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Speaker 1 (00:13):
In our sanctum mysteries, leavening friends with the creaking door.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
This is your host to welcome you once again into
the inner.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Y.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Don't hesitate, Come right in. Once you get accustomed to
our surroundings. You'll never leave. Nobody ever does. Once you're in,
you're ours. This is the kind of place that grips you,
the kind of place where the bars.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Whole and no holes a bond. O.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Ever wish you were somebody else, somewhere else, m got
hang on to your wishbones. We've got a horrible example
of what we mean.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
We're in the biggest little city.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
In the world. Reno a fellow with a growth of beard,
thousands of balloon in the knees and then dragging war.
That is a store who sign reads the rialto record shop.
Make a record of your own voice?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Are recording of your voice? Yeah? How much can I
get out of record? Now? There's a special long playing record.
Hold on almost twenty minutes. That's it. Where do I go?
This mood? This button starts the recording. You speak into
the microphone. I got it scrambled to the chief of police, Greetings,
(02:09):
this is Happy Dolan, aged twenty six, citizen at Large
USA occupation drifter. I wrote into your merry little burg
on the wrong end of a locomotive that was yesterday.
I came here to change my luck, and I did.
My luck was bad. I changed it to terrible. I
(02:32):
almost got knocked off twice for nothing, and I got
a complaint the weighing machine at the historic drug store.
I ought to be declared out of bounds, because that's
where crazy things began happening to me. I put my
last copper penny in the machine, just to see what
not eating did to the human figure. Besides my weight.
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The machine stamped out a card for my penny, one
of those little white cards with your fortune on it.
The card read danger, Fortune and Marriage. Await you, Danger,
Fortune and Marriage. Machine had me confused with somebody else.
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The only thing that ever happened to me was being born.
I hit the sidewalks to motch. The price of a
flop was getting on till midnight, and I had to
pitch fast if I didn't want to camp out doors.
I started my pitch and a little guy with a
pull down hat and his hands tucking his pockets. Uh,
pardon me, friend, but I'm a stranger to skip this spiel,
(03:36):
I know it backwards.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Sure, what are you bucking for a flop?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Follow me? Oh? He said, you wanted to flop coming?
Look if you just spot me four bits, I know
a place you're not going to get stubborn, I said,
follow me? Do I have to? This ends your question? Gun,
you are copy. Now you're getting in slowly, start walk.
(04:04):
I know you're flopped right where you stand. Ah. The
town sure had to welcome that. Our little guy with
the cannon was branded. Me through the countryfide back streets
toward a river. Turn up that road. I look friendly, sir. Okay,
(04:25):
it's just far enough. River's kind of deep at this end.
You swim. No, it's too bad.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Maybe you should learned how turn around. Yes, that shows me.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I won't have to.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
I just treat you to a bath and a flock.
Why why do I write it?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I'm kind to strangers here you go into dreamland? What
was going on for the third time when I heard
an angel's voice read the sign of the grand size
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and hold on. I can't come shop. I'm out of
the bank.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
I sit bending for a lot of one who river.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
We sat on the bank, me and my guardian Angel
so I came around.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
You saved my life. Thanks, you're welcome.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I'm had you, Jesse. Funny time of night to be
out rowing. Lucky for you. Sure if you just happened
to be outrull Maybe.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
What's funny?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I won you in a weighing machine.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Did you say a weighing machine?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yes? Over the Stark drug store.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
I got my way in this card.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
You want to hear my fortune? Oh ih, heeadn't read
it to me. Cast your troubles on the waters. If
you want to see your future, you're my future. Happy Dolan,
a dumble.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Bum who'll get plugged and talked into the river.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Call me back in.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Why don't you well?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
You sound like you're fully recovered.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
So long, wait, Jesse, Wait, he was gone. I had
something more to think of a I hit back towards
the lighted up sections at town and ran into a
brains easier number three. Number three commenced with a wallet,
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a fat, cushy wallet, lying in the middle of the street,
begging for a taker. I grabbed the wallet and started
to leave fast but not fast enough. Familial lad out
of my way, mister smite persuager. That's the gun for
if I am my property wallet. I was knocked down
and robbed a few minutes ago. Not by me, mister Simon. O'too.
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I didn't see my assailant have any objection of being searched.
What poor establish your innocence? Found your pockets inside out? Look,
mister too, I've got your wallet. Oh but I found
it on the street, honestly did here. I'll give it back.
