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Speaker 1 (00:11):
In her sanctum mysteries.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Good evening, friends of the creaking door. This is your
host to welcome you once again into the inner sanctum.
Come here meet Edgar, our electrical wizard. At school, he
was voted the most likely to shock him there. Edgar's
wife was a dull name, so he plugged her into
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a wall socket. Now you should see the way she sparkles. Yes, sir,
Now she's the light of the party.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Ever, roll your eyes over the dream of a half
million dollars.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Mm.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
You did, careful, friend, or that dream would become a nightmare.
We're in White Oaks, a gloomy estate somewhere along the
jagged coastline between Crisco and Seattle. On the floor in
a corner of the library, staring blindly at the ceiling,
is an old man. Across the room is a young man,
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mortally wounded but fighting to keep the thread of life
from snapping. Ten feet away from him is an old
style floor safe. The door of a safe is blown
off and the contents scattering lying nearby.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
He tries to get up there, but he can't.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
His hand creeps to a bundle of cash and drops
helplessly over it.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Guess, Gus Miller.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, open your eyes, Come on, son, show fight. Don't
cash in yet?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Hm?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Who are you, Sheriff Ben Lomas, Gus Gus?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
How'd you know my name went through your bags?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You been masquerading as Tom Reve?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Well I might in the County hospital you take a
lot of killing, but next stop is the County Morgue.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Ray for me.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
You wouldn't be busting with curiosity about me, Shriff.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
You wouldn't be uh busting to talk. Son, you say,
if you'll listen, that's what I'm here for.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Gus Miller's my name. Check back of my past.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I agree, and you'll find I've been a number more
than I've been Gus Miller.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
It's a kid.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I went right out of an orphans home into the
big jail of San Quentin. Number five six two three
one seven was my name for ten years five six
two three one seven. Every night before turning in, I
swore the five six two three one seven. It's how
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many bucks would cost Society square accounts with me go on.
I was a day out of the clink, playing around
the Frisco docks, wondering where I'd hustle a buck. Big
Liner just come in out of the Pacific fog. Well
of those Swang pleasure liners. I watched the passengers getting off,
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all dressed to kill, without a care in the world.
Among them was Tom Raid, tricked out in a white
sailing suit. My eyes kept wandering over there, I thought,
kept jabbing at me.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Here's the guy I could be if I played my
cards right.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
We're about the same age bill, average looking guys, except.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
That Reed was a little pale around the gills.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
All Red had.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
On me was a bank or are you drive it?
Car rolled up and Reid went to it. I went
after what scheme I had in mind. I'm not clear
on it anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yes, is there, ah, there something you want? A driving north?
Looking for a ride iron? Yeah, looking to get a hitch?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Okay, hop in. I'm Tom Reid.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
My name's Gus Miller. How far are you going?
Speaker 7 (04:49):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
As far as I can get, I guess.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
No destination, No destination.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
How far you going? Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
About two hundred miles. White oaks every here are white oaks. No,
I never did the show place of the Pacific coast.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I'm the last of the reeds of white oaks. You
bragging a cry? Hm? Both maybe why you so tough?
You're too rich for my blood?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Maybe, and I suppose there is something indecent about too
much money?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
If bad? Have you got too much money? A half
million in three days? Why in three days?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
My inheritance comes through them. That's why I'm back in
the States.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
How do you correct her half a million?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
There's a bank teller pilot up in gold pieces in
front of you.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
No, a blind uncle you haven't seen in years, taps
his cane along the floor towards a safe that's been
in the family for generations, and.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Opens it and hands your half a million, just like.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
That, Just like her.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
My father distrusted banks.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I turned the figure over in my mind, A half
a million, so read looking queerly at me out of
the corner of his eye. You're burning up with temptation, Milling. I,
I don't know what you talking about.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Poses me for three days, then go off with all
that money. Uncle Walter will never detect the masquerade. He's blind,
and you're a pretty good faker, that's what you're telling yourself.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I say, and uh, wear are you all the time?
