July 29, 2025 • 23 mins
Suspense was one of the most popular and successful old time radio programs during it's run of over 900 episodes, spanning 1940-1962. Guest stars included Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Agnes Moorehead, Marlene Dietrich and Humphrey Bogart. The plots were mostly engaging crime dramas, science fiction and some horror genres - usually with a surprise ending.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And now a tale well calculated to keep you in.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Suspense.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Listen now to yule Tied Miracle, starring Larry Haynes and
Satos Ortega, and written especially for suspense by John Roberts.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Go ahead and laugh if you like. Only kids and
old ladies believe in ghosts.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah. Sure, that's what.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I thought too, until I met a chubby little guy
with hair like cotton candy you who called himself Sir Benjamin.
But first let me fill in the details about my
meeting with Sir Benjamin. I was in one of those
freeeats missions along the Bowery. I ducked in there to
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escape a parole officer named Brannigan. Brannigan was out to
hand me a merry set of bracelets for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
When he cut me. My mission was empty.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I had to alter myself except a skinny young punk
had come out of cough but made the benches jump.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Hey hey kid, you're sick. Yeah yeah, I know you
need a doctor.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I've had a doctor. I'm we're an hospital pajamas under
this suit.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
I went down the fire escape to the street to
hear I want to get home for Christmas.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Finally, I've been years making up my mind to it.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Uh what what what are those boxes?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
You old Christmas presents for my mother, my sister Linda,
my kid's sister Linda.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
You like this, oh ladies cold watch?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Yeah, it depends on the dress.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
I once stole my mother's watching, sold it this this
squarest Yeah. Uh what what's in the other box? Nylon stockings?
My sais to Linda's always had a yet, Hey, hold yourself.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Come on, hey, I can't get hold with these presents.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
If you could get them to missus b Simmons for me,
tell her that Tommy.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Her son, tummy missus the Simmons kid, Come on, tell.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Me get hold the coffin stopped.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And it was right then, that's benjaminly chubby little ghost
with hair like cotton candy.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Happened Well, first I know of him was magic, as.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
If because if he was announcing himself, it was music
coming from an upright piano on a platform way down.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
The mission hall with Christmas hymn.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
But look, until my eyes popped out of my head,
I couldn't see anybody. The piano was going, but nobody
I could see was playing it. I went up to
the piano and reached over the stool to see how
the trick was worked, and in my hands touched something solid,
like somebody sitting on the stool. And then I saw fingers,
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halves skipping along the keys, only halves, as if they
had a life of their own.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
I don't know why, but I grabbed them.
Speaker 8 (03:43):
That hurt.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I bruise easily.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Hey, I'm saying things, and now I'm hearing voices, my voice, Chris.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
You're hearing me. Where are you, my dear, my boy?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
What?
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Just be patient and I'll remedialize. It takes a moment
or two.
Speaker 9 (04:12):
I saw the hands billed, first arms and elbows, shoulders,
and then a body slowly.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
And then the last.
Speaker 9 (04:21):
Day, my head with a little puss white hair, and
then a face, a chubby face, rosy and smile. Ah.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Well, here every bit of me are dressed.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Who are you?
Speaker 9 (04:43):
Said Benjamin. I'm sorry if I worried you. He had
that trick like like you were invisible, but I was invisible.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I'll come on, nobody can do that.
Speaker 9 (04:56):
I can, and that's only one of my powers. First,
suppose we get right down to business, Chris. We have business,
of course, That boy.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Over there on the bench Tommy Simmons.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Oh oh oh the kid. Yeah, you know, I almost forgot.
He's lying there like that. I don't dare go outside,
but somebody's got to call an ambulance.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Do something.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
It's too late for Tommy. Why now, we don't know that.
We're not doctors.
Speaker 8 (05:22):
I know that.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
The problem now is what are you going to do
about his dang wish?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Why? Oh oh?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
You mean about delivering those presents to his family? It
would be fine if you deliver those presents in person.
Speaker 8 (05:40):
Me.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Hey, now, come off it, Lester. It's not my job
and it's not my business. Besides, I got problems on
my own.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Brannigan.
Speaker 9 (05:49):
Why the parn officer, How did you know about Brannigan?
