July 30, 2025 • 30 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Why why have these stings?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Listen? Why have these I mis directions concerns The green
verd cap called how are you pass us? I want
(01:19):
you to play other games. I want you to stuarts
to write down fore s, don't write them down and
pull number. Some people saw you time you have an
don't think you differ a moment of pomcasts only another
moment to bite down people about gidness. Write 'em down
(01:40):
and keep 'em alongside. Spike down person. Yes, next you
write down your now like down mine?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yes it is yours mine?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I thought.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Now relaces.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Twos or school stiens sucsess en around about six. Won't happen?
(02:42):
Speceis have you haven't seen much against in the last
few years? What about anything like this? Sound called thy
sis aynss I remember since story my twenty one. I
(03:12):
didn't think of it. Time din mean no was not
back language said it was New York timey you service
have a re old rag calls said you were sure
of the old protas moving O money to find the
place of days. Maybe if I'm fit better, so you die.
I don't say you were a little more towards you
(03:34):
left to right as you any questions. You ask me,
ask why you do now? But I said I wasn't
all right and you couldn't have why you didn't? Then
you didn't come back pretty fast and you say no, no,
didn't time no.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Ha, And we got an argument about the back.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Didn't men see you have out of that? Mean talking
about the times a brick presence would give teacher something
(04:16):
you both like the some of the ons like to
set a dish. Then the top of that, would you
have anything like that? Uh? A great laugh because I
wouldn't be thought them out? You would like that out?
So my game do the jild a ounted stag a
ndo something like they do, or strictly the nightclubs idn
(04:39):
do you thought you would if it was gobbling happen
and I made you given it to any house it
did end d I don't have any any.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Uh last.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Maybe been a long time. Probably you had. I mean
a lot of things you say anything, Oh yeah, time
you were like your song. It's schools all the time,
(05:31):
like you tack them all money says specially yeh. There's
a many things to do with you. You don't what
I mean? Don't many suppose so you're a company with
that you someone who believe like your thuse. Uh. I
(05:51):
meant to ask, do you have any dams or anything
like that happened in your hide your hope, not thought
your house? Uh? I remember how many jams I got
out of the old days. No, I'm not writing now.
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Wait a I reb old day. The day is us.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, all the time, I guess any do you say
you you No, I don't have to send the somethings.
I got to remember anything that was a way you
were in that place to about stem. Don't don't picking
(06:35):
up my dow just to think you're bigger than any incident. Uh,
you always do anything day. I ran into him just
before the war. I you know the wife recognize you
might wait by that short you write the leg or
you were most of you didn't really help you postman
an a lot you huh well, I Christmas what I said,
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you didn't know a lot of things. Some of it
can't when you were different story young oh uh way,
just for fun I asked him what the matter was lay.
It was funny hearing the decided the story. When I
do the other side, he's or hated you have I
ain't never heard of a man he got.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Stow in all my life.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Huh oh, No, he's an old man. He was an
old man when he didn't have to fight. Didn't you remember?
I remember something else? I remember all the times if
I remember? How about that? I bet you you know what?
(07:47):
You hm much? You remember that safe? But another night
we were uh didn't have any names? Say yah, I
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kind of situation. That's not a no. No, I didn't time.
I want about us. I don't want to buy you
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that way, No I have it isn't fun sea, Yeah,
that's what I mean. No, I don't. I can't. Why
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not money or is it? Yes? I lay on t
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they like I say Christmas? I think how about present day?
(10:13):
That's the way? Is ever? What I did? I that
I'm glad I do anything that A high about it?
But do not don't now I don't know if it's
(10:38):
so bad you can us foot forwards kind of thing?
Wrong job. I used to think, hm, that's good. I
(11:08):
must see falls fall us. I guess I never Why
do you know? Yehs? Including nuts? Christmas? What do you
(11:44):
bring to stop at your home? You said you're going
eating games out on the pot name I've told you
she didn't. I didn't pick nothing but bound and tell
me to go. I don't know now, why don't you
talk over the type of time and when the kid
(12:04):
took the so idea in all the way to going
any Christmas was always a kid in the dark you'd recognized,
and I met that old fun lead me. I don't
notes long is anything else you would talk without? Anyway?
