had rejected London as the

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site of the important conference on vital problems arising from
victory in Europe. While the Sunday Times expressed belief that
the meeting would be in Germany. The Time suggested that
Churchill had traveled more than other leaders and should not
again be asked to undertake such a lengthy journey. Reliable
sources said last night that the Big Three taken over

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the thus faltering efforts of lesser officials to solve the
Big Three's problem in Their toughest diplomatic problem is dispute
over Poland. At the same time, Acting Secretary of State
Joseph C. Grew officially denied a report that Stalin had
said in messages to Truman and Churchill that there was

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no possibility of cooperation between Russia and the Western Allies.
Two hundred million counterfeit red ration coupons, described by Regional
OPA administrator Daniel P. Wooley as the largest seizure of
its kind, found yesterday in a Brooklyn home. Woolly said
the amount was the equivalent to one month's ration allotment

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for about half of New York City's population. OPA agents
and the police who raided the home also seized, Woolly said,
counterfeit gasoline coupons for two point five million gallons and
counterfeit sugar coupons for six and a quarter million pounds.
Willie said six members of a family living in the

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house taken into custody for questioning. President Truman will leave
the nation in prayer tonight for victory over Japan and
guidance into the way of peace. The President will offer
his personal prayer in one of Washington's churches. Throughout the country,
special prayers will be said in all houses of worship

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of all creeds. In British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden borrowed
a nickel from a reporter yesterday so the two little
British boys with the memory of a Japanese prison camp
still in their minds, might hear an American juke box
for the first time. The boys looked wonderingly at the
jukebox while Eden searched through his pockets. He said, boys,

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I can't find a nickel, so I guess we won't
play this music box well. The boy's member of a
group of more than sixty British subjects repatriated from the
Philippines and en route to England, looked disappointed. So Eden
turned to a newspaper man and got a coin. The
music started, one of those loud, jazzy songs. Little Bobby
Miller said, gee, I've never seen one of these before.

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Bobby was ten. He was born in the Philippines. His
parents are British. The other little boy, twelve year old
Charles Reeves, said he was born in Sussex, England, and
he asked Eden, do they have these music boxes in England?
The after British diplomat said no. Though some of the

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day's top news stories is reported in the newspapers of Sunday,
thirteenth day of May nineteen forty five, we continue with
the up next from that same Sunday, The Sealed Book.

Speaker 21 (44:48):
That's next, You can protect yourself from radioactive fallout after
an anime attack. I'll attest shown that an underground shelter
covered by three feet of earth offers the best protection.
A basement shelter could be made safe by closing off windows,

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exterior entrances, and banking exposed walls. In homes without basements,
first floor areas with the least exposure, such as bathroom,
utility room, or hallway should be selected. Be prepared start
building your home shelter today.

Speaker 6 (45:24):
Now we go to another one of those mystery and
fantasy programs written by Roberty Arthur and David Cogan, the
same people responsible for The Mysterious Traveler going back to
this date in nineteen forty five, eighty years ago Me thirteenth,
nineteen forty five The Sealed Book. It was syndicated and

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it also aired on Mutual in nineteen forty five. And
we will hear an episode of that now which is
entitled Out of the Past.

Speaker 32 (46:06):
The Seal Book.

Speaker 9 (46:22):
Yah.

Speaker 32 (46:31):
Once again, the keeper of the Book has opened the
ponderous door to the secret vault, wherein has kept a
great seal book in which has recorded all the secrets
and mysteries of mankind through the ages. Here are tales
of every kind, tales of murder, of madness, of dark deeds,

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strange and terrible beyond belief. Keeper of the book, I wouldn't,
oh what tale we tell this time? Open the great
book and let us read.

Speaker 24 (47:07):
Slowly.

Speaker 32 (47:08):
The great book opens one by one. The keeper of
the book turns the pages and stops. Ah, the strange
tale of a dying man told on his deathbed, A

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story of madness and horror, a tale called out of
the past. Here is a tale out of the past,

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as it is written on the pages of the sealed book.
It is five o'clock in the afternoon and Helen Margan
has just received the afternoon mail. As she's about to
look at it, her husband Gerald enters their luxurious suite.

Speaker 33 (48:47):
Oh beautiful out my one and only hell Ding.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
Oh no, wonder every actress wants to have you for
her leading man.

Speaker 5 (48:59):
Nonsense. I'll have you know.

Speaker 33 (49:01):
The only person I GISs like that is my wife.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
You'd better say that. How's the matinee today?

Speaker 3 (49:07):
Fine? I got seven curtain calls. M I see the
afternoon mail. Cane the thing for me?

Speaker 1 (49:12):
Yes, is one letter for me in one par thanks dear.

Speaker 34 (49:19):
Mind the bill from the hotel management. Darling, we're living
beyond our means.

Speaker 10 (49:23):
Oh no, Cherald.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
You're not going to start that again, are you? Why
we have over half a million dollars in our joint account.

Speaker 34 (49:30):
I've told you a dozen times, Darling. I won't touch
that money. It's yours, not mine.

Speaker 9 (49:34):
Gerald.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
It isn't a question of its being yours or mine.
It's ours, Helen.

Speaker 33 (49:40):
I made it clear to you when we got married,
but we'd have to live on the money I.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
Earn, all right, Gerald. I wonder who my letter can
be from?

Speaker 24 (49:54):
Hella?

Speaker 3 (49:54):
What is it?

Speaker 20 (49:58):
What a moment is Helen's stay At the letter in
her hand, she felt as if her heart had stopped.
Then it began to beat again, wildly, as though it
would burst over and over. She read the few lines
in the letter. A friend from England expects you tomorrow
afternoon at two o'clock at the Hotel Edgewood. Please bring
twenty five thousand dollars in cash, or else I shall

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be forced to take action John Benedict.

Speaker 5 (50:26):
Helen thought to suppress a cry of fear.

Speaker 20 (50:28):
The specter of her past returned In one overwhelming moment,
from a great distance, she seemed to hear Gerald calling,
what is it?

Speaker 8 (50:37):
What's wrong?

Speaker 33 (50:40):
I said, what's wrong? You look so upset? Is it
that letter you're reading?

Speaker 9 (50:45):
Letter?

Speaker 1 (50:47):
Oh? No, no, no.

Speaker 3 (50:49):
It isn't the letter. What is it?

Speaker 1 (50:51):
Oh it's nothing, nothing, nothing at all.

Speaker 9 (50:54):
It's just I had a headache.

Speaker 5 (50:56):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 33 (50:57):
Can I get you some No, I'm all right.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
Well I need a little rest.

Speaker 20 (51:09):
Helen noticed the worried look in Gerald's eyes and strove
to act natural. That night, she lay awake hour after hour,
staring at the ceiling, seeing the words of the letter
before her, the letter that reached out for her from
the terrifying past. The next day, after Gerald had left
the apartment, Helen ordered a cab. Twenty minutes later, she

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rushed into the office of Martin Walker, her attorney.

Speaker 9 (51:34):
Martin, you must help me.

Speaker 1 (51:36):
I'm in trouble, great.

Speaker 15 (51:37):
Trouble, Helen.

Speaker 5 (51:38):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (51:38):
What's wrong?

Speaker 1 (51:39):
I'm being blackmail like mail, yes, by whom a man
named John Benedict. I don't know who he is, but
I received a letter from him yesterday afternoon.

Speaker 15 (51:48):
M Well, there's only one thing to do, and that's
to go to the police. Oh no, I can't go
to the police. Why not.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
This man Benedict knows something I can't afford to have exposed.

Speaker 15 (51:58):
What does he know?

Speaker 3 (52:00):
Helen?

Speaker 1 (52:00):
Please don't ask me, Martin, I can't tell you, but
believe me, if it ever gets out, it would ruin
my marriage, my life. I couldn't stand a loose jaild.

Speaker 15 (52:11):
I could I'd rather do no, no, please, Helen, don't cry.
You know there is anything I wouldn't do to help you.
As I see it, your only chance is to go
to the police. Oh no, I can't.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
It would ruin everything all But if you really wanted
to help me, you do as I asked you. I've
got to.

Speaker 15 (52:28):
Buy him off, all right, Helen. I think you're making
a mistake, but I'll help you. How much money does
this Benedict want?

Speaker 20 (52:45):
At two o'clock that afternoon, an hour after Helen had
withdrawn twenty five thousand dollars from the bank, Martin and
she entered a small, dingy hotel on a side street.
Following the hotel clerk's instructions, they climbed one of stairs
and walked down a long, dark hallway to room fourteen.

Speaker 8 (53:07):
Come in.

Speaker 32 (53:10):
As Martin opened the door, revealing a squalid and dimly
lit room. Helen saw for the first time, John Benedict.
He was a large man with coarse features and a
thick black beard. In the half light, he appeared to
be about fifty. His clothes were of a fine English cut,
a time and wear had taken their toll. He stared

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at Helen for a moment, then spoke, how.

Speaker 3 (53:35):
Do you do, missus Morgan? Won't you please come in?

Speaker 9 (53:39):
Thank you?

Speaker 1 (53:41):
This is mister Walk and my attention.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
Yes, of course, how do you do, sir? I'm very
pleased to meet you.

Speaker 15 (53:48):
I'm afraid I can't say as much.

Speaker 35 (53:52):
Yes, A trust you'll forgive me these dismal surroundings.

Speaker 3 (53:57):
With a less I'm quite penniless.

Speaker 15 (54:00):
So you thought it would be an excellent idea to
blackmail this lady for funds.

Speaker 35 (54:04):
I am afraid you misunderstand me, mister Walker. I'm not
forcing this beautiful lady to give me five thousand pounds. Rather,
I shall we say, requesting alone.

Speaker 15 (54:14):
Yes, but if she doesn't give you this loan, you'll
ruin her marriage, her life.

Speaker 35 (54:18):
It would distress me to ruin anyone's life, But then
it also distresses me to live in a pig style
like this.

Speaker 15 (54:25):
A much more suitable place would be the state penitentiary.

Speaker 1 (54:28):
Martin, Please don't talk like that.

Speaker 34 (54:29):
Evidently, missus Morgan, your friend is more interested in having
me pleaced in prison than in saving you from a disaster.
I'm afraid you haven't revealed our little secret to mister Walker.

Speaker 24 (54:40):
Have you no, I hadn't.

Speaker 35 (54:43):
Well, perhaps if we were to tell him, he wouldn't
be quite so eager to imprison me.

Speaker 3 (54:48):
Perhaps if he.

Speaker 35 (54:49):
Knew that at one time you had Are you allow
me to commend you on your good judgment?

Speaker 9 (54:56):
Martin?

Speaker 15 (54:56):
Giving the money, give it to him, very well, here's
your filthy luck money.

Speaker 3 (55:03):
Thank you. I think you've been very wise, missus Morgan.
Very ways indeed, good.

Speaker 20 (55:10):
Day, and now to continue the story as it is

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written in the Sealed Book. In the days that followed
Helen's payment of money, the money mister Benedict demanded, she tried,
unsuccessfully to forget him and the terrifying secret he shared
with her. Life for Helen became tense, watchful, frightening. Then
what afternoon, while Gerald without a rehearsal of a new play,

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she received another call, a call that sent her and
panic to Martin Walker's office.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
And I've heard from him again. Oh he he phoned
an hour ago. He wants fifty thousand dollars.

