December 12, 2024 • 27 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Quiet Please, Quiet Please. Hm h m h.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
M hmmmmm.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
M m m m.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper and the features Ernest Champele.
Quiet Please for today is called the Smell of high wine.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
H m hm. You can talk about nostalgic sounds.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
All you're wanting, church bells on a summer Sunday morning,
when you'll come back to your hometown after a long,
long time, A long homesick cry of the train whistles,
when you wake up in the middle of the night,
somebody's voice you haven't heard for a long time. You
can talk about nostalgic sites too, down cow's man ring
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over a green hillside, a funny y shaped fence post
out on the side of Rosea 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 train
passes a smell town ponde somewhere in Indiana. The bitter
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smell of fresh tanned leather. Your mouth puckers up like
a bid when you're a kid walking past the harness shot,
the limb seeds, smell of good fat trimmers drinking greenish
smell of raw newsprints. Stare of the things that bring
it back.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
For me.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
It's the snow of highlights, smell up once and you'll
never forget it. Live in the Philly town and the
smell it practically all the time. And you remember Shorty's
gale and a funny street card. It took you to
work at five in the morning. You remember the cold
air that came up through the slats, and the fermenting
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room floored the freeze, and your wet overalls. You remember
the long, dusty wooden stairs up to the tower. An
somewhere behind it all is the taste of cold fried eggs,
sandiges and your lunch pane of mid.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
With a full woman looking quizically in the wind at you,
kind of sharing a secret with you. I catched the
snow of high walleensine and I hear a sound that
I thought I'd forgotten. And you see a picture though
(03:00):
I had forgotten too, A little room way up at
the top of the tower, musty, dusty 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 government storekeeping. And the smell
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an assistant little smell of high winds to remember it by.
And the sound I hear is the sound of something
dripping under the warped, dusty floor, drop drop drop drop
on the uneven floor, the sound of a man's life
dripping away, all alone in the tower at three o'clock
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in the morning. I remember back in this more than
thirty years ago. I wake up at three o'clock in
the morning, and I saw a highline punge, it sharp,
with a kind of vicious cleanness coming to life, of
the sharp alcohols and the ESTs released from the prison
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of the grains that were born in. And the smell
brings back the blurred picture of the little room where
the men lay across the star debt and bled his
life away. I couldn't see his face in the protray
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life from the crusted light, though I could see only
his dark clothing across the desk, his hand dangling towards
the floor. The smell of highways was strong in a
cramped little room, and there was only the drip, drip, drip, dripped,
to hear, and the stains slowly spreading on the floor.
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And I remember I ran headlong down the stairs and
out into the clean air of the night. And he
can still feel the uneven ties of the railroad under
my feet as I ran away from that place. And
I remember how the smell of highlines pursued.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Me through the dark.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And through the day. Through the bright hours of the day,
I squandered my sleeping time staring at the walls, wondering,
I'm waiting for a call. It would take me back
to that murder room. Not when five o'clock came.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
And modigated 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 the stairs.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
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 still
some wrench and slapped me on the shoulder. Number ten
tabs that eighty sixty. Better look at it in about
an hour. Well, you're arresting in, Jeanie. You can repack
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the new propaty, all right, glad with you me nothing
he is sick me No, I'm not sick. As light
as a sheet. Listen, broker, m what happened? What do
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you mean?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Where?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
What with you? Stop in the tower? What happened up
in the tower? Didn't you hear? Here was last night?
It wasn't here last night?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
It was that night off?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Don't you remember? Sure? I remember? What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Didn't anybody tell you what happened up there last night?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Where in the tower?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
A man dead?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
What dead man? I saw him?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Are you not a Eugene? No, I'm not muddy groper.
I didn't hear about any dead man it was. I
don't know. I saw him there. It was all over
the floor, blood, blood, I saw.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
What were you doing? Ever?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Of the phone? It ain't connected at night? So listen, Eugene,
you saw a dead man up in the tower? Yeah? Where?
I was just up there looking for something to read.
And mister Files usually has some magazines up there, and
I was only up there a minute and was mister
it wasn't anybody up there but the dead man.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I didn't know you better.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I think it'd been at a slop there out there
and the cow I saw him. It was asleep and
he had drained, and I was not. He was asleep.