I'm posing dead somewhere? You've murdered me.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Oh, if I had any idea like that for a
minute Raid's openness.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Put the kye wash on it. We chewed up about a.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Hundred miles, and I caught that funny look cross and
Reid's face again. I watched the hand clap over his heart.
Raids seemed to sag, and the car began to circle wildly.
I grabbed a wheel and the nicke of time I
pulled her aside.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Shut the motor. What's hit you? Read my my heart?
How bad is it?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
How a little doctor gave it a year?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I've been short changed by two weeks.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Get me to a doctor.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I stall.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
There was a little man counting up five hundred thousand,
and my mind slowly by one. Red's eyes were around me.
They were dying eyes, but I caught a twinkle, as
if you were amused over me some.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
He's your chance, Miller. Just sit it out of the stars.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Forget the doctor, and I like most about you as
your sense of humor. I'm taking you that doctor.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Thanks doctor, don't bother. It's too late.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Read bury me somewhere as as Gus Miller. You'll be
tom read for three days.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
It was too late to play boy scout and race
for the doctor. Reid was the deadest man in the world.
I told myself that Reed's dying crack practically made me
his air. I didn't have to tell myself anything. The
little man was counting five hundred thousand in my head.
Fast about fifties oh, I found a natural lake about
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five miles up a side road. The region was a
dead end, not a house or a human anywhere in miles.
I swapped clothes with Reid. We hit his pockets with
stones and said goodbye.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Let him slip.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Well, A down trodden hill is on the upgrade now
a half million spongilics. Nice page, just for giving a
corpse a bath at a roadside lake. Yess might run
into something unexpected at White Oaks. Still he's deterimined to
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try or fry.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Let's see what it is, shall we.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I got to White Oaks in an electric storm, where
the sky's giving me a twenty one gun saw. The
house was up on an elevation. Everything about it seemed
to say keep out, and not a soul in sight?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Where was the blind uncle? Anybody home? I could hear
the eckle hanging in the air. Then I heard it's
happening coming at me. Out of the shadows.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
It's a hand reached for me. I could feel my
flesh cray. Oh, huckle Waller.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
H give me your hand if you sure. Oh, it's
been so long since I felt the warmth of a
reed hand.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Your hand is perspiring.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
But it's causing here. I've I've been in a Russi
since Frisco. Something wrong.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Your voice, it's uh, it's changed for the better.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
It's uh deeper but blaming on the arnold Hulla climbing.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
It's been a long time.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Uncle, Yes, yes, it's it's been a long time. Margaret,
your fiance will be here tomorrow to greet you.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Margaret is sh she's coming tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Yes, Uh, how is Margaret.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
She's grown into a fine woman. She'll make you a
good wife.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Tom When did the wedding bells ring out?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
The day you take your inheritance as your father wished it.
You and Margaret were playmates as children, and your father
wanted someone close to have his money after you.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
This letter from Margaret came the other day.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
If you'd like to read.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
It, sure, Yeah, I read it in bet a good night, nephew.
A bride went with a five hundred thousand I have
n't a letter.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I needed a line.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I I had read the opening paragraph again and again
til it was whispering in my brain.
Speaker 8 (12:06):
I wonder how it will be meeting Tom again, Hooker Walter.
We were practically infants for the last time together. The
questions that keep crowling my mind? What does he look like?
What does he think about? Will he like me enough?
And will you like me too?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Dear uncle Walter, I had all the line on her
I needed. Margaret didn't know Tom read from Adam. The
next morning, I drove into the one horse berg they
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called town. I wanted to buy a paper in some
odds and ends. I left the general store and a
fat little guy and a seaman's outfit who had been
hanging around inside followed me out.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
They started the car and he drifted over, going to
white Oak's friend. Hey, sure, how'd you get the car?
