August 19, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Quiet, Please, Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper, which features Ernest Chappel. Quiet
Please for today is called The Evening and the Morning.
(00:53):
They're all going down, aren't they. That was the last
car going out the gate, wasn't it. There's nobody there
but the great Biggers. Can we walk over there for
a minute, please. It's getting dark, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Is that what's bothering you? There isn't anything here that'll
hurt you.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
My grandfather had always taught me not to be afraid
the cemeteries. There's sad place, as he always said, they're
sad and they're lonesome, but there's nothing there to harm you.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I'll only be a.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Minute, really, I I'm not gonna break.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Down or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
It's there's something I have to do.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Now.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I won't run away. You're not worried about that, I
you when, after all, you've got a gun. You could
shoot me if I tried to run away. I couldn't
very well attack you suddenly, could I? Not with these handcuffs,
of course not.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
So let's walk over there for just a minute.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Please, don't just think you're overdoing it a little bit, Dean.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I'm sorry if you think so. I do think so.
Please may we walk over to the grave?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Listen here?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
You don't have to impress me. You know I was
good enough to bring you out here and take the
responsibility for you, and I'm very grateful to you for that.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Mister Thorpe.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
You know if some of her friends had seen your here,
you'd have still.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
A good chance of getting lynched. I know that I
was sympathetic. Can I listen to you? And it was
against my better judgment that I brought you out of here.
I'm more than greatful, mister Thorpe. If I could have
come out here alone, I would have.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I haven't started letting.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Confessed murderers run around lose yet, especially to attend the.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Funerals of the people they'd killed. Did we walk over
to the grave?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Please? Come on? Thank you.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
You're not doing yourself any good this way, Dean.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I'm not trying to mister Thorpe.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
What do you want to see the grave for? I
think you stand looking at it. Haven't you got any
hot at all?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I killed her, didn't I?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
They won't have any trouble hanging you for him. I
expect that. I what do you want? Then?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Why do you assy? Mister Thorpe. It was hard enough
doing what I did and coming out here, well, it
has to be done.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I don't know what she's talking about it.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I love Dallas, mister Parker.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
You did, I did, and you murdered it here where
you're going? A flower assault?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I want a flower from her grave?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Put that bag?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
No, no, I won't put it back, mister Thorker. I
said you no, Please don't ask me to put it back.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
But it's a very precious thing, this flower.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
What are you talking about it?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Why? This is?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
This is why I murdered Alice.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Mister Fort.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
It's very good of you to walk back with me
instead of riding. It's really a great favor, mister Thorpe,
and I might as well tell you it's well. I
would have insisted on walking if you hadn't agreed, so readily.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Insisted.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You See, if you hadn't consented, I'd have just stayed there,
and it would have been awkward for you because I
I think I'm stronger than you, and I could have
resisted you. I don't believe you would have used your
gun even if you had threatened me, I wouldn't have moved.
So I'm very grateful to you.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Because it's important for me to walk back. It's the
last walk in the open.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Are you likely to have yes?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I suppose it is.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
You're a strange character being I.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
He'd rather unuse you to Seltzer walking basically down a
dark road with a.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Murderer all alone.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
It may not have noticed, but I've got my hand
in my coat pocket, so you have. And in my
coat pocket is a gun, of course, so that's not
getting the ideas. Because I've been.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Stupid enough to humor you with.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It, I have no intention of trying to escape.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Did you ever walk along the cemetery road before? Now
I have? I know every inch of it.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
More of it.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
No.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
First time was with Alice.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
The woman you killed.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yes, I walked back with her from her husband's funeral
a year ago, So now you're walking back from hers.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Did you kill him too?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Like?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
No? Don't you remember he was killed in a motor accident?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yes, Francais, that was his name, Francis.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Were you in love with Alice?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Then? I think I've always been in love with Alice,
I see, But Alice loved Francis.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I begin to see a motive, now, motive for murdering there.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
She was still in love with a husband.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
She wouldn't have you, so you killed her? No?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Why, No, that wasn't my motive. What was then?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I remember walking along the same road Alis and I
a year.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Ago, just a year ago, day before yesterday. It was
the same kind of evening, too.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Cold and misty, threatening snow like it is now. We'd
stayed there at the cemetery after everybody.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Else had gone.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
That was nice, and now we were coming back home.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Francis would have liked the flowers, wouldn't be, Tea, Yes,
so many many.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Flowers, such beautiful ones.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Stripes and nothing, and the clod.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Lain on me.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Pretty soon, the snow dollars.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
Francis and the flowers.