That's why that number nine, that was up to ninety one.
When tred and Ir came on this morning, he lets enough,
he said it was ninety one. It was asleep. I
wasn't asleep waiting.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Did you hear anything about it?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
But me? No, somebody was murdered up there, the all
over the planet. Wouldn't it all over down the latchman
did say anything about it. I run into Everett Strokes
when I came in, and I he didn't say anything
about it.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Did anything had happened?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Everet would have said something, yeah, had a night married? No,
I didn't. I saw him. He would touch keep an
eye on things of humors. Winning huh, I'm sure you
know what, obware.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
We're going up in the tower and have a look
for your dead man.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
It had dark up there. It was dark, and it
was gloomy, and it smelled of high wines that as
it always did. And then the feeble's glow from the
little yellow lamp. But that's very clean, lightly dusted with
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the pottery of meal, fifty years grinding four floorboards with
dusty and dry. And I could even see the footprints
and the dust I had made the night before. Where
did you see the blow? Right there on the floor.
I saw it, And now the floor was dry. It
always had been. The dust laid thick enough the dust
would have been there for years. And I got down
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on her knees to look.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah, I been little blood on this floor.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I saw it.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Listen to 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 fourteen tubs the fermenting
marriage down stairs? Who's that? What do you want? I
told you the ship?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Hey bro, Well that mister monsieur, the one that saw
was up there, and now you know he had he's
not out last night. Yeah, he's dead. He was on
last night and somebody got in the house and stabbed him.
And he loved to day and you know what else what?
But I think it was somebody from the story here. Well,
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because when they found it, my whole room smile.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
That's like it does around here.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
My eyelines was just dry. And that's the paper. Yes,
I know what you're thinking, I know what you're saying
to yourself. He did it.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Eugene did it, and he lied when he told her
about going up in the tower and finding a.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Man bleeding the bed, and man, I never was there. Man,
I couldn't find any sign up. The next day you're saying,
that's a sign out.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
About Eugene, and he's saying that business about the smell
of high winds is a nice touch.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
But don't you forgetting something wrong? You figure not your
find theory. Don't you forgetting that I told my story before.
A girlfriend Dutch has heard about how the tiles was
dead by a person. The person is unknown. Do you
think a murderer would make up a story like that
and tell it ahead of time? Smart? He wouldn't have
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told it at all, would he? If I had have
done it, wouldn't have been content with everybody thinking how
is it working? The distilly all night, but nobody even
thinking of means a potential murderer. That's the way you'd think,
isn't it wouldn't have shut off your mouth saw the
dead man bleeding to death, mister File's office in the place,
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smelling a high wind long before it came out, and
mister Files really was murdered in his home, and the
blood dripping off on the floor, and the smell of
high wine is there too. Let's say, picked me up
and I stayed in the red brick tail behind the
courthouse for a long time. When they finally had a trial,
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I sat there with handcuffs and listened. My girlfriend Dutch
told her stories. Yes, sir, he told us just that
the way you've got it down. Yes, sir, he said
he saw the dead man and mister Files up. Yes, sir,
he said.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
It was about three o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yes, sir, he was there all over.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I'm to find him tel No, sir, he could have
left and brought to mister Fowles house and murdered him
in nobody would have known he left the distillery. No, sir,
he wasn't the distillery when the day chet came.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
No, sir, I don't know where he was from. And
while they were talking in the courtroom all the time,
I could smell a smell just painting. I could smell
the smell of highways, and there wasn't anything in the
courtroom it could make it smell like highways. And when
I asked Ralph Drow, the sheriff. He said he couldn't
smell anything at all except the fresh paint, but they
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painted the jury room. I no high winds smell at all,
but I could smell. And that's the way it happened.
I told you the truth all the way along. This
is one of those stories where the man said at
the end, look, I've been lying to you. I did it,
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and I've been lying to you about it. I didn't
do it, And that's the way it happened.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Just like I told you.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
They acquitted me. You could see that couldn't prove anything,
and the story was too fantastic. And I hardly knew
mister Files at all. That's so I was free. I said,
I'm not mad at your Grover, for sure, you do not.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
You know.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I had to say what I said because you noticed.