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Where were you taking yourself in such a hurry? Places
square meal? First in a room and a bath, and
maybe to the casino to try your luck? Yeah? I
figured to see if a weighing machine had some of
the answers i'd been trying to find.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Could you say a wing machine?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, don't tell me you got one of those little
white cards at the store drug store tool? But I
did card with a proxy of fortune. I have it
right here. I'll read it to you. Any investment you
make will be wonderfully successful. What are you hying me
for any investment I make it, sir, hardly enough investments
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of my business, loans and investments of every kind. Any
investment you were on your way to luck?
Speaker 5 (08:51):
You say that was when I had the wallet.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I'll invest in you.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
I'll stake your just like that.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
No half of your future and writing is it at
the point of a gun? Or do I have a choice?
Give me a town where things happen fast. And less
than an hour later, I was at the Growth Casino Club.
I had two grand in my pocket and a guy
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named O'Toole had assigned claim check on half my future. Wind,
lose or drawer. Give me a town where you meet
the same doll every which way you turn. There was Jesse,
dressed to kill, lapping up the nightlife, hitting my way
like a homing pigeon. Oh happy, hello yourself.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
You picked the wrong play.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
The management here is awfully hard on panhady. They drift
over just to needle me. No. I came over because
because what Because.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
It seemed the most natural thing to do, falling in
beside you.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Because if we go together?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Huh? Do we go together? Sure?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Should we? Do? You see this bank roll? Happy?
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Where'd you get it?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Legitimately?
Speaker 5 (10:06):
I sold fifty percent of me for two grands?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Are you talking crazy? Maybe? What are you gonna do
with the money? Well, that little white card said danger
fortune marriage. I've had the danger. Now I'm here to
let my dough right on fortune. And if I clicked there.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
And if you click there.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Then marriage.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
According to your card, you found your future in the river.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Baby, I'm it. I clicked in the casino for all
the door I could carry without staggering the rest. I
took a check for him. Oh happy your doll so incredible. Kid.
Remind me to buy that wing machine and have a
gold plated I want it on our front lawn as
a souvenir. Now what I cut you in on half
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of me? I ConTroll what? Yes, Yes, happy, great little town.
Nothing ever closes, Nobody sleeps or doesn't want you.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
You can rent, or you drive a car in the
spur of the moment, any hour.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Even the justice of the piece has his neon sign
on until all hours to catch the marrying trade that
won't wait until the sun comes up.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
And you happy during this woman to be enough? He
would drive a short I do, and I pronounce your
man and wife.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Let's go, missus Dolan. Oh, I've got a room reserved
standborok hotel? Will you say we drive right to it?
Speaker 5 (11:43):
It's the second.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
It's happy.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
I'll drive us all yours.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Hey, where I get in?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
You're not getting in?
Speaker 5 (11:52):
I'm not what gifts stand exactly where you are. I
wait a minute, and the next one won't go over
your head?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Would you tell me what it's all about some other time?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
But now suppose we say the bride changed her mind?
Speaker 5 (12:08):
So long husband, please me.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Oh, that's what I call hospitality to strangers. Ask a
guy for four bits and he gives you a whole river.
You know' Doolan's getting more action in less time than
a census taker and a hornet'sness. Danger of fortune marriage.
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The night doesn't have finished, nor as Dolan. Let's cut
the rest of that record with him, shall we?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I hiked back to town to look for Jessee, the
bride who changed her mind. I hit every joint it
was still. At a checked hotel, registers couldn't find hider
hair on her. And then on a backstreet winding toward
the river, a tool.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Don't you have a sleep.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I've got to watch my investments. We're in partnership or
I'm buying your hair back right now? You made a
killing the lit Yeah, and this check indorsed over to
you adds up to an even half chick seems an order.
Let's keep it. Now, give me back that paper I
sign and let's say goodbye for keep it much. You're
forgetting something happy, But I bought half of your future,
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your whole future, not just approceed the one night's good.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Boards look a tool. Either you're crazy or you're a fox.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
What give? What have you really got up your sleeve?
A mechanical obedi?
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Hey, what's there about me that brings out the gun
in people?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Do you take a partner's advice?
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Happy?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
You're not asking, you're telling you live town at once?
Train out at six am, You'll go to Chicago to
the address on this card, twelve seventy five Rutgers drive.
What do I do with twelve seventy five Rutgers Drive Chicago?