Speaker 15 (57:32):
Fifty thousand dollars. Now, maybe you'll have sense enough, Helen
to let me turn this over.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
To the police.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
No, I can't do that.

Speaker 15 (57:39):
You can't. You mean you're going to buy him off
a second time.

Speaker 3 (57:43):
But you can't, Helen.

Speaker 9 (57:44):
You can't.

Speaker 15 (57:45):
Was to prevent his extorting money from you a third
and the fourth time.

Speaker 3 (57:48):
You'll squeeze your dry.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
Money doesn't matter at you here, Nothing matters but keeping
what Benedict knows from Gerald. If you find God, it
will mean the end of everything for me.

Speaker 9 (57:57):
Everything.

Speaker 20 (58:07):
An hour later, Martin and Helen alighted from an elevator
at the twenty third floor of the Hotel Bellevue. They
walked down the large, luxurious hallway to sweep twenty three.

Speaker 35 (58:18):
C ah Good afternoon, missus, Morgan. Oh so you brought
mister Walker and I was counting on a pleasant afternoon,
may Ti Goku, No.

Speaker 3 (58:36):
Ad of it.

Speaker 15 (58:37):
What do you mean by asking for fifty thousand dollars?
Now we paid you twenty five thousand dollars. That was
supposed to keep your mouth shut.

Speaker 3 (58:44):
And will it is up to now. However, no I
need more money, Well you shan't have it.

Speaker 15 (58:50):
There's a limit to what anyone will pay.

Speaker 35 (58:52):
Quite true, mister Walker, but the limit hasn't been reached
as yet. Missus Morgan is very much in live with
her husband and would pay considerable more to keep him.

Speaker 3 (59:00):
From learning what I know he must never know.

Speaker 15 (59:03):
Oh, you swine. If I had my way, I'd call
the police and put you where you belong.

Speaker 20 (59:22):
A week passed, a week which found Helen living in
a fearful nightmare, a nightmare from which she couldn't escape.
Every time anyone knocked at the door, the phone rang,
her heart began to beat wildly.

Speaker 3 (59:38):
It was a theater.

Speaker 33 (59:39):
They wanted to make sure I hadn't forgotten today's special performance.

Speaker 5 (59:43):
Helen.

Speaker 33 (59:45):
Yes, what is it, darling?

Speaker 5 (59:47):
What's come over?

Speaker 19 (59:48):
You come?

Speaker 9 (59:49):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (59:50):
This past week, you've been just a bundle of nerves.

Speaker 33 (59:52):
Every time the phone rings and the mail arrives, you
begin to tremble.

Speaker 5 (59:55):
What's wrong?

Speaker 34 (59:57):
It's just imagining, Helen stopped acting as though I were
a child. I can see something is wrong, and I
want to know what it is.

Speaker 9 (01:00:03):
Please cheril. There's nothing wrong? Who could that be?

Speaker 33 (01:00:06):
Never mind, I'll get it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:11):
I don't need to come back. It's taking him so long.

Speaker 36 (01:00:24):
M Gerald.

Speaker 9 (01:00:26):
Who is it?

Speaker 8 (01:00:28):
L Hellen?

Speaker 19 (01:00:30):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
Why did you scream like that?

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
I didn't scream?

Speaker 9 (01:00:35):
Who was it? At the door?

Speaker 24 (01:00:36):
A bell hop?

Speaker 33 (01:00:37):
He brought a special delivery letter for you.

Speaker 9 (01:00:39):
That's special delivery letter. Thank you?

Speaker 3 (01:00:45):
Aren't you going to open it? After all?

Speaker 33 (01:00:47):
It's a special delivery Yes, of course. You never saw
anyone so afraid of a letter.

Speaker 3 (01:00:55):
Who's it from? Anything?

Speaker 19 (01:00:58):
Wrong?

Speaker 1 (01:00:59):
No?

Speaker 9 (01:01:00):
No, nothing, nothing.

Speaker 3 (01:01:02):
Don't tell me that. You look as though you were
going to collapse. Let me see that letter.

Speaker 9 (01:01:07):
I should give it to me.

Speaker 3 (01:01:10):
That's better. Perhaps this letter, I'll tell me what's wrong.

Speaker 34 (01:01:14):
But it's only one sentence. I will phone you at two.
There isn't even a signature. Who wrote this note?

Speaker 3 (01:01:22):
Helen?

Speaker 17 (01:01:22):
Hi?

Speaker 1 (01:01:24):
I don't know?

Speaker 3 (01:01:25):
You must know, that's why would you have gone so pale?

Speaker 5 (01:01:28):
I phone you too.

Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
It's almost two. No, I'll wait for that call.

Speaker 9 (01:01:32):
Please. You must have faith in me.

Speaker 34 (01:01:33):
All these weeks I've had faith said nothing. Hope you'd
tell me what was wrong? Now I must find out
for myself.

Speaker 8 (01:01:40):
Well, right on time.

Speaker 3 (01:01:41):
It's just to a clock.

Speaker 34 (01:01:42):
Please, don't take your hand off that phone, Helen, I said,
take your hand off that phone. Hello, Hello, Hello, no answer.
Whoever cold hung up when he heard my voice. I
suppose you still won't tell me who it is. All right,

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then I have to leave. When I return, we'll have
this thing out once and for all.

Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
Dear, I just can't tell you if you don't believe me.

Speaker 9 (01:02:16):
Oh darling, no, you wrote me.

Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
I could tell you. If only I could, I know
you wouldn't want me.

Speaker 9 (01:02:25):
Then I must be here again.

Speaker 3 (01:02:33):
Hello, good afternoon, missus Morgan.

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
You you'll promise you'll leave me alone, that I'd never
hear from you again.

Speaker 9 (01:02:41):
That was only a week ago.

Speaker 35 (01:02:42):
Yes, I know, but then I'm always making promises I
can't keep.

Speaker 1 (01:02:47):
What do you want? I'm tired of you're playing cat
and mouse with me.

Speaker 34 (01:02:51):
I should like you to call on me at five
o'clock this afternoon.

Speaker 1 (01:02:54):
If it's money or after, I will pay you another cent,
not another cent.

Speaker 9 (01:02:57):
You're here. There's no end of here.

Speaker 3 (01:02:59):
The men, but there is the lady.

Speaker 35 (01:03:01):
I assure you that this is the last time you'll
ever hear from me or see me.

Speaker 1 (01:03:06):
If I can only believe that, But that's what you
promised the last time.

Speaker 9 (01:03:10):
I won't be tricked again. I'm not coming.

Speaker 31 (01:03:13):
You're here, I'm not coming.

Speaker 34 (01:03:14):
I shall expect you at five and don't bring Walker.

Speaker 9 (01:03:19):
No, I won't be there. I won't.

Speaker 3 (01:03:24):
Hell Ah, come in, Missus Morgan. You're right on time.
It's just five. It's good to see you.

Speaker 33 (01:03:42):
Without that bound of Walker around.

Speaker 1 (01:03:45):
If I give you money now, how do I know
you won't be asking for more in another week?

Speaker 15 (01:03:50):
Oh?

Speaker 34 (01:03:51):
That's very simple, because after you pay me off this time,
there won't be any point in my bothering you again.

Speaker 9 (01:03:58):
What do you mean?

Speaker 34 (01:03:59):
I mean, Missus Morgan, that this time I want a
half million dollars?

Speaker 9 (01:04:04):
A half million dollars.

Speaker 34 (01:04:06):
Yes, I'm not mistaken. That's what your balance is.

Speaker 3 (01:04:11):
Don't you see? Once you paid it over to me,
there'd be no point in my bothering you anymore, as
you wouldn't have any money left.

Speaker 5 (01:04:19):
Simple, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (01:04:23):
You must be mad? I?

Speaker 34 (01:04:24):
Oh no, Missus Morgan, not I come now. You love
your husband and he loves you. There are years and
years of happiness before you if he doesn't learn.

Speaker 3 (01:04:34):
Your little secret. If you're wise, you'll turn the money
over to me.

Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
I can't. I can't. My husband and I have the
money in a joint account. If I were to withdraw
a half million, he'd know about it it once.

Speaker 34 (01:04:47):
Ah, But there's always a chance that he won't find out.
But if you don't know, as I ask, I assure
you he will.

Speaker 9 (01:04:54):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:04:54):
No, yes, missus Morgan.

Speaker 35 (01:04:56):
Your husband will learn that while you are in England
in nineteen thirty four, you murdered your sweetheart. Would that
your husband will, and he'll learn that after you committed
this murder, you spent the following seven years in an
English insane asylum.

Speaker 33 (01:05:11):
No, you can't tell him, You can't.

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
I will.

Speaker 34 (01:05:15):
What do you think your husband will say when he
learns his dear wife had murdered a man and spent
seven years in an insane asylum. Think of what the
sensation the tabloids would make out of it. Your husband
will have to divorce you.

Speaker 3 (01:05:32):
So indeed have you.

Speaker 35 (01:05:36):
That isn't going to help you, Missus Morgan.

Speaker 6 (01:07:18):
From eighty years ago Today, May thirteenth, nineteen forty five,
The Sealed Book here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox.
Before we go to What's Coming Up? I found one
other interesting story for the newspapers of Sunday, May thirteenth,
nineteen forty five. Eighty years ago today, Missus Christell Solomon,
refugee from Cologne, Germany, read that Lieutenant Colonel Victor Krulak

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of the Marines was putting old razor blades in the
bark of trees on Pacific Islands to discourage Japanese snipers
from climbing them. Well, that was sixteen months ago. Yesterday
Missus Solomon came to the Marine Corps recruiting station in
last Los Angeles with two thousand razor blades. She and

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her friends had saved. Another interesting story from this date
eighty years ago today. Now coming up the rest of
this week on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatcox. On our
Wednesday show, we will have Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
in an episode of the New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

(01:08:25):
from nineteen forty three, and The Man with a Twisted
Lip I was a Communist for the FBI starring Dana Andrews,
The Red Red Herring Murder in the Vineyard, and the
episode of Calling All Cars Going Back ninety years to
nineteen thirty five, and The Gangbusters episode from us Let's

(01:08:46):
see That's going to be seventy years ago, nineteen fifty five,
The Tapped Telephone Wire, and coming up on Thursday show
we will have Eve Arden's or Miss Brooks. We will
have the Cadillac in the swimming Pool, an episode of
the Phil Harris House Space show, Murder in the Library,
Jack Benny Show from nineteen thirty eight, and an episode

(01:09:10):
with Hildegard, The Incomparable Hildeguard from nineteen forty five. Friday
will have another episode of Jack Benny, but this one
Jack won't be in. It'll be Robert Taylor hosting the
show with the Benny Gang, George Burns, Gracie Allen from
nineteen forty four, The Great Gilder Sleeves starring Harold Perry
from nineteen forty three, in The Haunted House, Life with

(01:09:34):
Luigi from nineteen fifty The Future American, and then on Saturday,
Jimmy Durdy and Gary Moore from nineteen forty six, Robert
Young and Father Knows Best, My Friend Erma starring Marie
Wilson from nineteen forty eight, and an episode of Birds
Eye Open House from nineteen forty five starring Dinah Shore
and her guest Graucho Marx Sunday, another episode of Suspense

(01:09:58):
from nineteen forty four, or Orson Wells in the first
half of a two part Donovan's Brain, Dick Colmer is
Boston Blackie from nineteen oh forty nine, Sergeant Preston of
the Yukon from nineteen fifty four, and Tyrone Power starring
as a senator in Freedom USA. That's some of what's

(01:10:20):
coming up in the Days aheadier on Classic Radio Theater.
Catch us at Classic Radio Dot Stream Up next, Mandel
Kramer as Johnny Dollar.