I didn't say anything that would make people think I
thought you did it.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I stuck right to the teens. I just answered the questions.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
I said, O heng on Grover, I w was in
the court. I didn't say anything any e Jane. I
just told him what she said to me. I didn't
volunteer anything either.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
There wasn't anything to volunteer. Was it Dutch?
Speaker 5 (13:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
That was it?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
No, there wasn't do it.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
We just told the truth, the whole truth. There was
nothing but the tuy. We gotta get a new job.
I guess, aren't you coming back to the distillery, e Gene. No,
I guess not, Grover. I don't think they're taking me back.
Sure that I wanted a ja, I don't think so,
a Glover. Do you think I didn't? I well, no,
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I don't think so, Eugene. Do you Dutch? Fun? I
don't know who did it? G Gene. And when I
was an arm over at the time, it was four
or five years later. I never did go back to
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working in a the story because of if I wanted
to get a job to paying the money in the
the story, I guess I had to tell them I
had experience. And if I told them that I had
worked and had my experience to write a letter and
to find out how about that happened, I would to
get the job. Sure, I used my middle name, and
I went down the hall. I want a job, happened
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out at a hotel, went home and you made pretty
good money. Well that while I kind of stopped worrying
about what had happened back home. I never heard from
anybody at home, so I was, all right, there are
really any discoverers, and don't know how anyway. Then I
remember it was the day before Washington's birthday in Alaha.
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I was sitting fan in the breeze with the house
detective the whole room down in the basement where we
had a table to take cards and stuff. Look the
well I stood up. They said, well, so all read,
I'm going home.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
What time is it?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Quarter after eleven forty five minutes?
Speaker 5 (15:41):
And then I can hit the Hey, I wish I
had a shot of whiskey. They look at me, and
I know you don't touch it. So I used to
have Mike you did, Yes, it's four prohibitions. Smells and
I grow coolers making son back in the furnace room
right now. Smell why, I don't know what that's. Isn't
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that bathtub gin? It isn't smell.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I smelled that before? Or is it? That's how is huh?
We've a mistake? That smell that's high wine. That's what
comes out after the first distillation of the lash to
make wist you. While there's no destory around here, only crew,
and I'm going to see. I'm telling you I know
what that is. I smell. Look, Curly is always leaving
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stuff in the passageway there and I look out. Yeah,
let's see what this? Here's the light?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Well, what's the matter to break? Huck?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
What?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I didn't?
Speaker 5 (16:53):
You know?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I still over it? Doesn't it?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Where?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Where the fuck on the floor with some tidlund was next?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Use that cats a bundle of old bed spreads of coolie.
Let's lay on the floor. See, I'll tell you. Oh,
it looks just like a dead hand with it tower
after him, his nick choking go on home, looks just
like a felt I used to move back home. Don't wait,
that's no matter. Now it's smell. I don't smell anything now.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Can't just smell it.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
It's a small highways. I don't know, that's it?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah? Are you doing there?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
That's the matter, sweet, that's no matter.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
You wait a minute, what's no matter? There's a dead t.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
A the small highways on the cross little side of
passage way. It was overpowering as I raced after the detective.
So for me five was wide open, just as the
maid had left it. As she ran screaming away, from it,
and I'm a bad lay a dead man. The towel
laded tightly about his neck. And when Red and I
had flung the window open and let out the choking
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fumes and permeated the whole room. And when he had
untied the towel from his read advanced throat, and I
looked down on the face that I knew it was
my old for him, Dutch, and I hadn't seen him
for five years. You know, I told you the truth
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just the same as I did before. I didn't know
Dutch was there. I hadn't heard a reb fe him
and all the girls I've been away, and this time
I played it safe. Read knew that I'd been with
him for an hour. The Holland put the Dutch dried
nine floors about me, I couldn't have done it. And
if it was even the slightest suspicion of me for
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that matter. But there's just coincidence that I shipped over
what I thought was a dead man with a town
nded around his neck, that's all I think. It wasn't
coincidence that I smelled the smell of highlines, but I
went away from Amaha anyway. I wandered all around. I
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never did smell and smell again, not till the other day.