It's the job Reid renter than Frisco yesterday.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Can I ride along with you?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yeah? You're going to White Oaks?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Uh huh, I'm Tom Reid's guest.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Okay, sure I been you? Uh friend of town, well
kind of. I was the purser on the ship.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
He came over on we hit it off, and I
got invited to his weddy.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
What'd you do with Tom Reid? Mister, Oh, I'll get you.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
I get you.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
You're playing at being read.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
You're wearing his clothes, you're driving his car.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
When you pay for some junk.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
At the store.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
You flashed a wallet I remember seeing on reed. But uh,
you need a sweat.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Maybe we could do business for how much?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Half?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
If you're just masquerading, or if you killed him?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I uh didn't kill him a heart attack, did it?
I just ditched the body?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Is it? Half? I'll let you know.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
What what are you stopping for?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Getting hold of myself for a minute. Find my smokes
here this compartment.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I thought you said smokes.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
It's smokes with all six bullets.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Get out of the car, start for the woods.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Is is that how you want?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
That's the way.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
It's gotta be all or nothing, No deals with a blackmailer.
He sat down on a slow, wriggling motion, then fell
over on his side into the weeds. I started to
drag him through the weeds and for a place to
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hide 'em until I could get some tools and bury
him later. And suddenly there was another horn back in
the road, making him like crazy some motors unable to
get past my parkd car on a narrow road. I
left trace as he was and ran to the car,
which a girl a snappy convertible move.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Over, I can't get by.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Sure, are you hunting? Hunting? Uh? Oh, yes, sir, are shooting? Well? Uh?
I took pot shots of some rabbits any luck? Nah? Huh,
I'm on bad shot too bad?
Speaker 8 (15:57):
Am I on the road to White Oaks?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Sure? Uh? You wouldn't be Margaret. Yes, I'm Margaret. Ohh,
I'm Tom Reid.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Your Tom Reid?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Disappointed?
Speaker 8 (16:15):
Don't mind my staring?
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (16:18):
Aren't you going to show me the way? Tom?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Well? You keep staring to get my curiosity of it.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Like she couldn't control her eyes put, I followed the
direction of a stair sent me.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
It hit me.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Murder was written all over me.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
There was blood all over my clothes and my shirt,
right down on my shoes. It was as if Tracy's
corpse was standing beside me telling it to the world.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
Huh, in those woods, you killed somebody in there, That's
what those shots were.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
You killed Uncle Walter, And.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Now you're talking crazier A hullboy stuck me up. I
grabbed this gun and finished her.
Speaker 8 (17:02):
You don't believe me, huh no, And you're not Tom Reid.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
You gotta picture of him grown up?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Fine, yes, nice and frank and open. Huh being that
honest gonna cost you something, Well, don't you scream or something.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
I'd rather do this exactly where you are choking.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
The gun and the maroon convertible. You know how to
shoot it? Try me and see, kid, I got to
try you. Whether I like it or not, I gotta know.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
I shoot him for a girl, my turn. No her
shooting first, mate.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
It easier for me.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
In a way, which like self defense. Uh, still kidding myself, funny.
It was a lung goodbye. I met a girl and
killed him.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
All in less than five minutes. Five hundred thousand was
coming a lot harder than I figured, alright, it was
running a lot of time late.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
An hour was the grapper was in the safe one
way or another, and the lamb is far from the
two steps and the blind uncles I could get. I
got to the safe and began to work at the dials.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I her uncle Walter tapping his way.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
To palm, palm.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yes, yes, Uncle Walder oh, Margaret, isn't tom No, no,
not yet.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
She'll be long and.
Speaker 7 (18:50):
Get into your hand if you but what is it?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Yeah? Well what do you do right? Arms? Are your fingers?
Speaker 7 (19:01):
Yes, it's nephew little the reflex of dirt on the
palm case if you've had your hands on the ground.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I say, not bad. You oughta be a detective.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Isn't know the.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Smell of blood let on my hand? What's wrong? Card?
