December 15, 2024 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Qua please, prior please.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
M h h h.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
H.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Chia Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper, which features Ernest Chapple.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Priet please for today is called.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Dialogue for a Strategy M. Yes, yes, I know the
pistol floated. Yes, it's perfectly easy to see that it's
pointed at my head. Let me congratulate you on a
(01:09):
very steady hand.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
You vally without moving for almost a minute now.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I've been glancing at the clock. Certainly I know what
you propose to do. You proposed to squeeze the trigger
of the pistol, just the tiny little hair's breadth for
a time. Squeeze it softly, gently, just as.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
You were taught to do out of Fort Riley.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
All those years ago when you were a fat little
buck private in the cavalry. Squeeze, squeeze, squeeze the way
I Martin used.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
To teach you. Squeeze the trigger until you squeeze the.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Bullet right out of the muzzle, right out of the muzzle,
right up my head. And the reason you squeeze the
trigger so gently is so as you won't know the
exact moment the hammer falls on the firing pin. The
firing pin stinks against the cap and the cartridge, and
the gas begins to expand. And then I look at
you like the young Severaltern and Kipling's Grave of a
(02:01):
hundred head, remember, with a big blue mark on his
forehead and the back blown out of his head. Yes,
I remember the Grave of the hundred Head. I like Kipling.
Remember a Snyder is squibbed in the jungle. Somebody lapped
(02:24):
and fled, and the men of the first Shikaris picked
up the Severaltern dead with a big blue mark on
his forehead and the back blown out.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Of his head.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Very pretty, very very pretty, hand out very much.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
If I'm going to be able to dump you out
of it.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
You've got most of the slacks taking up on that trigger,
and not a real squeeze begins, doesn't it. Now you
can feel the steel pressing against the steel inside the
gun itself, pressing against the pressure of your finger, as
if it's reluctant to give that last irrevocable fraction of
an inch, the fraction of an incha let slip the
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thirty grams of copper jacket of death. I never could
remember the names of those parts inside the pistol that
make the last final deal with the laws of physics
and ballistics. I remember the seer, whatever it is, and
the disconnector and the firing pin that I never could
(03:30):
keep him separate from my mind. And now the seer
and the disconnector, and the firing pin and the firing
pin spring, all the odd shaped little gadgets inside that
gun are conspiring to make a mess of the mind
that never could keep him separate. Very fine piece of
poetic justice.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Indeed, no, no.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Don't just crypt your finger on the trigger. Remember how
like Martin said, squeeze your whole hand. Squeeze even the
fingers are not touching the trigger. That takes longer, It
makes a better game of it. Squeeze your whole hand
the trigger finger will squeeze that along with the others,
and presently.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Presently.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
You won't be talked out of it.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Pill you.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Well, then perhaps I have time to tell you a
few things about yourself before the hammer falls and puts
a permanent period to my simple decrowd of English sentences.
If you don't know the exact second the hammer will fall,
I don't.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Know it either. It'll be an interesting ether loude all
right I begin a fight. It settled her.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
A nice in Chinnel has of a man spatless and
cling to the eye, but within a stifling miasma of horror.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It is you.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I'm talking about you with a pistol pointed in my head.
You and your fingers closing on the trigger.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
You're a.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
That I got to about. The children live here, tobot move.
The school children adopted one, and they have some ardiculous
idea that everything that is.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Write about her will her will. Why they say that
both schools that there was another will leading all her
money to them, and said it to you. I know,
I said it was a good Yes, they said they
knew she'd give me.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Another will and her own handwriting as a holographic woman
whenever they call it.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
I know she made that will leading.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
All the money to you a long time ago, before
the children were a dot.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
D No, I don't like to discuss it either, dear.
I said it was absurd, didn't I.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
But they knew that you were fool well.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
They knew howse fu gut it was like you for
some fancy wrong or something that I don't know about.
And they said, you know how school word about her heart.
They said, she's made a will cutting you off. Yes,
I know, were her brother. It's absurd cutting you off
and leading the entire state to them. And they said,
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then where she's hidden the will? And when they went
to find it, it disappeared.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Why they seem to have some.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Diculous idea that you of course I don't believe it, No, dear.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
They haven't got a sten. They really gave me.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
A guilty feeling with losing the sole heir to.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
All her money.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Feet rich man set.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
People don't search out and destroy unfavorable wills in real life,
do they. They don't rob orphans children in real life
do they?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Don't? Faith be you're rich, aren't you fee the kids?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
The girl her name was Celeste, she's married now, I
got four kids, lives above a saloon.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Down in Baltimore. That's her money that bought that gun
you're aiming at me. The boy, tough little devil. Wasn't he.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Seventeen when it happened, and he accused you right out?
