November 29, 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.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Box thirteen, Care of the Star Times. If your advertisement
is on the level, I think you'll find this worth
your time. Be in the Konhai shop in Chinatown at
two o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Pretend you want to buy some jade.
Reject the first two pieces offered, then mention the Hangley
piece in the window, by the Hanglee. This will be
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worth a lot of money to you. Remember it's the
Kwon High shop in.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
China, my shop in Chinatown. Ask for jay, but reject
the first two pieces, then mention the Hangley piece in
the window. Go back and wait for further instructions. That
was the letter, no signature. It sounded interesting, and it
(01:07):
was if you like murder.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
And now back to the treasurer of hang Lee. Another
Box thirteen adventure with Alan Ladd as Damn Holliday.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Get it, mister Holiday. Why should you reject the first
two pieces?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Ah, that's what makes the letter interesting, Susie. Why reject
the first two pieces and then mention the hang Lee piece?
All right? Why, I think I've got an idea. What
do you pretty obvious Susie. Look, the letter doesn't say
anything about identifying myself, does it.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
No, it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Well, if I follow instructions, follow them exactly, I'll be
hipping myself to someone in the store. Do you get it? Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Sure, whoever wrote the letter will be there too, waiting
for you to follow instruction.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
That's a great deduction.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
And I did it all my help to you.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
You sure did, okay, Susie, I'm going to make like
Marco Polo and visit our Chinese friends.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
It took me a half an hour to drive to Chinatown,
another ten minutes to find the shop of Kwan Hi.
I looked in the windows. It was the usual line
of stuff backscratchers, Kwan Yin's bamboo trinkets, red lacquer bulls,
but only one piece of jade. It was roughly square
and seemed to have been broken. It looked like a
part of a bigger piece. So I went into the shop.
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There were six or seven other people besides myself and well,
they were looking at curios and no one paid any
attention to me. Then a young Chinese clerk smiled and
came over to me.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Oh, yes, sir, can I help you please?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Oh, yes, I want to buy a piece of ja.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Yes, sir, you want a certain color.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
This is a very nice piece, sir. It is what
we call the mutton fat color.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
It's very nice, but not quite what I want.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
A ring perhaps cough links is snuff bottled?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I don't know. You see, it's for a gift.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Oh, this piece is very fine, sir, and the carving
is excellent, but it is not very old.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
There's a piece in the window, the only piece.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
What is that the piece in the window, sir.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yes, it's a hang leap piece, isn't it. Well, if
you will please to follow me, sir. But the pieces
in the window I know, sir. But for that piece
you would have to see mister Kwan this way. Please,
if you please are in here, I will send for
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mister Kwan. You will please excuse me now, sir. The
other customers, yeah, sure, thank you, it is not He
went out, and I heard a key turn in the
lock of the door. For a moment, I was left
alone in a room that was different from the rest
of the store, very different. Instead of the usual junk
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the terrists by, this room was a treasure house. Rose
Quartz wonderful jade's screens, beautiful porcelain bulls that seemed to
be lighted from inside, lack of weare that shone like
satin in the dim light. I was looking around me
when good afternoon, sir, h oh, how do you do,
mister Kwan? I am mister Kwan. Please to sit down, sir,
(04:38):
thank you? May I help you?
Speaker 7 (04:40):
Mister?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
My name is Holiday, Dan Holiday.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
I am mister Holiday.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Uh. Your clerk told me i'd have to see you
about that hang lead jade in the window.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Yes, that is true. You wound a piece, mister Holiday.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yes, i'd I'd like to buy it one moment.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
It is strange that a hungry piece has lain in
the window for two weeks. Now you are the first
to ask for it.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I I saw it likely, of course you are a
man of excellent taste.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
It is a very fine piece, incredibly ancient and incredibly valuable.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Oh maybe maybe I can't affoid it.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
The hangley piece, mister Kuan.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Thank you lad. That is all? Yes, mister does he
always lock the door when he leaves this room?
Speaker 7 (05:34):
There are very valuable things in this room, mister Holiday.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Ah, I see, But the hangley piece, is it valuable,
mister Kuan.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Yes, mister Holiday, so valuable that there is no price
on it. Odd that you should ask for it.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
You have no idea how odd.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
It is a piece of a larger work, at twelve
inches by twelve inches to be exact, this is only
one third of the original.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
May I see it? Certainly it looks like a wonderful
piece of jade.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
Do you know what Confucius said about jade?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Well, I seem to have heard quite a few things
Confucius was supposed to have said, but I doubt if
any of them would fit the bell just now.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
H Yes, but Confucius said that jade is like truth.
It gives out the bright rainbow, and it shows a
pure spirit among the hills and stream.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Truth gives out a bright rainbow. That's a very pretty
figure of speech, mister Kwan.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
Yes, truth is very often a figure of speech, is
it not.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Mister Holiday. Yes, I'm afraid you're right.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
But about this piece, ah, yes, you will note the
coving very beautifully done.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
There's a Chinese characters, aren't they.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
Yes, it is too bad the other two thirds of
the entire.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Piece are missing. Oh why is that? I mean, beyond
the fact that it seems a shame to run such
a magnificent thing.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Er foolish old Chinese legend, mister Holiday. It says that
he who translates the writing will be led to a
treasure beyond all price.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
But you'd have to have all three pieces.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
You would need all three pieces?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
And where are the other two? I do not know?