Speaker 37 (01:10:35):
Radio has always been a source of quick, accurate information
during a disaster. When you hear the alert signal, tune
to these conal rat frequencies six forty twelve forty on
your regular radio. During a national emergency, all power lines
may be temporarily cut off. To make sure you receive
the necessary survival information. Keep a battery operated radio in

(01:10:56):
your family shelter for accurate information and instructions during enemy attack.
It's six forty and twelve forty on your standard radio.

Speaker 6 (01:11:04):
Now we moved to sixty three years ago. Today on
the Classic Radio Theater with Wivecox's podcast, Mandel Kramer the
Last Johnny Dollar. In an episode of Yours Truly Johnny
Dollar from sixty three years ago, The Lust for Gold Matter.

Speaker 4 (01:11:28):
The CBS Radio Network brings you Mandel Kramer in the
Exciting Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense
account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar

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expense accounts admitted by a special Investigator Johnny Dollar to
Universal A Bureau Home Office, Hertford, Connecticut. Following is an
account of expenses incurred during my investigation of The Lust
for Gold Matter.

Speaker 8 (01:12:12):
Senser gown out of one a dollar twenty for a
cab in the follow's office.

Speaker 4 (01:12:17):
Much to my surprise, he hadn't been kidding. I mean
about the wire from Emmitt Gowan inviting me to enjoy
what he claimed to be the greatest fishing in the
world and where on the little island of Costomel off
the coast of Mexico. Yeah, if anyone can show you
where and how the land of Beguins Emmett Gowan.

Speaker 8 (01:12:34):
Sure, Cam, you couldn't be more right.

Speaker 4 (01:12:36):
Fat So if I were you, I'd pack up my
duds and head for the island of Coscomel.

Speaker 8 (01:12:41):
And I mean right now, and you know some of
them planned. I'll do it, and I.

Speaker 4 (01:12:44):
Just happened to have your plane reservations all set up
and waiting for Patrick.

Speaker 8 (01:12:48):
You're adoal.

Speaker 4 (01:12:49):
Yeah, Now you fly from here to New York to
New Orleans, then across the Gulf of Mexico to Marita.

Speaker 8 (01:12:55):
Now that's the capital of Yucatat.

Speaker 4 (01:12:56):
Now wait a minute, and from there it's only about
an hour's flight to Costa. Well, Pat, but this time
tomorrow you'd be fighting bonefish or wahoo or tarpon or whatever.

Speaker 8 (01:13:05):
At company expense. Did you say, yeah, why don't.

Speaker 4 (01:13:10):
Worry about it until after you've got in some fishing
and then come on pass. What's the hitch, don't hitch Johnny,
Oh no, it's just as well.

Speaker 8 (01:13:22):
You know, after you've had a few days rest in fishing.

Speaker 4 (01:13:25):
Well, maybe you'd like to fly on over to our
Mexico city.

Speaker 8 (01:13:29):
Why.

Speaker 4 (01:13:30):
Oh, some client's been reported missine man with the name
of Jano Ansana. His wife wants somebody on it. And well,
as long as you're going to be down that way,
I thought maybe you might look into it.

Speaker 8 (01:13:43):
After the rest and the fishing. That's the deal. Pat.
I still think there's a hitch in here, somewhere on Johnny,
here I come next time to come at them.

Speaker 4 (01:13:58):
Two seven point thirty actually back to my apartment where
I attacked my bags, and then late in the afternoon
another taxi to Bradley Field. A pop job took me
to New York and less than five hours later I
was in New Orleans.

Speaker 8 (01:14:11):
Item three fourteen twenty covers.

Speaker 4 (01:14:13):
A cab from Moistant International to the Rooseveolp's hotel, a
bed for the night, then a very early breakfast the
next morning on the ride back to the airport. Two
hours and forty minutes later, we landed at Maurita out
on the tip of you Catana. I took a ferry
plane from there, and well before noon, was comfortably ensconced
in one of the Cabano's doll cutted a private bungalow
overlooking the Caribbean. As I finished them, thanking my bags,

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Come in, Come.

Speaker 8 (01:14:38):
In, Johnny. I just knew you wouldn't let me down.
How are you just fine? Johnny? Just as fine as sale?
How are you well? You want to know the truth
of em? And I'm bush I'm a little beat.

Speaker 4 (01:14:51):
Hey, look it too, does you worry, Johnny. A few
days of the greatest fishing.

Speaker 8 (01:14:55):
In all the whole world. And I mean that, Johnny.
It'll make a new man.

Speaker 4 (01:15:00):
Out of only one thing. I don't understand about all this.
Watch that, Johnny, Universal Adjustment Bureau footing the bill not
only for a trip to Mexico City on business afterward.

Speaker 8 (01:15:10):
But for this. Did you.

Speaker 4 (01:15:13):
Did you ever hear of a man named Juanah and Xanna?
Then you do know something because that's the man Pat
fully mentioned.

Speaker 8 (01:15:23):
Hey, you watch, Johnny.

Speaker 4 (01:15:24):
We get going right now. Maybe we can pick up
enough fish for dinner. Emmett, do you know this one
on on summer?

Speaker 8 (01:15:31):
And I have the boat already, all the gash and
tackle we need, So come on now, I knew there
was a hitch. Well, you're ready to start fishing, all right, Emmett.
What's it all about?

Speaker 4 (01:15:42):
Fishing, Johnny? Emmetts, And I mean it right now, there's
nothing for you to think about except fishing.

Speaker 8 (01:15:50):
Well ready, okay, I'm ready for suits. That's a fut
fut decron on the label. Because Dacon is a man's
best friend.

Speaker 12 (01:16:11):
Pump a man best hug that is able to stay
wrinkle free and need in summer rain and summer heat
in coats and slacks. You can relax when you know
there is decron is a blend, There's just nine and
the clothes he will be buying. Declan is a man's

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best friend.

Speaker 8 (01:16:34):
Shot.

Speaker 4 (01:16:42):
If I told you the truth about the kind of
fishing we had that afternoon, if you call me a liar,
so I'll tell you anyhow, Emma gown you was an
eighteen foot skiff, rigged with a pair of twenty horse
outdoors and equipped with every size, shape and sort of
fishing pat and you could possibly think of. We cruised

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southward around the edge of the little island of Costumel
to a big sort of lagoon with a mangrove island
on one side and a palm line.

Speaker 8 (01:17:11):
Beach on the other. There, at Emmett's direction, I.

Speaker 4 (01:17:15):
Made my first cast, the result a fighting mad tarpain
that nearly tore my arm from the socket before I
could finally work him alongside the.

Speaker 8 (01:17:23):
Boat and release him.

Speaker 4 (01:17:25):
On the second cast, a hefty snook made my real scream.
The third got me a moon eyed snapper, the fourth
a log barracuda. Those fish, all of them, were simply
begging to be taken on for a scrap. Then when
I tied into three tarpain in a row, I said,
in my minute, the fishing down there is almost unbelievable.

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By the time the afternoon was over, I was completely
but happily exhausted, felt better than I had in months.

Speaker 8 (01:17:56):
And by the time I laid my weary.

Speaker 4 (01:17:57):
Body on the bed that night, I'd completely forgotten all
about the insurance investigation businesses.

Speaker 8 (01:18:02):
Now that's something.

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
Earlier.

Speaker 4 (01:18:05):
The next morning, about the time the sun came up
and it made a careful appraisal of the weather, we
climbed into his boat again and set out across the
eighteen miles straight between constant Elma, Yucatan mainland.

Speaker 8 (01:18:18):
Yeah, sir, Johnny, he looked very all right, never and
I feel great. Where are we heading for a day?

Speaker 4 (01:18:25):
Over toward my book a file of fishing camp on
the other side, and at rather a little north of it,
up toward Matins, aera matin Zeros.

Speaker 8 (01:18:35):
Haven't I heard that name before?

Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
An old sunken ship.

Speaker 8 (01:18:38):
There, Johnny, an old Spanish GADDI, oh sure, I remember? Now.
A lot of treasure hunters had worked it.

Speaker 4 (01:18:45):
Over, Yeah, including Senior Jan Olanzana. That name again, that is,
until he found another act.

Speaker 8 (01:18:53):
We have a day, a smaller one. Who is them?
Why all the mystery? What if you and Pat Fuller
cooked up for me down here?

Speaker 4 (01:19:00):
Well, let's put it this way, Johnny An it's the Piniana,
that other sunken vessel we're heading for. Yeah, and the
Piniana is where it. Maybe we'll use his cuba, his
skin diving equipment I brought along this morning.

Speaker 8 (01:19:15):
Yeah, I see him, but no spears. Well, let's say
that now the.

Speaker 4 (01:19:20):
Weather has calmed down enough, we're just gonna explore it.

Speaker 8 (01:19:25):
This one on son of found the wreck. Yeah, when
I brought him over here for some spearfish.

Speaker 4 (01:19:32):
But he's the one that Johnny, he's the most unlikable
man I ever did meet. I wouldn't trust him anymore
than I.

Speaker 8 (01:19:38):
Would have hungry yarn.

Speaker 4 (01:19:41):
But I had him as a customer, so I had
to put up with it.

Speaker 8 (01:19:44):
Point is, he's the one who disappeared from Mexico City.

Speaker 4 (01:19:47):
Point is Johnny that he not only found some fish
around the wreck of the.

Speaker 8 (01:19:50):
Piniana, but he found something there, some mold Spanish treasure.

Speaker 4 (01:19:54):
And I wouldn't say he wouldn't say a thing about it. Johnny,
But I've seen too many of.

Speaker 8 (01:19:59):
These treasure hun and I just knew from the looks
of him that he's found.

Speaker 4 (01:20:04):
Something down there, Clemit, didn't You can back later and
see for yourself, Johnny.

Speaker 8 (01:20:08):
Let me put it this way, after all.

Speaker 4 (01:20:11):
Those years of fighting for the almighty dollar up north,
for the first time in my life, I'm completely contented.

Speaker 8 (01:20:19):
I fish a lot, and write a little, do some guiding.

Speaker 4 (01:20:23):
Gives me everything I need to be perfectly happy.

Speaker 8 (01:20:27):
I see what you mean. So why should I.

Speaker 4 (01:20:29):
Spoil at all by trying to find, then trying to hide,
and then trying to spend the thing that causes other
folks so much misery? Pretty unusual attitude in it, h
Maybe so, but I guess it has its point, Johnny.
I don't want anything, not anything, to interfere with this,

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this paradise I've found for both myself and my wife Claire.
That's why I didn't come back here to the wreck
of the Piniana, because I was afraid that I might
find some treasure in it.

Speaker 8 (01:21:04):
But you think that one on Tona didtion back hum
well at.

Speaker 4 (01:21:09):
An unholy gleam in his eye? Johnny d Now, I
felt sure he was to len this. So when I
got a phone call from his wife in Mexico City
that he hadn't come home with the radio message from
me or mister Pat Fuller as the insurance company yesterday.

Speaker 8 (01:21:26):
Then you're wired of me was to put up job
emery between you and Pat. No, in a way, I guess,
But he did make me promise to get you a
good rest and a lot of fishing.