Speaker 8 (07:40):
All well, let's go back through a little while, can't right, No,
we we mustn't do that.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
I was there, just come to me, Tea.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
I believe I. I all this time, I thought I,
and I couldn't help thinking.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
That it's some fastly joke. The Francis isn't really dead,
it's it's a dream. Maybe No, I was doing me
INSI since I'm alone, my.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Dear don't we got to face it.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Ju h that.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
Hounds is dead.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
All I thought left is a flowers you just grave house.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
You're not alone.
Speaker 9 (08:46):
I'm well, I know I'm not all right, but you're
not alone. While I'm hows you're not alone.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Loved being a little yellow flower there a yellow moss
rose at Francis always loved so much. He was burning,
he lived. He loves me and I love you so do.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Nothing left but this place? Would you listen to me, Alice?
Would you stop this?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
It's no good carrying home a flower from from there.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
But it's just a little symbol.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
It'll break your heart all over again every time you
look at it.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
But it was from No, don't say it.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Don't carry home out here reminders from that place.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Dear.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I know this is hard, and now is the time
for you to make decisions now and not two years
from now, when you should be forgetting after a rose.
It'll always remind you, it will always hurt you. You
are the terrible things to you, Alice, throw it away,
so we've fence flower.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
It isn't his flower where else, but I mean something
to remind you.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Need anything, the minds you of Francis Alice, you have
your memories of five years of being married to them.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You have all the things he wrote, the music. You know,
you have so many precious memories.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Dear, you're going to trade them all for a memory
of a mound of flowers on a November day in
the rain.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
I remember Francis when he came home from the world,
and the day you were married.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
I remember it was so I remember both of you,
and the time we went to Canada and it snopped.
You remember Francis, not the flower and the springtime in
the country with you.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
And the childs.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
He help me washed the dishes.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Away, Alice, hege.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
You throw it away from me.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I wanted to, but.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
To let me keep friends.
Speaker 10 (11:20):
And there's an old elm tree beside the road, the
biggest old elm tree you ever saw.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
We'd be walking past.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
It in a few minutes. On how short to you,
mister Parker.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
You would certainly talk as if you loved that woman day.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I did love her, I do love her.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Well, why did you kill her? Then?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Because I loved her and because she loved Francis? I said,
that was it.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
You're writing what you said, but you're forming the wrong conclusions.
Mister Thorpe.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
How you think that I murdered her in a fit
of anger because she refused to marry me?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Of course, Well that isn't true. I don't understand you.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I'll explain it all to you.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
It doesn't need much explaining to me.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I'll explain it. Well, what happened? Did your idea about
throwing away the flower work?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Of course, But you're carrying away a flower from her grave?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yes? Why? Perhaps I want my.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Memories of Alice to be that grave out there in
the rain. Adding to your own punishment, yes, that's part
of it.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I realize that I must pay a price for what
I've done. I do that gladly, and I mean that.
I mean I'm really glad to pay it.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
But I hope you believe me.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I wanna punish myself even more. But I haven't finished.
I've got one more thing to do. That's why I
begged you to let me come to the funeral, and
why I buck the flower from her grave here over
my head.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Didn't affair with me, mister Thorpe. That he it's only
a little while there.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
That that's the big elm tree I told you about
you see it, but the little street, like just beyond it,
what about it? There's a bus stop just beyond it.
We can we can wait there for a busket to like, yes,
I see somebody waiting. Then, uh, I think it's a
good idea.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I'm tired. I really should tell me.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Oh why you just do it, Dan, Not that it'll
make any difference, not with your concussion and all that,
mister thought for you superstitious me.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
No, it's nonsense. No, it isn't nonsense. A great many
superstitions have found it out, in fact, a great many.
I don't believe in ghosts, if that's what you mean.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
You know, Francis was a writer, yes, a writer of
supernatural stories, alright.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Didn't know that he had a very fairough understanding of superstitions,
beliefs of all kinds. He had a large library of
source material on that subject.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Did he believe in ghosts?
