August 3, 2025 • 27 mins
A horror and fantasy anthology series that delves into the eerie and the unknown, offering stories that unsettle and provoke thought. Its minimalist production enhances the chilling narratives.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Quiet Please, Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
M The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is
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written and directed by Willis Cooper and the features Ernest Chapel.
Quiet Please for Today is called the smell of high Wines.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
You can talk about the nostalgic sound is all you're wanting,
church bells on a summer Sunday morning, when you'll come
back to your hometown of for a long, long time,
A long homesick cry of a train whistle when you
wake up in the middle of the night somebody's voice
you haven't heard for a long time. You can talk
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about nostalgic sites too, drown cows vand ring over a
green hillside, and a funny y shaped fence posts out
on the side of Rose Valley Road that you saw
the men putting up twenty years ago. But for my money,
there isn't anything like a smell to bring things back.
The smell of burnt course sounds, the training punts as
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a smell town pondree somewhere in Indiana, the bitter smell
of fresh tanned leather, and your mouth puckers up like
a bit when you're a kid walking past the hardness
shot a linseeds smell of good fat printers zinc and
a greenish smell of raw newsprints. They are things that
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bring it back for me. It's the smell of high liners.
Smell it once and you'll never forget it. But wasn't
the the stilly town And you'll smell it practice all
the time. And you remember shorty gale and a funny
street car that took you to work at five in
the morning. You remember the cold air that came up
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through the slacks and the fermenting room floor to freeze,
and your wet overalls. You remember the logs, dusty wooden
stairs up to the tower, and somewhere behind it all
is the taste of cold fried egg standages and your
lunch pan at midnight with the full room looking quizzically
in the wind at you, kind of sharing a secret
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with you. I like hatch the snow of high waenngy,
and I hear a sound that I thought I'd forgotten,
And you see a pick or I forgotten too. The
little room way up at the top of the tower, musty, dusty,
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with white meal, one little yellow light hanging from the
cobweby wire over an old desk, the plank easy chair
one smooth, but I don't know how many governments store keeping.
And the smell and insisting little smell of high Wines
to remember it by. And the sound I hear is
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the sound of something dripping under the warped dusty floor,
drop crop, drop, drop on the uneven floor, the sound
of a man's life dripping away, all alone in the
tower at three o'clock in the morning. I remember back
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in this more than thirty years ago. I wake up
at three o'clock in the morning, and I saw high
Wines punge it sharp with a kind of vicious cleanness
and coming to life of the sharp alcohols and the
estes released from the prison of the grains that were
born in. And the smell brings back the blurred picture
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of the little room where the man lay across the
strid desk and blooded like away. I couldn't see his
face in the promptly life from the crusted lightgub. I
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could see only his dark clothing across the bed, his
hand dangling towards the floor. The smell of Highways was strong,
and I cramped little room, and there was only the drip, drip,
drip drip to hear, and the stains slowly spreading on
the floor. And I remember I ran headlong down the
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stairs and out into the clean air of the night,
and I can still feel the uneven tied with a
rel I went under my feet as I ran away
from my place. And I remember how the smell of
high lines pursued me through the dark and through the day.
Through the bright hours of the day, I squandered my
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sleeping time staring at the walls. One day, I'm waiting
for a call. It would take me back to that
murder room. That's when five o'clock came and mother gave
me my twenty cents and my lunch pale, and I
rode the bumpy street car down to the end of
the line and walked the last half mile and climbed
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the stairs with the fermenting room office. Grover sat on
the bench and looked up at me over his first
cup of coffee, and Dutch came in with a thermometer
and there's stiltson wrench and slapped me on the shoulder number.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Ten times that day and he fixed day.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Let I look at it in about an hour.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
What if you're arresting your genie, you canna repack the
new public your other.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Alright?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Glad with you?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Me nothing he's sick me No, I'm not sick.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
As light as a sheet.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Listen, broker, MM, what happened?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
What do you mean? What happened?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Why later with you?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Stop in the tower?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
What happened up in the power? Didn't you hear?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Here? Was last night?
Speaker 4 (06:35):
It wasn't here last night? It was that night off.
Don't you remember?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Sure? I remember?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Didn't?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Didn't anybody tell you what happened up there last night?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Where in the tower? What happened? A man dead?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Why?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Dead man? H I signed?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Are you not a Eugene? No, I'm not muddy groper.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I didn't hear about any dead man.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
It wasn't I don't know. I saw him, Terry, It
was all over the floor, blood, blood, I saw it.
