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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Let meet You.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
A Broadcasting System presents the Mysterious Power reproduced and directed
vibrant a Arthur.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
And David Kom, starring two of radio foremost personalities. Like when.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
In Christal Story, this is the serious traveler inviting you
to join me on another journey into the realm of
the trained.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
And the terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip,
and it will bring you a little and cheat you
a little. So settle back and get a good grip
on yours and be comfortable if you can. In the
Tale of Enterprising young Man, it's a drama call Christmas Story.
(01:16):
The name is Steve Ferrell and I've just gotten through
playing for the clubs. Yeah, you're a guy who really
hit a hill. It all started last month in Seattle.
I was out of a job and down to my
few bucks. I was looking through the morning paper when
I noticed small ad in the personal columns. Driving in
New York number fifteenth man wanted fist in driving free
(01:39):
transportation Paul Harris, Hotel Royal. Well, I'd always wanted to
see Markham. This is as good as any way of
getting there. So I went up to this Hotel Royal
to see this guy Harris start. Yes, my name is Farrell,
Steve Farrell. I read your ad in the new paper.
Oh yes, once you come in, thank you. If you
(02:02):
haven't already found something to help you drive the ark,
i'd like them off of my services. Well, as a
matter of fact, I haven't. Can you leave for New
York a day after tomorrow? Sure, anytime we'll good and
when i'd come around at nine in the morning and
we'll get off to the Nurst step okay for harras
and I is you know when you're sired driving this
(02:36):
to happen, I'll take over. Thanks you will. Why not
call me Paul? Okay, Steve is my first name? Lord
than thirty miles Lewiston U s Idaho Adan.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, we're just crossing the state line into Idaho.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
This is all new to me. I was born and
raised Alaska. This is my first trip to the states. Well,
you're going to see a scenery but hearing, yes, I'm
looking forward. Good. Life must have been rugg in a
last game. Oh it was. My parents were homesteaders. I
never saw I see until a week ago when I
arrived in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I'll come here going to New York.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Well, my parents died last year, my grandmother, who I've
never seen, asking me to come visit him. They never
seen him then, No, No, it was some sort of
squabble between my person my grandfather before I was born,
and they went to alask gay and in all the
year since then, my grandfather never wrote to sounds like
a stubborn iron. Yeah, he sure died. What are you
(03:36):
going to New York for? Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Mainly to look for a job.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
And I've always wanted to see the big city? Shure?
I uh, do you mind taking over?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
See my eyes again?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
They glad to pull over the side of their road.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It's a long way from Seattle to New York, and
it wasn't the radio in the car, so we just
took and mostly we talked about paul life and Alaska,
his parents, his grandmother. By the time we hit the Columbus, Ohio,
there wasn't a thing I didn't know at the guy
and what told me his grandfather was loaded and even
more he was the old man only relative. It was obviated.
(04:14):
Kid was walking into a fortune. Yeah, some guy had
all luck. So these are the Alleghanian one. Yeah, better
take it easy, Paul. The road's a little flippery Okay,
how much further than New York?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Two hundred and fifty miles?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
It wasn't sorry, you bet it out for the nicest tourist,
ci Hi. We should be able to make New York
by tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah, easy, your eyes bothering. Oh you better let me
take over when you get to the bottom of this mountain.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Okay, you know you want an eye doctor. You're asking
to get hired awful quick. Well, the truth of the matter,
were shutting kid. No Caama breaks only makes it worse.
The river wheel I have.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
She was sitting roads for the mountain wheel and do
it out of control.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
When I regate consciousness, I was lying a few feet
from the car. We'd rolled three hundred feet down the
side of the mountain, and the car was completely wrecked.
I crawled him and felt for broken bones. Other than
a bad gash on my head and the mass of bruises,
I would okay. I limped the few feet to the
(05:31):
overturn car and thin Paul was still behind wheels. Even
before I reached for his pulse, I had a feeling
he was dead. Paul Duck had run out. He'd never
see all that dough, that was waiting for him in
New York.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, it was the end that it came to me.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I hadn't wished the guy dead, but now that he was,
and nobody in the stake knew Paul or what he
looked like. And on the other hand, and I knew
everything about him. Well, it was a gamble, all right,
but there was a fortune in the kitty. I went
to work switching our clothes and all identification that they police.