(12:29):
Old you? I walk over to the lady and the
black poll the ices that way yelp, or the top
of anything running packing number ice out on the ice
(12:51):
might tell me and drag your ub. I thought that
was the listing of the ray that bob to the
boat walker photorock, but it wasn't lay chop fine question
(13:13):
carry rogos about a line you like you got h
How do you spose you was gone as you want
to happen? I always say, tell me about the gag
(13:37):
presidents remember the care we or we do the moon idea?
You want Christmas? Think you lot? W I found about
line you up stuff you have to day mayor but
what do a you tube? So I even went off.
(14:06):
It was kind of play any express the games you
want to go out there as long as you would
be a nice must guy around town and all that.
There's not much rules that you said up like that
or whether the pass out? Oh? I mean, have you
ever beans what's wanted to do in school or talent
(14:29):
school there or any things like that? Instances? I do
that warn go on with good kills, A lot of
good kinds of my sisters do. I never sugot her an.
I thought about her business, so I went out to
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do what the grade? How does the kind of the
way you are nass anything? You like the way I
told you about Do you remember what was that? Way?
(15:15):
To you? You remembering anything? Now? Well? What are you
figuring for them? It's still? Do you make me nervous?
I get like the way I told you about play?
Do you remember things I've way to you? Do you
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remembering anything? Now? So? What are you fidgeting for that? Si?
Still you make me nervous? I ain't you nervous? I
didn't think of that? You know what? I remember a
lot of people thought you committed suicide. I don't know
any reason for re committing suicide, do you unless uh, well,
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she might have been pretty upset about breaking out that deal.
If you were her, I wish you'd tell me something sometime. Uh,
how did you break it off? Did you? Did you
just tell me? Did you take one last walk in
the park and say, hey, kid, it's all off? M
R wonder Oh, I suppose it's none of my business
(16:24):
after all, But I wonder about things like that. I
wondered so many times what she said. Did she put
up a big beep about it? Or did she take
it to well like I had to take it when
she told me about you and might have been living,
you know, to step up and be the big hearted
stiff and say to well when I lived here, if
the deal was by pals off, I am still sticking around. Uh,
(16:47):
I'm alway set for it if you want any part
of me. No, I really loved it, but I didn't
get a chat. Uh, that's why I went away. I
suppose that's why I came back too. You got that
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green miss, and I sent you. No, I didn't put
my name on the bankage. I figured you'd know who
sent it. And you got the pair. Now if you
kept the other one, but the one I sent you
was all shrunk up. You couldn't wear it, you know, Walker,
That's what it was. Wool shrinks and walker unless you
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take care of it. And I guess nobody took care
of this one. It's probably they've been lying around in
the hotel dress of drawers and nose suitcases for years. Anyway,
you know where it's been. Uh. Oh, say there's something
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you might tell me about too. Sometimes there's a certain
a friend of ours. Uh. Well, I don't know how
much of a friend he is, but maybe you know.
I won't tell you his name, because, as I said,
I don't think it's a good idea to mention names
in public like this. Say, are you going to sleep?
We'll set up and listen. We got a lot to
talk about. Yet we're in the radio up a little lot.
I don't want you to miss anything that's better. Uh
(18:15):
about this friend? I got a telephone call the other day. Uh,
last Saturday? What are you figuring about? I have a cigarette?
I got this phone call, And when I answered, the
guy said, oh, Dan, yet, Dane, maybe you think you
know who this is? Why? Sure, it's bad. I never
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mind that. I'm not going to tell you who I am.
A very good reason. Well, now, look, I can get
along with anybody.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I'm not kidding Jane, I'm.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Not going to mention any names at all. A certain
guy that you and I both know has been spreading
a few stories that you want to know about. Oh
is that's all? Yes? Uh? What kind of stories have
you been the last few years? Well, for a while
I was in the army h ninety ninth division of
the boug Themagan Bridge and all that. Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
This is a friend of yours.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
You said you've been in the penitentiary. It sounds like
a wonderful friend, do me. Well? As a matter of fact,
I was what four years? Good Jane, Now you're gonna
ask me what I was in for? Who wasn't it?
I had a job in a penitentiary. Oh what a
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job I worked there? Oh sure?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Well, yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Your friend probably misunderstood, I hope. So well, what did
you do on the guard? Oh no, no, I had
a very special job. Uh. I'll tell you about it sometimes, gee, Jane, Oh, oh,
but sorry you I mean I'm gonna tell his friend
of yours joh sing like that's a ruin. That's right.