I am a very aversatile haven't it ghosts? I also
have powers of conjuration.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Come again, turn the boy's.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Dying wish aside, and I'll conjure up Brannigan. I don't
think I can.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I don't think you even exist. How about that? I
think I'm dreaming you what?
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Very well? I will demonstrate hold on to something, Chris.
Speaker 9 (06:25):
Conjuration is a very characlysmic and strenuous business.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
You will definitely be safe if you hold on to something.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Don't ask me why, but I grabbed hold of a piano.
That's a good thing I did, too, because the joy
began to rock like an earthquake was hitting a flash.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
There. I'm finished.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
Now, there's quite a job of conjury, But says Brannigan,
see on the street, peering through the plate glass window
of the mission watching you.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Holy smoke, it is Brannigan. Hey, I gotta get out
of here. I gotta find the.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Back way yet, Yeah, through this yard, dog.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Quickly I dived into the yard where Brannigan's police was
blowing at me.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
The yard was a dead end, high building.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Walls all around like a prison yard, no exit except
the long narrow alley to the street past Brannigan by
flattened in the shadow as a dead duck. I was
listening to Brannigan's shout orders that a couple of blue
coats would come running when the whistled.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
What's the exit?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Man?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
While I flush about the angelo, are trapped? Better surrender peacefully?
The heavy the Agelau trapped was the word, like a rat.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
All the pity to bed Chris. What's the penalty of
a violation?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
A year? Maybe two?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Oh? You were a big help showing me into the yard.
That there I go talking to myself. You're talking to me.
I could really be a big help.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Don't make me take it the hard.
Speaker 9 (08:08):
Way fast, Chris, you had to respect tummy Simmons dang
wish you would to go home for Christmas in his place?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Okay, okay?
Speaker 9 (08:17):
If I was to, then what and Brannigan goes empty handed?
In order to catch you, he must first see you.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I sure sure Brannigan is suddenly gonna go stone blind.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Ah, you know you are becoming invisible.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
There was a laugh, but the laugh was I was
invisible at least a Brannigan I was.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
He came right toward me with a flashlight one hand and.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
A gun and the other only he looked right through
me as if he didn't see me.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
The agelo, I know you've got to be in this
yard to.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Watch them, And then scratch his head and give up now, Chris,
for you're part of the bargain.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
You a Temmy's presence, Go deliver.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
It, and my look, I'll leave here and only run
into bradd again outside somewhere.
Speaker 9 (09:13):
And now what about that you remain invisible until you've
arrived to destination. That is as long as you remain
faithful to your mission. Go Chris, Okay, I'll wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Wait a minute, Where am I going? Where do I
find this? Missus b Simmons?
Speaker 9 (09:28):
That for just a brief train ride to a neighboring town.
The town Chris is Beth. There, as Sir Benjamin had promised.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
It was a brief train ride. That funny. I felt
like I'd come a long, long way. There was a
deserted train shed with small packed eye.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
The station's side turned silver by the moon, red left.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
For him soul in science.
Speaker 9 (10:06):
No, no, there was someone a girl, a girl in
high boots, a snowhead and on her cheeks.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
She was coming toward me.
Speaker 8 (10:17):
Hello, Hello, are you Chris?
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, my name is Chris.
Speaker 8 (10:25):
I'm Linda, Linda Simmons. I came to drive you home.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Just like that, just like what well, I mean, no
no explanations, like you know I was here?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
And how come you know my name? Oh?
Speaker 8 (10:38):
I was told you were coming and told your name too.
You were told somebody telephoned.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Oh yeah, he telephoned. He was a kid when he
said he was a talented ghost. See you you you
came right at me.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Just now that means you saw me. You can see me?
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Huh see you?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah? Yeah, face hands body me. I'm a guy. You
look at me and you see a guy.
Speaker 8 (11:05):
No, I cannot see you.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
That I am invisible.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
No, it's just that I'm blind.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Let drive home. Let's take it now.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
There was a horse drawn sleigh around the side of
the ship, silver bells on the reins, and a horse
whose name had to be Dobbin. Ah, you drove this
rig all the way here by yourself.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
You don't drive Dobbin. He knows every inch of the
way to the Bethlehem station.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
You see.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
We've been coming here every night for years.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Nice, slow and easy. I've been running since I was born.
And now I was asking myself what for a guy
can't stay tough on a horse drawn ridge in the snow.
