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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Quiet Please, Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
The Mutual Broadcasting System presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper and which features Ernest Chapel.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Quiet Please for Tonight is called kill Me Again.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
You ever hear anybody say I'd sell my soul for this,
that or the other, And not very many people really
mean it when they say it. Unfortunately I did and
I found a buyer. Well, nothing very exciting, no crashes
of thunder, no red fire.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Now. The doorbell just.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Rang, and when I opened the door there was a worried.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Little looking man standing there.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I said, well, I understand you will have some property
for sale, mister Davis.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Who are you?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, I'm mister Hellman. Mister Davis, may I come in?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Mister Hellman came in. Mister Hellman sat down nervously. Mister
Helman didn't have much time.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
It appeared.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
But mister Helmon had the million dollars in currency that
I had names as my price.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
For my soul.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
And he also had a bill of sale, neatly types
and triplicates.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
No, didn't see Maud at all.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That's why I suggest you never mention aloud that you'd
be willing to dispose of your own immortal soul for this,
that or the other thing. Now, mister Helton gets around,
and he's a mighty sharp business man for all his
apparent nervousness. So mister Hellman got up and went to
the door.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Well, good night, mister Davis. It's a pleasure to do
business with you, sir.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Thank you, mister Helman. I'll be seeing you. Assume that
they closed the door, mister Helman. But mister Hellman had
gone on out and me with a million dollars in current.
See well, I I hopped at the door to close
it fast. Not fast enough, though, well, there were two
men there with the revolvers. I didn't get a chance
to say a word. They both fired, and I saw
(02:16):
him run down the hallway with my beautiful new million dollars.
And I tried to yell, but when I couldn't. When
I turned around, then I was lying on the floor
all bloody. Mister Hellman spoke to.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
My ear, Well, I guess you can come along now,
mister Davis. I kept my bargain, now you keep yours.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
So that's how COMMON was sitting a little while later
in a little dark room with mister Hellman. There wasn't
much light in there, what light there was, seemed to
come from way up high near the ceiling and sort
of flickered, uh, like the light had.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Come from a fireplace.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Mister Helman was sitting at the desk looking out when
his eyes seemed to dart all around the room. Or
maybe that was from a flickering light. He didn't say
anything for a long while. I sat there and bit
his fingernails, and then he spoke, well, uh, well, well,
mister Davis, this is a dirty trick.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
You pulled on me.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
The contract didn't say anything about your your keeping the money,
mister Ball, Yes, but I assume no. Now now, mister Davis,
you you must never assume things.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
When there's a.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Written contract you you should have read it.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Well, I had any idea you were gonna pull this
kind of a trick.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Most people who deal with me haven't. I won't stand
for it. You won't, No, I won't. You can't do
anything about it?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Well, that contract wouldn't hold up in a court of law.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
What court of law? Well, I now, now, come, come, come, come,
mister Davis. You're going to be a long long time
and you you might just as well get used to
doing as I say, well, uh, what do I have
to do?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Then?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yes, well I must confess I acted rather hastily in
your case.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
You mean you're going to let me out of here?
That Oh my no, no, no, no, But I haven't
done anything. No, that's what's got me puzzled, mister Davis.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
My, my, my, my, Why why don't I think?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Think?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
What? Well? I may as well confess. You see, most
of the people who make an arrangement with me or
about their souls as you did, I do to come
here anyway. Eventually, I don't get it. I mean, they've
already committed a crime or a sin or whatever you like,
enough to qualify them for our, uh little institution, and
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so the transaction really doesn't mean anything except to expedit
their arrival. Do you see you mean you cheat them,
you jip them? Oh, come, come now, mister Davis. Business's business,
I suppose so, But what's that got to do with me?