What were you treating with that end of the phone?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
It ain't connected at night?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Said this is the gene You saw a dead man
up in the tower?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah? Where I was just up there looking for something
to read. And mister Files usually had some magazines up there,
and I was only up there a minute And was
this that?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
It was?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah? It wasn't anybody up there? But what the way
to do? Dead man?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
So I didn't know you better. I'd think it'd been
at a slop there out there in the coop.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I saw him. It was a sleep, and he had drained,
and I was not.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
He was a sleep. That's why that number nine was
up to ninety one. When Fred and I are came
on this morning, they let them out. They said it
was ninety one.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
It was a sleep.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
How wasn't this wait waiting? Did you hear anything about it?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
But me? No?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Somebody was murdered up there, the all over the plant.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Wouldn't it all over town?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
The latchman did the say anything about it? I run
into Everett Strokes and night came in a night. He
didn't say anything about it. If anything had happened, Everet
would have said something. He had a knight, Mary and Jam, No,
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I saw him.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
He would much keep an eye on things of humorous women.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Huh. I sure get energe Odd, where.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
We're going up in the tower, and have a look
for your dead name. He had dark up there.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
It was dark when it was gloomy, and he smelled
of high wines, just as it always did, and then
the people's glow from a little yellow land. The dust
was barren clean, lightly dusted with a pottery of me
of fifty years grinding. Four or four birds were dusty right,
and I could even see the footprints and the dust
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dive lade the night before.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Where'd you see the blood?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I could on the floor. I saw it. And now
the floor was dry as it always had been. The
dust laid thick on it. The dust could have been
there for years. And I got down on her knees
to look.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Oh anything, little blood on this floor?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I saw it.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Listen to the gene if I ever heard of you
going to sleep on the night shift again when you're
being paid to keep an eye on fourteenth cubs but
from many marrish down series only? Who's that? What do
you want? I told you to say, Hey, what the
fire was? That? The fire was mister Star, the one
that star was up there and I didn't know I
had he was night out last night. Yeah, he's dead.
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It was all last night and somebody got in the
house and stabbed.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Him and see blooded that and you know what else?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
What?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
But I think it was somebody from the the seller here.
Why cause when they found him. My whole woman smile
that just like it does around here.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
My little eyelines was just dray really.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Not the p.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yes, I know what you're thinking. I know what you're saying
to yourself. He did it. Eugene did it, and he
lied when he told her about growing up in the
tower and finding a man bleeding the bat, the man
that never was there man they couldn't find any sign up.
The next day you're saying that's a sign out about Eugene,
And you're saying that business about the smell of high
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winds is a nice touch. But don't you forgetting something wrong?
You figure not your fine theory? Can't you forgetting that
I told my story before a girlfriend Dutch had heard
about how the clouds was dead by a person. The
person's unknown. Do you think a murderer would make up
a story like that and tell it ahead of time?
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The smart member wouldn't have told it at all, would he?
So if I had have done, it wouldn't have been
content with everybody think. I know I was at work
in the boost every all night, but nobody even thinking
of means a potential murdery. That's the way you'd think
isn't it wouldn't a shut off your mouth about the
dead man bleeding to death, mister File's office in the
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place smelling a high wind long before I came out,
and mister Files really was murdered his home, and the
blood dripping off on the floor, and the smell of
high wine's there too, let's say, picked me up and
I stayed in the red brick jail behind the courthouse
for a long time, and then finally had a trial.
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And I sat there with handcuffs and whistened, and I
grew friend Dutch tolder service.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yes, sir, he told us just that, uh where you've
got a job?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Yes, sir, he said he saw the dead man and
mister File's up.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yes, sir, he said it was about uh three o'clock
in the morning.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Yes sir, he was.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
They're all wrong, gonna find by him sewl.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
No, sir, he could have left and brought to mister
Fowles house and murder themmon nobody would have known me he
left the distillery, No, sir, he wasn't at the distillery
when the day chet came on. No, sir, I don't
know where he was.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
From where it talk out and where they were talking
in the court room all the time. I could smell
a smell just painting. I could smell a smell of
high winds, and and there wasn't anything in the court
room it could make it smell like high winds. And
when I asked Ralph draw the sheriff, he said he
couldn't smell anything at all except the fresh paint. But
they painted the jury room. I no high wind smell
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at all, but I could smell it. And that's the
way it happened. I told you the truth all the
way along, which is one of those stories where the
man said at the end, Look, I've been lying to
you I did it, and I've been lying to you
about it. I didn't do him. And that's the way
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it happened. Just like I told you. They acquitted me.