(06:12):
The fol car came along the mountain road and speed
the wreck. They took me to headquarters, where I made
a completion. Not a couple of months later, I grabbed
a train for New York. I'm Dodge Marlow, your grandfather.
How do you do with a Pennsylvania State Police informed
(06:34):
me of the dread accident you had. I'm stand up
and was whilli was killed? Yes, fellow by the name
of Steve Farrell.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I met him in Seattle. He as fitted me with
the driving.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Which bad, but thank heavens it wasn't. Julie. Would have
been your grandfather's death blow. How is weak, very weak,
but eagerly waiting to see you all right? Come along? Yes,
heart on your head.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Oh man, it was treated by your at the State
Police headquarters.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
If you can only spend a few minutes with your grandfather,
and excitement must be avoided by all means. I understand here.
How is he?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
He's much better this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Joan, miss Harris pull, Joan Dcrick, your grandfather's nurse.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
How do you do?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Oh? Is that you pau yessing? He'll be here where
I can see you. Frankly, so you're p my line's
yess him? Sit down and buy my baby. Let me
(07:50):
look at you all right? Grandfy are you? You couldn't
look like your mother? Must take after your father's side
the lad Yes, I do that. That band maraid, what
what happened? Poor Well? I was in an accident. But
(08:11):
it's nothing, just a scription. You're sure, yes, yes, of course.
I suppose your wondering why I said for you after
all these years gotten off your mother?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Well doesn't matter now.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
The thing is I'm here, you know, lying in months,
I've had a great deal of time to think things over.
I was wrong. Poor your mother. She had a blick
right money, and and once she wished it was only
(08:44):
my stormas have prevented the records in here. We're all
mistakes yes, but there years not seeing my own fish
and blood. It's been lonely poor, so lonely lor before.
But you're not alone anymore, honey, Yes, yes, boy, what
(09:11):
what little time I have left we must spend together.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
I think that's enough. And now, mister Marshall, porknan, see
you later after your nap.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
She's a wonderful for as soon as I have away
you just your being here seems to have had him formed.
What does the doctor seem.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Mister Morrow?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Week a month, several months at the outside that matter. Yes,
you must hired that trip. I have your suitcase taken
to your room. Do you have any other I gids
you on the way. It's a small trick coming, but
he won't be here for a week. See any mon.
Just let me know your grandfather's plays a considerable sum
at your disposal.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I slept two thous and left five thousand, and he
sent me very well. Paul. Remember if there's anything at
all you want, just let me know. Yeah, I was in.
There was no question that I had passed St. Paul,
and why not? I had all the answers, and I
was playing a careful I walked through a room after
(10:21):
a room of that sifed new mansion, knowing that within
a matter of months it would be mine. In the
weeks that followed, not a day passed I didn't spend
a few hours with the old man. He liked me,
I could see that. And the funny thing is I
liked him too. During our little chat the times I
felt I was his grandson. And sitting in a little
(10:41):
sessions not say much, just watching with the gray eyes
of hers was Joan Dietrich. She was one lovely dish
and I could feel things building between us.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Wherever she got anything off, we went up together.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Things a good.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Thing, wonderful.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Why, mister Harris, what are we doing now?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
And my parents? The news in.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Too many people in there?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
You know, if you don't make a past at me.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
So I'm going to get the girls of this showed
the quay three weeks.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
What's the time to do with it? The day I
walk in the grandfather's room first see, you knew this
moment would come. Mm hmm oh I feel the same way, baby,
So I was fine, love me, you know what I do?
