October 5, 2025 • 26 mins
Box 13 is a syndicated radio drama about the escapades of newspaperman-turned-mystery novelist Dan Holiday, played by film star Alan Ladd. It ran during 1948 and 1949. The episodes involved Holiday running classified ads to get new ideas for his fiction. "Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything – write Box 13, Star-Times". The episodes followed Holiday's adventures when he responded to the letters sent to him.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Box thirteen with the star of Paramount Pictures, Alan Ladd as,
Dan Holliday, William William. Yes, Mallory be ready to leave
at a moment's notice, aren't we? Yes, sir very well,
please put this in the mail for me very well.
(00:28):
Oh you'd better take it ashore and post it there.
I'm rather anxious to see who this Box thirteen is.
The letter I received was short and to the point.
Enclosed with it was a plane ticket and another ticket
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first class on the biggest luxury liner Afloat, and the
letter read b at the end of Peer nine tomorrow
night at eight, Please be prompt. That was all a command,
not a request. When I received it, I wondered who'd
written it. Well I found out. And now back to
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Box thirteen and Dan Holliday's newest adventure one of these four.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
But mister Holiday, do you want to go on another trip?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Oh? Not if I can help it, Susie. But someone
paid for these tickets first class on the biggest liner Afloat.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And no name or address. You can't send it.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Back, but I can bring it back.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
You mean you're going to Peer nine tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Like it says here, Susie. I'm going to Peer nine tonight.
I got to Pier nine propertly at eight o'clock. There
was no liner there. There was nothing but a cold
fog that penetrated to my skin and made me shiver
in the dim, hazy light from my half hearted street
lamp a block away. I looked at my watch. It
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was exactly eight.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Are you, mister Holliday?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yes, I'm down Holiday.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Do you have the letter that was sent to you?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Huh? Who are you?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
My name is William, sir, I'm.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Steward steward on what ship?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
If you'll be so good as to show me the letter,
mister Holiday, we can talk later if you please.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I okay, here, you are.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Very good, sir. If you'll come with me. Well, there's
a boat waiting, sir, to take you out the yacht.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yacht? What yacht? Look? What about this ticket?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
That will be explained later, mister Holiday. Now would you
come with me?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Sir? He stood there waiting for me to follow him.
I wanted whether to or not. Well, i'd advertise for
adventures and who blames whom in a case like this?
Then you, sir, I think you've talked me into it. Okay,
William lead the way ten minutes later, I was aboard
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a yacht. But what a yacht. It was sea going
and from what I could see in the bad light,
ready to go anywhere and do anything. William led the
way along the deck.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
You go down this companion, Williams to.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Holiday and it's nice to know we're going.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Somewhere your cabin, mister Holiday, mine, Yes, sir, I think
you'll find everything in order, the jamers tooth bresh everything
that you need for the night.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Oh no, wait a minute, if you you're.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Hungry, sandwiches and coffee, Good night, sir, Hey, just a
minute you hey, open up, come on, open the store,
William William.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
And that, as they say, was that I was locked in.
I thought of breaking in the door, but one good
luck put that idea out of my head. The door
was iron. There was one port hole in the cabin.
I couldn't have crawled through it if I'd been dehydrated.
While I sat down and figured this out, then it
was figured out for me. The yacht was moving around
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to the porthole. The lights of the city had already
been swallowed up by the darkness. Mister Dan Holliday was
going on a trip, But where and why, mister Holiday.
Mister I surprise, funny man. I always hide behind doors
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of people. Lock on me. Now talk.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
My arm, Sir breaks easily.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I'm glad to hear that. Now, come on talk.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
This will do you no good, mister Holiday. We've been
underway all night.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Maybe you're right.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
No, thank you, sir. I hope you slept well.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Ah sure, Now what's all this about?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Breakfast is being served in the main dining.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
SALONSA I get great answers to my question.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
You'll soon find out, sir. Now, if you.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Please go ahead, I'll follow.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
As you wish, Sir, down the swaves to Holiday.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I followed him down the passage, then into the dining salon,
and there's seated around a table where two men and
a woman. They looked up as I ended, and one
of the men spoke.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Look here, what's the big idea you're.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Talking to me? I certainly am, If I may have
a word, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
All four of you are in the same position.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
You mean each of us was kidnapped, No, Sir, invited.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Him, invited my foot, I was locked up in the cabin.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
And me too.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Well. Well, well, and when we learn why William.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
As soon as mister Mary wishes to tell you, sir,
Now breakfast is served. I shall lock this slug door.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Well, I'll wonder.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
What the gag is. If it is a gag, we
may as well get acquainted. My name is Holiday, Dan Holiday,
I'm Stanley Waring. How do you do?
Speaker 5 (05:56):
I'm Philip Clayton. Hello, my name's Lancing Catherine Lansing.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Well, so we know as much as we did before
we got to get out of here.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Obviously this is some sort of insane joke.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I wonder if it is Wearing.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
What person in his right mind would kidnap four people
like this? What do you say, Clayton?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I don't know. Take a look out the portal were
obviously far at sea. How well can you swim? Well?
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Maybe we could get to one of the lifebooks.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I don't think so. Why not? Something tells me the
rest of the crew are like William the steward. I
don't think we'd be able to get to a boat
even if we got out of the salon. I guess
you're right, Holiday. Well, what do we do, mister Wearing?