Didn't You shouldn't have.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Kicked him so hard? Too bad he died. It won't
be fun meeting him when you die. It won't be
fund not if there's any justice the other side of
the grave. He was a bitter young fellow.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
His sister's money and his money, that's what brought the
gun was makes you cringe. But I noticed your fingers
spit on the trigger. And your wife, Norma, she was
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sorry for the kids too, But what could she do?
You never let him know exactly what became.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Of the kids, did you? A lot of things you
never let Norman know? Now, come on, look at me.
A lot of things you'll never let Noma. No, weren't there?
That's mamma. No, she doesn't know what's going on in here?
Does she? We want answer? Noma? Really she would go away? Maybe?
Speaker 4 (09:04):
No, No, thinks you're asleep. Nana doesn't know you're sitting
here with your finger on the trigger of a gden.
Nana doesn't know. Yeah, she's gone.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Now.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Lots of things mamma doesn't know. Trader almost forgotten about Frederick, haven't.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
You long, long, long time? Who old Frederick?
Speaker 4 (09:35):
They're almost forgotten that Mamma and Frederick were married to
each other once?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Hadn't you traitor sitting there with that run in your hand?
Pointed up my head? Get Trader? You'd forgotten.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
I know who to come to.
Speaker 9 (10:02):
But I decided you have a best friend that God,
Oh you are.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Anything for you anything?
Speaker 10 (10:09):
Knew that?
Speaker 11 (10:12):
Yes of course, Yes, of course I'm in a fix.
Speaker 12 (10:17):
And if no one.
Speaker 11 (10:17):
Finds out, Normal will leave me, to leave me, that's all.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
And I couldn't stand that had Norma leave me.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
I can help it.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I love Norma.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Oh I don't dare tell her about it?
Speaker 8 (10:33):
Right?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Money? Of course I could put it back. Nobody know
about it.
Speaker 11 (10:38):
I covered my tracks, Yes, I was cunning enough to
cover my tracks.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
But now now tomorrow days, No, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Yes, yes I do know they'll catch me.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
And if they do, Normal, I tell you I love No,
I don't want to break.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
The normals hard.
Speaker 11 (11:02):
There's nobody but you to ask. No, I don't need money,
not money. I can put back the money I took
and I never know it. Yes, I know, I said.
Now all you've got to do you know.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
It's nothing criminal.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
No, that's all. You're my friends, and you help me cover.
Speaker 11 (11:25):
Up till the dangers past, and I will always be
I am your friends.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Thanks.
Speaker 11 (11:33):
How can I thank you? If Norman ever find it out,
you take me and.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
I die.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
So long ago, so very long, and Gretchen almost forgotten
you were married to Gretchen, and hadn't you.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Gretchen loves you.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Ah, yes, Gretchen, poor little fat Gretchen in her big feet,
Her little Gretchen that discovered bathtub gin when she was
twenty six years old. Remember that horrible concoction she used
to make with Jack Burke's awful gin in the court
of orange sherbet orangeye.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
She always called it.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Pe Agretchen with her blatchee's face and the way she
used to wheeze when she climbed the stairs. Gretchen loved you.
Gretchen loves you when she was slim and cue out
there in Kansas City. And Gretchen loved you when she
was fat and her hair was stringing, and she had
that little Fearnt's bottle of gin always in her apron pocket.
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Gretchen loves your drunkly sober then She really was a
harmless gentlewoman, Wasn't she.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Hurts? Doesn't it? I remember the first drink she took
with you. It was at that place on Harbor Street.
She drank with you and made faces at the horrible,
tiny taste of it. She loved you.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Then until the day she died. That was long before
your sister died, and the kids, the kids and her will.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
It was such a perfect set up, wasn't it? Wasn't it?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Murderer, don't forget you were going to shoot me, your
hands relaxing.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
A little on the gun.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
I thought I'd better remind you reminiscingly forget the present,
don't we, lovely murderer.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Yes, death a great shot.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Rather not talk about it if you don't mind. Yes,
if he were his death friend, it's all right to
talk about it with you. How could you possibly not
know what he was doing? You were not only his
death strind you were his superior too, his closest superiors.
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How he could conceal his eating from you? But that
body was clever than any.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Of the thoughts?
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Yes, just what the shock? Of course, if only he
hadn't done it that way.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
I was always taught that suicide was a coward way out.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
But yes, no, I think that rather like a bad dream.