And when Linda put her hand on mine, I opened
my fist for the first time I could remember. We
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reached home, a framed cottage, nothing fancy, with a candle
burning brightly in the window.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
Come in, Chris, mother, mother, this is Chris.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Welcome home. Chris.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Oh yeah, thanks, uh.
Speaker 9 (12:47):
It's a nice place you got here, missus Simson, Oh,
I'm so glad you like it.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, I don't exactly know how to say this, Missus Simmons.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
You see, I'm just a mug. I quit school a
minute I learned how to tell the teacher off. So
if I ain't got the right words, you.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Don't have to have the right words, Chris.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
You don't even have to get it said.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
You see, I know you know about Tommy. Yes, it's
all about Tommy.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Well well how.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Oh oh, yes, somebody somebody talk to you on the phone.
Speaker 9 (13:25):
Too, Yes, somebody telephone.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Well, the last thing the kid thought about was you
and Linda and coming home for Christmas. And he asked
me to give you these go watch for you, Missus Simmons.
These for you, Linda Nylon Stokers.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
It's nothing big, I guess. But Tommy didn't have much
to give the way it was with him, You're.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Wrong, Chris.
Speaker 9 (13:52):
Tommy had a great deal to give, and in his
way he gave it.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
I don't follow a boy come home.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
Temmy couldn't come home himself, so he sent you to us.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Chris.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
You can say about me that I was born in
nineteen thirty five, and I stopped crying in nineteen thirty six.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
At the right bold age of one.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
And you can say about me that I let a
tear go. I never knew I had Christmas nineteen sixty one, Linda. Yes, Chris,
don't get me wrong. You know there's no crying being poor.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
Say it.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Well, well it's like this, it's Christmas.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
But I don't see any tree, and I've been slipping
close enough to the kitchen and oh there's nothing roasting
in that oven.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
You're disappointed?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Oh no, no, no, no, is it all right? I
five borrowed dobbin outside?
Speaker 8 (14:49):
All right, of course it's all right.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Chris.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Put me donnad a guy who never knows when they
shut up a tree and a turkey. Sure, lady, nothing
through it. Presto a fisto. I'm a magician. Here's your tree, lady,
and here's your bird.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
What quite a remarkable feat of metic Chris, preston Fista.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
There's a bench of money.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I was wondering when you'd show up the kibbittz you
you are.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Here's a Benjamin.
Speaker 9 (15:22):
Yes, but immaterially, and please don't ask me to re materialize, Chris.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
I darn't show my face in bed, then why not?
Speaker 9 (15:30):
I lived here once before my present situation it wasn't
very popular with my townspeople.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
I'm afraid o what they have against you.
Speaker 9 (15:39):
Bills, I didoing, the butcher, the baker, and even the undertaker.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Oh, let's get back to your problem.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Yeah, a tree and a turkey, and it's your problem.
I'm tumpling it right into your laugh. You got me
into this in the first place.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
I see, have you any money?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Not a plug nickel, and even if I had, the
time is shut tight. But you're a talented cost A
tree in a Turkey ought to be a sitch. You
got any ideas on it, Sir Benjamin?
Speaker 9 (16:06):
Only one My customary way of acquiring necessary things when
I was alive, Your customary way credit Chris.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
And I hope never to be a burrower again.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
But I suppose it can't be himped And just where
do we borrow this tree? In Turkey?
Speaker 9 (16:27):
Uncle Kayle's poultry farms just past the merchant's bank, a
short drive.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Well, i'm a stranger here, move over.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
I'll take the reins to get there.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
There aren't any ghosts.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
And call me crazy, but Sir Benjamin drove a regular
smart clip to a farm stacked.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
With freshly cut trees.
Speaker 9 (16:43):
Take your pick of tree and carry it to the
ring and Chris, yeah, what no, what unnecessary disturbance?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
I owe Uncle Kayla a formidable bill.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Already right, threw the tree on the reg and went back.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Sir Benjamin was coming out of a poultry house carrying
a great, big fat turkey.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
There's a job Sweden, miss though. Here take the LEAs
and be on your way.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Well, wait a minute, where you.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
Going to leave a receipt for Uncle kle for one
tree and one turkey?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I'd should like to be there when he reads.