I suggest we have breakfast. I think better on a
full stomach. One hour later, William came and unlocked the
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salon door and took us back to our cabins. I
caught sight of some of the crew. They paid no
attention to us, but went on with their work. Lunch
was to say, locked in the salon and back to
the cab. But at dinner time, good evening him. I
see the dinner jacket fitsues there. Very thoughtful of someone
to provide the correct size.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Dinner is being served.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Thank you, and will we be honored by mister Mallory's
presence this evening?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I can't say, mister Holiday, perhaps.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Say William, where are we?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I'm not in n heavigator, Sir, I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
There's still a notion under us, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
When I last looked, it was there, Sir.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I'll lead on William, Thank you, sir, Good evening, Holiday,
hollow wearing this lands.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Could even say, look, we've got to do something about this.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
We've got to What do you suggest, Clayton, Well, I
don't know, but we've got to think.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
What are they going to do with this? Why did
they bring us here?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Dinner serve I'll choke it. Let him go, Clayton, come on,
come on, let him go, Let him go. Let good
will that do you, mister Clayton, mister Mallory, sir, that
will be all wi him. You may go and turn
that thing off, will you?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Pretty good?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Sir? You're an impetuous man, mister Clayton, so your Mallory
sit down please, we'll have dinner just a minum before
we have anything else. We'll have an explanation. Mallory your holiday,
aren't you? That's right? Fix you write? Aren't you? What's
I got to do with this routine? Please? Sit down,
Miss Lancing on my right please, just wearing that chair.
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Mister Clayton on my left, holiday, sit at the other
end facing me. Please you want an explanation? I promise
you'll get one after dinner or would you rather wait
another night than another day?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
I'll sit down, thank you, Miss Lancing.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
All right, the explanation had better be good. Oh it
will be mister Clayton and mister Holliday. Yes, I'll wager
you've never written anything to match it. Well, we sat.
Mister Mallory enjoyed his dinner. We didn't. I watched him.
He was a big man. His huge head was covered
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with a shock of iron gray hair that matches the mustache. Andery,
sharp thin nose, and he was charming culture. In spite
of the fantastic situation, we found ourselves listening to him
after dinner as we sat in the salon. Eighteenth dynasty
was Egypt's greatest. It's Pharaoh's conquered and re conquered. It's
art reached to beauty and subtlety, never before us since reached. Ah. Yes,
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great people. But maybe I'm boring you, not at all,
mister Mallory. You're very kind, am Mallory. The explanation, of course,
mister Wearing, well, Mallory, I'm choosing my words carefully. Mister Clayton,
they better be good. They will be, Miss Lancing, gentlemen,
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I investigated each of you before inviting you aboard my
yacht stwearing what you advertised in the paper for a job,
preferably in a foreign country. But you have no family.
Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Yes, that's right, you answered my ad correct.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Miss Lansing, Yes, you advertise for a companion position. You
too have no family. I no, And mister Clinton, you
ran an ad offering your services in any capacity. You're
a sort of a soldier of fortune. If you want
to call it in, I shall Lastly, mister Holiday box
thirteen adventure wanted. We'll go any place, do anything. Yes,
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that's my ad Now does any one of your see
a striking similarity? Oh? Please, you must have. You mean
the prolonged absence of any one of us would go well,
we'll go unnoticed exactly all right, Your clever mister Mallory
will admit that you've got us in a spot where
you could do anything. Now would you mind telling us why?
(10:53):
Mister Holliday, you're a fiction writer. Have you ever written
a story about a perfect crime? Crime don't belonged lancing
Well Holiday? No, I've never written one. But there have
been perfect crimes, murders in which the killer has never
been caught. Yes, I suppose so. Yet suppose someone knows
the killer in such a murder, then it would no
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longer be perfect. What are you driving at? Just this?
One of the four of you is a murderer.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I am a murderer.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I use the word murder in the sense that it
can be either masculine or feminine. You know that I do.
One of you here is a killer. Twelve years ago
a man was killed a friend of mine. The killer
was never caught. I worked on it. I now have
proof who that person is. Why didn't you go to
the police ten years ago? I would have, But now
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I'm in a position to enjoy myself, to watch the
murderer's squirm and wriggle.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
You're insane?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
What's to prevent us from jumping on me? My cruise?
Well paid, loyal, they've been with me for years. Money
is an effective silence. You are, perhaps plug Bowery. The
keller knows you've learned who he is or she I'm not,
perhaps not mis landsy, but you were saying, Holiday, the
keller knows you know his or her identity. What's to
prevent him from killing you? My attorneys in the city
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have an envelope. In that envelope is the name of
the person and all details. If I do not return
within a certain time, that envelope will be opened.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
What's the time limit?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Wouldn't you like to know, mister Werry? Or just a minute?