Speaker 1 (14:21):
He was a rational man, mister Thorpe and my very
good friend, all right.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I saw a good deal of Alice in the year
since Francis was killed. In the first few months, when
she was having to reconstruct her life, when she was
having to reconcile herself to the fact that she was alone,
that Francis was growing out of her world. I spent
a good deal of time with her, and I was
gratified that she was taking it very well. She did
(14:50):
the houseover completely, with the exception.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Of the room he'd used for study that she.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Left exactly because.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
He'd left it. A typewriter stack of paper, the pottery
jar full of shop.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Of pencils, half a pack of cigarettes, and the torn
match package. Even the waste basket cramp full of torn
sheets of paper, and exactly.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
The way he left it. That she said was to
be her living memory of Francis and always when I
came to visit her, we we sat in francis study
and talk was mostly of him.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
His publisher's call to day, and wondered what about the
book he was working on?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
What about it?
Speaker 4 (15:35):
I told him it wouldn't be finished.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
He only had a few pages to go.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
As I remember it, it won't be finished. I don't
think you ought to do that, Alice.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
I want it that way.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Then, do you still feel who I mean?
Speaker 11 (15:52):
I'm very glad you made me throw away that flower.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
That's what you mean.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
It was an updif thing.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Bringing it away from there.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Yes, I'm very content now. It's been hard to make
myself realize that. You know, it not really so bad.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
But there are people around, but at night.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Along by myself, I think I've cried myself out date.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I'm glad you're you been an angel?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Well you have.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Well you see, Alice, I love you.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
I know you do.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
I Well, that's all I can say, Alice, I love you.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
It's it's a horrible thing to have to say to
the widow of my best friend, but.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Widow I was willow over Alice.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
You'll call me his widow.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
I'm not I'm not strong.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
No, no, no, get.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Away from me.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
I'm not his widow.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Do you hear me? Hi?
Speaker 6 (17:11):
By his body?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Where's that start that was waiting for the bus? They
go away? You see him? Yes, I saw him? So
she did get mad.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
At you know.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Well, don't you think you were rushing things a little dean?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Don't you think you should have waited a little longer
before you put in a word for yourself with his widow?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
His wife always support. I always knew that Alice.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Would never marry me.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I knew too much of the deep love and affection
that existed between those two, and I knew that I
would never have a chance with her, but in all honesty,
I couldn't help confessing to her.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
She said she knew how you felt.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yes, she did. Well.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I don't see where this story is getting his thing besides,
here's your trade, and I'm.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Gonna sit down and wait for a bus.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
There was with that other fella. And Francis loved music.
Although he couldn't play a note Pallas in the old.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Days would sit at the piano knights when he found
himself struggling with an idea, they.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Wouldn't come out.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Francis always said it, if he could listen to Alice
playing well enough, the in the toughest situation would unravel itself.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I think that was a fact.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Many a night I sat in the living room listening
to her at the piano while Francis listened from his study.
I remember one thing he used to love. Tallis played
it so often for.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Him people used to laugh and call up their theme song.
And one night, not very long ago, I dropped in
to see Alice. After a while, she sat down at
the piano and played it.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I hadn't heard it for so long.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
A long time since I've played that isn't it.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
It still sounds wonderful to me.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
I felt so lonesome tonight. It's an unpleasant night, like
a not a year ago that damn.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
You weren't going to think about.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
I can't help it be.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Play something.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
No, I.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
I wonder if Francis is lonesome too, Alice, No, I've
been dreaming about him again.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Well, I suppose that's natural. He's always trying.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
To tell to me something.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
It's so vague, but he he's lost.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
He wants me so yeah, morbid tonight.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
No, No, I'm not deep.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
I thought I was getting over missus Francis.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
Too, But I'll never get over to you so that
I forget him.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
But I can't forget you must forget him, Dear, No.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
I won't forget him. He's my husband. I love him.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I love him, Alice, Dear, you m something.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I want him. So you've never lost anyone, Dean, you
don't know how it is.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
And now the last few weeks I did, Oh, well,
Francis wants me.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
You're not being rationalized and.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
I love him, Dean.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
Oh, isn't there some way?
Speaker 4 (21:22):
I mean, Dean, listen, Well, Francis had so many books
wouldn't there be something in one of them that I
tell me how to bring Francis back.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
To me, Alice, some way I could find him, Dean.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Let's sit down and stop this.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Dean. Well, Dean, do you love me? You know I do?