You'll be out of danger there. My investment in you
would be secure. Why am I in danger? Here? Are
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in you? But I wasn't going to Chicago. We were
just ducking o tools gun. When the train was half
mile out, I went to the rear platform, one pull
on the emergency court and the train would make an
unscheduled stop just for having Dolan get away from that
emergency court. Dolan, Yeah, hello, I didn't get your name
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last night? Smith? Why do you keep tailing me for excese.
You're a hard man to cue, and why if you
give up? You had two tries, one more try. You're
gonna kill me out here, m when the train goes
to a tunnel. Why are you out to kill me?
(15:06):
I told you with the exercise I.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Free Well, you make a move and I won't wait
for a tunnel.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Why should I freeze? What's a percentage?
Speaker 5 (15:16):
But if I get it an hour or two minutes,
tell you bets how you want it.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
That's how I won the to You were wrestling for
my cotton, rocking on our heels, words, take a turner
on a bench, and then suddenly we we're midair over
the railing with a shot from a cat. I came
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to on the tracks stick feet from an unconscious little
guy who called himself Smith. I couldn't feel my back
or legs. I was bleeding badly. Smith looked twice as
bad as I felt. I watched his hands feel around blind,
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ready for the gun. Laying a foot away. He was
half dead, but still concentrating on business. I started crawling.
I got to the gun first thing. I'm a churshaw. Smith.
You want to knock me up if you don't answer
some questions, fast, what question? Why have you been trying
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to kill me? What's behind it?
Speaker 5 (16:34):
That said a lot of questions.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I got two more. Who's Simon O'Toole? And why did
a blond name Jesse marry me? And then take up powder?
You figure I've got the answers. I know all three
of you got the answers. You clam up and you're
a dead man, Smith, and I'm a dead man. You're
not gonna talk. I stood over a lot of guys
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in my time. I guess stand over me now. Not
one of them opened up. Every go ahead and shoot.
I've got to kill you Smith, seether you or me.
You got the gun, Yeah, I've got the gun. I'd
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kill the killer. I kept telling myself it was self
defense and I'd exterminated a rat that somebody should put
a badge on me for doing it. With an hour
before I could bring myself to drag Smith into the woods,
I left him under a club of blueberry bushes.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
And headed back for town to find a hard throb
i'd married.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I found her in the last place I expected her
to be, right in my room at the Standbruk curled
up when I saw were like someone cadnapping Jesse. Jesse,
I could have saved my breath. I'd be a widower
longer than I'd been a bridegroom. Jesse was stone dead.
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Haven't you been traveling in the wrong direction?
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Happy?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Until how did you get in here? I came to
persuad the young lady that when all our marriage to
quit Alibi and you killed in all I might have
if she'd remain stubborn. Someone reached the face Smith. Uh
why did Smith kill her? Because in death the usual
were flight of double crosses. She recovered you from the river,
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happy he'd thrown you in. There were pottings until the
young lady foolishly decided to operate on her own. What
were they after with me? I suppose the time has
come to talk of things. You are a missing air
I am a missing air.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Me.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Why did my old man leave me? Is worn out suspenders?
Speaker 6 (19:11):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
But an uncle Jonas of twelve seventy five rut could
drives Chicago left your quarter of a million dollar estate.
My uncle Jonas I hardly remember him, you will when
they read the will tomorrow. You've been advertising everywhere, publishing
your picture for months before his death.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Onthy I never saw an ed.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
You don't read the papers, you just sleep under them
on park benches. What was Smith's angle? Smisus Michael Dolon,
a distant relative of yours and an aspiring air wanted
desperately to succeed you. That is ob your dead body.
The girl's angle was obvious. Yeah, marry me, let Smith
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knock me off and be my legal widow. Yes, and
my oh explains itself. You cut in for half, and
those weighing machine cards were just a way of getting
me to play soccer. Yes, it's the hotel management ringing Happy.
They're curious about city overnight guests to check in without baggage.
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I'll be badging in surely drawing conclusions about a drifter
who murdered his new bride.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
You're threatening me with a rap.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Ask yourself, how much credibility will you have with your authorities.