You could see they couldn't prove anything, and the story
was too fantastic. And I hardly knew mister Files at all.
That's all I was great. I said, I'm not mad
at your glover.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I'm sure, Eugenea. You know I had to say what
I said. But you notice I didn't say anything that
would make people think I thought you did it. I
stuck right to the truth.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I I just answered the questions. I said, Oh, I know, Glover,
I rede you in the court. I didn't say anything
any Eugene. I just told him what she said to me.
I didn't volunteer anything either. There wasn't anything to volunteer,
was the Dutch. No, there wasn't No, there wasn't too.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
We just told which truds. The whole truth was.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Nothing but the truth. He we gotta get a new
job of this.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Aren't you a coming back to the distillery, Eugene, being
you want?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I guess not, Glover. I don't think they'll take me back, sir,
if I wasn't a jail I don't think so, a Glover,
do you think I didn't I well, no, uh I
I don't think so, Eugene. Do you Dutch fu or?
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I don't know who did at Ggene? And then I
was an uner around at the time, and it was
four five years later. I never did go back to
working in a distillery because of if I wanted to
get a job, they pay any money in the distillery. Yeah,
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I guess I'd been telling them I had experience, and
if I told them how I'd worked and had my experience.
They tried a lot of they'd find out about what happened.
I wouldn't get the job. So I used my middle
name and I went to in the hall. I got
a job. Happened, but I was a telling in the way. You know,
you made pretty good money. And after while I kind
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of stopped worrying about what had happened back home. And
I never heard from anybody at home, and so I was,
all right, then bring any discoveries and don't how anyway.
Then I remember it was the day before Washington's birthday.
In all huh, I I was sitting fan in a
breeze with a house detective the little room down the
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basement wherever you had a table to uh play hides
and stuff, and poke the well and stood up. They said, right,
so I read, I'm going home.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
What time is it?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Part rap to eleven h forty five minutes and then
I can hit the hay wish. I had a shot
of whiskey. Go look at me, and now you don't
touch it. If I used to have lake, you did,
yes for prohibitions, Madison, I grow cooler's making some back
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in the furnace room right now, smell why. I don't
know what that smell is good? That bad? It doesn't smuth?
I smelled that before? Where is it? That's how wins? Huh,
you have a mistake. That smell that's high wine. That's
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what comes out after the first installation of the Match
of the Christie. While there's no destory around here, only
I'm going to see it. I'm telling you, I know
what that is. I smell like curly always leave them
stuff in the passageway there I look out. Yeah, let's
see what they did. Here's a little light wed. What's
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the matter to break head? Look what I didn't man?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Huh, I don't remember it doesn't it? Where the fuck
to the floor was seen tied around his neck? Why
use sat press?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
A bundle of herd, bed spreads and cooler left lay
on the floor. See it looks just like a deadened
end with it twer wraps around his neck? So kind
of go on home? Look just like a fat I
used to move back home. Let's wait, that's the matter. Now,
let's snow. I don't smell anything. Nah, yeah, it's just mad.
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It's a small highways. I don't know ruts you.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yeah, how you down there?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
That's hire. Let see that's no matter your fame, right
a right.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Wats some matter?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
There's a kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
And the small highways in the close little side of
passage ways overpowering. As I raced after the detected the
vary from if I was wide open, just as the
maid had left it this yearran screaming away from it
and on the bed like a dead man. The tower
lad tightly about his neck. And when Red and I
had flung the window open and let out the choke
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and fumes and permeing out of the whole room, And
when he had untied the tower from the lady Advance wrote,
and I looked down on the safe that I knew
it was my old friend Dutch, and I hadn't seen
him for five years. And I told him the truth,
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just the same as I did before. I didn't know
that's was there. I I hadn't had a red from him,
and all of years I've been away, and this time
I played it safe. Red knew that I'd been with
him for an hour. The yard put the Dutch drive
lane floors about me. I couldn't have done it, And
nothing was even the slightest suspicion of me for that matter.
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But there's just coincidence that i'd tipped over. What I
fuck was that that man was a taler nded around
his neck, That's all I think. It wasn't coincidence that
I'd smell but smell high lines. Not how went away
from don't know how anything. I wandered all around and
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I never get smells out again, not till the other day.