I have a question, Holiday, Yes, I don't think you've
finished your explanation. I haven't here. It is in three
days we will dock at her Anna. If by that
time the killer's identity is not known to the other
three of you, I will release all four of you,
and the killer will go free. Yes, but if we
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do learn, I am sure the killer will do all
in his or her power to prevent that. How can
we find that out? I will give clues. You will
have to recognize them. I see, And if the killer
realizes he's being trapped, then he or she may kill
to prevent that knowledge from getting out. And miss lancing, gentlemen,
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I shall not lift a finger to prevent it.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Do you think you can get away with this?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Why? Of course he can. You're very wrong, gentleman. No
one could prove you came aboard this yat. No one
knows you'll stand by and see three people killed. The
cleverest will survive. Now here's your first clue. Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
The Roman god Janus Janus, the Roman God.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yes, And now good night, and may the cleverest among
you live to see Havanah. And now back to one
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of these boor another bout thirteen adventures Darring lad As
Dan Holliday. So there we were, the four of us,
and one of us a murderer, or so Mallory said.
Was he lying? If he wasn't, then he'd cooked up
a fantastic situation. After dinner that same night, I went
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to my cabin and sat down trying to figure out
what the Roman god Janis had to do with a
killer when he then? May I come in? Mister Holliday?
Please do, mister Mallory, it's your yacht. Mind. If I
sit down, it is also your chair. I like you
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said you, I like yours. It's just like an open grave.
Don't you think you could get a story out of this?
Mister Halliday? What else will I get out of the Mallory?
Do you believe my explanation? I don't here take this?
Take it, take sladed to why the gun? To protect
yourself against what? Whom? Against the murderer? It is loaded,
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isn't it?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yes, and it's pointed right a few so I see.
But strangely enough, I'm not worried. What's to prevent me
from forcing you to order the shot back to land?
Your sense of adventure, your own willingness to see this through,
your desire for a good story. Aren't you placing too
higher value on your ability to judge people? I've made
no mistake, he knew Holiday. That's why I gave you
the gun. You mean you're actually going through this incredible thing. Yes,
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one of the other three is the killer this land
sing mister Wearing or mister Clinton. Suppose suppose none of
us learns who the killer is. I intend to keep
my yacht on the high seas until you do. But
you said we'd be Navan in three days. We don't
have to be. You had better be Holiday. I have
my own reasons for this incredible thing. I've come to
you because I've watched you, listen to you. Of the four,
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you are the one who seems the most resourceful. You
alone acted with calm and sense at dinner. Thank you,
mister Mallory, not at Allmst. Holiday. Now I'll leave you,
and uh, mister Holliday. The cabin doors are no longer locked.
They cannot be locked because the keys are gone. Good night,
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And that was that Mallory's statement. The cabin doors were
no longer locked. Bant at the killer if there was one,
could go and come freely, and whoever it was would
be watching waiting. Oh, Mallory was clever. He was safe
because of that envelope. With his attorneys and the rest
of us, well, we'd have to do something to protect ourselves.
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It was midnight. When I got up from the bed,
I hadn't undressed. I'd kept my eyes on the door.
Then I thought again about Janice, Janus, the Roman god.
What kind of a clue was that? Well? I decided
to find out there were books in the main salon.
Maybe maybe I could learn something from them. I stepped
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into the passageway. It was dark, I had a light showing.
I groped my way along the passage toward the main salon.
I opened the door. Who's that, mister Holiday? Is that you? Yes?
What are you doing in here?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I was afraid I was in my cabin.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I was afraid I had to get out.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
It was so small.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
I felt as though it was the light smother.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
But why did you come in here?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Why didn't you turn on the lights?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
But I tried to.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
I couldn't find the switch.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Did you see anyone else? No one? Did you? Better
get back to your cabin.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Oh I can't. I won't go back there, mister Mallory said.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
The door couldn't be locked. Oh, mister Holiday, I didn't
kill anybody.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Please please get me off the shot in the middle
of a nocean.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
We can get a boat.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
We got to.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
It wouldn't have a chance in the world.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Will look?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Come on, come on, I better get you back to
your cabin.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Come on, No, I won't. I won't go.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I don't get hysterical. That won't help. What makes you
think I can you?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
You mean you won't help.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I didn't say that you're the murderer. You're the one quiet.
That's good advice for lady. Be quiet, Mallory. Your lights
will go on in tell them on now. I can't
the main switches off. I had it turned off because Ah,
there we are. I turn off the main switch, Mallory.
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Habit protection And what's the matter?
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Who's not screaming?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Ah? Mister Wearing, mister Clayton, come with you.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Yes, yes, I'm here.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
It seems that mister Holliday and missus land Holiday? What
about it? Wearing? What were you doing in here? Yes?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
What were you doing in here?
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Perhaps he couldn't sleep just a moment. I walked to
the bookshelves, hunted for a moment while while they all watched.
It's still there, mister Holliday. What's still there about? Of mythology?
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Mythology? What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Mister Mallory gave the Roman god Janis as a clue. Ah,
Janis would up here in a book of mythology, here
it is. You're very clever, mister Halliday. Would you mind
looking in the index for Janis j A n U
S I can spell. Here you are age eighty six?
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Turned to it. There, there's no page eighty six. That's right.
Someone tore out of here exactly, and that's the only
book of mythology on board. It's obvious the killer took
it out to prevent the others from finding the clue.
In other words, the killer know the reading that page
was give him away, Yes, provided the reader was sufficiently acute.