Better get back to that railroad station as fast as
you can. But made in Chicago, you still see me
as an investment, honey, a gilt tedged one. Now now
that I can be framed for murdering Jesse and charged
with the actual murder of Michael o'dolan alias Smith, how
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could you know about that. I saw Smith get on
that train with you. You can only be here alive
over Smith's dead body. Get going while you can. What
about the corpse, the sofa, leave the disposal of your
bride to me.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
I have that experience and similar matters.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I got going as far as this booth here in
the rialto record shop. It's all here on the record,
And thanks for a lovely time everybody. You have a
great little town here, all right?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
You comed recording?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Yeah? Want you to do me a little favor? Yes,
wrap it up and mail it to the Chief of
police with my compliments.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Wouldn't it be better, sir if we delivered it personally?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
We I should hate to be compelled.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
To shoot a customer a gun.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
This is where I came in. You listened all the
time I was making that record. Well, I'm in the
cooler now, no tools in the cell right next door
to me. I've been here a day and a half,
mister Dolan, A big deal for you, huh, catching a killer,
But it's good for the record business. But you're not
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exactly a killer.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Maybe you can prove to.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
The DA that shooting that man Smith was justifiable homicide justifiable.
It's not going to like that wherever he is, Nor
is he going to like another thing wherever he is.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
What other thing is he not going to like?
Speaker 6 (22:26):
His inability to claim your uncle Jonas's fortune. You see,
the will was read this morning and you were left
your uncle's library in a nineteen twenty eight Nash automobile.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
The rest of the estate.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Went to tell me, yes, it went to your cousin,
the late mister Smith, and now with his death, his
share reverts to charity.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Charity. The late mister Smith, wherever he is, is gonna
tie all over again. Lies one of the heart.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
It looks like Smith with his own worst enemy.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
He kept buzzing the wrong cousin.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
They tell me that when Happy Dolan turned loose in
that nineteen twenty eight Nash automobile, uncle Jonas left him.
There's one certain town he's going to cross right off
his roadmap. They're going to rugged there. Too much happens
in record time, our friends.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
It's time once.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Again to close that creaking door until next week at
the same time, when we'll be back with a little
hunk of lura.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
You'll be sure to listen, don't you.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Until next week?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
The good night, pleasant streams. Inner Sanctum has come to
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you through the worldwide facilities of the United States Armed
Forces Radio and Television Service
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Nine
In our sanctum mysteries, leavening friends with the creaking door.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
This is your host to welcome you once again into
the inner.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Y.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Don't hesitate, Come right in. Once you get accustomed to
our surroundings. You'll never leave. Nobody ever does. Once you're in,
you're ours. This is the kind of place that grips you,
the kind of place where the bars.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Whole and no holes a bond. O.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Ever wish you were somebody else, somewhere else, m got
hang on to your wishbones. We've got a horrible example
of what we mean.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
We're in the biggest little city.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
In the world. Reno a fellow with a growth of beard,
thousands of balloon in the knees and then dragging war.
That is a store who sign reads the rialto record shop.
Make a record of your own voice?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Are recording of your voice? Yeah? How much can I
get out of record? Now? There's a special long playing record.
Hold on almost twenty minutes. That's it. Where do I go?
This mood? This button starts the recording. You speak into
the microphone. I got it scrambled to the chief of police, Greetings,
(02:09):
this is Happy Dolan, aged twenty six, citizen at Large
USA occupation drifter. I wrote into your merry little burg
on the wrong end of a locomotive that was yesterday.
I came here to change my luck, and I did.
My luck was bad. I changed it to terrible. I
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almost got knocked off twice for nothing, and I got
a complaint the weighing machine at the historic drug store.
I ought to be declared out of bounds, because that's
where crazy things began happening to me. I put my
last copper penny in the machine, just to see what
not eating did to the human figure. Besides my weight.
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The machine stamped out a card for my penny, one
of those little white cards with your fortune on it.
The card read danger, Fortune and Marriage. Await you, Danger,
Fortune and Marriage. Machine had me confused with somebody else.
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The only thing that ever happened to me was being born.
I hit the sidewalks to motch. The price of a
flop was getting on till midnight, and I had to
pitch fast if I didn't want to camp out doors.
I started my pitch and a little guy with a
pull down hat and his hands tucking his pockets. Uh,
pardon me, friend, but I'm a stranger to skip this spiel,
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I know it backwards.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Sure, what are you bucking for a flop?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Follow me? Oh? He said, you wanted to flop coming?
Look if you just spot me four bits, I know
a place you're not going to get stubborn, I said,
follow me? Do I have to? This ends your question? Gun,
you are copy. Now you're getting in slowly, start walk.