Speaker 4 (11:39):
My a tears, Oh I do, I want to believe
in them?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
So confused, so confused about what go on? I want
to hear, are you really poor? What makes you ask that?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Then your talk to mister Marshall, several things he said,
seen trained.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I say, tell.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Your grandfather's book of her father in San Francisco, And
you said you it? Yeah, if you are Paul Harris,
how could you know? Paul Harris has never been to
franis Ago.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I might have taken in San Francisco. I lived in
New York.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
What else about you?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
You mentioned with television Jose name six months ago? There
is no television in Alaska. If you're Paul Harris, could
you have.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Seen people up in Alaska see kinoscopes of television shows? Baby,
they should like movies.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Telly, just tell me I'm wrong. That's all I want
to hear.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I wish I could tell you I'm Paul, but I'm
not here. No, No, the name is Farrell, Steve Harrell
deed T.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Wasn't that the fellow that was kidding back? It was
Paul Harris?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Who will all you change the yes? How?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
How crist you?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I was tired of being broke. I'm going from one
loudy job. I saw a chance to grab a fortune
and took it. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I should go to the police. I can't. Mister Marshall
thinks you're his grandson. He's extremely gone. The view if
the truth were to come out kill him.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Is that the only reason we can't go to the police.
We gonna do nothing. That's right. I'm beyond being Paul Harris.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Until the old man dies, then I'm taking the estate.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
You can't?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You can? Why not while the old man's alive. I'm
making him happy if I get his ape when he dies?
Who loses by uss? Though he has other relatives? Why
shouldn't I get it?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
It's wrong, He's wrong.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
It's wrong only if you're a caught baby, only if
you're caught. Hello baby, what's doing up here on the roof?
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Just getting a little fresh air? While mister Marshall street.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
How is he?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
He can't last more than Peter?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Who you're claiming for the old man? Oh me? Oh? Steve?
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Ever the other night and you told I haven't been
able to give anything else. It's wrong, Steve, It's so wrong.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Who am I hurting? If I get the estate? I
deserve it. If anyone does, we find making the old
man hay and his style.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
What is your course? Do you realize i'd send.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
You to business? That's the chicks. Besides, you want to
get wise to me.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
There's miss Marlowe and he's nobody's fool. Just one little slip, Stephen,
he'll beyond you.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Marlow is a shot citizen, all right, but I don't
intend to make that one slip.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Someone's coming up on the roof.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Hello, you too, thought i'd find you up here? Hello
mister marlow Well thank him. I'll stand that. Sushel's asleep.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Yes, I left missus Walker to look after him. He
should be wait soon.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
May we better go down? I can father?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Oh, what's the matter?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Something in your eye? Paul? Yes, he'd huh, yes, but
stop rubbing it.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Don't if you've over it.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
That's things like the devil going.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
On sime chair and I'll try to take it.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Out for you. You want me to assist you to
the chair.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
No, No, I can still walk.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Let's sit down and told your head back. I say,
take the hand at away, I'll see hot still. Yeah,
I got it, Thanks John, I think we'd better go down.
H Okay, you coming, mister Morrow right?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Always? Yes, yes, I'm coming, mister Walker.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Save with mister Marshall was slepping you up in on
as you musta go, Sains.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
You're still sleeping, prohably, better leave him, wait until he wakens.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Oh no, no, I'm going to wake him. It's time
for his medicine, mister Marshall. Mister Marshall's time for your medicine.
Mister Marshall.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
What is it? John? There's no voat? Are you sure? Yeah?
At least the end came peacefully. He died in his joe.
Was the old man's death heard? And I felt pretty
(17:13):
upset my mouth even.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
With all go awaiting.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
As for Marlowe, he was his usual efficient self. Look
after all the.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
The tails of the funeral.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Maybe it was a tension I was under, but marlow
seemed changed to me. He wasn't so friendly, and sometimes
I uded to find him watching me, giving me the
cold eye. I couldn't be sure whether it was my
imagination or not.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
After we got back from the.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Funeral, I was in my room when there was a
knock on the door. Come in, Hello, John, Come in,
mister Motes downstairs. Library wants to see close the door.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Anything wrong? Whose chounk is that you're going through?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Would arrived this morning. While we were at the ship.
I've just been going crew some of Paul's I knew,
of course, there's fourth in the draft, and I'm like,
what are you trying to tell Paul was for f
in the draft because he was blind in the right eye,
blind in the flight of That's why I've been getting
the cold shoulder from Marlow the days ever since the
(18:16):
afternoon we were on the roof. I don't understand somehow, Marlow,
you Paul was blind in the right eye, and when
I got that cinder in my left eye and I
covered it with my handkerchief, you told me to walk
across the roof of the chair sit down.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Oh yes, I remember.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
At point Marlow offered lead to the chair, knowing.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
You were binding the right eye and had your left
eye covered with a hack.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yes, when I walked over to the chair without hesitation,
that must have started thinking, don't get panicky, baby, Marlow
can't be sure right if the most suspicious, but it
really investigated me. He killed fish in his mind stopping
from going on a chair. But I don't know yet.