I see, well, mister Kwang, how much for this piece?
Speaker 7 (07:22):
Mister Holiday? It has no price?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
You mean it's not for sale. It is not for sale,
But I don't understand. It was in the window, yes,
and no one inquired about it, Perhaps because collectors would
not be interested in a broken piece. That could be,
But that still doesn't explain why you had it in
your window and yet not have it for sale.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
Because, mister Holiday, the piece is yours.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I beg your pardon. What did you say?
Speaker 7 (07:48):
The hungly piece is yours. There is no price on it.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
But I can't take it without paying for it. You
ask for it, of course I did, mister Kwan, but
I'm prepared to pay for it.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
I am sorry. There is no price. The piece is
yours for the taking.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Hmm, Well, suppose someone else had come in and asked
for it, would you have given it to anyone.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
Only to one who ask for it by name, as
you did.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I don't understand truth.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Mister Holiday is a figure of speech. I have told
you the truth. The Hungly piece is yours. Please take
it no, if you will excuse me just.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
A moment, mister Kwan, suppose I refuse to walk out
with this. It is a matter of indifference. To me,
that is a matter of curiosity. How much is the
piece worth?
Speaker 7 (08:35):
That depends upon who has.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
It, and that means what.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
That is hard to say to a collector the Hungly
piece would be worth they perhaps no more than a
hundred dollars. To you, it is worth what you make
it to me. To me, it is priceless. Ah, here
is Lene, Lene. Please show mister Holiday to the door.
(09:01):
His business here is concluded. It will be great honor
mister Well, goodbye, mister Holiday. And made the bet groups
upon your roof?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Made the what rest for?
Speaker 7 (09:12):
Where the bet is a Chinese symbol for good fortune? Goodbye?
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Please to come with me, mister Holiday.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Sure you won't change your mind, mister Quan, the Hangley piece.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
It is yours. Perhaps we shall meet again, mister Holiday.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Oh wait, just a minute, mister Kawan, he is going,
mister Holiday now, if you will please to follow me?
All right? Thanks?
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Is there anything else you wish, mister Holiday?
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I think there is, and that is I wish someone
would tell me why I advertise for adventure and get
mixed up and things like this. Goodbye. So, with a
Hangley piece chuck on the my arm and a great
big question mark tucked under my hat, I left qwan
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Lee's place. For a moment, I stood in front of
the store. No one followed me out, although I knew
that whoever had sent me the letter was watching. So
I drove home and waited in my apartment. I didn't
wait long. Hello this Holiday, Yes it is.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I'm the one who sent you the letter. Bring the
Hangley piece to seven twenty one South Ferry Street, Room six.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
H Uh, just a minute, How do you know I've
got the piece?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I was in the store this afternoon, and.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Why didn't you ask me for a thing?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
You're wasting time?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Please bring the Hangley piece. You will be sorry. I
was thatt ad dress.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Again, seven twenty one South Ferry Street, Room six, and
the name you've got all you need to know. I'll
be waiting.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Well well, well all right, mister south Ferry Street. We'll
see what you have to offer.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Please go back in, mister Halliday.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Oh I've got company, Please go back.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Sit down.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Ay, I just got to sit down. Oh, thank you,
won't you?
Speaker 5 (11:10):
You? You're much younger than I thought you'd be.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Oh is that so? Keep pinding that gun at me
and I can age ten years?
Speaker 5 (11:18):
You have quite a sense of humor for.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
A murderer murder. Well, this is news.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
Go on, miss Loring, Greta Luring?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
How do you do?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Doesn't the name Luring mean anything, mister Holliday, beyond.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
The fact that it belongs to a very pretty girl
holding a very ugly gun. I'm completely at loss.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Lying seems to be another of your doubtful accomplishments.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Oh yes, I'm very talented, but I'm no good at puzzles.
You see, I give up too easily.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
I had a hard time finding you, especially since you
changed your name.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
No, oh, this is news. I'm a murderer, a liar,
and I'm living under an alias this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
You gave yourself away by getting the Hangley jade from
that shop. Sooner or later I knew i'd trace you
through that piece of jade.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Oh so you were there too.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
I've watched that shop for days, waiting for you to
get the hangley and out that I've got it, I'm
going to take it then kill.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
You in that order.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
I suppose give it to me.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
It's right there on the table in front of you.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
It was a long time ago that you killed my father.
I was a little girl.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Then, lady, how you've grown up complete with a gun
and a murderous desire to kill me.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
I've had that desire for a long time, ever since
I found my father dead, murdered.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Go on, miss Slowing? What then?
Speaker 5 (12:31):
You know as well as I do? And being charming
and flip won't help, I.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Like, miss laughing, Maybe you've got the wrong man. Have
you thought of that? After all you said? I seem
to be much younger than you thought.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
I'd All I know is that you went after the
hangley jade. No one else in the world but you
would want that piece. No one would else would know
what it means.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
That's circumstantial evidence, Miss Lotte.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Say where you are. We're through talking, mister Holliday, or
shall I call you Benson?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
You can call me anything you like, but think before
you squeeze that trigger thought.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Quite a lot. Now I'm going to take the jade
all right.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Here, take it.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Giving it to me won't solve everything. Stay there, no, don't.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
But the slam of the door, the flowing was gone.