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But the killer forgot one thing, Yes, forgot what he
or she is the biggest clue of all. What do
you mean by that? I mean, mister Wearing, there's something
about him or her that gives away the show and
ties in with Janus. What is it? Find that out
and you'll have the person, mister Clinton, look at one
another and remember what I said good night. Which one
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of us took that page in the book? He did not?
He did deliberately so we could go on with this
preposterous game. I wonder there was someone in here when
I came in.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
You don't know who it was.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
No, I left the door open when I came in.
I couldn't find the light switch. I think someone slipped
out when I came in, and you Holiday, you were here?
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yes, yes, I was one of us. What do you think?
What were you gonna do here? Holiday? I came here.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
It's turn off the lights again.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I don't think that anyone should move. We'd better get
back to our cabins. I don't like being in the
dark with a killer. The next morning, on deck, I
saw Wearings standing at the after rail. I stopped because
he looked around, as though saying if anyone were near.
Then he raised his arm and threw something into the sea.
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I wondered what it might be, and he turned quickly
and came toward me. Hello, Holiday, Hello Wearing. Nice day,
isn't it I had noticed? Has anything happened? I don't know,
has it? What's the matter with you? What did you
throw overboard? Wearing throw overboard? Me? Nothing? Luck Wearing. We're
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all in this together. We've got to cooperate. One of
us is a killer.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
I won't cooperate with anyone.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Oh, let me get past. All right, all right, go ahead.
He left me standing there. I walked toward my cabin,
down the passageway and opened the door.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Clayton, Well, holiday, Well, I thought you were own day.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Well I'm not. What are you doing in here? I
just I wanted to see you? You can't find me
in that drawer. It was open when I came in.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
It was not all right, it's.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Worn't so what that's my question? What are you looking for?
A missing page from that book? Stop lying?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Where'd you get that gun?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Please, don't get out of here, go on, get out.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
I'm going to tell Malory, but you have a gun?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
And sat down. Things were moving fast. I thought about
Kathy Lancing, she had been in the salon. I thought
about Wearing, who had thrown something overboard, and what he'd
thrown hadn't been paper, so it wasn't the page from
the book. And I thought about Clayton searching my cabin.
Which of the three was the killer? By now I
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believe Mallory's story. And I remembered something something about Janice,
and it tied in with what Mallory had said, tied
in with the killer, and something i'd seen. I left
my cabin and hurried down the passage. I was almost
to the end when oh, you thing better, sir?
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Who hit me?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
We don't know, Holiday, whoever hit me took the gun?
You gave me? Mellory?
Speaker 5 (23:06):
You Mallory, you gave him the gun?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
What was the idea?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Where is it?
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Now?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
That's what I'd like to know, obviously, mister Holliday, the
killer has it. That's right. This is going to be
an interesting lunch. You may serve William very good, sir,
Uh norry, I I know who has that gun? Of
course you do, mister Halliday.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Who is it?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Miss Lancing? When were you born? What month? Month? Go ahead? Holiday,
go on, well, miss Lancing?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Would you lie?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Why is the right memory? That's right? Clayton? What is this?
Answered the same question? He's telling the truth. Holiday and Wearing.
When were you born September? Is that right? Holiday?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I don't think so. Wiring, you were born in January,
the month named after the Roman god janis be careful? Holiday?
What do you threw overboard? Was a ring? A ring
with a dark red stone? Your birthstone a garnet? That's
perfectly true. Holiday, Keep your hands on the table. Hall
of you, and thank you for this gun. Mister Holliday,
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you are not welcome. What do you intend to do?
Wearing kill all of us. I'm not that stupid. You'll
killed my brother, yes, but I'm not going to have
fan or anyplace else on this yacht.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
I'll stay where you are. I'll shoot the first person
who gets up from that table, and I'll.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Shoot to kill William. No, sit still, let him go,
Let him go. Yes, the crew has instructions to let
anyone go. They won't see him take the lifeboat. They'll
let him go.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
He'll get away.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I don't think so. He'll be picked up. You see,
Miss Lancing. We haven't been many miles from Shaw. Now
shall we go on with our lunch? Miss Lancing. Mister Clayton,
you have been put to a lot of trouble. I
hope these checks will make you feel happier. I think
they will, Mister Holliday, A story, I hope, Oh yes,
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I did you see, mister Halliday. I had to do
it this way. I had no proof that Wearing was
the murderer. I spent ten years getting evidence, but no proof.
I had to hope that he would break put him
onner tention. But that envelope with your attorneys, mister Halliday,
there was no envelope.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
They picked up that wearing Huh.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yes, Mallory radioed the police.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Hmm. If he kept quiet, no one would have known.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yes, I know, but mister Mallory is a very clever man.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Oh are you well?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Thank you, Susan.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Okay. What about that ticket on the liner?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Oh? I never thought about that. Hey, Susie, maybe I
can still use it here?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
It is uh uh holiday?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Uh, what's the matter?
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Look? Good date? The boat sailed yesterday.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Oh fine, good night, Susie. Next week, same time. Through
the courtesy of Paramount Pictures. Alan Ladd stars as Dan
Holliday and Box thirteen. Box thirteen is directed by Richard Sandville,
with this Week's original story by Russell Hughes. Original music
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is composed and conducted by Rudy Schrager. Part of Susie
is played by Sylvia Picker, and production is supervised by
Berne Carstensen. Box thirteen is a Mayfair production from Hollywood.