Speaker 7 (21:59):
I'll never know, are you?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I hope that someday.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
No, it's the sacritage to think it.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
Either.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
I'm Franci's wife. I'll be francis wife forever, forever.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Dad.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Sure as I'm sitting here, I swear to you I've
always loved Francis. Yes, and I can't live without him.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 7 (22:31):
I've thought about it.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
I've thought about it until my head hurts. You think
I'm moving my mind, don't you? No, Dean, I wrote
morry you.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Yes, you said that.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
But do you wanna earn my everlasting gratitude?
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Francis gratitude too?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I don't understand you. Yes you do, Yes, you do.
I won't do it.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Listening if I kill myself. Yes, and I won't go
to heaven.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
And be with Francis.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Alice, you've lost your mind.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
No, I love me and give me back to Francis.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
That's a great story, Dane. That's a great story.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yes it is.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
It's not the story you told when they arrested you. No,
so you shot her because she asked you to.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
No, what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I went away from the house that night. I was
very disturbed sleep I couldn't sleep. About three in the morning,
I telephoned her.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
We talked for a long time. She was much calmer.
Speaker 12 (24:05):
She agreed that she had been very foolish, and we'd
talk it over again later in the day. I took
two bromides and slept till noon. And then in the
afternoon she telephoned me and woke me up. Come over
by the way, she said, come over now, hurry. When
I came in, she was holding a book. She seemed
(24:27):
perfectly calm, but adoptiously been crying for a long time.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
She was exhausted. What's happened, Alice? I asked, what's the matter?
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Saidandi?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
What's that book?
Speaker 7 (24:45):
It's one of Francis books from his reference library.
Speaker 11 (24:48):
Oh, Dan, when you lift last night, I got thinking
some more about what I'd said first, that maybe there
was something in one of Francis books that but tell
me how to bring us together again?
Speaker 7 (25:02):
How was I still?
Speaker 4 (25:06):
I went in there, and I looked at a lot
of books, some of 'em I couldn't understand. But I
found one.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
I found this one.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Thee who murdered Francis?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I what you murdered his soul? Alice? What are you
talking about?
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Do you remember the flowers from this grave?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Yes, of course. Look at the book Dictionary of Superstitions
Mythology je Paris, nineteen twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Well what about it, page a hundred and one. I've
marked it, read it.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Flowers. If the flower be plucked from the grave that
I'd been afterwards thrown away, the place where the flower
falls will be haunted. How is this?
Speaker 3 (26:13):
It's superstition?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
For Heaven's sake, It's true?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
True?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
How do you know?
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Because I went out to the cemetery road now, went
to the elm tree where you threw the flower away
almost a year ago you went.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Why did you go out there this morning? I was
still dark this.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Morning, And it's true.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
I know, Francis?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Is there change that spot forever and ever? Oh Dan,
what are we going to do?
Speaker 4 (26:46):
We didn't you and die?
Speaker 7 (26:48):
What are we going to do?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
And what did you do?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Hi? I did what I thought best?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
You mean to say you believe in a stupid superstition.
You mean you murdered a woman because of because of.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I came out here to this tree with Alice.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Mister Thorpe, you did, and I knew Francis was here too.
He's here now yuh you saw him, didn't you, the
man you thought was waiting for the bus.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I here where goody. I threw away a flower from.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
His grave here a year ago.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Now here's your flower, Alise. I've kept my promise, stared
Alice and Francis together now.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Forever.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
You don't believe that.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Listen for.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
The title of today's Quiet Please story is The Evening
and the Morning. It was written and directed by Willis Cooper.
Ernest Chample was the man who spoke, and Bess Johnson
played Alice. Martin Lawrence was mister Thorpe. As usual, music
for choir pleases by Albert Berman. Now for a word
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about next week, I'll write a director, Willis Cooper, thank
you for listening.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
To Quiet Please. For next week.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I have a story which I call one for the book,
and so.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Until next week.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
At the same time, I am quietly yours Ernest Chapel.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Now a listening reminder.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
A great number of our citizens are unaware of the
insidious rackets that are constantly challenging our law enforcement agencies.
You can hear about them on David Harding Counterspy to
an encounterspy this afternoon on your A b C station.
This is A b C, the American Broadcasting Company.
Quiet, Please, Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper, which features Ernest Chappel. Quiet
Please for today is called The Evening and the Morning.