A great deal, mister Davis. Your soul belongs to me
(05:04):
according to the terms of our contract, you see, But
you haven't committed any sentence according to my records. So
you're in a very strange position.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Why you see you're a regular inmate now, mister Davis,
but I transcend you out to the fire department or
any of the other departments like the rest of our guests,
because you're you're not qualified. It's yes, it's very very distressing.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yes, yes, it must be.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Yes, it's very very distressing.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I am really ashamed of myself. I feel awful sorry
for you, mister Hellman and me.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I've been running this place for so long, and I've
never had a slip up before. Believe me, if if
this gets around, mister Davis promised me one thing. What
I promised me, you will never say a word about
this to anybody around here.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Well, uh, that depends on how I'm treated, mister Hellman.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Oh, dear, I knew you'd take advantage of me.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Well, I'm a businessman too, mister Helman.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Dear, dear, dear, dear.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You said you never had a slip up before.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Never never, never.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Once, never once in there ever so many years, never
never once. Well, how about Dante?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
He was down here?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Dante? Oh, oh, you you mean that Italian fellow with
the long road we read the leaves on his head? Oh, yes, yes,
I remember him. I remember him quite well. This place
was a mess for weeks after he was here.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
You let him out. I had to.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
He was a visitor, you see, he was alive, I see.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
And you know what that man did.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
He wrote a book about this place. And what that
book did to business. Why do you know business fell
off thirteen percent for very first year.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
That's awful, mister Helmion.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
You have no idea what I went through. Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I am a writer too.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Mister Davis. Allow me to call your attention to the
fact that I have a very special department in this
place for writers, very very special department. Yes, remind me
to show you someday the lovely little apartment in there
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that I fixed up especially for mister Dante. Well, isn't
he here? That's cissy. He didn't have a basic, ordinary, human,
decent thing to afford me an opportunity to welcome him back.
Not mister Dante. He lived an exemporary life and died
full of virtue. But coward.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Well, well, well.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yes, yes, but that doesn't solve my problem with you.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I can wait, mister Helmon.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yes, well, doubtless I'll find something for you to do,
mister Davis, And in the meantime, just feel free to
go anywhere. I'll let you know when I want you.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You won't let me off there?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Oh, dear, No, no, no, mister Davis, dear, No, business
is business the same year as everywhere else. Yes, it's
the very devil, isn't it, mister Davis. Yeah, well, bye bye,
I'll see you later, and don't get into any mischief.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I felt quite.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Perky as I wandered around mister Allman's remarkable institution, But
it wouldn't quite had a pretty tough time on earth.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
There there were a plenty of times when I wondered
where the next meal was coming from.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Well, I had had a million dollars, even if it
was for only a few minutes. And there are very
many people in the world that can say that. Then
now here, I was a non paying permanent guest, and
mister Helman himself admitted he couldn't do anything about it.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Just that alone was enough to make me feel pretty smart.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
And they're pretty smart, especially when I catch mister Hellman's
expression occasionally out of the corner of an eye. You know,
mister Hellman's a very hard person to out with. Well,
people have been trying to do it ever since, uh, well,
ever since and now look who did a little Old
Joe Davis, the guy that never had a nickel, the
guy that sold his soul and made up profit on it. Well, uh,
(09:30):
I was smart to do my laughing early. Well, mister
Helman's a genius. When I think of some of the
things he had people doing, my oh my, and and
I'd seen enough of the place to decide that I
was a very, very lucky fella, and also the wish
i'd never made this deal. So I can say definitely
that I wasn't happy. Mister Hellman saw that too, Dan.
(09:54):
He talked to me about it.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Mister Davis, you're not happy.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Well, I'm not either, huh.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yes, But you can do something about it. I can.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
You're a disturbing influence here. Well, I can't help that
you brought me here.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
You're ruining them morale here. Oh well, you keep telling
my staff members how you outsmarted me on this deal.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
No, I don't I tell him how you outsmarted yourself.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Well, I want you to stop it.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Uh, mister Hellman, I'm an unwilling guest here, you know,
don't I know it?
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Well, why don't.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You do something about it?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I want you to stop carrying tales about me or.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Or what mister Helman.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Mister Davis, you want to get out of here, don't you?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I certainly do.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Now, mister Davis, if I uh let you out of here?
Would would you stop being mean to me?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Trying to derivee me?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Huh? Yes, I am, mister Davis on a purely business basis.
If you understand? Okay, okay, what's the basis? Well, of
course I should expect something in return.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Why I said I wouldn't talk about you.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
If you let me out, you will have to do
a little better than that.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Well, anything within reason good.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
And now see here, I do have a contract with you,
don't I? If I forget that quite quite we we
mustn't forget it now, mister Davis, to tell me, have
you ever considered murder?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Murder?