Held to a global moment when I came into his office.
It's been a long time, and i'd been all over
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the country. I've got fat, and I I guess I
got a little prosperous. I hadn't spelled high lines anywhere,
and all that time, and glover as he'd stayed there
at home. He was the big boss. He was the
boss of the ricks. Then I wanted to see him
for all time stake. So he had a nice time
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there in that big oak panel office to his You know,
Dutch died Eugene, did he?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I no, No, quite a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
He was driving for the company and he was out
there and they found him in his room at the hotel.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Did he did?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah, it's too bad, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
You used to have some good times together the way
back when shared that? Did he? Poor long bench, poor.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Guy micasy biology No, no thanks. You know, I had
a funny experience.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
At a day at talking about Dutch. He did, Yeah, funny.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yeah. You remember when you like to Yeah, I certainly do.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I mean about the fellow that was killed. That was
his name.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Files remember, yes, I remember?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
That was why you went away, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Let's not talk about it. Remember how you talked about
smelling high lines. You know, I have was smelled highlands
for years, not since, not since when, well, I have
a leader. I was gone when I moved my office
up town. Could get away from that smell? Always lasciated me. Well,
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I need to be perfectly frank. What are you stiffing
from that? Nothing? I was smelling it, don't I thought
I got a sniff of highlights. Wander I was borrowing
air conditioning? Well none gone off? What you were saying
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the funny experience? Well, remember you smelled that smell when
he died, the old man. Yes, I remember. I was
sitting at home reading the Saturday Evening Post story about
it fell out a submarine and tommycbum from this guy
rd it down the train.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Oh well, I guess I.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Must have fallen asleep. It was late. All of a
sudden I smelled highlighting. It did huh, yeah, just just praying.
Alan smelled that smell for years.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
But you know, sophim Egine, you'll never forget it.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I guess you don't. Well, I better be gone.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
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 sky, and what about it?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
And well, I got up and looked around. I was
all alone at home, and I couldn't imagine that so
used to know anything?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
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?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Out?
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Dead body?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Why? What's the funny? Wait a minute, I ought to
tell you that I was in the hotel and Dutch
got killed. I know you were. How did you know?
I mean, I had an idea you were Eugene. Oh
I didn't care Dutch. No, I didn't care that old
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man either. No, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I know you didn't. How did you know I was
there when that started?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
I guessed, Well, tell me about your dream and the highlights? Now? Yeah,
do you say anything of highlights?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Know why? I just wanted way.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I don't want you to find me to you see.
Did you find a dead man who was now high
long the other night? Yes?
Speaker 5 (24:33):
I did?
Speaker 1 (24:35):
You did.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Tell me about it. I don't know who it was?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yes, no.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Suicide.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
How did you know he had the gun in his hand?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
He shot himself in the head. What did you do
when I was lying alongside me on the floor and
I jumped up, And when I jumped up and linked
there's nobody there, just like it was when I Just
like it was when you.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Who was a Grover? Why don't you know your Jane?
I don't know why. It's the truth. It's the way
everything happened. I didn't tell you any lies. Grover didn't either.
I forgot to ask you something. Did you ever smell highlights?
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You never did. No, don't you smell high wines? Like
Grover said, You'll never forget it. I don't know where
this gun came from.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Yeah, you know what I want to do with it?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Who says universe snow highlights? Take a deep breath. Okay,
it's like getting a big deep breath. That's it, smooth now.
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The title of today is Quiet Please. Story is the
Smile of five Words. It was written and directed by
Willis Cooper. The man who was booked to you with
Ernest Chapel and Grover was played by Murray Forbes. Dutch
was friend Thomas Junior and Wall Black played red music
for quid Pleases as usual by Albert Burnan Off for
what about next week? Willis Cooper, thank you for listening
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to Quiet Please my star for next week It's called
a time for a living. And so until next week
at the same time, quietly, Old 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. Hm h m h.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
M hmmmmm.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
M m m m.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper and the features Ernest Champele.