So was the Hangley jade, and so was a piece
of my coat with a bullet from her gun ripped
through it. That I had the gun, maybe it could
be traced, but first I had to see a man
about a piece of jade at seven to one South
Ferry Street. Yes, who is it? Holiday?
Speaker 7 (13:45):
All right?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Just a minute, come on in.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Now give me the Hangley piece. I'm sorry, but you're
about a half hour or too late. What are you
talking about? Well, I haven't got it. Maybe this will
show you. I don't like jokes. Now, look, whatever your
name is, take the gun out of my ribs. Developing analogy,
give me the hangy piece. What have I told you?
A girl who called herself grattel Loring took it away
from me, luring. You have that name, right, I have
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every reason to remember it. But good, where is she?
I don't know? Will you all right? Turn around face the.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Window, I'll look fellow to turn around.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Now where did that girl go. I told you, I
don't know how did she find you the same way
you did? She was in Kwanhai shop this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Uh huh okay, mister Holliday, thank you for running that
errand for me.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
And now back to box thirteen and then Holliday's newest avanger,
The Treasure of hang Lee.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
It was a nice hit over the top of my head.
When the birds and the bees left my skull, I
sat up the room with dark I started to get
to my feet.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
When you're feeling better, mister Holiday, eh, mister kwan oh
hem fluttered. You recognize my voice, but you are feeling better.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Except for a new head, I couldn't ask for anything more.
Speaker 7 (15:36):
I am sorry. I did not arrive in time to
save you that inconvenience.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
But now that you are here, why why.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
Am I here? I came to see your.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Friend to day. I have no friends.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
Wait a moment, I shall turn on the light.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I could use some most do what's going on?
Speaker 7 (15:55):
He is here? You gave our friend the Hungley jade.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I'll wait a man at I just the moment before
you once you.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
Had better look in this little alcove.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
Look, mister Holliday, who who's that. He's dead, yes, quite dead, stubbed.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
In the back.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
But he's not the man I came here to see.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
I'm afraid not.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I wish he were well. And who is this one
of the men.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
I have been seeking for ten years?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Ten years? Look, mister Kwan, I have a large headache.
You're no aspirin with your your Chinese puzzle.
Speaker 7 (16:32):
The man you came to see was named Benson.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
That doesn't help the dead man.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
There is a man named Fisher.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
And what about a man named Lauren?
Speaker 7 (16:39):
Oh you know a man named Laurie.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I I met his daughter to day.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
Ah, his daughter. Now I'm beginning to see. But I
presume you gave mister Benson the hungry jade you got
from me to day.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I did not. Mister Loring's daughter he leave me of
she has it, you know she has. I have only
your word for that. That's all you're gonna get, mister Kwan.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
I think you mean that very well, mister Holiday, I
shall have to leave now.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Oh, no, you don't. There's a murdered man here. How
do I know you didn't kill him?
Speaker 7 (17:11):
That is a reasonable question. You have only my word
that I did not kill him.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
And you'll go with made of the police.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Er.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Oh, it's funny, huh No, No.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
I was thinking of something, a proverb, and being Chinese,
I am permitted one proverb.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I've got one for you, mister Kwan. A bird in
the hand is worth two in the bush right now,
you're the number one bird.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Very good, mister Holiday. But my proverb is more to
the point. Two men of different minds must soon say
good bye.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
We're going to the police, mister.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
Kwaan, you'll leave me no alternative, but this.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
What would you use that gun?
Speaker 7 (17:54):
I'm afraid I would if you try to stop me.
But please do not blame me, mister Holiday. This is
the food of my ancestors. Your ancestors, they invented gunpowder.
Good Bye.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
And so there I was be where I called the
police and reported the murder without being my name. I
didn't want to stick around because I had other things
to do. I had a bullet hole through my coat
and out of my head, and a big bunning desire
to catch up with mister Benson and miss Loring, not
to mention a certain mister Kwan. The only lead I
had was Gretta Loring's gun that I had taken from her.
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If she had bought it in the city, it would
be registered. So I made one more phone call and
found out what I wanted. Her address. There's non apartment
the building, and her apartment was number eight. I tested
the buzzer. Yes, good evening, miss Lauring.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
How did you find me?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Oh? I had to. I always returned things that I borrowed.
I I believe this is your gun.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Play questions and answers.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Please get out of here this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
You you'll call me a murderer?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Why I I thought you were someone.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Else who Benson? Yes, Oh, but I'm not.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
I know that now.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Oh, now, she tells me after she puts a bullet
through my coat, and I'm miss Loring. Two inches higher
and you'd have had yourself a carps hm me. I
disliked being a corpse. Now you'll talk.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Benson killed my father in China ten years ago.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
It seems he also killed a man called.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Fisher Fish David Fisher.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
David or not? He's just a number at the Morgue
by now.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Then, then Benson is still alive.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I think he is.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
And you came here, well, of course, why not? Don't
you see what you've done done? Think about it.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Oh, he wouldn't know where to find you. But I
told him i'd met you, and he'll keep track of.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Me and come here.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Listen. Have you still got that hang Leys jade? Yes,
well he wants that. If you give it to him,
maybe you'll go away.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
My father was killed because he had the Hangley piece.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
What is there about that piece?