Watch for Alan Ladd in his latest Paramount picture
Box thirteen with the star of Paramount Pictures, Alan Ladd as,
Dan Holliday, William William. Yes, Mallory be ready to leave
at a moment's notice, aren't we? Yes, sir very well,
please put this in the mail for me very well.
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Oh you'd better take it ashore and post it there.
I'm rather anxious to see who this Box thirteen is.
The letter I received was short and to the point.
Enclosed with it was a plane ticket and another ticket
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first class on the biggest luxury liner Afloat, and the
letter read b at the end of Peer nine tomorrow
night at eight, Please be prompt. That was all a command,
not a request. When I received it, I wondered who'd
written it. Well I found out. And now back to
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Box thirteen and Dan Holliday's newest adventure one of these four.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
But mister Holiday, do you want to go on another trip?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Oh? Not if I can help it, Susie. But someone
paid for these tickets first class on the biggest liner Afloat.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And no name or address. You can't send it.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Back, but I can bring it back.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
You mean you're going to Peer nine tonight.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Like it says here, Susie. I'm going to Peer nine tonight.
I got to Pier nine propertly at eight o'clock. There
was no liner there. There was nothing but a cold
fog that penetrated to my skin and made me shiver
in the dim, hazy light from my half hearted street
lamp a block away. I looked at my watch. It
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was exactly eight.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Are you, mister Holliday?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yes, I'm down Holiday.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Do you have the letter that was sent to you?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Huh? Who are you?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
My name is William, sir, I'm.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Steward steward on what ship?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
If you'll be so good as to show me the letter,
mister Holiday, we can talk later if you please.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I okay, here, you are.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Very good, sir. If you'll come with me. Well, there's
a boat waiting, sir, to take you out the yacht.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Yacht? What yacht? Look? What about this ticket?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
That will be explained later, mister Holiday. Now would you
come with me?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Sir? He stood there waiting for me to follow him.
I wanted whether to or not. Well, i'd advertise for
adventures and who blames whom in a case like this?
Then you, sir, I think you've talked me into it. Okay,
William lead the way ten minutes later, I was aboard
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a yacht. But what a yacht. It was sea going
and from what I could see in the bad light,
ready to go anywhere and do anything. William led the
way along the deck.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
You go down this companion, Williams to.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Holiday and it's nice to know we're going.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Somewhere your cabin, mister Holiday, mine, Yes, sir, I think
you'll find everything in order, the jamers tooth bresh everything
that you need for the night.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Oh no, wait a minute, if you you're.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Hungry, sandwiches and coffee, Good night, sir, Hey, just a
minute you hey, open up, come on, open the store,
William William.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
And that, as they say, was that I was locked in.
I thought of breaking in the door, but one good
luck put that idea out of my head. The door
was iron. There was one port hole in the cabin.
I couldn't have crawled through it if I'd been dehydrated.
While I sat down and figured this out, then it
was figured out for me. The yacht was moving around
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to the porthole. The lights of the city had already
been swallowed up by the darkness. Mister Dan Holliday was
going on a trip, But where and why, mister Holiday.
Mister I surprise, funny man. I always hide behind doors
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of people. Lock on me. Now talk.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
My arm, Sir breaks easily.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I'm glad to hear that. Now, come on talk.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
This will do you no good, mister Holiday. We've been
underway all night.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Maybe you're right.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
No, thank you, sir. I hope you slept well.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Ah sure, Now what's all this about?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Breakfast is being served in the main dining.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
SALONSA I get great answers to my question.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
You'll soon find out, sir. Now, if you.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Please go ahead, I'll follow.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
As you wish, Sir, down the swaves to Holiday.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I followed him down the passage, then into the dining salon,
and there's seated around a table where two men and
a woman. They looked up as I ended, and one
of the men spoke.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Look here, what's the big idea you're.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Talking to me? I certainly am, If I may have
a word, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
All four of you are in the same position.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
You mean each of us was kidnapped, No, Sir, invited.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Him, invited my foot, I was locked up in the cabin.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
And me too.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Well. Well, well, and when we learn why William.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
As soon as mister Mary wishes to tell you, sir,
Now breakfast is served. I shall lock this slug door.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Well, I'll wonder.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
What the gag is. If it is a gag, we
may as well get acquainted. My name is Holiday, Dan Holiday,
I'm Stanley Waring. How do you do?
Speaker 5 (05:56):
I'm Philip Clayton. Hello, my name's Lancing Catherine Lansing.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Well, so we know as much as we did before
we got to get out of here.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Obviously this is some sort of insane joke.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I wonder if it is Wearing.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
What person in his right mind would kidnap four people
like this? What do you say, Clayton?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I don't know. Take a look out the portal were
obviously far at sea. How well can you swim? Well?
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Maybe we could get to one of the lifebooks.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I don't think so. Why not? Something tells me the
rest of the crew are like William the steward. I
don't think we'd be able to get to a boat
even if we got out of the salon. I guess
you're right, Holiday. Well, what do we do, mister Wearing?