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
No, I've never considered murder, mister Hellman.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
And if you think you're gonna suck me into committing
a crime so you can put me out there with
the other boys and girls, oh no, mister Helman. Really
I did think you were smarter than that. Why, even
after the way you messed up this other deal.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Don't rub it in. Well, you see, I could give
you leaves. All you'd have to do is a pere
and sort of the uh stick around. They're giving these
various people as an opportunity to murder you and and
then well you see, they automatically qualify for a place here.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Well, I got murdered once. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
You're quite welcome. I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Now what what about it solves both are problems, doesn't it? Well,
what happens after I get murdered?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Oh, you've come back here until I have another assignment
for you.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I come back here.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I want this to be a home.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
For you, mister Davis.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
No, you have a very nice, comfortable apartment, mister Davis,
and no work whatever to do? You know, I don't
like it though, Why, mister Davis, you might have to
give up your comfortable apartment, you know, if you're not cooperative?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Oh threatening me?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Huh no no, no, no, no, But but.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
The did you know you kick me off?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
The cold? Oh not the cold, dear dear, No, mister Davis,
not the cold. No, I don't like it, mister Davis.
And do you remember what strawberry shortcake taste like?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
God, do you remember the the blue sky with white,
greasy clouds floating in it. On on a summer afternoon,
green grass trees. Remember the sound of dogs barking at night,
going swimming in the ocean, and so beautiful white strain, lovely, lovely,
cool rain at the end of a hot off this
veale suit of clothes, Apple part listening to music with
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a beautiful girl by he's drawing fishing at Tomahawk Rady
old movie. Oh oh my, I shouldn't have sat there,
cool glass of beer. What do you say, mister Davis,
mister Helman, you've sold a bill of good Just sign here,
mister Davis. Why why, mister Davis, your back so quick?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I've done and I never had a chance. Is this
the kind of a deal you made with me?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
I've done Helmont, mister Davis, But you did, beauty.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I just opened the door and the guy plugged me.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I know he was much hastier than I expect.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I didn't get a chance to do a thing. Just bang, bang,
that's all. And I'm saying, hello, mister Hellman, that's too bad.
Why I haven't been gone fifteen minutes. Well, you've got
excellent results.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
He'll be down here before you know it, and you
and he will have a good many laughs over it
before I give him his assignment. Well, now shall we
try again, mister Davis, we shall not. Oh but mister Davis,
I'm afraid you'll have to what why you signed an agreement?
Mister Davis? My, my, my, will you never learn to
(14:47):
read things before you silent?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Well, this Timond wasn't so bad for a while. Well,
I was smart. I never went there the fella for
two months, and I lived like a king. I will
say this, mister Hellman. Uh, he is generous with an
expense account. Of course, some people say that all the
money there is belongs to him, but uh, they're willing
to take it regardless. Mister Helman was all right about it,
(15:15):
and he he didn't rush me. And I'd begun to
wonder how long I could get away with it. Well,
I say I had a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I went a lot of.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Places putting this thing off as long as.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I could, and I was having fun. I got ideas.
Why you see, I met this girl.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Oh, sure, a girl comes into any story sooner or later.
I never had a girl in my previous life before
mister Hellman, So I I was nuts about this one.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
I remember I got very.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Sentiment over her and kind of forgot. I guess it
was a beautiful night, but a million stars. We'd been
dancing out an outdoor terrace.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I really didn't forget who I was. Sure.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
It is a beautiful night, isn't it starts? I just
reach up and touch him.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Make you feel romantic?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Kind of me too. Let's stay out here a while.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I was hoping you'd.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Say that you were Why.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Don't you know?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Mm?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Because it's cool?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
No, because you're tired of dancing? No?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
What you me? Yes?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I love you?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Oh no, love, don't be redet, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
I love you.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Oh listen, dear, listen. I said, well, look, you're nice
to be round with, and you spend your money and
you take me places and.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
I have kind of fun with you.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
But that's as far as it goes. No, No, lekip it.
Well do you have to be so serious? Don't spoil
every But I thought I know what you thought.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
I thought I was falling for you.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Well i'm not, darling.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I want to marry you. Marry you?