Quiet Please for today is called the Smell of high wine.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
H m hm. You can talk about nostalgic sounds.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
All you're wanting, church bells on a summer Sunday morning,
when you'll come back to your hometown after a long,
long time, A long homesick cry of the train whistles,
when you wake up in the middle of the night,
somebody's voice you haven't heard for a long time. You
can talk about nostalgic sites too, down cow's man ring
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over a green hillside, a funny y shaped fence post
out on the side of Rosea 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 train
passes a smell town ponde somewhere in Indiana. The bitter
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smell of fresh tanned leather. Your mouth puckers up like
a bid when you're a kid walking past the harness shot,
the limb seeds, smell of good fat trimmers drinking greenish
smell of raw newsprints. Stare of the things that bring
it back.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
For me.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
It's the snow of highlights, smell up once and you'll
never forget it. Live in the Philly town and the
smell it practically all the time. And you remember Shorty's
gale and a funny street card. It took you to
work at five in the morning. You remember the cold
air that came up through the slats, and the fermenting
(02:21):
room floored the freeze, and your wet overalls. You remember
the long, dusty wooden stairs up to the tower. An
somewhere behind it all is the taste of cold fried eggs,
sandiges and your lunch pane of mid.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
With a full woman looking quizically in the wind at you,
kind of sharing a secret with you. I catched the
snow of high walleensine and I hear a sound that
I thought I'd forgotten. And you see a picture though
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I had forgotten too, A little room way up at
the top of the tower, musty, dusty 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 government storekeeping. And the smell
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an assistant little smell of high winds to remember it by.
And the sound I hear is the sound of something
dripping under the warped, dusty floor, drop drop drop drop
on the uneven floor, the sound of a man's life
dripping away, all alone in the tower at three o'clock
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in the morning. I remember back in this more than
thirty years ago. I wake up at three o'clock in
the morning, and I saw a highline punge, it sharp,
with a kind of vicious cleanness coming to life, of
the sharp alcohols and the ESTs released from the prison
(04:06):
of the grains that were born in. And the smell
brings back the blurred picture of the little room where
the men lay across the star debt and bled his
life away. I couldn't see his face in the protray
(04:32):
life from the crusted light, though I could see only
his dark clothing across the desk, his hand dangling towards
the floor. The smell of highways was strong in a
cramped little room, and there was only the drip, drip, drip, dripped,
to hear, and the stains slowly spreading on the floor.
(04:53):
And I remember I ran headlong down the stairs and
out into the clean air of the night. And he
can still feel the uneven ties of the railroad under
my feet as I ran away from that place. And
I remember how the smell of highlines pursued.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Me through the dark.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And through the day. Through the bright hours of the day,
I squandered my sleeping time staring at the walls, wondering,
I'm waiting for a call. It would take me back
to that murder room. Not when five o'clock came.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
And modigated 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 the stairs.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
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 still
some wrench and slapped me on the shoulder. Number ten
tabs that eighty sixty. Better look at it in about
an hour. Well, you're arresting in, Jeanie. You can repack
(06:02):
the new propaty, all right, glad with you me nothing
he is sick me No, I'm not sick. As light
as a sheet. Listen, broker, m what happened? What do
(06:24):
you mean?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Where?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
What with you? Stop in the tower? What happened up
in the tower? Didn't you hear? Here was last night?
It wasn't here last night?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
It was that night off?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Don't you remember? Sure? I remember? What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Didn't anybody tell you what happened up there last night?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Where in the tower?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
A man dead?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
What dead man? I saw him?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Are you not a Eugene? No, I'm not muddy groper.
I didn't hear about any dead man it was. I
don't know. I saw him there. It was all over
the floor, blood, blood, I saw.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
What were you doing? Ever?
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Of the phone? It ain't connected at night? So listen, Eugene,
you saw a dead man up in the tower? Yeah? Where?
I was just up there looking for something to read.
And mister Files usually has some magazines up there, and
I was only up there a minute and was mister
it wasn't anybody up there but the dead man.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I didn't know you better.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I think it'd been at a slop there out there
and the cow I saw him. It was asleep and
he had drained, and I was not. He was asleep.
That's why that number nine, that was up to ninety one.