Speaker 7 (20:11):
There were three.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Pieces, all tired of the same screen. It was something
about a treasure.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Mm hm, and the carving on the screen woul lead
to the treasure. Yes, you have one piece, Benson has
the other two want he killed your father to get
the other.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
He killed Fisher again, and they'll come here after this
third piece.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Come on, we've got to get out of here. Wait,
where's your phone right there? But I'm wanna call the police,
not yet, Kwan.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
Yes, I followed you, mister Holiday. Then, because I fear
Miss Loring would not extend their hospitality to me, I
came up the Fire's king, Kwan.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Kuan.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
My father told me, yes.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
Your father, Fisher and Benson killed an old test priest
in China to get the Hungley screen and secret.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
My father never killed anyone.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
I'm afraid he did.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
But there are three pieces off the screen.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Yes, mister Holliday. The three men did not trust one another.
They broke the screen up into three pieces, one valueless
without the other two.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Why why did they do that?
Speaker 7 (21:08):
Because they had to leave China and go their separate ways.
They arranged to meet later.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
But Benson kill Low.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Yes, but Lauren did not have his piece of the
Hungry I got it before Benson got to him.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
And you you put the piece in the window. The
trap Benson, Why, mister Kwan, why the towest priest was
my honorable father.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Oh, I didn't know. I didn't know that.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
I'm sure you did not. I have been all over
the world waiting, waiting, hoping that sooner or later the
murderers of my father would trap themselves. Two are dead
and the third Benson, Yes, Benson, he must be. Will
let him, miss.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Holiday, let him know? Are your crazy? Kwani is a killer?
Said let him in. One moment.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
I would take that gun you put on the table,
mister Holiday, give it to me, thank you.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Now I have two guns, mister Benson, biggest one.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Let him in, mister Holiday.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
If you think I'm gonna open that door, let him,
and you're crazy two guns?
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Are you afraid?
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Mister Holiday?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
All right? Slowing it back thanks to the wall. Now,
Hugh get back in there. Better not come in, Benson,
move away. Who's that come in?
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Mister Benson?
Speaker 7 (22:21):
Come in?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Holiday, stand in front of me right where you are?
All right, go ahead and shoot.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
I would hit mister Holiday.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
I'm sorry, mister.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
Holiday, but you seem to have been caught between the
dragon and the tiger.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I want that hangley piece.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
I'll give it to him.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Do that, miss Loring, give it to him.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
That's when you've already killed two men. The third won't
make any difference. The hangley piece, Miss Loring on the
table there, take it?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Take it good enough?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
All right?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Holiday, move in front of me, always in front of me.
Now stop hand me the jade you'll Misslowing handed to me.
That's it now, I'm going to move back toward the door.
If you shoot, Holiday gets it stop right here, mister Holiday.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
My life means nothing because I have devoted it to
this moment. But I regret this inconvenience to you.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Kwan think what you're doing. Bedson won't get away. The
police will have his description will be picked up and
within an hour, Nice streaming Holiday, mister Khan. Don't stay
where you are.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
I regret, mister Holiday.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
Just the way quickly, mister Wi Holiday.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
I'm all right. I got out of the way.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
But mister Benson has gone to his ancestors.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Mister Kwan, are you all right.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
Yes, it's quite all right, Thank you, you're head.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Miss Loring. Call the doctor faster.
Speaker 9 (23:50):
No, no, please, the three pieces of this green give
them to me. You will find two of them in
mister Benson's pocket.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Look, you're hurt badly. You've got to have a doction.
Speaker 9 (24:04):
No, that would do no good. Old Chinese proverb greatest
cod is he who fears death.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I'm sorry, mister Kui.
Speaker 9 (24:16):
The hungry pieces please put them together?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
All right? That they are.
Speaker 9 (24:30):
The treasure of Hongy.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
Right here, treasure, but not gold.
Speaker 9 (24:40):
My people learned centuries ago that real treasure is not gold.
Of Hongley is written here jade. That happy is the
man who is contented with his lot to.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Mister mister Quan, that's all right, miss Loring. Mister Kuan
is contented?
Speaker 4 (25:28):
You mean that was all there was to the treasure,
mister Holliday. Just that proverb.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
That's right, Susie. Maybe it's the best after all. You see,
we beat our brains out going after something, and when
we've got it, the thing on the other side of
the hill always looks better.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Happy if the man who is contented with his lot. Gee,
you know something, mister Holliday.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
What, Susie.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
I can't think of anything silly to say.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
That's as it should be. Good Night, Susie.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
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.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Story by Mark Hopling.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Original music is composed and conducted by Rudy Schrager. Mart
Susy is played by Sylvia Picker, and production is supervised
by Verne 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.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Box thirteen, Care of the Star Times. If your advertisement
is on the level, I think you'll find this worth
your time. Be in the Konhai shop in Chinatown at
two o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Pretend you want to buy some jade.