Come on, he's waiting for us in the library. Sorry,
(19:09):
don't get you waiting miss tomorrow. Quite all right, John,
don't go. No reason why you should hear what I
should say. Tomorrow, Christmas Day, I'll officially read mister Marshall's
I don't think I'm biting at trout and telling you
the contents of the Will's ago. Mister Marshall had me
draw a new will, leaving his entire state to Paul.
(19:33):
I think he was quite taken by you, felt that
you were a credit to his name. Not crying, John. Not.
As administrator mister Marshall's will, it is my duty to
see to it that the heirs or heir receive their
just inheritances. This duty I shall fulfill. I say I
(19:57):
am responsible under law for the award of the huge
estate by miss Marshall. I shall have to see your eye,
probably you. You've been doing nothing but rubbing it since
you came into this room. Sorry tomorrow. As you know,
I'm blind in my right eye, and now and then
my left. I feels quite strained, particular leader till like this,
my grandfather's dead. The funeral, understand, right, Yes, yes, of
(20:22):
course you were saying, right, Oh, it's an important moment.
I'll be here tomorrow at three. The reading of the will.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I'll see to it that all the servants are here
very well.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Good night, Joan, Paul, good night tomorrow. I didn't get
to see then. I just fossed and turned, trying to
come up with an angle that with kill Marlow' suspicions.
Maybe that business of rubbing my eyes that satisfied in me,
but I had to make sure it was a friend
swen being handled up in a prison sentence. This afternoon,
(20:57):
at three o'clock, the servants, Joan Marlow, myself gathered at
the library. All things were in an hour. The servants
all congratulated and left the library, leaving only the freeman.
I should like to offer a toast to mister Memory,
if you permit, of course, this was his favorite chick John.
(21:17):
Thank you, oh thanks. He is to Peter Marshall, a
man who lived honorably, honorably. May his heir be worthy
of him. As the three of us raised our glasses
to our list and drank, I seen Marlow watching near
the brim of his glass with those cold blue of his.
(21:39):
We set down our glasses and I turned to give
Joan a cigarette. Out of the corner of my eye,
I saw Marlow pick up one of the three wine
glasses shabby. I realized it was my glass. He held
it casually, almost as if he didn't know it was
holding it. In that moment, I was going trying to
guess whether he was satisfied that I was poor Paris
(22:01):
or he was still suspicious ending after me. My fingerprints
were on that glass, and the army had a copy
of those put in Washington. This was it either I
play my cards and go to a portune or throw
in my hand. Suddenly felt Bum's hand in mine, and hey,
this tomorrow? Yes, you said this will leaving me My
(22:21):
father's estate is a new one. Yes, threw it up
only two weeks ago? What was the oil? Like wonder
the old will? Grandfather's estate went to charity. I thought
it was m mister Marlowe and I have been fucking
things over id ope the estate. I wanted all to
go to charity as originally intended. Hear me, I seemed
(22:43):
to make glass. Do you realize, of course, what you
would be giving up? I never really had this tomorrow,
so I hardly think I'll miss it full and I'll
get along with the baby. Oh yeah, well, pol is
that your considered decision. It's just you're worthy of Peter
(23:04):
Marshall's grandson, and that little gesture didn't. Any guy who
gives up a two million dollar estake can hardly be
called an imposter canty. You know, sir, it's Christmas and
I've just played Santa Claus for the tune of two
million bucks. The thing I keep wondering about is what
(23:25):
would have happened if I had to give up the estate.
Would Marlow have gone into me? Or was he satisfied
at my watch? Yes, sir, that little puzzle is going
to give me plenty of thoughts for a long time. Come.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
This is a mysterious traveler again. Did you enjoy a trip?
Or what end to Follers?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Or rather, should I Steve Carrell he in Bonn were married?
Oh you have to get off here. I'm sorry, but
remember I take this same train every week at the
same time.