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Why you won't fool.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Marry you?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Darling?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Please listen to me, pop so I don't want to
be mean to you, But after all, you're old enough
to be my father, and I don't want to hear
any more about it. Now, do you want to go
back in and dance her? Do you want to get
me a taxi and let me go home?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
And as she stood there laughing at me, I thought
I heard someone else laughing and sounded.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Like mister Hemming all wasting time. Mister Davis better get
to work, hadn't you.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
So I went to see my prospect that it wasn't
very hard feeling the way I did. I'm old enough
to be her father, am I? And it wasn't very
difficult to taught him into drawing a revolver. So I
got murdered for the third time, and mister Hellman had
a new inmate. And yeah, I didn't hurt very much
after all, And I wondered how that girl felt about it. Well,
(18:19):
I had a nice apartment down there in mister Hellman's place,
but I didn't get much time to use it. That's
one thing you want to remember about making a bargain
with mister Hellman. Now, the bargain part of it is
always on his side. I brought in twenty six new
customers well, and I thought it was time for a vacation.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
After all. Will you try getting murdered twenty six times?
It wears you out? I had skies all over me.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
So I spoke to mister Helmer, mister Hellman, I said,
I need a vacation. I've been working awful hard, mister Hellman,
and I'm worn out. Why, mister Hellman, I said, I've
got so there isn't any place left to shoot me
without going through.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
An old bullet hole.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
I'm awfully sorry, mister Davis. But a bargain is a
bar book I tell you about, mister Davis. But business
is business. You've cost me a.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Million dollar, but I never got a sy I'm sure
you realize that that's not my fault, mister Davis.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Are you sure about that, missus?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I don't care to discuss it, mister Davis. Now here
is another very good prospect that I want you to
see just as soon as possible. I won't do it,
mister Davis. Must I take steps now? About this black marketing?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Well, I hadn't had any rest for so long, and
I was so fed up with this mister Hellman and
the job he forced me into. I said to myself,
I'm gonna double cross you, mister Hellman. I'm gonna get
some rest on summer. Shall I walk into this black
marketer's office.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
He seemed to be around a nice fellow.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
How do you do, young man? What can I do
for you? I don't want anything automobile?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Well a washing machine?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Now what could I do with a washing machine?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Change a thousand dollar bill for you? No? Well, an apartment?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Maybe an apartment?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Say that I could use.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
It's a deal, sir. Just look at this four rooms, bath,
newly decorated, daily maide service, modern kitchen. Find us apartment
in the city. How about it? How much Spectly Seeling
price her long term lease?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
M I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
But h yes, you'll have to buy the drapers in
the apartment.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Oh that's all right. How much?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Oh that'll be?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
And we see ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I was standing over him with a smoke still wreathing
its way upward out of my revolver, and he was
as dead as a doornail on the thick green rug.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
My door open and I turned around.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Well, well, well, mister Davis Hellman, Miss Hellman Davis, well,
now you have been and gone and done it happened.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Did you hear what he was trying to sell me.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Mister Davis, I hope you realize that your days as
a guest in my institution are over.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
You mean you mean I don't have to go back now?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
My he certainly is dead. You're a very good shot.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Mister Davis.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
He made me so many Indeed.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
What were you saying about not having to come back?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Oh? Did you mean I don't have to come back now,
mister Helmer?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Why mister Davis?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
What?
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Why? Mister Davis. Don't you see what you've done? I
knew eventually you'd do something like this. Temper temper, mister Davis,
what are you talking about? Why, mister Davis? I knew
someday you'd commit a crime, commit a sin.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Mister Davis.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Why certainly you're coming back, mister Davis, after the law
gets through with you.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Mister Helmer, listen, uh listen, sir.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I'm afraid you're never going to be a businessman, mister Davis.
I have such interesting things for you to do the
next couple.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Of million years.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Who's that?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Why is that, mister Davis? I suspect is the UH
officers come to take you to jail, where they will
eventually send you back to me. No, no, I'll be
seeing you to mister Davis. Kill me again, Kill me again.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
You have listened to Quiet Please, which is written and
directed by Willis Cooper, mister Davis. The man who spoke
to you was Ernest Chapple and mister Hellman was played
by James Monks. The girl was played by Peggy Stanley,
and the black marketeer was Pat Omelley. Music for choir
Please is composed and played by Jean Brazzo. Now but
worried about next week's choir Please, Here is our writer,
(23:16):
director Willis Cooper.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Next week's story is a simple story of a man and.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
A woman who loved each other and what happened to him.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
It's called in Memory of.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Bernadine and so until next week. At the same time,
I am quietly yours, Ernest Chapel. Quiet Please came to
(23:53):
you from New York. This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.