I suggest we have breakfast. I think better on a
full stomach. One hour later, William came and unlocked the
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salon door and took us back to our cabins. I
caught sight of some of the crew. They paid no
attention to us, but went on with their work. Lunch
was to say, locked in the salon and back to
the cab. But at dinner time, good evening him. I
see the dinner jacket fitsues there. Very thoughtful of someone
to provide the correct size.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Dinner is being served.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Thank you, and will we be honored by mister Mallory's
presence this evening?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I can't say, mister Holiday, perhaps.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Say William, where are we?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I'm not in n heavigator, Sir, I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
There's still a notion under us, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
When I last looked, it was there, Sir.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I'll lead on William, Thank you, sir, Good evening, Holiday,
hollow wearing this lands.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Could even say, look, we've got to do something about this.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
We've got to What do you suggest, Clayton, Well, I
don't know, but we've got to think.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
What are they going to do with this? Why did
they bring us here?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Dinner serve I'll choke it. Let him go, Clayton, come on,
come on, let him go, Let him go. Let good
will that do you, mister Clayton, mister Mallory, sir, that
will be all wi him. You may go and turn
that thing off, will you?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Pretty good?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Sir? You're an impetuous man, mister Clayton, so your Mallory
sit down please, we'll have dinner just a minum before
we have anything else. We'll have an explanation. Mallory your holiday,
aren't you? That's right? Fix you write? Aren't you? What's
I got to do with this routine? Please? Sit down,
Miss Lancing on my right please, just wearing that chair.
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Mister Clayton on my left, holiday, sit at the other
end facing me. Please you want an explanation? I promise
you'll get one after dinner or would you rather wait
another night than another day?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
I'll sit down, thank you, Miss Lancing.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
All right, the explanation had better be good. Oh it
will be mister Clayton and mister Holliday. Yes, I'll wager
you've never written anything to match it. Well, we sat.
Mister Mallory enjoyed his dinner. We didn't. I watched him.
He was a big man. His huge head was covered
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with a shock of iron gray hair that matches the mustache. Andery,
sharp thin nose, and he was charming culture. In spite
of the fantastic situation, we found ourselves listening to him
after dinner as we sat in the salon. Eighteenth dynasty
was Egypt's greatest. It's Pharaoh's conquered and re conquered. It's
art reached to beauty and subtlety, never before us since reached. Ah. Yes,
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great people. But maybe I'm boring you, not at all,
mister Mallory. You're very kind, am Mallory. The explanation, of course,
mister Wearing, well, Mallory, I'm choosing my words carefully. Mister Clayton,
they better be good. They will be, Miss Lancing, gentlemen,
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I investigated each of you before inviting you aboard my
yacht stwearing what you advertised in the paper for a job,
preferably in a foreign country. But you have no family.
Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Yes, that's right, you answered my ad correct.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Miss Lansing, Yes, you advertise for a companion position. You
too have no family. I no, And mister Clinton, you
ran an ad offering your services in any capacity. You're
a sort of a soldier of fortune. If you want
to call it in, I shall Lastly, mister Holiday box
thirteen adventure wanted. We'll go any place, do anything. Yes,
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that's my ad Now does any one of your see
a striking similarity? Oh? Please, you must have. You mean
the prolonged absence of any one of us would go well,
we'll go unnoticed exactly all right, Your clever mister Mallory
will admit that you've got us in a spot where
you could do anything. Now would you mind telling us why?
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Mister Holliday, you're a fiction writer. Have you ever written
a story about a perfect crime? Crime don't belonged lancing
Well Holiday? No, I've never written one. But there have
been perfect crimes, murders in which the killer has never
been caught. Yes, I suppose so. Yet suppose someone knows
the killer in such a murder, then it would no
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longer be perfect. What are you driving at? Just this?
One of the four of you is a murderer.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I am a murderer.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I use the word murder in the sense that it
can be either masculine or feminine. You know that I do.
One of you here is a killer. Twelve years ago
a man was killed a friend of mine. The killer
was never caught. I worked on it. I now have
proof who that person is. Why didn't you go to
the police ten years ago? I would have, But now
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I'm in a position to enjoy myself, to watch the
murderer's squirm and wriggle.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
You're insane?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
What's to prevent us from jumping on me? My cruise?
Well paid, loyal, they've been with me for years. Money
is an effective silence. You are, perhaps plug Bowery. The
keller knows you've learned who he is or she I'm not,
perhaps not mis landsy, but you were saying, Holiday, the
keller knows you know his or her identity. What's to
prevent him from killing you? My attorneys in the city
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have an envelope. In that envelope is the name of
the person and all details. If I do not return
within a certain time, that envelope will be opened.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
What's the time limit?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Wouldn't you like to know, mister Werry? Or just a minute?
I have a question, Holiday, Yes, I don't think you've
finished your explanation. I haven't here. It is in three
days we will dock at her Anna. If by that
time the killer's identity is not known to the other
three of you, I will release all four of you,
and the killer will go free. Yes, but if we
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do learn, I am sure the killer will do all
in his or her power to prevent that. How can
we find that out? I will give clues. You will
have to recognize them. I see, And if the killer
realizes he's being trapped, then he or she may kill
to prevent that knowledge from getting out. And miss lancing, gentlemen,
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I shall not lift a finger to prevent it.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Do you think you can get away with this?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Why? Of course he can. You're very wrong, gentleman. No
one could prove you came aboard this yat. No one
knows you'll stand by and see three people killed. The
cleverest will survive. Now here's your first clue. Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
The Roman god Janus Janus, the Roman God.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yes, And now good night, and may the cleverest among
you live to see Havanah. And now back to one
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of these boor another bout thirteen adventures Darring lad As
Dan Holliday. So there we were, the four of us,
and one of us a murderer, or so Mallory said.