Reject the first two pieces offered, then mention the Hangley
piece in the window, by the Hanglee. This will be
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worth a lot of money to you. Remember it's the
Kwon High shop in.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
China, my shop in Chinatown. Ask for jay, but reject
the first two pieces, then mention the Hangley piece in
the window. Go back and wait for further instructions. That
was the letter, no signature. It sounded interesting, and it
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was if you like murder.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
And now back to the treasurer of hang Lee. Another
Box thirteen adventure with Alan Ladd as Damn Holliday.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Get it, mister Holiday. Why should you reject the first
two pieces?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Ah, that's what makes the letter interesting, Susie. Why reject
the first two pieces and then mention the hang Lee piece?
All right? Why, I think I've got an idea. What
do you pretty obvious Susie. Look, the letter doesn't say
anything about identifying myself, does it.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
No, it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Well, if I follow instructions, follow them exactly, I'll be
hipping myself to someone in the store. Do you get it? Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Sure, whoever wrote the letter will be there too, waiting
for you to follow instruction.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
That's a great deduction.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
And I did it all my help to you.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
You sure did, okay, Susie, I'm going to make like
Marco Polo and visit our Chinese friends.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
It took me a half an hour to drive to Chinatown,
another ten minutes to find the shop of Kwan Hi.
I looked in the windows. It was the usual line
of stuff backscratchers, Kwan Yin's bamboo trinkets, red lacquer bulls,
but only one piece of jade. It was roughly square
and seemed to have been broken. It looked like a
part of a bigger piece. So I went into the shop.
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There were six or seven other people besides myself and well,
they were looking at curios and no one paid any
attention to me. Then a young Chinese clerk smiled and
came over to me.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Oh, yes, sir, can I help you please?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Oh, yes, I want to buy a piece of ja.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Yes, sir, you want a certain color.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
This is a very nice piece, sir. It is what
we call the mutton fat color.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
It's very nice, but not quite what I want.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
A ring perhaps cough links is snuff bottled?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
I don't know. You see, it's for a gift.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Oh, this piece is very fine, sir, and the carving
is excellent, but it is not very old.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
There's a piece in the window, the only piece.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
What is that the piece in the window, sir.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yes, it's a hang leap piece, isn't it. Well, if
you will please to follow me, sir. But the pieces
in the window I know, sir. But for that piece
you would have to see mister Kwan this way. Please,
if you please are in here, I will send for
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mister Kwan. You will please excuse me now, sir. The
other customers, yeah, sure, thank you, it is not He
went out, and I heard a key turn in the
lock of the door. For a moment, I was left
alone in a room that was different from the rest
of the store, very different. Instead of the usual junk
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the terrists by, this room was a treasure house. Rose
Quartz wonderful jade's screens, beautiful porcelain bulls that seemed to
be lighted from inside, lack of weare that shone like
satin in the dim light. I was looking around me
when good afternoon, sir, h oh, how do you do,
mister Kwan? I am mister Kwan. Please to sit down, sir,
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thank you? May I help you?
Speaker 7 (04:40):
Mister?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
My name is Holiday, Dan Holiday.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
I am mister Holiday.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Uh. Your clerk told me i'd have to see you
about that hang lead jade in the window.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Yes, that is true. You wound a piece, mister Holiday.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yes, i'd I'd like to buy it one moment.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
It is strange that a hungry piece has lain in
the window for two weeks. Now you are the first
to ask for it.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I I saw it likely, of course you are a
man of excellent taste.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
It is a very fine piece, incredibly ancient and incredibly valuable.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Oh maybe maybe I can't affoid it.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
The hangley piece, mister Kuan.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Thank you lad. That is all? Yes, mister does he
always lock the door when he leaves this room?
Speaker 7 (05:34):
There are very valuable things in this room, mister Holiday.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Ah, I see, But the hangley piece, is it valuable,
mister Kuan.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Yes, mister Holiday, so valuable that there is no price
on it. Odd that you should ask for it.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
You have no idea how odd.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
It is a piece of a larger work, at twelve
inches by twelve inches to be exact, this is only
one third of the original.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
May I see it? Certainly it looks like a wonderful
piece of jade.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
Do you know what Confucius said about jade?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Well, I seem to have heard quite a few things
Confucius was supposed to have said, but I doubt if
any of them would fit the bell just now.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
H Yes, but Confucius said that jade is like truth.
It gives out the bright rainbow, and it shows a
pure spirit among the hills and stream.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Truth gives out a bright rainbow. That's a very pretty
figure of speech, mister Kwan.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
Yes, truth is very often a figure of speech, is
it not.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Mister Holiday. Yes, I'm afraid you're right.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
But about this piece, ah, yes, you will note the
coving very beautifully done.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
There's a Chinese characters, aren't they.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
Yes, it is too bad the other two thirds of
the entire.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Piece are missing. Oh why is that? I mean, beyond
the fact that it seems a shame to run such
a magnificent thing.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Er foolish old Chinese legend, mister Holiday. It says that
he who translates the writing will be led to a
treasure beyond all price.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
But you'd have to have all three pieces.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
You would need all three pieces?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
And where are the other two? I do not know?