It could gooldn't it could? Oh you know, Dan, I'm
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sure thanks for calling. It's nice of you.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I'm sorry about it.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I'll tell him. No, No, I'll tell him when I
see him or sometime. You mean, do you know who
it is? Why? Sure? So long Bob, and thanks anyway,
I'm sure of hop if you didn't have any misunderstanding
about what I've been doing, Pow, what do you want
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to know? You wanted me to tell you sometimes what
my job was there? I've had some funny jobs in
all these years. You would know about that which you've
been here all the time on the same job. Make
him go not worrying about anything, or not worrying about much.
Worries disappear sometimes over the creative years. Something then me
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have a habit of popping up again, and sometimes worse
than they were before. Your thoughts were forgotten.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Now, I hope you don't have anything like that, Pow.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Welcome to look on the face of palk for a
Manchu might have.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Well, don't worry paler.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Than it always comes out the way it ought to
come out in the long run. And the fella always
gets what's coming to him, never fails. He never fails. Well.
One thing. One of the things about a guy in
my setting is I got very little to worry about it.
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One thing can happen to me? What everything's happened? I
take a fellow like you, pow, you're fairly well off.
You've got a lot of grand thing you're doing all right?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
So what if youigure out one.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Of those kicks and the teeth like a few live heads?
What happens to you? Guess? Have things to think about? Worry?
Lie awake nights. I don't have to worry. I'm as
free as the air. I've got everything I want, or
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almost everything I want.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Soon i'll have everything.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
And that's that. We're the one of us young anymore?
Are we? Oh? We're not old man, sure, but we
don't have the fast kids they were. Once when we
were pals together before she died, and we kind of
broke up and with out wave, say what time is it?
Let's see your watch. I'm sure flies, doesn't it? I
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only got a few more minutes, we getchell, just just
a few more minutes. Here I stand, guessing, and you're
sitting there clutching that piece of paper. Look be a
palin hanging on to it for.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
A little while.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yet, just six or seven minutes, as a matter of fact, said,
and I'll stop them, you take it from the air.
I wanted to tell you about last Saturday, though first
I had a couple of fellas from my old optic
to see. Well, you know, it's that Dad and I
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sat around the But I'm all afternoon knocking over bottles
of beer and hashing over the bulge and some of
the things they put me up through after the war.
I don't usually take more than two beers in an afternoon,
But mad you know how it is, or do you no?
I wish you don't. You were in the service where
you remember, Oh well, we can't.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
All be heroes. I always say.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
The reason we sat around so long was this call
of mine out of the ninety nine, still something about
a special child I had to do after the war,
or up in Germany. I wasn't very anxious to have
everybody in the world know about it. So I kidd
at the butt of the lock with this feather merchant
we were talking to, and pretty soon there was seven
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o'clock and the civilian was still asking questions with his
eyes budging out. So I had one more beer and
I went back to the hotel, and you know what,
somebody had been in my room. I tried to figure
out how anybody could have got in there without the
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hotel people putting up the faces walking They said they
didn't know anything about it. And then all of a sudden,
I remembered. I remembered that night I was at your
house and we ate the chicken out of key and
kidded about the knife and stuff. I went back to
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the hotel and I'd lost my key, might have been
in a taxicab or some place I don't know where.
It was a good thing the hotel people had another
key from my room, even if the night ork did
beef about people losing keys can't get metal to make them,
or some long line of stuff like that. So I said, okay,
but I'll pay you for it a second. So yeah,
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I think somebody either found the key or sneaked it
out of my pocket someplace, and just I didn't see
what I had lying around. It was worth drama. He
done a pretty good job, but going through my bags
and my address of floors, and the only thing that
was missing he was a old book of mine, a
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real book, kind of a bag. Hey, hey, where are
you going?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Come on, sit down.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Oh, I'll only be a few more minutes. Come on,
sit down, and I did. I gotta pay off to
all this that other this is really something. Well, you're
comfortable now. Uh. The bilk wouldn't he much used to
anybody but me, except for one or two especially hot parts.
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I hate to do. It was them. I was pretty griped,
and I yelled at a house take at the hotel
that he was out having to play the pigs knuckles
or a salad bow or something. And he wouldn't be
intil ten anyway. You wouldn't been much good to even
looked like a housetick. So I sat down to think.