Speaker 9 (17:12):
It, so I, Chris, So would I?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I hurried back to the rig, right into the arms
of trouble Brannigan.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
Hello, the Angelau? What run and you won't get ten yards?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Okay, okay? Why did you do look into a crystal
ball to find out where I was?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I didn't have to. I just took the same train
util belong me. You had to see me to be
able to do that.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
I had to see you. But were you invisible? Or
I'm sure sure I was invisible?
Speaker 5 (17:45):
The Angela?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
You killed me invisible?
Speaker 9 (17:48):
Eah?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
All right? What about me? Yacht behind the mission? You
walked right past, you played your flash right on me.
But you couldn't see me. How about the I'll answer
that one.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Maybe I didn't see you because I didn't want to
see you. Now that's the truth, the Angelo, I didn't
want to catch you. I had to make noises like
wanting to because I'm a cop, but I didn't want
to make the arrest.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Not on Christmas d Angelo. Yeah, why you're making me arrest? Now?
Maybe I'm not. Why don't you tell me all the
way here to see what you were up.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
To, to see if you really had a heart.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
H so.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Here bringing the Simmons, a tree and the turkey. Well,
how do you know about the Simmons. I knew Temmy Simmons.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
I saw him passion those presents in the mission before
he died. I phoned Missus Simmons and Linda that you
were coming.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
If it was you who telephoned me? Sure, who do
you think? What's it? I thought? So you thought? Who?
The Angelo? Never mind? Skip it.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I'll ask one question and then maybe i'll leave. Think
carefully before you answer. Ahead, go ahead, ask if I
arrange for you to keep in touch with the parole
officer by mail, providing those letters were postmarked Beth for him.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
But ye would you like it that way, would I Branigan?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Where else does a guy want to write letters from
but home? That's almost all there is to the story
of Sir Benjamin, me Brannigan, Missus Simmons and Linda. We
had to take the door down and get the tree
into the house, and we had to find an extra
stomach apiece to accommodate the turkey, and then later with
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a fire going and the lights down low. When then
I sat dreaming on my sofa, I had my fist
opened the keeps and her hand was right in mind.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Like a belong.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
It's been a perfectly wonderful Christmas.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Chris, Yeah, yeah, wonderful.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
So thanks to you we had a tree and a turkey.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Well, well thanks to me now a tree in the turkey.
It wasn't my trick.
Speaker 8 (20:18):
The tree and the turkey were, Chris, what are you saying? No?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Really, the thanks goes to another guy, a chubby little
guy who sure has a talent forget what he wants.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
His name is Sir Benjamin.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Sir Benjamin. Yeah, well the coincidence of names. I used
to call my father Sir Benjamin in play Oh we
play Lord and Lady. My father and I he'd call
me Princess Linda, and I'd call him Sir Benjamin.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
The coincidence of names, you said, Uh, and I suppose suppose.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
It isn't a coincidence.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
But my father died years ago.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah, so did my sir Benjamin. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Now the guy I'm talking about is a ghost. A ghost, yeah,
a ghost like I met in a mission when your
brother Tommy died. All of a sudden, a piano started
going piano music, but nobody I could see was playing piano.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
He's playing.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah, yes, so it is. You want to bet it's
a Benjamin.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
How can you prove it?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I tossed a turkey wing at the piano store.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I bet your sir Benjamin lets out of yell and
complains about how easily bruises.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Do we bet?
Speaker 8 (21:39):
What will we bet? Christ a kiss.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Waiting? Nobody loses suspense.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
You were listening to You Time Miracles, starring Larry Haynes
and Santos Ortega and written especially for suspense.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
By John Roberts.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Next week instead of another tale, Well calculated to keep
you in suspense, A gala song fest Well calculated to
put you in a bright holiday mood. The seventh Annual
Christmas Sing with Bing will come your way over the
CBS Radio Network next Sunday evening Christmas Eve, Singing along
with Bing, Katherine Crosby, the Normal Loubov Choir, and those
two Fugitives from the Met Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer's Nerd.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Suspense is produced and.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Directed by Bruno Zerato, junior music supervision by Ethel Huper.