I skipt? Now, listen carefully. I got a gun in
my hand pointing right at you.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
You're to tap your way to that floor safe and
open it or no stalling or no question But I said,
no questions.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
But I don't know the combination from memory? I said,
no stalling.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
If you listen, the combination is on a memorandum pad
in the library desk.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
He tapped his way along the floor to the desk,
stooped over a drawer and stayed there in a cross
like a guy in a trench who was a gun
pointing in front of him.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Are you crazy, old coat? What good's a gun?
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Gunna?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Do you're blind? You won't get a sent imposter.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
It shot me perfect markets like you could see right
along with anybody.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
It ain't in the direction of my voice, I figured.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
I moved to a side quickly and emptied my gun.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Hm huh, that's all of a shot.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
You Uh fixed a glistening charge and the can and
blew the safe wall.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
It was a trick I picked up with pig and
chemicals in the storm, White Oaks.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Uh, nerve for you?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Still going for the money with all those bullets in it.
Like you said, I I don't kill it easy.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Well, you're tough.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
But the joke's on you all.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Around shirts on me dying empty handed.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Oh, it's on you even more than that. Son. The
old man wasn't blind, and he wasn't Uncle Walter.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
You you kick no for a fact like you.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
He was just playing along. He'd been the butler before
he killed Uncle Walter. You see, he never thought Tom
Reids bad hard to allow him to take that trip
from Honolulu.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Well, what's funny, son, The joker's on me? Oh funny
to uh.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
A young man plucks his rise to fortune and then
finds he can't even get up off his back one
baron blessing, though he's got all the time now in
the next world to cut off that five hundred thousands infractions.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
May he rust in peace.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Our friends, it's time once again to close that creaking
door until next week at the same time, when we'll
be back with a little hank of horror.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
You'll be sure to listen, don't you until next week,
then deny pleasant dreams.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Inner Sanctum has come to you through the worldwide facilities
of the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
In her sanctum mysteries.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Good evening, friends of the creaking door. This is your
host to welcome you once again into the inner sanctum.
Come here meet Edgar, our electrical wizard. At school, he
was voted the most likely to shock him there. Edgar's
wife was a dull name, so he plugged her into
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a wall socket. Now you should see the way she sparkles. Yes, sir,
Now she's the light of the party.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Ever, roll your eyes over the dream of a half
million dollars.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Mm.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
You did, careful, friend, or that dream would become a nightmare.
We're in White Oaks, a gloomy estate somewhere along the
jagged coastline between Crisco and Seattle. On the floor in
a corner of the library, staring blindly at the ceiling,
is an old man. Across the room is a young man,
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mortally wounded but fighting to keep the thread of life
from snapping. Ten feet away from him is an old
style floor safe. The door of a safe is blown
off and the contents scattering lying nearby.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
He tries to get up there, but he can't.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
His hand creeps to a bundle of cash and drops
helplessly over it.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Guess, Gus Miller.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, open your eyes, Come on, son, show fight. Don't
cash in yet?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Hm?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Who are you, Sheriff Ben Lomas, Gus Gus?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
How'd you know my name went through your bags?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You been masquerading as Tom Reve?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Well I might in the County hospital you take a
lot of killing, but next stop is the County Morgue.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Ray for me.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
You wouldn't be busting with curiosity about me, Shriff.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
You wouldn't be uh busting to talk. Son, you say,
if you'll listen, that's what I'm here for.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Gus Miller's my name. Check back of my past.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I agree, and you'll find I've been a number more
than I've been Gus Miller.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
It's a kid.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I went right out of an orphans home into the
big jail of San Quentin. Number five six two three
one seven was my name for ten years five six
two three one seven. Every night before turning in, I
swore the five six two three one seven. It's how
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many bucks would cost Society square accounts with me go on.