Let meet You.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
A Broadcasting System presents the Mysterious Power reproduced and directed
vibrant a Arthur.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
And David Kom, starring two of radio foremost personalities. Like when.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
In Christal Story, this is the serious traveler inviting you
to join me on another journey into the realm of
the trained.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
And the terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip,
and it will bring you a little and cheat you
a little. So settle back and get a good grip
on yours and be comfortable if you can. In the
Tale of Enterprising young Man, it's a drama call Christmas Story.
(01:16):
The name is Steve Ferrell and I've just gotten through
playing for the clubs. Yeah, you're a guy who really
hit a hill. It all started last month in Seattle.
I was out of a job and down to my
few bucks. I was looking through the morning paper when
I noticed small ad in the personal columns. Driving in
New York number fifteenth man wanted fist in driving free
(01:39):
transportation Paul Harris, Hotel Royal. Well, I'd always wanted to
see Markham. This is as good as any way of
getting there. So I went up to this Hotel Royal
to see this guy Harris start. Yes, my name is Farrell,
Steve Farrell. I read your ad in the new paper.
Oh yes, once you come in, thank you. If you
(02:02):
haven't already found something to help you drive the ark,
i'd like them off of my services. Well, as a
matter of fact, I haven't. Can you leave for New
York a day after tomorrow? Sure, anytime we'll good and
when i'd come around at nine in the morning and
we'll get off to the Nurst step okay for harras
and I is you know when you're sired driving this
(02:36):
to happen, I'll take over. Thanks you will. Why not
call me Paul? Okay, Steve is my first name? Lord
than thirty miles Lewiston U s Idaho Adan.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, we're just crossing the state line into Idaho.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
This is all new to me. I was born and
raised Alaska. This is my first trip to the states. Well,
you're going to see a scenery but hearing, yes, I'm
looking forward. Good. Life must have been rugg in a
last game. Oh it was. My parents were homesteaders. I
never saw I see until a week ago when I
arrived in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I'll come here going to New York.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Well, my parents died last year, my grandmother, who I've
never seen, asking me to come visit him. They never
seen him then, No, No, it was some sort of
squabble between my person my grandfather before I was born,
and they went to alask gay and in all the
year since then, my grandfather never wrote to sounds like
a stubborn iron. Yeah, he sure died. What are you
(03:36):
going to New York for? Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Mainly to look for a job.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
And I've always wanted to see the big city? Shure?
I uh, do you mind taking over?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Now?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
See my eyes again?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
They glad to pull over the side of their road.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It's a long way from Seattle to New York, and
it wasn't the radio in the car, so we just
took and mostly we talked about paul life and Alaska,
his parents, his grandmother. By the time we hit the Columbus, Ohio,
there wasn't a thing I didn't know at the guy
and what told me his grandfather was loaded and even
more he was the old man only relative. It was obviated.
(04:14):
Kid was walking into a fortune. Yeah, some guy had
all luck. So these are the Alleghanian one. Yeah, better
take it easy, Paul. The road's a little flippery Okay,
how much further than New York?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Two hundred and fifty miles?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
It wasn't sorry, you bet it out for the nicest tourist,
ci Hi. We should be able to make New York
by tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah, easy, your eyes bothering. Oh you better let me
take over when you get to the bottom of this mountain.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Okay, you know you want an eye doctor. You're asking
to get hired awful quick. Well, the truth of the matter,
were shutting kid. No Caama breaks only makes it worse.
The river wheel I have.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
She was sitting roads for the mountain wheel and do
it out of control.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
When I regate consciousness, I was lying a few feet
from the car. We'd rolled three hundred feet down the
side of the mountain, and the car was completely wrecked.
I crawled him and felt for broken bones. Other than
a bad gash on my head and the mass of bruises,
I would okay. I limped the few feet to the
(05:31):
overturn car and thin Paul was still behind wheels. Even
before I reached for his pulse, I had a feeling
he was dead. Paul Duck had run out. He'd never
see all that dough, that was waiting for him in
New York.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, it was the end that it came to me.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I hadn't wished the guy dead, but now that he was,
and nobody in the stake knew Paul or what he
looked like. And on the other hand, and I knew
everything about him. Well, it was a gamble, all right,
but there was a fortune in the kitty. I went
to work switching our clothes and all identification that they police.