Speaker 4 (01:21:36):
Now, I suppose the first thing to do is examine
the wreck and see if we can tell if I'm
Sana has come back to it, and of course Johnny,
if he's there and working on it, well that'll explain
his disappearance from home. Yes, you surely don't think he'd
be foolish enough to come out and dive alone, Johnny,

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where treasure is concerned, the man can sometimes gets mighty foolish. Yeah,
I guess you're right, And a man like him, Johnny, Yeah,
could also be mighty danger. A few minutes later, at

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the outer edge of a little cold he pointed out
the vague shadow of the wreck in some forty or
fifty feet of water and almost entirely hidden by a
sort of coral overhang. Kem had cut the motors, and
we drifted into the beach as we slid the boat.

Speaker 8 (01:22:36):
Up on it. There.

Speaker 4 (01:22:39):
Eh, now he can put on the scuba here, Johnny, Yeah, yeah,
I see him.

Speaker 8 (01:22:53):
Somebody else been here with a boat too.

Speaker 4 (01:22:54):
And pulled it over into those bushes, palmettos, whatever they are.

Speaker 8 (01:23:01):
The post was hidden it, so he is here, stand
your hand, Zannah. I got to take a look.

Speaker 4 (01:23:20):
There was a well hidden boat in the brush, but
no sign of one on Sana.

Speaker 8 (01:23:25):
Was he out there?

Speaker 4 (01:23:25):
And the water then poking around the rink. Only one
way to find out. I put on one of the
scuba rings, the air tank, mask and flippers. Emmett carefully
worked the boat out of the edge of the outcropping
of carl.

Speaker 8 (01:23:39):
Aymighty careful of that, Carl, Johnny, he can cut you
the ribon. And then I went on over the sign.

Speaker 11 (01:23:52):
That was amazed how clean and clear the water was
down there.

Speaker 8 (01:23:57):
Once my eyes got used.

Speaker 11 (01:23:58):
To the pale green light, I see for literally hundreds
of feet in all directions.

Speaker 8 (01:24:04):
The water was warm and.

Speaker 4 (01:24:05):
Comfortable to myriad tiny fishes.

Speaker 11 (01:24:08):
And all the colors of a rainbow dashed in and
out of holes in the carls and here and there
A huge one hung motionless, looking warily at me, the
intruder as I slowly descended into his realm.

Speaker 4 (01:24:21):
Then he casually turned swam away.

Speaker 11 (01:24:25):
A rather large shark gave me the speedy I at
one point, and then decided to ignore me. As for
the record, the little schooner of Binana finding.

Speaker 8 (01:24:35):
It was easy to look up, but so a few
minutes later was finding something else wasted.

Speaker 11 (01:24:41):
In there between a couple of barnacle covered timbers was
the body of a man.

Speaker 4 (01:24:55):
Have you tried the mild kind taste of Kent? You should,
because you feel.

Speaker 12 (01:25:00):
Better about smoking the camp.

Speaker 4 (01:25:03):
The micronite filters refine the way harsh labor rEFInd the
way hot taste.

Speaker 12 (01:25:12):
It makes the taste of a nigarette.

Speaker 8 (01:25:15):
File as a Bobby's day in the muff of me
pod Flavor Unite can today flavor Yes.

Speaker 4 (01:25:27):
Kent is the best for a mild kind taste. Smoke
a carton of Kent without switching. Discover the kind taste
of Kent's blend of the world's finest quality tobaccos.

Speaker 8 (01:25:37):
Then try your old brand. What a difference in taste.
The micronite cans the micronize chi with the micron.

Speaker 4 (01:25:46):
Filters three fives away Hartnap three.

Speaker 8 (01:25:51):
Fine, you'll enjoy.

Speaker 4 (01:25:54):
The mild kind taste of Kent with the micronite filter.

Speaker 11 (01:26:05):
The body trapped there on the record, the Finiana, wearing
breathing apparatus and flippers, was that of a Mexican with
a bullet hole in the back of his head.

Speaker 8 (01:26:15):
Although the light was.

Speaker 11 (01:26:16):
Poor, I was able to read the lettering on the
dark tack on one of his wrists. The name was
wan O Ansana.

Speaker 8 (01:26:24):
But who had killed him? And why?

Speaker 11 (01:26:28):
Who could it have been? Whoever had hidden the boat
up there on the beach ah and Emma's reaction of
that boat when he saw it was as though he
was familiar with it the owner.

Speaker 8 (01:26:43):
I thought of trying to pry.

Speaker 11 (01:26:44):
The body loose, but then looking upward, discovered the shadow
of Emmet's boat.

Speaker 8 (01:26:47):
In the twenty minutes or so I'd been down there,
had moved far over to one side of the coral reef,
so instead.

Speaker 11 (01:26:53):
Underwater, I worked my way over.

Speaker 8 (01:26:56):
To it, and then surfaced.

Speaker 4 (01:27:00):
Hanging on the side of the boat of one hand,
pulled off the breathing mask with the other, and he
looked up into a very unfamiliar and a very unpleasant face.

Speaker 8 (01:27:07):
I do not know who you are than yours, but
you might as well come aboard. What the devil? Who
are you? And this boat? It's it's the one I
saw hipp and over there? Who are you? It's no
matter here, I will give you a hand.

Speaker 30 (01:27:21):
Come on for sure?

Speaker 8 (01:27:23):
Where is he? Listen?

Speaker 4 (01:27:29):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:27:29):
No, sen're you listen?

Speaker 5 (01:27:30):
You see this gun?

Speaker 8 (01:27:33):
Who are you?

Speaker 19 (01:27:34):
You?

Speaker 38 (01:27:34):
Senor will never know because you will join him down there?
You understand, you will join him.

Speaker 8 (01:27:41):
Join who he's talking about? The body down there in
that wreck?

Speaker 38 (01:27:44):
Here you die, Yes, the body of the man I
killed because he came here.

Speaker 8 (01:27:48):
After my treasure. The treasure is mine, you understand, he's mine.

Speaker 4 (01:27:52):
I find opinion down there. I find it first, even
the Senor him go and he does love? No, I
mean no, wait a minute. I see his voat over there,
but it's empty.

Speaker 8 (01:28:01):
He will never know. Nobody will ever know, nobody but me.
You here, because I will kill anybody else. Say that
is why.

Speaker 38 (01:28:13):
Now that you have found out, you have found out
about him, you must come.

Speaker 8 (01:28:17):
Oh Senor, do not move. You have the gun and
I shall use it on you before I bury you.
Done there with him? So the secret of opinion. It
will only be mine. I look, there is no use.
You must die. And right now at the capsiding his boat,

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I suddenly found it.

Speaker 4 (01:28:54):
In my struggle with him under the water. I was
not alone from somewhere open in the right end. Up
Gowan appeared in his schooling. But doing our unfriendly companion
was easy, and when we finally hauled him up onto
the beach, completely tamed out cold.

Speaker 8 (01:29:07):
As a matter of fact, Well, well it's this way, Johnny.
Like I said, he had a bad.

Speaker 4 (01:29:13):
Gleam in his eye, and it was more than just
from a lust for treasure.

Speaker 8 (01:29:18):
It was like you think of madness.

Speaker 4 (01:29:20):
You're talking about one on one Sonna down there in
the wreck. In the wreck, yes, I found his body
down there em a dog tag on his wrist.

Speaker 8 (01:29:28):
No, Johnny, this one's Aanzana. What yes, this one? He
was madness.

Speaker 5 (01:29:37):
Don't you see what it means?

Speaker 8 (01:29:38):
The body down there?

Speaker 4 (01:29:39):
Well, now, I'm not sure that other man found out
about the Pinana and came here to investigate.

Speaker 8 (01:29:45):
Antana found him here and killed him. But why put
his dog tag on him so that.

Speaker 4 (01:29:49):
When he Andsana found the treasure he could just disappear
with it? What little was left of the body by then.
If it was ever found, more likely just a skeleopon
would be identified as his.

Speaker 8 (01:30:00):
Because of the dog turn.

Speaker 4 (01:30:01):
Oh, I see, he'd be free and have the treasure
and nobody would ever know that he'd murdered over.

Speaker 8 (01:30:05):
It, Johnny, I think you're right. I'll wait a minute,
a minute.

Speaker 4 (01:30:09):
Yeah, how come you so conveniently appeared there underwater after
I camp signed his boat and when I really needed
your help?

Speaker 8 (01:30:17):
Well, Johnny, I knew that hidden boat was his. Yeah,
but he wasn't anywhere about.

Speaker 4 (01:30:24):
And also, Johnny, there wasn't any sign of bubbles out
there to.

Speaker 8 (01:30:28):
Show he was diving. And you're so right, I never
thought of that, So he.

Speaker 4 (01:30:32):
Had to be hiding somewhere and watching it. Because so
I took my boat around the other side of the reef,
put on my scuba, then went on undre where he
wouldn't know where I was.

Speaker 8 (01:30:48):
At least that wouldn't make both of us sitting ducks
corner and done. Good thinking.

Speaker 4 (01:30:52):
And then when I came up real slow and quiet
under the flaring bow of his boat and heard what
was going on.

Speaker 8 (01:31:00):
When I saw you starting to capsize, it.

Speaker 4 (01:31:05):
A sort of helped in wonder it flipped so fast
and easily, Thanks Emmon, my pleasure.

Speaker 8 (01:31:13):
Johnny Ryam. And we get him back to Cauds.

Speaker 4 (01:31:17):
Of Now why that I imagine the police might like
to see him.

Speaker 8 (01:31:29):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:31:31):
The ironic part of it all is that there wasn't
one single dollars worth of treasure in the record.

Speaker 8 (01:31:37):
Opinion it so he had murdered for nothing. And now,
of course we'll have to pay for its.

Speaker 4 (01:31:45):
Expense accounts total after four more days of absolutely stambulous fishing.
Wait a minute, this one's on the house, yours truly,
Johnny Dollar. Now here's our star to tell you about

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next week's story. Next week the two step matter that
means two steps to murder? Join us, won't you?

Speaker 9 (01:32:20):
You?

Speaker 8 (01:32:20):
As truly Johnny Dollar, O, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

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Is written by Jack Johnstone, produced and directed by Brunos
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Speaker 8 (01:32:47):
Also featured in our cast.

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Speaker 8 (01:34:20):
Ah.

Speaker 6 (01:34:20):
Another one of those great Albany, New York air checks
from WROW from years ago that goes back sixty two
years to Sunday, May thirteenth, nineteen sixty two, sixty three
years ago. Rather Mandel Kramer as yours truly, Johnny Dollar
coming up in a moment Radio's outstanding theater thrills suspense.

Speaker 3 (01:34:50):
Power failure.

Speaker 37 (01:34:50):
Doing without gas or electric service is something we've all
experienced at one time or another. But in time of disaster,
due to natural causes or enemy attack, we might have
to do without such service for a long time. With
refrigerated foods, this can be serious if power is out
for more than twelve hours. Eat or cook the most
perishable items in your refrigerator before they spoil. If you

(01:35:11):
can't cook them, throw them out. Persons who own freezer
should consult their service books. Remember when power fails, keep
your refrigerators and freezers closed.