I was a day out of the clink, playing around
the Frisco docks, wondering where I'd hustle a buck. Big
Liner just come in out of the Pacific fog. Well
of those Swang pleasure liners. I watched the passengers getting off,
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all dressed to kill, without a care in the world.
Among them was Tom Raid, tricked out in a white
sailing suit. My eyes kept wandering over there, I thought,
kept jabbing at me.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Here's the guy I could be if I played my
cards right.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
We're about the same age bill, average looking guys, except.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
That Reed was a little pale around the gills.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
All Red had.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
On me was a bank or are you drive it?
Car rolled up and Reid went to it. I went
after what scheme I had in mind. I'm not clear
on it anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yes, is there, ah, there something you want? A driving north?
Looking for a ride iron? Yeah, looking to get a hitch?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Okay, hop in. I'm Tom Reid.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
My name's Gus Miller. How far are you going?
Speaker 7 (04:49):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
As far as I can get, I guess.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
No destination, No destination.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
How far you going? Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
About two hundred miles. White oaks every here are white oaks. No,
I never did the show place of the Pacific coast.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I'm the last of the reeds of white oaks. You
bragging a cry? Hm? Both maybe why you so tough?
You're too rich for my blood?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Maybe, and I suppose there is something indecent about too
much money?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
If bad? Have you got too much money? A half
million in three days? Why in three days?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
My inheritance comes through them. That's why I'm back in
the States.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
How do you correct her half a million?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
There's a bank teller pilot up in gold pieces in
front of you.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
No, a blind uncle you haven't seen in years, taps
his cane along the floor towards a safe that's been
in the family for generations, and.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Opens it and hands your half a million, just like.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
That, Just like her.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
My father distrusted banks.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I turned the figure over in my mind, A half
a million, so read looking queerly at me out of
the corner of his eye. You're burning up with temptation, Milling. I,
I don't know what you talking about.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Poses me for three days, then go off with all
that money. Uncle Walter will never detect the masquerade. He's blind,
and you're a pretty good faker, that's what you're telling yourself.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I say, and uh, wear are you all the time?
I'm posing dead somewhere? You've murdered me.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Oh, if I had any idea like that for a
minute Raid's openness.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Put the kye wash on it. We chewed up about a.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Hundred miles, and I caught that funny look cross and
Reid's face again. I watched the hand clap over his heart.
Raids seemed to sag, and the car began to circle wildly.
I grabbed a wheel and the nicke of time I
pulled her aside.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Shut the motor. What's hit you? Read my my heart?
How bad is it?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
How a little doctor gave it a year?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I've been short changed by two weeks.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Get me to a doctor.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I stall.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
There was a little man counting up five hundred thousand,
and my mind slowly by one. Red's eyes were around me.
They were dying eyes, but I caught a twinkle, as
if you were amused over me some.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
He's your chance, Miller. Just sit it out of the stars.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Forget the doctor, and I like most about you as
your sense of humor. I'm taking you that doctor.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Thanks doctor, don't bother. It's too late.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Read bury me somewhere as as Gus Miller. You'll be
tom read for three days.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
It was too late to play boy scout and race
for the doctor. Reid was the deadest man in the world.
I told myself that Reed's dying crack practically made me
his air. I didn't have to tell myself anything. The
little man was counting five hundred thousand in my head.
Fast about fifties oh, I found a natural lake about
(08:33):
five miles up a side road. The region was a
dead end, not a house or a human anywhere in miles.