(06:12):
The fol car came along the mountain road and speed
the wreck. They took me to headquarters, where I made
a completion. Not a couple of months later, I grabbed
a train for New York. I'm Dodge Marlow, your grandfather.
How do you do with a Pennsylvania State Police informed
(06:34):
me of the dread accident you had. I'm stand up
and was whilli was killed? Yes, fellow by the name
of Steve Farrell.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I met him in Seattle. He as fitted me with
the driving.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Which bad, but thank heavens it wasn't. Julie. Would have
been your grandfather's death blow. How is weak, very weak,
but eagerly waiting to see you all right? Come along? Yes,
heart on your head.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Oh man, it was treated by your at the State
Police headquarters.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
If you can only spend a few minutes with your grandfather,
and excitement must be avoided by all means. I understand here.
How is he?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
He's much better this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Joan, miss Harris pull, Joan Dcrick, your grandfather's nurse.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
How do you do?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Oh? Is that you pau yessing? He'll be here where
I can see you. Frankly, so you're p my line's
yess him? Sit down and buy my baby. Let me
(07:50):
look at you all right? Grandfy are you? You couldn't
look like your mother? Must take after your father's side
the lad Yes, I do that. That band maraid, what
what happened? Poor Well? I was in an accident. But
(08:11):
it's nothing, just a scription. You're sure, yes, yes, of course.
I suppose your wondering why I said for you after
all these years gotten off your mother?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Well doesn't matter now.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
The thing is I'm here, you know, lying in months,
I've had a great deal of time to think things over.
I was wrong. Poor your mother. She had a blick
right money, and and once she wished it was only
(08:44):
my stormas have prevented the records in here. We're all
mistakes yes, but there years not seeing my own fish
and blood. It's been lonely poor, so lonely lor before.
But you're not alone anymore, honey, Yes, yes, boy, what
(09:11):
what little time I have left we must spend together.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
I think that's enough. And now, mister Marshall, porknan, see
you later after your nap.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
She's a wonderful for as soon as I have away
you just your being here seems to have had him formed.
What does the doctor seem.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Mister Morrow?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Week a month, several months at the outside that matter. Yes,
you must hired that trip. I have your suitcase taken
to your room. Do you have any other I gids
you on the way. It's a small trick coming, but
he won't be here for a week. See any mon.
Just let me know your grandfather's plays a considerable sum
at your disposal.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I slept two thous and left five thousand, and he
sent me very well. Paul. Remember if there's anything at
all you want, just let me know. Yeah, I was in.
There was no question that I had passed St. Paul,
and why not? I had all the answers, and I
was playing a careful I walked through a room after
(10:21):
a room of that sifed new mansion, knowing that within
a matter of months it would be mine. In the
weeks that followed, not a day passed I didn't spend
a few hours with the old man. He liked me,
I could see that. And the funny thing is I
liked him too. During our little chat the times I
felt I was his grandson. And sitting in a little
(10:41):
sessions not say much, just watching with the gray eyes
of hers was Joan Dietrich. She was one lovely dish
and I could feel things building between us.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Wherever she got anything off, we went up together.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Things a good.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Thing, wonderful.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Why, mister Harris, what are we doing now?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
And my parents? The news in.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Too many people in there?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
You know, if you don't make a past at me.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
So I'm going to get the girls of this showed
the quay three weeks.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
What's the time to do with it? The day I
walk in the grandfather's room first see, you knew this
moment would come. Mm hmm oh I feel the same way, baby,
So I was fine, love me, you know what I do?