Featured in Tonight's Story where Rosemary Rice is Linda, Joe
DeSantis is Brannigan, Katherine rot is Missus Simmons, and Bill.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Lifton as Tommy.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Two weeks from today, You'll return with the Old Man,
written by Bob Cochran, another tale well calculated to keep
you in
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Suspense,
And now a tale well calculated to keep you in.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Suspense.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Listen now to yule Tied Miracle, starring Larry Haynes and
Satos Ortega, and written especially for suspense by John Roberts.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Go ahead and laugh if you like. Only kids and
old ladies believe in ghosts.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah. Sure, that's what.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I thought too, until I met a chubby little guy
with hair like cotton candy you who called himself Sir Benjamin.
But first let me fill in the details about my
meeting with Sir Benjamin. I was in one of those
freeeats missions along the Bowery. I ducked in there to
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escape a parole officer named Brannigan. Brannigan was out to
hand me a merry set of bracelets for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
When he cut me. My mission was empty.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I had to alter myself except a skinny young punk
had come out of cough but made the benches jump.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Hey hey kid, you're sick. Yeah yeah, I know you
need a doctor.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I've had a doctor. I'm we're an hospital pajamas under
this suit.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
I went down the fire escape to the street to
hear I want to get home for Christmas.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Finally, I've been years making up my mind to it.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Uh what what what are those boxes?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
You old Christmas presents for my mother, my sister Linda,
my kid's sister Linda.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
You like this, oh ladies cold watch?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Yeah, it depends on the dress.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
I once stole my mother's watching, sold it this this
squarest Yeah. Uh what what's in the other box? Nylon stockings?
My sais to Linda's always had a yet, Hey, hold yourself.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Come on, hey, I can't get hold with these presents.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
If you could get them to missus b Simmons for me,
tell her that Tommy.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Her son, tummy missus the Simmons kid, Come on, tell.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Me get hold the coffin stopped.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And it was right then, that's benjaminly chubby little ghost
with hair like cotton candy.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Happened Well, first I know of him was magic, as.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
If because if he was announcing himself, it was music
coming from an upright piano on a platform way down.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
The mission hall with Christmas hymn.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
But look, until my eyes popped out of my head,
I couldn't see anybody. The piano was going, but nobody
I could see was playing it. I went up to
the piano and reached over the stool to see how
the trick was worked, and in my hands touched something solid,
like somebody sitting on the stool. And then I saw fingers,
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halves skipping along the keys, only halves, as if they
had a life of their own.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
I don't know why, but I grabbed them.
Speaker 8 (03:43):
That hurt.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I bruise easily.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Hey, I'm saying things, and now I'm hearing voices, my voice, Chris.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
You're hearing me. Where are you, my dear, my boy?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
What?
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Just be patient and I'll remedialize. It takes a moment
or two.
Speaker 9 (04:12):
I saw the hands billed, first arms and elbows, shoulders,
and then a body slowly.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
And then the last.
Speaker 9 (04:21):
Day, my head with a little puss white hair, and
then a face, a chubby face, rosy and smile. Ah.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Well, here every bit of me are dressed.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Who are you?
Speaker 9 (04:43):
Said Benjamin. I'm sorry if I worried you. He had
that trick like like you were invisible, but I was invisible.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I'll come on, nobody can do that.
Speaker 9 (04:56):
I can, and that's only one of my powers. First,
suppose we get right down to business, Chris. We have business,
of course, That boy.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Over there on the bench Tommy Simmons.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Oh oh oh the kid. Yeah, you know, I almost forgot.
He's lying there like that. I don't dare go outside,
but somebody's got to call an ambulance.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Do something.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
It's too late for Tommy. Why now, we don't know that.
We're not doctors.
Speaker 8 (05:22):
I know that.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
The problem now is what are you going to do
about his dang wish?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Why? Oh oh?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
You mean about delivering those presents to his family? It
would be fine if you deliver those presents in person.
Speaker 8 (05:40):
Me.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Hey, now, come off it, Lester. It's not my job
and it's not my business. Besides, I got problems on
my own.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Brannigan.
Speaker 9 (05:49):
Why the parn officer, How did you know about Brannigan?
I am a very aversatile haven't it ghosts? I also
have powers of conjuration.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Come again, turn the boy's.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Dying wish aside, and I'll conjure up Brannigan. I don't
think I can.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I don't think you even exist. How about that? I
think I'm dreaming you what?
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Very well? I will demonstrate hold on to something, Chris.