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They're all going down, aren't they. That was the last
car going out the gate, wasn't it. There's nobody there
but the great Biggers. Can we walk over there for
a minute, please. It's getting dark, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Is that what's bothering you? There isn't anything here that'll
hurt you.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
My grandfather had always taught me not to be afraid
the cemeteries. There's sad place, as he always said, they're
sad and they're lonesome, but there's nothing there to harm you.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I'll only be a.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Minute, really, I I'm not gonna break.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Down or anything like that.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
It's there's something I have to do.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Now.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I won't run away. You're not worried about that, I
you when, after all, you've got a gun. You could
shoot me if I tried to run away. I couldn't
very well attack you suddenly, could I? Not with these handcuffs,
of course not.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
So let's walk over there for just a minute.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Please, don't just think you're overdoing it a little bit, Dean.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I'm sorry if you think so. I do think so.
Please may we walk over to the grave?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Listen here?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
You don't have to impress me. You know I was
good enough to bring you out here and take the
responsibility for you, and I'm very grateful to you for that.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Mister Thorpe.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
You know if some of her friends had seen your here,
you'd have still.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
A good chance of getting lynched. I know that I
was sympathetic. Can I listen to you? And it was
against my better judgment that I brought you out of here.
I'm more than greatful, mister Thorpe. If I could have
come out here alone, I would have.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I haven't started letting.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Confessed murderers run around lose yet, especially to attend the.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Funerals of the people they'd killed. Did we walk over
to the grave?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Please? Come on? Thank you.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
You're not doing yourself any good this way, Dean.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I'm not trying to mister Thorpe.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
What do you want to see the grave for? I
think you stand looking at it. Haven't you got any
hot at all?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I killed her, didn't I?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
They won't have any trouble hanging you for him. I
expect that. I what do you want? Then?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Why do you assy? Mister Thorpe. It was hard enough
doing what I did and coming out here, well, it
has to be done.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
I don't know what she's talking about it.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
I love Dallas, mister Parker.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
You did, I did, and you murdered it here where
you're going? A flower assault?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I want a flower from her grave?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Put that bag?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
No, no, I won't put it back, mister Thorker. I
said you no, Please don't ask me to put it back.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
But it's a very precious thing, this flower.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
What are you talking about it?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Why? This is?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
This is why I murdered Alice.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Mister Fort.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
It's very good of you to walk back with me
instead of riding. It's really a great favor, mister Thorpe,
and I might as well tell you it's well. I
would have insisted on walking if you hadn't agreed, so readily.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Insisted.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You See, if you hadn't consented, I'd have just stayed there,
and it would have been awkward for you because I
I think I'm stronger than you, and I could have
resisted you. I don't believe you would have used your
gun even if you had threatened me, I wouldn't have moved.
So I'm very grateful to you.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Because it's important for me to walk back. It's the
last walk in the open.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Are you likely to have yes?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I suppose it is.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
You're a strange character being I.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
He'd rather unuse you to Seltzer walking basically down a
dark road with a.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Murderer all alone.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
It may not have noticed, but I've got my hand
in my coat pocket, so you have. And in my
coat pocket is a gun, of course, so that's not
getting the ideas. Because I've been.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Stupid enough to humor you with.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It, I have no intention of trying to escape.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Did you ever walk along the cemetery road before? Now
I have? I know every inch of it.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
More of it.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
No.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
First time was with Alice.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
The woman you killed.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yes, I walked back with her from her husband's funeral
a year ago, So now you're walking back from hers.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Did you kill him too?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Like?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
No? Don't you remember he was killed in a motor accident?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yes, Francais, that was his name, Francis.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Were you in love with Alice?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Then? I think I've always been in love with Alice,
I see, But Alice loved Francis.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I begin to see a motive, now, motive for murdering there.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
She was still in love with a husband.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
She wouldn't have you, so you killed her? No?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Why, No, that wasn't my motive. What was then?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I remember walking along the same road Alis and I
a year.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Ago, just a year ago, day before yesterday. It was
the same kind of evening, too.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Cold and misty, threatening snow like it is now. We'd
stayed there at the cemetery after everybody.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Else had gone.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
That was nice, and now we were coming back home.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Francis would have liked the flowers, wouldn't be, Tea, Yes,
so many many.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Flowers, such beautiful ones.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Stripes and nothing, and the clod.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Lain on me.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Pretty soon, the snow dollars.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
Francis and the flowers.