Quiet Please, Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
The Mutual Broadcasting System presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper and which features Ernest Chapel.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Quiet Please for Tonight is called kill Me Again.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
You ever hear anybody say I'd sell my soul for this,
that or the other, And not very many people really
mean it when they say it. Unfortunately I did and
I found a buyer. Well, nothing very exciting, no crashes
of thunder, no red fire.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Now. The doorbell just.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Rang, and when I opened the door there was a worried.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Little looking man standing there.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I said, well, I understand you will have some property
for sale, mister Davis.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Who are you?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, I'm mister Hellman. Mister Davis, may I come in?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Mister Hellman came in. Mister Hellman sat down nervously. Mister
Helman didn't have much time.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
It appeared.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
But mister Helmon had the million dollars in currency that
I had names as my price.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
For my soul.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
And he also had a bill of sale, neatly types
and triplicates.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
No, didn't see Maud at all.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That's why I suggest you never mention aloud that you'd
be willing to dispose of your own immortal soul for this,
that or the other thing. Now, mister Helton gets around,
and he's a mighty sharp business man for all his
apparent nervousness. So mister Hellman got up and went to
the door.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Well, good night, mister Davis. It's a pleasure to do
business with you, sir.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Thank you, mister Helman. I'll be seeing you. Assume that
they closed the door, mister Helman. But mister Hellman had
gone on out and me with a million dollars in current.
See well, I I hopped at the door to close
it fast. Not fast enough, though, well, there were two
men there with the revolvers. I didn't get a chance
to say a word. They both fired, and I saw
(02:16):
him run down the hallway with my beautiful new million dollars.
And I tried to yell, but when I couldn't. When
I turned around, then I was lying on the floor
all bloody. Mister Hellman spoke to.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
My ear, Well, I guess you can come along now,
mister Davis. I kept my bargain, now you keep yours.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
So that's how COMMON was sitting a little while later
in a little dark room with mister Hellman. There wasn't
much light in there, what light there was, seemed to
come from way up high near the ceiling and sort
of flickered, uh, like the light had.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Come from a fireplace.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Mister Helman was sitting at the desk looking out when
his eyes seemed to dart all around the room. Or
maybe that was from a flickering light. He didn't say
anything for a long while. I sat there and bit
his fingernails, and then he spoke, well, uh, well, well,
mister Davis, this is a dirty trick.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
You pulled on me.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
The contract didn't say anything about your your keeping the money,
mister Ball, Yes, but I assume no. Now now, mister Davis,
you you must never assume things.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
When there's a.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Written contract you you should have read it.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Well, I had any idea you were gonna pull this
kind of a trick.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Most people who deal with me haven't. I won't stand
for it. You won't, No, I won't. You can't do
anything about it?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Well, that contract wouldn't hold up in a court of law.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
What court of law? Well, I now, now, come, come, come, come,
mister Davis. You're going to be a long long time
and you you might just as well get used to
doing as I say, well, uh, what do I have
to do?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Then?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yes, well I must confess I acted rather hastily in
your case.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
You mean you're going to let me out of here?
That Oh my no, no, no, no, But I haven't
done anything. No, that's what's got me puzzled, mister Davis.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
My, my, my, my, Why why don't I think?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Think?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
What? Well? I may as well confess. You see, most
of the people who make an arrangement with me or
about their souls as you did, I do to come
here anyway. Eventually, I don't get it. I mean, they've
already committed a crime or a sin or whatever you like,
enough to qualify them for our, uh little institution, and
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so the transaction really doesn't mean anything except to expedit
their arrival. Do you see you mean you cheat them,
you jip them? Oh, come, come now, mister Davis. Business's business,
I suppose so, But what's that got to do with me?