I see, well, mister Kwang, how much for this piece?
Speaker 7 (07:22):
Mister Holiday? It has no price?
Speaker 3 (07:25):
You mean it's not for sale. It is not for sale,
But I don't understand. It was in the window, yes,
and no one inquired about it, Perhaps because collectors would
not be interested in a broken piece. That could be,
But that still doesn't explain why you had it in
your window and yet not have it for sale.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
Because, mister Holiday, the piece is yours.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I beg your pardon. What did you say?
Speaker 7 (07:48):
The hungly piece is yours. There is no price on it.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
But I can't take it without paying for it. You
ask for it, of course I did, mister Kwan, but
I'm prepared to pay for it.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
I am sorry. There is no price. The piece is
yours for the taking.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Hmm, Well, suppose someone else had come in and asked
for it, would you have given it to anyone.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
Only to one who ask for it by name, as
you did.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I don't understand truth.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Mister Holiday is a figure of speech. I have told
you the truth. The Hungly piece is yours. Please take
it no, if you will excuse me just.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
A moment, mister Kwan, suppose I refuse to walk out
with this. It is a matter of indifference. To me,
that is a matter of curiosity. How much is the
piece worth?
Speaker 7 (08:35):
That depends upon who has.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
It, and that means what.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
That is hard to say to a collector the Hungly
piece would be worth they perhaps no more than a
hundred dollars. To you, it is worth what you make
it to me. To me, it is priceless. Ah, here
is Lene, Lene. Please show mister Holiday to the door.
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His business here is concluded. It will be great honor
mister Well, goodbye, mister Holiday. And made the bet groups
upon your roof?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Made the what rest for?
Speaker 7 (09:12):
Where the bet is a Chinese symbol for good fortune? Goodbye?
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Please to come with me, mister Holiday.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Sure you won't change your mind, mister Quan, the Hangley piece.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
It is yours. Perhaps we shall meet again, mister Holiday.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Oh wait, just a minute, mister Kawan, he is going,
mister Holiday now, if you will please to follow me?
All right? Thanks?
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Is there anything else you wish, mister Holiday?
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I think there is, and that is I wish someone
would tell me why I advertise for adventure and get
mixed up and things like this. Goodbye. So, with a
Hangley piece chuck on the my arm and a great
big question mark tucked under my hat, I left qwan
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Lee's place. For a moment, I stood in front of
the store. No one followed me out, although I knew
that whoever had sent me the letter was watching. So
I drove home and waited in my apartment. I didn't
wait long. Hello this Holiday, Yes it is.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I'm the one who sent you the letter. Bring the
Hangley piece to seven twenty one South Ferry Street, Room six.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
H Uh, just a minute, How do you know I've
got the piece?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I was in the store this afternoon, and.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Why didn't you ask me for a thing?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
You're wasting time?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Please bring the Hangley piece. You will be sorry. I
was thatt ad dress.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Again, seven twenty one South Ferry Street, Room six, and
the name you've got all you need to know. I'll
be waiting.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Well well, well all right, mister south Ferry Street. We'll
see what you have to offer.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Please go back in, mister Halliday.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Oh I've got company, Please go back.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Sit down.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Ay, I just got to sit down. Oh, thank you,
won't you?
Speaker 5 (11:10):
You? You're much younger than I thought you'd be.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Oh is that so? Keep pinding that gun at me
and I can age ten years?
Speaker 5 (11:18):
You have quite a sense of humor for.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
A murderer murder. Well, this is news.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
Go on, miss Loring, Greta Luring?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
How do you do?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Doesn't the name Luring mean anything, mister Holliday, beyond.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
The fact that it belongs to a very pretty girl
holding a very ugly gun. I'm completely at loss.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Lying seems to be another of your doubtful accomplishments.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Oh yes, I'm very talented, but I'm no good at puzzles.
You see, I give up too easily.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
I had a hard time finding you, especially since you
changed your name.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
No, oh, this is news. I'm a murderer, a liar,
and I'm living under an alias this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
You gave yourself away by getting the Hangley jade from
that shop. Sooner or later I knew i'd trace you
through that piece of jade.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Oh so you were there too.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
I've watched that shop for days, waiting for you to
get the hangley and out that I've got it, I'm
going to take it then kill.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
You in that order.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
I suppose give it to me.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
It's right there on the table in front of you.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
It was a long time ago that you killed my father.
I was a little girl.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Then, lady, how you've grown up complete with a gun
and a murderous desire to kill me.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
I've had that desire for a long time, ever since
I found my father dead, murdered.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Go on, miss Slowing? What then?
Speaker 5 (12:31):
You know as well as I do? And being charming
and flip won't help, I.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Like, miss laughing, Maybe you've got the wrong man. Have
you thought of that? After all you said? I seem
to be much younger than you thought.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
I'd All I know is that you went after the
hangley jade. No one else in the world but you
would want that piece. No one would else would know
what it means.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
That's circumstantial evidence, Miss Lotte.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Say where you are. We're through talking, mister Holliday, or
shall I call you Benson?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
You can call me anything you like, but think before
you squeeze that trigger thought.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Quite a lot. Now I'm going to take the jade
all right.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Here, take it.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Giving it to me won't solve everything. Stay there, no, don't.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
But the slam of the door, the flowing was gone.