Then I got up and looked for fingerprints. Uh, the
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penitentiary training you though. I was in charge of the
print file the first year I was there. Oh, I
can look the prinkle the next time as I'd go mad, Yeah,
sure I found something. You dropped your cigarette. I stuck
him in an envelope and nailed him in the tops.
The whale shoot was just outside my boat. Everything was
(26:29):
ducky except for one thing. Weaved my life's cigarette. Uh
you still got that paper? Okay, I don't belong now now.
The last thing I remember was hearing the door. The
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clothes closet squeak open. I started to get off the
nuts when I got the knife through my back. Dead,
that's sure, I'm dead. I wonder how I'm talking to
you on the radio, don't you?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Well?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Now you can do so many things on the radio
if you're smart. Now listen, you got that piece of paper? Good? Listen.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Now I'm gonna ask your three simple little questions. And
when I ask you the questions and order, you answer
me by reading.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
The answers and turn off to you a piece of paper. Okay, okay,
here we go. The first one is that blood on
your hands? The second?
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Whose blood is it?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
And the third whose knife was that there was left
sticking in my back? Okay, dal's your prince are down?
The girl? I'm in a morgue. The cops of that
the night, and I think somebody heard what you just said.
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Oh one thing more, you were wondering.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
What my job was at the penitentiary. I was the executioner.
Comes on even, doesn't it?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
And isn't that somebody at your door? You have been
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listening to Quiet Plays, which is written man directed by
Rose Cooper. The man who spoke to you was Ernest
Chapman and Panelmalley was the man on the telephone, the
girl was Vicky Vola.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
And mother Charmin Allen.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Music, as usual Choir Please is composed and played by
Jeane Carazzo. And now for worry about next week's fire please,
here is our writer, Director Willis Cooper. Next week's story
is called The Big Fox, the story of what happened
one night to a truck driver when the coast the
coast hall that he didn't want to make. And so
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until next week of this time, I am quietly yours,
Ernie Chapel, a
Why why have these stings?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Listen? Why have these I mis directions concerns The green
verd cap called how are you pass us? I want
(01:19):
you to play other games. I want you to stuarts
to write down fore s, don't write them down and
pull number. Some people saw you time you have an
don't think you differ a moment of pomcasts only another
moment to bite down people about gidness. Write 'em down
(01:40):
and keep 'em alongside. Spike down person. Yes, next you
write down your now like down mine?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yes it is yours mine?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
I thought.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Now relaces.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Twos or school stiens sucsess en around about six. Won't happen?
(02:42):
Speceis have you haven't seen much against in the last
few years? What about anything like this? Sound called thy
sis aynss I remember since story my twenty one. I
(03:12):
didn't think of it. Time din mean no was not
back language said it was New York timey you service
have a re old rag calls said you were sure
of the old protas moving O money to find the
place of days. Maybe if I'm fit better, so you die.
I don't say you were a little more towards you
(03:34):
left to right as you any questions. You ask me,
ask why you do now? But I said I wasn't
all right and you couldn't have why you didn't? Then
you didn't come back pretty fast and you say no, no,
didn't time no.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Ha, And we got an argument about the back.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Didn't men see you have out of that? Mean talking
about the times a brick presence would give teacher something
(04:16):
you both like the some of the ons like to
set a dish. Then the top of that, would you
have anything like that? Uh? A great laugh because I
wouldn't be thought them out? You would like that out?
So my game do the jild a ounted stag a
ndo something like they do, or strictly the nightclubs idn
(04:39):
do you thought you would if it was gobbling happen
and I made you given it to any house it
did end d I don't have any any.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Uh last.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Maybe been a long time. Probably you had. I mean
a lot of things you say anything, Oh yeah, time
you were like your song. It's schools all the time,
(05:31):
like you tack them all money says specially yeh. There's
a many things to do with you. You don't what
I mean? Don't many suppose so you're a company with
that you someone who believe like your thuse. Uh. I
(05:51):
meant to ask, do you have any dams or anything
like that happened in your hide your hope, not thought
your house? Uh? I remember how many jams I got
out of the old days. No, I'm not writing now.
I don't think.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Wait a I reb old day. The day is us.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, all the time, I guess any do you say
you you No, I don't have to send the somethings.