Speaker 13 (15:03):
I wanted to bread.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
She's been so good to me.
Speaker 13 (15:11):
Stop quiet, steading, I'm so spring. And besides, what good question?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I wonder what dress you dreamed about?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Smelling peacefully in her sleep on the broken Davenport in
that sour smelling flat.
Speaker 10 (15:54):
You had.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
A fat, untidy child. Would one shoe off bringing.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Her way through glamorous paint greens, the seconding smell of
rod g and lying thick against the grimmy curtains.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Better was Gretchen? Then? Once she loved you, didn't she?
And you kissed? Mamma? Hadn't she? Murderer?
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Dread?
Speaker 8 (16:33):
Sorry for.
Speaker 10 (16:40):
You and I both had our traged haven't Oh? Frederick
and now Frettion, Yes, green slug dry put it together
like those.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
You were very good to me when Fredrick, Yes, I
tried to do, of course, but it really.
Speaker 8 (17:06):
I mean, I'm.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Yes, I was talking about progressions witness. Did she really?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (17:19):
It was pardon liking, how terrible?
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (17:28):
Yes, of course.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
I know how lonely I was.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
From course Ted.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Coo exactly.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Murderer.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Of course you could get a death certificate.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Why people were dying like guys from poison liquor that year,
I have the progression failed to get all the poison liquor.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I suppose you'd happy. Wait a second, I think that's
man up the door again. Man is worried. Yes, it's Norma.
Let's be quiet. Mama mustn't know what we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
In here.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Norm isn't even sure there's anybody in this room. Grocery
lacked the door, didn't You don't say a word with me?
Speaker 8 (18:24):
Be quiet?
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Oh away? Normal? Oh you've got company? Have you?
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Are very nice? And here you said, with a pistol
in your hand, reminiscing company in here. Do you.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Go away? Normal? She's gone again? Company? Huh company? Why
died Sepulcher? How long have you and man have been married?
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Let me see, Frederick died in nineteen twenty eight, in April.
That was when Frederick stepped out of the window of
his office eleven fours above Webster Place. It was a
fall that Gretchen died October November nineteen twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
And you and Manner were married.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Just before Christmas the same year, the year before your
sister adopted those two kids.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
The kids just stole the money from not very long ago,
the money that went to buy the gun and.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
The bullets that are going to kill me. Nineteen twenty
eight December. When did you meet Evelin? Then did you
meet evil?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
And murderer? See? Not there any other names I can
give you, Liar, wouldn't it be strange if that's evil?
And wouldn't it be something if evil in his company
in your house.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Sitting out there in your living room and asking normal,
where's your husband?
Speaker 7 (20:06):
Where's your I.
Speaker 12 (20:07):
Really thought it was here.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
I'm so sorry. I don't need to be able to
find him.
Speaker 12 (20:12):
I'm alfly sorry to did you want if.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
You're not a business matter?
Speaker 12 (20:17):
Or why I could pose you to tell a business?
And again, perhaps you wouldn't.
Speaker 7 (20:22):
You'll try to read me his off with iPhone?
Speaker 12 (20:24):
I know I didn't.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Is there something I could do for you?
Speaker 10 (20:29):
I could try, you know?
Speaker 12 (20:31):
And how long have you been marrying?
Speaker 8 (20:36):
Twenty one years?
Speaker 9 (20:38):
You're a very attractive Woman's why text?
Speaker 7 (20:42):
You're much older than.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
I have got.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
I'm sure I don't know. I'm forty. Really, of course, I've.
Speaker 12 (20:51):
Never been messed hello, That's why I look too much younger.
I think I'm glad.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
I always thought there's the love of our husband and
compensates for the loss of one's youth.
Speaker 9 (21:10):
What about married women whose husband don't love him? Really,
I'm afraid I don't.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Know any married women like that. You don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I do?
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Have you known my husband for a long time? I
don't believe I held to make your name?
Speaker 12 (21:27):
Did I mention my name?
Speaker 6 (21:30):
I really, I don't know that I've paid any attentions.
Speaker 12 (21:32):
If I've known your husband a long time?
Speaker 8 (21:35):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Really as long as you have. As a matter of fact.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Oh, that's very understing.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
I'm sure he isn't hiding from hiding. I must see him.
I don't know where he could be. You said you
thought he's in his room.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Well I thought so what Evidently I made a mistake.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
I'd like to go with you and see. Really, I'm
afraid I can't take you around the house. In there,
young woman, is a good door?