When tred and Ir came on this morning, he lets enough,
he said it was ninety one. It was asleep. I
wasn't asleep waiting.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Did you hear anything about it?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
But me? No, somebody was murdered up there, the all
over the planet. Wouldn't it all over down the latchman
did say anything about it. I run into Everett Strokes
when I came in, and I he didn't say anything
about it.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Did anything had happened?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Everet would have said something, yeah, had a night married? No,
I didn't. I saw him. He would touch keep an
eye on things of humors. Winning huh, I'm sure you
know what, obware.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
We're going up in the tower and have a look
for your dead man.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
It had dark up there. It was dark, and it
was gloomy, and it smelled of high wines that as
it always did. And then the feeble's glow from the
little yellow lamp. But that's very clean, lightly dusted with
(08:54):
the pottery of meal, fifty years grinding four floorboards with
dusty and dry. And I could even see the footprints
and the dust I had made the night before. Where
did you see the blow? Right there on the floor.
I saw it, And now the floor was dry. It
always had been. The dust laid thick enough the dust
would have been there for years. And I got down
(09:16):
on her knees to look.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah, I been little blood on this floor.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I saw it.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Listen to 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 fourteen tubs the fermenting
marriage down stairs? Who's that? What do you want? I
told you the ship?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Hey bro, Well that mister monsieur, the one that saw
was up there, and now you know he had he's
not out last night. Yeah, he's dead. He was on
last night and somebody got in the house and stabbed him.
And he loved to day and you know what else what?
But I think it was somebody from the story here. Well,
(09:53):
because when they found it, my whole room smile.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
That's like it does around here.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
My eyelines was just dry. And that's the paper. Yes,
I know what you're thinking, I know what you're saying
to yourself. He did it.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Eugene did it, and he lied when he told her
about going up in the tower and finding a.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Man bleeding the bed, and man, I never was there. Man,
I couldn't find any sign up. The next day you're saying,
that's a sign out.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
About Eugene, and he's saying that business about the smell
of high winds is a nice touch.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
But don't you forgetting something wrong? You figure not your
find theory. Don't you forgetting that I told my story before.
A girlfriend Dutch has heard about how the tiles was
dead by a person. The person is unknown. Do you
think a murderer would make up a story like that
and tell it ahead of time? Smart? He wouldn't have
(10:53):
told it at all, would he? If I had have
done it, wouldn't have been content with everybody thinking how
is it working? The distilly all night, but nobody even
thinking of means a potential murderer. That's the way you'd think,
isn't it wouldn't have shut off your mouth saw the
dead man bleeding to death, mister File's office in the place,
(11:13):
smelling a high wind long before it came out, and
mister Files really was murdered in his home, and the
blood dripping off on the floor, and the smell of
high wine is there too. Let's say, picked me up
and I stayed in the red brick tail behind the
courthouse for a long time. When they finally had a trial,
(11:36):
I sat there with handcuffs and listened. My girlfriend Dutch
told her stories. Yes, sir, he told us just that
the way you've got it down. Yes, sir, he said
he saw the dead man and mister Files up. Yes, sir,
he said.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
It was about three o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yes, sir, he was there all over.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I'm to find him tel No, sir, he could have
left and brought to mister Fowles house and murdered him
in nobody would have known he left the distillery. No, sir,
he wasn't the distillery when the day chet came.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
No, sir, I don't know where he was from. And
while they were talking in the courtroom all the time,
I could smell a smell just painting. I could smell
the smell of highways, and there wasn't anything in the
courtroom it could make it smell like highways. And when
I asked Ralph Drow, the sheriff. He said he couldn't
smell anything at all except the fresh paint, but they
(12:31):
painted the jury room. I no high winds smell at all,
but I could smell. And that's the way it happened.
I told you the truth all the way along. This
is one of those stories where the man said at
the end, look, I've been lying to you. I did it,
(12:52):
and I've been lying to you about it. I didn't
do it, And that's the way it happened.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Just like I told you.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
They acquitted me. You could see that couldn't prove anything,
and the story was too fantastic. And I hardly knew
mister Files at all. That's so I was free. I said,
I'm not mad at your Grover, for sure, you do not.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
You know.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I had to say what I said because you noticed.