I got to remember anything that was a way you
were in that place to about stem. Don't don't picking
(06:35):
up my dow just to think you're bigger than any incident. Uh,
you always do anything day. I ran into him just
before the war. I you know the wife recognize you
might wait by that short you write the leg or
you were most of you didn't really help you postman
an a lot you huh well, I Christmas what I said,
(06:57):
you didn't know a lot of things. Some of it
can't when you were different story young oh uh way,
just for fun I asked him what the matter was lay.
It was funny hearing the decided the story. When I
do the other side, he's or hated you have I
ain't never heard of a man he got.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Stow in all my life.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Huh oh, No, he's an old man. He was an
old man when he didn't have to fight. Didn't you remember?
I remember something else? I remember all the times if
I remember? How about that? I bet you you know what?
(07:47):
You hm much? You remember that safe? But another night
we were uh didn't have any names? Say yah, I
(08:19):
kind of situation. That's not a no. No, I didn't time.
I want about us. I don't want to buy you
(08:45):
that way, No I have it isn't fun sea, Yeah,
that's what I mean. No, I don't. I can't. Why
(09:08):
not money or is it? Yes? I lay on t
(09:30):
they like I say Christmas? I think how about present day?
(10:13):
That's the way? Is ever? What I did? I that
I'm glad I do anything that A high about it?
But do not don't now I don't know if it's
(10:38):
so bad you can us foot forwards kind of thing?
Wrong job. I used to think, hm, that's good. I
(11:08):
must see falls fall us. I guess I never Why
do you know? Yehs? Including nuts? Christmas? What do you
(11:44):
bring to stop at your home? You said you're going
eating games out on the pot name I've told you
she didn't. I didn't pick nothing but bound and tell
me to go. I don't know now, why don't you
talk over the type of time and when the kid
(12:04):
took the so idea in all the way to going
any Christmas was always a kid in the dark you'd recognized,
and I met that old fun lead me. I don't
notes long is anything else you would talk without? Anyway?
(12:29):
Old you? I walk over to the lady and the
black poll the ices that way yelp, or the top
of anything running packing number ice out on the ice
(12:51):
might tell me and drag your ub. I thought that
was the listing of the ray that bob to the
boat walker photorock, but it wasn't lay chop fine question
(13:13):
carry rogos about a line you like you got h
How do you spose you was gone as you want
to happen? I always say, tell me about the gag
(13:37):
presidents remember the care we or we do the moon idea?
You want Christmas? Think you lot? W I found about
line you up stuff you have to day mayor but
what do a you tube? So I even went off.
(14:06):
It was kind of play any express the games you
want to go out there as long as you would
be a nice must guy around town and all that.
There's not much rules that you said up like that
or whether the pass out? Oh? I mean, have you
ever beans what's wanted to do in school or talent
(14:29):
school there or any things like that? Instances? I do
that warn go on with good kills, A lot of
good kinds of my sisters do. I never sugot her an.
I thought about her business, so I went out to
(14:55):
do what the grade? How does the kind of the
way you are nass anything? You like the way I
told you about Do you remember what was that? Way?
(15:15):
To you? You remembering anything? Now? Well? What are you
figuring for them? It's still? Do you make me nervous?
I get like the way I told you about play?
Do you remember things I've way to you? Do you
(15:37):
remembering anything? Now? So? What are you fidgeting for that? Si?
Still you make me nervous? I ain't you nervous? I
didn't think of that? You know what? I remember a
lot of people thought you committed suicide. I don't know
any reason for re committing suicide, do you unless uh, well,
(16:00):
she might have been pretty upset about breaking out that deal.
If you were her, I wish you'd tell me something sometime. Uh,
how did you break it off? Did you? Did you
just tell me? Did you take one last walk in
the park and say, hey, kid, it's all off? M
R wonder Oh, I suppose it's none of my business
(16:24):
after all, But I wonder about things like that. I
wondered so many times what she said. Did she put
up a big beep about it? Or did she take
it to well like I had to take it when
she told me about you and might have been living,
you know, to step up and be the big hearted
stiff and say to well when I lived here, if
the deal was by pals off, I am still sticking around. Uh,
(16:47):
I'm alway set for it if you want any part
of me. No, I really loved it, but I didn't
get a chat. Uh, that's why I went away. I
suppose that's why I came back too. You got that
(17:10):
green miss, and I sent you. No, I didn't put
my name on the bankage. I figured you'd know who
sent it. And you got the pair. Now if you
kept the other one, but the one I sent you
was all shrunk up. You couldn't wear it, you know, Walker,
That's what it was. Wool shrinks and walker unless you
(17:30):
take care of it. And I guess nobody took care
of this one. It's probably they've been lying around in
the hotel dress of drawers and nose suitcases for years. Anyway,
you know where it's been. Uh. Oh, say there's something
(17:51):
you might tell me about too. Sometimes there's a certain
a friend of ours. Uh. Well, I don't know how
much of a friend he is, but maybe you know.