Was he lying? If he wasn't, then he'd cooked up
a fantastic situation. After dinner that same night, I went
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to my cabin and sat down trying to figure out
what the Roman god Janis had to do with a
killer when he then? May I come in? Mister Holliday?
Please do, mister Mallory, it's your yacht. Mind. If I
sit down, it is also your chair. I like you
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said you, I like yours. It's just like an open grave.
Don't you think you could get a story out of this?
Mister Halliday? What else will I get out of the Mallory?
Do you believe my explanation? I don't here take this?
Take it, take sladed to why the gun? To protect
yourself against what? Whom? Against the murderer? It is loaded,
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isn't it?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yes, and it's pointed right a few so I see.
But strangely enough, I'm not worried. What's to prevent me
from forcing you to order the shot back to land?
Your sense of adventure, your own willingness to see this through,
your desire for a good story. Aren't you placing too
higher value on your ability to judge people? I've made
no mistake, he knew Holiday. That's why I gave you
the gun. You mean you're actually going through this incredible thing. Yes,
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one of the other three is the killer this land
sing mister Wearing or mister Clinton. Suppose suppose none of
us learns who the killer is. I intend to keep
my yacht on the high seas until you do. But
you said we'd be Navan in three days. We don't
have to be. You had better be Holiday. I have
my own reasons for this incredible thing. I've come to
you because I've watched you, listen to you. Of the four,
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you are the one who seems the most resourceful. You
alone acted with calm and sense at dinner. Thank you,
mister Mallory, not at Allmst. Holiday. Now I'll leave you,
and uh, mister Holliday. The cabin doors are no longer locked.
They cannot be locked because the keys are gone. Good night,
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And that was that Mallory's statement. The cabin doors were
no longer locked. Bant at the killer if there was one,
could go and come freely, and whoever it was would
be watching waiting. Oh, Mallory was clever. He was safe
because of that envelope. With his attorneys and the rest
of us, well, we'd have to do something to protect ourselves.
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It was midnight. When I got up from the bed,
I hadn't undressed. I'd kept my eyes on the door.
Then I thought again about Janice, Janus, the Roman god.
What kind of a clue was that? Well? I decided
to find out there were books in the main salon.
Maybe maybe I could learn something from them. I stepped
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into the passageway. It was dark, I had a light showing.
I groped my way along the passage toward the main salon.
I opened the door. Who's that, mister Holiday? Is that you? Yes?
What are you doing in here?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I was afraid I was in my cabin.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I was afraid I had to get out.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
It was so small.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
I felt as though it was the light smother.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
But why did you come in here?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Why didn't you turn on the lights?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
But I tried to.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
I couldn't find the switch.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Did you see anyone else? No one? Did you? Better
get back to your cabin.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Oh I can't. I won't go back there, mister Mallory said.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
The door couldn't be locked. Oh, mister Holiday, I didn't
kill anybody.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Please please get me off the shot in the middle
of a nocean.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
We can get a boat.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
We got to.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
It wouldn't have a chance in the world.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Will look?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Come on, come on, I better get you back to
your cabin.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Come on, No, I won't. I won't go.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
I don't get hysterical. That won't help. What makes you
think I can you?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
You mean you won't help.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I didn't say that you're the murderer. You're the one quiet.
That's good advice for lady. Be quiet, Mallory. Your lights
will go on in tell them on now. I can't
the main switches off. I had it turned off because Ah,
there we are. I turn off the main switch, Mallory.
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Habit protection And what's the matter?
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Who's not screaming?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Ah? Mister Wearing, mister Clayton, come with you.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Yes, yes, I'm here.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
It seems that mister Holliday and missus land Holiday? What
about it? Wearing? What were you doing in here? Yes?
Speaker 2 (18:41):
What were you doing in here?
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Perhaps he couldn't sleep just a moment. I walked to
the bookshelves, hunted for a moment while while they all watched.
It's still there, mister Holliday. What's still there about? Of mythology?
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Mythology? What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Mister Mallory gave the Roman god Janis as a clue. Ah,
Janis would up here in a book of mythology, here
it is. You're very clever, mister Halliday. Would you mind
looking in the index for Janis j A n U
S I can spell. Here you are age eighty six?
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Turned to it. There, there's no page eighty six. That's right.
Someone tore out of here exactly, and that's the only
book of mythology on board. It's obvious the killer took
it out to prevent the others from finding the clue.
In other words, the killer know the reading that page
was give him away, Yes, provided the reader was sufficiently acute.
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But the killer forgot one thing, Yes, forgot what he
or she is the biggest clue of all. What do
you mean by that? I mean, mister Wearing, there's something
about him or her that gives away the show and
ties in with Janus. What is it? Find that out
and you'll have the person, mister Clinton, look at one
another and remember what I said good night. Which one
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of us took that page in the book? He did not?