Speaker 9 (06:25):
Conjuration is a very characlysmic and strenuous business.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
You will definitely be safe if you hold on to something.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Don't ask me why, but I grabbed hold of a piano.
That's a good thing I did, too, because the joy
began to rock like an earthquake was hitting a flash.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
There. I'm finished.
Speaker 9 (06:53):
Now, there's quite a job of conjury, But says Brannigan,
see on the street, peering through the plate glass window
of the mission watching you.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Holy smoke, it is Brannigan. Hey, I gotta get out
of here. I gotta find the.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Back way yet, Yeah, through this yard, dog.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Quickly I dived into the yard where Brannigan's police was
blowing at me.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
The yard was a dead end, high building.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Walls all around like a prison yard, no exit except
the long narrow alley to the street past Brannigan by
flattened in the shadow as a dead duck. I was
listening to Brannigan's shout orders that a couple of blue
coats would come running when the whistled.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
What's the exit?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Man?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
While I flush about the angelo, are trapped? Better surrender peacefully?
The heavy the Agelau trapped was the word, like a rat.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
All the pity to bed Chris. What's the penalty of
a violation?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
A year? Maybe two?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Oh? You were a big help showing me into the yard.
That there I go talking to myself. You're talking to me.
I could really be a big help.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Don't make me take it the hard.
Speaker 9 (08:08):
Way fast, Chris, you had to respect tummy Simmons dang
wish you would to go home for Christmas in his place?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Okay, okay?
Speaker 9 (08:17):
If I was to, then what and Brannigan goes empty handed?
In order to catch you, he must first see you.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I sure sure Brannigan is suddenly gonna go stone blind.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Ah, you know you are becoming invisible.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
There was a laugh, but the laugh was I was
invisible at least a Brannigan I was.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
He came right toward me with a flashlight one hand and.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
A gun and the other only he looked right through
me as if he didn't see me.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
The agelo, I know you've got to be in this
yard to.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Watch them, And then scratch his head and give up now, Chris,
for you're part of the bargain.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
You a Temmy's presence, Go deliver.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
It, and my look, I'll leave here and only run
into bradd again outside somewhere.
Speaker 9 (09:13):
And now what about that you remain invisible until you've
arrived to destination. That is as long as you remain
faithful to your mission. Go Chris, Okay, I'll wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Wait a minute, Where am I going? Where do I
find this? Missus b Simmons?
Speaker 9 (09:28):
That for just a brief train ride to a neighboring town.
The town Chris is Beth. There, as Sir Benjamin had promised.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
It was a brief train ride. That funny. I felt
like I'd come a long, long way. There was a
deserted train shed with small packed eye.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
The station's side turned silver by the moon, red left.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
For him soul in science.
Speaker 9 (10:06):
No, no, there was someone a girl, a girl in
high boots, a snowhead and on her cheeks.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
She was coming toward me.
Speaker 8 (10:17):
Hello, Hello, are you Chris?
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, my name is Chris.
Speaker 8 (10:25):
I'm Linda, Linda Simmons. I came to drive you home.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Just like that, just like what well, I mean, no
no explanations, like you know I was here?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
And how come you know my name? Oh?
Speaker 8 (10:38):
I was told you were coming and told your name too.
You were told somebody telephoned.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Oh yeah, he telephoned. He was a kid when he
said he was a talented ghost. See you you you
came right at me.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Just now that means you saw me. You can see me?
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Huh see you?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah? Yeah, face hands body me. I'm a guy. You
look at me and you see a guy.
Speaker 8 (11:05):
No, I cannot see you.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
That I am invisible.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
No, it's just that I'm blind.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Let drive home. Let's take it now.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
There was a horse drawn sleigh around the side of
the ship, silver bells on the reins, and a horse
whose name had to be Dobbin. Ah, you drove this
rig all the way here by yourself.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
You don't drive Dobbin. He knows every inch of the
way to the Bethlehem station.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
You see.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
We've been coming here every night for years.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Nice, slow and easy. I've been running since I was born.
And now I was asking myself what for a guy
can't stay tough on a horse drawn ridge in the snow.
And when Linda put her hand on mine, I opened
my fist for the first time I could remember. We
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reached home, a framed cottage, nothing fancy, with a candle
burning brightly in the window.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
Come in, Chris, mother, mother, this is Chris.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Welcome home. Chris.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Oh yeah, thanks, uh.