I won't tell you his name, because, as I said,
I don't think it's a good idea to mention names
in public like this. Say, are you going to sleep?
We'll set up and listen. We got a lot to
talk about. Yet we're in the radio up a little lot.
I don't want you to miss anything that's better. Uh
(18:15):
about this friend? I got a telephone call the other day. Uh,
last Saturday? What are you figuring about? I have a cigarette?
I got this phone call, And when I answered, the
guy said, oh, Dan, yet, Dane, maybe you think you
know who this is? Why? Sure, it's bad. I never
(18:37):
mind that. I'm not going to tell you who I am.
A very good reason. Well, now, look, I can get
along with anybody.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I'm not kidding Jane, I'm.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Not going to mention any names at all. A certain
guy that you and I both know has been spreading
a few stories that you want to know about. Oh
is that's all? Yes? Uh? What kind of stories have
you been the last few years? Well, for a while
I was in the army h ninety ninth division of
the boug Themagan Bridge and all that. Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
This is a friend of yours.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
You said you've been in the penitentiary. It sounds like
a wonderful friend, do me. Well? As a matter of fact,
I was what four years? Good Jane, Now you're gonna
ask me what I was in for? Who wasn't it?
I had a job in a penitentiary. Oh what a
(19:35):
job I worked there? Oh sure?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Well, yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Your friend probably misunderstood, I hope. So well, what did
you do on the guard? Oh no, no, I had
a very special job. Uh. I'll tell you about it sometimes, gee, Jane, Oh, oh,
but sorry you I mean I'm gonna tell his friend
of yours joh sing like that's a ruin. That's right.
It could gooldn't it could? Oh you know, Dan, I'm
(20:07):
sure thanks for calling. It's nice of you.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I'm sorry about it.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I'll tell him. No, No, I'll tell him when I
see him or sometime. You mean, do you know who
it is? Why? Sure? So long Bob, and thanks anyway,
I'm sure of hop if you didn't have any misunderstanding
about what I've been doing, Pow, what do you want
(20:33):
to know? You wanted me to tell you sometimes what
my job was there? I've had some funny jobs in
all these years. You would know about that which you've
been here all the time on the same job. Make
him go not worrying about anything, or not worrying about much.
Worries disappear sometimes over the creative years. Something then me
(20:57):
have a habit of popping up again, and sometimes worse
than they were before. Your thoughts were forgotten.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Now, I hope you don't have anything like that, Pow.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Welcome to look on the face of palk for a
Manchu might have.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Well, don't worry paler.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Than it always comes out the way it ought to
come out in the long run. And the fella always
gets what's coming to him, never fails. He never fails. Well.
One thing. One of the things about a guy in
my setting is I got very little to worry about it.
(21:32):
One thing can happen to me? What everything's happened? I
take a fellow like you, pow, you're fairly well off.
You've got a lot of grand thing you're doing all right?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
So what if youigure out one.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Of those kicks and the teeth like a few live heads?
What happens to you? Guess? Have things to think about? Worry?
Lie awake nights. I don't have to worry. I'm as
free as the air. I've got everything I want, or
(22:06):
almost everything I want.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Soon i'll have everything.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
And that's that. We're the one of us young anymore?
Are we? Oh? We're not old man, sure, but we
don't have the fast kids they were. Once when we
were pals together before she died, and we kind of
broke up and with out wave, say what time is it?
Let's see your watch. I'm sure flies, doesn't it? I
(22:29):
only got a few more minutes, we getchell, just just
a few more minutes. Here I stand, guessing, and you're
sitting there clutching that piece of paper. Look be a
palin hanging on to it for.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
A little while.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yet, just six or seven minutes, as a matter of fact, said,
and I'll stop them, you take it from the air.