A great deal, mister Davis. Your soul belongs to me
(05:04):
according to the terms of our contract, you see, But
you haven't committed any sentence according to my records. So
you're in a very strange position.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I don't get it.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Why you see you're a regular inmate now, mister Davis,
but I transcend you out to the fire department or
any of the other departments like the rest of our guests,
because you're you're not qualified. It's yes, it's very very distressing.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yes, yes, it must be.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Yes, it's very very distressing.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I am really ashamed of myself. I feel awful sorry
for you, mister Hellman and me.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I've been running this place for so long, and I've
never had a slip up before. Believe me, if if
this gets around, mister Davis promised me one thing. What
I promised me, you will never say a word about
this to anybody around here.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Well, uh, that depends on how I'm treated, mister Hellman.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Oh, dear, I knew you'd take advantage of me.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Well, I'm a businessman too, mister Helman.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Dear, dear, dear, dear.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You said you never had a slip up before.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Never never, never.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Once, never once in there ever so many years, never
never once. Well, how about Dante?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
He was down here?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Dante? Oh, oh, you you mean that Italian fellow with
the long road we read the leaves on his head? Oh, yes, yes,
I remember him. I remember him quite well. This place
was a mess for weeks after he was here.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
You let him out. I had to.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
He was a visitor, you see, he was alive, I see.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
And you know what that man did.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
He wrote a book about this place. And what that
book did to business. Why do you know business fell
off thirteen percent for very first year.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
That's awful, mister Helmion.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
You have no idea what I went through. Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I am a writer too.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Mister Davis. Allow me to call your attention to the
fact that I have a very special department in this
place for writers, very very special department. Yes, remind me
to show you someday the lovely little apartment in there
(07:32):
that I fixed up especially for mister Dante. Well, isn't
he here? That's cissy. He didn't have a basic, ordinary, human,
decent thing to afford me an opportunity to welcome him back.
Not mister Dante. He lived an exemporary life and died
full of virtue. But coward.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Well, well, well.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yes, yes, but that doesn't solve my problem with you.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I can wait, mister Helmon.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yes, well, doubtless I'll find something for you to do,
mister Davis, And in the meantime, just feel free to
go anywhere. I'll let you know when I want you.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You won't let me off there?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Oh, dear, No, no, no, mister Davis, dear, No, business
is business the same year as everywhere else. Yes, it's
the very devil, isn't it, mister Davis. Yeah, well, bye bye,
I'll see you later, and don't get into any mischief.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I felt quite.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Perky as I wandered around mister Allman's remarkable institution, But
it wouldn't quite had a pretty tough time on earth.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
There there were a plenty of times when I wondered
where the next meal was coming from.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Well, I had had a million dollars, even if it
was for only a few minutes. And there are very
many people in the world that can say that. Then
now here, I was a non paying permanent guest, and
mister Helman himself admitted he couldn't do anything about it.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Just that alone was enough to make me feel pretty smart.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
And they're pretty smart, especially when I catch mister Hellman's
expression occasionally out of the corner of an eye. You know,
mister Hellman's a very hard person to out with. Well,
people have been trying to do it ever since, uh, well,
ever since and now look who did a little Old
Joe Davis, the guy that never had a nickel, the
guy that sold his soul and made up profit on it. Well, uh,
(09:30):
I was smart to do my laughing early. Well, mister
Helman's a genius. When I think of some of the
things he had people doing, my oh my, and and
I'd seen enough of the place to decide that I
was a very, very lucky fella, and also the wish
i'd never made this deal. So I can say definitely
that I wasn't happy. Mister Hellman saw that too, Dan.
(09:54):
He talked to me about it.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Mister Davis, you're not happy.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Well, I'm not either, huh.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yes, But you can do something about it. I can.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
You're a disturbing influence here. Well, I can't help that
you brought me here.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
You're ruining them morale here. Oh well, you keep telling
my staff members how you outsmarted me on this deal.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
No, I don't I tell him how you outsmarted yourself.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Well, I want you to stop it.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Uh, mister Hellman, I'm an unwilling guest here, you know,
don't I know it?
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Well, why don't.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You do something about it?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I want you to stop carrying tales about me or.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Or what mister Helman.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Mister Davis, you want to get out of here, don't you?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I certainly do.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Now, mister Davis, if I uh let you out of here?
Would would you stop being mean to me?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Trying to derivee me?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Huh? Yes, I am, mister Davis on a purely business basis.
If you understand? Okay, okay, what's the basis? Well, of
course I should expect something in return.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Why I said I wouldn't talk about you.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
If you let me out, you will have to do
a little better than that.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Well, anything within reason good.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
And now see here, I do have a contract with you,
don't I? If I forget that quite quite we we
mustn't forget it now, mister Davis, to tell me, have
you ever considered murder?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Murder?