I didn't say anything that would make people think I
thought you did it.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I stuck right to the teens. I just answered the questions.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
I said, O heng on Grover, I w was in
the court. I didn't say anything any e Jane. I
just told him what she said to me. I didn't
volunteer anything either.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
There wasn't anything to volunteer. Was it Dutch?
Speaker 5 (13:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
That was it?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
No, there wasn't do it.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
We just told the truth, the whole truth. There was
nothing but the tuy. We gotta get a new job.
I guess, aren't you coming back to the distillery, e Gene. No,
I guess not, Grover. I don't think they're taking me back.
Sure that I wanted a ja, I don't think so,
a Glover. Do you think I didn't? I well, no,
(14:14):
I don't think so, Eugene. Do you Dutch? Fun? I
don't know who did it? G Gene. And when I
was an arm over at the time, it was four
or five years later. I never did go back to
(14:37):
working in a the story because of if I wanted
to get a job to paying the money in the
the story, I guess I had to tell them I
had experience. And if I told them that I had
worked and had my experience to write a letter and
to find out how about that happened, I would to
get the job. Sure, I used my middle name, and
I went down the hall. I want a job, happened
(14:59):
out at a hotel, went home and you made pretty
good money. Well that while I kind of stopped worrying
about what had happened back home. I never heard from
anybody at home, so I was, all right, there are
really any discoverers, and don't know how anyway. Then I
remember it was the day before Washington's birthday in Alaha.
(15:20):
I was sitting fan in the breeze with the house
detective the whole room down in the basement where we
had a table to take cards and stuff. Look the
well I stood up. They said, well, so all read,
I'm going home.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
What time is it?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Quarter after eleven forty five minutes?
Speaker 5 (15:41):
And then I can hit the Hey, I wish I
had a shot of whiskey. They look at me, and
I know you don't touch it. So I used to
have Mike you did, Yes, it's four prohibitions. Smells and
I grow coolers making son back in the furnace room
right now. Smell why, I don't know what that's. Isn't
(16:07):
that bathtub gin? It isn't smell.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I smelled that before? Or is it? That's how is huh?
We've a mistake? That smell that's high wine. That's what
comes out after the first distillation of the lash to
make wist you. While there's no destory around here, only crew,
and I'm going to see. I'm telling you I know
what that is. I smell. Look, Curly is always leaving
(16:33):
stuff in the passageway there and I look out. Yeah,
let's see what this? Here's the light?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Well, what's the matter to break? Huck?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
What?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I didn't?
Speaker 5 (16:53):
You know?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I still over it? Doesn't it?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Where?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Where the fuck on the floor with some tidlund was next?
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Use that cats a bundle of old bed spreads of coolie.
Let's lay on the floor. See, I'll tell you. Oh,
it looks just like a dead hand with it tower
after him, his nick choking go on home, looks just
like a felt I used to move back home. Don't wait,
that's no matter. Now it's smell. I don't smell anything now.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Can't just smell it.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
It's a small highways. I don't know, that's it?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah? Are you doing there?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
That's the matter, sweet, that's no matter.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
You wait a minute, what's no matter? There's a dead t.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
A the small highways on the cross little side of
passage way. It was overpowering as I raced after the detective.
So for me five was wide open, just as the
maid had left it. As she ran screaming away, from it,
and I'm a bad lay a dead man. The towel
laded tightly about his neck. And when Red and I
had flung the window open and let out the choking
(18:13):
fumes and permeated the whole room. And when he had
untied the towel from his read advanced throat, and I
looked down on the face that I knew it was
my old for him, Dutch, and I hadn't seen him
for five years. You know, I told you the truth
(18:39):
just the same as I did before. I didn't know
Dutch was there. I hadn't heard a reb fe him
and all the girls I've been away, and this time
I played it safe. Read knew that I'd been with
him for an hour. The Holland put the Dutch dried
nine floors about me, I couldn't have done it. And
if it was even the slightest suspicion of me for
(18:59):
that matter. But there's just coincidence that I shipped over
what I thought was a dead man with a town
nded around his neck, that's all I think. It wasn't
coincidence that I smelled the smell of highlines, but I
went away from Amaha anyway. I wandered all around. I
(19:26):
never did smell and smell again, not till the other day.