Speaker 9 (12:47):
It's a nice place you got here, missus Simson, Oh,
I'm so glad you like it.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, I don't exactly know how to say this, Missus Simmons.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
You see, I'm just a mug. I quit school a
minute I learned how to tell the teacher off. So
if I ain't got the right words, you.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Don't have to have the right words, Chris.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
You don't even have to get it said.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
You see, I know you know about Tommy. Yes, it's
all about Tommy.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Well well how.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Oh oh, yes, somebody somebody talk to you on the phone.
Speaker 9 (13:25):
Too, Yes, somebody telephone.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Well, the last thing the kid thought about was you
and Linda and coming home for Christmas. And he asked
me to give you these go watch for you, Missus Simmons.
These for you, Linda Nylon Stokers.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
It's nothing big, I guess. But Tommy didn't have much
to give the way it was with him, You're.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Wrong, Chris.
Speaker 9 (13:52):
Tommy had a great deal to give, and in his
way he gave it.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
I don't follow a boy come home.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
Temmy couldn't come home himself, so he sent you to us.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Chris.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
You can say about me that I was born in
nineteen thirty five, and I stopped crying in nineteen thirty six.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
At the right bold age of one.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
And you can say about me that I let a
tear go. I never knew I had Christmas nineteen sixty one, Linda. Yes, Chris,
don't get me wrong. You know there's no crying being poor.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
Say it.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Well, well it's like this, it's Christmas.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
But I don't see any tree, and I've been slipping
close enough to the kitchen and oh there's nothing roasting
in that oven.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
You're disappointed?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Oh no, no, no, no, is it all right? I
five borrowed dobbin outside?
Speaker 8 (14:49):
All right, of course it's all right.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Chris.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Put me donnad a guy who never knows when they
shut up a tree and a turkey. Sure, lady, nothing
through it. Presto a fisto. I'm a magician. Here's your tree, lady,
and here's your bird.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
What quite a remarkable feat of metic Chris, preston Fista.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
There's a bench of money.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I was wondering when you'd show up the kibbittz you
you are.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Here's a Benjamin.
Speaker 9 (15:22):
Yes, but immaterially, and please don't ask me to re materialize, Chris.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
I darn't show my face in bed, then why not?
Speaker 9 (15:30):
I lived here once before my present situation it wasn't
very popular with my townspeople.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
I'm afraid o what they have against you.
Speaker 9 (15:39):
Bills, I didoing, the butcher, the baker, and even the undertaker.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Oh, let's get back to your problem.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Yeah, a tree and a turkey, and it's your problem.
I'm tumpling it right into your laugh. You got me
into this in the first place.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
I see, have you any money?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Not a plug nickel, and even if I had, the
time is shut tight. But you're a talented cost A
tree in a Turkey ought to be a sitch. You
got any ideas on it, Sir Benjamin?
Speaker 9 (16:06):
Only one My customary way of acquiring necessary things when
I was alive, Your customary way credit Chris.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
And I hope never to be a burrower again.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
But I suppose it can't be himped And just where
do we borrow this tree? In Turkey?
Speaker 9 (16:27):
Uncle Kayle's poultry farms just past the merchant's bank, a
short drive.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Well, i'm a stranger here, move over.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
I'll take the reins to get there.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
There aren't any ghosts.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
And call me crazy, but Sir Benjamin drove a regular
smart clip to a farm stacked.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
With freshly cut trees.
Speaker 9 (16:43):
Take your pick of tree and carry it to the
ring and Chris, yeah, what no, what unnecessary disturbance?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
I owe Uncle Kayla a formidable bill.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Already right, threw the tree on the reg and went back.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Sir Benjamin was coming out of a poultry house carrying
a great, big fat turkey.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
There's a job Sweden, miss though. Here take the LEAs
and be on your way.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Well, wait a minute, where you.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
Going to leave a receipt for Uncle kle for one
tree and one turkey?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I'd should like to be there when he reads.
Speaker 9 (17:12):
It, so I, Chris, So would I?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I hurried back to the rig, right into the arms
of trouble Brannigan.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
Hello, the Angelau? What run and you won't get ten yards?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Okay, okay? Why did you do look into a crystal
ball to find out where I was?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
I didn't have to. I just took the same train
util belong me. You had to see me to be
able to do that.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
I had to see you. But were you invisible? Or
I'm sure sure I was invisible?