Did I don't think glover anything? I came anyways? Office
had it been a long time and I've been all
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over the country. I'd got fat, and I I guess
I got a little prosperous, and I haven't spelled high
lines anywhere, and all that time hangover and he stayed
there at home. Now he was the big boss. He
was the boss of the works that I wanted to
see him for all times sake. So he had a
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nice time there that big open of office to his.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
You know, Dutch died.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Eugene. Did he at my home quite a long time ago.
He was serving for the company and he was out
there and they found him in his room at the hotel.
Did he did?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yeah, It's too bad, isn't it. We used to have
some good times together there way back when.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Sure that did he?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Poor old bet, poor guy.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
And like a sidologin no, no thanks. You know I
had a funny experience as a journey talking about Dutch
he did you know?
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Funny m Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Remember when you like toys where they do? I? I
mean about the fella that was killed then? What was
his name? Os? Remember?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yes, I remember.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
That was uh why you went away, wasn't it?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Uh? I was not talking about it.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Remember how you talked about smelling high wines.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
You know I never smelled high winds for years, not since,
not since swim.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Well, I have a eader. I was glad when they
moved my office up town to get away from that smell.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Always lost the other three.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I don't need to be perfectly frank. What are you
ever stopping for.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
That?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I'm smelling at anything I got.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I caught his stif for highlines, no one of his
office burrowing air conditioning.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Well, no.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Going off what you were saying?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
The funny spirit? So well?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Remember he smelled that smell and he died, the old man.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yes, I remember, I was.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Sitting at home reading the Saturday Evening Post story about
it fell on a submarine and Tommy dumb things.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Why I read about the train? Oh well, I guess
I must have fallen asleep.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
It was late.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
All of a sudden I smelled.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Highlighting it did huh, yeah, just as playing. I don't
smell that smell for years. But you know something of June.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
They'll never forget it.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I guess you don't.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Well, I better be gone away on dream. Then I
want to tell you about this dream. I wouldn't have
thought about it, but it's such a coincidence, you coming
in out of a clear stry. Don't worry about it.
And well, I got up and looked round. I was
all alone at home, and I couldn't imagine it, said
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you just not anything now, No, because it must be
my imagination. Go on, Well, I thought right away about
that old experience of yours.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
What did you find when you looked? What did you find? Out?
Dead body? Why?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
What's the funny?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Wait a minute, I want to tell you that I
was in the hotel when Dutch got killed. I know
you were. How did you know?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I mean, I had an idea you were you Jai.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Oh, I didn't kill Dutch. No, I didn't kill that
old man either. No, I didn't I I know you
didn't well, and how did you know I was there?
When got start? I guessed, well, tell me about your
dream and uh, high Wise?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Now yeah, we do you know anything? Now?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
High Wise?
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Know why?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
That just one way? I I don't want you to
find me dead.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
You see, did you find a dud man who?
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Just now? How long?
Speaker 1 (24:30):
The other knife? Yes?
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I did? You did.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Tell me about it.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
I don't know who it was, Okay, I said, no suicide.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
How did you know?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
He had the gun in his hand? He shot himself
in the head.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
What did you do?
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Manning was lying alongside me on the floor, and I
jumped up. And when I jumped up and linked, there's
nobody there, just.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Like it was when I Just like it was when
you who was a grover?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Why don't you know the dam?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I don't know why. It's the truth. It's the way
everything happened. I didn't tell you any lies. Govit it
neither And I forgot to ask you something. Did you
ever smell highlights? You never did it? Well ns just
smell high lines? Like Greg said, he never forget it.
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I don't know where this gun came from. Yeah, you
know what I want to do with it? Your sons.
You never smell highlights. Take a deep breath, okay, which
might gain a big deep breath. That's it smooth now.
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The title of today's quird Please story is The Smell
of Fire Barns. It was written and directed by Willis Cooper.
The land was booked to you with Ernest Chapel, and
Grover was played by Murray Forbes. Dutch was Frank Thomas Junior,
and Water Black played red music for Grid. Pleases as
usual by all the Bremen and all but a word
about next week. Willis Cooper, thank you for listening to
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choird please my story. Sorry for next week. It's called
a plan for a living, and so until next week.
At the same time, quietly yours, Ernest Chapel. This is ABC,
the American Broadcasting Company. This is w j Z, New
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York's first station.
Quiet Please, Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
M The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is
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written and directed by Willis Cooper and the features Ernest Chapel.