Speaker 4 (11:39):
My a tears, Oh I do, I want to believe
in them?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
So confused, so confused about what go on? I want
to hear, are you really poor? What makes you ask that?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Then your talk to mister Marshall, several things he said,
seen trained.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I say, tell.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Your grandfather's book of her father in San Francisco, And
you said you it? Yeah, if you are Paul Harris,
how could you know? Paul Harris has never been to
franis Ago.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I might have taken in San Francisco. I lived in
New York.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
What else about you?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
You mentioned with television Jose name six months ago? There
is no television in Alaska. If you're Paul Harris, could
you have.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Seen people up in Alaska see kinoscopes of television shows? Baby,
they should like movies.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Telly, just tell me I'm wrong. That's all I want
to hear.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I wish I could tell you I'm Paul, but I'm
not here. No, No, the name is Farrell, Steve Harrell
deed T.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Wasn't that the fellow that was kidding back? It was
Paul Harris?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Who will all you change the yes? How?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
How crist you?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I was tired of being broke. I'm going from one
loudy job. I saw a chance to grab a fortune
and took it. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I should go to the police. I can't. Mister Marshall
thinks you're his grandson. He's extremely gone. The view if
the truth were to come out kill him.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Is that the only reason we can't go to the police.
We gonna do nothing. That's right. I'm beyond being Paul Harris.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Until the old man dies, then I'm taking the estate.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
You can't?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You can? Why not while the old man's alive. I'm
making him happy if I get his ape when he dies?
Who loses by uss? Though he has other relatives? Why
shouldn't I get it?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
It's wrong, He's wrong.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
It's wrong only if you're a caught baby, only if
you're caught. Hello baby, what's doing up here on the roof?
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Just getting a little fresh air? While mister Marshall street.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
How is he?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
He can't last more than Peter?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Who you're claiming for the old man? Oh me? Oh? Steve?
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Ever the other night and you told I haven't been
able to give anything else. It's wrong, Steve, It's so wrong.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Who am I hurting? If I get the estate? I
deserve it. If anyone does, we find making the old
man hay and his style.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
What is your course? Do you realize i'd send.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
You to business? That's the chicks. Besides, you want to
get wise to me.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
There's miss Marlowe and he's nobody's fool. Just one little slip, Stephen,
he'll beyond you.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Marlow is a shot citizen, all right, but I don't
intend to make that one slip.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Someone's coming up on the roof.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Hello, you too, thought i'd find you up here? Hello
mister marlow Well thank him. I'll stand that. Sushel's asleep.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Yes, I left missus Walker to look after him. He
should be wait soon.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
May we better go down? I can father?
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Oh, what's the matter?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Something in your eye? Paul? Yes, he'd huh, yes, but
stop rubbing it.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Don't if you've over it.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
That's things like the devil going.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
On sime chair and I'll try to take it.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Out for you. You want me to assist you to
the chair.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
No, No, I can still walk.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Let's sit down and told your head back. I say,
take the hand at away, I'll see hot still. Yeah,
I got it, Thanks John, I think we'd better go down.
H Okay, you coming, mister Morrow right?
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Always? Yes, yes, I'm coming, mister Walker.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Save with mister Marshall was slepping you up in on
as you musta go, Sains.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
You're still sleeping, prohably, better leave him, wait until he wakens.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Oh no, no, I'm going to wake him. It's time
for his medicine, mister Marshall. Mister Marshall's time for your medicine.
Mister Marshall.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
What is it? John? There's no voat? Are you sure? Yeah?
At least the end came peacefully. He died in his joe.
Was the old man's death heard? And I felt pretty
(17:13):
upset my mouth even.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
With all go awaiting.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
As for Marlowe, he was his usual efficient self. Look
after all the.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
The tails of the funeral.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Maybe it was a tension I was under, but marlow
seemed changed to me. He wasn't so friendly, and sometimes
I uded to find him watching me, giving me the
cold eye. I couldn't be sure whether it was my
imagination or not.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
After we got back from the.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Funeral, I was in my room when there was a
knock on the door. Come in, Hello, John, Come in,
mister Motes downstairs. Library wants to see close the door.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Anything wrong? Whose chounk is that you're going through?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Would arrived this morning. While we were at the ship.
I've just been going crew some of Paul's I knew,
of course, there's fourth in the draft, and I'm like,
what are you trying to tell Paul was for f
in the draft because he was blind in the right eye,
blind in the flight of That's why I've been getting
the cold shoulder from Marlow the days ever since the
(18:16):
afternoon we were on the roof. I don't understand somehow, Marlow,
you Paul was blind in the right eye, and when
I got that cinder in my left eye and I
covered it with my handkerchief, you told me to walk
across the roof of the chair sit down.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Oh yes, I remember.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
At point Marlow offered lead to the chair, knowing.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
You were binding the right eye and had your left
eye covered with a hack.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yes, when I walked over to the chair without hesitation,
that must have started thinking, don't get panicky, baby, Marlow
can't be sure right if the most suspicious, but it
really investigated me. He killed fish in his mind stopping
from going on a chair. But I don't know yet.