I swapped clothes with Reid. We hit his pockets with
stones and said goodbye.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Let him slip.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Well, A down trodden hill is on the upgrade now
a half million spongilics. Nice page, just for giving a
corpse a bath at a roadside lake. Yess might run
into something unexpected at White Oaks. Still he's deterimined to
(09:21):
try or fry.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Let's see what it is, shall we.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I got to White Oaks in an electric storm, where
the sky's giving me a twenty one gun saw. The
house was up on an elevation. Everything about it seemed
to say keep out, and not a soul in sight?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Where was the blind uncle? Anybody home? I could hear
the eckle hanging in the air. Then I heard it's
happening coming at me. Out of the shadows.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
It's a hand reached for me. I could feel my
flesh cray. Oh, huckle Waller.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
H give me your hand if you sure. Oh, it's
been so long since I felt the warmth of a
reed hand.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Your hand is perspiring.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
But it's causing here. I've I've been in a Russi
since Frisco. Something wrong.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Your voice, it's uh, it's changed for the better.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
It's uh deeper but blaming on the arnold Hulla climbing.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
It's been a long time.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Uncle, Yes, yes, it's it's been a long time. Margaret,
your fiance will be here tomorrow to greet you.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Margaret is sh she's coming tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Yes, Uh, how is Margaret.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
She's grown into a fine woman. She'll make you a
good wife.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Tom When did the wedding bells ring out?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
The day you take your inheritance as your father wished it.
You and Margaret were playmates as children, and your father
wanted someone close to have his money after you.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
This letter from Margaret came the other day.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
If you'd like to read.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
It, sure, Yeah, I read it in bet a good night, nephew.
A bride went with a five hundred thousand I have
n't a letter.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
I needed a line.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I I had read the opening paragraph again and again
til it was whispering in my brain.
Speaker 8 (12:06):
I wonder how it will be meeting Tom again, Hooker Walter.
We were practically infants for the last time together. The
questions that keep crowling my mind? What does he look like?
What does he think about? Will he like me enough?
And will you like me too?
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Dear uncle Walter, I had all the line on her
I needed. Margaret didn't know Tom read from Adam. The
next morning, I drove into the one horse berg they
(12:50):
called town. I wanted to buy a paper in some
odds and ends. I left the general store and a
fat little guy and a seaman's outfit who had been
hanging around inside followed me out.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
They started the car and he drifted over, going to
white Oak's friend. Hey, sure, how'd you get the car?
It's the job Reid renter than Frisco yesterday.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Can I ride along with you?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Yeah? You're going to White Oaks?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Uh huh, I'm Tom Reid's guest.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Okay, sure I been you? Uh friend of town, well
kind of. I was the purser on the ship.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
He came over on we hit it off, and I
got invited to his weddy.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
What'd you do with Tom Reid? Mister, Oh, I'll get you.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
I get you.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
You're playing at being read.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
You're wearing his clothes, you're driving his car.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
When you pay for some junk.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
At the store.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
You flashed a wallet I remember seeing on reed. But uh,
you need a sweat.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Maybe we could do business for how much?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Half?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
If you're just masquerading, or if you killed him?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I uh didn't kill him a heart attack, did it?
I just ditched the body?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Is it? Half? I'll let you know.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
What what are you stopping for?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Getting hold of myself for a minute. Find my smokes
here this compartment.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I thought you said smokes.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
It's smokes with all six bullets.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Get out of the car, start for the woods.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Is is that how you want?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
That's the way.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
It's gotta be all or nothing, No deals with a blackmailer.
He sat down on a slow, wriggling motion, then fell
over on his side into the weeds. I started to
drag him through the weeds and for a place to
(15:19):
hide 'em until I could get some tools and bury
him later. And suddenly there was another horn back in
the road, making him like crazy some motors unable to
get past my parkd car on a narrow road. I
left trace as he was and ran to the car,
which a girl a snappy convertible move.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Over, I can't get by.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Sure, are you hunting? Hunting? Uh? Oh, yes, sir, are shooting? Well? Uh?
I took pot shots of some rabbits any luck? Nah? Huh,
I'm on bad shot too bad?
Speaker 8 (15:57):
Am I on the road to White Oaks?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Sure? Uh? You wouldn't be Margaret. Yes, I'm Margaret. Ohh,
I'm Tom Reid.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
Your Tom Reid?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Disappointed?
Speaker 8 (16:15):
Don't mind my staring?