Quiet Please for Today is called the smell of high Wines.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
You can talk about the nostalgic sound is all you're wanting,
church bells on a summer Sunday morning, when you'll come
back to your hometown of for a long, long time,
A long homesick cry of a train whistle when you
wake up in the middle of the night somebody's voice
you haven't heard for a long time. You can talk
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about nostalgic sites too, drown cows vand ring over a
green hillside, and a funny y shaped fence posts out
on the side of Rose Valley Road that you saw
the men putting up twenty years ago. But for my money,
there isn't anything like a smell to bring things back.
The smell of burnt course sounds, the training punts as
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a smell town pondree somewhere in Indiana, the bitter smell
of fresh tanned leather, and your mouth puckers up like
a bit when you're a kid walking past the hardness
shot a linseeds smell of good fat printers zinc and
a greenish smell of raw newsprints. They are things that
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bring it back for me. It's the smell of high liners.
Smell it once and you'll never forget it. But wasn't
the the stilly town And you'll smell it practice all
the time. And you remember shorty gale and a funny
street car that took you to work at five in
the morning. You remember the cold air that came up
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through the slacks and the fermenting room floor to freeze,
and your wet overalls. You remember the logs, dusty wooden
stairs up to the tower, and somewhere behind it all
is the taste of cold fried egg standages and your
lunch pan at midnight with the full room looking quizzically
in the wind at you, kind of sharing a secret
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with you. I like hatch the snow of high waenngy,
and I hear a sound that I thought I'd forgotten,
And you see a pick or I forgotten too. The
little room way up at the top of the tower, musty, dusty,
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with white meal, one little yellow light hanging from the
cobweby wire over an old desk, the plank easy chair
one smooth, but I don't know how many governments store keeping.
And the smell and insisting little smell of high Wines
to remember it by. And the sound I hear is
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the sound of something dripping under the warped dusty floor,
drop crop, drop, drop on the uneven floor, the sound
of a man's life dripping away, all alone in the
tower at three o'clock in the morning. I remember back
(03:52):
in this more than thirty years ago. I wake up
at three o'clock in the morning, and I saw high
Wines punge it sharp with a kind of vicious cleanness
and coming to life of the sharp alcohols and the
estes released from the prison of the grains that were
born in. And the smell brings back the blurred picture
(04:13):
of the little room where the man lay across the
strid desk and blooded like away. I couldn't see his
face in the promptly life from the crusted lightgub. I
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could see only his dark clothing across the bed, his
hand dangling towards the floor. The smell of Highways was strong,
and I cramped little room, and there was only the drip, drip,
drip drip to hear, and the stains slowly spreading on
the floor. And I remember I ran headlong down the
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stairs and out into the clean air of the night,
and I can still feel the uneven tied with a
rel I went under my feet as I ran away
from my place. And I remember how the smell of
high lines pursued me through the dark and through the day.
Through the bright hours of the day, I squandered my
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sleeping time staring at the walls. One day, I'm waiting
for a call. It would take me back to that
murder room. That's when five o'clock came and mother gave
me my twenty cents and my lunch pale, and I
rode the bumpy street car down to the end of
the line and walked the last half mile and climbed
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the stairs with the fermenting room office. Grover sat on
the bench and looked up at me over his first
cup of coffee, and Dutch came in with a thermometer
and there's stiltson wrench and slapped me on the shoulder number.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Ten times that day and he fixed day.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Let I look at it in about an hour.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
What if you're arresting your genie, you canna repack the
new public your other.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Alright?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Glad with you?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Me nothing he's sick me No, I'm not sick.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
As light as a sheet.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Listen, broker, MM, what happened?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
What do you mean? What happened?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Why later with you?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Stop in the tower?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
What happened up in the power? Didn't you hear?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Here? Was last night?
Speaker 4 (06:35):
It wasn't here last night? It was that night off.
Don't you remember?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Sure? I remember?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Didn't?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Didn't anybody tell you what happened up there last night?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Where in the tower? What happened? A man dead?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Why?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Dead man? H I signed?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Are you not a Eugene? No, I'm not muddy groper.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I didn't hear about any dead man.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
It wasn't I don't know. I saw him, Terry, It
was all over the floor, blood, blood, I saw it.