Come on, he's waiting for us in the library. Sorry,
(19:09):
don't get you waiting miss tomorrow. Quite all right, John,
don't go. No reason why you should hear what I
should say. Tomorrow, Christmas Day, I'll officially read mister Marshall's
I don't think I'm biting at trout and telling you
the contents of the Will's ago. Mister Marshall had me
draw a new will, leaving his entire state to Paul.
(19:33):
I think he was quite taken by you, felt that
you were a credit to his name. Not crying, John. Not.
As administrator mister Marshall's will, it is my duty to
see to it that the heirs or heir receive their
just inheritances. This duty I shall fulfill. I say I
(19:57):
am responsible under law for the award of the huge
estate by miss Marshall. I shall have to see your eye,
probably you. You've been doing nothing but rubbing it since
you came into this room. Sorry tomorrow. As you know,
I'm blind in my right eye, and now and then
my left. I feels quite strained, particular leader till like this,
my grandfather's dead. The funeral, understand, right, Yes, yes, of
(20:22):
course you were saying, right, Oh, it's an important moment.
I'll be here tomorrow at three. The reading of the will.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
I'll see to it that all the servants are here
very well.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Good night, Joan, Paul, good night tomorrow. I didn't get
to see then. I just fossed and turned, trying to
come up with an angle that with kill Marlow' suspicions.
Maybe that business of rubbing my eyes that satisfied in me,
but I had to make sure it was a friend
swen being handled up in a prison sentence. This afternoon,
(20:57):
at three o'clock, the servants, Joan Marlow, myself gathered at
the library. All things were in an hour. The servants
all congratulated and left the library, leaving only the freeman.
I should like to offer a toast to mister Memory,
if you permit, of course, this was his favorite chick John.
(21:17):
Thank you, oh thanks. He is to Peter Marshall, a
man who lived honorably, honorably. May his heir be worthy
of him. As the three of us raised our glasses
to our list and drank, I seen Marlow watching near
the brim of his glass with those cold blue of his.
(21:39):
We set down our glasses and I turned to give
Joan a cigarette. Out of the corner of my eye,
I saw Marlow pick up one of the three wine
glasses shabby. I realized it was my glass. He held
it casually, almost as if he didn't know it was
holding it. In that moment, I was going trying to
guess whether he was satisfied that I was poor Paris
(22:01):
or he was still suspicious ending after me. My fingerprints
were on that glass, and the army had a copy
of those put in Washington. This was it either I
play my cards and go to a portune or throw
in my hand. Suddenly felt Bum's hand in mine, and hey,
this tomorrow? Yes, you said this will leaving me My
(22:21):
father's estate is a new one. Yes, threw it up
only two weeks ago? What was the oil? Like wonder
the old will? Grandfather's estate went to charity. I thought
it was m mister Marlowe and I have been fucking
things over id ope the estate. I wanted all to
go to charity as originally intended. Hear me, I seemed
(22:43):
to make glass. Do you realize, of course, what you
would be giving up? I never really had this tomorrow,
so I hardly think I'll miss it full and I'll
get along with the baby. Oh yeah, well, pol is
that your considered decision. It's just you're worthy of Peter
(23:04):
Marshall's grandson, and that little gesture didn't. Any guy who
gives up a two million dollar estake can hardly be
called an imposter canty. You know, sir, it's Christmas and
I've just played Santa Claus for the tune of two
million bucks. The thing I keep wondering about is what
(23:25):
would have happened if I had to give up the estate.
Would Marlow have gone into me? Or was he satisfied
at my watch? Yes, sir, that little puzzle is going
to give me plenty of thoughts for a long time. Come.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
This is a mysterious traveler again. Did you enjoy a trip?
Or what end to Follers?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Or rather, should I Steve Carrell he in Bonn were married?
Oh you have to get off here. I'm sorry, but
remember I take this same train every week at the
same time.
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