Held to a global moment when I came into his office.
It's been a long time, and i'd been all over
(19:47):
the country. I've got fat, and I I guess I
got a little prosperous. I hadn't spelled high lines anywhere,
and all that time, and glover as he'd stayed there
at home. He was the big boss. He was the
boss of the ricks. Then I wanted to see him
for all time stake. So he had a nice time
(20:08):
there in that big oak panel office to his You know,
Dutch died Eugene, did he?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I no, No, quite a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
He was driving for the company and he was out
there and they found him in his room at the hotel.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Did he did?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Yeah, it's too bad, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
You used to have some good times together the way
back when shared that? Did he? Poor long bench, poor.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Guy micasy biology No, no thanks. You know, I had
a funny experience.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
At a day at talking about Dutch. He did, Yeah, funny.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yeah. You remember when you like to Yeah, I certainly do.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I mean about the fellow that was killed. That was
his name.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Files remember, yes, I remember?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
That was why you went away, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Let's not talk about it. Remember how you talked about
smelling high lines. You know, I have was smelled highlands
for years, not since, not since when, well, I have
a leader. I was gone when I moved my office
up town. Could get away from that smell? Always lasciated me. Well,
(21:46):
I need to be perfectly frank. What are you stiffing
from that? Nothing? I was smelling it, don't I thought
I got a sniff of highlights. Wander I was borrowing
air conditioning? Well none gone off? What you were saying
(22:11):
the funny experience? Well, remember you smelled that smell when
he died, the old man. Yes, I remember. I was
sitting at home reading the Saturday Evening Post story about
it fell out a submarine and tommycbum from this guy
rd it down the train.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Oh well, I guess I.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Must have fallen asleep. It was late. All of a
sudden I smelled highlighting. It did huh, yeah, just just praying.
Alan smelled that smell for years.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
But you know, sophim Egine, you'll never forget it.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I guess you don't. Well, I better be gone.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
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 sky, and what about it?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
And well, I got up and looked around. I was
all alone at home, and I couldn't imagine that so
used to know anything?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
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?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Out?
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Dead body?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Why? What's the funny? Wait a minute, I ought to
tell you that I was in the hotel and Dutch
got killed. I know you were. How did you know?
I mean, I had an idea you were Eugene. Oh
I didn't care Dutch. No, I didn't care that old
(23:55):
man either. No, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I know you didn't. How did you know I was
there when that started?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
I guessed, Well, tell me about your dream and the highlights? Now? Yeah,
do you say anything of highlights?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Know why? I just wanted way.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I don't want you to find me to you see.
Did you find a dead man who was now high
long the other night? Yes?
Speaker 5 (24:33):
I did?
Speaker 1 (24:35):
You did.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Tell me about it. I don't know who it was?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yes, no.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Suicide.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
How did you know he had the gun in his hand?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
He shot himself in the head. What did you do
when I was lying alongside me on the floor and
I jumped up, And when I jumped up and linked
there's nobody there, just like it was when I Just
like it was when you.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Who was a Grover? Why don't you know your Jane?
I don't know why. It's the truth. It's the way
everything happened. I didn't tell you any lies. Grover didn't either.
I forgot to ask you something. Did you ever smell highlights?
(25:29):
You never did. No, don't you smell high wines? Like
Grover said, You'll never forget it. I don't know where
this gun came from.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Yeah, you know what I want to do with it?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Who says universe snow highlights? Take a deep breath. Okay,
it's like getting a big deep breath. That's it, smooth now.
(26:11):
The title of today is Quiet Please. Story is the
Smile of five Words. It was written and directed by
Willis Cooper. The man who was booked to you with
Ernest Chapel and Grover was played by Murray Forbes. Dutch
was friend Thomas Junior and Wall Black played red music
for quid Pleases as usual by Albert Burnan Off for
what about next week? Willis Cooper, thank you for listening
(26:32):
to Quiet Please my star for next week It's called
a time for a living. And so until next week
at the same time, quietly, Old 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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