So was the Hangley jade, and so was a piece
of my coat with a bullet from her gun ripped
through it. That I had the gun, maybe it could
be traced, but first I had to see a man
about a piece of jade at seven to one South
Ferry Street. Yes, who is it? Holiday?
Speaker 7 (13:45):
All right?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Just a minute, come on in.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Now give me the Hangley piece. I'm sorry, but you're
about a half hour or too late. What are you
talking about? Well, I haven't got it. Maybe this will
show you. I don't like jokes. Now, look, whatever your
name is, take the gun out of my ribs. Developing analogy,
give me the hangy piece. What have I told you?
A girl who called herself grattel Loring took it away
from me, luring. You have that name, right, I have
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every reason to remember it. But good, where is she?
I don't know? Will you all right? Turn around face the.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Window, I'll look fellow to turn around.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Now where did that girl go. I told you, I
don't know how did she find you the same way
you did? She was in Kwanhai shop this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Uh huh okay, mister Holliday, thank you for running that
errand for me.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
And now back to box thirteen and then Holliday's newest avanger,
The Treasure of hang Lee.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
It was a nice hit over the top of my head.
When the birds and the bees left my skull, I
sat up the room with dark I started to get
to my feet.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
When you're feeling better, mister Holiday, eh, mister kwan oh
hem fluttered. You recognize my voice, but you are feeling better.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Except for a new head, I couldn't ask for anything more.
Speaker 7 (15:36):
I am sorry. I did not arrive in time to
save you that inconvenience.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
But now that you are here, why why.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
Am I here? I came to see your.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Friend to day. I have no friends.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
Wait a moment, I shall turn on the light.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I could use some most do what's going on?
Speaker 7 (15:55):
He is here? You gave our friend the Hungley jade.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I'll wait a man at I just the moment before
you once you.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
Had better look in this little alcove.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
Look, mister Holliday, who who's that. He's dead, yes, quite dead, stubbed.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
In the back.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
But he's not the man I came here to see.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
I'm afraid not.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I wish he were well. And who is this one
of the men.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
I have been seeking for ten years?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Ten years? Look, mister Kwan, I have a large headache.
You're no aspirin with your your Chinese puzzle.
Speaker 7 (16:32):
The man you came to see was named Benson.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
That doesn't help the dead man.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
There is a man named Fisher.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
And what about a man named Lauren?
Speaker 7 (16:39):
Oh you know a man named Laurie.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I I met his daughter to day.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
Ah, his daughter. Now I'm beginning to see. But I
presume you gave mister Benson the hungry jade you got
from me to day.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I did not. Mister Loring's daughter he leave me of
she has it, you know she has. I have only
your word for that. That's all you're gonna get, mister Kwan.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
I think you mean that very well, mister Holiday, I
shall have to leave now.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Oh, no, you don't. There's a murdered man here. How
do I know you didn't kill him?
Speaker 7 (17:11):
That is a reasonable question. You have only my word
that I did not kill him.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
And you'll go with made of the police.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Er.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Oh, it's funny, huh No, No.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
I was thinking of something, a proverb, and being Chinese,
I am permitted one proverb.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
I've got one for you, mister Kwan. A bird in
the hand is worth two in the bush right now,
you're the number one bird.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Very good, mister Holiday. But my proverb is more to
the point. Two men of different minds must soon say
good bye.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
We're going to the police, mister.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
Kwaan, you'll leave me no alternative, but this.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
What would you use that gun?
Speaker 7 (17:54):
I'm afraid I would if you try to stop me.
But please do not blame me, mister Holiday. This is
the food of my ancestors. Your ancestors, they invented gunpowder.
Good Bye.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
And so there I was be where I called the
police and reported the murder without being my name. I
didn't want to stick around because I had other things
to do. I had a bullet hole through my coat
and out of my head, and a big bunning desire
to catch up with mister Benson and miss Loring, not
to mention a certain mister Kwan. The only lead I
had was Gretta Loring's gun that I had taken from her.
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If she had bought it in the city, it would
be registered. So I made one more phone call and
found out what I wanted. Her address. There's non apartment
the building, and her apartment was number eight. I tested
the buzzer. Yes, good evening, miss Lauring.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
How did you find me?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Oh? I had to. I always returned things that I borrowed.
I I believe this is your gun.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Play questions and answers.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Please get out of here this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
You you'll call me a murderer?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Why I I thought you were someone.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Else who Benson? Yes, Oh, but I'm not.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
I know that now.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Oh, now, she tells me after she puts a bullet
through my coat, and I'm miss Loring. Two inches higher
and you'd have had yourself a carps hm me. I
disliked being a corpse. Now you'll talk.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Benson killed my father in China ten years ago.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
It seems he also killed a man called.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Fisher Fish David Fisher.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
David or not? He's just a number at the Morgue
by now.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Then, then Benson is still alive.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I think he is.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
And you came here, well, of course, why not? Don't
you see what you've done done? Think about it.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Oh, he wouldn't know where to find you. But I
told him i'd met you, and he'll keep track of.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Me and come here.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Listen. Have you still got that hang Leys jade? Yes,
well he wants that. If you give it to him,
maybe you'll go away.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
My father was killed because he had the Hangley piece.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
What is there about that piece?