Speaker 12 (22:00):
Really know this is too much.
Speaker 10 (22:01):
I'm here.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
I'm sure I don't know what.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
There's the man talking.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
I don't know how.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
The man didn't hear a man? Oh, I don't hear anything,
as long as it's a man. Well, you tell him
I was here, then just tell him.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
That Evelin was here, and Evelin is very anxious to
talk to him. Even who I just eviling. That'll be
enough time, trust eviling.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
You'll remember.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
It is, isn't it? You heard her at the door.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Didn't she your recognize her voice? How you're putting down
the pistol that's bothering you.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Now, there's nothing Evelin can do to you, or rather,
there's nothing evil it will do evil. It's a clever girl.
Elan knows how to keep her mouth shut. Evelin's kept
them house shut for more than twenty years. Where normal.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Nana knew what she's been missing in those twenty years.
If Norma knew how much money you've given evil, and
money that should have been hers, the house she gave evil,
and everything you gave evil than that should have been normous,
that break normous heart. You really do care for Norma,
don't you. You really don't know Normou's heart to be broken.
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Nana has been a good wife, hasn't she a good, sweet, loving, ignorant,
blind wife.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Certainly she has something coming to her.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
You've taken enough from her, even in complicates matters, doesn't she.
You've thought Eveling would never come here. You thought Evelin
had everything she wants, She was satisfied.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
With what you gave her. You thought you could straighten everything.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Out and make amends for everything, and Marama would never
know about eviling. And here you sit with your gun
in your lap, and the muzzles pointed straight at my head.
And Eveling's out there with Norma. But maybe even it'll
go away. Norma'll never find out about her, I said,
evel and smart.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Didn't I Why should she tell Norman?
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Now?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
How much does Evelin know about what's happened in the past?
How much does she know? Why did suffer her? How
much does she know? Deve traitor, murderer, liar? You can
kill me and.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
That'll solve everything. It'll solve everything if evil and doesn't
tell her. But if evil and does tell her, wait
maybe with a gun a second, No, wait, come over here,
but the girls, so you can listen. Listen to what
your wife and evil And are talking about.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Listen to listen, murderer, listen, I.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Listen to me.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Listen to evel I.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
Came here to take him away. You can't take my
husband away. Tell me I took him away from your one.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Love him?
Speaker 7 (25:31):
Yes, of course I love him. You love him no
matter what he's done? Listen to you've done nothing?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Listen, traitor, what if he had.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
You love my husband?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Murderer?
Speaker 7 (25:45):
Yes, I love him. Tell me something, well, would you
love him no matter what he's done? I do love him?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Listen to suffer?
Speaker 7 (26:00):
What if I told you something? Nothing you could tell
me it would make any difference? What anything I could
tell you, mate? Any difference? To hum? No, and tell
me whatever you do.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Listen to her.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
I know so many tell me if you dare to. No, No,
I will not tell you anything. Wherever going.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Well, man, Well then Mamma will never know.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Because you're trust evil? And don't you did evil? And
see something in Mama's eyes? Are for better to speak?
Was she reluctant to break another woman's heart? Lift up
your gun? Wicked man? Looked up your gun? Normally say
it and now goodbye?
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Your fingers tightening, tightening, tightening on the trigger. A Snyder's
scrib In the jungle, somebody laughed and fled, and the
men of the first chikais picked up.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
The settled him dead with a big blue knock on
his forehead.
Speaker 8 (27:29):
And no, I don't know any reason why he did it.
Speaker 9 (27:44):
No, I don't know any reason why he didn't. We
heard the shot, we found the key unlocked the door.
Speaker 8 (27:54):
No, there wasn't.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
Anyone else in the room, only Roy.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
Sing in front of them there with a big blue
knock on his crime.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
M h.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
The title of today's Choir Please story is Dialogue for
Tragedy was written and directed by Willis Cooper, and the
man who stopped to you was Ernest Chappel, and.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Kathleen Card played Marmo. Alan Sparrow was Evelin, and Frederick
was played by John D. Seymour. Music for Choir Please
is by Albert Burman. Now for what about next week?
Here's our writer, director Willis Cooper, thank you for listening
to quiet phrase. Next week, Easter Sunday, Choir Place returns
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to US regular time five thirty pm Eastern Standard Time,
and I shall have a story appropriate to the day,
a story called the Shadow of Great Wings.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Don seventil next week at five thirty pm Eastern Standard Time,
John quietly, yours, Ernest Chapel.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company.