Speaker 6 (01:35:19):
Well, while we're looking at Sunday, May thirteenth, nineteen sixty two,
let's take a look at a few of the headlines.
Shall we Us exploded nuclear weapons in the air over
the Pacific and underground at its testing site in Nevada Saturday.
The announcement said both were of intermediate yield. The Pacific
shot the tenth conducted in the current series there dropped

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from an airplane near Christmas Island at about noon Saturday.
Two closed mouthed senate investigators flew into Dallas Saturday, heading
for an interview with Billy Solests. The investigators declined the
same when and where the interview will take place. They
admitted a time and place had already been decided, but

(01:36:01):
refused to elaborate on the grounds that Estes's lawyer doesn't
want publicity. A press release put out in Washington saying
that the two investigators sent to interview Billy saul O'Donnell
said shortly after he stepped off a plane at love
Field and that's us. They wouldn't say how long he
and Camerick would be in Dallas or where they'd be

(01:36:21):
going from there. A fleeing royal Laotian troops poured into
Thailand Saturday before the advance of pro communist rebels battalions.
The rebels claimed their drive carried them into the Mekong
River town of Tannon, only about twenty four miles west
of the royal capital of Luang Prabang. A top Cuban

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official indicated Saturday, portions of Fidel Castro's agrarian reform program,
a keystone of the revolution, may be modified to east
farm production programs. Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, the president of the
Agrarian ram Institute, spoke at the National Library. A broadcast
of excerpts of his talk monitored at Key West. President Kennedy,

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speaking in the state which gave him his real start
toward the White House, said Saturday that many tasks are
still undone, and we can't permit this country to stand still.
The President spoke at a big Democrat political rally in
the Milwaukee Arena, the metropolis of the state, which marked
up a victory for him in the nineteen sixty primary.
Kennedy went on from there to the presidential nomination and

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the White House. Waves of South Vietnamese troops flown into
battle by US military helicopters killed three hundred Communists for
guerrilla Saturday, with few casualties themselves. The action one of
the biggest of the year, and though some of the
day's top news stories from the newspapers of Sunday, May thirteenth,

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nineteen sixty two, let's move on now and not take well.
Let's take a quick break here and then we'll get
to suspense.

Speaker 18 (01:38:06):
The threat of fire in our homes is always with us.
It's a good idea to know how to deal with it.
For fire to burn, three things are necessary. Fuel, heat
and air. Take anyone away, and no flames. Most small
fires can be put out by cooling, dousing them with water,
or by smothering taking the air away. Another method is
to get the blaze outside, take the fuel away by

(01:38:29):
using a.

Speaker 3 (01:38:29):
Broom or other tool.

Speaker 18 (01:38:31):
So remember, a fire needs heat, fuel and air. Take
anyone away and no fire.

Speaker 6 (01:38:37):
Okay, let's go back sixty three years Sunday, May thirteenth,
nineteen sixty two Radio's outstanding theater thrill suspense. We normally
hear Jackson Beck as file of vans, but now we
hear him as a criminal in an episode entitled Hide
and Seek.

Speaker 39 (01:38:54):
And now a tail well calculated to keep you in.

Speaker 2 (01:39:01):
Soft spence.

Speaker 39 (01:39:05):
In a moment Act one of Hide and Seek, starring
Jackson Beck and William Redfield, had written especially for suspense
by Bob Corchoran.

Speaker 40 (01:39:20):
The lost soul cry of a lake steamer fell into
the sleeping Chicago street like a wet feather, sending out
ripples of fear that washed against a dandy man who
would soon die.

Speaker 5 (01:39:36):
The nerve kept jumping under his eye. His hands were sticky.

Speaker 40 (01:39:41):
He stared out the window, forcing himself to go through
the routine he created. He stopped at the all night
cigar store, no matter how wait. They had his shoes
shined so we could go home with a clean pair.
It was one of the reasons they called him Dandy.
But he wasn't enjoying it tonight, never would again. He

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came off the shoeshine chair like a dancer, moved to
the door of the store.

Speaker 5 (01:40:07):
Nothing either way.

Speaker 40 (01:40:09):
A half dollar glittered in the light and disappeared as
the boy snapped it out of the air.

Speaker 5 (01:40:13):
Thanks kid, I give missus Angelas.

Speaker 40 (01:40:17):
The street stretched ahead, harked, cars empty, some old newspaper
blowing big city tumbleweed, Dandy caught his reflection in a
store window and had to stop. In spite of his
nervousness and desire to get away. Practiced hand rolled to
the brim of his hat, and the windsor not of
his tie get pushed to perfection.

Speaker 5 (01:40:40):
Yeah, no wonder they called him Dandy.

Speaker 40 (01:40:43):
Need his a pin, even his fingernails. Dandy thought of
that afternoon, and his mouth twisted in self disgust as
he cut across the street and hurried ar and keeping
near the curb and watching the shadows. The jerk play
like a luckhappy punk instead of a professional game work.

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Just a few more blocks to go and nothing had happened.
He felt a little easier, but he had to get
a thousand fast. Bigelow didn't like guys who played and
then didn't make good on the sour ones. He had
a long list of things he didn't like, and that
was on top. Dandy knew that when he made that
afternoon You got it though, ain't Dandy?

Speaker 8 (01:41:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:41:27):
Sure Ed, I just ain't got it on me.

Speaker 5 (01:41:30):
You pick a kriller. I want that money, sure Ed,
I want it fast?

Speaker 3 (01:41:37):
Hey what am I the thief of Bagdad? I always
been good, ain't I?

Speaker 41 (01:41:42):
Yeah, You've always been good, Dandy. It's just with friends.
I don't want you shoot well ch.

Speaker 5 (01:41:49):
On me, that's all.

Speaker 24 (01:41:51):
I ain't no welsha.

Speaker 5 (01:41:54):
I know a guy was no killer, so he knocked
off a guy.

Speaker 2 (01:42:00):
I won't.

Speaker 41 (01:42:00):
Well shed It's good because if you did, I'd lose
a friend, and all your friends would lose a friend.

Speaker 5 (01:42:11):
I mean, okay, don't worry.

Speaker 9 (01:42:16):
It's a sure thing.

Speaker 40 (01:42:22):
The horse finished fifth. Nowhere, but he'd get the money. Sure,
think maybe a week. Guys, forget your name fast when
you're broke. We had nothing to worry about it his
hotel on He invited him just ahead. Maybe he'd get
out of town for a few days. Not that there
was anything to be afraid of. Just Ade's bet, play

(01:42:45):
it safe.

Speaker 5 (01:42:47):
He breezed into the hotel lobby. Thank god it was empty.

Speaker 40 (01:42:52):
Then the ripples of fear came back when he saw
the scared faced kid at the desk.

Speaker 2 (01:42:56):
What's the matter, Herbie?

Speaker 19 (01:42:57):
How was that guy waiting for you?

Speaker 9 (01:42:58):
He's in your room.

Speaker 5 (01:43:00):
He belt at me and took the key. Tell me
not to telecops to you.

Speaker 2 (01:43:03):
Nothing, but he'll always been nice to me.

Speaker 5 (01:43:05):
It's all right, Herbie, it's all right.

Speaker 19 (01:43:08):
What does he look like?

Speaker 2 (01:43:09):
Oh he's he he's a real big guy, fat but big.

Speaker 9 (01:43:12):
Thanks kid, I'll make it up to you later.

Speaker 40 (01:43:20):
He fought to keep calm, some time to turn into
a panic man. Stiff armed to the door and got
into the street. His hand measured a few builds in
his pocket, and he wondered how far they'd take him.
Bigelow was closing in. Then a piece of shadow split
away from the wall.

Speaker 2 (01:43:38):
Oh, dandy, I could tell you about Bigelow's friend waiting
for you inside.

Speaker 4 (01:43:42):
I don't know what you're talking about, not about the
one waiting outside.

Speaker 40 (01:43:47):
The man was tall and thin, skinny even. He looked
as if they'd made his face, forgotten the mouth, and
then torn on. Then he tried to move around him.

Speaker 5 (01:43:56):
Let's get my buddy, then we'll go see it, And I.

Speaker 8 (01:44:00):
Say, old, move.

Speaker 40 (01:44:05):
And he fought his fear as he watched the elevator
arrow swing down. He was tall and fat. His eyes
looked as if someone had tried to hide two grapes,
and some dirty grease got him.

Speaker 2 (01:44:20):
It was taken off this pubkad must have told him
he was in his room. Here we that fuck come
mad that we got him? Gon keep you my shut
about this? Ain't you please alone? Shut up, dandy man.
I won't save you for Bigelow. Kid. You say anything,

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this is just a sample of what you'll get. Let's go.

Speaker 5 (01:44:48):
Where are we going that Biggelow wants to talk to you?

Speaker 24 (01:44:53):
What's that want with me?

Speaker 5 (01:44:56):
Hear that earl? The conical tin shade hung over the desk.

Speaker 40 (01:45:07):
Everything had a cooling of dirty is if Big Ae
Lord had the place sprayed with it. Dandy was very
careful not to touch or rub up against anything.

Speaker 5 (01:45:17):
Nice to see it, Dandy, It's always.

Speaker 41 (01:45:20):
Nice to see, always so sharp.

Speaker 5 (01:45:26):
The Dandy man.

Speaker 41 (01:45:29):
So mus to cast you plenty me. I'm just a slob.
Two hundred dollars suits for me already, mate from Joe,
the Taylor and Madison.

Speaker 5 (01:45:46):
Just a slob. But I pay my debts, waste my money. Danny.

Speaker 41 (01:45:56):
Well, you see it had no conversation. I can at that
any time with the boys here. But I want to
tell you got two thousands? Yes or no?

Speaker 3 (01:46:08):
Now listen as like he says.

Speaker 5 (01:46:13):
We don't like to be rough, Danny, we're friends. What's
the answer.

Speaker 2 (01:46:23):
No, I ain't got it.

Speaker 26 (01:46:25):
I can get it for you, ed, I ain't no
well share, I mean, ask anyone in town.

Speaker 5 (01:46:30):
You told me you had it.

Speaker 26 (01:46:32):
I figured wrong.

Speaker 5 (01:46:37):
How come you figured wrong?

Speaker 24 (01:46:39):
I didn't know how far I'd gone.

Speaker 5 (01:46:41):
I laid out a lot of bets, the whole rule. Huh,
kissing the dog. You too can be a winner.

Speaker 41 (01:46:52):
Anybody can play, and you did it on my market, Danny,
for not all of it, thousand of it. I don't
like to be played for another chump. I don't like
you should be gambling with my money.

Speaker 26 (01:47:09):
Just give me a week, seven days, six five, even tomorrow,
I'll have it.

Speaker 41 (01:47:21):
Chicago's hard and reputations dandy. One guy does it to
me and maybe some other sinking losing my grip to
be bad if we'd get around. Somebody played me for
Patsy at the right fellas. Yeah, like you say, you

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shouldn't have spread the bets, so then I should have
kept on a little enough to pay off at Biggehon.

Speaker 19 (01:47:54):
I'll get it.

Speaker 8 (01:47:55):
I tell you.

Speaker 5 (01:47:56):
The point is you should have had it, said.

Speaker 3 (01:48:01):
Ed, what's a thousand to you?

Speaker 41 (01:48:03):
You got the no use standy, like they say down
at the courthouse.

Speaker 5 (01:48:10):
You gotta be made an example of it. Yeah, you
wouldn't kill me. I don't want to be hard. I'll
tell you what. I'll leave it up to the boys.

Speaker 2 (01:48:29):
Plant them, take the bloom off the dandy man.