What were you treating with that end of the phone?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
It ain't connected at night?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Said this is the gene You saw a dead man
up in the tower?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah? Where I was just up there looking for something
to read. And mister Files usually had some magazines up there,
and I was only up there a minute And was
this that?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
It was?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah? It wasn't anybody up there? But what the way
to do? Dead man?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
So I didn't know you better. I'd think it'd been
at a slop there out there in the coop.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I saw him. It was a sleep, and he had drained,
and I was not.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
He was a sleep. That's why that number nine was
up to ninety one. When Fred and I are came
on this morning, they let them out. They said it
was ninety one.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
It was a sleep.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
How wasn't this wait waiting? Did you hear anything about it?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
But me? No?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Somebody was murdered up there, the all over the plant.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Wouldn't it all over town?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
The latchman did the say anything about it? I run
into Everett Strokes and night came in a night. He
didn't say anything about it. If anything had happened, Everet
would have said something. He had a knight, Mary and Jam, No,
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I saw him.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
He would much keep an eye on things of humorous women.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Huh. I sure get energe Odd, where.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
We're going up in the tower, and have a look
for your dead name. He had dark up there.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
It was dark when it was gloomy, and he smelled
of high wines, just as it always did, and then
the people's glow from a little yellow land. The dust
was barren clean, lightly dusted with a pottery of me
of fifty years grinding. Four or four birds were dusty right,
and I could even see the footprints and the dust
(09:02):
dive lade the night before.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Where'd you see the blood?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I could on the floor. I saw it. And now
the floor was dry as it always had been. The
dust laid thick on it. The dust could have been
there for years. And I got down on her knees
to look.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Oh anything, little blood on this floor?
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I saw it.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Listen to the gene if I ever heard of you
going to sleep on the night shift again when you're
being paid to keep an eye on fourteenth cubs but
from many marrish down series only? Who's that? What do
you want? I told you to say, Hey, what the
fire was? That? The fire was mister Star, the one
that star was up there and I didn't know I
had he was night out last night. Yeah, he's dead.
(09:42):
It was all last night and somebody got in the
house and stabbed.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Him and see blooded that and you know what else?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
What?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
But I think it was somebody from the the seller here.
Why cause when they found him. My whole woman smile
that just like it does around here.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
My little eyelines was just dray really.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Not the p.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yes, I know what you're thinking. I know what you're saying
to yourself. He did it. Eugene did it, and he
lied when he told her about growing up in the
tower and finding a man bleeding the bat, the man
that never was there man they couldn't find any sign up.
The next day you're saying that's a sign out about Eugene,
And you're saying that business about the smell of high
(10:28):
winds is a nice touch. But don't you forgetting something wrong?
You figure not your fine theory? Can't you forgetting that
I told my story before a girlfriend Dutch had heard
about how the clouds was dead by a person. The
person's unknown. Do you think a murderer would make up
a story like that and tell it ahead of time?
(10:52):
The smart member wouldn't have told it at all, would he?
So if I had have done, it wouldn't have been
content with everybody think. I know I was at work
in the boost every all night, but nobody even thinking
of means a potential murdery. That's the way you'd think
isn't it wouldn't a shut off your mouth about the
dead man bleeding to death, mister File's office in the
(11:13):
place smelling a high wind long before I came out,
and mister Files really was murdered his home, and the
blood dripping off on the floor, and the smell of
high wine's there too, let's say, picked me up and
I stayed in the red brick jail behind the courthouse
for a long time, and then finally had a trial.
(11:36):
And I sat there with handcuffs and whistened, and I
grew friend Dutch tolder service.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yes, sir, he told us just that, uh where you've
got a job?
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Yes, sir, he said he saw the dead man and
mister File's up.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yes, sir, he said it was about uh three o'clock
in the morning.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Yes sir, he was.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
They're all wrong, gonna find by him sewl.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
No, sir, he could have left and brought to mister
Fowles house and murder themmon nobody would have known me he
left the distillery, No, sir, he wasn't at the distillery
when the day chet came on. No, sir, I don't
know where he was.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
From where it talk out and where they were talking
in the court room all the time. I could smell
a smell just painting. I could smell a smell of
high winds, and and there wasn't anything in the court
room it could make it smell like high winds. And
when I asked Ralph draw the sheriff, he said he
couldn't smell anything at all except the fresh paint. But
they painted the jury room. I no high wind smell
(12:35):
at all, but I could smell it. And that's the
way it happened. I told you the truth all the
way along, which is one of those stories where the
man said at the end, Look, I've been lying to
you I did it, and I've been lying to you
about it. I didn't do him. And that's the way
(12:56):
it happened. Just like I told you. They acquitted me.