Qua please, prior please.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
M h h h.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
H.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Chia Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper, which features Ernest Chapple.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Priet please for today is called.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Dialogue for a Strategy M. Yes, yes, I know the
pistol floated. Yes, it's perfectly easy to see that it's
pointed at my head. Let me congratulate you on a
(01:09):
very steady hand.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
You vally without moving for almost a minute now.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I've been glancing at the clock. Certainly I know what
you propose to do. You proposed to squeeze the trigger
of the pistol, just the tiny little hair's breadth for
a time. Squeeze it softly, gently, just as.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
You were taught to do out of Fort Riley.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
All those years ago when you were a fat little
buck private in the cavalry. Squeeze, squeeze, squeeze the way
I Martin used.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
To teach you. Squeeze the trigger until you squeeze the.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Bullet right out of the muzzle, right out of the muzzle,
right up my head. And the reason you squeeze the
trigger so gently is so as you won't know the
exact moment the hammer falls on the firing pin. The
firing pin stinks against the cap and the cartridge, and
the gas begins to expand. And then I look at
you like the young Severaltern and Kipling's Grave of a
(02:01):
hundred head, remember, with a big blue mark on his
forehead and the back blown out of his head. Yes,
I remember the Grave of the hundred Head. I like Kipling.
Remember a Snyder is squibbed in the jungle. Somebody lapped
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and fled, and the men of the first Shikaris picked
up the Severaltern dead with a big blue mark on
his forehead and the back blown out.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Of his head.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Very pretty, very very pretty, hand out very much.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
If I'm going to be able to dump you out
of it.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
You've got most of the slacks taking up on that trigger,
and not a real squeeze begins, doesn't it. Now you
can feel the steel pressing against the steel inside the
gun itself, pressing against the pressure of your finger, as
if it's reluctant to give that last irrevocable fraction of
an inch, the fraction of an incha let slip the
(03:09):
thirty grams of copper jacket of death. I never could
remember the names of those parts inside the pistol that
make the last final deal with the laws of physics
and ballistics. I remember the seer, whatever it is, and
the disconnector and the firing pin that I never could
(03:30):
keep him separate from my mind. And now the seer
and the disconnector, and the firing pin and the firing
pin spring, all the odd shaped little gadgets inside that
gun are conspiring to make a mess of the mind
that never could keep him separate. Very fine piece of
poetic justice.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Indeed, no, no.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Don't just crypt your finger on the trigger. Remember how
like Martin said, squeeze your whole hand. Squeeze even the
fingers are not touching the trigger. That takes longer, It
makes a better game of it. Squeeze your whole hand
the trigger finger will squeeze that along with the others,
and presently.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Presently.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
You won't be talked out of it.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Pill you.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Well, then perhaps I have time to tell you a
few things about yourself before the hammer falls and puts
a permanent period to my simple decrowd of English sentences.
If you don't know the exact second the hammer will fall,
I don't.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Know it either. It'll be an interesting ether loude all
right I begin a fight. It settled her.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
A nice in Chinnel has of a man spatless and
cling to the eye, but within a stifling miasma of horror.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It is you.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I'm talking about you with a pistol pointed in my head.
You and your fingers closing on the trigger.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
You're a.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
That I got to about. The children live here, tobot move.
The school children adopted one, and they have some ardiculous
idea that everything that is.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Write about her will her will. Why they say that
both schools that there was another will leading all her
money to them, and said it to you. I know,
I said it was a good Yes, they said they
knew she'd give me.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Another will and her own handwriting as a holographic woman
whenever they call it.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
I know she made that will leading.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
All the money to you a long time ago, before
the children were a dot.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
D No, I don't like to discuss it either, dear.
I said it was absurd, didn't I.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
But they knew that you were fool well.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
They knew howse fu gut it was like you for
some fancy wrong or something that I don't know about.
And they said, you know how school word about her heart.
They said, she's made a will cutting you off. Yes,
I know, were her brother. It's absurd cutting you off
and leading the entire state to them. And they said,
(06:31):
then where she's hidden the will? And when they went
to find it, it disappeared.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Why they seem to have some.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Diculous idea that you of course I don't believe it, No, dear.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
They haven't got a sten. They really gave me.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
A guilty feeling with losing the sole heir to.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
All her money.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Feet rich man set.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
People don't search out and destroy unfavorable wills in real life,
do they. They don't rob orphans children in real life
do they?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Don't? Faith be you're rich, aren't you fee the kids?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
The girl her name was Celeste, she's married now, I
got four kids, lives above a saloon.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Down in Baltimore. That's her money that bought that gun
you're aiming at me. The boy, tough little devil. Wasn't he.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Seventeen when it happened, and he accused you right out?