Speaker 5 (01:48:37):
Get him out of here.

Speaker 2 (01:48:46):
Now, I'll take that watch, Dandy. You won't be maiding it.
I'll match you for it. Sure, I ain't greedy.

Speaker 26 (01:48:53):
They're uh going out to the forest preserve.

Speaker 19 (01:48:56):
UH nice drive and into the country.

Speaker 2 (01:49:01):
It's peaceful out there. You'll get a nice rest. You
cut a joker. Now we got down Clark Street, see
not the avenue, and then west of the country. We
park a little and we come back, me and Lloyd.
That is.

Speaker 40 (01:49:26):
Out North Avenue, right through the old neighborhood. His mind
raced ahead, forgotten details of dirt, and Squalor struggled forward
from the shadows where he pushed them the streets, the alleys.
Then it hit him, the police station on black Hawk.
If he could get out of the car run to
the station, you'd have to make the break when the

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car was moving.

Speaker 5 (01:49:47):
Time it just right.

Speaker 41 (01:49:49):
There was only one street that cut into North Avenue
that to do him any good, Sedgewick. Then halfway down
the block, into the alley and through the vacant lot
at the end the car couldn't follow. Then a half
block more the police station and he'd be safe. And
then suddenly he saw the battered old black on yellow
sign as the car.

Speaker 5 (01:50:05):
Entered the intersection. Sedgwick Dandy hit the door.

Speaker 40 (01:50:09):
Then the street went over, running crawling into a tin
news stand, and then he was on his feet running.
The car wrenched around like a giant crab, and then
he down the street they didn't shoot. Dandy's hand hooked
a no parking sign and he swung into the alley
without slowing, and he knew something was wrong. He looked
up and saw ah, there was a building at the

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end of the alley where the vacant lot had been.
He whirled around. The warehouse stretched back to the street
on one side. The other had store backs, solid no fences.
The backbone of the elevated track cut over the end
of the alley. The dirty bow burned on the warehouse
fire escape that crawled up the side of the building
like a steel fire, dead, just out of reach. He

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pivoted and ran back to the back of the alley,
softly clean. I didn't seek He'd played it here before.
It was a restaurant that blocked the I mean because
he moved in among the.

Speaker 5 (01:51:09):
Garbage cans, his clothes wrinkled in.

Speaker 40 (01:51:13):
Two shadows moved along the warehouse wall, bottling him up.
There were four garbage cans in a space, then some more.
The shadow was deepest right behind them, and Dan knelt down,
then slid out flat. His soft manicured hands quivered from

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what he felt under them.

Speaker 5 (01:51:36):
He tried to hold his breath.

Speaker 42 (01:51:41):
Let's get him. Ah, there may be any place in
that well. You could stay here and I could look.
I still fast. I don't want to shoot at a
distance Pegela's pants.

Speaker 5 (01:51:52):
To be sure.

Speaker 2 (01:51:54):
I want to put that gun right in the middle
of that suit and burnt it.

Speaker 5 (01:51:58):
Go for him. Now that'd be too much noise.

Speaker 40 (01:52:00):
Well, maybe an elevator comes along and colors the noise.

Speaker 2 (01:52:03):
Still a chance, Danny ain't worth it.

Speaker 5 (01:52:05):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:52:08):
There was a drug step back where he jumped out, Oh, Frank,
come to bring another guy. I'll be quiet and sure.
We're going out of the country like Bigelow wants it.

Speaker 5 (01:52:18):
Okay, what about.

Speaker 2 (01:52:21):
You want to come out now? Yet, we gotta go
to a lot of trouble. It's gonna make us mad.

Speaker 40 (01:52:35):
The skinny man took a dragon his cigarette, and Dandy
could see it weak and then glow bright red. A
long finger flipped it in the gentle arc over the
cans into the deep shadows. It hissed and went out
as it hit the mark.

Speaker 2 (01:52:48):
Will use them on you, Dandy. We'll cook you a
little at a time.

Speaker 8 (01:52:54):
You love se.

Speaker 5 (01:52:57):
Stall Stall, pray for a break.

Speaker 2 (01:53:02):
If you're playing smart, Daddy says he tries to go
past me. The shots won't make no difference. I picked
gap in the corner.

Speaker 5 (01:53:11):
I headn't know.

Speaker 2 (01:53:12):
Okay, they'd get some cigarettes.

Speaker 40 (01:53:14):
We're gonna have plenty, and Dandy remembered he'd get out
after all. One hundred to one shot suddenly turned into
a boat race. He remembered when he was a kid,
the cops would come along and they wait to the station.
Sure that wouldn't be changed. It was routine. Cops never
changed routine. They get fat on us. When the cops came,

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he'd holler, they'd get the two who'd been pushing him around.

Speaker 5 (01:53:43):
Go ahead, wait.

Speaker 2 (01:53:47):
Batman, I'll be right over.

Speaker 5 (01:53:49):
I got the cigarettes and matches, lots of matches.

Speaker 2 (01:53:52):
Stop playing hard, they'd get He's.

Speaker 5 (01:53:54):
Gonna wish he hadn't.

Speaker 40 (01:54:00):
Dandy grinned as he thought of the cops, and then
suddenly he realized how much his back ached from holding
his head out of the sloping tin cans. He thought
of his suit and his shirt and his hand painted
suit tie. What his friends would say if they could
see Dandy Deangelus laid out in this sewer. The smell
flooded in on him. He gritted his teeth didn't want

(01:54:24):
to lie in that too. It was the first time
he'd ever wished he was unelevated. But the cops would
be here any second. He didn't know what made him
turn his head. He just lifted his cheek off his
hand and swiveled his head around.

Speaker 8 (01:54:45):
Ah.

Speaker 40 (01:54:46):
His skin went tight all over his body, and he
almost screamed and jumped up, but instead he froze and stared.
Just two feet away its head emerging into the light
was an enormous rat. He hated them worse than anything.

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He hated them when he was a kid. He'd always
been afraid of them. They were the old tenement, the
dank hallways and crowded rooms, the dirty smells that got
into your skin and stayed there. He'd been bitten as
a boy and had never gotten over his head.

Speaker 9 (01:55:27):
Oh what.

Speaker 5 (01:55:30):
Am I gonna do?

Speaker 40 (01:55:32):
He thought he'd left all that behind him, but he hadn't.
Dandy Dangelus, the dandy man, lying in filth staring at
a rat. He made a sound, They'd move in on him.
Then the matches and cigarettes and gun in the stomach.

Speaker 28 (01:55:52):
Dandy boy easy, if it meant his life, He'd stay
there with a rat.

Speaker 19 (01:56:03):
Sure, what can I do, what can I do?

Speaker 40 (01:56:09):
It moved a few inches into the light, hugging the
garbage can on the other side of the open space.
It was a foot long and heavy. He remember when
he was a kid and they'd kill one the filth
and the fleas. That had been bad enough, but then
rat's what dirty shadows had hugged the.

Speaker 5 (01:56:29):
Wall and ran.

Speaker 40 (01:56:31):
This one was on the same level with him, hugging
the same wall.

Speaker 5 (01:56:37):
He'd come down a long way.

Speaker 2 (01:56:40):
Anytime you're ready, Dandy, I guess he likes laying in
that mess.

Speaker 40 (01:56:47):
There was a little breeze and he saw the fur
on its back move. He felt sick again. It hunched
itself around. Dandy started back in spite of himself, in
spite of the man waiting for him to make a sound.

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It didn't run at a slight motion. Dandy kilt his breath.
He was so close to it he could even see
the rings on its tail. It moved again, and this
time faced right at him. The beady eyes seemed to
stare wait.

Speaker 5 (01:57:27):
Into his own.

Speaker 40 (01:57:28):
The thin skinned ears stood upright and straight. Dandy could
see the fleas crawling. It lifted its head and Dandy
saw the teeth It never stopped growing, but get worn
down and sharpened all the time. The spot on his
hand where he'd been bitten as a kid started to burn.

Speaker 19 (01:57:48):
Get away, get away.

Speaker 5 (01:57:53):
Dandy tried to move back.

Speaker 40 (01:57:55):
He was afraid to scare it, for fear it would
scuttle off over the cans and bottles and attract the
too waiting to kill him. He reached out to the
side and back. His right hand closed on a milk bottle.
He ripped the neck, and, slowly, watching the rat, brought
the bottle up beside his head. His arm cocked.

Speaker 41 (01:58:18):
He stayed there, trying not to jump up and run
away from it, trying to wait for it.

Speaker 5 (01:58:25):
He hadn't been Watching's.

Speaker 2 (01:58:26):
Keep on, Those guys say they'd be right over.

Speaker 5 (01:58:28):
Take it easy.

Speaker 2 (01:58:30):
You'd get anxious to get your hands on the bunkheat
and get it over with.

Speaker 40 (01:58:38):
And he realized with relief that he'd have heard the
cups if they'd gone by. They were always loud, but
they'd better hurry. He swung his head slowly back to
the rat. As he did, his skin crawled. If there
was one rat, there were always more. He looked to
the side, threading what he would see, but there was nothing.

Speaker 5 (01:59:00):
Ah, it moved toward him.

Speaker 40 (01:59:05):
He stopped breathing and waited and hunched there, watching him.
Maybe he thought he was dead. He'd heard about dead
people in rats. Maybe it wanted the warmth. It crouched there,
evil whow staring at him. No, No, Dandy forgot the

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men in the alley, and the burning cigarettes and the
gun held close to his belly. He forgot the cops
who were going to come at him minute. To just
lie quietly as he was. All he could think of
was that he was Dandy Deangelus, lying there in front
of a rat. The old neighborhood was still there, waiting
for him. All these years. He hadn't gotten away after all.

Speaker 2 (01:59:45):
No, but he would get away.

Speaker 40 (01:59:48):
He swung the bottle, invisible in its speed, swung it
with all his might, swung it with all the disgust and.

Speaker 5 (01:59:54):
Loathing and hatred that he felt. It didn't break, it
hit something soft. He beat us and beat it, and
beat it and beat it.

Speaker 40 (02:00:04):
He didn't hear them as they moved over to him,
their guns at his head. Finished finished free, Dandy stopped
and stood up. He looked down at it as it
lay in the light between the cans. It wouldn't bother
him anymore. The old neighborhood and the dirtiness smells sank,

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sank back away away. He dropped the bottle, tried to
wipe his hand. Look at that, dad, He killed a rat. Yeah.
Now it's I tell.

Speaker 2 (02:00:48):
You Spence.

Speaker 39 (02:01:03):
Human listening to Hide and Seek, starring Jackson Beck and
William Redfield and written especially for suspense by Bob Corcoran
In a Moment a word about next week's story of suspense.

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Suspense is produced and directed by Bruno Zerato Junior Music's You,
provisioned by Ethel Huber. Sound patterns by Joseph Cabibbo and
Don Creed. Featured in tonight's story Santos Ortega as Bigelow,
Larry Haynes is Lloyd, Joseph Julia as Earl, and Jack

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Grimes as Herbie. Listen again next week when we return
with Dagger of the Mind, written by John Roberts, another
tale well calculated to keep you in.