You could see they couldn't prove anything, and the story
was too fantastic. And I hardly knew mister Files at all.
That's all I was great. I said, I'm not mad
at your glover.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I'm sure, Eugenea. You know I had to say what
I said. But you notice I didn't say anything that
would make people think I thought you did it. I
stuck right to the truth.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I I just answered the questions. I said, Oh, I know, Glover,
I rede you in the court. I didn't say anything
any Eugene. I just told him what she said to me.
I didn't volunteer anything either. There wasn't anything to volunteer,
was the Dutch. No, there wasn't No, there wasn't too.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
We just told which truds. The whole truth was.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Nothing but the truth. He we gotta get a new
job of this.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Aren't you a coming back to the distillery, Eugene, being
you want?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I guess not, Glover. I don't think they'll take me back, sir,
if I wasn't a jail I don't think so, a Glover,
do you think I didn't I well, no, uh I
I don't think so, Eugene. Do you Dutch fu or?
(14:21):
I don't know who did at Ggene? And then I
was an uner around at the time, and it was
four five years later. I never did go back to
working in a distillery because of if I wanted to
get a job, they pay any money in the distillery. Yeah,
(14:41):
I guess I'd been telling them I had experience, and
if I told them how I'd worked and had my experience.
They tried a lot of they'd find out about what happened.
I wouldn't get the job. So I used my middle
name and I went to in the hall. I got
a job. Happened, but I was a telling in the way. You know,
you made pretty good money. And after while I kind
(15:04):
of stopped worrying about what had happened back home. And
I never heard from anybody at home, and so I was,
all right, then bring any discoveries and don't how anyway.
Then I remember it was the day before Washington's birthday.
In all huh, I I was sitting fan in a
breeze with a house detective the little room down the
(15:25):
basement wherever you had a table to uh play hides
and stuff, and poke the well and stood up. They said, right,
so I read, I'm going home.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
What time is it?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Part rap to eleven h forty five minutes and then
I can hit the hay wish. I had a shot
of whiskey. Go look at me, and now you don't
touch it. If I used to have lake, you did,
yes for prohibitions, Madison, I grow cooler's making some back
(15:59):
in the furnace room right now, smell why. I don't
know what that smell is good? That bad? It doesn't smuth?
I smelled that before? Where is it? That's how wins? Huh,
you have a mistake. That smell that's high wine. That's
(16:21):
what comes out after the first installation of the Match
of the Christie. While there's no destory around here, only
I'm going to see it. I'm telling you, I know
what that is. I smell like curly always leave them
stuff in the passageway there I look out. Yeah, let's
see what they did. Here's a little light wed. What's
(16:47):
the matter to break head? Look what I didn't man?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Huh, I don't remember it doesn't it? Where the fuck
to the floor was seen tied around his neck? Why
use sat press?
Speaker 1 (17:06):
A bundle of herd, bed spreads and cooler left lay
on the floor. See it looks just like a deadened
end with it twer wraps around his neck? So kind
of go on home? Look just like a fat I
used to move back home. Let's wait, that's the matter. Now,
let's snow. I don't smell anything. Nah, yeah, it's just mad.
(17:33):
It's a small highways. I don't know ruts you.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yeah, how you down there?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
That's hire. Let see that's no matter your fame, right
a right.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Wats some matter?
Speaker 4 (17:45):
There's a kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
And the small highways in the close little side of
passage ways overpowering. As I raced after the detected the
vary from if I was wide open, just as the
maid had left it this yearran screaming away from it
and on the bed like a dead man. The tower
lad tightly about his neck. And when Red and I
had flung the window open and let out the choke
(18:13):
and fumes and permeing out of the whole room, And
when he had untied the tower from the lady Advance wrote,
and I looked down on the safe that I knew
it was my old friend Dutch, and I hadn't seen
him for five years. And I told him the truth,
(18:39):
just the same as I did before. I didn't know
that's was there. I I hadn't had a red from him,
and all of years I've been away, and this time
I played it safe. Red knew that I'd been with
him for an hour. The yard put the Dutch drive
lane floors about me. I couldn't have done it, And
nothing was even the slightest suspicion of me for that matter.
(19:00):
But there's just coincidence that i'd tipped over. What I
fuck was that that man was a taler nded around
his neck, That's all I think. It wasn't coincidence that
I'd smell but smell high lines. Not how went away
from don't know how anything. I wandered all around and
(19:25):
I never get smells out again, not till the other day.