Didn't You shouldn't have.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Kicked him so hard? Too bad he died. It won't
be fun meeting him when you die. It won't be
fund not if there's any justice the other side of
the grave. He was a bitter young fellow.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
His sister's money and his money, that's what brought the
gun was makes you cringe. But I noticed your fingers
spit on the trigger. And your wife, Norma, she was
(08:36):
sorry for the kids too, But what could she do?
You never let him know exactly what became.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Of the kids, did you? A lot of things you
never let Norman know? Now, come on, look at me.
A lot of things you'll never let Noma. No, weren't there?
That's mamma. No, she doesn't know what's going on in here?
Does she? We want answer? Noma? Really she would go away? Maybe?
Speaker 4 (09:04):
No, No, thinks you're asleep. Nana doesn't know you're sitting
here with your finger on the trigger of a gden.
Nana doesn't know. Yeah, she's gone.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Now.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Lots of things mamma doesn't know. Trader almost forgotten about Frederick, haven't.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
You long, long, long time? Who old Frederick?
Speaker 4 (09:35):
They're almost forgotten that Mamma and Frederick were married to
each other once?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Hadn't you traitor sitting there with that run in your hand?
Pointed up my head? Get Trader? You'd forgotten.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
I know who to come to.
Speaker 9 (10:02):
But I decided you have a best friend that God,
Oh you are.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Anything for you anything?
Speaker 10 (10:09):
Knew that?
Speaker 11 (10:12):
Yes of course, Yes, of course I'm in a fix.
Speaker 12 (10:17):
And if no one.
Speaker 11 (10:17):
Finds out, Normal will leave me, to leave me, that's all.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
And I couldn't stand that had Norma leave me.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
I can help it.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I love Norma.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Oh I don't dare tell her about it?
Speaker 8 (10:33):
Right?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Money? Of course I could put it back. Nobody know
about it.
Speaker 11 (10:38):
I covered my tracks, Yes, I was cunning enough to
cover my tracks.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
But now now tomorrow days, No, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Yes, yes I do know they'll catch me.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
And if they do, Normal, I tell you I love No,
I don't want to break.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
The normals hard.
Speaker 11 (11:02):
There's nobody but you to ask. No, I don't need money,
not money. I can put back the money I took
and I never know it. Yes, I know, I said.
Now all you've got to do you know.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
It's nothing criminal.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
No, that's all. You're my friends, and you help me cover.
Speaker 11 (11:25):
Up till the dangers past, and I will always be
I am your friends.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Thanks.
Speaker 11 (11:33):
How can I thank you? If Norman ever find it out,
you take me and.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
I die.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
So long ago, so very long, and Gretchen almost forgotten
you were married to Gretchen, and hadn't you.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Gretchen loves you.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Ah, yes, Gretchen, poor little fat Gretchen in her big feet,
Her little Gretchen that discovered bathtub gin when she was
twenty six years old. Remember that horrible concoction she used
to make with Jack Burke's awful gin in the court
of orange sherbet orangeye.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
She always called it.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Pe Agretchen with her blatchee's face and the way she
used to wheeze when she climbed the stairs. Gretchen loved you.
Gretchen loves you when she was slim and cue out
there in Kansas City. And Gretchen loved you when she
was fat and her hair was stringing, and she had
that little Fearnt's bottle of gin always in her apron pocket.
(12:52):
Gretchen loves your drunkly sober then She really was a
harmless gentlewoman, Wasn't she.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Hurts? Doesn't it? I remember the first drink she took
with you. It was at that place on Harbor Street.
She drank with you and made faces at the horrible,
tiny taste of it. She loved you.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Then until the day she died. That was long before
your sister died, and the kids, the kids and her will.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
It was such a perfect set up, wasn't it? Wasn't it?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Murderer, don't forget you were going to shoot me, your
hands relaxing.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
A little on the gun.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
I thought I'd better remind you reminiscingly forget the present,
don't we, lovely murderer.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Yes, death a great shot.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Rather not talk about it if you don't mind. Yes,
if he were his death friend, it's all right to
talk about it with you. How could you possibly not
know what he was doing? You were not only his
death strind you were his superior too, his closest superiors.
(14:33):
How he could conceal his eating from you? But that
body was clever than any.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Of the thoughts?
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Yes, just what the shock? Of course, if only he
hadn't done it that way.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
I was always taught that suicide was a coward way out.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
But yes, no, I think that rather like a bad dream.