Speaker 6 (02:02:17):
Sauspence sixty three years ago, May thirteenth, nineteen sixty two.
Suspense on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox on a
Tuesday and coming up Wednesday, we will have some wonderfully
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calling all cars going back ninety years to nineteen thirty five,
and then we'll go back seventy years to nineteen fifty
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show notes or at Classic Radio Dot stream. Okay, we're
gonna go back to something that will scare you eighty
four years ago, May thirteenth, nineteen forty one. If you've
heard Norm Crosby, you've heard Jane Ace, Easy Aces, Goodman

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and Jane Ace eighty four years ago, May thirteenth, nineteen
forty one.

Speaker 24 (02:04:53):
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Speaker 43 (02:05:42):
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about Anison's tablets in this manner. If so, you know
how amazingly quick it acts. Now, the reason is that
anison is compounded life a prescription that is made up
of a combination of medical.

Speaker 24 (02:06:15):
Improven and highly regarded active ingredients.

Speaker 17 (02:06:19):
And you know a.

Speaker 24 (02:06:19):
Doctor's prescription is like that usually contain not one ingredient
but sabro.

Speaker 43 (02:06:25):
It's this combination of ingredients that makes anison so quick acting.
When you have a pain from a headache, you raw
Joe and yourritus. You want relief and you want it fast.
So for your own sake, don't you agree that anison
is worth a try, especially when it's sold on a
money back guarantee. For if the first few tablets don't
give complete satisfaction, you may return the unused.

Speaker 24 (02:06:47):
Portion and your money will be refunded. Ask for anison.

Speaker 43 (02:06:50):
Tonight at any drug store. It comes in tens of
twelve and thirty and bottles of fifty and one hundred tablets. Well,
Jane and her niece Betty, living apart from their husband,
needed money. So Jane tried that auction sale idea again,
where once she sold her furniture for four hundred dollars,

(02:07:10):
then bought it back for two hundred and fifty, making
one hundred and fifty dollars profit.

Speaker 24 (02:07:15):
But mister Ray stepped in this time and it.

Speaker 43 (02:07:17):
Didn't work, as we can plainly see if we find
Jane and Betty later that same afternoon, pacing to and
fro in the bungalow stripped bear of furniture.

Speaker 31 (02:07:27):
Listen, that was a great schem, you sort of aunt, James.

Speaker 9 (02:07:36):
Well, I work the first time.

Speaker 31 (02:07:38):
Sure, all we have to.

Speaker 44 (02:07:39):
Do is sell the Furshire for four hundred dollars and
go to the Ocean sale and buy it back for
two hundred and fifty, and we'll have one hundred and
fifty dollars truck.

Speaker 31 (02:07:47):
Oh, I knew it was no good.

Speaker 9 (02:07:48):
Didn't it work the first time?

Speaker 31 (02:07:50):
I don't know. I only have your work?

Speaker 9 (02:07:52):
Well, it's dead, did I know your ever? We're gonna
be there making me did more and more.

Speaker 38 (02:07:56):
The fift thing.

Speaker 44 (02:07:57):
I called him back there he and called being away.
So they got up to three ninety nine, and then
they so we'd say four hundred.

Speaker 9 (02:08:03):
I sure let him have it.

Speaker 45 (02:08:04):
I stopped dining when it got to three ninety nine.

Speaker 31 (02:08:07):
So for being the sprit's falling my plan.

Speaker 9 (02:08:09):
Let him pay for the furniture.

Speaker 45 (02:08:11):
This time I made four hundred dollars off.

Speaker 31 (02:08:13):
I don't see where you made any profit. You have
no furniture.

Speaker 30 (02:08:16):
He's got to stand it here? Why else could he
stand it?

Speaker 31 (02:08:20):
Have past five and it hasn't come yet.

Speaker 24 (02:08:22):
Ask me?

Speaker 31 (02:08:23):
He won't send it.

Speaker 9 (02:08:24):
I didn't ask you.

Speaker 44 (02:08:25):
Well, whether you ask me or not, he won't send it.
They're trying there, that's to make us come crawling back.

Speaker 31 (02:08:29):
To the hands and knees. Well, I, for one, won't
I for two, won't just loansome here?

Speaker 45 (02:08:36):
I'm sure miss the furniture.

Speaker 9 (02:08:38):
And so how isn't it you know?

Speaker 17 (02:08:41):
There?

Speaker 4 (02:08:42):
I can almost hear my echo.

Speaker 45 (02:08:44):
Oh, stop listening to your echoes, you and your tea
on our listen, Betty?

Speaker 9 (02:08:48):
Did I think it wouldn't work?

Speaker 4 (02:08:49):
It's worth the first time?

Speaker 42 (02:08:50):
Well?

Speaker 31 (02:08:51):
What do we do now, mastermind?

Speaker 45 (02:08:53):
Well, all the person I'm going to do is to
find out where the What.

Speaker 9 (02:08:57):
Do you mean, mastermind?

Speaker 45 (02:08:58):
Are you trying to be sarcastic?

Speaker 31 (02:09:00):
No, I'm not trying to be.

Speaker 9 (02:09:02):
I should hope.

Speaker 45 (02:09:02):
Well, the first thing, I'm bruh, what do you mean
you're not trying to be.

Speaker 32 (02:09:06):
You mean you are without trying?

Speaker 31 (02:09:08):
Oh stuff quibbling.

Speaker 45 (02:09:10):
I didn't quibb, you said, mastermind, and I.

Speaker 31 (02:09:12):
Have can jam and you're not a mastermind. I don't
can't argue about it. We've got enough trouble.

Speaker 44 (02:09:18):
What are we going to do?

Speaker 17 (02:09:19):
Y say?

Speaker 31 (02:09:20):
I had a home here for a while, but now
look at it.

Speaker 7 (02:09:22):
There is longsome, isn't it?

Speaker 9 (02:09:24):
Hello? There?

Speaker 34 (02:09:26):
Listens about echoes.

Speaker 31 (02:09:27):
I don't want to listen to echoes, listening echoes ever since?
On us call? I'm trying to be tossed around?

Speaker 9 (02:09:33):
Now, Betty, is that a way to act?

Speaker 45 (02:09:35):
Don't you think I missed your uncle? A? Sure, I
do just as much as you miss Karl. But are
we gonna go crawling backing them on our hands and knees?

Speaker 9 (02:09:43):
Oh?

Speaker 31 (02:09:43):
Lord James, why.

Speaker 9 (02:09:44):
I'm mistakings what they are?

Speaker 20 (02:09:46):
Today?

Speaker 8 (02:09:46):
I should say?

Speaker 45 (02:09:47):
Now, I say I'll come back to us.

Speaker 9 (02:09:48):
You'll see what.

Speaker 31 (02:09:49):
Are we gonna do till they come back? You can't
live here without the furniture.

Speaker 45 (02:09:53):
That's awful around here?

Speaker 12 (02:09:54):
Now?

Speaker 33 (02:09:55):
Hello there?

Speaker 9 (02:09:56):
Hello?

Speaker 4 (02:09:58):
How are you?

Speaker 12 (02:09:59):
Yes?

Speaker 29 (02:09:59):
Fine?

Speaker 9 (02:10:00):
Oh my?

Speaker 31 (02:10:01):
I didn't hear you come in the follow Who are
you shrinking? Your low as at the echo?

Speaker 30 (02:10:06):
Mark?

Speaker 17 (02:10:06):
Look look at what at nothing?

Speaker 45 (02:10:09):
Don't you miss something around here?

Speaker 9 (02:10:11):
There's something? No?

Speaker 17 (02:10:11):
I don't think I do.

Speaker 9 (02:10:13):
Let me see you, there's you and the suddy.

Speaker 31 (02:10:16):
Yeah, but something else?

Speaker 45 (02:10:18):
Sit down, Mark, have a chair or sit on the count?

Speaker 9 (02:10:21):
Now do you miss something?

Speaker 31 (02:10:23):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (02:10:23):
Sure not do well?

Speaker 45 (02:10:25):
Final, there's no chair, there's no couch, there's no anti.

Speaker 31 (02:10:29):
Thanks that marvelous king. She saw it that. Now we
have me many furniture.

Speaker 4 (02:10:32):
Yes, so I understand.

Speaker 44 (02:10:34):
Do you mean to say they told you they were
gonna be the option chair betting against it?

Speaker 31 (02:10:38):
No, they didn't tell me things last they've done it.

Speaker 8 (02:10:40):
Well, where's the pasture?

Speaker 9 (02:10:42):
Well, that's where the tubbles are?

Speaker 8 (02:10:44):
Stange They pages three ninety.

Speaker 9 (02:10:45):
Nine for it and left it. There's till further and suck.

Speaker 31 (02:10:48):
Calling hey, laughing at the acre.

Speaker 9 (02:10:51):
That's what they did.

Speaker 45 (02:10:52):
But they can't do they're what so they bought it?

Speaker 20 (02:10:57):
Oh?

Speaker 31 (02:10:57):
And where I'm gonna get that?

Speaker 45 (02:11:00):
Will you stop sitting around here saying, oh aunt Jane?
Had you sitting here with that hang nail expression? I
can't think of anything?

Speaker 9 (02:11:06):
What are we gonna do?

Speaker 8 (02:11:08):
Well?

Speaker 31 (02:11:08):
The first thing you have to do is stop sniffling.

Speaker 9 (02:11:10):
Is getting jerks of sitting here listening to you.

Speaker 45 (02:11:12):
I keep your face up, keep a sip upper cuch.

Speaker 30 (02:11:15):
I'll think of something.

Speaker 36 (02:11:16):
He can't get away with this.

Speaker 31 (02:11:18):
I can just see him sitting there at your apartment.

Speaker 45 (02:11:20):
With Carl grinning like a molded cast. Well, the last
one to be on the other foot before, I guess
you were him and Carl too.

Speaker 31 (02:11:26):
You just wait to see.

Speaker 17 (02:11:29):
Oh, that was a great scheme you thought of, uncle
as I've got a handle to you. That was real genius.

Speaker 36 (02:11:35):
We'd bit them up to three ninety nine and they'd
have to say four hundred, and we'd let him have
the furniture and they'd be out of money again. Then
they'd come thinking us to come back to them.

Speaker 17 (02:11:43):
Yeah, that was a dandy.

Speaker 24 (02:11:44):
That was just one more dollar.

Speaker 30 (02:11:46):
If they'd have been just one more dollar, we'd have
had it.

Speaker 17 (02:11:49):
Now you think of the it before there were no
It a fool pool, and I fell for it. Well
I should have known it wouldn't have worked out.

Speaker 36 (02:11:56):
There's only one consolation I get out of it. It
costs you three hundre than ninety nine dollars cost me.

Speaker 30 (02:12:01):
You don't think I'm not going to get that money
back from Janie?

Speaker 17 (02:12:04):
Do?

Speaker 30 (02:12:04):
She sold her for four hundreds.

Speaker 24 (02:12:05):
She still got the money.

Speaker 17 (02:12:06):
I wouldn't be too sure of that either. Well, what
do you mean he's probably spending that money, spending, or
they have to live on something. That's the money I
spent getting the furniture back. Oh no, that's the money.

Speaker 36 (02:12:16):
And Jane, God, when she told the furniture and it
turns to spend, I don't stop saying that.

Speaker 30 (02:12:21):
She's not gonna, not gonna. H Carl, I'm going right
over there.

Speaker 20 (02:12:25):
Oh you are.

Speaker 17 (02:12:26):
Oh you're the one that's going begging to be taken back.
I thought this scheme would make them come to it.

Speaker 30 (02:12:30):
I'm not begging for anything. I want that four hundred
dollars and I'm going to get it.