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I know you're flopped right where you stand. Ah. The
town sure had to welcome that. Our little guy with
the cannon was branded. Me through the countryfide back streets
toward a river. Turn up that road. I look friendly, sir. Okay,
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it's just far enough. River's kind of deep at this end.
You swim. No, it's too bad.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Maybe you should learned how turn around. Yes, that shows me.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
I won't have to.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
I just treat you to a bath and a flock.
Why why do I write it?
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I'm kind to strangers here you go into dreamland? What
was going on for the third time when I heard
an angel's voice read the sign of the grand size
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and hold on. I can't come shop. I'm out of
the bank.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
I sit bending for a lot of one who river.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
We sat on the bank, me and my guardian Angel
so I came around.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
You saved my life. Thanks, you're welcome.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I'm had you, Jesse. Funny time of night to be
out rowing. Lucky for you. Sure if you just happened
to be outrull Maybe.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
What's funny?
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I won you in a weighing machine.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Did you say a weighing machine?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Yes? Over the Stark drug store.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
I got my way in this card.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
You want to hear my fortune? Oh ih, heeadn't read
it to me. Cast your troubles on the waters. If
you want to see your future, you're my future. Happy Dolan,
a dumble.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Bum who'll get plugged and talked into the river.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Call me back in.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Why don't you well?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
You sound like you're fully recovered.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
So long, wait, Jesse, Wait, he was gone. I had
something more to think of a I hit back towards
the lighted up sections at town and ran into a
brains easier number three. Number three commenced with a wallet,
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a fat, cushy wallet, lying in the middle of the street,
begging for a taker. I grabbed the wallet and started
to leave fast but not fast enough. Familial lad out
of my way, mister smite persuager. That's the gun for
if I am my property wallet. I was knocked down
and robbed a few minutes ago. Not by me, mister Simon. O'too.
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I didn't see my assailant have any objection of being searched.
What poor establish your innocence? Found your pockets inside out? Look,
mister too, I've got your wallet. Oh but I found
it on the street, honestly did here. I'll give it back.
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Where were you taking yourself in such a hurry? Places
square meal? First in a room and a bath, and
maybe to the casino to try your luck? Yeah? I
figured to see if a weighing machine had some of
the answers i'd been trying to find.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Could you say a wing machine?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, don't tell me you got one of those little
white cards at the store drug store tool? But I
did card with a proxy of fortune. I have it
right here. I'll read it to you. Any investment you
make will be wonderfully successful. What are you hying me
for any investment I make it, sir, hardly enough investments
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of my business, loans and investments of every kind. Any
investment you were on your way to luck?
Speaker 5 (08:51):
You say that was when I had the wallet.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I'll invest in you.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
I'll stake your just like that.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
No half of your future and writing is it at
the point of a gun? Or do I have a choice?
Give me a town where things happen fast. And less
than an hour later, I was at the Growth Casino Club.
I had two grand in my pocket and a guy
(09:20):
named O'Toole had assigned claim check on half my future. Wind,
lose or drawer. Give me a town where you meet
the same doll every which way you turn. There was Jesse,
dressed to kill, lapping up the nightlife, hitting my way
like a homing pigeon. Oh happy, hello yourself.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
You picked the wrong play.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
The management here is awfully hard on panhady. They drift
over just to needle me. No. I came over because
because what Because.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
It seemed the most natural thing to do, falling in
beside you.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Because if we go together?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Huh? Do we go together? Sure?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Should we? Do? You see this bank roll? Happy?
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Where'd you get it?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Legitimately?
Speaker 5 (10:06):
I sold fifty percent of me for two grands?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Are you talking crazy? Maybe? What are you gonna do
with the money? Well, that little white card said danger
fortune marriage. I've had the danger. Now I'm here to
let my dough right on fortune. And if I clicked there.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
And if you click there.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Then marriage.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
According to your card, you found your future in the river.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Baby, I'm it. I clicked in the casino for all
the door I could carry without staggering the rest. I
took a check for him. Oh happy your doll so incredible. Kid.
Remind me to buy that wing machine and have a
gold plated I want it on our front lawn as
a souvenir. Now what I cut you in on half
(10:53):
of me? I ConTroll what? Yes, Yes, happy, great little town.