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
No, I've never considered murder, mister Hellman.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
And if you think you're gonna suck me into committing
a crime so you can put me out there with
the other boys and girls, oh no, mister Helman. Really
I did think you were smarter than that. Why, even
after the way you messed up this other deal.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Don't rub it in. Well, you see, I could give
you leaves. All you'd have to do is a pere
and sort of the uh stick around. They're giving these
various people as an opportunity to murder you and and
then well you see, they automatically qualify for a place here.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Well, I got murdered once. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
You're quite welcome. I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Now what what about it solves both are problems, doesn't it? Well,
what happens after I get murdered?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Oh, you've come back here until I have another assignment
for you.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I come back here.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I want this to be a home.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
For you, mister Davis.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
No, you have a very nice, comfortable apartment, mister Davis,
and no work whatever to do? You know, I don't
like it though, Why, mister Davis, you might have to
give up your comfortable apartment, you know, if you're not cooperative?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Oh threatening me?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Huh no no, no, no, no, But but.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
The did you know you kick me off?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
The cold? Oh not the cold, dear dear, No, mister Davis,
not the cold. No, I don't like it, mister Davis.
And do you remember what strawberry shortcake taste like?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
God, do you remember the the blue sky with white,
greasy clouds floating in it. On on a summer afternoon,
green grass trees. Remember the sound of dogs barking at night,
going swimming in the ocean, and so beautiful white strain, lovely, lovely,
cool rain at the end of a hot off this
veale suit of clothes, Apple part listening to music with
(13:42):
a beautiful girl by he's drawing fishing at Tomahawk Rady
old movie. Oh oh my, I shouldn't have sat there,
cool glass of beer. What do you say, mister Davis,
mister Helman, you've sold a bill of good Just sign here,
mister Davis. Why why, mister Davis, your back so quick?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I've done and I never had a chance. Is this
the kind of a deal you made with me?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
I've done Helmont, mister Davis, But you did, beauty.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I just opened the door and the guy plugged me.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I know he was much hastier than I expect.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I didn't get a chance to do a thing. Just bang, bang,
that's all. And I'm saying, hello, mister Hellman, that's too bad.
Why I haven't been gone fifteen minutes. Well, you've got
excellent results.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
He'll be down here before you know it, and you
and he will have a good many laughs over it
before I give him his assignment. Well, now shall we
try again, mister Davis, we shall not. Oh but mister Davis,
I'm afraid you'll have to what why you signed an agreement?
Mister Davis? My, my, my, will you never learn to
(14:47):
read things before you silent?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Well, this Timond wasn't so bad for a while. Well,
I was smart. I never went there the fella for
two months, and I lived like a king. I will
say this, mister Hellman. Uh, he is generous with an
expense account. Of course, some people say that all the
money there is belongs to him, but uh, they're willing
to take it regardless. Mister Helman was all right about it,
(15:15):
and he he didn't rush me. And I'd begun to
wonder how long I could get away with it. Well,
I say I had a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I went a lot of.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Places putting this thing off as long as.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I could, and I was having fun. I got ideas.
Why you see, I met this girl.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Oh, sure, a girl comes into any story sooner or later.
I never had a girl in my previous life before
mister Hellman, So I I was nuts about this one.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
I remember I got very.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Sentiment over her and kind of forgot. I guess it
was a beautiful night, but a million stars. We'd been
dancing out an outdoor terrace.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I really didn't forget who I was. Sure.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
It is a beautiful night, isn't it starts? I just
reach up and touch him.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Make you feel romantic?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Kind of me too. Let's stay out here a while.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I was hoping you'd.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Say that you were Why.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Don't you know?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Mm?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Because it's cool?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
No, because you're tired of dancing? No?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
What you me? Yes?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I love you?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Oh no, love, don't be redet, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
I love you.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Oh listen, dear, listen. I said, well, look, you're nice
to be round with, and you spend your money and
you take me places and.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
I have kind of fun with you.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
But that's as far as it goes. No, No, lekip it.
Well do you have to be so serious? Don't spoil
every But I thought I know what you thought.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
I thought I was falling for you.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Well i'm not, darling.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
I want to marry you. Marry you?