Speaker 8 (07:40):
All well, let's go back through a little while, can't right, No,
we we mustn't do that.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
I was there, just come to me, Tea.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
I believe I. I all this time, I thought I,
and I couldn't help thinking.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
That it's some fastly joke. The Francis isn't really dead,
it's it's a dream. Maybe No, I was doing me
INSI since I'm alone, my.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Dear don't we got to face it.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Ju h that.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
Hounds is dead.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
All I thought left is a flowers you just grave house.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
You're not alone.
Speaker 9 (08:46):
I'm well, I know I'm not all right, but you're
not alone. While I'm hows you're not alone.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Loved being a little yellow flower there a yellow moss
rose at Francis always loved so much. He was burning,
he lived. He loves me and I love you so do.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Nothing left but this place? Would you listen to me, Alice?
Would you stop this?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
It's no good carrying home a flower from from there.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
But it's just a little symbol.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
It'll break your heart all over again every time you
look at it.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
But it was from No, don't say it.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Don't carry home out here reminders from that place.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Dear.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I know this is hard, and now is the time
for you to make decisions now and not two years
from now, when you should be forgetting after a rose.
It'll always remind you, it will always hurt you. You
are the terrible things to you, Alice, throw it away,
so we've fence flower.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
It isn't his flower where else, but I mean something
to remind you.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Need anything, the minds you of Francis Alice, you have
your memories of five years of being married to them.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
You have all the things he wrote, the music. You know,
you have so many precious memories.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Dear, you're going to trade them all for a memory
of a mound of flowers on a November day in
the rain.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
I remember Francis when he came home from the world,
and the day you were married.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
I remember it was so I remember both of you,
and the time we went to Canada and it snopped.
You remember Francis, not the flower and the springtime in
the country with you.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
And the childs.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
He help me washed the dishes.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Away, Alice, hege.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
You throw it away from me.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
I wanted to, but.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I'm afraid.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
To let me keep friends.
Speaker 10 (11:20):
And there's an old elm tree beside the road, the
biggest old elm tree you ever saw.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
We'd be walking past.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
It in a few minutes. On how short to you,
mister Parker.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
You would certainly talk as if you loved that woman day.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I did love her, I do love her.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Well, why did you kill her? Then?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Because I loved her and because she loved Francis? I said,
that was it.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
You're writing what you said, but you're forming the wrong conclusions.
Mister Thorpe.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
How you think that I murdered her in a fit
of anger because she refused to marry me?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Of course, Well that isn't true. I don't understand you.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I'll explain it all to you.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
It doesn't need much explaining to me.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
I'll explain it. Well, what happened? Did your idea about
throwing away the flower work?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Of course, But you're carrying away a flower from her grave?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yes? Why? Perhaps I want my.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Memories of Alice to be that grave out there in
the rain. Adding to your own punishment, yes, that's part
of it.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
I realize that I must pay a price for what
I've done. I do that gladly, and I mean that.
I mean I'm really glad to pay it.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
But I hope you believe me.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
I wanna punish myself even more. But I haven't finished.
I've got one more thing to do. That's why I
begged you to let me come to the funeral, and
why I buck the flower from her grave here over
my head.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Didn't affair with me, mister Thorpe. That he it's only
a little while there.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
That that's the big elm tree I told you about
you see it, but the little street, like just beyond it,
what about it? There's a bus stop just beyond it.
We can we can wait there for a busket to like, yes,
I see somebody waiting. Then, uh, I think it's a
good idea.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I'm tired. I really should tell me.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Oh why you just do it, Dan, Not that it'll
make any difference, not with your concussion and all that,
mister thought for you superstitious me.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
No, it's nonsense. No, it isn't nonsense. A great many
superstitions have found it out, in fact, a great many.
I don't believe in ghosts, if that's what you mean.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
You know, Francis was a writer, yes, a writer of
supernatural stories, alright.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Didn't know that he had a very fairough understanding of superstitions,
beliefs of all kinds. He had a large library of
source material on that subject.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Did he believe in ghosts?