Speaker 7 (20:11):
There were three.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Pieces, all tired of the same screen. It was something
about a treasure.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Mm hm, and the carving on the screen woul lead
to the treasure. Yes, you have one piece, Benson has
the other two want he killed your father to get
the other.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
He killed Fisher again, and they'll come here after this
third piece.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Come on, we've got to get out of here. Wait,
where's your phone right there? But I'm wanna call the police,
not yet, Kwan.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
Yes, I followed you, mister Holiday. Then, because I fear
Miss Loring would not extend their hospitality to me, I
came up the Fire's king, Kwan.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Kuan.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
My father told me, yes.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
Your father, Fisher and Benson killed an old test priest
in China to get the Hungley screen and secret.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
My father never killed anyone.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
I'm afraid he did.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
But there are three pieces off the screen.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Yes, mister Holliday. The three men did not trust one another.
They broke the screen up into three pieces, one valueless
without the other two.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Why why did they do that?
Speaker 7 (21:08):
Because they had to leave China and go their separate ways.
They arranged to meet later.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
But Benson kill Low.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Yes, but Lauren did not have his piece of the
Hungry I got it before Benson got to him.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
And you you put the piece in the window. The
trap Benson, Why, mister Kwan, why the towest priest was
my honorable father.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Oh, I didn't know. I didn't know that.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
I'm sure you did not. I have been all over
the world waiting, waiting, hoping that sooner or later the
murderers of my father would trap themselves. Two are dead
and the third Benson, Yes, Benson, he must be. Will
let him, miss.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Holiday, let him know? Are your crazy? Kwani is a killer?
Said let him in. One moment.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
I would take that gun you put on the table,
mister Holiday, give it to me, thank you.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Now I have two guns, mister Benson, biggest one.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Let him in, mister Holiday.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
If you think I'm gonna open that door, let him,
and you're crazy two guns?
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Are you afraid?
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Mister Holiday?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
All right? Slowing it back thanks to the wall. Now,
Hugh get back in there. Better not come in, Benson,
move away. Who's that come in?
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Mister Benson?
Speaker 7 (22:21):
Come in?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Holiday, stand in front of me right where you are?
All right, go ahead and shoot.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
I would hit mister Holiday.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
I'm sorry, mister.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
Holiday, but you seem to have been caught between the
dragon and the tiger.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I want that hangley piece.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
I'll give it to him.
Speaker 7 (22:39):
Do that, miss Loring, give it to him.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
That's when you've already killed two men. The third won't
make any difference. The hangley piece, Miss Loring on the
table there, take it?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Take it good enough?
Speaker 3 (22:51):
All right?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Holiday, move in front of me, always in front of me.
Now stop hand me the jade you'll Misslowing handed to me.
That's it now, I'm going to move back toward the door.
If you shoot, Holiday gets it stop right here, mister Holiday.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
My life means nothing because I have devoted it to
this moment. But I regret this inconvenience to you.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Kwan think what you're doing. Bedson won't get away. The
police will have his description will be picked up and
within an hour, Nice streaming Holiday, mister Khan. Don't stay
where you are.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
I regret, mister Holiday.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
Just the way quickly, mister Wi Holiday.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
I'm all right. I got out of the way.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
But mister Benson has gone to his ancestors.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Mister Kwan, are you all right.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
Yes, it's quite all right, Thank you, you're head.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Miss Loring. Call the doctor faster.
Speaker 9 (23:50):
No, no, please, the three pieces of this green give
them to me. You will find two of them in
mister Benson's pocket.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Look, you're hurt badly. You've got to have a doction.
Speaker 9 (24:04):
No, that would do no good. Old Chinese proverb greatest
cod is he who fears death.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
I'm sorry, mister Kui.
Speaker 9 (24:16):
The hungry pieces please put them together?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
All right? That they are.
Speaker 9 (24:30):
The treasure of Hongy.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
Right here, treasure, but not gold.
Speaker 9 (24:40):
My people learned centuries ago that real treasure is not gold.
Of Hongley is written here jade. That happy is the
man who is contented with his lot to.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Mister mister Quan, that's all right, miss Loring. Mister Kuan
is contented?
Speaker 4 (25:28):
You mean that was all there was to the treasure,
mister Holliday. Just that proverb.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
That's right, Susie. Maybe it's the best after all. You see,
we beat our brains out going after something, and when
we've got it, the thing on the other side of
the hill always looks better.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Happy if the man who is contented with his lot. Gee,
you know something, mister Holliday.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
What, Susie.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
I can't think of anything silly to say.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
That's as it should be. Good Night, Susie.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
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.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Story by Mark Hopling.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Original music is composed and conducted by Rudy Schrager. Mart
Susy is played by Sylvia Picker, and production is supervised
by Verne Carstensen. Box thirteen is a Mayfair production from Hollywood.
Watch for Alan Ladd in his latest Paramount picture.
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