Speaker 2 (02:12:34):
I better hurry over.

Speaker 30 (02:12:35):
Oh why didn't I take my car when I.

Speaker 19 (02:12:38):
Left home and use mine?

Speaker 17 (02:12:39):
If dumps say, oh thanks car, where's my coat?

Speaker 8 (02:12:41):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:12:41):
Here it is?

Speaker 17 (02:12:42):
I think I'll go along.

Speaker 30 (02:12:43):
Now you stay right here.

Speaker 17 (02:12:44):
But I can tell if Betty is tired of this
going over there to make up.

Speaker 30 (02:12:48):
This is business, and I'm going to tend to it in.

Speaker 8 (02:12:50):
My own way.

Speaker 17 (02:12:51):
Where's the key to your car?

Speaker 2 (02:12:52):
Here it is?

Speaker 30 (02:12:53):
He spends a cent of that money.

Speaker 17 (02:12:54):
If you'll think of another scheme, I know all about it.

Speaker 11 (02:12:57):
A way.

Speaker 45 (02:13:00):
He told them to keep the furniture till he tells.

Speaker 9 (02:13:03):
Me we can have it back March. Sure, I'm sure
he showed me the receipt he got for it.

Speaker 17 (02:13:07):
Nobody can get us it out that receipt.

Speaker 45 (02:13:09):
If that's what you're thinking of doing, Jane, well all
get the receipt.

Speaker 2 (02:13:12):
Oh sure you will just ask.

Speaker 30 (02:13:14):
Him for it.

Speaker 31 (02:13:14):
I suppose I certainly will.

Speaker 30 (02:13:16):
Are calling my business.

Speaker 29 (02:13:17):
I better than that.

Speaker 17 (02:13:18):
I'll go right over there.

Speaker 8 (02:13:20):
Oh so you're giving in.

Speaker 31 (02:13:21):
You're got a call on your hands and mean, I'm
not crawling.

Speaker 45 (02:13:24):
I'm going over there and giving my piece of mind.
If he thinks he can get away with where's my coach?

Speaker 9 (02:13:28):
Won't do any good, Dan, You'll just have tonss.

Speaker 45 (02:13:31):
They've got you where they want you, and that's that.

Speaker 30 (02:13:33):
Oh no they haven't.

Speaker 45 (02:13:34):
Oh listen, why don't you first stop this wrangling and
make up. I wouldn't even think about it till they
give us our furniture back.

Speaker 30 (02:13:40):
If they do that, then they promised to.

Speaker 45 (02:13:42):
Be haze and I might think about it, won't we Daddy,
and I don't know what to do? Oh stop ask neffling?

Speaker 20 (02:13:48):
Why did you leave him in the first place?

Speaker 45 (02:13:50):
That's the way you feel about him.

Speaker 31 (02:13:51):
We're showing you.

Speaker 8 (02:13:53):
I'm telling you our car.

Speaker 45 (02:13:54):
Laura says, there's some gasoline in the emergency tank.

Speaker 30 (02:13:57):
Wherever that is, I'll find it.

Speaker 45 (02:13:58):
Oh, Betty, will you drive have it out of the
garage for me. I can't back up very good?

Speaker 31 (02:14:03):
All right, Jane, Oh.

Speaker 9 (02:14:04):
Somebody round the back. Betty's call the driveway.

Speaker 31 (02:14:06):
Oh that's right.

Speaker 17 (02:14:07):
How am I gonna drive out of your car's in
the way.

Speaker 31 (02:14:10):
Well, we'll back mine down out of the driveway.

Speaker 45 (02:14:13):
But there's no gas in it.

Speaker 17 (02:14:14):
You don't need gas to back it.

Speaker 31 (02:14:16):
Out of the driveway.

Speaker 45 (02:14:17):
Well, come on, I've got to go right away and
get this off my kin.

Speaker 30 (02:14:20):
I'll show that what happens with me.

Speaker 8 (02:14:22):
Are you waiting here?

Speaker 45 (02:14:23):
Mark, we'll be back with the receipt for the first Yes,
I'll sleep on the receipt.

Speaker 30 (02:14:26):
I suppose.

Speaker 31 (02:14:30):
A Betty, I'll back your roaster down.

Speaker 30 (02:14:32):
You back our car the garage.

Speaker 9 (02:14:34):
You know about the emergency.

Speaker 31 (02:14:35):
Change, Yes, I know where it is.

Speaker 9 (02:14:36):
You know how to back my car down?

Speaker 2 (02:14:38):
Here?

Speaker 17 (02:14:38):
You just go on and back our car of the garage.

Speaker 31 (02:14:42):
Just release the breaking back it slowly down.

Speaker 43 (02:14:45):
I know how.

Speaker 45 (02:14:46):
Let me see the careful of founders when you come
out of the garage.

Speaker 31 (02:14:49):
Betty, I'll be careful.

Speaker 17 (02:14:57):
What's the matter with this car?

Speaker 9 (02:15:00):
Jane? There's no gas in that car.

Speaker 31 (02:15:02):
Just let it roll down to the street. Oh yeah,
down to the street.

Speaker 30 (02:15:05):
All right, let it roll down the street.

Speaker 31 (02:15:07):
Well what am I doing in here?

Speaker 17 (02:15:08):
Then?

Speaker 8 (02:15:09):
I could just let it.

Speaker 30 (02:15:10):
Roll all down without the.

Speaker 45 (02:15:11):
Oh I guess I better steer it, Jane?

Speaker 4 (02:15:14):
Was is it long?

Speaker 31 (02:15:15):
Careful? Back and down my driveway?

Speaker 9 (02:15:17):
I'm careful.

Speaker 31 (02:15:18):
What's the matter with everybody?

Speaker 4 (02:15:20):
Baby?

Speaker 1 (02:15:20):
Did you find the emergency can?

Speaker 4 (02:15:22):
Yes, don't worry about me.

Speaker 31 (02:15:23):
I'm gonna say, hurry and back my car out.

Speaker 11 (02:15:26):
I will it won't move, Jane.

Speaker 9 (02:15:30):
Oh what is it?

Speaker 45 (02:15:31):
Takes off the blake and let it roll slowly down?

Speaker 30 (02:15:34):
Oh the brig Oh, yes, I see it.

Speaker 24 (02:15:36):
Now that's it, Jane.

Speaker 45 (02:15:38):
I'm very slowly done. I'm going slow.

Speaker 29 (02:15:41):
Await, baby, don't come out yet.

Speaker 31 (02:15:43):
Oh hurry yeah?

Speaker 17 (02:15:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 45 (02:15:44):
Oh, one tells me strong, one tells me to hurry.

Speaker 24 (02:15:47):
Did you blafander getting it out?

Speaker 31 (02:15:49):
No, it's all light and there's enough gash to get
you over there and back back my car. It was
a slungway, so I can get out.

Speaker 8 (02:15:56):
I am. I'm going slowly.

Speaker 18 (02:15:58):
Is anybody back?

Speaker 9 (02:15:59):
I mean no?

Speaker 12 (02:16:00):
Oh?

Speaker 45 (02:16:00):
Nobody bashing up this taful somebody's driving up the driveway.

Speaker 17 (02:16:04):
Where'd you say?

Speaker 9 (02:16:05):
Like?

Speaker 12 (02:16:06):
Please?

Speaker 19 (02:16:06):
What?

Speaker 8 (02:16:08):
Hey?

Speaker 13 (02:16:08):
Who's that that's coming?

Speaker 9 (02:16:10):
Ain't sitting on you? All right?

Speaker 29 (02:16:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (02:16:12):
I'm all over who he said?

Speaker 4 (02:16:13):
He's car back?

Speaker 17 (02:16:14):
There's going on here.

Speaker 30 (02:16:16):
I ask you where you look?

Speaker 17 (02:16:18):
Where you're going?

Speaker 30 (02:16:18):
Why don't you go where you're looking?

Speaker 17 (02:16:20):
Eddie?

Speaker 31 (02:16:20):
Be careful car ho Hey the caffle? Hey, Jane, put
your brakes on?

Speaker 30 (02:16:25):
Your sliding back? I'm what j Seddie?

Speaker 24 (02:16:28):
Oh guy, cham let's me out of here.

Speaker 31 (02:16:35):
Jane is still sliding back. Dam Now I didn't look
on your base.

Speaker 4 (02:16:39):
No, not me, daddy.

Speaker 17 (02:16:40):
He's careful. It is here?

Speaker 31 (02:16:43):
What's that bad?

Speaker 39 (02:16:44):
I'm great?

Speaker 1 (02:16:45):
So that Carmelos the college he heard?

Speaker 11 (02:16:47):
Wow this is here.

Speaker 30 (02:16:48):
Oh look at these people gathering.

Speaker 45 (02:16:50):
I'm like, oh, who come to police?

Speaker 36 (02:16:52):
He's here and oh.

Speaker 31 (02:16:54):
You're a far id.

Speaker 17 (02:16:55):
I know you were backing down?

Speaker 31 (02:16:56):
Howda we know it's not I'm arguing how galling?

Speaker 30 (02:17:04):
Oh it's the police.

Speaker 17 (02:17:05):
Now you let me handle this.

Speaker 35 (02:17:07):
Jay.

Speaker 30 (02:17:07):
You just be bottle walls a car offerer.

Speaker 9 (02:17:11):
I'm rolling a.

Speaker 17 (02:17:12):
Car, yes, sir, but it's not mine.

Speaker 30 (02:17:14):
I was begging this hard down your lady.

Speaker 8 (02:17:17):
Now this is hers.

Speaker 31 (02:17:18):
He was driving mine, he was driving her husband. I
was voting again, I was bagging her down. He was
driving mine out and he was riding her Husband's here.

Speaker 17 (02:17:28):
All oh my you we'll see how funny this is
when you tell it to the Dutch.

Speaker 31 (02:17:34):
Try Mike, we'll get the wagon.

Speaker 24 (02:17:42):
Well that's going to require a lot of explanation in court,
but it may serve to bring the two couples together again.
On every side, people's will for years have start a
fast acting product to relieve the pains of headache.

Speaker 17 (02:17:54):
And you write, are learnning.

Speaker 43 (02:17:56):
About Amerson, and it's interesting to know that one reason
Anna works with such incredible speed is because Anathon itself
is like a doctor's prescription.

Speaker 24 (02:18:06):
That is, it's not just one, but a.

Speaker 43 (02:18:08):
Combination of active and medical improven ingredients.

Speaker 24 (02:18:12):
If your own deathistra phosition.

Speaker 43 (02:18:13):
Hasn't already given you an envelope containing Anathon tablets, we
urge you to get Anison tonight at your druggist.

Speaker 24 (02:18:19):
Keep it always on hand for the time you need it.

Speaker 43 (02:18:22):
A nacim Anathon in ten of twelve and thirty and
bottles of fifty and one hundred tablets. Easy ages will

(02:18:55):
be back tomorrow night. At the same time, when you
go to your drugs, know how many different items he
carries other than drive, look them over and buy whatever
you can from him. You'll help him and yourself. This
is Ford Bond speaking for the makers of Anathon.

Speaker 6 (02:19:29):
I warned you strange, strange show. Good mid Ace Jane
A's The Easy Aces eighty four years ago Mat thirteenth,
nineteen forty one. Here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox.
Visit our web page at Classic Radio dot stream. Would
love to hear from you there. You can also follow

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