Speaker 1 (14:21):
He was a rational man, mister Thorpe and my very
good friend, all right.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
I saw a good deal of Alice in the year
since Francis was killed. In the first few months, when
she was having to reconstruct her life, when she was
having to reconcile herself to the fact that she was alone,
that Francis was growing out of her world. I spent
a good deal of time with her, and I was
gratified that she was taking it very well. She did
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the houseover completely, with the exception.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Of the room he'd used for study that she.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Left exactly because.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
He'd left it. A typewriter stack of paper, the pottery
jar full of shop.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Of pencils, half a pack of cigarettes, and the torn
match package. Even the waste basket cramp full of torn
sheets of paper, and exactly.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
The way he left it. That she said was to
be her living memory of Francis and always when I
came to visit her, we we sat in francis study
and talk was mostly of him.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
His publisher's call to day, and wondered what about the
book he was working on?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
What about it?
Speaker 4 (15:35):
I told him it wouldn't be finished.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
He only had a few pages to go.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
As I remember it, it won't be finished. I don't
think you ought to do that, Alice.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
I want it that way.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Then, do you still feel who I mean?
Speaker 11 (15:52):
I'm very glad you made me throw away that flower.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
That's what you mean.
Speaker 7 (15:59):
It was an updif thing.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Bringing it away from there.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Yes, I'm very content now. It's been hard to make
myself realize that. You know, it not really so bad.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
But there are people around, but at night.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Along by myself, I think I've cried myself out date.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
I'm glad you're you been an angel?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Well you have.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Well you see, Alice, I love you.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
I know you do.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
I Well, that's all I can say, Alice, I love you.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
It's it's a horrible thing to have to say to
the widow of my best friend, but.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Widow I was willow over Alice.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
You'll call me his widow.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
I'm not I'm not strong.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
No, no, no, get.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Away from me.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
I'm not his widow.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Do you hear me? Hi?
Speaker 6 (17:11):
By his body?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Where's that start that was waiting for the bus? They
go away? You see him? Yes, I saw him? So
she did get mad.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
At you know.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Well, don't you think you were rushing things a little dean?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Don't you think you should have waited a little longer
before you put in a word for yourself with his widow?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
His wife always support. I always knew that Alice.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Would never marry me.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I knew too much of the deep love and affection
that existed between those two, and I knew that I
would never have a chance with her, but in all honesty,
I couldn't help confessing to her.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
She said she knew how you felt.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yes, she did. Well.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I don't see where this story is getting his thing besides,
here's your trade, and I'm.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Gonna sit down and wait for a bus.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
There was with that other fella. And Francis loved music.
Although he couldn't play a note Pallas in the old.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Days would sit at the piano knights when he found
himself struggling with an idea, they.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Wouldn't come out.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Francis always said it, if he could listen to Alice
playing well enough, the in the toughest situation would unravel itself.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I think that was a fact.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Many a night I sat in the living room listening
to her at the piano while Francis listened from his study.
I remember one thing he used to love. Tallis played
it so often for.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Him people used to laugh and call up their theme song.
And one night, not very long ago, I dropped in
to see Alice. After a while, she sat down at
the piano and played it.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I hadn't heard it for so long.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
A long time since I've played that isn't it.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
It still sounds wonderful to me.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
I felt so lonesome tonight. It's an unpleasant night, like
a not a year ago that damn.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
You weren't going to think about.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
I can't help it be.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Play something.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
No, I.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
I wonder if Francis is lonesome too, Alice, No, I've
been dreaming about him again.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Well, I suppose that's natural. He's always trying.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
To tell to me something.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
It's so vague, but he he's lost.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
He wants me so yeah, morbid tonight.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
No, No, I'm not deep.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
I thought I was getting over missus Francis.
Speaker 7 (20:40):
Too, But I'll never get over to you so that
I forget him.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
But I can't forget you must forget him, Dear, No.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
I won't forget him. He's my husband. I love him.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I love him, Alice, Dear, you m something.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
I want him. So you've never lost anyone, Dean, you
don't know how it is.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
And now the last few weeks I did, Oh, well,
Francis wants me.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
You're not being rationalized and.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
I love him, Dean.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
Oh, isn't there some way?
Speaker 4 (21:22):
I mean, Dean, listen, Well, Francis had so many books
wouldn't there be something in one of them that I
tell me how to bring Francis back.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
To me, Alice, some way I could find him, Dean.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Let's sit down and stop this.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Dean. Well, Dean, do you love me? You know I do?