I wanted to tell you about last Saturday, though first
I had a couple of fellas from my old optic
to see. Well, you know, it's that Dad and I
(22:59):
sat around the But I'm all afternoon knocking over bottles
of beer and hashing over the bulge and some of
the things they put me up through after the war.
I don't usually take more than two beers in an afternoon,
But mad you know how it is, or do you no?
I wish you don't. You were in the service where
you remember, Oh well, we can't.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
All be heroes. I always say.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
The reason we sat around so long was this call
of mine out of the ninety nine, still something about
a special child I had to do after the war,
or up in Germany. I wasn't very anxious to have
everybody in the world know about it. So I kidd
at the butt of the lock with this feather merchant
we were talking to, and pretty soon there was seven
(23:46):
o'clock and the civilian was still asking questions with his
eyes budging out. So I had one more beer and
I went back to the hotel, and you know what,
somebody had been in my room. I tried to figure
out how anybody could have got in there without the
(24:06):
hotel people putting up the faces walking They said they
didn't know anything about it. And then all of a sudden,
I remembered. I remembered that night I was at your
house and we ate the chicken out of key and
kidded about the knife and stuff. I went back to
(24:27):
the hotel and I'd lost my key, might have been
in a taxicab or some place I don't know where.
It was a good thing the hotel people had another
key from my room, even if the night ork did
beef about people losing keys can't get metal to make them,
or some long line of stuff like that. So I said, okay,
but I'll pay you for it a second. So yeah,
(24:51):
I think somebody either found the key or sneaked it
out of my pocket someplace, and just I didn't see
what I had lying around. It was worth drama. He
done a pretty good job, but going through my bags
and my address of floors, and the only thing that
was missing he was a old book of mine, a
(25:13):
real book, kind of a bag. Hey, hey, where are
you going?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Come on, sit down.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Oh, I'll only be a few more minutes. Come on,
sit down, and I did. I gotta pay off to
all this that other this is really something. Well, you're
comfortable now. Uh. The bilk wouldn't he much used to
anybody but me, except for one or two especially hot parts.
(25:43):
I hate to do. It was them. I was pretty griped,
and I yelled at a house take at the hotel
that he was out having to play the pigs knuckles
or a salad bow or something. And he wouldn't be
intil ten anyway. You wouldn't been much good to even
looked like a housetick. So I sat down to think.
Then I got up and looked for fingerprints. Uh, the
(26:05):
penitentiary training you though. I was in charge of the
print file the first year I was there. Oh, I
can look the prinkle the next time as I'd go mad, Yeah,
sure I found something. You dropped your cigarette. I stuck
him in an envelope and nailed him in the tops.
The whale shoot was just outside my boat. Everything was
(26:29):
ducky except for one thing. Weaved my life's cigarette. Uh
you still got that paper? Okay, I don't belong now now.
The last thing I remember was hearing the door. The
(26:51):
clothes closet squeak open. I started to get off the
nuts when I got the knife through my back. Dead,
that's sure, I'm dead. I wonder how I'm talking to
you on the radio, don't you?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Well?
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Now you can do so many things on the radio
if you're smart. Now listen, you got that piece of paper? Good? Listen.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Now I'm gonna ask your three simple little questions. And
when I ask you the questions and order, you answer
me by reading.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
The answers and turn off to you a piece of paper. Okay, okay,
here we go. The first one is that blood on
your hands? The second?
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Whose blood is it?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
And the third whose knife was that there was left
sticking in my back? Okay, dal's your prince are down?
The girl? I'm in a morgue. The cops of that
the night, and I think somebody heard what you just said.
(28:06):
Oh one thing more, you were wondering.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
What my job was at the penitentiary. I was the executioner.
Comes on even, doesn't it?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
And isn't that somebody at your door? You have been
(28:41):
listening to Quiet Plays, which is written man directed by
Rose Cooper. The man who spoke to you was Ernest
Chapman and Panelmalley was the man on the telephone, the
girl was Vicky Vola.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
And mother Charmin Allen.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Music, as usual Choir Please is composed and played by
Jeane Carazzo. And now for worry about next week's fire please,
here is our writer, Director Willis Cooper. Next week's story
is called The Big Fox, the story of what happened
one night to a truck driver when the coast the
coast hall that he didn't want to make. And so
(29:27):
until next week of this time, I am quietly yours,
Ernie Chapel, a
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