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Why you won't fool.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Marry you?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Darling?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Please listen to me, pop so I don't want to
be mean to you, But after all, you're old enough
to be my father, and I don't want to hear
any more about it. Now, do you want to go
back in and dance her? Do you want to get
me a taxi and let me go home?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
And as she stood there laughing at me, I thought
I heard someone else laughing and sounded.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Like mister Hemming all wasting time. Mister Davis better get
to work, hadn't you.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
So I went to see my prospect that it wasn't
very hard feeling the way I did. I'm old enough
to be her father, am I? And it wasn't very
difficult to taught him into drawing a revolver. So I
got murdered for the third time, and mister Hellman had
a new inmate. And yeah, I didn't hurt very much
after all, And I wondered how that girl felt about it. Well,
(18:19):
I had a nice apartment down there in mister Hellman's place,
but I didn't get much time to use it. That's
one thing you want to remember about making a bargain
with mister Hellman. Now, the bargain part of it is
always on his side. I brought in twenty six new
customers well, and I thought it was time for a vacation.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
After all. Will you try getting murdered twenty six times?
It wears you out? I had skies all over me.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
So I spoke to mister Helmer, mister Hellman, I said,
I need a vacation. I've been working awful hard, mister Hellman,
and I'm worn out. Why, mister Hellman, I said, I've
got so there isn't any place left to shoot me
without going through.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
An old bullet hole.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
I'm awfully sorry, mister Davis. But a bargain is a
bar book I tell you about, mister Davis. But business
is business. You've cost me a.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Million dollar, but I never got a sy I'm sure
you realize that that's not my fault, mister Davis.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Are you sure about that, missus?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I don't care to discuss it, mister Davis. Now here
is another very good prospect that I want you to
see just as soon as possible. I won't do it,
mister Davis. Must I take steps now? About this black marketing?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Well, I hadn't had any rest for so long, and
I was so fed up with this mister Hellman and
the job he forced me into. I said to myself,
I'm gonna double cross you, mister Hellman. I'm gonna get
some rest on summer. Shall I walk into this black
marketer's office.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
He seemed to be around a nice fellow.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
How do you do, young man? What can I do
for you? I don't want anything automobile?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Well a washing machine?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Now what could I do with a washing machine?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Change a thousand dollar bill for you? No? Well, an apartment?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Maybe an apartment?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Say that I could use.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
It's a deal, sir. Just look at this four rooms, bath,
newly decorated, daily maide service, modern kitchen. Find us apartment
in the city. How about it? How much Spectly Seeling
price her long term lease?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
M I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
But h yes, you'll have to buy the drapers in
the apartment.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Oh that's all right. How much?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Oh that'll be?
Speaker 3 (20:40):
And we see ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I was standing over him with a smoke still wreathing
its way upward out of my revolver, and he was
as dead as a doornail on the thick green rug.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
My door open and I turned around.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Well, well, well, mister Davis Hellman, Miss Hellman Davis, well,
now you have been and gone and done it happened.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Did you hear what he was trying to sell me.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Mister Davis, I hope you realize that your days as
a guest in my institution are over.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
You mean you mean I don't have to go back now?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
My he certainly is dead. You're a very good shot.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Mister Davis.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
He made me so many Indeed.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
What were you saying about not having to come back?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Oh? Did you mean I don't have to come back now,
mister Helmer?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Why mister Davis?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
What?
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Why? Mister Davis. Don't you see what you've done? I
knew eventually you'd do something like this. Temper temper, mister Davis,
what are you talking about? Why, mister Davis? I knew
someday you'd commit a crime, commit a sin.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Mister Davis.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Why certainly you're coming back, mister Davis, after the law
gets through with you.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Mister Helmer, listen, uh listen, sir.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I'm afraid you're never going to be a businessman, mister Davis.
I have such interesting things for you to do the
next couple.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Of million years.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Who's that?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Why is that, mister Davis? I suspect is the UH
officers come to take you to jail, where they will
eventually send you back to me. No, no, I'll be
seeing you to mister Davis. Kill me again, Kill me again.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
You have listened to Quiet Please, which is written and
directed by Willis Cooper, mister Davis. The man who spoke
to you was Ernest Chapple and mister Hellman was played
by James Monks. The girl was played by Peggy Stanley,
and the black marketeer was Pat Omelley. Music for choir
Please is composed and played by Jean Brazzo. Now but
worried about next week's choir Please, Here is our writer,
(23:16):
director Willis Cooper.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Next week's story is a simple story of a man and.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
A woman who loved each other and what happened to him.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
It's called in Memory of.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Bernadine and so until next week. At the same time,
I am quietly yours, Ernest Chapel. Quiet Please came to
(23:53):
you from New York. This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.
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