He did deliberately so we could go on with this
preposterous game. I wonder there was someone in here when
I came in.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
You don't know who it was.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
No, I left the door open when I came in.
I couldn't find the light switch. I think someone slipped
out when I came in, and you Holiday, you were here?
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yes, yes, I was one of us. What do you think?
What were you gonna do here? Holiday? I came here.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
It's turn off the lights again.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I don't think that anyone should move. We'd better get
back to our cabins. I don't like being in the
dark with a killer. The next morning, on deck, I
saw Wearings standing at the after rail. I stopped because
he looked around, as though saying if anyone were near.
Then he raised his arm and threw something into the sea.
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I wondered what it might be, and he turned quickly
and came toward me. Hello, Holiday, Hello Wearing. Nice day,
isn't it I had noticed? Has anything happened? I don't know,
has it? What's the matter with you? What did you
throw overboard? Wearing throw overboard? Me? Nothing? Luck Wearing. We're
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all in this together. We've got to cooperate. One of
us is a killer.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
I won't cooperate with anyone.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Oh, let me get past. All right, all right, go ahead.
He left me standing there. I walked toward my cabin,
down the passageway and opened the door.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Clayton, Well, holiday, Well, I thought you were own day.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Well I'm not. What are you doing in here? I
just I wanted to see you? You can't find me
in that drawer. It was open when I came in.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
It was not all right, it's.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Worn't so what that's my question? What are you looking for?
A missing page from that book? Stop lying?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Where'd you get that gun?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Please, don't get out of here, go on, get out.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
I'm going to tell Malory, but you have a gun?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
And sat down. Things were moving fast. I thought about
Kathy Lancing, she had been in the salon. I thought
about Wearing, who had thrown something overboard, and what he'd
thrown hadn't been paper, so it wasn't the page from
the book. And I thought about Clayton searching my cabin.
Which of the three was the killer? By now I
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believe Mallory's story. And I remembered something something about Janice,
and it tied in with what Mallory had said, tied
in with the killer, and something i'd seen. I left
my cabin and hurried down the passage. I was almost
to the end when oh, you thing better, sir?
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Who hit me?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
We don't know, Holiday, whoever hit me took the gun?
You gave me? Mellory?
Speaker 5 (23:06):
You Mallory, you gave him the gun?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
What was the idea?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Where is it?
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Now?
Speaker 1 (23:11):
That's what I'd like to know, obviously, mister Holliday, the
killer has it. That's right. This is going to be
an interesting lunch. You may serve William very good, sir,
Uh norry, I I know who has that gun? Of
course you do, mister Halliday.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Who is it?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Miss Lancing? When were you born? What month? Month? Go ahead? Holiday,
go on, well, miss Lancing?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Would you lie?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Why is the right memory? That's right? Clayton? What is this?
Answered the same question? He's telling the truth. Holiday and Wearing.
When were you born September? Is that right? Holiday?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I don't think so. Wiring, you were born in January,
the month named after the Roman god janis be careful? Holiday?
What do you threw overboard? Was a ring? A ring
with a dark red stone? Your birthstone a garnet? That's
perfectly true. Holiday, Keep your hands on the table. Hall
of you, and thank you for this gun. Mister Holliday,
(24:14):
you are not welcome. What do you intend to do?
Wearing kill all of us. I'm not that stupid. You'll
killed my brother, yes, but I'm not going to have
fan or anyplace else on this yacht.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
I'll stay where you are. I'll shoot the first person
who gets up from that table, and I'll.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Shoot to kill William. No, sit still, let him go,
Let him go. Yes, the crew has instructions to let
anyone go. They won't see him take the lifeboat. They'll
let him go.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
He'll get away.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
I don't think so. He'll be picked up. You see,
Miss Lancing. We haven't been many miles from Shaw. Now
shall we go on with our lunch? Miss Lancing. Mister Clayton,
you have been put to a lot of trouble. I
hope these checks will make you feel happier. I think
they will, Mister Holliday, A story, I hope, Oh yes,
(25:02):
I did you see, mister Halliday. I had to do
it this way. I had no proof that Wearing was
the murderer. I spent ten years getting evidence, but no proof.
I had to hope that he would break put him
onner tention. But that envelope with your attorneys, mister Halliday,
there was no envelope.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
They picked up that wearing Huh.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yes, Mallory radioed the police.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Hmm. If he kept quiet, no one would have known.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yes, I know, but mister Mallory is a very clever man.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Oh are you well?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Thank you, Susan.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Okay. What about that ticket on the liner?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Oh? I never thought about that. Hey, Susie, maybe I
can still use it here?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
It is uh uh holiday?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Uh, what's the matter?
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Look? Good date? The boat sailed yesterday.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Oh fine, good night, Susie. Next week, same time. Through
the courtesy of Paramount Pictures. Alan Ladd stars as Dan
Holliday and Box thirteen. Box thirteen is directed by Richard Sandville,
with this Week's original story by Russell Hughes. Original music
(26:29):
is composed and conducted by Rudy Schrager. Part of Susie
is played by Sylvia Picker, and production is supervised by
Berne Carstensen. Box thirteen is a Mayfair production from Hollywood.
Watch for Alan Ladd in his latest Paramount picture
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