Speaker 13 (15:03):
I wanted to bread.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
She's been so good to me.
Speaker 13 (15:11):
Stop quiet, steading, I'm so spring. And besides, what good question?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I wonder what dress you dreamed about?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Smelling peacefully in her sleep on the broken Davenport in
that sour smelling flat.
Speaker 10 (15:54):
You had.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
A fat, untidy child. Would one shoe off bringing.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Her way through glamorous paint greens, the seconding smell of
rod g and lying thick against the grimmy curtains.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Better was Gretchen? Then? Once she loved you, didn't she?
And you kissed? Mamma? Hadn't she? Murderer?
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Dread?
Speaker 8 (16:33):
Sorry for.
Speaker 10 (16:40):
You and I both had our traged haven't Oh? Frederick
and now Frettion, Yes, green slug dry put it together
like those.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
You were very good to me when Fredrick, Yes, I
tried to do, of course, but it really.
Speaker 8 (17:06):
I mean, I'm.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Yes, I was talking about progressions witness. Did she really?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (17:19):
It was pardon liking, how terrible?
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (17:28):
Yes, of course.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
I know how lonely I was.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
From course Ted.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Coo exactly.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Murderer.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Of course you could get a death certificate.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Why people were dying like guys from poison liquor that year,
I have the progression failed to get all the poison liquor.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I suppose you'd happy. Wait a second, I think that's
man up the door again. Man is worried. Yes, it's Norma.
Let's be quiet. Mama mustn't know what we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
In here.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Norm isn't even sure there's anybody in this room. Grocery
lacked the door, didn't You don't say a word with me?
Speaker 8 (18:24):
Be quiet?
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Oh away? Normal? Oh you've got company? Have you?
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Are very nice? And here you said, with a pistol
in your hand, reminiscing company in here. Do you.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Go away? Normal? She's gone again? Company? Huh company? Why
died Sepulcher? How long have you and man have been married?
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Let me see, Frederick died in nineteen twenty eight, in April.
That was when Frederick stepped out of the window of
his office eleven fours above Webster Place. It was a
fall that Gretchen died October November nineteen twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
And you and Manner were married.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
Just before Christmas the same year, the year before your
sister adopted those two kids.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
The kids just stole the money from not very long ago,
the money that went to buy the gun and.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
The bullets that are going to kill me. Nineteen twenty
eight December. When did you meet Evelin? Then did you
meet evil?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
And murderer? See? Not there any other names I can
give you, Liar, wouldn't it be strange if that's evil?
And wouldn't it be something if evil in his company
in your house.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Sitting out there in your living room and asking normal,
where's your husband?
Speaker 7 (20:06):
Where's your I.
Speaker 12 (20:07):
Really thought it was here.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
I'm so sorry. I don't need to be able to
find him.
Speaker 12 (20:12):
I'm alfly sorry to did you want if.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
You're not a business matter?
Speaker 12 (20:17):
Or why I could pose you to tell a business?
And again, perhaps you wouldn't.
Speaker 7 (20:22):
You'll try to read me his off with iPhone?
Speaker 12 (20:24):
I know I didn't.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Is there something I could do for you?
Speaker 10 (20:29):
I could try, you know?
Speaker 12 (20:31):
And how long have you been marrying?
Speaker 8 (20:36):
Twenty one years?
Speaker 9 (20:38):
You're a very attractive Woman's why text?
Speaker 7 (20:42):
You're much older than.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
I have got.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
I'm sure I don't know. I'm forty. Really, of course, I've.
Speaker 12 (20:51):
Never been messed hello, That's why I look too much younger.
I think I'm glad.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
I always thought there's the love of our husband and
compensates for the loss of one's youth.
Speaker 9 (21:10):
What about married women whose husband don't love him? Really,
I'm afraid I don't.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Know any married women like that. You don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I do?
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Have you known my husband for a long time? I
don't believe I held to make your name?
Speaker 12 (21:27):
Did I mention my name?
Speaker 6 (21:30):
I really, I don't know that I've paid any attentions.
Speaker 12 (21:32):
If I've known your husband a long time?
Speaker 8 (21:35):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Really as long as you have. As a matter of fact.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Oh, that's very understing.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
I'm sure he isn't hiding from hiding. I must see him.
I don't know where he could be. You said you
thought he's in his room.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Well I thought so what Evidently I made a mistake.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
I'd like to go with you and see. Really, I'm
afraid I can't take you around the house. In there,
young woman, is a good door?
Speaker 12 (22:00):
Really know this is too much.