Speaker 7 (21:59):
I'll never know, are you?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I hope that someday.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
No, it's the sacritage to think it.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
Either.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
I'm Franci's wife. I'll be francis wife forever, forever.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Dad.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Sure as I'm sitting here, I swear to you I've
always loved Francis. Yes, and I can't live without him.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 7 (22:31):
I've thought about it.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
I've thought about it until my head hurts. You think
I'm moving my mind, don't you? No, Dean, I wrote
morry you.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Yes, you said that.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
But do you wanna earn my everlasting gratitude?
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Francis gratitude too?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I don't understand you. Yes you do, Yes, you do.
I won't do it.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Listening if I kill myself. Yes, and I won't go
to heaven.
Speaker 6 (23:12):
And be with Francis.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Alice, you've lost your mind.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
No, I love me and give me back to Francis.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
That's a great story, Dane. That's a great story.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Yes it is.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
It's not the story you told when they arrested you. No,
so you shot her because she asked you to.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
No, what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I went away from the house that night. I was
very disturbed sleep I couldn't sleep. About three in the morning,
I telephoned her.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
We talked for a long time. She was much calmer.
Speaker 12 (24:05):
She agreed that she had been very foolish, and we'd
talk it over again later in the day. I took
two bromides and slept till noon. And then in the
afternoon she telephoned me and woke me up. Come over
by the way, she said, come over now, hurry. When
I came in, she was holding a book. She seemed
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perfectly calm, but adoptiously been crying for a long time.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
She was exhausted. What's happened, Alice? I asked, what's the matter?
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Saidandi?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
What's that book?
Speaker 7 (24:45):
It's one of Francis books from his reference library.
Speaker 11 (24:48):
Oh, Dan, when you lift last night, I got thinking
some more about what I'd said first, that maybe there
was something in one of Francis books that but tell
me how to bring us together again?
Speaker 7 (25:02):
How was I still?
Speaker 4 (25:06):
I went in there, and I looked at a lot
of books, some of 'em I couldn't understand. But I
found one.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
I found this one.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Thee who murdered Francis?
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I what you murdered his soul? Alice? What are you
talking about?
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Do you remember the flowers from this grave?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Yes, of course. Look at the book Dictionary of Superstitions
Mythology je Paris, nineteen twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Well what about it, page a hundred and one. I've
marked it, read it.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Flowers. If the flower be plucked from the grave that
I'd been afterwards thrown away, the place where the flower
falls will be haunted. How is this?
Speaker 3 (26:13):
It's superstition?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
For Heaven's sake, It's true?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
True?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
How do you know?
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Because I went out to the cemetery road now, went
to the elm tree where you threw the flower away
almost a year ago you went.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Why did you go out there this morning? I was
still dark this.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Morning, And it's true.
Speaker 7 (26:37):
I know, Francis?
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Is there change that spot forever and ever? Oh Dan,
what are we going to do?
Speaker 4 (26:46):
We didn't you and die?
Speaker 7 (26:48):
What are we going to do?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
And what did you do?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Hi? I did what I thought best?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
You mean to say you believe in a stupid superstition.
You mean you murdered a woman because of because of.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
I came out here to this tree with Alice.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Mister Thorpe, you did, and I knew Francis was here too.
He's here now yuh you saw him, didn't you, the
man you thought was waiting for the bus.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I here where goody. I threw away a flower from.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
His grave here a year ago.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Now here's your flower, Alise. I've kept my promise, stared
Alice and Francis together now.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Forever.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
You don't believe that.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Listen for.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
The title of today's Quiet Please story is The Evening
and the Morning. It was written and directed by Willis Cooper.
Ernest Chample was the man who spoke, and Bess Johnson
played Alice. Martin Lawrence was mister Thorpe. As usual, music
for choir pleases by Albert Berman. Now for a word
(28:40):
about next week, I'll write a director, Willis Cooper, thank
you for listening.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
To Quiet Please. For next week.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I have a story which I call one for the book,
and so.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Until next week.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
At the same time, I am quietly yours Ernest Chapel.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Now a listening reminder.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
A great number of our citizens are unaware of the
insidious rackets that are constantly challenging our law enforcement agencies.
You can hear about them on David Harding Counterspy to
an encounterspy this afternoon on your A b C station.
This is A b C, the American Broadcasting Company.
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