Nothing ever closes, Nobody sleeps or doesn't want you.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
You can rent, or you drive a car in the
spur of the moment, any hour.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Even the justice of the piece has his neon sign
on until all hours to catch the marrying trade that
won't wait until the sun comes up.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
And you happy during this woman to be enough? He
would drive a short I do, and I pronounce your
man and wife.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Let's go, missus Dolan. Oh, I've got a room reserved
standborok hotel? Will you say we drive right to it?
Speaker 5 (11:43):
It's the second.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
It's happy.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
I'll drive us all yours.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Hey, where I get in?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
You're not getting in?
Speaker 5 (11:52):
I'm not what gifts stand exactly where you are. I
wait a minute, and the next one won't go over
your head?
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Would you tell me what it's all about some other time?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
But now suppose we say the bride changed her mind?
Speaker 5 (12:08):
So long husband, please me.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Oh, that's what I call hospitality to strangers. Ask a
guy for four bits and he gives you a whole river.
You know' Doolan's getting more action in less time than
a census taker and a hornet'sness. Danger of fortune marriage.
(12:36):
The night doesn't have finished, nor as Dolan. Let's cut
the rest of that record with him, shall we?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I hiked back to town to look for Jessee, the
bride who changed her mind. I hit every joint it
was still. At a checked hotel, registers couldn't find hider
hair on her. And then on a backstreet winding toward
the river, a tool.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Don't you have a sleep.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I've got to watch my investments. We're in partnership or
I'm buying your hair back right now? You made a
killing the lit Yeah, and this check indorsed over to
you adds up to an even half chick seems an order.
Let's keep it. Now, give me back that paper I
sign and let's say goodbye for keep it much. You're
forgetting something happy, But I bought half of your future,
(13:34):
your whole future, not just approceed the one night's good.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Boards look a tool. Either you're crazy or you're a fox.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
What give? What have you really got up your sleeve?
A mechanical obedi?
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Hey, what's there about me that brings out the gun
in people?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Do you take a partner's advice?
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Happy?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
You're not asking, you're telling you live town at once?
Train out at six am, You'll go to Chicago to
the address on this card, twelve seventy five Rutgers drive.
What do I do with twelve seventy five Rutgers Drive Chicago?
You'll be out of danger there. My investment in you
would be secure. Why am I in danger? Here? Are
(14:19):
in you? But I wasn't going to Chicago. We were
just ducking o tools gun. When the train was half
mile out, I went to the rear platform, one pull
on the emergency court and the train would make an
unscheduled stop just for having Dolan get away from that
emergency court. Dolan, Yeah, hello, I didn't get your name
(14:44):
last night? Smith? Why do you keep tailing me for excese.
You're a hard man to cue, and why if you
give up? You had two tries, one more try. You're
gonna kill me out here, m when the train goes
to a tunnel. Why are you out to kill me?
(15:06):
I told you with the exercise I.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Free Well, you make a move and I won't wait
for a tunnel.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Why should I freeze? What's a percentage?
Speaker 5 (15:16):
But if I get it an hour or two minutes,
tell you bets how you want it.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
That's how I won the to You were wrestling for
my cotton, rocking on our heels, words, take a turner
on a bench, and then suddenly we we're midair over
the railing with a shot from a cat. I came
(15:48):
to on the tracks stick feet from an unconscious little
guy who called himself Smith. I couldn't feel my back
or legs. I was bleeding badly. Smith looked twice as
bad as I felt. I watched his hands feel around blind,
(16:10):
ready for the gun. Laying a foot away. He was
half dead, but still concentrating on business. I started crawling.
I got to the gun first thing. I'm a churshaw. Smith.
You want to knock me up if you don't answer
some questions, fast, what question? Why have you been trying
(16:32):
to kill me? What's behind it?
Speaker 5 (16:34):
That said a lot of questions.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I got two more. Who's Simon O'Toole? And why did
a blond name Jesse marry me? And then take up powder?
You figure I've got the answers. I know all three
of you got the answers. You clam up and you're
a dead man, Smith, and I'm a dead man. You're
not gonna talk. I stood over a lot of guys
(16:57):
in my time. I guess stand over me now. Not
one of them opened up. Every go ahead and shoot.
I've got to kill you Smith, seether you or me.