Speaker 10 (22:01):
I'm here.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
I'm sure I don't know what.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
There's the man talking.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
I don't know how.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
The man didn't hear a man? Oh, I don't hear anything,
as long as it's a man. Well, you tell him
I was here, then just tell him.
Speaker 9 (22:24):
That Evelin was here, and Evelin is very anxious to
talk to him. Even who I just eviling. That'll be
enough time, trust eviling.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
You'll remember.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
It is, isn't it? You heard her at the door.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Didn't she your recognize her voice? How you're putting down
the pistol that's bothering you.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Now, there's nothing Evelin can do to you, or rather,
there's nothing evil it will do evil. It's a clever girl.
Elan knows how to keep her mouth shut. Evelin's kept
them house shut for more than twenty years. Where normal.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Nana knew what she's been missing in those twenty years.
If Norma knew how much money you've given evil, and
money that should have been hers, the house she gave evil,
and everything you gave evil than that should have been normous,
that break normous heart. You really do care for Norma,
don't you. You really don't know Normou's heart to be broken.
(23:38):
Nana has been a good wife, hasn't she a good, sweet, loving, ignorant,
blind wife.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Certainly she has something coming to her.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
You've taken enough from her, even in complicates matters, doesn't she.
You've thought Eveling would never come here. You thought Evelin
had everything she wants, She was satisfied.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
With what you gave her. You thought you could straighten everything.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Out and make amends for everything, and Marama would never
know about eviling. And here you sit with your gun
in your lap, and the muzzles pointed straight at my head.
And Eveling's out there with Norma. But maybe even it'll
go away. Norma'll never find out about her, I said,
evel and smart.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Didn't I Why should she tell Norman?
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Now?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
How much does Evelin know about what's happened in the past?
How much does she know? Why did suffer her? How
much does she know? Deve traitor, murderer, liar? You can
kill me and.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
That'll solve everything. It'll solve everything if evil and doesn't
tell her. But if evil and does tell her, wait
maybe with a gun a second, No, wait, come over here,
but the girls, so you can listen. Listen to what
your wife and evil And are talking about.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Listen to listen, murderer, listen, I.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Listen to me.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Listen to evel I.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
Came here to take him away. You can't take my
husband away. Tell me I took him away from your one.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Love him?
Speaker 7 (25:31):
Yes, of course I love him. You love him no
matter what he's done? Listen to you've done nothing?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Listen, traitor, what if he had.
Speaker 7 (25:41):
You love my husband?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Murderer?
Speaker 7 (25:45):
Yes, I love him. Tell me something, well, would you
love him no matter what he's done? I do love him?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Listen to suffer?
Speaker 7 (26:00):
What if I told you something? Nothing you could tell
me it would make any difference? What anything I could
tell you, mate? Any difference? To hum? No, and tell
me whatever you do.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Listen to her.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
I know so many tell me if you dare to. No, No,
I will not tell you anything. Wherever going.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Well, man, Well then Mamma will never know.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Because you're trust evil? And don't you did evil? And
see something in Mama's eyes? Are for better to speak?
Was she reluctant to break another woman's heart? Lift up
your gun? Wicked man? Looked up your gun? Normally say
it and now goodbye?
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Your fingers tightening, tightening, tightening on the trigger. A Snyder's
scrib In the jungle, somebody laughed and fled, and the
men of the first chikais picked up.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
The settled him dead with a big blue knock on
his forehead.
Speaker 8 (27:29):
And no, I don't know any reason why he did it.
Speaker 9 (27:44):
No, I don't know any reason why he didn't. We
heard the shot, we found the key unlocked the door.
Speaker 8 (27:54):
No, there wasn't.
Speaker 6 (27:57):
Anyone else in the room, only Roy.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
Sing in front of them there with a big blue
knock on his crime.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
M h.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
The title of today's Choir Please story is Dialogue for
Tragedy was written and directed by Willis Cooper, and the
man who stopped to you was Ernest Chappel, and.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Kathleen Card played Marmo. Alan Sparrow was Evelin, and Frederick
was played by John D. Seymour. Music for Choir Please
is by Albert Burman. Now for what about next week?
Here's our writer, director Willis Cooper, thank you for listening
to quiet phrase. Next week, Easter Sunday, Choir Place returns
(29:08):
to US regular time five thirty pm Eastern Standard Time,
and I shall have a story appropriate to the day,
a story called the Shadow of Great Wings.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Don seventil next week at five thirty pm Eastern Standard Time,
John quietly, yours, Ernest Chapel.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company.
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