Did I don't think glover anything? I came anyways? Office
had it been a long time and I've been all
(19:47):
over the country. I'd got fat, and I I guess
I got a little prosperous, and I haven't spelled high
lines anywhere, and all that time hangover and he stayed
there at home. Now he was the big boss. He
was the boss of the works that I wanted to
see him for all times sake. So he had a
(20:07):
nice time there that big open of office to his.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
You know, Dutch died.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Eugene. Did he at my home quite a long time ago.
He was serving for the company and he was out
there and they found him in his room at the hotel.
Did he did?
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yeah, It's too bad, isn't it. We used to have
some good times together there way back when.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Sure that did he?
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Poor old bet, poor guy.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
And like a sidologin no, no thanks. You know I
had a funny experience as a journey talking about Dutch
he did you know?
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Funny m Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Remember when you like toys where they do? I? I
mean about the fella that was killed then? What was
his name? Os? Remember?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yes, I remember.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
That was uh why you went away, wasn't it?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Uh? I was not talking about it.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Remember how you talked about smelling high wines.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
You know I never smelled high winds for years, not since,
not since swim.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Well, I have a eader. I was glad when they
moved my office up town to get away from that smell.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Always lost the other three.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I don't need to be perfectly frank. What are you
ever stopping for.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
That?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Nothing?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
I'm smelling at anything I got.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
I caught his stif for highlines, no one of his
office burrowing air conditioning.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Well, no.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Going off what you were saying?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
The funny spirit? So well?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Remember he smelled that smell and he died, the old man.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yes, I remember, I was.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Sitting at home reading the Saturday Evening Post story about
it fell on a submarine and Tommy dumb things.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Why I read about the train? Oh well, I guess
I must have fallen asleep.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
It was late.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
All of a sudden I smelled.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Highlighting it did huh, yeah, just as playing. I don't
smell that smell for years. But you know something of June.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
They'll never forget it.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I guess you don't.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Well, I better be gone away on dream. Then I
want to tell you about this dream. I wouldn't have
thought about it, but it's such a coincidence, you coming
in out of a clear stry. Don't worry about it.
And well, I got up and looked round. I was
all alone at home, and I couldn't imagine it, said
(23:15):
you just not anything now, No, because it must be
my imagination. Go on, Well, I thought right away about
that old experience of yours.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
What did you find when you looked? What did you find? Out?
Dead body? Why?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
What's the funny?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Wait a minute, I want to tell you that I
was in the hotel when Dutch got killed. I know
you were. How did you know?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I mean, I had an idea you were you Jai.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Oh, I didn't kill Dutch. No, I didn't kill that
old man either. No, I didn't I I know you
didn't well, and how did you know I was there?
When got start? I guessed, well, tell me about your
dream and uh, high Wise?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Now yeah, we do you know anything? Now?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
High Wise?
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Know why?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
That just one way? I I don't want you to
find me dead.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
You see, did you find a dud man who?
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Just now? How long?
Speaker 1 (24:30):
The other knife? Yes?
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I did? You did.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Tell me about it.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
I don't know who it was, Okay, I said, no suicide.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
How did you know?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
He had the gun in his hand? He shot himself
in the head.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
What did you do?
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Manning was lying alongside me on the floor, and I
jumped up. And when I jumped up and linked, there's
nobody there, just.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Like it was when I Just like it was when
you who was a grover?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Why don't you know the dam?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I don't know why. It's the truth. It's the way
everything happened. I didn't tell you any lies. Govit it
neither And I forgot to ask you something. Did you
ever smell highlights? You never did it? Well ns just
smell high lines? Like Greg said, he never forget it.
(25:40):
I don't know where this gun came from. Yeah, you
know what I want to do with it? Your sons.
You never smell highlights. Take a deep breath, okay, which
might gain a big deep breath. That's it smooth now.
(26:11):
The title of today's quird Please story is The Smell
of Fire Barns. It was written and directed by Willis Cooper.
The land was booked to you with Ernest Chapel, and
Grover was played by Murray Forbes. Dutch was Frank Thomas Junior,
and Water Black played red music for Grid. Pleases as
usual by all the Bremen and all but a word
about next week. Willis Cooper, thank you for listening to
(26:32):
choird please my story. Sorry for next week. It's called
a plan for a living, and so until next week.
At the same time, quietly yours, Ernest Chapel. This is ABC,
the American Broadcasting Company. This is w j Z, New
(26:55):
York's first station.
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