You got the gun, Yeah, I've got the gun. I'd
(17:28):
kill the killer. I kept telling myself it was self
defense and I'd exterminated a rat that somebody should put
a badge on me for doing it. With an hour
before I could bring myself to drag Smith into the woods,
I left him under a club of blueberry bushes.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
And headed back for town to find a hard throb
i'd married.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I found her in the last place I expected her
to be, right in my room at the Standbruk curled
up when I saw were like someone cadnapping Jesse. Jesse,
I could have saved my breath. I'd be a widower
longer than I'd been a bridegroom. Jesse was stone dead.
(18:23):
Haven't you been traveling in the wrong direction?
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Happy?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Until how did you get in here? I came to
persuad the young lady that when all our marriage to
quit Alibi and you killed in all I might have
if she'd remain stubborn. Someone reached the face Smith. Uh
why did Smith kill her? Because in death the usual
were flight of double crosses. She recovered you from the river,
(18:47):
happy he'd thrown you in. There were pottings until the
young lady foolishly decided to operate on her own. What
were they after with me? I suppose the time has
come to talk of things. You are a missing air
I am a missing air.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Me.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Why did my old man leave me? Is worn out suspenders?
Speaker 6 (19:11):
No?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
But an uncle Jonas of twelve seventy five rut could
drives Chicago left your quarter of a million dollar estate.
My uncle Jonas I hardly remember him, you will when
they read the will tomorrow. You've been advertising everywhere, publishing
your picture for months before his death.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Onthy I never saw an ed.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
You don't read the papers, you just sleep under them
on park benches. What was Smith's angle? Smisus Michael Dolon,
a distant relative of yours and an aspiring air wanted
desperately to succeed you. That is ob your dead body.
The girl's angle was obvious. Yeah, marry me, let Smith
(19:53):
knock me off and be my legal widow. Yes, and
my oh explains itself. You cut in for half, and
those weighing machine cards were just a way of getting
me to play soccer. Yes, it's the hotel management ringing Happy.
They're curious about city overnight guests to check in without baggage.
(20:15):
I'll be badging in surely drawing conclusions about a drifter
who murdered his new bride.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
You're threatening me with a rap.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Ask yourself, how much credibility will you have with your authorities.
Better get back to that railroad station as fast as
you can. But made in Chicago, you still see me
as an investment, honey, a gilt tedged one. Now now
that I can be framed for murdering Jesse and charged
with the actual murder of Michael o'dolan alias Smith, how
(20:46):
could you know about that. I saw Smith get on
that train with you. You can only be here alive
over Smith's dead body. Get going while you can. What
about the corpse, the sofa, leave the disposal of your
bride to me.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
I have that experience and similar matters.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I got going as far as this booth here in
the rialto record shop. It's all here on the record,
And thanks for a lovely time everybody. You have a
great little town here, all right?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
You comed recording?
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Yeah? Want you to do me a little favor? Yes,
wrap it up and mail it to the Chief of
police with my compliments.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Wouldn't it be better, sir if we delivered it personally?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
We I should hate to be compelled.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
To shoot a customer a gun.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
This is where I came in. You listened all the
time I was making that record. Well, I'm in the
cooler now, no tools in the cell right next door
to me. I've been here a day and a half,
mister Dolan, A big deal for you, huh, catching a killer,
But it's good for the record business. But you're not
(22:08):
exactly a killer.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Maybe you can prove to.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
The DA that shooting that man Smith was justifiable homicide justifiable.
It's not going to like that wherever he is, Nor
is he going to like another thing wherever he is.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
What other thing is he not going to like?
Speaker 6 (22:26):
His inability to claim your uncle Jonas's fortune. You see,
the will was read this morning and you were left
your uncle's library in a nineteen twenty eight Nash automobile.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
The rest of the estate.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Went to tell me, yes, it went to your cousin,
the late mister Smith, and now with his death, his
share reverts to charity.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Charity. The late mister Smith, wherever he is, is gonna
tie all over again. Lies one of the heart.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
It looks like Smith with his own worst enemy.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
He kept buzzing the wrong cousin.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
They tell me that when Happy Dolan turned loose in
that nineteen twenty eight Nash automobile, uncle Jonas left him.
There's one certain town he's going to cross right off
his roadmap. They're going to rugged there. Too much happens
in record time, our friends.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
It's time once.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Again to close that creaking door until next week at
the same time, when we'll be back with a little
hunk of lura.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
You'll be sure to listen, don't you.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Until next week?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
The good night, pleasant streams. Inner Sanctum has come to
(24:22):
you through the worldwide facilities of the United States Armed
Forces Radio and Television Service
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Nine
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