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (16:18):
Aren't you going to show me the way? Tom?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Well? You keep staring to get my curiosity of it.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Like she couldn't control her eyes put, I followed the
direction of a stair sent me.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
It hit me.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Murder was written all over me.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
There was blood all over my clothes and my shirt,
right down on my shoes. It was as if Tracy's
corpse was standing beside me telling it to the world.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
Huh, in those woods, you killed somebody in there, That's
what those shots were.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
You killed Uncle Walter, And.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Now you're talking crazier A hullboy stuck me up. I
grabbed this gun and finished her.
Speaker 8 (17:02):
You don't believe me, huh no, And you're not Tom Reid.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
You gotta picture of him grown up?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Fine, yes, nice and frank and open. Huh being that
honest gonna cost you something, Well, don't you scream or something.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
I'd rather do this exactly where you are choking.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
The gun and the maroon convertible. You know how to
shoot it? Try me and see, kid, I got to
try you. Whether I like it or not, I gotta know.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
I shoot him for a girl, my turn. No her
shooting first, mate.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
It easier for me.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
In a way, which like self defense. Uh, still kidding myself, funny.
It was a lung goodbye. I met a girl and
killed him.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
All in less than five minutes. Five hundred thousand was
coming a lot harder than I figured, alright, it was
running a lot of time late.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
An hour was the grapper was in the safe one
way or another, and the lamb is far from the
two steps and the blind uncles I could get. I
got to the safe and began to work at the dials.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I her uncle Walter tapping his way.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
To palm, palm.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yes, yes, Uncle Walder oh, Margaret, isn't tom No, no,
not yet.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
She'll be long and.
Speaker 7 (18:50):
Get into your hand if you but what is it?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Yeah? Well what do you do right? Arms? Are your fingers?
Speaker 7 (19:01):
Yes, it's nephew little the reflex of dirt on the
palm case if you've had your hands on the ground.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I say, not bad. You oughta be a detective.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Isn't know the.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Smell of blood let on my hand? What's wrong? Card?
I skipt? Now, listen carefully. I got a gun in
my hand pointing right at you.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
You're to tap your way to that floor safe and
open it or no stalling or no question But I said,
no questions.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
But I don't know the combination from memory? I said,
no stalling.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
If you listen, the combination is on a memorandum pad
in the library desk.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
He tapped his way along the floor to the desk,
stooped over a drawer and stayed there in a cross
like a guy in a trench who was a gun
pointing in front of him.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Are you crazy, old coat? What good's a gun?
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Gunna?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Do you're blind? You won't get a sent imposter.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
It shot me perfect markets like you could see right
along with anybody.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
It ain't in the direction of my voice, I figured.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
I moved to a side quickly and emptied my gun.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Hm huh, that's all of a shot.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
You Uh fixed a glistening charge and the can and
blew the safe wall.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
It was a trick I picked up with pig and
chemicals in the storm, White Oaks.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Uh, nerve for you?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Still going for the money with all those bullets in it.
Like you said, I I don't kill it easy.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Well, you're tough.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
But the joke's on you all.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Around shirts on me dying empty handed.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Oh, it's on you even more than that. Son. The
old man wasn't blind, and he wasn't Uncle Walter.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
You you kick no for a fact like you.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
He was just playing along. He'd been the butler before
he killed Uncle Walter. You see, he never thought Tom
Reids bad hard to allow him to take that trip
from Honolulu.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Well, what's funny, son, The joker's on me? Oh funny
to uh.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
A young man plucks his rise to fortune and then
finds he can't even get up off his back one
baron blessing, though he's got all the time now in
the next world to cut off that five hundred thousands infractions.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
May he rust in peace.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Our friends, it's time once again to close that creaking
door until next week at the same time, when we'll
be back with a little hank of horror.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
You'll be sure to listen, don't you until next week,
then deny pleasant dreams.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Inner Sanctum has come to you through the worldwide facilities
of the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
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