Speaker 5 (17:45):
The Angela?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
You killed me invisible?
Speaker 9 (17:48):
Eah?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
All right? What about me? Yacht behind the mission? You
walked right past, you played your flash right on me.
But you couldn't see me. How about the I'll answer
that one.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Maybe I didn't see you because I didn't want to
see you. Now that's the truth, the Angelo, I didn't
want to catch you. I had to make noises like
wanting to because I'm a cop, but I didn't want
to make the arrest.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Not on Christmas d Angelo. Yeah, why you're making me arrest? Now?
Maybe I'm not. Why don't you tell me all the
way here to see what you were up.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
To, to see if you really had a heart.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
H so.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Here bringing the Simmons, a tree and the turkey. Well,
how do you know about the Simmons. I knew Temmy Simmons.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
I saw him passion those presents in the mission before
he died. I phoned Missus Simmons and Linda that you
were coming.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
If it was you who telephoned me? Sure, who do
you think? What's it? I thought? So you thought? Who?
The Angelo? Never mind? Skip it.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I'll ask one question and then maybe i'll leave. Think
carefully before you answer. Ahead, go ahead, ask if I
arrange for you to keep in touch with the parole
officer by mail, providing those letters were postmarked Beth for him.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
But ye would you like it that way, would I Branigan?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Where else does a guy want to write letters from
but home? That's almost all there is to the story
of Sir Benjamin, me Brannigan, Missus Simmons and Linda. We
had to take the door down and get the tree
into the house, and we had to find an extra
stomach apiece to accommodate the turkey, and then later with
(19:47):
a fire going and the lights down low. When then
I sat dreaming on my sofa, I had my fist
opened the keeps and her hand was right in mind.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Like a belong.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
It's been a perfectly wonderful Christmas.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Chris, Yeah, yeah, wonderful.
Speaker 8 (20:10):
So thanks to you we had a tree and a turkey.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Well, well thanks to me now a tree in the turkey.
It wasn't my trick.
Speaker 8 (20:18):
The tree and the turkey were, Chris, what are you saying? No?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Really, the thanks goes to another guy, a chubby little
guy who sure has a talent forget what he wants.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
His name is Sir Benjamin.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Sir Benjamin. Yeah, well the coincidence of names. I used
to call my father Sir Benjamin in play Oh we
play Lord and Lady. My father and I he'd call
me Princess Linda, and I'd call him Sir Benjamin.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
The coincidence of names, you said, Uh, and I suppose suppose.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
It isn't a coincidence.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
But my father died years ago.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah, so did my sir Benjamin. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Now the guy I'm talking about is a ghost. A ghost, yeah,
a ghost like I met in a mission when your
brother Tommy died. All of a sudden, a piano started
going piano music, but nobody I could see was playing piano.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
He's playing.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah, yes, so it is. You want to bet it's
a Benjamin.
Speaker 8 (21:27):
How can you prove it?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I tossed a turkey wing at the piano store.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I bet your sir Benjamin lets out of yell and
complains about how easily bruises.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Do we bet?
Speaker 8 (21:39):
What will we bet? Christ a kiss.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Waiting? Nobody loses suspense.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
You were listening to You Time Miracles, starring Larry Haynes
and Santos Ortega and written especially for suspense.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
By John Roberts.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Next week instead of another tale, Well calculated to keep
you in suspense, A gala song fest Well calculated to
put you in a bright holiday mood. The seventh Annual
Christmas Sing with Bing will come your way over the
CBS Radio Network next Sunday evening Christmas Eve, Singing along
with Bing, Katherine Crosby, the Normal Loubov Choir, and those
two Fugitives from the Met Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer's Nerd.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Suspense is produced and.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Directed by Bruno Zerato, junior music supervision by Ethel Huper.
Featured in Tonight's Story where Rosemary Rice is Linda, Joe
DeSantis is Brannigan, Katherine rot is Missus Simmons, and Bill.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Lifton as Tommy.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Two weeks from today, You'll return with the Old Man,
written by Bob Cochran, another tale well calculated to keep
you in
Speaker 2 (23:09):
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